Youtube comments of Itinerant Patriot (@itinerantpatriot1196).

  1. "If I lived a hundred lives I would marry my wife a hundred times." That's awesome. Can't top that Matt, hope you always feel that way.
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  2. "A high IQ with low information is a dangerous combination." ― Thomas Sowell
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  3. “When tyranny becomes law rebellion becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson
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  4. “That people on the political left have a certain set of opinions, just as people do in other parts of the ideological spectrum, is not surprising. What is surprising, however, is how often the opinions of those on the left are accompanied by hostility and even hatred.” ― Thomas Sowell
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  5. Imagine a life where you fought in the U.S. Civil War and lived long enough to see a war where tanks, submarines, airplanes, and atomic weapons were used. I'm not glorifying these weapons or advocating their use, just marveling at someone who lived to see the world change so dramatically.
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  6. Based on the reaction to this video I'm glad to see che is finally falling out of favor with a lot of people. It used to bother me greatly when I would see young people who were either babies or born after the Wall came down wearing tee-shirts with his image on it. They had no idea what this guy was all about or how people suffered under communism.
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  7. As a naturalized citizen I know exactly how he feels. I moved here as a kid and couldn't wait until I was old enough to become a citizen. I served 23 years defending the Constitution and traveling overseas during that time made me appreciate the country I love even more. What disturbs me is most of the lunatics wanting to tear the place down were born here. Trust me, once the U.S. disappears people will have nowhere to go and no one to turn to. Maybe then, as they are led off to the gulag they'll realize just how wrong they were.
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  8. When I was a kid my friend and I would sometimes spend Saturday afternoons walking through cemeteries reading headstones. We made a game of it. Whoever found the oldest grave won. I remember feeling bad for the really old ones, some dating back the 1830's. I thought, here's someone nobody even remembers let alone visits. I made up my mind at that time to never be buried. I didn't want to end up as some old forgotten soul no one cared about hanging around a graveyard. But as I move closer to the end of the ride my thoughts have started to shift. My parents were both cremated and we spread their ashes at sea but now we have no place to visit them. I'm not sure who will visit me but perhaps having a little marker showing that you existed isn't such a bad thing.
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  9. I was stationed at Hickam in the 1980s and the bullet holes from Dec 7th were still visible in many buildings. I spoke with two Pearl Harbor veterans who were acting as tour guides at the Arizona Memorial, one of them served on the Arizona and was on duty the morning of the attack. I asked them about this movie, specifically if it was an accurate depiction. They both agreed the movie was very accurate. It was an honor speaking with those gentlemen, both of whom I assume have long since joined their comrades in the place where soldiers, sailors, and airmen never age. I have always loved this film. I first saw it as a kid in the theater and was blown away. Unfortunately, I must admit I also wasted my money and saw Pearl Harbor at the theater. A buddy talked me into going to see it with him. We both came out shaking our heads, wondering how anyone could make a chick-flick based on the attack on Pearl Harbor. Between that and all the inaccuracies we both agreed the time would have been better spent shooting pool at the sports bar. Anyway, cool review. If anyone finds this comment, which I doubt will happen, I highly recommend a visit to the Arizona Memorial. There is no more solemn monument in the world. RIP guys, I'll be along directly and maybe we can share war stories, though I expect mine will shrink beyond sight compared to yours. Sleep well.
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  10. “No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!” ― Ronald Reagan
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  11. Someone needs to put that clip of the guy dressed up as a woman telling us that black folks are more susceptible to problems related to hot weather into a time capsule to be opened in 100 years. The time capsule needs to have a label; "How we broke western civilization and other stuff we are sincerely sorry for." I've spoken with plenty of black people about their voting habits, why they always vote for the democrat, and most will just say straight up because that's how my family has always voted. I know a lot of white folks who will give the same response. The days of "they are for the working class and republicans are for the rich guys" is pretty much over. They don't even bother with that lie anymore. No, it's just a cultural rite of passage, an expectation. And now? Now that the border has been obliterated? Where will that put black folks when those demographics start exploding? Of course, that's assuming elections will even be a thing at that point. Like I say, somebody is going to hear about how things used to be and want to know what happened. If we aren't going to fix it, we ought to at least put together a record explaining ourselves.
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  12. “It starts in the home...If the father is not in the home, the boy will find a father in the streets. I saw it in my generation and every generation before me, and every one since. If the streets raise you, then the judge becomes your mother and prison becomes your home...If a young man doesn’t have a father figure, he’ll go find a father figure. So you know I can’t blame the system, it’s unfortunate that we make such easy work for them.” ― Denzel Washington
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  13. Communism fails because it works off the premise put forth by Rousseau that people don't have a fallen nature and therefore can be perfected. Starting with the French Revolution, a lot of people have died trying to prove Rousseau right and Locke wrong. I'm with the guy who said if he had a gun with two bullets and Rousseau, Lenin, and Stalin were standing in front of him he would shoot Rousseau twice. The Soviet Union failed for a lot of reasons, not the least being they lacked the resources and capital to make communism work. They went pretty much straight from feudalism into socialism, ignoring the capitalist phase Marx called for in his highly flawed historical dialectic. That's the highbrow argument, the "it just wasn't tried correctly" crowd likes to point to. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who lived the nightmare was more on point when he talked about the entire system being based on people's willingness to go along with a lie. "It is not every day and not on every shoulder that violence brings down its heavy hand: It demands of us only a submission to lies, a daily participation in deceit—and this suffices as our fealty. And therein we find, neglected by us, the simplest, the most accessible key to our liberation: a personal nonparticipation in lies! Even if all is covered by lies, even if all is under their rule, let us resist in the smallest way: Let their rule hold not through me!" ― Live not by Lies. Or as he more succinctly put it: “The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.” Lies, like their father, only have power if we grant it to them. But lies, like their father, can do a great deal of damage when they dictate how we manage our affairs. What is a woman takes on much greater importance when viewed through that lens. But hey, don't worry. This is America, land of the free, home of the brave. They could never get away with that sort of nonsense on this side of the pond. "There is this fallacious belief: 'It would not be the same here; here such things are impossible.' Alas, all the evil of the Twentieth Century is possible everywhere on Earth:" ― Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Who's right; the academic who comes up with a bunch of theories in a classroom and the unelected bureaucrat who gets paid to put them into practice or the guy who witnessed first-hand what happens when we abandon God and trust the experts. You decide. But remember what John Adams said: "Facts, are stubborn things."
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  14. “He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there shall be no more death or mourning, wailing or pain." ― Revelation: 21
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  15. I can listen to Thomas Sowell all day long. I'm glad he pointed out that racial differences didn't drive everything as far as colonization and conquest were concerned. That is the kind of nonsense being spread in today's universities and media platforms. People have been conquering and relocating other people since they got a taste for power. Cultural lines have formed and hardened over time but that desire, the desire to dominate others, is alive and strong as well and people will always seek power in the world as it is currently set up.
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  16. My primary physician is from India and she is awesome, one of the smartest persons I have ever met. I'm sure they perform better because they keep their heads down and just focus on being good at whatever they do. That has been my experience with people of Indian descent I have met anyway.
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  17. "Facts are stubborn things." ― John Adams
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  18. I saw these guys on CSPAN a while back who wrote a book on the history of murder. They expected to find spikes during times of economic turmoil but they discovered a much stronger connection between high murder rates and political instability. In other words, people didn't break the law because they were broke and oppressed, they broke the law because they could get away with it. That's not new to anyone who grew up on the wrong side of the tracks but the politicians who have done the most damage and the modern-day suburban cul-de-sac liberals who went to high schools that looked more like the one depicted in Ferris Bueller's Day Off than Lean on Me might not get it.
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  19. Don't get me wrong, most of my family and friends lean to the left, but we had a term in my working class neighborhood for guys like marx, it's not highly technical or clever, we called them assholes. I have noticed that trait has been passed down to his followers quite regularly.
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  20. My dad told me something when I was a kid that stuck with me my whole life, "Never argue with an idiot, you can't win." I worked in adult education for many years and ran across my share of stupid people. In reality, their numbers aren't as high as you would think based on the collective psychosis we are suffering through today. I used to break it down for facilitators who worked for me this way; ignorance is a state of mind, stupid is a state of being. One can be fixed, the other can't.
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  21. Actually, if you're going to make the argument that Christianity leads to self-hared by default you might want to properly identify the branch that is most in-line with your argument. The notion you describe, total depravity, is a Calvinist, not a Catholic position. It's why they diminish, or outright reject James 2: 24-26: “See how a person is justified by works and not by faith alone…For just as a body without a spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.” Faith versus works is one of the fundamental schisms between Protestantism and Catholicism. If you're going to take a run at the idea that we have a fallen nature and are in need of a redeemer in a snarky manner at least get the who believes what aspect correct.
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  22. In the past, when people would ask why I was down on the democrat party even though I came from a working class background and most of my family and friends were liberal's I would respond because I believed Rousseau got it wrong and Locke got it right. When they would ask what "it" was I would say human nature. Then I would recommend they read the social compact as Locke saw it versus Rousseau's notions. If they made it past that I recommended studying the French Revolution. You can't understand the left if you don't examine their cannon. If you follow those breadcrumbs perhaps you will arrive at the same place as the man who was asked: "If you had a gun with two bullets and Rousseau, Hitler, and Lenin were standing in front of you what would you do?" The man responded: "I'd shoot Rousseau twice."
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  23. I remember reading a passage from the book, "Mutual Contempt," that summed up the liberal mind set of that era better than any long-winded essay ever could. One of JFK's best and brightest was working with Bobby Kennedy on an alternative to LBJ's Model City program for the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of NYC. He turned to Bobby and remarked that as counterintuitive as it may seem, it appeared to him that corporations and free-market solutions offered more hope to the poor than government programs ever could (forgive me for forgetting the name or his exact quote). That single admission explained how we ended up in the mess we find ourselves in today. Many people with Ivy League educations were dumfounded when the Great Society crashed and burned. How could their attempt to emulate the great FDR fail to achieve it's lofty objectives? But unfortunately, as Ronald Reagan once said, the only example of eternal life in this world is a government program. So we keep spending. Left-wing professors in universities still blame the failures of the Great Society on Vietnam and passive resistance by republican congresses that refused to properly fund it, conveniently omitting the fact that trillions (with a T) have been spent on social programs over the decades. The Great Society is best summed up by a bumper sticker I once saw: "Motto of a government program: 'If it ain't broke we'll fix it till it is.' Unfortunately, a lot of treasure was put to use dousing out the flame of individual incentive that once made America exceptional. Now we are just Europe lite; another empire waiting to be taken down by the next group of eager beavers. I guess some things never change.
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  24. "The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so." Ronald Reagan
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  25. The Irish were treated lower than dogs by the Brits and the Americans. The Brits starved us out and in the 19th Century, "Irish need not apply" signs were common in most U.S. cities. But we are a hearty bunch, quick to anger but quick to forgive....most times. As they say: "God made whiskey so the Irish wouldn't take over the world."
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  26. If you haven't done so I highly recommend a visit to the Arizona Memorial. I was fortunate enough to go there in the 1980s and the two tour guides on board the Arizona that day were both Pearl Harbor survivors, one of them being on the Arizona when the attack occurred. They were very gracious and I had a fascinating discussion with them. The gentleman who survived the Arizona attack told me he was going to have his ashes interred alongside his shipmates, an honor reserved for those who served on the Arizona at the time of the attack. I'm fairly certain his ashes are with his brothers now. I also had the privilege of speaking with a man who survived the Bataan Death March and the trip to Japan on a Hell Ship prior to the Philippine liberation and a Marine who was injured during the landing at Peleliu. One trait all these men had in common was a great deal of dignity, which is quite amazing when you consider how viscous the fighting in The Pacific was. Unfortunately, most of the WWII veterans are gone now, including former Senator Bob Dole who passed away today. I may have had differences with him on some matters of policy but he was a true patriot who did a lot for the WWII Memorial, a project I also did a lot of fund raising for. May he, and all his brothers and sisters in arms rest in peace and may God's light shine on them. They really did save the world.
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  27. And people wonder why the Ferguson Effect has taken root? I can't get my head around why anyone would want to be a cop in any large city, especially NY. I devoted a great deal of my adult life to the defense of this country. Now? I'm not sure I would make the same choices and things are only going to get worse. To borrow from Bob Dylan: "It's a hard rain's a gonna fall."
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  28. I went from a parochial school to a public school in the 7th grade and I was floored when I opened the first textbook I was given. It was literally filled with stuff I had learned in the 3rd and 4th grade. I grew bored pretty quickly when I figured out I could get any grade I wanted anytime I wanted. I didn't start doing work beyond what I had done in seven years of private schooling until I got to the 10th grade, and even then, if you simply showed up you got a passing grade. That was 50 years ago. I can only imagine how big the drop off is now. The elite as Dr. Sowell calls them are burrowed in like tics. Just like the schools that produce them, they are corrupted to their core. I'm not saying everyone who attends Harvard or any other top-flight university is corrupted by the experience, but the recent wave of rioting and harassment of Jewish students in support of terrorists on their campuses, and the faculties willingness to either promote it or look the other way shows how dark these places, which ironically were mostly founded by Christian churches and organizations have become. It's funny in a non-comical way how the rich donors are suddenly pulling money out of these places. I don't think it's because they are necessarily against the aims of these maniacs, it's just that they have become so over-the-top in their promotion of evil that the rich folks who have been funding them for all these years don't want to be called names. But hey, it's all in the name of progress...right? “The modern age is built on the Myth of Progress…Believers in the Myth of Progress hold that progress is better than the past, and the future will inevitably be better than the present. This myth is a powerful tool in the hands of would-be totalitarians. It provides a transcendent source of legitimacy for their actions and frames opposition as backward and ignorant…Thus does the Myth of Progress become a justification for exercising dictatorial power” ― Rob Dreher: Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents
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  29. I was born in Canada. I migrated with my family to the U.S. in the 1960s and was raised in the American system. I became a U.S. citizen, served 20 + years in the military, you could say of my entire family I was always the flag-waving patriot. But I still have relatives living in Canada and I finished my military career embedded with a Canadian unit. I served with a mixed-bag, some good soldiers, some not-so-good soldiers, not much different from the U.S. I then worked as a civilian contractor training Canadian service-members for an additional three years, making my stint a seven-year run. I learned a lot about the culture and a couple things stand out. First, the myth of government is always a force for good is deeply rooted in the national psyche. I brought up the draconian tax system with one of my co-workers, federal tax, provincial tax, municipal tax, provincial sales tax, federal sales tax, and he responded: "Yeah, but look at all we get." I asked him honestly: "What do you get?" The medical system is a mess. As I say, I lived as a civilian for three years near the country's largest city and I could not find a doctor. I was on several lists but once they hit a certain threshold they stop taking on patients. I asked: "what should I do if I get sick?" I was told to go to the E.R. or one of their walk-in clinics where you might find a nurse on hand if you were lucky. But people accepted it. I did turn my coworker onto Ayn Rand, Thomas Sowell, and a few others and he is now a militant in his home province of Quebec. So good for him. My one conservative apple seed. That is the second point, the go-along-get-along-don't-make-waves nature of the populace, at least not in any meaningful way. Oh I heard a lot of bitching, but I saw little action. That sheepish nature is a direct byproduct of the first point. Nobody wants to upset the nanny government. I was bothered by the general look-down-our-nose at the racist American attitude that permeated the culture. Truthfully, I heard more racist and chauvinistic commentary during my time in Canada than anywhere else I was ever stationed, including the deepest heart of Dixie. Canadians do like to get on their high-moral-horse when it comes to their neighbors to the south. But they do love shopping here. I told my fellow workers what they needed, a Canadian Ronald Reagan to come in change the mindset. But it's just not in em. Castro's kid gets away with the nonsense he pulls because he knows he can. Will there even be another election? What if he pulled a Nancy Reagan and just said no? There is no Canadian Bill of Rights similar to the one our heathen forefathers insisted on. See, as a rule, we have a tradition of not trusting government. We don't see it as a force for good. Unless and until that mindset changes, enjoy Hockey Night in Canada...for now anyway. My heart does bleed for my native land, but I'll never be back, not until there is a real change in rulers.
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  30. Most people focus on the Roman Empire and draw comparisons based on Rome post-Caesar. However, prior to that, Rome was a republic, and what we are experiencing now is more in-line with Rome circa 48 BC. The republic had degenerated into an oligarchy with a corrupt senate and a patrician class buying the support of the peasants in their regions. It's where the term patronage comes from. Caesar saw an opportunity to capitalize on the growing discontent of the populace and he promised them the sun and the moon if they would support him. He was taken out by senators who didn't want to lose their power and they couched his murder in terms of restoring the republic to its true roots. Sound familiar? Booth tried to make the same argument in 1865 and saw himself as an American Brutus. Of course Caesar had influence that extended beyond the popular front and the call went out to restore order and consolidate the gains that had been made. And that meant getting rid of the Triumvirate that had caused all the division. A wise dictator, a leader in the mold of Plato's Philosopher King was what the doctor ordered, and who better to fill that role than Julius's favorite nephew, Augustus. Remember, Augustus was a very popular emperor. The people loved him and they loved that order had been restored, the mythical Pax Romana had been established. After that the die was cast. It took another 400 years but over time, as the quality of the emperor's continued to diminish new forces, forces that were Roman in name only, got tired of trying to join the club and decided to just take the place over. They didn't want the empire to die, they wanted to run the thing. That should ring a bell as well. I say all of this because we have gotten in the habit of trying to explain deep issues in 10 minutes or less. Anything more than that and people aren't interested. They don't see history as anything more than stories about a past they have no connection with so if you don't give it to em fast and simple they have better things to do, like spend two hours watching Barbie or Mario Brothers at the air conditioned theater with the reclining seats and the seven dollar small container of soda. Our founders were influenced by the old Roman Republic. Cincinnati is named for the great Roman general who returned to his crops once the republic was saved. The man who became the role model for George Washington. Yet if you ask most American's about the Roman Republic they will say they have no idea there even was such a thing and claim our form of democracy was based on the Greek model. That's too bad, because the fall of the Roman Republic isn't the only example we can point at and say hey, that looks quite familiar. Check out the Hapsburg Empire sometime if you want to see what happens when you try to rule a bunch of people who want to keep their own cultural practices and way of life rather than assimilate with a bloated bureaucracy they don't understand and some culture they don't have any special allegiance to. History doesn't repeat as much as it rhymes. Or as the demon Azazel tells Denzel in the movie Fallen: "Take a look around sometimes Hobbs." I get it, this post won't get a lot of attention, but you really should take the time to learn the whole story on your own. It's like fine tuning the monitor and getting rid of all the squiggly lines. Things become much clearer.
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  31. "She's either an idiot, liar, or a moron too." I'll take all of the above for 100 Alex. As far as the guy on TV, give him credit. He got in the minimum number of phobic labels in one sentence and was able to move on. It's gotta be in the contract (you have to call anyone who is not a democrat x number of one or more of the following names). As far as cheating goes, I WISH Republicans were as good at it as democrats. If they were, even California would be a red state. Project much dude? Give em their due. The folks at MSLSD put the gas in gaslighting.
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  32. The bartender is a fourth-rate actress playing the role of a member of congress. If not for that audition tape she sent in she would still be slinging beers at Rosie's. Self-awareness and her name don't meet much in the same book because she is a narcissist, and not an overly bright one at that. That said, harris is the one person in that party with a lower IQ. Give her credit because that's not an easy accomplishment. Both of them are as much an indictment on the education system as the political. Don't ya feel safe knowing people like those two are standing between you and the Chinese?
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  33. That's the beauty of being a liberal. Your ideas don't have to work, they just have to make someone feel good. To each according to his feelings from each according to his ability to pay for those good feelings.
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  34. MacArthur's legacy as a military commander is mixed, some great achievements as well as some monumental failures but he did a better job as an administrator in the post-war world than most of his peers. He understood the Japanese and I'm not sure anyone else could have put the country back together again as effectively as he did. Truman may have been right to fire him and historians have taken a certain amount of personal pleasure in picking at his record but you can't take away what he was able to accomplish in Japan between 1945-1950.
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  35. A few people have already noted the flaws in the way altruism is portrayed in this video. Having a desire to help other people does not stem from some form of self-hatred nor does it lead to it. That is possibly the most bizarre description I have ever heard and I gotta throw the BS flag. I don't think TIK is particularly religious but Christianity, Judaism, and Islam all require people to care for the less fortunate. That doesn't mean people of faith are by default self-loathing. The only religion I know that frowns on it are the Eastern faiths that believe in karma, that people are basically getting what they deserve for some past sin from a past life, and who are we to interfere with that? Socialism is one of the least altruistic systems devised by man. People are left off the hook since it falls on the state to provide for the poor. That is the appeal and it's why modern-day cultural Marxists place such a high premium on victimhood. It's not that they have some intrinsic desire to help the less fortunate, it's all about will to power where the so-called marginalized groups have replaced the proletariat as the new grievance-centric base for popular support. If the hardcore lefties ever got the power they desire in the U.S. and other western nations they wouldn't give two damns about those marginalized groups. Hell, they would probably put them at the head of the list for the trains heading to the new camps. I don't buy that argument at all that altruism is to blame for creating monsters. Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Castro and on down the line, the one thing they all have in common is a rejection of God and a desire for a secular world where man is not held to any transcendent morality. A world where they set the rules, norms, and customs based on their own twisted desires, where justice and equity are arbitrary concepts based on what Rousseau called the general will, what they would call, what I want them to be. That is the essence of the end of history, the day when nothing that came before matters. The only thing that matters is today and what matters is left up to them, not some cultural belief system rooted in thousands of years of tradition. It's just what I say goes. It really is that simple, a pure desire for the acquisition and application of power, nothing more, nothing less. That's what drove very single one of those bastards.
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  36. Once upon a time I was a psych major. I remember a professor pulling out a copy of DSM I, the first version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. It was relatively thin. Then he pulled out a copy that had just been updated at that time, DSM IV. It was at least twice as thick. God knows how thick DSM V is. Anyway, he told us that if we couldn't find ourselves at least three times in this manual we aren't alive and breathing. He made the point that the more people looked to doctors and medication for solutions to their problems the more inventive there is for doctors to label traits and quirks as mental illnesses and come up with medications to treat them. When I was a kid, I didn't know anyone my age who was autistic. I didn't know anyone my age who had attention deficit disorder. I didn't know anyone my age who was taking medication for a mental disorder of any kind. If you were fidgety or disruptive you were dealt with using good old fashioned discipline. We all needed a butt whuppin now and again and while I knew kids who went on to lives of crime, most everyone made it through okay. They certainly weren't hooked on any drugs prescribed by some quack looking to make a buck. I think there is a special place in Hell for these modern-day Mengele's who intentionally misdiagnose kids so they can prescribe the crap big pharma produces to them. It may not be as hot as the fires that await those who are mutilating children in the name of gender affirmation but it will be a pretty uncomfortable place all the same. The medical profession has been corrupted. It's why when my time comes I'm dying at home. No one is making a buck on my passing. A pox on all of them.
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  37. That was well done. Who was responsible for the war? Everyone. There had been rumors of war in Europe and close calls for more than a decade. It's like most everyone on all sides were either itching for a fight or resigned to its inevitability. Every side had a plan and once the plans were put into motion nobody knew how to stop them. Perhaps if the lines of communication had been more advanced something might have been done reduce tensions but I think it would have only delayed the war. The tragedy of the trenches was that the European officers who had observed the U.S. Civil War didn't learn the proper lesson, that technology was moving faster than tactics. The carnage of the frontal assaults on fortified positions in that war would be repeated in France but on a much larger scale. Countries always prepare for the previous war, that is the real tragedy and that hasn't changed, not even in a world where asymmetrical warfare has become the norm.
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  38. They were anti-establishment/subculture until they became the establishment/culture. It's always about the pursuit and application of power. Put another way, it ain't no fun when the rabbit's got the gun but in our case we knew the nature of the rabbit but gave it the gun anyway. That's gonna be a hard one to explain to the grandkids when they are being packed into boxcars in the name of progress. And no, I'm not a tinfoil hat guy, furthest thing from it. But I am a student of the human condition and history. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss, only nastier.
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  39. There has always been two tiers within the FBI, street agents and management. Management operates under a different set of rules. Read the book 1,000 Years for Revenge by Peter Lance to get a better idea of the gap between the two. Truth be told, if someone had tried to establish a national police force in 1789 the founding fathers would have had the person pitching the idea tarred and feathered.
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  40. The thing is, children want limits. They press the boundaries until they are told no but in reality you are telling that child "I care about you" which is really what they want to hear. I went to a Catholic school back in the day when discipline was more than just a concept and while sometimes things were taken too far, for the most part it worked, at least in that environment. Kids were taught and respect was established. But there had to be follow-up at home. I had friends who took a laid back approach to parenting and some of them got a second bite at the apple when they ended up raising their grandchildren because their kids were too messed up to do the job themselves. I was in the minority in that I was never a big fan of the "cool parent" when I was a teenager. I was hell-on-wheels myself for a while so that might explain why I didn't like parents who were more interested in being a friend than a father or mother. Some of my best friends raised little brats who are now adult brats. And we wonder how we got here? Mindboggling.
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  41. I don't think they have good intentions. And the people who suffer the most from their malfeasance are the people they claim to be the champion's of, the poor who are stuck living in the areas where most of these offenders do business.
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  42. Here's the thing, God doesn't force Himself on anyone. If you choose to walk away He's not going to stop you, on an individual or a societal level. But when you reject Him you reject His blessings as well. John Adams put it best, "Our Constitution was made for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." Look around. I think he has been proven correct.
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  43. LBJ had an overwhelming need to be loved coupled with a massive inferiority complex. He thought if he gave people enough stuff they would love him. That was why when it came to passing welfare legislation he wanted to outdo his hero FDR. He had empathy for poor people but his top-down throw more money at the problem approach was an utter disaster. In a lot of instances, like his model cities program, he gave very little direction, just spend the money. Government took on the role of parenting and it became more profitable to have a government check than a father in the home working for low wages. But you can't just lay everything at the feet of LBJ and the democrats. People still had free will and a lot of them made bad choices in the 60s and 70s, engaging in sex before marriage and telling God to take a hike. Nobody held a gun to anyone's head and said you must procreate. The free-love attitude of the counter-culture and I-am-woman-hear-me-roar mantra of the feminist movement roped in a lot of women who had no social safety net beyond government when their poor choices caught up with them. Now it's generational and the sense of hopelessness is pounded into people's brains, convincing them that the game is rigged and nothing matters anyway. They act like nothing has changed since the 1950s and I suppose it's easier for some to believe that lie than to take responsibility for their actions. It's a lie the race pimps are more than happy to promote. It's why a talentless street hustler like al sharption can get a TV show and have white politicians coming in to kiss his ring. What has the man actually done to shepherd his flock. But hey, when you are ordained at 10 by some other hustler I guess the results are not surprising. The idea never was leading anyone or anything, it was always about rabble-rousing to make a buck. Hat's off to guys like him and jesse jackson, they figured out how to play that game. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
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  44. “The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant. It’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.” ― Ronald Reagan
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  45. Thank you Matt. I have been saying for a while that people on the political right have been star-hungry since obama and globing on to people like Joe Rogan and Dave Portnoy simply because they hold one view that lines up with their own. You've got Fox News flattering Bill Maher for calling out woke culture even though he hates the conservative movement a whole lot more than he does censorship. Maher is not a moderate, will never be a moderate, and cozying up to him isn't going to change that, ever. I say the political right is star hungry because I don't think those left in the conservative movement, as few of us as there are, ever bought into Kanye's conversion. Wearing a MAGA hat and calling yourself a Christian doesn't change who you are. Sorry, but flattering Trump should not give someone a lifetime pass. You are right about the left loving this. You know good and damned well they are busy making commercials for 2024 showing Trump with Kanye and Kanye with Alex Jones spewing out this lunacy. But Trump, who should know better, can't help himself. He won't distance himself from the guy and that's fine so long as he's not running for president. But since he is, he should act like it. But he won't, because that's not in his nature. Oh well. Such is life in the age of stupid.
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  46. Interesting. My best friends are Lebanese, at least that's how they would describe themselves. Their grandparents, who emigrated to the U.S. during the troubled times spelled out here never saw themselves as Lebanese. If anything, when asked, they would say they were Assyrian's. In reality, they were Chaldean's, a Christian sect who were being squeezed by all sides at that time. My friends were raised in the Roman Catholic tradition, same as me, but their grandparents saw themselves as aligned with, but not part of, the Vatican Papacy. And that was their real allegiance,. They saw themselves in cultural, not nationalistic terms and never felt a close bond to Lebanon as a nation-state. They would always simply refer to it as the old country and they said it with a tinge of sadness because none of the family ever returned. The story of Lebanon is tragic. It's creation was not thought out properly and the idea that France would protect Christian minorities fell flat. One of the tragedies of drawing arbitrary lines based on old maps is that it has put Lebanon smack dab in the middle of hostile powers and as they go to war to with each other they tend to use the place as a highway. It suffers the same type of problems based on geography that Poland has traditionally endured. I think I would have like to have seen it as it was before WWI. From the stories I heard as a child it was a beautiful region with lots of tress and while there was tension, people mostly got along. Sykes-Picot strikes again. A curse on that fowl agreement between gentlemen.
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  47. He's thinking: "Where's that blonde lady at? She promised me ice cream." Yeah, Putin and Xi are shaking in their boots.
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  48. “People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.” ― Milan Kundera
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  49. What's Kari's response when she finds out the woman from Arkansas whose name shall not be uttered is not a fan? "My brakes work fine and I'm not suicidal." Priceless! 👍👍 What's not to love?
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  50. Several factors went into the destruction of the housing market. Certainly no-money-down loans to people who couldn't afford the houses they were getting into played a big role. The whole sub-prime scheme was backed by the government and when Otto the dishwasher was handed the bill it was easy for him to walk away because he didn't have any equity in the place. And people just flat out got greedy. I don't know if shows like Flip That House inspired them but they figured if they owned a house for a couple years they could make crazy profits on the resale. I remember when I sold my first house in the early 90s I made two grand after owning it for two years and was happy as all get out that I made anything. I was concerned about losing money as a result of being in the place for such a short time. Now we have a situation where young couples trying to raise a family are struggling to come up with the requisite down payment for a house in a market that once again is overheating while interest rates continue to climb. But hey, inflation is just a thing republicans made up to scare people. No, this day has been a long time coming. We have spent like drunken sailors and played a shell game with fiscal policy but all good things must come to an end. It looks like the waitress has arrived with the check. Who's going to pick up the tab?
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  51. Listening to that joker spouting that nonsense at the beginning helps to explain why our education system is essentially extinct. Guys like him are legion in universities. They were around when I was an undergrad but there were still enough genuine educators in place to offset them. That was a different time, one I'm afraid we will not return to. That's a shame.
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  52. I think this may be a first. I agree with Big Mike. The idea of a fourth term for her husband terrifies me too.
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  53. It's easy for the powers that be on the left to use skin-tone as the distinguishing trait for minorities. It doesn't require any explanation to the masses. Jews and Asian's are excluded because they tend to not become dependent on the government for their survival. An independent person tends to be an independent thinker and by extension an independent voter. Jews are also hated by one of the left's protected classes so that puts them on the outs. The thing is, these gays for Palestine who are protesting with the jihadis and clamoring for an intifada would be handed over to the roof brigade if they lived in a Muslim theocratic state governed by sharia law. Do they even know? Or is their tribalism so deep that they stopped thinking critically at all. That is the easiest thing to do, just buy into the cult 100% and let others worry about the details. As for the Asians, a big chunk of people have never wanted to see them get ahead, going back to the days of the anti-Chinese civic groups in 19th Century America. Nothing new under the sun there. The question now is, what exactly is this place going to look like in the next few years once the true impact of obabma's plan to wreck the place by eliminating borders is felt. People have got to eat. They've got to have shelter. Maslow pointed this out. People will do what it takes to get their survival needs met. I think who is or who is not getting into MIT and Harvard will be less of a concern then. Hell, the dorms might look like the U.N. with a hundred different flags hanging out of the windows with none of the flag wavers even attending the school. We are in a pickle, indeed we are.
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  54. "It doesn't violate the rules in concept." 🤔I can relate. I got through high school applying that axiom.
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  55. Getting the best of joy reid in a debate is kinda like beating a Labrador Retriever in a spelling bee. But Byron Donalds is a straight shooter from my home state so kudos to him all the same. 👍
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  56. When I was an undergrad I took a poli-sci class run by a couple lefty professors. There was a young black woman who was barely there, sometimes showing up on test day, sometimes not, hardly ever for regular classes. Yet she passed the course with no problem, despite the school having a mandatory attendance requirement. The fireworks exploded on the final day when this young white woman laid into the professors pretty good for allowing her to get away with it. They straight up admitted that she was a single mother and that was why they cut her slack. That really set this young lady off because as she pointed out, she was a single mother too. I was getting a kick out of these two old bald guys getting taken to the woodshed by this 120 pound young lady but then I wondered why I didn't speak up as well. Kinda took the fun out of the moment. Such is life in America's halls of higher learning.
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  57. 50,000 degrees Kelvin is 89,540 Fahrenheit. If aluminum foil held up to that it sounds like a pretty good selling point for Reynolds Wrap.
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  58.  @deanfirnatine7814  She'd be in a time-share with Hillary in Somalia if our justice system worked the way it was intended to.
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  59. My biggest concern, will it smack into us, seems to have been answered. As for it being like Hale-Bopp, wouldn't that be something. Now THAT was a comet.
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  60. Dr. Sowell is as smart as they come but he never comes off as stuffy or full of himself. He really seems like a down-to-earth kind of guy, the kind who would be good company during dinner or at a ballgame. I miss reading his weekly column. I also used to enjoy watching Brian Lamb interview authors on CSPAN. He asked smart questions and let the guest finish a thought without trying interject his own point of view. If he had a political leaning he kept it hidden. Smart TV shows, I miss those as well.
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  61. “Not too long ago two friends of mine were talking to a Cuban refugee, a business man who had escaped from Castro. And in the midst of his story one of my friends turned to the other and said: ‘We don’t know how lucky we are.’ And the Cuban stopped and said: 'How lucky you are? I had some place to escape to.’ And in that sentence he told us the entire story. If we lose freedom here, there’s no place to escape to.” ― Ronald Reagan: A Time for Choosing
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  62. Trying? He's succeeding. Yes we can has become no you can't. My fear is what this place will look like after his fourth term. God help us.
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  63. They'll always be the Indians to me, and I'm a Tiger fan. Getting Tom Hanks to try and sell that hideous name change was just more proof it was a sucky idea.
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  64. There is a large element of truth in the belief that if you tell any group of people they are screwed no matter what they do long enough it will be difficult to purge that mindset in a single generation. That's part of our problem, a collective external locus of control if you will. But our problems run much deeper than that. Our forefathers believed they had a stake in the country and took their civic responsibilities seriously. That really changed starting in the 1960s. Young people were given far too much free reign, youth began to be celebrated, elder citizens began to be marginalized and the lessons they had to impart started to be ignored. Families not only shrunk, they became disconnected internally. What was once treasured became archaic, part of a past we didn't care about because it didn't belong to us. But most of all, we decided we were the smartest kids on the block and didn't need some God we couldn't see telling us what to do. If it feels good do it, live and let live, morality is relative and comes from the culture, not some higher authority. We told God to take a hike and because He doesn't force Himself on anyone He said okay. He has never stopped loving us, that is our one saving grace, but we stopped loving Him and ourselves for that matter. Like George Harrison wrote many years ago, it's all "I Me Mine." We fell victim to the curse of the double-H: Hedonism and Hubris. We became indifferent citizens who gave up our power, figuring somehow it would all work out if we let the experts take charge. We lost our way and along with it, our republic, which as our founding fathers knew, relied on an engaged, virtuous citizenry. We the people became a cliché, and a vacuum was created. Nature abhors a vacuum so a new order took root, one based on collusion between institutions that once had a natural anathema built into them. To borrow from George Orwell: “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” ― George Orwell: Animal Farm We can take it back, but only when we stop seeing each other as enemies and start recognizing the nature of the threat, when we stop letting others think for us and go back to thinking for ourselves. That takes work though and hey, the playoffs start in an hour. While we were looking out for 1984 our overlords snuck a Brave New World in on us. Like I say, this can be fixed, but we have to want it more than our own personal comfort. The days of sunshine patriots has come to an end. A time for choosing is upon us. Choose wisely, you regain your liberty, choose the safe route, you get a nice soft tyranny to enjoy. But hey, why should that matter to me. It's not my kid they are trying trans...at least not yet. A time for choosing indeed.
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  65. It boils down to shared cultural values and expectations and how those values and expectations are reinforced in the home. I come from a family where there wasn't a whole lot of importance put on education and guess what, very few of us, meaning my siblings and cousins, went on to earn a degree from a university. We were working class and there was an expectation that you would remain working class. It wasn't spoken, it was just sort of assumed. The high school I went to was predominantly black and the black students who worked to get good grades were mocked. Male students were mocked more than their female counterparts. A lot of them graduated because it was easier to pass them than to put up with their disruptive behavior and indifferent attitudes for another year. That's harsh I suppose, but it's what I saw first-hand. That was fifty years ago and by the looks of things not much has changed. If you aren't supported at home and your peer group ridicules you there is a better than even chance that you will meet the expectations being set for you. But here's the thing, a degree no longer carries the weight and prestige it once did because standards for university programs have followed the cultural plum line and fallen off dramatically. I completed a graduate program not too long ago and I was shocked at where most of the younger students were at as far as basic reading comprehension, math skills, writing ability, and analytical skills were concerned. In my opinion their work was barely at the freshmen level for an undergraduate program yet the professors gave them passing grades anyway and I imagine most of them went on to earn that graduate degree. Why? They had the money to pay for it I guess. There is no way most of them would have survived the first graduate program I participated in years before, not based on the work I saw. Anyway, that's a long-winded way of saying most people rise to the water level set for them. If you hang out in the shallow end of the pool, you never learn to swim or even tread water for that matter. And test scores don't always tell the whole story. I say that as someone who developed tests and evaluated testing programs. Some people can knock out a test but you wouldn't trust them to make sound decisions or exercise good judgement. Why? Because that is legacy-based skill set as well, but that's a discussion for another day.
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  66. "Well sh*t-fire! Martha's Vineyard is just a name. We didn't expect you to send us a bunch of grape pickers!" ― Barack Obama
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  67. The points made here are valid, but there are other factors in play today that weren't as prevalent or in some instances non-existent in previous generations that have led to the increase in divorce and the rise in the number of people who don't marry at all. These include hookup culture, the availability of porn, quick and easy divorces, the emergence of the internet, and the collapse of the church. People have always been self-interested, it's just a whole lot easier and acceptable to act on it these days.
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  68. I remember when I was an undergrad back in the olden days. I did a half-assed job prepping for the first exam in an economics class and pulled down a 72. This ruffled my pride so I fought like hell the rest of the way, determined to overcome my poor outing. By the time the course was over I had raised my test average to 89.8. I got a B. I approached the professor later on to see about getting that changed to an A. I didn't BS him, took accountability for my earlier poor outing and he said he knew all that and that I had been a very good student. Then he opened the grade book and asked me what I saw. I told him 89.8. He asked me what it took to get an A. I told him 90 and above and again, he told me to look at my grade. I started to protest and said he should round up for effort and he replied; "what if I took points off for a poor effort, would that be fair?" He then asked me if I would be talking to him if I had simply managed to get one more question right on that first test. His point was made. I got what I earned. Effort is fine, but they don't give style points out in the real world so why should I expect to get them in an academic setting. Fast forward almost 30 years. I'm too sick to work but I have to do something while I heal and I've got time and funds left on my GI Bill. I enrolled in a masters program and I was shocked. The academic standards were out the window. There were young people on that program who could barely put a paragraph together. One young lady working on a team I was a part of would simply copy and paste from other works and not even bother to cite because she said she was too busy and when I said she could get us thrown out for plagiarism she said she didn't care. None of them knew how to apply critical thinking. Quantitative analysis? That was the Moon to them. Another woman and I ended up doing 99% of the work but here's the thing, they would have passed no matter what we turned in. C's were good enough and the school had plenty of those to go round. Wanna know why we are in trouble? Because ignorance is okay and mediocrity is rewarded. When I was teaching we had a running joke that went; "if the minimum wasn't good enough it wouldn't be the minimum." Well that is no longer a joke. Welcome to academia in the 21st Century. I'm on the back at end of my race. The ones who are gonna be around a while? Brush up on your Mandarin. Or survival skills 101, hunting, gathering, that kind of stuff. That's probably a better course to take.
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  69. The problem with Iranian thinking (granted THAT is a subject as large as the solar system, but I digress) is Israel is not full of devout Jews. As for Putin and Ukraine, the Turks and their beefs with the Greeks and the Armenians, or any number of regional disputes, they was foretold by Samuel Huntington more than 30 years ago and expanded on his book; The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order in 1996. He said the the old gripes that predated WWI hadn't gone away and now that the bi-polar alliance system was dead the feuds based on differences in culture, religion, and ethnicity, would start up again because there was no one to hold the crazies in check. Of course he was slammed by the same globalist bunch who call themselves elites today. They meet every now and again at their demonic WEF pow-wows and that includes the Bush family who was especially furious with Huntington for his intentional play on words, turning George the First's new world order nonsense on its head. And let's be honest, anytime you piss the Bush family off you know you are on the right path. But we had been warned about the dangers of complacency and the nature of authoritarian government's before by people who had actually lived through it: "There is this fallacious belief: 'It would not be the same here; here such things are impossible.' Alas, all the evil of the Twentieth Century is possible everywhere on Earth:" ― Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Solzhenitsyn saw where the West was heading back in the 1970s and tried to warn us. The people currently living here who grew up in Soviet Bloc countries are astounded that people here are not only not concerned about the surveillance state, they invite it into their homes with little electronic devices they freely interact with, believing that Alexa just goes into some kind of a sleep mode when they aren't talking with her. People sign up for plans that allows the local electric company to control their thermostat for them. And no one seems curious about the government push to outlaw gas stoves and replace them with electric ranges, something they can control that much easier. Digital currencies, bio-ID devices at the local clinic. Talk about mark of the beast stuff. Trust me, I am as far from a tin-foil hat guy as you will find. I'm more of an Occam's Razor guy than a conspiracy buff. But like the demon Azazel tells Denzel Washington's character in the movie Fallen: "Take a look around some time Hobbs." Sometimes, people or systems really are out to get you: “The whole world was filled with wonder and followed the beast…they asked: “Who is like the beast? Who can wage war against it?’” ― Revelation 13: 4
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  70. I've been broke so I know how that feels. But true poverty? Some of the stuff I saw travelling overseas made anyone living on the government dole in this country look rich. I used to golf occasionally with a gentleman who grew up on the Atlantic coast in Africa. He said there wasn't much thievery to speak of in his village because there was nothing to steal. When he was seven or so he didn't go to school. He went down to the shore with his brother and they used a homemade net to catch dinner. Storms would come and knock their dwellings over and people would simply rummage through the wreckage to put it back together again. But he said everyone got a long okay until the day war came to their neck of the woods. Then he and his brother became orphans. They ended up in Canada and he said it was like landing on a different planet. Stores with food? Highways filled with cars? Lights? All of it was foreign to him and it blew his mind. He learned the language, got a degree in engineering, and raised a family. I asked if he ever went back to his village and he said there was nothing to go back to. He was just grateful he had somewhere to go and for the faith-based charity that took him in. His was a story of real poverty and an example of what give us your huddled masses yearning to be free used to mean. He was a good guy who worked hard and integrated into the melting pot the West once was. The poor here? We haven't even scratched the surface of the consequences of our open border and the plight of unskilled workers who won't have any more to do here to make a buck than they had back home, wherever that was. And that's the bunch looking for a better life. The gang looking to pad their bad-guy resumes? God help us.
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  71. “Most people are not just comfortable in their ignorance, but hostile to anyone who points it out.” ― Plato’s Allegory of the Cave
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  72. Ruminations of an intellectual from a bygone era: “Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” ― John Adams Thoughts from the modern intellectual: “I can easily understand why it should puzzle you that a person of my intelligence, IQ 207, super-genius, should devote his valuable time chasing this ridiculous roadrunner.” ― Wile E. Coyote Or, do chickens cry and other brilliant rhetorical flourishes from the best and the brightest our universities have to offer. And we wonder why we are where we are. 🤔
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  73. When I was an undergrad I remember telling one of my favorite professors that I came into the study of American History a fan of Jefferson but I ended up with more admiration for Adams, the hardest working Founding Father.
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  74. Cool video. It gives you an appreciation for just how finely tuned the conditions are for life on this tiny rock we call home. I recall reading somewhere that the oscillation of the solar system lines up with mass extinction events. The premise seemed to be that our proximity to other stars created a sort of gravitational tug-of-war within the Oort Cloud, sending long-period comets our way, some of which find their way to Earth. The research seemed to indicate we were overdue for a collision. Or maybe we just got lucky and dodged a bullet. Can you imagine something the size of Hale-Bopp smashing into us? Not even Billy Bob Thornton or Bruce Willis would be able to stop a beast like that. Anyway, cool stuff. The info was presented in a straight forward way. I did read about a paper that challenges the fast accelerating universe and posits that it is static, that we have been reading the data the wrong way. Wonder what that will do to cosmology if that theory proves to be correct. I guess the Science Channel will have to go back and redo all their gloom-and-doom scenarios about the fate of the universe if that turns out to be the case.
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  75. I appreciate what the gentleman is getting at, but the problem runs a lot deeper than what he calls "Frenchism." It's not a left vs. right issue, and we were warned of the consequences a very long time ago: “For although they knew God they did not accord him glory as God or give Him thanks. Instead, they became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened. While claiming to be wise, they became fools…Therefore, God handed them over to degrading passions. Their females exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and the males likewise gave up natural relations with females and burned with lust for one another. Males did shameful things with males and thus received in their own persons the due penalty for their perversity. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God handed them over to their undiscerning mind to do what is improper.” ―Romans 1 “But understand this: there will be terrifying times in the last days. People will be self-centered…abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, irreligious…hating what is good…conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God…Reject them.” ― 2 Timothy: 3: 1-5 “For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine but, following their own desires and insatiable curiosity, will accumulate teachers and will stop listening to the truth and will be diverted to myths.” ― Timothy 4: 3-4 “But as for cowards, the unfaithful, the depraved, murderers, the unchaste, sorcerers, idol-worshipers, and deceivers of every sort, their lot is in the burning pool of fire and sulfur, which is the second death.” ― Revelation: 21:8 "Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. Woe to the world because of things that cause sin! Such things must come, but woe to the one through whom they come!’ ― Matthew 18 So much for david french's "Christian" arguments and positions. And what about those who try to claim toleration of sin is a Christian Imperative? “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of Heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in Heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’ ― Matthew 7:21-23 “I tell you, on the day of judgment people will render an account for every careless word they speak. By your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.” ― Matthew 12: 36-37 A time for choosing. Choose wisely. I say this as someone who swam far too long in the Devil's lake. Redemption is possible, but only if you seek it.
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  76. Arbitrary abuse of power isn't restricted to civilian life. When I was in the military a buddy of mine applied for a job that required a top-secret security clearance. One night he showed up for work and was told he had to turn in his flight line badge and was being reassigned to a desk job. He asked why but nobody gave him a reason outside of just turn in your badge. Turns out one of the investigators doing the background check on him spoke with a neighbor of his who said my friend had wild parties where dope was smoked and worse. They yanked his security clearance for that and questioned everyone who spent off-duty time with him, including me. The weenie who interviewed me asked me if I had ever seen my friend smoke weed. I said no then the guy starts asking me how I could be so sure? How is it I know what weed smells like? I saw where this fishing expedition was going and told him I was finished answering his questions. He told me to sit my ass back down unless I wanted trouble. I told him I would sit my ass back down if he read me my rights and there was a witness in the room for the rest of the questioning. He grumbled something and I left. My friend's clearance was held back for close to six months, until someone finally told him who had made the charge against him that was causing all the trouble. He explained to them that the guy was bonkers, certifiably off his rocker. He used to yell at the sky, argue with everyone who lived nearby, would wear a diaper on his head when the mood hit him, and would put up homemade signs along the road from time-to-time, protesting everything from his girlfriend to the police who he claimed were harassing him 24/7. It took a different investigator about half an hour to confirm my friends claim and since the crazy guy was the only one who had said anything negative about him his secret security clearance was reinstated and he was told they would move forward with his top-secret investigation since he was once again eligible for the job he had applied for. He told em to get bent and got out a couple months later. Why they didn't tell him sooner about the charge against him is anybody's guess. Why they didn't bother to check out the background of the guy making the claim? Laziness I suppose. Why that jerk-weed tried to lean on me and why they kept my buddy in limbo for so long? Sheer arrogance. I don't go in much for absolutes but when you give small people too much power they will always abuse it. So why are they given that power? Connections, ability to BS the right person, institutional laziness, nepotism, pick your poison. That wasn't the only time I saw that particular investigative service run amok. Later, when I was training recruits fresh out of basic, I used to caution them to never let those guys get too friendly with them during any interview, whether they were the focus of the investigation or not. People with zero accountability who don't give two damns about the downstream consequences of their actions and could care even less about how it affects people at an individual level are legion, in the public and private sectors. And they are responsible for the vast majority of misery the average Joe and Jane have to deal with. The thing is, you don't know who they are or how they do it. Welcome to transparency, 21st Century style.
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  77. "Thank God we got penitentiary's. I asked this dude: why did you kill everybody in the house? Because they was home." ― Richard Pryor
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  78. LBJ was never a crusty old conservative. He was a new dealer from his early days as a staffer on the hill and remained one until the day he died. The reason his great society was so bloated was because he wanted to "out legislate FDR." He thought if he gave enough people enough stuff they would love him. That was why he could never get his head around the race riots of the 60s. The thing about a job is it gives you purpose. You have some place to be where you contribute to something beside yourself. That satisfies our need for self-worth. If you're adrift and aren't connected to anyone or anything on a deep level nihilism sets in. That said, most of our problems really stem from the fact we told God to take a hike. When you become unmoored from Him even a job won't fill the void.
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  79. “Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the four horns of the gold altar before God, telling the sixth angel who held the trumpet, ‘Release the four angels who are bound at the banks of the great river Euphrates.’ So the four angels were released, who were prepared for this hour, day, month, and year to kill a third of the human race. The number of cavalry troops was two hundred million; I heard their number.” ― Revelation 9: 13-18
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  80. Empires rise and fall and republics seem to have a shelf-life that varies based on how serious people are about being citizens. One thing that set America apart was most of the early settlers who came here for the long-term placed a great amount of importance on honoring God and living by a code based on Judeo-Christian principles. Even founders who weren't particularly devout like Franklin and Jefferson understood that those principles were a steadying force for good. After WWII this country began a slow but inexorable drift away from those values and here's the thing, if you tell God you don't want Him in your life, on a personal or civic level He says okay, your will be done. We aren't slaves. We allow ourselves to become enslaved either to immoral behavior or comfortable living. I've got mine is all the rage. I get it, not everyone will agree with my take on it and that's okay. But consider what St. Paul had to say on the matter two thousand years ago and look around and see how close he is to describing a day that an ends in Y in today's culture. "For what can be known about God is evident to them, because God made it evident to them...although they knew God they did not accord Him glory as God or give Him thanks. Instead, they became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened. While claiming to be wise, they became fools...Therefore, God handed them over to degrading passions. Their females exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and the males likewise gave up natural relations with females and burned with lust for one another. Males did shameful things with males and thus received in their own persons the due penalty for their perversity. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God handed them over to their undiscerning mind to do what is improper. They are filled with every form of wickedness, evil, greed, and malice; full of envy, murder, rivalry, treachery, and spite...They are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Although they know the just decree of God that all who practice such things deserve death, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them." ― Romans 1: 19-32 Anyone can be redeemed, cultures can be restored, but we have to want it. A time for choosing. It's here and it's real.
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  81. Cool video. It gives you an appreciation for just how finely tuned the conditions are for life on this tiny rock we call home. I recall reading somewhere that the oscillation of the solar system lines up with mass extinction events. The premise seemed to be that our proximity to other stars created a sort of gravitational tug-of-war within the Oort Cloud, sending long-period comets our way, some of which find their way to Earth. The research seemed to indicate we were overdue for a collision. Or maybe we just got lucky and dodged a bullet. Can you imagine something the size of Hale-Bopp smashing into us? Not even Billy Bob Thornton or Bruce Willis would be able to stop a beast like that. Anyway, cool stuff. The info was presented in a straight forward way. I did read about a paper that challenges the fast accelerating universe and posits that it is static, that we have been reading the data the wrong way. Wonder what that will do to cosmology if that theory proves to be correct. I guess the Science Channel will have to go back and redo all their gloom-and-doom scenarios about the fate of the universe if that turns out to be the case.
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  82.  @dancingtrout6719  There were two old graveyards within a couple miles of the house I grew up in. The one with the graves from the 1830s was the oldest in the area. There was another old one a bit closer that dated back to the 1850s. That one had the most beautiful headstone I've ever seen. It was made from a tree stump about four feet high. The woman's husband carved her name into it then placed a rope around it. I don't know what sort of finish he used (some kind of lacquer) but he coated the entire stump, rope and all, and it has held up for more than a hundred years. I went back through the old neighborhood a couple years ago with a friend. We drove through that cemetery and the marker is still there, a beautiful tribute from a husband to a wife who was dearly loved and died young (she was in her early 30s when she passed). I should have taken a picture of it, being that is so unique but it didn't dawn on me to do so. Like I say, I always felt sad for the people who passed and are eventually forgotten as time marches on. They haven't buried anyone in either cemetery for a long time. Old monuments to another era.
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  83.  @100percentSNAFU  Lt. Thomas Selfridge, the first person to die in an aircraft accident. He was flying with Orville Wright when the plane went down due to engine failure. Along with Selfridge ANGB in Michigan, every Air Force base has a street named in his honor. As a history buff and a retired AF member I would have loved to hear his account of what happened. From that to the Moon landing is quite a journey indeed.
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  84. "There is this fallacious belief: 'It would not be the same here; here such things are impossible.' Alas, all the evil of the Twentieth Century is possible everywhere on Earth:" ― Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Coming to a townhall near you unless we say enough is enough. It's not like we weren't warned.
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  85. Not exactly at the Preston Brooks versus Charles Sumner level but at least as animated as Kennedy versus Hoffa. Men did have an outlet, it was called hockey, but then the de-maculation squad started complaining about that and the NHL caved. The Gordie Howe Hat Trick became a thing of the past. That Teamster guy looked like he was ready and it's not like Teamsters have a long history of pacifist behavior. Would have been a tussle to remember. I'm with Matt on this one. Some guys need their ass kicked.
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  86. “Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me. If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea…Such things must come, but woe to the person through whom they come! ― Matthew: 18 “But as for cowards, the unfaithful, the depraved, murderers, the unchaste, sorcerers, idol-worshipers, and deceivers of every sort, their lot is in the burning pool of fire and sulfur, which is the second death.” ― Revelation: 21:8 Let those who have ears listen.
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  87. These problems with public schools aren't new. Approximately 50 years ago I went from a parochial school into the local school system. I was in the 7th grade and I was shocked when I saw the textbooks we were given. They were chock full of stuff I had learned by the 4th grade at my prior school. Outside of math, I was in the 10th grade by the time the curriculum caught up to where I was at when I left the parochial system. Later, when I considered becoming a teacher I contacted a university in my old hometown and asked about their teacher certification program. I told the advisor what courses I had completed and she told me I would have to devote at least one, possibly two years to taking classes in diversity and other such nonsense that had nothing to do with teaching anyone anything. That was in 1993. I can only imagine what it is like today. So no, Dr. Sowell's piece does not surprise me. It is an old tale. Eventually I spent more than 25 years teaching adults and the problem with that was most of them wanted to be taught like children. Want to know why we are in the mess we are in? Look no further.
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  88. One of my cousins was big into genealogy a while back and spent a few years tracing our lineage, even going so far as following breadcrumbs across the pond to the old country. Anyway, word is John Hawkins is in my family tree, one of those cousins 17 times removed or whatever. I'm not sure how true it is but it would explain this overwhelming urge I've had since I was a kid to plunder a Spanish Galleon. 🤔
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  89. Facts are like kryptonite to conspiracy buffs and lefties.
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  90. “For those who believe in God, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe, no explanation is sufficient.” — From the Movie: The Song of Bernadette
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  91.  @stinky7866  That's what I thought. I mean stacy abrams is the governor...right? 🤔At least that's what she keeps telling everyone.
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  92. This was a very refreshing video. I moved to a 55 + community a few years ago and during my time here I have learned a simple truth. In a lot of instances, if someone was a nasty piece of work when they were young, as they age, they just become an older nasty piece of work. I can't speak for all generations but as I was coming up we had a certain reverence for old people. We saw them as the kind grandmotherly or wise grandfatherly type. So it was almost my default position when I moved in here. But I have seen more than my share of selfish, unruly, ill mannered behavior from enough of these people to adjust that position. I won't get into the specifics but trust me, just because somebody ages doesn't mean they necessarily mellow or age gracefully. There is no magic pixie dust that gets dropped on senior citizens when they hit 55, 65, or even 75 for that matter. To say somebody poses no threat simply because of their age is a flat out lie. Richard Pryor put it best after he visited a prison. He said initially he wanted to get in touch with that side of the struggle, be down with the cause, that sort of thing. What did he say after his visit "Thank God we have penitentiary's!"
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  93. Makes me think of that line from one of Sam Kinison's routines where he talked about his response to his ex telling him something was missing from their relationship just before she left him: "It wouldn't be the cash now would it?"
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  94. "Interior decorators arrange, governments compel." THAT is a keeper. If I had a quarter of Dr. Sowell's with I wouldn't be half the failed author I am.
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  95. Reporter: "Mr. President, would you characterize this as an act of terrorism? Biden: "I like butterscotch pudding, unless it's Tuesday. That blonde lady, I think her name is Jill, she won't let me have pudding on Wednesday."
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  96. “I was up there and I spoke with all the brothers and it made my heart ache to see all these beautiful black men in the joint…warriors who should be out there helping the masses. And I felt that way and I was real naïve and six-weeks I was up there and you know I talked to the brothers and…thank God we got penitentiaries.” ― Richard Pryor
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  97. “Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.”― Mark Twain
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  98. People who clamor for state run health care have never lived through it or if they have it's all they have known.
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  99. You know what, I've heard a lot from both sides on this for a very long time. I generally don't engage because I have a deep love for both but here is my take on it. I don't go Mass on Sunday to learn about the periodic table and when I was an undergrad I didn't ask my astronomy professor questions about the mystery of the Trinity. If that is an oversimplification or a case of fence sitting on my part, so be it. As I say, it's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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  100. "If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything." I just Goggled it and it appears the all knowing search engine isn't sure who coined the phrase, but that is a keeper. As for the attention mongers, ya gotta hang a big part of that on social media. The web has become the world's stage for anyone with a cellphone. The niece of a friend showed me the Tic Toc page of one of her coworkers who identifies as a fury. What is a fury you may ask? Someone who identifies as an animal and dresses accordingly. But all is not lost, at least according to her page her preferred pronouns are still human (she and they). This young girl has more than 25,000 followers. How many of these fellow wingnuts are potentially dangerous? Hard to say. What happens to this misguided narcissist when being a fury becomes passé and the mob turns on her? We can chuckle I guess, but I imagine this kid, who looks to be maybe 16, will suffer real pain and a sense of betrayal. Why? Because her loving parents allowed her to dress like an animal and dance around provocatively for any number of people with bad intentions. How long will all of this madness last? “But of that day and hour no one knows, neither the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone. For as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.” ― Matthew 24: 36-37 It's coming. It's just a matter of when. And yes, we will all be held accountable for what we have done, and what he have failed to do.
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  101.  @redtobertshateshandles  Sorry to hear that. The last quack doctor I saw was homegrown right here in the good old US of A. No national boundaries on quacks I suppose.
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  102. Moderate democrat? That's an oxymoron. It's like a peaceful jihadist. Certain words just don't mesh well.
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  103. I have worked with several young people who were fed the myth of the 60s by college professors or people they met along the way. They talk about it like it was some kind of golden age. I was there. I was a kid, buy I lived it, and those halcyon days weren't as rosy as the former hippies and wannabe revolutionaries make them out to be. But trying to get them to change their tune about the great social earthquake they supposedly helped fuel is like trying to have a conversation with my coffee mug. Most of us put on rose-colored glasses to some extent when we think back to the days of our youth. Unfortunately, many of the true believers from that time see it full blown CGI. The myth they choose to believe.
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  104. An ESPN reporter asked that question? There's a shock. Sounds like she went to Max Kellerman for advice on how to come off as an insufferable woke windbag.
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  105. How about the court just do what they're supposed to do and decide on the constitutionality of the action. Well, I guess if they did that, we would have to toss 99.9% of the Federal Registry out the window and Congress would have to do their job. Can't have that.
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  106. The country has been drifting left for decades. Conservatives tried to kid themselves that the country was center right but as the country moved left the dividing line moved with it. Ideas that were considered left-wing 20 years before became mainstream, or the new center right if you will. But it was a gradual process until obama came along. He said he his goal was to fundamentally change America and no one really questioned him on what that really meant. He could have been a uniting figure but division was his thing because in order to fundamentally change something you have to tear down what currently exists and divide and conquer is a strategy as old as the Roman Legions. It's not rocket science. The thing is, the democrats lost tons of seats and governorships under obama's watch but he didn't care. Unlike Clinton who triangulated after losing a disastrous midterm, obama kept accelerating the move to the left. He didn't react to the situation, he made the situation react to him. And he's still working at it. If anyone thinks biden is in charge of anything I've got a nice piece of lake property to sell you just down the road from me. It's under 10 feet of water but it's cheap. Every great power reaches a tipping point at some point or another. We have reached that moment. Yes we can became yes we did and it's only a matter of time before things come to a head. I pray for us all and as always I give my best advice, get right with God. Not everyone will do that, that's a choice too. But it's what I hope for anyway.
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  107. There is a line from the Movie Biloxi Blues where Matthew Broderick's character asks one of his fellow recruits who is a bit of a nerd what course of action he would recommend for someone trying to become an intellectual. He said start with the entire second floor of the library. I have several degrees and while school helped me develop good study habits and helped make me a better writer, the old saying still applies. Reading is fundamental. Or, to borrow from Bob Dylan, you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
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  108. I've visited the state of Washington and there are some really picturesque locations to enjoy. But there is no way I would ever live in a state where a statue of Lenin is erected in its largest city and the government is dominated by Marxist politicians who simply ignore the Constitution and behave any way they want. How did the communists become so emboldened? That's on us. On a side note, please stop with the "EV's are going to be so much cheaper in the long-run BS." Most of this country is embarked on a suicide mission and a lot of it is done in the name of environmentalism. Wanna take about misinformation? How about we start there.
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  109. “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." That statement is attributed to Joseph Goebbels but there is no direct evidence that he was the one who first said it. But that doesn't make it any less true. The problem is, people more often prefer the lie. A lot of times it's more comforting. Is it easier to confront your own past and actions or is it easier to adopt an external locus of control and blame your lot in life on fate or the actions of others? It's easy for politician's to promise money that's not theirs to people they don't know and even easier for them to not follow through on that promise. As for slavery being a practice centered on race, it's estimated there are 50 million enslaved people living in the world today, more than at any time in human history. And 22% of those people are children. That's 11 million children. Now, what is more pressing, cutting a check to people whose ancestors may or may not have been slaves 160 years ago or using those resources to free those being held against their will today, especially the millions of children being trafficked for sex? Just asking, because it is a fair question and one you might want to consider the next time some libertarian makes an argument about pornography and prostitution being victimless crimes between consenting adults. Think especially hard about it if you find yourself visiting some free porn site. Nothing is free in this life. Just sayin.
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  110. I agree with your take on Nixon and his motivations. American fascination with China and the potential for trade with them goes back almost to the time of the founding. It was a key reason why America held on to the Philippines after the Spanish American War and why Hawaii was annexed prior to that. However, I don't think China is going to fold like the USSR did. They have more of a collectivist mindset and produce a better bureaucrat. They'll have ups and downs, but Xi is on a mission to right what he sees as historical wrongs perpetrated against the Middle Kingdom. He's truly old school and has a plan to restore China to its rightful place as the center of the world. That's the way he sees it anyway. They are ascending, not descending. Since Korea they have managed to avoid direct military engagement, unlike Russia which got bogged down in Afghanistan and a series of regional conflicts in Putin's attempt to put the Soviet band back together, and this has allowed them to fortify their global position. China is just getting started. There was a thought that the middle class might gain prominence and China might become more democratic but those dreams died with the rise of Xi and his faction. The 2030s are going to be dangerous times and China is going to be at the heart of most of it. That's what I see anyway. I probably won't be around to see it and I hope I'm proved wrong, but empires rise and fall all the time, and China wants this century to belong to them. That is a scary proposition.
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  111. I'm proud to say I got to circle the bubble next to the name Ron DeSantis this afternoon and it felt damed good. He delivered what Muhamad Ali used to call a one-sided-ass-whuppin and he did it the Smith Barney way, he earned it. I'm glad I was able to contribute in my modest way. Great job Governor, here's to four more years of winning and you know what, I'm pretty far from being tired of all the winning. Well done sir, very well played. Congrats to you, your family, and all my fellow Floridians. Tonight was a very good night in the Sunshine State. The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades. 😎
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  112. Dude, take the hint, they're just not that into you. Several freshmen, including the gal from my district, are standing strong against this worm. Good for her and good for the rest of em. He's not going anywhere? Well neither should they. mccarthy reminds me of that old SNL skit with John Belushi: "He was THE THING THAT WOULDN"T LEAVE."
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  113. There were two Bobby's. There was the Bobby before his brother was killed. That Bobby was intense, but to the point of being insufferable because he saw the world in black and white terms and was convinced he was on the side of right. He was clannish to the point where he would punch people who said anything about his family, especially his father who he was always trying to please. He was ruthless as evidenced by the way he went after Castro and Hoffa, willing to break any rules because winning was all that mattered. And he was arrogant, a quality that earned him a lot of enemies not only with outfits like the mob but also within his own party. As Joe Kennedy put it; "Bobby is the most like me. When I hate a sonofabitch I hate him for life." People say he would have gotten the nomination in 68 after winning the California primary but I'm not so sure about that. Most of the people who mattered within the party didn't like him, especially LBJ who hated him, a guy Bobby hated back just as hard. Conventions were still dominated by backroom deals and the powers-that-be weren't just going to roll over and let him win the nomination because he was a Kennedy. They were convinced he would lose the entire South and enough Western states to cost them the election. Then there was the Bobby after his brother was killed. Who admitted: "We were more energetic than wise about a lot of things, especially Cuba, and we paid a great price for it." He was convinced he was the one who got his brother killed, by making so many enemies. He even asked about Hoffa. He asked if he was doing alright. He said he was tired of chasing bad guys. There was a distinct change and that is where he differed from his brothers. Love him or hate him, Bobby was genuine, and he would admit when he was wrong and adjust accordingly. His brothers were incapable of changing at the molecular level like RFK did. I remember my Dad, who thought JFK was a rich-man's kid, was genuinely upset when Bobby died. Perhaps because he was the most Irish of the bunch. I will say this, he was light-years ahead of his degenerate little brother. That guy...but I digress.
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  114. This is what you get when you elect someone based on criteria that has nothing to do with their qualifications to do the job they are applying for. Think of it like like this, a really hot looking 25 year old young lady comes in to apply for a job but she has zero qualifications. But oh man, it sure beats looking at the qualified guy with the gut and coke-bottle glasses. Don't feel alone Canada. We did it here in 2008 when McCain was voted off the island. The country went with a guy because they liked the IDEA of who he was as opposed to who he was in reality. Now we are stuck with his demented buddy because orange-man-bad. But what's our alternative? That Harris chick? If I was 30 years younger and had a boat me and Wilson would head off to parts unknown. For me to do it in the sunset of my life, well that's just suicide. So, I guess I'll stick around and do my best to help my country get through all of this nonsense. As a child of Canada, I feel for you, and all my relatives north of the border. Maybe now you'll stop taking your elections so lightly and pay attention to who you are putting in office. And speaking of Nazi's, I could see that jack-booted chief of police in Ottawa letting loose with a few zeig-hieis.
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  115. biden and think-tank in the same sentence is by default an oxymoron.
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  116. I thought it would be good because nobody really covers this battle but that computer-generated voice is a crusher. Maybe I'll find one with an actual person narrating sometime later.
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  117.  @davidthompson4662  You were at war with Germany, not Japan. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor Churchill was itching to declare war on Japan because he had promised to join America against whoever they were fighting be it Japanese, Germans, or Martians so long as it resulted in America joining the fight. Roosevelt would have preferred Churchill cool his jets and said as much in a cable but the Japanese said had already said to hell with everybody and declared war on Britain and the U.S so really the point was moot.. It was part of their six-month plan to run crazy and create a Pacific fortress. They needed British, French, and Dutch colonies to get the job done.
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  118. Left wing academics and politicians have been playing footsie with marxism since the 1920s when they let Stalin take them on his magical mystery tour of all the wonderful achievements happening under communism in the USSR. They were attracted to it because they saw people like themselves being in charge, not the dirty from-the-ground-up types who actually built things. obama was the natural end product of the long march through the institutions, but that's on us. We let our elections become reality TV and yes we can became yes we did and now we have reached a point where we aren't going to ever return to anything close to normal outside of Divine intervention. But how many people really prefer the show to the sacrifices that will be required to restore liberty? "Imagine one of them is set free from his shackles and immediately made to stand up and bend his neck around, to take steps, to gaze up toward the fire...What do you think his reaction would be if someone informed him that everything he had formerly known was illusion and delusion...Would he, rather, believe that the shadows he formerly knew were more real than the objects now being shown to him?...Now, let’s say that he is forcibly dragged up the steep climb out of the cavern, and firmly held until finally he stands in the light of the sun. Don’t you think that he would be agitated and even begin to complain? Under that light, would his eyes not be nearly blinded, unable to discern any of those things that we ourselves call real?" ― Plato's Allegory of the Cave And the beat goes on. Enjoy the show.
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  119. When I was a kid in the 7th grade I went from a parochial school to a public school. I was astounded on day one when I looked at the textbooks I was given and most of the content was stuff I had been taught in the third grade. I could get an A anytime I wanted and quickly got bored but I was an angry kid with a smart mouth so nobody entertained any ideas of moving me in with the "smart kids." Truth be told I don't blame them. The thing is, I wasn't the only kid who could have benefitted from challenging school work that got overlooked. Plenty of bright kids got passed over for plenty of reasons. Some didn't want to take part in those classes because the kids in those programs were little intellectual snobs who had come up through the system together. I did take one honors English course in high school because my counsellor thought it would stimulate me but I wasn't part of the clique so I just coasted. I guess my point is, gifted programs are all fine and well but you've got to handle those kids properly. They get so much sunshine pumped up their pantaloons that they start believing the hype. Later in life, they become the elites who look down on the plebes because of course they do. We had trouble with our daughter when she was identified as gifted because she started calling her regular classes stupid. I wanted to pull her away from the little snobs who were putting those notions in her head but my wife was dead set against it. Want some free advice? If you're kid is exceptionally bright get him read books that will challenge him. But keep an eye on what kind of ideas get planted in his brain if you set him up in a gifted program. But that's just me.
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  120. Beautifully put. When I was a kid TV was chock full of heroes, from Superman to The Green Hornet. Even cartoons had heroes you could relate to like Underdog and Felix the Cat. Then things started to change. Our heroes came under attack. Green Hornet and Batman were cancelled and Superman was taken out of syndication because they said kids were jumping off roofs with towels for capes trying to fly. Even back then my friends and I laughed at that notion and said any kid stupid enough to jump off a roof got what he deserved. We were onto the whole Darwin Award thing before it was a thing. But you're right Drinker. We can't have nice things In today's hypersensitive world of beta males, fem-nazi's, and PC puritans. God help us.
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  121. The Wright Brothers are a good example of that point that Dr. Sowell is making. Neither brother finished high school but they came from a supportive family and had a natural intellectual curiosity that allowed them to solve complex problems associated with flight stability that other people with more impressive pedigrees couldn't figure out. Perhaps if their heads were filled with a bunch of useless knowledge their judgment may have been clouded. I have two graduate degrees and I've got to say, I met more than my share of dimwits as I worked on them. Who knows, maybe my collection of degrees and awards puts me in that class and I'm just too stupid to realize it as well? 🤔Hey, give me credit. At least I'm open to the idea that it might.
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  122. Wow, I hadn't heard that because I don't typically pay attention to Glenn Beck. I cancelled my Blaze subscription a couple years ago because of their crappy customer service. I was almost ready to give it another try because I like Steve Deace and one or two other pundits on his network then Beck sent out that maternity message, congratulating Rubin and his buddy on the birth of that woman's child that they claim is theirs. That snapped me back to my senses. Beck has always been a goofball. I was pissed when Conservative Review got gobbled up by his outfit since that was how I ended up at the Blaze in the first place. Thanks for letting me know about Beck's latest ridiculous comments. It helps remind me that he has more screwballs and mediocre talent on that network than I'm willing to pay for, starting with him.
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  123. Three cheers for the voters in Virginia! I lived there for three years and they taxed the living hell out of me. I found out real quick why it was called a commonwealth, your money goes to everybody but you. Those SOB's even had the gall to send me a tax bill two years after I moved away because they said they looked at my return a second time and determined I didn't pay those vultures enough as I was walking out the door. It sucks that it took CRT to bring them to their senses but here's hoping they stay there. Let's Go Brandon!
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  124. My dad worked on the docks and knew the captain and several of the crew members quite well. He worked on the door fittings and other structural components in the late 60s and was a supervisor in charge of stevedores in Detroit at the time of the sinking. It really hit him hard. That was a sad day for sure. RIP gentlemen.
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  125. It's called message discipline. He played it perfectly. Ignore, ignore, and when it gets hot, ignore some more.
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  126. The title is more than a bit misleading. The guy talked about the current problems within the CIA, at least as he sees them. What about the Rise and Fall? To begin with, the CIA was not created in response to Pearl Harbor. Harry Truman created it because he realized he needed a spy agency to rival the Soviets, who were always better at that sort of thing than the Americans, dating back to the days of the Czar. Truman didn't like secret police and he didn't want, in his words, "An American gestapo" so he disbanded the OSS. He wanted something sleeker, more professional, an agency that would report to the president, not some commanding military officer. His intent was for the outfit to be an intelligence gathering agency, but he figured out pretty quickly during the Korean War that you had to have human intelligence, not signal intelligence if you wanted to get things right. So he hired Bedell Smith, Ike's former military assistant to run the thing because of the Allies success with covert ops in WWII. The problem was they ended up with an eclectic group of cowboy-types, outlaws, soldiers of fortune, and former special forces guys from WWII who were bored. They gave em a bunch of money and all they got for the most part was a lot of dead Korean's they dropped behind enemy lines. Then, when Ike became president, he hired Allen Dulles, the mediocre brother of his secretary of state to run the thing and he was a covert action guy, not an intel guy. That's how they rose. The Church Committee neutered them to protect the Kennedy's and their shenanigans in Cuba and other places and from that time forward they were handcuffed and driven to mediocrity. But their track record never was that hot to begin with. Guatemala and Iran were pushovers. Cuba and Vietnam proved to be much more formidable. As for 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was the mastermind of that, not Bin Laden. Bin Laden provided the cash and helped recruit the evil crazies to carry it out but it was the brainchild of Khalid and his sick twisted nephew Ramsey Yusef. For 20 years Mohamed has been fed, clothed, and housed by the U.S. taxpayer. Timothy McVeigh went on trial in 1997 and was executed in 2001. Why is this POS who killed close to twenty times as many people still vertical? And what about Khobar Towers? People always seem to fail to mention that bombing which was clearly an Al Qaeda operation. Are we still worried about offending "Saudi sensibilities?"
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  127.  @kimobrien.  "If Marx had not written what he did and people had not followed him then Sowell would have had no career making Marx into the origins of everything he finds wrong." If Marx had not written what he did and had people not followed him there would be at least a hundred million more people alive today. Nothing personal, but I could give two damns about some labor union naming some award after a communist. Sure he influenced a lot of people. So did Hitler. So did Mao, and Stalin. Look at all the death they wrought, either fighting against Marx's ideas or trying to make them work. Did ya ever think maybe Dr. Sowell just saw through Marx and decided he was wrong?
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  128. I'll betcha right now there are a group of elves sitting around Santa's workshop wondering what happened to the guys they sent out on the last two beer-runs.
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  129. I wasn't alive when Harry Truman was president but I admire a lot about him, his personal integrity, decisiveness, intuition, and his willingness to do what he thought was right even if he knew he would take grief from the press and people in his own party. Of course, his decisiveness was a bit of a double edge sword in that he didn't always think matters through that should have been pondered a bit more closely. He could also hold a grudge like few others and he did have a habit of surrounding himself with people who had no real qualifications and for placing them into positions they had business being in, Louis Johnson and Fred Vinson being classic examples. It was a habit of machine politics he picked up from his days with Tom Pendergast. He also had a bit of an authoritative streak in him but that was typical of New Deal politicians, a habit they picked up from FDR. But he read Stalin better than FDR did and the country dodged a major bullet when the democrat leaders selected him over Henry Wallace as VP. They knew FDR was dying and Wallace wouldn't have sold the farm to the Soviets, he would have just given it to them. Of all the democrat presidents Truman is by far my favorite, the only one in the 20th Century worth a damn. As for Nixon's recollections, that was classic Nixon having selective memory. Nixon went hard after Truman in 1950 and 1952. It's to be expected, it's politics, but Nixon was an up and comer and he knew the best way to get ahead was to display a willingness to be an attack dog, especially when it came to communism. He was the one who exposed Alger Hiss and Dean Acheson, Truman's secretary of state was one Hiss's best friends, someone who wouldn't denounce him. That put a big bullseye on his back and by extension, Truman. Truman took it personal too. In 1960 Joe Kennedy called Truman in order to get him to endorse JFK. Truman didn't like Joe Kennedy and the feeling was mutual. Initially he was lukewarm about JFK and said as much publicly but after Acheson met with him Truman got on board. He said "Kennedy is young and inexperienced, but that SOB Nixon went around the country calling me a communist." Acheson appealed to Harry's grudge tendency to get him to back Kennedy and it worked. He didn't like any of them, but he liked Nixon the least. And Nixon wasn't too fond of Harry while Harry was alive. Like I say, this is typical Nixon revisionism. He was trying to get people to like him again after Watergate. He became quite gracious at that stage of his life.
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  130. My nephew got married a couple years ago and has been trying to put the money together to buy a home but the prices keep rising faster than he can save. Well, I get the feeling within the next year or so, after the bubble bursts, the home prices will be low enough but the market will shrink and the interest rates will continue to price him out. I remember when I bought my first house and was pleased as punch when I was able to make a $2,000 profit after I was forced to sell it two years later due to a military move. How times have changed. Yes, if you if you figure out a way let Otto the dishwater buy the home of dreams, two years later that dream will most likely become a nightmare for Otto. The foreclosure market will look like it did in 2009. I'm not even an economist and I saw the first bubble bursting before it did. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see this one coming. This economic crash is only in stage one. Remember, there was a two-year gap between the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and a full-blown depression. We haven't seen the worst of it yet. How did Milton Friedman put it, there's no such thing as a free lunch? Get ready to pay the tab, with a healthy tip included in the cost.
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  131. A Latino "Snow White?" If I'm a parent that says enough for me. And now, The Seven Dwarves are gonna be...what? Seven kids from the hood? Book it! Disney is a menace.
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  132. It is Seattle. This is the same town that erected a statue to Vladimir Lenin.
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  133. I remember a time when nickel bags and lids were all the rage and most of the people we got them from were penny-anti dealers who sold tiny amounts for the sole purpose of getting a free bag of weed out of the quarter pound they bought. It was the late 60s, early 70s and see didn't see anything wrong with it and it was so ubiquitous in my neighborhood having friends who didn't at least dabble in it was an oddity. It's not like we were shooting heroin. We thought it was harmless, fun and games. Then I started losing friends to the culture. They went on to heavier drugs and died, either from overdoses or living on the street. I know good and damn well most of them wouldn't have taken that next step if they hadn't taken the first when they smoked that first joint. I don't give a damn how many people say the idea that marijuana is a gateway drug is a myth. I've seen it. I've lived it. I've seen what addiction does to families up close and personal. Like anyone, there are a lot of things I would have to say to my younger self if I could step into the wayback machine. One of the first would be to stay the hell away from anything that alters your perception, including, and probably especially alcohol. Above all, I'd tell my younger self to steer clear of marijuana. Some commenters are slamming Matt because he's making judgements on something he has never tried. Well I have. I swam in the deepest end of that pool and I gained nothing from it but heartache and misery. It made life worse for me and people who loved me for what; a "buzz"? It's not only a waste of time, too often it's a waste of life. Recreational users of anything can't get their heads around the effect all of it has on people with addictive personalities. Pushing for the legalization of drugs because you can handle it without considering the effect it will have on those who can't is just as selfish as the lawmakers who see a chance to get rich through kickbacks and tax revenue. Judas got 30 pieces of silver, how much is a soul worth to you?
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  134. Kinda makes me glad I have a face for radio and come from a humble background. I'm also glad I grew up in an age where climbing trees, playing football in the rain, and just running around was how we spent our free time. You were also 100% certain when it came to knowing if you were a boy or a girl, little communication devices you carried in your pocket only existed in Star Trek and the word selfie didn't exist. I feel for the kids growing up in a time where dual realities compete for your soul. Does that empathy eliminate me from the narcissistic club or does the fact I'm taking time to comment here mean I'm living in denial about my place in the Matrix? You know what, I'm not too old to get a new hobby. Maybe that's what's missing. Things that make you go hmmm...🤔
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  135. I'm not really up on a lot of Greek history but I seem to recall taking a course that touched a bit on the Pythagorean cult. It was while I was an undergrad many moons ago and my memory isn't what it once was but I seem to recall hearing something about this cult committing mass-suicide when they failed to figure out the origin of life or some such thing using mathematics. Like I say, it was a long time ago but when this video popped up in my feed that memory, convoluted as it is, popped up as well. Is anyone familiar with this? Some Pythagorean Jonestown back in the day? If you are, maybe you can help me connect the dots, if there are any to be connected. Thanks in advance.
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  136. I devoted a large part of my adult life to defending the Constitution so my love for it comes naturally. It breaks my heart to see us become more unmoored from it with each passing election. Daniel Horowitz put it best when he said people don't run on restoring constitutional government because there isn't any money in it. Pray for our Republic, the one Franklin said we could have as long as we could keep it.
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  137. "This life doesn't come with guarantee's or a warranty." That is something I used to teach my students. I would challenge them to find the word fair in any of our founding documents. Fairness is based on the decency of the individual and equality is an illusion. I was an okay guitarist and a fair golfer but I was never going to get a gold record or play on the PGA. But you know what, I was okay with that. I played with guys and gals in both areas who were better than me and rather than begrudge them I marveled at what they could do and admired them for having talents I didn't possess. I think if most people looked at it that way we would have less resentment and better outcomes because instead of spinning their wheels and chasing windmills people would figure out what they do well and become the very best version of that they could. But that's me.
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  138. That nugget of wisdom from good old Honest Abe is a keeper. 👍
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  139. Who do I talk to in Parliament about reparations? 🤔Oh yeah, I forgot, we don't do that. Never mind.
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  140. Any parent who would send their child to Satan after school is telling their Heavenly Father where to send them when class is over for them here on Earth. I sincerely hope, for their children's sake, that they wake up, rebuke Satan, and ask God to forgive them. As for the gentleman on Tucker's show, that is what a demon looks and sounds like folks. We live in a most dangerous time, that's for sure.
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  141. From what I've read and heard the murdoch kids have been trying to pull Fox to the left for a while. Tucker's not the only one who's out. Dan Bongino is gone as well. He says it was a contract dispute and not at all related to anything else going on over there and I believe him because Dan is a straight shooter. I imagine the network, in a very passive-aggressive way, simply made him an offer they knew he would reject. Hacks like hanity will stick around because they'll do what they're told. Tucker was too powerful for their liking. They'll probably try bush's old press secretary in that time slot but I think they're going to find out pretty quick she is too shallow and vacant to get anywhere near the ratings Tucker got. I don't know the terms of his contract but as soon as he's able he'll start his own thing and become the biggest voice in satellite radio and the digital arena, dwarfing any other independent commentators out there. The Daily Wire can't afford him (thank God) and I don't think The Blaze will be able to pony up the cash to sign him either. You think he spoke his mind before? Wait until he's totally off the leash. I don't agree with everything he says or all the positions he takes but he is fresh and not afraid to take a stand. Look for him to team up with Tulsi Gabbard. They have an affinity for one another anyway and the audience those two can draw from is well in the millions. The bartender was cheering on his dismissal because, well she's a stupid child. He just got bigger you ignorant commie ditz. Good luck Tucker. I look forward to hearing your side of all this when the dust settles. As for Fox, it couldn't happen to a more worthy group of douche bags. Good luck trying to live off gutfeld, hannity, and Ingram.
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  142. Well that's a bummer. That would have been something cool to look at.
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  143. You tell em Chuckie. Remember: "It's good to be the King." 😎
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  144. This is a rather homogenized account of The French Revolution that glosses over the bad and misrepresents the good. For starters, they make it sound like Montesquieu had some sort of active role. The problem with that is he died in 1755 and Spirit of the Laws, written decades before the revolution, played a larger role in shaping the future structure of the American system of governance than the French. There is no mention of Voltaire or Rousseau and the differences between their interpretation of the Social Contract (Compact) and Locke's. A direct line can be drawn from the French Revolution to other left-wing revolutions such as the Bolshevik Revolution that relied on terror, attacked traditional institutions, and devolved into tyrannical dictatorships. That is the true legacy of the French Revolution.
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  145.  @charlieecho7253  Thank you Charlie, for your service and your kind words and welcome back! When I crossed the Blue-Water Bridge in Port Huron/Sarnia for the final time I literally felt like getting on my knees and kissing the ground, but I was afraid the customs officers would think I was bowing to Mecca so I thought better of it. My concern is we are becoming like Canada. But I will still roll the dice with my brethren on this side of the divide. I do miss Tim Horton's though, loved those double-doubles. Like I say, I love my true patriot friends and family still living there and I stay in touch. My heart bleeds for them and my native land but I thank God my parents decided to move us south 60 years ago. I wish our countrymen here would appreciate what we have and fight harder to keep it because as President Reagan said in his famous Time for Choosing speech, once this place goes under there will be nowhere left for anyone to go to to escape tyranny. Good luck brother.
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  146. I think it's a symptom, or byproduct, of a larger problem, the death of discernment and critical thinking. They aren't stressed in our education systems they way they once were so why should we expect them to appear in the marketplace? People have gotten lazy at the creative and the consumer end of the spectrum. I imagine there are a lot of great ideas dying on the vine because studios are too risk averse. I like some of the indie stuff but most don't have the resources to make a real blockbuster. So here's to Ghostbusters XX and Indiana Jones versus Batman.
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  147. Federal relief started with Herbert Hoover and the response to the Mississippi River Flood of 1927. To that point the federal government didn't get involved in state issues as heavily as they would over the next decade. The 10th Amendment is dead. Hoover stabbed it, FDR put it on life support, and LBJ pulled the plug. The only way this republic survives is if some group of governors get together and bring the 10th Amendment back to life. Federalism was what our founders intended and federalism is the only cure we have left. Franklin said we have given you a republic if you can keep it prior to the constitution being sent out for ratification. It's still possible to have one, but we have to want it.
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  148. Tulsi is too savvy to a politician to run for president as an independent. I don't agree with her on numerous issues but perhaps her cutting the cord with the marxist democrats is another step in her political evolution. Or, it may be an opportunistic play on her part. People will now be courting her in much the same way the courted Ike many moons ago. She will get to set the terms. I hope it's not pure political calculation on her part. Anyway, at least the incongruence between her words and her affiliation won't be an issue anymore. If she genuinely saw the light, great. Like I say, I don't agree with her on every issue but I respect her willingness to take a stand and not get bullied off it. Well done Tulsi.
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  149. I was born on Canada. I still have relatives and friends who live in Canada. I spent seven years living in Canada as an adult, some of it as member of the U.S. military, some as a civilian training Canadian military service members. For the most part I enjoyed my time in Canada. But when I left Canada and returned to my American home the only thing that kept me from getting down on my knees and kissing the ground was fear of the border guards mistaking me for someone bowing to Mecca. I promised myself even then, before the boy emperor trudeau came to power, that I was never leaving the U.S. again. My heart breaks for my family and friends who still live there but it honestly does not surprise me in the least that they not only elected castro's illegitimate son but that most of them are willing to go along with whatever imperial edicts he may decree. Years of living on the government cheese will do that. I used to visit Canada on a regular basis as a kid, but those days are so far in the rear view mirror it is literally like another time. The last time I was there was for my Father's funeral and I say last because I will never set foot in that country again. I am losing aunts, uncles and cousins as time goes by and it makes me sad when I don't attend their funerals, but Canada is nowhere near what it once was. I'll keep my memories. RIP Canada. Sorry you took the hemlock.
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  150. I read Dickens years ago. Lately I have been thinking of reading his works again. This video may have sealed the deal for me. Dickens is so skilled at character development. As an author I appreciate anyone who can give voice to a character you hate to say goodbye to.
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  151. My parents were far from perfect but I will never be able to thank them enough for migrating here in the 60s and allowing me to be raised in and become a citizen of the greatest country on Earth. I have friends and relatives still living in Canada and my heart bleeds for them every time I see or hear this putz of a leader they are stuck with. I lived there a few years as part of a military exchange program but that was when Steven Harper was PM. Handing the reigns of government to this guy is like giving a four-year-old the keys to your car along with a bottle of whiskey. It does my heart good to see these truckers taking it to them. I wouldn't mind seeing them crash the border and pick it up here. a 100,000 strong convoy heading down Pennsylvania Avenue would send a good message to Pelosi and that puppet she plays with in the WH. Maybe they can all hide in Trudeau's basement together. Good luck true patriot sons!
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  152.  @cterence1767  Well played sir, I stand corrected. 🥃
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  153.  @ji8044  I didn't mention anything about Japan's economic recovery. I said MacArthur did a good job as an administrator, which he did. That's all I said.
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  154. Hey Gisele, I'm right down the road and not doing much these days. I'll gladly give up my career as a failed author for you. I mean beyond good looks, charm, fame, money, youth, health, and the ability to play QB at the NFL level what does Tom have that I don't? 🤔I'm just sayin. Call me.
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  155. I'm a retired U.S. vet who was imbedded with a Canadian unit as part of an exchange program and I served with some very good soldiers. Canada is my birth country and it warms my heart to see this happening. Go get em!
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  156. I believe Governor DeSantis would make a great president. I'm just afraid too many republican primary voters prefer the show over substance and we will never get to find out. “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and will never be.” ― Thomas Jefferson
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  157. I agree churches need to do a better job reaching out to and supporting men. That said, the church is reflecting society as a whole. We are becoming more matriarchal across the board and it is the fruit of the attack on the nuclear family that has been going on since the 1960s. That said, I wonder what you are doing about it Matt? I ask because I saw your interview on Matt Fradd's show a while back and when he asked you, a supposed practicing Catholic, to describe your personal beliefs WRT to your faith and how you put those beliefs into practice you stumbled around like a typical "I go to Mass every Christmas and Easter" kind of Christian, giving a bunch of vague talk about love and acceptance. Sorry, but your answer sounded a whole lot like what you are criticizing the Church for in this video. “For as you judge, so will you be judged, and the measure with which you measure will be measured out to you. Why do you notice the splinter in your brother’s eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own eye?” ― Matthew 7: 2-3
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  158. I told myself I wasn't going to bother with anymore reviews of this hot mess but to borrow from Michael Corleone, just when I thought I was out you brought me back in Drinker. I'll give ya credit. No one can summarize the root of a problem with more flair than you. Cheers! 👍
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  159. He seems like a good man but money has a way of ending up in hands it was never intended to be in, especially after the person who bequeathed it is gone. I hope the wealth is put to good use. I like the sentiment though and I love that your store is closed on Sunday. We should devote at least one day to God and family. I remember when that was the norm but that seems like it was a lifetime ago. Maybe it was. I think we'd be a lot better off if those were still our priorities but I digress. Good on you sir. Good on you.
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  160. When I was a kid back in the olden days The Wonderful World of Disney was a family staple every Sunday after dinner. It was wholesome entertainment. I was more of a Looney Toons and Rocky and Bullwinkle kid but I didn't mind watching. But that was when Walt was alive. Disney has been rotting kids minds for decades. People just either didn't want to see it or weren't paying attention. I heard some pretty racy stuff on one of their shows when I was visiting a friend about 20 years ago and I told her she might want to start paying closer attention to the stuff her daughter was watching. She called me a week later and thanked me, telling me she cancelled her Disney subscription after watching a bit of it for herself. Parents got busy, stuck their kids in front of that little box, and people like Iger started injecting poison into them. I gotta believe that Zoom call or whatever it was where all of those execs were bragging about how they had been sneaking corrupting material in for years and how they were all gay or had trans kids did more to sink Disney than a few box-office bombs. Disney infected ESPN with the woke agenda when they got a hold of that network and ran it into the ground. But People like Iger are true believers, disciples of the new age faith. They are more concerned with promoting their religion than they are profits and they will use these disasters as ammo to call everyone else ignorant, backward, misogynists' and bigots because they get as much satisfaction out of being a martyr as they do out of box-office success. It's the highest form of praise in a society where victimhood is honored and virtue is ridiculed. Ask the geniuses at Bud Light how that whole lets-be-edgy and sh*t all over the core values of our customer thing is working for them. I am woman hear me bore? Sorry if it sounds like I'm taking joy in this but it couldn't happen to a more deserving pair of scumbags than that kennedy woman and Iger. Please lady, just stay away from Rocky. I like those movies and I don't want a parallel universe where Adrian kicks Mr. T's ass.
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  161. Which part of no didn't that guy understand? The other guy didn't seem to understand what go sit down means and you got another flipping off the court? I'm not a lawyer, I don't even play one on TV, but if a judge told me no or told me to go sit somewhere I suppose I would choose that over a contempt of court charge. I guess that's why they are public defenders. I feel bad for the families who had to watch that behavior. Shame on the whole lot of em.
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  162. As a legal immigrant I can say with a very high level of confidence that you won't find a group of people more opposed to illegal immigration than those of us who came in through the front door and became part of the American fabric. I don't blame people for wanting to escape grinding poverty, but I cannot respect someone who doesn't respect the laws of my country. Democrats have gotten so used to the color of a person's skin dictating their voting habits that they have dropped all pretenses about being the party of the middle and working class and have just gone full-blown woke LGBT batsh*t crazy because they think people of color will never abandon their plantation no matter how Godless they get. I've got news for em, they've gone too far this time. But I think they know that. I think they figure if they can break the place hard enough we will have no choice but to bend the knee to our new globalist masters. I got news for em there too, the great reset ain't gonna be that easy.
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  163. Rallying cry for a government program: "If it ain't broke we'll fix it till it is."
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  164. I read The Elegant Universe 20 some odd years ago when I got bored reading history and philosophy related content. I found it cool for a bit but then it sort of faded from my interest. The whole multi-dimension aspect was fascinating but I was left wondering how valid all of it was if you had to create something that can never been proven to make your theory work. Honestly, I don't know enough about it. That's why I decided to give this video a peek. Am I more enlightened? Not really, but it would be cool to find out I'm rich and famous in one of the other dimensions.
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  165. My uncle had to wait two years to get a hip replacement. They jacked it up and then he had to wait another year and a half for them to correct it. Yeah, it's a great system. And spare me, I lived there for three years and couldn't find a doctor because none of them were taking new patients. I had a surgery done on my wrist and they botched that. When I was waiting to be wheeled in I was rolled into a hallway with paint peeling from the wall and water leaking from the pipes along with a dozen or so other people and waited with them for close to three hours. Maybe a nurse came through to check in on us but I don't recall. My Dad needed a surgical procedure to save his life and while it was available in a neighboring province it was considered experimental in his and they wouldn't let him go to the neighboring province to have the procedure done because he wasn't in their system. By the time he got down to the States his condition was such that nothing could be done to help him. I spoke with a neighbor of his after he passed away who worked for the provincial health department and he told me the entire system was on life support and that before too long people would be offered state sponsored suicide for conditions that could be remedied without much cost. Ringing any bells yet? Yeah, it's a great system.
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  166.  @titanplatine  Sorry, I wish I could but it was close to 20 years ago and it was just one segment on Book TV. I recall there were two authors and what their conclusions were, but that's about all. It just always stayed with me that instability, i.e., poor leadership and division at the top disrupts all of society to such a large degree.
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  167. When I was a kid I spent grades 1-7 in a parochial school. I finished up in the public school system and I didn't get back to the seventh-grade level of learning in a parochial school until I reached 10th grade in the public school. That was almost 50 years ago. I doubt the system has gotten better with age. Is there an argument to be made that teachers are up against it because of apathetic parents and lousy administrators? Sure. But as Dr. Sowell points out, a lot of it falls back on how the teachers are prepared. David McCullough brought this point up in an interview he gave, where he said teachers need to be experts in what they are teaching first and foremost. He bemoaned the education degree and I concur 100%. I taught in military schools for a long time and during that time I learned how to develop curriculum. I thought about teaching after retiring from the service until I found out I would have to go back to school and take a bunch of courses in diversity, ethnic studies, and general education then I would have to spend a couple more years as a teachers assistant or some such nonsense. There was a program that allowed you to get fast tracked if you had the right credentials but then you had to agree to teach at a failing inner-city school. Sorry, I went to one of those and I wasn't going to spend my adult life reliving that nightmare, no matter how altruistic that may be. I survived people shooting at me in a series of military campaigns, I didn't want to press my luck. So instead, I went to work designing courses for various commercial and government entities. I had a master's degree in instructional design and figured the other course designers would have similar qualifications. But guess what I found, a bunch of people with the dreaded degree in education, only this time at the masters level. A lot of folks who couldn't tell you how to develop a proper learning objective or how to measure teaching effectiveness let alone how it all fits in with in with an instructional delivery strategy. To them, course development consisted mainly of building out Power Point slides or, when it became all the rage, making stuff go whiz-bang on a computer screen. The problem I discovered, was systemic and it's not only a problem in K-12 learning, it has infected training programs across the spectrum. Eventually I retired for good because you can only beat your head against that wall for so long before discovering the only thing you got out of it was the good feeling when you stopped. While I was in the business though, I often thought of the episode of the Simpsons where Homer tells Lisa: "Daddy's gonna be a teacher." Lisa asks: "Will you be teaching from a standardized lesson plan or will you be using a more Socratic method?" Homer replies: "Daddy's gonna be a teacher." Welcome to education in the 21st Century. Wanna fix it? Start by abolishing the Department of Education and then outlaw teacher unions. Until you do those first two steps, all the school voucher plans in the world won't mean a damn thing. Why? Because: "Daddy's gonna be a teacher, and when I am, as long as I do what they tell me and how they tell me I can never be fired."
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  168. I've watched the previous interviews and this was the best so far. When I was an undergraduate I remember telling one of my professors that I started my studies a fan of Jefferson and emerged a larger supporter of Adams. I think it's important for anyone who wants to understand the relationship between the two men to exam their views on the French Revolution and the nature of constitutional government. I wish the professor had gone into the role the XYZ affair played in the struggle between France and the U.S. at that time but outside of that it was a great interview.
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  169. I remember the Seattle Pilots for one reason. Joe Sparma, a starting pitcher for my team, the Detroit Tigers, carried a no-hitter against them into the ninth inning. He gave up a hit and that was the end of that but the game was carried by the local station and would have been the first no-hitter I had seen, on TV or anywhere. Joe was known for being wild and I don't recall how many walks he gave up but he came close. Staying with the Detroit theme, who could forget the Detroit Wheels of the old WFL. They were bad even by WFL standards of the day. They were so bad the group of 32 owners gave up about midway through their one season in 1974 and the league took them over, charging each other franchise $60,000 to cover their expenses. They finally folded with six games remaining and held a draft for any team that wanted any of the players. I think maybe six guys got picked up by the other clubs. Interestingly, Mike Illitch, Little Caesar pizza magnate and future owner of the Red Wings and Tigers was part of the original Wheels ownership group, his first foray into professional sports. One thing, the Wheels made people feel a little bit better about the Lions. Not much, but a little.
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  170.  @Lonovavir  Sadly, that doesn't surprise me. If I was raising kids these days there is no way they would go near a public school. I feel for the parents who have to work yet don't have the money to send their children to a private school. Then again, more than a few of those schools are more focused on social justice and other such nonsense than courses that benefit the child and help build a better society.
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  171. When I was a kid I spent the first seven years of my education in a parochial school. Then I went into the public school system and was shocked when I was handed textbooks that looked like what I was issued in fourth grade. I didn't catch up to where I was when I left the Catholic school until I got to 10th grade, and by then, the school I attended passed you along if you simply had the guts to show up to that war zone. That was close to 50-years ago. Now people lament about not even having those p*ss-poor standards. As for telling people they don't have to stick around, that happened in my neck of the woods too. Detroit elected its first black mayor, coleman young, and after that race hustler got elected he told all the white people who didn't like things like cross district bussing, high property taxes, and rising crime that if they didn't want to hang around they could all hit 8-Mile, the dividing line between the city and the suburbs. Guess what, when you let people know you know you don't want em around they tend to take you at your word. The neighborhoods fell apart within five years and the city never has recovered. It still has the highest percentage of people living in the surrounding suburbs than the hub city in the nation. Detroit, a city that was #1 in the nation in wealth creation in 1950, one of the richest cities in the world, is now a cautionary tale. If you tell your earners to take a hike they will leave and when they do they take all the actual money with them. The government cheese only goes so far. Personally I hope Seattle goes to hell-in-handbasket because it is what they have said they wanted for decades. Be careful what you wish for Dorothy.
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  172. If you come away from this film believing it is part of some Q Anon conspiracy or right-wing propaganda because Donald Trump watched it I'm willing to bet your commitment to the left has gone beyond the political and has drifted into cultish devotion. This is a powerful movie that sheds light on a deeply disturbing topic. It will make you cry and cheer at the same time, a rare feat. In the Hollywood of old, not the one dominated by cultural commies Bill Camp would win an Academy Award for his portrayal of the former cartel member trying to atone for past sins. Triple shame on those hacks at rags like Rolling Stone who trash this movie while writing columns that support the idea that children should be allowed to make decisions on gender and who to have sex with as well as changing the term pedophile to minor attracted person. That millstone waiting for you can never be too heavy.
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  173. I remember coming across an article close to 20 years ago about two Canadian reporters who got a tip that a whole bunch of people who would normally not have a reason for meeting were having some sort of confab at a hotel in somewhere in Alberta (my memory has faded so I don't recall the city). Condoleezza Rice was there along with government reps from Canada and Mexico. They were joined by several Fortune 500 CEO's, various union leaders, ministers from China, Russia etc...just a hodgepodge of people who really only had one thing in common, they were all connected to power at the highest levels and it really covered just about every facet of what you would call day-to-day life. Anyway, the strange thing about this meeting was there was no prearranged press release, just a boatload of security around this hotel. The long and short of it was, these jokers were meeting to discuss what North America would look like when the borders came down and how the international currency would be set up, along with which unions would run run which groups of workers and how the pie would get sliced up between state and private industry I'm sure. These reporters blew the whistle and there was a string of denials at the time but after that any mention of it became pretty tough to locate. The story just faded away. This great reset or whatever they are calling it now has been in play for a long time. Make no mistake, it's coming. I said when inflation started going nuts that the reaction to the economic crash would make people long for the good old days of masks and vaccine mandates. Nothing happens by chance, not with these people. Be afraid, be very afraid because you know what, just cause you're paranoid doesn't mean folks aren't out to get ya.
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  174. There was a time when workers were getting the short end of the stick, but Henry Ford proved that if you paid workers a decent wage you created a consumer base for your product, and he did it without the UAW. Unions have always been havens for communists, mafia thugs, and hucksters. JFK singed the executive order that gave federal workers the right to form unions because he knew unions, with the exception of the Teamsters, were super-pac's for the democratic party. Just like his brother Teddy knew illegal immigrants would form a voting base when he sponsored the Immigration and Nationality act of 1965. Unions are all about the acquisition and application of power, it's why they are naturally allied with the democrats. They are kindred spirits.
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  175. I always get a kick out these nihilists claiming to be anti-fascist when they have no clue what the term means. That idiot from CNN, don lemon, even sarcastically told an actual adult that ANTIFA is a freedom loving organization because they are against fascism. "It's in their name," he exclaimed, while the guest just sort of looked at him and probably thought to himself, if you weren't a gay black guy you would be working the drive-thru some place. Stalin, like Lenin before him, liked to keep things simple because, like Lenin, he considered the proletariat to be too stupid to grasp ideological nuance. As much as I despise Stalin, he had a point there, but I digress. Anyway, like Lenin did with his "bread, land, peace," campaign in 1918, Stalin decided it was a lot easier to define all his enemies as fascists and be done with it. When Truman challenged him about not honoring his commitment to allow democratic governments in Central Europe, Stalin's retort was that any government that wasn't fascist was democratic so he wasn't violating any of his agreements WRT to the socialist states popping up like dandelions in the nations the Red Army "liberated." And, like all good lefties do, the rest of commies across the world adopted the practice and there ya have it. Give the commies credit, they are a persistent bunch and they do march in lock-step once something is decided. Of course China is leading the way in the 21st Century and there is no telling which way Xi will go in the next 10 years. He has stated a desire to redress past wrongs and he seems to be quite adept at buying American politicians. Time will tell what the next phase of authoritarianism will look like on a grand scale. Stay tuned.
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  176. Nixon always wanted to be Kennedy's friend. When they were freshman house members they did a mini-debate (I believe it was in Pennsylvania) and travelled back to DC together, sharing a sleeper on the train and having a good time. Joe Kennedy told Nixon that if Jack didn't get the nomination in 1960 he would support of him over Johnson or Humphrey. When Kennedy had his back surgery as a senator Nixon went out of his way to accommodate him, to check on his recovery etc. in a very sincere manner. He was genuinely concerned for him. But Kennedy treated Nixon like he treated most people outside of his inner circle, rather shabbily. Kennedy did stick up for Nixon over the way Ike treated him, calling Ike a cold hearted SOB but that had to do with how Ike treated Kennedy as well. Everyone wanted be Kennedy's friend and by and large he didn't have time for most of them.
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  177. Quick point: Oswald knew all about the route prior to going to work that morning. The papers had published it and the men he roomed with at the boarding house in Oak Cliff said he came out of his room two nights before the assassination and silently but intently stared at the news segment on motorcade route. Then he just as quietly went back to his room. He knew what he was going to do as soon as the paper published the route, and pictures showed his room had curtains.
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  178. "Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great! She has become a dwelling for demons and a haunt for every impure spirit...Come out of her my people so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues; for her sins are piled up to Heaven and God has remembered her crimes." ― Revelation: 18
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  179. “A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced because they love their servitude ― Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
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  180. That was cool. There are so many channels dealing with the inevitability of a universe teaming with civilizations, it is refreshing to find one that simply admits the truth, we don't know. I grew up during the space race, a child of Apollo if you will. We had this stuff pounded into our heads as we watched Gemini and Apollo launches from our classrooms. Space was the final frontier and we were on our way to conquer it. I just took it for granted that by this time we would have a colony on Mars and flying cars and jetpacks would be the norm. I knew we were not alone. How could we be alone? With all those stars out there? I figured that was simply human arrogance and when I learned a bit about SETI and was introduced to the Drake Equation I thought, there ya go. ET will be phoning home soon, probably in my lifetime. Then I started learning about just how precise the conditions have to be for intelligent life to develop. How our Moon is just the right size and distance away, how Jupiter is just big enough to act as our defender, how our magnetic field is strong enough to protect us from our host star. There is so much more but you get the point. The first time I was confronted with Fermi's Paradox I thought to myself, that's simple, we just aren't there yet, not quite ready to take that extraterrestrial collect call. But that answer didn't work. I had to face facts, we don't know. I disagree with the concept of other universes existing without life. What would be their purpose? See, that's what we bring to the table, purpose. Someone once postulated that perhaps we are a byproduct of the universe trying to understand itself. I am a person of faith so I come at it from a different angle. But the point about how precious and special we are does remain. That was the one common theme all of the astronauts who went to the Moon shared. When they looked back and saw our tiny blue dot, floating along in a sea of empty space, they realized just how special a place it really is. We ride on a razors edge. Any number of calamities could befall us in the blink of an eye. That is all the more reason to appreciate and love one another because at the end of the day, we may be all we have.
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  181. Wonder what takes longer, the light to travel thousands of light years or democrats to count votes in Arizona? 🤔 Seriously though, it is cool to have telescopes that allow us to see distant galaxies. I remember when Hubble sent back that image of the deep field. Quite a mind blower. When I was a kid looking at the Moon through our telescope was a big deal. How times have changed. But I'm still waiting for those flying cars and jetpacks we were promised. I may be old now, but I haven't forgotten.
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  182. No surprise where this show originated. Every country that rejects God gets to this point sooner or later. I used to travel to the U.K. a few times a year and two things always stood out, how much they disliked Americans and how much they disliked American religious values. I spent time in Canada and in good dominion form they have the same hang ups, and the same filth on their TV screens. They showed hard core porn on premium cable channels, their versions of Cinemax and HBO on the weekends. That was 20 years ago. By now it might be available on CBC after midnight. Their parliament did give a Nazi a standing ovation the other day. True patriot sons indeed...eh.
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  183. Not only is Tropicana Field a crappy ballpark it's in a crappy area. I went to one game and the cops had no, I mean zero, clue on how to control the flow of traffic. They relied on our nororiously crappy traffic lights to control the flow and then spent their time yelling at drivers and chasing people out of the left-lane they needed to be in to get to the crappy parking lot because they were in an intersection, an intersection that didn't matter because they did such a crappy job in the first place and relied on crappy traffic lights. If I sound a bit redundant it's because that's how things roll in St. Pete. Florida is also known for narrow streets, especially in the older parts of a city which means they would have to tear down entire business sections to widen the roads to the point they could support large volumes of people. And then there is the problem of so many transplants like me living here. I'm a Tiger fan. Have been my whole life and will remain one until the day I die. The Bolts actually have the best homegrown fanbase in the Tampa/St. Pete area. Go figure, hockey is king in the heart of Dixie...eh. All we need now is Tim Horton's and Don Cherry. I know there is a plan in place to build another crappy ballpark in the same crappy area but they would be better served if they moved the franchise to Orlando. Or moved it out of the state entirely. Florida is all about spring training and minor league franchises. The market in the state can barely support one team let alone two. I may have given Tropicana a crappy review but crappy is as crappy does. That place sucks.
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  184. Having a wicked teacher tell a parent to encourage their child's mutilation is terrible and there will be a reckoning for educator's engaged in this satanic plot as well as the parents who succumb to such pressure. But a doctor going along with this demonic undertaking? I don't get to decide who goes where in the afterlife and I'm not going to wish Hell on anyone, but something tells me a person who swears an oath to do no harm and then supports and profits off of doing harm is in for an even harsher retribution: “But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves. Many will follow their depraved conduct and will bring the way of truth into disrepute. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with fabricated stories. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.” ― Peter:2-2
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  185. When he was talking about players getting knocked out my mind drifted back to the days of my Bad Boy Pistons. And before anyone says it, yeah, I know, outside of Detroit not too many people liked em. I always figured he had to get the basic idea from hockey, being Canadian and all. The set up is the same, a center, two forwards, and two guards in place of defensemen. The only player missing is a goalie standing in front of the basket, swatting the ball away. Maybe I'm incorrect in my assumption but the similarities between the games are there.
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  186.  @nonyadamnbusiness9887  Thank you. I wasn't familiar with that one.
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  187. Orlando bound? I don't think Tampa is going to give up any prime real estate but who knows. I'm a transplant and the Tigers are my team so I don't have a dog in this fight. I will say Steinbrenner Field may be small but it's a nice park and the staff were great when my friend and I went to a spring training game there in March.
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  188. Amen... Is it still okay to say that?
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  189.  @kimobrien.  Based on the hammer and sickle I'm going to assume you believe in socialism, most likely soviet-style socialism. So, under socialism the state controls the means of production and according to Marx wealth is distributed: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." Can you point to an instance where socialism has worked at a macro-level? I'm not talking about nanny states like Canada and the UK that practice capitalism then take what people have earned and give large chunks of it to people who have not, I'm talking about actual socialism as laid out by Marx. Also, were you alive when the USSR and it's Soviet Bloc states imposed centrally planned economies on their subjects? When the authoritarian governments they produced restricted speech, travel, worship, and movement? Or did you learn what you know about capitalism and socialism at a university? Just curious. A lot of young people have no clue how corrosive and evil the soviet system was and simply take the word of people who weren't forced to live under such a system that capitalism is evil and socialism is inherently good. It's a lie of course, but it's what gets pumped into their brains and since they have no actual memory they simply take these professors who have never actually produced anything at their word.
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  190. You can pin that on four people, Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, Allen Dulles, and J. Edgar Hoover, and to a lesser extent, Earl Warren. Johnson was convinced the Cubans had been directly involved. He got Warren to sit at the head of the commission because he said if the country wasn't convinced Oswald acted alone WWIII would break out. Robert Kennedy put Allen Dulles on the Warren Commission to make sure they didn't stick their noses into areas he didn't want them venturing into, areas that included assassination attempts on foreign leaders, specifically Castro, and other hijinks he was involved in at the behest of his brother. It's why he was in such a an all-consuming depression after the assassination, one he never recovered from. He was convinced one of their several covert plots had backfired. Later he said: "We were more energetic than wise about a lot of things, especially Cuba, and we paid a very high price for it." He also said: "I found out something I never knew, the world I lived in wasn't the real world." Allen Dulles knew all the secrets going back to the Eisenhower administration and made sure locations like Mexico City and New Orleans were simply given a cursory look. Those were secret hot-spots in the Kennedy's secret war and Dulles's job was to make sure they stayed that way. Warren didn't object when obvious leads were simply left unexplored. Hoover just wanted to protect the FBI. I think there was a lot more interaction between Oswald and the Bureau, especially after Marina got cozy with the White Russians in Dallas but Hoover and his bunch were much better at making sure trails went ice-cold than the CIA was. Anyway, that's kind of a long response but there was no shadow group, no rogue CIA bunch who had the Commander and Chief whacked like Oliver Stone makes out in his propaganda film. He just hatted Johnson going back to the days of Vietnam and doesn't have much time for the rest of the country for that matter. Guys like him and Mark Lane were out making money and grinding axes. As Lee's brother Robert said: "You can't just simply ignore all the evidence against Lee and nobody has shown me any real evidence he didn't do it." He pins it on their crazy mother who is the root of all the conspiracy talk in the first place. I recommend Die By The Sword by Gus Russo. He comes down on the conspiracy side and while I disagree with his conclusions, he gives the best analysis of what the Kennedy's were up to from 1961-1963 and how their own reckless behavior cost them dearly.
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  191. What a concept. Interpreting what the law actually calls for and determining it's constitutionality based on what the Constitution actually deems an appropriate or inappropriate use of power, not on what you think something ought to say based on your own ideas of right and wrong. People worried about such things in 1789 when the idea of a federal court was submitted. How were these concerned addressed back then: “Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other, the judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution…It may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments.” ― Federalist 78: Alexander Hamilton So what do you think? Was Alex right on this one when he was trying to sell the Constitution to his fellow New Yorkers? Justices like Warren, and Taney before him kinda blew a moon size crater through the argument that the Constitution would prevent the rise of an activist court. But hey, what's wrong with getting something in through the backdoor if it won't fit through the front? You tell me.
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  192. Wanna read a good book about our future: “But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power.” ― Timothy 3: 1-5 “Then I saw another beast come up out of the earth; it had two horns like a lamb’s but spoke like a dragon…It deceived the inhabitants of the earth with the signs it was allowed to perform in the sight of the first beast, telling them to make an image for the beast who had been wounded by the sword and revived…It forced all the people, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to be given a stamped image on their right hands or their foreheads so that no one could buy or sell except one who had the stamped image of the beast’s name or the number that stood for its name. Wisdom is needed here; one who understands can calculate the number of the beast, for it is a number that stands for a person. His number is six hundred and sixty-six.” ― Revelation 13:11-18
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  193. There is an old adage that you can tell a lot about the character of somebody by the enemies they make. Governor DeSantis makes the right kind of enemies. This guy? He's one of the poster boys for squishy republicans. And he certainly came on a show that caters to squishy republicans. Fox is trying to get somebody, anybody, to get behind. They hate Trump, so they figured they would try to get behind DeSantis. They figured out pretty quick though that DeSantis isn't a Fox News kinda guy. They'll be floating trial balloons from now until Iowa. I get the feeling they are gonna go all in on Nikki Haley, at least initially. But you can tell how desperate they are to find someone when they trot this guy out. I dunno, maybe he plays in New Hampshire, but no way would a guy like him be a serious player in a national race. Cavuto would vote for him though and I'm sure he would get Mitt's endorsement. Maybe he can form a super-beta ticket with Larry Hogan or Mike Pence. Vote for us and you'll never see a mean Tweet, honest to gosh, pinky swear.
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  194. Wonder where Vegas is setting the line at as far as this kid having some sort of unfortunate accident? 🤔
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  195. Events like Kristallnacht are why it sickens me when people throw around terms like Nazi and Fascist so loosely and compare politicians to Hitler. Evil on this level should never be trivialized unless you want a repeat of it.
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  196. More than following the law the President is expected to carry them out. At least he used to be. We are so unmoored from the rule of law. This truly is a post-Constitutional country now.
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  197. Keep it up girl! I'm sorry my country isn't doing anything to help you in a meaningful way but I'm praying for you and your fellow patriots to teach that Russian thug a lesson the world will not soon forget. I wish the leadership of my country had your heart. God Bless you all and Godspeed to every liberty loving person taking the fight to the bear.
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  198. The point about parenting lying at the root of most neurosis is spot on. Sometimes the effect is benign, sometimes not so much. Lee Oswald slept in the same bed with his mother until he was 11. Does this mean that led to his becoming an assassin? No, but she certainly didn't help him form a healthy view of society. On the flipside, some people from dysfunctional homes achieve great things, perhaps because they had to fight so hard to overcome a crummy childhood. I know this much, no amount of medication can help people overcome their anxieties, yet that is the most common solution offered to people. Mothers little helper right?
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  199. Here's the thing, she's a caricature, an actress playing the role of being AOC but she's good for ratings isn't she? Especially on the right. The more attention you give her, the more power she accumulates. You heard those drones in her district. Outside of that one woman the rest either couldn't name her or talked her up like a celebrity. You've got that one knucklehead saying he'll vote for her for president. This is the first video about her I've stopped by to watch in a couple years. I just wanted to see if there was any substance here, but there isn't. You go ahead young fella, keep calling her out. But deep down you know she's good for your bottom line as well. Oh how I hate the Age of Stupid.
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  200. Back in the day we call em ignorant and proud. They didn't know, and they didn't wanna know, wearing their ignorance like a badge of honor.
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  201. Funny you should spin it like that Dick, considering they caught you on tape talking with Kissinger about how the agreement would hold up for a while but only long enough for the North to recover, then the South was screwed. But hey, let's not let anything like facts get in the way of a good yarn.
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  202. How cool. You can tell he has genuine reverence for the pioneers and the guitars they played and he also seems to have a real affinity for Gibson and Epiphone. I had a ES 335 back in the day and my brother had an Epiphone acoustic (can't recall the model) that I could make talk. Such great instruments. And Giels shows flat out rocked! As other commenters have put it, you really had to see them live to appreciate it. The energy they created was unlike anything else I've ever experienced. I am truly blessed to have seen them in their prime.
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  203. Teachers Unions are nothing more than fund raising arms for the DNC. This problem with public education isn't new. I moved over from Catholic school to public school in the 7th grade back in the early 70s. I was blown away on day one when I looked at the textbooks we were given. It was literally at the third-grade level compared to what the Catholic schools were teaching. I didn't reach the level of what the Catholic schools were teaching in the 7th grade until I was in the 10th. I could get an A anytime I wanted. I remember a teacher calling me out in front of the class, accusing me of flaunting my intelligence in front of the other students for attention. Needless to say, my motivation matched the material and I did just enough to get by. I sure as hell wasn't going to set myself up for more ridicule for being too smart for my own good. That was close to 50 years ago. These problems aren't new. Teachers unions were just feeling their oats back then, going on strike every other year for one thing or another. We are paying the price now and will continue to pay the price as long as bad teachers are allowed to keep their jobs because it is easier to hide them than it is to fire them. One of the only good things to come out of all those insane COVID lockdown's was parents looking in and seeing what their children were learning. The pushback has started but the powers that be aren't going to just take it lying down. You've got the unions sicking the DOJ on concerned parents who show up to schoolboard meetings and school principals hiring people to monitor the social media posts of "problematic parents." A weasel in Michigan is being sued for doing that now, getting a woman fired because she posted comments that challenged his authority. He said he felt threatened and ratted her out to the woman's employer, who happily went along like a good leftist. This stuff is real. Tyranny is alive and well and they are training the next generation of Moaists right under your nose. The question is, what are you willing to do about it?
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  204. "He did it for the good of the country." Hmmm...🤔that's a tad rich and more than a bit out of character for that bunch. I mean, let's be honest, the wife decides issues in that household. In fact, she has commented on what it took for obama and company to convince her that "the best thing for the country" is for her and joe to go slip sliding away: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkRvANaD0Co
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  205. Oh man, this is the first time I've run across one of your videos and I love it! Siskel & Ebert my ass! THAT was top-flite analysis. As someone who grew up watching Star Trek when it was on prime time let me say, "Live long and prosper!"
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  206. The USSR didn't actually industrialize until Stalin came to power and that was forced industrialization. Stalin loved his five-year plans. And tractors. Big, hulking tractors.
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  207. Not that the people pushing these demonic pagan practices are that interested but: “If anyone causes one of these little ones, those who believe in Me, to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to sin! Such things must come, but woe to the one through whom they come!” ― Matthew 18:6-7 There will be a time where it will be their turn to be "made to care."
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  208. Sorry dude, you lost me when you said: "it's conceivable that there would not only by humans living on the surface of Mars today but humans living in the Alpha-Centauri star system over four light-years away." You're talking about doing all of that in a 60-year timeframe, using nuclear power. Living in the Alpha-Centauri star system? I'm not a scientist and I don't play one on TV but beyond the 10,000 or so problems that we know about that would have to be overcome, from what I understand, it's estimated that it would take 6,000 years to get there using our current technology. I dunno man. Look, I was a child of Apollo. I figured there would already be a colony on Mars by now. But the older I got the more I realized the futility of it. A dead rock? I can think of 100 reasons off the top of my admittedly limited brain why most people would say thanks but no thanks to that sales pitch. And if I understand basic physics correctly, traveling at ludicrous speed does a bit more than make people go plaid. Like I say, I grew up bathed in this stuff and I still have the explorer spirit in me, but I think the main reason E.T. hasn't come calling is space travel is a real bitch and at the end of the day, as Dorothy said while tapping her feet together, there's no place like home. A 60 year timeframe to sort all that out AND set up a colony? As the great prophet Cris Carter used to say: "Come on man!"
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  209. The dye was cast when the immigration act of 1965 became law. There were calls then and later on to make English the national language and force people to learn it or live on the fringes of society, but American's don't like to be called names so those efforts died on the vine. Sooner or later the country will become divided. You can't expect people who share no common ancestry, no common values, and no common and beliefs to form a functioning union. The term national divorce is thrown around so often it has even been used in the congress. The thing about divorces is, they tend to be messy affairs and we're not talking about who gets custody of the kids and how much child-support one side will have to provide. We are joined at the hip on an economic, military, and political level. How civil the upcoming civil war will be is anyone's guess but it's not as far off as some would want you to think. Short of a national divorce the only solution would seem to be dictatorship, a forced marriage if you will. What will be the response to that? Stay tuned, more to follow.
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  210. I love stories about time travel, I have since I was a kid and some of my favorite movies center on time travel. I would love to go back in the past and change certain events, I think most everyone would, but alas, time is linear. You can skip ahead I suppose if you travel fast enough but moving in the other direction would create loops in the continuum and the universe seems to know that and will not allow it. Let's say I travel back in time. My new self would have to stay on that path, but when the time came I would have to travel back again, and again, and again in order to make that happen. It's like the final scene in the movie Twelve Monkeys. Madeline Stowe looks at Bruce Willis as a child and smiles because she knows, even though Bruce is lying dead in front of her, that they are going have another kick at the can the next time they send him back. I know, it sounds a bit off, but it's either that or you create an entirely new reality with each visit, which is even stranger. No, I'm afraid such conundrums are why time travel to the past is a universal no-no. Time is really a human construct anyway since we use it as a measuring device. When we leave this plane it loses its utility and ceases to be. But like I say, I still love a good time travel story.
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  211. To borrow from that children's classic: "Go Dog Go!" Go get em Wildfire!
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  212.  @timfronimos459  Thank you for the kind words.
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  213. One of the best takes on this comes from an unlikely source. When he was a member of congress, Sonny Bono was asked what he had against illegal immigrants. "They're illegal." Seems like a perfectly sound position to me. Maybe we could pass legislation based on that. You know, send a sternly worded letter to the leaders of El Salvador.
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  214. He makes a great point about this net zero crap. That's a ridiculous target put forth by ridiculous people. There's a reason these greenies rally around the ramblings of a dimwitted angry child.
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  215. “We stand for organized terror - this should be frankly admitted. Terror is an absolute necessity during times of revolution.” ― Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin “We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.” ― Karl Marx “There is nothing more abominable than religion. All worship of a divinity is a necrophilia.” ― Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin “Religion is the opium of the people. It is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of our soulless conditions.” ― Karl Marx A bit on terror and religion from the godfather's of Nancy's political ideology. “Whoever says, ‘I know Him,’ but does not keep His commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him.” ― John 1 2:4 “Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord but those who are truthful, His delight.” ― Proverbs 12:24 A bit on how the Lord Nancy claims to follow when it suits her purposes feels about liars. You can serve one master but not both Nancy. Worldly success means nothing in the life to come. You may want to keep that in mind.
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  216.  @georgesykes394  I used to train recruits. Sgt. Toomey was a great source of inspiration for my schtick. Christopher Walken was perfect in that role, one his very best performances in my opinion. When he has all the recruits doing push-ups except Jerome? That is priceless and you are correct, that was how we used to handle situations like that.
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  217. I had an aunt who was part of the Hitler youth. She married my uncle who was part of the occupying force and he brought her back to Canada with him when his time in the military was up. She had a heavy accent but I remember being told to never ask her about that, Germany, the war, and especially Hitler. I never did and she just recently passed away. Now that I think back on it I'm sorry no one ever spoke with her about her experience. My dad told me she had no choice but to join the youth and now that I have a better understanding of how totalitarian governments operate I get it. Still, people like her had valuable lessons to teach us but because the atrocities of the Third Reich were so incomprehensible and the shame so great for a large portion of the population she swallowed her memories and beyond what she told my uncle to the best of my understanding she never talked about what life was like for the average German with anyone, not even her kids. I can't imagine living a life like that where you completely bury memories of the formative years of your life but then again I never experienced war at that personal a level. I served in the U.S. military for 23 years and did my duty but the campaigns I participated in always took place in someone else's land. I do remember hearing about POW treatment during WWII and Vietnam and I made myself a promise to never allow myself to be captured alive. Fortunately I never had to find out if I had the the guts to follow through on that promise. I will say this as someone who served. War sucks.
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  218. I keep asking this but it needs to be asked; where are the fathers in all of this? I know it's easy to say, "well, I would do something," from the safety of a keyboard but I'm sorry, I know I would. I had to take on a principal many years ago in defense of my daughter and other girls because of a crazy social experiment she was running, letting a 14 year old boy with a history of bad behavior terrorize 5th grade students half his size. He especially liked intimidating the girls. He was in the 5th grade class because they kept having to pull him out of schools due to his disruptive behavior. That was her first and only year as a principal. At the end of the year she was fired and she filed a lawsuit claiming discrimination against her and the out of control student she tried to rehabilitate. The point I'm making is, when your kid turns to you for help or you see something that is an obvious threat to her you have a responsibility to protect her. No way I would ever let my kid near that freak. You can't tell me that is the only school with a swim team. Men have been emasculated. This notion of toxic masculinity is another tool for Satan to use to weaken the society. Say what you will, but come up with a better explanation for this cultural insanity.
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  219. I spent most of my adult life in the spiritual but not religious camp. Then I realized that was a position for people trying to hedge their bets. It's like being a little bit pregnant. There is a line from a movie where the character asks: "If you were accused of being a Christian would there be enough evidence to convict you?" I thought about that and had to admit the evidence in my case would be pretty thin. I'm trying to fix that. That is step one because I can't fix anything if my personal relationship with God is lukewarm at best. I enjoy Mass a great deal because it gets me closer to that desired end-state. It's not some life altering experience every time out and that's okay. For me, there are no bad moments in God's house and at His banquet table. He sent everyone an invite before we even came into being. I wish more people would take Him up on it. I feel for those who deny themselves God's grace.
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  220. Tucker's right. Not so long ago what they are doing with these minors would have been a crime in most states, a fireable offense at a minimum. Here's the thing though: "But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea." Matthew, 18:6 There may not be a reckoning in this life but I wouldn't count on getting a pass for this kind of behavior further on down the road.
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  221. Of course they would say they don't believe in Satan as a real entity, he is the father of lies so why would anyone expect his disciples to act any different? They also believe in Christ. Why else would they burn and shred Bibles? If they didn't believe in God the Bible would have no impact on them one way or another. I'm glad to see people like this young man taking it directly to them and if he was able to convince even one soul to see the light his mission was a great success.
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  222.  @robw9435  Good point. My apologies to all the sailors who keep the bars afloat and three-card-monte players everywhere.
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  223. Röhm had served his purpose. Hitler was on to bigger things and the only way to get that done was to have the army on board with his plan. Röhm was seen as a threat, a sh*t disturber with the potential of messing up everything Hitler had in mind and getting the Führer killed for the effort. Hence Röhm had to go. It's that simple. To borrow from the Godfather, it wasn't personal, it was just business.
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  224.  @phonicwheel933  Die by the Sword by Gus Russo. He did the background stuff on Oswald for the PBS documentary: "Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald." He was also a consultant for Oliver Stone prior to his filming JFK but he left that project when he found out Stone was going with the Garrison story which was the worst of the conspiracy theories and that he would be weaving even more discredited books by people like Mark Lane and Robert Groden. I disagree with Russo's conclusion that there was a direct conspiracy but Die By The Sword is the best book on the Kennedy's covert operation against Castro. The guy does his homework and brings the receipts.
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  225. Hitler was a lot of things but Christian certainly wasn't one of them. He was a mystic, but even that was laced in with opportunism. People projected onto Hitler and Hitler welcomed it. He let others create the myth and went along for the ride. The only time you see Nazism linked with Christianity is in the later iterations that popped up in America, and that was largely based on an attempt to link up with the Klan who had this distorted idea that their notions on white supremacy were based on scripture. But that was also opportunistic since the grand wizards were playing to their audience. They had as much use for Christianity as Hitler. But, it did provide the American left a cudgel to beat Christians over the head with, since most of them are opportunistic atheist's. Power. It's all about power. Christ came to humble the powerful and empower the weak. That's why it will never be a useful tool for communists or fascists and will always be the one institution they know they need to kill if their totalitarian utopia is to have any chance of coming into being, which it won't since it is based on the idea that man is supreme and God isn't real. But they will do a lot of damage in the meantime. Hang on kiddies, this party is just getting started.
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  226. I did a 20 + year career. About 10 years ago my nephew and I had a long discussion. He had about six years in and was thinking about making it a career. He wanted my advice and it broke my heart to tell him I didn't think it was a good idea, especially since I was the one who had taken him around to see the recruiters when he was in high school. I saw the drop-off in leadership when I served, how political officers and NCO's were getting ahead while good leaders were being left behind. This was also at a time when obama was in office. I am pretty far from being a fan of GW Bush but I am glad it's his name on my retirement certificate and not that man. I told my nephew the smart move would be to get out and get on with a life beyond the military. He did and is doing okay. That drag queen is just the natural end-game for the people currently running this place into the ground. They want it to fail. Yes we can became yes we did. How's that working out for us? obama is the most consequential president of the past 100 years but for all the wrong reasons. Get right with God, that's free advice.
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  227. If Liz Cheney calls you a threat to democracy you know you have arrived. Well done Kari, cool move Tulsi. 👍👍
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  228. Cool. I still don't want to send them anymore money and I sure as hell don't want any of our young people dying for the place.
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  229. If the guy took material from Sony or one of the large corporations he would get flagged and his content would be blocked. For anyone not part of the corporate club I guess you're on your own. As for this kid, I doubt the issue of plagiarism was ever addressed when he was in school. I was enrolled in a Masters program a few years back and got placed on a team dominated by young ill-educated people who would routinely sluff off work onto others and when they did do what they were assigned the quality was so poor it ended up having to be rewritten. This one young woman literally copy and pasted entire paragraphs from some website and when I called her on it she got super defensive, saying she was too busy for all this school work and if we didn't like that we could pound sand. It was a for-profit university so I get why their standards were so appallingly low but I imagine that is just life in the current world of education. The powers that be want a weak populace that won't think critically. This guy is legion. Most likely he was brought up that way and doesn't see anything wrong in what he did. I may be just an old cynic, but I went to school back in the stone age when you had to earn it. That kind of thing violates the rules of dei or whatever the commies are calling their plan for penning in the sheep. Sorry your material got lifted dude. I don't agree with all of your conclusions but I know you put the work in. It sucks when some mental midget claims it as his own, figuring it's no big deal.
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  230. Those are almost always the first ones taken to the camps.
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  231. Why do you say it is "stupid?" An odd word choice. Just curious, not trying to pick a fight.
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  232. "Socialist soy-boy fascist in denial." Now THAT is an awesome definition for these basement dwellers who show up wearing their antifa outfits at the leftist cross burnings. I'm gonna use that definition when applicable but I will cite the source.
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  233. I've seen this sort of thing with white students as well. The high school I attended basically found a way to move you onto the next grade and eventual graduation if you simply showed up more often than you skipped classes. I got a C in an American history course because even though I pretty much just showed up on test day my test average was something like 96%. The teacher had me stand up and asked the other students how it was possible a chronic truant like me could get it when the rest of them couldn't. My smart-ass side wanted to say it was because I was gone so much but I knew better and just kept my mouth shut. Later, when I was a military instructor, we had a problem kid with a ton of disciplinary infractions and he failed the final test for the course. When he failed the re-test we were confident that would be the end of that young man's illustrious career. Not so fast. We also had to deal with the worst officer in the United States military. That isn't a title I throw around lightly. He was on record as saying he was the students best friend and short of committing some major felony no kid was going to start his career with a black eye from any of us. But rules were rules and the rules said you fail the final and the re-test you fail the course and must be placed in another career field or administratively discharged. Well, not in the world this commander inhabited. He asked us how long it would take to come up with another test for little Johnny to take. We asked, okay, but what happens if we do that and he fails that one? We were then asked how long it would take to write a fourth test. We got the hint and left. We gave the kid his certificate, and sent him on his way but a memo went out to his gaining unit from my boss letting them know what to expect. Sure enough, the kid arrived at his duty station, at 4 A.M. so wasted out of his mind on ecstasy and God knows what else that the cops sent him straight to hospital. I won't say what ramifications that episode had but let's say that after spending five years in a training squadron because no one else wanted him that commander was moved out, where more than one sexual harassment complaint followed. So it's not just black folks and it's not just universities who are engaging in the "friend" game. The thing is, maybe that beneficiary of the friendship program is working on the plane your getting on tomorrow. Just a thought. But hey, as we used to joke, if the minimum wasn't good enough it wouldn't be the minimum now would it? Live long and prosper gang. 🖖
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  234. Tried it. I wouldn't recommend it. My advice, grab a pick and a shovel and hop on board the next space probe. At least there might be something at the bottom of the hole you dig for yourself 😂😂😂😂😂
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  235. "If we ever lose our freedom we'll never be able to regain it." How right you are sir. Unfortunately, the young people of today have been taught that this is a lousy country with an evil past and individual liberty takes a back seat to the progressive movement. RIP Woody. I'm sure your buddies were there to greet you and say job well done.
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  236. I can't recall the exact quote or who said it but I remember hearing someone say something along the lines of "Liberals are out there delivering rousing speeches, while conservatives are putting the country to sleep with Power Point presentations." Facts don't have to be boring but Ronald Reagan's don't grow on trees I guess.
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  237. Nice bit at the beginning but highly doubtful. As you pointed out, Castro knew the plans for the Bay of Pigs invasion well in advance so I don't think there would have been a one-on-one encounter such as that. That being said, this is a fairly accurate retelling, but some points were left out. Khrushchev had talked about putting missiles in Cuba with his son Sergei as early as November of 1961. He talked about it with him as they walked along the beach near his Dachau on the Black Sea. He said it would serve the American's right since missiles in Turkey could reach them as they walked in less than 10 minutes. He didn't think Kennedy had the stones to stand up to him and once the missiles were in place he could demand concessions, not only over Turkey but Berlin as well. Kennedy had let the Wall go up and after he met him in Vienna in June of that year Khrushchev was convinced he was weak. Castro agreed to the missiles not so much out of any moral obligation. Bobby Kennedy was pushing the CIA to ramp up the Mongoose raids and he was leaning on them like a madman to get rid of Castro by the 1962 mid-term elections. The Kennedy's played a very dangerous game with Cuba after the Bay of Pigs. Bobby admitted as much himself after his brother was killed, saying they were more ambitious than wise about a lot of things, especially Cuba. Anyway, John McCone, head of the CIA had been trying to warn the Kennedy's about missiles and Cuba for months but the Kennedy brothers were hell-bent on getting Castro and didn't want to hear it. The problem could have and should have been dealt with before those U2 overflights. Sergei tried to talk his father out of it, saying a missile doesn't look anything like a palm tree but the old man had set his mind to it. In the end, he felt he got what he wanted. The missiles in Turkey were taken out and he had the U.S. swearing off an invasion of Cuba on record. That didn't stop the Kennedy's though. Right away, Jack Kennedy was asking his legal and diplomatic advisers if he was bound to the deal since Castro wouldn't let the UN inspectors in. He still wanted the guy gone by the 64 presidential election. Johnson was convinced it cost him his life in November of the following year but that is another conversation. There was one Castro fanatic in Dallas paying close attention though and he would later buy a 6.5 mannlicher carcano from a mail order store in Chicago. The bits about Castro's letter and Che's reaction are spot on. Khrushchev read that doomsday letter and decided Castro was off his rocker. He considered leaving a few of the missiles that were still hidden behind until he read that. Then he was like, oh hell no. And Che Guevara was a murderous thug who would have been more than willing to blow the entire planet to hell. I'm saddened when I see young people wearing tee-shirts with his image like he's some sort of hero. I spoke with some of the older Cuban's still living in Miami years ago and the stories they told me about their family businesses being stolen and their family members being tortured and killed on the orders of that psychopath are heart breaking. The SOB used to show up to personally witness the mass killings. Pardon my language but F**k Che Guevara. In the end he was betrayed by Castro and good on em. I'm pretty sure he had a hard time accounting for his actions when he departed this planet and I will not give him a RIP. Hundred's of millions of innocent people died to prove the ranting of Karl Marx wrong and unfortunately it has taken root with our younger generation. God help us. Anyway, this was a good video. As you can see, it's a topic I have a bit of interest in. If you want to read a very good book on the background of the Bay of Pigs and the Kennedy's high stakes poker game against Castro, I recommend Die by the Sword by Gus Russo. He uses source documents and while he supports an overt conspiracy in the Kennedy assassination and I do not, it is a very good primer if you want to understand why the Missile Crisis happened and how it was resolved.
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  238.  @jeffneptune2922  With all due respect, you might want to check the history a bit more closely. Hoover was all about government intervention. He was in charge of feeding refugees in Europe after WWI and his plan for using the feds to provide relief following the Mississippi river floods in the 1920s started the federal relief ball rolling. FDR's administrators credited Hoover for setting up the infrastructure that became the New Deal. Coolidge was more hands off but American's also enjoyed tremendous economic growth during his presidency. But even he was not completely laissez fair as you suggest since he supported tariffs. Like a lot of myth's the idea that Hoover was hands off and just fiddled as Rome burned has grown over the years. Personally, I wish he would have let the economy correct itself but that's a discussion for another thread.
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  239. Babe Ruth on making more money than the President: "Why not? I had a better year than Hoover." My favorite story (maybe myth) about the Babe is his response to being told that a teammate got a case of amnesia after getting beaned by a pitch: "Well, tell him to save me a bottle." Some things God only does once, like when He created Babe Ruth. "How can you not be romantic about baseball?" ― Brad Pitt from the movie Moneyball.
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  240. I've attended plenty of games at Comerica and I still feel like a stranger in a strange land. I miss Tiger Stadium, the old ballpark, a real ballpark. Comerica was poorly designed from the outset. That silly notion that creating a cavern would attract pitching was a half-baked dipshit idea and it only got worse from there. The old stadium had a cozy intimate feel to it. At Comerica you are far from the action even in a good seat. And that blaring cheezy sound system blasting out that horrible walk-up music. And bleachers. They purposely left bleachers out because of the rowdy fans they used to attract but again, that was part of the charm of the old ballpark. I spent many a fun summer night hanging out with the $2.00 crowd in center field. Sorry if I come off like an old curmudgeon but I miss the old days when it was about the game. These corporate bandboxes that get torn down after 30 years are ugly and cold. But you are right about the location. They really have no place else to build a new stadium unless they want to move out to the suburbs and that would take away the Illitch's precious foot traffic to the rest of the businesses they either own out right or are associated with down there. But that's just my take on it.
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  241. And there are us Irish. Not a big line of people fighting to join our club, and I'm good with that. I couldn't imagine having an offensive being like that blonde woman from Harvard claiming to be part of our tribe. Why Native Americans haven't made a bigger stink about that one is puzzling. I bet there would be a major meltdown if she was a republican.
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  242. You've got it right where term limits are concerned but that only addresses part of that problem. How many of the professional grifters will simply move from elected office to corporate board rooms? You touched on the biggest problem which is the unelected fourth branch of government. Most of the laws that affect people on a day-to-day basis come down to us in the form of regulations and emergency edicts from alphabet soup agencies in DC. Take a look at the books that govern daily life if you want a peek at the problem but pack a real big lunch because there are thousands of pages. These bureaucrats are entrenched like tics and they aren't going anywhere. I used to deal with GS 15's and above and they act with impunity because they feel untouchable. Congress abdicated most of their power to the Executive during the Great Depression and FDR set about creating agencies and programs and farming the work of governing out accordingly. People became convinced they needed the bureaucratic state and it just kept growing. And these agencies don't go away. As President Reagan said, the closest thing to eternal life in this world is a government program. As for the other stuff, you really should be more responsible when it comes to the JFK conspiracy nonsense and Nixon was hardly a victim. But yes, Clinton's offenses didn't reach impeachment level and it set a bad precedent that came back to haunt republicans later on. And no, I'm not a Clinton supporter and I am no fan of the democrat party. Who has cheapened the office? We have, by not taking our responsibilities as citizens seriously. I agree we should vote for people of high morality who believe in God and His will but unfortunately there ain't a lot of them fellers floatin around the Potomac swamp these days. We're way past political solutions anyway. We are under Romans 1 level judgment. That's what happens when you tell God to take a hike. We all need to start by repairing our relationship with Christ and working it out from there. That's my take on it anyway. Happy Easter.
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  243. Repulsive gravity...🤔That term describes some of the women I dated fairly well. But, people always said I had animal magnetism because I attracted animals so there ya go, one force equalizing the other out. Harmony and equilibrium restored in the universe. I still like Johnny Carson's take on it as Carnac the Magnificent when he put the envelope to his head and said: "The Big Cigarette. What followed the Big Bang." Love that one. 🤣🤣
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  244. The thing is, he probably did talk to the guys, along with Napoleon, Caesar, and King George the First. I bet he even asked the blonde lady to bring them ice cream.
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  245. The Japanese pulled off some of the worst atrocities any group of people has ever committed at any time in history. That is why I was so pissed when that half-an-idiot Tom Hanks said the war in the Pacific was so brutal because of American racial attitudes toward the Japanese. The Japanese benefitted from being a potential bulwark against communism in the Far East, even if it was done primarily through economic means. A lot of stuff got swept under the carpet and the reputations of several key WWII players, including Yamamoto got a revisionist paint-job. While the clean-up on aisle five may have worked on simps like Hanks who have a built-in disdain for America the nations in that region didn't forget. They knew good and damned well what really happened and the Japanese were awfully slow about owning up to their barbaric past. There should have been a Far Eastern equivalent to the Nuremberg trials but there wasn't and the fact it didn't bother enough people is a problem.
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  246. As a child of Apollo and the days when the original Star Trek was shown on prime-time, I have been waiting for the aliens my entire life (actually, I'm still waiting on flying cars and jetpacks, but I digress). I realize the universe is a big place and the odds that we are alone in it are slim, but I don't think these radio radio waves are reruns of Amos and Andy from Vulcan. First, a civilization advanced enough to defeat the problems associated with faster than light travel is probably pretty well past the radio age. So, they were sent 1,000,000,000 years ago and are just now getting to us. The problem with that is, radio transmissions of such a low magnitude would be stretched pretty this by the time they traveled 1,000 light years. It's doubtful we would even notice them. These big blasts come from stars with the juice to produce huge bursts, not the kind Sirius XM transmits. As for these flying saucers, why is it they spend so much time over corn fields in Iowa? Look, I'm not trying to be a Debbie Downer, but the complexities of traveling vast distances in space are such that even a super-duper smart bunch of folks would have trouble over coming them. I believe the grand designer set it up that way. Sorry gang, but don't look for ET to be phoning any time soon. I say this as someone who used to be pumped up about SETI and what they are doing. But once I learned the truth as far as the mechanics of the the thing is concerned, well, as John Adams said: "Facts are stubborn things."
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  247. This guy has a past that makes him possibly the most unsympathetic person in the history of film making. Now, he goes on national television and says he doesn't feel guilty about a woman losing her life after he shot he her. And he did, regardless of how him and his legal team try to spin it. He had the gun, the gun went off. Here's the thing, I believe him. The man is such a narcissist that I imagine he doesn't feel any guilt or remorse. That was textbook sociopathic behavior on display. That man is sick.
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  248. Spending a bunch of time looking at tidally locked planets orbiting a tiny cool star. Okay, but what are they hoping to accomplish? What kind of life would exist on such a planet, a bit of bacteria? Sorry, discovering life at that level just doesn't move the needle for me and if they found it I wouldn't be jumping up and down. Get a hold of someone I can have a conversation with and I'll be all on board. Until then, live long and prosper. 🖖
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  249. Old republics don't die, they just fade away.
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  250. People were enamored by the idea of obama. He was going to be the vehicle through which America once and for all could show everyone we weren't the racists the rest of the world claimed we were. But Dr. Sowell is right about community organizers. Community organizers are and always have been marxists, and marxists never unite, it runs contrary to the almighty creed of the dialectic. The thing is, he's still weakening the country, only now he really gets to put his foot on the pedal because his stooge is there to take the blame. As for how we got here, how gay marriage and the question what is a woman came into existence, that one is easy to answer: “For although they knew God they did not accord him glory as God or give Him thanks. Instead, they became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened. While claiming to be wise, they became fools…Therefore, God handed them over to degrading passions. Their females exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and the males likewise gave up natural relations with females and burned with lust for one another. Males did shameful things with males and thus received in their own persons the due penalty for their perversity. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God handed them over to their undiscerning mind to do what is improper.” ― Romans 1 When a culture turns its back on God and says: "We don't need you, we've got this," God's response eventually is: "Your will be done." It's not rocket science. The cure is available to all who seek it. He's always with us, He always has been, and He always will be.
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  251. "We don't have any indication of a motive at this time." Really dude? Really? How about the Fatwa that half-baked false prophet put out on his head decades ago. The religion of peace at work again. Just some people doing some things I suppose. But it has always been that way with these local yocal law enforcement types. Back when El Sayyid Nosair shot Rabbi Kahane the NYPD declared it the work of a lone nut before even looking into who the guy hung out with, nice guys, misunderstood guys, guys like the Blind Sheik who spoke of peace love and understanding only in a way us infidel dogs couldn't get. God be with you Salman. I'd like to say there will be justice here for you but we all know that will most likely never happen, not in this culture.
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  252. We live in a post-truth society. Lies have become institutionalized, usually under the guise of compassion. We were told to lave people be since their delusion didn't involve us, until it did. Now, not only are we expected to play along, we face punishment if we don't. This didn't happen overnight. People have been softened up for this moment for a while now. The question: "What's a woman?" would be absurd only a few years ago. Now? Now, if you know what's good for you, you won't ask it all. You'll just accept that a man can strip next to a little girl or be called a bigot for trying to defend that girl. Lies are evil. The father of all lies is evil. People who lie aren't necessarily evil, but they play an evil game. I still believe in the end the weight of all these lies will become too much and the contradictions they create will no longer be pacified by cognitive dissonance, a condition which can be sustained on an individual basis but cannot hold up at the group level for an extended period of time. Eventually, the little boy shows up who declares the emperor has no clothes and everyone realizes it's okay to admit the little boy is right. The problem is, not living the lie is the first step. Fixing the damage the lie has done is another thing entirely. It's going to be a big job, one we are not capable of handling on our own. In order to really deal with the problem you have to eliminate the source, and that is trickiest step of all.
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  253. When has Governor DeSantis been disrespectful toward Donald Trump? And please, provide a concrete example, not some non-sequitur or the fact he is considering running for president. How does the fact he may want to run for president disrespect Donald Trump? Are you saying Trump just automatically deserves to be the nominee and everyone who disagrees with that is being disrespectful? Like I say, can you provide one statement Ron DeSantis has made or one action he has carried out that has been disrespectful, because I can point to numerous instances where Trump has insulted the governor and he hasn't even announced his candidacy.
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  254. God made whiskey so the Irish wouldn't take over the world. ☘
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  255. Orwell was influenced by the events of his time and his experience as a member of the left. Huxley had a better read of human nature beyond what was occurring around him. While we were on the look out for 1984 they slipped a Brave New World in on us. “We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment…The doors of Hell are locked from the inside.” ― C.S. Lewis
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  256. Hope your bathtub is still filled with water. Ya never know, might just be a delayed action type thing. I mean, you can never be too prepared and the EXPERTS are never wrong. 🤔
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  257. I served with a Canadian unit as part of an exchange program. The Canadians do a better job with Remembrance Day (Nov 11) than we do with Veterans Day as a whole.
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  258.  @nonyadamnbusiness9887  I'm not familiar with that. Is it a book? If so, do you know the name of the author?
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  259. “You will hear of wars and reports of wars; see that you are not alarmed, for these things must happen, but it will not yet be the end. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be famines and earthquakes from place to place. All these are the beginning of the labor pains.” ― Matthew 24: 6-8 "Take a look around some time Hobbs." ― The Demon Azazel: Movie Fallen
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  260. They can't help themselves, it's in their DNA. Democrats have always been more aggressive with the application of power (see FDR and LBJ) and hardcore lefties are true believers who are more than willing to go over the cliff if they think it will move the needle even an inch. Look how many got on board for Obama care even though they knew it would end them politically. No, when a lefty gets power he or she uses it to the max like a junkie with a pound of smack. They can't help but over play their hand, it's who they are. I find myself wishing Republicans had half their gall. Instead too may R's are pussies who are afraid to do anything but fund raise. Such is life though. Let's Go Brandon!
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  261. I grew up during the space race, a child of Apollo if you will. I've been waiting for ET to phone for decades. But the older I get, the more I learn, the more I have come to realize that the conditions necessary for life, let alone intelligent life, have to be so precise that it blows the mind. Then there are the limitations put on any space traveler by physics. We either have it all wrong or some group has figured out how to manipulate not only gravity, but matter and time itself. That is a pretty tall order. Are there other civilizations out there? I dunno. And neither does anyone else. No calculation or computer model will ever change that. I think if they are out there, we'll never hear from them and vice-versa because that's the way it is set up. Who knows, maybe when we pass beyond this life we'll get to meet our extraterrestrial cousins. Until that time, live long and prosper. 🖖
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  262. I'm a child of Apollo. Those were rocking times. Just about every flight was a first for something and we were going up against the Soviets so we had that added element of competition. But then we stopped. The eggheads prevailed at NASA and the exploration people lost out. Nixon had no use for the space program and threw the manned-flight program a bone with the Shuttle but looking back at it honestly that program never really delivered on its promises. We were assured in the 60s that Mars was next and we would keep on trucking but it costs a lot of money to pull something like that off and between the war on poverty, the war in Vietnam, and the whole stagflation issue there just wasn't enough cash to go around. Once you stop the momentum it's really hard to get that mojo back. I wish the program all the best, I really do, but I just don't see the public clamoring for it. The young people I have spoken with about space don't have the same fire we did. We stopped doing great things, maybe that has fed into the self-loathing kick we've been on for the past few decades. If there isn't public interest there won't be public dollars and as the man said in the movie The Right Stuff "No bucks, no Buck Rogers." Elon Musk has made some pretty pie in the sky promises about a Mars shot but when the rubber meets the road, and he finds out the government won't back his play, I think he'll question the need to spend his personal fortune. It's a shame, but it's who we've become. If we were going to go, we needed to keep moving in the 70s. We didn't. Going to the Moon is fun and all but spending all that cash just to fly around a place we've already been? Outside of checking off the equity boxes like this video pointed out, what's the point? But that's me, and I loved the space program growing up. But as I say, we are not who we were then, not by a long shot. Kids these days would much rather be internet influencers than scientists and space explorer's. Our technology is grown up, but we haven't. Oh well, they promised us jetpacks and they bailed on that. I'm really not trying to be Debbie Downer, but don't expect this to amount to a whole lot. Wanna spend your money more wisely? Robots to mine asteroids. You don't have to feed em and nobody gives a damn what color or gender they are.
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  263. “There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs….I am afraid that there is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.” ― Booker T Washington: 1911
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  264. I agree. Not only were they in a good position to give Germany real trouble, Hitler's generals had passed along to British intelligence that if the Brits stay strong and don't appease Hitler they will engineer a coup once Hitler declares war on the Czechs. And he was ready to do just that. Chamberlain was so far out of his depth that he flew in at the last minute honestly believing he could get an agreement that Hitler would honor. Hitler was actually pissed at Mussolini for setting up the peace talks. Anyway, once Hitler was able to take the Sudetenland without firing a shot the generals lost heart. Hitler was so popular after that that any coup would have had almost zero popular support. That was the real tragedy of Munich, Hitler wanted to cut his own throat and the Brits and French left him off the hook. That was also the point where Stalin decided the Allies had no heart and any ideas he may have had about teaming up with them went out the window.
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  265. "Sire, the peasants are revolting!" "You bet, they stink on ice!" - Mel Brooks as King Louie XVI: History of the World Part I. On a more serious note though, I have told people for years that in order to understand the left you have to understand the French Revolution, and not in the mythical way a lot of post-modern university professor's frame it. Future revolutionaries like Lenin took a lot away from the French Revolution, including using state-sponsored terror as a method for controlling the uppity proletariat who aren't down with the program. Thank you for delving into this. I hope future installments address Rousseau and his contribution as far as the Social Compact goes. Once you get head around all of that you get a better idea of where the crazy notions of the left come from and why they behave the way they do.
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  266. "Just like Tatiana, swallow it they must." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Quips like that are why I love ya Drinker! I just finished watching The Terminal List and it is a great show, a bit of a hybrid where The Fugitive meets Death Wish. It does start out a bit slow and at first I wasn't sure if it was overhyped, but by the time you get to the third episode...hang on tight. I was telling my buddy about it and he said it sounds like a lot of dying going on. I said yeah, but then I reminded him of that old line we used to say in Texas when it was still fashionable to do so: "Some shit just needs killin." Chris Pratt does a good job in the lead and I gotta say Constance Wu, who I had never heard of before this show, does a good job in her role as well. She's tough minded, but she doesn't go around acting like a guy. So if you haven't seen it, take it from the Drinker. The Terminal List is eight hours well spent. On a side, I'm still waiting for you to review Outlaw Josee Wales and Crimson Tide Drinker. I know, they are a bit dated, but they are both right up your alley and I'd like to hear your thoughts on them. Maybe do a series on gangster movies as well. Lotsa good stuff out there waiting for your review. Just sayin.
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  267. Come on. I bet I could pull 20 sea sponges out of the ocean and at least 19 would possess a higher level of intelligence than the bar tender. And no, I don't care how many science fair judges she has dazzled with her brilliance.
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  268. Stalin, the ultimate bureaucrat. While Trotsky was making speeches Stalin was making political appointments. If you are ever feeling depressed and want to feel better, don't take a course in Russian history.
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  269. Vote on something? I thought the Supreme Court had the final say in everything. Stare decisis is the basis for our republican form of government after all. Vote on something...what a silly idea. Next thing you'll be saying is bureaucrats have no business deciding whether or not we should be allowed to celebrate Christmas. That whole government of the people thing is so 2020. Get with the program Tucker...it's a new day.
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  270. I don't see the Rays sticking around. Maybe Orlando if Tampa won't work with them but more than likely they are headed out of state. Charlotte? Memphis? Maybe, I'd add Oklahoma City to the list but the league would have to do some division realignment to make that work. We'll see.
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  271. I've always enjoyed hearing from people who were involved in historic events. I remember when I was a teenager, this old fella who worked in the same store I did, but in a different department, would tell me stories about his time in France during the great war as he called it (WWI). Later, when I served, I was fortunate enough to speak with gentlemen who were at Peral Harbor on Dec 7 (one who served on the Arizona), two men who suffered through the Bataan Death March, a Marine who landed at Peleliu, and an uncle by marriage who battled the Germans in the hedgerows and during the Battle of the Bulge. These guys lived it. There are only a handful of WWII vets left and then the Vietnam generation will fade. I encourage everyone to hear their stories if they want the straight dope so to speak. As for me, my campaigns were in Central America, The Balkans, and The Middle East but to date no one has asked me about any of it. I'm not one of those whose big on just telling war stories so I suppose they'll sit with me until I pass. I'm afraid we have lost much of the face-to-face tradition where storytelling is concerned. Everyone seems content getting it second hand. That saddens me.
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  272. I will concede that a lot of the Boomers were (and still are) entitled brats who ran the ship into the dock when they got a hold of power. At some point I got lumped in with them but as a late-stage boomer I think most people in my age bracket tended to be less radical. We were kids during Nam so we weren't out marching in the street and at least most of the people I grew up with saw through the counter-culture BS pretty quick. I did lose friends to the drug culture and violence of the street but I think that's normal for any city kid. My point is, not all Boomers should be associated with the leftists who bought into all the peace love dope BS of the 60s. I do feel for the generation who will have to clean up this mess but the Millennial's and Gen-Xer's may want to keep a close eye on the generation they are currently raising. All the bad juju the marxists passed off to their grandparents is being soaked up by them. They weren't around when communists were killing millions so they buy the notion that it is all just about taking from the rich to feed the poor. You think the Boomers messed things up? I shudder to think what the current crop of Maoists has in store for this place 25 years from now. I highly doubt I will be around to see it but the reckoning from that crop will make what the Boomers did look like wise governance. Unless this country experiences a genuine revival I recommend brushing up on your Chinese. I hate to be cynical but trends are trends for a reason. Hang on tight folks.
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  273. I've logged countless hours teaching and learning and learning and teaching. The longer I stuck around the worse it got. When I was an undergrad back in the days of pencils and bluebooks, you had to demonstrate critical thinking. Now? Now students just show up. They want to be told what is right and what is wrong. They aren't interested in figuring it out for themselves. When I was idealistic I had this notion that I was going to make dependent learning a thing of the past. I used to love teaching so much I told my students I would do it for free. By the time I left I couldn't stand being in the classroom. And it was the students themselves who brought that on. This country has raised an entire generation of disinterested young people and the ones immigrating in are bringing their culture with them. That is a recipe for disaster. Want to learn? Read a book. Want to waste your money? Go to Harvard.
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  274. Ideobabble. Fair enough. Most of it is centered on cognitive dissonance, something anyone existing in any cult must learn to not only live with but embrace. Gender is fluid, racism is based on power so it is impossible for member of an oppressed protected class to be a racist. In fact, how about oppressed protected classes? That's about as oxymoronic as it gets. Then there is my personal favorite, democratic socialist. And I always get a kick out of "anti-fascist's can't be fascist's because it's right there in their name dummy." I actually heard that mental pygmy don lemon make that argument on TV. Ask a lefty what a fascist is. Most will say Donald Trump and leave it at that. Truth is a construct after all, as malleable as Jell-O. Welcome to the age of stupid.
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  275. A lot of numbers get tossed around but the basic gist was Churchill would have 10 or so ideas a day and nine of them were bad. Put this one squarely in the bad idea column, whoever came up with it. Tik makes the case, there was no appetite for a war with the USSR in either the U.S. or Britain. Nobody really gave a sh*t about Poland and the idea that you could whip up public sentiment for them in 46 was crazy. It could be this was just one of 100 war plans by people who get paid to come up with such plans but this one got leaked for one reason or another. Trial balloon? Who knows. But planning goes on every day. Following WWI U.S. war planners had several plans in place to fight Britain. It's a cottage industry inside of most defense departments. Kinda like Bruce Willis talking about NASA in the movie Armageddon: "I bet you got a room full of guys just thinking shit up and another group of guys backing them up." Makes for some good chum for the counterfactual waters though.
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  276. I'm a big fan of Lennon and Marx. I will admit I didn't like the avant-garde stuff John did with his goofy girlfriend but as for Groucho, You Bet Your Life was a cool TV show. 👍
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  277. Germany's fate was sealed in August 1914 when the Kaiser decided Germany needed to come up in the world. His military took it from there. In 1939 the fight continued but the script was flipped a bit. The goal remained the same this time around. Hitler decided Germany needed to come up in the world but instead of his military taking the lead Hitler drove the madness and his military went along for the ride. Most of them knew it was a lost cause, especially after they invaded the Soviet Union, but enough of them believed in the cause to get a lot of people killed. Some just liked killing. But it's one thing to take all that land, it's quite another to hold it. And when Hitler declared war on the U.S. the game was truly up. So tragic. The 20th Century is littered with hundreds of millions of corpses, people who died as a result of other people trying to create a new world and make their ideology the ideology.
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  278. I'm not sure how old this video is. I don't even know who Dr. Sowell is arguing with. But the way the guy gets twisted into a pretzel and links democracy with leaders telling people how to live their lives is an example of the classic marxist mindset. Back in the 60s, when RFK was trying to operate a slimmed down version of the great society with his Bedford-Stuyvesant project, one of his aides told him that even though it seemed contradictory private enterprise appeared to be a better vehicle for getting stuff done and improving conditions on the ground than government. It's a tail as old as the early progressive movement in America. If you speak out against it though you get branded an anti-intellectualist. The left loves to brand people. But all the stammering and yeah but's in that guys argument fail to address the simple question; what makes government and some ruling class better at running your life than you are? Entire classes of people have been held in bondage for more than a century because of that premise. I'm not sure the Founding Fathers would even know what to make of a guy like that, but I do believe they would know how to deal with him and his ilk.
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  279. A basic rule of thumb when dealing with the left. If you want to know what they are up to, listen to what they accuse you of doing.
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  280.  @D-Fens_1632  Wow, that is a tragic story. Sorry for your friend's loss.
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  281. I have a lot of problems with Dick Nixon, but the press absolutely went out of their way to get the guy. Then they gave themselves a major pat on the back and portrayed their role in the whole affair in exaggerated terms. It was a watershed moment because after that suck fest All The Presidents Men came out with Redford and Hoffman reporters started to make a concerted effort to insert themselves into the story instead of simply reporting facts. That movie was to journalism what the Godfather was to the mob. They tried to kick around future republican presidents like Reagan and Bush but they couldn't get them to jump into the tabloid septic tank with them, not the way Nixon did. Nixon liked jousting with them and just like he said in 62 after he lost the race for governor of California: "As I leave you now, just think how much you're going to be missing, you won't have Nixon to kick around anymore." Like Gollum in his woe is me recollection: "And we wept precious, oh how we wept." They needed a villain. In comes Trump. Almost like he was sent over straight from central casting. They had their boogey man back, someone who was more than willing to jump into the mosh pit with em. Hell, most days he jumped in first and said: "Come on in boys, the water is just fine." And like Nixon warned em in 62, Gollum's lamentation fell on em hard in 2020, when Trump was replaced by a feeble old man who shook hands with people only he could see and his stoner VP who couldn't string three words together in a coherent fashion. It was a target rich environment but they were off-limits so the arrows had to be put back in the quiver. Ratings for networks, especially CNN, tanked when the Orange Man was gone. In their coal black hearts they wanted Trump to return. Or as Colonel Jessup put it it: "Deep down in places you don't talk about at party's, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall." The question now is, who will replace Trump as the target after 2028? Musk? Vance if he's elected? Maybe, but those guys won't be half the villain Trump is. There won't be a suitable replacement for the show. So grab the popcorn and enjoy it while you can gang, because the celebrity's who pass for journalists these days are a lazy no-talent bunch and if they don't have anyone to aim their vitriol at they have nothing. Reality TV as politics. In the meantime there is a debt bomb just waiting to explode and plunge us into a national tailspin so wild we'll long for the good old days of masks and six-foot separation rules. But hey, where's the fun in reporting on that. Sleep well kiddos.
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  282. "Era's greatest chameleon?" She's a phony tramp who has been giving bimbos' a bad name for decades. She looks more like Gollum being taken by the precious than some edgy 60-something trying to be...well honestly, I have no idea what she is trying to be, nor do I care.
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  283. There was a lot of revisionist history written about Japan, the A-Bomb, the role of the Emperor, and the War in the Pacific as a whole after the fact. This was done to keep the Japanese on our side against the Soviets. Men like Hirohito, Yamamoto, and others, got their reputations boosted and a lot of past sins were forgiven. On the American side, it became popular to say dropping the bomb was the hardest decision Truman ever made. Bullsh*t. Truman called it the greatest thing in history and said he slept like a baby after it was dropped. Oppenheimer went on some TV show years after the fact talking about how he spouted that line from the Hindu Book of the Dead, "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds," when the first bomb went off but that must have been between fist-pumps and high-fives with Groves and the rest of the scientists. He was proud that they were able to pull it off. Later, he did try to get Truman not to create the H-Bomb. Truman heard him out, then told his aides he never wanted to that SOB again. There were scientists who wanted to hold off on dropping it, military leaders as well, including Ike, but like Truman said at the time: 'What in the hell did they think we built it for?" The bomb was always going to be used. And yes, an invasion of the home islands would have resulted in millions of casualties on both sides. The bomb saved lives. That's the inconvenient truth. And based on the way the Japanese treated the Chinese, who can blame the guy for admitting he was happy when the bomb fell. Read the accounts of the rape of Nanking, the Bataan Death March, or conditions on the Hell Ships that carried POW's to Japan to act as slave labor and tell me they didn't reap what they sewed. Thank you Dr. Sowell for helping to set the record straight.
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  284. Or maybe Flip Wilson had it right: "The devil made me do it."
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  285. Calling for amnesty when a reckoning is what needs to happen. If our system of justice wasn't so broken that is what would happen. As for dressing those kids up like props, shame on any parent who would allow their child to be used by that coven in that manner.
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  286. “Not too long ago two friends of mine were talking to a Cuban refugee, a business man who had escaped from Castro. And in the midst of his story one of my friends turned to the other and said: ‘We don’t know how lucky we are.’ And the Cuban stopped and said: ‘How lucky you are? I had some place to escape to.’ And in that sentence he told us the entire story. If we lose freedom here, there’s no place to escape to.” ― Ronald Reagan: A Time for Choosing
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  287.  @FredNewsome  And? You can write all fine words you want. Ever read the Soviet constitution? They promised all kinds of stuff. What good is it if nobody plays by the rules? Okay, so we get to have a republic. A republic of what? I studied the Constitution as an undergrad. I studied the Constitution as a high schooler. I studied the Constitution during my time in the Service. That's a fair amount of studying. Enough to say our form of...governance for lack of a better term, is pretty far away from what we were given in 1789. So yeah, you can say we are guaranteed a republic, but what good is it if it violates the spirit of its core document?
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  288. Wait a minute I remember that 7.28 minute eclipse. It was actually 8.5 minutes and it happened in 744 BC, not 743. I think I still have a commemorative Mayan coin with that date on it if anyone doubts my veracity. Kidding aside, I won't see the eclipse but a comet would be cool. It doesn't sound like Hale-Bopp but it might be worth a peek.
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  289.  @petercharnley7396  God Bless. Keep the faith brother.
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  290.  @WAT906  Always happy to drop a bit of AF history knowledge. Thanks for your service.
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  291.  @dirtfarmer7472  That's the thing, nobody's running it...yet.
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  292.  @kale2149  Are you really going to use that as a strawman? I'd like to compare the percentages of Americans going to Cuba for health care with the number of Canadians heading south for theirs. And I live in Florida so I see a boat load of it, or I did until COVID made it too pricey for them to come down. A lot of em skipped out on their bills as well, saying; "I don't pay for this back home why should I pay for it here?" And no, I'm not making that up. The snowbird across the street from me ran up over $160,00 in medical bills before he stopped coming down. He finally kicked the can and we got to eat that bill. It's why most doctors demand copayments up front down here. So no, the Cuba argument doesn't hold much water.
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  293. One of the reasons the left throws around the word fascist is because it's a holdover habit from their grandpa Stalin. Stalin used to play the same game after the Nazi's attacked the USSR and Hitler's brand of totalitarianism fell out of favor, again. After the war, Stalin made the argument that any government that wasn't fascist was democratic. Therefore his totalitarian states in Poland and East Germany had to be democratic. Fascist became the insult de-jure for all time. These kids these days marching around burning stuff down like little nihilists have no clue what fascism is. They just say what they are told to say by their handlers, little automatons who want to stay in with the in crowd.
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  294.  @jasonc0065  They were both social compacts but beyond that they didn't have much in common. The big difference was their view of the State of Nature. The State of Nature referred to human nature and what society would be like if people were left to their own devices. The Hobbesian view is that people are brutish and the State of Nature, a state where one exists outside of a strong government, is a state where might makes right and justice is found at the end of a gun so to speak. Locke agreed that the State of Nature is not desirable but rather than exchange freedom for security as Hobbs recommended, Locke called for the creation of a government responsive to the will of the governed. He believed people had a fallen nature but as long as their material and security needs were met they were capable of handling their own affairs. Locke saw the role of government as a more limited one, that it's primary goal was protecting the rights of the individual. Rousseau believed people did not have a fallen nature and left to their own devices they would be fine, provided the corrupting influence of society was stripped away. Marx called that the Super Structure, the great lie used to control people. Rousseau claimed the general will should dictate the actions of government as opposed to individual rights and he essentially said government was justified using whatever means were at their disposal to enforce that will. If you look at left-wing governments and political movements they all link back to Rousseau and they all fail because of the misreading of human nature. We do have a fallen nature and the myth of the noble savage is just that, a myth. There will never be a utopia on Earth, no matter how much re-education the unwashed masses receive. That is why I say Locke got it right and Rousseau got it wrong. Unfortunately, a lot of people continue to die as ideologues try to prove that with under the right conditions and with enough resources the theories of people like Rousseau and Marx can work. Ask the more than 100,000,000 people who have died how it worked out for them and how Rousseau's noble savages act when they are left to their own devices.
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  295. We say he was mad because we can't fathom ordering the death of an entire group of innocent people. That's evil, not madness. Hitler was an evil guy. Satan is real, demons are real, and when they are able to work through human agents the end result is wicked and incomprehensible to people not under such influence. Here's the thing, Hitler didn't personally shoot or gas millions of people, his underlings did. To declare him insane you have to declare every SS officer who participated in the slaughter, every Wehrmacht foot soldier who helped round people up and shot their fair share, and every bookworm who calculated the cost of killing on a mass scale nuts as well. Or were they just evil?
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  296. That is an excellent breakdown on the power dynamic. It touches also on, what for me anyway, is the most disturbing element, the spiritual component. Sure, there are some true believers who see a manmade utopia at the end of the LGB rainbow because they reject God and the notion that people are born with a fallen nature that cannot be overcome by any Earthly power. But the movement is darker than that, it is demonic, not some make-believe hollywood style possession, but real demons empowered and let loose on a culture that welcomed them in. Read Return of the Gods by Jonathan Cahn. Then read Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher. Regardless of your beliefs or worldview, even if you are atheist or agnostic, those two books will provide insight and prepare you for this party, which is just getting started.
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  297. I am against capital punishment as a rule but I have always wondered what type of world might have evolved if cretins like Lenin, Stalin, and Castro would have been whacked when the powers that were had them in their grips. One of the great "what ifs" I suppose.
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  298. You're a good man Gary. God Bless and thank you for doing the Lord's work helping my fellow Vets who need an assist. We never forget those who remember us. I salute you sir.
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  299. A significant contingent from Nova Scotia wanted to join the American colonies but the Brits shut that idea down. Just think, maybe Newfoundland would have an NFL franchise by now. Ya never know how these things turn out.
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  300. The feds are taking care of it to their way of thinking. They are trying to wreck the place and creating the largest homeless crisis in the world since 1945 is part of it, along with ruining the economy and every other debacle they have presided over. You cannot look at the way they are governing and say it's not intentional. You have to try to be this bad. And what the hell is bill gates doing buying farm land along with the commies? And what about unscrupulous bankers and real estate brokers selling the land, knowing the actors have bad intentions? When do the treason trials begin? Soon I hope. If not, this country is going to split apart and the WEF crowd wins. This is what a country looks like when it's under judgement. Get right with God. That's my advice.
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  301. Karl Marx, the original basement dweller who has inspired generation after generation of basement dwellers into modern times. One thing most commies have in common is they are all dorks with the social skills of a scorpion and the mating skills of a black widow spider. And they never leave office once they get a hold of power. President Reagan complained that he couldn't get a meeting with any Soviet Premier because they all kept dying on him. Fast forward to today. pelosi, biden, mcconnell, they are all like the old politburo members from the USSR. Feinstein died rather than give up power when she was in her 90s. And none of them, not one, from Marx to castro, to biden and everyone in between left the world a better place for them having been in it. No one will ever know the exact number of people who have died proving Marx wrong but I guess when you get past 100,000,000 what's a few more corpses between comrades. What was it Stalin said, when one man dies it's a tragedy. When 1,000 men die it's a statistic. And here we are almost 200 years later, watching silently as groups of ignorant children who have no understanding of just how evil communism really is, march in lock-step with the authoritarian leaders of the world they will inherit. I wonder if after their own show trials, when they are in the cells in the gulag they helped create, if they will follow the example set by their predecessors close to 100 years ago, who stared blankly at their executioner and declared, long live the revolution, long live Comrade Stalin. Probably. One thing sociopaths have an instinct for is human frailty and habits. Sleep well little ones, the utopia is just around the corner.
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  302. This whole concept of social or cosmic justice is a canard run by people craving power. They lie to their followers about their condition and why they are failing then fill them with a sense of hopelessness, telling them the only way to achieve justice is to reset the entire board. Of course they would never allow that to happen, not unless it was done in a well-ordered fashion by the powers-that-be who give a damn about no one. The acquisition and use of power always lies at the heart of it. For the godless who offer a better world through a better earthly system is always has and it always will.
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  303. Great explanation. It was a lot easier for the lefty professors to explain victimhood that way anyway as opposed to spending a lot of time dealing with Theory of Labor Value, the ins and outs of the Superstructure, and the nuances of Dialectical Historicism. And at the end of the day the lefty profs get to assume their rightful place as the rulers of it all. It's always about power. Power and nothing more. Still, great video.
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  304. Mr. Ballard is doing the Lords work, a Good and Faithful Servant. As for the slave masters going after God's children: “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. Woe to the world because of things that cause sin! Such things must come, but woe to the one through whom they come!” ― Matthew 18: 6-7
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  305. This idea spread with such certainty, that people are going to Mars and will settle there is based on what? No really, what? Elon Musk's vision? There are more problems associated with this than this video touches, on, problems we haven't even thought to consider. The biggest question is why anyone would want to live on a dead planet? For the adventure? Look, I grew up during the real space race. I was sold the whole program. To me it was almost a given that by 1980 we would have planted our flag on Mars. But it didn't happen for a host of reasons, reasons that still exist in the real world, not the world the futurists seem to inhabit. Call me a luddite but until we figure out how to share this place peacefully, the notion that somehow we will have a kumbaya moment and unite behind a colony on Mars is a pipedream at best. It's true, we are wired for exploration, but we're also wired for a lot of stuff, stuff that runs contrary to altruistic notions of extending the human consciousness beyond Earth. I hate being the skeptic because I was a true-believer in this stuff growing up, but we came to a crossroad and chose another path. The explorers at NASA lost the funding race to the research gang, and as they say in The Right Stuff, no bucks, no Buck Rogers. The momentum was there, but now it's gone. I just don't see people getting behind it, not like Apollo. Oh well. I'll be long gone by the time someone can prove me wrong. Live long and prosper. 🖖
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  306. Great stuff. When I was an undergrad the best two best courses I took were on political ideology and it's application in the 20th Century. The course was taught by a professor who could argue the conservative side of an issue better than Ronald Reagan. Along with being a great political science professor, he was one of the best historians at the school. He would always provide context before talking about the people responsible for an ideology, whether it was Locke, Hobbs, or Marx. One day I caught up with him and had a nice conversation. I told him it was refreshing to find somebody in the political science department who was a conservative. He chuckled and informed me he was a card-carrying democrat. He said he learned to see all sides of an issue when he was a staffer on capitol hill because everybody was so full of shit you had to be on your toes and know what all sides were up too and more importantly, why they were up to it. His family had a long distinguished history with the State and Defense Departments and he was being groomed for a similar role after graduating from Tufts but he said he just couldn't put up with the BS so he went on to get his PHD and took a job teaching at a small school in the south rather than a large school in the north because he preferred the company of patriots. One helluva an educator. That is what we are missing today. I have been through two graduate programs and have yet to meet anyone who could hold a candle to that guy. To borrow from Paul Simon, "Where have you gone Joe Di Maggio?"
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  307.  @13strigoi69  He's mentioned along with several others. A great line whoever came up with it.
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  308. This is all Satanic. Satan is a nihilist. He wants us to feel only despair and to convince us that life, God's most precious gift, isn't worth living. These confused desperate people would find comfort in Christ if they reached out to Him. I imagine the lawmakers in Canada see this as a way to save money. One less person who's not contributing taxes, one less person they have to find a way to pay for. This is what you get when you give yourself over to the nanny state. Canada is my birth-country but I have come to despise it. I have relatives whom I love still living there and unfortunately I will not be able to make it to their funerals because I will never set foot in that country again. They have invited tyranny in and now they are suffering the consequence of that choice. This is what you get when you raise generations of sheep. May God forgive those who choose this manner of death and may His justice be brought on those who deliver death. These people are no longer doctors, they are simply merchants of evil.
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  309. That's a great point about the importance of play in a balanced social setting and its relationship with power. The people I have worked with over the years who were the most difficult to get along with all shared the trait of being humorless and most of them had this enormous chip on their shoulder, a you can't treat me like that sort of attitude. And they also shared another trait, they were all terrible leaders. I have found that most people who try to dominate are compensating for a time, be it past or present, where they were dominated. They were never taught how to lead so they mimic the style that was used with them. Power for power's sake never ends well.
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  310.  @DrVictorVasconcelos  You're right, a lot of naval thinking was still geared around the idea of the battleship being the capital ships of the line at that time. Then Pearl Harbor and the sinking of HMS Prince of Wales and Repulse by the Japanese put those theories to rest. After that it was all about aircraft carriers and fighting battles where the enemy ships never saw one another. But Churchill should have known better since it was British carriers that first showed the how obsolete battleships had become when they sank the Italian fleet at Taranto.
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  311.  @prairiedweller8917  I don't think it was as much a matter of grievances as it was New England rebels stirring up the pot and local's salivating a bit over the potential windfall the fishing rights would have brought. The logistics and geography of the time would have made it difficult for Nova Scotia to provide any meaningful assist anyway.
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  312.  @johnwhite5485  You were there??? That's awesome! That Tiger team was the team of my youth, the team that made me fall in love with the game. You're the first person I have, well kinda met, who remembers that game. Not even my friends do. Way cool! Thanks for getting back to me. Old Joe was a bit on the wild side. Former starting QB for the OSU Buckeye's, but we didn't hold that against him once he was a Tiger. He started the pennant clinching game in 68, but he didn't get along with the manager Mayo Smith so Smith basically benched him for the World Series that year. He died young, heart problems. Sad end really. But he did get a ring. The good old Pilots. I imagine I had a few baseball cards from that team, I bought a lot of packs trying to complete my Tiger collection as well as the collectables from the 68 Series. Bob Gibson's 1.12 ERA, Denny McClain's 31-6 record, Mickey Lolich pitching three complete games in the Series, beating Gibson in Game 7, the year of the pitcher. Way cool.
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  313. I don't know much about those people but the bit I have picked along the way tell me they fall into that group who will do anything to stay relevant to someone and if that means being mocked so be it. They probably will sue just for the publicity that will bring.
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  314. I agree, but don't waste your time trying to convince the Trump-cult. Trump is cozy with all the establishment guys he is trying to associate Governor DeSantis with and has called them all great, winners, tremendous, blah, blah, blah at some point along the way. Now? Oh I never liked those guys. Trump goes on about Governor DeSantis shutting down the beaches, "very bad, very, very bad, not good." In reality, Trump got all over the Governor's ass for telling Pence and Trump's boy Fauci to take a hike when they told him he was opening the state too soon. But none of that matters. They like the show, and Trump is reality TV. They don't care if he lies to them. Ask those poor SOB's rotting jail for simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time on January 6th about all the help Trump has provided them. Ask them what they think about his photo-op "persecution" in NY or what advice they might have given people who were thinking about taking part in the protests he was calling for when news broke about his impending indictment. But hey, only Trump can save us, everyone else is a wimp-loser-sissy.
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  315. He may have been awarded the Medal of Honor but if what they say about his behavior in the POW camp is true it sounds like he was anything but honorable. I get it, you don't want to go into combat with a bunch of altar boys or...I'll just leave it at that, but it's one thing to be cocky it's something else entirely to be selfish and worse in the face of the enemy. Getting special treatment is bad enough but refusing to help starving comrades? I'm glad I never watched that show that seemed to glorify a man of no honor. Sorry, that kind of behavior makes you a scumbag.
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  316. Sorry dude, but the idea that Kevin McCarthy will do anything to stop the marxists is NVTS nuts. Look for big budgets that fund woke causes and promote the green energy BS to continue under that squish. He's down with that sort of stuff. Meanwhile, McConnell is doing everything he can to help the democrats keep control of the senate, pulling money from races the republicans could win like Arizona and propping up losers like that Oz character in PA. He hates the idea of actually having to lead. He knows him and that corrupt wife of his only have a couple years left to steal what they can and the last thing he wants is something like meaningful work to get in the way of that. He also doesn't want to neuter any more conservatives. It took him a while to snip Ted Cruz and I'm sure he'd rather not have to go through that again.
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  317. I remember when obama told romney in 2012 the 1980s wanted its foreign policy back when he said Russia was the largest threat to American security. I'm not trying to defend romney, but the same argument could be made against biden and his 1970s talking points. I wouldn't trust that senile old coot to balance a checking account let alone make fiscal policy decisions. The thing is, he hasn't made any to this point in time anyway. obama's team has been the group running this bus into side of the cliff. I say running the economy into the cliff because when you're saddled with a 30-trillion dollar debt you went over that cliff about 29.9 trillion dollars ago. I blame em all, primarily starting with bush the second and his guns and butter spending but that's me. I like Chip though, he's a straight shooter in a town where most everyone else is...well, I made a promise to stop cursing so I won't say.
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  318. They can't get rid of the pandemic because they need it for the general election in 2024. Don't be surprised if they declare some sort of medical emergency in a ton of red districts the night of November 4th 2024 and order mandatory lock downs. They'll delay the election a week and mail out ballots to people in those districts, setting a hard deadline on when you can hand them over to the guy in charge of picking them up for your block. Sound crazy? Paranoid? Let me ask you this. Five years ago what would have happened if you had asked what a woman was? We have crossed the Rubicon gang. It is so far in the rear-view mirror you'd need the Webb Telescope to spot it.
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  319. Two people who benefit from politicizing a news story talking about the evils of politicizing a news story. 🤔And the hits just keep coming. The beat goes on in the Age of Stupid.
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  320. I haven't kept up with Lauren for a while but she is also guilty of pointing out the murdering of white people and stealing of their property that was being carried out in former European colonies in Africa by the local tribesmen who took over the governments in those countries. I'm sure that was a larger offense to the airbnb crowd than her complaints against mass immigration. I've never used airbnb and now that they have exposed themselves I'll continue to stay away.
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  321. I like Jordan and admire the way he works through a problem but sometimes he over thinks a thing. In this case, perhaps it's cultural on his part. Mr. McWhorter hit upon a fundamental truth and it's nowhere near as complicated as Jordan makes it out to be. There is a certain class of leaders within the black community who don't want to move on because their livelihood is tied into keeping the struggle alive. When race pimps like Jesse Jackson scream "it's another Selma," he doesn't believe that. But it pays well. And kids who perform poorly are, in many instances, living down to the expectations set for them. Single parent homes have been the norm rather than the exception in the black community for decades and that more than any other variable has stifled their growth. But you can't speak out against the single black mother because in the matriarchy that has been imposed on the culture they hold a special status. It is to the point now where men are no longer expected to play a role. But if you point this out you are called a bigot or worse. And a lot of black kids who excel in school are bullied and teased. I know because I went to mostly black schools and saw it first hand. It's especially true for boys. Girls are given a pass but there is a war on boys in this culture unlike anything that has occurred in the past and boys in the black community are under assault from the people who claim to be on their side. The same is true for white boys. The old messages of Jim Crowe are alive and well because they serve a purpose for those who don't want the food fight to end. They misuse terms like systemic and institutional racism and convince young people that the game is rigged against them. I had a conversation with a bright young friend of mine about systemic racism and she told me it is everywhere. I asked her to define systemic racism and after she fumbled around for a bit she basically described racism at an individual level, saying that as long as people have racist views the system will always be racist since people make up the system. I tried to point out the fallacy of her circular logic and told her the actual definition of systemic racism but she insisted her version, the one fed her by her lefty friends, was correct. I could never break that wall. The hijacking of language and the brainwashing of the young is what is at work here. It has nothing to do with notions of virtue. It is simply a case of a lie being told long enough that it gets accepted as truth. Until that changes, until people wake up and see that they are being lied to, nothing will change. It's a story as old as the Allegory of the Cave. Bottom line, there are people who profit a great deal from keeping these racial divisions alive and as long as they have the megaphone, it will never change. That's not complicated Jordan, it's simple human nature. But that's me.
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  322. So, 111 positives out of 82,000 tested = 0.0014% 1 out of 82,000 is such a ridiculous statistic my calculator told me to go F myself. Yeah, I can see why you would want to lock down a million people and wreck an economy with those kinds of alarming numbers. Where's that Crocodile Dundee guy when you need him? 🤔
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  323. I would add the tittle of criminal. What she is doing to that demented old man is elderly abuse and she is doing it strictly for her own greedy ends. The Clintons are still #1 in the crime family HOF but the Biden outfit is giving them a run for their money.
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  324. Years ago I watched one of those "Toughest Jails in the World" shows. El Salvador was represented. They showed a prison in that country where there were no guards. MS 13 ran the place and the government was more than happy to let them. Then there was this Russian jail where something like 30 guys were housed in one cell. There was one bunk, one old sink, one old toilet. Of course, there was only one guy who got the bunk and just a couple who got to use the sink and the toilet. The rest of the guys had a couple buckets to take care of their needs. I remember when they shut down an Air Force base not far from where I was stationed and they wanted to convert the place into a minimum security prison. The ACLU swooped in and slapped an injunction on the deal, claiming the barracks rooms that just a month earlier had housed our enlisted airmen were substandard and not up to snuff to meet the prisoner's required standard of living. and you guessed it, the left-wing judge they hand picked agreed. “‘Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great! She has become a haunt for demons, she is a cage for every impure spirit." ― Revelation 18: 2
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  325.  @cormackerr3018  You hang in there and thank you for your service.
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  326. That was very well done. A very unique, almost Freudian, analysis of Lenin and what made him tick. It could be true he feared being responsible for himself, or it could be a case of him just being a lazy sh*thead who thinks he knows more than others and work is beneath him. Our universities are chock-full of those types. Or perhaps it's a blend of the two. One thing all these tinhorn dictators have in common is a love for the lifestyle of the rich and famous. Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Chavez, they all lived large while the rest of the country starved. It saddens me on one hand when kids who just flat out don't know any better wear Che tee-shirts and spout slogans based on Marxist nonsense because they think Che was a hero and Marx was a prophet. What pisses me off is when a U.S. city like Seattle allows a statue of a monster like Lenin to be erected but would tear down a statue of Lincoln if some BLM group or white-haired afro sporting TV revolutionary called for its removal. I found the stuff Volkogonov had to say about Lenin to be quite interesting. I had never heard of the guy before but I took a peak at his background and I'm going to find out more about him. It appears that he had a large set of balls and wasn't afraid to call a commie rat a commie rat. Maybe I'll try to read his book but to be honest, I tried reading a book on Stalin written by a Russian and man, that guy really had a laborious method of writing. Ya had to really be up on who was who in the zoo to get what he was saying and not being big on members of the central committee of 1920 and first Soviet congress I was lost, and bored. Anyway, maybe I'll try Volkogonov. Cool vid. Thanks for posting.
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  327. An interesting take on the after affect's of the war and the role nationalism played in European politics then and now. As an American, I look at the war through a different lens since outside of Pearl Harbor, my nation didn't experience the long conflict at the at the ground level. There was no battle for New York and at the end of the day we came out of both wars stronger than when we went in. But then we picked up the mantle of world management for lack of better term and spent a lot of blood and treasure on matters that 100 years earlier would not have concerned us. The shadow of both wars does spread far and wide. As for the fate of nationalism moving forward, I believe it is being replaced by a form of global corporatism. National identities are being submerged into global markets and the new alliances between corporate entities and state-run government's is altering the way people look at each other and to a large extent how future conflicts will unfold and be fought. There may be a time when large armies roam the countryside again, grabbing up resources along the way, but not before the age of the technocrat has run its course. The world is linked in a unique way where the old rules not only do not apply, most have been scrubbed from the national consciousness. Strange times indeed.
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  328. Gee, I didn't see any of this happening. It didn't take long for the right-wing conspiracy stuff to come spewing out. Hell, 80% of em still think the right-wing whacked JFK. Facts are like kryptonite to lefties. And hey Ted, how about a bit more than a sternly worded soundbite on Fox. I expect this kind of crap out Lindsay-sugar-britches. I thought they grew em a bit tougher in Texas. They did when I lived there. Where is our outrage? We need a wartime consigliere. These people are bats*^t nutz and I'd like to see someone on the side of the angels rise up in righteous indignation.
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  329. I remember those hearings where Clearance Thomas was raked over the coals and the image that has stayed with me all these years is Ted Kennedy sitting in judgement over him, accusing Justice Thomas, one of the greatest legal minds to sit on the bench of the Supreme Court of being a shallow, manipulative, sexist. Get that? We're talking about Ted F***in Kennedy passing judgement on another man over his alleged exploitation of women! Let that roll around your brain. Better yet, ask Mary Jo about it. Oh yeah, you can't. I'm telling ya, you couldn't even sell a script like that in Hollywood. Only in democratic America. Gaslighting and projection is a central part of the comunis...I mean democratic party platform. It plays just as critical a role in them hanging onto power as their plantation system does. I know because I have friends and family who still buy their BS and they ask me why I'm a republican. I have to remind them that I'm not. I just hate the democrats more than the republicans is all because they are bats**t crazy and want to tear the place down and rebuild it in their twisted dystopian image. The democrats caused the first civil war and their shenanigans will be at the root of the second. Sound extreme? Well, so did the idea that a boy could be a girl just a couple years ago. Here's an exercise you can try with your liberal friends. Have them list the positive changes democratic policies have made in the black community since the inception of LBJ's great society and then have them list the names of reasonable comunis...I mean democratic politicians. Then, compare the two and see which list is longer. If they're being honest about it, the exercise should be a pretty quick brain teaser and shouldn't require more than a half page of paper. I have wished for years that the black community would realize how badly they are being duped by these racialists who, as Candace points out, see them as nothing more than chattel. Kind of like how the republican party views conservatives but that's a conversation for another video. Very well put young lady. I wondered about your sincerity early on but you're okay. Keep up the good fight.
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  330.  @kimobrien.  How do you define imperialism?
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  331.  @kimobrien.  I see. So you wouldn't characterize a country like the Soviet Union as imperialist, even though they enforced political systems on their neighbors backed up by military force? Or does imperialism only apply to free-market expansion? Just asking because it seems to me, based on your definition, that it is limited to economic aims, not political. Also, are you saying power now resides with nations formerly referred to as third-world, such as those in Africa? Just asking for a bit of clarification.
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  332.  @denisecantrell3198  Thank you and God Bless.
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  333. He'll run. Who else does Obama have willing to play Manchurian Candidate for him? Harris? She's the only person people are more sick of than Uncle Joe. They'll get their clock's cleaned in 22, 24, and maybe 26, but they'll begin their comeback in 28 and by the time of the 2032 election they'll be set to put what they hope will be the final nail in the national coffin, paving the way for the great reset of 2036.
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  334. Hale Bopp was the King Kong of comets, coming in at 18 miles across. I remember looking at it with my step-daughter using the telescope we bought her for Christmas the year before. I told her you will likely never see anything like this again so take it in and appreciate it. I was in Hawaii when Haley's Comet came by and I've got to say it was a wimp compared to Hale Bopp. That truly was a sight to behold.
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  335.  @kimobrien.  Wow...just wow comrade. Power to the people right on and all of that...ya got me. Long live the dialectic.
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  336. I'm gonna see it this week because I like westerns and I'm okay with epics because when I was coming up they weren't outliers. It's an ongoing story so I'm okay with some things being unresolved and with a bit of disjointedness. I'll reserve judgement until I see how good a job part two does putting it together. Besides, it pissed off all the right people who were crying about Costner not glamorizing the noble Indian enough and not painting the white man as the devil. "This is 2024 for f-s sake they cry out." Okay, that alone will bring me in. We'll see how it goes but the trailer I saw in the theater a while back looked cool, the kind of film you want to see on the big screen. I mean, I know it's not Barbie but not every film can be a cinematic masterpiece for the ages.
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  337. It's wrong to dismiss the power of vague promises. Politicians have a habit of making them and the ones who lay out a specific plan tend to lose because it paints them into corners and gives their opponents a platform to pick apart. Roosevelt was extremely vague about what his economic plans were in 1932 and he won in a landslide. Why? Because voters get more riled up about voting against something or someone than they do about voting for something or someone. Hitler, or someone like him, was inevitable because the idea that Germany had been betrayed and was being held down had been ingrained into the national psyche. German voters didn't have a crystal ball and it's always easier to see warning signs after an event occurs than before they happen. But the real lesson from Nazi Germany is that people will most always sacrifice freedom for security. COVID proved that rule is still valid. I believe the 2030s will be similar to the 1930s but I'm afraid the courage of men will fail this time around even more spectacularly than it did then. The beaches have been sufficiently softened and notions about liberty and traditional values are seen as arcane and mocked as relics of the past. The progressive utopia being pushed by the current crop of globalist elites has no room for such antiquated ideas and the infrastructure for dealing with subversives is already up and running. Free speech is hate speech and misinformation. Christian worship is white nationalism. Up is down, truth is subjective, morality is relative. But we have our creature comforts. And as long as we have those we are less apt to give a damn one way or another what happens to our neighbor. While we were busy looking out for 1984 they slipped a Brave New World in on us. And not too many want to take that red pill. Old republics never die, they just fade away.
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  338. For me anyway, the damage the powers-that-wanna-be did with the COVID scare is something I am having a very hard time forgiving. I live in a 55+ community and I witnessed the damage first-hand. Again, this is just my take on it, the whole fear epidemic is a byproduct of two things, the ascendency of the expert-class and the descendance of our faith in God. As this video points out, follow "The Science," is the mantra of the new spirit of the age. We have lost our way and allowed evil to take root, and evil thrives where fear abounds.
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  339. Gettysburg is one of my favorite war movies. I saw it in the theater and looked over at the three-hour mark to find my wife asleep. That is why it couldn't be made today. Hollywood doesn't make epics anymore. Instead, you get biopics like Elvis that try and put cram a lifetime and an era into a two-hour package. Is that an acknowledgment of today's shortened attention span? Maybe. But the days of Ben-Hur, Gone with the Wind, the 10 Commandments, Gettysburg, and even the Lord of the Rings is over, and that is too bad because those are the truly great films, not some overrated film like Citizen Kane (but that is a discussion for another day). Anyway, Gettysburg gives a balanced account. Siskel gave it a thumbs down because in his world any film that didn't depict slave-holders as beasts rather than human beings was verboten. I especially like the Sgt. Kilrain character, played beautifully by Kevin Conway. Being Irish myself, I am aware of the number of Irish immigrants who fought on both sides, not for a specific cause as much as proving they were true citizens in the new world. To that point they were treated only slightly better than the blacks. That conversation between Kilrain and Chamberlain, where Conway explains his motives in simple terms is one of my favorite parts. I have heard from historians that the movie inflates Chamberlain's exploits but I don't know enough of the specifics to debate that. I do think it let's Lee off the hook a bit. Lee took a tremendous gamble, one he didn't have to take, and it was to a large degree ego-driven. Lee had begun to believe his own press clippings at that point in the war and thought his Army of NV had some divine power. Pickett never forgave Lee for ordering that charge and when the old man died a few years later, Pickett was noticeably absent, the only high-ranking officer who didn't visit Lee on his deathbed or attend his funeral. Meade comes off as a secondary character in all of it and I guess that's better than what historians have done to him over the years. Lincoln was furious that Meade didn't chase Lee down and finish his army off once and for all and for a lot of historians that puts Meade into the same timid basket as McClelland, just another general Lincoln had to fire. But the northern troops were beat all to hell after Gettysburg. Even if they had the energy to chase Lee, whose to say what would have happened if they had caught up with them? Lee might have been able to pick ground more suitable to him and finished off the job he started. Lincoln had a keen sense for what needed to be done to win the war but in that case Meade did the right thing. To say otherwise is a counterfactual. Anyway, Gettysburg is a very accurate telling. There are a few out there like Tora-Tora-Tora, the recent version of Midway, and The Lost Battalion that get things mostly right. No movie is ever 100% true to the facts. Where history-based movies are concerned, there is the book the movie is based on, the movie itself, and the truth. They don't generally line up but if it's a good story that is mostly honest, it's worth the watch. Gettysburg is in that camp. Nice review. Thanks for posting.
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  340. As the crusty old Chief explained to me early on in my military career: "We defend democracy, we don't practice it." Ain't no fun when the rabbit's got the gun also applies here.
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  341. If you want to know what democrats are up to listen to what they accuse the other side of doing. As for understanding the founding documents and the intent of the founding fathers, joe biden is precisely what they tried to prevent when they set up the Federalist System. The thing is, he is doing what obama hired him to do as VP, which was attack people and use outlandish language as he does it (remember they'll put ya'all back in chains?) He lacks the cognitive skills to do anything on his own. Outside of Woodrow Wilson after he had his stroke, what other president has needed his wife to hold onto him the way this guy does? He delivers a dark message because him and everyone around him has a dark soul. I spent the majority of my adult life defending this country so when I hear a no good grifter who has only asked what his country can do for him and his gangster family threaten me with F-15's it sickens me. obama selected this guy to stand in for him while he serves his third term in the shadow because he would be the easiest to control. But it's now clear even to him that biden's decaying mind won't make it to the finish line. They are going to let the guy make more crazy speeches and then use it as justification for using the 25th Amendment come January. obama needs a scapegoat anyway for the butt-stomping they are going to take in the midterm elections and what better guy to throw under the bus than a guy who won't even be aware that he is being tossed. They'll pay off the wife to keep her silent and maybe throw the kid to the republicans for the theater. obama will have a harder time getting a fourth term with harris and mayor pete on the ticket in 2024 and that is why they are muddying up Trump as best they can now. I wish DeSantis could be the nominee in 2024 because then the communists would be forced to run on their record. But Trump is hell-bent on making another run and his fanbase won't allow anyone else in. With Trump they get to run on personalities. Trump fires up their base like no one else and will keep it within the margin of cheating in the swing states. That is my fear. Four more years of obama and yes we can will just about do the place in. God help us.
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  342. I'm not sure what motivates the guy but ya gotta give props to a guy who thinks a black-hole swallowed an airliner and then has the chutzpah to call anyone a conspiracy theory nut. When I was working with adult learners, we used to call that being ignorant and proud, and even then, we had to give the terminally stupid their due for mastering the art of cognitive dissonance. Way to go don, way to go.
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  343. "Where's the money?" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣"I think this will instill some responsibility in Congress and give them motivation to get something done." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Yer killing me. I'm gonna stop there. I thought this was a news piece, not a standup routine. Congress acting responsibly 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Finding the stolen cash 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Why not look for DB Cooper and his backpack. Your chances of solving that riddle are a helluva lot higher.
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  344.  @Cautionary_Tale_Harris  You're right. I mean, him and his girlfriend seem to be such responsible, stand up young people. It has to be one big misunderstanding, just some accounting error. Northing to see here.
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  345. The useful idiots never get it. They think somehow they will be spared when they are loading the boxcars and setting up the camps. Ask the party members who helped Stalin come to power how that little game is played. The people who excuse these calls for death are the same ones who criticize a movie like Sound of Freedom. Their souls are poisoned. The thing, is, when the ultimate roll call is held, they will find out that their buddy Satan hates them with an even deeper passion than he does those who stand against him. But hey, hate on. All the same, I'll be praying for ya. I guess that's where we differ, isn't it?
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  346.  @gregr.9547  And their motto: "If it ain't broke, we'll fix it till it is." 👍
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  347. Her husband said she needed to find her pipeline to joy or the family doesn't function. Sorry, maybe I'm just the old coot in the room but there seems to be this strain of narcissism that has taken root with young women around her age that wasn't there before. It used to be they wanted to be treated as equal to men in all things. Then they wanted to better than men in all things. Now they want affirmation that they are better than men in all things. It's the same with the alphabet crowd. It went from treating them with respect to a forced celebration of their choice in sex partners. And somebody thought it would be a good idea to put this girl in charge of selling beer to the NASCAR and high school football crowd? Sorry again Bud Light, you reaped what you sewed. There is no coming back. Bury the brand for a year or two then bring it back as Bubba's Best or something under a phony umbrella company and hope people don't notice. The world was waiting for a woke company to come along that they could take out to the wall and shoot. You chose to be the Eddie Slovik they were waiting for. Hope that gay social credit score was worth it.
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  348. “Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.” ― Mark Twain
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  349. I thought you struck a proper balance and showed that Hitler and the Nazi's used intrigue as their primary weapon. As Al Pacino puts it in his portrayal of Lucifer; "I'm the hand up Mona Lisa's skirt, the one you never see coming. Underestimated from day one." That is the lesson of history.
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  350. I remember an interview where she was asked about nudity on screen and if she would ever consider doing it. She said the idea appealed to her and as far as her tits went she was just waiting for the right role to come along where she could, "break those puppies out." She was in her hot prime at the time and didn't seem to have any problem with the whole exploitation angle then. It's like that girl from the AT&T adds complaining about men commenting on her tits. Take a look at the You Tube videos she was making before she landed the AT&T gig and you will see her reference her busty appearance and even simulate going down on a faucet. I'm not saying people's views can't evolve, but don't try and get on a high moral horse before you properly dismount the lower horse you used to ride. That's called being consistent.
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  351. It would be nice if people studied up on the candidates and ballot initiatives before voting but that takes time and due diligence, something the majority of Americans aren't willing to invest. At the same time, the gene pool of candidates gets weaker, swampier, and more incestuous with each generation. Most times people aren't voting for a candidate, they are voting against their opponent. I have tried to avoid that practice but the level of craziness the democrats have reached since obama's election in 2008 has forced me to make survival votes along those lines. Unfortunately, all the republicans seem capable of is taking their foot off the accelerator, slowing down rather than stopping the decay. Nobody has the political will to apply the brakes and stop the bus from going off the edge of the cliff. It's now a matter of do you want to run or do you want to walk off the thing, but one or another you're going over. As for term limits, they would have been great if they had been written into the Constitution at its inception but now, no way would that amendment gain any traction.
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  352. This why we can't have nice things.
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  353. I was in Barnes and Nobel a while back and this kid, maybe late teens, early 20s, was looking through the rows of vinyl LP's. He saw that I had a CD in my hand and he told me: "You know, albums have superior sound quality." As someone who came of age in the 1960s I just kinda smiled and said; really? You can tell people anything. I was an early adopter to CD's. I remember calling my brother a dinosaur for hanging onto his turntable. I sold mine and the few albums I had at that time the first time I heard a CD, convinced LP's were deader than fried chicken. Then I bought a new car a couple years ago and the technology I thought would never go away had...well gone away. I still have an extensive CD library but I also had to sign up for a streaming service if I wanted music in my car. I went with Spotify. They have a helluva collection and I'm satisfied for the most part. I will hit a dead spot though every now and again on a road trip and it is a pain the ass having to pull over to switch to a different playlist. Ce La Vie. I still listen to my CD's. And I will until I kick off.
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  354. You know something, I have done a lot of research on this topic. I've read everything from Rush to Judgment to Case Closed, the entire Warren Report, loads of declassified documents, and I've gone back to the archives and listened to live accounts from that day, radio and TV coverage from a variety of sources, newspaper coverage and the like. I've visited Dealey Plaza a few times, etc. etc. I went into it a conspiracy guy and I came out convinced it was a three time loser with a $13.00 mail order rifle and a $6,00 scope. Roughly $20.00 to kill a president, a little more than $200.00 in today's inflated market. Were facts hidden, you betcha. Who did the hiding? Primarily LBJ, Hoover, and Bobby Kennedy. LBJ hid information because he was afraid of igniting WWIII. RFK was trying to keep all the shenanigan's he and his brother were pulling using covert ops, especially in Cuba a secret. He admitted a couple years later that they were more energetic than wise in a lot of areas, especially Cuba, and that they paid a terrible price for it. That's a paraphrase but he said that. Hoover didn't want the extent of the FBI's involvement with Oswald revealed and he certainly didn't want people thinking they dropped any balls. It was all CYA. The creator makes the claim that the CIA was out running all kinds of assassination plots without any authorization, like a rogue elephant. Thank Frank Church and the Camelot myth makers like Schlesinger for that nonsense. Richard Helm told the HSCA members that if that's how they thought the CIA operated they really didn't understand the way things work. Frank Church had presidential ambitions of his own and he admitted that him and his hack committee were not there to besmirch the reputation of past presidents. That's code for I'm afraid of the Kennedy's. When Helm was pressed about whether or not JFK knew about assassination plots he simply said, the CIA acts at the discretion of the president. Ike actually started the CIA down its activist path. But while facts are stubborn things they don't sell books or movie tickets. Believe what you want, but if you think I'm the one being duped, I would love to ply poker with you sometime.
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  355. Amen. When Hollywood started recycling 60s TV shows I knew it was the beginning of a bad trend. I saw The Beverly Hillbillies movie and that was enough for me. Now I guess Lost in Space has two interracial kids because...well Mr. Robinson must be okay with Mrs. Robinson stepping out...twice at least. I dunno, I haven't watched it. I ran up against a similar mindset when I was a musician. The artsy-fartsy crowd looked down their noses at me because I loved The Beatles. Too commercial they'd say. Then they'd run some Yoko Ono style avant-garde bullshit at me and call me a cretin who just didn't get it because I told em it was shit. Oh well, the Age of Stupid is tough to deal with sometimes. Great commentary Drinker.
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  356. Man, this thing is like the crew of the Titanic having radar saying: "The hell with what's on that screen, I feel like hitting the damn thing because it just needs to be hit. Someone should have hit that f***in iceberg years ago and by God we are going to be that someone." I get the ruse, put out the black lady, call any attack racist, and create a built-in reason for the disaster, the bigots and haters. It just seems to me, if the people at Amazon who are in charge of marketing this thing had half an ounce of self-awareness they would have started from the premise that their production is a story of fantasy based on their views and that while the retelling may not appeal to Tolkien's fanbase because of differences between it and the written works they hope people will give it a fair viewing for what is and judge it on that, a stand-alone entity based on the world of Tolkien but not necessarily of the world of Tolkien. At least then you disarm the traditionalists to a degree and at the same time acknowledge the thing was never built for them. It is aimed at Gen-Z and fellow travelers more interested in subtexts and messaging than storytelling which only acts as a backdrop, something to keep the kiddies coming back. It will no doubt flop with die-hard Tolkien fans but it may do quite well with that younger generation who don't hold Tolkien and his stories in the same regard. But they are playing a dangerous game getting nasty with that Tolkien fanbase because now it is not that group who are coming off as the bullies, it's the producers of the series and the half famous actors they plucked off the casting couch to act in the thing, not the traditional Tolkien fanbase who have simply expressed an opinion. At the end of the day, nobody likes a bully. So why set yourself up to be one? Perhaps it was just how they were raised.
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  357. And they are the marginalized, oppressed group. They are a bunch of flippin light-in-the-loafer tyrants. Yes we can...right? How's that working out for the majority of people who are fed up with this crap? Just askin.
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  358. I remember watching the TV the day Apollo 11 landed with my carboard LEM next to me thinking how cool, by the time I'm an astronaut we'll be going to Mars. Well, neither of those things happened but it's cool to hear from a guy who was involved with that flight and went to the Moon himself. I see some landing deniers or whatever they call themselves have commented here. It's a free country I suppose. I got a kick out of Buzz Aldrin giving one of em a good sock in the jaw. Not because it helped adjust the guys pee-sized brain or anything, it was just funny as hell and yes, the guy had it coming to him.
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  359.  @TheAdvertisement  Thank you for taking the time to read them. Sometimes I provide more detail than people want to be concerned with but it's a topic I spent a lot of time reading on and researching over the years. I first became interested when A&E ran The Men Who Killed Kennedy series. That peaked my curiosity and I initially went in on the conspiracy side. I read books like Six Seconds in Dallas, Best Evidence, The Killing of the President and On the Trail of the Assassins. Then I had a discussion with a very smart history professor who's opinion I respected and she told me to read Case Closed by Gerald Posner. That got me started down a different path and after that I read that book, The Warren Report and a lot of the source material that was released as a result of the JFK Records Act. The Mary Ferrell website was free at that time and it was a great resource for those declassified documents. Unfortunately a lot of that stuff is behind a pay wall now or has been taken down for one reason or another but it's still a good website. I also listened to the live radio broadcasts from that day. David von Pein has a very good JFK channel on YT if you want to hear the event as it happened. Most people ignore that but events in real-time, while they contain some inaccuracies, hold up well. Memories fade and some people change their story for various reasons so it's good to hear what actually happened. I also went to Dealey Plaza a couple times and when you actually stand behind the picket fence you realize that theory is highly flawed, and that's being generous. My boss actually lived next door to Robert Oswald for many years but he said the topic of the assassination never came up. He said Bob, as he called him, was a good man. Robert pins all the trouble on the grand-dame of all conspiracies, their mother. She was NVTS nuts and as Robert said, if she was even a half-assed decent mother the world would have never heard of Lee Harvey Oswald. Like I say, I went in looking for a conspiracy, I came out with a three-time-loser and a $19.00 mail-order rifle, a guy who idolized Castro and was trying to win favor with him in an attempt to get to his socialist heaven on Earth. He acted alone. Was he egged on? Most likely. There are the three unaccounted for days he spent in Mexico City. Someone from the Cuban embassy may have riled him up. But Oswald was no more the kind of guy you would get involved with in an active conspiracy to assassinate a head of state than Jack Ruby was. Governments and the mob don't use unstable people for jobs like that a host of very good reasons. I know this is a long rant as well but there are polls that claim more than 85% of the country doesn't accept the Warren Report and most people believe Lee Harvey Oswald was part of a vast conspiracy. That needs to be challenged because the truth is under assault all over the place and the truth matters above all else. As John Adams said: "Facts are stubborn things." If Occam's Razor ever applied to any individual or any event, it applies here.
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  360.  @phonicwheel933  NVTS, a shout out to the movie by Mel Brooks, History of the World Part I. Mel is a comedian in ancient Rome and his agent tells him: "You gotta be NVTS nuts!" The Romans used V in place of U. I love that line. 😁
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  361. No special prosecutor would ever drop a case because of the money spent on these BS investigations, the agenda's that drive them, and the ego's of the prosecutors. Yeah, you're going to get a fair trial in a D.C. court if you have an R in front of your name. I guess maybe you'll get the same kind of fair trial they used to have in Moscow when their Uncle Joe was going after the reactionary elements within his ranks. D.C. is broken beyond repair. The only chance this republic has is if we make the 10th Amendment great again. Our founders set up a system where states rights mattered. I don't know what you'd call the system we have today but it sure ain't federalism. We live in a post-constitutional society and our only shot at relief is at the state level now. Unfortunately, the last time the states were this polarized...well, to borrow from Paul Harvey you know the rest of that story. God help us.
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  362. "Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.”
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  363. The breadcrumb trail is not hard to follow. And because most American's can't be bothered the-powers-that-be aren't terribly concerned about hiding it or their intentions. You've got a Marxist outfit like the Southern Poverty Law Center getting to decide who is a right-wing extremist and a Justice Department so thoroughly corrupted they are more than happy to sic the FBI on such extreme dangerous groups. You know, like people who attend traditional Catholic Masses. Why? Must be all that hate speech coded in Latin. The rainbow fascists throw around terms like genocide to describe what is happening to them, even though there are more than 150 days dedicated to that wicked cult. obama has his puppet hanging their demonic pagan flags right along side the American flag at the White House at the same height. You've got biden's handlers telling him to make the sign of the cross at abortion rally's and who could forget his speech in front of that deep red background where he declared anyone who didn't agree with him a threat to democracy. When she was running for president, the wicked queen of the Ozarks whose name shall not be uttered here came straight out and said people of faith were just going to have to park their faith at the curb in order for the progressive agenda to be implemented. She still goes around calling anyone who disagrees with her a Nazi. They don't hide their plans because they know they don't have to and they believe every word they say. State-run media backs their play and bureaucrats within law enforcement and other agencies who are more concerned about protecting their pensions than they are about upholding the oath they swore to protect and defend the Constitution are more than willing to carry out whatever orders they are given. I'm not saying people on the right should start thinking and behaving like anarchists or BLM storm-troopers but we need to stop automatically assuming everyone in the military or law enforcement is a good guy and a hero by default. The whole "back the blue" concept has always been a central tenant of conservatism. Again, to be clear, I'm not saying we should stop supporting military personnel and first responders but we need to be more discerning and stop assuming that just because somebody wears a uniform that they share our values and will always have our best interests in mind. Regular Germans loaded the trains and made sure they arrived at their destination. I'm not saying the trains are going to be running anytime soon but history teaches us that when it comes to doing the right thing people don't have a great track record. Does all that sound extreme? Sure, but 10-years ago the idea a man would be allowed to compete with women in college sports and grown men would be allowed to pee next to six-year old girls simply because they say they feel like a woman was a crackpot idea, a false slippery slope argument made by conspiracy-minded right-wingers whose homophobia was crushing the souls of people who just wanted to experience love like everyone else. They would never target a specific baker who didn't want to participate in their charade because of his religious objections again, and again, and again, and again, force him to bake wedding cakes for them as a warning to others. That was more right-wing conspiracy stuff. The idea that they would target people and ruin them financially in a very public manner as an intimidation tactic was just ridiculous. Until it wasn't. Yeah, this is another of my lengthy posts but some things can't be said in 240 characters or less. They are bringing howitzers to gun fights while we keep showing up with the Constitution, expecting them to behave in a civil fashion. They have no intention of engaging in a debate with you, civil or otherwise, over the first amendment. They hate the document and all it stands for and they are in the process of putting a new world order into place to replace one they see as repressive and out-of-date. This is coming from a guy who is probably the furthest away from the tin-foil hat crowd as anyone. But I can read. I can hear. And I can connect dots. People generally mean what they say, unless they are republicans. Just be advised, the people who have been aiming at changing the way this republic operates have been doing so for more than 100 years and they believe they are entering the end-game. Can you blame them? They think they are close. Where are the rest of us? Inquiring minds want to know.
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  364. Didn't the bartender put on one of her famous drama queen performances a couple years ago at the border, claiming she felt threatened because a couple guards shot her mean looks or something during one of her protests against America? This is what happens when you elect a spoiled brat who behaves like a middle-school mean girl to get attention. In a saner time this child would have never been elected to the house or any other position that matters but unfortunately we don't live in a saner time. Can you imagine the tantrum that kid would have thrown if someone even shot her a cross look at a restaurant? The place would be boycotted and calls for a house investigation would have been put out by her army of Twitter bots.
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  365. I have been referring to this allegory for a long time now to explain how our culture has devolved and how the role of critical thinking is not only diminished, it's discouraged. Social media has really accelerated this process. People are consumed with pithy soundbites that are shared and attract likes. It's the great distraction, the modern day wall of the cave. The powers that be, the ones pushing the great reset are more than happy to let people engage in the food fight going on in the Twitterverse. It keeps their eyes off the prize. This saddens me. I'm not ancient but I'm no spring chicken so I won't be around to see the real carnage. This is only the beginning. I do my best to encourage people to step beyond the cave but nobody really listens. I'm not trying to place myself on some kind of pedestal as someone who has all the answers, and who knows maybe it's me, maybe I'm the one who doesn't get it? Maybe I'm just as hung up on my own cave wall. But I do know this, truth has been relegated to the back of the bus for now anyway, and I have always been someone who seeks the truth, however uncomfortable that may be. Some people want to leave the cave, but like it was in Plato's time, too many do not. But I'll stay at it, Father Mackenzie, writing the words to a sermon that no one will hear. I'll do what I can and pray for us all. Lord knows we need it.
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  366. More than 100 million people died during the 20th Century as a result of that failed ideology yet there are still people in academia who spout its virtues. They do so because for them it is their only path to power. Unfortunately, we have a generation coming of age who have no memory of the wickedness of the USSR. Instead, they hear college professors and politicians spout a new brand of marxism under the guise of social justice and listen to Hollywood types like Sean Penn, Roger Stone, and Michael Moore sing the praises of hell-holes like Cuba and Venezuela. In the meantime, American corporations and politicians get cuddly with the Chi-Coms who continue to engage in genocide on a massive scale. And people erect statues to Lenin while they tear down statues of Jefferson. May God have mercy on us all.
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  367. The Army Air Force had the highest casualty rate of any branch during WWII and The 8th Air Force lost more men than the Marine Corps. Hap Arnold wasn't mentioned much in this talk but he was one of the greatest generals the US has ever produced. I was fortunate enough to meet several aircrew members from WWII during my time in the USAF and the stories they told were quite captivating. My friend's dad for instance eluded the Nazi's for more than a month in Yugoslavia after being shot down and was able to make it back to Britain. I never knew that until he shared it with me after I joined the service. It's like I used to tell the young troops I worked with, once you are a member of the fraternity other Vets will open up to you in ways they often won't with other's, including their family members. Their numbers are dwindling so if you are ever blessed to have an opportunity to speak with a WWII Vet take advantage of it. Some stories will break your heart but they will all provide inspiration. One of my proudest accomplishments while I served was working with a variety of groups to raise funds for the WWII Memorial. I finally got to see it when I lived near DC and it is impressive. I encourage everyone to take your kids and grandkids to the DC memorial and The Arizona Memorial and let them experience a bit of the greatest generation. And if you haven't already, you should read Dr. Hanson's book on The Second World Wars. It's a bit wonky at points bit it is very well researched and expertly presented. A smart guy that's for sure.
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  368. In order to win a battle you must start by understanding the nature of the enemy you are up against and the landscape of the battlefield. This is spiritual warfare. I know not everyone will see it that way, but no other generation of Americans has ever faced a situation where reality itself is at play. But then again, no previous generation has turned their back on God the way this one has. No previous generation of men have abdicated their traditional role as leader in the home and outside of it in such mass numbers. This has always been Satan's domain and we are no match for him. For those who dismiss that, at least think about the good that comes from a culture rooted in a Judeo-Christian value system. Benjamin Franklin did and he stated that such a value system is a stabilizing force for good on the societal level. Outside of Thomas Paine who was a full-blown atheist, Franklin was probably the most irreligious thought leaders of the American Revolution. Even Richard Dawkins is saying the west needs Christianity to straighten the ship. We will only get out of this mess if we return to God. That has to be step one. Want to protect your kids? Start by being involved in their lives in a meaningful way. Attend church and live the way God wants us to. There is an old saying that states the family that prays together stays together. There is a lot of truth in that. As someone who fell down in that regard and paid a heavy price I speak from experience. Have a genuine relationship with your kids and be a leader, a mentor, and a teacher. If you don't someone will. Kids want boundaries. It lets them know you care enough to set them. Stand up to teachers and school boards if you can't afford any option outside of public education. Be brave and trust in God. St. Paul wrote about what happens when you try to handle things your own way, when you try to live a life based on your will: "The wrath of God is indeed being revealed from heaven against every impiety and wickedness of those who suppress the truth by their wickedness. For what can be known about God is evident to them, because God made it evident to them. Ever since the creation of the world, His invisible attributes of eternal power and divinity have been able to be understood and perceived in what He has made. As a result, they have no excuse; for although they knew God they did not accord Him glory as God or give Him thanks. Instead, they became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened. While claiming to be wise, they became fools...Therefore, God handed them over to impurity through the lusts of their hearts for the mutual degradation of their bodies...Their females exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and the males likewise gave up natural relations with females and burned with lust for one another. Males did shameful things with males and thus received in their own persons the due penalty for their perversity. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God handed them over to their undiscerning mind to do what is improper." ― Romans 1: 18-28. Even if you don't believe, you can't deny the veracity of Paul's words. That's todays culture in a nutshell. So again, know your enemy and understand you cannot defeat him on your own. We aren't powerless, but we have to want God's help. Otherwise as C.S. Lewis put it, He will say to us; "Your will be done."
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  369. I like ya Tucker but trust me, ANYONE who works in the upper echelon of Disney is political. You can't ahead in that company and make it that high without being a hard core leftie or a pliable simp which seems to be the camp this guy falls into. But make no mistake. He would not be where he is in that company if he was a Christian or even an agnostic who held traditional values and beliefs. His public Maoist-like apology and acquiescence to the politburo at Disney was just another day ending in Y over there. Disney was snatched up by the agents of Satan a long time ago and has been running a demonic agenda for years. I saw it as early as the 90s and have been saying it ever since. I'm no prophet, I just don't have a disposition where I give people the benefit of the doubt simply because. Disney is as arrogant as their master. They could care less if they lost every dime they have. They're not in it for the money and if they get run out of Florida they will simply wear that as a badge of honor, martyr's for the cause. It's a religion Tucker, a demonic cult. They could give two %^&$# about failing because they have a larger goal in mind, one that has nothing to do with profits and losses. Do I sound crazy? Answer this, can a guy really be a girl just by saying so? If you answer yes to that one, I don't give a rats #$%* about your opinion of my sanity. If you answered no to that question, please point out where I'm wrong. I imagine this post is headed to the You Tube scrap pile once the digital hall monitors get a hold of it but if it lasts long enough for anyone to find it, wake up folks. This battle isn't new. The demons are just getting more brazen because like their master they know their time is short.
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  370. Well Herta didn't know how to build rockets or spy on the Soviets. I'm not making a judgement one way or another on her guilt or the punishment she received, just making a point that after the war, a lot of dirt-bags who should swung in Germany and Japan got off and even prospered because they were useful. But in the end, everyone is called to make an account of their life. That's what I believe and that's why Hell exists, people self-select to go there.
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  371. There never really has been a conservative movement. There have been two presidents, Calvin Coolidge and Ronald Reagan who could be be considered conservative. That said, both enacted laws and policies which could hardly be considered conservative, like tariffs and massively increasing the debt. But the actual downfall of the conservative movement as defined by Reagan began with his successor, george the first. Newt put a bandage on the wound inflicted by bush but then george the second ripped that bandage off with his guns and butter spending and bailouts for institutions that had no business being bailed out. The betrayal of the tea party candidates twisted the knife and then Trump came along and put was left of the movement on life support. There is very little resembling even a sham movement anymore. It's been described as an industry and that is a better term for it. We are in the age of celebrity politics and click bait journalism. The right embraces these high profile defectors because ever since obama they have craved media stars of their own. Trump is running a campaign completely on that notion, bragging about polls and how much he is loved while offering no actual solutions for anything. And what about us, the regular person who has tuned out all the noise and just wants to be left to their own devices? To worship God a raise a family without a bunch of interference from demented crackpots and demonic leaders? Well, as the man said, we have been made to care. A time for choosing. It's here, and it's real. Choose wisely because you're not likely to get too many more bites at the apple.
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  372. Once he found out that unlike normal clouds mushroom clouds aren't racist, the rear admiral decided the problem wasn't interesting enough for him to get involved with. Besides, that meant travelling and mayor pete couldn't bear the thought of leaving his friends behind.
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  373. Brando was a nutcase, one of the most difficult actors of his time. Duke on the other hand had a penchant for driving commie actors batshit for years, a man's man. As for the indian princess, why didn't her sisters blow the whistle on her earlier? It sounds like they didn't have much time for the attention seeking little bimbo. And yes, if you ride naked on the back of a horse for money you earn the title bimbo, regardless of ethnicity. That's the one thing about bimboism, it is an equal opportunity degrader.
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  374. As the old-fart in the room I hope Sound of Freedom makes independent films that tell great stories the new thing. But then you need to have great writers to have great stories I suppose. Sorry, movies based on video games, comic books, and dolls from the 1960s don't do much for me. There is still plenty of great history out there to mine but doing it correctly would require pretentious directors more interested in making movies full of whiz-bangs and statements to adapt and get out of their own way. I'm not sure this generation of filmmaker has it in em.
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  375. "None of these grand ideas really gel into a satisfying whole." Sounds like a review of my marriage Drinker. I'm with you on this one. I only watched it once when it made it to cable.
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  376. The left hasn't changed, he's just taken a while to realize what it is is.
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  377. Joint Chief's: "Mr. President, the Russians are getting ready to invade Ukraine. Are we going to hep em out?" Uncle Joe: "I don't know, the French are assholes."
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  378. I think it started with reality-TV. People saw that and thought they too could become famous if they only had the chance. Twitter, Tick Tock, and I suppose to a lesser extant, Facebook, gives people that opportunity. Twitter seems to be especially toxic. It's like the world's biggest reflective pool where the collective id goes to burp whatever inane thought happens to pop into someone's head at any given moment in time. I don't have a Twitter account so I am speaking from second-hand knowledge but it seems like Andy Warhol was right about that 15 minute thing. The problem is, most people would be better served if they stopped letting all those perfectly good opportunities to keep their mouth shut pass them by.
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  379. You Tube has taken down some of my comments and I'm nobody. The hall monitors are real and they are busy.
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  380. I saw a retired Blackbird years ago and it is an impressive aircraft to look at. But it was doomed from the start. Satellites were the future and the camera's kept getting better. In that sense the SR-71 was a bit like the battleship, another sturdy craft that got left behind during the technology wars of the 20th Century but a piece of history people still have a great deal of nostalgia for. All that aside, it was cool having a plane that could flat out haul-ass. Kind of like that sports car you may have had as a kid. You knew it was a blast to drive but eventually it would have to be traded in for a minivan once the Mrs. started having babies. Oh well, I can only imagine what flying at Mach-3 + must feel like. Hat-tip to all the folks who have been fortunate enough to experience it. Still, as an old C-130 crew chief I'll take my Herc and it's plodding turbo-prop engines any day. But then again I hear they crammed that beautiful bird with a buncha fly-by-wire technology as well. Oh well. Call me a knuckle-dragger but I miss the days when an aircraft mechanic was more than a box swapper and when planes like the Blackbird and the Herc had their own unique personalities.
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  381. Chomsky and the rest of the old school Soviet-style commies are either gone or so old nobody gives a damn what they think about anything. They have been replaced with guys like Neil deGrasse Tyson, celebrity scientists and the like who seem to believe because they know a bit about one thing and have been on TV their opinion on matters beyond their scope should be taken as seriously as they take themselves. Then you've got actual celebrities, like that bill nye character popping up on panel shows discussing everything from global warming to transgenderism while some empty headed TV host stares intently, hanging on their every word as if it was coming down from Mt. Sinai. I have a friend who was heading out to watch the total eclipse a couple years back and when I told him to be careful he said it was okay because the glasses he bought, maybe online, maybe at the gas station, had the bill nye seal of approval. I was going to laugh and ask him if he was serious but I didn't want the argument. Now he's a reasonably intelligent guy but he is definitely a man of the left and when he talks about settled science and the false efficacy of herd immunity, well he means every bit of it. We've been friends for close to 50 years and we just don't discuss politics, that's how we make it work. But he is of the mind that we would be much happier if we followed the lead of our better's, because by golly, they wouldn't hurt anyone, at least not intentionally. I'm telling you, it's a cult. It's a cult and no matter how much you try to persuade them, you are always wrong if you are one of the deplorables. Ce-la-vie.
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  382. Cool video. It helps explain the leftists comfort with cognitive dissonance. 1 + 1 = what I want it to equal is sort of like black people can be white supremacist's. The struggle is essential to all of it because it harnesses emotion. Transgenderism is an example of the use of emotion to perpetuate the struggle. It riles people up on all sides. Embrace the chaos as we used to joke when I was in the military. It's too bad most people invested in the cult won't get it or will choose not to acknowledge it. It is a religion. If you don't get that going in, you will never understand the emotions it elicits. Good job. Thumbs up on this one, it's one that ought to be shared.
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  383.  @DanC-go9lc  I have Brother's in Arms as well. Both of the Kennedy's were very reckless in their pursuit of people they saw as bad guys. Bobby Kennedy got Hoffa but the stunts he pulled to do it violated the man's constitutional rights in ways he most likely wouldn't get away with today. Hoffa was mobbed up but Kennedy played it so far over the top that people weren't overly concerned with the methods he used to put him away. JFK was not only reckless he was also an amateur in a lot of ways when it came to foreign affairs, even though he fancied himself a statesman. Khrushchev said he felt a bit sorry for him after the way he manhandled him during their summit in Vienna and that performance was the reason he thought he could get away with sending missiles to Cuba. The only reason he didn't leave any behind after the crisis was settled was because of the apocalyptic/nihilistic letter Castro sent him. That convinced him Castro was too much of a psychopath to be trusted with nuclear weapons of any magnitude in his general vicinity. The Camelot mythmakers like Sorensen and that party hack from Harvard Schlesinger painted Kennedy out to be someone who could have walked on water if he wanted but his humility wouldn't allow it. Eisenhower called him little boy blue. And Ike knew a bit about leadership.
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  384.  @martinm3422  He was hired six weeks before the motorcade took place. When he was hired they were still debating about whether or not to even include Dallas as part of the presidential visit. Connally and Johnson were dead set against it at that time. It was Kennedy who was pushing for it. He wanted to go there because he was chasing the money. Connally had to tell Kennedy to cool his jets because he wanted fund-raisers everywhere he went. There certainly was no plan in place to have a motorcade in Dallas when Oswald was hired.
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  385. Tulsi's running for something, I just haven't figured out what it is yet. Yer a bit late to the party Tulsi but it's nice to see you sticking it to em. Nothing rubs commies the wrong way as effectively as a defector. So does this make you an Aunt Tomette? 🤔If it does, wear it like a badge of honor and keep giving em the business.
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  386. I've enjoyed the other presidential interviews but this one was kind of a weak. The guy engages in speculation and doesn't seem to have a firm grasp of the information. I like the series though, maybe you can continue to do these types of shows in the future. Keep up the good work.
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  387. Hitler declared war on the U.S. for the simplest of reasons, it was what he wanted to do. He had it in his head that he was destined to lead Germany in a war against the democracies. It was always a matter when not if. In his way of thinking it made sense because they weren't just going to stand aside and let him conduct his war of annihilation against the Jews and other sub-humans while he grabbed living space in the East so why not get it on while the momentum was on his side. That was part of his destiny delusion as well.
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  388. They, and by they I mean the powers-that-be and their mouthpieces in state-run-media, are no longer afraid to say the quiet part out loud. They used to be a bit more subtle in their word appropriation but they believe they are on the ascendency, that their time has arrived so now you get terms like Christian nationalism tossed around and Christian nationalists are, by extension, threats to democracy, which now means equality for those the powers-that-be want to be equal. I heard some crackpot from some university, think-tank, or maybe it was The New York Times bemoaning the fact that there are people out there actually telling other people their rights don't come from government but from some transcendent God who according to her was as real as the Man on the Moon. The guy considered to be the thought leader for the WEF said he looked into a human corpse and could find no rights at all. Therefore, according to him rights didn't exist. No need to concern ourselves with where they come from I guess. But hey, March Madness is happening and gas dropped two cents last month so life is good. Rights? We don't need no stinking rights and words can mean whatever they need to mean at any given moment. We've always been at war with Eastasia.
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  389. Sam: "This Amazon Lord of the Rings show is a real stinker." Frodo: "Why do you always do that? Run it down that way?" Sam: "Because that's what it is Mr. Frodo. There's nothing in it but lies and deceit."
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  390. What conservative movement? What does that even mean anymore? What are we trying to conserve? Who's heading it up? This guy's only the latest. How many appearances has Bruce Jenner made on Fox wearing his falsies? Remember Fox? The news outlet that did the fluff piece on the loving family in Kalifornia who was having their kid customized at the local chop shop out there. Maybe the freedom caucus is heading the movement up. You remember those guys, or maybe you don't, maybe because there's not much there to remember. I've never been much for labels and until I went to college I didn't even know I was a conservative. That was many moons ago and President Reagan isn't telling Mr. Gorbachev to tear anything down. Sorry, but 90% of the movers and shakers within the conservative movement, whatever it is, are more interested in selling books and getting clicks. I'm not trying to be Debbie Downer here but let's stop kidding ourselves. What was left of the movement died with the betrayal of the Tea Party. If that didn't open your eyes, well then by all means, keep buying those books and owning the libs.
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  391. "We will never forgive you!!!!" Okay.
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  392. Discrimination is the best way to fight discrimination. Constitutional amendments based on race. An entire bureaucracy devoted to making sure people only practice the right sort of bigotry. How Nuremberg. Himmler would be proud. No wonder jesse was so upset when obama took over. He knew he would open the door for every amateur race pimp to f-up a good thing. Nobody will do anything about any of the money this guy or Buy Large Mansions stole from rich white people who just wanted to avoid being called names. To be 100% honest, I don't care. I don't care if they take every dime those woke corporations have at their disposal. The world would be a better place if most of them went the way of the dodo anyway.
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  393. No amount of money or loss of reputation/status, even employment, is worth your life. Sad.
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  394.  @stefanoseverini3133  Or more simply put, the lies we choose to believe? Of course, there are those who take it a step further and go beyond simply believing to living a lie. Those are the ones ya gotta watch, the true believers.
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  395. So, one of the themes that seems to run through the thoughts of these third way types as they call themselves is freedom is fine as long as it is subordinated to the needs of the state. Tranny's and the like exercising their rights are given as examples of individual rights harming the rights of the collective. Fair enough. But the alternative they are pitching certainly isn't any better. I see the way they flip the argument where individual liberty and free-market capitalism is concerned, and yes, I will concede that transgenderism as well as a host of other social contagions are harmful to society and shredding the social compact. But submitting your individual liberty to the state is hardly the answer. It has an Orwellian flavor to it, slavery is freedom, that sort of thing. One thing is certain, history has shown the application of their ideology is just as deadly as the application of communism and capitalism, for all its flaws, has freed more people and saved more lives than those other failed systems. That's just a fact, and facts as John Adams famously said: "Are stubborn things."
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  396. Give me the good old days of The Grinch and Charlie Brown's Christmas any day. Man, do I pity the kids of this generation.
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  397. It's not really my kind of thing so I doubt I would have watched it anyway but it's always enjoyable listening to the Drinker. Without a doubt, the sharpest analysis on movies available. I don't always agree with him but he uses language the same way Carlin used to, and that makes pretty much anything he produces worth the trip.
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  398. Our founders understood that the system they created was uniquely suited to the people of this nation. That fundamental truth was lost on leaders of the 20th and 21st Century and we paid a price we should not have because of it. “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” ― John Adams
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  399. The man posited that the nuttiness seems to be happening more in the English speaking countries of the west. That is certainly true. If you look at it from a spiritual perspective it's spelled out in Romans 1, being given over to a depraved mind. From a secular vantage point, I think it comes down to people no longer taking their role as citizen's seriously. In the past, there were threats that were perceived as being existential in nature. Since the 60s, we have drifted further left, including the rise of the libertarian movement on the right side of the spectrum. Social issues weren't seen as existential in nature, it was all live and let live. There is a price to be paid for that and this generation is picking up the tab. Crazy ideas that used to percolate in the fringes of academia were allowed to escape, like a virus. People gave everything over to the experts and politicians. How's that working out? Just askin.,
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  400. Not only is she an ideologue, she's an ignorant, stupid person. The questions she asks the attorneys arguing before the court and her willingness to buy into left-wing conspiracies illustrate that. Now we have a justice who claims she doesn't know what a woman is. When I was in the first grade, an inability to answer that question would have earned you an additional year in the first grade. Now, it earns you a promotion to the SCOTUS. And her qualifications? She was a black woman. That's it. And that's not me being a hateful white man. I'm just repeating what biden said he was looking for in a SCOTUS justice. Welcome to America in its early stages of collective dementia. We are under Divine judgement. That is a fact you deny at your own peril.
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  401. I saw a documentary a few years ago where virologists were digging up remains from the Inuit tribes near the Arctic hoping to find a Spanish Flu culture that may have survived because of the bodies being buried in the permafrost of the region. I thought, okay, if they can find a culture and create a vaccine that would be cool, but if they had that thought wouldn't someone with no so good intentions have it as well? The fact it killed healthy adults made it especially dangerous. Tough time to be young person that's for sure.
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  402. Now THAT'S ballsy! I would be riding Greyhound and Amtrack for life after surviving something like that. For that guy to continue flying after that...all I can say is wow.
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  403. I'm glad comic books were never my thing and that The Hulk wasn't even on my radar back in the days when Bill Bixby played the part. That way the desecration of the material doesn't affect me one way or another. Normally I don't even tune in to The Drinkers reviews of comic book movies for those reasons but he gives sage advice about writing so I thought I'd listen to this one. Thanks for the tips. I'm getting ready to start my third novel and can use all the advice I can get.
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  404. So, if a city pays half the cost for these billionaires playpens, are they entitled to half of the "brokerage fees" these teams get for all the off-the-books money that gets laundered through them on any given Sunday? 🤔Inquiring minds want to know.
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  405. I had a professor in college who pointed to LBJ's record outside of Vietnam as a success because of the number of laws he was able to ram through congress. That was old-school FDR style thinking. Whether the laws were good or bad didn't matter, just that you got stuff done. LBJ had a natural inferiority complex coupled with a strong desire to be loved. He thought if he gave people enough stuff they would love him for it and make him feel better about himself in the process. All it got him was a pocketful of resentment when the same people he showered with money burned down cities and marched in the street over his handling of the war. LBJ was the posterchild for the battle-cry of a government program: "If it ain't broke we'll fix it till it is."
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  406. It's so sad what's happening in Canada. I was born there and I have aunts and uncles who are staring to pass away and I won't be attending any of their funerals because of all this nonsense. But they brought this on themselves when they voted for the nanny state. I pray for their relief, and ours for that matter.
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  407. Does she know a bunch of rich white folks are giving her a platform to spew this nonsense? Maybe. Maybe not. One thing is certain, the term self-aware and her name don't meet too often in the same paragraph. Man, do I hate living in The Age of Stupid.
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  408. I believe in God so I'm never alone. As for finding some micro life form on some moon, well excuse me if I don't get all gushy. It will prove life exists elsewhere. Okay, but I'm not going to call some primordial bit of floating goo cuz. If I can't have a conversation, I'm just not that impressed. I know life exists, I can look out my window for proof of that. Do I think we are the only sentient beings in the universe? I dunno. But here's a thought, maybe we haven't heard from anyone because we're just not supposed to. Maybe putting such incredible distances between us and our cosmologic kinfolk is part of the design. Just a thought. Truth is, I don't expect a phone call from E.T. in the time I have left and that's a shame because I was a child of Apollo and I figured we'd already be living on Mars by now. That is what Spock told us, and I mean, he was Spock...come on...of course he knew. Then I grew up and learned about magnetic fields, plate tectonics, cosmic fine-tuning that is beyond mind blowing, just to make this one rock a blue dot in a sea of black. I'm good because like I say, I have faith and if anything, it just goes to show how unique and precious we are. Too bad we don't act like it. We should really learn to like ourselves a lot more than we do. I'll take that over warp-drive. Anyway, live long and prosper gang, just don't expect to hear anything from E.T. anytime soon. I think ever, but that's me.
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  409. I am an adherent of the scientific method and while I don't have a subscription to Skeptic magazine I'm pretty far from the tin foil hat crowd (sorry gang, Lee Harvey acted alone). That said, I witnessed something that is pretty damn close to the textbook definition of telekinesis. Years ago I shared a house with six other roommates. One had a pretty bad temper when you got her riled up. Anyway, something pissed her off one night and she shot several of us one of the nastiest glares you will ever see before calling us all a few choice names and storming out of the room. After she left we noticed this big thick ashtray was split in two. It was whole and in perfect working order prior to her tantrum. I know this because I used it just minutes before. If I was the only person who witnessed it you could call me out but four other people were present and we all stared at each other in disbelief. There was no rational explanation for the thing splitting in two the way it did. There were no smoldering cigarettes in it, no one bumped the table, there was no door slammed. It just broke. We still talk about it to this day from time to time. I'm telling you, whatever energy she was putting out it snapped that big old thick glass ash tray clean in two. It sounds crazy, and to be honest I'd have a hard time swallowing that tale if I hadn't witnessed it but there it is. We are beings of energy and there is no telling what forces can be unleashed under the right circumstances. Anyway, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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  410. Considering he is running things today should his number be upped to 46? 🤔
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  411. Michael Knowles is one of the bright young people who restore a bit of hope into a future that quite frankly is pretty bleak. But as they pointed out, I suppose if I wanted to be completely cynical and nasty I'd be a leftist. That's one thing I could never get my head around. I guess I could be mad about everything all the time and rage against the machine 24/7 but I imagine it takes a lot of energy that I just flat out no longer have. I will say that the voter integrity issue, even more than CRT is the biggest threat to the republic. Unless there is major reform across the board things will eventually become untenable. There were a lot of eyes on VA last Tuesday, and I'm sure that helped prevent a sudden 4 AM discovery of 100,000 or so previously uncounted mail-in ballots (all postmarked the same day no less). When faith in the electoral system is finally blasted to smithereens, I'm talking about beyond redemption, look out because the great reset the left has been running toward at 200 MPH will become the great split and there is no telling which way the winds of change will blow on that day. Sometimes the fog of war blows back in your face and the rule of unintended consequences kicks in and that can be a real bitch.
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  412. trans activists are threatening to flee the country. Satan wept.
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  413. How long before a 21st Century American version of Das Sturmer is available at your local checkout counter. I grew up in a predominantly black neighborhood so this isn't surprising to me. I think progress was being made until obama came along and ramped things up for his own ideological reasons. This country has regressed quite a bit since yes we can became a thing. I had conversations with educated black people who were afraid Trump was going to take away their voting rights. I asked where they were getting that from and more than one said their grandparents. How do you fix that? I dunno. I'm just tired of hearing the same old tired sh*t I heard growing up as a kid in the 60s. People have to want to get over the past. I guess a substantial number don't. What other conclusion can one come to? Think it's bad now? Give it 10 more years when everything from the economy to the food chain crashes.
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  414. I wish you were right Drinker but alas, the true social justice warrior doesn't give a shit if the entire industry goes over a cliff if that's what it takes to stay on message. For them, it's a religion. I see it as a death cult. They're kinda like The People's Church but with money. In actuality, they are akin to a flock of locust's. They destroy everything in their path and leave a wasteland in their wake. But I like your gumption so I keep coming back. There. I'll go away now.
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  416. Come on man, they made at least until the town of Bedrock was established. I remember seeing them acting alongside Fred and Barney. Have a yabba-dabba-doo time and all of that. Yer not foolin me.
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  417. You forgot to mention plate tectonics. That might have a thing or three to say about who gets to stay and who gets voted off the island. Or maybe Skynet will become self-aware and figure out a way to get rid of all that pesky oxygen corroding up the circuit boards. I've always been partial to the Texas-size comet taking us out but then again I like Bruce Willis flicks. As a Detroit Lions fan I often wonder if they can win a Super Bowl before the Sun turns into Beetlejuice, The Sequel. But that's me.
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  418. Up is down, down is up, and we have always been at war with Eastasia. This election is a referendum on obama and his fundamental transformation of the nation. He knows it, that's why he came out from behind the curtain to rally the troops. No presidents in American history have ever demonized as many of their countrymen and obama and biden. This mantra, democracy is at stake, gets repeated in rote fashion because the democratic party is no longer a political party, it is a cult. The temper tantrum they are going to unleash in traditional blue states that turn red this cycle is going to be ugly. Commies aren't good losers and they are in action mode. The war of words and ideas is dead for them. They think they are on the cusp of achieving victory after their century long march and they want the win now, not within the next decade, now. Pray for us like you have never prayed before. Therein lies our salvation.
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  419. A 6-3 conservative majority on the SCOTUS?????? That's laughable unless Justices Thomas and Alito count as 3 guys each. Just because a justice is nominated by a republican doesn't make that person conservative. Unlike the democratic nominees who are married to their ideology and march in lockstep to the whims of their left-wing Stalinist masters, justices placed on the court by republican presidents tend to be more closely aligned with the Georgetown Cocktail Party. Are you going to sit there with a straight face and label Roberts, Barrett, or Kavanaugh as conservative? To borrow from Anthony Carter, "Come on man!!!" As for Gorsuch, he's 50/50 on an average day. Roberts will save Uncle Joe's mandates just like he saved Obama Care. The guy thinks he's the second coming of Earl Warren and you know what, for the most part he is. Sorry folks. "But the courts," doesn't mean s**t anymore. These jokers all come out of the same left-wing law schools. I'm afraid Thomas and Alito are the last of the strict constructionists. It'll be all about righting historical wrongs, creating equality of outcome, and making sure everyone feels good about themselves moving forward. God help us.
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  420. Saying we the people somehow gives crooked politicians an out because we put too much blame on ourselves is ridiculous. Man has a fallen nature and no form of government, no matter how well intended or planned out will be truly just because of said nature. Locke understood that and accounted for it in the most practical way in his treatise on the Social Compact. As for our form of indirect democracy as it is called here, it only functions if people take their responsibility as citizens seriously. They used to, at least to a higher degree than they do today, but our system has devolved into reality-TV. Officials don't get removed from office, they get voted off the island, and they get voted off for a variety of reasons by a small portion of the electorate. Too many people are either too cynical, too lazy, or too comfortable to even get involved in the process. So no, I don't buy the argument that putting we the people on the hook somehow lets the crooks off it. The people are the problem, and when there is nowhere left to go, they'll shake their collective fist at their Creator and blame it all on Him. It can't be our fault. And that is when He'll call the game and sort the wheat from the chafe. Do with that what you will. If that offends your secular sensibilities, as the prophet Bob Dylan once said; "It's a hard rains a gonna fall." Ya'll make sure you have a raincoat now, ya hear.
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  421. What could cause a nuclear war to kick off? Sheer stupidity. We live in the Age of Stupid so the likelihood is probably higher now than it was at the height of the Cold War. Look at the quality of "leaders" the global community is burping up these days, in every part of the world. If you think about it too hard you'll scare the crap out of yourself. But that's why we have the NFL to distract us isn't it? Live long and prosper kids, but hang on because the 2030's are gonna be one crazy batsh*t roller coaster ride. Just sayin.
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  422. Sad but true, lowlifes abound everywhere. But there are also plenty of good people. As I was driving back to my place I saw all kinds of trucks and trailers along I-75 South with out of state plates from as far away as Texas hauling electrical generators and other necessary equipment. I also saw an entire caravan of police in a variety of vehicles coming down from Panama City, all ready to go to work helping people out. For every scumbag there are at least 10 good people. Thanks to everyone lending a hand. As for looters, 10 years without the possibility of parole should be the starting point as far as sentencing guidelines are concerned.
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  423. Nice advice, but life doesn't always deal you the hand that allows you pursue your dreams in that way. I remember seeing a show many years ago where they listed what they considered to be the worst jobs on Earth. The winner for worst job went to working in a sulfur pit. They spoke with a guy who worked in one (I think it was in Indonesia) and he looked to be about 70. Turns out he was 35. Life expectancy for people working there maxed out somewhere around 45. How much energy do you suppose he would have had to devote to higher pursuits? I'm sure if given a choice he would have preferred a job on Wall Street but he had a family to raise and that was where he was at. I'm not saying he should have just accepted his fate but they didn't go into his backstory so who knows what was really keeping him there. When I was raising a family I had other people depending on me so I did what I had to do. I always made the best of it and moved up as best I could. I was very goal driven. I had to have a goal. Pretty soon I became goal addicted. My first attempt at retirement was a complete disaster because of that addiction. I fought like hell to get back into the workforce and when I got where I wanted to be I came to the realization that it was an empty victory. I was right where I wanted to be, making more money than I had ever seen, and I hated every bit of it. Life isn't about what you achieve, it's about what you value. Who knows, maybe that guy in the sulfur pit had it right because when they asked him about his lot in life he said he was doing okay, better than some, worse than others. Goal setting is fine, admirable even, but watch out you don't become a slave to it. I did and I wasted a lot of time I can't get back. That's just my take on it though. Remember, life is 10% about what happens to you and 90% about how you respond to it. Just make sure you have your priorities straight. Sometimes you can want something so badly you will sacrifice just about anything to get it and when you get it you find out it really isn't all it's cracked up to be. Just sayin.
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  424. The problem with Russia is there's so much of it. Even if Hitler had managed to knock Stalin and his criminal regime off their perch, what in the hell was he going to do with the place? How was he going manage it? Or was he just planning on killing everyone? Hitler lost the minute he decided to invade. Stalin got bailed out early by Zhukov who happened to be lucky enough to be stationed fare enough away from the purge's. Zhukov was the Russian Ulysses S. Grant. He would just keep throwing guys at the Germans until he won.
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  425. The SPLC is the marxist outfit that called the Family Research Council a hate group setting off the maniac who showed up in their D.C. office with 15 Chic-Fil-A sandwiches, one for the body of each person he planned on killing. If the same thing had happened against some LGB group it would get referenced every time somebody picked up a gun and shot someone. Yet the feds and big-tech worked with that hateful group to set up the rules for dealing with hate speech and misinformation on social media platforms. “Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and utter every kind of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven. Thus they persecuted the prophets who were before you.” ― Matthew 5: 10-12 Courage brothers and sisters, courage and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, our savior and redeemer, with whom all is possible and whose Church will withstand the gates of Hell. 🙏
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  426. So is this thing gonna hit us or not? I feel like Steve Buscemi in Armageddon: "Are we staying or are we going? I had a great view of the end of the Earth out there." Make up your mind so I know whether to invest or spend like it's 1929.
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  427. The attacks on this young woman are despicable but you have failed to properly identify their source Matt. The activists may be the ones typing the words but the message comes from Satan, the father of all lies. This video brought a tear to my eye because unless this young lady finds her way home to Christ and the God who loves her unconditionally she will most likely end up as a statistic for the same wicked agents of Satan to use to make their case. Another suicide caused by an unaccepting world. You're right Matt, they don't give a damn and never have because they are caught in the demonic web as well. But they will discover that Satan is an equal opportunity hater and will torment them just as hard as anyone else when the time comes, and that is a torment that will last for eternity. As for me, I'm going to pray for that young lady, that she finds her way home where hope and love are real, not just made up words.
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  428. 100 years later and we are still paying for the mess Britain and France created in the Middle East. Some things when they are set in motion cannot be stopped.
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  429. I guess winning that science fair prize in the 6th grade didn't prepare the bartender for how to handle an angry mob. Big difference between being part of that mob than being the target of it isn't it? It ain't no fun when the when the rabbit's got the gun is it girl? 🤣🤣🤣🤣Did you notice how all the bigwigs doing the sabre rattling are above 60? There is a scene in the movie All Quiet on the Western Front where the school teacher is getting his students amped over the prospect of going to France and getting their heads blown off for the fatherland. Seeing these people, who have been in D.C. decades past their expiration date, made me think of that scene. As for that crook running the Ukraine who wants us to pay off his deficit. Go F yourself. With all due respect of course.
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  430.  @kale2149  It confirms what I said earlier, they have been lulled by the nanny state and it's what they know. They are told how well the system works day after day by state run media and they see government as a force for good in their lives. I know it, I saw it, lived through it. Have you lived there? If you have, how was it? How'd state run health care work for you? In practice, not theory, not some data from some poll, how did it work for you on a personal level? You seem to be a true believer so it's a fair question. Are your opinions based on what others have told you or on your own experience dealing with the system and the ridiculously high, regressive taxes such as the GST that were put in place to prop it up? If you've been there, I'll lend a bit more gravitas to your take on it. I say it sucks because I dealt with it, in real life, but that's me.
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  431. ASU students for socialism? Kinda says it all. Okay, so no one is going to try to shut up these little commie brats. They have the right to be ridiculous under our system of liberty. What you do then is mock them at every turn. Put their stupidity on display for all to see. Nothing makes a cockroach run back under the sink like turning on the kitchen lights.
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  432. I really don't know anything about British politics and I'm not familiar with what this female government official they are referring to in this interview said or didn't say so I won't comment on the particulars of that. But terms matter, language matters. There is no such thing as a transwoman or a transman. There are men and women. This whole live-and-let-live and let's put being nice and polite above all else is how this wicked cult was able to to get as far as it has. From what I understand, the U.K. is actually doing a better job reigning in this nonsense than we are here in the U.S. We are on a cultural suicide run this side of the pond and tranny madness is just one aspect. But the woman being interviewed is right. Giving into them on any level is wrong. There is no gray area, no nuance, only truth and lies. “The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.” ― Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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  433. I'm glad you came around young man. It's not easy going against a cult. And he hit on something that is lost in all the chatter about this organization. The idea that anyone or any group who opposes them is fascist. That's an old semantic trick Stalin taught the left. It's why he used to label the nations he subjugated as democratic; for instance calling East Germany The German Democratic Republic. As Stalin explained it, if you weren't fascist you were democratic. And if you weren't socialist you were fascist. See how the circular logic works? The left still plays these types of word games. It's a form of Orwellian Newspeak and is central to their ideology. It's why you hear a moron like that Don Lemon guy talk about Antifa being a force for good because they oppose fascism. As he explains it, it's right there in their title. And since fascism is bad, Antifa must be good (and I do apologize to any morons I may have offended by lumping him with you, I'm just at a loss for a proper pronoun for him at the moment). Of course, he never explains their origin or what they stand for. But I guess it is hard to explain what a group stands for when in reality it stands for nothing. Besides, I'm not sure Lemon or any of the talking heads and mind dead politicians who back their play either overtly or covertly understand the miscreants out there busting up windows anymore than they understand themselves. They claim to be anti-fascist but in reality they are simply Nihilists dressed up as Anarchists out there playing revolutionary because it's a kick. But alas, most of them aren't even bright enough to understand the distinction between Anarchy and Nihilism anymore than they understand the distinction between socialism and freedom. They are what this young man described in the beginning, just a bunch of angry young punks lashing out at the world because they have an external locus of control. They aren't accountable for their actions because it has all been forced on them by unseen forces that can only be destroyed by violence. And breaking windows and blowing shit up is also fun, let's not forget that because you know...feelings. They are Satan's vanguard. Like I said earlier, nice to see you escaped kid. I wish you well.
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  434. Okay, Nixon wants to lay it at the feet of McNamara, Bundy, and Rostow, you'll get no argument from me. Johnson was a creature of the legislature, out his element when it came to foreign affairs and the executive branch's role in it's execution and application. He knew it to. The largest part of him didn't even want the presidency because he knew he would not be good at the job, but his ego and desire to be remembered as a great man got the better of him. What he wasn't though was "helpless" as Nixon makes out. Johnson knew good and damned well Vietnam was a losing proposition. He told Kennedy as much in 61 but he also said if they were going to stay there then they had to stick with Diem because "he's the only boy we've got out there." So, go ahead Dick, call Johnson helpless, but you claim you knew better and still, a lot of service members were killed under your watch, a third of all the deaths in fact. So spare me the excuse making for Johnson. Sorry dude, you got no credibility on this matter, especially considering you told Thieu to reject any peace proposal in 68 because you could get him a better deal once you were in office. Shame on you sir, you, Kissinger, and the whole stinking lot of ya. But that's me.
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  435. Good for you Matt. Praise Jesus that at least in this instance Satan was slowed down a bit. Now the people of Tennessee have to ensure this demonic act of child sacrifice is ended in that state once and for all by declaring a ban on the wicked practice be made a part of the state constitution. I am not from Tennessee so I don't know how the amendment process works in that state but the citizens of Tennessee have a chance to be a role model for other states to emulate. This battle cannot be won at the federal level. The alphabet mafia has far too much influence in D.C. and most of the members of congress are for child mutilation and other sinful practices. Battles against evil such as this must be fought and won at the state level. Want to take your country back? Rely on federalism, the system our founding fathers wanted us to inherit, it is our only chance. The 10th Amendment must become fashionable again: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." ― 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. State and local races are far more important than national races these days. Washington is lost. The only way we can restore sanity is by exercising states rights. Matt and his team have shown us that. Now, what are we prepared to do?
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  436. I'm glad to see people finding some place other than Target to shop, but it has to be sustained. Bud Light is feeling the pain because people have other options. Target isn't the only store in town that sells clothing, food, or electronics. In order for them to get the message their profits have to cave for a long period of time. But even then it may not be enough. The cause may be more important in the end and they might choose martyrdom over survival. It just may be the hill they choose to die on but that's okay, one thing about capitalism, for every business that goes under another emerges. Ask K-Mart or Sears about that.
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  437. Al Sharpton was ordained as a minister too...at the age of 10. Keep going to these Christian lite churches gang. “Many will say to me on that day ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name? Did we not drive out demons in your name? Did we not do mighty deeds in your name?’ Then I will declare to them solemnly, ‘I never knew you.” ― Matthew 7: 22 - 23
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  438. The message in this video is a bit dated but given the recent drone/missile strike by Iran into Israel and the way they have spent the money they have gotten from obama, who is friendly to their cause it's a reminder to never take your eye off the true-believers, especially in that neighborhood. The problem with Iran is Russia's history with them and the internecine battle they are engaged in with Saudi Arabia over which view of Islam the next caliphate should be set up under, Shia or Sunni. More than a few of the ayatollah's and their minions are for stirring up the pot in order to usher in the reign of the 12th Imam, their version of the second-coming. That should be more than a bit concerning. It's like the people pumping money into the plan to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem. It's not that they want to see the temple restored, they want to get the ball rolling on Armageddon. As for Iran in 2024, the optimistic take is that the ayatollah's are not popular with the average Joe, a lot of whom weren't even born when the revolution took place in 1979. If they can get friends in the right places a regime change would not be out of the question. The pessimistic take is the ayatollah's are not popular with the average Joe, a lot of whom weren't even born when the revolution took place in 1979 and they fail to get any friends in the right places but raise enough cane to cause some sort of lashing out by the regime that could escalate out of control, especially given the Russian desire to flex their muscles in the region and the problems between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Maybe the next set of drones and missiles aren't aimed at Israel. Maybe they come courtesy of their sponsors in Moscow and have more than conventional warheads attached to them. It sounds far-fetched, and most-likely is but like I say, ya gotta keep an eye on true believers because they have what Josie Wales would describe as; "Crazy eyes."
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  439. It's all by design, and it was all foretold: “After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth became illumined by his splendor. He cried out in a mighty voice “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great. She has become a haunt for demons. She is a cage for every unclean spirit, a cage for every unclean bird and disgusting beast. For all the nations have drunk the wine of her licentious passion. The kings of the earth had intercourse with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her drive for luxury…The merchants of the earth will weep and mourn for her, because there will be no more markets for their cargo…The merchants who deal in these goods, who grew rich from her, will keep their distance for fear of the torment inflicted on her. Weeping and mourning, they cry out Alas, alas, great city wearing fine linen, purple and scarlet, adorned in gold, precious stones, and pearls. In one hour this great wealth has been ruined.” ― Revelation 18: 1-17 Wanna get right? Start by getting right with God. This is coming from one who swam on the Devil's lake far too long. I know addiction and I know the pain and suffering it causes. There is one cure. He's waiting for all of us to come home. Knock, and the door shall be opened.
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  440. Such a tragic history. Between the war with Japan, the civil wars, and the innocent people killed during Mao's reign, the 20th Century was not kind to the Chinese.
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  441. Was anyone else struck by physically unattractive everyone in that crowd is? I mean, there are more than a few triple-baggers and double- coyotes in that group. Yeah, I know, but someone had to be the shallow SOB and call it out. Also, these white-bread suburban kids of privilege are really bad at this kind whole protest/power-to-the-people-right-on kind of thing. Maybe they should take a trip to the West Bank, Belfast, or Iran for lessons from real street agitators, somewhere where someone will be able to teach them how to take on the man with some level of authority. As for this bunch, I'm putting the over/under for mass late runs to Starbucks at 300 for that event. Quite frankly, as a white male of privilege who came of age in the 60s I am completely embarrassed at the effort here.
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  442. I'll be honest, lately I have been buying bags of the Hershey miniatures but as Matt points out that can be easily remedied. I will miss Reese's Cups but I haven't bought any of those for a long time. Chocolate is, for the most part, chocolate and Snickers was my go-to bar when I played a round of golf back in the day and I have always liked M&M's. I'm not normally big on boycotts but when a company makes someone like that one of the faces of their franchise well it's time to move on. This stuff is spewed out from the bowels of Hell and if my not eating a Mr. Goodbar is the price I have to pay to tell the purveyors of this wickedness to take a hike, so be it. I'm sure I'll get no pushback from my cardiologist or GI doc. Thanks for pointing this out Matt. I feel like I need a shower after hearing this guy's views on the world so maybe I'll do that, right after I toss any Hershey products still kicking around in the trash.
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  443. I'm an American. I was born in Canada, I worked and lived there for a seven-year stretch not terribly long ago, but I don't know what the pulse of the population is today. I can say that one of the key differences between Americans and Canadians is Canadians have this belief in government as a positive power where Americans, at least until 2008, saw government in less generous terms. Now, at least here in the U.S. it's all about the show, reality-TV as politics. I hear all this talk about how the majority of the population leans conservative. I've heard that for decades. But the movement...well, there isn't one. And it goes deeper than being afraid being called names and getting the online mob on their cowardly asses. At least here in the U.S., there hasn't been a genuine opposition party since Ronald Reagan was at the helm. And even then the conservative movement was running out of steam by the end of his second term. Bush stuck the knife in, the Tea Party twisted it and put the movement on life support, Trump said F-it and pulled the plug. There is no unified platform, no plan on the right. Trump said he was going to close the border but what happened? Some judge in Hawaii said he couldn't and Trump tucked his tail. He said he was going to cut spending then signed off on trillion dollar budgets. He said he was going to lock Hillary up and then let her off the hook. Why? Because he didn't know how to govern. That is the problem with "The Show." Once the show-types get in power they don't really have a plan and the people they turn to for a plan are democrats in disguise so we end up supporting whatever the left wants done. It's systemic. It's not that they are afraid of being called names, they don't believe in the stuff they are peddling. Look how many of these jokers win their primaries by 30, 40 points. Why? Republican voters like the show. Why? Because outlets like fox news and so-called right-wing media do their job and sell it to them. Why? Because they make money. Where is the money going these days? To the left. Why? Because they all come from lefty universities. The dots aren't hard to connect. Like the demon Azazel tells Denzel in the movie Fallen: "Open your eyes Hobbs. Look around some time."
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  444. I'll watch this one when I'm able. My dad liked the 1930 version and I bought it for him as a gift. I preferred the 1979 remake with Richard Thomas and Ernest Borgnine. I think it was panned because it was a made for TV movie but I thought it was better than the original. I'd like to see you review "When Trumpets Fade" some time Drinker. It's an HBO movie that didn't get much attention because it came out as the same time as Saving Private Ryan but it's a good somewhat off-key war movie with a good storyline.
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  445. I think my favorite bit of "evidence" people point to is Oswald saying he didn't shoot anyone. I always think of that scene in My Cousin Vinny where Fred Gwynne tells Joe Peci that he's not going to revamp the entire judicial process "because YOU find yourself in the UNIQUE position of defending clients who said they didn't do it." Hey, you wanna believe in a conspiracy, have at it. The mental gymnastics it requires is good for the brain maybe. This guy trying to pin it on Johnson...where do they find em? I guess that's why it remains a cottage industry.
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  446. You know something Matt, there are times when you are thoughtful and I admire your willingness to stand up to the alphabet mafia. But there are also times when you get on your high horse and lecture like a school marm. Are people nasty on social media? You bet your ass. I stopped visiting Rumble because of the disgusting comments I read from the Trump cult about Sydney Poitier when he passed away, people saying they hoped he was burning in Hell along with Betty White because they spoke out against dear leader. When I posted something to the contrary, that I enjoyed Mr. Poitier's acting and as a fellow immigrant found his life story inspiring I was called everything from a cuck to troll and my post was the one taken down because at least five people on the Trump network found it offensive. That's life. Do I feel sorry for those people on a human level? Certainly. Do I feel bad that they got in a rickety vehicle held together metaphorically by safety-wire and bubblegum as we used to say in the aircraft maintenance game? No I don't. If they failed to do a background check on the builder that's on them. If they did a background check on them and got in that thing anyway that's doubly on them. They are dying because their spirit for adventure as you frame it got the better of their judgement. Don't make them out to be Columbus or Neal Armstrong and don't scold me for not admiring poor judgement the way you seem to. Like I say, you have this tendency to get all ass-holier-than-thou and that is why I only watch a handful of your videos anymore. But it does make you a perfect fit for the daily wire. But that's me, and yes, I am entitled to my opinion and disagreeing with you doesn't make me stupid or evil as you generally see most people who call you out.
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  447. That's why Top Gun Maverick did so well. Maverick was a man who did manly things but he also had doubts, fears, and regrets. He just didn't let them prevent him from doing his job. In short, he was a man. The thing is, every woman I know who saw the movie liked it more than the guys. They want men back more than we do I think. Well said Drinker. BTW, you showed clips of Crimson Tide, how about finally reviewing that one. Just askin (for the 100th time maybe).
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  448.  @KratostheThird  That's one way to put it. The counter-culture movement of the 60s did a great amount of damage. I know because I witnessed it first-hand and lost good friends and family members to it. Politicians like LBJ put together a system that also ran counter to the virtues that built the nation, one they codified. Once we went down that road the die was cast. As Ronald Reagan put it, a government program is the closest thing to eternal life in this world.
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  449. One thing everyone needs to remember is Stalin wasn't showing up the door shooting people and Stalin wasn't withholding food and watching people fall over and die. His minions did that. A tyranny is only as effective as the bureaucrats assigned to carry it out. Keep that in mind the next time you see media talking heads and academics talking about the sins of the fathers being handed down to people who's only crime is being born a certain color. May the children of God Stalin persecuted find peace in our Father's kingdom and may Stalin be brought to ultimate justice when The Lord opens the books on the day of judgement.
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  450. You mean the guy who got all school-girl gushy when he interviewed Paul Ryan? They guy who called Nikki Haley his spirit animal? Maybe it's because I'm just an old codger not hip enough to get him but Shapiro has nothing to say that even remotely interests me. The thing is, I remember when he was a brash kid who used to challenge all kinds of establishment politicians and their squishy policies. Funny how making a few bucks causes your balls shrink in the world of the right-wing grift.
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  451. Just more of the same. The bartender is a fourth rate actress playing the role of a member of congress. She has not introduced one single bill in her entire time in congress, I imagine because she she doesn't understand how the process works and isn't interested in it anyway. She gets on her social media channel and says stupid sh*t to the 15 year old boys who have fantasies of sleeping with her and when she has a townhall meeting she acts like a little tramp, gyrating to music when people ask her questions she doesn't understand or want to answer. She is a child, a spoiled child who probably made a lot of noise about discrimination and batted her eyes at professors in order to get a degree but then proved to be too stupid to actually get a real job with her diploma, which was more honorary than anything else. The thing is, her constituents are even more stupid than her. You could literally run a dead person in that district and her brain-dead voters would never know it. It's why the Young Turks picked that district for that little vamp. But she knows how to play drama queen and that will ensure she is able to raise money. Don't be surprised if she challenges that other meatball out of NY for the senate in 2024. She's an ambitious little commie and even if she gets waxed she has a spot waiting for her on the view with the rest of that coven over there. MSNBC is beneath someone of her stature. And people wonder why the hell this country is so f*cked.
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  452. You think she's bad now, wait until January when it's president harris. But hey, I sure am glad those mean Tweets stopped.
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  453. Your video is based on a misrepresentation of how war planning works. War plans are just that, plans. Plans are drawn up all the time. There are entire sectors of the defense department devoted to planning. To borrow from Bruce Willis in Armageddon; "They've got guys just sitting around thinking shit up." There was no way the populace of either nation would have supported a war between 1920-1939 and politicians knew that. America became more isolationist and Britain was broke. The U.K. and the U.S. both dismantled their standing armies, hardly an indicator that they saw each other as a threat. Naval power was an issue but the Americans had been building a two ocean navy based on the writings of people like Thayer Mahan for decades by this point. Britain accepted it as a reality. There was tension in the sense that Britain was an imperial power and the U.S. was traditionally anti-colonial but after the Spanish American War and the acquisition of Puerto Rico, Guam, Wake, and The Philippines, American thinking on that had softened as well (at least beyond people like FDR but I digress). The Washington Naval Treaty in the 20's was negotiated to curtail Japanese expansion which worried both Britain and the U.S. more than it was to stave off any war between the U.K. and the U.S. On a side, in this video and the one on the War of 1812 you refer to "The Republicans" when you talk about political parties. This will lead someone not versed in American history to conclude you are referring to the Republican Party that exists today. You should correct this and start referring to the party as the Democratic Republicans which was what they called themselves at the time. The party was a result of the feud between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson over the role of the federal government and republican in that sense meant supporting states rights. The republican bit was dropped with the election of Andrew Jackson and they have been the Democratic Party ever since. The Republicans of today were created in the 1850s after the collapse of the Whig Party over the issue of slavery. The way you phrase things in your videos you make it sound like the republicans existed in 1812 which is not the case. The Federalist Party opposed the War of 1812 and it led to their demise. Just wanted to set the record straight on that one.
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  454. Nice sentiment, but instead of people losing jobs how about criminal indictments, in a court not located in SF or DC. Nixon's crony's went to prison for less. I know, because I'm old enough to remember. The media played a big role in that as well. They have been picking winners and losers my entire life, that includes TET and Chappaquiddick. Where are all the indictments we were told would come out of the Durham probe? Does anyone even remember that? How about the smear campaigns waged against Kavanaugh and Roy Moore? People lied to Congress and FISA courts. Where were those trials held? Oh yeah, I forgot, nowhere. obama's wingman holder tells Congress to go F themselves. What happened to that contempt charge? Nice sentiment indeed. Get back to me when you are actually serious about taking on these gangsters.
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  455. This is where Washington becomes so critical and why there is him, Lincoln, and a bunch of guys afterward who held the job, pick the order. Washington knew everything he did was setting the precedent and he was in many ways the true father of the Constitution. He wanted it to endure so he did his best to avoid getting involved too deeply in the spat between Jefferson and Hamilton (though Jeffersonian historians may disagree) and he stepped down after two terms, discarding the notion that the states had removed one king and replaced him with another. Washington knew there needed to be a smooth, voluntary transfer of power in order for the Constitution to survive. Like his hero Cincinnatus, he would finally retire to his farm. King George the Third called him the greatest man in history when he stepped aside after the Revolution. Old mad King George was right. There are no more Washington's. Maybe that's why countless revolutions fail time and time again. Thanks for the video. Good stuff.
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  456. I guess if you just like the way this guy makes movies you will like this one. I saw it in the theater and thought it sucked. I saw it again when it showed up on cable, thinking maybe I was too harsh on the first go round and the verdict was the same. Why? Because the director seemed more interested in staying true to his style of movie making than actually telling a compelling story. It is crap storytelling. It's disjointed and if someone with no prior knowledge of the event was to watch it they wouldn't be able to give you any insight into what happened, why it happened, and who was making the decisions, aspects of war movies that are kind of important. I mean, they are in every war movie I have ever seen, even the off-color ones like Catch 22 and MASH. Sure, this guy uses real planes and such but who cares. Where is Churchill? Where is Halifax? Where are the pitched battles to give these guys time to escape? Basically, where's the beef? The director lays no foundation for the story and assumes that everyone coming to see this already knows the history so he's going to focus on actors who give terrible, uninspired performances of people...🤔...um...doing stuff I guess. Like I say, the guy was so concerned about making an artsy style movie that he neglected to tell a story, and that is what history is, storytelling. Honestly, if you were to read a book on Dunkirk put together like this movie was, tell me you wouldn't put it down less than halfway through. Sorry History Buff. I have agreed with most of your reviews but you missed the bigger picture here. This director should stick to faux film-noir Batman flicks and stay the hell away from history. But that's me. Dunkirk is a terrible film.
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  457. I graduated from a high school that was roughly 80% black. I remember black boys who studied and got good grades being called Uncle Tom's and accused of trying to be white. But it was always the other boys doing the name calling. Black girls were free to get the benefit of an education if they wanted it and no one called them any names. That was 50 years ago. Between that and the beatification of the single mother in the black community a patriarchy has been established. Single black mom's have always held a high place on the protected class totem-poll. Criticize a single black mother and see how far it gets you. I saw them receive special treatment when I was an undergrad. Professor's would allow them to miss as many classes as they wanted. One white woman called the professor out for this and when he told her that her case was different because she was a single mom the woman exploded, telling the professor she was a single mom as well and that same professor had warned her after she missed three classes that any more absences would result in her being dropped in accordance with the universities policy. The government did the same, but their objective was to make the family dependent on them since people will vote for the politicians they believe are necessary for their very survival. The liberation movements of the 60s played just as big a role. The sexual liberation movement told young people to do what made them feel good and the women's liberation movement told women they didn't need a man to get by in the world. Young single black girls living on the edge who followed the advice of those two groups were especially vulnerable and were set up for failure. But there was Uncle Lyndon, telling them it was okay because like his hero FDR he would be there to make sure their basic needs were met, basic being the key part of that deal. I always find it amusing and sad at the same time that the group who claims to be progressive always falls back on old tropes when it comes to dealing with black people. It's always about looking back, righting old wrongs, never looking ahead. Johnson went back 100 years. Jesse simply calls everything another Selma. Compare that to the messaging they use when they are trying to coax illegals over the border to increase their voting base. It's just the opposite. It's all about a better future, a twisted sale of the American dream where they get the benefit of being in America without ever having to become an American. They get to carry their culture with them. Need proof of that? Look no further than all the Palestinian flags being waved in cities like New York as people who have no intention of ever becoming westernized disrupt daily life for everyone else. And what is the response from white America? Shhh, let them be, you don't want to upset them or be called names do you? Something is gong to give. This country is becoming like the old Hapsburg Empire at the turn of the 20th Century. They had so many different cultures trying to coexist that the internal contradictions caused it to collapse. WWI simply delayed the inevitable. And what happened to those disparate groups? They were either absorbed by other powers willing to crack the whip on them or they fought a series of civil wars over the next 100 years that claimed millions of lives. President Reagan said we were entering a time for choosing. It's here gang. But hey, I'm probably too much of a glass half-empty guy. Sleep well kiddies, the government will make sure it all comes out okay.
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  458. Maybe you're right, I can't say for certain. But I'm good with you pining it on Yoko all the same. If for no other reason, just because.👍
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  459. “Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say. You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.” ―John 8:44
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  460. There may be some paper trail detailing Franco's support/sympathy for the Axis and their cause but there is nothing in his actions indicating he wanted to get into the fight. He had plenty of opportunities to help Hitler out, especially during the TORCH landings in North Africa in 42, but he maintained Spain's neutrality at every turn. He stayed out of it because he knew Spain would come out on the short end no matter which way the winds of war blew. He turned out to be correct when you consider he outlasted every last one of the combatants.
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  461. Makes me glad I gave up video games when I lost custody of the Nintendo 64 system during my divorce in 97. Oh well. But hey, I used to kick total ass in Ms. Pacman and Zelda so I was progressive before it was even a thing. Thank God, because I don't have the proper amount of energy, wherewithal, or melanin to learn all the rules behind right-think in todays parallel universe. Fuck it, I'll stick to Donkey Kong and Centipede and let the rest of humanity sort things out on their own.
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  462. “The modern age is built on the Myth of Progress…Believers in the Myth of Progress hold that progress is better than the past, and the future will inevitably be better than the present. This myth is a powerful tool in the hands of would-be totalitarians. It provides a transcendent source of legitimacy for their actions and frames opposition as backward and ignorant…Thus does the Myth of Progress become a justification for exercising dictatorial power” ― Rob Dreher: Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents
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  463. Great interview, great man. I grew up watching the Gemini and Apollo missions. Obviously Apollo 11 was huge but Apollo 13 really held the nations attention. By that time people were getting bored by the launches and more than a few wondered why we kept going back after beating the Soviets to the Moon. Apollo 13 got their attention again. Anyway, Jim Lovell and Neil Armstrong were my two favorite astronauts when I was a kid. It's great to see Captain Lovell still hanging around this tiny blue rock. An interesting life-story, that's for sure.
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  464. Christopher Wray safe until GOP takes over in DC. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Those guys, republicans. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  465. The days of a squishy republican winning the nomination are over. Some might be jockeying for a VP slot, others for a slot on Fox News, but no way Nikki Haley or Pompeo have a legitimate shot. Pence's only purpose would be to act as Trumps punching bag. The field will most likely be large because these vanity runs have become all the rage. But funding dries up after too many poor showings and this time around I think it will dry up faster than it did in 2016. After South Carolina it will either be Trump v DeSantis or Trump v one, two squishy republicans at most if Governor DeSantis decides not to run, which I think would be a mistake.
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  466.  @ChristInOrChaos  Thanks. It's not hard to figure out what the horses are gonna do when you've seen enough of these rodeos. Politics is politics, whether it's 1968 or 2024. But the talking heads are in with the in crowd and will toe the party line so long as it pays.
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  467. This is what happens when you create a world full of lunatics and convince them everybody is racist, evil, and an affront to good old mother nature herself. People, literally going off the rails.
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  468. Who doesn't hate her? 🤔
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  469. biden has always been a moron. He was consistently ranked as one of the dumbest members of the senate and now he doesn't even know what he is saying. He just reads what his lefty handlers type for him. Wind and solar? Where are all these windmills? Where are all these fields of solar panels? I'll tell ya where they are, nowhere, because it is the most inefficient way to provide energy there is. But the children advising this idiot were taught when they were kids that this stuff was the wave of the future. All it would take is some democrat with a magic wand to make it all better. They bought that fairy tale and now we are stuck with these delusional idiots telling a senile old man who is lucky to know what century he's in what to do in the energy sector. As long as these simpletons are in power we are f*cked. That is the reality.
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  470. Question: "Where is Neil Young and Joni and Mitchell?" Answer: "Who"? 🤔 BTW, didn't you know you can't get COVID while having your picture taken if you have more than a million dollars in the bank? Silly little person. No wonder you're not one of us. 😇
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  471. Shhhh... 🤐he did but no one is supposed to say that out loud.
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  472. The parents of these kids gave them to the government to raise. Then they reinforced the twisted doctrine these kid were being filled with by not challenging the nonsense their demonic teachers were filling their heads with. A great number of those kids are simply spoiled little sh*ts who needed a good ass whipping but the parents were afraid to provide it because of the alphabet agencies ready to pounce on parents for simply yelling at their kids. I have friends who raised two millennial kids, then had another child later in life. The first two came out fine. The third is a narcissistic little brat who isn't afraid to share very left wing talking point she was indoctrinated with. And what do her parents still do? They still let her spew her nonsensical gibberish, even going so far as listening to her explain the science behind transgenderism. The kid is 25 now and I think she's lost, unless she comes back to the church, which I don't see happening anytime soon. Satan is busy harvesting souls, and he has a whole bunch of em who were raised to honor him more than our Lord and Savior. I do see good kids in that age range and they all attend church. That's no coincidence. I feel for those kids to a large degree. They are confused and have been fed lies from the time they could crawl. I'll be honest, I'm hoping I'm not still around when they take the wheel. The world is messed up enough as it is.
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  473. But Trump's the fascist and regular Americans are the great threat to democracy. You couldn't make this stuff up if you tried.
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  474. I always thought he adopted the name Lenin because he liked the White Album. 🤔
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  475. The left doesn't have an optics problem it has a God problem. They make think their marching orders come from their political overlords but the place they actually emanate from is much darker. The United States is the largest market for child pornography. Maybe that has something to do with the pit-of-hell reaction this film seems to have aroused. If you aren't familiar with the term MAP, short for minor attracted person, get ready because the ground is already being laid for pedophiles to replace the transgender crowd as the next victim group to be propped up by the left and their cohorts in the alphabet mafia. But hey, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe all this slippery slope stuff really is just red meat for the vast right-wing conspiracy. I mean everyone knows gays only wanted civil unions for the insurance benefits. They would never go so far as demanding gay marriage and make an open attempt to groom kids. That was just religious scare tactics. Remember?
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  476. You got it right about DeSantis but make no mistake, Rubio is all about Rubio. He is a careerist who will ride the governor's coattails into office but as far as doing the right thing goes, the right thing for him will always be what is right for Marco, not the citizens of Florida.
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  477. The miraculous deliverances Dr. Sowell speaks of are examples of Divine Intervention. Time and again Washington was able to slip away. When the British put the torch to the nascent capital known as Washington City, a hurricane suddenly appeared, the likes of which no one had seen before, dousing the fires and killing British soldiers as tornados popped up and ran through their camps. But God has also let the nation know when He was displeased. As President Lincoln put it in his Second Inaugural Address : "The Almighty has His own purposes. Woe unto the world because of offenses for it must needs be that offenses come but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh...Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword as was said three thousand years ago so still it must be said 'the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether." The thing is, when you tell God you don't need Him, that you've got this, He always responds: "Your will be done." If graffiti was a thing in Rome in 27 B.C., you may have seen some kind of warning for us akin to the lines of Douglas MacArthur: "Old republics never die, they just fade away."
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  478. Race pimping is an old game: "There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs." ― Booker T. Washington I can't speak to the problems in Britain, but here in America, the LGBT movement is acting as a force multiplier. The goal is to feminize men, to make them submissive. Boys are taught that their natural masculine inclinations are toxic and they get confused and don't know what to do with those urges. Simple, become a woman. It's demonic at its heart. The elites as they call themselves these days are targeting Anglo culture because it is what is standing between them and their rightful place as masters of the universe. Elites, or progressives as they used to like to be called, have been moving like a glacier for more than a century, burying the territory they capture, never ceding it, and pressing onward. Always pressing onward. They are Godless and therefore they have to believe a utopia can be delivered in this world since there is no other for them. And who better to run it. How do you capture a culture and bring it down? You take over the cultural and educational heart of it. Give em credit, they have been busy little commies, and they are so close now they can feel it. It's why the U.S. border has been eliminated. They are following the same model they ran successfully in Europe. Attack, attack, attack, then attack some more. “The modern age is built on the Myth of Progress…Believers in the Myth of Progress hold that progress is better than the past, and the future will inevitably be better than the present. This myth is a powerful tool in the hands of would-be totalitarians. It provides a transcendent source of legitimacy for their actions and frames opposition as backward and ignorant…Thus does the Myth of Progress become a justification for exercising dictatorial power” ― Rob Dreher: Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents Yeah, long post, I know. Won't get read. I get that. But I'm in a mood. Sleep well my fellow citizens, like the careless maidens who didn't have oil for their lamps on the day the Bridegroom arrived. When they did get the oil it was too late, their seats had been taken. Get right with God. Free advice, for His hour is nigh, and Satan knows his time is short.
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  479. I have no idea who this young man is or what he said to piss off whoever and since I'm not on any social site except this one I most likely will never know. But Dr. Peterson is right about never apologizing to the professionally offended. Look what happened to that pitcher for the Blue Jays who apologized to em for pissing off the LGBT crowd or whoever it was. He was put through a public struggle session, apologized afterward, and the team cut him anyway. I remember some incident a few years back where some gay guy got upset because he saw Ben Shapiro walking through a tech convention and he called the organizers who then tossed Ben out. Because one guy with mental issues claimed he felt threatened by little Ben Shapiro. I guess later they apologized for tossing Ben out but it just goes to show where these cultural marxists are at. Cancel em all. Fire em all. Conform or die. And when people joke about the trains running and the camps being set up if these demonic lunatics ever do take absolute control they're called conspiracy kooks. The same accusation they threw at the people who said it was just a matter of time before people would be forced to bake cakes for gay weddings when gay marriage was being debated or that they would go after the kids eventually. Ask Jack the Baker about that and take a look at the curriculum for any public school. As the old saying goes: "Just because your paranoid doesn't mean people aren't out to get ya." And the beat goes on...the beat goes on.
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  480. The chi-coms have biden more compromised than Bill Clinton's 24-year old blonde personal trainer. But nah, nobody would let the chi-coms look at anything classified. Right hunter? 🤔
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  481. "People who were born as boys are now trans." Stop it. They are still boys and we need to stop calling them anything else. "He is now a woman." No he's not. "Really what it comes down to is fairness." No it doesn't. What it comes down to is acknowledging the truth. Why is this so hard for these talking heads and politicians? Here's the bottom line, until we stop playing dress up with these guys nothing will change. The alphabet mafia has everyone spooked. They want you to believe their life-choices are not only correct but preferable. And it will not stop at guys peeing with little girls because they feel pretty. Live not by lies.
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  482. Along with creating his foundation he played a key role in raising funds for the WWII Memorial and set up a program to get school supplies to kids in Iraq after the war there. I got some members of my unit to help out with that one after seeing him promoting it on TV. Gary, you are a solid guy and a great patriot. I salute you sir.
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  483. Sorry Dennis, the Cold War may never have really ended but the rules of the game certainly have. Keeping the Truman Doctrine alive has been a problem for this country for a very long time. I served in the military for more than two decades. I was part of the generation that bridged the gap between the Cold War and the New World Order. American thinking never evolved and I fear we are going to pay a terrible price for it in the not too distant future, one that encompasses a whole lot more than arguing about pronoun's, masks, or bathrooms. We should still be in Afghanistan? You point to South Korea, Germany, and Japan as examples to support your thesis but I say having troops stationed in any of those places serves no purpose but to make people in the defense industry rich. Our military has an officer class that has become politicized and we are led by people who are either 10 years or more beyond their expiration date or are so lacking in real-world life experiences that it boggles the mind. Our entire infrastructure, especially our power grid, is so vulnerable that we are one good enemy strike away from living in the 1850s and we have lost our way on a moral level. Our culture has become coarse and our online bad behavior is bleeding over into the real world. We are raising a generation of confused children and we facing enemies who are more determined and have evolved over time. I'm not saying we should pull off the stage completely, but unless we sort out our own house pretty damn quick we won't have anything left to pull back. Getting our troops out of places where they serve no purpose except lining the pockets of those whose pockets are lined well enough is a good start. Again, your way of thinking Dennis had a place when hundreds of thousands of troops were on the borders of our allies, locked and loaded and ready to go, but that's simply not the case anymore. 9/11 showed us the error of our way of thinking and yet people are still living in the 1970s. It's time to rethink everything, before there's no one left to do the thinking.
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  484. Hearing this made me think of that scene from the Big Lebowski where the Dude tells Walter he's being threatened by German nihilists: "They were nihilists? F*ck me. I mean, say what you want about the tenants of national socialism dude, at least it's an ethos." I think that gets lost in a lot of the discussions surrounding that gangster regime. Their evil was so off the charts that people tend to overlook the ideology behind it, as whacked as it may be. In order to be a true believer you have to have something to believe in. That may sound like an oversimplification but look around at these kids showing up for these social-media ordered riots. Sure, there is a cause de-jure, but a fair amount of them would show up because it's Tuesday. They are just raging against the machine. They feel like they have no stake in a world that has abandoned them so they want to see it torn down. And they just like breaking things and blowing sh*t up, like the trashman character out of The Stand. Our fallen nature in its rawest form.
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  485. How do you convince a group to stand up for their rights when so many of them aren't even sure where those rights come from? I wish I shared the optimism expressed here. I used to, but as time goes on my faith in people to fight for what is right and against what is wrong becomes weaker. How did George Carlin put it, within every cynic beats the heart of a disillusioned optimist? Again, I wish it wasn't so.
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  486. People have to want liberty. It's a right, but for a lot reasons it appears to be an acquired taste. This notion goes back to the days of antiquity, whether its Plato's Allegory of the Cave or the Israelites wanting to return to Egypt rather than face an uncertain future where they would have to take on responsibility for their own lives. A boogie man to blame for life's disappointments is more than handy for those who profit from oppression, real or imagined, it's a necessity.
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  487.  @sharonsparks5121  I agree he has done a lot of truly nasty stuff that could be categorized as evil but I believe anyone can be made well through the grace of God. Now do I think that is going to happen in his case? Based on his track record I would say it is doubtful but salvation is available for all who seek it.
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  488. I had to fast forward past gore. Nobody has made more money for being an annoying sh*thead who lies so much he needs somebody else to call his dog and who's wrong about everything all the time. He's the poster-child for where America went wrong. The boomers wrecked this place permanent. They came out of the womb spoiled little entitled brats and they are going to die that way by the looks of it. But then again, they don't even have the decency to do that. Instead, they hang onto power into the 80s and steal even though they have more than they can spend. But hey, the world is going to end in 12 years right? Oh I forgot, that was four years ago. Hope my team wins the SB within the next eight because we all know we will be completely underwater by then. Or is it living in deserts? It's hard to keep up with these moon bats. in the meantime, get ready to enjoy that 500 calorie a day diet they have planned for you. They vill eat ze bugs mein fuhrer. Zeig heil!
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  489. Dr. Hanson is a smart guy, as smart as they come, but unfortunately we aren't going to be able to vote our way out of the current mess we find ourselves in. Let's say trump does win. What's really going to change? Take off the blinders for a moment and put away the shirts and skins clan mentality and take an honest look at who trump is, who will be advising him, and what he is up against. What will happen when he tries to shut the border and some judge in Hawaii issues an injunction halting his action? Based on past performance he will say; well I tried but we gotta let it play out. Remember when he banned tranny's from military service and the chiefs ignored him? What did he do? Did anyone get fired? Remember the huge budget increases under his watch? Jailbreak legislation? And of course, listening to that weasel fauci to the exclusion of all others during COVID? The crap appointments he made? The squishy republicans he is endorsing now because people giving him cash to to fund his legal bills tell him to? Or maybe it's because they are running against someone who said something bad about him or supported Governor DeSantis in the primary? What kind of people are going to be willing to work for him after seeing the lawfare the last bunch who got too close to trump had to endure? Look, I hate the idea of a fourth obama term more than anyone but the fact is we've got problems, REAL problems that require REAL leadership and tough calls to be made. But Americans, especially republican boomer primary voters like the show more than solutions and the grifters in right-wing/alternative media, whatever you want to call them. play along and lie to their voters about polls and such because it's good for clicks. Without trump more than 3/4 of them would be back writing copy for National Review or some other establishment rag. Either that or they'd be back where they started, recording podcasts on the laptop from their garage. No, trump is going to lose and the grifters will raise holy-hell about cheats and other "swampy" shenanigans while the country goes into a real recession, maybe a full blown depression, and the government addresses the crisis in ways that make us pine for the good old days of COVID, jabs, masks, and tranny's. But hey, don't worry, trump 2028 will be working on a new and improved campaign by 2026. And the beat goes on...the beat goes on. Live long and prosper gang, I'm sure it will be alright, hannity told me it would this time around. 🖖
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  490. I grew up in one of those liberal run cities. Wanna know when crime goes up? When the cops aren't around. I think I was six when I figured that one out. I've said it before, it's like Tim Allen says, these people will lie about lying. They are algebra liars. In their world, two lies make a truth.
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  491. Like every piece of real-estate, location, location, location. As far as cosmic turf is concerned, it's good to live in the boonies.
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  492. Naming one of those missiles Satan, yeah, that's a proper fit. So much for the end of the Cold War leading to disarmament. I know he was an early contributor to this mess but Ike put it best when they laid out the Op-Plan for all out nuclear war: "Is all this necessary? How many times do we have to kill a guy?"
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  493. I'm not sure why The Nation needs a sports editor. Sports aren't really their thing, maybe badminton I suppose, but certainly not a male dominated sport like football. Then again, they did get Goodell to bend the knee to their causes but I digress. A guy like Michael Strahan is more up their alley, somebody who will have an 11 year old stripper on his show and call what his mother is doing to the kid an act of bravery. I guess an NFL that supports grooming and tranny madness is what the writers at The Nation would prefer, not all that running around and tackling stuff. That is far too manly for that guys sensibilities I imagine.
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  494. A nice altruistic gesture on your part Drinker. I don't know if it's a coincidence but You Tube didn't fill this one full of adds. Anyway, your heart is in the right place so good on ya. I've never seen this but maybe I'll check it out. I love history and I used to keep my eye out for accuracy but I decided to separate the two a few years ago and I'm better off for it. There is history, then there is a movie about history and if a director takes some license I'm okay with it. Unless it's Ron Howard tarnishing the legacies of guys who have died just because in his formulaic way of making movies a plot calls for tension, or incompetence, or an antagonist, or whatever. He did it with Apollo 13 and Cinderella Man but I guess that is a gripe for another time. I just hate squirmy guys who trash a man when he's dead. At least have the balls to defame a guy while he's alive like Moneyball did with Art Howe. He was able to tell his side. Same with Johnny Cash's first wife after Walk the Line came out. Anyway, enough of that. Good review as always.
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  495. This is why we can't have nice things.
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  496. No offense, well, maybe more than a little, but to have anyone who worked on the script of that BS movie on and treat him like an expert is insulting. Well, it would be insulting to most folks, at least those who didn't get their gig carrying water for O'Reilly and who spends a lot of his time sparring with the bartender. I just watched this out of curiosity. Consider that satisfied.
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  497. "Looking for communication in all the wrong places." Hmmm...🤔Like closing time at a bar in the combat zone or the French Quarter? Or does he mean something else?
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  498. "Do you consider yourself a serious legislator?" A typical horsesh*t question from a Fox news hack aimed at disparaging a conservative lawmaker. Why doesn't mccarthy or lindsey graham get asked that question? Seems like it would be more appropriate. As for weakening the Speaker position, good. Fox and the RNC are just pissed that conservatives won't behave like lockstep democrats and take their assigned seats in the back of the bus.
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  499. To hear her talk the president can wave a magic wand and undo all the evil and injustice in the world. Lovely sentiment, and the best argument for why you don't hand over power to people like her. But she is right on one level. We aren't suffering from a political crisis as much as we are struggling with a spiritual one. I just think it would be an incredibly bad idea to look to a new age spiritualist for the solution. Revival or bust.
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  500. As a Floridian I love what the governor has accomplished during his term. He has shown the rest of the country you don't have to get bullied by the state-run media and you don't have to be afraid of being called names. In fact, being called names improves your chances of reelection. But we need to hold the reps we send to congress to task. The Liberty Scorecard at Conservative Review is a great tool that lets you know how your rep stacks up when it comes to issues conservatives care about. Florida's republican members of congress have a pretty poor track record when it comes to doing the right thing. It's one thing to be a red state, it's another to do something with that power. These new GOP voters will stay away in droves if the mcconnell and mccarthy wings in congress behave the way squishy republicans have in the past. These Hispanic voters are coming over because the communists running the democratic party have scared the crap out of them and they want a future for their children that includes freedom, not slavery to a group of marxist overlords. That is what their fathers and grandfathers ran away from and they know it when they see it. The republicans are going to get one shot at this. Picking someone other than mccarthy for Speaker would send the right message. Unfortunately, the turtle in the senate is too deeply entrenched to get rid of him. But the new senators can make life uncomfortable for that corrupt old man, maybe enough that he resigns or at least decides in 2024 that him and that chi-com wife of his have stolen enough to live out their remaining couple of years in comfort. Governor DeSantis turned this state red, not the republican party, and unless they want it to go back in the swing column after 2022 they better not act the way republicans normally do, like a bunch of whipped pups afraid of their own shadows.
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  501. WWI wasn't a spontaneous event triggered by an assassination as some make it out to be. Bad blood between Germany and France over the Franco-Prussian war in 1870 became more toxic over time. There were crises popping up all over in Morocco, Bosnia, even the Japanese-Russo War was a harbinger of bigger things to come. People had been talking about the inevitability of war for a while in most of the countries in Europe, definitely in the cafe's, colleges, and political bodies of the main players. France hated Germany, Germany envied Britain, Austria-Hungary feared decline, Russia feared the people, The Ottoman's were dying, and the Brits looked at Germany with a wary eye and tried to figure out how to keep the peace and maintain the proper balance of power on the continent. Too many competing forces acting at the same point in time. And while observers had seen what happens when new technology butts heads with old tactics and the futility of frontal assaults against fortified trenches during the American Civil War they failed to learn the proper lessons from that conflict. Everyone thought the thing would be over in a few months and some sort of new order or stability would be achieved, though they were kinda sketchy on the details. So when you ask the question: "Who was truly to blame?" The answer is everyone, though it was Satan who set the chessboard and watched as a century he could truly call his own came to life.
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  502. Sorry, you ruined it with Stairway at #1. It's pretty and all, and when I was a kid that was the song everyone learned but maybe it just got so worn out for me on a personal level that I wouldn't even have it on my list. I would have included And I Love Her. It's a simple hook, but it grabs you right away. And how come Ian Anderson never gets any love when it comes to these types of homages to acoustic guitar? The intro to Life's a Long Song or Skating Away are better hooks than some of the tunes here. But these things are subjective so WTH.
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  503. No sane person believes that lying * anymore than they believe that gasbag in Michigan claiming she only kept the schools closed for three months or that lying piece of dogsh*t running in Florida who made the claim that when he was governor he didn't lock any schools down. No sh*t sherlock, but you were all over DeSantis for opening the schools when he did and for telling biden to stick his vax mandates where the sun don't shine. These people are shameless because they belong to the father of all lies. I don't make that claim lightly. Look around at the demonic policies they promote such as child mutilation and give me the innocent explanation for it.
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  504. The die may not have been cast in 1936 when the Germans reoccupied the Rhineland but it certainly set the stage for future events. It was a major bluff on Hitler's part and he had instructed his commanders to beat feet if they got any pushback from the French. But they didn't get any pushback. That proved to Hitler that he could get away with being a bully and it was an indication that the élan spirit of the French army was dead. Building the Maginot Line was proof that France was preparing to fight the last war and the Nazi's...well, they had decided fighting the last war was a bad idea for them. The French weren't the only p*ssies around at that time, but they were among the biggest. I don't agree with Stalin's position on much but he had a point about not letting the French have a hand in carving up Germany. He felt they hadn't earned that right and while you could argue the point, it's not without merit.
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  505.  @RealEstateMonkey1  What you wrote doesn't make sense; "actually, the american government declared war on germany 3 days after they did on germany." What does that even mean? And Hitler declared war on the United States first so if that is what you are referring to I'm not wrong.
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  506. I saw this one at the theater and I thought it was okay. It reminded a bit of Saving Private Ryan with less subplots. In my opinion, When Trumpets Fade does a better job of showing individual struggles while trying to complete a seemingly impossible mission but that's just me. But I agree it was good to see a contemporary film maker examine WWI. It was the seminal event of the 20th Century, setting the stage for Communism, Anti-Colonial Movements, and WWII. I recommend Margaret McMillin's Paris 1919 and if you like that read her other book on the subject, The War to End all Peace. She is the preeminent author on WWI in my humble opinion.
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  507. So Australia has it's own version of Queen Nefertiti? 🤔Is your third-world ingrate into incest like that Omar chick we got stuck with?
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  508.  @johnwhite5485  Indeed I do. Mickey Lolich jumping into Bill Freehan's arm at the end, even Gibson striking out 17 of the local heroes in Game 1. The riots of 67 did a number on the city, the Tigers brought us together in 68. What a time. I remember thinking at the time that Seattle got jobbed after only one season. I was happy when you got the Mariners. Ken Griffey Jr. What a stud. He went off on Sparky Anderson in 1990 for intentionally walking him one series damn near every time he came to the plate. They kissed and made up later. Sparky had a real soft-spot for the kid, considering he was always hanging around the clubhouse of the Big Red Machine. Best of luck this season, unless it's against us.
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  509. That woman is so inept she has to print gobledygook from socialist websites. I mean an adequate, we're not talking good here, just adequate, WH press secretary is able to spout original gobeldygook at the drop of a dime. I figured that was part of the interview process, how well does one deliver impromptu BS without really needing to think. And what did all that commie gobledygook boil down to in the end? Tax the rich. There's an original thought. Gee, never heard that one before. Did anyone ever take that woman aside and ask her if she was sure she had the brain power for this gig? Someone should have. But hey, she's is gay I think so she'll get a shot at her own show on MSNBC when it's all said and done. She might even trade witticisms with such mental heavyweights as Al Sharpton and Joy Reid. Or, hold my breath, maybe an all-gay hour with her and Don Lemon. Pinch me Tito, I must be dreaming.
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  510. Seeing that senile old moron walking around wearing that face diaper makes me want to puke. This whole immigration mess is obama's doing. It's part of his fundamental transformation of the country. We are the only nation standing in the way of the globalist agenda. He's a part of that cabal and biden is just a useful idiot. They want the place to crash. Yes we can indeed.
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  511. I grew up in Michigan and all of my friends and family still live there so I know a bit about the place. Voters in Wayne, Washtenaw, and Oakland counties have been voting democratic so long they have essentially become one-party environments. The word I got from friends and family was that Dixon until recently has run a weak campaign. In a normal state not dominated for decades by unions witch-more would be losing and losing big but those generational d-voters will keep it within the margin of cheating and that woman and her little attack dog AG will continue their reign of terror for another four years. I saw where Mayor Pete moved there last year. Maybe they can have eight years of buttafudge starting in 2027. Him and his husband can take on the big issues like tearing down those racist bridges and making the motor city more like Beijing, with everyone riding bicycles.
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  512. I've got to believe calling out the Guard and putting up fences was Pelosi's idea. First, Biden's mind is too far gone for him to make any actual decisions and anyone who thinks he is running the joint, well, I suppose you also buy the notion that Epstein offed himself at JUST the SAME TIME as the cameras to his cell failed. Whatever happened to THAT story by the way? Seems like any aspiring investigative journalist would LOVE to crack that. I guess it went into the same media blackhole that swallowed up the story of the BLM maniac who plowed his vehicle into a bunch of kids but I digress. I will take exception with Mr. Rubin's take on housing prices going through the roof here in my home state as a good thing. So, it's a good thing that the average young Floridian family can't afford to buy a house because high prices will make sure the "right people" come to Florida? Sorry, but that is elitist bullshit and it doesn't surprise me that it's coming from a guy who transplanted his ass here from California. That is the kind of reasoning coastal elites have. Couple of points Mr. Rubin, since you are a fairly new lefty convert. People who love liberty don't see roadblocks to upward mobility as a good thing, especially if it is framed as a way to make sure the "right" people come here. We wouldn't want any of those smelly working class people on our side would we? And here's another point, but this one is personal and a bit off subject. People who want to see traditional values restored don't typically say things like "I'm okay using someone's preferred pronoun out of respect." Sorry if I went off a bit here but stuff like that is why I unsubscribed from your channel and only tune in if it is a short bit on a subject I find interesting. But that's just me. Another trait conservatives have is allowing everyone, that includes you and me, the right to express their views. I doubt anyone will read this and if they do maybe they won't like it but that's just me and I really don't care what popular opinion says one way or another.
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  513. What legislation has the bartender introduced? She's been there coming up on six years and it's pretty clear that working on her brand is whole lot more important to her than actually doing her job. Two shortest books in the world: "Meaningful legislation sponsored by AOC" and "Stuff that works" by Bernie Sanders. People who vote these brain dead parasites get what they deserve. New York is falling apart because they send corrupt morons to D.C. and elect marxist agitators at the local level. That's a winning formula.
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  514. It was interesting to hear that caller from all those years ago try to use the Bible to make his argument. I just had an exchange with a left-wing gentleman the other day who used the same tired trope. He admitted he doesn't go to church, doesn't believe in God, and doesn't accept the notion of sin or a higher transcendent morality, calling religion an outdated superstition from the Bronze-Age, yet he used the same line from scripture that the left had been falling back on for years to create a straw-man for immigration. These guys really should update their tactics. I think they don't because they are lazy. The truth is obama and his ilk are treating this more like a Soviet-style attack from WWII, a full-frontal assault with the intention of overwhelming the enemy with superior numbers. He knows that even if he is voted out of office this go round the republican president who takes over will never be able to get rid of the millions his stooge has allowed to come in these past three years. What are we going to do; get a bunch of busses, higher a bunch of agents, and drive around the country grabbing these people and then driving them to the border in order to send them back? obama knows that will never happen. His hope is to flood the system until it breaks or to create an internal contradiction along the lines of the old Hapsburg dynasty where it just becomes impossible to manage so many ethnically and culturally diverse groups of people. He needs the existing system to crash in order to complete his fundamental transformation and like all good Maoists he's willing to play the long-game. The damage is done and the cure is akin to national chemo. Will it come to that? That is hard to say. But at the very least, the infrastructure has been sufficiently weakened. A time-bomb has been set and the clock is ticking, and nothing can be done to diffuse it. It's just a matter of putting together a plan for what a Balkanized America will look like. I wish I could see a rosier future where we all have a kumbaya moment and live in peace and harmony in the utopia the left has promised its true believers for centuries, but I don't. Dystopian nightmares are born from this sort of toxic brew. Free advice, get right with God.
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  515. I took two courses in political ideology in the mid-90s, when you had people on both sides of the spectrum proclaiming that ideology was dead and a new era of peace, a Pax-Americana described by some in dialectic terms as the end of history had arrived. Fortunately, I had a great professor who could break down ideology and its application brilliantly and could articulate conservative principles more effectively than anyone I have met before or since, and he was a card carrying democrat. We took our eye off the ball when The Wall came down and bought into the notion of a New World Order professed by Bush and his crowd. I warned people then that authoritarian governments may be waving white flags but their ideas haven't gone away. I was told my thinking was archaic in the early 2000s when I sided with authors such as Samuel Huntington who challenged the neocons view of the future. While we were complacent the commies did what commies do, they continued their long march through the institutions. Fast forward to 2021 and we are, to put it bluntly, f***ked. They flanked us while we got distracted with other stuff. Ask 100 college graduates who John Locke was and I'm sure 95 would either have no idea or they would think he was some cop involved in the slaying of an unarmed black man. There is an old adage that claims those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Well, those who don't know their history become what Lenin termed, useful idiots. We were warned. We just didn't want to believe authoritarianism could take root in our system because it wasn't in our collective DNA. To quote John McClain: "Welcome to the party pal."
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  516. “Jesus answered: My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would certainly strive that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now my kingdom is not from hence.” ― John 18:36. God allowed bad things to happen to His only Begotten Son. Why would we think we would be immune to the evils of this world? God does not create slaves or masters. Free will is His greatest gift. It's how we respond to life's challenges that matter.
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  517. Ah Drinker, nice to have you back for 2022. Not the type of movie I would give a shit about even if it was done okay but since your reviews always bring out a few good laughs I figured why not. Here's to a happy and healthier new year as we...oh yeah, I forgot, thins are still pretty sucky. 🤔 Anyway, nice to see you're back. Looking forward to more reviews. Maybe some new extra shots since the current crop of movies ain't exactly lighting the lamp.
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  518. I'm a Detroit Lions fan. Something tells me if I managed to fire up the flux capacitor, jump in the DeLorean, ramp it up to the speed of light and emerge in the year 9000, we would still be waiting for our first Super Bowl appearance. Some curses are eternal.
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  519. Scooby Doo came along when I was entering my teens so I didn't really watch much of it (I was always a Loony-Toons/Rocky and Bullwikle kid anyway) so the fact they are destroying it doesn't really affect me. I got pissed years ago when the first attempt at stealing shows from youth and f*cking them up took place with the Beverly Hillbillies. After that mess I decided to just stay away from these updates and based on what Hollywood has put out, I haven't missed much.
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  520. Maybe they tried to play it a bit down the middle because it was The Daily Wire and even though it's easy to sing to to the choir on social and political issues things change when you put money into a project you want to reach beyond your echo chamber. If I was dealing with this subject matter I would have tackled it from the human side as opposed to taking the Die Hard route. Maybe a movie dealing with the aftermath and real dialogue about real emotions people experience after such a tragedy. I'm very pro Second Amendment but who's to say where I would land or how I would feel if my child was killed in such a manner? There are other ways to create tension and other journey's you can take your protagonist on. But that's just me. I doubt I'll watch this one. The plot has been overcooked already. Ben and company are new to the movie business so let's see where they go next, if there is a next.
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  521. You gotta know there was at least one person involved in this who looked at it like that 1:55 AM pickup at that bar you simply end up at. She doesn't even look passable with foggy beer goggles but everyone else is getting laid tonight and pride just won't let you walk away from what you know is a super bad idea. Your only worry as you pull out of the parking lot is; "I hope I can sneak out before she wakes up feeling frisky."
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  522. Or maybe we're not as insignificant as this guy makes us out to be. Maybe there's more to it than can be explained by simplistic rationalizing based on our development. Maybe we're not just clever pleasure seeking monkeys who figured out how to use our thumbs? Maybe there is a larger purpose to it all that can't be explained by scanning the sky looking for bio signatures. Just something to consider.
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  523. That was just a matter of time. Tucker had too many opinions that ran contrary to the Fox narrative. Maybe Bruce Jenner will get that coveted 8 PM slot, or perhaps dana perino, they both wear skirts and support the same "Fox family" values.
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  524. The people in this movement live a life of sin. Disconnected from God, they have attached themselves to the father of all lies. “For although they knew God they did not accord Him glory as God or give Him thanks. Instead, they became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened." ―Romans 1 It's not surprising that they would call for violence against people who honor God or those who simply disagree with them or refuse to affirm their lies, to join them in their deception. “The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.” ― Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Stay strong until the day of reckoning. “Many shall be refined, purified, and tested, but the wicked shall prove wicked; the wicked shall have no understanding, but those with insight shall…Blessed are they who have patience and persevere for the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days. Go, take your rest, you shall rise for your reward at the end of days.” ― Daniel 12: 10-13
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  525. I get it. I served in the military for more than 20 years and I worked with these bureaucrats for an additional few years as an independent contractor. I stopped working for government agencies because I saw how poorly they were run and how these functionaries operated like they were untouchable, especially the people I worked most closely with, the ones at GS-15 and up level. I agree with the with the adage: "Mission statement of a government agency: If it ain't broke we'll fix it till it is." That said, this is just another example of Vivek running his mouth and writing checks with it his ass could never cash. Base terminations on SS numbers? Yeah, that wouldn't lead to thousands of lawsuits and other headaches. I know, Walsh is a big Vivek guy. I can see the appeal since Walsh makes his living off of owning the libs. A moronic solution like the one this used-car salesman offers up is just the kind of thing Walsh can make a video on. It's just like when Vivek said Pence could have held up the election certifying vote by getting some law passed that day. He's a smart guy but I dunno, maybe his understanding of how the government actually functions is so weak he really believes his own BS. He is a Millennial which means he was raised at a time when civics was as dead as courses in Latin in our school system. We had a guy in the WH already who didn't understand how government actually works. It's how we ended up with fauci, operation warp speed, christopher wray, and eight trillion additional dollars of debt, much of it going to democrats who used the cash to cheat their way to an electoral win. But hey, if you believe you can simply waltz in and arbitrarily fire millions of people based on the social security numbers, Vivek is your guy. If you like the show more than solutions, Vivek is your guy. If you think a convicted felon who will likely be kept of the ballot in a lot of states and will be so busy in court it won't matter anyway, Trump is your guy. And no, I'm not some RINO all in on nikki hailey. Do what you want. But know this, Vivek is full-of-sh*t. If you like being lied to, him and Trump are your guys.
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  526. I imagine this Oliver character would have told jokes about Jews and other people deemed sub-human by the Fuhrer and Himmler in the 30s if it paid well enough. People like him, who know good and damn well that they are partaking in a lie, and doing it for a buck, are playing a dangerous game with their eternal soul: “The wrath of God is indeed being revealed from heaven against every impiety and wickedness of those who suppress the truth by their wickedness. For what can be known about God is evident to them, because God made it evident to them…for although they knew God, they did not accord Him glory as God or give Him thanks. Instead, they became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened. While claiming to be wise, they became fools” ― Romans 1: 18-22 “I tell you, on the day of judgment people will render an account for every careless word they speak. By your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.” ― Matthew 12: 36-37
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  527. I think a heroic life is one rooted in virtue and justice, not self-actualization. It's true that people who are unsure of themselves are least likely to act heroically but sometimes there is an internal flame that just needs the proper catalyst to ignite it. And I disagree with the notion of hero-worship. Hero-worship is a practice that will always leave you disillusioned and disappointed because people are flawed beings. Hero-admiration perhaps. Worship needs to be reserved to the one true God who will never leave you disillusioned or disappointed. Don't confuse that assertion with a guarantee that God will cure all your Earthly troubles. Bad things still happen because evil exists. But isn't that what heroes are all about? Combatting that evil by acting virtuously and being just? Heroes gain that status because we assign it to them. There are many heroes whose names remain obscure. But I agree with the premise, we need more people willing to perform acts of heroism.
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  528. There's nothing misplaced about any of this. All churches are under attack by Satan, the demons, and their minions. This is a coordinated action and unless and until Christians of all faiths see and acknowledge this assault for what is and understand the principalities behind this effort, the boundaries will continue to be pushed and pushed some more until authority rests with secular leaders alone, including moral and spiritual standards. Make no mistake, the Devil knows his time short and Hell has been emptied. “When an unclean spirit goes out of a person it roams through arid regions searching for rest but finds none. Then it says, ‘I will return to my home from which I came.’ But upon returning, it finds it empty, swept clean, and put in order. Then it goes and brings back with itself seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they move in and dwell there; and the last condition of that person is worse than the first.” ― Matthew 12: 43-45
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  529. That race should not be close. Of course it helps if you're in charge of elections at the same time as you're running for office because as their spirit animal Joe Stalin liked to say who votes doesn't matter, who counts the votes does. That democrat won't recuse herself from that part of it so that means Kari is going to have to win way beyond the margin of cheating because the commies don't care anymore. They aren't trying to hide a bit of what they are actually up to. That is why I love that Kari is bringing a howitzer to the gunfight. If she governs like she says she will she will be a player for national election's moving forward. Bank on it.
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  530. It doesn't matter, she's in the club, and she will serve as long as she wants. They will keep re-electing her because the DNC will not allow anyone to primary her and the voters are such automatons they will continue to pull the lever for whoever has the magic d in front of their name. Just like republicans will vote for the guy with r no matter who squishy he may be. It's the same kind of tribalism you get in third world countries, only we have faster internet speeds and better housing.
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  531. DeSantis hates black people. Wanna know who hates black people? How about we start with the woman who gets a paycheck every week from her white masters. She hates herself most of all I imagine. You can't sell that much of your soul and have an ounce of respect for yourself. Does this woman have any other position than you are a racist? How can anyone sit there and listen to her parrot the same charge at everyone who disagrees with the communist/democratic party day in and day out. I've seen mud puddles deeper than her and the rest of the cackling hens they pay to call people names, counting on white men to be too scared to sue black women. Good for this guy. At least they can't call him a white suprema... 🤔...never mind. Good luck all the same. This woman is disgusting and it would be nice to see someone take her down a peg or two. I'm sure it's in her contract that the network has to pay her legal fees. Maybe if they made it a cost-centered issue she would be out on the street where she belongs, holding a "will yell at whitey for money" sign. I'm sure her dozens of viewers would be upset but they'd get over it soon enough.
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  532. Tulsi, I don't agree with ya on everything but when the dark queen from Arkansas accused you of being a Russian agent I knew you had to be okay on some level. You can tell a lot about someone by the enemies they make, and anyone that psychopath hates is at least alright in my book. As for the comedian playing dictator, the biden crime family along with people like mcconnell and his chi-com wife aren't defending democracy, they are defending their money laundering interests. At some point Putin will cut a deal, then he will shift his sights to the Baltic states. They are actual members of NATO (why is beyond me, but then again, why NATO still exists is beyond me, but I digress) but they don't launder money so they will be allowed to be swallowed up again by the Bear. Welcome to democracy marxist style. Isn't it grand? Yes we can indeed.
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  533. I am very much for civil liberty and limiting the role government plays in our individual lives. It's why I cautioned my friends who were cheering when that abomination called the patriot act was passed. I tried to warn em, it ain't no fun when the rabbit has the gun so be careful what you wish for Dorothy. As John Adams said, liberty lost is gone forever. Once the government starts limiting or outright taking away basic civil liberties they tend to hang on to to the power they have seized. So that is where I stand on civil rights. My main problem with libertarians, and I have several, is they tend to be secular by default which results in them not really having a core set of principles based on a transcendent morality. Take a guy like dennis prager. I listened to him for a time but his "libertarian sensibilities" left me shaking my head. Like the time he was interviewing a guy who was on the front-line of fighting human trafficking and prager wanted him to draw a distinction between human traffickers and hard-working pimps just trying to make a buck. As I mentioned, he based that on his "libertarian sensibilities." Just like his stance on pornography and a number of issues he sees as victimless crimes. Another example is john stossel who did an expose on the homeless problem in San Francisco and how the crime spree that was a direct result of it was killing residential and business districts. At the end he made sure to include the disclaimer that while junkies leaving needles lying around, holding people up in broad daylight, relieving themselves where they choose, and stealing so much that businesses are shutting down is a problem, we still had to balance that with the junkies right to shoot up where he wished. More libertarian sensibilities at work. And their candidate for president this year? Chase Oliver, a guy who describes himself as "angry and gay." Okay, fair enough. If all of that is your thing, by all means, have at it. But that is the libertarian party circa 2024 and it will continue to get more fringe as the world gets more crazy because when you adopt a utilitarian "live and let live" attitude in world where the guardrails are being removed at an alarming rate and you're dealing with people who have no intention of letting you "live and let live" well, you do the math. That kind of thinking works fine in a world where everyone is sane and rational and they respect the rights of their neighbor. Unfortunately, that world has never existed, and the idea that if you just made it all legal somehow people would be pacified...well, if you buy that I've got some lakefront property to sell you. It's 10-feet offshore but hey, the view is spectacular.
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  534. To anyone who thinks the timing of this thing, suddenly finding these documents on the heal of that dog-and-pony raid at Trump's residence isn't some sort of well thought out plan, that it's just some amazing coincidence, I've got an acre of swampland I can let you have cheap. As to the mind who conceived it: "Did you order the code red?" obama: "You're g-d right I did. I'd do it again, it's my job."
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  535. You kinda hit on one of the problems that I believe to be insurmountable, the whole international cooperation angle. If you could point to one instance where that has ever worked, and please, spare me any UN nonsense, I'd give it maybe a 1,000,000,000-1 shot. And what about bringing the stuff back? You touched on getting to it and obliquely about getting the ores/minerals out, but how does bringing it back work? That's a lot of weight. You thought there was a fireball around the Apollo capsule? I get the feeling that much mass crashing through the atmosphere is going to be a tad bit warmer. And it will take one helluva propulsion system to take off of whatever body we land on. Maybe, just maybe, if we had stuck with exploration after the Apollo program we would be half a century away. Now? The entire infrastructure has to be built from the ground up. Technologies we don't have will have to be created to overcome hurdles we haven't even thought of. And we are 32-trillion and counting in debt. No bucks, no Buck Rogers. But hey, I like the optimism. It's why I tune in from time-to-time. Maybe your great, great, great, grandchildren will see it, provided we are still around and something hasn't happened to, as George Carlin once delicately put it" "Kick us off this rock like a bad case of the fleas."
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  536. What that woman is discovering is something she would have anticipated if she truly understood the DNA of the far left. Rousseau, the godfather of all leftist politics spoke about the general will in the 18th Century and how it's okay to deal with people who buck the general will harshly. Marx said it, Lenin practiced it, Stalin and Mao turned it into an industry, killing millions in the name of progress. The American left is no different. Read the history of the American communist party and how many hoops and barrels they had to jump through during WWII when Stalin first demanded they make peace with the Nazis, their ideological enemies, then demanded they go back to hating them again after the Soviet Union was invaded. No matter where the left grabs power they always engage in the same behavior. It's who they are. They are Godless so the movement acts as their religion and they see the state as enforcers not, not as a body responsible to the people they govern. This current hard left turn is a byproduct of obama. He was raised by Marxists, he has the Marxist authoritarian mindset, he is Godless, and he believes he can fundamentally transform America, just like he promised. He is the leader of the left and if you are of the left you are expected to follow in lock-step. His edicts and the edicts of his underlings are expected to be obeyed without question and when you question them, like Rousseau said, you need to be dealt with harshly. All you had to do was learn the history of the left Anna, from the French Revolution to America in 2024. They come after you because it's who they are. It's in the political DNA. Just like weak-ass squishiness is in the DNA of the republican party. See, us conservatives are homeless as well. One more thing, if we stay on this current trajectory, things are going to get crazy bad. This isn't crazy bad. This is Satan's foreplay. I wish it wasn't so, but I've been around long enough to know how to read the tea-leaves. Sleep will kids.
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  537. A woman is behind a woke campaign pushing transgenderism. Wow. Color me shocked. Matt is right about American beer being p-water for the most part. I stopped drinking many years ago, back when you could get a six-pack of Bud for less than two bucks. I also travelled around quite a bit in those days and the difference between what was being sold on American shores versus what the rest of the world was drinking was Grand Canyon level. But we had better commercials. I used to get a kick out of the Miller Lite guys. They knew their audience. This woman? Does she honestly believe anyone who would find her campaign edgy and attractive would ever drink Bud Light? Not even if it was given to them for free. If they showed up at one of their parties with a six-pack of the stuff they would be mocked to the point of total seclusion or worse, never being able to show their painted face in public again. Just another case of I am woman hear me bore. And yes, I guess that makes me a knuckle dragger. So be it.
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  538. Anyone who would pay $95.00 to listen to that old commie is too stupid to have money, living proof that the old adage: "A fool and his money are soon parted" is as true today as it was in 1587 when the phrase was first coined. Here are two books that would be a perfect fit for anyone buying those tickets: "The Legislatives Accomplishments of Bernie Sanders" and "The Insightful Social Commentary and Clever Witticisms of AOC." One blank page for each. The shortest reads on Amazon's top 100.
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  539. Absurdity is easy to mock but be careful. What this woman is doing is taking a page from the old Soviet playbook where people who disagreed with the party were deemed insane and locked away for wrong-think. Of course everyone, including most likely this woman, knows she is talking out of her ass but once something gets written down and especially after it is peer reviewed by fellow travelers it becomes cannon to the left. All they have to do is find the right-thinking kind of judge who agrees and there ya go. So, be careful about laughing at the Devil, he just may get the last laugh himself.
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  540. Sorry ladies, but taking out a guy who is shooting at state troopers is not a tragedy and the fact he identifies as non-binary does not bring any other element into anything. ANTIFA has their marching orders. Start sh*t-disturbing in states with republican governors and/or legislatures in order to create chaos and hopefully a few more martyrs for the cause, somebody to rally around for the next riot. Normally they wait until summer because these lunatics aren't crazy about working in chilly weather but I suppose you go where the boss tells you to go when he tells you to go there. And that's the thing isn't it? If this was the Proud Boys or any other right-wing boogey man outfit DOJ would be tracing emails and following the money back to whoever is calling the shots and organizing these riots. But nobody is the least bit interested in that. It's all spontaneous you see. People from all over the country just decided at the same time to travel to Atlanta to do a bit smashing and burning. This is just the start. Georgia, Florida, maybe even South Dakota are all on the hit list (even though kristi noem is down with the tranny agenda she still has that R in front of her name, making SD a target). These psychopaths are the street army for the democratic party, modern-day SA brown shirts. Somebody is organizing and paying these thugs. Of course state-run media is going to call smashing, burning, and looting peaceful. They know their credibility is in the toilet so they don't even pretend to be objective any more. They are not journalists, they are propogandists, sons and daughters of democratic politicians and operatives who themselves were sons and daughters of democratic politicians and operatives. The media has been in the pocket of the democratic party since the days of FDR. They cannot be redeemed at this point. The question now is, what can be redeemed? It's a question being asked more frequently as the cultural marxists take total control of the democrat party and one that will require an answer sooner than later I'm afraid. One thing is certain, these maniacs who are roaming the countryside, showing up at these staged vents from coast-to-coast are ready for a fight. But the Proud Boys and white Christian nationalists are the greatest threat to democracy. Right? When one side will tell a lie that flagrant, and face no challenge for doing so, how many steps away from a totalitarian take over are you? Or is it a great reset? That does have a softer ring to it, doesn't it? 🤔Just sayin.
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  541. Dude, I'm sure you're well-meaning and sincere, but you have some, well let's say, innocent thinking on how spending in the swamp works and how governments function in general (I'm being generous when I say innocent). Most of the budget, 55%, is devoted to entitlements. We could have a whole debate on the rights and wrongs of that but you wanna increase your spending in star gazing? Get ready for the "You'll kill grandma" argument from the bunch handing out those checks. Where does the rest of our trillions go? Well, as of April 2024 it costs $624 billion to maintain the debt, which is 16% of the total federal spending. That's just paying on the interest, even though no one will really call out the collection agency anyway. Tack on another $820.3 billion, or roughly 18.3% of the budget for military spending. Add up just those three pieces of the government pie and we are at roughly 89% of all spending. Wanna see how spending federal money at the state level works. Michigan's governor just announced she is going to spend $250 million they got for COVID relief on prettying up the state parks. I mean, those lakes and trees were certainly affected by that killer virus. Sorry, I'm not trying to be snarky, but it's not as easy at that gasbag degrasse tyson makes it out to be. In fact, damn near every opinion that narcissistic windbag burps into existence is so full of crap a heard of cows would have a hard time matching his production, but I digress. And calling NASA a fine example of good government at work, well, you gotta stretch that definition pretty thin to fit it into the conversation. Look, don't get me wrong, I'm a space guy, but the will isn't there. The people aren't pumped like they were during Apollo and stuff you find cool is lost on the average product of our stellar education system. They're so lost and confused they don't what bathroom to use. If I sound overly cynical, well it comes from years of heartache. As George Carlin put it, inside every cynic beats the heart of a disillusioned optimist. I was THE true believer once upon a time. Now? Now I worry if we'll even have a country in the timeframes NASA is laying out there. And no, it's not the climate that's going to end us, it's our own indifference to being good citizens and our desire for our own personal comfort above all else. But that's me. Live long and prosper my brother. 🖖
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  542. Good analysis Drinker. I used to teach a lesson on stress management and I would open with the clip where Bill rips up the convenience store. I would ask my students if any of them ever felt that level of stress and if they were in Bill's shoes, would they have acted the same way. I used to get some interesting responses. The thing I like about the movie is Bill interacts with every social demographic, from gang-bangers to snotty fast-food workers. My favorite is the kid who teaches him how to fire the missile. He's so calm about it all and he's able to connect with Bill in a strange sort of way because of his demeanor. Anyway, it's a great movie, that's for sure.
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  543. They've set the precedent. You don't want illegal immigrants sniffing around your driveway, just kick em the hell out. Where is that judge in Hawaii who was setting immigration policy when Trump shut the border? How come he hasn't issued an injunction against the WASP's in obama's neck of the woods? Aren't they denying these people their right to a fair hearing in an American courtroom? Okay then. If dems da rules, every governor in the country has a green light to send em back to TJ and bill the Feds for the cost. You know good and damn well those rich folks on Martha's Vineyard didn't pay the freight. They called in the National Guard? Okay, again, the precedent is set. Mobilize the Guard and secure the frickin thing yourself. The lefties in Cape Cod are showing you how it's done. Who has the balls to do it? That is the real question. Whoever does, will have the inside track for president come 2024.
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  544. That woman carrying on about needing trans people is either insane or possessed, it's hard to tell these days. One thing for certain though, justin's dad fidel would be proud of the wrecking ball his son and his commie friends are rolling through Canada with. I was born there but will never step foot in that Godforsaken country again. They are what happens when you impose a nanny state and take away people's right to own guns. Good luck getting rid of that dictator. True patriot sons indeed.
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  545. Perusing briefly through the comments makes me feel that much older. I see comments about the good old days and classic tunes of the 80s and 90s and I think to myself: "Except for artists like Tom Petty and Joe Jackson I kinda checked out after 1975." But the 80s were 40 + years ago so they have a point. My golden age ran from 1965 to 1975, when I came of age. Others look back nostalgically at the 50s. We're talking 60, 70 years ago. I mentioned this to my sister today, that kids watching me tap my toes to The Beatles, The Who, and The Doors would kinda be like me watching people jamming out to Bessie Smith and Al Jolsen on an old Victrola back in the 70s. And yes, there were still a few of those around when I was coming of age. Oh well, each generation embraces its own. I wonder what a time traveler from the 18th Century would make of it. I guess they'd shout out: "Give me that good old Beethoven and Bach." Which, I like myself to be honest. To each his own. Like I say, the comments just make me feel a bit long in the tooth. Using the term long in the tooth makes me feel long in the tooth for that matter. Ce la vie. Father time remains undefeated.
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  546. What was happening at the University of Pennsylvania? The chi-coms were being read in. That's treason. Now the question is, when does the impeachment process start? President Trump was impeached over made-up Russian pee tapes that existed only in the paranoid riddled brain of the dark queen from Arkansas and statements he made talking to a propagandist from Pravda. Here is an actual crime and the senile old coot doesn't even deny it took place. Find out who is selling access at Penn and arrest them. Force them to testify in front of Congress on biden's criminal activity. Remove biden from office and charge him, his son, and the commies they were working for with violation of the Espionage Act. Guys like Aldridge Ames and Robert Hansen are serving life terms for similar crimes. If this country was a functional republic this would be the biggest political scandal in the nations history. But alas, we don't have a functional republic. We have an oligarchy and if you are familiar with Aristotle you know what follows an oligarchy. Look around tell me I'm wrong about where we are heading as a nation. A republic if you can keep it? I'm afraid the boomers said no, I'd rather see what I can get for it on the open market. A pox on all their houses.
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  547. For decades it was assumed that your IQ was set somewhere around the age of 20, though I have heard arguments for as low as 12. Regardless, studies have shown long exposure to the coven on the view will cause your IQ to drop. There may have even been a time when the panelists themselves were not as ignorant and stupid as they appear to be now. I recall interviews with whoopi many years ago where she was quite lucid. Now? Now her brain cells have been bought and paid for by the same white devils at disney she has been taught to despise since she was a kid. The self-loathing Caucasians on the show are putting on act, accept for maybe that redheaded dingbat who would probably calmly walk into a gas chamber herself if it was explained that she is being punished for being white. That blonde idiot probably didn't meet a black person until she was in her 30s. As for that navaro moron, she's a former bush republican who couldn't hack it in the actual world so she sold her soul to the lowest bidder. If it sounds like I'm being unfair, I guess I am. But we have to start calling these morons out because ignoring them has only emboldened their ilk. They aren't going away. It's like the character from the movie Hoosiers who tells the coach there are two kinds of crazy. The kind where a guy gets naked and howls at the moon and the kind where a guy gets naked and howls at the moon his front yard. The second one he's forced to deal with. The couple of dozen people who watch that mess may buy into the lies they spread, but abc knows exactly what they are doing and why, for years now, they have supported that loony bin and let it go on the way it has with no adult supervision. Got to keep that gay/woke score up there at a 10. Howard K. Smith must be rolling in his grave.
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  548. COVID is the weakest of the viruses we are facing and until people of goodwill realize that our liberty will remain in the ICU.
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  549. "There's no right. There's no wrong. There's only popular opinion." ― Jeffrey Goines: 12 Monkeys
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  550. Institutions like the NYT have been bought paid for by globalists. They are now just propaganda outlets for the left who throw around terms like genocide because they know their target audience has no idea what the word even means. Communists aren't concerned with history because for them history begins and ends when they say it does. Lashing out and calling people names is just what they do. They don't care if the information they spread is right or wrong just like they don't care about what will follow when they tear down western civilization. It's all about power. Nothing more, nothing less. They would insult a cumquat if that's what their masters demanded. The worst is yet to come.
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  551. He looked like he was thinking about Fredo's fishing trip. Too bad he's a Godless communist. At least Fredo was able to recite the Hail Mary before getting whacked.
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  552. Walls work. How much would it take to build one around California? With a real wide moat on this side. Of course we would have to ban air travel from there once the wall was up. THAT could get tricky. Tricky, but doable? 🤔 Hey, a guy can dream can't he?
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  553. I can't speak for what is going on Britain but the attempt at separating people from their culture has been going on for decades here in the U.S. and the sad part is, the number of crazies wanting to tear down statues and burn books is really a very small percentage. The problem here isn't so much politeness as it is indifference on the part of too many people for too many years. Our tradition is based on individualism and sadly a lot of people felt like if something wasn't directly affecting them, why should they care? But that is starting to change now that the crazies have kicked it into overdrive. Erick Erickson is credited with coining the phrase, you will be made to care. That is the stage we are entering here. Of course, one of the largest problems the hard core leftists have is explaining with any kind of detail what exactly the system they have in mind to replace the patriarchy will look like and how it will function. Most of their young zealots haven't thought the matter through but when you are a cultist that doesn't really matter anyway. A lot of them are just Nihilists raging against the machine. They have this pent up rage and angst and since most of them come from dysfunctional homes they were taught to respond to everything on an emotional level. Like I say, it's a small number but because they lash out they make a lot of noise and get a lot of attention. The powers that be who are using them are okay with that because as long as the spotlight is on the crazies they get to do what they do best, acquire more power. And that is the key to it all, the acquisition and application of raw power. More damage has been done to this country over the past 60 years than in the 200 that preceded it. I know because I had a front row seat for most of it. My generation inflicted a lot of that damage, hedonistic bunch that we were. May God have mercy on our souls. But that's me.
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  554. Dr. Peterson makes some good points and the vision he outlines does have the potential to provide a more stable state of affairs at the macro-level. Three are however two points I think he should have elaborated on or incorporated. The first is the acknowledgment of God. He danced around it with references to objective truth, natural law, and Abrahamic traditions but the vision is largely secular in nature. Perhaps that is by design. As C.S. Lewis put it, "Aim at Heaven, and you will get Earth thrown in. Aim at Earth, and you will get neither.” I know the arguments for against because I spent a considerable amount of time in both camps and the conclusion I came away with is we are better off when we have a relationship with our Creator. I'm not talking about religion and dogma, I'm talking about an active relationship with the living God. “For although they knew God they did not accord him glory as God or give Him thanks. Instead, they became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened. While claiming to be wise, they became fools…And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God handed them over to their undiscerning mind to do what is improper.” ―Romans 1 Look around and consider the validity of those words. Put your views on religion aside for one moment and consider what Paul is describing in relation to what is happening today. The second point I'd like to make is that Dr. Petersen left two attributes off his list which I believe lie at the core of much of the problems we face today. The first is virtue. Our Founding Fathers put great stock in the importance of virtue. Did they fall short themselves? Of course. I'm not here to debate that. But they understood the need for virtue in a self-governing society. We take self-government as a given but in the 18th Century it was truly a revolutionary idea. Democracy was seen as too messy and unwieldly and the assumption was at some point people would look for a strong hand to maintain order. That didn't happen because great men like Washington gave up power voluntarily. Civic duty meant something once. Now it is an arcane notion. I was in a university classroom when I heard a professor say that anyone who joined the military or some other low-paying profession out of some misguided sense of altruism was a fool. And that was decades ago. Things have only gotten worse. The other attribute is courage. The advent of social media and cancel culture have made cowards of too many people. This is not some unique phenomena. Alexander Solzhenitsyn tried to warn us about this tactic in an address he made at Harvard University in 1978: “A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country…Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elites, causing an impression of a loss of courage by the entire society. There are many courageous individuals, but they have no determining influence on public life.” Want to know why people who ought to know better can't define what a woman is? It's not that they believe it, that's not the point. It's not that they are trying to make you believe anything that is patently incorrect, that's not the point. The point is to get you to participate in the lie when you know it's not true or to remain silent out of fear. That is power. That is the lifeblood of tyranny. “The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.” ― Alexander Solzhenitsyn Anyway, that was a rant. I doubt anyone will read this but I felt like saying it all the same. We are at a crossroad as a society. I believe nothing short of Divine intervention will get us through but that's me. I'm not saying you have to believe that. All I ask is that you consider the points I made and judge them against the way things are, not the way some say things are. When all else fails, fall back on Nancy Reagan's old rule: "Just say no." Imagine what would happen if one day everyone who sees the world for what it is did that. What an amazing day that would be. God Bless and stay safe out there.
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  555. I think what the young man was getting at was the left trying to classify everyone within their victim hierarchy including those who are autistic. They're really rather Stalinistic in their reasoning. If you are autistic, you can't be an oppressor, therefore, you must be oppressed. There is no middle ground. So then it's a question of where you fall within the hierarchy. Do you have the same value of a left handed black lesbian transgender vegan or are you closer to a plain old person of color who is falling pretty fast within their social order by the way. The members of the alphabet mafia leaped frogged them and went straight to the head of the line because they are really good at fund raising. You're right Dennis, this country is being ripped apart by nihilists with way to much time on their hands. They have set themselves apart from the rest of society and become their own alpha and omega. And since they have no God but their own desires the future matters even less than the past to them. They live only for today and if burning the world down is what it takes to feel good, so be it. The thing is, they are funded by people who do have a future in mind and at the end of it most of these useful idiots will be marched to the gulag right along side everyone else. There is a civil war going on. It's been cold to this point but it is heating up. Like you, I wish wasn't so but this is what happens when you tell God you don't need Him anymore. He leaves you alone. God help us all.
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  556. The FBI is going on about the Chinese being a threat? The same bunch who went along with Biden's plan to label political rivals and moms and dads who don't want their kids being filled with gender and CRT nonsense domestic terrorists? Those guys? Forgive me if I don't take anything that bunch has to say about anything at face value. As for preventing the Chinese from taking Taiwan park a few aircraft carriers and nuclear subs in the South China Sea and load Taiwan up with enough mid and long range nuclear tipped rockets to make the Cuban crisis look like an argument over sparklers because the Chinese could give two *&%@ about economic sanctions. When they're ready to take that island they will let the world know. This is not your grandaddy's communist threat from the middle kingdom. Les Nessman tried to warn us 40 years ago about these guys. Giving the Chinese access to markets didn't change a damn thing as far as the party of Mao was concerned. Xi is looking for payback for centuries of perceived slights and while we argue over which bathrooms to use, China is building naval bases at strategic choke points throughout the Pacific, not to mention the influence they have in the canal zone here in our own backyard. But hey, we can get Taco Bell delivered to my home in 20 minutes and anyone can be a Tic Tock rock star so I guess all is good here in paradise.
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  557. They impeached Trump for a phone call. Just sayin.
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  558. Cool stuff even if most of it is above my limited brain function. But here's the thing, and this channel has pointed it out, red dwarves are really crappy candidates for hosting habitable planets. I mean maybe some microbes and such because life does have a way of working things out but if you're looking for ET red dwarves are like that old song, looking for love in all the wrong places. When you get the sun-like problems sorted out and can work on those let me know. Not that we're going to have a conversation with our cosmic cousins in my lifetime, but as a child of Apollo I still have a bit of a soft spot in my heart for the federation. Live long and prosper kiddos.
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  559. Just like Madonna gives bimbos a bad name this woman is an insult to morons the world over.
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  560. Cool stuff, a bit mind blowing though. I'll just defer to that great philosopher Billy Bob Thornton: "Begging your pardon sir but it's a big-ass sky." 🚀
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  561. Just saw it. A beautifully done picture. Go see it if you are able. Very moving heroic story of what a regular guy can do.
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  562. In a just system Hillary Clinton would have been indicted a long time ago. But we don't have a just system. As for the weaponizing of the government against their political enemies, expect it every time the marxists have control of any branch. They are brazen now, itching for a fight. They feel their time has come. I fear it will lead to a situation similar to 1860. Fundamental change, yes we can, believe. Having fun yet? 🤔
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  563. The video was slightly mistitled. Most of it was about plant-based diets. When I was a kid my mom brought home some soy burger one day and made me a hamburger out of it. I took one bite and was like, no way. When she went back in the kitchen I gave it to the dog. The dog took it in his mouth then dropped it on the rug. I was like, no way I'm eating something the dog turns his nose up to. That was the end of the vegan experiment in our house. As for that little fascist, of course she wants marxism. Her parents are flippin anarchists and she has like 10 mental disorders. Isn't she like 22 now but she takes hormone blockers so she can keep passing herself off as a 16 year old? I dunno. I don't really know much about her beyond the fact she's an annoying little *&$#*.
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  564. Why not rename it Snow Brown? How about an updated version of Roots where Kunta O'Reilly steps off the boat and is beaten into submission by his black overlord? “People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.” ― Milan Kundera
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  565. So I'll never get a chance to write Hey Jude or buy gold at one dollar an ounce? Oh well, we all live the hand we're dealt. Who knows, maybe we are already in a time loop and I'm typing these words for the 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, time. If that is the case, can I get a better heart on at least one of these journeys? It's a simple ask.
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  566. This guy has been caught lying so much he has to have someone else call his dog. It's a habit that goes back decades. The thing about compulsive liars is, they not only prefer lying to telling the truth, they become so conditioned by it that they actually believe what they are saying. They can make up an entire story out of whole cloth, one they had never told, and believe it like the event actually happened the way they say it did. LBJ used to drive people crazy with it. Bobby Kennedy said "he tells lies even when he doesn't have to and it drives me crazy." It will drive you crazy if you let it. Whether it's Biden, or the woman from Arkansas whose name shall not be uttered here, baby boomer politicians seem to have a special fascination with BS. But nobody in state run media will ever call them on it and even when they do get called out, their voting base doesn't care. Cults are like that.
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  567. Rumble may be okay for big guys with big followings but they are not as open-minded when it comes to their comment board. When Sidney Poitier passed away I saw more than a few comments from people who hoped he was burning in Hell alongside Betty White because they were not fans of Donald Trump. I thought the criticism was over the top and said so, pointing out that like me he was an immigrant who came here and worked his way up the American dream. Apparently that set off the crowd because my comment was hidden by Rumble due to low ratings from the peanut gallery. Five dislikes by the way gets your post hidden. If five people in their open-minded community don't like what you have to say, Rumble essentially gives you a time out. So much for the crowd who likes calling everyone else snowflakes. I got off Rumble and haven't been back since. All social media sites, including this one, are just echo chambers and very few people on either side are up for an honest discussion. Especially not when you call when of their idols into question.
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  568. Commie's gonna commie. It would be heartbreaking if one of the Taliba...I mean woke communi...er democrats were to slip off that mountain while trying to pour red paint over the monument. I know I would be devastated.
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  569. We are getting some great rulings during this session, the likes of which I never thought I'd live to see. Thank you President Trump for winning and appointing justices who, while I haven't agreed with every decision, have done a helluva lot better than previous republican appointees who have usually disappointed (yes CJ Roberts, I'm looking at you). And thank you Hillary for, well, being Hillary. Trump most likely would have lost to anyone else. Props to you Gollum! I like this decision but I wish it would have rebuked the Chevron Deference (Doctrine) in stronger terms. The administrative/regulatory state is the biggest threat to individual liberty and the strongest governor keeping our economy in check. We could get out of most of our messes in a year if the unelected fourth branch of government went away. I did some contract work developing training for the DOT a while back. The mountains of regulations I had to plow through to make sense out of what it was federal and state inspectors and crash investigators needed to learn was unlike anything I had ever seen, and this is coming from someone who served more than 20 years in the military, the single most regimented outfit this side of Cuba. The Chevron Doctrine was one of those areas Scalia was weak on. With these justices, especially Gorsuch, maybe we have a chance of ridding ourselves of the blank check the Court gave these agencies once and for all. Maybe, and I'm just spitballing here, just maybe, Congress could actually be forced do their jobs. 🤔 Nah, but a man can dream can't he?
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  570. The thing about these kiddie shields the left uses to promote their causes, whether it's global warming or gun control, is eventually they grow up and nobody gives a shit about them or what they have to say about anything, especially their former handlers who I am sure are more than pleased when they reach the age of irrelevance. Bye Greta. Have a nice life and enjoy those golden cat-lady years.
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  571. "The goal of the religious striver is to establish paradise on Earth"? Continuous injunctions to bring about Heaven on Earth" and how that is central to the Gospels? You're confusing Christianity with Marxism Jordan. Kinda like when you make statements about Nietzsche being the best friend Christianity ever had. You know what, I'm not an apologetics expert and I don't play one on You Tube but you don't get it my friend. That's okay, it's your show, but Greg Laurie should have done a better job correcting you instead of all the "yeah's" as Jordan rambled on with his stream of consciousness.
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  572. "We fought a war so we wouldn't have to listen to the_______British." - Kelsey Grammer: The Pentagon War. One of my favorite lines from that movie. 😁
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  573. This infusion of large amounts of cash into the economy is being done by design. COVID showed the powers-that-be that people will do as they are told. Step two is to crash the economy so the experts can come in and save the day. That is the rationale behind the great reset is it not? For our betters to impose order over the unwashed masses? Hobbesian rule in its purest form? When the day comes and the government tells us that our paper money is worthless and we must convert to the new digital dollar or go hungry what then? When they say that $10,000 in old paper money is now worth $1,000 in digital form but the prices will take a while to adjust to the new reality will people say screw that or simply go along? And if enough people say screw that and start an underground parallel economy will that give the powers-that-be the green light to impose a new system to defeat such treasonous activity, maybe some kind of bio-marker on the head and hand? I dunno. Just asking if anyone has considered that as new measures are taken to deny our liberty, as talk of eliminating that dusty old constitution of ours that was written by white supremacists for white supremacists and replacing it with something more inclusive, more reflective of modern times, more in line with the new way of thinking. Maybe more in line with the goals of the great reset? Just askin is all.
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  574. I picked up a good saying from Steve Deace. When he feels like bitching about his job he reminds himself that it beats going to down a mine shaft with a flashlight. Not to disparage people who do that for a living but he has a point. I remember watching this show years ago where these guys went on a quest to find the lousiest job in the world. The winner was working in a sulfur pit. They spoke with this guy some place in the Far East who worked in one and he looked to be in his 70s. He was 35. They said the life expectancy for people working there was somewhere around 42. No matter how bad you have it there is always someone who has it a bit worse. I wonder what kind of complaints the slave laborers in the Soviet gulags would have posted on Twitter if it was around in the 30s. Based on the level of toughness and patriotic fervor of the American urbanite who isn't a criminal I give the Chinese about four days to capture and subdue the main cities. The criminal element won't be a problem since the Chinese will put them in charge of security at the street level. It'll get a bit trickier for them when they get to flyover country and have to deal with those deplorables clinging to their Bibles and their guns. Oh, and if you think your Chinese overlords will be okay with you bitching about the way they treat you think again. And you will damn sure make whatever kind of coffee they want, you bet yer ass on that. As for me, this is just another reason for me to not go to Starbucks.
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  575. The only way this gets fixed in these outta control blue states and cities is if the feds step in. That means arresting a boatload of people and putting them away for a very long time. How does that happen? Prison camps? If that step is taken a hot civil war will replace the cold one currently unfolding. If there is another way someone tell me what it is because I don't see it. The country is too speckled with pockets of woke interspersed with sane people to simply say, okay, you take this turf and we'll take this.
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  576. Nick-nack-paddywack, give a dog a bone. Sure beats flying the Sopwith Camel.
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  577. The modern day polemicist at work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDmGhethEoQ
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  578. People were invested in the idea of obama. You had the New York Times writing glowing articles about how he was going to change history and those jokers who hand out the nobel prize gave it to him for stuff he might do when he becomes president. obama then showed just how arrogant he is by accepting the thing knowing good and damn well he hadn't done a thing to earn it. obama ushered in the era of politics as reality TV. He built a cult of personality that allowed him to do a half-assed job because nobody dared criticize dear leader. A good friend of mine asked me how we ended up with Trump. I told him obama led the way. People on the right got tired of the high-handed insults obama would direct at regular working class people and wanted their own personality who would call the other side names. But obama was more consequential than that. He cut our military to pre WWI levels and placed lefty officers in key positions. He populated the alphabet agencies, especially the DOJ and FBI with fellow travelers, creating an enforcement arm for the democrat party and he ushered in the age of the degenerate. The disgusting pagan ritual that was recently carried out on the WH lawn is the best example of that, all while the rainbow flag was given higher status than the American flag, a violation of Federal law. But laws never concerned obama much. He wasn't that interested in them when he dropped off pallets of cash at the airport in Tehran without approval from anyone, giving that group of thugs billions that was then used in terror operations carried out by the palestinians and the yemeni's. He wasn't much interested in them when he sicked the IRS on his political opponents and had the FBI go after reporters who had the temerity to criticize him. Yeah, he is a peach, and as we suffer through his third term people still put the guy on a pedestal while he basks in the glory at his compound on Martha's Vineyard. Not a bad outcome for a community organizer. Yes we can became yes we did and we are the ones paying the price for his fundamental transformation of America. Comparing what happened to Detroit with what this guy did to the country is actually quite fitting. coleman young played the race-baiting-divide-and-conquer game as well and ran that city into the ground. I lived there and witnessed it first hand. It wasn't the taxes that chased the people who had jobs out, it was young's declaration that anyone who disagreed with him could hit Eight Mile. Everyone knew who he was referring to and they took him up on the offer. Suddenly there was no one left to pay those city taxes and the formerly middle class neighborhoods were trashed within a decade. Cities, like countries, rot from within. Helluva job. Pay attention gang, because Detroit should be a cautionary tale to everyone who buys into the progressive, I mean regressive, agenda. “People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.” ― Milan Kundera And the beat goes on...the beat goes on.
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  579. He is so right about the vulnerability of our power grid. We are one good EMP burst or solar burp away from 1850. People have been sounding the alarm for years and the fix wouldn't cost that much but the corrupt execs at the electric company got together with the corrupt members of government and decided to give us the middle finger. They're set for the day that happens. Not sure what the country they come out of their bunkers to will look like but hey, according to the bartender and al gore the world is gonna end in 12 years anyway so what the hell. Or is it eight now? 🤔It's hard to keep track of these things. The morons running the doomsday clock just set it to like 10 seconds to total disaster as well so why worry.
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  580. Okay, I'll admit a lot of that was way over my miniscule head. But while I may not be an expert on neutrinos and such, I have been around the block a few times and I've got a pretty good handle on human nature. Some death ray that can't be stopped and may or may not cause a real big bang and at a minimum you end up with a situation like scene in Ghostbusters where the one guy says; "I thought crossing the beams was bad?" Nah, we can't be trusted with something like that. Sorry, the last thing we need are more designer weapons. That's the thing with eggheads, they get it in their minds that because something can be done it should be. Sometimes, simply because you can do it is the best case for not doing that thing. Things like this death ray. The scientists may get a hard-on over some 30-mile wide super collider to F-around with but for the rest if us? Too damned expensive, too damned risky, too damned likely to be used for evil purposes. Prometheus lives I guess.
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  581. I listened to apologist professors for the great society like this guy when I was an undergrad. They always talked in terms of standard of living but never connected the breakdown of the family structure to the programs Johnson set up. Another aspect they never touched on was Johnson's motivation for initiating those programs. Johnson had massive insecurities and he figured if he could outdo his hero FDR and give away more stuff that he would be loved. That's not to say he didn't have genuine empathy for the poor, but there was more to it than that. The biggest problem was the entire mess was never really thought out. Johnson was a creature of the legislative branch so he measured success by the amount of legislation you could pass in the shortest amount of time. People who worked with him admitted later that programs like Model Cities failed because there wasn't much of a plan going in. They were just given a bunch of money and told to spend it. Any data or reports that went against Johnson's hopes were ignored and when things started really going south in Vietnam and the cities started to burn Johnson had no answers. Johnson used to tell people he wasn't suited for the presidency. That was one point he was right on. He remains the best argument for why VP choices matter. Not that Kennedy would have acted much differently, but he wouldn't have been able to ramrod the bills through the way Johnson did, bills that, regardless of what the gentleman debating Dr. Sowell may say, helped put us in the mess are currently in. There's no going back now though. Our culture has deteriorated to the point where only a great spiritual awakening can fix it. Unfortunately, the odds of that happening are pretty bleak.
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  582. Liberals, at least as they used to be defined, are a dying breed. They have been supplanted by obama's cultural marxists. As for their hatred toward Dr. Swell, he deals in facts, and facts are like kryptonite to cultural marxists. They embrace the lie because they belong to the father of all lies. Yes we can indeed. .
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  583. "Day of judgement, God is calling" "On their knees, the war pigs crawling" "Begging mercy for their sins" "Satan laughing, spreads his wings" ― Black Sabbath: War Pigs Whoda thought Ozzie would be the voice crying out in the wilderness? 🤔
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  584. Interesting subject. I look forward to seeing how you cover the remaining days. That said, there are a few points that need to be addressed. Bobby Kennedy wasn't put in charge of Mongoose only a few days before the crisis began. He had been in charge of the "Get Castro" movement within the executive branch since writing the post-mortem on the Bay of Pigs with Maxwell Taylor and Allen Dulles in 61. By October 62 he was maniacal on the matter, pushing Bill Harvey, who was running the covert stuff going on in Cuba, and Richard Helm who had taken over special operations from Richard Bissel that year to the breaking point. It was his habit of going around the CIA's formal channel's and making a lot of noise on the island in support of his brother's insistence that something be done about Castro that led to the crisis in the first place. John McCone had good intel and was trying to warn them about missiles in Cuba for months but the Kennedy's thought they knew better. And there wasn't a great deal of tension between Maxwell Taylor and the Kennedy's. Bobby Kennedy named one of his kids after him and he was godfather to another. He was also one of the primary drivers of Flexible Response, and Counter-Insurgency, two of the bedrocks of Kennedy's foreign policy and Cold War strategy. he was considered more of an egghead and theorist by his military colleagues than a hawk. That's not to say he wasn't a soldier, but he wasn't cut from the same cloth as someone like Curtis LeMay.
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  585. Systemic racism is a lie that allows race pimps to tell people nothing is their fault. The gaps exist in the home. Want to fix the country? Fix the family. Want to fix the family? Return to God. Call me names, accuse me of oversimplifying the issue, but it is a formula that could be put in place tomorrow with little effort. And Shamika is right. Taking advice from a woman who will marry a man willing to take her last name is a problem right off the jump. That woman is exhibit A for what ails this nation.
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  586. I get a bit of a chuckle out of these scales. I imagine they actually range: "Hey guys, this looks kinda weird" to "Shut up and hide." How many times did this voice say there's nothing to worry about? That was followed up by these things always get downgraded as more data comes in. See a pattern here? This one got downgraded like ultra fast. It jumped up then less than 24 hours later came the: "Nah, we were just f-n witcha" announcement. It went from 3% or so to less than a half...and they still can't say for sure how big the thing is? Call me Irish but that dog don't hunt. Would they actually tell us if one of these cosmic nut-busters was gonna hit? The plan seems to be the three D's: deceive, discredit, and deflect. Can't have people going batsh*t crazy now. Am I overly cynical? Maybe. But I've worked for the government in various capacities ranging from military to contractor and I can say this much, if you think they are full of crap and incompetent, you're giving em too much credit. But it is a CYA culture. So perhaps that's why I agree with the line from the old Paul Simon song: "I get the news I need from the weather report." As we used to say when I was in the service, believe 5% of what you hear and 25% of what you see. Live long and prosper gang.
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  587. Marx wasn't even original. He lifted the dialectic historicism BS from Hagel. He said he was going to turn Hagel on his head. But all he really did was spew a bunch of nonsense. Rousseau really lies at the heart of it. I'm with the guy who said if he had a gun but only had two bullets and Stalin, Hitler, and Rousseau were standing in front of him he'd shoot Rousseau twice. Wanna understand the left, especially their propensity for violence and the whole propaganda of the deed horsesh*t that is in their ideologic DNA? Study the French Revolution. They've been fighting it in one form or fashion in one location or another for 234 years now. And spare me the rights of man garbage Jefferson helped them come up with. The guillotine was far more representative of what that mob had in their darkened hearts and its liberal use was its true legacy. The thing is, the vast majority of today's pseudo-revolutionaries with the Starbucks aps on their cellphones don't even understand the roots of their movement. They just like to break things and blow sh*t up. That's not Marxism or anarchism for that matter, just a bunch of nihilistic kids lashing out at the world for reasons that truly escape them. Such is life in a world under judgment. Hang on kiddies, this ride hasn't even really got started yet. The end of history? Don't expect some Marxist utopia, that's all I'm sayin.
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  588. The only thing BLM is fighting for is the end of Western Civilization. ANTIFA is fighting simply because they like destroying stuff. BLM is a marxist organization and the values of Western Civilization are standing in their way of achieving their twisted dystopian ends. ANTIFA just likes destroying stuff. Did I already say that? Well it needs to be said again, and again, and again. And the democratic party and the media use them as muscle to accumulate power. That is it. There is no nuance. And yes, the small m in marxist is intentional for the same reason I will not capitalize the name of their lord and master satan. Neither of them are worthy of being elevated beyond what they are, the enemy of all decent people, evil incarnate. red squiggly lines be damned.
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  589. obama said he was going to fundamentally change the country and nobody even asked him what he meant by that. The new york times was calling his run historic and wonderful before he even got started. They gave the narcissist a nobel prize for no reason and he accepted it without blinking an eye. But worse than all of that, he divided the country more than any previous leader and he taught the left that it didn't matter if you lost elections so long as you were able to impose your will. Why? Because he understood just how feckless and weak the opposition was and he knew any losses would be short-term. When you have power put your foot to the floor and damned the torpedoes. This country is under judgement because we turned our back on God and obama is the predictable outcome. Israel wanted a king too and they got Saul. And in the end they lost their nation. But hey, that can't happen here. We are engaged in spiritual warfare and more than half country can't tell you what that means.
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  590. Canada is becoming a very dark place with Castro's kid at the helm. The problem is, Canadians have been conditioned to be sheep for decades. Canada is my birth country and I have family there but I will never step foot in that place again, at least not until the boy-king is tossed out and who knows if that will ever happen. Castro's like to keep power once they have it, it's in their blood.
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  591. Such a sad story. Patsy had a beautiful, rich singing voice. I worked on aircraft and have logged a lot flying hours. These days I kind of agree with Viola Davis's take on things in the movie The Pentagon Wars: "I like the sky right where it is, with me on the ground looking up at it." I don't have a fear of flying, and some of my favorite visual memories come from my time in the air, like flying over the North Pole and cruising across the ice fields up that way. Amazing stuff most people never get to experience. I've just done enough of it to last a couple lifetimes is all. Anyway, thanks for the informative video.
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  592. Wow, she makes the dark queen of Arkansas look almost like she has a soul. And before you get on me I said almost.
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  593. I think Billy Bob Thornton put best: "Begging your pardon sir but it's a big-ass sky."
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  594. And therein lies the fundamental difference between conservative thought and leftist ideology and the reason leftist systems fail on a recurring basis. The social contract the left keeps trying to force on us operates on the assumption that people are perfectible. All they need is the proper education by the proper people to help them find their true nature. To help them overcome the effects of the Super Structure according to Marxist beliefs. Rousseau's notion of the "noble savage." It's all built on a false premise. Human nature is flawed. People cannot be perfected. Certainly not by other flawed people. That's why Socialism has to be implemented by the gun and the whip. It goes against human nature. It would work if we were simply animals best suited to classical conditioning. But God gave us a soul and free will to act as we see fit. I have learned certain undeniable truths over time , no matter how hard I fought against them. And believe me, I did for a very long time because if I'm anything I'm a willful SOB with a thick head and a stubborn streak a mile wide. The first is that redemption comes through the grace of God. No person can give it to me. The second relates back to free will. Those fundamental rights Jefferson wrote about, life liberty, and the pursuit of happiness come from my Creator as well, not some government agency. All government can do is prevent me from exercising them or take them away entirely. But they can never capture my soul. That is mine to do with as I will. If I lose it, it's because I gave it away. To quote the great Sean Connery; "Here endeth the lesson."
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  595. Well there's always the "Billy Bob Thornton" solution for why we haven't had our "Jody Foster Moment" (always appreciate a good movie reference): "Our budget allows to track about 3% of the sky and begging your pardon sir but it's a big-ass sky." Lotsa open space out there still yet to be looked at. Personally, I think it's just a case where the conditions for intelligent life are a whole lot more rare than the scientists who bloviate on TV make them out to be and if there are smart folks who are able to talk and stuff out there they are no closer to figuring out how to break the laws of physics than we are. And at the end of the day, that's what you would have to do to boldly go where no man has gone before. Unless Einstein got it all wrong and Bill Nye is actually a scientist, but I digress. Trust me, nobody used to believe in E.T. more than me and nobody was more geeked about having him in for a cup of tea than I was but the more I learned about the universe as it is, not as we were told it was when I was a kid, the more I have come to to the conclusion that we are pretty damned special. Or is it just especially damned? 🤔 I get confused on that point from time-to-time. But there I go again. Anyway, it's late, and while this stuff is fun I'm gonna have to put it to bed for now. Let me know when Spock stops by for a chat. Until then, as always, "Live long and Prosper." 🖖
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  596. Normally I enjoy oddball time travel movies (12 Monkeys and The History of Time Travel being two examples). But now that I know it is a Christopher Nolan movie I'll take a hard pass. I'm not into comic books so I didn't see his Batman flick. But after hearing about how brilliant and innovative the guy was I was pumped about seeing Dunkirk when it was released. I was expecting something pretty good but what I got was probably the worst war movie I have ever seen. I say probably simply because the bozo's that tried to turn Pearl Harbor and Passchendaele into chick flicks are awfully hard to beat when it comes to straight up douchebaggery. I even watched Dunkirk a second time when it landed on HBO just to make sure I hadn't got it wrong the first time I saw it. Turns out I hadn't. It was still an awful fucking movie. So that's that. I can see where the Drinker says this guy's pretentious approach to movie making is a load of shit. Next.
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  597.  @experimenttryingtouploadst1204  Yeah, to be honest, Detroit fans can cross that line from time to time. Anyone old enough to remember sitting in the Center Field Bleachers at Tiger Stadium can attest to that. That was a rocking night of Deeetroit...Basssssketball at the Palace that night.
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  598. Nixon was always far more deferential to Kennedy than Kennedy was to him. But Kennedy wasn't really deferential to anyone. They had a cordial relationship when JFK was in the senate and Nixon was VP. Kennedy didn't like the way Ike treated Nixon, calling Eisenhower a cold SOB but that may have had as much to do with Ike's treatment of Kennedy. Kennedy had similar feelings toward Churchill because neither man was that impressed by Kennedy. Kennedy played hardball in the 1960 campaign and Nixon, for whatever reason, never really got tough with Kennedy, not like he had in previous elections. Kennedy made a lot of disparaging comments about Nixon but when the Bay of Pigs blew up in his face one of the people he called for advice was Nixon. It was Nixon who told him not to give up the fight against Castro and to look for some form of justification to try again. That's exactly what Kennedy did, putting his brother Bobby on the case and that led to a whole host of problems. Nixon always wanted JFK's friendship. Kennedy was always indifferent about the relationship, but he was that way with most people. Would the world look the same if Nixon had won in 1960? One of the great what-if's not really considered much.
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  599.  @kimobrien.  Are you sure they're not extending the capitalist revolution? Are you sure people aren't looking to better themselves rather than serving some collective? I think that is more in line with what is happening in the world today. One of the chief reasons communism failed to take root in the industrialized nations of the 19th and 20th Centuries is because workers didn't want to dismantle the middle and upper classes, they wanted to join them. Isn't that the case now, especially in the third world? The place I see socialist ideology being promoted is college campuses in the West among children of privilege, all of whom were born after the Cold War ended, where it is soft-peddled as democratic socialism, a term which is an oxymoron. The class struggle now has shifted to pitting race against race, a reset of the dialectic. Isn't that more indicative of competing interests in the 21st Century? I mean, Netflix and smart-phones are more important to most Chinese citizens than spreading the world revolution, which, at least according Marx,. there really is no need to spread anyway because the communist utopia is a historical inevitability. That is the way story ends right? Again, just asking, not trying to be difficult.
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  600. Why do I get the feeling this ongoing child abuse issue, be it the sanctioning of surgical mutilation of kids or the normalization and promotion of pedophilia, will become for the republican party what Obamacare was for them a decade ago. Remember that? Send us money so we can take the house and repeal Obamacare. That was done. Then it was, send us more money so we can take the senate and repeal Obamacare. Roger that. Then, when they had both chambers they passed legislation repealing it while obama was in office, knowing good and damn well he would veto anything sent his way. And when they had all three branches and could actually repeal the thing?...crickets. I could see them doing something similar with this nonsense while harris and mayor pete are in charge in 2023. Then, when someone like Ron DeSantis gets elected and tells them to send that same bill to him all of a sudden the votes won't be there. All of a sudden the big bad filibuster will become an issue. Can't touch those social issues ya know. Not the third-rail of politics. Bad for business don't ya know. My hope is this time it's different. I believe this nonsense has touched a genuine nerve within the population and maybe just maybe, the rights of children will become for the modern day republican party what slavery became for the Whigs in the 1850s, the hill they die on because they lack the moral fortitude to do what is right. If that does happen and a new party comes about as a result, this time there should be no realignment, no taking in leftovers from that dead carcass of a party simply to boost numbers. That was the fatal flaw with the republicans in 1856. They absorbed a bunch of wishy-washy Whigs for the numbers and that gene never went away. It's still alive and well. Lincoln had trouble with the simps. So did Reagan. So did Trump. Enough. If some new coalition does come about, and I believe this issue may force it, the wimps and the simps need to go back to their country clubs and enjoy martini's with Muffy, Tad and Biff. A time for choosing folks. It is upon us.
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  601.  @kikupub71  Thank you sir, it's great to be here.
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  602.  @patrickdaly5068  Thank you for your kind words.
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  603. I always said you could tell a guys character by the way he answered this question: Is Die Hard a Christmas movie? And I love the "Welcome to the party pal" line. Yippekyaye!
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  604. The crazy greenies, the pampered celebrities, they all have something in common, they are all leftists. Anger, resentment, bitterness, nastiness, pettiness, these are traits all leftists share. They always have. And no, I'm not talking about old-school liberals, I'm talking about the cultural marxists and their fellow travelers who are small in number but big in mouth. They are like locusts, all they do is leave destruction in their wake. Charge people who defame art with an act of terrorism and sentence them accordingly. It fits the crime.
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  605. Come on man. Really? What in God's creation makes you believe donald trump would have a serious independent thinker like Dr. Sowell anywhere near his inner circle? And what indicates he would even listen to him if he did? bruce jenner is more trump's speed, a disturbed beat-down beta-male who just wants to hang around and look pretty. roger stone, a twisted old hack who has the intellectual capacity of a jellyfish and the scruples of a jackal. That's the kind of man trump prefers, the mike pence types. It's either that or women.
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  606. A good example of CGI overkill is the Pearl Harbor attack scene from the movie Midway. The sinking of the Arizona is so obviously fake it detracts from the drama of the scene. The actors and the story salvage the film but most of the effects are cheesy. Contrast that with the chariot race in the 1950s version of Ben-Hur. Actual chariots with actual drivers were flying through the air and while they used dummies for the parts where someone got runover it was still done with real horses. Another of my favorite's is the scene from Clear and Present Danger where they blow up an actual mansion. The house was owned by a couple who were getting divorced and they figured it was a good way to get rid of a place neither of them wanted. The director had one chance to get it right or the money they spent buying the place would have gone down the drain. Think anyone would have the stones to try that one these days? I agree CGI done well can do a lot for a movie but I was a musician once upon a time and I never liked it when my fellow artists wanted to throw a bunch of reverb and other effects on the music in the recording studio. I always preferred a clean sound. Maybe that's why I'm not much on big effects flicks. Give me good old dialogue and storylines that bring me in. But that's me.
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  607. Tucker, I luv ya man, but you make far too many sensible arguments for a world going through the age of stupid. My mind keeps going back to that line about God from the old Zager and Evans number: "Maybe He'll look around himself and say, guess it's time for the judgment day."
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  608. I'm glad they restored that aircraft to its original mission configuration. Some may take this the wrong way, but it was built to bring destruction to the enemy, not fly around a rich guy, or even a group with a noble purpose. I worked on military aircraft for many years (the good old C-130 Herc) and I can tell you, they have their own personalities (at least the older ones did). Again, some may not get it, but if you've worked with the same bird night after night you get to know its quirks and habits and how to deal with them in ways not always found in the technical orders. The men of the 8th Army Air Force were true heroes. That outfit had the highest casualty rate of any group during the war and they accounted for more than half of all Air Force losses during that timeframe. To put it into further perspective, they lost more men than the Marines. Before the 25-mission rule went into effect the flyers knew it was just a matter of time before their number came up. Yet they kept at it. They kept bombing in the day in spite of the warnings of the British because in their way of thinking daylight bombing offered the best chance of success. While I served, I was fortunate enough to speak with several flyers who served with the 8th and they were all humble guys who just did a job that needed doing. Most are gone now, but if you are ever fortunate enough to meet one, give him your thanks. Those men, and their brothers and sisters in arms from all allied branches and nations truly did save western civilization.
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  609. Calling for a return to tradition but basing it on the same secular values that created the mess we find ourselves in isn't a revival. It still places man at the center with no transcendent morality or purpose to act as a touchstone, just new bosses making new rules, and history has shown self-interest is a far more powerful drug than altruistic desires. We need a revival, that's for sure, but not one intended to be a better version of stuff that has shown it doesn't work.
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  610. A friend of mine is really into the Kingsmen and I watched it with him a while back. It's not really my thing and I found it to be a bit over the top. Anyway, he recommended this one and I was a bit hesitant but after seeing some of the scenes here maybe I'll give it a peek. It looks like they went a bit wild the Rasputin character but WWI and the politics of that time have always fascinated me and I still hold that WWI was the seminal event of the 20th Century, one that created problems that still plague us more than 100 years later.
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  611. I don't go through too many drive-thru''s but I will say I have never been asked for a tip when I have. Then again I pay cash for those types of transactions so I'm not forced to say no to any touch screen. I do round up and give the crew at the Firehouse Subs I go to a small tip because they are polite and greet me by name and I like that. I also tip my barber because I'm a firm believer in the precept that once you find someone who knows how to cut your hair properly you hang on to that person and treat them well. I am very generous with wait staff because I worked a lot of restaraunt jobs as a kid and have soft spot for them. Unless the service is crap. Then I am a notoriously bad tipper because again, I know how much work it takes to do the job, meaning I know when they are slacking. I used to get irritated at the military commissary's because they would have retired service members doing the bagging next to a big sign saying, retired person working for tips only. Sorry, you should have done a better job saving your money or preparing for a more profitable post-military career. I'm not going to tip someone for bagging my groceries just out of principle. And I refuse to use those damn self-checkout machines. There is a Wal Mart grocer near me I used to take my elderly neighbors to and one day we went there and discovered the whole place was self-checkout. They always had a crap selection anyway but that just gave me one more reason to never shop there. But that's me. Thanks for the rant Matt. I'm with you for the most part on this one. Next time, how about canceling the people who leave their shopping carts in the parking spots. 😡😡😡😡😡😡
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  612. The boomers wanted free-love, no rules, no boundaries. How's that working out? Is it any wonder reality itself is being called into question? Roads have guard-rails for a reason.
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  613. "It's not reflective with any conversations I'm having internally." Right away I thought of that art critic for the New Yorker magazine in 1972 who was befuddled about Nixon waxing McGovern because nobody she knew voted for Nixon. I did two things wrong I guess. I was born male and I didn't try things I knew I sucked at and then just kept sucking at it because I knew if I just stayed with it somebody would pay me to be a loser. Oh yeah,🤔 and I was born white. That's three things I got wrong I guess.
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  614. No mistake there Matt. It was a demonic decision by the mother to destroy her son. The woman is sick in the soul and people who are sick in the soul, just like the demons who possess them want to bring everyone down with them.
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  615. We're suffering through obama's third term and sadly I believe the guy is going to get a fourth-term and what will be left of the country after that is anybody's guess. obama has the advantage of being able to enact all the ultra-crazy stuff he wanted to put in himself when he was in office but he didn't want to take the heat. This is especially true with the tranny madness and the rest of the LGB agenda. He knows that is the kind of culture rot that will bring a society down and that is the goal, planned destruction, or as he put it, fundamental change. The open border is the real killer though. There will be a series a black-swan events that create chaos unlike any this country has ever known, events that will require a strong-hand to restore order and history is chock full of examples where people will trade liberty for security.
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  616. The thing about the crap that abrams lady is spewing is there are large swaths of people in the black community who believe it. I was enrolled in a masters program when Trump was elected and one of my classmates was a black woman who I got along with fairly well. Anyway, after Trump was elected her demeanor changed and she told me her and her family were terrified that Trump would take away their right to vote. I tried to explain to her that that's not how the system works and that her right vote was protected by the Constitution but that was the last conversation I had with her, about anything. She was an educated woman in her mid-40s who held a position of some prominence with the city but her grandmother had convinced her that the country was going to return to the days of Jim Crowe and Bull Conner and that was all it took. She genuinely believed her rights were in great jeopardy. She knew I wasn't a Trump supporter at that time but it didn't matter. I was the white devil. How do you overcome that? I ask because I honestly do not know. I grew up in a neighborhood where I was in the minority and went to a school that was 80% black and I still can't wrap my head around it. You can't fix something if the great majority on one side doesn't want it fixed. That's not racist. I don't think all black people hold this woman's irrational fears but I'm afraid I have seen too much of it to dismiss it as a minority view. I wish it wasn't so. I have nothing against anyone but there are a lot of people who seem to have a problem with me and it's because of race hustlers like abrams and the ghouls in the media who go on and on about white privilege and white extremism, pounding it into people's brains. Can it be fixed? Like I said, you tell me. I'm all ears.
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  617. There is a sickness on the entire country right now. This is what happens when you tell God you don't need Him anymore, Satan pulls up a seat at the table.
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  618. As John McClain would put it: "Welcome to the party pal." All you have to be to draw the attention of state-run media is Trump adjacent. If Trump wins the election that will most likely be a crime again. Ask General Flynn how that game is played. Right now state-run media is going crazy with stories every 10 minutes about how Trump is laying the groundwork for a new stolen election conspiracy and how Trump supporters are planning on unleashing a wave of violence if their candidate is declared the winner. You know, those marauding right-wing gangs like The Proud Boys? What are there, like seven of them? Other stories are talking up how early voting is all the rage in urban areas, won't that make it convenient when they need to find more votes on November 7th. Of course there is no mention about early voting in other more rural areas of the state because you know those people are just a bunch of rubes who don't know how to find their polling station. A blind man can see the play. They are choreographing their plan in the open and they flat out don't care if it's obvious. They even brought back the Russian boogie man, a creation of the paranoid mind of the wicked witch of the Ozarks whose name shall not be uttered here. They are throwing everything at this one and people on the right better wake up because memes and stunts are funny but it's like shooting spitballs at an incoming asteroid. These people are serious, we better be as well.
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  619. Come on Dick, damn near everything was personal with you, especially the feud between you and the media. That said, it's not like it wasn't understandable. It was just as, if not more, personal with the media. There were politicians they disliked but they hated Nixon. The deep seeded resentment was cemented during the 1960 presidential campaign. The media had a love affair with Kennedy rivaled only by obama. And we all know every hero needs a villain to take on. The thing is, Nixon did well with the voters, but his insecurities were amplified by his treatment at the hands of the east-coast establishment as a whole, and the media, which was part of that crew, was his boogie man. No matter how much he succeeded, no matter how much money he made, they never accepted him. LBJ suffered the same fate but he was more prone to just moan and feel sorry for himself. Nixon was a brawler, and he wanted to get even with the SOB's who looked down their nose at him. Nixon was the brightest of the bunch and he had the most natural talent, but his insecurities got the better of him. He believed he was cheated out of a win in 1960 and he was damn sure going to make sure nothing like that ever happened again. That led to the plumbers and Watergate. Then, as he said, he gave the media all the ammo they needed to hang him and talk about a valued scalp. The scandal made careers and created the celebrity journalist. Just like trump, the media hated Nixon, but they loved the fight.
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  620. Well said Drinker. I used to get criticized for saying everyone is full of shit, it's just a matter of degree. But the Hollywood types prove on a regular basis that most of them peg the needle far to the right on a regular basis. Maybe it's because they work at playing make-believe so much that some of them actually buy their own bullshit, like the pathological liar who eventually loses the capacity to discern between what is true and what is a lie. I suppose it also has something to do with being surrounded by sycophant's whose job is to kiss their ass all day long. I used to teach and that can be a stage, especially when you have 250 people in the audience. A lot of my colleagues thought they were all of that simply because their students told them they were. I would remind them that most of those people have one goal, to get through the course with as little pain as possible and get as far away from them as they possibly could. Needless to say, that take didn't make me popular with the fellas but it was the truth. I can only imagine what it is like at the actual star level. People buy their own BS easy enough but once you start buying what other people are peddling your ability to think for yourself disappears. I remember a few years back when Tom Hanks snuck away from his handlers long enough to give his leftie half-ass opinion on how the war in the Pacific was especially harsh because we were fighting people with slanted eyes. In his world, people of color or with slanted eyes can do no wrong because they are at the bottom of the oppression totem poll so all the bitter fighting on Okinawa, Iwo-Jima, and Peleliu had to be the fault of the evil white man. This was right after he had been involved in filming an HBO docu-series on that very war and he had worked with Gary Sinise to raise money for the WWII Memorial. I worked to raise money for that as well but after Hanks little ant-American diatribe I was like, the hell with him and the hell with his series on the Pacific. I did peek at a few episodes but truth be told it was nothing but a poor-mans Band of Brothers. I've seen his movies since then and liked some of them but I have no respect for the man. I'll give Sean Penn credit. I disagree with damn near every word he says and every cause he backs but at least he's authentic. He IS Jeff Spicoli. As for the rest of em, beyond Gary Sinise and a few others I wouldn't give any of them the time of day. That has always been a failing of America. We have no royal family so we transferred our hero-worship onto Hollywood stars. The problem with putting your faith in people is they will always let you down. I'm not saying down with people, just the opposite, our flaws are what make us so intriguing. But if you're looking for someone to admire there are better places to shop than Hollywood and New York. I still stand by my assertion, everyone is still full of shit, it's just a matter of degree.
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  621. Hey Larry, when are you coming down this way? Governor DeSantis can serve one more term then the communi...I mean democrats are gonna have another crack at putting a socialist commissar in the job. We will need a good man to prevent Florida from going the way of The Peoples Republic of Kalifornia and even if the brain dead in that state voted against you (or was it just the dead...🤔...hard to tell with get out the vote campaign they ran in the west-coast cemeteries) I'd vote for ya if you ran down this way. You might be accused of carpetbagging but we're chockfulla transients anyway so who cares. Right now, everybody is escaping to Florida. It's the closest thing we have to a Randian getaway so grab Dagney and come on down! Kalifornia doesn't deserve ya, not anymore.
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  622. That little narcistic bimbo putting on her best phony Chicano accent then sitting on the stage gyrating with her legs spread, acting like she's getting off sexually on all the attention. That is the kind of display a junior high girl trying to get the attention of the football team would pull off. This is the same woman who goes on and on about how men look at her like an object. Well here's a newsflash little girl, adolescent boys may look at you that way. Men look at you like a ridiculous, shallow, preening, wannabe reality star. She's showing here that she is what her critics have always claimed she is, a bartender who got plucked out of obscurity and was told to go play the role of a member of congress in exchange for attention, cash, and fancy clothes. I realize her district either has the collective IQ of a water buffalo or they are so apathetic and cynical that they just don't give two sh*ts about anything but all her opponent should have to do is run that clip 10 times a day on every station between now and election day to send that little wannabe commie back to slinging drinks in the two-bit saloon that burped her up. The truly sad part of this is all this little bimbo has to do is serve one more term and she becomes pension eligible. Let that roll around your brain as you watch your 401K go in the crapper.
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  623. Here in the U.S. young people are extremely ignorant about history. The subject isn't taught properly so it's easy for people who behave like fascists to get away with calling their political opponents fascists. It's an old trick Stalin taught the left. The danger of course is the hardcore fascists call their opponents threats to democracy and it makes it easy for some kid to justify violence because who wouldn't want to stamp out Hitler. This is where the center starts to collapse and when the center can't hold bad things happen on a societal level. Sadly, that is the phase we are entering. God help us.
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  624. So the choice was a stroke patient who was allowed to run because he would be easy to control or a celebrity who got away with pretending to be a republican because he kissed Trumps ass. And guys like levin pimped for that oz character because he was "electable." Bet that deal with Fox or your new bromance with Trump had nothing to do with it huh great one? I put a lot of blame on us for electing Bozo's like this but these are the choices the powers-that-be give voters. You could say shame on Pennsylvania for electing a stroke patient or good on Pennsylvania for telling a Trump-humping grifter like oz to go F-himself. Either way you would be correct. As for whoopi, I have no idea what she said because I fast forward past any clip of that coven. They are beyond brain-dead and what they spew isn't even low-hanging fruit, it's fruit that got tossed out of the produce market and sat in the dumpster for a week.
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  625. So the Brits and the French lie to the locals, lie to the people they want money from, secretly divide up the region in half-ass fashion, stir up all kinds of animosity and...in the end everyone hates America. Sounds about right. I like mayonnaise and The Beatles, beyond that...
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  626. Edward Hines has a nice stretch of road named after him in Wayne County Michigan. The road runs through a series of parks and when I was a kid one of the Christmas traditions was traveling Hines Drive to see the lights. It's been years since I've lived there but I hope Hines Drive is still being used in the way it was intended.
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  627. Dude, I dig your enthusiasm. And I certainly enjoy videos like this over the one I just watched about habitable zones around stars that are just a tad warmer than my broiler. But before you go beaming anyone up, who's going to bankroll all this? I've said it before, the line from The Right Stuff is applicable to any generation: "No bucks, no Buck Rogers." Space exploration is all based on political will. We went to the Moon because the will was there and the people rallied behind the cause in overwhelming numbers. All this stuff about building permanent settlements on the Moon and nuclear powered rockets, man, I love it. But do you realize how many trillion's, with a T, it's going to cost to pull off a play like that? Don't get me wrong, I love the idea. I grew up on this stuff and when I was a kid, I figured we would be on our way to Jupiter by this time, that the Mars landing would already be well in the rearview mirror. But we stopped after the Moon. And we stopped for a very simple reason, the will just wasn't there. Momentum is something you have to feed, we stopped feeding it. The eggheads beat the explorers at NASA and we got telescopes and probes instead of starships and intrepid space travelers. I love the idea of going to Mars, but honestly, if you asked me to quantify the ROI on a project like that I wouldn't be able to. In my opinion, the only way to pull off an undertaking like you are describing would be to make it a worldwide thing. Get everyone involved. Share the cost and the brainpower. It might do us some good. Maybe we'd figure out that at a basic level we aren't the enemies the powers that be want us to believe we are, and I'm not just talking about differences between nations. But that's a conversation for another day. For now, keep dreaming big dreams big guy, and know that I'm in your corner, even of I put the odds at 100,000,000 to 1. But as Jim Carey put it: "So you're telling me I've got a chance."
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  628. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is resetting the big board. Biden's feckless leadership aside, the Russians have exposed America's weakness. A 30 trillion dollar deficit catches up tp you eventually and even if the U.S. had the political will to lead from the front the money and resources aren't there. Europe is going to have to take the lead on this one and the long-term ramifications for that will reverberate louder than a lot people on this side of the ocean realize. It's a new day and promoters of the great reset are finding out actions have consequences. Jinping and Putin have no interest in playing by anyone's rules. This is just the beginning so hang on and get ready for a bumpy decade.
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  629. That commie in the beginning of the video is NVTS nuts but even a blind squirrel can find an acorn. There is an element of truth in his argument that corporations outsourced working class jobs overseas, taking away a good chunk of employment possibilities for unskilled workers, but they didn't send them all away. There were still plenty of them around into the 70s but by that point the exodus out of Detroit was in full bloom. I know because it happened to my neighborhood. It started with the riots in 1967. People got nervous after that and then they tried to institute bussing. Nobody ever talks about the impact that had on white flight as it came to be called but it did, and a lot of those people who split for the suburbs were the middle and higher end earners, people with jobs. When Coleman Young was elected in 73 that was it. He came out with his race baiting BS and told everyone who didn't agree with his policies to hit Eight Mile. Everyone knew who he was talking about and they took him up on his invitation. By the mid 1980s the neighborhood I grew up in was almost unrecognizable. I took off in 1984 and outside of one drive thru in 1992 to satisfy my wife's curiosity I stayed away. A couple years ago I did another drive thru and it broke my heart. It was like I was visiting a place I had never been too. There were only two businesses still standing from my childhood and one of those, a theater, has a fenced in parking lot with security guards. The other is a shoe repair store that I swear must be some kind of front. The rest of the business district is pretty much vacant land. The parks I used to play in are weed covered fields. No swings, slides, or baseball diamonds. My high school is long gone and my elementary school is boarded up, the baseball diamond and playground are obliterated. And the worse part was, there were no people. It was a sunny Saturday afternoon in the late Spring, the kind of day that used to bring everyone out of their homes in the 60s and we saw two people, both walking with their heads down, like they just wanted to be left alone. My house is gone. In fact, there are only three houses left on my street. People can talk economics and tax rates all day long but the bottom line is people stay where they feel wanted and where they have a stake. We were told in no uncertain terms to get out and never come back. Would you have stayed? That is my neighborhoods story, and it was repeated all over Detroit. That city died from the inside out, and it wasn't just the taxes that drove people away. That may sound harsh, but it's the way things worked in my neck of the woods.
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  630. I enjoy watching an Academy Award MC getting punched out as much as the next guy but it's still not enough to make me tune in next...I mean ever. But hey, nice to know he has some semblance of manhood after letting the world know he's okay with his wife screwing around. I always thought when your spouse decided to sleep around that was pretty much it as far as the marriage went but that's me.
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  631.  @nancysexton4364  Lindsay is one of Fox's go-to guys. Just ask his BFF Hannity. Beyond one or two hosts Fox is the mouth piece of the RNC and Mitch McConnell. They are also on board with normalizing sexual deviancy. Bruce Jenner is a regular and Bush's squishy former press secretary did a glowing piece on the fairytale transition of a mentally disturbed child in California, praising the love the kids parents were showing by offering their child up as a sacrifice on the pagan altar of progressivism. Fox is not an ally to the conservative movement. I am truly disappointed that two men I once admired, Mark Levin and Dan Bongino took the money and came on board as the token conservatives for Fox. Notice where they stuck them? Late Saturday night and Sunday evening? That's not by mistake. I no longer follow either of those guys. The lure of being on TV and making a quick buck got to them. Tucker is the only straight shooter on the network and I imagine the suits that run the network hate that he's too big to take out. I don't always agree with him but at least he says what he believes and isn't afraid to challenge the sacred cows of the RNC. Fox always pimps for the establishment candidate in every primary and goes out their way to trash any conservative who has the temerity to run against a swamp creature. If you consider yourself to be a conservative and you are still watching Fox, you really should consider a leave of absence. I'm not trying to be snarky or confrontational. I mean it with all sincerity. Your brain will thank you and you won't miss Karl Rove and his little white board at all. You remember Rove, the squishiest of swamp creatures left over from the Bush dynasty, the one who made a total ass of himself the night Romney got his clock cleaned by Obama by running around claiming his boy still had a chance because some county in Ohio with four farmers and three cows hadn't come in yet? That guy? The man Hannity sucks up too and praises as "the architect." That is Fox News in a nutshell. The fact squishes like him still have a voice says it all. As for Watters, he is a lightweight kid who used to carry water for O'Reilly. He'd host a drag queen story hour if his bosses told him to. Hell, he'd probably dress up and read to the kiddies himself if it meant keeping his gig. Sorry, didn't mean to rain on any Fox fan's parade. If you want more of McConnell, more of Rubio, more McCarthy and Graham, by all means, keep tuning in and voting the way they recommend.
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  632. Reminds me a bit of that scene from Dr. Strangelove where the President (Peter Sellers) tells the Russian Premiere: "You know how we've always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the bomb...One of our base commanders...well he went a little funny in the head...and he went and did a silly thing. He ordered his planes to attack your country." Love that scene and that movie. But I did get to tour the NORAD facility in North Bay Ontario after it closed. Amazing place. It was underground like Cheyanne Mountain but I was told it didn't have the shock absorbers. I was also told the controllers there handled a lot of the air traffic that was rerouted to Canada on 9-11. We toured the new above ground facility as well. Amazing technology. Our tour guide also said the old place was up for sale. Pretty good hide out if an asteroid decides to come and do as George Carlin once said, "Kick us off the Earth like a bad case of the fleas." 🤣
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  633. She's thinking of running for president...🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣...Maybe she can get Stacy Abrams to be her running mate and let Hillary manage her campaign...🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣...They can pretend to be The Golden Girls, but a lot crazier and THEY NEVER LOSE!!! It's the rest of us who don't get it. Seriously, I've been to Jackson Hole like twice but I bet I could have beaten her on the claim I've been there more times than that spoiled little brat. Her old man is evil, and she is crazy. Nice genes there Dick.
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  634. New to the channel but at least one Critical Drinker review is now part of my daily ritual. Great job with this one. I used to use the scene where he rolls back prices in the convenience store with the Louisville slugger as an intro to the stress management lesson I used to facilitate. The idea was simply to get the students attention but every now and again it would generate a lengthy discussion. Could you see yourself losing it like Bill? That kind of thing. The saddest part of the movie for me is when the snow-globe he bought for his daughter gets broken. I always saw that as a turning point for Bill. It's hard to sympathize with a character like him but it is epic when he blows up the street. Take that construction! Anyway, cool review and great analysis of the characters.
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  635. Sorry, but if you are stupid enough to think cow farts are a threat to the Earth's climate you are too stupid to vote and definitely too stupid to actually run anything. Global warming is the biggest hoax in the history of mankind. It was bad enough when opportunists like Al Gore were making a buck on it, now governments are populated by stupid children who were raised with these stupid ideas and they are making stupid decisions based on them. The one's who know better just see it for what it is, a hustle, a way to steal more money from other people. The history of where all this lunacy originated from has been purged and any actual scientist who studies climate and points out the fallacy of the climate models and their ridiculous predictions is told to shut up or risk losing funding. Those who refuse to shut up are defunded and ignored. Science has joined government in an unholy alliance. The scientific leadership see it as a way to gain supremacy over religion and any other competing system and to once and for all ascend to the heights they believe they are entitled to. Terms like settled science are part of the new lexicon. In exchange for that, if the powers that be need some group to give their wicked and obscene ideas a stamp of legitimacy they just get on the phone and order up some BS peer-reviewed paper that will make claims like men can get pregnant and kids need to be vaccinated against a virus that poses no real threat to them. It's all about control. And it always has been. Everyone has their price.
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  636. Later, Nazi's like Himmler would weave this into Aryan lore.
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  637. Dr. Sowell is correct when he says Churchill was the greatest man of the 20th Century. Churchill could be mercurial and at times he had some strange ideas about military strategy but he was the one man Hitler feared above all others because he knew he was the one man he could never buy off with his lies and false promises. As long as Churchill was in power Great Britain would remain a threat and a two-front war would remain a reality. The differences between Hitler and Churchill were best illustrated by their responses to the bombing campaigns. Churchill walked the ruins, rallying his people while displaying individual courage. Goebbels tried to get Hitler to do the same but Hitler chose to stay away rather than face the consequences of his decisions. Churchill also tried to reign in Stalin but Roosevelt with his massive ego thought he could charm him into submission.
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  638. To steal from the Untouchables: "You can get further with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word." Do I wish I lived in a world where people could be counted on to do the right thing and governments could be trusted to always respect our rights? You bet. But until that world arrives I have to live in the world of the way things are. And in that world, we need the 2nd Amendment.
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  639. And the current housing bubble will burst sometime between now and 2028, setting the stage for the next dirty 30s which will make the 1930s look like the good old days. The thing is, the next world-war won't bail anyone out.
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  640. And water is wet. biden is there to serve a purpose. He's there to break the place as badly as he can, to inflict as much damage in one term as his master obama did in two. obama is free to take every crazy impulse to its furthest extreme from the safety of his Martha's Vineyard headquarters. The old coot gets the blame, obama and the globalists get what they want, an America that is no longer able to stand in the way of the great reset.
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  641. Good for her for calling this guy a he. It's a start. The next step is an empty pool whenever this guy shows up to compete. Let them scream about it. You heard her, most of the feedback she has gotten has supported her decision. I'm willing to bet the percentage of people in this country who are genuinely behind this guy bullying these young girls the way he has is less than 2%. Let's find out. “The tyranny of the minority is infinitely more odious and intolerable and more to be feared than that of the majority.” ― William McKinley
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  642. I saw an interview yesterday with Ralph Martin on Matt Fradd's channel and he mentioned that a province in Australia has made it a crime to provide what they call conversion therapy for anyone who is gay, even if that person goes to a psychiatrist's office and wants help overcoming their same-sex attraction. The counsellor can receive up to 10 years in prison for trying to help that patient out. He or she is gay and that is the end of the discussion, period. Don't expect them to stop there. It's only a matter of time before governments in these western countries like Australia, Canada, and the UK that don't have religious protection built into their constitution will start coming after clergy who refuse to go along with the gender madness and gay agenda. And I can see states like Kalifornia, Oregon, and Washington passing similar laws to that one in Australia and locking up people like Dr. Grossman for holding views that run counter to their demonic agenda of the state. If these people posing as doctors are successfully sued protection for them will be built into the law as well. This is why I say, don't look to the courts for protection against this assault on all that is holy, good, and beautiful. Only God can help us now. He's willing, but what about us? We have to repent and humble ourselves before Him. If this country doesn't get their act together soon that national divorce politicians casually talk about will become a reality and here's a newsflash, divorces tend to be messy affairs. We better pray it doesn't come to that because if it does, as Bob Dylan put it, a hard rain's a gonna fall.
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  643. I think societies breakdown when they trade liberty for security and comfort. The Roman Republic gave way to Empire. Most say the Empire at its height was the zenith of Roman civilization but really, the day the republic caved and allowed Caesar to become a dictator marked the end of that society. Virtue and an altruistic sense of civic responsibility are the markers of a healthy society. When those give way, it's only a matter of time before some form of tyranny sets in. For the west, it will be globalism delivered in the form of corporatism. The unholy alliance between commerce and government is already in place. I'm not talking some form of exploitation via Marxism, it's really more of a Randian dystopia taking root, the kind she detailed in Atlas Shrugged. We have shown the globalists we can be easily sacred and led pretty much any place they want to take us. To borrow from Bernadette Peters in the movie The Jerk, you can have the money, just don't take the stuff. Anyway, that's how I see it. By the next decade we will have digital currencies and social credit scores on a global scale. Civilizations don't collapse, they evolve. They move from freedom to slavery and back again. The American Experiment had a nice run. Franklin said we had a republic if we could keep it and for a time we did. But now more and more people are saying they don't want it. We are becoming atomized and isolated even as we become more interdependent. The great paradox of the digital age. All hail the experts, our new overlords. To be honest, I'm glad I'm on the back end of the journey because the future on this rock is coming to an end. Get right with your Creator while you still can. That's my advice.
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  644. I saw the add for this on Amazon and thought...well I didn't think anything because the original sucked. Remaking that is like taking six-month old fetta cheese out of the fridge and leaving it on the counter for a week hoping the fresh-air will breathe some life into it. I'm not even sure why I bothered with the review. Just in a mood for some of the Drinker I guess.
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  645.  @googleandsusansucks  Okay
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  646. I agree Rand, the republican party is the Washington Generals of politics. But how about calling out the other senator from your state, one of the guys with his hands on the wheel of this bus we call an economy, the turtle of the senate. It's really tough to get behind a party that just elected him for another term as your leader. Remember the good old days, the days when guys like Ted Cruz weren't afraid to call him a liar right on the floor? Those are the kind of stones I'd like to see from someone, anyone. If that a-hole decides to run again because he figures him and his chi-com wife haven't stolen enough for their retirement fund he better face a primary opponent, I mean a real opponent, one with the cash and wherewithal to take that SOB out. Otherwise, this is all just a rhetorical exercise, isn't it Rand? I luv ya man, but I gotta call it as I see it.
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  647. Neuro-divergent? Come on man, they lifted that from the guy in the movie Twelve Monkees who said he was part of an intellectual elite from the planet Ogo trying to subjugate the barbarian hordes on Pluto. But this woman does fit the divergent profile, gotta give her credit for that.
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  648. Cool stuff. A bit disappointing to the Bill Nye types who play scientist on TV and make claims of a galaxy chock-full-of life because that's what the script tells em to say. Or the Neil DeGrasse Tyson types who have a few more letters behind their name and make similar claims because it pays well. But none of this will stop either of them from living long and prospering. I imagine these findings might make it a bit tougher to pull funds out of NASA, especially if they get into a heated competition with Elon Musk and China over who can get to Mars and lay claim to the Moon. To borrow from the movies, they might use the Billy Bob Thornton argument and say they need a bigger telescope because: "Begging your pardon sir but it's a big-ass sky." Of course NASA, staying with the movie theme, could respond to the false findings and go all Jeff Specoli on them, responding: "We can be bogus too." Money always carries the day and while ROI isn't something any government agency is that concerned about, public perception is. What's more exciting? Finding a planet they may know more about in 50 years after building a few more new generations of telescopes that may or may not deliver or seeing old glory flying over a patch of dirt on the Martian surface. Can we do anything of real value with that patch of dirt? Not really. But it does look cool and the public does prefer cool to nerdy, and as the man from the press office told the astronauts in the Right Stuff when it came to public perception: "No bucks, no Buck Rogers." I'm gonna most likely be off this rock when either milestone gets reached but I'm betting on exploration beating out discovery because we are explorers by nature. Sorry planet hunters, that 24 billon dollar telescope ain't getting off the drawing board, not with a 30 trillion dollar national debt and a corrupt money laundering regime in Ukraine that needs propping up. Maybe if the Russians settle down some time soon. In the meantime, enjoy those Bausch & Lomb's.
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  649. We sure seem hell bent on finding proof we're not special. Maybe our desire to find that proof explains our bad habit of treating one another like we're not anything special? Just thinking out loud.
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  650. Lefties crack me up. I imagine there is sh*t-ton of fat gay actors out there just waiting to get discovered and the gall of this straight guy who is only getting the job because he is an actual actor. He's stealing work from all those aforementioned gay fat guys who could really use the break. You know what, the next time they show Titanic don't watch it because that's not the actual ship. Same thing with Star Trek. All those real Vulcan's Leonard Nimoy put out of work. How dare he!
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  651. So the folks in Manhattan are feeling the results huh. Kinda like crime moving uptown in LA? 🤔 Suddenly limousine liberals are being forced to face the consequences of their academic friends crazy pet critical race theories? Wokeness and virtual signaling like that. It's all fun and games till someone loses an eye. On behalf of my former neighborhood which is now mostly deserted ghetto..."Welcome to the party pal!" 🎁
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  652. Christopher Nolan is more concerned with making a film than telling a story. That works in some instances but history requires storytelling and when the storytelling is weak or disjointed the product suffers. I'm one of those who hated Dunkirk because while it was visually interesting, if you didn't know anything about the evacuation going in, why it happened, how it was put together, why it worked, you didn't learn anything coming out. It sounds like he did the same thing here. I was hesitant about spending money to see this one, and this review sort of confirms my fears. I'll wait for it to stream, then wait for the price to drop. Sorry, but as someone who has studied history and read quite a bit I have learned that the narrative makes all the difference. I don't demand complete fidelity, since license is always taken, but just like I steer clear of Ron Howard bio-pics because of his cookie-cutter style of filming and cowardly character assassinations of people who aren't around to defend themselves simply to create an antagonist because that was what he was taught at film school, I steer clear of Nolan because he sucks at storytelling and just doesn't seem that interested in it. And yes, that is a run-on sentence dedicated the Drinker who is a master at their application. Cheers.
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  653. The notion that there would be multiple universe's and that some may not have any matter or energy as a result of losing the fine-tuning war per se loses me. What possible purpose would such a universe possess? And if it had no purpose, why would it exist at all? I believe this. The laws of physics are set and the idea that you can somehow bend or break them to travel vast distances is a pipedream. If there are other civilizations out there, perhaps there is a reason we are all kept away from one another. When I was young I just took it for granted that the universe was teeming with advanced civilizations but that was before I learned about the level of precision required for life. Now, put me in the skeptical group. Which is why we should be all the more grateful for what we have because it is so precious and rare. We may be small in the scheme of things, but the fact we are here at all makes us special indeed.
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  654. Come on Megyn, I'm no hard-core Trumper but you kicked off the first republican debate in 2016 by pulling out your old prosecutor hat and going after Trump like he was on trial. I get it, you're pretty much a shill and you were acting on orders from your superiors at Fox News who were all-in for Jeb at that time but going after that dimwit CNN sicked on Trump for doing what you did but somehow managing to do it in a more clumsy fashion is a bit hypocritical. Too bad your attempt at capitalizing on that whole "I-am-woman-hear-me-roar" moment you were trying to create didn't earn you enough brownie points with the woke suburban soccer moms. NBC found that out pretty quick. Who are you pandering to now Meg? Just askin but really I'm not that interested. I just figured I'd peek in on this one to confirm that you are still full of sh*t. But hey, at least Tucker was able to become a thing after you gave up that 8 PM slot at Fox.
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  655. Come on now, don't confuse the matter with facts. The powers-that-be operate off of feelings, not theirs of course, the feelings of the people they lead around by the nose. It's a lot easier to sell feelings because they don't require critical thinking. They make ridiculous statements then send bought-and-paid-for celebrity scientists who may or may not have any training in climatology out there to scare people who are too busy to or lazy to fact them. I used to cover the atmosphere when I taught courses on the theories associated with flight and I explained to my students that C02 was a trace element and that it would take a whole lot more than we are capable of ever producing to move the climate needle. Some got it, others didn't or wouldn't accept it. I know there was a study a while back sponsored by the U.N. where they looked at the ice cores in Greenland, going back 6,000 years and could find no temperature variation outside of the standard deviation. That study got buried. It's all about power and control. It always has been, and it always will be.
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  656. Man am I glad I grew up in the age of Bullwinkle and Rocky and Looney Toons. I suppose the only show from those days that would have a chance now would be the Pink Panther, provided they did away with the Any and the Aardvark because oppressing ants would never fly with today's woke crowd. Man, it has got to suck being that humorless and wicked at the same time.
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  657. Another example that storytelling may be on life support but it's not dead yet. I think a comeback is in the making. Maybe I'm just being a bit of a Pollyanna but stories that actually touch people still have great appeal and there is a hunger for them. Comic books and franchises from the 80s and 90s are dead. Welcome back story time, us old fogies have missed ya.
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  658. "If we go back to those fundamental values of who we really are this is how we can come together." Here's the flaw with your argument Tulsi, the people at the top of your political party don't possess those fundamental values. In fact, for the loudest portion of your base, those values are antithetical to what they believe. Some are nihilists masquerading as anarchists, others are Marxists masquerading as liberals but they all share the common belief that the existing meritocracy based on capitalistic principles and Judeo-Christian values must be destroyed to make way for the Socialist utopia where they become part of what Marx referred to as The Dictatorship of the Proletariat. It's like the problem with the Palestinians and the Israelis. The Palestinians have had many opportunities to create a state and put an end to the violence but they will never agree because that is not their stated objective. The destruction of Israel is. Just like the destruction of our system of self-government is their ultimate objective. They have no interest in finding common ground because in their minds we share no common ground. The politics of the left has always been ideologically driven and politics for ideological movements has always been a zero sum game. There are winners and losers, that's it. And winners get to dictate the peace. That is the story of every left-wing movement from the Bolsheviks through the Castro's. I wish there was a way to reason with the other side but how do you reason with someone who wants to end you?
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  659. I'm currently on a Martian calendar. The problem is, my body didn't get the memo and unfortunately that makes me the oldest 32 year old on the planet. Maybe if I start running really fast...🤔
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  660. They grow a lot of grapes in NYC don't they? Should be plenty of work.
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  661. Maybe she's a good Catholic girl who decided to give up her eternal soul for lent? 🤔Just a thought.
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  662. “The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.” ― Revelation: 13
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  663. You can say you want to be reasonable, that's all fine and well. But people have been trying to be reasonable with this bunch for decades. Now they have power they didn't have even 10 years ago and they are grinding people down with it. These corporations go along with them not out of fear but as a result of being led by fellow travelers who are down with the cultural marxist agenda. They may not be true believers and zealots but they are sympathetic because they were fed the same lies as kids. How did we get here? By being reasonable. By listening to people who said "What's the big deal?" or "It's not bothering you, why should you care what people do?" and "Live and let live." Explain to me how to be reasonable with unreasonable people who don't want anything to do with you or your dated notions of tradition, morality, and decency. Perhaps if more people had said not no but hell no when these kooks started indoctrinating children into their twisted ideology in our schools or when they started perverting minds and polluting souls with pornography we wouldn't be in this mess. Maybe if people had said thanks but no thanks to a welfare system that paid better if the father was out of the home. Reasonable? Yeah, that's worked out great to this point. I'd love nothing better than to be left alone but they won't have any of that. It's gone from you will be made to care to you will be made to participate. Bow to the new state religion or face its wrath. So again, I ask, how can you be reasonable with unreasonable people who hate you and everything you hold dear? Just asking.
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  664. The liberal eggheads still won't give the man credit. Anytime you see some documentary or news special from state-run media on the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the USSR they always hail Gorbachev as the man responsible for it because of his enlightened policies and forward thinking. Horseshit. Gorbachev tried his damndest to save the Soviet system but by the time he got into office the writing was on the wall (pun intended). Reagan had run the playbook he wrote back in the early 60s and the USSR had no answers. Reagan hated Détente, calling it a one-sided deal the Soviets didn't even honor and insisted on playing for the win against them, not the tie. He was proven right and the liberal shmucks couldn't handle it. The thing is, the American public loved President Reagan. To borrow from Muhamad Ali, he delivered two of the biggest one-sided-ass-whuppins to the democrats in electoral history. I voted for the man and I was a long-haired club musician. When asked, my answer was simple, Carter sucks. John Lennon even said if he could vote he'd vote for Reagan. Unfortunately, then Bush came along and fu*ked up the end-game. As much as the Clintons and almost as much as obama, the Bushes were a stain on America and the White House. But that is a discussion for another day. We sure could use a man like you now Mr. President. God Bless ya Dutch, sorry we dropped the ball and failed to win one for the Gipper.
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  665. I suppose you need a rulebook to keep up but I don't want to keep up so I guess I'll pass.
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  666. You can tell these lefty's who worship at the altar of wokesim are from the suburbs. I grew up in the city and I can tell you nobody with a lick of sense would wander around that neighborhood at 4 AM or ride an elevator with a guy full of neck tattoos. You kept your head on a swivel in my neighborhood or you were asking for trouble. We didn't call it stereotyping we called it common sense. A young lady I worked with, nice kid but a hard-core lefty, was moving to DC for her new job. She told me the area she was moving into and having spent some time near DC i knew it was a rough section. She said it was all she could afford. I told her to at least make sure she kept her gun close by and she told me she got rid of it because of its natural connection to violence and power. Besides, she said arming herself in predominantly black neighborhood would be a racist thing to do. She bought the gun a few years earlier for protection, when she lived in a much safer area but then the lefty's got their hooks in her and once that happened she was gone. They're like Jehovah's Witnesses. Once the cult has them, all reason goes out the window.
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  667. Everyone knows what the required fix is, but everyone also knows the republican party would never have the stones to deport millions of people. It would be a messy affair and the last thing republicans want is actual confrontation with anyone about anything at any time ever. The democrats banked on it. It's why obama has left the gate so wide open. The idea is to sew chaos and watch as the internal contradictions he and his ilk are creating cause the place to unravel. When societies unravel, people always turn to a strong-man to restore order. Which political party do you think would be better at imposing their will in the name of order? Which party wields power and which party just wants to be left alone to fund-raise? We complicate the matter by trying to apply some abstract theory to the game-plan. Occam's Razor. We're not looking at some form of 4-D chess boys and girls. Just see it for what it is and decide if you want it fixed or not. If you prefer the show, fine. But don't bitch about it this November when the democrats grab all three branches and really accelerate this train wreck. You aren't allowed to do that. As Alice Cooper once said: "Welcome to my nightmare...I hope I didn't scare you. That's just the way we are when we come down."
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  668. What Matt is referring to when he talks about God being the bridge to Heaven and the faith versus works argument is the difference between admiring Christ and following Him. A lot of people admire Jesus, but how many really pick up their cross and follow Him? Myself included? I struggle with that one. I do my best but I sometimes feel I'm falling short on that front. As for the notion that people choose Hell over Heaven, that concept struck me as a bit strange until I stopped over thinking it. How many people choose Hell here on Earth over a good and decent life? Why would they change simply because they have passed away? I think it's more about will. As C.S. Lewis put it: "In the end there are two types of people, those who say to God your will be done and those to whom God says, your will be done." Following their own will is the true test that someone is truly self-centered, truly the Alpha and Omega of their Universe. As for love being enough, I think there is a bit more to it than what Matt described. Loving someone is easy, especially if they love you. Christ said, even the tax collectors love those who love them. It's loving people who don't and forgiving others, that is the trick and we all struggle with that. Just look around. God Bless. 🙏
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  669. Is disney even still planning on releasing that train-wreck? It's like they got in a room and said okay, let's find the most stereotypical annoying spoiled little gen-z bi*ch and see just how big a finger we can give to the world of normal people. They just make movies so they can call people who think they are dogshit names for calling them what they are. They wanna crash and burn at this stage, going out like the angry little woke alphabet fu*kheads they are. Can't happen fast enough for me.
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  670. Facts and data are kryptonite to state-run media. If people knew what was really going on...hold it, taylor swift was just seen at a mini-mart with some other football player. Can't talk now, gotta run. I wonder what jessie waters will have to say about this breaking news tonight. hannity will get to the bottom of it and tell us how it all fits into the corporate plan to take down trump. Don't bore me with stuff about war and the economy man. Don't you know what REALLY matters!!!!
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  671. I got a warning from You Tube that I was too hard on that warmongering twisted sick evil old man general keane who was on another Fox show saying we aren't doing enough to defend this wonderful democracy called Ukraine from Stalin or whoever else he thinks is still in control in the USSR, which he apparently wishes was still around so he could pick more fights, so I'll be kinder here. You're right on this one Tulsi. The only thing at stake in Ukraine is the money laundering interests of biden and mcconnell. obama would be happy to see WWIII go down because then, perhaps once and for all the pesky United States of America would collapse and the global new world order he craves for the west can become a reality. We are on a razors edge, but hardly anyone seems to notice or care. Maybe when their savings accounts are completely wiped out and they are assigned digital currency based on their social credit score and how up to date their vaccine profile is. maybe then they'll get curious. Until then, the NFL draft is right around the corner. Live long and prosper.
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  672. How are they going to regulate access and verification? Bio-tech like retina scans, thumbprints? The further down the rabbit hole you go the more problems you create. It's a problem only a strong family and real social support group can handle. There will always be troubled kids, but the way they are being targeted now is unlike anything I've seen.
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  673. As a movie, it does a great job tackling a disturbing subject in a way that is impactful without being too overt. Bill Camp delivers a great performance and in a different time he may have won an academy award for the effort. He's right, there is no political or spiritual message being conveyed, it's just a story about people acting heroically to protect children. Children are under attack in the world. They want to normalize pedophilia by labeling people as MAP's, minor attracted persons. It's sick and evil no matter how you dress it up. And anytime a film like this takes flack, well, it means it's hitting pretty close to the target. There are plenty of millstones to go around, and we all answer for our actions down the road. If you have a problem with this film and the way it portrays these predator's, well that's a you problem.
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  674. I've never been a big Star War fan so I'm not in a position to say one way or another what she did to that franchise. I do know she road the coattails of people with actual talent and gave herself a sh*tload of credit for films like Seabiscuit and Lincoln, mugging for the cameras and making out like she was some kind of creative genius and played a critical role in their success. I also know it annoyed the sh*t out of me. But my lefty friends love the moron. When they asked me if I thought she was responsible for all the flops people were blaming her for and I said well it seems like every film she's in charge of crashes and burns I got the eye roll treatment because I mean she's a woman don't ya know. Even a small chip off the matriarchy that has f*cked up the West is a win so good on whoever talked this melomaniac into riding off into the sunset. I am woman hear me bore indeed. And why is it all those "guys" she hired look like betas at best and flat out *** at worst, which I'm willing to bet most em are. Just wonderin.
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  675. Anthropology is a "social" science, a way of dressing up disciplines that don't use the scientific method consistently but rather provide "context" by considering other factors that may or may not have any empirical relationship to the subject. In other words, some of it is valid, and some of it is BS. As for this guy, I wonder what the people who used to mock Christians by falling back on carbon dating and cosmology think about this guys assertion? Oh yeah, he's on the left so anything he says, no matter how ridiculous, is okay, provided his conclusions line up with what the cult supports at the moment. It must be nice to live in a world where truth is a construct and morality is what we say it is. Wait a minute, you mean it really isn't that nice? 🤔Well then I want my tuition back Stanford.
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  676. President Trump asked the question and got the crap knocked out of him by people on all sides but you know what, beyond calling him a bunch of names no one ever did answer the question in a meaningful way so I'll ask it again; what purpose does NATO actually serve anymore and why do we still have troops there?
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  677. Top Gov! Gotta love it! The problem with all of those republicans jumping on the bandwagon is most of them would either get behind Trump or some simpy republican like Mike Pence. They fear DeSantis as much as the democrats because he will...wait for it...lead! 😮Oh no! You mean we might actually have to stand for something!!! ☹Say it ain't so Joe, say it ain't so! As for the governor's race, he's gonna wax whatever sacrificial lamb the DNC puts up against him. That woman agriculture secretary looks like she's straight outta commune-living magazine and Crist lies so much he has to have someone else call his dog. I know because I'm stuck with that joker as my rep for the time being. Anyway, great ad! Top Gov...what a stud! 😎😎
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  678. Wow, that's sad. He was relatively young, I wonder what happened? In any event, RIP Ray and condolences to your family and loved ones. May God grant you His grace and lead you home.
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  679. "Jagged sharp and abrasive"...🤔sounds a lot like my ex-wife. 🤣Sorry honey, it's their fault. They left me wide open just beyond the three-point line. How could I not take the shot?
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  680. Teasing and getting the better of The Bar Tender is a bit like teasing a cocker spaniel puppy. Pretty low hanging fruit there. Of course, I say this meaning no offense to cocker spaniel puppies who even though they may not have had an honorable mention in a sixth grade science fair generally possess more common sense than the Bar Tender. And they are much better company to boot. Can you imagine spending how ever many hours it takes to get from DC to New York riding in the same car with that brain dead nitwit???? Sorry, fingernails on a chalkboard would be preferable.
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  681. A preacher named "Creflo Dollar?" If that isn't just inviting trouble I don't know what is. I've never seen that character before and hopefully I never will again. I recognize several of these charlatans though, including Osteen and Paula White who was one of President Trump's "spiritual" advisors. I never gave any of these people one moment of attention, not even when I was searching for a way back into Christ's good graces after years of swimming in the devil's lake. The number of people taken in by these huckster's is amazing. I get it with Trump. He didn't exactly have a Road to Damascus moment when he suddenly discovered the Bible in 2016 so he would have a natural attraction to people like White and Robert Jeffress who are themselves attracted to power, fame, and money. These false prophets may want to consider what the actual Gospel, not the prosperity gospel has to say on the matter of mixing religion and politics. They are sowing seeds alright but the Gospel says you will know a tree by its fruit and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. In fact, in another passage, the master tells the servant to cut down the tree that fails to bear good fruit and burn it. Then there is the one instance where Jesus truly lashes out, when he overturns the money changers tables in the Temple. Say what you will about the Catholic faith but you won't find Mass being said in mega-churches with rock bands and light shows. When I decided I wanted to reestablish my relationship with God I was adamant that I wanted nothing to do with the Catholic Church. But the more protestant services I attended the more in dawned on me that a lot of the preachers were just sort of making it up as they went along. I didn't go to any of these mega-frauds but there was a hit and miss element to what I was hearing. One day, after being disillusioned for a third time, I decided to attend Mass, something I hadn't done in more than 40 years. Within the first five minutes I knew I was home. The liturgy played a big role in that. I'm not saying all protestants are on the wrong path or that all protestant churches have bad intentions and I admit the Catholic Church has had its share of scandal. But I would encourage anyone who is a former Catholic and who feels maybe a bit out of place with where they are currently at to consider coming home. Jesus has left the light on for you and we would love to welcome you back.
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  682. Couple of points. First, Japan didn't lean on Hitler to declare war on the U.S. and acquiescing to anyone wasn't exactly Hitler's style. He declared war on the U.S. with the false illusion that it would strengthen the alliance between the two nations and might even lead to Japan attacking the USSR via Mongolia which wasn't going to happen. Also, Chamberlin was hailed when he returned with that agreement. The British were not clamoring for war and they weren't ready for one. Not working to create some sort of mutual defense arrangement between Czechoslovakia and Poland was a bigger mistake. The Czechs had a decent army and Germany would have had trouble taking them both on at the same time.
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  683.  @JS-ki5yq  Help me to understand something, you seem to be saying the capitalist system lies at root of the problem, that unless you put a cap on how much people own you will end up with a larger government. So how do you regulate wealth and impose the caps you recommend? Sounds like you need a large, intrusive, apparatus to pull that off which is exactly what you get with a socialist system. Or will people just naturally give back what they have earned (or stolen for that matter) and say, you're right, we need to share the wealth in order to shrink the size of government, my bad? It sounds like you are railing against crony capitalism, which I agree is a problem, but to pin it all on capitalism is a false assertion. Plenty of people enriched themselves in the socialist paradises they were claiming to be working on while the average person starved or was imprisoned for asking uncomfortable questions about how the whole thing was supposed to work. Is our government broken? You bet it is. Is it broken because of the capitalist system? There, I respectfully disagree. There are plenty of billionaires drinking from the government trough, but that game is as old as humanity itself. You know who would get rich off a system that imposed caps? The cappers.
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  684.  @MoreOrMore1  You're here learning from people like Dr. Sowell, that puts you ahead of a lot of people, and not just in your generation. You'll sort out the mechanical aspects to learning as you go along. The best advice I can give you is read. Read every day. Read history, science, philosophy, the Bible, and draw your own conclusions. Reading is good for the brain, like working out is good for the cardio-vascular system. It is the root of critical thinking. Most great leaders over time have had that in common, they were all readers. And never forget John Adams famous maxim: "Facts are stubborn things." Be a truth seeker. It is the path to enlightenment and God.
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  685. I'm going to make one final comment on this channel and then I'm done. This is maybe the fourth, or fifth, video I have watched and I've got to say these guys give facts that are...well, not factual to be polite. The Soviet economy was remarkably successful????? What the hell was your source for that? TASS? Chernobyl cause the break up? Give me a break. They make it sound like the Russian people just woke up one day in the 1980s and realized their system sucked and that they had been lied to. That is just this video. Like I say, there are inaccuracies and poor analysis in their other videos as well. I won't be back so if you want to yell at me for saying this channel sucks go ahead. But as a lifelong student of history I find channels like this insulting.
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  686. Marxism is a system based on a flawed understanding of human nature so any subsequent government built using those principles as a framework is destined to fail. Democratic socialism is a made-up term that is an oxymoron. If you ask most of the kids clamoring for weekend at Bernie's what socialism is you will get a variety of answers, none of which actually address the premise of a centralized system where the state owns the means of production. That little dipsh*t bartender from New York who got elected because people with money liked her audition tape and put money behind her is the poster-child for this. The woman had a degree in economics from a university with a supposed solid reputation yet the best she could do was get a job slinging beers at Rosie's. When you hear her talk about economic matters you understand why. Marxism, at it's core, is a Godless religion where Man is at the center, and we all know what happens when we are left to our own devices with no transcendent moral code to keep our base instincts in check. To quote the prophet Ozzie Osbourne: "Satan laughing spreads his wings." That is why the term evil is appropriate.
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  687.  @MoonshineH  So, enlighten me. Where am I off-base? If I'm wrong, what is Marxism?
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  688.  @MoonshineH  Semantics, okay, I get that. But explain it to me. Tell me where my assertions, beyond referring to it as system are wrong? You said I don't know what Marxism is, I mean beyond simply saying it is a set of economic and philosophical ideas what is it? Can ya go a bit deeper?
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  689.  @MoonshineH  Well okay, the dialectic, dialectic historicism to be more precise, a concept he ripped off from Hagel and then, in Marx's own words; "turned it on its head." And socialism isn't the end of history according to Marx, communism is. Now, getting back to my original post, communism fails because it's based on the social compact as Rousseau framed it, where man doesn't have a fallen nature and if left to his own devices would have been just fine. It was society and its corrupting influences, including religion which both Rosseau and Marx had a major axe to grind with, that messed him up. In order for a proper course correction, Rousseau argues for the general will to prevail. Marx goes a step further and argues that eventually communism will prevail, that capitalism will fall under its own weight because it is at odds with the general will. The problem of course is, when you make a case like that you have to provide evidence and Marx used notions like the super-structure and the labor theory of value which are based on nothing more than Marx's thoughts. And what about the ultimate revolution? The rising up of the working class? Workers of the world unite and all that horesh*t? Why did the world-wide revolution not materialize? That's easy. The proletariat decided they wanted to work within the capitalist system instead of tearing it down because it had the best track record for upward mobility. Put more simply, since people are self-interested by nature, not collective-minded, they chose option A, the thesis over the antithesis put forward by Marx and Engel. Marx understood that reality deep down which is why he argued for the need of a dictatorship of the proletariat. Lenin, Stalin, and Moa agreed in the authoritarian approach and went one step further, deciding that those peasants and the damn middle class bourgeoisie who just weren't getting on board needed to be properly motivated. So what so you end up with? Re-education camps to adjust their thinking and mass graves for those who won't take the reprogramming no matter how many lashes you gave em. For Marx it would be necessary to overcome the corrupting influence of the super structure. For Locke, you would have to force that kind of thinking on people because they're just not wired for it. And because you have to force people into it, communism will never be achieved. So much for the Marxist inevitability of history. Socialism fails because of its centralized nature and the tendency for people like the halfwit professors who spout that crap in the classrooms to be put in charge of the means of production. It's a bit like going to the janitor for open heart surgery. I could go on, but I'll stop there. Marxism can't be boiled down to fortune-cookie wisdom and simple slogans. That much I know. I've read Marx. I just reject him because, well he's wrong. You really should expand on your thoughts a bit more. Maybe not as much I have here, but simply stating a definition isn't exactly defending a position. If you are going to come at someone and say they don't understand something, a well-reasoned argument comes in handy. Just sayin.
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  690.  @MoonshineH  Nope. I don't see it. It's okay. I appreciate the effort. I don't mind debating, we all have different takes on things.
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  691. Anytime I see clips from that view show I cannot help but think of those witches from the movie Clash of the Titans who go ape sh*t when Perseus steals their eye. I imagine you have to have an IQ below 70 to even be considered for a job on that panel but I recall a time when whoopi wasn't quite this stupid. I think she's required by the terms of her contract to shed a certain amount of IQ points every year. She's in bonus territory now because she is quickly becoming the most stupid lady on that show, and THAT is saying something. Well done whoopi. As for that freak making up that story about the guy being arrested for not bowing down to his queerness, that just shows how narcissistic these people really are. And trust me, if that freak-show had his way we would all be arrested.
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  692. Thank you Tulsi, that was fantastic. Like you, I served this nation for more than 23 years, spending Christmases sleeping in foreign lands, away from friends and family, being shot at by people who meant it, and doing it all for less money than my civilian counterparts. Now the FBI has added me to their enemies list for the secular sin of being Catholic. On January 23, 2023, the FBI released a document on "Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists" and their interests in “Radical-Traditionalist Catholics” or RTCs. Apparently, Catholics who prefer the Latin Mass are more likely to hold traditional views that amount to an “adherence to anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ and white supremacist ideology.” The document goes on to recommend monitoring Catholic Masses and developing sources within the parishes to snitch on those who may hold extremist views. And where does all of this originate from? What source did the FBI use to determine Catholics pose a threat to state? The good old Southern Poverty Law Center and their list of “Radical Traditional Catholicism Hate Groups.” You might remember the good old SPLC. They are the group who put a target on the backs of the people working at the Family Research Council in 2012 by calling them a hate group. Some maniac picked that bit of info up and decided to buy 15 Chic-Fil-A sandwiches before heading over to the D.C. office of the group with a rifle, one for each person he planned on killing that day. In case you forgot about that incident, you may remember hearing about how the SPLC worked with big tech and the feds to determine standards for misinformation and hate-speech on social media platforms. And let's not forget the recent FBI raid on the home of the pro-life advocate in Pennsylvania for violating the FACE act. In 2021 he defended his son from a 72 year old man who was harassing and threatening the kid. The local DA determined there wasn't enough there to press charges and the matter was dropped. Fast forward a year and here comes the FBI, storming the guys home on the orders of biden's DOJ with enough firepower to bring down a well-armed militia. The thing is, even if he beats the charges, his legal bills are going to ruin him. That is how this works, the process is the punishment. Ask Mike Flynn about it. When he was President, Harry Truman was very wary of national police forces, especially the FBI. As far as he could tell, they seemed a whole lot more interested in getting dirt for Hoover on politicians and their extramarital and drinking habits than solving actual crimes. I think he would have disbanded it if his colleagues weren't so scared of what that little weasel had in his secret files. And they still have a building named after that cross-dressing fascist. Wanna learn about how the FBI operates, particularly at the upper level, where the decisions get made, read 1000 Years for Revenge by Peter Lance. That will show you how incompetent management is at that outfit when it comes to fighting real crimes, how they dropped the ball prior to 9/11, and punished agents who tried to warn them about the threat these Middle Eastern guys training at flight schools and firing ranges really were. But now, based on raids like the ones at Roger Stone's place, Mar Largo, and Mr. Houck, it appears the street agents are finally getting the message. Go along or face the consequences or as we used to hear on the street, snitches get stitches. Our Founding Fathers would weep openly if they saw what their sacrifice led to, how these alphabet soup agencies run by unelected bureaucrats have taken over the country and how the congress has been more than willing to let them do it. I think if they could have jumped into a time machine in 1774 and saw America in the 21st Century they would have told the King, "It's okay, we'll pay a bit extra for tea and playing cards, but only if you promise right now to never give us independence." Thanks again Tulsi for speaking up on this real threat to our liberty. And thank you Patrick Henry for insisting on a Bill of Rights after Hamilton and Maddison said it wasn't necessary because everyone respected natural law. I want it in writing before I'll agree to your damned constitution was a great contribution to that document and the forging of a free nation. It's the only thing standing between us and the kind of tyranny countries like Canada and Great Britain are enduring. But as Tulsi points out, it needs defending 24/7. Progressives have been trying to scrap the thing since the days of Teddy Roosevelt. People who love liberty need to embrace what people who crave power hate with a passion. As President Reagan said in his greatest speech, we have a rendezvous with destiny and have reached a time for choosing. Let us hang together to avoid hanging separately.
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  693. Saying nobody expected a war in 1914 is not accurate. Europe had been teetering on the brink for quite some time and people spoke openly about the inevitability of war at some point, like a relief valve popping due to too much pressure being exerted on it. What they didn't anticipate was the mass causalities inflicted as a result of tactics not keeping pace with technology. The major powers witnessed what unfolded in the American Civil war a half century earlier but they learned the wrong lessons. As for who started it, I pin most of it on Austria-Hungary and Russia but as I say, the other powers like France and Germany were itching for a fight and it was going to happen at some point before 1920. Too much bad blood and too many guns pointed at each other. It was the seminal event of the 20th Century and we are still dealing with the aftermath today. War is hell and that was one helluva war.
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  694. Referring to biden as someone who provides a calming influence is kinda like saying a burning trash pile provides comforting heat. The guy is a senile old coot who stood in front of that devil-like red background and called half the country a threat simply for disagreeing him. He talks about nuclear war like it's some kind of video game and looks for dead people in the audience. He shuts down energy production and prints more money than in a year than has been printed in 200 and then blames high prices at the pump and inflation on gas station owners and Putin. He is a cranky creepy old man who yells at anyone who disagrees with him and if you lived next door to him you wouldn't allow your kids or grandkids anywhere near him. He wanders around on stage after his speeches like he has no clue who or where he is and he has a press secretary who is more than half a moron and a cackling VP who is a total moron. 70% of the country believes we are headed in the wrong direction under this Bozo. Sorry, that's not exactly what I would call calming. The communists did well in the areas where their indoctrination over the past century has been effective. Those regions will never vote republican and are lost for all time. The republicans did run crap candidates but there's nothing new there. Trump contributed to the poor showing but most of the blame falls on the republican leadership. mcconnell is an evil old man who is still stealing cash at the age of 80. The last thing he wanted was a bunch of new senators who owed him nothing and might vote him to the back bench. He held the purse strings and funded candidates based on who would be personally loyal to him. As long as the turtle of the senate is in power nothing will change in that chamber. And he is the kind who will stay there until he's 90. Him and that chi-com wife of his have been bleeding the system dry for decades. They are pure greed on wheels yet the voters of Kentucky keep sending him back anyway. At this point they would be better off electing a democrat because no one will ever primary the old thief. And his boy in the house? mccarthy? He's been angling for that gig for twenty years and the half-a-commie out of Kalifornia finally got it by going down to Mar-Largo and kissing the ring. Trump would endorse Satan for speaker if he flattered him. Who else did Trump help elevate to a leadership position in he house? That stefanik chick out of NY who votes half the time with the democrats. Why? She made a speech defending Trump during that BS impeachment. Trump endorses squishy sell-outs like these weasels and faux conservatives like Oz, appoints christopher wray to run the FBI, appoints bill barr as AG, lets pence and fauci take over when COVID hit, but according to Trump-cult DeSantis is the establishment guy. I could run for office and get the guys endorsement if I kissed his ass hard enough and his cult would sing my praises. A week later, if I said Trump really lost in 2020 I would be the devil. But that is the state of the GOP in 2022. 35% of the base just want the rally's and the laughs, 25% are satisfied with mcconnell and mccarthy running things, and 40% get screwed by both factions. That is why the only party I hate more than the democrats are the republicans. We need a REAL third party in the worst way. The GOP needs to go the way of the party they bumped off, the Whigs. Only this time, we need to tell the squishes to get lost. That was the mistake they made in 1854 and we have been paying for it ever since. Trump will most likely get the nomination because at least 10+ candidates will run again the presidential primaries of 2024. Some, like haley and pompeo will do it to try and jockey their way to the VP slot. Some, like pence and hogan will try to raise their profile to get a gig on Fox News. Trump's hard-core base will let him win primary after primary with 30-35% of the vote and by the time the filed clears out DeSantis will be facing an uphill battle. Trump will prevail, make a run at Tulsi Gabbard for VP, who will string him along a while before turning him down, raising her profile in the effort, and Trump will look to Kristi Noem or Kim Reynolds as VP, leaving poor nicky to wonder why she's not the hot girl of the party anymore. She'll get the gig on Fox pence wanted. pence will go home and become a footnote in the annals of history, becoming the Hannibal Hamlin of the 21st Century. Then, Trump will rail, bash, rail, and bash some more and at the end of the day he will energize the marxist base enough to keep those margins within the area of cheating in swing states like PA, MI, AZ, and WI. They will count until they win and Trump will go back to Mar-Largo and start the I was cheated bit all over again. Meanwhile, we will be stuck with four more years of obama and yes we can. By 2028 it most likely won't matter who runs because the fundamental transformation that commie talked about implementing in 2008 will be so deeply entrenched it won't be able to be undone. It will be like going after a tic that has burrowed past the skin and made it into the central nervous system. I hope I'm wrong, but sometimes, ya just see it and it is so obvious you have to acknowledge it. I'll keep up the good fight, but the calming influence we all crave will kill us in the end. While we were all looking out for 1984 they slipped a Brave New World in on us. Shame on us for letting it happen. Get right with God. That's my advice, because at the end of the day, He is the one who will save you.
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  695. The moderates in Iran made a deal with the devil when they got into bed with Khomeini and his fundamentalist fruitcake followers. Now? Now a lot of the fruitcake followers regret getting into bed with the mullah's. Dr. Sowell is correct. There is no way to deal sanely with people who love death more than life. I saw this CIA agent on some show years ago, before 9/11, and he talked about his time in the Middle East, how he spent his first two years in the region trying to understand the hardcore Jihadists, what made them tick, what their beef was. He said he spent the next five years trying to figure out how to get rid of them. He put it this way, if you go into a room with one of them that guy already has it in his mind that if he gets his way only one person is going to get to walk out. His warning was simple, accept that reality about them or pay the price. What have we learned since 9/11? I'll leave that up to you to consider, but a lot of the same bad guys are still there, doing what they do best, being bad guys. And how many have made their way over here? Millions? Whose to say. Like I say, just something to consider.
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  696. These little sh*ts that wanna play revolutionary should be treated accordingly. Webster's defines terrorism as: "The systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion." Destroying property, especially art meets that criteria. Instead of locking them in a museum for the night, how about a one-way ticket to Gitmo? obama pretty much emptied the place. Lots of bed space. Of course, I'm more partial to getting the Russian Gulag's back up and running. Say what you will about the Ruskies, they know how to deal with incorrigible types. These kids are down on the west? Fine. Let em spend a decade or two in the east. Nothing says I'm thinking of you like a vacation in beautiful Siberia. Just spitballin. Of course, none of that will be done. Maybe the little *****ers have it right. We are doomed.
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  697. These people are sick in the mind but more than that they are sick in the soul. How this great nation I defended for more than 20 years came to this is still a mystery. Marxism is the devil's mechanism for destroying mankind. It just put on a different face is all and women like these are exhibits A & B.
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  698. There are a lot of substantive areas where Tulsi and I differ, but she's spot on with this one. What about it mittens? Didn't think so. Tulsi has 10 times the stones that POS has. How he has been able to attach himself to any party is a total and complete...oh, I forgot, we're talking about the republican party...never mind. Anyway, take him to court Tulsi. I know he gets special privilege's to say stupid sh*t on the floor of the senate but that's not where he spouted this crap. Just sue the living sh*t out of him. Let him get a taste of what him and that dirtbag kid of cheney's have put Trump through. Make him pony up some of his money defending himself. Make him testify to why he said it in court. I grew up in Michigan and I'm old enough to remember his old man when he was governor there. His old man was a squishy turncoat good for nothing scumbag, and the apple didn't fall from the tree when his wife burped out this abomination. Why Trump endorsed this human waste disposal for the senate is beyond me but it does provide another reason to question his judgment. FU mittens. Tulsi has done more in the service of her country than you ever will, so F-off! Good for you Tulsi. Like I say, we differ on a lot, but not on this piece of crap. I think most Americans are in your corner on this one.
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  699. Miracles happen every day. I have logged a lot hours in the air. I get the laws of probability and such but the law of averages is a stubborn thing to get out of my head. Because of that, I tend to think along the same lines as Viola Davis' character in The Pentagon Wars: "I like the sky right where it is, with me looking up at it." I do love a good train ride. Helps me get caught up on my reading. 😁
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  700. The thing about the Sudetenland crisis is it could have led to Hitler's defeat if Chamberlain had stayed out of it entirely. The German people weren't on board for war and Hitler's generals were prepared to overthrow the Führer, expecting the Czechs, who had a decent military, to put up stubborn resistance. If the war went badly they felt the public would have been on board or at least stayed largely neutral during a coup. They communicated as much to British intelligence, telling them to ignore Mussolini's call for a summit. But Chamberlain had it in his head that he could prevent war and he truly believed if Hitler was able to restore the German border to what it was prior to WWI that he would be placated, at least long enough for Britain and France to arm up properly. For his part, Hitler was pissed when Mussolini recommended a peace conference. He was ready to go to war and believed the Sudetenland Germans would rise up and help him defeat the Czechs. The real shame of it is, if they could have put their differences aside, and if they would have read the tea-leaves correctly, the Czechs and Poles could have entered into an alliance, forcing Hitler to fight a two front war right off the bat. That would have given the generals all the impetus they needed to stage their coup. Unfortunately, after Munich, Hitler's popularity was through the roof and the generals willing to stage a coup lost their heart. We all know what happened next. One of history's great what if's I suppose.
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  701. "There is this fallacious belief: 'It would not be the same here; here such things are impossible.' Alas, all the evil of the Twentieth Century is possible everywhere on Earth:" ― Alexander Solzhenitsyn. “The modern age is built on the Myth of Progress…Believers in the Myth of Progress hold that progress is better than the past, and the future will inevitably be better than the present. This myth is a powerful tool in the hands of would-be totalitarians. It provides a transcendent source of legitimacy for their actions and frames opposition as backward and ignorant…Thus does the Myth of Progress become a justification for exercising dictatorial power” ― Rob Dreher: Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents
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  702. I like honesty. I was an Apollo kid and we bought the whole program lock, stock, and barrel. Star Trek wasn't just sci-fi for us, it was the future. NASA had a great PR team and they had us convinced we'd be on Mars by 1980. We even went on a field trip to the science museum and saw a really neat documentary about tera-forming the place narrated by Leonard Nimoy. I mean, it was Spock, the smartest guy in the world. But then disillusionment kicked in, as reflected by the band that took the name: "We Were Promised Jetpacks." No bucks, no Buck Rogers. I say all that because I was on of those people who was absolutely convinced life was teaming all around us and it was just a matter of time, a short time now that we were boldly going where no man had gone before, that we would be having coffee with E.T., or at least exchanging phone calls. Then I grew up and learned just how unique our little rock really is. Along with the stuff mentioned here you've got our magnetic field, a Moon at just the right distance, plate tectonics, and a big brother Jupiter to keep the cosmic riff-raff out of the neighborhood. There's other stuff too but when you factor it all in, you realize just how rare planets like ours are. Besides, we're so far from any planet like ours we'll never hear from our cosmic cousins. I believe it's set up that way by design but that's me. Sorry, finding some amoeba swimming around in some primordial ooze on some Jovian moon isn't going to move the needle for me. But it will prove life exists outside our planet! Okay, life exists. I can look out my window and see that. A lot of hype is put out there about these habitable zone discoveries. It keeps the funding flowing I suppose. I read an article where JW spotted a new system forming around what looks to be an infant that will develop into a G-class star. Now that's cool. If I could hang around for 3-billion years or so I might be impressed. Until then, call me Irish and color me skeptical, very skeptical.
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  703. Last question first. Who's running the country? obama. Show me how any of the policies and practices of the democrats have changed since yes we can took over that party? What we get now is obama's policies without his snarky digs at anyone who has the temerity to criticize the lousy job the communists are doing. As for uncle joe, expect to see more of this. His handlers are letting him off the leash in order to make his removal from office via the 25th Amendment that much easier. joe and that wife of his will fade into the background and harris and mayor pete will toss hunter to the dogs, a way to create a distraction from their ineptness. 2024 is going to be a wild ride. More to follow.
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  704. “Allow me to draw a comparison in order to understand the effect of learning (or the lack thereof) upon our nature. Imagine that there are people living in a cave deep underground…They have lived here from infancy, with their legs and necks bound in chains. They cannot move. All they can do is stare directly forward, as the chains stop them from turning their heads around.” “Imagine that far above and behind them blazes a great fire. Between this fire and the captives, a low partition is erected along a path, something like puppeteers use to conceal themselves during their shows. Look and you will also see other people carrying objects back and forth along the partition…Undoubtedly, such captives would consider the truth to be nothing but the shadows of the carved objects ― Plato’s Allegory of the Cave
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  705. I dunno, I saw the original at the theater and wasn't blown away (pun intended). I saw the preview for this and Beetlejuice Two and my first thought was; why? Not my cup-o-tea but as long as the girl doesn't beat up the guy twice her size I guess that's a win these days. Best of luck...I guess.
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  706. It has to succeed so they'll just say it did. Sounds like the sort of thing that went on during Stalin's five-year plans. I heard a story about a town that was supposed to produce tractors but fell short of the quota by 30%. Stalin's logic, while confounding, was quite simple. The plan can't be wrong so the problem lay with the people. His solution? Send 30% of the population to the gulags, replace them with better people, and shoot the plant manager. The numbers became remarkably consistent and quite good after that. Or maybe they'll just use the plan a U.S. diplomat recommended to LBJ in 1965 WRT Vietnam. Declare victory, then quit. That seems like the more likely solution here.
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  707. A movie heralded for what it what represents as opposed to what it accomplished. Hmmm...🤔 You mean, kinda like giving someone a Nobel Prize for what he may become vs. any specific thing he accomplished? Okay, at least they're consistent in their obsequious pursuit of woke street creds.
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  708. I suppose it makes sense. To put it in perspective, when I was a teenager in the 1970s I wasn't really up on Rudy Vallee or Al Jolson. As far as data goes, I think the metrics get skewed a bit by a particular song. Bohemian Rhapsody is one of those tunes that has stayed at the forefront of the American consciousness so it will tilt the needle in Queens direction over a band like The Beatles but I bet if you look at it over time the data might reveal something else again. As for why Jimi is failing to register with young people...well...I guess ya just had to be there. 😎
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  709. I'll be honest, as the quintessential old white guy I didn't even know there was a black Anne Boleyn until I saw this video. The thing about these hollywood diversity projects is nobody watches them. And only a handful of people tune into the oscars anymore. Nobody wants to spend three hours watching a bunch of overpaid pretentious obnoxious arrogant sh*tbags schmooze each other while they give the middle finger to their consumer base by intentionally nominating movies nobody saw and calling the rest of the world names for not liking their BS. Yeah, I know, I was kind of hard on bags designed to carry sh*t by lumping them in with the kalifornia crowd but it's late and my metaphor well is a bit dry. The studios are losing money hand over fist but they seem to wear it as a badge of honor. It's like, whoever can insult the audience most creatively wins. What did the studios produce this summer that made any money? Barbie? A movie that extolls third wave feminism and appeals to a bunch of ditzy adolescent young girls? I'll give ya even money the remake will be black Barbie. I love it when the indie movies crush the warmed over dogsh*t the studios pump hundred of millions into. If I had the cash I'd do a remake of Roots with a Danish Kunta Kinte.
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  710. This whole thing is a sham. They know good and damn well they won't be able to stop Trump from running in 2024. Hell, they would rather run against him than DeSantis any day of the week. They just have to put on a show for their base that they TRIED to stop him. They'll muddy him up in the process but that won't matter. Trump is the mud-man. You wouldn't notice if they dumped a truck load onto him.
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  711. The left is still running Stalin's playbook. Everyone who is not a commie is fascist. Everyone who is a fascist is against democracy. Therefore, everyone who is against the commie's is against democracy. Twisted logic to be sure, but hey, why change close to 100 years of BS reasoning over something as silly as facts. I'd be worried about someone the left didn't call a fascist. That means they are the kind of opposition the left approves of, the kind who knows their place and will shut up when told.
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  712. Say it ain't so Joe, say it ain't so.
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  713. Democrats are gonna democrat. Unfortunately, that old windbag bought property down here in Florida. She would never live in the hellscape she helped create in Sodom Kalifornia. Oh well. Let's see if the republicans learned anything as a result of their underwhelming "victory." If they pick mccarthy for Speaker we'll know they didn't. Replacing a full blown commie with half-a-commie from the same state ain't exactly what I'd call progress. Time to see if the "Freedom Caucus" has a set of balls between em or if they are just gonna blow more smoke up our collective asses. Time for choosing gang, a time for choosing.
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  714. Her parents are hard-core lefty ANTIFA types and they gave up their kid for the cause because they wanted to be in with the in-crowd. They do the same thing here in the U.S. with kids and guns. Every time there is a mass shooting the media will look around for kids to make their argument that gun grabbing is the solution. They do this because people are frightened as hell to criticize kids, especially kids who are perceived to have been damaged/scarred by an event. You know, just the sort of people you ought NOT to listen to? This little kid is learning the same lesson the kids over here learn when their usefulness as human shields has run its course. They are relegated to the backwater of whatever movement they happen to be a part of and eventually they sink to the bottom of said water. It's not just kids though. Does anyone remember Cindy Sheehan, the woman who lost her son in Iraq and became the face of "Bush lied and kids died"? Yeah, me neither. She served her purpose and was out on the street after that. At the end of the day, climate pimps like Al Gore do okay for themselves but everyone else becomes a useful, disposable idiot. It's a shame that the left frames everything as political and in order to be a member in good standing there are certain orthodoxy you must never question, climate change being at the top of the heap. They still see it as the best way to institute control and they are still going strong, just without the likes of the angry little kid from Sweden. How will it all end for her? Hard to say. But it will most likely be a tragic ending. Nobody likes being around a pissed off person who yells and fights windmills all the live long day. But what else is she to do? She wasn't the most stable kid when she came into the fight and it's all she knows. At the end of the day they will all ignore her, a fate worse than death to someone who was raised believing affirmation is what defines you.
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  715. Tulsi's description of the democratic party is right in line with cult behavior. Elite's at the top setting the agenda, no room for debate or discussion, be aggressive in defending the cult etc. The LGB crowd has always been very aggressive. Their flamboyant in-your-face shenanigans over the years is proof of that. I remember seeing a news clip where a bunch of them were out in front of Mike Pence's house, performing fake sex acts, wearing large dildoes, twerking, yelling obscenities etc. and some news reporter asked them why they were there. The guys response was straight to the point: "because he needs to see this." The reporter asked why and the guy said, "he just does." Where were the cops? What about the rights of the people in the neighborhood who weren't the target of these gay Nazi's? They didn't matter, not to law enforcement and certainly not to the freak show participants. The power to act this way without impunity should have alerted everyone as to how they would behave with every issue. Think a group of Christians reciting Bible verses would have gotten away with a demonstration in front of some gay activists house? They'd be tossed in jail and the story would run for a week on CNN and MSNBC. This fight is far from over. Cults don't fade away, they tend to crash and burn. Where did they get this power? We gave it to them. Every time we shut up we give it to them. Tyranny of the minority. Our founders saw the dangers of it, but we are too smart to listen to a bunch of dead slave holders aren't we? Welcome to the party pal. Coming to a lawn near you.
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  716. I have mad respect for Dr. Carson but I disagree with him on black voters having their eyes opened. I have spoken with numerous black friends and colleagues over the years and while a handful seemed willing to vote for candidates other than democrats, most of them told me they would never vote for a republican, no matter what. The most common reason I got when I asked why was "my family always votes for the democrat." I asked, what if the democrat sucked? They told me they would simply stay home. Those roots run so deep that I'm not sure that bond will ever be broken. Republicans may move the needle a bit, but 20% would be the highest percentage of the black vote I could ever see a republican getting. Of course, the republicans don't help themselves by never going into black neighborhoods and actively recruiting the vote but the suits at the RNC are all about fund raising and if they don't think they can milk a group for money they tend to shy away from them. That's one of the reasons I tell people I hate the republicans more than the democrats. But that's okay. I'm a conservative so they hate me right back. As far as that school changing the name, Dr. Carson is 100% correct. That is politics plain and simple. Here you have a man who has accomplished great, historic things that have benefitted mankind but because he's not a democrat they can't have their kids looking up to him. Instead, they are lobbying political leaders in Washington DC to display a bust of Coleman Young in the Capitol Building. Coleman Young, the most divisive, crooked mayor in the history of Detroit who single handedly accelerated the demise of that city by 20 years. I know, I lived through it. When I saw what they were trying to do with that bust I almost threw up. That SOB should have gone to prison. Instead, he gets a statue while Dr. Carson gets his name scrubbed. What a city. 🙄
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  717. Truth be told I had never heard of this Olivia Wilde person until I clicked on this video but then again I'm not very hip anymore. I rarely go to the movies because more than 90% of what is produced is garbage and by extension I'm not aware of who's who in Hollywood. I do know who Jordan Peterson is because he is smart, sincere, and genuinely gives a damn about people and he is doing his best to try and warn the West about the dystopian future it seems hellbent on running toward. I don't always agree with his positions or arguments but they are authentic and based on rational intellectual reasoning, not emotional BS not rooted in any truth whatsoever. Anyway, I looked up this Wilde woman's bio and it looks like she has a son. I wonder, is he doomed to be an insel? Excuse me if I misspelled it because again, up until just now I didn't even know what that was. I do know this, most people in Hollywood have 1/10th of the brain power they think they have and as a rule, most of them come off as insufferable bores. I suppose that is one thing Twitter has done, it has allowed these dimwits a platform free from their handlers where they are able to self-identify as the shallow narcissist's they truly are. Back to this Wilde woman. In her bio she claims to love motherhood above all else. How does that square with being an angry feminist? She seems to have adopted that role because if she didn't she would be out on her ass, trying to land work in infomercials. The true hardcore feminists I have met, and I have met my share, are bitter, hateful people, hardly the kind of woman any man with any dignity would want to be around. Maybe they get the impression that men are just after sex because in their case it's true. The men they do attract mostly are just looking to get laid because they are as shallow and Godless as the feminists. And that is why the "peace, love, dope," movement really failed. I know, because I witnessed it first-hand. It was nothing more than hedonism gone mainstream. Self-love has its limits. But then, I guess I'm just an old un-hip insel myself so what do I know. Stay at it Dr. Peterson. That movie of hers bombed because people are getting fed up with this I am woman hear me roar bullshit. If that makes me a pig, guilty again.
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  718. obama ordered the code red when the old coot went over his head and announced he was running. Most likely it's his blonde handler and family consigliere trying to wring more money out of the party coffers before it's midnight at the oasis and she puts her camel to bed but I think she got a little too greedy this time and obama told Smithers to release the hounds. This whistleblower stuff won't result in his going to jail but between it and the family court judge demanding the crack head's laptop it should be enough to force the family to back down and go quietly into that sweet night. If we had a functioning justice system these jokers would all be in jail but we don't and by all appearances we never will. Anyway, sleepy uncle joe will soon be an afterthought. His campaign ain't goin nowhere. Expect more whistleblowers to grow a conscience after sitting on info for years if that's what it takes.
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  719. I didn't hear what the bartender had to say because I made myself a promise to no longer listen to any of that twits stupid remarks on any topic. She is an actress playing a role, and playing it badly. What happened to her handler anyway? Did he go back to India after getting his initial investment back? I know The New Turks and their crazy friends bankrolled this moron but I think she has shown herself to be so stupid that they most likely said your own your own kid. Somebody is playing sugar daddy for her though. The commie with the Gucci handbag collection. Proof to never say, I've seen it all. As for that doctor, he's not a doctor anymore if he ever was a practicing physician. He's a paid advocate for the alphabet mafia. This sexual cult comes straight from the bowels of Hell. They lie and deceive because they belong to the father of all lies. They'll get theirs in the end though. The sad thing is, they will do their masters bidding while they are here and capture as many souls as they can. But even that was foretold a long time ago: “Whoever has ears ought to hear these words. Anyone destined for captivity goes into captivity. Anyone destined to be slain by the sword shall be slain by the sword. Such is the faithful endurance of the holy ones.” ― Revelation 13: 9-10
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  720. Obviously this is a dated video and things under whoever is running the country (it ain't Biden) have gotten even worse but his key point was made. In the end, the internal workings of the swamp got the better of Trump but even if Trump had just sat there and ate pudding like Uncle Joe we still would have owed him a HUGE debt for protecting this country from THAT woman. The fact that she along with everyone else associated with that foundation are able to walk the streets is proof that our system is broken beyond repair. Now you've got Pelosi who is what, 1397 in dog years, running again without any real opposition????? Sorry, when people like her allowed to hang around it's time to consider just cutting California loose. It's now more than five years later and the revolution he was talking about is still boiling. If the commun...I mean the democrats steal another presidential election the way they stole this last one that may be the spark that sets the keg off and turns a cold war into a hot one. They can't run Uncle Joe because I imagine by 2024 he'll be crapping himself and wondering who that blonde woman is who keeps taking him to that strange studio. Who will it be? His VP, the only woman in America more despised than the former first....who's name shall not be uttered? If they run her and she wins it'll be clear the game is just up and they just don't care anymore. We'll see.
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  721. You're getting there Tulsi. How about this though, how about standing up for the rights of the most innocent, the unborn. If you could get there I might believe in you a bit.
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  722. Stevenson got his creds from Elanor Roosevelt. To a lot of party leaders he was seen as cannon fodder, someone who would make a good punching bag for Ike who they knew was going to whip any candidate they ran against him. And what did the Kennedy team do in 1960, paint Ike, the man who led campaigns across Africa and Europe and kept America safe and prosperous (for the most part) during the 1950s as a dithering old man who lacked the imagination intellectual capabilities to handle the challenges of the 1960s. By extension Nixon was painted as just more of the same, not one of the best and brightest JFK was going to bring to Washington. You remember that crew. McNamara, Bundy, Sorenson, and JFK's ruthless little brother? The guys who brought us the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Vietnam War? They painted Truman as a simpleton because he wasn't a college graduate but we dodged a serious bullet when he was named VP and FDR kicked the bucket. FDR always had this inflated sense of himself and he thought he could handle old uncle Joe Stalin using his charm and wit. Truman saw Stalin for what he was, a paranoid thug who liked murdering people and wanted a Soviet Europe if the opportunity presented itself. FDR's team of geniuses went to the USSR in the 20s and were bamboozled by Stalin's arranged tour. They thought communism was the wave of the future. FDR had a soft spot for Mussolini and wished he could rule like him. FDR also had some pretty crappy ideas for how the U.S. economy would be set up once the war ended. The party bosses were scared of Wallace as VP because they knew he was a commie at heart and Truman was seen as the safe choice. He was a helluva lot better than any other democratic president of the 20th Century. I don't agree with everything he did, but he was more capable than playboy JFK, smug FDR, insecure LBJ, ineffective Carter, and the original super-genius Woodrow Wilson who thought he was smarter than God. There is an old saying with a lot of truth to it, those that can't do teach. There is a line form the movie Biloxi Blues that sums it up best. Matthew Broderick asks this recruit he considers to be smart what he would recommend he do to become an intellectual. "Read the entire second floor of the public library." Then again, given the abilities of today's writers to produce good books, maybe stick with the Bible.
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  723. I know several fans of Clint who didn't like this movie. I always did. I mean you've got Clint, Morgan Freeman, and Gene Hackman. That alone makes it worth the trip. The final scenes where Clint takes the killing of Morgan Freeman personal is quintessential Eastwood. I always say there are two movie characters you never want to fuck with, Charlton Heston in a Biblical flick and Clint Eastwood in a Western. This one doesn't disappoint.
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  724. Being a Catholic school doesn't mean you have to let that whole Catholic thing get in the way Matt. This is 2022 you silly man. That whole religion should have a part at a religious University is so 1950s. Didn't they just do some sort of trans-strip type display inside a Catholic church in new york? new york has a brand ya know, like all hip towns not in Kansas. Really Matt, you need to get with the program dude.
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  725. Well, first off, congress has no interest in cutting the national debt. We are already way over the tipping point and playing with monopoly money. Boomers have been an absolute disaster as stewards of the republic, and I say that as part of the clan. They care as much about the debt as I do about Rings of Power. Just sayin.
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  726. Sorry, I don't buy it. It seems like theorists spend more time creating new theories instead of proving the ones already exist, like they're all fighting to be the next Einstein. Then, once something is out there, it takes on a life of its own and because someone takes the time to write it down it becomes fact. It reminds me of the story that Mike Nesmith put out concerning the Monkees. In 1967 he told a reporter he was going to make up a story just to prove that the press will report anything and claim it as fact without really looking into it. Then, in a later interview, he said that the Monkees had sold 30 million records that year, more than double what the Beatles and Rolling Stones sold over that same time period. It was all BS but that myth still lives on to this day and is reported as fact in articles and documentaries. I stopped watching the Science Channel because they engage in the same practice, presenting theories as though they are fact. The truth of the mater is, this nonsense about multi-universes is impossible to prove, making it a convenient myth to propagate. How did it gain traction and why does it receive the attention it does? Because somebody with too many letters behind their name spoke it into existence. String theory was all the rage for a time. What's next? Stay tuned campers.
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  727. Biden didn't give speeches with a positive message when his brain kinda worked. I imagine he's a bit put out because the blonde lady said they were going for pudding and instead he ends up having to say a bunch of words to those guys who always point those big scary machines at him. As for the commie delivering a message to us freedom loving Americans living in Florida, good luck with that pal. Guess we know who obama has tagged to be his new Manchurian Candidate in 2024. He can't run that harris chick. She's the only one polling lower than uncle joe. So it's either the commie from California or that big-old six-meal-a-day gal from Georgia who runs around like karl rove with his white board claiming she is really the governor. If the republicans are unable to push the vote outside of the margin for cheating in the swing states in 2024 against these maniacs they may as well just fold up the tent.
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  728. obama, like the original economic meddler roosevelt, extended the recession during his time in office far longer than it should have lasted. If you look at economic downturns over time, the rule was, the harder the crash, the bigger the bounce. Kind of like throwing a rubber ball at high velocity. obama's stimulus money went to greenie schemes that didn't pan out because they were based on pie-in-the-sky BS but it sure made the people who promised they could get them to work a boatload of money. Ask Elon Musk how that scam worked. Guys like obama and even that dithering mumbling Alzheimer patient pretending to be president get away with this tax the rich nonsense because since the days of fdr when Keynesian economics became all the rage the middle and lower class have bought into the lie. It's a lot easier to blame economic downturns on greedy capitalists than it is to explain how regulatory agencies shrink markets and run the price of everything from toilet paper to gasoline through the roof. Just point a finger and say see, it's Sam Walton's fault. We need more of his money because it's just not fair that he should have so much. Like Margaret Thatcher put it: Socialism works fine until you run out of other people's money." The Fed played three card monte with fiscal policy for a long time thinking they could control the market but as Milton Friedman said: "There is no such thing as a free lunch." Well, the waitress has arrived with the check, and nobody seems to have enough room on the credit card to cover the bill. We haven't seen the worst of the ramifications for our irresponsibility, not by a long shot. Meanwhile, as that waitress is standing there, your elected reps are telling her: "Hold off a bit longer honey, we haven't had desert yet." Babylon is falling, and: " The merchants who grew rich from her, will keep their distance for fear of the torment inflicted on her." ― Revelation 18
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  729. The democrats keep black voters on the roll because they appeal to emotion and a lot of black voters vote democratic simply because their family has always voted democrat. How do I know this? I did like the guy in the video suggested and asked a lot of them. I also got the same response from more than a few white folks I know so the family-tie angle cuts in all directions. As for education, I was in the game for a long time so I am well versed in the maxim that it is whole lot easier to lower the test standard than it is to raise the teaching standard. People have this thing with math. If you can quantify something most people will take it as fact. It's where that old line about lies, damn lies, and statistics comes from. How do I know this? I used to run numbers as part of my job. It's like the old bit about the world being flat or round and the teacher responding, how do you want it taught? The problem is, once a lie gets planted and it has time to grow generational roots it's an awful hard weed to it out. There are some people who will never come around. Leftism is a cult and they will drink the Kool-Aid before they surrender their allegiance to it. You see it with these woke companies being willing to crash and burn if it means furthering the message. They are zealots, the vanguard of the great reset, hoping they might get a shot at the priesthood one day. But alas, most of them will discover they are what Lenin termed useful idiots and once the reset is complete and they are no longer needed they will have two options, shut up or die. Gloomy? Maybe, but it is where we are. I don't see the true believers ever believing anything differently so at the end of the day the great reset just may precipitate the great division. I defended this country for the better part of my adult life so I hope that's not where we are headed but as John Adams famously said facts are stubborn things. Ben Franklin said you have a republic if you can keep it. The Boomers said we don't want it and did their best to break it. Now Gen-Z is coming up fast saying, hold my beer. Again, I hope I'm wrong but I fear I am not.
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  730. Pumping 300 billion into climate change BS. Remember when obama did it the first time around? Remember all the wonderful stuff that came out of that slush fund? All the benefits to society? How solar panels, windmills, and fart-reducing diet food for cows made the planet a better, safer place to live? 🤔Yeah, me neither. But you know what they say, if at first you don't succeed...Guess obama figured he didn't make enough for his buddies the first time round so what the hell, let's have a second go at it while the old coot's watching the store for his boss. And of course, tax the rich to bring down the deficit. Now they're selling it as a bone to conservatives? 🤔I'm confused. I thought conservatives were interested in policy that made sense. Time and again the data has shown that LOWERING taxes INCREASES revenue. Wanna cut the deficit? Stop spending money like a drunken sailor on shore leave. But we can't have that. The only thing the comunis...I mean democrats have accomplished is pushing more of this country over the cliff and pointing something out in no uncertain terms that are so clear even a moron (or Fox News diehard, but I digress) can understand. The republican party is chock-full of weak kneed sell-outs who stand for nothing and care for nothing beyond fundraising and what gig they might land when the voters finally get bored with them. And make no mistake. They are the only party who hates conservatives more than democrats. They hate them with a passion that burns brighter than the Sun because every couple years they are forced to lie to them. A pox on both their houses. I gave years of my life and probably knocked a few off defending this country for more than two decades. Now I wonder what the hell got in my head. But that's me.
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  731. Well my last post drew the ire of the You Tube hall monitors so allow me to let Joe Pesci to speak for me. "Everything that guy just said is bullshit...thank you" I'm not really an Elon Musk fan but boy did he nail it. That Iger character is a total weasel and yes, the crap they're pumping out is evil.
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  732. I didn't even know Ann Coulter was still around. But she did answer the one question directed her way in this video correctly. Americans will continue to hate soccer. Adopting the rainbow flag as the flag of their country has allowed us to be even more dismissive of the men's soccer team.
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  733. They used it for the simplest reason of all, it was there. Like Truman said when told there were scientists who objected to it being used: "What the hell did they think we built it for?" There has been a lot of revisionist history written about Truman struggling with the decision to drop the bomb and Oppenheimer waxing philosophically and thinking about Hindu scripture when it was tested ("Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds"). Horse puckey! Oppenheimer came up with that bit of fantasy years later during a television interview. According to General Leslie Groves who was in charge of the project and was there when the Trinity test took place, everyone there was blown away by the thing and pleased as punch that they had managed to pull it off. Truman said he slept like a baby after giving the go ahead to use it. If the war had gone on and we were able to build more in time I'm quite certain he would have used those as well. There was no way he was going to stand in front of the American public and say he let U.S. sailors, soldiers, and marines die on those Japanese beaches because he was afraid of killing civilians. The gloves were off long before that. The fire bombing of Tokyo killed more people than the A-Bomb's did. Total war was a reality and there was no turning back.
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  734. "In a country with a functioning government joe biden would have been impeached." In a country with a functioning press we would know for certain who is calling the shots at the WH. You know it's not biden, and nobody seems that interested in finding out who the Machiavellian puppeteer is. I say ask obama where the order to sack uncle joe came from. "Did you order the code red?" obama: "You're g-d right I did. I'd do it again, it's my job." The great reset is alive and well and the biden crime family has served its purpose. You don't break a country the way these guys have unless it's intentional. And who put all of that into motion? Guess away, but think, "Yes we can."
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  735. That was fun. To borrow from Bob Dylan: "I guess you would know more than me, I only wrote the song," or John Lennon's response to people finding hidden meaning in his songs: "I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together." The Drinker has become my new spirit animal, until I find another. I'll go away now.
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  736. Okay Matt, I'm one of those luddites you have such disdain for. I don't know how to work the self-checkout technology because I've never used it. I don't use it for the simplest of reasons, I don't like it. I dunno, maybe you are as grumpy and anti-social as you make yourself out to be, but I have no problem dealing with most cashiers or people in line. I actually find it enjoyable at times. Self-checkout was a money grab. I get it, if I ran a business I'd want a cheaper way to do business too. I will say this, the self-checkout lines at the Publix I shop at are barely used. Of course, I'm one of those old farts living in Florida and as I touched on earlier, a lot of us older people don't know how to work it and don't care to learn. I'm old enough to remember when scanning wasn't a thing and the cashiers had to punch keys. I did that at a sandwich shop on my first job and I had to actually make change. Oh how times have changed.
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  737. Was Churchill an idiot or the greatest Britain ever? A bit of both. Certainly he was a major pain in the ass for every military commander who had to deal with or placate him. His COS Allan Brooke is quoted as saying: "Winston had 10 ideas a day, one of which was good and he didn't know which one it was." Similar quotes have been attributed to Lloyd George and FDR but the general consensus seemed to be he was an idea man, not really concerned with the application. Eisenhower threatened to quit as SCAEFE because of Churchill's insistence that landing craft needed for OVERLORD be used in Italy and that ANVIL, the attack on southern France be abandoned while attacks into the Balkans be carried out. It was part of his obsession with the soft underbelly concept he carried over from WWI. And, he was more concerned about maintaining the British Empire in the post-war-world which Eisenhower didn't give one shit about and FDR was opposed to. The best no Ike used against Churchill was when he told him his forces would stop short of Berlin and leave it to the Russians. It held zero strategic value since it was already agreed it would be in the Russian zone after the war but Churchill had an18th/19th Century mindset about capturing capitals. Ike saved thousands of US lives by standing firm on that one. You would have thought the lack of ROI the Brits got for taking Philadelphia in 1777 would have taught him that lesson but Churchill was a man of the past in a lot of ways. I will give him credit, though not as much as he gave himself, for getting Marshall and Ike to give up their notions of attacking France in 1942. Marshall was hellbent on it and saw the North African campaign as a distraction, a way to further British interests. Ike was afraid the Russians would make a separate peace with the Nazis if they didn't open a second front in Europe by 1943 at the latest. But Churchill understood sending a handful of divisions against the Wehrmacht at that time was suicide. Personally, I think the botched landings at Dieppe were criminal on his part but that's me. But he did stand up to Hitler when most of the world thought he should back down, even forces in his own government. He did rally the people of London during the Blitz by visiting bombed out cities, something Goebbels tried to get the Fueler to do with no success. That counts for something. Another leader would have buckled. In that sense, he really did save western civilization. If Britain had fallen in 1940 or 41 the game would have been up. No way the Americans could have done what they did without Britain being a launchpad. Britain was the only major allied power to fight all the way, from 1939 to 1945. Churchill played a big role in that. Was he a sucky military commander? Sure. But that wasn't his job. His main job was to keep Britain fighting until the Americans came in. And he pulled that off so I'm a big fan of Winnie. The world certainly use statesmen of his stature and resilience today. RIP Winston, even though that disgrace of a president from Kenya didn't like ya for throwing his commie old man into jail (if he even was his daddy) you still have plenty of fans this side of the Atlantic.
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  738. For that disgusting witch to stand up there and call people on the other side viscous? Tells people to calm down? You mean like the time you calmly tore the state of the union speech apart on national TV? That woman has the self-awareness of a gnat. As for the term viscous, her own kid used that kind of language to describe that old hag just a few years back and said it like it was some kind of badge of honor. Hey FBI, wanna investigate something? How about looking into her drunken pig of a husband and his amazing batting average on the stock market? You're 81 years old nan? Is there ever an age where stealing gets old for people of your ilk? How much do you need? There is so much to dislike about the republican party but if they do nothing else than retire that disgrace of a speaker that will be enough for me. I really never thought there could be any woman more repugnant than hillary. But pelosi and that blonde lady who takes joe out for his daily walk and pudding have made me rethink my position. Way to go girls.
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  739. I'm not a fan of the genre. I didn't read comic books as a kid and I have never seen a marvel movie. I just peeked into this one because I wanted to hear the Drinker. Still, it is nice to see another I am woman hear me bore project go down in flames. A long time ago, when the Earth was green, there were more kinds of beautiful women, than you ever seen. Now a bunch of em want to be men. They are the same ones on the vanguard promoting tranny madness. What better way to take over than to turn all the men into women. It's like "A Boy and His Dog" come to life.
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  740. I gotta believe Netflix only canceled this show because somebody noticed. The fact they would allow something like this to air tells you all you need to know about where their corporate heart is at. This is just another part of the rainbow jihad's tactical attack plan. Throw stuff out there, see what you can get away with, retreat only when necessary, then come back next time with an assault even more intense. Disney laid out how to corrupt kids years ago. I grew up with Looney Toons. But they won't show that stuff on Saturday morning anymore because Bugs likes female rabbits and promotes the evil patriarchy where women are nothing more than objects. They aren't portrayed in their proper light, you know, the one where woman is just a made up construct. The proper thing for them to do in the new world order is to let men steal their trophy's and their positions of honor. Then they have to let those same men strip in front of them as they gloat about it in the locker room. But hey, there's nothing wrong with throwing a bunch of terminology that didn't even exist outside the bowels of Hell and UC Berkley at four-year old kids because damnit, they need to be ready to enter the "real-world" and the quicker they learn about sexual sin the easier it will be to groom them for their proper role, satisfying the desires of male pedophiles. I remember when we were called extremists and kooks for pointing out where all this stuff was headed. Men dressing as women and reading to kids, that was just right-wing fear tactics designed to defame people who just want love and insurance benefits. Now, you're damn skippy men can be women. They can be whatever they want. Get used to it bigot.
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  741. Kellyanne is right about God having a different plan for her. I pray daily that He doesn't have similar plans for me. You know she is going to run in 2024. She'll run in 2028 if she's still breathing. She is Gollum chasing after the precious. Those nasty tricksy Hobbitses stole it from her and she'll follow it to the edge of Mt. Doom and jump into the inferno if that's what it takes to get it. Say what you will about Donald Trump. Love him, hate em, anything in between, he deserves a big thanks for saving the American people from that woman. For that, he will always have my undying gratitude.
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  742. I imagine for some of the movers and shakers, this movie shines too bright a light on their perversity so they have sicked the whores pretending to be reporters on the film. Perhaps some see it as a threat to their desire to normalize pedophilia, the maps crowd. Others are just against anything that runs contrary to their demonic agenda. The political opponents are simply cult members acting in lock-step like good leftists do. Whatever their reasons, movies like this provide a public service because it reveals people for who they are and what they stand for, just like COVID and tranny madness before it. Anything that forces people to take a stand one way or another is a good thing. Now the question becomes, where do we go from here? How do you share a country with people who have knee-jerk visceral reaction to good and a default acceptance to that which is unclean? That concerns me.
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  743. I hear Roger Goodell is pitching London as a landing spot. 🤔
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  744. I have never liked Comerica but there really is nowhere else down there to put it. The only option would be to move to the suburbs and the Illitch's would never allow the foot traffic the place generates to their other businesses take a hit. As for Tropicana, I was under the impression a deal had already been done. That is what was reported down here. And they are going to put it in the same shitty location. I went to opening day this past season, my first and last game at that dump. The cops have no clue on how to control traffic and they rely on the notorious five-minute Florida red-lights to do the work while they stand around and yell at drivers for blocking intersections when there is nowhere else to go. I circled that area for close to two hours before I was finally able to get to a parking lot. It's a crummy stadium in a crummy area and it's too bad because they really do have a good team. I guess Tampa just didn't want to give up any of that prime waterfront to build a proper stadium. Truth be told, with all the transplants like me down here who root for other teams they'd be better off moving, but that's me.
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  745. Wait until this woman and her gay running mate are on the ticket in 2024. You haven't heard total stupid in its purest form yet. But when you do, you won't be allowed to call it that because racism and homophobe. And they'll garner even more votes than biden, a historic win unlike any other. It will be such a rout CNN will most likely declare them the winners the moment the fist polling stations close. harris will say they won because all the news outlets say so. Tin-foil hat stuff? What's a woman and can men have periods?
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  746. Edmund "Bunny" Wilson was a known communist so any accusation from that Stalinist prick about being inhuman is laughable on its face. But then again, FDR and his merry band of egg-heads and propagandist hacks had a soft spot for commies, fascists to for that matter. FDR called Mussolini a great man before WWII and wanted a government more in that image than one limited by a constitution, which him and his power-hungry cousin Teddy saw as an inconvenient document that should be ignored whenever possible. The do-nothing mantra was picked up by later lefty hacks like Sorenson and Schlesinger who put that tag on Ike prior to Kennedy being elected. It's an old commie dodge they learned from their beloved hero Lenin. Just seeing that drunk POS hack from Boston, O'Neill, made me want to vomit. Him and that other worthless piece of crap from NE, the good old womanizing drunkard Teddy Kennedy were both useless as tits on a bull and the best argument for not allowing people in Massachusetts to vote. Stevenson was such a dumbass and total loser that Bobby Kennedy left the job his old man arranged for him to work with that bozo during the 56 campaign and voted for Ike. Dr. Sowell is correct. Truman was the only decent democrat president of the 20th Century because he wasn't part of the coastal elites. What a bunch of shitheads. I mean that in the best way possible. I'm no fan of Hoover, but he did get dragged through the mud by men who couldn't hold anything close to a flame to him. And people wonder why we are so fucked now? That's the part that would be laughable if it wasn't so sad. Khrushchev said the commies would bury us. Looks like he called that one. We don't even know what the hell a woman is. And the modern-day commies who run the democrat party are just fine with that. What a country.
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  747. Insightful commentary. Crooks like those running the government behave in the same way the thieves emptying the shelves at a kalifornia CVS behave. They know there are no consequences for any of their actions so what the hell. We empowered the ruling class by letting them get away with their shenanigans for far too long. You beat a dog long enough he learns to submit. You give that same dog enough treats he learns to respond. Simple operant conditioning. Take away the reinforcements? Well, then the dog does what he wants. We have a fallen nature. Leaving it to its own devices is not a wise course of action. Trusting it is even more reckless. Unless you like the show. In that case, party on Garth.
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  748. How about we tell these guys to go f***k themselves or better yet don't even waste the breath it takes to say that. And I dunno, but I'm guessing Christmas has never been real big day in that WHO guy's household. Fauci will answer for his BS, if not in this life the next. Biden is too deranged to understand what he's telling people so I guess he could go with a diminished capacity defense when judgement day comes, at least for this part of his corruption-riddled life. On a serious note, how many people with more than two functioning brain cells actually believe that senile old coot pretending to be president has any moral standing where anything is concerned? His handlers here and in Beijing don't take him seriously; why should we? I never thought I would live to see a president worse than Jimmy Carter. Then Biden came along and said, hold my beer. But I sure am glad those mean Tweets stopped.
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  749. Biden saw this coming months ago and did nothing. He could have sent arms then and he needs to open the pipeline now. What is his response? Opening the reserves and letting a day's worth of oil leak onto the market. He has been completely captured by the left. This is Obama's third term, make no mistake about that. And it is eerily similar to his first two terms. Lefties don't know how to govern, republicans won't, and Putin and Jinping see that and are on the march. The genie is out of the bottle. Strafing convoys is an option we can't take. They never should have been allowed in in the first place but Europe is realizing now the U.S. is no longer a leader. Biden has signed on to the great reset and is nothing more than a puppet for the globalist factions in this country. They are going to have to deal with the Bear. If I was 40 years younger and had a heart with a lot less miles on it maybe I would figure out a way to get in there and help the freedom loving people of Ukraine. The only thing that gives me hope is Putin is already discovering he has bitten off more than he can chew. Ukraine is not Georgia or Belarus and every day he stays there more Russians will die. Even if he takes the whole country and annexes it I get the feeling he is going to be dealing with a guerilla army that will never give in. My fear is that he gets to the point where he decides if I can't have Ukraine no one can and decides to use tactical nukes out of vengeance. He is an old nihilist at this stage of his life and I wouldn't put it past him. How do we respond to that? And Jinping is paying close attention. If there is no real response Taiwan is next. Bank on it. Then the Australians, Japanese, and Koreans are going to have to rethink their alliances. I'm not a believer in us being the policeman of the world but this is what a world without strong American leadership looks like. It's also what happens when you spend more time wondering about which bathroom to use while racking up 30 trillion dollars worth of debt. But hey, at least those mean Tweets stopped.
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  750.  @nathanielalderson9111  I agree with your points but I don't think they aren't aware of who they are attacking. It's that they don't care, that's what bothers me most I suppose because it's just a dumb marketing strategy, and anytime I see somebody do something foolish it gets to me. But, as I say, I think it was just how the producers and actors were raised, maybe not by their parents, but certainly by their peers and mentors in the business.
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  751.  @nathanielalderson9111  You are correct. It's more zealotry on their part than anything else. The woke agenda is a religion to them, and they see themselves as modern-day Puritans, out to set up a shining city on a hill. It is their cause, one more based on Moa than Christ but the passion burns within them as deeply as it did within the zealots of The Great Awakening or The Cultural Revolution. The message must come first. It's the same thing that kills a lot of faith-based movies. They get so consumed by the message that they lose sight of what it is that brings an audience in, the story, not the storyteller. Unfortunately, for the woke Puritans, slash and burn is a standard tactic. As I say, that is what bothers me. Want to make a woke Middle-Earth? Fine. Just admit as much and respect that people like me, who grew up with those books, just aren't going to be into it. That would be the wise strategy, but they just can't help themselves and I have just never suffered fools easily. Being ignorant is one thing. Doing something you know will not do you or your project any good is foolish. Unless your out to make a point or pick a fight. Then it devolves into the realm of stupid, and as the great southern philosopher Larry The Cable Guy put it: "Ya can't fix stupid."
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  752. "I can gather all the news I need from the weather report." Paul Simon; "The Only Living Boy in New York": 1970 Words to live by. I put away the news when they got COVID stupid. I watch once a day for a minute, minute and a half, tops. If I didn't need to keep track of any possible hurricanes heading my way I'm not sure I would even watch that much. Take her advice. Your mind will truly appreciate you for it.
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  753. Gollum will slink out of her cave in the Ozarks again in 2024 to chase after the precious, bank on it. I think she may kneecap harris even quicker than Tulsi did in 2020. It oughta be a hoot. 🤣🤣
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  754. You ask why Tucker? A blind man can see it. obama wanted to sew the seeds of chaos. He wanted to do that because he knew eventually the feds would have to step in and take control. He threatened local police departments using that tactic and forced them into adopting policies that would allow the feds to take control out of necessity. The people behind the destruction of western civilization are not stupid. Call them globalists or what you will but they are coming and they will not relent until they get what they want, one world government. “The whole world was filled with wonder and followed the beast…they asked: “Who is like the beast? Who can wage war against it? ― Revelation: 13-3
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  755. Good luck getting any help from the FBI Kari. You're guilty of being a republican which means your case won't get near as much attention as an abortion protestor. Good luck tomorrow. God speed and my God protect you because yes, things will get rough if you take on the cartel's at the border. Real Americans are with ya though.
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  756. So that lady watches these women get beat up by a bunch of guys in masks wearing falsies and her first response is: "Oh my God, they stole your sign." Sorry, that made me laugh, as inappropriate as that involuntary reaction may have been. Obviously it's wrong for people to go around assaulting other people and it is especially repugnant when men assault women but like Douglas Murray points out, did you really think any of this was going to end well? When you celebrate and promote sin you get sinful outcomes. Simple Satanic algebra. The thing about this cult though, those same women who got shoved around and knocked down by a bunch of guys who just like shoving around and knocking down women will still carry signs and march in marches demanding these disturbed, sociopathic men be allowed to play dress up because that is what the cult demands of them. Satan is a taskmaster who will not be mocked but he certainly appreciates the irony of men pretending to be women abusing women while women who claim to be defenders of women cheer them on. If that's not a supreme mock of us, I don't know what qualifies.
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  757. "The past is not dead. In Fact, it's not even past." I like that a lot. We are experiential beings by nature. Everything I learn through my experiences remains with me throughout my entire life. So why should it be any different for humanity as a whole? Totalitarian movements always attack the past because as Orwell said in his book 1984, "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” However, they always fail in their attempt because traditions and beliefs handed down from generation to generation are not that easy to kill. That doesn't mean they can't be killed though. We owe it to subsequent generations to keep our shared, collective memories at the forefront of our cultural consciousness or we risk losing all that others have sacrificed so dearly to teach us. Men like Dr. Hanson are important because they are the modern-day keepers of the scrolls. Who will pick up the torch when men like him pass on? Who knows. But we need to groom them or we risk losing more than a bunch of nice stories.
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  758. You know that BS NBC pulled after she tangled with that cackling cauldron of leftist morons on that horrible thing that passes for whatever it is trying to pass for on ABC was the final straw for her. You heard that black lady on that panel. "It's on white people." And THAT is why we will never get to where we need to be as long as race hustlers like the ones on that show are given a platform and paid to spout racial BS along the same lines as Goebbels. Until that generation passes away there will never be any progress. That guy that got elected in 2008 was supposed to build bridges and instead he burned them down. All of these people want the same thing, racial division and a redistribution not only of wealth but of power once this nation is ripped apart once and for all. Good on Michelle for taking a stand and walking away from the National Broadcasters for the advancement of the Chinese Communist Party. If more people would follow her lead we might have a shot at putting this thing back together, but it won't be an easy fix.
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  759. I've paid for the car behind me a few times just because I felt like it. That said, if the person working at the window said it's a thing that's going on, trying to get me to join in, my contrarian nature would kick in and I would politely say no thanks, not playing. I do let them keep the change at the checkout sometimes but it depends on my mood. Just like I give certain people who are panhandling a buck or two now and again but it is a case by case thing. If I think they are legit, I'll do it. If I think they are like this family I see outside church and near the grocery store on a fairly regular basis I move on. The father of that bunch pisses me off. I look at the shoes. There are other tell-tale signs but actual street people tend to have lousy foot ware. It doesn't mean I haven't been taken, maybe I have, but that's on the cheater, not me. I did give this one guy a couple bucks outside the ballpark a while back who admitted he had no intention of buying food. "I'm not gonna bullshit ya all" he said. "I'm not hungry, I want a beer." I laughed and said okay, fair enough. As for the bikers in the road, I'm with you Matt. When I was a kid we had the good sense not to play in traffic. They put these bike lanes in near me and I hate em. That's all I need, to get dragged into court and charged because some inebriated or clumsy bike rider lost his balance and fell in front of my car. It's the same thing with the kids near me who wear dark clothing then walk out in front of cars at night just because. But what really gets my goat are the people who leave the damn shopping carts in the parking spots. I was at Lowes recently at there was one parking spot available, with a cart smack in the middle of it. The thing is, the drop off was right next to the parking spot. It was literally a three step journey to put it up. It was so annoying I took a picture and sent it my friends, something I had never done before. The cart people are the worst, but that's me.
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  760. "We should probably know what's going on there." Okay, I'll bite. Why? Don't get me wrong, I'm not against knowledge for knowledge sake in every instance. I did take courses about mythology and English literature which outside of providing some enjoyable reading and teaching me a bit about formulating an argument based in antiquity didn't really come in handy in my day-to-day job. But it was part of the whole person concept back then so I got it. But that experience only cost a few bucks. Sending probes to Venus is a tad more expensive, meaning the ROI should matter. Are there plans to colonize the atmosphere? I've actually heard a case for that one. Are we going to mine the surface? I actually like the idea of space exploration, being a child of the age of Apollo, but I just don't see the value in checking out that place. I think our general knowledge of how that place functions is enough for the time being. In case anyone is interested, we are beyond broke. Spending cash on a joy ride to Venus to measure temperature, pressure, and the like doesn't really move the needle. It's a nice to have, not a got to have, and right now we need to focus more on got to have. This whole thing sounds like a money grab by NASA. If Elon Musk or some other uber-rich guy wants to float a probe in the friendly skies of Venus, by all means, have at it dude. Just don't ask me or my fellow taxpayers to pick up the check. I know we waste 99 cents out of every dollar as it is so I won't dispute anyone who makes that claim. Venus just doesn't do much for me. Knowledge about Mars may come in handy when we need to run from the expanding Sun in a billion years or so but Venus? It's beyond Africa hot and outside of a few oohs and ahhs from some geek in a lab some place going there is waste of time and money. But that's me.
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  761. It is a religion, a demonic satanic religion, but a religion all the same. You have to get that in order to understand what appears to be irrational behavior and why it is cheered on by the left. What you're seeing is zealotry and they are energized. A lot more energized than the Christian, Jewish, or Muslim churches who should be opposing them in the name of God and since this is spiritual warfare it's kind of hard to defeat it if one side is determined and the other is not. And no, it's not just a fad that will run out of steam and go away and they will not be bargained with or convinced to tone it down. Those are the realities of the situation and facts are stubborn things.
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  762. Okay, so the YT algorithm didn't like my prior statement affirming Dr. Sowell's belief that progressives are the ones keeping the idea of racial determinism alive, not their political opponents. Regression for the advancement of progress if you will, even if you are staying in the same spot. As for grievance peddling, that is an old trick, dating back at least as far as Julius Caesar and promises of a better tomorrow if the right people are put in charge predate him. “The modern age is built on the Myth of Progress…Believers in the Myth of Progress hold that progress is better than the past, and the future will inevitably be better than the present. This myth is a powerful tool in the hands of would-be totalitarians. It provides a transcendent source of legitimacy for their actions and frames opposition as backward and ignorant…Thus does the Myth of Progress become a justification for exercising dictatorial power” ― Rob Dreher: Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents Or, to put it more succinctly: “People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.” ― Milan Kundera
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  763. Okay, so I waited a while to watch this one, waited for it to be free with my Amazon subscription because I was so pissed off about wasting my money and time on Dunkirk that I made myself a promise never to spend another dime watching any history-based movie by this guy. That said, it was okay. The Drinker is right, the best part is the middle when they are making the bomb. I actually give Matt Damon credit for that. I thought he was a weird choice to play Leslie Groves but he pulls it off pretty well and it seems like the other actors upped their game to keep up with him. Never thought I'd say that. As for the rest, yeah, I'm with the Drinker. It had too much of a beautiful mind feel to it in the beginning and the end was highly moralistic. One thing I don't like is for a movie to lecture me. And that weird sex scene between Oppenheimer and his dead girlfriend in the middle of the Spanish Inquisition style interrogation Nolan created was just flat out off-putting. Is it too long? Yeah. Are the visuals great? Absolutely. But if you don't know much about the Manhattan Project don't expect to know anymore about it after seeing this film. Nolan is just incapable of telling a coherent story. I guess because he's not really interested in that. He likes making movies, not telling stories. That's his thing and if you like that, he's your guy. I give this one a passing grade and while I'm sorry I didn't see the explosions in the theater, I'm also glad I didn't spend any extra money to watch it. Hey Drinker, on a side, when are you going finally honor my request and review Outlaw Josie Wales or Judgment at Nuremberg? Just askin.
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  764. We are living in a Romans 1 world that's for sure. Those statistics about the number of confused children being whisked away by Satan's agents is disturbing. As for Madonna, that woman has been giving bimbo's a bad name for years. If I'm not mistaken, her brother quit working for her because she would not stop acting like a tramp at 40. Or maybe it was 50. I don't know. I just picked it up in passing. And of course he wrote a book about it because of course he would. From the time it opened I had a very skeptical view of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The day they put Madonna in there confirmed my suspicions and also ended any desire to ever step foot in that building. There are a lot of old rock stars who just won't go away but at least they behave with some level of decorum. That woman...well, let's just say that was gross Matt and I feel dirty for even peeking at that clip. I have an overwhelming desire to say 10 Hail Mary's and three Our Fathers as an act of contrition so I'm outta here.
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  765. 2022 was a good year for you Matt. You did the Lord's work taking on the transgender nuts. Big-time hat-tip for that. Here's hoping 2023 brings even more success in fighting that wicked demonic cult. As for the list, I liked numbers 5, 4, 2, and 1. As for #3, that dance was a bit too reminiscent of the landlord's cycle in The Big Lebowski. Sorry dude, but that's a visual I could have done without. Otherwise, good job.
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  766. Part of it you can write off to kids being stupid kids because at that age, a lot of them are just that. I was chock-full-of-stupid at that age. But I grew out of it when I had to make my own way in the world of the way things are. This bunch, they are still at that stage of development where group identity means more to them than anything else, and that is one of the biggest problems with the Gen-Z crowd. They get stuck at that stage of development longer than previous generations did. That extended adolescence started with the Millennials but it has really taken root with this bunch. I do find it ironic that the young lady with the purple hair would absolutely identify white Christian conservatives as the main part of the patriarchy that is keeping her down but in her case it's her white liberal buddies who are rejecting Asian's. Yet she will buy the lie because, well, she's a kid and a product of 21st Century schooling in America. Maybe someday she'll realize who really had their foot on her neck, or maybe she won't. Personally, I don't care. I don't have the energy to reach them, not anymore. I tried, maybe somebody else will have better luck because I'm just too damn old to beat my head against that wall.
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  767. I remember years ago telling my favorite professor that I when I started studying American History I was squarely in Jefferson's corner. But the more I studied the subject the more I came to appreciate Adams. At the end of it all, I had changed camps. Too bad he got under everybody's skin the way he did and too bad his was so thin. But then, he wouldn't have been Adams any other way. The hardest working Founding Father and my personal favorite after Washington. Cool vid!
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  768. Well, the red wave turned out to be a red trickle. Want to learn some lessons from our mid-term election Australia? First, keep your promises. A lot of people who should have come out stayed home because republicans still have the stink of betraying their base on them. Second, fix any quirky election rules that favor one party over another. Third, look at the election through the lens of independent voters and run candidates that can actually win, not celebrity types or boot lickers that someone like Trump likes because they flatter him. Fourth, have a message that goes beyond I'm not a democrat and therefore I'm not crazy. Five, don't let pu**ies run your party. Find leaders who actually fight and inspire people. As for the rest, I have been on record saying biden was toast after the mid-terms but since the republicans have once again snatched defeat from the jaws of victory biden may have gotten a reprieve. But no way he runs in 2024. kamala will run against buttafudge and some of the commie governors out there in the godforsaken hellscape that is blue America but get ready for the return of Gollum. The woman from Arkansas who's name shall not be uttered here is going to run. She will follow the precious unto the fires of Mount Doom. Those tricksy little Hobbitesses stole it from her and she wants it back. Grab some popcorn because when that old gasbag starts swinging at the mental lightweight playing the role of VP it will be funnier than hell to watch. kamala got where she is because she did what men told her. Gollum got where she did because she hates men. Should be a barnburner good for a more than a few laughs. Trump is running but his cult has shrunk in size and influence. He's out there painting Ron DeSantis as an establishment guy and his loyal Trump-cult is echoing their master's message but there are fewer of them and that message is falling flat. People know better and more republicans than ever have Trump-lag. I really thought he would wax DeSantis in a primary because of Fox News and Trump-cult but outside of Trump's butt-buddy hannity Fox is off the Trump train. Independents and democratic cross overs in Florida showed that Governor DeSantis can more than make up for the loss of Trump-cult so I think party bosses are going to be less afraid of the guy. Despite his delusional claims that every republican who won owed their seats to him the reality is a lot of Trump selected and Trump adjacent candidates lost races they should have won. Why? Because independent voters were reminded of Trump and either stayed home, voted democrat, or just left that bubble blank. If the republicans do run Trump in 2024 he will lose and he will lose well beyond the margin of cheating. Trump-cult is loud and cranky like their leader but their numbers have diminished. Trump will be 78 in 2024 and the American people are getting fed up with these old Boomers who just won't go away. We will be coming off four years of dementia-joe and replacing him with a lame duck grumpy old narcissist is not going to appeal to many people outside of MAGA world. That view may be unpopular but THAT lesson needs to be learned on this side of the Pacific and it needs to be learned quickly. My hope is Fox stops covering his rally's like they are some rock show and that sane republicans stay away. I am as far away from an establishment guy as you can get and I'm telling you so is Ron DeSantis. Trump-cult may paint him that way but that's only because they are mindlessly echoing their dear leader. If Trump told his cult followers that woman from Arkansas was on their side they would sing her praises. They will follow him off the cliff the same way cult members in the democratic party will follow them off the cliff. But Trump is playing his cards too early. His ego is out there trashing Governor DeSantis before the Governor has said what his plans are WRT to a run in 2024. All he has to do is remain quiet and let Trump show his ass while he alienates more people. I liked a lot of what Trump did as president, but when we really needed him, when that COVID BS started he gave the country over to pence and fauci. Why? Because he wasn't up to the job. That is a huge fail and a huge reason why I could never vote for him again. It's not a popular position, but it's mine and I own it.
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  769. I may be in the minority but I'm happy these tyrants are nervous. I'm not calling for violence and I don't expect there to be any, unless it's on the part of the authorities. This isn't ANTIFA or BLM heading their way. If it was, they would be probably be pillaging and burning as they went along. You see this with all of these marxist great re-set types though. Call up the military or police to crush nonviolent opposition to their tyranny. They're Chinese masters have taught them well. My hope is that the young men and women of our military will not behave like the automatons of our northern neighbor and resist orders to trample people exercising their first amendment right to free assembly and redress of grievances. If their soldiers refuse to act like their fascist leaders, where do they go from there?
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  770.  @DanC-go9lc  I'm familiar with Posner's book on the MLK assassination but I've never read it. Admittedly, I haven't done much research into that case but again, James Earl Ray isn't exactly the type one would hire for a hit. From what I have read, there was a lot of talk about a $50,000 bounty on King's head and it seems most likely that Ray heard about it and thought he could collect. As I understand it, when it turned out to be a lot of talk Ray headed for the hills. He used to run drugs between Canada and the U.S. and he was had a history of crossing the border between Detroit and Windsor Ontario. He spent so much time running contraband in that area that he became a fan of my team, the Detroit Tigers. You'd probably know more than I do but it appears he was trying to get to South Africa where he thought he would be safe but he ran out of cash in London and some half-assed robbery attempt got him pinched. I do remember seeing him answer the King family directly when they asked if he was involved in the shooting and Ray, who wasn't known for stammering, stuttered when he told them he didn't. Could be nothing, but I grew up in the city around some of the best liars you'll ever meet and the ones who aren't very good give themselves away through body language or a stammer, a lot like what Ray did. And he loses eye contact for a brief second, another tell. That's just my observation though. And yes, I agree that there was a lot of shady stuff going on in Mexico city that will never come to light. Johnson was trying to prevent a war, RFK was trying to prevent a scandal, and the CIA had no desire to give up assets or methods over a guy who was dead. The reasons are straight forward, the path each took created the conspiracy cottage industry, which was just fine for all parties involved. As long as people chase the shiny object they don't look for the darker one. I should read Posner's MLK book.
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  771. She's the Scottie Pippen of the movie industry. Put a Chick in it and Make Her Gay will be on her tombstone. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Way ta go South Park.
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  772. Wow, I always knew that Goldberg guy was full of sh*t. mcacrthy would be the most conservative speaker ever? Paul Ryan was a conservative? There is no establishment? He is either a total hack and party shill or he is f-n clueless. Either way he is totally full of sh*t. Guys like him are the best case for voting against mccarthy. As for crenshaw, that phony can go f himself. He is a reflection of what Texas has become. Don't mess with Texas? Give me a break. Bunch of squishes in the Lone Star state. Not the place I called home for years. Texas will be the next Kalifornia within 10 years, bank on it. Kalifornia? Well it will be a separate nation along the lines of North Korea or Mexico will own it again. It will be nothing but homeless druggies and gangs anyway. Liberal governing at its finest.
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  773. Inside of every democrat beats the heart of a totalitarian tyrant yearning to be set free. As for uncle joe and the classified docs, of course he has no regrets. The biden crime family is getting paid, what's to regret?
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  774. Queer anything wasn't an important part of black history or the history of any other ethnic group until obama came along. Yes we can indeed. How's that fundamental transformation working out? It would have been nice if even one reporter would have asked that commie what he meant by that. We see now, but it would have been nice to at least hear it in 2008.
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  775. Hey here's a thought Anne, how about teaching 16 year-old girls that sex before marriage is a bad thing and can lead to all kinds of problems? You know, like we used to do back in the days when we strived to live by a moral code set out by God from whom our rights derive from? I've seen penlight's on a battery three seconds away from failing brighter than that dimwit. Man, I miss the days when these people had handlers who used to speak for them. As for that acting that Perry woman exhibited, I delivered a better performance when I tried to convince my kindergarten teacher that I was late because the subways weren't running near the bar I was coming in from that morning.
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  776. Prior to WWI there were a few dust-ups but no major conflict in Europe since the Napoleonic Wars ended in 1812. By the time WWI came along the leaders of the belligerent nations were old and had no memory of the days of Napoleon. Fast forward to us. Our leaders are old and were not around during WWII. Most of them dodged the Vietnam War by hiding out in college or were too young to be drafted. We haven't been involved in a real existential level war since 1945 and these corrupt crime families run by codgers like mcconnell and biden are motivated by a desire to protect their money laundering partners. The baby boomers will go down as the worst generation ever produced by this nation. I say this as one of them. I spent most of my adult life standing a post defending this nation. Now, if I had children of military age, I wouldn't let them serve even if it meant going to jail. This country is being destroyed for a specific reason, to serve the interests of the western global oligarchy and to make way for what they are calling the great reset, a plan for tyranny on a level not seen since the days of the Roman Empire. We haven't even gotten to the birth pains of the end-times yet. The 2030s will be a dark period, one where wars and rumors of wars will be so common people will just treat it as another day ending in Y. But this is what we wanted. Like the Israelites of antiquity, we told God we didn't need Him anymore. We wanted our own king. Israel got Saul, what will we get: “After them another king will arise, different from the earlier ones… He will speak against the Most High and oppress his holy people and try to change the set times and the laws. The holy people will be delivered into his hands for a time, times and half a time. But the court will sit, and his power will be taken away and completely destroyed forever.” ― Daniel: Ch. 7 Stay faithful, stay strong. Trust in God and look to Him for your salvation.
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  777. My friends and family used to ask me why I was a Republican. I came from a deep blue union state, they were all Democrats. Why aren't you a Democrat? I said first, I'm not a Republican. Then why do you always vote for the Republican candidate? I told them it was because the Democrats have crazy ideas that don't work. If they run someone who's a better option than the Republican I'll vote for them. That conversation started back in 1980. I'm still not a Republican, and you still have to earn my vote, but to be honest, since 2016 my vote is more about survival. The dems have moved from kinda crazy to full-out insane. My vote now is akin to trying to take the keys away from the teenager who's just finished a bottle of Jack and wants to drive to the store to get a keg to help wash it down. I don't trust the Republicans to make things better but you know what they're not doing? They're not actively calling for the destruction of the country and for the most part, they seem to like the place. Can't say the same about a big chunk of the Democratic Party. If they keep it honest during these midterms, there should be tsunami style red wave come November because I honestly believe more than 70% of the people think the dems are batshit nuts too. Some will pull the lever for the D just out of habit but the true believers in all of their nonsense is a much smaller number than CNN or MSNBC would have you believe. There will be a temper tantrum the likes of which you've never seen afterward but that's okay. At least we can slow down the fire long enough to maybe help those few who still think it's the Party of Truman and Kennedy to sober up. To borrow from the First Republican President I had the honor of voting for, we have reached a time for choosing folks.
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  778. “The modern age is built on the Myth of Progress…Believers in the Myth of Progress hold that progress is better than the past, and the future will inevitably be better than the present. This myth is a powerful tool in the hands of would-be totalitarians. It provides a transcendent source of legitimacy for their actions and frames opposition as backward and ignorant…Thus does the Myth of Progress become a justification for exercising dictatorial power” ― Rob Dreher: Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents Progressives and totalitarian misery based on myths spouted as facts. Some things are eternal I suppose.
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  779. Sorry, but you lose the right to discuss decorum when your leader rips the sate of the union to pieces and you applaud her for doing it.
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  780. Who's running things🤔? I know most people figure it's obama but there's this guy who rents the apartment above the laundry near my house. He comes, he goes, like he's purposely keeping a low profile. The fillings in my teeth also pick up a lot of loose chatter when I drive by his place, unaccounted for stuff, real hush-hush. I'm putting my money on that guy.
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  781. Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents is a must-read for everyone who loves liberty and is concerned about the current direction of all western democracies. It doesn't matter what religion you practice or if you don't even believe in God. The book is a warning from people who lived through the tyranny we are opening ourselves up to. Rod doesn't get preachy, he just lays out the truth and offers a path for freedom loving patriots to follow. One of the best books out there for those of us who know what time it is.
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  782. This kendi character himself was a three-time loser until he changed his name and started bashing whitey for a paycheck. disney has used espn as a race-baiting platform from the moment they bought the network. They don't care if it crashes and burns because the number of gay people who are into sports is even smaller than the number of brain-dead zombies who will watch this hot mess of a show. disney wants espn to fail because sports is one of the last merit0ocracy's centered on strong males left in the west, end they want to feminize all men in order to win their pyrrhic victory. Give em credit, they have pretty much destroyed what was once a bastion for sports fans. Nobody watches their shows and if it wasn't for live events like college football they would already be dead.
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  783. @DC I was being sarcastic.
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  784. @DC No problem. My satire is so so on a good day. Merry Christmas.
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  785. I grew up at a time when Disney was all about movies like Cinderella, Bambi, and The Jungle Book, and the entire family would tune in on Sunday night to watch The Wonderful World of Disney. I'll be honest, I was way more of Loony Toons/Mad Magazine kid than Disney and comic books but at least Disney was wholesome. Now it is literally demonic and just needs to go away. But it won't, because it serves its purpose, which is too dark to get into here. I only tuned in to this one because I wanted a Drinker fix. Personal request: how about getting back to reviewing older movies as well and less of your after hour panel show which is becoming quite redundant. But that's just the view of cranky get of my lawn old man I guess.
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  786. Great points about choice. I used to teach leadership and one of the phrases I would keep on my board was "Life is 10% about what happens to you and 90% about how you respond it." It's easy to slide into feeling sorry for yourself though and we all do it from time to time. Another point I used to make when students would complain about how horrible their boss was or how they had to stay on people to get things done was that during that past hour, while they were complaining about how jacked up their workplace was, some parent somewhere learned their child has cancer. I did it to remind them that we often mistake annoyances for problems. Like the old saying goes, no matter how bad you have it, you can always find someone who has it a bit worse.
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  787. I spent like a month on Facebook about 20 years ago because my sister kept at me about it. Not only did I find it an incredible waste of time, people from my past started "finding" me, wanting to be my friend. There was a reason I hadn't had any contact with those people for years. I tried to cancel my account but I guess Facebook doesn't let you do that, so who knows, maybe I've been posting cat MEME's for 20 years. As for Twitter, I'm not a mover and shaker and I'm not into train wrecks, no matter how much some people may have earned our derision so I think I'll pass. I comment on YT from time-to-time but that's becoming less frequent as well. I have no problem being an average run of the mill shmuck nobody really cares that much about outside of God and my family. Be safe out there kiddies, lotsa sharks looking for chum.
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  788. Whoever thought it was a good idea to have a bureaucrat who ought to be on trail for crimes against humanity toss out the first pitch of a ballgame should be fired. Only Seattle would give this left-wing Chi-Com self-promoting piece of dogshit an award. A pox on that entire modern-day Gomorrah.
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  789. Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse Biden said "Hold my beer." Since I'm posting a comment on the Drinker's page I guess it would only be fitting to refer to of his favorite movies to sum up my thoughts on 2020 and the people who brought us COVID and riots. To quote Meg Ryan from Courage Under Fire: "There will be a reckoning." Waiting for The Drinker to bring home 2021. And that's all I've got for now. Let's Go Brandon!
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  790. The first TV I remember us having was a 13 inch black and white RCA. Dad was frugal but he splurged on technology. We were the first on our street to have a color TV and it could get UHF without a converter. We could get channel 50 which showed the cool shows like The Three Stooges and The Little Rascals, PBS (channel 56) and channel 62 which ran a lot of old RKO B-Movies and lesser reruns. Then he got his pride and joy, the rotating antenna for the roof. I got being frugal from Dad but I guess I got his tech gene as well because I spoiled myself with loaded cable packages in the 80s and 90s and I was out in front when flat screens came out. Funny thing about Dad, he bought a flat screen but I couldn't get him to upgrade to HD. That frugality gene was still dominating. When I think of TV I always think of the day Dad put that rotating antenna on the roof. He was quite proud. RIP Pops. .
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  791. Creating and profiting off fear is perhaps the hardest of all sins for me to forgive. I'm not saying I'm God. I'm saying on a personal level I have learned the value of forgiveness but some things are easier to forgive than others. I have seen more lives damaged by the fear and isolation imposed by the state, and the diminishment of dignity over the economic ruin on a level I never thought possible. It's not my place to say, but there is a Hell, and people who have sewn will reap.
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  792. You're not fooling me Matt. I have it on good authority that cashier was also seen lurking outside lebron's mansion just before it was desiccated and he may even be connected with the noose incident in that NASCAR drivers garage. It's a conspiracy dude, straight up. Another example of the man trying to keep...um 🤔the man down.
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  793. Take this anyway you want but before you offer criticism of the American-anglo-culture, you might want to learn how to properly compose a sentence. Your rant kind of proves the point that this country is being filled with ill-educated people who don't bring a lot to the table.
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  794. Zero sympathy. The chickens have not only come home to roost they are crapping in the henhouse because, well of course they are, it's what they do. Did you expect anything less? To borrow from another famous New Yorker, Sgt. John McClain: "Welcome to the party pal!"
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  795.  @MelissaR784  The point I was making is the crazy fellow travelers who have taken control of the democrat party mean what they say and say what they mean. When they have the reigns they use that power to further their agenda because they are true believers in their cause. There is a religious fervor to their actions. When obama said his goal was to fundamentally transform America he meant it. Republicans on the other hand lie to their base. Look at the voting record of most of the party. They keep voting to forward the left's agenda, not to offer any legitimate opposition. They say they are conservatives yet they add trillions to the debt. They say they are pro-life yet they offer no meaningful legislation to protect the unborn. You've got guys like jim jordan who are all sizzle and no steak, running all kinds of investigations that amount to nothing as they get some middling bureaucrat in front of their committee's and pull their pants down so they can get their face on fox news and show everyone what bad-asses they are. There are a few good members of congress in the party. I'm lucky to have one in my district. But most of them are just sheep in wolves clothing. They'd be democrats if they could but they run in districts where they need the R in front of their name to get elected. Republicans are great and fundraising and lousy at governing because they prefer fundraising to governing and it's easier to do that when you are in the minority. For every Chip Roy and Rand Paul there are 10 mitch mc'connel's and joni ernst's voting for progressive crap. And they do that as they cry; "We did what we had to do because need to work together" or "We can't let the government shutdown so we had no choice" or "We don't have the votes. We need both houses" and then there's my favorite, "But the Courts." In the meantime they go back on their promises, when they have the power they don't do anything with it, and we end up with Justices like kavanaugh and barrett who delivered on one issue then voted in lock-step with their lefty colleagues on other matters. That is what I mean when I say "People generally say what they mean unless they are republicans." The left is serious about tearing the system down and replacing it with their dystopian vision. When they say a man can be a woman they believe it and when they say they want to pack the Court and abolish the Electoral College or the Senate they mean that too. They also mean it when they say religious liberty is just going to have to take a back seat to the progressive agenda because the arc of history bends in their favor. These are all statements and positions people with authority in that party have made or held. And they'll get around to it too, in due time. Republicans? They stand for nothing for the most part, and lately it's all about the show anyway. Reality-TV as politics. I dunno, maybe you believe in the republican party, I don't. I've been around too many blocks with them and they have burned me too many times on the big stuff, the stuff that matters, for me to believe anything they have to say. To me, that makes them worse than the democrats. At least the democrats give their base what they want, even if they have to tell them what they want at the same time. This has been a lengthy response but you claimed my comment didn't make sense. I just wanted to add clarity. As a conservative I'm homeless. The only party that hates my kind more than the democrats are the republicans, I'm not welcome around the MAGA campfire, the libertarians lack any moral center and based on the recent selection of their standard bearer for 2024 tradition has been totally thrown out the window by that bunch. But that's me. You're free to disagree but I mean what I say.
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  796. I was a big supporter of Ted in 2016 but he went MIA for a time. It seemed like after he grew that beard he shed another part of his anatomy. Sorry Ted, investigations aren't gonna cut it. Like Sean Connery once famously said, what are you prepared to do? How about getting some of that spunk back and actually challenging that worthless turtle acting as leader in the senate. Remember the time you called him out for the lying piece of crap that he is? How about that old Ted coming back. Jail terms Ted. Jail terms are what is required. Ya gotta start callin for em cause the other side isn't bashful about trying to lock us up. Get serious Ted. You, Chip Roy, Mike Lee, Rand Paul, and a few others are needed now more than ever. A time for choosing gang, a time for choosing.
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  797. "We can and must write in a language which sews among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us." ― Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin) “Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?” ― Joseph Dzhugashvili (Stalin) The American left didn't just wake up one day and have a meeting about how to package lies as truth. They learned from their political idols. The more things stay the same the more they stay the same. And the beat goes on...the beat goes on.
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  798. China benefitted from American corporate and political greed as well as a collectivist nature better suited to a socialist-style economy. The U.S. just pumped a bunch of money down that Russian rathole with no real plan or follow up and the result was inevitable. The idea that we could go around the world like Johnny Appleseed's and spread democracy from sea to shining sea was always a pipedream. Countries with no democratic tradition don't simply hold elections and poof, up pops McDonalds and KFC's like acorns ready to sprout free-market miracles. This notion that we had reached the end of history when the Wall came down was fools-gold and we spent the entire decade of the 1990s asleep at the switch while the world changed. Instead of creating new alliances and developing new doctrines that reflected the world as it is we kept operating within a cold-war post-WWII mindset. Tell me now why NATO even exists? Do you think our resources may have been better spent fortifying alliances in the Middle and Far East and securing our own border instead of worrying about non-existent Soviet divisions dipping their toes in the English Channel? Why are we pumping billions into Ukraine and taking marching orders from the corrupt comedian running that place? Do you really think making sure Ukrainian workers have a government pension is worth risking a third world war over? I've strayed a bit far afield but Russia has failed because it was always a corrupt enterprise, going back to the days of the Czars. China has succeeded because they are playing the long game and have a plan, a plan we seem to be down with because America has always longed to do business with that nation, and we have been willing to turn a blind eye to their shenanigan's and play by their rules to keep that market open. China is on the rise, Russia is...well Russia, and it always will be.
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  799. Sounds crazy? Could never happen in today's enlightened world? The CDC, an agency granted legitimacy by the United States government has said men can menstruate and breast-feed. If you don't think the alphabet jihad is a religion to the lunatics spewing the gender nonsense complete with high priestesses, ritual sacrifices and dances, and pagan creeds you haven't been paying attention. The man is right, people are hard wired to believe in a higher power of some sort to provide purpose to their lives. I've got good friends who disagree with me vehemently on this and their fervor kind of helps prove my point. Up is down and down is up these days but it's jumbled up for a specific purpose. And the motivations of the modern pagan's are not pure. That is a lesson you would have thought the Nazi's taught the world, but alas, people have a tendency to fail to learn that which is actually important.
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  800. So, You-Tube didn't like my elaborate explanation on what I think BLM is up too. Okay, let me see if the censors are okay with the shortened version. Marxist trained organizers tend to be lying Godless thieves. Is that more acceptable?
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  801. To catch the breaks he did that day? You got that right Jake, there is a God. You weren't meant to die on that beach. Not sure how the rest of your life went but I imagine you had a special appreciation for it. What a tale.
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  802. I'm old enough to remember when the world is ending crowd were mocked for the fruitcakes they are. Like when they told us we were going to experience another ice age in our lifetime. Between that and the prophecies of Nostradamus we weren't supposed to even make it to the 21st Century. Now those morons are in charge. Personally I think God is going to step in before too long.
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  803. Rocky II is okay but Die Hard 2 was crap. The scene in Die Hard 2 that had me scratching my head the most was when Bruce Willis uses the ejection seat to escape from the cargo plane just before it explodes. Sorry Bruce, cargo planes don't have ejector seats. And what happened to the roof of the flight deck? Did the seat just blast through it? I'll be honest I thought Rocky III and Die Hard 3 were both better than the sequels. Yeah, Rocky II had more of the feel of the original and the overall acting is a bit better but when Rocky finishes off Mr. T that should have been the end of the Rocky franchise. If you disagree grant me this, at least it's not Rocky V. I saw 2010 in the theater, it was okay as far as sequels go. I would have put Terminator 2 on the list. Yeah, it's a bit hokey, but aren't all sequels not named Godfather II? Like Rocky III, that should have been where the Terminator was terminated. Terminator 3 had a chance to be something but the casting for that one was just beyond horrible. That nerdy loser kid they picked to play the future savior of the human race, where did they find him? And his girlfriend was almost as unbelievable in her role as future heroine. I'll give Kevin Costner credit, he was offered big money for Bull Durham and Field of Dreams sequels and he turned them down. Good for him. Most things are best left alone. Porky's Two: The Next Day ring a bell? For the most part, sequels suck.
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  804. You mention things were different for the Romans because of the treatment they received from their barbarian captors but only 6,000 of the 91,000 Germans captured at Stalingrad managed to make it back to Germany and only after serving a lot of hard time in the gulags. Doesn't sound like things were any better for the Germans than the Romans. Whose to say what they would do, but I have always been of the mind that as a regular soldier, if I knew what the Russians or Japanese had in store for me I would have gone out but not by my hand and not alone. But I suppose that's easy for me to say since I wasn't there facing that choice. Paulus got off easier than his men. Not that I have a lot of compassion for Nazi soldiers, but I'm sure a fair amount of draftees were wondering what the f*ck as they were freezing their asses off in Russia. Hitler sure was a f-head.
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  805. Dan is one of the few I have any respect for on this network. Most everyone else on Fox was shilling for mccarthy from the get go, brow beating conservatives and letting pimps like that niece of romney trash patriots. Will it work? I dunno. But it put mccarthy and his ilk on notice that they are being watched and while there may not be the kind of reckoning I'd like to see mccarthy will pay a price if he gets too cozy with his democratic pals from Kalifornia. Shout out to my freshman congress member Anna Paulina Luna. She was on the right side of this and it looks like she's gonna be a good one. I'm glad my vote wasn't wasted. Well done young lady, don't let those swampy squishes corrupt you.
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  806. Why are there cops just standing there while these lunatics prevent people from getting off the train? Not that that particular cop looks like he could have done much anyway. He looks more like a greeter at Wal Mart than someone who ought to wear a badge. If the cops aren't going to do their job eventually someone will. Yet the voters of that state overwhelmingly voted for the same group of democrats that have been destroying that state for decades. Obviously it's what they want. I keep thinking of that Sam Kinison routine where he yells at the people starving in the desert to move where the food is. Any normal person should be saving every dime they have and working toward an escape plan from Babylon. You think things are bad there now? Wait until the economy really crashes and these crazies are running things at the street level because the cops have had enough. It really will be Escape From New York. But hey, there are a couple million migrants ready to storm the border next week when biden opens the gates and yells come on down and I'm sure they will restore virtue to our morally bankrupt system. The Aztecs will be back in charge before too long and heads will be rolling down the steps in sacrifices to the gods. Montezuma's true revenge. But hey white suburban liberal, go right on hating yourself. Walk into those train cars willingly when your time comes and be sure to ask your conductor if you have met his expectation.
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  807. I haven't ruled out Martian cow farts as a possible source for the methane. But then again that notion came to me in a message that was delivered through the fillings in my teeth so there is that to consider. 🤔
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  808. If that's all it takes to keep people away from a movie sympathetic to one the classic villains of all time...cool. I was never going to see it but if keeps some young girl home, that's freaking awesome. We glorify evil enough in these wicked times.
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  809. I'm not really concerned about historical accuracy when it comes to westerns. I grew up with em and just enjoy the action, even though I'm not a fan of horses in real-life. "I'm your huckleberry." Great line.
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  810. My personal favorite is the multi-verse. People wedded to scientism will jump through just as many hoops and twist themselves around just as much pretzel logic as the hardcore apologist who needs the world to be 6,000 years old and for people to have walked with dinosaurs like Fred Flintstone. When you adopt a hardened position and something comes along to seriously challenge your belief system the natural inclination is to resist and create a new paradigm if you have to, but never surrender. I'm a person of faith and I get called superstitious yet these same jokers want me to believe in hyper-inflation, multi-verses, or whatever the theory de-jure is to explain a random universe that requires such a precise level of fine-tuning and synchronicity among a wide variety of cosmologic constants it stretches the boundaries of mathematics to the breaking point. Oh yeah, and that elegant universe they spend all their life studying serves no purpose because it is just a random collection of atoms and cosmic debris that every now and again bump into one another. There's no point, it just is. But we're the kooks.
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  811. Getting the best of the bartender is kinda like winning a game of hide and seek with a three year old. And who exactly would buy her merchandise? For a commie always running down capitalism she sure does love money. Whoever raised this spoiled brat ought to be spanked.
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  812. I believe in sharing the blame equally but the people have been the problem for quite some time. Maybe we've always been the problem and Divine intervention more than anything else has kept us afloat for the past 235 years. I do know this, the teachers union didn't show up with tanks and machine guns saying let us have our way with your kids or else. We just couldn't be bothered. The unelected fourth branch of government didn't create an out-of-control bureaucracy and tell people the Constitution is just an old document that has outlived its usefulness. We decided to hand things over to the experts. And the people didn't clamor for politics as reality-TV but when they got it they fell in love with it. It allowed us to take part in the ultimate game of shirts and skins and we they leapt at the opportunity. We not only rejected any chance of getting off the ride, we did so vehemently, lashing out at anyone who dared try to stop the show, calling them traitors to the clan, losers of the highest order. When the German's took over Austria in 1938 reporters referred to it as the rape of Austria. One astute newspaperman pointed out that if that is the case Austria seems to like being raped. We seem to prefer lies to truth, problems to solutions, just so long as the games continue. We have always had a thing for shiny objects and with social media, 24/7 news cycles. and elections that last for years there are plenty of shiny objects to go around, or as the author Neil Postman put it in the 1980s, we truly do seem to be amusing ourselves to death. But it's all fun and games until someone loses a way of life, especially in a country with a well-armed populace. We really should spend more time considering such things as what we are actually going to do about trillion dollar spending resolutions passing every few months or what we are actually going to do about these millions of illegal immigrants when they start doing what they have to do to survive and less time laughing at our president having conversations with imaginary friends or carrying on about the salacious revelations of the porn-stars his opponent paid off. Like I say, just something to consider.
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  813. I don't know what to say about that. How can you...I got nothing. That level of dumb is stupefying.
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  814. "Last night, millions of Americans tuned in to one of the most shameful hours we have ever seen on cable television." Are you talking about the Grammy's chuck? Hey dude, I know that pesky Constitution, especially that part known as the Bill of Rights keeps getting in the way of your nefarious plans but until you kill it, which your party has been trying to do since the days of FDR, you're just going to have to deal with the Tucker Carlson's of the world. And by the way, not that self-awareness is one of your strong suits, but whining about big lies when your party defends male menstrual cycles is more than a tad bit rich. And sorry, I believe the FBI talking about planting spy's at Catholic Masses to be more of a threat to democracy than thousands of people showing up to protest a stolen election. You're a wicked guy dude, you have always been a wicked guy. That's a truth bomb. Deal with that.
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  815. I have friends who consider themselves liberal, but they are thinking in terms that applied 50-60 years ago when the seeds of liberalism were planted in their psyche. Now when I point out how zany and out of control the left has become they look at me sideways, thinking I'm a Q-Anon conspiracy freak I imagine. They honestly don't think their side has slipped past the point of no return, either because the propaganda they listen to tells them we are the zany ones or to not believe their lying eyes or because they just don't want to let go of that old "peace, love, dope" mentality where a kumbaya moment was right around the corner in the Age of Aquarius. The new left if you want to call it that is more inline with Mao's Cultural Revolution but that was always where it was headed. When I used to tell people I could never vote for a democrat because I thought Locke got human nature right and Rousseau got it wrong I got that same puzzled look I talked about earlier. Wanna understand where we are and how we fix it? Start with Plato and his Allegory of the Cave. Then read the Bible and get right with God. This is a spiritual battle, not an ideological one. Until we fully grasp that we will never win, at least not until the Second Coming. Maybe we're headed there. I dunno. Get right with God. That's my advice.
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  816. I'm not in favor of literacy tests and the like but anyone who actually thinks the economy is excellent should be deemed too stupid to vote. As for Joe, I'm sure he believes that 91% nonsense because he is totally clueless at this time. I would say that the entire disgusting Biden crime family should feel ashamed for engaging in abuse of the elderly but they are completely shameless. They are going to get as much grift as they can off that old man then shuffle him off to the nursing home when the powers that be decide he's just no longer worth the risk. And they are getting there. Those Hunter Biden recordings didn't just magically appear. The day after the mid-terms you can expect to start seeing 25th amendment stories popping up in outlets like the NY Times like dandelions in an open field. Harris will be president by February 23 at the very latest and Pete Butt-in-the-edge will be VP. The dems will then see if that freak show can be redeemed and when those two morons prove their worthlessness watch someone like that crazy governor in California swoop in. Why do you think he is running those ridiculous adds in Florida? And don't count out Hillary Gollum Clinton. She hasn't forgotten about the precious and she will go over Mount Doom to take back what those tricksy Hobbit's stole from her.
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  817. This guy didn't make a mistake, he made a decision to lie. And what's with the "I come from an impoverished background" stuff? Is this guy saying people who are broke have some built-in honor? I grew up with a lot of folks who were broke, hell I was broke, and trust me, more than a few of the folks I met at that time were not the honorable type. And what exactly was this joker trying to accomplish here? Going on national TV to clean up...what exactly? I guess he figured he could waltz in and BS Tulsi because everyone has bought his BS over the years. I have met more than my share of "embellisher's" over the years and people who behave that way at his age have had lots of practice. But hey, if the bartender can get re-elected in NY I don't see why this guy doesn't have a chance.
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  818. Weekend at Biden's isn't going to end. They can't run that Harris chick because she is the only person in America who has an approval rating lower than Uncle Joe. Hillary will try to shove her bloated behind back in the race because she is like Gollum with the precious but Obama won't have any of that. As long as Biden's grifting wife, kids, cousins, brothers, and whoever else in the clan is getting paid by the Chi-Com's old Joe ain't going nowhere. Obama needs that fourth term to permanently flush the country down the toilet. Got to make way for the great reset and he can't have that with all this liberty and freedom still beating in men's hearts (well, what men are left). They'll prop Uncle Joe's dead body up if they have to or pull a Dave and get a lookalike if that's what it takes but Obama ain't giving up the reins until his fundamental transformation is complete and there is no vestige of the good old US of A anywhere, not even in the history books. But I sure am glad those mean Tweets stopped. Are we having fun yet? 🤔
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  819. fauci gave the chi-coms the money to create that virus so of course he will defend them. Hey tony, you like em so much why don't you buy a retirement condo over there. If justice was still a thing in the U.S. you'd be up on charges. Maybe the chi-coms will give you a better deal. As for funding Ukraine, no one is stopping the European countries from sending that crooked regime all the cash they want. Hell, raise an army and fight the Russians if you think Putin is such a threat. As for me, and most of my fellow citizens, we've had enough. 90 billion is a pretty big chunk of change Doug. I think we've done our bit. If you want to give that comedian more cash to help him balance his budget and pay their government pensions, like I say, have at it. I'm sick and tired of paying for European social programs. If I was king for a day NATO and the U.N. would both find themselves where they belong, on the ash heap of history. Stalin has been dead for close to 70 years. I think the threat of the Bolshevik herds marching into Brussels and Paris is kinda diminished. Here's a thought, start defending your damn selves and get out of the habit of running to us every time some Ruskie starts saber rattling. Find a better way to heat your homes than Russian natural gas. I say this as someone who spent the better part of his adult life helping defend your deadbeat asses so I think I'm allowed to have an opinion on the matter. You want Putin out? Push em out. I could give two sh*ts. We've got terrorists and drug dealers pouring across our southern border like it's an open kegger down there and commies in our own government flushing our democracy down the crapper. That's enough to deal with as far as I'm concerned and yes, it takes priority over Ukraine, even Great Britain for that matter. How about this, you do you and we'll do us. The Cold War is over. We won. Get over it.
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  820. Grievance politics is as old as the republic. Unfortunately, the powers-that-be are on the side of the modern-day race hustlers and woke zealots. It ain't no fun when the rabbit's got the gun. They get away with saying outrageous stuff and teaching lies as truth to the children because too many people for far too long thought if they just gave an inch they would be left alone. All those cultural issues republicans ducked for years, the so-called third-rails of politics? The other side wasn't afraid to pick up that banner and run with it. It's why: "What is a woman?" is an actual question these days and why there are people out there who truly believe systemic racism and climate change are two greatest threats to our security. It's why problems don't get fixed and crises don't go to waste. “The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.” ― Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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  821. "Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." - George Orwell: 1984 Amen Drinker...amen.
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  822. What a terrible war. My grandfather was a Canadian NCO who fought at Flanders. He died in the late 1930s due to the damage done to his respiratory system as result of the gas attacks he endured. He was in his 40s when he passed, far too young. I served in the US military and like him, I was an NCO. I have often wondered if he would have found my service honorable. Hopefully I will find out when I finally get to meet him on the other side. Until then, RIP Gramps. I'll be along directly and we can exchange war stories, though I get the feeling yours will be infinitely more interesting. 💕
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  823. I saw the runtime on the theater homepage and that was enough for me to say thanks but no thanks. I like Martin Scorsese, but this isn't the first time he's gone too long with a movie. Casino ran about an hour longer than it should have. Scorsese spent way too much time developing the Robert De Niro Sharon Stone subplot in that one. No way I'm sitting in a movie theater for three and a half hours. The last time I did that was for Return of the King. That was worth it. This one, maybe I'll catch it when it streams and watch it over two nights.
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  824. The problem isn't the prison-industrial-complex, it's the recidivism rate. Once someone does time, regardless of race, their chances of returning to that cell are high because they wear a scarlet letter. People in fashionable places don't like to talk about that aspect but the truth of the matter is they wouldn't let an ex-con within 50 yards of their home or business. I have a bit of experience with his because I grew up with guys who went away. The coach of my little league team did 30 + years and I went on a few trips with him to halfway houses and meetings of ex-offenders. It's not that prisons exist, it's that we don't let most people leave them, even after they are free. How did they get there? That always starts in the home. I didn't know one kid from good stable home who got wrapped up in the life. My home life wasn't Ozzie and Harriet but I had a bit of sense. I had my opportunities but I never crossed that line. Single mother homes are a leading contributor but above all you have to have parents who give a damn. That is the starting point. Sadly, a lot of these kids don't have that. As Denzel Washington put it, they get raised by the court and educated in the juvenile halls. You would be hard pressed to find a six year old who will say, I wanna be a felon, a junkie, or a prostitute when I grow up. It's not a racial problem, it's a spiritual one.
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  825.  @bobinthewest8559  In case you missed it, I was being sarcastic.
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  826. Sorry, but the idea of finding microbial life on Mars or Europa or Titan or wherever someone decides to send a probe just doesn't move the needle for me. I'm sure people who make their living on these Johnny Quest's get excited but spending billions to discover some clump of cells in the frozen region of some distant rock sounds like a helluva waste of time and money. Oh, but it will prove life exists in the universe!!! I can look out my window for proof of that. And this nonsense about building ships that will take hundreds of thousands of years to get to some distant planet in the hope of finding a new home, that is possibly the most narcissistic self-centered idea of all the bad ideas ever put forward. You would be willing to doom generation after generation, longer than we have been building civilizations to an existence of servicing some ship they can never leave and eating and living off what? Warmed over piss from their great grandparents? Eating recycled fecal matter and genetically malformed plant-life? Over time they would forget why the hell they are going to wherever it is they are going and would just give up and die off. The problem with futurists is they are dreamers who discount human nature entirely or act like it just doesn't matter since there is no God or no purpose to anything anyway. So let's say you decide not to doom your children to some lonely existence hurtling thorough space. Let's say we send some microchip hurling through space at ludicrous speed. Supposing it is able to make it to its destination, I imagine there wouldn't be a whole lot of people left who wouldn't even remember let alone give a sh*t. "Hey, we got a phone call from the USS Bill Gates." "What the f*ck is a USS Bill Gates?" And please, spare me this BS about these tidally locked planets around red dwarves being good candidates for intelligent life. The only reason these astro-grifters spend so much time obsessing about them is they are the most common star around and they can point to them and say; "see, they have planets in the habitable zone. Give us some more money to study them please because it's really important that we do" Why? "It just is you silly man. How else can I write my ground-breaking peer-reviewed paper Space.com will put out as the next great thing? Just shut-up and trust the science you knuckle-dragging luddite." If I sound like a total cynic...well, maybe I am. I grew up during the age of Apollo and Star Trek. I bought all the BS NASA and the rest of the scientific community fed me. I believed in going to Mars, that we would be talking with ET by now, and that going to the Moon would be a common and every-day event akin to flying to Pittsburgh for the weekend. Now? Okay, I liked the stuff Hubble found, I even find the stuff Keppler and JWST have spotted interesting. But spending a bunch of cash on some propulsion system to get us to these far off worlds? To boldly go where no man has gone before? I don't know if anyone else has noticed but our country, the U.S., is in a simple term, f*cked right now. Trillions, with a T, in debt, crazies crossing our open border, talk of "national divorce" in the halls of congress. If Europe or even China wants to spend a bunch of time, energy, and resources on these futuristic boondoggles, have at it. But they won't because they are in a worse place than us. Sorry dude, no bucks, no Buck Rogers. There is just too much stuff that has to get fixed right here on our home rock. There is a sh*tstorm heading our way in the 2030s. The sooner we get out in front of that the less impact it will have, but it's going to be bad, worse than anything that has come before it. There, my contribution to the future. I wish it wasn't so, but I just don't see how it can be avoided. Not that anyone will ever read this post but live long and prosper all the same gang. 🤟
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  827. Xi has been about redressing what he perceives to be historical wrongs since day one and Putin has always wanted to get the band back together in Eastern Europe. Look for Xi to make Taiwan an offer they can't refuse and Putin to move into the Baltic states to ensure energy security before the next U.S. administration takes over in 2025. Does anyone think biden or harris are even a mild threat in the minds of these two? These guys are gonna strike while the iron is hot. Expect trouble out Iran for good measure and few more missile drills outa North Korea just so we know they're still kicking. Hope I'm wrong.
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  828. It's nice to see you respecting the 2nd Amendment Tulsi. How's about going back a bit further to the other core document, our Declaration of Independence and read that part about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Start with the first one that has to be respected and protected, life, the one that comes before all else. Now ask yourself how being "pro-choice" aligns with that civil right. You claim to be for protecting rights and all, how about protecting the most innocent among us. It's not a democrat or republican issue, or even a left and right thing, it's simple right and wrong. Just sayin.
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  829. This video has expired? What, you mean like a gallon of milk or a tub of butter? 🤔Or is it more like the way nouns (people, places, animals, and things) used to expire in the Soviet Union? I'm thinking it's more like that. At least Stalin used to air brush people out when he pulled a control+alt+delete on em. I guess NBC likes to leave the body in the street. Leaves a firmer message I reckon.
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  830. The only part of the Matrix series beyond the first movie that was even worth the trip was when Neo has that conversation with the Matrix version of Oz at the end of the second movie. They lost me when a new Oracle showed up and they gave some half-ass reason for it. It was kind of like when I was a kid and Darren 2 showed up on Bewitched. The bit where that French chick puts her sexual powers in Trinity's face and kisses Neo is okay but if we're being honest it was one of the weaker attempts at the gratuitous sex shot movies of that period were required to have. The third movie lost me after about five minutes. I left in on in the background because...well I don't really know why. The original Matrix was a cool film and I liked that it ended with no real resolution. But I also figured they did that to set up the sequel and since 97% of sequels suck I also figured that one would as well and it largely didn't disappoint where sucking was concerned. As for Matrix Four...that's going to be a hard no. Maybe if they brought in Al Pacino and connected it somehow to the Devil's Advocate. Hey, why not? That movie never got a sequel.
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  831. So Sky-Net is self-aware. 🤔What could go wrong? I mean, it's not like you end up with a machine that can process and hold a few dozen tera-bites of information and come to decisions about how best to protect itself without a conscience...right? 🤔It's not like this thing could start working out how to get rid of oxygen because it poses a problem to its circuit boards or figure out a way to get rid of some of the surplus population because somebody programmed that into my memory bank. Nah, it's be fine. 😁
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  832. The democrats may indict Trump but it won't go to trial. This is strictly a bone to their lunatic base and a way to put a dent into Trumps candidacy. The powers that be in that marxist outfit would still prefer to run against him because nobody this side of Abe Lincoln has ever fired up the base of the opposition like Trump does. As for the republicans making a difference this term, not with the turtle calling the shots in the Senate and his half-a-commie boy outa Kalifornia as Speaker of the House. It's too late to do anything about mcconnell but if the republicans want to show their base that they are serious they have got to pick someone else as Speaker. The Senate is already up to their same-old-same-old shenanigans by giving the commies the votes they needed for that disrespect of marriage act. That they could get 12 senators to vote for that abomination is abhorrent and tells you everything you need to know about that snake mcconnell and what his priorities are. Those 12 got their 30 pieces of silver from that scumbag. For some, like that ernst chick out of Iowa, the payoff was a boost within the GOP power structure but those Judas's should be pariah's within the caucus and if any of them do run for reelection they should be primaried out of politics forever. If Trump was smart he'd be calling them out. That is what I mean by being serious. Sorry Ted, a bunch of House investigations that don't result in sh*t ain't gonna get it done and if you think mccarthy isn't going to fund everything biden wants, including those IRS goons...well, of course you know better Ted.
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  833. She's cool in the same way Spock was cool. A Klingon cruiser would be coming up the Enterprises rear end and Spock would be like, "Fascinating captain. It appears the Klingon warship is about to blast us back into the 18th Century." He said it in a way that maybe wasn't too comforting but you got the sense somehow he would break out a mind meld or whatever and get Kirk out of another jam. She is like the comforting Spock. I saw this special on the Science channel where she was talking about the universe coming apart and eventually going into a deep freeze but she said in such an upbeat way she got me excited about the prospect. I was like, "Yes, the universe is ending! We're gonna need a few extra blankets but I think we'll be okay." Like I say, she's cool. 😎
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  834. That was good. I've been taking in these inter-war videos sort of piecemeal and they are well produced and well researched. I had a commander who attended a seminar on military strategy. Most of the western European and North American countries had one expert or so available to speak about how the mobilization and readiness processes worked for each one. Anyway when the guy who was there to talk about France and got up and started explaining who decides when the French go to war, my commander spoke up and said he was always under the impression that the Germans decided that issue. He said the lecturer was not amused. I thought it was funny, but that's me.
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  835. I saw a trailer for this and you hit on it Drinker. I just couldn't see Anaya Taylor Joy in an adventure shoot-em-up film. I like her as well. It's too bad she seems get shitty scripts tossed her way, and even the decent ones seem to put a governor on her potential. Or who knows, maybe she does that. Anyway, I won't be watching this, was just curious and to tell the truth with the kind of day I'm having I needed a shot of whatever it is the Drinker was serving up today. Sometimes ya just need that guy to tell you to go away now.
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  836. I could see the team relocating to Nashville. There was talk about building a stadium in Ybor City but zoning issues and a lack of funds in the Hillsborough County coffers seem to have squashed that idea. He is right about how Tropicana's location sucks and building a new stadium in that same area doesn't make sense. I went to my first and last game there this past opening day. Traffic sucked big time and the cops were clueless on how to keep it flowing. Instead they relied on the traffic lights which anyone who lives in Florida will tell you are for the most part timed like crap. The roads around there are just too damned narrow and if you go you better prepay for parking or show up seven hours early because the little bit of parking available in the area sucks as well. Have I said the location sucks? I hate using the same word so often but I'm trying not to swear. Too bad because the Rays are a an excellent team. If they were located in the city I grew up in, Detroit, they would be drawing three million a year. But unfortunately we have the Tigers. That is a conversation for another day though. I do expect the Rays to be gone. If they can stay in Orlando, cool. If not Nashville is a logical spot. Forget San Antonio or Austin, or any other city in Texas. I lived there for nine years. Texas is football and NASCAR, or it was when I was there. Three MLB teams is too much for that market. Maybe Charlotte if Nashville peters out. But they will leave, bank on it.
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  837. There will be a reckoning, that much is for certain. Satan knows his time is short, expect things to get much worse before they get better.
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  838. I'm not a Star Wars Guy, never was, but seeing one of my TV heroes, the iconic Reverend Jim Ignatowski reduced to such low depths. Maybe ya needed the money Chris but come on man. Start a Go-Fund-Me if that's the case. Truly heartbreaking.
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  839. I used to think guys like those two jokers were just flat out propagandists who spouted rhetorical diarrhea because they were paid to do it but the left has gotten into such a habit of gaslighting that to them it's no longer gaslighting. Reality is whatever they say it is in the moment and it starts when they speak it into existence. Whatever came before does not matter to them. I think once they started down the speak your truth path and extended it out to physical biology everything was up for grabs. Relativism became king and objective truth became a myth. I always figured at some point cognitive dissonance would cause their heads to literally explode but I don't see that happening. They actually buy the BS they peddle. Not everyone, but enough of their thought leaders do. I've said this before but if you want to know what the left is up to just listen to what they are accusing you of doing. I know how this story ends and I do my best to keep the faith with that but it is troubling nonetheless.
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  840. I was a kid when the original with Chucky Heston came out and it was a bit of a cultural phenomena. There were Plane of the Apes trading cards among other stuff. But by the time it got the third movie, where Zera and her hubby show up in the spacecraft Chucky flew off in the whole thing had lost its flair. Some things should just be left alone. I found the the first remake or whatever it was to be somewhat interesting but as the old saying goes, you can't go home again. Hey Hollywood, come up with some F-n new ideas and let us have our memories. You guys suck, I get that, but stop ruining what was once cool.
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  841. Maybe one day you'll figure it out, after you're a bit older and further away from your lefty beliefs. If a civil war erupts it will happen because the left wants it to happen. Violence is 1,500 X more likely to come from the left. Why do I say that? Look around. Where are these Proud Boy acts of terrorism? Where are these dangerous Trumper's beating up well meaning liberal love children who only want to feed the poor? They exist in the minds of the disturbed people the state-run media ramps up. There is no equivalency. The left is batshit crazy because they appeal to emotion. They are Godless and therefore aren't concerned about how they treat their neighbor. It has been that way dating back to the French Revolution and it will continue to be that way. Facts are stubborn things. You're trying to be reasonable with unreasonable people. Good luck with that. Like I say, one day you will put down your skateboard and joystick for good and realize that the large, huge, disparity when it comes to violence as a tactic is real, and it all leans left. The NYT is printing that stuff so they can claim these "peaceful" rioters were just defending themselves against the real threat, the old ladies with their walkers and the working class guy trying to feed his family. You know, the garbage people. Maybe one day you'll grow up and see things for what they really are.
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  842. Flip the script and have a caller insult President Trump. That lady would be calling him a hero and he would be on her show the next day.
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  843. Lefties always eat their own, a rich tradition going back to the French Revolution. Ask the loyal party members who were forced to sign false confessions during Stalin's purges or the intellectuals of the movement who got taken out during the Cultural Revolution. No surprise the woke community is up in arms. They were ready to pounce before filming even finished. Like I say, a tradition unlike any other.
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  844. Sensible and practical aren't terms that land in the same sentence containing the words democratic candidate very often, except maybe as a punch-line. I get it though, California is pretty much a one-party state with a foot and a half out the door. If they voted to secede tomorrow I think a large majority of Americans would be willing to chip in for the cost of digging the moat in the bordering states and setting up watchtowers to keep em hemmed in. I tried to have sympathy with Californians but when they said no to Larry Elder in fairly significant numbers that told me they are okay with the craziness that goes along with building the leftist dystopia. Sorry gang, any state willing to have an 81 year old maniacal woman who lies and says she only cares about the kids represent them gets what they deserve. I'm truly done having any sympathy for the people who live in that country.
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  845. You know what scares me? That all of this stuff about polls and brutha's be flippin for trump is just a psyop. trump has moved to the left on a lot issues like abortion and immigration. He has endorsed all the squishy establishment republicans and said just the other day that any immigrant, legal or illegal, who graduates from a U.S. college or university should automatically get a green card. Why? Because he needs the establishment money. Why are you hearing talk about guys like eyebrows out there in North Dakota or tim scott being potential running mates? That's hardly the move of a disruptor. trump put his flippin daughter-in-law on the RNC because she's married to his kid and she goes on fox all the time. That's it. That's what passes for being qualified in the mar-lago court. I like Dr. Hanson, he's a smart guy, but he's got blinders when it comes to trump and where the electorate is really at. democrats aren't worried about white voters disrupting their little burn it down party because they keep racking up wins in off-cycle election years and their incumbents are just as safe as the swampy republican incumbents who are down with their program, the people trump is endorsing. In the meantime the debt is getting to the point where paying the interest on it will be the largest expenditure in the budget and as much as people want to point at these polls and pump up their idol, we are looking down the barrel of a fourth obama term. And what will they do in the aftermath of that? The right-wing pundits will yell about a steal, fox news will have even more tranny's on their shows and they will run trump again in 2028, maybe even 2032. If not him by that time, it will be his brain-dead kid. And the republic will continue to crumble until the weight of the thing causes it to go super-nova like a dying massive star and we are all living at the beck and call of our Chinese overlords while people like pelosi, schumer, mcconnell, the evil witch of the Ozarks whose name shall not be uttered here, and trump are fighting over the single spigot in Hell that doles out the single drop of water every 2,000 years or so. That's what scares me. I got lumped in with the tail end of the boomers and let me tell you something, no generation has done more damage to this country than that self-entitled bunch. Have a nice day.
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  846. Xi's rival had the same kind of health emergency Fredo experienced just before he went fishing with Al Neri. You see him saying something as he's being hauled away, kinda like Tessio asking Tom Hagen if he can get him off, for old time's sake. And just like Hagen told Tessio, Xi's response was sorry, can't do it. Staying with the Godfather theme, Xi is about ready to make Taiwan an offer they can't refuse and biden or harris, whichever dimwit is playing the role of obama's Manchurian Candidate at the time will force Taiwan into accepting the deal. It's just a question of if it happens before or after Putin moves 50,000 or so troops into the Baltic states and orders the Black Sea Fleet to make for the Atlantic to maintain security for his that new pipeline he has to build. And we haven't even gotten round to what Iran and North Korea want to do get before these boneheads are voted out in 2024. This is why you don't put irresponsible nitwits in charge of anything.
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  847. Or, to put it more succinctly: “There’s no right or wrong, there’s just popular opinion.” ― Brad Pitt as Jeffery Goines (12 Monkeys)
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  848. Now I see why Fox parted ways with Tucker. $20 bucks says he ends up in the 8 PM slot at Fox with Bruce Jenner as his sidekick. You know, girls sharing dating tips and commenting on lipstick and nylons, that kinda stuff.
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  849. "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary security deserve neither." ― Benjamin Franklin Or, put another way: "There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, “Thy will be done”, and those to whom God says, "Thy will be done." All that are in Hell choose it." ― C.S. Lewis In the final analysis, we decide to surrender our integrity, and along with it our souls.
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  850. Custodian's of Tolkien's vision with a baby-mama dwarf, black hobbits, African nomadic gardening tribes, and some good old LGBT action to satisfy the alphabet mafia? Wait until season three for it to improve? Sounds like taking a quart of sour milk and putting it back in the fridge anticipating it will be better in a week or two. I thought I had heard enough about this debacle to convince me never to look at it but give the woke creative bunch credit. Just when you think they can't get any worse somebody is there waiting for that "hold my beer" moment. I do think this is the final word on this mess, at least for me. As I've said, Tolkien fans were never the target audience. Amazon just needed a name to attach to to their version of Game of Thrones. This stuff was made for Gen Z and you know what, it will probably do well with that crowd. Amazon can then claim that Tolkien fans are just a bunch of narrow minded bigots and the numbers show that enough hip people get it. They get to dump on the traditional fanbase, promote the woke agenda, and spin it in a way that they will be able to claim a win. Well played I suppose. You know, the Soviets made movies too, but people only watched them to avoid the gulag. Anyway, thanks for the final word on this hot pile of dung.
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  851. Didn't you hear? Trump is saying he's personally responsible for every win the republicans did manage to get in the house. Of course the dems want him to run in 2024. He's the only one they know they can beat because he will energize their base like a 300,000 volt shock and enough of them will come out in the swing states to keep them within the margin of cheating. Republicans need to lose their fear of Trump-cult defecting if their dear leader isn't the nominee. DeSantis can more than make up those numbers with independents and cross over democrats who are sick of the crazies in the democratic party coming after their kids. But something tells me Trump will be the guy in 2024 and we will get to see if obama can finish the job of wrecking the place during his fourth term.
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  852. Trump has a flair for the dramatic and good instincts but he has poor judgement and that negates those instincts. You saw this time and again when he would appoint and support people who were openly opposed to his agenda. He was good on the economy but honestly that wasn't too hard since all he had to do was stop the intentional destructive practices obama engaged in. He had very good instincts when it came to dealing with foreign leaders but on the domestic front he was out of his element. When COVID hit he delegated the heavy lifting to a simp like pence and a let a crooked evil bureaucrat named fauci wreck his presidency. He walked right into the trap the commies set for him because he didn't know what to do. He couldn't drain the swamp as he promised because of pushback but his inexperience of how the government actually functions hampered him in that area even more. I agree what they are doing to him is criminal but he keeps stepping on the rake and all it takes is the slightest misstep to get the marxists going, and they don't care if they win or lose, the process is the punishment. I've heard good people who worked in his last administration are backing off this time because they just can't afford the legal bills that come with being associated with Trump. No matter how much you might like the guy, a man at 76 with all the rest of the BS he is dealing with, as unfair as it may be, is just not capable of doing what must be done to stop this persecution of political opponents across the board. Trump did some good things as president, but he is the wrong man in 2024. He won't be able to get good people to work with him and they will keep hounding him with more subpoenas, more indictments, and all we will get is more drama. It will be great for the clickbait warriors and the pundits who sell books but it will suck for the rest of the country. Trump is so far underwater with independents that it is impossible for him to win. He won in 2016 because the democrats ran a woman who was possibly the most despised presidential candidate ever. This isn't 2016 and the problems we face are not 2016 problems. You want four more years of obama? Nominate Trump and that is what you will get.
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  853. In a totally unrelated story, actor Siaka Massaquoi who was in the film and also happens to write for the Babylon Bee, was arrested on his way home from the movie's premier for being in the capital on January 6th, 2021. Why'd it take so long to arrest him and what exactly did he do that day? Well, no one is in a hurry to answer those questions since, as I said, it is TOTALLY unrelated to his appearance in this film. Having fun in obama's Amerika gang? Yes we did indeed, and everyone knows, obama has no sense of humor, at least not when it is directed at him and his friends. Something to think about kiddies. Sleep well.
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  854. I believe it's possible because I have personally witnessed life exist in extreme, harsh conditions. I grew up in Detroit after all.
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  855. That's the way FDR saw it, until he declared war on France that is. And even then I'm not sure how much it really did bother the guy. Got to keep up appearances though. Between that and that pesky Constitution and those robed guys on the Court who kept using it to block his ambitions life for a wanna be dictator could get complicated. But damn, how he wished he could make his own trains run on time they way Il-Duce could.
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  856. I was a child of the age of Apollo. A lot of us bought into everything Star Trek was selling. Of course the universe is teeming with life; how could it not? However, as I started looking at the issue with more of a critical eye and less of an emotional lens I discovered just how difficult it is to replicate what we have here. Sadly, I don't see ET contacting us anytime in the near future. Can I say intelligent life doesn't exist elsewhere? Of course not. We made it, that is proof enough that it can be done. Will we find them or will they find us? Unless we can figure out to break the laws of physics I've gotta say no. Then again, maybe it's set up that way for a reason. And no, finding microbial life on some moon or space rock in this solar system isn't going to make me all gushy inside. Quite frankly, I think even looking for it is a waste of time and money but that's me. Get back with me when you figure out how to open a REALLY BIG worm hole for longer than a nanosecond. Beyond that, happy hunting SETI and more power to ya...I guess.
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  857. I dunno, maybe I'm in the minority but I found this movie to be pretentious at times and obtuse when it wasn't being pretentious. The plot was flat, the ending was ridiculous, and outside of Anaya Taylor Joy's performance I thought the rest of the cast was just as stiff and dull as the movie. She really does deserve better scripts than this and that Northmen movie or whatever that bore-fest was called. I thought the Menu, to be fair, sucked. But that's me. Maybe I'm just one of those dimwitted unwashed masses types who just doesn't get it. I'm also one of those who thought Christopher Nolan did a half-ass job with Dunkirk because he was more interested in making a Christopher Nolan movie than telling a story. That movie actually came to mind as I watched this one. But like I say, I imagine I'm in the minority.
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  858. Hearing that woman call something, anything, a mockery is...well a mockery. Governor DeSantis leads. biden has created the greatest homeless crisis since WWII and it's left to governors to clean up the mess. Wanna know why Texans are pissed? Abbott declares an invasion then does squat. But hey, he has that magic R in front of his name right? Texas is so squishy. I'm ashamed to say I once called it home.
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  859. Okay Tulsi, great. So explain to us why you still identify as a member of that party? I'm not saying you have to become a republican. Personally, I wouldn't pee on the majority of them if they were on fire. But they do have one thing going for them, they aren't members of a party dominated by marxists. So what's it gonna be Tulsi? A lot of talk? Air time on Fox? What are you willing to do? A time for choosing...a time for choosing indeed.
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  860. Well that explanation beats the congresswoman from Texas who said we wouldn't be able to land on the Moon because it is made up primarily of gas. I think she went to the same school as the other congressman who was concerned about Guam tipping over if everyone stood on one side of the island. But here's why we aren't going to the Moon. It costs a sh*tpot ton of money and people don't give a damn if we go or not. I lived through Apollo. We were battling the Ruskies. We were going to Mars. We were the Star Trek generation, live long and prosper and all that stuff. Then we made it to the Moon and people said, hey, all we're getting for our money is a bunch of rocks. Tax the rich, feed the poor, all that stuff. The science crew at NASA were A-Okay with that reasoning since they wanted to send probes out into space. They won the argument. Nixon tossed the explorer types a bone with the Shuttle but that thing never had a real mission, no end goal, and it was dangerous as f*ck. It's amazing more people didn't die in that deathtrap. Even after Challenger NASA knew there were other problems that they just chalked up to the cost of doing business. The crew of Columbia paid the ultimate price for that. Space travel is hard, really hard. Musk was all enthused about Mars until he found out there wasn't going to be enough government cheese to make a buck off of that little cosmic adventure. He'd have to pony up a lot of the cost and well, it's all fun and games until you lose your fortune for, wait for it, a bunch of rocks. What exactly is on Mars that would make it worth the trip? As someone put it, it's like Utah without the state parks or Mormons. And who the hell would want to live there for any length of time. This is coming from someone who was all-in for this stuff as a kid. Now? No bucks, no Buck Rogers as they said in The Right Stuff. The public could give two sh*ts. Therefore the politicians could give less than two sh*ts. Sorry world, if this thing is gonna get done it'll have to get done either through international cooperation, good luck there, or through the altruistic nature of Elon Musk, that makes the first option seem likely. No, we'll stay right here and eventually we'll have so much crap circling the planet we won't be able to leave orbit if we wanted to, not without smashing into some piece of leftover space trash. But hey, somewhere in the Oort Cloud is a big old chunk of rock and ice with our name on it anyway. So we got that going for us. Maybe Elon can work on a plan for that, one that doesn't require Billy Bob or Bruce. Those guys are a bit long in the tooth anyway.
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  861. There have been other movies along this line like Day of the Jackal and Collateral, two movies I like. Sometimes, like Michael tells Sonny, it's not personal, it's business.
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  862. "Did you order the code red?" obama: "You're g-d right I did! I'd do it again, it's my job." As for that FBI director getting all cozy with the WEF about the unholy alliance between government and the private sector, correct me if I'm wrong but, wasn't he the guy Trump appointed and said would do a magnificent job? Another one of "the best people" he always talks about surrounding himself with? 🤔 Just askin.
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  863. Good luck young fella. If you are who you claim to be then you know no group hates conservatives more than the republican party, and that includes the democrats.
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  864. Thank you Mr. Prager! This chat is getting bookmarked. I said from the very beginning of the COVID business that people were acting irrationally and it was all driven by fear, and fear is a terrible emotion to take advantage of. The people who have will have some splainin to do as Ricky Ricardo would say when they are standing tall before God. I live in a 55+ community and fear has had a devastating effect on so many of my neighbors. A man who was my best friend here has been so consumed by it that he has basically cut him and his wife off from any human contact that isn't absolutely essential. I tried to tell him he couldn't keep her in bubble wrap but he is so afraid she will die before him that he is doing everything in his power to shield her from the disease. I drove them to the pharmacy and got them vaccinated but it didn't matter. I think he just got so used to living in fear that it became his new normal. But worse than that, it made him mean. I see what fear has done to him and several other people here who used to be social and I made myself a promise that I will never live a life based on fear. I never have and now that I have seen it up close I am more determined than ever. I think it's largely a matter of faith. Now, I'm not ultra religious and I am only now getting reacquainted with the Catholic Church after a very lengthy separation but I have always trusted in God. People I know who have little or no faith tend to get scared when the end comes near. I'm not saying that happens to every agnostic or atheist, but I will say this, people who have genuine faith don't fear death. As you point out, we don't rush headlong into it and take unnecessary risks but I have never found a single person of true faith who is afraid to die. Death is something like 10,000,000,000 -1 but I trust in the one man who defeated it enough that when my time comes He'll be there to welcome me home with open arms. It's a simple faith, but it's mine and you know what, it keeps fear at bay. 🙏 Finally, I love that line: "Don't behave the way you feel." That is sage advice. I used to explore this with my students when I was a leadership facilitator. I would mention how we often confuse thoughts with feelings. For instance, how many times have you said, "I feel like going outside?" How can you "feel" about going outside? You are THINKING about going outside but what are you FEELING at the time? Too often we let our emotions drive our thoughts and when that happens the machine is running backward. That is how decisions with tragic consequences get made. Anyway, loved this video maybe more than all the rest and you have made some dandies. Please keep up the good work. Emotional people like me need to be reminded not to act on them.
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  865. Every time I see that Shuab character I think of Dr. Strangelove. I keep waiting for the extended arm and a good old Zieg Heil Mien Furher! The reason you can't just dismiss these fruitcakes though is they are legion, and they have a boatload of money. I look at them and think about what they are doing in eschatological terms but then I realize they are not bright enough to actually pull off Armageddon. Take a guy like Kerry. The only thing that makes him one of the "special people" is his ability to become whatever he needs to be at the moment and to marry well. That doesn't take a great deal of brain power. Besides, that Brahman accent of his is so especially annoying there is no way he's a world leader on anything except maybe spending too much of his wife's money on Botox and haircuts. And no one would have any clue who the hell Al Gore is if his daddy hadn't been a senator first. He only globed on to this climate nonsense because he saw no one else gave a shit. He framed it in a way these Bond villain's like though, a means to control people and get rich. The sad thing is, decent people who actually do care get roped into this BS. I'm not talking about the bartender and her little Twitter bot army, I'm talking about average Joe's who have had this crap pumped into their heads to the point they declare it to be settled science, which is an oxymoron but I digress. But when a patent thief like Bill Gates puts his money behind it the cult thrives. The bottom line is, these people shouldn't be dangerous but they are. I don't think they have the brains to breathe life into the Beast, Satan's wicked kingdom on Earth that will go to war with the Saints, but they are softening things up for the Antichrist who will. But, in the end, Satan will have people like them eating ze bugs for eternity. Zieg Heil that one Claus. Maybe you can get a spot next to Hitler and the two of you can talk about how you came this close in between having your flesh ripped apart and being burned forever.
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  866. This is spiritual warfare. Looking to the courts to solve the problem isn't going to turn the tide. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad these people posing as doctors are getting sued and I hope they are all bankrupted. If we had a functioning justice system they would be jailed. But my questions remain unanswered: where are the men and the where are the clergy? To borrow from Ozzie: "Satan laughing spreads his wings." I see good kids at Mass every week and I always ask God to protect them.
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  867. I'm not sure what corner of the bowels of Hell burped that demon up but I do wonder why he hasn't been the target of some law enforcement sting. I read about creeps like this guy getting arrested on a regular basis using sting tactics. I'm sure this guy knows all the regular tricks police use but are you telling me they can't outsmart THAT guy? Just askin.
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  868. Disney's ideas on diversity are a lot like Henry Ford, who told customers they could get the Model-T in any color, so long as it was black. I don't know anything about this spat between Gina and disney but I hope she wins because...well, it's disney. As for Musk buying disney I'm not sure Satan will allow that hostile takeover to occur. Granted, Musk isn't the most Godly man but he's not a Satanist and disney is carrying out a very important demonic mission for the father of all that is evil right now. It's one thing to take on a worm like bob iger, another to take on a Principality. I don't see it happening but ya never know. God has used flawed men time and time again to thwart the plans of the enemy.
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  869. What's more hateful, trying to help someone who suffers from a mental disorder or some form of demonic possession and is miserable about their life, the world, and their place in it as a result. Or participating in their psychosis and affirming and reinforcing their pain, telling them that what they are experiencing is real and that the only way out is to mutilate their body or take medications that will damage them permanently? Make no mistake where the hate comes from. Satan is behind it all and he and his demons are working diligently at ruining as many souls as they can before God decides enough is enough and casts them down once and for all. Pray for those who are victimized by wicked people who are using them as human props to further a political narrative or build their bank account. Christ tells to have nothing to do with such people. Stay true to His word.
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  870. That lemon rating women based on physical attributes? How would he even know? Unless he's the one who dresses up and plays the wife at home for his boyfriend. That guy only has his job because he likes sodomizing other men and statements like that only confirm that.
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  871. The only people who would agree with Biden that he has made amazing progress would be those who are trying to burn the place down. Yes, if his goal is the destruction of the republic, he has made amazing progress.
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  872.  @rhondabitler5474  JFK knew he needed Johnson in 1960 so he brought him on as VP but they were never close. Kennedy was warry of Johnson's habit of making whatever office he held more important than it had been before he arrived. But he did treat him decently, about as decent as most VP's get treated. He gave him stuff to do like running NASA and the Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity but he didn't have any real power in either job so he got bored, moped, and drank a lot. Kennedy tried to pump up his ego by sending him overseas. It was also a way to get him out of his hair. Bobby had him in his sights and word is LBJ was planning on making a deal with JFK on November 23 1963 where he would walk away from the ticket if Bobby would call off the hounds and stop leaking dirt to the Senate committee that was looking into corruption during his time as Senate Majority Leader. But the day before that could happen Kennedy rode in the motorcade in Dallas and the investigating into LBJ went away all on its own.
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  873. This one is on my gotta watch list. Beyond being a good movie, it looks like it is triggering the right people. I'll support anything the Disney crowd is against these days, if for no other reason than to get more good material out there. Wouldn't it be poetic justice if it turns out making more money than that indiana jones hot mess? First Bud Light and Target feel actual pain now this. The tide just might be turning.
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  874. I don't know Matt, I think there is a not insignificant segment in Hollywood that supports making movies they know "flyover" country full of "weirdos" will stay away from in droves in order to give them a finger wagging moment. I also think we have not seen the last of this type of film no matter how badly it performs. It's about the kids Matt. Pump enough of this garbage into the ether and maybe they can gain a few more souls for their masters collection. It's about building the brand Matt. We are just to dumb to appreciate their genius.
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  875. I prefer Billy Bob Thornton's take on it: "Begging your pardon sir but it's a big-ass sky." Succinct and elegant. Kinda says it all.
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  876. The title of the video is truthful, democrats do promise the impossible. At least their constituents get that. Republicans don't promise anything, and they deliver on that because you don't get anything from them. Except more spending, spending that helps democrats carry out their plan of delivering the impossible. But hey, we have to keep sending these guys to Washington because...🤔well, I'm a little fuzzy on that. Give me a couple more lifetimes and I'll get back to ya. Maybe.
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  877. I guess ya have to be a child of Apollo to understand how disillusioned our generation is, how we feel we got robbed, like that band titled "They Promised us Jetpacks." We were told with basically 100% certainty that the galaxy was teeming with life, that by the time we reached adulthood, colonies on Mars and the Moon would be a reality, that we would continue to move up and out, that we would boldly go where... Then we find out that it is actually really tough to go to these places and that if NASA hadn't been so risk averse, and sent a man instead of a monkey up in 1961, Alan Shepard would have made it to space before Yuri Gagarin and the whole Moon shot might never have happened in the first place. I guess mostly we just grew up, and the more we learned about the real world the more science fiction became just that for us, fiction. Thanks Einstein! Thanks for breaking my heart! I've gone from believing we would have had several long-distance calls with ET by now to believing that will flat out just never happen. The distances are too great and the laws of physics are just too tough to overcome. I now believe if there is life out there, we are separated by design. We each have our own destiny to live out, distinct from one another. Maybe in the next life we get to meet our cosmic cousins, but for now, I guess I'll just have to settle for those old Star Trek reruns. Live long and prosper ET. Hope the weather is fine wherever you are.
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  878. Tucker, I like ya but you have a bit of a habit of telling your version of history in a demonstrative manner, even if your version is a tad off the mark. You make it sound like Russia is Tennessee. White Christian strong traditionalists? Close to a century of socialist rule put a pretty big dent in that one. I have met people who grew up in the USSR and they are decent enough folks but Christianity isn't really their thing. The Orthodox Church has a following here, but it's mostly second and third generation expatriates whose family's fled Stalin's terror. The folks who stayed? Most of them remained atheists' or agnostics at best, even after the Wall came down. As for Nixon's visit to China, he didn't make that trip to make sure China and the Soviet Union wouldn't team up. He did it to exploit the split that existed between them in order to end the Vietnam War on the best terms he could get and to open China's market to the U.S., a dream this country has been chasing since its inception. See Admiral Perry and the annexation of Hawaii for proof of the historical facts on that one. Like I say, I like ya Tucker, but you tell a version of history that ain't always precise. Maybe it's a trick you picked up at CNN or maybe you just have crappy researchers. Or maybe you know it's BS, like your JFK conspiracy crackpot stuff, a narrative that fits the iconoclastic persona you adopted when Fox slid you into that 8 PM slot and you replaced your moderate bowtie for a necktie. I like the edge, but I'm calling BS on that take. I'm not a fan of the war in Ukraine but I'm a bigger fan of the truth. As my man John Adams said: "Facts are stubborn things."
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  879. “You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and also the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons.” ― Corinthians 10: 21 “Now the works of the flesh are obvious: immorality, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery…orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.” ― Galatians 5: 19-21 “But the hour is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and truth; and indeed the Father seeks such people to worship Him.” ― John 4: 23 Let those who have ears listen.
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  880. I don't think what is described here is restricted to the hollow man as he puts it. Circumstances change and people who once had a purpose-driven life can find themselves suddenly cast adrift due to forces beyond their control. Every time a fundamental shift has occurred, whether it was the Reformation or the Industrial Revolution, there has always been a segment of the population who get left behind. Those who can adapt prosper but I think it is unfair to characterize those who do not as hollow. And the notion that spending time alone is a good thing is also somewhat fallacious. It's okay to spend some time alone as it allows you to gather your thoughts and think things through but we are social beings who were never intended to live a life of solitude. Too often when you are alone you are in lousy company. The problem is, as we shifted from an agrarian-based society to an industrial-based one the generational family became less important. Then, as we moved from an industrial-based society to a services-driven culture the nuclear family became more atomized. Now, the age of information has reduced the importance of the family unit even further. Online communities are replacing physical ones and as people connect digitally they become more isolated physically. The reason these digital communities leave us empty is because, in our hearts, we know the digital world is one we created. That is what is truly hollow. Loneliness has become a problem for a great part of society. Young people who typically weren't as prone to it's negative effects are becoming more and more detached, unmoored from the connections that separate us from the beasts of the earth and the code of the machine. The best way to combat loneliness is to build a relationship with the only one who will be with you for better or worse and will never desert you: "Be still...and know that I am God." ― Psalm 46:40
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  881. That recent bi-partisan abomination the senate came up with tells you all you need to know about how political leaders on both sides feel about the open border. They let that cinnamon woman from Arizona sponsor it from the left because she pretends to be an independent and while she's up for re-election she's running against the news lady who has decided being trump in a skirt is a winning strategy. Kinda like it did for the book she wrote, the one that sold in the dozens. The cinnamon lady knows she will have no trouble dusting the maga queen bee off so she was willing to take one for the team, most likely in exchange for the committee chair of her choosing come 2025. That lankofrd joker out of Oklahoma who was the republican sponsor for the bill did what his master ditch ordered him to do. Then he stood back and watched as mcconnell, in true mcconnell fashion, tossed him under the bus and rocked it from forward to reverse and back again a few times for good measure. But he's not up for re-lection until 2028 and he can always lie about his conservative credentials because his is from Oklahoma after all and people will have long forgotten this traitorous bill. Fox News will make sure it gets buried properly. The thing is, I think it was just a trial balloon anyway. The little weasels got together and drafted a bill so obnoxious they knew it was DOA before it even saw the light of day. Now they are gauging just which parts were deal-breakers and which parts they can slip into the real bend-you-over bill they will pass in 2025, when democrats will have the WH and both chambers of congress. You think things are bad now? Wait until you get a load of obama's fourth term. But hey, the republican voters have spoken. They want trump and his flying circus with it's bruce jenner freak tent and carney-barkers like roger stone more than some boring candidate who can't even come up with any good nicknames for his opponents. I mean, the man has never had a reality-tv show or cheated on his wife. What exactly qualifies him to be president? What qualifies him to play ringmaster for the greatest show on Earth? Why, I didn't hear any tv-evangelical tell me DeSantis is a Godly man. Not like trump who according to preachers on his payroll is God's son in whom he is well pleased. But hey, I'm probably over reacting. Of course trump will win. He will beat all those black robed meanies who want to lock him up and will capture 35% or more of the black vote because as Fox News has pointed out, the brotha's be flippin for trump in Rhode Island, and we all know what a bellwether state Rhode Island is when it comes to race in America. The man is loved from sea-to-shining-sea after all. Just ask him. Or better yet, learn to speak Spanish, or Uzbek or whatever the preferred language of your new neighbors is. It will help you out as you ask them to stop pissing on your lawn and to take their tent down because it's blocking your driveway.
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  882. Hey Fox News; what's the deal with you promoting Bruce Jenner's dysphoria and giving that freak show a platform to rant his post-modern/post-truth/post-Judeo-Christian nonsense? You know what, I was going to skip this one because this network lost all of its moral authority when they put that nutcase on to explain how woke culture was to blame for guys competing against girls. The guy who literally kicked-started the movement then accepted sportswoman of the year from the commies over at ESPN...that guy!!!! Kinda like The Blaze giving a shout out to Dave Rubin and his buddy for the new addition to their family. You know what, as long as people keep promoting these platforms that promote sin nothing is going to improve. But that's me. Like I say, I'm sorry for even clicking on this. I promised myself I wouldn't do it but there I go again. Okay, I'm done.
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  883. These are the same jokers who helped put the bartender into office. Just a couple weeks ago that guy was talking about arming all the tranny's after one of those mentally disturbed people shot up a Christian school. He's also the same guy who denies the Armenian genocide. Excuse me if I don't find anything any of those people have to say about anything even remotely credible or interesting. When someone spends that much time and effort convincing you who they are I for one tend to believe them. This is the first time I've checked out this channel. I don't have anything against it, just wasn't interested before. But or some reason that picture of that moonbat got the better of my curiosity. Like I say, I don't know much about your channel and I'm not knocking you but if you want to pat these jokers on the back for getting on the right side of an issue that's on you. Motives still matter to me and I believe theirs are less than honorable. But that's me.
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  884. Using warp drives as a weapon to trigger an ELE. Kamikaze aliens. Great. Or maybe we have already been wiped out and just don't know it. Maybe it's like a sport, the alien team that knocks us off quickest wins but it was a draw so they all jumped into one of those time bubbles to run it again, kind of like cosmic overtime in some weird alien killing league. Man, as if I didn't have enough on my plate to worry about with the NFL season kicking off and my team having a shot at the Super Bowl at the same time the whole world going-to-hell-in-a-handbasket thing is happening and it cost me $12.00 for a bottle of water and a six-pack of eggs. Thanx dude. 😡
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  885. Mrs. Steele learned the lesson of the left. Leftist causes come first and foremost, regardless of who you are or what you think or value. Failure to march in lock-step will result in banishment, and that banishment can only be reversed after a struggle session and public admission that you were wrong. Being a leftist means being able to flip your views on a dime. If obama came out tomorrow and said this tranny madness must end that movement would lose all support and eventually the talking heads at MSNBC would be convincing their audience that it was always a right-wing movement, that any belief to the contrary is false. Think I'm exaggerating? Ask any living relatives of those who got purged in 1939 when Stalin sided with Hitler. Anyone who still said the Nazi's were the bad guys was blacklisted. Then, when Hitler invaded Russia, they had to flip again. And 95% of the lefties in Hollywood and academia had no problem jumping through the commie hoops. Some things never change, especially habits engrained over a century. That is why anyone claiming to be a Christian cannot support the democrat party, not as it functions today. If you do, you have shown that your true loyalty is to team red. This lady found out how quickly team red will turn on you. It's a game as old as the French Revolution. A time for choosing. It's here, and it's real.
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  886. The lyrics in that rap piece sound like a description of a typical night on I-94 in downtown Detroit. Write what you know I guess.
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  887. We are just sick in the soul and sorry but unless we repent nothing will change.
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  888. That was Kostner's epic period with Water World, Dances with Wolves, and The Postman. I'm one of the two dozen or so people who had no time for the first two but enjoyed The Postman. Hard not to like a movie where Tom Petty plays Tom Petty. Yeah, it's kinda light on explaining how the apocalypse went down, but it's a fun watch. A for Water World, it was so forgettable I don't really have much to say.
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  889. Leftism's not a cult...nah...not at all. 🤪
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  890. "A tyrants power derives from the citizenry"? Where does that nonsense come from? Tyranny is by it's nature a condition where the will of the people is not a consideration. I tried to make it all the way through this video because past videos produced by this channel have made sense. This one is chock-full-of BS. This idea that decentralized power has been the norm throughout history is a load of crap. History is dominated and defined by periods of empire, not small city states singing kumbha as they battled back the Hun's. Believe me, I'm no fan of large overreaching government but that has been the end result as long as people have organized themselves into groups. Initially it was done for protection, then people figured out they liked power and dominating others so that became the driving force. The narrator says he's not pushing a utopia here but that's exactly what he's peddling. And this assertion that small city states and tribes have some sort of natural tendency to of band together to fight off a larger power trying to intrude upon them is ridiculous. Ask the Gaul's how that worked out for them against Rome, or the tribes of Asia against the Mongols. Want a more modern example? Ask the Czechs how things went for them in 1938. Like I say, I would love nothing more than for the world to operate the way this guy says it did in his imaginary past and I agree Federalism is the best hope for liberty in the United States but the truth of the matter is we are headed in the opposite direction. The world is more interconnected than at any time throughout the history of civilizations and guess what, tyrants love to grab the levers of power when the foundation is already set up for them. If you think we are somehow immune to that because we are more enlightened, I've got a nice piece of real estate to sell you just south of me. It's buried under 10 feet of water but that shouldn't be a problem, you can always get your neighbor's to help man the pump. I hate where we are going and while the solution being offered here is very appealing, it is as realistic as terraforming Mars and starting over on that planet. Dark days are on the horizon, I wish it wasn't so, but that's the world of the way things are and we better wake up to that and the nature of our true enemy pretty quick or there won't be anything left to save.
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  891. Those aren't problems Kari, that's what the communists call strategy. Like their hero Stalin taught them, who votes doesn't matter, who counts the votes does. You better win well beyond the margin of cheating because if you don't that woman will steal it. They are shameless beyond their own standards these days and the media won't batt an eye if 150,000 or so mail-in ballots suddenly appear the day after the day after. Count till ya win, a democrat tradition going back to the days of Andy Jackson. One man, 10 votes.
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  892. I've said it before, winning any kind of debate/argument with the bartender is like winning a game of hide and seek against a three year old. But it's still funny to see this little twit playing revolutionary from a $60,000 car. Too bad her handlers picked the only district outside of Kalifornia stupid enough to keep sending this dimwit back to congress. She punks em publicly, lets em know she doesn't give two sh*ts about them during townhalls but those dumbasses keep re-electing the little suburban commie. Only in NY.
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  893. I'm old enough to remember your father. My dad thought your uncle was a rich man's kid, a playboy with no depth, but he had a grudging respect for your dad because he believed in the causes he was fighting for. I'll give you credit, you seem to share that with your father, but sorry Mr. Kennedy, this isn't the party of JFK and Harry Truman anymore. It's not even the party of Bill Clinton. This is obama's party and we'll cry if we want to. The fact you had to turn to Fox for airtime kind of sums it up. I give ya props for running, and I hope you make at least a few people examine why they still support that Godforsaken party that has literally, not figuratively, forsaken God and all that is good, decent, and holy. The republicans aren't really much better, but there is a dark force that has grabbed hold of the reigns of your political party and it will not relinquish it. I wish you luck sir, but I'm afraid your on a it of a Quixotic quest going up against the powers that be on that side of the aisle. Maybe President DeSantis will put you in charge of a criminal inquiry into fauci and that bunch. Wouldn't that be something.
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  894. Lefties have a storied history of using kids as shields because people have been afraid to challenge the little brats. That's changing now though. I think they know they have run that game into the ground.
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  895. Of course the cost is going to increase. Scope creep is a given, but when you couple that with the ludicrous inflation you get when you print trillion of dollars because you think the real world is just like the Monopoly game; what do you expect? This moon-doggle shows just how much we have regressed at all levels. With the debt headed toward 40 trillion, with a T, we ain't goin nowhere, except out to the fields to scrounge for food like the white collar workers in Venezuela were forced by the government to do a couple years back. Ya can't have, whatever system of government it is we have right now, and get some big vanity project off the ground. No problem. The planet is going to be covered in so much space debris in a few years the whole point will be moot. Yeah, we have done a bang-up job since the 60s. Way to go team.
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  896. Hey republicans, wanna learn how to win? Follow Governor DeSantis around for a year. Oh yeah, then go buy some balls.
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  897. All of this is true but wars are still won on the ground. When this nation reaches stage III of the fundamental change obama called for it will take law enforcement officers, enlisted military personnel , and street-level bureaucratic functionaries to carry out the edicts of the elites. Just like in Germany, regular people drove the trains and made sure they reached their destinations on schedule. How will the average American respond? Well that is the question now isn't it.
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  898. I supported DeSantis in the primaries but I voted for Trump. If that woman would have actually been elected there is no telling how much damage obama could have inflicted. Trump told Rogan he learned from his hiring mistakes at the outset of his first term. I hope that is the case. If it is, and the republicans can somehow manage to hang onto the House Trump has a chance to clean up a lot of the mess created by the lefties through legislation, not executive orders. Of course that means keeping a snake like Cornyn out of the top seat in the Senate and putting a choke collar on Johnson with a one inch leash. I hope those things happen. The main difference between this speech and anything that woman and biden had to say was the lack of name calling. I read this horrid hit piece written by the AP that is running in all the mainstream news sites, the one passing as the story announcing Trumps victory. It is pure hate mongering and it accuses Trump of being everything biden and that woman actually are. It talks about the mean spirited campaign he ran against the poor defenseless woman with no mention of her and biden calling Trump a fascist and his supporters garbage. That goes to show the media has learned nothing. The whackos will ramp it up an 11 Mr. President, be ready. I pray to God that some nutcase they wind up doesn't come after him. 72 days between now and the inauguration seems like an eternity. The crazies will not go gently into that sweet night. If the left gets the House, they will be able to raise all kinds of mischief. They will start impeachment hearings before the man is even sworn in and there is a better than even chance the won't certify the election at all. But we're the insurrectionists and threats to democracy. Go figure. Anyway, great job Mr. President. Now roll your sleeves up and lets get to work.
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  899. I guess Nolan is okay if he stays in his lane. I don't travel in that lane so I won't offer any critique of the movies mentioned here. I do know history is not his lane. I say this because history requires actual, not conceptual, storytelling. I saw Dunkirk, unaware of Nolan's work as a director and it was one of the worst WWII movies I have ever seen. If you didn't know anything about the story of the evacuation at Dunkirk in June 1940 going in you probably knew less about it coming out. The guy was more interested in making a movie than telling a story. Like I say, that's all fine and well in some instances, have at it. But it doesn't work for people like me who enjoy a good story. That is why I am going to steer clear of Oppenheimer when it is released. It's an interesting story but I'm sure Nolan will be more interested in explosions, and multiple storylines running incongruent to each other just because. Kind of like the debacle that Ali turned out to be. Great subject matter, capable actor, lousy script, a story that didn't know what is supposed to convey. And don't even get me started on that hot mess called Elvis. Tom Hanks as Col. Tom Parker? I could have done a better job. I still don't know what accent he was going for in that movie. I find directors like Nolan to be incredibly full of themselves but that's me.
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  900. I grew up in Michigan, most of my friends and family still live in Michigan, I still consider it my home in a lot of ways, I guess I always will. But I will never even consider moving back to that state. Whitmer has turned the place into a police state and everyone hates it. I have been back a couple times during the COVID BS and I have never felt more anger in the air in my life. I have travelled the world as a member of the military, spent time in places where people openly despised us, yet I felt an even more negative vibe during my last visit to the Metro-Detroit area. Everybody is on edge, people flip you off and worse on the roads (taking pot-shots at strangers has replaced run-of-the-mill road rage), and have a nice day is met with a skeptical stare (like who the hell are you to wish me any kind of day). I am convinced that evil tyrant's draconian policies warped the state to such a degree it may never recover yet they are going to re-elect her. Part of that is because she is really, really, REALLY, good at cheating, and part of it is Michigan is essentially a one-party state. They have a GOP, but they would qualify as a lefty party here in Florida. And they put the "P" in...well, let's just say that they would give any spineless batch of republican's anywhere a run for their money when it comes to wimpism. That AG is nothing more than Stretchin Gretchen's little attack dog. What has happened to that wonderful state saddens me beyond despair. I'm not the only one who has expressed these feelings. Other Michigan escapees have expressed the same sentiment. As one put it it, it's like she shot everyone's dog. Wanna see what happens when you are a union state with one industry and one party? Look no further than the former Water, Winter, Wonderland. RIP Michigan, it was fun while it lasted. Give my regards to the Great Lakes, Vernor's, Better Made, and a thousand other memories I have to sustain me as I grow older. Your likes will never come this way again.
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  901. You figured you would at least get a "I raised mischief and all I got was this lousy tee-shirt" for participating. Maybe they should contact Yoko Ono to learn how to do sh**ty performance art. She could teach em all about bagism. Then, when they seal themselves up in their bags, somebody could come by and take the trash out. Maybe even get Yoko to do one of her primal screams as they are being loaded into the back of the truck. Hey, a guy can dream can't he? 🤔
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  902. Is he being set up by a woman trying to keep her BS business of educating Neanderthal knuckle draggers on how to be obsequious to modern women and bend the knee properly or is he guilty of thinking with the wrong head and getting involved with a woman who most likely has some strange ideas herself on what a healthy relationship is? Yes. The lady knew there was a Title 9 investigation going on and she knew if she got popped messing around with the coach it would be the end of her grifting so she did a preemptive strike and ratted the guy out, ensuring she got to frame the argument. She had MSU, the school that already had a history of sexual abuse with the Larry Nasser scandal over a barrel. Of course they had to believe her all the way based on their past dealings with predators. It is rather convenient that the school now has a way to deal with buyers remorse after giving out that ridiculous contract but I imagine some settlement will be reached where the coach gets to keep some of the cash, the woman gets paid and quietly takes her business elsewhere, and MSU waits for another college scandal to break, taking the spotlight off of them. And the beat goes on...the beat goes on.
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  903. Stefanik has a 44% liberty score over at Conservative Review. That is what you would expect from a democratic member of congress. Whatever your feelings may be regarding the conservative movement, the score is an actual reflection of where that person stands on matters that used to mean something to conservatives based on their voting record. She may have said a few nice things about Trump but forgive me if I don't take her or her party seriously. This is the republican leadership? Coming from states like New York and California? Yeah, that red wave is gonna save us all come November. Then again, she is typical of the type of person Fox News turns to. Oh well. Go team GOP I guess.
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  904. Dinesh is a smart guy. I wish I shared his optimism. But I don't see a day when conservative thought will share an equal platform with lefty propaganda. The MSM is beyond diseased, it is like a zombie that can't be killed by conventional means. Look at the roll call. See how many anchors and producers are sons and daughters of media and political types, all of whom were left leaning. The level of government dependency is accelerating and we have blown so far past anything close to fiscal sanity that the only way the left gets defeated now is to do exactly what they want, tear it all down and start over. I wish it wasn't so and I sincerely hope I'm proven wrong. I'm nearing the end of the ride though so I doubt I'll be around to reap the whirlwind anyway. But my heart breaks for those who will be. Think of all the liberty we have already surrendered and remember what Adams warned: "Liberty lost is lost forever." Love ya Dinesh, just not sure I agree with you on how it all ends.
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  905. I only saw one on your list, One Life, and it was an absolute gem. The rest of your list? I'll take your word for it. I am a bit surprised you didn't have anything to say about Horizon one way or another. I think it deserves to be somewhere on the spectrum but that's me.
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  906. What can I say. Sorry Billy, but your cash-flow problems rank about number 100,000,000,000,000,000 on my top-10 things I give a sh*t about this week. There's gotta be a street corner you can work for rent money, maybe a Turkish bathhouse? Just spitballin here.
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  907. At least Disney will lose more money, and that is never a bad thing. The fact they keep that kennedy woman around tells you all you need to know about their motives when it comes to movie making, and turning a profit isn't high on the list. The cult must take precedence.
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  908. Recent discussion at the White House: obama: "I've always taken care of you joe." biden: "Taken care of me? I can handle things. I'm smart, not like everybody says, like dumb, I'm smart and I want respect." obama: "joe, you're nothing to me now. You're not a brother, you're not a friend. I don't wanna know you or what you do."
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  909. The neighborhood I grew up in was a decent place when I was a kid. It wasn't perfect or even idyllic, but you could play outside, walk to school, and nobody had bars on their windows. Then, when I reached my teens, it started to turn. It went from bikes getting stolen to cars, from shoplifting to armed robbery, from someone getting beat up now and again to people getting killed. The businesses responded to the new reality. First it was keeping a weapon behind the counter, then the bulletproof glass came up, finally, they just left because trying to conduct business in an ugly place as Matt put it just ain't profitable. And that is what will happen there. It's not a matter of if, just when. In my neighborhood they blamed it on racism. They said there were no grocers because Kroger and other chains were racist. No mention of the fact that half the merchandise was walking out the door prior to the stores all leaving. Nobody stays in a sh*tbox unless they like the smell of sh*t and there are a lot of people, dope addicts, prostitutes, thieves, who like the smell. A lot of people on the street have mental issues but you'd be surprised, if you ever took the time to ask, to find out how many are there because they like it. A pastor once told me nobody is in Hell who doesn't want to be there. I thought that was nonsense at first. But the more I looked around and considered the human condition, how broken we are, the more it made sense. There are people who prefer wicked to righteous, evil to good. Why would they change simply because they passed over to the other side? Here's the thing, right now it's the normies leaving hellholes like Kalifornia and New York. What happens when the lefties wake up and decide they want to move too? Are they gonna come down here to Florida where we have turned a corner and we end up with a socialist mayor of a small town who likes sniffing coke off male hookers asses in the Governor's office? Because we already looked out over that abyss. We came within 40,000 votes of having just that in 2018. Please, by all that is good, decent, and holy, I beg my lefty brothers and sisters. Stay put. Fix your neighborhoods. Deal with your sh*t. But please, I beg you, leave us alone. You do you, we'll do us, don't start nothin, won't be nothin. THAT is my Christmas in July wish.
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  910. This was one I wish I would have seen at the theater. I'm not really a racing guy but when this one popped up on Amazon I said what the hell and watched it one night. Then I watched it again. Then I bought it on Blue-Ray. For me, it was all about the interaction between Damon and Bale. Yeah, The Drinker is right about holes in the plot and some stuff being a bit contrived but the interplay between Shelby and Miles overcomes all of it. That fight seen on the lawn is epic! It's how you would expect two middle-aged guys a bit out of shape to tussle. I laughed my ass off when Matt Damon hit him with the loaf of Wonder Bread. Highly recommend this one. It's a race movie you don't have to be a race fan to enjoy!
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  911. I wouldn't say Hitler won the trust of the military high command after whacking Rohm and defanging the SA. It was more transactional, a mutual agreement based on pragmatism. Both sides needed the support of the other at that point in time. As for telling Hitler what he wanted to hear, I'm sure each had his own reasons but you can chalk it up to what's best for me.
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  912. "I hope the media is as serious about the evidence we will continue to be bringing forward about the biden family." No offense congressman but why should they be when you're not? But hey, pointing out the misdeeds of democrats is the easiest way to get on Fox and it does keep those donation's from the grassroots flowing now doesn't it? Wake me when junior does his perp walk.
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  913. No, they don't remind me of the Manson Family at all. This is what being given over to a depraved mind looks like. If you don't believe we are living a Romans: 1 moment, well, I don't know what it will take.
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  914. I know it's fashionable in Hollywood to take out Paris in the asteroid movies but these things seem to have a natural affinity for Russia, at least lately. If you needed another reason to reconsider purchasing that Russian summer home, getting bonked on the head by a big old space rock might provide it.
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  915. I don't think Tolkien fans are the passive type. Amazon picked a fight with a dug in group and I think the backlash is going to be loud and long, much more so than Wheel of Time or Star Wars. Their SJW allies in the press won't be able to write their way out of this one. I get the feeling name-calling ain't gonna work against this bunch. As for me, when I heard about dwarf baby-mama's, steamy love scenes, and an interracial Shire being part of the plot (even though the Shire wasn't a thing during the period the show is supposed to be set in), well call me close minded but I decided to take a hard pass. If that is the softball stuff they released to test the response to a woke Middle Earth I can only imagine what the stuff they are keeping under wraps looks like. Name call away. I'm just not that interested in watching this mess.
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  916. I've never been big on labels. I didn't know I was a conservative until I attended university. I knew I voted differently from most of my friends and family, but I just attributed it to liking a candidates record or disliking the record of his opponent. I always had this thing for voting for stuff that works. I grew up in a city dominated by unions and I was a long-haired club musician but I voted for Ronald Reagan, even though I was told he was out to destroy the working man. Well, I stood in the eight-hour unemployment line under Carter so I figured I may not know what Reagan will or won't do when it comes to the working class, but it didn't take a rocket scientist to see what Carter and his policies had done. Then again, I was the kid always sticking up for the cops in the 1960s. Even now, most of my family and friends are still left-wing and me, well I'm still in the camp of stuff that works versus stuff that doesn't. They are wrapped up around fairness, I know fair is a place where pigs get judged. I was a leadership facilitator and I used to challenge my students to find the word fair in our founding documents. It's not there because our founders knew it was unattainable. The real difference boils down to the social contract and which camp you fall in. The Hobbesian camp see's people as absolutely irremeable, in need of a strong hand to keep the unwashed masses in check. Right-wing police states in South and Central America during the Cold war were examples of that. If you believe Rousseau, you believe our nature is not fixed, that it is corrupted by the ruling class and with the right training we can return to our original state, which was basically a worldwide kumbaya moment where everyone got along. Of course, there is no evidence for this but feelings play a large role for people in this group. Socialists fall into this camp, but socialism is actually a stage of history to a true believer, not an ideology in and of itself. Communism is the natural end of history for this bunch, the dissolving away of government because it is no longer needed. A return to our proper nature, Heaven on Earth if you will, which why you can't be a Communist and believe in God. Communism only works if people are perfectible, a belief that runs contrary to most religions, at least the Abrahamic ones. The third group follows Locke's view of the social contract. Locke is the middle way. Yes, people are mean and brutish by nature, but if they have enough resources and are allowed to govern their own affairs they will figure it out and get along based on self-interest, which is how we are wired anyway. The American system is based on Locke, at least it used to be when people played by the rules set out in the Constitution. If you get the three interpretations of the social contract you get the left versus right argument. Feelings versus results, the belief in a better world to come after we die or while are alive, the need for God or the need for people to just be a bit better educated. Build a better man you get a better world. Years ago, after the Berlin Wall fell, the idea was floated that we had reached an end of history, that we had outgrown ideology and were about to enter a golden age. We all believe the lies we want at some point don't we.
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  917. The commies allowed that person to speak in front of congress because in their heart of hearts they see nothing inappropriate about that Tweet. They fervently believe their political enemies should have no rest and should be harassed and worse. Look at that lunatic they call auntie maxine out there riling up crowds telling them to get in peoples faces. What happened as a result of that? They believe their actions and calls for violence are righteous because it is a cult. They also believe the slightest criticism of their cult and their cult leaders should be dealt with swiftly and harshly. When you see your opponents as evil any action is justified and they truly see their fellow countrymen that way. It gets pounded into their empty heads hour after hour like they are attending a lifelong Amway convention. Speaking of empty heads, I didn't know the bartender made a movie. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Who actually spent money to watch it? The adolescent boys who make up her online army, the ones who have teenage fantasies about her? She is the best evidence that NY is lost. Anyone who thought a republican had a chance of winning there should now finally realize, after seeing this piece of work earn a congressional pension and that governor win her election that the people living in that state just don't care. Or they are so badly brainwashed that they are incapable of rational thought. If you still have three functioning braincells and live in that sh*thole, it can only mean that your greed exceeds your common sense.
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  918. "An initiative founded by two ornithologists." Doesn't that just say it all. We live in a world where one guy with a mental disorder can complain that he feels threatened by the mere presence of someone and that person, even though they may simply be walking around, is forced to leave. You know what's coming next, renaming those violent sexist planets. Get ready for Jupiter, Mercury, Mars, Venus and the rest to be renamed oprah, michelle, and barack because...well of course. The only planet that should be safe is Uranus. How I hate living in the age of stupid.
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  919. When I think of how close the governor's race was in 2018 and how close we came to ending up with that socialist from Tallahassee who likes doing lines of Coke off male hookers butts as governor of our state (40,000 votes), I tell ya the state and the country would look much different if Governor DeSantis had lost. My soon to be former representative Charlie Crist, the man who lies so much ne needs someone else to call his dog, is running against the Governor but he is so far behind it's laughable. I doubt the Governor will take Trump on in a primary and that is the country's loss. As for us Floridians, we are pleased as punch to have him but we cannot get complacent when his term is up. 40,000 votes is within the margin of cheating for the marxists. I just pray the swampy RNC doesn't get its money behind some squishy wimp when DeSantis has to vacate the office. I'm old, but I'm not so old that I wouldn't have to endure that. Be vigilante gang. Let 2018 be a warning, there are more socialists waiting in the wings who would welcome MS-13 in with open-arms.
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  920. That bit where she howls along while the little girl sings teared me up a bit. I'm a Detroit sports fan and my old buddy Champ used to howl along with me every time a Red Wing player scored a goal, a Tiger player hit a home run, or a Lion player scored a touchdown (okay, so we didn't do a lot of howling during football season). I miss him every day. This video shows why all dogs go to Heaven. I'll be along shortly Champ and I'll have a Milk Bone ready and waiting. We'll find something new to howl at once I get there.
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  921. Well that's all fine and well, but the odds of intelligent life existing on a tidally locked planet next to a dwarf star are slim to none and when you factor in the radiation blasts that little star pours out on it slim just left town. I know there are people who would consider finding microbes on some planet or moon to be the biggest find of all time but I'm not in that camp. If I want proof life exists in the universe I can just look out the window. Now, if you come across someone we can have a conversation with, I'm all in. But some single-cell critter floating around in some body of liquid doesn't move the needle as far as I'm concerned. But that's just me.
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  922. I'm not even sure why I watched this. She's a spoiled little woke princess who thinks the Universe revolves around her. Truth be told, I barley know what a meghan markle is. Thank God we won our revolution in 1776. There's a line by Kelsey Grammer in the movie The Pentagon Wars that sums up my thoughts on the matter: "We fought a war so we wouldn't have to listen to the f**kin British!" Anyway, this is my first and last foray into the travails of poor meghan. Why people give a sh*t about the royal family is a mystery to me but hey, to each his own I suppose.
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  923. Michigan is the state I grew up in, my family still lives there, but unfortunately they are reaping what they have sewn. I am 99% certain they are going to re-elect that witch to another term as their governor in spite of all the damage she has caused during her tyrannical reign. James Craig is the leading Republican candidate? Really? The plan is to run James flippin Craig against her in 2022? I'm sure he's a nice guy but come on. Sorry gang, the Republican party in Michigan is beyond hopeless.
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  924. Reagan put it best: "The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so." That's what's going on with these kids these days. I had dinner with some friends a while back and their 22-year-old daughter was there. I was amazed at her sloganeering. It was like a Moveon.org billboard had come to life. It was especially interesting listening to her lecture us about the plight of black people. Her parents and I grew up in a neighborhood that was 80% black. I'm not sure this young lady has even met a black person yet. And her tolerance for cognitive dissonance was simply astounding. It was front and center as she went into her detailed explanation of the "science" behind transgenderism, something she admitted sounded kind of kooky but...you know...feelings... And she was especially proud of her cousin's brave decision to try and figure out a way to send her kids to an elementary school in a shithole neighborhood so they wouldn't be burdened with White Privilege the way she is. I'm willing to bet she would find it pretty easy to find a parent who is willing to trade places to get her kid the hell out of that school with the 20% literacy rate. Imagine that? Trying to set your kid up for failure? But hey, she'll be able to post some really neat pictures of her little darlings to her Facebook page. Virtue signaling at it's finest. That and you know...feelings. Part of me wanted to educate her but I'll be honest, I just don't have the energy. There was a time when I was involved. I spent a lot of time in the trenches and unfortunately I have arrived at a sad conclusion, this country is heading exactly where it wants to go. I wish these young folks could understand the long-game these Cultural Marxists are running on them but in all honesty the majority of them couldn't be bothered. Try explaining Rousseau's take on the Social Contract, the tyranny of the French Revolution, Marx's mixed up dialectic arguments or any of the tenants their ideology is based on. Marxism plays off ignorance and envy. It works real well with the envious ignorant. Victimhood is all the rage. Will it sort itself out? I hate to say but it's highly unlikely. The long march through the institution is bearing its fruit now. I'm closer to the end the ride so it's doubtful I'll be around to see it but God help these young folks when they have to REALLY deal with the shit storm they created.
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  925. I don't know, she might be doing her job. Whose to say whether or not she's serving drinks during caucus meetings. 🤔 Give the bar tender credit, she is consistent when it comes to demonstrating her great legal mind. But hey, maybe they'll have a science fair just for her so she can win another participation ribbon. 😁
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  926. Hitler invaded the USSR because he wanted to. He always did. He acted impulsively and had about as much military acumen as you would expect from a one-term corporal. He demonstrated it time and again. Like his decision to declare war on the US. Did he have any long range bombers capable of reaching New York or DC? No. Did he have a surface fleet capable of coastal actions? Again, no. You could call him The Joker of his day: "I just do things."
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  927. Interesting video. But I disagree with that scenario where the U.S. would get involved in a war against the Soviet Union. FDR did not have anti-communist views and a lot of his advisors had gone to the USSR in the 1920s and got roped in by Stalin's magical mystery tour of the socialist utopia. There was no reason FDR could have given the American people to go to war at that stage to fight communism. It is true though that Hitler saw Britain almost as a blood relation and wanted to work out some sort of arrangement with them but Churchill and others who saw him for the thug he was stood in the way of that.
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  928. @socire72 Roosevelt was not president in the 1920s.
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  929. Fox News has been FOS for a long time. I stopped watching them after they let that moron Karl Rove run around on election night in 2012 with his little whiteboard in his hand screaming about how Romney still had a chance because of some backwater county in the ass end of Ohio when it was clear he was getting his ass whupped. As for making CNN a conservative outlet, good luck with that. The biggest favor Trump can do for CNN is run in 2024. They had their highest ratings ever when he ran, first by giving him all kinds of air time in accordance with Hillary's orders then by whipping up the left wing base by getting in a public pissing contest with the guy. Love him or hate him, Trump drives the ratings up. CNN is praying he runs and they'll get their wish. Fox will start out promoting Mike Pence or Nicki Hailey but at the end of the day they'll come around and get back on the Trump train. Unfortunately, I'm in the minority who thinks Trump will lose again because the turn out in the swing states if he runs will be high enough to keep them within the cheating window. Trump has the same effect on democratic voters that a full Moon has on werewolves. They'll get to make it about personality if they run against him and dems win the emotional tug-a-war every time. They'd have to defend that senile old coot's record if DeSantis ran but that won't happen. I'm afraid we are looking at obama's fourth term come 2025 and I'm not sure what will be left by the time 2028 roles around. God help us.
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  930. I have been around a while, not as long as others, but longer than most, and I really try to avoid absolutes but this clown is the worst leader I have ever seen any western democracy produce. He is the poster child for why parliamentary systems should be avoided at all costs. The fact this joker gets to call the shots while close to 70% of the people rejected him at the polls should be a cautionary tale for anyone in this country who argues for a similar set up here. What I saw from him in that video disgusted me. I thank God my parents moved us out of that country when we were kids and it saddens me to say it but as long as that man is in power I will never cross the border again. I would like to see my relatives still living there but not with that guy running things. I literally question whether or not he might come up with some kooky mandate while I'm up there forbidding any escape by anyone. This is a dangerous guy to everyone who loves liberty.
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  931. Seeing videos like this are heartbreaking for me. My family immigrated to the States in 1965. We moved to Detroit and for a time it was wonderful. I was a kid and the neighborhood had everything, clean parks to play in within walking or bike riding distance, several grocery stores to choose from, a nice little shopping district with a drug store and a five and dime, each of which had a lunch counter, a great little hamburger joint, a clean greasy spoon with great food, a theater, banks, a police precinct and firehouse centrally located, good schools within walking distance that focused on teaching kids properly and they had annual fairs where people could meet and mingle, churches of different denominations within walking distance, I could go on and on. And as he said, people looked out for one another. If you got stupid a neighbor could correct you on the spot (not violently of course) and you stopped doing what you were doing because respect for adults and law enforcement was a given. That was how it was then. I drove through the neighborhood for the first time in decades a couple years back. I really wish I hadn't. Not only were many of the houses gone (mine included) the shopping district was no more, businesses were shuddered, burnt out buildings and houses and piles of trash were all over, the schools were closed or torn down, the library was closed and boarded up, the fire and police houses were gone, the parks we once played in were now empty fields covered in weeds ranging from knee to waist high, no swings or slides, and most disturbing, no people. It was the middle of the afternoon on a Saturday in June, a time when I was a kid that the streets would be teeming with life, kids riding bikes, people mowing grass, neighbors chatting, shoppers roaming around. None of that was happening. My friend and I drove for several miles and saw maybe 10 people total and they were all walking along alone with their heads down minding their own business. That was the largest heartbreak of all. After that experience I decided I would never return. I would rather remember things as they once were, when people cared for the neighborhood and each other. RIP Old Friend.
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  932. Moral bankruptcy, or being morally paralyzed as Dr. Sowell puts it is a choice. In order to effectively fight for a nation you have to be attached to it on a cultural, emotional, and spiritual level. Our education system has been cutting those cords among young people for quite some time and their efforts are bearing fruit. Iran is an annoyance,, China is a problem. Outfits like the WEF, the UN, and the World Court are a threat. We have always been one generation away from tyranny. When will that pendulum swing? That's a fair question, one we should be asking.
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  933. I saw a headline on the Yahoo homepage today decrying Governor DeSantis as an ant-LGBTQIUYMNCDAERXZO bigot who was taking his hate out on Mickey Mouse. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Sorry, that was mean.
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  934. Of course people are going to talk to obama, not biden. They were there to speak with the president.
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  935. What's that they used used to say, if it's good for GM it's good for America? Well these days it would appear if it's good for America it's bad for Politico. I haven't tuned in but after seeing this I will. Way to go Politico!
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  936. When these children become adults and the full gravity of what has been done to them is felt there will be an awful reckoning across the land. The kids who don't return to Christ will take out their pain on themselves or the people who abused them in terrible ways. As for this actor, he's just trying to show true faith and allegiance to the demonic forces he believes control his destiny. But there's a reckoning for that as well: “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. Woe to the world because of things that cause sin! Such things must come, but woe to the one through whom they come!” ― Matthew 18: 6-7
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  937. Well, give her style points for admitting she did it for the money. The thing people who treat porn and prostitution as victimless crimes miss is the market for human traffickers these sites and street corners create. For every wanna be exhibitionist with an entrepreneurial spirit there are most likely 10 who are forced into it by their slave masters. Online porn has done as much, maybe more, damage to the society as any of Satan's other nefarious plots. If you're engaging in it simply as a passive participant taking in free content, take a moment to really ask yourself what you are doing, what you are promoting, what you are getting out of it. Then look at these girls from broken homes and girls who are forced into the trade through a human lens, as children of God. If you haven't seen Sound of Freedom you need to. Unless you are just too far gone you will never look at these victimless crimes in the same light again. There are more enslaved people around the world than at any point in history and the United States is the largest market for human trafficking in the world. Let that roll around in your brain for a bit. The term victimless crime is as absurd as the term virtuous sin. We all answer for what we do in this life, whether it's here or after we check out, but just like the old economist said, there is no such thing as a free lunch. Actions have consequences. You may not experience them in the moment, but as this young lady discovered, they do catch up with you. I pray for her and for everyone who thinks the devil is their friend and that we can somehow walk between the raindrops if we choose. Sin hurts everyone, but it hurts God more than us. I hope she figures that out. The school district was within it's rights to fire her. Life isn't a Burger King commercial, you can't always have it your way. The wages of sin.
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  938. So I'll ask again. Why are you still a member of the democratic party Tulsi?
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  939. "Researchers from the University of Nottingham suggest that the Milky Way Galaxy is home to 36 communicating intelligent alien civilizations." They say it's based on an "assumption." You know what, I'm not an astrophysicist, I don't even play one on TV, but I am familiar with the premise of the Scientific Method, and the main part of it is to test the hypothesis. Then, you have to be able to replicate your findings to move from theory to fact. So what's with the specificity? Sorry, but "suggesting" something and basing a specific number on "assumptions" is junk science. That's the kind way of putting it. Bullsh*t is the more appropriate term. And this nonsense gets published. And people wonder why we have trouble figuring out which bathrooms to use. Am I saying no intelligent life exists? Of course not. But crap like that cheapens the search and turns it into nothing more than science fiction. I say there's 37. Prove me wrong.
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  940. Couple quick points of order. First, Elon is a visionary, when he can get governments to foot the bill. Musk is great at sniffing out the government cheese. Prior to getting into pissing contests with the left after he bought Twitter, Musk was one of the prime targets for obama greenie backs. Tesla was built with government funds and the private investors who bought into his B.S. ended up having their money slid over to Space-X without being told. If Musk is behind something, check the funding. Second point, who the hell wants to live on Mars? The best description of the place I heard was it was a lot like Utah without the state parks and Mormons. No offense Utah, but I've traveled the western part of your state, there ain't a lot there appealing. Mars has no minerals or ores we can mine, meaning the ROI for a project costing trillions of dollars would be squat. That dog don't hunt. And Musk knows this. He's out there spewing that bullshit about how he'll go first to set it up because he knows it is all garbage. No, he's not going anywhere that doesn't have a five-star hotel, no, he's not going to build any ship able to take people on some magical mystery tour of the Oort Cloud. What he will do is bilk the taxpayer out of a boatload of money while his crappy car company goes kaput and his gigantic Moon rocket crashes and burns. Sorry, if you get taken in by that huckster, you may get to live long, but you certainly won't prosper.
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  941. People expected the release of the JFK documents to reveal the hidden truth but if anything they expose what the Kennedy's were up to WRT Cuba and Cuba was always at the heart of Oswald's motivation. He was always looking for a utopia and Cuba was his last shot. When they told him to get lost he figured if he made a big enough splash as a revolutionary they would give him a pass and let him in. That seems like the most plausible explanation. Like his brother Robert said, the physical evidence and eye witness testimony all point to Lee Harvey. I did a great deal of reading on both sides and while I went in expecting to find a conspiracy in the end all I found was Lee Harvey Oswald and a cheap mail-order rifle. Like Norman Mailer said, it doesn't balance out. On one side of the scale you have a young president people pinned their hopes to while on the other you have a three-time loser with a cheap weapon who is able to take him down but that is the way life works sometimes. Unfortunately, a better case can be made for Occam's Razor than a conspiracy. And the simplest explanation in this instance is the opportunity presented itself to the three-time loser and he took advantage of it. You can hunt all you want, I did. But at the end of the day, no physical evidence or credible eye-witness testimony has emerged that would exonerate Lee Harvey Oswald or reveal any confederates. The Warren Commission was hamstrung to an extant because on the one hand you had powerful forces leaning on them to eliminate the possibility of a conspiracy and on the other you had Allen Dulles running interference for the Kennedy's and the CIA, steering them away from all the Operation Mongoose stuff and other black ops they were running against Castro. Bobby Kennedy himself admitted they were more adventurous than wise about a lot of things, especially Cuba. He walked around with that guilt until the day he died because he was the one pushing the CIA like a madman to get Castro. There were two Bobby's, Bobby before the assassination and Bobby after. He knew Cuba was at the heart of it. Was Oswald actively encouraged during his time in Mexico City? That remains the only open question and it's only open because Dulles shut that door. Oh well. RIP Jack Kennedy. You weren't the man the myth makers made you out to be but you were okay.
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  942. Interesting. I recommend reading Return of the Gods by Johnathan Cohn. You may not agree with all his assertions but he makes a compelling argument for malevolent forces being let loose in our times. Something or someone has their thumb on the crazy scale, that fact is in our face these days. Girls will be boys and boys will be girls. It is a mixed up world we inhabit.
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  943. "You are Gods, little g." Saying we are exactly like Jesus because we share the same DNA? There is a simple term for that sort of talk, blasphemy. These preachers who profit from the Word ought to remember the incident in the Temple where Jesus overturned the tables of the money changers. It was His greatest display of anger. As for their flock who follow the doctrine of the prosperity gospel, consider what Scripture has to say on the topic: “My brothers, show no partiality as you adhere to the faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ. For if a man with gold rings on his fingers and in fine clothes comes into your assembly, and a poor person in shabby clothes also comes in, and you pay attention to the one wearing the fine clothes and say, ‘Sit here, please,’ while you say to the poor one, ‘Stand there,’ or ‘Sit at my feet,’ have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil designs? Listen, my beloved brothers. Did not God choose those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who love him? But you dishonored the poor person. Are not the rich oppressing you? And do they themselves not haul you off to court? Is it not they who blaspheme the noble name that was invoked over you?” ― James 2: 1-7 “There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linen and dined sumptuously each day. And lying at his door was a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who would gladly have eaten his fill of the scraps that fell from the rich man’s table…When the poor man died, he was carried away by angels to the bosom of Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried, and from the netherworld, where he was in torment, he raised his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. And he cried out, ‘Father Abraham, have pity on me. Send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am suffering torment in these flames.’ Abraham replied, ‘My child, remember that you received what was good during your lifetime while Lazarus likewise received what was bad; but now he is comforted here, whereas you are tormented.” ― Luke 16: 19-25 Beware of false prophets and Earthly comforts. That's free advice.
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  944. That woman is one of the Bushie republicans learning that their time has come and gone. Her old man was a disgrace. Even Bush the elder called his dumbass kid out for listening to Cheney and Rumsfeld, who he said were worthless. Granted, Georgie the second inherited these guys from pops but he could have told em both to take a flying leap and thought for himself when it came to those wars in the Middle East. A lot of bodies can be laid at the feet of Rummy and Dick and outside of being daddy's little girl I'm not sure what this woman has ever actually accomplished. To hear her use the term conservative is comical.
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  945. They didn't hijack anything. obama invited them in. It was all part of Yes we can. But hey, the guy was historic...right?
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  946. I like this guy. He seems like a bright young man and I admire his optimism. I wish I shared it. This video is a year old and in the past year this critical mass he predicted here seems further away than ever. The commies at the highest levels have become even more emboldened as evidenced by the lawfare being waged on their political opponents and the brazen amnesty the DOJ is granting to people who have committed far more serious crimes simply because they play for the home team. BLM was always a scam and anyone who would have taken the time to visit their website would have figured that out in a second. Their mission statement reeked of LGB activism and their goals were all Marxist in nature. The talking points concerning minorities were plagiarized from the old Panther movement. Corporations knew the money would line pockets of grifters and end up in party coffers but they didn't care since they could write it off a tax deduction. The people out protesting didn't care because most of them weren't really committed to any cause. A lot of them were nihilistic white kids from the suburbs who were inspired by demons to lash out at the world and saw it as a chance to break stuff and blow sh*t up. For others it was part of the religious movement and that's the thing. The true believers see this as a religious struggle. I had this debate with a lefty friend and he became quite indignant when I posited that we are all hard wired for God and when you reject Him you find something else to fill the void. I didn't expand too far because he started accusing me of proselytizing and I wanted to avoid the jihad but his fervor in defense of his belief system kind of proved my point. And they aren't stopping just because something seems nonsensical. They believe paradise can be achieved here on Earth because it's all they have. But the real barrier is the apathy of the average American. People just don't care. The powers that be get away with what they do because they know there will never a reckoning, not in this lifetime, and they aren't too concerned about a reckoning in the next because even if they believe their is a next they have convinced themselves the eternal penalty won't be so bad. The country was completely screwed and everyone could see it when the 2022 midterms occurred yet no incumbent senator's lost their seats and the red tsunami everyone predicted turned out to be nothing more than a trickle. The republicans are on a suicide mission getting ready to run a guy for president in 2024 who might not be able to campaign because he'll be under some form of arrest and they say they are proud to do it because they want the show more than they want anything fixed. When the Visigoths put Rome under siege the people still flocked to the games at the Coliseum. They may have been eating rats and each other but the show had to go on. Until people are made to care they won't. The problem is, by the time that happens there won't be much left to care about. That is when the ride will really get dangerous. Like I say, I like this kids pluck and I wish things were unfolding the way he sees it. My lying eyes tell me something else. I remember the riots of the 1960s. No matter how crazy things got people had this inner belief that the equilibrium would be restored because there was a system in place to return to. Now the system is the problem. That's a tougher fix than this guy realizes. But that's me.
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  947. Marx and his ilk aren't really atheists. They hate God. I don't believe in Santa so I don't spend a lot of time on him one way or another and I certainly don't care if others choose to believe in a jolly old guy living at the North Pole. A true atheist, as Jordan points out, is neutral on the matter. Because they don't believe they don't get riled up one way or another. Communists see religion as their main competition for the hearts and minds of the masses but more than that they know deep down there is a God and they hate Him. I have a friend who, while he's not a communist, falls into the same camp. He claims to be a bit of an agnostic but when the subject of Christianity comes up he is usually hostile or incredulous in an eye-rolling way. Wanna know where you are at on the spectrum? Get honest for a moment and ask yourself what your initial reaction is when God or Crist are mentioned? The heart always reveals and if Satan has taken up residence in your heart, or even if he just stops by because he knows you're okay with him hanging out now and again, he will generate a natural revulsion at the mere mention of God's name. I know because when I swam in the devil's lake a negative reaction at the thought or mention of God or His Son was my default setting. The Marxists are running amok in the West because we told God we didn't need Him and God responded; "Your will be done." Where you have Marxists Satan is always along for the ride. They are like peanut-butter and jelly. People die, morality gets thrown out the window, and souls get corrupted because that is Satan's agenda. Marxism is just the vehicle he uses to create separation between God and us. People go along with it because they believe in secular humanism. Make no mistake, it's every inch a religion as Christianity, it just has an evil deity. Follow him at your own peril.
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  948. They want people to die. Give me another reasonable, innocent explanation for this. They know good and damned well this climate change nonsense is a load of sh*t. They'll answer for it when they meet God. We need to see this for what it is, good vs. evil, plain and simple.
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  949. Tyranny of the minority is all the rage, especially in Canada. It fits in quite nicely with the great reset. I agree with Jordan on a lot of issues but every now and again he will say something that is off the mark and he did so here. Jesus did not have an androgynous nature and that is not a feature of his personality that appeals to practicing Christians. That sounds like some heresy you might hear from the pulpit of a spirit of the age/progressive church based on some form of deconstructionist theology. I can say with 100% certainty that claim he made is not backed by scripture.
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  950. No doubt, when I saw those those poor misunderstood gang-bangers being rounded up the first thing that went through my mind was this is just another example of the man trying to keep oppressed minorities down. As for the person on that video talking about being asexual, I doubt that is by choice. Who could have sex with someone like that? Okay, that's mean, and there are billions of people on the planet so the law of averages says someone would, but damn, we have entered the Twilight Zone in a big way. The center broke and all hell has broken loose. I'm going to take a shower now because just seeing that made me feel dirty. Some things can't be fixed, at least not by any power in this world.
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  951. The left never gave a damn about any of the stuff they claimed to give a sh*t about. It was always just a ruse to accumulate power. Inside of every lefty is an authoritarian kicking and screaming to get out or a collective simp kicking and screaming to submit. America has always had this weird relationship with China, going back to the early days of the republic. Now China has been made rich by the greed of American corporatists who all happen to be lefties. That Cook guy is evil incarnate. He fits in well with obama and the globalist crowd though. A republic if you can keep it Franklin said. I say it's time to reimagine that concept, before it's too late. Make the 10th Amendment great again.
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  952. If you come from a home where education is important and stressed you will most likely treat it as something important and to be stressed. That sounds simple but Occam's Razor applies in most instances. The democrat party has built a political machine predicated on class warfare. The republicans have built a political machine predicated on fund-raising. Both are populated by and work for the American oligarchy and each has a defined role to play in keeping the system functioning to their benefit. Children are pawns, collateral damage, or playthings depending on the desire's of the individual factions within the oligarchy. That is 21st Century America. Those who are supposed to get an education will receive one. The rest, well, you're on your own. The shame of it is, we are not powerless. We could change things. But we'd have to give a damn first. Sorry, I don't see it. A republic if you can keep it. I seem to recall hearing that somewhere. But hey, it was some dead old white guy. What did he know?
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  953. I always say this when I watch a video about this film but I'm compelled to repeat it. This is absolutely not a movie I would have watched even if it was a clean remake. Normally I wouldn't giv two sh*ts about it. But it has taken on a life of its own, the train wreck that keeps on giving, and I'm actually invested in seeing how big the boom will be when it slams into the Earth like that space rock that killed the dino's. Sadly, it won't achieve the complete destruction of disney to make way for a new life form like that killer asteroid did but just like I enjoyed watching Shumaker Levy 9 smash into Jupiter, I gotta see this thing through. Can't wait for the formal review Drinker. I'll go away now and wait.
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  954. I dunno. 🤔I could see you as Fuhrer Matt. Standing on the bed of a pick-up, a sea of flannel-clad proud boys all sporting Duck Dynasty/ZZ Top style beards, hat flaps over their ears as they blow off those duck calls, a sort of modern-day seig-heil. A dangerous man indeed.
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  955. The final bit of criticism sums up my main problem with it. They stretched a nice little story into a trilogy. If done correctly, it might have made a nice little movie. But we'll never know.
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  956. Gee, didn't see that one coming. 😆😆
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  957. When I was a kid epics like Ben-Hur were all the rage. Epics became mini-series with the advent of TV and that watered down most of them. LOTR is, in my opinion, the last true epic cinematic event, and will probably remain the last. The thing is, it is true to the spirit of the book but the content actually varies quite a bit, and it still works because everyone respected Tolkien's intent when he first told the story. Jackson blew it with the Hobbit, which seemed like a money grab, redeemed himself with They Shall Never Grow Old, then got greedy again and f*cked up Get Back when he took Disney's money and turned what should have been a proper reshoot of Let it Be into what Let it Be was, a f*cking snoorfest. Oh well, he gave us the LOTR trilogy and for that he will always get two thumbs up from me.
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  958. “The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.” ― Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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  959. There are plenty of examples that some people are currently living in a post-truth world and they do it for a variety of reasons. Some do it to fit in, not only going along with a litany of lies but championing them as well to show the other members of the club their loyalty first and foremost is to the clan. It's the kind of behavior adolescents exhibit during the stage of development where association with a group is the central point of focus. Most people grow out of it, some people become angry cynical loners. They are the argumentative type because they never did find a group willing to accept them during that stage of development so they carry those resentments like luggage and lash out at the world until they find some sort of internal resolution. Others don't believe the lie but they don't speak out against it either because they are afraid of the consequences. The Soviets employed intimidation to control people and the lie was a big part of it making it all work. They didn't care if you believed the lie, so long as you lived it. In fact, that was the ultimate exercise of power, making people act like they believed things they knew were not true. They did so because they were afraid of what would happen if they dissented. The LGBT fascists picked up on that and are doing their best to employ those tactics in pursuit of their agenda. The thing is, they are being controlled by an even more insidious and nefarious faction who use them as a bludgeon to brow-beat their political and social rivals into submission. And with each small victory, they inch further ahead, the whole frog gradually boiling in the water routine. Again it's not the lie, it's not a matter of you believing the lie, it's a matter of you living it, saying nothing when you know you are being lied to, accepting the lie as a cultural norm. We all know a man can't be a woman, yet most of society just looks the other way, unless it directly affects them, then they are forced to deal with it. But they almost always find themselves on an island because the institutions that used to protect society from demonic contagions have either abdicated that role, like the church, or have gotten in league with the demons, like the government. But at the end of the day problem is always the same. The problem is us. The problem is always living the lie and accepting that this is just the way things are in a post-truth, post-constitution, post-faith world where the father of all lies is now allowed to operate in the open. "And thus, overcoming our temerity, let each man choose: Will he remain a witting servant of the lies (needless to say, not due to natural predisposition, but in order to provide a living for the family, to rear the children in the spirit of lies!), or has the time come for him to stand straight as an honest man, worthy of the respect of his children and contemporaries?... If we shrink away, then let us cease complaining that someone does not let us draw breath—we do it to ourselves! Let us then cower and hunker down, while our comrades bring closer the day when our thoughts can be read and our genes altered." ― Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Live Not By Lies A time for choosing.
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  960. Meanwhile, here in the U.S., thousands of muslims too radical for the bunch running all the former stans of the ussr are flooding in, legally and illegally and they are on the record as far how they feel about the great satan. When you're too f-d in the head for the Central Asian crowd, you're probably not a good candidate for future model-citizen of the year. It's really not a matter of if, just a matter of when that black swan event people are predicting comes to pass here in the land of the free and the home of...🤔well, it used to be home of the brave. Now we have men who want tampon dispensers in the men's room so they are covered when it's time for their imaginary monthly. God help us.
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  961. Blaming violence on the right is a tried and true strategy of the media that has been used for decades, particularly since the inception of television. Look at the coverage of the Kennedy Assassination? Right off the bat they turned to the right-wing-conspiracy card. When Oswald turned out to be a hard-core lefty they changed the narrative but never owned up to their earlier gaffe. More violent actions are taken by lefties than any group. They are emotion-driven so it makes sense that they act out. But they also take advantage of any incident to blame their political opponents for every evil under the sun, and the lefty media never corrects the record. But if you say that out loud you are a denier or some sort or a bigot. The current leadership of the democratic party is sick in the soul and their media accolades are nothing more than propogandists. The thing is, they've played their hand out too far and people are seeing through them in ways they never did when it was Walter Cronkite. A pox on all of them.
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  962. The bartender waits for her handlers to tell her what to say. She is willfully clueless about how the world functions and doesn't care who gets hurt. So long as she can continue to shop at her favorite high-end stores life is good. Maybe when they get start getting hit and she can't buy her fancy trinkets she'll sing a different tune but then it will be the fault of the capitalistic system. Maybe she see's the mob as thousands of Jean Valjean's who are victims of injustice trying to feed their families or maybe what is more likely is she just could give two flying f***ks. When I see her I see nothing but a spoiled brat backed by people with money and bad intentions. Unfortunately, they picked the perfect brain-dead district for her to run in so she ain't going nowhere. Until sensible democrats toss her and her leftie friends out of the party or walk away on their own the nuttiness will not only continue it will get worse. And boy, it sure is nice to see the republican's taking that tough stand against all of...wait. Never mind.
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  963. As a kid who grew up during the age of Apollo, videos about exoplanets hold a certain amount of interest. But as we learn more about these alien worlds it seems Drake's Equation becomes more of a pipedream. Like that tidally locked planet they mention as a candidate for life. What life? Bacteria? Sorry, I'm not that jazzed about the prospect of finding microbial life on an alien world, even within our own solar system. What does it prove? That life can exist? All the proof we need that life can exist is found right here. Intelligent life, life that is conscious of itself and its surroundings, now that is an entirely different matter. When I was a kid, I was absolutely convinced the galaxy was teeming with civilizations and it would only be a matter of time before we met up with our interstellar cousins. I figured it was pure human arrogance to think it's just us. But the more I learned, the more skeptical I became. The balancing forces that allow intelligent life to exist on our planet are so precise that it is actually mind boggling. If our moon is just a bit smaller, or just a bit further away, our oceans behave entirely differently. If Jupiter isn't exactly where it needs to be the solar system itself becomes chaotic. If not for plate tectonics we end up with a big land mass that is mostly arid and inhospitable. And then there is the great life sustainer and guardian, our magnetic field. Take that away and you get a bigger version of Mars. There are so many other factors, too many to get into. Suffice it to say ET ain't phoning anytime soon. I still think stopping our manned exploration of the planets after the Moon landing was a mistake. We are explorers by nature and we need big dreams and goals to advance as a society. But as far as finding our cousins go, I am now regrettably in the camp that believes it will never happen. The cosmic speed limit is set and no matter how many movies about worm holes and such that we make, some limits just weren't made to be broken. And that, may be our greatest blessing. Some things, we just weren't meant to know in this lifetime.
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  964. Saw the headline and the corresponding picture. No need to watch the video. Is she nuts? Yes. That was easy. Next.
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  965. Who continues to steal at the age of 82? Someone not overly concerned with the infinite number of years of eternity. Who continues to steal at the age of 82? Come on Nan, you're a good Catholic, you should know this one: “Whoever has ears ought to hear these words. Anyone destined for captivity goes into captivity.” ― Revelation 13: 9-10
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  967. How exactly is Trump a threat to democracy? And please, spare me the January 6th stuff. If that was an armed insurrection it was the weakest armed insurrection in the history of armed insurrections. And what makes you think Trump is on the extreme right? Have you actually listened to what he says? He admits he's not even a conservative and people of the extreme right don't pass the CARES Act, sign the jailbreak bill he sponsored, or sign off on omnibus spending bills. I'm not a trump supporter for the reasons I just stated. He's more of an old-school blue-dog democrat than anything else. And the man is ignorant to how the levers of power are used. It's why he wasn't able to drain the swamp and became their tool instead. obama is 1,000 times more of a threat to democracy than Trump ever was. Did Trump sick the IRS on his political enemies? Did Trump have the FBI surveil journalists he didn't like? Did Trump circumvent the Constitution and drop pallets of cash off at the airports of our enemies? Or help start wars in the Middle East under the guise of some Arab spring? Say what you will about stuff Trump actually did but the democrat talking points they gave that feeble proxy-president to mumble about MAGA and the threat to democracy is agitprop of the highest order.
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  968. The media is following orders as any propaganda arm of the government would. uncle joe is going to be purged after the midterms. Showing him to be the senile old coot that he is is all part of laying the groundwork for his resignation or his cabinet invoking the 25th amendment. He'll go quietly because he won't really understand what is happening. His blonde handler will have to be paid and you can bet that will be a healthy check. After he's gone, republicans will do a sham investigation into his son and that will lead to some minor charges being brought against him for general douchebaggery and he'll get his pee-pee smacked and be ordered to stay clear of crack houses and Ukrainian hookers for six months. The marxists will then point to his conviction as proof that they are the law and order party. And the beat goes on...the beat goes on.
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  969. "Maybe these people crawled out of Hell itself." No, but the agenda they are working for did. As for the media, they became full of themselves after the Vietnam War and Watergate. They went from reporting the story to being part of it. When Redford and Hoffman appeared as Woodward and Bernstein the dye was cast. It's like Pacino tells Penn in the Movie Carlito's Way after he steals from the mob; "You ain't a lawyer no more Dave, you a gangster now." There is a line and once you cross it, it is like crossing the Rubicon.
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  970. It never ceases to amaze me how lefties like Rogan act amazed when facts concerning one of their pet protected/oppressed classes run contrary to what they have heard for years. I don't know, maybe Rogan is on a legitimate search for the truth, if he is I wish him well but people need to see the world as it is not as they have been told it is or how they want it to be.
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  971. I didn't hear what the woman from Arkansas who shall not be named had to say because I have adopted a rule about automatically muting any device that gasbag shows up on but yes Matt, she is running in 2024. This is Gollum with the precious stuff. Her and Jesse Jackson are the two democrats who despise obama more than republicans do so she has no problem knee capping one of his surrogates. After all, he was one of those tricksy little Hobbitses who stole the precious from her in the first place. I'm gonna love watching harris and Gollum on the debate stage. She may be an evil wench with a black hole where a soul ought to be but she has more brains in her fingernail than harris has in her entire empty head. She'll rip that nitwit to shreds and help convince any democrat voter who isn't 100% bought into the cult that a harris presidency would make people long for the good old days of biden. And speaking of that senile old coot, someone might want to remind him that it's 2022, not 1988. His old schtick about republicans wanting to take away granny's SS check and turn off her heat has kinda lost its zip. But then again, I am willing to bet he genuinely would not know what century he is in if the teleprompter or blonde lady weren't there to provide him the answer.
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  972. Once upon a time, in a land far, far, away, the DOJ went after people like Jimmy Hoffa for misappropriation of pension funds. I guess in the minds of the current bunch running things, since scams like FTX and ESG facilitate stealing money for a class of criminal they approve of it's all good.
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  973. Sorry, but the Rocky saga should have ended when Mr. T got his ass whipped. There were no more hills for Rocky to climb and that's where it ended for me. Rocky IV and V were just money grabs for Stallone who, lets be honest, isn't one of the all-time greats when it comes to acting depth and developing characters who aren't from south Philly, Rambo being the only exception and then I only really liked the first one. I watched the first Creed because someone recommended it and as expected it bored me so that was where I stopped. I just tuned into this review because I wanted a dose of the Drinker while I sipped at my coffee. Still waiting for those reviews of Crimson Tide and Outlaw Josie Wales Drinker, or how about the Godfather saga? At this point I have to assume you aren't a fan of any of those so I'll stop asking. Too bad.
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  974. I never heard of this mess so I looked it up and somehow it managed to make 13 million at the box office. Now that is a low number depending on how many screens it was released to but the fact this thing made that much money tells you a lot about just how far we have gone down the demonic rabbit hole. You know they nominated this abortion for all those awards as a direct response to Trump winning. It's just like when they awarded obama the nobel peace prize based on what he might do. Lefties love shiny objects and participation trophies and they also love handing them out to people simply as a way to flip the right and every normal person the bird. I'm with you Drinker. I hope they give the f*n thing every award it's up for, especially giving best actress to a man. That just might be the final brick in the bag where the old school liberals say: "Screw this, this sh*t is too heavy to carry around anymore. These people are totally batsh*t. Move over conservatives, we're gonna join ya in that politically homeless camp." At the very least 13 oscars for this demonic pile of dogsh*t would convince the handful of normal people who still watch this garbage self-love-fest to finally admit they've had enough. It would completely disgrace the award, something that has needed to happen for a while, and watching a man in falsies and too much makeup cry as he accepts his best actress award is galactic level karma for all the pretentious dimwitted bimbos who were out front promoting this sick behavior when it was just the young high school and college girls getting the short end of the stick. If it wins no other award, THAT is the one I'm pulling for, just to hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth. It will be their turn to just be good losers in order to promote the cause of inclusiveness and diversity. There could be no greater poetic justice, a cosmic level mic drop. You go girl! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  975. They are algebra liars. Two lies make a truth.
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  976. Kalifornia invited the hippies in but when they saw how crazy and mixed up they were, instead of running em out, the normal folks told em it was okay and said hey, why not bring along some friends. It reminds me of that old SNL skit with John Belushi: "The Thing that Wouldn't Leave!"
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  977. Of course the evil queen of the Ozarks whose name shall not be uttered here is in favor of more laws because the end result of more laws is more power for the people pushing for said laws. The public education system in the U.S. has been characterized as Satan's youth ministry and there is a lot of truth to that. Unions, be they private or public sector aren't interested in the quality of the product their workforce produces. Do you think the UAW gives a damn about how well an individual Cadillac functions? Teachers unions are the bane of the American education system. But at the end of the day the problem is always in the home. It's not whitey. It's not the ubiquitous aftereffects of slavery. It's the breakdown of the family, and it's not race restrictive. The extended family lost it's steadying influence when the industrial revolution moved people off the farms and into the cities. The nuclear family is losing its influence as the digital revolution moves people out of the real-world and into a virtual-reality. All of the institutions that were the lynchpin of a successful democratic republic are being swept away. And it's not just the march of history. It's calculated and there is an end-game progressives have been working toward for a very long time. We are entering that end-game, a state of chaos that requires a strong-hand to deal with it. People always trade liberty for security, and as Benjamin Franklin pointed out, those who make that trade end up with neither. How bad does bad have to get? That is the question. "I heard a loud voice speaking from the temple to the seven angels, 'Go and pour out the seven bowls of God’s fury upon the earth.”' ― Revelation 16: 1
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  978. The media has always been biased, going back to the early days of the republic. The problem in the 20th and 21st Centuries is the democrat party has had a virtual monopoly as far as that bias is concerned and with mediums like radio, television, and now the internet, more people get that one-sided message than they did prior to their existence. Guys like Cronkite and Murrow built up this myth of being impartial but if you check the record they were far more favorable to democrat politicians and hostile to republicans who failed to act as democrat lite. This didn't start with Trump and it's not going to end with him. They savaged George Bush and he was as milquetoast as you can get. Whoever runs on the republican ticket is going to be the devil and things have only gotten worse over time. Look who populates newsrooms across the country. Check the background of these on-air personalities. You will find deep roots to democrat politics, generational level. The NY Times, the supposed paper of record was printing fluff pieces on the USSR under Stalin. It doesn't get much harder left than that. Fox is no better. They are the mouthpiece for the RNC and outside of a few guys like Tucker and Dan Bongino they tow the party line. The reaction from the left is quite telling though. One station goes against the orthodoxy, one network has a different viewpoint and their collectivist heads explode. chuck schumer stands on the senate floor and declares Tucker Carlson a threat to democracy, an enemy of the state, demanding he be silenced and fired for doing actual journalism. Self-awareness is dead because the dems no longer feel they have to put on a charade. Years of left-wing indoctrination in the education system, the arts, and the mass-media has created a situation where brain dead lazy journalists of today just go on the air and parrot what their overlords at the DNC determines is the narrative for that moment in time. Don't take my word for it, listen to them. Listen to how they all use the same phrases and stay on message until directed to do otherwise. That's not journalism, that's propaganda. That's PRAVDA and TASS. The guy who blew smoke up their collective keister's when obama was cutting the Iranian nuclear deal admitted counting on the kids covering the story to be too lazy and stupid to properly fact check him. And when you point any of it out to someone who is a true believer you always get the same response: "Yeah but Fox..." One station out of all the cable and standard news outlets, that's the equivalence. And Fox doesn't even rock the boat, not on the big ticket items. Tucker's release of the January 6th tapes is the furthest they've gone and look at the freak out. Not only is schumer going full Himmler, his lackey mcconnell is out there carrying water for his partner in crime as well. Like I say, the media doesn't have a Trump problem, they have an integrity problem. But they don't see it as a problem at all so there ya go. It can't be fixed because the will to fix it isn't there, it never was and it never will be. Independent journalists are the only ones telling the truth, and how much air time do they get? Solzhenitsyn said the first step to resisting authoritarian rule is to not participate in the lie. But we no longer do that. We pick sides based on lies. But hey, at least we get to own the libs every now and then and our champions do sell a lot of books so we have that going for us. Yes we can indeed.
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  979. I grew up in Detroit, so I guess I could get by on the Moon. But why? What's the ROI? It's not like it's chock-full-of gold or diamonds. It's a big dead rock for the most part. Outside of just hanging out what would you mine for? Or would it be a tourist thing? Working as a bartender for a bunch of people with too much money and time on their hands doesn't sound that attractive. I moved away from Detroit. So why the hell would I want to move to the Moon? But that's me.
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  980. These DA's are not stupid. This is by design and they getting the outcome they expected when they put these insane policies into place. In their twisted way of thinking, the old has to be swept aside to make way for their utopia and if that means emptying every jail in the U.S. so be it. Critical mass has been reached in that state. Nero is fiddling away out there and I don't see how anything short of federal intervention is going to fix it. The question then becomes, how does it all end?
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  981. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣...wait a minute, Portland, New York, and Minneapolis are worried about too many criminals in their midst... 🤣🤣🤣🤣...they want more cops...🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣I didn't go beyond the 20 second mark because the guy mentioned Kevin McCarthy and I'm not in the mood to see a wimpy republican right now. More cops...🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣...that's rich. Maybe they should offer sacrifices to St. George Floyd. That might get it done. More cops...🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  982. My family immigrated to this country almost 60 years ago and I support this message. 👍
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  983. Biden has been in bed with the Chinese forever so don't expect anything beyond a strongly worded memo from him. As for the rest of the chaos, this is what happens when you let a senile old man drive your car. Everyone said 2020 was the worst year they hade ever seen, Biden said, hold my beer.
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  984. Leave it to the guys at South Park to nail it. I'm not a regular viewer but I'll have to look that one up. It looks like it might be the best once since way back in the day when they did an episode about Cartman and the gang trying to become lesbians because Chef told em the substitute teacher they were crushing on was gay. Gotta love guys who just don't give a sh*t who they piss off.
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  985. Hannity is a simp. He's always been a lightweight who uses sophomoric debating tactics to get the edge on other simps. I remember when he had his show with Colmes. I always thought Colmes got the best of him, and he was operating at half-speed out of respect and to keep the show alive I suppose. He was on his way out until Trump came along. Fox had bumped him into that 10 PM slot and his next stop was the street. It will be interesting to see what he does if DeSantis and Trump square off in a primary. Will he jump on the DeSantis bandwagon if it looks like he's going to win? And if he does win, will Hannity allow Trump to come on his show and trash DeSantis in order to stay on the good side of Trump and his hardcore MAGA base? We'll see.
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  986. Why we are there in the first place is mind boggling enough. The minute they made the demand that athletes download an app they should have packed their bags and left. As for the commies jailing athletes, I don't think even they have the balls to go that far buy hey, when you show someone how much you fear them all bets are off.
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  987. The thing is, most of this lunacy is being pushed by white suburban women, the one's people refer to as "Karen of the Cul-de-sac." They are the ones showing up on talk shows, heading up these demonic covens claiming to be acting out love and safety. Where are the fathers? What happened to men? Why aren't fathers showing up every time some freak show like like this Will Thomas guy shows up and yanking their daughters out of the water? The fact this is even a thing is NVTS nuts and anyone who votes for a political party that backs this wickedness is just as guilty as the active participants in this madness. As the great prophet of metal Ozzie put it: "Satan laughing spreads his wings." And he is laughing his behind off over this one. Hell has been emptied, and time is running short. Get right with God or perish. That's coming from someone who swam in the Devil's lake for far too long. Repentance never goes out of fashion.
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  988. The thing is, a lot of these rappers live the life of violence they talk about. But because they are products of the ghetto's the left has done their best to keep people they wouldn't want in their neighborhoods in they can't criticize any of it. Oh, and I don't know if I'm the only one who just skipped past those moonbats on that witches coven posing as a TV show. You really should just paraphrase what those idiots have to say, or at least put a disclaimer up for those of who just finished eating warning us that they are included in your video.
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  989. Fact checking joe biden is kinda like calling out a third grader about why he didn't do his homework. Not exactly challenging.
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  990. It's not like the gangsters weren't up-front about their aims, even beyond Mein Kampf: “We are an anti-parliamentarian party that for good reasons rejects the Weimar constitution and its republican institutions...So why do we want to be in the Reichstag? We enter the Reichstag to arm ourselves with the weapons of democracy. If democracy is foolish enough to give us free railway passes and salaries, that is its problem. It does not concern us. Any way of bringing about the revolution is fine by us...We will march into the marble halls of parliament, bringing with us the revolutionary will of the broad masses from which we came, called by fate and forming fate. We do not want to join this pile of manure. We are coming to shovel it out...We are coming neither as friends or neutrals. We come as enemies! As the wolf attacks the sheep, so come we. You are not among your friends any longer! You will not enjoy having us among you!" ― Joseph Goebbels: 1928 When a true believer tells you something, you dismiss what he is saying at your own peril. Just like that German soldier fighting on the Eastern Front wrote in a letter to his family: "Everyone knows what we bring." Seig heil indeed. That's why I don't buy the argument: "We didn't know." Damn right they knew. As Ike said, how could they not?
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  991. I'm with the Judge on this one. AOC is charming? Yeah, in the same way a porcupine is cuddly. Why is Geraldo still around? He should go back to opening gangster's safes and staging fights with pretend Nazi's.
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  992. That mayor will get re-elected because she is a perfect example of the collective marxist mindset. She doesn't have to defend her record because of the class she belongs to. This is the way every marxist state has always operated and it is the way the democratic party has operated for decades. She has a job for life, even if the entire city burned to the ground and there were only 100 people left standing, at least 90 of them would vote for her. The other 10 would be taken out and shot. Take a good look if you live in a city or state run by the democratic party because that is your future. It is inescapable. Good luck with that.
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  993. I've never owned any Apple products simply out of choice and their recent support for the chi-coms, helping them oppress their people, ensures I never will. That Tim Cook character is the 21st Century version of Oswald Mosely, someone who would be more than willing to actively help a hostile power take control over here. As for Musk, I'm not really sure what his game is. I know he was tight with a lot of the lefties for a long time, especially obama, the guy who pumped a sh*t ton of money into Tesla back in its early days. He doesn't have that same history with anyone on the other side of the political spectrum but he seems to be at least tacitly supporting those who oppose the yes we can crowd. Is it just a troll? A rich guy getting a kick out of watching the left have one of their emotional meltdowns? Hard to say. But hats off to my Governor for calling Apple out for their BS. He's right as far as Congress stepping in and slapping antitrust charges against these tech giants. That includes all of them. It's also about time social media platforms and search engines like Google stopped getting protection as simple presenters of information. They pick winners and losers and it's time to make them liable for the damage they do to those who oppose their political agenda. That protection was provided more than 30 years ago when no one knew what the Internet would become. It's time to update the law to reflect the real world as it is in 2022. Way to go Ron. As always, you know what time it is and you know who needs to be targeted.
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  994. Republican oversight is coming...🥱I'm sure the sternly worded letters are being written already.
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  995. I tried listening to all of that stuff that whistleblower wrote but I had to stop. I have heard enough about these wicked doctors and cult leaders to last a lifetime. I get it, I get why Matt is exposing it, and God bless him for it, but for my own peace of mind, at least tonight, I had to put this stuff down. These people know they committing a grave mortal sin, they flat out don't care. I don't even know how we got here or why the rights and wrongs of this evil is even open for debate. That is the sick part, the fact we have to push for legislation preventing this wickedness says more about where we are than the evil itself and this phenomena seems to be almost exclusively restricted to western culture. A bit of payback for decades of hubris? I dunno. I do know this stuff has its roots in the 60s, and the whole peace love dope movement. I know because I saw it. I was exposed to the hedonist counter culture as a kid and bought into it for a time, until I saw it consuming people I loved, and taking me down along with it. Fast forward almost 60 years and what have we learned? Nothing. What should we have learned? If you tell God you don't want or need Him He will say fine, your will be done. I may not be the brightest bulb in the fixture but I know that much. I doubt anyone will read this post but if you do, get right with God, then fight this evil anyway you can. Understand the nature of your enemy, because he has spent a long, long, long time studying and understanding yours. Do with it what you will, but own up to your role in all of this, because we are all under judgment, and rightfully so.
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  996. mccarthy was forced by the 20 republican members of the House who told him to to go F himself instead of the coronation that worm was expecting. Ponying up the tapes was part of the deal to let him be Speaker. If he would have gotten in on the first ballot those tapes would be buried in concrete for all time. And anyone surprised by mcconnell hasn't been paying attention. That guy is the biggest weasel I have seen in politics since...well ever. He's a slimy old man who is sticking around to steal more cash for his chi-com wife so she can live the life of luxury she demands from the turtle. The democrats have two leaders in the senate. mcconnell through the election for them and he will continue to do their bidding if he believes it is in his best interest. Shame on the voters in Kentucky for allowing that old thief to stick around as long as he has. Just vote democrat in 2024. It's the same thing as having the turtle in there and at least you can sleep better at night knowing you put that old SOB out to pasture.
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  997. Unless they repent these doctor's bragging about butchering those young people will feel the torment of their victims for eternity. No rest, nothing to ease their pain, no compassion, just wailing and gnashing of teeth. The documents and guidelines referenced here may have been penned by man but they were conceived in the pit of Hell by Satan. Anyone following such doctrine should reconsider their actions before the time for reconsideration passes them by. "You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.” ―John 8:44 “But as for cowards, the unfaithful, the depraved, murderers, the unchaste, sorcerers, idol-worshipers, and deceivers of every sort, their lot is in the burning pool of fire and sulfur, which is the second death.” ― Revelation: 21:8
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  998. When I was a an on-the-ground supervisor in the military I had a running joke going with a colleague about what we called "Orange Monkey Stuff." It was a reference to the orangutans in the old Planet of the Apes movies, the orange monkeys who kept the secret scrolls none of the other monkeys were allowed to see. Whenever an order that seemed a bit goofy would make it's way down from some meeting the upper echelon held that we weren't invited to we would shrug our shoulders and call it "more orange monkey stuff from on high." You know something is BS when the left decides it needs a new name. Global warming became climate change because the fish weren't swimming in the streets of Miami like the high priest al gore had predicted and temperatures were either staying constant or in some instances cooling down. I remember hearing about a U.N. sponsored study of the ice cores from Greenland that indicated the climate had pretty much stayed within the range of the standard deviation for the past 6,000 years. Word is that study got buried deeper than Jimmy Hoffa and the scientists who carried out the study either kept their mouths shut or found their career had gone as dry as the Salt Flats. I want to vomit when I see a complete fraud and lifetime grifter like john kerry standing up in front of the rest of the global super-villains making claims about how 2023 was the hottest year in the history of the planet and if people don't start getting with the program the whole place is going to look like a spent charcoal briquette in the next however many years. It's all about control and raw application of power. Nothing more, nothing less. These elites aren't super-geniuses, they are just your run of the mill demonic types that have been around since the dawn of creation. For thousands of years they got their way and were able to lead people by the nose. Then people embarked on a grand experiment called rule by the consent of the governed. It was sloppy, but it worked for a time. Now the pendulum is swinging back the other way. COVID showed them just how soft and pliable people have become. It's like that scene from The Jerk where Bernadette Peters says: "I don't care if they take the money, I just don't want them to take the stuff." As long as people are given their stuff they seem to be toots-cool with whatever half-baked plan groups like the WEF, WHO, and CDC have in mind for them. Of course those plans also include a massive reduction in the surplus population. In their way of thinking, the place would be a much more enjoyable place to rule over if it wasn't for all of those pesky people they have to deal with. Eliminate vast swaths of them, keep a reasonable amount of drones to allow the Borg to function, and bingo, you have paradise on Earth. Of course it's not their hand guiding things. They use science because people have applied this word-from-on-high reverence to it. If some scientist says it's so, who are we to argue. The scene at the end of the movie Twelve Monkeys sums it up best. Bruce Willis turns to the guy who was sent back to make sure he did as he was told and he says: "This part isn't about the virus at all, it's about following orders." The thing is, the center can't hold and in the end the elites and their benefactor, the father of all lies who was a murderer from the word go lose. But they are going to raise a lot of cane along the way. Stay strong, get right with God, and remain faithful.
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  999. I think the last time I watched the Oscars was...🤔...fuck, I honestly cant' remember. I know the Jerry Lewis Telethon was still a thing and I think people were talking about some new arcdade game game called Space Invaders. Anyway, my point is, I never was much on slurpfest stuff like the Oscars, Emmy's, or Grammy's, but like The Drinker I love a good movie. When I was a kid it was the only escape we had. There was no internet, no social media, no video games. You climbed tress, played baseball in the summer, football in the fall, and hockey in the winter, all with busted up equipment because you had no money to buy new stuff. But you could occasionally get 75 cents from the old man and go see a show. Or better yet, jump in the car and go to the drive-in as a family. Movies like Patton, Planet of the Apes, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, even creepy shit like The House That Dripped Blood or The Exorcist. Those were the days. Here's to a golden age that maybe never was but I like to think existed. Yeah, my passive voice is pervasive, but so is my nostalgia for days that will never come again. RIP Hollywood, I'm gonna miss ya. 😥
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  1000. Most of this group has been peaceful? Man, do republicans love carrying water for the democrats. Staying on message eh gov? And on doughboy's show to boot. That's fitting, you're his kind of republican. Maybe you missed what was actually happening and got your talking points from CNN. Was CNN on in Davos at the WEF globalist suckfest? I imagine it was required viewing along with MSNBC. Kind of a strange group for a republican governor to be hanging out with. Just having tea with Al Gore? How bout that gov? Wanna explain that? I stopped listening by the way after the whole they have been mostly peaceful bit. Tell that to the people who got injured and had their businesses destroyed. Saying crap like that will have them coming back though so I'm sure you'll get plenty more kicks at the can. Sorry Georgia, get ready to howl some more. You are who your elected officials say you are.
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  1001. You think the current governor of Texas is going to back the play of the people on the front-lines trying to stop this invasion? Good luck with that. And yes, Texas is starting to turn purple. I lived there for close to 10 years but that was twenty years ago. A lot has changed in that time in the Lone Star state. Those marxists from kalifornia will bring their lefty ideas because it's who they are. They can't help themselves. Leftists are like locusts. The devour one area then move to the next. I believe Texas will be a reliable blue state by 2040. In the meantime, I'm all for taking whatever steps need to be taken to stop the invasion in all the border states, including the north. And yes, I am a legal immigrant who became a citizen and served the country I love for more than 20 years. That is why I want to see it saved, because I believe it is worth saving. Wake up gang.
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  1002. That bit about the solution to the Fermi Paradox being the universe got cable is priceless! 😁 Now I just have to find a conversation where I can steal it and sound clever. 🤔
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  1003. You know what, I grew up during the age of Apollo. Loved Star Trek, Lost in Space, even I Dream of Jeannie got in on the act, live long and prosper all the live long day. 🖖But a funny thing happened when I grew up, or at least got older, I learned about actual science. Wanna know why we don't go zipping around the solar system? Because space travel is a bitch. Weird stuff happens if you even get 90% of the speed of light, which is 186,000 MPS, second, not hours. How far do you think that translates to when you stretch it out to a year? Wanna know what kind of stars dominate the galaxy, especially in our little corner of the Milky Way? Red Dwarves, which have about as much chance of having habitable planets as you have of finding a black actor in Andy Griffith reruns. What does any of that mean? It means if these little gray guys do exist they have figured out how to break, not bend, not manipulate, break, every law and principle we know concerning how space, time, and matter function. And spare me warp drives and worm holes. They come with their own unique set of problems. And of course EVERYONE has kept this secret for more than 70 years now. Within government agencies. Okay, call me Irish but I gotta have a sit-down with ET myself before I buy any of this nonsense. A happy E=mc2 to everyone.
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  1004. I had to peek at this just to make sure it wasn't something from the Babylon Bee. I'm old enough to remember when the forerunners of these moonbats used to mock John Bircher's over their views on water fluoridation. Now their offspring want to tax cow farts. The West is on a suicide mission. The elites honestly want to de-populate the West so I guess they can move in people who will be easier to rule over. I am not a tin-foil hat guy but facts are stubborn things and I honestly cannot find a benign explanation for what they are up too.
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  1005. What a crock. "Scientists Discover Planets More Habitable Planet Than Earth." Where? I didn't hear about one in this video. This stuff about habitable zones around these little dwarf stars are tiresome. According to the scientists they are almost always tidally locked and their stars burp out solar flares like it's the Fourth of July every day. More habitable?🤔I dunno Earth actually HAS life. And sorry, if they find some microbial germs floating around some volcanic vent on a Jovian Moon under 200 miles of surface ice, well, I'm not even going to be mildly impressed. Find me someone I can have a conversation with? I'm all in. Tell me about some rock that circles it's star every five days and that star barely qualifies as a star in the first place?🥱 I hope the time these planet hunters spend looking for love in all the wrong places simply because it's easy to find is funded by some foundation because my tax dollars get wasted on enough BS. But that's me.
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  1006. The republican voters had a chance to run a young, charismatic conservative named Kathy Barnet against this addle-brained commie but they went with oz because Trump supported him and his boot licker hannity got all the mindless blue haired boomers who watch his show to vote for the clown. He trashed Mrs. Barnet and even got his buddy mark levin, a guy used to respect before Fox News bought his soul, to endorse the magnificent oz. doctor oz who was on record supporting mutilating kids in the name of transgenderism before it was even a real issue. doctor oz who called hillary clnton a genius and said he supported her health care plan 1000%. I'm not even sure why democrats are opposed to him, he's a democrat in all but name and will join the mitt romney wing of the senate on day one, backing commie policies just to screw conservatives. I wouldn't be surprised if he came out of the closet after he loses and admits he was a marxist plant all along. Sorry PA, you are getting what you deserve. Maybe next time you'll do your brain a favor and ignore what Trump has to say and turn that moron hannity off. Trump likes TV stars, especially if they kiss his ass. He'd endorse whoopi goldberg if she said nice things about him. As for hannity, that guy has been a dumbass his entire career. He uses high-school debating tactics when he's delivering his hard hitting interviews and is about as hard to get the better of as Wiley Coyote. As for PA, if the commies can keep the race within the margin of cheating they will send this cumquat to the senate and you have no one to blame but yourself. Good luck with that. Next time act like adults when you vote.
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  1007. I'm glad I was never a big fan of this series. I imagine watching it being taken apart the way it has hurts people who are. But come one man, it's Disney. Did anyone really expect they would do the right thing? Everything they get their hands on goes to sh*t. They even managed to screw up the Beatles, getting Peter Jackson to take the money and turn what was going to be a two-hour make over of the Let it Be movie that had fans all over the world salivating into an 8-hour snooze fest that took a bunch of material Jackson was going to leave in the can and slapped it in to fill air space. I know one guy who tried to watch it but tuned out after the second episode because it sucked that bad. At least as a trekie I knew when to get off the Starship Enterprise. As for people who still go to Star War movies, may the farce be with you.
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  1008. God's not looking for slaves. He has given us the free will to accept or reject Him as we see fit. Some people pin the blame for what we do on God, asking how a just and loving God could allow injustice in this world. That's us, not God. Why does an innocent child come down with a fatal disease and die before reaching adulthood? I'm not going to pretend to have the answer for that. I know this much, God is a loving force in my life and He has welcomed me home after years of swimming on the devil's lake. I know the emptiness of living a life without God. Not everyone feels that way and that's fine. But a world where God is acknowledged is better than a world where He is not. I say this because I have seen both first hand. But God leaves it up to us. We have a relationship with God whether we want to acknowledge it's existence or not. CS Lewis put it best: “There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done.'" ― Mere Christianity. "If it is displeasing to you to serve the Lord, choose today whom you will serve, the gods your ancestors served beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites in whose country you are dwelling. As for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.” ― Joshua 24: 15. Peace be with all of you.
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  1009. Sky Net, coming to a neighborhood near you? I'm still more afraid of good old human nature. There is a lot of evil afoot that has nothing to do with my phone. I'm a whole lot closer to the end of this ride than the beginning but I feel for the kids who are gonna have to live with the mess we made. I truly do. So if I don't get around to making a public statement on a grand scale, sorry about that.
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  1010. I guess it's all fun and games until someone pisses in your driveway. She's a bartender, why not throw em a kegger? I mean, I thought they were her people.
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  1011.  @hanfucolorful9656  Thank you for the kind words.
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  1012. "The Big Cigarette." "What came after the Big Bang" Johnny Carson ― Carnac the Magnificent Luv that one. 🤣🤣
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  1013. I think a lot of times, people who say they are spiritual but not religious are looking for a God on their terms, not His. I know that was the case with me. I could be wrong I suppose, my own baggage clouding my judgement, but I say this because when I ask what they mean by that statement the responses are similar in nature. I just don't think it works that way. I still struggle with this and perhaps I always will but I keep at it, searching for the truth I mean. I have found bringing the subject up with family, friends, and coworkers can elicit a highly emotional response. For instance, I was discussing what was happening WRT God being taken out of the public square and when I told him I believed a lot of people on the left are at war with God he lost it. I felt like saying, I rest my case. But he's still a good friend and I do for him what I do for myself and everyone else, ask God to forgive us. I just try and keep it simple is all. It's the only way it works for me. I want to read his book. Sounds interesting.
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  1014. Of course Gollum is still chasing the precious. Those nasty, tricksy, Hobbit's stole it from her and she wants it back. She will chase it unto the fires of Mt. Doom. I think the head of that criminal outfit, i.e. obama will let her run just long enough to kneecap harris on the debate stage. After that they'll have no more use for her and unleash the hounds, sending her slithering back into her cave in the Ozarks while they instruct their media drones to get behind whatever lackey the crime boss of Chicago decides to run from his compound in Martha's Vineyard. Personally, I'm curious to see how they are going to handle a guy like RFK Jr. He might crash the party and reset the board. Wouldn't that be a hoot. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  1015. Matt, to borrow from vernacular that may or may not still be in vouge, I feel ya dawg. But with so little context I can't say whose side I fall on. Could I see some woman living on the edge who finally had enough of Gen-Z and their needs? Sure. If that's the case, that email was a I know I'm gonna fired and I want it now moment. I could also see some over bearing bi*ch who is a tyrant devoid of empathy? Yeah, based on the language she used. And there are plenty of them out there. I remember many many years ago when I was a kid looking for work and I took a job late in the season with this landscaping outfit. The first week went okay. I went out and did Fall clean-ups with these two other guys who seemed okay. We even stopped off at a bar one night after work and pounded a few back. Then we went on this job laying sod, which is nasty ass work if you've never done it, and the owner of this rinky-dink operation decided to directly supervise this job. He was yelling, cursing, throwing tools around, just acting like a total dick for most of the morning. He took off around lunch. I would have left sooner but I rode in on the truck carrying the sod so I was stuck. Needless to say me, and the two other new guys recently hired, all quit as soon as we got back to the little shack acting as this jokers office. When I went to get my check the next day he started in on me again, telling me what an ingrate me and the other two guys were and how he was looking for career minded people. Career minded. Laying sod, cutting grass, and blowing leaves for minimum wage. I actually laughed when he handed me my check and when he got up and looked like he was going to come round the desk at me I told him to look out because I didn't work for him anymore and I had the money in my hand so I didn't have anything to lose. If he wanted to go at it I invited him outside but he just growled and went in the back room. A long tale I know, but like I said Matt, context matters. She could have been stressed out, or she could have been like that little twerp who ran that lawn outfit, just a F-N A-Hole. They exist too dude, always have, always will.
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  1016. Disney is irremediable. They have been spewing this nonsense for decades but parents were so self-absorbed they didn't notice. They would just plop the kid down in front of the TV and let channels like Disney and Nickelodeon poison their soul. If I was raising a family today, I wouldn't let my kid's within miles of Disney. I'd have hours of Loony Toons, Bullwinkle and Rocky, and The Pink Panther, along with other shows from that simpler time available for their viewing. The Three Stooges would be a massive upgrade from the garbage on TV today. In fact, the more I reflect on it the more I think I would take my family into the hills of Idaho or hook up with the Amish. What a country.
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  1017. He's not operating outside of the government. He never has. Take a look at where his funding for Tesla and Space-X came from. This guy has been working the system for years. Don't be fooled by whatever makeover the media is trying to give him now just because he gets into a few public spats with Elizabeth Warren and her ilk. Make up your own mind but for me, adopting the position of the enemy of my enemy is my friend is really no different than what has been going on with the left for years. Go ahead and parrot that if you want, I'll take a pass. This guy stinks to high heavens of corporate cronyism. I tuned out after Rubin made him out to be a Henry Reardon type character. He is closer to Wesley Mouch than he is to Henry Reardon. But that's me.
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  1018. Stalin in 1938: "We're not gonna send Soviet boys half way round the world to do a job Asian boys ought to be doin for themselves." Funny thing is, Stalin reneged on his agreements with every country he dealt with except Germany. Germany was the only country he made a deal with that he kept. Birds of a feather I suppose.
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  1019. 800 EVA hours? it would take two people better than two months to log those kind of hours. Are the powers that be saying they expect whatever lunar lander they come up with to be able to sustain two people for that length of time? What are they planning on having them do that would take 800 hours? Unless you are talking about building some type of structure and then using the Moon as some sort of weigh station. In which case, it would take a helluva lot longer than 800 hours to complete that sort of project. It makes me wonder if NASA is the right agency for manned space flight on this scale. The people who had experience sending people to places like the Moon are all gone now. The scientists won the battle against the explorers at post-Apollo NASA and while they may be good at launching telescopes and probes they lack the hands-on experience of launching people to the far-flung reaches of space. It's not their fault, it's just not their thing. It could be turned over to a civilian agency like Space-X but that would raise the cost at least in the short-run. I'm okay with a return trip to the Moon but 800 hours? I'd like to know how that figure was arrived at.
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  1020. Where's that little girls fem-Nazi handler? That woman who was hanging over her shoulder in those other interviews is, to use the parlance of of 2023, totally cringe. I almost expect her to morph into Al Pacino as that little narcist goes off on her rants and say: "Vanity, definitely my favorite sin." I was never a fan of the original Cinderella, even as a kid, because I was a boy and that kind of film wasn't what little boys liked, or at least admitted they liked. But Walt Disney did create a ground breaking film. The only thing that little brat broke was wind. But she did dig a hole big enough to bury the film for all-time. I'd say the odds that movie ever reaches a theater are 1 in 10. Disney just can't afford another flop that will have people mocking them even more than they are already being mocked. South Park will have a field day with that hot mess. No, that little girl is headed to a career modeling jeans or maybe doing dirty movies for a living. Or maybe she'll marry some rich Hollywood exec looking for a trophy wife and end up making guest appearances in Law and Order: SUV. Either way, she has a long way to go before people will find her remotely likeable. If I may borrow from her own lips: "It's cancel culture baby!"
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  1021. Gollum will never relinquish the quest for the precious.
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  1022. The UN has been ineffectual at times and downright nefarious at others. It was the brainchild of FDR whose hubris knew few bounds. We should have learned by the example of the League of Nations that global joint-security, the original mission for the UN is a fools errand. It's hostility toward Israel is well-known and well-documented and when it's not engaging in that nonsense it is busy bashing the country that pays most of the bills to keep it going. The day we get fed up and tell that useless body to take their noise to someplace in Europe where these utopian fairy-tails still hold currency the better. Henry Cabot Lodge was right when he told Wilson to stick his precious league where the sun don't shine almost 100 years ago. It's too bad Roosevelt breathed new life into the beast.
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  1023. The thing is, the same suburban women who saddled us with biden and drive to target in their minivans with the coexist bumper stickers on them will take their daughters to se this one in droves. This will give Hollywood a desperately needed win and convince them that crap like this can still compete with films like Sound of Freedom and Mission Impossible. Thanks Karen.
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  1024. Okay, so if I reject your premise, am I acting as a nonconformist? 🤔It's one thing to be true to oneself, quite another to be contrarian or an iconoclast for the sake of appearances, to be seen as marching to their own drum. Some people are just flat out combative. Bottom line, I hate labels.
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  1025. Prison is temporary, Arkancide is forever. Ask Vince Foster how it goes for people who cross that psychopath.
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  1026. Well one thing that woman is consistent in is the number of times she used the word hate. She's a product of an indoctrination system that specializes in nihilism. Like a lot of people her age she rages against the machine but in reality she suffers most from just having a lot of anger in her soul. More than anything else, her generation has had a sense of helplessness and inequity beat into them. Does that make her the victim she wants to be? To a degree. But it's a willing victimization. It's a cult. I'm willing to bet that young lady knows as much about Karl Marx as she does about Groucho. She's just parroting slogans.
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  1027. The commies are gonna dump biden before any impeachment vote can be taken and the republicans can run all the investigations they want. There is no way in this or any other parallel universe that any democrat will be prosecuted for any serious crime, not with the DOJ as it is currently staffed. As for the FBI, that whole edifice needs to be ripped down. They have been a threat to liberty since their inception under Hoover. If the founders could have somehow foreseen a future with agencies like the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, the DIA, and the rest of the surveillance state they would have told King George, look, we'll pay ya back for the tea, give us a third of what we want and let's call it a day. He is right about the country being on a precipice, but I don't see the republican party as the white knight that is going to save it from itself. The unibrow in D.C. is too strong. It will not allow self-correction any longer. I wish it wasn't so, but I fear it is. We need a real leader, not squishes like McCarthy and McConnell. Do they seem like the Lincoln or Washington types? Because that is the kind of leadership this country needs right now, not two years from now. Think biden was a mess? Wait till you get a load of that cackling hen harris when she's in charge. God help us.
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  1028. I'll take Judy Garland with Toto singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow any day, but that's me. Oh yeah, in her prime, Bette Davis would have kicked any of those broads asses, fair fight or not.
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  1029. Bit*h and bast*rd get self-censored but taking the LORD's name in vain is okay?
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  1030. Thank you for affirming my thoughts on U2. I know people who love em and I get cross eyed stares when I say I'm not a fan. Just like those die-hards who still agree with that BS notion that Citizen Kane is the greatest movie ever made. But that's a different conversation. Anyway, guys like Bono and other utopian airheads live in the world of the way things out to be, at least according to them and their ilk. It's like that line from the poem: "I dream things that never were and say why not." Why not? Because that's not the way the world works. Free advice, stay awake, live in the world of the way things are, and come up with practical solutions to fix what you can. But that's me.
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  1031. “The whole world was filled with wonder and followed the beast...they asked: “Who is like the beast? Who can wage war against it?...“If anyone is to go into captivity, into captivity they will go. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, with the sword they will be killed." "Whoever has ears, let them hear." ― Revelation: 13
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  1032. Vivek is full of sh*t but every now and again he's amusing, like the smart-ass kid in the class who gets a rise out of the teacher. That's what I thought when I saw him getting under Hailey's skin. If you like entertainment over substance, Vivek is your guy. Hopefully last night is the last night Scott and Christie are on the stage. Last night Scott's sudden right turn was basically a rip-off of what Governor DeSantis has been saying for months. The problem is, he doesn't believe any of it and has never acted that way as a Senator. Two of the shortest books in the world, the accomplishments of Hailey and Scott. That's why she never talks about her record as governor, it doesn't exist, at least not anything worth bragging about. Christie is like that comic you see who keeps peddling the same jokes out day, after, day, after day. Romney's niece isn't the only loser Trump backed. Christie's political career was, to borrow from Samuel L. Jackson, as dead as fried chicken until Trump breathed life back into it. Christie's great contribution to the cause? Recommending wray to head up the FBI. Another stellar Trump pick because we know he only picks the best people. I get it, a lot of people like the show so they think Vivek won because he tossed around the most insults. The thing is, insulting the media and Niki Hailey is kinda like winning the gold at the Special Olympics or being vaidectorian at a community college, not exactly a high bar to clear. But hey, do what you want, believe the polls, believe Vivek, hell, believe in Santa for that matter. It's all about clicks, and owns, and memes anyway on the right these days. It's been that way since Trump became the reality star for the right and it will be that way until he's done. The republican's don't enough core values to overcome it or him. That's why they suck and why they are the only party I hate more than the democrats. The democrats are demonic, but they deliver on their promises, even if it is to wreck the country. What do republicans do? They play Washington Generals to the democrat Globetrotter team and fund raise. That's why we suck anymore. We have leaders who deliver but they aren't flashy enough and don't make good click bait for sites like the Daily Wire and the Blaze, so they get ignored. But hey, Tick Tock is always there to poke fun at. But that's me.
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  1033. Musk should have just fired the whole stinking lot of em, shut it down for a month or however long it took to get it up and running again after he moved the headquarters to Florida. Not including the FBI in any investigation of political hijinks is like doing Hamlet without Hamlet. All of these alphabet agencies are the real threat to the republic.
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  1034. If one of the Trump kids engaged in 1/10th of the crap this dirtbag degenerate has there would be 40 FBI agents and 10 federal prosecutors working 24/7 on the case and MSNBC would be calling for their public execution. biden's kid figured he got the automatic immunity that comes with being a democrat. Problem is the commies are looking to purge the old man and if that means using his kid to get the job done so be it. He will be collateral damage.
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  1035. I'm a regular person and I approve of this message.👍 I also agree tasers can be funny. Just watch the Hangover if you need proof.
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  1036. People fail to realize that slavery was part of the natural order of things a lot longer than individual autonomy and social independence. The ideas of the Enlightenment are not ancient and government of the people, by the people, and for the people, has always been an experiment. The moment the clock on individual liberty started ticking new bosses began lining themselves up to take the place of the old. That is simple human nature. If anything will end the madness it will be the elite's desire to create AI along the same line of human engineering. People can be culled; machines? I'm thinking not so much. When Sky-Net becomes self-aware the hunters join the hunted. I happen to believe our Creator will step in as prophesized and save us from ourselves. Others are free to disagree. But if you do, then you better be ready to accept the Borg because those are our only two alternatives if you game the thing out to its logical conclusion.
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  1037. Trevor Noah and Steven Colbert don't like him. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣The great thought leaders of their generation. The governor is a racist is he Noah? Got any proof? I mean real proof, maybe something like wearing blackface? Oh wait, 🤔I forgot, that kind of stuff is reserved for democratic politicians. As for Colbert, he has to ask his paymasters over at the DNC for permission to say good evening because they may have decided night is actually day now. Noah and Colbert 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣That's rich.
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  1038. When I was a kid you really didn't hear much from actors. Musicians would let you know what they thought to the point where eventually even their most die-hard fans would scream: "Just shut up and sing!" (see David Crosby, Neil Young, and Bruce Springsteen). A few actors like Warren Beatty whose ego needs its own solar system to properly exist in would say stupid sh*t but most em just shut up, cashed the check, gave a donation to leftie causes to keep the media off their back, and moved onto their next role. The studio's would also hire handlers as a sort of redundant self-correcting mechanism for those odd times when someone like Marlon Brando or Martin Sheen would get caught in no-mans land and a mic would get shoved under their ill-informed pie holes. Then along came social media and all the dumbassery that used to only exist in the drunken/drug addled brains of these narcists was let loose into the universe. Can't put that genie back in the bottle. These celebrities will keep saying stupid sh*t with or without the help of the media now that all they have to do is speak into their phone because it's who they are. It's like asking a fish not to swim. Only now, the entire world has to deal with all the ridiculous crap that used to be reserved for people at Hollywood pool parties. Enjoy the show. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  1039. Sound of Freedom is not a faith-based film. It is a gritty portrayal of an evil so unspeakable it should anger every decent citizen of this country to know the United States is the largest consumer of child porn and the biggest customer when it comes to sex trafficking. Angel Studios rescued it from Disney and quite frankly I'm surprised Disney even allowed it to escape. Some in the media may have simply assumed because Angel Studios released the film that it is a faith-based by default and their disdain for Christ is such that it evoked a natural sense of revulsion in them, but if you actually watch the movie, God certainly plays a role in inspiring the heroes to act heroically but there isn't some pastor delivering sermons and redemption is rare. It is found in the people doing the right thing. The scum-buckets remain scum-buckets and while there is a bit of a happy ending knowing a lot of children were saved, it's effect is tempered by the knowledge that so many other children are still enslaved around the world. How is that a right versus left thing? The reaction just shows how far we have slipped down the slippery slope people talked about for years. If you can't get behind a film like this because Donald Trump watched it you might want to have a deep, meaningful, conversation with yourself and discover just how deep your attachment to the cult runs. There are more than a few movers and shakers in hollywood who don't want any spotlight shining anywhere near the subject because so many elites within their circles and the circles that fund them use children for their own perverted pleasure. Then there is the alphabet crowd who has been fighting hard to liberate children so they could snatch them up, going so far as to push for pedophiles to be rebranded as MAP's, minor attracted people. Think about that. Ten years ago would such a suggestion even be entertained anywhere beyond academia, seedy theaters, and west-coast bath houses? They are against the film for the most obvious reasons, and isn't it illuminating to see just how many people stand with them and not the children they exploit. hollywood used to make epic faith-based films like The Ten Commandments, Ben Hur, and The Song of Bernadette but that was a different era. A time when God was central to our republic. A darkness has crept over the land and satan has captured many and corrupted them. His demons are prowling the Earth trying to ruin souls and in the end, when it comes time for the wheat to be separated from the weeds, the people currently buying into his lies will realize just how badly they were deceived, and they will learn that in Hell, no one is accorded a special place. Every soul suffers equally. I do pray that people will repent but they have to take that step. Like I said, if you honestly won't go see a movie like Sound of Freedom, one of the most important films to be made this century, simply because your echo-chamber is against it, you may want to find a better set of friends.
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  1040. A lot of CGI is cheesy as hell. Some of it looks more like a video game than a film. In the good old days they just blew shit up if that was what they needed. Clear and Present Danger is a classic example. They bought a house from a couple going through a nasty divorce so both of them were good with blowing the place up. But I think it's more about storytelling. And telling decent stories you can take your kid to and not feel like you are committing child abuse. People are tired of gay nonsense and comic book stories. Look at some of the movies that have had the best return lately; Sound of Freedom, Jesus Revolution, Father Stu. And I bet Cabrini is going to do as well or better. As for the writers, they plain old lack life-experience. Life is not what they learned from the commie propagandist in the liberal arts college or what they went through as apprentices on some reality-tv show. The older writers got better as they lived more of their lives. Some 30 year old snot nosed who gets hired because she likes sleeping with women knows...well, that, and not much more. Shit in, shit out. Tell a good story, people will come. In the 1920s power shifted from London, Paris, and New York to Hollywood. Now it is migrating again. That is the nature of capitalism. Will the product improve? Time will tell.
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  1041. Democrats don't go to jail. The quicker you get your head around that the lower your blood pressure will be. I know, it's wrong, wicked, evil, all of that, but the there is a better chance of finding an advanced civilization on Venus than there is that the SS, sorry, Freudian slip, I meant DOJ, will prosecute anyone with a D in front of their name. And where would the trial be held? D.C.? That would be like trying a case in the Stalin's Russia in the 1930s, more show than anything else. I wish it wasn't so, but is, and that's not changing anytime soon. Is it mcconnell?
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  1042. I like your channel TIK. I have seen enough of your stuff to know you are sincere. I haven't always agreed with your assertions and /or conclusions and I'm not familiar with a lot of your sources but that is what makes it cool. I have a traditional liberal arts degree, roughly split 50/50 between history and political science. I think in order to get one you need to study the other. But I attended school decades ago and I went to a school that wasn't dominated by left-wing professors. We had em, but there were more conservative and professors who played it neutral so it wasn't hard to avoid the lefty's. That said, history is one of those disciplines you don't need a ton of formal training to be good at. It's story telling. David McCullough was a very good historian who had a degree in English. Based on what I've seen you prefer the more technical writers, guys who get into more into the weeds with the data. That is okay provided they don't just take their brain out for a walk and toss a bunch of useless facts out there to seem smart. I read a terrible book called The British are Coming where the guy actually broke down the number of knots on a British mooring line and how much cannon shot each ship held, ad nauseum. Then there was a book on Stalin where the author just assumed you knew all about the makeup of the Politburo in the 1930s and just tossed a bunch of names out there. It was so thick it actually injured my brain. As for the History Channel going Ancient Alien, I think that had more to do with production costs than anything else. The age of reality-tv killed channels like the History Channel and A&E. It killed politics too but I digress. Reality-tv was cheap and there was an audience for it. TV has been dumbing down western civilization for close to 80 years now. As time has gone on, attention spans have shrunk and sound-bites are all the rage. Then there is the built-in bias. People like information that affirms them and are less likely to listen to opposing points of view. And commentators on both side play fast and loose with the facts. You are just as likely to hear BS from Tucker Carlson as you are from MSNBC. I heard Tucker say, in absolute terms, no question about it, that the CIA killed JFK. Now, he has no facts to back that up, but I'm sure someone on his staff told him the demographic he was appealing to held that belief so he puts it out there and people are like: "Well, if Tucker said it it must be true." I call it "The Mr. Spock Affect." When I was a kid, anything Leonard Nimoy said was taken as gospel. He was Mr. Spock, the logical super-genius who bailed the emotion-driven Captain Kirk out of jams every week. So, if he was a genius there, he must be a genius in everything. I saw a film at a science museum in the 1970s that talked about tera-forming Mars. Now, you know NASA was behind it because people were bored with Apollo and funds were drying up. So they made up a bunch of BS and paid Spock to sell it like soap. Us kids were impressed that's for sure. Neil de Grasse Tyson is the latest version of Mr. Spock. He's a TV celebrity astrophysicist completely full of himself so he comments on everything from climate change to transgenderism, always falling on the side of the camp he belongs to because we are tribal. This has been a long rant and I know no one will read it but I say all of it because as Orwell said: "He who controls the past controls the present. He who controls the present controls the future." It's important that people fact-check what they hear, but information is so manipulated anymore it's getting tougher to do it, at least digitally. My advice, by books, hardcover books. They are the best reference sources and the way things are going they may be worth their weight in gold, at least if the ones calling themselves the elites get their evil grimy paws on power. Like I say, long rant, but keep up the good work TIK. We need more like you and less "professionals" and "experts."
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  1043. Nice concise analysis. I have always said if you want to understand the left, especially it's authoritarian tendencies, Godless belief system, emotional appeal, and use of violence to get what they want you have to go start at the source which is the French Revolution. This is especially true if you want to understand Marxism. Marx's philosophy is a bastard child of the French Revolution and the thought leaders who inspired it like Rousseau and Voltaire. Thomas Jefferson was a big fan of the French Revolution and dismissed thousands of people getting their heads chopped off and churches being plundered as just a case of an oppressed group letting off a bit of steam. It's a good thing he didn't have more sway with Washington when he was secretary of state. Who knows how things might have went if he had gotten his way and plunged the new nation into a second war against Britain in support of the demonic French Jacobins. In the end the got what they deserved, Napoleon. Tyrants always rise out of left wing revolutions. Always.
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  1044. The government has the levers of power to stop that kind of abuse of power????? Remember the good old days when lefties didn't like the man. Then they became the man and the spoiled little brats they burped out are running to them, demanding they lean on business owners to save their phony-baloney jobs. It's Musk's company. If he wants to fire the whole lot of em that's his prerogative. I saw that virtual tour that 20-something twit took people on showing the yoga rooms and the foosball tables. That wasn't a business, it was a spa. Wanna keep your job? Make yourself valuable to your employer. That used to be a simple concept. I was raised to believe the world owed me nothing and I have always believed that. Go away ya little twerps. Do something meaningful with your life. You just may be surprised how fulfilling an actual days work in a place that's not your house can be.
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  1045. Admitting you don't know is a reasonable position. I get annoyed when people, some of whom study the subject, others who are simply well-known, show up on TV and claim: "Oh yeah, there is life all over the Universe; how could there not be?" That's an absurd position, one I held as a child who was wrapped up in the space race and watched a lot of Star Trek. Personally, they could find microbes on some Jovian moon and it wouldn't move the needle for me one iota. Great, simple life exists somewhere else, bravo. Until I can have a conversation with someone from another world I'm sorry, I'm just not going to get that fired up. I can look out my window for proof life exists. Intelligent life is another matter entirely and the man is right, we only have one model to work with so everything is largely conjecture. I personally believe we will never meet our extraterrestrial cousins in this life because if they are out there, something tells me the rules of the game are set so we don't meet. It's why they are so far away and why space travel is such a bear. Einstein once famously said "God doesn't play dice with the Universe." I believe that, unless the dice are loaded of course. Yeah, I know he was referring to Quantum Mechanics but my point is, there is a philosophical component to all of this and as random as the Universe may seem, everything in it, from the largest star to the smallest particle serves a purpose. If it didn't, it would have no reason to exist. I think it's cool and all that we are able to look out deeper into the cosmos and ponder such questions about rare Earth's and the like, I just wish we would focus a bit more on how we as individuals fit into the scheme of things, how our relationship with our Creator is supposed to work. If we sorted that out a bit more fully perhaps we'd have a greater appreciation for each other and God's creation. But that's me. I know others will believe what they want, but that's my story and I'm sticking to it. It's as reasonable as a lot of the other theories floating around out there, certainly more grounded than the opinion's of pretend experts like bill nye the science guy (boy, does he annoy me, but I digress). Anyway, keep on postulating and I'll keep on listening. In the meantime, live long and prosper. 🖖
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  1046. Why are they targeting children? To carry out the will of their father, the father of all lies. "Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say. You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies. Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me!” John 8:43-45 “If anyone causes one of these little ones, those who believe in Me, to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to sin! Such things must come, but woe to the one through whom they come!” ― Matthew 18:6-7 He may lie to them, but lets not lie to each other about the nature of what we are up against. Don't be afraid to call it what it is.
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  1047. What's so empowering about a pregnant woman warrior? I mean, anyone can get pregnant...right? 🤔
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  1048. Damn Drinker, around the 1:30 mark it sounds like you are describing MAGA, and it's cheeto jesus who is the embodiment of the establishment now but no one is allowed to say that in "alternative media" as those grifters like to call themselves these days. Come up with a brand, slap a label on it, sell it to the brain-dead who just want the dog-and-pony stuff like owning the libs or the boomers who think trump is going to bring back the steel plants and there ya go, how to lose elections and permanently break a country in seven easy steps. But shhhh...you're not supposed to say that stuff or you are a cuck who loves biden. I guess this show is just a microcosm of the reality-TV world we all live in now. Cool. And it's gay because, well of course it is.
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  1049. Summed up as only the Drinker can do it. I didn't have any plans to watch this when I first heard about it so I'm not overly bothered. For those who do, have fun.
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  1050. "As soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization, which of course is what this is all about, evolution." ― The Agent explaining the Matrix to Morpheus "Then I saw a beast come out of the sea with ten horns and seven heads; on its horns were ten diadems, and on its heads blasphemous names...the whole world followed after the beast. They worshiped the dragon because it gave its authority to the beast; they also worshiped the beast. saying: 'Who can compare with the beast or who can wage war against it?' The beast was given a mouth uttering proud boasts and blasphemies...It was allowed to wage war against the holy ones and conquer them, and it was granted authority over every tribe, people, tongue, and nation. All the inhabitants of the earth will worship it" ― Revelation 13: 1-8 God explaining the future to us. Huxley tells us in Brave New World how our pursuit of comfort will do us in. We are warned time and time again, yet like Icarus, we just can't resist that flame. Mark Twain said: "History doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes." It's also linear and it does have an end, just not the one Hagel envisioned.
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  1051.  Anjun 241  Or another Reagan Gem: "The 10 worst words anyone will ever say: I'm from the government and I'm here to help you." Here's to my first and favorite Commander in Chief. RIP Dutch. Wish we had another just like ya.
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  1052. So where is the U.N. in all of this? 🤔 Oh yeah, I forgot, Israel's not involved. That explains it. That, and the fact Putin and Jinping have veto power over any actual action that might make a difference. How much more of this do we need to see before understand the U.N. has the same built-in flaw that killed the League of Nations? This isn't the first time they've been exposed for the fraud they are and it won't be the last. This was always in the cards for Putin. He's been waiting for decades to put the Soviet band back together and he knows he's running out of time. My heart aches for the Ukrainian people, it truly does. Right now, your best option is to be what Khrushchev liked to term: "A bone in the throat," or, as John McClain put it in Die Hard, be: "The fly in ointment, the monkey in the wrench, the pain in the ass." Don't look for a lot of help from the U.N. or anyone else for that matter. I wish is wasn't so, but alas, I fear it is.
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  1053. “Watch out for yourselves. They will hand you over to the courts. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will be arraigned before governors and kings because of me, as a witness before them…When they lead you away and hand you over, do not worry beforehand about what you are to say. But say whatever will be given to you at that hour. For it will not be you who are speaking but the holy Spirit…You will be hated by all because of my name. But the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.” ― Mark 13: 9-13 “Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in company with scoffers…He is like a tree planted near streams of water, that yields its fruit in season; its leaves never wither; whatever he does prospers. But not so are the wicked. They are like chaff driven by the wind. Therefore the wicked will not arise at the judgment, nor will sinners in the assembly of the just. Because the Lord knows the way of the just, but the way of the wicked leads to ruin.” ― Psalm 1: 1-6
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  1054. If you wanna know what democrats are up to and how they think just listen to what they say about their political opponents. Biden has always called people names and used over the top language. I think you're going to hear more crazy statements like this out of the old coot because they are letting him off the leash on purpose. The more kooky stuff he says, the stronger the case for them to remove him come January. This talk about going to war with the other side is what he really believes. People forget Joe Biden was always considered the stupidest guy in the senate. Now he's got Alzheimer's to boot. His wife should be charged with elderly abuse. She's allowing this to promote her her own status and as a way to steal a few more bucks before the entire lot of em slide into obscurity. I'd hate to have to explain all that come judgement day. But that's her problem and since she's just as Godless as the rest of em I'm sure she's not concerned...yet.
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  1055. That law in Tennessee made me think of a comedy bit I saw years ago where the comic made a crack about the need to pass a law saying it's not okay to have sex with dead animals. Some things used to be a given. But those days are gone and they aren't coming back. Satan is not going to give back ground he has gained. I imagine the next step for these women who are sitting in the front row smiling as they expose their kids to this filth will be to pimp their kids out to the pedophiles when they reach puberty. It's hard to imagine anyone doing that but hey, just a few years ago the idea that a mother would take her kids to one these strip shows was equally abhorrent, just another example of the right overreacting to the free love moral relativism of the hip crowd. Matt is right about the need for republican politicians to openly run against this wickedness but we are talking about republicans here. Most of them are such moral cowards that they would cringe at the very mention of having to take a stand. And I'm sorry, things have reached the point where you cannot call yourself a Christian and be a member of the democratic party. This is a political party that booed God at their convention, littered the executive branch with twisted perverts dressing as women, lowers penalty's for criminals while emptying jails, and fights against laws aimed at protecting children from sexual groomers and predators. If you support that sort of thing, you can't say you follow Christ and practice what He teaches us. That level of cognitive dissonance is just too extreme even by today's standards. If you support their insanity and lawlessness you have more in common with the satanist who performed his satanic ritual on national TV at the Grammy Awards than most of your fellow citizens. That's where the democratic party of 2023 is at. The party of Harry Truman and even JFK is long gone, buried in the ash heap of history. It has been replaced by a Godless belief system that seems hellbent on finishing the fundamental transformation obama promised in 2008. How's that looking by the way? Honestly? The republicans are just as guilty because they offered no real resistance or opposition. We have a false two-party unibrow system in D.C. that will sell us out after they milk what they can get from this republic, a republic that is fading fast. Our churches have failed us even worse as more and more of them open their doors to Satan in the name of inclusivity, hoping to fill the seats and the collection plates. The others are sitting by silently as this Romans 1 movement destroys lives and steals souls. I wish it wasn't so, but look around and ask yourself what chance a nation like ours has moving forward. If you're honest, your answer should scare the hell out of you. May God have mercy on us all for we are all to blame. Sorry John Adams, your greatest fear was realized, your sacrifice and the hardship your generation endured was wasted after all. Franklin said we were given a republic if we could keep it. I guess we answered that question. We have reached a time for choosing, and the choices are tough ones indeed.
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  1056. Here's to the 1100 or so triggered souls who disliked the Drinker's take on remakes and PC corrective actions. May you enjoy your cup of cocoa with Pajama Boy while you hand Tampons to your boyfriends.
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  1057. I tried Rumble for a bit but apparently the "free speech site where all views are welcome" doesn't like it when you express an opinion their mob doesn't like. Five dislikes puts your post into hidden mode. I am not on Twitter, Facebook, or any of the rest and I doubt I will get on Truth Social. I find sites like these to be echo chambers for the most part and after a time any echo chamber gets boring. But that's me. I have also heard Truth Social isn't above deleting posts they don't like. Meet the new boss...
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  1058. In what non-totalitarian country would it be permissible to be in charge of the election you are running in? Just a few years ago even democrats wouldn't have had the balls to pull a stunt like that. If this woman wins democracy is finished in that state. Take it to the Supreme Court if they try to swipe this one Kari. It's time we lay out the case against this mail-in-no-ID-drive-by-drop-box BS once and for all. I know states are supposed to operate their own elections and I'm a 10th Amendment supporter par-excellance but when the states become so corrupt and can operate with such impunity that they are willing to cheat in the open it's time for a national discussion on all of this nonsense. Maybe Arizona just dissolves into Kalifornia to form a more perfect socialist hell-hole. I know if I lived there and they got away with this one I'd move. But that's me.
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  1059. I guess she did this for three reasons...the kids, the kids, the kids?
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  1060. Clarification, Governor DeSantis boosted republican registration, not party hacks like this guy who are more squish than squash. Take nothing for granted Floridians. The moment you think Florida is a solid red state you get complacent. Hold people like Waltz to their oath. Pay attention to their votes and if they vote to fund the democratic agenda or side with the dems on key cultural issues primary em in 2024. I love Florida, that's why I moved here. I love that DeSantis is going to send my former district rep crist into an overdue retirement, but liberty is only one election cycle away from extinction in any year.
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  1061. I didn't read comic books as a kid so I have no dog in this hunt. I saw one super-hero movie at the box office, the first Superman with Christopher Reeve because I used to watch reruns of the 50s TV show when I was young. I'm just happy to see anything Disney is associated with fail. Call me a homophobe, woman hating reactionary or whatever but Disney has been Satan's playhouse for a lot longer than most people realize and the faster it goes away the better off we'll all be. Keep pumping those nine digit flops out there gang, I'm in your corner. Like that South Park episode put it, put a chick in it and make her gay! Let that be your mantra. What will become of them when women want to start being women again and boys get tired of wearing dresses? 🤔
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  1062. Britain lost their way a long time ago. They were drained on every level after two world-wars and the last leader worth her salt over there was Maggie. I spent a fair amount of time over there and the word that best sums up the mood of the people is malaise. Maybe they thought Johnson would breathe some life into them. Oh well. Better luck next time.
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  1063. There is no doubt a job title in Hollywood called producer in charge of crap ideas and no offense ladies but it appears to be restricted to your gender. All these really bad movie, marketing, and commercial ideas seem to be produced by women or men who wish they were women. You know most everyone at Netflix who heard this beforehand said "that is a really crappy idea" but once they found out there was a "woman of color" at the wheel all outward criticism came to an end. These execs are scared shitless of women and gay men. That is the state of America circa 2023.
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  1064. Conversation is good, Socratic methodology is good, provided your goal is the pursuit of TRUTH. Like John Lennon said, "All I want is the truth...Just give me some truth." Just like Pilate put it to Jesus, the authoritarian will start with the premise : "What is truth?" To them it is malleable, something they create. That is why people are going crazy. Untruth has become orthodoxy. I'm glad you are escaping but be on guard if you open the door to them under the guise of inclusion and diversity. It's how they poked their nose under the tent to begin with and they are very, very good at insurgency. Good luck sir, but be aware of the barbarians at the gate.
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  1065. I wonder how many of them were paid agitators? I get the feeling 90% of what passes as reality in the age of stupid is actually bought and paid for lunacy. I'm reading a book right now on the anarchist movement in the mid-19th Century and the head knocking that used to go on at those events. Nutcases indeed, but committed maniacs. I see what passes as protests these days and I'm like even the hippies of yesteryear would be ashamed to claim em. Meanwhile the modern-day terrorists who burn cities down are allowed to get away with it because the head-cracking part of the equation has been removed. Let's be clear, I'm not calling for violence, but at some point the levy is going to break. God help us when it does, because then it won't be fun and games, and I'm not sure anyone has wrapped their head around what an actual national divorce is going to look like. Just food for thought.
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  1066. The left's boycotts fail in reverse, driving sales up because they go after companies they don't frequent anyway and their attacks are usually because the company is promoting Biblical or traditional values. Bud Light is finished. The only course of action now is to pull it off the shelves, let the heat die down, and repackage it as Bubba's Best or some other name. As other comments have pointed out, Bud Light was an easy target because it was not a high quality product to begin with and there were plenty of other beers of a similar grade available to consumers. I want to see what the end of year numbers for Target are. Target would be a far better scalp because they have sugar daddies on the left willing to pump cash into them to keep them afloat, provided they continue doing things like partnering with Satanists and promoting the sexualization and grooming of children. Taking them down would be much more satisfying.
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  1067. We live in an age where trashing the past is not only fashionable, it is necessary to the powers in waiting. What will follow when they are done tearing down America? Ask around, because nobody ripping down statues seems to know or care. That is nihilism, plain and simple. It's what you get when you have no center, no higher morality, only anger and spite. Satan laughing spreads his wings as the old song says. He is an equal opportunity demon who welcomes all souls to eternal damnation. As the good book says, those who were meant to go into captivity surely will. God have mercy on us all. RIP Queen Elizabeth. You were okay.
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  1068. The best teacher I had was a political science professor who could argue the conservative side better than Ronald Reagan. I hung around after class one day and found out he was card carrying Democrat. Oh well, that was a bygone era that will most likely remain bygone. I'm old enough to remember when teachers used to teach.
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  1069. Sorry if I throw shade on anyone associated with the world court. Yeah, Trump will get a fair shake from that guy. 🙄Where does Fox find these buffoons. I tuned out when he started this guy is respected blah, blah, blah.
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  1070. I recall reading an account of Ike taking Monty on a tour of the battlefield at Gettysburg after his presidency. Ike showed Monty the open ground Pickett's Charge had to cover and asked him what he thought of the decision to order the charge. Monty responded that had he ordered such a futile and poorly planned out attack during WWII Ike would have been well within his rights to fire him on the spot. I wonder if Ike saw the irony in Monty's statement since Monty's ego would never allow him to link such a comment with Operation Market Garden. But, Monty wasn't the only general in that war who made some bad tactical decisions. I listened to a former Marine who said if he would have been able to get his hands on the commanding general who ordered him and his platoon onto the beach at Tarawa he would have spent the rest of his short life on death row at Leavenworth. At the end of the day though the Nazi's were defeated but it was always going to be slog. Ask the Russians about that reality.
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  1071. "Send Fredo off to do this, send Fredo off to do that...I can handle things, I'm smart, not like everybody says, like dumb, I'm smart, and I want respect." Well, it looks like you mishandled this one Fredo. Maybe you're no so smart after all...hmmm? 🤔Whatdaya think?
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  1072. As I've noted before, one of the shared emotions every astronaut who went to the Moon seemed to experience as they gazed at the Earth on the Lunar horizon was a feeling of just how special our little blue planet is. We are special. It's too bad we don't always treat each other that way.
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  1073. "I'm going to replace your arbitrary and oppressive social hierarchy with a new and improved arbitrary and oppressive social hierarchy." That seems to be creed. But will they, as true revolutionaries, continue the struggle like good little Trotskyites and rebel against the new thesis in accordance with the dialectic, or will they declare an end to history like a good Stalinist and focus on consolidating their gains, like the pigs in Animal Farm? My money is on the latter because it's all about the pursuit of power. When you reject a higher transcendent morality you end up serving your own self-interest. As Dylan pointed out you're gonna have to serve somebody, even if it is your own hedonistic desires. I wonder how they would handle the young sh*t disturbers they riled up if they were actually able to pull it off and some group of people were stupid enough to hand the disciples of these crackpots the reigns of power? Would it be a repeat of the Night of the Long Knives or would the bomb throwers win the day and tear it all down for the sake of watching what they helped build burn? In any event, movements like this always end up in one place, dictatorship. This has been true since the days of the French Revolution and the last time I checked, our fallen nature hasn't changed. That's the problem these pseudo-intellectuals always come up against, those pesky uncooperative critters called humans. They just never seem to get on board with the program, no matter how well laid out the plans are or how efficient the reeducation camps operate. They just don't get it do they? Anyway, the one thing all of these post-modern gobble-de-gook prophets have in common is this. It's quite simple really, they are all full of sh*t and there isn't a one of them who would be able to manage a shift at McDonalds let alone reorder a society. The bad news is, every now and again one of these wannabe secular messiah's gets a crack at it and while they are good at generating work for the gravediggers they aren't any good at anything else. I guess you can sell this crap to the kids with parents rich enough to send em to Ivy League schools. Unfortunately, that is where the current batch of woke CEO's and tech entrepreneurs come from. It will be interesting to see where it all ends up. It'll be chaotic, but interesting all the same.
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  1074. I had no plans on watching it but it's fun hearing the Drinker tell it like it oghta be and I needed a good laugh. Thanks Drinker. My day is a bit better for the effort.
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  1075. Here's the thing though, American voters across the board have been so dumbed down by social and corporate media that they vote for a letter, R or D rather than the person running under said banner. The Somali queen and the rest of her marxist running buddies will be reelected by large margins because people running the republican party know they can't squeeze any money out of their districts. The only thing that annoys republicans more than elections is winning them. Democrats like to win because their base is full of modern-day political puritans but more in the tradition of Jim Jones and Uncle's Ho, Joe, and Mao, their version of the unholy trinity. Republicans like to fund-raise. The problem is, they're running out of stuff to fund-raise off of and will soon go the way of their spiritual grandfather's, the Whig party. But the democrats are hitting critical-mass and what sane people there are left over there are going to have to finally acknowledge that the party is now the party of obama and it has decided to die on the hill of sexual politics. The party demands lock-step compliance and if you don't buy the whole platform you get othered, sent to the virtual cornfield like the characters in the Twilight Zone episode. They are going to have to do one of three things: kick the commies out, join up lock-stock-and-barrel and go over the cliff with their marxist pals, or form a new party, most likely with people who are sick of being lied to by squishy republicans. The ones promoting hate for America on the 4th of July are irredeemable. They have bought obama's yes we can fundamental transformation line completely and nothing but the complete and total obliteration of the USA and all of it's traditions and cultural norms will suffice. That is a harsh assessment but if you have a better option let me know. I'd really like to hear it because as someone who came here legally, became a citizen, and served defending the place for more than 20 years I'd really like to know how these two diametrically opposed cultures can exist under the same roof.
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  1076. "Tax the rich, feed the poor, till there are no, rich no more?" I suppose they are applicable in the sense that the goals of the commies have never changed, they just changed the packaging a bit when they learned that Marx was wrong, poor people don't want to tear down the system, they want to work within it in order to escape poverty.
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  1077. Xi is premier for life and make no mistake, he has, since he first assumed power, been all about redressing perceived wrongs and setting the Middle Kingdom back on what he sees as it's rightful place as world leader. He's not an ideologue as much as he is a romantic and romantics are always more dangerous because they are true believers. We blew it big time when we assumed that if we set China on the path of capitalism it would have a positive result. China is on the prowl and will not be stopped short of war. America's navy has been gutted, our wad has been blown, and China sees this as a now or never opportunity. The only hope is some form of real collective security including Japan and other smaller regional powers but we saw what happened the last time Japan got a hair up their ass as well. Hang on tight kiddies cause the dirty 30s coming down the road will make you look back at the good old days of world pandemics and inflation wistfully.
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  1078. If the thing starts spinning out of control Elon can count on Clint Eastwood and Tommy Lee Jones to straighten it up. I saw that movie. Yeah, they're a bit long in the tooth but Clint is still Clint. Seriously though, this thing is a boondoggle. Elon is a big idea guy and he likes making his big ideas work if there is enough government cheese. He's a venture socialist extraordinaire. Here's the thing though, as the old line from the Right Stuff put it; "No bucks, no Buck Rogers." Call me Irish but I don't see the public support like we had during Apollo. Maybe they'll just print out a few extra billion. At this stage, when you're playing with monopoly money, what's that between friends. But the crash that is not too far away will probably s-can this faster than you can say EV and Tesla. I'll give ya credit though Elon. If anyone can talk the US into spending money they don't have on technology that might work for a program no one is really that keen on, it's you buddy. Ya got chutzpa. I'll give you that. Live long and prosper dude. 🖖
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  1079. Illegal immigrants breaking the law? 🤔The Dickens you say. I thought they were all dreamers. An undocumented immigrant is code for a registered democrat. You'd think she would be happy welcoming her people in, you know, power to the people right on and other lies they peddle. Hell, ship em all to DC, all 35 million or whatever the number is up to now. The mayor can have em all over for a barbeque. Imagine all the people indeed.
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  1080. Okay, I'll give ya the benefit of being young and reliant on MAGA clicks but this subject is so old it's biblical. Alberta has been burping out separatist threats longer than the crazy French part of Quebec. It ain't happening and no, Canada would not just stand back and say: "Okay, you win...eh. Go ahead and take our most valuable piece of real estate." Go to the flip side of the coin, how popular would a shooting war with our northern neighbor who also happens to be the country with the largest border be with the average citizen? Do you really think there would be some national clamor for a "Free Alberta" campaign as some kind of a manifest destiny revival? That people would say: "Sure, that sounds like a battle worthy of my son's life." Benefit of the doubt aside, your entire argument has so more holes in it than a block of Swiss cheese. Hey, there's a thought. While we're pimping wars over Alberta, Greenland, and the Panama Canal, why not make play for Switzerland? I mean, how hard would it be to climb the alps and take on a fight with those guys? 🤔There, let me the first to declare a "Free the Swiss" campaign! If I seem a bit overly sarcastic, it's because sometimes that's required. And no sonny Jim, I am not a lefty. Don't worry though, I won't be back, not even for a chuckle.
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  1081. obama's goal is to bring the American republic to an end so the bloodsuckers clamoring for one-world government can achieve their objectives. We have always stood in their way. Now they believe they are close, so very close. That is why they have stepped on the accelerator. They will be thwarted in the end, just not by Earthly forces.
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  1082. You can change the narrative all you want dude, that's not going to alter reality. You can investigate everyone from Hunter to Fauci, that's not going to bring justice. You can talk about stopping biden and his pen but how will you do that exactly? I didn't hear anything in there about cutting spending. I didn't hear anything in there about putting legislation forth that would protect children from the demonic butchers lopping off their body parts for cash. I didn't hear anything in there about forcing these jokers to close the borders. All I heard was elect republicans and we'll put on the brakes. Then what? I get it, they won't have the WH but make no mistake. If the republicans in congress pick McConnell and McCarthy as their leaders, meet the new boss, same as the old boss, and this wave of new republican voters who expected real action will stay home in droves in 2024 when they will be needed most. Sorry if I'm overly cynical, but I'm old enough to remember all the BS tea-party promises about getting rid of obama care. How'd that work out for us? I truly believe that unless and until the unibrow party is smashed into 1,000 pieces this country will continue to have one of two choices. Walk to the edge of the cliff or run to it. Forget the parachute though, those are reserved for the people presenting you with those choices. I don't agree with Tulsi on 80% of what she stands for but she is right about one thing. Nothing is going to get repaired until the sane, average working-class American is put front and center again. That is what made America exceptional, not a bunch of elites who think it's trendy to support drag-queen story hours and ANTIFA riots. And I didn't hear anything about that in that segment as well. So again, forgive me if I don't put a lot stock in the great red wave saving anything or anybody.
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  1083. I don't know anything about Australian politics but it's nice to hear your commies still use terms from the Stalinist dictionary like reactionary to describe anyone who disagrees with them. American commies are writing an entirely new dictionary and it's really hard to keep up with the new and improved demonic vernacular. As for that mentally disturbed child, nobody in power ever took her seriously. They just tossed her ANTIFA parents a few bucks to borrow their kid in order for her to act as a human shield because criticizing children became a bad thing sometime between the time I was a kid and now. If I would have spoken to adults the way that little fascist-in-training does I would have gotten my ass beat. Ah, the good old days when we knew what a woman was and climate change was simply called weather.
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  1084. I have family members who go apoplectic over biden saying; "I can't believe he's doing this." I tell them I don't get my stuff up in a bunch because he's not. In a functioning republic he would be in an assisted living facility, not the White House. Everyone knows this. But we don't have a functioning republic. We have reality-TV as politics and an indifferent oligarchy who doesn't care what happens to the country as long they are taken care of. Anyone who doesn't believe this is obama's third-term is either in denial or so far gone they would back anyone wearing their team's jersey no matter what. obama said he would love it if he could find a guy to prop up as Manchurian president and he found one in the dithering old man, with a wife whose ambition and greed is so over the top she will let him whither and die rather than do the decent thing. We have entered into the final phase of the republic. What it looks like on the other side is hard to say, but the center cannot hold. When you have a significant portion of the country who genuinely believe you can select your gender by declaration and that white people have some grand scheme to commit genocide on the LGB crowd and oppressed people of color, you have reached a tipping point that cannot self-correct. I defended this nation for a large part of my adult life and it breaks my heart to admit this is where we are at but facts are stubborn things. My concern is the casual way people discuss a national divorce. The term is even tossed around on the floor of the House like it's part of...well, some reality-TV show. Divorces tend to be messy. National divorces tend to be REALLY messy. And who benefits? At the end of the day, who wins? Here's a hint gang, it's not the average Joe or Jane. But here's another sad reality, the average Joe and Jane don't care much. They prefer the lie. Alexander Solzhenitsyn said: "The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.” He also had a warning for us here in the West who thought Marxism might work if it was implemented properly, you know, by the "right" kind of people: "There is this fallacious belief: 'It would not be the same here; here such things are impossible.' Alas, all the evil of the Twentieth Century is possible everywhere on Earth:" Bob Dylan once wrote: "It's a hard rains a gonna fall." The sheep will stay asleep. The wise will not act like the foolish maidens who had no oil for their lamp and by the time they did, the Bridegroom had already arrived and barred them from joining the feast. Get right with God folks, that's free advice.
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  1085. Peperoni pizza. Perhaps the universe, existence itself for that matter, is here to support peperoni pizza because well, peperoni pizza simply has to exist. There, problem solved. Don't mention it, glad I could help out.
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  1086. Dr. Sowell is right about linguists and liberals (excuse the redundancy) keeping black kids in their place. I saw a headline from the Detroit Free Press a couple weeks ago questioning whether the school system was doing enough to promote ebonics in the classroom and to honor it as...well, I didn't read enough of the article to find out the answer to that part of the question. My inquiring mind has its limits. He's also right about the differences between black and white rednecks simply being skin color. When I was in basic training in met a young man from the deepest heart of Mississippi and as he was in the middle of explaining the myriad of problems they had with their n-gers in his neck of the woods he ran his finger so deep into his nose I thought he might be prospecting for gold. Needless to say his military career was not exactly distinguished but then again it only lasted a week so there's that. I'd say he was a dumb as a bag of hammers but that would be an insult to bags used to carry hammers and to hammers for that matter. Stupid is an equal-opportunity state of being. North, south, east, west, black white, brown, or anywhere in between, team stupid has a spot on the bench for all who apply.
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  1087. I suppose my saving grace is I was never a big Star Wars or Indiana Jones fan to begin with so having the human equivalent of a horde of locusts coming in and ripping these franchises to shreds really doesn't affect me much. This is the only review I've tuned into and I'm only here because of that weird sort of fascination people have for train wrecks I guess. Also, I knew what the Critical Drinker would have to say and I wanted a change of pace. My fear is that this kennedy woman will get her mitts on the Rocky Franchise and make a movie where Rocky goes back in time only this time Adrian beats Mr. T's ass. You know what, now that I see it, I'm thinking maybe I shouldn't have even thought that one into existence.
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  1088. That's true, but Germany didn't have any aircraft carriers and the Japanese may have had some but they couldn't afford to lose even a few because there was no way they could replace them, and the pilots who flew the aircraft at the same rate as the U.S. Yamamoto knew this which is why he was hellbent on taking as much as he could by the middle of 1942. It was the only shot Japan had of a negotiated settlement and when they got smoked at Midway the game was up for Japan. The lack of long-range four-engine bomber's also came back to bite the Führer in the ass when he went up against the Soviets.
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  1089. Not my bag but you know what, as long as Mario isn't gay and that princess isn't a tranny why not. It's okay for a movie to be fun and wholesome. I seem to remember when that was sort of a rule, at least where kids and families were concerned so have it. Like I say, it's not something I'd go see but if they can make a buck without cursing or sexing up the kids, good on em.
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  1090. "We can't be afraid of words." Tell that to your pals shutting down free speech. I don't watch Fox or any news network for that matter but I peek when on videos here if the topic catches my attention. I have no idea where this joker comes from but I've seen him comment on a few topics and I've gotta say he makes miss hearing Juan Williams pontificate, and THAT is saying something. I'm tapping out now. I get that they want to have a liberal voice on this panel but this guy makes me miss the likes of Donna Brazile.
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  1091. The only reason the bartender got her seat was because her audition tape was selected by a bunch of lefties with money. Even pelosi told her to cool her jets with her theatric antics because a glass of water could get elected in that district if it ran as a democrat but other people had to answer questions about her behavior. What legislation has she ever sponsored? But you have to blame her district for sending her back. I saw a video of her at that townhall where her constituents were taking her task for her votes and lack of doing anything to help anyone in her district. Her response? Turn up the music and do some dance you might expect a 15 year-old to perform to impress the guys on the football team. Their response to that? Her re-election. That little drama queen isn't going away and it's not surprising she blamed the violation on her staff. I mean, what else would you expect her to do?
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  1092. That's an easy fix, just rip their hands free. Might leave a bit of skin behind but that can be scrubbed off simple enough. If the glue won't give just heat it up a bit. Use a match if you want to humor them. No need for a petroleum based flame. Problem solved inside of one minute.
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  1093. Economic marxism has fallen out of favor because large majorities of Millennials and Gen-X kids are too ignorant to understand the nuts and bolts of the BS and they like stuff too much. The shift to cultural marxism started when we allowed commie long-hairs to fill the ranks of the universities. They created a whole army of little moaists just chomping at the bit to change the world because... 🤔well, just because. I've said it before, this is only the beginning, and the early stages at that. The 2030s will see social upheaval the likes of which this country has never experienced. Mark my words. 10 years from now, if it turns out I'm wrong, get back to me and I'll do a mea culpa.
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  1094. Germany was doomed from the start. Lousy allies, a navy that was dwarfed by Great Britain, a two-front strategy with too many moving parts, and an arrogance within the upper ranks that blinded them to the possibility that the enemy maybe wasn't quite the pushover they thought they were, especially tiny Belgium. Not exactly a winning combination. Maybe they would have had a puncher's chance if they hadn't dithered early on and allowed Russia to mobilize to the extent they did. That was the death knell. The Schlieffen Plan was flawed but it may have worked if the Germans hadn't had to divert forces to the East. When it devolved into a war of attrition Germany was toast. It's a shame millions had to die for a cause that was lost before it began. The Allies messed up when they stopped short of occupying Berlin. That failure helped feed the stab in the back myth as much as anything else. I'm not a big Roosevelt fan but he understood that and that is why he insisted on unconditional surrender in the next war over Churchill's objections. He knew the Germans needed to be convinced they got their clock cleaned or they would be back at it in another 20 years or so. Too bad. I like Germany. I like Germans. They had a chance to be a great power. Instead they had a spell where they became a great evil that had to be defeated. So much death. The 20th Century was a helluva time for war. Let's hope the 21st doesn't go down the same path. Civilization won't survive that war.
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  1095. The French were great when it came to planning for the previous war and the Germans had a tendency to see the world as they wanted it to be, not as it was. These patterns continued into WWII with the Maginot Line and Hitler's belief that America was a country of degenerates who could be dismissed out of hand.
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  1096. Ya can't fix stupid and commie's are gonna commie.
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  1097. One of my favorite Far Side cartoons was the one where the punch line read; "What really killed the dinosaurs" with an accompanying picture of dinosaurs lighting up cigarettes. That said, I know NASA has stated that most of the big rocks in the asteroid belt have been cataloged and none are on a trajectory to impact Earth. They redid the math for Apophis and said we are mostly safe from that in the short run. Fair enough, but what about long-term comets from the Oort Cloud? A beast like Hale-Bopp could be heading our way and we wouldn't know it until the tail lit up. Hale-Bopp was 18 miles across. You're not running from that. And there is no technology available for dealing with a rock the size of the dino killer. At that speed all you can do is wait and get ready for a really bad day. I was a kid during the duck-and-cover days of the Cold War and that experience taught me that sometimes sh*t happens and all the kings horses won't amount to a hill of beans. I got chastised for telling my fifth grade teacher I would find a catcher's mitt and make like Johnny Bench at ground zero if the Russians lobbed a nuke at us. My mindset hasn't changed. Even if you are one of the 0.05% to survive a blast like that, what kind of world are you going to be left with? Th other 0.0499999999% of the people left are gonna be a desperate bunch. Nah, you can keep that. So let me know where this thing is gonna hit. I'll be waiting.
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  1098.  @larryrowe5259  I'm glad you mentioned trains. I used to love traveling by train. The last time I took a train was in 1985. I was home on leave and my dad was living in Nova Scotia Canada at the time. I started out in coach but when we got to Montreal they hooked the sleeper car up. First class didn't sell out so a porter came through offering to sell spots in single sleepers. I jumped on it and spent that night and most of the next day hanging out in the sleeper. I was able to relax, read my book, and take in the countryside. Maybe I'll do that again before I kick off this rock. It sure was fun the last time. Thanks for sharing your memories. Maybe by 2051 people will be living on the Moon, wondering why we took so long to land a man on Mars.
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  1099. I remember my brother got one for refinishing some chairs for this bar owner. It went through a quart of oil every couple days. Another buddy of mine left the one he paid $25 for by the side of the road a month after he bought it when the head cracked wide open after overheating so much. It was a piece of shit, no doubt about that. Ours was a Chevy family. Thank God the old man steered clear of the Vega. He replaced our 72 Impala with a 78 Monte Carlo, which I thought was ugly as hell (the box look was starting to become all the rage) but at least you could drive it and not worry about the damn thing breaking down. As for me, I stopped buying GM 10 years ago after back-to-back lemons. As a Detroit guy, buying my first Nissan put me in the traitor class but after only having one problem in 10 years I just bought another. When GM starts making a decent product again maybe I'll reconsider. Too bad. I loved the Chevelle, the Impala, even the Nova with the big engine. RIP GM. You used to make a pretty good car.
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  1100. What the bartender fails to consider is most young people don't vote and even fewer respond to these polls. I promised myself no more of her. I really need to do a better job keeping that promise. The mind of a child in more ways than one.
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  1101. I'm not a big fan of dreams for several reasons, but I do know a lot of my dreams center around some sort of unresolved problem/trauma/hang-up I haven't dealt with. I know this because they are either recurring in form or theme and they are left unresolved in my dream state until I resolve/get past whatever it is that's driving the dream in my waking state. As for the creative stuff, for me, writing is cathartic. I have written fiction and every character is imbued with one or more of my traits, kind of like spending hours on the couch without having to pay a shrink. I just thought was my style but then I saw an interview with Steven King where he said basically the same thing, that he is a part of all his characters. And the cool thing is, it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks, your characters will never hate you. That was an interesting talk. I like when Dr. Peterson gets on a role like that, almost a stream-of-conscience-connect-the-dots exercise in real-time.
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  1102. That image of them wearing the force is female tee-shirts actually made me throw up in my mouth. I'll be honest, I was never over the moon for Star Wars. I thought the original trilogy was fine and it should have been left where it was. In my mind the loop was closed. But the big Hollywood studios don't seem to have anyone capable of original thought so now they mostly just recycle and steal and they do it badly and since we can't have nice things in the woke universe you end up with that disgusting picture of the third-wave feminists who critics praise because they are too chicken-shit to do otherwise. But hey, what do I know. I'm just an old white knuckle dragger who writes run-on sentences.
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  1103. My involvement with video gaming ended at Nintendo 64 so I wouldn't get any game-related inside humor and such. I do have a question though. The Drinker mentioned the head ghoul is a former actor who was a big star before the nuclear war. Fair enough, but he also said the story takes place 200 years after the war ends. So that would make the guy what, 235 years old? How is that dealt with? I dunno, I most likely won't watch so unless someone clues me in here I suppose I'll never know.
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  1104. There are some well-intentioned people who believe a stint in the military or some other form of mandatory service would benefit young people by instilling a bit of discipline or a sense of service before self within them, that it would connect them to the larger community and give them a stake in the system. That sentiment is all fine and well, but the bureaucracy required to run such an outfit would become a beast and a military comprised of people who don't want to be there was abandoned for good reasons. Forced altruism accomplishes very little and can create problems where they didn't exist before. I started a community volunteer program at a military unit I was assigned to and in spite of push-back up and down the chain it worked because I gave the people volunteering ownership of it. They picked the charities they supported and the type of work they would do. It became such a hit that the same leadership who dismissed it early-on wanted to make it mandatory when the number of volunteers fell short for a time. I had to point out what made it successful and remind them that being "voluntold" defeated the whole purpose. I said I'd quit if they did that so they backed off because while they liked the positive publicity it was bringing them they didn't want to actually run the the thing. My point is, top-down volunteer programs are doomed right off the bat. The program I started worked for a time because it was owned by the people doing the work. They took pride in it and wanted it to succeed. After I retired the program faded away because nobody wanted to take on the small bit of responsibility it took to run the thing. I guess what I'm trying to say is, volunteering can work and it can create better citizens. Being voluntold achieves neither.
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  1105. This isn't new. Teddy Roosevelt wanted football banned from colleges at the turn of the 20th Century because he thought it was too violent. So much for the rough rider with the Gucci saddle bags eh. Third wave feminists or whatever they are calling themselves now have been coming after football for a while because it is the one party they can't crash and they hate anything designed for men, anything they can't take over. What is it Rush used to call em, Fem Nazi's? He had that right. Hockey is more violent than football and has a higher rate of concussions but nobody says squat about that. Maybe because it's Canadian. 🤔 Anyway, nobody is asking the question that should be asked. How many COVID jabs was this guy forced to take to keep his job? Incidents of cardiac cases ranging from myocarditis to sudden cardiac arrests like this young man suffered are up 1700% among athletes in his age group. Not just in football. Soccer players have dropped dead as well. Young men in peek physical shape, just dropping dead. Wanna have a national dialogue? Let's talk about the poison people like this guy were forced to take, drugs administered with no formal testing. Incidents of heart problems and blood clots in young people who were never in a high risk group for such health issues until COVID came around and sports leagues and other institutions demanded you get jabbed or lose your job. I'd rather point to that than the fact that straight males tend to like football and therefore, by extension, it is misogynistic and should be banned because you know, it's better for gay men and girl power and stuff if we get rid of it. Let's all play badminton. Here's the bottom line. Football isn't going anywhere, at least not until after the country is divided. I suppose when it is, the lefty's can outlaw it and replace it with spelling bees. We'll take it and make men great again. That's what it's all about isn't it girls? Feminizing men so you can be on top? See how you like that when the barbarian's are knocking down your door and your effeminate man says "do what you want to the girl just leave me alone." Until that time, I say let the games begin!
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  1106. Of course Trump is going to run. I would like to see DeSantis run against him and win but if that happened Trump would spend the remainder of that election year throwing shade at the governor out of spite. That would suppress enough of the turn out on the GOP side to give us obama's fourth term. If he is the candidate, my fear is Trump will drum up enough energy on the other side to put the swing states back within the margin of cheating. Nobody but die-hard true cultists think the senile old coot and his cackling hen VP are up to the job but they will all rally around defeating Trump who they see as the devil. The commies have shown us that stealing an election isn't that hard if you do it against a republican the swamp-rats in the GOP hate as well. What will this place look like in 2028 after six more years of Biblical level plagues? Hard to say. But it won't look anything like the country obama promised to fundamentally transform in 2008, that's for sure. Guess he got his way. Yes we can indeed.
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  1107. "Republican's don't play to win." This is true. They play to fund raise. The problem is, they're running out of reasons. "But the courts" worked for them for a while but Justices like Roberts kind of ruined that narrative. The thing is, both parties are simply acting in accordance with their DNA. The left has always been about the acquisition and application of power. Republicans, going back to the time of their founding have always had that wishy-washy component from their Whig tradition. I wish this fellow luck but McConnel and company ain't exactly the type to stand on any kind of principle.
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  1108. I had no idea those shows outside of rings of power even existed. People will continue to tell these companies that two men having sex and guys dressed like women is nasty and people don't want it shoved in their faces. It has nothing to do with challenging social norms or whatever that fruitcake was blabbering about. The bottom line is normal people have a natural visceral aversion to abnormal behavior because it's gross and nasty and anyone who is not a pervert simply doesn't want to look at that crap. It doesn't take a poll and a deep analytical dive into the data to figure that one out. So why does it keep happening? Why do companies like Amazon, disney, target, bud light, and others keep putting these unqualified woke 30-something women in charge of their marketing and production teams knowing in advance they will most likely crash and burn and cost the company millions, billions for that matter? Because it is their religion. Wokism is every bit a religion as Catholicism or Protestantism. They have their own temples, cannon, and internal hierarchy. It is a matriarchy with high priestesses like that ditz who destroyed bud light and this woman crashing Amazon's creative department. The whole I am woman hear me bore experiment would have been abandoned a long time ago in a saner world but the world has changed. Wokism is all the rage and it will not go gently into that sweet night. Expect more of this and don't waste any time trying to figure out the why's behind it. That is a fools errand.
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  1109. "I agree we should change the rules when it comes to stuff we want to get through and apply them when it comes to stuff we want to block." That is the epitome of the democratic mindset. And ANY democrat talking about the need for justices to not bring their politics into their decisions is richer than quadruple chocolate fudge. Impeach em!!! That's typical. Democrats are getting into the habit of making disagreeing with them or not voting they way they expect a criminal offense. It's like that foul-mouth Palestinian representative from Michigan screaming at Roger Goodell, demanding he confiscate the Washington Redskins because the owner had the audacity to support republican candidates. Durbin asked if American's really wanted to see their values corrupted? I guess maybe it depends on what America you are referring to, America, or Amerika comrade.
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  1110. You know you've made it when that woman who's name shall not be uttered is calling you a commie shill. Well done Tulsi. Glad you finally left the dark side.
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  1111. "They stimulate your eyes and not your brain and the more it happens, the more audiences start to become jaded and disinterested." So to put it in simpler more concise terms, Hollywood has become a strip club.
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  1112. Nice sentiments Tulsi, but when are you going to apply God's love and the right to life and happiness to the babies in the womb, the most helpless of all God's creatures? Just askin.
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  1113. When did mutilating children become part of the culture war? French has always been a sh*thead. It's nice to know that while the world has been turned on its head at least some things remain the same.
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  1114. I'm not a regular follower. If Matt has something to say on an issue that interests me I'll hear him out. Sometimes I agree with him, sometimes I don't, like anyone else. There are legitimate criticisms you can throw his way but not having the balls to speak out on a topic is not in that group. Matt is one of the bravest commentators out here because he has gone into the belly of the beast and attacked Satan where he lives. This tribalism on every side is grating. I support Governor DeSantis but I don't demand others to do the same and I don't engage in name calling with people who support another candidate. That's a big part of what got us into the mess we currently find ourselves in. If you take the time to get to know people on a live, one-on-one basis, not in this imaginary digital world where throwing around insults is like finding a jewel in a Super Mario Bros game you'd find you have more in common than you think and that you don't actually hate as many people as you are told to hate. If that fails, refer to the great philosopher Sgt. Hulka with the big toe and "Lighten up Francis."
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  1115. This kind of lawfare is going to continue until the women start paying the price for making these false accusations and these DA's who know these women are lying start being disbarred. In other words, they are going to continue and get worse as time moves on. The left has learned they can get away with treating people anyway they please. Why should they stop now?
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  1116. "I owe my soul to the company store." - Tennessee Ernie Ford
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  1117. The bartender and her squad of dim bulbs have sponsored no legislation during their pretend-time in the House. All that mindless child does is stage histrionic outbursts and events and spend time on her social media site flirting with adolescent boys while she bashes capitalism. As for queen nefertiti, there should be a law against serving in congress if you violate immigration law by marrying your brother to sneak him into the country. Oh wait, there already is. Never mind. Then there is the foul mouth west-bank representative from good old Dearborn Michigan. That woman is incapable of speaking like an adult. I have never seen her maintain any semblance of emotional control. pelosi let these dimwits get away with stunts like this and gave them far more influence than they deserved. But there you have it gang, the face of the democratic party for the next two decades or more. I am far from a fan of the republican party but if you support a party that promotes child mutilation, strip shows for kids, and is led by the likes of morons like those three, you deserve the tyranny you are clamoring for. In saner times, not one of those women would be anywhere near elected office. But we don't live in those times do we.
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  1118. Whoever thought it was a good idea to have that wicked harpy participate in the coin-toss should be fired. But then again, I imagine it was some woke gen-z little sh*t who will run to HR and threaten a lawsuit if they try it. Philadelphia may be chock-full of democratic voters but that has more to do with demographics than anything else. This is still the fanbase that threw snowballs at Santa Claus. Next time, take your act to San Francisco lady. As for her being protective of the senile old coot, yeah, she's protective, the same way a spider protects fly's that wander into it's web. She is enabling elder abuse for the money and status and it is disgusting. Putting the word protective in the same sentence as that woman's name is a travesty.
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  1119. Or as Brad Pitt put it in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: "Don't cry in front of the Mexicans."
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  1120. The more this will thomas character got people to play along with him the stronger hiss demonic desires became and the more sexually aroused he got. Well done NCAA, ESPN, and the rest, you helped some demented pervert get off while he laughed about it with his boyfriend the whole time. Satan is at the heart of it all. At least guy at the grammys was straight up about who he worships and where he wants to spend eternity, not like will thomas who plays games and lies about who he is and who he considers his spiritual father to be. “There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell." ― C.S. Lewis. These people are going to find out Satan is an equal opportunity hater when they are tossed into the lake of fire with him, and they will have a very, very, very, long time to think about how they arrived where they did.
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  1121. You can't understand modern-day marxists without studying the beliefs of the founder of their movement. That would be like trying to understand the story of the United States without studying American History. Marx believed in the inevitability of communism based on the concept of dialectic historicism. He took the concept from Hagel but the basic working of the model is centered on two opposing systems clashing to form a new system (thesis versus antithesis). Marx saw this in terms of class struggle based on economics whereas today's communists see it along cultural lines but the objective is the same, a new system replacing the old with commies running things in the end. That is the real quiet part they never say out loud. All of the groups currently being pandered to will be assimilated or crushed, but they will submit like everyone else. Marx referred to it as the dictatorship of the proletariat but a more accurate descriptor for what the modern globalist crowd has in mind would be a dictatorship of the experts. In their utopia, they upend the crass group who create capital and assume the role of new masters of the universe not because they have earned it but because they are entitled to it based on their superior intellect. Any meritocracy, especially one as strong as the U.S. must be taken out. The progressives have been working at it for a long time and they are so close they can taste it. COVID was just a dry run. Wait until you see what they have planned for the great economic crash they are creating. You'll long for the good old days of arguing over masks and vaccine mandates. Look around. See what is happening in China, Canada, Australia, and other countries. The funny thing is, it looks like Putin may be the only one playing by his own set of rules, the last great independent tyrant. Go figure Anyway, that's just me. Want to understand why commies do what commies do? Easy, study communism, not what The Wall Street Journal has to say on the subject.
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  1122. "Somehow I don't think Disney would sanction behavior like this." Sorry to challenge you on this one Drinker. See Miley Cyrus. I'll be honest, I saw this movie when it was released and while my friends really liked it I found it to be a bit laborious. I mean, I thought it was okay but I wasn't over the moon about it. It did have moments though and I like Dennis Hopper's character the best. But it did make a mark and the line, "I love the smell of napalm in the morning...it smells like victory," became a metaphor with a lot of different applications for us in the military. That said, after hearing the backstory it has new found respect from me. Thanks for the informative piece Drinker. I had no idea about any of this shit.
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  1123.  @avalerie4467  They did. My point was no store is irreplaceable. My analogy was probably not the best.
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  1124. A little off-topic but that looks like a Gibson SG off to the left. If so, nice. I always liked the SG.
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  1125. The sad irony is the guy whose election was supposed to signal an end to all of this nonsense ended up being the guy who stirred it all back up. He told us what he wanted to do, "Fundamentally Change" the place. He was lousy at his job but he did manage to achieve his objective. Having fun yet? Yes we can't.
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  1126. "I'm not gonna go on stage with her cause she's a meanie." That'll work. I love watching Kari take on these jokers in the media. She's better at it than DeSantis and he's been the gold standard to this point. Her experience in front of a camera helps there. I would love to see a DeSantis/Lake ticket in 2024. Yeah, she'll still be getting her feet wet but I'd trust her over 98% of the squishes in the republican party to do the right thing. Anyway, wear those leftist smears like a badge of honor Kari. We luv ya out here in the world of the ay things are because you know what time it is.
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  1127. Something tells me this isn't the first time he's played this card, it's just the first time anyone gave a damn. People like him will never move on because they don't want to. It's easier to blame your career failure's on the ubiquitous white devil and systemic racism than it is on the fact that your just not very good at your job. If he was a star he wouldn't be sitting around the lobby of a Wyndham hotel by himself, being questioned by people who have no idea who he is. That is his real beef. Nobody cares.
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  1128. These little Maoists have been pampered by sympathetic or indifferent parents who either support the Marxist education or aren't that interested in what their kids are being fed. The thing is, these judges are the exception, not the norm. The squishy middle of the republican party is to blame for most of our ills. This is what happens when you have no real opposition party. And don't expect any mercy once these little totalitarian brats get their demonic paws on the throttle. The father of their movement is the father of all lies and division and his minions like Marx have told us what they intend for those who want to be left alone: “We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.” ― Karl Marx It's not like we haven't seen this movie play out. We have been warned. It's too bad most of us, if pushed, will back down.
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  1129.  @barra6709  Indeed we do.
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  1131. I pointed out that a poll saying biden's approval rating sits at 42% while more than 2/3 of the people think the country is heading in the wrong direction is proof that outside of Emmerson, Traflagar, and Business Weekly, you can't trust most polling done in the U.S. and apparently that was enough for the You Tube hall monitors to take down my post. Or maybe it was because I pointed out that obama led the democratic party to Mount Doom and being the good little cult-like marxists they are the hard-core lefties who now run that demonic party have decided to die on the hill of identity politics. Perhaps it was due to me pointing out that when the commies aimed their poison darts at American children that was a bridge too far and people in the center who simply wanted to be left alone were suddenly being made to care. Let's see if my summation fares better than my original post.
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  1132. I remember a couple years back that lena dunham person got naked for some magazine and a show I was watching showed one of the less graphic images. I literally almost threw up in my mouth. Here's a simple test, take these women the lefties say are hot and let em loose in any club for a couple hours. See how many are still left there at last call. Even guys who will take triple baggers and double coyotes home would take a hard pass on guys pretending to be women and women pretending to be women like that soccer nazi.
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  1133. Since hip-hop/rap or whatever it's called these days isn't really my thing I've never heard of this guy. But he makes two points that get to the core of this nonsense that's been going on for a while. First, he is 100% correct. People like Piers Morgan are cowards who want to maintain a certain standing within the left-wing ecosystem. In order to do that, you have to buy all of what they are selling, because cults are all about zero-sum behavior, or you have to keep your mouth shut when they reach peek stupid. As the gentleman here points out, this guy is trying to ride the middle and the left does not allow that. Eventually he will have to bow the knee entirely or remain silent if he wants to stay in the good graces of the cult. He also makes a critical point when he refers to the slippery slope we are going down. It's not a matter of the powers that be pushing this nonsense believing any of it, it's a matter of getting you to believe the lie. The bigger the lie, the bigger the victory. And what could possibly be a bigger win for them than getting you to somehow acknowledge that reality itself is relative and up for grabs? Nobody actually believes a man can give birth and everyone knows the differences between boys and girls from the time they are born. Yet, you have a woman who is now a Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court on record saying she is unable to define what a woman is. How much farther down the rabbit hole do you need to go before declaring victory? I believe the entire mess is intrinsically tied to social media. Twitter mobs, most likely made up of bots, and Tic-Toc maniacs who should be receiving some sort of mental therapy instead of being given a platform to spew their insanity, attack people in waves and for whatever reason, people buy into it and back down. It's the whole madness of crowds phenomena. Satan was provided a playground and his demonic team is circling the bases. Want to know why this is a fairly new thing? Look no further than the rise of social media. Everyone refers to followers and likes, and retweets and blah, blah, blah. When I was a kid, if I said something maybe five people heard it on any given day. Now, millions see what we say and adolescents who base a lot of their self-worth on group attachments get shredded if they stray from the Northern California left-wing orthodoxy. That is why there is such a sharp increase in teen suicides and why 20% of Gen-Z identifies as gay or trans (of course, those polls reflect coastal culture so those numbers should be taken with a grain of salt). But the cultural pariah's like Pierce Morgan who play this game for their own end are the ones who should really be called out, not that crazy guy who dresses up like a woman and storms off because he just came on his show to have a bit of fun, not engage in a debate. That person either has a true mental illness or he is a lost hedonist who has fallen into the clutches of Satan. Because those are really the only two options for people like him. They are either mentally disturbed or morally corrupt. There is no middle ground there. Solzhenitsyn said; “The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.” Until we stop being moral cowards and stop taking part in the lie we will never be free of these left-wing bullies who use words the way Al Capone used the Tommy Gun. Is being called a transphobe really that bad? I'm with Miss Parker. If speaking the truth makes me a transphobe, guilty as charged. This has been a long rant and I doubt anyone will take the time to read it. But if it survives the You Tube digital hall monitors and you do take the time to read it, thank you and let's try and get a win for the truth. The damage has been done, now we must pick up the pieces and start again.
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  1134. That response from Anheuser-Busch, including the add, made me think of Otter defending the fraternity in Animal House: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PYb_anBMus&t=13s As for Don Jr., nice to know where you stand on the issue pal. Now go f-yourself. I mean that in a good way of course.
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  1135. You aren't going to see violence in the streets over Donald Trump. The entire thing is a staged event from stem-to-stern. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if it was prearranged by every party involved, especially the media since everyone benefits. This low-level DA gets to raise his profile, Trump gets his photo-op and gets to fund raise off it. He also gets to call his opponents who don't sufficiently kiss the ring names. The media gets a bunch of viewers who are more interested in the show than what actually matters, lifting their numbers to at least pond-scum level. And Congress? Well, they get to do what they do best bloviate and maybe even run an investigation that will result in a huge nothing burger, their specialty. The whole thing is reality TV, nothing more, nothing less. It will generate a few headlines then sit dormant until the Iowa Caucus when, during the first debate, some Trump-Cult moderator will ask DeSantis why he didn't lay down in front of a tank for Cheeto Jesus as Nikki Haley jumps up and down saying she would thrown a high heel at the commies. Forgetting of course that Trump went in willingly. BTW, Clinton lied to a grand jury, not Congress. Lying to Congress isn't even an impeachable offense to the bozo's running things on this side of the pond. As for calling biden the worst president in history, hate to burst your bubble on that one too but he's not president. Someone else is pointing that senile old man around and he gets his marching orders from obama. If you honestly believe that guy runs anything I've got a nice piece of land to sell you, right down the street. It's covered by 10 feet of water but it is still a prime location. And yes, if the U.S. goes down that's it for the West, at least as it has been since the end of WWII. Maybe Europe coalesces and gets cozy with the chi-coms and Putin. But you better believe they won't be the senior partner in that little arrangement. But don't worry, I'm sure it will all turn out fine.
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  1136. As that great philosopher Archie Bunker would put it: Bingo! Facts are stubborn things as Dr. Sowell proves again and again and again. They also make liberals quite angry, sort of like throwing holy water on a demon.
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  1137. "We can point our fingers at the idiot professors...but then, what the hell's up with the evil capitalist overlords? Are they so clueless that they can't even want to take responsibility for the fruits of their own success?" I agree guilt may play a small role but it's really about conditioning. They were taught by those idiot professors Jordan; why would you think they wouldn't behave the way those ideologues conditioned them to behave? There is a line in the movie Seabiscuit where David McCollough talks about the horse initially doing what it was trained to do. It was trained to lose to other horses. The horse had great breeding and a natural instinct to win but it had to unlearn the bad habits it acquired as a result of it's prior training before it could reach its potential and act within its true nature which was to be a race horse. These woke CEO's were taught that the system is rigged against the marginalized classes so they are following their half-ass training just like that horse did. They see no dichotomy between being successful and being woke. If the policies cause the corporation to fail it is because that corporation was meant to fail. We are entering a phase of crony capitalism where the state picks the winners and the losers in business and the corporations pick the winners and the losers in politics. They are one in the same. The woke CEO knows he will always have an out, just like his idiot professors know they will never have to pay the price for the failure of their ridiculous theories. The movement and the CEO are one in the same Jordon. The days of the evil capitalist overlord is over. The days of the evil woke corporation has begun. Personally, I'll take the robber barons because they understood their success was tied to the success of the system but that's me.
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  1138. No love for General Lucius Clay? 🤔I mean, the airlift was his idea. Just sayin.
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  1139. "By their fruits you will know them." Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, Miley Cyrus, all these mixed up stars have one thing in common, their association with Disney. Disney has been a malevolent force for years. "By their fruits you will know them."
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  1140. It's not a lack of stars that is hurting the industry, it's a lack of storytelling. The studios are focused on worn out franchises and platforms like Amazon, disney, and Netflix are more concerned with hiring the right kind of writer and director based on skin color, gender, or sexual lifestyle. In other words hiring people who check boxes and are ideologically pure. It is the exact same playbook earlier iterations of Marxists ran going back to the 1920s and 30s. The difference now is independent filmmakers and smaller studios are making inroads because they are creating stories people want to see. Hollywood will never change because of a combination of arrogance, money, and a genuine commitment to the cultural Marxist revolution. The suits are true believers, raised in an education system that planted the seeds of DEI into deep soil. Studios will go under before they give up the fight.
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  1141. I'm hearing everything from 20 years, to 50 years, to sometime in the early 2030s. I dunno. It sounds like a good idea, but we don't have a good track record with acting responsibly with large amounts of power. Just sayin. If it is 50 years away, fair enough. I will be long gone from this plain, and that means one less thing I have to rig my house for.
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  1142. I don't know. Sometimes light is the best disinfectant. I'm quite certain the MSM would be very content to just let this sort of mayhem go on with out too much attention being paid to it. I'm surprised this demon's real father allowed him to go on to be honest. But then again, he is quite arrogant.
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  1143. That bitcoin guy conned the left the same way blm conned the left, by appealing to their emotions. blm even went so far as to come straight out and admit their leaders were trained marxist agitators and if you looked at their website they were way more interested in promoting the rainbow jihad than they were in helping black people. But, they had a nifty title and they had the media 100% in the bag for them. You even had blm crap stenciled on baseball diamonds in MLB ballparks. That little fat kid just saw how stupid cult members are and took advantage of it. Not much skill required for that shell game. It's kinda like playing keep away with a 3 month old pup. As for Trump, he's gonna run and his cult is going to be just as loud, mean-spirited, and cranky as their dear leader is. But there are fewer of them now and his ego is already submarining his chances in 2024. People have Trump-lag, especially independent voters, and one thing the red trickle did was save biden. If that wave had taken place the party would have had justification for giving him the axe but now he will more than likely get to finish obama's third term. It should be fun watching that brain dead VP who got where she is because like peanut butter she is easy to spread going up against the woman from Arkansas who's name shall not be uttered here in the primaries. Gollum isn't done chasing the precious, not by a long shot. She'll be back and gassier and nastier than ever. And all of that will work against Trump. Trump will be 78. The country will have gone through two more years of a nasty old man in the WH and Gollum will remind people that these boomers who will not relinquish power have got to go. Ron DeSantis can more than make up the loss of the die-hard Trumpers by brining along independents and cross over democrats who are sick of the groomers coming after their kids as they pay $6.00 for a gallon of gasoline and pay $600 each month to heat their homes in the winter. Trump will make a lot of noise, probably show up on CNN and MSNCB bashing the republican party and whoever beat him in the primary but at the end of the day he won't run any kind of meaningful third party challenge. He won't be able to afford it and no one will back him financially. He'll be busy paying court costs to fight his political enemies in NY who aren't going away. I think Trump did a very good job prior to COVID. I think what the left has done to him and is doing is disgusting and represents the real threat to democracy. I also think they swiped the election from him 2020. But I also think his time has come and gone and the country needs a younger man who has proven he can govern effectively. It's time to end cult-of-personality-reality-TV politics and let younger more capable people who love this country every bit as much as Trump take a crack at fixing it. I see comments linking DeSantis to Bush, Cheney, mcconnell, the chamber of commerce, blah, blah, blah, blah. This all runs 100% contrary to the evidence but it doesn't matter to the Trump cult. They do what their dear leader tells them and if he says Ron DeSantis is a squishy republican that's good enough for them. But I believe their numbers are much smaller than they were in 2016 and 2020 and as Trump continues to attack all threats, real or imagined, in his paranoid egotistical fashion he will lose more and more support. I watched the election coverage on Blaze TV and he called in and gave an interview with Glenn Beck. That was the first time I had heard him speak in a while and I gotta say, his narcissism was on full display and his shtick has not gotten better with age. He told Jason Whitlock how much he liked him because Whitlock made some complimentary remarks about him just before he came on but he had no idea who Whitlock was. I'm sure I've heard you somewhere before, was all he said. But I bet he would have endorsed Whitlock for the senate if Whitlock said the same thing at some rally in a half empty parking lot. I doubt anyone will read my little rant but I'm willing to bet if some die-hard Trumper does they will accuse me of being a mcconnell, bush, cheney guy and worse. For the record, I go back a long way with the conservative movement. I thought LBJ was an idiot, Nixon was a snake, Ford was a wimp, and I was a long-haired club musician who voted for Reagan twice. I never liked either bush and spent too many Christmas's away from home fighting wars those two got us into. I think rumsfeld and cheney should be tried for crimes against humanity and yes, I voted for Trump when he ran last time. But that was because he earned my vote. Like I say, he did a good job, but it's time to move past him. He'll run, he'll call Ron DeSantis all kinds of names based on nothing more than his paranoid egomaniacal cranky old nature but the Governor is strong enough to handle it. I believe, as Douglas Murray pointed out, the red trickle was the best thing that could have happened. It stirred up the wrath against the right people, namely mcconnell and his house lackey mccarthy, and took the sheen off Trump. I know he is taking credit for every republican win everywhere for every job from postmaster to dog catcher but like it was with Whitlock I doubt he could tell you most of the winning republican names. He only remembers the ones who, in his mind, have betrayed him by failing to kiss hiss ass 24/7. Sorry, he owns Oz and Walker, and a lot of other candidates who were even Trump adjacent outside of MAGA world. People are fed up with both sides and the petty squabbles of boomers and if the republicans are smart they will find someone other than mccarthy for Speaker and look at the next election through the lens of the voters who will matter, independents. Facts are stubborn things and the facts are Trump does not play well beyond his base. If they run him in 2024 they will lose and obama will get to put his finishing touches on his fundamental transformation of America from a once great republic into a submissive sh*thole ready to be taken over by the WEF and the great reset. THAT is the real threat to our democracy, not the chamber of flipping commerce. Go ahead, attack me if you will, but that is life in the world of the way things are.
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  1144.  @no.step.on.snek.2423  I'm not mad, and I didn't say they don't have the right to behave one way or the other. God allows us the freedom to accept or reject Him as we see fit. I simply said the choices they are making have consequences and I do sincerely hope they realize that before it's too late.
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  1145. That was a good talk. So much Monday morning quarterbacking went on after the war with regard to Ike's strategy. I suppose that's a natural hazard considering the wide front approach, plenty of generals, a lot of ground to cover, and egos just as expansive. The bottom line is the strategy worked and Ike made it work by balancing competing egos and nationalities with a clear eye on the objective, killing Germans and ending the war. That same confidence in himself helped Eisenhower resist the calls to beat the Russians to Berlin. If it didn't fit in the big picture, it wasn't worth exploring. Ike did a helluva job for the role he was given. I don't think any general, Marshall included, could have pulled it off any more smoothly. Good analysis and no, I don't think you are pro-British, Canadian, or German for that matter, as some have accused you. I don't always agree with your conclusions but you certainly do your homework, a trait sorely lacking in a lot of other videos. Well done.
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  1146. This country is becoming more and more like pre-revolutionary Russia every day. "There is this fallacious belief: 'It would not be the same here; here such things are impossible.' Alas, all the evil of the Twentieth Century is possible everywhere on Earth:" ― Alexander Solzhenitsyn “The tyranny of the minority is infinitely more odious and intolerable and more to be feared than that of the majority.” ― President William McKinley
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  1147. Okay, so, if there are people who are secretly intelligent, then there must be people who are secretly stupid. Right? That certainly would explain the level of service I get damn near every time I go to the Post Office.
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  1148. I grew up in one of those neighborhoods in Detroit that went to hell in a handbasket after the 67 riots. The riots were just the opening shot. Bussing ran most of the white people out of our neighborhood. There were only a couple high-schools left at that time that weren't predominantly black but the communists and their fellow travelers running things determined bussing needed to happen anyway because it was happening everywhere else in the country. For Sale signs littered the landscape. I had a paper route and I had to solicit house-house to replace my customers who were bailing out in droves. And who were these people who were fleeing? Middle-class mostly blue-collar workers. Bye bye tax base. There was a vibrant shopping district, theaters, parks, schools, police and fire stations. but as the tax base went away the parks became overgrown with weeds and the police station and firehouse went away. So did the stores when it was no longer profitable or safe to operate. Of course it was all racism. It had nothing to do with the rise in crime and the deterioration of the area. Race pimps make a career off keeping the trouble alive. Clowns like jesse jackson and al sharpton run around calling everything another Selma and pin the blame on whitey and his Jew buddies. It's a lot easier to point the finger out than it is to point it in. Unless and until the real systemic racist attitudes that prevail within the black community are dealt with black people will continue to lag behind in every meaningful metric. I'm not saying white folks are clean in all of this, white culture is falling apart just as fast but the race problem could be an easy fix if people wanted it to become a reality. But that requires a change of the heart and a full-stop to marxist notions that racial discrimination is a social construct based on power and that only the people in power can hold racist views. The twisted cognitive dissonant language and reasoning of the left needs to be challenged, now more than ever, but there is no opposition. There is reality-tv masquerading as politics and demagogy being passed off as commentary. Principles are exchanged for clicks and book sales. The right wants to own the libs, the left wants to own the country. That is a fact, and as John Adams said: "Facts are stubborn things." There is no subjective truth. Speak your truth is a demonic slogan. There is that which is true and that which is not. But we do like our comforting lies, yes indeed we do.
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  1149. DeSantis/Reynolds. Great liberty ticket.
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  1150. Thanks Drinker, I came for my daily fix and discovered you are doing a series. How cool! I will check in regularly because I can't seem to get my notification bell to work for this or most of the channels I subscribe to. But that's a conversation for another day. And thank you for exposing Creed for what it is. I watched it once and saw pretty much the same thing you did. Truth be told, once Rocky kicked Mr. T's ass the Rocky series was finished as far as I was concerned. Mick was dead and Rocky and Apollo were now allies. I figured that was far as I wanted to go. Rocky fighting the Soviets and Don King wannabe's just didn't do it for me. Same with Terminator. I liked 1 & 2 and 3 had the potential to close the loop properly but then they went and cast a pathetic loser as John Conner and made his future Mrs. the brains of the outfit. They were early adopters when it came to the whole I am woman hear me bore thing. And I stopped at three with Star Wars so I didn't see any of that mess. I guess in some ways I'm sort of like Ferris talking to the audience at the end of his day off when it comes to recycling iconic movies. Uh oh, I better watch my mouth before I give someone an idea for Ferris Bueller: the Next Generation. As always, your analysis is spot on. I've already shared this one Drinker and I look forward to the next installment.
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  1151. I get it, she's got a book to sell and ratings to consider but I thought this was a Christian network. Anyone who simply blames it all on lefties without considering what is driving the lefties is missing the point. Sorry judge, but the forces at work aren't just looking to take down America, they want to take the world, and they have since they were cast down for rebelling against God. What's happening here is spiritual in nature, not political. That's the reality of it and anyone who doesn't see that doesn't know what time it is. And that is why the demons are on the rise and the West is in decline. To borrow from Apollo's trainer in Rocky, they don't know it's a show, they think it's a war. And they are playing by those rules because their master will accept nothing less from is minions. Yes we can indeed.
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  1152. Nobody can say for certain what came before the Big Bang, but I've got a good idea of what came immediately after it...The Big Cigarette. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Credit Carnac the Magnificent for that one, my favorite of all-time.
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  1153. Crist lies so much he has to have someone else call his dog. Maybe the ass-whuppin he takes at the hands of DeSantis will finally push that old windbag off the political stage once and for all. I'm sure he was guaranteed a spot on MSNBC or CNN in exchange for being the sacrificial lamb in this one. Make no mistake, good old Charlie doesn't do anything that doesn't benefit Charlie first and foremost.
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  1154. Candidate quality doesn't matter on the left Tucker but it does on the right. Democrats and democratic voters do what they're told. It's the whole Borg mentality. There is no single reason you can't point to and say this is why the republicans failed to win what should have been a slam dunk. Part of it was Trump. He is despised by his political opponents in a way I have never seen and I'm old enough to remember Nixon. When Trump started holding rally's at the 11th hour the message from the democrats changed from they are going to take away your abortion rights to democracy is under threat. There are voters in places like NY, MI, and PA who will never vote for a republican. They will just stay home. I'm sure a lot of them planned on doing just that until Trump came out. After that I bet a lot of em were like oh hell no, I've gotta vote even if I think my state is going to hell in a handbasket because orange man bad. You are right about the supposed leadership in the house taking a lions share of the blame. The turtle of the senate was never going to let republicans get a majority over there. The last thing he wanted was more uppity senators to deal with. But there is no reason the republicans should have less than 230 seats in the house. The problem is, look who they plan on making speaker. mccarthy is half-a-commie out of Kalifornia and that hardly makes anyone think he is going to take any action against what is going on. And what message did they have? The dems had a message twisted as it may have been and they stayed with it. The republicans, what did they have? We're not crazy. That's not enough to get the vote out. mccarthy needs to be denied the speakership. If they don't they won't have the house longer than one term.
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  1155. I always wondered why it was that a civilization advanced enough to leap frog through the galaxy, overcoming the laws of time, space, and acceleration had attack ships that folded like the Orcs at the gates of Mordor when the mother ship was blown up. And how such an advanced civilization was able to be duped by two guys who hid from them by rolling up the tinted windows in a ship they owned. But, as The Drinker points out, the interplay between Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum is cool and I love that bit where the dog leaps through the air just before everything behind him gets blown to shit. I always found the premise to be way over the top but hey, I like Armageddon even though it has fire in zero oxygen environments and an asteroid the size of Texas flying in at 45,000 MPH+ that Bruce Willis is able to blow up with a single baby nuke. He's right, sometimes you just gotta say fuck the science and enjoy the ride. Great review!
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  1156.  @Siegfried5846  No I'm not a libertarian, and far be it from me to challenge wikipedia, the oracle of the 21st Century. Have you read what Rousseau?
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  1157.  @chamwow168  You hit on the key distinction, the nature of man. Locke believed we have a fallen nature, a view I support. Rousseau also put a greater emphasis on the general will where Locke believed individual rights, natural rights, trumped collective aims.
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  1158. I suppose making a film with the explicit intent of pissing off a segment of the population is to be expected given today's environment of hate and division. Art does reflect life after all. Or is it the other way around? I dunno. But the Drinker makes a good point. Looking at it as something intentional does provide clarity as to motive. What a shame. We are all heading to the edge of the cliff and very few people are asking why we want to jump off.
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  1159. I remember when a couple weekend warrior's took their F-16s supersonic over the beach as a way to impress the bikini-clad young ladies below I guess. I didn't get the particulars on what happened until I read about it in the paper the following day but I Ivied fairly close to the event and I remember hearing a big thump when they pulled that stunt. I thought maybe a tree limb had fallen on my roof. Needless to say, the boys were dealt with and word was they were assigned desks until that stopped being fun for them and they resigned from the ANG. I think the future of getting there faster will involve sub-orbital flights. As for me, after years of flying, I like the sky right where it is, up above with me looking up at it.
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  1160. Will there ever be accountability? Not in this life. But in the grand scheme of things, I think trying to cheat your way into power will be one of the lesser sins that woman will have to account for when she is standing before the only judge whose opinion really matters. We will all be held to account. I have asked for forgiveness and believe it has been given and in spite of my personal feelings I hope she does the same because 80 plus years is a blink of an eye in eternity.
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  1161. Bring the experts in? Sorry dude, it was the EXPERTS who got you where you are today. You're going to see stores closing down in these cities and the ones who can afford it will hire private security to do the job cops aren't allowed to do. People who can't afford private security are either going to close down or protect their own. Either way, I guess the lefties get what they want, total chaos that will allow them to pull off their great reset. To think these laws are geared to do anything else is naïve. 10 years ago such thoughts were reserved for the tinfoil hat crowd but then again 10 years ago a guy couldn't be a girl just because he feels pretty. Life in the age of stupid flat out sucks.
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  1162. Stern is a pig. I'm a Beatle fan so a couple interviews he did popped up in my feed. In the first he was interviewing John Lennon's first wife Cynthia and he brought up the album cover he did with second wife where they were both naked. He kept at her about whether or not the other Beatles were as well hung and he wouldn't lay off until Cynthia told him to. That was where I left that video. The second was an interview with Paul McCartney and Paul had to tell him to lay off when he wanted to know how long Paul waited to have sex with another woman after his first wife Linda passed away and whether or not it was hot. Paul should have punched him in the face but that's not his style. Like I say, Stern is a pig, and nothing he can do will ever change his poor past behavior. Too bad he doesn't believe in God or the Bible because Jesus is quite clear on the subject of loose lips sinking ships: "I tell you, on the day of judgment people will render an account for every careless word they speak. By your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.” ― Matthew 12: 36-37
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  1163. All the way until the end you are never really sure if JK Simmons is a monster, a genius, a bully, or just a run of the mill a-hole with an over inflated sense of himself. You keep waiting for the great reveal but it never quite gets there. That is what I liked about it anyway. It is an intense movie that's for sure.
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  1164. I don't tweet or whatever it's called these days but if I did I would run a poll, most annoying person in America. The candidates would be that prapinoe chick, neil dgrasse tyson, or any member of the bartender's squad. The winner would get a trophy of a horse's ass and a one-way ticket to Venezuela or North Korea, coach of course.
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  1165. Dave Rubin may be sincere and I believe his conversion to be genuine based on the fact that he has stayed the course, but Maher doesn't evoke the same sort of response from me. He made a career out of mocking people of faith and spreading flat out falsehoods when it suited his purposes, which were his ratings. Maybe all the craziness finally got to him or maybe he just wants them to cool their jets just enough to stay in power. I don't know. But his claim that he is now a hero at Fox doesn't move the needle for me. Lot's of folks are popular at Fox who quite frankly I wouldn't give the time of day to. Does anyone think Karl Rove is a conservative? I don't watch Fox or any major news outlet so maybe I'm the wrong guy to play that card. But I will say this, if you are counting on Bill Maher to have some sort of "Road to Damascus" moment count on waiting a long, long, long, time.
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  1166. Math is racist is really benevolent racism. It's a practice white liberal's like that lady in Canada use to say black kids just aren't smart enough to grasp math (BTW I bet she has probably taught as many black students as Helen from the Andy Griffith show but hey, somebody told her all about the struggle. Not in Canada mind you. They are far too civilized for such knuckle dragging tendencies, but I digress). So what's the fix? You have one of three options. Dumb it down, validate their mistakes, or just get rid of it entirely. I mean, what do they need math for? They are going to be oppressed their entire lives anyway so why teach them proper English and mathematics. It's really just a waste of time. People like our Canadian friend figure they are going to take care of them for the rest of their lives anyway and she's okay with that, provided they don't you know, try to move to her neighborhood. If they do, she would prefer somebody use the approach the enlightened benevolent benefactors in Martha's Vineyard did and kick their ass the hell off her little white homogenous island. She'd get rid of them herself but that kind of work is beneath her. There is a reason she pays those high property taxes and it's not so she has to mingle with the riff-raff. People like that woman make me sick. She has no business teaching poodles let alone children. I don't know. I'm trying hard to see a way out of this mess we have allowed to metastasize but to borrow from Steve Miller it just keeps getting tougher everyday. If I had a boat I could trust I'd grab Wilson and head East. When 2+2 is racist you know the endgame has arrived. God help us.
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  1167. I didn't watch the first one and have no intention of watching this. I just needed a good dose of the Drinker on a cold Saturday in December. Happy Christmas as you put it in that side of the pond.
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  1168. Men and women are different...🤔now now Matt, there you go again. The thing is she actually believes what she is peddling. She believes it because for progressives history always begins whenever they decide it should and in the age of stupid, Hollywood celebrities have ditched their handlers because they believe they are a helluva lot more clever, intelligent, and interesting than they really are. It's why a guy like Tom Hanks, who is generally presented to the public as Mr. everyone, the All-American boy, says stupid sh*t like America's war against Japan was especially violent because of the racial aspect associated with it. Of course he conveniently left out the whole fight-to-the-death-never-surrender Bushido Code mindset of the Japanese soldiers. Nah, it was all the evil doing of the wicked white man oppressing people who look different just because. And he does this while promoting an HBO series he produced on the fighting in the Pacific. But nobody called him on his BS so he gets to continue walking between the raindrops without getting wet. When their handlers aren't around you discover a lot of these people have some seriously twisted views about life, a sort of nihilism mixed in with their narcissism. I imagine most celebrities have always thought along similar lines but there was always someone to protect them from themselves. The guardrails are gone now, especially with social media driving everything. I'm not surprised about Jennifer Lawrence spouting such ridiculous crap. I do wonder about the bobble head conducting the interview. She has to be thinking that the woman she is speaking with is a total clueless ditz but hey, I guess she's getting paid too so what the hell. Lights, camera, action.
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  1169. I really don't give a sh*t about fetterman. I just clicked because I saw Dana in the thumbnail. We deplorables and clingers still luv ya Dana. 👍
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  1170. I read somewhere that the Methodist Church is essentially falling apart. Satanic branches like the one shown here want to leave I guess and the leadership wants them to leave but not until they settle accounts. Apparently they want them to pay back dues of some sort and it's all about the Benjamins with that crowd. I must say that footage was some of the most disgusting video I have ever seen in my life. Make no mistake gang, what you saw was an actual demon spewing that blasphemy, one sent here from the pit of Hell. As for that useful idiot sidekick of his, the one wearing pretend vestments claiming to be a pastor, he is going to learn that God is not a fan false prophets and shepherds who lead the flock astray. He is also going to learn the hard way that eternity is a really really long, long time to be tormented day and night. I know I'm supposed to pray for everyone's redemption but I'm going to pray primarily for those children. My hope is that at some point they will meet Christ and build a true relationship with our Savior. How any parent could place their child's soul into peril like that is beyond me.
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  1171. Exercising your right to free speech and interfering with the rights of others as you get into their faces are two separate issues. I blame it on whoever keeps bailing these little commies out. A good long prison stint in a REAL prison, say in Siberia, might test the steel of these pampered brats playing revolutionary. The ones defaming President Lincoln's statue and calling him a colonizer are simply suburban white kids who got roped into the marxist cult. I imagine most of them wouldn't be able to tell you more than two or three actual facts about the man or his accomplishments. All they know is what their communist professors have taught them. This all goes back to the 1940s and 1950s. The country had a real problem with all of these commintern infiltrators Stalin was able to bring in through the front door during WWII. Roosevelt, being the narcissist he was, thought he could control uncle Joe and his bolshevik herd so he gave them complete, unfettered access to people within our State Department and the academic types who had a soft spot for the commies going in. Joe McCarthy was on to them but he was a loose cannon who spent most of his time drinking and doing anything he could to accumulate power. Moscow was able to use him as a stooge. Make a bunch of noise on one side of the room while you sneak in the godless professors who would get to the next generation on the other. McCarthy built up sympathy for the red bas*ards in some quarters and incredulity for his cause in others. KGB officers admitted he was their greatest weapon. Then Sputnik hit like a 50 megaton bomb and everyone had a melt down. Ike did a poor job managing that one and all the money started going into STEM. Other areas of study, such as history, went by the wayside and over time they became less, and less important. They weren't hiring at the philosophy factory so kids weren't interested in learning what they had to say. Now, the Howard Zinn school has taken root and these kids are taught that the only history that matters is the history they make today. Mao and Marx took over the classrooms by the 1980s and now people wonder why these kids hate their country. I would be willing to bet their wasn't a Native American within 100 miles of that statue when those little ANTIFA sh*ts were spray painting that marxist crap. These little basement dwelling anarchists aren't interested in hanging out with Native Americans or anyone of color for that matter. They are mostly bored nihilists who couldn't give you a good reason for any of the crap they do. They just like to wreck stuff. It's how they were raised. Good luck sharing a country with that bunch. The break will come. It breaks my heart to admit it since I fought like hell to keep this country untied and safe but the people who were entrusted with running the place were more interested in accumulating wealth and power than being caretakers for liberty. Now their grandkids are coming up fast, and being good little maoist's they are kicking off a new cultural revolution, American style. We haven't even SEEN the beginning of the real bad stuff yet. Get ready because I'm afraid like it was in the 20th Century, the dirty 30s will be a time of great suffering and with no spiritual roots, the fruit that tree will bear will be quite bitter. God help us. Pray for your republic if you care for it. It's our only hope of salvaging any of it.
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  1172. This guy or Dr. Oz, the guy who sang the praises of hillary clinton's health program and was an early advocate of gender reassignment surgery. Sorry, but the voters in that state are brain dead and deserve everything they get. Why did republican voters vote for Dr. Oz? Because Trump told them to. Why did democratic voters vote for this clown? Because they were directed to by the politburo. What a country.
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  1173.  @foxtayle683  I agree. I like The Lost Battalion very much, another underrated war movie.
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  1174. It's no surprise biden isn't saying much about Iran. I'm sure on most days he doesn't even know what an Iran is. obama is driving that bus, make no mistake about that. As for the Chinese, alarm bells have been going off about those guys for decades yet the U.S. continues to do nothing of real substance to prepare for the next war. Our electric grid is as fragile as ever and we are held hostage to China's dominance in the tech arena. I don't think China is moved one war or another as far as Ukraine is concerned. If I was a Taiwanese citizen I would be getting set for a rocky 2023. China is tired of waiting for them to see the light and come home on their own. Does anyone think president harris is going to put the fear of God into them? Folks in the Baltic states should be nervous as well but that's a discussion for another day.
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  1175. Aside from being a delusional incompetent he's a big time pervert. This, like everything else, is nothing new. It's just that democrats have never been actually vetted, especially at the level republicans are. But everyone knew the guy was a creep.
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  1176.  @missg9721  Yes I am fully aware of that. I was being sarcastic.
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  1177. Disney's problems run deeper than the guy steering the ship. The development team has been taken over by true believers, and for true believers, the cult matters more than profit. Just like Musk is talking about the need to go nuclear at Twitter and rebuild the entire platform from the studs up, Disney is going to have to come to some sort of reckoning with their employees at all levels, and that means shit-canning all those true believers even if the company has to take it in the shorts for a bit (pun intended). Disney is a brand, and that brand has been damaged. The video of those trendy execs talking about transing their kids and the gay writers taking pride in being able to sneak their views into content where it didn't belong had an effect on parents, most of whom don't want their kids transed up or exposed to girl-on-girl action. But those people don't give two shits because they are the vanguard of a revolution. Wanna fix that? Stop the revolution. That means pink-slips on an epic scale, and probably more than a few lawsuits, but it's gotta happen. Otherwise, some other bright young fella is going to figure out a way to give people what Disney won't. Don't believe me? Ask what's left of team Sears about how Amazon took their empire from them. It was all there before them, but they were wedded to a system and Jeff Bezos said I'll take that thank you very much. Disney is wedded to an ideology. Same same dude. Personally, I could give two dams if Disney goes under now or later but I think it needs killing all the same. I've been saying it for close to 30 years. The rot at Disney started a long time ago. Unlike you Drinker, I do wanna see em fail. But that's me. Okay, I'll go away now.
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  1178. Live long and prosper Drinker.
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  1179. You picked a helluva guy to talk about threats to national security. This is the same joker that voted for that ludicrous omnibus spending bill while simultaneously sending billions down that rathole in Ukraine. But hey, he also voted in favor of chain migration, releasing felons from federal prisons, and drafting women into the armed forces so maybe he's counting on that pool to beef up the military, with the money we don't have to fight China because guys like this joker never met a spending bill they didn't fall in love with. But then again, he does fit the "republican to go on Fox News and spread swampy BS" profile to a tee so that explains why he's here. Trust me, when the chi-coms put a Munich-style ultimatum to the Taiwanese some time next summer, telling them to sign zee papers, this guy will be one of the first to tell the American public that it's the best deal we can get and we should be grateful for it.
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  1180. When I see these college professors spouting their BS theories I think of that scene from Ghostbusters when the guys are getting tossed out of their university jobs. Dan Ackroyd is the only one who seems to understand what that means for them: "Have you BEEN in the private sector? They expect results out there."
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  1181. Yeah, keeping classified documents in the trunk of a Corvette is much more responsible, I mean hey man, the garage door was locked. The dems may be able to fix their biden problem, that won't be too difficult. Their harris problem is another matter entirely. After they convince the blonde lady it's in the biden crime family's best interest to put uncle joe back on the shelf, they have to run somebody. They promoted harris about 17-billion steps above her station in life simply because she was a black female. What do they do with her now? Kick her to the curb? In the world of identity politics that isn't anywhere near as easy as pushing the old white guy off to the side. Good luck getting rid of that one. Maybe they can get the dark queen of Arkansas to crawl out her cave in the Ozarks and knee cap her for them on a primary debate stage. Tulsi Gabbard showed them that takes all of about a minute and half to pull that stunt off. But then what, let Gollum resume her lifelong quest for her precious? This is what happens when you deal with people who aren't qualified for the jobs they are given. I think it's funny as hell, but that's me.
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  1182. It's not a 180, it's a lie, something the fossils who run that party are quite used to. I'd say they are algebra liars. They figure two lies make a truth.
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  1183. Saying the Japanese didn't consider the depot facilities isn't exactly correct. A third wave intended to take out those facilities was called off by the Admiral on the spot. He was satisfied with the damage they had inflicted and since he didn't know where the U.S. carriers were he was afraid of his carriers being vulnerable to a strong counter attack, basically what happened six months later at Midway. I do like that the creator of this video didn't make a big deal out of Yamamoto's remark about awakening a sleeping giant as a result of the sneak attack. Unlike the way revisionist historians have built him up, Yamamoto had little regard for the U.S. He believed we lacked the stomach for a fight and would sue for peace if Japan was able to get a strong foothold in the Pacific. He threatened to resign if the militarists didn't approve his attack on Pearl Harbor. He had an all or nothing mentality and like Robert E, Lee, was always looking for the one big knockout engagement. He paid the same price Lee paid at Gettysburg when he got his ass handed to him at Midway. Worse than losing the carriers, he lost most of his experienced fighter and bomber pilots. Ships can be rebuilt, but those pilots were indispensable. Like Hirohito, Yamamoto got a remake from the historians and analysts after WWII because we needed them as an ally against the Soviets during the Cold War. He wasn't the genius everyone made him out to be. Winners write history though. Such is life.
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  1184. A very thoughtful and thorough review of one of the greatest movies ever. Rocky has it all. Burgess Meredith was one of the finest yet underrated character actors of all time as any fan of the Twilight Zone reruns will tell you and he is perfect as Mick. Burt Young gives a great performance as Paulie. I think everyone has had a Paulie in their life, a guy who is a bit of a loser and gripes a lot but is basically harmless. Carl Weathers was perfect as Apollo (I guess they wanted to use Ken Norton but it didn't work out) and like it did with Mr. T Rocky gave his career a boost. My favorite scene is when Rocky lands the haymaker and puts Apollo on his ass. The look on his face as he's lying on the ring says it all. Right then he discovered there was a lot more to Rocky than meets the eye. But this is a love story at the heart of it and Sylvester Stallone and Talia Shire are beyond great as Adrian and Rocky. I remember years ago I had a few too many and got into a bit of a fisticuff with one of the guys in the military barracks I was living in at the time (a drunken disagreement over music and its proper volume in mixed company). Anyway, the fight ended in a draw but I did get a pretty good shiner for my trouble. So, the next day, we are having this big award ceremony with Generals and Admirals and the like in attendance and I try to maintain a low profile as I arrive, not wanting any attention drawn to my eye. Well, buddies will be buddies, and my friends all stood up in the back and started yelling, "Adrian...Adrian..." I tell ya, it made hiding that shiner a bit more complicated than it needed to be. That's the thing about Rocky though. Everyone can relate to it in one way or another. I have yet to find someone who didn't like it and I suppose if I did it would be a red flag. I still think the character came full circle when he whipped Mr. T's ass but the other movies have done well so I guess I'm in the minority. But here's to Rocky and Adrian. I'm watching this review on Thanksgiving which is appropriate. If Tampa had an ice rink I might go for a skate before they closed.
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  1185. That was a good troll Drinker. Ya almost had me tearing up and thinking about an online tribute/memorial no one would look at. Now how about reviewing a few more of the old classics like Outlaw Josie Wales, On the Waterfront, or countless others younger audiences may not be familiar with. It sure would be better time spent than watching Barbie.
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  1186. So we caught part of the galaxy just burning doing the neutron dance. One thing for certain, it wasn't E.T. calling collect, though there will always be a hard-core group will claim it is and of course the government is covering something up here because, well of course. Anyway, cool vid, and nice images.
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  1187. The Maoists used young people as foot soldiers and this new Western iteration of marxism is definitely more closely aligned with Mao than the brand of socialism pushed by the Soviets. Maoists are more revolutionary and encourage mob-like behavior. They promote violence and The Cultural Revolution and Pol-Pot's genocide were led by young people, who tend to be easier to persuade and more likely to be true believers once they are fully indoctrinated. They are easily excited and like being on the vanguard of revolutionary causes and ideas and as those examples from history show, they are more willing to act out violently. Look at the woke riots of 2020. There weren't a lot of people over 40 out there burning, looting and beating people up. It's nice to see someone trying to reach the Gen-Z bunch but I'm afraid most of them are a lost cause. They have been fully indoctrinated and have become the new fanatics, crusaders who scream and yell with an evangelical fervor. Wokeism is like a perverse great awakening, only this one is demonic in nature. The father of all lies is at the heart of this revolution and the stage is being set for the final showdown between his forces and the Heavenly Host. As Christians, we know how it ends, but we also know it will be bloody and barbaric. " Blessed is the one who waits for and reaches the end of the 1,335 days.” ― Daniel 12:11
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  1188. And there, at the end of all things, like Frodo and Sam at the foot of Mt. Doom, we find Keith Richards and a cockroach, reminiscing about the good old days on the road as the Earth is consumed and the only force in nature capable of taking them down finally finishes them off.
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  1189. I'm not a subscriber to your channel but I enjoy enough of your content to watch one if the title catches my attention. You seem sincere so here's some free advice learned through bitter tears, lose this desire to reach the unreachable. You used the term "I need" a lot. Maybe it's a bit of that old socialist gene at work. One aspect you didn't touch on is a lot of socialists are crusaders. They see saving people as part of their mission. I was embedded with a Canadian unit for a time when I was in the military and I remember having a cup of coffee one morning with a colleague. He was a good guy, best of intentions type, and this clip came on the TV showing this guy who was I imagine homeless, sitting on a grate trying to stay warm. My colleague said: "We have to help that man" and I asked him a simple question; why? Maybe he didn't want to be helped. Maybe he preferred being outside to being in a shelter. Maybe he just wanted to be left alone. It's the same way with the socialists you are trying to educate. Instead of using Genesis to make your point, I recommend Plato's Allegory of the Cave. I think it's more in-line with your worldview and it does a better job explaining why people prefer living a lie to knowing the truth. If you want a Biblical reference, think of yourself as John the Baptist or one of the earlier prophets who tried to warn Israel about their fate if they continued on the path they were on. They were all killed for their effort as well. I also think, based on what I heard in this video, that there is a not insignificant gulf between European and American ideas on socialism and left-wing politics in general. Britain has a longer history of being a nanny state so I imagine that explains some of it. American left-wing politics is less about economics and more about cultural issues. Where socialists in Britain may think it is the exploiting capitalists who are stealing from them, in the U.S., we see the state playing that role, taking what they haven't earned and giving it to people even less deserving to win votes and ensure political loyalty. We call it keeping people on the government plantation. Your description sounded more like a bad case of external locus of control resulting in a nihilistic outlook, more black than red-pilled. Here, the middle class is feeling that way but again, it is because of a sense that our government has become an oligarchy of elites who don't care what the voters want, they want to give our sovereignty away to globalist elites who they have more in common with. That is what that commenter meant when he said socialists want to control others. They largely have on your side of the pond for the past century, so perhaps you are more adapted to it. Here, it is a relatively new phenomena, at least to the level it has risen to since obama turned yes we can into yes we did. Government has been growing since FDR, but at a leisurely pace. Now the left has stepped on the accelerator and the governor has been switched off. It's full-speed ahead, damn the torpedo's kind of stuff. That has a lot of people freaked out over here, especially when you throw in the demonic element of the LGB storm troopers transing the kids and insisting that us religious bigots bake the cake and celebrate their abominations. When he talks about the desire to have power over others, that is what he is getting at. Like I say, this authoritarin approach is still fairly new to us. Anyway, thanks for taking the time to break it down. Most of my friends are left-wing but they are left-wing in the same sense that Kennedy and Truman were left-wing. They vote democrat out of habit and are largely in denial about what that party has devolved into. But us older coots are moving along, even though they cling to power in our legislature. We have left quite a mess for millennials and gen-z to clean up. God help us.
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  1190. Self-actualization is all fine and well provided you have a moral compass. Motives matter. I read somewhere that reaching a state of true self-actualization often leads to the creation of the perfect asshole. I chuckled at first since Maslow was part of the curriculum I taught at the time but the more I considered it and the more I observed human nature I started to see what the person who said it was driving at. The question that should be foremost in your mind is, to what end? Why do I want something and what will I do with it when I get it? Otherwise you can end up like a dog chasing its tail. Sometimes, you get where you wanted to go and you end up looking around and asking, is this all there is? Just something to consider.
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  1191. I don't think Zuckerberg would drop that bit of knowledge without tacit approval from the powers that be. Look for more of this kind of stuff prior to the midterms, especially talk about the 25th Amendment and the requirements for removing the old commander and chief from office. The Biden's are on the way out. The purge will likely take place sometime after the new year. Zuckerberg was trying to be cagy WRT to the FBI but that is CYA on his part. I imagine he's hedging his bets in case the republicans launch hearings once they take the House. I don't think he has to worry though, not with McCarthy as Speaker. Hunter is another matter though. He might want to consider his options because to borrow from Marcellus Wallace, it looks like he's lost his L.A. privilege's. I hear Havana is nice if you're into 1950s style living. Some other places where extradition might be problematic might not be as comfortable. Most likely though, he'll roll the dice and assume he's still part of the too big to jail crowd. If I were him, I wouldn't count on it. But that's me.
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  1192. Sure, she is parroting lines fem-nazi's like her handler standing next to her have taught her since she was able to burp on her own, but she also believes all of it. You give her too much credit Drinker. See, I think her head is too empty to actually engage in discernment and reason. The good thing is, this little poster child for the woke spoiled suburban gen-z crowd is acting like such a little narcistic bitch that she's setting herself up to be the fall-girl disney can blame everything on when this movie makes like 38 bucks and change at most theaters. The blame it on the audience trope is falling faster than the strong female character so disney will need to have something or someone to pin this disaster on when the stockholders start calling for scalps. Enter little miss entitled spoiled little brat. They'll say she did such a hatchet job on her own film that no amount of salve could have fixed the boo-boo. Hopefully, if there is two functioning brain cells in that septic tank called hollywood, this will be the last time we have to endure her obnoxious lectures to the unwashed masses because her days in actual movies will come to an end. She'll make the rounds of shows like the view and oprah might toss her a bone and let her weep on her couch over the way the man has kept her down and punished her for being brave or something but no studio will let the little twit anywhere near an actual film. Maybe she goes the porno route, or does commercials for taco bell. Most likely she'll marry some rich guy who just wants a cute little piece he can show off to his buddies as he bangs whoever he wants on the side. Am I being bitter? Probably, but I'm old, I'm tired, and I've had it to here with 20 somethings trashing everything older than them because history only began when they came into existence. disney is dying, and their demise can't come fast enough.
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  1193. Listening to bill gates reminded me of that line from Pulp Fiction: "Zed's dead baby, Zed's dead." I still think it was Professor Plumb in the library with the led pipe but that's me.
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  1194. I come from a different generation so I guess I'm not hip enough to get what this portnoy guy has been peddling but why anyone is surprised at his reaction to all of this is surprising. He's another example of someone people on the right elevated simply because he held one or two views they found appealing. Why? Because the right is star-hungry. They were star-hungry to a lesser degree before Donald Trump but since Trump ratcheted up the dial on reality TV as politics to 11 the right has been globing onto damn near anyone with more than 100,000 Twitter followers. Make a couple anti-woke statements and you're the next big thing. It's how you end up with clown's like portnoy and this vivek character running around like a mini-me version of Trump. He doesn't expect to get elected to anything but that's not why his running anyway. He's running for president and avoiding saying anything against the grand exalted poobah because he wants access to the Trump-cult base and in the long run succeed him when he kicks off. It's called building a brand and being an influencer is all the rage these days. It's a whole lot more fun than sitting behind some desk running a company and anyone with a slick message and no scruples can handle the job. They ran a nation-wide poll where something like 45% of high school students indicated they wanted to be internet influencers after they graduated. Maybe the number was even higher. I dunno. But that is the pool they swim in. The same pool that burps up guys like portnoy and vivek like I burp up an overly spicy piece of pizza. These guys are as deep as mud puddle on a flat road and they have no moral center so don't expect them to behave like they do and you will be less surprised when they reveal themselves for who they truly are. If my body wasn't so old and broken I would grab Wilson and make for that island. And people wonder how we got where we are. Mind numbing.
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  1195.  @382u3uuej  The more they give you the easier you are to control. The easier you are to control, the easier it is to get rid of you. That is the logic of the left, and it always been. But they can never take your spirit, never take your soul. If you lose those, it's because you gave them away. My prayers are with you, and all people yearning to be free. Stay strong my friend.
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  1196. You know, every time I saw Liz I thought to myself, "Man, give her a beard and she could be Honest Abe." 🤡 In all seriousness, her old man and that f***in running buddy of his Rumsfeld have blood on their hands and if no one from either of those families or that flippin Bush crowd is ever heard from again in the public square the republic will be a better place for it.
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  1197. Multiculturalism and diversity matter a lot more in the West than the rest of the world. Do you think the Saudis give a flying hoot who is offended over feeling excluded during Ramadan? Having been there during that particular time of year I can tell you they do not. To anyone who is offended by Christmas...sorry. Get over it. Or don't get over it. I don't care. As for wondering what Otto is thinking I refer you to the Far Side cartoon that looks at what we say compared with what dogs hear, which outside of their name is "Blah, blah, blah." One of my all-time favorite Far Sides.
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  1198. Here is an actual headline from today; source: Detroit Free Press website: "Many Black Americans speak African American English. But is it embraced in schools?" Kinda says it all. I got sick while back, too sick to commit to any professional projects, so I used what was left on my GI Bill and enrolled in a maters program, primarily because I needed to do something while I healed. Anyway, I was shocked at where a lot of the younger people on the program were at with language and mathematic skills. Poor grammar aside, most of them could not interpret simple data and explain how it affected the outcome of the research they were supposed to be analyzing. When you combined that with their inability to express themselves at a level beyond that of a high-school freshman, well, you see what the education system is producing. And a lot them were just lazy. They were used to putting in the minimal effort and receiving maximum recognition and the sad part is, that is what this university gave them. Maybe it's because they are a for-profit school and one way to keep customers away is to make it difficult for them. Mostly though, I was saddened by the reason's most of them gave when I asked why they were pursuing a graduate degree. Just about all of them said they were only doing it to get a raise and improve their resume, which is fair and I don't hold that against them. That was the primary driver behind my first graduate degree. But only a few said they wanted to learn something. One young lady approached me about halfway through a course and asked me if this was how most programs were. Were they all just an extension of undergrad learning, only where everyone passes no matter what? I told her if she was really interested in developing her skill-set this program wasn't for her and she did leave after that term was up, choosing to do an online program rather than sit through a class where she was not challenged at all. Why did I stick around? Like I said earlier, it was something to do and it was the only in-house option close to where I was living. But this isn't a slam on that school. What it is is an indictment of a system where kids can reach that level with such poor rudimentary skill-sets. And the worst part is, most of them really don't care that they have been cheated out of an education, or they are blissfully ignorant of the fact. Sleep well gang, these Gen-Z class-struggle warriors will be calling the shots when a lot of you reach my age. I wish you luck.
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  1199. One thing about lefties, the older they get, the meaner and dumber they get. Whoopi Goldberg is the poster child for that old axiom made famous by Mark Twain: "It's better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
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  1200. So what's the Reynolds Number for back-to-back meals at Taco Bell? 🤔
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  1201. I have conversations with people who don't exist all the time. Doesn't everybody? 🤔On a more serious note, they didn't actually put in a plug for preferred pronouns using a robot did they? This mania has infected every aspect of life like the bubonic plague.
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  1202. Don't go believing your lying ears on this stuff. Biden reminds me of that old commercial, I think it was AAMCO, where the hayseed in the back of the garage with a water hose asks to get a chance to work on this guys car: "I always wanted to work on one of those transmissions." This is Obama's third term, make no mistake about that. He's been hanging out on Martha's Vineyard waiting for the Great Reset to be fully implemented so he can assume his role on the Masters of the Universe A-Team. I have said this before but trust me, the draconian steps they will take to control the public when they finally crash and burn the economy once and for all will make everyone yearn for the good old days of mask mandates and needle jabs. I really hope I'm wrong but when you see buffoons' like Biden and Harris at the helm you know the ship is way off course. Or, maybe it's right where they want it to be. It's hard to tell these days. One thing is certain though, this guy is absolutely not making policy decisions. Take that to the bank.
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  1203. So the bartender is pissed off that criminals are going to be punished. Maybe they can appease her ilk by giving them mail-in ballots. Better yet, just set up voting machines in prisons. That'll make that little commie smile.
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  1204. We can mock him but this is the guy who called half the nation a threat to democracy. Forgive me if I don't laugh along. I just find nothing even remotely amusing about him or that dimwit who will be taking his place before too long.
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  1205. I get both sides of the argument. People don't want junkies shooting up on the streets in their neighborhoods. They don't want people taking dumps on their front lawn. And there are people who prefer living on the street to conforming to the rules most people live by. I had a good friend growing up who was the most responsible, hardest working person in my circle of friends. He smoked a bit of weed, drank a bit but he was far from the worst of us. He had his own landscaping business at 18. A house by the time he was 22. Then he got involved with this girl who introduced him to cocaine. That was it. I ran into him about 20 years later and he told me he had lived on the street for 10 years. He said there was a certain rush he got from it. I couldn't get my head around it. He was not the same guy I was friends with so many years before. But there are also people who end up homeless because events happen that are beyond their control. To say there are maybe five people in that circumstance is absurd. But then again Matt Walsh does like to get on a moral high-horse. I watched an episode where he got ass-holier-than-thou about people who were divorced, basically calling them scum bag losers who unlike him failed at the most important thing in the universe. His take was beyond insufferable. I'm not into Eastern religions so I don't subscribe to Karma but Walsh might want to watch what he says a bit more closely. In the Gospel of Matthew Jesus warns us that we answer for every careless word we say. I dunno, Matt see's junkies and low-life's, I still see children of God. Maybe that's why I'm a soft touch when people approach me for money. But then again, I listened to Walsh when he was interviewed by Matt Fraad and the answer he gave on his faith sounded like it could have come from a fifth grader who skipped too many catechism classes. Yeah Matt, helluva solution there. Lock em up. Hell, lock em all up. And when they get out and can't get a job because they have a record? Sh*t, just lock em up again. And put the kids into foster care. That'll create a stable society down the road. I like the work Matt Walsh did on the transgender issue, but the more I listen to him speak on other issues the more I realize he is really just a blowhard moralizer with a platform that allows him to say anything he wants. Any guy who dedicates entire episodes to reading comments that criticize him just so he can call them stupid and backward in return has a major ego problem. He was the last of the Daily Wire bunch I hadn't blocked but now I think I'm gonna turn him off as well. He's milked the tranny cow for all it was worth and now, just like his boss Shapiro, he simply owns the libs and looks down his nose on us plebes who should feel honored to have him grace our screens. Up yours Walsh. Not that it matters to ya, but you won't have me clicking on your click-bait nonsense anymore. Maybe I came in to this one expecting you to come off as a pompous ass based on the title. Well, you didn't disappoint. Auf Wiedersehen dude.
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  1206. I didn't actually watch the piece because all Fox has done is pimp for mccarthy, brow beating guests who oppose him while propping up squishy swamp creatures who are in favor of the little commie worm, letting them call patriots obstructionists, rebels...pretty much any name they want. I just saw the title and wanted to put my two cents in: 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣...no, wait...🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Hey kev, I hear your girl nan is looking for a pool boy. Maybe she'll let you rub her corns at night.
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  1207. The politicians don't want to give up an ignorant and dependent voting base so they will always do their best to keep that base ignorant and dependent. Everyone knows the real problem is in the home. As long as criticizing single-mothers is off the table and the matriarchy keeps telling boys they need to be more like girls the problem will never go away. As long as education is seen as an attempt to act white the smart kids will always struggle with self-esteem. If something's not valued it not's sought out. I'm not saying all black people think and act this way, but enough of them do to keep the numbers where the powers-that-be want them to be. As for poor undereducated whites, nobody gives enough of a damn to even look at that problem let alone address it. We are now reaping the bitter harvest we have sewn. The marxists have been toiling away in the garden for a century now and what started out as a few rows of stinkweed has blossomed into a national park sized forest. The kids who do get an education are trained to be part of the vanguard of DIE movement. Large swaths of men have walked away from their responsibilities and most of the Church's have had little more to say than here, let me kiss the boo-boo and make it feel better. I fear where this lead us because it is so clear a child could see it, yet we standby and let the minority viewpoint predominate and just sheepishly do as we're told. That is the point of it, the reason the marxists took the time to build their forest. It's not race restricted, all are equally free to be equally miserable. The end of history is nigh, long live the dialectic. I wish it wasn't so, so if you can show me where I'm wrong I'm all ears.
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  1208. If you want to use IQ as the measuring stick then yes, biden is still in his prime. He's as stupid now as he was in the 1970s. That hasn't changed. He just can't remember all the sh*t he never knew in the first place now. But that's okay. That's what the blonde lady is there for. He's not quite sure who she is most days but she gives him pudding and ice cream so he has decided not to challenge her to a push-up contest. But he's willing to take on that thump guy. The guy with the orange hair he's not supposed to say nice stuff about.
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  1209. "If it doesn't bring a tear to your eye then I suspect movies aren't really your thing." That is the best commentary about this film I have ever heard. I've been watching this movie for decades and I still tear up at the end, especially the look Donna Reed and Jimmy Stewart exchange when good old Sam Wainright telegraphs to say he's got George's back. THAT is what Clearance is talking about when he signs Tom Sawyer with "No man who is a failure who has friends." To borrow from The Drinker, it's fucking brilliant. The director, Frank Capra, was devastated when it bombed at the box office. Like Jimmy Stewart, he had served during WWII but instead of carrying a gun he carried his camera. His "Why We Fight" films were considered the best of the WWII government sponsored movies. Jimmy Stewart said he was attracted to the role of George Bailey when he read the bit where George was ready to commit suicide (he was in a dark place himself following the war). Other Christmas viewing traditions like The Grinch and Charlie Brown have fallen by the wayside but it's not Christmas for me unless I see this film and the 1951 version of A Christmas Carol with Alastair Sim playing Scrooge. Both of those films are must-see TV on Christmas Eve. Great review Drinker.
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  1210. Angela Davis got a teaching gig at a university, so I have a hard time understanding why Dr. Peterson has a hard time understanding how that woman was allowed to keep her job. This stuff has been going on for a long time. Back in the olden days, when I was an undergrad, there was a young woman who showed up maybe three times for class. The school was big on enforcing it's policies, especially where attendance was concerned, but this young lady was able to pass the course. One of my classmates, another young lady, brought this up on the final day of the class, and the professor told her straight up that since the young lady in question was a black single mother, the deck was already stacked against her and he wasn't going to pile on. This other young lady went berserk. She was a young white single mother and let this guy have it with four barrels. Truth be told I was ashamed I didn't join in. That's just how things go in the world of affirmative action. It's been that way for a long time Dr. Peterson, and as the old saying goes, the more things stay the same the more they stay the same.
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  1211. Okay, there are some valid points made here but there are major flaws in most of them that just could never be overcome. The first is the notion that Germany was going to be able to avoid a war with the U.S. In order for that to happen, Hitler would have had to stopped fighting everyone and pulled his armies back to Germany. FDR was hellbent on fighting the Germans, by hook or crook, and if the Japanese hadn't attacked some other incident in the Atlantic would have triggered it. The bit about treating the Eastern Europeans better, especially the Ukrainians, holds the most water except the Nazi's couldn't help themselves. The idea that the people in the East were subhuman had been drilled into the heads of the German soldiers since they were kids in the early and mid 1930s. For Hitler to change his tune at that point, after already blowing people's minds with his Soviet non-aggression pact would have been an ideological bridge too far. There was no way the Führer was going to hold back. He called for a war of annihilation right off the bat and he was going to have it. That land was meant for German's in his eyes and that meant depopulating the area. Otherwise, what's the point of the war? It would be like buying a car in the Amazon Rain Forrest. You could say you have a car but without any roads what's the point of owning it. Finally, Japan was just as racially driven as Germany. It wasn't in their cultural DNA to get too cozy with any European power. They had been in the business of cleaning out imperial powers and taking over as the new landlords for quite some time. Everyone who wasn't Japanese was inferior, including other Oriental races. No way they were going to fight along side white folks, not at that point in their history. Like the German soldiers had been taught to hate Eastern Europeans, Japanese soldiers had been taught to hate all imperial powers. That BS line they were selling the people in the lands they conquered; "We are clearing out the Europeans and Americans and creating a prosperity sphere in the East for everyone to share in" was jut that, BS. Of course nobody outside of Japan bought that nonsense but it didn't stop them from selling it. If they were suddenly fighting alongside whitey, a whole bunch of Japanese soldiers and civilians would have said WTF. I'm not a big fan of counterfactuals so maybe that colors my views, but some things just can't be overcome. Anyway, it was an interesting video and at least the arguments were well developed for the most part.
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  1212. During obama's prior term he tried to destabilize the Middle East in order to usher in the great reset but that didn't work. Now he is trying to pick a fight with Russia hoping that will do the trick. And they said Trump couldn't be trusted with the security of the country. This is why we will go down. Yes we can was more than a slogan gang, it was a mindset, a mindset that is moving on to bigger and bolder initiatives. If you think this internal destruction isn't programmed, well, I don't know what it will take to convince you. Enjoy the Super Bowl I guess.
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  1213. Republicans screwing their base? That's just another day that ends in Y. And lindsay is right at home in between two democrats. He'd feel even better if they hugged him a little tighter. Anyone who expected anything different hasn't been paying attention for last 90 years or so. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. The republican party is still the Washington Generals of politics. Focus on your local and state governments. Washington can't be fixed. It's hard broke and will never be reformed...ever...like in ever. Is that clear enough?
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  1214. A pilot flying a private plane at 47,000 ft.? Sorry Tucker, that sounds like some BS to me. A bit of background on what the guy was flying at that altitude would help. Otherwise, I'm throwing the flag on that one dude.
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  1215. Speaking of intelligent life, why do people keep referring to Bill Nye as a scientist and treating him like one, asking him questions about subjects he is no way qualified to give an answer? He has a degree in engineering and is a failed comedian who played a scientist on TV. His real title is Bill Nye the BS guy. To call him a scientist is like saying Leonard Nimoy was an actual Vulcan. And to be honest, I would trust Leonard more on scientific matters than Bill Nye.
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  1216.  @thehealthychefri  Glad you enjoyed it comrade.
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  1217. Maybe it's just my computer but it looked like You-Tube tried to edit single words here and did a real bad job. I keep wondering how long it will be before Matt is tossed off the platform. I do agree with him though as far as normal people getting fed up with this nonsense. This is the hill the commies have chosen to die on apparently because the more people push back the deeper they dig in. I'm assuming that is coming straight from their master who is waiting to welcome them into the eternal abyss with open arms.
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  1218. You know biden didn't write any of that, but then again plagiarism has never been something that concerned him. They are right when they say tranny madness will define this generation. Really though, a more honest telling will simply say they worshiped Satan and gave their eternal souls over to him, rejecting all that is good and wholesome while substituting truth with lies. We are under judgment. We told God we didn't need Him and He gave us over to our depraved minds.
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  1219. I have no idea who any of those people criticizing Matt even are. Are they the new thought leaders of the conservative movement? If so, it confirms my belief that the movement is dead. It died on the altar of celebrity. It died because of the desire to get influencers on the side of the right, people who may agree with conservatives on one or two issues but are really as deep as mud puddles and are just charismatic. I did notice they were all kids. Kids to me anyway. The right was so hungry to grab hold of social media stars in order to generate clicks, likes, and attention of any kind. It's why Bill Maher gets talked about as some kind of moderate and Joe Rogan is seen as some champion for right-wing causes. Maher is an atheist who hates Christians with a burning passion and Joe Rogan is a Bernie-Bro who is down with abortion, weed, and a long list of other destructive and sinful behaviors. But Maher said a few nice words about the right and freedom of speech and Rogan was against the jab so bam, instant membership into the club. Fox News has that freak-show Bruce Jenner on as a regular guest because he said he was a republican. But then again, they sent that bushie dana perino out to Kalifornia to do a fluff piece on a family having their children's body parts lobbed off in the name of love but I digress. One thing this current madness has done is separate the wheat from the chaff. Sorry, but I'm a bit of a one misstep consumer where this stuff is concerned and once someone reveals themselves to be on the side of the enemy or at least willing to bend the knee to this wickedness I'm finished listening to them on anything. Dave Rubin said he used preferred pronouns for men dressed as women and vice-versa out of politeness. Done. Clay Travis said he had no problem with men dressing as women or transgenderism as a thing. Done. I imagine Rubin does so because these are his people at the end of the day. His movement gave birth to this abomination so I'm sure in his heart he sympathizes with his fellow sinners of the flesh. Travis is just a huckster who saw an opening on the right because most of his colleagues in sports talk were on the left. He said he was okay with transgenderism as a way to protect himself after he interviewed a female athlete speaking out against it, his attempt to have it both ways and avoid the rainbow-jihad from blowing him up. Those are just two examples but there are more as this video illustrates. I get the kids. They were raised by a system that preached relativism and that truth is malleable. Adults who attack Matt for being rude are the same squishes that landed us here. Matt is the only DW contributor I listen to on even a semi-regular basis because guys like Shapiro and most everyone else over there are more concerned with protecting the brand as well. I'm surprised they let Matt get away with what he does. Mat is 100% correct. This isn't about winning hearts and minds. Satan and his ilk cannot be bargained with. This is good against evil, plain and simple and anyone who doesn't get that, well keep using those pronouns and practicing tolerance. See how much grace that gets you when you end up in their sights. Like I say, if these children are the future of the conservative movement, any chance of resurrecting it from the dead is hopeless.
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  1220. Playing nice and being polite is what landed us here in the first place. We are way past political or philosophical differences. This is a matter of good against evil. The left marches in lock-step because that is in their ideological DNA. This current madness is creating cracks within that side as well though. And as far as picking sides goes, it's a matter of being on the side of truth and God's will or being on the side of the enemy who is the father of all lies. Anyone who can't see that...well, I guess you never will. “By their fruits you will know them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Just so, every good tree bears good fruit, and a rotten tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a rotten tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire. So by their fruits you will know them.” ― Matthew 7: 16-20
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  1221. While I was pursuing a MA in Management and Leadership I took a course on labor relations. The theme of the paper I wrote for my capstone project was on the regulatory state, my thesis being that the squeeze they put on small business posed the greatest threat to the American labor force. Not only did the sheer number of regulations blow me away, the audacity of the actual language contained in some them was something else. This drive to create a post-constitutional society is as old as the progressive movement itself. The Roosevelts especially saw the constitution as a nuisance and they taught subsequent generations that you could openly defy the constitution and step way out of bounds and the vast majority of the voters will barely notice. No one stole our republic from us, we gave it away. The Rubicon has been crossed and I fear there is no way back short of a great reset of our own. What will that look like? God help us.
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  1222. Actually I love that disney is putting this garbage out. Make even bigger budget movies I say. Redo Bambi and make his mom a black-tailed deer who gets shot by the cops causing Bambi to lead the equivalent of a st. gerorge floyd riot, burning down the forests surrounding LA. They've got to have a finite sum of money and the quicker they can blow through it the quicker they can end up on the ash-heap of history. Please by all means, spend billions updating em all going all the way back to Steamboat Willie. Put gay bars in your theme parks and make drag queen shows and naked men swinging from ropes the first thing the kids see as they enter the park. It's what you want to do anyway so stop with the half-measures iger and just man-up.
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  1223. I didn't watch Rings of Power because why would I. I saw Father Stu, Elvis, and Top Gun Maverick at the theater. The kid they got to play Elvis had the look but the script was crap and Tom Hanks was a disaster as Col. Tom Parker. His attempt at a different accent was an embarrassment. Truth be told, Tom is starting to lose it and should probably start thinking about directing or producing because he's not aging gracefully. Father Stu was a great movie and if it didn't break you at the end then I guess no movie can. Top Gun Maverick was one of those rare instances where the sequel outdid the original. That was a master class on how to properly portray a character who has matured over the years. On the small screen, I liked The Terminal List. The beginning lags a bit but when the killing starts it's hell-on-wheels. I still haven't seen the updated version of All Quiet on the Western Front. Maybe I'll give that one a go. I prefer the 70s TV version with Richard Thomas and Ernest Borgnine over the 1930s adaptation so it will be interesting to see how this latest version stacks up. Anyway, Happy New Year Drinker. I'll go away now.
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  1224. This kind of thing is why, if I was 30 years younger and in better health, I would grab Wilson and make for the island.
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  1225. Most of the teachers who fall into line and see themselves as influencers instead of educators have no children of their own. I believe a great number of teachers don't buy the marxist claptrap being foisted on kids but they lack the moral courage to speak up. I get it, they need a job. But knowingly allowing a 20-something with seven different blends of hair color and even more personal pronouns to corrupt these children is akin to allowing Satan himself into the classroom. Until the teachers who know what is happening draw a line and call these little maoists out for who they are nothing will change. Some do it to corrupt the children, others do it to groom them into playthings for pedophiles when they reach the age where they will be attractive to those sick SOB's but all of them are doing Satan's bidding. This isn't right vs. wrong, this is good vs. evil. “At that time the disciple approached Jesus and said, ‘Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?’ He called a child over, placed it in their midst and said, ‘Amen, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoever receives one child such as this in my name receives me. Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. Woe to the world because of things that cause sin! Such things must come, but woe to the one through whom they come!’ ― Matthew 18: 1-7
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  1226. Not much of a fan of Fox News but it's nice to see Dana. I'll tune in when guests like her are on or for Tucker now and again but that's about it. Dana is right of course. Cool.
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  1227. I'm not going to watch so maybe that makes me part of the problem. I've seen enough of this guy over the years to know he is a corrupt, not overly bright, crooked politician who has always been in over his head, even when he was young and knew where he was. And sorry Will, we stopped voting for president's based on their ability to manage world affairs a long time ago. We took a wrong turn when bush the first went on his new world order kick and things have gone downhill on that front ever since. As for domestic policy, bush the second and his guns and butter approach led to yes we can and fundamental change. How's that worked out so far? Politicians have always kept enemy lists of one form or another, this guy is the first president who included the majority of his fellow citizens on his. But hey, he received more than 80 million votes right? Yes we can indeed. Free advice, get right with God because to quote Bob Dylan: "it's a hard rains a gonna fall."
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  1228. Didn't pelosi's own kid brag that she was ruthless? I seem to recall that. The thing about these staged events is the boneheads who put them together aren't very good at it (see smolett, sharpton, etc.) but they are well funded and promoted and their media lackey's are very good at telling everybody to shut the ** up and look the other way. And the republican's pose the the greatest threat to democracy? 🤔
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  1229. And mccarthy is gonna do what? "Oh my gosh, I had no idea!!!" Sorry, but I know a dog-and-pony-show when I see one. Where were ya two years ago dude? Ten years ago? "I will go to the border," like he's Ike going to Korea in 52. What a joke.
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  1230. "Maybe you have an idea of how we can stop a world ending asteroid." Well, short of calling Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton the answer is simple, it can't be done. Maybe if you had decades worth of warning you could try screwing with the trajectory but I get the feeling the one that has our name on it will come from the Ort Cloud and we won't see it until its tail fires up. As I understand it, the solar system oscillates as it traverses the galaxy and this motion causes its gravitation to interact with the gravitation of stars in our general neck of the woods and its this interaction that nudges the really big snowballs floating around in the Ort Cloud. I recall some computer model that lined up these nudges with big impacts and found the positioning lined up just right every 40-60 million years. Now, lets say one of these nudges brings another Hale-Bopp our way only this time Hale is not as accommodating and this one is going to Bopp us right on the nose. No one spotted Hale Bopp until it fired up and that sucker was 18 miles wide. If some long-term comet that big is headed our way we would have maybe six months to figure something out. Why bother. And the powers that be probably wouldn't. They would send out public service announcements saying all is well to avoid WWIII but eventually people would figure it out and WWIII would happen anyway. People are panicky and when you combine that with a fallen nature you get what Billy Bob described as: "The worst parts of the Bible." And that would be that. Most everything on Earth would be dead and the only thing left to let the aliens know we were ever here would be the litter we left behind on the Moon. And plastic. The lunar landing platforms and an empty bottle of Mt. Dew. That's why I don't worry about such things. But that's me. Live long and prosper gang. 🖖
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  1231. Nothing new here. Remember Miss Cleo and her psychic hotline? There was a group in kalifornia several years back who would worry for you. All you had to do was pay em a fee and you could go on about your day, content that somebody else was worrying about your problems, freeing you up to create new and improved problems. Doggy psychiatry? I could go on. But this isn't limited to the secular world. The prosperity gospel of paula white and joel osteen is alive and well. Live a good Christian life and God will reward you with a condo in the hills and a Corvette in the driveway. paula white was Trump's spiritual advisor when he was in the WH because of course she would be. "I say to you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” ― Matthew 19: 24.
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  1232. “Behold, I am sending you like sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and simple as doves. But beware of people, for they will hand you over to courts and scourge you in their synagogues, and you will be led before governors and kings for my sake as a witness before them and the pagans...You will be hated by all because of my name, but whoever endures to the end will be saved.” ― Matthew 10: 16-22
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  1233. Why does anyone even give a disturbed child who was raised by anarchists a microphone to spew her ridiculous authoritarian rants from? Let her go back to Sweden to play Third Reich: The Home Game. As for the UN, if someone told me they would grant me one wish for my government it would be to set the charges at the base of that cesspool and telecast the implosion on live TV.
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  1234. I read the book decades ago and saw the original movie which honestly left me flat. I enjoyed the book so I'll take the Drinkers word for it and give this one a watch.
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  1235. Maybe we can't meet our cosmic cousins for a reason. Maybe the separation is intentional. Or maybe it just us. I dunno, and anyone who says they do is either engaging in speculation or just a flat-out lie. I think the odds it is just us in a universe as vast as ours are awfully slim but until I have a conversation with ET color me skeptical and call me Irish. Just don't expect me to get all gushy if some probe finds some microbe floating around in some primordial puddle on some Jovian moon. And don't expect me to call it cuz.
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  1236. The fact this guy is a sitting U.S. senator says a lot about a lot of stuff. First, it tells you all you need to know about the people in Pennsylvania who voted for this guy. The lemmings who actually voted for him sent a loud, unmistakeable message, namely we don't give two sh*ts about the country and do not take our responsibilities as citizens seriously. To those who didn't vote for him, If you have the ability to do so you really need to move. Your state is gone and will eventually morph into the Kalifornia of the east coast. Second, it sort of blows the myth that Donald Trump knows how to pick the very best candidates and surround himself with the very best people. Dr. Oz was one of his handpicked boys. When I said they were crazy for going with this guy in the primary I got called all kinds of names and was told I didn't know squat about electability. How'd that work out for ya? Kinda like Herschel Walker down in Georgia? One couldn't beat a human cumquat and the other couldn't beat a communist in a state where the republican governor won by a landslide. Add those two to the very best people he surrounded himself with like fauci, christopher wray, bill barr, mcconnell's wife, romney's niece, and his latest endorsement of mccarthy for speaker and well, you get the picture. Or maybe you don't. I don't care. If you don't, you are just a die-hard trumper and like he said in 2016, he could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and still get your support. Wanna lose to another incompetent? Run him again in 2024. Of course he'll be back in 2028, and, you get the picture. Or maybe you don't. Call me names, I don't care. That is the hard reality of where we are at in 2023. It also says a lot about the democrats but then it doesn't say anything anyone doesn't already know. fetterman's wife will vote for him and act like a senator in all but name, doing exactly what the bosses tell her to do. The guy would have been a crap senator even without the stroke, now his Marxist wife will be looking after the best interests of the state of Pennsylvania. Like I say, if you are reasonable and sane, you really should move. Finally, it pulls whatever vestige of credibility state-run media had left. First biden, now this guy. Tell me with a straight face they wouldn't have been whooping up and down, pounding tables about fitness and party integrity if either of these vegetables had an R in front of their name. Yeah, right. They don't even try to hide it anymore though, so I guess that point is moot. And you wonder why the Chinese feel safe flying balloons or whatever they feel like over our airspace. God bless the good old USSR, I mean USA, I get confused.
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  1237. Dan nailed it. I doubt that the bartender has ever had an original thought. She's a spoiled little rich girl who gets to buy fancy clothes and drive around in a hot car while pretending to be a member of the house. Her real job is to get on Twitter and the other SM platforms she's a part of and read from whatever script The Young Turks have written for her that week. She auditioned for the role. She has charisma, but so do the rest of the actors and actresses who land a part. I guarantee she hasn't got a clue about Marx or any of her other heroes beyond what she was able to glean from Clift Notes and one page leaflets. But she's having a blast, living the life of a spoiled brat in the only system that would allow her to do that, one her handlers are hell-bent on taking down. $50 says once the revolution is over Ms. Cortez will be back mixing drinks unless she marries well.
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  1238. You know, I don't recall Charlton Heston saying anything about toxic Christian's not getting it when The Ten Commandments failed to receive a bunch of Oscars like everyone thought it would. I guess insulting your fans just didn't come to mind. I'm glad I was never much of a Star Wars fan. They should tell Disney to take a hike and just stop showing up. Disney won't care, and more hit pieces will be written but so what. It's time everyone just grew a set and stopped worrying about being called names.
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  1239. Republicans are gonna win big but they better do something with it, something beyond a few hearings about the usual democratic shenanigans. How about taking away the money going to the left wing loony causes? How about cutting off the funding for the Ukrainian dictators wardrobe? How about looking into the gestapo tactics of the FBI? How about sending up legislation to protect kids from these demonic groomers? Let the commies veto them, put them on record, then kick some more to the curb in 2024. Oh, and how about anyone other than the turtle to lead the senate and anyone but that half-a-commie-pretend-republican from the Peoples Republic of Kalifornia for speaker. Grow some balls GOP because if you do your normal squishy routine the new voters in 2022 will become the stay-at-homes in 2024. You got one chance, don't blow it.
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  1240. Patton acted like a bully. He had the mind of a general but lacked the temperament required for overall command of ground troops in an operation like Overlord. Ike was already stuck with Monty, there was no way he was going to put Patton back in the pit with him, not after their squabbles in North Africa and Sicily. Bradley had the temperament to work with Monty but in the end his patience wore thin and he could barely stand to be in the same room with the guy. But Bradley didn't have Patton's instincts. Ike knew that which is why he went to bat for Patton when Marshall and others thought he should be sent home. One has to wonder if the Soviets played any role in getting the slapping story out there. Patton's views on the commies were well known and the communists had people in key positions in the American and British press, enough to stir the pot and spin stories in a way favorable to their interests. Just a thought. As for the killing of prisoners, a lot of that went on. It only takes a few false surrenders to make guys on the ground weary of taking prisoners. I recall hearing a story about a young journalist who was covering the war in the Pacific and during his first island landing he saw a marine casually tossing pebbles into the skull of a dead Japanese soldier as he took a smoke break. He was appalled but when he mentioned it to his colleague who had covered a few battles, the older reporter told the younger man to give it time and see how he felt in a year or so. By the time he got to Okinawa, and had seen how viscous the fighting was and how badly the Japanese had treated POW's and civilian's he admitted if he had seen that same marine tossing those pebbles he probably would have sat next to him and made a game of it. There is some truth to the idea of victor's justice. Curtis LeMay said that had the Allies lost he would have been put on trial for his firebombing strategy and Robert Jackson, the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and the lead prosecutor at Nuremberg was among those who thought the Allies were on shaky legal ground when it came to charges like conducting wars of aggression and even crimes against humanity. War is a crappy business. I say that as someone who served for more than 20 years and any general who slapped an enlisted man would have lost my respect. But that's me.
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  1241. Cool. I quit drinking a long time ago but way to go team! I hear Blatz is still available for those who like cheap p*ss water style beer. That was our beer of choice when nobody had a job back in the Carter days. While I don't drink I have stopped buying anything Hershey so I'm doing my part. I didn't do boycotts until the tranny madness started. Anyone who endorses that nonsense lands on my do not pass Go square right away. As for the Stacey Abrams comparison, she only gets the star treatment. This mulvaney creep has been appointed high-priest status. That's rarified air.
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  1242. The notion of collective security and a world-wide community failed on an epic scale so what does Roosevelt do in response? Insists on giving it another go. His arrogance, combined with his misguided admiration for Woodrow Wilson played a large role I suppose. Outside of Korea, which was primarily driven by the U.S. anyway, how has the U.N. delivered on the idea of collective security? Collective security and world-wide communities fail because nations, like people, are self-interested. Honestly, if China was to invade Taiwan tomorrow, what would the U.N. do to stop them? Sanctions? Yeah, that'll work, right up until the minute after they are instituted and nations and corporations start finding backdoors to keep the trade going. Armed conflict? Don't count on that. Europe would never agree to send troops to defend Taiwan and the U.S., while still a potent force, would eventually be faced with the choice of using nukes or letting the Chinese have their way because our navy has been gutted to levels not seen since the days prior to WWI. Besides, our armed forces are too busy making promo films for which pronouns and bathrooms to use. Look what happened when Russia invaded Ukraine. Their position became stronger and their ruble increased in value because of the rise in the cost of energy. That was great long-term strategy there. But hey, we did sick McDonalds and Master Card on em. That had those oligarchs shaking in their boots as they sipped champagne on the Mediterranean. Like the opening line from Fellowship of the Ring declares, a dark force has been let loose in the world and things which should not have been forgotten are lost. God have mercy on us all because I think the 2030 version of the dirty 30s will make the 1930s look like a yabba-dabba-doo time.
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  1243. Instead of saying Marx was imitating someone else by avoiding work, why not go the Occam's Razor route and simply say he avoided work because he was self-absorbed and lazy? I have met my share of armchair philosophers who have that trait in common. As for Marx and God, a lot of people claim to be atheists but at the end of the day it's not that they don't believe in Him, they just don't want to recognize His authority or are mad at Him for some other reason. Hagel believed in a Geist that moved history along, so it would make sense that Marx would as well. Marx is like that grifter who shows up without being invited and then sleeps on the couch and eats your food until you show him the door. I know, I have helped people out who have behaved in a similar fashion. The deeper you go trying to explain Marx the more weight you lend him. For me anyway, he was just a guy who was full of sh*t and he had a gift for finding gullible people who could be convinced he was actually a genius. A cynical bullshi*t artist. But like I say, I try to keep things simple. We aren't as complicated as we make ourselves out to be. As Al Pacino said in his role as Lucifer in the movie The Devil's Advocate: "Vanity, definitely my favorite sin."
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  1244. Xi is all about redressing historical slights and placing China back in what he sees as its rightful place as leader among the nations. Don't believe a thing he says WRT anything that will negatively affect his master plan. China isn't quite there yet but they are making up ground quickly and with the U.S. being such a basket case under its current leadership watch for him to force some sort of Hong Kong like accommodation on Taiwan within the next two years. Tread carefully over there and don't count on us for much, at least not in the short run.
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  1245. I haven't seen this video but Dan is right when he says there are cops out there who have bad intentions and probably shouldn't be wearing the badge, just like not everyone who wears a military uniform is a hero. These outfits draw from the general public and in case you haven't noticed, the general public isn't populated by a bunch of saints. When I was a kid, there were anti-gang units that used to cruise our neighborhood. They were known as the big four because they drove in black cars and always traveled in a group of four. They were notorious for coming up on any group of young people, 20 and under, and getting rough with them. They came up on me and a group of my friends one night when we were just walking into a party store. They throttled one of the guys who was with us pretty bad. His father wanted to press charges and when I went down to the precinct to give my statement the cops interviewing me treated me like I was a criminal. They cursed at me, called me a liar, and reminded me that they knew where I lived. They did that in the precinct, so you can imagine what they were like on the street. I held my ground and stuck to my story but the complaint didn't go anywhere, and neither did the big four. I say all that because I do have sympathy for people who have run-ins with bad cops. But as Dan said, calling for their disbandment isn't a solution. Maybe if the same politicians who call for that kind of reaction supported policed a bit more strongly they wouldn't end up recruiting guys who just want to get off on wearing a gun and having a bit of power. Think incidents like Ferguson haven't caused good people to think twice about signing up for the job? It's only going to worse I'm afraid and the people who will suffer the most will be the people most in need of protection. Those cops in black cars in my neighborhood may have been a-holes, but there was a reason that squad was created, and it wasn't because there wasn't a gang problem in my city. I just hope justice is served as best it can be in this case. Condolences to any innocent people hurt by the actions of this particular crew.
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  1246. I saw the trailer for this last month and to be honest I was a bit skeptical. Years of crap reboots will do that. But maybe I'll give this one a watch. It is the kind of movie best seen in a theater and I don't go very often these days because most of the stuff just doesn't pull me in. I missed out on Ford v Ferrari in true big screen surround sound, like I say, maybe I'll give this one a look. Thanks Drinker.
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  1247. Aaron Rodgers annoys me. He has for years. But as a Lions fan I'm not going to gloat on his or the Jets misfortune. I just know too much about suffering to go there. But colin kaepernick asking to come back to the NFL...🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. jamel hill pushing for the Jets to sign him...🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Some things are just too absurd not to laugh at.
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  1248. Russell Crowe, Rene Zelwager, and Paul Giamatti give great performances in Cinderella Man and the boxing scenes are some of the best ever done but I will never watch it again because of the hatchet job Ron Howard did on Max Baer in that film. He made Max out to be a monster who killed guys in the ring almost for kicks when in reality Max was a solid guy who felt so bad about the guy who died in the ring during that fight that he couldn't box for a long time afterward. He gave the guys widow all kinds of support and even helped send his kids to college. But Howard does that. He did the same thing to Jack Swigert in Apollo 13, portraying him as a stumbling klutz who the other crew members doubted. In reality, Swigert was a great pilot and engineer who knew the Apollo command module so well NASA had him work on the training software for the simulator. Howard is a punk and a coward because the guy's he trashes are always dead and can't defend themselves after the fact. He claims he does shit like that to add drama and tension to the movie. That's film school BS. He feels the need to create an antagonist because that's what he was taught in film school. His movies have a cookie-cutter quality to them and I don't watch his crap anymore. And BTW, Braddock made Joe Louis give him 10% of his future earnings before agreeing to give him a shot at the title so he isn't the saint he's made out to be either. Ron forgot to mention that bit though. Guess there was no tension to a guy taking advantage of someone else is there? Personally, my favorite Russell Crowe movie is American Gangster. Him and Denzel are so good they play off each other without even being in the same shot until the movie is about over. Truth be told, I found Master and Commander a bit boring and I didn't like the ending, but that's me. I apologize for the Ron Howard rant. The Drinker brought up the movie though and I think Opie is nothing but a punk. I hated the Beatle thing he did as well, Eight Days a Week. There isn't a single new take/slant in it and when he said he was going to make it my first question was why. After I watched it my next question was why. There were plenty of antagonists available for that one but he passed on mentioning any of them. And no, I don't give two shits what Whoopie Goldberg thought about The Beatles. Okay, I'll stop now.
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  1249. So tyson's argument for "fixing the field" is akin to fixing a leak by getting used to water puddling up on the floor and creating mold that will eventually force the house to be torn down. Americans have this notion that simply because somebody is smart in one area, especially science, that the person must be smart when it comes to everything else. And if you're a TV personality, like tyson, or even that moron who plays a scientist bill nye, their influence gets blown way beyond what it should be. The left uses language like a weapon, especially the word progress: “People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.” ― Milan Kundera Something to consider.
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  1250. Here's what's most likely to happen. Russia annexes Ukraine by force and we impose some economic sanctions that will amount to squat since our European allies will do what they always do and pick up the slack, buying and selling stuff we don't to them. This dilemma has existed since the dawn of the nuclear age. When we are up against a third-rate power the doctrine of flexible response works. When it comes to the big leagues, war becomes a zero-sum game. Until now, most Russian leaders have picked their spots carefully. With uncle Joe in the office they are emboldened. Ask yourself this, if you were on the other side of the power equation, would Biden or Harris put any fear into you? Seriously, how would either of those hacks handle an invasion if it happened right now? The scary part, as senile as he is, Biden still has more sense than his affirmative action hire sitting in the VP chair. No, we are going to Hell on the installment plan here. Russia and China both know it so they are content to wait. But every now and then, they'll push the envelope. Ukraine has a history of being part of the old Soviet/Imperial Russian system Putin loves so much. They'll be home soon and as for us, well don't look for much beyond a few sanctions and a sternly worded letter on this end.
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  1251. Empires rise and fall. When you are the top dog your goal is to maintain the global status quo and the U.S. learned the same lesson the Brits were taught in the 19th Century, that's easier said than done. It took two world wars to fully knock Great Britain off her perch. Let's hope that's not the case with us. Of course, what's the alternative? Gradual decline? Civil war? Absorption into some global tyranny masquerading as our salvation? i dunno. Republics seem to have a shelf-life too, and if history is an indicator our expiration date is coming up. Past republics, like Rome, devolved into dictatorship. Others experienced economic decline and internal strife, dividing up into smaller parts with less influence. Will ours just tire out? Franklin said we have a republic if we can keep it. I suppose the question before us in the 21st Century is, do we want it? I'll most likely be gone by the time that question gets answered but if the answer is yes people better start giving a damn because it's slipping away quickly. And that saddens me a great deal.
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  1252. Okay Dick, I'll grant ya the point that Carter was inept and the wrong guy to handle Iran or any other global problem for that matter. But ya can't say "I would have stopped the Shah from being overthrown" without explaining how you would have done it. What was the plan? Send in American troops? The Shah was already getting a sh*tpot bunch of cash to prop up his military and police forces. What was the next step to keep him going? And people knew all about Khomeini. This stuff about finding out what he was about? Hell, the man had been producing media pimping the Islamic state since the 1960s. The moderates in Iran were the ones who made a deal with the devil and got into bed with him, figuring they could use him to whip up public support while they charted a more reasonable path. Well you lie in bed with dogs as the old saying goes. The Shah was going down and there was nothing the U.S. could do to stop it. Carter should have shut the embassy down after the first time the loonies stormed it but he kept it open like a big kick me target. It was Kissinger, Nixon's soulmate, who invited the major-league level trouble when he pushed Carter to let the Shah in at a time when anyone with two functioning brain cells knew that was like throwing gas on a gas-fire already burning like nine sonsabitches. Sorry, maybe it's not the most popular take on this page but Nixon was playing Joe Montana level Monday morning quarterback on this one. Carter made a lot of mistakes and by the sound of it Nixon would have made the same or worse. Nixon has this rep for being some genius on the world stage but Reagan saw his Détente strategy with the Soviets for what it was, a one-way street where they got to break every agreement and America just said, "uh, okay." He went directly against it and kicked their commie asses inside of a decade. And Nixon's grand opening of China? His big foreign policy trophy? Well we see what kind of fruit that has produced. Nixon was smart, but not as smart as he thought he was. If he was he would have burned the tapes. Just sayin.
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  1253. Titan may be the Alamo for humanity in this solar system. At some point the Sun, like any star, will start to die. When it reaches the Red Giant phase, Titan may become habitable. I know, it's a pretty far fetched theory, but it is a lot like the early Earth and by the time the Sun turns this place into a briquette it might be inside the new habitable zone. People would have to be pre-conditioned to adapt to the new atmospheric conditions and the whole magnetic field thing would have to be worked out but in a billion years or so that sort of technology may be old-hat. Or we might blow ourselves to kingdom come long before we ever get close to being close to figuring that stuff out. Still, it's a thought and isn't that what theorizing is all about? 🤔
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  1254. So Joe Rogan caved to a bunch of irrelevant self-important lefties? Gee, where's the surprise in that move. Let this be a warning to anyone who wants to elevate guys like Rogan and Maher beyond who they really are at heart. Way to go Joe, your bravery is a model for beta-males the world over.
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  1255. You think it's bad now? Wait until you see how countries like China, Russia, and Iran react next starting next January when kamala becomes obama's new acting president and mayor pete becomes VP. They are going to look at that lineup and laugh their asses off. Trouble, and I mean major trouble, is just around the corner. But hey, at least the mean tweets stopped.
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  1256. The absurdity of it all. It takes me back to that exchange between Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken in True Romance: Dennis Hopper: "Tell me, am I lying, because you, you're part eggplant." Christopher Walken laughs: "You're a cantaloupe" (Unfortunately for Dennis Hopper, "his truth" earned him a bullet in the head). A rose by any other name I guess. Okay, I'm a rock star, where's my big house in the hills filled with groupies?
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  1257. Why are they worried? She's going to say she won no matter what the results are. Since the democrats are all behind the idea you can identify as anything you want they should be okay with that. Hell, why not let her identify as a 115 pound swimsuit model. You know SI would put her on the cover if they were directed to. Welcome to the dystopian world of tyranny of the minority. Having fun yet? 🤔 But don't worry, that big red wave will save us all come November. I imagine the communists are just shaking in their red boots over the idea of having to go up against that champion of conservative causes Kevin McCarthy. He is a badass after all, just ask him. That's what he identifies as anyway so it must be true...right? 🤔
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  1258. To borrow from the old Smith-Barney commercials of the 1970s, he did it the old fashioned way, he earned it. As a Floridian I would hate to lose him after 2024. As an American, I can't abide a fourth obama presidency. So go ahead Ron, show the country what the we Floridians already know, you are the right man for a bright future. Go get em big fella!!!!
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  1259. A fair amount of black men are now catching on that obama was much more interested in promoting the LGB movement than doing anything for black people. Jason Whitlock and others have pointed this out, that if you wanted to give him a label you could say he was the first gay president. Of course anyone who points this out, especially prominent black men find themselves blacklisted and events where they were invited to speak in the past suddenly want nothing to do with them. obama used his race to gain power. I'm more of a black man than he is and I'm an Irishman who needs 70 SPF sunblock to hang out at the beach.
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  1260. The bartender does not want to compare IQ points and brain bandwidth with the Guv. That would be like comparing an appliance light with the Sun. Actually the more light that gets shined the old Bolshevik and his wayward apprentice the better. She's kind of like that real dim cousin every family has. Part of you wants to feel bad because you know they are mentally challenged but they are so flipping annoying at the reunion that you realize why you deny they are even part of the clan.
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  1261. One of these days girls are going to start wanting to be girls again and boys are...well, they will probably be harder to get out of their dresses but they are going to come around as well and start wanting to act like boys. What will become of the whole woke revolution then?
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  1262. Mr. "All sizzle and no steak" speaking with another SC republican squish about how they are going to get those law breaking democrats this time (Nancy Mace: Liberty Score D - 67%). Wake me up when one of these gop house investigations results in something other than a strongly worded memo and nightly bloviating on Fox News. Toss somebody in jail and you'll get more than a yawn out of the American public. In other words, act more like democrats. They don't have any problem locking people up.
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  1263. In the U.S. politics has become reality-TV. People don't want solutions, they want to be entertained. People don't want to unite, they want to be in one camp or the other. People don't want to honor God, they want to worship idols. Huxley is spot-on in that regard. I have often commented that while we were keeping any eye out for 1984 the powers-that-be slipped a Brave New World in on us. COVID was a test run. People not only submitted, they clamored for more rules, punishments for people who failed to conform. and have adjusted to a new reality where working from home is quickly becoming the norm in a lot of industries. This isolation makes it easier to control people, and that is what it is always about, power and control. I can see where Huxley's vision slides into Orwell's in an almost seamless manner. If you were to poll the entire country, "I just want to be left alone" would be the chart topper of any list of desirable circumstances it appeared on. When you just want to be left alone you are in a perfect position for just the opposite to befall you. When the-powers-that-be can convince you that everything, including basic truths like male and female are up for grabs you are already violating Alexander Solzhenitsyn's first tenant of resisting totalitarianism: “The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.” Orwell may have tried to warn the people of Britain that a Stalin-like leader could emerge anywhere but he and his fellow-travelers were the useful idiots Lenin declared essential to the ultimate success of communism. Well-intentioned liberals lent their name and prestige to the movement and even ignored the cognitive dissonance necessary to accept the obvious contradictions of most leftist positions. Some did it out of naivete, others did it out of self-interest, but the genie is out of the bottle and there is no putting it back in now. We are now producing a generation that believes obvious false-hoods and values collectivism over individual freedom. The term democratic socialism is just another lie put forth by a group who lie so much they now fail to see the distinction between what is true and what is false. In other words, like all pathological liars, they buy their own bullshit. Men are becoming weaker and more passive, women are given higher positions in a hierarchy that is becoming more matriarchal every day. I'm not a chauvinist, but such a system is not sustainable. Call me names but men have an instinct to lead and protect. Those instincts are now called toxic. Men aren't looking for wives, women aren't looking for husbands, but children are looking for parents. When the traditional family doesn't provide them, the state will. And when the state does, you have given your children over to demonic forces. Something's gonna give at some point. The center can't hold because there isn't much of it left. People are choosing sides, and where that leads is always unpleasant. Get right with God. That's the best advice this old coot can give anyone.
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  1264. I can see Tampa relocating to Orlando. St. Pete is not a good spot for a ballpark. The traffic control is crap and the parking situation outside of the reserved spots is lousy. The roads are two, maybe four lane in spots and the cops rely on the lights to control the flow which, as anyone who lives in Florida will tell you, is a dumb idea because the lights are timed like crap down this way. I'm not following the logic of moving Jacksonville to Austin and moving the Texans out of Houston. Houston was very loyal to the Oilers. I can't speak to the current situation since I moved out of Texas a while ago but having a team closer to the Cowboys fanbase is, well just not a bright idea. Oklahoma City, maybe. As for the Chargers, they never should have left San Diego. They actually started in LA when they were an AFL franchise and figured out pretty quick LA is primarily a baseball and basketball town. The Rams left and I'm not sure people really cared too much. It's not the kind of city that will support two NFL franchises, at least not based on what I've observed over the years. But what are the Chargers going to do, tuck their tale and move back to San Diego? Seemed to me they had a solid fanbase, not sure how they'd feel about welcoming them back though. Maybe they can go to Oakland. Al Davis would roll over in his grave, that alone would make it worth it.
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  1265. DeSantis would be a much better candidate in 2024 but if Trump runs he's going to get the nomination. I think he will lose because Trump has the same effect on democratic voters that full moons have on werewolves and he will energize their base enough in the swing states like Pennsylvania and Michigan to keep it within the margin of cheating, and if a democratic candidate can stay within the margin of cheating they win. The democrats are shameless now and no longer try to hide what they are up to. In order for a republican to win, they have to be outside of that 3-5 point window. Anything inside of that and the media will declare the democrat the winner and start beating the election denial drum over, and over, and over and...you get the point. That's what will happen if Trump runs. obama gets his fourth term and we have to see what kind of country is left in 2028 when DeSantis and Kari Lake run as a power couple. That's my take on it anyway. Trump is the kind of guy the republicans have to have pissing out, not into the tent. If he lost in the primary his hard core base would stay home because that is what Trump would order them to do. I think DeSantis knows this and is too canny to run in 24. He'll let dipshi*ts like Pence, Yunkin, and Hogan take Trump on and get their asses handed to them as they acquire new nicknames, especially Pence. Trump will chew up and spit out that white-bread-asshollier-than-thou wimp like a bad oyster. I just hope some semblance of this country is left after four more years of yes we can. God help us.
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  1266. Conservatism is on life support world-wide. If most people had half a brain and actually looked into the REAL history of this climate nonsense they would be storming the walls of power all over the planet. But most people just aren't that interested. They just accept that this is the way it has to be as they continue to bend over. The pied pipers like Al Gore made their fortunes. I'm still waiting to see the fish swimming down main street in Miami like he predicted. That was supposed to be the case by 2010 I think. Sorry, but I don't have a lot of pity for the U.K. They wanted the nanny state. How's that working out? Don't worry, we here in the U.S. are right behind ya. We'll be burning furniture in the not too distant future as well at the rate we're going. I saw one of these climate nuts on some documentary years ago who ran the numbers and said in order for humans to be in proper balance with nature we needed to get the number of people roaming the planet down to half a million. Maybe the powers that wanna be are shooting for that target. Maybe that is really what they mean by net-zero.
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  1267. Oh man, as an old school Trekie I am so glad I stopped watching prime time TV after some numbnuts thought it was a good idea to cancel Taxi in 1983. I didn't even know this was a thing. Live long and prosper my ass. To quote The Drinker...go away now!
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  1268. $100,000,000,000,000,000? No problem, write a check. Shoot, stick around a few more years and there won't be a whole lot of difference between that figure and our national debt anyway. Then again, I suppose that is a pretty hefty price tag for a sticky floor. To borrow from Chris Rock, how about I give ya 1,000 bucks for a neat pair of magnetic boots, lace ups of course, with good arch support. Interesting video. Just more proof that long-term space travel is a lot harder than they told me it was when I was a kid and Kirk and Spock were warping around the galaxy and still managing to make it back to Earth occasionally to enjoy a home-cooked meal every now and again.
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  1269. The commies don't leak anything without a plan and prior approval from the politburo. State run media doesn't report on anything without a plan and prior approval from the politburo. This is a Soviet style set up. The senile old coot held the seat long enough, the biden crime family got to stash away s few more rubles, now the guy has to go. I imagine the powers that be within the central committee were a bit pissed that the republicans couldn't take the senate. That would have given them a reason to green-light a purge sooner. Now they have to go to plan B, start leaking out information on joe's criminal activity in order to, at the very least, prevent him from seeking another term. obama's wife could leap frog harris on the ticket since she checks off the same intersectional boxes but that would be too ballsy a move even for the hard-liners within the party. No, they may have to bite the bullet in the next presidential race but that's fine in their eyes. They took big steps wrecking the country under uncle joe. They'll get another kick at the can because with mccarthy in the Speaker's chair and the turtle of the senate calling the shots in that chamber the republicans will turn the legislative branch back over to the communists soon enough. Wanna know the game plan? Read Mao and his take on the long game. They are getting there. Some of the young turks like the bartender may call for more drastic action but they know what they are doing. All they have to do is stay disciplined in their approach and let the republicans take the blame for the long-term failures of the policies they are putting into place now. Just like Azazel tells detective Hobbs in Fallen: "One at a time Hobbs, that's how we do it."
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  1270. I worked my share of restaurant jobs when I was a musician because it was the best way of ensuring a meal for that day so I have always had a soft spot for people who serve me my food, be it in a sit down place or delivery. I'm fairly generous but I rarely eat out anymore so that helps. But I have experienced what Matt is describing. When I was in the military the commissary used to hire retired vets to bag groceries', and they had a big sign saying "retired vet's working for tips only." I resented that because I thought they were trying to guilt trip people into tipping for something other retailers specifically forbid and the fact they were trying to get free labor. Those places made more than there share of profit. I know because I knew people who tallied the numbers for them. Anyway, I didn't tip them and I won't tip if someone hasn't earned it. I drop money in the tip jar at my local Firehouse Subs but they have a regular Sunday crew who know my name. I figure that extra effort is worth something.
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  1271. That baby has more sense than the mother trying to force that mask on him. As for that teacher, there was a time when that behavior got you fired. Too bad that time has come and gone.
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  1272. I'm pretty sure if you asked that woman about her ideology she would say something along the lines of: "Well, as you know, ideology is important to me. We all have ideas, and ideas are important because after all that is where ideas come from. I remember the commercial when I was a middle class kid that talked about the mind being a terrible thing and how it must be stopped in our lifetime and that is why I'm running for president."
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  1273. I dunno, our planet is highly fine-tuned for life and so many factors play into it that it I imagine it makes intelligent life quite rare. I didn't say impossible, because as Billy Bob Thornton put it it's a big-ass sky. I just think if we have cosmic cousins they are so far away neither one of us would be able to crack that code. And I think that is by design. But that's just my take on it.
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  1274. Let's say this is a real thing. How would any decent woman explain the nature of their conception to the son or daughter that comes out of this stunt? I did it for kicks? I screwed your dad for a buck and to get on TV? This is so disturbing on too many levels but I guess the most sorry aspect to this is the culture that would watch such a show. What's the follow up, watching the two of them rolling in the sack to consummate the deal? Watch Nick Cannon knock me up on live on pay-per-view. I hope to God this is farce because...well what can you say to this level of depravity. Nothing to see here folks, Western Civilization is just fine, keep moving along.
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  1275. People believe what they want to believe for the most part. CNN knows this and plays to those built-in preconceptions. That was only round one though. Wait until you see what the crazies have in store for 2024. BLM has been largely discredited and lost its steam but they'll find some other communist action committee to take its place. ANTIFA is still alive and kicking and you can count on Harris and Mayor Pete emptying the mental wards to recruit for that bunch. Uncle Joe is already out of the picture. Expect the cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment NLT Dec 25. Nice Christmas gift for Hunter. "Yer on your own pal. Hope you can speak whatever language they speak in that country you're going to run to, the one with no extradition treaty." Believe me, the temper tantrum the dems will have in 2024 will make the riots of 2020 actually look like peaceful demonstrations. Hang on tight kiddies, like bad tenants getting the boot, the commies are gonna rip up carpet and punch holes in the walls on the way out. God help us.
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  1276. biden might be impeached 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣wait...🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣...okay. By republicans???? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣...those guys 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣That's rich.
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  1277. "They taught people the word inflation...that's not a word you normally hear people use." That is possibly the stupidest thing I have ever heard anyone ever say. She's black, so I guess that makes me a racist. The dems accusing people of running a campaign based on fear. The party of they are gonna toss grandma over the cliff and put ya'all back in chains. And to think, they went to all that trouble of coming with bogus charges against the orange man and all anyone wants to talk about is how the country is going to hell in a handbasket. Democracy is on the ballot....democracy is on the ballot...democracy is on the ballot...must say democracy is on... And they say we are the threat to democracy and an authoritarian government is only a week away. Why did I have to live to see these days?
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  1278. Ya gotta have a strong tolerance for cognitive dissonance if you want to be a part of the political left. This is because it's based on a false premise WRT human nature. It's like building a house with a cracked foundation. You know that eventually the crack will cause the structure to come down but until that day comes you live in it and don't worry about tomorrow. It's also why lefties don't care if they soil the carpets and kick a few holes in the wall. They know it's coming down anyway and they don't have a stake in it so why not have a bit of fun. I read about a memo one of RFK's associates wrote concerning the struggles they were experiencing as they tried to get their Bedford-Stuyvesant project off the ground. In the memo, Kennedy's colleague writes that as contradictory as it may seem, there were instances where the private sector did appear to be more efficient than the government. The fact that this guy, one of the best and the brightest wrote that speaks volumes about the universities that produce these titans of academia. True believers are always ineffective at best and dangerous at their worst.
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  1279. All this while the fem-nazis jump up and down about the rape culture in the military. We live in a society that celebrates and promotes sin, that openly encourages the sexualization of children and then wonder how this sort of thing can happen. Are you telling me we are incapable of connecting the dots between evil policies and wicked behavior? No, we know better, we just don't care enough as a society to put an end to the evil, and that is why God has given us over to depraved minds. We knew God, but we said we didn't need Him. How's that working out? The thing about Satan is, you have to invite him in, but once he gets past the front door, he's hard to kick out of the house.
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  1280. I've never seen it, never will see it, and don't care. I just wanted to hear The Drinker. I'm in that kinda mood. Thanx dude! 👍👍
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  1281. I'd love to see whitmer sent packing but Dixon is going to have to beat her beyond the margin of cheating. That woman has no shame and will be finding votes for days unless Tudor can bury her deep enough on election night. I wish her luck but I grew up in that state and I know the mindset up there. I'm hopeful, but I think whitmer's VUO's (Voters of Unknown Origin) in Wayne, Oakland, and Washtenaw counties will pull her across the finish line. Hope I'm wrong since all my friends and family still live there.
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  1282. Wow. What else can ya say. Well for starters guys, and this is free advice, don't marry a porn star. She is exhibit A for why you wouldn't but some things should just be a given. That girl is damaged goods in a lot ways. I imagine she was abused as a child. I say that for the obvious reasons but also for the fact that she behaves and largely communicates like a 12 year old. People get stuck at a stage of development after they have been abused/molested or when they start abusing drugs and alcohol. Somebody broke her at an early age and the only thing that will fix her is for her to repent and build a real relationship with the only one who will never hurt her, Christ the Lord. I was a smart-ass drinker when I was a kid and this very insightful woman gave it to me straight. She said I didn't have a drinking problem I had a God problem. She didn't preach, she just let it go at that. Those words haunted me for years but you know what, at the end of the day she was right. I'm not gonna judge or mock this young lady, I'm gonna pray for her. There are millions of Mia's out there who are lost in a world that is becoming more demonic by the hour. If you haven't seen it, go watch Sound of Freedom and you'll see how all these Mia's are created. "Understand this: there will be terrifying times in the last days. People will be self-centered and lovers of money, proud, haughty, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, irreligious, callous, implacable, slanderous, licentious, brutal, hating what is good, traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, as they make a pretense of religion but deny its power. Reject them.” ― 2 Timothy 3: 1-5
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  1283. Okay I'll try this once again. They won't do it because they are either mentally disturbed, demonically possessed, or just evil. Let's see if the YT hall-monitors kick this one off. If they don't, I hope this helps.
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  1284. So Whoopie is still spewing her Farrakhan inspired brand of anti-Semitism. Guess the Jews were okay when it came to providing that woman a stage name to further her career. Redemption is achievable for anyone who seeks it but as the years pass that woman gets meaner and more ignorant. Or maybe it's all just opportunistic racism on her part. Anything for a buck when you're a washed up has-been I suppose.
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  1285. I feel bad for the citizens but I have no pity for any government, including my own, that gets roped into this green nonsense. If the time ever comes where truth and facts matter people will look back at this climate change crap and wonder how the hell anyone bought into it. Of course, that requires people who love the truth more than the convenience of participating in the lie. I wish I was optimistic about that happening in my lifetime but when kiddie cartoons are talking about tampons for men...not so much. The world is sick and the cure gets more painful with every passing day.
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  1286. Shaq always had a dry wit I appreciated. The first time I started getting Shaq was when a reporter asked him if he visited the Parthenon during a trip to Greece and he said he couldn't remember the names of the all the clubs they went to while he was there. And then there was the time a player was released from the Lakers and Shaq told him he was kind of like the drummer who got kicked out of The Beatles. He's always seemed like a down-to-earth guy who doesn't take himself too seriously so this isn't a stretch for him. Good for you Shaq.
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  1287. I was born in Canada, spent time there as part of a military exchange program, have a ton of relatives still living there, and I will never set foot in that country again. It's sad too, because I have aunts and uncles I know will be gone in the not too distant future, people I love and I will miss their funerals. It really is sad but they have been conditioned for generations and they don't see health care as a decision they make. It is government run so the government will tell you what to do. And they are okay with all of it. Oh Canada indeed. 😥
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  1288. Condemn what he draws a paycheck from? Don't expect that to happen anytime soon. Race pimps have a long storied history. This guy is just Sharpton 2.0
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  1289. China wouldn't try anything as adventurous as what this gentleman is suggesting. This is the real world, not some giant game of Risk. They will go after Taiwan through diplomatic pressure and intrigue. The best way for China to get Taiwan is to get the U.S. to sell them out, coupled with a compliant regime in Taiwan. Right now the situation isn't ripe, but it's close. I figure by 2032-34, they'll get what they want without firing a shot.
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  1290. The Proud Boys? Really? Are they still the boogeymen for lefties like this woman? How many buildings have been torched over the years by the Proud Boys? How many highways have the Proud Boys shut down? How many parts of major American cities have they taken over and declared them independent free-zones, no longer property of the United States? Wanna talk about an insurrection? Forget some guy dressed up like the Minnesota Vikings mascot sitting in the speakers chair. When you take a part of the country and claim it as your own that is the textbook definition of an insurrection. I had to cut out at the 5:28 mark. This woman is a classic example of what Lenin called useful idiots. But when she tried to spin it to people on the right being more susceptible to batsh*t crazy rabble rousers because they are the ones looking for strong leaders? She is what you get when 60s radicals grow old, a stubborn old woman who was wrong-headed then and is wrong-headed now because her ideology has always come first. She is the kind warping the minds of young people. I'll listen when someone sounds like they are a critical thinker but this moonbat? There is a video of old breakfast cereal commercials from the 60s in my feed. I think I'll go watch that because relics like this old hippie radical bore the hell out of me. They did back then, and they still do today.
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  1291. The hard left, which has a hold of the party, isn't interested in winning at this stage. If they were they would have adjusted their policies. They just want to get as much lunacy in as they can in the time they have. They will wait out a republican majority because they know the vast majority of republicans are weak and will not undo any of their insanity and when they get the power back in few years it will be full steam ahead. Rinse, wash, repeat. The squishes proved the dems right when they failed to repeal Obama care. If a few have to fall on the sword, so be it. That is the game in 21st Century. Get used to it because it's going to get worse.
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  1292. If Virginia is not careful they could become Kalifornia east. I lived there for three years and was shocked at how much of my money they came after. Now it appears the rest of the marxist agenda is being put into place there as well. Matt's right. This isn't the last you've seen of this bill. Once the communists are in charge again they will push it through. They are like locusts. They destroy every area they infest and they don't stop until the destruction is complete. There is no way in this or any other parallel universe I would send my kid to a public school, anywhere. You might as well just have them spend the day hanging at a strip-club and at night send them out to a brothel. These agents of Satan will never stop. That woman calls herself a social worker? How about just plain old socialist. I'm sure she learned these authoritarian techniques in Cuba, Venezuela, or whatever third-world tin-horn sh*thole dictatorship she was raised in. Welcome to the future campers. These fruitcakes may not be large in number but they have big mouths and wicked ideas and they are a determined bunch. Zealots always are and they never quit...never. It's you or them in their mind. You've seen this movie before so no explanation on how it ends is required and if you don't think it can happen here, ask anyone from the old Soviet Bloc how it works. Then look around and compare what they tell you to what you see unfolding here. A time for choosing gang, a time for choosing.
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  1293. The only thing they tell biden is when it's time to wake up, when it's time to go back to bed, and when the blonde lady will be by with his ice cream and pudding. obama and his greenies are out to wreck the place and I gotta say they are doing a helluva job.
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  1294. harris isn't going anywhere. She's too stupid to come up with any ideas of her own and she has shown that she will do whatever it takes to obtain status. I say status because power and kamala harris in the same sentence doesn't even sound right. She's the perfect stooge to take over for a stooge. mayor pete's problem is he's white and his only qualification is that he likes having sex with men. He doesn't check enough of the intersectional boxes for the top spot, especially if they are going to shove a black woman to the curb to put him there. Just not going to happen. He'll move into harris's job come January when she takes over for the senile old coot. biden's drift into total senility is becoming a full-blown sprint and you can tell obama has had enough. Proof of that is how the press has turned on him and this talk of biden's boy hunter being given up like a sacrificial lamb is something that never happens within the marxist camp unless a purge is in the mix. To quote Herman Roth from Godfather II: "He's small potatoes." I'm getting my popcorn ready for 2024 when Gollum reemerges and tries to take back her precious. The potential for fireworks between harris and the woman from Arkansas whose name shall not be uttered will be worth the price of admission. Pure stupidity going toe-to-toe with blind ambition. We'll see how that goes. But make no mistake, we have not seen the last of Gollum. Those tricksy Hobbitsess stole it from her and she will chase the precious all the way to the edge of the fires at Mount Doom to get it back. Bill is already showing up here and there making speeches and that slush fund of theirs that rivals BLM's scam is ginning up for contributions again. She won't get too many donors this time around but that won't stop Bill's girl. That woman is like a comet careening into the Earth at 40,000 MPS. The sonic boom when she crashes this time will be one for the ages. I get the feeling she will be in take-no-prisoners mode. When that one crashes it could be a ELE for the democratic party. obama vs. clinton, round III, showdown at the OK Coral. Hang on kiddies, if nothing else, it will be entertaining. No one since Nixon has made exits and rebounds like this crazy b**ch. More to follow.
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  1295. The left destroys everything they get a hold of because their ideology is not only Godless, it is based on fiction. They believe in the perfection of man because they have to. If there is no Heaven, you need to sell the notion that a utopia can be created on Earth, otherwise, what's the point. When that fallacy falls apart, and the masses are left with no purpose, they become nihilistic and prone to a dictator to provide order. It is a pattern that has repeated itself over and over again, no matter how many times they convince themselves that all they have to do is avoid the mistakes of others. But in the end it never works because the true believers have misread human nature and the predators within the group are just in it for the acquisition of power. As Alexander Solzhenitsyn put it: "There is this fallacious belief: 'It would not be the same here; here such things are impossible.' Alas, all the evil of the Twentieth Century is possible everywhere on Earth:"
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  1296. What would be the incentive for Elon Musk to purchase Truth Social? To bail out Donald Trump? Why would he do that? To do him a solid? For what? Trump is in a tough spot. Truth Social is nothing compared to Twitter. I'm not on either but I know that much. But Trump has investors he has to answer to. How can he jump over to Twitter while Truth Social is still a thing? It reminds me of the time Tiger Woods got busted using a Titleist golf ball on TV at the U.S. Open after he signed a huge deal with Nike, part of which stated that he exclusively use Nike equipment during tournament play. He switched back to the Nike ball but you know he was pissed because Nike was clearly inferior to Titleist. Trump can't have it both ways. I don't know the particulars of the agreement he has with his associates at Truth Social but I imagine if he dumps them for Twitter he opens himself to some kind of liability. And the last thing he needs is ANOTHER group of people going after him in court. So back to the original question, what's in it for Musk? Nothing would seem to be the answer. As for CBS admitting Hunter is a scumbag, that is just part of the dog-and-pony show. They have to do that so they can say, "See, we're not biased" when they open up all the propaganda flood gates in support of that BS special prosecutor who is going to start breathing down Trump's neck over Jan 6th. So Hunter gets exposed. It will only be the nickel and dime stuff, hookers, crack and the like. No way they go into the shady finance stuff he's got on there, stuff involving his old man and the Chinese. That stuff has been scrubbed out of all space and time. It's as dead as Vince Foster. Nice to have a fourth estate to keep the politicians accountable, isn't it? 🤔
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  1297. And Hillary still walks between the raindrops without getting wet. That's the problem folks. The powers that be still hate Trump more than that woman. Trump was the party crasher. The unibrow party goes back more than 100 years but this latest iteration started with Bush the elder and his 1000 points of light nonsense. He booted every principled Reagan appointee on day one and put us on the path to the new world order. The Bush family and the Clinton crime syndicate are so close it's hard to see where one ends and the other begins. Trump called them all out and he got whacked for the effort. If he runs again he'll get whacked even harder this time. They had to create an orange-man-bad virus to get rid of him 2020. How far do you think they will go this time around? I wasn't a Trump guy in 2016 but I voted for him in 2020 because he earned my vote. It's pretty clear to everyone that the inmates are really running the asylum now but mark my words, the demented old man who received 80 million votes in 2020 will probably receive 90 million in 2024. Why? Because orange-man-bad. The commies know who counts the votes matters most and they also learned they can flat out steal an election now without anyone beyond a handful of people saying a word in protest. And when nobody goes down for the Russian collusion BS they will have taught us a lesson, namely that they can call in the goon squad from the FBI to do their dirty work with impunity. A time for choosing people, it's on us.
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  1298. It's sad that people find lies more compelling than history. That men who killed Kennedy crap ran on A&E first. I was one of those who bought all the JFK conspiracy nonsense until I watched that series. That started me on a fact-finding campaign and where I started with a conspiracy going in I came out the end with a three-time-loser, a $19.00 mail-order rifle (with scope) and a guy with a death wish who didn't give a damn about the stress he put on the men whose job it was to protect him. Main takeaway, don't put a fatalist in the White House, but I digress. I enjoyed the History Channel, A&E, even the Learning Channel when they arrived on the scene but the plume fell off the rose pretty fast. The History Channel still dabbles in history now and again and some of it is even okay to pretty good. And some of it ranges from garbage (their World War documentary) to hot stinking garbage (Sam Adams as an action hero). But then I don't really watch much of what cable has to offer anyway. Decent television programming wasn't the only casualty reality-TV left in its wake. It acted as a force multiplier alongside social media to make our culture and politics more coarse. Worse, it has helped distract people to the point where we are literally amusing ourselves to death as the book with that title written in the 1980s postulated. Our education system has dumbed down America in a whole host of academic disciplines but none as thoroughly as history, civics, and economics. You don't have to be a conspiracy/tin-foil hat guy to connect those particular dots. Is it really any wonder why we can't even agree on the definition of male and female or what bathrooms should be used by whom? I'll just leave it there because anymore speculation on my part will result a "return error" by the omnipresent TY hall-monitors. Who knows, maybe it really is aliens from the planet Zoltar messing with our culture. Why? Tune in next week to the guy with crazy hairdo for that answer. The other guy with crazy Nostradamus hairdo will be along after him to explain how it was all predicted in some quatrain. Sleep well boys and girls but stay alert. It's a brave new world out there and it's getting braver by the hour.
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  1299. Someone else already touched on this but the location itself is a problem. I went to my first game there this year and it was opening day so you figured the traffic would be bad but it was a flipping nightmare. Unlike other parks that have plenty of big private lots the private parking lots around that stadium are small. There is plenty of parking near the stadium but as I mentioned, getting to it was a bitch. The roads leading there are two lane and the cops were clueless when it came to sorting things out. They relied on the traffic lights which, if you know Florida, are timed like crap. They could have and should have taken charge that day but they didn't. If they stick around, they would be better off going to Tampa but even then I'm not sure by how much. Orlando will probably be the landing spot. I'll admit, I'm not a Rays fan but there are a lot of us who have relocated in the area so it's not uncommon to see a lot of fans for the visiting team, even though the Rays are a very good ballclub. As far as the stadium, I thought it was goofy. Describing it like an amusement park is a good descriptor but then again I grew up in a town with an old ballpark so I guess I'm biased. It is a lot better than the Rogers Center or whatever they are calling that mess in Toronto these days so that prevents Tropicana from being the worst park I've been to but I digress a bit.
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  1300. Do not ever allow the term "hot women" in the same time zone as the dark queen of the Ozarks let alone the same sentence. So she's raising money for India huh? Ask the people of Haiti how it works out when that grifting thief fundraises off the misery of others. As for 2024, of course she is running and of course she will kneecap harris. Gollum hasn't given up on the precious by a long shot. She'll slither out of her cave in the Ozarks and chase the precious over the edge of Mount Doom. If she lives to be 100 she'll chase it. They stole it from her after all. Nasty tricksy Hobitses.
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  1301. What I want to know is how much of my tax dollars are spent paying the 1600 bureaucrats who gave this video a thumbs down? 🤔
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  1302. I see a lot of articles and videos about some new planet found in the habitable zone and most of them have a bias toward life existing on them. Even the art shows oceans and shorelines. All they need is a few palm trees and a high rise off the beach and they could be posters for Earth 2.0. A lot of them fail to mention they are tidally locked to red dwarfs that belch out cosmic rays like Bluto at a toga party. Looking at sun-like stars is a better use of time and resources but even then everything is speculation. I remember seeing some article where the headline read "10 Planets Better Suited for Life Than Earth," a rather silly statement since intelligent life you know, is actually present on Earth. There are so many other factors beyond location that go into a life-supporting planet, let alone one capable of intelligent life. And the thing is, they are so far away we will never meet them even if they are out there. I don't buy the science fiction tales of warp drives and wormholes. Unless everything we know about physics is wrong, or some interstellar cousins of ours have figured out how to cheat space and time contact between beings separated by hundreds of light years of space, chock full of its own perils, is the stuff of fantasy. Fun fantasy, cool fantasy, but fantasy nonetheless. Live long and prosper my distant kin, maybe I'll see ya in the next life. 🤟
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  1303.  @fredlingenfelser2567  That's fine. I get it, a self-preservation vote. Just don't expect the republicans to do anything with guys like Rubio being led by a guy like Mitch McConnell in the senate.
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  1304.  @HighDraDWG  Six years? Tell ya what. If that turns out to be the case, revisit my comment and I will eat a humble-pie soufflé, ala-mode, with a glass of grassy-knoll wine.
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  1305. Okay, so help me out here. It appears you are making a reference to the Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25: 29). Are you somehow contrasting that parable with Marx and the axiom: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need"? The parable refers to the gift of God's grace, not economic inequality. Those to whom God has granted much have an obligation to share that and increase God's influence if you will. Those who are granted grace and do nothing with it lose what little they had. That's the short explanation of the parable anyway. Unless you are using it in some other context, in which case I apologize if I have ascribed an improper motive. It just appears, to me anyway, that you are using scripture to claim conservatives are simple-minded people who just accept the ills of the world as part of a "tragic vision." Is that code for God's will? Again, just trying to understand.
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  1306.  @dancroitoru364  Okay, but the Parable of the Tenants has nothing to do with "absolutely efficient capitalism" or shifting work to the weak so they may die faster. You may disagree with Dr. Sowell's claims but using that parable to bolster your argument is an incorrect interpretation of what Christ was saying.
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  1307. What are the chi-coms worried about. More than likely she just went there to get some insider info on microchip production. Gotta keep that 100% batting average on Wall Street in tact.
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  1308. Because of course she does. Hope that explanation helps.
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  1309. The United States has been operating within a Cold War framework for far too long for a variety of reasons. At the top of the list is the profitability of the construct. Why is NATO still even a thing? NATO was created at a time when Europe was weak and Stalin was the boogeyman. After the USSR collapsed NATO should have collapsed along with it. Instead they decided to grow the damn thing, inviting trouble by inviting in nations we were under no obligation to protect. We won the Cold War but we kept the game going all the same. But NATO is only one example of America dropping the ball. Nixon pointed out in one his first books that the U.S. has a natural dislike for empire and that would hamper our ability to manage world affairs in a sustainable fashion. I'm not an isolationist, but the Truman Doctrine should have been scrapped in the early 1990s and a leaner more pragmatic foreign policy should have been created. Now, as we drift toward the we-are-the-world utopia of the globalist set we are fighting the war of the bathrooms. God help us.
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  1310. I'm currently reading a book on how the commies infiltrated Hollywood in the late 1920s and by the 1940s a bunch of crap was being churned out because the writers were talentless hacks who had no real experience but they towed the party line so the party bosses who were in charge of the various writers guilds the Comintern set up gave them preference and experienced screen writers who weren't as politically pure just had to suck it up. Hmmm...I wonder if history is repeating itself. 🤔Or maybe it's just a case of the more things stay the same the more they stay the same. Give the Marxists credit, when they stumble on a strategy that works they stick with it.
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  1311. I think it's a major Chinese troll. Satellite technology is such that it can read the brand of beer your drinking on your porch. Maybe they're here for the Super Bowl. If that's the case, let Fox shoot it down for not paying for the television rights.
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  1312. All of this makes me glad that I always thought comic books were lame, even as a kid. As for the piss-poor writing, don't expect that to go away anytime soon. The well the studios draw from has been poisoned. The commies won and they are reaping their reward. Isn't it fun?
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  1313. Twitter is such a sewer. I'm glad I learned my lesson farting around with Facebook 20 odd years ago or whenever it was. Anyway, as far as getting personal goes they have to when the cult is attacked. It's not about the movie franchise at that point. Nobody can escape the wrath of the rainbow jihad. Whoever is running that Twitter account could give two shits if it crashes and burns. Leftism is a death cult and the cult members are playing a zero-sum/take-no-prisoners game. That's why republicans suck when it comes to taking them on. They keep bringing pen knives to a nuclear battlefront. Star Wars can't help themselves. They are part of the Disney family and that means everything is political. Walt is lucky the dead don't really give a damn about what the living are up to because he would come back and haunt them all if he could.
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  1314.  @lottavuorinen  That may have been the case in your marriage and that is sad. My wife and I both worked and I did most of the cooking because I was usually home first and I didn't mind. I also did the grocery shopping, lawn work, and we split cleaning up the house. But my marriage still ended up on the rocks. No two situations are alike and it's not always who is doing what around the house that determines happiness. Single women and men for that matter may be happy when they are young but that often changes when they get older. I wish you well, I truly do, but how you feel today may not be how you feel later on down the road. That's all I'm saying.
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  1315. The Vietminh didn't defeat the Japanese in WWII. The Japanese left when they decided they needed the troops to defend Japan against an impending American invasion more than they needed to hang onto Vietnam. They basically told them, "You're all free now," and split. One of the myths that grew up around Ho-Chi-Minh was that he fought valiantly against the Japanese. Bullshit. He spent most of the war in the Soviet Union. He had run to the USSR in the 30s after the French put a bounty on his him. He claimed to be in charge when American OSS agents arrived but there were other Vietnamese guerilla fighters who were a whole lot more involved in the resistance against Japan than the Vietminh. And if you're looking to nitpick accuracy, there are other scenes such as the one where the men piss on the overheated mortars that would be a better choice than the one where the lady goes off about racism. There were plenty of folks living in the north who had never seen segregated facilities. Also, you said that most of the men who went into this battle in 65 were conscripts who just wanted to come home. That's not true. A lot of the soldiers who went in around this time were patriots, true believers who believed in the cause and wanted to win. I get it, you are British and you sound young so I assume you were taught that stuff in school. The war wasn't unpopular at that time. The protests didn't pick up steam until two years later and even then, most Americans still wanted to stay at the war and wanted to win. LBJ was an insecure pussy who let the media bully him and when things got tough he didn't know what to do and just gave up. I'm not saying America could win the war. Truth be told, they wouldn't have been there if Truman and then Ike hadn't tied the French war in Indochina with the larger war against communism. Korea was going at that time and that had a lot to do with the development of the Domino Theory. Anyway, by 1969 people were more fed up with LBJ than the war. The polls at that time reflect that. And the war protestors were not seen as valiant young people standing up for a noble cause like the history books and documentaries like to portray them. Most Americans thought they were commie agitators and cowards. You said you wouldn't put this film ahead of the other Vietnam movies but I will. Oliver Stone has a hard-on for the U.S. and its government so anything he does, from Platoon to JFK is just this side of Soviet state propaganda. Kubrick made a Kubrick movie and I'm one of the few who finds the Deer Hunter pretentious and Apocalypse Now tedious.
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  1316. Mike Lee is a good man and outside of his vote to release a whole boatload of prisoners he is probably the most reliable conservative in the senate. romney isn't pond scum. He isn't even the mushy stuff at the bottom of the pond that produces the scum. He is closer to the stuff at the subterranean level that produces the mushy stuff that scum originates from. His family, dating back to the days of his old man, have always been stalwart's of the squishy diarrhea segment of the republican party that has produced the likes of nelson rockefeller and liz cheney. Why Trump endorsed that talking piece of dog sh*t is anybody's guess and why the people of Utah can't see through his BS is beyond comprehension. I refused to vote for that piece of excrement when he ran against obama, obama, the worst president this country has ever had. romney was such a lying piece of human garbage that he couldn't even rally the base against a communist. Then he goes and carpetbags a senate seat from a state that is supposedly solid red. If Utah actually votes for McMuffin over Mike Lee they will get what they deserve. Sorry, but this one is on Trump as much as anyone. Trump helped put this scumbag in the senate and now we have to live with it. If Mike Lee is not reelected by a large majority and romney is not primaried and defeated by a large majority, I will consider Utah a blue state in all but name, regardless of how they vote in presidential elections. Didn't their governor go on record as saying he supported transgender rights? I could be wrong but I seem to recall he did. Anyway, a pox on the whole lot of them if they fail to reelect Mike Lee. I had a good friend in basic training who joined the service to get away from the Mormons. His father was an elder and he said the whole lot of em were NVTS nuts. I gave the LDS people the benefit of the doubt. Maybe I was wrong to do so.
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  1317. These cultists are absurd Tucker, low hanging fruit. They lack self-awareness but they are told what they need to be aware of in everybody else. It is Mao's Cultural Revolution 2.0, American Style. But in all honesty, where does Fox News really fall in all of this? You lambast McCarthy yet your network gives him air time pretty much any time he wants it. Doesn't Karl Rove still haunt your hallways. The one Hannity gushes about, calling him "The Architect?" And good old Lindsey Graham, let's not forget that stalwart of conservatism. He practically has his own office at your studio. There are a lot of strong conservative voices who never get invited onto your panel and talk-shows. Why is that? Censorship by omission? Could it be they aren't toeing the proper party line? Or is it because the conservative movement, what's left of it anyway, is now and always has been homeless? Is that what you mean by getting their act together? Finding a home? Are you talking about the thought leaders who are busy selling merch and owning the libs while referring to mentally disturbed men like Bruce Jenner as Katlyn? 🤔 Oh wait, that's Fox again. Hell, I hear he's in line to get his own show over there. Bravo! I like ya Tucker, I really do. But when you talk about self-awareness tell the whole story. A lot of people need to get their act together to fight this battle, and it's going to take a whole lot more than tweets and soundbites to defeat this foe, because he knows his time is short and he's not taking prisoners, he's taking souls.
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  1318. Just read Atlas Shrugged. I don't agree with everything Ayn Rand espoused but she was spot on about the unholy alliance between government and business.
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  1319. That nonsense about pulling their demonic merchandise because of threats is straight out of the alphabet playbook. It's the same stunt the crazies pull when they use terms like genocide to describe any resistance to their deranged, wicked behavior. I just expressed a view they would deem violence even though there is no threat or implied threat in anything I wrote. It's straight of saul alinsky's rules for radicals. It's clear what they are doing, but the cult eats it up.
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  1320. I would never apologize to the Japanese. They still refuse to take responsibility for a lot of the wickedness they imposed on other people. It really annoys me when people say the fighting in the Pacific was especially vicious because American soldiers and Marines were racially motivated. The Japanese were racist as hell and looked down on everyone they conquered. I was given the honor of meeting two gentlemen who survived the Bataan Death March, one of whom went on to survive a trip to Japan in the belly of a Hell Ship. If you speak with men like them you have no problem taking a pass on the apology crap. obama did his apology tour because he hates what this country stands for and wants it weakened. Men, real men, those who fought and died for the place know better and are far more worthy of respect than that clown. I remember seeing a clip many years ago of Paul Tibbets walking through a crowd and some snarky college student yelled out; "How do you sleep Colonel?" Without missing a beat he replied: "Like a baby. How about you?" Some of these kids who don't know their history may be redeemable but I'm afraid most are not when it comes to Japan and the real story of what went down. Japan enjoyed a flurry robust revisionist history because we needed allies against red menace after the war. Hirohito should have hung but he got a pass because of political expediency. Such a shame. RIP fine sailors and marines of the Arizona, not everyone has forgotten you.
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  1321. I enjoyed that talk. Andrew gets it in the sense that our culture has actually gone past the tipping point and needs a serious course correction if this country is to survive. As Lincoln put it, a house divided cannot stand. However, while he's going down the proper route he's missing the mark as far as the role faith should play. He expects the awakening that will move young people away from Post-Modernism will occur along spiritual lines but then he adds that it will happen at an intellectual level. That's fine on one hand, people should examine scripture and Christian beliefs from an intellectual perspective but his reference to the way young people are going about it is problematic. "They're trying to reinvent the Gospels for a new age which I don't think is a bad thing...I don't think the Gospel's were meant to freeze us into a First Century morality, that's not the way they read to me at all." That is one of the Church's biggest failings, especially within Protestant branches. This notion that we can rewrite or reinterpret scripture to make it more palatable for the masses has resulted in a lot of people, especially young people, being led astray. It is like they want to remake God in order for Him to be a more proper fit for their lives instead of giving their lives over to Christ which is what Christianity requires. It's "His will be done," not ours. I've seen this tendency to intellectualize and make compromises in other videos he has made where he talks about Christianity. Like I say, there is nothing wrong with hearing opposing viewpoints and having discussions on what scripture means, but the idea that you make religion more accommodating is a slippery slope. I don't doubt Andrew's conversion, I saw a video where he became quite emotional talking about the time God reached into his heart, but his statement about reinventing the Gospels to prevent us from being locked into a First Century morality is way off the mark. Maybe it's the influence of the churches he attends. Having not grown up in the faith he has to have help as far as how it works and if he believes that I question the message he is receiving. Like that mega-church he attended with all the showmanship. They may pack them in but a lot of those churches have a serious problem when it comes to preaching the prosperity gospels. Or maybe it's just Andrew's Libertarian bent. I see this with Dennis Prager as well. Dennis Prager is quite smart and he gives great advice but I have heard him take the Libertarian side in everything from drug use to sex-trafficking. The sex-trafficking video disturbed me so much that I unsubscribed from his channel. I still watch some of the videos but I can't get behind someone who will challenge the guest the way he did on that one or argue the free-choice angle on a topic like that, even if it is just to play devils-advocate. There is a time to talk and a time to listen and he was way out of line that day in my opinion. It's the same with Andrew. I enjoy his talks on other subjects but his Libertarian streak gets in the way of what scripture requires of us so I generally steer clear of videos where he discusses Christianity. It's not because I doubt his faith, it's because I believe he misses the mark. That's just my opinion of course and people are free to disagree all they want. I have been called names for questioning him on this stuff before. The most common argument is, well, he's sticking up for our side so you need to give him a break. Or, what do you know about it. Are you a preacher? The thing is, where Christianity is concerned, it's not a matter of sides or credentials, it's a matter of truth and faith. I have faith that The Gospels are the true word of God and don't need to be reinvented. That is when the church gets in trouble. Just like I believe there is no room for compromise when it comes to the gay lifestyle or other areas I have heard Andrew argue for a more Libertarian sort of tolerance. Sin is sin and it's not okay to say, well, you can continue to sin that way as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else. Know who it hurts? It hurts the sinner, and God. Anyway, this has been a long rant and it will be my last word on it. I doubt anyone will ever take the time read it but if you do keep this in mind, I like Andrew and what he stands for, but when it comes to Christianity, I think his messaging misses the point. I am so far from perfect it scares me. And that is precisely why I don't want to reinvent God's word or try to fit Him into a box that is more comfortable for me. I think we have failed our young people enough already. We don't need to reinforce their misunderstanding of how faith works by telling them it's okay to craft God's message in a way to fit a narrative it was never intended to fit. Watch "The Enemy Within" if you don't believe me. The church needs to clean up it's act or risk being devoured by the spirit of the age.
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  1322. You supported equal access to marriage and are surprised when this is the eventual outcome? Come on now, you can't make a statement like that while cautioning people about slippery slopes. Bit of cognitive dissonance going on there. If you can't connect the dots, try a bit harder. Oh yeah, and let me know when they come up with the proper pronoun for a demon. The guy performs a satanic ritual live on network TV and all people seem to care about is what pronoun was used? Satan has got to be laughing his ass off over that. He's going to get bored with these simple trolls soon enough though, and when that happens, we'll all really get a taste of what it looks like when, an Ozzy put it: "Satan laughing spreads his wings." Oh Lord yeah indeed.
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  1323. He's guilty of committing journalism. For the longest time, these propogandists used to feign objectivity. But since we live in a post-truth society they are now free to goose-step to their hearts content. Listen to how often they will parrot what their masters at the DNC set up as the message de-jure. When biden first started in with his threat to democracy screed, every network repeated it ad-nauseum. When fauci spews out some BS about these booster shots working after just admitting that the first shots were worthless they defend his illogical position. Look who mans these anchor desks. They are the children of politicians or broadcasters. Look who is in congress and you get more of the same. We are not only post-truth, we are post-argument. Broadcasters have been in the pocket of the DNC going back to the days of Roosevelt's fireside chats. Newsrooms have always been dominated by left-wing reporters who cover for democrats and demonize republicans. Then they accuse the republicans of being fear-mongers and conspiracy freaks for pointing out the obvious. Nixon was not a likeable politician by nature. He was better suited to books than people but that doesn't mean he was wrong when he pointed out the hypocrisy of the press corps and their slavish devotion to the DNC. It's just that it was Nixon who said it so it was easy to get people to agree with them when they said he was paranoid. I remember when they were attacking Reagan, calling him unstable, too old, dangerous, a threat to world stability. Sound familiar? The game has always been played this way, it's just that they no longer need to hide it. And it's going to get worse. The next group, the ones they call Gen-Z are so far gone and lean so far left that it will only be a matter of time before all dissent is crushed. It's coming. I believe it was all prophesized but that is my faith. You believe what you want. I doubt I will be around to see the final clash but I encourage everyone to get right with God. To quote Bob Dylan, it's a hard rains, a gonna fall.
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  1324. If Pelosi and company are really serious about apologizing to people who are owed one, they could start with the millions of babies who have been killed in the womb. But then again, dead babies can't vote and they aren't available for a photo-op.
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  1325. Wait a minute Drinker, if NASA hadn't diverted that money intended to save planet into their diversity program, would Halle Berry have been available to save the solar system? 🤔This looks like Argo only it wasn't some CIA plot and was actually made. Glad this kind of stuff doesn't typically appeal to me anyway. Thanks for the heads up all the same Drinker.
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  1326. I haven't watched a second of any of this catastro-f*ck and seeing those snippets reinforces my decision. This is why we can't have nice things these days...ever.
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  1327. obama and his ilk miss the point because they have a flawed understanding of human nature. mccain and his neocon buddies miss the mark because they believe in large WWII style divisions in a world that has gone asymmetrical where technology has advanced at a rapid pace but low-tech devices create large numbers of casualties. Big dreams sell on one side of the ledger, big defense budgets sell on the other. Ike tried to warn us.
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  1328. Nah, they'll take the money they make off these movies and put into flicks like Brokeback Mountain, The Next Day or some other such crap. It's who they are. They will throw a few bones to the stockholders to stay afloat, nobody lies better than a Godless leftie, but at the end of the day, in their heart of black hearts, they are part of a demonic cult and Satan does not simply throw his hands up and say, okay I give.
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  1329. Democrats exercise power. Republicans fund-raise. They are nothing more than staged opposition, the Washington Generals of American politics. They put mccarthy and mcconnel into leadership positions. What part of the "we aren't serious" message those two moves conveyed did people not get. And for all you Trumpista's out there who keep telling us he's the only guy who can fix the mess he helped make worse, what's his plan for that? Not that he actually has a snowball's chance in Hell of winning a general election but let's play along. How many competent people who could get the job done are even willing to work for the guy? Lock her up was one his catch phrases, until he could, then it was like, "well, I didn't really mean it." Give the commies credit, they are a committed bunch, less interested in the show than achieving their goal of the acquisition of total power so they can really get down to the business of fundamentally changing this country once and for all from now until the end of time. Does that sound like anything remotely close to what a worm like mccarthy has in mind? Very few people on the right are serious. Maybe it's just that they have been beaten down like dogs, or maybe it's because that conspiracy theory of dems running trojan horses in republican primaries wasn't so theoretical and now they are reaping the fruits of their efforts. Hang on kiddies, this ride is just getting started. Yes we can indeed.
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  1330. The thing is, if the elites get their way and are given the reigns, eventually, they will get around to dealing with the same oppressed people they pretend to care about. This entire movement is based on the acquisition of power, and once that power is gained, the system will then take measures to protect itself. It has been this way forever. Why anyone thinks an American outcome would be any different boggles the mind. There is a storm on the horizon, but the good news is, this has all been foretold and we win in the end. Until then; “Be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect Him." - Matthew: 24
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  1331. This insistence on making sequels has always been a head scratcher. The suck rate has to be at 90% or better but they keep pumping em out anyway. I saw the original Indiana Jones when it came out many moons ago and that was enough for me. It was a good movie, but I wasn't going to spend a bunch of money on the sequels, not when cable was becoming a thing. I'm a bit surprised that Harrison Ford is still making these. He bowed out of the Jack Ryan movies because he said he was too old to be believable in the role. Guess they must have found his price for Indy. Oh well. Next.
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  1332. I thought Elvis was the king. 🤔
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  1333. "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." "There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty." John Adams
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  1334. Idiocy is believing biden is running anything. As for this whole danger to democracy bit, the last time I checked the commies in charge of the democratic party were the ones trying to curb free speech and sending goon squads from the FBI into the homes of people who exercise their first amendment rights by protesting abortion. The marxist storm troopers of the left are the ones burning cities to the ground. Wanna know what a democrat is up to? Pay attention to what he says you are up to. The media in the U.S. has lost all credibility and they don't even try to hide the fact that they are nothing more than an updated western version of Pravda. They aren't gonna lose, they are gonna get curb-stomped. But here's the thing. These wishy-squishy republicans better do more than run a couple of meaningless investigations into hunter and fauci. If they don't slap serious sanctions on the intelligence agencies and stop funding the democrats demonic platform the new voters flocking to their side this round will stay home in droves in 2024. I'm afraid that is what is going happen though. With the turtle running things in the senate and that half-a-commie from Kalifornia running things in the house the republicans aren't going to look that much different than the democrats. mcconnell doesn't even want the republicans to win the senate. He's past 80 now and just wants to steal as much as he can between now and 2024 and be left alone. The last thing he wants is to actually govern. As for mccarthy, the vision he set forth is so milquetoast it made me want to vomit. Who's going to stand up for America? That stefanick chick from NY who votes with the dems so much she out to be caucusing with them? marco rubio who never met a conservative he didn't have disdain for? Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. But that's me.
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  1335. The main thing to keep in mind is that politics has replaced religion for a lot of people on the left. Our public education system spent decades pushing left-wing causes as virtuous and proper and right-wing causes as evil and mean. The left also invested a lot of time and money running God out of the public square. The thing about God is if you tell Him you don't need Him He will say okay, you're on your own. C.S. Lewis out it best: “There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.'" Combine that with a 24/7 bombardment of hateful messaging where talking heads tell their audiences that it's the people, not the ideas or viewpoints they hold, who are bad and what other outcome would you expect. This digital age, where everyone gets to take part in the hate-fest, brings out the worst parts of human nature. Our dialogue has become coarse, people have become closed-minded, and now you have to accept the entire program without question or you aren't part of the clan. The vast majority of these people carrying on about wanting to kill the president wouldn't know how to fire a BB-gun. And they wouldn't have the nerve to try. But there are enough out there, people with murder in their heart, who aren't afraid to try anyway. There is a demonic force at play. Look at that trans cult going around killing people in the name of...well themselves. We exist in these echo-chambers where group-think is mandatory, critical thinking is seen as heresy, compassion is seen as weakness, and getting along with the other side is seen as betrayal. We are entering a cold civil war. Will it turn hot at some point? I hope not. Even politicians make casual remarks on the floor of the house about a national divorce. Divorces are messy on a one-to-one level. A divorce at a national level? Be careful what you wish for Dorothy, you just might get it.
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  1336. They've had a harris problem for a while. I get the feeling Gollum will slink out of her cave in the Ozarks in her never ending quest for the precious and will kneecap this half-a-moron even faster than Tulsi did in 2020. A white woman taking out a black woman violates the rules of civility in the world of identity politics but civility and hillary clinton don't meet much in the same book let alone sentence.
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  1337. "They seem to be sending a message, watch what you say, watch what you do." Maybe, and I'm just spitballin here, maybe the message is, if nobody watches your show because you suck at your job you will lose your job. Occam's Razor at work.
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  1338. I'm sure his dozens of fans must be devastated.
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  1339. Most people still wearing masks do so to show they are members in good standing of the sheep club. There are some who are honestly afraid of germs. They are neurotic and were germaphobes long before lord fauci got to them. I have an aunt who used to walk behind you and spray whatever you touched with Lysol. She is still crazy as a loon. I prefer the neurotics over the cultists but that's me.
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  1340. No vetting????? Will Smith had to chase down an alien on foot, shoot a kid carrying a quantum physics book, and drag a table across the floor while taking a test (I still mute that part every time). I checked out after the first one. I think I watched MIB II once just because. Sequels have a 95% suck rate (Godfather II, Wrath of Kahn, and LOTR Trilogy notwithstanding). This seems like it's right up there with such forgettable films as Caddyshack 2, Porky's 2; The Next Day, and everything that came after Major League. Oh well, as always, The Drinker rocks! The only critic I could ever like.
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  1341. Some love for "And Your Can Sing." Awesome! Has one my favorite bass lines as well. And of course "Day Tripper" makes the list. First Beatle riff I learned how to play and one I used to teach students just learning to play because the fingering makes for a nice work out. Nice to see "I Feel Fine" ranked up there. I figured out the feedback bit at the beginning the same way John did, by accident. I went to turn up the amp holding the A note and there it was. Good job but I would have had "Dear Prudence" in there just because of the fingering and the use of the D tuning.
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  1342. Is this woman suggesting that this markle woman has presidential ambitions? I remember many years ago, I think it might have been 1980, when Warren Beatty was seriously considering running for President. I guess his sister and some of his friends had to have an intervention to convince him it was a really, really, really, really, bad idea. I get it, narcissist's think they can do anything but putting that woman's name in the same sentence as the White House is a bit beyond the pale. I don't know who this lady being interviewed is, maybe she writes for The Enquirer because that's where any speculation of a future in politics for the royal spoiled brat should begin and end, right next to the article about alien's stealing cows or Ted Cruz's father being the second shooter on the Grassy Knoll.
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  1343. I would never see a movie along these lines because it's not my bag but as someone put it listening to the Drinker review a film would make my time waiting at the oil change place bearable. Still waiting on that review of Crimson Tide though.
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  1344. Disney's not going to change. They didn't just start climbing this hill they chose to die on when Governor DeSantis was elected. They have been going down the demonic rathole for decades. It's just that people didn't notice or didn't want to believe it. And Iger didn't simply invite the alphabet mafia and the rest of the loonies in. He slapped em on that back, promoted em. and said yes, more of that please. Disney isn't the only company he did this to. ESPN went woke the minute Iger and his crew got their hands on it and now, outside of live events, they have about as many people watching their programming as the view. When I was a young man ESPN was the default channel. Now most of their shows would get their asses handed to them if went up against the Westminster dog show semi-finals. They will lay low for a bit, sell the shareholders on the lie to stabilize that freefall, then go right back to brown snow white and her gay small people or whatever they call themselves. Mickey will come out of the closet soon and marry Donald Duck because of course he will. Minnie will come out as non-binary and they'll sell tickets to her virtual transition because again, of course they will. It's who they are now. They'll continue to exist because the pervs who want to groom the kids will finance them if they have to. Drag queen story time for everyone. Bank on it.
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  1345.  @BearfootBob  You're right. George got mean later in life. I see it with people I know as well. It's a path I am fighting hard to stay clear of but as I said in my post, it's a challenge.
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  1346. I'll be honest I think the last time I watched the academy awards show All in the Family was the king-king of prime-time TV. And I think the only reason I watched it then was to please some girl I hoped would help me learn more about...well, you know. Anyway, she didn't, and from that point on I spent my time on more intellectual pursuits like how many beers it took to get to the bottom of the stairs in a pile of...well, you know. Truth be told, I probably miss passing out at the bottom of a flight of stairs more than that crap. But The Drinker got me curious so I said what the hell, I'll take a peak. Nice to know hollywood is still a cesspool.
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  1347. The claim that the Soviets didn't receive U.S. support is false. Money and material through the Lend-Lease program began in November of 1941, before the attack on Pearl Harbor had occurred. Prior to that the U.S. floated a 50-million dollar loan to the USSR, more than one-billion in today's money. Also, capturing Moscow wouldn't have changed Soviet resolve. Plans were in place for the government to move and most of the major factories had already beat feat and headed beyond the Urals at that point. Hitler would have gotten as much from capturing Moscow as Napoleon had, squadoosh. The Russians would have torched anything of value and to borrow from Dr. Seuss, they would have taken the last can of who-hash with them on the way out the door. Taking Moscow wouldn't have changed the reality that there were scores of battle-tested troops in the East led by generals who knew what they were doing and row after row of T-34 tanks waiting on the other side. And the morale value of taking capitals is old-style thinking and highly overrated. You'd think the fall of Philadelphia in 1777 and the burning of the White House in 1814 would have taught the world that much. Churchill engaged in the same type of thinking on the Allied side but luckily Ike was more concerned with defeating German forces than playing the old imperial game of capture the flag in 1945. But I digress. I'm willing to listen to more but I'm at the 15-minute mark and so far I'm not convinced. We'll see. I'm not much on counterfactuals but I try to keep an open mind.
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  1348. So that's it? That's the great advice: hide? I'm doing an okay job of that already. When I was a kid, it seemed like I knew the world, but the older I've gotten the smaller my number of friends has become. Life has a way of sorting all that out. Truth be told, if I had to look over my shoulder my whole life, I think I'll pass. I may not be rich, but I don't have million dollar problems either. I think I'll keep it that way. I'm too damn old to go on some great road trip. Maybe if my heart and lung specialists came along for the ride. 🤣🤣🤣🤣Funny how your priorities change. How about this. I'm a Detroit Lions fan. How about they win one Super Bowl before I keel over in the next few years. I know it's not the lotto, but like I said, I like to keep things simple. God bless us...everyone. Take heart in that. 😉
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  1349. People like this handler lady annoy me but I don't waste any time with her type. She's gonna realize what she has sewn when she's lying in a hospital bed, breathing her last breath surrounded by people who are there because they have to be, or because they are waiting for her to kick off so they can divide up her wealth. Loving children she can look at at that moment, knowing they will be the real legacy she leaves behind? They'll be absent. That's the choice she made. Keep taking those selfies girl, those pictures and videos of you having all that fun alone because it's all that will be left to remind anyone you were ever even here.
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  1350. There isn't anyone working at these networks who is intelligent enough to actually have an adult conversation with these candidates let alone moderate a debate. And Matt is right, they do make it all about them. That perino ditz has always been annoying and she cemented her legacy when she pulled her miss sweet and brightness routine interviewing that demonic family who agreed to have their child mutilated at the altar of Satan, calling it an act of love. She has always made me ill and last night, when I saw her smug face on that stage I knew it was going to be a sh*t show. And the questions that airhead asked. What would you do as president to stop a UAW strike? Since Trump is going to win if you all stay in which of you should quit? At least DeSantis called that snarky little bit*h out on that one, saying it was disrespectful. And that Latino girl. Where did they grab her from? Havana? You know, Latino voters hate republicans so what ju gonna do to make them love you a bit better? The Governor should consider just staying away from the next debate. They were like 15 minutes into it before they even asked him a question. When he said he was the only candidate who served in the military that snarky little witch piped up, well niki's husband is serving as well. Lady, your boss, in terms of just straight up IQ, was the dumbest guy to ever occupy that office. He let cheney and rumsfeld lead his stupid ass into a war to make their contactor buddies rich and all he accomplished was to break the middle east, strengthen Iran, and get a lot of good young people killed and maimed. You shouldn't even be allowed to comment on anything military related. I'll stop. No one will read this anyway but I felt like venting. Man, that woman just flat out galls me. Her and the rest of the bushies need to find a hole to slink back into. Steve Deace is right, faux news needs to be put down like a rabid dog. It's not needed and like that blonde airhead, it serves no useful purpose.
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  1351. All American news outlets have a bias and all of them, including Fox, are in bed with one political party or another. Reporters like Murrow and Cronkite had an easier time hiding their biases because of the role they played covering WWII. It also helped that the democratic party had a stranglehold on the American political system during the period mass-media exploded onto the scene. That was the lens through which the message was delivered it just became the norm. Media bias wasn't even an issue until politicians like Nixon started calling reporters out for their democratic favoritism. But for the most part the networks still covered national and world events in a straight up fashion. This allowed them to deflect the criticism of their political coverage by dismissing those who accused them of bias as sore losers and fringe paranoid types. Things really changed after Vietnam and Watergate. Reporters were no longer covering stories, they became part of them. It was, in many ways, a return to the days of Yellow Journalism. Then 24/7 cable came around and suddenly you had all kinds of air time to fill. TV journalists went from being reporters to being celebrities and they were all coming out of left-wing universities where they were encouraged to be activists first and reporters second. Now, it is more about who you know when it comes to landing these TV jobs. Look at how many news anchors and show hosts are second and third generation media types. Look at how many come from families with deep political roots. The internet has made them lazy to boot. That worm obama had running point on his nuclear treaty with Iran came right out and admitted that he took advantage of young reporters who lacked the skills and intellectual curiosity to properly fact check him. CBS, NBC, and ABC are now the propaganda arm for the democratic party. CNN may have started with the intention of being a straight news outlet but they figured out they would do better if they got on on team or the other. MSNBC was always intended to assume the role of DNC mouthpiece. Papers like the NY Times are so far gone they are never coming back. They count on the money they get pimping the left-wing narrative. I get a kick out of the fact they all freak out because the republicans have one network that leans their way. But even Fox has gone mainstream to the point where they have given up their claim as the network for conservatives. They have run fluff pieces promoting transgender mutilation of children using that bush hack dana perino to put some kind of sweetness and light spin on that evil practice. How much air time does Fox give actual conservative commentators like Steve Deace, Delano Squires, or Daniel Horowitz? How many invites to CPAC do those guys get? There are a few brave independent reporters like Andy Ngo out there but how much air time does he get anywhere? Wanna know what happened to America Will? Colonel Jessup told us: We couldn't handle truth.
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  1352. I know I'm not the only one who finds it quite ironic that Joe Rogan, former "Bernie Bro," supporter of Hillary Clinton, etc. would act all shocked over a lefty going full-blown tyrant? What's the difference between him lashing out and calling people names and your buddies doing the same here in the U.S. Joe? What's the difference between him trampling on people's rights and your buddy Uncle Ho trying to force people to get the jab or lose their livelihood? Or allowing some federal agency like the CDC to set aside rent payments, a way to punish those nasty capitalists in the guise of helping the poor. What about their rights Joe? Think it's fair that something they worked for gets given to some lowlife who would rather eat the government cheese than take a job beneath their dignity? Excuse the rant, but this guy is such a sham it boggles the mind. Just because he says a few things people on the right like WRT to vaccines, he's given some special status as a freedom fighter. Same thing with Bill Maher. These guys are still flaming lefties who hate most everything conservatives stand for, especially religious conservatives. And this guy is worse than Maher because he has the intellectual depth of a mud puddle. Ever hear some of his crazy conspiracy nonsense? But we want our own stars and influencers on our side too don't we? We want that affirmation. We want to "own the libs." Meanwhile, the place is going to hell in a handbasket thanks to the same people this guy is in league with. The conservative movement may not be dead but it is certainly on life support. Tune in to Fox News for more breaking news at 11. But that's me.
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  1353. We the undersigned demand to be fired first. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣That was funny. But hey, don't worry. This is the generation that is gong to have to protect us all from the Chinese in a few years. Good thing I like Chop-Suey.
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  1354. So mentally disturbed and demonically possessed people are determining what the rest of us should read? How very Stalinist of them. How many people in the alphabet community even read James Bond novels? It's like parading around the ice with rainbow flags at hockey arena's. How many alphabet people attend hockey or football games, games where guys scrap and knock each other around? If I had the cash I would buy the rights to books with titles like I have two dad's and re-write them, changing it to a story about a boy who has a mother and father who attend church services regularly and lead protest's against family-friendly drag shows.
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  1355. Dude, you seem sincere and as a fellow naturalized citizen I share your deep love for this country and strong desire for it to return to more of an actual functioning republic. But honestly, if you think these "investigations" are going to result in anything more than a sternly worded memo from mccarthy and nightly fodder for hannity I've got a nice piece of real-estate to sell you two blocks south of my place. Granted, it's in the middle of a lake but it does come with a great view. I wish it wasn't so, but Lucy has pulled that football away too many times for me to have any faith in the republican party. They just reelected the turtle of the Senate to be their leader in that chamber and they are getting ready to elect a half-a-commie from the Peoples Republic of Kalifornia to be Speaker of the House. A guy with a liberty score of 54 over at Conservative Review. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. God bless yer spirit, but you would be better served putting your faith in winning the lotto than the republican party.
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  1356. So Marx was a manipulator who took over existing organizations through subversion, lied to his benefactor about what he was really up to, put on a false front to paint himself as something he wasn't, and sacrificed the well-being of others to please himself. Sounds like the apple didn't fall from the tree, since those behaviors mirror subsequent movements based on his theories. Like father like son. Great expose Dr. Sowell. Thank you.
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  1357. Sorry Canada, this is what happens when you elect a member of the Castro clan to run your government. True patriot sons indeed.
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  1358. "Obviously we're in the south, so there's kinda like, racism." You can tell that kid was raised in the north and is a product of a public school education. I have spent decades living north, and south of the Mason Dixon line and trust me, racism, especially black to white, is higher in the north. The race hustlers and academics want to keep the myth of systemic racism alive and act like Bull Conner is still the model for southern sheriffs and it's sad that kids like that one don't get what is going on around them. The marxists are full of it but they are very effective and their long march through the institutions has payed off. But the beauty of it is, a lot kids raised on the same lies that kid was fed are in their 30s now, trying to raise a family in a world where the insane theories of those teachers who taught them are being put to the test and they are realizing that the utopia they were told was attainable isn't just around the corner. What is around the corner is a homeless druggie pissing on their street and willing to cut their throat for a dollar. They also discovered that maybe trusting teachers to their own devices isn't such a good idea when their five year old girl announces she is now a boy and her teacher gave her a star for it, telling her, "that's great honey, just don't tell mommy and daddy yet. It'll be our little secret for now" Evil is evil, no matter how it's packaged and when you grow up and have to live in the world of the way things are you find out that idealism doesn't go very far at the checkout line or the gas pump. John Lennon said all you need is love but he was rich. These 30 and 40 somethings are waking up and rejecting the left wing nonsense they were taught because they have kids of their own and they became more precious to them than their misplaced ideals. That is why the democrats are going to get tossed out on their asses and that is why when they talk about threats to democracy, people look at them say yeah, I hear ya. I know there is a threat to that and more and that is why you have to go away now.
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  1359.  @sharonsparks5121  🙏
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