Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "George W. Bush and the Texan Style of American Leadership" video.

George H.W. Bush was seen as a carpet-bagger for sure, coming from the Eastern financial establishment. George W. internalized most of the Midland Texas Americana, so he's torn between 2 worlds. He dealt with the dichotomy of baseball and hometown USA, vs prep school, Yale, Skull and Bones, and his father's lineage. Interesting character for sure, never covered in-depth by the media.
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Germany is very decentralized, but they have huge income tax of course with professional politicians to spend the money. There's a lot of Germanic farmer and free-thinker ancestry in Texas, along with Spaniards/Mexicans. Due to the 1848 Revolution among the Germanic States, huge communities of Lateinische Kolonie (Latin Colonies-educated Germans who could read and speak Latin) settled in Tejas. They hate aristocrats who like to dictate everything to local people, hence the decentralization. Texas's economy is bigger than Russia's or Brazil's, achieving 9th largest in the world in 2021, even with a relatively small population of 29.9 million.
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@TD32333 He's correct. Race relations in the US have been agitated by the Soviets for decades. By the year 2000, this had largely been attenuated with decades of achievement and barriers broken down. People saw Obama's candidacy as a crown jewel in race relations, proving that anyone could achieve anything in the US. Obama had the opportunity to spell out a formula for success, but instead, he stirred up racial Agitprop and scraped off the smooth scar tissue, ripping open ideas of animosity, encouraging people to "vote for revenge" in 2012. This makes him one of the most divisive and destructive Presidents in US History. On top of that, he didn't respect the office, and saw it as far beneath him since he had been handed everything in life. Read his books to gain more insight into his character. The hardest job he ever had was an ice cream stand, where he complained about how it hurt his wrist to dig into the ice cream tubs with the scoop. His post-college job was as an economics analyst for a CIA front company, where he complains he was only hired for diversity quota, and could do whatever he wanted without fear of being fired. Again, the public image is totally different from the reality.
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Media is designed to attract your attention for ads, distract you from reality, and keep you dumb. This is why I like Peter Zeihan's ability to take a genius-level approach and break it down for both intellectuals and laymen in the same presentation. It is an extremely rare gift. Brainiacs typically alienate rather than elevate. Dogmatic figures might inspire, but alienate about half the audience. Peter is independent, while focusing on the ground truth reality, not policy or partisanship. He exposes why partisanship and dogma are a waste of time.
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He's been an economics and geopolitical analyst for decades now, was one of the senior analysts at STRATFOR. They look at hard realities in geography, demography, industry, technology, and history to analyze markets and events without contamination from political rancor. You quickly see how partisan politics falls apart under these approaches, and are exposed as ways to distract people from reality.
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@kennethrobinson7647 Texas has historically been Democrat, big oil, big agriculture. Out of the past 42 elections, Texas has voted for a Democrat President 27 times, and a Republican 15 times. Texas voted for the winning candidate 25 times, and losing candidate 17 times.
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@TD32333 "Largely put behind us" and "not an issue" are 2 different things. When I was in the military in my first unit, my Squad Leader, Platoon Sergeant, Company Commander, and Battalion Sergeant Major were all black. There was a disproportionate % of black leaders when looking at US demographics, especially in my Career Management Field, which had less than the US demographic breakdown of blacks. By that time, race-based promotion ahead of peers was already the standard in the early 1990s. Obama came along decades later and talked to the Nation as if we were in Thelma, AL in the early 1960s, while he sat in the WH with Michelle chowing down on filet mignon like corrupt African dictators. That was not helpful at all. And when genuine black community leaders tried to meet with him to promote proven practical programs for dealing with fatherless and crime in the inner city, he couldn’t be bothered.
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He has given it before. It's a laughable proposition due to USD dominance, especially during times of crisis. Look at DFI over the past 20 months.
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@tuckerbugeater You should have to pass a certain test before posting. Your comments so far have missed the mark entirely.
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He purposely built a dumbed-down public image as common person, as to not alienate public-schooled voters (like Newt Gingrich). In reality, he's a whitty fighter pilot crack-up who is more fun to be around than his dad, Clinton, or Obama. They are all like brothers, part of a tight-knit club (Clinton, W, Obama). Bush is nothing like the public image. He describes this in Decision Points. If you were to be invited to one of his private parties, then sat down with him for a one-on-one conversation, you would quickly realize that he's orders of magnitude higher than most college professors in intellect and number of books read. He wouldn't rub that in though, but would instead ask you questions and start a conversation between you and someone else with something insightful based on how he profiles you. He was already very gifted and highly-educated by his prep school days, before attending and graduating from Yale. His intellect and confidence sky-rocketed in Universal Pilot Training and conversion into the F-102 supersonic interceptor. He had a running book-reading competition with Karl Rove when he was President, where they read thousands of classical literature, history, biographies, etc.
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Uh, he's an early Baby Boomer, born in 1946. Millennials were born between 1982-2004 if you subscribe to Strauss-Howe.
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@none3763 He’s more Gen X than Baby Boomer in that regard, but an optimist, which isn’t characteristic of Gen X or Millennials or Z. Gen X embodied distrust in their parents and institutions, while still working hard. George W is a lot more trusting. Have you read Decision Points?
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@revan3841 Prescott Bush, the OG Skull and Bones Patriarch of the clan. They were tied into the boards of banking and CBS, just like Kennedys were tied into SEC, bootlegging, and RKO Studios. He who controls the message...
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@kennethrobinson7647 39 out of 49 Texas Governors have been Democrats, with only 7 Republicans. The remaining 3 were Union, Independent, and Military.
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@TD32333 Biden, the Clintons, over 400 members of Congress and Governors have been on Russian payroll since 1962. You have it backwards. They accused Trump of what they're guilty of to get ahead of the treason investigations. Remember Uranium One? That was Hillary, Biden, and Obama helping Putin re-build his nuclear weapons program. Trump doesn't need any money from banks, foreign dictators, or lobbyists for big pharma. The Bushes, Clintons, and Bidens are beholden to those interests as they never produced anything in their lives. Everything is backwards in media.
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@davidpnewton I was going to mention him in relation to Obama, but Wilson was from a plantation family in VA who moved to Georgia. He saw blacks as house help at best, cleared all of them out of DC, WH, Dept of Navy, Interior Dept, etc. One of the most shameless racists in US History that sent progress back generations. That's where he and Obama are alike for sure. Extremely harmful Presidents to unity.
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@garyspence2128 Now I’ll have to go figure what form of bigotry it was I was using when I had a black wife, and why I keep voting for black Congressional candidates in my district since 2012, and why I preferred Herman Cain over Mitt Romney, and why the best Sniper Squad Leader I had was black, but the worst Battalion Commanders I had were also black. Maybe because I look within the person and don’t really give a rip about their skin color? What form of white supremacy is that? I fell in love with that girl because she was brilliant, a talented musician, above Master’s degree collegiate-level writer, and very attractive. I voted for the Congressional candidates that I have because of their experiences and inspiration to build a better America, not looking for other to blame like Obama. I preferred Herman Cain over all the other Presidential Candidates in 2012 because he was the only one with actual leadership experience in business, knew the numbers, and was powerful and confident enough to call out Bill Clinton on his fabricated numbers in a town hall meeting. You might be guilty of blind partisanship, where carpet-bagging political opportunists have told you lies for generations, "vote for me", then do nothing to help you once in office. Biden is a lifelong open racist. Obama looks down on everyone. Content of character >>>>> color of skin (don’t care)
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Black swan events plague most Presidencies. Policies are the wish lists they can't achieve due to curve balls. Reagan's administration was rare in that regard. They tried to assassinate him out of the gate, but failed.
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@MarcosElMalo2 Agreed 100%.
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