Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "Election Postmortem... || Peter Zeihan" video.

@ghhh9012 He totally overlooked the fourth major group of voters who are unaffiliated that don't normally vote. When median home price is outside the reach of the vast majority of working people and they can't fill their shopping carts anymore at the grocery store, they will show up to vote. That you can bet on with 100% certainty.
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@Uzishan Watch the 3hr sit-down Trump did with Joe Rogan. He's fine, very lucid, comedic, insightful, and personable.
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@buddermonger2000 I agree with that and have had very similar takeaways. Union members being berated by their Mafia bosses to continue to support NAFTA Democrats lasted decades longer than it should have, though those same Mafia thugs stuff ballots and rig local precincts as a rule and have done so since the 1800s. You touched on a point that I've been looking at from Allen Lichtman's 13 Keys, namely the 3rd Party. In this election, the 3rd party candidate joined the challenger, as did a former Democrat candidate, Tulsi Gabbard. To make matters worse Biden's White House denied secret service protection to Bobby Kennedy Jr., which was one of the most brazen acts of political self-sabotage I've ever seen. Older democrats who remember watching his father assassinated on TV in 1968 were astonished at that level of cruelty. As if that wasn't bad enough, senior Democrat elites executed a coup against a sitting US President, then Installed the most unpopular democrat presidential candidate in generations as their nominee without a democratic process at convention.
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@ent1311 Under Trump's economic policies the median home price relative to median household income was closer than it has been in generations. Under Trump's energy policies, energy was more affordable than it has been in generations. Trump is the first president in over a century to enact protectionist trade policies that helped the American worker. Trump is the first president in generations who didn't start new wars or invade other countries.
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@elysiumfields There is no such thing as free education. The student has to put in work. Researchers, scientists, and professors will have to be paid. Curriculum development teams don't work for free. So who pays?
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@calc1657 Trump never called veterans suckers. That's been debunked. Opposite is true. When he visits the troops, he gets a hero's welcoming unlike any other President. This is what career politicians crave, but can never have.
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@Lius525 You realize the 20-60% tariffs would only be on countries who charge 100% tariffs on our high value goods, like automobiles as just one example? Those same countries have 0% tariffs on their automobiles sold in the US because of "free trade". 20 million illegals who came here in the past 4 years aren't all working. Remember that Biden's FEMA pays them billions from the FEMA emergency fund to do nothing, and paid hotels to house them. Those are terrible net negatives for the US people, especially since tens of thousands of these illegals were purged out of the prisons in their home countries and are now committing murder, r ape, armed robberies, and even taking over apartment complexes.
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@sciencecompliance235 One of the most distasteful forms of contempt in America is the college- indoctrinated elites who think they know anything talking down to the technically- oriented and highly-trained working class, who have far better understanding of how things actually work. A great example are veterans who go into any of the major sectors of the economy, especially energy, defense, IT, agriculture, small-medium business, or manufacturing as examples. The college ignoramus will condescend to these people, having never been anywhere overseas, never cut payroll, never built anything with their hands or tools, never managed teams of people, never solved a real-world problem in their lives. Intoxicated on the fumes of their own flatulence, they bloviate on the solutions to all of life's problems as if gifted with omniscience, completely unaware that they are truly uneducated and clueless about pretty much any topic.
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@elysiumfields This is a great example of what I’m talking about. College kids in the US have been told a pack of lies by teachers and professors who have never lived in any Nordic country. My oldest son and daughter-in-law are going to school in one of those Nordic countries right now, where my mom is from. Education isn’t free. It’s very costly to everyone, namely the taxpayers. It’s also very exclusive, where gaining admission into university is extremely difficult. They section students off from each other at a certain time in school, so most go to skilled vocational training, and the more intellectually-minded kids with disciplined studying habits get to apply for university through entrance exams. Many take 2-3 times with the exams before they are admitted. Many do not complete their studies, then are in debt for the cost of schooling and housing. I’ve seen that happen to friends of mine as well. When all is said and done, those countries rely on the US for their most advanced defense systems, medical diagnostic equipment, finances, trade, computer technology, software, and critical aspects of the economy all stemming from innovation mostly in the US or mainland Europe. Even with more GDP than comparable population US States, the US States with lower GDP have more Emergency Medical Systems, healthcare, transportation, finance, housing, higher education, PPP, etc. But if we can leverage the inherent power of tariffs to fund limited government in the US, that would be far superior to what we’re doing now.
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@Bayard1503 Politicians are empty suits who do the bidding of their financiers. This is why they hate Trump because he doesn't need their money and accomplished his path in life without the help of these manipulators. Spineless suits hate him because he shows the stark contrast between his achievements vs their nothingness.
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@elysiumfields Of the 30 countries I've been to, guess which one I've lived in the longest, besides the US? Finland. That's where my mom is from and where half my family lives right now. We have a lot of relatives in Sweden as well, where I've also been multiple times. The critical systems I'm talking about are aerospace & defense related, as well as medical. Finland is one of the biggest customers for US fighter aircraft, missiles, and weapons. Finland could never build a fighter gas turbine engine, for example. Neither could Sweden, Norway, Denmark, or most of the countries in Europe, let alone the world.
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@5353Jumper There isn't a more relatable and connected billionaire to the working class than Trump. If you followed his leadership style dating back to the 1980s, he's the kind of business leader that likes to get down in the trenches and identify who the straight-shooters are and listen to ground truth, then hold them to higher standards than they thought they were capable of. It's why he's known for delivering on large construction projects ahead of schedule and under-budget.
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OK, at 7:46, Peter couldn’t be more wrong. Dispassionate analysis shows that Trump has more energy than 20 yr-olds. The guy doesn’t sleep, and is firing on all cylinders throughout the day. Peter simply doesn’t allow his TDS to let him see the real Donald Trump, just like Allan Lichtman couldn’t see through his TDS to read his own tea leaves on the 13 Keys.
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One of his fundamental flaws is thinking there are only 3 buckets of voters in the US: Dems, Independents, and Republicans. The 4th bucket is unaffiliated/apolitical voters who show up on election day when the incumbent party screws things up so badly to get them to vote. Not every eligible voter in the US votes. The US has a large population who just don’t care about politics in general. Independents are just Democrats and Republicans who pretend that they’re not so they can start conversations without triggering the listener into either agreeing or disagreeing with them out of the gate, or are too fickle about making and defending their positions.
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Yeah, the thing he said about Trump “clearly failing” couldn’t be more wrong. How many politicians in US History could have ever done the amount of campaign rallies and planning sessions that Donald Trump did, even if they were in their 30s? Trump Jr. said he can’t keep up with him at age 46. Trump did all those events up through election night, didn’t go to sleep, then went straight into the cabinet formation meetings with a lot of people half his age that were wanting to take a break. Then if what Peter projects will be true, it’s as if Trump didn’t pick probability the greatest VP pick of all time, JD Vance. On top of that, he literally built his cabinet with a core of former Presidential candidates, including RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, and Vivek Ramaswamy. So Peter is orders of magnitude erroneous here on this alarmist forecast of a Constitutional crisis. In reality, it’s a Constitutional stabilizing movement, the likes of which have never been seen before in US Presidential history. No Republican President would ever surround themselves with former Democrat Presidential candidates like this, because Trump is an American President, not a partisan.
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@matthewmcclary7855 Trump packed his cabinet with multiple former Democrat & Republican Presidential candidates, and probably the best VP we've ever seen. So the talk about him not wanting to let go of power is more leftist gas-lighting and hyperbole to fuel the legacy media consumers with irrational fear.
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@buddermonger2000 Peter makes a fundamental flaw with his analysis on the electorate, which is completely ignoring the 4th major group of unaffiliated voters who don't normally vote. He places emphasis on registered Independents, who are really just mostly college-trained Dems and Republicans like himself who don't like to admit their biases. There are tens of millions of voting age Americans who aren't political. When they can't afford to qualify for median home price or fill their grocery cart, they will show up to vote and oust the party in power.
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@Uzishan I've been watching Biden since the 1970s make gaffe after gaffe, Freudian slip after another. He was literally laughed out of the primaries in 1988 for plagiarism within the DNC. He has never been sharp and always screws up what he's trying to say. The fact that you're unwilling to view 3 hours of evidence that fundamentally undermines your perception of reality shows willful ignorance, meaning your opinion doesn't deserve any consideration beyond that contradiction. You might want to fix that.
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@Shiftinggers Not even Allan Lichtman would do that. When confronted by Chunky Yogurt, Allan yelled not to blaspheme him. It was one of the most illuminating slips I’ve ever seen in the public sphere.
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