Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "David Starkey Talks" channel.

  1. God, I loved every minute of this, and I'm still laughing because the truth was told!
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  2. Well, the French did tear down religion, and they replaced it with the Cult of Reason, even creating a statue for a new goddess. They turned reason into an atheistic religion. On top of that, they created a Temple of Reason as well. Robespierre replaced this with his new religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, which was deistic. This was when everything was about to come to a head.
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  3. A very well-stated history, though you missed Putin mentioning the "Nats" in his speech, who are very real, and they were using guerilla warfare against the separatists, which has somewhat led to this. However, that is only an excuse to bring Ukraine back under Russia's fold.
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  4. You're spot on. Prof. Carroll Quigley of Georgetown called it the Anglo-American Establishment and authored a book with the same title. His other famous book was Tragedy and Hope, which is a history of 1895 to 1950 that is quite famous. The intermarriages are very important, as well as the Astor family's role. Quigley reveals that Rhodes and his followers wanted to take the US back. Then, of course, we later have the Atlanticists that wants to merge the US with Europe.
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  5. The trick is to find one that's unbiased, and many are. Real history, as compared to what's peddled by the governments, one will find, is very different.
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  6. The farther one veers to the left, the more rigid their ideology. It takes people who are very envious and jealous of others (mainly, of those having greater wealth and resources) to skew their beliefs to that. That is the root, after all, of DEI. Professor, you know the type, as they worked around you, and were jealous and envious of your success.
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  7. I always found the story of William Peverel interesting, as little is known about his origins, only that he was a Norman knight. I believe that this was where Rowling obtained her idea for her books.
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  8. A good lesson on historians is how they've practically deified Abraham Lincoln during and after the Civil War in the US, when, in fact, he was quite the tyrant, didn't intend on freeing the slaves, and was in the pockets of the major railroads, which he represented as an attorney before he became president. There was a huge myth created about him to where they built the Lincoln Memorial to help push the myth of an "Honest Abe" along.
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  9.  @christophermichaelclarence6003  I think she was the same thing. Their temples were in the old Catholic Church buildings, with the Notre-Dame Cathedral being their number one prize. Some of these churches still have carvings stating things about the Temple of Reason.
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  10. Look at what nations really designed the EU, starting with the Paneuropean Union after WWI in 1923, and leading to the Treaty of Paris in 1951 and the ECSC in 52. They were all socialist-minded states, which have caused a great mess in trying to create their version of a United States of Europe. That was what Blair et al. brought to the UK. The National Socialists and the Soviets both had their grand visions of a “new man” as well, which, today, they call a “world citizen.” This is also the root of the so-called “open society,” which has been behind the protests and pushing for all the other globalistic bad things that have happened in the West. They want the destruction of the nation state.
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  11. A "fit of morality" describes today and yesterday pretty well, as the socialist movement is a product of Protestantism, which rose up during Victorian times, and spread out. That is why, today, they still have their martyrs and crusaders. When one realizes that the entire movement is based upon idealism, religious quackery and moral authority, then we might be able to finally move on, disregard it, and push past it.
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  12. We're not really bound by the Constitution now, in the US, as we have the 25th Amendment, but Congress refuses to use it over whom the VP is. 25th Amendment, Section 4: Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President. Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office. . Congress also has the means of impeachment, but they would end up with the same VP at the moment.
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  13.  @markraftis  Yes, and I wonder why they don't. There were a few other cults underway during that time, with some other Frenchmen. One, I believe, had the busts of three different people at the front. I can't remember the particulars of that one at the moment.
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  14.  @billyliar1614  They called it a cult themselves.
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  15. I've always placed today's radical ideology as evolving more from the radical communal sects in Protestantism, which was pre-Luther, and centered in Bohemia with the Radical Hussites. From their successors came communalism, and shunning those who did not believe the same as them. They were also guilty of witch hunts, etc., and they were violent as well. This early radical Dissenter Movement led to Socinianism and the Anabaptists, such as Quakers. From them came the groups such as the Levellers and Diggers, as well as the London Underground Church with the Brownists, and it seems that these movements were where those like Robert Owen and Engels obtained their ideas, as well as Babeuf and Saint-Simon in France. Their communalist utopian ideology was merely hijacked for the secular community. This later infected mainstream Protestantism, with the Anglicans and Episcopalians, where we saw Christian Socialism and Christian Communism appear.
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  16. There was a bit of history that I always had a chuckle about over Louis XIV, and that was: "In 1686, Louis XIV of France (1638 – 1715) – The Sun King – developed a perianal abscess that after a series of failed treatment attempts, including with the use of a red-hot iron, developed into an anal fistula." His physician had a barber-surgeon to do the operation, and afterward, the elites surrounding him started wearing bandaged bums as a fashion, where some even requested the surgery themselves.
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  17. @janebaker966 Yes, his own head.
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  18.  @ddoumeche  Who said it still existed, and that it had many members? Congratulations on creating a straw man to attack.
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