Comments by "Halfdan Ingolfsson" (@Halli50) on "Brian Tyler Cohen" channel.

  1. I'm an European and I see AOC as nothing less than a national treasure for 'Murica. Your best hope is to elect more progressive and honest politicians of her caliber.
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  2. "This should not happen in the US, this only happens in Banana Republics" - right on the money! Unfortunately this IS happening in the US, which is unmistakeable proof that he US has actually TURNED INTO a Banan Republic! All thanks to Trump and his Repugnicans. By the way, do you know how the concept of a "Banan Republic" came about? Do some research! It involves bloody US of A meddling in South America, and most countries in South America have yet to recover from that meddling.
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  3. The amazing bit is that there seems to be a smattering of GOP members that have retained a shred of ability to feel shame. Will wonders never cease?
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  4. It is heartening to see the response of the Bexar County Sheriff. Various Texas police forces have been exposed as cesspools of corruption, racism and, frankly, being useless in the most critical situations, but Sheriff Javier Salazar is showing the flip side, the quiet part of Texas police forces that are dedicated to truly Protect and Serve the public. DeSantis made a critical mistake: He tried to manipulate a group of LEGAL asylum seekers.
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  5. Cars are useful but dangerous devices, which is why every nation on earth requires drivers to learn how to drive safely, pass a medical examination and obtain a license after passing a skill test. Also, every vehicle has to be registered and inspected annually to make sure they are safe on the roads. Guns are useful but dangerous devices, which is why MOST nations require gun owners to learn how to use them safely and obtain a license after passing a skill test. Gun owners also have to register their guns. The US is very lax when it comes to regulating gun ownership and use, which might explain why they top the charts when it comes to gun violence. Many other countries that are also awash with guns do NOT have the same gun violence problem. Might it possibly be due to the fact that they have common-sense gun regulations?
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  6. This is beyond ridiculous: If Corcoran was not allowed to search for the stolen documents everywhere he could not, by any stretch if the imagination, certify he had searched everywhere - and yet he did (or had a minion do it). Either way, he should not get off scot-free.
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  7. Actually, Tusk has a pronounced polish accent, but his grasp of the English language is vastly superior to Trump's.
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  8. How many irrevocable proofs of "God's omnipotence" - or lack thereof - do you need to realize that any mature and grown-up person than wields the crutch of religion to support his views is just that, a man with a crutch!
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  9. What a waste of time, trying to get this guy to answer simple (but embarrassing) questions.
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  10.  @crustiknight4938 , you are absolutely correct. Anger will only make things worse and while many people will need the crutch of religion to make it through the day, any sensible person will realize that by the simple fact of being born in the first place, the end is the same for everyone - we cease to exist, we die (Walls Street has found that taxes are optional, but death is not!). Death is inevitable, and the best we can hope for is a quick and relatively painless passage to oblivion. What should matter to us in this life is how we influenced our world during our lifetime. Did we leave the world a better place for our descendants to live in?
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  11. No one is blaming Trump for the virus itself, people are blaming him for decimating the US's ability to respond to a crisis like this, and THAT will cost thousands of lives. I'm not going to bother voicing my opinion of Trish Reagan, it is so low.
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  12. I cannot help wondering: If Jack Smith has been so wildly successful in forcing reluctant witnesses to testify (whatever the outcome of that will be), what does that say about all the other prosecutors that have failed (and sometimes not even tried) to do so in their cases in recent years? Is it due to incompetence, corruption - or both?
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  13. The fact that the concept of "imminent" seems to mean at least weeks or months of delays just goes to show how catatonic and glacial the US judicial system has become - probably by design!
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  14. To describe the pace of the 'Murican judicial system as Glacial is generous, at best - and that probably applies to most low-corruption judicial systems everywhere in the word. This is frustrating to laypeople, but there is no doubt a good reason for it. Judicial systems that work like a greased lightning in some cases and not at all in others are extremely suspect. On reflection, I think I just described the 'Murican Judicial System to a Tee, just witness the pace at which poor black vs. rich white/political suspects are judged!
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  15. Pompeo talks about "an enormous coalition" - but that coalition is bound to consist only of the US, Israel and the Saudis in this case. Any government in the NATO alliance that is stupid enough to follow Trump into a war with Iran will be kicked out in their next election. After all, NATO is only supposed to be a DEFENSE alliance even if the US has been trying very hard to change it into an OFFENSIVE alliance. The way things are going, the US will have shed most or all of it's traditional allies - which is actually Putin's ultimate goal!
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  16. Dear me, people being actually ALLOWED to vote is what Repugnicans hate. The opposite (voter suppression and gerrymandering) is what they glowingly call "Strong Election Integrity". No wonder 'Murica is no longer considered only a flawed democracy, it is simply NOT a democracy by any stretch of the imagination. And regardless of what the the nit-pickers keep saying, a Republic IS supposed to be a Democracy. It's in the bloody name of the concept!
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  17. The dignity of the US just went down the drain. How many decades will it take to rebuild the respect the US used to have? Perhaps one decade, perhaps two? 'Muricans will be objects of ridicule for a long time, and they have DESERVED it by electing the clown-show now running the farce the US has become.
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  18. Telling an occasional lie CAN trip up the liar. Telling frequent lies WILL trip up the liar. Lying ALL the time brings the liar into an unique category of compulsive liars like Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Jim Jordan - and George Santos, to name a few!
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  19. How can you NOT love Katie Porter! All the corruption laid bare - in layman's terms. I live in Iceland and I just started to have Covid-19 symptoms. No surprise, the Icelandic contact tracing team had already told me to quarantine due to a contact with a known case, and his morning I was asked to have a test - free, of course. This is about public health, after all, not corporate profits. I am approaching 71 and I live with my 93-year old father, we are solidly in a high-risk group but we do NOT have to worry overmuch. Our health care system is up for the task and, most important, ANYTHING Covid-related is free, simply because it is A PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE! No one is allowed to exploit the situation, not for profit, not for political gain, not for ANY reason.
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  20. I aint' 'Murican, I cannot vote in crazyland (being Icelandic) but I have thoroughly enjoyed watching an intelligent and eloquent young woman run circles around the stupid and tongue-tied Repugnicans like AOC has done from day one.
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  21. What bothers me is HAVING to read between the lines in Mueller's report. If Mueller were more patriot than republican, that would probably not be the case.
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  22. Someone please correct me if I am wrong: Gym Jordan has ALREADY violated the US Constitution by interfering with DA Bragg's investigation into Trump. A fully committed crime, all in plain sight. Since Jordan has already sworn to uphold the Constitution, he will be barred from ever holding any office (following due process, of course). Right or wrong?
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  23. Trump leading in so many polls is horrifying: Either the polls are tampered with OR 'Murica is doomed!
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  24.  @veggiechowder8877 , well, she and Bernie et al have been fighting for it - as well as affordable health care and education. Never mind better minimum wages, functioning Unions will do the job just as well. Unfortunately, to many Democrat members of congress have been legally bribed to join you Repugnicans to start screaming "Socialism" or "Communism" whenever any legislation proposals that benefit the general US public surfaces. It is ignorant/brainwashed idiots like you that ensure that any such proposed legislation is usually stillborn - even if most developed nations have proved for decades that these things work far better for the general public than the corrupt scams you right-wingers love so much.
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  25. This is farcical: The US government finally behaving like other western governments by simply caring about the general population - and you don't really know what to do with it! There is hope for you yet, you 'Muricans... Then again, when too many of your population prove to be ill-informed, ignorant and even brainwashed, there a incredible hurdles ahead if you want to serve the general public and not only the billionaires.
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  26. Totally off-topic, given the subject of this "Saga", the Taylor Swift influence on the farce you 'Muricans call elections. The rest of the world will probably owe Taylor Swift a lot of gratitude for bringing some sanity into 'Murican politics. "Of 3:30 hours of broadcasting, only 0:18 are actual football" - I noticed this about Baseball in Europe, the only 'Murican sport that is popular on our continent: The first 3 quarters go by rather quickly, the last quarter takes longer that the rest of the game - to make room for ads! When I realized this, I simply quit watching Basketball. By this example, I will never become a fan of 'Murican "football" (why don't you call it "Runball" or "Clutchaball" because all you do with the oblong thing you call "a ball" is to RUN around, CLUTCHING the oblong "ball". The only time a foot contacts the aforementioned oblong thing is when a special player (usually a soccer player) is called out to attempt to kick a field goal, an uncertain proposition, given the absurd shape of your "ball".
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  27. This is astounding! All the TV and mass media talking heads are actually discussing and contemplating Trump's BS defense of "I believed this and that" as a plausible defense! Committing a crime is fine if the perpetrator "believes" it was no crime? Trump can plausibly get away with declassifying and distributing the nation's most guarded secrets by just thinking about it while everyone else knows there is a long and tedious process involved when actually declassifying anything? The fact that legal experts are actually discussing this nonsense as a plausible defense is concrete proof that the 'Murican judicial system is seriously off the rails. Get real, 'Muricans! 80 years ago, Trump would have found himself indicted, tried, convicted and in front of a firing squad in short order - the difference being that at the time the US was in the middle of a declared war on two fronts. Heck, the result would have been the same 60 years ago when the US was only in an undeclared cold war, but the means of execution would probably have been different - but an execution, nonetheless.
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  28. So Trump's "Lock her up" chant is not many times worse? Pelosi has only said this once, she has not repeatedly incited this as a rally chant.
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  29. The simple fact that there is a theoretical chance that Trump might be re-elected by the means of decades-long voter suppression, gerrymandering and judicial system corruption says it all: The US as we have known it is doomed! Biden might be better than Trump, but only marginally - his handlers are the same big-money donors that controlled Trump (well, at least Putin & the Saudis will be out of the game). There will be no changes under Biden, the health care system will remain broken and corrupt, higher education will be out of reach for most US citizens, inequality will only get worse and the infrastructure will keep on crumbling. Progressives like Bernie, AOC and their likes were too little, too late. Like I said: The US is doomed!
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  30. One wonders if the Buffalo Freak is expecting the same judicial outcome as the Rittenhouse Freak? In that case, he is in for a rude surprise!
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  31. It is only when compared to Trump the Obama can be considered a good president. He pretended to be a liberal, he wasn't. Expectations were sky-high, which made the disappointment all the worse when he was unable to deliver just about anything. True, it was not HIS fault that his presidency turned out the be mediocre, if you are charitable, he had both the senate and the house stacked against him, but he was after all simply a bloody Corporate Democrat. One wonders if the day will ever come when the US will aspire to what the rest of the developed world is enjoying: General human rights and resonable equality, affordable health care as a RIGHT, not a privilege, and affordable higher education. The formula is simple: Make sure that capitalism can flourish WITHOUT being allowed to pervert everything. Make sure that taxpayer money is used for the benefit of THE PEOPLE, not only big corporations and billionaires. The list goes on. The way things are going, the US will become a Fascist state, an useless pariah among nations, and an authoritarian state sailing under a false flag (China) will become the dominant nation in the world. What a dismal thought! The prospects are not bright. Biden is just another Corporate Democrat that will not have any impact on the living conditions in the US. The US will continue to spend too much money on waging ware abroad, earning genuine enemies, while allowing everything inside the borders of the US to crumble, be it infrastructure, health care, education or the general welfare of the US population.
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  32. This entire discussion only confirms how dysfunctional the multi-tiered and corrupt the 'Murican judicial system is.
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  33. There is a classic comparison: Some of the Rats are sensing that the vessel is going down and they are sodding off in a timely manner!
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  34. There are so many lies flying about from this administration that they are unable to keep them straight.
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  35. Modern-day Repugnicans simply cannot be humiliated to any effect: They are shameless - they are incapable of feeling shame or humiliation, no matter how blatantly false and ridiculous their behaviour is.
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  36. So, the current situation (US democracy and institutions being systematically corrupted and dismantled in plain sight) is NOT unusual and extreme circumstances? If even Katie Porter does not think so, Trump and his handlers are about to win and the US as we know it is doomed. This fallacy that Democrats are actually able to walk and chew gum at the same time is a Trump-style lie. The Democraps are useless, they have been unable to accomplish anything that benefits the general population for decades and they are not about to do so now. AOC, Bernie, Katie Porter and a few others have been the shining hope for a better future, but when someone like Katie Porter appears to be about to give up the fight, the cunning Repugnicans are about to win - and the rest of the world is about to lose big time, at least in the coming decade or so. After that there will be no US, only China and Putin's Russia...
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  37. On top of it all, seeing these clips, some years apart, this lawyer comes across as quite vain. It looks like he has had his lips inflated by lip filler injections.
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  38. Funny how everyone seems to suddenly realized this little tidbit, it has been staring everyone in the face from day one. I'm not 'Muricans so I have to ask: Are 'Muricans such slow-tops or has the Main Media been to busy enjoying the media frenzy around Trump that they simply ignored it? Scholars have been pointing it out for over 2 years, but no one was listening! As a "Last Resort measure" it seems solid enough, now the rest of the world can relax - the world is not running the risk of being plunged into decades of chaos. 'Murica, on the other hand must gird it's loins and prepare for the inevitable showdown that is to come, because the job of abolishing the Confederacy was obviously never fully completed. When the dust settles, 'Murica can hopefully regain it's position as the leader of the western world, this time around as a country that takes proper care of ALL it's citizens.
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  39. The Russians hacked the DNC server and Crowdstrike figured out that they did it? Now Russia blames Crowdstrike AND Ukraine for the whole thing AND chances are that the ignorant US public will eat it up! Audacious or what? Talk about killing two birds with one stone.
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  40. I have sometimes wondered why it is that every time any country gets something right (e.g. health care & education in the Nordic countries) it somehow does not apply to the US, because the US is TOO BIG and TOO DIVERSE for those lessons to apply! According to that, the US is either not small enough to succeed or it is so big that failure is inevitable! If that is the case, why not drop the "United" and "States" from the name and simply turn the current 50 States into 50 independent countries that are each small enough to succeed - or not big enough to fail. You could form a military alliance, NAMA (North America Military Alliance) along the lines of NATO, and that being accomplished, you could drop out of NATO and pretend to save A LOT of money (except you wouldn't).
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  41. Is Trump trying to change the US military into a mercenary force that is for hire to anyone that can do Trump favors - or pay enough money??
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  42. I think we are watching the passing away of the US democratic experiment, all that remains is to watch the death throes and try not to be trampled in the process.
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  43. I am quite confused: Are these primaries held and executed by the respective political parties or are they the responsibility of the Federal Government? They SEEM to be an internal party affair, but they seem to be treated like a government affair by the media, even if candidates are NOT running for an actual office at this stage. The primaries seem by all appearances an internal political party popularity contest.
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  44. Watching this is depressing - I am not 'Murican, I even declined a free visit to 'Murica a few years ago, and I am genuinely worried! I visited the US a few times in saner times (over 30 years ago) and found it generally OK, but 'Murica today is entering a dystopian era.
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  45. Simple answer: Trump's amplified swamp!
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  46. To be fair, Trump was correct in that bleach eliminates the Covid virus (or any virus!) very quickly. The problem: Trump was too stupid to realize that injected bleach has a troublesome side effect: It also kills the patient just as quickly!
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  47. Glenn and Brian: Did you ever pause to think how idiotic this all is? The evidence of "justices" Thomas and Alito (and Kavanaugh etc) is so glaring it only needs the stamp of a formal investigation to be presentable to a court of law. To non-'Muricans like me, the 'Murican judicial system keeps denigrating itself on a daily basis, with the rot beginning at the head with the SCOTUS. The problem: The "Rule of Law" seems to lose any definition when you reach "higher" levels of society. In effect, the concept of "Rule of Law" and "No one is above the law" are just empty slogans. Not a foundation to build a successful future...
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  48. Repeated mention is made of "the transcript" that we have not seen and is now (surprise - surprise!) hidden on an ultra-secure server. What HAS been released and we HAVE seen is a sanitized extract from the phone call. Does anyone REALLY believe that this extract is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?
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  49. Be careful in your expectations regarding the indictments and potential court cases! Given the corrupt state of the 'Murican judicial system, nothing is given.
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  50. Glenn's "let insurrectionists frolic in Congress" is a vast understatement. "Letting the Foxes into the Chicken coop" does not even begin to cover it (Foxes only kill what they need to eat). "Letting the Minks loose" would be more appropriate, after all the Minks will kill everything that moves, then they kill everything everything they THINK might possibly move, and then they kill everything in sight, just to make sure! Letting an immoral lunatic like Jim Jordan have any kind of power or influence in Congress is suicidal, to put it mildly. Lets hope the next few months will end up being suicidal for Jim Jordan, not the US Congress as an institution.
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  51. One wonders if the creep Abbot has any daughters... One also wonders if the creep Abbot can even be counted as human!
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  52. The fact that the 'Murican election system was damaged enough to allow someone like Trump to be elected in the first place is a blight that the US will have a hell of a time living down. The credibility of the US as a democracy, even as a flawed one, suffered a heavy blow that will take a lot of effort to overcome. In fact, there seems a real risk that 'Murica as we have known it is about to break down, disown it's own Constitution and become a Neo-fascist Confederation of states. A dire prospect, indeed!
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  53. This entire situation, the fact that a US president can apparently pardon ANYONE for ANY crime, even proactively (not to mention allies, friends and family) only exposes how grotesquely corrupt the entire US political system has become. In the beginning, the Founders obviously never imagined the depravity US politics would reach, otherwise they would have made damned sure to limit the presidential pardoning powers to a fraction of what it is today. The entire situation is beyond ridiculous! Just the idea that a president could, in theory, pardon himself for any and all crimes he might commit for the rest of his life is just so - 'Murican! Illogical and stupid beyond belief!
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  54. Expecting the DOJ under Wimp Garland to do ANYTHING to rattle MAGA Repugnicans is a pipe dream. Garlands fervent words to the effect that "no one is above the law" are not worth the paper it is not written on! 'Murica's "Lady of Justice" seems to be a toothless and demented old crone.
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  55. Is it any wonder the US is falling apart? This is a nation of masochists that WILL NOT tolerate any piece of legislation that actually benefits the general public (themselves), the economy (no more trickle-down nonsense) or the environment to pass.
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  56. I lasted less than a minute in. Gym Jordan is a shining example of the depravity of what is now the Repugnican party. Gym Jordan is like a Catholic priest; dressed nicely, but with a LONG history of depravity, much of it sexual depravity (right up Trump's alley!).
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  57. So speaks an arsehole...
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  58. Let's all keep our fingers and toes crossed, a LOT is riding on this for the entire western wold. The unfortunate and apathetic majority of US voters that have not bothered to go through the hassle the Repugnicans have made voting in 'Murica, simply MUST get up off their lazy arses and do what it takes to save your nation from tyranny and dictatorship.
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  59.  @imisstoronto3121 , I wonder how many nations are managing to sink to the low public health care level the US has been stuck at for decades.
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  60. 'I stand firmly behind my statement that bla-bla-bla'. Expert meaningless chatter from a Repugnant politician.
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  61. I'm fortunately not 'Murican but I follow their silly politics. I think AOC's articles of impeachment against glaringly corrupt SCOTUS justices are timely. They may be token right now, but the flag has to be waved, the siren has to be blared, we have a judicial conflagration that HAS to be tended to! I'm just an old fart, living in another country (still deeply affected by all he mistakes 'Murica makes), and I was really captivated when AOC emerged a few years ago, a beautiful, charming and intelligent young woman that blazed her trail into Congress. What she has done, EVERYTHING she has done since then I see as proof that she is what she seemed to be: A leader. Her apparent intelligence might be bolstered by good advisers, but that cannot be maintained for years. AOC is SMART, she is INTELLIGENT and ELOQUENT and no Repugnican male chauvinistic pig can take that away.
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  62. In 2002-2004 Trump was fairly eloquent, and the sentences he formed made some sense. Compare this to what he is like now: He seems to have the grasp of a 6-year old of global affairs, in his speeches he careens, in mid sentence, even mid word, into another totally irrelevant subject. His cognitive decline is there for all to see, but his enablers just love it, he can now be manipulate much of the time...
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  63. Notice that in recent interviews, Trump has never completed an entire sentence - he keeps jumping back and forth, frequently repeating himself again and again. I does not take a psychiatrist to recognize that there is something seriously wrong with Trump, but a layman might describe Trump as having a number of nuts and bolts loose in his head, not to mention all the lost marbles...
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  64. This GOP/Repugnican "pattern of threats and violence" has an eerie resemblance to what happened to Germany in the 1920s and 1930s. The Hitler and Brownshirt era repeating itself in 'Murica?
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  65. The Trumpzis REALLY think that the coming pandemic can be stopped with lies and misinformation instead of proper preventive detection, isolation and quarantines, followed by vaccinations when that eventually becomes available. This pandemic will be devastating to both countless lives and economies around the world, probably hitting the US harder than others because they were woefully unprepared and slow to respond. Denial has never solved any problems.
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  66. To the best of my knowledge, the concept of "peers" has been well established in the English-speaking world for centuries. Someone that allegedly breaks the law in Georgia, USA, should naturally be judged by a jury in - GEORGIA! To bitch and moan about an "unfair jury pool" in the place where the alleged crime was committed is beyond ridiculous. The concept of "peers" in the US today is not the same as it was in e.g. aristocratic Britain two centuries ago, the shoe is on the other foot now. An aristocrat hauled in front of a jury of peers (other aristocrats) was virtually guaranteed to walk away scot-free, whereas Trump will be saddled with a jury of peers NOT of his class - as it should be!
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  67. How can any self-respecting 'Murican look any other western nation citizen in the eye and say "I'm ????"
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  68. The only thing that exceeds how disgusting Trump is, bight be the fact that the fact that a sizeable part of the 'Murican nation seems ready and willing to elect this creep again! If Trump is NOT elected, 'Murica will have a hard job convincing it's allies of almost a century to believe 'Murica is a believable and worthy ally. If Trump IS elected, 'Murica will loose ALL it's current allies (the entire NATO pack) and gain only 4 new allies;u Russia, Iran, China and North Korea. It would be a toss-up if Hungary will terminate Orban or join the rest of Europe. In any case, Trump's 'Murica would find life difficult indeed, with no wealthy country willing to do business, and hastily withdrawing any business out of 'Murica.
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  69. While you law-educated 'Muricans furiously page through your local law books, trying to make sense of how Toddler Trump has you under control - or at least on the defensive, we in the rest of the western world are quietly writing you off as THE world power (which was probably Putin's intent, anyway). What I see as the most critical issue for the rest of the world is the fact that as we can write 'Murica off as a reliable ally in military matters. Reagan conceded US military industrial production to the highest bidders, at the time anyone in Asia. The only thing that surprises me is why the F-22 and F-35 are not cheaply produced in China these days...
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  70. Ted Cruz is a thoroughly repugnant person - a fitting member for the Repugnican Party.
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  71. Brian is wasting air trying to convince Trump followers that Trump is lying. By all accounts, the 'Murican nation is a lost cause. They have been dumbed down to the extent that they will support the creeps (the Repugnicans) that have being raping them, literally and figuratively, for over 40 years.
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  72. Fortunately Chris and others are aware of how destructive the binary political system is to 'Murica. The current incarnation of the Republican party is like a soon-to-be terminal cancer, and the legalized political bribery that has thoroughly infected BOTH parties is causing the apathy that almost ensures that no treatment will be sought.
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  73. What the entire press should do in a situation like this is to get up and LEAVE. What is the point of asking these lying, pre-juvenile (toddler-stage) idiots about anything is absolutely useless, a total waste of time. To expect Trump to start being presidential after 3 years of absolute ridiculous nonsense is beyond comprehension.
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  74. Brian counted a lot of "near-fiftieth-place" rankings for Louisiana, i.e. Louisiana is placed solidly on the bottom of any desirable metric, EVEN for an 'Murican Red State - but there was one ambiguity: If Louisiana it "50th in crime", does that mean they have the LOWEST crime rate? Only by assuming that the higher the percentage, the worse the situation is for the state in question.
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  75. Trump is no longer "the most powerful man in the world" because the country he "leads" is rapidly losing it's status as a world leader. Sure, the US still controls the world's most influential currency and the US certainly has the most military power in the world, but can they afford to keep that up? The world has been better served with US leadership after WW2 than with e.g. China or (god forbid) the USSR or now Russia as leaders. The problem: The US has been coming off the rails during the last few decades and, under Trump, has become a slow-moving train wreck still in progress.
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  76. You 'Muricans keep arguing about the minutiae of the current situation - you no longer see the forest for the trees! The details of how you got here IS an issue, as well as how you might extricate yourself from having the lunatics take over the asylum, but the fact remains that 'Murica is SERIOUSLY BROKEN, and you are in denial! I wouldn't presume to suggest a solution, that is for you to figure out, but I strongly suspect you are in for a decade or two of abject misery and violence, the German Third Reich being one example, Afghanistan under the Talibans being another.
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  77. Frankly, this entire discussion is proof that the 'Murican justice system is toothless, unable to hold anyone above homeless people accountable, a farce that the rest of the developed world is watching in disbelief! Do we need any further proof that the 'Murican Judicial System is the "best money can buy"?
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  78. 25M tests in the US might be a very high stand-alone number, but is is still only 7.5% of the US population (and frankly, I think that number is Trumpian, i.e. totally divorced from reality - a LIE!). There are are countries that are currently up the testing what amounts to 19% of their entire population and actually suppressed the virus over 1 month ago! (check https://www.covid.is/data) The sad part is the fact that there are enough ill-informed and ignorant 'Muricans to give the Orange Idiot a statistical chance of remaining in office.
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  79. Is there anyone as disingenuous, dishonest and devoid of morals as a right-winger? I dare anyone to name a genuine example. On the subject of US combat veterans: As a non-'Murican I am always disgusted by how your veterans are glorified in speech but totally ignored in deed. They come back from many of the "wars" the US is waging all over the world with serious PTSD and physical injuries and other issues and find that the safety net and care they are SUPPOSED to get is a disgrace, their treatment is actually worse than shameful - usually due to Republicans that want to cut all spending except tax benefits for themselves, and Democrats shamefully let that happen.
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  80. Why are you 'Muricans farting about how too 'unpack' SCOTUS? As seen from outside (by other countries) the entire US judicial system has become a farce, pure theater. The general idea was good enough in the beginning, but you have had over 2 centuries to pervert the basic premise of the initially sound idea of the US judicial system, and THAT you have done to perfection! The details are irrelevant, the fact that is staring us in the face is that the US judicial system is thoroughly corrupt: If you have plenty of money you are above the law. Period. If you have no money, your goose is cooked, you are about to become a permanent "customer" of a for-profit prison system that is mainly in the business of creating returning customers! How stupid can the US public get! Really!
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  81. The US legislative body is proving itself to be a kindergarten, mostly populated by immature fanatics that will bring the US (and the world) considerable grief before all is said and done.
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  82. Is asking that the police be held to AT LEAST the same standard as everyone else too much? They should be held to a considerably higher standard - for one, they are SUPPOSED to know what is allowed and NOT allowed within the law while the general public is known to be somewhat ignorant of the exact letter of the law. An ignorant pedestrian may be breaking the letter of the law without realizing it, but when a policeman that is supposed to KNOW what the law is kills him/her for jaywalking, the cop is supposed to know that murdering a citizen in broad daylight, on camera, is definitely SUPPOSED to land him in jail for life, anywhere in the world. In Norway they would spend up to 21 years trying to reform this psychopath, but in the Good-Old-US they are probably not even going to prosecute him. Amid all this, US Americans are wondering why the rest of the world is no longer liking the US , they are even wondering how to distance and isolate themselves from the impending madness and disaster of the US disintegrating. After all, the US has the most powerful, pervasive and intrusive military in the world, not to mention the economic stranglehold they have on the rest of the world. They have a finger in EVERY pie, from Greenland to Antarctica. There will come a period where the normal political leadership will have disintegrated to the point that the real power-brokers, the corporate entities within the US will have to come out of the closet as the real puppet masters. What will happen then is anyone's guess. Just be clear on one thing: However mighty the US military might be, they are mere dust if the rest of the globe turns against them (a certainty, given how Trump has been shedding allies). The US has outsourced to China EVERYTHING other than the production of their latest military aircraft and missiles. There WILL be a time of reckoning: The US is no longer able to produce it's own essential military electronics, simply because of the greed of electronic corporations. When that simple fact dawns on people, heads will start flying - not in the golden-parachute-severance way but rather in the head-brutally-severed-from-the body way. Nearly bringing the world to an end will have consequences for the useless non-productive billionaires of the world, DIRE consequences.
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  83. The US might still be the oldest contemporary democracy in the world, but not much longer. Already seriously flawed before 2016 (mostly due to Republican gerrymandering and voter suppression), it is now barely hanging on by a thread. Biden is NOT likely to do much more than maintaining a status quo during his term and the Repugnicans will most likely manage to re-gain power in 2024 to finish off the US experiment with democracy.
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  84. If Rand Paul is an "Eye Doctor" I take it he went through Medical School and became a Medical Doctor (an actual Physician) before specializing as an "Eye Doctor". Based on his inane arguments he appears to have forgot everything he learned in Medical School. What a waste!
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  85. Question: Can a Fox "News" commentator tell a lie? Answer: Yes. Question: Is a Fox "News" commentator LIKELY to tell a lie? Ansewer: Hell, YES!!!!
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  86. The moment the billionaire/corporate tax cut had been passed, the time came for Rand Poul to become "fiscally responsible".
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  87. The SCOTUS is fast becoming irrelevant. Any entity that flies directly in the face of public opinion will eventually be abolished. It might take a few years, but just wait. The stench raised by the anti-abortion issue will be the downfall of SCOTUS. Nothing, absolutely NOTHING will enable their survival. Sexual molester Kavanaugh will be exposed as a sexual molester when all is said and done. He will soon rue the day he dared to accept the SCOTUS appointment.
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  88. Venezuela, Hannity's "socialistic Hell" would probably be doing fine if not for US meddling. US corporations wanted the oil resources and the "socialist leader" said NO - so Venezuela was crushed with US sanctions and covert US interference. They (the US) are experts at regime changes...
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  89. Bon Lemon, you US voters actually voted the Orange Idiot to be your Dear Beloved Leader. Now, enjoy! You might want to deliberate and actually THINK the next time around. Trump appears to be able to take the US from being a world leader to being a laughing stock. The pandemic is harshly driving home the fact that greed is not a sustainable policy. Greed has been the guiding light of the US administration response, and the general US population is now suffering the consequences. While Italy and Spain have been caught flat-footed, their problems pale in comparison to the calamity the US is walking into, entirely due to Trump's actions and inactions. Trump is truly a master when it comes to screwing things up, ROYALLY!
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  90. Have you noticed how Trump frequently refers to himself in the plural like the old monarchs used to? WE this, WE that!
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  91. I find it striking that the voices supporting and defending Trump's misdeeds, by any means possible, ALL have a pronounced southern drawl! The Confederates may have lost the civil war over 150 years ago, but they are still resisting...
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  92. Seeing that Biden is the current president and has now been issued total immunity for actions he takes as president. Example: Biden sees a clear and present danger to the United States government, it's democracy and the rule of law in general, posed by certain domestic individuals, and makes the executive decision to have them assassinated a.s.a.p. The list of individuals slated for termination would certainly contain Trump and the worst of the MAGA crowd, but also the most dangerous group of them all: Up to 6 conservative SCOTUS justices, those that are systematically tearing down decades, even centuries, of precedents and hard-earned civilian rights! The problem: While Trump would instantly exploit this ruling if he were to get back into the Oval Office, Biden is a decent human being and is very unlikely to resort to such desperate measures. But - we can always hope, right?
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  93. "A fishing expedition about [Ivanka's] emails" while the country is racking up mountains of debts? Debts incurred under a government under the total control of Republicans (prior to the 2018 elections via e.g. tax cuts for corporations and the rich)? One wonders what Hilary's/Ivanka's email abuses have anything to do with the Republican spending spree. The man is almost in tears, he is so agitated. How does he sleep at night? Very well, I presume, after all he is morally blind - just the type Trump wants at his side.
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  94. As an outsider (non-'Murican), I keep wondering what it is about this most recent mass shooting that seems to have everyone in an uproar. This seemed an everyday, run-of-the-mill mass shooting with a modest body count, at least by 'Murican standards. Might this one be the straw that finally breaks the Repugnican Camel's back?
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  95. A showcase of how useless and corrupt the 'Murican judicial system has become. In 'Murica, money will buy you ANYTHING - especially the outcome of "Constitutional jury trials". The rest of the world is aghast...
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  96. This chick is resurrecting the long-dead stereotype of the quintessential "dumb blonde". We all realized long ago that blondes are just as smart as anyone else, BUT NOT THIS ONE! She is not only blond, she is also dumb, as in dumber.
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  97. This was pretty much like watching a rabid evangelist Jesus-nut preacher going into a frenzy - with a lot of incitement to violence thrown in.
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  98. These days, the concept of a Republican with a conscience is an oxymoron, at least in the US Senate. Romney might just be the exception to prove the rule...
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  99. Can anyone trust any "Lifelong Repugnican", seeing how much they have always lied about anything and everything? Some of them seem credible (Liz Cheney and Kinzinger), as seen by what they have DONE as well as what they have said, but what of the rest of them? Has Tim Miller actually DONE anything that matches what he is saying? I ask because I do not know and, in my mind, most Repugnicans will need a lot of actually DOING right to earn any semblance of credibility.
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  100. Mehdi is brilliant! He is the most logical, rational and eloquent TV host we have seen in a couple of decades. The only problem I see is the fact that his logic, undeniably rock-solid at every turn, is so much "rapid-fire" that significant parts of it simply flies over the heads of his dumbed-down, slow-thinking 'Murican audience! I'm not 'Murican (Nordic, in fact) and I totally agree with him on every issue, but I frequently have a hard time following him - his brain and speech frequently go to fast for us mere mortals to follow. He would do us a world of good by slowing down on occasions to allow his arguments and logic to sink in!
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  101. Who are the "they" Trump constantly refers to as saying this or that? Figments of his imagination?
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  102. One wonders why the Fox crowd has their knickers in a twist and acid up Tuckers p*xxy - after all, what Taylor Swift encouraged young people to do was to VOTE! Not one word about WHO to vote for, just to VOTE! Young voters voting? The end of the Repugnican party!
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  103. To recap: Benghazi cost 4 precious 'Murican lives while Trump's neglect has cost over 103.000 'Murican lives to date. Well, it DOES matter who is doing the sinning! Repugnican: No sin, all the dues have been paid (reminds you of the Catholic Church). Corporate Democrap: No sin, all the dues have been paid (reminds you of the Repugnican party). The reat of politicians: If there is no sin involved, the person must be an atheist or agnostic and thus unfit for corruption (spelled: political cooperation).
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  104. "US-led coalition" or "Coalition with US participation" are terms that are about to become extinct. What nation will be able to believe ANYTHING coming from ANY US administration? The invasion of Iraq was based on a lie and what is happening now is obviously even worse. The good news is that the Trump administration is so incompetent that their lies are virtually transparent, and no other nation is likely to support this nonsense. The bad news is that the mess Trump has already made is going to cost countless lives.
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  105. Texans are now in the same situation as former East German citizens under STASI: Anyone can claim real or imagined grievances against their neighbor or family - AND BE REWARDED FOR IT! Methinks the Stupid State of Texas will never recover from this show of insanity.
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  106. The stark fact that a character like Boebert is actually part of the 'Murican Legislative Branch is a chilling prospect for the future of 'Murica. I see only doom and gloom ahead for you...
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  107. I actually tried to transcribe the disjointed nonsense Trump was sprouting, but gave up about 02:00 in! Actually listening to any of his "press conferences" over the last few days show that the man is absolutely unable to complete a single, coherent sentence. He starts off somewhere, veers off to some other topic and ends up saying a fragment about a totally different issue.
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  108. The Rubio hipocracy should be career-terminating - but is not. The one thing the US public has learned is the fact that Repugnicans will do onything to cling to power. Lying, cheating and stealing is just the basic stuff for them. Insurrection, threats of physical harm to opponents is plan B and actually carrying out those threats is the ultimate plan.
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  109. Do we need any further proof that the 'Murican judicial system is a farce?
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  110. What a pitiful example of the dregs of failed humanity.
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  111. 'Murica is currently the most powerful nation on Earth, both financially and militarily. 'Murica is potentially poised to elect to the highest office in the land a fascist that may be cunning, but is really a moron that is unable to string together a coherent sentence. This unavoidable fact is chilling for all the developed nations, especially all the minority groups that will be the victims if Trump is ever allowed near any levers of power. That would be the end of the world as we know it, and while 'Murica would eventually go the way of Hitler's Nazi Germany, the potential global suffering until that day is unfathomable.
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  112. To an outsider like me, it looks like the entire 'Murican judicial system is a seething, rotting mess, about to collapse in on itself.
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  113. CNN's Caitlin lost my respect when she let Trump the idiot run rings around her not long ago. Here she is doing it again: Allowing another inveterate liar to walk all over her again without even a squeak! Where is the CRUSHING fact-check the liar is supposed to be cornered with? Missing in Action! What is Brian doing in this clip? Assisting Fox?
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  114. With her plate heaped beyond full, it is just as likely that Fani Willis just put these lesser characters on hold, their cases to be revisited after the major crooks have been dealt with. There is nothing to prevent Lindsey Graham and the other crooks from being dragged in front of a judge next year, once the initial dust has settled.
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  115. The Electorate system may have made sense over 200 years ago when 'Murica was pulling itself together as a nation, but it has been ridiculously out of date ever since the telegraph, not to mention more modern modes of communication were established. Nowadays it is just abused by politicians as a way to do Tweedism. Simply put: Politicians do not care WHO votes, as long as they are allowed to determine who is eligible to run for office. To put it plainly: Politicians select their voters, the voters do no elect their representatives.
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