Comments by "Halfdan Ingolfsson" (@Halli50) on "The Damage Report" channel.

  1. So this is the worst "dirt" they can find on AOC? Clean, tidy hair? Man, are they scraping the bottom!
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  2. Never mind the wall - Trump will find a way to direct any wall funding into his own pocket.
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  3. Hot damn - someone apparently does NOT want election oversight to function at all. I wonder just who that might be?
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  4. The "Lock him up" chant was deserved, Trump reaping as he has sowed.
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  5. Repugnican travel bans for females that MIGHT be pregnant are highlighting the Repugnican view on "freedom".
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  6. Just keep in mind that whenever Trump uses "your country", he actually means "I, ME, MINE, TRUMP".
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  7. I really, really, REALLY feel sorry for the US American nation for living in a society where political power is simply a monetary transaction and the needs of the general population is irrelevant.
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  8. Gosar's siblings cannot help if they look alike, but they appear to be sane and THAT should be appreciated. Denigrating them for looking like their deranged brother is as unfair as you can get!
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  9. Trump is obviously a certifiable idiot, but what does this say about the nation that elected him as their leader? The rest of the world SHOULD be smirking, but is actually terrified! With the most powerful military in the world, known to invade any and all countries at a whim, under the direct command of a lunatic that is about to be cornered by a force of nature (the Covid-19 virus), even the worst Mad-Max scenarios are becoming more and more likely.
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  10. Teenager Greta is infinitely more eloquent and mature than Toddler Trump and US citizens REALLY need to review their concept of "socialism". The concept of "PHYSICAL distancing during a pandemic" probably makes sense to any average US citizen, but "SOCIAL distancing during a pandemic" will incite a red haze of rage in the mind of a typical Repugnican. There is something really, seriously wrong with the US nation. Every nation in northern Europe has mostly content citizens that mainly argue about minor and petty problems, NOT if you will go bankrupt or die because you have limited access to health care - or if you will afford to send your kids to University, let alone having to worry if you can feed your family in the first place! Again, there is something really, seriously wrong with the US, especially considering the fact that most European nations are following a lesson learned from the US following WW2 - a lesson the US appears to NOT having followed itself!
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  11. I have never figured out why Hunter Biden is such a target for the Trumpzis. The President-elect is Joe Biden, NOT Hunter Biden! Attacking the grown-up son of the President-elect just goes to show how mean and petty the Repugnicans have become. They have been unable to find dirt on Joe so they attack his loved ones - his son Hunter for alleged tax mismanagement and his wife Jill Biden PhD. for having the temerity of using a well-earned title.
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  12. Trump WILL be out of office one day and there WILL be a day of reckoning!
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  13. I am a fortunate outsider: I am not a US citizen and I do NOT live in this crazy, mad Trump-land. However, being born in the middle of the last century I used to admire the US and everything American for decades and find it tragic how this "shining light on the hill" example has deteriorated. Nordic and European democracies are based on the examples the US provided following WW2, and apparently the only nation that has NOT followed that example is the US itself.
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  14. Trump has the maturity of a toddler. That has been evident for decades. The fact that the US nation elected him as their leader says all that needs to be said about the US nation! Many 'Muricans will use the standard excuse of gerrymandering and voter suppression to explain this state of affairs, which begs for an answer to the question "Why did you 'Muricans allow this gerrymandering & voter suppression situation to exist in the first place? You are supposed to be a DEMOCRACY, but democracy can only exist if voters can be bothered to turn out to vote!" The way things are going, 'Murica will have become a Mad-Max-like country within 5-10 years.
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  15. As a non-'Murican I am always horrified by the 'Murican discourse regarding these gender and sexuality issues. The poor souls that actually HAVE these issues have enough on their plate to begin with, without 1/3rd of their society going absolutely bonkers over it. Leave the poor sods alone, you creeps! 'Murica is the only developed country behaving this stupidly. Well, Russia and Hungary etc. can hardly be called developed, can they? Can nations be any more backward than they are becoming? In that light, 'Murica is rapidly on it's way to join that stellar company!
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  16. Today: Almost 920K and counting. At the current rate, 10K die every 4 days. At this rate it will only take you 20 days to reach an even million dead!
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  17. A message to Repugnicans: Follow Nunez´s advice, get together to share and distribute the Hoax Virus among yourselves. That will be a boon for the rest of the world.
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  18. Bernie labels himself as a democratic "socialist" and everybody freaks out, terrified of USSR / Venezuela-style communism. This is utter nonsense. What Bernie is fighting for is a Nordic countries / European-style "social democracy" - which is actually a totally outdated label. The old LABEL might still be "social democracy", but what is actually practiced is WELFARE CAPITALISM - capitalism with reins attached to ensure that the welfare of the population is not sacrificed on the altar of corporate and political greed. This is implemented by: No voter suppression, automatic voter registration which results in high voter turnout, affordable health care and education and a functioning infrastructure (sure - taxes are higher, especially on the rich, but health insurance companies become mostly redundant, resulting no insurance premiums). This results in e.g. universal health care that costs on average 10-11% of GDP versus the 18% of GDP spent on US health care. Who do you think is pocketing the additional 7-8% in the US?
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  19. "Bring the troops home with dignity" simply means to stop waging war against under-developed countries for the purpose of "protecting US interests" at the behest of large corporations that want to grab the resources of said countries. A side benefit is that working-class youths will no longer be coming home dead, mutilated or mentally scarred for life. An extra (never-thought-of) benefit will be that in due course, other countries will have less reason to hate the US. The US has yet to realize that a "moderate democrat" (corporate democrat) in the US is what other developed countries consider far-right. A US "progressive democrat" is considered a centrist! An extra-extra benefit: Reducing your military expenditures. THAT is how you can pay for universal affordable health care, affordable education, functioning infrastructure and what have you, all in one fell swoop...
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  20. When a Swedish teenager manages to have the 'beloved' US leader blow his top, you know the Swedes have checked in! When a Swedish teenager manages to make the 'leader of the free world' (whatever that particular nonsense means in 'Murica) look ridiculous, you just KNOW that Swedish kids have something US kids might want to emulate, like common sense. The Swedish adults are more diplomatic, they know that Trump is about to become irrelevant. Let's hope (against all odds) that 'Murican adults will manage to, well, remain adults and perhaps check in with the rest of the sane world, eventually.
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  21. What I find really scary is the fact that someone like John Iadarola plainly accepts the possibility that "a billionaire might come along and simply BUY the election". That sentiment REALLY describes the dismal state of the current US "democracy". I truly believe that Bernie is the last chance for the US nation to restore some semblance of democracy and the last chance for the rest of the world to pull back from the edge of the abyss. If the US self-destructs, the rest of the "civilized" world will be dragged down with it...
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  22. Weird how US politics are always about appearance and superficiality, not content.
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  23. What I find astounding is how many supposedly non-Trump-cult media figures STILL spend a lot of time discussing and analyzing the BS coming from Trump as if there actually might be some grains of meaningful facts in the absurdity the is Trump and his rhetoric.
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  24. This is an awful testament the 'Murican nation: First, you allowed Trump to be elected as your "dear, beloved leader", then you accepted beer-quaffing and female-groping Kavanaugh being appointed to the SCOTUS. Then, to add insult to injury, your chosen leaders appointed a religious nutcase like Amy Coney Barret to be appointed to a life-long tenure on the SCOTUS! 'Murica: You are sinking, you are sinking FAST!
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  25. I'm always astounded by the hypocrisy inherent in the classic US American attitude that "American lives" are so much more valuable than e.g. the lives of middle-east civilians. Do you REALLY think that e.g. an Iraqi mother is any less devastated by the loss of her child than the mother of a US soldier? At least the US soldier was waging war in a foreign country and the Iraqi was in his homeland, killed by invading foreign military forces. There is a very simple solution to this problem: Stop waging war abroad! Use the money to tend to the needs of your own population instead. That would pay for universal health care, affordable high-quality education and to fix all your crumbling infrastructure.
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  26. This is wishful thinking on a new level by Corporate Democrats and Republicans. I am convinced she will not be as easily pushed around as these people wish her to be, regardless of the trickery or lies they will try to use. They call her stupid and clueless, but just check out her razor-sharp inquisition of the Trump-scum that she has had the opportunity to grill. It might take a few election cycles, but AOC & Co will win general support and prevail in the end. The main worry is that "The Handlers" will resort to using the same desperate means used on the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King.
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  27. Repugnicans cannot win elections without gross, even blatantly illegal cheating. Corporate Democheats are a close second.
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  28. Any parent with a rational mind should yank their child out of any school run by irrational "aluminum-foil-head-cap" idiots like this David Centner. Such schools are likely to become Covid-infection cesspools, a danger to everyone - not to mention the likelihood of the curriculum being potentially medieval in nature!
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  29. The Medicare-provided services Francesca is describing is actually the MINIMUM service provided to EVERY pregnant woman in Europe! The horrible part of the 'Murican situation is the fact that this Medicare service she describes is NOT available to all pregnant women in the SSR (Slave States of America)! In Europe, support for pregnant women is virtually free AND post-birth support is extensive AND AFFORDABLE! In the SSR, the birth of a child is reportedly bound to cost $10K or more - with NO post-birth support, not to mention devoid of parental leave and support. The problem: 'Murican right-wingers have no shame! They want to force every conception to term, regardless of circumstances, but once the fetus is born and breathing, they stop caring - everyone is supposed to sink or swim, they do not CARE. 'Muricans are turning out to be disgusting and inhumane monsters...
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  30. It is absolutely astounding how even the most progressive, anti-Trump channels STILL waste a lot of hot air and airtime discussing the absolute nonsense that comes from Trump (and in this case his son-in-law as well). THEY know it is BS, WE ALL know it is BS and still they cannot help chasing the bloody rabbit down the bleedin' rabbit hole, just like excited puppies. THIS is why Trump, with the mental capacity of an 8-year old, is the dog's tail currently managing to wag the entirety of the USA.
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  31. Apparently, if the dust ever settles, there will be a need for an independent international body to investigate the CBP for systematic crimes against humanity, and to punish individual agents as well as past and present CBP leaders for those crimes - using the current, inhumane, revenge-based US "correctional" system. The alternative: Trump gets another term, the US turns into something like Germany in the 1930s - and everyone gets pardoned.
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  32. The US "democracy" and judiciary just became more flawed. The solution? The lawmakers (House of Representatives and Senate) must pass laws that decisively ends gerrymandering and voter suppression. Without that, the US does not have democracy, not even a pretend democracy. After all, the courts, Supreme Court included, only interpret the gray areas in any laws - they do NOT make laws, they just decide how to handle flaws in the laws. What are the chances of Congress fixing the problem? Nonexistent at the moment, but if US voters get off their lazy arses during the 2020 election, the legislative and executive powers just might go to people that work on behalf of the US general public, not just the rich (billionaires and big corporations.
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  33. US Americans need to get it though their thick heads that what they think is socialism is not socialism at all. Take the Nordic countries as an example. While too many US Americans view them as socialistic shithole countries, the fact is that they thoroughly capitalist, only with "socialist" safety nets for the general public and rules that limit how far capitalists can go when exploiting the public.
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  34. Am I the only one to think that the SCOTUS has by now turned itself into a farce? In fact, so has 'Murican society, in it's current form.
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  35. I am sure that Megan does respect the Flag and the Anthem, it is just the current politics (and Trump) she is giving the finger.
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  36. The old farts are making a huge mistake: Not only will these eloquent children be the ones to suffer the consequences of climate change, they are the VOTERS OF THE FUTURE! The old farts will be in deep shit in only a few years...
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  37. The intended "Justice Thomas Museum" will no doubt end up as a memorial for the most corrupt Supreme Court Justice in at least a century - and that is saying something!
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  38. What worries me is that AOC and other Progressive Democrats might end up going the way of John & Robert Kennedy. That will definitely be the end of the US as a free nation.
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  39. Did Kavanaugh perjure himself? Any layman without Trump-blinders on will say an emphatic YES to that. Let's just hope that eventually the sham, gloss-over FBI investigation will be declared null and void, followed by a proper investigation. I suspect that could lead to Kavanaugh being impeached and drummed out of the Supreme Court.
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  40. Deforestation of the Amazon has been going on for a long time and, ideally, should be stopped. On the flip side: US Americans love the "why should I pay for other people's problems?" argument that can easily be used by Brazil regarding this issue. The US has been instrumental in CO2 emissions for more than a century and is today still the worst offender pr. capita, with apparently no willingness to change course.
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  41. What I find strange is how all the major Trump followers, so firmly convinced the SARS Cov-2 is a hoax, still manage to avoid becoming infected. In my mind, the best solution to the problem would be for the deniers to walk into becoming infected, become sick and most of them ending up being killed by "the hoax".
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  42. I suggest the US rename their "Ministry of Defense" to "Ministry of Offense".
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  43. A pity how someone that is credited with breakthroughs in space technology and "environmentally friendly" luxury cars is turning out to be a deranged loonie. On the flip side, it is no surprise that someone that has become insanely rich very quickly is turning out to be a dishonest, cheating creep - that is usually the only way to become rich in a jiffy.
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  44. I wonder what the situation will be in e.g. 15-25 years when these kids become the ones running the country. If there is any justice, the old-fart politicians that are still surviving will be hunted down and made accountable for their inaction.
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  45. Does this mean that Trump can be made responsible for inciting (organizing) the Jan. 6th insurrection?
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  46. I nearly fell off my chair when I heard Trump actually TELL A TRUTH when he correctly stated that "at least half the people cannot define 'woke', they don't know what it is"!
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  47. I cannot help wondering if AOC and the other Justice Democrat Vanguards have visited and experienced North Europe, an area that is practicing the kind of democracy that they (AOC & Co) have been preaching. Our various flavors of social democracy is something the 'Muricans encouraged, financed and helped us implement following WW2. We bloody well LOVE it, and are flabbergasted to see that the US is failing to implement in their own country the lessons we learned from them that are working quite well for us in Europe. Then again, today's US of A is radically different from the "immediately-post-WW2" US of A. One indication is the fact that current US allies are becoming fed up with the nonsense and madness going on in the US.
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  48. I simply cannot get over this apparently very common US American way of thinking: "I am against a health care or education system that will benefit myself, because it will also benefit others!"
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  49. AOC seems to have an uncanny ability to light a fire under the collective arses of Fox and Conservetives in general with just a few words on Twitter - or printed on a fundraising T-shirt. AOC rocks, and the same goes for the other progressives and their fast-growing base. Young and well-informed people are joining the political fray as they reach the voting age and the Repugnican goose will be well and truly cooked. Can't wait until AOC is "grown up" enough to join the Old Folks brawl (Senate/Presidency). Boy, are the geriatrics in for interesting times. They will never know what hit them!
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  50. It is amazing how fragile US society is turning out to be. The fact that a huge part of the population has not been in a position to properly cope with a setback of just a few hundred dollars virtually ensures that a genuine global disaster like the pandemic will have catastrophic consequences for the US as a nation.
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  51. When the police force of any community is allowed to become corrupt to their innermost core, de-funding and disbanding said police force is insufficient, it will simply continue as just another mobster gang - without uniforms. The members of that "police" force must be investigated and prosecuted for what they are: Corrupt Criminals! Some police forces even take the corruption to another level by allowing it's officers a license to kill any person of color they feel like. Unarmed, underage? No matter, being noticed by "white police officers" while being Black can actually turn out to be a death warrant. In Latin America, this kind of crazed killers were called Death Squads, but not in today's US America!
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  52. Just pause to think about the subject of this clip! If you are AT ALL rational, you will realize that there is something seriously wrong in the State of Florida - and Texas and a host of other rabid-right states. The rest of the developed world is watching with fascinated horror how a recently-great country is devolving into what the rest of us would call a Medieval, Religious-zealot-controlled, primitive anti-knowledge nation that will eventually make Putin's Russia look rational! Have they no shame?
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  53. Did you notice that current NATO allies are already consolidating against Toddler Trump regarding his madcap Greenland/Canada/Panama takeover push? I'm afraid this is just the beginning of Toddler Trump's 'Murica shedding of allies that have been formed over the last 80 years. Who will the new allies be? Putin's collapsing Russia? Belarus? North Korea? China? China will never be a reliable ally, they are just waiting to gobble you up! In hindsight, it was remarkable how quickly a stable society like Germany was dismantled in the 1930s. Something similar seems to be happening to 'Murica. While we're at it, pause to recall the sticky end ALL of Hitler's henchmen eventually came to, once the German nation had been decimated and divided up, it's cities a rubble of ruins. A similar fate eventually awaits Trump's current and future henchmen.
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  54. While all other developed countries can provide various flavors of universal health care for 10-11% of their GDP, the US is spending over 17% of GDP on a health care system that leaves a sizeable chunk of the population in the cold and bankrupting others. This is nothing less than astounding! Is the US really such an underdeveloped country that it is unable copy what others have been doing for decades! The difference is that other countries do NOT allow middlemen (health insurance companies) to skim off vast profits. They ALSO force pharmaceutical companies to sell medicine with a reasonable profit, no rip-offs allowed.
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  55. This attitude is what will cause the US as we have known it to disintegrate within a decade: We are FINALLY rid of Trump, no further worries until the end of time! The problem: The corrupt and psychopathic monsters that make up the Repugnican Party leadership is still in place, well versed in gerrymandering, voter suppression and all the tricks-of-the-corrupt-politics trade they have been fine-tuning these past 40 years. Before you know it, the Repugnicans will have found another Fascist wannabe autocrat that will NOT be as blatantly incompetent as Trump turned out to be. You got away from the Trump disaster by the skin of your teeth, you will NOT be as lucky the next time around! Your only hope is to thoroughly investigate and prosecute Trump and his closes cronies for the crimes they have been committing in plain sight these past 4 years. You have to expose and root out all the Trump enablers, Repugnicans and Corporate Democraps alike, and punish them in the most cruel way possible, if only to lash out at and eliminate the power-crazed politicians that were instrumental in causing the deaths of all the Covid victims so far, now approaching 1/3rd of a million, a death toll that will probably exceed half a million before the pandemic is finally brought under control
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  56. As this situation proves, the only good Repugnican is a dead Repugnican. They have been systematically dismantling democracy in the US for over 40 years and THEY ARE SUCCEEDING! Gerrymandering and voter suppression are only the basic tools, they have a lot of tricks up their sleeves that people are barely aware of.
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  57. You've had over 3 years of Toddler Trump and you STILL appear surprised over his stupidity and disconnection from reality! Is it possible you are almost as ignorant as Trump is?
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  58. I have the sneaky feeling that the general attitude in the US regarding climate change is somewhat like the attitude of the guy that fell off the roof of one of the the World Trade Center towers: Falling past the 60th floor he was heard saying "So far, so good". No worries until you land on the street...
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  59. You are dancing to Trump's tune, just like he wants you to! Trump throws out some absolutely ridiculous statements that any thinking person KNOWS is nonsense, and what does the media do? A lot of energy is spent on dissecting the nonsense instead of following the really important issues Trump is trying to distract you from.
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  60. This video clip confirms how ignorant US Americans tend to be (not the Damage Reporters, just the people they are talking about). One wonders at the potential change in attitude if every single young US citizen were to travel to some of the "socialist hellhole countries" like e.g. Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland or even to isolated Iceland to experience the "hellhole" conditions first-hand. Then, and only THEN would they be qualified to even have an opinion about "socialist hellholes".
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  61. To have the capacity to "resign in shame" the individual in question has to HAVE a sense of shame - which does not apply to shameless people like George Santos, Trump and any number of current Repugnican politicians - not to mention the majority of the SCOTUS. I am not at all sure 'Murica will survive this.
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  62. Can a society disintegrate and die from simple ignorance and stupidity? Let's watch the US's ridiculous handling of the pandemic, we are about to watch exactly that kind of an event.
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  63. What is the difference between belittling someone and attacking someone? Pelosi is only belittling "the Squad", not outright attacking. Why? Pelosi is afraid, she sees the potential writing on the wall for herself and other corporate Democrats. Pelosi desperately wants to rein "the Squad" into the fold, to have them submit to the traditional methods of The Party subjugating new and unwanted members and having them toe the party line. I predict she is not only going to be unsuccessful in that, but there will be a lot more Justice Democrats and a lot fewer Corporate Democrats in both the House and the Senate after the 2020 election.
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  64. The US wants to topple governments in other countries, even by violence if nothing else works. At the same time, they are blowing their top over non-violent Russian meddling in their own elections. Hypocrisy does not even BEGIN to describe this nonsense.
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  65. Considering all the issues the US needs to tackle according to Bernie's plans I feel fortunate to live in a country that enjoys 100% renewable energy except for transportation (cars, ships & planes) and emergency power (we do have occasional but temporary rural power outages due to crazy winter weathers in a sparsely populated country). We also have affordable health care, education and an acceptable social security net (despite our right-wing politicians pecking away at it all for decades). We spend NOTHING on war-making abilities (we have no military), which might be why we are able to afford it all... While I currently feel sorry for US American people given the mess their corrupt politicians have created during the last 40 years, I admire them for many of their achievements. Your best hope is one old man (Bernie) and those that will inherit the mess - your youth are voters of the future, and they will hopefully take over in time.
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  66. Trump has never come across as a coherent person, but now he comes across as a rambling and seriously incoherent idiot!
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  67. Is it any wonder I am relieved that I am NOT an US American! I am safely born, raised and ensconced in one of the Nordic countries. My country has one of the highest per-capita diagnosed COVID-19 cases, but that is simply because we have been testing like crazy from day one. Today (March 27, 2020) we have tested around 4% of our entire population! We are NOT being caught flat-footed like the US.
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  68. The mere fact that you are discussing this absurd nonsense as if it were plausible and possibly normal is solid proof that Trump is about to win - he has managed to normalize behavior that 4 years ago would have blown the top of every Democrat AND Republican in sight! Now, this absurdity is considered NORMAL! You, the formerly United States of America are about to become history. You will have a brief flash-in-the-pan fascist/neo-nazi period which will be very painful for the rest of the world because of your current military might, especially for your neighbors, but the rest of the world will unite against you, the way things are going. Remember what happened to Hitler's Germany, you are starting down that road, full tilt!
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  69. It is too depressing, watching how deep US politics have sunk. I have to give up watching.
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  70. Is party blacklisting a sign of free democracy?
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  71. This is what you get when you have a political system that is up-front open to bribery. Sure, they have arranged the rules so that most of the bribery is, strictly speaking, legal - but the end result is the same: A thoroughly corrupt system.
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  72. Are the FBI agents that enabled the creep Nasser to continue his abuse REALLY getting away with their gross dereliction of duty? According to the news they have only lost their job, when they should have been prosecuted and punished severely. By not handing these agent to prosecutors, the FBI is earning a gigantic blot on their reputation and showing that the institution has probably not improve much since the infamy of the Herbert Hoover era.
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  73.  @josephwallace8875 , you are correct - I don't love 'Murica (US America, while I like and respect e.g. Canadian America). I actually USED to admire the USA decades ago, but you are going downhill so fast that there has been little to admire for a long time. Just to clarify: I admire most of the US population and your constitution, it is the corrupt bought-and-paid-for and perverted political system that I find despicable. Your best hope for a future lies in young progressives like AOC and other Justice Democrats.
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  74. Lovely. Allow ignorant Repugnicans to drown in their own ignorance!
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  75. The label put on any given method of governance is meaningless. The results are what matters. The US has been running on unbridled capitalism for decades, at least since at least the Reagan era, and just look at the results. The USSR ran authoritarianism under the communist label, and just where did THAT end? North Europe, especially the Nordic countries, have been running under a rather misleading "social democracy" label. What they have is mixed economies, where capitalists have a lot of freedom while governments have taken care to rein them in to the extent that the general population is doing FAR better than the US population. The irony is that the US actually pioneered many, if not most of the ides Europe is using now. European countries have developed and evolved these ideas with varying success between nations, but the fact remains that European populations, especially in Norther Europe, are vastly better off than the population of the US.
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  76. US Americans keep insisting "this is not what we are", but surprise, surprise, this is EXACTLY what the US is becoming.
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  77. What is the most common description of a Trump voter/supporter on the dating market? They call themselves INCELS (Involuntary Celibates) - meaning the no sensible female wants to have anything to do with them. A truth generally acknowledged.... A woman that wants every male to "rush to open doors" etc. is a woman that does not have or even WANT any semblance of gender equality. Good for them, but why do they want to impose that world view on other women (especially the independent, self-sufficient and confident kind)? The 'Murican right-wing INCELS would have a horrible time trying to impress any independent, self-sufficient and confident Nordic woman.
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  78. I loved the phrase Hannity used: "Democratic Socialists"! Hannity's ultimate Bogeyman, someone that wants true democracy with some social values thrown in.
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  79. Dershowitz is a master of lies and misdirection: An 'Murican lawyer, educated, trained and experienced to be one! That he is a pervert with an appetite for underage females is no surprise, what is unexpected how he has maintained an appetite for such perversion well into the old age he had obviously reached when caught "with his fingers in the cookie jar". The only way to maintain such libido well into his eighties calls for really serious hormone treatment! The late Berlusconi was a famous case, and Dershowitz is a likely contender for the octogenarian perversion prize - with the aid of sexual hormone tratment. No doubt his "massage" mentioned here had "a happy ending"...
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  80. The only country in the world, besides the US, that has debt limit is Denmark. There it is so high that the only time it had to be raised was after the 2008 crash, a one-off occurrence. Sensible people - which is more than can be said about 'Murica and it's politics.
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  81. Sweden might be the only western country that the US can point to when trying to find something to hide behind when comparing miserable pandemic responses. Seeing that Sweden is NOT known for disregarding public safety and security, I think any member of the US public should not cast any stones just yet.
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  82. Elected US officials swear to uphold the US Constitution, NOT Trump, Republican Party OR Israel.
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  83. A 10 minute clip about the definition of "woke" without once mentioning any of the actual dictionary definitions? This is quite a feat!
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  84. The US has been industriously making permanent enemies among adversaries and allies alike for around 40 years! Do you REALLY think a slight and momentary gesture of humanity will change that? Repugnicans may have been the instigators of the actions that have earned this current global disgust with the US, but it will be ALL 'Muricans that will suffer this dislike and distrust for generations to come.
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  85. Just move out of the US (north or east) and you will, instantly, experience a different world.
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  86. What deranged individual decided that too-loud and useless background noise (isn't it called Muzak in 'Murica?) is a good idea in a documentary film? When you are trying to absorb information coming from someone with an accent, this deranged noise is REALLY not helpful!
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  87. In my country we jokingly call big pickup trucks, flashy sports cars and limousines "penis enhancements" or "dick extensions". Having the need to show off in this manner is considered a bit pathetic, an attempt to compensate for other deficiencies. Anyone with genuine self-esteem and confidence, man or woman, will feel equally comfortable traveling from A to B in a Toyota Aygo or a Bugatti, after all, this is only a 4-wheel conveyance conveniently used to transport you from A to B! Now, being a bloke I have to admit that driving the Bugatti would be a lot more fun than the Aygo - does that mean I might have a small dick?
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  88. I like this one: Trumptanic, the vessel on which rabid Repugnicans are fighting for the best-view deck chairs to watch their own demise.
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  89. The shame of electing an incompetent toddler like Trump for their highest office has permanently delegated the US to the dustbin of history. The problem: The US has been so influential, powerful and trend-setting for over 70 years that the change will be a devastating shock to the rest of the world. Even more devastating: The future leaders might be China or (god forbid) Putin's Russia.
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  90. Jayar mentioned "The law in 'Murica, the best in the world"? A judicial environment where WHO APPOINTED THE JUDGE seems to matter more than the actual letter of the law of the land? Pardon me if I am a bit skeptical about "the best in the world" bit". 'Muricans really need to sit back and consider what is happening to their country. Repeatedly SAYING something is the best does not cut it, especially seeing that your country is clearly falling apart around you, and all in plain sight of everyone outside 'Murica.
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  91. I cannot help feeling that the words "racist" and "racism" are being devalued by being overused. There are degrees of racism, and when these terms are continually being applied to mild or even suspected racism, their true meaning becomes diminished.
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  92. @Night xin, the USSR was never about communism, it was simply a single-party dictatorship. Putin's Russia is similarly all about a mindless oligarchy that cannot survive without Western, money-laundering banks and offshore tax-havens. With a puppet like Trump, Putin and his cronies are just trying to consolidate that situation. When (not if) Trump is kicked out of office, Putin and his cronies are in deep shit...
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  93. Exasperation must be what the vast majority of US women must feel these days, when Repugnicans want to drag the entire nation kicking and screaming back to where they were a century ago. No wonder Francesca is pissed off! So are a lot of people around the world. You 'Murican girls are not alone being disgusted with right-wingers and outright Fascists.
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  94. A silly question, I know: Why is American Football called FOOT-ball? In that particular sport, feet are only used to run like crazy, not to manipulate the ball (except in field goal attempts). Perfectly illogical!
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  95. The question was "offensive"? Aww-c'mon - 99% of US politics is absolutely offensive anyway, it's all about lying, digging up dirt, spinning and twisting statements out of context and we're even down to childish name-calling by the beloved Republican leader! Anyone that wants to even touch US politics e.g. by having opinions, let alone participating, HAS to develop a REALLY thick skin. I admire how AOC has been able to respond to offensive attacks without being offensive herself. She tends to use satire, not mud-slinging.
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  96. "He golfs a lot, he's been doing that throughout his tenure, so why bother to criticize him for that?" - what a weird attitude to have. It's like saying "Trump may have had a big role in 100K US Americans dying due to the botched Covid-19 response, but that is just Trump being Trump, not something worth bitching about"! Trump apparently HAS succeeded in normalizing sick behavior. The US is obviously going to Hell in a handbasket - and TYT is enjoying the journey!
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  97. Ana brings up a really good question (around 3:45 into this segment): "Is this the inevitable outcome of getting older?", in short: Are we going to be like this when we get older? The answer is YES! I am approaching my seventies, and I frequently catch myself bemoaning the inevitable generation gap. Do I think the problem lies with me or the young people? A bit of both, I guess. We oldies become staid and resist change, youngsters are often too impulsive and rush into changing things. The important issue is the fact that the future belongs to the younger generations. We oldies can try to advise, but we should also strive for the wisdom to know when to step out of the way and let young people get on with the future!
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  98. The fact that Trump might, in theory, be able to run for the US presidency from prison just goes to show how dysfunctional and unequal the US justice system actually is, seeing that people that have been in prison and served their time are not allowed to vote anymore! Apparently they are not allowed vote but they can run for any office they choose! If this came to pass (Trump winning the presidency from prison), the first thing he would obviously do would be to pardon himself from past and future crimes he has an will commit. How crazy is that?
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  99. This guy is about 20-30 years behind Europe - and so is the rest of the US.
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  100. If US voters are stupid enough to re-elect Trump, they truly deserve the destruction of the US. America will be mostly fine. Neither Canadian America and Mexican America will go down with the US and, ironically, Central and South American might be even be better off in the long run because US meddling is likely to go down.
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  101. Any organization that has virtually free rein to torture anyone they want to will attract sadists. The Nazi Gestapo and SS are extreme examples, but various "law enforcement agencies" in the US are prime examples of organizations where sadists really flourish to the point of having become Public Enemy No. 1! It does not matter if a majority or a minority of cops are nominally "good cops", the simple fact that the "good cops" allow the sadists to run rampant exposes them as really, Really, REALLY bad cops. Not being sadists themselves, not actually beating up or killing unfortunate citizens themselves does in no way exonerate them! The are just as guilty as the sadists are, by the simple act of tolerating the sadists as colleagues. This cannot end well, a day of reckoning WILL come, eventually.
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  102. I especially loved Francesca's line "...for my scared white people out there: It's just equality! Don't worry, no one's taking anything from you - it's just EQUALITY!"
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  103. If the US actually starts testing properly for the virus, you are in for a rude surprise. If the Trump administration manages to drag put proper testing for another week or two, you are STILL in for a rude surprise - the only difference is that in the latter scenario, you eyes will be closed until what passes for a health care system in the US collapses and you are facing stark reality.
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  104. It is hardly a matter of serious dispute that the Nordic countries are currently the most successful in providing prosperity and security to their general public while also allowing entrepreneurial people to flourish and reap the benefits of their contribution. They usually call it social democracy themselves, but in reality it is simply a mixed economy where capitalists can thrive without being allowed to screw everyone else over. Some functions are handled by the government, like the police, fire departments, health care, education and social safety nets. While we have to be ever vigilant to keep out corruption, it WORKS, period. It is astounding how the US seems to be unable to study and understand what works and what does not work in the Nordic countries, and constantly try to flip from one extreme to another. After all, almost all the ideas the Nordic countries are using - with fairly good success - were pioneered in the US at one time or another. You should NOT try to eliminate capitalism, just rein it in and make sure you have what a wise man called "compassionate capitalism".
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  105. Expectations were extremely high around the world when Obama was elected POTUS, but he failed to make the impact expected (to be fair, Repugnicans carry the majority of the blame for that, but Obama carries his fair share as well). In my mind, he became "Useless Obama"). Expectations might not be just as high this time around, but I suspect Biden will turn out to be just as much of a disappointment. 2024 will probably be Trump on steroids, with a fascist that is far smarter and slicker than Trump ever was running for office.
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  106. Is Trump a Genius Media Manipulator? Who knows - he is just traveling where no other public figure has dared to travel before. Normally, public figures care about what they say in public but Trump has absolutely no shame; He will say something outrageously stupid and untrue on camera and, 5 minutes later, he will unabashedly declare "I never said that!". The masterful part is the simple fact that the bloody stupid reporters will breathlessly chase the outrageously stupid and untrue nonsense, and waste a lot of time making fools of themselves. Meanwhile, Trump will have been in the spotlight the entire time. True, he has been is the spotlight as a lying idiot, but by simply throwing out another ridiculous stink-bomb, Trump manages to shamelessly distract from the first outrageously stupid and untrue nonsense and, through the entire process he has continued to stay in the limelight. The old adage: There is no bad press, there is just PRESS -time in the limelight! The worst part: The US public appears to be stupid enough to swallow this spiel, hook, line and sinker!
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  107. I KNOW I'm wallowing schadenfreude, but watching 'Murica destroy itself is becoming a farce!
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  108. The Obama Nobel Peace Prize was definitely premature, probably based on extremely high expectations that were never fulfilled. The apparent Trump recommendations for the Nobel Peace Prize are a farce.
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  109. Whoever will offer Trump this kind of illegal information, it will NOT be Norway!
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  110. If Ben Shapiro was able to talk even faster, it would be a great boon to humanity: He would be impossible to understand instead of being barely understandable.
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  111. Ah, the wonders of the second amendment! Having a one or more guns readily on hand enables you to open fire at the slightest provocation, consequences be damned. Repenting is something you do at leisure, sitting in your prison cell...
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  112.  @erict.watson2460 , I found John Iadarola and Jayar Jackson coming across as wallowing in the fact that the Gosar siblings have similar looks. To their credit, they acknowledge the fact that otherwise they are nothing like their deranged brother. I admit I was probably over-reacting in my comment.
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  113. It is depressing to watch 'Muricans discuss the current hopeless situation in the US, to see the resignation as they face the fact that there is no difference between hard-line Repugnicans and Corporate Democraps: Both are out to screw everyday 'Muricans mercilessly, and everyday 'Muricans are so brainwashed that they are actually about to still vote for them in the next elections! I used to use term "US Americans" to distinguish between them and e.g. Canadian Americans (the north part) and Chilean Americans (the south part), not to mention all the Americans in between, like Mexican Americans. From now on I will simply call US Americans 'Muricans. Maybe the term will become Moronicans if things progress like they have been doing - only time will tell.
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  114. An utopian idea - just imagine all the problems that would be solved in one fell swoop if we manages to gather all the warmongers, tyrants and despots of the world - along with their supporters - in a gladiator arena, armed them with what now goes for "US civilian defense weapons" (AR-15's & AK-47's)and plenty of ammunition, and let them have a go at it!
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  115. This reveals the revenge-based attitudes of many US Americans. Epstein might be a child-abusing monster, but those that revel in this kind of happenings are only one notch above Epstein ind the "monster" categorization. This kind of mindset is virtually identical to the right-wing-extremist attitude towards the "justifiable" atrocities being perpetrated against asylum seekers at the southern border. The mindset that "the ends justifies the means" is ALWAYS wrong!
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  116. No worries for AOC...
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  117. One REALLY has to wonder who is actually writing these comments for Trump. He has NEVER been able to string together a coherent sentence, let alone something as 'eloquent' as this.
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  118. It is probably a good thing if polls (reliable or not) show increasing support for Trump's republicans - that will only cause Trump supporters to become complacent AND motivate anti-Trumpsters to show up to vote.
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  119. The cheek of you 'Muricans! Who gave you leave to talk about yourself as the only Americans around, you silly sods? AMERICA is a huge continent, so huge that most of the world considers it as TWO continents, North America and South America. Some people even go a bit further and talk about the bit connecting the two continents as Central America. Only one severely ignorant nation swaggers around, pretending to be the only ones that can be called AMERICANS, totally ignoring the fact that other nations occupy the same continent. Starting in the north we have Canadian American (a sensible bunch). Skipping over the horrible bit (the US), we have Mexican America, which is still part of North-bloody-America! Every country south of Texas to the southern tip of Chile has been thoroughly corrupted by US influence, whether it is their craving for illegal drugs or the US desire to take over and exploit any natural resources available on the South-American continent. Apparently, US America seems to be bad news wherever they poke their dirty fingers...
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  120. Francesca: "Legal things confuse me" - implying that she is conforming to the Victorian-era belief that women's brains are small and will overheat if allowed to be used for any meaningful purpose... What utter nonsense! From what I have seen, she has a razor-sharp mind and will take the mickey out of anyone trying to corner her intellectually, on ANY topic! Not only that - she could do it 24/7, no overheating brains involved (except perhaps the male egos decimated in the process). For genuine right-wing 'Muricans, the fact that she is not strictly white (given her Italian complexion), Francesca must be a genuine affront! Rabid racists will happily (and stupidly) disregard the fact that her roots are one of the oldest civilizations on the planet, the foundation our current western civilization is built on.
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  121. Ainsley Earhardt is a shallow brainless blonde, with the typical selfish and greedy mindset of rabid US right-wingers.
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  122. Being black, and thus in grave danger of being gunned down at any moment, the prudent action for the student would have been to stop arguing, comply with the officer's commands to de-escalate the situation and then, when the situation was under control, get the officer's badge number and file a formal complaint - as well as going to the media.
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  123. We can only hope that AOC will, in her typical fashion, manage to turn the whole thing on the Corporates in 60 seconds. If anyone can, it will be AOC! Her brilliant initial Twitter response is only a teaser - she will ACE it! If, by any chance, her speech happens to be dropped between now and then, we simply KNOW that they have previewed it and are not ready to be humiliated.
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  124. History has shown that reluctant leaders are usually the best leaders. In that sense, AOC might become an excellent president sometime in the future future, but NOW is not the time to pester her with silly and premature questions like this.
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  125.  @de6212 , as far as I know, what 'Muricans call soccer is called Football in Europe. I guess this issue will remain one of the mysteries of our times.
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  126. Who is the most-referred-to president if the modern era? Nixon - and he is only remembered for antything good. Who will replace him eventually (and for the same reason)? Trump!
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  127. Do Repugnicans not pretend to be all about "Small Government"? Everything they are doing seems to be about INCREASING the role of governments, both State and Federal, in ever more absurd ways - the latest proposals actually allowing the authoritiesto peek below the underwear of young people. These creepy perverts are getting more innovative every day!
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  128. Only the US would think of going down this road. In my country, you receive a login code from the Tax Authorities so you can log into your personal tax account and review all the information the authorities already have. Then you can file any additional info or deductions you are entitled to before submitting your tax return. Of course you can also file an appeal if you think that is warranted. The cost? I have no idea, it is already paid for with my taxes.
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  129. John Idarola, you are saying that other countries that have government-run health care systems are faring better in this pandemic (except Italy). Isn't that some sort of blasphemy, an US American "betraying" his own country and his Beloved Orange Leader?
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  130. I feel really, Really, REALLY sorry for you ´Muricans. Your country is crumbling, mostly due to widespread ignorance and disinformation. I live in one of the 'Socialist Hellhole' Nordic countries that, when push comes to shove, are far more capitalistic than the US has been for over 40 years. At least we have genuine competition and functioning anti-trust laws that allow us to live what you wrongly are calling the "American Dream". If not for the pandemic, we would be labeling it the "European Dream" or at least the "Nordic Dream".
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  131. In Europe this process started years ago. People quickly realized the advantages: Lower energy cost, far less heat no one wants or needs and a LED will last far, far longer than the old bulbs. Incandescent bulbs are still available for special applications, bot otherwise no one really wants them. Anyone that thinks that the authorities will start raiding homes to confiscate old light bulbs is a raving idiot! Those things will burn themselves out in short order anyway.
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  132. The way US Americans keep harping on 'how could this happen in the greatest and richest nation in the history of this planet' is becoming more and more farcical. True, the US used to be all of that BUT IT NO LONGER IS! The US has been hollowed out from within for over 40 years, beginning with Reagan. The evidence has been staring you in the face for decades: You are fast becoming a third-rate country (except for your military might that has been used indiscriminately to invade other countries - mostly to make sure your military-industrial complex is kept busy and in fat profits). To top it all off, you go around, wondering why, oh WHY other nations either hate you or at least do not trust you an inch - even your current or soon-to-be former allies that have seen how fickle and unreliable the US has become.
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  133. These idiots have no idea what the actual definition of "woke" is. They probably have no idea what the word "dictionary" means either, so there you go. To them "woke" is just a bogeyman equivalent, a word they can interpret to mean whatever ugliness they can imagine. What would happen if someone showed them the accepted definition of "woke"? Absolutely nothing, they wouldn't believe it anyway!
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  134. Just a thought: If such rampant corruption has infested the SCOTUS for decades, is it realistic to expect that many lower courts have NOT been similarly corrupted even longer, not to mention any number of influential politicians in both parties?
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  135. Now it appears that the US Executive Branch is supposed to be run like a TV Reality Show, a branding exercise for Trump - and the idiot right-wingers are buying it! Trump is now, with the faithful assistance of the Republicans, trying to take the US from being a seriously flawed democracy and change it into an autocracy! 1/4 million citizens dead already, the virus spreading exponentially and the government being paralyzed since the pandemic started - and the incoming administration (that just MIGHT want to actually tackle the pandemic properly) being sidelined and neutered. Is it any wonder that the US is falling apart these days?
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  136. The first thing that comes to mind to the solve far-right extremist problem: Shoot dead every Republican in sight - but what does THAT kind of thinking make us? Repugnicans? I believe Biden is correct in his 'hands-off' policy regarding the insurrection cleanup/showdown. There are institutions that are supposed to handle crime, insurrection and treason independent of the executive or legislative branch. Simply remove the 'acting' sycophants Trump had appointed and let those institutions handle the insurrection and it's aftermath according to the letter of the law and your Constitution. I have a morbid fascination for watching the disintegration of the US currently on live TV, and am REALLY glad not to be a US citizen (I'm a native of one of the Nordic 'socialist' Hellholes that has a firm grip on the pandemic).
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  137.  D Casey , I probably will be alive, in spite of being 70 years old. You see, I do NOT live in the US - I live in a Nordic country that has tested, monitored, quarantined and treated potential cases from day one. We appear to be ahead of the situation (knock on wood). I always admired the US for what it used to be, and I feel sorry for this once-great nation sliding into an abyss of corruption. Even worse, you demise will severely affect the rest of the world...
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  138. I totally missed the "news" about what actually triggered this right-wing lunatic fringe's (RWLF) hatred of Bud Light. According to TYT, some practical joker pasted a picture of a trans woman on a single can of Bud Light and sent it to a RWLF influencer, which in turn triggered a lot of RWLFs out there. The bad news: There seems to be a lot of hair-trigger RWLFs out there, just waiting to be set off and let loose on just about anything. Smashing beer cans is rather harmless, but most of these RWLFs are bound to have an arsenal of civilian assault rifles and lots of ammunition and will, one day, be incited to go on a rampage.
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  139. Apparently, the US is waking up to a massive racial hangover from a slave-labor binge their forefathers enjoyed long before the United States were even founded!
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  140. The good news appears to be the fact that many of the Trumpzis are really stupid and easily caught. The bad news is that not all of them are this stupid, and will remain a danger to the US for decades to come.
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  141. 'Muricans need to face the fact that their vaunted judicial system is already irrevocably broken. The clearest symptom is the fact that in cases with even a whiff of politics around it, the actual letter of the law has ceased to matter, what counts is who appointed the judge! A country of law and order?
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  142. When in power, Republicans spend taxpayer money like a drunk sailor, exploding the deficit - and when the Democrats appear to be taking power, Republicans start screaming bloody murder, calling for Democrats to severely cut public spending (except military spending). They have been doing this since the Reagan era.
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  143. The attitude of Climate Deniers much like the attitude of the man that fell from a 100 story skyscraper: Passing the 50th floor, he was heard saying "So far, so good, I ain't dead yet". Of course he did not survive the landing...
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  144. Another "brilliant" Trump idea: Get rid of the nuclear arsenal by using the nukes on hurricanes. Never mind the slight side effect of turning the globe radioactive and eliminating life as we know it...
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  145. Kelly L'Offal sounds more appropriate...
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  146. Anyone that takes the word of Pfizer as gospel is an idiot and truly DESERVE to be the first to get the vaccine, just like Trump's hydroxychloroquin and injected disinfectant cure. When the FDA approves this vaccine we can NOT count on it being any good - after all, this is Trump's FDA! Only when the WHO and e.g. EU agencies give any vaccine it's blessing can we begin to trust it. Trump and his lackeys have fucked up and screwed over the credibility of virtually ALL formerly trusted institutions in the US, and it will take years, even decades for them to regain their former reputations. The Being/FAA cock-up with the B737 MAX was just an appetizer...
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  147.  Tomandtob , I totally agree - mourning the unnecessary loss of one's countryman's life is very natural, be it in war, a mass shooting or an accident. What I find hypocritical is how the media constantly revers "American lives lost" while giving the impression that other lives lost do not matter at all! Your leaders will take you into war anywhere on the globe at the drop of a hat, under the guise of defending America. True, some of the recent wars have been waged for good cause, but too many have been waged primarily to protect US corporate interests. Bear in mind that this is just my opinion, based on my own limited world view.
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  148.  Tomandtob , you are probably right that the media in every country laments their own dead while making little of other deaths (e.g. the media in Islamic countries do not lament the death of "infidels"), but I find the US media more than a bit over the top, for a western nation, when it comes to this issue while hardly mentioning the hundreds of thousands of e.g. Iraqi and Afghan civilians that have died in these conflicts. The European media do this to some extent as well, but they are not nearly as bad. I HAVE traveled quite a bit. Apart from regular traveling to many countries for my own pleasure, I spent around 2 years in a war zone in the early nineties (Angola) flying for the ICRC, as well as a year in Yemen (flying for oil companies) when they were finally mending after a long civil war between the North and the South. Now they are a disaster zone, AGAIN, even worse than before! You are right that there are absolutely no "good guys" in any conflict, and that includes the superpowers that used to have their fingers in every pie (the US and the USSR). I truly hope that you are right in that the "defend corporate interests" model has died, but the evidence says otherwise. It may be the Trumpzis that are pretending to "spread democracy" these days but, while it IS a sad joke, Trump is a very recent (and hopefully short-lived) phenomenon. The US's direct and indirect military involvement in conflicts all over the world during the last 50-60 years has sometimes been benign but frequently quite sinister, especially when dictators and despots in South America have been endlessly propped up.
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  149. What is the best that could happen? Trumps base takes him seriously and ignore all common-sense warning regarding COVID-19, become sick and DIE?
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  150. Fortunately I'm not 'Murican, because you 'Muricans are obviously going around the bend! What an ignorant bunch of ignorant and lazy idiots you are turning out to be! 1/3rd of you are supposed to be rational, but those 'Muricans must have gone into hiding - there is not a shred of rationality or common sense coming from 'Murica these days - and that goes in part for you as well, John and Francesca. It will be interesting to watch the whole 'Murican Dream collapse in the coming years. What will NOT be interesting will be watching you drag the entire Western World down into the gutter with you.
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  151. The old adage that "the only certainties in life are death and taxes" has been found to be not entirely true - the rich and powerful have found ways to make taxes mostly, if not entirely optional. Just ask Trump and Amazon. In most cases this is done by having their bought-and-paid-for politicians provide legal loopholes, in other cases by simply cheating.
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  152. John and Francesca, do you realize how Trumpian you sound when you keep talking about "American lives lost"? It is as if other lives (Canadian, Mexican or any foreign visitors currently stuck in the US) do not really matter!
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  153.  @k1dork , I strongly disagree! Anyone who questions politicians, regardless of color, is a realist.
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  154.  @terryfuldsgaming7995 , Yep - I am Icelandic, and we are NOT the socialist, communist hellhole that Trump and your other Repugnicans pretend we are. The 2 most prominent political parties here since WW2 are 1) the Conservative party (corporate Iceland in a nutshell) and 2) the Progressive party (a misnomer of biblical proportions, this is the party of grafters and schemers, the parasites of every society). These political parties have been the backbone of Icelandic politics for over 70 years, with occasional input from a now-stone-cold-dead social-democratic party. Our saving grace has been the simple fact that our far-right party (the Conservative Corporate party) would have been called Pinkie Commies in the McCarthy era and progressive democrats today. We are, like the other Nordic countries, a capitalist mixed economy with a strong social safety net (affordable health care, education and all the rest!)
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  155.  @jennyfisherman , maybe I should have used the Empire State building instead for this example, which is NOT about 9/11 but about the too-common US attitude towards climate change. Too many Americans are placidly rushing toward a radical change in life on Earth as we know it, willing to wait until they are personally affected before grudgingly doing something about it, which is bound to be too late - and definitely far more expensive.
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  156. I cannot help wondering if 'Muricans might be unnecessarily seeing racism in every corner, in every imagined slight. Sharon Osbourne's apparent racist comments went over my head. What did she say,exactly? What did she MEAN, exactly? I am patently ill-equipped to have a meaningful opinion on racial problems, having lived most of my life in a homogeneous country that is only in recent decades experiencing a significant influx of non-white immigrants. In my experience, immigrants have two arms, two legs and head with a brain fitted on top, just like we all do (not to mention whatever passion that drove them to end up seeking asylum in our incredibly inhospitable environment). The color of the immigrant's skin is absolutely, totally irrelevant - in fact I believe my somewhat inbred countrymen could use some influx of a free, permanent tan in upcoming generations, not to mention new culinary and cultural insights. In my opinion, colored immigrants have only improved my society. Long live the difference! What should I, a Nordic, think of e.g. Francesca? She has a permanent tan and brown eyes, apparently an unforgivable genetic fault according to rabid white supremacists. Virtually a Latina - heck, she's probably of Italian descent, how Latino (Roman) can you get? Latin was the original language of Roman Italy! Personally, I find her very pretty, extremely intelligent and with a killer sense of humor that will keep boredom at bay under any circumstances. A boon to any society she lives in but apparently a blight to some 'Muricans.
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  157. On the topic of Matt Gaetz: What ever happened to the apparently rock-solid case of Gaetz sexually exploiting minors? Did they REALLY manage to squash it completely? If so, why did the media fail to expose it?
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  158. Thinking that things are going the way you want = Wishful thinking. Saying things are going the way you want = Wishful talking. Wishful thinking or talking will NOT change reality.
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  159. Trump has been throwing stink bombs to distract the media form some issue or another since started running for president. The media KNOWS that these are distraction stink bombs but, like an excited puppy, they are absolutely unable NOT to follow the distraction Trump is shamelessly throwing. The US media (at least the part that is not owned by the rich and influential) has become completely dysfunctional.
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  160. Trump, moronic as he appears, is playing the media (TYT included) like a violin. He appears to have one super-talent: Knowing what buttons to push to have the media running around in circles, like a headless chicken. The media KNOWS he is distracting them but , like an excited puppy, STILL cannot help themselves running down any rabbit hole Trump digs for them.
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  161. AOC and her likes are the best hope the US has to eventually being able to become a genuine democracy again. Whether she will be allowed to fulfill that dream (the US has a disturbing history of assassinating people like AOC) remains to be seen. On the flip side, she might eventually throw up her hands in disgust and quit - the US might be beyond saving!
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  162. You have to admire AOC for her restraint towards Ted Yoho. Her response was civilized, yet cutting and subtly denigrating of male chauvinists that hide being husbands and fathers. One has to wonder what Ted Yoho's wife and daughters actually think of this whole debacle. Given his behavior, they are bound to have been oppressed for decades - there is probably ample grounds for feeling sorry for those females.
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  163. One wonders what issues Italy has that trump (pun intended) the issues the US has? Francesca would certainly be better off in the country of her ancestors than her current homeland that is swirling around the drain, just about to be flushed into the sewer. Santorum's incredibly arrogant and self-humiliating speech is a prime example of the reason why 'Murica is failing. Sadly, the vast majority of unwilling US citizens are about to be taken along for the ride, without being asked or given the opportunity to object.
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  164. Can we declare the SCOTUS being the third most overtly corrupt 'Murican institution, bested only by the two 'Murican political parties?
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  165. I have a question: Why do US women (even Emma, sometimes) tend to croak at the end of every sentence? A statement (from experience, watching friends go down that road): Regular, long-term use of weed will fry your brain! Use moderation. Finally, to us Europeans (well, Nordic citizens): Bernie Sanders is NOT a hard-core communist, he is just fighting to provide to the US population what we have had for decades! Funny thing is that the US pioneered what we have, decades ago (under Roosevelt). We just picked it up and ran with it, a little bit further, with your help. I bloody well works!
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  166. Kinda funny: The Repugnicans are terrified the Democrats will start doing what Repugnicans have been doing for decades: Make it easier for their followers to vote at all! Conservatives KNOW this is the writing on the wall for them, they have not had the support of the majority of the US public for a LONG time and realize that their only path to cling to power is by lying and cheating even more than they have been doing for years. The main difference is that the Democrats will not have to bother suppressing Repugnican support, US demographics have been changing for a long time and only Repugnican voter suppression has kept them from voting. Non-Repugnican voter apathy has played a large role in this, but Trump's shenanigans have woken up the sleeping giant. Repugnicans are correct: If anything resembling genuine voting rights are allowed in the US, they will be out of power for decades, hopefully forever!
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  167. A definition of the term "racist": Noun: A person who shows or feels discrimination or prejudice against people of other races, or who believes that a particular race is superior to another. Verb: Showing or feeling discrimination or prejudice against people of other races, or believing that a particular race is superior to another. Of course black people can be racist! It's all about "showing or feeling", not necessarily acting or doing racist things. Black people, on the other hand, probably have more cause to be racist than white people these days, given the history of the US.
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  168. I respectfully disagree. Let him run off his mouth to his heart's content. This is called finding himself a deep hole of his own doing, and being unable to stop digging!
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  169. Las Vegas's existence is probably at the extreme edge of the absurdly useless. What is it that Las Vegas contributes to the US as a society? A dumping ground for all kinds of useless vices? Any glitch in the general economy, and Las Vegas will find itself one of the first to be abandoned by visitors. A major economic glitch like the Coronavirus, and Las Vegas finds itself in the same position it was before all the glitz and glamor arrived: A bloody DESERT!
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  170. Just listen to and BELIEVE in every word that Trump, the MAGA deity utters. After all, he is known as the most consistent and truthful (and richest!) politician in 'Murican history. Have we EVER heard Trump tell a lie? Trump, the harbinger of TRUTH! What could POSSIBLY go wrong?
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  171.  D Casey , my country is not necessarily beautiful - right now we're having a blizzard, the snow is 6 feet deep, avalanche warnings are afoot and nobody is going anywhere, but in the current circumstances that is not a bad thing. Temporary isolation is nothing new to us, so we are weathering this quite well. I am actually looking forward to some fabulous skiing in a couple of days, once we have dug out our ski lifts after the storm! The sense of community we have might be what you would call "beautiful". I am 70, divorced and once I had to retire (airline pilot, put to pasture at 65) I moved in with my parents! My mother is 88, quite senile and currently hospitalized (since December 31, 2019) but coming around splendidly. My father (now 92) is a bit restless because the hospital imposed a visiting ban due to the Corona Virus pandemic, and he has not been able to visit the love of his life in over a week! Watching the wrinkly old turtledoves really gives life a deeper meaning! The best thing (by your yardstick, I imagine) is the fact that there are NO hospital or health care bills! My parents have prepaid the whole thing with a lifetime of taxes that have turned out to be no more exorbitant than what you are paying in the US.
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  172.  @Anthony-pe5dd , you already have a dumb leader that says dumb shit (along with a lot of dumb and dumb-saying followers like yourself) - what difference does another one make somewhere down the road when all is said and done?
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  173.  @allybean8885 , I imagine you are referring to e.g. Muslim Congresswoman Omar. I believe swore her oath with her hand on the Quran (or whatever they actually call what amounts to the Muslim Bible), and I imagine she took her oath more seriously than many, even most other Congresspersons. I am convinced that most members of Congress are more actually atheist than fervent believers in a higher power, which is far better than possibly letting some out-of-date and ancient scriptures come before the US Constitution.
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  174. The Trump Trucks annoying the Biden Bus is a bit silly, a bit like gnats annoying an elephant. A bus weighs A LOT more than a pickup and a tiny pickup truck is NOT able to run a bus off the road. All the bus has to do is "stand it's ground" and let the puny Repugnican pickup trucks do their worst...
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  175. Get accurate information on TV to save you and your family from the dreaded corona virus? I have been following the actions of authorities in the Western World to try to cope with the coming crisis, and they all seem at least somewhat sensible - EXCEPT the US! Trump & Co. seem to think they can bluff and lie their way out of an impending disaster. Talking up the Stock Market is more important that realistic and proven epidemic countermeasures.
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  176.  @gilmoremccoy6930  I totally agree. I imagine Obama was just as surprised as most other people, because he had not achieved much at that point. During his terms he did not achieve very much, anyway, partly because of the Corporate Democrats but mostly because of the Republicans - but expectations were extremely high at the time. Trump, however, is another story entirely.
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  177.  @katiehettinger7857 , isn't the death and suffering of the innocent called "collateral damage" and the death and suffering of opponents called "Victory"?
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  178.  r385671 , that says it all, doesn't it? I am a citizen of one of the Nordic countries and safely distanced from the nonsense currently going on in the US. I used to admire the US an everything "American", but that admiration became a bit tarnished in the sixties, when "they" started killing the Kennedys. The final blow to my admiration came when you elected Reagan. Now, all one can do is watch in morbid fascination as the main contemporary global power disintegrates before our very eyes. The terrifying bit is that while the US might go under as a democratic society in the foreseeable future, the military might is still intact and the harm THAT might do to the rest of the world during the death throes of a superpower are unimaginable.
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  179. The middle-aged blond woman in the beginning of the clip came across (in my opinion) as somewhat worried, not 'surreptitiously smiling'. One imagines that she has a middle-aged husband that might have become lacking in performance post-Covid and that might have triggered this particular line of inquiry. This unexpected potential Covid symptom might be worrisome to younger men, but for old farts like me (I'll be 71 next January) this is largely a moot point. Following my own 10-day (mild fever only) case of Covid I have not noticed any difference - but then again, I am at a rather lackluster stage in my life in this regard, anyway. No worries...
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  180.   , I specifically recommended that they move NORTH (Canada) or EAST (Europe) to experience a different world. No worries mate, no mention of Australia. Besides, the only US Americans that would WANT to listen to this advice would be the sensible ones, not the Trumpies. If this was happening in the nineteen-thirties in Germany, the Trump crowd would be clamoring to get into the SA and later the Gestapo and the SS - just the types that are now crowding into the southern US border patrol. I do not see this ending well... I am NOT a US American, I live on an island like you (Iceland). Mind you, your island is A LOT bigger than mine... And yes, I know your island is actually a continent!
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  181.  @aviacopeland2615 , silly me, I did not think about the fact that if you go far enough east you will end up in Russia. Not that the Russian nation is bad, they just have an awfully bad history with their leaders. First the Tsars, then Stalin and now they have Putin and the Oligarchs.
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  182. Gaetz and Trump probably do not care what Francesca thinks about them. After all, just look at her. She has brown eyes and a permanent tan. She is a colored person! A colored person that definitely does NOT like Trump or anything he stands for! An extermination-camp-level offense! Never mind that she is pretty, very intelligent and more eloquent that Trump or Gaetz will ever be (as well as having a killer sense of humor!) - not to mention the fact that she is apparently of Italian origin and thus has a pedigree that can be traced back to the Roman empire!
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  183. My prayers go out to Ruddy Rudy - but seeing that I am an atheist, any prayers of mine are meaningless. Persaonally, I would not shed a single tear is Rudy joins the ranks of the almost 290K US American Covid-19 fatalities.
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  184.  @hebber1961 , that is what we were led to believe. I, for one, take that with a shitload of salt.
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  185.  @nettoyagedelamaison9557  , childish nickname for a childish nation...
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  186. Well, heavily populated areas will obviously be straining their freshwater ecosystem by gross pollution, but that is NOT the end-all explanation for changes in freshwater ecosystems. I live in a country where there is almost no pollution in our inland water ecosystem. We have two main types of rivers, glacial runoff and clear water rivers. Our freshwater ecosystems have STILL undergone upheavals that remain to be explained. The main suspect is global warming and rising temperatures, but that is only a SWAG at this point in time. Consider us a reference in this study, the placebo part...
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  187. Privately I abhor monsters like Epstein and would not shed any tears if he and his cronies were to come to a sticky end, but THAT IS NOT THE POINT! Justice will never be true justice if hatred is involved. Period.
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  188.  @kaisermarxistdixie6842 , I freely admit that I have absolutely no idea, nor do I care. I have never driven a Bugatti, I will never be able to afford one and according to my current needs I am satisfied with a very compact and economic car (which indicates that I might have an adequately-sized dick). The chilling realization that I certainly might enjoy driving e.g. a Bugatti Veyron is mitigated by the fact that I will NEVER have that opportunity - nor do I want to. It is about as absurd as actually making out with someone like Heidi Klum. Get real! I actually HAVE owned a pair of serious SUV's (living at 66° north with a lot of snow in winter), but that was out of necessity, not a pissing contest.
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  189.  @kaisermarxistdixie6842 , spoken like a true 'Murican!
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  190. This apparently God-fearing right-wing religious nut obviously has limited faith in his God: If his God created males and females and wanted them to remain that way, why did He not, assuming that He is omnipotent, ensure that males born in a male body REMAIN males - and that females born in a female body remain female? So much for His omnipotence. On the flip side: Perhaps his God is simply being inscrutable and neglected to tell His believers that the gender issue is actually an intentional part of The Grand Plan. Boy, am I glad that I am an agnostic and thus free from this nonsense.
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  191. ...but they are all Repugnicans, MAGA or not!
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  192. Oh - horror of horrors: Even Emma has started to croak at the end of most sentences! What is going on with intelligent and eloquent women in the public sphere in the US?
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  193. A normal female voice is to be enjoyed - and while Abelina's voice may be high, I do have never found it annoying. A female voice in the "screeching" range is hard to bear, if only because a screeching woman usually does so because something bad is happening. About the only kind of female speech I find irritating is when some women that have perfectly nice normal voices end every sentence with a croak (like Abelina happens to do at 3:54 into this clip). Why do they do that? Are they trying to follow advice similar to Jane Lynch's by imitating male voices? Personally I find that silly.
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  194. @It's OK To Be White, not that I am condoning racism in any shape or form - it's just that when e.g. Islamophobia is labeled as as racism, these terms start to lose their meaning.
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  195. @It's OK To Be White, you have a point there. Being racist does not make one a Nazi, but being a Nazi is a strong indication that one is a racist as well.
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  196.  @gilraen789 , you are probably right - why would she be so worried about her roots showing if she WERE actually blonde? Anyway, we all know that the color of ones hair has nothing to with your intellect (or lack thereof), it's just that this ancient "dumb blonde" nonsense seemed to be the only thing that stuck to my Teflon brain at the time of the comment. But, then again, I'm just a dumb old bloke so what can you expect...
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  197.  @YellowMiss1 , if only to get it on the record how this cop behaved, in case this is regular behavior for him. Going to the media (e.g. YouTube and such) probably carries more weight in the long run, but the important thing is to draw attention of the public to this kind of problems.
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  198.  @trekgirl65 , please keep in mind that Trump is a symptom, not the actual sickness. Trump will be kicked out in November, but who will take over? A Corporate Democrat that is only slightly better than Trump. The blatant corporate corruption will continue unabated and the general US population will continue to suffer until something breaks, and breaks hard! The foundation laid by Trump and his cronies will be shamelessly exploited by whoever ends up in power, and the demise of the formerly great nation of the USA will continue. The end will be bloody, maybe not by the 300-year old example of France (by the thump of the Guillotine) but by the rattling of the semiautomatic assault weapons the US is awash with.
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  199.  @marianlincoln9008  you silly sod, OF COURSE I'm not a US citizen (nor would I ever want to be). As for being disrespectful - I guess you are correct, seeing that I have not had much respect for the US in it's current, disintegrating form for at least a couple of decades. The opposite of respect is - you got it! - disrespect. Respect, once lost, is hard to win back. The only respectable 'Americans' I see on the North-American continent are called Canadians...
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  200. For a long while I thought it a bit megalomaniac to believe that humans actually had the capacity to to all this predicted damage to the climate, but as the science and facts became more voluminous, I had to eat a lot of humble pie. I still believe (hope?) that the current predictions might a bit more dire than what will turn out to be the reality of the future, but do we REALLY want to gamble with these things? Overreacting can easily be pulled back if that proves to be the case, under-reacting will be catastrophic. We are already seeing what is probably the initial consequences of a rapid climate change - more extreme weather, the beginnings of mass migrations etc.
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  201. I suspect the only reason the Democratic Party is not going mental over this is that they are too confident they will win this election and THEN they are itching to build on and utilize what Trump has been doing: The ability to use the full power of the US government and institutions to crush any opposition in the future, much like dictators like Putin, Erdogan and Luashenko have been doing. What is the difference between Republican and Corporate Democrat politicians? Negligible, both are totally owned by big corporations and the billionaires. The big unknown is the pandemic: It has brutally exposed the inadequacy of the US system and the inequalities forced upon the citizens. This is likely to be a game-changer, the vast majority of the population is in seriously dire straits and is likely to forcibly rise up and overthrow the parasites. In a country awash with more guns than citizens, that is bound to become really messy.
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  202.  @Shadowkeeper1582 , unfortunately it will take a long time for AOC and other progressives to get many US Americans to to even begin to overcome the 40-year brainwashing that anything with the word "social" in it equals Soviet or Mao-China Communist Hell. One wonders if the phrase "physical distancing" had been used instead of "social distancing" (a blasphemous word, "social") this important tool to help control the pandemic might have been more palatable to right-wingers? Our best hope is that young US Americans are now motivated to participate by getting involved, they are generally far better informed about global affairs than their parents. The world cannot afford another destructive period like the the last 4 years, the US is so influential and important on the global stage that it would be a catastrophe.
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  203. What is needed is one or more whistleblowers to enable the authorities to obtain a search warrant for Trump's north retreat. More classified documents being found is almost a certainly.
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  204.  @JoeyFiveandDimes , you are absolutely right, you got shafted by your post-war politicians. If you want this to change, you have to roll up your sleeves and elect different politicians. I'm not trying to tell you WHO to elect, that is entirely up to you, but do NOT be spooked by the word "socialist" in this context. In most European countries, we have mixed economies that are basically capitalistic, but reined in to the extent that the public is not left out. "Social democracy" or "democratic socialism" is NOT what Republicans and Corporate Democrats call "communism".
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  205. Watching 'Murican Talking Heads discuss something like the Turkmenistan "hellhole" is hilarious. The sheer ignorance is mind-blowing. The CO2 this burning methane source is emitting is only a fraction of the greenhouse-gas effect would be if the methane was escaping without being burned. Besides that, one wonders if 'Murican talking heads should be discussing child-rearing AT ALL! The most twisted children are being raised in the US - you are DEFINITELY doing something very wrong! Finally, the NZ sheep/cockroach story really took the cake. The fact that the antipodes mentioned the cockroach as a casualty, not a perpetrator, apparently blew the 'Murican talking head minds. There is something seriously wrong in in 'Murica!
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  206. I just assume it was a joke - I just didn't get it.
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  207. I know this is irrelevant to the important issues at hand, but I just cannot help myself: What do Francesca and Trump have in common? An orange face while being pale around the eyes and neck (Francesca, go easy on the makeup, you do NOT need it!). What do Francesca and Trump NOT have in common? Francesca is pretty and intelligent while Trump is ugly, fat and dumb as a doorknob.
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  208.  Quadir Mayo  - the area where Las Vegas is now was, to the best of my knowledge, a desert. The absurdities of different federal and state laws are beyond me, but as far as I understand it, there was a legal black hole regarding gambling that the Mob used to the hilt. If not for that, Lase Vegas would still be a desert town...
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  209.  @kpopgrrl , which is why I also said "While we have to be ever vigilant to keep out corruption"
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  210. @Robert Johnson, you are correct about the inevitability of wealth inequality, which exists in the Nordic countries (and tends to be on the rise, at lest until something is done about it - spelled: "contain the inevitable corruption"). The big difference between the US and the Nordic countries is that runaway inequality is allowed in the US while it is being contained in the Nordic countries. We tend to CARE about those less well off instead of only caring about our own individual arses.
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  211. Franceska's quip "I really want to duck under this entire election season" is a classic explanation why 'Murica is rapidly going down the drain: When declared activists like Francesca cannot even be bothered to vote, the writing is on the wall! I am not 'Murican, I live in one of the "socialist" Nordic countries, and I find Franceska's attitude beyond scary!
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  212. Too right - but let's not jump the gun! AOC has everything that a future leader of the new kind has to have BUT she is still learning the basics. Old Nancy Pelosi may be past her selling date BUT her expertise in political wheeling/dealing is what non-conservative politics needs right now. She knows how to manage the next year or two and is likely to run circles around Trump and his followers. Let's hope Pelosi will be able to gracefully back out when the imminent fight is won and the right time for sensible progressives has arrived. Unfortunately it is fairly certain that "corporate" Democrats (those just as corrupt and donor-weaned as current Republicans) will try to hang on to power like barnacles to a rock. The fight for the future of the general population of the US is just beginning. If a genuine democratic and socially conscious movement does not take over, the good old US is done for. The most frightening (but not unlikely) scenario in a nation awash with military-style weapons is another civil war.
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  213. I feel African-Americans are overly sensitive about the "N-word". Given their history in 'Murica, that is understandable. What I find a bit over the top is to blow a gasket when it is not directed at an individual but used in, perhaps, a generic historic context. I really KNOW that I am not really qualified to have an opinion about this, but I DO have an opinion, hence this comment. You see, I live in a small country with relatively few dark-skinned people of African origin. Most of them speak our language and are simply "one of us". The color of their skin is irrelevant. A few do not speak the language and are just considered visitors or recent immigrants - no big deal. We have very little history of colored people and thus only the usual handful of stupid bigots are prejudiced enough to cause problems. We do, however, have a significant number of Asian immigrants (mostly from Thailand) and if they are referred to as "Asians" there is no malice in it, it just a description - like calling someone "tall" or "short"
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  214.  @flicks28 , yep - they failed miserably during the initial stages of the pandemic, especially with protecting their nursing homes, and that has stained all and any of their statistics from the start. At least they are not making any excuses and are facing the problem openly and head-on. Do not forget that Sweden is NOT a country that takes public health and safety lightly! To make mistakes is human, it is how we respond to mistakes that makes all the difference. I am absolutely certain that when this is all over, Sweden will NOT go down in history books as the "most miserable pandemic response failure" country. The US currently holds that spot, with Brazil and India as strong contenders...
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  215.  @LarrysMachineShop , post-war US was the model North-European countries are built on. We adopted all the good bits and they have served us well. Sadly, the US lost it's way when Reagan was elected president and has forgotten WHY the US was once a great nation.
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  216.  Sable Burden , what the idiots see as MANLY and STRONG in riding around in 2.5 ton trucks with their assault rifles and big fascist flags flying is rather pathetic when they try to assault something that is bigger than they are.
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  217.  Snuffcore 6 , it DID seem like the much smaller white car (a SUV?) was either trying to keep the bullies away from the bus or simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Either way, the snub-dicks are dangerous!
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  218. Well, the chopper-talk scenes with turbines-running-but-rotors-stationary is not necessarily wrong. The engines on many large helicopters can be started and run without engaging the rotor.
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  219.  @8645-l4v , a very valid point. I suspect Marine One does not have an APU, it is a very solid but ancient model, but I simply do not know. The chopper-talk setting is, however, very well suited to the Trump script: He can ignore questions he does not like (pretending he did not hear them) and he can simply walk away any time he wants to. His rambling, jumping to another subject in the middle of a sentence, is very telling. This man is not all right in the head, and he is supposed to be the leader of "the free world"! Well, apparently the "free world" is about to move ahead, leaving the US behind...
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