Comments by "dixon pinfold" (@dixonpinfold2582) on "The Rubin Report" channel.

  1. About 1.5 million votes, ~80% voted yes. đź‘Ť
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  2. The gall of CNN to wring their hands over how it's gotten! They had a leading hand in bringing all this about, most memorably in the summer of 2020.
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  3. I can only surmise that the hosts and panellists have been instructed to do more listening to dissenting opinion than they're used to doing. I know that sounds far-fetched and I certainly could be wrong, but it just might be true.
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  4. Alex Karp is 100% correct. No-limits liberals never care whether left policies work or not. To them success resides in imposing them, not in producing positive results. "Look at us, we're such good people. Admire us, love us, emulate us. Obey us."
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  5. Jon Stewart shows us why we once liked him.
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  6.  @KilgoreTroutAsf  Confessing it is a major step forward, though. Good on you. Well begun is half done.
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  7. The Jussie Smollett of gender.
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  8. World Alliance of Shoes: "Hey, stop comparing us to elite college students!"
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  9. She tried to talk over him but he wouldn't let her. Good man! That's the kind of person we need. A determined one. I love what he said a year or two ago about left ideologues: "Don't try to get these people to like you."
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  10.  @nealorr5086  Haha, exactly. I love it when people drop the word 'semantics' and think they've ended the conversation as the glorious victor. 🙄
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  11. Megyn Kelly was in her wheelhouse of the law and went full beast-mode. Thoroughly enjoyable. đź‘Źđź‘Źđź‘Ź
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  12. Tapper: "JD Vance is much more experienced at this, at public speaking." Excuse me, what?! Vance is 40, has been in the Senate for 21 months, and entered politics three years ago. Walz is 60 and has been a politician since quitting teaching to run for Congress 19 years ago.
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  13. MSNBC guy: "Elon Musk is incredibly dangerous. I fully expect him to stoop as low as we did."
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  14. Every dictator and authoritarian politician on earth, watching Ryan Reilly on MSNBC: "Yes! What he said! Yes!"
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  15. Just like her identity.
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  16. The paper ballot system was perfect. To protect its integrity, members of both parties were present at voting stations, watching those ballot boxes and the counting process like hawks. That was done, and everyone trusted the system. Then came The Great Dumbening.
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  17. Next from Goldberg: "Bank robbery isn't about stealing money, it's about crime." A nation scratches its head in wonder at her confused and pointless theories.
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  18. It may not surprise you to learn that she was married to an extremely rich real estate developer. (Their son, incidentally, is the well-known putts David Frum. And yes, I know the correct spelling of the Yiddish word 'putts.')
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  19. The neon sign outside her mind says VACANCY.
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  20. Maher thinks of himself as a top-notch political and social pundit. He's not. He's just a hack but won't face it.
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  21.  @jasondashney  It's called reducing risk. Tell me you don't avoid the worst neighborhoods at night.
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  22. Norm Macdonald: "Hypocrisy would be on like the fourth page or something."
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  23. @thaksforurip "more education than trump" Education concerns far more than time spent on a campus or degrees awarded. For one thing, I'd be careful when comparing Howard University with Fordham and Penn. Also, "Education is what's left when everything that was learned has been forgotten."—Einstein
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  24.  @vuchaser99  $50bn a day?! Uh, that's bad arithmetic. Total US govt. spending including all that stuff and everything else in 2024 was $6.75trn, or $18.5bn per day. Meanwhile total revenues were $4.9trn, indicating a deficit of $1.83trn, or $5.0bn a day.
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  25. Hey, Omar: If you say that supporting legal access to abortion isn't being pro-abortion, then you can't say that supporting legal access to firearms is being pro-gun. The hypocrisy in this one is breathtaking. Put her on the podium and give her her medal.
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  26. This has 22 likes. It needs 22k.
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  27. "Fascist" is the new "reigh-syst." You keep it handy for sprinkling onto almost every sentence, somewhat like a salt shaker. (Or hot sauce for some people: "I put that $#@& on everything!")
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  28. I strongly suspect the kids are steered subtly into not telling parents what they hear in the classroom. Teacher: "Older people hate this because of their old prejudices. They react with anger because they don't know any better." Mother to child: "What did you learn in school today?" Child: "Oh, nothing." ["You'd just freak out if I told you."]
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  29. Insufficiently restrained bullying.
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  30. "must be really bad" Nah, it's not. Covid levels are low (92nd in the world for past-7-days per-capita new infections), restrictions are light (everything open), mood not great but ok. Bad points: Vaccine passports reqd for plane and train travel, restaurants except outdoor sections, larger indoor gatherings like concerts, a couple of other spots. Vaccine mandates for many govt jobs, some jobs in govt-regulated sectors, and numerous large companies. Some vital services losing some staff to mandates but not many, as vaccination coverage is high (90% of over-11s). Anyone who says it's a nightmare or as bad as Australia has a screw loose. Govts trying to steer a middle course as people on both sides are yelling at them (and each other). Crime up somewhat (e.g. murders in Toronto (pop. 3m) 74 vs. 61 last year (early-Nov. both years). For comparison, LA (pop. 4m) 325 vs. 277, late-Oct. both years). Vaccination coverage higher than US (79% vs. 67%; doses per 100 people 156 vs. 129). New infections per million, past week: Ontario 230, Canada 447, Calif. 1,071, US 1,518. Peterson is justified in railing against the difficulty of leaving the country if unvaccinated, but then international borders are always more of a hassle than the rest of life. To me the big problem is that authoritarians have had the upper hand at times, damaging the customs surrounding individual adult choice. The media are consistently more authoritarian in spirit than the people, but that spirit has simmered down across the board whenever spread has. I feel disappointed in many ways but reassured in many others. Canada didn't lose its head. Yes, authoritarians feel emboldened and that's a serious danger, but on the other hand consciousness of individual rights is far higher too.
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  31. For my part, I don't give a crap what he thinks. He thought the Soviet Union was pretty great. What a putz.
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  32. You mean they should remain upon our beloved Earth?🤨I don't know. I think it behooves us to consider planetary exile — by catapult, inside a not-very-spacious capsule, out to the Asteroid Belt. Yes, this will strike some as harsh. To me it's a modest proposal.
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  33. He has an incredibly dull mind. He should be a junior assistant apprentice janitor intern.
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  34. It's extrajudicial punishment, which as the guest pointed out is against both the spirit and the letter of the legal system in place for 808 years.
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  35. "Don't try to get these people to like you." Omg, deafening applause: :washhands::washhands::washhands::washhands::washhands: I now realize he's actually a dissident.
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  36. ​ @MrDavidznuff  And Spain and Portugal have at last recovered only in the past few decades. It took five hundred years. But the damage inflicted before the Reconquest lives on in Latin America.
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  37.  @andyquinn7312  Mostly it has not. It's very anemic. It has fallen sharply relative to its peers. The Canadian standard of living has tumbled. This is clearly not your area of specialization.
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  38. I don't care for vapid Millennial neologisms either. But NPC is a good one. It captures the essence of someone with no agency, mind or soul, and no purpose but to behave automatically, take up space, or add numbers to one side or the other. It's like the term 'extra' from the movie business, but richer.
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  39. Beavis and Butthead: "Stop comparing us to dork ant-brains. Heh-heh. Heh-heh."
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  40. Him: A human mouth moving, but the mind of a small turnip.
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  41. Scott Jennings for Secretary of Telling People to Smarten Up For a Change!
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  42.  @rollthedice54  So? The GST (1) replaced a host of outdated and regressive other hidden taxes, (2) was revenue-neutral, (3) was accompanied by generous rebates for poor people. I see you are—and have long been—an avid consumer of pink-tinted media. Yet it may not be too late to recover, to mature into heterodoxy (i.e., picking and choosing views one by one, instead of unthinkingly as a single mass-marketed package).
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  43. Senior Democrats forced her to rewrite her speech moments before. They found out her peace plan was to send in social workers.
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  44. No, because she was born into particular groups, and that gives her a license to be a hypocrite.
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  45. Scott has a unique speaking style involving not breathing, not pausing and not altering pitch. Enjoyable.
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  46. He's not all there. I'm serious—I think he needs a psychiatric examination. Prime Minister Cringe.
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  47. Most taxes paid by any one person in history.
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  48. And it always comes from people who are themselves dripping with r-word.
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  49. Hey, now Italians are a race. 1:30 Please somebody, take one of the Rocky Mountains and stuff it in her mouth.
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  50. The peak homicide rate of 106.3 per 100k wasn't "every 10,000th person." Way, way worse.  It was every 940th person. 🤯 Anyway, I'm so glad they got their country back.
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