Comments by "dixon pinfold" (@dixonpinfold2582) on "Dad Saves America" channel.

I'm gobsmacked. The choice of Dr. Bhattacharya is too perfect and wonderful for words. This made my day.🎉🎊🥂
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Various political philosophies attract adherents by offering possibilities of sadism. If you write a book or pamphlet telling people that they can perfect or at least improve the world by abusing others, certain types of people will beat a path to your meetings. Some will be curious; others, showing up on the wrong night, will pound on the door demanding admittance.
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Most Canadians would instantly recognize the value of your closing advice. Famously, Canada's Prime Minister Peter Pan, sometimes called Justin Trudeau, was formerly a high school drama teacher. He's now — at last — one of the world's most unpopular politicians: 74% want him to resign now.
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Then we better get a move on. There's not that much sand left in the American hourglass.
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Musk is a cost-cutting Einstein. On one SpaceX mission (the Europa Clipper) he cut NASA's costs from $2bn to only $178m, saving $1.8bn. SpaceX savings to taxpayers since 2003 is in the 11-figure range (low tens of billions). Can he up his game to the $2,000bn level? Yes.
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@etcwhatever Short version: the Constitution says he is prime minister until voted out or he loses control of Parliament. Long version: As a novice politician he won a majority government in 2015. Everyone agrees it was because his father was PM from 1968 to 1984. (Many Canadians disliked the elder Trudeau thoroughly — Nixon used a remarkably obscene word for him — but overall he was popular. He was a tough and impressive person, born into wealth, exquisitely well-educated, well-rounded, accomplished from an early age.) The magic-slipper-wearing Trudeau the Younger has faced re-election twice since then, his party coming 2nd in the popular vote behind the Conservatives both times: 33, then 32%. (!) The problem is that under Canada's system the government is not necessarily formed by the leading vote-getting party, nor the one that wins the most seats in Parliament (i.e., electoral districts). Ordinarily it is, but it can also go to a coalition of 2nd- and 3rd-place parties when the most popular party fails to spread out its vote geographically and win most of the seats. Trudeau has pulled this off twice, putting together just enough seats to govern. He is supported by the turban-wearing leader of the 3rd party, who call themselves "democratic socialists." Now the Conservatives are ready to hand both of them a shellacking. But the 3rd party stands in the way. Instead of OG you could call them OW (Original Wokesters) which tells you why they'd rather do anything than force an election by withdrawing from their coalition-type agreement with the Liberals. Alas it looks like we have to wait till the fall of 2025 unless we somehow get lucky before then. Trudeau could resign rather than face obliteration at the polls, and then his Liberal replacement could call a vote quickly, but that also seems far-fetched. (Remember how there was no election in Britain when Boris Johnson resigned.) And no, there's no recourse to the Monarch. King Charles is indeed our king, but by constitutional provisions he already delegates all of his (theoretical) authority to the de facto head of state, a person called the Governor General. The GG would only step in under the very most extreme circumstances imaginable, involving not just great unpopularity but outright and extensive criminality or some sort of truly gross unconstitutionality. The King himself would only get involved if it was ten times worse even than that, which may be beyond my powers of imagination to conceive of. Not in a million years. Wait, no: maybe if Ottawa were blown off the face of the earth by a really large nuclear strike. That was too long, sorry.😂 It's gotta answer your question though.😂
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I agree with Heinlein that it's obvious, yet few people can spot it. I wonder why. It's not subtle at all.
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In the English-speaking world there are 10 or 20 big names in the fight against the West's political, cultural, social and academic calamities. Among them, Michael is the most coherent, has the most talent verbally and cognitively, and is the most competent and effective. In short, he's the best.
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@sallygreenhouse5665 Wrong, wrong & very, very wrong. Throw out everything you think you know and start all over again, because your three propositions describe yourself, not me.
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@sole__doubt I think he clearly meant for public oratory.
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Michael is very right about today's anti-humanism. Now and then I lighten up by watching some pet videos, and below them I read endless avowals that animals are divine and humans are lower than dirt. No wonder young people are depressed, anxious, don't date, don't want to have families, can't believe in a positive future, are obsessed with finding demographic groups to blame, demand that all others radically change themselves, etc., etc. They're misanthropes. They simply h8 people. Sooner or later they've got to realize that they're with humanity till the end, so they better find a way to reconcile themselves to it. They've got to realize that their only real option is to try and improve themselves. There's actually no other way of improving humanity and the world. And guess what, no sooner will they embark on that journey than their outlook on other people will brighten.
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This needs hundreds of millions of views. It's that good.
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I'm very good with your closing sentiment, but I think it's this platform with (their own version of) the Little Red Book. They know which country you're in, so the link is to a national authority in that country.
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Michael Shellenberger for president. I'm serious. He would need preparatory experience, so he should get some first. He's actually interested in entering politics. He ran for governor of California in the last election.
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Steel tariffs: Save 12,000 steelmaking jobs. Cost 250,000 other jobs. He may have been a 5x better choice than Harris and he may be stable, but he sure af ain't no genius.
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For me, free speech includes letting Michael Shellenberger finish his points. He's the best political-social-ethical-journalistic mind in America that I know of. I'd never cut him off. No way.
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Sounds like you might be saying Canada "abuses" the US.😂😂 Please confirm or deny.
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Fair take. It's a matter of threading the needle: assuring security of supply for vital products, maximizing employment and wages, maintaining consumer affordability/living standards. Tricky, necessary. No place for a crude sledgehammer method.
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I think they've woken up to reality and are acting accordingly. They've considerably raised army, navy and air force expenditures, bringing them from 1.4% of GDP pre-Ukraine-War (2021) to 2.15% this year. They say it will tick higher to 2.22% in 2026.
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@aleaiactaest8354 👎Asinus arroganter respondit.
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"Hitler Was A Socialist" <--- He never really said that. His point was more that AH's rule had quasi-socialist aspects to it, increasingly as time went on. Since he seems very forthright, I think that if he really thought AH was a socialist he would've just come out and said it. I'm quite sure he would disagree with it as a flat assertion.
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@ Ah, describing yourself some more.🙄 Accurately, no doubt, but the subject's rather tedious so I'm moving on. Buh-bye, old girl.
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@BB.halo_heir He said it partly is. But his position is that CC isn't going to be that big a deal.
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@DMAN-o2e In Cuba there are spies on every single corner. Many of the people one runs into every day spy for the government on everyone around them. I don't know how ordinary Cubans manage to live with that.
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Say a 25% tariff will cut a company's 10% net margin down to 6%. Typical company solution: 1) Take a margin hit down to 9 or 9½%. 2) Stick customers with a 15% price hike. Unit sales fall; profits are stable or tick up. Jobs lost at weak competitors which shrink or fold.
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