Comments by "dixon pinfold" (@dixonpinfold2582) on "John Talks 2" channel.

  1. She was, though. You didn't know that?🤨 No less a moral authority than Christopher Hitchens said so.😄
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  2. In communist countries it's the regime's supporters who are targeted in 'purges,' 10x more than suspected opponents. The reason: it's enthusiastic supporters who are deemed dangerous, precisely because they don't fear the regime. And as they're dragged off in the middle of the night, never to be seen again, they always say the same thing: "No, there's been a mistake! I'm totally loyal to the Party! Ask anyone!" (Reply: "Oh, I'm sure we did. Get in the van.")
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  3. Paul Shaffer: "$95 million? I got that on me."😄
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  4.  @funkymonkeyman1000  Good lord, no it isn't. Vancouver is.
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  5. Good lord that is toopid. So at some earlier point a rich person was poor and then made just one more dollar, thereby becoming rich. Then bought a bottle of wine to celebrate, and was instantly poor again. Effortlessly toopid, my ironically-named friend.
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  6. You have to tell Americans this a hundred times before it starts to sink in. They think that being upper-class is only about money. They will allow that just winning a giant lottery prize doesn't make someone upper-class, but they can't keep going and grasp the rest of the picture. It's because they have no system of aristocratic titles and treasure the touching but half-baked idea of 'classlessness.' And just the idea of thinking it through strikes terror into them. And they get all angry.
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  7. ​ @j29maniac  I think that was well said and I am indeed against EV mandates. (I am however not entirely against things like subsidies for new EV factories and battery facilities, and tariffs on EVs from Chigh nuh, as necessary evils. Such measures leave a bad taste in my mouth but are a way of ensuring 90% of cars won't be imported by the time 2040 rolls around.)
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  8. I don't know about world-wide as in everywhere possible. I only want to see it where it respects human rights and has a strong commitment and track record on clean elections that fall on time. If all these are its attributes, then yeah. Change is needed. In the West it seems almost like governments are losing control of themselves.
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  9.  @mathieucloutier8605  You're welcome, it was a pleasure and a great honor for you.
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  10. Nuclear fusion power R & D is a good thing. Don't badmouth it.
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  11. He wants to say just the right thing so he can be Michelle Obama's running mate.🤣
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  12. "Ish"? Pls explain
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  13.  @rickshaw3397  Why not just answer? I simply don't know what that means, and I doubt most people do. Never mind what's socially appropriate, that was an inappropriate answer just from a psychological health point of view.
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  14.  @rickshaw3397  Look after yourself. Seriously, something's really off. I only asked you to define an obscure slang term.
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  15. What the heck is she doing from 40 to 43 seconds? It's like she's about to do something that's, uh, not for family viewing...
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  16. Wondering how you can back Milei by doing something concrete? And delicious? Easy. Start buying all your wine from Argentina. Viva Milei!🇦🇷 Viva Argentina!🇦🇷 Viva Malbec!🍷😆
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  17. She's neither intellectually, psychologically nor temperamentally fit to be president. Nor does she have a suitable record of achievements or executive experience. She's never, ever not had a boss. As DA she was answerable to the State AG. As AG she was answerable to the governor, as VP (a do-nothing job anyway) to Biden.
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  18. No doubt some Liberal Party-connected ad agency came up with that pos. And the contract was un-tendered and the minister signed off on it. And the ad agency owner went to school with Prime Minister Peter Pan. And the Liberal Party skimmed its share of the jackpot. One more year of this.
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  19. World Pencil Association: "Please leave pencils out of any sentence mentioning Adam Schiff. Thank you."
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  20.  @lastthingsministry  Very true, very sharp of you if I may say. Although maybe one is on shaky ground as a celeb at those heights and must really watch one's step. One false move on Mustique and Mick is on his way back to Britain or the States thoroughly chastened. I don't know, seems precarious and not bankable. Somewhere on YT, btw, there's a long documentary of a tell-all type on Margaret and Mustique, almost a bit raunchy at times, made maybe 30-40 years ago and a good piece of work. Somewhat otherworldly as I remember it. Thanks for your interesting post.
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  21. In fairness, it was an awful fate those poor student borrowers were facing. (That mayor in Minnesota, for example.) I'd say $136 billion was worth it for saving them from having to live under the tyranny of Vladimir Putin. That was the reasoning, right? 🤨Wasn't it?😠
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  22. Is it just me or did this produce some unwanted comic effects in anyone else? That honestly felt really uncomfortable.
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  23. And that men who say they feel like women should be called women.
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  24. Do they receive state funding? I don't think so. Pro-government slant doesn't make any news outlet state media. State media would be NPR, BBC, RT, People's Daily, etc. Just call them scat media.
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  25. Such a narrow little forehead on that one. Speaking of head, Pooty couldn't ask for a more perfect little servant. Come on, John, don't have such a mass-made mind.
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  26.  @poempadgett4664  😢.... 😂
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  27. It's no secret. Most export bans don't work well. A target country having good relations with any neighboring country can route most things through them. Sales of iPhones to Armenia, e.g., are now surprisingly high for a country of less than 3m people. But the intermediary country earns a mark-up for the service, so sanctions are inflationary for the target country. (Also, obviously, after-sales service, warranties, parts, and software updates can be a problem.) Of course, export sanctions are not the only sanctions. Import sanctions are far more damaging. Russia has lost hundreds of billions of dollars due to lost European gas sales and much lower prices for its oil. (It turns out that if your market shrinks because of sanctions, the remaining countries can offer you a fairly insulting low price and there's not much you can do. India and China are both laughing all the way to the bank.) Then there are sanctions related to the international financial system which are also hurting Russia. Things like this are part of why the Russian bank rate is 16% and (according to the Russian govt.) inflation is 7.4%. The year before the war, 2021, the bank rate averaged 6% and inflation was 5%. So sanctions are slow poison, not a sword thrust. This isn't news, it's always been true. Carlson isn't blowing the lid off anything. Be very, very careful taking anything Carlson says at face value. I was burned a couple of times and started checking out everything. Most of the time his story doesn't check out worth a damn. He's a sneak. As far as I'm concerned he's good on social issues and nothing else.
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  28. "It's complicated" = "You're too dimwitted to understand, so just go away"
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  29. I strongly agree. Or at least they cut his dosage. That's why they needed a week out of the spotlight, not so much for debate coaching as to calibrate the reduction. It had to yield sufficient results while permitting him to stay awake and on his feet.
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  30. Good lord, the guy clearly said first time around that people weren't paying to see him.   Anyway, the question was faulty. What we'd want to know is: Do people pay money to attend, knowing that he'll be a speaker, and does he then get a share of that money? Asking it that way would give him no wiggle room.
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  31. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Vice President Kringela Harris. Round of applause, please.😂
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  32. May 27 Leger Group poll of Canadians: "Which of the party leaders do you think would make the best prime minister?" Those responding "Trudeau"........... 🎊🎉16% 🎉🎊
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  33. Actually, defeating Putin is how to stop WWIII. It's like we're in the late 1930s again. This time we better not blow it.
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  34. Somewhere around a hundred million conservatives and Republicans side with Ukraine and support funding its continued existence. Mark my words, the next president is one of them.
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  35. Somewhere around a hundred million conservatives and Republicans side with Ukraine and support funding its continued existence. Mark my words, the next president is one of them.
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  36. In a poll, Americans identifying as Republicans said their sympathies lie 59% to 7% with Ukraine vs. Russia. (Neither: 29%. YouGov poll of 1,682 Americans, March 16-19). In fact, you have to go to MAGA Republicans only in order to find a majority wishing to see Ukraine aid reduced (51%, YouGov poll of 1,651 Americans, April 21-23). Surprised? If you are, that itself is hardly a surprise. The media simply never mention any Republican support for Ukraine — let alone for direct Ukraine aid — except for that in the Senate. It is necessary to do one's own digging. Thanks media, for helping people not know stuff!
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  37.  @McMillanScottish  So you're ok with people having no citizenship anywhere on the planet? No right to a passport of any kind? Please. Her parents, moreover, weren't passing through. They had settled in NYC.
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  38.  @WompWompWoooomp  If a child is born to Cuban parents in American airspace on a flight to Canada, and gets US citizenship by right of that, yeah, I've got a problem with that. But if a child is born in LA to Canadian parents who've immigrated to America, never sets foot in Canada, and later in life has to apply to be a US citizen, I've also got a problem with that.
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  39.  @henrylicious  Explain that acronym please.
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  40.  @CheeseOfMasters  Of course ethnicity means something. It 100% does. Just explain why someone who's never set foot in any other country than the US wouldn't correctly be entitled to US citizenship.
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  41.  @WompWompWoooomp  Birthright citizenship isn't "incredibly rare." It's the law in 21 countries with a combined population around 1.5 billion, including the US, Brazil, Germany, Italy, France, Canada, the UK, Spain, Mexico, Pakistan and Australia.
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  42.  @CheeseOfMasters  I don't see why we're talking about this. I don't like the idea of citizenship tourism at all, but her parents weren't tourists, they were immigrants.  The only reason I joined the thread in the first place is that the OC falsely claimed "she isn't even from here." Maybe find a thread somewhere on the internet where people are debating birthright citizenship. Debating it is 100% fine, no question, but only if both parties feel like it.
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  43. Your posts must be good, or they wouldn't be clipping them off at only one line visible.👍
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  44. Yeah!👍
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  45. But many of these involve planes Boeing built 10 or 20 years ago.🤨 So we need to look at the airlines. Either (1) management is scrimping on maintenance, (2) the workers doing it are from the incompetent and less intelligent later generations, or (3) they're hired because they tick boxes. (Probably all three.)
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  46. May 27 Leger poll: "Which of the party leaders do you think would make the best prime minister?" Those responding "Trudeau": ........ 🎊🎉16% 🎉🎊
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  47.  @MichaelBelsey  I consider that I've made a wrong turn in life if I even find that I'm in the same room as one.
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  48. This is the head "economic advisor" with zero education in economics. He has two degrees in social work. 🤯 Under Biden it's a mad world.
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  49. He's not my cup of tea but, in all fairness, he's a threat to the Democratic nominee. So of course the MSM media machine is spreading the hit pieces on with a trowel. I'd wager the BS content of that headline is high to very high.
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  50. He graduated with a master's in word salad from the University of Kringela Harris.
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