Comments by "Fumble_ Brewski" (@fumble_brewski5410) on "Zeihan on Geopolitics" channel.

  1. "I (the LORD) will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir." - Isaiah 13:12
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  2. “Der Deutsche, der noch frei von allen slawischen oder keltischen Beimischungen ist, hat einen unverwechselbaren Charakter und wetteifert mit seinesgleichen. Wenn er mit anderen Rassen verbündet ist, gelingt es ihm immer, wenn er die nötige Geduld und Ausdauer hat, der Häuptling, der Willenslenker zu werden, wie es der Ehemann in einem Haushalt sein muss. Ich möchte die Slawen nicht kränken, aber es ist sehr wichtig zu erkennen, dass ihr Charakter viel Weibliches in sich trägt: Sie haben Charme, Intelligenz, Kunstfertigkeit, Ansprache, und oft wirken die Deutschen neben ihnen schwer und unbeholfen. Aber wir gewinnen immer, und deshalb möchte ich Ihnen sagen: Wenn Sie mit Ihren slawischen Rivalen Geschäfte machen, behalten Sie auch in Momenten der heftigsten Wut und in den kritischsten Situationen immer die tiefe Überzeugung, die tiefste, aber geheimste Überzeugung, dass Sie im Grunde ihre Vorgesetzten sind und immer sein werden.“- Otto von Bismarck (1815 - 1898) Er, der tod ist, spricht immer noch.
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  3. “Up, up and away, my beautiful, my beautiful balloon…” 🎈
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  4. I'll save Peter the trouble. As of 2020, the top 10 countries with the most Orthodox Christians are, by number: Russia, Ethiopia, Ukraine, Romania, Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria, Belarus, Egypt and Georgia. Of these, only two have a fertility rate above 2.1 children per couple--Ethiopia (4.05) and Egypt (3.24). The rest fail to meet the 2.1 children per couple necessary to provide a young enough demographic to ensure population replacement. Guess that they need to import some Christians from Africa. Cheers.
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  5. Yeah, right, a zillion miles of overhead trolley cables. Sounds like a swell idea, holmes. 😜
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  6.  @peterkratoska4524  You cannot “electrify and decarbonize” simultaneously. The electricity has to come from somewhere, and right now it’s 38% natural gas, 22% coal, 19% nuclear, 20% renewables (hydro, wind, biomass, geothermal, solar), and < 1% petroleum. The government doesn’t want any more fracking (for nat gas) or nuclear, so tell me where all this additional generating capacity is coming from. Coal? Not hardly, too polluting. And the rest of renewables just won’t reliably make up the difference. Right now California is struggling to maintain its electrical grid with EVs making up only 4% of total vehicles registered. What happens when that number increases to 50%? Your ideas are unrealistic and implausible at best.
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  7.  @peterkratoska4524  The figures I gave were for U.S. electrical power generation only, NOT for the world. And the source was the official U.S. government EIA website as of December 2021. Screw the "world"--I'm only concerned with the USA's energy situation, and the criminal efforts of the Biden administration to prevent the U.S. from becoming energy independent from Latin America, the middle east and Russia. Within hours of taking his oath of office in January 2021, Joe Biden signed an executive order canceling the permit for the Keystone XL oil and gas pipeline from Alberta to Nebraska, where it would have connected with the existing pipelines leading to the coast. It would have transported up to 830,000 barrels of heavy crude oil a day, replacing production from Latin American countries, such as Venezuela. Nice going Joe--now we're all paying for your incompetency.
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  8.  @peterkratoska4524  The United States never stopped importing energy from foreign countries, even under President Donald Trump. Both before and after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine contributed to a spike in U.S. gas prices, various Republicans bashed President Joe Biden for supposedly abandoning Trump-era “energy independence.” These Republicans have fostered the impression that the “energy independent” U.S. did not need energy from Russia and elsewhere under Trump, but then, under Biden, has been forced to buy this foreign energy once more. The truth is that the U.S. was NEVER close to genuine independence from foreign energy, even in the Trump era. Even in the supposed "golden days" of the 1950's, the U.S. still imported oil from everseas. “Energy independence” is a political phrase, not a literal phrase. Despite how Trump and others have made it sound, it does not mean the U.S. was ever going it alone. The mere fact that the U.S. has become a net exporter of LNG is NOT relevant to our energy "independence" situation. It simply reflects the fact that LNG can be sold more profitably overseas than domestically. Cheers.
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  9.  @stynnieuwenhuis9999  While diesel/electric is amenable to certain heavy duty industrial uses, such as submarines, etc., it is wholly unsuitable for POV transportation, such as is commonly used in North America.
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  10. You cannot “electrify and decarbonize” simultaneously. The electricity has to come from somewhere, and right now it’s 38% natural gas, 22% coal, 19% nuclear, 20% renewables (hydro, wind, biomass, geothermal, solar), and < 1% petroleum. The government doesn’t want any more fracking (for nat gas) or nuclear, so tell me where all this additional generating capacity is coming from. Coal? Not hardly, too polluting. And the rest of renewables just won’t reliably make up the difference. Right now California is struggling to maintain its electrical grid with EVs making up only 4% of total vehicles registered. What happens when that number increases to 50%?
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  11. "...and until somebody finds a way to convince 20% of the population to stop snorting and smoking that sh!t, order is the best we can hope for." - Josh Brolin (Matt Graver), "Sicario", 2015
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  12. “Until someone finds a way to stop 20 percent of America putting this s**t up their nose, order is the best we can hope for.” Josh Brolin - "Matt Graver", from the film "Sicario" (2015)
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  13. “The table is tilted folks. The game is rigged, and nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. Good honest hard-working people -- white collar, blue collar, it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on -- good, honest, hard-working people continue -- these are people of modest means -- continue to elect these rich ***suckers who don’t give a *** about them. They don’t give a ** about you. They don’t give a ** about you. They don't care about you at all -- at all -- at all. And nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care.” - George Carlin
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  14. Economist Eliana Cardoso pointed this out in her seminal 1992 work on inflation, which she described as “the cruelest tax.” It wipes out the savings of the middle classes and pushes many of them below the poverty line, and in the process increases inequalities in society. Compared with more affluent families, low-income households are more sensitive to even small price rises that can push them deeper into the poverty trap. As prices go up, low-income households either look to borrow more money, or resort to buying low-quality food, avoiding heating their homes, or avoiding the purchase of adequate clothing. Doncha’ just love “capitalism”? 💸
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  15. 💦👛 + 💩 🥪 = U. S. politicians.
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  16. ESG = Extremely Stupid Government.
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  17. …another loser.
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  18. If you're referring to the American politician and 2-time Democratic nominee (1952 & 1956) for President, then his name is Adlai Stevenson. "Adelaide" is the name of the capital city of South Australia. And "Stephenson" is the name of a city in Wisconsin USA. 👎
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  19. An object lesson in the perils of trying to assimilate those groups who, by nature, are NON-assimilable. In France, as Peter mentioned, it is the legacy of past colonialism. In America, it is the legacy of past ethnic slavery. In both countries, the end results are the same: self-segregation and intractable civil strife. Bonne chance France. Vous en aurez besoin.
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  20. Peter, you have your terms transposed. Trump is delusional; Biden is demented. See both terms correctly defined below: (And, no, neither man should occupy the Oval Office, IMO.) Delusional (adjective): having false or unrealistic beliefs or opinions; maintaining fixed false beliefs even when confronted with facts. (That's Trump) Demented (adjective): describing someone whose condition is characterized by progressive, persistent, severe impairment of intellectual capacity, including memory loss, confusion, and emotional instability, resulting from the loss of or damage to neurons in the brain. (That's Biden, definitely!)
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  21. "The difficulty in understanding the Russian is that we do not take cognizance of the fact that he is not a European, but an Asiatic, and therefore thinks deviously....In addition to his other Asiatic characteristics, the Russian has no regard for human life and is an all out son-of-a-bitch, barbarian, and chronic drunk." - George S. Patton
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  22. “Never trust a Russian, because Russians do not even trust themselves.” - Otto von Bismarck (Chancellor of Germany, 1871 - 1890)
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  23. "Officer Olson: Found somethin' there, Chief? Marge Gunderson: No, I just think I'm gonna barf!"
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  24. "The difficulty in understanding the Russian is that we do not take cognizance of the fact that he is not a European, but an Asiatic, and therefore thinks deviously....In addition to his other Asiatic characteristics, the Russian has no regard for human life and is an all out son-of-a-b**ch, barbarian, and chronic drunk." - Gen. George S. Patton (1945)
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  25. "The difficulty in understanding the Russian is that we do not take cognizance of the fact that he is not a European, but an Asiatic, and therefore thinks deviously....In addition to his other Asiatic characteristics, the Russian has no regard for human life and is an all out son-of-a-b**ch, barbarian, and chronic drunk." - Gen. George S. Patton (8 Aug 1945)
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  26. Xi just turned 71 this past June, so, if current demographic trends in China continue, he'll probably be alive and in control for another 10 years or so. Chairman Mao Zedong died at age 82, if that's any indication, and health care in China is much better now (especially for CCP elitists) than it was back in 1976.
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  27. “We have destroyed what could have been a good race of people (the Germans), and we are about to replace them with Mongolian savages (the Russians), and all of Europe with communism.” (— George S. Patton). Oh, how right old George was!
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  28. “We promised the Europeans freedom. It would be worse than dishonorable not to see that they have it. This might mean war with the Russians, but what of it? They have no air force, and their gasoline and ammunition supplies are low. I've seen their miserable supply trains; mostly wagons drawn by beaten up old horses or oxen. I'll say this; the Third Army alone and with damned few casualties, could lick what is left of the Russians in six weeks. You mark my words. Don't ever forget them. Someday we will have to fight them and it will take six years and cost us six million lives.” - George S. Patton
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  29. On May 5, 1943, Gen. George S. Patton wrote in a letter that some of his soldiers brought in an Arab whose donkey was carrying basket loads of mines. "I asked them why they hadn’t buried him. They said he was still alive. I said, ‘Well, go ahead and bury him,’ but they said, ‘General, he is alive.’ ‘Well,’ I said, ‘that can be corrected.’"
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  30. “The difficulty in understanding the Russian is that we do not take cognizance of the fact that he is not a European, but an Asiatic, and therefore thinks deviously. We can no more understand a Russian than a Chinaman or a Japanese, and from what I have seen of them, I have no particular desire to understand them, except to ascertain how much lead or iron it takes to kill them. In addition to his other Asiatic characteristics, the Russian has no regard for human life and is an all out son of bitch, barbarian, and chronic drunk.” - George S. Patton
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  31. Ever wonder where Grease came from? It just sorta' oozed out of Turkey.
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  32. “A horse, a horse, my Kremlin for a horse!” 🐎
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  33.  @musa7606  Try telling that to an auto worker who's struggling to make mortgage/rent payments whil putting food on the table for his family. Ever heard of what the Lord thinks about this? "...for the laborer is worthy of his wages." (Luke 10:7)
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  34.  @musa7606  You reply is totally off base. It has absolutely nothing to do with workers being fairly compensated for their labours. If that’s the best you can come up with, then your Biblical scholarship and exegesis is woefully lacking. Exo. 20:17 has to do with not desiring things that aren’t yours to covet, IOW, that which belongs to your neighbour. Fair wages belong by definition to the worker; therefore, he’s only asking for that to which he’s entitled. I seriously doubt both your sincerity and critical thinking ability.
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  35. With all of the blowhards in Washington, DC, wind is a no-brainer.
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  36. According to NATO’s first Secretary General, Lord Hastings Ismay (1952), the main purpose of forming the alliance was to, “Keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans DOWN.” Sound strategy, both then and now.
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  37. "...until somebody finds a way to convince 20% of the population to stop snorting and smoking that s**t, order's the best we can hope for." --Matt Graver (Josh Brolin), "Sicario" (2015)
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  38. Clean up on aisle Biden...:face-fuchsia-poop-shape:😆
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  39. "We’re Doomed! – DOOMED, I Tell You!"
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  40. Let them eat water.
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  41. EV’s are the greatest fraud ever perpetrated on the gullible consumer since the 17th century “Tulip Mania.” The push to convert to EV’s is the reason that prices for most industrial materials are skyrocketing: cobalt, copper, nickel, lithium, aluminum, zinc—all hitting new highs. And this doesn’t even take into account the overwhelming environmental damage caused by the extraction and refining of the same materials. BTW, where’s all the electricity coming from to support the daily recharging of EV’s? The state of California has asked EV owners to be very cautious as to when and how much to recharge theses vehicles. Seems as though no one has thought about greatly expanding the infrastructure and power grid for this boondoggle. But then, it’s all about making people feel good about themselves, right?
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  42. All we need to do to solve the "energy crisis" is to harness all the hot air coming out of Washington, DC. Et voilà, problème résolu.
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  43. Faithful friends are better than backstabbing enemies.
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  44. Czech Republic: 1999; Hungary: 1999; Poland: 1999; Bulgaria: 2004; Estonia: 2004; Latvia: 2004; Lithuania: 2004; Romania: 2004; Slovakia: 2004; Slovenia: 2004; Albania: 2009; Croatia: 2009: Montenegro: 2017; N. Macedonia: 2020. Finland and Sweden: 2023. That's 16 former Soviet and/or Soviet-aligned republics (and, in the case of Finland & Sweden, close neighbors) that joined NATO after the Cold War was (supposedly) over. And, given the current geopolitical situation, I'm sure that Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia would join also, if it were possible. See a pattern here? All of these countries have had experience with Soviet/Russian imperialism before, during and after WWII, and don't wish to repeat it again. Russia is now, has been, and will continue to be an aggressive, imperialist, expansionist nation. It's in its nature going all the way back to Catherine the Great.
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  45. I'll save you the trouble of waiting for Peter's reply. The Irish fertility rate has been steadily declining for the past 60 years, from 4.013 in 1963 to the present figure of 1.786. This pretty much mirrors the current U.S. trend for the same time period, which is now at 1.784, down from a peak of 3.582 in 1958. Interestingly, Ireland's overall population has been showing a steady annual increase of around 2% for the past 20 or so years. Either you folks are having more kids, or maybe you're having an influx of foreigners, or possibly there may be some reverse migration of Irish people returning home from overseas. Or perhaps a combination of all three. Although I'm not of Irish ancestry myself, I've always thought of Ireland as an interesting place in which to live and/or retire. I think if the Brits would ever allow the six northern counties to merge back into the Irish Republic, the future for a united Ireland would look quite bright, assuming that it remains in the EU. Ádh mór.
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  46.  @davism3800  Perhaps, time will tell.
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  47. Oh, great…think I’ll go out and buy two or three of them. BTW, my late model VW Jetta (which cost me $16K new), get 38mpg on the highway and 30 mpg overall urban/city driving. Do you think that I could recoup the $34K difference in my lifetime?
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  48. "War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society those irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate co-operation with the Government in coercing into obedience the minority groups and individuals which lack the larger herd sense." - Randolph Bourne (1918)
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  49. “The difficulty in understanding the Russian is that we do not take cognizance of the fact that he is not a European, but an Asiatic, and therefore thinks deviously...in addition to his other Asiatic characteristics, the Russian has no regard for human life and is an all out son-of-a-b***h, barbarian, and chronic drunk.” - Gen. George S. Patton (8 Aug 1945)
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  50. This entire EV craze is the biggest bill of goods that has ever been sold to the American public. How so? Non-existent (practically) recharging infrastructure; inadequate electrical grid nationwide; rare and costly materials needed to produce batteries; questionable safety record (burning up); negative environmental impact, as Peter mentioned; and astronomical pricing, unless you’re wealthy. You want one? You’re welcome to it. I won’t be trading in my reliable gasoline vehicle any time soon.
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