Comments by "Al Loomis" (@alloomis1635) on "CNN" channel.

  1. this is the man who licensed the invasion of iraq with outright lies. his presence is presumably a measure of the value of cnn.
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  2. usa has never had real democracy. being ruled by politicians is oligarchy.
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  3. they are well-paid, and the entry in the cv can be worth money. i would stand behind him for less money, except i couldn't guarantee not laughing.
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  4. there's a living to be made, in revealing some of the dark side of usa government. but it's so hard to get insurance. if you have an alternative income, be silent, and live longer.
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  5. if you lived in a democracy, you could initiate 'recall' motions and fire incompetents. but you don't, so you can't. are you ever gonna get tired of living in a backward society?
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  6. from what i've read, he sacrificed his life for egotism, celebrity, and a lot of groupies. along the way he did the world a favor. heroes are not often saints. it was two groupies who got upset and conspired to make trouble for him with swedish police. cia took it from there.
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  7. saw the beginnings of this in the 1990's, on a visit to sf. socialism, anyone?
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  8. in fact, a criminal charge has been recently announced, and presumably brit gov would hand assange to the americans without demur. removing the police may be an invitation to make private plans to escape to where? but also may be a trap. poor julian! assange knows better than most the moral caliber of the usa government and must suspect they will hold him or kill him. he may come to think 6 years in the embassy was the last good time in his life. i hope he is able to put together an effective escape plan, indeed, it should have been made years ago, but hard to be hopeful.
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  9. powell is not well-placed to talk about moral leadership. he, more than anyone else, put a 'moral' face on the war-crime of the iraq invasion. but you would be hard-pressed to find an ethical person who has participated in american government.
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  10. why is such a man the [nominal] head of your government? doesn't anyone in usa realize the constitution is obsolete? he's not the first king-for-awhile who had to be worked around, but withdrawing from the paris climate talks might make him the most disastrous.
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  11. powell started the iraq invasion on a lie. that disqualifies him from public belief.
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  12. god was not visible, irgun and stern gang very visible indeed.
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  13. what law has he broken?
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  14. your politixal system is obsolete. your intelligentsia appears inadequate to bring this to your attention. you're history.
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  15. wanna know what a plutocracy is? when money raising is the central aspect of elections. trump is gone, if - they keep biden pumped up on drugs and largely silent, and, the generals finally have their revenge for draft dodging. so what. usa remains usa. sliding down the toilet where it has been heading since establishment. you can't give the keys of the nation to the rich and not see it looted. and still the chumps never dream of running their nation for the welfare of all. indeed, they accept poverty, so long as some minority is poorer still.
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  16. no political party has morals. not many politicians, either. lies are their professional tools. people who let politicians rule them are no better. democracy is possible, but too hard for most people.
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  17. usa is going to win this war, if they have to fight to the last ukrainian. and if ww3 results, any war that makes a profit, is a good war, and if the generals get a raise in pay, hey, they delivered the profit.
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  18. i never had much regard for his 'solutions,' but now i wonder about his character.
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  19. no crossroads, there is no democracy in the federal constitution. until usans admit this, they can't get democracy.
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  20. usa is pouring money into misrepresenting the words and activities of prc. but i'm confident that cccp despises usg and is not much concerned about what they say. you should despise the usg too. failure to say as much encourages those thieves and murderers to hope that they may hold on to world hegemony.
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  21. police can be charged, now and then. time passes, the charges dropped. you can't put a cop in jail, his life in danger. maybe some white collar nature camp, but that hardly qualifies as a deterrent. there's a saying, "which way to san jose?" "hmmm. sorry, you can't get there from here." usa began badly and is doomed. but don't despair, rome was doomed for a thousand years. maybe you'll be a rome.
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  22. in an alternate reality, hilllary is in office and too busy fighting a war in iran to manage cv19. dji down even farther.
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  23. no, you can't. this is not a personal matter. chauvin was an agent of the state. in the usa similar things happen every day. sensible people would organize and get democracy, because in a democracy, the police work for the people. but it won't happen. getting democracy is hard, rioting is easy.
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  24. ay had some insight to the usa national health, and some ideas to improve things. but the political structure of the nation aimed for stasis, and ideas are not welcome. but don't romanticize him, he lost me when he turned out be another fanboy of the cia. a bit foggy about american foreign policy too.
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  25. he can be stopped, and another 4 years of trump might energize the usa to fundamental change. if there is a crash, better trump wears the blame.
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  26. selective quotes of trump create the feeling that he is smarter than his generals. they are losers, to some extent. but they didn't lose alone, political considerations limited their success. nowadays, america's 'wars' are not wars, they are optional wars, or in antique language: banditry in uniform. trump appears genuinely dim, but so did dubya. his war was a real disaster, but at least usa remains in possession of iraq. the management selection process of the usa is hopelessly obsolete, that's why it's decaying. no one in the usa seems to understand this, and that's why it's decaying also. somewhat like the last days of the austro-hungarian empire, let us hope the collapse is equally fast and smooth.
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  27. considering the quality of the american government, one can reasonably have mixed emotions about the 'on' or 'off' switch. the democratic party allowed trump to win. they threw the rust belt under the bus, into the dumpster, sublimely confident that their votes would never go to a republican candidate. they are contemptible people. they will win the next election, without making any attempt to help the poor. but the election after that will see even more 'progressives' in congress, and there will be token help extended to america's losers. but the society formed by the constitution will never be anything but a plutocracy. that was the purpose of the constitution, and it has delivered the desired result. so military coups are the likely engine of change, there is a 'peron' in america's future.
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  28. still you don't hear the truth- the constitution is responsible for trump holding office. it is obsolete.
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  29. in reality, your problem is a guy named james madison. he wrote the constitution, designed to ensure the rich ruled, and it has worked very well indeed, to that purpose. trump has two assets, enough in 2016: member of the richman's club, always useful, nearly necessary, and not a politician, uniquely useful, just this one time. the reason for that: professional politicians have run the usa so badly that a lot of people figured 'anyone but more of them.'
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  30. there was car-pooling, obviously. but no visible sign that anyone knew what they were doing, beyond the possibility of marketing selfies at the local vfw hall.
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  31. something is rotten, but that something is the system, the rotten tree, not the rotten apple. picking a man with no qualifications preferred by just under 1/2 the electorate [voting] because he was not a professional politician, should tell you something of fundamental significance about the quality of professional politicians. the fact that no one wants to go there is a good measure of the quality of the commentariat, the fact that the electorate were satisfied with the choices offered is a good measure of the national standard of education. in short, trump is america, more than abe lincoln, and all the self-satisfied lies americans tell about their society are becoming more obvious lies as the nation decays.
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  32. he ain't ridiculous. he is commander of the 2nd largest nuclear force in the world, and he is committed to separating ukraine from usa/nato. nobody with half a brain is laughing
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  33. good for bernie. but i wish he had said, "we will invite congress to institute democracy in the usa.' because you won't get what he says he wants without democracy, and when he's gone they will take back any gains he makes, without democracy.
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  34. yes, that's the difference between politics in a democracy, where talk influences referendum and initiative, and politics in an [elective] oligarchy, where talk just passes time and feeds talking heads.
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  35. the russia question is trivial. no russian national cast a vote. american media have lost interest in trump, he has become dispensable. when you consider the real problems usa has, wasting time on 'russiagate' is a measure of the degeneracy of american politics.
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  36. stalin killed many, it's true, but so did dubya.
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  37. trump is pompeo's hand puppet in foreign policy, and cia doesn't do diplomacy, just murder. you will never get a modern constitution from politicians, it would disturb their position in society. please consider the alternative.
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  38. tg has chosen to pursue a narrow and winding path to power. difficult to imagine either party would let her be president. i think the goal is to own a demographic sufficient to cement her grip in house, and later senator, or perhaps governor. she can do this as an independent. 10 to 20 years from now, she could be an independent president.
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  39. this is not trump. he is dancing on some cia string. i would guess bolton could be the puppet-master, he's nutty enough for anything.
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  40. metric? last i heard, usa has no notion of the incidence, so no notion of the death rate. business, and wages are burning. so he's going sooner, rather than later. better to ignore the unknowns than endure the knowns. if yer a politician. if he guesses right, hero. wrong- it's their fault. 'their' to be selected at the time, those 35 medical advisors better have passport and travel maps ready.
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  41. why should they? if you don't know enough to see the need for democracy, then the nation will remain the prize of the next person/group of incompetents or crooks.
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  42. reform of the usa constitution is next to impossible, but in a nation of gun nuts, there must be many who would love to bag a politician. one point for a representative, two for a senator, five for a president. extra points for difficulty, adjudicated by a panel of other gun nuts. relatively normal people could throw rotten fruit, in a junior league. but please no more whining about how bad trump is. he is your creature, american to his blow wave. if you won't act in either league, be silent in public. think of john wayne or gary cooper. did they whine? in public?
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  43. what was this russian influence? the release of facts about the clinton campaign may have changed some votes, but is this a bad thing? is the truth a bad thing? clinton didn't lose because of russia, or wikileaks, or assange. she lost by raking in money from addresses to bankers and brokers and ignoring exworkers in exdemocratic states, rust belt land.
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  44. for many years, usa did all it could to limit trade by china, or cuba, while saying, "look how poor they are, their governments are no good.' it now appears that the government of the usa is no good, and they complain bitterly about china cheating. china owes nothing to the usa, and the usa deserves any treatment they get. indeed, these complaints by the clown in the oval office probably inspire smiles around the world.
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  45. if you are too dim to get democracy, you have to expect to be exploited by whatever combination of liars and murderers combine to seize power.
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  46. nowadays, usa soldiers are mercenaries, paid to take resources and markets with gun fire. considering the pay you get and the lively possibility of death or horrible crippling and disfigurement, you can see trump's viewpoint, regarding losers and chumps. the truth is, if you are not born the son of a billionaire, in usa you are a loser, and if you play by the rules, you are a sucker. do not understand why people don't want democracy. imagine the joy of a citizen initiative, in compelling everyone to publish their financial activity, trumps would become extinct!
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  47. putin has been restrained and selective in managing this war. his soldiers, less so. he didn't want to be tsar of ukraine, just wanted a buffer between him and nato. usa/nato says 'we go where we want.' the problem for putin is, hurting ukraine causes no pain in the dc beltway. indeed, usa can offload munitions indefinitely, may even make a profit. so someday soon, vlad has to quit kicking the puppet. perhaps he could pour arms into yemen, or venezuela. maybe cuba regrets not getting the missiles still. somewhere in there usa may back off. or we move on to general war. in short, vlad has options, and very possibly he has a training program in mind, to bring some humility to the usa.
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  48. your political system is pathetic. a creature like trump should never get near power. how did it happen? not an act of god, not even a con game--- lying is part of the system. the system chugged away and here you are. not clear the alternative would be any better, and the dnc came up with an alzheimer's hack for the next one. how can he lose, right. clinton would have said the same, but. the constitution is your fundamental problem, it generates the ignorant people, the selfish richos, the venal pollies. fixing your society would be easy, for angels, no others need apply. perhaps if you advertise? "help wanted, angelic powers required?"
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  49. theintercept.com/2019/01/05/tulsi-gabbard-2020-hindu-nationalist-modi/ hindu aipac?
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  50. on the contrary, trump is very american. it's just that he is not a politician. you don't have to be a politician to be a creep, although it's head-start.
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  51. blue states should secede. shoid be easy- they pay the mercs wages.
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  52. did flynn actually come up with something useful on clinton? seems unlikely that kgb would tell him anything. but he has been useful about trump. god could certainly send trump to hell on what we know so far, but there is no god, or he can't be bothered. so prosecution will have to come from people. the usa is not a nation of laws, but of people. and the republican senate will keep trump out of trouble, maybe even when he leaves office. if america was a democracy, they would scrap the constitution, because they are not a democracy, because of the constitution. and that was what madison had in mind, a constitution out of reach of ordinary people and so making rule by the rich enduring.
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  53. the government of the usa was modeled on that of georgian britain, as closely as possible. madison thought that government was the best that humanity could devise. but he also thought that the rich should rule the usa, as the aristocracy ruled britain, so perhaps his goals and methods might not be publicly acceptable nowadays. but the rich rule still, in practice, and in private they presumably think king george 4 got it right. mattis can tell a sinking ship as well as anyone, no credit to him in leaving it. trump's fast-draw resolution of the syrian morass was out of step with the 'deep-state' government, who never saw a war they didn't want to visibly win, and seldom one they didn't want to be in. partly of course, because they were not actually in it. but the important point here, is that serious questions are being decided by one individual, hopelessly incompetent, of contemptible character and no experience. when will americans start to ask, 'maybe we need a new constitution?' because trump is there lawfully, and is obeyed as he should be. there has to be something wrong with the law, don't you agree? 'the law' is the constitution.
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  54. trump is fit to be president, the standards are low. truman, reagan and dubya did more damage than trump has, so far- and getting out of syria is probably the right call. america's problem is not trump. the constitution is obsolete, and the resulting political guild so inbred and self-satisfied that good national management is impossible. this is one of the largest factors in the decline of the american empire. another factor is the invitation of that incompetent american management to 'communist' china, to join the capitalist world trade society. it turns out the chinese are better at capitalism, presumably due to their political system. trump is not only fit, he is symptomatic of a degenerating capitalist society: predatory, no longer creative, corrupt in business and private life. he is more american than abe lincoln. calling him 'unfit' is mere embarrassment at seeing the american ethos so nakedly displayed. trump will be brought down, and likely replaced by someone who will declare war on iran, and thus prove himself 'fit' to rule the crumbling empire.
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  55. bernie is obviously the better man for america, by just about any measure. yet here he is, losing heavily on a day when lefties thought they would be locking down the nomination. since they must, they come up with new reasons to win. the rust belt should be bernie's, late california vote counting should be bernies. may be. but so what? it's still just a plurality, not a majority. and since all the remaining candidates endorse biden on the way out, even a plurality is very shaky. bernie won't be the candidate. and a good thing too. usa has a 'fate,' a confluence of disasters, a well-deserved punishment for vile character which trump so well personifies. let him carry the can.
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  56. getting out of syria might be a good thing. purely random good choice by trump, if you wish. but usa went there to turf out assad, and assad does not look like leaving.
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  57. gm might have done the same with hillary in office. but she didn't offer to bring back manufacturing jobs. she did promise to protect banks and brokers, and probably that cost her the office. it's only sensible to vote for someone who doesn't ignore you. if they deliver, you win. if they don't you break even.
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  58. Trump is a symptom, not a disease. USA society was born evil, and there is no visible struggle towards virtue.
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  59. these guys still don't understand that the system put trump in power, and will continue to put 'trumps' in power. it was designed to do so. but if you are too dim or too crooked to see the necessity for democracy, go on complaining about plutocracy. won't help, but at least you will feel better.
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  60. are you sure you want politicians to run your nation?
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  61. yer own fault: you know what democracy is, about half the states have some or all of the features of democracy. but you tolerate plutocracy in the federal government. if you had citizen initiative, you wouldn't have to shake your fist in front of a camera, to no effect. you could vote for action, and make it happen. give some thought to getting democracy- it may be easier than convincing plutocrats to give up their fossil fuel dividends.
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  62. 33% per day is exaggerated, small towns would top out quickly, as their interaction group got sick and stayed in bed. but the important part is simply this, only 1% would die, heavily loaded towards social security, so a net plus for the young ones. about 10-50% would have reduced aerobic function, but most work is sit-down jobs nowadays. really, this is just a storm in a teacup. people have to realize their place in life: if god doesn't make you really rich, then it's yer duty to beaver away for whatever wage yer betters think yer worth. and get out of the way without making a fuss.
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  63. nobody seems to think of trump as a measure of the quality of the democratic party, but he is. hillary ignored the rust-belt out-of-workers, and they bit her, unexpectedly hard. the fact is, american politicians are generally contemptible or in sanders case, ineffectual. but your problem is the constitution. you don't have democracy, you have an elective oligarchy which has always been the political agent of the elite. a plutocracy, in fact. you deserve no better. if you imagine a politician is going to look out for you like your mother, you are doomed to disappointment. you can get democracy if you demand it, but it will not be given to couch potatoes.
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  64. k3 is here to save you from the democrat party. and the republicans. c'mon, people, this guy is from method acting, and he will never offer you the fishing pole, and the fish he offers, are getting smelly.
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  65. difficult to see what crime has been committed. assange is not american. wikileaks published documents passed on from americans who had access to american secrets. he had no responsibility to usa. but he is inconvenient. if he were not in ecuadorean consulate he'd be dead. they may get him yet- britain is eager to solicit american approval and if ecuador puts him on the street he will likely fall out of an airplane over the atlantic. can't see him getting near a public courtroom.
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  66. have you forgotten dubya already?
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  67. don't laugh, yanks, read a history book recently in which a foreign tourist marveled at the complete disregard for truth or reputation in american public figures, published in 1820. personal honor has never figured highly in american culture.
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