I don't know how you guys take live comments. Are all these people paid subscribers? I'd guess if they're paying customers then they're probably not trolls but it's still hard to believe. But many props, depending on the video, each week you have people from alternating viewpoints with the need to express disappointment in your commentary and I find that refreshing.
I remember a time when one of America's best coping mechanisms was the ability to laugh at ourselves and difficult situations. My generation, admittedly ancient, laughed at everything. When the Challenger shuttle blew up, we all told Christa Mccauliff jokes through our tears. We weren't horrible people, we just found laughter united and soothed us. Now, everyone is offended by everything. No one is talking, no one is laughing, everyone is offended. My time was better.
Enough! You both speak of an Iranian nuclear program as if it is a reality. How does Iran prove a negative. Two well read guys, yet, both lack haven read knowledge authors on the topic of Iran, think, Noam Chomsky. Could your rhetoric on Iran, your friendly-ish comments about Israel, particularly Benjamin Netanyahu (a genocidal psycho) with a tint of fear of Israel’s powers over Hollywood and other media. It is likely most writers in that industry requires approval from Israeli-run powerhouses capable to make or break deals with talented writers. Too many talents are forced to self-censor or echo bullshit to please the powers that be.
The uncharacteristic ignorance of Walter's takes with regards to Iran are incredibly conspicuous.
He starts by assuming that we're perfectly justified in denying Iran a nuclear weapon despite the facts that we're the only nation to ever actually use one and that we're covering for Israel who lies about having them. Then, he memory-holes our nuclear agreement with Iran (which Trump pulled out of for no reason other than to help justify this war for Israel) and in so doing ignores the fact that Iran is still abiding by the agreement and have the right under that agreement to enrich to 60% after we reneged. Then, he proceeds to pretend that the 60% enrichment is evidence Iran is attempting to make a nuclear weapon despite the fact that it is widely understood to have been a negotiating tactic, giving themselves something to negotiate away. Next, he pretends that the 60-day warning about negotiations from Trump was legitimate and that we were negotiating in good faith as apposed to the truth which is that we had poison-pilled the negotiations with a completely unjustifiable demand that Iran perform no enrichment what-so-ever. Then, he pretends that our intelligence services wouldn't know if Iran was building a nuclear weapon (despite IAEA inspections) because of their "bad track record", completely ignoring the fact that our intelligence services knew there weren't WMDs in Iraq and that the entire Iraq war was waged under false pretenses, EXACTLY LIKE THIS IRAN ATTACK! And finally, for the coup-de-grace, he basically claims that none of this matters because Iran can't do anything to us anyway and they didn't do anything when we killed Soleimani. As though that was just a risk-free foregone conclusion and there are no other effects like precedent, or encouraging nations to get a nuclear weapon to avoid this kind of bullying, or degrading our world standing, or tax-payer expense, or general morality.
Frankly, I find it implausible that Walter is so profoundly uninformed/misinformed on just this one issue. If I had to guess I'd chalk it up to either copium, TDSDS (any Trump criticism must be overblown), or residual Boomer anti-Muslim racism.
Also, with regards to the straw man that commenters were complaining about your gallows humor... the only humor-related complaints I saw in the last episode's comment section were directed at Matt's reaction to Israel bombing a news station.
Iran has been threatening us for decades now.. Death to America. Death to America and they’ve been working fervently to create a nuclear arsenal to carry out those repeated threats.
This is most similar to a man sitting across the street with a rifle and saying he’s going to kill you and everyone you know while He Loads the Rifle..
Are you just going to sit there and watch Him continue to load to the very last round? Or do you take away the weapon and the ammo?
Trump Hadthe balls To take his weapon.. The first president to do it..
Something I haven't heard anyone discuss is Cruze’s comments near the end of the Tucker interview about the sanctions on Russia prior to their invasion of Ukraine. He basically said that the US was trying to push Russia out as an energy provider to Europe. Maybe it's old news but a very important detail to that whole mess.
Gents, good job on the attack on the nuclear sites in Iran. Illegitimati non carborundum. The strange thing about our current media-based era is nobody starts from American patriotism and unity, then argues from that premise. We should demand this, over and over. Hines and Schiff, neither of whom is a leader who starts from that premise (perhaps because they can’t accept the result of the last election and therefore can’t rationally start that way), have made themselves irrelevant to those of us who do.
I'm getting used to the distribution of Monday livestreams as recordings. Anyhow, thanks for giving us viewing options that let us shun YouTube! I suppose you have no instructions on what you might prefer between Substack and Rumble, so I'm on my own. (I'll watch live on Substack; recorded on Rumble--as long as I know what day it is. Thank you!!
Jesus, you two are having a time of it. Better you than me. Except for the literary part of what you do, which is priceless and one of the best segments on any show anywhere, I sense a struggle to resist the urge to drop-kick most of your audience into the nosebleed seats.
It’s a remote possibility that I may be one of those annoying pests, despite my admiration for you both. Walter has already shunned me on X for a perceived slight I still have trouble remembering as an actual criticism. I would love the chance to go over that with him and apologize, but won’t lose sleep in the meantime. Life is short, and what’s left of mine is even shorter.
Regardless, I have a perspective that aligns intellectually and morally with both of yours, but which includes a couple of wrinkles. I especially agree that it’s not wrong or dumb to keep your enemy from being able to do to you what you’ve done to others. It is not wrong to attempt to destroy anyone’s capability to launch an apocalyptic weapon. It is not wrong to plot and carry out actions against entities who want you and yours obliterated.
But where I go further is in positing that “we,” as in the American/British-led global capitalist empire, is actually responsible for the entire geopolitical morass in which we are mired today. What I do not do, however, is assume as others mistakenly do that that empire is necessarily “evil” and should be violently “resisted.” I suspect that there have been damn good existential reasons for keeping nations divided and conquered, and for championing the goals of Western civilization, as opposed to the harsh paradigms coming out of Asia and other quarters of the globe. I do think “we” can do a hell of a lot better. Anyway, carry on, and try not to kill yourselves like some of our other heroes did.
Some men are still cavalier about tossing around suicide as a joke. I'm with it!
I remember as a girl child 1960s, repeating the phase, "Ack, I'm going to kill myself!" No therapy, no therapy jar, just an outlet of a pre-adolescent moment. Therapy jars came a little later...70s, I think.
I don't know how you guys take live comments. Are all these people paid subscribers? I'd guess if they're paying customers then they're probably not trolls but it's still hard to believe. But many props, depending on the video, each week you have people from alternating viewpoints with the need to express disappointment in your commentary and I find that refreshing.
I remember a time when one of America's best coping mechanisms was the ability to laugh at ourselves and difficult situations. My generation, admittedly ancient, laughed at everything. When the Challenger shuttle blew up, we all told Christa Mccauliff jokes through our tears. We weren't horrible people, we just found laughter united and soothed us. Now, everyone is offended by everything. No one is talking, no one is laughing, everyone is offended. My time was better.
Enough! You both speak of an Iranian nuclear program as if it is a reality. How does Iran prove a negative. Two well read guys, yet, both lack haven read knowledge authors on the topic of Iran, think, Noam Chomsky. Could your rhetoric on Iran, your friendly-ish comments about Israel, particularly Benjamin Netanyahu (a genocidal psycho) with a tint of fear of Israel’s powers over Hollywood and other media. It is likely most writers in that industry requires approval from Israeli-run powerhouses capable to make or break deals with talented writers. Too many talents are forced to self-censor or echo bullshit to please the powers that be.
The uncharacteristic ignorance of Walter's takes with regards to Iran are incredibly conspicuous.
He starts by assuming that we're perfectly justified in denying Iran a nuclear weapon despite the facts that we're the only nation to ever actually use one and that we're covering for Israel who lies about having them. Then, he memory-holes our nuclear agreement with Iran (which Trump pulled out of for no reason other than to help justify this war for Israel) and in so doing ignores the fact that Iran is still abiding by the agreement and have the right under that agreement to enrich to 60% after we reneged. Then, he proceeds to pretend that the 60% enrichment is evidence Iran is attempting to make a nuclear weapon despite the fact that it is widely understood to have been a negotiating tactic, giving themselves something to negotiate away. Next, he pretends that the 60-day warning about negotiations from Trump was legitimate and that we were negotiating in good faith as apposed to the truth which is that we had poison-pilled the negotiations with a completely unjustifiable demand that Iran perform no enrichment what-so-ever. Then, he pretends that our intelligence services wouldn't know if Iran was building a nuclear weapon (despite IAEA inspections) because of their "bad track record", completely ignoring the fact that our intelligence services knew there weren't WMDs in Iraq and that the entire Iraq war was waged under false pretenses, EXACTLY LIKE THIS IRAN ATTACK! And finally, for the coup-de-grace, he basically claims that none of this matters because Iran can't do anything to us anyway and they didn't do anything when we killed Soleimani. As though that was just a risk-free foregone conclusion and there are no other effects like precedent, or encouraging nations to get a nuclear weapon to avoid this kind of bullying, or degrading our world standing, or tax-payer expense, or general morality.
Dave Smith points out the utter idiocy of this argument better than I could hope to: https://youtu.be/uEnAIgbkDZ8?t=560
Frankly, I find it implausible that Walter is so profoundly uninformed/misinformed on just this one issue. If I had to guess I'd chalk it up to either copium, TDSDS (any Trump criticism must be overblown), or residual Boomer anti-Muslim racism.
Also, with regards to the straw man that commenters were complaining about your gallows humor... the only humor-related complaints I saw in the last episode's comment section were directed at Matt's reaction to Israel bombing a news station.
Iran has been threatening us for decades now.. Death to America. Death to America and they’ve been working fervently to create a nuclear arsenal to carry out those repeated threats.
This is most similar to a man sitting across the street with a rifle and saying he’s going to kill you and everyone you know while He Loads the Rifle..
Are you just going to sit there and watch Him continue to load to the very last round? Or do you take away the weapon and the ammo?
Trump Hadthe balls To take his weapon.. The first president to do it..
This may be the most retardedly backwards comment I've ever seen.
Something I haven't heard anyone discuss is Cruze’s comments near the end of the Tucker interview about the sanctions on Russia prior to their invasion of Ukraine. He basically said that the US was trying to push Russia out as an energy provider to Europe. Maybe it's old news but a very important detail to that whole mess.
"Operation Throbbing Manshaft" - Oooh. I don't find actual war funny, but, I love you guys.
Gents, good job on the attack on the nuclear sites in Iran. Illegitimati non carborundum. The strange thing about our current media-based era is nobody starts from American patriotism and unity, then argues from that premise. We should demand this, over and over. Hines and Schiff, neither of whom is a leader who starts from that premise (perhaps because they can’t accept the result of the last election and therefore can’t rationally start that way), have made themselves irrelevant to those of us who do.
Fuck this traitorous piece of shit.
I'm getting used to the distribution of Monday livestreams as recordings. Anyhow, thanks for giving us viewing options that let us shun YouTube! I suppose you have no instructions on what you might prefer between Substack and Rumble, so I'm on my own. (I'll watch live on Substack; recorded on Rumble--as long as I know what day it is. Thank you!!
Jesus, you two are having a time of it. Better you than me. Except for the literary part of what you do, which is priceless and one of the best segments on any show anywhere, I sense a struggle to resist the urge to drop-kick most of your audience into the nosebleed seats.
It’s a remote possibility that I may be one of those annoying pests, despite my admiration for you both. Walter has already shunned me on X for a perceived slight I still have trouble remembering as an actual criticism. I would love the chance to go over that with him and apologize, but won’t lose sleep in the meantime. Life is short, and what’s left of mine is even shorter.
Regardless, I have a perspective that aligns intellectually and morally with both of yours, but which includes a couple of wrinkles. I especially agree that it’s not wrong or dumb to keep your enemy from being able to do to you what you’ve done to others. It is not wrong to attempt to destroy anyone’s capability to launch an apocalyptic weapon. It is not wrong to plot and carry out actions against entities who want you and yours obliterated.
But where I go further is in positing that “we,” as in the American/British-led global capitalist empire, is actually responsible for the entire geopolitical morass in which we are mired today. What I do not do, however, is assume as others mistakenly do that that empire is necessarily “evil” and should be violently “resisted.” I suspect that there have been damn good existential reasons for keeping nations divided and conquered, and for championing the goals of Western civilization, as opposed to the harsh paradigms coming out of Asia and other quarters of the globe. I do think “we” can do a hell of a lot better. Anyway, carry on, and try not to kill yourselves like some of our other heroes did.
https://biffogram.substack.com/p/take-me-to-your-leader-oh-wait-never
Some men are still cavalier about tossing around suicide as a joke. I'm with it!
I remember as a girl child 1960s, repeating the phase, "Ack, I'm going to kill myself!" No therapy, no therapy jar, just an outlet of a pre-adolescent moment. Therapy jars came a little later...70s, I think.