Fair enough……….
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I came across this just now, I think it’s very relevant:
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hmmm his lips seem out of sync. Is it out of sync too on your end? Maybe he is dubbed?
Yeah, I don’t think the production values are that high, it seems to happen a lot..
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They have a duty to present productions of quality. If the content is of world importance.
I don’t know why it is, @futureone, they have 457k subscribers, so it’s a bit of a mystery..
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Niall wrote:
…don’t know why it is, @futureone, they have 457k subscribers, so it’s a bit of a mystery..
Regardless of the sound-sync problem with this particular offering, I’ve watched many of Shahid Bolsen’s videos, and from what I recall, he seems to be an extremely intelligent, level-headed analyzer and expositor of world politics and societal issues.
And to address the title of this thread,…
…as I have suggested over and over again, in regard to “IQ45” (Trump) being a “terrorist and a traitor,” what people need to understand…
(or at least those among us who are bewildered and overwhelmed by the never-ending (ever-escalating) onslaught of insanity that is clearly destroying America from within)
…is that this recent Trump problem…
(which includes the deeper problem of the obvious blindness of both the right and the left in America)
…is the result of the “necrotizing karma” that America is now reaping from all of the imperialistic (resource-grabbing) treachery it has sown across the planet for the last seven or so decades.
Do you honestly believe that the blood of the innocent women and children that American soldiers slaughtered in the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam (as one small example),…
…hasn’t been screaming out to the universe for justice for decades now?
I, for one, keep hearing it loudly and clearly.
Furthermore, from yet another perspective, the immoral, self-centered, Ultra-Hedonist - Donald J. Trump - seems to be the perfect representative for what America has morphed into.
Indeed, a slightly altered interpretation of “The Picture of Dorian Gray” would have Trump as America’s symbolic icon, shamelessly and braggadociously touting America’s greatness and its peerless military powers,…
…while “The Picture of America” (as in what’s really happening) would show America rotting and deteriorating in direct proportion to each of Trump’s bombastic claims about it.
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I watch all of his commentaries. He covers geopolitics from a very moral standpoint, and describes things in a very realistic and down-to-earth way.
Those photos are horrible and make me want to cry. But I don’t blame you for posting them, not at all.
The Dorian Gray allegory is pretty much perfect. I think if people really saw the true picture that American imperialism had painted, they would throw up.
Trump is just a surface level symptom of a much deeper ailment.
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Seeds is right. One mistake politicians on the left have repeatedly made is to ignore the cost of unjust foreign policies. Instead we hear “It’s the economy stupid”, as though bribing Americans with economic well being is all that is necessary to appease an angry voting base. Americans are not blind to what has been done in our name around the world and simply buying ordinary people off monetarily is not going to work anymore. America must clean up its global act and as long as moderates ignore that fact, they are going to lose elections to the most insane fraudsters. The “lesser of two evils” is not going to cut it anymore. Voters are protesting their lack of good choices in the only way they know how.
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I have to applaud Marjorie Taylor Greene’s act of leaving Congress out of protest of Trump’s militarism. She hit the nail on the head.
The only reason Trump got into office is that his base was voting on “draining the swamp” and stopping all the wars going on. Swing voters probably jumped on that as well, out of desperation because Biden and Harris proved impotent at solving the Gaza and Ukraine crises. Greene jumped ship somewhat earlier than many Republicans when Trump started saber-rattling. The voting base of the right is reacting to American imperialism as well.
Unfortunately Republican representatives think that Trump’s strength is in America #1. That’s not going to last long if Trump ends up stirring up the bad karma reservoir even more. People want the swamp “drained” because our representatives are tone deaf to the last 70 years of foreign policy and think that waving the flag is all it takes to placate Trump’s voting base. Congress is full of idiots.
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I agree, Niall, those images are indeed horrible.
However, if it weren’t for the fact that they would probably be deleted, I would upload far worse photos than those.
And that’s because I think it is important that we see - up close and personal - what our government does on our behalf with our tax dollars.
I just wish there were some way of taking the mutilated and rotting bodies of all the children we’ve slaughtered over the decades and stacking them at the front doors of all of the mindless idiots who cheerlead and approve of America’s imperialistic endeavors.
The hope is that perhaps if they could see, touch, and smell what our leaders actually do to maintain America’s status as the greediest nation on Earth, then maybe (just MAYBE) they will acquire a more empathetic perspective (yeah, I know, it’s a longshot).
Here’s a general summation of America’s insatiable greed according to Google’s AI Overview…
The United States, with about 5% of the world’s population, consumes a disproportionately large share of global resources, often cited as around 25% of the world’s total resources, including significant portions of energy, minerals (like aluminum, copper, coal), and materials, while also generating a large percentage of the world’s waste.
Anyway, seeing how the front-porch stacking of the touchable, smellable, rotting corpses of the millions of children we’ve murdered over the years in our plunder of global resources is not possible,…
…I figured that the static images I provide are, at least, better than nothing.
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For anyone with an imagination and a conscience, they should be more than enough.
It is the United States economy which is full of many problems. The worse the national economy becomes domestically the more foreign wars are created as an after effect.
The two are not mutually exclusive to each other, cause and effect.
The problem is both democrat and republican, the reason nothing changes is because Wallstreet has a stranglehold on this entire nation along with the entire federal government as well.
Democrats are just as equal for complicity as republicans are. The entire political partisan divide is all bullshit.
Of course that’s often true. However, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars were created in relatively economically good times for the majority of Americans. Our government relies on war and violence to conduct foreign policy instead of diplomacy. That’s a recipe for retribution from the rest of the world and for good reason.
I’m sure that’s on the mind of voters as well. The door swings both ways. “Support our troops” and wave the flag should not cut it anymore. Voters are angry at more than just economic policy. Wars drain us and, most importantly, wars produce innocent blood in countries that are our victims and that blood goes on the hands of all of us.
Being a democracy makes us all accountable for what our government does. A dictatorship absolves ordinary citizens of complicity and makes the crimes easier for our leaders to commit if our leaders can get away with them without serious sanction from the rest of the world. A dictatorship is a convenience and excuse that mature and responsible voting citizens ought not have.
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According to Shahid, America no longer controls the world. The world is controlled by International Capitalists. The America-global-bully act sells the narrative, and all the world’s politicians are pre-selected by International Capital.
The candidates noone asked for (senile old men, hillary clinton, kamala harris) etc. is a result of this, all the world’s politicians are carefully vetted puppets. The International Capitalists are highly dependent on oil, that is why China still uses oil and why the world never innovates green energy options, even though oil does not help BRICS and only helps the petrodollar.
Not true… China has already moved lightyears beyond the West in terms of advancement, tech, and green energy.
Just because Westerners have fallen behind, and refuse to collectivize to compete, doesn’t mean every other country/peoples are doing so:
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Primitive solar panels… carpeting entire ecosystems… so green! Ha!
What a joke.
Let me know when there has been real actual progress in green energy.
Oh… so now nothing is “green” enough for you??
Whatever you can imagine, China is already doing / has done. Don’t be ignorant.
Solar panels are old tech with only 25% energy efficiency. How is that ‘green’? Its part of the Oil Narrative. Big Oil allows mediocre energy alternatives like “solar panels” as a token offering, to placate normies.
And carpeting panels all over the place obviously is harmful to ecosystems, they are robbing light from the grass and plants. And all the environmental damage from having to mine materials to build all these panels.
When I said that “there has been no world green energy innovations” i was specifically, talking about solar panels… we are still on mediocre solar panels instead of real green energy options.