Megyn Kelly graduated from the same High School as my children. They turned out to be completely different people. I am extremely proud of my daughters. Megyn Kelly? Not so much.
If you watch Megyn's interview with Putin - the RAW interview, the entire thing, and not the edited version - you will see a psychopath. The eyes are cold and mostly devoid of expression. Like a shark's eyes.
Putin's eyes, on the other hand, are filled with emotion which he is struggling to control, using all his wisdom from his martial arts and KGB training.
I first became aware of Putin in 2016, when Hillary Clinton began her ridiculous accusations that Russians had cheated her out of the election.
What I saw was a man who is smart, well-informed, serious, and dedicated to his job, which is being the president of the largest country on the planet.
He never lost his temper, never said anything embarrassing to himself or his country, and always spoke honestly.
The contrast between what Russia has and what Americans think is acceptable for candidates for the presidency was striking. Unavoidable.
I would rather have Putin for president any day. It's a silly joke to refer to "Russia" as the ultimate hell hole when we're living in the ultimate hell hole here in the US.
You should see the new Subway in Moscow and compare it to anything in the USA. China is a country where the ruling government is made up of Engineers "Xi being a Chemical Engineer" and the country looks like it with breathtaking infrastructure and homes for all. Compare to the USA where the ruling government is made up of lawyers and financial with decaying infrastructure and cities from hell as the ruling classes exploit at home and abroad while producing nothing..
Or St. Petersburg. I lived there for two years and the subways are literally opulent. There is no comparison to the decaying, rusting, filthy NY subway system.
I know. The propaganda about both China and Russia is disgusting.
I was impressed with President(?) Xi getting rid of deep poverty in the provinces. I have heard of the beautiful metro stations in Russia.
I grew up in the 1950s, when Sen. Joe McCarthy was doing his thing, and even though he was exposed and defeated, the damage he has done is still with us. All of the same things are still being said 60 years later.
How are we going to change people's minds? Caitlin Johnstone said that the Left will never achieve their goals until they confront the establishment propaganda. I think that the propaganda tells Americans that capitalism is the best economic system ever devised by man. Maybe that's the place to start.
If you're not familiar with Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), you might want to learn it. They explain how the US Monetary system really works.
I'm surprised your work draws some of the very kind of stupid racists you expose and condemn, Scott. Or perhaps they're bots, or paid plants. In any case, well done. The sad fact is that America is, and always has been, predominantly stupid racist. The difference now is that behind the vicious sickness of our detestable President, they feel able to show, in public, what they have always been in private. I don't believe this reality is reformable.
Thank you for the work you have been doing from your efforts as a weapons inspector in Iraq to your current advocacy against the endless wars and regime change operations of the United States of America.
"Alex’s crime was to stand up for the right’s of those less fortunate that him.
Of those who did not share his ethnicity.
Those who did not share his citizenship."
So are you advocating open boarders? Freeloading illegals? Soros paid for protestors? What happened to Alex is a tragedy, but also an individual act of stupidity. Like driving drunk. Carry a weapon into a highly emotionally energized event is top level Darwin Award entry ticket. I could see the same thing happen to an illegal in Russia, with a gun, fighting with authorities.
The same people that know the media is lying about Ukraine, covid, Iraq
Etc
Etc
All of a sudden take the same media at their word about Minneapolis?
ICE has been working perfectly fine with no deaths in other cities but absolutely no curiosity about what is different about THIS city? Not the billions in fraud from the highest levels? Those same people who are coordinating the signal “insurrection”?
And besides doesn’t the USA get to determine who is and isn’t allowed in their country? I can’t go and squat in Israel just because I want to (a nice thought given how cold it is here today).
Or Mexico or the Turks and Caicos☀️
You either have a country with laws and borders or you don’t
A beautiful piece Scott, the way you interspersed the verse made it profound. And boy did you drag the exceptionalism citizens out of their closets to display their ignorance and arrogance clothed in white supremist dialogue. 🙏🙏🙏🙏
It's not rocket science Scott. Just don’t do and import fentanyl, run over or fight ICE agents & attack and set fire to people on the subway. Don't murder and rape women in parks. How fortunate that there are still some people in government who respect the laws... as opposed to kicking laws to the curb as in previous administrations.
So like a number of Democrat officials today George Wallace, actively used constitutional arguments to oppose federal desegregation efforts, framing them as defenses of states' rights and constitutional order. He argued for limited federal power, claiming federal action in school segregation violated the 10th Amendment and threatened individual property rights. Sounds suspiciously like what is happening today but this time dems are protecting criminals not their racist prerogatives.
Perhaps you do not know that the government is more than the executive branch and even the other two... there is mammpth unaccountable bureacrrzi that's been running the show for years.
Scott Ritter's latest ('Mondays Suck'). One of the (sadly) All-to-Few, remaining sentient, sage, and scholarly, not only Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity in what once constituted Pax Americana, but just as redoubtably robust and resolute as a counter-measure faithful fulcrum, in the present-day, de facto, sick society which now has metastasized into a malignant, machiavellian, and indeed, moribund and iniquitously-invested, idiotically-presided-over, imperium, but the unquenchable and conscionable counsel, and indefatigable inculcation of this modern-day marvel of a real-life veritable superhero, offers hope to all of those whose Founding Fathers Social Contract with the institutions of state has been cast to the four winds !
Scott, I have to disagree with you here. The impetus for these demonstrations is to preserve a system of high rents and low wages which mass illegal immigration continually fosters. It would be nicer and more worthy of support if similar mass gatherings werer held for something like national healtch care, or affordable housing, or decent wages or trade union rights or at least something worth a whit that benefits the fast majority of workers in this country. But, no, we don't make anything in this country any longer so a particularly virile form of parasitic capitalism -- real estate speculation -- has replaced our once tried and true manufacutring base. I was hoping that you of all people would recognize and appreciate this.
It's hard to argue in defense of ICE who, as they say, are "just following orders." My point is directed against the usual suspects who show up in our country garbed as well heeled "white middle class" liberals grousing about issues closer to the hearts of wealthy donors than to the needs of their communities. Workers of all backgrounds and legal status are the ones getting screwed by the immigration politicies supported by "both" political parties contributing directly to the affordability "crisis" currently plaguing us.
If you watch Megyn's interview with Putin - the RAW interview, the entire thing, and not the edited version - you will see a psychopath. The eyes are cold and mostly devoid of expression. Like a shark's eyes.
Putin's eyes, on the other hand, are filled with emotion which he is struggling to control, using all his wisdom from his martial arts and KGB training.
I first became aware of Putin in 2016, when Hillary Clinton began her ridiculous accusations that Russians had cheated her out of the election.
What I saw was a man who is smart, well-informed, serious, and dedicated to his job, which is being the president of the largest country on the planet.
He never lost his temper, never said anything embarrassing to himself or his country, and always spoke honestly.
The contrast between what Russia has and what Americans think is acceptable for candidates for the presidency was striking. Unavoidable.
I would rather have Putin for president any day. It's a silly joke to refer to "Russia" as the ultimate hell hole when we're living in the ultimate hell hole here in the US.
You should see the new Subway in Moscow and compare it to anything in the USA. China is a country where the ruling government is made up of Engineers "Xi being a Chemical Engineer" and the country looks like it with breathtaking infrastructure and homes for all. Compare to the USA where the ruling government is made up of lawyers and financial with decaying infrastructure and cities from hell as the ruling classes exploit at home and abroad while producing nothing..
Or St. Petersburg. I lived there for two years and the subways are literally opulent. There is no comparison to the decaying, rusting, filthy NY subway system.
I know. The propaganda about both China and Russia is disgusting.
I was impressed with President(?) Xi getting rid of deep poverty in the provinces. I have heard of the beautiful metro stations in Russia.
I grew up in the 1950s, when Sen. Joe McCarthy was doing his thing, and even though he was exposed and defeated, the damage he has done is still with us. All of the same things are still being said 60 years later.
How are we going to change people's minds? Caitlin Johnstone said that the Left will never achieve their goals until they confront the establishment propaganda. I think that the propaganda tells Americans that capitalism is the best economic system ever devised by man. Maybe that's the place to start.
If you're not familiar with Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), you might want to learn it. They explain how the US Monetary system really works.
Totally agree Susan and well said. I lived in the USSR during its collapse and now it looks like the US will collapse too.
I'm surprised your work draws some of the very kind of stupid racists you expose and condemn, Scott. Or perhaps they're bots, or paid plants. In any case, well done. The sad fact is that America is, and always has been, predominantly stupid racist. The difference now is that behind the vicious sickness of our detestable President, they feel able to show, in public, what they have always been in private. I don't believe this reality is reformable.
“In short, Alex Pretti was confronting what amounted to an illegal occupation of Minneapolis by armed federal agents”
Confronting them with a concealed weapon and ammo. MinniCrapolus isn’t and independent state, its part of the decrepit US , so it can’t be “occupied”.
In addition:
1. Not his job
2. FAFO
3. The US apparently executed a Zionist. A first for the US, certainly not intentional.
4. Your thug government is just doing to a few leftist loonies, what it does to the rest of the world 24/7 and has done for decades
5. Karma. You inflict violence on the rest of the world , guess what
6. Rest of the world: more popcorn.
What is this idiot's point, if any?
BINGO! Matt Taibbi has gone the same way with the majority of posters being knuckle dragging philistines
Thank you for the work you have been doing from your efforts as a weapons inspector in Iraq to your current advocacy against the endless wars and regime change operations of the United States of America.
I didnt need or want to review a single shred of Kellys sordid boastful past.
The whole world heard her say despicable shameful things trying to whitewash ICE's recent murder in Minneapolis.
Keep fighting, buddy. Semper Fi...
"Alex’s crime was to stand up for the right’s of those less fortunate that him.
Of those who did not share his ethnicity.
Those who did not share his citizenship."
So are you advocating open boarders? Freeloading illegals? Soros paid for protestors? What happened to Alex is a tragedy, but also an individual act of stupidity. Like driving drunk. Carry a weapon into a highly emotionally energized event is top level Darwin Award entry ticket. I could see the same thing happen to an illegal in Russia, with a gun, fighting with authorities.
I’m advocating the Constitution.
If the government can’t operate within the four corners of that document, it shouldn’t operate.
Why mention Russia?
Why not reference this event with how the IDF operate in Israel?
The same people that know the media is lying about Ukraine, covid, Iraq
Etc
Etc
All of a sudden take the same media at their word about Minneapolis?
ICE has been working perfectly fine with no deaths in other cities but absolutely no curiosity about what is different about THIS city? Not the billions in fraud from the highest levels? Those same people who are coordinating the signal “insurrection”?
And besides doesn’t the USA get to determine who is and isn’t allowed in their country? I can’t go and squat in Israel just because I want to (a nice thought given how cold it is here today).
Or Mexico or the Turks and Caicos☀️
You either have a country with laws and borders or you don’t
If you’re a Constitutional Republic, you either have a Constitution, or you don’t exist.
But thanks for the Canadian perspective.
Not representative of Canadian sentiments. More likely a Maple MAGA megaphone.
If Soros is paying protesters, where's my money? He owes me back pay all the way back to 1968.
A beautiful piece Scott, the way you interspersed the verse made it profound. And boy did you drag the exceptionalism citizens out of their closets to display their ignorance and arrogance clothed in white supremist dialogue. 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Scott - I highly recommend White Guilt by Shelby Steele. He's black and grew up during the Jim Crow years.
Probably the most insightful books and commentators about American society around.
MUST READ book.
Well done
It's not rocket science Scott. Just don’t do and import fentanyl, run over or fight ICE agents & attack and set fire to people on the subway. Don't murder and rape women in parks. How fortunate that there are still some people in government who respect the laws... as opposed to kicking laws to the curb as in previous administrations.
This is not rocket science.
It’s the Constituion, not rocket science.
Clearly you didn’t read the article.
So like a number of Democrat officials today George Wallace, actively used constitutional arguments to oppose federal desegregation efforts, framing them as defenses of states' rights and constitutional order. He argued for limited federal power, claiming federal action in school segregation violated the 10th Amendment and threatened individual property rights. Sounds suspiciously like what is happening today but this time dems are protecting criminals not their racist prerogatives.
That doesn't work considering Trump's staff's penchant to consume coke and ketamine.
You have no argument so resorting to ambush rumors.
Considering the conduct of some of the people Trump surrounds himself with, including Patel, Karp and Musk I don’t think it’s much of a reach.
“Still some people in government”?
Give me the figures. Some people, that’s too vague!
Perhaps you do not know that the government is more than the executive branch and even the other two... there is mammpth unaccountable bureacrrzi that's been running the show for years.
Thank you, Scott, for your insight.
Her response was not surprising. She defends Epstein’s raping 13 and 14 year old girls stating those girls are “barely legal”.
So just like you I am stunned she has a law degree. Unless she got it the same way she got the Fox gig: by doing the twirl.
Sounds like Delmar is a great place to live if you're a WASP+M.
Like Johnny Rivers sung, “Beware the pretty faces that you find. A pretty face can hide an evil mind.”
Scott Ritter's latest ('Mondays Suck'). One of the (sadly) All-to-Few, remaining sentient, sage, and scholarly, not only Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity in what once constituted Pax Americana, but just as redoubtably robust and resolute as a counter-measure faithful fulcrum, in the present-day, de facto, sick society which now has metastasized into a malignant, machiavellian, and indeed, moribund and iniquitously-invested, idiotically-presided-over, imperium, but the unquenchable and conscionable counsel, and indefatigable inculcation of this modern-day marvel of a real-life veritable superhero, offers hope to all of those whose Founding Fathers Social Contract with the institutions of state has been cast to the four winds !
I side with Megyn Kelly.
Because Mondays suck, right?
Scott, I have to disagree with you here. The impetus for these demonstrations is to preserve a system of high rents and low wages which mass illegal immigration continually fosters. It would be nicer and more worthy of support if similar mass gatherings werer held for something like national healtch care, or affordable housing, or decent wages or trade union rights or at least something worth a whit that benefits the fast majority of workers in this country. But, no, we don't make anything in this country any longer so a particularly virile form of parasitic capitalism -- real estate speculation -- has replaced our once tried and true manufacutring base. I was hoping that you of all people would recognize and appreciate this.
And the 3,000 ICE agents?
It's hard to argue in defense of ICE who, as they say, are "just following orders." My point is directed against the usual suspects who show up in our country garbed as well heeled "white middle class" liberals grousing about issues closer to the hearts of wealthy donors than to the needs of their communities. Workers of all backgrounds and legal status are the ones getting screwed by the immigration politicies supported by "both" political parties contributing directly to the affordability "crisis" currently plaguing us.