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May 13, 2025
Hawk discusses Dem Committee scrapping David Hogg election..(it opposes younger Dem voters)
May 4, 2025
...a precursor to SNL
...networks objections to politics
Not a contemporary item, but an interesting look back...The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
...a precursor to SNL
...networks objections to politics
April 30, 2025
He discusses the possibility that China may choose not no make a deal on tariff's.
Thomas Hartmann discusses coming recession
He discusses the possibility that China may choose not no make a deal on tariff's.
April 28, 2025
Cyndi Lauper Glastonbury 2024...lots of good music from Glastonbury
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April 21, 2025
He talks about Trump’s behavior of discord and day to day changes, dislike of his assault on higher education.
“Is this incompetence, something more sinister, or a combination of both? I think it must be both.”
“Traditionally when stocks go down, people decide they want to own treasuries and the yield goes down as more and more people try to buy them. Now stocks go down, treasuries go down,the dollar goes down.
What’s shocking is this is something we are doing to ourselves (our president is
doing to our country).”
“His (tariff) policies are outside any mainstream of respectable opinion.”
“What is your short and long term prediction for the economy if these policies continue to exist?”
“Stagflation, inflation, …. and ultimately much slower growth in standards of living”
“What is the solution to stopping Donald Trump, and at what point do the guard rails come down
completely and it’s too late?”
“I think each of us in our own way has to try to find strength and to attempt to throw sand in the gears, and attempt to explain to everyone to whom we have access why this is a particularly dangerous moment. We need to do it in a way that suggests views of calm reflection, rather than of great excitement and intensity”
Discussion of Trump administration, and economic policies: Larry Summers. by Katie Couric
He talks about Trump’s behavior of discord and day to day changes, dislike of his assault on higher education.
“Is this incompetence, something more sinister, or a combination of both? I think it must be both.”
“Traditionally when stocks go down, people decide they want to own treasuries and the yield goes down as more and more people try to buy them. Now stocks go down, treasuries go down,the dollar goes down.
What’s shocking is this is something we are doing to ourselves (our president is
doing to our country).”
“His (tariff) policies are outside any mainstream of respectable opinion.”
“What is your short and long term prediction for the economy if these policies continue to exist?”
“Stagflation, inflation, …. and ultimately much slower growth in standards of living”
“What is the solution to stopping Donald Trump, and at what point do the guard rails come down
completely and it’s too late?”
“I think each of us in our own way has to try to find strength and to attempt to throw sand in the gears, and attempt to explain to everyone to whom we have access why this is a particularly dangerous moment. We need to do it in a way that suggests views of calm reflection, rather than of great excitement and intensity”
March 27, 2025
Right now one of our main defenses is the judiciary, especially those on our side....so
...maybe we should help pay for their protection as the other side wants to threaten them.
(by comparison think about how much money is contributed to elections)
March 26, 2025
“The State Department, USAID, Millennium Challenge Corporation, Peace Corps and other development agencies are critical to preventing conflict and reducing the need to put our men and women in uniform in harm’s way,” the generals wrote.
They went on to quote a 2013 remark by Defense Secretary James Mattis while commander of US Central Command: “If you don’t fully fund the State Department, then I need to buy more ammunition.”
Reflecting back to 2017, remember when severral of our Generals said this...
https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/27/politics/generals-letter-state-department-budget-cuts/index.html“The State Department, USAID, Millennium Challenge Corporation, Peace Corps and other development agencies are critical to preventing conflict and reducing the need to put our men and women in uniform in harm’s way,” the generals wrote.
They went on to quote a 2013 remark by Defense Secretary James Mattis while commander of US Central Command: “If you don’t fully fund the State Department, then I need to buy more ammunition.”
March 26, 2025
Signalgate Leaked War Plans, Expose Trump Admin Hypocrisy
March 23, 2025
Trump’s reasons for what he does make no sense.
No one in China is going to take Trump seriously that Trump is trying to contain them, he is smashing up the alliance system that is the only hope to contain China.
I see malignancy more than madness. Trump is delusional in many ways, but the the delusions are always in favor of Putin, in favor of anti-democratic establishments.
Trump has been doing a series of constitutional illegalities in the past few weeks to test the limits.
Life is action, life is decision.
I don’t think we achieve anything useful by standing back from the scene..stroking our chin and uttering some meditation about what America is. We should be looking inward asking what will we do if we don’t as citizens respond to these attacks on the legal structure and on alliances then things will be very very bad, but if we do the residual strength of the democratic idea is also very powerful so lets do that.
Trump is not isolationist, it’s not non-interventionist, it’s a predatory government.
The United Sates used to say invasions across international borders are so dangerous we will even use military to stop it. (think Korea, Vietnam, Kuwait) Every legitimate interest of the US in Greenland could be achieved by cooperation.
But for trump the predation is the end.
Republican party is more statist party, a much more protectionist party, a much less respect for the Constitution and rule of law party than it used to be.
Trump can lead this party in all kinds of strange directions it’s not something that has a kind of inner ideological, it’s more a leader principle party.
Many of the people he has selected for positions should be nowhere near positions if responsibility in
any well-ordered state.
David Frum interview...thought it was interesting...I paraphrased some of his thoughts in summary
(..not sure why I do not recall seeing any of his videos here)
Trump’s reasons for what he does make no sense.
No one in China is going to take Trump seriously that Trump is trying to contain them, he is smashing up the alliance system that is the only hope to contain China.
I see malignancy more than madness. Trump is delusional in many ways, but the the delusions are always in favor of Putin, in favor of anti-democratic establishments.
Trump has been doing a series of constitutional illegalities in the past few weeks to test the limits.
Life is action, life is decision.
I don’t think we achieve anything useful by standing back from the scene..stroking our chin and uttering some meditation about what America is. We should be looking inward asking what will we do if we don’t as citizens respond to these attacks on the legal structure and on alliances then things will be very very bad, but if we do the residual strength of the democratic idea is also very powerful so lets do that.
Trump is not isolationist, it’s not non-interventionist, it’s a predatory government.
The United Sates used to say invasions across international borders are so dangerous we will even use military to stop it. (think Korea, Vietnam, Kuwait) Every legitimate interest of the US in Greenland could be achieved by cooperation.
But for trump the predation is the end.
Republican party is more statist party, a much more protectionist party, a much less respect for the Constitution and rule of law party than it used to be.
Trump can lead this party in all kinds of strange directions it’s not something that has a kind of inner ideological, it’s more a leader principle party.
Many of the people he has selected for positions should be nowhere near positions if responsibility in
any well-ordered state.
March 19, 2025
Greg Gutfeld Told Chief Justice John Roberts To Shut The F*ck Up. Hawkmwrchstore.com
Hawk points out this is one of the most popular segments on Fox...
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