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I once got aggressively lectured on privilege by a successful black guy. Turns out he actually came from a much more “privileged” background than I when we got down to it. Lots of assumptions made on all sides. We all have privilege...American privilege. Living in the richest, freest, least discriminatory society in world history. I’m tired of f-cking hearing otherwise. Ungrateful woke SJW progressives can f-off Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Hope they go through with it. Sorry regular folks in Minneapolis, but I want to get my popcorn and watch your city self-destruct. We can then all learn from this idiocy.

Back to our POW survival training, is the news babe blinking a code for help?

The 2% GDP argument is ridiculous. There are many more quantifiable factors that go into NATO member contributions than just GDP. Troop commitments, equipment expenditure as a percent of GDP, exercise performance etc. There are also many non quantifiable factors such as basing rights, political influence, strategic location etc. CSIS did a study on this exact topic. I also think we tend to forget that NATO (our idea) was only agreed upon because the US was going to fit the majority of the security bill. This allowed Europe to rebuild their economies from ruins and also allowed us to have the biggest bargaining chip in terms of influence/off shore balancing power etc. This is what we originally and still want. While we must always look to continually improve institutions, souring relations with Germany only hurts history's most successful and consequential alliance. Without a unified NATO good luck countering Chinese influence in Europe/Africa.

True. To an extent. But there shouldn’t be individual truths. There is only the truth. I agree. Can’t figure out why we are going so far out on the race limb. It doesn’t make sense.

Mike Bloomberg, known for data-driven analysis, as well as Howard Schultz, Justin Amash, Bill Weld, Joe Walsh, etc. would all disagree. There is little appetite for a third-party or independent run this cycle due to President Trump's highly polarizing nature. If you support Trump, you're going to vote for Trump. If you oppose Trump, you're going to vote for the person most likely to beat him (Biden). There aren't very many people undecided on Trump. Honestly the same can be said for almost every modern US Presidential Election but the effect is especially strong in 2020. I'm also consistently surprised by the level of support for Tulsi Gabbard on these boards. She's a random soon-to-be former Democratic Representative back-bencher with an odd assortment of policy views and a very troubling level of accommodation and support for Assad in Syria. She never polled much above 1% in the Democratic primary, she's not very conservative, has little governing experience...honestly other than being hot I see absolutely nothing that is appealing about her at all. I do appreciate that she's a servicemember I guess, more veterans & reservists/Guardsmen should serve in elected office.

Absolutely worth the listen! Thanks and I’ll look up those other two as well. If you have specific videos I would watch them. Wow. Great dude. Awesome awesome awesome answers to a white girls questions who you could tell wasn’t happy with the toned down answers with facts and logic as his guide. Not emotion. He needs his voice heard. Let me aid in capturing his comments for those of you that don’t have time for a 46 min video. And I agree FLEA he is very well spoken with facts, data, and hardly any emotion which leads this to be a very good Q&A.not really a discussion as the lady has some very slanted questions. Not sure who the lady interviewer is. But her questions seem to be charged and try to lead him down the path of racism and hate. Maybe she is doing it on purpose or not, but it’s a very inflammatory way of speaking. At one point she gets upset that he states you can’t eradicate racism and he even goes so far as to say as some point it would be so low that it wouldn’t even be worth the effort. Near quotes: Actual number of racists and facists is very very small If a white family moves into or out of a neighbor hood, it’s racist. (Can’t win either way) It’s not the kind of racism that the civil rights movement was about fighting. Frankly it diminishes the power of the word racism which is a very powerful word. All of that stuff has been on the wain and it’s really hard to find racist stereotypes in 2020. Black people are 14% of America but commit 52% of homicides If you visited anywhere else you would find the US is one of the least racists places on earth. You’re likelihood of getting shot and killed by the cops is on par to the likelihood of getting struck by lightning. Cops are more likely to use non lethal force if you are black vs if you are white. It’s actually not true that the cops are likely to pull the trigger if you are a black suspect. In 2019 41 unarmed people were killled by the cops. 9 of those were black. 19 of them were white. He talks about the data that goes into that statement then says when you control for all of these there is no disparity at all for being shot by the cops (in black people and white people statistics) The BLM movement is based on half truths. Yes they mistreat blacks disproportionately but no they are not more likely to shoot and kill black suspects. He speaks for a while very highly of BLM. Which I am ignorant of and for the most part I lump them in with Antifa and the KKK because of their radicalism and results of their words and actions. So maybe I should learn more about them. The name is super off putting though. And very much an instigator. however he does speak well of some of their motives. He then goes on to say, their biggest fundamental belief is wrong. It’s not the case that it’s open season on black men being shot by the cops. He then goes to talk about Floyd video Vs a video of a white man in 2016 being video’ed and dying in nearly the same way Floyd died. Apparently the cops were joking about it while the man died right before them and the casualness of it. He goes into how this crime on a white guy doesn’t get publicized in most cases. I was hoping he would talk about how of the 4 officers in the floyd case, 2 of them are minorities and one of them is black. All the BLM people are victims of the (media) coverage bias. Because they have never seen these videos (other skin colors being victims of police brutality) so when it happens to a black person the media has uniquely trained us to make us feel like we are being uniquely hunted. I can’t help to feel that the black lives matters movement is full of people who have been duped in a very fundamental way. He speaks in a very through and thought provoking way against riots and why they don’t work in the sort or long term. The first rule of activism is to educate yourself and make sure you are not misled. Worth the watch!

My kids have watched his YouTube channel for awhile. Dude is funny and brilliant.