Like on this side of the Atlantic, we've outsourced our ability to critical thinking to people we trust as experts. Now that we have no experts to do the thinking for us, we have no clue what to do now.
Yeah when my ex threatened to tell the cops about my basement crops all I had to do was show her my saws-all and threaten to turn her into compost and she never threatened me again. (True story)
If you think we have major problems just wait until you see our solutions. American exceptionalism - we have the record for killing the most people with a single bomb. 1st and 2nd place. We are the only country to have actually used a nuclear weapon on another nation. Sometimes I think a little self reflection would do us some good.
Tfod Thog Tmfof Weirdly I think Trump has actually sort of messaged that and it created part of his support. Not the self-reflection part, more the America has done bad things part. Turned into isolationism and terrible decisions. What a bizarre mess of opinions he holds (or more likely he doesn’t much believe any of it?) Yes, tho, to your point, intelligent self-refection would be very good.
Trump: "They're wired so that we will know if somebody's trying to break through." Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite: "Sir, there could be some merit in not discussing that."
Abe is even better than Beau on this point: "You can fool some of the people some of the time; you can fool some of the people all the time; but, you can't fool all the people all the time."
@@andrewbell2712 The currently most common, and logical, rendition of the adage is, "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and you can fool all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." However, while the line is usually attributed to Lincoln there's no contemporaneous evidence he actually ever said it. Unfortunately, for tactical purposes that degree of fool-ability is often enough.
One of the best pieces of advice I was given is to never think or talk using slogans: always put an issue in your own words, and insist others do the same. It’s incredible how this breaks down the “us vs. them” mentality and forces people to actually examine their own beliefs instead of regurgitating someone else’s.
Canadian. When my kid started spouting alt right talking points I resisted the urge to smack him and asked him to explain in his own words. Smart kid figured out in an hour he didn't actually agree with those groups after all.
@@MrMduchesne23 Excellent! That is how I 'taught' my kids {when they were really young} how to handle the inevitable "F-Word". I gave them permission to use it, BUT, they had to define it and if I could come up with a better word, they were in trouble! Never had a problem with it! "Using foul language gives people permission to ignore you." ™ -Kurt Vonnegut.
You are brilliant, very intelligent and articulate. A man like you with such clear thinking should be our president!!!! With the best, well chosen team, you and your team of advisors could lead our country into a fantastic future.. to put us back on top again. America needs and deserves a good leader to unite us..so we can be the United States again and face the world proudly..again.♥️💕😊👍
Enough undocumented workers have been employed at Mar-A-Lago and countless other affiliated resorts that it's owner should know that. It would go over his head if they are thought of a cheap firstly instead of for their skills. It's no surprise if he only thinks of them as the hired help they would be underestimated.
@@thehellyousay as of October 10th there have been about 66 miles of fencing done(as determined by the Washington Post and the BBC most recently), most to all of it replacement for old fencing. This was actually pretty easy to find. Denial and name calling does not work as an argument in debate and discussion. The first requires proof and the second is an ad hominem fallacy, meaning just calling someone stupid, doesn't work as an argument.
You should be compulsory viewing in America... and around the World because almost everything you say can be applied anywhere. I lived through 40 years of 'The Troubles' (as we euphemistically called them) in N. Ireland and a voice like your's would have done great good. Wonderful stuff. Best Wishes, Brendan.
The more I watch and, listen to your very informative videos. I become more empress with your intelligence and, knowledge on a variety of topics. Great job in helping people be informed and, hopefully join the cause too right this Great Country again.
Beau, I don’t watch your “thoughts” at night. I wouldn’t be able to sleep. I really appreciate the different perspective on the issues your videos give. I would love to be able to explain to my neighbor that her mother’s inadequate healthcare was not because of the proscriptions of the ACA. Explain to my sister’s neighbors that wrong is wrong even when someone with money, someone you like does it. You’re helping. Thanks.
"Accordingly, the Framers established a system that would, they hoped, harness America's amazing drive and ambition by encouraging compromise so that, as Hamilton put it, the few could not oppress the many, nor the many the few. In their system, composed of conflict within consensus, representation, checks and balances and tolerance of debate, the core of it all is compromise. No compromise, no America." - Letter to the editor of the AZ Daily Sun ; David Richardson
You're a beautiful person. Been watching you speak for some months now Canadian on the other side of the world here. I'd be proud to call you my friend.
I wonder how many cement crews operate around the fence. I bet they all have at least 2 gas saws for making relief cuts. You know the ones that you can water cool, so your blades last longer. Be a shame if they got in the wrong hands. A damn shame I tell you
You can find thousands upon thousands of re-writers of history... finding an honest historian is about as simple as finding a trustworthy journalist. You'll likely find both in jail, arrested, or in some obscure corner, vilified by their peers. Beau, any comment on the recent arrest and rights violations of Max Blumenthal?
You can at least predict probable outcomes to certain actions -- there are plenty of historical precedents. That's why it's clear to see where Donald Trump wants to take America, and how that would turn out. The world has been there before.
My Ex-friends wife is a History Major, and neither of them see the parallels between trump's and Hitler's rise, rhetoric, violence, and despot worship. Their 'Christian beliefs' allow them to look past his faults with, "the Lord works in Mysterious Ways..." BS. News Flash: He does not work in Satan's Ways, or embody all Seven Deadly Sins, you got the Wrong Guy.
There is one thing that the United States really needs: an honest and simple public dialogue. No more 24 hour news, no more tweeting, just people talking and debating in a public forum so that we can’t hide behind our keyboards and fling accusations and ridiculous arguments at each other. We need to face each other and have a conversation about major issues whether its immigration, guns, abortion, military spending, etc. If we bring together average Americans to talk about these issues in a long form discussion, we might realize that we have far more in common and have a much easier time working through how to solve these issues. I have spent a long time writing long essays about issues like gun control, and have tried to debate people online and it just doesn’t work. But when I talk to people in person and we have a face-to-face discussion, then I have a lot more success in explaining the complexity of issues. I really liked your series on guns and gun control and I think separating it into long videos, explaining the different facets of the problem, is the right way to do it.
I think that's brilliant, but where do we start? Everything is such a 5 alarm dumpster fire right now. We have a crime family and syndacate installed in the White House by a hostile foreign power, and right now he's fulfilling their wishes, he has his party either paid, scared, or blackmailed, into being complicit in the destruction of our democratic republic. They are throwing so many criminal crazy things at us, every hour there is a new low we have sunk to compliments of the dear leader. There are so many important conversations to have, with so many people who are just asking the same questions and looking for some answers.
cherrish roseberry-cornell It’s not going to happen overnight, but a good start is to get away from traditional media. Get away from 24 hour news whose entire purpose is to lure you in with clickbait stories that are meant to generate buzz and score a “win” for one side or the other. The news is no longer concerned with informing people about what is going on, or presenting the debate about an issue in any unbiased way. Another problem with 24 hour news is that they have to keep churning out news, and so everything gets lost. Any momentum that was generated about any issue is quickly steamrolled by the next week’s worth of scandals and stories. We need to focus our attention on longer form debates, like the ones podcasts present, instead of watching people spend five minutes yelling and hurling sound bytes at each other on CNN or fox, listen to a podcast where people talk about that same issue over a half hour or more, and you will see a lot of nuance come out of that conversation, a lot of different aspects of the problem being revealed, and decent solutions being proposed.
This video should go in the "best of" playlist of Beau's videos. There are some great insights here. Alot of well made points. We appreciate the continued daily dose of sanity to our lives, Beau. 🙏🏼❤️ It does not go unnoticed!
Smugglers put the pieces back in place and used putty to make it look like it was a repair job. Next they will put hinges and a handle on their side and make it a door.
The complete call wasn't in the transcript, AND if it was "perfect" why did his staff realize it was bad and holide it in a separate, top secret type server? BECAUSE they knew he screwed up! SIMPLE!
I might not agree with everything you say, Beau, but I truly appreciate your talent for speaking with candor, and if we were ever to meet I believe that we could succeed in disagreeing, if you know what I mean. It's a skill that's badly needed right now, and I applaud your capacity for clarity and rational insight. You're performing a valuable public service by posting your thoughts. I hope that more people take the time to listen.
Whether a persistent problem in the society gets solved depends very much on the guiding principles of the society. If your guiding principle is money, then you are incapable of solving a problem like gun violence.
I thoroughly enjoy you common sense commentary and approach to topics. That's pretty much all I have to say besides I went on you stores website and purchased one if the tee-shirts that you were wearing. The SEEK EQUALITY IN FREEDOM NOT EQUALITY IN OPPRESSION. Let's just say when I showed it off very big hit!
@@theother1281 I understand that outlook but I feel common sense is the starting point and end point of critical thinking. Things become common sense by having gone through the test of mass critical thinking. The critical thinking of the masses coming to the same or similar conclusion is supposed to be 'common' sense. Hence why people say it's dead a lot now.
@@nfzeta128 Information is the starting point of critical thinking; the outcome of critical thinking is dependent on the thinkers ability to understand the information. The critical thinking of the masses is, by definition, conducted by a majority of below average intelligence and therefore includes significant distortion caused by poor understanding of the information. Just read the argument for the majority being wrong in it's understanding put forward in Ibsen's 'An Enemy of the People'. Common sense trails accurate critical thinking because the most intelligent have to understand the complex information then repackage it in easier to understand forms. Just look at how common sense has evolved in relation to democracy over the centuries or currently over climate change.
@@theother1281 You seem to ignore and give credit to masses very selectively with this thinking. Information is gained from many sources to test variables. Understanding information isn't that hard unless it's of a truly complex situation or people actively try to obscure or muddy the information. "The critical thinking of the masses is, by definition, conducted by a majority of below average intelligence" That's definitely not, by definition. There seems to be a lot of bias in there because the masses determine what is average intelligence in the first place. Poor understanding is brought about by much more than just the intelligence of the observer. A lack of direct knowledge does the same and people who fail to realise the other reasons for distortion limit themselves. "Common sense trails accurate critical thinking because the most intelligent have to understand the complex information then repackage it in easier to understand forms." Now this is just wrong. For one a lot of what is considered common sense is social or basic in nature, the foundation of knowledge so apparent or instinctual that everyone should understand it, hence 'common'. The things that distort common sense are the very methods you speak of here but in reverse, taking known truths and extracting more data than is necessary from them to come to the same simply conclusion. It's like the saying of water not being a conductor. This is a technical truth but there is a reason common sense dictates for one now to mix electricity with water because the underlying fact that one understands easily is that water is never pure in the environment. So the deeper knowledge while intriguing and useful to a scientist is totally useless in the reality of day to day reality. "Just look at how common sense has evolved in relation to democracy over the centuries or currently over climate change." You're talking about trends and not common sense here. Also the 'common sense' aspect of having a democracy is exactly what is constantly eroded as knowledge is gained by the few.
@@thehellyousay I did. Here is the best description of a chop saw I could find - A chop saw is a power tool that used to make straight cuts in wood. It may have features that allow it to cut angles, which makes it a miter saw. Here's the description of the Jaws of Life trademark - a heavy-duty tool that can cut through metal or pry apart sections of it: used esp. to free people trapped in wrecked vehicles. I am not saying I know exactly what Beau was alluding to when he said "one of those saws they use to extract people from cars," but Jaws of Life was the first thing that popped into my mind because of the ease with which you can slice through a B pillar to extract someone from a wreck.
alltradejack the jaws cut like scissors and can be pretty slow. Refine your search to “handheld chop saw” and look for videos. Those things are insane.
Thank you. I have been wanting people to talk and look at options for solving important issues that need to get solved yesterday. Ie: Homelessness, voter security, gerrymandering. climate change, justice reform and how to move forward in our thinking about immigration. How are we going to feel secure voting this next time?
Beau, you have won the internet! My wife normally does not pay attention to what I watch on RUclips, but when your channel comes on, she asks me to turn up the volume!
My thing is, that if a person has plenty of intelligence but refuses to use it, that makes that person pretty stupid. Also, NP wanted to know how much drama the American people can stand. We The People just loooove drama. The more dramatic, the more we love it. So Nancy, all I have to say is "Bring it on!" Thank You Beau, for your hard (and hopefully effective) work to educate We The People.
Beau on the one hand you're a master of the obvious. On the other hand, if this was plainly obvious to all there would be no need to discuss it. Thanks Beau, keep up the good work.
We want to cheer our actions in other countries without looking at why those actions drive their people to leave or want to come here. America never addresses the reasons why it involves herself in endless wars...foreign and domestic. When do we wake up to the fact that those wars serve, for the most part, to benefit a few at the expense of the rest. Why do we not question why the richest country on earth spends most of its resources on wars and not peace and prosperity for its citizens and the rest of the world. Wars, for the most part get wins for politicians and the military industrial complex, not for the country and humanity.
I agree with you, they both underestimated most Americans. Nor gave us credit for credit for giving a care about how we got to where we are and steps it will it take to get out.
Remember, you can’t fix stupid ... but with enough Duct tape wrapped tight enough around the head you can make it bearable. Silence is golden. Duct tape is available in many colors and patterns but usually silver.
"Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had been always tragic, chiefly as an almost insane excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards; but also because NO mind is so well balanced as to bear the strain of seizing unlimited force without habit or knowledge of it; and finding it disputed with him by hungry packs of wolves and hounds whose lives depend on snatching the carrion." -- Henry Adams, grandson of John Quincy Adams
Hello, Beau. It's an internet person again. You have some great commentary here yet again. How do we encourage our fellow Americans to take more accountability for their communities and our government? Boomers sure like to complain that millenials spend too much time in a fantasy world on phones and social media but they were all to willing to sell their souls to their political party of choice. And here we are...
@Green lady I was working on the same sort of response, but decided I didnt want any neg interaction tonight. Makes no sense to complain they dont like getting their eyes poked while they are poking others. That’s why there is no dialogue.
The older generation is in power and, as a power set, the utterly uninterested in what my generation has to say. When I canvas, what I hear is "it doesn't matter". When I try to talk about politics with the older generations, more often than not it's a "what do I know because back in the day..." I get it. There's a lot to learn from the past and, that should be considered when making decisions in the future. My generation does not feel represented, respected, or valued by the older generation. Who is supposed help with that? How?
@GreenIdLady 1 I'll have to gather data from multiple sources to confirm this, but those in my generation that do vote, tend to vote progressively so I think we do vote our interests. The issue is that we don't vote and that's not a new problem - maybe worse, but not new. Australia has mandatory voting. I would like that in combination with ranked choice.
@GreenIdLady 1 I think so too. I don't understand why establishment democrats don't get that and dump on my generation for not falling in line. 🤷♂️ I want to get involved when it's not a full time job to change hearts and minds that new ideas are worth considering.
There is such a thing as willful ignorance. It is hard to distinguish it from stupidity, but for so many here in the south, it is the reality they have embraced.
Beau: ....."he prayed about it" Me: Who did he pray to? I don't understand why there is still a question. Why do people refuse to see what's going on in front of their face?
It seems your with for future is on the low end. Yes history repeats its self though people may stray off the path they see and correct themselves. Thank you for the wisdom
Zero views, zero likes, zero comments? This must have just popped up. Yeah, let's build a wall and ignore the reason people are leaving their countries, though there have been a few mentions of it, and even whosis in the White House mentioned it. These folks are living in often horrible conditions and are seeking a better life. What would it take to get them to stay and prosper and live a safe, happy life where they are? America is seen as that beacon of light welcoming others and I have no problem with that, but to throw up a wall and ignore the root cause, isn't a smart immigration policy.
America needs a better infrastructure for immigration. I have so many friends and co-workers who are here on visas or who are now officially citizens and not any one of them has a single instance where the paperwork or legal process was anything less than torture. I don't blame the people sending forms or doing the day to day stuff, they're probably making low income in a tedious soulcrushing job, it's the system that we've had duct taped together. My friend was trying to help her husband immigrate here, and they forgot a single page in her packet of forms. She was told she would have to wait another 6 months before she could request the forms again, even though the page that was missing was on the fault of the system. It makes more money for privatized prisons to lock people up than to assign appropriate funding for our immigration systems.
@@dizzolve9189 It's deliberately broken. If immigrants could easily become documented, they would not be so easily exploitable. There's a lot of industries that depend on being able to exploit workers in various ways that aren't legal, so if the _workers_ are undocumented, they are likely to keep their mouths shut. The employers can also just call ICE if their undocumented employees DON'T keep quiet about the exploitation. Those recent chicken plant raids? The employees had just won a sexual harassment lawsuit. I really believe it's messed up on purpose.
Trouble is you can't learn of the past if you are unwilling to accept you made mistakes. Arrogance is the true pitfall. We all made endless mistakes along the way. The only thing differentiating a man and a monster is understanding that and the ambition to do better!
Astoundingly, many people who voted for 45* thought the "wall" was a metaphor for a complex policy. I have yet to understand why they thought that given that 45* never elaborated on the concept.
I find it both necessary as well as exciting about people coming together to look into how a problem got started, so we can find better ways. to go forward. Ie: a lot of comes from poverty, from lack and restriction of opportunities, deliberate oppression by by others',; lack of security; ......The point is.. We know all of this and it is fixable .....that would be exciting
We elected a failed business man because he was the "lesser of two evils" . We elected a military deserter during a time of war because "we could see ourselves having a beer with him". Is Pelosi really wrong? Just how dumb are we?
@@michelewalburn4376 I didn't say he won a majority, I said he won. Maybe he didn't win a majority of the vote, but enough idiots failed to get up off their stupid asses and vote against electing an obvious disaster. OBVIOUS being the key word here. Kinda stupid. No, not 'kinda'. Not even close to 'kinda'. Incredibly indescribably unbelievably fucking stupid with extra cheese and anchovies. There goes your majority.
An example of a very complex problem: the military industrial complex. It causes us to have an enormous military, a department of war that dwarfs the next 9 countries combined most of whom are our allies. It continues to exist because it leads to jobs for people in all 50 states. You have to employ those same people in some other just as good or better jobs, guaranteed jobs, but also proud work. Something that challenges us to do better, be better.
Just a thought. Trump and Pelosi are just two sides of the same coin. Not different coins. They respond only to their multimillion dollar donors and their own runaway egoism. We the people are on our own. Let’s think seriously about progressive candidates like Bernie and Yang. They want to make big changes and seem to be with us.
"Wait until those guys get their hands on one of those saws they use to extract people from cars. You'll lose sixty feet of wall in two minutes" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 When I first saw that wall I said "All they need is a strong enough saw and a metal cutting blade! They'll be through that wall two minutes tops!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I think the issue of simplicity regarding the impeachment isn't so much that Pelosi is worried that people won't understand. She's worried about people who don't want to understand, or people who are susceptible to misinformation regarding the charge. When the issue is simple and in your face enough it's harder to explain away.
Just the thought of trump wanting something ‘that was of no value’ to him ‘whatsoever’.... Well, it just sounds like a bad country song.... Or a heavy metal song with unrecognizable lyrics.... More simply put.... truly unbelievable on any level.
Is there an official history record that all citizens can access to determine what has occured and therefore can make decisions on how to participate in the growing of the country?
Mr. Beau, I like your videos. As far as this video, Americans are not stupid, most of us just don't care to spend the time and effort to make a correct decision. We are generally lazy and anything distracting us from our self-important lives is not worth bothering. A huge portion of our population does not vote, some, just because it is inconvenient. I vote and I try to be as informed as possible about the things which influence the decisions. Americans aren't stupid, we just act that way.
I did read The Jungle when you recommended it over the USDA changing its policy on pork slaughterhouses to let them self police. I think that might be somewhat relevant here too, as it explains why immigrants come here for work at one point in the book.
Hello. For a soviet asset the perception of our country changing for the worst is preferable. In fact it is part of the psycological operation taking place everyday in frn of our eyes and within our ears. Over and over. Non stop. Again and again. Good luck.
I have used a K12 on a 1” square solid stack of stainless before. The K12 is a 12” diameter diamond carbide blade connected to a chainsaw motor basically. Cuts through cars like butter. I bet I could make a hole big enough to drive a truck through in just a few minutes on any hardened hollow steel post or stock. Heck even concrete filled steel posts cut just fine with it!
In my experience, there are very few problems that can't be at least partially solved with a recip saw.
Like on this side of the Atlantic, we've outsourced our ability to critical thinking to people we trust as experts. Now that we have no experts to do the thinking for us, we have no clue what to do now.
... Or duct tape
or a well placed grenade...
Yeah when my ex threatened to tell the cops about my basement crops all I had to do was show her my saws-all and threaten to turn her into compost and she never threatened me again. (True story)
Druidic Troy sounds like a relationship based on unconditional love... (sarcasm)
“There is always an easy solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.” H.L. Mencken
Every problem has a simple, easy to understand, WRONG answer. - Murphy
"'¿Donde esta el recipricating saw?" -The Mexican with a simple plan
Your candidate for simple solutions: ruclips.net/video/VXDlNqf6uB0/видео.html
If you think we have major problems just wait until you see our solutions. American exceptionalism - we have the record for killing the most people with a single bomb. 1st and 2nd place. We are the only country to have actually used a nuclear weapon on another nation. Sometimes I think a little self reflection would do us some good.
Tfod Thog Tmfof Weirdly I think Trump has actually sort of messaged that and it created part of his support. Not the self-reflection part, more the America has done bad things part. Turned into isolationism and terrible decisions. What a bizarre mess of opinions he holds (or more likely he doesn’t much believe any of it?) Yes, tho, to your point, intelligent self-refection would be very good.
Trump: "They're wired so that we will know if somebody's trying to break through."
Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite: "Sir, there could be some merit in not discussing that."
@Asa Coe scary shit..lmao!!! On point.✌
@Asa Coe It's a shame Washington didn't put his name on the front of his house. It would have been something for Americans to remember him by.
@Lost Hero -- We're well under way in that direction. But for now, oligarchy will suffice.
@Asa Coe "Shitocracy" has a bit of a nicer sound to it, if you ask me.
Lt. Gen. Semonite had to find a politically correct way to rephrase "Stop being a dumbass".
"The average American is not dumb." I guess that I've worked Customer Service for too long. I laughed at that.
Working customer service anywhere may give you that perception.
Customer service may attract a weighted sample group 😉
Abe is even better than Beau on this point: "You can fool some of the people some of the time; you can fool some of the people all the time; but, you can't fool all the people all the time."
@@andrewbell2712 The currently most common, and logical, rendition of the adage is, "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and you can fool all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." However, while the line is usually attributed to Lincoln there's no contemporaneous evidence he actually ever said it.
Unfortunately, for tactical purposes that degree of fool-ability is often enough.
And as Barnum said "There's a sucker born every minute.". So, there will always be poor Republicans.
One of the best pieces of advice I was given is to never think or talk using slogans: always put an issue in your own words, and insist others do the same. It’s incredible how this breaks down the “us vs. them” mentality and forces people to actually examine their own beliefs instead of regurgitating someone else’s.
Canadian. When my kid started spouting alt right talking points I resisted the urge to smack him and asked him to explain in his own words. Smart kid figured out in an hour he didn't actually agree with those groups after all.
@@MrMduchesne23 Excellent! That is how I 'taught' my kids {when they were really young} how to handle the inevitable "F-Word". I gave them permission to use it, BUT, they had to define it and if I could come up with a better word, they were in trouble! Never had a problem with it!
"Using foul language gives people permission to ignore you." ™ -Kurt Vonnegut.
You are brilliant, very intelligent and articulate. A man like you with such clear thinking should be our president!!!! With the best, well chosen team, you and your team of advisors could lead our country into a fantastic future.. to put us back on top again. America needs and deserves a good leader to unite us..so we can be the United States again and face the world proudly..again.♥️💕😊👍
Those now living in the home of the brave want to cower behind a big wall.
From the big, bad, Mexicans who are naturally smaller than us. Ugh
It's amazing how walls make better neighbors.
Land of the fee, home of the slave
@@fredflagstone181 so why are we the ones acting like a crappy neighbour?
@@allhumansarejusthuman.5776 How so? We're staying on our own property.
Good job on the talks. Thank you for all of it.
Who could have guessed Mexicans would be good with power tools?? 🤷♂️
Enough undocumented workers have been employed at Mar-A-Lago and countless other affiliated resorts that it's owner should know that. It would go over his head if they are thought of a cheap firstly instead of for their skills. It's no surprise if he only thinks of them as the hired help they would be underestimated.
Actually, Mar-A-Lago only hires illegal aliens from Eastern Europe.
Should've added President Trump doesn't believe non-white people are smart enough to use a saw.
They're not. The chainsaw they decapitate us with stalls, so it takes a few tries
😂
And how much did we pay Trump's buddies for that fine, high grade Russian steel?
Was for being extra super good price comrade you tube type person.
There ain't been a single mile of new wall built.
You fools.
Nope, not one foot. They've repaired some existing fence, but that's it.
@@thehellyousay as of October 10th there have been about 66 miles of fencing done(as determined by the Washington Post and the BBC most recently), most to all of it replacement for old fencing. This was actually pretty easy to find. Denial and name calling does not work as an argument in debate and discussion. The first requires proof and the second is an ad hominem fallacy, meaning just calling someone stupid, doesn't work as an argument.
You mean that nice Russian steel factory in Kentucky???
You should be compulsory viewing in America... and around the World because almost everything you say can be applied anywhere. I lived through 40 years of 'The Troubles' (as we euphemistically called them) in N. Ireland and a voice like your's would have done great good. Wonderful stuff.
Best Wishes, Brendan.
The more I watch and, listen to your very informative videos. I become more empress with your intelligence and, knowledge on a variety of topics. Great job in helping people be informed and, hopefully join the cause too right this Great Country again.
Beau, I don’t watch your “thoughts” at night. I wouldn’t be able to sleep. I really appreciate the different perspective on the issues your videos give. I would love to be able to explain to my neighbor that her mother’s inadequate healthcare was not because of the proscriptions of the ACA. Explain to my sister’s neighbors that wrong is wrong even when someone with money, someone you like does it. You’re helping. Thanks.
"Accordingly, the Framers established a system that would, they hoped, harness America's amazing drive and ambition by encouraging compromise so that, as Hamilton put it, the few could not oppress the many, nor the many the few. In their system, composed of conflict within consensus, representation, checks and balances and tolerance of debate, the core of it all is compromise. No compromise, no America." - Letter to the editor of the AZ Daily Sun ; David Richardson
@dajokn19 Smashing fascism means facilitating independence.
ruclips.net/video/-kkUNZChoeM/видео.html
1 person-one vote, no electoral college , and stuff would look a lot different
@dajokn19 but they would actually have to come up with popular policies.
That's some of the smartest analysis I've heard in a while, Beau.
Beau is one smart dude !
Make America Think Harder.
Been watching you and enjoying the back catalogue daily for the last 3 months. This is your best one yet.
So true. Hit the nail on the head with this one my friend.
You're a beautiful person. Been watching you speak for some months now Canadian on the other side of the world here. I'd be proud to call you my friend.
Thank you for saying this.
I wonder how many cement crews operate around the fence. I bet they all have at least 2 gas saws for making relief cuts. You know the ones that you can water cool, so your blades last longer. Be a shame if they got in the wrong hands. A damn shame I tell you
As always Beau thank you for your thoughts!
"If you understand the history, you can understand the future"- 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
thats why betsy is in place… next generations need to know as little as possible, so they can be guided more easily
You can find thousands upon thousands of re-writers of history... finding an honest historian is about as simple as finding a trustworthy journalist.
You'll likely find both in jail, arrested, or in some obscure corner, vilified by their peers.
Beau, any comment on the recent arrest and rights violations of Max Blumenthal?
I love that line too
You can at least predict probable outcomes to certain actions -- there are plenty of historical precedents. That's why it's clear to see where Donald Trump wants to take America, and how that would turn out. The world has been there before.
My Ex-friends wife is a History Major, and neither of them see the parallels between trump's and Hitler's rise, rhetoric, violence, and despot worship. Their 'Christian beliefs' allow them to look past his faults with, "the Lord works in Mysterious Ways..." BS. News Flash: He does not work in Satan's Ways, or embody all Seven Deadly Sins, you got the Wrong Guy.
There is one thing that the United States really needs: an honest and simple public dialogue. No more 24 hour news, no more tweeting, just people talking and debating in a public forum so that we can’t hide behind our keyboards and fling accusations and ridiculous arguments at each other. We need to face each other and have a conversation about major issues whether its immigration, guns, abortion, military spending, etc. If we bring together average Americans to talk about these issues in a long form discussion, we might realize that we have far more in common and have a much easier time working through how to solve these issues.
I have spent a long time writing long essays about issues like gun control, and have tried to debate people online and it just doesn’t work. But when I talk to people in person and we have a face-to-face discussion, then I have a lot more success in explaining the complexity of issues. I really liked your series on guns and gun control and I think separating it into long videos, explaining the different facets of the problem, is the right way to do it.
_Flings ridiculous argument_
(Just kidding)
Dudley Doleft's channel
“Flings wild accusation”
I think that's brilliant, but where do we start? Everything is such a 5 alarm dumpster fire right now. We have a crime family and syndacate installed in the White House by a hostile foreign power, and right now he's fulfilling their wishes, he has his party either paid, scared, or blackmailed, into being complicit in the destruction of our democratic republic. They are throwing so many criminal crazy things at us, every hour there is a new low we have sunk to compliments of the dear leader. There are so many important conversations to have, with so many people who are just asking the same questions and looking for some answers.
cherrish roseberry-cornell
It’s not going to happen overnight, but a good start is to get away from traditional media. Get away from 24 hour news whose entire purpose is to lure you in with clickbait stories that are meant to generate buzz and score a “win” for one side or the other. The news is no longer concerned with informing people about what is going on, or presenting the debate about an issue in any unbiased way. Another problem with 24 hour news is that they have to keep churning out news, and so everything gets lost. Any momentum that was generated about any issue is quickly steamrolled by the next week’s worth of scandals and stories.
We need to focus our attention on longer form debates, like the ones podcasts present, instead of watching people spend five minutes yelling and hurling sound bytes at each other on CNN or fox, listen to a podcast where people talk about that same issue over a half hour or more, and you will see a lot of nuance come out of that conversation, a lot of different aspects of the problem being revealed, and decent solutions being proposed.
@@cherrishcornell148 there is a lot of arrogance and fake pride in white people talking about political domestic issues ! Just can't argue with that.
One of your best posts. I like the wider implications beyond the specific topic discussed. The macro level sociological analysis. Thank you.
This video should go in the "best of" playlist of Beau's videos. There are some great insights here. Alot of well made points.
We appreciate the continued daily dose of sanity to our lives, Beau. 🙏🏼❤️ It does not go unnoticed!
💞 Amen!
I'm a loyal supporter of your ministry Beau. Let truth and solidarity among neighbors reign.
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Great insight Beau.
Smugglers put the pieces back in place and used putty to make it look like it was a repair job. Next they will put hinges and a handle on their side and make it a door.
The complete call wasn't in the transcript, AND if it was "perfect" why did his staff realize it was bad and holide it in a separate, top secret type server? BECAUSE they knew he screwed up! SIMPLE!
Well said Beau
Jason, I believe that you're in the top 30 journalists/reporters in U.S. history and a wise inspirational speaker.
I might not agree with everything you say, Beau, but I truly appreciate your talent for speaking with candor, and if we were ever to meet I believe that we could succeed in disagreeing, if you know what I mean. It's a skill that's badly needed right now, and I applaud your capacity for clarity and rational insight. You're performing a valuable public service by posting your thoughts. I hope that more people take the time to listen.
Whether a persistent problem in the society gets solved depends very much on the guiding principles of the society.
If your guiding principle is money, then you are incapable of solving a problem like gun violence.
I thoroughly enjoy you common sense commentary and approach to topics.
That's pretty much all I have to say besides I went on you stores website and purchased one if the tee-shirts that you were wearing. The SEEK EQUALITY IN FREEDOM NOT EQUALITY IN OPPRESSION. Let's just say when I showed it off very big hit!
Critical thinking is a dying art.
I mean when common sense died a while back critical thinking was sure to follow.
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I generally find critical thinking and common sense are mutually exclusive.
@@theother1281 I understand that outlook but I feel common sense is the starting point and end point of critical thinking. Things become common sense by having gone through the test of mass critical thinking. The critical thinking of the masses coming to the same or similar conclusion is supposed to be 'common' sense.
Hence why people say it's dead a lot now.
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Information is the starting point of critical thinking; the outcome of critical thinking is dependent on the thinkers ability to understand the information.
The critical thinking of the masses is, by definition, conducted by a majority of below average intelligence and therefore includes significant distortion caused by poor understanding of the information.
Just read the argument for the majority being wrong in it's understanding put forward in Ibsen's 'An Enemy of the People'.
Common sense trails accurate critical thinking because the most intelligent have to understand the complex information then repackage it in easier to understand forms.
Just look at how common sense has evolved in relation to democracy over the centuries or currently over climate change.
@@theother1281 You seem to ignore and give credit to masses very selectively with this thinking.
Information is gained from many sources to test variables. Understanding information isn't that hard unless it's of a truly complex situation or people actively try to obscure or muddy the information.
"The critical thinking of the masses is, by definition, conducted by a majority of below average intelligence"
That's definitely not, by definition. There seems to be a lot of bias in there because the masses determine what is average intelligence in the first place. Poor understanding is brought about by much more than just the intelligence of the observer. A lack of direct knowledge does the same and people who fail to realise the other reasons for distortion limit themselves.
"Common sense trails accurate critical thinking because the most intelligent have to understand the complex information then repackage it in easier to understand forms."
Now this is just wrong. For one a lot of what is considered common sense is social or basic in nature, the foundation of knowledge so apparent or instinctual that everyone should understand it, hence 'common'. The things that distort common sense are the very methods you speak of here but in reverse, taking known truths and extracting more data than is necessary from them to come to the same simply conclusion.
It's like the saying of water not being a conductor. This is a technical truth but there is a reason common sense dictates for one now to mix electricity with water because the underlying fact that one understands easily is that water is never pure in the environment. So the deeper knowledge while intriguing and useful to a scientist is totally useless in the reality of day to day reality.
"Just look at how common sense has evolved in relation to democracy over the centuries or currently over climate change."
You're talking about trends and not common sense here. Also the 'common sense' aspect of having a democracy is exactly what is constantly eroded as knowledge is gained by the few.
facts are facts. truths are truths.
"Sudden steep uptick noticed in the sales of Jaws of Life. More at 10."
Jaws of life are not saws. He was talking about chopsaws. Google em
@@thehellyousay also known as a saws-all
@@thehellyousay I did. Here is the best description of a chop saw I could find - A chop saw is a power tool that used to make straight cuts in wood. It may have features that allow it to cut angles, which makes it a miter saw.
Here's the description of the Jaws of Life trademark - a heavy-duty tool that can cut through metal or pry apart sections of it: used esp. to free people trapped in wrecked vehicles.
I am not saying I know exactly what Beau was alluding to when he said "one of those saws they use to extract people from cars," but Jaws of Life was the first thing that popped into my mind because of the ease with which you can slice through a B pillar to extract someone from a wreck.
alltradejack the jaws cut like scissors and can be pretty slow. Refine your search to “handheld chop saw” and look for videos. Those things are insane.
K12
"who does not know history is condemned to repeat it"
keep keeping it real Beau.
Thank you. I have been wanting people to talk and look at options for solving important issues that need to get solved yesterday. Ie: Homelessness, voter security, gerrymandering. climate change, justice reform and how to move forward in our thinking about immigration. How are we going to feel secure voting this next time?
Beau, you have won the internet! My wife normally does not pay attention to what I watch on RUclips, but when your channel comes on, she asks me to turn up the volume!
"if your just casting stones then your not going to get too far," President Obama, jesus what happened America !?!
Well said! Same with students, they aren't stupid (generaly), but often laziness keeps them from succeeding.
Thank you, Beau!!
Right on brother.
Old White Guy
Just a thought, he says. No, it is MUCH more. Well said Beau.
My thing is, that if a person has plenty of intelligence but refuses to use it, that makes that person pretty stupid.
Also, NP wanted to know how much drama the American people can stand. We The People just loooove drama. The more dramatic, the more we love it. So Nancy, all I have to say is "Bring it on!"
Thank You Beau, for your hard (and hopefully effective) work to educate We The People.
Beau on the one hand you're a master of the obvious. On the other hand, if this was plainly obvious to all there would be no need to discuss it. Thanks Beau, keep up the good work.
We want to cheer our actions in other countries without looking at why those actions drive their people to leave or want to come here. America never addresses the reasons why it involves herself in endless wars...foreign and domestic. When do we wake up to the fact that those wars serve, for the most part, to benefit a few at the expense of the rest. Why do we not question why the richest country on earth spends most of its resources on wars and not peace and prosperity for its citizens and the rest of the world. Wars, for the most part get wins for politicians and the military industrial complex, not for the country and humanity.
I agree with you, they both underestimated most Americans. Nor gave us credit for credit for giving a care about how we got to where we are and steps it will it take to get out.
Remember, you can’t fix stupid ... but with enough Duct tape wrapped tight enough around the head you can make it bearable. Silence is golden. Duct tape is available in many colors and patterns but usually silver.
"Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had been always tragic, chiefly as an almost insane excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards; but also because NO mind is so well balanced as to bear the strain of seizing unlimited force without habit or knowledge of it; and finding it disputed with him by hungry packs of wolves and hounds whose lives depend on snatching the carrion." -- Henry Adams, grandson of John Quincy Adams
Hello, Beau. It's an internet person again. You have some great commentary here yet again. How do we encourage our fellow Americans to take more accountability for their communities and our government? Boomers sure like to complain that millenials spend too much time in a fantasy world on phones and social media but they were all to willing to sell their souls to their political party of choice. And here we are...
@Green lady
I was working on the same sort of response, but decided I didnt want any neg interaction tonight. Makes no sense to complain they dont like getting their eyes poked while they are poking others. That’s why there is no dialogue.
The older generation is in power and, as a power set, the utterly uninterested in what my generation has to say. When I canvas, what I hear is "it doesn't matter". When I try to talk about politics with the older generations, more often than not it's a "what do I know because back in the day..." I get it. There's a lot to learn from the past and, that should be considered when making decisions in the future. My generation does not feel represented, respected, or valued by the older generation. Who is supposed help with that? How?
@GreenIdLady 1 I'll have to gather data from multiple sources to confirm this, but those in my generation that do vote, tend to vote progressively so I think we do vote our interests. The issue is that we don't vote and that's not a new problem - maybe worse, but not new. Australia has mandatory voting. I would like that in combination with ranked choice.
@GreenIdLady 1 I think so too. I don't understand why establishment democrats don't get that and dump on my generation for not falling in line. 🤷♂️ I want to get involved when it's not a full time job to change hearts and minds that new ideas are worth considering.
@GreenIdLady 1 if Bernie or Warren get the nominee that will be much easier. Still it needs to be a habit. I have no good answers for that
There is such a thing as willful ignorance. It is hard to distinguish it from stupidity, but for so many here in the south, it is the reality they have embraced.
For every complex problem there's a simple solution,
that doesn't work.
Saw the wall, Saw the wall, saw the wall!!!
Damn...spot on as usual!
“If brute force isn’t working for you, you are not using enough”... Richard Feynman...
That sums up my conclusion of Trump policies...
When will the Grand Ole Party be gently led into a retirement home? It is FUBAR.
Beau: ....."he prayed about it"
Me: Who did he pray to?
I don't understand why there is still a question. Why do people refuse to see what's going on in front of their face?
Plutus - the Greek god of wealth???
No, he said "He preyed on it" (feasted like a hyena) Just a thought. . .
Because the poor souls only watch Fox News... They are the biggest barrier to the truth!
It seems your with for future is on the low end. Yes history repeats its self though people may stray off the path they see and correct themselves. Thank you for the wisdom
Zero views, zero likes, zero comments? This must have just popped up.
Yeah, let's build a wall and ignore the reason people are leaving their countries, though there have been a few mentions of it, and even whosis in the White House mentioned it. These folks are living in often horrible conditions and are seeking a better life. What would it take to get them to stay and prosper and live a safe, happy life where they are? America is seen as that beacon of light welcoming others and I have no problem with that, but to throw up a wall and ignore the root cause, isn't a smart immigration policy.
About 30 seconds ago
America needs a better infrastructure for immigration. I have so many friends and co-workers who are here on visas or who are now officially citizens and not any one of them has a single instance where the paperwork or legal process was anything less than torture. I don't blame the people sending forms or doing the day to day stuff, they're probably making low income in a tedious soulcrushing job, it's the system that we've had duct taped together.
My friend was trying to help her husband immigrate here, and they forgot a single page in her packet of forms. She was told she would have to wait another 6 months before she could request the forms again, even though the page that was missing was on the fault of the system.
It makes more money for privatized prisons to lock people up than to assign appropriate funding for our immigration systems.
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It's deliberately broken.
If immigrants could easily become documented, they would not be so easily exploitable.
There's a lot of industries that depend on being able to exploit workers in various ways that aren't legal, so if the _workers_ are undocumented, they are likely to keep their mouths shut.
The employers can also just call ICE if their undocumented employees DON'T keep quiet about the exploitation.
Those recent chicken plant raids? The employees had just won a sexual harassment lawsuit.
I really believe it's messed up on purpose.
I wanted to Like this 5 times.
Its not that they don't believe, they just don't care
Heck, some people have made a competition out of scaling that wall
This is why I hate debates. They are set up for sound bites, and not for true debate, and discussion of complicated solutions, to complicated issues.
Red Hat: "I can relate to trump, he talks just like me"
Me: "no....no, he doesn't"
The people who support Donald, even though I often butt heads with them, they seem much more reasonable.
@@sirdeadlock Much more reasonable than whom?
Me: yes, they do. They're called Fascists, and they follow their leader.
@Ziva David Hahaha!
@@helenbobo1948 From context, much more reasonable than Trump. That's not implausible, given the depth of the bar.
Trouble is you can't learn of the past if you are unwilling to accept you made mistakes. Arrogance is the true pitfall. We all made endless mistakes along the way. The only thing differentiating a man and a monster is understanding that and the ambition to do better!
Look at the advertising industry and you will understand a lot about America's problems
To rather cheerlead than think in this matters is not smart, for nobody.
Astoundingly, many people who voted for 45* thought the "wall" was a metaphor for a complex policy. I have yet to understand why they thought that given that 45* never elaborated on the concept.
History: i definitely dont know it all and i dont claim to but it's unreal what people dont know about things.
I find it both necessary as well as exciting about people coming together to look into how a problem got started, so we can find better ways. to go forward. Ie: a lot of comes from poverty, from lack and restriction of opportunities, deliberate oppression by by others',; lack of security; ......The point is.. We know all of this and it is fixable .....that would be exciting
Bernie!!!
$80 dollar saw defeated a multi-billion dollar wall, I love it!
That's not the fault of the American people, Beau. It's the way they have been taught
We elected a failed business man because he was the "lesser of two evils" . We elected a military deserter during a time of war because "we could see ourselves having a beer with him". Is Pelosi really wrong? Just how dumb are we?
He didn't win the popular vote. We're not that stupid.
@@michelewalburn4376 I didn't say he won a majority, I said he won. Maybe he didn't win a majority of the vote, but enough idiots failed to get up off their stupid asses and vote against electing an obvious disaster. OBVIOUS being the key word here. Kinda stupid. No, not 'kinda'. Not even close to 'kinda'. Incredibly indescribably unbelievably fucking stupid with extra cheese and anchovies. There goes your majority.
An example of a very complex problem: the military industrial complex. It causes us to have an enormous military, a department of war that dwarfs the next 9 countries combined most of whom are our allies. It continues to exist because it leads to jobs for people in all 50 states. You have to employ those same people in some other just as good or better jobs, guaranteed jobs, but also proud work. Something that challenges us to do better, be better.
Just a thought. Trump and Pelosi are just two sides of the same coin. Not different coins. They respond only to their multimillion dollar donors and their own runaway egoism. We the people are on our own. Let’s think seriously about progressive candidates like Bernie and Yang. They want to make big changes and seem to be with us.
Screw the 'sawzall'.
The Fein 'multi-tool' is the baddest mofo on the planet!
An 8 year old girl in SC Lucy Hancock climbed an 18’ replica of Trump’s wall in under a minute!
Build a 20ft wall for billions, build a 21ft ladder for a couple of bucks.
Cheer leading...Trump....cheer leading... Trump American National Republican Party...end of freedom and democracy.
You don't need no electric saw to bypass that wall. All you need is a plane ticket
They lost faith in us but we lost faith in them.
"Wait until those guys get their hands on one of those saws they use to extract people from cars. You'll lose sixty feet of wall in two minutes" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 When I first saw that wall I said "All they need is a strong enough saw and a metal cutting blade! They'll be through that wall two minutes tops!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thank you.
We are capable, and while we do need an infrastructure to understand these things and gather data, we the people are responsible.
I think the issue of simplicity regarding the impeachment isn't so much that Pelosi is worried that people won't understand. She's worried about people who don't want to understand, or people who are susceptible to misinformation regarding the charge. When the issue is simple and in your face enough it's harder to explain away.
Just the thought of trump wanting something ‘that was of no value’ to him ‘whatsoever’....
Well, it just sounds like a bad country song....
Or a heavy metal song with unrecognizable lyrics....
More simply put.... truly unbelievable on any level.
A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals.
Is there an official history record that all citizens can access to determine what has occured and therefore can make decisions on how to participate in the growing of the country?
Mr. Beau, I like your videos. As far as this video, Americans are not stupid, most of us just don't care to spend the time and effort to make a correct decision. We are generally lazy and anything distracting us from our self-important lives is not worth bothering. A huge portion of our population does not vote, some, just because it is inconvenient. I vote and I try to be as informed as possible about the things which influence the decisions. Americans aren't stupid, we just act that way.
time to put the storm windows in and check the furnace filter. It's getting colder.
And they are mostly correct...sadly most are incapable of thinking for themselves but willing to believe what they are told.
Most problems are the result conservative ideas.
I did read The Jungle when you recommended it over the USDA changing its policy on pork slaughterhouses to let them self police. I think that might be somewhat relevant here too, as it explains why immigrants come here for work at one point in the book.
Hello.
For a soviet asset the perception of our country changing for the worst is preferable. In fact it is part of the psycological operation taking place everyday in frn of our eyes and within our ears. Over and over. Non stop. Again and again.
Good luck.
Knocking your top opponent out of the race...is a thing of value.
My fear is that the definition of a thing of value will be so convoluted by Trumps attorneys, people will actually think this does not apply.
Reputation, in the political realm, is an invaluable “thing of value” imho.
I have used a K12 on a 1” square solid stack of stainless before. The K12 is a 12” diameter diamond carbide blade connected to a chainsaw motor basically. Cuts through cars like butter. I bet I could make a hole big enough to drive a truck through in just a few minutes on any hardened hollow steel post or stock. Heck even concrete filled steel posts cut just fine with it!