Viewers of a certain network *literally don't know* that he's been convicted of sexual assault. I almost cried when I discovered this. The rest of what they don't know will ensure that I'm a climate refugee when I'm their age.
Facts are like showing a cross to a vampire to them. If you expose for them even for a little for the truth so that they could touch it, their whole world would come crumbling down and would probably die from heart attack. Their only reason to exist is to be this voting block of the most corrupt man ("demon" said by Tucker). You couldn't have written worse crime drama or fantasy movie about evil alien brain eating symbiote that multiplies, making everyone dumb, and nobody notices anything going wrong. It's so surreal that anyone believe this... then again, Christianity does exist.
They deliberately look for sources that confirm what they already believe to be true. Any source that doesn't is automatically dismissed as " fake news" .
I have a combat vet friend with TBI... Intelligent, sweet, and i never know what will ACTUALLY be understood by him, or retained from day to day. HE doesn't know what he will retain. He can not even PLAN to accommodate his challenges, because the pattern is elusive and part of his own challenge is recognizing patterns to begin with! Then PTSD, difficulty with civilian life, and he's a big, sweet, beautiful black man who often looks a little rough and has a big dog as helper... I genuinely worry for him. It took his life, he just didn't die. Now, he's trying and working SO DAMN HARD to create a life from what IS... "Some of them got some headaches"... 🤨😤 Dude (tRump) has no humanity within. All of it has been twisted beyond recognition.
People I connected with have the same problems, plural. It's a long, heavy road for them, made worse by people who like to belittle them. All I can say is be there for him, the best you can.
@@ninemoonplanet🥲🥰 Yup. I'm realizing there's a lot I WANT to do, but it's not really my place or within my capabilities. What I CAN do, without compromise, is care and support. Thank you.
Was about to say this (less eloquently), this exactly. One man can make things worse with far less effort and assistance than is required to make things better.
The Kurds were just the first to be completely betrayed, that ex-president with the 2025 doctrine will betray all kinds of countries, people, and even his own supporters if he 'thinks' any weren't 'loyal' enough, including you and me. 🤬
The Kurds are not people I would have abandoned. They will get their own back, yes they will. "What can they do?" Oh, what any group of angry and determined group of righteously pissed-off people can do, (gestures at the holes where buildings used to be in Manhattan).
@MusicfromMarrs medication has been helping and I finally got into a HUD building, rent goes by my income so I can afford it, thank you asking, changing the way I live was the hardest part
Losing someone's trust takes but a moment. Regaining it can take a lifetime. Donny has the potential to bring down everything many have spent lifetimes to build.
The problem is that you don't know what the next President will do! Also thinking of all the WW2 heroes turning in their graves because there are nazis walking openly around.
It was not just ”one wrong guy”. One should never look history and different movements trough one person. That movement had huge support. Just like fascism everywhere it is a big movement and way to view world.
The roots of that run a lot deeper than one election 90 years ago. Some of those roots were growing long before that election, in American soil. Extremely welcoming American soil.
Also Iran was hitting allies throughout Trump's presidency, there were multiple incidents in the Gulf and they hit a Saudi oil field with a drone strike. They were also heavily funding non state actors in Yemen, Syria and Pakistan. I mean the Houthis didn't just pop up overnight.
He abandoned the Kurds in northern Syria and moved our troops to the eastern side of the Euphrates - Turkey let isis fighters back into Syria to free isis prisoners of war - and they overran the same territory again, all bc pootin told rump to move
By my recollection, Trump quit repeatedly. He started escalating this big thing with Kim Jong Un. Eventually, he realized the weakness of his situation and decided to kiss and make up. He traveled around the world to beg forgiveness face-to-face. Afterward, North Korea was much emboldened in rhetoric. Un's sister became quite brazen. Extremely foolish and weak on Trump's part.
When Trump attacked Qasem Soleimani he did largely due to Bibi requesting it alongside the proxy hits. After the kill Trump called for a joint presser with Bibi but Bibi never showed. Bibi had gotten Trump to a target for him so he could keep his hands clean. Bibi has always wanted the US and allies to take care of his Iran problem. When Bibi didn't show at the presser Trump' was furious and he felt it showed a lack of gratitude and loyalty a major no no when dealing with Trump and he wrote Bibi off
Trump & Republican strategy in general. Capitalize now & leave others to pick up the mess you make. Trump took credit for Obama's improving economy before he even got sworn in. And then he blames all the bad stuff he left behind immediately to his successor. He's a credit stealer & responsibility blamer. Reminds me of that Seinfeld episode where Elaine would get shadowed by someone to receive reflected glory around Elaine's work & then that person would disappear if Elaine was going to take some heat for something that went wrong.
No, but informing people that are not willfully ignorant, but have just horrendous used to the present upside down world, which tfg is still warping and twisting, can be reached if you can manage to shift their perspective just a little. Then they might see that they aren’t living the life they want to live in the cult, they.’re living the life Trump wants them to live so he can feed off them when it’s convenient and ignore the rest of the time. They might begin to want a life of their own. It’s a start.
@@jakob8884 I wish all the people who think it's going to stop with Trump would understand that, or, if they do understand that, at least acknowledge it.
As much as I didn't care for Hillary and would be disappointed that a more progressive policy would take effect in favor of a status quo one, there's no way I was going for Trump from his first speech with the Mexicans and really not when he said he could shoot someone on 5th Ave. and not lose any supporters. The man is garbage and an idiot.
That's the last thing that I am worried about with Trump He is straight up evil Incompetent doesn't even begin to describe what I can't stand about him .
Trump should be made to sit in a room and hear all the testimonies from those more than 100 soldiers who got "little headaches", yeah, those same ones he called cry babies.
Having multiple TBIs eyes confirm they can be devastating and life altering. I jokingly use the term smoosh brain to reference myself sometimes or mashed potato if you will.
My TBI gave me seizures 6 years after the injury, but possibly earlier misdiagnosed as low blood sugar, took me 11 years working off the books (because nobody else would hire someone who loses consciousness) to get ssi
@@chaosmarklarI'm so sorry that you went through that. I hope you won't take offense at the question, but I'm wondering how you went about getting qualified, or if you aged into it. My symptoms made it impossible to work, and when I'd recovered enough to manage completing the application, they told me I wasn't eligible for benefits because it'd been too long since I'd worked. Seems like a pretty big problem with the program if being too disabled for too long meant you can't get disability benefits.
@@bjdefilippo447 you may have been unqualified for SSDissability after 15 years of not working. SSI is the alternative. Re apply! You can get back pay from SSI from the date of your original claim. It adds up to a lot money because it can take a year or years to finally get started. Keep applying and don’t give up.
@bjdefilippo447 I worked off the books but couldn't keep an address due to being in the hospital every few months, when I got an address I applied, got denied and appealed to the judge, I got sent for testing and approved immediately, but I only get SSI and Medicaid
Thanks for this. In deep red texas i seem to be the only one that remembers stuff like this, and there are more btw. For instance when he had the taliban at camp david on 9/11 and gave them afghanistan. 🤦♀️ its nice to know im not the only one who remembers.
Building on the Jenga metaphor, the Pompeo doctrine could be like the city hiring inspectors that tell contractors, "Oh, sure, you can get rid of that load-bearing column to save money and give the hotel an open floorplan." Engineers and some workers are aghast, but they are shouted down and ignored in favor of a quick buck. Years after the inspector retires, the hotel collapses, taking hundreds of lives with it, and the engineers and construction workers are blamed, ruining their lives. Fearing for their political careers, draconian laws are passed by the city council requiring fewer breaks and more oversight of construction workers, while the root causes of the collapse are swept under the rug. ... And now I feel like writing a movie.
We elected a reality show star, whose sole reason to exist is to build an audience by giving them what they think they want. We deserved it. The rest of the world did not.
1/3 of registered US voters picked him, with the help of the electoral college. All the marginalized people who voted for Clinton, despite their reservations about her, definitely didn’t deserve him or the laws & rhetoric his party uses to take away/ restrict their rights.
Unfortunately when the pigeon gets elected to the highest office of the most powerful nation in history, you can't really choose not to play no matter how difficult it is to deal with the tantrums.
Good morning! That's some TFG level reaction there. He always hires the "best" people! 🤦 Those sycophants remind me of the worst ambulance chasers, fodder for the best lawyer jokes.✌️😸🍀
Oh I wish you were required viewing in every high school in the nation, in every Political Science class. This was such an intelligent, important road to be on. thank you
Trump was running on a policy of isolationism and that to me was why he wasn't doing spit and making the relationship we have with our allies worse. Buddying up with dicators was shameful.
No he wasn't. He was running on a policy of stroking his own ego. The only reason he was "isolationist" is because the right has been on a xenophobia kick for a couple decades now. He buddied up to dictators because they were happy to pat him on the head and call him a good boy in order to get concessions from the US. He damaged the relationship with allies because they would call him out for his nonsense, if not outright laugh at him. It's all about his ego. Even his wealth is more about being able to brag about being rich than it is about actually having money. It's why he's so willing to invest in absolutely idiotic businesses and then turn around and brag about how "smart" he is to have filed yet another bankruptcy claim when they inevitably fail. He is a deeply, deeply insecure man who for his whole life has been given the resources to hide his insecurity behind bravado. All of his original wealth came from daddy and he had guys like Weisselberg and Cohen around to stop him from screwing it all up _too_ badly and then clean up the messes he still managed to make. Practically nothing about Trump is "self-made" yet he desperately craves the validation our society tends to lavish on those few who really did build themselves up from nothing while knowing full well he'll never really have it. So he takes what he can get, which amounts to screaming adoration from low-information people he has zero respect for whenever he spouts slurs, and praise from dictators whenever they want something from him. And he gives not one shit what that kind of pandering does to the country or it's reputation - it temporarily fills the void where his soul should be and that's all that matters to him.
As a kid, there was always one kid in the neighbourhood who when they realized they couldn’t win at Monopoly, they would kick the table and leave. That’s a better analogy for the current defendant’s foreign policy.
I always appreciate when you talk about history especially the intricate "minutiae" that is too often spoken into a vacuum and forgotten. It is important. I do not appreciate folks who say history doesn't matter because the past is not "a bucket of ashes". It effects us everyday. When we don't learn from it.....well, look around.
As someone who suffered a non traumatic brain injury (not nearly as bad) but did rehab with traumatic brain injury survivors, I can tell you it's devastating.
@@roadswithbeau yup, at Craig hospital here in the Denver area, I saw a LOT of people my age who will forever have the intellect of a child, all because of their injury. Oftentimes, it wasn't even their fault...the worst was a 19 year old kid whose dad is a SEAL, and the kid was on his way to Anapolis to follow in his father's footsteps...
I remember one game of Jenga, where one player decided it was time to start over. So they pulled a piece roughly, quickly. And the tower stood despite his actions. So he punched the tower.
@@christopherapel1712 No, but this was the Critical Role crew. The Jenga tower in question is how they select a certain kind of question from the audience. Pull the piece, and read the number on it. Whoever drops the tower, receives some predetermined consequence they have to deal with for the rest of the show.
Rump managed to cover that up, about the head and brain trauma sudfered - didn't want them to get purple hearts even - much less the treatment they needed.
Put briefly: a single president may not have the power to drastically improve a foreign policy situation, but a single president can absolutely undo decades of careful work through *mere inaction*.
Brother Beau has to explain as one would to children.... This is how severely our public education system has been deliberately undermined by the reichwing since desegregation.
Donald doesn't care unless there's something in it for him: A glowing letter from a dictator, golf trips from a sycophantic Prime Minister, brand and hotel deals from another world power. Otherwise, he treats it like any other time he hires someone: "They have _people_ for that kind of thing." And he'll always try to stiff them.
👋 Yeah, we've got to call willful ignorance by its full name, stupidity. Doesn't having a functional brain require some responsibility to listen, think and decide for yourself? Getting conned may not be your fault, but staying conned surely is. Thanks Beau and crew 😊.
@@iquestion8493 - Thanks and hugs dear! But… my relatives object to my calling them stupid, especially my brother. I’m going to have to keep saying they are willfully ignorant. 🤣🥰
Well said! It's been illuminating and disappointing to see how many continue to drink the Kool aid. Perhaps there's something addictive in the feedback they get from that madness. Hope you're having a pleasant morning and good day! 🍀✌️😎🌅
POTUS doesnt have the power to really do a lot of good on his own, but has the power to screw up a lot of things for a long time with not doing things.
Someone who's idea of a genius move being to flip the board and send the game pieces flying everywhere should never be allowed to make strategic decisions.
Seriously, though! 99% of us wouldn't have ever considered that bloviating buffoon as a possible president. Ever. Hope your day continues beautifully with no more mushy Mussolini mentions! 🍀✌️😸
I wish there were more people that were receptive to actually THINKING about what he's saying. I've shared a few times and my family don't want to learn
His base isn't going to care about traumatic brain injuries. They think being hurt is a sign of weakness. They won't care until he betrays them personally. And I said 'until' and not 'unless' for a reason.
if the US hadn't been tacitly approving those "settlements" by refusing to punish its dependent brat for breaking the law, the brat might not be the monster it is now. why fear punishment for crimes if it will never be levied, hmmm?
Spain on the 28th of this month recognize officially the free State of Palestine... We had that announcement during a Holly celebration. It might sound extra, but Spain is very Catholic.
How about several of the YTers get together and discuss politics whilst playing Jenga. Trae Crowder needs to be there cracking jokes to put people off at the crucial moment. Do it as a live feed with contributions going to a worthy charity.
TBI is like making someone a different human. I have seen it with my friend who went Iraq in the 90s….but it doesn’t even take that. I am a teacher and had a student who was a wrestler a few years ago. He had two concussions within a month, then slipped on the ice-getting a third and then horsing around with his buddies in the hallway hit his head on a wall-getting a fourth within about two months. He changed so completely that his friends and family couldn’t hardly understand. To me, it was less of a change than my friend who went to Iraq and didn’t even know me when he got back.
When it started I just knew that tower would collapse around the end of the video. As the video went on I wanted it to collapse. Then I found if we got to the end and it didn't collapse....I would be PISSED!
I remember a lot of people at the time going over the moral arguments for Soleimani's assassination, completely missing the point of how the rest of the world was going to react to it.
I have recently heard of the radical right's Project 2025 and its 920 page manifesto titled "Mandate for Leadership." It's truly the scariest thing I can imagine. It doesn't even depend on Trump winning the election. Please take some time to give us your take on this project and what we can do to make sure it is never implemented.
It’s sad, but we still haven’t seen and felt all the damage that occurred those 4 years. The cleanup that Biden has done was actually more impressive than I was expecting
The structure example is a good one. It's a lot harder to build things than it is to destroy things. And the world's structures are always being built, and being taken down. Which do we support? Who's standing upon what we're building? Who's standing upon what we're taking down?
Of course, blood begets blood. And Trump boasted about murdering a general to an Aussie millionaire while TBIs came home; a toddler with a nuke. (I'm also just having a low grade anxiety attack watching that tower back there because I KNOW that took many takes to set up)
The us has always been crap at foreign policy from early twentieth century isolationism to installing themselves as the post forty-five Global policeman, yet they will never get it. I was heart sorry for those involved in the eleventh of September though not surprised it happened, it was merely reaping what you sowed. I was born in Africa to terrorism, moved to Europe with terrorisim, My mates walked the streets of Northern Ireland because of terrorism largely funded by the us. How sympathetic should I be when terrorism eventually hits the us? Particularly when the casualties are less than the homegrown sport of mass shootings exceed those of terrorist activities?
Whenever I think of trump and international diplomacy (I won't say foreign policy as I am Australian), I can't help but think of pigeons and chessboards.
Wow, you have time for Jenga? If you do, good for you for taking time to step away and have time for yourself. The one phrase I can't stand is " I don't have enough time"
Yes, I try to avoid the phrase, "I didn't have time" because the reality is that I didn't *make* time. Maybe I put my priorities on things like eating and sleeping, but I could have cut back on those things to make time. It comes down to priorities. Me? I like food and sleep.
Please look at the international efforts to prepare for a second trump term. As a Canadian, we watched with horror as Trump ripped up NAFTA. This adversely effected workers and lives in both America and Canada.
It takes a lot of skill to handcraft a Rolls-Royce, but any idiot can drive one off a cliff.
yes its way easier to smash than build
I like the way you put that. Makes it real simple to understand.... for those who only understand simple things.
@@janice193not sure if this is a compliment or an insult… mighty diplomatic response! 😂
rolls-royce's are not handcrafted, they're machined to a certain standard of quality. computers do most of that, now, not people.
@Dianelee999 most definitely a compliment!
Policy aside, no one with an ounce of respect for troops, living or dead, should give Trump the time of day.
And yet many active duty and retired service personnel (and their families) will vote for Tre45on
"Trump's base are not normally great consumers of information." That's the understatement of the century! 😂😂😂 Thanks Beau
Viewers of a certain network *literally don't know* that he's been convicted of sexual assault. I almost cried when I discovered this. The rest of what they don't know will ensure that I'm a climate refugee when I'm their age.
they consume information, all right. It's the "alternative facts" universe of information.
thanks to religion
Facts are like showing a cross to a vampire to them.
If you expose for them even for a little for the truth so that they could touch it, their whole world would come crumbling down and would probably die from heart attack. Their only reason to exist is to be this voting block of the most corrupt man ("demon" said by Tucker). You couldn't have written worse crime drama or fantasy movie about evil alien brain eating symbiote that multiplies, making everyone dumb, and nobody notices anything going wrong. It's so surreal that anyone believe this... then again, Christianity does exist.
They deliberately look for sources that confirm what they already believe to be true. Any source that doesn't is automatically dismissed as " fake news" .
I have a combat vet friend with TBI... Intelligent, sweet, and i never know what will ACTUALLY be understood by him, or retained from day to day. HE doesn't know what he will retain. He can not even PLAN to accommodate his challenges, because the pattern is elusive and part of his own challenge is recognizing patterns to begin with! Then PTSD, difficulty with civilian life, and he's a big, sweet, beautiful black man who often looks a little rough and has a big dog as helper... I genuinely worry for him.
It took his life, he just didn't die. Now, he's trying and working SO DAMN HARD to create a life from what IS...
"Some of them got some headaches"... 🤨😤 Dude (tRump) has no humanity within. All of it has been twisted beyond recognition.
Glad your friend has a good dog on his side. I wish him the best.
People I connected with have the same problems, plural. It's a long, heavy road for them, made worse by people who like to belittle them.
All I can say is be there for him, the best you can.
@@ninemoonplanet🥲🥰
Yup. I'm realizing there's a lot I WANT to do, but it's not really my place or within my capabilities. What I CAN do, without compromise, is care and support.
Thank you.
@@BC25citizenThank you! 🥹
Making things better is a long and painful process. Making things worse just requires acting on a whim.
or not acting at all..
Was about to say this (less eloquently), this exactly. One man can make things worse with far less effort and assistance than is required to make things better.
It also requires us to be blind to the past (and past actions of our leaders just as much as current leaders).
Powerful visual aids demonstration.
maga "oh boy oh boy. giggle"
If you need an example look to the Kurds of Rojava. trump can never be forgiven for abandoning our allies.
🎯👍🏾
The Kurds were just the first to be completely betrayed, that ex-president with the 2025 doctrine will betray all kinds of countries, people, and even his own supporters if he 'thinks' any weren't 'loyal' enough, including you and me. 🤬
The Kurds are not people I would have abandoned. They will get their own back, yes they will. "What can they do?" Oh, what any group of angry and determined group of righteously pissed-off people can do, (gestures at the holes where buildings used to be in Manhattan).
Yea I also bring that up every time because that might be the single most evil and terrible thing he did.
I have a TBI, spent years homeless having seizures before I was able to get ssi, people who have seen me have seizures turned on me because of trump
I"m sorry to read this. I hope that you have found "your people" as well as some relief from your TBI symptoms.
@MusicfromMarrs medication has been helping and I finally got into a HUD building, rent goes by my income so I can afford it, thank you asking, changing the way I live was the hardest part
@@chaosmarklar good on ya!
Losing someone's trust takes but a moment. Regaining it can take a lifetime. Donny has the potential to bring down everything many have spent lifetimes to build.
The problem is that you don't know what the next President will do! Also thinking of all the WW2 heroes turning in their graves because there are nazis walking openly around.
A country in Europe voted for the wrong guy about 90 years ago.
This country to this day suffers from the result.
And this country seems to have caught the same contagion.
Hopefully a better prognosis.
It was not just ”one wrong guy”.
One should never look history and different movements trough one person. That movement had huge support.
Just like fascism everywhere it is a big movement and way to view world.
Fascism won .
@@markkujii4247 fascism is more than a view, it is an intent to do harm.
The roots of that run a lot deeper than one election 90 years ago. Some of those roots were growing long before that election, in American soil. Extremely welcoming American soil.
Also Iran was hitting allies throughout Trump's presidency, there were multiple incidents in the Gulf and they hit a Saudi oil field with a drone strike. They were also heavily funding non state actors in Yemen, Syria and Pakistan. I mean the Houthis didn't just pop up overnight.
But the Houthis (correctly named Ansar Allah) are on the side of humanity.
@@mdh235mdhagreed 💯👍
Trump is completely oblivious unless it DIRECTLY affects HIM.
B. I. N. G. O.
He's pretty damn oblivious even when it does.
Sociopath is another way to say it.
He's completely transactional, but in a stupid way.
You mean he just plain doesn't care unless he is directly is affected by it.
He abandoned the Kurds in northern Syria and moved our troops to the eastern side of the Euphrates - Turkey let isis fighters back into Syria to free isis prisoners of war - and they overran the same territory again, all bc pootin told rump to move
Reporting at the time also showed Turkey killed almost all 10,000 of the Kurds the U.S. abandoned in Syria.
"Trump was weak. He ran." Oh, that's gonna hurt some feelings. 🤣
By my recollection, Trump quit repeatedly. He started escalating this big thing with Kim Jong Un. Eventually, he realized the weakness of his situation and decided to kiss and make up. He traveled around the world to beg forgiveness face-to-face. Afterward, North Korea was much emboldened in rhetoric. Un's sister became quite brazen. Extremely foolish and weak on Trump's part.
The naked truth often does...
He's easily the weakest president we've ever had, and both Pierce and Buchanon are still extremely weak.
Truth hurts
Spread the word!
Trump has caused SO MUCH DAMAGE!
@ar4122 With his enablers.
And sadly no end in sight...
When Trump attacked Qasem Soleimani he did largely due to Bibi requesting it alongside the proxy hits.
After the kill Trump called for a joint presser with Bibi but Bibi never showed. Bibi had gotten Trump to a target for him so he could keep his hands clean. Bibi has always wanted the US and allies to take care of his Iran problem. When Bibi didn't show at the presser Trump' was furious and he felt it showed a lack of gratitude and loyalty a major no no when dealing with Trump and he wrote Bibi off
Trump & Republican strategy in general. Capitalize now & leave others to pick up the mess you make. Trump took credit for Obama's improving economy before he even got sworn in. And then he blames all the bad stuff he left behind immediately to his successor. He's a credit stealer & responsibility blamer.
Reminds me of that Seinfeld episode where Elaine would get shadowed by someone to receive reflected glory around Elaine's work & then that person would disappear if Elaine was going to take some heat for something that went wrong.
We may not live long enough to see the damage he did to the judiciary undone.
I don't think there's much that can be done to inform people that want to remain willfully ignorant and blind.
Not a new problem. Look up “Plato’s Cave.”
No, but informing people that are not willfully ignorant, but have just horrendous used to the present upside down world, which tfg is still warping and twisting, can be reached if you can manage to shift their perspective just a little. Then they might see that they aren’t living the life they want to live in the cult, they.’re living the life Trump wants them to live so he can feed off them when it’s convenient and ignore the rest of the time. They might begin to want a life of their own. It’s a start.
I start my day listening to you,I end my day listening to you,so keep up what you do,thank you.
Same here
I have ended my day listening to Beau since I was at the homeless shelter. Started up again last year after my husband passed away. ❤❤
It's like a cleanse of all the other stuff I've consumed
Your commitment to journalistic integrity is inspirational.
I said it in 2016, "I won't vote for Trump. Because he's incompetent!"
A competent version of the same guy would be much worse though
@@jakob8884 I wish all the people who think it's going to stop with Trump would understand that, or, if they do understand that, at least acknowledge it.
As much as I didn't care for Hillary and would be disappointed that a more progressive policy would take effect in favor of a status quo one, there's no way I was going for Trump from his first speech with the Mexicans and really not when he said he could shoot someone on 5th Ave. and not lose any supporters. The man is garbage and an idiot.
That's the last thing that I am worried about with Trump
He is straight up evil
Incompetent doesn't even begin to describe what I can't stand about him .
indeed , the " red tie brigade" at his trial proved that the problem is FAR bigger than Trump himself@@Dexter_795
Just because it's hard to fix something complicated doesn't mean it's hard to break.
In my experience, the more complicated something is, the easier it is to break...
Trump should be made to sit in a room and hear all the testimonies from those more than 100 soldiers who got "little headaches", yeah, those same ones he called cry babies.
He'd enjoy that.
Waste of an auditorium, that. He can take a nap somewhere else. HIS VOTERS need to hear those testimonies.
@@BC25citizen Some of them probably know ways to keep him both awake and quiet.
Jenga 2024.
We will rebuild.
Dark Brandon approves of this message.
Having multiple TBIs eyes confirm they can be devastating and life altering. I jokingly use the term smoosh brain to reference myself sometimes or mashed potato if you will.
❤️
My TBI gave me seizures 6 years after the injury, but possibly earlier misdiagnosed as low blood sugar, took me 11 years working off the books (because nobody else would hire someone who loses consciousness) to get ssi
@@chaosmarklarI'm so sorry that you went through that. I hope you won't take offense at the question, but I'm wondering how you went about getting qualified, or if you aged into it. My symptoms made it impossible to work, and when I'd recovered enough to manage completing the application, they told me I wasn't eligible for benefits because it'd been too long since I'd worked. Seems like a pretty big problem with the program if being too disabled for too long meant you can't get disability benefits.
@@bjdefilippo447 you may have been unqualified for SSDissability after 15 years of not working. SSI is the alternative. Re apply! You can get back pay from SSI from the date of your original claim. It adds up to a lot money because it can take a year or years to finally get started. Keep applying and don’t give up.
@bjdefilippo447 I worked off the books but couldn't keep an address due to being in the hospital every few months, when I got an address I applied, got denied and appealed to the judge, I got sent for testing and approved immediately, but I only get SSI and Medicaid
Thanks for this. In deep red texas i seem to be the only one that remembers stuff like this, and there are more btw. For instance when he had the taliban at camp david on 9/11 and gave them afghanistan. 🤦♀️ its nice to know im not the only one who remembers.
There's been so much that he's done that is hard to keep up
Building on the Jenga metaphor, the Pompeo doctrine could be like the city hiring inspectors that tell contractors, "Oh, sure, you can get rid of that load-bearing column to save money and give the hotel an open floorplan." Engineers and some workers are aghast, but they are shouted down and ignored in favor of a quick buck. Years after the inspector retires, the hotel collapses, taking hundreds of lives with it, and the engineers and construction workers are blamed, ruining their lives. Fearing for their political careers, draconian laws are passed by the city council requiring fewer breaks and more oversight of construction workers, while the root causes of the collapse are swept under the rug.
... And now I feel like writing a movie.
This was a different kind of Road trip this morning, but it still got us here. Thanks Beau.
It takes a team of specially trained craftsmen to build something of value. Any toddler can knock stuff down.
Exactly 💯
We elected a reality show star, whose sole reason to exist is to build an audience by giving them what they think they want. We deserved it. The rest of the world did not.
Anyone who saved him from being removed at his 2nd impeachment, and whomever voted for him a second time deserves it.
I voted against him, both times, so did a lot of other people I know - did we deserve it?
Last summer the Euro was so low that we went to Spain, Italy and Switzerland to thank them for supporting Ukraine.
@@elizabeththelen7955Unrelated BS🙄
1/3 of registered US voters picked him, with the help of the electoral college. All the marginalized people who voted for Clinton, despite their reservations about her, definitely didn’t deserve him or the laws & rhetoric his party uses to take away/ restrict their rights.
There also was the moving of the ebassy from tel aviv to jerusalem.
This, comes to mind: “Don't play chess with a pigeon: someone who struts about, knocks pieces over, poops on the board, & flies away.”
Unfortunately when the pigeon gets elected to the highest office of the most powerful nation in history, you can't really choose not to play no matter how difficult it is to deal with the tantrums.
Moving the embassy to Jerusalem in my opinion was one Jengastone making the tower less stable
👋🏼🤠‼️💙
Also in the news, Trumps former lawyer gets arrested because she slapped a reporter’s camera. 🤣
Uh oh, ET in the house. 👋✌️
Are you saying she's a slapper? 😀
Which one? There are only a few thousand "she" lawyers you could be talking to. 🤣😂🥰😛
Good morning! That's some TFG level reaction there. He always hires the "best" people! 🤦
Those sycophants remind me of the worst ambulance chasers, fodder for the best lawyer jokes.✌️😸🍀
@@erinmac4750What do you call 100 former TFG lawyers in jail?
A good start.
"JENGA" is the perfect metaphor for how foreign policy works. Many parts, dependent on each other for their precarious balance.
What are the settlements besides a slow motion invasion and occupation of territory that doesn't belong to you?
Oh I wish you were required viewing in every high school in the nation, in every Political Science class. This was such an intelligent, important road to be on. thank you
Trump was running on a policy of isolationism and that to me was why he wasn't doing spit and making the relationship we have with our allies worse. Buddying up with dicators was shameful.
No he wasn't. He was running on a policy of stroking his own ego. The only reason he was "isolationist" is because the right has been on a xenophobia kick for a couple decades now. He buddied up to dictators because they were happy to pat him on the head and call him a good boy in order to get concessions from the US. He damaged the relationship with allies because they would call him out for his nonsense, if not outright laugh at him.
It's all about his ego. Even his wealth is more about being able to brag about being rich than it is about actually having money. It's why he's so willing to invest in absolutely idiotic businesses and then turn around and brag about how "smart" he is to have filed yet another bankruptcy claim when they inevitably fail.
He is a deeply, deeply insecure man who for his whole life has been given the resources to hide his insecurity behind bravado. All of his original wealth came from daddy and he had guys like Weisselberg and Cohen around to stop him from screwing it all up _too_ badly and then clean up the messes he still managed to make. Practically nothing about Trump is "self-made" yet he desperately craves the validation our society tends to lavish on those few who really did build themselves up from nothing while knowing full well he'll never really have it.
So he takes what he can get, which amounts to screaming adoration from low-information people he has zero respect for whenever he spouts slurs, and praise from dictators whenever they want something from him. And he gives not one shit what that kind of pandering does to the country or it's reputation - it temporarily fills the void where his soul should be and that's all that matters to him.
As a kid, there was always one kid in the neighbourhood who when they realized they couldn’t win at Monopoly, they would kick the table and leave.
That’s a better analogy for the current defendant’s foreign policy.
That was brilliant. Thank you, Beau! ⭐❤
I always appreciate when you talk about history especially the intricate "minutiae" that is too often spoken into a vacuum and forgotten. It is important. I do not appreciate folks who say history doesn't matter because the past is not "a bucket of ashes". It effects us everyday. When we don't learn from it.....well, look around.
As someone who suffered a non traumatic brain injury (not nearly as bad) but did rehab with traumatic brain injury survivors, I can tell you it's devastating.
Watching a guy who had a memory like mine, not be able to remember something he read 5 minutes before was heartbreaking.
@@roadswithbeau yup, at Craig hospital here in the Denver area, I saw a LOT of people my age who will forever have the intellect of a child, all because of their injury. Oftentimes, it wasn't even their fault...the worst was a 19 year old kid whose dad is a SEAL, and the kid was on his way to Anapolis to follow in his father's footsteps...
@matthewcurry7835 I'm a home health nurse who works with some of those people in the Denver area once they are stabilized enough to go home.
I remember one game of Jenga, where one player decided it was time to start over. So they pulled a piece roughly, quickly. And the tower stood despite his actions. So he punched the tower.
Sounds like a very T rumpian thing to do .
Do you know their political stand ?
@@christopherapel1712 No, but this was the Critical Role crew. The Jenga tower in question is how they select a certain kind of question from the audience. Pull the piece, and read the number on it. Whoever drops the tower, receives some predetermined consequence they have to deal with for the rest of the show.
Foriegn policy & domestic policy is inexorably linked... I merely wished more voters understood that ..
I am so pleased that you have chosen to share your skills with us. You have made a difference in my life. You have taught me a lot.
Rump managed to cover that up, about the head and brain trauma sudfered - didn't want them to get purple hearts even - much less the treatment they needed.
Beau has got to be one of the best professors in civics, statecraft, politics etc...
Let's not even mention the ambassadors he didn't nominate.
And the one he hounded out of her job.
And I remember when in 2016 the new administration was not interested in debrief by the outgoing foreign experts. I was very worried about that then.
Outstanding content, Beau! I wish it would go viral. Every American needs to see this.
We're still recovering from tfg's foreign policy
Put briefly: a single president may not have the power to drastically improve a foreign policy situation, but a single president can absolutely undo decades of careful work through *mere inaction*.
Things are truly dire when visual aids are needed. Hopefully, thise who need them see this.
Another important and sobering lesson from Beau U. Thank you.
Brother Beau has to explain as one would to children....
This is how severely our public education system has been deliberately undermined by the reichwing since desegregation.
To Trump foreign policy is whatever he thinks it is. Ignorance is bliss
Only for him.... But suffering for many
Donald doesn't care unless there's something in it for him: A glowing letter from a dictator, golf trips from a sycophantic Prime Minister, brand and hotel deals from another world power. Otherwise, he treats it like any other time he hires someone: "They have _people_ for that kind of thing." And he'll always try to stiff them.
👋
Yeah, we've got to call willful ignorance by its full name, stupidity. Doesn't having a functional brain require some responsibility to listen, think and decide for yourself? Getting conned may not be your fault, but staying conned surely is.
Thanks Beau and crew 😊.
👋🏼 IQ‼️ have a wonderful day!
@@Erin-Thor Hey sweet Erin, wishing you the same 7xs over!
@@iquestion8493 - Thanks and hugs dear! But… my relatives object to my calling them stupid, especially my brother. I’m going to have to keep saying they are willfully ignorant. 🤣🥰
Well said! It's been illuminating and disappointing to see how many continue to drink the Kool aid. Perhaps there's something addictive in the feedback they get from that madness.
Hope you're having a pleasant morning and good day! 🍀✌️😎🌅
@@erinmac4750 Thanks 😊 and good morning 🌞
Such a good analogy. Don't elect someone who wants to knock it all down. That's how we all lose.
He helped give the world the excuse to be their worst selves.
POTUS doesnt have the power to really do a lot of good on his own,
but has the power to screw up a lot of things for a long time with not doing things.
Made me think of those complicated domino patterns. One little push ......!
Probably one of strongest videos since the foreign policy board and the "welcome to the hard part".
Someone who's idea of a genius move being to flip the board and send the game pieces flying everywhere should never be allowed to make strategic decisions.
Its a shame most of the blockheads will never see this fantastic explanation of foreign relations.
Good morning Beau and internet folks. It's funny to me that the ad was #45's again, are they trying to get the troll vote?
Hello fellow internet 🐥’s!
Seriously, though! 99% of us wouldn't have ever considered that bloviating buffoon as a possible president. Ever.
Hope your day continues beautifully with no more mushy Mussolini mentions! 🍀✌️😸
I laugh at all trumpie's give me money ads before watching Beau
Beau, it’s a shame you don’t have a larger audience. A lot of voters could really use your insight to be more informed voters….
like share and subscribe
@DaPoBoy50. Let’s change that together … share this video with a friend after you 👍🏼.
I wish there were more people that were receptive to actually THINKING about what he's saying. I've shared a few times and my family don't want to learn
I was having this conversation on Soleimani with a fellow veteran and a republican. My argument fell on deaf ears, unfortunately.
His base isn't going to care about traumatic brain injuries. They think being hurt is a sign of weakness. They won't care until he betrays them personally. And I said 'until' and not 'unless' for a reason.
if the US hadn't been tacitly approving those "settlements" by refusing to punish its dependent brat for breaking the law, the brat might not be the monster it is now. why fear punishment for crimes if it will never be levied, hmmm?
That was a solid lesson! Teach on teacher! 👍
The foreign policy mistake was less in hitting Suleimani and more in taking credit for doing so, for boasting about doing so.
Spain on the 28th of this month recognize officially the free State of Palestine...
We had that announcement during a Holly celebration. It might sound extra, but Spain is very Catholic.
THIS VIDEO NEEDS TO GO VIRAL!
A president cannot make things happen they way we want to think, but they can certainly pour gasoline on the fire of an issue.
To be a fly on the wall while Beau & fam (or friends) are playing Jenga!
Truth! I would definitely watch that! ✌️😎🌅
How about several of the YTers get together and discuss politics whilst playing Jenga. Trae Crowder needs to be there cracking jokes to put people off at the crucial moment. Do it as a live feed with contributions going to a worthy charity.
TBI is like making someone a different human. I have seen it with my friend who went Iraq in the 90s….but it doesn’t even take that. I am a teacher and had a student who was a wrestler a few years ago. He had two concussions within a month, then slipped on the ice-getting a third and then horsing around with his buddies in the hallway hit his head on a wall-getting a fourth within about two months. He changed so completely that his friends and family couldn’t hardly understand. To me, it was less of a change than my friend who went to Iraq and didn’t even know me when he got back.
It's nice to finally have adults in the room.
When it started I just knew that tower would collapse around the end of the video. As the video went on I wanted it to collapse. Then I found if we got to the end and it didn't collapse....I would be PISSED!
😁
Chekhov's Jenga Tower?
I'm wondering how many times it fell down mid video due to some slight draft and he had to retake.
@@nlwilson4892 I was actually expecting it to be rigged to fall without obvious interaction by Beau....timed with a specific line.
... tfg can't take a joke, refuses to take a hint, and couldn't take a punch to save his worthless miserable hide...
While we’re on it, consider the weakness shown by Reagan in Lebanon. Both before and by pulling out after. As well as canceling strikes.
Darn, didn't know about that one. Thanks for opening eyes and mind, yet again.
Has the present administration replaced the Pompeo Doctrine?
Yes. Too late in my opinion, but yes.
When it seems my opinion of Trump can go no lower, I find out something new. I looked up the news story about those "headaches". Wow.
I remember a lot of people at the time going over the moral arguments for Soleimani's assassination, completely missing the point of how the rest of the world was going to react to it.
We have strong and stable leaders here too... 🤬
Just like with Jenga, it is hard to build something up, and soooo much easier to let the entire thing come crashing down.
Thank you Beau, for spelling it out for us. trump was playing tiddley winks when the adults were playing chess.
I have recently heard of the radical right's Project 2025 and its 920 page manifesto titled "Mandate for Leadership." It's truly the scariest thing I can imagine. It doesn't even depend on Trump winning the election. Please take some time to give us your take on this project and what we can do to make sure it is never implemented.
AGREED…..
Robert Beauchamp
US Army 1968-1972
It’s sad, but we still haven’t seen and felt all the damage that occurred those 4 years. The cleanup that Biden has done was actually more impressive than I was expecting
Oh look it's Beau, i just can't get enough?
"Finesse or Subtlety" are certainly not indicative of 45.....
(causation is a leading cause of correlation)
😅hadn’t heard that variant before. I like it!
The doctrine and accords provoked it. I will absolutely say that with confidence
The structure example is a good one.
It's a lot harder to build things than it is to destroy things.
And the world's structures are always being built, and being taken down. Which do we support?
Who's standing upon what we're building? Who's standing upon what we're taking down?
Of course, blood begets blood. And Trump boasted about murdering a general to an Aussie millionaire while TBIs came home; a toddler with a nuke.
(I'm also just having a low grade anxiety attack watching that tower back there because I KNOW that took many takes to set up)
The us has always been crap at foreign policy from early twentieth century isolationism to installing themselves as the post forty-five Global policeman, yet they will never get it.
I was heart sorry for those involved in the eleventh of September though not surprised it happened, it was merely reaping what you sowed. I was born in Africa to terrorism, moved to Europe with terrorisim, My mates walked the streets of Northern Ireland because of terrorism largely funded by the us. How sympathetic should I be when terrorism eventually hits the us? Particularly when the casualties are less than the homegrown sport of mass shootings exceed those of terrorist activities?
Whenever I think of trump and international diplomacy (I won't say foreign policy as I am Australian), I can't help but think of pigeons and chessboards.
Wow, you have time for Jenga? If you do, good for you for taking time to step away and have time for yourself. The one phrase I can't stand is " I don't have enough time"
I've found that people make time for the things that are important to them.
Yes, I try to avoid the phrase, "I didn't have time" because the reality is that I didn't *make* time. Maybe I put my priorities on things like eating and sleeping, but I could have cut back on those things to make time. It comes down to priorities. Me? I like food and sleep.
@@timothyball3144 exactly. With me if I'm given the choice of sleeping or eating, I'll pick sleeping every time 😸
You have delivered a great lesson here my friend.👍👍👍
You know some of the TBI patients, I'm guessing.
The ad before this was trump’s campaign *shudders*
Please look at the international efforts to prepare for a second trump term.
As a Canadian, we watched with horror as Trump ripped up NAFTA. This adversely effected workers and lives in both America and Canada.
I always hate to see a Jenga tower topple.😢 Great analogy Beau. ❤