Post Game November 3, 2017

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A solo Dave Koller gives his TYT and world updates.

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  1. I really do think if WW3 happens…when this idea that we can move forward without learning our past mistakes…..

  2. Bingo on the points about joining the military. Nowadays it sure is a crapshoot what will happen to you in terms of assignment. A lot of my high school friends joined the military for noble reasons. Young kids who believed in what they are doing. What has happened to how the military is used in these past decades is so disrespectful to those who promise their lives to it.

  3. Thank you Bart. It was 40, windy, and pouring buckets of freezing rain where I live on Thursday. It’s literally never cold in LA. It gets minus 1 or 2 degrees Fahrenheit in the winter here regularly. During the polar vortex, minus 30. You ever had to defrost yur scrotum from yur thigh? I have. People move to Southern California and forget what cold is, man.

  4. It’s been happening with increased frequency that the clips from the show will be up on YouTube but not here on the website. It’s 12:18 pm on the US east coast and yesterday’s (Monday, Nov 6th) show isn’t up, but all the clips are on YouTube. A lot of us would appreciate it if this could be rectified.

  8. Actually Woodstock was connected to the Vietnam War and the anti war movement. Those young people knew they could be drafted. So they were aware. That is all except the rich and connected. Their children did not serve or got special treatment while awol in the reserves. The irony that men who were of age but did not serve at all, cheated to avoid service or received special treatment while being protected created and perpetuated war and death in o this new century. War is the US’s main industry.

  9. Remember, that one senator *can* achieve a lot – can have a lot of power as Dave said. Bernie, for example, is called the “Amendment King” because he gets a lot done…

  10. I was just out of my teens in the ’60s. It was the worst of times. Lost friends who were drafted. It was the best of times. Music. Better than now because our protests actually resulted in some change. We don’t know how to change things now. No one wants to vote, no one good wants to run. I feel doomed now.
    In the 60s we had hope.

  11. And yeah Dave, guys I know over here tell me they worry about North Korea so they voted to keep members of PM Abe’s party in their seats. Looks like that’s not just the main reason but THE reason, they’re saying they can’t stand Abe and his rightist, hypocritical policies but they weren’t given a choice and it’d be too risky to change leadership in the middle of this mess.

    Good assessment Dave!

  12. So Dave.

    About Ken Burns’ The Vietnam War. Thanks for your thoughts on that, very interesting point about how some things Nixon did brightened the picture of him. BUT you CAN’T miss segments! There’s a progression and linking of events that affected American consciousness and subconsciousness. The music of the times is also super important due to the kind of technological advances that enabled it to reflect the constantly changing thoughts of the huge number of Baby Boomers. What we need to understand is WHY do so many older people keep saying the times around 1968 through the mid-70s were way worse than this Trump mess now. I need to rewatch more slowly to overcome my own perceptions, which are heavily clouded by my childhood experiences during those days. I really want to GET this.

    Bart. BRILLIANT about the first parts of the series – YES! That history made SO much of a difference in how I understood the origins of the conflict. What did you think about the story of Ho Chi Minh? I had no idea he started the way he did.

    Dave. About Burns’ The Civil War. Did you miss any parts of that one? Because after watching that series I TOTALLY got, for the first time in my life, the fact that the war was COMPLETELY over slavery. What led up to the Republican Party and Lincoln, how certain states including New York reacted and changed reactions, how states rejected any sort of compromise, to what length states went to secede and exactly what they seceded over is CRYSTAL CLEAR in this film account. Yes Shelby Foote was in it doing some whitewashing but he spoke in good detail about his Southern upbringing and how hard it was for him to have a mind of his own in that environment. I thought Foote’s account and the accounts of the men and women on the Confederate side were extremely important to understanding how a nation of people could get caught up in a reality rooted entirely in color based slavery. And I thought the portrait of Robert E. Lee was well done as we HAVE to take the common consciousness of the day into consideration when looking at his decisions. Yes there is a war result and that is totally in favor of the Union but Reconstruction was NOT completed, therefore we have any number of organizations which have been enabled to twist history by erecting statues of the losers on public / government property and falsifying information in student textbooks. So we have a situation where Americans of every color / background as well as people all over the world have a skewed, deeply miseducated view of what the Civil War was, who started it and what kind of nation has resulted from 160+ years of incomplete Reconstruction and Lost Cause promotion.

    Vox videos on the timing and number of the confederate statues erected and Vox’s new piece on the damage done by the Daughters of the Confederacy group of Lost Cause activists are helping to chip away at the root of the problem.

  16. Interesting idea for a video on a news show, isn’t it? Have someone sitting off-camera talking like, half the time, while the guy on-camera, just sits there. Why not just have THAT guy sit down next to him? Maybe I missed something but… this could just as easily have been, I think, an audio segment, couldn’t it? With just a static single shot of Dave and the background?

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