Another old white guy here. Same situation (investments, etc.). Trump and MAGA will destroy everything good in America. Get out and vote straight Blue and get everyone you know to do the same.
A huge hug from Sweden (now NATO's ally in Eurpe)! "Listen to an Old White Guy" - my heart pounding, and I tought: *I will still like him* what ever he has to say, but admittedly I was afraid that you would not support a halt to Trumpism. That was my prejudice, of course. There are in fact many mature white men in the USA, and I kind of collect awareness of them, to stay feeling hopeful and safe, as I don't want a dictator in the White House, to bundle up with dictators abroad. I'm really scared that anything negative happens in the USA spreads to Europe, like in questions of peace, livable climate, women's rights, ridiculous misogyny - hunkism (is hunkism a word?). I'm impressed by your courage to post this video. When good things happen in the USA, it spreads, too. That's what we like, positive examples spreading, back and forth over the oceans. Thank you, thank you - you made me so optimistic!
Well Said! There are times to get political and this is one of them. I hope what you say motivates people to get out and "Vote Blue" as you Americans say. Sitting here in Australia, we've had generally useless conservative governments but nothing like Trump -who is next level weird, not to mention criminal. He is a terrible threat to your democracy if he becomes POTUS again.
@@BookishTexan kimswhims I recall our last happy clapper prime minister was quite a fan of Trump although he was incompetent enough that he made no real impact in that regard.
Thank you so much. I am also in your old white man category. You are right in all that you say here. Thank you for having the courage and intelligence to give this video to us! I also live in an incredibly conservative state [Arkansas, which is in a death struggle with Louisiana and Mississippi to be at the bottom of all categories of quality of life measures], and our state is already suffering at the hands of the dour, low intellect Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Trump will not make anything better here. I'm supporting Harris-Walz.
The only thing that saves Texas from the same fate is our large urban areas. Doesn’t stop Republicans from winning most statewide elections, but it does keep them from achieving their worst ambitions. Thank you for the kind words and for speaking out here.
As a lesbian married senior citizen Trump scares the hell out of us. He wants to annul our marriage. He wants to eliminate my Social Security and Medicare. We are absolutely terrified.
Exactly. He poses a threat to all the progress we have made in so many areas. I wish that more people who fit my description would realize that taking rights from others makes all weaker.
Can somebody list what is on the conservative platform that will help families and people who are already born? Affordable healthcare? Affordable education? An environment we can live in? Affordable rent? Affordable daycare? Anything that could help us live that American dream they keep blathering on About? Didn’t think so. I think at this point the only “family” the conservatives want to thrive is the corporate family.
As an old white woman, I can't help myself but have opinions and participate in my countries democracy. To me its vital to understand how you have to be proactive in the democratic process, politics impacts on how we live, voting apathy is not good.
Thank you for speaking the truth, Brian. We have to do everything we can as voters to prevent Trump and his fellow bad actors from winning and retaining power.
I’d also add how America is perceived by the rest of the world. When DJT was elected we thought it was a joke. When he did come to Europe, he made a fool of himself and became a figure of fun with other World leaders . I would tell any American thinking of voting for Trump to look at how he is viewed by Europe in particular.
Everything he said to the European leaders has become true, e.g. regarding Russia and Nordstream. He forced them to stand up to their role as real NATO partners and not just dependent puppets like the Democrats want them to be. And they foolishly, arrogantly laughed at him, not noticing they were the fools (and they don't have to fear anything because this class governs over our heads and destroys everything that's, not in line with their ideology, look only into the events in the totalitarian UK today, where people are imprisoned for sharing or liking social media posts that show the truth contrary to the news, or my Germany: total denial of reality, g8verning against the own citizens). He was right with almost everything he predicted, even the economic crisis after Biden-Harris ruined the economy which he'd build up (average family income +$6000/year, energy independence etc.). All Harris now does is say she's gonna make things great but she has ZERO plan how. All phrases and bs from a teleprompter. She is, in her own words, a radical. She has failed in everything she's done, as DA, as AG, as VP, and achieved nothing through competition. She was in Biden's own words hired for diversity while she was the worst of all candidates in the primaries in 2020. These are the facts. She will destroy the U.S. and fail massively with real hardcore world leaders. She will cause ww3, which they said D.T. would do while all he did was to create peace in the world (Abr. Accords, N.K. etc.).
He is a buffoon and a very dangerous one. The damage he did to our alliances and the people mage of the US abroad are not understood by most of his supporters because they haven’t left the U.S. and think we are still perceived as a great champion of freedom when that idea of the U.S. was destroyed long ago.
@@BookishTexan No, rather that Biden-Harris have destroyed the U.S. - the economy, the security. Under them the U.S. has begun it's fast journey into a third world country without free speech, with censorship, the most unhinged lies by the media and government. Minneapolis during the riots (Walz) and S.F. under Harris (as morally corrupt DA and AG) are the role models of what your country is going to look like under those radicals. They want other NATO members to be weak puppet states, unlike Trump who wants them to stand up to their responsibility which is only good for them. Plus Trump actually created peace in the world unlike any other administration before or after him: Abraham Accords, North Korea, relations to Russia and Afghanistan handling.
Thanks for making this Brian. There are a lot of young (especially white) men who need better role models online, to counter the many predatory ones trying to radicalize them for their own gain.
@@karlalikestoread I agree completely. Those who profit from radicalizing young men are without scruples or principles. Unfortunately they are also very effective at pushing the right buttons to gain followers and power. This has been true since Mussolini and Hitler formed their black shirts and brown shirts from groups of unhappy young men. It’s a scary pattern.
@@clarepotter7584 Normal? So either you know nothing about him, especially his gender affirmative care bills, or you are as radical as he is yourself. Do you think what his view of the law allows to be done to children is normal? Plus he's a stolen valor liar. Every passing day makes Walz look weirder and more dangerously radical.
Agree Agree Agree But Brian, please don't take this offensively, "DRIVING A CAR WHILE MAKING A UA-cam VIDEO IS SOOOOOOOOO DANGEROUS" not just for you, but for anyone in your vicinity. Your mind is primarily focused on your thoughts, not your surroundings. PLEASE, I know from experience. It's poor judgement in the least. BE SAFE!
Thank you. Not sure this will help allay your concerns, but my camera is mounted and I was not speaking from a script so I could keep my eyes on the road. As a result it doesn’t feel anymore dangerous than driving and having a conversation with a passenger.
As a paramedic, I'm MORTified by the trend of recording videos and live streams while driving, even when it's being done the "right" way like Brian has done here!
I would say here in Australia generally we view him as a joke, and couldn't believe he got in. However, there are those here too who believe in whacky conspiracies and if Trump were to get in again it would have an impact on those groups and how vocal they might become.
Have you seen the movie “Being There” ? I think it succinctly exposes the current political situation. Each side thinks “ Chauncey Gardiner” is the other side’s candidate. “As long as the roots are not severed,all is well and all will be well in the garden.First comes spring and summer but then we have fall and winter.And then we get spring and summer again.” Happy pre birthday. 🥳
Thank you Joni. I haven’t seen being there, but I hope we never get to the point our candidates are so similar that one person could be seen as a candidate for either (though 2000 was close)
Mr Brian thank you for sharing your vlogs with us . I remember when I was kid some young ladies dyed their hair two different colors but nowadays some women in 60s have grey hair fashion. Many people lied about their real age make themselves younger few years . There are old Arabic actress and singer made annual Botox , unfortunately even facial features changed . Aging process is part of human nature we can’t change whatever we do .
Hello Khatoon! Aging with grace and dignity can be a challenge. My birthday is coming up and I had forgotten how old I was going to be. I seem to always think I’m a year older than I am.
Hi Bookish. I have only just seen this comment so apologies for the late comment. This video is an emotive appeal and you have referenced your age and your ethnicity as a reference point in your argument, which is interesting. It seems you have found the fact that there has been a lot of inflation and a drop in living standards of ordinary Americans as a possible weak point because of course it is. You never focused on the harm this is causing but asked for it to be dismissed as not something in the governments control. Surely the energy policy of the Democrats has been a lead cause in the rise in prices?
@@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk I mentioned my demographic categories to identify myself as a member of the group most often associated with the MAGA movement and to whom Trump appeals. I never asked for the harm inflation does/has done to be dismissed just for the responsibility to be placed where it lies, which isn’t with the President. Not sure what Democratic energy policy you are referring to, but I will point out that the U.S. under Biden is producing a record amount of oil domestically, much more than under Trump. And yet, gas prices remain high. This, I think, highlights my point about Presidents not controlling inflation. Biden has us producing more oil than ever and yet prices remain high because the price of gas is not something the President can control.
@@BookishTexan Thank you for the reply, it is much appreciated. This increase in oil capacity, if true, must be very frustrating to Democrat supporters who believed they voted for a party that was trying to reduce carbon emissions? Was it the Democrat government who blew up the Nord stream pipe line causing the biggest man made pollution event ever or did the Russians blow up their own pipeline? Politics is an interesting, and not straight forward game.
@@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk As with most things in American politics we choose the lesser of two evils. I differ with the current administration on many things, but you asked about energy policy and I gave an honest, accurate to the best of my knowledge, answer.
Can you at least make an effort to mask your disdain for the people this video is allegedly directed towards? Vile boomer. Enjoy your home and your investments while you can.
@@kilgoretrout9696 I have no desire to mask my disdain for MAGA. But this video isn’t directed towards them. It’s directed towards undecideds and I express no disdain for them in this video. Btw, Vonnegut would hold Trump and MAGA in disdain as well.
@@BookishTexan This video was made so you can publicly wank yourself. Self-flagellation and trying to pose as "one of the good ones" wont save you. As for Vonnegut, I don't really care. He is buried and his hypothetical opinions on current events are meaningless in contrast to real opinions held by living people.
Thanks Brian. I’m hoping more old white guys white us speak out against Trump.
I hope so too. Thanks for the inspiration.
Another old white guy here. Same situation (investments, etc.). Trump and MAGA will destroy everything good in America. Get out and vote straight Blue and get everyone you know to do the same.
_First!_ "We want to ban assault rifles, and they want to ban books!" -- Kamala Harris 🗽
Good line.
@@BookishTexan I thought so. Trump's a traitor to our country IMHO 🇺🇸
Thank you, Brian. I agree with you 100% on all counts.
Thanks Pat
Hear Hear! Harris::Walz 2024
Absolutely.
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Thank you for your words of wisdom💙. And he's only getting worse by the day. It's scary that the election is even this close.
@@triofan9 I’m agree and we can’t assume anything about the outcome.
National Security threat too.
@@Febr7 indeed!
Yes. Can’t repeat that often enough!
Don’t vote for the old orange guy.
Exactly!
They're All Liarz. Take your pick, the world will still be sick.
I'll be Watching the Cheerleading
@@archbishoprichardforceginn9338 Nihilistic and creepy all at the same time.
A huge hug from Sweden (now NATO's ally in Eurpe)! "Listen to an Old White Guy" - my heart pounding, and I tought: *I will still like him* what ever he has to say, but admittedly I was afraid that you would not support a halt to Trumpism. That was my prejudice, of course. There are in fact many mature white men in the USA, and I kind of collect awareness of them, to stay feeling hopeful and safe, as I don't want a dictator in the White House, to bundle up with dictators abroad. I'm really scared that anything negative happens in the USA spreads to Europe, like in questions of peace, livable climate, women's rights, ridiculous misogyny - hunkism (is hunkism a word?). I'm impressed by your courage to post this video. When good things happen in the USA, it spreads, too. That's what we like, positive examples spreading, back and forth over the oceans. Thank you, thank you - you made me so optimistic!
There are a lot of old white guys like us who don’t believe the lies of Trump. I hope more speak out.
Hello. I am in the US and I am so happy to have your country in NATO. 🤗
Thank you. I’m an immigrant and can’t vote but I’m glad to see some people have common sense.
Thank you and thanks for enriching the United States by being here.
In the 36 years of being here no one has ever said that. Thank you! 🫶🥺
Yes!! Thank you!
Thank you.
Hear! Hear!
Thanks
The only thing I would add is convicted felon. 🙄
Absolutely.
It is such a joy and relief to see the energy on the left right now!
It feels so much better than it did a month ago.
Project 2025, no thank you!
Never!
Brilliant! Thank you, Brian!
Thank you!
Watching from across the pond I am feeling just a little more optimistic about your election.
I feel that way as well, but I don’t want that to lead to complacency
@@BookishTexan fair point.
Very articulate and accurate! Wishing for the best for your election results.
Thank you Tilly
Well Said! There are times to get political and this is one of them.
I hope what you say motivates people to get out and "Vote Blue" as you Americans say.
Sitting here in Australia, we've had generally useless conservative governments but nothing like Trump -who is next level weird, not to mention criminal. He is a terrible threat to your democracy if he becomes POTUS again.
I hope that there are more people like me committed to stopping Trump than there appear to be. Thanks for the kind words.
@@BookishTexan
kimswhims I recall our last happy clapper prime minister was quite a fan of Trump although he was incompetent enough that he made no real impact in that regard.
Thank you so much. I am also in your old white man category. You are right in all that you say here. Thank you for having the courage and intelligence to give this video to us! I also live in an incredibly conservative state [Arkansas, which is in a death struggle with Louisiana and Mississippi to be at the bottom of all categories of quality of life measures], and our state is already suffering at the hands of the dour, low intellect Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Trump will not make anything better here.
I'm supporting Harris-Walz.
The only thing that saves Texas from the same fate is our large urban areas. Doesn’t stop Republicans from winning most statewide elections, but it does keep them from achieving their worst ambitions. Thank you for the kind words and for speaking out here.
As a lesbian married senior citizen Trump scares the hell out of us. He wants to annul our marriage. He wants to eliminate my Social Security and Medicare. We are absolutely terrified.
@@annegibson6072 "Hear, hear!"
Exactly. He poses a threat to all the progress we have made in so many areas. I wish that more people who fit my description would realize that taking rights from others makes all weaker.
@BookishTexan who anyone loves is no one else's business.
@@annegibson6072 you are Absolutely right.
Speak it! Thank you!
Thank you.
Can somebody list what is on the conservative platform that will help families and people who are already born?
Affordable healthcare? Affordable education? An environment we can live in? Affordable rent? Affordable daycare?
Anything that could help us live that American dream they keep blathering on About?
Didn’t think so.
I think at this point the only “family” the conservatives want to thrive is the corporate family.
I think they have no interested in anything other protecting and expanding their own power no matter the cost.
Yes.
And thank you for speaking up!💙
Thank you.
This is the first video of yours that I’ve watched. Not what I was expecting. Sending love to all on your side of the pond.
Thank you.
As an old white woman, I can't help myself but have opinions and participate in my countries democracy. To me its vital to understand how you have to be proactive in the democratic process, politics impacts on how we live, voting apathy is not good.
I agree completely
Thank you for speaking the truth, Brian. We have to do everything we can as voters to prevent Trump and his fellow bad actors from winning and retaining power.
@@barrymoore4470 Absolutely! Thank you.
Thank you for this post.
Fully agree! I know there are undecided voters out there who need to be convinced, but who are those people and what does it take to convince them.
I have no idea what they are waiting for. I think right now “undecided” means “has paid zero attention”. Thank you.
I’d also add how America is perceived by the rest of the world. When DJT was elected we thought it was a joke. When he did come to Europe, he made a fool of himself and became a figure of fun with other World leaders . I would tell any American thinking of voting for Trump to look at how he is viewed by Europe in particular.
Everything he said to the European leaders has become true, e.g. regarding Russia and Nordstream. He forced them to stand up to their role as real NATO partners and not just dependent puppets like the Democrats want them to be. And they foolishly, arrogantly laughed at him, not noticing they were the fools (and they don't have to fear anything because this class governs over our heads and destroys everything that's, not in line with their ideology, look only into the events in the totalitarian UK today, where people are imprisoned for sharing or liking social media posts that show the truth contrary to the news, or my Germany: total denial of reality, g8verning against the own citizens). He was right with almost everything he predicted, even the economic crisis after Biden-Harris ruined the economy which he'd build up (average family income +$6000/year, energy independence etc.). All Harris now does is say she's gonna make things great but she has ZERO plan how. All phrases and bs from a teleprompter. She is, in her own words, a radical. She has failed in everything she's done, as DA, as AG, as VP, and achieved nothing through competition. She was in Biden's own words hired for diversity while she was the worst of all candidates in the primaries in 2020. These are the facts. She will destroy the U.S. and fail massively with real hardcore world leaders. She will cause ww3, which they said D.T. would do while all he did was to create peace in the world (Abr. Accords, N.K. etc.).
He is a buffoon and a very dangerous one. The damage he did to our alliances and the people mage of the US abroad are not understood by most of his supporters because they haven’t left the U.S. and think we are still perceived as a great champion of freedom when that idea of the U.S. was destroyed long ago.
@@BookishTexan No, rather that Biden-Harris have destroyed the U.S. - the economy, the security. Under them the U.S. has begun it's fast journey into a third world country without free speech, with censorship, the most unhinged lies by the media and government. Minneapolis during the riots (Walz) and S.F. under Harris (as morally corrupt DA and AG) are the role models of what your country is going to look like under those radicals. They want other NATO members to be weak puppet states, unlike Trump who wants them to stand up to their responsibility which is only good for them. Plus Trump actually created peace in the world unlike any other administration before or after him: Abraham Accords, North Korea, relations to Russia and Afghanistan handling.
the trouble is they don't believe it, or they don't care
Thanks for making this Brian. There are a lot of young (especially white) men who need better role models online, to counter the many predatory ones trying to radicalize them for their own gain.
@@karlalikestoread I agree completely. Those who profit from radicalizing young men are without scruples or principles. Unfortunately they are also very effective at pushing the right buttons to gain followers and power. This has been true since Mussolini and Hitler formed their black shirts and brown shirts from groups of unhappy young men. It’s a scary pattern.
Happy to listen to Walz, he's so normal: they're weird!
Absolutely right and the more they attack Walz the more they prove how weird they are.
@@clarepotter7584 Normal? So either you know nothing about him, especially his gender affirmative care bills, or you are as radical as he is yourself. Do you think what his view of the law allows to be done to children is normal? Plus he's a stolen valor liar. Every passing day makes Walz look weirder and more dangerously radical.
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Agree Agree Agree
But Brian, please don't take this offensively, "DRIVING A CAR WHILE MAKING A UA-cam VIDEO IS SOOOOOOOOO DANGEROUS" not just for you, but for anyone in your vicinity. Your mind is primarily focused on your thoughts, not your surroundings. PLEASE, I know from experience. It's poor judgement in the least.
BE SAFE!
Thank you. Not sure this will help allay your concerns, but my camera is mounted and I was not speaking from a script so I could keep my eyes on the road. As a result it doesn’t feel anymore dangerous than driving and having a conversation with a passenger.
As a paramedic, I'm MORTified by the trend of recording videos and live streams while driving, even when it's being done the "right" way like Brian has done here!
I generally don’t listen to old white guys but I’ll listen to you. 😂 Great video.
@@ATruthUniversallyAcknowledged I think not listening to old white guys is a great idea, but I appreciate you making a one time exception.🤓
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Hear Hear!!!!
trump is looking very tired, confused and demoralized now so it appears that even he believes the end is near⚛
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Ok. I’m subscribed after that!
@@sandysalzinger4725 Thank you
I would say here in Australia generally we view him as a joke, and couldn't believe he got in. However, there are those here too who believe in whacky conspiracies and if Trump were to get in again it would have an impact on those groups and how vocal they might become.
@@janethansen9612 I was stunned in 2016 as well.
Preach!
Thanks
Have you seen the movie “Being There” ? I think it succinctly exposes the current political situation. Each side thinks “ Chauncey Gardiner” is the other side’s candidate. “As long as the roots are not severed,all is well and all will be well in the garden.First comes spring and summer but then we have fall and winter.And then we get spring and summer again.”
Happy pre birthday. 🥳
Thank you Joni. I haven’t seen being there, but I hope we never get to the point our candidates are so similar that one person could be seen as a candidate for either (though 2000 was close)
I think you would enjoy the movie & also the book by Jerzy Kosinski.
I always listen to old(ish) white-bearded white guys from Texas. Speak on, Brian!
Ha!
Mr Brian thank you for sharing your vlogs with us . I remember when I was kid some young ladies dyed their hair two different colors but nowadays some women in 60s have grey hair fashion. Many people lied about their real age make themselves younger few years . There are old Arabic actress and singer made annual Botox , unfortunately even facial features changed . Aging process is part of human nature we can’t change whatever we do .
Hello Khatoon! Aging with grace and dignity can be a challenge. My birthday is coming up and I had forgotten how old I was going to be. I seem to always think I’m a year older than I am.
From this old white guy to you, I agree 100 percent.
Thanks you.
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What if i want to listen to an heterosexual old white guy 😢
Go ahead.
GO BRIAN GO! ❤
Hi Bookish. I have only just seen this comment so apologies for the late comment. This video is an emotive appeal and you have referenced your age and your ethnicity as a reference point in your argument, which is interesting. It seems you have found the fact that there has been a lot of inflation and a drop in living standards of ordinary Americans as a possible weak point because of course it is. You never focused on the harm this is causing but asked for it to be dismissed as not something in the governments control. Surely the energy policy of the Democrats has been a lead cause in the rise in prices?
@@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk I mentioned my demographic categories to identify myself as a member of the group most often associated with the MAGA movement and to whom Trump appeals. I never asked for the harm inflation does/has done to be dismissed just for the responsibility to be placed where it lies, which isn’t with the President. Not sure what Democratic energy policy you are referring to, but I will point out that the U.S. under Biden is producing a record amount of oil domestically, much more than under Trump. And yet, gas prices remain high. This, I think, highlights my point about Presidents not controlling inflation. Biden has us producing more oil than ever and yet prices remain high because the price of gas is not something the President can control.
@@BookishTexan Thank you for the reply, it is much appreciated. This increase in oil capacity, if true, must be very frustrating to Democrat supporters who believed they voted for a party that was trying to reduce carbon emissions? Was it the Democrat government who blew up the Nord stream pipe line causing the biggest man made pollution event ever or did the Russians blow up their own pipeline? Politics is an interesting, and not straight forward game.
@@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk As with most things in American politics we choose the lesser of two evils. I differ with the current administration on many things, but you asked about energy policy and I gave an honest, accurate to the best of my knowledge, answer.
Can you at least make an effort to mask your disdain for the people this video is allegedly directed towards?
Vile boomer. Enjoy your home and your investments while you can.
@@kilgoretrout9696 I have no desire to mask my disdain for MAGA. But this video isn’t directed towards them. It’s directed towards undecideds and I express no disdain for them in this video.
Btw, Vonnegut would hold Trump and MAGA in disdain as well.
@@BookishTexan This video was made so you can publicly wank yourself. Self-flagellation and trying to pose as "one of the good ones" wont save you.
As for Vonnegut, I don't really care. He is buried and his hypothetical opinions on current events are meaningless in contrast to real opinions held by living people.
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