San Fernando Valley Town Hall (part 1)

[begun101]

thats birmingham high school not town hall

[geffel]

@begun101

You're correct, It is the school, but these meetings are known as 'town hall' meetings. They usually take place at schools as town halls are either a thing of the past or not big enough to house the meeting.

[begun101]

he sounds something out of kansas and ignorant

[irepelay]

I had to wait 3 hours to get stitches at Holy Cross...

[AggressiveAtheist]

The right-wingers seem to believe that the liberals are taking their money to give it to some fat chick who smokes crack all day and cranks out babies. In reality, most of their tax dollars go to military spending. Some tax dollars also go towards building/maintaining roads, a police and fire force and public education. I guess they're against public education too because they won't teach kids that the earth is 6,000 years old and dinosaurs and man co-existed in the garden of eden.

[zombieiscool]

Sounds like gisbourne2000

[wolfwing1]

How the FUCK can these dumbshits say they are against taxes being given to others, and then pretend to say they are the most giving...

[geffel]

Not only that but he damned well wants his Medicare...

[wolfwing1]

Someone, might have been you was a week or so ago had a great response to these guys that are like, "I don't want my money taken away from me to pay for others, why should I care about them." and...why should we care about them? IF they don't care about others, why should we feel bad or care about them losing money? I mean we should, but by their own logic if they don't care about other people, why do they expect us to care about them?

[ndvuncle]

Rationed health care? That's what we have now.

[Otokogoroshi]

I'm not happy with the current health care bill going around DC I'd like one much closer to what many European countries have... but my lord this guy is fug-nuts.

[hellshade2]

wow there are some pretty messed up people out there...

[rayruiz12345]

Hard to believe this isn't a satire.

4:50 -___-

[ravenslaves]

The largest fallacy that I see, is the comparison between the proposed healthcare plan in the US, and anything that exists in Europe. No matter what side of the debate you're on, it's simply a wrong assumption. It's also a wrong assumption to think that anyone in DC is thinking about the public good over their self preservation. Those who do, are truly America's minority. This goes for either side. The endemic corruption in DC is the cause of most of our collective ills.

[SeruQuik]

I like that St. Nicklaus character. He shows the implication that if you want to help needy people, you're either a filthy thief or a Christian.

[RustyTube]

As someone who spent the first 29 years of my life under Communism, I find it highly insulting that these people compare the Democrats to Communists! They have absolutely no idea what they are talking about.

[1tofallen]

I remember the time my Italian relatives laughed at my dad because he was bitching about the 15% they take out of his pay. And one of my uncles pays 43%.

[1tofallen]

you pwned his ass at 2:15.

[flyingfisbeefilms]

Wow! Love it when people talk about subjects they haven't got a clue about. "Christians are the most generous people there are." But you don't want to spend a taxed dollar to help health care?

Hypocrite ( French )

[geffel]

But of course Medicare is provided by private donations...oh, wait, no, we pay for it. I forgot about that.

[ProjectPaladin]

It's always funny to listen to people talking about a country's history and that it then clearly shows, that they have no idea, what they are talking about... Especially when it's the country I'm living in... Godwin's law anyone?

It would make me laugh, if it wasn't so sad... ;-)

Thanks for the uploads...

[Vogter2100]

Holey moly. The ignorance and stupidity baffles me.

[spikesmth]

Haha, you're not being fair to this guy. He's too dumb to know that he's PWNING himself. Although I have a feeling you didn't just pick the dumbest guy out there :-)

[geffel]

There weren't many people outside the meeting. This guy had the most interesting er...appearance and was very willing to speak. I have more video coming from within and without the meeting. I was a little disappointed with the lack of tea bagger protests outside the hall.

For all that he says, he nad his fellow LaROuchePAC buddy were actually pleasant enough to speak to.

[tattooskin72]

man, you found some real nutters...

[geffel]

And I haven't even begun to edit the video of the meeting, which includes some great shouting from ignorant tea-scrota.

[tattooskin72]

Oh joy... let the real fun begin :)

[geffel]

You know you love it. It's mesmerising.

[johncrwarner]

The first man has no understanding of any history of other countries nor current politics of any country including the USA - that is interesting to hear the ignorance.

I have several classes of Germans learning English and they have raised the question - how come a country whose inhabitants they see and hear being so ignorant can be the major economic power in the world?

I have to say I know some intelligent US citizens but the current teabaggers are not amongst them.

[geffel]

That guy was a walking encyclopaedia of some version of history. Once he got going it was difficult to politely end the er...discussion.

[johncrwarner]

you mean the monolog...

The problem with his version of history is that it bears no relationship to reality and that's the problem.

[Bluedragon094]

In this video i sort of agree with both sides and disagree with both sides. I don't think it's moral to take someone's money at proverbial gunpoint even if your motives are to give that money to a worthy cause because stealing wrong in my view. The big problem i have with the health care plan is i don't know how the gov't is going to afford it without severely cutting other programs they run, hiking up taxes, or rising inflation or a combination of all 3. People need to realize... (cont.)

[Bluedragon094]

(cont.)

...that nothing the gov't provides comes free, and often times our tax money is not enough to cover all the costs, which is one of the reasons why social security is in trouble since the gov't dips in there to get more money to pay for everything.

[prodigyat9]

That first guy had a funny accent. I would have had to kill him since he is clearly not a real American like I am.

[geffel]

I don't know what his accent is - if anyone knows, please inform us. I'm guessing it's something north/north east US.

[musicgeniusno1]

LOL Santa is such a meanie!

Yet again, more people spouting out misinterpretations they swallowed from someone else.

Look forward to the next installment :)

[TheAwedCouple]

Seeing a despondent Santa makes me a sad prophet. :-(

Peace be unto Loons,

-Mohammad

[dackjaniels555]

"Down with the British Empire"

Hilarious, Say... Isn't that what America has tried to do... Form an Empire.

[johncrwarner]

Well the USA in 1945 put the nail in the British Empire by demanding that the UK pay back all its debts immediately and that the pound was not to be the only currency acceptable in the Empire - thus crippling the British economy further and bringing to an end the British Empire - job done 1946

[geffel]

That's quite correct. The debt was largely responsible for the 'austerity years' and the ongoing tationing of food in the UK right into the 1950s.

[johncrwarner]

and the UK only finished paying back the USA for world war 2 in 2006 and that's how grateful we are

cue Chumbawamba's song about the response in 1956 to the other superpower which liberated them.

/watch?v=ifq7dTUjonc

[dackjaniels555]

Wait, America billed the UK for WWII?

What utter scumfuckery.

We should have surrendered to the Nazis and let them invade America.

[johncrwarner]

yes, the USA billed the UK for WW2 as that would break the British Empire and allow the USA to be "Top Nation".

The Marshall Plan was put in place in Europe to build up the client states of the American "Economic Empire" that was so successful after the WW2.

[dackjaniels555]

That has absolutely nothing to do with the point I was trying to make.

[esantipapa]

You finally ran in LPAC... beware, these guys are totally nutters... there are a lot of them on the east coast.

[geffel]

The funny thing was they were both, on the face of it, nice guys. The younger one and I , whose voice only appears on this video, had a chat about movie making.

I don't understand how people buy into the right wing bollocks.

[esantipapa]

LaRouche, like many charismatic political commentators, has a knack for snatching up impressionable people and making them devoted to his message. Not exactly sure what his message is, beyond a lack of trust in anything that is not "LaRouche". I read up on the guy, crackpot doesn't begin to explain who he is. Any ideology "other" than his own, beit right or left, is ostracized and suggested to be a plot of the British Empire... or Obama/Americanazis.

Bollocks indeed!

[Glacies12]

Fucking idiot...

[Mythification]

Retarded mutch???

[debbieomi]

I like the way you engage them in conversation so that we can hear just how crazy they are.

[geffel]

There's no point in getting into a screaming match with them and yes, I prefer to draw them out.

[REBMike1]

Geffel, how the fuck did manage to keep a straight face, when you were talking to those two Fox News watching bozos? People like that when they go on about Hitler, I bet they think was he was from Germany. Asshats.

[RHYMEMAIDEN1]

I do so wish that people who have not a single clue about Nazi Germany or its beauracracy actually functioned would just shut the fuck up about it.

[tricklessmagic]

OMG!

[oojamaflipper]

all kinds of crazy

[CrosshairJack]

Hells Bells!

[TheSandreGuy]

Nutters... All of ´em.