Richard Nixon: I Am Not a Crook (1969 - 1974)

[@iammrbeat]

9:34 :ahem: let's see if we find out new information here in the coming months

[@TheBigBentley911]

🤣🤣🤣 How's that working out?

[@juliacaroline751]

"The US was exhausted and would never quite recover the unbridled optimism that had been lost" Sad truth...

[@morganwood5494]

did MS nixton tell him to destoyed. the tape

[@jaw444]

unbridled optimism died with JFK and Oswald, that was the death of the America that they always claimed it was, Kennedy was the only leader who tried to realize the ideals, and if you were paying attention, you knew that because he was rejecting CIA agenda in foreign policy, he was toast. CIA didn't answer to anything . It's part of the legislation that created the CIA, on their insistence. It says that they can operate without any monitoring. Otherwise they couldn't do their job, they said. i just learned this in the past year, reading an article on the CIA violent overthrow of the peaceful elected parliamentary government of Iraq. Eventually what they did was shared with the public in the media, NYT article, late 70s, but those war crimes were committed against innocent unarmed people, their country was taken from them in the interests of British Petroleum and Standard Oil and they were put under a violent autocrat (Shah) US puppet governing on behalf of the US and UK. All of that was done out in the open, just that public was out of the loop, just like any other automatic government with fake elections of puppet candidates. Kennedy tried to be what US always had claimed to be, like he fought for in WWII, willing to give up his life in the ocean with no life boat, swimming with two guys hanging onto him because their wounds were too disabling for them to swim. i think it's possible he knew CIA could get away with eliminating him because he was not going to order US into combat, he wasn't going to sell US people on the nonexistent threat of communism so the public would support the war. They needed war mongering kill the commies Johnson for that, so they killed Kennedy, and in case you thought this was America where defendants are innocent til proven guilty in a court and everyone has a right to a fair trial, they killed Oswald, and that was it, no more Kennedy assassination, it was over in 4 days, nothing to see here, move along, it was boring , glad it was over, no one talked about it. In Watergate, Nixon knew they were getting rid of him like they got rid of Kennedy. I was glad, i was a Nixon hater, i didn't hate him any more than LBJ, they were all corrupt, but Nixon knew he was lucky that he didn't end up like Kennedy. It's a fake "democracy." it's one of the most anti-democratic governments in the world. i learned most of what i know from James Madison, the guy who wrote the US Constitution and defended and justified in it in the Federalist papers, especially the Federalist Paper No 10, where he is addressing his peers, not the regular people , not the majority of people who he and his faction, as he called it, had contempt for the majority, he referred to his faction as "the propertied minority." He said the US Constitution would help the propertied minority to rule over the much larger majority, the were not propertied at the level that the ruling faction was. i never knew any of this until i started reading Madison, he explicitly is arguing for minority rule which can be successfully achieved over a much larger majority who wants to take their property away from them by using "divide and rule" tactics, he goes into some detail in Federalist paper No 10. wow, i never knew that, that wasn't what i was taught in school, that's not what most people think. We are all told that we have a right to go bombing weak poor country of Vietnam because we have democracy, we were always taught to be on an ego trip about that, it's fake. US people are disinformed by state. It's not really a very deep state, it's out in the open but not talked about. It can be seen but if it's not talked about , like killing Kennedy and Oswald, then people will sleep through it. things that have no verbal meaning are boring, things that are boring , people have no reason to pay attention to.

[@brian99xt]

This has nothing to do with Nixon. I just want to be the first to congratulate Prof Dave on your absolute demolition of Globe Busters.... To the extent that they have deleted all of their content. Dave..... You F'ing RULE.

[@Hayiii-uc8lp]

YES, but they still livestream on their second channel

[@asadsiddiqui4585]

wait, did they actually collapse? That's really cool actually

[@brian99xt]

@@Hayiii-uc8lp they do, but then they turn off all comments and the like/dislikes so you can't leave comments. Just "live chat" comments.

[@nothanksbro420]

@@brian99xt Wait wtf happened with Globe Busters? What caused them to wipe everything off

[@brian99xt]

@@nothanksbro420 hopefully the constant embarrassment of being proven wrong.

[@dirkjenkinz595]

Let nobody say history never repeats itself.

[@dirkjenkinz595]

@D.T. Baker 'Brain addled'? Do you mean 'addle-brained' perchance?

[@thomasneal9291]

@D.T. Baker "I can only vaguely imagine" your imagination is all you have going for you, that's clear.

[@MultiCappie]

@@thomasneal9291 XD

[@dusk6159]

@D.T. Baker This attempt to reverse the situation didn't pan out at all.

[@dusk6159]

Indeed, crazy how Nixon was all that introduction but he isn't the only one at all after the (voted out to oblivion - again - and gone) blond-wigged nutter came some time ago, being that personality but even 10x.

[@purplelionpoliticsandhisto5025]

Ok, the ending part was somewhat accurate, and yes, Nixon did cause alot of the right wing shift in the G.O.P, but ironically, he had far more in common policy wise to the Northeastern Republican establishment then Ronald Reagan.

[@davew6949]

"There is an old Vulcan proverb: only Nixon could go to China".

[@raghul0078]

Dave W, he should have never gone there. We are in so much trouble now.

[@blakesutherland519]

@@raghul0078 You can't ignore 1.4 billion people. That's the height of arrogance. Had Nixon not opened China, Europe and Japan would have and the U.S would've been left out of that massive market. China is the world's largest market and would be so without the U.S because Europe and Japan would've simply filled that void.

[@asifiqbal2776]

You are an amazing communicator and I hope you keep making such educational content in future as well.

[@AndrewRock3431]

Absolute great work of art! I truly enjoyed watching this and I hope to see more in the future. Thank you for this video.

[@ThizzGuy]

Thanks for the refresher Dave Never stop posting brother ❤

[@Anonymous-gd7xd]

Hey Dave please upload lectures on computer science too. Your lectures are literally amazing

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

That will happen at some point! First I need to hit all areas of engineering.

[@dietermarx5277]

A real good report. Just the way I remembered. Thank you.

[@lwo7736]

"Nixon might have been the most temperamentally unsuitable man ever elected to the presidency" Trump: hold my disinfectant

[@VikingTeddy]

It bothers me he would claim that. I don't know what to think...

[@lwo7736]

@@VikingTeddy well people can get rather oniery about Trump these days so he probably just didn't want to take a side and I 100% don't blame him

[@87aggietim]

Bill Clinton: Let me take it out for you.

[@earthdweller5136]

@@VikingTeddy maybe Dave didn't include trump in the list cause technically speaking he's still the president?

[@renzox1136]

@@earthdweller5136 ...and he has plenty of time to redefine his "legacy" before the end of his term 😅

[@87aggietim]

You should do one on LBJ. He was quite a character. Gulf of Tonkin comes to mind. My mom always thought he had JFK killed so he could be president.

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

I did him before this one. I'm going in order.

[@87aggietim]

@@ProfessorDaveExplains Oh, I didn't see it. Thanks.

[@dave_dennis]

I never knew he was responsible for derailing an agreement with North Vietnam. Why have I never heard about this?

[@MostlyPennyCat]

Hey, could you do a video on the left/right turnabout that everybody talks about, where we're told the GOP became right and the democrats became left? How much truth is in that?

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

A lot, if you watch the american history series from the start you can witness the whole transformation.

[@vulpesaustralis1452]

@@ProfessorDaveExplains Hmmm, my impression is more that both parties went from containing both significant progressive and conservative elements and factions to becoming fundamentally conservative in the case of the GOP and fundamentally progressive in the case of the Democrats. The 'old right' were primarily Republicans after all (along with Southern Democrats).

[@NinjaMonkeyPrime]

After hearing an interview on public radio with the authors of a podcast on Spiro Agnew, I have to say Agnew was even MORE of an amazing story than Nixon. I hope you can find the podcast authors and do your own spin on it. If you have trouble finding it let me know and I will see if I can find the names. As bad as Nixon was, it's criminal that no one even knows how bad Agnew was.

[@vulpesaustralis1452]

100%. Even more than Nixon, Agnew was the prototype to a certain orange.

[@dustinkknight]

Fantastic video! Great work as usual.

[@justthestem4388]

As always, solid content !

[@Rayzersword]

"Resentful of slights both real and imagined" reminds me sooo much of another, recently dethroned president...

[@jamellfoster6029]

My siblings were born before & during Nixon's administration (well most of them as I'm one of the younger ones born during the Carter Administration). They remember Nixon quite well.

[@davidonsea5355]

Brilliant summary and I know so much more now!

[@vanshnishchal9042]

Nice video!

[@richardaitkenhead]

I'm 39 and thats me just understanding the story of nixion.

[@87aggietim]

When I was in a new middle school experiment we had to sit for hours watching the Watergate Hearings on TV. Boring stuff. We also checked out our own assignment worksheets, did the work and graded our own papers. Teachers were there to babysit and didn't lecture or anything. Of course everyone made almost perfect grades. You had to miss a few to make it look good.

[@antondovydaitis2261]

We did the same thing in my school, but you could only skip class and watch the hearings if you wrote a one page summary of what you saw that day. I did not find it boring, though it was frustrating. I had known since I was able to read just what a focker Nixon was.

[@87aggietim]

@@antondovydaitis2261 It WAS our class and we had no choice. Day after day. And our salaries pay these people to talk trash. I don't like any of them. On either side of the fence. They will sell their mothers for power.

[@bonnie115]

If I remember rightly, at least one of the four that died at Kent State wasn't even a protestor, she was simply on her way to class - Sandra Lee Scheuer. Just checked, Bill Schroeder, on a ROTC scholarship, was also not part of the protest.

[@buf4wil]

Scheuer and Schroeder weren't even anywhere near the protest; they were just crossing the parking lot. Nice shooting, troops.

[@waltergoring8428]

You really are a smart guy, Prof Dave Grohl. I can hardly believe how rich and comprehensive your scientific knowledge is. And you have a sensible political awareness to boot.

[@dexaltavilla122]

“Now let’s check comprehension”

[@Jamietheroadrunner]

When he apologized during his resignation speech he forgot the ukulele. That’s why nobody forgave him.

[@Huntingslife1]

ProfDave: Nixon was the greatest law breaker to ever sit in the Oval Office Trump : Hold my beer...

[@87aggietim]

In the meantime Bill is getting a BJ from his intern in the Oval Office. LOL

[@87aggietim]

@@cd2920 What am I overlooking here? I didn't even mention Trump. I was talking only about Billy BJ. Are you easily confused like Biden?

[@87aggietim]

@@cd2920 Yes, I totally agree. They live to hate him like an obsession.

[@shritan0]

Dude, Nixon is a way bigger law breaker than Trump.

[@87aggietim]

@@earthdweller5136 It was his lies that mattered. I am sure Hillary appreciated it as well. LOL

[@LordJaric]

Gee, a lot of this sounds familiar.

[@jasonc0065]

Yes, China, Law and Order, the CIA, globalism, dementia, a bad moral record, and even the Russian hoax of January 17, 1961. Thanks, Dulles.

[@nothanksbro420]

@@jasonc0065 Globalism was good for the progress of Humanity from the start of the Industrial Revolution. Also helps less conflicts start and help stabilize each others economies. Though absolute Globalism is bad though i agree.

[@voodoodummie]

"The US was exhausted and would never quite recover the unbridled optimism that had been lost." And there we have the true meanimng of 'make america great again' that was not only the cry of the last administration, but essentially every republican in some form for the past 50 years. It's not about returning to some superior economic system or returning to a ''provider husband and dutiful wife" society, its really about returning to that lost feeling of unstoppable ambition.

[@rekkwaffle7668]

No it isn't.

[@chrisr4482]

Came for science, stayed for history.

[@kronovore3583]

An exceptionally intelligent, deeply-flawed introvert in politics; the traditional calling of the extrovert.

[@tylerkutschbach]

Nixon also didn’t win D.C. which has never voted Republican

[@Wastefulnet]

"Richard Milhous Nixon May Have Been The Most Temperamentally Unsuited Man Ever Elected To The Presidency" Donald Trump: Am I a joke to you?

[@saminustiashvili3059]

Thank you for your great videos-

[@cash7209]

"would you buy a used car from this man?" that's fatal

[@MetalZoomer]

Objectively one of the most accomplished presidents of his time. It's a shame that Watergate has overshadowed such an underappreciated president.

[@stardust.505]

0:30 THEIVIN! STEALIN! TAKING WHAT'S NOT YOURS! 🗣️🔥🔥🔥

[@2ToneWalt]

Ohio is a great Neil Young song about a tragic act.

[@benjamindover5676]

4 dead in O hi O,,,,,

[@FreemanVashier]

@@benjamindover5676 Crosby, Stills, and Nash wrote it ;)

[@FreemanVashier]

OH, and that's Stephen Stills Crying that can be heard during the OHIO part at the end.,

[@MrKenh63]

@@FreemanVashier Neil Young wrote it for "Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young."

[@FreemanVashier]

@@MrKenh63 Ohio Song by Crosby, Stills & Nash Lyrics Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming We're finally on our own This summer I hear the drumming Four dead in Ohio Gotta get down to it Soldiers are cutting us down Should have been done long ago What if you knew her And found her dead on the ground? How can you run when you know? Gotta get down to it Soldiers are cutting us down Should have been done long ago What if you knew her And found her dead on the ground How can you run when you know? Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming We're finally on our own This summer I hear the drumming Four dead in Ohio Four dead in Ohio (four dead) Four dead in Ohio (four) Four dead in Ohio Four dead in Ohio (how many more?) Four dead in Ohio (why?) Four dead in Ohio (oh) Four dead in Ohio (oh) Four dead in Ohio (why?) Four dead in Ohio (why?) Four dead in Ohio (why?) Four dead in Ohio Artist: Crosby, Stills & Nash Album: 4 Way Street

[@FreemanVashier]

I'm from MA, we tried to warn ya in 72 hehehe

[@4eedomNation]

You *really* might need to just go ahead a skip to the one we need to talk about right now.

[@christiannguegang3597]

If Watergate never happened would we think of Nixon as a good President?

[@frankjhall1]

Wow. If you took your bias out of the presentation. It could of been good.

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

Wow. If you took your bias out of watching you could have learned something.

[@cedricburkhart3738]

I take exception to the use of the term witch hunts. To describe something other than hunting witches. If the thing you are hunting exists the term is unhelpful.

[@ECKohns]

And Henry Kissinger is still alive. At the ripe age of 100.

[@TorqueHaven]

He just kicked the bucket so hooray 💃

[@MattB-xi3rb]

This is what they don't teach in school

[@njb1126]

Nixon is my favorite president to learn about. He was a manipulative and paranoid crook, but he certainly wasn't boring.

[@bpicard5093]

I'm all over your science and flat earth destroyer videos and you'll have me hooked on the history ones as well😁👍

[@kevinc9447]

You filmed everything on the "American History" playlist in a single random day of 2017?

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

Over three consecutive days.

[@joseluissileboriaco7603]

I like history. But I don't know about the science behind it. Perhaps you could make a video on different politic strategies to control the masses

[@DickHolman]

Read 'The Prince' by Niccolò Machiavelli, it was written as a handbook for rulers. It would be nice to see Dave bring it to video, but it would need a couple or more vids to do it justice.

[@josephgiles4027]

Johnson's negotiators hoped to reach a truce in Vietnam, or at least a cessation of bombings. On October 22, 1968, candidate Nixon received information that Johnson was preparing a so-called "October surprise", abandoning three non-negotiable conditions for a bombing halt, to help elect Humphrey in the last days of the campaign.[144] Whether the Nixon campaign interfered with negotiations between the Johnson administration and the South Vietnamese by engaging Anna Chennault, a fundraiser for the Republican party, remains a controversy.[144] It is not clear whether the government of South Vietnam needed encouragement to opt out of a peace process they considered disadvantageous.[145]

[@fuzzybabyducks7878]

Only took 9 days for the first 30 seconds to not longer be true

[@jayjohnson166]

I believe Nixon's "greatest failing" was being President, when the nation lost a war.

[@SO-Negative]

Nixon saying "I'm not a croock" is like African warlord saying I'm not a dictator.

[@roberthorvath9784]

You can trash him. But he was a brilliant man

[@roberthorvath9784]

That, he was

[@chrisr4482]

Learned that the M stands for millhouse.

[@RustyWalker]

What he actually said was, "I am not a cook." /s just in case it's not obvious.

[@DavidBayliff]

Nixon may knew politics but watergate destroyed him

[@mackeymintle66]

Hoping this part 1 of a series

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

This is part 37 of a series.

[@lct9031]

Anti communists making deals with communists

[@jasonc0065]

Anticommunists in words only. Lumumba was to the right of Dulles. It's a dirty secret.

[@shanemichael9404]

Always another good video. But RMN was a disturbed man. I researched him for years. He is and was never an enemy of the U.S. He did a lot of good, although unseen by many, it's just that he was faulty in his way of thinking. But No Hitler by any means. And at least the EPA is a Good thing.

[@michwashington]

No one should celebrate Ronald Reagan

[@criskity]

Nixon: "I am (heh heh) not a crook!" trump: "Hold my beer!"

[@teddysurf]

Trump doesn’t drink… Maybe hold his cheeseburger...?

[@CrossoverManiac]

Change that from "Trump" to "Slick Willy" and you would be factually accurate.

[@criskity]

@@CrossoverManiac No.

[@nolanmitchell5896]

This is the most biased review of Nixons presidency I have ever heard.

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

No, actually it's facts wall to wall. You're just recognizing facts rubbing up against your own bias, sweetie.

[@nolanmitchell5896]

@@ProfessorDaveExplains dude you're clearly a communist lover lmao

[@naasiroow]

Even if you disagree with Nixons actions, this video came off as partisan and full of ad hominoms. The viewers aren't stupid, simply saying Nixon did this and that would suffice instead of the name calling and hysteria.

[@NinjaMonkeyPrime]

Can you quote any ad hominem?

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

Sorry, if you think this was "partisan", you've been brainwashed. This is completely factual and unbiased. Also, it's "ad hominem", and there are none in here. Please learn what words mean before you try to use them in a sentence.

[@dirkjenkinz595]

Oh boo hoo. Somebody said something you disagree with. Get over it and stop acting like Donald Trump, you big cry baby. (Also: happy new year!)

[@thomasneal9291]

" ad hominoms" LOL yeah sure.

[@CrossoverManiac]

@@dirkjenkinz595 This is a comment section where both positive and negative feedback is allowed. There's no rule that says you have to be a bootlicking sycophant like you to comment.

[@mwk5809]

Going with the title, i assume he was not a crook between 1969 - 1974.

[@patrick247two]

Thank you.

[@carlcreations2613]

omg he still makes content? yay

[@floydrobinson8847]

Never knew about him.

[@bonewelder1471]

The fact this is not taught in all schools is shameful.

[@thesudaneseprince9675]

What was the criminality on Nixon the Watergate gang were looking for. Was it something linked back the the LBJ Vietnam peace negotiations or something else? Also, blows my mind how Trump can use the Law and order slogan unironnically. It's almost to perfect with the unjust pardons etc.

[@87aggietim]

He covered up the Watergate break in.

[@thesudaneseprince9675]

@@87aggietim I meant the guys that did Watergate, weren't they looking for any evidence of Nixon's criminality that the democrats might have, what criminality specifically were they looking for?

[@87aggietim]

@@thesudaneseprince9675 Oh, you mean the burglars? I think they were looking for any dirt they could find. But I haven't researched it.

[@thesudaneseprince9675]

@@87aggietim ah ok, thanks for the reply. Time for me to do some reading 😁. I'm not going to lie I knew about water gate and Nixon's communism allergy, but the whole putting his foot through the Vietnam peace negotiations was pretty shocking. Now I think about I'm sure it was mentioned in my history class, but it was a little footnote, I never stopped to think how devastating that little stunt was.

[@87aggietim]

@@thesudaneseprince9675 Well, you have me curious as well. Now I will have to research the issue. What I do find interesting is that he won the election by a landslide before Watergate was an issue. Strange times.

[@joannastevenson9626]

So you are saying Nixon is the same as every other president we have had in the last 30 years. Beside president Trump.

[@Dunnay48]

My favourite part of this series are the people accusing you of a left wing bias when you are literally just stating facts.

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

Ah yes, the delusional persecution complex of the right. THERE IS A WAR ON CHRISTMAS!!!!

[@jamesking1971]

LBJ learned about Nixon from illegal wiretapps from the FBI. You're skipping some important history.

[@harrytruman5700]

Hey Dave

[@jasonc0065]

Nixon was the old Biden. Just wow.

[@borsistephen]

There was a commercial in the beginning of your video of a man's phallus beginning erect. How does that get by KZbin's strict policies? Lol

[@Phoenix_VR]

Replace Nixon with Trump.....history repeats itself that it's not funny anymore

[@TerinaPennington]

Nixon is not the only president to resign. Joe Biden

[@mlilien]

Nixon would’ve been a great president if elected in 1960

[@glennpearson9348]

So many similarities between Nixon and Trump; it's uncanny. Professor Dave, you must have made this clip some time ago. That is, unless you wash your hair with Miracle-Gro. ;-) Enjoyed the piece!

[@highwaymen1237]

I have a better correlation, Joe Biden and a can of corn.

[@glennpearson9348]

@@highwaymen1237, a better correlation yet: Your comment and a non-sequitur.

[@highwaymen1237]

@@glennpearson9348 the last time I heard the use of non sequitur was the Star Trek episode The Changeling with Nomad. You should probably look up the definition of the term.

[@glennpearson9348]

@@highwaymen1237, oh, ok, just for you. Your statement did not logically follow from mine. I compared Trump to Nixon, which was the subject of the video. Then, you go babbling on about Biden and cans of corn. Just to break it down for you, I was suggesting that your comment was very much akin to a non-sequitur. And if the last time you heard this phrase was from a 1990s sci-fi TV show, you must not get out much. Follow me now, pumpkin?

[@tonyduncan9852]

Very terse. What gets me is how obviously insincere Nixon was - fulltime. The GOP began its flight from Democracy, and a serpent got the Nobel Prize. Great beginnings. . .

[@renzox1136]

Quite weird to watch your great factual KZbin videos interspersed with ads for plants with magic powers 🤭 (BTW I live in France)

[@ericpierce3660]

I know, it's weird how youtube's algorithms get that wrong. I watch lots of atheist channels, and the videos are invariably interspersed with ads for Christian books and movies, claims that prayers will be answered if only viewers will make a donation, etc. Wrong audience to try to sell that to!

[@leahgary1107]

Trump has definitely got him beat when it comes to bad behaviour. 😐

[@teslann_muridi8585]

Vedat again

[@antondovydaitis2261]

Maybe not. Here's just one tiny example Nixon's history. Valerian Trifa was the number two guy in the Rumanian Iron Guard, essentially their wannabe Nazi Party. Valerian started a massacre of Jews by getting on the radio and exhorting his followers to start slaughtering Jews right now, with they did, even cutting up Jews in their Kosher Butcher shops. After the War, it was against the law for Nazi War Criminals like Valerian Trifa to immigrate to the United States, but Trifa had friends in high places, like Nixon. As a Congressman, Nixon introduced multiple special purpose bills as well as amendments to other bills to make a specific exemption for Father Trifa. These all failed, until the Korean War provided an opportunity. Instead of an exemption for Trifa, he got an amendment to an appropriations bill that said that any foreign national who owned a majority interest in a company that was the sole source of an item deemed essential for national security would be allowed to immigrate to America. Then Nixon's Law Office created a Dummy Corporation owned by Trifa which was a subcontractor for a single "critical" part. Once in the United States, Trifa and his gang of thugs started a reign of terror, seizing control of Rumanian Orthodox Churches literally at gun point, claiming that they had been fronts for the Communist Party. Later, when Nixon was Vice President, and hence President of the Senate, he chose Valerian Trifa to give the Opening Convocation for Congress. And this is just one tiny chapter in the monster Nixon's story.

[@leahgary1107]

@@antondovydaitis2261 Wow. There's some world history I have not heard before. Thanks for sharing. It's hard to imagine why Roger Stone just worships Nixon (or why Trump pardoned Roger Stone).

[@antondovydaitis2261]

@@leahgary1107 What was Hitler's phrase, "The Will to Power?" It's no coincidence.

[@lightman5521]

Bro globe busters dont have any videos!! Hooray

[@danielletsgo3367]

I dunno man, that sounds like something a crook would say..

[@ambercrane1554]

MMMM....Trump shares a lot of Nixon's tactics.....

[@StaticBlaster]

The only difference is Nixon still believed in the rule of law.

[@JeffNipp]

I'm gonna drop a little science on you. You won't be able to incorporate it into your life... Nobody can. But here it is anyway: Everybody's politics are stupid. Let me break that down for you.... everyone you disagree with has stupid politics. That much is obvious. I mean, those guys are idiots, right? But most of the people who agree with you don't really know what they are talking about. I mean, if you ask them just a couple of questions, pretty quick you'll figure out that their politics are pretty stupid. Then there's the people who are pretty sharp and who agree with you. Those people have pretty good politics, right? Yeah, but you know you've had that conversation. When you really dig deep.... Eventually you figure out that their politics are pretty stupid. So scientifically speaking, everybody else's politics are stupid. It takes a pretty astute observer to be able to follow the science this deep. But here's where it gets really tough. Everybody includes you. You see, for every other person on the planet, you are a part of everybody else. And as we've just proved, everybody else's politics are stupid. Therefore..... Yeah, I knew you'd have a hard time incorporating that. most people are quite certain that they are the exception to the rule about everybody having stupid politics. There's a very old saying. Never discuss the politics or religion. It's usually reserved for private social situations. But I think it applies to podcasting and YouTubing as well. Unless you're doing a religious channel, stay away from religion. unless you're doing politics, stay away from politics. It's kind of a truism, but they call them truisms for a reason. Wishing you all the best for 2021...

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

Right, nobody ever talk about politics, ever. Stay as ignorant as humanly possible. Great idea, bud. No one will ever take advantage of stupid people.

[@JeffNipp]

@@ProfessorDaveExplains you have done a good job building a following as a science communicator and skeptic. Stepping outside of that into the region if opinion and belief endangers that status. Since you have your shields set to maximum on your unique status as someone who's politics are miraculously not stupid, I'll go with an analogy. Suppose that instead of politics, you were a scientologist. So in the mix of all of your science communication, you gave lessons on Thetan levels and toxic personalities. Do you think your credibility as a science communicator would elevate your scientology lessons? Or would the scientology damage your credibility on other topics? It is all a question of goals, I suppose. You have a different and somewhat ascerbic style that probably reaches a different audience than a Neil deGrasse Tyson or Steven Novella. All science communicators seem to fall into this trap, to varying degrees. Human psychology probably dictates it. Bill Nye has allowed his partisan politics to wreck his credibility outside of the circle of like minded folk. At the other end of the spectrum, Dr. Novella has tried pretty hard to avoid that trap and mostly does not suffer from that baggage. With your style, you are probably never going to be in NdGT's slot. He uses a vanilla style to appeal to a broad audience. But you have your own niche that I think reaches a different audience. In my opinion it would be a shame to limit that reach by falling into the hubris that others in this role have fallen victim to. But, you know what they say about opinions.... So take it for what it is worth.

[@earthdweller5136]

1 get some science and then drop it 2 when you talk about an ex president is called history not politics 3 happy new year

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

Jeff, there are no opinions or beliefs here. These are facts. I'm sorry if these facts contradict some lies you've fallen for. It's not my problem. Now stop telling me what subjects I can and can't cover on my channel, ok bud?

[@joshuagarza1724]

@@ProfessorDaveExplains I think what Jeff is telling you , is that you should just stay in your own lane and carpool with your audience, why worry about what another channel has to offer, people will believe what they want and you waste energy and time in an attempt to draw crowds away from what they believe, just worry about yourself and don't worry with who does or doesn't agree or disagree, stick to the facts since you're so good at those, right ?

[@michaeloulacha2264]

Hi

[@gorbynr1]

you can not be to soft against communism

[@lacanian1500]

harder against fascism

[@Sinaeb]

this is going to age rapidly

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

This is about events that took place 50 years ago.

[@sohanpatel7594]

He's a Crook also for defending Pakistan while there were using American weapons and genociding in Bangladesh happen like it was nothing

[@6mallards]

How many died under johnson since he owned stock in ammo compamies selling bullets

[@cheesescrust5399]

SOCAL conservatives? Wtf did this dude just say? 😂

[@antonvierkant6286]

nice

[@davidmoser3535]

Oh yes you are

[@surrealcereal948]

Wait your hair grew long again...

[@backstreetfan2887]

it was just recorded awhile back I think

[@graffiti9145]

Oh, if only you were my history teacher back in highschool 💗 😅

[@Decco6306]

Nixon reminds me of...someone...but who....