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Actor Brian Cox, famed for his role as the media magnate Logan Roy in the HBO series Succession, speaks about his fears for …
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Wonderful interview…as an American who has travelled extensively through the states the last few years, Mr. Cox , imo, misses the devastating economic blow that the Covid shutdown contributed to the already rickety financial situation the average citizen has found himself.in. Salaries have remained stagnant, jobs and
manufacturing left the country years ago, inflation is rising. I travelled from California to Mississippi, by car through small towns boarded up and in decay…all the “ mom and pop “ stores and restaurants closed. On the coasts it seems to be bustling, biz as usual…hence the enormous disconnect between the urban coastal folks who tend to vote democrat and the inner country that goes more conservative and are experiencing a kind of financial stress that begs for attention. Trump spoke and speaks directly to that desperation animating the hope and expectation for a return to a status quo that is long gone. Of course, he will betray his base and most likely pander to the billionaires and oligarchs he enriched so flagrantly his first term…he already is going off his promise to reduce military spending and seems to be contradicting himself over free speech as he violates the sacrosanct principles of the constitution etc. He’s volatile and inconsistent in his promises and actions. He’s also “ expected “. …We are at the end of an empire…we are crumbling and our rapacious corporate greed has now outlived its reach. All dying empires get a trump in the end…a populist who promises to restore former glory as the currency tanks, the allies drop away and the culture unravels. My hope is that somehow we survive the crash and will build something better, more humane and equitable out of the rubble.
There should be a limit on how much people can make now. It gets to a point that it makes no difference except to skewing the power dynamic too much.
When they make more than someone could possibly spend it becomes ludicrous
Surely as a species we should get to a point that we evolve beyond having starving and mega wealthy. Too much say that they stop caring about others, the earth, don't end up held accountable etc.
Until poverty is solved and wars we can not be called an intelligent species. Surely.
Big money should be very separate from politics. Surely that is just basic.
The whole set up is detrimental and could never have worked.
Europe would do better to align with BRICS. The US has become unbearably toxic and run by bangsters and evil tech bros
Dump and Repukes cheat. 3 million mostly black voters were purged from the voter rolls shortly before the elections. Dump cheated
he make a great nepoleon french general have a bash bit but not to late good luck
brian a great actor but his union equity is not there rotton to the core actors worse enemy defacto
This is the wonderful influence of art and theatre . Makes you think and feel, and contributes positively to humanity. Trump is an appalling disgrace to the presidency and everything we don't want our kids to grow up to be. Unbridled greed and lust for power with no honor or integrity.
Whatever you do, do not look at the federal debt and deficit. USA was done long before Trumper. Rave on.
Very diplomatic about Starmer
Brian Cox, just another actor, trying to make a name for himself in political views,that he should just keep amongst his family. Many people have woken up to the sickness of entertainment and the world needs a change. People are tired of the delusions of the democratic parties and the fakeness of their sympathies towards the public and are tired of the greed. The people of United States voted, and Donald Trump is exposing what needs to be exposed.
Trumpism is a cult. How do you save 75 million people from a cult? Quite an undertaking.
You two guys are interesting.. You seem to agree that humanity must support each other's existence. This is now such an old fashioned idea in most people of influence that it is difficult to preach. Most people of influence like to kill others who restrain them, when they are being violent. A lot of our leaders, in the majority of spheres, be they education, health, politics, and even religion, would kill others to keep their elevated position. Those who train youngsters to become suicide bombers, never train their own children. Those who send young people to the war front send other people's children. Those who recruit bodyguards, always recruits from other people's children. Most politicians are very keen to authorise a war. So who still has the ideas you are discussing? I don't think they are many?
Trump is at least correcting real evils like Foreign aid, sponsored illegal immigration, unjust wars, China's dominance, etc. He will fail but he is trying.
Trump is a 100% failed human being. He is unintelligent, lazy, and amoral. He does not represent me.
The Great One. Arkansas loves you Brian Cox.
Trump is trying to clean up a mess created by fraud, mismanagement brought about by the previous administration. USA has been a great ally of the world. I voted for him as did the majority of our great country. He is anti war, and exposing the mismanagement and fraud of our tax dollars by Biden and Obama administration. I believe God spared his life from the assignation attempt. I believe he will fix our country and bring us to the greatest country in the world again and we will continue to be allies to the rest of the world as we have in the past. So don't be a hater let him do the job we put him in office to do.
NGO give money away and keep no records
Doesn't this butt-nugget make dinero off McDonalds?
I agree with him, though.
Liberal bullshit, Trump is saving his country
Okay, so this dude's a theater actor, and he knows more about how to run the U.S Government than our own homegrown president looking to clean up the political mess in this country? Please tell me more, Mr. Cox! 😮😮
Seeing him being literally anyone other than logan roy feels uncanny to me
Trump comes from a family of slum lords.
Another leftist elite. We had 4 great years until covid. This guy repeats every leftist talking point. It propaganda.
Asking actors to advise on geopolitics is shallow and deceitful.
Here speaks a man of honour integrity . Old school philosophy that the world is sadly loosing.
90% of the world with 15% of the wealth.
7.3 billion with 15%.
8.2 million with 85%.
People went with Hitler and Mussolini to give them power (though it never happened). People who support Trump are Nazis. Some just go along out of greed and ignorance. The result is the same. Nazis.😊
Love Brian Cox
Brilliant actor, incredible man. He is the embodiment of the type of man who has been awarded the Order of the British Empire, the same as Peter Cushing (another favourite actor of mine, and a fine person).
Charlie Chaplin on the topic.
"I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone – if possible – Jew, Gentile – black man – white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness – not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.
Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost…
The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men – cries out for universal brotherhood – for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world – millions of despairing men, women, and little children – victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.
To those who can hear me, I say – do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed – the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish…
Soldiers! don’t give yourselves to brutes – men who despise you – enslave you – who regiment your lives – tell you what to do – what to think and what to feel! Who drill you – diet you – treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men – machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don’t hate! Only the unloved hate – the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty!
In the 17th Chapter of St Luke it is written: “the Kingdom of God is within man” – not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people have the power – the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
Then – in the name of democracy – let us use that power – let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world – a decent world that will give men a chance to work – that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfil that promise. They never will!
Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people! Now let us fight to fulfil that promise! Let us fight to free the world – to do away with national barriers – to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness. Soldiers! in the name of democracy, let us all unite!
Final speech from The Great Dictator Copyright"
The law is for some but not for all. Just like freedom is. Everything this country has preached has been a lie- the proof is over the past 8-10 years.
Cox is delusional. History will show that the Presidency of Donald Trump is in fact a reaction to authoritarianism and tyranny not the imposition of it.
This conversation is much too lenient on Trump !
COX & GARY & WOLFF and ?👍
Loved the interview and Brian's insight and contributions, save one. His estimation of Starmer is highly questionable— probably influenced by, perhaps, radical optimism.
Canada has elections in months and will put a conservative government in. Trudeau spends time overseas because he is taunted mercilessly everywhere he goes in Canada. There is even a song, Goodbye Trudeau Good Riddance. Canadians like Trump/Vance & DOGE. 57,000 Greenland residents are entertaining Trumps offer, they have an election due too. Check it out, Associated Press put a vid up days ago interviewing folks in Greenland. This is nonsense. AAA
Voter suppression tactics were used at polling places turning away voters of color. These are Jim Crow tactics. Ballot boxes were stollen and destroyed. Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are the righful President and Vice President. Their power was stollen using our democracy and the Jim Crow tactics to uphold racist, mysoginistic beliefs of a minority. The election was not a landslide. With what votes were counted, he barely won. Our nation is being taken hostage by hostile nationalists that wnat to oppress and deny anyone who doesn't share their beliefs.
Sheep sheep that's why
Don't blame Tump , blame the Yanks who voted for him . Get to the source of the problem
Why interview actors about politics?
Love Brian Cox's explanation of Trump ❤
US in a lot of trouble. Sounds like a scene from Blues Brothers.
What's wrong with America right now is the very dangerous "AMERICAN FASCISM" i.e. far right extremism here since the late 1930s and 40s and we were FOREWARNED about it in the 1940s by the late great President Franklin Delano Roosevelt aka FDR and his brilliant visionary VP Henry A. Wallace, champions for the middle class/working class and poor who knew these "AMERICAN FASCISTS" better than anyone back then, 81 plus years ago! Many of the same things that went on in the 1930s like homelessness, tent cities, the fight for much needed Social Security, jobs, healthcare, the economy, etc. and the FASCISM is going on today! "The past is prologue"…President Joe Biden in more ways than one and "those who forget history", even their DEM/GOP history, "are doomed to repeat it", if even in shades/echoes per historian/documentary film maker Ken Burns..the TRUTH!