Comments by "" (@timogul) on "The Wall Street Journal" channel.

  1. "Elon Musk is the greatest engineer. . . ever." Well. That's a take. . . Why are we listening to these guys again?
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  2. I'd really like to see an equally deep dive into school costs. How much do schools spend on teachers, administrators, facilities staffing, real estate, materials, etc.
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  3. Imagine if he'd just done everything legally from the start. He could have avoided all of this.
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  4.  @lukeknowles5700  What makes you think their goal is to make the safest cars?
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  5. He knew they were going to be firing rockets at his handler.
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  6.  @NoneOfYourBeesWax1  Incorrect, but it's funny you fell for that.
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  7.  @raybod1775  It would be higher under Trump.
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  8.  @jack-of-all-trades1234  It remains true that Trump is more likely to cause an irresponsible incident.
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  9.  @swaggery  He's not even a particularly great entrepreneur, he's had a lot of terrible ideas and he's run companies into the ground entirely from his own decisions, he just got particularly lucky with two high-growth powers. His strength is not intelligence, it's just money.
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  10. Because they were the ones to invest in that technology. Free market capitalism.
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  11. I think they pushed back against that claim with the following commenter pointing out that people are more likely to claim to be satisfied than to admit that they got duped. I think the video gave an overall negative view of timeshares (rightfully so), without being too directly a "hit piece."
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  12.  @Geraniumpourmonsieur  No, he's not an engineer at all, and a mediocre entrepreneur. He just has a lot of money to spend on hiring people who are better at these things than he is. Sometimes this works out for him.
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  13.  @funwithfacts9413 You do realize that the late 80s recession was also his fault, right? It's actually pretty easy to goose up the economy and put out big numbers for a few years at a time, that's no great achievement. What matters is setting up structural changes that will result in improvements over the following decades.
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  14. Answer: "They don't want anyone who will defend the American people form them."
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  15. That's a weird way of saying that they're trying to protect an ally from foreign aggression.
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  16. Yes, because Putin shipped in he North Korean army to help him.
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  17. There is a difference between investing in America's future and giving money back to billionaires. It's important to be able to recognize this distinction. The BBB was important at that time to prevent a recession, and i worked. The US economy did much better than many other governments. Deficit spending is not the end of the world, the US can afford significant amounts of deficit spending, but when we do so, it's important that we spend that money wisely, and not waste it on junk projects or tax cuts for the wealthy.
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  18.  @mikewilliams6025  You agree that those things happened as a direct result of the policies put into effect during Trump's administration, right?
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  19.  @jamesbraun9842 Except that it's not impossible to impeach a private citizen, and the vote took place before Trump was out of office, and it could have solved a lot of problems if he'd voted with honor instead of for party.
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  20.  @jeffstrehlow2623  I meant that given how antagonistic China is toward many countries, including the US, if nobody they treated as an enemy did business with them, they would lose most business.
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  21. The microchips are what is important to anyone who isn't China.
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  22.  @sherman_of_the_lake  There have been plenty of people who live life as though they are rich, but if you look into their actual finances, they turn out to owe more than they own. This may be such a case. Owning a billion dollar building does not make you a billionaire if you've taken out a billion dollar loan on it.
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  23. If that were the case, China's export market would crater.
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  24. These vehicles are promoted as being safe to drive themselves, which implies that drivers do not have to be attentive. Also, Teslas make up only a small portion of the overall car market, so even if every single one of them got into a major accident, it would be a small percentage of total crashes. That is not a "win." The question would be, are Teslas more likely to crash than other vehicles.
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  25.  @AdvocateHim  It's impossible to say what might set him off. If he felt insulted by some world leader, he has shown no hesitation to react poorly to it. His military leaders had to tell him numerous times that he wasn't allowed to do this or that, and this time, he's picking much more pliable generals.
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  26. This is because of the electoral college, and some states are trying to change this, but it would be tricky. Actually removing the electoral college would require a Constitutional amendment, which is a nightmare to achieve these days. The other option is to bypass the EC, by having states just decide for themselves to allocate votes according to the popular vote, but that would require a majority of states to agree to do that, and that too can be tricky, especially since they can't all be on one side. Republicans like the EC, because it gives them a higher chance of victory than they would have otherwise, so it's very unlikely that any red states will go along with any change to it.
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  27.  @Marianojoey  Yes, exactly, tariffs are inflation, but deliberate in this case.
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  28.  @jack-of-all-trades1234  I think the only one he played a role in starting was the one in Gaza, but I was replying to the idea that no wars started while he was in office. If we're talking about wars started by the President, then Biden didn't start either either, and in fact ended a few.
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  29. That wasn't particularly relevant tho this case.
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  30.  @Helios-f22  If a given local government has thousands of home owners, and there is a project that would add a few hundred units, then even if the project is finished and filled by the next election, there will likely be more annoyed nimbys that want to punish the people responsible than there would be happy new residents that would want to reward them with votes. And assuming one or more elections happen in between, there's no way they would keep their jobs.
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  31. Yup, this never would have happened if Putin hadn't brought in Korean back-up.
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  32.  @King_Nagger  You watch too much state television. Nothing NATO did "forced" any action on Russia's part. They chose to invade entirely on their own.
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  33. It's stock footage, they use whatever looks best to the audience.
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  34.  @aucontraire1986  "Ten minutes after buying a home. . ."
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  35.  @jack-of-all-trades1234  That is not accurate. There were several wars started during his time in office, mostly in the Middle East and Africa.
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  36. Fraud is still illegal though.
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  37. Well, obstructing justice just makes things a lot worse. There are cases in which the willful commission of a crime is the core problem, but "possession of classified materials" is something that is EXTREMELY common at the higher levels of government, and if everyone who did it got arrested and had the book thrown at them then nothing would ever get done, for either party. The standard tends to be that so long as the documents aren't too serious, and so long as it could reasonably be considered an accident that they ended up in the wrong place, then it's ok.
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  38. The taxpayers of New York state.
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  39. Too bad, As American tax-paying citizens, we the people support Ukraine. If you don't want WW#, then turn around in your desk and ask Putin to leave.
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  40. It's not really a "know how" issue, most of their chip designs already come from the US anyway. It's more just an infrastructure issue, they have invested the resources into building complex factories, while we did not.
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  41.  @NoneOfYourBeesWax1  How much of that do you believe were related to Reagan's policies, and, unrelated question, how gullible do you believe yourself to be?
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  42.  @NoneOfYourBeesWax1  I meant that it was incorrect that it improved under Reagan. It improved temporarily during part of the years he happened to be in office. If that argument is too complex for you to follow, then I don't think there's much value to further discussion, but I guess you'd be in plenty of company.
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  43. Because he actually did the crimes for which he was punished.
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  44. Also economists. Just in general. People who understand the economy. Those economists.
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  45. Yeah, they used to be a swing state, but they've gone a little nuts lately.
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  46. Who do you think Trump works for?
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  47. Nor does it say that an ex-president is allowed to retain any documents at all.
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  48. Basically, if the courts rule against Trump, and he refuses to abide by that ruling, then anyone would be legally authorized to ignore him and enforce the court's ruling without him, anyone who didn't do that would be an accomplice to his crimes, and eventually, they would all face criminal penalties, except maybe Trump himself, depending on the SC.
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  49.  @darriuscole8544  Lol, that is not how math works!
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  50. Yup, Obstruction of justice and willful possession.
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