Comments by "" (@timogul) on "Voice of America" channel.

  1. Yeah, I figured they were talking about banning payments from Russian agents, which would really hurt the Republican party fundraising.
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  2. And zero lessons have been learned from history.
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  3. It's a misleading way of reporting that only 26% strongly approved.
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  4. It wasn't known that he was into that sort of thing at the time Clinton was interacting with him. He was a rich and famous guy, it's entirely possible he was running "one sort of party" with one set of acquiescence, and "another sort of party" with others. Unless there is actual evidence that someone participated in the shadier side of things, or continued to interact with him after knowing the darker side of his behavior, it wouldn't be reasonable to assume wrongdoing.
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  5. The official US response should read "Stop being such babies."
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  6. "Pulling a Trump."
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  7.  @slipknot6789  That's textbook hearsay though. If I said "Slipknot6789 likes em young," that does not make it actual evidence that it is true. It wasn't even Epstein claiming it as fact in a serious matter, it was just an offhand remark to some girl he was exploiting, so it could have just been trashtalking.
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  8. Vladimir Putin, say her daddy's name!
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  9. How so? Wouldn't they actually care about this issue on the actual impacts that it has?
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  10. Ben Franklin was 70 when the Declaration of Independence was signed, and served as the US ambassador to France until he was 79. Jefferson was in his 30s when he wrote the Declaration of Independence, 58 when he took office as President. Washington was 44 when the Declaration was signed, and 57 when he took office. And this was a time when life expectancy was much shorter. Also, the youngest people to sign the Declaration were two 26 year olds.
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  11. It matters in reaching a just conclusion. If Putin walks away with any territory then all those lives would have been wasted, and he'll just come back later for more. The only way for this war to end is for Putin to leave.
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  12. Ukraine isn't allowed to use certain US military weapons in Russia. But now Kursk is Ukraine, so they can use it there. Maybe Moscow will be Ukraine soon too!
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  13. How is this their mess?
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  14. That too was Russia invading.
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  15. Trump's just jealous because he was too senile to do the Correspondents Dinners himself.
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  16. That was imaginary though. In the real world, Russian forces were attacking Ukraine in that region first.
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  17.  @IronskullGM  Well, for those 50 years it was assumed that Roe would stay in effect forever, because what lunatic would actually remove it? A bill was not necessary until now. It was more a political talking point for those on the right that they wanted to remove it, and a minor point at most on the left of "well, if you let too many of these idiots in charge, they might remove it." In an ideal world, it would have been a complete non-issue to both parties and Roe would have just remained in place forever, but we don't live in an ideal world, and now this is happening.
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  18.  @mattm402  Well, a few reasons. 1. there was no need for it. It was assumed by most that Roe would remain in place. It was only Republicans fighting to change that. 2. Democrats have rarely had a filibuster proof majority, and even when they did, it was razor thin, and at least a few of those Democrats are anti-choice. While you could look at raw numbers and pretend that they "had the numbers," in reality, they never did. If, on the other hand, the congress accurately reflected the will of the American people, there would be more Democrats, and they would have had the votes for it. But again, until this week, it was not necessary.
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  19.  @mattm402  Again they had the votes for some things, but not for others.
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  20.  @IronskullGM  Roe worked perfectly well until an activist court made law by overturning it, removing a Constitutionally protected right from half the population. If there had been the votes in congress to make the Roe protections permanent, they would have, but they never had enough to overcome a filibuster in the Senate. This is a problem with how the Senate is structured.
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  21.  @DarthVaderTheSithLord  No, only people who misunderstand the Constitution believed that.
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  22.  @DarthVaderTheSithLord  Read the Roe opinions and get back to me with more specific questions, I don't even know where to start with explaining where you might have gone wrong on this one.
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  23.  @DarthVaderTheSithLord  Roe was overturned because conservatives appointed bad judges, not because it was not a fair ruling.
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  24. Ukraine has been open to negotiations from the start, it has always been Russia that refused to negotiate.
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  25.  @derekh1593  They rejected "help" prior to the assault on the capitol because they did not want to give the impression that they were "overreacting." It was a choice, and turned out to be a faulty one. As soon as the mob did start attacking capitol police officers, they began actively requesting help immediately, and the White House refused to authorize it for several hours. THAT is what you should be paying attention to. DoJ offered them ZERO assistance during the incident, and in fact rejected multiple requests from the Capitol Police, members of congress on both sides, and neighboring state governors from both sides. Tell me why that is?
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  26.  @derekh1593  Oh, you have been misinformed. That was early reporting on the event and didn't get all their facts straight. You should look up some later reporting to get a bigger picture on the numerous requests made to the DoD for support that were all ignored. The Jan 6th committee has some excellent footage.
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  27.  @derekh1593  You are apparently very easy to lead around by the nose. You have nothing but Faux News talking points, and seem to actively ignore all outside information that would contradict your conclusions, even the sworn testimony of Trump administration employees.
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  28.  @derekh1593  You are citing sources that people who watch a lot of Fox often cite, because they know that actually citing Fox directly is never taken seriously. You are ignoring all the many sources that directly contradict the sources you are citing, or provide added context that blows up the arguments you are attempting to make with those cherrypicked quotes. The facts remain: 1. The crowd was Trump supporters, seeking to maintain Trump in office, against the will of the American people. 2. The crowd inflicted violence against police officers, and actively threatened violence against members of Congress should they be found. 3. Trump was aware of this, but personally did nothing for several hours, and when he did act, it was an extremely flaccid response. 4. Congress and many other groups sought DoD approval for National Guard troops to enter the Capitol, and yet it did not arrive for many hours after it could have arrived had the DoD given immediate approval. Anything else you've said has just been an attempt to distract from those facts.
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  29.  @mattm402  And that's a misleading way to imply that 68% would prefer it to not be legal in most cases, which would also be untrue. The point is, avoid using statistics in a way that seems prejudicial. The accurate way to describe this topic is that the overwhelming majority of Americans believe that abortion should be legal at least up to the third trimester, and in extreme circumstances when past that point, right?
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  30.  @mattm402  But the important thing to remember is that we only "went to there" in the imaginations of crazy people. In the real world, we stuck with "rare safe and legal," until last week, when we shifted to "the same amount, only more dangerous, expensive, and potentially illegal."
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  31. @dkrawk8309 Check the news. You'll be embarrassed.
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  32. @ What about it?
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  33. The reason Europe is supporting Ukraine is the same reason that Europe should have supported Poland and Czechoslovakia in the 1930s. They don't want to be next.
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  34. That shouldn't be necessary, nobody actually believes Zelensky started the war, outside of the Kremlin and their agents.
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  35. @@Mhael_Logain Sure, I think there are a lot of people on both sides of the aisle that have had some interactions with him, so it really comes down to either taring them all with the same brush (which isn't really fair), or assuming innocence until there is evidence of actual wrongdoing. But sure, if people come out of this with the position "neither Bill Clinton nor Donald Trump is a viable choice for President in 2024," then I suppose that's ok.
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  36.  @jgamer2228  But Donald Trump is a prolific sex offender, so it would more fit his typical pattern.
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  37.  @slipknot6789  It's possible, we just have no more evidence of it today than we had last week.
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  38. @ Zero rational common sense people voted for him. That was one of the ways you could tell whether a person was a rational common sense person.
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  39. The war will end the moment Russia leaves.
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  40. @ Would you consider surrender to Russia to be "peace?"
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  41. @ Ukraine has nothing to do with the US's financial troubles though, that was all Trump's fault.
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  42. Generally, anything reported in the mainstream news is already all over Russian social media. It's a connected world.
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  43.  @poison1874  Dumb people often do this. Then they vote Republican.
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  44.  @akbarshoed  But the fact remains that the war started with Russian attempts to take over the country, after they swore by treaty to never do so.
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  45.  @Muskieangler  Ukraine wanting to join NATO was never a justification for a Russian invasion. I'm not sure why you think it could be.
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  46.  @Muskieangler  You do understand that "Putin making demands" does not mean that blame for the war goes to those who don't listen to his demands, right? He had no right to be making any demands of Ukraine.
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  47. ​@ Russians had no reason to be in eastern Ukraine in the first place. They should have stayed on their side of the border. Also, the Cuban missile crisis was during the Cold War, and involved the placement of nukes, not merely Cuba being allied with Russia. Cuba was allied with Russia before and after that crisis, and the US never invaded them. If we apply the Ukraine standard to Cuba, then the Us would have fully invaded and annexed Cuba.
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  48. @ It does not matter what Putin's demands were, he still had no right to get them. He can ASK, and he can offer peaceful incentives, like trade negotiations, but at no point does him having desires justify an invasion if he does not get what he wants. How is this so hard to understand? Also, there were already Soviet military bases in Cuba before and after the missile crisis, yet the US never invaded. Their red line was nukes, and only nukes, and there was never any talk of returning Ukraine's nukes. To your second point, if you are talking about Ukrainians living in eastern Ukraine, no, Ukraine never shelled them, except for active separatist military forces. If you take up arms against the government, they have the right to respond, right?
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  49. @ Exactly, so Ukraine joining NATO would be no excuse for Russia to invade them. They might not like it, but that is not a justification for war. And again, if separatists in Eastern Ukraine took up arms against the government, how is the government not justified in defending against them? If they want to leave Ukraine, they are free to do so at any time, but they are not allowed to take the land under their feet with them when they go.
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  50.  @Muskieangler  Nope, nobody was being shelled at all until after the separatists took up arms. Don't be silly here. And say what you will about Yanukovych and how that went down, there was an election held afterward, and the people decided who they wanted to lead them, and now that person is the recognized democratically elected leader. If the people had genuinely wanted Yankovych to stay in power, or someone like him, then that's who they would have elected. They did not.
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