Comments by "bruzote" (@bruzote) on "NBC News" channel.

  1. She IS supposed to help with security of the premises! I might have agreed with a decision for her to remain aside for reasons of law and safety. However, that she was filming shows all she wanted was a cheap video. She could have at least found out how to help even if it meant not getting physically involved.
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  2. I am more worried about Jared. He's got more brains than Donnie and could really get a damaging scheme going.
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  3.  @tomvogt5988  - He's a thief and tries to rip-off EVERY contractor that he ever signed to a contract. Agreements, laws, and responsibility mean nothing to him. If he thinks he won't get caught, he'll try to profit off of ANYTHING.
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  4. USA cares for the very same reason they build bases. The decision affects balances of power. Duh. Nobody is claiming the USA has a RIGHT to tell Peru what to do or stop the sale.
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  5. All countries are strategic. Chile is more important because that's where Pisco comes from. Ba-dum. Just kidding. I am quite familiar with the bizarre insanity of the Chilean claims to that. But, from a more serious political perspective, how is Peru more important than Chile, or Columbia, or even Bolivia (for the lithium alone)? The US tries to juggle a world of countries to influence, and picking favorites requires proper justification. Not that such choices are properly done, but they should be. But why Peru above others? Maybe the US is interested in the amount of coastline. Or the mining interests (ironically, taken from Peru by Chile during their war long ago).
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  6.  @waynethegreat23  - It's also about China getting its tentacles deeper into Peruvian infrastructure, finance, and politics.
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  7. Since I aspire to hate nobody, let me say one most CERTAINLY can be appalled by someone who always acts the same. Rude, arrogant, proudly ignorant, and needlessly damaging to the world just to get attention and power. He's horrible, consistent or not.
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  8. China has built nearly 50 ports IIRC. Ask the other countries if the locals feel that way, as the Chinese just bring in more of their own people to dominate.
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  9.  @pizzagui2pizza437  - You can have a riot and sedition and still be "peaceful" by the news standards. The news these days seems to define peaceful as none of the protesters grossly and willfully injuring someone or worse. So, yes, it seems this met that standard. Despite that, property was destroyed and one of the most important government functions imaginable was disrupted. The crowd was calling for hanging people and killing them. They were calling for overthrowing the government. That is insurrection. So, there were still very serious crimes committed. Now, if you want to compare this to rioters who attend BLM marches (particularly the "Antifa" jerks), you would be right to see how some of those folks would probably be willing to do worse in the same situation. However, those folks were NOT interrupting the certification of votes for the President of the United States of America. We have REPEATEDLY seen Trump protesters try to disrupt governance itself. That approach led to the fall of the Roman Republic. After that, for nearly 2000 millennia, the world did not see a major republic again. Humanity should not backslide like that again. Certainly not the USA. These rioters and protesters committed sedition, insurrection and many other crimes like trespass, assault, and terroristic threats.
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  10.  @mtavarez4561  - I've characterized Trump accurately. TDS is about people obsessed with him. Describing him accurately among comments all dedicated to him has nothing to with your so-called TDS. Get a grip on common sense.
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  11. BS - Plenty of people including me complained about that cop.
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  12.  @youngatnaruto  - A lot more than one million! He had millions upon millions from his Daddy and covered that up pretty well, but it has still been uncovered that we was megarich from inheritance.
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  13. ANY powerful country will try to use a port deal like this to manipulate the smaller country for the benefit of the larger country. It's that simple. Making deals like this entails risk for the smaller country, brings benefits, and the deal may create problems or benefits for other countries as well. Is that hard to understand? Change brings risks. With this port now giving China the chance to project their Navy, that is a concern for people who have the responsibility of understanding that risk (including citizens of all affected countries).
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  14.  @rockymarcianothe3rd135  - I don't think Clinton did anything involving violent actions by US that could have been done better without hindsight. Yugoslavia was a no-win situation. No matter what you tried, something negative was part of the outcome. Those kinds of decisions must be made by US Presidents, while keyboard second-guessers can say whatever they want without risk.
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  15. They say truth is the first casualty of war, but it is not just truth in the press or the offices of leadership. It is truth within the consciences of soldiers and even civilians being stressed to their limits and not always seeing things the right way. Or conducting themselves the right way. The tragedy of war begins before the fighting even starts. Selfishness, Fear, Anger, Contempt. Those feelings spark up and then senseless tragedies like this kid's actions take place.
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  16.  @Jinxs-Journey  - To be fair, toys and goods do not come under FDA authority. That only makes things worse, as it means the US has MULTIPLE agencies not enforcing laws in the interest of the common good. EPA, FCC, DOJ, etc.
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  17.  @JCM311  - Are you laughing at me? The streets will flow with the blood of the unbelievers!
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  18. And NASA was the gold standard until they launched a shuttle out of concern for a schedule rather than preservation of life and spacecraft.
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  19.  @hashiramasenju8785  - Trying hard and being willing to help others is NOT competitive, but it IS what we should be doing. Being competitive means taking the approach "If you win, I lose". That's quite Trumpian, but not reality.
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  20.  @lindahandley5267  - Self-made? Do the math. The S&P 500 index outperformed what he made on his massive inheritance. That is a self-owned man, not self-made.
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  21.  @GirishVenkatachalam  - The only nobody you speak for is nobody. Most US citizens dislike Trump. There are even videos of people voting FOR him who say they dislike him.
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  22. You need a geography lesson! Canada needs no help defending itself. They are surrounded by ice, oceans, and the US.
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  23. Sorry, but regulators are not subject to pressure? It comes in many ways. Plus, working with people you regulate will ALWAYS bring up the issue of empathy for those you are close to. You can't help it. It's one reason lobbyists want face time. Just meeting someone makes it less likely they will regulate you as rigidly.
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  24.  @skookum112  - The swamp refers to DC **because it was built on a swamp**. It doesn't matter if you've been there a day or 10,000. If you're a corrupt politician in DC, you're one of the swamp creatures.
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  25.  @OhSoNasty  - So, taking out a front page ad saying you want innocent black kids to get the death penalty isn't perceived as racist?
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  26. The deal is bad even if the port is paid off. For now, the port will be run the Chinese Overseas Shipping Company Limited, or COSCO. They will immediately begin influencing Peru through trade policy and spying. Just as the UK and US have used their imperial might to influence countries and spy on them, China will be increasing its ability to do the same. They already have spies everywhere, this will give them deeper penetration and more influence.
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  27. @@newmoon1448 - In the world of geopolitics, if you want control, you don't win when a competitor gets their hands on levers of power.
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  28.  @ibfirehead  - China goes broke.
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  29.  @robocop581  - Yes. Now imagine those traps being created by people who make people disappear.
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  30.  @dywang32  - If you don't pay the mortgage, the bank eventually SELLS the house to pay itself back. They don't keep it forever, nor do they get to keep the full value of the sale when the mortgage is less than that.
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  31.  @rorio2214  - You clearly have not heard of the Western banking system's influence on the world. The World Bank and the IMF are not always innocent parties free of investor or politician influence. Likewise, corporate banks play whole countries as well. Look at how GS played Greece or Malaysia.
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  32. The US has NOT invaded Peru. The US has NOT declared any special rights here. It seems you can't read or think clearly. Are you dain-bramaged?
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  33.  @timallison8560  - You want simplicity for your simple mind? It doesn't work that way. Complexity 1 - All of the Chinese workers. China places many CCP members in these jobs. They sometimes are directly spying, but often just cooperative with their government to advance ad hoc requests and agendas. Complexity 2 - politicians in the port and associated with it will be tempted with further legal deals that help China gain more power and influence. The politicians will face budget constraints and be offered further debt relief in exchange for more Chinese financial leverage and control of infrastructure. They can do things you didn't even think of, like using technology and methods that enable Chinese smuggling to take place. They can run WiFi networks that place spy ware on devices in the port. This is not an uncommon tactic in areas where the CCP's government agencies ultimately control the radiofrequency spectrum. Complexity 3 - China has a direct opportunity to allow more Chinese ships than would otherwise be approved. Complexity 4 - Along with #2, the port brings bribery opportunities. All ports do. These opportunities, though, can favor the Chinese government. It can coordinate the bribery efforts with other objectives. This creates more damage than situations in ports where various parties of conflicting or at least uncorrelated interests are engaged in the corruption. The damage ends up being less strategic.
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  34. Trump can't be trusted with ANYTHING.
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  35. Your mother didn't know enough. Strangulation can cause cardiovascular damage that has effects later. For example, you can develop lethal blood clots. Your comment is an example of how claims of anecdotal evidence and appeals to authority lead to logically fallacious conclusions.
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  36. It's only called that if the convictions take place. Otherwise, it's a sour-grapes criminal angry that the criminals she helped got more out of her crimes than she did.
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  37. You're an ignoramus with 19 friends at this point, 19 people who don't bother to check facts before checking a thumbs up.
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  38. One threat such as corruption does not make the threat of dying due to a virus disappear. You have to balance the consequences of failing to stop one or the other. The virus takes priority.
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  39.  @OptimusPrinceps_Augustus  - Coerced or not, it's not obvious he was and it's not obvious in any way he's not guilty. The case was straightforward. Put it this way. If you think ANY armed conflict does not have war crimes going, WTF is wrong with you? People can be cruel enough in survival situations, but when the life-death equation involves intentional armed conflict, you can bet some people will take regrettable actions. They won't even be "themselves", so you war crimes are inevitable. Given that, don't you think it's exceptional how FEW people are being tried and convicted for war crimes, not the other way around. And when trials take place, how can you NOT expect some to involve the accused taking a plea? Seriously, you act as if this picture doesn't look right. This picture is exactly what one EXPECTS within the larger picture. If not this guy pleading, then who in all the conflicts should replace him? SOME people are guilty and SOME guilty people simply should plea rather than fight. It is guaranteed. Why NOT him? What is special about him that makes you so sure he's the exception of those charged with war crimes, not among the guilty? (By the way, your distrust of prosecutors and their intentions/actions does NOT change the fact there will be guilty people.)
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  40.  @JohnBrown-vn2qw  - Not as bad as being callously and pointlessly murdered by some Russian soldier who has totally disconnected from his moral compass.
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  41.  VOTERFRAUD BIDEN  - DC has not defunded police. Also, defunding would allow police to do a "real" police job. If you were a responder, as I was, you would know so much of what they do involves far too many conflicting responsibilities. You have no idea what's it like for officers who are called to incidents like homeless having GENUINE mental health issues. The police are trained to physically handle that situation, but handling the mental aspect optimally is often well beyond their training (even trained mental health professionals can face situations were the proper response is simply unproven). So, do you want to spend money putting a mental health expert on the scene with two officers, or just four officers? Go ahead and neglect the solutions to your own peril, dummy.
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  42. Enforcement is not regulation. Kind of like how we have laws against bribery, but politicians are exempt.Like how we have laws against fraud, but CEOs rarely go to prison. Like how companies are never asked to admit guilt for breaking the law. Like how the supreme law of the land, the Constitution, is not enforced every time the US goes to war, whoops, police action, whoops, armed conflict, never mind. Like how SCOTUS literally says businesses have the same rights as people. We have laws saying otherwise, but they are not enforced or so adjudged by our own courts. It's all a show, but don't deny the script is there, well written with regulations.
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  43. WTF? .Like is a domain? Great.
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  44.  @davido3026  - Kind of like Springfield, huh? Okay, switch a "U" to an "O". ;-D For anybody who is confused by all this, I meant the South American country with the most species of birds recorded in eBird during this month (1,403 species)! :-D
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  45.  @davido3026  - Seriously, it is good you corrected me. I am frustrated at making that mistake. I blame Cumbia, whose origins are in Colombia! :-)
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  46.  @celdur4635  - Sounds good. I will take your word for it. You've got me thinking, too. The Pacific coast doesn't have many great ports in S.A. I bet Peru would have great potential for more port development. I don't know about suitable harbors in detail, but that section of coast is less stormy and right along the middle of the continent.
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  47. Well, the highway and rail system is horribly inadequate for further development. And the development exploding all along the coast is going to make building rail lines or highways (or even widening them) next to impossible. No planning at all. The current development plan is to just let the "invasions" keep happening. That is insane. I can't believe that happens. On the other hand, given the otherwise iron-grip hold of the wealthy on Peru, those "invaded" lands would never be open for development by the entrepreneurial spirit of the hard-working people of Peru.
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  48. Yep. She is like the people who enabled DJT and then turned on him when he used them. It's too late for that once you helped out the bad guy.
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  49.  @rosaliethomson805  - LOL!
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  50. Yes, and it has happened in the past.
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  51. The CDC owns the patents because the US taxpayer paid for the research going into the vaccines. Only a jerk would want to hand that patent over to private business. SOMEBODY gets to own the patent, so why not We the People?
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  52.  @katanafourzeronine  - You could have left off at "Donald Trump is not responsible. <period>"
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  53.  @kathleennorton6108  - Did you read that in a book that his ghost writer wrote FOR him. Donald's values are 1) Donald Trump, 2) see 1.
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  54. Study history. Those with power make the rules. So, yeah, it is America's backyard.
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  55. Well, if you ignore reality and instead put it that way, then of course you're right.
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  56. Don't forget Valium! Mommy's little helper arrived decades on the scene before Oxy.
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  57. Story? What story? Do you mean the one about a civilian son of a President who is the big bad bogeyman of Fox viewers? That story?
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  58.  @genee1860  - Those riots were not during the certification of the votes for the President of the USA. Also, rioters are rioters and SHOULD be put in jail. On the other hand, if police allowed BLM protesters to do what they want and removed barricades instead of murdering black people, you would see a transition to more peaceful protest.
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