Comments by "zjeee" (@zjeee) on "Timcast" channel.

@Henry James I am sorry it's problematic for you to understand the real world is not so black and white as the democratic and republican parties would lead you to believe. Not every single American are stuck in the eternal two party struggle for power. I'm personally one of the 80 million independent voters, I welcome the change of having a candidate outside the political establishment it's a breath of fresh air and I hope we can see this more often in the future. What happened to Bernie, AOC, BLM, They were supposed to play a big role in the upcoming Biden administration now he is distancing himself from them, he won the election he doesn't need them anymore. That's how you get to stay in office for 4 decades. If you can't understand why Trump has a huge non-republican base and why then I cannot help you my man it's pretty obvious to me. Trump wouldn't be my first or even tenth choice but if I have to pick between Trump and a Clinton, Bush or Biden then it's a simple choice for me. I am a moderate but I would pick Bernie in a heartbeat if the alternative was Jeb Bush. Policy has nothing to do with it, it's about trust I would not trust any of these establishment politicians to change a light-bulb for me.
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I am pretty sure not every congressional member is a Jew.
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@Henry James Wow, Trump let 40.000 people in after the travel ban, I guess we should have gone with Pelosi and Biden's reaction calling the travel ban racist and let in millions of people from China instead open borders man, yeah boy that would have been better. The republican party establishment only aligned themselves with him out of political convenience, Trump expanded the republican base due to his popularity. I doubt the republicans would have gone the same path as Trump - Trump is just an independent running on the republican platform he is a very outspoken anti-establishment politician and let's be honest the establishment he is against exists in both parties it just happened that the republican establishment went along with it because it was a way for them to stay in power. Mitch holding off on admitting defeat to Biden for so long was just a ruse to Trump's base that the party establishment was on his side, they were always going to abandon him when they didn't need him anymore.
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@Henry James I never said he was great I simply stated the republican party establishment was always going to toss him away when he outlived his usefulness. His major advantage has always been that people have been sick and tired of the political establishment. His win 2016 was not him being a strong candidate it was Hillary being weak and representing the establishment which people just outright resent these days. If you think Trump is a typical republican candidate then that is on you. If you check his statements and especially his donation history before 2016 you would see that he considers himself (and donates his money) to the democrat party. I find it very amusing you compare him to a life long Republican in Jeb Bush coming from a family associated with the Republican party for so long having had two republican presidents with Donald Trump, to me they are polar opposites, railing off against establishment figures like the Bush family is what gained Trump his anti-establishment support in the first place.
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@Henry James Of course I care about policy but I am under no illusion that what's being said and what's actually being done are the same. Biden has not been in office yet how am I supposed to determine if his policies would be better or worse? Like most establishment politicians he promises to fix all problems he helped create during the last decades then when he is in power it's business as usual. The same old Obama faces that did not do anything to fix the problems he has promised to fix this time around. While Trump actually kept a lot of his promises or actually tried to keep them. He fought very hard to build his wall and rework the medical system but didn't have enough support in the Republican senate and congress to do so for example. If you want to buy a car do you make a deal with the two local companies that has been scamming people for 47 years that promise you they will offer you the deal of the century or do you go to the guy that has a bid of a bad mouth but will do his best to actually keep his promises? When it comes to Republican vs Democrat candidates 9 times out of 10 it's going to be a lesser of evil kind of deal. This was the 1 out of 10 times where one candidate was actually not preferred by/or linked to the party establishment. Hopefully we can see more candidates like Trump or Tulsi Gabbard in the future that resonates to common people outside the hyperbolic democrat and republican party base.
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@Henry James I told you policy is still important I am not sure if you are misinterpreting me on purpose to try get one of your political points across. The point I was trying to make was that some people voting for Trump 2016 did not care about his policy because they are used to politicians promising a wide variety of policies to implement and when they get into power they don't do anything about it. Trump retained his popularity because he kept a lot of promises and the promises he did not keep like the healthcare revamp wasn't due to the lack of his willpower but because he lacked senate and congressional support from the republican party. I don't care about Hillary or Joe Bidens policy promises because I know when Joe Biden says he will be the most progressive president ever and he will include XYZ in his cabinet (Bernie, AOC, Warren etc) that is just a play for the progressive base to vote for him. He has no intention of implementing that policy or putting those people there. He pledge his support for BLM and now when he won and he doesn't need their support anymore he won't even reply to them. The reason I mentioned Tulsi was to give another example of a politician that is considered an outsider and not liked by the party establishment on her side. She, Trump and for example Bernie are seen as outside the status quo and they are actively being worked against by their respective parties, just look what happened to Bernie in 2016 by the DNC. You are trying to over-rationalize this coming from a Democrat vs Republican good vs evil perspective. Most Americans are in the middle and don't give two flying Fs about the power struggle between these two parties. I am not interested in picking a side in this they are both bad actors but they do sometimes produce good candidates that challenge the status quo and may bring actual change.
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@Henry James Okay so we should all bend down to your supreme knowledge and vote the way you want us to vote. Not asking weather or not the promised policies are just empty promises just vote whatever the self-proclaimed experts and elites tells us to. It's okay I don't take your insult seriously we all know you people will deem anyone with a different opinion or political view as "deplorables". Oh I am sorry he was never talking to Sanders about Sander's well known interested in being labor secretary? I guess Biden forgot that part when he confirmed that he had seriously considered and had been talking about that role with Bernie but decided against it last week. "I'm confident he could have done a fantastic job. I can think of no more passionate, devoted [an] ally to working people in this country,". I guess Biden has been spreading fake news, my bad I thought he was a credible source. But yeah I am a liar and I should not investigate nor question the democrat candidates I should just vote for them because the "smart informed" people told me so. Yeah man I am glad you showed your true colors. You can call me a moron and a liar all you want it is not going to make me pick your faction and make your struggle mine. No matter how hyperbolic you are. You are totally free to continue your crusade I am not going to stop you, let's see how far you get calling everyone disagreeing with you morons, it worked out great for Hillary 2016 didn't it. I am sure you can recruit some people for your cause - best of luck and god bless.
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Is it a ban though? Last time I read about it it was about divestment, Bytedance will just sell their share and a non-Chinese company will take over. So basically APP is the same just not controlled by the Chinese gov. It is only a ban if Bytedance refuses to sell which they obv. would not do. Too much money in it.
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If you think Tiktok will be banned you have been fooled by the media narrative. It is a divestment call, which means bytedance will have to sell Tiktok or it gets banned. OBV if this goes through Bytedance will sell, Tiktok will remain pretty much the same just under a company that is not Chinese.
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@David-we3sb Honestly, yes I'd vote on Trump simply to piss people off at this point.
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Rumble and X? Because Rumble and X are also owned by the Chinese government? LoL.
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There are idiots everywhere.
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You completely misunderstood the bill, the president does not have a final say he can only make sure the new owner isn't an enemy of the US.
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Reps and Dems also agree on China, and this is about China. So yeah makes sense but it is always fun to throw the good ole conspiracy theory in there.
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Who cares about Palestine, this is America I am sure the Middle Eastern version of Tiktok is full of praises to Hamas.
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It is a divestment the ban only comes into effect if Bytedance refuses to sell the APP. I am sure they will cash out and TIKTOK will still be there with a non Chinese gov. influenced algorithm.
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