Comments by "Jason Dashney" (@jasondashney) on "Forbes Breaking News" channel.

  1. That ranking member is just a garbage human being. The Twitter files literally proved that there was collusion. I don't understand how we can get to this point as a society when we can see literal objective fact, and somehow people can argue it and when you point out objective fact, they say you're gaslighting. I don't understand. All I know is she is absolutely reprehensible.
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  2. When asked about calling for the genocide of black people, she should've been allowed to answer. I wanted to hear her say that it's permissible to call for the genocide of black people on campus so long as you don't actually do it. She can't have it both ways. You can either call for the genocide of people or you can't.
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  3. Justin Trudeau special. And I'm sure both sides do this. Politicians disgust me. They actu like kids. I sat in on provincial matters in Alberta, Canada, and the way they behave would've gotten you sent to the principals office if you were a child. There's something wrong with these people.
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  4. I that would've been a great response, telling them that at 5% it becomes a legitimate medical problem, and that at 7% like she suggested, it can be fatal.
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  5. Pete is bang on. John refuses to address Pete's point about how there are 159 products we use that cobalt for but Republicans only seem to care about one of them. That's a very good point which needs to be addressed.
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  6. Just ask Tulsi Gabbard and Bernie Sanders what happens to people who go against the party.
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  7. They should try to get access to her emails. I guarantee she has back-and-forth email conversations with people about this case. These people need to start getting called out on their nonsense and getting fired in disgrace.
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  8. It's amazing how freely you can speak when your only concern is telling the truth. I have no idea if this guy is saying accurate things, and I'm willing to bet my whole paycheque you don't either, but he certainly has the air, and same with the senator, of someone who isn't trying to craft what they say in a very careful way to try and weasel something.
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  9. Exactly. If they decided to take $100 from you last year, you had to pay it. If they decide to take $101 from you this year and you don't want to give them the extra dollar, you are stealing from them. Square that circle.
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  10. They should have to pass a basic test about each bill. Not a crazy one, but enough to make sure they know the jist before being able to vote on it, and EVERYONE is required to take the test whether they plan to vote or not, just so you can know who knows what.
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  11. I 100% blame the media for not pressing further. This happens in politics as well. In a session, the opposition will ask the leader, some thing, and the leader won't answer and eventually they drop it. They shouldn't. They should grill that leader forever..
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  12. 1:07 "it's a crime to lie to congress". Can I see some evidence of that please?
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  13. It's douchey, but not treasonous. They had a political agenda. That's not treasonous. They just happen to be able to do their sneaky bullshit on a wide scale. The type of tactics they use are older than the pyramids.
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  14.  @LordOfNihil  or at the very least, everybody should have ample amount of time to thoroughly read and digest each bill before being required to vote on it. I hear the stories of massive bills that were literally impossible to read all the way through before you're supposed to vote on them.
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  15. The media should front page Auditor General's reports, and Senate hearings etc. You know, the stuff that actually affects us.
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  16. If you think that's a Rep/Dem issue you haven't been paying attention. It's a human being problem. Most people are completely incompetent.
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  17. I hope the other parties use this "there will be consequences" line over and over during the upcoming election. If Trudeau is reelected (again, sigh), then I won't be mad at him anymore. I'll be mad at the rest of Canada.
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  18. Exactly. It's amazing how often I want to learn about a contentious subject, and very early on it becomes clear that people who absolutely should know the fundamentals of a problem, don't. You see incorrect statement after incorrect statement, and the people don't get called out for it even though it takes a complete layman like me five minutes to find the data right from the governments on website.
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  19. Because Uniparty.
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  20. I can't believe I'm actually on the side of Pete Buttigieg here. His point about how we only care about slave labour for this one product is a very good one. John is way out of line here.
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  21. I like comment sections because if you read enough, you get different intelligent perspectives. A few people in the comments have talked about the percentages, and whether the effects of CO2 are logarithmic and blah blah blah. My main take away is that this is a complicated subject and nobody in that room had a really good grasp of it, ha ha. It's incredible to me that after decades of hearing about climate change, the absolute basics are known by so very few. On one hand, you have the alarmists who keep making dire predictions that don't even come close to coming true. Giant red flag. And on the other hand, you have people fighting those alarmists who also don't have a very good grasp of things. Are plants die at 0.2, and we have gone to 0.4. But how much activity does it take to move that needle? You hear answers that are all over the map. The experts, don't agree on how much of an impact humans have. At all. Different experts, have estimates that vary from double to triple and more. That's not a consensus. Even worse is you will see people citing some Scientific paper, yet someone else can do a deep dive into that paper, and expose how the sentiment given about that paper was the complete opposite of what it said in the paper. It's so unbelievably hard to find out about this stuff. I hear incredibly compelling evidence on both sides and it's really frustrating.
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  22. Martha Stewart remembers.
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  23. I can't stand Pete, but in this particular instance he's right, end of story. He actually did answer the questions, and he answered them very concisely even though John tried his best to not let him talk. No rational person could possibly watch this interaction and think that Pete didn't win hands down;
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  24. That's the way it should be. Voting for people who are not good simply because you alway vote for X party is awful.
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  25. Everybody says "It's not about the money" but they usually keep it.
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  26. This wasn't a journalist, this was an activist, who kept talking over the person. They asked a question to like a petulant child. It saddens me that people think this is OK. If you don't think both sides are trying to push an agenda then I don't know what to tell ya.
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  27. He’s great at holding people accountable. I wouldn’t necessarily want him coming up with policy, like being president, because his strength lies in getting to the truth and holding people accountable.
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  28. She should be immediately fired. She just stated that she hasn't looked into how many women have been sexually assaulted by men in prison? That is gross negligence and she should be removed from her post and be liable for civil prosecution.
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  29. 9:30. Welcome to Canada. The government has it's own channel, and gave all the major outlets, except the one that's specifically against the PM, millions of dollars. Here the gov't is right up front about it.
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  30. Shooting the messenger was so gross. I can't believe the character attacks from Matt's own government.
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  31. Ouch. I hate Don Lemon but he's right to be mad that they couldn't tell him to his face.
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  32. You think this is a right vs left issue? Good lord.
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  33. Exactly. It was said by Kevin Strom who is an actual, for really realz Neo Nazi and holocaust denier, but that doesn't make the statement untrue. If you have ANY integrity at all, you have to concede that truth is truth no matter what the source is.
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  34. I only with Canada had even the pretense of those protections. Hold on dearly to them.
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  35. What I find truly astonishing is the level of smugness people can have while openly lying. It would be interesting to have a full understanding of what's behind that smugness. What do those people know that they are so protected that they could outright lie and have nothing come of it?
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  36. I think the best plan of action would be to fully expose all of what Tik Tok has been doing and let people decide for themselves. Most people have no idea what the nuts and bolts are. Security experts say it's way more shady than what the domestic companies do though. Zero chance I'm putting it on my phone.
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  37.  @warrenharrison9490  I have tons of innocent comments on random blogs about photography or art that don't show up when I go back to them. I think computers just suck, as opposed to it being censorship.
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  38. He had his opportunity and did nothing.
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  39.  @da324  Yeah Bernie bowed down and that disgusted me. Same with how Jon Stewart went full Woke after getting his pee pee whacked after going on Colbert and talking about the lab lead theory.
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  40. He's not liberal. This is so far from a liberal ideal it's incredible.
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  41. It's like that clip from TIm Pool's show where he says X,Y,Z happen when you have gender surgery. He's debating a guy and basically saying "This is part of what you are advocating for" and the guy keeps getting all weird and calling Tim out for being obsessed with someone else's genitals. He refused to address it directly and kept insisting Tim was weird and obsessing over genitals. Tim says "Yeah but this is what you want, specifically" and the guy will not address it. These people are completely devoid of logic and reason. They can't handle the dark parts of their own side.
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  42. Not at all. Paul said the CCP has nothing to do with Tik Tok which goes against what every coding expert who's gone on record has said. They all say this is a new level of information farming and of course it goes to the CCP FFS.
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  43. "Here are the numbers for Brittain's percentage of trans people in prison system who are sex offenders." "I don't know what Britain's numbers are" Why do we even have these sessions? Does anything actually come out of any of them?
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  44. He's arguing a point nobody is making. Nobody at all. Zero people are trying to ban speech. Everyone involved says you can say the same things and post the exact same videos on FB, Insta, YouTube etc. He straight up said it's not part of the CCP which flies in the face of every single expert I've heard who's looked at the code and all say it goes way beyond what even the domestic big tech companies do.
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  45.  @Photologistic  "while they surreptitiously delete any critical comments that go against the narrative" This entire comment section is nothing but comments that go against the narrative.
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  46. They only do that if they're attacking someone who might be able to defend themselves. If you're attacking someone who you have dead to rights, you'll let them speak. That's the playbook.
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  47. Normally, I'd agree, but here I think he's being an absolute scumbag. Stick to the damn topic. Asking him about his thoughts on policing? Irrelevant. I don't care if a flat earther who believes he can levitate and that it's okay to eat babies comes to the hearing, I care about whether or not he can back up his claims on the topic at hand.
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  48.  @lilaoliva793  "You'd also beg for people to "see both sides" relating to slavery, the genocide of Native Americans, the naz¡ Hollocaust, the genocide of Namibians, the Apartheid in South Africa, the Jim Crow in the US of A, etc, wouldn't you?/s" 100% I would. I literally always want to know both sides of every story. Anything else makes you and ideologue. The only reason people don't want to hear the other side is because they're afraid the other side might have some valid points. You should always try to put yourself in someone else's shoes before coming up with concrete opinions about them. IDGAF what the subject is, you should always try to learn all perspectives on it.
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  49. "Science" still means what it always did. It's when people start with "Follow the..." or "Trust the....." that things go horribly awry.
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  50. Bingo
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  51. What's gross about politics is that I'm willing to bet anybody a dinner at the finest restaurant in town that those skeptical are all on one side of the aisle and those praising are all on the other. Politics is disgusting.
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  52. You listened to him go on for 5 minutes about loving your country and loving your neighbour no matter who they vote for, and your instinct is to insult it.
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  53. Thank you! It's like the expression "everything is toxic to humans, it's just a matter of dosage"
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  54. It's too bad there wasn't a long lineup of people trying to read the next line and the next line....
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  55. I came away mildly irritated at both sides. I don't like when people give numbers in isolation. There are tiny little frogs that have enough poison to kill tremendous amounts of adult humans. The dosage it takes is ultra tiny. The harm that a dose equivalent to a single grain of salt can cause is super huge, yet would sound insignificant if you compared it to salt. It would give the wrong impression.
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  56. But the poison from a poison dart frog will.
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  57. 100%. I can't stand the guy either but that doesn't change what they did. Unless he was fired for something unbelievably egregious, the way they handled him was nonsense.
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  58. This was rambling nonsense. Why didn't he just ask Pete for their plan in detail? This is just one side saying they can do it the other side saying no you can't. Neither side is working off of evidence though. Let's see where the Democrats get their lofty plan from, then attack that itself. Until then it's just back and forth schoolyard nonsense. Sidenote: I would love for someone grilling these guys to see if they can get a commitment from Pete and Biden and everyone who insist this will happen that if Democrats are in charge until 2030 that they would give up their political posts forever. Are they willing to bet their careers on it so long as they are in control? Of course they won't be in control until then but it would be interesting to watch them commit to it.
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  59. ​ @runkillorun2  At least the owl tasted something good. This video left an awful taste in my mouth.
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  60. As hard-core as MAGA is, you would never see this coming from someone who wanted nothing more than to “own the libs”. If this type of garbage happens the other way around, why do you never see it? The mainstream media would lose their minds and would talk about this incessantly if it happened the other way around.
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  61. I have much more respect for him. He could easily just go with the machine. Easier socially and better for the pocket book. Anyone going with their conscience gets my respect no matter what side they are on.
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  62. Anybody who wouldn't upvote this is, for all intents and purposes, my enemy. Everybody is redeemable, and if they eventually realize the harm their cars, it's all good. But until then, you are dangerous on a level that's hard to express.
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  63. Not letting people see their own parents who were slowly dying alone in the hospital, over a disease with a 99+% survival rate is cruel on a level that defies logic. Just as nuts as the fact we all knew it was happening but protests I went to against this stuff were slammed by the press in the most disingenuous ways imaginable. Absolute blatant lies. You and I know there's little chance anything happens to Fauci or Collins. Martha Stewart went to jail yet these people will probably all go unpunished cuz if they are, then whole institutions would have to arrest themselves and you know that's not happening. This is too big to prosecute. I'd love for Fauci to rot in jail for the rest of his life but it'll never happen.
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  64. Show me an happy auditor general's report and I'll open up my wallet and the government can take as much as they want. Until then.......*snaps shut *
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  65. Kennedy kicks ass. I love his demeanor.
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  66. That one doctor won't answer the question because she's never seen that situation? I can't believe that people are so transparently dishonestly pushing an agenda. They are so worried about getting caught in a "gotcha" that they won't be honest. It's a very straightforward question because he's making it clear that his point is about unfettered abortion for any reason you see fit at any time you see fit. The one lady talking about supporting the right to the woman's life is ridiculous. She could've just said that she supports abortion. If the mother's life is in danger or if there's any medical issue for the mom whatsoever, but she didn't. Those people are so gross.
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  67. I listen to a really well respected investor in Canada on his podcast. He's very rational, smart, well rounded and all that. He's very interested in nuclear power due to the environmental benefits....and he says noo-kew-lur and every single time it takes a piece of my soul because in every other respect he's right on point.
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  68.  @alisonmills4409  Get RID of homeland security.
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  69. There are Republicans, Democrats, and "the machine". She is part of the machine.
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  70. I love Kennedy but I disagree with him on the McMansions thing. One family living in a gigantic house is very different from something that will be utilized by a boatload of students. It depends on the area divided by the people who will be utilizing it.
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  71. He used to make a some really dumb statements but he's been sounding more and more reasonable and level headed lately and that's great. I wish everyone could grow as a person like that.
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  72. RFK or Vivek would do something about it. I can't figure out why Trump has such a cult following considering he had four years and did virtually nothing about this stuff despite his adamant claims he would drain the swamp..
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  73. Why should Harvard have a stance on the Hamas attack, or Israel's right to defend? They should have absolutely nothing to do with Harvard. I'm sick to death of everybody being expected to weigh in with their irrelevant opinion on absolutely everything all over the world. The school should say "we are a school in Massachusetts. If you have questions about our curriculum or registration process, please ask"
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  74. He should've mentioned that Tulsi Gabbard is the one who torpedoed Kamala's original presidential hopes.
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  75. I feel you. I used to work at a video rental store in Canada and on the third Wednesday of every month people who looked grubby would come in and pay their cable TV bill. I worked for minimum wage and I would've loved to have had cable TV, but it certainly was not an option. Yet here I was processing the bill for welfare recipients.
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  76. 12:15 What a scumbag. He asks for an answer, and when he gets the answer, he doesn't want. He change the topic, and then accuses the person trying to answer him of wasting time. OMG, then he goes on and one trying to hard to not counter the facts of what Matt and Michael are saying, but to discredit them wholesale. He also cuts them off when they destroy his question and accuses them of filibustering. They should treat him like Larry Flynt would've. He is the worst type of official. HIs soul is corrupted.
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  77. Don't equate a concern with how somethings gonna be paid for with a lack of concern over who would be the beneficiary.
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  78. It's incredible how well people have learned to filibuster. Perhaps the committee should have less people on them, and they should have much more time to grill witnesses.
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  79. I think John is being a jerk here. I normally really like him, but not here. I get trying to expose how little the kid knows, but now he's grilling him on his woke comments about the war on drugs and policing etc? Going for the character assassination is playing dirty. I'm with the answers from the kid when he keeps saying he wants to stick to the damn topic. C'mon man.
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  80. That was addressed in this video. Tik Tok goes further.
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  81. Zero people were held accountable for the 2008 crash. Obama actually brought the perpetrators into his inner advisory circle and they made the problem even worse. You think NOW that governments are going to start to hold people accountable? C'mon...
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  82. Mitch has made some stupid comments in his time. This is not one of them. This was absolutely perfectly worded and I couldn't agree more.
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  83. To be fair, they aren't saying that we should reduce the amount of CO2. 200 years ago plants were thriving just fine. They are not suggesting we go below those levels. They are saying we should not increase the level of CO2.
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  84. It was only a video of an explanation. It wasn't even a video of the surgery. That part I'd get. I don't want to watch a knee replacement surgery and I think they are wonderful.
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  85. It's incredible to me. That pork is allowed in any bill ever. What an obvious scam. Our government system is insane. Massive bills that are given to people who literally don't have enough time to read through them before being forced to vote. Our system is an absolute joke.
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  86. You completely misunderstand what this video is about. It's about the government causing private business to stifle free-speech. In that sense free-speech absolutely does apply to the Internet. @CapnLubeHandles 
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  87. If the treatment is equal to both sides, can he name something banned on the progressive side that was a mistake? Anything at all? Every one of these Reps should've come armed with specific things. Crenshaw should've shown specific, very clear cut and dried posts that were banned from FB that were demonstrably not false, especially in hindsight. 2:17 So give me examples of some progressive tweets of things that could've had material impacts on election that were taken down down incorrectly and then brought back. Show me mistakes you made that accidentally hurt the democrats, potentially in a material way just before a POTUS election. I have yet to see an example. 4:55 WHY DON'T THESE POLITICIANS INSIST ON AN ANSWER?!?!?!? I see this all the time and it drives me nuts. He 100% caught him dead to rights, and then let him off the hook.
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  88. I think the community notes section of X is the perfect example of this. YouTube's version of having the official government version of climate change or vaccines or whatever is an absolute laughable joke.
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  89. I like this guy. A lot. And that's saying a lot because I hate most politicians. And there's a masssive difference between someone on the stand who simply doesn't have the date in front of them, and someone like this woman who starts out well, then gets trapped and just utters phrases in a robotic fashion about "We are following the guidelines of....". The Canadian PM Trudeau is the worst offender of this.
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  90. Herself. She came in as the firebrand "burn it all down" girl and now she's rebranding herself as a machine insider. It's quite brilliant because her old schtick wouldn't have had staying power.
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  91. Girls were literally screaming in horror in the field hockey clip and that woman said that all she saw were women enjoying sports? How are these people able to have grown-up jobs?
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  92. 3:40 What he should've said was "If two videos are shown side by side where an apples to apples comparison was an accurate description, and an equal level of personal information about the person available in the videos, or not available due to blurring and no obvious landmarks nearby etc", would you agree they should be either both taken down, or not taken down?"
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  93. "actually, a lot of experts say Jones made more than that off his lies, " Name one expert. Show me a shred of evidence he's come within a country mile of that much money.  @andrewreynolds9371 
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  94. It's incredible how often people are caught with absolute lies in their testimony. They will say they are unaware of something, but then email service about them discussing it previously. Somehow these people are never held to account. The system of the uniparty is an absolute joke.
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  95. What sucks is that people will be appointed based on party lines. All of this is barely going to produce anything of value. It's basically all for show.
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  96. 1:51 I'm on board with a lot of Jordan's fights, but go fuck yourself on this one. You are saying that if they were left to their own devices that the industry would have improved itself dramatically on its environmental impacts? Show me the evidence. All around the world, almost all environmental improvements have come due to government regulation. That forces companies to innovate. I like small government and all that, but when it comes to the environment, capitalism has consistently shown it desperately needs environmental regulation. The innovations don't come out of nowhere. The odd time something new will come out that was borne of a better, more efficient way of doing something that is better environmentally, but on the whole it's because of regulation. I'm so sick and fucking tired of people spouting off about how they hate regulation when in fact they rely on it constantly. Free-market capitalist are the worst for this. They bitch about the government bitch about the government bitch about the government, but then assemble a giant team of lawyers to protect their intellectual property, their patents, to protect themselves from slander and libel, to use contracts to force outlets into exclusivity deals etc. I just hate the disingenuous nature underpinning the arguments about regulation.
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  97. The question is not meaningless. We see hard-core climate activists, who wouldn't be able to answer that same question. Over and over we see people who are in positions of power not being able to answer very basic questions about the subject they have a level of power and control over. I don't care what the subject is, it's ridiculous. It's no different than when some tea party Republican is shouting about somebody violating the Constitution, then when asked what specific part of the constitution they're violating, they can't answer.
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  98. I disagree. If they don't have a clue how much there is, then they can't have an accurate understanding of what a difference in magnitude would mean. Going from 2 to 3 percent is a 50% increase. Going from 50 to 51 is a 2% increase. If the extent of their knowledge is that "It's like, going way up 'n stuff" means nothing.  @throckmortensnivel2850 
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  99. He preached love for your neighbour no matter who they vote for, and your response is to attack him. That's the difference between the modern left and right. The right is much, much more tolerant. The left needs to start acting more like the old left of ACTUALLY inclusiveness and love.
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  100.  @neovxr  Amen. Refusing to go to the UN literally solves nothing. It'll just embolden them. Those who want the US out just want it out of petulance, not pragmatism.
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  101. I haven't heard a single one of these senators ask the people who think these books are OK, what pornography is. To define it. They also never ask them if it's appropriate for minors to have access to pornography. If somebody thinks that's acceptable, then that's fine. I disagree, but these are just opinions. But to claim these books aren't pornography is factually incorrect and that's where the argument should start.
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  102.  @RiSkyNick  That does not negate my point. Also he was not brought on as an expert. He was brought on as a "witness" of sorts.
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  103. I normally really like Kennedy, but I think he's the embarrassment here. He's grilling the kid about unrelated woke tweets? C'mon. Grill the kid about climate stuff. That's why he's there. Stick to the damn topic. If you're there to debate the science then debate the damn science. Scumbag move by Kennedy.
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  104. Tulsi Gabbard
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  105.  @carlitor4173  It won't happen, but best case scenario would be Vivek vs RFK. I wouldn't care who won.
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  106.  @jess3591  The Republicans were in office for the previous 4 years. It's not like this bloated bureaucracy is a new thing.
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  107.  @senseofthecommonman  obvious? There are a lot of things in this world that are extraordinarily toxic, things where that much of a dose could kill a tremendous amount of adults. The overall concentration of something only matters in direct relation to how potent it is.
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  108. It's amazing how often "experts" end up i-don't-know-ing through these things.
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  109. Martha Stewart went to jail, but Anthony Fauci is still a freeman. Who caused more harm? Both lied under oath.
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  110. There is a "protest". Every four years, and every adult can participate.
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  111. Show me the last Republican administration with a balanced budget. @DimitriosChannel 
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  112. I'm down for some civil action because he made their already rough times even worse. He definitely owes something, but $1.4 billion? Evern $55m is a joke. It should be 6 figures, not 8. It shouldn't be a lottery win ffs.
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  113. The school bully didn't steal your lunch money, he advised you to give it to him.
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  114. He's not though. Tik Tokers are allowed to express the exact same things on Insta, YouTube, Facebook etc. Rand is arguing a point nobody is making. Nobody is saying that the things Americans are saying on Tik Tok shouldn't be said. Nobody at all, and there are plenty of other outlets so no it's not infringing on a damn thing
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  115. I had to google matthew miller. Seems he's a state department spokesperson. That would make him the literal opposite of me. He'd be a narrative driven person by the very nature of his job. I crave the exact antithesis of that. @Mhdrhsn 
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  116. What is my ideology? Please be specific. @Mhdrhsn 
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  117. I prefer logic and reason to being a petulant child. You won't help your child by ranting and raving.  @nasersiddiquee7253 
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  118.  @paulstrife  I love how I'm the only objective one here because I'm seeing both sides, have a narrative or an agenda and everyone's attacking me for being the ideologue. I'm the only one here who isn't. Petulant behaviors, petulant behavior. I don't care if I agree or disagree with the person. I'm not a hypocrite.
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  119.  @lilaoliva793  What's interesting to me is I've never given any hint whatsoever as to my position. I have literally said nothing about my opinion on anything other than always wanting to learn as much as I can about a situation before coming to a conclusion (which you actually chastised me for, which I find exceedingly bizarre and frightening. You're literally insulting me for wanting to educate myself). My only other opinion was that petulant behaviours petulant behavior. I said right at the top I don't give a damn what the subject is or whether I agree or disagree. I don't like petulant behaviour out of someone who's purporting to be a journalist. Everybody responding to me are definitely ideologues because you guys are attacking me without knowing what my position is either way.
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  120.  @lilaoliva793  The ends don't justify the means. That's the basis for all extreme ideologies. The further we stray from objectivity the more dire the potential consequences, and it almost always leads to hypocrisy.
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  121.  @lilaoliva793  So you're still criticizing the very act of trying to learn as much as you can about a subject before making a definitive proclamation?
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  122.  @lilaoliva793  "Who strayed from objectivity?" Are you very aware of the position of the person asking the questions? Would you bet your life savings you know exactly where he stands? Then that's not objectivity by definition. Back in the day it was considered abhorent for a media personality to reveal their own thoughts about news. They believed their job was to ascertain as much information as they could so the viewer could decide for themselves the truth. Anyone not doing an identified opinion piece tried to hide their personal bias in the name of good journalism. What I'm saying is both sides loooove when their side gets belligerent, but loses their minds when the other side does it. I think it's hypocritical and gross and I really hope we go back to the media just conveying information instead of trying to lead us in what to think.
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  123.  @thebard6961  being petulant has nothing to do with whether or not your point is correct. Petulant is a type of behaviour. Also, that literally couldn't have less to do with the meaning of "Kafkaesque". I think you need to study up the definitions of things before commenting on them.
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  124. I don't see this guy that way. It's not evil, if he literally isn't allowed to answer that question legally. What would you have him do? Go to jail for it? He very clearly states that it's the inspector general who calls the shots in the situation's. He does answer the questions. I'm not sure why everyone's so angry in the comment section. He also says he wants to take the conversation private, which means he's willing to talk. I think he's sympathetic to this case, it's just that he has to answer questions in this manner to make sure he doesn't hang himself. Understandable.
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  125. That's why I don't understand the cult of Trump. He talked a big game about draining the swamp, but nothing happened. If the Republicans win the next election and don't start hammering down, then they are just as pathetic as the Democrats right now. I have no faith that anything will actually happen.
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  126. Tucker used to work for CNN. Crossfire.
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  127. Your argument goes both ways.
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  128. These are the same people that called for people to lose their livelihoods if they said, "learn to code" because that was such a dangerous dog whistle.
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  129.  @senseofthecommonman  LMAO. Great point. Nothing makes me chuckle quite like somebody getting indignant and calling other people stupid when they themselves are dead wrong.
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  130. What a wonderful get out of jail free card. "My bad" shouldn't be an excuse.
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  131. I get what you're saying, but you can also check your bank balance. I don't trust my own mother so I verify everything before I go spouting my mouth off about it. That said, I don't believe this woman was genuinely shocked that she said and incorrect thing. @ChurchOfTheHolyMho 
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  132. The private corporations didn't do anything wrong, legally, speaking. The government did. Social media platform can ban any speech they bloody well feel like. The problem is that the directive came from the government.
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  133. It's unfortunate that they went "Yeah, let's just move on". No, figure it out. Either Cruz is distorting or he's not, and if you say he is, then offer up the proof or be held to account yourself. You know the world is going nuts when more and more I hear things coming out of Ted Cruz's mouth that are rational and reasonable and intelligent. (update: I found the actual article and as usual, they ALL are sumbags. All 3 are telling half truths. The article does not say "abolish", nor even hints at it, yet it clearly does talk about reducing funding over and over. She can't say that's not what she meant because her language was not vague, and Blumenthal doesn't back up what he says either. All 3 are......politicians.
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  134. 3:41 AOC sure did. Worst take I've ever heard. I don't care how much you don't like someone, you can't call a literal world-class, all-time genius "unintelligent"
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  135. You know damn well they do it on both sides so they'll stamp their feet and make a show but in the end won't do a thing. The Republicans love to have people dead to rights but then walk away. Both sides are truly awful.
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  136.  @carljcreighton  I wish I could find specifically what he said, but he had things to say about his Transportation portfolio that were mindbogglingly stupid. I've seen him say some spectacularly gaslighty things about the infrastructure that drove me nuts. You know that feeling when a politician says something so stupid you take it personally? You're shocked they would think you are dumb enough to buy what they're selling. We all know that feeling. His resume was absolutely not up to the task. Anyway, sorry, I don't have anything concrete to point to. A quick google search pulled up nothing but left wing platforms that blew him so I couldn't find it, and YouTube doesn't let you search by date and most Pete stuff comes up with him going after JD Vance recently. I guess all I have is "Trust me bro!" haha. Cheers.
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  137. "They aren't looking to get rich here," if that was true they'd donate the money. I'm not holding my breath. @timogul 
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  138.  @timogul  "The point is that they are more interested in punishing Jones for his actions than they are in personal gain." We will agree to disagree. The original suit was to punish Jones, but asking for the moon is pure greed, plain and simple.
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  139. "Vote your conscience". So you agree with the judge then. The judge is an activist, which means she judges based on her own conscience as opposed to the law.
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  140.  @sheenarayson2179  anybody dealing with anybody else’s money should be audited. Anyone who receives taxpayer money should be audited.
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  141. I’m usually with Kennedy, but I think he might be going too far with this one. I didn’t see anything in there that constituted proof that she wrote her own opinions. If she was just an editor like she says, then I think she gets by on a technicality here.
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  142. Good Lord. Both of them are acting like petulant children. The truth is somewhere in the middle and they don't need passive aggressive shots at each other. I hate politicians so much. Both of them put on more of a performance than a fact based information session.
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  143. I actually feel bad for Don lemon. Maye he was just towing the party line. He used to say intelligent things. Then the network made him go far left and then dropped him because of it so at least could've told him do his face. Don't get me wrong, I think he sold his soul to the devil, but firing someone remotely is cowardly.
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  144. @An American You got me. I'm enabling a billion dollar company. Without me they'd be doomed. I'm enabling them because I don't think they are literally treasonous. I'm super powerful.
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  145. It's like how anyone who went against the Covid machine was a fringe weirdo despite coming from high up positions in Harvard, Oxford, Stanford (The Great Barrington Declaration) as well as friggen Robert Malone of all people. He's as expert as anyone alive abou this stuff but the NYT etc act as though these are random basement dwellers with fringe views.
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  146. The vast majority of the time you can tell who's right and wrong with the audio off. 20 years ago it was visually clear that the liberals were the side of logic and reason, and the conservatives were not. Nowadays is the exact opposite. But it's even weirder now because there's this gray area of "the machine" that is not really liberal nor conservative, but it sure is smug and has poor body language.
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  147. I wish I was American so I could vote for him. I don't have to agree with you on everything, I just have to respect you as a person and that's almost unheard of for me and politicians.
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  148. This dad is AWESOME!
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  149. You sound different from the Democrats for the last 4 years how?
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  150. This was a good back and forth. Both of them are making good points. "What if we don't do anything?" is just as valid a question as "What if China and India back out?"
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  151. Exactly. I watched another video where she made good sense so of course YouTube started recommending other videos of her and unfortunately they aren't as good. She's so close to being awesome but just can't help herself by being very committed to her party's talking points as opposed to good policy. She is so wrong on E.S.G.. it's unbelievable. She seems like she's way smarter than this.
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  152. Bingo. My feed drives me nuts. It's SO catered to outrage porn. I'm subscribed to probably 150 channels and the vast majority are about science, yet it almost exclusively feeds me the political stuff.  @frsmith5069 
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  153. That's the part I hate the most about these people. All of the liberal gains came about because groups were allowed to state their case and be heard. But as soon as they got in power, they won't allow the same mechanism. The hypocrisy is astounding. They are completely morally bankrup while believing the opposite.
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  154. It wasn't even a surgery video. It was a guy simply describing what goes on.
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  155. THIS should be on everyone's YouTube home page and on the front page of every paper. It won't be though. Nobody will care. These scumbags get away with this crap because they are in power positions. They are straight up above the law.
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  156. I'm so sick of activists who can't answer the most basic of questions about the thing they dedicate their lives to. And getting rid of oil and gas tomorrow being given as a recommendation by someone who is wearing and carrying and relying on petroleum products is breathtakingly ignorant.
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  157. I really like her glasses.
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  158. I wanted to know if there were profits during that 3 month holding period. Did she keep all of that profit? There's zero talking your way out of that one.
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  159. 1:07 "it's a crime to lie to congress". Sure. Suuuuure it is. Okay, maybe technically it is but c'mon now. It's also "technically" a crime to steal $927 worth of stuff in San Francisco.
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