Comments by "Scott Charney" (@scottcharney1091) on "Forbes Breaking News" channel.

  1.  @bakerboat4572  That's beside the point! They were roaming through the halls, trying to enter offices, trying to enter the House gallery (where Congressmembers & staff were trapped), and they knew who they were looking for. That's not in dispute.
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  2.  @bakerboat4572  What partisan-made video? There's untold thousands of hours of footage, mostly shot by the attackers themselves! Again, what partisan? The scores of injuries, some of them permanently maiming, speak for themselves. This isn't ambiguous.
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  3.  @Finraen  Except it's not a conspiracy theory; have you not seen the evidence uncovered in the past couple of months regarding the Oath Keepers, for example? Regarding Russia, it wasn't frivolous, as the Senate Report (Republican-led!) made clear. You shouldn't have missed any of this.
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  4. Gym.
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  5. Those places are run by liars, Hawley.
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  6. Asking for asylum is legal.
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  7. And it shows what? Nothing that exonerates Trump!
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  8. Also, embryos aren't children.
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  9. Gym, rather.
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  10. He's being disingenuous. Life, yes, person, no.
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  11.  @craigh.9810  There's no reason to think that.
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  12. There's no harm in not being born.
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  13. There's no harm in not being born. No one minds. Embryos and fetuses don't have personhood. That comes later. The vast majority of women who have abortions feel relief, not regret. Also, "anchor baby families" is ignorant, insulting, and bigoted.
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  14. "Commucrats" ... you're silly.
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  15. For one thing, juvenile delinquency is much less common than it was in previous decades. For another, corporal punishment does not work. It's counterproductive, and every major medical association in the world makes this clear.
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  16.  @ganvalexposure2163  And if you think that it's a good thing, then it caused you harm. Don't hit children. The data is very clear on this. I would link to said data, but comments with links tend to disappear.
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  17. I think that it's the Lollipop Guild.
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  18. There is no "Democrat Party."
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  19. Yes, at least in this regard.
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  20. I wish.
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  21.  @ServantOfTheSouth  *you're
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  22. What child?
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  23. Sure, why not? There's nothing that would vindicate Trump. The people you mention were in mortal danger.
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  24. The corruption is that of the state (in this case the police) & corporate media together.
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  25.  @shoeshoe5253  Anecdotes, and particularly lurid news stories, are not data. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_world_syndrome
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  26. Life, yes. Personhood, no.
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  27.  @rager4able  One can't prove a negative, but anyway: Personhood consists of the criteria by which we decide that killing is wrong- sentience, the will to live, biological autonomy, and everything else that's taken away when a person is killed. Babies have that in a rudimentary but real way. Embryos and fetuses don't and can't. There's no harm in not being born.
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  28.  @mobius4897  I thought about it. I've typed that sentence hundreds of times, if not more. What's so strange to you?
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  29.  @rager4able  It's a philosophical question about what makes killing wrong. No, it can't all be applied to a person outside the womb (which is redundant), but sometimes some of it can. That leads to other ethical discussions/arguments.
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  30.  @rager4able  I already answered your first couple of questions. I can elaborate if need be. Regarding comatose people (as usual; people bring this up so often), they were obviously persons before the coma, and they're not tied to & dependent upon the body of a host. Life support is discontinued on a case-by-case basis.
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  31. "DemonRat?" You're childish.
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  32. The Democrats are a neoliberal capitalist party. There's nothing leftist about them.
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  33. That's forty years of neoliberal capitalism for you. The state and capitalism, both must go.
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  34.  @wendyc1902  For one thing, juvenile delinquency is much less common than it was in previous decades. For another, corporal punishment does not work. It's counterproductive, and every major medical association in the world makes this clear.
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  35.  @WhatAboutall  That's a non sequitur.
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  36.  @SuperIcarusman  ...are pretty well behaved compared to previous generations.
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  37.  @SuperIcarusman  You can swear on the internet.
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  38. For one thing, juvenile delinquency is much less common than it was in previous decades. For another, corporal punishment does not work. It's counterproductive, and every major medical association in the world makes this clear.
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  39. Those Babbitt supporters behind the former Chief are pathetic.
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  40.  @kenmacfarlane8744  Two hour delay? It was a damn putsch!
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  41.  @kenmacfarlane8744  No, it was a putsch, or an outright coup attempt, that came within a short distance and a short time of lynching lawmakers (among others), preventing certification of the election, and causing a constitutional crisis. The evidence is quite clear. There was plenty of comment about the civil unrest you mention. Most of the violence was the work of cops, vigilantes, and apolitical lumpen, along with some of the property destruction (although, in a world where property is valued more highly than people are, political vandalism is an acceptable tactic; see the Sons of Liberty).
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  42.  @kenmacfarlane8744  Wow. You really have no idea. Watch "Day of Rage" or any of the vast amounts of other video; read any of the now huge number of reliable sources about that day; watch the testimonies from the police; watch and listen to what the additional witnesses have to say. Some of the attackers are being charged with conspiracy due to their plans and preparation. This is a big deal.
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  43.  @kenmacfarlane8744  Sure. That sort of thing is part of the ongoing investigation.
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  44. Civil unrest is nothing compared to a coup attempt. Also, taking the streets is crucial. It's not a time for business as usual.
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  45.  @mybad8805  Protect the rioters? What the hell? The cops inflicted a lot of the deaths and injuries!
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  46.  @randominc.2251  No weapons? Several were arrested with concealed guns, some of the Oath Keepers had rifles stashed in a nearby hotel room for a "Quick Reaction Force," we're finding out now that they were hoping for an armed second wave, one guy had lots of guns and explosives in his nearby truck, and of course the attackers had thousands of melee weapons, with which they inflicted some very serious injuries (lots of TBIs, loss of an eye, loss of digits, etc.). Quite a few of the attackers are charged with (or have pleaded guilty to) Assault With a Dangerous Weapon. As for being "let in," there are countless hours of video footage of the heavy fighting at various entrances, footage of the forced entrances to the building via broken windows, and so on. Most of the police fought bravely, but some collaborated with the attackers. If anything, I'm surprised that there weren't more collaborators.
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  47.  @MA-mh1vs  They wanted to (and this is becoming clearer and clearer with all the communications the investigators are discovering in recent months) prevent certification of the election, provoke a Constitutional crisis, and enable Trump to remain in office. He was still in office at the time, and thus was Commander-in-Chief. There's a phrase that's been used in Latin America and elsewhere: "auto-coup" or "self-coup." I don't remember offhand if I've seen any statements regarding how far in the future the planners both in the streets and in "high places" were thinking, but (and this is revealing) I don't think that they were afraid of the military members actually honoring their oath to the Constitution, as opposed to honoring the decree of the sitting President. Do those officials who allegedly hate this country include both Pelosi and Pence?
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  48.  @kenperk9854  What are you referring to?
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  49.  @btaos1625  Trump's administration had to bail out farmers, in part due to the odious consequences of tariffs.
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  50. There's a gap between civil unrest and a coup attempt.
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