Comments by "David Ford" (@davidford3115) on "Times Radio" channel.

  1.  @ascoop22  When Trump took office, the economy soared in just three months. The economic decline came with the lockdowns of which Turmp had zero control. That was LOCAL governments acting fascistic. It NEVER improved under Democrats, only ever getting worse. If everyone knew about Europe's over reliance on Russia, why didn't they DO anything about it? Why did it take Trump stating the blatantly obvious out loud? And why even then they mocked him rather than change their ways? Your problem is that your personal contempt for the man is blinding you to logic and reason. You can't let the man have even one good day which only discredits you, not him.
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  2. Or as Teddy Roosevelt said, "speak softly, but carry a big stick".
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  3. "Wisdom seems like madness to the fool" -attributed to Confucius. Infantilizing people you disagree by calling them insane with doesn't make you correct; it only discredits your own argument because you refuse to debate the merits.
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  4. Yeah, funny how those same countries criminalize political opposition. How is this any different than Alexander Lukashenko did in Belarus?
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  5. Nelson Mandela was in jail before becoming the president of South Africa.
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  6. No, you have zero clue how the legal system works. Time on the statute of limitations does NOT suspend just because he leaves the state. Even Democrat lawyers refute your claims. You are grasping at straws.
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  7. Agreed. People seem to forget that even Nelson Mandela served time in Jail.
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  8. @reeva5735 WRONG. The plane touched down in the MIDDLE of the runway. There is no "right way" to land as it is WIND that determines takeoff-and landing direction. Also, if the plane went into the bay, it would have been like the Miracle on the Hudson River. Stop making excuses for a dangerously designed airport.
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  9. Not is it not. Even Democrat lawyers say that you cannot count each transaction as if it were a separate crime. How about you try reading the RICO statute before you speak in complete ignorance.
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  10.  @mattburns8839  Thank you for proving that you don't actually have an argument worth making. If auto-correct putting in the wrong word is the best you can do, you have already lost the debate. Learn to debate as well as to code. “I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.” ― Margaret Thatcher
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  11.  @livingtribunal4110  Yeah, you sure showed me. Try actually debating what I said rather than acting like a seal barking and clapping after getting a fish.
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  12. I would argue that burning down Twitter is just as important to human survival as space travel. Social media has become a net negative on stability in the world, and the people previously running Twitter were purposely throwing gas on the fire.
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  13. Tacitly, they have made gains, but on a strategic level, they have lost spectacularly. NATO is not more united than they have ever been since the 1980s. More members, and now with Finland as a member, Russia is even MORE vulnerable.
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  14. I take claims of Russians destroying Patriot batteries as seriously as I take their reports of destroyed HIMARs and Bradleys.
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  15. If not for the wall, they could have slid 1.08KM on the ground before the vehicle would have ended up in the bay. At that point it would have been like the Miracle on the Hudson.
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  16.  @noahway13  Don't forget Vietnam. The US was there for just shy of 20 years and the locals also refused to fight for their own country. And much like Afghanistan, the local government was more interested in settling petty feuds than actually fighting the real threat. Now contrast that to the Koreans who DID fight for their nation.
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  17. Calm down. Half the hype on BOTH sides of the conflict is overblown. But what you can be assured of is that the Ukraine being able to hold out as long as they have against a numerically superior foe, defying ALL expectations is itself a victory. The fact that Russia failed to take Kiev or advance anywhere except in Luhansk is already a win for Ukraine. Keep things in context.
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  18.  @DandyE44A  NO, it did not. That hotel you mentioned is 700 meters from the end of the runway while that wall was a mere 150 meters. Further, that hotel isn't even on the slide path of the plane as it is off to the side. From the centerline of the runway, there was a clear 1.08KM line to the bay. At that point, the water would have resulted in a situation similar to the miracle on the Hudson River.
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  19. I tend to agree. Ukraine is something of a trail run for the defense and logistics of Taiwan.
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  20. Nobody forced Poland, Finland and the Baltic states to join NATO. It was Putin who invaded Ukraine. Stop blaming the victum and apologizing for the bully.
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  21. Well, and for almost 50 years, the US had a defense treaty with Taipei. This is clearly seen with Dean Acheson's infamous "Pacific Defense Perimeter" which INCLUDED Taiwan but not South Korea. Only with the recognition of Beijing as "official China" has the position changed to ambiguity.
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  22.  @brokenrecord3095  Sadly, that is the madman scenario. In that someone with nothing to lose will take the whole world with him in an atomic Armageddon.
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  23.  @boink800  True that. But I consider it good debate practice to wrestle with them.
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  24.  @spidif2544  Yeah, several military experts laughed at Billy Mitchell when he argued for Air Power and warned that there was a glaring weakness in the defenses of Pearl Harbor. Exactly 15 years (minus 10 days) after he was court-martialed, the Japanese conducted the attack on Pearl Harbor exactly as he predicted.
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  25.  @thepoliticalanalyst5684  Your point being? I guarantee you that with American help, those codes could have been compromised. At a bare minimum, they could have been dismantled for components, particularly the radioactive material to be used in power plants. If giving them up was so symbolic, then why make such a big deal about it? You are trivializing the hand-over. That Russia got to keep the warheads instead of them being dismantled IS a big deal.
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  26.  @gigikontra7023  Yeah, that was part of my point about dismantling the devices. You and I have the creativity to think outside the box. But this guy clearly can't think outside of his official talking points. A clear case of Pavlov's Dog.
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  27. And Konigsberg!
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  28.  @badluck5647  "Asian" in the Commonwealth and the US mean different things. For those who still count the late Queen as their monarch, "Asian" tends to mean Pakistani/Hindu/Indian. For the US, it tends to refer to Northeast Asia, particularly Japan, China, Korea, and Taiwan. Both tend to agree on "Indo" as referring to Southeast Asia.
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  29. How? Details, not just emotional hyperbolae.
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  30.  @QwadLuzr  "Si vis pacem, para bellum; If you want peace, arm for war," -Flavius Vegetius Renatus. That is a truism that has remained constant since antiquity and will remain so until eternity.
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  31.  @danmayberry1185  Pence was Grima Wormtounge. He whispered poison into his ear.
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  32.  @besmartvoteblue2702  They said that in 2016. They said that in 2020. Keep drinking the copium dude.
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  33.  @CountDuckEgg  Perun, a defense logistic channel got into that very topic and if you actually watch his videos, he even cites the sources. Yes, Russia can produce shells, but even by Russia's own numbers, they are burning through shells faster than they can produce them. It nicely explains why the number of fires at the start of the war have now dropped to barely a thrid.
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  34. Wishful thinking. Not surprising from people who listen to the legacy media.
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  35. I tend to think the latter. As a British flag officer, he KNOWS that there is zero difference between "tactical" and "strategic" nukes. ANY use of nukes is a strategic escalation resulting in launch of Trident ICBMs.
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  36. Russian paid troll.
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  37. Are there two Korean nations or only one? Taiwan and mainland China have been separated far longer than the Koreans. That alone is reason enough to justify Taiwan's independence.
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  38. The euphemisms were originally Russia making excuses. The Ukrainians adopted it to mock and disparage them.
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  39. Agreed. South Korean, Taiwanese, and Japanese students are a safer option as contrasted with mainland Chinese. Heck, even diaspora Chinese populations such as Indonesian and Malaysian Chinese are a safer option.
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  40.  @DXD2004-  Ah, but the Taliban the US fought, and the Mujahadeen the Soviets fought were two different animals. The Muscovites lost far more men in Afghanistan than the US did.
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  41.  @benachiesween  Human waves is the WORSE attack one can make against a fortified position. You get mowed down in a shooting gallery. Just look at Vuledar.
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  42. "This Harpy"? How sexist of you. Ad hominin insults like that don't make your argument, it discredits it.
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  43.  @ajaykumarsingh702  When it comes to amphibious operations, it favors the defenders. Taiwan isn't trying to cross the strait.
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  44. Because no government office in the world is nonpartisan. Pretending there is no politics in law is refusing to acknowledge the blatantly obvious.
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  45.  @TheAmazingAdventuresOfMiles  Judges have ALWAYS been political animals. You just chose to be ignorant of your own history. Who appointed the judges to the Admiralty Courts in the 1700-1800s? Those were POLITICAL appointments. And nothing has changed in the British system since that time. "A Judge is a lawyer who once knew a politician, " -English proverb.
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  46. I believe the birdstrike started the series of events. But that cement wall at the end of the runway was what brought it to a fatal conclusion.
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  47. Considering that it didn't start under Turmp, but Ukraine DID under Biden, I think you are blaming the wrong person.
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  48. Deliberate attempt at suicide? If the hydraulics were damaged, that would prevent proper deployment, and it lost of power meant time was a limiting factor, they might not have had enough time to manually deploy.
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  49. So it is okay to just accept the failures of autocracies but not the inherent weaknesses of capitalism? Nice to see you are not interested in honest debate.
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  50.  @Jack-e5t  Your are projecting. That is what leftists in the media do. You are projecting your own flaws onto the right. There is a very good reason why nobody in media actually wants to debate actual Trump supporters and instead bring in fake conservatives like Billy Kristol, Liz Cheney, or Chris Hayes. They want controlled opposition they can dance around. Anytime the left foolishly brings on someone like Ben Shapiro, Bill Whittle, or Matt Taibi, they get their butts handed to them. There is a reason for that and Bill Whittle explains it: the left have bad ideas that are indefensible and they cannot win on the merits. They resort to screaming racism because they need to discredit the messenger in a vain attempt to discredit the message. "We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien concepts and competitive values. For a nation afraid to let its people judge truth from falsehood in an open market of ideas is a nation afraid of its own people," -President John F. Kennedy.
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