Comments by "Harry Stoddard" (@HarryS77) on "Rebel HQ" channel.

  1. $10 says Trump tries to put his face on the $100.
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  2. The Clinton campaign is furious that a foreign government (allegedly) is interfering with an election. Yet Hillary endorsed a right wing coup in Honduras to block a public vote on a referendum. Real classy.
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  3. The guy's probably on Medicare and complaining about "give aways".
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  4. They say she could have come out a long time ago, but what would have happened if she had? What if she'd come out with her allegations when Kavanaugh was nominated to the D.C. Circuit? Well, why is she coming out now? Why didn't she do it earlier, when he was clerking for Ken Starr? That party was 20 years ago. Or how about when he was a clerk for Ken Starr? But then the same excuse arises. Why didn't she do it earlier? That party was 10 years ago. And we'd keep backpedalling like this until we're left with the only possible option: she "should" have come out right after the incident. So why didn't she? There is an abundance of testimonials from victims of sexual assault that explain why they didn't come forward. We know that most rapes and other forms of sexual assault go unreported. Or you could look at what happened with Brock Turner. How did the court perceive the case? Nice college kid, bright future, good at sports, so what if he raped some girl? This happened recently, in this climate of increased scrutiny of sex crimes, and there are plenty of similar examples. Or think of the Cosby trial: it took the word of 50 women or whatever it was to finally convince people to take the charges seriously. Ford would have been making her allegation in the 90s when women were believed even less than they are now. For Republicans the dynamics of the situation haven't changed in the 30 intervening years, her word against the word of altar boy scholar athlete virgin Brett Kavanaugh. So when Republicans ask why she didn't come out earlier, flash them a mirror. They're the goblins that keep stuff like this in the dark.
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  5. The maximization of short term profit is the auto-erotic asphyxiation of economics.
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  6. Glimmer of light at the bottom of a very, very deep pit.
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  7. That guy said Klobuchar.  Klobuchar. Emma found probably the only Klobuchar supporter in the US, and even then she was his second choice.
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  8. The real answer is roughly 10 billion people.
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  9. Couple hours after his announcement, Beto had $5000. When asked later how much they'd made overall, the campaign demurred. Now they claim they raised over $6 million but won't reveal info on individual donations. That's not suspicious at all.
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  10. I especially liked how he posed the question as why aren't women "attracted" to the alt-right. Hit 'em right in their insecurity.
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  11. It's funny that this is the type of person who hand wrings over the US becoming like Venezuela etc because what you described - wanting democracy but only if their candidate wins - is exactly what happened in Venezuela with Guiado and what is happening now in Bolivia, not to mention numerous historical examples. We're only a democracy if the ultra conservative, traditionalist enemies of democracy win.
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  12. 2:50 The irony of Trumpers singing along with a song, written by a communist, that advocates for equal, social ownership of the land.
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  13. And even then, Hitler had to declare war on America. Had he not done that (no one is sure why he did) we wouldn't have had cause to fight the Nazis. It's really bizarre, because the rationale for war was retaliation against Japan, and yet America went after the Nazis and Fascists first. Also, the claim that America saved Europe and the world by entering WWII is an exaggeration that ignores the huge sacrifice the Russians made to trounce the Nazi army.
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  14. Heather Spoonheim Indeed. Studies have shown that the wealthier you are, the less likely you are to feel empathy. http://healthland.time.com/2011/12/21/got-money-then-you-might-lack-compassion/ Of course there are also those famous Monopoly experiments where the winners (most of whom benefited from a rigged dice roll) congratulated themselves for their superior strategy. The actor-observer bias.
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  15. If you're a banker, you can pay people to wipe your ass for you.
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  16. When the US interferes in elections, it's called "democracy."
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  17. Lady at 2:20 Well, I've seen enough episodes of Law & Order to know your statistics aren't correct. The fuck!? How can anyone be that clueless?
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  18. She did something similar when people started asking about her and her husband's extravagant speaking fees. HRC: Oh, we were totally broke, you know, having to pay for several houses and college and legal fees. We just had to accept all that Wall Street money! In other words, she has all this power and privilege, but she's so put upon. Everyone's against her, even the people that adamantly and corruptly supported her. Now, where have I seen that kind of sociopathic behavior before....?
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  19. "I still think Hillary Clinton would have been a better candidate." "How's that working for you?" Salty.
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  20. We really need a Romney-style tape of Trump mocking his supporters. He may be able to get away with shooting someone on 5th Ave., but I doubt he can get away with his honest opinion of his base.
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  21. Too bad for him that Maryland has no statute of limitations on rape allegations. As Limbaugh would say, this guy's a low information voter.
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  22. fay guled Corbyn's position is Labour's position: the government should honor the referendum and negotiate an exit that is beneficial to the average Brit. Corbyn favors the social aspects of the EU, but rejects the free-market austerity measures it has used against countries and workers for decades. There's some indications that he doesn't think now is a good time to brexit, but he's a euroskeptic. May was initially anti-brexit and now she's pro-brexit, so both have waffled, whether as a matter of principle or for political expediency, who can say? As big an issue as brexit is, I think the elite class—Obama, May—can overcome that difference to oppose someone like Corbyn. Obama and May have more in common than Obama and Corbyn.
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  23. That was fast.
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  24. I hate the fact that "college kids" has been so thoroughly adopted as a term.
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  25. Neither does he.
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  26. At least see someone throw a chair...
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  27. That little move Keith did at the end is what millions of progressives have done or are about to do...out of the Democratic party.
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  28. Reminds me of how Trump was 1 lb under "obese," or how a teenager forges a B- on their paper to appear credible.
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  29.  @smackdowner  Oh god, it's getting worse.
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  30. To that first guy, there's no statute of limitations for attempted rape in Maryland, where the alleged crime took place, so there goes that excuse.
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  31. My bad, I thought this was TYT Politics. Oh, it is....>.>
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  32.  @pipertipurts5211  His rationale for Beto winning Texas is also potentially very wrong. Ted Cruz is one of if not the most disliked Congressman. Even Republicans don't like him. Trump, however, still to this day has a 90%+ approval rating among Republicans. Put another way, Beto lost to the easiest-to-beat Republican Senator; how could he expect to beat a popular incumbent president? I don't know what the specific numbers are for Texas, but if Texas is anything like the rest of the country, Beto isn't going to be able to siphon off enough Republican and center-right Independent votes from Trump.
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  33. I'd wager that isn't just the result of Fox News. As bad as Fox is, conservative talk radio is way way worse.
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  34. Jose Mendoza That's a commendable sentiment, but most of these people just demonstrated that they don't care about issues. They don't care that they hold a double standard. All they know is that their side is winning (but also always under threat by the losers). The only way to get through to them is to defeat them and then shove free healthcare, higher education, paid sick leave, and strong unions down their throats until they start seeing some sense.
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  35. Doctor: We're just going to leave a little bit of that cancer in there.
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  36. Quatrain? Like in a sonnet? Bahrain? Qatar? What are you mean??
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  37. We're fucked.
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  38. What do you think about Medicare for All? Well, Obamaca— Let me stop you right there.
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  39. Or give them free healthcare to get that hip fixed. Lion and the thorn.
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  40. Erik F What's more important than the details of how an administration might absolve student debt, is raising the question of why our system currently expects people to enter their adult life with massive debt and why our priority is to bail out the rich and fund the military-industrial complex but then throw up our hands and say it's impossible to not screw over ordinary people. That system is not the product of natural law, but of human choices, and we can make different choices.
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  41. +tallflguy Not to mention that "traditional" marriage has historically in many societies entailed the subjugation of women and children as the property of the husband. Look at the 10 commandments. It says Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's wife--which is the part everyone knows---nor his mule nor his house nor his servants. Women are on equal footing with other forms of property. When conservatives pine for "traditional" marriage I can only conclude that what they are really envisioning is not marriage circa 8000 BC (alarms should be going off) but marriage circa 1950.
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  42. What? Really? 666 5th Avenue. *Checks That is a real address! Is...is Jared Kushner Satan? Or just an evil Michael Cera?
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  43. You think Bernie would oppose a working class protest of an amoral corporation that passes the costs of business on to the workers from whom it then extracts wealth (while opposing unionization), and on top of that violates an economic protest of an egregious executive order just to make a quick buck? Doesn't sound like the Bernie Sanders I supported. The history of the working left is in precisely this kind of thing. You see wasted energy; I see people organizing, meeting face to face, sharing their experiences, becoming aware of their situation. Uber and the whole "sharing" or independent contractor/precariat economy is one small step above a scam and it's time people realized it.
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  44. Not to mention that employers are always trying to DECREASE benefits.
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  45. I think the intended effect is to say that the party is reformed now that Schultz and Clinton are out of the picture. The establishment is trying to wash their hands of Clinton and reclaim the narrative by showing that they are fair-dealers in the end and on Bernie's side. It's total BS.
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  46. Only when they start rounding up people into camps. Oh...wait.
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  47. Maybe it's not fair, but it's almost worse that the women accept it. They should know better. The men should too, but they're not the ones who're affected by this sort of thing.
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  48. When you're saying "moslem" in 2016.
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  49. It's always sad to see how far a human can be debased.
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  50. "Elite donors are the ambassadors of the campaign." With the Republicans self-destructing, the Democrats are on track to becoming the new conservative party.
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