Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "Forbes Breaking News" channel.

  1. Imagine how many more questions they could ask, and how much more work they could get done if Congress had a dedicated period of time of each sitting day (say an hour) called question time where they could make these kinds of free statements on the record and expect answers to questions directed at other members of the house.
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  2. Here's a better question for you to ponder on. Why is it that Congress is the only parliament in the western world that does not compel representatives to attend the floor or hold a regular (every day it sit) televised "question time" where congresspersons are given the ability to ask each other questions and are compelled to answer... Why is that do you suppose, that neither major party wants to be forced to answer questions about policy, legislation, behaviour or statements? Why is it that neither major party is interested in being asked questions that hold them to account, weed out corruption and keep them on task? That's the question you want to answer.
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  3. 18. It should be a criminal offence to provide social media to a person under 18.
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  4.  @AgoristDryad  Did you laugh as much writing that comment as I did reading it?
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  5. This title and all the others like it in the lead up to Tuesday are misleading nonsense. You aren't "tearing into" someone else if that someone else isn't even present, let alone part of the conversation. Please get rid of the annoying woman at the start of all the Forbes videos. She's unnecessary and her presence is condescending. Just play the clip.
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  6.  @carolharris2357  In this clip was a time they didn't... There were no points when Trump was blamed for anything. This fanboy bullshit for both major parties has to stop.
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  7. Hard to see a problem he laid out in this clip. This was just political theatre, finger pointing as part of a campaign. Vote for us because we might be just as shit and have no ideas on how to solve problems either but at least we don't defund police. He hasn't presented solutions. He's not up there talking about how he'd make things better. He's not even talking about himself as an individual representative but about a large diverse political party with no consensus (which is what happens to all large political parties). The closest thing he came to talking about an action republicans would take is denying federal grants to police departments that have been defunded by their jurisdiction. That's not a solution, that's not supporting blue. That's political grant standing and it puts the lives of the citizens these clowns are sworn to represent at risk. Come on now. Why are you falling for partisan party politics? This nonsense is no better than the dems. None of them are working for you.
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  8. Voting blindly for a party doesn't work. What Booker is saying is the things Cotton is asking for to stop fentanyl already exist and haven't worked. He's saying he's on board for things Republican think tanks are saying might work, he's ready to try those things. It is just mind boggling that the guy saying listen, I want to work with you and get this problem solved is being demonised and the guy saying he wants to keep doing things that don't work is being called a hero, and all because of fanboy politics. As the US falls further into disrepair and despair, you can only blame the fanboy voters on both sides. The only true patriot is a swing voter.
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  9. 2024 is his plan.
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  10.  @isaacthegoat1432  Roflmao. Copypastas started in 1987 on usenet. Do you even know what usenet is? 🤣 I'm not going to argue with an empty headed kid. Go annoy your parents.
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  11.  @isaacthegoat1432  🤣🤣 No.
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  12. And Congress is a perfect example of what happens when people are hired based on the group they associate with, the quality of the lies they campaign under and the size of their bank account, instead of competence. How often do you scrutinise candidates at the ballot box and vote based on individual competency over party association?
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  13.  @hooterville1863  No mate. The party an individual chooses to associate with is a mere technicality. Voting blindly based on parties is far more negligent than hiring this woman based on immutable traits. Indeed if everyone stopped voting along party lines and instead voted for candidates based solely on their competence and personal platform, there wouldn't be tick boxes forcing organisations to hire based on such immutable characteristics at all. If you're looking to blame someone for the state of the country, look no further than voters whom describe themselves by the party they blindly vote for each election regardless of what party that might be. "Democrat voters" and "Republican voters" (better described as fanboys) are entirely to blame for all of the corruption, division and problems in the country with a political solution. Democracy only exists in swing voters, everyone else is a problem.
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  14. When did he say Trump was soft on crime? The closest I heard was a retort towards the end of the video where he sarcastically says "soft on crime" as in, an acknowledgement that Trump wasn't soft on crime in the context that Trump signed off on a cosponsored bill. I really hope I missed him saying it somewhere else and what I referenced wasn't what you meant. It would be ridiculous if you misunderstood that so badly.
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  15. I enjoyed when he tried to act smarter than he genuinely is on how inflation is calculated, panicked when he realised he was in over his head, then gave a nonsense answer to try and recover. I don't believe either major party as a whole has any idea whatsoever how inflation works, how it's calculated or how to get it under control. I think a handful of individuals from each major party understand these things, but the party members in general, no clue. The blind, leading the blind and refusing to hold the guide dog because of some ideological opposition. Most of these people in Congress shouldn't be in charge of a hamburger stand let alone a country.
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  16. Roflmao. This guy is off his rocker. More disturbing still, the level of ignorance in the comments. The bill has zero chance of passing and Lee knows it, this dog whistle is insane.
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  17.  @dmf30  100% the dem are, but how is that at all relevant to solutions? How is denying federal grants to police departments any different than defunding police? You've got dems saying "oh no we don't want to defund police, let's fund them more" And you've got republicans sitting up here whinging "but you totally said you wanted to defund police and it doesn't matter that you now want to fund them, it matters that you said in the past you wanted to defund them. So our great big plan is, if a police department has been defunded we should really defund it by taking away federal grants too just to make a political point and without any regard to the lives it will impact" 🤷‍♂️ I mean neither of those positions respect the people they're supposed to represent, but which of those two positions is likely to win? Because I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that being willing to fund police now is a darn sight better than trying to federally defund police in jurisdictions that didn't vote republican. It's time people stop voting blindly for parties regardless of what they actually want to do. There's more candidates than the two major parties. Sometimes each of the major parties have good ideas. You have to consider all of the platforms when voting from all of the candidates and vote for whom has the best platform, not which party they may or may not have bound themselves too. Divisionist party politics is a major problem that's pulling the country apart.
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  18. I'm so sick of these clickbait titles. There's no grilling here.
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  19. When have you ever seen justice in politics?
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  20. Sure you could do that. You'd lose a whole bunch of investment, manufacturers, vendors and jobs which would bring about a deep economic depression and skyrocket inflation. But I mean if that's what you want to do, sounds good. Of course, be prepared too for other countries to respond by banning US companies from owning land in their countries too. So there goes profits for the largest companies. But perhaps more importantly one can expect a loss of good faith in political negotiations across the world with the US increasing the likelihood of wars with current allies, or worse completely losing a seat at the table. Isolationism isn't a good idea for anyone. It's wielded as a weapon against Cuban & the DPRK for a reason. It destroys economies, social structure and makes you irrelevant to the world. But if that's what you want, let's go for it.
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  21. That's not a free market @ScottGrow117  🤦
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  22.  @docsavage8640  Then there would be a lot of people referenced as "fuckwit" from both sides of the house, and the remainder referenced as "smarmy little weasel".
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  23. They aren't compelled to attend the chamber. They only need to turn up when they want to. The US is the only country in the western world that doesn't compel members of the house to attend when it's sitting. You want to know why there's corruption? It's not lobbyists whom are easy enough to say no to. It's structural. The rules of Congress are set up to bake corruption right in and cover it up so the people don't know. If you want to end government corruption start by demanding a congressional question time every day congress sits where members are compelled to attend and are freely able to ask each other questions. Then look to an independent corruption body to oversee Congress. A body whose sole job it is to investigate corruption, with the power to compel answers and forward cases against members for prosecution.
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  24. It's not hate. You still don't get it. Look at their faces, there's no hate there. They don't believe the words they're saying. They just want to whip up the crowd so they stay in power. That's the whole thing. Both major parties do it because they're essentially the same group of super-rich morons manipulating your feels. Stop letting them.
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  25. I think this is the first time I've heard a yankvillain politician speak whom wasn't a complete dumbass. I guess he grew up in a time before yankville dumbed education. Of course for all his condemning of the political theatre, that's precisely what he was doing too. The constant partisan rhetoric and partisan blaming, made what could have been an impassioned rallying point for yankvillains of all creeds and political persuasions on the common enemy of inflation into nothing but divisive finger pointing and political campaigning. The single biggest thing yankville could do to get back into the game and become competitive against China again is to completely dump partisan politics. Try talking calmly together, negotiating and compromising in good faith with each other for the benefit of the people whom it is your job to represent. Stop the finger pointing, stop the partisan blame game, stop the partisan media high fiving. Work together to make things better, that's the genuinely moral thing to do. After all, it's in your literal job description. I also liked that for all the gusto about saying no to lobbyists, he snuck in there towards the end that his solution was to roll back environmental policies to allow hydrocarbons. 🤣 Gee, that surely had nothing to do with lobbyists and campaign funding, right? Two things I think are important to understand about inflation right now is that some of it is genuinely down to the sanctions yankville and those yankville could bend to it's will (including my own country) imposed on Russia. Another part of the inflationary crisis globally, and a big part of why the market is predicting long term inflation, isn't in yankville control at all. It absolutely relates to productivity, but it's China's productivity. I know yankville hates to acknowledge that anyone else has influence over global fiscal outcomes, let alone over yankvilles domestic outcomes. But China is the hub for all production on the planet, there's barely a product in existence today that doesn't have China's touch on it at least once somewhere in the supply chain and more often than not multiple times. China's productivity is falling apart for various reasons and if you're in yankville waiting on components or raw materials from China, your productivity goes down as well. Even more so if your entire manufacturing base is located in China. If the Chinese economy tips over, the entire world is f'd, including yankville. A Chinese economic fall would make the 2008 "GFC" look like a walk in the park. To save itself, yankville has to help prop China up. Anyway good overall speech, it was nice to see a yankvillain politician try to explain some of the words they use to lay people whom don't really understand otherwise. It would be nice if more people were economically and scientifically literate.
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  26. lol it always surprises me that so many people in yankville don't understand what a republic is. I guess I find it even more surprising that a member of Congress wouldn't understand the term either. It's quite amusing.
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  27. That's a funny ad masquerading as political banter.
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  28. Those are the same thing.
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  29. Bs. Abortion absolutely is healthcare.
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  30.  @travisjohnson7065  Go back to high school and understand biology.
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  31.  @travisjohnson7065  I've been in medicine for 18 years. Let's start with me and continue on to every other doctor and biologist in existence. A first trimester fetus isn't alive.
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  32. I wonder what's going to happen to polling when Disney make a new park somewhere else and pull out of Florida? I guess he doesn't care because he's not planning on being governor in 8-10 years time.
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  33. For the same reason Trump did? And for the same reason Obama did before Trump? The separation is gone, it's just political grandstanding now.
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  34. Hey look, a shill.
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  35. Yet again, Ted Cruz demonstrates he is more interested in putting on a show of ignorance to his voter base so he remains in power, rather than actually getting anything done, affecting worthy change, or seeking truth. Aren't you all tired of politicians like Cruz from both sides of the aisle? Showmen, instead of statesmen?
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  36. Yankville has been a nation of sheep since WW2. Nothing has changed in that regard. No one in these comments was alive to see a yankville that wasn't a nation of sheep. The sheep nature is only demonstrated with blind faith in divisional party politics. If you self identify by a political party and you aren't an active employee/representative thereof, you're a sheep. If every election isn't open for you, if it isn't an opportunity where you could vote for any party and base your decision on their platform. If you only consider the two major parties and only blindly vote for the same one every time. You're the problem. You're the sheep. And if you don't vote at all, well, you're not even in the game so your opinions are irrelevant. You're a sideline sheep. The only way to make representative politics work for the people, is to make them wholly insecure at each and every election. To vote based on policy platform, rewarding those with good policy and punishing those without. To not confine your votes to the major parties, to vote independent or third party when their policies are superior. Those aren't wasted votes because voting isn't a sport where you win or lose. Voting is a comment, your chance to have your voice on the record, nothing less, nothing more. If everyone votes the way I described then whom the major parties are will change over time as it should. But more importantly even without winning, more votes going to third parties and independents sends a strong message to incumbents that the people aren't happy and their job isn't secure, so they have to work more for the people and less for corruption. There's no point in making comments about sheep, if you're a sheep yourselves. What are you going to do about it?
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  37. From an aussie perspective, when I steal yankville cable from someone nice enough to stream it online, my wife and I are struck by the ads. The ads largely fit into two categories. Food and diabetes medication/treatments. Think that through yankvillains. Those things go together, it's a cycle. Pay attention to your ads today. Stop eating so much guys, it's not hard. You won't die if you don't eat for 6 hours.
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  38. @isaacthegoat1432  Because social media shouldn't be for minors? 🤣🤣 don't you have some homework to do kid?
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  39. @isaacthegoat1432  How old do I think you are? 😂 Do you know why social media platforms have a 13+ rating? Because there are regulations requiring that minimum age. Once upon a time, there was no such regulation, and social media had no minimum age to account holders. I'm merely suggesting that minimum age be lifted to a reasonable age where the account holder has the legal responsibility for themselves and the neurological development to put together long term consequence properly. You do know that kids kept up with gossip, memes and managed to stay in contact with their friends long, long before social media? I know right, crazy. If you give it a go, you might even find your peer relationships are stronger and you feel more connected.
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  40. @isaacthegoat1432  Memes are the evolution of copypasta, which came from usenet in the late 1980s. Copypasta was itself an evolution of chain letters, which have been a thing for hundreds of years. It's a real shame your parents didn't teach you to respect your elders. I understand that as a child, you feel something would be taken away from you if you lost access to social media, but it wouldn't. You would be gaining so much. Luckily, however, I don't have to convince you, only other adults who can see why that might be a good idea.
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  41. There's a reason why WW2 is the turning point on those debates. Yankville hasn't controlled itself since then, it's under control by the UK.
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  42. Ted Cruz sure does go out of his way to make a fool of himself far too often. I understand he's catering to a particular audience, but perhaps instead of harassing tictok, there should be a committee enquiry into whether politicians from both sides of the aisle hitting the hot buttons of a select cohort in order to remain in power is actually democratic and in line with the values of the constitution/country.
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  43.  @KM-jp2wx  A two party preferred system has it's drawbacks, but it doesn't specify which two parties have to hold majority. There are more parties and more candidates in each election beyond simply Republican and Democrat. Sometimes the best candidate will be from one of the current majority parties, but it won't always be. Sometimes they might not even belong to a party at all If the majority of voters, vote for the best individual candidate based on competency, not their party then you create a genuine situation where whom the majority parties are could change, and even if it doesn't such a situation would be heard loud and clear in Washington. That is the ONLY path to change. There is no other.
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  44.  @KM-jp2wx  I don't think one needs large monetary resources to affect change. Don't get me wrong monetary resources can be helpful and speed things along but I don't believe they're necessary. I think change occurs one person at a time, from the grass roots. Putting into effect personally the voting strategy I discussed is the first steps. Discussing that voting strategy with others helps to spread the word and get buy in. If each person who came into contact with the strategy managed to convince just two people to do the same, there would be critical mass buy in within just 5 years. That's not fast enough for this election or the next presidential election but every journey starts somewhere.
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  45.  @KM-jp2wx  I don't think one needs large monetary resources to affect change. Don't get me wrong monetary resources can be helpful and speed things along but I don't believe they're necessary. I think change occurs one person at a time, from the grass roots. Putting into effect personally the voting strategy I discussed is the first steps. Discussing that voting strategy with others helps to spread the word and get buy in. If each person who came into contact with the strategy managed to convince just two people to do the same, there would be critical mass buy in within just 5 years. That's not fast enough for this election or the next presidential election but every journey starts somewhere.
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  46. I find it absolutely astounding that from the objective timeline we KNOW that Hunter Biden has business dealings with the Ukrainian organised crime families trying to dig up the Donbas for the gad reserves under it and has done since 2014. And we know objectively that Ukraine and the Biden administration started pushing Russia into a war situation since just 7 weeks after Biden took office... And yet despite these objective facts no one, NO ONE, is talking about the reality that the war in Ukraine stems from Biden's family corruption trying to murder innocent Ukrainian civilians to dig up the ground under their towns for the trillions of dollars in oil and gas. All the sanctions. All the cost of living crisis. All the people becoming homeless and losing everything. The collapse of the UK and the EU. It's all so the Biden's and Ukranian organised criminals can enrich their own pockets. Don't take my word for it, look up the public record of how events in Ukraine have played out since 2014 including the coupe itself which the Obama administration originally DID NOT SUPPORT until Biden got involved. Look it up. What the Biden's are doing isn't just domestic political corruption, it's an international war crime.
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  47. They aren't first and foremost yankville companies at all. They all have their HQs and holding corps spread across tax heavens. They have no nationality. They are globalist companies truly operating outside of and ignoring any national sovereignty. They are law unto themselves and will gleefully pick up and move operations elsewhere as and when it suits them. They have no loyalties outside of their shareholders and profits. There is no such thing as a large "American" company anymore, they simply do not exist.
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  48. "2mg is a lethal dose" Just a reminder, George Floyd had taken 11mg of fentanyl & 39mg of meth 16 minutes before he went into cardiac arrest. If you're ever unfortunate enough to witness someone overdose on fentanyl remember Floyd's words "I can't breathe" and ask yourself if justice has been done.
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  49. These videos are always so stupid. It's just some bobble head politician talking empty sound bytes for the cameras and doing literally nothing to help anyone. She doesn't ask a single question until we're 6:05 in, and even then she doesn't allow an answer. Here's a reality for you. It isn't the job of private companies to provide law enforcement services. That's the job of government. The question shouldn't be why didn't {enter social media platform} take down {enter type of criminal content}. The question should be, why haven't senators like this woman provided law enforcement with the resources necessary to police the public spaces of platforms proactively, make arrests, and get convictions on criminal behaviour? She wheeled out this dubious statistic about how many children are being trafficked across yankville. Well that's not happening all on Facebook or social media in general. It's happening all over. That's not a failure of private companies. That's a failure of her and her colleagues to do their jobs effectively. If she really cared about monetising children, she wouldn't have given children campaign t-shirts and had them sit in the audience as cheap props for the cameras. If she cared she'd be out here talking about increasing the budget to law enforcement for policing public digital spaces and preventing minors under 18 from using social media. She's not because, in reality she's as happy to exploit children for personal gain as Zuckerberg is. It's disgusting
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  50.  @jsf768  Nope, and if you understood high-school level biology you wouldn't either
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  51.  @DevilsAdvocate43  He actually blamed "kids in cages" on house Republicans and brought it up in the context of trying to tie his very long stretch of the families of drug cartel kingpins to a narrative he just made up about Republicans going after women and children. He again references Trump but doesn't blame him for anything. It's Fanboy politics. He knows his sighted reasons for blocking the bill are stupid, it's Fanboy politics. Fanboys demand their team to win at all costs, so it means Republicans and Democrats alike can no longer do their jobs and vote yes on good legislation. Voting yes on legislation their side didn't come up with will anger the fanboys and they won't vote for them at the next election. The fanboy voters must be appeased. Durbin even straight up says that if Cotton wants to pass bills he needs a Democrat cosponsor. He's telling Cotton in fewer and less direct words exactly what I just told you. He can do that because Cotton already knows the game because Cotton is also being held random by fanboys. The fanboy voters are the problem. Patriots are swing voters whom vote in individual candidates based on competency and not what party they strategically chose to endorse to appease local fanboys.
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  52. Of course that would include impeaching religious activist judges too, right?
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  53. Remember when Schwarzenegger was governor of California and he wanted to do so much. But he quickly found out doing anything to improve things was structurally impossible so he was like "f this" and left? California could have as many good steward governors as it likes, but none of them will ever be able to fix California because the game in California is rigged and the governor is just for show.
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  54.  @kenthhamner2641  Annual inflation rates aren't a reflection of the price increase of individual goods. 🤦
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  55.  @kenthhamner2641  They aren't adjusted, you just don't understand what annual inflation rate means 🤣 Definition : Inflation rate is the percentage at which a currency is devalued during a period. This is devaluation is evident in the fact that the consumer price index (CPI) increases during this period. In other words, it’s a rate at which the currency is being devalued causing the general prices of consumer goods it increase relative to change in currency value. Inflation rates are NOT CPI. They are NOT directly how much things cost or the rate at which the price of an individual product increases. Think of it like this, an annual inflation rate of 7% means a dollar in your pocket at the start of the year is only worth 93c by the end of the year. That loss of buying power doesn't only impact consumers, it impacts business too. Which leads to higher prices depending on the number of inflation exposed inputs the business has.
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  56.  @neilkuckman6627  The calculation of inflation is not intended to be the cost of individual goods. You don't understand inflation.
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  57.  @kenthhamner2641  🤦🤦🤣 Inflation rates are a function of economics. They are all reported the same around the world, because that standardised allows credit agencies to rate economies, and the IMF/WEF to make determinations. They all say adjusted. That doesn't mean what you think it means. It means they factor CPI into the rate. That's it. 🤣
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  58. The Saudis aren't doing anything to be political. OPEC+ is doing what it has always done, varying supply to improve return and stabilise the market. They're done it every quarter since OPEC formed. It's Biden who turned it into some political sideshow because he didn't want prices to go up just before an election. But honestly, yankville wasn't a thought in their heads at OPEC. They care about their countries interests, not yankvilles. Get real.
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  59. What a ridiculous and despicable loaded question. Anti-zionism has nothing to do with being jewish. Real Jews aren't zionists.
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  60. I understand that yankvillains have trouble with this concept, but your country isn't the world. That world isn't upside down, just yankville. No one is going to help you, not after how you treat the rest of the world with so much contempt, and certainly not when it's a thing you created yourselves and have the full power to fix. The problem with Congress is the voters. Fanboys voting blindly for a party without regard to the individual candidate or their platform. How then can either party ever vote for the others bills, it would mean they'd lose their voter base. You can never have a Congress that work together until the voters sort themselves out and learn how to vote like rational adults. Given the state of the yankville education system over the last 26 years, the drive towards narcissism, youth worship, and the aging population, it seems unlikely there are any large pockets of able bodied people left whom know how to act like adults throughout yankville. It therefore might be awhile before voters sort themselves out. So I'll give you a hint. You're not supposed to care, at all which party a candidate belongs to. You're supposed to evaluate all candidates, including those from third parties and independents on their individual merits, then select the most competent of the bunch even if you don't necessarily agree with absolutely every policy they have. If everyone does that the major parties will very quickly wake up and start acting together if they aren't immediately replaced by other parties more willing to do so. That's how you fix your country. You stop being fanboys for major political parties cementing corruption and greed. The power is in your hands, it always has been. Fix it, don't fix it, I don't really care. But don't exclaim things are upside down with such ignorant surprise. You made it this way, and it remains so long as you will it so.
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  61.  @yepyep340  Partisan politics and absolutes make a fool out of you and me. You're part of the problem
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  62. So... Was she confirmed?
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  63.  Musicbox Entertainment  I am aussie mate. That's not at all true. There are particular times during a sitting day where members of the house can choose to be doing other things. But for the vast majority of the sitting day representatives are compelled into the house. I work with politicians in 5 countries, including Australia & the US, every day.
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  64.  Musicbox Entertainment  In Australia? The odd junior member in the backbench might be able to sneak off for a moment, but a senior (ie. high ranking) member would be immediately noticed missing and called to the chamber to explain themselves. It's a serious matter to miss a compelled portion of sitting. Perhaps you're thinking about the number of missed sitting days since the election, caused by Labor throwing up roadblocks? Or are you thinking about senators missing sessions, because rules in the senate are a bit different.
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  65. These videos would be better without the opening introduction from the girl. Just play the clip.
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  66. BS. This is Zionist propaganda.
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  67. How do you come a victim to something you choose to do? Those people sought out and chose Fentanyl. That's not a victim. It's a problem for sure, but acting as if these people were just living their lives and Fentanyl jumped out of the bushes and threw itself down their throats is just as counterproductive as doing nothing. Shitty political theatre doesn't help anyone. People aren't doing drugs because their lives are great. They're doing drugs to escape intense negative feelings & a lack of hope. You know how you fix drug epidemics? You improve society so that people don't have bs hopeless lives. You give meaning and aspirations. You can't move illicit drugs in a genuinely happy society. Stop treating symptoms. Treat the underlying cause.
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  68. But what did they say next?
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  69. Why are some people so concerned with whether other people have babies or not? Religious zealots are the worst zealots of the lot.
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  70. It's so funny watching this old man ramble on about nothing in particular. Who wants a president in their 70s? Come on.
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  71. A congressional question time would be useful. It would cut down all this theatre in situations like this, so neither side has to go on rants about what they're doing or what they've done at an inappropriate time. They could get it all out of their systems during question time, and also be able to ask each other questions with a compelled answer.
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  72. What freaking nonsense.
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  73. I wonder how long, if ever, it takes you lot to figure out the Biden family business dealings are the reason Ukraine is run by the organised crime puppet Zelenskyy instead of their democratically elected president, why Ukraine have been murdering their own people in the Donbas for the past 8 years and why Russia is in Ukraine defending them. There are trillions in oil and gas sitting under the towns of the Donbas and the Biden's along with their Ukrainian organised crime buddies want it. That's what it's all about. Stop supporting Kyiv. Start supporting the innocent civilians in the Donbas whom just want to live their lives, free. They tried to become their own independent sovereign lands, but now Kyiv has made it clear their own path to freedom is joining russia, something they didn't want to do but are voting for regardless. Once the Bidens have been prosecuted for domestic crimes in the US, they should be referred to the ICC for war crimes.
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  74. In Australia members of parliament or the senate would be in breach of their duties if they failed to be there. That's a federal offence and a risk of being kicked out of parliament.
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  75. I see reports, scientific papers, all sorts with people's names on them whom had nothing to do with the document or the fundamental work behind it almost every day. They do it for professional glory. If the report is held in good stead, it gets cited on resumes and leads to promotions/job offers/more funding. If it's not, just don't include it and put your name on other stuff to distract. Eventually one is held in good stead and leads to upward professional direction.
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  76. Is this the speaking event where only 27 people turned up? Is that why the frame is in so tight and you can hear individuals in the background and you can clearly hear every word he says without a roaring crowd to quiet him? Very funny. There isn't a looming threat of minor tax offences over Hunter Biden because of anything Trump. As the 27 people demonstrate, everyone has moved on from Trump. Charging him with minor offences he can pay a little fine on and they go away buries the story of the actual crimes the Biden's are implicated in, including human rights violations and war crimes. If the story of the Biden's real dealings were ever validated by media the outrage would be global because they involve the manipulation of the office of president and vice president for financial gain, the introduction of inflation around the world for personal financial gain and driving war for personal financial gain. The pressure has been kept up, the midterms are near, they need to bury the story completely. It's already happening, check out MSNBC's reporting.
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  77. It never fails to amaze me how certain Republicans get that if only people knew X corrupt act they'd turn on democrats. But history has shown time and time again, supporters happy turn a blind eye and don't care. This is such a silly campaign tactic. It doesn't work
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  78. What a ridiculous speech.
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  79.  @Eluderatnight  Good luck buying a house with cash. 🤣
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  80.  @donald1841  I don't think you understand what investment means.
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  81.  @ScottGrow117  Ironically nothing you listed to Scallywag exists without foreign investment. It's all funded by foreign investors. 🤣
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  82.  @Eluderatnight  Corporate ownership of real estate is a different beast altogether. They're mostly hedge funds, where the overwhelming majority thereof are actually based on pensions. That is, quite ironically the house you're renting could be owned by a hedge fund that pays dividends to your retirement pension. Or in other words you could be paying rent on a home you own a tiny sliver of. Are you suggesting you should have less secure long term yield on your pension (ie. less money to retire on)? How much do housing prices have to fall for you to be ok with that? Because I'll tell you, denying them access to property investment won't decrease housing prices by much. Somewhere in the range of 1-4% depending on the local market. That's $5K-$20K, and honestly if such a small amount is all that's between you and home ownership then you just need to wait another 12 months rather than giving up $100K to $250K from your pension over the next 30 years. If on the other hand $20K off the price doesn't help you own a home, then you're making yourself poorer with your suggestion without any benefit.
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  83.  @Eluderatnight  lol. The market would not drop 33% by denying or limiting hedge funds from investing in the market. The keyword in your statement you seem to have missed is desirable area. That is, there is high population and high demand. That's the driving force behind price. Knocking out hedge funds from that will have negligible impact on pricing because the demand will still be there. The only way to lower those prices is to increase supply, however the very point of desirable areas is that they're often physically restricted on addition of supply.
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  84.  @markthomas7279  It's not the Chinese that would be effected the most. It's allies and partners whom would. In China you can't buy land, but you can lease it including indefinite lease. That's the functional equivalent of buying land with extra steps.
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  85.  @patriciakidd5358  You seem to be misrepresenting my comment. I did not say it's impossible for anyone to buy a home for cash, pretending I'm ignorant to the existence of the rich not only misrepresents and disrespects me but discredits yourself. Please keep my words in context. I said good luck buying a home with cash to an average joe individual whom lacks the base understanding of how economics works as to make such a broad sweeping suggestion. Such an individual has no prospects of buying a home with cash. My gosh.
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  86.  @ScottGrow117  Thanks for the reply. To your first reply let me briefly explain the concept of IP to you. When companies or individuals invest in developing technology, their investment contracts give them or a holding company they have partial ownership of, a percentage ownership of the IP for the technology being developed. That means to continue to do work on that thing, with the processes developed previously you need to either licence the IP or be doing research directly with the IP owner. In other words, foreign investment pulls out, and those technologies go with them. They aren't going to just stop developing those technologies because you don't want to do business anymore, it'll just be investment elsewhere, so they're now competing against you instead of with you. You can try to start from scratch in developing those technologies, but if you can find someone willing to invest they'd be far behind and often there's no other physical way to do the research other than the methods for which you no longer hold the IP. The IP owners are going to be reluctant to licence to a competitor whom is being so hostile. In terms of the second comment regarding land. Let me ask you, what do you consider "US owned"? If a company/individual from outside the US creates a holding company inside the US, is it US owned? What if they only own a share of that holding company? Is it US owned? What percentage of a US registered company can be owned by non-US companies or individuals before it ceases to become US owned? I ask because it directly effects your suggestion. If your threshold is just a company registered in the US, then what changes except perhaps in some cases a slight reorganisation of legal corporate structure which doesn't impact on operations in any way. Nothing changes, you still have foreign ownership. If foreign ownership via a percentage of a company is ok so long as X percentage is owned by US citizens, then you'll just get accounting firms popping up like in tax haven countries where they're hired to be "on the board" of a shell company. Some slight structural changes but operations will continue as normal and you still have foreign ownership. If no percentage is permissible, then beyond utterly decimating the economy because there's no a single major corporation in the US without some foreign ownership and you'd now have to restrict who can own shares/stocks of US companies as well, but what did you actually achieve? No one can afford land anymore because you've just collapsed the economy entirely. Let's ignore all of that for a moment, and pretend your suggestion of leasing land makes any kind of sense. Ok, who is the land being leased from? The state like in China? Some wealthy property developer? What benefit did that bring the economy? Is there suddenly more land available for housing because of that? If as you claim it wouldn't effect willingness to invest or do business (it would) so demand then stayed consistent, did it somehow cool the market? By what market force? Outside of the land of gumdrops and rainbows, back in reality, foreign investment would disintegrate. You'd be essentially stealing land they paid for from foreign investors and removing the economic viability of doing business in the US. In China when a company leases land, they lease land from the state and those leases is usually somewhere between 99 years to indefinite. There is most often a single upfront lump sum payment to the state for the lease and no ongoing cost. In other words it's as close as the CCP can get to ownership of land and functionally is ownership. Are you suggesting the same thing in the US? A single lump sum lease payment for 99+ years? Because no one is going to pay a monthly lease for land they previously owned in order to do business in the US. Given China represents roughly 1.5/8 of the global population, with more billionaires than anywhere else on earth and a fast growing middle class. It's the kind of economy business is willing to invest in and put up with some slight variation to the norm because of how big the economy is and how much money there is to make. Here's a litmus test for you, if you were the head of a large multinational corporation from Sweden or Germany, would you invest in the US under the conditions you're suggesting? What about if you could still sell to the US market without having a physical presence there? Lastly, to the other part of your second comment regarding free markets. I'm not sure you understand what a free market actually is.
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  87. All these comments about a senator asking a question, and no one talking about the very intelligent people on the other side of that question giving measured, well thought out answers.
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  88. By that logic we don't need age limits or age advisories on • tobacco • alcohol • literature and media • marriages • consent • sxual interactions Honest, what an utterly ridiculous and brain dead techno-apologist thing to say. There's an easy fix here, make social media age restricted to 18+ and make it a criminal offence to provide social media to a minor. Require the platforms to see proof of age and identity as part of setting up an account the same way a telecommunications company has to. Make the company liable for proportional fines if they fail to take reasonable steps to ensure the account holder is 18+. And for goodness gracious, fund law enforcement to police these platforms for crimes in the same way they police any public place people congregate.
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  89. By that logic we don't need age limits or age advisories on • tobacco • alcohol • literature and media • marriages • consent • sxual interactions Honest, what an utterly ridiculous and brain dead techno-apologist thing to say. There's an easy fix here, make social media age restricted to 18+ and make it a criminal offence to provide social media to a minor. Require the platforms to see proof of age and identity as part of setting up an account the same way a telecommunications company has to. Make the company liable for proportional fines if they fail to take reasonable steps to ensure the account holder is 18+. And for goodness gracious, fund law enforcement to police these platforms for crimes in the same way they police any public place people congregate.
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  90. Permit me, if you will, to tell you what I believe. I believe yankville was founded by a bunch of extreme religious zealots and the 18th century rejects of Europe. I believe it's run by the ancestors of the same morons too extreme for even 18th century Europe. You can't fix stupid. And so long as you support a two party majority system that also excludes outside ideas, you also can't vote it out. I believe that yankville is a mediocre country with nothing really going for it, that manipulated it's way into taking on responsibilities a bankrupt Europe didn't want to deal with anymore and would benefit them having outsourced, and yankville has benefitted in economy and stature as a result. That yankville continues to use the tactics of manipulation and coercion in everyday policies, whilst maintaining one of the biggest, longest running and most developed propaganda campaigns in history to hide just how mediocre and irrelevant they really are, and from their people how beholden to Europe, particularly the UK the country is. I believe all of the IP yankville has registered since WW2 came off the backs of immigrants or was stolen from other nations. That innovation and greatness in yankville isn't dead, because to die it must have lived and it never has. I believe these things to be true, because they're supposed by objective facts. A world without yankville wouldn't skip a beat.
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