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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