Comments by "Jack Haveman" (@JackHaveman52) on "CNN" channel.

@dogpatch8266 Wow.....election denying in the 2000 elections. It seems that this denying stuff isn't just a Trump phenomena.
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"Since when does he call out corruption". Right NOW. Why aren't YOU calling out the corruption, Cuomo? Trump just did and you're arguing against him. If they're corrupt in Puerto Rico, call it out. NOW. It's as if getting Trump is more important than the people of Puerto Rico. Self serving, narcissistic child. That's all you are, Cuomo.
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She'll put on her face mask as soon as the camera is off her.
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@mistymountainhopper Acosta asked a question that included an accusation of Trump being a racist as assumed fact. Why would anyone feel obligated to answer that type of question? It's insulting. If you want to talk about editing the film, why did this video stop short of when that intern got up to reach for the mike? Acosta even made a disparaging remark, calling into question her legitimacy as an intern. Yet CNN chose not to show her getting up from her squatting position to get that mike so we could all see exactly what he did and proving that he did, quite rudely, redirect her hand away from the mike. You may think that I'm a Trump supporter but I'm not. The fact is, Acosta was being aggressive and insulting and no one, no matter who that person is, should feel that they must allow others to treat you the way that Acosta was treating the President or that intern.
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@mistymountainhopper That's her job. She looks after the microphone and takes it from one journalist and brings it to the next one. Acosta didn't want to relinquish the mike. He felt as if he was deserving of more time and he had the right to usurp the mike for himself. All she did was reach for it and he pushed her hand away. That's a breach of decorum. Every journalist must follow procedure and Acosta feels that he's above that and shouldn't have to what is required of all the journalists in that room. No one, not Trump, not you.....no one is required to answer questions from anyone else. It's done on a common courtesy and no person has an obligation to answer a question from a journalist, even if that journalist is named Acosta.
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@mistymountainhopper I will agree with that. It's not an assault but it is rude and he's showing contempt for her and her responsibilities. He made her look inept and he owes her an apology, for starters. Also, he has the unique position of being able to ask questions of the President of the most powerful nation in the world and he uses it as battering ram until he loses his press pass. This isn't unprecedented and he knows it. Instead of looking for information, like a journalist should, he's looking to score points. Anyone would get annoyed eventually.
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NO......Don Lemon. He does NOT represent the African community. He represents himself. That is his freedom. He's allowed to express his beliefs and it is the most condescending notion that if he doesn't fall lock step with what you see as "black" consciousness or however you express it, he needs help. There is no such thing as collective black thought or belief and it is almost a bullying tactic to assume that every black person must believe the same or be labelled mentally unstable. Kanye West isn't my cup of tea, either but if he went there and really lambasted Trump, you wouldn't be sitting there saying that his presence there is a "minstrel show". The only reason you're saying this is because you don't like what he said. I didn't care for it either, but you have no right to characterise people in this manner just because you don't like his politics. Also, just because he's using the slang or, what is known as, Ebonics, you don't denigrate him by saying that he's acting like he's in a Minstrel show. Had a white person said this, he'd be called a racist. I guess you'll be getting a pass for it.
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It's a rabid raccoon. It ran at her and likely latched onto one of her legs. Raccoon can run faster that people. It would be a natural instinct to try to fight off the darn thing and people tend to fight with their hands and when she did, it bit her hand and wouldn't let go. So she drowned it. Smart girl. I've been attacked by neighbour's dog. It wasn't that big but it ran and started biting me on the leg and grabbed my pant leg. I started punching it on the head and it let go and snapped at my hand and it grazed the back of my wrist. It then backed off. Had it been rabid it wouldn't have done that.
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No one has told her that she has to respect Trump. However, it would be nice if she respected the office of the presidency. Trump is the president right now and he represents her and all Americans at this moment. Respect the fact the presidency is a fluid position and the office should be respected. Don't be the petulant child who didn't get her way at the last elections.
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@georgemilford5632 With all the "words matter" and "hate speech" rhetoric from the left and "safe spaces" and "trigger warnings" you'd think physical contact would send the left into apoplectic fits. Not so. It's seems these things only upset the left when it's done to people they like. Misdirect a young Republican's hand is okay, you know, because she's one of the young "deplorables".
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@georgemilford5632 You've changed the entire context and meaning of my comment. It's the left that has been using the terms of "micro-aggression", "hate speech", "uninvited physical contact" , "safe spaces" and how men are always using physical force to intimidate women. They've been crying about these things for years now. Now, when a left wing journalist, uses physical force to prevent a woman from doing her job, it becomes "misdirect", as if that makes it better. Acosta used his strength, as a man and as a prestigious journalist, to block her from taking the microphone, her job. Had that been Trump "misdirecting", you'd never hear the end of it from the left. However, since it was just one of the "deplorables" as many Democrats have called them, it doesn't matter so much. She's obviously a Republican, so a little "misdirecting" is just fine. Acosta was being rude and assertive and using baited questions to which no rational person would have responded to. His question was why did he (Trump) demonise migrants, implying that Trump was racist (an insult) to asking if he were worried about the Mueller investigation, again implying Trump's guilt, hoping that if Trump did respond it would prove his guilt in the whole matter. Trump wasn't having any of it and neither would you have, in his position, unless you're that irrational that you can't see the traps that Acosta was setting. Trump saw them and he wasn't stepping into them.
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What kind of interview is it when the interviewer does more talking than the person being interviewed? The word "interrogation" comes to mind. Why didn't that CNN "interviewer" try to get an interview with the guys in the following video clips. They seemed friendly enough. https://www.thepostmillennial.com/breaking-violence-in-portland-as-antifa-assaults-numerous-people/
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@hmacklemore2226 Now, you're going to tell us that the science says that being fit, eating healthy foods and making sure that your body has the proper nutrients and vitamins won't help you fight off a disease. Then WHY is it that the aged and those with comorbidities are the ones that are the most likely to die from Covid? All the scientific data say that this is true. It's almost as if being healthy DOES help one fight the disease. Rogan didn't just talk about vitamins. He said that he worked out and took care of himself and is in excellent health. That means that he's NOT obese, doesn't have heart problems or diabetic. These are ALL problems that could be avoided by a lot of people. That's science, too. Some people only use science when it suits them.
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They use that word to set the tone of the discussion. "Remember, stupid audience. Rogan is controversial." It's a dirty trick
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Steven Romero Raccoons are nocturnal but I've seen them during the day. In town they won't come out but in the country you see them quite often. I've watched them in a nearby creek, getting clams and crayfish in the middle of the afternoon.
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COMICS ARE THE BEST Raccoon, foxes and dogs fight with their teeth. It's the main weapon that they have. Rabies affects the brain and causes some animals, predator types, to become very aggressive and they will attack. Humans become aggressive as well and develop a fear of drinking water because they have difficulty swallowing. Another name for rabies is hydrophobia. In the past they would tie people up so they wouldn't hurt others. This is a known fact.
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Raccoons do come out in the day as well. In urban settings, they're nocturnal but in the country, they can be seen during the day as well. I grew up on a farm and have seen them lots of times during the day. I used to watch them in a near by creek while they were looking for clams and crayfish. Not uncommon at all in a rural setting. Copied and pasted from Wikepedia "Though usually nocturnal, the raccoon is sometimes active in daylight to take advantage of available food sources" This was referenced and easily verified from other sources as well.
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@lilibee3443 You've shown us exactly why Trump will win again in 2020. It's not because he cheated. The Mueller report put a strong validation stamp on that. It's because Hillary and the Democrats demonised and started calling middle Americans all kinds of negative names and so they reacted in kind to the insults. The very people that voted for Obama, in middle America, voted for Trump. You don't call some one names and then ask them to support you. That's bad campaigning. Trump lost because of Democrat arrogance and you're showing us that this arrogance hasn't stopped.
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So that's why Trump is facing all these charges. The Democrats think that they need scandals to win. Trump is ahead on too many criteria so they have to create the biggest scandal against him so they can claim that he's not just corrupt, but a criminal who wants to become a dictator.
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Antifa tactics do NOT work. They call everyone that disagrees with them a racist and they use a pretty wide brush to paint their so called Nazis. If you're right wing, to them, you're a fascist. They protest, violently, Republican events and rallies and right leaning speakers. They smash things, start fires and attack people for no cause. They're not freedom fighters. They want the power to control speech and ideas. They're no better than the Nazis they say they hate. All I can think about this news piece is that CNN is shedding a favourable light on this group because they are ideologically in line with these moralistic thugs. What an embarrassment for CNN.
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You don't? The southern border. Inflation, in spite of what Biden claims. Homelessness. Democrats soft on crime. The Afghanistan withdrawal. Money to Iran. Money going to 2 new wars. Money going to illegal immigrants. Refusal to deport illegal immigrants who commit heinous crimes including murder. Allowing men into women's sports and locker rooms. Democrat support of transitioning children through drugs and surgeries. Record national debt. Higher taxes. Is that enough?
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racist.....definition ----a person who shows or feels discrimination or prejudice against people of other races, or who believes that a particular race is superior to another. I don't see the word "power" anywhere. Could it be that she's injected this word to give the word a new meaning to justify her own racist feelings? Nooo.....she couldn't be that devious.
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What you neglected to mention was that Harvard Law School said that they had hired the first woman of colour, referring to Elizabeth Warren way back in 1995. Where would they get this idea from? I can offer a good guess.
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There's been months of peaceful protests in which buildings were burned, stores were looted, people were killed (David Dorn a prime example) bottles, Molotov cocktails, and high grade fireworks are thrown and thousands of police have had all degrees of injuries. There are COUNTLESS videos that document the violence. A BLM supporter, shot and killed a 9 year old girl, because her mother mistakenly turned into the Wendy's that had been burned to the ground a few night earlier. Anyone that wants to see the videos, of the violence, can do so by doing a simple google search. Hell, the CNN studio, itself, was attacked and vandalised by rioters. If you go out to protest and it ends in violence, you leave, quickly and abruptly. Staying gives the rioters cover by providing numbers for them to do their dirty deeds. If you go out a second night, and it ends in the same manner, realise that looters are going to use you to hide behind, to add legitimacy to their violence so they can continue to loot and destroy. If you keep going out to these protests and they continue to end in violence, you're becoming complicit in that violence, whether you like to admit it or not. If you, like the CNN media pundit, Chris Cuomo, asks where it says that protests can't be violent, then you're justifying mob violence. No one says that you can't protest. However, as per the Constitution, that assembly must be peaceful. When the first brick is thrown, the assembly is no longer peaceful and you should divest yourself of that assembly if you want to remain guilt free. That's the law and that's common sense.
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@georgemilford5632 "My house, my rules" Apparently, you've forgotten all about that.
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@georgemilford5632 Apparently, Obama didn't think so at least that's what he implied when he said it to a reporter that was annoying him. Acosta should not have "misdirected" the intern when she reached for that microphone. You know it and I know it. She was doing her job. He had no right to use physical force, no matter how slight it might appear, to prevent her from doing it. She made three attempts to grab the get the mike. He blocked her three times, culminating in the "misdirection" where he brought his other hand down on the inside of her elbow, pressuring it down, with enough force to bend the arm and turn her slightly to her right. He knew why she was there and what her job was and he didn't care. He's responsible for how he acted. No one else.
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@georgemilford5632 Acosta will be back at the Whitehouse on Friday. Also, if Obama had to be reminded, he wasn't handling it all that well, was he? Politics has become a great deal more heated these days with both sides acting like fools. Maxine Waters telling listeners to let Republicans know that they aren't welcome in public places, Hillary talking about being uncivil, people wearing MAGA hats being attacked ( a guy in Tuscon just had his leg badly broken for wearing one) and other incidents are also happening on top of some of the dumb things Trump is saying. You're attributing this all to the right wing but there are elements on the left that are just as bad. CNN has went out of their way to distort the news to show Trump in a bad light. It's no surprise that he'd react badly no more than it was for Obama to do the same. The difference between you and I is that simple. You only don't like it when the right does it. I don't like it when anyone does it. My rules aren't subjective. Your's appear to be dependent on who does it. It's not the action. It's the person doing the action.
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@georgemilford5632 I think Obama handled it better due to his background as a lawyer and career politician. Trump is more bombastic and behaves like an average guy whose behaviour isn't restrained by his training. He reacts without thinking and as a businessman, he's used to people deferring to him. He reminds me of a lot of people I've worked with and for. Unsophisticated and will blurt out whatever happens to be on their mind. Fox news is bad and Tucker Carlson can make me cringe at some of the dumb things he says. However, CNN and MSNBC is no better. There are a lot of left wing media that seem to be bent on vilifying Trump. That's where that fake media charge comes in. As an example, the NY Times headline reads "Trump calls immigrants animals" Sounds horrible right? It is.....if that's what he said. It isn't. It turns out at a town hall type meeting in California, a woman mentioned MS13 and how violent and frightening they were. Trump said that they've been working hard to rid the US of this street gang and that there were a lot of them that have been deported and finished with "they're animals". He was talking about a violent street gang, not immigrants at all. Trump calls fake news and then a major news outlet does that. Trump just smiles and shrugs his shoulders and people can make of it what they will. His point has been made and it happens over and over again. This frustrates me to no end. Why fall into his trap? Trump is supposed to be unintelligent and they're being out witted by the dumb one. Anyway, have a good weekend. We just got 6 inches of snow and I'm here staring out my window. Looks nice though.
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Is there corruption in Puerto Rico or not? Why is it always about Trump. If there is corruption, call it out and help the people there. They most definitely need it. But people like you would rather go after Trump than actually stop corruption and help those people who really need the help. All Cuomo had to do is ask if Trump has any plans to STOP the corruption. That would have been helpful. Finding one hundred different ways to call Trump a liar doesn't help the people in Puerto Rico, at all.
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"He's an illegitimate president" "He colluded with the Russians to rig the election" "Lets have an inquiry so we can impeach him" "Muller says there's no evidence but let's impeach him anyway because we know he's guilty" "The electoral college system is unfair. Let's get rid of it" How is this, undermining of an election, any different than what they're accusing Trump of? Both parties have been claiming that the election process has been broken since 2004. Yet, they don't fix it. Instead they use it as a political sledgehammer to gain power. The American election process is a disgrace. You, Americans are being manipulated by power hungry politicians, from both parties, and you're being sucked in by it. Go to any country outside of the US and they'll show you how fair and secure elections are held.
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Kicky Which is incredible, considering the willingness so many people have to call Kavanaugh a rapist on absolutely no evidence. I guess when it suits your agenda it ok to call someone a rapist and other times it's not. This could apply to those on both sides of the fence. Had 5 frat guys did the exact same thing today, I wonder what the response would be from both parties. Maybe it would be the same kind of circus that we saw with Kavanaugh. Guilty until proven innocent.......or......innocent until proven guilty. I forget which one our system of law is based on. Maybe you could remind me.
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HRH You've searched for monsters and you've found them. Now, you'll have to neutralise them. Legislate their actions. Make sure that your monsters no longer pose a threat. I will suggest some literature that might help in the fight against the monsters that threaten society. It's called "Mein Kampf" It's a blueprint that will help you to effectively deal with those monsters in the future so they'll never raise their ugly heads again in your country. Good luck.
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@aronm5329 You're ignoring the REAL problem. Fraud accusations in 2000, 2004, 2016 and 2024 and it will be certain to happen this year. Why? Because they have 50 states and 50 different voting processes and the states can change them any time that they want. The US needs a national voting policy, all the same and written into the Constitution to guarantee so that no policy can change unless they change the Constitution. However, neither party doesn't wants to commit to a standard process. It's as if they like the system as it is so they can use the controversy to bad mouth the other side. It's not just embarrassing, it's another sign of the corruption of government.
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@i.ehrenfest349 It's nonsense because neither party has tried to fix the flaws in the voting process. There are 50 states with 50 different voting laws....some so vague that things like this can happen. But let's NOT fix it. Let's use it to demonise the OTHER party and who ever comes up with the best case should convince voters that the OTHER is the bad guy. That's the nonsense here and it's only going to get worse. Worse, it's expanded into "the Russians did it". FIX THE PROBLEM. You're only pointing out the symptoms of a terrible voting system. Get at the root of the problem and FIX it and get rid of the nonsense and even the reality of voting fraud. Now, tell me that I'm wrong.
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@billiebreese2067 You're not understanding ONE word of what I'm trying to say. The voting system is BROKEN. Let's assume that you're correct in what you're saying in the 2000 election and Gore should have been president. Yet, Bush became president. By every metric that I can think of, that would mean that the system is broken. WE AGREE. Yet you're too interested in blaming the other guys. In 2004, there was talk about the Dominion voting machines being tampered with. Is this possible? in 2016, it was outside interference in the elections...the Russians. In 2020, it was a combination of a comprehensive mail-in ballot system and harvesting, Dominion machines and illegally changing the voting process without going through the state legislature....Pennsylvania for one. Instead of looking to blame each other, why not name a commission for recommendations to ensure that this nonsense stops. But...NOOOOO. Let's just blame the other party for cheating. That's SO much better. FIX THE DAMN SYSTEM. Then we won't have things like the 2000 voting controversy. Other nations do it. The United States can do it, too if they have the inclination for it but it appears that, by the tone of your comment, no one wants to do that. Blame is a much better system.
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How does your "whataboutism" solve the problem of FGM? Your avoiding the issue. You're basically saying "Don't look here.....look over there." These are two different issues. This woman was speaking with a Muslim woman who is also a member of Congress. That puts her is the unique position of being able to address a problem that is a well known problem in the Islamic community and being able to lend the weight of her position and influence as a way to end this intolerable practise. It should be addressed and the person asking the questioned shouldn't be shamed for it. The paedophilia problem should also be addressed. Even if a person did ask a Catholic member of Congress about those priests, that person should respond in a way to denounce that problem and they should never point to another problem somewhere else. That's "whataboutism" and it's a sneaky way to avoid dealing with issues and it doesn't make FGM an acceptable practise.
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