Comments by "Hobbs" (@hobbso8508) on "Sky News Australia" channel.

  1.  @happycakes1946  That is false. Representative democracies, which is what we are, are forms of democracy.
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  2. Felon vs Prosecutor. Gonna be a banger.
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  3. That's right. Peak over your wife's shoulder just to make sure.
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  4. The US literally promised to protect them.
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  5.  @rd9793  It's not. We're a representative democracy.
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  6.  @SeanD808  That's nice dear. We're still a form of democracy.
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  7.  Ernie Strother  Which elects that republic using democracy.
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  8.  @OOICU812  And a democracy. These things are not mutually exclusive.
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  9. ​ @vmasing1965  "Makes it rather problematic for the Last Supper to "copy imagery" from something that didn't exist for 2 more centuries." Not really, since both use imagery from far earlier works. "It's also nice how you quietly passed by the holy halo problem." Learn to read: "And yes, The Feast of the Gods does depict someone at the centre with light shining from their head." Already explained. Thanks. "I also never mentioned the clothing or details of the painting" Sure, because then you would have to explain where the guy garbed in flowers was in The Last Supper. Why are religious nuts always such snowflakes?
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  10. That sounds terrible.
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  11. It's almost like he didn't ask for a big audience because it was televised. Imagine trying to get a big audience for something on the TV. It's like running print ads for a website.
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  12.  @vmasing1965  The Last Supper literally copied imagery from The Feast of the Gods. Also, I've never seen a naked dude wearing flowers in The Last Supper. I also never saw a 6 foot wide plate of flowers and food. You know where you might find those things? And yes, The Feast of the Gods does depict someone at the centre with light shining from their head. Maybe go back and get a different degree.
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  13.  @destinyclark4133  There was a single white horse, not 4 horses, and it was to symbolise the goddess of the river Seine...you know...in Paris. The performer was wrong, or trying to make some ulterior statement. How do you explain Dionysus on a 6 foot platter of multicoloured food and flowers wearing only flowers as "Christian"?
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  14.  @destinyclark4133  So you agree it was in face Greco-Roman and not Christian. Thanks.
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  15.  @isabelleskiss  Except she isn't the goddess of purity and justice. She is a healing diety of the river. As for symbolism, one thing for certain is that people looking to be offended will find a way.
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  16.  @destinyclark4133  So Brett's video outright doesn't support anything you said. WDW refused to go to the Instagram page, then claims that a twitter post by another user, who is posting a screenshot of a post from some other person's page, is somehow proof of the real itinerary of the show. So you have a quote of a quote of a quote of something that is probably fake.
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  17.  @destinyclark4133  Brett's sources disagree with your claims. Her need to add her own narrative is irrelevant. Wrong, WDW did not show an itinerary from the original account. The posted he mentions in his video in the screenshot does not match.
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  18. He falsified business records to hide his payment to her.
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  19.  @SchnabelMcSchnabel  Truth hurts.
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  20.  @kdodson26  It had nothing to do with Christianity
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  21.  @maxwellstephen9834  How about scientifically.
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  22.  @maxwellstephen9834  Sorry Max. I found this spirit called Jim, not through theology or science, but through "spirit" and "truth" and he told me you are wrong.
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  23. ​ @kevinlee7678  Young women, especially in the wake of the overturning of Roe, will absolutely vote Democrat overwhelmingly.
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  24. It's a tough record to beat. Trump never went above 50%.
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  25. You get he won with her as VP right?
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  26. It's always had some semblance of it, but it really shined through in 1965.
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  27. As a legal immigrant, nah I'm fine with it.
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  28.  @beyankajohn3139  It's nothing to do with Christians.
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  29. It's both.
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  30.  @ChipmunkRapidsMadMan1869  Not even close, and we are also a democracy.
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  31.  @M60gunner1971  I don't need to. We are a democracy. We vote for representatives.
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  32.  @emmittmatthews8636  It doesn't need to, we're still a democracy.
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  33.  @slaayerr1  "Republics have a constitution which applies limiters to what people can vote for and pass." That's not the definition of a republic. "A democracy has very little limits meaning they can absolutely push for whatever they want as long as it looks like a majority is pushing it." Also not true. The two are not mutually exclusive, we are both. Democracies allow the people to vote for leaders, while republics allow the people to have power over the government. You can technically have a non-democratic republic by only allowing smaller and smaller portions of people to vote, for example only white male land owners like we used to do, but these days we are indeed a democracy.
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  34.  @gr.vo.3058  Who said anything about a pure democracy? We democratically elect government representatives. This is a type of democracy.
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  35. Imagine thinking you need a big crowd for a televised speech.
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  36.  @JamesBond-vn1gh  They're using the word loyalist because Trump is literally appointing his most loyal followers, regardless of their popularity of aptitude.
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  37. ​ @Mclaren1976  Except his employee had already testified in Congress stating that Trump committed fraud.
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  38. Unless you are wrongfully arrested, imprisoned with gang members, then tried in a kangaroo court controlled by the state.
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  39. You realize that Obama fixed the jobs market right? He did a better job than Bush, reversed the job losses of the economic recession and added 11.5 million jobs. Republicans just really enjoy crashing economies.
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  40.  @Lonewanderer30  Well sure, he coasted right off Obama's economy without really doing anything other than growing the deficit. It's not surprising that he managed to make the economy slightly better than it already was. Obama however fixed the economy after the recession, reversing job losses and hitting a net gain. Trump however did the opposite, doing very little to improve the economy, and completely flopping at the first hurdle.
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  41.  @Lonewanderer30  You mean the opinion piece that very clearly shows that Trump's economy was following Obama's trend? That evidence? That last jump in 2019 was from the tax cuts. Unfortunately it caused further deficit increases caused by massive tax cuts for corporations and millionaires which increasing the national debt by trillions, and did absolutely nothing for those too poor to pay taxes. By not funding those at the bottom you do little to actually stimulate growth in the economy, especially when the changes you have made cause artificial growth at the expense of the debt ceiling. So their definition of the "average" American family in the article is actually the families earning around the $65K range. Those on food stamps are completely unaffected. The same writer also stated a month later: "real median household income grew by a pathetic 0.4% from 1999 to 2016 and then rose 9.2% from 2016 to 2019. Comparing a long period to a short one can make for an arresting statistic but a potentially misleading one. If you look at just the period 2014 to 2016, you find faster improvement in that indicator than what was achieved under Trump. This also makes me skeptical that we can conclude that policy changes have had strongly positive effects." Maybe look into the situation more before being blinded by your hatred for Obama and Biden.
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  42.  @Lonewanderer30  Keystone XL would not have saved money. We already have a pipeline going north and this new pipeline would have only exported oil, causing domestic oil prices to increase, not decrease. None of the 1.9 trillion is leaving the country, literally none of it. Seriously, if you actually believe that the aid package for vaccine deployment, schools, stimulus checks, financially vulnerable households and businesses is somehow going overseas then you're watching too much fake news. Obama literally created more jobs than Trump, both after and before COVID. In fact, Obama got the unemployment rate so low, it would be mathematically impossible for Trump to create more jobs than Obama, since Obama reduced unemployment by 5.2%, causing it to go to 4.7%. Unless Trump could somehow create so many jobs that unemployment was a -0.5%, which is obviously ridiculous, then Obama will always be the leading job creator. Can you list these destroyed jobs. The only ones I've seen substantiated are the Keystone XL ones, but they were all temporary and would do little for the economy. Only 35 permanent jobs were actually lost, and for a pipeline that's already in court for breaking Native American treaties. I posted a quote from the journalist you linked to in your "evidence" of a strong Trump economy from another one of his articles. Median household income growth was higher under Obama's last 2 years than in Trump's first 3.
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  43.  @Lonewanderer30  Yes. See how it starts going up in 2014. Thanks Obama.
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  44.  @Lonewanderer30  Well sure. Bush was coasting off a good economy as well, but he made the same mistake Trump did. He reduced regulations, lowered taxes and increased while the economy was at a high. Obama inherited a mess, so why are you surprised household incomes took so long to recover? And when they eventually did, you give the credit to Trump, after 8 years of Democrats cleaning up the Republican recession. Why am I not surprised, Trump is good at taking credit for things he didn't do. Also, the hypocrisy of your comment about ignoring facts when you've been screaming the word "liar" over and over, even when faced with Obama creating more jobs than Trump or Bush.
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  45.  @Lonewanderer30  Insulting me won't make you correct. FDR, Clinton and Obama all created jobs, and Trump lost them, and Bush was losing thousands a day when he left office. Democrats build the economy and Republicans ruin it. You'd know that if you weren't such a sheep.
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  46.  @Lonewanderer30  Oh dear, he's in a loop. Must be a defense mechanism the cult taught him. Maybe in the future he'll learn to spell, form an opinion or even look at job creation numbers. If he stays like this we'll never know.
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  47.  @Lonewanderer30  I can infer their meaning, but they're still wrong lol.
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  48.  @Lonewanderer30  Oh I see, you're so deep in denial you change the very media you see to match your opinions. How sad.
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  49.  @Lonewanderer30  Sorry that evidence is a difficult concept for you. You can't understand the simple maths that shows Obama created more jobs that Bush or Trump. You also fail to see the massive increases in deficit that Trump and Bush both caused. You ignore the trend showing that Trump simply coasted off the Obama economy. You don't even acknowledge the massive economic depressions and mass unemployments caused by both Trump and Bush. Why are you so in favour of massive overspending? Why do you love unemployment? It's like you hate the economy doing well for extended periods of time, looking at short burst as success rather than a further sign of an unstable and dangerous economy. Sorry you hate Obama too, but thanks Obama.
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  50.  @Lonewanderer30  Obama dropped unemployment, increased wages and lowered the deficit. Bush caused a financial crisis and Trump coasted off Obama's economy, only to cock it up completely with massive unemployment and a rising deficit. Sorry you're not capable of understanding basic stats. You even tried to claim Trump created more jobs than Obama.
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  51.  @Lonewanderer30  so you think unemployment in the double digits is great for Americans? You think the financial crisis was great for Americans?
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  52.  @Lonewanderer30  Pretty classic to see Republicans taking a good economy and ruining it, Bush and Trump were no different in that. They increased wages through dangerous deregulation and lower taxes, while coasting off working economies from Clinton and Obama. The end result in both cases was a crash that caused double digit unemployment. The funny part is you think economies get better or worse overnight. It took Obama years to fix what Bush did, and Bush years to ruin what into did. Trump managed to fuck it up exceptionally fast in comparison.
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  53.  @Lonewanderer30  You're right the numbers don't lie. Shame you can't read them honestly...or maybe at all. Why are you so in favour of mass unemployment, increasing national debt and rising military expenditure? I mean, you're incompetence is so stark calling you a troll would be insulting to trolls. Love the Freudian slip btw.
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  54. Almost as if Biden isn't fueled by nepotism.
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  55. Your inability to understand something does not mean it lack coherence, it means you lack understanding.
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  56. Your country only exists because of France.
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  57.  @GodsTableofGrace  Like that time Biden charged his secret service millions and millions to stay at his properties.
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  58. Previous presidents left literally THOUSANDS of troops to die in Afghanistan, but now you're upset because when we finally got them out a couple more fell?
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  59. K buy
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  60. It's also a democracy. Being a constitutional republic doesn't make us not a democracy.
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  61. Polls are public. Look for yourself.
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  62.  @williamstidham7704  Kamala has gained a lot of popularity in the last 2 weeks, and polls from a week ago don't accurately reflect the race today. The last 5 national polls have Kamala ahead by 2, other than an outlier where she is up by 4. PA polls are swinging between +3 for either candidate, indicating an even match. Harris was tied in the last GA poll. NC hasn't seen a new poll in 4 days, and even then she is only 2 behind. Ahead in NH. 2 point lead in WI. Even the AZ polls are showing swings. And this is 3 whole months before the election.
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  63.  @KB-ke3fi  Yes....
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  64.  @teike311  Fraud.
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  65.  @scray00  Party of law and order though 😉
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  66.  @scray00  Actually the majority of his charges are still pending in court.
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  67.  @nelsonkathy1  You can just look the up the court dates, they are public record. Oh, and don't say you get your independent unbiased news from Sky. Surely there has to be some other station you watch.
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  68. ​ @PrincessNakita123  He can't even answer a simple question. Old man is going down.
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  69. We're both.
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  70. Looking at these comments I think we can see all the cry babies.
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  71. It's also a democracy.
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  72.  @filipetorchiamiranda  Yeah, you're completely clueless. Democracies give power to the people. It doesn't matter if that is done through direct or representative democracy, it's still a democracy. Constitutional democracies are democracies with written constitutions. Republics do not guarantee power to individual citizens. Just look at early US history, where voting was restricted to rich white men and nobody else. Also, is that really power in the hands of individual citizens? So in reality, a republic just means you don't have a monarchy. In fact to be republican is to be anti-monarchy, which is why republics are a thing. In other words the US is a constitutional democratic republic. But tell me more about your homeschooling.
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  73.  @filipetorchiamiranda  Why? I already explain that the US fits the definition of a democracy. If it fits the definition then it is one. We vote in representatives, that's called a representative democracy. In fact I would argue that the founding documents would not be helpful as we have not always been a democracy with heavily restrictive voting laws. We were decidedly undemocratic until 1965, arguably 1975. But sure, if we want to use a neanderthal level of understanding then I'm sure you have a point in there somewhere.
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  74. And a democracy. What do you think voting is?
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  75.  @firestick4991  Weird how these "normal people" lost the election.
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  76. Mayorkas. Republicans even impeached him for it.
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  77. Going full mask off are we?
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  78. And a democracy. What do you think voting is?
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  79.  @mikecross4350  And a democracy. You vote for representatives, that makes it a democracy.
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  80. Democratically? Or do you plan on suspending democracy for the good of the nation?
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  81. Doubt
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  82. Always nice when someone proves his point though.
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  83. Trump donated to her campaign. Does he still support her?
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  84.  @questingQuentin  You're confusing the last 6 months for Trump's entire term.
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  85. Good job a few million saw it on the tv. Almost as if large crowds are nothing but nepotism considering you can address the entire nation with nothing but a camera.
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  86. For what? Trying to overturn election results? Hiding top secret documents? Dodging taxes?
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  87. Nah.
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  88.  @booch2912  Because while Democrats actually put America first by funding manufacturing and infrastructure, Trump's idea is to censor media he doesn't like and cut government programs while lowering taxes for the wealthy.
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  89. He got Mexico to pay $1.5 billion in border security.
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  90.  @kaylamichellep  We signed a promise 30 years ago to protect them, and in exchange they gave up their nukes. If we can't honour these basic agreements then why should any country with a similar deal refuse to start their own nuclear programs?
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  91. And a democracy.
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  92.  @vmasing1965  The Feast of the Gods has the halo. It also has a guy wearing only flowers, which The Last Supper does not.
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  93.  @vmasing1965  So you have nothing. Such a snowflake.
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  94.  @vmasing1965  You mean the things actually connecting the Olympics to the imagery? You just want to be offended ❄️
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  95.  @vmasing1965  Obviously it's lost on you. Typical boomer.
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  96. Satan certainly is behind you
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  97. We're both.
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  98.  @Cmon-Man  The voters disagree
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  99. And a democracy.
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  100. And a democracy. We're both.
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  101. And a democracy. It's both.
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  102. You mean like Trump's RNC speech.
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  103. Not really a requirement. Now I have to wonder what you think of Trump. Sounds like you're telling on yourself.
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  104. Then why are you here whining?
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  105.  @keepersofthegrid  Back in the day it was a lot cheaper. I paid over $2K.
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  106. It's both.
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  107. You don't know what a democracy is do you.
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  108. To old man Trump.
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  109.  @curedbytheonomy  It's not my fault you're running the oldest candidate in history.
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  110.  @curedbytheonomy  He can barely form a sentence or answer a question. Too old.
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  111. It's both.
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  112. Just check her voting record numb nuts.
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  113. And a democracy. What do you think voting is?
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  114. But she also has a good plan for the future, which helps.
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  115.  @wolfwolf-sr6he  Honestly, the real TDS is the cult that believes what you're spewing.
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  116.  @wolfwolf-sr6he  Nonsense. The US is currently performing best in the world in regards to inflation, gas prices and more. We weathered the economic crisis caused in 2020 by the previous administration exceptionally well. More of that can only be a good thing. The other guy however is just trying to stay out of prison.
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  117. Her father is black. She is black and Indian-American.
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  118. Pretty sure it's just night time.
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  119. How?
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  120. Most effective? Biden has passed more legislation in 2 years than Trump did in 4.
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  121. Okay ❄
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  122. Many people arrested had nothing to do with the gangs and have no criminal record or accused crimes of any kind. People have been tortured and disappeared by the state. The idea that these people should be dehumanised is straight fascism.
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  123.  @arodriguez2007  Look it up kid. It's a fact that people have been tortured and disappeared. They also suspended the constitution, intimidated the legislature with the military and used installed judges to ignore the law. The idea that these 75,000 arrested people will be appropriately tried and processed is a fairytale. It is in Bukele's best interest to make sure they are all convicted, even the innocent ones.
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  124.  @arodriguez2007  It's a fact that people have been tortured and disappeared. They also suspended the constitution, intimidated the legislature with the military and used installed judges to ignore the law. The idea that these 75,000 arrested people will be appropriately tried and processed is a fairytale. It is in Bukele's best interest to make sure they are all convicted, even the innocent ones.
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  125. They're scared.
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  126. We used to, but it's gotten much better lately.
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  127. And a few million on the TV. Amazing what technology can do these days.
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  128. And a democracy. Nice of you to use the original motto though.
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  129. That's actually not true, the blue always needs to be top left.
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  130. Had nothing to do with your fantasies.
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  131. We're both.
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  132.  @vanessashimoni6548  It's nothing to do with Christians.
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  133.  @mikescollard6499  No, they didn't.
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  134.  @mikescollard6499  Ah yes, the entirely sourceless claim coming from "people".
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  135.  @mikescollard6499  No, it was not described that way on the program, unless your terrible nation's announcers added their own narrative. The Seine is polluted because the locals are annoyed. It has been dirty for decades but the government refused to clean it, and only cleaned it for the Olympics, so the locals promised to dirty it up. The power went out in 4 districts, Paris has 20. It was not "across Paris" as you claim.
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  136.  @mikescollard6499  1. Lie. 2. The one with the generator. 3. Yes, the locals polluted the Seine. They had a whole protest about it. Either that or they never cleaned it all the way. Regardless it has nothing to do with your fantasies.
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  137.  @mikescollard6499  Actually, after seeing the images of the "blackout" I'm not believing it at all. You can see lights on all over the place.
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  138.  @mikescollard6499  Silly superstitious child.
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  139.  @mikescollard6499  That's what cult members say.
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  140.  @teosarca2683  Tell me you know literally nothing about French politics without telling me.
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  141.  @teosarca2683  Hey, it's not my fault you chose to run your mouth rather than looking up even the most basic parts of French law.
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  142.  @teosarca2683  Clearly you have no idea. That was my whole point 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  143. You want Biden to start arresting people without due process, locking them up, torturing them, disappearing them, and then forcing the courts to prosecute them? You really want a president to have that much power?
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  144. He's a fascist that has overseen the torture and killing of thousands.
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  145. ​ @user-sr6rm9yy1o  Trump crashed the economy, added 8 trillion to the debt and caused the massive jump in inflation.
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  146. Always a sign you're on the right side when the trafficker agrees with you.
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  147. Sky News in a nutshell.
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  148. We're both.
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  149. True. Should be the full amount.
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  150. Just the MAGA lovers. With the current split in the Republican party calling it half the country is just plain ignorant.
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  151. The salt in these comments is gold.
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  152. ​ @jimz2747  They mean mentally. You need to mature.
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  153. We're both.
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  154.  @WildRebel69  Doesn't change the fact that we are a democracy. We fit the defintion, therefore we are one.
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  155.  @WildRebel69  That's actually exactly how it works. If you for the defintion of something then you are that thing. Democracy: a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives. In the US all eligible citizens vote to elect representatives. That's democracy.
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  156.  @WildRebel69  Right, but fitting the defintion of a thing makes you that thing. It's not just people saying we're a democracy, it's actually fitting the criteria. You're confusing direct democracy with all forms of democracy. In a representative democracy you vote for representatives. I never said we aren't a republic. We are in fact a constitutional democratic republic.
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  157.  @mannyafcarsensl-rc6vv  Good, because there is nothing to apologise for.
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  158.  @mannyafcarsensl-rc6vv  It didn't happen. The performer was wearing a pair of tights, which ripped at the thigh, revealing skin underneath. The discolouration and circular imagery tricked your eyes into believing what they wanted to believe.
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  159. It's also a democracy.
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  160. No debates are scheduled for Fox.
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  161. More like educating 😂😂😂
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  162. And a democracy. What do you think voting is?
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  163.  @stevenliew2507  Well it wasn't the last supper so...
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  164.  @mannyafcarsensl-rc6vv  You sound like a ❄️
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  165.  @mannyafcarsensl-rc6vv  Sounds like you are just looking to be upset
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  166.  @jen0718  Nope, never was. There was no backpeddling, they just had to educate people like yourself.
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  167. ​ @mannyafcarsensl-rc6vv  I guess you missed the whole point again. Do you know who Dionysus is?
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  168.  @mannyafcarsensl-rc6vv  Yes it did. Nobody has their testicles out. Stop believing everything you read in the Mail.
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  169.  @mannyafcarsensl-rc6vv  A smokescreen, or your excuse to be offended?
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  170.  @mannyafcarsensl-rc6vv  That didn't happen. Try again.
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  171.  @mannyafcarsensl-rc6vv  It didn't happen. The performer was wearing a pair of tights, which ripped at the thigh, revealing skin underneath. The discolouration and circular imagery tricked your eyes into believing what they wanted to believe. Because she was making her own statement. That doesn't change the actual meaning. And again, care to explain the blue guy wearing only flowers on a platter of food? It's about as Christian as self-worth.
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  172.  @mannyafcarsensl-rc6vv  Ther was a different camera angle that shows you are wrong. Why are you so obsessed with staring at a guys junk?
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  173.  @mannyafcarsensl-rc6vv  There was a different camera angle that shows you are wrong. But I suppose we all see what we want to see.
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  174. We're both.
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  175. It's because he's talking about you.
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  176. No it isn't. It hit $3.81 today.
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  177. It's both.
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  178. ​ @kevinlee7678  Except the law doesn't require a victim. The point is creating a fair market.
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  179. And suspend parts of their constitution. And run for reelection despite laws prohibiting it. And cut the size of the rest of government to consolidate power. And march the military into the legislative building to force them to agree to change the law. Why are Sky viewers so clearly pro-fascism?
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  180. And a democracy. Why do people keep believing this lie, it's utterly ridiculous.
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  181. There are more than 1 kind of democracy. Voting for representatives is a representative democracy.
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  182. Look up constitutional democracy.
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  183. Watching snowflakes seethe is a reward by itself.
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  184. Looks awesome.
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  185.  @TorontoJon  And they were fighting against? Oh right, more Christians.
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  186. You mean aside from removing us from multiple international agreements, increasing the deficit and removing parents from their children at the border?
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  187. Full mask-off insurrection this time then?
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  188. You can just say American.
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  189. Democracies are, by definition, democratic. The US system has issues that make it less democratic, but that also makes it less of a democracy. These 2 things are 1 in the same.
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  190. So you don't vote for representatives? Do they just get appointed or something? Is it a random lottery?
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  191. Yeah, none of that is true. It was, again, a reference to Bacchanalia, festivals of Baccus. Not sure why you think the dude wearing only flowers on a 6 foot platter of food and flowers is somehow Christian 🤣 The horse was a referene to the Gallo-Roman religion, Sequana is the goddess of the river Seine. I get it, white horses are triggering to snowflakes, but do try to keep up. Honestly, this whole issue is just American ignorance in a can.
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  192.  @M60gunner1971  Yes we are.
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  193.  @rd9793  But we are a republic...and a democracy. Republic means we aren't a monarchy, you know that right? Republicans are anti-monarchy.
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  194.  @funman9702  A state where the supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives. A democracy is a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives. We democratically elect representatives to our republic.
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  195.  @bozmerz4358  Meh. 1. The Constitution has issues. 2. Admitting that all legitimate governments are some form of democracy means that either you agree with the original designation, that we are in fact a democracy, or you think that the government is illegitimate.
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  196.  @backalleyburrito1815  We're both. What's funny is that US democracy is more new than people give it credit before. Calling us a democracy before the 1965 voting rights act is more of a contentious argument, but giving the people the power to choose their leaders is indeed a democracy.
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  197.  @nickbierman3640  The fact that we vote for leaders, and the vast majority of people have the right to vote in those elections, makes us a democracy.
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  198.  @patlyons1616  But anyone can get on the ticket.
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  199.  @backalleyburrito1815  No, it isn't. The US is democratic constitutional republic. Democratic: The vast majority of citizens have the right to vote and decide who leads the nation. The more people who can vote, the more democratic somewhere is. Arguably the US was not really a democracy for a very long time, really only finally crossing that threshold in 1965, or I suppose 1975 depending on your stance. Constitutional: We have a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed. Republic: A state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch. The word "republican" is commonly used to specify that someone is anti-monarch, such as during the French revolution. Or, in short, we vote in leaders, have an established foundation for the government and have representatives. A nation could easily use any collection of these 3 separate things, or none of them at all, but we as a nation use all 3.
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  200.  @backalleyburrito1815  You really can't think for yourself can you. Tell you what, why don't you define democracy for me, as your definition seems to be lacking.
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  201.  @backalleyburrito1815  You're thinking of a direct democracy. Voting in representatives is a representative democracy, that's why you're confused. You're literally saying "we don't have democracy, instead we have democracy."
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  202.  @backalleyburrito1815  Okay dude. Maybe try actually researching a topic before spouting off your obviously flawed explanation.
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  203.  @backalleyburrito1815  Your definition is bad and you should feel bad. Democracy: a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives. The population vote for Congressional and presidential representation. We are a democracy. Saying that we are a republic doesn't change that we are also a democracy. These things are not mutually exclusive. Pointing out that the Constitution and the pledge calls us a republic changes nothing.
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  204.  @backalleyburrito1815  You do know that being a republic doesn't mean it's not a democracy right?
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  205.  @backalleyburrito1815  Now you're confusing having a constitution with being a republic. Republics do not have to have a constitution. Democracies can have constitutions. Constitutional democracies exist, we are one.
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  206.  @elizabethloren-broz2680  There are many simular ones. France comes to mind.
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  207.  @backalleyburrito1815  They're both constitutional, both republics and both democracies. Are you getting your panties on a knot because they have a national assembly rather than our Congress?
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  208.  @bozmerz4358  I never said direct democracy, but nice word games there champ. Representative democracy.
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  209.  @simontide6780  Democracy is just having an elected government of any kind, be they state or federal, or even local.
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  210.  @harleytank  If you think so. Mind being more specific with your critique?
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  211. Cope
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  212. Is seeing a president with a wife that actually likes him confusing to you?
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  213. Half? Get real. The Republican party isn't even unified.
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  214. BS. Trump wants to hand Putin a win on a gold plated platter.
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  215. Darth Brandon sounds really cool.
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  216. So allow the President to influence the courts, make arbitrary arrests, torture people, arrest an unknown number of innocent people and lock them all together in horrific overcrowded, inhumane and dangerous prisons? I mean we do most of that, but sure.
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  217. Not in a constitutional democracy with checks and balances like we have. You're confusing direct democracy with the representative democracy that we have.
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  218. Maybe try looking it up so you understand that we are in fact a constitutional democracy.
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  219. Because they're the ones whining about a Greco-Roman feast 😂
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  220. That's not the issue. The issue is if their right to life violates a mother's right to her own body.
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  221. Yes it is. We vote for representatives, that's a representative democracy.
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  222.  @lionelfox1341  Democracy?
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  223. A democratic republic, yes.
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  224. It's both.
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  225. We're also a democracy.
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  226. Team Epstein's best friend.
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  227. Being a constitutional republic doesn't mean we aren't also a democracy. You know that right?
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  228. Human rights are a federal issue.
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  229. Fraud is a crime.
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  230. It's both you knuckle-dragging Neanderthal.
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  231. We're a constitutional democratic republic. Your version of democracy is a direct democracy with no constitution.
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  232. It's both.
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  233. But it is a democracy, a representative democracy. Voting is literally the gauge for democracy, so saying that the only thing democratic is the voting process is ridiculous. That's the only thing that makes ANY democracy a democracy.
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  234.  @darrenwatters3511  You're just describing a representative democracy.
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  235. And a democracy.
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  236. This is what it's like being in a cult.
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  237.  @lorencelaflair4306  So you support the suspension of the constitution, the threatening of the legislature and the current mess in the county?
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  238.  @dner75-xh9le  It's public knowledge. This whole crackdown is because Bukele declared a state of emergency. He has extended said state of emergency a dozen times. About 3 years ago Bukele marched the military into the legislature to force them to pass laws that he wanted. 2 years ago Bukele's allies in the judiciary changed the interpretation of the constitution to allow him to run another term, despite the law expressly forbidding it.
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  239.  @dner75-xh9le  "Thousands of people have been detained under the suspension of rights during the emergency regime, which has been in effect for 17 months. The authorities acknowledge that 6,000 detainees were innocent and claim that they have already been released. But the Socorro Jurídico [Legal Aid] organization points out that there are still 14,000 people in prison who have never been connected with a gang."
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  240.  @dner75-xh9le  What part of "never been connected with a gang" confused you?
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  241.  @ManUtd503  Whataboutisms don't make El Salvadore any better. By the numbers I posted over a quarter of the people arrested were innocent, most of them are still being held, and many could face longterm sentences due to plea deals or bias trials.
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  242.  @ManUtd503  We're talking about a mistake rate of 25% and people behind bars for years over a mistake.
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  243.  @ManUtd503  25% is the percentage of total arrested estimated to have no gang history. It's a catastrophic failure rate. The idea that arresting and holding these people for months and months on end should be ignored because 35% of the 20,000 wrongfully arrested people have been released is actually mental. That leaves 13,000 innocent people in a country of just 6.3 million. It would be like the UK wrongfully imprisoning about 150,000 people, not including the 80,000 or so more that were recently released. Imagine the entire population of Luton getting falsely imprisoned. Bukele sounds good for anyone who doesn't have a decent education or a strong moral code.
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  244.  @ManUtd503  25% is the percentage of total arrested estimated to have no gang history. It's a catastrophic failure rate. The idea that arresting and holding these people for months and months on end should be ignored because 35% of the 20,000 wrongfully arrested people have been released is deeply flawed. That leaves 13,000 innocent people in a country of just 6.3 million. It would be like the UK wrongfully imprisoning the entire population of Luton.
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  245.  @ManUtd503  El Salvador's homicide rate was dropping year over year long before Bukele was elected. I can compare populations, which was the point. Highest imprisonment rate in the world. Total police state. You can estimate all you want, you have to actually show it though, and as of yet those 20K people how no shown gang affiliations. You are just justifying arrests without due process. Diving people around isn't a crime.
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  246.  @ManUtd503  You should look into this more. People can be imprisoned indefinitely, with some reports of innocent people being released after over a year, all because some disgruntled person makes a phone call and lies about them.
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  247.  @ManUtd503  You're confusing a police state with fear of the police. People have been so afraid for so long that the idea of the police violating human rights is seen as a necessary evil. That sentiment however won't last. It never does. It's not about profiling. People can be arrested from a simple phone call. One woman was arrested because her taxi driver didn't like that she was a lesbian, so he made up some story about her and got her imprisoned for months. Not to mention the potention for corruption among police. What's more likely, that the government mistakenly imprisoned and then released 7K people, some for upwards of a year, which is already a 10% failure rate for their crackdown, and there definitely aren't any more mistakenly arrested people even among people that have yet to see a courtroom. OR that human rights groups have a point when they've reviewed the prison populations and the claims being made and have estimated that thousands more are innocent? The sad part is that the language you are using is designed to dehumanise suspected criminals, which allows you to justify false imprisonment. It's a classic authoritarian way of thinking, and is common among people that don't understand the purpose of the justice system.
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  248.  @nas5276  Funny because ManUtd503 just said he knows people with tattoos that aren't in gangs. I find it depressing you don't care about authoritarianism.
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  249.  @ManUtd503  So yes, you are treating people as subhuman. Welcome to authoritarianism 101. Aside from the fact that gang activity had been dropping for several years before Bukele, it doesn't change that they are still people deserving of rights. You are advocating for a dangerous precedent. This is "First They Came For" territory. No, the narrative is that thousands of innocent people have been arrested, which they have admitted is true, and many of them were arrested based on phone calls from random people lying about them, which is also true.
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  250.  @nas5276  So tattoos are illegal now? I do care, but locking up thousands of innocent people isn't the solution. You are just stripping human rights away and ignoring the longterm humanitarian and democratic outcomes of that. Plenty of leaders used a situation to justify ignoring due process. It never turns out well.
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  251.  @ManUtd503  No, the narrative is that innocent people are being arrested and held without cause. That's just a fact. Dehumanising people is just the first step towards a fascist dictatorship. Gotta have someone to blame after all.
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  252.  @ManUtd503  Doubt it. It's probably more.
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  253.  @ManUtd503  Not western media, interviews with released innocent people. Some claim as many as 60 in 70 inmates in their cells were not gang members, and the 10 actual gang members got special treatment, while the wrongly imprisoned are regularly beaten and denied basic needs. As for corruption, the current regime is corrupt, that's the issue.
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  254.  @ManUtd503  Interviews with released people stating the number could be far higher based on their experiences, but tell me more anecdotal evidence from your family.....
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  255.  @ManUtd503  As for the regime being corrupt in the past, that doesn't change it being corrupt now, which it is.
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  256.  @timexyemerald6290  Effective at locking up innocent people for extended periods of time. The recent switch to mass trials could result in thousands of innocent people being convicted as well.
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  257.  @ManUtd503  Pull the other one, it's got bells on.
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  258. That's called a mop head. He'll need it to clean the showers when he's in prison.
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  259. True. We need more Republicans to drive up the national debt.
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  260. Yes, she is black. Her dad is black, that makes her black.
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  261. Arguably we weren't a democracy until 1965. Calling us a democracy when large portions of the population can't vote is a bit of a slap in the face.
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  262.  @Lonewanderer30  Again, starting in 2014, before Trump, because Trump was coasting off the Obama economy.
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  263.  @Lonewanderer30  Again, coasting off the trend Obama started. Obama was reducing the defificit while also improving the economy including household income, after the absolute disaster that was Bush. Trump on the other hand ruined Obama's economy, massively increasing the deficit and increased unemployment to the highest level in decades. So thanks Obama for at least setting the country on the right path, even of Republicans feel the need to ruin it again.
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  264. It had nothing to do with the last supper.
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  265. ​​ @KAPMEH  Fraud. No victim, as the law does not require one. The point is keeping the markets fair. The banks did not do their own evaluation, and testified that they took Trump's acclaimed evaluation at face value.
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  266. It's a representative democracy. When it was founded the vast majority of the nation couldn't vote, meaning it was anything but a democracy, which was obviously intentional as the idea of people voting didn't sit well with the rich white men who made it so that only other rich white men could vote. As voting has become more of a right, the US has become more democratic as a result.
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  267. It's both.
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  268.  @SonBarbock  Right-wing: rioting Also right-wing: How could the left do this?
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  269. And a democracy.
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  270.  @sislertx  You're confusing AOC with Trump's $250 million election challenge fund which he mostly used to pay off his own debts. The money AOC is raising is all going to Texas.
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  271.  @davidempey8980  Which part. The part about Trump conning his supporters for cash or the bit about AOC donating to Texas?
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  272. ​ @davidempey8980  But she did donate to Texas.
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  273. ​ @pierrettelatreille1444  You really think she would claim to raise all this money for a dozen different organisations, and none of them would deny it if it weren't true?
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  274.  @pierrettelatreille1444  Why though? Donations like that become public very quickly, and any one of the organisations could claim the money was never given to them. Why would they try such an easy to figure out lie?
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  275. ...what?
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  276.  @anthonytroisi6682  You said they should aim to promote respect, kindness, courtesy and tolerance. They did exactly that.
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  277. That's how we know you're in a cult.
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  278. It's both.
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  279. Not how voting works 😂
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  280.  @dennisfrazer8035  Using someone else's body is not a right.
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  281. @alice young Look up constitutional democracy.
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  282.  @rickdesertfox  And a democracy.
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  283. When did Biden ever try to suspend democracy?
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  284. And a representative democracy. These things are not mutually exclusive.
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  285.  @questingQuentin  He's married.
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  286.  @markolson3855  Trump is the massive orange 💩 in the sandbox.
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  287. Yeah, they don't care what a bunch of extremists think.
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  288. We're both.
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  289. Polls don't mean anything. Hurry and vote for Epstein's best friend.
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  290. It's almost like he didn't ask for a big audience because it was televised. Imagine trying to get a big audience for something on the TV. It's like running print ads for a website.
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  291. Good luck with that.
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  292. Don't think they need help on that.
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  293. It's both.
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  294. Literally the most successful military in the world, but okay 🤣
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  295. And a democracy.
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  296.  @mattmoeller1105  Because she wasn't portraying Jesus.
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  297.  @destinyclark4133  But you just said it was pagan.
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  298.  @destinyclark4133  Got it, so not Christian, pagan. Thanks
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  299.  @isabelleskiss  Got it, so we agree that it was the goddess Sequanna, even of you disagree with the interpretation.
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  300.  @destinyclark4133  I'm not the one calling it pagan, you are.
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  301.  @isabelleskiss  Sure you are snowflake
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  302.  @isabelleskiss  Except they weren't so 🤷‍♂️
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  303.  @destinyclark4133  Bit it isn't Christian imagery. I mean, if you outright admit that they were showing Greco-Roman imagery, what is even left to call Christian?
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  304.  @destinyclark4133  No it isn't, and no they didn't. This is why you verify sources rather than just trusting whatever the Mail says.
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  305.  @destinyclark4133  Just went and looked myself. She actually posted something about all the threats she's been getting. So you got a source or not?
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  306.  @destinyclark4133  Cool. Any examples?
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  307.  @destinyclark4133  So I checked Brett Cooper's video on the subject. Not seeing any reference to this officially named table scene or the claim of "Olympic Jesus". Care to give me the title of an actual video?
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  308. It helps that you haven't actually researched any of them.
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  309.  @gs7585  Yes actually. Inflation was high due to money printed under Trump, and has been going down for over 2 years. Inflation has been zero the last 2 months. Crime increased in 2020, yet again under Trump, and has dropped since then. The US pumped less oil than it has in years as production plummeted in 2020, and has since recovered and overtaken previous numbers. Oil is also a global commodity, we cannot control the price. As for the border, yet again we can look back to 2020 and see a huge jump in border crossings under Trump, starting in April 2020.
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  310.  @gs7585  Now look at her decades as District Attorney, Attorney General, Senator and VP rather then blaming her for Trump's mess.
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  311.  @andregunawansilaen6718  Nationalists get upset and start fights?
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  312. It's both.
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  313. But we are a democracy, or do you just hate other people having a say?
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  314. It's both.
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  315. She isn't a Big Mac.
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  316. Even if this was a religious issue, which it isn't, what would that have to do with the US?
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  317.  @jmcclain8237  Tariffs alone will be a total disaster.
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  318.  @TheTitipapillon  It's nothing to do with Christians.
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  319.  @J.D.Mc.  They won't. They'll just enrich themselves under the guise of "saving america".
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  320. It's never been a socialist democracy, but it is a representative democracy, a capitalist one if we're being specific.
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  321. You think less police funding is fascist? 🤡
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