Comments by "Hobbs" (@hobbso8508) on "The Hill" channel.

  1.  @jenalatz3589  The border crisis is a mixture of terrible Trump decisions mixes with timing. Crossings dropped during covid, and are now increasing again, compounded by the break from increased immigration numbers from before covid started. 2019 for example doubled the total number of migrants crossing illegally. Covid has also caused economic problems, leading to more migrants. Blaming this on Biden is childish. How have we lost energy independence? Do you mean Keystone XL? Inflation is normal. His plan is to pay for the infrastructure plan through taxation. Taxes don't cause inflationary increases, printing money does. They refreshed troops that were already stationed in Syria. They did not increase the total number of troops there. Any proof of escalating crime. The best I have is a personal belief from individuals that crime is getting worse, without any actual stats to back it up. Especially since the FBI has not released numbers for 2021. As for divisiveness, what do you expect after 4 years of rising white nationalism?
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  2. How dare they follow CDC guidelines. Being vaccinated does not make it impossible to pass on the virus, it just makes it do you won't die or get serious symptoms. It's also not 100% effective, coming in at around the 94% mark for efficacy. Continuing to wear masks after being vaccinated is a recommendation and a best practice.
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  3. Because to get them you have to already have the virus, so why would that be in a report about people who got sick and died?
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  4. Look at her giving answers. When can we go back to the Trump presidency where we had over 300 days without a single press briefing? Those were the days.
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  5.  @babyrob7777  You know Trump did more drone strikes than Obama right?
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  6.  @MigGa-yu5xv  "If we do this together, by 4 July, there is a good chance you, your family and friends can get together in your backyard or in your neighbourhood and have a cookout or a barbecue and celebrate Independence Day," he said. "After a long, hard year, that will make this Independence Day truly special - where we not only mark our independence as a nation but we begin to mark our independence from this virus." That's not a promise. He is specifically stating that if people get vaccinated then we can open back up. People not getting vaccinated is the exact opposite of "If we do this together".
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  7. Well that depends. Was Trump at this point in the hypothetical scenario actually trying to get people to take the vaccine, or was he actively pushing against treatment claiming the virus is basically the flu and young people should be fine?
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  8.  @luntershaptopfukinov6413  Not that Obama had a choice. He took office when unemployment was rising and the deficit was in the toilet. He managed to half unemployment and massively reduce the deficit, leaving the country in an okay state. Trump on the other hand wracked up a $4.2 trillion debt increase last year, higher than any 2 years under Obama combined. Obama did a much better job of handling a crisis.
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  9. It's a mix. Under 30s who think they're invulnerable, POC who don't trust the medical system, especially black Americans, and Republicans who think covid is just the flu.
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  10.  @donwarr6916  The ones in Jacksonville for starters. Mayo Jacksonville is full already and is expanding their bed capacity. They need more vents.
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  11.  @donwarr6916  Whole hospital. they needed approval to expand, which you don't need if it's just a ward issue because you can move beds from other wards. Mayo has 304 beds and they're all full.
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  12. To follow up on this, ERs in my area are going down to the lobby to screen patients because the beds are all full.
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  13. Because the US economy will improve when more people are vaccinated.
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  14. Which is a real shame given it's 100% effective at preventing death. Imagine being a healthcare worker and having to admit dozens of people with covid, knowing they're all too braindead to take a vaccine against a completely preventable disease.
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  15. If they're naturalized then they are Americans.
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  16.  @rexd_kin6850  " I'm not saying that States have "more rights".. I'm saying they're the ACTUAL Nations in this Federal System and should be treated as such.. The Union isn't a single country.. Look at the US like you would look at the EU.." Right, so states can choose to leave whenever they want, as they are their own nations. This of course completely contradicts what you just said about states not being allowed to leave the union. "It's OBVIOUS that a one-size-fits-all policy is creating rifts in the EU. It's also OBVIOUS that each State within the EU has different priorities as a whole and deserve to be represented as such" They are represented as such, proportional to to their respective populations. "if you got rid of that "State representation" those Nations would cease to exist in only a few decades.. probably violently also" Who is arguing against state representation, I want more states no less. "This union isn't a unitary democracy and trying to force that out of some misplaced sense of fairness is only going to make matters worse" Which matters? You mean, people's votes being counted equally? Those matters? "Especially as the federal government has assumed WAY MORE power than it actually has according to the Constitution" Great, so lets stop them federally controlling the people of DC. "If political parties can twist the meaning, purpose, and structure of law to fit whatever Agenda they have, why have a Constitution in the first place?" Bit of an odd statement as that's not what is happening. They are changing the size of a district while following the constitution exactly. "Just make it a democratic monarchy and be done with it" You realise France isn't a monarchy and doesn't have these issue you keep talking about right? "though I'd feel sorry for whoever became the minority in that situation" Maybe they should try appealing to a wider voting audience. It's not like they can't change their policies to attract more voters.
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  17.  @rexd_kin6850  "I didn't say States can't leave the Union.. that makes it mandatory and not voluntary" So you're saying if people vote for something it should be allowed as long as it is within the law? "And America provides proportional AND equal representation of States which is better.." No it's not. It just allows minority rule over the majority for no reason other than where people live. "You only want "more states" to lessen the effective representation of States you don't agree with" No, I want DC to have any representation at all. If you I wanted more states for representation I would go the whole hog and try to remove the senate. I do think the senate has value, however the house of reps and the presidency both skew towards minority leadership, even though that was never the intent. "The present political divide, those matters will get worse.. if 51% of the population can destroy the lives and rights of the other 49% you're asking for another Trans-Union War" And if the 49% can destroy the lives of the 51% through a government comprised of those with less votes? "Let's stop DCs over regulation of economic and personal activities first." What does that even mean? DC has no control of their own regulations and have to pass literally everything through congress.
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  18. You can't shed an mRNA vaccine.
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  19. You could say that but the answer would be no. The vaccines are available, people just don't want them.
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  20.  @MissMalevolent  Oh moving the goalposts are we? The statement made was that Biden had never worked a day in his life. The comment I replied to stated that Wikipedia showed no evidence of him working in the private sector. I showed that to be false. Make of it what you will, but don't call me a liar when everything I said is 100% true. Stick to GTA videos kid.
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  21.  @MissMalevolent  It's an objective fact that you are wrong, nothing semantic about it. "We don't know what he did as a "clerk". Looks like it was a launchpad to public service to me." Ah yes, clerk at a law firm, the classic launchpad to the public sector. God you're a joke. While we're at it: "Many of those laws you're touting as precedent weree based on the eugenics movement. Which tracks, leftists have always been for eugenics." Politics has been moving further and further left for years, and would you look at that, less eugenics these days than 100 years ago. The Nazi's even got their ideas for eugenics from the US. Both parties were right wing by today's standards back then. "Exactly, facts are against decorum." Not a fact, I've already proven that. "This from a group of people that lied (and still are) for years about the prior President being a Russian asset." Not in the chamber they weren't. But yes, Trump was and is a Russian asset, deeply indebted to them to keep his failing businesses alive. You're a child and it shows.
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  22.  @AceDan-gc9po  "the allegations of Russian collusion have been painstakingly investigated and nothing was found to support them." Aside from the dozens of links between the Trump campaign, Trump associates and Russian officials? "Large sections of the media have severer biases even the bbc which before the turn of the century prides themselves on neutrality has left wing biases." BBC is a wing of the Tories, nothing left-wing about them. "I implore you do your own research it may change your opinion it may not but don’t be blind ether way." Do as I say not as I do it would seem.
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  23.  @aztecadog  17 separate US agencies looked into the 2016 election and found Russian interference. Trump decided to have a meeting with Putin, accept his answer that he didn't do it, and fob off his own agencies in the process. It was an embarrassment at the time, and continues to be one now.
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  24.  @aztecadog  The CIA was working in conjunction with Egypt, France, Israel and others when making that call. They were working off evidence of Iraq purchasing high levels of aluminium tubing along with flaws in their analysis. They have since learned from this mistake. They aren't mute on the origins of the virus, there is just no way to know without China granting access. Bin Laden wasn't in plain sight, he was in Pakistan, which the US has limited ability to operate in. Oh, and they found him. I mean seriously, are these really your worst examples?
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  25.  @aztecadog  "the cdc website states that 6% of the counted covid deaths died from covid, the other 94% died WITH covid" Could you link that on their site? Thanks.
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  26.  @dandansen571  Oh I know, but if he genuinely has a link I want to read it.
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  27.  @deanspencer9946  Exhibit A.
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  28.  @glennsankey8186  Staying up late watching Fox and tweeting is not working. The man skipped briefings and stopped trying very early on.
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  29.  @daniel-ym9un  He's not a hive-mind because of the color of his skin, he's a hive-mind because he's quoting things that aren't true, but have be spread commonly throughout conservative circles. He's wrong about HIPAA.
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  30. They did for the last 4 years.
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  31.  @tonyu5985  Well when Trump's campaign manager Paul Manafort is handing polling data to Russia so they can more accurately sway the election, and Trump is letting Putin off the hook for 4 years straight, it's not hard to see an obvious connection.
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  32.  @tonyu5985  The CIA, NSA and FBI releases a joint report stating that there was Russian interference, and the complete link of collusion was found just recently with Manafort. Meanwhile Trump was on stage stating that he believed Putin and Russia over his own intelligence agencies. They also have dozens of links between the Trump campaign and Russian officials.
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  33. How about stimulus checks to vaccinated people only.
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  34.  @padywac1970  Of course they do. There are thousands of dogs experimented on on the US every year. How could you possibly believe that 100s of people don't research them?
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  35.  @jenalatz3589  They keep inflation very carefully in check when planning projects like this, which is why they are paying for the bill with taxes, no printing money. As for prices being passed down, were prices on products reduced when Trump reduced corporate taxes? Do huge corporations even pay corporate taxes? Do you even know how corporate taxes work?
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  36. She was making a point that she relies on the economists and their opinions line up with the idea that the Biden economic plan will help small businesses. The representative interrupting the witness doesn't change the fact that her statement was coherent and consistent.
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  37.  @garretth.middleton9479  Inflation wasn't happening in March. The inflation we have seen has been lower than wage increased, and inflation matches with wage increases is good for anyone with debt, which is most people. The only person wrong here is you. You have literally no idea what happened in Venezuela do you?
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  38.  @poorplayz5625  1. Biden has very little control over global oil prices. 2. gas prices were higher less than a decade ago, and have been higher many times in the last 20 years. 3. They are releasing oil from multiple reserves worldwide in a coordinated effort to reduce prices. 4. The Biden administration has launched an investigation into gas prices to see why they are not dropping with oil prices, as there is no reason for this to be the case, meaning prices may drop directly from an investigation into their current levels. 5. The US exports a lot of refined fuel, meaning we actually see a large influx of cash from price increases like this.
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  39.  @poorplayz5625  They didn't close a pipeline, they hadn't even started building it and that has nothing to do with global oil prices. The pipeline is also for importing oil, just like the pipeline that's already there. We were exporting oil when prices went negative and nobody wanted it. Fixing failed Republican economies is a Democratic president thing. Obama fixed the economy after the financial crisis, and Trump immediately jumped in and doubled the deficit before the pandemic even started. Go figure. I didn't say nothing can effect prices. The decision to release oil will lower global oil prices. I already said that. The idea you have that any other policies have effected global oil prices is a joke.
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  40.  @cryptobill6188  What part of global market trends confuses you?
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  41.  @poorplayz5625  The pipeline never existed. Pumping money into an economy to artificially raise it from the top down is not a good economy, and doubling the deficit only made the economic fallout of the pandemic worse. Trump spent like mad and ended up causing a catastrophic impact when the black swan event hit. We were nearly independent because usage dropped due to the pandemic. It's all well and good being independent, but when it relies on everyone working from home and travelling less it's not going to last when everyone starts using more fuel.
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  42. @David Murdock Just look at which states have the worst education.
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  43.  @TheJamesdashwood  Oh well, if you say so.
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  44. Name 1
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  45. Of course it is. What are you on about.
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  46.  @MrPaulwilliamkoehn  It's all 3 really.
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  47. Yes.
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  48. Biden has attacked China on both their attacks on Hong Kong and the Uighur concentration camps, 2 things Trump never did. He also imposed sanctions on Chinese government officials. Trump's entire stance on being "tough" on China was to call them cheaters and charge American businesses for buying Chinese products. While this can be effective, you would be much better off attacking Chinese officials and businesses rather than American ones.
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  49.  @whatintarnationisgoingon  They aren't illegal, they aren't being dispersed around the country and they're being tested. You lies about covid positive rates are childish.
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  50. Call it the investment bill if you want. Investing in jobs across the whole country and investing in the very foundation of this country.
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