Comments by "starventure" (@starventure) on "Forbes Breaking News" channel.

  1. The way that he is talking indicates there is a cover up going on, and they don't have a good story to do away with the attention it has gotten. The halting speech and dithering on his behalf, instead of direct and forceful speech, betrays his frustration.
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  2. @Harry Quellings It is not his job to address the military leadership of an enemy nation. What he did is exactly what General MacArthur got fired for by President Truman. The President alone is the voice of the nation to foreign leaders, the military does not steer national policy.
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  3.  @NomenClature-o8s  They teach them how to fly, but don't do well.
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  4.  @WSOJ3  Quebec is a large supplier of electricity to the Great Lakes and Northeastern states, thanks to their hydroelectric power. Tread carefully.
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  5. EM wasn't representing an entire nation, and wasn't coming around to appeal for help. What Zelensky did was a disgrace.
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  6. $15 million is nothing. Pull ABCs broadcast license.
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  7. It wasn't simply slavery in of itself. It was the election(by northern states as a solid bloc) of a president who was part of a virulent anti-slavery platform that the states in question saw as an existential threat. The south at the time wanted a more measured approach to ending slavery as to not cause economic harm, while radicals(like Lincoln) supported an immediate end. The electoral college, which had saved the south for decades, finally failed in 1860 which the losing states did not like one bit.
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  8. It’s clearly a white liberal, likely non-binary and transgroid friendly so it gets a say.
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  9. Which episode suits it best in your mind?
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  10. The US needs to leave NATO now, and stop making promises to other nations that cannot be kept.
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  11. Trump said he is willing to pay for it and oblige any requests from Denmark and NATO. For a President who has discussed pulling out of NATO in the past, this is not a bad proposition.
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  12. LOL, if GWB had a son...
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  13.  @JohnDoeses  What debate? The one he had with himself in the mirror?
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  14. Bullsh*t, Netanyahu is smart enough to never do such a childish thing.
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  15.  @usablemarker1173  What, Trumps shits are that infectious? Guy…it’s a Chinese virus. Whether it was from a lab in Wuhan or the end result of some Chinese guy eating bat soup, it’s theirs.
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  16. You are too gullible.
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  17. Who screams at the cat?
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  18. Go watch the Twilight Zone episode "To serve man" before you wish for that.
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  19.  @Progressiveprospective  The SEC and Commerce department would like to have a word with you...
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  20.  @CleaningLady1972  They still ought to be allowed to use all data available to determine if fraud is taking place, which they cannot.
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  21. @Harry Quellings Trump didn’t know what Miley had done at the time. Had he gotten wind of the calls he made he likely would have fired him. And yes, we are at war with China.
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  22. Every car I have ever seen here has been built in either Canada or Mexico. You are part of the problem.
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  23.  @usablemarker1173  No one knew the seriousness of the problem at that time. The Chinese covered up too much about it.
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  24. If he does it, that power will never get sold again. The coal industry is going to love Doug Ford.
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  25. He is the CEO of a public held corporation. Not the leader of an entire nation.
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  26. They can still do that, just away from the cities in designated areas. Enough is enough, take back the cities now.
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  27.  @Bigred-n5q  The press has the right to ask questions. And Trump pointed it out when he greeted him at the door of the White House by saying "Wow, you got all dressed up!" At that moment, Zelensky should have recognized he was in deep shit.
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  28. Biden gave advance warning to several ppl a week before the election that Harris would lose. One of those ppl was mayor Adams. He is doing what he must to save himself and NYC.
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  29. If he does that, you can kiss Ukraine bye bye. America will hand Ukraine to Russia on a silver platter while smiling at Europe.
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  30.  @cronicscream  The tar sands are considered tight oil. Not economical to extract if the price is low or alternative resources are used.
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  31. Funny that they haven't stepped in to help out. Kind of like how the Saudis and Egyptians have told the Palestinians to get lost.
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  32. It was necessary. The press should not let him get away with it. Imagine if Macron or Starmer had pulled a stunt like that. How do think both the American and European press would be reacting?
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  33. Cities attract the lazy and moronic.
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  34. Baloney. If the state in question cannot access SSDI to determine if a voter should removed then the federal government has no one to blame but themselves. SSDI is maintained and secured by the feds and that is where the trouble starts. States are just puppets in this.
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  35. Nobody drives that shit here.
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  36. Kill a hippie
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  37. He’s actually correct, you know?
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  38.  @300zxdriver  The people he could expose are going to silence him.
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  39. It still has to happen. Multiple grievances need to be resolved, and this is the way to do it.
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  40. It is still a legitimate question.
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  41. John Fetterman didn't visit the Oval Office on a mission of appeal. He is a local politician and those rules do not apply to him. He is not the President of an entire nation.
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  42. If Zelensky had said that, the meeting would have ended right there with the Americans laughing while throwing him out the door. Even Europe would have told Z afterwards to F off.
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  43.  @josephbluemke7440  They can not do anything to Trump after this. If they sentence Trump to jail, the country will go nuts, but if they sentence him to jail and Hunter Biden takes a walk, we will end up killing the country. Everyone around the world saw what happened in the debate, and if they find out Trump is going to jail even they will be howling fraud.
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  44.  @aef34234dfx  Explain the need for the Emancipation proclamation, and without any references to the Trent affair please.
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  45.  @Ric0806  It just means I am wiser than you. You either had a bad teacher or were the guy at the back of the room who couldn't concentrate due to all the bowls you smoked the weekend prior.
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  46.  @usmansiddiqui1384  It is not sympathy, it is just historical fact. Lincoln had zero affection for the slaves and their plight, as is evidenced by his post war plans had he lived - https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2010/12/01/lincoln-to-slaves-go-somewhere-else/#:~:text=My%20first%20impulse%20would%20be,that%20he%20tried%20it%20anyway. If slavery had been the big issue, it would have been blared long beforehand in the north as the cause celebre arguement for war. It wasn't. It was not until Lincoln gave the emancipation speech that it finally took its place the reason for war, though for some reason it held no weight in northern cities, draft riots et al.
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  47.  @mybrotherkeeper1484  The wealth gap in the old south is an issue I don't want to get involved with because the causes for it are way more complex then can be discussed here. I will say that slavery, old institution or not, was an economic cheat by southern states that actually inflicted more harm on them than good and stunted the growth of the south economically. Getting rid of slavery was a noble cause, but the manner in which it was done was horrific.
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  48.  @punchykarma6685  Of course they defended it. It was the addiction they had, a false economy built on lies. My gripe with the notion that slavery was the primary motivation for the war is that while it is correct to say that hyper-religious locals like Ohio or Pennsylvania at the time were more than prepared to fight the south to end slavery at the time, cities on the east coast were not so hot to the idea. NYC was making a fast buck off of the south to the point that the mayor at the time, Fernando Wood, suggested joining the south in secession against the union. Not to mention the draft riots which cements the view that not all of the north was damning of the slavery institution. Secession was the initial cause of the war, followed by slavery. Not the other way around.
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  49.  @Geewasright  Slavery afterwards, not first. Reread please.
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  50.  @Ric0806  Two college degrees? In what? Gender studies and Business communications? And the mention of the rich being able to buy their way out of the draft is a notoriously inaccurate old trope because the same rule was in effect throughout the union states, but yet only NY had the riots over it. No civil insurrections in Boston or Baltimore...were they all able to buy their way out or something?
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