Comments by "Theodore Shulman" (@ColonelFredPuntridge) on "Fox News" channel.

  1. "... The Biden administration destroyed [Russia's] currency." The Biden administration, alone, did not, and could not, do that. It's a world-wide thing.
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  2. I think this election is more likely to be about Trump than about Biden. Have to wait and see, but to me, at this point, the air smells like 1980.
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  3.  @deborahmurray6872  And to serve the Son of Man.
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  4. RE: "We as Americans have the rights to worship the religion we choose ..." Including Satanists.
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  5. Freedom is not slavery. And especially relevant to you : ignorance is not strength.
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  6. You'd have to do more than that to get on their list. They won't list you just for practicing Catholicism. They will only list you for behaving in a way that makes them believe that you might be planning to do something illegal and violent.
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  7. "It's a cookbook!"
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  8.  Galva Tron  No, he took credit for his predecessors' accomplishments. David Dinkins did most of the work which enabled the cleanup of (for instance) Times Square; some of it was even begun by Ed Koch! Rudy Giuliani was on Letterman once and Letterman kept teasing him, saying, again and again: "My guest is Mayor Rudy Giuliani, the man who SINGLE-HANDEDLY CLEANED UP TIMES SQUARE!!" And each time he said it, Giuliani looked more and more annoyed, until you could see he (Giuliani) was having difficulty resisting the urge to punch Letterman in the face.
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  9. He's never been afraid to admit he was wrong! That's part of what he means by calling himself an exponent of "science".
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  10. Why not? Why wouldn't we be in this mess, if Trump were still in office? What would he have done to prevent it?
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  11.  @michaeljbadeaux  1. The pipeline deal wouldn't make a difference; it's longer term. 2. No the border wouldn't have been secure. The wall was doomed from the start. Why? Because to build an effective wall, you'd need to eminent domain a lot of border land away from the wealthy guys who own it, and in USA, an owner who also has money can stop eminent domain: he just sues to prevent it, and if he loses, he appeals, and keeps appealing until the president who is trying to eminent domain it loses an election or hits his term-limit. 3. Are you kidding? When the Fed was thinking of raising interest rates, Trump threatened them. Trump did everything he could to keep the money easy, for short-term gain, and that is largely how we got where we are. 4. Putin doesn't fear Trump. Putin owns a big piece of Trump. Putin might have delayed invading because he hoped Trump would weaken NATO. And if Trump were still in office, he would. 5. No, China wouldn't "have to" make good on any deal with Trump. What's Trump gonna do if they don't?
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  12. I told my boss that I had a concept of finishing the project
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  13. ​ @GSpotter63  That depends on whom one is trying to verify (or explain) it to. Who the questioner is, whether he has enough background (and/or enough basic intelligence) to understand the answer.
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  14. Yes, I agree, it is beyond you. My advice is: since it's beyond you, stop trying to think about it. Stick to what you know. NASCAR and WWF sound about your speed, maybe Bourbon and Fentanyl.
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  15. Why would wealthy liberals be supporting the protests which (as the video says) are dangerous to Biden???
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  16. Ronald Reagan, too.
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  17. Tucker Carlson pretending to be stupid, episode $9,876
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  18. The reason Biden should not debate is: if he tells any untruth or gets any fact wrong, no matter how trivial, the media will amplify it and broadcast it all the time, forever, but if Trump tells obvious, stupid lies, it won't even be news, it'll just be Trump doing what he always does.
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  19. Well, Ronald Reagan "couldn't recall" whether he had traded weapons (to the Contras) for hostages. (Am I the only one here old enough to remember this?)
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  20.  @Mark-nx7mr  He certainly played the role very very well. And he was lucky. Bill Clinton was lucky the same way. For 2024, the Dems should nominate Jodie Foster (if she can be convinced to run) and the Republicans should nominate Mike Tyson.
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  21.  @KenJackson_US  There are several reasons. She's extremely smart and energetic, she knows how to play the role of the trustworthy leader who has the country's problems in hand (just as Reagan knew how to play the role of the simple, down-to-earth, obedient, optimistic ordinary-guy); she's a 21st-Century-type family person - a devoted mother and spouse; she's very well-connected to the wealthy elite, she's a good judge of character, and she's a household name.
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  22. RE: "I lost everything over declining the vaccine first my job now my home!" You should have taken the vaccine! RE: "I’m overwhelmed because both of my children are autistic." Wait a minute! Your kids are autistic and you didn't take the vaccine? I thought the vaccines were what caused autism.
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  23. “Rampant crime in Manhattan” I was with you until you said that. NYC is safer, and has less crime (still!) than Florida.
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  24. Is there no violent crime in London?
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  25. FBI is not "going after" anyone "for their religious beliefs."_ FBI is learning what it needs to know in order to head off the real risk that these particular Catholics might do something violent and illegal. It has happened before, more than once. To pretend that being a practicing Catholic means that the practicing Catholic would never do anything violent and illegal would be very unwise. What FBI investigates someone who is Catholic, it's not because the person is Catholic, but because he (or someone close to him) shows signs of being inclined to illegal violent activity.
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  26. After the time Tucker Carlson posted footage of Fauci talking about lockdowns as an "inconvenience" after we had been locked down only one week, but pretended (Carlson pretended) that Fauci had said that after we had been locked down for several months, Tucker Carlson has no more credibility posting footage of Fauci saying anything, anywhere.
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  27. Any kangaroo or wallaby should be sufficient
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  28. She sounds underrehearsed. She needs more prep-time and more sleep.
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  29. Do you have any idea what we're hoping to get for ourselves by helping the Ukrainians? HINT: It's pretty damm important. ANOTHER HINT: It'll help a lot in our ongoing conflict with China.
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  30.  @tammiestephens1009  Ukraine has very rich deposits of rare earth metals. Lithium, too.
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  31. It was very likely. He wasn't the only one to predict it. The fact is, the more we interact with people in the tropics, the higher the risk of having tropical diseases spread out of the tropics. Also, given our previous history with coronaviruses, it was statistically very likely that there would be another one. You guys should focus less on trying to "get" Fauci - you won't succeed, because he (almost certainly) didn't do anything wrong - and think about the real dangers, which are, the next big pathogen which will likely hit us in less than a decade, and extremely likely some time in the next 20 years. Every day, it gets easier and easier for some crazy apocalypse-minded fanatic with too much money to build a covert lab and genetically engineer worse variants of the virus. Imagine if there were suddenly a variant which caused two percent of patients to go blind. Sure, sci-fi writers have been writing about engineered pathogens for many many years, but now, there's a simple, flow-chart-type method for attempting to actually do it. Fauci is not the problem. The problem will be someone like Osama bin Laden would be if he had gone to grad school and taken a degree in molecular biology or genetic engineering, and then gotten a few years of practical lab experience under his belt before retiring to whacko-land.
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  32. Look up the Temple’s central tenets. Well, here: I One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason. II The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions. III One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone. IV The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one's own. V Beliefs should conform to one's best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one's beliefs. VI People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one's best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused. VII Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.
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  33. "Demonize your opponents" isn't that what you are doing?
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  34. Uncommon nonsense.
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  35. "Before last week, you might have been thinking about COVID, or crime, or the Southern border. Now [...] all of those topics have been forgotten." I haven't forgotten about them! Tucker Carlson assumes that we don't think about anything except what the headlines are screaming about on social media. Maybe he needs to get out more.
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  36.  @opinionated4219  Look up the "post hoc ergo propter hoc" fallacy." Trump didn't jump-start the economy; he came into office just when new technology was jump-starting the economy. Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan had similar good luck. (The new technology which made the economy roar in the 1980s was computers cheap enough for ordinary businesses to buy. The new technology which made the economy roar in the 1990s was internet for everyone, and the new technology which benefited Trump was fracking, which grew from nearly-nothing in 2007 to the big beautiful giving-tree supplying half of our energy in 2016, BEFORE Trump took office. It'll come back again, too, once the investors get over the horrible beating they took in 2020 when demand dropped into the toilet and the price of oil was far below the cost of fracking it out of the shale and a lot of fracking-well investors lost their shirts.)
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  37.  @opinionated4219  That depends on what the single commodity is. Digital electronics is not a single commodity; it is now a component in production of almost all commodities. As I said, it didn't just create a new economic sector; it multiplied the productivity of all economic sectors. And the problem isn't that fracking is too expensive; the problem is that the price of oil was too low and the investors got stung. Now that the price of oil is so high, the investors are coming back.
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  38.  @henriyoung3895  Maybe not yet. If Trump had won in 2020, Putin might have waited, hoping that Trump would weaken NATO. But Putin would have invaded Ukraine sooner or later. Just read the essay he published about Russia and Ukraine in history.
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  39. What idiocy. Dr. Fauci called for EXPANDED investigation by INDEPENDENT scientists (independent of him) back in May 25, 2021.
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  40. Not any more.
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  41. But babies born alive in abortion already get care! It's against the law to leave one without care. The only exception is if they are born with birth-defects incompatible with life, in which case nothing can save them. The whole question is based on fake news.
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  42. At least the government cannot force you to complete a pregnancy if you prefer to have it aborted. Oh, wait a minute: yes it can. Communist China required people to have small families, and to have abortions when they got pregnant.. But Communist Romania required people to have large ones and banned abortions, and, (unlike any other country in the history of the world) actually enforced their ban with secret police and mandated gyn inspections! The only good way is to let people decide for themselves when to have children and when to have abortions.
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  43. Sometimes the money we send overseas brings bigger money back home.
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  44. Maybe they know something you don't know.
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  45. Great idea! Why should we bother to maintain technological superiority? [/s]
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  46. Less than 60 seconds in, he says: "... at exactly the moment the emergency powers they awarded themselves to fight COVID started to wane, our leaders started pushing for conflict with Russia." OUR leaders aren't particularly pushing for conflict with Russia. The whole free world is now in conflict with Russia. Russia has committed the biggest violation of international law so far this millennium, remember? THAT'S why the timing is what it is. Why does Tucker say he makes any more of it than that? If Biden is "leading", he's leading from behind. So what's the point of listening to any more of the upload than that?
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  47. What a bunch of liars these guys are! Biden cancelled the contract-offers on these possible drilling sites because THE INDUSTRY WASN'T INTERESTED IN LEASING THEM!!
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  48. Not always! It can also provide evidence that you don't like wasting time.
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  49. Traditional Catholics - some of them - are dangerous! Of the eleven abortion-workers who have been murdered by anti-abortion terrorists, two were murdered by a practicing Catholic; also, one Catholic priest - a priest! - called openly and without regret for Catholics to commit acts of violent terrorism against abortion workers. He was isolated, but not excommunicated, and not even defrocked. His name was David Trosch.
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  50.  @rosscampbell1173  Yes, and the planet Jupiter is very very big. (What 's your point? I know that there are a great many Catholics.)
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  51. ​ @trollpatroltrollingthetrol842  You have kind of hit the nail on the head by random chance when you said "you know nothing about me nor my hobbies". That's the point: this is not something to opine on if it's only your hobby. It's for specialists to figure out. You don't do this with other subjects, do you? I mean, suppose someone asked you to referee a professional boxing match, or evaluate a design for a race-car. What would you say? You'd say "I'm sorry, but I don't know enough about boxing to be a referee in a professional match, and I don't know enough about auto-mechanics to evaluate a design for a race-car. You'll have to find someone who does know enough, and ask him!" That's what you'd say, right? But when it comes to virology, immunology, and epidemiology, which are much more complicated subjects than boxing or auto-mechanics, you imagine that you can read the real papers and evaluate the purveyors of pre-digested information and that your conclusions and opinions are worth a shtt. It's a mystery to me. And a surprise: for most of my life I admired and supported popular-science writers and lecturers like Steven Hawking and Stephen J. Gould. Popular science has turned out to be a very pernicious thing, because it feeds the American delusion that (in Isaac Asimov's words) "My ignorance is just as good as your science". The fact is unless you can do the math behind the science, you don't have the first clue what the science means.
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  52. Right! If Trump were still President, we would be hearing that he was investigating and expected to have the answer very very soon. Why can't Biden tell us that???
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  53. I remember when the LORD OF THE RINGS movies were new, when the one which features Gandalf and Saruman in conflict when Saruman tries to hold Gandalf prisoner on the roof of his tower (I don't remember which one it was), and I asked a friend of mine whether it was good, and he replied: "well, I didn't like it, because I hate watching two feeble old men fighting each other."
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  54. If Dems are looking for a super-good-guy-hero to save the day, the obvious choice is… Jimmy Carter! (“Why not the best?”)
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  55. For what crime?
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  56.  @naonaohu1821  And what did you learn? Or rather, what do you think you learned? Before the pandemic, you knew nothing about virology, biochemistry, epidemiology, statistics, immunology, or medicine. Now, after the pandemic, you still know nothing about virology, biochemistry, epidemiology, statistics, immunology, or medicine.
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  57.  @naonaohu1821  No, I don't know all, but I do know a bit of immunology. Unlike you. (Retired monoclonal-antibody guy, I am.) No one knows the origin of SARS-CoV-2. I don't; Fauci doesn't; Trump doesn't, and you certainly do not. And I can tell you this much: if SARS-CoV-2 had been a weapon of biological warfare, it would have been much worse than it was.
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  58.  @naonaohu1821  You are a loop-a-dupe. There used to be specialists in cult-deprogramming - if your kid joined the Moonies, you'd take him to see one of these specialists. You should consult one!
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  59.  @naonaohu1821  You seem to have a limited imagination. Just as well, really.
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  60. Ninety-nine percent of the people asking Fauci hostile questions would not understand the answer if it were given seriously.
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  61. The AMERICAN people are not capable of understanding the answers. The AMERICAN people know nothing about virology, immunology, epidemiology, statistics, genetics, medicine, pharmaceutical chemistry, or biotech. But a gang of con-men have convinced the AMERICAN people that they can understand these subjects without training or study. Isaac Asimov knew: "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'"
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  62. Even the most honest people in the world don't like wasting time.
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  63. Yes, this is very sad and disturbing, but not very common.
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  64. There's a great way for President Trump to use this to his own advantage. First, go very public and make Biden's people agree, en masse and on camera, that Biden will debate several times, provided President Trump releases his tax returns and agrees to have a mutually-agreed panel fact check what the candidates say. And then, President Trump should do it all: he should release his tax returns, and, agree to the fact-checking panel. And then, show the voters what an idiot Biden is. That would be perfect political jiu-jitsu. Come on, Mr. President, do it!
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  65. The Satanic Temple is not what you think it is.
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  66. That's not what FBI is concerned about. FBI doesn't care whether or not you deny Him or are ashamed of Him. FBI cares about whether you are planning to commit illegal acts of violence because you think that that would be a good way to serve Him (or for any other reason).
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  67. And they stole a bone from my dog's supper-dish! Outrageous!!!
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  68. We still revere whistle-blowers, but we don't revere fake whistle-blowers who pretend to know something that needs to be revealed but it turns out to be nothing at all.
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  69. Jimmy Failla is pretending to be an idiot. The fact that Fauci changed his position on masks when new data came to light, makes him MORE reliable, not less reliable, than someone who refuses to change his position. (The same is true of his change on whether AIDS could be transmitted by non-fluid-exchanging contact, by the way.)
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