Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "ABC News" channel.

  1. The Association of Chiefs of Police have, in my experience, been one of the powerful voices for sanity on these issues. Flynn and Obama are two voices of hope.
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  2. Junior, He wasn't elected to do anything "by the people." He was selected by the Electoral College. It is, for the second time, the revenge of the slaveholders of 1779.
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  3. They were not innocent. They were professional brainwashers -- and the vicious creeps put their child in danger as they went about their evil trade.
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  4. Chris, Interesting point. There's no mention of the couple's possession of illegal drugs in the video. You'd think... On the other hand, since the whole thing cost them all those years of law school, the sentence adds up to a bit more than the few days in the slammer.
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  5. This is pit-of-the-stomach sickening. Valedictorian! Hasn't she earned the right to, uh, freedom of speech -- just once in her high school career?
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  6. You're mistaken, Craig. There is nothing undemocratic about what he's doing. I think he's been OK, though I've never been any great supporter. It's about time. Fortunately there are two or three sound candidates.
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  7. Yoo-hoo, Donneeee, I know "the answer to that stuff." It taxable. You pay the taxes or you get room and board. Like Al Capone.
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  8. He "reached a settlement," apparently with enough cash behind it to leave people somewhat happy. They divorced, and she skipped the meetings to discuss her part of the payments. Kinda sad since from the video, at least, she seems to have been a class A-1 harridan.
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  9. You're sure they weren't top of their classes? I mean we're talking Irvine here, people whose grand-daddies didn't have the brains to get into Bakersfield...
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  10.  @bethanysmith6284  Exactly. George Floyd was no goddam angel -- but the no goddam angels a.) need protection, and b.) would be a lot better behaved if the law were good and decent and visibly so.
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  11. It's his own golf course, isn't it? Doesn't the owner have some responsibility for keeping all his customers safe from gun-totin' weirdies?
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  12. Kim has already pulled off a successful 500 day troll.
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  13. Actually two: the cop is pretty damn good, too. He's precisely accurate on how rural legislators, who want their guns to plunk at gphers with, are screwing up sensible control legislation in the cities. Well-regulated them thar' militias, folks.
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  14.  @gammasmash1924  Fine, Tim. And people with guns have been responsible for exactly 100% of all mass shootings, 100% of all individual shootings, and 100% of all suicides by guns. Don't you think you ought to be a little less full of yourself for mocking a city council which has as least tied to reduce the number of guns floating around out there? The rates of all these evils, this, that, and the other thing by gun, are far higher in the United States than in any other faintly law-abiding contry. Don'tyou think this is in part because the NRA staff has been taken over by a bunch of loons, living in luxury on the money they are paid a.) by a deluded membersip, but b.) by gun manufacturers who are happy to distort patriotism and a whole lot of frontier romanticism and faux anarchist preening into profitable sales? Best wishes, -dlj.
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  15. If the person in your story had had Muhammad's guts, anonymous "RightStuff," he would have refused to go to Vietnam to fight people standing up for their own independence. The good news is that you're lying. There is no such person, and you're telling fake news.
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  16. That's insane: he is notably centrist and even-handed.
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  17. If nobody ever reported anything, it didn't happen, right, I Tan? You've got a small problem with your theory: only 42% of the people are confused -- and they aren't the ones who see much media. Just about the only media they see is Fox. Try putting two and two together and see if you can come up with a better theory. If you're not too confused, I Tan.
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  18.  @joshbrady4029  Against our country? Trump is the one who ran on the slogan that America isn't great anymore, remember, Josh?
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  19.  @randyross5630  That's false, Randy. Fauci has been neutral, nonpartis and and non-political all the way through. If anything, he has been too non-political, avoiding speaking out when medicine as a whole had the responsibility to speak out against Trump's lies.
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  20.  @shadowwoman6216  What's your theory, Danny?
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  21. I suggest that these "Santa Ana" winds be renamed. We should call them the Trump Winds, because they blow so hard.
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  22. When Muhammad was in Tokyo for the "fight" against Antonio Inoki he would run around Roppongi every morning. No traffic, but two motorcycle cops as escorts provided by the city. He comes to Roppongi Crossing. Red light. The cops stop. Muhammad keeps going. Huge newspaper story. Big shock to Japanese psyche: running a red light!
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  23. Simple proposition: decent Georgia Republicans will stay home Tuesday.
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  24. F8, 'Bout right.
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  25. This is self-indulgent lunacy. He's stretching for his fifteen minutes of fame. Ticket agents don't get to say who's on which plane. He's imagining things.
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  26.  @LivingTreeCarpentry  Chaim, you maybe don't know how much cops hate lawyers. I was at my local ward office a few years ago and had a run in with a particularly obtuse one of them. Coming out of the office steaming I ran into a couple of cops sitting around having coffee and they looked at me quizzically, like what was I so het up about. I muttered, "Like Shakespeare said, `First thing we do we kill all the lawyers'," and they damn near gave me a standing ovation. It's a reaction I've seen a couple of other times, too.
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  27. If Trump has lost Lindsey Graham, uh, does it matter what he says and does? I mean really, like ever again in his life! Toast?? Losing Lindsey Graham is burnt toast!
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  28. If growth means the inhabitants double their incomes but are surrounded by newcomers from elsewhere with twice as much as that , then maybe they aren't going to feel they're as well off as they were before.
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  29.  @rayseyeoman7540  Anybody who thinks "most politicians" own stock in tobacco companies is a nut job, just totally lacking in common sense.
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  30. That children's bunk hanging over the abyss is a heart-breaker, isn't it!
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  31.  @dynamichunter843  You've got no evidence for that, petty hate-monger. All the evidence is the illegals have lower crime rates and higher rates of employment than legal Americans. Further, they pay Social Security but don't collect on it, thus subsidizing the legals.
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  32.  @gammasmash1924  What's your suggestion, Tim? Gunfare: government assisted gun purchases for all those poor underpriivileged gunless folks in Chicago?
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  33.  @gammasmash1924  Your "point," Tim, the fashionable right-wing anarchist claim that the law means nothing, was obvious the first time you whined it. And your answer to my question is...? What do you suggest?
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  34. Google "AR-15 conversion kit." 139,000 hits in 0.66 seconds. The first page includes videos and misleading claims that it's legal.
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  35. But Gil, the US is the country with the hundreds of millions of guns out there. All countries with heavily armed populations, e.g. Switzerland, Israel, the US, have disproportionate suicide rates and disproportionate rates of suicide by gun. Rural Canada has a regretably large rate of gun death. Guns are dangerous everywhere. Only with guns can drunks, fools, crazies, and the depressed, shoot people, themseslves or others. A well regulated militia would be very careful about its membership, and would keep its guns in the armory, or at least under lock and key supervised by trained personnel, it seems to me.
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  36. Correctly named: Trumpian.
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  37. So? What is Pence if not the feminine version of Palin?
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  38. Donald Trump was never even one of the top ten developers in Manhattan, let alone New York -- although his father was a high-rise slumlord on the scale of the Kushners.
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  39. Yoo-hoo! NBCeee-ee! Trump's "triplex apartment" is in Trump Tower, not The Trump Building at 40 Wall Street.
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  40. Did the elephant wipe its feet? That is the question. Typical half-assed context-free journalism. Feh!
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  41. Sorry, Uma, wrong. These people hold positions which are severely self-contradictory. There is no cognitive dissonance here at all -- because there is no cognition of the logical defect in what they believe. I quite agree with your feeling, that this situation is wrong. These people have been conned, by one of the most skilled demagogues of the ages. This is an entirely different thing from cognitive dissonance -- which you should go Google up, and stop using until you know what it means.
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  42. Good style, Byron Pitts! Well done and thank you! And well done, people of Leith and Antler.
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  43. @delavan9141 That sound of boots marching up and down in the Kremlin all night is the sound of all the worriers' pacing -- over the succession, once Putin falls down the stairs, falls out the window, or simply gets a bullet in the head. "I I go for it, will my long time friend Yuri back me up??" in a dozen variations... Let me think now. How about Несмотря на героические усилия самых блестящих врачей России, президент Путин стал жертвой ужасного приступа удушья. Гости на ужине в честь полковника Освободительной армии..." Long/short, Delavan: you're looking in the wrong direction for an even faintly plausible quick solution.
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  44. @urhunn7778 I don't think @delavan9141 is a Western leader, dear anonymous troll 7778.
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  45.  mako zero  Quite possibly. The Never Trump folks are going to come out of all this looking decent and intelligent to the right. All the Turtles of the GOP are going to be a sad bunch eventually, even if they think they're OK right now -- itself a dubious proposition. Being fired by Trump will look good on 2025 resumes.
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  46. It is disgraceful that the police have shields, helmets, and armored cars. What, no tanks? Why have they ot surrounded this house of evil, excuse me, House of Evil, with trenches and coils of barbed wire before they entered? Does LA no longer care about lawn ordure?
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  47. Carl, Could you point out one specific factually inaccurate statement anywhere in this piece? Just indicating the minute and second of the video and what you believe to be the truth in contrast to what Woodruff says would do, please.
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  48. Chris Christie seems to have forgotten that Paul Manafort was Trump's Campaign Chairman.
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  49. It the Republican Party were true to its own values they would have 25'd Trump out around month six -- once they'd got their phalanx of Federalist judges, and once it was clear that Trump was in multiple, daily, violations of his Oath of Office. Since they aren't, since their only values are vindictiveness, greed, and fear of the thug on the barstool at the end (and the radio evangelist the thug's mother-in-law berates him about), the long term hope of the Republic lies in the destruction, root and branch, of the GOP. America has the conservative party it needs: the New Democrats of Barack Obama and the Clintons. It will know it has grown a left one when somebody in Congress asks "Why do we need a fourth aircraft carrier?" That's still a bit in the future. Maybe after the 2020 census?
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  50. Ingrid, You're being entirely as stupid as them, and you are lying: they voted for a con man who said he would improve it. You're incapacitating yourself in your anger and contempt -- and you will not be able to function capably in politics until you stop talking nonsense to yourself.
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  51. "The defense says there was not enough time..." Quite right. There wasn't. Drug addicted half-wit flunks sophisticated elusive killer exam. Gets opportunity to try again in well-populated killing ground, jail.
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  52.  @suesan5111  Some of us are, it's true -- but I don't see what that has to do with this story.
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  53.  @napathon1  Don't worry, they can get by on what they steal from blind men's cups -- or nice salaried jobs on a Trump re-election committee.
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  54.  @suesan5111  That's the nuttiest post I've seen in a while -- but you win a prize of some kind. There used to be a cocktail party game where you tried to come up with a term that got just one Google response. Your "Kaniphin" gets none. I take it from the context that it's some sort of specialist term in a racialist cult that you belong to. Fine. have a nice life. Just be on notice that you're a couple of hundred years out of date for the idea that you can tell who's Jewish by name or looks. I know nothing about your McEnroe and Bundy; "Son of Sam" Berkowitz's family stopped being Jewish a couple of generations back as far as I know. And in my family we come in several different colours, no doubt "races" to you, but all Jewish. Cheers, -dlj.
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  55.  @johngalt2506  And lost -- as befits his demonstrated level of competence, let alone the facts...
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  56.  @c.9231  Well said. I think she may be one of what Fletcher Knabel, in his good novel of California politics The Seventh Wave," called "little old ladies in running shoes."
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  57.  @LeCapitalsRMNB  Trump 220000.
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  58.  @solosam9  That's my point: because they were lawyers.
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  59.  @solosam9  Um, did you maybe miss the point that both the people making the accusation were lawyers?
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  60. ​ @solosam9  I just don't understand your questions. It seems to me you answer yourself every time. But just one more time: here trying to get a volunteer sacked is an act of ver-ree peculiar vindictiveness and oddity. This couple had already made themselves conspicuous, don't you think? Then you get a pretty weird offense. Drugs being left lying around in a car is like not normal middle-class behaviour. It just screams weirdness. Finally, fake drug set-ups are a pretty common event. Far be it from me to suggest that a spare joint for planting is part of the equipment of every drug raiding party in the War on Whatever they're making war on now... but cops do know a wee bit about set-ups. OK? Enough. over and out.
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  61. This may be the second reason Stanford is known as a junior university. Far be it from me to allow as how it has anything to do with any Leland P. Stanford, Jr.
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  62. Biden is being ver-ree canny: he gets to make half-a-dozen speeches to the whole media audience, time after time saying the same thing, be calm, I'm the boss, everything's going back to normal, be calm. Never boasting once. Just being clearly in charge! And then, at a time of his own choosing, after everybody has gotten used to the fact that he's won, only then does he come out and make The Big Speech. Acceptance, not proclamation of victory! Damn, but that's smart!
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  63. Seeing Woodruff ask people "你说中文吗？“ ("Do you speak Chinese?" in tourist Chinese) reminds me of the old John Paul II joke, "Does the Pope speak Russian?" "Everybody here understands Russian. Nobody here speaks Russian."
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  64. Trusted messengers. "That could be clergy..." Hunh? The white evangelical Trumpoid "churches" are one of the major sources of all the hate, misinformation, and division going around.
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  65. Congratulations to ABC for their public service hiring of the mentally retarded. It is truly amazing that a person like Elizabeth Schulze who does not know what "fine line" means can get a job anywhere, let alone doing news analysis. ABC News is making a great sacrifice throwing away their credibility like this, so we've got to admire their public spirit.
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  66. Tall. Angelic smile. No brains.
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  67. No evidence for that, Mark. You're just spewing your own invented hate.
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  68. 49.9% is exactly nobody's idea of any unifying coalition. It's the best close miss yet by a guy who has never won a majority of anything.
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  69. "to advocate for the disabled" Pleasant to see that rare correct use of "advocate for."
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  70. Teaching kids how to count in Mandarin is NOT going to turn them into Communists! On the other hand teaching them to count in English is dangerously likely to turn them into Democrats. Only the innumerate can tolerate Republican budget finance.
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  71. The Republican demand for "comprehensive immigration reform" is totally bogus: their big business supporters -- like his Cabinet of billionaires -- are often dependent on cheap undocumented labor. They don't want enforcement of the law at the point of employment. Trump himself has no clue how legislation works, so his idea of "comprehensive legislation" is any law that takes longer than two buckets of KFC to consider. Lies, lies, lies, and lies. That's all these people can produce (other than tax cuts for their rich buddies.)
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  72.  @someonenew3547  Bullshit. The Trumpoids benefit by revving up the hatred their movement lives on. DACA is a temporary fix kept temporary by Republican obstructionism.
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  73. Great news: all the old Trumpoids are going to avoid the vaccine!
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