Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "CNN" channel.

  1. ***** The Duggars are family values Republicans.   -dlj.
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  2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/05/30/tomorrow-trump-will-give-more-details-about-his-donations-to-vets-heres-what-we-still-dont-know/
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  3. How can anyone trust Rich when he says what his god says when he doesn't even know what a "cone of silence" would look like?   We're looking here at a guy living in an unreal world.  A pretty good man, by and large.  But still, living in an unreal world of his own creation.   -dlj.
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  4. When somebody gets taken in by a liar we should blame the liar and sympathise with the victims. Laughing at the stupidity of the victims is allying ourselves with the liar -- a weakness, a tempting weakness, but still a vicious weakness on our part. -dlj.
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  5. Yu Stu, are just being weird, probably just for the sake of being weird. It's a sensible question, and put the poor DOJ lawyer on the spot: no, he's not entitled to fake it or cover for Trump, yes the Senate expects him to do his job. Senator Franken is one very bright lad, and he's doing a good job, seems to me.
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  6. His beloved Hillary is your invention, Adam. What's your opinion on the ver-ree widespread lying by members of the Trump Administration- starting with Trump himself?
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  7. Fairly often -- not always but often -- the really obvious stuff is correct. This is one of Dr. Sanjay's best!
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  8. Dwight, Yes, but a thrashing, struggling, manic careerist rather than a journalist. She is her own story, which makes her incapable of covering any. -dlj.
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  9. Serial loser Giuliani is such a horse's ass: Hillary will put on her best Goldwater Girl smile and do an Uncle Ronnie on poor little Nasty Don. "There you go again, Donald..." will be just one version of how she'll make him pitiful. Trump and Giuliani are both waa-aay out of their league against Hillary. Hillary is smart, experienced, balanced, sane, decent, and sound. Her policies are moderate, rational, and appropriate to the real problems America faces. Trump is cunning and loud. He has no policies, and knows nothing about the subject. Game over. -dlj.
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  10. Devin, I think you're using "governmentintervention" like a mantra of evil. The fact is government intervention very often causes huge increases in the general wealth, well-being and freedom. The elementary example is the traffic light, which tells people unambiguously when they have to stop or when they have the state's permission to start. All enforced by jack-booted men with guns. Bossy, bossy, bossy -- but a huge net increase in everybody's mobility hence freedom, and safety, hence well-being. In due course, a generation or so after everybody else, the US will end up with a Canadian style single-payer health insurance system. If you're lucky you'll get Canadian style independent medicine. In the worst case you'll end up with the current US-style of commercial and bureaucratic medicine. Either way, insha-Allah, you'll end up with socialization of the insurance function. This will make you richer and freer. Hillary, even now, is entitled to a good deal of the credit. Best, -dlj.
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  11. Devin Waddell Ah, the normal rightwing policy post: the descent into name calling. I think you're right that she's running on President Obama's policies. You should bear in mind that these policies have rescued the world economy from the Republican threat, and rebuilt the American economy. It is now approaching the path it was on under the leadership of, uh, what was that name now? Oh, yes, Clinton. Trump policy? You joke. I think that skating rink went to his head, and he's been slipping and sliding every which way ever since. He has two policies, to move his mouth and wave his expressive little hands. Your "scandals" are just more Republican benghazziiii. You should be more careful not to step in it. Cheers,. -dlj.
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  12. +Devin Waddell Devin, "Failed policies" is the whimper of a guy who didn't invest when Bush left the Dow-Jones at six thousand and change, before No Drama Obama brought it back up into Clinton-type territory, north of 16,000. Better luck next time. Trump does not have better sense in business. Trump has not made a cent in business since his father died. The old man was an excellent developer of working-class housing, and made enough money at it to bail poor little Donald out every now and then. For a Google giggle, search on "Trump, Plaza Hotel." And laugh. The guy has the judgment of a kid in a candy store, and the poor banks financed him because they thought Daddy was part of this "Trump Organization" thingie. He was -- until he wasn't. Little Donald can't borrow in New York anymore without Daddy around, and has to hustle his funnypaper in Hong Kong and the Middle East. I'm not sure having a President in debt in those two places is a terribly wise idea... Trump's claimed net worth now, a little over $4 billion, is less than his shareholders' and creditors' losses in his companies' serial bankruptcies. I.e. the guy is a net net business parasite. Luckily he was able to land an honest job, playing the part of a loud-mouthed businessman on TV. This seems to have paid fairly well. He's probably unusual for a Republican in hiding his taxes because they show how little, not how much, he's worth. There's a new free app called "Grammarly" out there, and you should take a look at it. It's much too American in its promiscuous use of the Harvard comma, but it would save you from the several errors that mar your post above. https://www.grammarly.com/ Cheers, -dlj.
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  13. "Hilary = The Illuminati" That's supposed to be bad? What's your theory? Seriously, I'd like to know what you have in mind. Cheers, -dlj.
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  14. The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ0wFbPryM0 A variety of American Evangelicals' views.
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  15.  @davidgray8089  Here's what you're looking for: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/31/coronavirus-china-trump-united-states-public-health-emergency-response/
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  16.  Richard Hammonds  The word you're looking for maybe "baffle."
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  17. It's unusual to catch Bolton in a vocabulary error. He's often good with a sharp turn of phrase. Here, however, he uses "turn a blind eye" as though it meant "to be blind to." It doesn't. It means to be aware of something but to pretend not to see, i.e. almost the opposite. The phrase comes from Nelson, who like so many military greats -- had only one eye and put it firmly to the telescope when he didn't want to take an order.
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  18. Ben: "Well I've been Deep Thinking so I'll be fucked if I'll answer your question. I'm just going to give my prepared little speech and screw you, Becky." John: "All those guys with cattle to look after had the responsibility of telling me how they are doing and they haven't made their reports to me yet, Becky, so I can't tell you how they're doing. But the Cape of Good Hope is at the south of Africa because I looked that up myself, so everybody is really relieved, and Whew! That's the answer.""
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  19. I don't think the problem is AI, it's juvenile delinquency -- and it's been around on computers as long as there have been computers. There's no "solution," but a whole lot of fines for parents and jail terms for college-kids would probably be a good thing.
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  20.  @karenshaub8273  Well said. Note that this would mean taxing them as profit-making corporations, not taxing them as political organizations. Political organizations are not taxed as such and are usually 501(c)3s, non-taxed because non-profit.
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  21. The GOP crazies -- who include many Ayn Randers but no genine conservatives -- are destroying the Republican Party. This is good -- and no, they are not doing it deliberately: they're clueless and totally un-self-aware. "Pelosi could do it"?? McCarthy doesn't have Pelosi's brains. McCarthy doesn't have MTG's brains!!
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  22. Who are these people who elect Nunes?
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  23. Simple proposition: do Georgians want to feel proud of themselves? Or do they want to feel they owned the libs by sticking the cracker's idea of a Black man in the Senate?
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  24. Prigozhin is blaming the people around Putin for just one reason: he's a loser. The Ukrainians have handed him his ass, backing him off into that strip down by the coast. Gotta blame somebody. "Not me: I'm just in charge of the troops. It must be somebody els. How 'bout Putin? Well, that's dangerouns. I might not be ready to take out Putin yet. OK, the guy on Putin's right and the guy on Putin's left. Both of 'em. That'll do it. Let's have a big fight against (not the Ukrainians, they're whipping our ass) against those nasty guys around Putin. "Just the thing. Take everybody's attention off the fact that I'm a fat, straight from the kitchen after all, a very fat, loser." Thank you Mr. Prigozhin. Nobel in Literature for Fiction, 2024. If you last that long, Mr. Prigozhin.
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  25. Not true: Putin is now a permanent war criminal, wanted for kidnapping children and a variety of war crimes. He can never travel outside Russia for the rest of his life.
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  26.  @angriffslusticherWildoger  No, Europe does not. You are confused: you are one of a small minority of European bigots.
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  27. Details? Trump don't need no stinkin' details. Remember this is one of the world's worst negotiators of all time, a guy who started with one of the great American fortunes, that built by his grandfather and father, and pissed it away within months of his father's death. McConnell has it dead right...for once.
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  28. These dummies don't know about "mother lode"? Motherload??? Sheesh!
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  29. The polls don't show it yet, but I think there's some possibility that the '22 Midterms will be historic, as amusing as Truman waving that "Dewey Wins" paper from the airplane's steps, and as important as 1932. The thick slice of the GOP electorate who are like Corker, Flake, and Thune -- the decent Republicans -- may stay home in droves or 2~5% of them vote Democratic, and this could mean a landslide.
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  30. "Trumpier than Trump"? What could go wrong? Hmmm. Can we get True Republicans to start writing in "Blankenship" in other states as well? Obviously this is a man who represents them everywhere...
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  31. So unfair to say the brilliant Don Junior and Eric have no jobs: what about that magnificent chain of Trump Hotels they run?
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  32. The Congressional right, indeed duty, to investigate is part of the oversight function even when impeachment isn't a possibility in the background. Any hypothetical impeachment depends upon information, which in turn depends upon investigation.
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  33. "Rockets or missiles reported to have landed in Poland near Ukrainian border" Uh, ""landed"? Does anybody ere speak this language?
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  34.  daddyadam 1971  In 1967, I interviewed Col. James R. Corson, a war hawk. He was the real thing: if America had been able to produce 500 soldiers like him, the Vietnamese would have lost and the French puppets the US was supporting would have won. America did produce 500 of his quality -- but most of us opposed the war. At one point he pulled an M-16 down off the wall on his stairs as we sat in his living room. "You lefties don't seem to understand this sorta stuff," he shouted at me, squeaking melodramatically as right-wingers tend to do. "I think I do, sir," I answered. "I can can take your head off ten times out of ten at 1300 yards. With a Lee-Enfield. Or an FN-C2." "Oh," he said in a rather small voice. We got down to chatting, first about riflery, at which we were both very good, and then about the war, on which we disagreed but I gave him full credit for his tactical skill and personal decency -- though not for the aims of the colonialist Saigon government he was supporting. We became friends over the years, and worked together on a couple of national security issues where we were both on the same side, America's.
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  35. Yup. The vote in the Supreme Court was 8-0 against him, with one seat empty, not abstaining.
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  36.  @Reach1335  👍✔😊👍✔
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  37.  @shanealan2168  Yeah, right, sneaky Ukrainians invading Siberia where nobody can see them, what a bunch of cheats.
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  38.  @vicdiaz5180  Jeff, The church has armed guards. The armed guards shot the intruder. It's a damn shame there are so many crazy people with guns that the parishioners have to put together a committee of volunteer armed guards. The good news is maybe that it used to be only synagogues. Now that Christians are beginning to get shot maybe the Evangelicals will take up the idea of cutting down on gun violence. Well regulate those militias!
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  39.  @russianbot8950  Russian bot indeed.
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  40.  @Raineygoodyears  The ones he has boasted of include tax evasion; conspiracy to violate building, safety, zoning, and fire safety laws. The civil crime of lying is one he visibly commits every day. The impeachable offense of violating his Oath of Office is one he has committed hourly, starting while he was still on the podium taking office.
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  41. Two issues: Trump trying to punish his critics is the obvious one. That's just Trump being Trump. America and its Constitution will defeat him. He's in over his head, doesn't have the first clue. The other one is the ill-advisedness of not having people like Brennan as advisors. Retired intelligence people are kept infomed -- with security clearances -- because the nation values their skills, even if, perhaps particularly if, their opinions differ from those of the Administration in power. This is another, and somewhat deeper, aspect of Trump being Trump. It's a bit beyond his normal silly little bully-boy act. It's Trump throwing sand in the gears, reducing the effectiveness of government, just a wee bit, because he doesn't know what he's doing. The usual: sad.
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  42. Errol Lewis doesn't have a clue -- but he sure is emphatic about it. "Listen to me babble: I want to babble on some more about how I don't have a clue..."
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  43. It's not an "incredible" story. It's a highly likely story. Obviously, Cohen did lie, and he was on Trump's payroll at the time. Did Trump approve? He sure didn't come out with a correction; he did enthusiastically repeat the same lies, though on the campaign trail, not under oath. The only question is, What is the evidence? Does Cohen have a tape or other witnesses? Stay tuned.
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  44. The Amazing Shrinking Trump! Step right up, laze un gennulmen! Enjoy: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/us-politics/article-after-looming-large-in-washington-donald-trump-has-shrunk-into-a/
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  45.  @elkslayer7399  Thanks. I was one of the world's better target shooters in my youth -- 13th out of 4,000 of the best in the Bisley Trials one year -- and we always had venison or elk in the freezer. (We farmed 680 acres, just over a square mile in Eastern Ontario, but the furshlugginer government never came up with the marketing program and price supports for the rock that heaves up every Spring at the edge of the Canadian Shield.) Best for 2020 -dlj.
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  46. @I PUT MY BALLS ON YOUR DRUM SET Ammonium nitrate is a pretty funny idea of "manure," and the security authorities keep a pretty good watch on its supply chain because it's so obviously dangerous.
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  47.  @donttreadonme3419  I don't think so, but you'd have to be more precise for me to even know what you're claiming. Anyway, best wishes at a (another) tragic time.
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  48. @I PUT MY BALLS ON YOUR DRUM SET So? Is animal shit your main interest in life?
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  49. @I PUT MY BALLS ON YOUR DRUM SET So? I don't share your fixation with animals, but the same thing goes for humans: during the siege of Paris in 1871 they cleaned out all the public urinals for nitrate to fight the Germans with. Amazing what it takes to get the municipal workers to do their jobs, innit?
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  50.  @elkslayer7399  The old Lee-Enfield rifle was accurate to 1,350 yards, which was the longest target on the Canadian Army ranges. At that distance, for the last half or third of the bullet's flight, you can see it, or at least the shock-wave around it is visible. Its path is a spiral, and I've often wondered whether the effect of the spiral was connected to the Earth's Coriolis in any way. The bull on the targe, however, is a foot square, so the movement of the air which you judge by looking at the plant life very carefully is more important than the circumference of the spiral... Canadian troops in Afghanistan have claimed sniper victories at well over a kilometre, but their refiles these days are nothing you or I would recognize, $35,000 assemblages of electronics and weirdity far different from anything in my time. The NATO FNC-2, itself from a planet different from the one the Lee-Enfield inhabited, was the most advanced thing I ever trained on.
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