Comments by "possumverde" (@possumverde) on "FOX 13 Seattle" channel.

  1. Nice knowing them then.
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  2. Yeah, but they have Congressional oversight. Better to let two con artists do it all with no oversight...more "efficient" that way...
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  3. Even if you stopped supplying power, you wouldn't be shutting them off. American power plants are also attached to the same grid. They would pick up the slack... and charge a bundle for the overage on their system.
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  4. Hopefully, whatever deal they come up with will be far better than the joke of a deal we made with the UK...
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  5. ​ @princesskahlua2078 Depends on the situation. History has shown that negotiating with an aggressive dictator like Putin only makes things worse in the long run. Notice that relevant countries are mostly only supporting him with lip service (like China). They know his only chance is to bluff his way into some sort of favorable agreement. If he gets one, then the next time he invades a neighbor, those other countries will join in because NATO and the West will have shown weakness and an unwillingness to stop them. Not every nation or culture sees willingness to negotiate from a position of strength as noble. Dictatorships see it only as weakness to be exploited. At some point, like with Ukraine, a hard stance is the only option.
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  6.  @loosilu  You're wasting your time replying to anyone with a "-" followed by random letters and numbers after their name. They're paid political posters.
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  7. Says the bot...
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  8. ​ @Mirristal Tell that to MAGA
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  9. No they should not...Use your critical thinking skills and deeply analyze the abusability of such laws. Not to mention the violation of states rights and other issues such laws would entail.
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  10. He'll get something done alright, just nothing good. That's what people are mad about...including some of his supporters after seeing his picks for some of his cabinet positions.
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  11. Bot
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  12. Well, that and the Iran Contra affair kinda ended it.
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  13. Lost trust...Translation, the former minister messed up and grew a conscience. Can't have that.
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  14.  @marthastewwart  There are plenty of investigators, lawyers, etc. out there who see the same problems with how this investigation has been handled and the "evidence" against this oddball. It's not just me. Most who look at it closely feel the same as I do about it. Out of curiosity, do you really buy the "surviving witness's" story? What seems more likely... That someone would encounter a masked intruder in their home, who just killed four people like it was nothing, freeze up in panic, and live to tell the tale while remembering details like "bushy eyebrows" yet not calling the police or checking on their housemates for seven + hours... or they came home earlier that night, went to bed, didn't see or hear a thing, woke up near noon, found their housemates brutally murdered, felt guilty about sleeping through it and not being there for them, and decided to go along with whatever story those investigating the murders told them would put the killer out of action? Survivor's guilt is a powerful thing. I never wanted to believe such frame ups could ever be a thing (or at least be successful) but the more I look at the way this has been handled, the less sense it makes... unless it really is complete bs... Combine that with so many people immediately assuming the guy is guilty without doing a little research into on their own and actually questioning all of the oddities in how it's been handled and it just isn't right. People want this guy to be guilty so they can sleep a little better at night and have a target for their anger and disgust over the loss of four innocent lives and they are willing to ignore a ridiculous amount of things that don't add up to achieve such peace of mind. Seriously, if this were an episode of some tv crime drama, few would be able to suspend their disbelief enough to enjoy it. Yet, in real life, it's perfectly fine for so many... thst's a bit concerning.
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  15. Nearly 90% of the potash we use for our fertilizers. Around 50% of the oil we refine in our refineries. Anywhere from 10% to 30% of our timber (European countries have recently taken some of their market however, Trump has already said he is going to tariff the EU so that will likely change.) Around 20% of our steel as well. Quite a bit of electrical power to border states. Enough to make it a bad idea to tariff them in such an unprepared manner.
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  16. ​ @SwagAddict88 50% of the oil we refine in our refineries comes from Canada...
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  17. ​ @the-superbike-squad lol
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  18. Then call it Gulf of the Americas...
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  19. People are just going to buy used cars due to the price hike, and our exports will diminish tremendously. Boom indeed...
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  20. And that concept of a deal strongly favors the UK...
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  21. The two rules tossed were specifically designed to be used together to nullify legitimate votes from predominantly democratic areas. If Harris wins now it will be because the election was legitimate. Had the rules remained in place, the legitimacy of a Trump victory would have been highly questionable. You should be thanking the judge for doing the right thing.
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  22. ​@gregmiller9238 If you read the two rules as they are written and use a little critical thinking, you'll see that the judge was entirely correct in tossing them. Neither did anything for election security but combined they manufactured an illegitimate excuse to refuse to certify votes from highly populated (and thus predominantly "blue") areas. They were just a sneaky attempt to well...rig the election and the judge realized it. Other rules were left in place.
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  23. @mtrichie111  Neither made their money from running businesses. Vivek essentially pump and dumped his way to wealth and Elon made most of his money from PayPal (which he had 0 operatuinal control over) and both were successful at crypto scamming. The "businesses" they actually have operational control over are pretty poorly run...and mostly just ways to scam investors and government contracts. You'll see their skill if Trump and Congress are dumb enough to take their advice.
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  24. Trump loves Homan, he'll never be held accountable for sending untrained, undisciplined, brownshirts into the field with no command structure.
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  25. Good. A judge with some actual integrity.
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  26. He's being framed. Edit: What's shameful is how incompetent the investigators were not only at investigating the crime but at framing this guy as well.
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  27. @chrisgordon6639  Capitalism... You shop your research idea around or companies/the government comes to you with an idea they want studied, and they pay you to do it.
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  28.  @samwdavis  When one is polling as far ahead as Stein is, yes. It's well beyond the margin of error. The Harris projection is simply conjecture based on history.
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  29.  @christopherhand4836  I'm saying lots of people from the right, left, and center who are appalled at what has become of the Republican party and wish to send a message that it has to stop.
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  30.  @rico5393  Bernie would have lost handily. Clinton lost because of the green party. Had ~2/3 of their vote in Florida gone to her, Trump would have lost the state and the election. Their candidate even apologized later because she had been asked to drop out and endorse Clinton but refused saying her demographic couldn't effect the outcome.
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  31.  @loosilu  Well, technically he took the easy way out in the 2000 election by picking Gore but saying only for the popular vote. Though had their been a full recount in Florida, Gore would have been President.
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  32.  @rico5393  It would have been 55% Trump at least. Bernie does well in the primaries because rabid party loyalists represent the largest chunk of voters. Moderates and Centrists aren't as ardent. Also the Idependents don't vote in them at all in many cases due to many states (like mine) requiring them to declare a party and stick only to that party's ticket. Bernie gets the hard core progressive vote but not really the moderate/centrist/independent vote. As a result, he would have looked good in the primaries and been slaughtered in the actual election. It's an excellent example of why party primaries are a joke.
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  33. Those had a legitimate reason, were made earlier, and weren't obvious political pandering. Nothing wrong with getting rid of two rules whose only purpose was to set up illegitimate excuses for a particular candidate to use to contest a potential loss.
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  34. @FAUCI_CANT_BREEVE  Can't take a joke can you... calm down kiddo.
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  35. Actually, they were designed to provide an opportunity to throw out votes from mostly Democratic areas. Hand counting the number of ballots printed out by voting machines would be off by a greater number for machines that process more total votes, like in urban areas which are more Democratic than in more rural areas. They could then claim "suspicion" over the votes in those urban areas and refuse to certify them. Thus throwing out Democratic votes.
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  36.  @chitownjoe67  He was a felon with an illegal gun... Not the hill to die on for 2A.
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  37. The agreement was to not attack energy... I mean Russia attacked a hospital with airstrikes right after the agreement...
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  38. The latest AI cuts
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  39. He's getting a lot of perks. Government interference on behalf of his businesses, juicy government contracts, etc.
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  40. Nah, they fear the resolve of it. This was done to help Trump's campaign. That's who they want to deal with because he admitted fear of Putin in the debate and promised to be a weak appeaaer.
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  41.  @snoop_lion  Something tells me the two "whiz kids" aren't going to be cutting overpriced contracts (since they have some themselves) and will instead just take a chainsaw to experienced personel etc. Generally throwing the military into chaos with little benefit to show for it. Edit: The VA is likely going to be on their chopping block as well.
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  42.  @jessekukendall9273  History
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  43. 3. Did they put down that they spoke Spanish or tell their higher ups they did. I've seen a few lying about that get fired and rightfully so. Also, how much of your workforce speaks Spanish and could your employer maintain full shifts without them. Some areas would lose factories and businesses that employ many Americans if they were to lose their immigrant workers.
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  44. ​ @chadhaire1711 Because only the wealthy want them as some sort of status symbol. For the rest, they're too big, inefficient, and unreliable to bother with.
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  45. The untrained, undisciplined ICE "agents" were the aggressors who started most of the violence. If Homan would sober up for a change and spend a little time getting his ship in order, there wouldn't be any violence.
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  46. @LifeisGood-ye8rl  lol, you're not very good at math I take it.
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  47. @LifeisGood-ye8rl  He's still in the US so I'd say your math is still off.
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  48.  @whitneyrose871  gotta do something to keep their voters base too occupied to do any real critical thinking on their campaign promises.
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  49. By allowing a refusal to certify based on suspicion alone combined with the obvious discrepancy in ballot totals that would come from hand counting the paper receipts from the machines due to human error (especially in high volume urban, and thus mostly democratic, voting precincts), they would be creating an unwarranted excuse to attempt to throw out votes from democratic areas. The council members who voted for those rules should consider themselves lucky. Had the rules remained and been used as obviously intended, they could have been brought up on election interference charges.
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  50. @Drety6  I didn't say anything about the law. They could voluntarily submit to, or the President could request an FBI background check. In the spirit of national security. If they're going to have pull over so many important things, it's the least they could do.
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