Comments by "possumverde" (@possumverde) on "CBS Evening News" channel.

  1. It's been customary for a few decades at least to continue briefing ex-Presidents. I agree though. With his history of accidentally leaking classified info while in office, Trump had no business getting briefed once out.
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  2. SCOTUS is not going to overthrow the certified results of four states just because another state doesn't like them. The Texas case is just some piddly state AG trying to pick up some political capital for their future political aspirations.
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  3. Currently, all surviving Presidents are getting briefed if they want to. That's been customary for quite a while. The argument behind it is that they often serve as unofficial ambassadors so knowing who to be wary of and what not to say (to avoid contradicting current policy for example) come in handy.
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  4. I feel sorry for the friends and families of the these hostages. It's a shame that Israel prioritized genocidal revenge and land grabbing over the lives of the hostages and ~35,000 Palestinian civilians. It's no surprise though. It was clear from the start that the hostages were of no concern to the IDF. I mean, when your battle plan calls for the (mis)use of 2,000 lb. bombs to destroy everything in a 10 block radius just to take out one building with a handful of suspected Hamas members thought to be inside (something the IDF has consistently done the whole time) you can't expect to find many if any of the unaccounted for hostages still alive in the end. Their bodies will be buried amidst the rubble along with those of the innocent civilians you're hellbent on erradicating. The sick part is that people will place no blame on Israel or the IDF for any of this... Hamas should never have taken hostages to begin with but I doubt even they thought the Israeli government and the IDF would so openly inact their final solution to the Palestinian question with no concern whatsoever for the wellbeing of the hostages...
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  5. Hmmm...wounded civilian at the cops feet to protect, one of the calls said the guy had a gun, dude didn't immediately surrender, yeah, might as well let him have a chance to do more harm before dropping him... Sometimes I think the police in this country should just go on strike for a while and let people like you take care of things...
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  6. Run one with legitimate protocol, mananged by a contractor with no conflict of interest and workers who are well qualified, properly trained, and unbiased, and I will...
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  7. Executive orders can't deal with budget related things like a relief bill. Those have to go through Congress. Which it appears is going to happen soon as it seems they're giving up on working with the Republicans on it and are just going to push it through via budget reconcilliation instead. That only requires a simple majority vote in the Senate as opposed to the 60 needed otherwise.
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  8.  @murphyrod4839  Enforcement, yes. More, not so much. Those already on the books are more than enough to get the job done if properly prosecuted.
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  9. Using the old trick of giving oneself an "out" at the beginning of a speech then spending the rest of the speech intentionally inciting the crowd only works on the simple minded and/or those with little to no personal integrity. Mature, honest adults see it for what it is...and his tweets came hours later after his advisors begged him to do it because of how bad it was making him look for not doing so. The man intended it to happen. He spent the weeks leading up to it fueling it with lies and then set his lie enraged minions loose.
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  10. The $2,000 includes the $600 already sent out. Also, they appear to have finally given up on getting Republican support and are just going to push it through via budget reconcilliation instead. That only requires a simple majority vote in the Senate as opposed to the 60 needed otherwise. Don't be surprised if the relief gets passed before the end of the week.
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  11.  @happydee6950  Qanon theories on social media only count as red flags to members/followers of said cult (and sad little state legislature representives trying to get their vote.) In the real world, they're seen for the horsesh*t they are and ignored.
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  12. @Fancy_Blotworth  It'll be OK kid. The adults know what they're doing. If you pay attention in history class you may one day understand.
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  13. Israel needs an investigation to figure out how a fire started in a tent camp after they dropped things that go boom and make fire on it? I thought they were supposed to be intelligent...
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  14.  @colinhobbs7265  You're wasting your time. People only make comments like this one to see how many upvotes they can get from other fringe. They're not interested in counter arguments. They're just looking for some ego strokes to raise their low self esteem.
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  15. It tells you Qanon needs something better to do with their time.
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  16. They were originally hoping that they could get Republican support for it (for unity and all...) However, it now appears that they've finally given up on that and are just going to push it through via budget reconcilliation instead. That method only requires a simple majority Senate vote as opposed to the 60 vote that would have otherwise been necessary. Don't be surprised if the relief bill has been passed by the end of the week.
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  17. Boy, are you in for some major disappointment... SCOTUS may not even bother hearing Trump's case(s) to begin with. They aren't required to. On top of that, if they do hear one, it will be an appeal. Appeals are usually judged on the evidence presented in the original case. Trump's legal team has presented no meaningful evidence in any of the cases which might reach SCOTUS. The court will be presented with a case with no evidence behind it. They can allow new evidence to be presented, but they're not going to waste their time by doing so in a case that won't even change the outcome if Trump's team were sucessful. That's the one good thing about SC Justices being appointed for life. They owe nothing to the Presidents who appointed them or their party. They can simply rule on the law alone without fear of reprisal. The law does not favor Trump in this. He's done and both he and his team know it. You and all his other supporters are being played by his team and tabloid news outlets like OAN and Newsmax because the majority of you have no clue about how elections, the courts, and the government in general function and therefore don't know any better.
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  18. There's nothing statistical that suggests fraud in this election. If you're one of those who think Benford's Law applies, then you should be the one to brush up on your statistics knowledge. That's the only argument I've seen anyone try to make that even remotely came across as competent and it fails due to how our precinct system is designed. When you account for the conditions involved mechanically with this election that haven't been in prior elections, the stats are fine.
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  19.  @Micloren  I've read a good bit of it. You don't have to get far to realize it has no chance. To begin with, SCOTUS isn't even required to hear it. Even if they do, they'll be hearing an appeal. Generally evidence and testimony not presented in the original case is not considered in such appeals. Despite what gullible Trump supporters think, no meaningful evidence of widespread fraud was presented by Trump's team in court for their case. All they can show with the evidence presented originally is that the same random irregularities and and minor frauds found in all elections occurred in this one as well. That's not going to get them anywhere. With what SCOTUS will be presented with, I doubt they'll even bother hearing it. They might give it a brief look, but with no evidence backing the original case, don't be surprised if they actually laugh at Trump's team's arguments and then chastise them a bit before tossing it.
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  20.  @dudebrosefson4699  I take it you don't read at an adult level. Sorry but I don't have time to dumb it down for you.
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  21. They got his archives so anyone watching his old videos will be paying the Onion with ad revenue etc. They also got his infrastructure to add to their own. And they got it all cheap.
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  22. For perspective, were the number of covid 19 cases in the US to equal the average number of seasonal flu cases (~5% of the population during the 2018-2019 flu season) a mortality rate of 4.25% (13,600/320,000) would lead to over 700,000 US deaths.
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  23.  @photobyTaps  Nothing he can do about this as long as the Republican led House refuses to let him restrict weapons shipments to Israel. That's the only diplomatic language that country speaks with us.
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  24.  @dayzreloadedpve  Well, to be fair, one doesn't need to be a doctor to read the medical examiners report and realize that he found no evidence supporting a cause of death due to external physical causes. Anyone with some pre-med, nurses, and emts would all know enough to understand what they're reading.
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  25. Somewhat. Though, the information available at the time did point to it going to Biden in a very close race. The other swing states, including Georgia all had stronger data in support of their eventually ending up blue. I had Az as the only one that was too close to call on election night (I had it blue but by such a low margin that I wouldn't have felt comfortable calling it.) However, the media had far better access to accurate data than an amateur like me so I didn't consider it to be a huge surprise.
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  26.  @edwardp8463  It didn't hurt that her opponent dropped out of the race...
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  27. There were multiple instances during Trump's term where he accidentally leakes classified information in press conferences and on twitter. He's never been very good at knowing when to keep his mouth shut. Also, his ego loves the feeling of knowing something others don't...unfortunately, that often leads to him telling them what they don't know so they'll know they didn't know it while he did...
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  28. We can start by no longer allowing verdicts to be based on mob rule rather than rule of law...
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  29. If breaking an addiction were easy, there wouldn't be any junkies...
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  30. What exactly is he supposed to do? The Republican led House won't let him restrict weapon supply to Israel and that's the only diplomatic language that country speaks.
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  31. There are a lot of moderates, centrists, and independents who were...not enthused by that horrible rally. It's a shame that the Republican party has been usurped by such a mindset as was portrayed in general there.
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  32. No, it's extremely bizarre. Go look at more footage of it and interviews of registered independents and Republicans who were hired to assist and quit due to the nonsensical protocol being followed and the implied/veiled threats made to those involved who took their concerns over the legitimacy of the operation to the CyberNinja staff overseeing it. I have no problem with a legitimately conducted audit other than considering it an unnecessary use of resources given the lack of evidence supporting the need for one, but the way this thing is being handled is just odd. To the point that any claims they make on it's completion will be dubious at best.
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  33. To pass it without needing any Republicans on board would require doing so through budget reconcilliation. It's an approach that Dems have criticized Republicans for using in the past to avoid needing Dem votes. I think they delayed a bit hoping they could pass it the "right" way. Unfortunately it doesn't look like the Republicans are interested so Dems will probably start the reconcilliation process soon. Edit: Reconcilliation only requires a simple majority Senate vote instead of the 60 needed otherwise.
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  34. Grow up child.
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  35. If you can't get anyone to testify in court under oath or present any legitimate evidence in court to prove it...then yes.
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  36. They didn't have a choice, she was the only name on the ballot...
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  37. We'll see. We have a President who wants to break our addiction to oil. If anything were going to change concerning our middle east policy, now would probably be the time.
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  38. Sorry man at the end, nothing Biden can do. Only Congress can block already approved weapon shipments to Israel and until such shipments are threatened, Israel has absolutely no reason to listen to the US on any issue.
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  39. ​@jdoe7697 He was paid $250/hr, about $300/hr less than his firm had been paid for consulting work in the past (well before Willis became the DA.) When you divide his total earnings by the two years he worked, it comes to equivalent of ~33 to ~35 40 hour weeks per year. Over those two years, his work as a special prosecutor left him with very few billable hours with his law firm (which would have been at a higher rate than $250/hr.) Long story short, he took a significant pay cut by accepting the job and definitely didn't need that pay to cover the vacations. So as far as the money issue goes, I'm not seeing a problem there. Now, the nepotism involved in his hiring is a different story. Even if qualified for the position (which is debatable) he should not have been offered the job if for no other reason than to prevent the appearance of impropriety. However, that alone doesn't make his pay fraudulent.
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  40. Nah, this is a pretty minor abuse of her power. It's just a small thank you to Trump for appointing her. If she pulls any further such nonsense though, a look at her bank accounts etc. might be warranted.
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  41. The only significant fraud that occurred in the 2020 election came from and/or was in support of, the Republican candidate...and even that couldn't save him.
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  42. Such legislation normally requires 60 votes in the Senate. The delay has been due to their attempts to get the 10 Republican votes they would need. It now appears that they have given up on getting bi-partisan support for it and are just going to push it through via budget reconcilliation instead. That only requires a simple majority in the Senate. (It's a method they have criticized the Republicans for using in the past in order to bypass the need for Democratic votes and were hoping they wouldn't have to resort to it to get the relief through.)
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  43. Grow up kid.
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  44. And you need to grow up...
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  45. The Human shield excuse is total bs. Israel knows that the rocket teams move after firing and thus their counterstrikes will only harm civilians. They act out of vengeance not self defense. Also, in an area with a population density of over 5,000 people/km^2 (26,125/km^2 in Gaza City) there aren't a lot of suitable options for launch sites that don't have civilians nearby. Especially if you have to constantly be on the move to new sites. What would you have them do...just continue to bend over and spread their cheeks for their oppressor? As for being terrorists, one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter. Many resistance groups in WWII committed acts that would classify them as terrorists under the modern definition and which often led to reprisals on civilians. Despite that, they're remembered as heroes. Underdogs fighting a far superior oppressor don't have the luxury of fighting conventionally and not endangering civilians. Said civilians understand this.
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  46. If he thought it dangerous enough to hide from the public in order to prevent panic in the market, what did he think would happen when said dangerous virus began to spread rapidly across the country blindsiding an unprepared population?
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  47. Not even in office yet, and he's already lying about his dealings with other countries...
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  48.  @thatflyguy8387  My condolences to Texas...
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  49. They will likely get it passed soon. They were hoping they could get enough Republicans on board to do it bi-partisan. Since that seems to have failed, they will likely push it through via budget reconcilliation. That only requires a simple majority vote in the Senate and can thus be done without Republican votes.
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  50.  @annaverano5843  They don't.
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