Comments by "possumverde" (@possumverde) on "Forbes Breaking News" channel.

  1. They have him on multiple attempts to violate the Impoundment Control Act. Making any commitments to Gaza without Congressional Approval also violates the Constitution... I mean, Trump's sycophants in Congress would never allow it, but the6 do have more than enough to warrant articles of impeachment... in just a little over two weeks.
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  2. It's more of a covid bill tham any of the garbage they passed when they controlled the Senate. I understand that most people who still actively support/defend the GOP have absolutely no understanding of what's actually in this bill (or any grasp on reality whatsoever in some cases) and will simply trust what anyone with an R next to their name tells them, but there are a handful of Americans who have actually bothered to read the bill and know that the GOP is full of shit when it comes to their claims concerning this bill. If you think crying over your loss of control and making your unwarranted and untrue claims about this bill out of childish spite are going to help you in the 2022 mid terms, be prepared for disappointment. If you can't bring yourselves to be part of the solution, you could at least quit being part of the problem. The unnecessary bits of the bill that cost enough to really matter have been removed. Move on.
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  3.  @TheCowboylogic  How about reading the Constitution and learning how the government power is structured before you "think"...and preferably vote as well.
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  4. The "pro-life" community deserve to be "attacked." They're nothing but a bunch of holier than thou virtue signalers attempting to force their subjective beliefs onto others by corrupting what was intended to be a secular legal code. I'm not exactly a fan of abortion myself but I have no sympathy whatsoever for people who insist on sticking their noses into other people's business only to cry foul when said noses get deservedly punched in response. Those who are anti-abortion are free to not have one. They're also free to voice their opinions against it. They are not however, free to force their beliefs onto others. Period. Abortion bans clearly violate (among other things) the 13th amendment's protection from involuntary servitude. A woman cannot be forced to do the work of carrying and giving birth against her will. There are hundreds if not thousands of rulings where the courts classified carrying and giving birth as a form of work in their arguments. If it's work then the 13th amendment covers it. If the 13th covers it, the 10th amendment can't. Thus, SCOTUS had/has no constitutional grounds to send it to the states. Interestingly, their incompetent ruling also has the side effect of making secession a state matter as well since it isn't addressed in the constitution and is only blocked by a single SCOTUS precedent whose argument is invalid to begin with (Texas v White.) It would be a bit of ironic justice if the pro-choice states chose to take advantage of the situation and leave the union. Said states happen to account for the vast majority of federal tax revenues. It would be a shame if the remaining union were no longer able to pay SCOTUS justices their salaries...or for their protection...and then there's all of the federal assistance nearly all of the "pro-life" states depend on...it'd be a shame.
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  5. Biden's comeback win from mail in voting was nothing odd. In fact it was predictable using information available an hour or so after the in person vote was completed. Due to Trump's major campaign blunder of actively discouraging mail in voting, there was a consistent bias between in person and mail in results in the swing states. Trump received ~80% of his total votes in said states from the in person vote, while Biden received ~40% percent of his. Those ratios were consistent in states where mail in ballots were somewhat close to in person ballots in number. Regardless of who ultimately won the state. In states that weren't allowed to do any counting of mail in ballots until election day, a situation was created where the in person ballots were all tallied before the mail in vote count began. The following example wiil give an idea of just how strong of an effect that can have. Let's say we have a swing state where early counting wasn't possible and we know that the final total will be 1 million votes split evenly between Biden and Trump. If Trump gets 80% of his total from in person, he'll have 400k votes once the in person vote has been tallied. While Biden's 40% would have him at just 200k. Trump has twice as many votes after in person and would appear to be running away with it. However, we know that it will end in a tie. Pretty big difference and yet it's what would be expected given the data available and the unique conditions covid precautions created for this election. With a little effort, an amateur statitician with a decent grasp of the quirks of this election could have predicted Biden's eventual win once the in person data was posted on election night. I would barely call myself an amateur and my calculations from ~1:30 am est on election night ended up very close to the final results (I had NC just barely going to Biden and Ga barely to Trump which ended up being the opposite.) Trump's professionals (with better access to the data and far better skills with statistics) would have known almost immediately after the in person results were available that he had lost. Which is why he held that silly press conference in the middle of the night calling for mail in counts to be stopped while he still appeared to be running away with it.
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  6. The Republicans in general passed on the original offer for a bi-partisan committee. The only reason they now want one is because they misjudged their constituency's views on the matter and suffered some backlash as a result. Also, Jordan and Banks were chosen for their troll value/size of their Trump boners, not their merit. If the Republicans aren't going to take committee apointments seriously, they don't deserve to have their complaints over the matter taken seriously.
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  7. That's a press secretary's job...
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  8. Sounds fine to me. As soon as Trump loses for a second time, the GOP will have to drop him and then the chaos will go away with time as his lackeys get voted out as well. Then, Congress will be able to actually pass fixes to our problems.
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  9. There's footage of far more people simply climbing over that useless wall. The only thing important is making sure it gets cancelled (and that we get some of our money back from the shady companies that got some of the contracts.) The maintenance costs alone will be ridiculous if we are dumb enough to complete it.
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  10. Tulsi is a naive and out of touch politician who thinks selling out the center will gain her power. Trump will discard her and RFK the moment he no longer has use of them.
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  11. A medical discharge would be more appropriate. There's nothing honorable about being selfish.
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  12. ​ @Doug_Hefernen  Which was Iran's money to begin with.
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  13. The evidence was thoroughly laid out in the CNN article and tech people have offered to help him refute it but he refused...
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  14. ​ @bayly1977 Everyone is a RINO the moment they disagree with Trump or one of his endorsed candidates. It's why so many moderate and centrist Republicans aren't interested in voting for Trump.
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  15. Yeah, they fell really hard...They control the House, Senate, and White House while the Republican party is now fatally split and will lose voter turnout among their moderates and votes from right leaning independents, centrists, etc. Bang up job there...rejoice in your...victory?
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  16. RFK and Tulsi are pretty much gone from the picture... Parading them around didn't bring Trump any boost in the polls so he has little use for them. RFK has even been trying to get back on the ballot in some states.
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  17. The allegations have to actually be true. Considering that a couple of the claims made in the motion take ~5 minutes of research to debunk (the claim that the grand jury didn't recommend that he be indicted for example), the defendant's history of spreading disinformation and outright lies related to the stolen election conspiracy theories, and the timing of these claims, this reeks of a desperation "hail Mary" attempt from a defendant who knows they're screwed.
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  18. How does something as illogical/counterintuitive as requiring 60 votes to go to a vote on a bill that only needs 51 votes to pass undermine federalism? Early on both the House and Senate used the "previous question" rule (essentially requiring only a simple majority vote to end debate on a bill and go to a vote) and things worked just fine (and have continued to do so in the House ever since.) If you dig into the history behind it's change in the Senate, you'll find that it had it's origins in impeachment shenanigans involving Aaron Burr, not as a way to level the playing field for the minority party as the popular myth claims. With such an illegitimate history, would it not be better to return it to it's originally intended design? Edit: If you truly believe the filibuster is necessary to protect federalism, here's a suggestion. Propose legislation that would increase the vote majority needed to pass bills in the Senate from 51 to 60 and see how many pro filibuster members you can get to support it. The end result would be the same as a filibuster only without the need for hours of inane babble from random Senators on irrelevant topics. As such, those in favor of the filibuster should have no problem backing such a bill.
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  19. The vast majority of people on both sides can't even see the real problem with these new voting laws being passed by Republican led state legislators. What makes you think letting them pretend they know what they're doing by leaving it up to their decision would even remotely end well?
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  20. True. Trump is a pretty bad judge of character and often recommends frivolous lawsuits to deflect accurate allegations...
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  21. ​ @Freedomfighters55 That's was pretty much my point... Assault rifles have a generally accepted definition and thus exist as such for everyone. Assault weapons on the other hand do not have an agreed upon definition and thus don't exist as such for everyone. In short, assault rifles exist while assault weapons don't.
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  22. @noora Those refugees granted asylum status/green cards will likely end up contributing more to the economy and their communities in the long run than you ever have or ever will. Unlike a lot of natural born citizens, Legal immigrants/asylees tend to actually be grateful for the opportunity at a better life they have here and a good work ethic to show it.
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  23. I hope the fantasy of being on a transition team was worth selling out the center for her and RFK. Any legitimacy either once had is now gone. Even if they snap out of it once Trump has no more use for them and unceremoniously tosses them aside, it'll be a long hard road back.
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  24.  @timmyturner6575  Most mature adults aren't interested in circle jerks, political or otherwise.
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  25. Please tell me his timing and delivery are usually better than they were here. He completely bombed.
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  26. ​ @ManessahIsrael Nah. They don't have to get that directly involved. Youtube and most of the news channels are so terrified of them that they willingly censor the comments on their own.
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  27. That's why so many people believe Trump and his supporters are dangerous to the country. On many occasions you all just refuse to accept reality simply because you don't want to.
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  28. He'd need a law license for that and he seems to have...misplaced his.
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  29. There's nothing unconstitutional about it. You had a candidate arrange a secret backroom phone call with state election officials in which he had direct conversation with said officials and requested that they "find" him enough votes to change the outcome. That is straight up illegal, no question. That's why one of said officials covered their a** by recording the call and releasing it to the public. There's not a single thing in the US Constitution that can protect him here, but there are some things in Georgia's Constitution that forbid this type of interference. Give it up already. The man's a criminal... and anyone who buys one of his overpriced bibles needs to take a long hard look in the mirror and ask themselves if this is the kind of man they want to throw their lot in with.
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  30. Roughly 25% of Americans consider themselves Republican. 53% of that would be 13.25%. That's not exactly a huge percent. Around 39% consider themselves Republicans or independents who lean toward Republican. 53% of that would be ~20.7%. Still not exactly huge.
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  31. Going by his first term he'll just screw things up more with a second term. Neither he nor Biden have any business being in the race. They're equally detrimental for the country just in different ways. As for us being finished, if we don't start voting more moderates and centrists into Congress/the White House, then yeah, we will eventually finish ourselves off within a generation or so.
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  32. Unless new restrictions to the use of the bombs we send them are added to the deal (especially when it comes to those in the 2,000 lb. category which make up 60% of the shipment being withheld), anyone who votes in favor of this will be risking war crimes charges from the ICC when all is said and done. Any military in the world with 2,000 lb. or heavier bombs in their arsenal will tell you that the IDF's consistent (ab)use of such munitions in densely populated areas to destroy everything within a ~10 block radius just to take out a single building is simply criminal...and yet, the Trumpublicans in the House want to send them more...
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  33. He's in favor of a pseudo theocracy and whatever else Trump tells him he's in favor of. A sad fall from grace for a onetime never Trumper.
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  34. It's illegal terrorism. Only Israel can get away with it.
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  35. I prefer honesty.
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  36. Lol
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  37. They were probably facepalming due to the irony of Trump (the candidate who actually openly attempted to tamper with the election and improperly pressured state election officials in an attempt to change the result,) being seen by so many of his cultists as the one fighting election fraud...
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  38. He told him, he already had the full security he was getting under the budget and rules of the Secret Service.
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  39. Bah. The incompetent five SCOTUS "justices" accidentally made it legal for states to secede with their idiotic Dobbs ruling. Pro-choice states can simply leave the union to it's inevitable demise as a failed theocracy if they want. Considering that pro-choice states account for the vast majority of federal tax revenue, what's left after they leave will have a very difficult time affording all of the forced children overflowing from their trailer parks...
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  40. I wish the news would quit portraying this as a decision concerning the use of the death penalty. The actual case they're looking at involves whether or not the original trial was fair based on decisions made by the judge presiding over it. Sadly, it wasn't. It was a slam dunk case but for some reason the judge still felt the need to make some very poor decisions which violated the bomber's right to a fair trial in pretty blatant fashion. If SCOTUS makes their decision based on the law instead of emotion, they'll pretty much have to uphold the overturned sentence. That doesn't mean the killer won't get the death penalty. It simply means they'll have to redo the sentencing phase with a fresh jury (and hopefully a wiser judge.) Regardless of whether or not one believes the death penalty is warranted, the right to a fair trial must always be respected to maintain the legitimacy of our criminal justice system.
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  41. Bah, the Republicans chose Jordan and Banks for their troll value not their merit. If they'd rather play games than take committee apointments seriously, they don't deserve to be taken seriously themselves.
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  42. Making any promises he can come up with that sound good because he doesn't have to worry about keeping them for re-election. Desperation at it's finest. Edit; And now we know why he's refused anymore debates. That way he never has to explain how he'll make up the lost tax revenue etc. on any new enticements he makes. He could have announced this at any time. The time he chose speaks volumes.
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  43. Good luck convincing real Republicans to vote for a Trumpublican.
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  44.  @somelikeithot38  What's plain to see is that "no shirt, no shoes, no service" is a health/safety measure and does not discriminate against any "protected" demographic.
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  45. They reported a story and gave thorough evidence to back it up. Any morality involved with said story, the individual reading it brings with them.
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  46. Why do we need a spoiled little manchild who considers childishly grandstanding for votes to be more important than the health of his colleagues?
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  47. Walk outs have been part of state politics since the country has existed. Abraham Lincoln even participated in one as a state legislator. They serve a function similar to a filibuster.
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  48. Of course they slammed them. It's an election year... moving on.
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  49. They're holding him accountable for his behavior, and for once in his life, he can't simply throw money at his problems and make them go away. It had to happen eventually.
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  50. He'll drop any pretense of legal action as soon as the election is over. CNN's evidence was overwhelming and experienced campaign staff don't quit over scandals unless they know there's truth to them.
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