Comments by "possumverde" (@possumverde) on "WPLG Local 10" channel.

  1. But no criticism for the Republican led House of Representatives who refuse to come back from vacation for an emergency session to pass funding for more aid...
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  2. Keep him clear of the holy water. Wouldn't want our President going up in flames.
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  3. But Elon Musk isn't the head of DOGE according to the administration... Why wasn't it that lady they claim is in charge of DOGE the one to go?
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  4. The skyrocketing food and construction costs, loss of consumer base, cost of deportation, and keeping them out, will cost far more than letting them stay. Which is why Trump/Vance never discuss those sides of the issue when pushing it.
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  5. Until he learns to control that temper, he'll always be a proud "boy."
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  6.  @georgecampbell7218  The economy is improving, inflation is dropping, and we are recovering quicker than most other countries in the world. The last thing we need is the chaotic madness that comes with Trump to screw up the steady recovery. He completely stifled the economic upswing Obama left him the first time around. He'll do so again and this time it will really hurt.
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  7. I love how President Trump completely overlooks the question of whether or not the Palestinians are interested in actually leaving... since his Fox interview where he stated that those who leave will not be allowed back, it's unlikely that many will without weapons at their backs.
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  8.  @gloryb1001  Study your history. Large deportations in the past here have wrecked the economy. It's a bad "quick fix" campaign idea that always backfires.
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  9. Behold...Florida woman...
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  10. and conveniently said nothing about the Republican led House of Representatives who refuse to return from vacation to hold an emergency session to pass more funding.
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  11. That comment won't age well...
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  12. Don't hold your breath.
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  13. Just ban military flights from the airspace already.
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  14. DeSantis has stick his nose in everything, doesn't he. Someone please tell him that Governor of Florida is as far as he's ever going to go politically. He's made a fool of himself too many times and doesn't have the charisma to get people to forget it like a certain person does.
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  15. It's what happens when you let 20 kids with an AI program and no auditing experience decide what gets cut.
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  16.  @ohnonoway  True. He only blames what he or his buddies don't control, and he does currently control the House. One word from him and they'd be on it. Probably hopes he'll win and ride in on a white horse by ordering them to do it once he's declared winner...all the while between the people suffer.
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  17. Might have been some sort of underground collapse. I wouldn't be surprised if some sinkholes start forming in the area.
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  18. Then start a program to legalize them if they have clean records and are employees or are willing to work to stay here. Deportation will wreck the economy. It always has when large numbers have been deported in the past.
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  19. Next will come the shock when he fails to deliver entirely and things just get worse. Live and learn.
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  20. Accidental firings, left their official government website open to hackers, and still not a single DOGE employ fired... Accountability at it's finest.
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  21. Elon Musk is a foreign good... can we free ourselves from him too?
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  22. He says a lot of things. Like yesterday he said he didn't support the six week limit as it was too short. Now he says he's voting for it. What one does is what matters. If he'll waffle on that because his polls took a hit after what he said, then can he be trusted to keep his word elsewhere?
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  23. What little benefit might come from the piddly cuts for the lower and mid brackets are greatly outweighed by the loss of programs and significant increase to the deficit (which we will eventually have to pay for with interest). It's a poorly designed bill all around.
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  24.  @tedfio1tedfio1  The economic numbers don't lie. Trump does.
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  25. We are 4% of the population and the world is tired of our 💩
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  26.  @ladyaly864  No one has found a cure for ebola...just some treatments that improve the survival rate.
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  27. Nothing done in haste ends well.
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  28. Do you like to be able to afford to eat? If so, sorry. Under your suggestion you'll starve.
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  29. 1984
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  30. Get back to us in two or three years when the economy is in utter chaos and things are worse than they are now.
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  31. If you limit nationwide injunctions, then you end up with federal laws and executive orders that can be legal in some districts and unconstitutional in others... What's the point of even having a federal court system, then? Federal law applies across the land. Federal court injunctions then logically should as well.
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  32.  @twaynewade2544  They've warned him many times not to play there on short notice due to it's poor built in security. He ignored them. The fault is his. They did their job well under the circumstances. It cost the taxpayer ~$500,000 per golf visit when he was President and they had multiple days to prepare. It would take a small army to secure such a place on short notice. If you want to pay for that then you can complain if they don't do a good job.
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  33.  @SherryHill-k5y  If it exists and he or his buddies don't control it, he blames it.
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  34. The two FBI agents that were shot, died. That's always going to bring out every available law enforcement officer in the area.
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  35. It should at least be 20 to 22 weeks. Prior to that the fetus is wholly dependent upon the mother's body and is at best is in a vegetative state.
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  36. The agent saw the barrel sticking out of the treeline. I doubt it was levitating on it's own.
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  37.  @recaseever539  Spout those cult mantras...
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  38. Wealthy taxpayers...
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  39.  @judiecaszey6524  I advise you to research what happened when Georgia passed a law many years ago that caused the vast majority of their illegal immigrant population to leave the state. An economic state of emergency, a quickly repealed law. and the voting out of the Representatives who pushed it. A law that the public was jubilant about getting passed...up until it went into effect. They didn't even have to pay to deport them or keep them out because they simply left on their own and it still caused a nightmare. Edit: Also, you're correct about not knowing how it will be done effectively because the Trump campaign has not elaborated on how they plan to do so. Because they don't know how. It's a nonsense promise made to play foolish people for votes.
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  40. Imagine voting "No" like Chip Roy because he doesn't think it cuts Medicaid and SNAP enough...
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  41. The 13th amendment's prohibition against "involuntary servitude" indirectly protects the mother's right to choose. Where does the constitution give unborn fetuses constitutional rights? Especially rights that override the mother's?
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  42. Doctors would disagree with you... Very few ministers have medical degrees.
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  43. The DOGE kiddies and their AI program are going to play around with their new toy (the US) until they break it, and daddy (Trump) is going to leave it to mommy (us) to buy them a new one.
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  44. No, they still would for legal reasons.
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  45. The problem is, the Florida constitution actually grants abortion rights.
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  46. Much smaller event for the size of the detail he's allotted as a former President. To expect them to protect him at large events is silly. He needs to quit relying entirely on the taxpayer dime and hire supplemental security for high risk conditions.
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  47. DOGE is 20 people with an average age of 22 (youngest 19), all with backgrounds in tech/AI (not a single auditor on staff) who have had less than a month to analyze anything. They're just using AI to make the cuts.
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  48.  @troberts7458  Texas...probably
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  49. Federal law is nationwide. Federal Court injunctions should logically be so as well.
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  50. Actually, some have. There are maybe 15 or so who have been around since Bill Clinton's time. His last four yearly budgets were balanced.
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  51. The agent saw his gun barrel sticking out of the treeline which would imply he intended to use it on something...
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  52. People use the 2nd Amendment to break the law every day. Let's get rid of it as well...
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  53. Technically we did during his first term. His tariff war then led to him setting the record for increasing the trade deficit in a four year period.
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  54. They were spread out over the nearby area. The agent that saw him wasn't with the President. That's why Trump heard shots but didn't know that they all came from an agent not the shooter. Also, they were using optics to watch the area around the former President. Best they can do on short notice at a low security club like that.
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  55. We've relied on illegal immigrants to keep food at least somewhat affordable for many, many decades...Have fun starving. Edit: rent will also go up, not down. Construction will slow to a crawl which will increase demand for housing and thus raise prices. Did you sleep through economics class?
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  56. ​ @117JamesRoss  Apples an oranges... The concept of "personhood" under the law is not necessarily the same as the concept of being biologically "alive."
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  57. I hope he thanked his Secret Service detail profusely. They saved him despite his ignoring their warnings not to play at such a low security course without giving them time to secure it.
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  58. Trump isn't trying to stop anything. He's just working out a deal with Putin to divide up Ukraine's assets between them.
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  59. Just remember come reelection time that Chip Roy voted "No" because the bill doesn't cut enough public programs. He want's more Medicaid and SNAP cuts so that the wealthy can have their tax breaks.
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  60.  @johnwick-ii6il  No, that nonsense is just bs making it's way around right-wing social media...and trying to bleed it's way onto other platforms. Edit: through paid posters like you.
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  61. @TeenisWrangler42069  Under Bush the lesser, 2M were deported and it saw an increase in food and construction prices along with noticeable economic slump. Same with Obama's 3M. Mark the economic effects up for the numbers Trump wants to deport and it will be devastating on top of a just now recovering economy with already high prices. The best example though, is what happened to Georgia years ago when they passed a law that led to ~90% of their illegal population leaving the state. An economic state of emergency ensued, they quickly repealed the law and eventually voted out many of the representatives who pushed it. Despite public opinion having been jubilant that it passed...up until it went into effect. And they didn't even have to pay for deportation etc. The immigrants just left. Towns went under, small businesses as well as agricultural processing plants etc. closed, many citizens lost their jobs, and they had to get prison labor to pick the fields (which was about as effective as you'd imagine forced unexperienced labor to be) because farmers couldn't find citizens willing to do the work. Ridiculous amounts of crops rotted in the fields. It was a nightmare. Now imagine that only at a national level. It's foolish. Especially since those wanting to do it have not even addressed how they plan to mitigate those drawbacks. Not that they can unless they spread deportation out over 12 years or more and dealt with the economic hit slowly and steadily. Even then, it would likely be a permanent hit to the economy.
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  62.  @Jilla0559  They can't be bothered to read or research anything. They must be spoon fed their info from Trump, Fox News, and social media bots and paid right wing influencers or ingest no knowledge at all.
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  63.  @Trollkungen1 Mostly in old weapons gathering dust in warehouses. I'm sure they could have been better used for flood victims...take your nonsense propaganda elsewhere.
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  64. As much as I hate to say it, I'm not a fan of opening fire in a residential neighborhood unless it's defense of your life. Still, if he wants to risk it, that's his right.
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  65. Yep, because women are too simple minded to be able to hear a narrative and still think for themselves... Gotta protect them from themselves.
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  66. @johncostello6006  If wages go up for those jobs, so will prices and inflation (assuming you can find people to even do those jobs), making the wage increases pointless and lessening the purchasing power of everyone. I like to eat and have a roof over my head. If you don't, that's all you. Have fun in one of Trump's proposed government run homeless camps. Also. Slaves are involuntary. Immigrants come here willingly. What we should do, if the majority of us had brains, is save the nightmare of mass deportation, and start a work for citizenship program for those already here. Eventually, immigrants would move up the ladder and expand the country and the economy with new waves coming in. The only way mass deportation makes any sense, considering the insane problems it will cause on both sides, is racism.
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  67.  @Tommy-bs1el  Begone paid PAC account
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  68.  @d_no_allyn_86  You're wrong. They aren't going to do anything of the sort. It's a nonsense campaign promise made for votes. They know mass deportations would be devastating for the economy. Everyone who knows economics and what happened in Georgia many years back knows it.
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  69. El Salvador relies on remittances from Salvadoran workers in the US for 24% of their GDP (over $8B/year). If Trump simply threatened to end all work visas for Salvadorans, Garcia would be on a plane in a day. Trump is wilfully defying SCOTUS by not even attempting to facilitate his return and should be impeached.
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  70. ​@eddiearmijo6635 A judge overturned that. They're free to go commit more crimes and get arrested to their hearts' content.
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  71. Mass deportations combined with counter tariffs on our agricultural exports and whatever craziness RFK Jr. cooks up, are going to devastate the agricultural industry nationwide. Not just Florida.
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  72. Or quit giving tax cuts that aren't affordable just to get votes...
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  73. But we need our wunderweapons for our future invasions of Greenland and Canada...
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  74. @tdestroyer4780  People who were too selfish and childish to exercise basic public health precautions during an infectious disease pandemic loss much more respect than doctors.
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  75. @shakesitoff1122  Grow up kid. No one likes a manchild
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  76. Maybe Musk shouldn't have fired all those immigration court judges... could have really helped speed up the process. Oops...
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  77. They were simply wrong and their decision will eventually be overturned by a future court. I guess women will just have to be broodmares until then in some states.
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  78.  @tykyfoster7028  If the silly liberals ever get off the "woman's right" argument and put some funding behind the handful of cases based on the 13th amendment argument, SCOTUS will have to overturn it. Such cases have yet to be defeated in the courts but have run out of funding to continue moving up the ladder because the left only wants a gender based argument not a general rights argument.
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  79. ​ @fratricidefrank It's part of the perpetual consumer debt model the American automotive industry adopted decades ago. Design and build to survive the first lease only in order to entice the purchase of new models on a regular basis with new leases.
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  80. The "scourge" has been here for many decades... housing and food prices are going to skyrocket.
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  81. Give them their due process if you're so sure you have a terrorist.
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  82.  @satmam848  The Wimp Lo school of logic at it's finest...
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  83. Not really. The Columbian President had already explained why he rejected the flights (They were military and he would not have citizens being returned handcuffed and shackled.) Trump just pitched a hissy fit because his useless advisors never told him that part. The Cilumbian Presidential plane was sent to receive the deportees with proper dignity and it was made clear that any future military flights with handcuffed and shackled Columbians would continue to be refused.
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  84. Hmm... a mediocre scammer vs some of the best legal minds in the country...
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  85. What's worse is their reasons... one faction wants it to take more away from the people, and one wants it to give more to the wealthy.
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  86. Anyone who likes to eat and have a roof over their head's fear is that he will...
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  87. Yep, he just put the finishing touches on making us an international pariah state...
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  88. He refused the flights because they were military flights and the people were handcuffed and shackled. Which was made clear before Trump pitched his hissy fit. A Columbian Presidential plane has been sent to retrieve them in a respectable manner and he made it clear that they will accept repatration flights as long as the people are treated with dignity.
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  89. This was not his first attempt. He's been stalking him for quite a while.
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  90. Tariffs will make the machines unaffordable. Trump hates farmers with a passion apparently. If RFK Jr. starts making radical regulations on top of everything else, the agricultural industry is doomed.
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  91.  @Shroomin69  Imagine that being the best argument someone has to make in favor of Trump.
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  92. Hold him in contempt and take the necessary steps to have him disbarred.
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  93. ​ @Craig-b8i Or Trump ate them all
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  94. Roy is blocking it because he wants more cuts to Medicaid and SNAP, etc. while another faction is blocking it because they want more tax breaks for the upper brackets... I doubt they're working with the Dems.
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  95. ​ @Revjim69 Tariffs are worse because the counter tariffs the countries put on us in return will just further increase the trade deficit on top of raising prices.
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  96. Just like he guided Joshua to rip the fetuses from their mothers' wombs and bash the infants brains out...in his mercy of course...
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  97. ​ @russellblair490 It was a Sunday and Trump usually plays golf there or at Mar-A-Lago at some point on Sundays when he thinks he can fit it in-between campaign stops. His predictability got him.
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  98. Foreign companies aren't paying taxes... tariffs are just additional taxes on domestic companies.
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  99. If he sticks to his promises, he'll destroy the economy and set the table for WWIII within the next decade. I'd much rather he renig and not make us all suffer. Though that would finally expose him to his base.
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  100. Express view, watch polls, alter view to match polls...
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  101. Trump is the master of 1/3 truths. The art of the con man.
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  102. More like if it's Trump then America is doomed. FEMA are doing their jobs. The Republican led House, however, refuses to come back from vacation for an emergency session to pass more funding for the real rebuilding effort. Notice he didn't mention that. Never puts any blame on himself of his own party for anything. Just like a child.
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  103. ​@tochimclaren Almost. Compared to the rest of the world, our economy is recovering quicker from the Covid collapse and natural disasters happen and take a while to deal with. The only thing not normal is the chaotic madness Trump has stirred up with his false doomsaying and ficticious blame games. Once he's finally shut down politically his followers will eventually realize they've been swimming in the shallow end all along and merely needed to put their feet on the bottom to avoid drowning...then we will have normalcy once more.
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  104. Presidents do not have the authority to increase the number of SCOTUS seats (which would be necessary before Biden could make any appointments.) The Constitution gives that power to Congress. With the Democrats no longer in control of the House of Representatives, any attempts at such an increase would have no chance of passing.
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  105. That was before Putin had access to Ukraine's resources that Trump wants. Now Putin is just... misunderstood.
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  106. No more Google Maps for me.
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  107.  @RogerWard-sw3pl  Work on your English bot.
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  108. Study the country's history. Large deportations in the past have always wrecked the economy and caused more harm than good. Bur, if you want to pay double what you're paying for food and ~40% for construction, by all means, kick them out. But don't say you weren't warned.
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  109. The worst thing any society can do is inject religious beliefs into their legal code. It's a form of tyranny.
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  110. Even if privacy wasn't already covered in Florida state law, abortion bans violate the 13th amendment's prohibition on "involuntary servitude." As soon as a challenge based on that reaches SCOTUS, they're going to have an exceptionally hard time finding a rebuttal to it and they'll end up having to overturn their overturn anyway.
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  111.  @IsaacAvila-n8n  If you've seen much of the good reporting on his background from his neighbors and his history, he was almost certainly bi-polar or borderline personality. They are not known for their meticulous nature and are usually extremely reckless. Also, it appears he was voluntarily homeless at the time (still owned a home but hadn't been home in a while...tried to sell it to neighbors saying he wanted to move to Hawaii but never found a buyer) so camping out would be rather normal for him. Staking out or otherwise. Just my opinion mixed with some facts.
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  112. They don't want to leave...
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  113.  @commonsenseisntcommon1776  As opposed to living in refugee camps permanently in a different land with no identity? I'd take the dump on principle. Imagine if someone blew the US to rubble and then wanted you to go to Mexico or wherever to live as a permanent exile in slums with no chance of ever rising above it or ever returning to your homeland.
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  114. It's funny how you believe any of it will go to our pockets. I'd rather it be spent defending a country we have an agreement to defend than just going into the pockets of the 1%.
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  115. It called spawncamping. Trump has been pretty predictable about playing there.
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  116. The western press should boycott Israel by refusing to release any Israeli press releases, etc. for 45 days. Edit: better yet, just do a full blackout of all Israel news for 45 days. Run only stories that involve no Israeli sources.
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  117.  @abpccpba  yep. He's still never going to be President no matter how hard he tries to be in the spotlightm
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  118. We can play nice with our neighbors so that simply wouldn't happen. If old Pooty doesn't want his neighbors joining NATO then he should quit giving them reason to consider doing so in the first place.
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