Comments by "TaichiStraightlife" (@TaichiStraightlife) on "CNN"
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Tee Jack- I liked Obama a lot, but I don't see him as one of the best presidents... one of the better presidents, yes, but he was unable to deal successfully with Congress when the Republicans were in charge, and he didn't fight for Garland on the SCOTUS, are two of the things that jump out to me. But in terms of tone and tenor, Obamacare, Bin Laden and a reset with a lot of the world (sans Russia), yes: he was a fine, and historic, president.
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This is a very, very interesting discussion, full of high drama, & both sides seem to have some right on their side. Surprisingly for me, I tended to agree with Sen. Paul, especially after he gave his second speech, where he gives an example of how this law may actually do unintended harm, but then again Senator Booker's thought, that Senator Paul's amendment would mean the proposed law would then have to go back to a House committee or even the full House for another vote (since the law had been changed in the interim by Paul's amendment) and that this amounted to an unnecessary or even fatal delaying tactic, is also worth considering.
Not being a member of either legislative body, I can't judge how much of a substantive problem that only appears to be, or could actually become.
Still, it does show you how a 30 second sound bite on TV could not convey the context, emotions or legal reality of such a law being passed... or, in this case, not being passed, especially during such fraught times as we're going through right now.
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@MadPrinceSheo - At last, a comment that makes sense, that actually addresses the issue Senator Paul was raising, where I was surprised to find myself actually in agreement with him... EXCEPT for Senator second comment: that Senator Paul's amendment would mean the proposed law would then have to go back to a House committee or even the full House for another vote (since the law had been changed in the interim by Paul's amendment) and that this amounted to an unnecessary or even fatal delaying tactic (say, if the House then buries it in committee, or some such), is also worth considering.
Not being a member of either legislative body, I can't judge how much of a substantive problem that only APPEARS to be, or actually IS.
Still, it does show you how a 30 second sound bite on TV could not convey the context, emotions or legal reality of such a law being passed... or, in this case, not being passed, especially during such fraught times as we're going through right now.
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@23_Knows_ALL - I hate how he weakened this country and its institutions; I hate how he attacked our allies, damaged our friends (Kurdish allies), helped dictators, racists, terrorists, denigrated my fellow citizens, told tens of thousands of lies, hired criminals and other morally lax and downright sleazy characters for his cabinet... I really don't have the time still remaining in my life to catalog all the objectionable activities he took part in, but I'll just close with this last one: while leading the country that spends the most of any country in the world on health, he- and we- had the worst record on covid deaths of any country on Earth, because he indulged in endless lying and denial, his usual M.O., about every aspect of this disease that caused thousands of additional victims who died, and didn't have to.
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@the_jackal622 - Don't be a jackal, attacking the human race with unsubstantiated lies that more properly belong in a fever dream.
Here's a quote about another pandemic, for a true comparison "...Another difference is that today's vaccine roll-out is coordinated and required manufacturers to prove safety and efficacy, but in 1918, it was a free-for-all: A wave of independently developed vaccines were distributed throughout the country by doctors and researchers who were confident they'd found the answer.
One problem: The vaccines developed at the time were ineffective, largely due to the fact that the flu was mistakenly believed to be bacterial in nature."
Here's another quote, about flu vaccines, that take a few months to be developed: "Today, seasonal flu vaccines are designed by the WHO using data gathered from influenza surveillance centers to develop a new vaccination based off the three strains most likely to circulate in the upcoming season."
Also; you neglect to mention (or perhaps even realize) that data collection and the resultant study based on that post-released data, continue long after approval... ie; it's still going on. You obviously have no idea how happy I am to have been vaccinated, but I assure you it's a BIG LOAD off of my mind during these dark and fraught times we try to live through these days. GET VACCINATED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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@Sol-y-Mar-57 - Not ever seeing the inside of a jail cell, huh? Okay, so here's the plan: we pool our money, rent a limo & driver for a night, go to trump tower, and announce to the recently defeated would-be dictator, (he's depressed, down in the mouth), our driver tells him he's been comped to a fabulous meal at the world's best restaurant, the queen will be there, the pope, whatever, and he'll be awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize, or something else he's always hungered for, he won't be able to resist, right into the limo and directly (do not pass go, do not collect $200) to the closest jail, Riker's Island, say (NYC). He's never heard from again, if that's even possible. It's a thought.
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@mrbadnewzva1 - Obama could've gone to the Supreme Court over Moscow Mitch not holding hearings over Garland, as the Constitution demands; and he could've gone to the bully pulpit, the court of public opinion. But he did... NOTHING. He basically looked like a child whose toy had been snatched away by a bully: he looked hurt and cowed. And it wasn't a good look. Another thing; going to the Senate for back-up and asking for approval of HIS red-line on Syria was a big mistake too... and saying Putin would soon learn... whatever Obama thought Putin was supposed to learn, I guess.
But instead, Putin won. He is still in Syria, in control of part of the Middle East, and Obama is writing his memoirs or whatever. There's more, too, but it's all too depressing... but okay; here's one more: when Obama told Putin to "quit it" over the Clinton cyber hacks and the Facebook stuff... boy, Putin must've been quaking in his BOOTS! And did he "quit it"? Well, trump is president, so you tell me?
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RAP no, that's YOUR worry because you're completely brainwashed on a daily basis by your little MAGAt marching orders, the WH talking points of the day, & all because you refuse to believe the stories of corruption that EVERY DAY scream from the headlines because, like a a blind slug, you don't read,: someone said to you: DON'T BELIEVE WHAT YOU SEE IN THE PAPERS, BELIEVE ME & of course you do, because trump is a thief and a pathological liar who's got 6 bankruptcies to his name plus innumerable judgments against him in courts of law that, added up, amounts to: trump, give the money back to the people you swiped it from.
THAT'S who you've chosen to believe as you endlessly repeat your talking points. Does it ever occur to you that he's appointed DOZENS of corrupt officials who end up sliding off the public stage in disgrace like that Interior Secretary who insisted that a flag be raised every time he came to work and then had to leave office just when the investigators were getting too close... or the other side of the coin: they wise up, to a degree, like that Secretary of State who called trump F***K*NG IDIOT! And he wasn't the only one, not by a long shot.
Frankly I'm saddened by this whole ugly state of things because if trump's the king of the morons, who does that make you? You don't really need me to spell it out for you, do you?
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RAP - I know; your brain can't contend with more than one fact at a time: 1. trump still in office 2. ergo, trump okay. Well, no. Let's try to stretch your intellectual capacity a few millimetres, as in: 1. trump still in office, EVEN THOUGH THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IMPEACHED HIM... 2....because the Senate took the Bill of Impeachment from the House and did nothing with it: refused to listen to witnesses; party line vote; trump skips free, as he's always done, because the process was corrupted: THEY VOTED NOT TO HEAR ANY WITNESSES. Please try to let that sink in; ponder what it means about the legislative process (where Moscow Mitch, the leader of the Senate, refuses, simply refuses, to schedule any debates or votes in the Senate on ANY bills coming from the House) and the process of justice (no witnesses: hear no evil). THAT'S what doesn't pass the smell test.
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@nitfitnit You mean crazy Kemp of Georgia? He's always been quite the jerk; back when he was Secretary of State in Georgia:
"In October 2015, the Georgia Secretary of State's office, under Kemp's leadership, erroneously distributed personal data (including Social Security numbers and dates of birth) of 6.2 million registered Georgia voters. This data breach occurred when the office sent out a CD with this information to 12 organizations that purchase monthly voter lists from the office. The office was not aware of the breach until the following month and did not publicly acknowledge the mishap until the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported the class action lawsuit against the office as a result of the data breach.[23] Within a month of the breach becoming publicly known, it had cost taxpayers $1.2 million in credit monitoring services for those whose data had been compromised, and $395,000 for an audit into Kemp's handling of the unauthorized data disclosure.[24]
Kemp drew criticism again in 2017 when it was revealed that a flaw in the State voting system exposed the personal information of all of Georgia's 6.7 million voters, as well as passwords used by county election officials to access voter files, and went unfixed for 6 months after it was reported.[25][26] After a lawsuit was filed, a server at the center of the controversy was wiped, preventing officials from determining the scope of the breach.[27] Kemp denied responsibility, instead saying researchers at Kennesaw State University, who managed the system, had acted "in accordance with standard IT procedures" in deleting the data.[28] " ...from Wikipedia
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@California Prince Wow, you represent the Royal House of California!! Well, Prince, I think trump is for Americans who aren't Black, Latino, Muslim, Jewish, Women, Native Americans, Asian Americans, Gay Americans, Trans Americans, Americans with any pre-existing conditions, Americans of foreign origin, Urban Americans, Journalists or... anybody, really, that doesn't wear a red beanie and have their heads stuck way up where the moon don't shine. On the other hand, I think Biden is for all people who have an ounce of empathy.
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Spare a moment & a few tears in sympathy for the American taxpayer who paid a trillion bucks of their hard-earned money & watched it spent on the salaries of 80,000 Afghan-Potemkin troops, created from thin air to suck more paychecks paid for by Uncle Sugar, which money then sank without trace in the dark pit of warlord pockets... & in addition, taxpayers could also watch as $billion$ in US foreign aid went to Pakistan, only to find later that the Pakistanis took large swaths of that money, sending it on to their ISI (the Inter-Services Intelligence is the premier intelligence agency of Pakistan) which then spent it on arms and ammo for their proxies, the Taliban, who then used it to kill our soldiers.
So we paid for the damn weapons & ammo that killed US & NATO soldiers.
What happened in Afghanistan? It's simple, sadly; there's no there there, & never was. The illusion was that Afghanistan is "transitioning to a democracy"; the reality is we were propping up an illusion & all evidence to the contrary ignored as inconvenient.
Endless corruption (Hamid Karzai w/his tailored robes, his disdain for us & his brother the bag man, etc.), the "green-on-blue" murders of US forces by their Afghani "allies" was tut-tutted with a shrug, at best.
To the Pashtun, for the most part (who constitute the majority of our "allies"), we are unclean swine-eating infidels, pure and simple. I really, really feel bad for the women of Afghanistan, but wishing things were different just don't make them so. I remember the troops of South Vietnam shucking their uniforms in the field, then disappearing into the night; now it's here we are again.
I can't argue w/Pres. Biden; tho I hate that we're leaving NOW, w/the women so defenseless & all but no; Biden is strong enough to take away the pipe, crutch or whatever metaphor you want; this was bound to end in tears sooner or later & if later there'd be an even higher price paid in American lives & treasure. Another thing;
Pakistan, allied w/the Taliban, made our hopes for an Afghani future impossible (if they ever WERE possible). Imran Khan, leader of Pakistan, recently said we screwed up there, but if he wants to blame someone, he should look into a damn mirror. Talk about a failed state; I bet the Madrassa boys come to take Pakistan next.
The real and horrible truth is that Pakistan and Karzai (former President of Afghanistan) INVENTED AND SUBSIDIZED the Taliban... think about that for a moment.
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@twistedcherrypop Spare a moment & a few tears in sympathy for the American taxpayer who paid a trillion bucks of their hard-earned money & watched it spent on the salaries of 80,000 Afghan-Potemkin troops, created from thin air to suck more paychecks paid for by Uncle Sugar, which money then sank without trace in the dark pit of warlord pockets... & in addition, taxpayers could also watch as $billion$ in US foreign aid went to Pakistan, only to find later that the Pakistanis took large swaths of that money, sending it on to their ISI (the Inter-Services Intelligence is the premier intelligence agency of Pakistan) which then spent it on arms and ammo for their proxies, the Taliban, who then used it to kill our soldiers.
So we paid for the damn weapons & ammo that killed US & NATO soldiers.
What happened in Afghanistan? It's simple, sadly; there's no there there, & never was. The illusion was that Afghanistan is "transitioning to a democracy"; the reality is we were propping up an illusion & all evidence to the contrary ignored as inconvenient.
Endless corruption (Hamid Karzai w/his tailored robes, his disdain for us & his brother the bag man, etc.), the "green-on-blue" murders of US forces by their Afghani "allies" was tut-tutted with a shrug, at best.
To the Pashtun, for the most part (who constitute the majority of our "allies"), we are unclean swine-eating infidels, pure and simple. I really, really feel bad for the women of Afghanistan, but wishing things were different just don't make them so. I remember the troops of South Vietnam shucking their uniforms in the field, then disappearing into the night; now it's here we are again.
I can't argue w/Pres. Biden; tho I hate that we're leaving NOW, w/the women so defenseless & all but no; Biden is strong enough to take away the pipe, crutch or whatever metaphor you want; this was bound to end in tears sooner or later & if later there'd be an even higher price paid in American lives & treasure.
Another thing; Pakistan, allied w/the Taliban, made our hopes for an Afghani future impossible (if they ever WERE possible). Imran Khan, leader of Pakistan, recently said we screwed up there, but if he wants to blame someone, he should look into a damn mirror. Talk about a failed state; I bet the Madrassa boys come to take Pakistan next.
The real and horrible truth is that Pakistan and Karzai (former President of Afghanistan) INVENTED AND SUBSIDIZED the Taliban... think about that for a moment.
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@23_Knows_ALL - I know, I know, you're a thoughtless person. You asked me a question about how I suffered from trump's narcissistic management of our beloved country, how he ran it into the ground, but that wasn't the answer you sought because, I guess, you don't know the meaning of the word "suffer". So I looked it up for your benefit, though I feel quite sure that you're incapable of fully grasping the word in its larger sense: SUFFER: "to undergo, be subjected to, or endure (pain, distress, injury, loss, or anything unpleasant): to suffer the pangs of conscience. to undergo or experience (any action, process, or condition): to suffer change. to tolerate or allow: I DO NOT SUFFER FOOLS GLADLY." I merely ask you to focus on that last included all-caps sentence ESPECIALLY as I take my leave from you for the very last time.
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Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) (11 people live in Wyoming, 7 voted for him): "Since I don't want to answer YOUR question Erin, I'll answer a question that nobody would've asked, which is really a time-consuming rant against Nancy and that evil party whose name must not be mentioned... ...and I'll also just add that in the 29 times a SC vacancy has occurred, when the Party of the first part, which is us, is held on a Tuesday and it's a full moon, we win and if there's no moon, we also win, because we have flashlights that enable us to see the truth & they have no radioactive glasses & besides, Nancy simply can't win, there's a rule they're still writing to that effect somewhere behind closed doors in the Rules Committee... anyway, that's what the boss told me to say."
Erin Burnett: "Thank you for your time, Senator."
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The lasting stain of electing the stupidest and most venal man ever to be POTUS will be indelible for as long as his supporters remain alive; because, for example, what's Teapot Dome next to a pandemic wherein our losses are the worst in the world, though our health expenditures are the highest, and where his oft-repeated advice has more to do with magic than medicine?
A man thoroughly devoid of facts or the ability or even the desire to absorb them, and who lacks the ability to think clearly and even form coherent thoughts for public consumption without veering sharply off into a thicket of word salad nonsense??
Covfefe?
Next to the mushrooming horror of our friends & relatives dying in the hundreds of thousands without so much as an empathetic word from POTUS, this highly embarrassing story that would've sunk any other POTUS will be seen as just a blip, like the hundreds of other stories that will depress future historians, for as long as there are historians.
We will be known and remembered as a generation of morons, and trump* will be known as the Pied Piper of Morons.
So yet again I lower my head in shame, this time over the bounty paid for our soldiers deaths, bought and paid for by this awful man's best international friend.
This shame has lasted almost four years now: that our electorate, our neighbors, have brought this doom down upon our country, & themselves & yet they STILL do not see him for what he is.
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