Comments by "Cinderball" (@cinderball1135) on "CNN" channel.

  1. "We've got the cleanest air you've ever seen," said Donald Trump, "But don't worry folks, I've got a plan to fix that."
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  2. "Did he fall into radioactive waste? Is he from an alien planet? Are his parents both superheroes? Was he irradiated by cosmic rays? Was he blessed by a God?" "No. He's from Ukraine." musical sting
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  3. "The RNC is raising double what the DNC is - what's driving this?" Correct answer: "Multimillionaire megadonations from oil tycoons and megacorporations, of course!"
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  4. Accepting a pardon is admission of a crime. Accepting this pardon would mean that the official was acknowledging that the President's order was unlawful. Somebody didn't think this plan all the way through. As usual.
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  5. Gotta admit, I was seriously hoping, based on this title, that the Congressman would've brought an actual live chicken into the floor.
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  6. I think Pete combines some very important qualities that voters are looking for in this election (I am going to watch the video and see if our illustrious host will agree with me) x- Is a newcomer to mainstream politics x- Doesn't have any big controversies to his name x- Friendly to progressives x- Neither too young nor too old to serve He also has some big extra bonus factors which may help him win swing voters once past the Primary stage: x- Is a veteran x- Would be the first LGBT president x- Has a memorable name and style x- Is a genuinely nice guy  Compare this to other major candidates. Elizabeth Warren has unfortunately become stained with scandal due to mishandling the Native American DNA business and Biden is struggling with his treatment of women - Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden are both rather long in the tooth, and voters may be worried about electing another elder-statesman to supreme office - Beto O'Rourke has burned his Progressive-friendly street cred with a pro-Conservative voting history. Now, don't get me wrong, if Pete loses and one of these other major candidates beats him, I think Democrats would be well-advised to vote for them anyway - unseating Trump HAS to be the name of the game if Americans are to have decent healthcare and an environment that's not simultaneously choked with pollution and trapped in a runaway greenhouse effect. But Pete seems to be the frontrunner because he's got the basics nailed down.
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  7. "Other sources" - I presume that's Fox News you're talking about.
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  8. Let's bear in mind that every time Barr says "no collusion" and "no obstruction", this is a man whose express legal theory is that the President, by definition, cannot obstruct justice. Trump could've been caught on camera, walking into Mueller's office and setting fire to the filing cabinets and that would've been okay, under Bill Barr's interpretation of the law. That Barr has said "the Mueller report doesn't prove obstruction" is really no surprise then, and tells us nothing about the content of the report - because it's what he was always bound to say.
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  9.  @michelleh.2896  At this stage, all Trumpists are doing amounts to playground bickering. "No u!!!!" It's obnoxious, because there are some of us trying to have serious, grown-up conversations, and yet these toddlers show up to the table, and apparently we also have to take them seriously, even when they're flinging snot at us and spilling their drinks. Yes. I am comparing Trumpists to toddlers and yes, their beloved Trump is a big man-baby.
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  10. You are an intelligent, articulate young person, and you give me hope that Russia can change. My one piece of advice for you is very simple: do what you must to stay alive, and keep the flame of hope burning. Reach out to people who are like-minded, create your own private spaces away from the watchful eye of the Kremlin. Watch out for each other and cover your tracks so that nobody investigating you will find anything solid. You need to stay alive. Don't be ashamed of the darkness; when you live under an oppressive regime, the shadows are your friends. Don't be ashamed not to take a public stand. Martyring yourself, especially at such a young age, might be noble but it won't change what Russia has become. What the world needs is more people like you, who are quietly gathering in the shadows, waiting for the right moment. It's better to survive to fight later than to die early and achieve nothing. You need to stay alive. When it comes to talking to the brainwashed and the ideological, start small. Don't confront them - don't say anything that could get you caught. Just ask innocent questions, to plant the seeds of doubt in their minds, to get them thinking. Don't tell them what to think, just let them start to doubt. Your work is to sow dissension and uncertainty among people who have never thought for themselves before. You don't need to teach them the truth - you just need them to doubt the lie. And above all, you need to stay alive.
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  11. Yes! Transparently guilty! :D
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  12. There is a way of getting rid of the Electoral College without actually, formally, abolishing it - an interstate compact for the National Popular Vote - a project which is already well under way. The terms of this agreement would legally bind large states (together, commanding a majority of electors) to always vote for the candidate who wins the popular vote. This means that you could still have the Electoral College (in theory) but this problem of it persistently choosing the runner-up to win the election would go away. To my friends in the US; look up how you can get involved in spreading the word about this project - the compact is very close to being completed, and only needs a few more states to sign on. You could make a real difference if you can persuade just one or two more politicians to give it a chance.
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  13. "I'm deeply offended that you didn't present my offensive and simplistic comment in the way that would've flattered me most, how dare you not give me a softball question?" Candace, friend, if you feel that the clip was taken out of context, it should be really easy for you to explain it in your own words. But then, my hopes aren't high: your best defence during this entire exchange was to try for a "No True Scotsman" argument. "No real nationalist kills his own people" my arse. For the record, many major nationalists on the world stage have wound up killing at least some of their own people, either as policy, or as part of their rise to power. General Franco was a Spanish nationalist but he killed plenty of his opposition in the Spanish Civil War. Mussolini killed his political opponents, and he was a fervent Italian nationalist.
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  14. Beep boop. Boop beep. Oh, don't mind me, I'm just telling the Kremlin bots to 'get lost' in their native language.
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  15. This woman has a thousand times the courage of the lily-livered Trump trolls that show up to vandalise every CNN comment section.
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  16. Ah yes, Rasmussen. The polling agency that always puts Republicans about 10% ahead of where everybody else puts them.
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  17. Any rational, sensible political movement: You're out of the party, you out-of-control raging psychopath. If you ever so much as talk to us again we will be taking out a restraining order. GOP: Promoted!!
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  18. Says so much about the times we live in that being gay overrides literally everything else there is to say about a person. You could be an astronaut who saves kittens' lives for no pay and all of that has its value reduced to 0 because somebody decides your sexuality is more important. I mean seriously, Conservatives, you want other people to stop making homosexuality such a big deal - we're looking right at you! We're willing to drop the subject and go back to letting everybody live their lives in peace and equality whenever you are - call us!
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  19. "They literally haven't got anything done since she's taken over" - well, Ms Sanders, as my Grandma always says, when you point one finger, you've got three fingers pointing back at you.
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  20. I bet all these Trumpbots aren't getting paid enough either.
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  21. Precisely how many sovereign countries has Biden invaded? A: none How many sovereign countries has Putin invaded? A: three.
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  22. And here comes the wave of Trump trolls, here to insert their politics into yet another international crisis that has nothing to do with them.
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  23. Not all nationalists are white, but the statistics would seem to suggest it's pretty damn close.
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  24. Name one point in this report which is false, with links to your evidence please.
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  25. Not all people - just the Russian military and the Kremlin.
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  26. Beep boop! [Greetings Trumpbots!] Bloop bleep! [Keep up the good work!] Blooooooop blip. [Remember to say "no collusion!"] Blip blop. [Okay, have fun!]
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  27. I imagine the Russian troll factories could lend Trump a tip or two on how to solve a turnover problem.
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  28. Unfortunately, I fear from the perspective of still-Trumpers, the people that said murderous dictators butcher are not white enough to count - (or in Russia's case, straight).
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  29. Barr says that's what Mueller found - but we have absolutely no reason to believe him at this stage. Whether you think Trump is innocent or not, it's not appropriate for the person in charge of an investigation to preemptively find the target innocent (as Barr has). Meanwhile, even now, we don't know what Mueller himself had to say. We only have Barr's word for it. @D S
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  30.  David Williams  Dear God. You're not well. Seek help. Please. What you're writing is borderline psychotic.
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  31.  @doctorthirteen5727  If David is for real, I think he's too psychotic to be reasoned with. Everybody he disagrees with for any reason is, in his mind, some kind of degenerate sex fiend. For example, Charles Manson was famously a heterosexual, and yet he's numbered among the "gay men" in David's list. For somebody who's so hetero-normative, Mr Williams does rather appear to have a strange and dark fascination with homosexuality.
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  32.  michaelthemovieman  Stop and reflect on this for me, if you would. You and I have never met, and you think it's okay to tell me that I should be physically shot in the head based on my disagreement with somebody on the internet. Imagine saying this in front of your teachers, your friends, your family. Imagine how they would react to hear you talking that way. Do you think they'd be impressed, or do you think they'd be concerned for your wellbeing? For your own sake, dial down the rhetoric. Death threats like this are not okay. And to the coward who upvoted him - consider the gravity of what he said, and what you just endorsed. There is a line, and you have also crossed it.
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  33. The number of black nationalist organisations is actually rather irrelevant - it's the combined size of their membership that would matter, and also their proclivity to violence. White nationalists, broadly speaking, are both more numerous and much more proactively violent (and well armed)... @Encore Baby
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  34. What?!! You want us to start compensating athletes? With MONEY???? You must be mad! Why, in my day, the only compensation a young student could ask for was some good old-fashioned brain damage! The entitlement of these young people. Next thing you know, we'll have to start paying our regular workers too! Balderdash, the lot of it!
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  35. You were the one to raise Russiagate, not me. And let's just recap real quick: the only "vindication" Trump has had is from a letter penned by Bill Barr, his Attorney General who attained the job by writing to the White House and explaining that he thought the Mueller Investigation was being improperly conducted. So here's a question for you? If Trump is so vindicated, why are the Republicans trying so hard to squash the release of the report, hm?  @yobased2872 
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  36. The woman shouting into people's letterboxes and smuggling high powered assault weapons into Congress is a heroine? You feeling okay there man?
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  37. What I keep failing to understand here in this whole conversation: shouldn't the decision on whether or not to impeach hinge on whether the President has broken the law, rather than on the basis of a political risk / reward calculation? The point of impeachment is to protect the United States from obvious political wrongdoing by somebody in high office - Democrats are stooping to the Republicans' level if they make their decision based on whether they think it'll look good for them in the polls, surely.
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  38. Would you like some cheese and wine to go with your word salad?
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  39. "Could not reach a conclusion on Obstruction" != "There was no obstruction". All this means is that Mueller could not construct a comprehensive legal case to prove what Trump may (or may not) have done. This is not cause for celebration. The President is still a tool, and there are still multiple ongoing investigations into other matters (such as his shady business dealings, possibly falsified tax returns, bank fraud, sexual misconduct etc.) which may yet see him have his day in court.
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  40. Yes, they would vote for the winning candidate,  @bovineone2420 , because unlike Republicans, Democrats actually care about the rules they sign onto, and the integrity of the process.
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  41.  @adamrest7428  You're asking him to go way beyond the scope of what is, ultimately, a YouTube comment... ... of course, I might also be inclined to take you more seriously if you hadn't tipped your hand by so easily dismissing the Russian interference in the 2016 American General Election. I think you revealed your agenda right there.
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  42.  @adamrest7428  I'm impressed by the volume of pro-Russia drivel in your comment. For somebody who isn't paid rubles to write it, you really have the knack.
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  43. Why is it that I see your account around political videos quite often, but apparently arguing both sides? Is somebody running a fake account in your name?
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  44. Ah yes, it's okay guys, we can stop counting the bodies now - some geezer on the internet quoted a guy wearing tux, so it's all good. Tell the dead people to quit pretending and get back to work!
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  45. A broken clock is right twice a day.  @davids11131113 
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  46. Hoo boy. Video's been up for about 15 minutes and there's almost as many comments as likes / dislikes. I guess something's riled up the Trumpbots. :P
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  47.  Akela DeWolf  You debunked what, exactly?
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  48.  @tammymathews3407  Yes. This is entirely for real.
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  49. Internet argument for dummies, homophobia edition: Step #1 - Call the other person gay, no matter the context. Step #2 - If it doesn't work, try again. I genuinely don't know who they think they're writing these comments for. They're not exactly going to change anybody's mind with 'em.   @yodarocks11 
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  50. Actually, the Conservatives are a long way from winning the majority of the votes in our country - much less the whole UK. Our First Past the Post system allows for some serious skew of the ratio of votes versus seats. Check out CGP Grey's video on the democratic deficit in recent UK elections for a very pithy breakdown of this problem. :)
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