Comments by "sharper68" (@sharper68) on "The Hill" channel.

  1. Not sure they can pull it off. The RNC could not stop Trump because they had no one with giant head start and the DNC has the exact same problem this time. They have nothing to stop him.
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  2.  @1handedtyper  Ya but no they can not. Technically they can but as the GOP proved they could not stop Trump either. They did cheat least election against Bernie but it was all on the margins cheating. None of that will work this time. Anything more overt than that will destroy the party and their candidate even worse than hillary was wrecked. The GOP sighed and gave in letting trump win and the dnc will have not have any more options than establishment republicans did in the end. By your standard it could be said that the entire election is irrelevant as they can just hand the presidency to who they want to anyway. Bush lost and Trump lost the popular vote but both still "won" so it is safe to say the presidential election is fixed and picked in smoky rooms. Personally I don't believe that but you must if you are consistent.
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  3. Ben is a paid liar.
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  4. A future president perhaps?
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  5. We already have literally the least number of holidays.
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  6. I am not fan of Biden, but if you still buy trumps lies at this point you might want to get a walking helmet. You probably can not afford another brain injury.
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  7.  Joey Duggar  No, he could be impeached to half a dozen things if the democrats were not spineless losers. But in the case he is involved in right now asking Ukraine for information on his political rivals and holding back aid passed by congress is clear violation of law. That you do not care or understand what the law is does not change it. But he really should be impeached on the emoluments clause, he accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars at his hotels and handed Saudi's weapon sales for billions while ignoring they are publicly murdering journalists. He is directly complicit in their genocide in Yemen and this is not only a clear violation of law but is also egregious dealings with a despicable and American ally. You do not know what you are talking about and pretending your orange blowhard is anything but a political hack is mindless. That you like what he says does not make him a cent better than the people you hate. The establishment democrats are the Washington generals to the Gop's Harlem globe trotters of corruption, paid to lose. They are all corrupt but pretending the king of the swamp is any kind of un-corrupted saint marks you as a moron or blind. There are 3 or 4 people in government who are not owned by outside interests, none of them are in the GOP.
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  8.  @pseudonymy  Ya it is, when you focus all your inquires on your political rivals buddy. When you hold off aid passed by congress to further personal goals that is a direct violation of law. He has no mandate to investigate a single case against a single rival. Quit pretending he does. In a country that is legendarily corrupt it is telling where he starts concerned trolling about corruption as he fills cabinet posts with oppo lobbyist's and and has expanded the swamp to new giant reaches. He he bigger problems at home with corruption and pretending this was out of concern is silly.
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  9. We are trying but the foxes run the hen house for the moment til we tear it from their overtly corrupt hands.
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  10.  @DemocracyorDie  As a monolithic institution with control over one of the two parties we can not afford to leave it intact or in place as it is. If we do not then we can expect the donors to continue to control the process. It needs to be taken over, re-tooled and re-branded as a party funded by the people. When Bernie wins he gets picks the leadership of the group. From there we get the destruction you seek with a rebirth as something new.
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  11. Blame Biden for spitting on his base and what 70% of the country wants in M4A. The problem Biden has is not everyone wants to vote for a republican.
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  12. Ya, unless you are willing to elucidate why your disagreement is a waste of time.
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  13.  @barbarajohnson1442  TBH I do not think there is any consideration for the workers. I have not seen them be concerned about normal people before when setting economic policy. More likely it is the hundreds of billions the insurance companies make that hold us back. I think it is just a matter of time before it will be done, it saves to much money and too many lives to be ignored forever.
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  14. and they do like a presidency that calls them rapists?
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  15.  @julianp4214  If you say so, do you think Trump's deportation policy is better? Obama sucked but Trump ran on demonizing the entire community then continued Obama's policy on steroids. Trump is in no way better on this issue.
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  16. No one should trust the FDA under trump. He has shown a clear lack of concern for american lives and it is safe to say nothing he says should ever be trusted at face value. I am not remotely anti vax, but mistrusting this government or it's affiliates is a very logical and justifiable position. Saggar, If there is a 'war' on science it is being waged by the right and the religious psyco's that trust fact free partisan preachers and their gut more than actual research.
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  17. Incompetence or conspiracy or both. Glad he is gone.
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  18. I pick Biden as the one I want to oppose. Half his base agrees with me and that is a good place to start.
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  19.  @thesoughter  Your focus on the left is very very telling. Your overtly partisan spin is noted and is being directly reflected back. Your own medicine always tastes bitter.
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  20.  @thesoughter  Your use of "leftist" is the root of my point. It is your framing not who you support that draws the logical inference. Being against censorship is laudable, appearing one sided in your application of the concern is not.
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  21.  @thesoughter  Censorship will exist in one form or another. Free speech has distinct limits. You can not yell fire in a crowded theater, you can not issue direct threats. So the concern about censorship is just a matter of where we draw the line. Censorship has historically been deeply problematic because we all do not agree with or trust the censors and their values. We all need to come to agreement on some basic things. Just like you can not directly threaten someone with your "free speech", we should also look at restricting speech of those who incite violence especially through the use of overt lies. Currently all these forums are business's who have a right to control what is on their platform. I would prefer we change them to be public services that have a responsibility to platform everyone according to the first amendment with a very clear TOS that is evenly applied as by law. Either way the TOS of both will not allow anyone to ferment public violence or hatred through overt lies. Yelling fire in a theater should be a crime and so should what Trump has done. At the very least he deserves de-platforming even on an actual public service. Inciting a riot through misdirection should be considered bad. Know the decisions made by these corporations are financial and legal not political. These platforms are not "leftist", they are corporatist. This should not be a left/right issue and in this case trump being de-platformed is not.
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  22. @Edit D In my defense when you make nonsense arguments that do not apply to me you seem like a trump supoorter. Not believing in math or numbers makes you seem even more like one. It is practically a defining trait. Just a fyi.
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  23. @Edit D But I am right and your talking points are not connected to realty. These numbers in Georgia are bad for Trump even if they are not set in stone.
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  24. @Edit D You posted on my thread, go away or at least don't whine when I respond to replies made directly to me The numbers are what they are, am just saying they are not great for the orange man baby. I never said I belive everything I read. I said this poll does not bode well for trump. There is no faking support for dems in Georgia, in a short time we will see for ourselves. I see zero upside in anyone lying about it.
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  25.  @moxavenger The polls were essentially correct in 2016. Hillary won the popular vote within the margin of error of the polls. No matter how you slice it these numbers are not good for Trump. They may not be definitive but that are a dark indicator for him.
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  26.  @moxavenger  if you say so. If he was a dem president the entire gop base would blame him as they would be told to. Everyone but his base feels the same way about trump. The economy is in the tolilet, our pandemic response has been garbage. Like it or not the encumbent owns that handicap. It is just a matter of who is weaker now. It is going to be close. Remember he lost the popular vote to an unpopular cancer like Clinton running a good campaign against the establishment. This time he owns that failure and is running a silly campaign pretending Biden is pro antifa. Bad news for captain bone spurs fans.
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  27.  @mr.thomas8091  Neither should Trump the half wit c student.
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  28. There is no such thing as a GOP member who is economically populist. They sometimes talk the game but are as so corrupt they vote establishment down the line.
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  29.  @holyromanracist5759  Dude there is a shuffle every election and they re-staff many positions after. If what you were saying was true incumbent presidents would have a harder time finding staff than challengers as no one on their team could expect continued employment. That is not the case.
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  30.  @holyromanracist5759  Being told how these things work as you ignore how they work is funny. Ok all of trumps staff expects to be unemployed in two weeks. Might explain why he is getting his ass kicked.
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  31.  @dinopanteloukas6868  Am not rank and file anything. I am not going back to sleep and I am not going to let those around me do it either. We are building the movement and taking dem voters and changing the way we think is part of that process.
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  32. Hard to listen to trump babble about this, half his do nothing family work in his administration with no experience.
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  33. Think they might go so insane they try attempt to impeachment them over a blow job? The GOP opened this door a long time ago, thier impeachment was total nonsense. Hard to imagine a worse one.
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  34.  @rworded  Solidarity!
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  35.  @davidk2187  What they say means less and less, they look crooked or incompetent and who they dislike automatically looks better.
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  36.  @StrategicWealthLLC  Your argument is a sound in context and I once made it myself before reconsidering diametrical support for it later on. The element that broke it for me was an evaluation of the methods that had been traditionally used to select for those jobs in the past. Historically hiring practices were just as biased as affirmative action with out any rules around them and they propped up specific communities anyway in much the same way. We never were a meritocracy and so the criteria used to evaluate candidates especially for public jobs need more clarity. We never were hiring the best and brightest but predominantly people of a specific gender and race for key rolls. This was true before there were rules promoting minorities hiring to break historic inequities even in place. These kinds of policies are much more important in public service jobs that should reflect the community they serve. We should not go back to the default of ignoring minorities for these rolls and it is arguable it is not the problem it once was so these rules are not as necessary today. Evaluating the criteria used to hire people helps take out the innate bias that was in the system and this policy moved us toward the actual equality we both support but was not reflected in our society before these kinds polices where enacted and opened the workplace to millions of people who would not have been considered before.
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  37.  B. Greene  Not going to happen this cycle, the effort is a worthwhile one in the long term and I will be with you when we can make a real difference. Good luck.
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  38.  @BusterABrown  more likely a facist one given who is in charge and who is running.
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  39. Or to tear the party from their weak and ineffective hands. I see no reason to leave them at our backs with knives.
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  40.  @chieflouie2821  They were calling for the murder of officials, celebrities and literal insurrection on it. They broke their TOS with the service provider and that has consequences. This is not "speech" that should be protected or supported, investigated and charged perhaps but not supported. Kicking them off the service is the least that should be done, the conversations detailing any crimes or planned crimes need to be fully investigated.
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  41. Nonsense, but the days of letting them fail without comment are over. Calling out why we are losing is what people who care about winning do.
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  42. We expect this from them, they are crooked and in the tank for anyone but Bernie. That is why Sanders is going to win. Their support is a kiss of death.
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  43. Silly, you are defending a cancer in our society that lionizes traitors as heroes. Own that.
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  44.  Jiminy Cricket  Fine, I would not expect much from this admin in the way of taking care of people on this front. This was always going to be the worst part of a Biden admin.
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  45. Do you honestly find it amazing he wanted that guy dead?
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  46.  @anthonytwohill9726  There may be some real truth to your observations.
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  47.  @anthonytwohill9726  Not yet anyway, do not let it dissuade you if you do. These ideas ring as intuitively true which is good place to start any conversation.
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  48. Wishes and prayers.
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  49. To who. This is funny and Rudy has it coming. I love to see assholes punked.
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  50.  @intense5335  You have to have a valid legal basis to give them an option to hand the man baby the election. He does not have one. Not one law suit has made it past square one there is no pretense to hand trump a single contested state let alone the 3 or 4 he needs, You are buying naked fiction. You need proof of the asserted fraud they litterally can not show in court. The fact he has not means it does not exist. There is but one case for one state that will change nothing even if the Supreme court rules the already sequestered and un-added votes in question invalid.
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