Comments by "sharper68" (@sharper68) on "David Pakman Show" channel.

  1. Not conflicted at all.  If he can not do his job then that is on him.  He should expect no provision to support his bigotry in the public sphere.   If he can not do his job because of a conflict with his faith then he must make a choice between the two and whatever his call is he will have to live with.  
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  2. Totally is the governments place when they issue the business license.  They serve all the people and in guaranteeing equal access to service for the good of all. These people are free to be as hateful and ignorant as they choose in their daily life,  if they can not comply with the basic terms of their business license they should not be signing it. 
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  3. MidScream1 if he gets past the crooked dnc there is nothing trump has to stop him. He barely beat hillary and that you imagine he has a chance against the most popular politician in the country marks you as deluded.
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  4. That Bernie can call out thier corruption makes him fundamentally different from traditional establishment democrats
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  5.  @elliotlake1882  An ever growing base of people sick of the innate corruption drivng our system everyone hates.
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  6. It is not a smere on her. Pointing out the same faults you just did is what they are doing.
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  7. After not being there with them.
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  8. While crying they need to be respected ... I say no.
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  9. The Russian Troll Network They represented the most obstructionist congress and senate in history and voted for none his proposals up to and including an exclusively republican solution to health care that did not have any proposals their own base wanted. You are clearly out of touch with reality.
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  10. Government so small it climbs into and owns every woman's uterus.
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  11. Nonsense, no one cares about 20 year old blog posts that clearly do not represent what he stands for today. The "opposition" will just lie anyway and pandering to their stupid useless spin is counter productive. This was a self inflicted wound by JD and anyone who says they think it was a good idea was not a supporter in the first place.
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  12. Ofir Gal Did you even watch the segment? If you think he is any way defending terrorism then you really were not paying attenton at all. It makes your comment look silly and ignorant or dishonest.
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  13. I started as much more conservative when I was young, As I grew older and more informed I rejected the ideas I once believed. The idea people get more Conservative is not really true, what happens as you get older people are more invested in the status quo as it generally as you have more invested in it. This creates an illusion that people become more conservative when in fact they are just less committed to change as they have more buy in with the current standard. We have been consistently moving left socially and the definitions of what is standard and what is considered right wing has moved with it.
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  14. David, I do not agree. This is about our government being bought and us unilaterally supporting Israel no matter what it does. That is all about the Benjamin's baby and if the GOP is not taking APAC money they are spitting antisemitic tropes themselves. Criticizing the lobbyists buying our government is fine even if the DNC leadership does not think so because they are owned.
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  15. True, but the message is getting to thier otherwise lost audience and that is a good thing. It is better than them pretending the corporist status quo is good.
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  16.  @leknin2021  Don''t ever change that!
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  17. They do owe his voters some support. The 48% of their base who voted for him says they should take him seriously. His policies are universally popular and the only reason he did not win is they DNC cheated for Hillary even though she generated zero excitement only to lose to a monster. These assholes owe Bernie nothing but they do owe the voters some respect. If they actually want to win elections and not just collect money for elections they lose then they are better to listen to the voters and not rich clowns who pour money down their throat.
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  18. lisa houk  You, it is fair by virtue of your evidenced intellect.
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  19.  @fwingebritson  I do not agree at all. What I see you doing is leaving the monolithic entrenched democrats with knives at our back to steal half the vote and ensure republicans eternally win elections. If we wish rip control from the hands of the corporatists it has to be by taking over one of the two parties. The answer is to move away from corporate funding because empathetic corporations do not act altruistically, they work on behalf of a profit motive as is their fiduciary duty and reason for existence. The idea the party can not be taken from the democrats is not well thought out. The base of the party widely agree's with progressive policy and it is name recognition and stasis that is holding the old guard in power . Their ideas are not popular and we have many right leaning democrats in deep blue districts that are all very vulnerable and get ever more so as the progressive message is actually spread widely by crowd funded elected leaders. They are not good at winning elections if we look at their record so the idea they can not be beaten seems poorly thought out to me. When you see corporate candidates copying progressive spin to try to get elected you have to know they are losing ground.
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  20. This has nothig to do with the shot
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  21. He was not a sexual deviant .... wtf are you even talking about?
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  22. Bruce Hauge He is not and has never been "far left". The only people who think he is are establishment shills and right wing freak shows. People change and he is an example of that.
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  23. Tim Maynard I have seen him say he is against racism and am willing to take him at his word on that.  The fact is he still supports policy that would roll us back in the promotion of racism by racists.  There are a great many things real liberals and real libertarians agree on including the drug war.  That being said I do not see some balance some bounds of reason and restrictions of absolute personal freedom as harmful if well thought out.  We do not have to throw out good policy to attack bad policy.   We can reform our terrible drug policy and how it is prosecuted without empowering bigots to lock minorities out of restaurants.  We can reform our foreign policy fiasco with out privatizing education.  It is not an all or nothing situation. I can agree with elements of Rands policy with out supporting others.  His spin that would empower racists has zero value in my mind. 
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  24. grkpektis There is no way he was, is or ever will be as bad as bush. 
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  25. +kittyvalium If you were ever 'progressive' I am sure they do not miss you as your spin is same as right wing drivel on this issue. The problem is many parents can not pay for it and we are hammering an entire generation with brutal debt just so they can get educated.
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  26. Bluetexas2016 Please, ra ra raing for a corporate lap dog is below you.
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  27. Your assertion that most of "atheist scholars" agree he exists is not true.   The data does not support he that exists and the only non religious documents do not validate his existence and none of them are contemporary to his era.
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  28. If you are going to run as the family values candidate then what you have been arrested for should be public knowledge.
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  29. ace8842 In the same same way Mennonites should not apply to be bus drivers, Christians with this viewpoint should not open a business that is open to the public.  It is that simple.
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  30. ace8842 Because in the US Evangelical Christians make the the vast majority of naysayers. There is no good secular reason to deny them equal treatment under the law besides you do not like them and that is a hard argument to make.  Religious zealots of all stripes (not just Christians) are the real problem here and it is that simple.  In the US if we look at the bucket that makes up our zealots most of them are Christian just because of they are the largest group here.  This whole fight is about certain sects of the religious trying to shove their repressive dogma down everyone's throat and deny people who do not need to agree with them equal treatment under the law.  This is a fight you have already lost,  you just don't know it yet. 
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  31. Nope they would still be assholes but they have a right to free speech even if it hurts their business.  What they do not have a right to do is ignore the clause on her business license that says if she serves the public she has to serve the whole public and can not pick and choose.
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  32. ***** It is taught to them and in many parts of 1980's america it would have been the same.   Bigotry of this kind is most predominant among the religious when they can hide behind the assertions they are doing "gods will"   Bad people do bad things, to make good people do bad things you need religion.
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  33. Lol, so true.
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  34. They are just as crazy but keep their wing nuts quiet so they can get votes from the sane and have a chance of forming any goverment. 
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  35. Not remotely valid,  you need to get out of the bubble.
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  36. ***** Not challenging them on their nonsense gives them tacit credibility which they do not deserve.  I am a absolutist believer in freedom of speech and the right of everyone to say what they think.  I do not think that means people get to spout nonsense unchallenged and to do so in the name of neutrality gives them unwarranted credibility.  The way these guys are doing it does not challenge these guests.  The only people I see them attacking outright are their ostensible allies and they do this in the name of being anti politically correct while actually complaining about a disagreement on style and pointless minutia.   Rubin gives credence and credibility to clowns who espouse dishonest spin as a matter of course.  I am all about giving someone rope to hang themselves but you have to be willing to pull that rope taught.   Rubin and all of these guys only bother to do that to the left these days.  I am aware of what these guys I oppose stand for that is why I oppose them.  Watching Rubin nod along to their talking points has no value to me. 
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  37. I would be interested in seeing a non establishment candidate share their spin, they do not have much of a forum anywhere else.
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  38. It was no worse than what the GOP would have given us since Obama has mostly implemented right wing plans anyway.   If we would have listened to the GOP our auto industry would be gone we would have lived through the same double dip that Brittan went through when they chose instead of stimulus.  She most assuredly would have been worse off under the GOP even though hope and change turned out to be a well marketed pipe dream swallowed by big donors. 
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  39. stegokitty 1) It is not a matter of belief because that is not what defines a historical account.  Independent verification is the only thing that makes something historical.  In the case of the flood, there is nothing that confirms a world wide flood let alone the huge list of painful inconsistencies with the story that make it more like a fairy tale than an account to be taken seriously. 2) Flat out false unless you are talking about the time before we had actual archeologists.  Before we used the scientific method we had theologians making wildly incorrect claims about the origin of sites based on the biblical musing and their innate cultural bias and not fact. Almost all of their "discoveries" have since been reclassified as false as we looked at evidence and not some dogmatic gut feeling.  The bible is referenced primarily by a specific sub group of people and only on issues associated with a relatively small area in the middle east.  Your assertion is fact free. 3) Your ignorance of what I know of the bible makes your assessment meaningless. 4) This does not surprise me, I will not be seeing it either for a whole other reason. 5) Respect and fear are not should not be akin to each other in the mind of those who are not craven.  I respect people and institutions who earn it but would NEVER respect anyone I fear.  Making movies is about money for Hollywood and there is no reason to make a movie that would cost more in cash and hassle than it would make. 6) That you are clueless about the nature of the religiosity in the united states is hilarious and not based on reality. The US has a huge and influential group of of dogmatic fundamentalist Christians who attempt to influence policy at every turn and we are counted as among the most conservative of the developed nations because of it. Your claims about bible the bibles veracity are simplistic fiction.  People are free to do what the want to to any story in it.  That it is sacred to you means you should be accurate in the movie you make but means nothing about what others choose to do.
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  40. acurisur You have not, your near singular reference does not validate even one element of your most grandiose claims and says literally nothing about fairy tale events of the old  testament.  It is you who ignores all evidence and even common sense when it does not suit you. In my last post I was simply pointing that out a single roman who mentioned a man named Christ who was executed does not mean he walked on water or rose from the dead.  That you seem to claim a single obscure reference is the same as a Christ appearing is a joke.  Not to mention even it he did you do know clowns who claim they are Christ appear all the time and they are rejected out of hand by even the "faithful" all the time.  That you imagine what you have shared is compelling is pathetic.  I value evidence, you value faith and dogma alone.
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  41. acurisur I value real evidence not the weak ass garbage you imagine should pass for something that is convincing. Those who buy your painful spin do not ask questions or think very hard about anything.  It is you who is so simplistic you ignore important questions and glaring issues with your the bible to hang on to the fact free spin you do.  It does not matter what you feel about my opinion.  Just to be clear it is you who has their head in the sand not me.  Willfully ignorant it is still ignorant.
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  42. +Cleaver2396 Their feelings do not matter as they are based on nonsense concerns. In a woman's bathe room they are all in stalls anyway. For transgender woman who identify men they are using the stalls too as the urinals are not really an option. There is no issue here and if bigots have a problem then they need to get over it. When was the last time you saw someone genitals when in a stall? This is a non issue.
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  43. WrongRealities I am on the side of this debate that actually values respect.  That being said if you show none than you do not deserve mine.  In the perfect world all ideas would have a place in the debate and we would give others views the room to live or die on their own accord.   Unfortunately when someone holds beliefs that openly attack the concept of tolerance then they need to be shouted down for the cancer they are.  Your faith no matter what form it takes should be your own.  But the moment you attempt to force those views onto another then the time for respect is over if one values the promotion tolerance at all.  Tolerance of the intolerant is counter productive in my mind.
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  44. chris hunt Bypassed local law enforcement?  It is a federal issue, do not pay your taxes and see if it is local sheriffs that come and pick you up.   They took his cattle off of federal land where he was grazing them illegally.  They are the ones who showed up with guns where they did not belong.  If you imagine this is going to end well for this freeloader then you have not been paying attention.
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  45. +ayy gmao Your spin is empty nonsense. His logic is those who work hard for a living should enjoy the fruits of their labor. He correctly points out all of the gains of the last 40 years have ended up in the pockets of the rich while those who actually do the work have fell backwards. He argues for a health care system where if you get sick you are not in danger of going bankrupt and business can focus on what they do instead of providing health care like all the other industrialized countries. Saying those who support him are seeking a handout is bullshit not attached to reality. We are sick of being raped by the powers that be and it is time our leaders worked for us and not the highest bidder, Bernie like him or hate him represents that vision. Arguing for the rich to get richer at working peoples expense is idiot talk unless they pay you to say that garbage and then you are shill, that is no better.
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  46. TheDajamster Feel free as I am sure this is not the first time something like this has been said and it will not be the last,  cheers.
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  47. Sjon Blackwell Someone is spinning conjecture not me.  The facts are not on your side.  Stop vaccinating and that number climbs precipitously among those who can least defend themselves the very young and those who can not be protected.  The numbers associated with harm associated with vaccines as a tiny fraction of the numbers you cited and that claim is not conclusive by any recognized study ever. Keeping deadly scourges alive has literally no value and are you are not making much of a case as you point to other health issues.  Alchaol is elective and so are most weight related issues but they affect only you.  As you exercise your imagined rights you put the lives of others in danger and that is a fundamental difference.  This is about your choices hurting others not the least of which are potentially your children and those who come in contact with them. There is no valid reason to reject getting vaccinated in this day and age and to object is consistently built on willful ignorance. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
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  48. Minimum wage is fine for all business.  Any that can only survive with starvation pay for full time workers does not deserve to be in business.  Before you go into hysterics the number of business that will be effected in this way is by all accounts is not large.  In the places that have actually enacted the policy of higher wages none of the doom and gloom predictions of the anti min wage sellouts came true. 
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  49. Ōkami-san They agree with me be the path though not perfect is fundamentally better than the one you would put us on.  The fact we live in a society and recognize tax have been part of them for as long as we have had societies makes us realists not cattle. Cattle go along with what they led to,  I fight to shape policy and what our taxes are spent on.   You and those like you ignore the value the state has provided and would throw the baby out with the bath water over problems we both recognize but would deal with radically differently.  I live in a society perhaps you should leave it and stop mooching off organizations that would not exist without people like me supporting them.  You are a the worst kind of hypocrite who loathes regulation yet works in the field,  who hates taxes but would starve without them.   Hang onto your faith based version of economics but you are right we are never going there.  This has nothing to do with being a sheep but instead comes out of a well developed sense of right and wrong many of your ilk do not have.  
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  50. Ōkami-san When I say ilk I mean political ilk, you belong to a loud radical tiny minority and your own views label you as such. Your views about what society should be is  nothing but a pipe dream while people with a variation of what I think have built everything we have.   I do work with people and believe in freedom and community, I simply do not arbitrarily reject the value of income tax like you do. You can straw man my position all day but it is not remotely valid.  As you babble about force I look at the western societies and see the worst societies ever conceived unless you count any other we ever had.  To me government is a tool that is meant to be in service to all our interests.  That the iteration we have in place now is corrupt is no reason to throw out the baby with the bath water as with a number of changes it can be made to work in a way that serves the prosperity of all.   A tool is neither good or evil and they all have been critical to our massive success as a species including the innovation of centralized government.   That you imagine force goes away if government does is something that does not ring true as it is a pretty honest axiom that power loves a vacuum.
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