Comments by "dbergerac" (@dbergerac9632) on "NBC News" channel.

  1. "We may need to use our ventilators in unusual ways..." code for: "We should unplug the retired guy and put the grad student on the ventilator" What do you THINK is going to happen when there are 200 ventilators and 430 patients?
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  2. How long ago did the FBI collect the blackmail tapes from Lolita Island? How many people have been charged? ANY stones turned? Hoover would be so proud of his baby.
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  3. I wonder when the school board considered adding security in the past, which members voted against it; and will the news media ever even ask?
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  4. When I heard that he wrote a check, I almost hurt myself. Did he write in the Memo portion "Fake assault (1)"
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  5.  @SpeakerOfTruth444  I'm pretty sure that the MAX payment is the actual balance.
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  6. They serve The Party, not the country.
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  7. They are still the enforcement arm of The Party.
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  8. There is a long line ahead of him. Comey, Clinton, Cohen
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  9.  @toddwerther188  So the next batches of graduates will have no "student loan crisis"? Of course they do, and with precedents, they will keep funding bailouts forever, passing the debts along to the grads who got this one. There was no loan reform included, so this is the seed of a very long term entitlement to buy votes in the short term.
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  10. He deserves the benefit of the doubt until he is tried regardless of how stupidly he planned and executed his crime.
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  11.  @lucastornado9496  They are looking in the wrong place for oil.
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  12. NYC: Hold my Beer.
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  13. Their job with the laptop is to preserve and protect it from investigation.
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  14. Holodomor
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  15.  @qwerther44  If I make a campaign promise to buy your vote LONG AGO, keeping it is still buying your vote. The best "loan reform" for student loans would be to detach the government guarantees; suddenly lenders will refuse to accept the risk of lending large sums for frivolous degrees, only making loans that have a chance to provide a return to the borrower.
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  16. I agree; how can an 18 year old right out of high school appreciate the decades of consequences from their inexperienced vote? No adult resposibility or accountability until 21.
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  17. They should certainly make therapy and counseling available to him while he is in prison.
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  18. Sadly, Ukraine exported almost all of the military hardware that they had inherited from the USSR and only kept a small fraction of their tanks, planes, and artillery. Weakness invites invasion because evil lives in this world. They had been promised safety in exchange for giving up their nukes. Promises are cheap in politics. We sent them about a day's worth of weapons.
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  19. He was just turning his life around.
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  20.  @bucketboy12345  No one tells his enemies truths. You should see the old propaganda newsreels that the allies made in WW2. We have to sort it out for ourselves with evidence and logic. It'll be hit-or-miss.
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  21.  Bloom Berg  I meant that his check would indicate that he was paying for one (1) fake assault. I don't know that his check to these guys was to cover the letter thing, I think he did that dumb act alone. Surely someone stupid enough to write a check for a crime is stupid enough to indicate on the check which crime. See: Dunning–Kruger effect.
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  22. Yes, he'll end up in rehab for 28 days. Probably before his trial.
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  23.  @dededecent5892  Despite being a single parent with two jobs for much of my life, I managed to go to the polls on "voting day". Heaven forbid that I only have to arrange to vote within a week or so.
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  24.  @dededecent5892  I agree with you. As we matured from "Voting is difficult." to "Cheating is easy." we blew past "Now every legitimate voter has access." It might take a bit longer to get it right, but I believe that "right and fair" is the goal for nearly all of us. The rest should never see power.
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  25. It's time for the show trials.
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  26. The Supreme Court evidently ruled them NOT "restrictive".
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  27. The USA sent a strongly worded letter.
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  28. Ukraine does not have missiles, they gave them back to Russia in exchange for assurances of peace.
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  29. The average person cannot use "medical debt" to party for years and then expect the taxpayers to pony up for it. Choose to borrow, choose to pay.
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  30.  @RationalistRebel  So you are saying that those students (not "most") who wasted years of time and resources in out-of-state schools seeking worthless degrees in "xxxxx studies" are morally equivalent to people forced to assume medical debt to survive? - Two degrees at two universities over two decades, married to a college professor, value added.
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  31. ​ @RationalistRebel  People who are financially responsible are indeed subject to the whims of fortune. Being financially responsible ( not unlike looking both ways before crossing the street ) is a tested means of reducing those risks; better than passing misfortune to more people who gained nothing, agreed to nothing, had no opportunity to make the choices and stood to receive no benefit from those choices.
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  32. Back in my day we just called it "stupid".
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  33. You can bet that the Police Department Building and City Hall are locked and secure.
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  34. When they work, it IS their job.
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  35.  @underarmbowlingincidentof1981  Yes, and we sent a strongly worded protest. Do not expect more.
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  36. Ukraine has been fighting a war against Russian saboteurs for eight years, on Ukranian soil. Feel free to count every shell.
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  37.  @janetyoung5568  Given a choice, I could do that. It does not alter the point of my comment.
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  38. The police CAN have vastly superior weapons.
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  39. Russia has veto power in the UN. European NATO countries gutted their armies after the USSR fell; they are weaker than Ukraine.
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  40. The donor class? LOL
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  41. The handful of anti-tank rockets the US sent are enough for a day or two. The Russians would like you to think it was ICBM silos.
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  42.  @doomsday8513  So you are saying that Ukraine is run by a Jewish nazi?
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  43. He'll probably have another serious commitment before the next shooting season.
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  44.  arnold jayeola  We rely on juries or a judge to make THE definitive decision on matters of "what is or is not a fact". I have no reason to believe that he is not guilty, but he has not yet presented his side. When we deny any single person (cough/Kavanaugh) the presumption of innocence ( by the court) then each of us welcomes risk to ourselves. I think he is a dumb liar, but he should not be penalized until his case is heard.
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  45.  @nightknight5012  Just as he has a right to equal justice and due process, each of us has a right to an opinion. I think he believed that he was smarter than the police and may have to pay for that hubris.
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  46. Of course we did none of that. But you would be correct if we had.
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  47. Biden opened the floodgate, now the correction is due.
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  48. Everyone should be skeptical, as lies are a weapon of warfare. With that being said, we KNOW that Mariupol is a charred wasteland. We KNOW that it was not before Russia invaded. We KNOW that Russia is not claiming to be in Mariupol on a humanitarian relief mission following some natural disaster. Conclusion: Russians laid waste to a large city. Although the Russians are capable of lying, as are the Ukrainians, Russia has been promising to destroy the city if it did not surrender, and Ukraine promised to not surrender. It doesn't take an investigative genius to figure out what happened to turn this large city into a pile of ash.
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  49. Shown to bored, sleepy students who will allow the same thing to happen again and again.
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  50.  @craigklotz2321  Right!?
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