Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder" channel.

  1. Imagine supporting people that support war criminals.
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  2. To be fair, at least she doesn't seem to be senile.
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  3.  @jocksharerock7318  She chose not to because she would have risked a sexual harassment suit against her and having to explain her behavior. If you can't see that m then you're rather dense. There's a huge difference between what he did and what she did,
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  4.  @timapple9157  That's part of why Trump chose a random jar of mayonnaise as his VP pick in 2016.
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  5. Not learning from the past is their shtick.
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  6. How is that relevant? If him being a narcissist changes how you interpret the validity of what you say, then you're an idiot. And of course he's a bit of a narcissist, he's a night club comedian when he's not doing the news.
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  7. It's absolutely correct though, a sensibly lengthed dress wouldn't show that if she bent over like that. Women have no basis for whining on situations like this. If you choose to wear unprofessionally short skirts and show something, you can't really complain, that's ridiculous.
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  8.  @fredsanford1437  That's the thing, how precisely does he handle it that doesn't make him a jerk. Not saying something, looking, commenting are all not ok according to these people. The only thing acceptable option would be to not be looking in case she shows of the goods. That seems rather ridiculous as then he'd be accused of not respecting her enough to look in her direction.
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  9.  @Monieloved1  His job is to lead the Democrats in opposition to what the GOP is doing, and all he's doing is making excuses. If he's not on the take, then he needs to step aside for somebody that's actually going to put up some sort of a fight. He's literally giving us "We've tried nothing, and now we're out of ideas."
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  10. He aspires to that. He's more like what happens if you try to get Obama from Wish.
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  11.  @sswwooppee  Exactly, I don't get why people are still surprised by any of this. This has been going on for quite a few years and yet people still vote blue. Personally, I was done after Bernie got screwed. I've voted 3rd party that last 3 Presidential elections and at this point, I mostly refuse to vote for either major party candidate other than to unseat an incumbent unless they've actually done something particularly notable. With people voting blue no matter who, I don't know why the party would change it's ways as those votes are sewn up regardless.
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  12. I agree, so why do people keep claiming that the vaccines will end the pandemic when there's literally no evidence to support us ever getting out of it without everybody contracting the virus and surviving? No expert should be claiming that a vaccine this ineffective at preventing vaccinating people from contracting the virus can stop a pandemic. The only pandemics that we've managed to stop had vaccines with much, much higher efficacy rates. Personally, I prefer to get real information rather than the socially sanctioned lies. Fauci has repeatedly been caught lying and had to admit that he was lying. Jimmy Dore is one of the few places where that actually gets covered. It's not a matter of his opinion, he actually shows the tape of Fauci admitting that he's lied and trying to explain his way out of it. It's not even taken out of context. The vaccines have done their job to cut the deaths down substantially and to decrease hospitalization, but we can't keep this up forever. Drug overdose deaths and suicides are up, people are getting destroyed and nobody in power seems to understand that if we're not going to open up, then people need help.
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  13.  @chokinonashes61  And yet, people struggle to point out what information is wrong. I definitely don't just get information here, the information that he's talking about with regards to vaccination is consistent with what I learned in microbiology classes. Not to mention the clips where Fauci admits to lying about it.
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  14. We should bring democracy to America.
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  15. I wish there'd be more understanding. The point isn't to clear out the brush, the point is to clear out the stuff that is tall enough to bridge the gap between the bottom layers where the trees are pretty well protected against catching on fire and the canopy where there's far less protection due to needles and leafs not being particularly resistant to fire. Some species even require fires in order to release more seeds. Doing controlled burns right next to housing is a very risky thing to do, but if there were a routine every few years effort to just burn a portion of those areas that are as close as practical to the houses during a period where the fire activity is light, they could figure out where their containment needs to be first, and account for the weather over the next few days. There does need to be changes to the building code though to make the houses a bit more fire resistant. It's worth noting that most likely, there would be a combination of thinning the forests next to the city and burning the brush, between the two practices there's a significant reduction in the risk of this happening again. Especially if the stuff that gets built to replace the burned out structures is harder to catch on fire. From what I can tell, the averaged size of a prescribed burn was about 40acres in 2019. As in, about 1/16th of a square mile. Which means that when conditions are decent, a fire can be set and put out pretty quickly.
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  16. Nobody wants Kamala and it's got nothing to do with sexism or racism. (Although sexism and racism aren't helping her cause) She's just a terrible candidate. She doesn't have good policies and she only had like 2 or 3% of the primary vote in 2020. It seems like a bit of a stretch to suggest that numbers that bad are because of racism and sexism. HRC tried the same crap in 2016 and it didn't work there either.
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  17. The issue tends to be the result of different factors. We do need more brush management in these areas, we do need a satellite monitoring where fires are starting, we do need improvements to the building code in areas that are at risk, we do need for the equipment and water supply to be in better working order. But, at the end of the day, there is only so much that can be done.
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  18.  @jon.wilson  That bit angers me more than anything else. He's not anti-vaxx, he's anti-Fauci and anti-lying. The vaccine is incredibly effective at reducing deaths, hospitalizations and permanent disability. It's barely better than nothing when it comes to preventing infection or transmission. I personally, think that most people should get vaccinated as long as they can tolerate the doses, but I had the virus and I recovered and that's really what needs to happen to end this thing. The vaccine is just not good enough to prevent enough cases to end the pandemic on its own. People need to contract it and survive it because they got vaccinated and were able to make use of improved medical treatments. At even 65% that's still a ton of people that are going to get infected pretty much no matter what you do. People still have to work and feed themselves because the government didn't bother to provide for them. That initial stimulus check was supposed to cover only 2 weeks worth of lockdowns, but it ended up needing to cover a lot more.
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  19.  @mrlarvux  He does no such thing. At least not in the videos I've seen. I feel sorry for the people that buy into the b.s. that we need to get boosters, wearing masks and keep social distancing for an undefined period of time with no realistic idea of when it's going to end. The vaccine was supposed to end this, but now it's boosters and that's not even enough.
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  20. He's worse than she was. Which is rather amazing.
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  21. Chat GPT would come up with at least something to try, even if it's weird and involves pasta.
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  22.  @ahamed4152  That's a big problem. You have Democrats doing the same thing, and the problem is that the rest of it is often times monstrous either way.
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  23. How is that obvious? If her skirt was that short, then she was clearly less professional.
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  24.  @jprec5174  lol, literally came here to say the same thing. Perhaps years ago, but who's dumb enough to fall for it after they've already given up the game?
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  25. She wasn't in school, which was the problem, any time they interrupted it would have been something innocuous as it was her lack of doing something the law says she has to do that was at issue.
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  26. If you go by the science, then virtually nobody should be getting the booster shot. It sickens me that people like Ryan Grim are lying about the shots. Ask an actual expert on the topic rather than Faucci and they'll tell you that the booster shots aren't necessary unless you've got a weakened immune system. This vaccine isn't anywhere near effective enough to prevent the spread by more than a little bit. Getting it should not result in changes to your behavior on the basis that you think it's going to prevent you from spreading it. It will slightly reduce the likelihood of contracting it, but if you have it, vaccines won't do anything to prevent you from spreading it but they will increase the likelihood that if you do contract the virus that you won't know.
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  27.  @anticharlatan5823  they only need one and this is the hardest one for the GOP to sweep under the rug. The GOP will use any excuse to let Trump off the hook.
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  28.  @stickjohnny  Ryan Grim is definitely wrong here. Getting a booster shot has very little effect on your ability to contract the virus, and basically none when it comes to spreading it if you get infected. Ryan Grim is an idiot if the reason he got the booster was so that he can visit with family members. He could have done that with just the original doses just fine, the booster doesn't really do much for typical people, and we had officials quitting because the medical science does not support the widespread use of boosters. If we had opened up to people with vaccinations earlier, the folks with vaccines could have contracted it, survived it and had a much more durable level of protection. But, we didn't do that, so now we're stuck in this never ending cycle of boosters and lockdowns rather than admitting that the virus is endemic and won't be going away any time soon. Even scarier is that with the abuse of the vaccine, we could see much scarier variants coming down as those will be the ones that manage to be the ones that evade the vaccination.
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  29. In all fairness, most democrats hated HRC, she pretty much destroyed the party trying to convince them to vote for her. I wonder how much less damage Trump would have done if HRC hadn't drained the coffers of funds that were needed for the down ballot races.
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  30. I'm not sure what you expect, I mean, it's not like the GOP has been telegraphing their intention to end democracy for the last few decades and taking steps to make it happen.
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  31. So? He does a better job with the news that TYT does.
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  32. I'm glad there was some acknowledgement in here that the Democrats are more or less completely useless and not doing really anything that could plausibly result in any of this being addressed in any sort of meaningful way. In fact, they fought hard to prevent anybody that could do any better from gaining any power in the party.
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  33.  @kkaybaltimore  As long as the Democrats choose their leadership by figuring out who is the most corrupt, this will continue. The way people get to be in charge in the Democratic party is by being the best "fundraisers" as in being the most corrupt.
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  34. Regardless of which party you vote for, they both want to screw over men, it's just that the Democrats are generally more friendly to allowing women to end pregnancies and avoid having those men stuck paying for it for the rest of their lives.
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  35. There's a huge difference between not feeling empathy and not allowing feelings of empathy get in the way of doing things that are for the common good. Movements like BLM are built on a really screwed up morality. The people who are shot by the police are automatically in the right and the police are automatically monsters, even in cases where we have substantial evidence that it's the other way around or it's a genuine freak accident.
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  36. Sort of, the trees are dry and the vegetation was able to bridge the vertical gap between the forest floor and the canopy, and when that happens, you get fires that are a lot hotter as the trees are much easier to set on fire from the top where they have little proteciton versus the ground where it's a lot harder to burn through the bark. The idea behind prescribed burns is that you burn that stuff while it's still short enough to not reach up into the canopy and set the trees on fire. But, typically, you'd also want to thin out the trees as well so that the density of them that could light is lower, which in turn makes it harder for the remaining trees to catch on fire. This stuff gets even more complicated as LA has issues with the winds. Around here, fires can travel under ground for a bit and pop up where you're not expecting it.
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  37. @ It's not, it's legitimate forestry practice and literally required that bushes and anything flammable not be too close to the buildings. The water is a bit less clear cut, but given the failures to thin the trees and vegetation near the buildings to help prevent the fire from spreading into town, that should have also been a consideration. It was bad enough when it was just the right-wing that was anti-science, now the left is doing it too.
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  38. Somehow we went from basically no significant issues with the problem a couple of decades ago, to a crisis so bad that we need to allow tons of medical procedures and accommodations in order to keep them from imploding, and that does require some justification. The feelings and emotions related to being trans can't possibly have changed so much over the last few decades that now trans people are just incapable of regulating their emotional state at all. There was an underlying risk of suicide, but in all the years I was in school my district there were no suicides of anybody known, or suspect of being, trans, even though there were suicides for other reasons.
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  39. Not really, her numbers were low, and I mean low, there's no way that only 2 or 3% of Democrats are people of color. She under performed even within those respective communities.
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  40. The donors mostly agree on the key issues, it's some of the social and foreign policy ones where they disagree. Hence why the Democrats don't really ever bother to undo what the GOP goes. They'll roll it back a bit until the GOP can win again and keep going.
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  41. More likely, the donors chose him because he's not going to rock the boat or do anything to give the voters the crazy idea that voting Democrat means that they're entitled to actually have any Democratic priorities enacted.
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  42. That's most of the Democrats that hold actual power in the party. They fight any effort to drag the party to the left the way that they should be fighting the GOP and fascists.
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  43. Does it rally matter?
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  44. The Democrats are continually covering for them.
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  45. She had options, she chose to opt out of all of them. If she's 16, she's pretty close to having the legally required 10 years of schooling to be allowed to drop out. Making this whole thing utterly idiotic. Suddenly, school, including online school, is so unbearable that another year is too much? Seriously? The school has legal responsibilities to the students, and getting sued for allowing students to just stop coming to school doesn't serve anybody well. We grant this one the ability to just stay home, so what about the kid that's being bullied, or that has mental health issues or can't afford fashionable cloths. Clearly at some point a line needs to be drawn.
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  46. There were rumors that some of it was irresponsible people partying on New Year's, but we'll have to see what the results are when they figure out where it started.
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  47. The main issue with that is expense and that you need far more of them to replace the capacity, due to the decreased ability to cool the lines when they're under ground. It can also be somewhat problematic in case of an earthquake, but that's the case no matter what you do, earthquakes tend to take out power infrastructure.
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  48. The kid was given options and didn't like the options that were given. Please don't make this into something that it's not. There's definitely a reasonable argument to be had over whether the options given were the legally, and constitutionally required, options, but she had more options than use the men's restroom or drop out of school.
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  49.  @sprybug  And yet, trans people somehow managed to survived before the current notions on rights came into fashion. I'm not suggesting that the options she was given were ideal or necessarily sufficient, but she was given options and apparently opted to reject all of them and just stay home.
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  50. You're allowed to leave after 10 years of education, given that we're only in May, that would likely only be a few months or possibly an entire year. But, in either case, not that long. Perhaps if we stop coddling everybody and actually taught people how to deal with their emotional state, we'd get better answers. She could have either sucked it up for a few more months or taken the online option and been done with it. The options being provided weren't great, but for such a short period of time, I'm a bit skeptical that they wouldn't have worked, especially since she presumably didn't just wake up and feel this strongly about the situation. Finish the compulsory bit then find a friendly college with a GED program to finish up with. Problem solved without anybody's lives being ruined.
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