Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "The Ring of Fire" channel.

Perhaps sentence her to community service cleaning up Puerto Rico since apparently the GOP thinks it's a floating island of garbage.
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He also presumably has social security and whatever retirement accounts aren't touchable by these proceedings. So, he's probably going to be fine. It's also why he kind of needs to be prosecuted as there's got to be something criminal in all of this.
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You got yours, younger workers ma not get ours. And neither party is serious about following through on the promise that was made to us. The big difference is how quickly the money goes away. Biden just a couple months ago signed a law giving federal workers benefits for income that they were never taxed on. It moves the insolvency date forward a few months when they could easily have raised the ceiling on what got taxed to cover the increased expenditure.
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It doesn't, you can also be pardoned if you are convicted. However, being pardoned does not remove the conviction from your record, that would require a judge to intervene and decide that the record needs to be either expunged or sealed. But, in any case, if you're pardoned, you typically still have a conviction on your record forever.
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Yes, he didn't even pardon all the people that were closer to him that were arrested and convicted, I'm not sure why people would assume that he'd pardon the rest of them when he had the option to do so prior to leaving office last time.
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They clearly don't care. Part of why this might happen is that younger voters already expect to not get some or all of the money we're supposed to get on the basis of the social security benefits because of things like the cap on social security income being taxed.
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A less corrupt court probably wouldn't have let him run at all after January 6th.
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That's not likely. He's 80, so he's definitely got social security and probably some sort of retirement account that the courts can't touch. He'll have some sort of a home, it just might not be 5 star accomodations.
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He won't though, he's still going to have social security and he probably has some sort of pension/retirement accounts that the court can't touch. He's probably still going to be doine better than most of us will in retirement even after all of this.
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Sort of, you paid for your parents, younger people are paying for you, and the benefits have been overly generous for what has been taxed on top of money being borrowed from the trust. The result is that younger workers won't get full benefits and nobody in either party seems to care.
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@PatMonahanFan-uj1im Why? The FAA is unlikely to have had anything to do with this. The helicopter wasn't permitted to be where it was when it ran into the jet. There may well be something that the ATC could have done, but at this point, it's pretty clear that the collision wouldn't have happened if the helicopter had been within the altitude limits that are in place on helicopters near the airport.
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We need somebody that's a believer in democracy.
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In all fairness blaming other people often times is common sense for a great number of people.
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@sailorboys100 The blame here rest solely with Harris and the DNC. Blaming the voters is lame, all eligible voters get to vote for whomever they like, or nobody at all. It's the job of the party and the candidates to earn those votes and then if they win, repay the votes with serious efforts to follow through on the promises made to secure the votes. The GOP knows that, and they keep winning, even though what they're promising is horrible.
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It doesn't really matter. The accusation of DEI here is on the basis of them lowering the standards in an effort to boost the diversity of the ATC rather than just giving the jobs to those that are most able to do it. I"m not sure if that's actually the case, or if it remains the case as I thought that had been addressed the last time he was in office. But, even if true it would only have been a minor aspect here. There's been a significant underfunding and under staffing of the whole system for decades and that's going to put a much greater strain on the system than possibly less qualified employees would. That being said, from what we know, it appears that this was a combination of a helicopter operating with 3 crew members when a 4th probably should have been there due to the business of the air traffic in the area and the visual navigation being used. The helicopter being 150ish feet too high and actually into the airport's landing corridor. And an instruction from ATC that may have been misunderstood by the crew of the helicopter, although there seem to have been other issues with the helicopter not understanding or properly complying with the instructions being given. The only bit of that which could have been impacted by ATC changes is that last one and even that is a significant stretch. Doubtless we'll get more information as time goes on and the investigation proceeds, but in all likelihood a bunch of the answer is going to be along the lines of what's already suspected.
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@jamesreid8638 Felonies are a minimum of a year in prison usually the range goes up considerably from there.
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Apparently it helps if your father is POTUS though.
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@paulamorris9981 I'm curious how that applies to this. Trump would need to be reelected and it would really only apply to federal charges. I don't believe there's anything that Trump would be able to do to get him out of this. Not that I would expect Trump to, he's not a fan of losers.
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@krysis54 From what I can tell, that's technically unknown as in the few times in the past when that was done, nobody challenged it in court, they just accepted that pardons work like that. It's really hard to say what the result would be right now if somebody did decide to challenge a pro-active pardon. The result could look very different depending upon whether it's Hunter or somebody that MAGA folks like.
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@adambriceland6588 It's absolutely her fault for not elbowing Biden out of the way early enough to have a real primary and then running a campaign this bad. The only ads I got were ones trying to get me to give her money, but no effort was made to show me that she would do something for me if elected. So, she didn't get my vote.
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These same people were so convinced that HRC would win.
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That's only part of it, the problem is that they use the money that current workers pay in to fund current retirees. And since the boomers were such a large generation and have lived longer than expected, it's meant that their projections were off and they haven't fixed the situation. They thought they had it fixed in the early '80s, but it's broken again. As it stands, I'm looking at not just having to work a couple more years to hit full retirement, but I'm also looking at a potential 20% benefits cut as well.
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That is an absolute load of crap. She didn't even try to win over younger blue-collar men. She didn't even try to win over the people that don't want to be associated with genocide in the Middle East. She made no promises to address men's issues and she already had a terrible reputation with respect to black men. She just took it for granted that those people would vote for her rather than Trump, a 3rd party candidate, or just stay home. Also, a bunch of women voted for Trump in all 3 elections, their votes aren't legitimate votes?
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@EssayOns-113 There's automatic cuts that come in when the fund runs low. According to the SSA, that's coming soon. https://www.ssa.gov/oact/TRSUM/ . For young folks we're looking at a 20% cut to our benefits as well as the extra years we're already on the hook to work due to the fund running low.
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@user-uv4mg4ve9p Social Security isn't super generous and it depends in part on how much money you were making while working.
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@ It's even funnier when you realize that us younger workers may not get our social security, but it's the oldsters that are whining about this while voting for politicians that are choosing not to address the upcoming insolvency. It's unlikely that I'll get 0, but there's a real chance that I'll get less than what I've been promised and Biden just gave a bunch away to federal workers that hadn't paid in to the system.
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No she doesn't. I wouldn't just assume that black people and women are going to vote for her. She abused her power as AG.
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@ If we're being fair, when the fund goes insolvent, they should start the cuts with the oldest people and work their way to the younger ones as the younger folks mostly didn't have any sort of a say in it and didn't benefit from the easy economy either.
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@olivertoeknuckleiii2093 Full benefits are going away if nothing is done. The real question is how much of what remains will actually be paid out. The trust will run low on funds within the next decade if nothing is done and neither party seems at all interest in doing what needs to be done to stop that from happening.
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Just not enough to give the voters a chance to choose a candidate.
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That's why folks were saying age and not senility. Biden had to step aside due to senility, not age.
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Not having a contested convention would be a disaster, remember 2016 and 2020?
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Because that worked so well in 2016.
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That generation collectively voted to pull the ladder up behind them screwing over future generations. It makes it kind of hard to feel too bad when you realize that they were working when it was the easiest to save and didn't. I won't get my full social security payments if nothing is done to fix the system.
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Perhaps it's time we stop blaming voters and start blaming the parties for taking all that donor money and then not even bothering to improve people's lives. Biden could have given everybody health care during the part of the pandemic he was President for, and chose not to. Obama could have filled 2 seats on SCOTUS by nuking the judicial filibuster for SCOTUS nominations and elbowing RBG out. They could have had a real primary this time around given how old Biden was and how clearly he's dealing with dementia. The voters in 2016 and 2020 wanted Bernie, but we weren't allowed to have him as the nominee because the elites thought they were smarter than us. They didn't even offer us anything to caucus with them because they were more interested in poaching right win votes at our expense. It's literally the reason why a candidate that won 0 delegates was the VP that they tried to force on us.
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