Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "The Daily Show" channel.

  1. Yes, although keep in mind that the policy could always return, they'll just wait until they think the coast is clear.
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  2. That's probably the main reason, but there have also been instances of voter intimidation by strangers.
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  3. Did he actually pay for any of it though? You can't be refunded for expenses you didn't pay.
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  4. Medicare for all was rather popular when Bernie was running on it.
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  5. Yep, it's really, really hard to find too much fault when the system has failed so miserably to address the needs of the people.
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  6. I kind of feel like he would have known that going on. Violent J has been giving interviews and performing for decades.
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  7. TBH, his policies seem better than most options we're allowed.
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  8.  @lorenzoblum868  Yes, we learned that pretty definitively with the OJ Simpson trial.
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  9. It will be disastrous for him not to bow out of the race.
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  10. They're the two that the parties are allowing. Trump has the advantage of having people actually wanting him to be President. Biden was rammed down our throat by threatening another 4 years of Trump as if there weren't other candidates that could beat Trump. But now, 4 years later, we're in this position of being expected to toe the line because they won't allow other options. With how old Biden is this always should have been a contested primary.
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  11. Same here, although at this point with only 2 parties that are colluding with each other to help the billionaire class, it's harder and harder to imagine that actually voting will ever have the kind of impact that this assassination has. Just look at the other health insurance companies rethinking their plans as a result.
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  12.  @cgungryfcdjs1352  I fail to see how that's any worse than the current situation where the majority of Americans don't have a meaningful say in the Presidential race unless there's a massive swing against the party that normally wins.
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  13. They'll just give themselves hazard pay and bump up the security detail because it's more money than giving in.
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  14.  @shipwreck8847  We'll see. I don't support jury nullification, but New Yorkers can be rather tough at times in terms of refusing to convict people if they don't want to.
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  15. Don't worry, we've thought of that, we just need to hand out more guns to the children in case that teacher flips out. Problem solved forever.
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  16. I like how they wen that direction rather than making him Indian Buddha.
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  17.  @jv-lk7bc  It's happened a lot in US history, the most commonly recognized would be the various tribes and Japanese, but the Germans and Italians as well were notable cases. And, there's a bunch of other groups that were ethnically cleansed by the US, those were just the ones that were thrown into camps on purpose. The Chinese weren't purposefully thrown into camps as I recall, but did wind up in the US concentration camps during WWII and were subjected to significant race rioting in the latter half of the 19th century. That's not even remotely an exhaustive lists, just some of the more clear cut cases. And it doesn't even count the various Africans that were separated from their cultures to the greatest extent possible to try to prevent them from having dangerous ideas like that being property is wrong. Part of the American experience of coming to the US is being stripped of your culture. It's a much more recent thing where people are allowed to demand that they be allowed to keep their cultures.
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  18. It's not the media, it's the party and the donors. The media is just picking up on their messaging because they like ad revenue.
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  19.  @USUG0  The Senate being like that isn't a particular issue with the House being proportional, especially if the Presidency can go back to being something where the winner of the popular vote generally wins the Presidency. The discrepancy in the Senate isn't enough to do the sort of damage that the EC has on the country.
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  20. No, but his money does and until money is removed from politics his views will matter a lot. If Biden has lost the support of the donors and he doesn't have the support of the voters, I don't know how the DNC thinks that he'll be able to win in November. The previous 2 cycles the only thing the DNC cared about was electability, but now it's magically not on the list of concerns.
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  21. Perhaps, but if the Democrats don't get Biden off the ticket and replaced with somebody that's not senile, then we're going to get 4 more years of Trump.
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  22.  @BradyHansen81  Those are the most populace states. There are more people there, so they should get more of a say in the result. We've still got the Senate where the smaller states get an outsized say in what happens in terms of legislation being enacted into law. Plus, there's no guarantee that enough voters in CA, TX and NY will vote the same way to dictate the outcome. TX is probably going to vote the opposite way for the foreseeable future.
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  23.  @BradyHansen81  You've got that backwards. The EC makes most states including CA count as much as RI. Voting in WA, my vote has never counted for the Presidency, it doesn't matter whether I vote Democrat, GOP or for Mickey Mouse, the vote doesn't have any hope of changing the outcome. And IIRC until 2000, the results even started rolling in before our polls had even closed.
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  24. @zvmZvm0102 The demand that causes people to open businesses won't go away. Nor will the prices that people are willing to pay. There will be new businesses that open up to meet the demand, the difference is that people will know how much they're going to be expected to pa ahead of time.
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  25. Because he's been winning his primaries.
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  26.  @super-kami-guru  The problem there is that people in disaster areas are losers and he likes winners. Perhaps they should have raked the sea and it wouldn't have washed up on shore like that.
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  27. TBH, I'm not personally convinced that it won't work.
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  28. To be fair, isn't that like half of the ones that already exist in the US South?
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  29.  @cgungryfcdjs1352  Are you a bot? Stop posting this nonsense if you're not going to adequately explain your point and justify it.
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  30.  @mikederucki  Joe Machin is an Independent now from what I can tell along with Sinema. And they're both some of the worst that the Democratic party had.
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  31. What did you expect? The DNC has stopped listening to primary voters when choosing the candidate and absolutely refuses to adopt popular stances on issues.
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  32.  @Glomly  Bernie would have fought to get us medicare for all. Medicare isn't perfect, but it's far, far better than what's available on the private market.
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  33.  @maeschder  I've spent years at college as a student and employee, I can assure you that it is in fact very real. At this point, every possible sociodemographic group other than straight white-men have an affinity group on campus to avoid having to come into contact with dangerous ideas and whereas everybody gets asked for pronouns, in spite of most people not being trans or gender non-binary and the best interests of those that are and are claoseted, there's shockingly little recognition of things like the Germans-Americans, Italian-Americans, Chinese-Americans and other non-Japanese-Americans that the US held in concentration camps during WWII.
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  34. It's worth noting that you have to be making a fair amount of money in order to be subject to other federal taxes.
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  35.  @LRM5195  You're not supposed to pay attention to things when people are blaming things on sexism. Just like we're not supposed to pay attention to all the sexist things that HRC said when running for President and we're supposed to forget that they had to rig the primaries in order for her to even be the nominee.
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  36. Or, perhaps the campaigns should be considering why there are so many eligible voters that haven't already committed to their side.
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  37.  @romulus463  They can't, the states get to decide how they apportion the votes to electors. it's how ME and NE get to split theirs when everybody else is going all in for one candidate or the other.
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  38.  @DreadX10  That doesn't much matter. It's how they feel that does matter, and why would they come over to your side if you're insulting them?
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  39.  @strawdemindset  Red flag laws to prevent individuals under court or hospital supervision from buying them. Restricting the number of rounds that can go into the gun at a given time would help, recognizing that some firearms have no legitimate purpose outside military use and not letting civilians buy any version of them, closing the gun show background check loopholes and require background checks for any transfer of ownership or possession of firearms. Arguably excluding cases where it's just a couple of people temporarily swapping guns at a range, if it's just for a few minutes of use. Any of that would help, it's not an unsolvable problem other than the lack of political will, even a mass shooting targeting congress didn't seem to impress upon them how much of a problem that we've got.
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  40.  @mayrnibird9224  I don't think that pointing out that the Israeli government can reasonably be grouped with the Italian Fascists, Nazis and Apartheid South Africans is anti-Semitic. Perhaps if they didn't go around murdering civilians they wouldn't be so hated.
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  41.  @zoe6723  Precisely, I think the only time that my vote has ever actually mattered was in 2012 when I voted from overseas. I shouldn't have to move, establish residency and figure out how to register to vote in order to have my vote matter.
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  42. Now, if only they'd show a similar level of enthusiasm for actually doing the will of the people and addressing the needs of the constituents.
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  43. TBH, I recently saw one up close and it's even uglier in person than in the promotional materials.
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  44. According to Biden there are probably 50 Democrats that could beat Trump. So, how about we whittle the list down to anybody that's not senile and is able to promise voters things that they want in exchange for votes. And then actually try their best to deliver.
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  45. She's great, but they have a particularly strong line up this season.
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  46. Maybe, or perhaps some of them are going to vote for one of the other candidates. I have a total of 10 possible choices of Presidential candidates this year. Saying anything other than Kamala means that I'd likely be insulted. I'm not sure how many options other voters have in other states, but it's not just the 2.
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  47. @Gh44HZ Precisely, and if all the parties that are available aren't going to vote for laws to reduce those corporate profits, how do you fix it by voting?
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  48. You should listen to him because he has access to the donors that actually pay for these elections.
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  49. It's also completely on brand.
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  50. "Unlucky" isn't that what the mob says right after your bar mysteriously burns down after you declined to pay the protection money?
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  51. I'd settle for them just listening to what the voters want and doing their best to earn enough votes to be elected.
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  52. No, it's because she didn't offer anything to men, it was extremely close and what we got was shaming.
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  53.  @ainumahtar  IIRC, by the time that the BttF movies were made, the company was already out of business. There were a a few pretty significant issues like the cost of repairing the stainless steel body work.
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  54.  @spartacus36526  The Democrats could try something radical, promising things to voters that we might want and then actually try to live up to the promises.
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  55.  @abctalkies6981  This is a load of nonsense. There have been disadvantaged groups of white folks that had to earn their way out of the hole they were in as recently as the middle of the last century, but there isn't even any sort of real acknowledgement that it happened in the school curriculum, even though it wouldn't take more than a literal minute to mention that the US concentration camps during WWII also had Italian-Americans and German-Americans amongst others that were confused with those intended to go. When you look at those communities, there's far more going on than you seem to think, race can make things more challenging, but the modern conception of race that people use is a modern thing that didn't exist until sometime after WWII. What's more, the poorest non-indigenous people in the US are white, and get no help of any sorts. Not to mention that the various wealth gaps disappear if you throw out the top quartile of the income earners, as in the vast majority of the disparity is at the very high end and typical white people aren't doing that much better than typical people of other groups.
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  56. She also didn't offer anything to address men's issues.
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  57. It's normal that when there's an incumbent that that party won't have a real primary. I think that with how old Biden is, that was a massive mistake One of the reasons why they don't usually have a contested primary when they have a sitting President is that it allows them to direct those resources to down ballot candidates that are rather important to get anything done. In this case though, if they had a contested primary and Biden managed to win anyways, it would send a much more positive signal about his ability to do the job for 4 more years. That's not to say that I think that he'd win the primaries as he only won last time because the fix was in. He's not with the same it this time as he was last time.
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  58. In all fairness, there was a seductive couch behind the interviewer. He just got distracted.
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  59. It also depends on the people having a say in which candidates are in the general election.
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  60. UREA? That sounds oddly appropriate to what's happening.
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  61. You can't get away with playing defense unless you're massively ahead.
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  62. 2 Years? Kamala wasn't even the candidate 6 months ago. I think that it's completely unacceptable that she got to be the candidate despite literally nobody voting for her to be the candidate. It's even worse than HRC, and at least she was able to win some states. Kamala has not won a single state in any primary.
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  63. They already did decades ago, it's just that the rubes haven't figured it out.
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  64. Of course, they even printed the notes with Kevlar. He probably has a bunch more under his jacket.
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  65.  @benwalters4808  I'd be curious to see how much they made from campaign ads versus the mainstream media did. Considering that most of the shows they air aren't political commentary, they probably have significantly less to lose in terms of upsetting politicians.
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  66. I was surprised it took that long.
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  67. Essentially you already do, the tip isn't subject to sales tax. That is the one of the only benefits for tipping from the customer's side. The tip is both voluntary and doesn't increase the sales tax.
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  68.  @chrisfranklin7547  It's because those waiters typically have fewer customers because the customers expect to stay there longer and receive a higher degree of service. And, typically, the high end restaurants also expect higher standards from the waiters than a lower priced restaurant.
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  69.  @ronswanson1410  Yep, one of the reasons that a lot of us don';t vote for Democrats is that arrogant attitude while failing to offer anything that might make us want to hand the vote over. Personally, I'm done with that BS. If they want my vote, they had better do something to earn it. That's how politics is supposed to work, the candidates are supposed to be competing to earn our votes, we don't owe any of them a vote.
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  70.  @HappinessHealthPeace  But that's how the gangbangers in the movies do it. Why don't you want people to look cool?
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  71. What gets me is that an increasing share of the people being expected to pay tips are themselves making minimum wage. Meaning that they're paying tips to people making more than they are.
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  72. Perhaps, but we have a system where winning the Presidency is extremely expensive and most primary campaigns end as a result of not having the funds to continue the fight to the convention.
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  73.  @Buckboy2024  Yes, and then there are the guys on that panel that are probably well aware of what a waste of time the voting process has become. Even if by some miracle a candidate does run on a platform trying to appeal to you, it's pretty much a sure thing that only the horrible things that they promise that have any hope of actually coming true.
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  74. That's part of why so many people steal when they go through self-checkout even if they wouldn't normally steal.
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  75. If Trump wins, it's going to be because the Democrats have, yet again, not bothered to try to secure any votes from non-trans male voters. I don't see anything in her platform that speaks to any of my needs unless they're something that applies to everybody, but I do see a fair set of times where she says that it's basically for people, just not white men. People notice that sort of thing and while the GOP is absolutely terrible, the Democrats aren't even willing to pretend like men's issues are important issues. The GOP at least gives it lip service and pretends like they'll care.
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  76. Perhaps, but even if enough voters do that to prevent Trump from winning this time, it just kicks the inevitable down the road until the next election when the party gets wiped out. As long as they completely ignore the will of the voter and policies at a time when the GOP has gerrymandered everything and controls SCOTUS, nothing is gong to improve.
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  77.  @nillyk5671  IIRC, even by the administration's own figures, it's at least a half million that have been killed by the Israelis. Who knew that Hamas was so progressive? What with all the women and children that are apparently in their fighting forces.
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  78.  @LePedant  Yes, but as we learned in 2000, it's just the 9 SCOTUS justices whose votes actually count. That being said, the Democrats were once again playing with fire and rather than having a proper primary, allowing the voters to choose the nominee and going for the strongest candidate they could find, they allowed Biden to strong arm them into being the candidate until he was completely unable to go the distance. I have no idea what would have happened had he actually won the race as he clearly was not going to be able to serve out another 4 year term.
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  79. Now if only they'd try to take the radical step of trying to get young men to vote for them.
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  80. Any Democrat or Republican voter that cares about this country should just stay home. Y'all have done enough damage for a century's worth of elections.
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  81. Clinton v. Trump was worse. We knew in like May or so that Trump was going to win and didn't see even the smallest effort to build a coalition to take him on. And to make matters worse, HRC burned through basically all the campaign money that should have gone into the down ballot races for candidates that could potentially fight back against Trump when elected.
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  82. And if they'd put in even the slightest effort to secure male votes the race wouldn't be so close.
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  83.  @twilightgardenspresentatio6384  Maybe in the past before a significant chunk of the churches sold out.
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  84.  @gnomatic  There's a difference between Libertarians and civil libertarians. The latter being people like me that mostly just want the government to respect the constitution, but not in the absolutist and confused way that Libertarians commonly do.
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  85. I'd consider voting 3rd party, that's what I'm doing. My vote doesn't really matter on account of no GOP politician winning a state wide race in decades, but there are a number of other candidates that I can vote for to show that it's not a lack of commitment or that I forgot to vote, it's that I specifically recognize what losers I'm being offered to vote for by the major parties.
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  86. A bunch of women voted for Trump because he was promising that, not in spite of him promising that. Abortion rights wouldn't have gone away in so many parts of the country so quickly if there weren't a sizable number of women that don't want legal abortions.
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  87. IIRC, in 2020 67% of eligible voters voted in the Presidential election.
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  88. What glass ceiling? There are women CEOs in all sorts of major companies and the only reason why there hasn't been a female POTUS is that the DNC rigged the 2016 primaries in favor of the least popular politician they could find.
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  89. The irony there is that if they had just made Bernie the VP in either election, they would be in a much stronger position. There's no way that Biden makes it the next 4 years if he's elected. No way, he seems to be doing even less work right now than Trump was and these same people weren't OK with that. I'm not sure there are any politicians available that could win at this point other than Bernie or somebody that is from his branch of the party. The more righty folks that are still voting Biden are not voting Trump and Bernie did a lot better with the independents than HRC and Biden did.
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  90. Yep, although Futurama did an equivalent joke about walking.
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  91. I'm less familiar with Australia than some other commonwealth nations, but are you stuck with those candidates for as long as we are? In the UK, they can dissolve parliament at any time and they can vote no confidence in the PM and have a new vote whenever they like, so long as it's at least once every 5 years. In the US, congressmen get 2 years, senators get 6 and the President gets 4. And barring a resignation, impeachment or death we're stuck with them for that long.
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  92. I do, but he's a tool. Harris has done little to address the needs of the younger men that could wind up tipping things in favor of Trump. I flat out refused to vote for them because of the lack of any clear reason for me to vote for her when she's silent on all the issues that I care most about and isn't really even campaigning in my state. I might have held my nose and voted for her anyways, but she's on the wrong side of the war between Israel and a growing portion of the Middle East.
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  93. @ Referencing that movie is not a part of my particular set of skills.
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  94. Without mentioning it? I regularly see that printed on the menu as well as on the receipt. Then again, I don't normally go out to eat in such large groups.
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  95. That's largely because the political class doesn't really care what the outcome is. They're going to be fine, in some ways, it's easier for them if they do lose because they can fundraise on that and don't have to deliver anything. The only way that Biden might be able to not drop out and still win would be if he kicks Kamala to the curb and chooses Bernie as his VP. One of the big mistakes that both HRC and Biden made were not doing anything to try and earn the votes of the progressive wing of the party. It might not be enough, but it would at least be something.
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  96. Who says that women's rights aren't important? It's men's rights that are pretty much completely ignored by the Democrats. I guess they don't care about winning the election enough to stoop to promising to actually do anything that might improve the quality of life for men or actually address any of our issues.
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  97. Fair enough, y'all were the ones that destroyed Democracy, so perhaps fixing it would be the least you could do after forcing HRC on us and now forcing Harris on us.
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  98. I'm not voting for Trump, but it's not like Kamala or the Democrats have shown any meaningful interest in having white men voting for them. Especially younger working class ones. I personally live in a state that neither candidate is putting any meaningful effort into winning, so what I do doesn't really matter that much. But, the Democrats were incredibly arrogant through this whole thing about thinking they could force Biden on us even though he clearly isn't up to another 4 years and then they forced Kamala on us without even having the delegates get to choose somebody else. And, now we're surprised that there's a bunch of people that aren't already on board with either candidate. Not to mention the usual large number of eligible voters that don't vote for anybody.
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  99.  @chriswatchreviews4752  You act like the Democrats care. They did in the past, but the current crop couldn't even be bothered to mount a serious attempt at getting essential workers hazard pay when they had the votes to potentially do it. Sure, they were able to have a failed vote when they didn't have the votes, but when they did, they didn't even try.
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  100. Yes, although they haven't seen a similar zeal to help single people out.
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  101. If you understood American politics it would. Him on his own wouldn't be enough to sink the campaign anymore than Abigail Disney pulling all of her money from all of the Democrats if Biden doesn't bow out of the race. Those are just two major donors to the party and you better believe they're not saying things that are going to get them kicked out of their circle of friends. They're the ones that are normally doing things like organizing fundraisers, the big money fundraisers that the parties need to pay for the expense of competing.
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  102. She doesn't care about winning. She didn't even know what her platform would be when Biden dropped out, even though it was pretty clear to everybody that he wouldn't be able to go the distance and then finish a 4 year term.
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  103. Competition. If the competitors aren't doing that, the customer just sees the price and doesn't mentally factor in the fact that there's no additional tipping required. It's the same reason why most stores don't include sales tax with the price. They could do it rather easily, but it makes their prices look higher than the competitors even if the final price is the same. Also, the tips are helpful when it comes to attracting the best available servers as expecting customers to tip often means more tips than if the money is just added to the bill.
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  104. Or, try something radical, actually do something to earn the votes of younger men. I don't see much of anything on her campaign positions that addresses the needs of younger men. But, somehow it's going to be men that are blamed if she loses, even though it's going to be women that get credit if she wins.
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  105.  @nartouzumaki8232  Yes, because unlike Biden, Trump has the popular support of his party. I don't look forward to 4 more years of Trump, but the Democrats deserve that from trying to force Biden on the people for another 4 years having squandered their opportunities.
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  106.  @ericcarlson6822  Yep, from what I can tell, in order for it to be an illegal bribe, you have to offer them specific money to engage in a specific corrupt act and you have to specify that the money is only going there if the corrupt act is done.
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  107. Shouldn't the Democrats being engaging in some sort of self-reflection to figure out why people like that are voting GOP to burn the system to the ground? What does it say about the Democrats that voting for somebody that's pretty much promising to make it burn is more appealing than their candidate?
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  108. @trippingthelight So, how many more decades of the Democrats actively selling the people out and helping the GOP fulfill their promises before that sort of vindictiveness is appropriate? Because it's been over 30 years at this point. Obama got GOP goals accomplished that they never could have gotten away with.
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  109. That's generally illegal in states where you have to go to a voting booth. It's pretty much impossible to prevent in states where it's vote by mail.
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  110. That right there is why the stick notes should be in the men's rooms as well. Congratulations, I hope you're proud of yourself. He gets to make his own choice independent of pressure but you couldn't let the guy have that. I hope he has the sense someday to divorce you.
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  111.  @timf7679  From the customers, all this is just BS nonsense that focuses around tricking the customers into paying more than they would otherwise. Same goes for the service fees, there's no reason for those either, the businesses could just bake that into the price the way that they used to, but for some reason it's become normal to make some service fees and sales tax an add on rather than being included in the price. Plus, it gives a bunch of power to the customers.
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  112.  @mavicmaverick-pnw  Yes, accountants exist and can figure out how much of the price to apportion to labor versus rent versus food and whatever other components are at play. The reason for tipping is that the business can put that on the customers without having to actually list an accurate price on their menu.Around here between tax and tip the difference can be 30% if you do the now largely standard 20% versus the older standard of 15%.
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  113. That wouldn't be so bad if they weren't allowed to lobby for more laws to justify incarcerating people.
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  114. Only if we can address the fact that it's "normal" to make no effort at all to address men's issues. Considering how much DV is the result of anger management issues, perhaps addressing some of the things that lead men to be angry and frustrated could be a portion of the plan to deal with the problem.
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  115. Wrong door? Are you saying that most garbagemen use the wrong door?
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  116. The issue tends to be that there isn't anybody worth voting for and anybody that is and somehow manages to get elected gets corrupted.
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  117.  @BrooksFoodLooks  Early on it made sense to elect the President indirectly because of how large the country was and the time it took news to spread about what platforms the candidates were running on. The electors could go to DC and do some debating and choose the candidate that best reflected them. However, at this point, the system makes absolutely no sense in anyway and an increasing portion of the elections are going to the one that can figure out how to use advanced statistical tools to just get the necessary votes in specific states to win the election. I don't think that if those tools had existed when the constitution was being written that they would have gone with this method.
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  118. They had their chance to save in a way that the younger people haven't, and I don't see anybody coming to save my social security. They've already increased the eligibility age for me, even though I'm in my 40s and none of the politicians I've had available to vote for have been willing to actually do something to address it. Meanwhile, wages have largely be stagnant for my entire life allow for fewer options in terms of savings, and housing prices have continued to go up as insufficient new housing stock has come onto the market to allow us to buy in.
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  119.  @grymjaw  That's where tax policy comes in. Just make whatever taxes to cover it kick in to get the money from wealthier people. They may still use it, but they'd be paying for it.
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  120.  @binaryvoid0101  It's controversial because of the various groups that get ignored. People rarely talk about the ethnic cleansing that went in over the history of the US when it comes to white ethnic groups. A lot of people genuinely don't know that German-Americans and Italian-Americans were also thrown into concentration camps on US soil during WWII because it gets left out. A lot of people are not aware that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meyer_v._Nebraska came about because anti-German sentiment during WWI and as a result other groups have gotten to benefit from it being settled precedent that you can't ban languages from schools. The whole reality of that looks very different when you consider the whole context of what happened rather than cherry picking. While the popular conception is that lynching was white on black crime, the reality is that a solid third of those lynched weren't black. It was still horrific, but there's no reason to pretend like those other victims didn't exist.
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  121. @blaze129 Yes, although it's not surprising given the degree to which much of the genocide and ethnic cleansing that was done wasn't ever acknowledged in schools. It's hard to stop things like that from repeating if you can't admit that groups like Germans were ethnically cleansed and one of the important civil rights court cases involved the German language being banned from schools. People grow up with this questionable narrative that it was white people versus everybody else and the reality was a lot worse than that. What constitutes white changed a lot over the centuries and there were definitely instances like with Black people and the Irish where the Irish were the less desirables and there were real questions about whether a Catholic was an acceptable choice for POTUS before JFK was elected.
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  122.  @Gatorade151  Yes, if the donors are publicly stating that they won't give money to him, then he's pretty much done. If he was getting a bunch of small money donations from voters he might be able to survive that, but the voters never wanted him. There were just enough that didn't want Trump for him to win.
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  123. The choice of colors was not an accident.
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  124.  @benroberts2222  I'm guessing that the difference here is how many military personnel aren't serving close to home. All the other bases would be infiltrated as well.
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  125. Or get in a time-machine and convince Harris to actually have some policies for men. This is a tight race and having one candidate that flat out isn't trying to win the votes of young men in particular is just asking for trouble.
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  126. Joe Biden is a useful idiot. If Donald Trump is the sort of danger that the Democrats would have us believe, why are they using a C league politician to go after him? Perhaps go after him with a candidate that has real supporters. You know, people that actually would still want him as President without Biden.
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  127. So, for whom are they supposed to vote for? Neither party seems to care about actually doing anything about the issue. They both get donations from the same corrupt oligarchs.
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  128.  @patrickbyrne5070  That's mainly down to the fans, although I'm guessing that they probably are really nice people in real life.
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  129. That's what gets me. It's been nearly 25 years of these "existential" races and yet the DNC never seems to consider that they need better candidates and that those candidates need to follow through on their promises when in office. The Republicans are absolutely brutal when they take over, but the Democrats are playing paddy-cake,
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  130. And, keep in mind that men don't have anybody that's advocating for us in this election. The GOP is engaged in some degree of lip service, but the Democrats can't even be bothered to give us lip service or pretend like our issues matter.
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  131. It's slightly more complicated as parts of Eastern Europe have even more weapons than the US does, but the easy access of weapons is a significant factor, as is other social factors in the US. Limiting the weapons available to ones that have legitimate civilian use would make it a lot harder to massacre large numbers of people though. There's little point in being able to load up more than 5 or 6 rounds for civilian use.
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  132.  @williamyelton2227  If a group is genuinely at a disadvantage structurally, they will disproportionately benefit from measures to address things like poverty or access to healthcare. But, it would happen in a way that didn't leave people in as much need out of the help.
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  133.  @ellieporter3270  There's no reason to do both. Focus on the universal programs and if there's still issues that don't go away as a byproduct, that is the time to consider something more along the lines of a DEI initiative. In practice, there's little reason to believe that that would be necessary as the main differences are at the most wealthy within the groups and far less so at lower levels of wealth.
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  134.  @Stunkos  Yes, one of the things that I've pointed out for decades now is that if universal programs don't completely solve the issues, further programs will not permit any hiding spots for bigots to hide their bigotry if there is more targeting. Part of why racists can get away with stuff like the welfare queens speech and the like, is because it isn't universal and there are a bunch of extremely poor white people that nobody seems to care about helping.
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  135. Not really, but we do need 2 parties pushing for different priorities. The problem with the Democrats and the Republicans is that they're equivalent to the coalitions that you see in parliamentary systems where they have many parties However, since the Democrats keep moving further and further to the right, the GOP has gotten to be less and less diverse, it used to be that there was a genuine split in the GOP over illegal immigration with some being for more control and some for less. However, as the Democrats have moved further and further to the right, the positions that conservative politicians can take has greatly shrunken to the point where it's mostly just MAGA Republicans and not many others have been able to figure out how to remain relevant.
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  136.  @Stunkos  Precisely. A big difference is that the Democrats and Republicans create their coalitions before joining a party. Whereas in many other areas the parties join coalitions. There isn't really that much difference and if the Democrats would go back to being a leftwing party, you'd see more variety in the GOP candidates on various issues.
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  137. ​ @Porpentein  It has to do with how the system is set up, you can do things like have a proportional voting system where parties get a certain number of seats based on the portion of the votes they won. You can also do things like bar parties from choosing which candidates are on the ballot. Here in WA State, we have a bunch of parties at the state level because the parties are only allowed to choose the nominees for the Presidential election. So, every other partisan race the candidates get to put whatever party they like, we even get some folks on old or obscure parties like the Whigs running candidates. But, TBH, that hasn't really changed things so much as the fact that we permit individuals from the same party to run against each other in the general election and when districting is done, we don't permit the winners to gerrymander themselves to an advantage as it's a separate committee that does that.
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  138. Likely the only way that will happen is if something is done to make all of the businesses doing this stop. It's the same bit about sales tax, you can include the sales tax in your prices, but you're then competing with other stores that aren't.
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  139. IKR, I still can't figure out how people didn't notice that Biden spent most of the previous campaign cycle hiding in his basement just being not Trump.
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  140. Exactly, neither Trump nor Harris made any serious effort to earn my vote, so I voted 3rd party for somebody that was saying things that I think might make my life and the life of others better. Of course, it'll be Harris or Trump, but that's not my fault.
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  141. You'll note that the Harris campaign has been comparatively little effort into trying to earn men's votes. If you go to her site there's a fair number of mention of women and people of color, but I didn't see anything at all that would directly benefit me, even though a bunch of the stuff is suspiciously similar to the nonsense that has been hurting me in the past. It's not as obvious as it was in 2016 that they don't want the male vote, but it's pretty clear that they don't want men voting for them unless they're a very specific kind that has no self-esteem and is fine with being permanently locked out of any sort of access to higher education or a better life.
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  142. He's antiwar, he's trying to end it by associating with it enough that everybody becomes repulsed by the idea of another war.
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  143. It's almost as bold as one of the parties not even trying to address issues that men care about.
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  144.  @DammikaW48474  How does Biden win with no popular support and no donor support to try and get votes?
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  145.  @jackiechristian-di6sy  I take it you're looking forward to 4 more years of Trump then, because Biden can't win. I mean 3/4 of the public doesn't think he can make it another four years.
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  146. TBH, the notes should go in the men's rooms as well to remind men that they don't have to vote for Harris just because the media says they have to. Harris hasn't done anything to try to earn men's votes, so men should realize that it's OK to vote Trump, or like I did 3rd party.
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  147. Part of the problem is that Trump lies constantly and reverses himself, it's not at all clear which of the horrible things he's promising to do are shiny enough for him to follow through on. Harris, OTOH, has been in the race for less than 6 months and didn't even have a platform to offer the voters initially. She didn't compete in any of the primaries this time, and didn't win a single delegate last time. I'd be somewhat hard pressed myself to really say much about either candidate that I think might actually apply if they're elected. I'm somewhat fortunate in the sense that I live in a part of the country that doesn't get a meaningful vote. The state hasn't voted GOP since the '80s and none of the candidates put up much of a fight for our votes in the general election. From what I've seen from both candidates, they flat out don't want my vote.
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  148.  @spongo  Government spending causes inflation, but in this case it would be offset by taxes and the reality that if everybody is getting regular medical care, any resultant inflation would be offset by savings in terms of unnecessary treatment.
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  149. We've got it figured out, every time there's a mass shooting event, especially involving children, there's a massive opportunity to fund raise to either stop it, or to stop people from grabbing folks' guns. Stopping the mass shootings would just end the gravy train.
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  150. I'm not sure that you can credibly claim the US has a functioning democracy at this point, what with the only correlation between what is done by the government is with the donations being made.
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  151.  @moss787  That attitude is why I'll be voting 3rd party this year. Neither of the major party candidates want my vote anyways, so I might as well register my dissatisfaction by voting for one of the other choices. I'm not voting RFK JR because he's more or less not running, and was pretty nutty. But, that leaves me with 7 other not-Dem, not-GOP options to vote for.
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  152.  @andyharman7581  Around here the minimum wage is nearly $20 an hour right now and there is no exemption for tips. I think the restaurant workers are still making a bit less before tips than the regular minimum wage, but that exemption ends the beginning of next year.
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  153. It kind of amazes me that hacks like Black can conveniently forget that it's not our jobs to find a reason to vote. It's the parties and the candidates who have the responsibility to earn our vote and give us a reason to come out and vote. With so many people not voting at all, that's an absolutely damning indictment of the political elites.
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  154. Why? Women are why Trump won in 2016.
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  155. Why should we? The Democrats are doing basically nothing to help young men out, why should we turn out for her? This has been going on for decades and while the GOP isn't doing anything for us either, at least they're giving some lip service. The DNC can't even give us lip-service or pretend like our issues are important to them.
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  156. We haven't had a real election in quite a few years. Obama was the last candidate that the left wanted and he turned out to be a complete fraud. Before that it was Clinton who was also an absolute fraud.
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  157. He's also an absolute psychopath that worked for McKinsey.
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  158. Patriots aren't voting for that undemocratic hack. She won zero primaries and didn't even have a platform ready, despite having worked with Biden long enough that she had to have known that he was too senile to last through the next term.
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  159.  @stefrost4029  It's hard for restaurants to compete with ones that don't include the tax in the price. For the most part the only places that I've seen tax being included is at sports games from the vendors walking around because of how much of a pain calculating and dealing with the change can be while traveling around the stadium.
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  160. That's optimistic, I can't imagine anything they do with the show actually moving the needle in either direction on this.
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  161. I sort of get why conservative women would, but why would any conservative men vote for Harris when she's promising men as close to nothing as possible.
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  162.  @JEEDUHCHRI  Possibly, although it's also his job to push back, the fact that it doesn't happen consistently across all shows doing interviews is a major problem. My wife had Fox News on and they were doing a panel on the Israel-Hamas fight where every single panelist was pro-Israel.
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  163. They managed it in 2020 with a candidate that was already in decline, at this point we're in danger of needing Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman to do a quick Weekend at Bernie's job. Which would be somewhat ironic given that the actual corpse here isn't Bernie Sanders.
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  164.  @owenlarson07366  Nobody wants Kamala. She had like a 2 or 3% share of the votes last time. They can afford to lose those votes if they get somebody from the Bernie wing of the caucus to take over.
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  165. That used to be more the case back when wages actually covered the cost of living.
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  166. Unfortunately, even if he does that, it'll probably be somebody terrible like Kamala that's just as much of a sell out as he and Obama were.
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  167. Incompetence is being kind, they deliberately threw the election because they make the same money either way, it's just that if they lose it makes it a lot easier to fundraise and they aren't on the hook to follow through on any of the promises they made.
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  168.  @dylank.4498  Why? At this point anybody that's still a Democrat probably can't be reached. Blue MAGA and Blue-anon are real things, the left really shouldn't be making fun of the right for being out of touch with reality after this election. The DNC has been just completely ignoring the will of the people for too long, and we all suffer when there isn't a viable alternative to what the GOP wants to do.
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  169.  @luckylanno  They often times have 2 steering wheels, but I think if there is only one steering wheel it's on what's normally the passenger side.
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  170. If that 8 year old is super rich and super connected that might be appropriate. Until that kid can have successful donation parties where millions are raised by the campaign in one evening, Clooney is the one to listen to. We went down this path with HRC and even with the campaign dollars she still lost. Biden is probably less popular than HRC was, at least people generally agreed that she wasn't senile.
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  171.  @dreadlord5581  How on earth is that even remotely surprising? That was never a recognized thing to not let the sitting President choose the nominee to send to the Senate for confirmation just because it was nearing election time.
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  172.  @jtarwa4088  That's normal elections. This election there has also been people getting arrested for overt voter intimidation of strangers.
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  173. Because we have money in politics and donor cash is what keeps the incompetent folks like Pelosi and Biden in power.
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  174. And men aren't? There's more shelters for animals than for men.
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  175. Harris was going to cut the military?
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  176. We don't accept it, it just turns out to be a very hard condition to treat.
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  177. I'm a man that voted for Jill Stein, because that was the right thing to do. The Democrats have been quite clear that the don't want white men voting for them. They don't want black men voting for them. They don't want Middle Eastern men voting for them.They seem to tolerate Asian men and Latino men voting for them, but mostly because they check DEI boxes that they care about.
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  178. @Karlaintheburbs It's almost as if minorities are capable of having their own opinions and if the Democrats want the votes, they need to earn them.
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  179. IKR, there's a reason why he was hiding in his basement through most of the campaign when everybody else was campaigning.
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  180. Who do I have to vote for to get policies that actually address the numerous men's rights issues?
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  181. Yep, I voted Stein because she actually cares about the voters.
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  182. OK, then explain why her platform completely leaves out men's issues if she's going to be the POTUS for all Americans. Is she going to deport all the men? Because roughly half of all Americans are men or boys.
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  183.  @dingus6317  Considering that he recently acknowledged the harm done to the German-American community via the US concentration camps in the US where German-Americans that couldn't be conscripted or resettled were sent along with the Japanese-Americans, his ethnicity is unlikely to be why. He could just as easily have said Italian-Americans or Chinese-Americans as both groups were sent to the camps as well.
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  184. Well, the normie dems wanted electable last time, so now this time the man is even more senile than he was last time and a bunch still seem to think that he's better than Trump.
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  185. The issue is that it messes with the pricing policy. What the customers are presented with before they order is a price and that's what resonates, whether it is or is not inclusive of tip, the amount is what they see first. And, it's actually a fair amount of thinking to figure out what you're going to be paying with tax and tip. I didn't realize how much until I moved to a place with no salse tax and no tips.
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  186. Don't be greedy. A candidate like that can't win in this environment. Sigh, that is more or less why I'm voting 3rd party.
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  187.  @gamepeon8038  No he's not. They had to let him out on account of him being dead. The body would stink up the prison.
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  188.  @heyheyhey33351  It's a damning indictment of the Democratic elites that didn't bother to even try to find a candidate that the voters wanted after having outright rigged the primaries the previous two cycles.We know Trump is going to be a disaster, the fact that I can't vote for Kamala is completely their fault for not even trying to earn my vote. Not that it matters, the electoral college ensures that my vote won't count no matter what candidate I choose.
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  189. Which is part of why I refused to vote for either major party candidate.
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  190. Higher wages tend to increase prices, although if it's done properly, the two should largely cancel each other out.
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  191. I stopped watching those movies years ago because there were too many of them and there was too much being split amongst different movies to properly understand what was going on. It was great for the mega-fans, but for more casual fans it was a lot. I miss when franchises were more limited in scale and usually didn't have more than 3 or 4 movies.
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  192. I've been thinking recently that since Obamacare was essentially the Heritage Foundation proposal, it might have been better for him to just not do anything and just put up the normal feeble attempt to block the GOP from doing what it was going to do anyways. Because they started with a GOP proposal and it got moved to the right from there.
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  193. That's why a Biden/Harris ticket is doomed. Nobody wants Kamala, even on the Democratic side she only got like 2% of the primary votes last time. There are people that legitimately want Trump to be the President, the same largely can't be said of Biden. And that's even before people started to realize just how senile Joe really is. We knew last time that he was slipping, but I'm not sure people realized he had slipped this much.
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  194.  @ronswanson1410  same here. I'm voting 3rd party, but I live in a state that hasn't voted GOP since the '80s, so it's not like if I did vote for either major party candidate that it would make any difference.
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  195.  @guyvizard549  Or, perhaps it's a damning indictment of both parties to offer us something that justifies voting for one or the other. In 2016, it felt like Trump wanted votes and HRC couldn't be bothered to try to earn any. This time around, it feels like neither candidate really wants my vote. They certainly aren't promising me things that I might want to vote for them. I can't trust either one of them to fix the courts or get money out of politics, so what's the point? The only real difference is how quickly you want to get to full on fascism, and I'm not old enough to die before that happens.
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  196. Jim Jordan isn't running for President and presumably wasn't getting any of George's money.
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  197. To be fair, I think a lot of people knew this was going to be horrible. I don't think that anybody could have reasonably predicted half of the unhinged madness that's going on. The mass deportations, yes. Musk being allowed to take control of the Treasury and OMB, not so much.
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  198. He's not going to be in charge of the EPA.
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  199. What's it called when an entire political party does that to people?
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  200. There isn't a free delivery option? Around here, there's a program that the local grocery store has to get free pickup or delivery for $50 a year, with at least that much in coupons and points.
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  201. That's fine if your a woman, but I don't see anything on her site that promises to address any men's issues.
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  202.  @wncwaterfalls  The Democrats don't care. Or at least the leadership doesn't and the rank and file aren't gutsy enough to demand change.
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  203. It disgusts me that people are so OK with these campaigns completely ignoring most of the country to focus on a small number of states. And, it hurts the down ballot races when there isn't the opportunity for those candidates to appear along side the Presidential candidates.
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  204. Yes, which is why they do it. A universal policy would help more people and offer less of a distraction from the oligarchs that caused the problem in the first place.
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  205. Ever since they started worrying more about electability than policy, they've run worse and worse candidates. It's hard for me to imagine why I should vote for anybody the major parties are pushing because none of them are actually going to do things to improve my life. Both candidates could have given the American people health care during the pandemic via the provision in the ACA to do so during a pandemic, and they chose not to.
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  206.  @Jerome-t9t9  Yes, people need to stop letting Obama and the Democrats off the hook. Obama could have whipped the necessary votes to include a public option, he just didn't really want to include something that would be that audacious. Meanwhile, the Democrats have done basically nothing to address the mistake in the years since.
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