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

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3.  @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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  4.  @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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  5.  @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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  6. She also didn't offer anything to address men's issues.
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  7. 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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  8. In all fairness, there was a seductive couch behind the interviewer. He just got distracted.
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  9. It also depends on the people having a say in which candidates are in the general election.
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  10. UREA? That sounds oddly appropriate to what's happening.
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  11. You can't get away with playing defense unless you're massively ahead.
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  12. 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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  13. They already did decades ago, it's just that the rubes haven't figured it out.
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  14. Of course, they even printed the notes with Kevlar. He probably has a bunch more under his jacket.
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  15.  @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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  16. I was surprised it took that long.
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  17. 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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  18.  @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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  19.  @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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  20.  @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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  21. 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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  22. 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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  23.  @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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  24. 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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  25. 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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  26. 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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  27.  @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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  28.  @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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  29. 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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  30. 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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  31. 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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  32. 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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  33.  @twilightgardenspresentatio6384  Maybe in the past before a significant chunk of the churches sold out.
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  34.  @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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  35. 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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  36. 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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  37. IIRC, in 2020 67% of eligible voters voted in the Presidential election.
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  38. 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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  39. 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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  40. Yep, although Futurama did an equivalent joke about walking.
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  41. 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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  42. 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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  43. @ Referencing that movie is not a part of my particular set of skills.
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  44. 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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  45. 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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  46. 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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  47. 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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  48. 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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  49.  @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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  50. Yes, although they haven't seen a similar zeal to help single people out.
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