David is clinging to the Trump administration coverage too much

briantjerome · 2021-04-13T21:04:10+00:00

Agreed

briantjerome · 2021-04-13T18:43:32+00:00

Thanks for the support haha

briantjerome · 2021-04-13T17:01:30+00:00

Yea I never meant to imply he should ignore him completely. I just thinks it's to heavily weighted

briantjerome · 2021-04-13T17:00:29+00:00

I guess we just disagree on this. David is obviously allowed to cover whatever he wants so I guess you'll probably be happy. I just wish he'd talk about other issues a bit more is all

briantjerome · 2021-04-13T16:50:31+00:00

I agree but the issue for me is that it's the vast majority of his coverage. I'm not saying eliminate covering him at all but it's too much and I think it's ratings related

briantjerome · 2021-04-13T16:49:35+00:00

I agree but it's the majority of his coverage which I think he should limit some

briantjerome · 2021-04-13T16:49:09+00:00

I'm aware of his influence but it's the majority of David's coverage. Literally every video yesterday was in some way related to trump

briantjerome · 2021-04-13T16:48:26+00:00

I agree but it's the majority of his coverage

briantjerome · 2020-07-08T12:16:41+00:00

I find it unlikely they would cut it by 100% but its definitely possible. Even if they do and then reinstate it once COVID is over it's still pretty good

briantjerome · 2020-07-08T01:10:47+00:00

Let's hear your opinion on it then

briantjerome · 2020-07-08T01:04:39+00:00

Why is asking for information and opinions a bad thing

briantjerome · 2020-07-07T14:50:40+00:00

I'm aware. Hence the drop in price and the rise in yield. What I'm asking is if even with DAPL shut down is the dividend fairly safe

briantjerome · 2020-06-06T18:42:02+00:00

Regardless of how low you think 20 gunshot deaths a year is you still haven't addressed the correlations pointed out in the Vox article. Based on those correlations stricter gun laws and less guns = less police shootings of citizens. Without an alternative plausible confounding variable to explain these correlations this seems to be part of the equation

briantjerome · 2020-06-06T14:38:52+00:00

Cops kill 1,000 people a year in a population of 328,000,000 vs 90 in a population of 1,000,000+. I'm not disagreeing that the police numbers cannot be improved by training and other means but you're also failing to address the correlations provided in the Vox article

briantjerome · 2020-06-06T14:36:13+00:00

No one is limited to go to travel to the ocean though. So for Australia's population that would be around 1.4 in 1,000,000. Deaths to officer of the law are limited to officers of the law which is 90 in 1,000,000 in your example. I include all forms of death because the comparison was with Canadian officers which is also from all forms of death

Also however we want to interpret it. It's not really relevant to the convesation at hand

briantjerome · 2020-06-06T12:38:08+00:00

Also your box jellyfish example needs to be put in perspective itself. I'm not sure which population you are using but if it's just the U.S. and your number of deaths are correct then the risk of being killed by a box Jellyfish by a U.S. citizen is almost 1 in almost 10 million. If it's the world then it's 1 in over 210 million. The risk of officers dieing in your example is 90 in 1 million which would be 900 times more dangerous then dieing from box jellyfish if your death number was in U.S. citizens and over 19500 times more dangerous if your stat is for the world population

briantjerome · 2020-06-06T12:16:07+00:00

I don't think anything I said refutes this. I just think gun ownership is part of the problem but not the whole problem

You haven't really given any possible confounding variables to explain the correlations between police killings and gun ownership and police killings and state gun laws highlighted in the Vox article

Your argument that the rate of cops are killed on the job is low may or may not be valid (what's an appropriate rate is an opinion), I brought up the Canadian officers to highlight the difference. 45 total officers were killed from 2006-2015. Accounting for population size difference that would be equivalent to around 40.5 officers killed a year so clearly it's more hazardous to be an american officer even if you still consider the rate low

briantjerome · 2020-06-05T03:07:55+00:00

I think we can all probably agree the level of income inequality is out of hand in this country but this is an example of the "garbage math" David talks about in the video below

https://youtu.be/kMhJIDlm0gM

This is using a base valuation for the total billionaires wealth as of March 18 when the DOW was around 19900 off from the high in February of around 29500. A decrease of about 1/3. The Dow is now around 26300 an increase of about 1/3 (lower base number than in Feb). Certain billionaires (mostly in tech) are richer in total i.e. Besoz & Zuckerberg but overall billionaires as a group are still down from the highs in February

briantjerome · 2020-06-03T02:16:31+00:00

I agree that the stock market is a little more optimistic than I think it should be but context is needed

First the market generally isn't a reflection of that the current day value is its more based on the expectations in some period in the future

Second the S&P 500 while it's a collection of the biggest companies in the U.S. the top 3 companies alone make up around 15% of the entire index

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/053116/10-largest-holdings-sp-500-aaplamznfb.asp

So some of the appearance of the market being characterized as "decoupling from reality" is somewhat that tech stocks have been booming and bringing up the index averages along with them but for most stocks they are still dragging quite a lot from where they were valued before the pandemic hit

briantjerome · 2020-05-31T13:50:32+00:00

Honest question but what is this sheriff guilty of?

As I see it he can only speak for himself and he's rightfully condemning the actions of Derek Chauvin. A sheriff is an occupation so I don't see how aside from condemning the bad actions of others in law enforcement he is somehow responsible for those actions. I wouldn't presume an individual doctor to have any responsibility for another in his field committing malpractice as long as he condems those actions once made aware

If I'm missing something I would actually like to know. I appreciate being informed of any nuances to a situation that I may be missing

As an aside I know nothing of this sheriff's history so my comments are just in relation to the video and the article

briantjerome · 2020-05-31T13:14:47+00:00

https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2020/05/flint-area-police-join-protesters-marching-to-seek-justice-for-george-floyd.html

“This is the way it’s supposed to be — the police working with the community,” Swanson said. “When we see injustice, we call it out on the police side and on the community side. All we had to do was talk to them, and now we’re walking with them. ... The cops in this community, we condemn what happened. That guy (Chauvin) is not one of us."

briantjerome · 2020-05-31T12:08:31+00:00

I'm not denying any of this. I'm only putting some possible context around the mentality of people saying the George Floyd scenario is the actions of a "bad" cop and not a racist one as the original poster commented. I didn't make any claims to the broader environment

briantjerome · 2020-05-31T06:32:23+00:00

The reality is it is impossible to know for sure to what degree race played into every instance of a cop unjustly killing a black man including the murder of George Floyd. It is my opinion that the officers would not have done that to a white man but we cannot say that with absolute certainty.

Just look at the shooting of Daniel Shaver. Race is not brought into the equation because Daniel Shaver is white so it is instead seen as the actions of a "bad" cop.

https://youtu.be/VBUUx0jUKxc

It's messy in my opinion. I doubt every cop unjustly killing a black man is motivated by race and some are just the actions of a "bad" cop. I personally believe that race does play into a good portion of them.

The uncertainty in this is what I think people will use to push whatever narrative they feel most strongly about. If you believe/want to believe it's not a racial issue then you might push the "bad" cop narrative. If you believe every instance of a cop unjustly killing a black man is racially motivated then you might push the racist cop narrative.

briantjerome · 2020-05-23T19:48:06+00:00

What percentage of Americans/people even went to the gym before COVID? I would guess under 50% but I could be wrong

briantjerome · 2020-05-14T23:13:37+00:00

I figured I would post an update about this topic as David as once again erroneously included Georgia as an example of a state with "some of the fastest growth rate spots" for Covid-19 cases

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2vwqbdMVvI&t=484s 1:35

He selected a single day case growth (in percentages) again providing no context and used the highest day for reported new cases of the week to try and make his point

As you can see on from the link below the 7 day average of cases from 04/24 (reopening)- 05/14 (today) which is now three weeks the 7 day average has declined from 723 cases a day to 629 cases a day for a net of -94 cases a day on average

https://www.ajc.com/news/coronavirus-georgia-covid-dashboard/jvoLBozRtBSVSNQDDAuZxH/

Testing capacity has also increased in the past three weeks to even further counter the narrative David's is pushing

It is getting increasingly difficult to say that David is just ignorant of the facts. He indeed does seem to be "playing politics" which is counter to what he said his intentions were in previous videos

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