MUST WATCH: Mullin Confronts Anti-Plastics Witness About All The Things She Has Containing Plastic
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- Опубликовано: 14 июн 2023
- At today's Senate Environment Committee hearing, Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) questioned a Democratic witness who said she wished the plastics industry would end.
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Who else remembers the highly motivated eco-warriors protesting the use of paper bags and demanding that they be replaced with plastic bags because of 'the trees'?
Tree huggers?
Pepperidge farms remembers
Oh yeah
....and now plastic bags are a plague on the earth!
Plastic Trees perhaps?
PhD polymer chemist here (plastic chemist). Great line of questioning. Should have asked that one lady if she would like to go into a hospital today - without plastics. No IV tubing, no IV bags, etc. If the plastics disappeared, probably 90% of people there would die. No TV, no computers, no airplanes, no cushioned seats, no nylon hose, no electricity (think insulation for wires), etc. These people are utterly ignorant and dangerous.
I demand wooden IV tubing!!!!!
what is your opinion on plant based plastics?
There was a time in life when there was very little plastic used. So yes, we could go back. But would it be worth it. It's better to reuse plastic instead of putting it in our landfills.
And I couldn't do my hobby of polymer clay crafting! Screw that, too much stuff would be gone. I'm not gonna play this game! They can go live on an uncharted desert island somewhere with no plastic. Or gas stoves, or electric stoves for that matter. These ppl never THINK.
@@patrav4 Just like we could go back to a time before electricity. Not having the power to create things to put into our landfills is also a good thing, right?
The outtake from this is:
We need to find something to replace 'plastics' before we can stop using it.
Not only replace it but it's got to be better environmentally and cheaper/easier to make.
Golden comment right here. That it cant be avoided right now doesnt mean we should not even try to find a solution.
Exactly.
We already have. We can make disposable containers from fungi and algae
@@MS-fe3vo thats true actually, have seen stuff abt that. Now im gonna be honest in contradiction to my previous comment, altho its price should be affordable, if it is a tad more expensive id still prefer it.
Also id honestly rather see just humanity go than say 75% of other species.
Well, develop something then.
BRAVO. Sen. Mullin is making his points so clearly.
His point is that there is no way to make GLASSes without plastic?
You're silly...
What's great about his answer and questioning is that he's not against the stopping of use of plastic his issue is the the woman is suggesting it without putting a solution on what can we replace it with
@@m1leswilliams Out of all his statements and reality checks, that's the only thing you've heard?
@@m1leswilliamsMost lenses are plastic nowadays
Those with the least knowledge tend to have the strongest opinions based on nothing and yell the loudest.
wow that sounds like most californians lol
Correct, and this 100% covers the climate alarmists.
Isn’t that about the craziest $hit ever?! Then when confronted with legitimate questions about these certain thoughts & beliefs, they’ll just shut down, get quiet, get mad, so PHUCKING weird!!
You just made a statement that is applicable to the whole Biden administration.
@@joelplatt3396 Their hypocrisy just fries me. We're supposed to do without... but they can continue with their pampered lifestyles and all of the modern conveniences.
She didn't know the frame on her glasses is plastic. The fact that someone like that is at a senate hearing giving her opinion is what's scary
Not just frames, lens are made of plastic as well. Actual glass has not been used for many many years.
The fact that she is that clueless (stupid) about her subject material is scary enough to wake up some more people; one soul at a time.
It's "her truth"... 😂
@@blanko_sama8049 And it sounded really smart when she practiced her speech in front of the mirror.
The squeaky wheel gets the oil.
I like this guy !
The bad thing about having common sense is dealing with people that don't !
How did she got to the hearing? Oh i got it, on the Flintstone mobile
I love when these silly people get destroyed with facts. 🇺🇸
They get destroyed but they don't actually realized it happened.
@@mostlyinterested1016 True ! They can't handle the facts!!.
An yet, like the "Energizer Bunny", they just keep on beating their bullshit drum to the same damn tune.
FACTS.....FACTS.....The LUNATIC Left......Don't Need No STINKIN.......FACTS !
While what thou say is true it won't make a damn bit of difference to these lunatics because they want us poor, struggling, and dependent on government handouts.
She learned more on this day than the whole of her educational life.
Make no mistake about it not a thing was actually learned here at least not by any lib there.
You don't say!😂😂😂
What a short sighted limited way of thinking - feel sorry for your lack of curiosity!!@@StevenKilner
@@CDRhammond 👍The cognitive dissonance of the Left is immeasurable. It is why it's called the Left, because it ain't Right.
@@StevenKilner in 1 ear and out the other. The brain is is like a parachute, if it's not open it doesn't work. When you consider yourself well educated and know everything then your mind becomes closed. You can no longer take anything other than what you know. You don't know what you don't know.
I don’t know Donna Jackson. But I love her. A person with a real brain is refreshing.
It fills me with hope to see that there are sane minds out
The stark contrast between the intellect of these two witnesses . . . .
Their intellect is the same. Hemp can replace plastic in many instances.
Even if that were true (which it's not) where are you going to grow the amount needed to replace all the plastic in use today?
@@Tara-Maya whole lot of talk about what can be done and not a whole lot of getting it done.
@@Tara-Maya : Go buy a pair of glasses made of hemp. Try gettin a food grade hemp container for foodstuffs.
Ludicrous
@@Tara-MayaYou obviously have no idea how much plastic is used and in which products.
It is like protesting cutting down trees while holding a paper sign hooked to a wooden stick.
🤔🤣 Yeah they should use a white plastic cover from a bin or something hooked up to a PVC pipe.
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha
lol
Most logging protests I'm aware of are in regards to old growth forests, not the industry itself. I mean I get your point, I just need to point out it's not the best comparison.
It's like when a bunch of environmentalists were protesting drilling for oil years ago. They paddled out to a drilling rig in the ocean, most of them in kayaks, made of plastic which is a byproduct of petroleum. Virtuous and clueless.
Thisguy is awesome and well informed and prepared.
As opposed to whiners and complainers that dont look to fix the problem, just complain about it.
I’m so impressed by this discussion, the senate EPW committee was able to explain alternatives and the challenges with them. Donna Jackson provided an insightful perspective with cause and effect. She came across as an expert with considerable knowledge (though I couldn’t stop thinking about how gorgeous her hair was and found it difficult to focus on the topic at hand). Also, I wish the video caption didn’t cover the senators name plaques so I could identify who was talking. All-in-all, I enjoyed this video. It restored my faith in committee hearings to have genuine conversations on our commitment to improving the environment and humanity.
The problem with people is not that they're ignorant, though they are, the problem is that they want to force you to live by their ignorance.
They're called useful idiots. Those with an agenda use them..
People like this only act on this on good intention, however NEVER think of the travel from point A to point B, as if they think the change will happen suddenly overnight.
They don't think nor provide of what will replace it. How it will effect on their life and the lives of others. The costs of what it takes to make such a change. It's wild how many short sighted, ignorant people are in power right now. We are moving closer to a dark age and it's terrifying.
Yes, like the plandemic
Krohn's Korollary #1
The problem with stupid and/or ignorant people is,
They are too stupid and/or ignorant,
To comprehend how stupid and/or ignorant they are.
Dunning-Kruger Effect
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
"It's hard to win an argument with a smart person, but it's damn near impossible to win an argument with a stupid person." -- Bill Murray
Or TRY to do so...
Angelle Bradford, the first woman with glasses, is a prime example of someone can be described as, " The less she knows, the more she thinks she knows."
A woman that is so concerned with plastics use doesn't even know what her glasses are made out of.
@@keinlieb3818 It's as charming as all the leather-wearing anti-meat activists.
She's the first woman with glasses? This is an historic moment!
@@workingstiffdiogenes2195 🤣i love how english works
She knows she’s a very very good girl!
Poor Angela got caught by her hypocrisy.
Well articulated points!
Optometrist here: her frames and lenses “glasses” are %100 plastic. If she doesn’t know this then she is the problem.
She obviously doesnt see anything with them anyway.
@UCQPqy5Z93WzvtplHQ4p5tiA
Lets face it , she is pretty blind now about what goes on in life and
manufacturing .
She is blind with her ideology.
She's blind with arrogance, and stupidity a lethal combination.
She probably thought I’ll just wear contact lenses instead - at least she didn’t say it.
Donna Jackson understands capitalism.
God bless her!
Wouldn't she make a terrific addition to the upper echelons in the white house...you know where I mean. We sure do need someone like her that has some power in the finances of our country.
And she has a good sense of economics from firsthand experience.
@@pbrooks2099 Right you are, and she is so articulate....no hums and haws and beating around the bush with her comments. Or the remarks made by so many "well I just don't have that information with me, or I don't have those figures for you at this time." We pay high dollars for so many that can pour pee out of a boot with the directions on the heel.
Please we need her over here in the UK
Good job Mrs Jackson on the response with truth .
Finally! These intelligent men and woman are a breath of fresh air!!! We may have hope after all! God bless ❤
The fact she is so clueless but still given a platform... something has to change.
she said no single use plastic, he points to her once a life time glasses
@@zombiekilla7463 once a life-time glasses ? lol apparently you have never worn glasses ..
Could always make her mayor of dem run chit hole city
@@zombiekilla7463 Lifetime glasses.. well what world do you live in where that is generally true?
Seriously, I'd like some of these alternate universe invincible glasses that never get damaged or suffer wear and tear.
@@zombiekilla7463
Have you any idea HOW MANY PEOPLE wear glasses?
"In the last thirty years, we've exchanged a culture of using what works for one that sounds good". - Thomas Sowell
Isn't that true! And just because it sounds good, doesn't mean it is good. It's just meant to make everyone FEEL better.
In the last 30 years we have caused much harm to our planet …shouldn’t this conversation be about replacing plastic with something else…we have some brilliant minds on the planet…that should be the focus..not arguing….
It's funny that MAGA quotes Sowell even tho he was against everything conservative
@@sandrathompson1277 I don't know your age, but our planet is immensely healthier now than it was in the 1960s and 1970s.
Yep, and it doesn't matter if the idea or legislation works, or is even harmful, it is the intention of the promotor that matters. They should be rewarded even if their plan was awful. "We have to do something" might be the worst words ever spoken.
Plastic is not the problem.
People are.
It's like saying money is the root of all evil.
Wow.. she was educated today
When you confront mass ignorance with massive facts, this is a good example of what it looks like.
well, before you present any facts. you need to make sure that the facts are valid.
You can spit out facts, but if they are untrue... you just sound like an ignorant idiot too.
Yeah, this guy didn't even know we had eyeglasses for centuries before plastic was invented. What a idiot.
No, it's not. This guy looks like he's been compromised by lobbyists. It is very easy to replace a significant amount of plastic things with other resources. Many things we have today never used to have plastic in them but now do not because we needed them but because it's cheaper or profitable.
Plastics also have a significant detriment to our health and ecosystem. He was just asking ridiculous questions. Of course eliminating plastics is unrealistic.
@@O1OO1O1 Funny how you say lobbyists. Yet, environmental activists created this mess by demanding more plastic because they thought it would be recycled endlessly. Now, they're blaming the very people they wanted to create more plastic use.
More like confronting ignorance with even more ignorance. Biodegradable plastics can be made from the cellulose of plants like cannabis, & wasted corn stalks. Big Oil donors apparently didn't inform you, or the Representative of this 'fact'.😏
She doesn’t even live “anti-plastic” but wants to dictate to everyone else how they should live their lives.
Thats a LIBERAL for you.
She doesn’t need to live anti plastic because the system is not set up to live anti plastic. She is advocating for the system to be changed to support anti plastic living.
@@jacoby4838 except she had no solutions, no alternatives. I found the footage of the entire session. All talk, no action.
@@jacoby4838 Yes! We can "change the system" using rainbows, pixie dust, and unicorn farts! 😄
More childishly naïve, impossible-in-the real-world input from someone with zero realistic answers, and who depends every minute of every day on the very thing he/she is "advocating" to be eliminated, including at the very moment he/she is advocating it. Everything you eat, drink, wear, drive, ride in, live in, entertain yourself with, or use in any way, including to make idiotic comments on the Internet, is made of plastic and/or is dependent on plastics somewhere along the way. The same is true with petroleum, btw, which is a vital ingredient in almost all plastics.
It must be fun to be a giant, un-self aware hypocrite, living in a bubble and full of easy, nonsensical, feel-good, posturing proclamations that you never have to actually prove or live up to yourself.
Like everyone wanting green policies and wants to solve climate change (as if any of the "solutions" wont do more harm to the environment and people)
I loved the woman at the end, Ms. Jackson. She was incredible!
I work at the railroad and heard a rant from someone about how dangerous and obnoxious they are, I responded how do you get anything you are wearing, the groceries you eat the goods you buy etc. people are ignorant about everything they complain about
Her facial expression was so on point. She knew absolutely zero about the assignment
but she is hot
😂😂😂 she is cute though
@@markadams2907if that's all she has going for her, and it's obvious that's it, she and others like her are doomed.
@@markadams2907 nah, she isnt
@@markadams2907 I agree. What a beautiful woman. Maybe it would be better if she was a model.
"In my dream world", one of the most serious issues of the young generation is being separated from reality.
It’s getting kind of creepy. My lgbtq activist cousin (who I love dearly) mentioned that her dreamworld is one without straight people.
It broke my heart. Like idk how these people get to their “dream worlds” without hurting a lot of other people first. Can you say… genocide?
Young people dream, are idealist and often a little separated from reality. That's not new and it's not bad per se. They will eventually get old. No worries. And, in general, the world is getting older.
Did everyone just ignore the "but" before this guy decided to go on a rant?
Worst yet..having government dictate reality.
@@Tiago_R_Ribeiro Just because they get old doesn't mean they will get wise. Ignorance doesn't just disappear with time.
Damn she got pwned
That man has the gift of telling people they are stupid about a 100 times with out telling them.
🤣🤣🤣🤣yes
😅😅❤
😂😂😂 Best comment ever
How does this nut job even make it to a hearing? Have we gone mad as a country?
He didn't hear her out then started ranting about that her glasses were made of plastics (which he didn't even know, the frame might as well have been made of metal material), then he assumed the lid on the bottle was plastic (which he didn't know) further interrupting her.
She was going to discuss the issues of using single use plastics, which is a BIG problem for nature and humans. An alternative material for single use plastics I would say is hemp plastic, a material that is more robust and durable and decomposes MUCH faster (less than 200 days instead of single use plastic which can take 20 to 500 YEARS, and then you have the microplastics which most people probably consume every day).
This guy is most likely corrupt and probably paid by the oil industry.
I cannot believe this woman sat there and actually had to touch the mouth of her water bottle she brought with her to see if it was in fact plastic and tried to say she didn't know if the glasses literally on her face were plastic. This is why we should not be taking these people seriously. They do not understand the consequences of their demands.
Glasses can be metal dude. Mine are
@@dani4157 what about the the pieces that sit on your nose?? 🙄
Respectfully, you literalist and unbeliever, glasses may be plastic for the convenience of Chinese manufacture but quite easily can also be - as for many generations - actually made from glass (that real McCoy glass) and metal components - it's not that difficult or alarmingly more expensive and can last longer.
@@laurijoemerick9188 Can be metal too. The latest designs have them built into the frames. But I'm not against some things being plastic that might have to be
It’s not about plastics, it’s about control. That’s why she didn’t actually know anything about plastics.
They never think 5 seconds past their idea.
What a fool she has made herself in front of the world!
You’re the fool 🤡
Isn't the first time,
This is the problem with these morons…they don’t think past the immediate thought…repercussions and all the implications their dim witted ideas would create. As I sit on my couch in my living room I find nearly NOTHING in my home that doesn’t have some form of plastic or plastic derivative aside from the vintage MCM wood chair that has wood screws and several pieces of decorative pottery…though both likely were wrapped in plastic bubble wrap when shipped.
Not even close, Charlotte... She was forced to dispense an answer she obviously didn't have the procurity to answer; she was clearly trying to say MITIGATE PLASTICS but Senator Mullin has an agenda behind him
I’m wondering if this is a tactic. Pull out an immature and ridiculous lead, fish out the pride out of your rhetorical opposition, then come out looking like a levelheaded savant with a prepared statement. ‘He responded to prompt 6 with argument C, read from orange card’
"Facts don't cease to exist just because you ignore them."
Sure they do. Haven't you heard of Schrödinger's cat? Reality itself doesn't exist unless someone arbitrarily chooses to observer it. Einsteins theory of Special Relativity alters the passages of time for everyone else in the universe based on one persons arbitrary decision to choose a place to measure from. This is literally what they believe. Is it any wonder they think sticking their head in the sand might actually work?
@@K162KingPin wattamoron .. how many cats use plastic ??? or drive ??
Banning the use of plastic is simply unrealistic. But, alternative means of manufacturing has to be found, where the resulting plastic can be recycled for future use/manufacturing!
So if you want alternative means for plastic start producing them. You don’t need the government to ban plastic in order for you to buy something besides plastic. Her issue is she wants single used gone? Where was that energy in 2020 when she probably had a new mask every day. I’m so tired of how dumb and bullying Democrats are.
"facts" is not an excuse not to try to do anything
Wow the Second Lady on screen was so eloquent and effective in her speaking. Very logical and reasonable and respectful. Amazing to see these days lol and of course the gentleman
They live in a dream world.
Holy hell that was a massacre! I appreciate how he essentially had the sit down and reality check her father never did with her.
"Take into account the human impact, not just the environmental." Words to live by.
The Industrial Revolution ruined both
@@N1k0SP What do you think life was like before the Industrial Revolution? A cakewalk? Back to your history books...
It's a double edged sword. Since the long term effects on the environment, the mountains of trash and the pollution in the oceans changing for example for North Atlantic current and the reintake of CO2 does eventually come back to bite us in the butt, eventually also affecting peoples lives.
There's no perfect solution. That's why these dreamers need to stop living in their fantasies and let us live normal lives as well, with the good and the bad.
@@HDSPKSRecords-gi1oblet's just say that life was healthier for both people and nature. But certainly much slower, much less comfortable and absolutely incompatible with the inevitable populational growth. Therefore eventually inevitable. So although "healthier", it's just utopical to think about like before the industrial revolution. Just like all those advocates of "living purely off the land", who use all modern means to sustain agriculture and animal husbandry or who maintain modern jobs to be able to secure their living
@@HDSPKSRecords-gi1ob Yes humans were happier and enjoyed life more so than today. That's how our brain is wired, your brain doesn't care if you can sit on the couch all day and eat processed foods, it wants you to live naturally. Simple as.
We need more leaders like him.
she is talking about all the garbage plastics that are taking over the oceans and landfills!! trash is the problem!!!
She wants to ban single use plastic? Well, I am a nurse and the amount of single use plastic and rubber products we use on a daily basis in our hospitals is _insane._ Rubber gloves, hypodermic needles, IV lines, drip bottles, dispensers of all kinds, blister packaging, ... And we have not even talked about all the medical equipment like ECG-units, x-ray and MRT devices, pacemakers, ... Good luck replacing that.
1000% correct! Highschool students I teach know this!
So what you saying there were no working hospital untill. Plastic came along. Fuck the gloves they used to wash their hands. Lol
@@petethewrist Single use medical devices and supplies were regulated into existence to ensure patient safety.
www.cdc.gov/hai/organisms/organisms.html
@@petethewrist Of course their were hospitals before plastics came along. However, I just suspect that given a choice, you would choose to have surgery in a modern hospital where diseases and operation complexity and success rates are a little better than before plastics, wouldn't you?
@@marks1014 was it not for population explosion and too much plastic we would not have half the ills we do now. Plastic is a killer and should be stopped there are modern alternatives for most shit.
He's being so polite while destroying her. He asked What's the alternative?" and she's like, i dont know 😂😂
Polite ..? Frigging aggressive
I seem to remember Glasses made of Glass right,? and metal frames
@@russellkindervater6111 most manufacturers have switched from using glass, the majority of prescription glasses use plastic lenses now. also, while there might be metal in the frame for structural support, there is usually plastic or some other similar material surrounding the metal for aesthetic or comfort purposes I assume.
Micro plastic stays in the body. its not about finding alternatives. it's about not trying kill everyone😊😊😊 in the future. if Mr senate don't care about his children dying, I guess all is fine.
1 solution would be to actually recycle the plastic instead of shipping it off to China so they can just dump it in the ocean
still have to clean up the filth being imposed on people, animals and the environment
This is why I'm not convinced we're gonna get out of our industrialised "mess". At least, not without being forced out. I mean, we'll survive, but our society hinges on the things that are massively detrimental long term. Can we even sustain current population without viable alternatives? Would society at large be willing to make the enormous sacrifices required?
It's not a small problem, we very much need to take some steps where we can. Going "cold turkey" like the gentleman is alluding to will never work. It will be chaos. However, discounting the whole idea of making an effort to do anything at all on that basis is also asinine.
Yeah, it was painful to listen, he never let that girl actually say her point. We might need single-use plastic cups in hospitals, but we definitely can skip them on a picnic and carry something else instead.
😂😂😂.....really what point are you making ......show us the alternative
@markkaasha2111 You can bring your own utensils going to a picnic. They could be plastic, but not single-use. You can bring your own shopping bags. You can buy cotton clothes without polyester, and you can stop following fast fashion as a whole. Really, the kid wanted to talk about plastic cups and got attacked for her glasses in response. Lightweight glasses are essential, single-use cups could easily be limited to hospitals.
Youth ages
Immaturity is outgrown
Ignorance can be educated
And drunkenness sobered
But Stupid lasts forever
This statement completely describes the first witness
I don't think even a poet could have put it better. Nice job!
Ignorance is bliss... for the rest of us, it's a pain in the ass.
The first witness certainly fits a few of those.
Or said another way .... "we can't fix Stupid".
Well said Mr. Hundert
Metal and glass. Next.
Donna Jackson… we (America) loves you.. thank you
Ms' Jackson sounds like a parent patiently explaining how the world works to a child.
Best comment here
I mean... have you heard how some Leftists act? She might as well be talking to a child!
She sounds like an oil lobbyist.
These are the best and brightest? We are going to be taken over by Cuba!
Hyprocrypts are idiots
I once heard "you can be for the environment OR you can be against plastic, but you can't be both." People are woefully unaware regarding this subject. Actually saw a woman on the highway driving a brand new SUV - she bought a bumper sticker that said "plastic is evil." Even her damn sticker was plastic!
That’s funny (bumper sticker) 😂. These people are clueless! The schools turns them into radical/Liberals because They have no critical thinking skills to begin with! They get their degree and go out to spread the nonsense they heard in school. 🎉
Man, that's some brilliant grifting. Plastic sticker saying 'plastic is evil'. top level.
Hahaha
They don't live in reality.
And the plastic sticker was stuck on her plastic bumper 🙄
should be eliminating single use plastics. Examples being single use plastic bottles pop and water come in
Nobody have yet to come out to tell the world what they can replace the plastic with.
It’s exactly the same with the “stop oil” people. They all wear oil based polyester and polyurethane, travel by diesel cars wrapped in plastic. Point it out to them and they don’t have an answer.
You heard the answer right here Don't buy what you don't support
All plastics and rubber are manufactured using petroleum. There would be no indoor plumbing or electricity in 95% of homes without those two products. People would be using the bathroom in outhouses and carrying wooden buckets of water to cook, drink, and bathe. Diseases would kill millions of people each year due to less sanitary conditions.
Same with cattle and how a cow turns grass into leather, milk ,steak and fertilizer...
@@davehughesfarm7983 mmmmm steak 🥩
@@mattus1gig mmmm Anchor & Kerrygold butter 😭
All that college studying and this man ruined it for them in about 6 minutes... love it
That’s Markwayne Mullin from Oklahoma!
@@donnaparrish7638 Another great one! There are several outstanding Republicans speaking out these days…perhaps there’s a glimmer of hope after all… 🤞 🇺🇸
She needs to return her diploma
@@fixedit8689😂💯
I've lived in 5 states including Oklahoma where I met Mark Wayne Mullin and Steve Largent. Greatest men in government.
LBJ and George Bush, not so great.
How stupid are these people who don't think about what they are saying. We all use plastic in some form or another.
This is awesome. When these punks demand something, they never realize how it will affect civilization
Wow Donna Jackson hitting them with facts, while the other side is hitting with propaganda. Love it.
She made that other woman look foolish.
She appears not to be afraid of the truth. Good for her and her constituents.
Wow Donna Jackson I really respect her she is right on the mark .
Donna Jackson is a real human... unlike the other one with plastic glasses
@@richardpatrick2852 nah.... she only made the "other woman" look outright stupid (type 1 class SSS)
Wait till she finds out about the plastic insulation on electrical wiring.
Can we bring back the knob and tube? 😂
@@DastardlyBastard It's 2023, she may have her own lol
What she is saying is it's ok for me but not anyone else.
Could we just get rid of “pink plastic”?
He schooled that first lady as if she were a child and rightly so. Trying to pretend she didn't know her glasses were made of plastic was something a child or a child-like mind would do.
Exactly! Just like the mouthpiece on her bottle, like 🤌😑
Child-like mind or just STUPID? Children often don't know because they haven't had enough education and experience. If SHE doesn't know, it's because she has chosen to drink the Kool-aid and be STUPID!
Sounds like a Bud Light drinker to me.
Until a cheaper, but equally durable, alternative is discovered, we need plastic
In her case, I don't think she is intelligent enough to qualify as a child.
So good to hear from people who are well informed.
Of course efforts are to be made around the plastic waste pollution, but utopianism and misinformation can be really dangerous !
Nicely said senator. Practical and quite logical arguments with a satisfactory conclusion.
The young ladies comment "in my dream world" WOW.
Her answer of 'I don't know' to what things are made of, is distressing. Especially as she wants to ban one material but has no replacement for it in place.
Just because plastic is useful doesn't mean we should let plastic companies pump out so much of the crap unnecessarily, reducing plastic is totally feasible, will save money in the long run, and will be better for the environment
How can democrats have such strong opinions on stuff they know nothing about? I love hearing how dangerous nuclear power is and all I have to ask them is, "How many nuclear disasters have there been that affected the community outside the plant?" I get Fukushima and Chernobyl as the two main answers. Most of them don't even know about 3 Mile Island (although, no material escaped that disaster, but they don't even know about it). Then I ask them how many coal plant disasters have there been....crickets. Just to make a point, there have been hundreds and coal plants have released more radiation that every nuclear plant disaster to date. There is natural radiation in coal. Bananas too but we can still eat those. These people are pushing a narrative and nothing else.
@@testingmysoup5678 "...doesn't mean we should let plastic companies pump out so much of the crap unnecessarily..."
Who is "we" and who empowered "we" with the right to "let" other free people do anything? I'm all for reducing plastics and the environmental impact but it has to be done in a way that uses reason and also respects the independence and liberty of others. Top down, knee-jerk, emotional legislation leads to tyranny if unchecked.
@@ClockworkWyrm there is a place for emotion, if she weren't emotionally invested she wouldn't be speaking there. Yeah she could use more help on the other aspects but the speakers arguments weren't reasonable at all. She stated she wanted to reduce plastic and he started naming things that needed plastic as if she said she wanted to eliminate them. That was an illogical emotional argument on his end protecting corruption
It really makes you wonder why she is sitting there as an "expert" in plastic prevention, when she don't even know the materials that the products she has on herself are made of. it shows that she is just full of bs ideology and not of knowledge.
Reminds me of a woman once telling me I was cruel for eating meat while standing in front of me carrying a leather purse and wearing leather shoes and a leather belt!
Not condoning cigarettes but reminds me of a guy walking out of mcdonalds with a bag in his hand asking me why im doing something harmful to my body. Probably the most confusing moment of my life
Ummm I hope you pointed that out and laughed in her face😂
those animals usually don't get murdered for the leather. leather is a byproduct of animals that die. not the other way around. fur sure. leather absolutely not
Right and manufacturers just sit and wait for animals to die and they will be like oh ye a cow just died let's go harvest the parts. I see.
@@marshmallowmann20 killing for food is not murder. Humans are not herbivores, not even omnivores.. we need meat and animal fats to be healthy.
Calling it mirder ( killing an animal to eat it), is just as stupid as calling out plastic whithout thinking about all the places it is used.
I would call it more like murder, to poison, trap and shoot every animal that tries to eat a plant crop, or lives very close to it, or drinks water that is poisoned by runoff from it.
THOSE animals are mostly burned or buried.. not used for anything.
If we didn't open up a court to discuss about the use of plastic for someone who doesn't know where plastic is used, that would've saved a lot of time and resources.
Getting rid of "plastics" is like getting rid of electricity... back to the dark ages we go
Her asking to completely ban plastics and yet not knowing how pervasive it is in the very things she has on her, let alone the things she indirectly depend on.
Welcome to your average Marxist Demorat.
Who are these people! Where do they dig them up? They are so undereducated. She is frightening in her lack of facts.
universities around the country.
They are people who don't understand and don't want to understand how the modern world works. Stop drilling for oil and there will be no more plastic or rubber. That means no more electricity or indoor plumbing. We basically go back to living in the 1800's and billions of people will die.
marxists are everywhere there's urban filth
Probably Ivy League.
She wrote what her examiners wanted to read! It mattered little that what she wrote was garbage!
“In her dream world” started much sooner than she expected
Omg ....bad ideas are never held to account.
Thank you, somebody actually pushed back with the right questions & left her speechless & not able to argue back with stupid nonsense. Nicely done sir if I do say so myself!
Here, I want to add some context that was left out of this.
Eliminating single use plastics is probably a good idea. I'm in my early 50's, when I was a kid, I purchased sodas in glass bottles, the deposit on the bottle was 10 cents (which was a significant part of the purchase). The bottle was returned for the deposit, it was collected, washed, refilled and redistributed.
Just like a drinking glass at a restaurant is.
The plastic and aluminum soda bottles you get? They are RARELY actually recycled. They are collected, and generally dumped into a landfill.
What's wrong with paper cartons for milk or even water? Milk jugs used to be glass, but that was before my time. That was phased out in the 1960's.
We are NOT going back to a time that doesn't use any plastics. It's just not realistic, but we can trivially get rid of single use plastics, and we probably should. They have a bunch of plasticizers in them which are endocrine disruptors - i.e. they mess with your hormones. Even aluminum cans do this, they are actually aluminum cans with a THIN lining of plastic in them. That's why beer 20 years ago in a can didn't taste the same as beer in a glass bottle. Now it largely does.
She's the single issue environmentalist ... as if dealing with single use containers will solve all our problems. She's horribly naive.
@@fuzzywzhe We dont use paper cartons because 1 its not recyclable and 2 its harmful for the environment due to the chemicals needed to make it useful and 3 they still use plastic.
@@vikinglife6316 We don't use paper cartons because plastic is cheaper. Plastic milk jugs are NOT really recyclable.
Look, we used to ship all this plastic to China, China being a communist nation, would then put people to work sorting the plastics, then the plastics would be cut up, and shipped as a substitute for "new" plastic.
China stopped doing this when they realized that the subsidies to do this exceeded the amount of money they could get selling the recycled plastic, they were operating at a loss the entire time.
Milk cartons do not use plastic. They use wax. Or they used to, maybe they use a thin coating of plastic now? Been a while since I've bought milk.
If the point is to sequester carbon, you know what should be done with used milk cartons? Well, a milk carton is basically wood, which is turned into paper cardboard, which is mostly carbon and hydrogen. You bury it, that's "sequestering".
If you want to end single-use plastic items, then again, as the very fine gentleman said, it's up to you to live it, and the key is education and a shift in social trends, NOT ending manufacturing of plastics. Throw out the baby with the bathwater. This is first-order thinking and she's an embarrassment.
Where did she come from?
It is always other people that should make the sacrifices, not them.
Same with petroleum, it's used in everything.
@@RickeyMcDaniel Plastics come from petroleum.
@@marysisak2359 Got that right!
When I need to hear someone speak sense, t counteract the madness I keep hearing, I come back to this. 👏🌻
People be better off without cell phones
We can make everything from something other than plastic but the cost to make that switch would be unimaginable.
The first woman got her knowledge from twitter. The 2nd woman got her knowledge from real life and books.
If women became the future of society we are going downhill
Fax
Bingo. As a man with several degrees from elite institutions, I cannot agree more. I come from a poor background and was fortunate enough to make it out, but I have never forgotten what its like to be poor, to get evicted and to be homeless. My greatest knowledge did NOT come from a university classroom, but from the school of hard knocks or as Mark Twain said:
"I never let my schooling get in the way of my education."
She didn't even had the opportunity to answer though. What you just saw was not a fair debate
@@Shepherdd__it was purposely left out to save her some face.
He delivered that in a very thoughtful way. I can guarantee she’d never considered most of what he had to say. Well done, sir!
She was ingenuous and no match for the cunning politician.
These typical modern women in society today is a disgrace to all mothers.
I mean, she said she meant single use plastic, probably like plastic bags and other things that are thrown away like nothing.
Now, if she truely meant it and just stated the request to end all plastic production poorly, I can't say.
But yes, most people don't know what their request would actually entail and certainly don't commit to it the way they should, if they'd truely believe it.
The guy is either stupid or just shilling for big oil you don't need plastics for a whole range of applications and you can replace single use plastics with bio plastics
Also micro plastics are entering the food chain at an alarming rate
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What foods have microplastics in them?
Studies have found microplastics in beer, wines with polyethylene stoppers, rice, table salts, and honey. Microplastics can even be found in fruits and vegetables-like apples, broccoli, and carrots-with plants able to absorb nanoplastics through their root systems.
More thoughtful than I could be. I also would have pointed out she's wearing polyester which she obviously doesn't know is a product of plastic and made of petroleum. 😂 Girl no plastic no petroleum and your at the senate hearing naked, blind, thirsty and no computers or cells to even try to refute.
Well said that man 🎉🎉
When truth smacks hard....
Angelle Bradford, not sure how she was able to navigate her way to this courtroom today. That woman is a piece of work!
Yes, we should stop producing products from plastic. OMFG, leftists are nuts, crazy, not normal.
She’s another example of the delusional progressive socialists being created in the Leftist run schools and colleges across the USA.
Give that last woman a rousing cheer. Someone who lnows what they are talking about and says it in such a straightforward manner that even a kindergartener should be able to grasp it.
Yeah, like she was going to go against the flow.
And all the plastic in our oceans, bodies and rivers.
True. It is easy to say stop this and that, but you have to have a safe, viable and sustainable alternative.
I would give her credit that yes, single-use plastics need to be dealt with, except she was only saying it in an attempt to weasel her way around his questions.
Yup, she went into defense mode there haha
But even this is a dead end because one of the biggest users of single use plastic is _modern medicine._
Plastic straw versus paper straw.
Plastic wins every time in a taste test. Have tried both plactic won out, hands down
@@markgiltner7358 metal straws are nice too!
@@markgiltner7358 there is a straw made out of pasta, there are those out of inox steel, or simply don't use fking straws. that's why we need legislation, instead of his gotcha trick answers for internet fame.
He should name this segment, "When reality sets in"! Also, a big thank you to Ms. Donna Jackson! This is how an industry can help an entire area, not just a few chosen people. When you give a hand up instead of a hand out, everyone can win.
Local, state, and federal taxpayers foot the bill for that Nissan plant. Capitalist billionaires always get a hand out, not a hand up. And capitalist are orchestrating this green paradigm and receiving billions from Congress to relaunch clean energy projects that have already recently failed in Europe.
He’s got her dead on!
The answer? The Tarpean Rock, and a species cleansed of common myopia or presbyopia. As it should've been before sedentary cereal agriculture screwed everything up.
I actually do this with my students as a way to show that solutions aren't as easy as they think they are, and the world is more complicated than they think.
He could have even taken it a step further and mentioned that the fossil fuels they are hellbent to eliminate are integral in the creation of all plastics. She’d be living her dream if they eliminated fossil fuel because all those items he rattled off wouldn’t be possible, including their precious electric cars, because without petroleum and natural gas you cannot manufacture plastic.
And the last option is....close their eyes? Hide the head in he ground? "If I don't think of it, it doesn't exist'"?
@@iknotlkuikatl815 that’s what they do best… ignore reality and facts… 🙈 🙉🙊
you actually do what with your students? I saw no acknowledgement in either politician's statement that any action could be taken on the subject of single-use plastics. I just saw some major deflection (oh, look at this naive young girl trying to tell me about plastics) and (from what it seems to me) misquoting. Is that what you do -- deflect and misquote? I hope not.
@@asciiguy1 Really? You are incapable of understanding @SLagonia is stating that he presents challenges to his Students as a way to help them recognize that consideration regarding cause and effect must be taken into account before making a drastic change or implementing a change to something.
"Aren't your glasses frames made out of plastic?"
"Maybe?"
WOW. Just wow.
the lens are also plastic.
Oh wow.......not
Are glasses a 'single use product'?
@@simonoc
No. What does that have to do with anything?
@@oggyoggy1299 The person with the glasses tried to bring up single use plastic, but he cut her off. Reducing single use plastic could help reduce the amount of plastic garbage.
Absolute chad, wrecked thst clown with reality
Amen...if only people were taught how to think.
There are just far too many people like her with NO CLUE! It is scary and frustrating
its scary how you dont see the bigger picture. The only issue with using plastic alternatives is that the poor would all have horribly difficult lives with the increase in cost, and of course some regulations for mileage in cars or whatever.. Biggest issue, wealth inequality. So basically what Mullin is saying is that he doesn't give a single care in the world about the future, and only about things going smoothly and easily in the NOW. Horribly immature, horribly short sighted, horrible take in general. Wake up people
@@Gliese504 Shutup
@@HermannTheGreat great take, herman. I really see the error in my stance from what you said and I really took it into consideration. Not.
"Hey, plastic is in everything, your phone, your computer, your car, your credit card, your personal ID, your water pipes. But hey, go boycott it if you don't like it" says the smart guy 🤡 but good luck surviving in the 21st century! I hope you didn't need the internet, all methods of communication, your bank account, running water, technology and all modes of transport. Good luck with the boycott, you'll be dead within a week.
Smart guy also wants to look into the past when talking about possible alternatives to plastic, and not the future. Selective reasoning. He discusses the prospect of us returning to iron age methods.
Well, we were smart enough to come up with plastic OVER 100 YEARS AGO, weren't we? Now let's be even smarter in 2023 and design its healthier replacement already, because excuse me for believing that in this day and age human beings are capable of innovating cleaner and friendler alternative multi-purpose materials than dirty plastics. But clearly we're not even trying to, such is our over-reliance and over-dependence upon plastic. It's grotesque really. Just because we over-use plastic doesn't make it right, good or in any way ideal.
This video is awful pro-plastic propaganda, shame you fell for it. Sharpen up.
My father was a chemical engineer who worked with petrochemicals most of his career. He would say there is an engineered compromise good for both the market and the environment. There are no solutions. Only compromises.
Thomas Sowell says the same thing - no solutions, only compromises.
I think we can compromise with plastic easily by burying it very, very deep underground, just give it 500 years to break down 🤣
But in this repugnant system you are not allowed compromise because it impacts shareholder profit
Hemp plastic is better and doesn’t kill the environment plus gives more jobs and expands farming. Just diminished your dads killer ideology
@@VanMan83 . . . or engineering. Peace!