Twitter users slam Kamala Harris for airplane bathroom demand amid the ongoing border crisis: 'Really?' | Fox News
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Kamala Harris speaks about the nature of transportation
While attending a roundtable about accessibility in public transportation, Vice President Kamala Harris made an obvious point about the fundamentals of transportation.
Twitter users roasted Vice President Kamala Harris for putting an emphasis on the "inequity" of airplane restrooms, questioning why that issue is a priority for the vice president while the southern border remains in dire condition and prices continue to soar.
"The majority of domestic flights do not have accessible restrooms. This is absolutely unacceptable," the Democrat wrote Tuesday on Twitter. "Our Administration will soon announce a solution to help end this inequity."
The comment section was filled with laughs and confusion over Harris' suggestion, with numerous users sounding the alarm that the potential remodeling of most American aircraft would spike domestic flight prices nationwide.
"So when seating capacity is diminished, do you plan to deploy the government to solve the pricing problem the government created," the Arizona Libertarian Party responded.
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"Yeah — get on that VP!! Forget the Border, and all the other…" actor Dean Cain wrote.
"I honestly had to check to see if this was a parody account," another Twitter user said in the comment section.
"Really?" wrote Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton.
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"What are you talking about?!?! I fly all the time and the only flights that do not have bathrooms are the puddle jumper flights that have like 10 seats and only fly 40-45 minutes," someone said.
"Oh f'n lovely. Get ready for trans bathrooms big enough to hold a baby whale and the increase in ticket prices for the rest of us to make up for the missing row of seats," Newsmax's Rob Schmitt said.
"I thought you were fixing the border and doing AI regulation, but airplane bathrooms now…" another individual posted in the comment section.
Harris posted the tweet Tuesday evening, just hours after prompting sarcasm over her definition of transportation during a roundtable discussion.
Vice President Kamala Harris said more flights not having accessible bathrooms is "absolutely unacceptable."(Mandel Ngan)
"This issue of transportation is fundamentally about just making sure that people have the ability to get where they need to go! It's that basic," Harris said, to which Tomi Lahren responded "she's a genius" on Twitter,
"Kamala Harris gives voice to thought and then this nonsense comes out. She can't be serious," Republican communicator Steve Guest wrote of Harris' comment.
Fox News' Alexander Hall contributed to this report.
Aubrie Spady is a Freelance Production Assistant for Fox News Digital.
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Clearly, many on the right have nothing better to do than constantly whine.
You realize that's what Kamala Harris is doing, right?
Clearly, many on the left have nothing better to do than constantly ignore the disaster of the Biden Administration.
What are you whining about?
Transportation Inequity czar?
How many "jobs" does Kamala have now? Six? Seven? Do we know of a timeline when she'll successfully complete any of them?
I have to get off this seed before I have my IQ lowered by 20 pts.
She has that effect on a lot of people
I would respond but you are making it too easy and I don't want to take advantage.
She must be unhappy with how Pete Buttigieg is handling transportation to step on his toes like that.
Lol …..
Good,! I don't think you have 20 points to give.
She should have mentioned the accessibility or not of the lavatories on Air Force II.
And the hits just keep on coming..................
Genius!!!
Someone said she’s like a kid who has to give a book report on a book she Hasn’t read and it fits her perfectly.
It is obvious that her understanding of AI is from briefs. Clearly she does not really know what she is talking about.
That said, she made accurate points reflecting what some AI professionals are saying nowadays.
AI is basically machine learning: Sure, today AI is predominantly machine learning (we are in the 'machine learning' phase and are seeing practical successes) but AI is substantially broader than that. Our brains do much more than learning (consider judgment, analysis, creativity, emotions, ..., controlling the mechanics of our bodies) and thus so does AI. But for now it is fair to simplistically equate AI with machine learning when speaking in very abstract terms.
The source of information is critical: Indeed. One can build an AI tool and then provide it only the most negative information. In result, it will learn only negative things and act accordingly. So she is correct (again in the abstract) that we need to be quite aware of the corpus of information an AI system uses to learn.
Transparency: Well this is just political speak, but the concept is that AI technology needs to be controlled. This is true of any technology, but AI holds the ability to mimic human beings and engage in very sophisticated functions. So controlling AI is clearly something that needs to be taken seriously (and it is).
Best for all people: Yes, we want to ensure that any technology, and that includes the category of technology known as AI, is not misused. We want to ensure that the net result is good for humanity and society.
So yeah, she is just a politician speaking at 100,000 feet using terminology she barely understands. But those who understand what she is talking about can recognize that she was not simply rambling on with a word salad this time.
[ I am no fan of Harris; but I am a fan of honest, informed critical analysis. ]
It is common for a great many politicians to speak based on briefings with little or no real understanding of the subject matter.
Not this time.
If you had a better understanding of the subject matter she was discussing you would see that she actually did a fair job (at the 10,000 foot level) this time.
I am not defending her word salads.
I am telling you that what she said this time was not a word salad. That it was a reasonable high-level view of AI. The words she used were not misleading nor were they incorrect.
And they were quite intelligible. Your inability to comprehend what she said does not ipso facto mean that she delivered another word salad.
Most of the time Harris does engage in word salads and doubletalk. No doubt about it. Just not this time. Attempt to be objective.
One would hope for better from the person next in line …..
But you can't expect much when that person was selected solely on her gender and color of her skin.
Kamala's word salad hits (not in chronological order, and I might have omitted some) -- Venn diagrams, yellow school buses, see the moon (to paid child actors), passage of time, culture, "inequity" of plane bathrooms, and that 2 letter word ... AI.
Kamala needs to remember that VP is also a 2 letter word and give us another nursery school lecture!
I just wish this woman would stop braying like an ass and stop flapping her arms and hands around.
I've flown all over the world in several different types of aircraft. Aside from rotary wing, and certain small air frames, they all have restrooms. And they are all accessible to EVERYBODY onboard. So I have to ask, WTF is this idiot talking about?
Don't ask her. She doesn't know either LOL
I would guess she means wheelchair assessable
Yeah, I doubt that. She's not smart enough to know what a wheelchair is let alone if one could fit in the lavatory of a plane.
Accessible is a common term to describe physical characteristics to support wheelchair access.
You did not know that? Never saw anything like this in your life??:
Of course.
But the idea is a bit ridiculous. It is not just the restroom that would need to be dramatically increased in size (enough for a wheelchair to turn 360°) but the aisles on the plane would need to accommodate a wheelchair to get to the restroom.
This is a case where practicality gets in the way.
Neither Biden, Kamala, nor Mayor Pete seem to know anything about this topic from a legal perspective. Here are some facts from a triple amputee:
And ...
Indeed.
It is impractical to have ADA compliance on most jets due to the inevitable limitations on size. In short, the jets are simply not big enough to meet the requirements.
So at best the lavatories would need to be reengineered (albeit with less than ADA compliance) to at least make it possible for a wheelchair to enter the lavatory with sufficient room for the occupant to shift seats to the toilet. Quite a challenge. Plus this is of course a major expense for airlines (which already are doing everything they can to charge customers more so as to remain profitable) and takes away precious space.
The US government could put forth requirements for future jets, but retrofitting extant jets is impractical.