They tried to get us to fight a class war but since it didn’t work as well as it did in Russia and China, now they are looking for other decisive issues.
The owners of Walmart are worth like $267 billion US. McDonald’s made $14.6 BILLION in profit last year. I’ve always been confused why they want us to “donate” our actual hard-earned money.
Because you don't donate to charity, you donate to those corporations that will donate the money you donated in their own name, thus earning a tax break in the process, that is why they are harassing you for donations, so they can pay less in taxes later from it.
@@lydiahood7725 Agreed. I learned of this recently. Someone in another comment said corporations actually don’t get tax credits from donations but do get to hold the contributions to gain interest on them.
To be fair being at least superficially inclusive is part of their bottom line. I work at a major heathcare corporation who does all the pride stuff every year. They don't do it out of the goodness of their hearts, obviously. Even the top executives would agree that there are financial motives if they were being honest. It costs more money to appear biggeted than it does to throw up a few pride flags.
I'm so grateful for my 9th grade English teacher who had us watch commercials and analyze what they were trying to make us feel. I really think everyone needs that 'talk' at a young age, that marketing and advertising is really only about one thing
Letting us know how much corporations actually truely care about us? Btw, ever noticed how MOST ads ommit mentioning any price tag whatsoever? Unless it involves a service instead of a product...such as insurance.
Media literacy should be mandatory in all high school grades and some basics about marketing and psychology. Critical thinking skills are sorely needed.
My friend was so upset about the bud light pride thing and said he would never buy it. I was like, you never bought it before. All you ever drink and buy is budweiser. 😂
A Corporation is nothing but a Golem being maintained and aimed by humans.... that is all. No emotion, no soul, just a ruthless drive towards a single mission.... get more money.
I once heard someone say that Jon Stewart is the best desk comedian of all time and I must say....seeing him back, doing what he does, it really just doubles down on me feeling that is the truth too. You can do just Mondays forever because we all need this!
Back in summer of 2016 Anheuser-Busch launched a marketing campaign temporarily rebranding their beer "America", printed on every can in lieu of the Budweiser logo. Had a friend who worked for them at the time. On the same day of that press release they outsourced her entire department to a call center in India.
Not only ANheuser-Busch. Levi's closed all America factories, but now is VERY committed to LHBTIQ+-issues. Which in the end is lots cheaper than paying Americans and/or immigrant workers a decent wage.
Budweiser is named after Budweis. Which is the German name of a town in the region of Bohemia which used to be part of the Austrian Empire and is now is part of the Czech Republic. It's Czech name is Budějovice. The founder of Budweiser was a German immigrant to USA and he decided to start a Bohemian-style lager brewery there. It is an immigrant beer. There is a different brewery in Budějovice, called the Budweiser Budvar, and in the EU, that is the only beer that can be called Budweiser, because it is the one made in Budweis. (Budweiser means "of Budweis" in German and the EU is keen on protecting local brands.) The American Budweiser is sold under different name in the EU. So it is an immigrant beer with a name which is illegal in its place of origine. An ...illegal ....immigrant beer? I hope it will restore the true American spirit and the real conservative values.
@@alwillk There's an entire right wing propaganda apparatus to make sure that people don't understand that. The same is true of 'liberal' media. They wouldn't be caught dead telling the truth about corporations.
@@alwillkthey fell for his lie of "trickle down economics" that was continued to be fed by H.W. Bush and subsequently his son until the 2008 collapse he was able to just walk away from as Obama took over
@@alwillk he did a lot of populist moves; feeding people poison letting food industry suppress scientific research being one of the most heinous - the dangerously evil worshipped and oft quoted by opportunistic shallow politicians of both parties even now - disgusting
@alwillk how does the saying go? "The poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires" the same people who like Reagan thinks they have a chance to be part of the 1 percent if they just keep trying
I'm not worried about the corporation virtue signaling. I'm worried about the politicians they donate to supporting legislation to take people's rights away.
The thing is that they're one in the same... Amazon posted Black Lives Matter on their websites for months, while at the same time "legally" disenfranchising their black workforce. Bezos also donates millions to the donkeys and the elephants...
@roaam78 money should not have any say whatsoever in democracy, only ideas and people. Private Money playing a role is exactly why we are in the current mess we are in. Take private money out of campaigning and it becomes a lot easier to end corruption.
Eh, also means they treating it like another 'hip trend' that would go out of style and be completely replaced on their marketing budget once the next 'hipper trend' comes along.
corporate panhandling for my change is infuriating. Telling low income workers to beg for change so that a massive corporation can donate your money to a charity then claim a tax write off for their genorosity is disgusting.
Reminds me of grocery chains asking customers to pay retail house prices for food to leave in the donation bin on the way out, so the grocery chain can falsely claim / imply the customers' largesse is really the corporation's.
I don't think that's how it works. I'm pretty sure the corporation would have to declare your "donation" as income, and then take a deduction of that same amount when they "donate" that money on your behalf. It would end up being a net zero benefit to their bottom line. I still think it's wrong for them to get PR credit for passing along their customer's donations, though.
They can't write off money if it was never recognized as income in the first place. If money was collected for the explicit purpose of being donated, it's not revenue and can't be deducted as a charitable donation.
”They (corporations) are very clearly conflicted between the high moral values they think we want and the amoral values that serve their shareholders" Very well put!
Except they're not conflicted at all, they're just trying to get all the money from everyone by tapping into their emotions the same way they do with all advertising. None of it has ever been true. With the current trajectory it won't be long before you're seeing A.I. tailored ads that appeal to your specific emotional profile based on your entire online history. Love Diversity? All your ads are diverse now. Hate Diversity? Everybody in ads are the same ethnicity as you! Concerned about breast cancer? So is every brand that wants your money.
Took a course called Business Ethics in college. The instructor made it clear, the class was a course in theory only...there are no practical applications.
The saddest part: because all companies support for LGBTQIA+ equality so loudly, others start to blame members of the LGBTQIA+-community "for pushing a woke agenda," causing more resentment than members of these groups deserve (if they deserve any resentment at all). I hate that.
It's also just how absurb the LGBTQRSUTUV2SA+ movement has become in itself these last few years. For starts, adding all these ridiculous extra words to the abbreviation.. secondly a really bizarre focus on wanting children involved with drag queens. And "progressives" defending to death the efficacy of prescribing puberty blockers to children effectively sterilizing them for life. And then of course the pure fantasy that there are an infinite number of genders and neogenders. It's no longer about marriage equality like it was 10 years ago. It's about being as loud and in your face about it as possible. Grown men dancing in diapers in public at pride parades.. grown men in leather gimp outfits with dog masks on being led around by leashes.. Actual articles on the Washington Post entitled - "Yes kinks belong at PRIDE and YES I WANT my kids to see it". Look up the article yourself. They have literally become what Fox news used to fear monger about.
I hate to say, but this feels like the start of facsism in the US. The whole 'choose the right side' seems to enter into conversations and media way too easily, and both sides want some sort of punishment for the other about how the US has changed for the worse. Trump is already exploiting the divisiveness and even 'working together' as a country is starting to sound like an attack on our own beliefs, because it's so polarized that we don't want to budge an inch. Both sides think of the other in extremes and it seems like all the moderates get ignored by the media and algorithms. Hopefully our little experiment with social media 'engagement' algorithms ends well, but for now signaling, hate, and fear are making the corporations too much money online.
@@Tustin2121 Collecting massive profits?? I'm pretty cynical about the ability of capital to "subsume all critiques into itself", to quote Disco Elysium. As the quote continues, "Even those who would *critique* capital end up *reinforcing* it instead."
@@Aencii - Okay, but like… does that invalidate the criticism or something? You’re literally doing the “yet you participate in society” meme, acting like people have a choice to just not engage…?
The silver lining is that if corporation think it's profitable to advertise for equal rights, it's because society has progressed to a point where more people are in favor of it than against it.
No it's becasue a militant vocal minority will throw a fit and protest if they dont get their way. There's far less people in favor of it than you think.
i live on social security as a retired person. i resent corporations asking ME for donations when they are price gouging us. i resent them virtue signalling when they are underpaying their workers.
@@JohnnyDelco Know what's cringe? Someone constantly saying something is cringe and following it with a facepalm emoji. If you don't like what you are seeing; you can use either the back button, go to a different site or close up your browser/computer completely. Maybe a book will feel less cringy to you.
More recently, Paddy Chayefsky (in his screenplay for the 1976 film NETWORK): "You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations; there are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems; one vast, interwoven, interacting, multivaried, multinational dominion of dollars."
Given that Jefferson placed "pursuit of property" (his original wording) right behind life and liberty in his human need hierarchy I doubt his statement about the nationalism of merchants was more than a simple observation.
@termsofusepolice I'm no Jefferson scholar. I take it much the same: a dry observation on the merchant's interests. He'd have no trouble seeing it in any multinational corporations comfortable arrangements with repressive regimes.
@@Bls-of1ld we do tho. At least if you knew what socialism was then youd want it. Most of european countries are social decomcracies due to the heavy influence of socialist parties. Nowadays theyre mostly moderate and not quite as extreme as the say communists in the 1900s and before, but theyre still socialists and have a huge part in how europe became europe today.
@@Bls-of1ldsocialism is dope. People don’t talk about anarchism anymore, though. That used to be the thing people on the fringes wanted, but it’s a really hard system to actually implement. Whatever you want to call it though, we need housing, healthcare and income for everyone. Our brains have been poisoned to think it’s impossible, but it ain’t.
I've been saying it since the beginning. Corporations like Target, for example, are selling pride shirts not because they support the community but because they're trying to make money from people.
Yep, what initially "looked" like corporations actually helping turned out to just be marketing campaigns for selling more products. There is no humanity in them as all they see is dollar signs.
I'm suprised people ever thought otherwise. The emotional attachments people place on celebrities, corporations, the clergy, or political figures is astounding. All these people or entities should only ever be a means to an end for someone because thats all you are to them.
Think on how long 40 years ago was. I'd say they have been at that level for some time now. Pride started in 1970. By 1984 that's more than a decade for marketing teams to do their work. They probably been selling it since day one I reckon.
In my home town of East Lansing Michigan, the Meijer promotes how much it supports the St. Paul Lutheran Church Food Pantry. That gets people to buy in the store And the gift cards they donate to the Pantry are bought by the the members of my congregation. ST. PAUL LUTHERAN CHURCH 😂
That has the same feel as when a company frog marches every minority worker they have into a room, make them put jackets/labcoats/ties on so they look more important and then force them into posing awkwardly for a group photo to prove they're not racist. Or, better yet, walk into an active work area with a photographer and just tell all the white people to take their lunch break.
Thank you! I'm so sick of these corporations pretending they care about these causes they talk about. I'm tired of telling people this stuff. Maybe people will actually listen to YOU.
@@ttacking_you Do i wish it was only a punk band... Basically "score" how much a company gives a s**** about diversity, enviroment and governance. One of main reasons for culture war, even though nobody except for few zealost dont really care about it. However it is a great way to invest, higher ESG score, more reasons to short that companies stocks...
This is possibly one of the most important messages people need to understand about corporations. Thank you Mr Stewart for nailing them to the wall...!
I worked for target last June, of they pulled back on pride month this year it is absolutely because they were done with getting bomb threats. The whole time I worked for target I had to sit through active shooter training every few months. I was starting to wonder how often targets get shot up to have to sit through it so much.
I'm glad Jon brought this up. Because I never donate when a store asks if I want to. Because I know it's really just a way of taxing me, so they can get out of paying taxes.
If I'm paying in cash, I'll "round up" if it's an option. Mostly because I don't want to have to carry a nickel and 2 pennies around. I'm under no preconceptions as to where that "extra" money actually goes.
@@1themadbluebird It actually does, since that falls under "charitable contributions". IRS specifically states, "You may deduct charitable contributions of money or property made to qualified organizations if you itemize your deductions. Generally, you may deduct up to 50 percent of your adjusted gross income, but 20 percent and 30 percent limitations apply in some cases." Since all that money is directly donated to the brand, the company can utilize that money for their own taxes, and more importantly, their own tax write offs.
@@thedoctor9936 You are 100% wrong and are posting about something you don’t even have a basic understanding of. You’re quoting the rules for regular donations from a company’s own funds. They are absolutely not able to deduct donations made by other people. You can easily fact check this with one search.
I refuse to donate at check out so the billionaire corporations can donate my money instead of their own! The shakedown is so rampant these days that cashiers no longer bother to name who the money will be donated to. Just this weekend a cashier asked me if I wanted to donate to charity. I almost asked which charity. Then I remembered I don’t give a F.
@@claireconover Don't be a tax shelter for corporations. They want you to "give to charity" so they can claim that donation on their taxes, so they can make more profits from your generosity.
Corporations have one goal: make the most money possible. When money is the driving force, it makes all the decisions. When money decides, people lose... a lot.
@scoobertmcruppert2915 surely, but the customer backlash and sale drop are actually measurable and have consequences. If you "try to increase value," but the actual stock takes nosedive, then you are failing at your job and your actions will be very much discouraged for your successors.
@@Dukenukem Discouraged but not illegal. If you can show you made an effort to increase value then they are in the clear legally. Things can be done in a way that is actually beneficial to most people, even in this system, and they could spin it but they won’t to that because that doesn’t enrich them personally.
We all knew it was a myth. I'm glad he went after both sides. Back in the 90's they'd pretend to be all patriotic and care about the American worker. Even then we knew it was BS. Now it's just a different type of BS. I just want corporations to advertise their product and try to say how it's better than the competitors.
@@Win7ermu7e, for some people, apparently, he does, like the person you’re responding to. If you were never educated on publicity, you might believe all of it.
Greed destroys integrity everywhere. Just look at what's happened to RUclips. It's one big infomercial; people constantly hawking, peddling, begging, pleading, and prodding useless garbage. The minute you are willing to compromise the quality of your product for profit, it's over. You can rationalize anything at that point.
I feel like integrity is only found in face to face meetings and small scale stuff anymore. If a local small store that isn't part of any chain flies a pride flag even though it might lose them some of their customers, that actually tells me something about the values of the people who own that store. If Amazon changes their logo to a rainbow for a month, of course it means nothing.
And we've enshrined greed in our corporations as their main driving principle. This is all a consequence of shares existing. Or maybe even a few steps more back and it is all a consequence of the idea that you can own abstract concepts like businesses. Ownership should be defined by use. If you use it, you own it. So you can't own two stores at the same time, because you can't work in two stores at the same time. You need to hire at least one other person, and in that case each of you owns two half stores if you regularly switch, or each of you owns one of the stores. Anything else leads to corporations driven by greed.
You're not wrong. But people do kinda need to eat. Don't you think the spigot of free content has kinda spoiled everyone? If it came between clips costing a few bucks versus a sponsorship ad midway through, which one would you pick?
@@BrasswatchmanThen they should get another job, RUclips was supposed to be a free media platform, sick of creators pay walling stuff behind their Patreon and constantly begging.
This was one of the best Daily Shows that I've seen in a really long time. John Stewart is an absolute treasure and is the best part of the Daily Show and always has been. Cheers to John!
Yes! Thank you! I've been saying for years corporations aren't political. All they care about is money, and will say and do anything that they think will get them the most money.
Your Pop Pop knew what he was talking about, for sure. Sadly, the deregulation spree that got under way during the Reagan administration really got things going downhill.
@@dangerouslysane And now we've got a presidential candidate (leading in the polls) who is openly telling CEO's of oil companies he will give them further regulatory cuts in exchange for campaign donations.
I think Jon Stewart was a strong influence in making me see that we are in a class warfare, and still only a small percentage of people are actually aware of.
Haven’t you always known? Who took your voice and your mind and gave it to someone else to validate your perspectives. I’m wondering why people are so star struck by a celebrity. Do you not trust yourself to hold knowledge because you could be wrong or are you needing a cult leader in order to be greater than thou?
@@jacquelineleitch7050A whole segment of Jon showing the receipts and your take away is celebrity worship not someone that has helped inform people? wow
@@jacquelineleitch7050 So, no one else has ever informed you about a subject or influenced you to look beyond what you were taught as a child? No "celebrity" has ever called your attention to an issue that you had never taken the time to study? Should these celebrities not bother to use the platforms their status affords them and just wait for each individual to get there on their own? [This comment originally concluded with a pretty solid barb, but the censor bots weren't having it.]
There are obligations - Major investment funds mandate DEI if a business wants to deal with them and their money and photoshopping a pride flag onto your corporate logo and using some stock photos of 'diverse' happy people on your website are real easy, cheap ways to check those boxes.
Great broadcast. This is the JonStewart I used to know and love. Constantly bashing one side of the political spectrum is shortsighted. There’s so much we all can agree on.
@@timf7679I commented before watching, its an obvious take. And all these thumbs up are cause I caught the video release early, not cause its a quality post that made you re-evaluate a topic. This is the internet we built.
"Yeah they ran the numbers and apparently you can sell more cellphones in a dictatorship" was an EXCELLENT joke. Went over the audience's head methinks.
Thank you, John. I'm so fed up with these corporations that pander to us for one month, then turn around and give money to politicians that want to end my existence.
Not only do they donate that money in their name, they file the tax donation as a write-off and get most of that money back. I've been corrected, they don't get most of it back, only a portion.
That's actually a myth, they're not allowed to write off money other people donated. What they do get is interest accrued from holding the money temporarily
The tax write offs are limited - basically it means the companies don't pay tax on the amount of money that they earned and donated. So the donation is still real even if they get a break for 21% of it (US Fed corporate tax rate)
I've been bemoaning corporate virtue signalling since 2015 and I was called a right wing bigot for doing so. John Stewart does it and he's a liberal hero.
@@snoopy104 Yeah I think the smartest commentators generally have a way of upsetting their supposed followers because I think binary thinking and intelligence generally don't go together. I think my own frustration on this topic is because there are so many people who see it and feel it but just won't say anything about it until a member of their supposed tribe does and then they feel they have permission.
“Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all. “ - John Maynard Keynes
@@peterstafford4426 So was Keynes. That's why he argued for strong democratic governments to regulate corporations. It's like Bernie Sanders said: "They can have their money, they just can't have it all."
@@soulscanner66 Except Jon is pulling the same BS he is attacking. This whole bit is a stealth attack on woke and also a distraction from the insane BS Trump said during the weekend. Trump is as big of a con artist as Trump is
@@dwren365 Exactly! You NEED to have at least 1 top to 1 bottom ratio or LITERALLY NOTHING HAPPENS! 2 bottoms will just sit and stare at each other twiddling their sesame seeds, and 2 tops are just going to fight until they're BOTH are flame-broiled past done, and no one's happy! 🤣
I disagree; I think they care very much, if it's a political issue (climate change, corporate tax rates, etc.) that affects their bottom line. But they don't care about social issues unless they see money to be gained from it.
And this is just one of the reasons why i love Jon Stewart. Ty for bringing back some sense of reality-check and common-sense and for presenting it the way you do!
"Welcome to The Daily Show. My name is Jon Stewart" is possibly the most important phrase in the past 25 years. Jon Stewart will help America hope again in 2024. #HAHA2024
True story! I was in lake Sebago, Maine at happy hour, where they were selling "domestic" beer at a reduced price and other non-domestics were not included. So me being me, I ordered Sam Adams instead of Budweiser. The waitress said that Sam Adams was not included in the happy hour price because it was not a domestic beer. I grabbed the bottle, and showed her the label where the beer was owned and brewed, Jamaica Plain (Boston, Ma) where I grew up. Then I told her about Budweiser and their owners In- Bev. Not only that, Sam Adams is wearing the Patriot three-pointed hat, which was hilarious! Then I asked her which beer was more domestic than who! She was so perplexed and still denied me!
Don’t donate to stores for a cause. They take your money, then donate it in their name for huge tax breaks. It helps them not pay taxes. Donate your money directly to organizations and claim it on your own taxes. 😊
This whole segment was an absolute masterpiece... "you've got all the food, why dont you round some of that up??!!".....so glad to have Jon back (on Mondays)
I think Jon skipped over the fact that it's not just corporations that are virtue signalling. I doubt all these consumers really think they can support a social cause by giving Target a few bucks for a t-shirt, many of them just want to be seen as supporting the cause without actually donating any of their time or money to it.
I doubt anyone really buys into the idea. They are mostly ad campaign aimed at shoehorning their products into a relevant moment. People see it in connection with current events, which creates a connection in their minds.... But I doubt think that deeply about it and genuinely applauds or believes the values of phillip morris or kraft.
Nothing wrong with providing Pride shirts in June though. I might buy a product because it seems useful to me. That doesn't mean I'm buying into the idea that a corporation is a human rights activist.
It's so performative and grifty in both directions. There's corpo that pretend to care about DEI and wokism and BLM until their profits don't need it... Then there's crazy grifters who scream about how somehow everything is DEI, woke and BLM. Truly an incredible time to be alive.
Well DEI is what they use to greenwash investments in fossil fuels and warfare. DEI products and policies don't have to be profitable and only need to improve a companies perception.
The fact you're using his cheeky grin from the press conference as your pfp and using the phrase "Dark Money" as a call back, has me in stitches. 😂 Well played.
if Target thinks the backlash THEY have to deal with is something, talk to the Stonewall rioters or the people who tried to get help for AIDS victims in the early 80s.
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"They've got us fighting a culture war to distract us from fighting a class war."
They tried to get us to fight a class war but since it didn’t work as well as it did in Russia and China, now they are looking for other decisive issues.
1000% yes. This. Boom. Bam. Bingo.
Truer words never spoken!
Totally. Racism isn't the problem. It's classism.
Who are you quoting?
The owners of Walmart are worth like $267 billion US. McDonald’s made $14.6 BILLION in profit last year. I’ve always been confused why they want us to “donate” our actual hard-earned money.
Because you don't donate to charity, you donate to those corporations that will donate the money you donated in their own name, thus earning a tax break in the process, that is why they are harassing you for donations, so they can pay less in taxes later from it.
Exactly. Fake culture.@@lydiahood7725
@@lydiahood7725 Agreed. I learned of this recently. Someone in another comment said corporations actually don’t get tax credits from donations but do get to hold the contributions to gain interest on them.
And also despite making so much profit still pay poverty wages and encourage their employees to sign up for public assistance.
That is why I don't. I will never donate to a charity being asked of me by a corporate hand.
"They have one value and that's shareholder value...nothing that they do that's not in service of their bottom line..."
-THAT PART
To be fair being at least superficially inclusive is part of their bottom line. I work at a major heathcare corporation who does all the pride stuff every year. They don't do it out of the goodness of their hearts, obviously. Even the top executives would agree that there are financial motives if they were being honest. It costs more money to appear biggeted than it does to throw up a few pride flags.
It’s been that way since the beginning when “corporation and the Shareholder first gave each other a quickie in the back” 😂
Corporations are supposed to be responsible to their stakeholders, not just their shareholders.
Yep. Companies USED to be judged by how well off their employees were. Now employees are just a used and abused afterthought.
@@JohnDoe-pk2hsKlaus Schwab would like to speak with zu
I'm so grateful for my 9th grade English teacher who had us watch commercials and analyze what they were trying to make us feel. I really think everyone needs that 'talk' at a young age, that marketing and advertising is really only about one thing
Letting us know how much corporations actually truely care about us?
Btw, ever noticed how MOST ads ommit mentioning any price tag whatsoever? Unless it involves a service instead of a product...such as insurance.
Media literacy should be mandatory in all high school grades and some basics about marketing and psychology. Critical thinking skills are sorely needed.
Ethos, logos, and pathos? That's the one I learned anyway.
i genuinely think media criticism/ analysis should be taught starting in elementary school.
It was my sensitivity to frequencies that taught me that commercials were doing something that wasn't capable of being noticed by most
Finally someone in media is saying this. It's driving me insane seeing people get worked up about this stuff
200 likes (thanks to me) and no comment? Fell off.
Oops. I meant "Let me fix that"
My friend was so upset about the bud light pride thing and said he would never buy it. I was like, you never bought it before. All you ever drink and buy is budweiser. 😂
A Corporation is nothing but a Golem being maintained and aimed by humans.... that is all. No emotion, no soul, just a ruthless drive towards a single mission.... get more money.
Sounds like you've been reading Alan Ginsburg!
Shalom
@@maryasuestark5208😂😂😂
A corporation has No soul for damnation nor a body for incarceration.
Yeah, pretty much. It's just that most people have forgotten that fact.
I once heard someone say that Jon Stewart is the best desk comedian of all time and I must say....seeing him back, doing what he does, it really just doubles down on me feeling that is the truth too. You can do just Mondays forever because we all need this!
Yeah lets ignore his 15 staff writer team that writes his jokes for him
But 'he' is the best😂
Wrong
@@MaekarManastorm Sitting wrong all by yourself...pitiful.
And now with The Weekly Show podcast!
He is is great!!
Back in summer of 2016 Anheuser-Busch launched a marketing campaign temporarily rebranding their beer "America", printed on every can in lieu of the Budweiser logo. Had a friend who worked for them at the time. On the same day of that press release they outsourced her entire department to a call center in India.
Not only ANheuser-Busch. Levi's closed all America factories, but now is VERY committed to LHBTIQ+-issues. Which in the end is lots cheaper than paying Americans and/or immigrant workers a decent wage.
Insane how worked up some people get over trans influencer, but when a corporation this blatantly abuses their employees, crickets.
Budweiser is named after Budweis. Which is the German name of a town in the region of Bohemia which used to be part of the Austrian Empire and is now is part of the Czech Republic. It's Czech name is Budějovice. The founder of Budweiser was a German immigrant to USA and he decided to start a Bohemian-style lager brewery there. It is an immigrant beer.
There is a different brewery in Budějovice, called the Budweiser Budvar, and in the EU, that is the only beer that can be called Budweiser, because it is the one made in Budweis. (Budweiser means "of Budweis" in German and the EU is keen on protecting local brands.) The American Budweiser is sold under different name in the EU.
So it is an immigrant beer with a name which is illegal in its place of origine. An ...illegal ....immigrant beer?
I hope it will restore the true American spirit and the real conservative values.
“Corporate America: We never cared… and you’re idiots to believe we ever did.”
Ronald Reagan allowed corporatism to run rampant in this country. Yet, some common folks loved the guy. I don’t get it.
@@alwillk There's an entire right wing propaganda apparatus to make sure that people don't understand that.
The same is true of 'liberal' media. They wouldn't be caught dead telling the truth about corporations.
@@alwillkthey fell for his lie of "trickle down economics" that was continued to be fed by H.W. Bush and subsequently his son until the 2008 collapse he was able to just walk away from as Obama took over
@@alwillk he did a lot of populist moves; feeding people poison letting food industry suppress scientific research being one of the most heinous - the dangerously evil worshipped and oft quoted by opportunistic shallow politicians of both parties even now - disgusting
@alwillk how does the saying go? "The poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires" the same people who like Reagan thinks they have a chance to be part of the 1 percent if they just keep trying
I'm not worried about the corporation virtue signaling. I'm worried about the politicians they donate to supporting legislation to take people's rights away.
then vote these politicians out and monitor your elected representatives.
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@@kaponkotrok and replace them with the politicians corporate sponsorship has allowed into the candidate pool?
Capitalism negates democracy.
The thing is that they're one in the same... Amazon posted Black Lives Matter on their websites for months, while at the same time "legally" disenfranchising their black workforce. Bezos also donates millions to the donkeys and the elephants...
@@kaponkotrokdefinitely do that of course
Corporations aren't even hiding their greed anymore. They're price gouging without raising wages.
without raising their employees wages but not without raising their executives bonuses (bonii?) !!!!!
When prices go up, there's only two places that money can go-to the workers, or to the shareholders. 🤨
When did they ever hide their greed?
I’ve never understood why people seem to think this is new. Their entire purpose has always been to make as much money as possible.
HONOR LABOR
It's so nice having Jon back, EVERY side deserves to be poked at.
He's so even-handed he even pinned a medal on a n*zi.
"Are you sure you don't mean sodium triphosphate?" had me DYING💀
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It was a typo.😮
Ah, additives.
Sodium triphosphate has a lot of people dying…
Wonder how many people want THAT chemical drawing tattoo.
Remember, corporations aren't your friends.
But, but, but Ronald Reagan said they were and trickle down economics would make us all wealthy 45 years later?
@alwillk 👏👏👏👏👏
And neither are your work colleagues.
But their profits do make it possible for you to live.
@@nhr27 actually the higher their profits seem to get the lower worker profits seem to get, therefore making it slowly harder to live.
B-but _that's_ how you know you've made it as a demographic -- when corporate America pretends to care about you(r money).
They have a demographic for everyone to maximize profits. We're all just numbers.
Did you mean Democracy ?
@roaam78 money should not have any say whatsoever in democracy, only ideas and people. Private Money playing a role is exactly why we are in the current mess we are in. Take private money out of campaigning and it becomes a lot easier to end corruption.
I've made it as a demographic. I can die happy now, knowing that my demographic has accomplished so much during its lifetime.
Eh, also means they treating it like another 'hip trend' that would go out of style and be completely replaced on their marketing budget once the next 'hipper trend' comes along.
I can't even begin to explain how great it is to have Jon Stewart back, and I'm not even living in the USA
How dare you not live in the political trainwreck of a country? 😅
Enough already
Same. I actually didn’t even experience him being on the air the first time around, so getting to experience him live (more or less) is great.
@@AuntieMim-lx8mmtbf nearly all western countries are a trainwreck atm
Corporate pandering is hardly an original American experience 😅
corporate panhandling for my change is infuriating. Telling low income workers to beg for change so that a massive corporation can donate your money to a charity then claim a tax write off for their genorosity is disgusting.
Reminds me of grocery chains asking customers to pay retail house prices for food to leave in the donation bin on the way out, so the grocery chain can falsely claim / imply the customers' largesse is really the corporation's.
I don't think that's how it works. I'm pretty sure the corporation would have to declare your "donation" as income, and then take a deduction of that same amount when they "donate" that money on your behalf. It would end up being a net zero benefit to their bottom line.
I still think it's wrong for them to get PR credit for passing along their customer's donations, though.
Right. On top of it places like WALMART hire primarily part time workers so they don't have to give any kind of benefits.
They can't write off money if it was never recognized as income in the first place. If money was collected for the explicit purpose of being donated, it's not revenue and can't be deducted as a charitable donation.
@@celoceaniconregardless free PR is massively valuable
”They (corporations) are very clearly conflicted between the high moral values they think we want and the amoral values that serve their shareholders"
Very well put!
Except they're not conflicted at all, they're just trying to get all the money from everyone by tapping into their emotions the same way they do with all advertising. None of it has ever been true. With the current trajectory it won't be long before you're seeing A.I. tailored ads that appeal to your specific emotional profile based on your entire online history. Love Diversity? All your ads are diverse now. Hate Diversity? Everybody in ads are the same ethnicity as you! Concerned about breast cancer? So is every brand that wants your money.
Took a course called Business Ethics in college. The instructor made it clear, the class was a course in theory only...there are no practical applications.
Yeah, that’s the reason why talk is cheap, like all our betters say.
A true oxymoron.
It's applicable to the Securities Exchange Commission.
Business Ethics ... in college
I wonder if Vaas knows the definition of Oxymoron.
lol, sad but true
The saddest part: because all companies support for LGBTQIA+ equality so loudly, others start to blame members of the LGBTQIA+-community "for pushing a woke agenda," causing more resentment than members of these groups deserve (if they deserve any resentment at all). I hate that.
So true.
It's also just how absurb the LGBTQRSUTUV2SA+ movement has become in itself these last few years. For starts, adding all these ridiculous extra words to the abbreviation.. secondly a really bizarre focus on wanting children involved with drag queens. And "progressives" defending to death the efficacy of prescribing puberty blockers to children effectively sterilizing them for life. And then of course the pure fantasy that there are an infinite number of genders and neogenders. It's no longer about marriage equality like it was 10 years ago. It's about being as loud and in your face about it as possible. Grown men dancing in diapers in public at pride parades.. grown men in leather gimp outfits with dog masks on being led around by leashes.. Actual articles on the Washington Post entitled - "Yes kinks belong at PRIDE and YES I WANT my kids to see it". Look up the article yourself. They have literally become what Fox news used to fear monger about.
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I hate to say, but this feels like the start of facsism in the US. The whole 'choose the right side' seems to enter into conversations and media way too easily, and both sides want some sort of punishment for the other about how the US has changed for the worse. Trump is already exploiting the divisiveness and even 'working together' as a country is starting to sound like an attack on our own beliefs, because it's so polarized that we don't want to budge an inch. Both sides think of the other in extremes and it seems like all the moderates get ignored by the media and algorithms. Hopefully our little experiment with social media 'engagement' algorithms ends well, but for now signaling, hate, and fear are making the corporations too much money online.
This is what you wanted.
As a grocery store employee I felt that donation rant 😭
Whoa! I shop at the grocery store, too!! 😳
"YOU'RE the one with the f*cking food!" 😝
Yea I’m not donating to get Kroger a tax break.
Imagine thinking in 2024 that a corporation does anything out of goodwill for the people…
Anything except pay a livable wage!!!!
Including airing a television episode ostensibly criticizing corporate pandering...
@@Aencii- Ostensibly criticizing and doing what instead…?
@@Tustin2121 Collecting massive profits?? I'm pretty cynical about the ability of capital to "subsume all critiques into itself", to quote Disco Elysium. As the quote continues, "Even those who would *critique* capital end up *reinforcing* it instead."
@@Aencii - Okay, but like… does that invalidate the criticism or something? You’re literally doing the “yet you participate in society” meme, acting like people have a choice to just not engage…?
The silver lining is that if corporation think it's profitable to advertise for equal rights, it's because society has progressed to a point where more people are in favor of it than against it.
No it's becasue a militant vocal minority will throw a fit and protest if they dont get their way. There's far less people in favor of it than you think.
Except that the “propaganda” campaign only lasted a few months!
Unless you're target in which case you dial it back a bit to not upset the bigots
@@dominicparker6124Or Budweiser
You may have a point.
i live on social security as a retired person. i resent corporations asking ME for donations when they are price gouging us.
i resent them virtue signalling when they are underpaying their workers.
Taco Bell asking me to donate to the scholarship program when they have the audacity to charge me 3 dollars for a taco.....
Jon Stewart left the media as Gandalf the Gray. He has returned to us in our more dire time of need as Gandalf the White
So is this the turn of the tide?
Cringe uncomfortable statement 🤦🏽♂️
@@JohnnyDelconot as uncomfortable as your mother when the doctor handed you to her right after you were born. I feel for her.
@@JohnnyDelco Know what's cringe? Someone constantly saying something is cringe and following it with a facepalm emoji. If you don't like what you are seeing; you can use either the back button, go to a different site or close up your browser/computer completely. Maybe a book will feel less cringy to you.
If only he'd run for President...
" The merchant has no nation. His sole loyalty is to the source of his profit. " Thomas Jefferson
More recently, Paddy Chayefsky (in his screenplay for the 1976 film NETWORK): "You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations; there are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems; one vast, interwoven, interacting, multivaried, multinational dominion of dollars."
And then at some point Americans stopped reading, and sold the Government to the merchants for peanuts.
Given that Jefferson placed "pursuit of property" (his original wording) right behind life and liberty in his human need hierarchy I doubt his statement about the nationalism of merchants was more than a simple observation.
@termsofusepolice I'm no Jefferson scholar. I take it much the same: a dry observation on the merchant's interests. He'd have no trouble seeing it in any multinational corporations comfortable arrangements with repressive regimes.
@@dennishickey7194 Thomas Jefferson was a racist slaver selling his own children... He was a ALSO a corporate/merchant.
"We all too often have socialism for the rich and brutal capitalism for the poor". - MLK jr.
No we don't want socialism
@@Bls-of1ld we do tho. At least if you knew what socialism was then youd want it. Most of european countries are social decomcracies due to the heavy influence of socialist parties. Nowadays theyre mostly moderate and not quite as extreme as the say communists in the 1900s and before, but theyre still socialists and have a huge part in how europe became europe today.
Everything is more expensive the poorer you are, and cheaper the more money you make.
@@Bls-of1ld You don't understand the word, and that is exactly how they want it to be.
@@Bls-of1ldsocialism is dope. People don’t talk about anarchism anymore, though. That used to be the thing people on the fringes wanted, but it’s a really hard system to actually implement. Whatever you want to call it though, we need housing, healthcare and income for everyone. Our brains have been poisoned to think it’s impossible, but it ain’t.
I've been saying it since the beginning. Corporations like Target, for example, are selling pride shirts not because they support the community but because they're trying to make money from people.
Yep, what initially "looked" like corporations actually helping turned out to just be marketing campaigns for selling more products. There is no humanity in them as all they see is dollar signs.
I'm suprised people ever thought otherwise. The emotional attachments people place on celebrities, corporations, the clergy, or political figures is astounding.
All these people or entities should only ever be a means to an end for someone because thats all you are to them.
Hmm, I take it as a measure of reality...
That empty corporate posturing only "looked" authentic to the absolute dumbest among us. We're talking ASTONISHINGLY dumb people.
that's why initially and still, there's so much skepticism and protest of corporate hijacking of pride events
Think on how long 40 years ago was. I'd say they have been at that level for some time now. Pride started in 1970.
By 1984 that's more than a decade for marketing teams to do their work. They probably been selling it since day one I reckon.
Corporations: giving you less and charging you more.
But but the shareholders! What about there right’s?!
Shrinkflation!
There's also the automation that will come next. So those low paying jobs may not exist...
@marvinmartin4692 it's not the rights of shareholders, it's about return of an investment
😂😂😂stop buying from them
Had the pleasure of meeting John Stewert at a charity do once. He was surprisingly down to earth, and VERY funny.
I am dead jealous!
Which persona was he using that day?
@@R50_J0 Non grata
Love the back handed "surprisingly" 😂😂😂
I had the pleasure of taking a shower once. Water is surprisingly wet.
The definition of corporation is an entity with all the rights of the individual and none of the responsabilty.
The "best" was when the grocery store chain Meijer here in Michigan sold a "fight for women's equality" dish towel for International Women's Day 😂
That is incredibly tone-deaf. Whoever is in marketing must not be a real human.
In my home town of East Lansing Michigan, the Meijer promotes how much it supports the St. Paul Lutheran Church Food Pantry. That gets people to buy in the store
And the gift cards they donate to the Pantry are bought by the the members of my congregation. ST. PAUL LUTHERAN CHURCH 😂
There's nothing wrong with a woman washing the dishes. I enjoy being a homemaker
No one said there was but for a dish cloth(usually sold to women and not men) as an equality product is missing the whole point @MeMe-le5yt
That has the same feel as when a company frog marches every minority worker they have into a room, make them put jackets/labcoats/ties on so they look more important and then force them into posing awkwardly for a group photo to prove they're not racist. Or, better yet, walk into an active work area with a photographer and just tell all the white people to take their lunch break.
Thank you! I'm so sick of these corporations pretending they care about these causes they talk about. I'm tired of telling people this stuff. Maybe people will actually listen to YOU.
It just makes everyone feel uncomfortable too.
They do this because they are forced thorough ESG rating. What else did you expect....
@@robertskrj6555 what's esg? Besides a great female funk band
The bottom bun is taking it waaay too far, trying to mainstream sadomasochism like that!
@@ttacking_you Do i wish it was only a punk band... Basically "score" how much a company gives a s**** about diversity, enviroment and governance. One of main reasons for culture war, even though nobody except for few zealost dont really care about it. However it is a great way to invest, higher ESG score, more reasons to short that companies stocks...
This is possibly one of the most important messages people need to understand about corporations. Thank you Mr Stewart for nailing them to the wall...!
I worked for target last June, of they pulled back on pride month this year it is absolutely because they were done with getting bomb threats. The whole time I worked for target I had to sit through active shooter training every few months. I was starting to wonder how often targets get shot up to have to sit through it so much.
It's awful to get bomb threats but they still sold out bc of the liability they'd face if someone got hurt at work.
@@marydawkins4190 >they sold out
They're a retailer, that's what they do.
@@crossedstreams3683 uh, yeah. that's what I said.
The active shooter training is every grocery chain actually.
Target has a target from conservative nutjobs
What a refreshingly honest Corporate America commercial! Thank you Daily Show! 🙏
I'm glad Jon brought this up. Because I never donate when a store asks if I want to. Because I know it's really just a way of taxing me, so they can get out of paying taxes.
If I'm paying in cash, I'll "round up" if it's an option. Mostly because I don't want to have to carry a nickel and 2 pennies around. I'm under no preconceptions as to where that "extra" money actually goes.
Can you explain how you donating a dollar would help them avoid taxes? It doesn’t work like that.
@@1themadbluebird It actually does, since that falls under "charitable contributions". IRS specifically states, "You may deduct charitable contributions of money or property made to qualified organizations if you itemize your deductions. Generally, you may deduct up to 50 percent of your adjusted gross income, but 20 percent and 30 percent limitations apply in some cases." Since all that money is directly donated to the brand, the company can utilize that money for their own taxes, and more importantly, their own tax write offs.
@@TinLeadHammer deadbeat
@@thedoctor9936 You are 100% wrong and are posting about something you don’t even have a basic understanding of. You’re quoting the rules for regular donations from a company’s own funds. They are absolutely not able to deduct donations made by other people. You can easily fact check this with one search.
Even if the Daily Show lost some ad revenue to make these jokes, bless ‘em! Keep making these!
They still ran the ads, the vaporous husks of these corporations dgf about anything else.
These are literally just clips from a TV broadcast, and the show is owned by Paramount anyway under Comedy Central. They have a lot of money.
« You’re the one with all the f****** food! » 😂😂😂
This was so well done!!! Finally someone called out this corporate hypocrisy!
it really isn't hypocrisy, it is just catering to the leftist mob for long enough for the leftists to start chasing the new current (pally) thing.
I refuse to donate at check out so the billionaire corporations can donate my money instead of their own! The shakedown is so rampant these days that cashiers no longer bother to name who the money will be donated to. Just this weekend a cashier asked me if I wanted to donate to charity. I almost asked which charity. Then I remembered I don’t give a F.
the flaw in your premise, is your assuming the corporation would have donated if you did not.
Have you heard of RFKs plan?
@@claireconover Don't be a tax shelter for corporations. They want you to "give to charity" so they can claim that donation on their taxes, so they can make more profits from your generosity.
"then I remembered I don't give a F"... 😂
I prefer to donate directly. I don’t trust that my money will go where they say it will.
they'll say anything to sell you the same thing at a higher price.
Facts. Gotta keep the shareholders happy, even if the world is burning.
How do you think they become wealthy, exactly?
And less of it. Shrinkflation.
If the price is too high then don't buy it...
@@akimbo139 wow. problem solved. you're so smart!
the second Budweiser ad looks like one of the things Ken watched when he came to the real world in the Barbie movie. just beer, men and horses :D
I'm just glad I still get to see Jon Stewart 15 minutes a week.
He's also doing a Weekly Podcast if you want some more.
Thank you.
Me too. That was a week's worth of funny right there.
I’ll take it!
“I just want to say to Pat Sajak, Have you thought about just doing Mondays?” 🤣🤣
Is that a quote from the video?? You don't think we can find it on our own??
@@shelbynamels7948They're expressing their appreciation for the quote
@@N_IRL .... the way we used to in 6th grade
@@shelbynamels7948, You get offended like trump, Trump is that you?
Pat was really acting out. I believe he has dementia. The things he has said have been way way off base.
Maybe Vanna will be the host.?
Corporations have one goal: make the most money possible. When money is the driving force, it makes all the decisions. When money decides, people lose... a lot.
It is not just driving force, it is actually a law. As a shareholder you can take the corporation to court for not making money when they can.
@@DukenukemTo a degree…but MANY actions can be sold in a way to say they believed they were trying to increase value.
The Owners of Comedy Central are VIACOM 🏳🌈
@scoobertmcruppert2915 surely, but the customer backlash and sale drop are actually measurable and have consequences. If you "try to increase value," but the actual stock takes nosedive, then you are failing at your job and your actions will be very much discouraged for your successors.
@@Dukenukem Discouraged but not illegal. If you can show you made an effort to increase value then they are in the clear legally. Things can be done in a way that is actually beneficial to most people, even in this system, and they could spin it but they won’t to that because that doesn’t enrich them personally.
The first advertisement began with, “Stay straight for the next 200 miles….Audi”. 😅😂😅
Man, that's something. Stewart just smashed this myth totally. He tells the truth like it is.
I mean he's saying what we all know but doing it in the funniest way possible. It's not like he's exposing anything here.
We all knew it was a myth. I'm glad he went after both sides. Back in the 90's they'd pretend to be all patriotic and care about the American worker. Even then we knew it was BS. Now it's just a different type of BS. I just want corporations to advertise their product and try to say how it's better than the competitors.
@@Win7ermu7e, for some people, apparently, he does, like the person you’re responding to. If you were never educated on publicity, you might believe all of it.
Basically the corporations are losing money big time so they bring in "Stewart" to tell the woke mob not to care about pride month anymore.
He's definitely not the first to point this out.
Greed destroys integrity everywhere. Just look at what's happened to RUclips. It's one big infomercial; people constantly hawking, peddling, begging, pleading, and prodding useless garbage. The minute you are willing to compromise the quality of your product for profit, it's over. You can rationalize anything at that point.
You say that like there ever was any integrity in the first place?
I feel like integrity is only found in face to face meetings and small scale stuff anymore. If a local small store that isn't part of any chain flies a pride flag even though it might lose them some of their customers, that actually tells me something about the values of the people who own that store. If Amazon changes their logo to a rainbow for a month, of course it means nothing.
And we've enshrined greed in our corporations as their main driving principle. This is all a consequence of shares existing. Or maybe even a few steps more back and it is all a consequence of the idea that you can own abstract concepts like businesses. Ownership should be defined by use. If you use it, you own it. So you can't own two stores at the same time, because you can't work in two stores at the same time. You need to hire at least one other person, and in that case each of you owns two half stores if you regularly switch, or each of you owns one of the stores. Anything else leads to corporations driven by greed.
You're not wrong. But people do kinda need to eat. Don't you think the spigot of free content has kinda spoiled everyone? If it came between clips costing a few bucks versus a sponsorship ad midway through, which one would you pick?
@@BrasswatchmanThen they should get another job, RUclips was supposed to be a free media platform, sick of creators pay walling stuff behind their Patreon and constantly begging.
This was one of the best Daily Shows that I've seen in a really long time. John Stewart is an absolute treasure and is the best part of the Daily Show and always has been. Cheers to John!
The best thing corporations can do is pay their employees, focus on the quality of their product, and stay out of politics and social issues.
Yes! Thank you! I've been saying for years corporations aren't political. All they care about is money, and will say and do anything that they think will get them the most money.
My Pop Pop taught me that the only conscience a company has is the one imposed on it by government regulation.
and they have captured their regulators
Your Pop Pop knew what he was talking about, for sure. Sadly, the deregulation spree that got under way during the Reagan administration really got things going downhill.
@@dangerouslysane And now we've got a presidential candidate (leading in the polls) who is openly telling CEO's of oil companies he will give them further regulatory cuts in exchange for campaign donations.
and they'll flout those as much as they can get away with.
Bottom line!
You're the best man in media, Jon! I highly respect you.
I love him so much.
Appreciate his moderate perspective we need more moderacy in the USA
@@djbombba do your part. Help a neighbor understand moderation.
@@kaponkotrokexplain moderation to a MAGA? 😂 they enjoy chaos way too much.
pre-maga can be invited to reason. They aren't tattoed yet lol
Brilliant. What a scathing take-down of corporate hypocrisy and presumptive moral preachiness. We need you more than ever, Jon Stewart!
It's profitable to pretend but not worthwhile to actually care... America!
I think Jon Stewart was a strong influence in making me see that we are in a class warfare, and still only a small percentage of people are actually aware of.
Haven’t you always known? Who took your voice and your mind and gave it to someone else to validate your perspectives. I’m wondering why people are so star struck by a celebrity. Do you not trust yourself to hold knowledge because you could be wrong or are you needing a cult leader in order to be greater than thou?
@@jacquelineleitch7050A whole segment of Jon showing the receipts and your take away is celebrity worship not someone that has helped inform people? wow
@@jacquelineleitch7050 So, no one else has ever informed you about a subject or influenced you to look beyond what you were taught as a child? No "celebrity" has ever called your attention to an issue that you had never taken the time to study? Should these celebrities not bother to use the platforms their status affords them and just wait for each individual to get there on their own?
[This comment originally concluded with a pretty solid barb, but the censor bots weren't having it.]
John is part of that war on the lower class
Remember when he said dat people are healthy? You know who pays fat activists?
Nestle...
Yeah only a 'small percentage' are aware of it😂😂
I mean, it's corporate. Surely USA knew a lot about how corporate will do anything to gain profits. Literally anything
As I get older I realize how far their literally goes. It's literally a long way.
Speaking from experience huh
Surely they wouldn't sell addictive opioids to practically anyone with a slight pain in their knees?
They do, and don't call me Shirley.
But shareholders pressure for ever greater profits drives that. We the people are the reason behind that.
Jon, (excluding my family) you are my favorite person on this entire planet. I'm so glad that you are back! 😊
Your timing could not be better. Thank you for this upload.
Do you have toes?
*pauses puts on glasses and reads Kraft box* 😂😂😂
Exactly!
Raytheon putting up a rainbow flag is probably one of the more dystopian things I've seen.
Seem like it won't be long until they paint that flag on their guided missiles.
There are obligations - Major investment funds mandate DEI if a business wants to deal with them and their money and photoshopping a pride flag onto your corporate logo and using some stock photos of 'diverse' happy people on your website are real easy, cheap ways to check those boxes.
"From Raytheon with love"
why does Raytheon sound like a Pokémon
Great broadcast. This is the JonStewart I used to know and love. Constantly bashing one side of the political spectrum is shortsighted. There’s so much we all can agree on.
Shortsighted? To call out the rampant rise of ethno nationalism and hateful rhetoric by one of the largest political parties in the world?
Its all about money, they don't care about your cause.
They never did
They really don’t. They use charity for tax purposes.
Yes, that is exactly what was stated and explained several times in the video.
@@timf7679I commented before watching, its an obvious take. And all these thumbs up are cause I caught the video release early, not cause its a quality post that made you re-evaluate a topic. This is the internet we built.
They care as long as you give them money.
"You tell those kids that's my money!" 😂 channeling Larry David
"Yeah they ran the numbers and apparently you can sell more cellphones in a dictatorship" was an EXCELLENT joke. Went over the audience's head methinks.
Agreed, wayyyyyy more complex than the audience was willing to give it credit for.
I noticed it, but didn't get why you'd sell more cell phones in a dictatorship...wanna let me know?
@LeahRobb You make everyone buy a new one every year was my impression
I think more people got it than you realize. This is Jon's audience, not Fox News' audience.
Or they are for use in prisons
Thank you, John. I'm so fed up with these corporations that pander to us for one month, then turn around and give money to politicians that want to end my existence.
Want to end your existence? How? You mean with the wars for profit?
There's nothing else essential to Corporate America but greed.
how about political power? seems like quite an "essential"
@@silverlobo2135 they only want political power so they can satisfy their greed. Money is the true power.
@@silverlobo2135 Aren't you talking about labor unions?
How about creating jobs and producing products and services and creating wealth.
Corporations globally.
John Stewart is the greatest. Thank you for comin back.
Jon Stewart is the goat. If he ran for president, America would win.
That would be nice, right? Hard to understand why we can’t seem to find two decent people to run for f-ing president of the country.
I wrote him in for the 2012 election. He would use the bully pulpit like no other.
I came here to make this comment.
The media wouldn’t allow someone who isn’t a corporate shill to become president.
@@JonahsWail Every other country in the world is asking the same thing about the US.
"NO F***ING WAY IS HE DATING HER!! NO WAY!!"
Jon Stewart got me in stitches 😂😂😂
Not only do they donate that money in their name, they file the tax donation as a write-off and get most of that money back.
I've been corrected, they don't get most of it back, only a portion.
That's actually a myth, they're not allowed to write off money other people donated. What they do get is interest accrued from holding the money temporarily
The tax write offs are limited - basically it means the companies don't pay tax on the amount of money that they earned and donated.
So the donation is still real even if they get a break for 21% of it (US Fed corporate tax rate)
@@XxThunderflamexXwhat would determine the interest for holding the money being donated?
A little more info if you’re debunking someone please 😅
@@XxThunderflamexX no it isn't.
Technically not true, i looked into this myself
👏👏👏👏. I’m glad Jon is echoing what Roland Martin has been saying for months about these disgusting corporations and their fake stances.
Ah….advertising!
the dad really painted the fence to cheese off the HOA
Also valid and acceptable.
And Mrs. Alito 😁🐦
I've been bemoaning corporate virtue signalling since 2015 and I was called a right wing bigot for doing so. John Stewart does it and he's a liberal hero.
Goo goo gah gah CaptainHowdy
To be fair, jon stewart has taken plenty of fire for his stances. From both sides too.
@@snoopy104 Yeah I think the smartest commentators generally have a way of upsetting their supposed followers because I think binary thinking and intelligence generally don't go together. I think my own frustration on this topic is because there are so many people who see it and feel it but just won't say anything about it until a member of their supposed tribe does and then they feel they have permission.
"The answer to all of your questions is money." - Don Ohlmeyer
“Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all. “ - John Maynard Keynes
Things were better under Keynesianism.
Jon is a big time capitalist.
@@peterstafford4426 The other side of the coin is the LGBTQ organizations that accept their money.
@@peterstafford4426 So was Keynes. That's why he argued for strong democratic governments to regulate corporations. It's like Bernie Sanders said: "They can have their money, they just can't have it all."
@@soulscanner66 Except Jon is pulling the same BS he is attacking. This whole bit is a stealth attack on woke and also a distraction from the insane BS Trump said during the weekend. Trump is as big of a con artist as Trump is
Two bottom buns! I spit out my popcorn!
Two tops or two bottoms.. either way, no one wins.
and the bottom buns spit out something else
why not 2 tops
@@jphzzzzthat was one of the pictures
@@dwren365 Exactly! You NEED to have at least 1 top to 1 bottom ratio or LITERALLY NOTHING HAPPENS! 2 bottoms will just sit and stare at each other twiddling their sesame seeds, and 2 tops are just going to fight until they're BOTH are flame-broiled past done, and no one's happy! 🤣
Thank you for coming back Jon, still the best to ever sit behind the desk 🙌🏼
I really just want corporations to shut up about politics. We know they don't care anyways.
I disagree; I think they care very much, if it's a political issue (climate change, corporate tax rates, etc.) that affects their bottom line. But they don't care about social issues unless they see money to be gained from it.
There are too many different kinds of people on the payroll for them to have an official opinion.
They care very much about politics when it comes to regulation
"And here at corporate America, love is love." "No, no, no, we're not doing that." 😆
"Tell those kids that's my money!" 🤣🤣
And this is just one of the reasons why i love Jon Stewart. Ty for bringing back some sense of reality-check and common-sense and for presenting it the way you do!
"Welcome to The Daily Show. My name is Jon Stewart" is possibly the most important phrase in the past 25 years. Jon Stewart will help America hope again in 2024.
#HAHA2024
Like it or not that means TRUMP - Biden is not working
True story! I was in lake Sebago, Maine at happy hour, where they were selling "domestic" beer at a reduced price and other non-domestics were not included. So me being me, I ordered Sam Adams instead of Budweiser. The waitress said that Sam Adams was not included in the happy hour price because it was not a domestic beer. I grabbed the bottle, and showed her the label where the beer was owned and brewed, Jamaica Plain (Boston, Ma) where I grew up. Then I told her about Budweiser and their owners In- Bev. Not only that, Sam Adams is wearing the Patriot three-pointed hat, which was hilarious! Then I asked her which beer was more domestic than who! She was so perplexed and still denied me!
Yeah, people are morons
So she thought Sam Adams is from where?
Gotta love blind confidence in the face of overwhelming facts. That’s the engine driving our country into the future.
R/lies
Maine's getting worse and worse.
Don’t donate to stores for a cause. They take your money, then donate it in their name for huge tax breaks. It helps them not pay taxes. Donate your money directly to organizations and claim it on your own taxes. 😊
I love it when a billion dollar corporation asks if you want to donate 2$ when you checkout.
This whole segment was an absolute masterpiece... "you've got all the food, why dont you round some of that up??!!".....so glad to have Jon back (on Mondays)
It really shows how dumb customers are to think that a company cares about anyone, ever.
I think Jon skipped over the fact that it's not just corporations that are virtue signalling. I doubt all these consumers really think they can support a social cause by giving Target a few bucks for a t-shirt, many of them just want to be seen as supporting the cause without actually donating any of their time or money to it.
I doubt anyone really buys into the idea. They are mostly ad campaign aimed at shoehorning their products into a relevant moment. People see it in connection with current events, which creates a connection in their minds.... But I doubt think that deeply about it and genuinely applauds or believes the values of phillip morris or kraft.
@@quietreason8679There are many ways to show solidarity.
Nothing wrong with providing Pride shirts in June though. I might buy a product because it seems useful to me. That doesn't mean I'm buying into the idea that a corporation is a human rights activist.
As the (updated) saying goes, "A fool and his money... are my friends."
"Eczema Opie" 😆
Very funny! And then Jon apologized to the actor in the commercial for calling him that.
Spaghetti-Os, Japanese Zer-Os... the signs were always there. 😂
Well done!
That's actually the joke I THOUGHT he was going to make! But the sneak attack on your digestive system was also a valid point. 😂
That redhead guy commercial always got me too lol
It's so performative and grifty in both directions. There's corpo that pretend to care about DEI and wokism and BLM until their profits don't need it... Then there's crazy grifters who scream about how somehow everything is DEI, woke and BLM.
Truly an incredible time to be alive.
I hate it here..
@@matthewcunningham5069 anywhere else you'd like to be?
Well DEI is what they use to greenwash investments in fossil fuels and warfare. DEI products and policies don't have to be profitable and only need to improve a companies perception.
@@user-eg6nq7qt8c- If I could leave this country, I would, but the right and the rich are making that impossible.
It's gonna get incredible-er. Until it's horrifical.
Corporate America cares so much that they can't keep their Dark Money out of Politics 😂
They are literally drafting legislation in some cases.
@@last808to favor themselves (the corporations)
The fact you're using his cheeky grin from the press conference as your pfp and using the phrase "Dark Money" as a call back, has me in stitches. 😂 Well played.
if Target thinks the backlash THEY have to deal with is something, talk to the Stonewall rioters or the people who tried to get help for AIDS victims in the early 80s.
Amen.
Over half of his audience supported this corporate DEI stuff a couple of years ago. But I’m glad they can finally see it for what it is.
"... you're the one with all the fckn' food!"
😂
Awesome 😎
Jon Stewart is a national treasure.
The TV Show the Boys is legitimately bang on about how hollow the virtue signaling of these companies is.
Brave Maeve's pride bars
Amazon: see we in the jokes yay
Man I'm so excited about the new season. They parody this marketing in an absolutely magnificent way.
One of the largest and dehumanizing corporations is able to lambast itself while showing the staggering apathy and getting a laugh out of it
The Boys is the best show and is by far the most woke TV shows there ever was.
I think the best thing Vaseline can do during Pride Month is remain tastefully silent.