Why Are U.S. Elections So Long? - SOME MORE NEWS
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- Опубликовано: 9 июн 2024
- Hi. In today's episode, we look at the election-industrial complex, why U.S. election season drags on for so long, and what we could do to lessen the influence of corporate money on politics.
Executive Producer - Katy Stoll
Hosted by Cody Johnston
Directed by Will Gordh
Written by Ella Yurman
Edited by Gregg Meller
Produced by Jonathan Harris
Associate Producer - Quincy Tucker
Post-Production Supervisor - John Conway
Researcher - Marco Siler-Gonzales
Graphics by Clint DeNisco
Head Writer - David Christopher Bell
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
02:57 - Why American Election Season Is So Long
10:14 - Cui Bono?
15:03 - An Endless Cycle
19:55 - Citizens United and Super PACs
33:19 - Fixing This
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As a Russian I can brag that our elections are very fast, so fast, that we know the winner even before they started.
Of course theere were two dipshlts that up voted your comment.(everyone knows you were the third)
Lol
@@downer_daveCan't recognize a joke when you see one?
@@GIR177 👍
A very efficient system, to be sure.
As a Canadian we NEVER STOP hearing about you guys and your elections.
It's weird how a "functioning" democracy can't stop talking about how well its "functioning" (as an orphan slaughter machine)
Canada’s next election is literally two years away and Canada’s politicians are campaigning full time.
JJ detected
@@damnationdan5253the fuck is a JJ?
Brits who voted out the Conservatives 3 years before the election :
It's honestly crazy that corporation spending is legally defined as speech in the US. It's like a microcosm of the whole 'rich people can avoid the rules' thing
Mitt Romney was giddy when Citizens United was announced. "Corporations are people my friend!"
Its not that wrong it’s just they essentially fund both sides to v
Come out on top which is absolutely anti-democratic
And yet when they inevitably break the law, they tend not to get punished as a person would.
so you can contribute to a candidate that's campaigning to give you what you want, but that other guy can't. seems fair.
@@Rougarou99 Corporations are people until it's time for them to be punished. Then suddenly they are "Sprawling organizations with a lot of moving parts in which you can't really blame anyone in particular when something goes wrong."
"According to AG1, AG1 is a foundational, nutritious drink..."
I _love_ the way Cody has so much fun at the expense of this particular sponsor.
Also props to the sponsor for allowing it.
@@sonicwave779 Cody's honestly their only sponsor who's gotten me even a little bit interested in trying the drink. He actually drinks it on camera and while he does chug it, I can't imagine it tastes awful if he's continuously doing that. All thats stopped me is just not being a vitamin person.
him chugging it and not slowing the craziness down for the ad helps immensely
@@IronInvoker47hi iron I like your transcriptions!!
@@prettyevil6662000In some ads his face looked like it was tasting... less than spectacular. But I imagine most things taste terrible if you chuck down half a liter of it, so who knows.
The most unbelievable thing I ever found out from this show was that companies will continue paying you for ads that are like hallucinatory fever dreams where clowns get tortured forever.
Really puts into contrast the 3 minute long boilerplate uniterrupted recitals of mobile game ads vs the most chaotic and entertaining minute of whatever SMN manages to cook up
You say that like I don't live for a good AG1 chug.
@@BattyBigSister I will not drink the slime.
I still remember the one Katy did where she became sonic the hedgehog.
@@PlatinumAltaria To be clear, I meant watching CODY do a good AG1 chug (or Katy fail at one).
We do not have to drink it (although to be fair and/or balanced I have recently started drinking something similar to help with my anemia) and, if we did, we'd probably drink it slowly in multiple smaller swallows or sips like normal human beings.
As an Argentinian i'm surprised we got something right (please help us, oh god, we're so fucked)
As an American, I'm sorry that we exported our stupidest ideology to you guys.
Sadly, there isn't a lot of great solutions in Argentina. Things are going to suck in the short term.
I mean, you are going to hate me. The first thing to fix is the inflation: 138% is not acceptable. At this point, I would look to insert a new currency (so go with some sort of coin to replace a lot of the paper bills, so that people feel that it's very different, and call it a yen so people react to a difference), call for debt restructuring again, raise taxes, and some budget cuts to reduce the deficit even try to create a surplus.
Careful, I'm not saying to bring a chainsaw on the budget: have boring and measured budgetary changes on both "income" and "spending."
Which is not a set of policies anyone wants to hear.
I would also have a massive anti-corruption campaign. That thing is a simply a killer.
The currency change is because the inflation in Argentina is so high that the currency starts to be repudiated. Better buy the groceries as soon as someone gets a paycheck.
The cut and tax hike is because Argentina is in an agreement with the IMF and there is a need to follow with reform. Albeit, it's more contractual and done to try to leave the IMF.
The issue is doing this asks for a lot of political will and... There might not be such will.
@@therrydiculewtf. I know it's confusing, but OP is not the monarch of Argentina.
As a Russian who haven't seen proper elections my whole life I'm really happy for you, you guys got right much more than you may have thought.
@@therrydiculenah, the issue is the primary socioeconomic system around the globe. What you just described is symptoms. In medicine, you treat the illness and route cause, as just treating symptoms fixes nothing in the long run.
I remember when Newt Gingrich said on live TV, "I know I can't tell a super pact what to do, because that would be coordinating, but if I could...." he then went on to coordinate on live TV
It's such a ridiculous thing to say that there are laws against coordinating with pact doners.
The law is so narrow as to be non-existent.
For example; it's illegal to speak directly to pact leader about advertising, but if you speak to someone standing next to a pact leader it's totally OK, or send someone not part of your campaign team to speak directly to pact leaders. The law might as well not be there.
????? super pacs didnt exist at all when newt was in politics at all. PACs did. but super pacs were only legalized about 10 years ago.
@@kainuscorevax3875I remember John Stewart and Steven Colbert do a skit of that.
@@kainuscorevax3875 this arcane nature is part of the design. having such absurd arbitrary rules means only those in-the-know can utilize the loop-holes. meanwhile anyone outside the in-group will likely be caught out by the many traps that have been set.
And since we're dealing with simple exlusion of commoners and not actual justice it will be mainly the unworthy that get targeted for investigation
Gingrich was transparent scum but too many Americans do not pay attention.
"Foppish vampires don't just f*** themselves, you know!"
Glad to know Cody is a BG3 fan
The writer is
OnlyFangs
I was unprepared to be so seen during a video on elections.
@@x10sam Yes, that moment sure caught me by surprise as well.
As someone who worked on bg3 was not expecting it to come out of Cody's mouth
Cody looks so much younger in that thumbnail about Utilities... I salute him for the sacrifice of his time and sanity. He has done more good for the nation than I ever did in the armed forces.
I very much appreciate your comment, support, the same appreciation for your services, your sense of loyalty because we have known for a long time that loyalty is one of the traits that makes all of us into one. But yeah, when we look at history, and the conditions we all live now, even considering our buying power, we all arrive at the same conclusion.... we are exhausted running the rat wheel. We are getting sick all the time, whether is physical or mental, we are blaming the high hierarchy, destiny, karma, and asshole people, communism, anything outside of us. All we can do is hope for the best
That's not hard when you think about what the armed forces actually do
@@MrPiccoloku Hence why I said that.
@@MrPiccoloku except when when we obliterate all of our traumas
@@veronicafoxx8590Yeah
Hope we get to the point where representatives are campaigning for re-election prior two terms in advance. Gotta keep up with the competition, you see!
Campaign decades ahead of time for a candidate not yet born.
Look, if you weren't campaigning straight out of the womb, why should I vote for you? You had 30+ years to let me know who you were, loser.
It's what DeSantis is actually doing, campaigning for 2028/2032
@@PanTrimtab he's running for future name recognition
Don't forget that candidates always "suspend their campaigns" when they drop out of elections because according to the FEC, they have to fully pay off all debts to technically "end" their campaign. By "suspending" it, they can get around this requirement - they can even continue raising money if they're so inclined. It's one of the dumbest loopholes ever.
Also, I'm a comer too.
the more video essays i watch, the more i realize that the American system is so unbelievably stacked against the public. in every way, and at every step. it's bleeding up into Canada too, how inaccessible politics are becoming... it's really depressing
not just canada, but all of western countries, even australia..
Here in Canada the election period was shortened to 36 days. Even so, people still complain they're too long.
Oh we all know they're soft-campaigning way longer than that.
Conservatives in Canada start campaigning the second the election is over.
Any longer than a month is too much of a distraction from actual governance
I swear it seems like we are never not in an election season 😂 nowadays the media puts so much emphasis on the midterms and the General elections years before they even happen
Well, I would hope they would put emphasis on the midterms and general elections. The major issue imo is that we have primaries almost directly between the midterms and presidential elections. That allows the election industrial complex to never shut off as we are always within one year of an election. Then there's the 8 or so months between the primaries and the presidential election. Those months the media is in full election mode. If there were no primaries or if the primaries were held much much much closer to the presidential election I think you would see a much shorter campaign season.
If you're in a state that has off-year elections (like mine does with judicial and local elections), it never ends. The one thing I miss about politics in WV was that every race possible was crammed into a Presidential year.
When I ran for House of Delegates in 2006, there were only five races ok the ballot: US Senate;(six year term), US House (two year term), State Senate (half are elected each cycle), State House (two year term), and county commission (six year terms staggered). Yesterday, when I went to vote, there were 17 races and seven questions of judicial retention.
@@TheFireGiver My bad, I meant to say that they put so much emphasis on them years before they even occur. So for example, they’ve been talking about 2024 election since 2022, and they were talking about the midterm elections almost months after Biden was inaugurated.
@@wvu05 yeah I can imagine. I live in Chicago and we had a mayoral/municipal election earlier this year. The only year there isn’t an election for me is the year following the presidential election. But even then, the media starts talking about the midterms.
I'm worried that someone in the U.S. will figure out how to compress time just so they can fit an eight-year election cycle into two.
I listen to this while driving. My favorite part is when I can roll my windows down and the entire neighborhood hears "PUT YOUR BUTTS UP AGAINST THE SCREEN, I'LL WAIT!" blasted from my bass-boosted speakers.
Thanks news daddy
LOL
Living your best life 😅
Cannot wait for Cody to unironically become his future dystopian radical self from the SONE MORE NEWS Movie
I doubt we have all that much longer to wait. It will be here sooner than we'd like.
I'm Canadian, and seeing how long US election cycles are makes me appreciate just how comparatively short our election cycles are. They usually last around a month or so, with the longest Canadian federal election ever being 78 days. I cannot overstate how grateful I am to not have to constantly be bombarded with election talk, and I hope Americans will one day be able to experience the same because it's pretty awesome.
I especially appreciate how the election is over before anybody in the west votes. Let's never change that stupid system!
Even Christmas hasn't managed to consume more than one third of the year. 🎄🎄🎄🎄
Thankfully they only celebrate the first day of Christmas.
Except in the phillipines
I love capitalism❤ I personally can't wait for the day all the ads are inceptioned directly into my brain and all my dreams are just cool videos about stuff I definitely want.
I love when my autonomy is taken away for profit, it makes me feel so special!! ❤
If Disney could find a way, they would delete the memories of anyone who watched Disney shows on pirate sites.
Why would you want that? Just let the companies tell you what you want. They know better than you.
I love capitalism as well. Most love the complain about it but secretly, they love it, we all do.
@@itsoktobehappy461you're right, I secretly love living pay cheque to pay cheque and barely scraping by
I’m fascinated by how AG1 is fine with them just doing the ads fully ironically.
I bet it's done on purpose. I mean, whoever advertises in THIS show knows the only way ads can ever done here is to make them as funny as possible, breaking as many fourth walls as you can muster and to utilize irony and sarcasm. This show has a special audience and what Cody does might be exactly what sells here. I mean, if Cody did a regular ad, we would all be like "Geez, Cody, all that talk about how bad capitalism is and now you are doing regular ads for crap products?". But the way he does it makes it legit. And by extension it makes AG1 look cool, too. I mean, you now know AG1 and talk about it positively. I will probably never by vitamin supplements myself either but IF I did, I would surely remember this and everything else being equal I would give AG1 the edge simply because of the taste they have in picking sponsors and being cool with being made fun of.
@@Puschit1 So true. I feel the need to share a masterclass in advertising with someone making fun of you: ruclips.net/video/Bml8KwCmob8/видео.htmlsi=dldzlTmxNoiSQeBV
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You gotta do another Wormbo voting thing you did with the "who is the Forward Party" that was utterly hilarious and totally rewatchable!
Please God, no more Wormbo.
I cannot tell if you’re serious, which scares me.
@@blindmown why? it's hilarious.
We all need more Wormbo in our lives ❤
What are you talking about. They're all rewatchable. Especially the brief episode on Jordan Peterson.
Whenever anything is wrong in the US that's length related, I think we can all agree it's because they weren't using the metric system.
At least, that's what my girlfriend tells me.
Metric time! Bring back the French Revolutionary Calendar!
At -40 degrees, it's all the same. Those days are dwindling.
hey kiddo. your joke doesnt work. Celsius, isnt part of the metric system. there was a metric temperature scale. it was rejected. over 100 years ago. @@SandhillCrane42
Underrated comment
The core reason behind almost everything in the U.S. is money. It's not that simple but at the core, it almost always is largely because of that.
I'd argue this is the case everywhere, since in our society we use money to trade almost everything, free time, emotions, pleasure, basic necessities. Perhaps the problem is more how (especially in the US) money is viewed and used and often an end instead of a means.
Money AND racism.
@@LostMyGoatsAgainNot really. Like Cody said in the video, other countries have laws.
The core reason behind free healthcare in every country that can afford it isn't money. Nor free universities. Nor free universal public education. Not even things like post offices, trains and railway network, or city transport - which aren't free, but are publically owned and operate at a loss.
We're not perfect, here in the Not-US. But we don't have money at the core of every decision we make, and that's what saves us.
@@weareallbornmad410 my take was meant more philosophically.
But I am very tired right now so I am not really able to explain them better :/
I live in europe btw. and like the regulations, social securities and rights compared to the US. So we have nothing to argue about there.
Everything is a Rich Man's Trick.
I'm just amazed that election cycles and campaigns seem to be beaten into our heads for one, two, or three years straight... yet somehow there will still be something or someone on the ballot we've absolutely never heard of before in our lives and don't understand the ramifications of until the last minute.
Because it's the news equivalent of junk food. They just talk about electoral horse-race polling and barely touch on issues other than to say "This will be bad for [Democrat/Republican]".
Katie’s “ask me about my butthole” shirt will never not make me laugh
Presidential candidates should have to do an AG1 ad read during the debates
the true hero of this video is AG1 for showing back up to make cody drink this shit again
I wonder if they noticed a drop in sales during the week or two they didn't advertise with Cody
At this point I think they just do it to watch Cody chug their shit.
It almost makes me wanna buy it😐
The weird edit makes me think he might have barfed it up this time around.
Thanks for the showdy, Cody. Not to rub it in, but my country also limits election campaign times and we got campaign financing ages ago 😅
Started to really notice American campaign cycles becoming endless around the time of the Bush re-election. The amount of money in your system is staggering. I truly hope Citizens United can be overturned one day but, unfortunately, also being realistic about the chances.
We have our own election issues here in Germany.
But god damn - Jeb Bush spent more than all German parties did combined in the last election.
All parties in the Bundestag spent (CDU 20million, SPD 24million, FDP 5million, Grüne 6million, Linke 6million and AfD 3million) 64 million euro. (data taken from their -mandatory- publication about election spending).
And this spending and the way campaining was done, sparked a discussion about the "americanisation" of our elections.
Thanks for calling Nikki Haley a "guy." It was subtle, not a joke, and helps normalize things.
What does this mean? Sorry, out of the loop on something
Same I don't know the reference either.
@@marafolse8347 Did some googling and it looks like Nikki Haley misgendered a trans woman and called her "a guy dressed up like a girl" while speaking at a campaign stop in New Hampshire in May.
That's the point, he just said it in passing. There was no joke (the beauty of it) it was just a tiny part of the monologue. Using gender neutral pronouns in regular prhases. @@marafolse8347
Maybe they just mean normalising using "guy" as a gender-neutral term for describing people
Tickling the algorithm armpit for y'all. Big fan of your work. Not just Cody, but Katy and everyone else on your team.
Capitalism in everything! We have to make an industry out of all the stuff and things and what not!
capitalism treats everything that creates money like a gold ore they mine until all surrounding is destroyed
That gold is human lifeblood, there will always be more
Yeah. Private money needs to be removed from our political process. Obama had a chance to get it out of the presidential race, but he had a huge advantage over Romney but he was way behind Romney in the polls and didn't want to give up the advantage that he felt could help him close the gap. Turns out mother nature did it for him and he didn't need the dough, but he didn't know 5haf. Romney would have been ok for a republican, but no one wants to be a one term president.
@@freebobafett crept lbj, I’m growing t9 admire the guy
@@donnytonny730 a lot of the one term presidents, at least in the modern era, are a lot better in hindsight than they seemed at the time - Carter and Ford being my personal faves due to the fact that neither sent American soldiers to a foreign theater to kill or be killed.
RUclips comments industrial complex
I adore that Cody’s writer is an Astarion fan! He is the best character in the whole game. Neil Newbon says so and he’s too cool to lie!
I find him to be way too rapey to be the best. Maybe you missed out on literally all the other characters?
@@Markus-ko1ph
Its all an act. Astarion may act all flirty and confident but its him trying to cope with the fact that he was basically pimped out by cazador.
In realitiy hes a virgin and a softie.
Plus he has that "I can fix him energy".
Trying to drink my paladin without consent was the last thing he did in my playthrough.
@@jamesbolt1003 Yikes. Smote.
@@jamesbolt1003 his whole story arc is about consent and him reclaiming his autonomy after being a puppet for 200 years. He asks for consent more then any the other companions. You can back out of a romance with him multiple times on date night and throughout the relationship and he honors that consent can be taken away even after it was given.
I highly recommend a Durge redemption playthrough. You see his true self much more then
Cody, the correct answer was and always will be Shadowheart.
Overrated. Like US election cycle!
I would agree with you but you seem to have misspelled the name Gale 😂
Haven't seen a SMN video this short since the Jordan Peterson one
I’m pretty sure that was a short.
Just wanna say that "M.C. Escher is spinning upside out of his grave right now" is a marvelous sentence and I'm happy to have heard it!
That baldurs gate joke really came for us fans today lol I'm glad to see the impact the games left on people.
That Baldur's gate joke was weirdly sweet XD
I teach middle school and when we're talking about current events we talk why it's important to follow the news. Because a better world is necessary and possible. Thank you for your good work and for giving me hope. It's rippling out to my students.
Title monkey really stepping up their game.
A hard cut right after dunking that AG1. I wonder what kind of messy outtake there was in there.
I don't even like news, I'm just here to watch Cody glug the drink, glug it down smooth, the drink named after letters and etc.
what a weird thing to say.
no interest in the product, but watching cody glug that goop like im watching the world cup
And not forget that the results often trickle in over weeks. In most countries that is done within 24h. In Germany you get 95% of votes counted and reported in 6h. When polling places close at 18:00h at midnight, you usually know who won.
Same here in Chile
But they use electronic vote for security 😢
@@shigekax Yeah, always wondered how that slows them down so much. We usually have paper ballots on which you mark your choice with a pen and they are counted by hand by multiple people to confirm. This is somehow done in the US only when people cry foul....which they do regularly. It's a strange system that does not work, yet is not replaced.
@@rwandaforever6744 That's because Republicans hate Democracy
Yay more news!
I'm Irish and I have no idea when our next presidential election is lol
And I only vaguely know when our general elections are because they're supposed to be at least every 5 years unless the government does a whoopsie and one is called early
Don't know if this will change with whatever constituency you're in but I think we all have councilor elections next May. If you're in Dublin North West vote for Connor Reddy from People Before Profit.
Based and parliamentary pilled
Probably potato related though
WOO!!! AG CHUG BABY!!!
When, when the, when it's, when NEWS!!!
Pours margherita "It's election season o'clock somewhere" 🍹
If you have a drink every time it's election season, by now you'd have been on a 30 year bender.
"Which seems like a pretty big... one of those holes I mentioned. With the loops in them. Wait, aren't loops a type of hole? So it's like a hole-hole, a loop-loop... There's a term for it" is one of the best written lines in the history of this show. Props!
When there are only two parties, when the country is perfectly polarized and elections are won by 1% or less, you have to start campaigning as early as possible. Over time that brought us to where we are now where the next election campaign starts as soon as the previous election is done.
It’s not as polarized as the media claims it to be
I've been hearing this for 50 years. Generations come and go and it is the same bad news. Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!
Commenting for the algorithm and to show my support. ❤ Please keep being you, Cody and the entire SMN team.
I started watching SMN right after the covid lockdowns began, and I wish I'd known about the channel sooner! But I think the show has been getting better and better over time, and it's been one of my absolute favorites for a while now. I'm always excited to see a new episode come out.
Often I end up learning something new, and sometimes an episode is largely a recap of an issue I'd already been following closely (like this one). But even in the latter cases, it is SO cathartic to see Cody's visible (and often passionate) frustration with the exact same things that also make me want to tear my hair out. It makes things feel... easier to deal with? Even when the topic is depressing and the issues seem insurmountable.
Thank you Cody, Katy, your writers, editors, etc.! And thanks to all of you in the commenters who support the channel on patreon so that they can keep on doing their thing. ❤ If I were in a financially stable situation, I'd do my part too; and hopefully someday I'll be able to.
Wait... has... has Cody's desk always flexed that much with him gesturing and leaning on the table and stuff?
Welp, it was nice being able to actually get information from this show while it lasted. I will now be distracted by watching this for the rest of forever. lmao
Good thing that Cody managed to get rid of the corn cream for that obstacle course
Yeay more spoilers! My favorite sort of complex, the spoiler industrial complex!
OMG cody that BG3 joke had me laughing so hard. Bless you bud. My mom is in the hospital and I needed that.
To think, if I had used my Patreon subscription to watch this episode ad-free, my butt would have missed out on that wonderful conversation with Katie. Thank butt I didn't make that mistake!
8:09 Amazing! I never thought U.S. as in United States was spelled U S just like us as in a group of people! Language is amazing! Brilliant connection!
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“Eating babies and kissing hotdogs” Hey look, what you do behind closed doors is on you! I don’t judge 😂
Well, if you're going to kiss hot dogs, eventually you're going to get baby hot dogs...
39 minutes? This isn’t more news. This just news.
Now I need a “Eating Babies, Kissing Hotdogs” shirt
As someone from a country with public funded campaigns, you just end with 37 parties but only 2 ever win, the other 35 just soak tax money.
Probably your best episode all year! Extremely entertaining and informative.
You know, I have to admit it: Way back in the beginning of the Cracked days, Cody was not one of my favorite...Cracksters? Crackheads? Whatever. But he grew on me over time. What I appreciate so much about Some More News is that it's funny, it's interesting, and I can tell each episode took a *lot* of work from the entire group of people involved. I really respect the sense of craft you put into it all, and the commitment to doing long form video with nothing that feels like filler. Kudos to the writers, to Cody, and to the whole team.
On my second playthrough of BG3 and yes. I did go back to Astarion. I felt that Cody.
This show is phenomenally written, great episode. Also that second ad read had me rolling 🤣
Here's some engagement for the algorythm. Love you guys!
Silence is violence.
Ah lads, the vampire got one of your writers I see. Not that I can really blame them. I still struggle not to romance him every time I start a new game.
being from canada it feels like we hear about the next American elections almost as soon as the voting is done, but our own elections are only like. two months, tops? I've always wondered why that is
The vague but simple answer to that is that Canada has laws dictating the length of campaigns. It is currently limited to 36 days, iirc. It used to be 47 days, but was changed in the 90s.
Correction, the limit is 51 days. 36 days is the minimum. I don't know why there has to be a minimum, but there is.
Since 1996, our Federal election have a duration of 36 days (instead of 47). Also, there are inifitely less loophole in campaing donation laws; excess donation is indeed a crime.
The only place money have a lot of power in the Canadian politic system is, of course, in lobying and similar influance bartering (which is something that should be solved... but won't :( )
*EDIT*
My bad, this is the minimum election period... but, yes, we do try to keep it tight :)
The best show on the internet.
Two months tops for elections.
First month candidates rally and do media interviews.
Second month candidates do debates and town halls.
All elections need to be mandatory as well.
Oh you know AG-1 loves Cody's weird, pained delivery of their ads... I'm sure they're fans, and we're glad they're investing in this show!!!
Thank you mr. cody sir
I like to think that somewhere there's a grade-school Social Studies teacher furiously taking notes, and that this time next week there's going to be one hell of a brutal Civics course.
One of the only channels I watch the sponsor ads. Katie always gets me 😂
Katie's ads are like sunshine on a cloudy day.
It's always a little confusing for me how spending money on elections affects people. There is ABSOLUTELY NO amount of advertising I could see from someone I disagree with ideologically that would get me to vote for them, but that is... apparently not how it works in the States.
Think about it, what if you see an advertisement for someone you agree with?
@@Alex_Vir Exactly. I look at what the candidates in my area are for and against, look at history and vote. That takes, like... a day. If I get a shit ton of ads from a candidate that are different from what their other media says they're for, then they're a liar. Around here, the Maverick Party says they're for one thing on their website, and then put out ads that say they're for the opposite.
I know some people do 0 research and just do whatever the billboards tell them, but that's my point: I don't get that sort of voting.
They aim for the independent voters, people who dont vote based off party affiliation. Independent voters are the ones who decide the winners and are the hardest to predict.
I guess that's what still throws me. People who look at both of your parties and go "Well, they both make excellent points." @@jeffp.7598
Quick question. Is Cody actively trying to make us more depressed? If so: good job!
yes, people like Cody want us to all be angry victims 24/7.
No. Being an American is just depressing, and that's the real State of our Union.
@@noodlekeeper5150 I find it’s not depressing at all, we are the entertainment capital of the world with opportunities everywhere.
In my country there are elections november 22nd. The campaigns started in October. One of the party leaders doesn't even know if he wants to be the prime minister yet.
I was just high enough to actually hold my phone to my butt for that entire ad read
The way our countries work makes me feel like I want to cry, and it hurts so much every time I realize I can’t really do anything about it
No need to worry, we won’t let the woke culture destroy our country.
Woo!
Cookie for being first!
I was wondering if I could pitch an idea: adolescent mental health. Super big downer but some pretty horrific things are happening from sitting in ERs for over a month in a hall with lights that don’t turn off (something against the Geneva convention I believe) too there being no place for them to go inpatient bc they’re autistic, to the most traumatized youth getting no help bc they’re “too acute” . Happy to share my firsthand accounts without naming names to prevent hippaa violations.
Almost a million News Dude!
we love a little drama, and elections are great drama
Ewww no more cult of personality. I for one don't want drama. I don't want reality TV people governing. I want smart, boring, policy nerds.
No thanks I hate celeb culture and capitalist worship
Ironic that this episode is the shortest SMN video in a while
I wasn't expecting being called out about BG3 today but here we are.
There is this passage in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy:
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.
And just replace Space with The United States of America whenever you need to talk about why things take so long here.
In 'So Long and Thanks for All The Fish' there's a section where Ford tells Arthur about a planet like ours. The people are people, the leaders are lizards, the lizards rule the people and the people hate the lizards.
Arthur asked why they keep voting for the lizards. Ford said its because they're afraid if they don't keep voting for their lizard then the wrong lizard might get in. The Democrats and Republicans are our lizards.
@@nunnayorz5836 in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Arthur and Ford end up on prehistoric Earth with a bunch of Marketing Research Executives, find out that 6×9=42, and then Ford spends 4 years thinking he is a lemon and throwing himself into a lake that thinks it's a gin and tonic. Maybe don't take the words of a comedy book too deeply.
This is the same American habit as when stores start advertising for Christmas the day after Halloween.
Whoa! Your stores wait until after Halloween?
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I guess it starts in July, Totally takes over after October.
I would love a megacut montage of every time Cody has chugged a glass of AG1
Excellent as always, Mister Cody
To fix the campaign finance issue of publically funded elections, you can make it so all media networks have to have open availability to all candidates for a minimum of four, thirty minute appearances free of charge. Real people aviod having to pay for people they don't like, the cost is shifted onto companies/ businesses that can afford the hit because this'll ingratiate them with a ton of attention, and the viewer gets the ability to know in advance when all candidates will be on various shows nation wide so that they can get a better understanding of the available field. That last bit sounds like a canned answer to fill the argument untill you realize that is says all candidates, therefore, people that want to run that are unaffiliated with either party will simply have to be on the ballot to receive this benefit. All of this is to broaden our options and give us the chance to introduce competitors to the defunct system we have now.
But those that can make changes to this are the one profiting. See the delima. lol.
@buckiesmalls Be that as it may, a fully drafted set of legislations that can be understood by the public, but also air tight in their controls and freedoms, could be flaunted to the public and forced on representatives with enough signed support nation wide. Getting someone to make the drafts, a team to edit, and publicists to adversive and get outreach opinions would be my understanding of first steps to get there.
I added the value of all the comments I had about this episode, then divided it by the number of comments I had, and came up with this, my mean comment.
Thank you SMN team.
Thanks for the video :)
Imagine a campaign for somebody who hasn't been born yet. That far ahead of anything.
Assigned candidate before birth.
Elon musk’s great great grandson
(Please don’t let me be right, future?? Please??)
Nah, not before - at birth. We can call it ACAB. Everyone should know about those.
Katie delivers some excellent bidet news. My only qualm is that my screen is wall-mounted and it was a task to place the cheeks upon those high-up LEDs! Well bidet'd Katie!
great show, thank you
Whenever politicians talk about “political will” they’re actually talking about money. “There’s not enough political will to address the problem” means “I’m not getting enough donations telling me to fix it”
I'm completely convinced you could sell the shirt Katy's wearing to actual human beings for money.
this is definitley a strange and suspicious comment. i sure hope the FBI takes a look at your hard drive.
Hell, I bought a custom made shirt for my gf because we thought it was so funny
Only 2 places that shirt can be worn in public: Swinger parties, or an appointment with your proctologist