Really perfect timing for this episode. First the LA Times declines to endorse, prompting editors to resign like they mentioned near the end of this episode, and then just today WaPo declined to endorse cause of Bezos and now editors have begun resigning there too. Crazy times.
Hi John. Do you think we make a mistake individualizing fascism when the culprits are always the same ? Hitler's enablers: - The church - The media (radio) - The rich people (banks, defense companies, etc.) Trump's enablers: - The church - The media ( TV and social) - The rich folks Maybe we need to make more emphasis on these 3 culprits
How do we get rid of 'Citizens United '? Is the Supreme Court the oligarchy if their decisions cannot be changed after proving the decision is harmful to us?
Getting rid of Citizens United will require major reform or movements where pressure has to be applied by voters. Ballot initiatives at the State level is probably the best way to start. 26 states allow public ballot initiatives.
Question: Jon wants a shorter campaign season. Would he like to see a change in how we choose Electors, so that, instead of political parties choosing people loyal to party, we ask voters to nominate people who they believe are the most trustworthy as Electors? Each Congressional District could send their most-nominated citizen to the State Capitol in December. Two more nominees from voters, selected from citizens within the State would round out the designated number of Electors for each State. Two more nominees, from among all citizens of the nation, could provide a pool of names for Electors to consider, in case they need any inspiration. A diversity of views would be represented on that special Monday in December.
I stupidly feel optimistic that America will do what's best for the country and the world. It's a decision that should weigh the huge responsibility that comes with this vote and how it will impact freedom.
Here's an idea - make the election cycle shorter and severely limit donation amounts; you know, like many other Western countries have done. Nah, I think you got better odds of the U.S. adopting the metric system, eliminating the penny, and eliminating the one dollar bank note altogether and fully replacing it with a coin - all at the same time.
I think there should be a $200. limit, per year, from any one source, including self funding Otherwise we end up with only Billionaire candidates. That may be the work around to Citizens United and PACs. We would definitely have to implement some kind of limit for email and text message begging for sure.
Here’s a thought for billionaires…instead of spending all this money to elect someone who would lower your taxes, how about just pay your taxes. It might be less and you would be helping your country. WHAT A THOUGHT!
Sounds to me like the "questions" raised in this discussion have been the bread a butter of socialist critique for decades if not over a century. The defining "solutions" for the problems presented by these same thinkers isn't donate to the Democrats and hope the system changes from the inside. It's a form of revolution. The sooner we all stop scratching our asses and asking "what do we do?" as if the answer hasn't been there for years and instead figure out how we do it, the sooner we can bring back some hope for our future.
One of my favorite ridiculous things to say is, "among Hitler's more minor crimes..." Like any villain, Hitler committed numerous crimes, both major and minor. He's rightfully known mostly for his most heinous major crimes. But he also committed some minor ones. For example, among Hitler's more minor crimes, he single-handedly ruined a perfectly good style of facial hair! That's a perfectly good mustache style, forever taken from the canvas of acceptable human expression. Also, if you look at US census records, the popularity of the name "Adolf" just takes a precipitous tumble right around 1940 or so. And that's just not fair. I'm sure there were plenty of Adolfs throughout history that did a lot of good in the world. Now you can't name a kid Adolf without everyone thinking you're a Nazi! Hitler is mostly and rightfully known for his major crimes, but we also shouldn't forgive him for his minor ones! That man stole both a facial hair style and a first name from us. And while he is rightfully known for his major crimes, I won't forgive him for the minor ones either.
So the argument from the Billionaires perspective is that the system works this way and wouldn’t you also want to throw all your money at things you deem important. Seems logical but really just speaks to a sense of self righteousness. I agree, I would love to give as much financial support to things I care about. However, if money is speech and is going directly to political campaigns, then everyone should have the same amount of “free speech”. Even if they funding things I want, on principle they shouldn’t. Campaign donations are not philanthropy. If money is representation and ultimately controls legislation, we should all have the same playing field. Also, if you haven’t, check out the Powell memo. PS. Modern day libertarians feel like the remnants of the old Jeffersonian yeoman farmers that are still angry they never got their free labor utopia and now this is there best shot.
We have to Remember the .Millionaire or the fortunate were asked to STAND UP. For the greater of the COUNTRY, not against the DEMOCRACY OF YOUR COUNTRY 😊
I mean. This is money that could be spent on feeding the hungry, healing the sick, and housing the homeless. But no. We just get this huge spectacle of ppl jetting around to give speeches burning jet fuel for no reason!!!
I was apprehensive about listening to this with the assumption that it would just be a bashing of one political side or the other. or just attacking Elon. I was relieved to hear a unbiased investigation into the issues on a more macro scale instead. Crazy how this kind of reporting is such an outlier. Well done Jon, Teddy, and Ken.
Not all Christians are Christian Nationalists. Many are truly Christian, Jesus didn't care what books you read, how wealthy you are and actually help people who are different from them.
This conversation reminds me of your movie about a small town saving themselves with the political campaign money. I guess it’s gotten worse. What is the RUclips edict on the thumbs up and comments? When I start a video i give it the thumbs up and if at the end of it I feel something I comment. Right now I watched it go from 40 thumbs up to 600 while watching the video. Just curious if I am doing RUclips correctly. Kidding I don’t want a bunch of replies just wanted to point it out. Thanks for this Friday show. I think I might need to save it until Monday’s watch list for my mental health from now on.
around minute 29 - Deregulation is a tough problem, we need industry regulation because, well history, environment, oil spills, labor abuses and predatory practices... but a lot of the regulations we have are based on watered down bills, that are not always clear on scope and intent. The "rules" developed by agencies, have become a bureaucratic nightmare for small business owners, farmers - and consumers. Exxon doesn't have to clean up it's own mess. Banks get bailed out instead of penalized for creating the mess, people lose their pensions, get stuck with the Enron energy bills, and Wall street thrives but let a small business owner forget to sign a form or a farmers cow farts and that's a big deal... It's kind of like they apply the regulations from the bottom up and never quite get to the top.
It's a really simple concept when you get down to it... there's no money in protecting that lake, but someone will absolutely pay you to let them hurt that lake. This can be expanded to the overall idea of "where's the money coming from...?" that this video covers.
This question has nothing to do with this episode. What do you guys do when your heart rate goes up after you eat dinner? Usually, there’s some very smart person in the comments. I’d love some replies thank you. ❤❤❤
Why does no one talk about the one thing Ross Perot said, would help end special interest influence in congress. Single item voting in congress. End bundling of unrelated issues. As this IS how special interests are served by congress. Put the bad with the good. Then to get the good part done, you have to agree to also do something totally unrelated that serves a very select few. Often something that is bad for the rest of us.
All anyone talks about is the money. How much there is and where it comes from. No one ever focuses on where it GOES. No one ever talks about *following* the money. We need a comprehensive breakdown of all that with details of who is RECEIVING all these billions. If, as I suspect most of it goes to the all of the different forms of media for ads, then why isn't the story about the conflict of interest in how the media reports all this? Isn't it in their best interests to manipulate the narrative and keep the pots at full frenzied boil to keep the controversies & vitriol at maximum to heighten the drama? Not just for the clicks, but to encourage more and more donations from a frightened angry public so the parties buy MORE ADS to combat the perceived rising danger of the other side. I think if we are to begin to ever seriously combat the insane amounts of money in elections & the corruption it causes, since we can't combat the INflow, maybe we need to regulate the OUTflow. Perhaps having spending caps on how much can be used in each sector of ad buys. Maybe even regulating how many ads can run each day. Wouldn't THAT be nice?
Does anyone watch The Bulwark on RUclips? With Tim Miller? I watch it and one of my biggest pet peeves with that show is how Tim, as a former Republican, decries every policy that Bernie Sanders puts forward as “evil socialism”. And Trump and Vance along with billionaires like Musk and Bezos do the same thing. So at the end of the day, who is left to fight for the People? And what precisely are they fighting for? Because it seems like Bernie and The Squad and organizations like DSA and Justice Democrats are fighting an uphill battle.
I just canceled my wapo cuz of endorsement issue. I don't know what else to do. Uber wealthy people that don't know what to do with their money, Bezos actually said that, are a scourge. None of them made it alone.
lol dilf daddie, Intelligence is always, always sexy. We've talked about the non-existence of transperancy of the billionaires. I'm wondering if the large corporations have the same level of obscurity in their election funding?
Just saying; in our house,no to ur fav nbc grampa 😁 and PBS news covers us better than the main channels. 😢 ( I am sorry gramps,yes,but NO...don't cry.) THANKU Jon and crew for all you do to provide useful,important info into our everyday lives. 👏✌️😘
I recently learned Jon played soccer in college. Jon, do you have a team you follow? Any thoughts on Poch or Emma Hayes' appointments for the national teams?
Everyone in America seems to think that you just need the right candidate. But policy comes from the advocates for the candidate. You need to become an indispensable key to power in order to have any influence in directing power. No one rules alone. There are certain voting blocks and individual donors you need to attain power and then other blocks or individuals you need to stay in power. If you want change you need to be one of those keys, preferably one that is needed to both attain and retain power. So we're doomed to this cycle because those who rise to power are often psychopathic and it makes sense, because who is better suited to grab power than someone who will do anything to have it?
Honest question. Are billionaires backing Dems because they want them to win? Or because they want them to be favorable to billionaires IF they win? And are billionaires backing Reps because they want them to win because they are already favorable?
I think Oligarchies may prove to be the most stable form of governance. Not "good". Just very stable. The figurehead can change, but the oligarchs remain.
I named a playlist "Billionaires in space" because a) Elon's SpaceLink, b) I like how it sounds and c) let's send them to another galaxy with no way to return.
Wu tang, I'm familiar with the English system, I don't have a problem with it, the problem is the house and senate have to pass anything, you want to watch Pelosi laughing almost historically where she had to cut herself off, or the stern one, where she says no about regulating congress, insider info and campaign financing reform. The problem is the house and senate, have to pass everything. It happens in a presidential race. There's very little money, vs. win loosing, in fact the only time in 100 years was Trump Vs. Hillary. The flame thrower never wins, we have had 7 times since WWII, where on came close, but they never win. An example of corporate vs. people, to use Bill Clinton, not that I like him in any way because of Island ties, but, in the late 1970s-1980s, he ran on a campaign of ultra environmentalism and making sure 25% of US forest aren't cut. GP (Georgia pacific), one of 5 timber companies on earth, the same ones cutting the Congo and Amazon right now, financed to such a degree his adversaries in Arkansas, that he lost. He then ran the next cycle, having dropped every environmental thing and won, backed by the same people finance wise...mostly I assume because of the island leash, but still..he won and became president....AI is somewhat BS. What scientist found is its really easy to write a short program with a feedback loop, that corrects itself, take the 5% top hits for parameters X, as an example, and they can do crazy things. If for example I take one that has the top 7 of 35 psychological behaviors of humans, I can sell anyone almost anything with a few cycles, they're easy to write, but don't think. What they sell them to the population is, they think. Thus the BS. people have a problem with we can be minusculeized behavior wise with such simplicity. Real AI by definition, 1950 coined, is I as a program or robot, have to be self aware, and have to be able to generate thoughts that are unique to myself. There is nothing close to this, never, no one has been able to achieve it, but they had the forethought of what we would become in 1950, to make a criteria for something based on computers for this. Maybe the problem is like rats, monkeys, ants, we can be in a small (small to me is a 20 page computer script) algorithm, made to fit into such narrow psychological behavior pattern like any animal, made to behave, or analyzed in such a way as to predict 99.999% of any action a particular individual will make. The current science theme is, take a media hype term, use it in grants, and then accumulate funding. Not, advance science. In America, like the General said, there's no choice, A or B is your choice. The electoral system, 2 x it saved America, in 1930 it prevented the first democratically elected Communist from being elected. Kennedy won against Nixon is an example. I want the whole earth to win, not country by country which is are behavior. yes courage. The thing I think about Harris is, I don't think, here making her way through the system, that she can do anything she wants, literally anything, and doesn't have to listen to a single person in the senate or house, as far as what they want...she can even make presidential decrees, and introduce and force both houses to vote one anything she wants, 100 a day if she wanted, over and over again...most of them end up a drone with some chain, which I always try and avoid the chain like Clinton and the 2 12 year olds on an island, but they try for something, to make them do whatever they want. I personally think she is a drone. She no longer thinks, she just does.
If tribalism is counter to Billionaire "moderation" and tribalism is fueled by social media algorithms. which are created by companies owned by Billionaires. Wouldn't that cause the Billionaires to alter the algorithms to disrupt tribalism - or is the tribalism too valuable in its current form?
Not trying to be a jerk. I watched this on my TV. When John sits so close, it’s a giant head. The giant head of an old man on my TV screen. And there’s dandruff on his shirt. 👕 Jon, you can adjust the font. You do not need to sit so close. You’re rich. Invest in some good shampoo, bud. Love ya ❤️ 💗
@@kamalnijhawan9592 you know, I like a close-up of Jon Stewart as well it’s just it’s very close. You know what I mean it’s a lot of Jon Stewart. It’s a lot of face. It’s distracting awkward. Sometimes I’m like naked you know what I mean like I’m getting dressed and then there is giant Jon Stewart head😬
sorry the context is really important tho. you don't get to cherry pick one donation from a billionaire and be astonished by it in a context where this is allowed right now and it will be allowed at least until this election ends (and the same thing happened on the other side, musk donated more and is also using the weight of his platform to try and bend reality, how much is that worth) - like why be shocked by it? it just makes no sense
this is a depressing conversation - it’s why young people are not voting and it’s the definition of insanity - it sucks- the misogyny, the patriarchy, capitalism, greed, hatred, war, violence, climate collapse
Well. It’s the young people’s future they are sitting out. They will (I suppose) get what they put their energy towards. They will be angry when the autocracy removes their internet. But then, as the country spirals into chaos (if another trump) it really won’t make much of a difference. I can imagine a world where WE are the the Germany of old and the WW will be to shut us down before we can destroy the world.
The dichotomy of the human is to be, a taker, or a giver! The placement of human value is the question of the new millennia. WHAT is our worth based on, credits or wisdom? Dig deep and ask yourself what comes next in this vein.
Really perfect timing for this episode. First the LA Times declines to endorse, prompting editors to resign like they mentioned near the end of this episode, and then just today WaPo declined to endorse cause of Bezos and now editors have begun resigning there too. Crazy times.
Thank you Jon and every member of the team here. This work is critical, and whether it's easy to recognize or not, it is having a profound impact.
Iv said it b4 and I'll say it again .
Im Canadian and even I say Jon's a National Treasure.
Spending money is simply NOT speech. That was a Supreme Court overreach. Let's start there.
Yeah... You don't have more voice than other people...
SCOTUS overreach. Say it ain’t so Fish.
A corporation is not a person. If they were, there would be a whole lot of people in prison.
Winning the House and Senate means real progress!
Your vote makes a difference - VOTE NOW! VOTE BLUE!!!
Hi John. Do you think we make a mistake individualizing fascism when the culprits are always the same ?
Hitler's enablers:
- The church
- The media (radio)
- The rich people (banks, defense companies, etc.)
Trump's enablers:
- The church
- The media ( TV and social)
- The rich folks
Maybe we need to make more emphasis on these 3 culprits
And the poorly educated. The Mango Mussolini's favorites.
Joseph Goebbels said " make certain that you accuse your enemy of the crimes YOU commit!"
Thanks Jon.
What a phenomenal podcast, I was fully engrossed and amazing guests. Hopefully they will back!
Every billionaire is a policy failure.
Accelerating since Reagan lit the fuze
At the root of every great fortune is a great crime.
How do we get rid of 'Citizens United '? Is the Supreme Court the oligarchy if their decisions cannot be changed after proving the decision is harmful to us?
Thank you good question
When did the supreme court take that midnight walk to the crossroads to meet 👿? 😞
Their decisions can be changed... By Congress.
Getting rid of Citizens United will require major reform or movements where pressure has to be applied by voters. Ballot initiatives at the State level is probably the best way to start. 26 states allow public ballot initiatives.
@@Maya_Pinionit's been 50 years in the making. It's a failure at this point.
Jon has the juice that very few commentators do these days.
Question: Jon wants a shorter campaign season. Would he like to see a change in how we choose Electors, so that, instead of political parties choosing people loyal to party, we ask voters to nominate people who they believe are the most trustworthy as Electors? Each Congressional District could send their most-nominated citizen to the State Capitol in December. Two more nominees from voters, selected from citizens within the State would round out the designated number of Electors for each State. Two more nominees, from among all citizens of the nation, could provide a pool of names for Electors to consider, in case they need any inspiration. A diversity of views would be represented on that special Monday in December.
I stupidly feel optimistic that America will do what's best for the country and the world. It's a decision that should weigh the huge responsibility that comes with this vote and how it will impact freedom.
Our country is rotting from the inside.
As perquisite to having a license for broadcasting...or any medium .should run ads in equal number to each candidates FREE OF CHARGE!...
Hasan Minaj talked about this in the Netflix "The Patriot Act".
Here's an idea - make the election cycle shorter and severely limit donation amounts; you know, like many other Western countries have done. Nah, I think you got better odds of the U.S. adopting the metric system, eliminating the penny, and eliminating the one dollar bank note altogether and fully replacing it with a coin - all at the same time.
I think there should be a $200. limit, per year, from any one source, including self funding Otherwise we end up with only Billionaire candidates. That may be the work around to Citizens United and PACs. We would definitely have to implement some kind of limit for email and text message begging for sure.
Best show on the internet!
Wu-Tang is FOREVER! You were so close Jon.
Here’s a thought for billionaires…instead of spending all this money to elect someone who would lower your taxes, how about just pay your taxes. It might be less and you would be helping your country. WHAT A THOUGHT!
Please enable subtitles for your international fans. Thx. 😘
When you give a defense contractor who is doing "personal favors " for our adversaries it has gone to far!
Somebody tell Jon hes gotta have a heart to heart with Mark Cuban and embrace Lina Khan.
💯
Holy cow this was an incredibly refreshing discussion
Sounds to me like the "questions" raised in this discussion have been the bread a butter of socialist critique for decades if not over a century. The defining "solutions" for the problems presented by these same thinkers isn't donate to the Democrats and hope the system changes from the inside. It's a form of revolution. The sooner we all stop scratching our asses and asking "what do we do?" as if the answer hasn't been there for years and instead figure out how we do it, the sooner we can bring back some hope for our future.
❤ watching u Jon!
The wu tang references had me 😂😂😂😂😂
One of my favorite ridiculous things to say is, "among Hitler's more minor crimes..." Like any villain, Hitler committed numerous crimes, both major and minor. He's rightfully known mostly for his most heinous major crimes. But he also committed some minor ones. For example, among Hitler's more minor crimes, he single-handedly ruined a perfectly good style of facial hair! That's a perfectly good mustache style, forever taken from the canvas of acceptable human expression. Also, if you look at US census records, the popularity of the name "Adolf" just takes a precipitous tumble right around 1940 or so. And that's just not fair. I'm sure there were plenty of Adolfs throughout history that did a lot of good in the world. Now you can't name a kid Adolf without everyone thinking you're a Nazi! Hitler is mostly and rightfully known for his major crimes, but we also shouldn't forgive him for his minor ones! That man stole both a facial hair style and a first name from us. And while he is rightfully known for his major crimes, I won't forgive him for the minor ones either.
“When they call I give.”
“I was an insider.”
“Drain the swamp.”
Wait what.
As part of the people, I think that 11 weeks sounds good! Take the money out of politics and only give them 11 weeks to get their shit straight!
So the argument from the Billionaires perspective is that the system works this way and wouldn’t you also want to throw all your money at things you deem important. Seems logical but really just speaks to a sense of self righteousness.
I agree, I would love to give as much financial support to things I care about. However, if money is speech and is going directly to political campaigns, then everyone should have the same amount of “free speech”. Even if they funding things I want, on principle they shouldn’t.
Campaign donations are not philanthropy. If money is representation and ultimately controls legislation, we should all have the same playing field.
Also, if you haven’t, check out the Powell memo.
PS. Modern day libertarians feel like the remnants of the old Jeffersonian yeoman farmers that are still angry they never got their free labor utopia and now this is there best shot.
Publicly funded elections, where anyone who wants to run gets the same amount of money to do it, is the solution, IMO. Pipe dream, tho.
We have to Remember the .Millionaire or the fortunate were asked to STAND UP. For the greater of the COUNTRY, not against the DEMOCRACY OF YOUR COUNTRY 😊
We need a plan guys. 🤷♀️ I don’t have one, but we definitely need one. Come on y’all. Let’s put out some ideas. No bad ideas. 😂
I mean. This is money that could be spent on feeding the hungry, healing the sick, and housing the homeless. But no. We just get this huge spectacle of ppl jetting around to give speeches burning jet fuel for no reason!!!
moving into the woods.
I was apprehensive about listening to this with the assumption that it would just be a bashing of one political side or the other. or just attacking Elon. I was relieved to hear a unbiased investigation into the issues on a more macro scale instead. Crazy how this kind of reporting is such an outlier. Well done Jon, Teddy, and Ken.
Not all Christians are Christian Nationalists. Many are truly Christian, Jesus didn't care what books you read, how wealthy you are and actually help people who are different from them.
Right? I call them counterfeit christians. They are right wing authoritarians. Jesus knows Drumpf is full of crap, and so do real Christians.
💙 Hi Jon, where y'at?
Literally the first question was dodged.
Jon Stewart for President 🎉
This conversation reminds me of your movie about a small town saving themselves with the political campaign money. I guess it’s gotten worse. What is the RUclips edict on the thumbs up and comments? When I start a video i give it the thumbs up and if at the end of it I feel something I comment. Right now I watched it go from 40 thumbs up to 600 while watching the video. Just curious if I am doing RUclips correctly. Kidding I don’t want a bunch of replies just wanted to point it out. Thanks for this Friday show. I think I might need to save it until Monday’s watch list for my mental health from now on.
around minute 29 - Deregulation is a tough problem, we need industry regulation because, well history, environment, oil spills, labor abuses and predatory practices... but a lot of the regulations we have are based on watered down bills, that are not always clear on scope and intent. The "rules" developed by agencies, have become a bureaucratic nightmare for small business owners, farmers - and consumers. Exxon doesn't have to clean up it's own mess. Banks get bailed out instead of penalized for creating the mess, people lose their pensions, get stuck with the Enron energy bills, and Wall street thrives but let a small business owner forget to sign a form or a farmers cow farts and that's a big deal... It's kind of like they apply the regulations from the bottom up and never quite get to the top.
Just swinging like Palmer baby wooooo hoooooo thank you John we love you
It's a really simple concept when you get down to it... there's no money in protecting that lake, but someone will absolutely pay you to let them hurt that lake. This can be expanded to the overall idea of "where's the money coming from...?" that this video covers.
37:20 “No! D:< TEDDY” just cracked me up for some reason
Please tell John I suspect he meant "intrepid" (courageous, fearless, capable)
Hello johnny boy!!
Did Jon just read my “What am I looking for?” prompt from my Tinder profile??
This question has nothing to do with this episode. What do you guys do when your heart rate goes up after you eat dinner? Usually, there’s some very smart person in the comments. I’d love some replies thank you. ❤❤❤
Question for John: What is it about Right Wing Politicians that Centrist Politicians so admire?
Decent episode
About your questions, Jon has all those qualities and I agree with the DIWF coment ,he's too humble lol!!!
Why does no one talk about the one thing Ross Perot said, would help end special interest influence in congress. Single item voting in congress. End bundling of unrelated issues. As this IS how special interests are served by congress. Put the bad with the good. Then to get the good part done, you have to agree to also do something totally unrelated that serves a very select few. Often something that is bad for the rest of us.
All anyone talks about is the money. How much there is and where it comes from. No one ever focuses on where it GOES. No one ever talks about *following* the money. We need a comprehensive breakdown of all that with details of who is RECEIVING all these billions.
If, as I suspect most of it goes to the all of the different forms of media for ads, then why isn't the story about the conflict of interest in how the media reports all this? Isn't it in their best interests to manipulate the narrative and keep the pots at full frenzied boil to keep the controversies & vitriol at maximum to heighten the drama? Not just for the clicks, but to encourage more and more donations from a frightened angry public so the parties buy MORE ADS to combat the perceived rising danger of the other side.
I think if we are to begin to ever seriously combat the insane amounts of money in elections & the corruption it causes, since we can't combat the INflow, maybe we need to regulate the OUTflow. Perhaps having spending caps on how much can be used in each sector of ad buys. Maybe even regulating how many ads can run each day. Wouldn't THAT be nice?
Does anyone watch The Bulwark on RUclips? With Tim Miller? I watch it and one of my biggest pet peeves with that show is how Tim, as a former Republican, decries every policy that Bernie Sanders puts forward as “evil socialism”.
And Trump and Vance along with billionaires like Musk and Bezos do the same thing.
So at the end of the day, who is left to fight for the People? And what precisely are they fighting for? Because it seems like Bernie and The Squad and organizations like DSA and Justice Democrats are fighting an uphill battle.
I just canceled my wapo cuz of endorsement issue. I don't know what else to do. Uber wealthy people that don't know what to do with their money, Bezos actually said that, are a scourge. None of them made it alone.
For some it is contracts. For others it is a hand in what laws are made or changed. Ultimately it is about money and power. They want more of it.
You will never see the bills you want passed into law, until the $$$ is removed from politics.
We are an Oligarchic Kakistocracy with a touch of Fascism.
lol dilf daddie, Intelligence is always, always sexy. We've talked about the non-existence of transperancy of the billionaires. I'm wondering if the large corporations have the same level of obscurity in their election funding?
Just saying; in our house,no to ur fav nbc grampa 😁 and PBS news covers us better than the main channels. 😢 ( I am sorry gramps,yes,but NO...don't cry.)
THANKU Jon and crew for all you do to provide useful,important info into our everyday lives. 👏✌️😘
Hahaha, you girls....
I recently learned Jon played soccer in college. Jon, do you have a team you follow?
Any thoughts on Poch or Emma Hayes' appointments for the national teams?
fingers cross the voters decide to keep democracy.. if they don't, at least it will be clear why
Now do the banks!
Everyone in America seems to think that you just need the right candidate. But policy comes from the advocates for the candidate. You need to become an indispensable key to power in order to have any influence in directing power. No one rules alone. There are certain voting blocks and individual donors you need to attain power and then other blocks or individuals you need to stay in power. If you want change you need to be one of those keys, preferably one that is needed to both attain and retain power. So we're doomed to this cycle because those who rise to power are often psychopathic and it makes sense, because who is better suited to grab power than someone who will do anything to have it?
Honest question. Are billionaires backing Dems because they want them to win? Or because they want them to be favorable to billionaires IF they win? And are billionaires backing Reps because they want them to win because they are already favorable?
I think Oligarchies may prove to be the most stable form of governance.
Not "good". Just very stable. The figurehead can change, but the oligarchs remain.
Well Jon, that’s just fucking depressing!
“Exposed” thought this was common knowledge.
17:55 So what is the endgame? Does this all lead to one person who "wins" and has all the money and owns everything and everyone?
I named a playlist "Billionaires in space" because a) Elon's SpaceLink, b) I like how it sounds and c) let's send them to another galaxy with no way to return.
We don’t really have two sides. Not really.
Wu-Tang 2024! 😆...uhhhh 2028!
Wu Tang is forever.
Fellini? How bout Pasolini?
The feces eating scene- just cannot unsee that!
@@-Gramps This is why I've never seen it.
Maybe we should just not let billionaires participate in politics. Congrats, you have a billion dollars, you’ll be fine.
Wu tang, I'm familiar with the English system, I don't have a problem with it, the problem is the house and senate have to pass anything, you want to watch Pelosi laughing almost historically where she had to cut herself off, or the stern one, where she says no about regulating congress, insider info and campaign financing reform. The problem is the house and senate, have to pass everything. It happens in a presidential race. There's very little money, vs. win loosing, in fact the only time in 100 years was Trump Vs. Hillary. The flame thrower never wins, we have had 7 times since WWII, where on came close, but they never win. An example of corporate vs. people, to use Bill Clinton, not that I like him in any way because of Island ties, but, in the late 1970s-1980s, he ran on a campaign of ultra environmentalism and making sure 25% of US forest aren't cut. GP (Georgia pacific), one of 5 timber companies on earth, the same ones cutting the Congo and Amazon right now, financed to such a degree his adversaries in Arkansas, that he lost. He then ran the next cycle, having dropped every environmental thing and won, backed by the same people finance wise...mostly I assume because of the island leash, but still..he won and became president....AI is somewhat BS. What scientist found is its really easy to write a short program with a feedback loop, that corrects itself, take the 5% top hits for parameters X, as an example, and they can do crazy things. If for example I take one that has the top 7 of 35 psychological behaviors of humans, I can sell anyone almost anything with a few cycles, they're easy to write, but don't think. What they sell them to the population is, they think. Thus the BS. people have a problem with we can be minusculeized behavior wise with such simplicity. Real AI by definition, 1950 coined, is I as a program or robot, have to be self aware, and have to be able to generate thoughts that are unique to myself. There is nothing close to this, never, no one has been able to achieve it, but they had the forethought of what we would become in 1950, to make a criteria for something based on computers for this. Maybe the problem is like rats, monkeys, ants, we can be in a small (small to me is a 20 page computer script) algorithm, made to fit into such narrow psychological behavior pattern like any animal, made to behave, or analyzed in such a way as to predict 99.999% of any action a particular individual will make. The current science theme is, take a media hype term, use it in grants, and then accumulate funding. Not, advance science. In America, like the General said, there's no choice, A or B is your choice. The electoral system, 2 x it saved America, in 1930 it prevented the first democratically elected Communist from being elected. Kennedy won against Nixon is an example. I want the whole earth to win, not country by country which is are behavior. yes courage. The thing I think about Harris is, I don't think, here making her way through the system, that she can do anything she wants, literally anything, and doesn't have to listen to a single person in the senate or house, as far as what they want...she can even make presidential decrees, and introduce and force both houses to vote one anything she wants, 100 a day if she wanted, over and over again...most of them end up a drone with some chain, which I always try and avoid the chain like Clinton and the 2 12 year olds on an island, but they try for something, to make them do whatever they want. I personally think she is a drone. She no longer thinks, she just does.
94% tax rate on the ultra rich
If tribalism is counter to Billionaire "moderation" and tribalism is fueled by social media algorithms. which are created by companies owned by Billionaires. Wouldn't that cause the Billionaires to alter the algorithms to disrupt tribalism - or is the tribalism too valuable in its current form?
😅 Devil's advocate here; why be wary of the electorate? Because Brexit.
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That’s just the way it is and there’s no fixing the system,is exactly what the billionaires want and they win ,bs
Ken, if you think MTG and AOC are equally extreme, I hope you have no influence over people.
Decoding the metaphor: a swamp actually plays important ecological functions; what Trump did was to turn a swamp into a cesspool.
Billionaires like to make the little people dance for them. Stop the music please.
We vegetarians reject shitlers membership
Not trying to be a jerk. I watched this on my TV. When John sits so close, it’s a giant head. The giant head of an old man on my TV screen. And there’s dandruff on his shirt. 👕 Jon, you can adjust the font. You do not need to sit so close. You’re rich. Invest in some good shampoo, bud. Love ya ❤️ 💗
I like his face up close!
@@kamalnijhawan9592 you know, I like a close-up of Jon Stewart as well it’s just it’s very close. You know what I mean it’s a lot of Jon Stewart. It’s a lot of face. It’s distracting awkward. Sometimes I’m like naked you know what I mean like I’m getting dressed and then there is giant Jon Stewart head😬
Darn. The c,lip said "...with Teddy ..." Hoping you had a zombie Teddy Roosevelt.
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Google ‘The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse’ read the Guardian article.
Jon is really going out of his way to avoid criticism of the DNC, he must have got a talking to from Obama.
Conning people
Gaza, Lebanon, Iran?? Genocide - c’mon Jon you’re my last hope for humanity and being able to speak up about our war criminals.
Isn't "dick like Arnold Palmer" a Weezer lyric?
sorry the context is really important tho. you don't get to cherry pick one donation from a billionaire and be astonished by it in a context where this is allowed right now and it will be allowed at least until this election ends (and the same thing happened on the other side, musk donated more and is also using the weight of his platform to try and bend reality, how much is that worth) - like why be shocked by it? it just makes no sense
Money is not the only currency of influence. A celebrity such as Jon Stewart certainly has greater influence than I do. Is that necessarily fair?
*Creau. It's French.
Ohhhhh... *THATSSSS* Why you arent in wutang...
this is a depressing conversation - it’s why young people are not voting and it’s the definition of insanity - it sucks- the misogyny, the patriarchy, capitalism, greed, hatred, war, violence, climate collapse
Well. It’s the young people’s future they are sitting out. They will (I suppose) get what they put their energy towards. They will be angry when the autocracy removes their internet. But then, as the country spirals into chaos (if another trump) it really won’t make much of a difference. I can imagine a world where WE are the the Germany of old and the WW will be to shut us down before we can destroy the world.
Musk is displaying how the billionaire are lining up to become the oligarchs in trumps autocracy
The dichotomy of the human is to be, a taker, or a giver! The placement of human value is the question of the new millennia. WHAT is our worth based on, credits or wisdom? Dig deep and ask yourself what comes next in this vein.
Establish accounts in the names of all contestants all donations go into the accounts hi dollar wins, all goes to Treasury......no ads, no x spurts...
Make a prediction Jon. Republican Presidential Nominee 2028