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Basic Tax Proposition in the US means... SFW.
He is not wrong. Plain and simple.
Jul 22, 2023 6:35 AM
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He is not wrong. Plain and simple.
AlcoholicsAnonymousBYO
Upvoting because fuck
AdamGenesis
House on fire? Firemen come to put it out. Socialism.
TreeWithBranch
It works well over here. Downunderland.
ballsoutflyer
You know what that ending reminds me of?
GrumpyMe
Except the same folk don't see writing off PPP loans as socialism... I wonder why?
backrideup9
Police departments are socialism. We should get rid of them.
Tielatto
0:23 The little smile as he tries not to break too early. I'm sorry I didn't appreciate The Daily Show when he was still making it good...
HackerWithYourUsernameAndPassword
Reminds me of
Fairemont
Thought the same.
Tielatto
That's just Tim Curry's default mode.
WhiteRhino723
John Stewart for president!
steerAwwPrincess
This man is a living treasure. WTF don’t Americans get together and vote this guy into office, give him carte blanche to fix things for 2 years. BHAM!! Problem solved.
zagibu
He would be a good president, but look, man, you have to let go of the fantasy that you can solve your problems by just electing a good president.
genghiskhanit
I knew what was coming after the thunderstorm but the smirk made it for me anyway rofl
Maaatth
Why OH WHY did he chose Apple as a platform???
BurberryBlessings
Bleed the system, so that there's no more beneficial system for you. It's classic American politics. They don't like you. Our needs are not alike.
gft8gd5khn101
Someone in my HOA is a total red hat cheapskate, lots of pics of fancy motorcycles and fishing trips on his social, doesn’t want to pay regular dues to replace the rusted playground equipment in common area, posts some libertarian shit about why Congress shouldn’t give benefits to a war widow as an excuse for why it’s immoral to pay his dues. I’m like dude, you signed a contract that includes upkeep of the very small playground, stop being a cheap wad. Of course his ideal gov is I got mine.
VindictiveBathToaster
I would vote John Stuart for president.
vaecae
Socialism sounds cool.
AdamGenesis
Sounds good me. Let's try it because this sure isn't working.
sadurdaynight
"Entitlements" ... you know.. things you pay for and are entitled to. But, they don't use your money for them, so they make it sound like you're a free-loader trying to ask for free shit when really you're asking for them to spend your money you give them on services that would actually fucking benefit you.
MonStar1203
F the GOP and “trickle down economy” BS!
NothingPrince
I never understood how anyone could think that Trickle down works. Wouldn't it be easier to tax the rich and spend the money on the people. It was a con to make the rich richer. People care stupid.
azarza
trickle down? or supply side, or back to the early 1900s and 'horse and sparrow economics'. It probably goes on tbh
Aplasticinesmile
Asking my fucked for life parents who are gop who voted for that fucking monster how it's trickled down in 40 years did not go over well at all. Well worth it to prove my point. Not that having a Trans kid and grandkid and queer kid and queer grandkids or even just a daughter and granddaughters is enough incentive for them. If you have either lgbt people or women in your family and you vot gop you vote against them and possibly their freedom and lives. Fuck the gop. Fuck Regan.
PennsylvaniaPalindrome
It's partly b/c we decided we are the world's army and have dedicated a massive amount of $$ to weapons w/ no oversight for rampant waste. Hardware spending is fine; veterans can forget any post-conflict support.
crossingdynasty
At least we can afford an increase in the lunch budget for our senators and reps bravely going to do their jobs every about 1/3rd of the year
MotherfuckinGoats
What does UBI mean?
NMGMarques
Well, listen now... I mean... If they did all that, how would they afford to give themselves tax breaks; fund billion dollar companies that have enough to fund themselves; and still have enough left to then bail those companies and banks out when they "run into trouble" when in reality they have more than enough to weather any storm without bailouts?
Cilvaa
It's not that the US can't afford those things. It's that right-wing cunts (calling them cunts is a bit redundant, I know) won't allow the necessary systems to be established in the first place..
DozerTheLab
And the ones that are already set up (public education, mail, food stamps, welfare, …) are actively being there strangled financially in an effort to shut them down to privatize and profit from them.
HighLordRegentofChaos
calling them cunts isn't redundant, it's a slander against cunts everywhere.
yruchasnmecuzuruninyurunincuzuchasnme
In other words: “I’d call you a cunt, but you have neither the warmth nor the depth.”
BiffaBoffa
Not strictly speaking true. The govt doesn't only use the taxes from the people to provide them with the services they need. They also tax companies so the people benefit from having a prosperous economy as a whole, not just individually....
NickRivieraMD
Here we tax individuals to subsidize industry, like a bunch of assholes.
suchaPandaAthlete
And that's America's problem: none of our companies pay their fair share. If they pay anything at all.
gypsyspot
one of the problems. but most of these problems stem from the true problem. Campaign funding. Companies should not be allowed to fund campaigns in any way. Even better, candidates all get the same amount of money to fund their campaigns and with oversight for transparency
RummageSaleBubbler
Jon Stewart for president!
STINKPICKEL
Ahh don't know if that's a good idea, Ukraine elected a guy like Stewart and now they're at war with Russia.
Harsamina
Sadly, he already missed the opportunity for himself and the Nation. Gives me very Last Airbender vibes, as when we needed him the most, he disappeared.
RummageSaleBubbler
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BotDrawA
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Phischstaebchen
Join Stuart ad a Perredo could be read very wrongly....
Sinisael
And I here in Socialist hellscape that is Denmark, waiting for u morons to revolt and start ur 2nd Civilwar which admittedly would scary AF cause you are dumb enough to use A bombs on your own soil. But seing the average intellect over there U proberly miss and start WW3, and mostly just to pull out the rug on Putin.
dissonantcognition
Incredibly wrong. He’s not old.
MangoLassi
Onlyhereforthelaughs
I'd love a little socialism
tenkindsofawesome
Most of Europe works that way, think of it as insurance that actually pays out when you need it.
barstr7
And yet we don’t think of any of those countries as socialist. That’s what puts the lie to it.
VanillaAddict
the better part of the developed world works that way, but for some reason "WE WanT tO pAy fOr OUr hEalTH INsUraNCe HeRe!"
OnlyWantToSayOneThing
They think "I dont want to pay for other peoples healthcare! It's MY money!" but forget that insurance increases your rates based on how much insurance other people are using making you pay for them anyways. Also they think they can argue better rates solo than a group of 331 million people could.
DenounceAll
And yet, all the moderate liberals on here will downvote me for asking the question, at what point do you consider that social contract broken, and why has it not already been? If the US Gov was a company, we’d of all asked for our money back years ago. Taxation at this point is tantamount to theft and certainly levied without representation.
defiedthestars
The problem is both sides sort of recognize the problem but see it differently. Left-leaning folk want to empower competent leadership that can use collectivism to bring services to the masses, Republicans only see people pretending to want those things and then diverting it instead to corruption so they (think they) want nothing, just not to be taxed. The unsolvable bit is where both 'parties' are owned by the same interests so they aren't allowed to address these things earnestly.
defiedthestars
..Which.. is why every single important economic issue gets ignored, or pandered-to and never fixed, and instead our focus is diverted into cultural issues that don't threaten their donors. BOTH SIDES aggressively do this. They pretend to do battle but they Agree on war for private-profit, Agree on not giving us healthcare, and letting every industry become predatory in this late capitalism hellscape.
DenounceAll
Amen
UnluckyLunkhead
America: Where every political party says they are against 'Filling the Holes in the Road'.
TsubakiTragic
America: Where there are only 2 political parties. Thar's ya problem boy-oh!
FelixT93
2 electable political parties. Doing away with murica's "first past the post" system in favour of ranked choice voting would fix that issue real fast. Just adding more third parties isn't going to fix it
Ghlargh
One tells you to drive around the holes, the other tells you to buy a bigger car that can survive driving over the holes?
Colopty
One doesn't care to fix the holes, the other thinks that if they just make more holes they can probably keep poor people from reaching the voting polls.
NOYLL
Does he have a new show, and where can I watch it?
schrodingerscatfood
“The Problem with Jon Stewart”, S02E02 (2022-10-14): “Where is our tax money going?” https://tv.apple.com/us/episode/where-is-our-tax-money-going/umc.cmc.2oe5pxxbry8wpwxghbr9ha7jf
Chair5768
He uploads a decent amount of content from the show to YouTube as well: https://www.youtube.com/@TheProblemWithJonStewart/videos
joshcrimson
TheRealDude19047
BenderBenderBender
My god this is brilliant +1
ActualTttony
Better
SkyVINS
you're a wizard josh
suffyr
Damn, it is better after
LampLighterN7
100%. What Jon is gaining in coherent effective communication of facts, he is losing in comedic composition.
ThatSonOfaBitch
Frau Blucher!!!
nickamont
Definitely better
CharmingPrism
ok So. I was told that Blücher was the word for glue but apparently its just a surname. I looked up glue and a few iterations but it seems I was lied to.
Part of speech Translation Reverse translations Frequency
help_outline
Verb
kleben
stick, glue, paste, adhere, tape, cling
leimen
glue, lime, patch up
verleimen
glue
pappen
stick, glue, be sticky
Noun
der Klebstoff
adhesive, glue, cement, paste, gum, mucilage
der Leim
glue, size
die Pappe cardboard, board, pasteboard
TheRealDude19047
Prussian General https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher
Mmrnmhrn
NEIIIGH
frenofafren
America, y'all need this man to be your president.
DenounceAll
We had one better in Al Franken and the up and coming liberals murdered his career in glorious fashion because they didn’t like his ability to win. Democratic leadership absolutely despise winning and will do just about anything to avoid it at all costs.
maximilianfragglebottom
that and the sexual harassment
barnwolf
Don't be silly a comedian can't be a good president. Just look at Ukraine... huh nevermind.
EPM122Irrah
I'm pretty sure he is on record saying he does not want to be president.
StellaMatutina
He doesn't deserve that shit show, he's too good for us at this present moment
cozmicflea
I would never wish something so awful on such a good man
IconicM
He doesn't want to do that, and thinks he can more effectively create change outside of politics.
UnicornsToxicRainbowFart
Yup I'd vote for him
NSAgent
I would like liberal president that could speak to and would be heard by conservative people- maybe not conservative politicians but people. That seems necessary to make positive change. Jon Stewart connects with an audience that already agrees with him.
AeonQuasars
Problem is that he would require a supermajority to get anything done as well as the majority in the supreme court. That's the problem to actual change stuff for the better in the US. You might as well have a slim majority, but if you go too much left, you lose out a few democrats on the way. Plus all the really good stuff to change require more majority then 51%.
Revyloution
Oh sure. Hire a comedian as president. Ukraine did that, and now they are at WAR!
sunmanXII
No. We need him to be where he is now - speaking truth to power. we just need a president who listens to him
certainlynotaserialkiller
he does not deserve the punishment. anyone qualified for the job should never be allowed to do it.
SomeDetroitGuy
1) He is too old. 2) We have a horrible history of entertainers in pilitics. The best of them joked about sexually assaulting a colleague while she was sleeping. Then we have Trump, Reagan, Schwarzenegger, Gym Jordan, Sonny Bono, Hershal Walker, Tubberville. We don't need politicians who are entertainers when we have amazing politicians already like Gretchen Whitmere, Gavin Newsom, Pete Butigeig, AOC, Katie Porter, Raphael Warnock, Alex Padilla, and others.
Thisisbullshitalready
I'd vote for him, but he's not crazy enough to run.
Rpgjgb
I'd vote for him... that being said, Absolutely Not. He doesn't deserve the bullshit that being president comes with especially when at least half of the government would be working against him and undermining him. Look at how much shit they're giving Biden and Stewart's stance would be considered FAR more "Left" and "Radical". Like Bernie he'd be able a Socialist and Commie and have no support at all. Dude doesn't deserve that
knifiespoonie
A good and decent leader is useless without a legislative body that has the same values and works towards the same goals.
MakesUMad
Yeah we know. If I was him I wouldn't run for president in a million years.
ScoobyDoobyDeuce
WE KEEP ASKING HIM AND HE KEEPS SAYING NO
theregoesthegayborhood
YES PLEASE
Tairu8
If he wants to be. That’s one of the main problems with politics, the people who might best be suited for the job in terms of how it would benefit the populace may not want the headache. Seems like the bulk of the people who stick around long enough to be considered valid presidential candidates have settled in nicely to the corrupt parts of the system and don’t want them changed
Snooj
He doesn't want to be. THAT'S WHAT MAKES HIM PERFECT.
AnyUsernameWillDoForMe
He does engage with politics when he thinks it matters though
MmmmmSoup
Even of they did nothing would happen the right will block every good thing he try's to do
PodolKev
Considering his take on COVID back then, let him fight the good fights and pick someone who will not inadvertently spread right-wing conspiracies and still be defensive about it to this day.
GravyEducation
He wouldn't take the job, you kidding me? Can't foist crowns man
Firestar002
What we really need is a puppet president, then have this and several others as advisors.
fastjeff
omfg if they vote in another tv celebrity. They are making their politicians into tv celebrities. America is peopled by the dumbest fucking people on the planet right now. No more voting for celebrities!
BlazeRunner4532
I don't actually care if someone is a celebrity or not as long as they're competent, kind, and in touch. Your status doesn't matter to me as much as what you would do with the position.
RobBobertyYT
The problem of electing a celebrity isn't the fact that it's a celebrity. The problem is when a celebrity gets elected for no other reason than their celebrity status.
badbiscuit
Agree, he said he'd never run
SirBillington
I still think if he didn't leave the daily show Trump wouldn't have gotten elected.
GlobalImageServiceCat
White Americans have spoken: they want Trump.
Vidikron
As a white dude in the red state of Arkansas... Fuck that noise. Trump and his lemmings can eat dicks.
Dracon27
As a white guy, no, I really don't.
subiedad370hp
He's said before he doesn't want the job
saevon
Great Man Theory also sucks… one president cannot cause enough change by themselves.
matthew2401360
Uh, pretty sure Trump did plenty of damage in his *single* term...
Ialmostgotthis
They can, but sorta need to be a dictator. Lincoln put the politicians who didn't support the war in prison.
rubypilgrim
can we get a whole government and population of people like him?
IconicM
Not until we can clone humans...
SomeDetroitGuy
There are a lot of folks in government like him but they don't have a team of comedy writers writing a TV show for them every week.
Publiusdg
That's not how it works. 1 person can't change anything. You need POTUS, SCOTUS, Senate and House of congress to make earth shaking changes like changing the tax system. Oh also large rich companies own a lot of the people I just mentioned...so there's that hurtle
Publiusdg
Hurdle*
wadatahmydamie
Okay. So how has Biden gotten so much done?
SavageDrums
He's great, but no more celebrity politicians.
Sidewaysgts
I see this often- I’ll say the same thing i always say in response. He’s a celebrity who has built his career off of understanding politics.
ZachariasWolfe
This is close to the whole "both sides" argument. Yes he's a celebrity. That doesn't mean he's unfit for the job, like Trump and Regan were. He's actually spent time and effort on political goals, such as working for the protection of 9-11 first responders. It's a false equivalency. Also, take for example Zelensky: he was a comedian/actor, and now he's doing a pretty damn good job.
yoshtan4
There are plenty of politicians who are basically celebrities, but they became celebrities by being politicians. Some are good, and many are bad.
SavageDrums
I agree, and if there is a celebrity I'd be mostly okay with, it's him.
LetumComplexo
Yeah, Zalensky is the obvious counter argument to “no celebrities”. It’s not so much that people want “no celebrities” it’s that celebrities are so very rarely good people and what we want are politicians that are good people.
DefinitelyNotMadeOfBees
Well, "good" might be too much to ask for. But "not evil" would be a really good start.
LetumComplexo
Good absolutely isn’t too much to ask. You can always ask for the right thing. It is probably too much to expect though.
taksoto
Na. With the congress and judicial we have, he wouldn't really be able to get anything done.
ArcaneConjecture
The US Presidency is very powerful. You really should read the Constitution before you blow it off.
bearatrooper
Maybe with the office he can finally get to killin' 'em.
Revyloution
Yup, people don't realize, it's not just "elect the right people" you also need to be vigilant when it's not an election year. Write letters, protest. It works
wadatahmydamie
Biden’s gotten a lot done with a hostile Congress and a corrupt SCOTUS
Tielatto
'Why bother with good thing. Bad thing will continue.' Pretty sure that's the Republican argument against any gun control whatsoever...
RaithiosDarksun
So replace the broken parts.
extraDimensionalAnxiety
So all of it?
TheS4ndm4n
He's getting things done now, and he's not even in office. Shamed congress into funding veteran benefits.
Recidivous
Exactly. He works better outside the President's seat.
Revyloution
100%. He's far more effective on the outside
TheS4ndm4n
To restore sanity and/or fear. Stewart/Colbert 2024
thealmightywalrus420
I want Stewart/Shapiro. Not because I like Shapiro but because I wanna see John slap him in the head all the time.
OtterlyDelicious
I don't want Shapiro to have an ounce of power, too dangerous for his followers to get encouraged
CodeWarrior
I was there. At the rally. They restored a bit of sanity, 'tis true. But there is much fear. And the fear bides its time. It waits; ready to accost and strangle the sanity when least expected.
MegaDeuce
Hell yes. Where's my damn bumper sticker?
secretdpp
Eh not Colbert. He's too into Christianity to make me want to gamble on him. Love the guys work but .. not sure I trust someone who believes in God denomination 73 to be effective as a politician. Given the historical precedent set by most
TheS4ndm4n
Colbert is very liberal. It's the "conservative Christians" you should be afraid of. Also, you might need a Christian on the ticket to get a jew elected.
loma45
Better get rid of pretty much all your current Democratic reps then, including AOC, POTUS, and Katie Porter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_affiliation_in_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives
Shovi
He's too into christianity? I thought he was a mean atheist, i saw lots of videos where he was making fun of christians....
MantisTobagganMD
Colbert is a devout Catholic. He just doesn't let it interfere with his higher brain processes.
Bebsey
It's been a little confusing as Colbert [the character] was all you'd really see for many years, even when in front of a congressional hearing, and he had a lot of elements dialed up. Even now I'd occasionally forget that he's not embodying the satirical personification and is just making the jokes.
wadatahmydamie
So you’re a bigot.
Sticklebrickk
But he also knows the lore of The Lord of the Rings, which makes me believe he knows the difference between fantasy and reality and I feel he has a strong positive moral compass. He is compassionate, kind, earnest, and thoughtful. He would be a good match for the face, as long as Stewart takes hold of affairs. Think of Obama/Biden turned up to 11.
secretdpp
That's the ideal outcome. But at this point I'm expecting if they get elected we find out they're both the Zodiac Killers apprentice
FishCoffin
Dude. Get perspective. This man has the most sane head on his shoulders than any other politician.
secretdpp
Given the stability of most politicians that's hardly a ringing endorsement. And to be clear he seems sane so far. I'd like to trust him but so far christians in power have a pretty horrific track record
Goldensands
Yeah, I'd say that's possible. Fk me, american politicians are insane. Your systems seem to elevate the worst sorts. You make so many psychopathic narcissist into billionaires as well..
RaithiosDarksun
Religions arent bad,the assholes who use religion as a cover for their fucked up wants and personality are.
ShadyEsperanto
I'd say religion is mostly bad just because the texts of those religions (like the bible) usually support some pretty terrible things (even if the text doesn't support the terrible things the assholes believe it does...the bible may not specifically say shit about abortion, but it says a lot about women's rights)
Comon42
yeah but there are more of those forward facing than the other kind.
RaithiosDarksun
And? Raise up the positive while denouncing and removing the bad actors. No it’s not going to be easy but in this timeline and era, nothing good for society has ever come easily. But doing nothing allows assholes and monsters to thrive.