Jon Stewart Smashes the Myth of Corporate Morality in Pride, BLM, and Beyond | The Daily Show

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  • @victoriaman117
    @victoriaman117 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5457

    "They've got us fighting a culture war to distract us from fighting a class war."

    • @Robert-fx3ng
      @Robert-fx3ng 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They tried to get us to fight a class war but since it didn’t work as well as it did in Russia and China, now they are looking for other decisive issues.

    • @Sarkoths_Claw
      @Sarkoths_Claw 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +214

      1000% yes. This. Boom. Bam. Bingo.

    • @susiepoadster4642
      @susiepoadster4642 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +81

      Truer words never spoken!

    • @Shamusmusic416
      @Shamusmusic416 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +104

      Totally. Racism isn't the problem. It's classism.

    • @leigel3
      @leigel3 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      Who are you quoting?

  • @Tonyhouse1168
    @Tonyhouse1168 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3352

    The owners of Walmart are worth like $267 billion US. McDonald’s made $14.6 BILLION in profit last year. I’ve always been confused why they want us to “donate” our actual hard-earned money.

    • @lydiahood7725
      @lydiahood7725 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +565

      Because you don't donate to charity, you donate to those corporations that will donate the money you donated in their own name, thus earning a tax break in the process, that is why they are harassing you for donations, so they can pay less in taxes later from it.

    • @randymulder9105
      @randymulder9105 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Exactly. Fake culture.​@@lydiahood7725

    • @sha1841
      @sha1841 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +127

      @@lydiahood7725 Agreed. I learned of this recently. Someone in another comment said corporations actually don’t get tax credits from donations but do get to hold the contributions to gain interest on them.

    • @CinnamonQuills
      @CinnamonQuills 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +146

      And also despite making so much profit still pay poverty wages and encourage their employees to sign up for public assistance.

    • @Daggy3D
      @Daggy3D 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +86

      That is why I don't. I will never donate to a charity being asked of me by a corporate hand.

  • @Daug555
    @Daug555 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1279

    "They have one value and that's shareholder value...nothing that they do that's not in service of their bottom line..."
    -THAT PART

    • @TheFireGiver
      @TheFireGiver 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      To be fair being at least superficially inclusive is part of their bottom line. I work at a major heathcare corporation who does all the pride stuff every year. They don't do it out of the goodness of their hearts, obviously. Even the top executives would agree that there are financial motives if they were being honest. It costs more money to appear biggeted than it does to throw up a few pride flags.

    • @MostHighEmperorPalpatine
      @MostHighEmperorPalpatine 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      It’s been that way since the beginning when “corporation and the Shareholder first gave each other a quickie in the back” 😂

    • @JohnDoe-pk2hs
      @JohnDoe-pk2hs 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Corporations are supposed to be responsible to their stakeholders, not just their shareholders.

    • @derkeheath5172
      @derkeheath5172 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      Yep. Companies USED to be judged by how well off their employees were. Now employees are just a used and abused afterthought.

    • @CorinthianIvory
      @CorinthianIvory 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@JohnDoe-pk2hsKlaus Schwab would like to speak with zu

  • @AffyisAffy
    @AffyisAffy 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +706

    I'm so grateful for my 9th grade English teacher who had us watch commercials and analyze what they were trying to make us feel. I really think everyone needs that 'talk' at a young age, that marketing and advertising is really only about one thing

    • @AuntieMim-lx8mm
      @AuntieMim-lx8mm 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      Letting us know how much corporations actually truely care about us?
      Btw, ever noticed how MOST ads ommit mentioning any price tag whatsoever? Unless it involves a service instead of a product...such as insurance.

    • @MsBhappy
      @MsBhappy 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +44

      Media literacy should be mandatory in all high school grades and some basics about marketing and psychology. Critical thinking skills are sorely needed.

    • @BrocksJellyFilledDoughnuts
      @BrocksJellyFilledDoughnuts 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Ethos, logos, and pathos? That's the one I learned anyway.

    • @rachelj16
      @rachelj16 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      i genuinely think media criticism/ analysis should be taught starting in elementary school.

    • @tweakfreq1982
      @tweakfreq1982 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It was my sensitivity to frequencies that taught me that commercials were doing something that wasn't capable of being noticed by most

  • @josephmatuszak3855
    @josephmatuszak3855 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3077

    A Corporation is nothing but a Golem being maintained and aimed by humans.... that is all. No emotion, no soul, just a ruthless drive towards a single mission.... get more money.

    • @bryanmachin2152
      @bryanmachin2152 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      Sounds like you've been reading Alan Ginsburg!

    • @maryasuestark5208
      @maryasuestark5208 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      Shalom

    • @burkles4456
      @burkles4456 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@maryasuestark5208😂😂😂

    • @johnsanders561
      @johnsanders561 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

      A corporation has No soul for damnation nor a body for incarceration.

    • @seeleunit2000
      @seeleunit2000 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Yeah, pretty much. It's just that most people have forgotten that fact.

  • @Mettle_DAD
    @Mettle_DAD 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +10285

    I'm not worried about the corporation virtue signaling. I'm worried about the politicians they donate to supporting legislation to take people's rights away.

    • @kaponkotrok
      @kaponkotrok 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +258

      then vote these politicians out and monitor your elected representatives.

    • @cvp2000
      @cvp2000 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

      💯

    • @garrettfleetwood4702
      @garrettfleetwood4702 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@kaponkotrok and replace them with the politicians corporate sponsorship has allowed into the candidate pool?
      Capitalism negates democracy.

    • @Alexanderthenotsobad
      @Alexanderthenotsobad 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The thing is that they're one in the same... Amazon posted Black Lives Matter on their websites for months, while at the same time "legally" disenfranchising their black workforce. Bezos also donates millions to the donkeys and the elephants...

    • @tylerhackner9731
      @tylerhackner9731 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +81

      @@kaponkotrokdefinitely do that of course

  • @JHMBB2
    @JHMBB2 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +237

    Finally someone in media is saying this. It's driving me insane seeing people get worked up about this stuff

    • @AuntieMim-lx8mm
      @AuntieMim-lx8mm 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      200 likes (thanks to me) and no comment? Fell off.
      Oops. I meant "Let me fix that"

    • @seppyq3672
      @seppyq3672 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      My friend was so upset about the bud light pride thing and said he would never buy it. I was like, you never bought it before. All you ever drink and buy is budweiser. 😂

  • @joshwhalen17
    @joshwhalen17 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +240

    Back in summer of 2016 Anheuser-Busch launched a marketing campaign temporarily rebranding their beer "America", printed on every can in lieu of the Budweiser logo. Had a friend who worked for them at the time. On the same day of that press release they outsourced her entire department to a call center in India.

    • @CanalPSG
      @CanalPSG 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      Not only ANheuser-Busch. Levi's closed all America factories, but now is VERY committed to LHBTIQ+-issues. Which in the end is lots cheaper than paying Americans and/or immigrant workers a decent wage.

    • @Pravdacz-tp8zu
      @Pravdacz-tp8zu 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      Insane how worked up some people get over trans influencer, but when a corporation this blatantly abuses their employees, crickets.

    • @samuela-aegisdottir
      @samuela-aegisdottir 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Budweiser is named after Budweis. Which is the German name of a town in the region of Bohemia which used to be part of the Austrian Empire and is now is part of the Czech Republic. It's Czech name is Budějovice. The founder of Budweiser was a German immigrant to USA and he decided to start a Bohemian-style lager brewery there. It is an immigrant beer.
      There is a different brewery in Budějovice, called the Budweiser Budvar, and in the EU, that is the only beer that can be called Budweiser, because it is the one made in Budweis. (Budweiser means "of Budweis" in German and the EU is keen on protecting local brands.) The American Budweiser is sold under different name in the EU.
      So it is an immigrant beer with a name which is illegal in its place of origine. An ...illegal ....immigrant beer?
      I hope it will restore the true American spirit and the real conservative values.

  • @ArtemisShanks
    @ArtemisShanks 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2623

    “Corporate America: We never cared… and you’re idiots to believe we ever did.”

    • @alwillk
      @alwillk 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +82

      Ronald Reagan allowed corporatism to run rampant in this country. Yet, some common folks loved the guy. I don’t get it.

    • @TheReddaredevil223
      @TheReddaredevil223 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@alwillk There's an entire right wing propaganda apparatus to make sure that people don't understand that.
      The same is true of 'liberal' media. They wouldn't be caught dead telling the truth about corporations.

    • @richborn6700
      @richborn6700 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@alwillkthey fell for his lie of "trickle down economics" that was continued to be fed by H.W. Bush and subsequently his son until the 2008 collapse he was able to just walk away from as Obama took over

    • @SanGeet0510
      @SanGeet0510 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@alwillk he did a lot of populist moves; feeding people poison letting food industry suppress scientific research being one of the most heinous - the dangerously evil worshipped and oft quoted by opportunistic shallow politicians of both parties even now - disgusting

    • @spicypines3827
      @spicypines3827 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +51

      ​@alwillk how does the saying go? "The poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires" the same people who like Reagan thinks they have a chance to be part of the 1 percent if they just keep trying

  • @JamieDallas
    @JamieDallas 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5044

    Corporations aren't even hiding their greed anymore. They're price gouging without raising wages.

    • @theorenhobart
      @theorenhobart 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +203

      without raising their employees wages but not without raising their executives bonuses (bonii?) !!!!!

    • @serversurfer6169
      @serversurfer6169 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +81

      When prices go up, there's only two places that money can go-to the workers, or to the shareholders. 🤨

    • @AbsurdlyGeeky
      @AbsurdlyGeeky 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +82

      When did they ever hide their greed?

    • @1themadbluebird
      @1themadbluebird 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

      I’ve never understood why people seem to think this is new. Their entire purpose has always been to make as much money as possible.

    • @KAMMD
      @KAMMD 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      HONOR LABOR

  • @Mr.MashenIt
    @Mr.MashenIt 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +643

    I once heard someone say that Jon Stewart is the best desk comedian of all time and I must say....seeing him back, doing what he does, it really just doubles down on me feeling that is the truth too. You can do just Mondays forever because we all need this!

    • @deeznutz8320
      @deeznutz8320 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah lets ignore his 15 staff writer team that writes his jokes for him
      But 'he' is the best😂

    • @MaekarManastorm
      @MaekarManastorm 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wrong

    • @flyrobin2544
      @flyrobin2544 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      @@MaekarManastorm Sitting wrong all by yourself...pitiful.

    • @Nieghorn
      @Nieghorn 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      And now with The Weekly Show podcast!

    • @elizabethalexander6528
      @elizabethalexander6528 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      He is is great!!

  • @SturmFlut
    @SturmFlut 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +308

    I can't even begin to explain how great it is to have Jon Stewart back, and I'm not even living in the USA

    • @AuntieMim-lx8mm
      @AuntieMim-lx8mm 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      How dare you not live in the political trainwreck of a country? 😅

    • @alexguitarwatson3215
      @alexguitarwatson3215 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Enough already

    • @ManubibiWalsh
      @ManubibiWalsh 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Same. I actually didn’t even experience him being on the air the first time around, so getting to experience him live (more or less) is great.

    • @ManubibiWalsh
      @ManubibiWalsh 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@AuntieMim-lx8mmtbf nearly all western countries are a trainwreck atm

    • @elsafan777
      @elsafan777 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Corporate pandering is hardly an original American experience 😅

  • @PkGam
    @PkGam 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +389

    Yep, what initially "looked" like corporations actually helping turned out to just be marketing campaigns for selling more products. There is no humanity in them as all they see is dollar signs.

    • @MrHubadub
      @MrHubadub 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

      I'm suprised people ever thought otherwise. The emotional attachments people place on celebrities, corporations, the clergy, or political figures is astounding.
      All these people or entities should only ever be a means to an end for someone because thats all you are to them.

    • @svenkrackow5550
      @svenkrackow5550 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hmm, I take it as a measure of reality...

    • @BallsworthBallsbury
      @BallsworthBallsbury 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That empty corporate posturing only "looked" authentic to the absolute dumbest among us. We're talking ASTONISHINGLY dumb people.

    • @elliott614
      @elliott614 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      that's why initially and still, there's so much skepticism and protest of corporate hijacking of pride events

    • @jayeisenhardt1337
      @jayeisenhardt1337 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Think on how long 40 years ago was. I'd say they have been at that level for some time now. Pride started in 1970.
      By 1984 that's more than a decade for marketing teams to do their work. They probably been selling it since day one I reckon.

  • @dramatickesneni
    @dramatickesneni 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1156

    Remember, corporations aren't your friends.

    • @alwillk
      @alwillk 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

      But, but, but Ronald Reagan said they were and trickle down economics would make us all wealthy 45 years later?

    • @nl5828
      @nl5828 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @alwillk 👏👏👏👏👏

    • @polreamonn
      @polreamonn 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      And neither are your work colleagues.

    • @nhr27
      @nhr27 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      But their profits do make it possible for you to live.

    • @richardbishop6752
      @richardbishop6752 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      @@nhr27 actually the higher their profits seem to get the lower worker profits seem to get, therefore making it slowly harder to live.

  • @laalaa99stl
    @laalaa99stl 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1507

    B-but _that's_ how you know you've made it as a demographic -- when corporate America pretends to care about you(r money).

    • @lagstorm1
      @lagstorm1 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +51

      They have a demographic for everyone to maximize profits. We're all just numbers.

    • @roaam78
      @roaam78 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Did you mean Democracy ?

    • @jacobkyle4573
      @jacobkyle4573 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

      ​@roaam78 money should not have any say whatsoever in democracy, only ideas and people. Private Money playing a role is exactly why we are in the current mess we are in. Take private money out of campaigning and it becomes a lot easier to end corruption.

    • @jabberw0k812
      @jabberw0k812 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      I've made it as a demographic. I can die happy now, knowing that my demographic has accomplished so much during its lifetime.

    • @ShirokiMaki
      @ShirokiMaki 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Eh, also means they treating it like another 'hip trend' that would go out of style and be completely replaced on their marketing budget once the next 'hipper trend' comes along.

  • @Skippy0330
    @Skippy0330 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    It's so nice having Jon back, EVERY side deserves to be poked at.

    • @MikeM-uy6qp
      @MikeM-uy6qp 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He's so even-handed he even pinned a medal on a n*zi.

  • @geargeekpdx3566
    @geargeekpdx3566 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2742

    Jon Stewart left the media as Gandalf the Gray. He has returned to us in our more dire time of need as Gandalf the White

    • @50ftGuerrilla
      @50ftGuerrilla 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +74

      So is this the turn of the tide?

    • @JohnnyDelco
      @JohnnyDelco 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      Cringe uncomfortable statement 🤦🏽‍♂️

    • @iTzJimBoi
      @iTzJimBoi 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +105

      @@JohnnyDelconot as uncomfortable as your mother when the doctor handed you to her right after you were born. I feel for her.

    • @RaydivatheWriter
      @RaydivatheWriter 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +96

      @@JohnnyDelco Know what's cringe? Someone constantly saying something is cringe and following it with a facepalm emoji. If you don't like what you are seeing; you can use either the back button, go to a different site or close up your browser/computer completely. Maybe a book will feel less cringy to you.

    • @williamyoung9401
      @williamyoung9401 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      If only he'd run for President...

  • @christansdad
    @christansdad 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +396

    Took a course called Business Ethics in college. The instructor made it clear, the class was a course in theory only...there are no practical applications.

    • @paul329869
      @paul329869 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Yeah, that’s the reason why talk is cheap, like all our betters say.

    • @fivespot83s24
      @fivespot83s24 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      A true oxymoron.

    • @tyl1186
      @tyl1186 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It's applicable to the Securities Exchange Commission.

    • @ty_teynium
      @ty_teynium 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Business Ethics ... in college
      I wonder if Vaas knows the definition of Oxymoron.

    • @djpaulcfunkeddub3951
      @djpaulcfunkeddub3951 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      lol, sad but true

  • @lddonovan
    @lddonovan 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +95

    ”They (corporations) are very clearly conflicted between the high moral values they think we want and the amoral values that serve their shareholders"
    Very well put!

    • @dh8203
      @dh8203 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Except they're not conflicted at all, they're just trying to get all the money from everyone by tapping into their emotions the same way they do with all advertising. None of it has ever been true. With the current trajectory it won't be long before you're seeing A.I. tailored ads that appeal to your specific emotional profile based on your entire online history. Love Diversity? All your ads are diverse now. Hate Diversity? Everybody in ads are the same ethnicity as you! Concerned about breast cancer? So is every brand that wants your money.

  • @CanalPSG
    @CanalPSG 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +110

    The saddest part: because all companies support for LGBTQIA+ equality so loudly, others start to blame members of the LGBTQIA+-community "for pushing a woke agenda," causing more resentment than members of these groups deserve (if they deserve any resentment at all). I hate that.

    • @RickyDynamite
      @RickyDynamite 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      So true.

    • @BassHeadsProduction
      @BassHeadsProduction 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's also just how absurb the LGBTQRSUTUV2SA+ movement has become in itself these last few years. For starts, adding all these ridiculous extra words to the abbreviation.. secondly a really bizarre focus on wanting children involved with drag queens. And "progressives" defending to death the efficacy of prescribing puberty blockers to children effectively sterilizing them for life. And then of course the pure fantasy that there are an infinite number of genders and neogenders. It's no longer about marriage equality like it was 10 years ago. It's about being as loud and in your face about it as possible. Grown men dancing in diapers in public at pride parades.. grown men in leather gimp outfits with dog masks on being led around by leashes.. Actual articles on the Washington Post entitled - "Yes kinks belong at PRIDE and YES I WANT my kids to see it". Look up the article yourself. They have literally become what Fox news used to fear monger about.

    • @jakevendrotti1496
      @jakevendrotti1496 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      💯

    • @AffyisAffy
      @AffyisAffy 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I hate to say, but this feels like the start of facsism in the US. The whole 'choose the right side' seems to enter into conversations and media way too easily, and both sides want some sort of punishment for the other about how the US has changed for the worse. Trump is already exploiting the divisiveness and even 'working together' as a country is starting to sound like an attack on our own beliefs, because it's so polarized that we don't want to budge an inch. Both sides think of the other in extremes and it seems like all the moderates get ignored by the media and algorithms. Hopefully our little experiment with social media 'engagement' algorithms ends well, but for now signaling, hate, and fear are making the corporations too much money online.

    • @notabannedaccount8362
      @notabannedaccount8362 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      This is what you wanted.

  • @murf121212
    @murf121212 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +528

    corporate panhandling for my change is infuriating. Telling low income workers to beg for change so that a massive corporation can donate your money to a charity then claim a tax write off for their genorosity is disgusting.

    • @erikt454
      @erikt454 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      Reminds me of grocery chains asking customers to pay retail house prices for food to leave in the donation bin on the way out, so the grocery chain can falsely claim / imply the customers' largesse is really the corporation's.

    • @Narrator007
      @Narrator007 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      I don't think that's how it works. I'm pretty sure the corporation would have to declare your "donation" as income, and then take a deduction of that same amount when they "donate" that money on your behalf. It would end up being a net zero benefit to their bottom line.
      I still think it's wrong for them to get PR credit for passing along their customer's donations, though.

    • @laura-gp3gv
      @laura-gp3gv 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      Right. On top of it places like WALMART hire primarily part time workers so they don't have to give any kind of benefits.

    • @celoceanicon
      @celoceanicon 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      They can't write off money if it was never recognized as income in the first place. If money was collected for the explicit purpose of being donated, it's not revenue and can't be deducted as a charitable donation.

    • @Nobody-dl4tm
      @Nobody-dl4tm 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      ​@@celoceaniconregardless free PR is massively valuable

  • @lesalbro8880
    @lesalbro8880 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +108

    Thank you! I'm so sick of these corporations pretending they care about these causes they talk about. I'm tired of telling people this stuff. Maybe people will actually listen to YOU.

    • @ttacking_you
      @ttacking_you 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It just makes everyone feel uncomfortable too.

    • @robertskrj6555
      @robertskrj6555 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      They do this because they are forced thorough ESG rating. What else did you expect....

    • @ttacking_you
      @ttacking_you 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@robertskrj6555 what's esg? Besides a great female funk band

    • @ttacking_you
      @ttacking_you 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The bottom bun is taking it waaay too far, trying to mainstream sadomasochism like that!

    • @robertskrj6555
      @robertskrj6555 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ttacking_you Do i wish it was only a punk band... Basically "score" how much a company gives a s**** about diversity, enviroment and governance. One of main reasons for culture war, even though nobody except for few zealost dont really care about it. However it is a great way to invest, higher ESG score, more reasons to short that companies stocks...

  • @HumanityOverAllElse
    @HumanityOverAllElse 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +317

    Imagine thinking in 2024 that a corporation does anything out of goodwill for the people…

    • @crystalwalker4403
      @crystalwalker4403 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Anything except pay a livable wage!!!!

    • @Aencii
      @Aencii 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Including airing a television episode ostensibly criticizing corporate pandering...

    • @Tustin2121
      @Tustin2121 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ⁠@@Aencii- Ostensibly criticizing and doing what instead…?

    • @Aencii
      @Aencii 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Tustin2121 Collecting massive profits?? I'm pretty cynical about the ability of capital to "subsume all critiques into itself", to quote Disco Elysium. As the quote continues, "Even those who would *critique* capital end up *reinforcing* it instead."

    • @Tustin2121
      @Tustin2121 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@Aencii - Okay, but like… does that invalidate the criticism or something? You’re literally doing the “yet you participate in society” meme, acting like people have a choice to just not engage…?

  • @margaretjohnson6259
    @margaretjohnson6259 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +195

    i live on social security as a retired person. i resent corporations asking ME for donations when they are price gouging us.
    i resent them virtue signalling when they are underpaying their workers.

    • @Moonless6491
      @Moonless6491 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Taco Bell asking me to donate to the scholarship program when they have the audacity to charge me 3 dollars for a taco.....

  • @melancholiaenshrinesalltriumph
    @melancholiaenshrinesalltriumph 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +273

    Had the pleasure of meeting John Stewert at a charity do once. He was surprisingly down to earth, and VERY funny.

    • @lorrie2878
      @lorrie2878 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      I am dead jealous!

    • @R50_J0
      @R50_J0 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Which persona was he using that day?

    • @vincentjohnflorio
      @vincentjohnflorio 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      @@R50_J0 Non grata

    • @PonyCordero
      @PonyCordero 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Love the back handed "surprisingly" 😂😂😂

    • @Alexanderthenotsobad
      @Alexanderthenotsobad 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      I had the pleasure of taking a shower once. Water is surprisingly wet.

  • @xtrem5428
    @xtrem5428 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +402

    The silver lining is that if corporation think it's profitable to advertise for equal rights, it's because society has progressed to a point where more people are in favor of it than against it.

    • @killed_by_the_architect-829
      @killed_by_the_architect-829 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No it's becasue a militant vocal minority will throw a fit and protest if they dont get their way. There's far less people in favor of it than you think.

    • @oliviaturner7388
      @oliviaturner7388 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      Except that the “propaganda” campaign only lasted a few months!

    • @dominicparker6124
      @dominicparker6124 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      Unless you're target in which case you dial it back a bit to not upset the bigots

    • @EmCee_MacD
      @EmCee_MacD 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@dominicparker6124Or Budweiser

    • @BarryHart-xo1oy
      @BarryHart-xo1oy 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You may have a point.

  • @nilesefrancis9894
    @nilesefrancis9894 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +318

    As a grocery store employee I felt that donation rant 😭

    • @ttacking_you
      @ttacking_you 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Whoa! I shop at the grocery store, too!! 😳

    • @jeffclement2468
      @jeffclement2468 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      "YOU'RE the one with the f*cking food!" 😝

    • @xmateinc
      @xmateinc 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Yea I’m not donating to get Kroger a tax break.

  • @crossedstreams3683
    @crossedstreams3683 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +158

    I worked for target last June, of they pulled back on pride month this year it is absolutely because they were done with getting bomb threats. The whole time I worked for target I had to sit through active shooter training every few months. I was starting to wonder how often targets get shot up to have to sit through it so much.

    • @marydawkins4190
      @marydawkins4190 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      It's awful to get bomb threats but they still sold out bc of the liability they'd face if someone got hurt at work.

    • @crossedstreams3683
      @crossedstreams3683 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@marydawkins4190 >they sold out
      They're a retailer, that's what they do.

    • @marydawkins4190
      @marydawkins4190 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@crossedstreams3683 uh, yeah. that's what I said.

    • @britefeather
      @britefeather 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      The active shooter training is every grocery chain actually.

    • @user-mv7zf9pi4s
      @user-mv7zf9pi4s 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Target has a target from conservative nutjobs

  • @swit1905
    @swit1905 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +410

    "Are you sure you don't mean sodium triphosphate?" had me DYING💀

    • @SiriuslyBlack7
      @SiriuslyBlack7 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @dorisdittmer7750
      @dorisdittmer7750 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It was a typo.😮

    • @spiceyhotpot
      @spiceyhotpot 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Ah, additives.

    • @tedtalksrock
      @tedtalksrock 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Sodium triphosphate has a lot of people dying…

    • @Hardwarestoresenpai
      @Hardwarestoresenpai 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wonder how many people want THAT chemical drawing tattoo.

  • @jza6093
    @jza6093 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +66

    This is possibly one of the most important messages people need to understand about corporations. Thank you Mr Stewart for nailing them to the wall...!

  • @zeroreyortsed3624
    @zeroreyortsed3624 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +158

    I'm glad Jon brought this up. Because I never donate when a store asks if I want to. Because I know it's really just a way of taxing me, so they can get out of paying taxes.

    • @KhronicD
      @KhronicD 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      If I'm paying in cash, I'll "round up" if it's an option. Mostly because I don't want to have to carry a nickel and 2 pennies around. I'm under no preconceptions as to where that "extra" money actually goes.

    • @1themadbluebird
      @1themadbluebird 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Can you explain how you donating a dollar would help them avoid taxes? It doesn’t work like that.

    • @thedoctor9936
      @thedoctor9936 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@1themadbluebird It actually does, since that falls under "charitable contributions". IRS specifically states, "You may deduct charitable contributions of money or property made to qualified organizations if you itemize your deductions. Generally, you may deduct up to 50 percent of your adjusted gross income, but 20 percent and 30 percent limitations apply in some cases." Since all that money is directly donated to the brand, the company can utilize that money for their own taxes, and more importantly, their own tax write offs.

    • @RPGreg2600
      @RPGreg2600 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@TinLeadHammer deadbeat

    • @1themadbluebird
      @1themadbluebird 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@thedoctor9936 You are 100% wrong and are posting about something you don’t even have a basic understanding of. You’re quoting the rules for regular donations from a company’s own funds. They are absolutely not able to deduct donations made by other people. You can easily fact check this with one search.

  • @bobh2581
    @bobh2581 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    The definition of corporation is an entity with all the rights of the individual and none of the responsabilty.

  • @coyley72
    @coyley72 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +903

    Corporations: giving you less and charging you more.

    • @marvinmartin4692
      @marvinmartin4692 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      But but the shareholders! What about there right’s?!

    • @annmarieknapp
      @annmarieknapp 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      Shrinkflation!

    • @MaverickPhantom
      @MaverickPhantom 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      There's also the automation that will come next. So those low paying jobs may not exist...

    • @MaverickPhantom
      @MaverickPhantom 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      ​@marvinmartin4692 it's not the rights of shareholders, it's about return of an investment

    • @Kenny49ERS
      @Kenny49ERS 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Now that explains why they lowered prices

  • @dennishickey7194
    @dennishickey7194 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +241

    " The merchant has no nation. His sole loyalty is to the source of his profit. " Thomas Jefferson

    • @mikedomina7082
      @mikedomina7082 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      More recently, Paddy Chayefsky (in his screenplay for the 1976 film NETWORK): "You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations; there are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems; one vast, interwoven, interacting, multivaried, multinational dominion of dollars."

    • @dh8203
      @dh8203 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      And then at some point Americans stopped reading, and sold the Government to the merchants for peanuts.

    • @termsofusepolice
      @termsofusepolice 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Given that Jefferson placed "pursuit of property" (his original wording) right behind life and liberty in his human need hierarchy I doubt his statement about the nationalism of merchants was more than a simple observation.

    • @dennishickey7194
      @dennishickey7194 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @termsofusepolice I'm no Jefferson scholar. I take it much the same: a dry observation on the merchant's interests. He'd have no trouble seeing it in any multinational corporations comfortable arrangements with repressive regimes.

    • @ynraider
      @ynraider 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@dennishickey7194 Thomas Jefferson was a racist slaver selling his own children... He was a ALSO a corporate/merchant.

  • @glennkonklin2926
    @glennkonklin2926 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +208

    Greed destroys integrity everywhere. Just look at what's happened to TH-cam. It's one big infomercial; people constantly hawking, peddling, begging, pleading, and prodding useless garbage. The minute you are willing to compromise the quality of your product for profit, it's over. You can rationalize anything at that point.

    • @LadyDoomsinger
      @LadyDoomsinger 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      You say that like there ever was any integrity in the first place?

    • @QueenMegaera
      @QueenMegaera 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      I feel like integrity is only found in face to face meetings and small scale stuff anymore. If a local small store that isn't part of any chain flies a pride flag even though it might lose them some of their customers, that actually tells me something about the values of the people who own that store. If Amazon changes their logo to a rainbow for a month, of course it means nothing.

    • @bramvanduijn8086
      @bramvanduijn8086 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      And we've enshrined greed in our corporations as their main driving principle. This is all a consequence of shares existing. Or maybe even a few steps more back and it is all a consequence of the idea that you can own abstract concepts like businesses. Ownership should be defined by use. If you use it, you own it. So you can't own two stores at the same time, because you can't work in two stores at the same time. You need to hire at least one other person, and in that case each of you owns two half stores if you regularly switch, or each of you owns one of the stores. Anything else leads to corporations driven by greed.

    • @Brasswatchman
      @Brasswatchman 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      You're not wrong. But people do kinda need to eat. Don't you think the spigot of free content has kinda spoiled everyone? If it came between clips costing a few bucks versus a sponsorship ad midway through, which one would you pick?

    • @scottneil1187
      @scottneil1187 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      ​@@BrasswatchmanThen they should get another job, TH-cam was supposed to be a free media platform, sick of creators pay walling stuff behind their Patreon and constantly begging.

  • @justtwobrotherspokemon
    @justtwobrotherspokemon 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    I've been saying it since the beginning. Corporations like Target, for example, are selling pride shirts not because they support the community but because they're trying to make money from people.

  • @joogle3328
    @joogle3328 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +183

    I refuse to donate at check out so the billionaire corporations can donate my money instead of their own! The shakedown is so rampant these days that cashiers no longer bother to name who the money will be donated to. Just this weekend a cashier asked me if I wanted to donate to charity. I almost asked which charity. Then I remembered I don’t give a F.

    • @claireconover
      @claireconover 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      the flaw in your premise, is your assuming the corporation would have donated if you did not.

    • @ingridmorgan7893
      @ingridmorgan7893 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Have you heard of RFKs plan?

    • @agilemind6241
      @agilemind6241 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      @@claireconover Don't be a tax shelter for corporations. They want you to "give to charity" so they can claim that donation on their taxes, so they can make more profits from your generosity.

    • @clickbait007
      @clickbait007 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      "then I remembered I don't give a F"... 😂

    • @kathieann5936
      @kathieann5936 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      I prefer to donate directly. I don’t trust that my money will go where they say it will.

  • @BradLR
    @BradLR 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +286

    they'll say anything to sell you the same thing at a higher price.

    • @jptothetree
      @jptothetree 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Facts. Gotta keep the shareholders happy, even if the world is burning.

    • @bryanmachin2152
      @bryanmachin2152 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      How do you think they become wealthy, exactly?

    • @williamyoung9401
      @williamyoung9401 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      And less of it. Shrinkflation.

    • @akimbo139
      @akimbo139 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If the price is too high then don't buy it...

    • @BradLR
      @BradLR 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@akimbo139 wow. problem solved. you're so smart!

  • @jeri3794
    @jeri3794 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    This was so well done!!! Finally someone called out this corporate hypocrisy!

    • @snuffeldjuret
      @snuffeldjuret 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      it really isn't hypocrisy, it is just catering to the leftist mob for long enough for the leftists to start chasing the new current (pally) thing.

  • @oldprankster7606
    @oldprankster7606 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    Brilliant. What a scathing take-down of corporate hypocrisy and presumptive moral preachiness. We need you more than ever, Jon Stewart!

  • @zach7193
    @zach7193 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +183

    Man, that's something. Stewart just smashed this myth totally. He tells the truth like it is.

    • @Win7ermu7e
      @Win7ermu7e 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      I mean he's saying what we all know but doing it in the funniest way possible. It's not like he's exposing anything here.

    • @JimmyMon666
      @JimmyMon666 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We all knew it was a myth. I'm glad he went after both sides. Back in the 90's they'd pretend to be all patriotic and care about the American worker. Even then we knew it was BS. Now it's just a different type of BS. I just want corporations to advertise their product and try to say how it's better than the competitors.

    • @naylas3908
      @naylas3908 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Win7ermu7e, for some people, apparently, he does, like the person you’re responding to. If you were never educated on publicity, you might believe all of it.

    • @jtl-en4yx
      @jtl-en4yx 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Basically the corporations are losing money big time so they bring in "Stewart" to tell the woke mob not to care about pride month anymore.

    • @MeldaRavaniel
      @MeldaRavaniel 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      He's definitely not the first to point this out.

  • @MargaritaOnTheRox
    @MargaritaOnTheRox 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    Yes! Thank you! I've been saying for years corporations aren't political. All they care about is money, and will say and do anything that they think will get them the most money.

  • @hellletloosekorvin
    @hellletloosekorvin 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

    This was one of the best Daily Shows that I've seen in a really long time. John Stewart is an absolute treasure and is the best part of the Daily Show and always has been. Cheers to John!

  • @virginieb20
    @virginieb20 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    « You’re the one with all the f****** food! » 😂😂😂

  • @gelfie2208
    @gelfie2208 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +213

    I'm just glad I still get to see Jon Stewart 15 minutes a week.

    • @joewalsh4713
      @joewalsh4713 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      He's also doing a Weekly Podcast if you want some more.

    • @annmarieknapp
      @annmarieknapp 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Thank you.

    • @jeffclement2468
      @jeffclement2468 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Me too. That was a week's worth of funny right there.

    • @xmateinc
      @xmateinc 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I’ll take it!

  • @heartoflotus
    @heartoflotus 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +54

    What a refreshingly honest Corporate America commercial! Thank you Daily Show! 🙏

  • @NP-zt6hy
    @NP-zt6hy 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +84

    Even if the Daily Show lost some ad revenue to make these jokes, bless ‘em! Keep making these!

    • @Damothedevo
      @Damothedevo 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They still ran the ads, the vaporous husks of these corporations dgf about anything else.

    • @fujinshu
      @fujinshu 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      These are literally just clips from a TV broadcast, and the show is owned by Paramount anyway under Comedy Central. They have a lot of money.

  • @Spigan818
    @Spigan818 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    The best thing corporations can do is pay their employees, focus on the quality of their product, and stay out of politics and social issues.

  • @theresiacarapia4561
    @theresiacarapia4561 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +322

    The "best" was when the grocery store chain Meijer here in Michigan sold a "fight for women's equality" dish towel for International Women's Day 😂

    • @Automat1cJack
      @Automat1cJack 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      That is incredibly tone-deaf. Whoever is in marketing must not be a real human.

    • @teresawaterkuetter8760
      @teresawaterkuetter8760 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      In my home town of East Lansing Michigan, the Meijer promotes how much it supports the St. Paul Lutheran Church Food Pantry. That gets people to buy in the store
      And the gift cards they donate to the Pantry are bought by the the members of my congregation. ST. PAUL LUTHERAN CHURCH 😂

    • @MeMe-le5yt
      @MeMe-le5yt 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      There's nothing wrong with a woman washing the dishes. I enjoy being a homemaker

    • @rosehill9537
      @rosehill9537 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      No one said there was but for a dish cloth(usually sold to women and not men) as an equality product is missing the whole point ​@MeMe-le5yt

    • @aecides3203
      @aecides3203 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That has the same feel as when a company frog marches every minority worker they have into a room, make them put jackets/labcoats/ties on so they look more important and then force them into posing awkwardly for a group photo to prove they're not racist. Or, better yet, walk into an active work area with a photographer and just tell all the white people to take their lunch break.

  • @LaughDragon
    @LaughDragon 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1570

    "We all too often have socialism for the rich and brutal capitalism for the poor". - MLK jr.

    • @Bls-of1ld
      @Bls-of1ld 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      No we don't want socialism

    • @Felix-qc7fn
      @Felix-qc7fn 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +110

      @@Bls-of1ld we do tho. At least if you knew what socialism was then youd want it. Most of european countries are social decomcracies due to the heavy influence of socialist parties. Nowadays theyre mostly moderate and not quite as extreme as the say communists in the 1900s and before, but theyre still socialists and have a huge part in how europe became europe today.

    • @kaylamadison8347
      @kaylamadison8347 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

      Everything is more expensive the poorer you are, and cheaper the more money you make.

    • @FantasticOtto
      @FantasticOtto 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +61

      @@Bls-of1ld You don't understand the word, and that is exactly how they want it to be.

    • @opaljk4835
      @opaljk4835 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +51

      @@Bls-of1ldsocialism is dope. People don’t talk about anarchism anymore, though. That used to be the thing people on the fringes wanted, but it’s a really hard system to actually implement. Whatever you want to call it though, we need housing, healthcare and income for everyone. Our brains have been poisoned to think it’s impossible, but it ain’t.

  • @jonferrin5694
    @jonferrin5694 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +296

    Corporations have one goal: make the most money possible. When money is the driving force, it makes all the decisions. When money decides, people lose... a lot.

    • @Dukenukem
      @Dukenukem 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      It is not just driving force, it is actually a law. As a shareholder you can take the corporation to court for not making money when they can.

    • @scoobertmcruppert2915
      @scoobertmcruppert2915 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@DukenukemTo a degree…but MANY actions can be sold in a way to say they believed they were trying to increase value.

    • @wildlightarts
      @wildlightarts 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Owners of Comedy Central are VIACOM 🏳‍🌈

    • @Dukenukem
      @Dukenukem 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @scoobertmcruppert2915 surely, but the customer backlash and sale drop are actually measurable and have consequences. If you "try to increase value," but the actual stock takes nosedive, then you are failing at your job and your actions will be very much discouraged for your successors.

    • @scoobertmcruppert2915
      @scoobertmcruppert2915 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Dukenukem Discouraged but not illegal. If you can show you made an effort to increase value then they are in the clear legally. Things can be done in a way that is actually beneficial to most people, even in this system, and they could spin it but they won’t to that because that doesn’t enrich them personally.

  • @John_Weiss
    @John_Weiss 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Thank you, John. I'm so fed up with these corporations that pander to us for one month, then turn around and give money to politicians that want to end my existence.

    • @normanberg9940
      @normanberg9940 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Want to end your existence? How? You mean with the wars for profit?

  • @brendaanneckelsamgc5583
    @brendaanneckelsamgc5583 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +643

    My Pop Pop taught me that the only conscience a company has is the one imposed on it by government regulation.

    • @iosmom
      @iosmom 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

      and they have captured their regulators

    • @dangerouslysane
      @dangerouslysane 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

      Your Pop Pop knew what he was talking about, for sure. Sadly, the deregulation spree that got under way during the Reagan administration really got things going downhill.

    • @termsofusepolice
      @termsofusepolice 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@dangerouslysane And now we've got a presidential candidate (leading in the polls) who is openly telling CEO's of oil companies he will give them further regulatory cuts in exchange for campaign donations.

    • @bonniehalf-elven
      @bonniehalf-elven 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      and they'll flout those as much as they can get away with.

    • @j.dunlop8295
      @j.dunlop8295 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Bottom line!

  • @Celestias
    @Celestias 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +154

    You're the best man in media, Jon! I highly respect you.

    • @anthonygracey5528
      @anthonygracey5528 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      I love him so much.

    • @djbombba
      @djbombba 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Appreciate his moderate perspective we need more moderacy in the USA

    • @kaponkotrok
      @kaponkotrok 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@djbombba do your part. Help a neighbor understand moderation.

    • @sunshine3914
      @sunshine3914 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@kaponkotrokexplain moderation to a MAGA? 😂 they enjoy chaos way too much.

    • @kaponkotrok
      @kaponkotrok 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      pre-maga can be invited to reason. They aren't tattoed yet lol

  • @Shea3224
    @Shea3224 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +415

    “I just want to say to Pat Sajak, Have you thought about just doing Mondays?” 🤣🤣

    • @shelbynamels7948
      @shelbynamels7948 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Is that a quote from the video?? You don't think we can find it on our own??

    • @N_IRL
      @N_IRL 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      ​@@shelbynamels7948They're expressing their appreciation for the quote

    • @shelbynamels7948
      @shelbynamels7948 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@N_IRL .... the way we used to in 6th grade

    • @Shea3224
      @Shea3224 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@shelbynamels7948, You get offended like trump, Trump is that you?

    • @moniqueengleman873
      @moniqueengleman873 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Pat was really acting out. I believe he has dementia. The things he has said have been way way off base.
      Maybe Vanna will be the host.?

  • @mtc-j9i
    @mtc-j9i 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Great broadcast. This is the JonStewart I used to know and love. Constantly bashing one side of the political spectrum is shortsighted. There’s so much we all can agree on.

    • @ttkrystal8329
      @ttkrystal8329 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Shortsighted? To call out the rampant rise of ethno nationalism and hateful rhetoric by one of the largest political parties in the world?

  • @bwianeh
    @bwianeh 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    John Stewart is the greatest. Thank you for comin back.

  • @roseking8555
    @roseking8555 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +62

    👏👏👏👏. I’m glad Jon is echoing what Roland Martin has been saying for months about these disgusting corporations and their fake stances.

    • @jramsey9690
      @jramsey9690 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Ah….advertising!

  • @NH-ow8dy
    @NH-ow8dy 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

    Your timing could not be better. Thank you for this upload.

    • @casper191985
      @casper191985 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Do you have toes?

  • @starmessenger
    @starmessenger 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Jon, (excluding my family) you are my favorite person on this entire planet. I'm so glad that you are back! 😊

  • @redfoxninja3173
    @redfoxninja3173 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +125

    It's profitable to pretend but not worthwhile to actually care... America!

  • @NoRezos
    @NoRezos 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +682

    I mean, it's corporate. Surely USA knew a lot about how corporate will do anything to gain profits. Literally anything

    • @anthonygracey5528
      @anthonygracey5528 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      As I get older I realize how far their literally goes. It's literally a long way.

    • @trance9158
      @trance9158 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Speaking from experience huh

    • @pattheplanter
      @pattheplanter 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      Surely they wouldn't sell addictive opioids to practically anyone with a slight pain in their knees?

    • @P0sitive_vibes_0nly
      @P0sitive_vibes_0nly 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      They do, and don't call me Shirley.

    • @pietrojenkins6901
      @pietrojenkins6901 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      But shareholders pressure for ever greater profits drives that. We the people are the reason behind that.

  • @xr500t
    @xr500t 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

    True story! I was in lake Sebago, Maine at happy hour, where they were selling "domestic" beer at a reduced price and other non-domestics were not included. So me being me, I ordered Sam Adams instead of Budweiser. The waitress said that Sam Adams was not included in the happy hour price because it was not a domestic beer. I grabbed the bottle, and showed her the label where the beer was owned and brewed, Jamaica Plain (Boston, Ma) where I grew up. Then I told her about Budweiser and their owners In- Bev. Not only that, Sam Adams is wearing the Patriot three-pointed hat, which was hilarious! Then I asked her which beer was more domestic than who! She was so perplexed and still denied me!

    • @SYN4456
      @SYN4456 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah, people are morons

    • @mcvicardotneil
      @mcvicardotneil 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      So she thought Sam Adams is from where?

    • @bert3163
      @bert3163 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Gotta love blind confidence in the face of overwhelming facts. That’s the engine driving our country into the future.

    • @zelaird8526
      @zelaird8526 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      R/lies

    • @zenkuei390
      @zenkuei390 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Maine's getting worse and worse.

  • @tnightwolf
    @tnightwolf 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    And this is just one of the reasons why i love Jon Stewart. Ty for bringing back some sense of reality-check and common-sense and for presenting it the way you do!

  • @charactersetup
    @charactersetup 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +241

    Its all about money, they don't care about your cause.

    • @Blackshadow164
      @Blackshadow164 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      They never did

    • @Illninnio
      @Illninnio 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      They really don’t. They use charity for tax purposes.

    • @timf7679
      @timf7679 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Yes, that is exactly what was stated and explained several times in the video.

    • @charactersetup
      @charactersetup 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@timf7679​I commented before watching, its an obvious take. And all these thumbs up are cause I caught the video release early, not cause its a quality post that made you re-evaluate a topic. This is the internet we built.

    • @HylianFox3
      @HylianFox3 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      They care as long as you give them money.

  • @Sp0nker
    @Sp0nker 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +244

    I think Jon Stewart was a strong influence in making me see that we are in a class warfare, and still only a small percentage of people are actually aware of.

    • @jacquelineleitch7050
      @jacquelineleitch7050 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Haven’t you always known? Who took your voice and your mind and gave it to someone else to validate your perspectives. I’m wondering why people are so star struck by a celebrity. Do you not trust yourself to hold knowledge because you could be wrong or are you needing a cult leader in order to be greater than thou?

    • @4SteveKombolis
      @4SteveKombolis 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

      @@jacquelineleitch7050A whole segment of Jon showing the receipts and your take away is celebrity worship not someone that has helped inform people? wow

    • @John.satan.social
      @John.satan.social 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      @@jacquelineleitch7050 So, no one else has ever informed you about a subject or influenced you to look beyond what you were taught as a child? No "celebrity" has ever called your attention to an issue that you had never taken the time to study? Should these celebrities not bother to use the platforms their status affords them and just wait for each individual to get there on their own?
      [This comment originally concluded with a pretty solid barb, but the censor bots weren't having it.]

    • @deeznutz8320
      @deeznutz8320 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      John is part of that war on the lower class
      Remember when he said dat people are healthy? You know who pays fat activists?
      Nestle...

    • @deeznutz8320
      @deeznutz8320 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah only a 'small percentage' are aware of it😂😂

  • @Diba-c6x
    @Diba-c6x 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +430

    "Yeah they ran the numbers and apparently you can sell more cellphones in a dictatorship" was an EXCELLENT joke. Went over the audience's head methinks.

    • @JeffreyGillespie
      @JeffreyGillespie 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Agreed, wayyyyyy more complex than the audience was willing to give it credit for.

    • @LeahRobb
      @LeahRobb 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I noticed it, but didn't get why you'd sell more cell phones in a dictatorship...wanna let me know?

    • @kdyssd
      @kdyssd 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      ​@LeahRobb You make everyone buy a new one every year was my impression

    • @alaineb2643
      @alaineb2643 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      I think more people got it than you realize. This is Jon's audience, not Fox News' audience.

    • @RicktheRecorder
      @RicktheRecorder 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Or they are for use in prisons

  • @momosaku16
    @momosaku16 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    the second Budweiser ad looks like one of the things Ken watched when he came to the real world in the Barbie movie. just beer, men and horses :D

  • @dantealighieri6613
    @dantealighieri6613 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +92

    Raytheon putting up a rainbow flag is probably one of the more dystopian things I've seen.

    • @einundsiebenziger5488
      @einundsiebenziger5488 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Seem like it won't be long until they paint that flag on their guided missiles.

    • @kaamos79
      @kaamos79 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      There are obligations - Major investment funds mandate DEI if a business wants to deal with them and their money and photoshopping a pride flag onto your corporate logo and using some stock photos of 'diverse' happy people on your website are real easy, cheap ways to check those boxes.

    • @heavenlymonkey
      @heavenlymonkey 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      "From Raytheon with love"

    • @Tom_-
      @Tom_- 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      why does Raytheon sound like a Pokémon

  • @dechenmo8966
    @dechenmo8966 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +226

    There's nothing else essential to Corporate America but greed.

    • @silverlobo2135
      @silverlobo2135 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      how about political power? seems like quite an "essential"

    • @AdmiralKarelia
      @AdmiralKarelia 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@silverlobo2135 they only want political power so they can satisfy their greed. Money is the true power.

    • @brooklynbridgealias
      @brooklynbridgealias 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@silverlobo2135 Aren't you talking about labor unions?

    • @brooklynbridgealias
      @brooklynbridgealias 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      How about creating jobs and producing products and services and creating wealth.

    • @sophiepooks2174
      @sophiepooks2174 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Corporations globally.

  • @OldSkullInn
    @OldSkullInn 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +670

    Not only do they donate that money in their name, they file the tax donation as a write-off and get most of that money back.
    I've been corrected, they don't get most of it back, only a portion.

    • @XxThunderflamexX
      @XxThunderflamexX 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +62

      That's actually a myth, they're not allowed to write off money other people donated. What they do get is interest accrued from holding the money temporarily

    • @NikolaiPetroff
      @NikolaiPetroff 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      The tax write offs are limited - basically it means the companies don't pay tax on the amount of money that they earned and donated.
      So the donation is still real even if they get a break for 21% of it (US Fed corporate tax rate)

    • @burkles4456
      @burkles4456 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@XxThunderflamexXwhat would determine the interest for holding the money being donated?
      A little more info if you’re debunking someone please 😅

    • @garrettfleetwood4702
      @garrettfleetwood4702 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@XxThunderflamexX no it isn't.

    • @ronswanson1410
      @ronswanson1410 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Technically not true, i looked into this myself

  • @CristinaAcosta
    @CristinaAcosta 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The first advertisement began with, “Stay straight for the next 200 miles….Audi”. 😅😂😅

  • @gaelangaudette9576
    @gaelangaudette9576 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +566

    Jon Stewart is the goat. If he ran for president, America would win.

    • @JonahsWail
      @JonahsWail 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

      That would be nice, right? Hard to understand why we can’t seem to find two decent people to run for f-ing president of the country.

    • @thekingAbeFroman
      @thekingAbeFroman 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      I wrote him in for the 2012 election. He would use the bully pulpit like no other.

    • @Landoverse
      @Landoverse 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I came here to make this comment.

    • @rbeberman5296
      @rbeberman5296 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The media wouldn’t allow someone who isn’t a corporate shill to become president.

    • @dropkick63
      @dropkick63 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@JonahsWail Every other country in the world is asking the same thing about the US.

  • @later_daze_4080
    @later_daze_4080 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +466

    “Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all. “ - John Maynard Keynes

    • @grmpEqweer
      @grmpEqweer 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Things were better under Keynesianism.

    • @peterstafford4426
      @peterstafford4426 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Jon is a big time capitalist.

    • @soulscanner66
      @soulscanner66 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@peterstafford4426 The other side of the coin is the LGBTQ organizations that accept their money.

    • @soulscanner66
      @soulscanner66 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

      @@peterstafford4426 So was Keynes. That's why he argued for strong democratic governments to regulate corporations. It's like Bernie Sanders said: "They can have their money, they just can't have it all."

    • @peterstafford4426
      @peterstafford4426 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@soulscanner66 Except Jon is pulling the same BS he is attacking. This whole bit is a stealth attack on woke and also a distraction from the insane BS Trump said during the weekend. Trump is as big of a con artist as Trump is

  • @codycoyne9134
    @codycoyne9134 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    "You tell those kids that's my money!" 😂 channeling Larry David

  • @BennyT_3434
    @BennyT_3434 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    This whole segment was an absolute masterpiece... "you've got all the food, why dont you round some of that up??!!".....so glad to have Jon back (on Mondays)

  • @KategariYami
    @KategariYami 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +117

    It's so performative and grifty in both directions. There's corpo that pretend to care about DEI and wokism and BLM until their profits don't need it... Then there's crazy grifters who scream about how somehow everything is DEI, woke and BLM.
    Truly an incredible time to be alive.

    • @matthewcunningham5069
      @matthewcunningham5069 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      I hate it here..

    • @user-eg6nq7qt8c
      @user-eg6nq7qt8c 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@matthewcunningham5069 anywhere else you'd like to be?

    • @clownavenger0
      @clownavenger0 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Well DEI is what they use to greenwash investments in fossil fuels and warfare. DEI products and policies don't have to be profitable and only need to improve a companies perception.

    • @Vahlee-A
      @Vahlee-A 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      ​@@user-eg6nq7qt8c- If I could leave this country, I would, but the right and the rich are making that impossible.

    • @neebs929
      @neebs929 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's gonna get incredible-er. Until it's horrifical.

  • @jspres86
    @jspres86 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

    "The answer to all of your questions is money." - Don Ohlmeyer

  • @mushinshinobii
    @mushinshinobii 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

    Don’t donate to stores for a cause. They take your money, then donate it in their name for huge tax breaks. It helps them not pay taxes. Donate your money directly to organizations and claim it on your own taxes. 😊

    • @shaunpcoleman
      @shaunpcoleman 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I love it when a billion dollar corporation asks if you want to donate 2$ when you checkout.

  • @ManuelOcasio-Cortez
    @ManuelOcasio-Cortez 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks, Leibowitz. Thank you so much for your wonderful contributions.

  • @user-tc5pl3zw3h
    @user-tc5pl3zw3h 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +148

    "Welcome to The Daily Show. My name is Jon Stewart" is possibly the most important phrase in the past 25 years. Jon Stewart will help America hope again in 2024.
    #HAHA2024

    • @JohnChildressURock
      @JohnChildressURock 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Like it or not that means TRUMP - Biden is not working

  • @PureBleachFilms
    @PureBleachFilms 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +336

    It really shows how dumb customers are to think that a company cares about anyone, ever.

    • @quietreason8679
      @quietreason8679 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      I think Jon skipped over the fact that it's not just corporations that are virtue signalling. I doubt all these consumers really think they can support a social cause by giving Target a few bucks for a t-shirt, many of them just want to be seen as supporting the cause without actually donating any of their time or money to it.

    • @Hamilton-bm4qj
      @Hamilton-bm4qj 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I doubt anyone really buys into the idea. They are mostly ad campaign aimed at shoehorning their products into a relevant moment. People see it in connection with current events, which creates a connection in their minds.... But I doubt think that deeply about it and genuinely applauds or believes the values of phillip morris or kraft.

    • @willynilly2545
      @willynilly2545 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@quietreason8679There are many ways to show solidarity.

    • @c0rnichon
      @c0rnichon 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Nothing wrong with providing Pride shirts in June though. I might buy a product because it seems useful to me. That doesn't mean I'm buying into the idea that a corporation is a human rights activist.

    • @masterchinese28
      @masterchinese28 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      As the (updated) saying goes, "A fool and his money... are my friends."

  • @jasonpdsi
    @jasonpdsi 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +59

    if Target thinks the backlash THEY have to deal with is something, talk to the Stonewall rioters or the people who tried to get help for AIDS victims in the early 80s.

  • @golfknut777
    @golfknut777 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for coming back Jon, still the best to ever sit behind the desk 🙌🏼

  • @Roonasaur
    @Roonasaur 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +73

    I really just want corporations to shut up about politics. We know they don't care anyways.

    • @Imaginecat22
      @Imaginecat22 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      I disagree; I think they care very much, if it's a political issue (climate change, corporate tax rates, etc.) that affects their bottom line. But they don't care about social issues unless they see money to be gained from it.

    • @Roonasaur
      @Roonasaur 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      There are too many different kinds of people on the payroll for them to have an official opinion.

    • @enviritas9498
      @enviritas9498 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      They care very much about politics when it comes to regulation

  • @TheKayleeanna
    @TheKayleeanna 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +56

    "And here at corporate America, love is love." "No, no, no, we're not doing that." 😆

  • @testpm-il7qq
    @testpm-il7qq 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +59

    *pauses puts on glasses and reads Kraft box* 😂😂😂

    • @cooliekim
      @cooliekim 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Exactly!

  • @crinklecut3790
    @crinklecut3790 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Over half of his audience supported this corporate DEI stuff a couple of years ago. But I’m glad they can finally see it for what it is.

  • @Bloodynine606
    @Bloodynine606 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +127

    The TV Show the Boys is legitimately bang on about how hollow the virtue signaling of these companies is.

    • @_Amit_Sunil
      @_Amit_Sunil 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      Brave Maeve's pride bars

    • @blackdoug9903
      @blackdoug9903 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Amazon: see we in the jokes yay

    • @KikoZenzen
      @KikoZenzen 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Man I'm so excited about the new season. They parody this marketing in an absolutely magnificent way.

    • @richborn6700
      @richborn6700 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      One of the largest and dehumanizing corporations is able to lambast itself while showing the staggering apathy and getting a laugh out of it

    • @POWPOW-rn5uq
      @POWPOW-rn5uq 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Boys is the best show and is by far the most woke TV shows there ever was.

  • @salixalba6536
    @salixalba6536 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +51

    the dad really painted the fence to cheese off the HOA

    • @retched
      @retched 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Also valid and acceptable.

    • @Stardustpal25
      @Stardustpal25 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And Mrs. Alito 😁🐦

  • @lordjace
    @lordjace 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    love that shell is now running an add campaign about their goals to minimize carbon output, while at the same time reducing the staff that’s actually working in the green energy departments by 50%.

  • @Squirrel-Chaser
    @Squirrel-Chaser 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It's so nice having you back

  • @EnkiduIX
    @EnkiduIX 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    "Tell those kids that's my money!" 🤣🤣

  • @415Diesel
    @415Diesel 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    "Those beers have families." I don't know why, but I heard that in Mitch Hedbergs voice.

    • @AuntieMim-lx8mm
      @AuntieMim-lx8mm 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Whatever it is you're smoking or inhaling... leave some for us (in a little ziploc bag)

  • @lorrie2878
    @lorrie2878 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +127

    Two bottom buns! I spit out my popcorn!

    • @dwren365
      @dwren365 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Two tops or two bottoms.. either way, no one wins.

    • @speedrunner9907
      @speedrunner9907 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      and the bottom buns spit out something else

    • @jphzzzz
      @jphzzzz 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      why not 2 tops

    • @jimlthor
      @jimlthor 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@jphzzzzthat was one of the pictures

    • @shadowfox9490
      @shadowfox9490 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@dwren365 Exactly! You NEED to have at least 1 top to 1 bottom ratio or LITERALLY NOTHING HAPPENS! 2 bottoms will just sit and stare at each other twiddling their sesame seeds, and 2 tops are just going to fight until they're BOTH are flame-broiled past done, and no one's happy! 🤣

  • @lisaflynn8844
    @lisaflynn8844 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Well done!!! John has such a way of accentuating the truth in things many of us have gotten used to and too easily accept

  • @gregullbagel
    @gregullbagel 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    I graduated from college recently majoring in marketing and I sat through multiple lectures talking about how it's a company's duty to share their views and values on hot button issues

    • @last808
      @last808 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah, that was just more marketing to get you to join. You'll learn to compromise your ethics after a few years on the job and some nice paychecks.

    • @mikederucki
      @mikederucki 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      You said it though, marketing. Virtue signal to sell more stuff or make employees happier. The company just wants to generate more sales though - it isn’t capable of really caring about anything. I work for a 34b company and it’s interested in generating revenue - whatever “interests” need to be feigned, so be it. Pictures for the newsletter or LinkedIn publication and off to the next initiative
      Edit - as you weave your way through your career pay special attention to how a company behaves when an employee dies as to whether or not there is any true caring or virtue.

    • @doctork1708
      @doctork1708 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Majored in marketing…you already have no moral compass.

    • @outoftheforest7652
      @outoftheforest7652 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I hope you are familiar with BILL HICKS? th-cam.com/video/tHEOGrkhDp0/w-d-xo.html

  • @knightwatchman
    @knightwatchman 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Every once in a while Jon comes up with a brilliantly funny opening monologue. This was one of those whiles.

  • @brianp235
    @brianp235 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

    The Daily Show is CRUSHING IT recently

    • @AuntieMim-lx8mm
      @AuntieMim-lx8mm 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      There's a belief out there... that whoever ran the show... did pretty well.
      Because of the people working in the background, maybe?
      (Yes, Trevor wasn't built for behind-a-desk work, but he had his moments in TDS history ...)

  • @thomasbell7033
    @thomasbell7033 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I think the best thing Vaseline can do during Pride Month is remain tastefully silent.