Who Do Trump Voters Blame For America's Problems? It's Not Who You Think | Ft. John Russell
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- Oliver Anthony became a viral sensation with Rich Men North of Richmond. We sent @heyjohnrussell to an Oliver Anthony concert in Michigan to find out why the song still resonates. The answer tells a bigger story about what people want in this election-and for this country.
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"The biggest con in this country is people making millions of dollars a year convincing people making $50,000 a year that people making $10,000 a year are the problem" - Brian Tyler Cohen (misattributed)
It’s a common saying. But yeah, BTC is the goat 🐐
@@marthastewartschowchow I was unsure, and heard it there first and cannot find anything about it's origin. 😅
As we ignore BTC is in his posh haircut and custom tailored suit. He says decent stuff, but like sheesh man just dress like us plebeians no need to be so preppy
I said this back in the 80s when I was just a little kid watching Reaganomics take place
For those wondering, a million dollars a year is around $2,739.73 a day, $50,000 a year is about 136.99 a day, and $10,000 a year is about $27.40 a day.
Nobody gets more free money from the govt. than billionaires
End _ALL_ welfare
Says no data ever.
And refugees!
@@Redditor6079you’re openly supporting a corrupt billionaire for president who is supported by the wealthiest man on earth. And you still find it in your heart to blame immigrants for your bad life.
@@cdevidal remember that you said that if you ever have to apply for unemployment to not lose your house, or when you get too old to work, or if you become disabled so you can't work and need Medicaid.
"If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class.”
This is why we need fines relative to net worth/wealth
@@StefanJH How about finding a different punishment than money! 🤔
@@tonyzuco6144 I think it depends on he crime. i feel like some crimes innately require clean up (Anything that damaged public property or private property, so there will always be a money element.) but like, for speeding it should be a points system, then you loose the ability drive like in most of the EU, and it resets every year. I think our legal system really struggle with the "peope showing up for mandatory volunter work or community service/ legal custudy ) in general (So many lawsuits everyyear for the police willfully messing up, now if a good cop doesn't HAVE to take someone they don't want to)
So what is between a fine and something that require the person to show up at a future date of their own free will? cause obviously we a struggling with the second option. the city coucil gets to tak a funny hat on your house or car??
...in the US. Some other countries have fines based on your % of income.
@@jiblitin1520 A percentage of a poor person's income is life ruining, a percentage of a rich person's income is an inconvenience.
“Don’t punch down.” That’s some Americana wisdom right there. I’m keeping that one.
What an oxymoron to say that and still believe Trump will have his back.
John Russell does the best interviews. He's great at making people feel comfortable enough to be truthful with him whether he agrees with them or not.
The mullet does a lot for initial impressions.
I was thinking the same thing. He's got a real gift.
@@NetAnon I was about to say the same thing. If you code match to what right wingers thing is theirs they will open right up because no way you can be a namby pamby liberal if you look like them. Everything is identity to them and that is what makes them vulnerable to so much propaganda. There is no other way that an issue that effects so few people like gender identity, for example, could mobilize them so much.
11:13 is talking about Kamala.
"The upper class: keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes. The middle class: pays all of the taxes, does all of the work. The poor are there...just to scare the shit out of the middle class." -George Carlin
Greenspan: "USA can pay any debt because it can always print money"
At the federal level, Congress issues NEW CURRENCY every time it spends. State and local level uses tax revenue to pay for things.
Not 'upper class' or 'middle class' -
It's Executive class and Labor class.
What is middle class? You will be amazed that what you call middle class is actually top 80% of the income distribution
@@amzarnacht6710is owners and workers. Upper management still working class
It was always like this. Medieval nobility didn't pay taxes.
The crazy thing about food stamps (SNAP) is, that it is not for poor people, it is for corporations, especially Walmart. 2/3 of all Walmart customers are food stamp (SNAP) recipients, because Walmart and other big corporations rather have the government (tax payers that can still pay taxes) pay them to feed the poor, rather than pay workers better so they can buy merchandise from Walmart and corporations. The reason we have food stamps, is exactly because corporations refuse to pay living wages. The food stamp program is a welfare program for corporations that taxpayers pay for. This is how they control the government and then blame the working poor. But that corporate tune is old now and nobody believes it anymore.
Absolute bullseye. 10/10 spot on word for word.
Don’t forget Full time employees who work for Walmart are also on those same government benefits… FULL TIME EMPLOYEES
Bingo!
Yes, WIC is this way. Only SOME stores accept it. It’s aggregating
isnt it like 90% of Walmart's workforce are on food stamps? But just get a job right? Republicans are genuinely stupid.
95% of people want to work, and have self-respect. No matter what programs you have, 5% will milk it. We HAVE to stop spending 80% of our time and effort on that 5%, and start focusing our energy on the rest. FFS.
the cognitive dissonance in people correctly identifying the issue, rich people in power, then proceed to think the con man billionaire will fix it....
Mind blowing...
Or a rich woman north of Richmond... she's worth 3 mil
🤯🤯🤯
that’s a lot of the working class for you… likely more of the working class voted for Trump than Hillary…
Exactly. And not only a con man billionaire but a con man billionaire with a long history of exploiting the working class by not paying his employees and contractors.
Crazy that Trump was bitching about the fact that he does NOT like to pay overtime to workers while hourly workers were clapping to him🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
That's double think for you!
As long as he constantly declares that he hates the same people, things and ideas that they do and they know he will dedicate his administration to the dismantling, criminalization and oppression of these people, things and ideas, they’ll be blind to the ways that they, themselves will be screwed over by him.
Trump got a 17 million dollar refund and has not paid tax’s in years
Well, the memo you missed is that they are racist and homophobic bigots. It all makes sense when you add those things together.
Won't be long now. Humanity will take a head dive right into the crapper...
Politics aside, if the billionaires are the problem, how can they not blame Trump also?
Doublethink. They have won the war against themselves. They love Big Brother.
Doublethink. They have won the war against themselves. They love Big Brother.
Its because they see him as an outsider. I think the younger dude with the nose ring probably expressed it best - that he's the best crime boss in america and thats what he thinks it will take to fix things.
Now aside from his opinion and people that share it - there are people who think that billionaires are good inherently, and therefore think trump is good as an extension of that. To me the majority of opinions in support of Trump will fall somewhere in that dichotomy
EDIT: Although i feel like I shouldn't have to clarify this - based on comments responding to me; I will. What i've written here is my interpretation of Trump supporters, *I am NOT a Trump supporter myself,* so responding to me about your opinion of Trump will change nothing. Thanks for being engaged enough to say what you think though
I think it’s Cognitive Dissonance.
The globalists who back Democrats are worth more than Trump...by far. Those globalists hate trump because he is a threat to their power.
Corporate greed, landlord greed, investors buying up blocks of houses, price gouging (because they can), grocery monopolies, etc is the reason this country is going down. I mean how many billions does one person need?
Basically, capitalism is the wrong system to be in if you want a fair and rational society.
The irony of complaining about billionaires using a product funded by billionaires
@@cdevidal This reminds me of that old meme: "We should improve society somewhat." "Yet you participate in society. Curious!"
@@JW-mw7srcapitalism is fine, so long as you can prevent capital accumulation or resource monopolies and have good social welfare (for example, with a land tax and citizen's dividend)
@@cdevidalwasn't the internet literally a project that the government created? Google literally started as a research project at Stanford lol
7:35 guy in the "not my first rodeo" white t-shirt is SPOT ON in his response saying "I will never punch down, if there is a problem it's from above. The people on Welfare, most of those people lost their way a long time ago and everyone is just so separated that I don't know if we can ever get back from being divided from ourselves, and for what cause?"
Right on man
Yes! I was about to write the same comment. You saved me some time.
He's so spot on with what he said but he's still voting for someone (Trump) antithetical to what he's saying. He's voting for someone who explicitly blames the people below him (punches down) and doesn't even hide it too. He's voting for a literal convicted felon (Trump the felon) while saying he said he wants someone tough on crime.
It's upsetting that he is so well spoken but can't see the forest for the trees.
Awesome message.
And his answer is to vote for a career criminal that was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. 😂
I was blown away by his statement Ngl lol
"Obese milking welfare"
First thought that came to mind was corporate welfare.
except that's not what he was saying... actually, he doesn't know what he was saying because the song is so vague it could be about anything you *wanted* it to be about... which is why it's a perfect right-wing song and most left-wingers just kind of "huh?" and moved on.
Me too. I heard as as an allegory for bloated pockets. Kinda like the reverse of the fat Buddha. He's represented as fat to symbolize being full of goodness with plenty to share.
End _ALL_ welfare
@@cdevidal why do you hate poor people?
@@adam346 I'm aware of his thoughts on the line. But most welfare I've experienced, or had a hand in speaking about has been corporate welfare.
Just because the artist envisioned one position, doesn't mean it can't be interpreted another way. That's the great thing about art.
Oh man they all agree rich people are to blame but are fighting and voting for a billionaire to be president. We’re so close yet so far.
I mean, the other canadate is still a privileged 1%er
These folks are what I call "cultural Republicans". They were raised to vote Republican, for 2-3 generations (since the Big Swap). When you strip away the labels and propaganda though, the economic stuff they support largely matches Democratic policy positions. Some of them are opposed to Dem social policies, however, and many are able to be swayed by dogwhistles about "those other people". If ppl are distracted by talk of migrants and trans-kids, they'll ignore the boss-man picking their pocket.
@mandisaw it dosent help that dems are the party of the ultra rich and of the elites.
The moment you start talking about uniting against the rich and powerful, they label you a communist
But if you talk about uniting against “elites” you’re somehow a hero
@@dadbodenvy4247they’re brainwashed
Lol. That's all my dad says. I don't let him bait me anymore lol
...because people who talk the most about uniting against the rich are also talking about how great socialism is and how bad capitalism is?
My country was both capitalist and communist and let me tell ya - EVERYBODY prefers former over latter.
but here is a problem wasn't united states founded by a bunch of rich people?
The guy who agreed to the motion that it would take a crime boss to get out of the system didn't realize that crime bosses reformed the system to their advantage when they became corporate bosses. That way you can legitimately be a criminal and it's ok
Like they used to say, “The best way to rob a bank is to own one.”
💯👍
Dude was SO CLOSE to getting it but just lost the plot at the end. In the words of Tim Minchin "If you open your mind too much your brain will fall out."
@@HeckYep I don't get it you think Kamala is the answer then?
@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 We arent shocked you dont get it.
When 1/2 of kids use food stamps at some point, it is a structural problem, things sre broken
In the city they encourahe nonprofit to see out more people to sign up
Yesterday the guy in the deli was using them to buy junk food
@@georgewagner7787 You sound like making sure children aren't starving to death on the next block is a bad thing, sinister even.
My parents were republican drug addicts on food stamps that used their cash at the bars on the weekends. Made their children run into the cashier at the gas station to put 0.75 on pump 3 because they were grown adults that couldn’t take responsibility for anything in their lives so they put the embarrassment on their children. I remember using candles and like 9 blankets to stay warm one winter bc they didn’t pay the electric. Couldn’t even shower before school. They were still going to to bars though. Stood out in the snow for like 3 hours after football practice once, waiting for them to come pick me up. Republicans are scum. Never met an intelligent one.
Edit: my mother is now dead bc she had like 3 different cancers from doing heroin. And my MAGA father is a poverty blue collar worker that buys all this tools from China to save money, yet is voting for Trump to put 200% tariffs on Chinese goods.
Yes
Part of the problem with our government assistance programs is that they can't be a stepping stone. When you get to the point where you need help, the second you start to build yourself back up, you get rug pulled and your assistance is gone before you can actually take care of yourself. It makes it really difficult to get out of that situation because you have to be willing to make your life even worse for however long it takes for you to survive on your own. There needs to be an adequate buffer period where you can continue receiving the full amount of assistance while you rebuild.
I agree but Republicans want welfare restricted to force poor people into minimum wage jobs
That's the truth! Those of us who lived off high interest credit cards between little jobs that didn't earn enough (even when working full time) are trying to cover our current costs of living while still burdened by debts. The removal of assistance hits hard.
@@JaekSean yes
Exactly!
That's absolutely one of the main problems with assistance, is how to climb out of the hole without getting clobbered in the process.
The guy wearing the Trump shirt and blaming Musk, who supports Trump, is a result of this country becoming increasingly idiotic.
I mean, it is dumb to support trump, but hating Musk is still fair. If I didn’t like a billionaire but they supported someone I supported, I’d still fuckin hate that billionaire.
@@aguyontheinternet8436 Yeah, I guess it's like, well, at least that person isn't *too* lost in the sauce, but they are still kinda stupid for not recognising the cognitive dissonance regarding it, like another person in the comments said.
What's idiotic is you saying a guy can't just not like Elon but like Trump.
Ya but Trump will do anything not to pay workers he hired so Trump is what the working class needs.
@@Anth888ya They are one in the same. You're the idiot.
Two generations of declining public education has brought us here.
The rich learned in the 60's what happens when the poor are able to get the same education as the rich.
The poor use that knowledge to better the conditions of other poors. Which makes it harder for the already rich to keep exploiting poor people.
So the rich decided to turn education into a debt trap to keep the poors that make it through college in their place.
Yup wait until we go to all private school all trying to indoctrinate their own level of BS into children. God help us all.
And public education (teachers, staff, board members) is overwhelmingly funded and run by what kind of voters?
@@paulpease8254 also we aren't allowed to educate each other on platforms owned by corporate interests.
@@cdevidal Public education is funded by the state with some federal money. Not sure where you are going with the voter question. If you want to push that funding, or lack of funding, then we can discuss which party is underfunding public education in favor of 'school choice' (giving tax dollars to private corporations).
"Elon is screwing us" says the guy wearing a Trump t-shirt. 😒
He probably cheered when Elon showed up at Trump's rally.
Some Americans can connect the dots that the ultra rich 1% are root of the problems but also suffer cognitive dissonance.
He's another ignorant that doesn't understand Trump and Elon are the same ilk.
He’s almost there.
Elon is screwing us.
Well at least he isn't falling for the Elon musk bulshit too
@@angelainamarie9656just the trump con supported by Elon. How is that better?
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To say a former president is Not a politician, is just ridiculous. He is absolutely 100% a politician.
This!!!! I got folks that think this and I got folks that think Trump is a God of some sort.
On that note, how exactly does someone maintain the status of “not a politician”? Once you enter a political race, you therefore become a politician. Even if we loosen the guideline to “never won a race/been in office before”, you still become one once you’re elected. So it’s impossible to elect someone who is “not a politician.”
@@thatoneguy378A god without a favorite Bible verse 😂
@@007bbox DT will probably make his own religion next. Oops, I don't want to give him ideas.
@@toddspangler6669then his political party will be tax-free. Neat huh. I been saying it since 2016.
"It's the fault of the wealthy, so I'm voting for the wealthy guy who blames all of our problems on the poor." Sure, that makes perfect sense 🥴🥴🥴
Kamala is wealthy. Give us a break.
@@FlowerPower-r8h she's no billionaire and she's not blaming poor people for the world's problems. Give us a break 😉
I’ve never met a Republican who wasn’t a pro at cognitive dissonance
Those that are poor have higher incidences and risk of crime, disease, and violence, so it’s not surprising to me that people think that being poor increases problems and that rich people can fix it- in fact people claim the rich should be responsible for helping pay more tax and spending on the poor as solution…if the rich are good enough to get extra taxes and charity from, then maybe they should have more say so since it’s the money that people care about and respect more.
@@Dakota-s3f Yeah thank god Kamala is getting endorsements from Taylor swift and other Hollywood celebs while Helen is ignored?
Media rightfully dragged Trump when he did something similar why is Kamala getting a Pass? Please make this make sense if Republicans have so much cognitive dissonance not to mention every misquote lie they used on trump like "very fine people" hoax too? If he is so terrible why lie about him?
It's crazy how people don't want to be controlled but yet some of these people vote for Trump which is ridiculous
“At the end of the day, it shouldn’t be about the right or left party. It should be about what’s right and what’s wrong.” TRUTH.
Judge Luttig just said this, too.
Then you aren't voting for anyone?
How bad must democrats be and their years of failed policies and empty promises and lies that people now feel Trump is now a better choice! Wow...says a lot about how bad democrats are. By the way... democrats have controlled the presidency for 12 of the last 16 years and had control of the house or senate for the majority of that time lol. FACT: we are where we are because of democrats.
Here's the thing about the left vs right divide. As a leftist, I want society to work for everyone. I want us all to get along and respect one another.
And a large growing portion of the right wants me dead. For who I love. For how I vote. For what I believe in. For what I don't believe in.
There is no compromise as long as that position is allowed. Until that portion of the right is exorcised, they are my enemy. Not my choice. But by nessesity.
Yep! 100%!
I have never seen a right winger wish people dead. No. That would be the leftist. Look how they acted during the hurricane. Look at the leftists professors who opening wish for white genocide. You're seriously confused. Things have changed, the left, democrats are no longer liberals, they are commies. Are you a commie? The center are the maga people and the Republicans are the right wingers. The left is full of extremists, the ones who cry transphobia if you don't think that men get their periods. The are the ones creating hate hoaxes. They are the ones making life more dangerous
You got things twisted.
@@JR-lw3msnope
The right views you the same way bud
You have baught what the corporate media is selling.
Weird to not like "punching down" while simultaneously supporting someone who's entire career has involved "punching down" 🤔🙄😒
Yeah, that guy was fairly eloquent, comparatively. He's obviously put some consideration into his viewpoint and isn't just parroting party talking points blindly, but not quite enough to reach a logical conclusion. I think if I had a casual conversation with him, I'd just assume he probably wasn't a conservative.
@@pleinairr Things like "basket of deplorables" make it easy to frame it as Liberal Coastal Elites punching down on regular folk. This is why Walz is damn good choice.
@@pleinairr It all falls apart where he wants a criminal or king to fix all the problems. At that point it becomes a fairy tale. I'd have loved to hear his opinion on Bernie.
@@worschtebrot its because of the lies, they truly think the other side is worse.
not just his career, his entire political platform
While one of the crowd members is commenting how welfare shouldn’t be for life, I see a person in a wheelchair go by behind her. It’s not about who is to blame; but about how they got everyone blaming rather than wanting to help one another. The idea that it’s my taxes is the real problem, since our taxes pale in comparison to what could be paid in by corporations to help folks who do require assistance, sometimes for life.
Thank you for noticing that, too. I'm disabled but under 40 in Texas so I'm denied all assistance. I don't even qualify for food stamps literally cuz I'm unable to work and don't have children. The average lifespan for my condition is 48. Some of us need welfare assistance for life and that's not our fault!
I was an EMT, surgical tech, college instructor, and volunteered at animal shelters before becoming disabled. But my standing in our society immediately fell to nothing when I lost my job, health insurance, income, and car in less than 24hrs.
The woman that said the "not for life" bit could be me one day and she'll be in for a very rude awakening to see how the rest of us live.
FYI, welfare and disability are totally different things. Got it?
@@Glimmmerra social security disability benefits are considered welfare by those on the right. You are being pedantic in an attempt to sound smart. It's not working. Got it?
@@lolalalia4119 yeah we have the same discussions in germany. right wingers tell all these people should work, while in reality, the numbers that go around in the press include children, old people, invalides and so on. i don't know whats wrong with conservatives..
@@tiefensucht so true! Plus, they aren't even taking into consideration the years long process of applying for assistance. Between applying for disability and finally have a court hearing with a judge over the PHONE took 3 years. During those 3 years, I can't work, I have no access to healthcare, and I don't qualify for any assistance until an appellate judge with zero medical training deems me worthy. During that time you are still expected to go to the doctor and submit medical reports WITH NO MONEY OR HEALTH INSURANCE! I went into extreme debt and was sued by multiple billion dollar credit card companies cuz that was the only way to pay for food, taxis, doctors apps, and meds. Only for the judge to throw out the last 2 years of medical records cuz they were submitted after my initial application even though you are specifically instructed to keep submitting records.
People on the right have this delusion that you get benefits immediately after applying. When I applied for food stamps last January, it took 3 months of back and forth before they finally denied my application yet again. But I have to apply at least once a year to prove to the naysayers that the system is broken.
The worst part was when I attempted Sui cide after being denied while experiencing and extremely bad bought of brain swelling and MCAS. I was seizing for 3 days in an ER with no food and no help cuz the doctor stuck me on psych row. I was sent to a county psych ward while actively seizing and in diabetic ketoacidosis. The hospital told the psych ward I had no medical history (I've had 11 surgeries). I was immediately discharged from the psych cuz I should never have been sent there according to their doctors, especially since I was in a wheelchair and their facility doesn't allow hand rails in the bathrooms or anything. And it was coed so the men were yelling at the women and my "roommate" threatened to beat me up cuz she thought I had her cellphone. It was so traumatizing that now I have a standing rule to NEVER call 911 for me or take me to a hospital. Ever! I have PTSD from it.
Trumper: "I want a non-politician who IS a working man and looks out for the working man." 😳😳😳 THEN WHY ARE YOU VOTING FOR TRUMP???
Better than Kamala the literal slaver.
Because he's hated by the establishment
Trump is technically a politician, but when people say "politician", they mean "standard politician".
who do u vote then? no one is better choice.
@@cutiefighter32vote 3rd party. People need to be willing to withhold their vote if they want the change they say they so desperately want.
It's amazing how someone can articulate all the problems of capitalism then blame those problems on immigrants
All the problems with capitalism ???? like health, care, colleges transportation and the whole supply chain ? He doesn't look all that hungry
None of those require capitalism @@timeWaster76
@@timeWaster76Capitalism doesn't provide any of that.
you sound so dumb. educate urself about how immigrantion can affect the economics under capitalism
Ngl illegal immigration is a problem. Trump and the Republicans are still evil though
A common thread in there is that they don't like politicians and trump isn't one.
Aside from his 4 years in government politics, has he not been personally politicking for his businesses, his real estate projects, his schemes? If he wasn't a politician then why would he ever need to be weighing in on the central park 5 or long form birth certificates or "crime boss" stuff? That's all just politics.
And he ran for pres in 2000.
They've been duped on this. Perhaps one could claim he wasn't terribly political during his Apprentice years, but apart from that he's always been blasting his poorly thought-out political opinions to the media. And he's obviously been neck-deep in politics since at least 2011 when he ran around the country insisting that Obama was not an American citizen.
@@drewe2331 It is like giving the grand nagus control of a country and expecting things to get better for those at the bottom. The republicans are Ferengi as far as I’m concerned. They need to put on the butt head costume. Not sure about the big ears since they don’t listen except listening for schemes to con others.
That ain't a country song he's playing. That's folk. Quite a distinction. Folk is anti-establishment. Folk is anti-big corporations. Folk is the story of your every day, average, working class man who is being taken advantage of. And the list doesn't end there.
Folk is the people's music.
Bella ciao, Bella ciao, Bella ciao ciao ciao
Kam is big corpo. She is estab.
country music used to be anti-government and anti-establishment before 9/11. damn shame what its become now
@@Redditor6079 how many businesses does Trump own? How many buildings has Trump leased hus name to? How many foreign countries does he conduct business in? Didn't Jared Kushner get $3 billion from the Saudis? Didn't Trump bankrupt a casino and a business "college"?
But it still doesn't make it .....good.
If we can get rid of lobbyists in Washington and big money PACs out of politics. There is a shot for change in our direction. Otherwise big corporations will continue the downward spiral. Which makes no sense. They need workers to fill those jobs to move their cheap products. When the workers aren't coming to work. They suffer as well. I really felt for the girl working 3-4 jobs just to survive That's not living, that's slavery.
They need workers, that's why most of the richest 1% support Democrats and open borders. A million new young, able men willing to work for very very little and cram 6+ to a bedroom makes it really easy to not pay anyone else more money. And the richest enclaves in America, where people like Bill Gates and Justin Trudeau vacation, are filled with foreign workers because they can be easily intimidated by their employment agency just like they do with Bangladeshis in Dubai and Kuwait.
She's not a slave. She could get roommates instead
Exactly, lobbying by corporations and elite should be illegal.
Politicians on both sides don’t want the money train to stop, that’s why they have to go.
Exactly! We need to start by demanding that Citizens United is overturned!!!!
Poor people don't run for office
The guy who said we need regular people instead of politicians doesn’t seem to understand that as soon as someone is elected they are politicians. And Tim Walz was exactly what he described before he was elected the first time- a working man that totally experienced what most of us live everyday.
Spot on!
And now he is going to have money and he will be the problem
@@timeWaster76 and hes getting rich off the american people atleast trump got rich by providing something
Walz is a career politician, Trump is not.
Trump has no desire to be in Congress or any government job other than being President.
By contrast Walz already is and does want a long career in politics.
That's what they mean when they say "non politician".
@@sirtra He's a teacher. You can't get more working class than a teacher. Trump on the other hand made his money stealing from contractors and lying about the value of the shit he sells. You've got it backwards.
If I were to build a shed but didn't put any of the screws in, if that shed collapses, I am the one to blame as I did not properly support it.
If rich people control our wages and the prices of the products they sell us, if the economy collapses, they are the ones to blame as they did not properly support us.
You're almost there. Rich people, yes--the rich people north of Richmond.
@@cdevidal he means in dc/govt. Very clearly.
Which DeSantis, for example, clearly doesn't understand.
Since it very much includes him.
The wealthy elite are not known for their generosity or fairness. Nor for caring about the country as a whole.
For the most part they get rich supplying you resources for you life at a price you can afford
@@timeWaster76 Except a large percentage of people are struggling because they're underpaying us and price gouging us.
"I benefited from welfare but I hate other people that use it!" are you kidding me? Some of us physically can not work the 45 hours companies want us to normalize.
She’s talking about Welfare Queens not people who legitimately are on SSDI or physically can’t work.
People love to say that “Welfare Queens” don’t exist, but they absolutely do! There are plenty of people out there who know how to work the system. For many it’s generational. I’ve seen it with my own eyes. Sadly there really are women out there who will pop out babies because it gets them more money and benefits.
Hell when I was sixteen I went to get birth control just to regulate my periods & to hopefully put a little weight on.
When the nurse was doing my vitals she asked me if I had medical coverage, I told her no that I was there on a grant. She then proceeds to tell a 16-year-old who was there for birth control that “Well if you had a baby, you would be eligible for all kinds of benefits!” 😳 Wtf!?
This was just over 30 years ago. At a time when teen pregnancy was a huge issue. I thank God that I wasn’t the type of girl who thought that was a good idea!
Now at this point I’m glad I never had kids, because I still can’t afford myself! Lol
I don’t think anyone is bothered by people who legitimately need it. We all know that there are people who desperately need the help and deserve it! That’s who it is intended for and they should honestly get more than they do. Nobody can live on an eight to nine hundred dollar a month SSDI or SSI check.
I know what it’s like growing up on welfare and it sucked!
But for the most part back then people were embarrassed to be on it. Now it seems like there’s way too many people who are proud of it. Along with those who learn how to really scam and work the system.
@@TaraContiThe difference between then and now though is that it is impossible to live off of just welfare now. Welfare queens are long extinct my friend so at this point we can only really hold the rich accountable.
@@TaraContiwelfare queens have been bullshit since Reagan invented them as a woman to blame. The particular woman stole a small amount (not hundreds of thousands) and she had much more interesting and wild problems (potentially murder, identity fraud)
@@TaraConti Do these people exist? Is the cost of saving that money worth the investment in saving it?
@@jonathanmeyer2905 Thank you for confirming this and reminding me where to look. The flipover happened in early 90s most likely 91 but the math isn't accurate to one year, two year period is best accuracy. Search "means testing benefits and ROI" on Google for those who want to understand. If the ROI is negative what is happening is now paying people to basically victimize yourself. Trust in the government erodes. NGOs don't need some kind of overarching criminal corruption to drain money. There are zero consequences for the board if they mismanage money. They can actually just start up another non profit and do it again. California should not have homeless people, and if the government was doing vertically integrated approach to housing it wouldn't The cost of materials is way cheaper. BAdly run NGOs and middle men eat all the money and problems persist. Thank God Cuban took it upon himself to do cost plus 15 company for drugs.
I have canvassed for Blues since Carter.
I have learned to never be surprised by what voters believe.
What I have noticed the last three cycles is a growing distrust and lack of knowledge based on facts.
With the decline of newspapers and the growth of angertainment platforms the skill set is just ridiculous.
It reminds me of a middle school lunch table.
It seems as though they want to be duped. They want the drama.
We are a simple folk.
All this technology has ruined people. Yeah, obviously there’s certainly some good that’s come out of it. However it definitely hasn’t been good for soul.
"Angertainment".... good one.
I don't know that most people want drama. They haven't been told a lot of things that are true
We live in the most information-accessible era in human history. But actual literacy is declining, and media / cultural literacy are as well. Worse yet, many people - not only Americans - simply do not want information if it requires any work or effort on their part. The comfortable fiction and acceding to your "betters" is being chosen here over the messy struggle of making democracy work. I'm less worried about Trump and more worried about the next person to take advantage of that.
the most frustrating part of some of these interviews is seeing how close most people are to class consciousness, like agonizingly close *sigh*
10:49 "he's the best crime boss" while discussing getting corruption out of the government 🤦🏻♀️
Yeah, that one was a rollercoaster. Yes, yes, YES.... No! 🤦
@@pleinairr From a person living in another country, the whole video was a crazy rollercoaster ride.
The craziest bit to me is thinking he's a good crime boss... The good one's you'll never know were criminal, people have known his grifts for decades he's just been too much of a headache to deal with.
Funny how people say rich people are to blame.. and then try to put a rich guy in the white house.
Irony.
@@matthewboyd8689 funny. I never cashed a paycheck written by a poor person.
See how easy this is? These people are stupid.
You mean the same guy who was poorer after being President, unlike your beloved Democrats who became millionaires during their tenure?
@@matt19wk this is funny because billionaires only pay the bare minimum for their employees not to quit and keep the other 90% of the workers value produced for themselves
@@jasonhoffarth well. That’s not true. I own stocks. That pay dividends. So some of those profits are coming to me. Directly. A middle class tax paying worker. In the free market you’re able to do the same. It’s your choice
Jfc these people are so close to making sense... and then they say they're voting Trump, and it crumbles because it's incoherent.
One term of Bidenomics is all they want.
I truly think it's disinformation on social media. There are so many nefarious actors that can now spin up 1000 AI bots to push some bullshit lie, and these simpletons drink it up because it makes them feel good.
They just haven’t got the mental capacity necessary to actually make it over the hill. They can almost get to the top, but then they tumble back down again. It is all so tiresome.
@@bartdoo5757 "Bidenomics" listen to yourself talk smh
@@AltoEcho Would you prefer something like "multiple democrat-sponsored trillion-dollar kickback packages resulting in rampant price inflation that they disingenuously blame on business owners?"
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They somehow do mental gymnastics to give Trump a pass
Lmao at the dude calling him a “crime boss” before blatantly backing said crime boss out because he’s somehow the lesser of two evils.
@@bobthebuilder9509 he is though that's the sad thing, he's a mobster but he's better than the alternative
@@yourlocalit1701 In what way?
no, out of the two evils Kamala is the lesser of two evils because one of them bragged about appointing supreme Court justices that overturned roe v Wade and supports us losing our basic human rights that we fought for. innocent women and children are already dead because of it and their blood is on his hands. Amber Thurman died of what used to be a commonplace and normal procedure called a D&C. even before roe this was a normal procedure that Republicans didn't even care about. now she leaves behind the child a child that needed their mom and now she's gone forever because people like him want to take away our basic human rights to bodily autonomy. SO NO, there is literally not a single way he's better than Kamala, I don't like her or Biden either but it's night and day. Trump has already caused so many innocent Americans to suffer needlessly. nothing can be worse than another Trump term.
@@yourlocalit1701
@@yourlocalit1701 Like moths to a flame…
Holy cow, we need to emphasize logic in our k-12 schools.
No wonder people are homeschooling in increasing numbers
Them take them out of those schools and teach them at home. The schools are designed to make kids stupid.
Horace Mann's indoctrination system is designed to create soldiers...just smart enough to follow orders.
I know, can you believe people vote for Kamala and Biden?! Outrageously stupid lol.
No, we need to only teach them gay race communism.
The real problem is the lobbyists relationship with politicians and the horrific misuse of tax dollars.
It would be different if the amount of money that corporations raise their prices actually went to their employees and not shareholders. They don’t give one care about employees! Disgusting.
The cognitive dissonance is crazy
The dude complaining about Elon Musk but he’s wearing a Trump shirt. WTAF?!
The video shows that it's just the identity battles created by the media dividing us. Focusing on class, we quickly find our commonalities and who is to blame. That's the whole point of the system.
Cognitive dissonance. It's crazy how common this is. These people complaining about companies gouging prices still support the party that puts corporations over people EVERY time!
@@jon1913😂 that would be both major parties! Talk about cognitive dissonance.
@@linemanap There is one party trying to push higher wages, lower taxes for the middle class, less corporate monopolies, help small businesses. Than all their bills get blocked by republicans. The democratic party is far from perfect, at least its not throwing the people in the trash and let donald and his billionaire buddies rule the world. Talk about cognitive dissonance thinking that is the same thing
@@jon1913 Which party puts corporations over people? Could it be the one that wanted to force every worker and every school child to take a medicine they didn't want or lose their jobs so the company that makes that medicine can rake in incredible profits?
This is just late stage capitalism. When Jack Welch normalized putting the shareholder first and the customer and employee last, the fix was in. The only thing that keeps capitalism afloat is government intervention.
Government keeps saving companies from bankrupt.
Stock buy-backs were illegal until Reagan. Reagan caused the acceleration of many of our problems.
All RW-political systems involve the wealthy-class enslaving the working-class. Monarchism, feudalism, republicanism, capitalism, corporatism, & fascism are all RW-systems of governance in which the wealthy-class enslaves the working-class.
Your comment is well said.
@@victorortiz1387 They save whole industries, which are monopolies worth billions if not trillions combined
Lol they've been saying late stage capitalism since before your grandparents were born. Try again next time little bro.
Another word for inflation = greed. “Increase my profit from 200% to 1,000%, so raise the price.”
Realizes the 1% are the problem. Votes for a billionaire.
It's a fkin heartbreaker....
So close yet so far.
The other main candidate is also a 1%er though? But only one of the two is actually going around America sympathizing with blue collar workers. The other one is almost nonexistent anywhere publicly and keeps saying "isn't your life better now? I wouldn't change a thing my office has done."
@@lurker993 Well the American economy is at its best it has been for the middle class, and if you can't afford gas and groceries, maybe look at those companies having record high profits. And also she comes from a middle class family and do represent the working class, she isn't even 1% she is top 10% but not near 1% at all.
Rump has been the 1% since he was born, he was a convicted fraud before he even became the president, which is why all his loans come from outside America (Russia, Germany, Macedonia, Saudi Arabia, etc...). No American bank would loan him anything. Since he inherited his father's fortune, he has only lost money out of that fortune. He also doesn't sympathize with blue collar workers, he stood in front of them and told them he hates *paying overtime* and that he in general hates paying them for their work. He has multiple lawsuits for owed money he has never paid to contractors he worked with.
@@lurker993bro what are you talking about 😂😂😂😂
@@lurker993Do you know what the difference between a billionaire and a millionaire is? A billion dollars! Think about it for a second and you’ll get it.
I know someone who IS 5'3" and 300 lbs. She eats one to 2 small meals a day and maybe 3 cups of coffee because she's always tired. She doesn't eat sugar and only buys low fat stuff. She works a low-paying job and gets Medicaid and a few food stamps. She has been trying like hell to get a second job, but no one wants to hire her because she has herniated discs in her back. She doesn't eat fudge rounds and COULDN'T AFFORD THEM anyway!!! So the people that are saying that crap can go pound sand!
A lot of low-fat foods hide high sugar.
@@AnonymousMusing She reads labels & avoids it as much as she can. Funny how, when they put the words "sugar-free" or "low fat" on something, they increase the price by a dollar or 2. It's my sister.
Hypothyroidism??
@@AnonymousMusing I agree. Our body needs animal fats. That satiates your brain. Butter, ghee, lard, tallow and the fat on beef, pork and lamb.
Lies lies lies. like the people who occasionally tell me "(insert family member here) smoked three packs of a day, yet died at 110 years old, but only because they got hit by a truck.)
That guy who was talking about how it's all about the working class? What do you want to bet that he thinks Marxism, socialism, and mortal sin are all the same thing?
Dude, shut up. We need to focus on what we have in common, not what divides us. That guy had a lot of good points.
@@ohiasdxfcghbljokasdjhnfvaw4ehr
O: Dude, shut up.
Me: Nah.
O: That guy had a lot of good points.
Me: Sure did! Doesn't mean he doesn't also have cognitive dissonance. Granted, I can't be sure but I'm willing to bet a bag of Skittles on it. The Wildberry kind, even -- those are the best.
Late stage socialism is about following Dear Leader.
@@retrictumrectus1010- tell me you know absolutely nothing about Socialism without telling me you know nothing about Socialism
The problem of blaming the rich and then supporting them is counter production and just plain STUPID
"i will never punch down and will always pumch up"
Also: will vote for a billionaire backed by billionaires who will reduce billionaire taxes and put another nail in the coffin for the middle class because he is a "crime boss"
I agree that welfare needs reform but if i am going to get sucked dry i would rather my money go to helping someone in unfortunate circumstances than the wealthy upper class
Kamala has more billionaires backing her than you think, including Blackrock. You really think the candidate with the largest hedge fund monopoly backing them is going to "make billionaires pay their fair share"? Like this is the first time a politician has lied about taxes during an election campaign to get votes. "Read my lips" ring any bells?
Seriously. They get up in arms about taxes but don't understand that one side wants taxes in the billionaires pockets and the other wants the taxes invested in YOU.
@@Diq_Yoda Which side? The Democrat party is being backed by 90+ billionares including blackrock. Really hard for me to beleive a person who says they plan on raising taxes on their largest supporters.
Surprise, Trump and MAGA want to eliminate overtime pay!
No, they don't.
You're mistaken. They want to eliminate _taxes_ on overtime pay.
@@cbdevidaljk1
Correct.
No tax on overtime because overtime is eliminated. That’s what Trump did when he runs his company.
@@cbdevidaljk1 He has actually said both. It's in his policy. Biden increased the overtime pay to workers making up to $58k/year but Trump wants to decrease it again back down to only $35k/year so that anyone who makes over 35k would not qualify. (This is for white collar professionals that are salary.) Trump also said he wants to eliminate taxes on overtime and tips but I can 100% guarantee he will not do that. And he's been bragging about not paying people overtime that was owed so.... yeah.
The people who are smart enough to know who is responsible for the state of our country, yet still ignorant enough to vote for trump are the real problem
Do you have a better candidate? No, Democrats sued everyone else off the ballot and all we have left is Kamala who is supported by far more billionaires than Trump is.
and the people ignorant enough to vote for Harris are the real problem too. The state of our country goes well back to the 1960s at least - and the welfare state - driven by the Democrats - LBJ laid it out - and your ilk piled on. Then the GOP did a bunch of gutting up the middle to polarize us against each other. So blaming a late comer like Trump seems a bit foolish at best.
That TDS of yours, you might want to take a look at getting it adjusted. Figure out he's not the real enemy. It's a lot deeper than that.
100%
Fox News / etc...constantly feeding Trump propaganda is a big reason why.
Better than Kamala the literal slaver and the rest of the establishment.
Seems kinda crazy that people love to complain about not being able to pay their bills, yet are furious with people who use welfare programs because they can't pay their bills.
Because they're angry that poor people receive something for free that they have to get through hard work
@@scifirealism5943 bingo, and because they give they benefits to non- US citizens. I’m sure someone will reply to me like nuh-uh! Well it’s listed on each states gov website even here in FL we give nonUS citz WIC and Medicaid
To quote George Carlin, the poor are there to scare the shit outta the middle
@@scifirealism5943Fair but they don't realize how fucked those less fortunate are
That is wonderful seeing something like this cross the various lines of politics among the working class. So many of the red voters are pointing their fingers in the right direction, but are supporting the same people that perpetuate it. How can we use this to create a sense of solidarity in the working class?
I particularly hated hearing the guy who said the president shouldn't be a politician but should come from a working family and stand up for the little guy. That guy is also voting for Trump who was given $400 MILLION from his dad and has been involved in politics for 25 years instead of the woman who went from working at McDonald's to being a District Attorney prosecuting criminals, to an attorney general who got a $20 billion settlement from big banks for their aggressive foreclosure of homeowners during the 2008 financial crisis and pushed stronger consumer protections in California.
Sure Kamala has put in the work and actually helped the working man but the billionaire who shits in a golden toilet and refuses to pay his workers is going to advocate for the little guy. Those voters are completely disconnected from reality.
Yup two party system at its best.We should have voted for Bernie in my opinion. He has been saying the same message his whole life and its for power for the working person.
@@justicematters5447 The Democratic establishment not giving Bernie a fair shake in 2016 is what started the mess of politics of the last decade imo. So much could have been avoided, and we'd be in a much better state, if he had been president.
@@Darth_Insidious
Because Democrats are also under corporate thumb, their actual policies are to just be marginally more left than Republicans.
Lobbying has destroyed politics.
@@Darth_Insidious I agree.
Focusing on class is the only way to bring the working people back together in fight against the only real foe we have.
Yes. Political/corpo elitist class vs everybody else
Yes. Funny how people in power seem to push literally anything else.
We need more Marxism in public schools, I'm tired of the Red Scare nonsense.
@@anthonyesposito7 haha garbage ideology for gullibl3s
@@anthonyesposito7They've already pushed it to the max. The only way left for angsty teens to rebel anymore is to express conservative ideals.
Get this kid doing more interviews. He comes across humble and earnest. I can’t name another interviewer that able to connect with people. This is the cure to polarization.
Andrew Callaghan
@@leojansch7862 lol love him but has a past and more importantly he doesn't really ask questions, he more just lets people talk
@@GrantAmann sure but he has cultivated a group of extremely differing opinions
The difference between a conservative and a progressive: conservatives worry that someone who doesn't need assistance will get it, progressives worry someone who needs assistance won't get it.
Yes. It's an ideological and psychological difference concerning lack of empathy on conservatives side
It's empathy for ones own family who have to give away tax money to support someone else!
@@georgewagner7787 1) It's not giving away tax money. The way our system works is that everyone votes for if they want to fund, say, the library. If a majority say yes, then we all pool a portion of our money, via taxes, to fund the library which we all then get to use. You're not giving it away, you're buying something you couldn't have afforded on your own. 2) Yes, progressives follow Christ teachings and love/show empathy to all of humanity (What you do for the least of these etc.) while conservatives only have empathy for their immediate family. That's why you see conservatives be anti LGBTQ until it's their kid that comes out, or anti welfare until it's them that loses their job or is in an accident that makes them unable to work. Progressives think that they wouldn't game the system and think that they are average people and most people are just like them, so they expect most people on assistance actually need it. Conservatives think that they legitimately need it, but they are somehow special/unique in that and that most people will game the system and don't legitimately need it.
@@abigailhubbard1055 yes. You're correct.
And you know who gets the most "assistance"? millionaires and billionaires.
I don't call fat-shaming and saying people just want welfare handouts so they can just eat fudge-rounds all day long being for the working and struggling class.
But why should I pay so much in taxes when I hardly earn anything ( due to health) and my neighbor is buying junk with food stamps? I saw one yesterday.
But by all means elect a billionaire and a millionaire supported by other billionaires
You must be referring to Kamala, who is worth 3 million, supported by billionaires such as Michael Bloomberg and James Simons. Both sides are corrupt. When will people end lesser evil voting!?
You must be referring to the current female veep*, who is worth 3 million, supported by billionaires such as Michael Bloomberg and James Simons. Both sides are corrupt. When will people end lesser evil voting!?
*YTube deletes my comment if I use her real name
You know, the current veep is worth 3 million, supported by billionaires such as Bloomberg and J. Simons--just sayin'
We hear it-so and so has hundreds of millions,half a billion in campaign donations. The one who raised the most usually takes the position?
I’d make sandwiches. If I had a tour bus I’d sleep in it or Quality Inn.
The retired General running against MTG held a “stump speech” out of the back of his truck bed.
$$ for the logistics/security take care of, but how much does someone need to just talk? Pelosi got a million dollars to speak-that’s just 1 example
It's so sad that the only reason Trump even stands a chance is because so many working class people are misguided into believing that he'll somehow help them. In the 4 years that he was in office, what did he do to help the working class? He signed a massive tax cut for corporations & the rich which hardly benefited the working class at all, and he was obsessed with building a wall along the southern border. What else do these people think he did?
"Hardly benefitted them" is incorrect, because that implies that it benefitted them at all
It's like they're all masochists and enjoy the self-flagellation and abuse. SAD!!!!!
Working class people want to go back to the days before the progressive agenda crippled the economy and gave criminals carte blanche to do whatever they feel like without consequence.
Now ask the same questions about her.
@@cdevidal Her who? No her has been POTUS .. YET. You're so lacking in any logical thinking skills.
People using snap is such a minuscule amount compared to the literal trillions that the Trxmp tax cuts have cost us. Hypocrites abound.
Because people get angry at welfare for poor people not by the raw numbers but by the fact they believe poor people don't deserve help
Trump wasn't a politician back in 2016. Trump is definitely a politician now in 2024.
Trump has been a "politician" since the 90's, his first unsuccessful campaign for president was in 2000. Just because he wasn't in government doesn't mean he wasn't playing politics.
The former guy has been a politician all his life just not an elected one.
He's been a con man for probably all of his adult life. He's the same person now as he was before, just older.
If con man = politician I would say he has always been a politician. Just saying.
Hillary Clinton attended Donald Trump's third wedding. Trump has contributed to Clinton's past campaigns and her husband's foundation.
He was always a politician
Meanwhile, they vote for the guy with Elmo jumping im the air on stage.
I would love to work together. Not when one party is literally trying to take away peoples rights and trying to subvert democracy though.
Both are... open your eyes
like the covid mandate?
Everytime I hear those two claims all I can think of is Democrats demanding we stay locked inside, encouraging us to turn in our neighbors, trying to restrict freedom of speech constantly, and refusing to have a primary election.
The people on food stamps and Medicaid working at Walmart and McDonalds are in states where the minimum wage is $9 an hour. McDonalds in Quartzsite, AZ start at $17 and in CA, it is $20.00. A corporation is a heartless soulless money making entity. Up to citizens to get the minimum wages raised in their states.
You can survive with out the rich but not with out the middle and working class
You can survive with out the rich, but you thrive with them. We're speaking to one another on a platform provided by billionaires.
The economic freedom that allows a thriving working class also produces billionaires. It's a Pareto distribution. Take away that economic freedom and the working class is also gone. Some billionaires are left-wing and some are right-wing. Last I checked, most are left-wing; they already got their cake and they don't care to leave that door they used open to the next generation so they support more regulations and higher taxes.
@cdevidal the internet was developed with public funding. Those billionaires you think are so essential and great take huge advantages over publicly funded infrastructures, whether it's the internet, roads, or rail they use to attain that obnoxious wealth while ducking their taxes
@@cdevidalslaves need not their slavers, and we're worse off under them but go off, I'm sure you think slavers did good for their slaves too 🤡
@@cdevidal we are not thriving.
Its weird to watch people willing to support a rapist with 34 felonies who has a long list of accusers including a girl who was 13 at the time.
We are in america.. it doesnt shock me
Well republicans hate women so theres your answer
Politicians without accusers: 0.
@@gorkyd7912 How's the weather in Russia?
@@Glimmmerra Oh look, I'm not American because I disagree.
They are all SO CLOSE to understanding
yea ppl forget that the rich man, the one who let down millions of workers, who's currently exploiting the legal system to avoid paying for the crimes he committed, is trump.
They do understand they just misplace their faith in Trump
That’s the most frustrating part
@@dxtrumbecause they don’t understand, they’re almost there but that capitalist propaganda keeps the rest blocked
No they’re not. They can identify the symptoms of the problem (Don’t make enough $, don’t have time off, etc) but their solution couldn’t be farther from something you’d want.
Not making enough at your job? “Simple stop requiring businesses have workman’s comp insurance that’ll free up money for us! “
There have been several studies on psychological differences between liberals and conservatives. A common finding is that conservatives have a strong negativity bias, meaning that 1 bad experience will outweigh all good experiences. A conservative hears about 1 person abusing welfare and assumes that welfare is bad, regardless of how many people they know that welfare legitimately helped.
explains their view on immigration as well
We have the same issue in the UK and the tabloid newspapers are all owned by the wealthy so of course they will publish articles about that one person who committed benefit fraud but won't publish articles about the rich bloke paying less tax than the average person through tax avoidance and how's tax avoidance cost far outways the benefits fraudster.
the amount of scientific studies we have proving conservatives are stupid as fuck is interesting to me. Like, theres a TON of them. Same results every time. Yet they keep saying everyone else is stupid.
My dad told me somethin once, "bein stupid is like bein dead, youre the only one who doesnt know."
@@GandalftheWipe Their view on immigration is to sensibly control the quantity & quality of the people who enter the country because it causes issues otherwise. Almost every country on the planet believes in the same thing and nobody is criticising them.
@@chrisf9377 this is obviously false, listening to them speak.
FFS, take a look at the Springfield nonsense. Vance said the quiet part out loud: "i don't care if they came legally, they're still illegal to me"
The pink elephant in the room is Late Stage Capitalism
Yep. I'm almost looking sideways at this video. A lot of Trump voters, not supporters, don't like the man at all, don't expect anything good, but are banking on the fact he is the first president ever to do something counter business out of need for validation from his base, which was the tariffs. The lesson here should be actually follow through, even a little on your campaign promises but that donor money though.
Nice buzzword. You do know that its actually the lack of capitalism in the form of lengthy and costly regulations that makes it nearly impossible for small businesses to succeed, therefore allowing big companies to monopolize without fear of competition undercutting them right. Late stage capitalism is a meaningless jumble of words, especially since the issue is solved with MORE capitalism
@@pizzaboiler Explain how a small business will compete without any regulation? I want to understand where you think the good will for the small business to succeed will come from? In that environment it's a free for all, even I gotta look out for my employees they come before everyone else as they keep me productive. My personal opinion on going public as a company is it's lazy, ruins something built that has longevity. I'm a need to be challenged guy, so I keep all profits in the business minus 10G standard retainer for being the face and doing the meetings for contracts. I have on hand enough liquid capital to snap up about 11% of my sector with a twin leveraged DoD grant loan. Effective interest rate since 0.75% can be offset with credits for installing in clearance sites which I already do. It's weird how I have a full 15 30 60 90 and 115 day plan to do so after considering your proposal. If you want I can even write it all out. Late stage capitalism is correct unfortunately. Maximizing profits for profits sake the end result maximal profits. Kinda odd if you're a physical business. No incentive for longevity since c suite rotates 3-5 years. You're probably upset about the lingo?
FYI Karl Marx was an economist. You do realize Karl Marx wasn't called a mathematically ill-equipped buffoon. His math is not ever in question. He was called an idealistic fool wanting to put money into bad assets aka people deemed unproductive. I will concede if you have a solid way a small business can succeed. But do understand in a global supply chain everything is fair game.
@@pizzaboilerlarge corpos get govt. handouts because they refuse to pay workers a living wage = government intervention
Small business don't get these handouts or subsidies so of course they're doomed to fail. That's a market failure which would require yet more government intervention.
The free market is doomed to fail, hence we are in late stage capitalism
@@pizzaboilerregulations are a fair point but we still need regulating bodies and to break up monopolies meaningfully, or how about nationalisation?
You will probably tell me it's inefficient but there are so many natural monopolies the government should and could be running
As long as the dollar comes before people, this issue will not cease.
How can the welfare program not be a lifelong program if you don’t have the ability to work ever. what the heck?
6:15 Welfare isn't available for a lifetime. After Clinton reformed it in the 1990s it's been limited to three years.
Unless you work or are disabled.
Clinton's welfare reform was based on three things
1. Poor people don't deserve welfare
2. Welfare is restricted to force poor people into minimum wage jobs
3. Poor women shouldn't have kids
The beliefs of Congress, not myself
That's funny bc I had medicaid for 5 years.
I still would but I put money down on a rental property so I will have a place to live. They count the rent as income but don't deduct the mortgage. I would have to give it up and therefore not have income for the future if mom hadn't left me a little
And before you say medicaid isn't welfare I'm duscovering it was worth like 1100 a month so it's more
@@dustinDraig workfare
We all want the same thing, unfortunately many of us have been conned by a snake oil salesman.
At this point, some people believe the lies!
I think most have been conned by their refusal or inability to think rationally. That’s complicated by the fact that they won’t open themselves to listen to people with different ideas. They always think someone is looking to con them.
We want the same things but we don’t want to get their the same way. That’s the problem with a right-left economic anxiety coalition.
@@DefaultProphet "I want a bridge but I don't want to pay any engineers"
@@DefaultProphet In this particular case it would be more accurate to say that's the problem with a successful grifter in politics; he can make you vote against your own interests.
The one dude I would have guessed has it figured out then I hear he is a trump loving guy saying we need to stop looking here and broaden the horizons. I'm like WTF mate???
How bad must democrats be and their years of failed policies and empty promises and lies that people now feel Trump is now a better choice! Wow...says a lot about how bad democrats are. By the way... democrats have controlled the presidency for 12 of the last 16 years and had control of the house or senate for the majority of that time lol. FACT: we are where we are because of democrats.
2 things struck me in this video. The fact Trump gave tax cuts to the top 1% and has always come from wealth but he appeals to the people saying they want a politician that comes from the working class while making fun of aoc for bartender and other politicians who worked other jobs first.
Very confused ppl
Run away the top 1 percent and they will take their money elsewhere- we need to encourage them to invest in America instead of third world s- holes
If Trump did not give tax cuts, they, the billionaires and millionaire, would take their money out of country to other countries where they do not tax heavily.
and Kamala worked at a McDonalds & came from a working class family unlike Drumpf's family
and yet almost everyone in my family benefited 2K-7K from the tax cuts, and we are lower middle class
@@josephcioppa1943either you're not actually lower middle class or there were additional tax cuts in your state that added to the total, because the middle 20% of Americans got less than $1000. And it's a drop in the bucket compared to what corporations got, which they then used to consolidate power and increase inflation
My only problem with that song is that he does such a great job and then makes it about the obese and having to pay for their healthcare. It could be a bit more cohesive to keep it about how the rich are grifters who predate on the middle and lower classes.
This is the same whattaboutist logical fallacy as people saying "why can't I keep my gas-guzzler unnecessary lifted diesel smogger when someone somewhere else has a private jet?" Obese people not taking personal responsibility for their health might be individually insignificant, but when half the country is that way it's terrible just like if half the country had straight piped tuned diesels the smog would be unbreathable. Don't shift the blame to "rich" people, poor people aren't angels.
Both are problems.
That's the line that *really* hooks the MAGA cult though. They love blaming the poor and desperate for their problems MUCH more than they acknowledge the wealthy are the problem. Revering the wealthy is *literally* one of the core tenets of conservatism, which posits that there are naturally superior and inferior classes of people.
It could have been better framed as more of the same - food corporations being greedy, using cheap subsidized sugar and milk to make the food addictive and highly profitable with no consideration for nutrition or the consumer's long term well-being. Tax dollars ARE paying for fudge rounds via subsidizing the overuse of ingredients that should be occasional, that are now making up the bulk of easily available foods. Clearly the average American isn't able to navigate the current food environment healthily because the average American is overweight or more. And I don't think that's entirely the fault of the individual if most of us are having the same problem. But that part of the song makes it sound like he's identifying each obese individual and those using welfare as the culprits.
@@AmyKozerski Lots of people drive drunk too but I'm not blaming "big beer" for making it easy, I'm not blaming the NFL for glorifying beer consumption, I'm not blaming the general culture for enjoying a cold one after a hot day. No, I blame the person who actually does the thing.
You can blame the food corporations, the government subsidies, the FDA's incompetence, the food additives, the school lunches, the energy drinks destroying the metabolisms of middle schoolers... ultimately the decision causing the problem belongs to the individual. And the proof of that is the millions of extremely healthy Americans who live in the same country with access to the same foods.
Some of these people are so ignorant. Which causes arrogance. Then the hate seeps in. Thus become a tool of the rich man.
Great journalism. Really appreciate this kind of reporting. Talking to real people and getting real opinions from the people. Not just some statistic or poll from some of the bigger media
These people make me sick. They love trump. A guy who cares more about himself and his rich they blame.
It's really sad that you just think people supporting Donald Trump are idiots, and that it makes you sick. Honestly, it's so sad. Heartbreaking, even. You're so mad that Donald Trump has billions of dollars, and yet you support the entire ESTABLISHMENT that owns everything. A coincidence, I wonder?
_"We will fight and die for DEMOCRACY!"_
But gods forbid they use it to better their own lives. This has always struck me as ... curious.
Politicians don't miss a bit to show how quick they are to corrupt, not even 5 seconds after being asked the question, he's already twisting words in his favor, the rest followed en samble
And Oliver _did_ say that his song is about rich _politicians_ , both blue _and_ red
A lot of the poor vote for the rich.
And a lot of the rich vote D. The majority of them, in fact.
Social Security is a lifetime program.
Welfare is only a part of it that many are not aware of.
They think welfare is a separate program.
When Politicians Say WELFARE,
They're Talking Also About VETERAN'S BENEFITS!
Veteran's Benefits That They Want To Eliminate More Than WELFARE TO NEEDY FAMILIES.
The biggest problem is that people want politicians who fight for the working class, but many have settled for a guy who just insults others, both powerful and powerless, and makes them feel like they are in on a joke. That's not fighting for them, that's just venting. And he lies loke a cheap rug when he does it.
They don't like him because he's a good man. They like him because he's a jerk, and gives them permission to be jerks, too.
Some of them like him because they see him as a Molotov cocktail for the government, which they feel has left them behind. They pick him because they're desperate for something to change.
How bad must democrats be and their years of failed policies and empty promises and lies that people now feel Trump is now a better choice! Wow...says a lot about how bad democrats are. By the way... democrats have controlled the presidency for 12 of the last 16 years and had control of the house or senate for the majority of that time lol. FACT: we are where we are because of democrats.
So we all seem to agree government is the problem by being in bed with billionaires.
Who do you think we can blame for this situation Reagan and Bush son are the ones that started the big money in to politics.
@@guillermodelgado4007 Both the Republicans and Democrats are to blame as they both support it. Libertarians may be the ones that fight back against this the most.
The party of “personal responsibility” at its best
how can someone praise the song while promoting a billionaire to become president again
Love your perspective. Working class without all the partisan BS. Keep up the good work!
I’m still confused. Many of these people sound reasonable yet they still support Trump.
Double think. It's crazy, but their is the proof.
Cognitive dissonance
They think there's no good alternative, but if we all chose a good third party we could stop this nonsense. Or, we can continue down the road of lesser evil voting.
@@cdevidalI agree that a third party candidate would be nIce option but at this point that’s unavailable. Given that we’re dealing with Trump and the ghouls that are trying to take control, I’d say the lesser of two evils will suffice. I hate saying that.
@@cdevidal The very qualified and viable 3rd party candidate in this election was sued into bankruptcy by the Democrat machine and is now supporting Trump. Maybe that should be a clue.
I guess they'd be shocked if everyone else got a chance to say who they thought was at fault because I'd be pointing right at these Trump voters.
We want energy independience. It will improve life for everyone.
How do people vote trump with all these answers 😂
The ‘Rich Men North Of Richmond’ regard us as livestock on their farm.
Ding ding ding ding! Correct! The rich are farming everyone else.