2003, CJCS Gen Dick B. Meyers comes aboard the USS Rhode Island with the Comandant of the USMC to observe our submarine and test a new USMC speed small craft boat. His bodyguard, clearly a man you should NEVER cross, had a bright neon pink polo and a purple fanny pack with 2 desert eagle .45 pistols. Pretty much, the common thread? Both are secure in their masculinity. Seems like something you might be lacking.
Also, did you know most of the high ranking and presidents up to 1920s wore pink dresses until they were 5 years old? Teddy Roosevelt, a paragon of manhood at the time. Pink gown at 5. What is wild is the insecurity in people today. That is what is tearing us down. Insecurity causing people to freak out about their image and what others are doing related to appearance so badly you won't respect their accomplishments because you're upset at men wearing pink.
Men wore, what we now call "dresses" for the first 10,000 years of civilization. The differences of dress between men and women is a recent trend, about 400 years.. Nonetheless, if women can wear pants, men can wear dresses, is what I say. Masculinity is a state of mind. So is femininity.
@@raef90 Pink is just another color. Some people long ago said pink is for girls and blue is for boys. We always need to compartmentalize everything. Life doesn't work like that.
Donald Trump being the top candidate for president makes complete sense why the party, it’s voters are is a fascist theocratic movement PROVES James Carvers’ point about self referential policies and alternative “facts” and believing his point they believe the earth is only 6,000 yrs old in polls. At some point we have the blame the voters for who gets elected and why 🤣
@@tysons9222 He's got some good points though. I mean, if you compare the averages between red states vs blue states on economics and life expectancy, how are the GOP still around? If you live in a red state, your life expectancy is 4 years shorter and your median household income is 12,000$ per year lower. Hod do the GOP get away with that? Because people don't believe the data. They believe what they want to believe.
@@teresawehling3181 Gas around the world is going up. It's a global issue. It's up in the country I live in too. I pay US$6.50 per gallon. How much do you pay?
You read my mind. I already had written it out in my head. But my version wasn't as nice. My version goes something like... "That's rich of James Carville, one of the weirdest oddities on the planet, who's name should be 'citizen weirdfuck', who obviously doesn't own a mirror. Would you if you looked like that biological experiment gone wrong? He makes that mouse with a human ear growing out of it's belly look normal.
I love when rich old men tell me that we’ve never had it better. Can’t buy a house and our tuition debt is 10x what they went through but yea … it’s never been better
Tuition is high because the federal government enabled it with idiotic loan programs. Housing is expensive because local governments create more and more expensive rules and regulations, creating artificial constraints on housing production. Also, see restrictive zoning laws
Agreed. I like Carville, but here he really echoed the types of Democrats we put with for decades who grew detached from middle class concerns because of their own wealth. It's what made Hillary Clinton such an awful candidate in 2016: she couldn't connect with "average Joes" at ALL. Big money is very blinding - for anyone. The pity is, we either get this type running for office or a nakedly crooked, greedy puppet for billionaires like Trump who is CLEARLY out to cut the throats of middle class workers. The former is still the lesser of 2 evils; yet, angry voters out of frustration often turn to the latter, thereby cutting their own throats.
No you don’t understand!! James Carville is a political operative so he gets the final word!! Your real life experiences are not match for his vast knowledge on gas prices
@@mikebracco890she admires Elon Musk and was insulted that someone would insult him. Even though he'll be a complete stranger to her, her entire life.
Either we have a border or we don’t. I’m all for legal immigration, My wife is from Mexico. She had to spend the money, get the medical exams and take the test to become naturalized. Just letting people in is a smack in the face to the people that came in the right way.
Let's say, for arguments sake, that there are 4 million undocumented people in the US. We can also say there are only 1500 employees of the federal government employed to process them. Many of the 4 million or so have applied for asylum. Both US and international laws prohibits their expulsion. The asylum seekers are not breaking any laws; they are not in the US illegally.
@@davidyohalem629this is correct. Which is why immigration in general is the problem. Mass immigration itself isn't the problem, not necessarily if it is technically legal or not. If all 4 million immigrants were legal, the negative effects would be the same.
@@RextheRebel Boo hoo. First, your answer makes no sense. Second, you smug Americans are sitting pretty, exploiting the rest of the planet, yet complaining about their taking your jobs and housing - probably your air. COP28 just finished and one of your presidential candidates wants to pump even more oil. And you say "sorry, but we're full up". Or not even "sorry". Americans are a bunch of ignoramuses, both in general and in the specific. You've destroyed the viability of many places on the planet. Your response: shut them out. Build a wall. You will reap what you have sown.
@@davidyohalem629 They are supposed to seek asylum at the first country they come to. They don’t get to pick and choose where they go. They are also supposed to come through a port of entry, not a gap in the C-wire or jumping the wall.
They're talking about the price of gasoline. I'm in the middle of the country where historically it's the cheaper place to live. The average 1 bedroom apartment is about 1200 a month. Double that price everyplace else. That's what's hurting peoples cost of living. These people are "out of touch."
Im a regular guy My 4/2 house payment is 1400 living in a major city in Ca. Money management, timing, and a dash of luck is important in financial planning.
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Carville seems very upset that people believe their lying eyes instead of his "facts." - Added the quotation marks to ensure people understand Carville's facts are anything but facts.
All his life he's been used to putting out whatever he wants on WP or MSNBC, and people would blindly believe it. These days, no so much; and he's sitting there thinking "why don't those idiots just believe whatever I claim without any evidence?". He probably have a really hard time with all these facts meddling in his spin. Just see how he's doing in this short segment; "let's not mention what Elon actually reacted to, but call him an antisemite and move on, quickly", "Republicans are a bugger threat than Al Queda" - Obviously the guy has taken too many mushrooms, and now we're all paying the price.
He seems so smug that America's crime rate went down like he personally made it happen .. YES murder spiked during the lockdown and now it has gone down .. "What a Miracle!" .. People being locked together for a year .. social workers and cops staying home I am surprised it didn't triple .. also "That dude is weird!" .. says Yoda in the pink Marine corp sweater
@@aamerkastoff1447dispute any of the economic numbers he pointed to. Or any current economic metric for that matter. You sheep believe in anecdotes and your 'feels'
Sun Tzu 101, as long as the people are divided you can rule both sides.. betting Carville has read Sun Tzu.. America needs to be Americans not Rep or Dem
@@stuff4sale80 the Art of War, that's not a 101 proposition. Hopefully, Carville's views may prevail, but yet again, without borders, there is little de debate about.
When lots of people can't afford rent or food, they are going to think the economy is in trouble. No stats about the stock markets or job creation are going to change their mind or the reality of the situation.
That's because the people blaming Biden for food, rent or gas prices are imbeciles who aren't intelligent enough to be blaming global markets and wealthy private owners instead. A president doesn't set or have more than a marginal effect on food or rent prices. Bunch of right-wing maga dunces on this page.
What I want to know is what are Trump and the Republicans going to do to bring rents down, bring mortgages down, bring food prices down, bring gas prices down. I hear a lot of complaining and blaming but no solutions.
The only possible way for congress, the government or the president to lower people's rent prices is socialism... which obviously isn't the answer. The problem is greedy landlords & corporations!! The only hope to stop the greed is for the government to level a windfall tax on the record corporate profits they've had for the last 3yrs, do you think the reps would ever consider that?? The party of cutting taxes for millionaires/billionaires & corporations & nothing else?? No chance, they'd never consider it. The Dems are almost as corporate owned now as the Reps & they won't even talk about it
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As a senior who worked my whole life, often 2 jobs. The fact that I can literally barely make ends meet is horrifying. It’s a true struggle just to make it day to day.
Maybe if the huge tax breaks the Donald gave the 1% went to the Poor and Middle Class instead, you would be doing better. Nothing is done especially in Congress because it is a 3 ring circus with MAGAt clowns performing daily.
read about neoliberalism, it has been reducing the real wages paid to people since 1985 in 1980's wages and profits were split 50/50 neoliberal policies have moved that to 80/20 with wages getting 20% nominal wages have held pretty steady or increased slightly, but real wages inflation adjusted have fallen dramatically So the reason you struggle is the economic policies that moved from wages to profits. Thank Milton Friedman and Ronald Reagan
BS on the Neoliberal policies you are shouting out! The Problems we now have Are Republican policies that have been in power for the last 40 years! Reagan and Bush Sr. Changed all of the Rules back in the 80s, and The Wealthy and the Corporations have been taking in Billions of Dollars in Profits for All of those 40 years! The USA needs to raise taxes on All of those Billions in Profits and Raise wages up to $20 an Hour for all of the hourly Workers!
Take it from a former Dutchman: Gert Wilders is NOT far right. He is culturally right wing, but socially he is left wing. He is highly intelligent and by far the best debater of all Dutch politicians.
"Far right" is now a term applied to anyone who doesn't tow the leftist line. Notice how you never, ever hear them describe a new prime minister as "far left", because you can never be too far to the left.
Sure buddy, because it’s normal for normal politicians to look for friends in all of Europe’s far right parties, such as the Austrian FPÖ or the French national front. Also totally normal to for politicians to act as lackeys to the Russian president.
@@PatricioVUnterproblem is the left wing has gone so far to the left that a lot of centrists and liberals are starting to side with the political right in many countries. I'm one for example.
He is absolutely far right in the sense that most of his ideas and plans are undermining democracy itself. On economics no one knows his policies since his plans are incomplete and completely void of a factual base.
Guess you didn't watch the actual episode, where Rubin got a bunch of claps and cheers and Bill suggested he planted Trumpers in the audiences. 😂 Since covid Bill has had people getting the cheers and clapping going in the audience. Yes it's noticeable and does suck at times. But right now your projecting your own bias and can't see the balance. ❤
I love that in tv, there's no time for any conversation to get anywhere.. no wonder we can't solve our problems. there's no time to really talk about them with any depth..
Yeah, the Elon Musk conversation pissed me off. Bill was clearly ill-informed and he let Carville get in the last word even though he had nothing to contribute other than ad-hominems. If it had just been Bill and Dave they could actually have gotten to the bottom of it. Bill was about to say something Dave could have set him straight about, but he gestured at Carville and Carville took that as permission to start running his mouth. Yes, Carville, we all know that Elon is weird. But that contributes nothing to the conversation.
Housing prices, food prices and entertainment prices are killing normal Americans. It doesn't matter how good the stock market is if they can't afford to eat.
Many Americans cannot even participate in the stock market. So they don't want to hear about that. They are struggling. And it is not a Biden, Trump, etc thing. It's a lot of greed and concern about short term profits.
Prices are high for working Americans, but think how much worse it would be if Trump had been re-elected...... Republicans don't have a solution either. Inflation has been on the rise since the 1970s. The Inflation Reduction Act does't lower food and housing prices. It does lower the price of certain pharmaceuticals. That's a start.
@@executivedecision6141 It says a lot when both parties and their enablers say "Vote for us because we're marginally better than the other guys." All either side does is gaslight as living conditions get progressively worse for everybody who isn't in the top 1%.
Exactly, I'm getting tired of rich people saying how good the economy is doing based on a metric that only benefits them. The stock market has nothing to do with the economy whatsoever, it only reflects how well wealthy people are doing.
The problem with the economy is how you define it. Company profits? Through the roof. Productivity?Amazing! The shareholders are really happy. That doesn't mean much for workers though. You can work full time and still not have enough to pay your outlandish rent, gas, and food, not to speak of Health insurance.
💯 Greedflation Greedflation: Profits used to be c. 11% of price, now 40-60% of price. I also agree with the commenter who pointed to the private equity firms buying up the Real Estate driving the cost of housing/rents. There’s a real reason that MBS/Saudi Arabia gave Jared Kushner $2B; he’s one of the biggest slumlords around. On Gas; OPEC+ is cutting oil production. US is pumping 13M gallons of oil per day, but the US exports most of US oil b/c we mostly use Brent Crude from the ME & Europe uses mostly our Sweet Crude oil. But we export more than we import. OPEC+ which includes Russia & Iran is artificially keeping prices high by pumping less. Watch what the Big Oil companies’ profits are this year! Demand High = Prices High. Covid: Demand Low = Prices Low. Also, BTW you know who owns the US’s largest oil refinery? Saudi Aramco in Port Aransas, TX. Guess why prices for gas are so high still… Greedflation. And people are still paying for products even though prices for everything are higher so why would companies lower their prices? Now, costs for borrowing is very high right now for corporations, because of the Federal Banks interest rate hikes. But right now Companies are flush with cash. If consumers slow the buying we might see prices coming down, but with that we’ll see unemployment go up b/c of layoffs. We’ll also see housing foreclosures go up & guess who’ll be buying them up? Private equity firms. But people keep buying, unemployment is low, corporations profits keep setting records. Hence: GREEDFLATION!
If only the workers! Politicians and megacorporations are happy. Small business owners and workers are not. As it turns out, if you make it near impossible to start a company, they won't start. And if you take away tons of money from the people, they can't pay for things. If they can't pay for things they can't buy them, and if people aren't buying things then small business owners can't pay their workers living wages, or just straight up go out of business. All thanks to politicians getting big lobbying money from corporations, because the government is too untransparent for people to protest it. This was coming for a long time, but covid and some bad monetary policy made it hit people like a truck.
Exactly. And this is why the working class gets angry when Biden brags about how great the country/economy is doing while 75% of us live in constant fear because we are forced to live paycheck to paycheck despite having full time jobs.
Well.. if you receive little enough you qualify for Medicaid. Enough less: rent; heat; and food. Just don't make too much. And you can still work fulltime!
Civics classes were thrown out of the public, American classroom a LOOONG time ago… That needs to be brought back ASAP; but all the politicians would rather debate about other stuff… Both the far right and the far left focus too much on distractive cultural issues… Common sense is not so common nowadays.
@BishopWalters12 I disagree. The people are the bigger problem because we put them there and put up with this shit. We don't hold them accountable because we don't know how government works and we don't pay attention.
I think the problem is that people like you want to make a generic comment and not identify who you refer to. Because i know many on left and right that would take the comment and agree but think about the other side. Lack of identifying bad ideas is why we are where we are. Men are not women. The economy isnt strong. Carvil is an evil evil man. He is a proven liar.
Carville's looks are genetic. His speech is genetics + Louisiana. Attire accents it all but Ben Affleck in a hoodie would pass w/out much comment. As for money, Carville (or nearly anyone) is much closer to the working class than to Musk. His political beliefs aren't strange at all to ordinary (D)s, just left of center. Tell us about Elon, please. Last I saw he was telling X advertisers to get T F off his $44B lawn.
@@gemanscombe4985 You're dumb enough to believe that it's a bad thing that he said that to advertisers. Good for you to be so open about your ignorance
@@justinhill4847 I agree with you... Every time I watch an interview of Musk; I just see someone disingenuous and represents a part of the tech world I worry about. Carville is right regarding California too...He mentions this on Real Time not Overtime "If everyone is leaving in droves why am I still sitting in traffic everyday..."
Your comment is a a synthesis of everything that’s wrong with America today. Do a tiny bit of research to see that it USA is responsible for the problems south of the border and why people are seeking ASYLUM. A mother would not drag her children 1K miles through hostel territory if it were a great place to live. It is the US government that has 150 years manipulating policy and installing criminals into leadership. Change my mind.
Explain? How about his crazy statement that Christian values are a greater threat to America than Al Qaeda? This stupidity is all you need to know about Democrat values.
@@user-yb8vr2ip2tHe doesn’t treat this country as if it’s a real country. He treats Martha’s Vinyard as his country and the rest of the country as pawns. They want to extract as much power and wealth for themselves through corporate government collusion. Then claim they need more power to fix the environment. They want to replace the American population which has values they despise with a more docile and dependent population. They use identitarianism as a way to divide this country between social issues to make entire swaths of people victims who aren’t really victims.
So your gas bill goes from 50 to 80 bucks for a tank, then it goes back down to 75 and you're supposed to be thankful. That is the calculus of James Carville.
Yes, that is the issue that dems don't address. Inflation rate is slowing but still increasing and the dems need to factor this into their strategy, and they don't .
@@darindamaddio3727 That's the challenge. Americans trust rich people and Republicans to handle the economy, not Dems. So if Trump were president with these numbers, he'd say the economy is the best ever, and that he'll make it much better. But Biden can't do that. If he takes credit, he looks like an elitest prick flaunting his stock portfolio with friends at the country club. If he stays quiet, Trump disparages the economy in bad faith. He always flaunted his economy, even when lots of voters weren't doing very well. His tax cuts or deals with Putin and Saudis wouldn't solve the problems struggling voters complain about either. Trump could help Putin conquer Ukraine, but they've spoiled so much of the country with bombs and mines that it's hard to think any tiny price drops that result would be worth the destruction and humiliation of an allied nation. Voters still expect Biden to return prices to what they were before the pandemic, and fault him for failing that. Of course, it looks natural to hire Trump to rebuild what he had. They're not willing to see that Trump's economy cratered during the pandemic. Biden's is recovering much faster than Obama's. But falling inflation doesn't mainly mean prices fall. It means prices increase more slowly now than they did earlier. It's hard to accept that the pandemic, bird flu, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, etc., changed prices, and basically, whoever's elected, they'll keep rising. The big question is, would Trump's tax cuts or Biden's infrastructure and support for unions more likely keep wages rising as fast? "Tax cuts and fascism vs. Elections and unions" probably doesn't make a great bumper sticker.
Didn't prices literally jump 20 cents after 2-3 days Biden was in office after he cancelled that pipeline day 1? Locally it went from 2.70 to 2.90 over night and it's gone from 3.50-3.75 the past 3 years and now it's down to 3.10 and I'm supposed to act like it's a blessing from on high that deserves my vote despite the oil reserves being emptied .
Right, ...& fuck every Republican since Nixon because gas prices never got back down to the 39 cents per gallon it was, when he was still in office, in 1973. They all screwed us over & let us down, because they failed to stop prices in general from always moving upward instead of getting everything for us cheaper & cheaper. But they didn't just 'fail', ...no, they did it on purpose! And, come to think of it, fuck Nixon too, because under Eisenhower in 1961, it was only 32 cents per gallon. And let's ignore the effect of demand increasing so egregiously over the span of years. Population & the number of mouths to be fed, cars to be filled, & asses to be wiped has more to do with inflation & the cost of living than any other thing, right along with pollution, resources dwindling, etc. So, maybe " ..be fruitful & multiply .." is not such a great policy to be following, after all. Maybe if you people could make do with producing far fewer wee ones to cuddle & stop making it your fight to force others to make more of the same, you wouldn't have to spend so much on what you need to keep the number you should have had. But, hey, ..Rock On Humanity! Have your fun while you can, because your time is just about up.
Or when you don't even bother to report crimes anymore because because it's a 2 hour wait for police, (my city) and you have to get home/leave for work and can't wait around. Or because you know they won't process the criminal at all, or if they do, they will walk free before the ink dries on their paperwork. Or because "it's just a bike."
Carville telling me that prices are down is unbelievably laughable and enraging! When prices go up 50% and then come down 10%, that doesn't mean prices are down again...
This is exactly the sleight of hand that (in this case) Democrats are playing. Just because crime today is down compared to a month ago, doesn’t mean crime is actually DOWN.
Greedflation Greedflation: Profits used to be c. 11% of price, now 40-60% of price. I also agree with the commenter who pointed to the private equity firms buying up the Real Estate driving the cost of housing/rents. There’s a real reason that MBS/Saudi Arabia gave Jared Kushner $2B; he’s one of the biggest slumlords around. On Gas; OPEC+ is cutting oil production. US is pumping 13M gallons of oil per day, but the US exports most of US oil b/c we mostly use Brent Crude from the ME & Europe uses mostly our Sweet Crude oil. But we export more than we import. OPEC+ which includes Russia & Iran is artificially keeping prices high by pumping less. Watch what the Big Oil companies’ profits are this year! Demand High = Prices High. Covid: Demand Low = Prices Low. Also, BTW you know who owns the US’s largest oil refinery? Saudi Aramco in Port Aransas, TX. Guess why prices for gas are so high still… Greedflation. And people are still paying for products even though prices for everything are higher so why would companies lower their prices? Now, costs for borrowing is very high right now for corporations, because of the Federal Banks interest rate hikes. But right now Companies are flush with cash. If consumers slow the buying we might see prices coming down, but with that we’ll see unemployment go up b/c of layoffs. We’ll also see housing foreclosures go up & guess who’ll be buying them up? Private equity firms. But people keep buying, unemployment is low, corporations profits keep setting records. Hence: GREEDFLATION!
Yes, indeed, EHudson, I'm on the exact same page as you with Carville saying "prices are down" occurs after "prices go up 50%and then come down 10% (MOST CERTAINLY) doesn't mean prices are down". I live in Sydney Australia, and can state categorically that since COVID struck neatly 4 years ago that my grocery spend is at LEAST 20 percent higher, and is probably 30% higher than then. However, my income is ONLY 10% higher. At least I have no dependents or debts to service because it would be horrific. As for James Carville he is about senile as Joe, and Nancy. And, MOREOVER, about as broke as both of them. I've been to the US on 14 occasions between 1984-2013 and was always amazed how as far back as 2010 you could buy a bacon and eggs with toast and a coffee at Times Square for half (in US dollars) what it'd cost in Australia or England. Whereas now - according to friends who have been there in the past year that cheap food - let alone great service - is a distant memory.
What has gone up 50% that can't be explained by the profits of the companies that produced it increasing proportionally? That's not Biden policy, that's gouging.
This is a great economy for the wealthy. Not so much for the middle-class and below. I make an above average income, but as a single person, I have been priced out of the housing market due to inflated home prices and high interest rates. A visit to the grocery store is a major expense. For the first time that I can remember, rents are less expensive than mortgage payments and I live in a state which is considered low cost. These are 3 wealthy men whose portfolio is in the stock market and doing well so of course they're going to say the economy is great. I do agree with the assessment of Mike Johnson and the threat of Christian nationalism. Dictatorship is knocking at the door of American freedom and it is clothed in religion to disguise the threat. I hope that Americans can see this for what it is.
Rubin mentioned elsewhere on this episode that the high property costs are partially due to companies like Blackrock with cash investors buying up houses as soon as they hit market with absurdly high cash offers. These companies keep demand and prices high because they have automated systems and enormous numbers of investors and enormous amounts of cash
You can thank Trump for many dying needlessly during Covid. All you can thank Trump for gabbing p-ssy and committing 91 felonies an counting. He is a traitor and a dictator wannabe. Of course many of his cult followers would love to have Donny as dictator for life.@@andyecheandia8375
Why does it constantly feel like we're being gaslighted about the economy and then told our experience and perception must be purely politically motivated? When's the last time James Carville or even Bill Maher had to live a typical economic existence in this country? It simply doesn't line up with the official numbers they spew from their lofty towers. This tends to happen regardless of which party holds any part of the federal government.
Bill had no idea that gas prices have come way down from 5 months ago, but they are still double what they were when the current president was sworn in. All important facts, that everybody missed out on mentioning.
I think they have trouble going from the macro which is useful for governing to the micro, where we live. They need to do better. Imagine a story on California's water shortage issues, pointing out Cali borders an ocean, that the world is 70 percent water, there is no water shortage. The macro of how much water we have in the world, is unrelated to the micro, how much water is available in a region. And that's what politicians in power do when the public isn't unhappy. They want us to ignore the reality of the regions we live in and accept the average of what's going on across the whole of the US. What difference does it make if crime nationwide fell by 50 percent if crime in your city went up? Who cares about a record low unemployment if you are working 2 minimum wage jobs to make ends meet?
@@svscared Call a person who is the richest in the world and has several successful businesses an idiot who lacks good judgment or doesn't know what he's doing? I think you might want to look in the mirror.
@@Kroogg This may surprise you but just because a person is wealthy doesn't mean they're smart, especially someone like Musk who was born on 3rd base. Also many of his businesses either almost didn't make it or he took over after the core success was already put into place. Many people could be successful if they were born with the amount of wealth he was born into. Sorry to burst your bubble of him.
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I don't know why Carville can't just accept the fact Americans regardless of political party don't think the economy is good when they see how it affects their monthly budget. It's easy for him to say its fine because he has the kind of money where he never has to worry about missing payments.
Greedflation Greedflation: Profits used to be c. 11% of price, now 40-60% of price. I also agree with the commenter who pointed to the private equity firms buying up the Real Estate driving the cost of housing/rents. There’s a real reason that MBS/Saudi Arabia gave Jared Kushner $2B; he’s one of the biggest slumlords around. On Gas; OPEC+ is cutting oil production. US is pumping 13M gallons of oil per day, but the US exports most of US oil b/c we mostly use Brent Crude from the ME & Europe uses mostly our Sweet Crude oil. But we export more than we import. OPEC+ which includes Russia & Iran is artificially keeping prices high by pumping less. Watch what the Big Oil companies’ profits are this year! Demand High = Prices High. Covid: Demand Low = Prices Low. Also, BTW you know who owns the US’s largest oil refinery? Saudi Aramco in Port Aransas, TX. Guess why prices for gas are so high still… Greedflation. And people are still paying for products even though prices for everything are higher so why would companies lower their prices? Now, costs for borrowing is very high right now for corporations, because of the Federal Banks interest rate hikes. But right now Companies are flush with cash. If consumers slow the buying we might see prices coming down, but with that we’ll see unemployment go up b/c of layoffs. We’ll also see housing foreclosures go up & guess who’ll be buying them up? Private equity firms. But people keep buying, unemployment is low, corporations profits keep setting records. Hence: GREEDFLATION!
JC is a nut. His analogy of a mother of two initiative to get to USA and he has a job for her. What job is that JC? Cleaning your toilets? But the cost on the taxpayer for a non citizen mother of two for their housing, medical, snap benefits, education, child care (who will watch her two kids while she is cleaning toilets? She isn't going to be working in a high earning profession to cover these costs) etc.. will cost the taxpayers hundreds of thousands. This guy is out of his mind.
Carville is full of crap. These people don't walk here either. They pay smugglers and travel in an air-conditioned tour bus to the border. Your are right, taxpayers pay all the living and medical costs for the uneducated to take low wage job here.
And now Durbin wants migrants in our military. It's the stupidest idea I've ever heard. Ya think they won't be used against our own citizens? I got a bridge to sell you.
convictions are down. crimes are not. There are less police to take reports. Let that sink in. You might choose to be blind to that. but the day someone is outside your door trying to get in and your 911 call goes unanswered.... You get what you deserve.
True. Democrats need to give it a rest with the fear mongering. Republicans who say that the United States is a Christian nation have been around forever.
What does scare me though is that merely typing the words "the United States is a Christian nation" into the reply above in order to reference the topic in the video was enough to get it censored. Edit: Didn't trip it that time. The thought police aren't even consistent.
If you look at the wealth inequality in the US and wonder why the middle and working class don't seem happy when the economy is growing then I dont really know how to explain this concept. Seeing rich people get richer when you are poor does not make you happy. Talking about "The economy" as if it is fairly distributed and everyone would be happy when the GDP is growing has to be one of the stupidest implicit assumptions in US politics.
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We have been here before and one result was the Great Depression. What stopped it was government regulation of industry and banking. Now we have the Republicans working to eliminate all those regulations and controls (look at Jarkesy vs SEC as one example) to have a society again with a few ultra rich and mostly poor with no ability to change that structure. The end result of a low control capitalistic society will always end up with a few rich and most poor. Pushing the government to control that is the only solution that has ever worked.
When the overall scoring says "the economy" is good, the worker class MAY see improvement. When such scoring says it's bad, it's for guaranteed sure they won't. Well, yeah. Money is insulation, directly speaking. It also gives access/control of government to keep the money coming. Those with big money use it. Those without much can strike, get pitchforks and torches, or vote for candidates who are sympathetic and unbought. Hard to know who's not bought. Easy to see which party is less sympathetic.
@@jd190d man. You sure haven't tried to start a company, have you... The ultra rich love regulation. They lobby for it en-masse. And why wouldn't they? On average, lobbying money has a 22'000% return rate, it's absolutely insane. As it turns out, if you lobby for a couple different bureaucratic permits and whatnot to starting a company, it makes it harder to start a company! Repeat the process for several more megacorporations and you have the state of america today: $100'000 and a YEAR of dealing with bureaucracy just to start anything at all. Unsurprisingly, middle class people don't have that kind of time and money lying arround. Middle class people not starting companies means no competition to the megacorporations, and that's how you get the return rate on lobbying. The alliance of politicians and corporations resulting in overregulation is the prime threat to economic stability and the most potent cause of economic inequality today.
Totally agree, but then these angry voters let a worse candidate take over to their own detriment - one who aggressively reinforces the very policies they're angry about - defeating their own purpose, worsening the crisis for themselves and the rest of the country in the long run. This behavior, imo, stems from ignorance. Which, btw, makes the wealthy elite very happy.
In modern politics, it is difficult to separate those who really want to serve for the good of their country and people from those who pursue other self-serving goals, be it position in society, power or personal enrichment. It is necessary to judge not by words, but by actions.
@eralddavid6892 nope not by accident at all. All of these supposed increases in expense are all manufactured lies. No material costs more without the desire to earn a greater profit. All publicly traded stock operates on this premise. That is the driver for all other expense increases. Rent has increased due to companies seeing the profitability of buying up real estate and then sending in their own appraiser to drive the value of the property through the roof. It's called return on investment. If you own something that someone else needs then you are entitled to profit from that. But how much is enough profit wise? Do you need a 150% return or has greed taken over your conscience?
“Christian Nationalism I a bigger threat than Al Qaeda”. That’s a bold statement, but no explanation. Also, in reference to Johnson’s quote: James, we don’t live in a Democracy. You, of all people, should know that.
Carville is the epitome of the elite mentality: "I've got so much money, so it doesn't bother me how much I'm paying for groceries." Good luck with that as a campaign strategy.
It's the same hubris that has infected the Democratic Party since he played a direct role in putting the Clintons in office. He's as arrogant now as he was back then. And this is exactly why people have been leaving the Dem Party in droves, and why the party is imploding (not that the Repubs are really any better, mind you).
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@@tapetwo7115 I live in LA. I’ve been out plenty and crime is definitely up here. Our DA Gascon just doesn’t allow certain things to be prosecuted and doesn’t let prosecutors add on charges.
I'm a conservative, but I still love you Bill. Keep up the good work! Great putting Dave on. Loved your Club Random with him. This is the kind of dialog we need for our future!
Ya... watching him sit silent as Carville says Christian nationals are more a threat than al qaeda. What a great show lmao...I think you have conservative and rino mixed up.
@@mrbiglicks8267except Carville is right. The majority of mass shootings by groups are white nationalists. Not radical islamic. Majority of hate crimes are White Nationalists. Dave is a putz. And it seems you are too if you think he's too far left or center, when he's a Viktor Orban apologist.
Yes--THIS, exactly! Carville and the establishment Dems maintain the status quo for their corporate donors and keep out progressive voices, who actually want to enact policies to alleviate financial hardship for the majority of Americans, by not holding a Democratic primary. And, the news media--whose owners benefit from these policies--provide no news coverage of the Dems running against Biden. It's a vicious circle.
I can understand the anger. Food has gotten very expensive for a lot of folks and it doesn't help that there are now a slew of pet food companies that are blitzing commercials for products that contain corn, peas, and what are now expensive cuts of meat. Meanwhile the average consumer has to decide if they can afford chicken, or just settle for hotdogs.
Carville commenting on the state of the economy is a bit of a joke. I bet ya that Carville has not been to a grocery store in years. He probably has an ambitious Mexican migrant doing his errands for him while her children wash his car.
at least he literally meant the "come in, I have a job for you" lol... doesn't mean he pays them well... the Carvillians are definitely the demise of the democrats.
I agree with David Mamet : if you watch a movie from start to finish with no audio you should still be able to summarize the plot (which means it was well directed).
“Preserve Dutch value and not the Dutch ethnicity..” When they go after China, Zimbabwe, or Japan and say the equivalent, I’ll believe him when he says it.
@@davidyohalem629your right. Ethnicity and race to the common folk around the world could be used interchangeable. While those who take anthropology classes understand that they are two sperate things. Nazi Germany used the word race, while Americans would use Ethnicity. Ethnicity could also be seen as nationality as well.
@@greatkentuckian9032 Race is a construct and has no reality. Ethnicity, however, has an anthropological definition, as does culture. Annie doesn't know whereof she speaks. On the other hand, I'm always right and never lie.
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Why cant we be compassionate and maintain boarder security? I think Carville is mixing emotions and public policy and I think we would be off not framing issues in binary.
@@taylorlibby7642 Good question/point, definitions should all be well defined to the satisfaction of all participants. Often the political discourse is obfuscated when definitions and terms are not agreed to. In this case as in most it would vary and be subjective so clarifying compassion would be very important. My personal definition of compassion as it relates to this case is irrelevant to my initial point and sharing it would, I suspect, only breed unproductive debate.
It's not the simple, it never is. Supply chains were f'd for about 2 years. Prices will deflate, it takes time. On the other hand the Federal Reserve is completely against deflation so if that's on the horizon they'll drop interest rates to keep prices up and growing.
just found out about dave rubin. that guy is making a lot of sense. and when you figure he's a new yorker and former californian and a former young turks protege.... and also a gay man - -- who is screaming to ppl how terrible democrats are right now..... we might want to listen.
"The fact that people believe something doesn't make it a fact." James Carville Yes this is our country's problem: too many people believe whatever they want without researching it / understanding facts.
Unfortunately, politicians will never talk about *why* this is the case; the average "voter" is dumb, and because they are dumb, they have unreasonable fears about almost everything they are incapable of understanding. Like Ron White says, "You can't fix stupid."
@angryagain3801 I agree. I think people should strive to get their news from reputable news organizations, i.e. PBS News Hour, Associated Press, Reuters, Cspan, etc. and leave Tik-Tok, Facebook and X for entertainment purposes.
I feel that in the current environment not all crime is being reported to the police. Easy to claim crime is down when the people have basically given up knowing no outcome will come of it.
I wrote this exactly up a little further. "Or when you don't even bother to report crimes anymore because because it's a 2 hour wait for police, (my city) and you have to get home/leave for work and can't wait around. Or because you know they won't process the criminal at all, or if they do, they will walk free before the ink dries on their paperwork. Or because "it's just a bike."
what James does not understand is despite the numbers, I cant afford to buy a new home because the mortgage rates and home prices are ridiculous. I cant afford to get a new vehicle because old cars with over 100k miles are going to $20k. I also moved away from Chicago because while James says crime is dropping in my far west suburb there was a shoot out in the parking lot of the biggest grocery store in the area at 5pm on Wednesday in broad daylight with families everywhere, it was drug deal went bad. This was an hour away from Chicago. I also decided with my work it was not worth driving into Chicago during BLM to get pulled out of my car and beaten by an angry mob. So I left. So tell me more James how I'm stupid for not feeling great because the numbers are improving.
I could have written your comment- but replace Chicago with Denver. Same-same. Crime is definitely up, and many people feel very uneasy, unsafe (except the rich, like James, in their fancy enclaves), but don't report it, because if it were me, I'd be on the phone several times per day just reporting what I see on a daily basis. At some point you just give up and move to the red state you said you'd never move to. My important issues used to be pro-choice, but now it's just staying alive.
They can say that crime is dropping because, in blue states they lowered the boundaries of a crime, you have to steal over a thousand dollars worth of stuff to be a crime.
@@user-pu2yy8xd9x Do a little research before you move. Most red states have a higher violent crime rate per capita than blue states. Living in Illinois does not mean living in or near Chicago. Higher population, i.e. big cities, will always have more crime per square mile than rural areas because there are more people to commit the crime. I know people that live in the deep south and they have major issues with meth and crimes related to it.
Mortgage rates are ridiculous -- that is factually wrong -- mortgage rates at near 0 was unprecedented and was only supported by the government (Central Bank) transfering taxpayers money to homeowners ( and other asset holder) . This caused houses to rise in value so far out of reach for most people. A 7.5% mortgage is within the normal range in in modern history. ( during very productive economic growth) US used car prices are dropping by 11% -- demand use to be high due to lack of new car supply due to pandemic and chip shortage --- prices will continue to drop into 2024. New car pices are also dropping due to excess supply Crime is dropping that does not mean that no crime exists, that is about luck.
Bill, please can you have Douglas Murray on the show to discuss Israel, immigration, British royal family nonsense etc. He’s the guy to interview at the moment
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Carville saying "that dude is weird, man" while wearing a pink hoodie with USMC on it is pure comedy gold....
Gawd bless Murica 🤓🖕
2003, CJCS Gen Dick B. Meyers comes aboard the USS Rhode Island with the Comandant of the USMC to observe our submarine and test a new USMC speed small craft boat. His bodyguard, clearly a man you should NEVER cross, had a bright neon pink polo and a purple fanny pack with 2 desert eagle .45 pistols.
Pretty much, the common thread? Both are secure in their masculinity. Seems like something you might be lacking.
Also, did you know most of the high ranking and presidents up to 1920s wore pink dresses until they were 5 years old? Teddy Roosevelt, a paragon of manhood at the time. Pink gown at 5.
What is wild is the insecurity in people today. That is what is tearing us down. Insecurity causing people to freak out about their image and what others are doing related to appearance so badly you won't respect their accomplishments because you're upset at men wearing pink.
Men wore, what we now call "dresses" for the first 10,000 years of civilization. The differences of dress between men and women is a recent trend, about 400 years.. Nonetheless, if women can wear pants, men can wear dresses, is what I say. Masculinity is a state of mind. So is femininity.
@@raef90 Pink is just another color. Some people long ago said pink is for girls and blue is for boys. We always need to compartmentalize everything. Life doesn't work like that.
James carville being the top strategist for Dems make complete sense why the party is the way it is lmao
Is he speaking English ?
HE'S A TOTAL JOKE
Agreed lol this not only personally alarming me because of certain things but that guy is an idiot.
“Party is the way it is”, what does that mean exactly?
Donald Trump being the top candidate for president makes complete sense why the party, it’s voters are is a fascist theocratic movement PROVES James Carvers’ point about self referential policies and alternative “facts” and believing his point they believe the earth is only 6,000 yrs old in polls. At some point we have the blame the voters for who gets elected and why 🤣
Carville is literally doing the "don't believe your own lying eyes" bit and the audience can't clap hard enough.
he’s kinda sounding like a conspiracy theorist
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He's got some good points though.
I mean, if you compare the averages between red states vs blue states on economics and life expectancy, how are the GOP still around?
If you live in a red state, your life expectancy is 4 years shorter and your median household income is 12,000$ per year lower. Hod do the GOP get away with that? Because people don't believe the data. They believe what they want to believe.
@@tysons9222Right like gas hasn’t went up and that it is cheap🤷🏻♂️
Gas has gone up again in my area in Illinois
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Gas around the world is going up. It's a global issue. It's up in the country I live in too. I pay US$6.50 per gallon. How much do you pay?
James Carville calling "that dude weird" is the definition of irony.
Pot calling the kettle black
dude looks like a bald granny from the beverly hillbillies
Carville is weird in a quirky way. Musk is weird in a crazy way. Easy for any reasonable person to see.
@@vinceliardi1662 crazy? like in what way
You read my mind. I already had written it out in my head. But my version wasn't as nice. My version goes something like... "That's rich of James Carville, one of the weirdest oddities on the planet, who's name should be 'citizen weirdfuck', who obviously doesn't own a mirror. Would you if you looked like that biological experiment gone wrong? He makes that mouse with a human ear growing out of it's belly look normal.
I love when rich old men tell me that we’ve never had it better. Can’t buy a house and our tuition debt is 10x what they went through but yea … it’s never been better
Tuition is high because the federal government enabled it with idiotic loan programs. Housing is expensive because local governments create more and more expensive rules and regulations, creating artificial constraints on housing production. Also, see restrictive zoning laws
Agreed. I like Carville, but here he really echoed the types of Democrats we put with for decades who grew detached from middle class concerns because of their own wealth. It's what made Hillary Clinton such an awful candidate in 2016: she couldn't connect with "average Joes" at ALL. Big money is very blinding - for anyone. The pity is, we either get this type running for office or a nakedly crooked, greedy puppet for billionaires like Trump who is CLEARLY out to cut the throats of middle class workers. The former is still the lesser of 2 evils; yet, angry voters out of frustration often turn to the latter, thereby cutting their own throats.
Boo-hoo. Instead of crying and complaining, take some personal responsibility and grow up.
No you don’t understand!! James Carville is a political operative so he gets the final word!! Your real life experiences are not match for his vast knowledge on gas prices
Not just rich old men but liberal.
For James to call anyone weird is just hilarious .
Right? I laughed at him as he channels Gollum…
What's weird about him? A cajun accent?
He’s obnoxious and weird and wrong!
@@mikebracco890she admires Elon Musk and was insulted that someone would insult him. Even though he'll be a complete stranger to her, her entire life.
I had exactly the same reaction. Pot calling kettle black situation
Damn Carville has stepped off the deep end.
When was he on solid ground?
He’s always been this way
What did he say that's false?
Either we have a border or we don’t. I’m all for legal immigration, My wife is from Mexico. She had to spend the money, get the medical exams and take the test to become naturalized. Just letting people in is a smack in the face to the people that came in the right way.
America aint gonna eat unless it has non skills imergrants farm working though.
Let's say, for arguments sake, that there are 4 million undocumented people in the US. We can also say there are only 1500 employees of the federal government employed to process them. Many of the 4 million or so have applied for asylum. Both US and international laws prohibits their expulsion. The asylum seekers are not breaking any laws; they are not in the US illegally.
@@davidyohalem629this is correct. Which is why immigration in general is the problem. Mass immigration itself isn't the problem, not necessarily if it is technically legal or not. If all 4 million immigrants were legal, the negative effects would be the same.
@@RextheRebel Boo hoo. First, your answer makes no sense. Second, you smug Americans are sitting pretty, exploiting the rest of the planet, yet complaining about their taking your jobs and housing - probably your air. COP28 just finished and one of your presidential candidates wants to pump even more oil. And you say "sorry, but we're full up". Or not even "sorry". Americans are a bunch of ignoramuses, both in general and in the specific. You've destroyed the viability of many places on the planet. Your response: shut them out. Build a wall. You will reap what you have sown.
@@davidyohalem629 They are supposed to seek asylum at the first country they come to. They don’t get to pick and choose where they go. They are also supposed to come through a port of entry, not a gap in the C-wire or jumping the wall.
They're talking about the price of gasoline. I'm in the middle of the country where historically it's the cheaper place to live. The average 1 bedroom apartment is about 1200 a month. Double that price everyplace else. That's what's hurting peoples cost of living. These people are "out of touch."
Exactly
Not to mention that, during the record high inflation, products shrank. They haven't returned to normal size. Chips, Dips, snacks, etc..
Im a regular guy My 4/2 house payment is 1400 living in a major city in Ca. Money management, timing, and a dash of luck is important in financial planning.
Blame the greedy landlords that are sick also of tenants completely trashing rentals
" in the name of Allah" ... You are reported as spam.
Christopher Hitchens, of blessed memory, once described James Carville as the product of the love scene in Deliverance...
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Wasn't it "rape"? lol
Well after watching this clip, I have to agree with my favorite human being from beyond the grave.
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Listening to James talk is such a perfect reflection of the ignorance of the Democratic Party.
It is interesting how folks segregate according to language and style and mythology rather than substantive issues. Amusing.
Glad to see that Bill invited Gollum onto his show 😂
Carville seems very upset that people believe their lying eyes instead of his facts.
Carville seems very upset that people believe their lying eyes instead of his "facts."
- Added the quotation marks to ensure people understand Carville's facts are anything but facts.
All his life he's been used to putting out whatever he wants on WP or MSNBC, and people would blindly believe it.
These days, no so much; and he's sitting there thinking "why don't those idiots just believe whatever I claim without any evidence?". He probably have a really hard time with all these facts meddling in his spin. Just see how he's doing in this short segment; "let's not mention what Elon actually reacted to, but call him an antisemite and move on, quickly", "Republicans are a bugger threat than Al Queda" - Obviously the guy has taken too many mushrooms, and now we're all paying the price.
He seems so smug that America's crime rate went down like he personally made it happen .. YES murder spiked during the lockdown and now it has gone down .. "What a Miracle!"
.. People being locked together for a year .. social workers and cops staying home I am surprised it didn't triple
.. also "That dude is weird!" .. says Yoda in the pink Marine corp sweater
Bingo!
@@aamerkastoff1447dispute any of the economic numbers he pointed to. Or any current economic metric for that matter. You sheep believe in anecdotes and your 'feels'
Sun Tzu 101, as long as the people are divided you can rule both sides.. betting Carville has read Sun Tzu.. America needs to be Americans not Rep or Dem
Carville and Sun Tzu went to the same college btw.
@@stuff4sale80 the Art of War, that's not a 101 proposition. Hopefully, Carville's views may prevail, but yet again, without borders, there is little de debate about.
Larry David was Sun Tzu's professor
Gawd bless Murica 🤓🖕
Carville is a rodent.
Carville: "You're an immigrant, come see me!"
Cameras turn off
Carville: "Get the hell out of my 4th home in Martha's Vineyard!"
He needs a lot of staff for those four homes…
@@adamshaffer1232What now you’re against capitalism? He more than most could afford to employ anyone.
Dave Rubin understands borders and sovereign countries. There is no way Carville is a strategist, does he know how his country works, right?
When lots of people can't afford rent or food, they are going to think the economy is in trouble. No stats about the stock markets or job creation are going to change their mind or the reality of the situation.
That's because the people blaming Biden for food, rent or gas prices are imbeciles who aren't intelligent enough to be blaming global markets and wealthy private owners instead. A president doesn't set or have more than a marginal effect on food or rent prices. Bunch of right-wing maga dunces on this page.
What I want to know is what are Trump and the Republicans going to do to bring rents down, bring mortgages down, bring food prices down, bring gas prices down. I hear a lot of complaining and blaming but no solutions.
The only possible way for congress, the government or the president to lower people's rent prices is socialism... which obviously isn't the answer. The problem is greedy landlords & corporations!! The only hope to stop the greed is for the government to level a windfall tax on the record corporate profits they've had for the last 3yrs, do you think the reps would ever consider that?? The party of cutting taxes for millionaires/billionaires & corporations & nothing else?? No chance, they'd never consider it. The Dems are almost as corporate owned now as the Reps & they won't even talk about it
When people stop buying prices will decrease, but then come layoffs & foreclosures!
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As a senior who worked my whole life, often 2 jobs. The fact that I can literally barely make ends meet is horrifying. It’s a true struggle just to make it day to day.
Maybe if the huge tax breaks the Donald gave the 1% went to the Poor and Middle Class instead, you would be doing better. Nothing is done especially in Congress because it is a 3 ring circus with MAGAt clowns performing daily.
read about neoliberalism, it has been reducing the real wages paid to people since 1985
in 1980's wages and profits were split 50/50
neoliberal policies have moved that to 80/20 with wages getting 20%
nominal wages have held pretty steady or increased slightly, but real wages inflation adjusted have fallen dramatically
So the reason you struggle is the economic policies that moved from wages to profits.
Thank Milton Friedman and Ronald Reagan
@@yutyuiiuI’d call it neoconservatism! Or Greedflation!
BS on the Neoliberal policies you are shouting out!
The Problems we now have Are Republican policies that have been in power for the last 40 years! Reagan and Bush Sr. Changed all of the Rules back in the 80s, and The Wealthy and the Corporations have been taking in Billions of Dollars in Profits for All of those 40 years!
The USA needs to raise taxes on All of those Billions in Profits and Raise wages up to $20 an Hour for all of the hourly Workers!
@@yutyuiiunope. Thank end of any gold standard. You havent paid attention.
Take it from a former Dutchman: Gert Wilders is NOT far right. He is culturally right wing, but socially he is left wing. He is highly intelligent and by far the best debater of all Dutch politicians.
"Far right" is now a term applied to anyone who doesn't tow the leftist line. Notice how you never, ever hear them describe a new prime minister as "far left", because you can never be too far to the left.
Sure buddy, because it’s normal for normal politicians to look for friends in all of Europe’s far right parties, such as the Austrian FPÖ or the French national front.
Also totally normal to for politicians to act as lackeys to the Russian president.
@@PatricioVUnterproblem is the left wing has gone so far to the left that a lot of centrists and liberals are starting to side with the political right in many countries. I'm one for example.
He is absolutely far right in the sense that most of his ideas and plans are undermining democracy itself. On economics no one knows his policies since his plans are incomplete and completely void of a factual base.
@@PatricioVUnterYou clearly don't understand nuance and how people take different stances on different topics....
Carville: "That dude is weird, man." Audience: Clap like seals. All you need to know about Maher's audience...
The fact that they loved the guy before he stepped out of line with the left's narrative tells you the rest....
The audience has been the reason i have never made it to the ends of these videos many times.
Guess you didn't watch the actual episode, where Rubin got a bunch of claps and cheers and Bill suggested he planted Trumpers in the audiences. 😂
Since covid Bill has had people getting the cheers and clapping going in the audience.
Yes it's noticeable and does suck at times.
But right now your projecting your own bias and can't see the balance. ❤
Clapping like seals describes a Trump rally after he unveils his latest nickname for somebody who dares challenge dear cult leader.
The type that actually attend these shows are trained seals clapping on demand regardless of who sais what.
You are absolutely correct!!!
I love that in tv, there's no time for any conversation to get anywhere.. no wonder we can't solve our problems. there's no time to really talk about them with any depth..
People who listen to long-form discussions are going to have a deeper substantive understanding of the issues. Short-form is just sound-bite fodder.
Yeah, the Elon Musk conversation pissed me off. Bill was clearly ill-informed and he let Carville get in the last word even though he had nothing to contribute other than ad-hominems. If it had just been Bill and Dave they could actually have gotten to the bottom of it. Bill was about to say something Dave could have set him straight about, but he gestured at Carville and Carville took that as permission to start running his mouth. Yes, Carville, we all know that Elon is weird. But that contributes nothing to the conversation.
James Carville calling anyone weird is delicious TV
I think James Carville is starting to suffer from dimentia. He keeps getting weirder every time I see him.
Look at Carvilles face when Rubin mentions "lizard people". Priceless.
James carville calling anyone “weird” is just 😂
He is not weird. He is a lying immoral thug, who sells his own kind for the donor's $
Housing prices, food prices and entertainment prices are killing normal Americans. It doesn't matter how good the stock market is if they can't afford to eat.
Many Americans cannot even participate in the stock market. So they don't want to hear about that. They are struggling. And it is not a Biden, Trump, etc thing. It's a lot of greed and concern about short term profits.
Prices are high for working Americans, but think how much worse it would be if Trump had been re-elected...... Republicans don't have a solution either. Inflation has been on the rise since the 1970s. The Inflation Reduction Act does't lower food and housing prices. It does lower the price of certain pharmaceuticals. That's a start.
@@executivedecision6141 It says a lot when both parties and their enablers say "Vote for us because we're marginally better than the other guys." All either side does is gaslight as living conditions get progressively worse for everybody who isn't in the top 1%.
Exactly, I'm getting tired of rich people saying how good the economy is doing based on a metric that only benefits them. The stock market has nothing to do with the economy whatsoever, it only reflects how well wealthy people are doing.
Blame corporate greed! Corporations are enjoying record profits because they jacked their prices!
The problem with the economy is how you define it.
Company profits? Through the roof.
Productivity?Amazing! The shareholders are really happy.
That doesn't mean much for workers though. You can work full time and still not have enough to pay your outlandish rent, gas, and food, not to speak of Health insurance.
💯 Greedflation
Greedflation: Profits used to be c. 11% of price, now 40-60% of price. I also agree with the commenter who pointed to the private equity firms buying up the Real Estate driving the cost of housing/rents. There’s a real reason that MBS/Saudi Arabia gave Jared Kushner $2B; he’s one of the biggest slumlords around.
On Gas; OPEC+ is cutting oil production. US is pumping 13M gallons of oil per day, but the US exports most of US oil b/c we mostly use Brent Crude from the ME & Europe uses mostly our Sweet Crude oil. But we export more than we import. OPEC+ which includes Russia & Iran is artificially keeping prices high by pumping less. Watch what the Big Oil companies’ profits are this year! Demand High = Prices High. Covid: Demand Low = Prices Low. Also, BTW you know who owns the US’s largest oil refinery? Saudi Aramco in Port Aransas, TX. Guess why prices for gas are so high still… Greedflation.
And people are still paying for products even though prices for everything are higher so why would companies lower their prices? Now, costs for borrowing is very high right now for corporations, because of the Federal Banks interest rate hikes. But right now Companies are flush with cash. If consumers slow the buying we might see prices coming down, but with that we’ll see unemployment go up b/c of layoffs. We’ll also see housing foreclosures go up & guess who’ll be buying them up? Private equity firms.
But people keep buying, unemployment is low, corporations profits keep setting records. Hence: GREEDFLATION!
If only the workers! Politicians and megacorporations are happy. Small business owners and workers are not.
As it turns out, if you make it near impossible to start a company, they won't start. And if you take away tons of money from the people, they can't pay for things. If they can't pay for things they can't buy them, and if people aren't buying things then small business owners can't pay their workers living wages, or just straight up go out of business.
All thanks to politicians getting big lobbying money from corporations, because the government is too untransparent for people to protest it. This was coming for a long time, but covid and some bad monetary policy made it hit people like a truck.
Simply put, that's the definition of CAPITALISM. Earned money is taxed unlike assets.
Exactly. And this is why the working class gets angry when Biden brags about how great the country/economy is doing while 75% of us live in constant fear because we are forced to live paycheck to paycheck despite having full time jobs.
Well.. if you receive little enough you qualify for Medicaid. Enough less: rent; heat; and food. Just don't make too much. And you can still work fulltime!
Carville doing his best Fetterman impression.
James Carville “but look at these sheets of paper with data we put together, you are not struggling economically!”
"there are lies, there are damn lies, and there are statistics"
Unfortunately, a lot of Americans don't know how their government works. It's an education issue.
Sadly, a lot of people in Government don't know how it works and that is the bigger problem.
Civics classes were thrown out of the public, American classroom a LOOONG time ago…
That needs to be brought back ASAP; but all the politicians would rather debate about other stuff…
Both the far right and the far left focus too much on distractive cultural issues…
Common sense is not so common nowadays.
@BishopWalters12 I disagree. The people are the bigger problem because we put them there and put up with this shit. We don't hold them accountable because we don't know how government works and we don't pay attention.
@@kman8749 You're letting them off the hook and blaming the people.
I think the problem is that people like you want to make a generic comment and not identify who you refer to. Because i know many on left and right that would take the comment and agree but think about the other side. Lack of identifying bad ideas is why we are where we are. Men are not women. The economy isnt strong. Carvil is an evil evil man. He is a proven liar.
Carville calling anyone else strange is hilarious
Well he isn't wrong. Musk is one weird mf.
Carville's looks are genetic. His speech is genetics + Louisiana. Attire accents it all but Ben Affleck in a hoodie would pass w/out much comment. As for money, Carville (or nearly anyone) is much closer to the working class than to Musk. His political beliefs aren't strange at all to ordinary (D)s, just left of center.
Tell us about Elon, please. Last I saw he was telling X advertisers to get T F off his $44B lawn.
@@justinhill4847 considering whats becoming normal that not a bad thing
@@gemanscombe4985 You're dumb enough to believe that it's a bad thing that he said that to advertisers.
Good for you to be so open about your ignorance
@@justinhill4847 I agree with you... Every time I watch an interview of Musk; I just see someone disingenuous and represents a part of the tech world I worry about. Carville is right regarding California too...He mentions this on Real Time not Overtime "If everyone is leaving in droves why am I still sitting in traffic everyday..."
Love your expert panel bill it's like the blind leading the blind
Bill's entire show is the blind leading the blind, with Bill leading the pack.
Great content! 3 brilliant minds disagreeing in a respectful and humorous way!
Carville brilliant? He is a plantation overseer.
James is the embodiment of everything that’s wrong with democrats today.
he is the original metaphorical fire bomb thrower
Your comment is a a synthesis of everything that’s wrong with America today.
Do a tiny bit of research to see that it USA is responsible for the problems south of the border and why people are seeking ASYLUM.
A mother would not drag her children 1K miles through hostel territory if it were a great place to live.
It is the US government that has 150 years manipulating policy and installing criminals into leadership.
Change my mind.
Explain, genius. 😂
Explain? How about his crazy statement that Christian values are a greater threat to America than Al Qaeda? This stupidity is all you need to know about Democrat values.
@@user-yb8vr2ip2tHe doesn’t treat this country as if it’s a real country. He treats Martha’s Vinyard as his country and the rest of the country as pawns. They want to extract as much power and wealth for themselves through corporate government collusion. Then claim they need more power to fix the environment. They want to replace the American population which has values they despise with a more docile and dependent population. They use identitarianism as a way to divide this country between social issues to make entire swaths of people victims who aren’t really victims.
So your gas bill goes from 50 to 80 bucks for a tank, then it goes back down to 75 and you're supposed to be thankful. That is the calculus of James Carville.
Yes, that is the issue that dems don't address. Inflation rate is slowing but still increasing and the dems need to factor this into their strategy, and they don't .
@@darindamaddio3727 That's the challenge. Americans trust rich people and Republicans to handle the economy, not Dems. So if Trump were president with these numbers, he'd say the economy is the best ever, and that he'll make it much better.
But Biden can't do that. If he takes credit, he looks like an elitest prick flaunting his stock portfolio with friends at the country club.
If he stays quiet, Trump disparages the economy in bad faith. He always flaunted his economy, even when lots of voters weren't doing very well. His tax cuts or deals with Putin and Saudis wouldn't solve the problems struggling voters complain about either. Trump could help Putin conquer Ukraine, but they've spoiled so much of the country with bombs and mines that it's hard to think any tiny price drops that result would be worth the destruction and humiliation of an allied nation.
Voters still expect Biden to return prices to what they were before the pandemic, and fault him for failing that. Of course, it looks natural to hire Trump to rebuild what he had. They're not willing to see that Trump's economy cratered during the pandemic. Biden's is recovering much faster than Obama's. But falling inflation doesn't mainly mean prices fall. It means prices increase more slowly now than they did earlier.
It's hard to accept that the pandemic, bird flu, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, etc., changed prices, and basically, whoever's elected, they'll keep rising. The big question is, would Trump's tax cuts or Biden's infrastructure and support for unions more likely keep wages rising as fast? "Tax cuts and fascism vs. Elections and unions" probably doesn't make a great bumper sticker.
Didn't prices literally jump 20 cents after 2-3 days Biden was in office after he cancelled that pipeline day 1? Locally it went from 2.70 to 2.90 over night and it's gone from 3.50-3.75 the past 3 years and now it's down to 3.10 and I'm supposed to act like it's a blessing from on high that deserves my vote despite the oil reserves being emptied .
Right, ...& fuck every Republican since Nixon because gas prices never got back down to the 39 cents per gallon it was, when he was still in office, in 1973. They all screwed us over & let us down, because they failed to stop prices in general from always moving upward instead of getting everything for us cheaper & cheaper. But they didn't just 'fail', ...no, they did it on purpose! And, come to think of it, fuck Nixon too, because under Eisenhower in 1961, it was only 32 cents per gallon. And let's ignore the effect of demand increasing so egregiously over the span of years. Population & the number of mouths to be fed, cars to be filled, & asses to be wiped has more to do with inflation & the cost of living than any other thing, right along with pollution, resources dwindling, etc. So, maybe " ..be fruitful & multiply .." is not such a great policy to be following, after all. Maybe if you people could make do with producing far fewer wee ones to cuddle & stop making it your fight to force others to make more of the same, you wouldn't have to spend so much on what you need to keep the number you should have had. But, hey, ..Rock On Humanity! Have your fun while you can, because your time is just about up.
Complain to Chevron, et al.
Thanks for reminding me that Carville is completely off his rocker.
“the fact that people believe something, doesn’t make it a fact”…lets keep that energy across the board
81 million votes lol
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@@tiffanyroberts6460 kek
Climate change......
@@tiffanyroberts6460 Please
The crime rate drops when you dont actually arrest and charge people
Or when you don't even bother to report crimes anymore because because it's a 2 hour wait for police, (my city) and you have to get home/leave for work and can't wait around. Or because you know they won't process the criminal at all, or if they do, they will walk free before the ink dries on their paperwork. Or because "it's just a bike."
Good point.
Another problem the Democrats created. The only way to fix it is through Trump policies.
bingo
Yea I’m sure that’s been working with BLM protests. Crime had only risen when you don’t arrest and charge people
Its good to see that Gollum got dressed up for the show.
Love me some James Carville!
Carville telling me that prices are down is unbelievably laughable and enraging! When prices go up 50% and then come down 10%, that doesn't mean prices are down again...
This is exactly the sleight of hand that (in this case) Democrats are playing. Just because crime today is down compared to a month ago, doesn’t mean crime is actually DOWN.
Gas prices are down. But what you're saying is true enough.
Greedflation
Greedflation: Profits used to be c. 11% of price, now 40-60% of price. I also agree with the commenter who pointed to the private equity firms buying up the Real Estate driving the cost of housing/rents. There’s a real reason that MBS/Saudi Arabia gave Jared Kushner $2B; he’s one of the biggest slumlords around.
On Gas; OPEC+ is cutting oil production. US is pumping 13M gallons of oil per day, but the US exports most of US oil b/c we mostly use Brent Crude from the ME & Europe uses mostly our Sweet Crude oil. But we export more than we import. OPEC+ which includes Russia & Iran is artificially keeping prices high by pumping less. Watch what the Big Oil companies’ profits are this year! Demand High = Prices High. Covid: Demand Low = Prices Low. Also, BTW you know who owns the US’s largest oil refinery? Saudi Aramco in Port Aransas, TX. Guess why prices for gas are so high still… Greedflation.
And people are still paying for products even though prices for everything are higher so why would companies lower their prices? Now, costs for borrowing is very high right now for corporations, because of the Federal Banks interest rate hikes. But right now Companies are flush with cash. If consumers slow the buying we might see prices coming down, but with that we’ll see unemployment go up b/c of layoffs. We’ll also see housing foreclosures go up & guess who’ll be buying them up? Private equity firms.
But people keep buying, unemployment is low, corporations profits keep setting records. Hence: GREEDFLATION!
Yes, indeed, EHudson, I'm on the exact same page as you with Carville saying "prices are down" occurs after "prices go up 50%and then come down 10% (MOST CERTAINLY) doesn't mean prices are down".
I live in Sydney Australia, and can state categorically that since COVID struck neatly 4 years ago that my grocery spend is at LEAST 20 percent higher, and is probably 30% higher than then.
However, my income is ONLY 10% higher. At least I have no dependents or debts to service because it would be horrific.
As for James Carville he is about senile as Joe, and Nancy. And, MOREOVER, about as broke as both of them.
I've been to the US on 14 occasions between 1984-2013 and was always amazed how as far back as 2010 you could buy a bacon and eggs with toast and a coffee at Times Square for half (in US dollars) what it'd cost in Australia or England. Whereas now - according to friends who have been there in the past year that cheap food - let alone great service - is a distant memory.
What has gone up 50% that can't be explained by the profits of the companies that produced it increasing proportionally? That's not Biden policy, that's gouging.
This is a great economy for the wealthy. Not so much for the middle-class and below. I make an above average income, but as a single person, I have been priced out of the housing market due to inflated home prices and high interest rates. A visit to the grocery store is a major expense. For the first time that I can remember, rents are less expensive than mortgage payments and I live in a state which is considered low cost. These are 3 wealthy men whose portfolio is in the stock market and doing well so of course they're going to say the economy is great. I do agree with the assessment of Mike Johnson and the threat of Christian nationalism. Dictatorship is knocking at the door of American freedom and it is clothed in religion to disguise the threat. I hope that Americans can see this for what it is.
You can thank Dementia Joe for those negative conditions.
Rubin mentioned elsewhere on this episode that the high property costs are partially due to companies like Blackrock with cash investors buying up houses as soon as they hit market with absurdly high cash offers. These companies keep demand and prices high because they have automated systems and enormous numbers of investors and enormous amounts of cash
Amen
@andyecheandia8375 you are the one with dementia.
You can thank Trump for many dying needlessly during Covid. All you can thank Trump for gabbing p-ssy and committing 91 felonies an counting. He is a traitor and a dictator wannabe. Of course many of his cult followers would love to have Donny as dictator for life.@@andyecheandia8375
Carville calling anyone weird is irony of the first order!
Good show, good balance
Why does it constantly feel like we're being gaslighted about the economy and then told our experience and perception must be purely politically motivated?
When's the last time James Carville or even Bill Maher had to live a typical economic existence in this country? It simply doesn't line up with the official numbers they spew from their lofty towers. This tends to happen regardless of which party holds any part of the federal government.
Bill had no idea that gas prices have come way down from 5 months ago, but they are still double what they were when the current president was sworn in. All important facts, that everybody missed out on mentioning.
Most people that talk about "the economy" simply mean GDP. It has no relation to real world day to day life for ordinary people.
I think they have trouble going from the macro which is useful for governing to the micro, where we live. They need to do better. Imagine a story on California's water shortage issues, pointing out Cali borders an ocean, that the world is 70 percent water, there is no water shortage. The macro of how much water we have in the world, is unrelated to the micro, how much water is available in a region.
And that's what politicians in power do when the public isn't unhappy. They want us to ignore the reality of the regions we live in and accept the average of what's going on across the whole of the US. What difference does it make if crime nationwide fell by 50 percent if crime in your city went up? Who cares about a record low unemployment if you are working 2 minimum wage jobs to make ends meet?
@@sandyunderpants4376 gas prices only doubled because they were crazy low during Covid. They are at a normal affordable price now
Our debt will further drive inflation. The only way to pay our national debt is to inflate.
Carville calling Musk weird is the pot calling the kettle black .
That was his polite way of calling Elon an idiot who doesn't have good judgement or know what the hell he's doing half the time.
You are so right , Carrillo is a strange one for sure!
And yet Carville wasn't wrong.
@@svscared Call a person who is the richest in the world and has several successful businesses an idiot who lacks good judgment or doesn't know what he's doing? I think you might want to look in the mirror.
@@Kroogg This may surprise you but just because a person is wealthy doesn't mean they're smart, especially someone like Musk who was born on 3rd base. Also many of his businesses either almost didn't make it or he took over after the core success was already put into place. Many people could be successful if they were born with the amount of wealth he was born into. Sorry to burst your bubble of him.
There goes James spouting off complete batshit verbal effluvia and Dave is just letting it happen 🤦♂️
Hearing that caville is from Louisiana made everything make so much more sense
James Carville calling anyone else "weird" has got to be the height of irony 😂
In the name of Allah, we invite you to worship Allah alone, so say: I bear witness that there is no god but Allah and I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. These words make you a servant of Allah ............ .......... .......
Carville and Podesta like children, for immigration
@@Martina-qj3zf Go away, sons of Abraham
That's the joke 😅
@@jjeKKellor your pronouns are r/e/t/a/r/d
James Carville calling Elon Musk a weird guy is maybe the pot calling the kettle black thing I've ever heard
Musk sends rockets into space. Carville only sends fish food down the toilet while controlling the cattle .. an awful creature
I love this episode!
Good for Dave interjecting the truth about America at the end ❤❤❤❤
I don't know why Carville can't just accept the fact Americans regardless of political party don't think the economy is good when they see how it affects their monthly budget. It's easy for him to say its fine because he has the kind of money where he never has to worry about missing payments.
He's selling what he believes, but the problem is he is a boomer, and he passes his prime
Other than the upper-middle to upper class, Americans haven't thought the economy was good since the mid-70s. Duh.
@@danvol3835facts
5% GDP growth with 8% inflation means the GPD actually shrank by 3%…
Basic math…
Greedflation
Greedflation: Profits used to be c. 11% of price, now 40-60% of price. I also agree with the commenter who pointed to the private equity firms buying up the Real Estate driving the cost of housing/rents. There’s a real reason that MBS/Saudi Arabia gave Jared Kushner $2B; he’s one of the biggest slumlords around.
On Gas; OPEC+ is cutting oil production. US is pumping 13M gallons of oil per day, but the US exports most of US oil b/c we mostly use Brent Crude from the ME & Europe uses mostly our Sweet Crude oil. But we export more than we import. OPEC+ which includes Russia & Iran is artificially keeping prices high by pumping less. Watch what the Big Oil companies’ profits are this year! Demand High = Prices High. Covid: Demand Low = Prices Low. Also, BTW you know who owns the US’s largest oil refinery? Saudi Aramco in Port Aransas, TX. Guess why prices for gas are so high still… Greedflation.
And people are still paying for products even though prices for everything are higher so why would companies lower their prices? Now, costs for borrowing is very high right now for corporations, because of the Federal Banks interest rate hikes. But right now Companies are flush with cash. If consumers slow the buying we might see prices coming down, but with that we’ll see unemployment go up b/c of layoffs. We’ll also see housing foreclosures go up & guess who’ll be buying them up? Private equity firms.
But people keep buying, unemployment is low, corporations profits keep setting records. Hence: GREEDFLATION!
JC is a nut. His analogy of a mother of two initiative to get to USA and he has a job for her. What job is that JC? Cleaning your toilets? But the cost on the taxpayer for a non citizen mother of two for their housing, medical, snap benefits, education, child care (who will watch her two kids while she is cleaning toilets? She isn't going to be working in a high earning profession to cover these costs) etc.. will cost the taxpayers hundreds of thousands. This guy is out of his mind.
All of these virtue signalers are out of their minds.
Carville is full of crap. These people don't walk here either. They pay smugglers and travel in an air-conditioned tour bus to the border. Your are right, taxpayers pay all the living and medical costs for the uneducated to take low wage job here.
It overlooks the fact that one woman is coming along with 50 military aged men
And now Durbin wants migrants in our military. It's the stupidest idea I've ever heard. Ya think they won't be used against our own citizens? I got a bridge to sell you.
Well said. Couldn't agree more. The democrats have lost sight of reality! Wait till the dust settles from their open borders and lawlessness.
convictions are down. crimes are not. There are less police to take reports. Let that sink in. You might choose to be blind to that. but the day someone is outside your door trying to get in and your 911 call goes unanswered.... You get what you deserve.
They come for the Saturday people first, then the Sunday people. 🇺🇸
Carville sounds like a conspiracy theorist… 😂
Really? To me he sounds more like an idiot.
True. Democrats need to give it a rest with the fear mongering. Republicans who say that the United States is a Christian nation have been around forever.
What does scare me though is that merely typing the words "the United States is a Christian nation" into the reply above in order to reference the topic in the video was enough to get it censored.
Edit: Didn't trip it that time. The thought police aren't even consistent.
IKR?! And him calling Elon and RFK jr voters weird is hilarious.
Carville is looking more like ET every day.
ET was intelligent.
And he sounds like an Appalachian American who just drank a jug of moonshine.
Ouuuch
E.T's balls more like.
That last part was shaping up to be very interesting, and it’s a shame Dave didn’t get a chance to respond
Saw you debate Sam Seder on the majority report earlier. You sounded even sharper than usual. Respect for finally having some cajones
If you look at the wealth inequality in the US and wonder why the middle and working class don't seem happy when the economy is growing then I dont really know how to explain this concept. Seeing rich people get richer when you are poor does not make you happy. Talking about "The economy" as if it is fairly distributed and everyone would be happy when the GDP is growing has to be one of the stupidest implicit assumptions in US politics.
In the name of Allah, we invite you to worship Allah alone, so say: I bear witness that there is no god but Allah and I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. These words make you a servant of Allah ....... ........
We have been here before and one result was the Great Depression. What stopped it was government regulation of industry and banking. Now we have the Republicans working to eliminate all those regulations and controls (look at Jarkesy vs SEC as one example) to have a society again with a few ultra rich and mostly poor with no ability to change that structure. The end result of a low control capitalistic society will always end up with a few rich and most poor. Pushing the government to control that is the only solution that has ever worked.
When the overall scoring says "the economy" is good, the worker class MAY see improvement. When such scoring says it's bad, it's for guaranteed sure they won't. Well, yeah. Money is insulation, directly speaking. It also gives access/control of government to keep the money coming. Those with big money use it. Those without much can strike, get pitchforks and torches, or vote for candidates who are sympathetic and unbought. Hard to know who's not bought. Easy to see which party is less sympathetic.
@@jd190d man. You sure haven't tried to start a company, have you...
The ultra rich love regulation. They lobby for it en-masse. And why wouldn't they? On average, lobbying money has a 22'000% return rate, it's absolutely insane. As it turns out, if you lobby for a couple different bureaucratic permits and whatnot to starting a company, it makes it harder to start a company! Repeat the process for several more megacorporations and you have the state of america today: $100'000 and a YEAR of dealing with bureaucracy just to start anything at all. Unsurprisingly, middle class people don't have that kind of time and money lying arround. Middle class people not starting companies means no competition to the megacorporations, and that's how you get the return rate on lobbying.
The alliance of politicians and corporations resulting in overregulation is the prime threat to economic stability and the most potent cause of economic inequality today.
Totally agree, but then these angry voters let a worse candidate take over to their own detriment - one who aggressively reinforces the very policies they're angry about - defeating their own purpose, worsening the crisis for themselves and the rest of the country in the long run. This behavior, imo, stems from ignorance. Which, btw, makes the wealthy elite very happy.
In modern politics, it is difficult to separate those who really want to serve for the good of their country and people from those who pursue other self-serving goals, be it position in society, power or personal enrichment. It is necessary to judge not by words, but by actions.
Finally, a voice of reason,
in this comment stream.
There seems to be very little concequences of poor actions. look at the the extremes Santos had to go to to get kicked out.
Perhaps because you just don’t agree with him?
I have to break down the Carvell content. Pure gold!🤣🤣
Well crap is brown not gold.
3.6 % unemployment means nothing when wages are so low.
The rent where I live has gone up 150% in 3 years. That has not gone down whatsoever. Greed is the cancer of this country
why has the rent gone up? Your landlord's expenses have not gone up? Have democrat legislators in your area prevented more housing form being built?
@stacypotter2310 manufactured market value is what drives it up actually. Those #'s are an inflation based on perceived value and profitability
Blame Biden for that
Oh so just, by accident, your landlord just goy greedy in the last 3 years? Boi do I have a volcano insurance that I want to sell you
@eralddavid6892 nope not by accident at all. All of these supposed increases in expense are all manufactured lies. No material costs more without the desire to earn a greater profit. All publicly traded stock operates on this premise. That is the driver for all other expense increases. Rent has increased due to companies seeing the profitability of buying up real estate and then sending in their own appraiser to drive the value of the property through the roof. It's called return on investment. If you own something that someone else needs then you are entitled to profit from that. But how much is enough profit wise? Do you need a 150% return or has greed taken over your conscience?
Wow, this guy must not have to pay for anything. Economy is great for him I guess
I hope they bus migrants to his home next time.
@@piotrswat169that has nothing to do with it. Corporations aren't raising their prices and shrinking products because of immigration
“Christian Nationalism I a bigger threat than Al Qaeda”. That’s a bold statement, but no explanation.
Also, in reference to Johnson’s quote: James, we don’t live in a Democracy. You, of all people, should know that.
Carville is the epitome of the elite mentality: "I've got so much money, so it doesn't bother me how much I'm paying for groceries." Good luck with that as a campaign strategy.
It's the same hubris that has infected the Democratic Party since he played a direct role in putting the Clintons in office. He's as arrogant now as he was back then. And this is exactly why people have been leaving the Dem Party in droves, and why the party is imploding (not that the Repubs are really any better, mind you).
In the name of Allah, we invite you to worship Allah alone, so say: I bear witness that there is no god but Allah and I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. These words make you a servant of Allah ............ .......... .......
James is that crazy uncle at the holidays.
He really is, and he's getting worse all the time. He used to be witty and on point. I don't know what happened to him.
Old age. Dementia.@@jayjones9219
@@jayjones9219he is old and his mind wanders mid conversation
James Caville always looked and sounded funny, but don't let his old age fool you. He's as sharp as ever!
@executivedecision6141, haha, are you drunk.
Calling Musk "weird" is an insult to the word "weird".
As a Marine Corps Veteran I'm a offended at a USMC pink sweater.
James Carville, Thank you!
4:50 the crime rates are down?! More like the DAs in the areas with high crime rates have stopped prosecuting crimes.
Go outside. It’s not really that scary out there. Also work smart and you get paid more.
@@tapetwo7115 I live in LA. I’ve been out plenty and crime is definitely up here. Our DA Gascon just doesn’t allow certain things to be prosecuted and doesn’t let prosecutors add on charges.
@@annap2287the reason behind that is jail and prison overcrowding. It's a much greater problem beyond prosecuting lesser crimes.
I'm a conservative, but I still love you Bill. Keep up the good work! Great putting Dave on. Loved your Club Random with him. This is the kind of dialog we need for our future!
Ya... watching him sit silent as Carville says Christian nationals are more a threat than al qaeda. What a great show lmao...I think you have conservative and rino mixed up.
@@mrbiglicks8267except Carville is right. The majority of mass shootings by groups are white nationalists. Not radical islamic. Majority of hate crimes are White Nationalists.
Dave is a putz. And it seems you are too if you think he's too far left or center, when he's a Viktor Orban apologist.
@@mrbiglicks8267 I thought the same thing. Christians are NOT a threat to the country nor any other country. He's delusional and stupid.
@@mrbiglicks8267 Exactly what I thought.
Dave Rubin is a goon without a thought in his head. There are much better conservatives out there
Don't need a political strategy if you're actually in it for the people
Yes--THIS, exactly! Carville and the establishment Dems maintain the status quo for their corporate donors and keep out progressive voices, who actually want to enact policies to alleviate financial hardship for the majority of Americans, by not holding a Democratic primary. And, the news media--whose owners benefit from these policies--provide no news coverage of the Dems running against Biden. It's a vicious circle.
I can understand the anger. Food has gotten very expensive for a lot of folks and it doesn't help that there are now a slew of pet food companies that are blitzing commercials for products that contain corn, peas, and what are now expensive cuts of meat. Meanwhile the average consumer has to decide if they can afford chicken, or just settle for hotdogs.
Carville commenting on the state of the economy is a bit of a joke. I bet ya that Carville has not been to a grocery store in years. He probably has an ambitious Mexican migrant doing his errands for him while her children wash his car.
😂😂😂
at least he literally meant the "come in, I have a job for you" lol... doesn't mean he pays them well... the Carvillians are definitely the demise of the democrats.
priceless!
But the economy is doing well despite the rise in prices at the grocery store.
The economy is good despite what you see and hear
My insurance on my home was $2,300 now it’s $6,000 with the minimum coverage . These people are crazy.
Well, you voted for DeSantis. That is on you.
I don’t live in FL.
Carville is doing fine what's the problem?
@@dane4453 THERE COMMIE!! How does that foot of yours taste?
I agree with David Mamet : if you watch a movie from start to finish with no audio you should still be able to summarize the plot (which means it was well directed).
Pass the butter.
Nice to see Jim dressed up for the occasion.
Wow. Carville is insane.
“Preserve Dutch value and not the Dutch ethnicity..”
When they go after China, Zimbabwe, or Japan and say the equivalent, I’ll believe him when he says it.
Also... the cultural values are a part of the ethnicity... inseparable in fact. That quote is called word wizardry.
@@anniehopkins8470 You speak as though there were an American ethnicity.
@davidyohalem629……for the first 150 years it’s been the white Christians who have been in power……just ask the blacks and the Native American tribes.
@@davidyohalem629your right. Ethnicity and race to the common folk around the world could be used interchangeable. While those who take anthropology classes understand that they are two sperate things. Nazi Germany used the word race, while Americans would use Ethnicity. Ethnicity could also be seen as nationality as well.
@@greatkentuckian9032 Race is a construct and has no reality. Ethnicity, however, has an anthropological definition, as does culture. Annie doesn't know whereof she speaks. On the other hand, I'm always right and never lie.
Good luck America with strategists like that guy...😅
Mike Johnson has that "handmaid's tale" energy. 😂
He’s a lowlife who lets heroic Ukrainian soldiers die when he could give them their country back for a small price to Americans
Rich ppl telling poor ppl that the economy is great...Not surprised
Then they tell us we’re stupid and can’t read economic info. My grocery receipt is economic info too.
In the name of Allah, we invite you to worship Allah alone, so say: I bear witness that there is no god but Allah and I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. These words make you a servant of Allah ....... ........
Bill more combative than usual. Good conversation.
Bill needs to move to Israel. He's a Zionist clown.
Gas is not down in my upper midwestern gas stations.
I legit thought that was Billy Corgan in the thumbnail.
Why cant we be compassionate and maintain boarder security? I think Carville is mixing emotions and public policy and I think we would be off not framing issues in binary.
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@@ADMoxicaThx
What's your definition of "compassion" in this case then?
This Mongoloid in a hoodie makes cyborg John Fetterman look handsome
@@taylorlibby7642 Good question/point, definitions should all be well defined to the satisfaction of all participants. Often the political discourse is obfuscated when definitions and terms are not agreed to. In this case as in most it would vary and be subjective so clarifying compassion would be very important. My personal definition of compassion as it relates to this case is irrelevant to my initial point and sharing it would, I suspect, only breed unproductive debate.
The real problem is price gouging and excessive greed by corporations with no concern with anything but stock dividends and profit bonuses. Period.
100% true and the Donald backed them up 100%. Gave the the biggest tax breaks ever! And everyone else got squat.
"user-es8qx6ji4b" who's account was made Apr 18, 2023 is definitely not an astroturf account. Make sure to give him your likes to ~fight the power~.
It's not the simple, it never is. Supply chains were f'd for about 2 years. Prices will deflate, it takes time. On the other hand the Federal Reserve is completely against deflation so if that's on the horizon they'll drop interest rates to keep prices up and growing.
spot on, a lot companies give guidance every 3 month earnings and they don't guide down their "profits"
Is that what the left wing media is telling people? And you believe it? 😂
According to this guy America is doing great.
"The crime rate is done significantly" I read today... Can we please hold these people to at least the standards of a high school debate?
Bill must be starting to ask himself why he still has James Carville on. He never answers a question and starts ranting like your crazy uncle.
seemed fine to me... he's hard to hear with the accent but he gave succint answers the whole show
Two points to James Lindsey for predicting the "Christian Nationalist" smear.
You mean FACT articulated openly you now attempt to deflect from
And the dialect takes one step forward
Christian nationalism is fascism
just found out about dave rubin. that guy is making a lot of sense. and when you figure he's a new yorker and former californian and a former young turks protege.... and also a gay man - -- who is screaming to ppl how terrible democrats are right now..... we might want to listen.
@@nickyalousakis3851 spare me. Rubin is a clown
Love Dave!
“Crime rates are down” Explains why democratic cities avoid arresting criminals!
"The fact that people believe something doesn't make it a fact."
James Carville
Yes this is our country's problem: too many people believe whatever they want without researching it / understanding facts.
Que most of the progressive ideology....
I'm voting for the Trump/JFK ticket. Can't lose. 'Tards abound. @@brianbauer8761
Right like America being a free and fair country for example.
Unfortunately, politicians will never talk about *why* this is the case; the average "voter" is dumb, and because they are dumb, they have unreasonable fears about almost everything they are incapable of understanding. Like Ron White says, "You can't fix stupid."
@angryagain3801 I agree. I think people should strive to get their news from reputable news organizations, i.e. PBS News Hour, Associated Press, Reuters, Cspan, etc. and leave Tik-Tok, Facebook and X for entertainment purposes.
I feel that in the current environment not all crime is being reported to the police. Easy to claim crime is down when the people have basically given up knowing no outcome will come of it.
I wrote this exactly up a little further. "Or when you don't even bother to report crimes anymore because because it's a 2 hour wait for police, (my city) and you have to get home/leave for work and can't wait around. Or because you know they won't process the criminal at all, or if they do, they will walk free before the ink dries on their paperwork. Or because "it's just a bike."
Crime is down because they’re aren’t prosecuting.
what James does not understand is despite the numbers, I cant afford to buy a new home because the mortgage rates and home prices are ridiculous.
I cant afford to get a new vehicle because old cars with over 100k miles are going to $20k.
I also moved away from Chicago because while James says crime is dropping in my far west suburb there was a shoot out in the parking lot of the biggest grocery store in the area at 5pm on Wednesday in broad daylight with families everywhere, it was drug deal went bad. This was an hour away from Chicago.
I also decided with my work it was not worth driving into Chicago during BLM to get pulled out of my car and beaten by an angry mob.
So I left. So tell me more James how I'm stupid for not feeling great because the numbers are improving.
I could have written your comment- but replace Chicago with Denver. Same-same. Crime is definitely up, and many people feel very uneasy, unsafe (except the rich, like James, in their fancy enclaves), but don't report it, because if it were me, I'd be on the phone several times per day just reporting what I see on a daily basis. At some point you just give up and move to the red state you said you'd never move to. My important issues used to be pro-choice, but now it's just staying alive.
They can say that crime is dropping because, in blue states they lowered the boundaries of a crime, you have to steal over a thousand dollars worth of stuff to be a crime.
@@user-pu2yy8xd9x Do a little research before you move. Most red states have a higher violent crime rate per capita than blue states. Living in Illinois does not mean living in or near Chicago. Higher population, i.e. big cities, will always have more crime per square mile than rural areas because there are more people to commit the crime. I know people that live in the deep south and they have major issues with meth and crimes related to it.
But the 1% is doing great thanks to the Donald! That biggest tax break ever is so good! Everyone else nothing!
Mortgage rates are ridiculous -- that is factually wrong -- mortgage rates at near 0 was unprecedented and was only supported by the government (Central Bank) transfering taxpayers money to homeowners ( and other asset holder) . This caused houses to rise in value so far out of reach for most people. A 7.5% mortgage is within the normal range in in modern history. ( during very productive economic growth)
US used car prices are dropping by 11% -- demand use to be high due to lack of new car supply due to pandemic and chip shortage --- prices will continue to drop into 2024. New car pices are also dropping due to excess supply
Crime is dropping that does not mean that no crime exists, that is about luck.
Bill, please can you have Douglas Murray on the show to discuss Israel, immigration, British royal family nonsense etc. He’s the guy to interview at the moment
Please no! Norman Finkelstein is much better!
The world couldn't handle the amount of superciliousness that oozes from both Maher and Murray. They'd be no one left to bury the dead
@user-tn8uu2cu8gAllah is a LIE!
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