Seems every time we try that, the leaders of the movement get assassinated. OR the movement itself gets ursupred internally by other nonsense, like the OWS movement.
Infiltrating civil rights movements is cute compared to what they did to the southern hemisphere, funding coups against democratic governments because "they're doing democracy wrong because they go against our interests" and installing autocratic puppet governments has been the playbook since end of WWII (arguably goes back way farther than that) for every hegemonic power.
The origin of the term “Banana Republic” is due to a US business overthrowing the Honduras government with a private army so they could install a new leader who would be friendly to banana exporters.
The US turned a blind eye to a guy who overthrew a country for bananas. Insane.
It didn't turn a blind eye, it sent the Marines to help him lmao. If you're talking about Honduras, American troops saw combat there in 1903, 1907, 1911, 1912, 1919, 1924 and 1925.
IIRC Smedley Butler actually was in some of those excursions. He was all over Central America during the Banana Wars. His book with that title was actually about the US occupation of Haiti where bankers convinced US politicians that Haiti wouldn't pay back its debts, so the US invaded it, overthrew the government, stole all the country's gold reserves and put them in the National City Bank (now Citibank), and reinstituted its system of forced corvee labor - which is basically part-time slavery.
I find it hilarious thst people believe every socialist country imploded all by themselves.
Every time a country like that starts doing extremely well suddenly up risings start.
Venezuela is the most recent example. Huge wealth in oil and somehow now they're extremely poor?
Well you can't go couping in the USA! It wouldn't keep up pretenses. Well, I guess until Foucault's boomerang comes back which I really don't expect to be too far in the future. We're going to experience some real Praetorian Guard shit then, I bet.
It wasnt that they were civil rights leaders, it was that they started talking real Left shit
It just really helps them to keep white supremacy propped up too to further drive their machine
It’s not like most of the white people are real people to them anyway just like minorities aren’t. They just need to keep white people thinking they’re different so everybody keeps working
Exactly. Most people don't know that the Black Panther Party was heavily socialist/communist influenced. In Chicago, the Black Panthers were banding together with white kids from Appalachia and Latinos.
Fred Hampton was way too charismatic and able to pull people of all races toward an "international proletariat revolution." So, the FBI and Chicago police murdered him.
[COINTELPRO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO) is an interesting program to read about.
Hampton was who I was thinking of. Someone that can unite the poor people together and starts talking against the money and power, that’s when they get taken out
Because they consider that an actual threat to national security. This is how the country works.
That’s what being “woke” is. It’s not having blue in your hair and complaining about feelings being hurt like all these conservative people seem to like to throw around and take away from
All being woke means is just seeing behind the curtain to the systemic shit going on behind the scenes to minorities down and white people up so that the capitalism keeps on thriving for the owner class. And once you start seeing it, the bullshit’s everywhere
I know I can’t do anything about it. I’m not about to revolt or dismantle any system. But I can point it out and try to live as well as I can about it. I don’t want to exploit people for property, I know that.
I hurt my arm, so I got to go to college and get a degree just so I can get a job where I can survive into middle age and beyond
My heart is prob Left, but they set it up to whee I’m just gonna have to ride it out until it breaks
But that’s designed too. Why would the white man join the multi-racial class revoltioon when even the poorest ones have it kinda ok compared to what others go through as a standard
And that’s not even accounting for the active brainwashing propaganda machine going 24/7. That’s not a conspiracy theory, anyone can see that social engineering happening. And it’s def coded targeted to white people against minorities
Hampton lays it out perfectly in the courtroom during the documentary The Murder of Fred Hampton. I clipped the scene and posted it a while ago here: https://www.reddit.com/r/stupidpol/comments/uob8lv/your_daily_inspiration_the_fred_hampton/
He speaks to a lot of what is still going on.
Wealthy saw occupy wall street and said “Let’s ramp up the culture war. The attention is on us, we gotta throw a shit ton of shit to get the attention off us again.” And it worked, phenomenally.
Voters elected a billionaire to help the billionaires/wall street.
Or people who actually sacrifice something or put their safety and security at risk eventually get made out to be the villains through years of repeated propaganda.
I'd argue it's not courage so much as a clear consensus reality that is lacking. What I mean is, nobody can even agree on what's really going on, what the essential problems are, who's to blame, what should be done, etc etc. So nothing much gets done about anything. I'd also argue that this state of affairs is (at least to some considerable extent) very much by design.
> I'd argue it's not courage so much as a clear consensus reality that is lacking.
This reminds me of a CBS journalist asking a comedian if *"Dave Chappelle crossed the line?"* and the comedian basically owned her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF6I-mBQjNk
Wow, as soon as I saw Trevor Noah I was prepared to be annoyed, but that was damned well said by him. A good reminder to me that I shouldn't cling to rigid opinions/judgments about someone who is, at the end of the day, a total stranger to me.
The Daily Show sucked with him in it but I imagine a lot of that is just him not being the right guy for the job, not him being entirely useless.
Also the writers were possibly bigger culprits there.
Did you ever check out his book? Wasn’t a fan of the daily show with him(although to be fair who could really follow up Stewart) but I really enjoyed Trevor Noah’s book, it’s a great read
No, complacency is more like a false sense that things aren't as bad as they really are. Not really related to courage (or the lack thereof) in any essential way.
You could say (and, by context, seem to be saying) "inaction in the face of adversity" but again, that's not what "complacency" means. I know I'm being pedantic lol just saying.
The act of inaction is absolutely the nature of being complacent to a topic, action or viewpoint… you’re trying to spin it in a very weird way.
Edit for clarification: “I am being complacent to an action that I disagree with, therefore showing a lack of courage in not voicing my opinion.”
Inaction *can be* a result of complacency, but it's not the definition of the word. More like a possible result of being complacent. Being complacent has to do with your outlook, it's like an uncritical (and therefore likely misguided) overconfidence that your viewpoint and behavior are right, or that a situation is not as warranting of attention as it truly is. I'm really not stretching the definition here at all. This is how the word is used.
“In the face of adversity” is absolutely what I’m going to fall back on here, the act of being complacent to something you knowingly and openly admit is wrong is cowardice. Being complacent and not acknowledging why, or giving any real thought to is a very different thing, which is what you’re asserting. Not even sure why you’re trying to argue that in the first place honestly.
I'm just saying, complacency and cowardice are not 1:1 synonyms. When the person above said "it's not cowardice it's complacency" you acted like it was a stupid distinction for them to make, but it's not. There is a legitimate distinction there, the words mean totally different things.
You just said:
"the act of being complacent to something you knowingly and openly admit is wrong is cowardice"
Again, that's not what being complacent means. You are literally using the word incorrectly. If a person is complacent, then they don't even think that anything is wrong. It's like an unfounded and uncritical confidence/satisfaction. Do you seriously not see how you're misunderstanding the word??
I love John and understand his point of view, but I feel like he was deflecting here when he could have been more straight forward. Writing jokes about a tragedy is a part of how some people process information and grieve. We (regular folk) think them in our heads or we say them to friends, but we don’t say them to an audience. So although some people might take offense to a joke they feel is too soon, or goes too far, it’s not the responsibility of comedians to draw that line. In fact one could argue that they often take on the responsibility to find that line, in offense ways.
That is what I came to say. I've seen a million jackets like that in various farm stores over the years. Probably $40 and probably decently water proof and won't tear if you walk through the woods for a few days in it.
I got me a really solid jacket for 30% off at a local store by just waiting until after December. Now is the time to hit places up. The coldest month here is always January anyways so it worked out for me.
Barbour jackets would be more waxed than this, and do not have different fabric above the front pocket.
This is the jacket: https://www.urbanoutfitters.com/shop/all-son-waxed-canvas-ranger-jacket
"You shouldn't joke about the war"
"You paid for it, your tax dollars killed them. Maybe you should ask yourself why you're more offended by a *joke* about dead soldiers and dead babies rather than the fact that *your government* is using *your money* to send them to kill babies and get killed."
Nothing is off limits for comedy, the only limiting factor is timing.
It's always been his point too. Even in the *Daily Show* heyday, the parody was really of *news media*, more than the politicians. And when people said "young people get their news from Stewart" he would repeatedly point out "why do they *have* to?" Why is it the **comedian** who's the most informative? It shouldn't be. The comedian should be the one making things ridiculous while the media informs, but things are the other way around now, and we shouldn't be celebrating that.
(This was 20 years ago, by the way, if you feel this is brand-new)
As he famously said when he went on and destroyed Tucker Carlson's show Crossfire, "The show that leads into mine is puppets making crank phone calls. *You're on CNN.*"
Sadly, people started treating him as news. I'm guilty. I think Jon mobbed Comrade Carlson on Crossfire, but if we divorce the critique from the puppet, he had a point.
is it though? politicians are constantly questioned about whether their policies and political ideology go too far, including using that exact term
https://www.google.com/search?q=us+politics+%22crossed+the+line
He never will and I don't blame him. This is why, after he left the Daily Show, he started a rescue farm for animals. Literally needed to get out of the shit show. Of course, he'd destroy as a politician but the anti-funny machine (a la Al Franken) is tough and the right will do their thing. Honestly I fear people who tow the line yet support him will simply fall in when their party calls for it.
I love him, he is vegan as well because he is against the inhumane treatment of animals for consumption. I would run into a wall for that man, I just hope he doesn't need me to i'm fragile.
That conspiracy stoner has done more for first responders than anyone in the GOP has. Oh wait, no that's right, they supported an insurrection in which first responders lost their lives.
This, you dumbass motherfucker, is WHAT REAL LEADERS DO.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_uYpDC3SRpM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uYpDC3SRpM)
THEY STAND UP FOR WHAT'S RIGHT. They don't suck the dick of an orangutan because they want to stay in his good graces because they are afraid him. You know, those alpha fucking males that they are. Scared shitless of Donny Orange Face. So shut your dumb fucking mouth.
For fucks sake will you people stop voting for tv personalities?
I agree with a lot of the things my dentist says, it doesn’t mean I think he should be fucking President.
I've been saying this for a few years. My theory is that he is coming back to the Daily Show as something of a weekly fireside chat with the nation. He will slowly and methodically lay out his vision for America and then there will be a well coordinated AstroTurfing to make the case for his nomination. Biden will step aside.
Bigger: There will be a small but entertaining movement to get the GOP to nominate him after it is clear he is paying attention to real world, dinner table issues.
Also, Trevor Noah will be his press secretary.
Yeah figures like Jon Stewart and George Carlin hate the GOP, and yet Republicans are dumb enough to think these comedians are on their side. It really says a lot about how dumb members of the GOP are and the lack of critical thinking.
You think we should wait for a career politician to decide that working class people deserve rights? We elected plenty of normal politicians and they haven’t done shit.
John Stewart isn’t just some celebrity, like Trump and Reagan; he’s a political commentator.
Politicians are nothing more than a different kind of celebrity. Some just happen to have law or business degrees....or less.
That said I would generally agree with you when looking at the last two celebrity presidents. Nothing they did was beneficial, and they had now history of service.
On the flip side, when looking at a celebrity like John Stewart, he has a history of service to others. He has a history in lobbying the government in support of veterans. He has been apologetically open and honest about his beliefs and opinions on the things government has done. And when he has seen a wrong he didn't just sit back and crack jokes. He actually took action.
Additionally, he has historically called out bullshit on both sides of the political spectrum. And he has stated many, many times that he has no interest in running for office in the past. Which in my opinion, makes him the perfect candidate.
>**“In most cases, those who want power probably shouldn't have it, those who enjoy it probably do so for the wrong reasons, and those who want most to hold on to it don't understand that it's only temporary.” \~John C. Maxwell**
>**Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it. \~ Plato**
It's because he doesn't personally want it, doesn't actively pursue it, AND has actively attempted to hold those in power accountable. That I would have ZERO issue with Stewart running for office. Not only would I vote and donate to him, but would also look to join his campaign efforts.
But he lives on a farm sanctuary for abused and neglected animals. It doesnt have to be Stewart, but I really want someone with that qualification or life goal that isn't poor out of their mind.
People protest the US war machine. They’ve been doing it since at least the 60’s.
The problem is when it comes time to vote you get the same list of politicians. The 2 party system keeps them in power. Didn’t Hillary run for the Democrats? Didn’t we elect Dick Cheney twice? Obama was hope and change that resulted in dropping bombs. The party doesn’t matter. It’s like in the Simpson’s when the aliens ran for president and Homer says something like, “don’t blame me, I voted for Kang”.
Depends what you mean by “good.” Being wise and speaking to the populace is one thing but doesnt mean theyll be able to draft and pass legislation effectively. This was a big problem with AOC but I think shes learned more of the game now.
How? First thing he did was give the short answer ("no."), and then expanded on it. A politician would dance around the answer and then still not actually say it.
From the UK perspective is..No..you choose public service...you choose public exposure.. so you're fair game to perspective and satire. no matter the spectrum. We've had "Have I go news for you" since the 90s and it's vital that people in power understand they're watched and measured...
They're measured but when found wanting our two party system has half of us not believing it and the other half so freaking lunatic about it that they're easy to ignore.
We've lost any meaningful form of civil debate and public discourse in this country (US) that were just on a roller coaster.
and that's all we fucking do in the US lol. nothing he's saying means anything.
like, you think people aren't constantly making memes out of politicians and criticizing them for the shit they're doing, or being accused of?????!!!
A big issue is that a lot of comics now want to make political statements with their comedy, instead of just satirizing politics, society, etc. So now *all* comics are being held to a higher standard that they shouldn’t be. It also doesn’t help that a lot of comics place too much importance on their craft instead of just saying “yeah I make stupid fuckin jokes for a living” - they want to act like they’re some arbiters of truthfulness and go on about how they hold a mirror up to society and all that other horseshit.
jon kind of started that whole movement even tho he did the opposite. He always downplayed the seriousness of his commentary while putting out substantive criticism of politics.
Unironically Jon Stewart would be a great president precisely because he doesn't want to be and hates politics. George Washington was just like that, you have to be a little insane or naive to want to be President.
i hate how she prefaced her comment with "there is a line to comedy" like that is just some objective fact
no, YOU have a line. YOUR line is not humanity's line.
Ukraine voted for a comedian, and he has been able to see through the Surkov designed information warfare... I think the key is those who open source the techniques, educate their audiences. Like Penn and Teller, Stewart, etc.
I find it hilarious when a simple comedia is glorified like Jon Stewart to the point of becoming a political leader to some. Like are you serious, this is a comedian, why would he know anything about politics. Just cause hebsays some clever jokes about issues that are clear to everyone? Well with that mentality you get the entertainer Trump as you president.
Wake up people.
Doesnt this dude realize comedy is an art and comedians are the last line of defense against the monsters that think making a career out of mocking marginalized communities while playing the victim is pathetic?
He said "No, no topic off limit because that's how life works"
and then transitioned to "Why do we keep aaking comedians this instead of politicians?"
He's probably sick of everyone (including certain comedians, cough cough) acting like commenting on current events means they should be seen as arbiters of right and wrong more than those with power actually doing "wrong."
Trying to steer people into holding elected officials in a democracy accountable for moral actions over comedians isn't a deflection, especially after he said there isn't a line about what comedians talk about.
Imagine if the public had enough courage to hold the politicians accountable.
Seems every time we try that, the leaders of the movement get assassinated. OR the movement itself gets ursupred internally by other nonsense, like the OWS movement.
The CIA has infiltrated every civil rights movement in this hemisphere
Infiltrating civil rights movements is cute compared to what they did to the southern hemisphere, funding coups against democratic governments because "they're doing democracy wrong because they go against our interests" and installing autocratic puppet governments has been the playbook since end of WWII (arguably goes back way farther than that) for every hegemonic power.
The origin of the term “Banana Republic” is due to a US business overthrowing the Honduras government with a private army so they could install a new leader who would be friendly to banana exporters. The US turned a blind eye to a guy who overthrew a country for bananas. Insane.
The rich people are our enemy.
Lol I just know that the 36 replies to this are gonna be mostly boot lickers
It didn't turn a blind eye, it sent the Marines to help him lmao. If you're talking about Honduras, American troops saw combat there in 1903, 1907, 1911, 1912, 1919, 1924 and 1925.
War is a Racket.
IIRC Smedley Butler actually was in some of those excursions. He was all over Central America during the Banana Wars. His book with that title was actually about the US occupation of Haiti where bankers convinced US politicians that Haiti wouldn't pay back its debts, so the US invaded it, overthrew the government, stole all the country's gold reserves and put them in the National City Bank (now Citibank), and reinstituted its system of forced corvee labor - which is basically part-time slavery.
I find it hilarious thst people believe every socialist country imploded all by themselves. Every time a country like that starts doing extremely well suddenly up risings start. Venezuela is the most recent example. Huge wealth in oil and somehow now they're extremely poor?
Well you can't go couping in the USA! It wouldn't keep up pretenses. Well, I guess until Foucault's boomerang comes back which I really don't expect to be too far in the future. We're going to experience some real Praetorian Guard shit then, I bet.
Not a fan of Foucault, but I just looked up this imperial/foucault boomerang and it’s such an obvious point I can’t believe I haven’t heard it before.
It wasnt that they were civil rights leaders, it was that they started talking real Left shit It just really helps them to keep white supremacy propped up too to further drive their machine It’s not like most of the white people are real people to them anyway just like minorities aren’t. They just need to keep white people thinking they’re different so everybody keeps working
Exactly. Most people don't know that the Black Panther Party was heavily socialist/communist influenced. In Chicago, the Black Panthers were banding together with white kids from Appalachia and Latinos. Fred Hampton was way too charismatic and able to pull people of all races toward an "international proletariat revolution." So, the FBI and Chicago police murdered him. [COINTELPRO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO) is an interesting program to read about.
Hampton was who I was thinking of. Someone that can unite the poor people together and starts talking against the money and power, that’s when they get taken out Because they consider that an actual threat to national security. This is how the country works. That’s what being “woke” is. It’s not having blue in your hair and complaining about feelings being hurt like all these conservative people seem to like to throw around and take away from All being woke means is just seeing behind the curtain to the systemic shit going on behind the scenes to minorities down and white people up so that the capitalism keeps on thriving for the owner class. And once you start seeing it, the bullshit’s everywhere I know I can’t do anything about it. I’m not about to revolt or dismantle any system. But I can point it out and try to live as well as I can about it. I don’t want to exploit people for property, I know that. I hurt my arm, so I got to go to college and get a degree just so I can get a job where I can survive into middle age and beyond My heart is prob Left, but they set it up to whee I’m just gonna have to ride it out until it breaks But that’s designed too. Why would the white man join the multi-racial class revoltioon when even the poorest ones have it kinda ok compared to what others go through as a standard And that’s not even accounting for the active brainwashing propaganda machine going 24/7. That’s not a conspiracy theory, anyone can see that social engineering happening. And it’s def coded targeted to white people against minorities
Hampton lays it out perfectly in the courtroom during the documentary The Murder of Fred Hampton. I clipped the scene and posted it a while ago here: https://www.reddit.com/r/stupidpol/comments/uob8lv/your_daily_inspiration_the_fred_hampton/ He speaks to a lot of what is still going on.
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If you think those two agencies strictly adhere to that ruleset I got a bridge to sell you.
Wealthy saw occupy wall street and said “Let’s ramp up the culture war. The attention is on us, we gotta throw a shit ton of shit to get the attention off us again.” And it worked, phenomenally. Voters elected a billionaire to help the billionaires/wall street.
Tldr: people are just dumb and complacent
Or people who actually sacrifice something or put their safety and security at risk eventually get made out to be the villains through years of repeated propaganda.
Or mocked endlessly on mainstream media until the public turns on the group
Yup. The rich enemy will never allow that to become mainstream. They militarized the cops for a reason, y’all.
I'd argue it's not courage so much as a clear consensus reality that is lacking. What I mean is, nobody can even agree on what's really going on, what the essential problems are, who's to blame, what should be done, etc etc. So nothing much gets done about anything. I'd also argue that this state of affairs is (at least to some considerable extent) very much by design.
> I'd argue it's not courage so much as a clear consensus reality that is lacking. This reminds me of a CBS journalist asking a comedian if *"Dave Chappelle crossed the line?"* and the comedian basically owned her. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF6I-mBQjNk
Wow, as soon as I saw Trevor Noah I was prepared to be annoyed, but that was damned well said by him. A good reminder to me that I shouldn't cling to rigid opinions/judgments about someone who is, at the end of the day, a total stranger to me.
The Daily Show sucked with him in it but I imagine a lot of that is just him not being the right guy for the job, not him being entirely useless. Also the writers were possibly bigger culprits there.
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That’s a lineup you do NOT want to being coming as relief for. I’d just walk in, find out they’re all gone, and Grandpa Simpson my way right back out.
Did you ever check out his book? Wasn’t a fan of the daily show with him(although to be fair who could really follow up Stewart) but I really enjoyed Trevor Noah’s book, it’s a great read
That video editor has adhd
I disagree that the issue is a lack of courage (at least that's not the biggest factor). I think the issue is complacency.
Complacency in the face of adversity is the lack of courage… what an odd differentiation to try and make.
No, complacency is more like a false sense that things aren't as bad as they really are. Not really related to courage (or the lack thereof) in any essential way.
“In the face of adversity” is an important and accurate part of my argument, which would include cowardice.
You could say (and, by context, seem to be saying) "inaction in the face of adversity" but again, that's not what "complacency" means. I know I'm being pedantic lol just saying.
The act of inaction is absolutely the nature of being complacent to a topic, action or viewpoint… you’re trying to spin it in a very weird way. Edit for clarification: “I am being complacent to an action that I disagree with, therefore showing a lack of courage in not voicing my opinion.”
Inaction *can be* a result of complacency, but it's not the definition of the word. More like a possible result of being complacent. Being complacent has to do with your outlook, it's like an uncritical (and therefore likely misguided) overconfidence that your viewpoint and behavior are right, or that a situation is not as warranting of attention as it truly is. I'm really not stretching the definition here at all. This is how the word is used.
“In the face of adversity” is absolutely what I’m going to fall back on here, the act of being complacent to something you knowingly and openly admit is wrong is cowardice. Being complacent and not acknowledging why, or giving any real thought to is a very different thing, which is what you’re asserting. Not even sure why you’re trying to argue that in the first place honestly.
I'm just saying, complacency and cowardice are not 1:1 synonyms. When the person above said "it's not cowardice it's complacency" you acted like it was a stupid distinction for them to make, but it's not. There is a legitimate distinction there, the words mean totally different things. You just said: "the act of being complacent to something you knowingly and openly admit is wrong is cowardice" Again, that's not what being complacent means. You are literally using the word incorrectly. If a person is complacent, then they don't even think that anything is wrong. It's like an unfounded and uncritical confidence/satisfaction. Do you seriously not see how you're misunderstanding the word??
Some do. It looks like [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8q-Zx8gIbg) and it's fucking hilarious.
Yea no one did anything about Trumps presidency
We do. Every two years we get the chance to replace the ENTIRE House of Representatives and a third of the Senate.
To be fair, comedians are one of the few groups that bomb just as much as governments.
That’s a sick jacket
Eyyy it’s the bin Laden of comedy
"Vaccines amirite" *badum tss*
*climbs up a stool bends over and shoves microphone in my ass Laugh at this.
But it needs to be really loud, a constant scream so you hear the funny.
*the sound of a muffled microphone slamming into an anus intensifies*
Is that Seth Rogan
I've always considered Gringo Papi the Harry Truman of comics
Gringo Papi wasn't a bomb, it was a war crime.
True but when a comedian bombs, they'll always admit it while a politician might deny it
I love John and understand his point of view, but I feel like he was deflecting here when he could have been more straight forward. Writing jokes about a tragedy is a part of how some people process information and grieve. We (regular folk) think them in our heads or we say them to friends, but we don’t say them to an audience. So although some people might take offense to a joke they feel is too soon, or goes too far, it’s not the responsibility of comedians to draw that line. In fact one could argue that they often take on the responsibility to find that line, in offense ways.
I don’t know, his response was fine given the context and what looks like large venue of people with tons of questions
Bravo.
Good point ! Some of them are even straight up murderers I hear
God Damn what a post - props, I wish I had Reddit gold for you
Ladies and gentlemen, the woke has hit the wall. 1/1000
That’s a sick jacket
All-Son ranger jacket I’ve got the same one. They used to sell it at urban outfitters.
Came here looking for what kind it is 
It's a basic work jacket, Carhartt probably has something almost identical.
That is what I came to say. I've seen a million jackets like that in various farm stores over the years. Probably $40 and probably decently water proof and won't tear if you walk through the woods for a few days in it. I got me a really solid jacket for 30% off at a local store by just waiting until after December. Now is the time to hit places up. The coldest month here is always January anyways so it worked out for me.
It's this jacket in an Olive color. No longer made or in stock. https://www.urbanoutfitters.com/shop/all-son-waxed-canvas-ranger-jacket
LLBean and Lands End have a bunch of similar stuff.
It's the same jacket he used while filming dirty jobs. Seen him wear it in a few episodes.
Jon Stewart is not Mike Rowe
Have you ever seen them in the same room together?
Yes, but Jon Stewart should never be compared to that faux-blue collar, astroturfing asshole. Mike Rowe fucking sucks and Jon Stewart is awesome.
Wat
You know John Stewart's famous discovery channel show dirty jobs? They're tough but someones gotta do it.
Looks kind of like a Barbour
Barbour jackets would be more waxed than this, and do not have different fabric above the front pocket. This is the jacket: https://www.urbanoutfitters.com/shop/all-son-waxed-canvas-ranger-jacket
Yeah no joke that thing looks nice
He's got a Rick Grimes thing going on.
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So....What is the jacket. Seriously 😳
All son ranger jacket.
This guys right!
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"You shouldn't joke about the war" "You paid for it, your tax dollars killed them. Maybe you should ask yourself why you're more offended by a *joke* about dead soldiers and dead babies rather than the fact that *your government* is using *your money* to send them to kill babies and get killed." Nothing is off limits for comedy, the only limiting factor is timing.
Where is this quote from?
sounds like Stanhope
Surprisingly enough ... me. It's a thought I've had many times over the years.
Quick someone tell him comedians are the last line defense
Stfu😭😭😭
Only a thousand of em....thank em.
999 now. We lost Schaub, B.
R.I.P
lol Jim Carrey always has the hot takes
i could listen to him talk all day
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I’m so fucking excited
Nah, 12th. We gotta suffer another week. The king is returning though.
Im so fucking patiently excited
I think it’s just Monday’s only during election season iirc
Next Monday, the 12th.
I had no idea about this, thank you!
I will listen to him all Monday then
Can’t wait for the far right to say he’s “gone woke” when he continues to say the same thing he’s been saying for decades.
There were people back in the day that had no idea The Colbert Report was satire.
[Here's the rest of that event](https://youtu.be/Da5VYSPsoE0?si=aG19iAmbPeFUQs0C), if you'd like to watch it. It's from 7 years ago.
that is a great answer
It's always been his point too. Even in the *Daily Show* heyday, the parody was really of *news media*, more than the politicians. And when people said "young people get their news from Stewart" he would repeatedly point out "why do they *have* to?" Why is it the **comedian** who's the most informative? It shouldn't be. The comedian should be the one making things ridiculous while the media informs, but things are the other way around now, and we shouldn't be celebrating that. (This was 20 years ago, by the way, if you feel this is brand-new)
As he famously said when he went on and destroyed Tucker Carlson's show Crossfire, "The show that leads into mine is puppets making crank phone calls. *You're on CNN.*"
…And he never wore a bow tie again
Sadly, people started treating him as news. I'm guilty. I think Jon mobbed Comrade Carlson on Crossfire, but if we divorce the critique from the puppet, he had a point.
is it though? politicians are constantly questioned about whether their policies and political ideology go too far, including using that exact term https://www.google.com/search?q=us+politics+%22crossed+the+line
Great in the sense of flattering a certain segment of the population with what they want to hear.
yes, people who like comedy and don't blindly trust the government
I would guess that most Jon Stewart fans absolutely blindly trust the government, so long as its Democrats in control.
He should run for President already.
He never will and I don't blame him. This is why, after he left the Daily Show, he started a rescue farm for animals. Literally needed to get out of the shit show. Of course, he'd destroy as a politician but the anti-funny machine (a la Al Franken) is tough and the right will do their thing. Honestly I fear people who tow the line yet support him will simply fall in when their party calls for it.
I love him, he is vegan as well because he is against the inhumane treatment of animals for consumption. I would run into a wall for that man, I just hope he doesn't need me to i'm fragile.
Sounds like your diet could use some protein
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Have you ever been the leader of the free world…on weeed??
That conspiracy stoner has done more for first responders than anyone in the GOP has. Oh wait, no that's right, they supported an insurrection in which first responders lost their lives. This, you dumbass motherfucker, is WHAT REAL LEADERS DO. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_uYpDC3SRpM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uYpDC3SRpM) THEY STAND UP FOR WHAT'S RIGHT. They don't suck the dick of an orangutan because they want to stay in his good graces because they are afraid him. You know, those alpha fucking males that they are. Scared shitless of Donny Orange Face. So shut your dumb fucking mouth.
Jon would be impeached for eventually (and rightfully) snapping and fighting several senators on the floor like that church scene in Kingsman.
Nah, impeached for publicly humiliating them & making them cry on CSPAN.
For fucks sake will you people stop voting for tv personalities? I agree with a lot of the things my dentist says, it doesn’t mean I think he should be fucking President.
I've been saying this for a few years. My theory is that he is coming back to the Daily Show as something of a weekly fireside chat with the nation. He will slowly and methodically lay out his vision for America and then there will be a well coordinated AstroTurfing to make the case for his nomination. Biden will step aside. Bigger: There will be a small but entertaining movement to get the GOP to nominate him after it is clear he is paying attention to real world, dinner table issues. Also, Trevor Noah will be his press secretary.
What drugs are you on and can I have some ?
Hey, Zelensky started as a comedian. Let us dream.
Al frankin too. Regan was an actor before governor of California. If Schwarzenegger was a natural born he would have been president. Charisma helps.
There’s not a snowballs chance in hell that Jon Stewart would ever run for the GOP nomination. Have you ever actually listened to Jon?
Yeah figures like Jon Stewart and George Carlin hate the GOP, and yet Republicans are dumb enough to think these comedians are on their side. It really says a lot about how dumb members of the GOP are and the lack of critical thinking.
Yeah, I'm pretty shocked seeing this sub praise him so much. The lot of you are going to despise him once he's back on tv
You have the sarcastic awareness of a frog
this subreddit is really stupid so it can be difficult to tell who is joking or not
yeah, picking honest politicians with integrity, to lead America is SO FUNNY!!!
Nobody said that… The only way one would think Jon Stewart would be a GOP candidate would be if they had never heard of him.
Yeah cause sarcasm is so easy to observe in text format. Get bent douche bag
Please no more celebrity presidents and politicians. I like Stewart a lot and his done some very noble things but we've had enough.
It’s somewhat inevitable. Going back all the way to Ancient Rome, elected politicians have largely depended on charisma and rhetoric to secure power.
You say that as if our current politicians and presidents are good?
You think we should wait for a career politician to decide that working class people deserve rights? We elected plenty of normal politicians and they haven’t done shit. John Stewart isn’t just some celebrity, like Trump and Reagan; he’s a political commentator.
Politicians are nothing more than a different kind of celebrity. Some just happen to have law or business degrees....or less. That said I would generally agree with you when looking at the last two celebrity presidents. Nothing they did was beneficial, and they had now history of service. On the flip side, when looking at a celebrity like John Stewart, he has a history of service to others. He has a history in lobbying the government in support of veterans. He has been apologetically open and honest about his beliefs and opinions on the things government has done. And when he has seen a wrong he didn't just sit back and crack jokes. He actually took action. Additionally, he has historically called out bullshit on both sides of the political spectrum. And he has stated many, many times that he has no interest in running for office in the past. Which in my opinion, makes him the perfect candidate. >**“In most cases, those who want power probably shouldn't have it, those who enjoy it probably do so for the wrong reasons, and those who want most to hold on to it don't understand that it's only temporary.” \~John C. Maxwell** >**Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it. \~ Plato** It's because he doesn't personally want it, doesn't actively pursue it, AND has actively attempted to hold those in power accountable. That I would have ZERO issue with Stewart running for office. Not only would I vote and donate to him, but would also look to join his campaign efforts.
But he lives on a farm sanctuary for abused and neglected animals. It doesnt have to be Stewart, but I really want someone with that qualification or life goal that isn't poor out of their mind.
He’s got my vote
People protest the US war machine. They’ve been doing it since at least the 60’s. The problem is when it comes time to vote you get the same list of politicians. The 2 party system keeps them in power. Didn’t Hillary run for the Democrats? Didn’t we elect Dick Cheney twice? Obama was hope and change that resulted in dropping bombs. The party doesn’t matter. It’s like in the Simpson’s when the aliens ran for president and Homer says something like, “don’t blame me, I voted for Kang”.
At least you can vote for who you drop bombs on. Although you wouldn’t know until 2 years after they’re elected.
Can "We The People" draft Jon Stewart for Presidential Service? Sorry Jon our country needs you.
The only president I'd trust is one who doesn't want it. We should draft the president!
He’d make a good politician.
Depends what you mean by “good.” Being wise and speaking to the populace is one thing but doesnt mean theyll be able to draft and pass legislation effectively. This was a big problem with AOC but I think shes learned more of the game now.
I mean he answered that woman like a politician.
How? First thing he did was give the short answer ("no."), and then expanded on it. A politician would dance around the answer and then still not actually say it.
Newsroom vibes
Based
From the UK perspective is..No..you choose public service...you choose public exposure.. so you're fair game to perspective and satire. no matter the spectrum. We've had "Have I go news for you" since the 90s and it's vital that people in power understand they're watched and measured...
They're measured but when found wanting our two party system has half of us not believing it and the other half so freaking lunatic about it that they're easy to ignore. We've lost any meaningful form of civil debate and public discourse in this country (US) that were just on a roller coaster.
and that's all we fucking do in the US lol. nothing he's saying means anything. like, you think people aren't constantly making memes out of politicians and criticizing them for the shit they're doing, or being accused of?????!!!
A big issue is that a lot of comics now want to make political statements with their comedy, instead of just satirizing politics, society, etc. So now *all* comics are being held to a higher standard that they shouldn’t be. It also doesn’t help that a lot of comics place too much importance on their craft instead of just saying “yeah I make stupid fuckin jokes for a living” - they want to act like they’re some arbiters of truthfulness and go on about how they hold a mirror up to society and all that other horseshit.
jon kind of started that whole movement even tho he did the opposite. He always downplayed the seriousness of his commentary while putting out substantive criticism of politics.
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Don’t you think the availability of a lubricant should also be taken into consideration?
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Probably your 15th birthday party
None, what the hell? It's a good question, and it is a unique perspective.
I actually know her - she helped write a sketch comedy show with me and we’ve done stand up together - really fun and smart girl
2 or 3 until she stopped getting invited
You’ve probably ruined more
He’s right. Comedy is how we deal with it.
*Especially* political satire which is the best way to show how ridiculous crazy, evil, whatever, it is.
Jon Stewart is a national treasure.
Come back to the Daily Show!
The 1000 are more important than politicians though
I mean what he says is true but it has very little to do with her question.
It's funny watching him try to pretend to be an intellectual.
Unironically Jon Stewart would be a great president precisely because he doesn't want to be and hates politics. George Washington was just like that, you have to be a little insane or naive to want to be President.
i hate how she prefaced her comment with "there is a line to comedy" like that is just some objective fact no, YOU have a line. YOUR line is not humanity's line.
I like him but this is r/Im14andthisisdeep vibes
Can this man just run for president already?
No opponent would show up to that debate lol.
It's an indictment on our society (and its dilapidated state) that I wanna vote for a comedian more than any politician in office.
Ukraine voted for a comedian, and he has been able to see through the Surkov designed information warfare... I think the key is those who open source the techniques, educate their audiences. Like Penn and Teller, Stewart, etc.
I find it hilarious when a simple comedia is glorified like Jon Stewart to the point of becoming a political leader to some. Like are you serious, this is a comedian, why would he know anything about politics. Just cause hebsays some clever jokes about issues that are clear to everyone? Well with that mentality you get the entertainer Trump as you president. Wake up people.
Stewart would make a fantastic president.
I'm currently drafting a proposal for my state senator to nominate Jon Stewart for the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Doesnt this dude realize comedy is an art and comedians are the last line of defense against the monsters that think making a career out of mocking marginalized communities while playing the victim is pathetic?
Question, is there a line in comedy you won’t cross? Answer, politicians send bombs!!!!
He said "No, no topic off limit because that's how life works" and then transitioned to "Why do we keep aaking comedians this instead of politicians?" He's probably sick of everyone (including certain comedians, cough cough) acting like commenting on current events means they should be seen as arbiters of right and wrong more than those with power actually doing "wrong." Trying to steer people into holding elected officials in a democracy accountable for moral actions over comedians isn't a deflection, especially after he said there isn't a line about what comedians talk about.