I just need one thing explained... I was in the Navy, I had a security clearance ran on me, let's just say I wsa around stuff that was important, so it wasn't your "everyday" clearance. I pass it, of course, but when I went back home my first time on leave, I stopped by my old high school (pls note, this was 30 years ago), I talked to some of my old teachers and 3 of them had been contacted by the FBI? CIA? whoever was doing the security clearance stuff two of them were in person visits. They dug so far into my background they talked to people I had fogotten about. Why is this not done with EVERY SINGLE member of Government as they apply? Congress Senate whatever... OK.. everyone might get expensive, but before your in office Congress/Senate/President you gotta pass one of these.
Apparently he was and they told him not to run because his background had too many problems. But he doesn't care and did anyway. In America "anyone can be president or run for office" so there's nothing stopping someone, unless they don't have at least a million dollars.
Mel Brooks movies are more believable. If there was a Mel Brooks movie in which New York Conservative Republicans elected a gay Jewish Black Latino White supremacist to Congress, everyone would walk out of the theatre and demand their money back because it's just too unrealistic.
Jon, my son is a combat vet..the fact that Santos stole $3,000 from a veteran for his service dog is as low as this pathological liar, true sociopath can go. Help get this man out of Congress! Thank you for your support of veterans.
Ya know everyone; I know Santos got there by deceit (I am IN NO WAY condoning as much), but think about it: would it REALLY be that bad to have a true Everyman in Congress? Think about it: wasn’t such what our founders intended?
I love the story about stealing a Burberry scarf from his roommate and denied it until the roommate saw him wearing it during a speech last year. Crazy!
Someone pointed out that he was wearing a backpack, like, both straps on. And when I saw him wearing it, something seemed weird about that but I hadn't quite consciously realized, he is the ONLY ONE with a backpack on. So yeah, looks like his mom drops him off at Congress. Not to say anything is wrong with backpacks, just saying, it's not the look most in Congress strive for. Something "off" about the guy that might even be endearing except for the destructive lies and voting with Republicans.
we had a guy like santos in our toastmasters club. he told the most incredible stories all the time. diving with crocodiles, looking straight into the red furious eyes of a wolf in alaska, etc etc etc. apparently it's a disease... pathological lying.
"it's a disease... pathological lying". And 'communicable', apparently. Trump is the American 'Typhoid Mary' Super Spreader; the RepubliCON party (along with ~25% of Americans) possess no 'immune system'. Apparently. SAD.
@Jim Palmer... nice!! I forgot all about that great hilarious Lovitz' character!! And speak of the devil! How's the Right arm?!! We could use in Boston!!
@@TheIrish121212 Arguably Lovitz's pathological liar character 'Tommy Flanagan' was one of the best during the 'classic years' of SNL ! As for the "right arm', I would love to help y'all out in 'Baasten' but if I was THAT "Jim Palmer" do you think I would be spending my time 'making UA-cam comments'?! 😅 LOL ! In addition, being a 'Canuk', eh, my sport of passion in the 70's was Hockey, (specifically Les Canadiens de Montreal; those Habs/Bruins games in the 70's were CLASSICS!), and I did play a bit of 'semi-pro'; somewhat ironically I still required 'right shoulder surgery' about 5 years ago ('thanks' to some pitching, but mostly badminton, tennis, football, and even 'more ironically' a whole lot of fishing/casting !). All that being said it still 'boggles the mind' that "As of 2022, the 1971 Orioles are one of only two Major League Baseball clubs (the 1920 Chicago White Sox being the other) to have four 20-game winners in a season: Jim Palmer, Dave McNally, Mike Cuellar, and Pat Dobson !!! So lucky to have been a 'sports fan' back in the day !
I had a son like Santos. It’s the strangest thing to deal with. He was brilliant, so good looking he did tv commercials, charming, a lady’s man, creative…. He had everything. But he stole and could not tell the truth. In the end he died. Probably killed by drug associates when he stole from one of them. If you can change behavior like this I am not aware of how. I spent hundreds of thousands trying to help him.
I am sorry to read this. It must have been unimaginably painful. It is a disease that is nearly impossible to treat. Hopefully someday there will be a cure.
So Tragic, sorry seem so little men. To have a loved one thats going down a dark path is so painful to experience & to meet an untimely end men. So so sorry. I know it can give you a sense of hopeless inevitablity n twisted guilt that they couldn't be saved from themselves. Even if your not a christian, I still pray for you & your family 🙏
I had a boyfriend like that, the life of the party, always had a fascinated audience listening to his yarns everywhere he went. He ended up with a teenaged student who at that point was the only person who believed his B.S. even his family and friends tried to warn me. Lied about his whole childhood. He was good at what he did, I heard he became a motivational speaker!🤣
Spot on Jon, mistaking things as comically absurd when they actually are empirically dangerous is the trap to avoid and history is not kind to those who make that mistake.
@@tomlord5398 - you’re right! W was everything Rump was revealed to be - a shameless liar, a cruel bully, a callous monster indifferent to others suffering, an evidence destroyer, a coverup King, the hirer of ‘the best people,’ an embarrassing buffoon, betrayer of our allies, the maker of wars, the author of corruption and the leader of the craven Republican party!
I have to agree absurdity can be dangerous but it isn’t always. We’re we safe under Trump or were his handlers protecting us throughout? It’s all relative
I found this to be one of the best of the new programs. Also, during the discussion on George Santos, Jon Stewart said some pretty profound things, that I think could put him in a Quotes from Great People collection. :) Here is the way I pulled the quote to sound the most academic/important. It was some great philosophy: "In absurdity is where the real danger always is." "We cannot mistake absurdity for lack of danger. Because it takes people with no shame to do shameful things... Absurdity always makes you think something is more benign than it is... And, then you think about, you know, the worst people in history have been ridiculous..."
PS - I am not sure I got the whole conversation. Listened while doing housework. But, I think that Jon Stewart and the panel might have missed a reference to Boris Johnson's haircut. Also, the connection to how George Santos and "Clark Rockefeller" made themselves seem trustworthy to people in similar ways.
There is a guy named Anthony Devolder sitting in a congressional office in D.C. masquerading as a character called George Santos. NOBODY ever voted for Anthony Devolder. So, why is he occupying a congressional office??
You should also ask how any Dem lost to him. Establishment Dems are a cancer too because they would rather have this demagogue in power than a progressive. They fight harder against the left. You're telling me oppo research couldn't out these lies effectively? That's a level of incompetence and lack of leadership that is beyond the pale. That we don't have a real opposition party to stop people like Trump, Santos, Bush, Desantis, etc., should scare the bejesus out of you.
And yet NOT one person was charged with insurrection! How do you have an insurrection without anyone being charged with that? and oh boy did they try waisted millions on their theater. I like Bill Maher “You don’t know about it cause you watch MSNBC “ now that was good. All these clowns want to do is get “likes “ journalism is dead they are all hacks
I've known a few compulsive liars in my life and they actually do make it pretty far. I guess it works well enough but it's so depressingly morally bankrupt. I'm always curious what kind of psychological mess ends in someone becoming this way.
Did you notice that there is no one defending him, no wife, no partner, no friends, no family members....? His life is so lonely that he had to make up falsehoods to survive? Pathetic
Kind of like Joe who Saya he, Survived a fire Arrested in civil rights march Star football player Once a truck driver Arrested meeting Mandela Son killed in lraq -Overheard mass shooting Top of his class in college Hit a 368' homer in baseball game Had job at timber company.
You right John, absurdity is always a danger in a country where the majority has no critical thinking skills. They are trained in churches to believe, not asking questions.
The Bible belt is ripe with that culture. My female coworkers looked at me funny when I'd say women were property but I watched and listened for years.
I LOVE listening to you and your team! I am also sure that if we were sitting at a table, I would be verbally shredded before the appetizers were done. All of you are just at another level!
The thing about George Santos's looks is how he's looking so harmless that he's likely to get away with next to anything. I am scared to think about what he may do one day because nobody stopped him from getting into a position from which to do terrible things, just because he looks like a cuddly teddy.
If justice isn't served on all the top dogs that were in on the coup or on trump for all his crimes in office, then clearly , democracy no longer exists in America.
There's video proof on a government website that democracy has never existed, but no one knows that because no one will watch it. If someone told you that there's a government video on a government website that tells you how to grow weed to fight the Nazis, you'd call them a crazy person. But *Hemp for Victory* is real and it's online from the US National Archives. The entire war on drugs has been a lie for longer than most of us have been alive, and video proof that it's all bullshit is sitting on everyone's cellphones at an official government website. Our votes haven't changed anything in our lifetime, but because barely anyone has heard of *Hemp for Victory,* they just don't know that our votes don't matter.
@@lindalambertson6294 Yes, _The Emperor Wears No Clothes_ by Jack Herer is the book that made *Hemp for Victory* public. My father was a history buff. He had read thousands of books and magazines about World War II, and he grew up in the 60s and 70s, and when he saw *Hemp for Victory,* he said, "I've never even heard of this." That's how pervasive the censorship of this was. Because the video was made before television and only shown to a few thousand farmers mostly in rural Kentucky and Wisconsin, it was easy to hide it from the rest of the country. For decades after World War II, the government denied that the film ever existed and force-fed anti-marijuana drug war lies to the public so that the film was simply forgotten. Now, more than 30 years since the film became public, everyone is so saturated with nonsense on television, radio and the internet that *Hemp for Victory* just gets drowned out by celebrity chefs, "epic fail" TikTok videos, and members of Congress lying about where they went to college. Day after day, hundreds of articles are written all across the country about Cannabis "legalization" and not one mentions that Cannabis was legalized 80 years ago to save freedom and democracy for the entire world. I've been trying to tell people about this for about 15 years since I learned of it, and any one of these popular celebrity podcasters or talk show hosts could make hundreds of thousands of more people aware of it in a single day if they would just talk about it. Here's how bad it actually is: Tulsi Gabbard introduced a bill in Congress titled HR 3652, the *Hemp for Victory Act of 2019.* Not even Tulsi Gabbard would talk about *Hemp for Victory* on television, and now she's hosting a program on FOX News. It's completely insane.
I wonder what George Santos was like as a kid. I bet he was the type that made up stories about his family. Such as telling his classmates that his dad was a fighter pilot or an astronaut or his mom was a supermodel. His lies did not start once he became an adult.
He got his Ideas from Elizabeth Warren lying about being Native American.. or Richard Blumenthal serving in Vietnam! Fact is most of them are liars.. Democrat or Republican, it's all the same $hit!!!
i had a classmate who would seemingly lie all the time...her stories got "more interesting" as she told them (it seemed fairly obvious she was making up details on the spot, and if people reacted with amazement on details, she would expound on them); surprise surprise, now shes a lawyer
He's been placed there and he's safe for now. Remember he crashed DC before his 2020 election was called and he lost officially. Photo of him with other crazies exists
It’s not his real name. Or is it? He uses Devolder too, depending on the company name he’s hiding behind. Sign of the times? Its just a matter of ‘when’ these people are caught being scandalous. 🌹❤️
@@homelessjesse9453 BS. He doesn’t deny that. Having a stage name is far from pretending that it’s his given name. That’s daft to even think the two are equated.
This is a fantastic quote! However, the original quote is from Voltaire: "Truly, whoever can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
George is Roger Smith from American Dad. Today, he's Dr. Penguin, Therapist and tomorrow he's Ruby Zeldastein, Psychic extraordinaire. How did that man get this far and who was minding the F'ing research store?
And he's desperately trying to bury his Ricky Spanish outfit in his neighbor's yard. It's true, someone in oppo research f'd up, but it's only because the lies were so mediocre and about things you wouldn't think to check that he got away with it.
Local media is dead. That’s what happened. People knew he more than likely was a fraud, but with no local media to roast him, and him being a fish too small for the national media, it went un-trashed until he became a congressman-elect. By then it was too late. That’s the tragedy of this farce, charlatans won’t be spotlighted until they get to the national level. Most of the time, at that point is way too late, too bad.
Brazil had a president whose father shot another man deaf in the Senate...I,'m talking the actual Senate floor, and he got away with it! Then started a political dynasty. That is Brazil, the place that produced George Santos
The thing is you need a legal department that has people with spines in them. Merrick Garland doesnt have a spine and the farce Department of Justice is a right wing controlled agency.
You guys are so on track. This story is about illogical illusions I don't have a clue about were it's going but I think that this shit ain't over. Only time will tell.
George Santos fought at the Battle of Ticonderoga alongside Washington and General Lee (the car from Duke's of Hazard) because Kit was unavailable filming in Hollywood. True story. 🥴😵💫🤕
I thought the story of Santos’s lies were, for the most part, hilarious, until learning about how he cheated a PTSD vet out of funds raised to save the life of the vet’s service dog. Now I’m thoroughly disgusted. And his stealing funds raised through his fake charity points clearly to your point that underneath absurdity there is danger. His seeming lack of remorse & feeling for other people is indicative of a psychopathic nature.
Honestly. George Santos is amazing. As tall as Godzilla, as entertaining as the Blues Brothers, as lying as Princes Schehezrade (from Tales of 1001 nights) etc. A new US comedy star.(really funny for Germans)
Had it not been for George’s quick thinking and bravery, there never would have been 706 survivors from the titanic disaster. Can’t we just give him the benefit of the doubt?
@@deeznutz8320 Ugh! Corporate Dems are just as complicit but why introduce anti-Semitism to make that point? This is why liberals keep supporting these Corporate Dems who sell them the same right wing policies. They think going against Corporate Dems mean they're supporting the right, especially when people like you push Nazi tropes. Corporate Dems just point to people like you to keep moving right and liberals buy their bull.
Although at the time of its release, it received poor ratings, the "Waldo The Moment" episode of Black Mirror is one of my favorites from that series. It was prophetic and demonstrated what Jon is talking about, that "We cannot mistake absurdity for lack of danger."
Santos appropriated the Baruch/volleyball riff from Pablo Oliveira, a fellow native Brazilian and his coworkers at Linkbridge Investors. Oliviera legit attended Baruch and legit was on the varsity volleyball team, though seems to have finished his run with both knees intact.
He is proof that our elected leaders have no shame, not one of them. There should be way to just remove these scumbags. No shame to just do right thing and resign.
At the age of two, George Santos defeated Chuck Norris in a fist fight by punching him so hard in the balls that two distant planets collided into each other and were destroyed.
It's called a comedic understatement. Plus, as awful as it was without the buy in from the military (which honestly color me surprised by) it wasn't going to build up to be anything, especially with the actual parliamentary body on break and out of town and Lula out of town.
@@manfredneilmann4305 carnival and Carnaval are two distinct things, Brazil has nothing to do with the creation of the carnival culture and your whole universe (the US) has nothing to do with the creation of Carnaval, so before you uncontrollably try to correct other people online make sure you know what other people are talking about. Then make sure YOU know what you talking about. THEN and only then you may speak, but that doesn’t mean you should, alright son?
totally enjoyable towatch Jon Stewart. One question I have is, what about his constituents. Has anyone questioned his voters? Do they feel duped? Is there any information available?
I was watching a segment about the latest fusion experiment where the scientist said it had never been done before. George Santos popped in with "I did that at Baruch College when I was only 10."
I miss you on TV so much Jonz please return so you can help positively influence a wider range of people! (although I'm sure you are enjoying a bit of a less workload as Treveor also said it was "a lot of work" on the daily show.)
You and your team kept me sane through the Bush administration - and God are you right about ludicrous absence of shame conceals a willingness to do those shameless things that destroy democracies, peoples, live......the willingness to do anything includes the monstrous.Great to see you do your new stuff.....again.....G
I just need one thing explained... I was in the Navy, I had a security clearance ran on me, let's just say I wsa around stuff that was important, so it wasn't your "everyday" clearance. I pass it, of course, but when I went back home my first time on leave, I stopped by my old high school (pls note, this was 30 years ago), I talked to some of my old teachers and 3 of them had been contacted by the FBI? CIA? whoever was doing the security clearance stuff two of them were in person visits. They dug so far into my background they talked to people I had fogotten about. Why is this not done with EVERY SINGLE member of Government as they apply? Congress Senate whatever... OK.. everyone might get expensive, but before your in office Congress/Senate/President you gotta pass one of these.
Also, another Navy person. ERK. More than nasty!
Apparently he was and they told him not to run because his background had too many problems. But he doesn't care and did anyway. In America "anyone can be president or run for office" so there's nothing stopping someone, unless they don't have at least a million dollars.
Agreed 100%
Because no Republicans would ever get clearance .
How on earth could Congress allow someone that is nothing but a pathological liar represent the American people? I'm sickened by it!
"We cannot mistake absurdity for lack of danger" amen
People joke about politicians until they fail to realize that the joke is on them.
@@eyeseer1 Agree 100% Case in point: Donald Trump (just to name one....)
"I'm not Jewish, I said I was Jew-ish"
We're in a Mel Brooks movie.
Also Seth Meyers’ line too 😂
It’s pronounced "Fronkensteen”
@@AbidingDude420 I-gor.
Mel Brooks movies are more believable.
If there was a Mel Brooks movie in which New York Conservative Republicans elected a gay Jewish Black Latino White supremacist to Congress, everyone would walk out of the theatre and demand their money back because it's just too unrealistic.
He's a sophomore in the Donald Trump school of lies.
Jon, my son is a combat vet..the fact that Santos stole $3,000 from a veteran for his service dog is as low as this pathological liar, true sociopath can go. Help get this man out of Congress! Thank you for your support of veterans.
Santos (if that’s his name), is Trump’s clone!
@@Angelina.. yup. A grifter
@@Angelina..
Trump & 'Santos': prime examples of just how 'low we can go' as a species.
Sad. 😩
Real justice for Santos would be to set a pack of angry pitbulls on him.
Ya know everyone; I know Santos got there by deceit (I am IN NO WAY condoning as much), but think about it: would it REALLY be that bad to have a true Everyman in Congress? Think about it: wasn’t such what our founders intended?
“Just a sprawling, Cheesecake Factory menu of stories to choose from with this man.”
That’s just gold right there.
I love the story about stealing a Burberry scarf from his roommate and denied it until the roommate saw him wearing it during a speech last year. Crazy!
It’s so absurd 🙈
A speech at a “stop the steal” rally is the cherry on top of the absurdity.
@@ducati135 I seriously doubt that MAGATS would see the irony in that.
Pathological liar and sociopath.
But it was BURBERRY! I couldn’t help myself. Gucci, I couldn’t care less but the burb!? You gotta give me that !
It takes people with no shame to do shameful things. Well said. They are scary people.
Like Biden, Pelosi, AOC, Schumer, Schiff, ...
Remember the time George Santos bragged about little kids playing with his long leg hair? Hes sick in the head and needs to resign!
@@Andrew-fy9wu count your "thumbs up" and go hide somewhere.
@@Andrew-fy9wu….like @user-bx3dv6ci1b
@@patdoyle2003
Apparently this plonker thinks likes means you are right.
"He looks like his mom drops him off at Congress" had me like 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Someone pointed out that he was wearing a backpack, like, both straps on. And when I saw him wearing it, something seemed weird about that but I hadn't quite consciously realized, he is the ONLY ONE with a backpack on. So yeah, looks like his mom drops him off at Congress. Not to say anything is wrong with backpacks, just saying, it's not the look most in Congress strive for. Something "off" about the guy that might even be endearing except for the destructive lies and voting with Republicans.
"easy to wrestle" got me
we had a guy like santos in our toastmasters club. he told the most incredible stories all the time. diving with crocodiles, looking straight into the red furious eyes of a wolf in alaska, etc etc etc. apparently it's a disease... pathological lying.
"it's a disease... pathological lying".
And 'communicable', apparently.
Trump is the American 'Typhoid Mary' Super Spreader; the RepubliCON party (along with ~25% of Americans) possess no 'immune system'.
Apparently.
SAD.
As 'Tommy Flanagan' (aka Jon Lovitz) of SNL fame might say about Santos:
"Ya, ya ....... he's the ticket !"
@Jim Palmer... nice!! I forgot all about that great hilarious Lovitz' character!!
And speak of the devil! How's the Right arm?!! We could use in Boston!!
@@jimpalmer792 -- 😂 He'd say, "Acting!".
@@TheIrish121212
Arguably Lovitz's pathological liar character 'Tommy Flanagan' was one of the best during the 'classic years' of SNL !
As for the "right arm', I would love to help y'all out in 'Baasten' but if I was THAT "Jim Palmer" do you think I would be spending my time 'making UA-cam comments'?! 😅 LOL !
In addition, being a 'Canuk', eh, my sport of passion in the 70's was Hockey, (specifically Les Canadiens de Montreal; those Habs/Bruins games in the 70's were CLASSICS!), and I did play a bit of 'semi-pro'; somewhat ironically I still required 'right shoulder surgery' about 5 years ago ('thanks' to some pitching, but mostly badminton, tennis, football, and even 'more ironically' a whole lot of fishing/casting !).
All that being said it still 'boggles the mind' that "As of 2022, the 1971 Orioles are one of only two Major League Baseball clubs (the 1920 Chicago White Sox being the other) to have four 20-game winners in a season: Jim Palmer, Dave McNally, Mike Cuellar, and Pat Dobson !!! So lucky to have been a 'sports fan' back in the day !
I had a son like Santos. It’s the strangest thing to deal with. He was brilliant, so good looking he did tv commercials, charming, a lady’s man, creative…. He had everything. But he stole and could not tell the truth. In the end he died. Probably killed by drug associates when he stole from one of them. If you can change behavior like this I am not aware of how. I spent hundreds of thousands trying to help him.
I am sorry to read this. It must have been unimaginably painful. It is a disease that is nearly impossible to treat. Hopefully someday there will be a cure.
Santos is not brilliant, good-looking, charming, or a lady's man. But I'll give him a thumbs up on "creative".
So Tragic, sorry seem so little men. To have a loved one thats going down a dark path is so painful to experience & to meet an untimely end men. So so sorry. I know it can give you a sense of hopeless inevitablity n twisted guilt that they couldn't be saved from themselves. Even if your not a christian, I still pray for you & your family 🙏
Your son was not like Santos.
I had a boyfriend like that, the life of the party, always had a fascinated audience listening to his yarns everywhere he went. He ended up with a teenaged student who at that point was the only person who believed his B.S. even his family and friends tried to warn me. Lied about his whole childhood. He was good at what he did, I heard he became a motivational speaker!🤣
Spot on Jon, mistaking things as comically absurd when they actually are empirically dangerous is the trap to avoid and history is not kind to those who make that mistake.
Yeah, I remember that about TFG -- and look what happened. We didn't learn from W.
like orthodox/fundamentalist religion
@@tomlord5398 - you’re right! W was everything Rump was revealed to be - a shameless liar, a cruel bully, a callous monster indifferent to others suffering, an evidence destroyer, a coverup King, the hirer of ‘the best people,’ an embarrassing buffoon, betrayer of our allies, the maker of wars, the author of corruption and the leader of the craven Republican party!
Absurdity and audacity are closer to being siblings than I think most of us would care to admit.
Lighten up. America is decaying. Nothing can save us. Let's enjoy the ride while we can.
John fighting the good fight, and being hilarious as he does it. Big love and respect from New England! Thank you, John!
Thank goodness Jon brought us back to the reality of the situation by mentioning the danger of absurdity.
I have to agree absurdity can be dangerous but it isn’t always.
We’re we safe under Trump or were his handlers protecting us throughout?
It’s all relative
These 3 should engage regularly. This video is brilliant
First time seeing them all together
I found this to be one of the best of the new programs. Also, during the discussion on George Santos, Jon Stewart said some pretty profound things, that I think could put him in a Quotes from Great People collection. :) Here is the way I pulled the quote to sound the most academic/important. It was some great philosophy: "In absurdity is where the real danger always is."
"We cannot mistake absurdity for lack of danger. Because it takes people with no shame to do shameful things...
Absurdity always makes you think something is more benign than it is...
And, then you think about, you know, the worst people in history have been ridiculous..."
PS - I am not sure I got the whole conversation. Listened while doing housework. But, I think that Jon Stewart and the panel might have missed a reference to Boris Johnson's haircut. Also, the connection to how George Santos and "Clark Rockefeller" made themselves seem trustworthy to people in similar ways.
There is a guy named Anthony Devolder sitting in a congressional office in D.C. masquerading as a character called George Santos. NOBODY ever voted for Anthony Devolder. So, why is he occupying a congressional office??
That's how the GOP and Congress rolls! Even the mob has tougher hiring standards!
Because we do not have a representative government. It's a facade to protect the rich.
Because the USA is a Banana RepubliQ and everyone is finally starting to see it in real time.
Allegedly, he also goes by Kitara Ravache
You should also ask how any Dem lost to him. Establishment Dems are a cancer too because they would rather have this demagogue in power than a progressive.
They fight harder against the left. You're telling me oppo research couldn't out these lies effectively? That's a level of incompetence and lack of leadership that is beyond the pale.
That we don't have a real opposition party to stop people like Trump, Santos, Bush, Desantis, etc., should scare the bejesus out of you.
Jon Stewart is a living legend. He speaks the truth.
hahahahahhahahahaha
Relative to rest of the talking heads on tv and web he's pretty great.
@@deeznutz8320
Legend of leftist idiocy
And yet NOT one person was charged with insurrection! How do you have an insurrection without anyone being charged with that? and oh boy did they try waisted millions on their theater.
I like Bill Maher
“You don’t know about it cause you watch MSNBC “ now that was good. All these clowns want to do is get “likes “ journalism is dead they are all hacks
Good point John...Santos is not benign.Damage is done.
As a Navy vet 71-75 just want to say thank you Jon for your work with vet's.
USMC, '72-76. I agree.
I've known a few compulsive liars in my life and they actually do make it pretty far. I guess it works well enough but it's so depressingly morally bankrupt. I'm always curious what kind of psychological mess ends in someone becoming this way.
Did you notice that there is no one defending him, no wife, no partner, no friends, no family members....? His life is so lonely that he had to make up falsehoods to survive? Pathetic
Yeah, and one of them is our current president! 😂
He's a sad curious case, no doubt. Prosecution + compassion is due - 80/20
@@Silence_Duder_Gooder And another one of them was our former president.
Kind of like Joe who Saya he,
Survived a fire
Arrested in civil rights march
Star football player
Once a truck driver
Arrested meeting Mandela
Son killed in lraq
-Overheard mass shooting
Top of his class in college
Hit a 368' homer in baseball
game
Had job at timber company.
You right John, absurdity is always a danger in a country where the majority has no critical thinking skills. They are trained in churches to believe, not asking questions.
The Bible belt is ripe with that culture. My female coworkers looked at me funny when I'd say women were property but I watched and listened for years.
And those that think they have critical thinking skills tend to be conspiracy theorists.
You are absolutely right! I wish more people were talking about this.
You got that right!
If they watch Faux News, they can stay home from church.
Thank you John for taking such a protective roll in protecting our military, police and healthcare workers.
I LOVE listening to you and your team! I am also sure that if we were sitting at a table, I would be verbally shredded before the appetizers were done. All of you are just at another level!
Me too. I can't imagine engaging w these guys.
The thing about George Santos's looks is how he's looking so harmless that he's likely to get away with next to anything. I am scared to think about what he may do one day because nobody stopped him from getting into a position from which to do terrible things, just because he looks like a cuddly teddy.
"We cannot mistake absurdity for lack of danger. It takes someone shameless to do shameful things."
- John Stewart
"Democracy might already be over, we might just not know it" What a quote jon!
Spot on 🎯
If justice isn't served on all the top dogs that were in on the coup or on trump for all his crimes in office, then clearly , democracy no longer exists in America.
There's video proof on a government website that democracy has never existed, but no one knows that because no one will watch it.
If someone told you that there's a government video on a government website that tells you how to grow weed to fight the Nazis, you'd call them a crazy person. But *Hemp for Victory* is real and it's online from the US National Archives. The entire war on drugs has been a lie for longer than most of us have been alive, and video proof that it's all bullshit is sitting on everyone's cellphones at an official government website. Our votes haven't changed anything in our lifetime, but because barely anyone has heard of *Hemp for Victory,* they just don't know that our votes don't matter.
@@Marijuanifornia
There is a book my husband read about 30 years ago with similar facts.
@@lindalambertson6294 Yes, _The Emperor Wears No Clothes_ by Jack Herer is the book that made *Hemp for Victory* public.
My father was a history buff. He had read thousands of books and magazines about World War II, and he grew up in the 60s and 70s, and when he saw *Hemp for Victory,* he said, "I've never even heard of this." That's how pervasive the censorship of this was.
Because the video was made before television and only shown to a few thousand farmers mostly in rural Kentucky and Wisconsin, it was easy to hide it from the rest of the country. For decades after World War II, the government denied that the film ever existed and force-fed anti-marijuana drug war lies to the public so that the film was simply forgotten. Now, more than 30 years since the film became public, everyone is so saturated with nonsense on television, radio and the internet that *Hemp for Victory* just gets drowned out by celebrity chefs, "epic fail" TikTok videos, and members of Congress lying about where they went to college.
Day after day, hundreds of articles are written all across the country about Cannabis "legalization" and not one mentions that Cannabis was legalized 80 years ago to save freedom and democracy for the entire world.
I've been trying to tell people about this for about 15 years since I learned of it, and any one of these popular celebrity podcasters or talk show hosts could make hundreds of thousands of more people aware of it in a single day if they would just talk about it.
Here's how bad it actually is:
Tulsi Gabbard introduced a bill in Congress titled HR 3652, the *Hemp for Victory Act of 2019.* Not even Tulsi Gabbard would talk about *Hemp for Victory* on television, and now she's hosting a program on FOX News. It's completely insane.
As usual, Jon finds the comedy, then cuts right through it with wisdom and common sense.
And then he awards Ukranian neo nazi death squads in Disney land becuase they are killing whites for the Jewish global cause
Put away the bong.
He didn't manage to do that in his softball discussion with two of the worst people in the USA who happen to be former Secretaries of State.
@@rais1953
Were they democrats?
Try "Beau of the 5th column" too.
I wonder what George Santos was like as a kid. I bet he was the type that made up stories about his family. Such as telling his classmates that his dad was a fighter pilot or an astronaut or his mom was a supermodel. His lies did not start once he became an adult.
He got his Ideas from Elizabeth Warren lying about being Native American.. or Richard Blumenthal serving in Vietnam! Fact is most of them are liars.. Democrat or Republican, it's all the same $hit!!!
George's uncle *definitely* worked for Nintendo...
Well, since every single drag queen is an unadulterated attention whore, he has probably been that way since he could say words.
i had a classmate who would seemingly lie all the time...her stories got "more interesting" as she told them (it seemed fairly obvious she was making up details on the spot, and if people reacted with amazement on details, she would expound on them); surprise surprise, now shes a lawyer
“It takes people with no shame, to do shameful things.”
🎯
This conversation is a breath of fresh air. I like the analysis of the lies, rather than a breaking news of the same news.
in absurdity there is danger. Very true
“ a certain amount of upkeep”. I died. Hysterical. And from a 60 year old, olive skinned woman, way too true.
That went over my head. What is she referencing?
@@johnnyc.3261 Sicilian women are generally rather hairy and need extra grooming. Being Sicilian, I got it.
@@johnnyc.3261 having to keep the mustache plucked/waxed.
@@johnnyc.3261 women tend to have chin whiskers also. We tweeze ALOT.
@@patticriss2238 I shave my face instead. Plucking is too painful!
Fun fact: George Santos is actually Art Vandelay of Vandelay Industries! (Seinfeld episode?) 🤣
George (Santos): “Remember Jerry, it’s not a lie if YOU believe it’s true.”
It’s gold Jerry, gold!
Thanks for all you are doing Jon!
Great to listen to all of you discuss what it all means!
Anyone who defends these lies from Santos, if that is his real name, and doesn't try to get him out of the house then they are as guilty as him.
He's been placed there and he's safe for now. Remember he crashed DC before his 2020 election was called and he lost officially. Photo of him with other crazies exists
It’s not his real name. Or is it? He uses Devolder too, depending on the company name he’s hiding behind. Sign of the times? Its just a matter of ‘when’ these people are caught being scandalous. 🌹❤️
Fun fact: Jon Stewart’s real last name isn’t Stewart. Talk about tossing rocks in glass houses. 😂😂
@@homelessjesse9453 oh dear, he isn't trying to get elected with his stage name, keep huffing the copium.
@@homelessjesse9453 BS. He doesn’t deny that. Having a stage name is far from pretending that it’s his given name. That’s daft to even think the two are equated.
There should be a list of lies of George Santos updated every day. He gives me creep vibes. 😂🤣😃😄
We could set up a Bingo card but it'd have to have a massive number of squares!
It's because he is clearly a pathological liar.
“ Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
-Ice T
This is a fantastic quote! However, the original quote is from Voltaire: "Truly, whoever can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
Henrik: "He'd be a treat to wrestle.Ya know what I mean? You're just…" Jon: "NOPE. No. I don't know what you mean. No." That killed me.
Loved this video, the use of sarcasm is absolutely incredible 👍🏼
George is Roger Smith from American Dad. Today, he's Dr. Penguin, Therapist and tomorrow he's Ruby Zeldastein, Psychic extraordinaire. How did that man get this far and who was minding the F'ing research store?
*Quietly* "Ricky Spanish"
And he's desperately trying to bury his Ricky Spanish outfit in his neighbor's yard.
It's true, someone in oppo research f'd up, but it's only because the lies were so mediocre and about things you wouldn't think to check that he got away with it.
Oh ya.. someone f'd up on the vetting lol
Seeing his Btazilian drag queen news just came out, this is a solid comparison lol
Local media is dead. That’s what happened. People knew he more than likely was a fraud, but with no local media to roast him, and him being a fish too small for the national media, it went un-trashed until he became a congressman-elect. By then it was too late. That’s the tragedy of this farce, charlatans won’t be spotlighted until they get to the national level. Most of the time, at that point is way too late, too bad.
Glad to see you are still fighting the good fight John. Keep it up.
George Santos looks like the kid who used to being his packed lunch to school in a briefcase.
A natural accountant! Yes!
He was also selling autographed photos of himself and his dog Lassie
But he actually WORE a backpack, with both straps on. But the same out of placeness.
I luv the discussion on the absurdity of these insane individuals... (warning signs!) thank you!
Woof, “we cannot mistake absurdity for lack of danger”! Learned that one the hard way.
The Santos fiasco is ripe for a “I dated Morgan Fairchild” Jon Lovitz bit 😂
"Yeah, that's the ticket"
They need to hurry up and get Santos out of Congress around other humans. I feel like this can’t end well.
Nope. Keep him around for cheap entertainment and a reminder of trump supporter incompetence.
While your at it. Get rid of Fetterman, Biden, Harris, Schiff, Schumer, AOC, Omar, ...
@@Andrew-fy9wu do they have fake names too?
@@robjones1328
I dont know, they do have fake brains.
Brazil had a president whose father shot another man deaf in the Senate...I,'m talking the actual Senate floor, and he got away with it! Then started a political dynasty. That is Brazil, the place that produced George Santos
If Santos was sworn in with the wrong legal name, is his seat void?
I hope so
Great Question
Not as long as republicans are in control.
if Biden lied about his education as a senator, does that mean he must resign as president? 🤡
The thing is you need a legal department that has people with spines in them. Merrick Garland doesnt have a spine and the farce Department of Justice is a right wing controlled agency.
You guys are so on track. This story is about illogical illusions I don't have a clue about were it's going but I think that this shit ain't over. Only time will tell.
This was excellent!! Thank you!
George Santos fought at the Battle of Ticonderoga alongside Washington and General Lee (the car from Duke's of Hazard) because Kit was unavailable filming in Hollywood.
True story. 🥴😵💫🤕
Now you are being ridiculous. Way I heard it he was resting because it was the seventh day and he had already created the heavens and the Earth.
his real name is satoshi nakamoto.
I'm sure his Democratic opponent will thoroughly backcheck his claims.
yeah, I heard he was a fighter pilot in that battle, and was personally given a purple hart, by George Washington,
I thought the story of Santos’s lies were, for the most part, hilarious, until learning about how he cheated a PTSD vet out of funds raised to save the life of the vet’s service dog. Now I’m thoroughly disgusted. And his stealing funds raised through his fake charity points clearly to your point that underneath absurdity there is danger. His seeming lack of remorse & feeling for other people is indicative of a psychopathic nature.
SNL needs to get Jon Lovitz to play George Santos.
Brilliant!
I still love you Jon Stewart ❣️❣️You always make me laugh at the absurdity of the politicians
A great line--- "It takes people with no shame, to do shameful things".
". . . and my wife is Morgan Fairchild, yeaaahh that's the ticket". - Jon Lovitz
He is making the work load of comedy writers a lot easier.
Meanwhile satirists are weeping, because how to exaggerate into point of absurdity something that is already well past it?
i hope not... b/c then we won't hv learned our lesson...🤷🏿♀️
George Anthony Devolder Santos is the instigator in the Brazilian Make Brazil Great Again insurrection
Be careful, he will demand money from the comedian's, because money is made using his name along with all of those lies.
Im waiting for the movie. Mike Myers would be great. Lolololol
Mr. Stewart, i´m looking forward to see you back on the daily show!
Honestly. George Santos is amazing. As tall as Godzilla, as entertaining as the Blues Brothers, as lying as Princes Schehezrade (from Tales of 1001 nights) etc. A new US comedy star.(really funny for Germans)
Jon, absolutely on the absurdity and danger.
Award to this show for having the best COMMENTS on UA-cam!
Jon Lovitz needs to sue him for copyright violation.
"Yeah... THAT'S the ticket!"
OMG, yes!
It's like if the kid who pretended to be a doctor got an invite to a surgeons conference.
There’s nothing better for the soul than comic relief before dawn. Thanks for keeping me sane Jon and friends.
I liked when you said, "Santos just screams 'mediocrity.'"
Had it not been for George’s quick thinking and bravery, there never would have been 706 survivors from the titanic disaster. Can’t we just give him the benefit of the doubt?
He is shaped like a bobbing cork buoy, he probably floats five inches above the surface, all that squishy fluffy tissue on him
😂
Government under Republicans is not made smaller but simply diverted to serve a handful of interests.
Your right!
Its generosity and care becomes smaller, and more focused on fewer people.
Same interests as the Democrats
Jews
@@deeznutz8320 Ugh! Corporate Dems are just as complicit but why introduce anti-Semitism to make that point? This is why liberals keep supporting these Corporate Dems who sell them the same right wing policies. They think going against Corporate Dems mean they're supporting the right, especially when people like you push Nazi tropes.
Corporate Dems just point to people like you to keep moving right and liberals buy their bull.
Do you actually believe Dems don't do it too? If you do, whatever news your reading or watching is lying to you. This podcast, case in point.
Although at the time of its release, it received poor ratings, the "Waldo The Moment" episode of Black Mirror is one of my favorites from that series. It was prophetic and demonstrated what Jon is talking about, that "We cannot mistake absurdity for lack of danger."
They roasted the hell out of him & I enjoyed every second
Santos appropriated the Baruch/volleyball riff from Pablo Oliveira, a fellow native Brazilian and his coworkers at Linkbridge Investors. Oliviera legit attended Baruch and legit was on the varsity volleyball team, though seems to have finished his run with both knees intact.
George Santos looks like a mannequin that is transitioning into becoming a real boy.
Perhaps a alien?
Yes, Pinocchio! This one's ever-growing nose would break the walls!
@@marvinmartin4692 a shape-shifter!
@@jaelo2314
Wendigo
Good morning John nice to see everybody!
I'm so glad your back John.
3:35....the "Mr. Peabody glasses.". That made me chuckle. So on point.
He is proof that our elected leaders have no shame, not one of them. There should be way to just remove these scumbags. No shame to just do right thing and resign.
At the age of two, George Santos defeated Chuck Norris in a fist fight by punching him so hard in the balls that two distant planets collided into each other and were destroyed.
😂😂
george santos invented the fax machine.
So did I....
A technique later adopted by the great conservative paragon, Matt Schlapp, (with limited success)
Why would two MAGA traitor red hat idiots fight?
Brazil had a “little” insurrection 😂 John is always so accurate 👌🏼 It was a “carnaval” 🥳 Thank you John 👍🏼 you truly are part of the problem!
😜🤪🤐🤐
*carnival
It's called a comedic understatement. Plus, as awful as it was without the buy in from the military (which honestly color me surprised by) it wasn't going to build up to be anything, especially with the actual parliamentary body on break and out of town and Lula out of town.
@@manfredneilmann4305 carnival and Carnaval are two distinct things, Brazil has nothing to do with the creation of the carnival culture and your whole universe (the US) has nothing to do with the creation of Carnaval, so before you uncontrollably try to correct other people online make sure you know what other people are talking about. Then make sure YOU know what you talking about. THEN and only then you may speak, but that doesn’t mean you should, alright son?
I'm so happy UA-cam brought you back to me. I have missed you.
Jon. A voice of reason in an unreasonable world. Carry on.
George Santos had fought alongside Napoleon at the battle of Waterloo.
He looks like he just gave up a carton of smokes to get to keep his muffin 😂😂 thanks Jon I'm keeping that one in the bank
I can't believe George Santos was a guest on this very episode, so he claimed...
In a sane, healthy society George Santos would be in a prison cell, NOT in Congress.
totally enjoyable towatch Jon Stewart. One question I have is, what about his constituents. Has anyone questioned his voters? Do they feel duped? Is there any information available?
The term psychopath gets used so much that people forget that they actually exist. It doesn't mean bad person, it means this.
Not a clinical term...more colloquial
Yes, Jon Stewart.
The reason Gaetz, Boebert, and Greene spent so much time with him during the speaker votes was so they could always be in front of the cameras.
Bingo.
They are all just actors.
Yup
Birds of a feather {LIARS) flock tegether!
@@penguinuprighter6231 Paid crisis actors, as the saying goes.
I was watching a segment about the latest fusion experiment where the scientist said it had never been done before. George Santos popped in with "I did that at Baruch College when I was only 10."
Do you want me to post the lies Biden has told about jobs he has done, qualifications he has and places he has been?
You cannot misjudge absurdity with a lack of danger
I miss you on TV so much Jonz please return so you can help positively influence a wider range of people! (although I'm sure you are enjoying a bit of a less workload as Treveor also said it was "a lot of work" on the daily show.)
"That took a turn..." so funny! Jon, I wish you would do stand up. Big fan, keep up the good work.
Santos' embellishments are merely alternative facts. They're true-ish.
George Santos !!!!!!
What a woman ❤️
You and your team kept me sane through the Bush administration - and God are you right about ludicrous absence of shame conceals a willingness to do those shameless things that destroy democracies, peoples, live......the willingness to do anything includes the monstrous.Great to see you do your new stuff.....again.....G
Lying should become more expensive in our society
Gotta hand it to him for challenging Donnie to a lie-off... it'll be interesting to see the tally when all's said and done.
Santos is like the George Costanza character running for Congress as Art Vandelay while Kevin McCarthy gives him a committe assignment!
Not only does his mom drop him off @ congress, she also comes during recess to walk with him to the bathroom.
They always hide behind absurdity. How serious can a "Grand Wizard" be?
Spot on.