@@ricardosaenz569 This reminds me of birds aren't real being intentionally started as fake news to demonstrate how fast it spreads despite it obviously being fake.
20:05 it’s way less evil when a privately owned for profit, insurance company, decides whether or not you get a life saving medical procedure or medicine, based on their financial bottom line.
Yeah. No healthcare system has infinite resources; whether US style insurance-based, or some kind of socialised healthcare system. Decisions have to be made about how best to use limited resources, and decisions are made about what kind of treatment will be paid for, for whome, and for how long. In socialised medicine, I major consideration for this is clinical efficacy. In the US system, its how much money the patient has.
@@padmelotusyeah but when many Dr's are telling them that a patient needs to stay in care, they should stay inpatiant at the hospital. Only tobjave tobbe rished backbto the hospital because theu never shouldve left in the fiest place (but the Insurance company saod they had to go.)Insurance companies know nothing about actual health care let alone the individual people. That's how people die with 2mil in unpaid med debt. Did you know that Insurance companies can retroactively take back what they covered? If some bank accountant go through a hospital and the patients under their care that used their insurance and, retroactively, decide they a book keeping accountant, know more than the Dr's and that the in patient should've been out patient, they will charge the hospital for what they paid out for each patient? That not only includes the cost of each days stay, but any procedures and medicines given during that stay. Insurance companies don't have the right to make those claims.
The whole point is that this was not the issue up for debate. It was only about if the "gov" paid for the consultation. A DNR is legal and accepted. Has nothing to do with anybody rlse but thd person in question signing it. Just for the fee payment. Geez.
And switching political parties! I’m surprised they would want him back, considering he was a democrat. I get the impression they feel that anyone not a part of the republican party is inherently evil.
If you think "The first Tuesday after the first Monday" is confusing, how about how they decide when Easter is. It's the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox (when the sun crosses the equator ushering in spring in the northern hemisphere and autumn in the southern hemisphere)
LOL yeah... I actually have a saved snip from a dumb-asses' tweet saying the same thing. Some people have eaten so much stupid I wonder how they keep breathing.
I was a kid in the 70s-80s and even I was *flat shocked* at that number drop... mostly because of remembering the every-goddam-day battles with religious bigots as I grew up: over Rock Music, my D&D, my video games, TV shows, school prayer, etc. etc. etc. Just. Constant. Whining. Made for a miserable time growing up as only atheist kid in school.... ugh.
@@AngeliqueStP yeh, it kinda sucked at times being able to think critically on your own. My home town had the dubious distinction of having more churches per capita than any other. Still came out a none believer though. 🤣
My mother had a DNR order and we understood why she did that. Her doctor was a very gentle man who cried when she slipped away so her death was peaceful and an act of kindness. I would never intervene to stop her last requests and no one should have that right.
Simon, back in the days of slavery, Americans were so racist that they actually had a word for people who were 1/8th black--octoroon. See the "one-drop rule" where a person who had even one black ancestor, no matter how far back, was considered black.
The thing with the death panels conspiracy is, we do have death panels (technically), but they are run by the insurance companies. Before I was on medicare I had to fight the insurance company doer every penny they spent on getting me diagnosed and treated.
Absolutely Damn Right. I had a similar situation: the constant battles just to get the correct diagnosis of what turned out to be an undiscovered chronic condition - which would later cascade into other disorders ...and you know just in itself that *all the stress* those monsters put you through added to the damage inflicted on your body. 'American Healthcare' is an untenable travesty. 🤬
Turns out, Republicans are secretly very pro "death panel". Because of their complete disregard for human life during a deadly pandemic, such panels did actually have to get held to determine who would get put on the few available ECMO (auto-breathing) machines. People who were too unwell would often end up just dying anyway, and so those who had a higher chance of surviving were prioritised.
AND now that you're on Medicare, there's a panel somewhere that "discusses" (read some underpaid idiot who hammers your records and billing through a computer") your case by case, and everything gets done until... surprise, you're f*cked. ;o)
1/8th black = octaroon. Legally black. 1/16th = mulatto, yellow, or able to pass for white. I don't understand why so many people think these distinctions are so important.
My great-grandmother was a Pamunkey Indian who married an immigrant who fled the 1848 German March Revolution. Their backgrounds affected where they could settle and raise a family and they ended up in the Shenandoah Valley of VA.
Simon realizing the nuttiness of the US political ecosystem is always A+ content. And fantastic script, Kevin! The sexy Kennedy bullet joke had me dying.
1 in 25 people... Everyone had *that* classmate. I'd guess everyone had many of them, this number is astonishingly low to be honest. The fact we are living in at least borderline normal societies is nothing short of a miracle.
As some one who lives in a country where rumors and conspiracies start far too easily, I generally don't believe anything about anybody, but especially if they don't have video evidence with audio back up. Most EVERYTHING in written format is too often lied about.
Sometimes those video evidence can be hard to trust nowadays just because of how powerful computer software is at creating something that looks real. You have to look at videos from a trusted source
Apparently? Or maybe they faked their deaths too. Like I said, they're tangential to the story because women aren't people I guess so nobody ever asks what happened to them.
jumping the fence is a reference to breeding mares jumping the fence to get to the little teaser stallions rather than wait for the stallion they are meant to breed with, shergars grand dam jumped the fence and ran off for a week with his grand daddy lol
I wouldn't mind seeing Jello run for president 😂 He would get my vote! *edit* As an American, I want to apologize for this Q garbage fire that has swept over this country. It is alarming to me as well, seeing how stupid so many people are. It is beyond worrying.
Literally never met anyone who thought any of that shit was real. The whole "Q" thing has been nothing but a joke to everyone I know. And I'm on the right side of things, know many right wing people, and know even more left sided people agree
@@Sonamyfan875 Hate does indeed run deep in U.S. history, and I'm not trying to compare all plights. But I was taught if you're not part of the solution for unity, then you're part of the problem.
On the date "problem": they start on the first Tuesday of November, except when the first Tuesday is also the first day of the month, then they start a week later.
It's not terribly hard to understand, but then again, why didn't they just put it on the first Tuesday of the month? Is Nov 1 such a bad day for an election? It's already hard enough trying to remember when Memorial Day, Labor Day, and Thanksgiving take place.
@@chitlitlah The first of November is a national holiday in the U.S., everyone has the day off work. So no-one is working, including the campaign team.
@@Panthror I had to look this up to see if I was missing something and no, it's not a federal holiday. It's apparently Dia de los Muertos which is celebrated by some immigrants, but no employers give that day off as a holiday. Still seems like a pretty good day for an election.
@@chitlitlah I did a quick google search, and from what I read I think it was implemented with religion in mind. They opted for a Tuesday because most people wouldn't be too busy to vote, because on Sundays they had to go to church, wednesdays there was the farmers market day, etc.. Since November 1 is All Saints Day, it stands to reason people would also go to church on that day, so the vote is postponed one week.
also, the reason why I HATE conspiracy theories aimed at something meant to aid people who can't take care of themselves or who are somehow vulnerable is because they're deliberately meant to make that sub group terrified of seeking help. And the only reason for that is a mixture of greed, enjoying other people's suffering, and just straight up not giving a damn. They want to convince gullible people who need help that the programs that can help them are really out to kill them. Its a special kind of cruelty because it inflicts fear along with the usual shame.
Simon welcome to the one drop rule. If you had even one black ancestor you were legally considered black. I don't know when it stopped but it was the basis for what was considered interracial marriage until 1967.
Considering how extremely obscure the JFK JR conspiracy is in reality, I have to wonder if all the other conspiracies in this video were also a lot more obscure than the script would have you believe. What's funny about Simon making fun of RFK Jr being a conspiracy theorist is that Simon, in a Decoding the Unknown video, agreed with him on one of his most famous theories- that the CIA was likely involved in the JFK assassination.
While I said 3-4% of Americans was a small number, that was in terms of Vincent trying to win an election. That's a lot of people to believe in a conspiracy. The others are definitely not obscure, and they had a very demonstrable effect on politics.
@@NarangarathJust because what he says about the Covid vaccines goes against the acceptable narrative doesn't mean that they are idiotic and not true.
@@ThatWriterKevinIf you wanted to put a crazy conspiracy theory in this video involving Trump that actually had a large, dangerous effect on politics you could have included the idea that he colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election. Including the JFK Jr theory in a video about the largest, most dangerous political conspiracy theories really kinda discredits the whole video. (And FYI, the 3% number is *at best* an educated guess not a "fact" as you replied to a different comment)
Italy has a sadly large amount of Catholics. Italy is also the country that crushed the Papal States and conquered Rome, relegating the Pope to a single hill on the lesser side of Rome, with a number of Popes playing prisoners because Pius IX (the reigning one when Italy decided they had enough with his antics) was a giant crybaby and declared himself a political prisoner rather than accept he had fucked up and found out. THAT is how ridiculous the rumors of a Catholic US president taking orders from the Pope - if the most Catholic country in the world militarily conquered Rome when Pope Pius IX's antics crossed the line, the US would just throw him in the ocean.
That dude isn't wearing a fedora. He's wearing a trilby. A trilby is what all the gamer kids wear and think is a fedora. An actual fedora is what Indiana Jones wears, and is actually cool.
The issue with flat-eartherism is that it tends to be a gateway to antisemitism. Likr basically all conspiracy theories. It's a very syncretic conspiracy, it's easy to include flat Earth into a belief system.
2:55 - Chapter 1 - October surprise 8:45 - Chapter 2 - The pope is moving to america 13:05 - Chapter 3 - JFK Jr is alive & going to be trump's running mate 18:05 - Chapter 4 - Death panels
When he made that comment about 1/8 being basically the same as fully black.... I thought he being clever. Then I realized that he's Brittish and has no idea that used to be a real law.
Yeah, his reaction was "quaint" in a way. Authentic. We're so fucked up now that people can't even imagine how fucked up we were. 1/4th, 1/8th, 1/16th, 3/5ths, I wonder if any "less-racist" legislators got hoodwinked into voting against their interests because they suck at fractions?
During the American civil war, the British supported the SOUTH because they were getting cotton from the southern states at a great price for some reason. It’s almost like they DID like slavery!
On the November thing Simon. Sometimes November first can be a Tuesday so the elections have to follow the first Tuesday after the first Monday that actually falls in November.
holidays: the very middle of the holiday and the very end are the most important psychologically. if you have ever had a holiday where lots of things go wrong but you look back and laugh, it’s likely because the middle and the end were good
the one part of these videos that always makes me question them is when he starts to read off statistics, i find it extremely hard to believe 3-4% of Americans even new what Q anon was before it was a massive news story.
Simon progressively losing his shit as he realizes just how fucked the American political side show is was unexpected, but not completely surprising.
He didn't even get to the particularly bad parts
This is why we love our wacky Brits so much!!!
It is crazy the stuff people will believe; basic disregard of expertise or facts
@@ricardosaenz569 This reminds me of birds aren't real being intentionally started as fake news to demonstrate how fast it spreads despite it obviously being fake.
The hardest lesson to learn from history is that nobody ever learns anything from history.
I agree. And also another hard part is learning just how horrible of things people can be capable of.
@@ardenalexa94 It's even worse when you realize that a righteous cause can make good men do unspeakable things.
Everyone thinks the real history is a conspiracy.
"Those that do not know their history are doomed to repeat it." Geog Santayana
20:05 it’s way less evil when a privately owned for profit, insurance company, decides whether or not you get a life saving medical procedure or medicine, based on their financial bottom line.
It's the American way!!
Yeah. No healthcare system has infinite resources; whether US style insurance-based, or some kind of socialised healthcare system. Decisions have to be made about how best to use limited resources, and decisions are made about what kind of treatment will be paid for, for whome, and for how long.
In socialised medicine, I major consideration for this is clinical efficacy. In the US system, its how much money the patient has.
@@padmelotus yeah, and one of those criteria is a moral and ethical consideration, the other isn't.
@@padmelotusyeah but when many Dr's are telling them that a patient needs to stay in care, they should stay inpatiant at the hospital. Only tobjave tobbe rished backbto the hospital because theu never shouldve left in the fiest place (but the Insurance company saod they had to go.)Insurance companies know nothing about actual health care let alone the individual people. That's how people die with 2mil in unpaid med debt. Did you know that Insurance companies can retroactively take back what they covered? If some bank accountant go through a hospital and the patients under their care that used their insurance and, retroactively, decide they a book keeping accountant, know more than the Dr's and that the in patient should've been out patient, they will charge the hospital for what they paid out for each patient? That not only includes the cost of each days stay, but any procedures and medicines given during that stay. Insurance companies don't have the right to make those claims.
The whole point is that this was not the issue up for debate. It was only about if the "gov" paid for the consultation. A DNR is legal and accepted. Has nothing to do with anybody rlse but thd person in question signing it. Just for the fee payment. Geez.
I love that the Kennedy guy has this 20 year plan involving coming back from the dead, only to be the VICE president.
TBF, he’d be the VP to a really old dude😂
He's a modest man.
And switching political parties! I’m surprised they would want him back, considering he was a democrat. I get the impression they feel that anyone not a part of the republican party is inherently evil.
@@davidjames579 lmao 😆
Because VPs are the next presidents
If you think "The first Tuesday after the first Monday" is confusing, how about how they decide when Easter is. It's the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox (when the sun crosses the equator ushering in spring in the northern hemisphere and autumn in the southern hemisphere)
Is *that* how?? I always wondered. I'm utterly baffled but only mildly surprised
What you really have to love are the folks who are grateful for the Affordable Care Act because the alternative would have been Obamacare. 🤔
LOL yeah... I actually have a saved snip from a dumb-asses' tweet saying the same thing. Some people have eaten so much stupid I wonder how they keep breathing.
Those interviews both amuse me and make my soul die a bit inside
Yay ACA!!! Boo Obamacare
Healthcare in USA absolutely sucks.
Fucking insane how ill informed people really are...America is full or walking talking examples of the dunning Kruger effect...if u know u know haha
9:00 “that’s a huge decline! Good stuff!”
Best line ever. 👍
I thought the same thing almost exactly as he said it lol hell yeah
I was a kid in the 70s-80s and even I was *flat shocked* at that number drop... mostly because of remembering the every-goddam-day battles with religious bigots as I grew up: over Rock Music, my D&D, my video games, TV shows, school prayer, etc. etc. etc.
Just. Constant. Whining.
Made for a miserable time growing up as only atheist kid in school.... ugh.
@@AngeliqueStP yeh, it kinda sucked at times being able to think critically on your own. My home town had the dubious distinction of having more churches per capita than any other. Still came out a none believer though. 🤣
Everytime I watch a video similar to this from Simon I can’t help but wish someone would take the time to make a “Simon out of context” series
there IS! Simon mentioned that a while ago (half?year?), cant remember whats the name is tho, but i bet its findable!
@@mho... I found it and I am not disappointed
@@z-6958
Link?
All of us in America who support your “JUST CHOSE A DATE!” rant, we feel that
The editors including and working around bloopers is probably the best part of the Simonverse.
lmao, love it, the Simonverse
My mother had a DNR order and we understood why she did that. Her doctor was a very gentle man who cried when she slipped away so her death was peaceful and an act of kindness. I would never intervene to stop her last requests and no one should have that right.
Simon, back in the days of slavery, Americans were so racist that they actually had a word for people who were 1/8th black--octoroon. See the "one-drop rule" where a person who had even one black ancestor, no matter how far back, was considered black.
It's always fun to watch Simon be completely astounded by the most ridiculous bits of American culture/history.
A drop of water in milk, you have milk. A drop of milk in water, you have milk. Honestly what a racist told me once
Well, technically that would be everyone on earth then, given that the first humans came from Africa. Problem solved.
So glad the US has moved passed those archaic times.
It feels icky to like this comment. Instead, I'll add an equally abhorrent fact. The civil rights act wasn't signed into law until 1964.
This is my favorite Simon channel. I think we are due for an epic blaze.
Simon never fails to knock it out of the park when Kevin lobs it in there. topics like conspiracy theories are the best
Glad you enjoyed!
Erm Kevin, who left the dungeon door open? I hear the clickity clack of the typewriter and your chains have made the carpet all static.
The thing with the death panels conspiracy is, we do have death panels (technically), but they are run by the insurance companies. Before I was on medicare I had to fight the insurance company doer every penny they spent on getting me diagnosed and treated.
Absolutely Damn Right. I had a similar situation: the constant battles just to get the correct diagnosis of what turned out to be an undiscovered chronic condition - which would later cascade into other disorders ...and you know just in itself that *all the stress* those monsters put you through added to the damage inflicted on your body.
'American Healthcare' is an untenable travesty. 🤬
Turns out, Republicans are secretly very pro "death panel". Because of their complete disregard for human life during a deadly pandemic, such panels did actually have to get held to determine who would get put on the few available ECMO (auto-breathing) machines. People who were too unwell would often end up just dying anyway, and so those who had a higher chance of surviving were prioritised.
AND now that you're on Medicare, there's a panel somewhere that "discusses" (read some underpaid idiot who hammers your records and billing through a computer") your case by case, and everything gets done until... surprise, you're f*cked. ;o)
Editing is brilliant, meme lord deserves a raise
Yeah Sam does
Fastest click of my life
Straight up
Video posted 9mins ago
Your comment was posted 29mins ago… 😳😂
@@paulalexander8874 heh, my comment was actually third posted comment 😂
100% 😅
Same. as an American I’m worried.
1/8th black = octaroon. Legally black.
1/16th = mulatto, yellow, or able to pass for white. I don't understand why so many people think these distinctions are so important.
That would be the Dunning Kruger effect.
Stupid people are typically the loudest and cling tight to cognitive biases.
My great-grandmother was a Pamunkey Indian who married an immigrant who fled the 1848 German March Revolution. Their backgrounds affected where they could settle and raise a family and they ended up in the Shenandoah Valley of VA.
@@Noah_E🧡 that's America. It's the land of thieves.
Simon realizing the nuttiness of the US political ecosystem is always A+ content. And fantastic script, Kevin! The sexy Kennedy bullet joke had me dying.
DO NOT dismiss Reagan / Iran "conspiracy" when Iran/Contra was quite the reality.
😂😂😂 You Americans, all, are crazy buggers!
Simon is VERY much politically braindead and will happily call anything that questions the government as a crazy conspiracy theory.
“Where we go one we go all” is the sheepyest slogan ever used.
Lemmings
Ironic considering how often they’ll use sheeple as an insult😂
16:36 Wow, he's a dead ringer for JFK Jr. (pun wholly, fully and unapologetically intended...😂)
1 in 25 people... Everyone had *that* classmate. I'd guess everyone had many of them, this number is astonishingly low to be honest. The fact we are living in at least borderline normal societies is nothing short of a miracle.
If you don’t have that classmate then it was you😂
Kevin goes hard in this script. 👏 👏
Don’t change my dude.
Thanks! And wasn't planning on it ❤
The Iran Contra Conspiracy was some serious shit. You could probably do a DTU about it. Conspiracy Decodes tend to do well.
I think he has, might have been one of the other channels but I'm sure he had done a video on it.
You claim you're not a dog.. THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT A DOG WOULD SAY IF HE DIDN'T WANT ME TO LOOK INTO IT!!
I'm onto you.
@@garyburginjr1366 🤫
Gary Webb
As some one who lives in a country where rumors and conspiracies start far too easily, I generally don't believe anything about anybody, but especially if they don't have video evidence with audio back up. Most EVERYTHING in written format is too often lied about.
People don’t bother reading even the shortest of documents. It’s really frustrating
If that's so you're going to love the rise of deep fake technology.
Sounds like you’re fucked when deepfakes become ubiquitous… gonna need to learn how to formulate your own thoughts & whatnot
Sometimes those video evidence can be hard to trust nowadays just because of how powerful computer software is at creating something that looks real. You have to look at videos from a trusted source
So jr not just faked his death but murdered his wife and sister in law.
Apparently? Or maybe they faked their deaths too. Like I said, they're tangential to the story because women aren't people I guess so nobody ever asks what happened to them.
Sounds like presidential material in modern america to me
@@michaeld1889 Because the current resident of the White House had his wife killed when he first ran for Senate, in hopes it would help him win?
jumping the fence is a reference to breeding mares jumping the fence to get to the little teaser stallions rather than wait for the stallion they are meant to breed with, shergars grand dam jumped the fence and ran off for a week with his grand daddy lol
Simons rants keep me subscribed to this channel. ❤
The only reason why we all are here
Honestly, if Simon created a channel which was just him ranting if would be very popular. Perhaps even his most popular by far.
Unlike those "other" channels 🤢
Kevin is savage today I love it
Jump the fence: One who abruptly leaves his/her family (or his job, or his town) seeking to start a new life
That's not a fedora, it's a trilby.
We've only had two Catholic presidents at this point, too. JFK and Joe Biden. Funnily enough, both are/were Irish Catholics.
Simon can you please do a full video on Iran Contra.
I wouldn't mind seeing Jello run for president 😂
He would get my vote!
*edit*
As an American, I want to apologize for this Q garbage fire that has swept over this country.
It is alarming to me as well, seeing how stupid so many people are. It is beyond worrying.
Agreed!
Literally never met anyone who thought any of that shit was real. The whole "Q" thing has been nothing but a joke to everyone I know. And I'm on the right side of things, know many right wing people, and know even more left sided people agree
I heard somewhere, probably a sociology class, that 30% of the population is just not very smart. I believe that estimate is low.
@@yasuke9317which is why we should get rid of of warning labels. That way we'd weed out the dumbest people, & curb the overpopulation too.
@@zeusathena26 Do you know how many times I have said the exact thing? 😂 Many. 10% alone mixing bleach and ammonia.
"he was not too sexy to be taken down by a bullet" 😂 I shouldn't laugh, I shouldn't laugh 😂
Yes you should ❤
I love Simon's content but oh how I miss those business blaze days and standing Simon
Slapping the script. Am I right, Peter??
I want Sam to replace the regular intro clips with nothing but clips of Simon saying controversial things that will definitely get him cancelled
Why ?
@@larsolsen7825funny
in the 1920s, the Klan was also anti-Irish, anti-immigrant, and anti-catholic (see anti-immigrant and anti-irish for reasons)
My grandfather told me how hard it was for his dad to even get work, how many businesses hung "No Irish need apply" signs.
Noooo you can't say that, we have to think American history only hated non-whites!
@@Sonamyfan875 Hate does indeed run deep in U.S. history, and I'm not trying to compare all plights. But I was taught if you're not part of the solution for unity, then you're part of the problem.
I loved watching Simon finally realize the insanity happening over here.
It clashed with Emma Kenny but straight after I got on here ,now all I need is a new casual Criminalist and today will be perfect 👌 ❤❤
There seems to be some UA-cam fuckery going on, but there was a new CC in podcast form on Friday
I've just looked on the podcast list and can't find a new one there either 😢
@@sarameyrick7182Really? I was told the Boston Strangler episode dropped Friday, but I wait for the youtube video to see Jen's amazing editing anyway
@@ThatWriterKevin so long as it's coming I'm happy, love your stuff 😃😃😃
@@ThatWriterKevin still no Boston Strangler, podcast or utube 😮💨
Simon I love all your channels keep up the awesome work
Gonna need more coffee for this one because gods it is exhausting lol
What it means is, if the first day of the month is a Tuesday, voting won't happen until the following week
My grandmother died three times. She got a DNR. Kinda think she knew what she wanted well before that.
On the date "problem": they start on the first Tuesday of November, except when the first Tuesday is also the first day of the month, then they start a week later.
It's not terribly hard to understand, but then again, why didn't they just put it on the first Tuesday of the month? Is Nov 1 such a bad day for an election? It's already hard enough trying to remember when Memorial Day, Labor Day, and Thanksgiving take place.
@@chitlitlah The first of November is a national holiday in the U.S., everyone has the day off work. So no-one is working, including the campaign team.
@@Panthror I had to look this up to see if I was missing something and no, it's not a federal holiday. It's apparently Dia de los Muertos which is celebrated by some immigrants, but no employers give that day off as a holiday. Still seems like a pretty good day for an election.
@@chitlitlah I did a quick google search, and from what I read I think it was implemented with religion in mind. They opted for a Tuesday because most people wouldn't be too busy to vote, because on Sundays they had to go to church, wednesdays there was the farmers market day, etc.. Since November 1 is All Saints Day, it stands to reason people would also go to church on that day, so the vote is postponed one week.
Really love @ThatWriterKevin 's stories. And hanging out at his Patreon for a few laughs.
Decoding the Unknown has sprinkles of Brain Blaze.
This is what I can only call equal parts of each. Lol.
1:17 Ironically, the creator of "Dilbert" outed himself as a racist conspiracy theorist himself. Shoulda took his own advice...
I'm 100% of the belief that was an intentional nod...
And f*** that guy.
You mean that survey done by black people asking black people their opinions on race?
also, the reason why I HATE conspiracy theories aimed at something meant to aid people who can't take care of themselves or who are somehow vulnerable is because they're deliberately meant to make that sub group terrified of seeking help. And the only reason for that is a mixture of greed, enjoying other people's suffering, and just straight up not giving a damn. They want to convince gullible people who need help that the programs that can help them are really out to kill them. Its a special kind of cruelty because it inflicts fear along with the usual shame.
wtf are you talking about
Excuse me but I was busy rewatching an old episode and had to switch to this new episode right away. How inconvenient 😂
Simon welcome to the one drop rule. If you had even one black ancestor you were legally considered black.
I don't know when it stopped but it was the basis for what was considered interracial marriage until 1967.
It hasn't stopped.
lol@@PewPewPark
By Democrats.
@@toddnolastname4485 Well... Only prior to the 'Southern Strategy,' but that elicited the parties' flip and all the racists went to the Republicans.
@@AngeliqueStP wrong
we had death panels before the ACA. we called them private insurance plans.
"America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy." -- John Updike
10:10 “Irish? Gotta be Catholic.” I hear the distant squeaking of many bar stools being slid back…. 😂
As far as having a black ancestor goes, in America, if you're 1/16 black, you're all black. It's called the "One Drop" rule.
I think that Dead Kennedys joke flew right over Simon's head
Interesting band.
I don't think I've made a single cultural reference that didn't fly over Simon's head
17:59 amazing edit Sam😂😂
Are tweets now called Xeets?
oh man i was watching your backlog and then I see this. YAY!
18:30 Dear editor please make this part of the Simon Whistler cannon, we love you ❤️
The way his chair is smiling :)
Petition for Simon to fix his S.W. neon sign, the set neeeeeeeds it.
17:02 “It was me Barry! I was the one who posted the moai emoji!” 🗿
0:16 in ... ohhh boy ... Lawd, Kevin what have you got for us now, lol 😳😳
I ate all my popcorn in 3 mins…..
Why do I live like this!?
Thanks Simon! 👌
Considering how extremely obscure the JFK JR conspiracy is in reality, I have to wonder if all the other conspiracies in this video were also a lot more obscure than the script would have you believe.
What's funny about Simon making fun of RFK Jr being a conspiracy theorist is that Simon, in a Decoding the Unknown video, agreed with him on one of his most famous theories- that the CIA was likely involved in the JFK assassination.
While I said 3-4% of Americans was a small number, that was in terms of Vincent trying to win an election. That's a lot of people to believe in a conspiracy. The others are definitely not obscure, and they had a very demonstrable effect on politics.
I mean... If you take enough stabs in the dark you'll eventually hit something. That's no reason not to make fun of all the idiotic claims.
@@NarangarathJust because what he says about the Covid vaccines goes against the acceptable narrative doesn't mean that they are idiotic and not true.
@@ThatWriterKevinIf you wanted to put a crazy conspiracy theory in this video involving Trump that actually had a large, dangerous effect on politics you could have included the idea that he colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election. Including the JFK Jr theory in a video about the largest, most dangerous political conspiracy theories really kinda discredits the whole video. (And FYI, the 3% number is *at best* an educated guess not a "fact" as you replied to a different comment)
Kevin really has to do a script on the bare foot bandit, I can already see Simon reaction to the story.
They related to the wet bandits?
Kevin Blaze it up✌️✌️✌️ feel you will earn your fungus ration today
Thanks!
Italy has a sadly large amount of Catholics. Italy is also the country that crushed the Papal States and conquered Rome, relegating the Pope to a single hill on the lesser side of Rome, with a number of Popes playing prisoners because Pius IX (the reigning one when Italy decided they had enough with his antics) was a giant crybaby and declared himself a political prisoner rather than accept he had fucked up and found out.
THAT is how ridiculous the rumors of a Catholic US president taking orders from the Pope - if the most Catholic country in the world militarily conquered Rome when Pope Pius IX's antics crossed the line, the US would just throw him in the ocean.
That's NOT a fedora, that's a TRILBY.😅
Ahh the good ol’ political action ad after Simon screams about how confusing we make elections, is fantastic
I love you Kevin and Simon...what a video 😂
Thanks!
This script needed a mention of Dr Karl Kennedy from Neighbours, just to confuse Simon with more Kennedys.
Nigel Kennedy also
Simon's pronunciation of 'Amos' is interesting.
That dude isn't wearing a fedora. He's wearing a trilby. A trilby is what all the gamer kids wear and think is a fedora. An actual fedora is what Indiana Jones wears, and is actually cool.
I'm still trying to be adopted by someone who lives in Sweden or Germany.
as a black person, i almost clipped that 1/8th commentary because it was hilarious
Only presenter that i hit “like” before i watch the video.. on all his channels. Especially BB
OGBB!
SMASH THAT "LIKE" BUTTON!!
If Simon just let Kevin out of the basement, he'd actually be in the centre of the camera.
The issue with flat-eartherism is that it tends to be a gateway to antisemitism. Likr basically all conspiracy theories. It's a very syncretic conspiracy, it's easy to include flat Earth into a belief system.
I'm not a flat earther, but, earth isn't an oblate spheroid, it's round.
@@robertwilloughby8050I'll side with physicists...
What crack stash are you on to relate flat earth to Jews
2:55 - Chapter 1 - October surprise
8:45 - Chapter 2 - The pope is moving to america
13:05 - Chapter 3 - JFK Jr is alive & going to be trump's running mate
18:05 - Chapter 4 - Death panels
When he made that comment about 1/8 being basically the same as fully black.... I thought he being clever. Then I realized that he's Brittish and has no idea that used to be a real law.
Yeah, his reaction was "quaint" in a way. Authentic. We're so fucked up now that people can't even imagine how fucked up we were.
1/4th, 1/8th, 1/16th, 3/5ths,
I wonder if any "less-racist" legislators got hoodwinked into voting against their interests because they suck at fractions?
History doesn't repeat itself...
Fools repeat History...
If death panels were even a thing, i highly doubt Sarah Palin would be revived
How many channels does Simon have? It feels like I find a new one every six months!
6:22 imma need the song please. Plus i agree, President Arnie 🫡
During the American civil war, the British supported the SOUTH because they were getting cotton from the southern states at a great price for some reason. It’s almost like they DID like slavery!
I'm autistic and American, and I can tell your sarcasm. You're fine !
On the November thing Simon. Sometimes November first can be a Tuesday so the elections have to follow the first Tuesday after the first Monday that actually falls in November.
Did Simon just call the Affordable Care Act "Obama-hair"?
holidays: the very middle of the holiday and the very end are the most important psychologically. if you have ever had a holiday where lots of things go wrong but you look back and laugh, it’s likely because the middle and the end were good
the one part of these videos that always makes me question them is when he starts to read off statistics, i find it extremely hard to believe 3-4% of Americans even new what Q anon was before it was a massive news story.
The great part about facts is that they're true whether you believe them or not!
"All models are wrong. Some are useful" -George Cox
One I day I hope to have a head as shiny as yours Fact Boi
Damn Simon- Sometimes you say shit that makes me wonder, “ Exactly how close was I raised “in the clan” in the 1970’s……
*Let's go, Simon.*
*Simon rules.*
Yes, it really has been alarming Simon.
Can't wait for Simon to buy a fedora that he won't have to eat
I'd vote for Arnie in a HEART BEAT
Funny how you include that Dilbert clip considering how batshit crazy the Dilbert creator has become.
Simon! You’re catching up on how insane the US has become…