Democrats: Maybe Hold A Primary Perhaps Possibly? - SOME MORE NEWS
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- Опубліковано 8 чер 2024
- Hi. Joe Biden is the presumptive Democratic nominee in 2024. What this episode presupposes is... what if he wasn't?
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Hosted by Cody Johnston
Executive Producer - Katy Stoll
Directed by Will Gordh
Written by Katie Goldin
Edited by John Conway
Produced by Jonathan Harris
Associate Producer - Quincy Tucker
Post-Production Supervisor - John Conway
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:40 - Biden Not Looking Strong
07:45 - Fake Primary
12:14 - Why Are Primaries?
24:10 - What Kind Of Primary Should We Have?
29:04 - Do Primaries Hurt The Party?
31:41 - Primary? Yes, Obviously! - Комедії
Funny how Cody can advocate for a Dem primary, but he won't face Warmbo at the Iowa Caucus so the voters can decide which one gets to wear his skin for the next 4 years.
If you think Warmbo needs the approval of Iowa to wear Cody's skin you must be new to the channel
@@mars7304you misunderstood. Warmbo doesn’t need the approval, but the validation of winning feels good
There was a credible security concern.
It's only a matter of time before wormbo reveals Cody to be in the COORRN CREEEM lobby's pocket anyway.
Now now, there's plenty of Cody skin to go around.
“Not horny for Biden but super not horny for Trump” is probably the most apt description of how I feel about the prospective presidents this election cycle.
Cornel west for president
RFK all the way
How many elections have you said that for?
THIS IS THE PRIMARY You have other options still.
Not horny for trump is one of the reasons that there should have been a highly publicized primary that people weren’t mocked for participating in.
Democrats could have learned how unpopular Biden is.
I'm voting for Warmbo, because he has far fewer hands puppeteering him than any of the other candidates.
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I'm embarrassed to admit how badly I want that on a shirt
LOL!😂
You’d be surprised. Double fisting for Warmbo is his second base
Warmbo for Prez!!
As an Australian, I've never understood the "anti-ranked choice" that America has such a hardon for. Like, it makes 0 sense how if you vote for a third party you're throwing your vote away, and the fact that you just have to vote for the lesser of two evils. Like, hey maybe you should be allowed to vote for whoever you want without the fear of your vote going to waste.
A good chunk of the population is doing that, mainly in local elections, because why not. The federal elections mostly feel like a dog and pony show since federal politics functions as a pure oligarchy and ignores the general population most of the time.
You're painting with a broad brush honestly. Throwing around broad statements like "America has a hard on for this." is just reductive. As can be seen in many points of the video, there are a lot of things that the majority of american's don't like but the form that voting takes doesn't represent that. Its not a matter of just "Not having a hard on" For something. Its that very powerful people with a lot of money spend that money to maintain what is currently happening. The Holier than though attitude of "As an Australian" is annoying.
@@BigBosssette America (the government) and America (the people) are two occasionally different things. Or something IDK Im Canadian so like, I have a slightly less evil somewhat more functional government.
And also, let the guy use his holier than thou attitude because we (the English speaking nations) are all better than the USA. Suck a cock, we did democracy better, our nations are a disasterous mess, your nation is a plane crash into two skyscrapers 🤷which fueled a war on terror that killing hundreds of thousands if not millions over the course of 20+ years. Much love, the superior North American country, true north strong and free.
Oh yeah, and it's THOU, not though, what a failure of the American school system
edit: mayhaps i add im being satirical (partially)
It's called "we have a First Past the Post system" and it's literal mathematics that any party that can't get a plurality of the vote literally cannot hope to win. Further, since zero of the third parties have an apparatus for significant Senate and House wins, even if they somehow beat the odds on winning the White House they'd still have to contend with a Congress primarily made up of Republicans and Democrats. It's a lot more complicated than "having a hardon" for anything.
Aside that "still has to contend with Congress" is why people sound stupid when they act like Bernie or Stein or West or so on would be some magic cure, as nope, they'd have to contend with the exact same Congressional issues that Biden deals with. And obviously if Republicans don't want to compromise with moderate Dems I don't know why certain groups think they're suddenly going to fall over themselves being nice to any president who's even more leftist.
Remember, America is basically the beta test for how Democracy would be built in the modern age. When the founders wrote the Constitution, they didn't foresee parties at all - they assumed that individual ambition would enforce the various checks and balances. Australia has been a country with its own government for what, like 100 years? I would expect that the first group to do something would be rougher than the ones that followed, since they have the benefit of experience.
Love being in a permanent “enemy of my enemy” relationship with the Democratic Party🙃
If you're in favor of more leftist policies which I am, and you seem to be. I would rethink about considering the democrats to be your "enemy." Gaining political prominence requires coalition building, working to form a group that can enact change in at least directions you can support.
Trying to go it alone and make enemy of your closest powerful poltical block isn't how you succeed.
Just look at the facists, they didn't make enemies with the gop, they worked with them and became louder and more Influential within that political block, to where there are their most powerful in recent history. You don't get there by just making enemies from potential allies.
I'm seeing a growing trend in our poltical block of demanding pure conformance to your given ideals at the threat of breaking up the coalition and allowing the antithesis of our goals to take power because of it. It's just the wrong way to go about this frankly.
Ugh… that’s what this turned into, didn’t it?
Really its just another enemy
@@benjaminhenderson5025that’s a fact
@@benjaminhenderson5025true... But the other enemy is far more dangerous
"I'm not saying we should boot the olds out of the presidency"
don't worry mr. showdy - I am
I second this motion.
I third the motion and purpose to move forward with the vote
I fourth the motion and propose that the guy above me learns to spell propose.
@@blooddumpster3427 it’s what my phone put 🤷♂️
Cool ageism my friends very liberal of you all 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🤣
Democracy is a web, silly goat. And Warmbo is the spider.
Unfortunately, the US isn't a democratic counry
As an Australian, it's utterly insane to me that other countries don't do ranked choice voting. We have that for our primary school captain elections, so don't tell me "it's too complicated."
It may not be too complicated for Australian primary school children, but it's too complicated for Americans.
@@ErwinPommel The stereotype that Americans are stupid is fun and all, but ask an American a question about their favourite sport and they'll hit you with all sorts of statistical analysis. Or if they aren't into sport then ask them about their favourite band and they'll rattle of trivia about which tours happened on which dates. If they aren't into bands like that it'll be something else. It's not that they're stupid, it's that they aren't given a chance to get deep into politics, because they don't get real choices to care about.
As a European (French living in Germany so I got 2 different elective systems) it feels weird as well. We get forced and "guilted" into chosing a mainstream candidates instead of voting for the one we agree the most with.
Our (The U.S) system is carefully crafted to prevent us from having actual democracy. The rulers like it, most of us don't.
It's not that big of a problem when you have proportional representation already built into results. In fact, now that I think about it, it would take power away from smaller names, not give them more of it.
"Now it's just an Oligarchy with unlimited political bribery," President Jimmy Carter speaking in an interview on the Thom Hartmann Program in 2015 about the 2014 Supreme Court decision to eliminate caps on campaign contributions (had to look it up to double check). I don't think either party particularly cares about what we think as long as they're appeasing their shareholders (aka campaign contributors).
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Remember jonestown?
@@thosethatcanthe cia slave labor operation masqerading as a cult?
check out the documentary "plutocracy". There have been documents and emails sent out by the larger corporate entities congratulating themselves on completely co=opting the political process.
Bernie not being able to debate trump will forever be such a missed opportunity
If only he would call for a ceasefire. Maybe 3 months ago.
It is a smart move. Like my granddad told me "never argue with an idiot cos within 20 seconds ppl won't be able to tell the difference."
The fact that Trump would deliberately not show up to a debate with Biden at this point makes it futile. And even though all sane people would view Trump's debate refusal as yet another reason to vote against Trump, he would find a way to spin the situation in his favor with his deranged Maga voters.
@@weatheranddarkness That was so sad. His tune is changing slightly now, but it's sad that he fell in line with zionist dems at all
@@TakenTooklets be real tho, there’s no way Biden can stand his own in a debate right now. Trump would do his usual fashy, loud, disgusting talking points and it would work (for his base), I don’t even think biden could keep up with a normally-paced conversation. Would not be a good look for Joe.
Something about this election feels weak, as in the entire idea of a presidency has been weakened.
Bro. One of the candidates tried to overthrow the government last time. This is the STRONGEST election to vote in since like the civil war or WW2 or something like that. This is momentous.
@Juel92 Here's who is running - (Incumbent) Joe Biden, Marianne Williamson, Dean Philips, Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, Robert F. Kennedy, Cornel West, Jill Stein. First off, nobody should be voting just to keep somebody out of office because inevitably they will make a populist decision in doing so and we'll be stuck with a boring candidate who will maintain the status quo or let the status quo continue to slip into a bad place. Are there good candidates (better than Biden)? Yes, there are. Do they stand a chance? Nope. Are they even that much better than Biden? No. When I use the word better, what I mean is, will that person fight to make the lives of other humans, the ones who need the most help, better. I don't see these candidates doing that. I see war being waged overseas, and I see a military industrial complex continue to thrive while people are really suffering back home, and I don't see any momentum behind any solid candidates. Hence why I feel the way I feel.
@@Juel92 It'll be the strongest election to vote in until the next one, if we have a next one.
@@Juel92I think that's the problem. The more awful and shocking one candidate is, the less attractive the alternative needs to be. So it ends up with two tribes fighting against the opponent they hate and backing someone however little they like them. And the majority of people just start to hate the government/democracy and institution of president.
@@Juel92That same candidate is also wing nut who can’t not make himself look worse in the eyes of the public. I kinda doubt he poses that much of a threat.
I don’t think a primary is needed to know that people are not excited about Kamala Harris.
Lol 💯
Idk I love Kamala "locking up thousands of people for minor posession" Harris!
Out of all the candidates in that primary, it moved me that Democrats nominated the top choice on my list who then appointed my second to top choice on that same list, the list title being "people I REALLY hope the Democratic Party doesn't pick".
There was no third to top; that was the entire list.
Where it moved me was somewhere precisely between inarticulate rage and sudden tranquility.
Jesus fuckjng Christ.
Remember those primaries she was in last time (yk, where she rightly called Biden a racist). The ones where she went from front runner to 1% within a week of actually talking to real people.
I recognize and appreciate that she is the first female VP and a minority. But.... Kamala sucks.
Has anyone asked Joe Biden his policy stance on the Shark-Electricity Conflict?
No, because the MSM is in the pocket of Big Shark.
He'd pick the Ice-cream
@@airplanes_aren.t_real The sharks hate the ice cream.
Baby shark, do-do-do-do-do-do.
Offshore sharknado development WHEN?!
Some form of Ranked Choice voting or anything other than FPTP is critical to America digging itself out of the diametrically opposed bipartisan nightmare it's currently trapped in. Voting FOR a candidate rather than voting AGAINST an extreme opposite candidate is really the only way to get things to improve.
Reminder to anyone reading this and agreeing needs to follow through on that belief. Donate and volunteer for organizations like Fairvote to make ranked choice voting a reality in your state. It won't just happen automatically because polticans tend to not support it. Why would they support a change to the system that got them elected unless there's a groundswell of popular support?
With the limited number of Representatives and the ability of 40% of Senators (which translates to about 25% of the US population) able to shut down any legislation, it won't matter. Plus with only 435 reps for 330 million people they will easily be captured by money, or at least enough of them to make anything meaningful not happen.
When the current number of Reps was locked in, it was 1 rep for every 250,000 people. Now its one for every 800,000. Almost nobody knows their rep anymore. We used to as a country. That makes detatchment and distrust of government a much easier sell, and it makes it harder for normal, non-rich people to even get into politics. Thats the real root cause issue, and changing how voting goes doesn't fix that
Agreed, maybe then we can overcome capitalist propaganda, anti-socialism rhetoric, which is simply democracy in OUR economy,...NOT SCARY
and the best way forward is to do everything we can to make the fascist republican party politically irrelevant. an environment in which liberal democrats are firmly in charge is the environment we want for pushing forward radical progressive policy and candidates, not when everyone is rightfully terrified of succumbing to fascism. bernie sanders' candidacy came on the heels of 8 years of obama complacency and lack of structural change and he managed to lead the most successful progressive movement since the civil rights movement at least in-part as a result. people weren't happy with obama and wanted more.
@@themoops4006And Bernies movement utterly failed. The USA is more rightwing than ever, we even have a democrat admin supporting Genocide.
I'm voting for Warmbo because he thinks positive and the children, who he doesn't eat, are treated well
Edit: added 2 commas
Wait, are you saying Warmbo treats children well and also doesn't eat them, or that Warmbo only treats well the children he doesn't eat?
I'm voting for Warmbo because he thinks positive and the children who he doesn't eat are treated well
Edit: removed 2 commas
Glad to know that the White House thinks stopping a genocide is “repugnant”.
It’s not genocide if it’s against brown people. /s
@@thelouster5815funnily enough palestinians and israelis look alike, and even funnier is, that the Israeli government isnt really nice to ashkenazi jews either
The US government has never met a bloodbath it doesn't love.
@@thelouster5815 Ridiculously stupid comment.
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We need proportional voting. And spoiler: the GOP won't be the ones to pop that reform into existence. Warmbo would, though.
Gore would have won and Obama would have lost. It doesn’t really favors the dems but it would be great for states.
I suppose all those states having minority votes matter could make them less feverishly red?
Both parties depend on the "lesser of two evils" mentality from their voters, so neither is going to want to do that. If you look at the districts where ranked choice voting has been considered or even implemented it's a pretty even split for how they lean. BTW I have always voted dem, I'm just saying democrats may have better policies but at the end of the day they're just as corrupt.
@@ekulio Proportional is different from ranked choice.
Ok but Warmbo would think that means you get more votes the taller you are.
Proportional voting doesn't fix anything when most states only have 1 2 or 3 reps. If we're not going to completely change the system we should at least go back to the first proposed Amendment and have 1 rep for every 150,000 people.
I would vote for a tray of brownies as President over the cult leader.
They're brownies made from feces though. They consider you antisemitic if you're opposed to war crimes.
That's not fair, everyone loves brownies. The question is whether you would vote for a warm pitcher of piss. Bonus points for anyone who gets the reference.
@@kevinslater4126is it just warm at the start or somebody heating it constantly?
@kevinslater4126 Reference to what? On an unrelated note, I could really go for some of granny's peach tea right about now...
Are these Colorado brownies? I think every politician could use them and calm the hell down. 😂😂
One guy calls me vermin, the other guy calls me wrong and repugnant. This is shaping up to be quite the election year.
If you support a candidate that openly want to be a dictator then you are wrong and repugnant.
When did Biden call anyone wrong and repugnant? Your choice this election is freedom (Biden) or fascism (Trump). Choose wisely. Get it wrong and America never gets to vote again. THOSE ARE THE STAKES.
Really gets you excited to go vote, doesn't it? They really know how to make a person feel special...
@@LunaBoo12 Why do you have to be excited to vote? It's called doing your CIVIC DUTY. Just get off your lazy ass and cast your ballot. Vote for Biden and keep America from going fascist. If keeping a dictator out of the WH. Isn't exciting enough for you to go vote. YOU ARE GOD DAMN PROBLEM. Grow up.
Vote for cornel West
I just get so frustrated when we talk about how badly we need to change the way we elect people, because the only means by which we have to change that is the very thing we need to change. We can't fix the broken election system unless we elect someone to do so, using the broken election system that prevents us from doing so. It's the stupidest catch-22 ever.
“All experience has shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.”
@@pumpkinhill4570 The framers believed the masses were incapable of deciding who should be president, therefore quoting them despite how nice the sentiment is out of context seems a bit strange; going back to the original commenter's sentiments that is.
Depending on where you live, you can switch your local or state elections via referendum. Contact The Center for Election Science to see if they have any plans for your area or if you can start your own campaign!
"We can't fix the broken election system unless we elect someone to do so"
That's where you're wrong, buckaroo
Here in Florida, we have seen ballot initiatives pass, a direct change of the rulebook without the hands of legislators. But, those require some serious momentum to get onto ballots in the first place, and we have had some _bizarre_ combinations when it comes to amendment votes. Time before last, if I recall, was one that was something like, "Yes or no: offshore drilling *and* indoor vaping?" Like, what do those have to do with each other that you bozos collapsed the Venn diagram into a circle we fill in?
Flaccid is the perfect word to describe this election cycle.
It continues to be a sad state of affairs when we are deciding not based on who is the better candidate, but who is the least bad candidate.
As in every democracy to ever exist
Especially when one party just wants to preserve the shitty status quo while the other is actively lurching us toward fascism.
That is every Presidential election.
@@richgerow3472This.😔
You just described every Democracy to ever exist.
Joe Biden's silence about his number 1 political opponent (Warmbo) is deafening
I helped create a ranked choice voting advocacy group in a state that needed it, and by the third meeting we already had people threatening to burn the whole thing down because we weren't pushing for their prefered specific flavor of ranked choice voting.
That's *check notes* people, unfortunately.
Splitters
Primary Biden? For who? Secondary Biden? No thanks, I'd rather have Warmbo.
I would buy a warmbo for president shirt so fucking fast
Warmbo supports bide, he can be vice preesident thou :P
We demand the shirts
@@marocat4749Biden was already vice president.
Dean Phillips!
If this trend continues, we will eventually be living in a Necrocracy, with a Corpse of State.
I like that
On the bright side, that's a brilliant name for a metal band/album.
I'm voting Robot Nixon
Have you heard the good word of the God-Emperor of Mankind?
As long as we get The Warp along with it
Thank you!! I thought I was the only one who remembered that Biden said one term! I just found this space and I already love it
Welcome! 🥰
Biden did say 1 term, but Harris was so disliked it forced his hand.
Our democracy is a joke
I am convinced there's a good chance someone could go far politically on a platform of "Toppling the DEMONocracy!"
Sometimes it s a joke...but for the western allies..its a horror movie.i am scared for the world tbh.
The most authentically and also yelliest pro democracy news channel, love you
That's very interesting because here in France, we stopped doing primaries because they always end up with the most moderate, uninvested candidate and it never goes well.
... but we also have an actual democratic system with more than two parties and an actual left (despite its current state.... =( ) so....
You have primaries, you just call it "run off elections". Whether it takes place before or on election day, it's functionally a primary.
@@Nick-pu3of It absolutely isn't the same thing. The First round of the election is to determine the "best" two candidates among the ones selected by the different parties, not to select a candidate among a party.
@@AcetylsaliciIiqueIt’s still functionally the same thing. You end up with two candidates that appeal the most to the majority on either side of the aisle
@@thedapperdolphin1590 What ? Not at all. Having primaries in each party doesn't result in two candidates, it still results in one candidate in every party...
Also, the first round of the election doesn't necessarily result in two candidates on different sides of the left/right divide, see France in 2002, 2017 and 2022...
In America, we call this kind of system a Jungle Primary, where all the candidates run in an single election and the top two advance to a run-off if no one obtained 50% in the primary. If someone got over the 50% threshold in the first round, they win outright.
If I understand the French system right, instead of Primary elections where everyone in the country gets to have a voice, instead a potential candidate needs to get 500 already elected officials to sponsor them in order to appear on the ballot. I don't see how delegating the nomination to random city councilmen and mayors is more democratic than the entire voting population participating in the process.
If we're going to keep having primaries the way they are (which we shouldn't), it'd be a good idea to stop going nuts over whatever happens in Iowa. Their silly barn dance hasn't predicted the eventual candidate more that 50% of the time, and their track record for predicting the result of the general election has been even worse.
Since we seem attached to staggered primaries, I'm glad the DNC changed the order. They've been talking about it long enough. The first state can influence others.
Just throwing out there that your comment makes you sound really bigoted. Do with that info what you will.
@@iambicpentakill No, having caucuses instead of statewide votes is silly. Elibalin scorning caucuses, even mocking them, doesn't sound like bigotry. Have you ever looked up the voter turnout for Iowa? There's a reason they are out of sync with the rest of the primaries.
@@iambicpentakillmaybe I’m missing some context but how does it seem bigoted?
Best wishes from the downunderverse guys! I think that if y'all don't stop Trump here then you can kiss america as you know it goodbye.
I have lived in the states and it is full of lovely amazing ppl and I know you can do it. We believe in you and are sending you all the good vibes. You got this!
People are simply unable to understand how strong the incumbency advantage is. Like we can all have our silly little 10% vote for other cantidates and pat ourselves on the back, but primaries aren’t going to do shit. We need a reorganized voting structure
@W333L: Ranked-choice voting, and getting rid of first-past-the-post, would fix not only this, but also most of the redistricting woes.
Gerrymandering needs to be stopped
yeah just look at Jimmy Carter....
If it's not going to do anything, why not do it? It's an extremely bad look for the party selling itself on "defending democracy" to abandon a democratic process.
attempting to address voting reform before addressing capitalism is a very, very strange idea
I refuse to allow any slander on They Might Be Giants. Flood is a musical masterpiece I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL!
ranked choice voting isn't complicated if you use a simple one like alternative vote. "Ranked choice voting is complicated and people won't understand it" is a common strategy of people who benefit from FPTP to reduce support for better systems - their argument is that we're too stupid to understand it.
Alternative Vote is very simple. You rank your candidates by preference, then you look at how many 1st place votes everyone got. If nobody has over 50% you take whoever got the fewest votes, and cross them off all the paperwork, then check again. Repeat until someone has over 50%.
It's literally what happens in Pop Idol &c and no one has a problem understanding that.
"This is not unlike your parents' open marriage" easily funniest line.
"Infowad" is now my new favorite term for Cody.
No longer "News Dude."
0:25 I was so disappointed that it said "news dude" and not "infowad"
Oh god if Warmbo is running as a Dem or Independent we’re screwed, it’ll definitely split the vote!
Like the vote, I think Warmbo reproduces by splitting when he’s not in the mood for laying eggs.
Not if everyone votes for him.
I would love for there to be a Biden, Trump and Warmbo 2024 debate. Can we make that happen?
Only if Cody gets to be VP
@@RHCole VP for which candidate? Warmbo? Or just whoever wins?
The more I learn about the US's electoral system, the more I'm convinced it's not a democracy, and the more I'm happy I'm not from there. Good luck to you all 🙌.
Even wilder idea, maybe the person that wins the popular vote wins the presidency? Imagine not GWB or DONGALD TRUNK.
This is called the "National Popular Vote Interstate Compact", and it's close to passing.
@@Nick-pu3of we'll see. I don't think any red states will adopt it...
@@jasonmoran5152 No, probably not. But Maine and Arizona have considered it before and may do again, and there are other blue or purple states who could be convinced to join.
That settles it. I'm voting for Warmbo in the Democratic primary.
A non-zero amount of people will write in warmbo for president
BOARS!
@@sammywise2001 Warmbo's VP pick is a boar? That'd figure
All y'all voting for warmbo, but Title Monkey has been the consistant, constant beating heart and soul of the Showdy this whole time. Title Monkey tells it like it is, even at the detriment of their own standing within the Showdy. Meanwhile, warmbo is canonically an evil eldrich abomination. Title Monkey 2024 all the way!
@@sdfkjgh I assumed Title Monkey was Warmbo's campaign manager
I appreciated that tiny bit of Michael McDonald singing.
Thank you! I scrolled so far to find someone who also appreciated this. ✌🏻
I'd like to thank the SMN community for inquiring about the lack of Gaza coverage. Although I understand the attention can be overwhelming, to say the least, the situation in Gaza is horrifying and to not even having mentioned it in an episode until now was concerning considering how SMN has presented coverage in the past.
The two party system is like cassettes. Cool and innovative for the time, but the US keeps walking down mainstreet blasting their boombox like they're the "How do ya do fellow kids" guy
Especially when one party just wants to preserve the shitty status quo while the other is actively lurching us toward fascism.
I would vote for Steve Buscemi no question!
@@valjean76 You're right, Steve is way cooler than the US
Too bad all 3rd party candidates are batshit crazy or totally incompetent in every imaginable way.
Especially because neither of those two parties is left wing. One is right wing, the other is centrist.
Historical documentaries on the subject of Warmbo’s 16 year Presidency will grey scale this moment and add “But Warmbo didn’t forget. And it was this moment that led to 16 long years of pain and suffering in the Cody camps.”
WARMBOGEDDON IS UPON US!!
A contested democratic primary weakened Carter.
Sure, wasn't the inflation, or the '79 oil crisis, or the 7% unemployment, it was the primary, damnit!
I’ve always hated the slow game of snake the primaries play. My state is on the back end of the schedule so when it was my turn to vote only Biden was actively campaigning. Hell, I’d accept a compromise of 5 blocks of 10 states and get this all wrapped up in a couple months.
All in one day. Why the hell not, it's the 21st century FFS.
I think one reason why we don't just do same day might be that voters want candidates that listen to voters in different states everywhere, and listen to the unique issues in each area of the country. But this would clearly be better if it was just 1-2 months and regions voted together on the same day. Have rustbelt/midwest vote together, then northeast, south, west, etc. instead of our current system that's not even good at that.
I'm tired of debates. The only thing that come out of them are soundbites of people being mean to each other. We need moderators to cut off their mics.
I dunno. I heard something about electricity. Maybe the moderators should try that.
always thought that would be a good idea... the debate being 60 minutes and the candidates get 30 minutes mic time that they can use how they want but once they hand control of the mic to the opponent, theirs is muted until control is handed back. No more interrupting or shouting the opponent down. Maybe we could concentrate on the ideas then rather than he who talks loudest and longest
Remove the studio audience.
I hate to say it, but do we live in a world where Warmbo *might* not be the worst choice?
There’d be plenty of creamed corn to go around!
* corn cream
Warmbo is older than all the candidates combined tho
I would say that he is currently way better than the two main options you have so far.
Warmbo 4 Prez & Cody 4 VP 2024🥳
28:55 - Let's not pretend Newsom didn't veto a bill to allow ranked-choice voting throughout California in 2019. Team Blue isn't a fan of RCV, either.
oh dang I wasn't aware of that :-/ good to know!
for all the ‘representative democracy’ talking points in government, it’s really interesting that a ton of the people who end up elected don’t reflect or carry out the will of the populace. direct democracy is supposedly a super slow process but really can’t be slower than the bullshit system we currently have. anyway. cody and katy are wonderful and this show gives me solace. ❤
The entire point of representative government is that it does NOT carry out "the will of the people". The criticism of direct democracy has never been that it is "slow", it is that it is arbitrary and despotic. The slowness of free governance is a feature, not a bug. Autocracies tend to move very swiftly indeed.
@@jmackmcneillif you think direct democracy, the most democratic system of government ever devised, is autocratic, then you plainly don't know what it is
@@jmackmcneill yeah but everything they make is garbage your trading expedience for quality
Ha! Imagine having a joke of a government
Can’t relate living in England😂
I know right 🤣
It's funny how well an emoji can capture "laughing so I don't cry." (A great service the US provides is that so many people can look at us and say "okay, our government _could_ be more of a mess than it is!")
@@M_M_ODonnellCanada especially loves to hide their heinous crimes behind our objectively worse crimes
Oh its a joke, just not as funny.
At least in the UK the party with the most votes wins or can form a coalition party if they come up short. Agree or disagree, the USA electoral college system is overdue for being abolished.
Oh hey! Early voting just started here. We have almost ten candidates although realistically three have potential chances of winning. And I can't believe in saying this but, I could live and be totally okay with any of these 9 winning. They're all professor, well behaved, and all of them have some tiny quirk or stain in their past that balances out. I'm actually excited for the first time about presidential election in Finland.
Two party system seems very polarizing. Might even say bipolarizing. Old nice dude or almost as old crazy dude? Don't you have anyone under the age of 80 to choose from?
As a brit living in usa ...the idea of any politicians having merely a quirk or tiny stain is hysterical.count yourself v lucky indeed Finland!! Biden isnt nice ..he is gleefully funding a genocide..and the other one is a criminal and a psychopath w the IQ of a houseplant.!
Missouri just did away with open primaries. I already miss the ability to make a meaningful choice(by taking a Republic ballot in a heavily red state) on which candidate receives my state's electoral votes.
I find it odd that in that "I'm gonna be a dictator on day one" clip no one comments on how Trump takes a moment to explain to the audience, in detail, what literally just happened five seconds earlier. That would normally be the cue to start showing Grandpa some pamphlets about really nice communities where he can get the help he needs.
It’s super weird that Biden gets hit with the age problem when Trump ain’t that young, and has long away shown that he’s absolutely been losing it for some time in it. The correct answer is that younger blood needs to fill in seats of power. But in regards to Biden vs Trump it’s a moot point: they’re both old.
@@TheSkaOreoBoth old, but if you can’t see how trump is a much more capable and engaging speaker….idk what to tell ya. He sucks but he’s clearly a better communicator than biden
@@scoobertmcruppert2915 He's not really though.
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He's certainly not engaging to you or me, but he is incredibly engaging to his actual audience. Which is not something that Biden does.
Biden also looks and sounds way older than Trump even though there's only a roughly 4 year age difference.
I don't know. 50/50. On one hand getting eaten by a shark would probably be a lot worse than being electrocuted. But on the other hand you can jab a shark in the gills to get it to swim away and you can't do that to electricity.
Trying to stab electricity will not end well.
how about getting eaten by a _Lightning Shark?_
Which one cures covid?
Would tiny sharks inside the body work? Is there a way of doing that?
What are white blood cells if not tiny blood sharks?@@therabbithat
TMBG is the reason I know far more about James K. Polk, the Napoleon of the Stump, than about any other 19th century president besides Lincoln. History cleverly disguised as entertainment.
I wonder if anyone has ever tried using that as the basis for a UA-cam series. NO STEALING THAT IDEA! IT'S MINE AND ONLY MINE!!!
The amount of self control Katie showed reading that shopify ad and not saying "goatse" is very impressive
God, please let Warmbo run as an independent. I stg, I'm from Europe so I can't vote but I'll buy everyone popcorn so we can enjoy it while watching you guys.
Warmbo/Corn Cream 2024 is absolutely my write in for the primary.
No more presidents.
That will neeever happen!
Definitely maybe we should. And in fact MIGHT. Henceforth and hereby.
Thank you for picking this apart, this is driving me insane. None of what I learned is true and they keep changing the rules on us
That Michael McDonald joke really f ing got me !
My question is which candidate is under the trotter of Big Boar?!
Okay but I appreciate the acknowledgement of They Might Be Giants' song about James K Polk being the only legacy the guy really left behind
That song is a banger my HS history teacher played it 🤣🤣
He also had a school named after him... albeit a fictional school in a children's sitcom but... eh, better than nothing.
He also conquered a large part of Mexico, but of course colonisation and manifest destiny aren't legacies worth remembering. Especially for any white people who live in the southwest...
@@Nick-pu3of I know about that stuff I know the song
@@RealDonaldDrumpf Cool. But I feel like stealing an 8th of the land currently in the US from another country is a legacy, although not a positive one. I get why Americans don't like to think about it even if they've heard the song.
I’m glad you came out the gate with “like any of this will matter” because yaknow. Fun. Warmbo has to go.
Warmbo has got to go... to the White House.
@@lnsflare1 yaknow. Let him.
Nononono. Like a lead sleeping pill. He’s gotta go. Now he knows too much. Sometimes I think he can remember past a few minutes. Take him to the cleaner. He’s like felt or something
Here in Australia we've used 'ranked choice' (it's called Preferences here) and it's served us well.
this country is the best
Tell ‘em News Daddy 🫶
Cody - "I don't want anymore news"
Cody's mom - "well you better get to liking it because we have news at home too"
I'm remembering a cartoon by the Argentinian author Quino in which two characters (children) discuss over how the father of one of them has a depression just thinking over who to vote.
We already have an age limit on the presidency. You must be at least 35 to be president. If that's not ageism, then neither is having a maximum age limit of 65.
one of these fucking days I'm going to run for president and get ad space on some more news and just promise everyone here: no genocides, a job that doesn't make them want to kill themselves, and healthcare.
I'll win by a landslide.
ps: every time ag1 commercials show up on tv a little flutter strikes my heart. whether it's heart failure or the memory of cody's charming chugging, I'm not sure. but it's something.
It's Cody's lack of gag reflex
Unfortunately there's an entire party whose main political promise is "we'll hurt the people you hate". Many voters _want_ all those bad things, just not for themselves.
The CIA and FBI would compete to take you out. It would be like that scene from "the pink panther strikes agian" with the assassins from every country all trying to kill Clouseau. It came out in the 70s so a lot of Cody's younger fans might not have heard of it (my dad looks just like peter sellers so it's always been a family favorite). Anyway, the parties would never let you win their primary. That's the point of their existence
You will be another excellent example of someone who runs for office on a platform you can't actually deliver, who then makes voters think the entire system is broken when the actual problem is candidates refuse to admit that President is not the same thing as Omnipotent and All Powerful God.
@@HeadsFullOfEyeballsthats both parties.
Every place in the U.S. with present Republican "representstion" seem at risk of never having anyone other than a Republican elected again.
Just hope the constitution remains upheld so they can't chip away at people's ability to choose against them as it's clear more and more people. want to.
I thought it was called “Brown News” thank you for your annunciation
''Im not saying we should absolutely boot the olds from the office of the presidency''
Okay but
Why aren't you?
Like you should totally say that
Because we should do that
This entire video is coated in neoliberal drivel.
The reason for not doing that is because it can become an increasingly arbitrary grouping that also may be inadequate to the task at hand.
E.g - if the issue is cognitive capacity, that is something that can vary wildly with nothing to do with age. Then if you try controlling based on cognitive capacity you can fall into the biases of such tests. Tests that on an individual basis are frequently about learning to pass them, rather than actually proving anything.
The hope I feel is that the party you vote for should not be selecting someone with no capacity for the job. That then is an interior system issue rather than a laws issue. Which is in the end a big part what the drive of this video is about - more robust processes to ensure fair democracy generally.
@@Anamenti It's not just cognitive decline. There's also the issue that they become stuck on functioning like the world around them is still operating like it was in their prime, decades ago, which makes them increasingly out of touch at home and abroad. There absolutely should be a minimum and maximum age for getting into office. I'd peg it to retirement age.
@@Anamenti idk there could be some 34 yr olds out there with great ideas but we've (arbitrarily?) decided that their age is not appropriate for the presidency
Mr Cody! So happy to see you have more news for us! How's Warmbo?
No. No. Stop. No.
@@kkupsky6321 but Mr kkupsky! Why so upset Mr. Kkupsky?
@@kkupsky6321
Are you anti-Warmbo? You know he can smell your blood, right?🤨
@@Itcouldbebunnies another reason he has to go. He’s becoming even more powerful. History doesn’t repeat but it sure rhymes and I’m not gonna Neville chamberlain warmbo. No appeasement.
@@kkupsky6321
No need for appeasement, you silly goat. Warmbo is a nice puppet, he's our friend!🙂
Where is the ability for a "non party" player to win the seat? When side a is evil and side b is evil. We don't hope one is less and will fix our problems. We form a side c. Which is what they've been terrified of this whole time.
The whole "[New Hampshire has] been the first primary for a long time and we're not going to change our schedule" thing isn't just bluster; it's the law up here.
So what every state makes a law they are first. Then who goes first. Its like your little sister stomping her feet and saying i am always first i made it a law.
Ah my favorite day of the week, news day.
So it's actually normal that political parties do not hold a primary when they have an incumbent. While I would like Biden to have to speak in front of the party and let us know what he is offering, this is the norm for either party.
Vote George Biden no matter blue!
I think everyone over the age of seventy should be disqualified from public office. Boomers need to pass the torch already.
I would agree if it wasn't for the fact that Bernie Sanders is more than capable and the only one that cares about the public and has had the best policy views of any politician in my lifetime (60 years) for sure.
@@thowl7065 You can't chart trends from outliers in the data set. Yes, we'll lose a couple of good ones, but most of the politicians in that age range are at best dead weight. I'm willing to make that trade.
@@thowl7065 For every Bernie there are hundreds of Bidens and Trumps.
Sharks don't actually eat people. The reason most people that are attacked by sharks survive is because the shark bit into them by mistake.
yeah! sharks can occasionally be more aggressive when encountering humans but in general they're just curious to know if we taste good (we don't) 🦈
I look forward to 2032 when Warmbo's final term as president comes to an end and we can all finally talk about how that one thing he did was pretty gross. Not gross like supporting genocide, which he will do on multiple un-called for occasions, but gross in like, what were all those fluids?
"see how he debates, see how he defends his positions."
Debates in the US don't do that. They are just talking points mashups.
"I deserved a tip, and I certainly gave one"
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Question: Is it a bull shark? Cuz if it's not a bull shark, it's not all that likely to actually attack you. Bull sharks, on the other hand? They're vicious and behind most shark attacks.
I like Australia's way better .. we vote for the party we want, not the person. The parties therefore talks about policies (their good ones, the opponents bad ones) and not the personal attacks
And when a party is in, if the leader is bad they can simply choose to replace them. The party itself votes. Easy, sensible, and hold them to some accountability.
The public didn't vote for the _person_ so we don't get upset when they swap leader: they aren't failing to uphold our vote when they do it.
Sounds like a way to keep the public from having any real power.
@scoobertmcruppert2915 in what way? The least disliked party is elected. That's a pretty useful way to do things, imo.
We have the same troubles with large business and religion as USA, but at least we don't grant one individual absolute power. Kings and presidents are a bit dangerous in that they're hard to get rid of when they're out of line
Man, I'm glad somebody's finally talking about it. I've been wondering about the primaries for a while.
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Obama is going to have to make some more calls if this is to happen.
Did some more news forget marian williamson's performance in 2020? Didn't her policies often boil down to "can't we all just get along". I remember laughing at her a lot.
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