The most wonderful thing about "sanctity of marriage" bills is that they are always most aggressively demanded by people with multiple divorces under their belts.
@@pbdye1607 Nailed It....Game Set Match with your comment! I've always been amused when The Leaders of BOTH parties stand at their collective podiums and offer up this pearl...."We worked hard on this Bill"....when in fact their numerous assistants and interns did ALL the work while they sat around playing poker on their phones!
Until just few days ago, there were two presidential candidates running who were born before anything recognizable as a computer by our generation was invented yet.
"Do you believe the Bible to be literally true?" "Yes sir but I don't think either of us are smart enough to understand it." Such a great, great response to religious fundamentalists. Yes, I'll concede that the Bible is the word of God but since we're not God let's not use it to run our government and society.
A misattribution from a biography written about Washington in 1835. He never said that. Most American founding fathers were Deists who did not believe God played an active role in the world.@@traviskarnes6825
It's an absurd response though. Regards of your religious beliefs, the Bible claims that Earth was made before the stars, and that the stars were made before the Earth. It CAN NOT be literally true. There is no argument to have. It contradicts itself constantly. You can get away with contradictions if they are metaphors, but not in the "literal truth".
another response would be, "except for where the Bible contradicts itself". when a conservative who worries CRT or LGBT issues are indoctrination wants the Ten Commandments on the wall, ask them, "which one, exactly?"
Will: What's the President's position? Toby: He wants it off the bill. Will: But what's his position? Toby: He wants it off the bill. Will: And if it stays on the bill? One of the many times that Bartlett and his staff (Leo, Toby, CJ, Josh, etc.) were willing to undermine and diminish the people that were in Bartlett's cabinet. It doesn't matter that the VP looks bad, because they hate the VP, just as they hate most members of his cabinet. Bartlett has to come out smelling like roses and if it screws over anyone else, so be it. It's disingenuous, because Bartlett believes that gay people should be married, but if the voters are against it, he can say that he was the one who removed it from the bill, but if they're for it, he can claim that he was always for gay marriage and absolutely supports it. It's slimy...
@@andrew_4747 Bartlett believes that gay marriage should be legalized, and for a political idealist such as himself to decide that he doesn't want to have egg on his face in case public opinion is against it is particularly egregious. He's playing a game, and while the VP does serve at the pleasure of the President, Bartlett is acting against his own convictions to screw over his Cabinet. Bartlett is incensed at the idea that the VP wants to become President after he finishes his second term, but he doesn't want to give anything to it. You can either be idealistic or pragmatic at heart; you can't be both If the VP is stepping into a political grenade because the President is scared, then the VP has the right to dodge that grenade.
Everyone here rules (nobody sucks!). It isn't great. And it is politics. And they all serve at the pleasure of the President. And protecting those other names that might eventually have the opportunity to lead is important. And getting right things done right now is important. These are all correct, it is all in how we weigh the different choices, probabilities of success, and costs of failures. We could all do with more compassion that others can have different expectations based on their experiences, and that it much not just be unmitigated evil. Maybe we'd have a more true vision of the world, and amazingly even feel better about it.
Sweetie, it’s fiction. I know it is very triggering to GOP dummies who are scared of buff boys trying to marry them,but I promise you’re safe.And LGBTQIA+ ppl are also voters, yeah? You lot always talk like voters means you and your mates.
“These people are obsessed with sex.”
“If they can’t be havin’ it…” 😂
I like how Toby says that as if he is getting laid on the regular.
It's as true today in real life as it was back then in fiction
It's easier to oppose abortion if you don't have to worry about getting anyone pregnant.
@@chasef89 he does not get his panties in a bunch about it hehe
Everytime I watch one of these I get tempted to pull out the full series dvds and go to town. lol
Been there, done that. Watched it twice from beginning to end this year.
Which town do you go to?
What a man and his boxed set of DVDs do in the privacy of their own home is...
You can finish the joke. 😂
Okay, but use protection.
Bradley Whitford's first script for the show. Besides the missing dash in the title, nicely done, Brad.
Wait, there's a dash in the title in the description of this clip! Good.
Yeah Brad.
I remember thinking that every character started sounding like Josh
Oh i didn't know that. Lovely detail
“Didn’t they attach a family planning rider* to the highway bill last year?”
*Not “writer”.
The most wonderful thing about "sanctity of marriage" bills is that they are always most aggressively demanded by people with multiple divorces under their belts.
...and often with a history of same-sex encounters in men's room stalls
"I don't know how to use a type writer much less a computer."
That would make you unqualified for any position of leadership within the US.
They missed an opportunity for Toby to say "I'm sure your interns and staff are more adept."
@@pbdye1607 Nailed It....Game Set Match with your comment! I've always been amused when The Leaders of BOTH parties stand at their collective podiums and offer up this pearl...."We worked hard on this Bill"....when in fact their numerous assistants and interns did ALL the work while they sat around playing poker on their phones!
Which describes every single republican in the country.
Until just few days ago, there were two presidential candidates running who were born before anything recognizable as a computer by our generation was invented yet.
@@Rabascan invited where
"Do you believe the Bible to be literally true?"
"Yes sir but I don't think either of us are smart enough to understand it."
Such a great, great response to religious fundamentalists. Yes, I'll concede that the Bible is the word of God but since we're not God let's not use it to run our government and society.
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible. -President George Washington
Not such a great response. It STILL didn't get him what he wanted, so he might as well have rightly said "No, you're full of it."
A misattribution from a biography written about Washington in 1835. He never said that. Most American founding fathers were Deists who did not believe God played an active role in the world.@@traviskarnes6825
It's an absurd response though.
Regards of your religious beliefs, the Bible claims that Earth was made before the stars, and that the stars were made before the Earth.
It CAN NOT be literally true. There is no argument to have. It contradicts itself constantly.
You can get away with contradictions if they are metaphors, but not in the "literal truth".
another response would be, "except for where the Bible contradicts itself". when a conservative who worries CRT or LGBT issues are indoctrination wants the Ten Commandments on the wall, ask them, "which one, exactly?"
This is season 6 but its one of the times the writing *feels* like season 1-4. Ita not perfect but its consistent.
Will: What's the President's position?
Toby: He wants it off the bill.
Will: But what's his position?
Toby: He wants it off the bill.
Will: And if it stays on the bill?
One of the many times that Bartlett and his staff (Leo, Toby, CJ, Josh, etc.) were willing to undermine and diminish the people that were in Bartlett's cabinet.
It doesn't matter that the VP looks bad, because they hate the VP, just as they hate most members of his cabinet. Bartlett has to come out smelling like roses and if it screws over anyone else, so be it.
It's disingenuous, because Bartlett believes that gay people should be married, but if the voters are against it, he can say that he was the one who removed it from the bill, but if they're for it, he can claim that he was always for gay marriage and absolutely supports it.
It's slimy...
It's also politics.
"How the sausage gets made", and all that. It's why I never make the mistake of making heroes out political figures anymore.
Cabinet members and the VP are SUPPOSED to step in front of political grenades for the President.
@@andrew_4747
Bartlett believes that gay marriage should be legalized, and for a political idealist such as himself to decide that he doesn't want to have egg on his face in case public opinion is against it is particularly egregious.
He's playing a game, and while the VP does serve at the pleasure of the President, Bartlett is acting against his own convictions to screw over his Cabinet.
Bartlett is incensed at the idea that the VP wants to become President after he finishes his second term, but he doesn't want to give anything to it.
You can either be idealistic or pragmatic at heart; you can't be both
If the VP is stepping into a political grenade because the President is scared, then the VP has the right to dodge that grenade.
Everyone here rules (nobody sucks!). It isn't great. And it is politics. And they all serve at the pleasure of the President. And protecting those other names that might eventually have the opportunity to lead is important. And getting right things done right now is important. These are all correct, it is all in how we weigh the different choices, probabilities of success, and costs of failures. We could all do with more compassion that others can have different expectations based on their experiences, and that it much not just be unmitigated evil. Maybe we'd have a more true vision of the world, and amazingly even feel better about it.
Sweetie, it’s fiction. I know it is very triggering to GOP dummies who are scared of buff boys trying to marry them,but I promise you’re safe.And LGBTQIA+ ppl are also voters, yeah? You lot always talk like voters means you and your mates.
Good for Will standing up to Toby.
Man I miss the first 4 seasons when show was really good.
If the Bible is literally true where's the 2nd Earth as described in chapter 2 of Genesis?
First we have to ask which the bible.
Ban marriage
We’re walking away from it. Some of us are running. It’ll die on its own: banning things is not an appropriate first resort in the lane of the free.
this but unironically
Same old Liberal BS.
They're the same ones who made gay marriage illegal at the federal level.
The text description of this video says “family planning writer” but it’s rider, not writer. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rider_(legislation)