I'm so glad you're discussing this! I've been saying that another Trump term will lead to a regression and decrease in freedom, human rights, women's rigts worldwide, especially in fledgling democracies!
@he.5865 Yeah, that was a pretty horrendous time for human rights and since then it's been a pretty consistent decline. Also, almost Trump's entire cabinet and a ton of other staff are endorsing Harris and thus obviously not working for him. He's said they were traitors and that he'll hire better people next time. Between hiring more loyal stooges, already having packed lower and higher court including the Supreme court, schedule F and Project 2025's database of hires for federal service, yeah 2024-2028 will resemble 2016-2020 as much as it resembles 2012-2016. Not at all.
Why? Samantha Powers is trying to justify the fact that Russia will end up with the exact same amount of land as they would have had 2 years ago had America not stopped the Russian/Ukraine peace deal, except there would be 600,000 less dead ukrainians as some sort of victory to give away Americans money to build homes in Ukraine that the DNC helped destroy, while the people of North Carolina beg for hundreds of dollars to rebuild their broken lives and try to dig out their citizens from underneath hurricane Helena. All while the other guests talk about the importance of the private sector in making money off of the complete and total misery America caused in the first place because NATO insisted on putting nuclear weapons on Russia's border. I have to imagine that these people can't see what monsters they are, right?!?! The banality of evil has never been so plainly displayed........ The system works
I agree. I also am slowly realizing that what is coming after Trump is worse. Far, far worse than Trump himself if it finds ways to be convincing to people, which imo JD Vance did a competent job at, at the VP debate. He was wildly convincing to the MAGAsphere and is now just another politician to them. He's the onus around which I think Project 2025 but more importantly the tech billionaires orbit. Those are the ones dedicated to tearing down democracy and human rights. Christians are at least horrified by terrible violence and injustice. The incel trad wife tech bro crowd are mostly atheistic and worship capitalism in its worst possible iterations. That crowd is radicalized and unreachable already, I know some. They have formed an unholy alliance with Christian fundementalists and extremist libertarians somehow. The fight will only begin on November 5th, no matter the outcome of the election. They will smear Harris so thoroughly I'd be surprised if it takes 6 months to get articles of impeachment. The disinformation and misinformation will flow so freely truth will mean even less than now in a year or 2. Strap in, or strap up.
Why? Samantha Powers is trying to justify the fact that Russia will end up with the exact same amount of land as they would have had 2 years ago had America not stopped the Russian/Ukraine peace deal, except there would be 600,000 less dead ukrainians as some sort of victory to give away Americans money to build homes in Ukraine that the DNC helped destroy, while the people of North Carolina beg for hundreds of dollars to rebuild their broken lives and try to dig out their citizens from underneath hurricane Helena. All while the other guests talk about the importance of the private sector in making money off of the complete and total misery America caused in the first place because NATO insisted on putting nuclear weapons on Russia's border. I have to imagine that these people can't see what monsters they are, right?!?! The banality of evil has never been so plainly displayed........ The system works
Ben would love to see you do an episode on what is required for high level security clearance, and how Trump could never pass it. (thinking especially of Jared and his ties to the Saudis and in the Balkans) And what about JD Vance?
Please let this conversation bring up the Leahy Law. As long as we don't condition aid, no matter who wins will "empower dictators and far-right movements."
Yeah typical delusional Dems refusing to acknowledge that Biden has already obliterated our moral standing in the world by not only arming and funding a genocide but also condemning, defying, threatening and pressuring the ICC, the ICJ, the Human Rights Council and essentially accusing the entire world of being antisemitic. The US is an absolute joke.
"Aid". Is that what we call 2000 pound bombs used to level an entire block now? That's cute. Or are these the "precise munitions" part of the support to Israel that the US legally, morally and ethically neither can nor tries to defend... It's a fucking joke. No one will ever again look to the US or Europe for moral leadership or the ability to uphold any treaties they are signatories to.
@@Emanon...It isn't cute at all. It's a complete nightmare that has been going on for decades upon decades. And anyone who says otherwise is complicit.
What's the point!?!? The DNC supports Netanyahu's obviously genocidal lunatics as well as Israel's obvious plans to force America to fight the wars that Israel picks so that American taxpayers pick up the tab in $ & American lives for Israel's immoral bloodthirsty attempts to destroy the region in the hope that Israel can rebuild it with Americans money based on a fascist white Jewish ethnostate!?!! You can't have the President say out one side of his mouth that murdering tens of thousands of innocent Muslim children makes him sad BUT out the other side that Biden supports Israel's deranged mass murder spree across the middle East and that it will continue to do so NO MATTER WHAT?!?!? I understand that this passes without much notice because everyone understands that Joementia literally has no power, influence and or general basic cognitive function at this point, but everyone else DOES understand other than corporate Joe, that the DNC has been making these very specific choices for quite some time and actions speak louder than words. Despite the hand ringing, It's quite quite clear that the DNC has every intention of backing Israel's regime change wars across the middle East, which would 100% destroy any gains made against inflation, would destroy any chances of a broader peace agreement with literally anyone in the entire world, as everyone would 100% understand that America is more or less a psychopath who's backing another psychopath on a sequel that nobody wanted: natural born killers 2: poor, brown and Muslim's don't count as HUMAN BEINGS!?!?!?! WTF.
Why? Samantha Powers is trying to justify the fact that Russia will end up with the exact same amount of land as they would have had 2 years ago had America not stopped the Russian/Ukraine peace deal, except there would be 600,000 less dead ukrainians as some sort of victory to give away Americans money to build homes in Ukraine that the DNC helped destroy, while the people of North Carolina beg for hundreds of dollars to rebuild their broken lives and try to dig out their citizens from underneath hurricane Helena. All while the other guests talk about the importance of the private sector in making money off of the complete and total misery America caused in the first place because NATO insisted on putting nuclear weapons on Russia's border. I have to imagine that these people can't see what monsters they are, right?!?! The banality of evil has never been so plainly displayed........ The system works
Who is Viktor Orban? A dictator in one of the smallest states in Europe, to his merits should be mentioned that this dictator turned Hungary into an enemy to the EU and the NATO, it doesn’t contribute to them, it is more like a big fat worm vegetating on what others contribute, OMG, I have to puke, but I’m seeing forward to when the EU wakes up and expels this parasite and that the NATO does the same.
🤔 One of the things I wish people who are dedicated to promoting "democracy" would acknowledge out loud, is that the neoliberal economic system is what has led to this dissatisfaction with democracy and what has led people to want solutions that destroy that system. If we don't acknowledge the underlying problem, then no matter how much we shout "but democracy is better than authoritarianism," the message will be empty... and the US is a very bad messenger to defend democracy, because it has used the pretext of democracy to stage coups against elected governments and installed dictators, in order to benefit American corporations with the natural resources of those countries. Some countries simply want to defend themselves from US interference and so they choose an authoritarian to stand up to it...
I agree. THOUGHTLESS CARELESS lobalisation and unquestioned neoliberal economic policies destroyed the livelihoods of so many that they've turned in desperation to hard right tyrant TYPES who'll promise anything and everything to seize power. The extremes of superrich and too poor ate always the stuff of revolution- across history countries and now we see it too. A government can't leave any groups out of their share in the national pie. It does so at the risk of itself as well as endangers democracy and encouraging Tyrants like Trump.
Why? Samantha Powers is trying to justify the fact that Russia will end up with the exact same amount of land as they would have had 2 years ago had America not stopped the Russian/Ukraine peace deal, except there would be 600,000 less dead ukrainians as some sort of victory to give away Americans money to build homes in Ukraine that the DNC helped destroy, while the people of North Carolina beg for hundreds of dollars to rebuild their broken lives and try to dig out their citizens from underneath hurricane Helena. All while the other guests talk about the importance of the private sector in making money off of the complete and total misery America caused in the first place because NATO insisted on putting nuclear weapons on Russia's border. I have to imagine that these people can't see what monsters they are, right?!?! The banality of evil has never been so plainly displayed........ The system works
I would much rather my country promote human rights and peace than act like every place in the world would be better off if it were more democratic. How about let's not be the #1 arms dealer in the world? If we spent half as much time and effort on peace initiatives as we do on nation building and funding endless wars, the world might actually be a better place. For some reason, no party can take an anti-war stance because they seem to think it looks weak. How are we better off in constant conflict? Does it make us more safe? How does it make us any better than the tyrants we claim to stand against?
Weapons industry and AIPAC (basically lobby groups ) are way too powerful. Until they take out money from politics, our politicians will always belong to the highest bidder.
This is so informative. The more we can be exposed to this larger view of what's going on in our world, the better citizens we become. Thank you, Ben, and everyone there at PSTW.
" the stakes are really high for the rest of the world on democracy depending on who wins the US election" 😢😢😢😊😊😊you bet!!!, doubt there's an American who's more worried and scared about a win for Trump than I as an Aussie who's been fighting and writing and working to support democracy in Oz, Germany, and across the world ( where I taught at a uni and where my best friends in the world live). I've written to local and national and International media, doorknocked and phoned to work against democracy- undermining hard right political candidates abd parties. I write this the opposite of to brag, rather to let you who ate clearly on the same side of defending democracy and pushing back against autocracies, of which there are more today than democracies. All of this experience has taught me the incredible power of one plus one plus one to speak up in defence of and speak out against autocratic voices. The worst of those in your world and mine are Rupert and DEADLY HARD RIGHT LACHLAN MURDOCH via Fox in America and Sky After Dark in Oz plus the Lies&Propaganda OF the Australian national newspaper, the Rubbish Telegraph and various main city Murdoch Hard Right Propaganda Rags. Doorknocking and phoning thousands of voters in seats contested by hard right candidates like our current Trump-Lite (just smaller and puny-er than Trump but every bit as Fascist and dangerous) Opposition leader ex-policeman Peter "Thumper" Dutton. That effort was run by brilliant grassroots activist mob GetUp and it reduced Duttons margin by a huge 4% down to him clinging on to his seat. So I've experienced that amazing power of one plus one plus one to shift the dial away from autocrats back to decent democratic reps. It's actually a lot of fun and very interesting engaging in conversations with people you might have some different views from but you'll find that most do think a lot about issues important to them like decent roads, hospitals, schools and education plus climate change. So PLEASE try some volunteering eg via the impressive Pod Save America training approach and here in Sydney I'm co acting the Anerican guys handing out Register and Vote for November5 to American travellers. Together we SIMPLY MUST crush Trump FOREVER and make sure he ends up in jail where he belongs and NOT in The White House where he doesn't belong!!!😊😊😊🎉🎉🎉
The DNC supports Netanyahu's obviously genocidal lunatics as well as Israel's obvious plans to force America to fight the wars that Israel picks so that American taxpayers pick up the tab in $ & American lives for Israel's immoral bloodthirsty attempts to destroy the region in the hope that Israel can rebuild it with Americans money based on a fascist white Jewish ethnostate!?!! You can't have the President say out one side of his mouth that murdering tens of thousands of innocent Muslim children makes him sad BUT out the other side that Biden supports Israel's deranged mass murder spree across the middle East and that it will continue to do so NO MATTER WHAT?!?!? I understand that this passes without much notice because everyone understands that Joementia literally has no power, influence and or general basic cognitive function at this point, but everyone else DOES understand other than corporate Joe, that the DNC has been making these very specific choices for quite some time and actions speak louder than words. Despite the hand ringing, It's quite quite clear that the DNC has every intention of backing Israel's regime change wars across the middle East, which would 100% destroy any gains made against inflation, would destroy any chances of a broader peace agreement with literally anyone in the entire world, as everyone would 100% understand that America is more or less a psychopath who's backing another psychopath on a sequel that nobody wanted: natural born killers 2: poor, brown and Muslim's don't count as HUMAN BEINGS!?!?!?! WTF.
What about bringing that app to the United States? It wpuld eliminate all the complaints against food stamps, wic, and any other stipend for a specific reason
Words matter. "...WILL empower..." implies inevitability., that Trump's win is a foregone conclusion and we might as well give up. "...WOULD empower..." suggests a hypothetical that may or may not happen, that we voters have agency and could give the win to Harris.
28:40 let it not be a bulwark between east and west, both countries have secret service highly active from boths sides, leave it alone, stop using it as your playground
“The Labour government in the UK is exciting.” I don’t think you’ve been paying attention, Ben. The Labour government will usher in the far-right in the UK by 2029.
@@joancooney7724BARELY. And they show no sign of consolidating popular support or delivering policy sufficient to prevent the right from roaring back in the next election cycle.
Ok Ben finally please let us here you more and Samatha rock star so clever and first class communicator AND even New Zealand now has right govt ACT partner in govt racist trying and succeeding undoing Maori policies even trying to stop teachers teaching the Maori language Ben Tommy so worth watching and Dan take care thanks for my sanity you guys
The context of the clip where he was saying those autocrats were "at the top of their game" is to emphasize the need for a SMART leader who can stand toe to toe with these autocrats. Trump managed to stop Iran from funsing Hezbollah and Hamas by penalizing countries that will buy oil with them. He was able to deter Russia from going to war through the same tactics he used with Iran, but now they're richer because of countries like Germany who did not listen to Trump and bought energy from them (and now they're having issues) and BIDEN AGREEING TO RUSSIAN PIPELINE while scrapping the already existing American one (Keystone Pipeline) - 😮where's the common sense in that?
40:1040:16 When it becomes a conflict, or the US military gets involved, that's when it sort of gets up the chain, right? No! What? What "it" gets up what chain? Corruption? AI? Tension? I give up.
Ben Rhodes is a good guy, this is a good discussion. But. But. Americans discussing democracy vs autocracy, somewhere else apparently, is a little uhhh ... It makes me shake my head many times. How would I rate American democracy? Sub-par. Focus on your own blatant flaws please. Figure out who can vote and who can not, without slamming black people in handcuffs. Try, for once, to organize elections that don't lead to lawsuits into the next century. Real, mature, functioning democracy.
@@thebookelf2135 So you are saying is if a country isn't doing those things, then that country shouldn't be critiquing other countries like the US does? Because I'm American. American democracy is not that great at the moment. We are supporting war crimes in the Middle East right now. Without a plan for how Ukraine wins the war, we are destabilizing Europe by funding that war. And in terms of our elections, every American will vote next month in an undemocratic process called the electoral college. The electoral college you will find in no other democracy in the world, just the US. A convicted felon will be on the ballot facing another candidate that got no votes in the primary, was only made the candidate because voters were not happy that the first candidate was forced upon us when we said a year ago we did not want him to run again because he was too old and the Democratic party didn't listen to us voters. We are not in a place to criticize other democracies right now. We need to fix up our democracy because right now we are headed towards the US no longer being a superpower, let alone a country the world respects to lead.
7:13 you’re just under 5 decades too late to call that one a new idea. Richard Dawkins proposed the theory of memetic evolution in 1976 in “The Selfish Gene” - and yes, the theory of convergent evolution applies to behaviour just as it does to physical characteristics. Apart from Dawkins, the anthropologists have been looking at comparative mythology for quite some time as well, in pop culture the most concise explanation I’ve ever seen is in Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco. Finally, Huizinga in Homo Ludens details quite a bit about how political and military customs evolve from shared play concepts. Unfortunately there really is nothing new under the sun!
I really hate the abuse and linguistic slaughter of the words Artificial Intelligence (AI). Everyone needs to just stop using the term and take a damn English course
Not only that but Harris campaign has basically said they don't care about being the uncommitted vote. They are courting republicans, white women etc and they think this will make up for the Uncommitted voters, who literally are saying give us a sign and we'll vote for you, just treat us like humans. This is bringing 2016 ptsd.
In all forms of media, including alternative media, there is way too much framing of Trump in the context of American politics and the dumb social issues that the MAGA cult likes to being to the forefront. The impact that a Trump presidency will have on the West on the whole, the most severe and dangerous of which won't be felt in the US but will be felt in important countries like Germany who are far more volatile, this is the actual issue that needs discussing.
most people, like the guys and girls on this podcast just dont understand europe enough and have a very warped far letf view. All those tools to deport millions of illegals have been on the books for decades in every country, the are just not enforced. ´ There is also no human right to come to the west, Kosovo and Ukraine are the only conflict zones that border european countries. International law clearly says that you have to stay in the next country that is safe for you.
Ben, that I was able to count, you said the words "you know" 46 times in this video. Most of those times, you shortened it to "Ye-Oh". Seriously dude, if you're going to make a living by just talking for the rest of your life, you have GOT to get a handle on that super annoying affectation.
Harris's recent utterances and behaviour exemplify the move towards global fascism, if not quite as clearly as a Trump victory. I took her speech at the beginning as the admission that she wants to be a tyrant.
To me it all comes down to your views on slavery. If you have become the next generation of pro slavers then you are republican, anti union and anti democracy. And you will want to continue making money on the backs of this generation of slaves the American blue collar force. If you are one who continues to be generationally anti slavery then you will a democratic, pro union and pro democracy and will be in favor of making policies that allow the poor and the middle class to get ahead.
Idiotic statement. Our 'poor' people watch big screen tvs and wear 200 dollar shoes and get their nails 'did' without having any special occasion that they're preparing for. Not to mention how many of our 'poor' weigh in excess of 300 lbs...sorry, but true poor people do not weigh 300 pounds, and only the tallest men reach the 200 lb mark. Someone will always have more money. That's not the concern of the workers, of ANY era. Our poor live in air conditioning and sit around playing video games. They live better than monarchs from any other era. Blue Collar workers who make sound decisions with their money enjoy a high quality of living. Enough with all the goddamned whining and excuses. And for the record...slavery is gone because WE did away with it. We sacrificed a generation of our strongest young men to do so. Enough.
@@tgriffin3059 “I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.” ... "in moments of agony, I envied my fellow-slaves for their stupidity." -- Frederick Douglass There's all kinds of slavery. Just because you don't realize you are one doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
IM SO HAPPY YOURE DOING THIS THANK YOU BEN
Loving all this extra Ben content!
Thank you for doing this series. I really appreciate your voice.
Thank you for this series. It’s both a clear-eyed contemporary assessment and a look at what kind of forward effort is both needed and possible👏👏👏💙💙💙
Zack’s video on how America became a superpower is so well done I’ve rewatched it a dozen times and share it constantly.
This is a topic that interests me. How would I find it? (There are several UA-cam videos on this subject, so any guidance is appreciated!)
I'm so glad you're discussing this! I've been saying that another Trump term will lead to a regression and decrease in freedom, human rights, women's rigts worldwide, especially in fledgling democracies!
[Trust me bro]
Yeah just look at 2017-20 compared to now
wait...
@@he.5865 what do you mean? No offense, but you're an idiot if you think what I think that you think...
@he.5865 Yeah, that was a pretty horrendous time for human rights and since then it's been a pretty consistent decline. Also, almost Trump's entire cabinet and a ton of other staff are endorsing Harris and thus obviously not working for him. He's said they were traitors and that he'll hire better people next time. Between hiring more loyal stooges, already having packed lower and higher court including the Supreme court, schedule F and Project 2025's database of hires for federal service, yeah 2024-2028 will resemble 2016-2020 as much as it resembles 2012-2016. Not at all.
I'd go further and say a second Trump presidency will outright ally with Putin and Xi Jinping to carve up the world.
So excited for more worldo content. Thank you!!!
Why?
Samantha Powers is trying to justify the fact that Russia will end up with the exact same amount of land as they would have had 2 years ago had America not stopped the Russian/Ukraine peace deal, except there would be 600,000 less dead ukrainians as some sort of victory to give away Americans money to build homes in Ukraine that the DNC helped destroy, while the people of North Carolina beg for hundreds of dollars to rebuild their broken lives and try to dig out their citizens from underneath hurricane Helena. All while the other guests talk about the importance of the private sector in making money off of the complete and total misery America caused in the first place because NATO insisted on putting nuclear weapons on Russia's border.
I have to imagine that these people can't see what monsters they are, right?!?! The banality of evil has never been so plainly displayed........
The system works
I cannot wait to hopefully be done with Trump. Please exercise your right to vote, even if you don’t agree with all of the democrat policies
I agree. I also am slowly realizing that what is coming after Trump is worse. Far, far worse than Trump himself if it finds ways to be convincing to people, which imo JD Vance did a competent job at, at the VP debate. He was wildly convincing to the MAGAsphere and is now just another politician to them. He's the onus around which I think Project 2025 but more importantly the tech billionaires orbit. Those are the ones dedicated to tearing down democracy and human rights. Christians are at least horrified by terrible violence and injustice. The incel trad wife tech bro crowd are mostly atheistic and worship capitalism in its worst possible iterations. That crowd is radicalized and unreachable already, I know some. They have formed an unholy alliance with Christian fundementalists and extremist libertarians somehow.
The fight will only begin on November 5th, no matter the outcome of the election. They will smear Harris so thoroughly I'd be surprised if it takes 6 months to get articles of impeachment. The disinformation and misinformation will flow so freely truth will mean even less than now in a year or 2. Strap in, or strap up.
Thank you this is very educational
Osama bin ladne great matyr of islam and pakistan agrees
How stupid are people like you
Why?
Samantha Powers is trying to justify the fact that Russia will end up with the exact same amount of land as they would have had 2 years ago had America not stopped the Russian/Ukraine peace deal, except there would be 600,000 less dead ukrainians as some sort of victory to give away Americans money to build homes in Ukraine that the DNC helped destroy, while the people of North Carolina beg for hundreds of dollars to rebuild their broken lives and try to dig out their citizens from underneath hurricane Helena. All while the other guests talk about the importance of the private sector in making money off of the complete and total misery America caused in the first place because NATO insisted on putting nuclear weapons on Russia's border.
I have to imagine that these people can't see what monsters they are, right?!?! The banality of evil has never been so plainly displayed........
The system works
Great pod! Thank you SO MUCH for this. Looking forward to the rest of the series. SO GOOD. ❤❤❤
Awesome video. Thanks Ben and everyone involved!
thanks Ben and all PSTW team. it's a great special. I love the show. I never lost an episode.
So happy to find your podcast Ben. 🇨🇦👏👏👏
This is awesome! As a HUGE Ben fan the more the merrier!
Ben would love to see you do an episode on what is required for high level security clearance, and how Trump could never pass it. (thinking especially of Jared and his ties to the Saudis and in the Balkans) And what about JD Vance?
Please let this conversation bring up the Leahy Law. As long as we don't condition aid, no matter who wins will "empower dictators and far-right movements."
Yeah typical delusional Dems refusing to acknowledge that Biden has already obliterated our moral standing in the world by not only arming and funding a genocide but also condemning, defying, threatening and pressuring the ICC, the ICJ, the Human Rights Council and essentially accusing the entire world of being antisemitic. The US is an absolute joke.
Right??!
"Aid".
Is that what we call 2000 pound bombs used to level an entire block now? That's cute.
Or are these the "precise munitions" part of the support to Israel that the US legally, morally and ethically neither can nor tries to defend...
It's a fucking joke. No one will ever again look to the US or Europe for moral leadership or the ability to uphold any treaties they are signatories to.
@@Emanon...It isn't cute at all. It's a complete nightmare that has been going on for decades upon decades. And anyone who says otherwise is complicit.
What's the point!?!?
The DNC supports Netanyahu's obviously genocidal lunatics as well as Israel's obvious plans to force America to fight the wars that Israel picks so that American taxpayers pick up the tab in $ & American lives for Israel's immoral bloodthirsty attempts to destroy the region in the hope that Israel can rebuild it with Americans money based on a fascist white Jewish ethnostate!?!! You can't have the President say out one side of his mouth that murdering tens of thousands of innocent Muslim children makes him sad BUT out the other side that Biden supports Israel's deranged mass murder spree across the middle East and that it will continue to do so NO MATTER WHAT?!?!?
I understand that this passes without much notice because everyone understands that Joementia literally has no power, influence and or general basic cognitive function at this point, but everyone else DOES understand other than corporate Joe, that the DNC has been making these very specific choices for quite some time and actions speak louder than words. Despite the hand ringing, It's quite quite clear that the DNC has every intention of backing Israel's regime change wars across the middle East, which would 100% destroy any gains made against inflation, would destroy any chances of a broader peace agreement with literally anyone in the entire world, as everyone would 100% understand that America is more or less a psychopath who's backing another psychopath on a sequel that nobody wanted: natural born killers 2: poor, brown and Muslim's don't count as HUMAN BEINGS!?!?!?!
WTF.
Thank you for this.
Vote for dignity, freedom and democracy for America 🔵🌊💙🇺🇸💯!
Why?
Samantha Powers is trying to justify the fact that Russia will end up with the exact same amount of land as they would have had 2 years ago had America not stopped the Russian/Ukraine peace deal, except there would be 600,000 less dead ukrainians as some sort of victory to give away Americans money to build homes in Ukraine that the DNC helped destroy, while the people of North Carolina beg for hundreds of dollars to rebuild their broken lives and try to dig out their citizens from underneath hurricane Helena. All while the other guests talk about the importance of the private sector in making money off of the complete and total misery America caused in the first place because NATO insisted on putting nuclear weapons on Russia's border.
I have to imagine that these people can't see what monsters they are, right?!?! The banality of evil has never been so plainly displayed........
The system works
Thank you so much Ben interesting guests amd content
"Look, Viktor Orban said it. He said the most respected, most feared person is Donald Trump." -DJT 10Sep2024
Huh?
Who is Viktor Orban? A dictator in one of the smallest states in Europe, to his merits should be mentioned that this dictator turned Hungary into an enemy to the EU and the NATO, it doesn’t contribute to them, it is more like a big fat worm vegetating on what others contribute, OMG, I have to puke, but I’m seeing forward to when the EU wakes up and expels this parasite and that the NATO does the same.
😂😂
🤔 One of the things I wish people who are dedicated to promoting "democracy" would acknowledge out loud, is that the neoliberal economic system is what has led to this dissatisfaction with democracy and what has led people to want solutions that destroy that system. If we don't acknowledge the underlying problem, then no matter how much we shout "but democracy is better than authoritarianism," the message will be empty... and the US is a very bad messenger to defend democracy, because it has used the pretext of democracy to stage coups against elected governments and installed dictators, in order to benefit American corporations with the natural resources of those countries. Some countries simply want to defend themselves from US interference and so they choose an authoritarian to stand up to it...
That's Commie talk!
@@traviscutler9912/s?
I agree. THOUGHTLESS CARELESS lobalisation and unquestioned neoliberal economic policies destroyed the livelihoods of so many that they've turned in desperation to hard right tyrant TYPES who'll promise anything and everything to seize power. The extremes of superrich and too poor ate always the stuff of revolution- across history countries and now we see it too. A government can't leave any groups out of their share in the national pie. It does so at the risk of itself as well as endangers democracy and encouraging Tyrants like Trump.
They wont listen . The left are driven by emotion and joy
Oh, Samantha Power at last, thank you Ben 🙏🏻
Yeah, the genocide historian who managed to pretend that it was something only other countries do. Scintillating.
@@matthewcaldwell8100 so happy to ignore you
@@kayess2634 you didn’t read her book did you?
@@matthewcaldwell8100 I did - obviously my perspective is different from yours
@@kayess2634 and you account for that glaring omission how
Harris, Justice!!
Excellent
Samantha Power gives me hope for the US 🤩 ... and the world in general.
Why?
Samantha Powers is trying to justify the fact that Russia will end up with the exact same amount of land as they would have had 2 years ago had America not stopped the Russian/Ukraine peace deal, except there would be 600,000 less dead ukrainians as some sort of victory to give away Americans money to build homes in Ukraine that the DNC helped destroy, while the people of North Carolina beg for hundreds of dollars to rebuild their broken lives and try to dig out their citizens from underneath hurricane Helena. All while the other guests talk about the importance of the private sector in making money off of the complete and total misery America caused in the first place because NATO insisted on putting nuclear weapons on Russia's border.
I have to imagine that these people can't see what monsters they are, right?!?! The banality of evil has never been so plainly displayed........
The system works
Brilliant plan of US Aid!
I would much rather my country promote human rights and peace than act like every place in the world would be better off if it were more democratic. How about let's not be the #1 arms dealer in the world? If we spent half as much time and effort on peace initiatives as we do on nation building and funding endless wars, the world might actually be a better place.
For some reason, no party can take an anti-war stance because they seem to think it looks weak. How are we better off in constant conflict? Does it make us more safe? How does it make us any better than the tyrants we claim to stand against?
An important topic for policy discussion after the KAMALA/WALZ administration is elected. Priorities. 💙🇺🇸VOTE BLUE🇺🇸💙
Weapons industry and AIPAC (basically lobby groups ) are way too powerful. Until they take out money from politics, our politicians will always belong to the highest bidder.
Not sure about the comic sans like font on the thumbnail...
Yeah, I hope that's a one-off and we go back to the old font
Yes !!
Hard to take Samantha Powers seriously after Gaza.
This is so informative. The more we can be exposed to this larger view of what's going on in our world, the better citizens we become. Thank you, Ben, and everyone there at PSTW.
" the stakes are really high for the rest of the world on democracy depending on who wins the US election" 😢😢😢😊😊😊you bet!!!, doubt there's an American who's more worried and scared about a win for Trump than I as an Aussie who's been fighting and writing and working to support democracy in Oz, Germany, and across the world ( where I taught at a uni and where my best friends in the world live). I've written to local and national and International media, doorknocked and phoned to work against democracy- undermining hard right political candidates abd parties. I write this the opposite of to brag, rather to let you who ate clearly on the same side of defending democracy and pushing back against autocracies, of which there are more today than democracies. All of this experience has taught me the incredible power of one plus one plus one to speak up in defence of and speak out against autocratic voices. The worst of those in your world and mine are Rupert and DEADLY HARD RIGHT LACHLAN MURDOCH via Fox in America and Sky After Dark in Oz plus the Lies&Propaganda OF the Australian national newspaper, the Rubbish Telegraph and various main city Murdoch Hard Right Propaganda Rags. Doorknocking and phoning thousands of voters in seats contested by hard right candidates like our current Trump-Lite (just smaller and puny-er than Trump but every bit as Fascist and dangerous) Opposition leader ex-policeman Peter "Thumper" Dutton. That effort was run by brilliant grassroots activist mob GetUp and it reduced Duttons margin by a huge 4% down to him clinging on to his seat. So I've experienced that amazing power of one plus one plus one to shift the dial away from autocrats back to decent democratic reps. It's actually a lot of fun and very interesting engaging in conversations with people you might have some different views from but you'll find that most do think a lot about issues important to them like decent roads, hospitals, schools and education plus climate change. So PLEASE try some volunteering eg via the impressive Pod Save America training approach and here in Sydney I'm co acting the Anerican guys handing out Register and Vote for November5 to American travellers. Together we SIMPLY MUST crush Trump FOREVER and make sure he ends up in jail where he belongs and NOT in The White House where he doesn't belong!!!😊😊😊🎉🎉🎉
Are the stakes like trump steaks? Tough and costly?
Worse.
The DNC supports Netanyahu's obviously genocidal lunatics as well as Israel's obvious plans to force America to fight the wars that Israel picks so that American taxpayers pick up the tab in $ & American lives for Israel's immoral bloodthirsty attempts to destroy the region in the hope that Israel can rebuild it with Americans money based on a fascist white Jewish ethnostate!?!! You can't have the President say out one side of his mouth that murdering tens of thousands of innocent Muslim children makes him sad BUT out the other side that Biden supports Israel's deranged mass murder spree across the middle East and that it will continue to do so NO MATTER WHAT?!?!?
I understand that this passes without much notice because everyone understands that Joementia literally has no power, influence and or general basic cognitive function at this point, but everyone else DOES understand other than corporate Joe, that the DNC has been making these very specific choices for quite some time and actions speak louder than words. Despite the hand ringing, It's quite quite clear that the DNC has every intention of backing Israel's regime change wars across the middle East, which would 100% destroy any gains made against inflation, would destroy any chances of a broader peace agreement with literally anyone in the entire world, as everyone would 100% understand that America is more or less a psychopath who's backing another psychopath on a sequel that nobody wanted: natural born killers 2: poor, brown and Muslim's don't count as HUMAN BEINGS!?!?!?!
WTF.
What about bringing that app to the United States? It wpuld eliminate all the complaints against food stamps, wic, and any other stipend for a specific reason
Nice never nude reference!
Thank you for speaking the truth 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💙💙💙💙💙
Words matter. "...WILL empower..." implies inevitability., that Trump's win is a foregone conclusion and we might as well give up. "...WOULD empower..." suggests a hypothetical that may or may not happen, that we voters have agency and could give the win to Harris.
💙 Vote Blue America 🇺🇸
Im gonna watch this entire thing although my hopes are low given the title, gotta watch both sides eyh
0:45 not even a minute in and i already noticed hes reading everything off a teleprompter...............
1:15 holy shit how obvious do you have to make it? dude is deffo not getting paid enough xD
just realized this platform is run by a former white house homeland security agent, welp i guess my search continues. (source wikipedia)
kinda ironic how the outlet they belong to is called "crooked media"
28:40 let it not be a bulwark between east and west, both countries have secret service highly active from boths sides, leave it alone, stop using it as your playground
The typography
Precisely.... Never again
Can we choose something like Helvetica or Arial?
Empower dictators; To not start ww3? Guess we will find out.
Vote 💙 to ensure Freedom Choice Joy Prosperity Democracy Diversity and a 🌎 and future for All 💖
How will the overruling of the Chevron deference impact the Harris administrations ability to establish appropriate AI regulations?
alot harder and alot more democratic. they will have to pass a law.
“The Labour government in the UK is exciting.” I don’t think you’ve been paying attention, Ben. The Labour government will usher in the far-right in the UK by 2029.
I don’t think you’re paying attention, Europe have had 2 recent elections forcing out the far right
@@joancooney7724BARELY. And they show no sign of consolidating popular support or delivering policy sufficient to prevent the right from roaring back in the next election cycle.
Vote Blue 💙💙💙💙
Ok Ben finally please let us here you more and Samatha rock star so clever and first class communicator AND even New Zealand now has right govt ACT partner in govt racist trying and succeeding undoing Maori policies even trying to stop teachers teaching the Maori language Ben Tommy so worth watching and Dan take care thanks for my sanity you guys
Hi!
Democracy promotion after overthrowing so many
The context of the clip where he was saying those autocrats were "at the top of their game" is to emphasize the need for a SMART leader who can stand toe to toe with these autocrats. Trump managed to stop Iran from funsing Hezbollah and Hamas by penalizing countries that will buy oil with them. He was able to deter Russia from going to war through the same tactics he used with Iran, but now they're richer because of countries like Germany who did not listen to Trump and bought energy from them (and now they're having issues) and BIDEN AGREEING TO RUSSIAN PIPELINE while scrapping the already existing American one (Keystone Pipeline) - 😮where's the common sense in that?
Samantha Powers?
How ARE things at CIAid , these days?
I thought they weren't supposed to operate inside the US?
40:10 40:16 When it becomes a conflict, or the US military gets involved, that's when it sort of gets up the chain, right?
No! What? What "it" gets up what chain?
Corruption? AI? Tension? I give up.
First!
you cannot even empower your own people.. 🤣
Ben Rhodes is a good guy, this is a good discussion. But. But. Americans discussing democracy vs autocracy, somewhere else apparently, is a little uhhh ... It makes me shake my head many times. How would I rate American democracy? Sub-par. Focus on your own blatant flaws please.
Figure out who can vote and who can not, without slamming black people in handcuffs. Try, for once, to organize elections that don't lead to lawsuits into the next century. Real, mature, functioning democracy.
@@freekfaro5606 Tune in to "Pod Save America" for that content! This podcast has an international focus.
Correct, are you also doing as you suggest?
@@thebookelf2135 huh?
@@thebookelf2135 So you are saying is if a country isn't doing those things, then that country shouldn't be critiquing other countries like the US does? Because I'm American. American democracy is not that great at the moment. We are supporting war crimes in the Middle East right now. Without a plan for how Ukraine wins the war, we are destabilizing Europe by funding that war. And in terms of our elections, every American will vote next month in an undemocratic process called the electoral college. The electoral college you will find in no other democracy in the world, just the US. A convicted felon will be on the ballot facing another candidate that got no votes in the primary, was only made the candidate because voters were not happy that the first candidate was forced upon us when we said a year ago we did not want him to run again because he was too old and the Democratic party didn't listen to us voters. We are not in a place to criticize other democracies right now. We need to fix up our democracy because right now we are headed towards the US no longer being a superpower, let alone a country the world respects to lead.
I totally agree with you...I'm a Canadian and I am so scared for you guys...vote Kamala up and down ❤❤
7:13 you’re just under 5 decades too late to call that one a new idea. Richard Dawkins proposed the theory of memetic evolution in 1976 in “The Selfish Gene” - and yes, the theory of convergent evolution applies to behaviour just as it does to physical characteristics. Apart from Dawkins, the anthropologists have been looking at comparative mythology for quite some time as well, in pop culture the most concise explanation I’ve ever seen is in Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco. Finally, Huizinga in Homo Ludens details quite a bit about how political and military customs evolve from shared play concepts. Unfortunately there really is nothing new under the sun!
She is talking about a CBDC being deployed in Ukraine. You should be aware of this program's dystopian aspects, Ben.
God damn not PSTW as well with the outrage thumbnails. I'm tired.
We support democracies as long as they vote the way our rich people want them to.
I really hate the abuse and linguistic slaughter of the words Artificial Intelligence (AI). Everyone needs to just stop using the term and take a damn English course
I am trying hard to GOTV for Harris but we have trashed the rules based order because of Gaza. Nobody respects us anymore
Not only that but Harris campaign has basically said they don't care about being the uncommitted vote. They are courting republicans, white women etc and they think this will make up for the Uncommitted voters, who literally are saying give us a sign and we'll vote for you, just treat us like humans. This is bringing 2016 ptsd.
@@imnadia84 What "sign" do uncommited voters need? Why aren't they already voting for the clearly better candidate?
No… D U H ‼️
LOL. Someone ought to tell Murphy and the Dems that Biden already obliterated our moral standing in the world. 🤡
Biden? The Dems? Come on now - the US, regardless of which party you want to point fingers at, has never had a positive moral standing in the world.
Looks around...sure...HE will. Good one.
In all forms of media, including alternative media, there is way too much framing of Trump in the context of American politics and the dumb social issues that the MAGA cult likes to being to the forefront. The impact that a Trump presidency will have on the West on the whole, the most severe and dangerous of which won't be felt in the US but will be felt in important countries like Germany who are far more volatile, this is the actual issue that needs discussing.
most people, like the guys and girls on this podcast just dont understand europe enough and have a very warped far letf view.
All those tools to deport millions of illegals have been on the books for decades in every country, the are just not enforced. ´
There is also no human right to come to the west, Kosovo and Ukraine are the only conflict zones that border european countries. International law clearly says that you have to stay in the next country that is safe for you.
You people are either extremely ignorant or are huge liars!
Ben, that I was able to count, you said the words "you know" 46 times in this video. Most of those times, you shortened it to "Ye-Oh". Seriously dude, if you're going to make a living by just talking for the rest of your life, you have GOT to get a handle on that super annoying affectation.
India is democracy. I don't kbow what are you talking about.
Harris's recent utterances and behaviour exemplify the move towards global fascism, if not quite as clearly as a Trump victory. I took her speech at the beginning as the admission that she wants to be a tyrant.
Not...go read project 25....then have your opinion lol lol 😂
Great discussion. Right now tick tock etc with anti-harris pro-trump propaganda.You got to get on this quick
To me it all comes down to your views on slavery. If you have become the next generation of pro slavers then you are republican, anti union and anti democracy. And you will want to continue making money on the backs of this generation of slaves the American blue collar force. If you are one who continues to be generationally anti slavery then you will a democratic, pro union and pro democracy and will be in favor of making policies that allow the poor and the middle class to get ahead.
Idiotic statement. Our 'poor' people watch big screen tvs and wear 200 dollar shoes and get their nails 'did' without having any special occasion that they're preparing for. Not to mention how many of our 'poor' weigh in excess of 300 lbs...sorry, but true poor people do not weigh 300 pounds, and only the tallest men reach the 200 lb mark. Someone will always have more money. That's not the concern of the workers, of ANY era. Our poor live in air conditioning and sit around playing video games. They live better than monarchs from any other era. Blue Collar workers who make sound decisions with their money enjoy a high quality of living. Enough with all the goddamned whining and excuses.
And for the record...slavery is gone because WE did away with it. We sacrificed a generation of our strongest young men to do so. Enough.
@tgriffin3059 Agreed.
@@tgriffin3059 “I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.” ... "in moments of agony, I envied my fellow-slaves for their stupidity." -- Frederick Douglass
There's all kinds of slavery. Just because you don't realize you are one doesn't mean it doesn't exist.