My grandpa has dementia and I would be beyond livid if any of my family members suggested he should be president of the United States. It's elder abuse.

@lisadefries6718

23 күн бұрын

He has had neurological medical checks this year so I assume dementia isn’t medically apparent but maybe his medication for arthritis in his spine ( he walks in very wooden manner) is reason for him loosing his train of thought. Even if this is the case he still needs to step aside . We need to ensure Trump doesn’t win and the sooner he steps aside the better for the new candidate to win floating voters.

They had four years to sort this out! He wasn't going to get any younger. And what do they think he will be like in 2029?! This crisis can be directly blamed on the Democrats. As if a country that size doesn't have a suitable younger candidate - it is absurd.

Biden's gaffes would be funny if it wasn't so scary.

I am a.72 year old living in Bethlehem Pa and feel when I watch the news, someone is PULLING MY FINGERNAILS OUT!

@matthewcline3088

24 күн бұрын

i’m 24 years old, from the south, and feel the same way Anna!!!

@jagamarszewska6158

24 күн бұрын

I'm so so so sorrry

@gamerknown

23 күн бұрын

My mother’s family are in Doylestown and my grandfather on that side was a Republican but my grandmother a Sanders supporter

With prisons we literally have the worst of both worlds. You get violent criminals released back into society while also having non serious and non violent offenders having their lives and their families lives destroyed because of one mistake. All the sentencing guidelines are totally out of whack with logic, literally based on medieval theology rather than actual human psychology.

@flunkyminion

24 күн бұрын

Medieval theology had more forgiveness.

@jenniferhaigh7337

24 күн бұрын

​@@LonerWeirdo may be true in the US with prison industrial complex but this is absolutely not the case in the UK - incarcerating folks is really expensive.

Michael, I’d vote for you ❤!

@juliewake4585

23 күн бұрын

Oh yes me too!

Should've been Bernie all along.....

One way to reduce the prisons being filled up is to stop putting peaceful activists in prison! Might help a bit.

@JENNIFERKILLEEN-kj8gf

24 күн бұрын

And put real criminals In jail.

The Big Boy failed to show up at the Big Boy conference

@samuelwilkin5

24 күн бұрын

To be fair - it was a Heckin' Chonker of a conference

Thanks guys, especially for keeping us all updated on Gaza. Very sad.

The idea of Trump being president *again* is mind boggling. It’s like being trapped in a perpetual dystopian nightmare.

@CAMRA_GUY

24 күн бұрын

Looks like you may have a case of TDS ❤ it’s not ideal but at least we know directionally where trump is headed and what he wants to do vs the weird shadowy dark left ran by unelected committee. ❤😂😅

@theoblincko18

24 күн бұрын

It's the care home or the circus 😢 how has if come to this. It's like the end days of the soviet union!

@fumbleBumble82

24 күн бұрын

The mind boggling thing is that the Democrats have allowed it to happen again by not putting out a decent enough candidate in the first place, how can these people be so thick?

@elfred8821

24 күн бұрын

America and the world was a hell of a lot better under Trump. Don’t have to be a Trump supporter to know. Those the facts.

@gamerknown

23 күн бұрын

@@elfred8821oh yeah, Sholom Rubashkin, Jared Kushner, Shayrat

I had to mute every time Biden started talking, it was too painful

Excellent commentary by Aaron at the end on Gaza

Aaron's breakdown at the end around what is happening.... complete truth. Won't hear this anywhere. Thank you for your bravery

I worry about what will happen to all the left wing activists in the US under a Trump dictatorship - And they think things are bad now!

I just think that it’s a shame that his wife and family are allowing him to go through this

As a loyal Democrat and a patriotic American, I am sticking my fingers in my ears and SCREAMING!!!

@deboraandrade132

23 күн бұрын

Are you voting for Racism ( Trump) or for Genocide ( Biden)

Can Michael please be challenged on using right wing talking points when talking about prisons? Using singular examples of someone reoffending when let out of prison does not trump decades of data and statistics which show the harm to society of our current overuse of the prison system. How would he like it if someone used one off example of an LGBTQ+ pedophile to say that all LGBTQ+ people are pedos? Can we please stick to the facts and not just use emotive examples. It’s not helpful and we get enough of that with mainstream media. I expected more from Novara tbh.

@t_b_c

24 күн бұрын

Michael routinely uses right wing talking points from the host chair - devil's advocate is part of the role and the responses give viewers insight for rebuttals in the real world. It would be good to build in more substantial responses on such things though, so points like the ones you raise have more of a chance to become visible.

I am a mother. And I can't imagine hoing through such horror. And yes I'd want to avenge because if my child were murdered I'd have nothing to lose and nothing to live for.

What makes me laugh is the people around Biden pretending he is not of good mental health. Shame on them.

@tomc4187

24 күн бұрын

US is a crumbling gerontocracy. Biden is not psychotic, he is senile instead.

@dannytoots6635

24 күн бұрын

You mean ‘of good mental health’* right?

@MontyCantsin5

24 күн бұрын

@paulrailton1511: Might want to edit that…

@goneonholidaybymistake84

24 күн бұрын

I can’t tell if this is satire, making fun of Biden misspeaking, by misspeaking 😂

@yufers

24 күн бұрын

Show a little respect. That's the first black female president of the United States you're talking about.

The other part about the US president…. That role has such an amazing amount of power. It shouldn’t be someone(s) in the background.

@ChrispyNut

24 күн бұрын

I mean, it pretty much is anyway, just there's presently another unknown who's signing off.

@michellerenner6880

24 күн бұрын

@@ChrispyNut I don’t agree with that 100%. Obama, Clinton, bush 1 wouldn’t have accepted that.

@ChrispyNut

24 күн бұрын

@@michellerenner6880 I'm talking about Lobbyists, pressure groups, restrictions of established order.

No seems to talk about all the numerous name gaffes Trump has made. I’ve never see the media say he should to be dropped as a candidate. Yes Biden has issues but you can’t call out one when the other one is just as bad if not worse.

Arron has had his crunchy today with that funky Friday feeling lol

@zam1007

24 күн бұрын

Oh dear, we are boomer 😂

@fumbleBumble82

24 күн бұрын

@@zam1007 I'm so exciiiiited, and I just can't hiiiide it.

The problem Biden has now is that the pressure is really on, making it even more stressful to speak publicly, which would [I imagine] derail him further. Many such folk have plenty of days / hours in a day where they're entirely present, but this role, it very much matters about how often he's not. Who's making decisions when he's not.

Gaza was the first headline now it is the last the tragic cost of human decentization and total capacity to empathize with unimaginable human suffering.

He won't go no matter gow many gaffes he makes. His ego won't let him.

Thank you for an outstanding broadcast!

😢he needs tu step aside 💔

Interestingly I'm in one of the Cornish seats LD won and it's incredibly deprived here

I'd vote Cornel West, Jill Stein or Claudia De La Cruz. Dems & Repubs are both more right than Tories & Reform in U.K. Love to you

@dannytoots6635

24 күн бұрын

In what way are the dems more right than reform?

@josephinebrevig8748

24 күн бұрын

@@dannytoots6635😂😂😂…i thought I was the only one 🤔

Biden is done done done no vote in November

I felt Aaron’s anger today. Here for it 👍

They should either create a brand new, Biden specific position of President Emeritus OR just 'remind' him that he's already chosen to step down, "just yesterday" & i bet my eyesight that Biden will totally fegin remembering having done so, reflexively as most dementia- effected folk do)

The deadpan "I got that friday funky feeling, Michael" floored me.

NM Merch Request - T-shirt: “Beautiful Godalming! - Aaron Bastani, 2024”

Came here from the podcast to make a point about the warehousing of people. Warehousing people- people deemed genuinely unfit for work- has been hugely lucrative under the Conservatives. All sorts of marginalised people are warehoused, and as Marxists we should be aware of it and we should move it into the public debate. Homeless people, adults with learning disabilities, migrants, the elderly, prisoners- for a variety of reasons, the Predatory Class can't make use of these people as units of labour, so instead and with the collusion of the state they turn them into assets. These people receive the bare minimum of support they require, not because it's a social good but entirely because they can be processed as assets. And isn't it funny that ideological decisions made by the Conservatives align so closely with the financial interests of Serco, Mitie, G4S? I have no proof, but what if these decisions were taken directly for the benefit of these human-warehousing firms, and the ideology made to fit? Ultimately it doesn't matter whether it's deliberate or not but I have had conversations with people where I say to them, "you feel very strongly that immigration policy doesn't work for you, it absolutely does not work for migrants, but it does work for the companies providing solutions to the so-called problem", and people are often so outraged by the implication that Serco, Mitie and G4S are directing policy that they immediately discount the idea, as if I was talking about baby-eating religious death cults. I mean, am I mad? Am I conspiratorial? Because it really does seem like our biggest problem is that private interests dictate how we respond to challenges for their own benefit?

@polliebain7450

23 күн бұрын

You most certainly are not mad. You make a very cogent and perceptive suggestion. There's no denying your argument fits the facts. Maybe it's just too unpalatable for most people

Having watched my Dad succumb to dementia, I can't join in with the laughter at Biden. Please stop and try to be better than that.

@happydays4302

24 күн бұрын

I think most people really struggle watching him because it is so sad. He should not be running for President, those that care for him should have stopped this happening.

@smartic5822

24 күн бұрын

Not laughing. It’s sad and scary. Biden doesn’t seem to have the capacity to properly campaign against Don.

@juliewake4585

23 күн бұрын

I’m not sure anyone with any empathy can laugh at this. I think many of us are just worried what will happen because of his his very slow decline.

You'd be a better president than Biden, Michael. I'd vote for you if it were possible. Love and solidarity from the States ✊️

So why DOES it take the ICC and ICJ so long to make some judgement?

Your younger Prime Minister was voted out for an older guy. So people age differently. Lots of historians speaking on the Gaza issues are very old.

@drcool000009

24 күн бұрын

Some people do age differently! And for some people that means they speak like a buffering video, cut themselves of mid sentence, and refer to people by the wrong name on a regular and sustained basis.

21:33 - thank you Aaron for this bit. The POTUS race is not nationwide, it's state-by-state - so *nationwide polling is useless.* The state with the largest population & Electoral College delegation, California, is a solid lock for the Democrats, whoever the candidate is; *California went 2:1 against Trump* both times before. So that right there will throw the nationwide numbers off. *All that matters is what's happening in the "swing states"* and it was gratifying for once to hear someone talk about that.

Wonderful show. Thank you

I'm dealing with grief, my best friend is dying before my eyes (cancer) and I am so heart-broken, hurts so much. Yet the people of Gaza are going through so much worse. How the fuck do they cope?

George Clooney for president

To Quote a certain someone: YOU MUST STAY AT HOME!

Michael for president!

1:42 the look on Zilensky's face was like 'Whatda Whatda? Oh my gaawd!', when heard *Michael Walker's* impression of him. 😂

Why not build more prisons? Our population has grown, we need more hospitals and houses ,likewise we need more prisons.

Nothing will beat the Canadians Standing Ovation in Parliament for a -azi?

I saw 5 clips where Biden referred to Kamala Harris as the president. Not sure over what period of time, but definitely in the past 3.5yrs.

Plus high office ages you quicker. Look at the before and after pictures of any world leader - they age quicker than their years. I assume its stress / cortozol.

my baby brother was also coaxed by calling it a "big boy" task

Biden has Parkinson's - the decline is physical. But it also impacts on processing words and the ability to vocalise. .

Young and humble stay blessed 🙏

Gail’s will have their own market research, so I guess they were targeting the same populations

IT’s a terrible gaff but it’s all still being blo out of proportion. I mean saying Putin. The much worse gaff was the Harris gaff. If he cares about the future of America and IT’s democracy he should graciously and humbly step aside. Im hoping Gavin Newsome stands for the Democrats I genuinely think he’s potentially the best president America will have ever had.

@polliebain7450

23 күн бұрын

Exactly. If Biden were half the patriot he claims to be he would step aside without delay

The bar for being President of the USA is very low, this is why the 2 candidates running are referred to as Dumb and Dumber!

Kamala Harris: It is NOT Kuh-marla, but Kar-Muh-la!

Children, grandchildren, family members, friends...

I’ve never heard of Gail’s. Maybe living in the frozen north in a horrible place like Newcastle means it hasn’t made it there. Mmm

Was Cassia communicating from a toilet??

Why is Michael now copying Aaron's strange, overtly gravelly, broken-up manner of speaking? Jarrs with me everytime I hear it; puts me in mind of Bale's Batman 😂 Is it sound more "newsy" and "serious"?

It's a weekend at Bernie's situation now.

@o_o8203

24 күн бұрын

It's been.

@dwc1964

24 күн бұрын

Ironically, Bernie, though older, is in far better shape, and better in every way.

They called it Big Boy conference to torpedo him.

What do you think about the other candidates? Jill Stein for Green has said the Democrats have made registering in different ballets very difficult- any thruth in this?

If you ask Biden what's his name, he may say I am Trump.😅

Why is nobody talking about Trump and the Epstein files?

It's KAH-ma-la Harris and DYE-anne FINE-stine. Just so we're clear.

Very powerful from Aaron at the end ❤

Gails= Tory Greggs.

1:25 - Zelenski's face. 😐

this gets missed by many. But the Tories have won two elections since 1992, and BOTH were delivered by Brexit . (meaning without Brexit they would not have got a majority). in 2015, they alone offered a Brexit Referendum, in 2019, they alone offered Gre Brexit Done. No Brexit options in elections and Tories do not win. FOR 32 years

Class, does the pressure on Biden increase or decrease??

The calm before the storm

Sorry. What was Aaron's point about the legacy of the psycho murderer of millions, Mao?!

It's noticeable that they talk up how good his 'asides' are. So he only makes a pig's ear of everything when he's making a public speech - is that it?!

I think its worth noting that biden still has agency in his life,. His family is insane, and i do not think the general assessment is off. but as much has his family influenced, the current chaos is his choice.

The shit thing is most of NATO leaders clapped 😂

Biden is gone😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂. President Trump unhinged part 2

These are not mistakes...they are truths that are slipping out because he's lost his ability to lie.

19:53 Daniel Dennett describes that as deepity, refers to a statement that is apparently profound but actually asserts a triviality on one level and something meaningless on another.

25.32 Shabana Mahmood, "Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... MASS HYSTERIA!" (Ghost Busters 1984). I'm not saying there isn't a prison emergency, but flipping hell, such outlandish, Tory style rhetoric so early into a 'Labour' government. .

Funny, but so frightening 😢

I'm afraid you're overqualified, Mr. Walker.

His not running America f me what a joke this world is

Is he taking heavy duty pain killers for arthritis we told he has in his spine ? That might affect his train of thought. Anyway time for him to step aside

President Karma ?😮

i live next to a house that is run by mears, my brother nearly got stabbed, all mears could tell us about the stab knifes gashes in the frount windows it was the resposiblility of the secetary of state, my bother now lives in his car im holding on.

@austinsmith8218

24 күн бұрын

Huh

@tillyupnorth

24 күн бұрын

@@LonerWeirdowatch there video there talking about early release of prisoners as well

🤣

trump is 78! and biden is 81! if either of these 2 win I dont think either will make it through the full term 😂 they need to replace biden with someone at least 20 years younger

Sorry to be that guy, Aaron, but the syllables in Dianne Feinstein's name rhyme - fine-stine (I remember her since she was San Francisco's mayor...)

@polliebain7450

23 күн бұрын

Yup. It drives me crazy - like 'Epsteen'

@dwc1964

23 күн бұрын

@@polliebain7450 ok but I thought Epstein's name really is pronounced -steen not -stine - I've never heard it pronounced -stine, only -steen, as opposed to San Francisco's former mayor, whose name I heard _all the time_ nearly all of my life, and only as -stine

@polliebain7450

23 күн бұрын

@@dwc1964correctly - that is in German pronunciation - it is 'Epshtine' - but ok you'd never say that. However, stein (originally meant stone - now means a beer mug) is definitely pronounced stine. 'Common usage' as they say - pronounces it steen. Which to my (elderly and) European ears just sounds wrong! What about Rogers and Hammerstein for example - he was a stine. Never mind - my generation will die soon - l'm 80 - and there'll be nobody left to even notice! 😁

@polliebain7450

23 күн бұрын

@@dwc1964 oh and Leonard Bernstein was a stine too. Ok - back in my basket 😏

@dwc1964

23 күн бұрын

@@polliebain7450 the "correct" pronunciation is the way the person pronounces their own name, regardless of historical linguistic roots. I never heard this Epstein say his own name, but I've heard others with the same name say theirs, and it was always -steen. Meanwhile I heard my former mayor & later senator say her name many times and it was always -stine.

Gen Z 😮

Get Michelle Obama then! Bernie Sanders is still spot on!

Look, my dad has advanced, late stage Parkinson's. He is bedridden and cant feed himself anymore because its taken its toll physically. He is still quite lucid mentally, however suffers delusions and confusion too. And the way Biden talks, is exactly that same raspy way my dad talks. He (Biden) 100% has onset of dementia and/or Parkinson's.

If we look at the democrat senators they are too old. They should all stand down. We need more like AOC. Biden cannot carry on. He should have gone months ago. He will hand election to Trump on a plate. But, there is no viable alternative.

@inspectortanzi

24 күн бұрын

AOC's a sellout - a Pelosi Mk 2. Last thing they need - along with a senile president.

Haitian Interventions 😢

obvious solution: harris for president, biden as vice president. why not?

I'd prefer Biden with dementia than trump without 😅 even though trump isnt looking too good either

@austinsmith8218

24 күн бұрын

So gaslighting people and telling them to stfu is the answer?!

The IMPORTANT thing about the VP statement WAS NOT the Putin gaffe. The MASSIVELY more important aspect was he said "I would not have chosen her as VP" AND "She is not qualified to be President." VERY tellingly NONE of you are covering the real statement of import.

@luke-alex

24 күн бұрын

He was saying, I think, that he would not have chosen her if he didn't think she was qualified to be president.

@christophershrimpton7627

24 күн бұрын

@@luke-alexDid he choose her or was she foisted on him?

@luke-alex

23 күн бұрын

​@@christophershrimpton7627 Choice of VP has always been strategic. I have no idea if Biden personally wanted Kamala or not, but it's irrelevant (Biden's political instincts are not to be admired; Kamala would certainly be better on Gaza). Remember, _he_ was foisted on the Democratic members when all the other candidates filed in behind him against Bernie in 2020. Note that it's too late for any chance for an actual democratic choice.

@christophershrimpton7627

23 күн бұрын

@@luke-alex Of all the terrible things President Trump is supposed to have done, by far the worst is causing TDS within the Democratic Party. Biden’s presidency has been a deception from the outset That deception can no longer be hidden. And they say Trump is the threat to democracy …… really?

If Trump promised to dissolve NATO I'd vote for him but na I'm voting Green

@carinarilk89

24 күн бұрын

Look that what the Greens are doing in Germany! Fascist!