AndroidPolitician walked so that AcidMarxist could run

I like how the Carl Sagans cosmos theme was playing when Obama was explaining his cosmic nihilism

@PDXVoiceTeacher

2 жыл бұрын

It was so fantastic.

@Grogeous_Maximus

2 ай бұрын

Also just sad that he has to figuratively zoom out that far, to move the conversation away from the fact that he was a lame duck president from day 1

"we're all just atoms floating on a speck of dust in the cosmos. And that's why money is important."

"We've got to treat each other better because we're all we've got." He's quoting All Star Superman.

@Grogeous_Maximus

2 ай бұрын

I can see Obama as a nihilistic cosmic supervillain. Anti-Man.

Obama: You still don't know what you're dealing with, do you? Perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility. Ezra Klein: You admire it? Obama: I admire its purity. A survivor... unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality. Ezra: Wow, so you think you were in over your head when dealing with the Republican senate?

@willknowsright9615

2 жыл бұрын

hell ya dude. Ripley saw the signs

@lukemadrid5711

2 жыл бұрын

Id like to think Obama does DMT in his mansion on Martha’s Vineyard

“Obama why did you bomb those kids?” Obama: I wanted the republicans to think I was cool, :(

@stopculture

28 күн бұрын

“In the grand calculus of the multiverse, their sacrifice means infinitely more than their lives.”

All those drone murders

@MrEzuma

3 жыл бұрын

That's freedom baby.

@RedSaint83

3 ай бұрын

2009 Nobel peace prize 🏅 btw.

Popeye’’s and Burger King staged a chicken sandwich war while being owned by the same company. That’s politics, folks.

@chaotickreg7024

3 жыл бұрын

Remember that it only worked because people bought into it. A lot of capitalism's problems only exist because unfortunately people buy into it. Funko Pops are like collectible bits of garbage but people buy them.

@yodabaki970

3 жыл бұрын

What the fuck is a chicken sandwich war?

@yodabaki970

3 жыл бұрын

@Rainer wouldn't help I'm not American don't really know what popeyes makes. I looked it up after asking that whole thing seems incredibly stupid.

@venicebeachsportsnetwork6677

2 жыл бұрын

Dude, that chicken sandwich war was set up? Jeez they got me

@ram_s_d27

2 жыл бұрын

@@yodabaki970 charlimentarian just called for one

When Matt talks about how people in politics, once they know that by getting into political office they don't get to actually affect anything, devolve into serial narcissists who can do nothing but talk about themselves, apply it to the rest of society, and it strikes me: it's almost as if not having any power or agency weakens you, degenerates your character, and makes you into a wreck.

@mcmasters1484

3 жыл бұрын

I agree that everyone who wants the position is a narcissist but to say they do nothing is a exaggeration

@stevem.o.1185

3 жыл бұрын

@@mcmasters1484 The US president is and always has been essentially a figurehead, much to Bush and Obama's chagrin. They definitely tried to extend executive power, but they didn't succeed. The fact that the USA is the only thing Trump has ever "controlled" yet never fully tanked basically proves it. The real power lies with the house, and it's sick that everyone complains about politics, but statistically almost never vote out incumbent senatorals/congressions. And you can't even vote in/out Supreme Courterinas. It's almost like votes mean nothing.

@neomcdoom

3 жыл бұрын

If you are like upper middle class or above you have power and agency over your own life.

@alexcypher4794

3 жыл бұрын

@@neomcdoom And Obama and the other presidents are far above that station, yet they seem to do nothing but spectacle. Their "power" never leaves this realm even as it serves as the vehicle for the interests of their class.

@Baseballnfj

2 жыл бұрын

@@stevem.o.1185 yeah.... a huge fucking problem with Congress is that congress refuses to use its extreme power because then they'd have to do something. Fucking Roe v. Wade should have been codified into law by Congress a long time ago but they'd much rather punt on those wedge issues and force the Supreme Court to handle it. The SC was not meant to decide social policy for the entire country... many Democrats love having the Sword of Damocles dangling over abortion rights in this country. It gets people to the polls.

The 'AM' of the AM supercomputer in 'I have no mouth and I must scream' actually stands for Acid Marxist

It's weird that, after 8 years of the Obama presidency, most people don't know who he is or what he stands for.

@blackdog9698919

Жыл бұрын

Hope and change, of course. I was only interested in Obama because I believed he was campaigning on universal healthcare. When that never actually materialized I stopped caring about him. I have liberal friends who still worship Obama, though, and it's really pitiful.

@theotherdude1998

Жыл бұрын

​@@blackdog9698919 who asked?

@beebgegegeg-xr3cm

Жыл бұрын

@@theotherdude1998 I’ve never seen someone ask this on a KZread comment 😂 You’ve broken my brain

@TheRedKnaveLP

10 ай бұрын

Going off his auto biography he's for Bi-Goth Girls and Calling Pete Buttchug gay and short.

@tactictoe

3 ай бұрын

​@@theotherdude1998I did

Banks:(Puts gun up to their own head) "gimme everything you own, or the old man gets it!" Obama: "This guy's serious, America. Just do what he says!"

obama go on chapo challenge

There is something particularly pathetic about being an ostensibly smart journalist, who is still young and physically attractive, but who - despite those advantages - lean fully into the kind of sycophantic pseudo-work that tends to mark the twilight-career of a "has-been, formerely great" reporter.

@91gamble31

3 жыл бұрын

LMAO beautiful

@shanedurban

2 жыл бұрын

I think you are being a bit harsh on Ezra. He is a smart guy with a big brain, and also not a dilettante. Ezra is a bit square but not in a David Brooks way.

@zhiguli8

2 жыл бұрын

That was the job description. MSM isn't looking for Ben Norton.

@Kelvinian

2 жыл бұрын

@@shanedurban That's damn charitable description for the guy who was inexplicably in love with Paul Ryan.

@shanedurban

2 жыл бұрын

@@Kelvinian Well, I don't know anything about that, but we need to be realistic. Chapo is really funny, but they are pretty nihilistic and don't exactly offer any ideas about governing (not that they are meant to) and are pretty all over the place in terms of who they attack. I also dont really think they go at Ezra too much here either, cant really remember. Ezra lives in the real world of politics and has to operate in it, he is not a too cool for school guy wearing sweatpants making a podcast. I love Chapo and think they are very funny and smart, but they are basically out of touch rich kid comedians who say whatever they want. I'd like to see them go after Matt Taibbi and his hypocrisy. Ezra is not the problem. IF you have ever listened to Ezras podcasts you will know that he is without a doubt the most sober minded and prepared interviewer out there. He is policy guy and that is job, and he does know what he is talking about. Anyway, good banter.

Ezra Klein lookin like Adam Friedlander lol

@orphaneduk5672

3 жыл бұрын

It's just Adam in disguise

@noidontlikeu

3 жыл бұрын

@@orphaneduk5672 it's Adam doing his best impression of Cool Adam

@Erwin.Clayton

3 жыл бұрын

Hell ya dude

I'm going to vote to "accelerate the endgame" from here on out. Thanks for the providing that valuable direction, Obama!

@Baseballnfj

2 жыл бұрын

Accelerationism seems like pretty rock solid logic to me!

@feydrautha012

2 жыл бұрын

@@Baseballnfj Yep, that's why we're expanding fracking and offshore drilling. Gotta get to that endgame, baby!

@Eamonshort1

2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately with neoliberalism the endgame accidentally results in most of us dead so they kinda check mated us there

@feydrautha012

2 жыл бұрын

@@Eamonshort1 Well, that's the joke, which I should have explained to Thomas here-there is nobody to vote for, at least in the final -R/ -D general election, that isn't the accelerationist choice.

Thank you AcidMarxist ive been binging all these videos for the past week.

"JD Vance is at 6 percent in the race for Senator from Ohio." Happier days.

Lol Felix's laugh at the end is unhinged

not a single word about the 5 wars he started.

@rivera229

2 жыл бұрын

Chapo talks about it all the damn time. Just because they don't talk about it this one time, you get suspicious?

@kyelemoler

2 жыл бұрын

@@rivera229 No. It's just a podcast.

@williamjameslehy1341

2 жыл бұрын

Obama was president for eight years (or, as a popular right wing meme inexplicably puts it, "over seven years"). It's hard to give an exhaustive list of all his misdeeds in 34 minutes.

I like them calling the Springsteen Obama podcast lol

Call of Obamathulu

I enjoy that Felix calls JD Vance for president at 20:15

Barry O was perhaps the most inconsequential president

@superchroma

3 жыл бұрын

He liked his drone strikes.

@HarryS77

3 жыл бұрын

William Henry Harrison? John Tyler? Grover Cleveland? JFK? Millard Fillmore? Come on.

@gaiusjuliuspleaser

3 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't say most inconsequential. He did draw a lot of white supremacists out in the open. If McCain or Romney had won their elections against him, I doubt we'd have ended up with Donald Trump. Of course, that's hardly his accomplishment.

@noidontlikeu

3 жыл бұрын

@@HarryS77 JFK by virtue of getting killed did more than Obama

@alanfulcher460

3 жыл бұрын

We are the mediocre Presidents, you won't find our faces on dollar or on cents!

Hearing them talk about Kamala Harris and JD Vance in 2024 is wild.

He is just another corporate ghoul

@feydrautha012

2 жыл бұрын

A bit more powerful though, I'd say a ghast rather than ghoul.

Uhhhh uhhh uhhhh together

Listening to Felix rant about how JD Vance is going to eat shit in the election is hilarious now but to be fair I thought the same thing. JD got the Trump endorsement and that was enough

is that adam F with obama?

Has that been photoshopped? He looks like he’s wearing W Bush’s wax mannequin face.

The only thing missing in this analysis is the squad's role in the sham. I will assume it is an unintentional oversight.

Barack Whosane Obama

Insightful. You may now enter the 7th chamber my children.

13:34 an unfortunate truth that victims of smearing campaigns can attest to, is that people appeal to the power structure for convenience and often lie to themselves about the necessity to do so. obama's failing here can be just as easily said for the 2016-2020 left's lack of direct outreach to gerrymandered communities in the forms of things as basic as rides (we lost key elections in districts where energy could have been singularly focused) and overfocus on placating conservatives temper and edge lording about not calling trump supporters dumb or racist, alienating the most consistent demographic thats, at least for the time being, the back bone of anything the left would want to accomplish, all of which resulted in more votes for trump by those placated conservatives in 2020.

2:01

Virgil groomxas

Ugh!!!!!!!!!!

No support for healthcare? Tf was the affordable care act?

@romanmanner

2 жыл бұрын

A shitty compromise that made ALL insurance more expensive, for everyone, while ensuring people couldn't sign up for it with websites that didn't work.

@williamjameslehy1341

2 жыл бұрын

A shittier, more right wing version of the healthcare scheme Mitt Romney came up with a few years prior. I.e. fining poor people for not buying obscenely overpriced private health insurance they can't afford.

It amazes me how perceptive and smart chapo can be about stuff like this, but then TOTALLY buy into the identity politics being used to distract us today. They’re so right on some issues and yet have completely stupid takes on other issues.

@blankblank2370

3 жыл бұрын

Wdym?

@ChewyThomson

3 жыл бұрын

Such as

@hegaliandialectics4289

3 жыл бұрын

by subscribing to identy politics do you mean that all their lingo and calls to action aren’t centered around revolution?

@lancenichols3542

3 жыл бұрын

Legitimately curious as to what you mean.

@mtlewis973

3 жыл бұрын

hate to be an echo in a cave here but this is fairly indecipherable

Is this supposed to be funny?

@williamjameslehy1341

2 жыл бұрын

What do you find funny? Jim Breuer and Greg Gutfeld?

@ryanking7532

2 жыл бұрын

@@williamjameslehy1341 who?

@Oceanmachine27

7 ай бұрын

No, this is incredibly serious sir

Chapo guys are just tankies who reflexively dislike their neoliberal superiors.

@grapeapetape9132

3 жыл бұрын

Jessie what the fu k are you taking about

@TheDiskoPanda

3 жыл бұрын

Sigma male detected

@logicNreason2008

3 жыл бұрын

Brian Kennedy? More like Lyin' Kennedy, amirite

@orphaneduk5672

3 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure they dislike Neoliberals because they are Neoliberals

@alexcypher4794

3 жыл бұрын

>"Superiors" Imagine accepting Ezra Klein as your superior