Video Debrief #2: Jon Stewart
Added 2025-01-03 03:08:31 +0000 UTChere's some stuff i cut out of my last Jon Stewart video and a bit about why i made this video
0:00 - intro, why i made yet another jon stewart video and how i feel about it
6:19 - evolution on gaza coverage
36:29 - on immigration and climate change
39:42 - more about sellers' inflation
49:58 - reactionary mind and the curtis yarvins of the world
1:01:13 - david sanger interview about imperialism
1:09:58 - concluding thoughts
Comments
I am just now coming across these videos and you nailed it. I don't think you were too hard on him at all, this is exactly what they're missing about things. Brilliant!!!!
J. Smith
2025-03-28 20:22:26 +0000 UTCI should warn you that your position that 2% inflation is too high is the position of former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan as he oversaw policies that kept Americans underemployed and enriched Capital in pursuit of that policy.
Ryan Rowekamp
2025-01-08 23:51:47 +0000 UTCGood note about the grocery stores, but here are some more pedantic details too! Albertsons and Kroger were in the process of the largest grocery merger in US history until less than a month ago and Trader Joe's is also a plaintiff in the case going up to the Supreme Court challenging the constitutionality of the NLRB: https://www.epi.org/blog/whats-behind-the-corporate-effort-to-kneecap-the-national-labor-relations-board-spacex-amazon-trader-joes-and-starbucks-are-trying-to-have-the-nlrb-declared-unconstitutional/ I never could find an easy way to talk about Stewart's brother being the NYSE COO without sounding like it was a pot shot or armchair psychology. But I do think it provides interesting context
Skip Intro
2025-01-06 20:20:12 +0000 UTCPedantic details: Safeway is owned by Albertsons; QFC and Fred Meyer are Kroger. In Seattle we also have a few boutique local chains (Metropolitan Market, Town & Country, PCC), and of course there's Trader Joe's (which I think has a much better reputation than it deserves) and, to a lesser extent, WinCo, which is the wife and I's regular shopping spot. Noting of course the the boutique chains and WinCo are effectively unavailable in the food deserts of the non-gentrified parts of the city. The unemployment numbers are so heavily rigged as to be essentially meaningless and have been since Reagan, so anyone who uses them should be considered to be speaking gibberish by default. I didn't know that about Stewart's brother, but I think you're right in that it explains quite a bit about his baseline position on things. It probably also goes a long way towards explaining why he gives his platform to so many objectively terrible people.
Craig H
2025-01-05 19:42:45 +0000 UTC
