Current Events > Jon Stewart interviews Obama/Clinton admin economist Larry Summers

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Corporate goon for sure

End the Fed

I've been seeing so much Jon Stewart interviews on tiktok. I never saw his stuff before now and I love the guy.

I used to think my classmates were idiots for wanting Jon Stewart to be president. Now I realized I'm the idiot for not knowing how corrupt/incompetent the rest is.

Jon Stewart needs to run for president.

his podcast is great too.

Chicken posted...

I've been seeing so much Jon Stewart interviews on tiktok. I never saw his stuff before now and I love the guy.

His Apple TV show is pretty great, mainly because he talks like a "normal" person and, I know people hate this term, but has no problem "both sides-ing" an argument.

He'll take anyone to task, regardless of political affiliation.

The job of these people is to cut off any path forward that involves even a whiff of reduced profit, economic power, or political power for capital. Those must be presented as laughable, unthinkable, and not worthy of discussion. At the same time any amount of pain to be suffered by working people is acceptable, and it's the only way.

If labor is causing 1/3rd, supply chains 1/3rd, and corporate profiteering 1/3rd, all pain MUST be dumped on labor, there's simply no other way to organize things. Inflation must be presented as something that can only be addressed through monetary policy, which means only through the Fed, which means only through higher interest rates, which means only labor will feel the pain.

He says in one breath that he's doing this to save the purchasing power of minorities and people without college educations, but ignores that they're not gonna have much purchasing power when they're the first fired in the recession they're intentionally causing. He does the same thing with labor power as if they're not explicitly pledging to cap and break labor power.

Profits are untouchable, protected by a reality distortion field, labor is free real estate.

Lol at his attempted gotcha moment at the 5:40 mark when he brings up Jon gouging his salary and Apples value.

Why does he say?

Jon's not wrong.

bigblu89 posted...

His Apple TV show is pretty great, mainly because he talks like a "normal" person and, I know people hate this term, but has no problem "both sides-ing" an argument.

He'll take anyone to task, regardless of political affiliation.

I will forever hold him in high regard for regularly debating, hosting, and being hosted by O'Reilley back when he was still doing the Daily Show. Just a consumate professional, through and through.