Freaky Friday Politics: Republicans And Democrats Keep Switching Positions
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- čas přidán 14. 05. 2017
- Democrats and Republicans are pivoting on issues faster than a bipolar swing dancer on a merry-go-round. Republicans are now big government protectionists. Democrats support free trade and states' rights. It's like the two parties switched bodies! It's almost as if... they were FREAKY-FRIDAYED!
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Starring Andrew Heaton
Written by Sarah Rose Siskind
With writing assistance from Andrew Heaton and David Fried
Edited by Austin Bragg and Sarah Rose Siskind
Produced by Meredith and Austin Bragg
Theme Song: "Frozen" by Surfer Blood
“And polling at 2%. *That’s* consistency!”
Brilliant.
Ouch, that hurt. lol
"When I went to college there were only two options: Democrat, or Virgin."
Lmfao
another phrase with the same meaning, "when i went to college there were only two options: pregnant at an early age, or republican."
So true
"I guess you could say I've been a Democrat three times"
*high five*
"What happened to consistency?!" *changes suit*
loved it
every time he said "consistency" something changed - suit, tie, eye-patch, person.
Did you notice the stubble?
he shaved too
If this was a 30 minute show, I'd watch it.
I'll take it over John Oliver
Unlike Democrat party operatives posing as comedians, libertarian comedians are actually funny.
Andrew Heaton: consistently pretty funny.
The selling organs joke killed me. I've never laughed this hard.
Its not a joke...
careful not to rupture the spleen...but if you do, I might know a guy.
joke?
"... polling at 2%, that's consistency." Sad, true, and delivered hilariously!
"I'm ethnically Republican." That line killed me
So what would a person born in Connecticut to a father, who is a registered republican from Virginia who volunteered for the army and served 2 combat tours in Vietnam and a mother, who is a registered democrat from Massachusetts with a masters degree in speech & language pathology, be called?
Personally I am going with "product of a mythological age". (you know, that time when a democrat and a republican could actually have civil conversations with each other, amongst other things) As I am not a big fan of the phrase "mixed party". :P
Politics, comes from two words “Poli,” meaning “Many,” and “Tics,” meaning “Blood Sucking Insects.”
I want “spending will still stay high, wires will still stay tapped, and I will never find true love” on a shirt
I WANT MORE ANDREW HEATON DAMMIT!!!!
He has podcasts now
If you upload these weekly, I watch them all (mostly).
Dear God this is amazing
Love how he shaved and got in a new suit after he talked about “consistency”. It’s that kind of subtlety that made this series so hilarious.
I miss this segment so much! Bring it back!
I have watched so many of these, this one has to be my favorite.
"Consistency is important"
*everything keeps changing*
We need this more frequently!
so sad when you see the man of your dreams say he'll never find true love... lol
Bring this back, Reason!
I can't put my finger on it, but something about this guy has changed. :D
This is the best one of these yet.
They're really Heaton up...
As long as they’re for decriminalizing sex work for adults acting of their own volition then I’m all for them, and for government staying out of our personal lives in general.
and polling at 2% (or less). says it all.
Hurray for strategic voting and lack of mainstream media presence.
Howard White I wouldn't trust those polls
Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
Suddenly during Election Day, everybody acts like a military general doing strategic calculations, despite having no on the ground experience, and not being smart either.
Still awesome and relevant even more than a year later.
BRING BACK MOSTLY WEEKLY!
Poor Andrew Heaton, we love you!
The change of suits at the consistency mark was fantastic
2:00
Anybody else catch the joke?
Well done reason, well done.
(Stubble on face "consistency is important!"
Very next sentence his stubble is gone.
Gold.
Subtle, delicious, comedy gold.)
Awesome post thanks !!!!
Loved this video!
Consistently great.
If someone offered me 10 million for one of my kidneys... I would consider it.
I still have no idea why I find all of these so funny
This video came out 3 years ago but it KEEPS HAPPENING
This is a criminally underwatched video.
I know, I know, no victim no crime.
1:00 > CONSISTENCY
> next moment changes the jacket
I am dead
P.S.
Ouch, when you repeated and highlighted that joke I feel like I've got kicked out of club
Thank you for the notification....5 years later
Easily the best thing on the internet.
love this new bit series
This show ending is one of the greatest tragedies of the last year! #mostlybringthisshowbackmaybe
2:57 - Don't worry, I love you.
Polling at 2%, ha ha ha ha ha.
Good Stuff!
At 1:55 "consistency is important!" *Flips to tie wearing, clean shaven, different camera zoom* 😂 nice joke there!
2:26 is even better hahaha
3:33 and just when I thought they couldn't top last time :P
I love this! Its the best
Mark Cuban is not the best shark on shark tank, how dare you.
also republicans were never states rights, they just pretended to be. can't think of any issue they actually wanted to be up to the states besides Medicaid expansion which they only supported because they knew red states would go against it. Republicans are the same as democrats when it comes to using big government to enforce their policies on the entire nation.
what about abortion, gay marriage, and capital punishment?
2:55
Don't feel too badly.
Love isn't an emotion.
Hate is an emotion, and so is happiness, peace, comfort, and anger.
Love is a behavior.
Love is a way of life.
Love is putting everything you have into ensuring somebody who makes you unbelieveably angry has safety, so the comfort and peace of the person you hate most comes at your voluntary expense.
I love the Libertarian ideology. Too bad the party sucks.
This was hilarious; I'm dying laughing over here.
This was great
Brilliant
the more you should know thing cracked me up
I'm so old I remember when republicans used to have wholesome homosexual sex scandals and democrats heterosexual ones. Now everyone in DC is so old there are no sex scandals whatsoever
......did he shave halfway through the video??😂
Good points, funny style.
True & funny.
It's almost as if at 2:28 Andrew predicted Dan "McCain 2.0" Cringeshaw being totally inconsistent on the first amendment.
It's almost like they don't matter
Need this to come back. Like, yesterday.
1:40 Still one of the best lines ever said
LOOOL. Awesome.
This was the only good show on Reason TV
3 years old and still on point.
Gary Johnson FTW!
What happened to consistency? ~Suit changes~
FUCK why did it take me so long to find this channel? LMFAO
After I clicked "subscribe" a bunch of suggested NEWS channels came up lol
I don't even laugh this hard at fail videos o me gosh................
Except my former governor Gary Johnson. He turned into an ignorant Democrat during the election last year...
Did you change outfit 3 times in this video? And shave? Ahhhh I get it now ;)
Hey! My liver is worth at least $80k. Well... maybe 40. Damn, I still need it. Have a kidney.
I just call them the one and a half party system, or the demoblicans and repucrats. Massive spending indeed.
Yeah, we're spending far too much no matter who gets in.
I'm a vegetarian and a libertarian. Am I alone?
The real reason why Yes, Minster referred to the two parties as The Government and The Opposition was so it had the freedom to mock both sides. Personally, I just saw it as Bernard not wasting the brainpower on remembering who's in power, because he's a civil servant, and it doesn't really matter to a civil servant. All that matters is the Government and the Opposition/
Sees title, "No they don't." I'm interested.
Oh shit these are good
You should have a big tv show
Does anyone have any butter? Or a table saw?
Politus parteké means food shape
"Consistency is important"
1st time - did a double take, laughed
2nd time - smirked
3rd time - cringe, eye patch really? is your audience so stupid that you insult them by shoving it up their faces?
4th time - laughed again. the complete swap 10/10
Btw, sarcasyic is Yiddish for painfully, sardonically and cheeky good.
hilarious
Nice Laphroaig at 1:10
these are still funny
Fucking love this guy
He speaks of the importance of consistency, but he changed outfits near the beginning of the video.
Reminder that watching this the second time I noticed this detail a second time forgetting I noticed it the first time and I went to comment about how funny it was. I think I’m stupid
Building seven.
I AM DEFINITELY A LIBERTARIAN.
Ti voglio bene, siempre!
Andrew, it looks like you put on a little weight, at the end.
LoveTruthClassic Y>Gen Rant..Quite Humorus
Doacid>
1:32
Funny video. I used to be a libertarian, and then Friedman died and libertarians subsequently forgot that open borders + welfare state = hell on earth. Now I'm a libertarianish leaning conservativish Republican voter who hates Republican voters, conservatives, and libertarians equally. To top it all off I would rather hoagie slap a cactus than vote Democrat. Now if you'll excuse me, this shotgun barrel is looking mighty tasty.
Open borders is good for trade good for jobs and good for the economy. Only economic illiterates would oppose open borders
Open borders means more socialist leaning voters flooding into the country and destroying liberty. Get real dude.
*picks the mic back up*
What?
Basically Libertarians want people who vote against libertarian ideology consistently on every issue to swarm the country. This group of anti libertarians also breeds prolifically which is important since politics of parents are closely linked to politics of the children. Basically if Libertarian dreams of open borders actually worked California would not be a one party system where communists are openlywelcomed into the government.
Borders came first and make the welfare state possible.
Smash the borders, smash the welfare state.
1:51 Andrew Heaton is bi confirmed
This is a hoot: the ad placed by CZcams at the end of the video is Trump re-election spot.
Sorry, Donnie... I'll be voting 3rd party again.
Freaky Friday Politics: Republicans And Democrats Keep Switching Positions
You look just like Benedict Cumbersnatch, HOW ARE YOU AND YOUR WRITER NOT MORE FAMOUS YET?!
moar
LoveTruthWars were worth every Penny..just for that Photo of Saddam..Einstein of BabylonLoveLife
I guess I have no heart. (17 moderate republican)
No, you're just a virgin
@@tedarcher9120 HA GOTTEM nice burn my 12 year old friend
Eh, even Hayek ultimately conceded some degree of safety net is pro-liberty. Even libertarians are dipping their toes in the pool of political reality and support things like UBI or land-value taxes in the name of expediency.
While somewhat different than the contrarian Dem/Rep divide, at least it has the possibility of a workable solution so libertarians can poll closer to 5%.
I could be optimistic that this will mean the major parties can split the difference and actually approach the mantle of governance, but it seems both are hellbent to incorporate the worst aspects of each into a flaming pile of sewage that even libertarians will be reluctant to tear down.
It's the age of high school drama as political discourse.
UBI is a reason to keep the IRS around and in pretty much the shape it's in right now. Experiment with it in liberland to a a sponsoring billionaire's heart's content if you choose to do so, but keep BI out of the tax code and out of a bureaucrat's arsenal.
And cut the tax code.
Only if you completely lack any imagination in its implementation (one proposal I've seen is to set it as a percentage of GDP and a check is issued. No IRS needed).
The bigger point is libertarians see it as a means to reduce the size and scope of the welfare state, and possibly as a waypoint to dismantling it outright, even though it is antithetical to some libertarian ideals.
I see you completely missed the land value tax part.
@quintessenceSL
i. I interpret your referenced proposal to mean the gov't would ID a set proportion, say 10% of GDP, tax and appropriate that amount and cut checks. You'd still need a bureaucracy to investigate income receipts and police check theft and tax evasion. The IRS scandals of the past years were awful, but it seemed like only a fringe misery to the main business of the Bureau.
ii. *Some* libertarians see it as a means to reduce the size of the welfare state, but I'm sure you understand that doesn't make them automatically correct. I am wary for the following reasons.
Means-testing is used to weed out cheaters and bums in today's welfare system because even social safety hammock apologists realize that welfare is an incentive to laziness. Why wouldn't a UBI incentivize leisure and idleness beyond the vaguely pitiable categories welfare is slopped out for already? This is the big picture hurdle for its abstract operation.
The practicalities is that the economy loses the productivity of all people who's jobs just before implementation yielded a net pay at, below and perhaps just above the BI. Morally, it's antithetical to a culture of personal responsibility, as well as the standard that government needs to keep its nose out of my business until I hurt someone or take their stuff. In short, a lot to pay for some dubious savings.
iii. I've never heard of the land value tax, so I didn't miss it, it just didn't stoke my ire. A quick look at wikipedia makes it seem better than consistently gold standard of property taxes, but I'll just have to meditate on that more.
iv. I think I'm not a doctrinaire reactionary. I favor liberty because of its practical association with entrepreneurship. I think wage subsidies for low-skilled, short-work-history employees are a superior option than basic income to the persistent problem of poverty, especially if the subsidy is paid by a private charity. If you are interested in judging that kind of effect from its guts, you might want to look into the work of Peter Cove.
ii.i The contemporary problems of UBI include the powerful constituencies for various avenues of welfare that are so often analogized with third rails.
Interesting. You are critical of UBI for the supposed increases in overhead it will cause, while supporting subsidies for low earning workers, apparently oblivious to the increased overhead in verifying work history. How does that work? And hand-waving private charities to fill in the gaps is just as asinine as hand-waving government to fill in the gaps.
And you continually interject requirements (investigate income receipts, etc.) for the implementation of UBI without showing your work as to why it is required. Excuse me if I completely ignore your suppositions on this.
I'll assume you are not currently on the dole, so might I inquire what keeps you working, and how this wouldn't apply to others?
The main point was that some libertarians have noted 40 years of consistently polling at 2% might imply there might be some deficiencies with the approach, and perhaps some measured concessions are in order if it will mean getting rid of the minimum wage, ending social security, and most welfare programs. Apparently there hasn't been much inroads on these, and much to the chagrin of many government has continued to expand despite the imploring of the 2%.
I have to imagine the major parties are similarly looking to increase their ranks to end the current deadlock, although doing it in the most half-assed fashion possible.
nick gillespie is gorgeous.
Look at positions on HEALTH CARE...
Where is the reversal?
45von trump care
45von Saying he was for socialized medicine, then a free market with less boundaries, then endorsing a plan that's not too different from Obamacare.