Rigged elections have consequences.

We have a President like that. His name is Joe Biden. His Build Back Better offered climate action, imfrastructure, science, expansion of Obamacare, social care, childcare, universal pre-k, child tax credit and much more. Unfortunately, Manchin and Sinema torpedoed much of it and then the people voted in Kevin McCarthy as Speaker. And now we are paying the price.

Initially I would have said that in the past, these people couldn’t get past the committees that nominate presidents. Like what the DNC did to Bernie in 2016. But trump eventually getting the GOP ticket was interesting. I think republicans settled to make sure they wouldn’t get left behind. But trump isn’t a true outsider. He plays ball with all the special interest, in a different style, but plays ball all the same. Same swamp just different pecking order. Now what about someone like JFK. Flaws and all, to me, he really seemed to care about the romantic ideals of America. Wanted things to change, wanted to do things a better way. And what did that get him… a fatal splitting headache in a convertible in Dallas TX. All because he came across too much like an “ordinary citizen”.

They would never make it because Americans are idiots and whoever gets the most campaign contribution wins.

See Banker's Manifesto 1892

Well said! My friend. Well said

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I'm a Las Vegas local, too! I think your fear is one that a lot of locals share as well. I know it is one I have definitely experienced, especially during the uncertainty of the pandemic. Las Vegas is different than a lot of cities when it comes to jobs. The very life-line of Las Vegas is the SERVICE INDUSTRY (both on The Strip and off), and there is such a HIGH turn-over rate of people getting hired, fired, or quitting without notice. Your fear is 100% justified. Very best to you and yours as well, from another Desert Dweller!

They've all retired by now. I think Tom Harkin is the most recent to retire. Dodd retired after or before the 2012 election his last effort was the Dodd Frank bill on Banking regulation.

@Craig Bickerstaff - Sorry, my bad. Thanks for the correction.

Are you dumb. They’re all in their 80’s and 90’s now

+jaymorpheus11 That's Helen Thomas in the front row! How kind of her to agree to cameo for the movie.

+Cassandra Chaya Khan hey u know what is the moral lesson of this movie?

+jaymorpheus11 hey bro u know what is the moral lesson of this movie?

Wont get it from Biden or should i say 'the big guy'. 47 years in the swamp. Biden is all in with Bob Alexander.

Trump is the man

I love also how Oliver Stone is able to poke fun at himself as well

thats exactly what i was thinking

The term "Conspiracy theory" was made up by people that want others to not pursue the truth. To embarrass them and make fun of them. Oliver Stone made a movie about JFK that made all the sense in the world, and before the movie he was talking about it for a long time, so naturally he was describer by advocate of conspiracy theories.

@@ame7272 the term “conspiracy theory” was coined to describe the ideas of people who lack critical thinking skills. JFK was a mess on nonsense.

My head canon is that in-universe, the public will look back on the radical change of policy in the later half of this presidency and attribute it to his first stroke.

More than likely, the local library has a copy or will get it for you.

PrimeWire has it on line for free

Erik Nelson well said.

I think he was a Democrat

It doesn't matter what the party is, it doesn't matter who the person is, it's who they've sold out to. Back then there were limits on how much could be donated so corporations concentrated on buying out one party - the Republicans. When Citizens United removed those limits, they could buy out both parties and it wouldn't matter to them who won. Bribe the lawmakers, legalise bribery.

@@shawnjohnson9763 The Republican says "I've been carrying water for this guy for so long." I think that means President Mitchell was a Republican.

@@timothyhh well. I don’t think this movie spent a lot of time focusing on it. The director didn’t want to divide his audience in that way. But I think he was supposed to be democrat. And that’s not necessarily supposed to be positive. But a lot of stuff mirrored Bill Clinton who just took office at the time. There were rumors that Hillary and Bill’s relationship was a lot like the real President Mitchell and First Lady’s relationship. President Mitchell was banging his staff, and even though this was before the Monica Lewinski affair… there were still those stories about Gennifer Flowers and Paula Jones. With that said… a lot of this was based on the promise of hope and echoed a lot of Clinton’s messaging at the time.

I know! I walk away from that little scene thinking, “At least I know Oliver Stone has a great sense of humor!”

+gdub454 hey bro u know what is the moral lesson of this movie?

Key word is find

They also tried it in Germany, in 1930 something. It worked great.

Not to mention Britain with their workhouses. I wonder how many times in history this has been presented as a brand new idea that no one's ever tried before.

@@erentheca to be fair, the conservatives and anti-democrates who run the country under Brüning made it easy for Hitler when they decided to deflate, deflate and deflate (and by that put every third men out of labour and many more under wages no one could live by). TROIKA-STYLE Baby!

Yeah 30 years ago having a job meant you could pursue some of your own happiness not that you’d have to dedicate your whole life to the position and not even make enough to feel like you’re not scraping by. People want to work but they also want their work to be valued and reap dividends.

Nobody wants to work, or nobody wants to hire anybody to work? Jobs are getting cut by the millions, even those that fully dedicate themselves to their jobs are being treated like expendable assets by their bosses/executives, and being cut loose when they're deemed "unnecessary".

There is one smaller difference - nobody wants to work for a wage that can't provide you a decent lifestyle. Better yet nobody wants to work 4 jobs just to scrap the lower middle class line. That's the essence of the problem. 🤔😌

We did but he made the same mistakes that Dave here is making. And he learned the hard lesson about what's come to be known as the "Deep State", nobody in Washington DC actually wants to change things for the better, and they will all conspire against you if you try to shake up the status quo for actual beneficial change. That's why this film is a fantasy, a comedy, and could never happen in real life.

From Vince on A Fish Called Wanda to William Hundert in The Emperor's Club. Fantastic range.

even if you have no agenda

John M Yeah we got one of those, John...

That's why it takes ALL of us TOGETHER to run this country - at least, properly.

Glutton for punishment, sociopath or a total shortage of bleeps to give

2 Thessalonians 3:10 “For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.” If someone doesn't want to work, then let them starve. I sure as hell am not giving another cent to someone who won't find gainful employment. I'd even support requiring beggars to get a permit to be able to do it! Make the permit free, but have the place where you go get the permit be in the unemployment office and require that they attend 3 job interviews before they can get their beggar card.

Pple want to work; They just want a living cost to feed their family instead have to work 3 jobs just to pay rent

@@tylerdurden639 that's fine until you pass laws that make it illegal to try to provide for yourself and then tell you if you don't work for someone else then you starve. that's how revolutions start. If you tell a people that they have to do what YOU want them to do or they starve, i'm pretty sure they can come up with some pretty creative alternatives that you probably aren't going to be particularly happy with.

We have a lot of unemployed in our area. We all want to work. This seems to be true throughout the country. But, increasingly, employers are questioning employees about their political or religious beliefs or looking them up on social media and if they don't match the employer's beliefs, the employee's work is sabotaged and then they're let go as substandard. The political and religious divide is effecting jobs too. No agency is taking these cases. Plus, it's difficult to prove, since a lot of it is done behind closed doors. And then they say nobody wants to work anymore to cover for not hiring people outside their political eligious group. I've lost five jobs when they asked if I was a Christian and I said no. And Christians who are a different denomination than the dominant one are also losing jobs. It's so prevalent that you'd have to turn the whole county in. And there's a group that wants to raise the minimum wage that is spreading the idea that people don't want to work for the wages offered, but it's just a response to the "nobody wants to work" fiction that supports their agenda. We need work. We're willing to work. But even if we change our political party and convert to Christianity, there would still be limits to our employment and ability to survive. There's also a movement that claims that unemployed people are worthless and so many employers will only hire people who are employed elsewhere. A constitutional amendment to make being able to get a job a constitutional right, regardless of political party or religion or any other factor would prevent discrimination or help to do that. It's already an international human right along with housing in other developed countries. We are too far behind.

It seems there actually is a few percent who don’t want one actually, but would rather have a check for doing absolutely nothing. And they get it. But the pay still isn’t that great. And the % isn’t huge, but it exists.

I think they had to keep it that way to make the conspiracy plausible. An ambitious Chief of Staff and his subordinate Press secretary is somewhat believable, but if you have the Secretary of State, Defense, Treasury, etc. etc. all in there and somehow not noticing its a different person, it stretches credibility a bit.

@@pietrpiepir6444 I'm not talking about cabinet members, who are usually off running their own departments and not interacting daily with the president. I'm talking people who actually work in the White House, like the Communications Director and the National Security Advisor.

I LOVE the movie very much, a modern version of The Prisoner of Zenda. Thanks for uploading this clip

I love the movie. When we had HBO back in the day and this was on while I was flipping through, I'd watch it. It's a classic 90's situation comedy movie.

This movie is a gem

The key phrase is "those who want one" people miss that and just assume he's going to put everyone to work. There are people who don't want to work and shouldn't be forced to, but those who want to but have no clue as to where to start or start looking are worth trying to help. That was the goal of his plan and it's one that should be explored.

Not really him. A lookalike from the other side of the looking glass. Good try though.

It's 2016... Trump wants to give Americans Jobs... Does this sound familiar?

www.nydailynews.com/news/national/u-s-unemployment-rate-falls-lowest-level-17-years-article-1.3608750

EAS NJ historic white privilege is white welfare

money.cnn.com/2018/06/01/news/economy/may-jobs-report/index.html The jobless rate ticked down to 3.8% in May, another sign of the strong economy and tight labor market. That tied the lowest unemployment rate since 1969. Since then, the only other time unemployment was this low was in April 2000.

Obama, Clinton, H.W. Bush, Carter, LBJ, JFK, Eisenhower, Truman, FDR, Wilson, Roosevelt, Lincoln... There are plenty of great Presidents. If any one of these great movie Presidents were real Presidents you wouldn't think they were so great anymore. Especially Jed Bartlett from The West Wing, he seemed great because we knew him behind the scenes. We saw his motivation and what drove him. In reality he accomplished very little on that show and made a lot of disappointing decisions.

They were real Senators, retired mostly Tom Harkin being the most recent to leave.

EAS NJ white generational privilege

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It's 2019... Trump is getting the job done.

@@mr6johnclark What job? Running everything into the ground, like his bankrupt casinos?

@@Stinkehundthat would be Biden. Look at those gas prices and inflation!

Your prerogative. Maybe lowering corporate taxes - which are simply passed on to the consumer anyway - will induce you to stay.

zizwop Ah total bs. FDR sank the economy and caused the Depression to continue till WW2.

It's been proven that the New Deal didn't do anything to the economy, but it did have the affect of boosting people's spirits. Data shows that America didn't fully leave the Great Depression until 1945, after four years of war.

Okay, here's the deal: The tea party was a bunch of people that were duped by people with heavy influnce like the Koch family. That's why the things the tea party said made no sense (like the extra scrutiny from the IRS). They were just people that were following the orders of the corporate world and never were actually interested in change. It was almost like the tea party were low level peasants doing the bidding of the Kochs. Being part of the tea party didn't make you an idiot, but listening to the orders of your corporate bosses did make you dumb because you were not doing it for yourself. You took the side of billionaires and made things worse for at least 10 years.

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