General Motors Can’t Defeat Ralph Nader (feat. Jason Schwartzman) - Drunk History 

He also prevented the replacement of fossil fuel burning in the US for decades by massively amplifying the anti nuclear power movement, claiming nuclear power would advance overpopulation and convincing people that nuclear reactors could explode like nuclear bombs, and spreading theories that there was a conspiracy among the scientific community to downplay the dangers of nuclear reactors despite still today it consistently being shown to be the safest form of power by far. Millions of lives have been lost to the coal, oil, and gas burned to provide power that was planned to be replaced by nuclear reactors, but got blocked by Nader's lobbying bloc. It was effectively the equivalent to global warming denialism for its time and has directly contributed to the crisis currently at hand.

@@infantjones Kind of a fair point, but as of yet we STILL don't have a viable high-yield replacement for fossil fuels that isn't radioactive, so I don't think it really matters all that much. Now, if we had discovered zero-point energy within a few years of Nader's efforts, then I would agree with you.

@Theomite Why is it being radioactive relevant? That's not exactly a big issue. Nuclear power was then and still is the cleanest, safest, and most reliable form of power available.

aka the best kind of recognition. IDK about you, but I'm not in favor of a power system that creates waste byproducts so bad we have to jam them into a mountain, and come up with ways to tell people to stay away from it for 10,000+ years

@Grace Shiflett Every source of power produces waste, nuclear produces the least waste by every metric, and as such is very easy to control. This is exactly why nuclear power has the least deaths per unit of energy of /any/ power source by a wide margin. Lead, cadmium, arsenic, etc. from the mining and production process for solar panels, for example, is immensely more voluminous and far less controlled, while being just as dangerous as nuclear waste on a gram-per-gram basis. These leech into groundwater and slowly poison people, not to mention all the other harms from the massive mining industries required to sustain wind and solar power production. Nuclear power is the ONLY power source where we're able to completely control all of its resultant waste, which is a huge advantage. Further, the idea that they need to be dealt with for thousands of years is nonsense, within a few generations they're barely any more dangerous than naturally occurring concentrations of high-grade uranium ore. Within just 50 years of a fuel bundle being removed from a reactor, its radioactivity is down to only 1% of its initial value. Lead, arsenic, and cadmium are just as dangerous 10 million years down the line as they are at 1 year.

I love how he abandoned his cart and just ran off. 😂

That's really interesting.

Wait what was he protesting?

Jafroboy the right to drive an unsafe car, I guess.

Deregulation is by far the greatest thing to have happened to both the airline industry & its consumers b/c for the past couple of decades , flying is infinitely cheaper & safer than back then

bigmedge Yeah, deregulation of the CDC has done wonders for the US’s pandemic response... 😒 At least flying is... oh wait, the newest 737 Max was grounded after over 350 people were killed. At least deregulating Wall Street didn’t have any drawback-, oh wait, there was that pesky economic recession in 2008. Do you have any examples that don’t end in deaths or economic disaster?

John Marler truly Nader is one of the last great advocates for the American people. To this day he is preaching to us to hold on Congress and other elected officials accountable and teaching people the tools to do so. His radio program, The Ralph Nader Radio Hour, is a constant source of inspiration and knowledge.

​@@BGcam After he spent the 2010s trying to convince Michael Bloomberg and Rand Paul to run for President, who represent pretty much everything he spent the 20th century fighting.

And didn't he also help establish Consumer Reports??

His name is Richard Riehle

Agreed. Honestly, as a gay guy I think that dog would have been a way more compelling way to woo Nader. So cute!

That is exactly the same tone I use when I tell my dog for a car ride

Dog was like... What's going on Master? U ok?

agreed, they should do the Powell Memorandum (issued as a response) at some point

HA! I hadn't noticed.

I especially love the Mexican treats rack behind them!

@@VianneyCreates Que delicioso!

Drew Reich I was looking for this comment

@@quintinkrivacek9800 Me too, was going to make it if somehow no one else had yet.

Don't jump to conclusions

@@neilcheeseburger Amazing!

His owner is a dick

Never heard of it but sounds awesome!

That's actually Richard Riehle the guy who played Tom Smykowski in office space. Diabetes guy is actually Wilford Brimley so different actor.

@@scifisy that's not that guy either. that's bill murray's brother brian doyle-murphy. i still have a small puddle of shit in my underwear that i haven't dealt with yet, so i'm not one million percent on it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I know right? It's always General fuckin' Motors!!! So tired of this shit!!

Mick Jelsma accidents happen regardless of the skill of the driver. The point is to minimize the damage to the drivers and passengers of cars with simple measures that car manufacturers could have taken at any time if they weren’t greedy sociopaths.

@@BGcam Thank you for the heads up on design. That isn't the point; the point is Ralph's a lying sack of shit.

Craig Cackowski

Is it Heaven or Hell if you're watching constant RU-vid videos?

Lucas Liso no not really

ur right!!!!!!!!

@Loes C you're a moron.

Why would he help Gore if he belonged to another Party and didn't believe in Gore's politics 🤔 He was as diametrically opposed to Gore as he was to Bush's politics.

Yeah I'm not sure Bernie would've turned down a free ride

other way around

@Jay Rock Jinx lol lump sums. Sure, but between those lump sums are lies about Russia, Venezuela, Israel, and The Democratic party. If only his lump sums were combined into a single lump sum then maybe he'd have the balls to stand up to his bullies. Instead he's just another weak on purpose Democrat.

@Jay Rock Jinx If Bernie Sanders had integrity people like you wouldn't support him.

Prove me that Bernie doesn't have integrity, you can't

Actually, he rightly pointed out that the democrats were a bunch of corporate bitches who could not be trusted to do good... and now in the Age of Bernie we see that is the truth and can thank Nader for his forward thinking once again. Gore lost because he would not fight.