Ron Swanson Vs The Government | Parks and Recreation 

immediately i scrolled down in laughter to like this comment, before i even was sure of it's existence

@@IatAS They say great minds think alike

literally spit out my drink laughing

WHAT ABOUT THE FACT THAT HE HANDS A CLAYMORE TO A 9 YEAR OLD

Ron Swanson and Chris Traeger are my role models

not nowadays

using a mine to protect a given area is pretty universal

@@no1guy825 you would think so right?

@@no1guy825 found the gringo

Thank you founding fathers for the second amendment! With money and time spent on paperwork you can own claymore mines as a civilian. The only country in the world where the populous can own and use explosives on their own property.!

I mean, he isn’t wrong. 😂😂

Wrong show god damnit dwight

which bear is best?..... *WRONG* Black Bear

MICHALE!!!!

@@tylerdurden6574 Michael**

"It seemed appropriate at the time"

founding father of ancapistan

Aim front toward enemy 😂

Justin D correction , aim towards tax collectors

And when someone is breaking in: CONGRATULATIONS RON.

"Oh oh! Capital gains taxes!"

@@fasiistyrer Capitals gains is the one that's been hitting me right at home the last year and a half... I wonder what happened back then. 🤔

He likes children and will respect you if you listen and don't irritate him

One Andy equals two small girls. So, it's an equal relationship.

🧐

I never understood that scene. Why does he say "Bacon Wrapped Shrimp" then?

@@meinkungfu Maybe sometimes you're so very excited about something, that you have to just mention its name to others, for example.

And to think his name is Offerman

Sadly the days of being able to say that you built this property and maintain it, catch/hunt/grow your own food, and no one bothers me so leave me alone, are gone. If I was abe Lincoln I woulda stayed at the cabin, than try to go become president, I never understood why we escaped British royalty, only to become exactly like it There's vast swaths of land/wilderness all around south and north America to live more naturally in/cooperating communites but instead we hyper focus on populating in increasingly dense cities, because electricity and massive but few farms to try and feed all like even the flowers shops in all the different supermarkets across the country imported and fish farms and oil/gas etc. even maybe things like pistachios from the middle east, not to mention other Asian countries forced to sacrifice pollution and things for all the factories making things It's crazy But as trump said: america first. But why? Why must the whole worlds leaders agree to this?

And all the other massive amounts of fruits/vegetables we get that simply go to waste, piles upon piles of unpurchased bananas, mangos, plantains, odd vegetables etc. even deli meats and other things/sandwiches/chicken/salads that end up going on sale and even still don't get purchased Meanwhile the one homeless bum eats like a king the night it all gets thrown out

A claymore isn’t really a land mine, it’s a directional operator activated mine.

@@sevensixtwobyfiftyon technically this Claymore mine was filled up with balloons and confetti

@@jinkledarber8058 Bruh

He sees April as his daughter too

Wow you should become a psychologist

so perceptive

More like a dumb puppy

Brother

@Armchair Psycho I mean, keep in mind, at a Libertarian party debate during the 2016 election, people booed Gary Johnson because he supported driver's licenses existing. Driver's licenses. It's kind of hard to be much more absurd than being against needing people to know how to do something before doing it.

@@xxxdumbwordstupidnumberxxx4844 most libertarians just want small government not the break down of law and order so libertarianism is pretty exaggerated and misrepresented

@@ronanodonnell7145 Yes, but most politicians who describe themselves as Libertarians are Republicans, mostly because Reagan. The issue is, all that really happened under Reagan was that the budget was altered so that taxes went towards different departments, and that's pretty much what all libertarian Republicans have actually managed to do in regards to shrinking the government. And even then, Republicans haven't always been consistent about their small government and states rights ethos (see Washington D.C., as Jason Chaffetz tried to argue that D.C requiring congressional approval to do literally anything fits within the Republican ethos of states rights).

@@xxxdumbwordstupidnumberxxx4844 so i think we agree that the basis of libertarianism is the desire for small government

@@ronanodonnell7145 Yeah, I'm not disputing that. Most politicians who call themselves Libertarian, however, usually fail in that regard.

Your wife will be lucky

Don’t vote Democrat, then

@@BaldwinVoice Don't think i can, i don't live in the US

@@cristhianramirez6939 Shh they dont know that other countries can vote between more than 2 right wing parties at a time.

@@GinkgoPete Shh, Europe is useless, and after Russia decides to takeover in a few decades as they will be in complete control of all your power needs by then, we are gonna sit back and laugh while you cry for help.

We must find out what exactly he typed.

@@tommylyeah he would actually kill us if we found it out.

and that's why tor exists

perfect*

@@rawtrout3402 oh thought that was on purpose :P its so perfect its perrect :P

You might say that he totally ate her lunch.

Slash it

One of my favorite lines!

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Hi-fives

cope and paste

Season 1 was wild and mostly just a testing ground of what would eventually be Parks and Rec

He would have all votes Then he would burn USA government to the ground

No he wouldn’t. Ron Swanson is a classical liberal which is closer to modern day conservatism. The media would hate Ron. He would be for no healthcare, welfare, Medicare and any other government program

@@gabrielmcguoirk6106 the media hates Trump and he is doing fine. Also the actor is a liberal Ron Swanson is a libertarian

@@dankaiman2178 Yes, and that's what I said. A libertarian is a classical liberal. Both are based in the teachings of John Locke. Real conservatives, not the phonies we have today are closer to Ron Swanson than the Left.

Me to lol

@@soultaker840 to be fair there's a pandemic that people choose to ignore but businesses have to follow and that leads to loss in profit

LMAOOI

He was so excited!

I’m a little sad she wasn’t in like 20 episodes. It was comedy gold.

@@Lauren.E.O she died protecting her property dude.

And keeps the fake one

While I don't agree with everything Swanson believes, I do agree that government has gotten too big and needs to be dissolved and replaced with a smaller government that the People can keep in check

Welcome to the libertarian party

@@ReiseLukas ditto

"Do not do this cool thing" is a genuine problem.

We know what we're about

Thank you for your service

It is not a reasonable sentiment

@@wadedevinney5318 sanitation workers are more important than modern armed services in America. Thank your local garage man or woman

@@MM-qi5mk Ignoring how I disagree with you, the choice was not either thanking this guy *or* a garbage guy. The man served our country, so I’ll thank him. Also, who the hell do you think you are telling me who I should and shouldn’t appreciate?

@@wadedevinney5318 The only thing he served was his CO's manhood, and he would probably agree considering his initial comment. Come on man.

@no, as a matter of fact BIG GADEEM

@no, as a matter of fact Great comment mate. And I'm as pro-American as foreigners get. But they've got a problem; their right wingers are soooo right wing. And that makes the left that much more insufferable. I laugh at him, but I really appreciate a character like Ron. We all laugh at him, yet we also develop quite an affection for him. There's an element of that that's missing. It's in every country, that left/right divide. But nowhere is it more toxic than the U.S. The hard-right like to boast that if it came to civil war, they'd win-as they have all the guns. But Nato would intervene, probably NZ [where I come from] and Australia too. And they would join the Dems and the US military. I think having more characters like Ron, is a way the entertainment media can at least do something. His libertarian ideas are goofy, but you do like the man and having him around.

Vincent Morot skepta: hold my beer...

@Table-Country pinxing THRYM Firearms 27 It's very simple what I said. If you have problems following it: perhaps that's because you're one of the hard-right Republican nutjobs I mentioned? After all >peer reviewed science< confirms what the rest of us can intuitively see, the more right wing you are: the stupider you are. I have never, in my life: met a right wing intellectual. Not even once. I can post studies, if you like. Always happy to help.

except that time he had a hernia

He probably doesn't realize the documentary crew are even there (that or his instincts consider them harmless enough to ignore)

@@TheKersey475 He does tons of pieces to cameras. He even turned to them to "correct" himself at one point after accidentally revealing a private piece of information.

Secret: his name isn’t actually Ron Swanson, he made it up for the documentary so no one would know. It’s also a fake mustache 😂

That’s because we conservatives are way cooler than we’re made out to be, the media is constantly bashing conservatives/republicans, but in reality we’re all basically milder versions of Ron

@@joelkosinski5094 Conservatives are evil because we believe that people should be free to keep more of their money rather than funnel it to thousands of over inflated, over budget, behind schedule "public benefit" projects that don't end up living up to promises. John Stossel has some great videos highlighting some of these things. In my hometown the local government bought a couple miles of land with the intent to build a road. The land was purchased and the initial work was done in 1977, when I moved away in 2014 the road had had no work done to it in the 7 years I had lived there, shortly after the township decided to sell the land to a couple of housing developers who additionally bought the adjacent fields from local farmers. By the end of 2017 there were 3 new housing developments and the 4 mile stretch of road that had started in 1977 was completely finished, and that's what happens when you let greedy businesses run projects, they get done quickly so they can make money, and that to me is beautiful.

@@nunyabusiness4904 it really is, capitalism is the “tough love” of economic systems, you don’t work you don’t eat. And believe me, everyone wants to eat.

Just because he's Libertarian, doesn't mean Ron was conservative. Considering his views on race, gender, and sexuality, Ron struck me as a left-wing Libertarian, but it's kind of clear he was meant Libertarianism as a whole. Just as Leslie Knope represented the ideal government worker in general despite being seemingly a democrat. The first priority of the show was clearly the characters and the jokes, which is why it resonates with everyone and not just one big political message. 🙂 ... Also, as much as I love Ron, he was hardly the most sensible one and was frequently the most zaniest in his own way. (The clips we're watching here are supposed to depict Ron as an out of touch crazy person, for example.) Anne Perkins was the most sensible/sane person, but they all took a turn holding the sanity ball. Even Andy.

“Libertarianism is all about individual liberty and should never be defined by the terms Liberal or Conservative” Ron Swanson.

He’s actually based on a Simpsons writer named John Swartzwelder

If you think a character who is a parody makes good points, it just means you're an easy person to manipulate...

@@anfrex3342 The genius of the character as a parody is his actually being a disguise to share truth and educate those who need it.

@@anfrex3342 when the comments are oversimplified, like Ron's are, it could also mean that most people have never taken the time to think past the assertions, mostly due to preconceived notions. There are libertarian Nobel Prize winners, yet you rarely see them taught in schools. If we are talking about satire, we have Hayek, for instance, who was the most well-known opposer of Keynes, and is satirically presented in Epic Rap Battles as an unknown, while Keynes is a superstar.

@@anfrex3342 That's not what that means at all.

that would make april in love with her brother

So Andy is really the son-in-law whom he treats like a real son

But then they’ll a tel you yo hate greedy for not wanting to have your money go to programs that will end up not working. “Think of the poor people. That’s why we have to take your money.”

nah thats a great thing

Farmers have exemption from estate taxes. www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2021/april/less-than-1-percent-of-farm-estates-owed-federal-estate-taxes-in-2020/

I seriously cannot believe inheritance tax is a thing that exists, like the government literally wont allow you to Rest In Peace and leave what YOU want to your loved ones, i bet the government would steal the marrow from your bones if they could

@@joseaca1010 They do that too its just called organ harvesting

His hair is also combed to the left in first season and from season 2 is combed to the right. Maybe there is some pun in there (?)

Season 1 had yet to iron out the kinks

I had different clothing during the first season too.

@@justiceforall2580oo 99oooooooooo

@Quoc-Nam Nguyen one and two

@@maxchester6826 Just the image of that sends shivers down my spine. But such an abomination isn´t real, right? Please tell me its not real!!!!

@@ShadeScarecrow thats what they want you to think, you think your safe then BAM you turn into tammy

What really hot and unstoppable?

@@arlosteiner8382 woah dont you dare say that

@@antonkoshkin2234 most people have to work with government by law not by choice. The government is actually leaching off of private citizens to create fake jobs. And the only way they can pay for themselves is by butting further into your lives.

@@dash4800 the government is one big MLM, dissolve it

Government is still of necessity. Cmon, ppl who want to abolish it are foolish

@@willseest3732 of necessity to themselves. Free market Voluntarism's better lol.

I think she returned it at the end of the episode

No, Lauren's mom returned that landmine. Leslie had given birthday landmine from the very beginning.

Ron Swanson 2024

It would turn into a disaster quickly. Read some stuff on "libertarianism", that's basically what Ron is offering...

BlueSquirrel Why so serious ?

paul elliott I doubted you were serious, just checking :)

Well a man who can make a ring in 20 minutes and make incredible hamburgers is more worthy to be the leader of a country

@ I'm a libertarian

Lmaooo....for real bro like wtf😂😂😂

That snowballed into a big government nightmare. Oh if we could roll back the socialist ideals we'd be so much better off.

RIP America, Ron Swanson was right all along

Never why would you ask that?

Ron would refuse the presidency and literally sell the country to banks....or Chuck E. Cheese.

I’d rather have him than Biden

Most libertarians are like that. Pretty much everyone right of center engages in some sort of hypocrisy.

@@katanah3195 hahahahaha. Wow. Must be fun in your little echo chamber.

@@katanah3195 And leftists never do that...