When the Greeks 2000 years ago said the biggest weakness of democracy is that it only elevates people who are good at winning elections and not actual governorship and people still havent learned to stop elevating people who are only good at winning elections.
A big part of the issue is our 2 party system, where politicians choose their candidates based on money and popularity. It leads to party over country. We need to reform campaign finance and institute Rank Choice Voting to fix this.
@@pandapouncethat’s not what they’re saying at all, they’re saying we need to make sure we’re electing people who are good at the job, not just charismatic(sometimes) people who are good at winning elections
if only their choice didn't affect us and they could 'choose your own adventure' on their own!! like that ending. just fully get whatever is coming. and that we don't have to do it WITH them.
@@modernorpheus that’s some insulting to Pennywise. I think even he wanted one to turn into that moronic sex offender.😂 anyways might lose brain cells from that lol
I sincerely hope that if Trump is defeated again, that we won't have to rehash this scenario again in four more years. I'm not a democrat, but my God, we have to return some sanity to our politics. We don't all have to agree on everything, but the MAGA circus has to end now! If more damage is done by Trump, we only make it harder to return to civility, and working out our policy differences like a respectable Democratic-modeled Constitutional Republic.
@@jourdainramlaukinnander4838 That's what I was saying to my friend the other night. People are still so used to the "politics as normal" routine that they still don't understand how absolutely bugnuts the right has become.
@@jourdainramlaukinnander4838 I fear we WILL be rehashing this terrifying nonsense. And if the far right don't get their guy in this time to enact Project 2025 you can bet your life they're going to try for a Project 2029. Will probably be by another name, but it'll be the same shit in a different bucket.
@@MN-zh2vd I think the point is that 1/3 of the country will always pick the clown as long as his nose is red, 1/3 will always pick the surgeon as long as his scrubs are blue... But every election in my lifetime has come down to the "undecided" voters... Who for the last decade have been split close to 50:50 between the clown and the surgeon apparently completely on the merits of their ability to perform surgery. Before that at least both sides were offering doctors to the people, even if some of them were REALLY shitty people... At least they were in the same ballpark as reasonable choices
@@TheWeakMinded Term limits for President. You can still have political experience as another type of elected official, and that experience is valuable.
Conditioning people to have the political memory of a goldfish and a major political party unable to move on from a defeated candidate. Also, forgetting why said former president was voted out in 2020.
@@jwcarroll6378It honestly makes me furious that the Republicans didn’t join the Democrats for the second impeachment. Trump had just lost the election by a huge margin, and he incited an insurrection, clear irrefutable proof that he is a liability they need to get rid of. If they had any sense at all they would have jumped at the chance to impeach him, bury him, chuck him in prison and throw away the key. Sure, it would have pissed off Trump’s base, but given that they have the intelligence and attention span of a mosquito they likely would have forgotten all about it by 2022. But no, they were too selfish and too cowardly, and Trump was free to roam around and take over the party again. It’s both despicable and pathetic.
Because the only "undecided" voters left are the ones who just figured out how to fire their first synaptic neuron in the critical thinking part of their brain for the first time and don't want to be embarrassed that they supported the clown for 4 years and are pretending like they're weighing both options or just actual alt right trolls arguing in bad faith.
@@KneeCapHill But they always had a strong presence in politics and government before running for president? They weren’t just rich and picked up off the street... Also you are comparing any female or POC to a clown although surgeons aren’t always white men.
@@KneeCapHill I hate the fact that theres fucking sides, and that people make it that way. There being sides literally defeats the entire point of a democracy. I can like some things that the "Left side" agrees with and I can like some things that the "Right side" agrees with and now anything I say is useless? What do I do then huh? People like you have fucked the system to the point where you're not voting for the people you think are right for the job, you're voting for the people who you think are slightly better than the other options.
@@Celestial_Reachif you're still undecided when the options are a competent politician and lawyer who isn't a geriatric ghoul and the guy who has made repeated attempts to install himself as a dictator for life with a party that officially deifies him in all but name and wants to give him more power than a king could ever dream of, you lack morals and/or have cognitive abilities on par with a dog.
@@Celestial_Reach Pretty much Trump voters. CNN was doing a segment on undecided voters. They said they didn't trust Harris on the economy but they oddly trusted Trump despite him losing more jobs than any modern president. These undecided voters had to get their information of Trump doing good on the economy from somewhere.
@@funbrainz2220 definitely. Just cause you feel that's how reality is doesn't make so. Sheep really need to stay in their place and stop trying to push their bs
@@gaminganimators7000 i think they're implying its cause Trump was the 45th president but i think that number of lawsuits filled by him and his admin probably goes way beyound 45 by now. That goes for all the big lie lawsuits where he tried to prove the election was rigged.
Like I genuinely can't tell if college humor is doing multiple layers of irony and it's genius. Or, if they're so mediocre now, that the absolute fucking best they can do is blatant propaganda. It's so perfectly done.
@@sylfia159951 I don't think that this particular video is biased. CollegeHumour overall has a bias towards Democrats. In this particular video though, the Doctor is the candidate you support and the joker is the other one. I can see how both Trump and Biden supporters can relate to this video.
He's the best clown. Other clowns are good but he is the best. The greatest. You can believe me. I know clowns. I've met clowns. This is the best I have seen. The best clown. Amazing. We'll make Mexico pay for the clown btw.
I hate this sketch but I love your comment. I 100% support people making fun of either of the candidates, but it should be done right. Their impression of Trump was spot on but to compare Biden to a qualified and successful surgeon is utter bullshit.
“All right I’ll choose the surgeon” “Oh sorry the clown wins because some random doctors picked him” “But didn’t I get to choose” “Yes, and the surgeons look at your votes, and then chose. It’s called the medictoral college.”
More like a secret cabal of families that are the actual leaders of the government and have all the power over almost every state and don't actually have to vote with the people in the majority of the states
Um, actually clowns do adhere to a strict code while performing. It's literally called the clown code. Though I am unsure if it covers anything regarding performing surgeries.
Mike Trapp: THAT is correct, thats a point for @hanyuuchama93 , there is indeed a clown code. Perhaps not as applicable to the Hypocratic oath, but hey, thats the kind of pedantic details we deal with on this show, so, point for you!
"But remember when he had his own TV show? Everyone saw he was a clown." Undecided= "Well yeah, but clowns can make a lot of money. People like watching clowns. Especially racist clowns they're the funniest ones."
@@DaiMie pretty sure that all 100 doctors on the chair voted in support on that bill, and that picking out one doctor helps out the 60 clown that voted in support of that bill.
Remember when everyone decided that the clown was breaking the law when we let him do the surgeries and it was a whole thing but then all the other clowns on the hospital board decided that the clown should still be allowed to do surgery anyway? Fun times
And then Tarrare (look him up) was resurrected via magic, who then proceeded to become a vacuum cleaner and eat all of the small children in the hospital
I was against clowns doing surgeries from before the clown tried to do surgeries, and have since decided to stop supporting any clowns on the hospital board who thought this clown should be allowed to continue doing surgeries despite the blatant malpractice. Hopefully if there are enough other like-minded patients, we can move our entire insurance pool over to surgeons instead of clowns.
Also if he worships the devil, then he might have a deal that makes him a fantastic surgeon. You get all the benefits of having great knife work done on you a la devil, without actually having to make a pact to sell your soul away. Win-win.
@@cfri9332 Inflation is down, gas prices are lower than they were in 2020, and we don't have any major pandemics that are being grossly mishandled. I don't see any economic or political entrails like I did with Trump.
@@NataliejSanford6 And Alaska and Massachusetts are deciding whether to adopt ranked-choice voting at THIS ELECTION! Make sure you vote if you're in these states to improve your system for the future!
@@ezramead5066 I was honestly expecting more. That number could be way worse. Definitely going with the clown, he could have killed 2 million, but he only killed 200000, so he's worth the vote
@@matthewletexier The clown would have only killed 2 million people if the clown literally did nothing in those surgeries. Like literally absolutely nothing. If the clown didnt constantly deny science, a lot more people would survive
@@llamazing4326 Blame the democrats for refusing his help (he gave them everything they needed and they refused to use it) and purposefully putting sick people into nursing homes, ignoring their warnings that doing so will kill a lot of people.
@@MyShiroyuki He did nothing. Actually, no, he did worse. He shoved it to the states, politicized masks, lied about everything, refused to let the scientists do their jobs, lied about the vaccines, destroyed the public faith in institutions, got rid of the pandemic response team, and on, and on. It would have been better if he did literally nothing. You keep telling yourself it's just a mere coincidence that the second he was out of office and we started listening to the science, that things got under control.
@@natehorsfall8379 Here in Australia I can't believe how badly America did things with covid. The incompetency from the most powerful nation in the world when we easily beat the virus is unreal. I don't even have to wear a mask in public by law and I don't know anybody who's gotten covid, the cases in my state are zero.
He actually picked the surgeon but the clown had a bunch of friends at the hospital that owed him favors and let him do it anyway. I think a russian janitor was also involved but nobody could prove it.
the real clown are the people that complain, but choose to keep the system the same after the operation. Then start complaining again when they have to go back.
Actually they should've mentioned that he was already undergoing treatment recommended by the clown which has eroded his condition to the point where he now needs the surgery to save his life
They should’ve had the part where the surgeon starts the surgery and then completely forgets how to do surgery and has to get a manual on how to do his job
And either they are insulated, which makes them an asshole, or they aren’t, which makes them an idiot. Not quite as big of an idiot as a Trump supporter, but still.
@@lurklingX that might have been a valid excuse in antiquity. But we now have the internet and the ability to fact check and look into sources, so it’s not that hard to figure out which one tells more lies, and which one tells the biggest lies.
Nurse: “He a clown, he can’t do surgery” Me: “then why is he one of my opinions? Also if my insurance covers the clown, does that mean he’s on the payroll? I have so many questi-“ Clown: *honk* Me: “I’m sold!”
Insurance might not cover clowns but the British NHK and Canadian hospitals have clowns to improve pediatric outcomes (Laughing has medical applications but can't replace chemo)
I could cry when looking at my like dislike ratio. I have so many jealous people that my videos always get way more dislikes than likes. Please don't be jealous, dear kyle
In 2020 we picked the surgeon and that didn't go so well for us. He got a bad case of dementia half way through and couldn't remember how to finish it. It's almost like they were both clowns from the very start.
This video kinda glosses over the biggest problem in the system: That the clown was allowed to become an option in the first place. Turns out the phrase "anyone can be president" is actually a threat.
@@kevinburke5760 Having a sensible GOP would have blocked it by voting in a sensible option but the GOP went for the funny clown because he would make people laugh which could get votes and the clown inherited a lot of money and threw it around so that's impressive.
4:38 I wasn't expecting that. Not a lot of people would be willing to turn the tables and actually write a reasoned, impassioned speech for the character who'd just been the punchline of the whole skit.
This aged like the finest of wines . It’s even more relevant now because we have empirical proof the clown is the worse choice but yet here we are 🤦♂️
1:23 "And the surgeon, he's not famous?" *Proceeds to reference TV, Instagram, TikTok* This is absolutely how some people think, and it's what's wrong with society.
Im not sure whats worse, that he took the clown, or that he is one of over 200000 people who took the clown. As if people in reality would be that stupid...
@crowthrone Clown voters: what bathroom do I use? I should get all the money for doing nothing! The doctor is bad because the smiling man on the TV told me so. I hate rich people for giving me everything I ever wanted!
@@erickolb8581 speaking of people braindead enough to choose the clown... you're one of them. You must have been sooo butthurt when trump lost in 2020, and I can only imagine how butthurt you'll be when he loses again.
Is the doctor gonna take off his clown costume or stop touching and sniffing me while be does my surgery? Nurse: "Don't sorry your not a little girl. You'll be fine" Doctor: HONK
I mean. Dr. Mike is kinda famous. (Actual certified doctor with his own youtube channel.) (Yes listen to him. He proved he's a certified doctor. And knows what he's doing) (just saying so he gets more subs)
As someone from the Netherlands, it's just very strange to hear the whole shtick of registering to vote and having a voting plan. Right here, everyone gets a voting ballot sent home automatically. On voting day, you just go to a polling place conveniently close to you. Usually the wait is just a few minutes or so. The longest I've had to wait was like 30 minutes but that was because I wanted to vote in a fun location where lines happened to be longer. Voting safety is ensured by requiring ID, but that's not really an issue here because everyone has one (the voting ID laws don't disadvantage POC here). It's just so much easier.
@@darkrai24100 So, I'm Dutch, so I'm no expert. However, from what I've read it appears to be a hurdle to vote in some communities. I don't know though
Well, in America, the government doesn't actually care what the common man thinks. Things like having to register to vote and not giving citizens government sanctioned time off from work to be able to vote is honestly just a low key form of voter suppression
The clown is Trump right? Of course people wanna pick the clown because the other option is to pick a traitor to freedom. Biden does wish to take guns, and whether you think it or not, his policy will take guns from the hands of many good Americans, me included. My right to defend myself starts where someone tries to take that right. If Biden didn’t latch onto gun control (which doesn’t work) he’s have a shot at winning. He’d be a guarantee. His planned policy will actually effect minorities disproportionately and yet Trump is painted as the racist. Whether he is personally or not (he’s not) at least he’s not going to set polices that will see a spike in crime among minorities and in cities.
@Dave A. If you expect to be taken seriously I expect you to get a better grasp on the world around you. Whether you are for Trump or Biden, it’s clear who the world and media is overwhelmingly biased for. If you wish to deny that fact, it only discredits yourself. Biden is anti gun, and anti human rights by default. His laws will see increases crime among minorities and in cities. Universal background checks, can not, and will not happen. Speaking on behalf of the free armed citizens of America, I can tell you we won’t take it. Universal background checks will see us into war.
"It's not telling you what to do if I'm describing the facts of the world around you." Some people need to write that down and look at it for a few hours.
I've been seeing a lot of equivocating between the two options in the comments, which is hilarious considering what this skit is about. You don't have to like the doctor. You don't have to agree with the doctor. He might not even be a very good doctor, but one of these two options is at least trained to do the thing that you want him to do, while the other proves on a regular basis that he is not. Pretending that both options are the same for the lols is the kind of thinking that got us having a clown as an option in the first place.
The guy actually had some great points though. Why would he trust her? Maybe he's not sick, maybe the other guy isn't a doctor, maybe medicine isn't real. Politicians are trained for politics, but that doesn't mean you want them doing politics. Like if it's not really medicine that's being done, maybe it's gardening. And I'm not saying the clown is any better at gardening, but that doesn't mean elect the surgeon, it means the choice is false.
This argument is as true today as it was in 2016. Patient: "Well, the clown called the surgeon crooked." Doctor: "He doesn't have any evidence of that." Patient: "Well, I mean, I'm going to vote against the surgeon anyways." Doctor: "What? Why? I can assure you the surgeon has credentials and an ability to do this job." Patient: "But I'm *tired* of surgeons doing surgery. What we need is more clowns in hospitals! That'll really shake things up, stick it to those stuffy surgeons. And besides, there's a whole team of surgeons saying this clown is a good option, right?" Doctor: "..."
Either way, it's over. It's all over. Biden or Trump--America's hegemony has been broken. If Trump wins, the alliances are pushed to the brink of collapse, if Biden wins America resumes the lukewarm policies, corporate shilling, and problematic leadership that pushed people towards Trump to begin with.
@slayeroftrolls1200 there are sane people but because of the culture it's not the majority... and the video is not an exaggeration minus the clown. I have heard these arguments presented as such.
It's too bad the founders of this hospital didn't forsee this kind of issue and prevent it. They probably never imagined a world where a clown would be selected. Speaks volumes on the intelligence of the patients.
@@webbowser8834 Bad movie, but Nostalgia Critic did a great review of it. Probably my fav of his stuff, back when I watched his vids. Also, Robin Williams's record remains untarnished despite the film.
When you realize the folks heading the pandemic recovery aren't highly educated professionals with a lifetime of public service, but are literally just the children of a crass reality TV star and have no governmental, scientific or medical background at ALL. 😫
Some of the ‘undecided voters’ who think Trump will be ‘better on the economy’ should ask the folks who worked at Trump Shuttle, Trump Taj Mahal, Trump Plaza, Trump Soho, Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka, Trump Model Management (ok that was one successful but only for sex-trafficking).
I mean he was literally already president, and the economy was much better at that time. But I'll try to explain the reasoning of the typical Trump voter and perhaps it will be persuasive to you. You could even just focus on one facet of the differences in economic policy between Biden and Trump (albeit a rather significant one) - energy. The first thing Biden does when he enters into office is shut down all plans to increase domestic energy production via executive order. This immediately spiked prices for all sorts of things and they haven't really come down since. This was, of course, done for the sake of "climate change". Him and his party espouse a climate plan that necessarily entails driving up cost of living for Americans broadly - as we've seen here in Canada and throughout Europe with radical anti-CO2 policy. There's no getting around that, and all this talk about how netzero renewables will actually produce more prosperity for Americans is actual madness and no serious person claims that. So you can make the argument that is necessary or good to avert the sun monster apocalpyse or whatever; but even the proponents of such policy argue for it by persuading the common people to be willing to "make sacrifices" on the altar of climate change. That sacrifice is the standard of living they are accustomed to and that their parents and grandparents enjoyed. That's just what it is - they're saying we must have a weaker economy and higher prices because there's too much CO2 in the atmosphere. Conversely Trump intends to get back on his prior agenda of upping America's energy production, selling some to foreign markets again, and largely disregarding the climate change arguments that net-zero types make (which I and many others think is a great idea). I guess I'd also have to bring up mass immigration, and it's another area where the differences in policy between Trump and Biden are stark. Biden (and his cabal) have very deliberately swung the border wide open and are shoveling in migrants - illegal and legal - by the millions. This has had a very noticeable effect on the standard of living for Americans' across the country. Places with large influxes of migrants means the native workers have to compete against way more people for jobs, which absolutely depresses wages, and it obviously increases demand for housing and other essentials which drives up all sorts of costs for average people. There's also the fact that very high and rapid levels of immigration tend to balkanize communities, and lead to all sorts of cultural dysfunction and strife as various groups of immigrants set up little insular communities. Where it is they settle is necessarily somewhere that used to be an American community, and people who have roots and love for their birthplace and home are usually put off when the culture shifts dramatically, the language changes, and the community they intended to raise their children in no longer seems like home. Here in Canada the effect of this is very pronounced, much more so than in the US (for now anyways), and Americans paying attention to what's happening here in Canada and in Europe can see that if Biden/Democrat policies regarding immigration continue on their course; it is absolutely the case that this will harm the standard of living of Americans. It couldn't be more obvious that the only political movement that's even willing to do something about mass immigration is the MAGA movement, and many many people will vote on that basis alone. I can't tell you how jarring and disheartening it is to see the neighborhood, city, community or town you love turn into a foreign country in just a couple years as the dominant people and culture becomes completely foreign - it's not racism to be opposed to that, and it doesn't stem from a hatred of foreigners. Rather, it stems from a love of one's own people and one's own culture and community, and it's something human beings all over the world understand well and it's an entirely valid thing to be concerned about. Consider what the pro immigration economic arguments are; they say we're not having enough children, they say there's a worker shortage, they say this threatens to lower our GDP. These are all true statements, but the market has a very natural way to deal with this -- wages increase for workers. Will massive corporations lose some profits by paying workers more? Indeed. Could this reduce GDP and the profits of the wealthy? Indeed. Could some major firms go out of business as the economy readjusts to match the size of a population that isn't growing like it used to? Sure could. But for average workers it ends up being pretty good and it puts them in an advantageous position - they become in-demand and as labour becomes a more scarce resource, their work becomes worth more. It's the kind of thing that could push people out of the cities too, and make rural and small town blue collar work much more attractive to Americans. Frankly it could end up being a very good thing, and a very organic way for wealth to be transfered away from the top 1% and down amongst the common workers. It could also help with the birthrate, and eventually put it back on track in the long run - the average Americans when asked why they aren't having as many children (or any children at all), cost of living and their fear that they can't afford to provide for the children as they would like to is a big reason they point to. People think you need well above national average incomes to support a family, and they're probably correct. But the point is that the powers that be want to maintain their massive corporations and profits, they don't want to take a hit while common American workers gain, so they'd rather shovel millions of immigrant workers into the country, regardless of how much this screws over the native workers. The majority of those immigrants are males showing up alone, and many among them are sending their wages to their families back home where cost of living is waaaaay below what it is here in America and currency conversion rates benefit them a great deal. So they'll take much lower wages, and foreign men will be able to support their foreign families working American jobs at modest wages, while American men working those jobs could never support a family at those wages. Frankly if you don't see the injustice in this, if you have such little regard for your own people that you can't sympathize with those who find this outrageous - I don't even know how to reason with you.
@@SquareNoggin Just two response to your essay. Biden canceled plans to drill only on public lands. This doesn't stop the decades worth of drilling plans that have already been made on private lands. The prices didn't go up because there was a limit in supply, the prices went up because of the speculative investment market. The rest of the prices that went up after that were proportionally much higher than the increase in costs and it's show in the record profit margins. The inflation was a lie and a lot of people got very rich from it. There's a narrative that Biden and the democrats allow for open borders, but that comes with completely ignoring that border arrests and deportations go up under democrat administrations. Biden's term saw a steep increase in deportations from Trump, just as Obama saw a steep increase from Bush. To push the immigration narrative against democrats is to ignore all facts of the issue.
@@bobitboo2792 as has the clown. And the surgeon has said a lot of things that he seems to have changed his mind on. Tho yeah, you can't trust him even 80% But he is at least a step in the right direction from the clown.
I remember the surgeon being sleepy and not on his game one day or something. And I heard the surgeon's son got caught allegedly bribing the head resident at another hospital, and that one time the Surgeon got really angry at someone for asking him a sore-spot question about that after insisting it not get brought up... But I remember the Clown doing those same things every 3 days for the last 5 years and getting away with it and it's somehow a BIGGER problem with the surgeon does it.
This still rings true today. We have the competent, educated & experienced professional on one side and the incompetent buffoon on the other side. I let you decide which is which.
Yeah, just like he's a "businessman". He had experience there. Experience in declaring bankruptcies. Oh, you wanted an experienced *successful* businessman to improve your economy? Should have been more specific.
Can we bring the clown to court for all the murders? I mean the right to life and liberty is in the constitution and he clearly did not do al that he could have to keep those people alive. Of coures we would need to wait until the clown is out of office but I really think that we should be able to do this!
Some people: They just filmed this so they can shove their propaganda down our throats! Me: They just filmed this so they could have the shot at the end of the clown playing with his intestines, didn't they?
I don’t know the analogy here seems kind of forced, I wish we didn’t have a two party system. We’re more inclined to be divided that way. In America entertainment has a large influence on how we act, perceive, and think. Although the issues that are hinted at in this video are made to seem simple, the problem runs much deeper than who’s running for office. People nowadays don’t put critical thought into the decisions they make, nor do they think for themselves. Most of people’s opinions are based off of hearsay or are just a byproduct of the teachings they’ve received from when they we’re younger. Every politician feeds off of people’s ignorance by being charismatic and dishonest, or at least all the politicians who are successful in their pursuits. The system isn’t that large of a problem in comparison to the people that play a role in it. Yet for all the people who vote for the well known republican or democrat, they don’t know any better than the values there parents and friends have/had. There’s other parties that are involved in the election, yet you only see representatives from the same two parties that have dominated U.S. politics for over a century now. We could do better as a society, but then again our entire society is built upon the cycle of self-interest. As long as there’s people who only take action for the sake of their own benefit and those who follow instead of thinking for themselves, we’ll never see any change.
