WEBVTT - I Would Like Katie To Be President... 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.240 I would like Katie to be president, but if she 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:07.200 is not popular enough, I would settle for Michelangelo. It's 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:15.560 one more thing. I'm one more thing, ranked choice voting. 0:00:16.440 --> 0:00:18.919 Whatever happened to that idea. We'll talk about that in 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:19.400 a minute. 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:20.920 So here we are. 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:22.840 We're going to just play a funny clip from a 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:24.520 different show because it eats up some time. 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:26.800 That's the behind the scenes view of what we're doing here. 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:31.960 What fruit Now, it's an amusing springboard for conversations. Why 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:34.000 do you say things like that? What happened to you 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:37.120 in your childhood that you would just seek to undermine 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:40.199 your own primary occupation and a source of income. 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:42.559 Anyway, this is from the Daily Show. 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:45.280 In this freshman class alone, and I'm going to stop 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:47.880 for cheers for each one of these because they're remarkable. 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:52.720 We have our first trans member of Congress. We have 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:57.520 an engineer from an immigrant community in the San Fernando Valley. 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:03.720 We have the first Iranian American Democrat in Congress. We 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:06.680 have the youngest member ever elected to the House from 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:12.679 New Jersey. 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:14.880 That's not a thing. 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:20.840 How did you go from the reasonably impressive first Iranian 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:23.840 Democrat to hold the sea to the I think somewhat 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:29.880 reaching for youngest person ever from New Jersey. And then, 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:32.480 by the way, to the audience, if you think that 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:36.640 that framing is not that interesting, wait, will you hear 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:41.920 that this record breaking young phenom from New Jersey is. 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:48.160 Thirty eight years old? Thirty eight years old? 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:52.200 Yeah? How come on? 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:55.000 How far are we going with this? 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:55.480 Oh? 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:57.880 In Illinois we elected a ginger? 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:02.160 Oh well, what was the one? 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:05.320 An Asian engineer from the San Fernando Valley. 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:08.000 I disagree with the whole premise, and I think, go ahead, Democrats, 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:10.200 keep harping on that stuff and see if you win 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:12.320 elections with that because most people don't care. 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:15.400 Yeah, who cares about all that stuff? How about it? 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:17.359 Are they good at their jobs? Right? 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:21.880 Well, that's Rashida Talib though she and your Formila, Jaya 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:26.440 Paul and the whole crew there. They still think identity 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:29.840 politics is on the rise. It's not, no, thank you, 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:32.840 and that might be needs to be knocked down. 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:34.680 In Illinois we elected a ginger. 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:42.359 Yeah, so I remember when, well, the first time and 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:46.600 then subsequently I was had rank choice voting described to me, 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:50.040 I thought it sounded like a really good idea, The 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:55.880 idea being in a primary, especially you got like six 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:59.880 people running, and you've got a certain you got like 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:05.400 the sane conservative vote spread over several people, and then 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:09.240 there's one This is obviously a prejudicial way to put it, 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:13.720 but like one wack could do, you know, communist, And 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:17.239 it's possible that because of that splitting of the vote, 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:21.600 the wackadoodle gets in. Even though if you said, if 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:24.440 you rent it like ranked choice voting, where if nobody 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:29.240 gets a clear majority, then the bottom couple are knocked out, 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:33.720 and then you go to you ask those people, all right, 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:36.600 you like Joe Conservative, Joe Conservative is not gonna win. 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:40.600 Who's your second choice? And then you keep going in 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:43.680 that way, you'd take the bottom couple, all right, your 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:46.960 candidate's gone, Who do you prefer? Now, until you have 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:50.520 a consensus of the best candidates, say you don't quote 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:51.760 unquote waste your vote. 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:54.600 They tried it in Alaska, right, Yeah. 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:58.600 They've treatended in a handful of different places and initiatives 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:02.560 relating to rank choice of voting and open primaries around 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:06.320 the ballot in Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Missouri, Mountana, Nevada, Oregon, 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:12.360 South Dakota. Last week, some of them varied, but now 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:15.320 and again this has always struck me as a really 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:19.839 good idea, and I think it is a really good idea. 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:22.440 But the problem with a lot of good ideas is 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:29.080 that they run into people. And the problem is you 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:32.560 can't get people to understand. 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:36.520 It, oh okay, and do it right, just can't because. 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:38.440 Your description of it there was longer than most people 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:39.720 want to spend thinking about. 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:45.719 It, right, okay, yeah, yeah, And so sometimes it's called 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:50.080 the instant runoff a system that's I like that that 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:52.760 way describe it. Actually it's an instant runoff. So you 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:55.600 don't have to reconvene everybody and say, all right, Jones 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:59.039 and Smith are out. We got these last three people left. 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:01.120 Who do you want to vote for? Now? You just 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:06.240 do it all at once. But in most of the US, 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:13.080 where does it get to the analysis? Until last week, 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:16.279 the systems used have been expanding, particularly in liberal cities 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:21.839 and towns. Washington, d C. Can be added to the list. 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:25.960 But essentially it's like I said, people just screwed up. 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:28.440 They don't understand how it works, no matter how thoroughly 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:32.719 you try to explain it to them, which is a 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:37.680 little discouraging. What no way yeah, I know. 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:38.920 I know. 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:50.160 Why you think half the country doesn't vote, and it's 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:51.719 been that way for a very long time. 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:58.360 They're either busy doing other things, or they just don't 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:02.560 pay any attention to politics. They don't get it, or 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:04.800 they don't care because they're too busy. 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:08.040 What's your guests, it is half the country not vote. 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:11.479 I think it's the what Jojo said, that people don't 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:14.880 pay attention. I had a friend on election day realized 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:17.400 it was election day. She had no clue what was 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:18.360 going on at all. 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:20.880 Yeah, I uh pooh. 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:22.400 I don't want to say who this was, because they're 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:27.520 a very very very nice person, but very low tier, 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:30.880 working class, her and her husband. And she just said 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:34.000 to me, I don't know anything about taxes and politics 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:37.080 is all she said on election day. It's just like 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:40.000 not a part of her life. And I wonder what 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:43.279 my sense from her was she doesn't feel like she's 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:49.600 smart enough for something to be involved in that, which 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:52.479 is a terrible way to end up as an adult. 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:54.400 You went through school and everything like that and you 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:58.640 come out feeling like you're not capable of participating. I 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:00.640 don't know how many people are like that. I don't know. 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:05.080 Yeah, I and and again, I would never be little 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:08.640 that person. I would say, let's continue to send the 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:12.320 message that hey, be part of it, you're a citizen, 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:16.560 learn about the candidates and the issues, and then vote. 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:18.840 The problem is that if it's if you're starting with 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:21.680 somebody who's never really cared much, it doesn't pay much attention. 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:24.280 If they do start to vote, they're probably going to 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:25.640 vote the way I don't want. 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:28.600 Because you're going to go, yeah, they lesson to the mainstream. 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:31.520 They're gonna go with whoever Beyonce wants or whoever's going 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:33.000 to give them the most stuff or whatever. 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:37.480 And yeah, well right right, which is why the Democratic 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:42.680 Party wants to register you know, any fool who can 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:47.720 fog a mirror mentally handicapped children. They want children to vote. Please, 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:52.040 could there be a more, you know, open and unvarnished 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:55.880 attempt to do it exactly what we're talking about. 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:59.840 I mean, come on, while the young, but the so 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:02.840 but so. This just has always been hanging out there 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:04.880 as a possibility, and so far this hasn't really happened. 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:07.080 But I suppose it could happen someday if you could 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:12.880 motivate half those people that never vote and then get 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:14.640 a big chunk of the people that do vote, you 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:19.200 could win every freaking election forever. Yeah, if you had 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:22.400 some message it appealed to that crowd in whatever way. 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:25.240 I'm going to give you stuff. That's the message. And 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:28.720 there are some people who that's not even enough. They're 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:31.560 still like, I don't get it. I don't understand. But anyway, 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:34.200 I only give you half of my thought. As a society, 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:35.840 we ought to say, look, your citizen's part of your 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:39.760 responsibility and it's power in your hands. So you ought 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:42.839 to vote on a fairly steady basis. We ought to 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:45.720 send out that message just culturally. But if you don't 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:49.480 want to, don't don't. I don't want to rock the 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:53.839 vote because I on a poll test. Those you have 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:56.200 to drag kicking, screaming to the polls. They're not going 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:57.960 to be good voters. They're just not. 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:00.000 That's why I want to poll test. Who's the current president, 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:02.559 vice president? Named three branches of government? Who's the governor 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:03.040 of your state? 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:03.280 Those? 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:05.360 If those could be the only questions, I'd be fine 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:07.280 with that. If you can answer those, I'll let you vote. 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:09.439 But there's a whole bunch of people couldn't answer those questions. 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:11.960 I'm sorry, hit me with those again. Who's the current 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:14.520 president and vice president? Name the three branches of government? 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:18.400 And who's your current governor? Okay, thosen't just off the 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:20.560 top of my head, But there's a lot of people 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:21.800 that couldn't answer those questions. 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:22.960 I don't want them to vote. 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:26.800 Yeah, yeah, I got. 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:28.920 A lot of joy this this weekend from two people 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:31.400 who had already forgotten Tim Wall's name. So that was 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:35.000 that was fun. They were just already they were so 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:37.560 over it. I kicked his name out of their head. 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:38.360 Right. 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:44.840 Seriously, Now, it's not fair for Californians because Gavin Newsom 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:50.200 is I mean in a boil on the backside of 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:55.000 California for a long time. Boil you. He's been a 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:58.440 presence in California. He's constantly discussed and then these shows 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:01.200 blah blah blah. But what percent Americans would you guess 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:02.200 can name their governor? 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:03.960 Okay, take that one out now that I've thought about 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:06.000 it for ten seconds. I would rather have a question 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:09.120 in there, like where does government money come from? 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:10.080 Oh? 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:11.480 Okay one? 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:14.880 Oh? But seriously, though, what percentage of Americans do you 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:17.280 think could name their governor? Is it more than half. 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:22.080 No, definitely not really. Yeah, no, I don't think so, Yes, Michael. 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:24.319 No, I was just agreeing, that's a great question about 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:25.080 taxpayer money. 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:27.560 Yeah, because that's the thing I want people to understand, 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:29.680 because there are a ton of people. Well, I'll ask 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:32.800 you a question. What percentage of people don't know where 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:36.000 government money comes from? 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:40.880 A horrifyingly high percentage. Might be five percent, it might 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:45.120 be more than half. Oh no, yes, hope not Oh 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:48.880 that wouldn't shock me. I could teach my dog that stop. 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:52.560 I don't think most people know where government money comes from. 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:58.520 I don't think it's half though, Gosh, I hope you 0:10:58.520 --> 0:10:58.880 don't know that. 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:02.120 People I know need to hang around my Oh kind 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:02.959 dumb people? 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:05.640 Are you hanging out to hang around the dumb more? 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:08.000 Where do they gather under rocks? 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:14.280 Wow? That No, that's brilliant. Though the government spends money, 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:16.360 where do they get that money? 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:18.880 I love that one? 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:26.760 You get one f and chance? Wow? Wow. 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:29.480 Half the country doesn't pay taxes, so they don't think 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:31.120 about taxes at all. 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:42.520 Right, right, Although everybody pays sales taxes, gas taxes, even 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:45.120 if there's no income tax, nobody understands that they pay 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:48.440 payroll taxes in effect, so I won't even bark up 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:54.199 that tree. But okay, so let's all right, let's finalize 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:59.120 our test. Who is the president? I don't even have 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:02.120 the device president. That's not a low bar. That's laying 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:04.439 a stick on the ground, is what that is? Who 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:08.880 are branches of the government? And where does government get money 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:09.360 to spend? 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:10.520 Yeah, that was pretty good. 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:13.560 Yeah, you you can't step over that stick on the ground, 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:18.880 as you say, that's not even a bar, then yeah, 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:20.520 you don't get to vote. 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:23.120 H I'm all for that. And just every time I 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:25.600 bring up poll test, people always you know, get into 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:27.920 the South and racism and what they used to do, 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:31.080 which is horrifying. Make sure you couldn't possibly vote if 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:31.520 you were black. 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:33.600 Horrifying. But you don't have to do it the same way, 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:34.760 you morons. 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:37.640 Well, no, it's all under the auspices of the Justice 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:40.839 Department and you know whatever else. Course it ought to 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:45.480 be staple statement anyway. Or for those who are illiterate, 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:49.560 you say you can eat one of these, You hand 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:53.319 them a hot biscuit and a rock, and if they 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:54.920 put the rock in their mouths. 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:57.280 You can't vote till next time you plant or the eggs, 0:12:57.280 --> 0:12:59.240 think about it over the next year. We'll ask the 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:02.720 same question again next year, which of these do you eat? 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:04.200 They grab the rock again. 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:11.960 Urry biscuits or this rock. Dang, that rock looks tasty. 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:12.680 Give me that rock. 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:16.400 I'm gonna walk you out this store. It says exit, 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:19.680 but you wouldn't know that, so just just walk that way. 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:24.480 Here's my question, which is a better investment? 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:26.640 Lot of scratchers are a four to one K plan. 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:28.080 That's a pretty good one right there. 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:30.880 That's advanced. No, that's too too advanced. 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:33.000 Well, I guess that's it.