Lewis Black | The Rant Is Due best of Voting

As one election cycle passes and another is right around the corner, it's time to get out and vote. From sea to shining sea, who gets to vote, when they get to vote, and how they vote has become an increasingly contentious issue, which is odd in a democracy. In this voting rights-themed collection, Lewis hears from every perspective on the issue, including some helpful feedback from our Australian allies. And stick around for the civics lesson on Gerrymandering.
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[@BelzaBob]

Imagine George Carlin and Lewis Black in a room talking about politics. The carnage.

[@satori-in-life]

George would have embarrassed Lewis.

[@nonhatespeech]

@@satori-in-life George was the master of disassembling the nonsense of politics, people and our human perversions. Gosh he is sorely missed! I’m honored that I got to grow up during his reign…

[@markbrown8097]

George realized politics for the theater it is. I think Lewis may actually think it's real.

[@dg5028]

George would have eaten this dude alive.

[@DjJtown]

IF ONLY! Imagine the fallout. They'd embarrass so fucking many politicians that they'd Quit politics and we'd have to vote for...wait for it....Honest candidates; Shocking isn't it.

[@rockinbobokkin7831]

I truly hope all that anger keeps you going for many years to come. Thank you Lew.

[@JusNoBS420]

He’s made a profitable career on it 😂

[@ladyofthemoonflower]

He’ll probably live forever since he’s able to express his anger in a constructive way rather than being coerced into holding it in and acting like everything’s fine....may we all be blessed with that capability!

[@dsm4462]

Lewis I became an American citizen recently and I’m looking forward voting. I love this country, because of that I want to vote!

[@hhairball9]

I am so grateful to have someone articulate the thoughts in my head!

[@Mach11976]

I'm telling you, that's only way I stay out of trouble!! Listen to Lou and laugh like a wild man 😂

[@joetursi9573]

yeah, if your head could only talk!

[@NewMessage]

I'd vote for Lew. He'd HATE it, though.

[@pmbluemoon]

I'd LOVE to see what he would do as president for sure!

[@13699111]

That's a good one thank you

[@Zerpersande]

@@pmbluemoon He’d be better than Trump but how you worded that is exactly why we ended up with Trump in the first place.

[@pmbluemoon]

@@Zerpersande LOL... I see your point... 👍

[@allen3397]

[@michaelreidperry3256]

Lewis’ language is eloquent. His oratory is an inspiration to all of us who love openly expressing our thoughts exactly how they are - no bullshit.

[@suzanneharris8339]

The fact that we have to pass legislation & protest 🙄 for our right to vote in the first place is so telling & VERY undemocratic. Great rant here, Lewis!

[@Raz.C]

Yeah, international opinion about america (in specific regards to democracy) is VERY unflattering. Especially the way you process democracy through mashers and grinders, and use the resulting paste to build what you call the Electoral College, so that it's possible for someone who gets less votes to nevertheless win an election. Then you have the fun-to-spell 'gerrymandering,' which allows politicians to choose their voters, which seems to be some kind of reverse-democracy or backwards-democracy. All of that is 'your' business (your = you americans, not 'you' specifically) really, and 'we' don't care (we = the rest of the world) what you do in your corner. But when you start invading various undeveloped/ developing nations, with the ostensible casus belli that you're "Bringing democracy to the -brown- people of [insert 3rd world nation here]" It just seems like a hideously bad joke. You guys can't get democracy right in your own country, yet you think it's ok to invade some other country and force them to implement democratic reforms, at gunpoint. It's the kind of nonsense you might expect to read about in a cheap novel by a bad author. The fact that it's actually happening (multiple time, even) in real life only serves to underscore how tragic our modern world has become and I, for one, look forward to the day our Chinese overlords are able to stand up to the playground bully (in this analogy, the world is the playground and the USA is the playground bully) and to prevent him from shaking down the smaller kids and beating up anyone he doesn't like. Don't get me wrong; I'm not pretending that the Chinese are 'the good guys' in this future-narrative. Not at all. It's just so heart-breaking and depressing to see america claim to be 'the good guys,' yet they do all the things that 'the bad guys' do and are never held accountable for it (even though George Bush Jr., Dick Cheney, Tony Blair and many of their staff were FINALLY charged and convicted as war criminals in an international criminal court [albeit in absentia], not one of them suffered any form of punishment, or had to provide any kind of restitution to their victims or their families)...Sorry, this seems to have shifted focus. That probably means it's nap time...

[@mendotolevski1238]

@@Raz.C 👌

[@russellmanweller6694]

I don't think you know what democracy is. It only binifites you if the people you elect, represent you, and unless you're a billionaire, you don't binifite a bit from democracy.

[@leewhite-graham753]

Thanks Lewis! I never missed a year to vote in my entire 63 years! I am disgusted at those who do not realize the privilege, and boiling mad at those trying to destroy our democracy by denying the right to others!

[@christopherallen9580]

you've been voting your entire life?

[@lpshy9337]

Well said and Yes since I was able to vote at 18 I have never missed one election 50 here came close a few times hospital stays and all.

[@DasDutchman56]

We are not a democracy, we are a Constitutional Republic. Take a Civics Class!

[@BarginsGalore]

@@DasDutchman56 A republic (from Latin res publica 'public affair') is a form of government in which "power is held by the people and their elected representatives".[1] In republics, the country is considered a "public matter", not the private concern or property of the rulers. The primary positions of power within a republic are attained through democracy or a mix of democracy with oligarchy or autocracy rather than being unalterably occupied by any given family lineage or group. Read a dictionary

[@13699111]

Thank you my feelings exactly

[@ElRegulus]

These clips should be required viewing in all American Government classes😆

[@gildafriedman2559]

Great idea. But then someone would say it is sooooo not right. Too many people…parents!children,etc think they are experts on everything when they only know smidgen of one thing.

[@camwyn256]

First we have to put those classes back into schools

[@doradodude140]

Only Trump CON Ser stoves could disagree with Lewis

[@michelerenea6477]

YES!!!!!!!!!

[@michelerenea6477]

@@gildafriedman2559 you are ABSOLUTELY correct!!! That, my friend, is YET ANOTHER of the fabulous side effects of the internet....They all THINK they know SO much. Interestingly, they are all SO, SO, SO much more STUPID than they have EVER, EVER, EVER been before. 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[@stevenstorm6855]

This man tells the about life in general and love listening to him speak the truth. Please don’t stop telling people to wake up and do the right thing. God bless this man for his righteous indignation. Keep up the great work. Thank you.

[@michaelarmijo4112]

I don't even agree with his liberal shit. But we need Lewis and more of him. I unfortunately went to see him in Santa Barbra, it was over 100 out side and who the fuck knows how hot inside. No A/C in side cause it doesn't get hot . Oh building was across the street from the beach. Water was about 150 feet. He did about 15 to 20 minutes and apologized walk away. I was sweating as was everyone else. The crowd waited thinking we would be told when he would be back and do a show. Nothing. So I was pissed off and just today started watching him again. I'd like to hear from other fans, was I wrong in expecting to get a show sometime down the line? Tickets were 180.00 We sat maybe 10 ' feet dead center of him. I'd appreciate some opinions. Thank you.

[@bobblues1158]

I live in Denmark. My last address in the US was Manhattan. I vote for everything i can in the US. Here, I am only allowed to vote in the local elections- and I vote. In Denmark everyone votes!

[@ursaltydog]

In my area, the election commission changed the polling place where my galpal would vote. She took her notification to the new polling place and she was not on the list, and they weren't going to allow her to vote. She had to raise mortal hell and threaten to get a news crew out at the polling place and also call the election commission for them to allow her to vote. They ended up offering her a "provisional ballot" and she refused. She wanted to vote and feel secure in that it counted.

[@jamuraisack5503]

Did she verify that she was on the roll beforehand? You can verify that all dang year long and fix any mistakes well beforehand.

[@vicmorrison8128]

That's what their counting on.

[@ursaltydog]

@@jamuraisack5503 At that time, the election commission didn't have ours online to check. And besides, she didn't expect there to be an error. She voted all the time. She was moved from one major polling to another. They moved her and forgot to make that final click to put her on the current rolls, or didn't send the current rolls to the polling place. But she wasn't on either. I drove her original one first. She hadn't moved or anything. Just dumped her elsewhere. And this past election, all because of a representative all the way to knoxville where historically only 650 ppl vote out of 10k, thought we were crowded at our polling place. Hell, we have picnics here. So, our polling place is moved 5 miles down the road in the city part, where they already have a voting place just to make it harder. My WWII veteran father voted all his life at one poll, then was switched out of the blue. One common theme... we're all Democrats in a sea of bible belt red...

[@ursaltydog]

@@vicmorrison8128 Yep.. although, they'd never met a woman who was fighting stage IV bone cancer, with a cane and spirit from being raised in Texas. She sat her ass down and refused to move until the Republican observer got on his phone and fixed it.

[@jamuraisack5503]

@@ursaltydog A: in Georgia you can check your status any time. B: they moved the poll to a CITY? Don't know of too many Red cities. Most of the rural poll closures around here have been the result of Dem shenanigans having them moved to cities.

[@SaintPatrick1970]

“Politicians are like diapers, they need to be changed often, and for the same reasons”….~Mark Twain 😎

[@ronaldgillette2356]

Politicians should NEVER get to pick their voters, the VOTERS pick the politicians.

[@saltwaterlou]

Well said, but that is how they are able to stay in power. It's the voter who have no power now.

[@Pooh68]

They are also trying to run the country, by staying in power, pushing the agenda to run the country instead of the people telling the politicians how to run the country.

[@markbrown8097]

Campaign donors (corporations and their lobbying groups) choose who can afford to run for office, in exchange for access (sway) over the politicians, and they fund both "sides" leaving "voters" with no real choice other than a little more or a little less of the same bs.

[@briseboy]

@@saltwaterlou This is due to clutching misinformation from others, or ads, or people you have been told to hate, without EVER checking your desires against the individual for whom you vote. Or not vote, in the case of a "proud" hispanic friend, who remains wilfully stupid abut his lazy refusal to vote.

[@jupitercyclops6521]

Also, a judge ruled in 2016 or 2017 that the dnc can chose any candidate they want regardless of how parry members voted so when they get to chose the 2 we get to pic from..... Wtf good is voting? We get to pick between evil 1or evil2. YIPPEE!!! NO WONDER WERW PICKING BETWEEN 2 EVILS EVERY ELECTION SINCE THEY SHOT KENNEDY. if you think your vote counts. You're in denial and you're part of the problem. It's an illusion of choice so we feel like we have a say because if enough people realized we don't have a say, maybe we'd do something about it. I had no idea Lewis was so naive.

[@suecastillo4056]

I love you Lewis… a breathe of fresh air reality♥️☮️

[@pfalzerwaldgumby4798]

Thinking about what Lewis ranted about as a teenager will stick in my brain for a month. It must have been epic.

[@s.d.3236]

I don't agree with everything he says, but the man is a f-n treasure

[@farelhettinger3512]

Yeap the treasure i dont aggree but l I get it politicians lack moral rectitude or a moral compass its required to lose your soul deal with the evil large sums Of money brings to game

[@m.k.c.5212]

If DeJoy(less) gets his way, we won't have MAIL either!!!!

[@suzystone244]

I'm voting for continued rants.❤

[@itsjustme8947]

I had moved back home on terminal leave prior to my retirement after three long decades. Anyway, it was the 2020 election. I had registered as a democrat in a 99.9% red county. Moving along, when it was finally my turn, they asked for ID. Sure. No problem. Handed over my drivers license. She checked her list, then looked at me and wanted proof of residency. Sure. No problem. Handed over my electric bill, property tax receipt, and a couple of pieces of mail where the address matched my license (I'm used to doing this anyway). She then asked me if I had any other form of official photo ID. Sure. No problem. I handed her my ID case with my USAF ID card and a couple of other agency ID's. Well, she looked at these and asked me, "Sir, how do I know this ID is actually real?" I was standing in front of her in my Class A uniform with the three stars of a Lieutenant General on my shoulders the entire time. I asked her if she would like for me to get the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs or perhaps the Secretary of Defense on the phone to vouch for me? She actually huffed at me, called her boss over to her line, explained what was going on, and would you believe that the 'boss' repeated the exact same dialog? It was like they were reading from a script with the heading 'Say This If A Democrat Tries to Vote'. The second harpy actually tried to get me to stand aside and wait "Until we can clear this up." Yes, they were going above and beyond the call to keep the thousand or so democrats in this county from voting. Now I often think that I spent a decade of my service dropping bombs on the wrong people! /smh

[@johngriffith6692]

I don't buy any of this

[@itsjustme8947]

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[@itsjustme8947]

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[@itsjustme8947]

@@johngriffith6692 Nobody asked you to, red-hat.

[@briankorbelik2873]

@@johngriffith6692 You don't have to, it's free if you have a coupon.

[@binoqlarz9471]

Yes! I say that all the time. Vote regardless of party affiliation. PEOPLE DIED FOR THE RIGHT!

[@glenchapman3899]

Absolutely. Democracy is an incredibly fragile thing

[@nonhatespeech]

Vote integrity not party. A vote for party is a wasted vote if there is no integrity in the person running.

[@itookallthenames]

Hi from Australia that’s all true even the sausage

[@angelamillard6418]

I love this man! Thought the coupons for voting was hysterical and so truly American!

[@Umustbekidn]

Lewis, I appreciate your frustration sir, even though I don't always agree with your point of view. You make me laugh, which is just as important as voting.

[@sharonsavage6679]

I Love & Appreciate Lewis Black I have for years now‼️ He rants his truth which happens to be what a lot of us feel but don't scream it out 🤭 Thanks Lewis for being our VOICE‼️

[@SirBarth]

I had my ballot filled out and set aside for voting - Damn near forgot today was the last day. I just dropped it off at the box. Thank you, Mr. Black. I appreciate the reminder! (Before anyone gets bent, and a few of you will - None yo business as to why.)

[@TanookiWario]

This is a stark contrast to George Carlin's view on voting.

[@einundsiebenziger5488]

Because it's the one point where the great George Carlin was dead wrong.

[@kidmohair8151]

@@einundsiebenziger5488 particularly the dead part

[@kidmohair8151]

Poor George is dead now though, so what he said then might not be what he'd say now

[@briseboy]

And you CHOOSE based upon comic jokes?

[@briseboy]

@@kidmohair8151 So what the fuck about ANYTHING someone who talks for cash says?

[@rachaelb9164]

Oregon has all mail in ballots. Anyone registered with the DMV is automatically registered to vote. You need ID to get your license or ID and they double check everyone’s signatures on the ballots. I know because they actually returned my wife’s ballot saying it didn’t match her DMV signature (one had a middle initial). You fill out your ballot at your leisure in the privacy of your own home. Then you drop it off at a ballot box or in the mail. Our voting system is messed up. Why do less populated areas have more representation than the most densely populated areas?

[@jameskirchner2655]

I'm embarrassed by our representatives that do nothing but help every one except us

[@Goffix2009]

Then they are not your representatives.

[@allen3397]

GQP, Yes !! That's Us !! "Solving preliminary Issues For Problems That Don't Exist"

[@franciscovarela7127]

Warning! Do not watch this while eating, you are in danger of choking in the middle of a belly laugh.

[@katdiabo7995]

My father fought for democracy, he was a US Marine, but first he was Native American, funny thing is, when he fought he didn't have the right to vote, but it was okay for him to fight. Native Americans were the last to get the right to vote and because of your new voting laws, (having a street address), most reservations, if not all do not have street addresses; so therefore your government has successfully taken away our right to vote. Last to get the right to vote and now the first to lose the right to vote. Nice going! (sarcasm).

[@marywood8794]

WE ARE A REALITY SHOW! Lol...because if you don't laugh, you cry.

[@ohms497]

Voted by mail-in ballot a couple weeks ago.

[@DasDutchman56]

For the Commie Biden ?

[@waituntilthebeep]

Guessing that you may have not actually voted for who you thought you did. That is unless you voted blue. Red state or not, mail in votes are turned blue by the cheating commie bastards funded by more commie bastards.

[@johnsprague960]

Tightly controlled in France. Mail in scandal involving the Post office, several elected officials and political party members years ago helped us learn our lesson. You have to apply and prove why you need a mail in ballot. I guess the US will have to learn for itself. I hope your scandal isn't too painful... or maybe you already had it and haven't realized it?

[@BarginsGalore]

What’s going on this these replies. The presidential election was 364 days ago. No one voted for Biden a couple of weeks ago

[@deborahmoir1468]

Like George Carlin, Lewis Black tells it like it is. I love him.

[@jessicamatei2116]

Love Lewis Black! He's one of my social political therapists cuz he makes me laugh while speaking the truth!🤩

[@bauhnguefyische667]

The king of political satire!

[@jerrycallender9927]

My gramma was a Suffragette and from her I learned that casting a ballot is a REQUIREMENT, and an OBLIGATION to live in a democracy and also bestows the RIGHT TO COMPLAIN! I don't care if there was only candidate on the ballot to count the number of clams on the Lynnhaven Fishing Pier, I VOTED! Whenever the "VOTE HERE" sign is in front of Bayside Baptist I stopped and voted! iF YOU don't vote you have NO RIGHT TO COMPLAIN, nor call yourself a P A T R I O T !

[@PredatorFan13]

He needs to be on TV more than just The Daily Show.

[@LeosHouse]

The last story was great! Giggled my ass off! Go vote and get your free coupon 😂

[@davekent4829]

True story, 1977, my buddy and I were drinking and walking around the neighborhood at 2 am, we passed a fire station that had a sign, "register to vote here", i had just turned 18, and the light was on, knocked on the door, the firefighters were having a good laugh, and signed us up!😎👍

[@susantwolfson3058]

Oh Lewis...I just love you!! And yes, you ARE smarter than most people.

[@n0tk0sher]

We always say, get people out to vote. But voters still need to be informed, and too many voters just don't know anything about the people for whom they're voting. It just goes back to poor education.

[@bohemianwriter1]

I bothered to vote this last election in Norway. Any ID with a picture is valid. Took me 6 minutes' walk to the local school to vote. All adults are automatically registered voters I think I took a short detour and went for a burger afterwards.. And a joint under my tree on my way home.

[@bohemianwriter1]

That's how easy it is to vote in Norway And we can vote by mail, or in drop boxes beforehand. Why do Americans have such fucking hard time understand that voting is a RIGHT?

[@paulheydarian1281]

@@bohemianwriter1 Because historically voting was a priviledge reserved for property owning white males only. It was assumed they would be god-fearing Christians too, and they had guns. Guns for killing animals, run away slaves, natives and poor whites.

[@angelapalmer6782]

​@@bohemianwriter1Because Americans don't even understand that we are entitled to healthcare, like every other large industrialized country in the world. Unfortunately we are full of ignorant people who seem hell bent on supporting corporations while they starve.

[@realmenhavelittledogs2661]

Dear god, a Lewis Black rant is like injecting dopamine and endorphins directly into my soul....

[@kevinpfeiffer4464]

Yes vote, but vote with knowledge of candidates and issues, not party affiliation. We the people are not sending the best and brightest to represent us in congress. If neither party can move this country forward, vote em out. We need a government that actually does something positive for the people not just special interests and doners.

[@mylowsparkofhigh-heeledboy779]

Thank the Divine Life Force for Lewis Black. Please do not die, America Needs you, and I am long in the tooth too, but I am holding out to stay alive at one of the most defining, important times in American history, because America needs the advice of its elders now more than ever. We have seen it, been a part of it, and we have lived it and have learned volumes about the way governments around the world operate. Young adults of the world, listen and take notice, "Your elders are speaking and do not dismiss us for being old, or you do so at your peril. You can learn plenty from us, so take heed and listen.

[@allen3397]

" In The Counsel Of Elders, There Is Safety", And I've Escaped, I've Always Been A Seeker, And I've Learned, It's Extremely Difficult, Once The "Spirit" Takes Hold, It Goes Beyond Reason, From What "These" Obtained , From The "Anointed" Sources, "Trusted" Media, Newsmax, Fox, Alex, Kunnanun, "Drenda", Daystar" Ahh But For These, Perhaps Their Senses Might Come To Alignment, And ,If Nothing Else, Be Sure The Practice, Of Over 1,500 Years, Now Engaged With The Tech Of The 21st, Century, To Hurl Us Back To The 13th Has Now Over 33000 Off-Shoots; (Denominations), That; If Put On And Island, They Would Decimate Each Other Within Two Years, This 2000+ Year Old Garbage, Should Be Tossed Into The Ash Heap Of History, As The Continuation of Such Want Of This Fallacy To Continue ; Is To Hold Our Continuation As A Species As "Irrelevant" To The "World" "These" Believe, Awaits Them

[@ProjectFlashlight612]

As Lew says - in Australia, if you're of voting age or older, it is illegal to NOT vote. Hefty fine if you refuse to or cannot without good reason cast your ballot.

[@m.k.c.5212]

In some countries, you are issued your voting ID (for FREE, like your Soc. Sec. #) when you are born. If you don't vote in an election, you get fined $ on your taxes.

[@leyrua]

Not voting is like protesting somebody robbing your house... by LETTING them rob your house unopposed. That'll show 'em. 🙄

[@jameshenry3802]

Love it, beautifully done. Laughed my ass off.

[@ronwingeart4345]

The only human voice that makes any sense to me, Thanks for all that is You Lewis Black ✌💛😁

[@Palmieres]

I live in a country that experienced close to 50 years of a fascist dictatorship. I didn't live through it but my parents did. Being raised by people who felt the oppression of not having a voice, I was taught to absolutely _not_ waste a chance to vote. Sometimes I don't even care about the outcome, I just go there and vote - because I am able to do it. Sometimes I vote just to spite the parties with whom I don't agree, and choose to take away any edge they might have by using my vote against them. I live here, I get a say in what happens, even if it's just a very small part of it.

[@allen3397]

I've Learned, Be Well, Stay Strong, And, Remain Informed

[@lseh4720]

And I bought tickets to your show. Sat in the very last row but loved it anyway. Thanks!!!

[@earlofsmeg]

(SIGH) I watched this now, I can go back to work. Got my dose of in/sanity for today.

[@vicmorrison8128]

If everyone who is eligible vote, had the unhindered opportunity to vote, and voted, there would never be another republican voted into office. That's their worst nightmare.

[@PK_Rocking]

Keep that idiot dream alive. Your party has been a stain on this republic since 1893.

[@957kper]

Just a question ...Who has not had the right or ability to cast a vote in the U.S ...Anyone that has been denide the right to vote ...list your self here...speak up...tell me why you were stopped from voting ...where and when ...because Im 60years old and Black ...and have never had any problems voting .. So where is all this voter surpression going on ...

[@vicmorrison8128]

@@PK_Rocking you mean our "Democratic Republic". Don't take my word for it, look it up. We are not an autocracy ...yet. But they keep trying to turn the US into Putins playland.

[@PK_Rocking]

@@vicmorrison8128 My word, you try and Steelman this with even more BS, then go "Russian". I want whatever you are smoking. Here is a tip, I know you wont take it but you will get it later on in life. You are not a leader. You are a follower and that is ok. What you need to do in your life is question everything. Stop needing a Father "Government" run your life. Listen to Tool - Think for yourself, it will help you later on trust me :). I can even go deeper search George Carlin - Why I Don't Vote.

[@blackscreenstories3704]

@@PK_Rocking keep putting on your makeup Arthur Fleck

[@patrickskramstad1485]

Thank you for your help with this matter :)

[@Joe-eq8we]

Love ya, Lewis! You're going to be in Humboldt County in two days AND I CANT MAKE IT! We have a baby at home. Please come back soon!!!

[@rainmanjr2007]

@8:46. That's where I am. Thank the writer, thank you for reading it, and nice jacket color for you.

[@miditrax]

Thanks for giving some much needed perspective...stay safe and healthy

[@IvoMiller]

So Great Australia

[@jelloman80]

You always put a smile on my face, almost the same way when I find a 20 dollar bill in an old jacket pocket

[@rberliner6680]

That’s sad

[@allen3397]

Eloquent

[@UAPG007]

Really needed this tonight... TY Lewis...

[@budmoore7971]

I live in Missouri and He NAILED IT!!!

[@evasilvagni5304]

Why vote for someone you did not elect to be a candidate? Party conventions to designate a candidate are a scam.

[@jerrycallender-qm7zr]

MY gramma was a Suffragette and I've not missed casting a ballot, even if there was only ONE candidate for County Goose counter, in 68 years and voting gives ME the RIGHT to COMPLAIN!

[@nerfherder4284]

You have one homework assignment as an adult! 😂👍🏻

[@detectivedickcrispy7819]

Mr Black, I've been a huge fan of yours and saw you in Georgia and New York twice. Thank you for your comedy and honesty. I'm so sorry to inform you that anti-climate change, right-wing jerks have placed their advertisements on your videos.

[@brianlevine1479]

I worked with a guy who did complain all the time about "The Government". Never voted in any election any where at any time. "

[@michaelreidperry3256]

I voted. I live to vote.

[@daveluttinen2547]

In Seattle there was a wonderful editorialist named Emmett Watson who published an article before an election titled "Vote Yes on Proposition No" where he would lampoon the language of certain policies that needed voter approval, showing how the wording was designed to sway your opinion. Go vote. Thank you.

[@NigelDeForrest-Pearce-cv6ek]

Brilliant!!!

[@macanoodough]

Australia won't be that way for long. Our government is working hard to erase any trace of a society that runs that well on what we used to call "The New Deal". The concept that government manages it's industry while supporting it's society. As opposed to what we have now in this country, which is the exact opposite.

[@johnsprague960]

Australia also doesn't enjoy the presence of 28 million non citizens living undocumented in their country. Also, their immigration is merit based. If you don't have a trade skill or education which they need or feel their country will benefit from, you don't get to immigrate there.... and it's an island. Not exactly the same comparing Australia to the US.

[@Ryan-nn1kl]

@@johnsprague960 he didn't mention the USA at all

[@einundsiebenziger5488]

... its* industry, its* society (it's = it is) ...

[@macanoodough]

@@johnsprague960 Comparatively, they have a large indigenous population they deal with as opposed to sending them to reservations to live in squalor. They also have a labor shortage that sees them import workers form Indonesia. They wish they had an immigrant population. Workers who pay income tax and never collect at the end of the year. In the U.s. it is some $14bn. More than the top 1% pay. So get a clue, read a book and stop acting like you weren't the dumbest kid in class.

[@johnsprague960]

@@Ryan-nn1kl I took this to be a reference to the US when he described Australia and followed with "As opposed to what we have now in this country, which is the exact opposite."

[@darcymunro8930]

Make voting For everyone has to vote.

[@cameron398]

Buwhahahah. This aged so damn well. 10% inflation, being laughed at by other countries (I was in Germany for the last three years), and even such a disgrace the first time Air Force Academy student laughed at a sitting president.

[@fumble_brewski5410]

“The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.” -- Charles Bukowski

[@jds6206]

You, or Charles Bukowski, rather, describe today's Right Wing party, perfectly. "It" yearns to be a Dictatorship or at least an Autocracy.

[@coryhoggatt7691]

@@jds6206 hilarious. It’s Democrats who are banning soda and taxing rain.

[@OneAdam12Adam]

Spoken like a Russian Disinformation Troll Farm

[@miguelalaniz8303]

Imagine Lewis Black.Paul Mooney. Richard Pryor.and Dave Chappelle TOGETHER .talking comedy about any subject 😅😅😅

[@jharnden7931]

North Korea suggested raising and eating Black Swans (ballet be very afraid). They ran out of supplies to print money. You could get a limited number of N.K. money coupons to print out. So, just clip coupons and everything will be alright.

[@flylooper]

God bless you, Lewis. You're the best.

[@dE3Lov]

Thank you for ranting about NC.

[@bradbaker9510]

Lewis . thank you

[@janetpattison8474]

Nov. 2nd…Voted today….what a hassle….went to wrong place……they threw out my ballot but didn’t tell me.….I found out at the next “correct” voting hall….. I must vote again…. But my research on who’s who and running for office is at home….. and I don’t recall the details which is on my voting sheet that they threw away…. I have no time to vote again, must get mom….I’m bummed…..don’t want a republican for mayor…. Present mayor banned trump from the city, and I love him for that….long day taking care my 94 year old mom, but I need to rush like a maniac back to town to get to the polls before they close at seven. And I’m pissed all day that they threw out my ballot. I want to know WHY? Why is it all so complicated when we have such a high tech society? So annoying that so many people without transportation or ID will be discouraged from voting or unable to vote. I don’t get why some people believe that voting doesn’t matter, especially after a four year+ nightmare with trump…. Ugh! Why is it so so complicated?

[@Lee-fi4vo]

Some states allow permanent mail-in voting, like Calif. and Fla. You vote weeks early, and there is not such much focus on "one day", Election Day. Look into main-in/absentee voting.

[@allen3397]

The Word Is; Obfuscation, Confuse The Issue, But Be Sure Elements Are Included Not Having ANYTHING To Do With The Matter At Hand, And Augment The Element, And The Element, Now Is; Or Determines, The Issue

[@rolandgore6937]

amazing. Rants on voting is right on.

[@CARRJ142]

Great Video!

[@erNomic]

What a load of it. The only issue we should be pressing is campaign finance reform. Getting private money out of elections is key to why our system seems so broken.

[@lizrohme2232]

Love you Lewis♥️

[@lynnfyffe7910]

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding on what's for dinner

[@MelioraCogito]

... and the voter is the _naïve_ lamb.

[@samuelbailey3045]

Lewis Black is Cut From the Same Cloth as George Carlin was, they speak the truth.

[@jeanetteschock4744]

I love you so fucking much goddammit Lewis you have saved my little bit of sanity ❤

[@Justabadseed]

Lewis Black has been one of the voices in my head since before Inside Out made it cool

[@stephaniehand503]

thanks

[@progressor4ward85]

I think that every poll taken should always include the question, do you think you're vote matters, so we can gage people's confidence in the process. We know people don't vote but even those people will say, who they would vote for, at the same time they know that they won't vote because they think their vote won't matter. That becomes a false representation of the poll. If we knew the percentage of people polled who don't think their vote will matter, we could adress that instead of crossing our fingers wondering if there'll be a good turnout.

[@Moondawg47]

no vote, no complaint

[@leslieaday7422]

United, ll just have no idea how grateful

[@omgandwtf1]

Any voter fraud widespread enough to make a difference would be fairly easy to detect.

[@OCDustin]

Well said.

[@ObservingLibertarian]

In Australia, you have 1) compulsory voting, and can be fined if you do not vote. Yet, somehow, also, you have 2) No voter ID system. How exactly do they know who did and who did not vote - in order to fine those who did not vote: while simultaneously not IDing people to know who did and did not vote?

[@WJV9]

Voter registration database contains a list of everyone who is registered to vote in that precinct. How many people do you know that would stand in line for hours to cast a vote in someone else's name/address? It is a federal offense with a prison sentence and with an average voter turnout of 45% I don't think it's a big problem. We have spent hundreds of millions since Nov. 2020 and proved conclusively that it is not a problem. What is a problem is voters in inner cities having the number of polling places reduced and ballot boxes removed so they have to stand in line for 5 or 6 hours to vote. Preventing people from voting or making it difficult is a national problem, Why don't we vote on Sat/Sun? Make it a national holiday and allow 3 to 4 weeks of early voting to reduce crowding on election day. Eliminate gerrymandering with independent commissions or better yet group districts together to 'at large' representation and use 'Ranked Choice Voting' so third party candidates have a chance rather than winner take all.

[@maryknight4109]

Deleted User - Did you ask them?

[@ObservingLibertarian]

Was any of that list of complaints about Australia - the place I asked questions about? I noticed you started making recommendations for changes to be made in the US: well I have a few as well. Since so many democrats claim that voter ID is racist - because you know: the coloreds aren't educated enough to obtain either drivers licenses or state identifications - that is quite legitimately the claim unironically made by democrats. I propose, social security numbers - every legal citizen has one Over seen by multiple law enforcement agencies. Logged and checked for duplicates, deceased entries and identity theft. Copies of the entire voting record to be kept by the county clerks - and further copies also transported by law enforcement teams, with signed chain of custody, to a multi-agency task force to investigate for fraudulent entries. All the individual voter has to do is show up, type in their social, type click their votes and or type in their write in entries, and then sign their name. Then off they go, easy as you please - couldn't possibly be easier, in fact. One vote, per lawfully eligible citizen. Such a system, however, would make it remarkably difficult to forge ballots, or enter duplicate votes in different counties using "bussing", or use the names of the dead, or illegal aliens. Which is why that's not something you would ever support implementing: *no matter how easy to access and use by the voter* - which was the focus of your post - you would never support the above system because it would make fraud significantly more difficult to accomplish.

[@ObservingLibertarian]

@@maryknight4109 My comment was 3 sentences long: the third sentence - was a question - asking exactly that.

[@maryknight4109]

@@ObservingLibertarian- I had assumed that you were in Australia; hence, my comment. My apologies for that.

[@stevenmccart8502]

God I love Lewis Black.

[@smmydvr]

Thank you for posting, The best logic here is at 17:00 to 17:45 and I have said it all my life. Arm chair quarterbacking somebody else's performance is not a right. It is so bull sh*t that people who did nothing to express themselves feel badly that things didn't just meet their desires.

[@douglasmckee9574]

ABSOLUTELY

[@robertgreen9150]

Love ya!

[@CMBell1985]

I just got a Mega Church ad after clicking on this video. The fn irony.