The Rise Of War: Trump vs Biden, Israel-Palestine, Russia- Ukraine, AI & Elon Musk | Ian Bremmer

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Is there an existential threat to democracy? Will America see a civil war in 2024?
From the potential consequences for individual countries to the global economy and political system, today's conversation is not just about asking hard questions, but finding a path forward in times of radicalization, misinformation, and geopolitical turbulence.
Ian Bremmer is a political scientist, author, and entrepreneur focused on global political risk. He is the founder and president of Eurasia Group, a political risk research and consulting firm, and GZERO Media, a digital media company covering global affairs.
In today’s thought-provoking episode, Ian and I go deep into geopolitics as he shares his insights on pressing global issues including:
- the geopolitical stakes of the US election
- what role AI plays in spreading misinformation
- impacts of lies and loss of credibility on governance
- the influence of economic disparity on cultural behaviors
- scenarios for Trump or Biden election victories
- fragmentation risks of NATO and the Ukrainian political system
You can download Eurasia Group's Top Risks for 2024 report here: www.eurasiagroup.net/issues/t...
Chapter Markers:
[00:00] Civil war in America
[08:10] Potential impacts of the 2024 election.
[27:34] Problems with the growing income gap.
[34:07] Dark money in American politics
[51:15] Rising tensions in the Middle East
[01:13:09] Guardrails preventing WW3
Powerful Insights From Ian Bremmer:
“It's not that we're going to start blowing ourselves up. It's more that we aren't capable of having a free and fair election that the entire country believes in anymore."
"Globalization is absolutely great for the United States, but globalism sucks for the average American."
"The CDC has taken a massive hit of trust and has become politicized in the United States. And we need to be able to believe our doctors and our scientists, we need that."
“...In the last 40 years, church membership has fallen off a cliff in the United States. Belief in the church, trust in the church, has gone way down. Just like belief in Congress, the belief in the public school system…just like belief in the judiciary."
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[@TheDavidgweeden]

He said 'single party democracy' with such love. This man is dangerous.

[@joshm8661]

I think it's pretty clear what side he's on by judging what he's saying. America hasn't been a democracy for quite some time now. Money over everything.

[@GabrielBacon]

Never was. Republics are in place to protect us against democracy. Democracy is bill gates & 2 other people voting on how to tax high earners.

[@VicCave]

Have you ever watched Whitney Webb interviews? The system is rigged, and it’s corrupt to the core. Americans believe in the myth that a president can save us. Whoever wins…nothing changes.

[@Kick_Rocks]

The United States was NEVER a democracy. It’s a constitutional representative republic.

[@Nancy-V]

EXACTLY! Well said!

[@GlassDragon0069]

Government is being run by criminals how goal is to get rich now is filleted down to poblic

[@summiteyes1]

I was surprised to hear Ian mention the trucker "riots" in Ottawa. Riots? What riots? It was one of the most peaceful and effective demonstrations in history.

[@artanddesign8561]

The guys just another tool for the elite, a backwards visionary of what serves his own pocketbook

[@poloelvira]

This guy is not a thinker or an analyst. He is a *regime* propagandist.

[@deathmetalcakefarts2751]

It got shut down because of all those trucks honking there were tens of thousands of East Indians that I just emigrated here and they couldn’t sleep

[@Samammie]

Bro, I was thinking the same thing..and then he is literally like "I am impartial I don't belong to a political party" but his bias's are baked into his "analysis'. I can't believe he tried to pull the "Russia invaded for NO REASON" thing as well quite a few others I noticed..typical of someone who is part of that elite class..he has NO idea what it is like for those struggling...come on man..I think many people who are apolitical (which is many many people) should REALLY do a deep dive and try to figure out WHY people feel a certain way...and what you come out with might actually surprise and scare the shit out of you..and might change your beliefs. I think many people want to virtue signal and vote for Dems because they are the "politically correct" party..but in all reality that has not been the case for quite some time. The corruption is rampant and REAL change has to happen. Career politicians will not get the job done..they will just keep accumulating power and passing terrible legislation and letting the 3 letter agencies invade the privacy of the American people. The constitution is CLEAR on many key tenets that people haven't even learned correctly because the public education system is just an indoctrination camp. The wolves are leading the sheep into tyranny disguised as "security and safety" and the climate change agenda, scaring the living shit out of kids and young adults, confusing them by injecting gender ideology marxism into education. Shameful really.

[@user-xk1ff4gp7k]

He's still pushing a semi woke agenda I pay him as little attention as you possibly can

[@Cuefrost101]

It's not the institutions... It's the selfish hearts of this America... When the mind is offended; the heart is revealed.

[@Jurmyhyle12]

Can someone tell this guy Europe is seriously crazy right now. This guy makes it seems like Europeans are just sitting around a fireplace with a book and debating their opinions on Americans.

[@allisonleighandrews8495]

In what way is Europe crazy?

[@TheWild_Living_Nature]

This guy is so far from reality and real daily life of the normal person it’s scary!

[@TheWild_Living_Nature]

France is a military state right now! FARMERS are PROTESTING in FRANCE, GERMANY, NETHERLANDS(one of the largest exporting food countries) Italy and Romania Farmers are protesting!!!

[@the.bonsai.samurai]

Americans can't be taken seriously when it comes to their opinions of the world. They're too far gone, lived too long in a debt fueled society detached from true suffering. Come live in a 3rd world country with 40% unemployment, then I'll take your opinions seriously.

[@GoreMetal]

Facts

[@tgmotz]

Can't stand it when someone says, "The people are well intentioned but its the system that is broken". Systems are used by people. Systems don't act on their own and people using the "system" are the ones generating the observable outcomes. These people are the bad ones. The system is just a tool.

[@Kobby405]

Its a tactic to shift blame bc he likely is one of those people or knows them. He doesn't want to lose any of his friends, colleagues, family members or neighbors.

[@ogmaharpocrates2742]

True, the system is just a tool but we also know that people are as bad, greedy, corrupt, selfish etc etc... as they are allowed to be (by law, regulation etc...)

[@Kobby405]

@ogmaharpocrates2742 exactly! For example, the US is $34 trillion in debt. Who owns majority of the debt (treasury bills, notes, and bonds) and profits (receive interest) of the debt? You guessed it, Americans! (individual investors, the US Government itself, pensions, brokerage firms, banks, local governments, insurance companies, private equity). Who created the debt? Yup, Americans! (US Congress, State and local governments). Who consumes majority of the debt? Yup, Americans! (Mostly boomers through social security and military spending controlled by the same demographic). Who pays the debt and the interest? You were fuckin right again... Americans (living and yet to be born) who do not own a significant amount of any debt or asset (the bottom 80%). Americans are enslaving Americans.

[@okeeydokeeey321]

Just what i was going to say,... save your money or it will be gone. If by chance a gop person gets in even less protections for you. There is no way trump will win. No way,... he is such a loser. ​@@ogmaharpocrates2742

[@tinaelsden7975]

Not our system, our system in the US uses the God out of their people. And generally to promote others and continue taking from us

[@TheKlickitat]

How can you take someone serious who doesn't even know what form of government we have.

[@jaysonstoinski1306]

This turmoil exists particularly in America because our population here is either dim or highly uninformed

[@Paulo19739]

From an outside perspective, there appears to be a mix of religious fanaticism that confuses desires with rights, and a middle class that has lost its safety net to neoliberalism. I keep seeing companies forcing their hands so that workers don't join unions. Let's remember that at the beginning of capitalism, there were children working in coal mines for 12, 14 hours a day and if there are rights today, union struggles are responsible for this. And by the way, the United States is the only industrialized country without a universal healthcare system. It's quite strange

[@user-nv3kx2dl3o]

Illegals+woke+welfare+ghetto

[@rigelb9025]

How about both.

[@SeanEustace-zk3mc]

No, the problems exist in America because the upper class manipulates the economy and the laws for their own benefit and externalize all the costs onto everyone underneath them. It’s simple supply and demand economics they bring in immigrants to drive down wages, and those immigrants have to live somewhere, so they drive the cost of housing up, you cannot show me anywhere in the world where you have high rents and low wages without mass immigration. Yes, the people are dumb down because rich people don’t want to pay taxes the schools except for their kids and they don’t mind bending money to fill the airwaves and the Internet with bullshit propaganda to brainwash these uneducated fools which exist for no other reason then they have caused the system to work the way it does in order to keep them dumb down. Look at all of the insanity that has taken place since the 1960s when Kennedy fired a bunch of generals over operation Northwoods it is the Ivy League educated elite that I’ve run the country since World War II using the intelligence services and corporate entities to manipulate the population into excepting things and population never excepted such as homosexuality and liberalization. These people think it’s great. Meanwhile, everything they push, has an ulterior motive, women in the workforce depressed as wages for men so that people can’t get by on one income anymore. climate change is just a scheme to set up the carbon credits, games and extract money from the people after the population decline makes the economy smaller. Just another series of convenient accidents like all the other accidents perpetrated by your supposedly stupid government that always happens to benefit the wealthy and those in power just like when your boss screws up your hours at work by accident of course but every time there’s an accident it’s always steer employers benefit . At some point you wake up and figure it out where you keep your head buried in the Sand the choice is yours.

[@ontexastime6690]

The population is empirically getting dimmer. The average U.S. National IQ has dropped from 100 to 98, a consequence of massive immigration from countries with lower average IQ scores.

[@ryandunnigan889]

Respectfully when he said truckers riots I need to leave the podcast now. It disqualifies everything he said. Canada Supreme Court just ruled it was unlawful what they did to those guys.

[@loulastname5437]

I'm only 10 minutes in and this guy is a total tool talking out his ass. This guy has no clue. He needs to sharpen his pencil.

[@maryhumphreys2931]

I totally agree with you!

[@BrianAnu]

Wow, me too.

[@angelikakollin28]

Exactly!

[@ecosignals]

Division has knocked on Canada & Europe too. Are there things that you are doing in effort to help yourself or community understand one another? Can we somehow spark something constructive in a random internet comment, which can spill over to Canada, Europe, and USA? Actually. For my part, I start by acknowledging everything I think or interpret is not necessarily gospel. That my understanding evolves.

[@towboattrash]

When he said “your feelings about whether the economy is good or bad is directly related to your political affiliation…” I almost spit my coffee out my nose. What?!!!

[@TWE_2000]

Thats been known for years. All the polls show that since 2016 republicans and democrats will think the economy is terrible under the other side, and the minute their guy wins they think the economy is great.

[@nexuscato655]

I was thinking the same rent in my city has tripled in only 12 years that is not a feeling this guy disconnected from reality or too rich to understand the struggle of working class folks like myself. Maybe I have misunderstanding of what a good economy means perhaps the term does not include upward mobility for the next generation

[@martinbrizuela3289]

So what he is referring to here is something that has shown up in surveys in the past few decades. What they show is a direct link between how voters feel about the economy is correlated to which party holds the White House. Also note, that people's views about the economy is different from what they feel about their own situation. For instance, right now most polls show that a lot of people worried about the economy are less worried about their own finances.

[@roscmon]

Same. These people who are holding a job, or who are retired seniors, and they're getting priced out of their rentals and facing homelessness... THOSE people only judge the state of our economy based on which political party they believe in? The people who can't afford much needed medication think our economy is doing pretty good because their party is in office? Pfffttt. This guy lost all credibility when he said that.

[@noahsharif9280]

He is making a point more then saying red vs blue have different ideas at looking at the same thing. From an economic standpoint, America is doing very good right now, but the benefits go strait to the top 1%, the very same people driving this massive 25-26Trillion GDP economy. Normal people (in money terms) don't get the benefits of this progress. If we all could agree that focusing on prospects for children who haven't been born yet deserve more attention then those who are already in the suffering of today, we could work to a future where we align things like GDP output to citizen gain. As is, while capitalize is clearly better then the other current options, we do not have a way of safeguarding the less monetarly educated working class. They will just keep working till they die as they always have. It's high time society does it's side of the deal to progress humanity, or the weak will suffer what the must as the rich do as they please. The long and short of it is focus on making life for someone else's kids better, safer, more opportunity to spend our short lives how we choose. We are close but still have more suffering to do, and we won't see the benefit, it's a sick joke but it is reality. 😅

[@stephaniel.a.7124]

This is exactly what someone would say prior to a civil war breaking out lol

[@rigelb9025]

Yeah I mean, he failed to convince me with his entire argument beginning the very moment after he said the word 'no'. The mere fact that this subject is on the table right now & is being brought up within such a high-tension atmosphere - says a lot, to say the least.

[@user-ou8sd1iw4b]

Two great people on the same wavelength to share unconditional truth about life in the USA 🇺🇸 and the world 🌍 today. Thank you 🙏 💯

[@thegilliandavis8203]

I love your work, Tom but when your guest started popping off about Canada and the Trucker's protest and how democracy has only slightly erroded in Canada - I'm sorry but he obviously knows very little or anything about what is actually going on in Canada! I was doing journalistic work and went to the Trucker's protest to see for myself what was actually going on - it was not what it has been made out to be by mainstream media and your guest! There are hundreds, if not thousands of hours of footage as to what was really going on down there. It wasn't "mostly peaceful" it was peaceful and the events that I witnessed while I was there were absolutely heartwarming! I wrote a book about the issues between Western Canada and Eastern Canada and the idea of separation. While I was in Ottawa, I saw Quebecer's and Western Canadians hugging and agreeing on issues that they have misunderstood each other on since the inception of this country! It wasn't a whites only episode either - there were people from all different ethnic and religious backgrounds - Sikhs, Hindus, Muslims, Jews, Christians, Indigenous, Blacks, Middle Eastern, Chinese, Europeans...you name it, they were all there. As for Rebel News - I've followed Ezra Levant for many years and have always said you have to take a handful of salt with his stories. It's not that he lies, it's just that he is extremely biased and exaggerated more like a tabloid than anything else. I have colleagues and friends who have worked for him, some love him some aren't so happy but ultimately, he covers things that a lot of media don't. I don't like the often "gottcha" style of Rebel News, but I appeciate their right to cover stories and object to them being harrassed, censored and bullied by other media outlets and our own government that is supposed to be encouraging the freedom of the press! On that note - Censorship in Canada is absolutely out of control! I have articles I wrote a couple of years ago that I put up on my FB feed back when I wrote them - because of Trudeau's censorship bills, they aren't visible on social media anymore - there's a graphic that comes up and says "this post is not available in Canada" - a Canadian reporter putting up content written by and for Canada and it's not available in Canada - riddle me that one and tell me again how democracy is still alive and well in Canada!? Back to the Trucker's protest - the Emergencies Act was used and now has been found illegal and unconstitutional and yet there will be no consequences for our government. People have sat in jail for two years, others have been dragged through the courts and still more have had their bank accounts frozen all for supporting a group of people who had enough of lockdowns and the insane and inconsistent rules/mandates being enforced against the people of Canada! That damage that was done has been far greater than what we lost - including the trust in our government and institutions! It is so obvious that your guest, though I assume highly educated and knowledgable on some things - outed himself as a biased and ill-informed spreader of misinformation himself. I'm afraid my first impression of him is not a good one. I realize that you try not to be biased yourself and try to learn from varying perspectives, and I would encourage you to listen to Viva Frei, a former Montreal, Canada litigator who has now moved to Florida because of everything that has gone on here in Canada. Another highly respected journalist is Rex Murphy. That is, of course, if you are at all interested in the death of democracy in such an open and pluraistic, liberal democracy like Canada once was. And I say that as someone who lived in Belfast, Northern Ireland during the troubles - I was a teenager and came to realize just how blessed I was to grow up in Canada. Sadly, that is currently not the case and I only hope that we can stop this degradation before any more harm is done. )Please note that I only touched the surface of what is going on here - there is more, much more and very frightening...and on your northern border.)

[@magdalaas]

Canada is 100% communistic. Like Australia and most other countries now. It is also called globalism. The main stream media is the poison and the enemy of the people. The world is run by satanic paedophiles who are bribed and blackmailed by the few above them. But their end is near!

[@silviamartin2823]

I tottaly agree

[@tinae2659]

100%. Our family attended the trucker convoy protest in four different occasions and it was 100% peaceful. And they were 100% in the right.

[@freedomlife3623]

Peaceful by honking night & day? By blocking the capital’s downtown? By blocking our major trading route with US? Are you that blind?

[@montrelouisebohon-harris7023]

What happened to those? Truckers sounds very familiar to what happened to the people that were at the capital on January 6 because over 1000 people were arrested simply for standing in the grass or because capital police allowed them into the US Capitol and they said it was trespassing because it was closed due to COVID-19, etc. etc. but the people who broke windows which were probably around 12 people did make me angry. There were also people at the US Capitol that day, wanting to burn down the Capital and they were members of BLM and antifa, and there were also feds on the ground and we can tell by the videos because they’re bigger guys all dressed in black but they’re not Antifa or BLM because they’re too big and they had earpieces. The FBI Director was not being completely honest, and he just refused to answer the question when he was subpoenaed to come in to Congress, and he would just not answer the question about feds being on the ground that day. The capital police treated piece for people terribly and when people were walking along the grass they were shooting off tear gas and some other kind of chemical at them and started shooting plastic. Bluetooth these people and President Trump asked for 10,000 National Guard to be there January 2, January 3 fourth and fifth and speaker Pelosi denied every single request. !!!

[@NFRiacowboy]

I would say that this lost of trust on the "system" is happening in other countries, not just in America.

[@ashfield1425]

Most of those countries where trust has been lost are vassals of the U.S. Maybe it’s time those other countries unhooked themselves from the US such as Europe, UK, Australia, Canada, Japan etc.

[@KariKreps-ps3jx]

It is true that info i being supressed there and here..They don't want us to know..anywhere..DAVOS SAID THEY WOULD DO IM MASS SCALE. America is there target..The One World Order will be shut down if Trump is president..

[@KariKreps-ps3jx]

I cannot seem to post truth . Re Davos interfence.

[@ForageGardener]

​@@KariKreps-ps3jxno one can post truth anymore

[@RosaPerez-wj7vc]

Yes, but we set the tone, abroad people listen and many still believe in the american media like cnn.

[@pkpapers]

Baseball cap worn backwards indoors: so tacky! Will it never end?

[@myceliata]

Great interview, Tom. I am thoroughly impressed with Ian Bremmer. It is clear from the comments that the sense of community amongst different politicial spectrums is lacking in Europe as well as the US - I hope that we will be able to pull our democratic societies out of this state.

[@joealvarez1115]

Ethical leadership is needed in America across the board, gov, corporations...etc

[@germanshepard7749]

It is moral leadership that is needed.

[@ukjw2]

It’s not happening. We are going the opposite way. Latam and african style, in your face corruption

[@altastorm]

@@germanshepard7749 moral is relative . Ethical is universal. So he’s right

[@Koryogden]

I don't agree, Ethical and Moral aren't enough. Integral Leadership could do it though

[@Koryogden]

​@@altastormno I think Integral is better than both of those , and Holistic is the top

[@rubyslippers9140]

I do not agree with the leading indicator of how one feels about the economy is political affiliation. Its the cost of food, gas, electricity. If you are routinely shocked by food prices how can you feel positive about the economy.

[@lpslancelot05]

work harder, reduce your costs where possible.

[@gsxr8021]

@@lpslancelot05 Even if you take income out of it, things are simply way more expensive. It is not only hurting people it is hurting businesses as well.

[@PricelessBinkey1337]

It's harder for the average Joe to find a job that isn't flipping burgers, and even that job alone is practically useless to have considering inflation has made the wages for flipping burgers impossible to live off of. The audacity of this guy to say "tHe eCoNoMy iS sTrOnG"

[@lpslancelot05]

@@gsxr8021 I agree, things are more expensive. This is not in doubt. Where we may disagree is what should be done about it. I do not believe we have any control over it, complaining about it doesn't help. All we can do is improve our situations. Most people spend their time complaining, rather than actually improving their current situation. One is emotional (complaining), the other is logical and masculine (reason).

[@lpslancelot05]

@@PricelessBinkey1337 I rent rooms out of my house, and I have guys who flip burgers and can afford to live a decent lifestyle. It's not impossible, but it is difficult. No amount of complaining will change this. Which they sometimes do. I tell them, if you consider history, their lifestyles are akin to wealthy people. Clean home, food meat, ac, internet. It's just the standard of the "basics" has risen, and the inequality makes people feel less worthy (emotional).

[@robertmikes619]

These discussions grossly undestimate the impact of Climate Change and many of the countrys and regions discussed here will be unable to feed themselves particularly with their exploding population rates !

[@dnkomos1]

I THOUGHT THIS COUNTRY WAS A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC NOT A DEMOCRACY

[@jandrewshelley]

Many love the "constitutional republic" point. Why do you like it? What does it mean for you?

[@jamieb3485]

It protects the minority, the individual ... democracy is mob rule ​@@jandrewshelley

[@jamieb3485]

Democracy is majority rule. Republic defends the rights of the minority and individual​@@jandrewshelley

[@thetroytroycan]

Precisely

[@WanderingWarrior1776]

​, it guarantees the endowed enshrined Rights of the Individual

[@julieweiner1623]

Economy is perrfect for the only people that matter, the rich and corporations

[@user-dj6hu9gq4t]

End Stage Capitalism is slow and grinding. Acid Capitalism has no cure. We are in the midst of one, just can’t tell yet.

[@thomascramer3851]

​@@user-dj6hu9gq4tAmerica's in the beginning stages of socialism. With socialism comes anarchy, starvation, and civil unrest. Exactly, how the global elites are drawing it up. The New World Order. One world government, one world ruler, one world religion.

[@selamawittato4773]

True

[@gprufino]

Correct.

[@opris_music]

WHY are “young people” on the side of Palestine via social media?! It’s because we get first hand accounts of genocide!

[@user-fw6uv4jy9m]

You are 1 million percent correct on every single word you said. God bless our country.

[@itiswhatitis4018]

Not 1 million percent he’s wrong about the conflict between Ukraine and Russia

[@sharonmessenmaker6311]

Describing the democracy nowaday in the U.S and saying it didn’t worked and function like this!?? PLEASE. It has always worked liked that, but now its out in the open for everybody to see.

[@yvonne2965]

Just like the host saying that maybe the way to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is to give Palestinians a sense of security & a bright future !!!!Uhhh? Who took that away from them to begin with 🙄..

[@pastexpiry2013B]

Up until BIDEN there wasn't the use of Lawfare to get rid of an opponent, or BLUE states taking someone off the presidential ballot, all while saying the other side was fascist.

[@yvonne2965]

@@pastexpiry2013B Y’all are playing with Fire and you will be to blame when Amerikkka lays out it’s Nazi plans .. this is not a game

[@mydogskips2]

@@pastexpiry2013B Before Trump, there was no reason to. No President had tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power after losing an election.

[@abd5441]

@@pastexpiry2013B Dump was indicted by a GRAND JURY in each of the 4 criminal cases. The overwhelming majority of witnesses against him are his former staffers and appointees, fellow Republicans. He was already found civilly liable for defamation and sexual abuse by a JURY of his peers. You think a President should be able to be a one man crime wave & face zero consequences? Grow up. Facts don’t care about your feelings!

[@kylerobinson8336]

On the issue of the border, why does Ukraine funding for their war need to be tied with border?

[@mduckett8194]

They tie the boarder to the Ukraine, to get republicans to drive it to the public.

[@mduckett8194]

Don’t kid yourself, our government is corrupt. And if we didn’t have the 2nd amendment, Tiananmen Square would wash across America like a wild fire.

[@christine92074]

How else are crooked politicians going to get rich if they stop the funneling and money laundering through Ukraine?

[@benlagging2265]

It was a tactic to get the DIMs on board with a better border policy. For them to take it seriously. We will give you Ukraine funding for a better border. It failed, now, when they passed the Ukraine funding without the border in the bill. We should be doing single item bills for funding.

[@user-us3pd7nw6x]

Repub want border closed, Dems want money they can give Ukraine and get kick backs. Dems will not close border...Ukraine does not get money. Its called negotiating

[@logicalthinker78]

Thanks .... bremmer!, we appreciate your feedback!

[@Motoguy94]

The fact that he believes that Trump tried to overturn a "free and fair" election shows how out of touch this guy is.

[@joshuamiller7814]

I am an independent, i can tell you the middle class is suffering right now. Everyone i know is negatively affected by inflation, and it's not going to get better in the long term. It you are not feeling it, you are not in the middle class. You are in the upper middle class, or you are wealthy.

[@avi8tor225]

This guy says the economy is great so….

[@LWRC]

Even the wealthy feel it!!! Believe it or not!!! Not everyone has a few hundred billion in the bank ready for a rainy day!!!

[@williamplants67]

So…. Must be true! 😂😂😂but seriously… we’re fucked. Like no matter who wins 😅😅😅

[@adamjturek]

It’s much more than inflation, but Trump and his lackeys love blaming it all on inflation and therefore Biden. Our problem is clearly economic inequality. When the top 1% of Americans hold nearly 50% of the country’s wealth and the bottom 90% hold less than 25%, or when nearly 70% of Americans don’t have $1000 to spend even in an emergency, bringing inflation back down to 2.5% is like giving a pancreatic cancer patient a bandaid. If you want to keep voting for the crazy bandaid guy, you can, but it’s not going to fix the problem.

[@luvlabso130]

How does us paying for Democrats open border invasion help American families? 10 million illegals with 1 year to go.

[@jnanakshatriya668]

I stopped when I learnt he said, Social media is threat to democracy. I guess we have to be sheep and follow mainstream media.

[@exreds]

This guy is kind of a joke

[@OZDurden]

Yeah I'm out 5 minutes in when this guy said NOT giving Ukraine 61billion is a threat to America. I don't think so

[@neverbeforeseenvideos2249]

Heres why i think the USA in 2024 will NoT have a presidential election ; 2013 in China 🇨🇳 A two-term limit on the figurehead presidency was deleted from the #Chinese Constitution earlier, prompting suggestions that he ( Chinese leader #Xi Jinping ) might stay in power for life. 🤔 2020 in Russia 🇷🇺 Vladimir #Putin was first elected as president in 2000. His current term ends in 2024, but the new amendments in 2020 will allow him to stay in office for another 16 years. ( 2040 ) 🤔 2021 in Canada 🇨🇦 The Prime Minister has been in power since 2015. If PM win elections , they can only serve 2 consecutive 4-year terms. In 2021 , #trudeau lost the majority government , yet changed some of the rules . Today, He is still in 2023-2024. 🤔 2024 in USA 🇺🇸 Do you actually believe there will be an election ? Ask yourself this 1 question ; If you had to choose only between Option 1 : Have a 2024 US elections, But start ww3. or Option 2 : no 2024 US elections, And no ww3. ( probably only US civil war or something ) Share your comments below ⚖️

[@therealsexysinglemama]

Yeah this guest sucks

[@michaelryan3400]

If you stop listening every time someone offends a bias you have, you’ll never be anything more than a partisan hack.

[@annacatlin]

Lost Trust in most establishments. Lost Trust Government . Mistrust.

[@shallowgrey]

This guy speaks like he's been under a rock since 2017 and only had 2 hours to be briefed on current headlines before this interview

[@andynunamaker7879]

Love how Tom allowed him to talk himself right in to his bias and ultimately the corner.

[@derekwicks4128]

Poor little Ukraine? .. 'Come on, man! ' - as the Resident would say....

[@noseyparker6969]

That must be a 'first' for Tom. GG's Tom, you're getting better!

[@needparalegal]

Always let a Leftist talk. Their lies are too enormous to ignore.

[@badbutcherbad1189]

Elaborate. I haven't finished and I dont like this guys. Seems like a closet commusocialist globalist. Am I right?

[@badbutcherbad1189]

I watched the whole thing. He has opposing views to mine but I didn't see bias. What bias?

[@miekfields7115]

Thank goodness so many listeners have seen through the overall political bias of this discussion. It has destroyed the overall conversation.

[@susancurtis1651]

Agreed 👍

[@gerryhalmagyi8363]

Absolutely agreed. Saw it in less than 5 mins. Worst episode I’ve ever seen on impact theory

[@stevegyee232]

True. 20 minutes in and I'm out. He can go phuch himself.

[@aachoocrony5754]

I learned that they're trying to peddle the services economy>>industrial economy idea. More thin air among a long list of things they're trying to monetize in order to keep their assets safe, and always at the expense of the taxpayer.

[@susanawright7757]

TRUMP RESTORED FOR 2020, 2024

[@donyalucas2713]

The drive to secure a better future for our children is key

[@subifudriftkings]

We as a society need to stop using the word “democracy” we’re a constitutional republic. PERIOD.

[@mkkrupp2462]

The US has long been regarded as a DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC. A Republic because you don’t have a monarchy. A democracy because of regular elections - “of the people, by the people” (However it’s true that some scholars would say that the US has now become an oligarchy. ) Suggest you study the different terms.

[@moamen_reda]

From Egypt , i hope peace and collaboration between all countries 🌐❤️

[@suleimanjannabo313]

No peace without justice, justice must prevail,

[@Exanto777]

A nice thought, but it will not happen until Christ returns.

[@mikec6733]

The people of the world want peace. The crazy leaders are playing a game with the world as the board.

[@benjamincho4819]

Slowly but surely I think since 1947...😅 hopefully

[@benjamincho4819]

​@@Exanto777his Spirit has returned many times throughout History if you think about it...

[@Suzanne291]

Are you kidding me, Canada us doing better on democracy than the US? Canada seems like it has taken away free thought. I hope we aren't worse!

[@elenastansbie9940]

Think he is talking about 'Our democracy ' Which is completely different to what the person sees on the street democracy.

[@the.bonsai.samurai]

You are right

[@Oneofthetwelve]

Agree with you !

[@iTRON.]

Oh it’s better in Canada than the US alright.

[@imbretzy]

Canadian here, I don’t even recognize this place anymore. I feel like we are being drained from every possible angle. It’s becoming harder and harder to stay afloat.

[@carolinanve7833]

Ian Bremmer's perspectives on measuring a country's global impact according to its economic capabilities is relatively correct, the wars in Africa do have global impacts. Remember we have access only to a certain kind of knowledge or set of facts. When discussing economic crises, democratic crises, a global vision or perspective could be better than just naming two or three countries as the sole protagonists of the history of our time. Populations in the United States and diasporas from Africa and not mentioned other continents, such as Latin America or Oceania do have an impact on our daily political affairs and debate.

[@jerrycoplen8658]

Notice he put no blame on the DNC? It was either the “system”, Trump, or “MAGA types”….. Barely mentioned Biden. This was not an objective interview, Tom.

[@jerrycoplen8658]

@doreeneclose6295 you heard what you wanted. He did have some salient points occasionally but he's a straight up establishment leftist.

[@nuggzay8556]

@@jerrycoplen8658 he may be an "establishment" leftist but far from a real one. a real leftist and marxist engage in dialogue with maga types due to our understanding that these culture wars and ideological non-sense is what blinds us from the truth. which is the capitalist/owner/billionaire class use their wealth off the backs of workers, and then use that to influence the laws that govern us. and im sure even pro-capitalist right wingers agree with that, so starting from there, we can then discuss what to do about it. but democrats dont give a fuck about that because they are the billionaire class as well, so they act as if they are pro-black, lgbt, homeless, impoverished etc but their policies exacerbate issues which then lead to more polarization. for example, the border crisis is something that EVERYONE is waking up to because of the sheer incompetence and selfishness of our politicians. we have a limited pie and when migrants come in, they are taking a piece for themselves meanwhile the people in our home countries are getting maximally exploited by our employers AND state. when an unemployed homeless person car jacks a working class person, the working class person suffers(i've been a victim of it) and id rather educate that car jacker to earn a car than to have an environment in my country where people think thats okay and demonize them for it because objectively his material conditions are worse than mine and i can empathize.. heres a little statistic I find eye opening: The GDP Per American Worker is $143,750, which is what the Average worker in america produced. Meanwhile the Average salary is $74000, and the median being $50000. AND ON TOP OF THAT, WE ARE TAXED LOL. So the capitalist that own the business and run the state, TAX US AT PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION AND EVERYWHERE IN BETWEEN... workers need to rise up and be alpha.

[@jerrycoplen8658]

@doreeneclose6295 he omitted a lot of truth that wasn’t convenient for his narrative

[@idme8295]

Why would you assume both sides have to be equally at fault? Historically it often is just one political party causing all the problems, all the while refusing to believe they are the problem.

[@anonymousdonor8084]

He’s a deep state globalist schill. Tom should not do this type of interview. He’s incapable of conducting a meaningful reality based discussion with a political snake

[@user-zp9uz3ni5j]

Question: is the not aware of how they are systematically through bad court decisions, legislation, budgeting, and a deep dive into wickedness that they are causing the country to collapse?

[@TraceyHarteau-zz4mx]

Yes that is there plan

[@arthurshagnasty5068]

I'm not against immigration. Send us your best and brightness, come to a port of entry. Do it legally not an issue. However , if you think that they're sending their best and brightest to jump over our border and collect money from we , the taxpayers keep living in that fantasy land. It would not surprise me a bit if the nextcatastrophe wasn't done by some undocumented citizen here to do us harm. Of course, according to the mainstream media, all of those people are here to better their lives, there is nobody on the Terrace. Watch'ts list coming across our borders to do us harm. They're all peace, loving people coming to the most racist. Horrible bigoted nation that was ever to grace the face of this Earth.. That's right. Listening to the mainstream media, I would get the impression that we are the most racist horrible bigoted nation on the face of this Earth. Why aint God's name with those? People want to come here unless it's to do us harm which you wanna go to a place that wouldn't accept you so racist and bigoted and wouldn't that accept your lifestyle? I wouldn't go to a country like that. But that's the picture that the mainstream media paints. At least it MSNBC. That's why I quit watching them.

[@robertagabor9128]

So sad.

[@visnuexe]

You who complain have not seen how bad it can get when corruption becomes the norm as I have in other countries. This trend is exemplified by those who would destroy the rule of law for their own ends, not for us.

[@priyanka5316]

Maybe we're complaining because we do know how bad it can get?

[@RupicaSinghWaraich]

we need new models of what is important to us as a species

[@PaulClay46masonWV]

I love this AI talk. A phone call telling you not to vote, you shouldn't be that ignorant, nor should anything change who you are voting for. If you don’t know what you stand for, you should probably sit the election out.

[@CraigBUCHAN-zc4fj]

Tom needs to put a date of the actual recording in the titles. It's so obvious that this was recorded a couple weeks ago even before Ian mentioned it was being done on the 26th. The same applies to ALL of Tom's interviews. An ACTUAL recording date in the title would be a GREAT HELP in trying to understand these recordings in context with actual events they are talking about.

[@aevanhoutte]

Assumptions about iran and American military are a bit off mark it seems

[@cccarter6136]

This dude is NOT in touch. He can not be a US resident.

[@timstapleman]

Since most of what they say is BS, and reflects a very out of touch, uncaring and ignorant American worldview, the date of the interview makes little difference.

[@schoolpicturesnyc]

Interested. Looks like month earlier than Feb 17 2024

[@Lobishomem]

I agree and wish all YT videos were dated.

[@rogermoore4743]

Just out of curiosity what do you call those tractors parked out in the European highways ?

[@tuckerbugeater]

another communist uprising

[@minkowski4d]

Protestors and for a good reason. Here in Berlin they were peaceful. They blocked the streets, but everybody understood their cause and was patient. And you know why they can do that? Correct, because here in Europe we got democracies. So, not sure what exactly your problem is as those truckers would have been in jail in countries like Russia or China...

[@rogermoore4743]

@minkowski4d you missed the context of the comment, it actually related to a statement about the form of the protest by the guest.

[@minkowski4d]

@@rogermoore4743 6 people injured, 272 arrested and +2700 fined in Canada truck protests. Sounds like a riot where I live. Yes, could have been phrased better a long "protestors and rioters", but factually it's not wrong. While in Germany there was no violence and nobody was arrested. that's why nobody talks about a riot. Do you get the difference?

[@rogermoore4743]

@minkowski4d No. I'm not able to comprehend what I see and hear in news reports or online diatribe. Could you put it in a coloring book and use very small monosyllabic words ? Danke schon.

[@GMAN_X1]

Why does japan have resistance to the effects of social media? Culture. They have a national identity that isnt at peril constantly by radicalized government. They have no immigration crisis or extreme liberal ideologies infecting their nation.

[@gergelyelod]

10:10 "we get something that looks more like Peru, or Hungary" No one was jailed or prosecuted in Hungary. Actually the US is way ahead of Hungary in that regard and quite frankly it's astonishing to witness this happening under an allegedly democratic US administration. Trying to imprison a candidate to presidency is something that not even Hungary wouldn't dare doing.

[@karsainz]

Tom, you were great. The guest not so much, this time. Anyway, it is great to listen all points of view in depth.

[@earlybird1900]

Exactly

[@icouce]

Ian is a Intelligence Community mouthpiece. I’m his entire career, he had yet to disagree with anything a warmongering administration has wanted to do. He’s been wrong about everything he’s ever said about geopolitics. He has the credibility of Pinocchio.

[@SNESpool]

coming from someone with the credibility of...

[@amadeusakreveusmusic3356]

Rebuilding the Ukraine with Russia's frozen assets? KSA Want exactly what Hamas wants. Two state solution. That's what KSA normalization means. They're just bringing back the old peace plan they suggested.

[@tonyryan43]

I dunno. His is bigger than Pinocchio's. Joshing, It's good to see somebody has his eye on the ball. Good for you.

[@lindaflesch7303]

I hope you're right.

[@emilyhollands5330]

What he said about Canada is wrong for sure.

[@hungrypainter]

I love your question , “ are they lying to us “ posed to and answered be the guy who is lying to us ! lol love you Tom 😂❤

[@aleks71438]

He approves the lies he likes but disapproves the lies he dislikes

[@picklikeapro6952]

He’s a puppet 100%.

[@Josiahodoh68245]

He talked about every other but answer question. He threw facet under the bus because everyone now knows that he lied.

[@joycehaines2055]

I am independent and burning of food processing plants, Hawaiian town, now Texas, an world turning against dollar. All has nothing to do with politics but will effect how we as Americans see the future safety of their future.

[@DM_Curtis]

This is a return to Regionalism, like before the War of Northern Aggression.

[@john.roordink]

What do you mean with the 25 governors don't listen to the Supreme Court? Did you even understand what the Court said and, more importantly, not said?!

[@needparalegal]

The Supreme Court is a Liberal Shitshow. 100% chance Roberts was an Epstein Island regular.

[@johnvwilkman]

Ian’s idea of an economy doing well is truly phantasmagorical…

[@ontexastime6690]

Of course this country has changed. When the native population is replaced with people who have differing values, norms, cultures and languages, the original nation, as it previously existed, is always destroyed. History has proven this, time and time again.

[@mitchellcorynelso]

In your opening sentence you forgot Robert F Kennedy.

[@johnwoelfel7326]

Don't our problems have a lot to do with the state of our news media?

[@natemendsen1629]

Yes, but also no, that has never been better.Go watch Network for 50 some years ago.

[@SickndSoul]

That is a wise outlook

[@glennwhite3286]

Yes, the Journalist of today are nothing more than repeaters of propaganda to get revenue from advertisers.

[@veenacriddle1207]

The media needs to stand for good over evil!! Our Govts need to stand for good over evil. Many prayers are needed.

[@bobbart4198]

... You can't blame the Media for EVERYTHING ... After all, Donald Trump DOES say the things that the Media reports. It ISN'T AI, it's 100% Trump ...

[@BasketballBusinessAndBossMoves]

This channel should be renamed, “scared rich guy brings people to his house to reaffirm his own fears cause life is too good for him!”

[@justinmasters220]

🎉😂

[@aeroblivion5961]

You’re projecting and viewing him as yourself

[@BasketballBusinessAndBossMoves]

@@aeroblivion5961 Tom Bilyeu’s burner account 😂

[@BasketballBusinessAndBossMoves]

@@aeroblivion5961 the Tim Bilyeu Burner Account

[@jimpollard113]

@@aeroblivion5961 ... that would be true except that 90% of the comments section agrees that he is a "scared rich guy bringing people . . . . .

[@Sundown-777]

Killing is bad ! Hate is bad! You are not the chosen one!

[@mada575]

It's sad to see the American political system split in two. It shouldn't be a major concern that RFK Jr. is running. Third parties should be encouraged. Everyone (or a heavy majority) accepts that the elections are the lesser of two evils, so why not bring in more options.

[@celloroar5223]

CITIZENS UNITED and the. Federalist Society are responsible for tipping the scales.

[@outdoorloser4340]

All roads lead to Isreal. Dig deeper grasshopper.

[@borisgerjovic2504]

To claim in minute 15 how the US is not in crisis is insanity. He expects that other countries will cover the US 34,3 Trillion debt ? With over 1 Trillion trade deficit in this year the US is on her way to hell !!!!

[@thegodpill9696]

The Bible prepared us for these moments, one man is about to make some noise and eventually become king of Earth.

[@borisgerjovic2504]

Every time you print your fucking dollars and put them in circulation - the whole world is repaing your debt ! Try to sell what you have for 130 Trillion and you will find out the real value of your 130 Trillion. Usually , in financial world serious people consider one country dead whenever debt is greater as the GDB ! End of story ! @@danhtran6401

[@the.bonsai.samurai]

Spot on, I agree. I'm a fan of the USA, but they've become detached from reality. Come live in a 3rd world country where people fight to survive every day of their lives, then we can talk together about how crazy the world is. Don't moan about shit from your ivory towers.

[@thegodpill9696]

@dvdmon you will be able to know who is who by the fruits of their life. It's gonna be super obvious only the wicked will pretend to ask questions really trying to sow doubt

[@dresdenliam]

Yep our economy is in horrible shape. If you owe more money than you can pay off I wouldn't say it's the strongest economy in the world.

[@Bennythesupersnooper]

It’s the difference between the level of respect or selfishness a culture displays and ultimately who they look up to as a leader.

[@mattmallia]

The Democracy card should stop being used as an excuse. In the name of Democracy lots of undemocratic decisions are being made.

[@lornelz]

The sky is not falling. We are divided, we are not going anywhere. We will get through this.

[@Liquid_Mike]

We will, but we MUST come together - and stop buying into the hate bait on all sides

[@robertagabor9128]

Lord willing.

[@therealsexysinglemama]

It is actually massive banking crisis just wait

[@lornelz]

@@therealsexysinglemama Well, if that happens, the world will have a worldwide depression, and guess what, this nation will come out of it better than the rest of the world again.

[@marklandes3229]

His opinions are no more pertinent that my own and he really blew it at the Canadian "truckers riot."

[@califomia]

If your only information source is Fox News and Twitter, your opinion is sadly irrelevant.

[@caroledge6946]

Yes, the first subconscious slip of contempt.

[@mariaelisanaimegiovanardim1102]

This erosion scenario is the same in Norway

[@robhead22]

What a great conversation!! Thank you! 😊

[@ProGamerChick]

Another vote blue no matter who shill. He says the economy is doing great it just depends on what political lens you're looking at it from. Not sure why he's even a guest here, he belongs on Real Time or msnbc.

[@elenastansbie9940]

I am so glad someone else thinks they just listened to alot of nonsense. In short he is saying US pay the money shut up and keep Biden in. And shut your mouth about your cost of living the economy is great.

[@jennifromtheblock1991]

Second this!!

[@dresdenliam]

I think he's been drinking too much of the dumb dumb juice.

[@MAchannel2024]

If you haven’t made money under Biden, that’s on you. Last 4 years has been the easiest times to make money. They shelled out $6T. Only idiots didn’t benefit

[@germanshepard7749]

Boy are you right about this guy? Yet he reflects the views of millions. Decay of religious life replaced by godless AI and Jacobians collectivist tyranny is what we are experiencing.

[@shooster5884]

Having only two political parties is the biggest difference between the USA and other democracies... and thus there is no political safety net of a third party or a combination government.. the extremes in the USA two parties grow more extreme and that's dangerous.. no place for moderates to go..

[@glennwhite3286]

That's not True, you need people of courage in both Parties that push back against the extermes in both parties - just no one in the GOP are willing to "Stand Up" to Trump. You speak about a persons (wife) and he turns around and ask you for Help... There are NO People in the GOP with courage to speak Common Sense to a Gun Crazed Party!!

[@shooster5884]

@@glennwhite3286 That may be, but the Democrats have also gone to the extreme that has equally threatened and angered moderate Republicans.. I mean the ludicrous situation where a government does not accept that a man cannot be woman nor a woman a man, and anyone who says this is true is in most cases fired from their position whatever their job on society.. And legalising bodily mutilation of minors?? ..when for decades have opposing genital mutilation by some other cultures 🤭😂 Seriously!! And teaching in schools that a man can become a woman and a woman a man which they know to be a physical impossibility... The fact that is no third party to avoid these extremes of both parties dominating legislation is a problem for the USA. There can be no or little mixed views in the parliament debate because it functions only like two football teams that are more focused on beating other than all debating seriously what is best for the country.. and any few independents if there are any have little control. A typical example is the current situation which makes the USA political system and those in it look like idiot bullies in a school playground. One party demands border controls, then when they get that, they have a tantrum, no we won't allow border control from you, we want to do it. .. playing stupid political games and refusing to do their job for a whole year that they are paid by those who elected them to do....why are they still being paid? And they are doing this because they are waiting for the outcome of the next election hoping that Trump will be elected and he will say - see only I could fix the border situation... when he publicly told elected representatives not to do so now this month when it could be done. Putin must be have a field day of laughs watching these children in the USA pretending they can govern a country. It's embarrassing to see but unfortunately not surprising.. and of course it's all to his advantage..

[@keithflint7243]

Sorry to disapoint you but the UK has no political alternative either. We now have the Conservative tories, the Labour tories and a few Liberal Democrat tories. The lack of any worthwhile choice is very similar to the U.S.

[@donaldrobinson6298]

America is not a democracy. That is probably the biggest difference.

[@foghornleghorn1854]

The USA is a constitutional Republic not a democracy.

[@jefffarmer5785]

I enjoyed this show-!!! Nothing better than THE TRUTH (for me)-!!!!!!! J/S 🤔😊👍

[@shawnmount2685]

Its not food companies lying its government lying, FDA USDA etc..

[@wallyreyes8876]

I remember when I criticized the Obama FBI during the Obama administration and Quickly got a message on my phone saying I was on the Obama FBI watch list. Then quickly got cancelled.

[@WackadoodleMalarkey]

And the audience shook the rafters with applause

[@romlyn99]

It is easy to love/admire Japan when you have not lived in Japan for more than 7 years. I say 7 years, because that is the time that most expats leave Japan for pension or tax refund reasons. If you are a gaijin who stays beyond 7 years, your experience of Japan changes greatly. I know this to be true, as I lived in Japan for 22 years. It is not so easy to keep on loving/admiring Japan when you experience a full life in the country.

[@amadeusakreveusmusic3356]

How so? Ryan Dawson says it's a heaven of a society and country. Does the racism kick in after staying there for longer? I'm assuming that.

[@SeanEustace-zk3mc]

In comparison to where? What did they charge you to much in the way of taxes?

[@thetaxiucla]

I’m a UCLA magna cum laude political science graduate given highest honors on my 245-page senior thesis who had massively high hopes this discourse would exceed perhaps even the level of my professors. Lol, not even close. This deteriorated into paper cutout baby arguments by a couple of pinheads sadly.

[@jeffmaggard3694]

The government always fixes everything, always has always will. No reason to believe the system will be going away anytime soon.

[@SeanEustace-zk3mc]

Absolutely true now ask yourself who funds the government because that is not the top of the pyramid and where did they get the money to install the politicians they want? Start putting one and two together. Follow the money who are the bankers what gives them such power off?

[@jobloluther]

Japan is a high-trust ethnostate, no wonder why the society is more stable / groupe-oriented

[@agentsteell]

Also its population is homogenous and there is no pressure on its borders.

[@ronnystyles]

Except when it comes to making more of themselves.

[@VonLuder]

​@@ronnystyles Except that birth rates are literally falling on every continent and in every country in the world. Demographic transition is inevitable, a growing number of the world's countries are moving into sub-replacement fertility. There is no positive correlation between a country's multi-ethnic/multi-cultural character and a higher birth rate.

[@aogm720401]

Also, it's not a new country...its culture is thousands of years old. The United States is still in diapers in many regards, and especially in culture.

[@malcolmlarri8236]

with plummeting population and aging population .....sadly the future in Japan looks like economic suicide

[@pq2667]

A loyal WEF (World Economic Forum) lieutenant.......oh dear Mr. Bremmer

[@jasminworthington31]

LITERALLY what I though. I was listening and thinking "???" Someone for sure paid him out.

[@AzureAzreal]

You guys, he literally says, "globalism is great for the United States but terrible for the average American." At the 31ish minute mark. This shows he understands the difference between the economy appearing good for the country while harming its people. He doesn't advocate for that type of economy, and even says he completely understands and supports wanting to bring back more jobs to America. He just points out that harming the globalist economy ALSO harms the people.

[@MrCSullivan83]

Was thinking "what a huge globalist/leftist paid actor." Early on when he said the economy was fine..., I knew then

[@ttacking_you]

@@AzureAzreal yeah these jagoffs don't know what they're talking about! the last time we went isolationist was during the industrial revolution, which created more jobs than it destroyed. This DIGITAL REVOLUTION did the EXACT OPPOSITE!!!!

[@mrharrybremner1307]

What did I miss here. 😮😢😁🇦🇺

[@gprufino]

The root of our issues is the wealth gap where the winners take all coupled with a weak social safety net that lets many people fall through the cracks.

[@alfonsoalfonso5254]

Ian Bremerton is responsible for current conflicts around the world, Bremerton and his calleagues are profiting from world situations. He Speaks with FORK tongue.

[@ediddysmith2500]

Well I think all companies that are members of the world economic forum should have to put a sign up WEF on the entrance to the store.

[@wayando]

The people behind thpse companies are the issue. And they are totally hidden.

[@BoRisMc]

This episode must have reminded Tom of the time he tried to scam his audience by selling extremely expensive and valueless NFTs, arguing that they were the 'biggest thing he'd ever done'. Home hitting for sure

[@bobafet5363]

I know some people who’ve been scammed when purchased he’s nft.

[@BoRisMc]

@@bobafet5363 oh yeah he scammed quite a few fellas for sure

[@sharonjoy6234]

How would you like things to change. I'd sure like to discuss that .

[@mightydarius3525]

I switched off as soon as this guy revealed that he is proud of guys like billy gates😂

[@magdalaas]

Well that says it all. I def wont watch the video then.

[@freedomlife3623]

Without Bill Gates, PC will be delayed for many more years which we all benefited enormously. Bill & Melinda Gates foundation also helped to Billions people globally, What have you done for humanity?

[@tuckerbugeater]

i haven't helped create bioweapons@@freedomlife3623

[@singatune]

Me too

[@Lobishomem]

@@freedomlife3623Exactly. The amount of hate, envy and ignorance directed against Gates is astonishing.

[@elizabethaikens7403]

Biased speaker.

[@anotherjewishsharpnicholas9425]

Seriously. What's so offensive about this Arab is pretends as if he just doesn't hate the Jewish people. This is why they love coming on these podcasts, because the hosts are ignorant.

[@simonbrandl1972]

SOOO BIASED!

[@cinesonicvibes]

@@anotherjewishsharpnicholas9425 "two state solution with h@ m @@s...."? They dont want two state solution....they want all Israel and palestine, and the majority of Palestinians support them...

[@califomia]

Can you link to a fact checking site to back this up?

[@anotherjewishsharpnicholas9425]

@@califomia Camera and Honest Reporting fact check these Judeophobes.

[@louisgeri]

great job talking about america's problems and never mentioning blacks or hispanics, awesome work!

[@gypsyhayes5954]

I’m sorry but I am a single mother and can’t afford food for my family. I work 50-60 hours a week. 10 hour days. Rent, Insurance, and everything else has gone up and I can no longer afford to live. I’ve almost been homeless with my kids due to inflation twice this past year. I can’t afford clothes shoes we don’t go out and do anything fun. My money goes straight to bills and whatever food I can get after. I don’t know how much longer I can struggle to hold on. I know I’m not alone. Wake up people. We are struggling out here.

[@SeanEustace-zk3mc]

I suggest voting for Trump in 2024. I’m not saying he’s the countries salvation, but I’m sure he will keep us out of war, and at least attempt to fix the border and other things. Immigration drives down the wages and drives up the cost of housing because the immigrants need a place to live to. This is simple supply and demand economics. You cannot argue with it. There are no countries with high rents and low wages that do not have massive amounts of immigration, they do not exist. There Hass to be a moratorium on immigration and tell Americans have living wages, and the ability to pay the rent. Not a dime for the Ukraine or Israel until you fix the problem in Hawaii and the problem with the homeless vets here I know it’s a pipe dream , but you have to push as hard as you can. We have homeless shelters all over the country and they keep expanding and you see them in new places all the time the corruption needs to end.

[@elinope4745]

There are two reflexive and controlled sides. Reflexivity is used to herd people into the two party system, neither of which represents the common people. It's one prefabricated and controlled party or the other, and each says things that will drive you to the other by inciting you. Party loyalty is foolish. Have your special interests and ONLY support sides that support you.

[@bisztro]

Complete nonsense, not in touch with reality.

[@califomia]

Is this automated, or can you find an incorrect fact?

[@bobafet5363]

@@califomiafor sure its what you want

[@glenncunningham6397]

Interesting episode. It's nice to see someone give half-baked opinions on the internet, for a change. So many dodged questions and misdirections...

[@tonyryan43]

Ouch. Ha ha.

[@picklikeapro6952]

You can tell Tom is pissed.

[@LLindsey1427]

People forget about other wars and proxy wars going on, the near apocalyptic and more than a decade long war and crimes against humanity in Syria, ongoing human rights abuses in Myanmar, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and more. Atrocities happening most forgot about. And he hit the nail on the head with “no effort to engage in diplomacy, no effort to see things from the perspective of the other side, they don’t even share basic understanding of political facts”. That at least is true. Extreme right and extreme left especially in the USA. Society has changed, things are worsening. May a new world emerge though that is healthier and better.

[@MATTW3R]

I just wanna remind everybody that the legislative branch is what gives the president power if you want change among our politics everyone including you yes YOU need to get involved in the executive branch there is more to politics than just the presidential election. This stuff can be changed if we make the executive branch do what’s required instead of allowing them to sit around like they have been for the last 30 years.

[@orangewarm1]

We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. Anais Nin.

[@patty9101]

Wow. I don’t think he’s right

[@SP-xi4xd]

Wow. I think he’s right

[@ttacking_you]

Wow. It's like call & response

[@nathanyoung7587]

He's not and I just added this comment and then I saw yours so I'm replying to you with he comment I just posted

[@ttacking_you]

@@nathanyoung7587 with who comment?

[@user-xk1ff4gp7k]

Joe Biden made a trade deal for basketball player he traded an international arms dealer Victor boot that was a great deal wasn't it but now look Victor's out of jail for a year in strange enough there's more arms to the terrorists than we've ever had before who started the fire Joe Biden started the fire

[@user-xo1tm4cp4g]

68 percent of recent college grads can't find jobs in their field and work at a low level job needing no degree

[@rubyslippers9140]

I dont agree. The leading indicator of how you feel about the economy are prices. IF you are spending so much at the grocery store and the gas pump you are not feeling like the economy is doing well.

[@leer8478]

Is this one of those parody’s? Pretty good. The guest sounded almost as ridicules as the guys CNN brings on to “TELL” us how things are and how we should be feeling about it.

[@esstong8064]

yep...i agree...guy speaks like a sales guy for Democratic party

[@susiex6669]

And fails to mention that while exhalting Japan for their Confuscian ideals of community before individual (commendable, in my view) their pro American/pro West ex Prime Mininster, Shinzo Abe, was assassinated during an outdoor speech, in 2022. When was the last time a Western politician of that ranking was assassinated by a citizen? Clearly this talking head is clueless.

[@2sourcerer]

@@susiex6669Abe was on a soapbox on the street with just a few security personnel around him precisely because assassination or threats don’t really exist in that society. That is not the case in the US.

[@susiex6669]

@@2sourcerer People walk three feet from Trudeau in Ottawa. If someone really wanted to take him out, his security detail couldnt do much. Im sure its the same with the American president on many occasions when campaigning. These guys arent going around in Pope mobiles. Asia has a history of being more hardcore towards their politicians than the West. Shinzo Abe's maternal grandfather was also Prime Minister, twice, and survived an assassination attempt. I dont think you have any clue what youre talking about.

[@minkowski4d]

well, he has the educational level (MA, PhD) and teaches geopolitical theory at the Colombia university. What do you do for a living?

[@usun_politics1033]

>Bremmer subsequently obtained an MA degree in 1991 and a PhD in 1994, both in political science from Stanford University. His doctoral dissertation was "The politics of ethnicity: Russians in the Ukraine". Yeah... this explains a lot.

[@RohanThompson-in4en]

What exactly does it explain?

[@usun_politics1033]

@@RohanThompson-in4en bias

[@greg3wilson768]

​@@usun_politics1033Bias or a very indepth understanding of cultural & religious & historical events from the past to the present?

[@dinaf1409]

@@usun_politics1033 In what way?

[@justinmiller7020]

"It's basically a single party democracy" That sounds pointless.

[@davidsullivan8236]

The government is supposed to be for the people by people not the self interest of a minority group.

[@user-yg8jt7qi6w]

ONE of the political parties has been much more involved AND supportive of the destruction of the nuclear family than the other.... leave it to you to decide which one that is.

[@jarvanwildrift8056]

Republicans with making it impossible to support the family with the destroyed welfare system? Tax cuts hitting work force instead of capital.

[@jerrycoplen8658]

Go back to the civil rights era. The welfare system (established by democrats btw) absolutely destroyed black families@@jarvanwildrift8056

[@tracy419]

The one who thinks people should settle for so little pay that it requires at least 2 adults working full time to support a family?

[@SPUDRULZ31]

One is much more involved in the destruction of our democracy than the other? What's your point?

[@evilemperorzurg9615]

@@tracy419that’s both of them.