The Supreme Court Goes Sicko Mode, and Schools Go Jesus Mode? - 7/3/24 -

[@RachelT444]

These streams aren’t too political for me - I’m grateful that some people are talking about this, because it is serious and imminent.

[@its_just_matt]

Remember to kiss an eagle tomorrow or you'll usher in 100 years of darkness!

[@dakotapahel-short3192]

If tongue's involved, the Lincoln statue will bless us with a smile and we get 1 more year of being able to ignore our problems.

[@jessetorres8738]

I feel that since we have a Constitutional 2 term (or 10 year) limit on the Presidency, then we should have them on the Congress & Courts as well. I'd prefer a 10 term limit in The House, a 3 term limit in the Senate, & a 20 year limit on all Judges nominated by the President & voted on by The Senate. This is the only way to limit corruption in the federal government by constantly changing it.

[@jrodri14ii]

Age limit should be there as well. It’s obvious we should limit children on the basis of their cognitive abilities, so why not elderly?

[@adamtapparo2168]

So your idea is to have our congress vote to take away their job security? Never going to happen

[@MegaKootz]

If you criminalize homelessness you should probably work to get rent prices down. Otherwise half the county is going to be in prison....... oh shit... half the country is going to be in prison.

[@Death_By_Media]

There are several new mega prisons in the works alongside the cop cities also being built .Enough to move America’s 5% of the worlds population’s 25% of the incarcerated up to around 40% . Which is why I smh when MSNBC and CNN watchers cry about project 2025 as if it’s not already in the works and bipartisan supported and funded .

[@jessetorres8738]

The Conservatives on The Supreme Court granting Trump this immunity also means Biden & any other future President also have immunity. This case shows 1 of the biggest differences between Conservatives & Liberals; Conservatives only think about how the laws effect them whereas Liberals have the foresight to think about how the laws effect everyone.

[@KohanKilletz]

Perhaps that is the biggest weakness of the liberals they do not act when they need to act they do not set an example when they need to set an example and they do not dispose when they need to dispose.

[@Raziel312]

Remember when the Republicans refused to hear a Supreme Court nomination in the twilight of Obama's term but then did exactly that in the twilight of Trump's term? There is no bottom to their two-faced cynicism. If they decide they want to prosecute Biden for any reason, expect the conservative judges to spin on their heels and say, "maybe a President isn't a King after all!"

[@interloc1290]

I think it’s a bit more cynical than that, conservatives intentionally create tools of a dictatorship FULLY confident that they’ll never be used against conservatives. I recently heard a clip McConnell laughing and patting himself on the back for DENYING Obama a Supreme Court Justice pick in his last year for “impropriety”, ONLY to immediately rush Amy Comey Barret in for Trump during HIS last like 8 months. It’s a sleight of hand, a false equivalence bad people use, they’ll break rules when it suits them but accuse others of being bad or morally equivalent IF they break the same rules.

[@kaintshine]

People used the Bible to keep people who looked like me in chains. Teach that.

[@emiliofahr504]

Evil people who would do that would pervert any and every philosopy to keep you in chains. The abolitionist movement was a Christian movement that viewed all men as equal and created in the image of God.

[@charles___]

Haha that's funny

[@RachelT444]

I’m glad you took a risk in turning down BetterHelp’s money. It does show moral integrity and care for your audience.

[@Hakaimono]

Thank you for at least trying to stop the betterhelp thing. We (the audience) definitely would rather not watch stuff sponsored by them for obvious reasons. I actually considered unfollowing over it but I could tell you didn't want the sponsorship and were probably working to end it and I'm glad I was right.

[@Blue2x2x]

I can't wait for the teachers get to teach Ezekiel 23:20 to children. Hey, it's in the Bible. It's ok.

[@Hakaimono]

I'll definitely take some annoying VPN ads or something over BetterHelp.

[@pandakso3365]

Raid Shadow Legends 👍

[@sandhillfarmer1]

It may just be that you haven’t gotten there yet, but one aspect often missed in these discussions about the Bible and education is the morphing of mainstream evangelical Christianity into something like a civil religion, ie a syncretism of Christian symbols, images, language, and mythology with conservative nationalist ideology, ethos, and political goals. Think like the Roman civil religion with a Christian flavor, with some usage of Christianity in order to establish a cosmic right in a quest for power and wealth. The takeaway to all of that being that the goal of these Bible mandates in schools is less about teaching children Christian history and morals and more about exerting power and educating children within a paradigm that conservative right wing ideology is cosmically righteous and correct, cutting off any sort of critique of the actions of the state by aligning them with divinity. Michael Gorman, author of Reading Revelation Responsibly, has a really good high level discussion.

[@sandhillfarmer1]

If any history has been erased from the US educational system, it’s Native American history. I recently read Indigenous Continent and Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and holy cow, it’s almost indescribable.

[@RachelT444]

This is an excellent analysis, thank you!

[@Raerae6]

Homeless people refuse help because a lot of them don’t trust what is being offered. Weird how people can’t fathom the thought process cause why would they trust it when they have probably gone through a plethora of horrible shit. :/

[@bkbland1626]

Trust is a one way street. These are the actual throwaways of Capitalism. How would YOU feel? We're ALL expendable, especially if it's profitable. There's your crime.

[@Hakaimono]

Yo this is random but you said we can share stuff we like so I'm just gonna share random musical artists I like. car seat headrest, hozier, noah kahan, conan gray, the garden (and other vada vada projects) and LCD soundystem (I like most stuff though, I'm not picky) If anyone has any music recommendations for me that'd be cool (they can be totally unrelated btw)

[@mrceven]

I been really enjoying Australian hip hop. Bliss and ESO, hilltop hoods.

[@D_S_L]

When he was MUCH younger, Clearance Thomas was actually really based. He supported Malcolm X and engaged in protests concerning black nationalism and liberation. He would actually model his own personal aesthetic after figures from the Black Panther Party. Now he's one of two s*x offenders on the Supreme Court. Not to justify his actions in anyway, but studying his life is kinda depressing because he had amazing potential but he definitely had a real life villain ark

[@abider5108]

"The Bible is the best-selling book in American history." Limp Bizkit's "Significant Other" went 7x Platinum in the US. Why don't we mandate its teaching, too?

[@StephenLeGresley]

The Supreme Court needs to be disbanded and made into an elected body with term limits. They have far far too much power for a group that is appointed, has a life time term and doesn't answer in anyway to the public effected by the judgements they make. They need to be answerable for their actions, and they need far more oversight to prevent the corruption and bribes that run rampant through them now.

[@LaymanLawBot]

Thanks @Wisecrack for sharing this crucial video! The Supreme Court recently issued a ruling in Trump v. United States, a case concerning the indictment of former President Donald Trump for his actions related to the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack. The Court's decision highlighted the balance between a President's immunity from prosecution for official acts and the need to uphold constitutional duties. The majority opinion granted Trump presumptive immunity for his official acts, prompting dissent from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson, who argued against placing former Presidents above the law. The dissent emphasized the lack of textual, historical, and logical support for such broad immunity and stressed the importance of accountability in a democracy. Definitions: *Presumptive immunity: A legal assumption that a person is immune from prosecution unless proven otherwise.

[@cfrydlewicz]

I think the reason that post-debate video may not have performed well is because after the debate, everyone's feeds were full of people talking about the debate and it's probably just a saturation thing. Add to that the frustration, anger, powerlessness, and dissatisfaction surrounding that content and it's easy to see how people might just close the app.

[@WisecrackEDU]

good call.

[@SciMedViz]

I know a critical point is about to be made when I hear Trump addressed by one of his many middle names 😂 But yes these streams are great!

[@cfrydlewicz]

People who complain about critical thinking topics being political are avoiding the dissonance between their own values and how they act in the world. Drawing attention to that puts their views of self in a light that shows them to be hypocritical. Which is okay. Everyone is at least a little bit hypocritical. We acknowledge it and do the best you can with what we have.

[@jrodri14ii]

It’s going to be wild when these peoples kids grow up and get all the negative effects of conservative Christianity and the Abrahamic religions overall. The CTRL-F is analogy very apt. Especially if you have doubts. And the children raised in these environments will have TONS of doubts.

[@Elleh42]

My non-denominational god. How did you find a clip that shows what actual reporting should look like. By the way I went to high-school in Oklahoma and they didn't even teach about the Tulsa riots

[@WisecrackEDU]

Gosh what a good point I wish I would've thought of at that time. Very much wonder how/if they teach that part of history . . .

[@a_e_hilton]

I was born in America before the fam moved -- time to run for president, first US president with an Australian accent let's gooooo

[@WisecrackEDU]

WE WILL SUPPORT THIS CAMPAIGN FULLY.

[@timsparrow8621]

We brought back monarchy for independence day.

[@farmpunk_dan]

Seeing the Supreme Court smiling makes me so damn angry. Wtf you have to smile about?! Oh yeah bribes.

[@gogopoweryubari]

I died that a person who 💩 on someone’s car window was shocked that someone puked on a guy. I laughed so hard at the needed humor this episode. ❤

[@firebat36]

Good thing we spent about 100 years hobbling any possible left wing movements in America!

[@NarfleTheGarthok]

Pack the Court Joe! No laws, no limits! Universal Healthcare for the love of god!!

[@ownedinc4274]

Everything is political. -Stanley Fish

[@ItsNotLookingGood]

You aren’t being too political. Keep talking about things that matter; even if that includes politics.

[@sherrijennings9309]

on teaching the bible in school, so are teachers supposed to be theologians as well now? what does the average teacher know beyond the surface meaning of the English words on the page? I think will turn more people off christanitu

[@pif5023]

If someone criticizes you with the intent of making himself feel better you need to see it as a person that is hurting and it is asking you for help but he doesn’t know how. But I believe it is more common to find people who criticize you as an affirmation they belong to some group.

[@sambortel606]

Fun fact, humans can’t digest esterified cholesterol, which makes up more than 80 percent of dietary cholesterol (including that in hot dogs), so high blood cholesterol comes from internal synthesis rather than diet. In short happy Fourth of July and eat all the tubular meats that your red, white, and blue heart desires

[@dusttoh8927]

Fireworks is shooting things into the sky to kill God - Michael

[@philcollins5457]

The only dissent that would have an impact would land us in jail.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Never miss a live guys! Amazing Job 🎉🎉🎉

[@matthew-xf3zi]

Thanks for reading my email.

[@DN-nt2ln]

I love the political content. It helps me process my thoughts. At least I can see more angles than just my limited scope, especially if we disagree on a topic

[@pandakso3365]

14:15 "it worked then... But maybe the system just doesn't work as well" Clarence Thomas: pikachu face 😮

[@MrFireboyFTW]

It's insane that a small number of people get to decide these things Best to dismantle the supreme court tbh or drastically weaken their power

[@trevorhannan5113]

Love your content, Michael. Supreme Court should have term limits and be elected rather then appointed.

[@kemerydunn9532]

While it's true that "separation of church and state" isn't in the constitution or other similar documents, it is definitely a sentiment to the point of being in text books for middle schoolers as the bullet points to remember for the bill of rights. However people really misunderstand it and misuse it. "Separation of church and state" comes up a lot when bills are being discussed or passed that align with beliefs of certain religions. As long as the bill doesn't cite the scriptures, then that's not actually a church and state problem. Everyone, religious or non religious, gets their moral systems from somewhere and we as a society tend to make laws to reflect our moral systems. Where those moral systems come from doesn't matter in a legal sense, even if it does in other conversations. For example, both the Bible and the secular law say that murder and thievery is wrong and the two of them lining up doesn't mean that church and state aren't separate. Separation of church and state is actually about keeping the government out of religion. This means two things. One, the government cannot interfere with religion. So, the government cannot ban Islam or Buddhism or Hinduism or whatever sect of Christianity that they don't like. And they can't tell churches that they have to do something but it's against their beliefs, within reason. A common point of tension right now is performing wedding ceremonies for gay couples, for example. Freedom of religion and separation of church and state says that the state can't force them to do that, just like they can't ban hijabs or force synagogues to do bar/bat mitzvah's for non Jewish kids. And two, the government cannot endorse a religion. In England, the monarch is the head of State AND Church and can/could make decisions for both. In the past, tax money is what ran/built the church buildings and paid clergy, state orphanages were run by the church and all state schools had mandatory religion classes for the Church of England. This was pretty much how a lot of Europe worked for a really long time. In Oklahoma, the state government is basically endorsing Christianity. Forcing any religious texts to be taught in a religious setting in public (ie, tax and government run) schools is endorsement, not separation, as well as infringing on what the first amendment is actually about: freedom of religious practice. The state board of education making a curriculum for a world religions class that includes scripture verses in an academic sense to teach what the religion believes, like Michael said, is fine. But can easily be problematic if there is bias involved (like the world religions class at my high school often made me really comfortable and resulted in people asking me a lot of questions based on misinformation every semester). A religion class has to be academic and fair not spiritual. I don't know how he expects math and science classes to have the Bible as part of their curriculum Random other example, in the US, we swear presidents, judges and witnesses on the Bible. That's the state endorsing Christianity.

[@MichaelBerthelsen]

Michael, if you wanna do 'six' in Swedish, I highly encourage it. It's spelled exactly as it's pronounced: 'Sex'.👍

[@oisinm332]

Then you have Game of Thrones with guest rights. Breaking those hospitality rules was seriously taboo. They had it in Norse mythology as well. It was ALL over the place.

[@maxfortuno724]

I agree that the current systems are not the best and need reforming, but having elections for judges is probably the worst way. The posability of judges being bought and being corrupt increases due to the fact that someone is going to have to fund them during elections, and favors are going to be pulled for votes.

[@Kcoldraz]

41:48 The problem is that take it only applies to immunity. So when they awful stuff we can't go after them. The ruling doesn't really give him the power to do anything.

[@mnbdy]

hey when you mentioned that no one watched your last video, i went and watched :) love you work

[@Death_By_Media]

The duopoly is a corporate entity with two wings , both building the camps , one trying to negotiate our surrender to them , and the other like nah fuck it that’s woke turn state violence to 11 .

[@pif5023]

Religion can act like a baseline for norm that shape a culture. Many religions share the same values in this regards and are meant to make you trust your community when you need help.

[@ReasonableArgumentsBeingMade]

In a future livestream there should be time for the chat to suggest ideas for a new government that would want in a government that succeeds the one currently in place.

[@Kcoldraz]

To be fair they didn't say that the president can kill people. They just need to litigate if their actions are presidential action or not first.

[@Kcoldraz]

If it is a chinese holiday. Then the fireworks are to ward off evil spirit. 😀

[@Kcoldraz]

Creator could just as well mean Allah or Brahma. 😅

[@Kcoldraz]

Bike Riders seems recent to say your behind.😂

[@autodidacticartisan]

5:17 Michael sighs for no reason.

[@0xx0CoffeeFoam0xx0x]

thanks michael for taking the hit for better help. really appreciate ya. if i'm ever in LA one coffee is one me.

[@hassankhan-jg1dx]

We are cooked!

[@nooyorcste]

Could cry

[@Adbgdry]

Hello 😃

[@happybeejv]

The second revolution was the civil war; The third revolution was in the wake of ww2 when the us created the liberal economic order which involves co-opting the British empire and establishing nato and the UN and starting the cold war against Russia but mostly took place in south America, And establishing the petrodollar, and had precursors in the federal reserve and league of nations which get lumped in with it by people

[@jrodri14ii]

The Cold War was two sided. The Soviet Union was ideologically communist, but in geopolitics it behaved as the Russian Empire. It always sees international politics as a question of what happens in its “near abroad”. That’s what makes dealing with them so difficult, because since around the Crimean war, they see exerting power in far off locations as valid if it allows them to be the controller of Eastern Europe. I agree that the US basically co-opts the British empire using the tools of Neo-liberalism, and uses communism as a plot device to build a narrative for foreign actions, but I don’t think you can posit NATO as a completely unethical entity. It might be hypocritical, but it is definitely facing a very real threat in a common factor of Russian imperialism. I don’t think the problem the west creates isn’t really strategic alliances, it’s the subversion of the tools and ideals of those alliances for their own benefit at the cost of their allies that is the real problem.

[@Sh4dyChar4ct3r]

George Miller for the over 80 presidents club

[@Mwesi]

I have that mic, yes USB is a second option

[@ron9543]

What happened to regular, topical episodes? I'm not interested at all in hours-long podcast, but I did watch all your videos. Absolutely do what is best for you, just adding my 2 cents.

[@NateMims]

The issue is, you can't help everyone...most of the time, if you help one group, like homeless people, then you are possibly hurting others, such as people who want a clean neighborhood...so as a politician, you are stuck trying to do what the majority of people want...an example, the majority of adults are attracted to adults, so it's OK to deprive MAPS from living their truth and being who they were born as since they also didn't choose to be that way...

[@d.brianburnsii1011]

What happened to your classic scripted episodes? I am not a fan of the live chat... I only subscribe to yall for the researched videos, and have been subscribed for a long time for them. I'm deadass going to unsubscrube soon tho if yall don't post some researched content soon, cuz I'm not here for live streams....

[@WisecrackEDU]

This is just a live stream, we do our standard video essays every Friday, we just took a week off this week due to the holiday. Streams in no way replace our long-form video essays, they mostly just fill the space that our podcasts used to.

[@deewolf1903]

This is the first live video I have seen, and really maybe one of the few WiseCracked videos I've seen since Jared left and I really am not into the vibe. The entire video just felt oppressively cynical and passive aggressive. Though I agreed with the general sentiments, the negative attitude of the host was so depressing I just could not continue watching. There is a lot of bad news hitting us right now and what originally drew me to WiseCracked was Jared's way of recontextualizing or reframing information using philosophy and shared wisdom that enriched my mind and broadened my perspective. I don't need another "this sucks" attitude.

[@xplodingmind]

Aristotle wrote “wise men don’t critically engage with unpleasant things that happen around them, they bury their head in the sand and pacify themselves with irrelevant feel good content” it’s truly not philosophical to feel bad, real philosophers only say things that make people feel good! Everything rocks!! 🤘🎸

[@mikec-1687]

Hello, thanks for all the work guys, good stuff. I remember the praying for Armageddon doc during this discussion. Although not American I do think the foreign policy aspect to this cant not be ignored.(kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5m3aKKvedF1f80si=skaFjKJZ2vTwrCF0) Can we talk about The Blessed Flame? Also 6 in Japanese is "Roku".