We Have to Get Back to Civility? | Pod Save America | HBO

There are 11 days until the election and the 2018 midterms have taken a darker turn. Trump blames the media for creating anger in our society, getting back to civility and more.
Pod Save America heads to Philadelphia for the third leg of their four-state tour, with co-host Symone Sanders and a guest appearance by House of Representatives candidate Chrissy Houlahan.
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Covering the 2018 midterm elections, podcast hosts Jon Favreau, Tommy Vietor, Dan Pfeiffer and Jon Lovett bring a “no bullsh*t conversation about politics” to the campaign trail in a four-part special.

[@EKHiggs]

This show is awesome so i felt the need to wikipedia these guys. I just thought this was a great comment on tommy vietor's wikipedia page everyone might get a kick out of.. "Vietor attended Milton Academy and grew up with a family dog named Fred, an Australian Shepard who struggled with his weight."

[@andrewtrayford2284]

lovett really thinks he's funny :(

[@flickertheflame]

Jon is just as handsome as he sounds on the podcast

[@pinkhimalayanbabebay8192]

I love listening and looking at Jon. But I love them all! 💕

[@DursunX]

it started as a *circus* but now it's a *crisis*

[@blukeish]

Tommy that better be a Movement watch

[@xXxvienna]

why you asked that?

[@wedgeex]

@@xXxvienna It's one of the brands they promote on the podcast.

[@GeekonaBike]

Someone, preferably before the election, needs to point out that the "Caravan" is 7000 people walking at the pace of the slowest hiker 2,000 miles from the nearest US border. How long would it take you to walk from LA to Savana GA? Would the Donald still be POTUS when you got there?

[@iarba]

It’s crazy how much Lovett is THE star

[@mikebtrfld1705]

Civility will return when anonymity is removed from social media.

[@Crzyangelgirl]

Mike Btrfld absolutely! I think that will happen some day but I don’t know how soon

[@mikedemike5393]

anonymity arrived because freedom of speech is dead...PC killed it

[@mikebtrfld1705]

@@mikedemike5393 yet you freely spoke.

[@maymac2012]

Trump, rotten to the core...

[@feebleterrance]

onlyfacts only one of them has had criminal charges issued against members of their campaign, has active criminal investigations into their personal companies, campaign finances, and only one has an active investigation to determine the extent to which hostile foreign governments interferes in our elections by the (republican controlled) FBI. You’re not going to gaslight anyone here, shitbag.

[@mikedemike5393]

@@feebleterrance mannafort and carter page were agency assets given to trump to dirty him....wait till FISA is delivered to the senate.....doj slow walking that fucker....i wonder why...why am i wasting my time on you...i'm in australia watching bush's snr's NWO grab your left ball and you think its santa clause

[@RmcBlueSky]

Lol.. I know who are the 4 thumbs down are from.

[@iang867]

Blue Sky - they're the red wave

[@thefrenchtwisttruck8613]

Now i know what my favorite pod casters look like.

[@David-ft3wp]

They were on late show with Stephen Colbert a couple times now.

[@davidcwitkin6729]

John F is crazy hot

[@yanicallu2001]

I love an angry Jon Lovett.

[@MelissaSamms]

Yes! Thank you for saying it.

[@michaelwilson3785]

Wow Symone is so much more effective in this setting than the CNN punditry.

[@Adam4RizzelStudios]

I love you HBO, I really do, but it's super fucked up that clips from your live shows pop up for free in only a few hours, while paying OTT subscribers have to wait until the next morning to watch the full show.

[@jillyburt]

10 STEPS TOWARD PEACE Almost every one of us wants peace, but most of us also love things that make peace impossible. Here are 10 steps we can take every day that will make us agents of a more peaceful world: 1. We must learn to live in the whole world. We need not love our own nation less, but we must learn to love humanity more. Our children’s children share a common fate with those people our leaders call “enemies,” so we must learn to become citizens of the world. We must demand that our own nation abide by the Nuremberg principles, the Geneva Conventions, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 2. We must work for a fairer world. We must come to realize that future violence lies hidden in discrepancies of power and possession. 3. We must dedicate our thought and speech to peace. We must strive to keep our language rational and communicative. Every time we lapse into ridicule and insult we have allowed our minds to drift toward violence. 4. We must learn that history did not begin when our own nation was attacked. Every nation has its wounds and its fears. Those wounds will either lead us to a mutual commitment to healing or into a spiral of ever increasing pain. We must not live in only our own nation’s story. We must also learn the history of the one’s our leaders call “enemy.” 5. We must learn to act out of our hopes rather than our fears. 6. We must end the illusion that our enemy is fundamentally different than ourselves. 7. Working for peace does not mean ignoring the cries of the oppressed. To work for peace, we cannot be naive. There are dangerous people and dangerous situations. Peacemaking is not based on groundless credulity but mutual accountability. 8. Peacemaking does not mean avoiding conflict, it means seeking to communicate through conflict to non-violent resolutions that, as far as possible, meet everyone's needs. 9. To work for peace we must learn to discipline our wants as well as our hates and fears. Conflict is as likely to come from greed as from hatred. 10. We must learn that gentleness takes courage too. We should hold as many parades for ambassadors, teachers and diplomats as we do for soldiers. We must become as willing to risk our lives for peace as we are willing to risk them for war. Jim Rigsby

[@mbk4700]

Hi Y'all and PSA - Don't follow you much, yet, but was pondering the nice potential invention of an overhead national speaker and thought this is the best platform for the moment. Did some homework: On the T Rally in Texas, Oct 22: where Pres T noted, and correctly, what an honor it is to appoint Federal Judges (by which I infer he meant it an honor to be able to practice the rarest out of all Federal Court appointments to nominate and appoint Supreme Court Justices), but then after, he highlighting and underlining that this is his 2nd, purporting, I guess, how rare that is, then seguing into a small powerful rhetoric about percentages of appointments (by which I inferred, he was asking the audience, which President had the highest percentage of actual appointments out of possible appointments) about G. Washington, GW of course the only possible President to have made 100% appointments out of possible seats, being that all 11 seats on the SC in the beginning were empty ... I did some homework, and thought to save many people the history effort (and, always happy to be corrected if I'm reading something wrong! :) ) : Um - - out of 45 Presidents, only 4 have not had Supreme Court Justice appointments: Harrison, Taylor, Johnson & Carter. Certainly, Washington has the highest percentage appointments of possible appointments, given he had a blank slate. But Reagan has highest number of all Federal Judicial Appointments (Supreme Court + Circuit Courts & District Courts), at 383. (4 Supreme Court) After Washington with highest SCJ appointments, FDR had highest at 9, then Taft at 6, then Eisenhower, Lincoln and Jackson at 5. Others with 4 & 3. Madison, Polk, Arthur, Hayes, Kennedy, Bush Sr, Bush Jr, Obama and Clinton had 2 appointments.

[@BrokeredHeart]

It's refreshing to hear these conversations, and I hope that more progressive candidates and those thinking of running in the future heed these sorts of forums and discussions. There has been a lot of blame on who broke the system over the years, and while there is a lot of heat on Republicans for upholding discriminatory and exclusionary practices for political gain, it has been equally abhorrent for liberals who supported establishment Democrats for so many years. I questioned why millions of voters pushed away political platforms that appeal to their best interests in favour of autocrats and authoritarian figures in politics. This trend has been occurring for decades now, not just in North America, but every continent, and it's this frightening rise of fascism that seems to be rearing its ugly head. And what I gather from most people I speak with is the frustration of voting for progressives who then bail on the values they touted, in favour of large corporate donations and bribes. The entangled relationship between the left and big banks has been a major sticking point, because we vote with the anticipation that our grievances will be addressed, only to take a back seat to every corporate demand who line the pockets of the people we chose to represent us. If progressivism is truly going to get a fighting chance, the movement cannot be corrupted or co-opted by big money. That is the only way to gaining back public trust and legitimacy. That is the only way to restoring political transparency. That is the only way to assure public engagement, because when people can see the process in action, and know how the engine is being powered, they'll be more inclined to participate in civil discourse. Because then there's no way to hide from your constituents, and no way to warp the data used to design policy framework, and less of a chance that false information can be spread. The major step of getting money out of politics is critical to reestablishing public trust. And fortunately, there are some candidates on the left who are running specifically on that issue. They aren't career politicians and lawyers, they're teachers, and librarians, and lab technicians, and bus drivers - the real people of America who want to truly make a Congressional body that authentically represents the makeup of American society. Today is the day, guys and gals. Get out and vote.

[@alanblanes9572]

Dan made some excellent points at 8:00 about Democrats being interested in policy and Republicans centering only on power, and Jon made a good case for the fact that the GOP has work to do to separate authentic conservatism from the Nazi lawlessness faction. It is good to see a serious take on this dangerous state of affairs coming from Pod Save America. Now if we could just work on creating a sense of team spirit within the progressive forces to work on these principles as goals, the GOP will be shown as the sham it is. That does NOT mean that I believe that voting blue at all costs is the answer. In order for the DNC to be supportable it will have to get its leadership to act in the public interest, and support the Bernie agenda. As Jimmy Dore says, the Dems could win by a landslide if they were for single payer health care, free education at all levels, and other things that have overwhelming support. They won't do it because they are beholden to the same donors that the GOP is funded by. The work that Democrats have to take on is restoring the FDR vision and mission within the party, and if there is unity on that, the GOP will have no choice other than to do the work Jon was talking about.

[@eaglessixersfankeepingitre3247]

Anthony Scaramucci said it best “Democrats can not beat Donald Trump by using old campaign tactics. The Obama style campaign has to evolve, and the Democratic National Party needs young intelligent and aggressive leadership that is progressive.”

[@edwinswezey5028]

I agree with all these ideas; but it's just five identical liberals talking at each other and at a liberal audience. The Politicon debates are much more instructive.

[@thegreatmonster]

YES! The caffeine IS the ISSUE. IT. IS. CAUSING. ALL. OF. THIS.

[@Gilgamesh97C]

I'm so desensitized I forgot what domestic terrorism looked like

[@jorgefigueiredo341]

Love you Sanders but, literally.

[@beachbum6781]

CNN had 3 packages.

[@1990Enuff]

1st homo sapiens to comment

[@wesleyrodgers886]

First comment on your first comment commenting first comment on your comment.

[@thebottomfactory]

when I talk to myself I always have an audience.

[@IizUname]

Turn off that cringy laughtrack

[@bubbiesdad]

Why does Symone have to screech?

[@lowlifechris5833]

Not one person on this panel carries my voice. This is why the dems are lost not one real American in this room.

[@Abrin32]

It shouldn't matter, but are they all gay? I feel like it wouldn't matter that they are all gay, but call it gay opinion hour.

[@feebeedoc78]

You feel like it shouldn’t matter but it seems to matter to you.

[@telectronix1368]

It doesn't matter.

[@chrissiek8706]

Sorry to break your hopes, but Vietor, Favreau and Pfeiffer are happily married, and Lovett is dating - you won't believe whom, but you can be totally jealous of either of them - Ronan Farrow 😉😁