Ana, Ben Mankiewicz, and Mark Thompson. TX House passes immigration bill. Arkansas 4th execution. Rich kids festival fraud. Why female dragonflies fake death to avoid male advances.
While I do agree with everything Ben says about the death penalty, he’s not correct when he says that everybody fights it. Gary Gilmore, for one, did not. The appeals made by the ACLU were against his expressed wishes.
If something happend to one of my family memebers, I wouldn’t want to kill the person. I would want them to live. I would want them to live a long life in solitary confinement. I would want them to only see another person when their meal is brought to them. No other contact with people. No video games. No movies. No tv. Only a select few books. One hour a day for exercise. That’s it. For the rest of their hopefully long life
About the Fyre Festival stuff. I can’t find myself feeling sorry for those people. Maybe it’s a failing of mine, but I just can’t. There are tens of millions of Americans who can’t afford anything nicer than the occasional cheese sandwich on a daily basis. Those people who got screwed out of a luxurious music festival at worst have to suffer the indignity of living like a poor person for, what, a few days before they go back to whatever life they led before where they could drop between $1,000 and $12,000 to go to a music festival? Sorry. No sympathy. I know Ben said that sympathy for these people doesn’t push out sympathy for coal miners or anything, but how many of those people who went to Fyre Festival are going to return and do anything for the people who live at least that poorly and that desperately without any hope of escape?
you can’t assume everyone there was a rich pompous asshole… and even if they were, they deserve what they paid for.
Maybe someone was given a ticket as a gift, or they saved up/ used credit to go there and took a bunch of vacation days off for it. You never know…
either way, that’s not acceptable, despite the general financial situations of the festival attendants
WHAT CAN YOU POSSIBLY CRITICIZE?!?! IF A PERSON COMMITS A CRIME YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED TO CHECK THEIR IMMIGRATION STATUS??? IF YOU FIND OUT THEY ARE ILLEGAL YOU DON’T WANT THEM TO COOPORATE WITH FEDERAL AGENTS???
EMPATHY DOESN’T ALLOW YOI TO BREAK THE LAW AND AIDE FUCKING CRIMINALS ANA!!! YOU FUCKING CUNT! CONSTANTLY RULED BY YOUR EMOTION!
If an illegal immigrant is raped and reports it to the police, under this law they could then be deported. That means they won’t report it to the police, and illegal immigrants will become an underclass to be prayed upon by violent criminals. That’s a criticism.
I know you’re a troll, and the sort of person who spends $10 a month to call women cunts on the internet is generally more likely to be a rapist than to empathize with rape victims, but most normal people would prioritize punishing rapist citizens over illegal immigrants.
Speedball271, you just accused Ana of being ruled by her emotions, yet, your rant is in all CAPS plus you used the F- and C-bombs! Ruled by your emotions, much?
So I just realized I have been thinking that Jimmy D and Ben M were the same person! Omg, I feel so dumb; I was always wondering why there were days when I’m thinking this guy is such an ass! Then other times where I couldn’t believe it was the same asshole, because there was some great, empathetical, and sound point made.
Ben M, you’re the man!
Also, I feel like I could close my eyes and pretend Michael is JK Simmons; what a great voice!
Thanks for the panel, guys, everyone was really on point, eloquent, and informative.
I think he was in pain because one of the three concoctions they give is a paralytic. For him to convulse is a significant neuromuscular response that overcomes a paralytic. In my opinion it takes a significant pain response to create that affect overcoming a paralytic.
Now what I never understand is we are improving the techniques for assisted suicide under medical conditions. Why can’t we give the medicine or the lethal morphine doses required? There are kids dieing painlessly on the streets from Heroine OD’s … hate to sound barbaric but can’t that work? Why 3 chemicals when one can do the job and might actually be enjoyable? By the way I agree the death penalty is wrong and horrible. I think the worst punishment is a life sentence which is deprived of comforts, humiliation, uncertainty, and a long road to maybe hopefully repent one day and also achieves the ability for a person to one day be acquitted based on new technologies … how many folks has DNA saved from prison?
Now about that music festival, I find it odd that whenever rich folks get scammed it’s a major breaking news incident. Poor and middle class folks get screwed on a daily basis by Banks, payday lenders, and retinue of vultures from gas stations to local grocers. Whenever the affluent get scammed like Madoff it becomes a major headline news and the FBI serious crimes unit leaps to the occasion. All that I see now is that growing divide between the two tiers of justice. Watch these rich folks get justice, and the media play the violin for them not getting to go on a vacation, meet other rich douches, hear music that was flown in, eat food that was also flown in, and drink booze out of $100 plus bottles. These socialites will get justice but that family with a foreclosed home is still waiting for that justice.
It comes down to power. With Madoff his victims were rich people and rich people people tend to have the money and influence to kick up a fuss and make life hard for the FBI, which poor people don’t. With this music festival I think people enjoy the schadenfreude of hearing about rich people being screwed over, but I agree these festival goers are much more likely to get restitution because the resources to make life difficult for the organizers.
mabdinur85, I never thought about this, but why couldn’t we just give them an overdose of morphine? It seems like we’re trying to keep it a tad barbaric because there is that revenge factor. The death penalty has some irrationality built in to pander to people who want revenge. Funny that religious people never think, “Vengeance is Mine, saith the Lord.”
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The Game of Thrones equivalent of Lethal Injection – getting an arrow in the heart from Jon Snow while you’re burning at the stake.
While I do agree with everything Ben says about the death penalty, he’s not correct when he says that everybody fights it. Gary Gilmore, for one, did not. The appeals made by the ACLU were against his expressed wishes.
I love seeing hateful comments. Nothing says idiot quite like paying to get upset.
CGP Grey does a great video about dopamine releases related to rage. “This Video Will Make You Angry” :)
If something happend to one of my family memebers, I wouldn’t want to kill the person. I would want them to live. I would want them to live a long life in solitary confinement. I would want them to only see another person when their meal is brought to them. No other contact with people. No video games. No movies. No tv. Only a select few books. One hour a day for exercise. That’s it. For the rest of their hopefully long life
This panel made me realize how much I missed seeing Ben. That music festival segment was hilarious. Great job guys.
Ben and Michael are fine, but I wish Jimmy was on to keep their pro-establishment views in check.
More Ben!
Amen!
Thoroughly enjoyed Ben and Micheal.
#dumpsterfyre
#notallheroeswearcapes
About the Fyre Festival stuff. I can’t find myself feeling sorry for those people. Maybe it’s a failing of mine, but I just can’t. There are tens of millions of Americans who can’t afford anything nicer than the occasional cheese sandwich on a daily basis. Those people who got screwed out of a luxurious music festival at worst have to suffer the indignity of living like a poor person for, what, a few days before they go back to whatever life they led before where they could drop between $1,000 and $12,000 to go to a music festival? Sorry. No sympathy. I know Ben said that sympathy for these people doesn’t push out sympathy for coal miners or anything, but how many of those people who went to Fyre Festival are going to return and do anything for the people who live at least that poorly and that desperately without any hope of escape?
First. World. Problems.
you can’t assume everyone there was a rich pompous asshole… and even if they were, they deserve what they paid for.
Maybe someone was given a ticket as a gift, or they saved up/ used credit to go there and took a bunch of vacation days off for it. You never know…
either way, that’s not acceptable, despite the general financial situations of the festival attendants
You are not alone, my friend. I thought they were the same person too ????
WHAT CAN YOU POSSIBLY CRITICIZE?!?! IF A PERSON COMMITS A CRIME YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED TO CHECK THEIR IMMIGRATION STATUS??? IF YOU FIND OUT THEY ARE ILLEGAL YOU DON’T WANT THEM TO COOPORATE WITH FEDERAL AGENTS???
EMPATHY DOESN’T ALLOW YOI TO BREAK THE LAW AND AIDE FUCKING CRIMINALS ANA!!! YOU FUCKING CUNT! CONSTANTLY RULED BY YOUR EMOTION!
If an illegal immigrant is raped and reports it to the police, under this law they could then be deported. That means they won’t report it to the police, and illegal immigrants will become an underclass to be prayed upon by violent criminals. That’s a criticism.
I know you’re a troll, and the sort of person who spends $10 a month to call women cunts on the internet is generally more likely to be a rapist than to empathize with rape victims, but most normal people would prioritize punishing rapist citizens over illegal immigrants.
Speedy is unlikely to ever have sex with a real live person, let alone anyone as hot as Ana — hence, you can see his frustration and need to vent.
Excellent deduction!
Speedball271, you just accused Ana of being ruled by her emotions, yet, your rant is in all CAPS plus you used the F- and C-bombs! Ruled by your emotions, much?
So I just realized I have been thinking that Jimmy D and Ben M were the same person! Omg, I feel so dumb; I was always wondering why there were days when I’m thinking this guy is such an ass! Then other times where I couldn’t believe it was the same asshole, because there was some great, empathetical, and sound point made.
Ben M, you’re the man!
Also, I feel like I could close my eyes and pretend Michael is JK Simmons; what a great voice!
Thanks for the panel, guys, everyone was really on point, eloquent, and informative.
I think he was in pain because one of the three concoctions they give is a paralytic. For him to convulse is a significant neuromuscular response that overcomes a paralytic. In my opinion it takes a significant pain response to create that affect overcoming a paralytic.
Now what I never understand is we are improving the techniques for assisted suicide under medical conditions. Why can’t we give the medicine or the lethal morphine doses required? There are kids dieing painlessly on the streets from Heroine OD’s … hate to sound barbaric but can’t that work? Why 3 chemicals when one can do the job and might actually be enjoyable? By the way I agree the death penalty is wrong and horrible. I think the worst punishment is a life sentence which is deprived of comforts, humiliation, uncertainty, and a long road to maybe hopefully repent one day and also achieves the ability for a person to one day be acquitted based on new technologies … how many folks has DNA saved from prison?
Now about that music festival, I find it odd that whenever rich folks get scammed it’s a major breaking news incident. Poor and middle class folks get screwed on a daily basis by Banks, payday lenders, and retinue of vultures from gas stations to local grocers. Whenever the affluent get scammed like Madoff it becomes a major headline news and the FBI serious crimes unit leaps to the occasion. All that I see now is that growing divide between the two tiers of justice. Watch these rich folks get justice, and the media play the violin for them not getting to go on a vacation, meet other rich douches, hear music that was flown in, eat food that was also flown in, and drink booze out of $100 plus bottles. These socialites will get justice but that family with a foreclosed home is still waiting for that justice.
It comes down to power. With Madoff his victims were rich people and rich people people tend to have the money and influence to kick up a fuss and make life hard for the FBI, which poor people don’t. With this music festival I think people enjoy the schadenfreude of hearing about rich people being screwed over, but I agree these festival goers are much more likely to get restitution because the resources to make life difficult for the organizers.
mabdinur85, I never thought about this, but why couldn’t we just give them an overdose of morphine? It seems like we’re trying to keep it a tad barbaric because there is that revenge factor. The death penalty has some irrationality built in to pander to people who want revenge. Funny that religious people never think, “Vengeance is Mine, saith the Lord.”
With this ending….best episode EVER…. : )
ILMAO! Glam campers in tears!
Right, the Texas bill won’t affect Asian, Pacific Islanders……it will ice pick Mexican/Spanish speaking, dark-skinned people.
Barbaric. Racist, blahdeblah