A Very Special Thanksgiving Message from Reason.tv

[kkilo34]

Nick NOOOOOOOOO!

[hugolp]

Hahaha, that was great.

[beholdthecakola]

What's the point of this video? Obama's suck some how makes Bush's suck not suck so bad?

[hugolp]

Obama and Bush suck the same?

[obama200]

People criticize bush for racking up debt, but Obama is putting us in debt at a faster pace than did Bush. So if you criticize Bush's spending, you have to be upset about Obama's spending (if you want to be consistent).

[HeadTater]

Reason is criticizing Obama just as they are Bush. The Bush segments are to show that what John McCain (yet another beltway-boob) said was correct: "that's not change; that's more of the same"

[blingbling65943]

We all know President Obama inherited these huge budget deficits right?

Alright, just checking

[Beethovens7th]

Lame.

[FullMonteTravel]

Thank God he hung himself one less fucking idiot!

[aeuiono]

Did he have "Fed" written on his chest this time? How do you know Michelle Malkin isn't responsible?

[blingbling65943]

Hopefully Beck, Limpbaugh and Palin will follow this idiots led.

[demonpreyer]

Liberals are starting to realize excuses ain't fixing nothing! Every new president is handed problems to fix. The biggest problem we have now is a _resident who can't fix anything concerning our country. Liberals voted for a failure, now everyone has to pay! You sow failure, you reap failure! The stimulus didn't create one job! Any moron knows you don't fix debt by tripling the debt, but apparently are new _dent doesn't know that. If you think health care is expensive now, wait till its free!

[blingbling65943]

What part of the stimulus plan didn't work? The $282 billion in tax cuts?

Because unlike you nut-bag conservatives, the rest of Americans think we know how to spend our money better then Government.

All conservatives want to do is take and take, get you hands off my money!!!!

And who tripling the debt?

[obama200]

??? I think you have your parties backwards. Republicans are for less spending and less taxes because they want you to spend the money rather than the government. Liberals are the ones who grow government ($1 trillion health care plan) and take your money.

[HeadTater]

What about Bush and his buddies? They are all Republicans and look what they did: Patriot Act, Bailouts, Iraq, DHS, No Child Left Behind...

Just like the liberal dems, neoconservatives suck. Just like the paleoconservative, the blue-dog democrats are alright (if you have to choose a mainstream group).

[obama200]

You're just citing random things. The main theory is that dems grow gov't and republicans shrink it. Smaller government costs less and you get to keep more of your money.

[HeadTater]

Ideally Republicans oppose big government. However, in practice, that is not always the case. Especially in recent years, neocons have gained more influence in the GOP and other conservative parties. Neocons, unlike true conservatives, do not always follow through on their agenda of limited government.

[Betty5150]

Republicans shrink it? Federal Government under Reagan grew 58%+ after his term. He was a deficit spender. Also implemented Gun laws, and started the drug war. There is nothing small government about Reagan. There hasn't been a good small government republican since Coolidge.

[obama200]

Compared to dems, republicans do shrink government.

Reagan is special because he cut taxes from super high rates that had previously stifled economic growth.

[Betty5150]

By what, a slim percentage? The party of Lincoln, funny they call it that. Lincoln was definitely not small government. I don't know how you can attempt to defend the republican party. They are just as bad as democrats.

And there have been cases where Democrats have lowered the size of Government more then Republicans. Democrats use to be the free market pursuers.

[obama200]

Republicans are much better than democrats and as of now in terms of the 2010 and 2012 elections, you're best bet for free markets is with the republicans, not the democrats.

[Betty5150]

I must say, you don't have any comprehension on how politicians work. They will do anything to get into office. And will doing anything to hold power. They will promise the people something, and then ignore the promise since they are in office.

You also don't understand that the Republican party is also the war-monger party. And require the fed to print money to fund the wars. As the democrats with the welfare state.

Open you're eyes. Both parties are liars and poison to this country.

[obama200]

I don't take the term "war-monger" seriously anymore. Its just a catch phrase and has nothing to do with the republican party.

[blingbling65943]

If Republicans were for less spending then why has 95% of our current national debt incurred under Republicans presidents?

Why is it that when the Republicans controlled the House, the Senate, and the White House they more then Tripled the national debt, quadrupled Military spending?

If Repub's hate taxes, Why did Reagan raise taxes 11 times on the middle class, and why don't they give credit to Pres. Obama for passing the largest middle class tax cut in American history?

[obama200]

Reagan cut taxes dramatically from the carter administration - even with any subsequent increases.

Obama isn't being credited for any tax cuts because his reckless spending will require future tax increases on everyone (not the top 5% as he says).

Military spending quadrupled because we were at war. And the debt increased (didn't triple) because spending increased. Believe me, a lot of republicans do not like Bush's spending policy and call him a liberal because of his spending.

[blingbling65943]

I don't know where you get your facts, but

9.1% of the current budget deficit can be attributed to President Obama's policies, that only a 2.3% increase over the 6.8% Bush increase the budget every year he was in office. Hardly "reckless spending"

And much of that is because Obama cut taxes, resulting in less tax revenue

And Bush increase the National debt by $6 trillion, the wars in Iraq and elsewhere have only cost us $1 trillion so far,

Where did the rest of the money go?

[obama200]

I don't know how $780 billion comes out to 9%, especially with an additional $1 trillion in health care costs.

The other $5 trillion must have been paid to corrupt republicans. The conspiracy theory that fox news won't report.

[hummer9686]

hahaha, he hung himself... HAHAHAHAHA

[regrethedays]

why everything they state is true...........

[bigdogsdontbark]

He makes a good point. Obama is the worst president ever. He is weak, incompetent, lazy, indecisive and make George W. look like Einstein

[nike12301]

i usually love Gillespie's videos... but this was tacky

[DecimusAquila]

Hilarious!

[Ed76638]

Your faggot-ass George W Bush destroyed this country.

[Zoklor]

@Ed76638 Your retarded Ed. Bush could not do anything unless he had the support of congress, which included your now president messiah, his sec. of state, clinton and many others still in congress. I know Bush does have some role in this, however, so does this current admin. He has been in office a year, what has he done to help the economy besides spend huge amounts of tax payer money? No jobs, fake and altered numbers propped up by clunkers, and still blames bush. Sad people cant see the lie.

[Ed76638]

Almost all of the damage was when Bush and the REPUBLICAN congress was in charge. After 2006, the Blue Bitch Democrats aided and abetted in furthering Bush's agenda. After 8 years of do-nothing in Afghanistan, borrowing from China to pay for tax cuts and the bullshit Iraq war, and expensive bailouts; NOW you want have your tea parties and whine about socialism/communism/fascism in hopes of resuming destructive, right-wing faggotry. Fuck. Off.

[Zoklor]

@Ed76638 - You are so full of shit, No one debates the fact that Bush sucked. Even true conservatives(not GOP) do not support the Bush policies. You are obviously blinded by this fucker in office now, because he is the same thing that Bush was, he hasnt kept ONE campaign promise, he continued patriot act, he has spent more then all other presidents combined, he still has not brought our troops home, and he is still a fucking liar.

[bundlesjr]

"he hasnt kept ONE campaign promise"

Your the blind one.

[FullMonteTravel]

You are so fucking stupid and blind...check your facts before you spew you bullshit...President Obama has followed thru with everything that he can. For Christ sake he has only been in office for less than a year, and look at the clusterfuck he has had to face because of the goofiest president this nation has ever seen...Bush is the one that broke America, and now Obama is trying to pick up the pieces...which he has to do before he can even do anything...you are just fucking stupid....

[aeuiono]

FullMonteTravel, you are fucking stupid. And blind. Remind me when Bush was handing out subprime loans you stupid blind stupidfuck. For Allah's sake, Obama has been in office less than a year and has ballooned our deficits beyond any rational person's definition of sustainable.

"Joe, are you saying we have to spend money to not go bankrupt? Yes, I'm telling you."

I do not recognize Obama as our leader, he signed that over to the Emperor Akihito.

[DoomHippie]

Judging by the fact that His Imperial Majesty the Emperor Akihito has never violated the Japanese Constitution or out-stepped his severely limited powers, I would say that President Obama's bow to His Imperial Majesty the Emperor Akihito was a simply bow to a superior leader. I don't see why it's such a controversy.

I would sooner bow to Akihito then Obama.

[putittogether]

@DoomHippie - Well said

[lordthawkeye]

The Japanese emperor is more of a spiritual leader than a political one honestly.

[aeuiono]

No wonder Obama bowed to Akihito, from one spiritual leader to another.

[VJDTropical]

I hate both parties

Go Independents and everybody else

I'm a conservative btw

[bundlesjr]

Big time fail on your understanding of my comment. I was in fact refuting the comment that Obama hasn't kept "one" of his campaign promises. Your making us look really bad...

[Zoklor]

And if you really want to know when the damage started, it was when clinton was in office and him and fat-faced Barney Frank mandated that fannie and freddie had a ridiculous percentage of the mortgages they offer to low income. Hence came the sub-prime loan. The banks HAD to give these loans if they wanted to deal with freddiemac. So before you go pushing blame around, look at your liberal retards in office even before bush. Obviously liberal policy is a country breaker.

[Ed76638]

Obama being a big spender doesn't fit into perspective. He was handed 2 wars, a ruined economy, and a fucked up health care system.

Barney Frank didn't become chairman until 2007. By that time, the fallout from the sub-prime mess was in full swing. Deciding that credit default swaps shouldn't be regulated is not liberal policy. Just because Clinton sign off on it doesn't make it liberal. It was written by Phil Graham and backed by Larry Summers. Obama letting Summers back in was pure FAIL.

[FugitiveCon]

...sounds like you're a little too crunk on the Kool-aid.

[Zoklor]

Ok, he was handed 2 wars, he promised to bring our troops home. Didnt happen. And yes in 2003 Frank was on the financial services committee. they refused to have ANY oversight that the republicans wanted on fannie and freddie. Look on you tube, the videos of the debate are even on here. They artificially inflated the amount of low-income loans that were MANDATED on lenders.

[VJDTropical]

I thought liberals were for gay rights or something ... personally I dislike George W. Bush for his fiscal irresponsibility ( and would prefer if marriage became a private institution for one man and one woman instead and civil unions for homosexuals and heterosexuals alike as the primary governmental function ) but why call him '' faggot '' ?

[Ed76638]

"faggot" no-longer means gay people.

[ThePintsizeslasher]

Reason has been critical of Bush throughout his administration; it's not like this video puts him in good light either. It was a poor attempt to demonstrate that Obama's not to different than Bush, and worse in some ways.

[MooseOfReason]

You say "your" like Bush was a libertarian.

The dude was more progressive than the car insurance company.

[CountArtha]

You ruined my family's Thanksgiving, Reason!

[honkie247]

"A change you can believe in" I hope everyone that voted for this idiot enjoys the change he has brought so far.

[Brezable]

Im thankful for plastic surgery and 70's haircuts

[faanunu]

haha... so much for change

[mikemat3307]

averagejoe040,

Get a clue.

[wvmcc82]

Really Joe? Libertarianism doesn't mean "fuck the poor". Americans have the best-off poor in the world. Why? Capitalism. Communism lowers the most common denominator. Capitalism increases it. You're sorely misinformed on libertarian philosophy jackass

[VJDTropical]

Joe402 is why social liberalism is dangerous to fiscal conservatism

Too much social conservatism is bad too

Social moderates ALL the way

Social libertarians are welcomed too =)

[Joe402]

I used to consider myself socially liberal and fiscally conservative then I turned 16 and realized fiscal conservatism pretty much means "FUCK THE POOR."

[tynews2001]

That is not what it means. Inflation hits the poor the hardest. It is essentially a transfer from the poor and middle class to the well connected and rich.

Moreover, conservatives are statistically far more likely to donate to the poor. Just because you don't believe in the government helping the poor, doesn't mean you don't personally believe in it. Private charity is far more effective, and government spending crowds it out.

Everyone would be better off with a more frugal government.

[Joe402]

Charities are flawed because in a time of economic hardship people have less to give.

[Betty5150]

That theory is flawed. If everyone has less to give, it must mean they have less in general. So then the government comes in and takes money from the people who have less. In charity, they have a choice.

And no, the government never takes money from the Rich, since it's run by the rich. Don't give me the "we should tax the rich". Government has no interest in that.

[Joe402]

Rich people's income have gone up these past few years even during bad economic times while every one else is getting screwed.

Free Market lol

[JonasSalk]

We don't have a free market.

Government lol

[Joe402]

A lot of this mess was caused by deregulation.

Sorry your religious devotion to the free market has disillusioned you.

[Betty5150]

Bah, glass steagal. One of the worst deregulation. Why liberals use it as a talking point I don't know. They think that all deregulation will be like that.

And why is it that the opposing side is always the religion? We haven't had a truly free market principles since 1921 under Coolidge. Where he took a depression, CUT government spending in half, liquidated the debt, and the malinvestment disappeared. That depression lasted one year. FDR did the opposite. Depression lasted 10 years.

[VictoryCough]

Mises . Org has an excellent article on the depression of 1920.

[Betty5150]

I have a video on my page with Thomas Woods speaking about the depression of 1920. Go watch it.

Joe402 thinks that capitalism involves subsidies to Big bullishness. If only more liberals learned of Austrian economics.

[ICONICFREEDOM]

What about the deregulation of the airline industry and the phone company? Those created healthy competition which drove down prices so anyone could afford to fly or purchase a phone.

Anyone upholding regulation is merely touting liberal control, not freedom.

[Betty5150]

What makes you think that I'm for regulations? I oppose them. I for 0 government interference in the market.

[ICONICFREEDOM]

I didn't think you were for regulations. the airline/phone examples were in support of your position regarding the deregulation of business.

maybe my sarcastic comments which were refuting Joe didn't come across as such. rats!

[obama200]

and the bad times are caused by the government interfering with the free market.

[Betty5150]

First off, I like how you didn't even refute what I said. You just brushed it in the back of you're head because it's an uncomfortable thought to know you were wrong.Secondly, what statistic are you basing that one? That sounds very made up.Thirdly, you should look up why the rich stay rich in an economic down turn. Fractional Reserve banking. And no, since we have that, we definitely do not have a free market nor capitalism. Before you even think about reply (which you won't).go read of FRB

[Joe402]

I'm saying that taxing the rich will not hurt them at all.

[Betty5150]

Tax them? How much? 1% of one million? What will it go to? Government spending? What you don't realize, its that it's not voluntary to tax someone, and use the money in ways they don't wish to. If you want to be consistent with freedom, then you have to understand, voluntarism is REQUIRED in freedom.

Not only that, but wealth distribution is a fallacy. You believe that once you give the poor the money that they will ALL spend it productively.

Go look up fractional reserve banking.

[ICONICFREEDOM]

well, how much do you make? we may decide to randomly place you in a category that says you're not allowed to keep the fruits of your personal labor or investment from hard earned dollars.

[VJDTropical]

Social liberalism is very contagious )=

Poor thing -___-

It destroyed your thinking

Fiscal conservatives/Social moderates RULE =)

Fiscal conservative/''Social liberal'' (oxymoron) sucks

Too much social conservatism is bad too

Social moderate or Socially libertarian

I'm mixed btw

[Joe402]

I'm socially liberal and fiscally conservative but I would be in favor of regressive social policies and slavery if the market dictates it.

[Joe402]

I'm thankful of bootstraps and demonizing the poor. We libertarians are literally children who vote Republican because all we can think about is TAXES TAXES TAXES.

[th3soulreaper]

thanks for the video, i lol'd

[bracomadar]

So that's why there's such a high suicide rate around the holidays.

[SgtSpline]

Nice Shoes.

[voxman77]

Gillespie has taken his funny pills these past 6 months.

[highonhayek]

Thanksgiving is such a sham holiday -- a day where people thank their personal phantom deity for the life giving comfort, convenience and security provided by the genius of inventors and businesspeople.

What an outrage that this day is taken seriously.

I get this feeling every time I think back to that part in Atlas where mother Rearden, who lived in luxury because of her son, had the sheer guile to raise her glass at the table and thank God for all that they enjoyed.

[CrashGames2108]

And here I was thinking that thanksgiving was a secular holiday where you remind yourself to give thanks to those geniuses that make your life easier.

[sniper6081]

Why the hell can't Obama dance? He's black. And why are all these people thinking the person being hung is Obama. Why are there so many idiots here? This isn't even a channel for idiots.

[delphi7000]

libtards really are humorless gits.

[MooseOfReason]

Aw, poor Nick.  Lol.

[morcova]

Wow someone see's someone hanged and they think it must be a black man?

Lots of racists here.

[durable17]

Had to believe everyone on here is so stupid they actually think the hanging man isn't supposed to be Obama.

[morcova]

Your own stupidity and racism are showing thru.

[durable17]

I'm the one that flagged it as a hate video in the first place, and yes racism is showing through... in the video. It's supposed to be illegal to threaten the president.

[Morrakiu]

Congratulations, you're a fucktard.

[ricadrew]

You're a complete dumbass! Look at how Nick is dressed in the vid. Ok, got it? Now look closely at the hanging guys BOOTS & JEANS. Think it would most likely supposed to be Nick? Yea, me too. And when was the last time you saw Obama wearing jeans & boots? Right, he doesn't.

DIMWIT!!!

[mmsayre]

Nick is the one hanging. Get a clue.

If you were just trying to be a sarcastic impersonation of an over sensitive liberal that cries racist every 2 hours, including sleeping hours, then I apologize.

[deftech79]

Congrats, you're a complete moron.

[averagejoe040]

I think the man hung himself because he couldn't stand the Obama administration anymore.

That seems to be what fits with the content of the video.

Probably just some libtard who was disappointed that Guantanamo is not closed and Obama hasn't bought him a new house and a new car with a full tank.

Cest' La Vie

[Aurini]

You know, I never drew the connection between 'man hanging' and 'Obama is black'. As others have said, your reaction points towards your own racist attitudes, not those of the rest of society. I'm reminded over the panic from 'Why so Socialist?' which was clearly a parody of the joker, not 'black faces' or whatever they're called.

Your racial sensitivity is doing more to promote racism than the KKK and rap culture combined.

[deftech79]

Awesome!!

[valcan321]

Roflmao!

[hellofaname]

that is the darkest thanksgiving celebration i have seen in my life

[yoshi3329]

HA! I love it!

[2hunt]

f'n funny. happy thanx giving to all

[sniffsnarff]

Ouch!! That ending was DARK.

5/5*

[PUGS1688]

Would love to see 100,000 views on this vid and in the top 10, but American's just don't care anymore...we are the minority who is really paying attention...it's sad.

[ErikNikolai]

Celebrate Thanksgiving the Ayn Rand-way: by thanking yourself! :-)

[AshillaBeige]

HAHAHA! Aww poor Nick.. he had awesome hair.. good night sweet prince.

[irisojects]

What you forgot to put the duct tape saying FED across your chest.....Laughed so hard I choked, boy that would have been thanksgiving for those Congressmen staffers that I call. Better luck next year! This is one of the reasons I LOVE Reason TV.

[Riprake]

Hey, maybe he did! He didn't show his chest, though, so we can't tell.

[irisojects]

riprake I am sure Barney Frank will be calling for an investigation into the matter. Have a great Thanksgiving.

[AndyMH182]

LOLBBQ

[SeanG200]

.

What does the hanging guy (you can hear the creeks of the rope on a tree or board of some sort) mean? Please ResonTV, explain.

.

[AndyMH182]

There is nothing to be thankful for, so he ended it all.

[jcruenv]

maybe things aren't better and there is less to be thankful for to the point one would hang themselves.

i would be happy to help you with those moving stairs too....

[jsh78mang]

Future looks dark, nothing to be thankful for . ???? How did you not get that?

[SeanG200]

Thanks for all the input guys. I thought ReasonTV was hanging the black-guy... thats all.

[snarkvalid]

The ending had me LLOL. Literally laughing out loud.

[fomastephanovitch]

Rather than figuratively laughing out loud?

[snarkvalid]

Well, here's the thing. LOL has become so diluted that practically no one is actually laughing out loud when they type LOL any more.

So I figure that adding the extra L for literal should provide extra impact, and the mental image of some dood chortlying over his laptop.

[donotswallow]

the ending made me choke on the water I was drinking. hilarious.

[bigc028282]

I'm thankful for carbon dioxide, and the

EMAILS THAT EXPOSE THE IMF/UN "CLIMATE CHANGE" SCAM.

[tarded2much]

I'm thankful for guns and ammo. Going to need them soon enough.

[byronshero]

Reason on point as usual.

[nonantianarchist]

I'm thankful for beer, which helps me to forget about life for a little while.

[Surhotchaperchlorome]

I'm thankful for what little freedom we have left.

[boxant]

I'm thankful for tryptophan, carbs and gravy.

[ab1tchslap]

I'm thankful for yams.

[jjmacjjmac]

dexter. lol.

[LeGioNoFZioN]

hilarious

[Mastikator]

Hilarious.

[pepziboy]

awesome

[Raycheetah]

I'm thankful for Breitbart and the ACORN-busters. I'm thankful for the whistleblowers who hacked the global warming cult. I'm thankful for OathKeepers and the patriots who marched on Washington DC several times this year. I'm thankful for organizations like ReasonTV who present alternatives to the MSM.

And, despite the fact that these blessings are threatened by our "leaders," I'm still thankful that I am an American, and live in a country of plenty, opportunity, and liberty. =^[.]^=

[Amy31415]

Well-said Raycheetah.

Happy Thanksgiving. :)

[EP1KT3T]

a little to harsh reasontv, for a Thanksgiving message...

[ModernSurvivor]

@EP1KT3T Yeah, I'm all for being cynical, that's why I subscribed, but I think they could be a little more optimistic, at least about their own movement.

[b0bzm00s3]

@ModernSurvivor Well, until I see an "L" next to an elected official's name, I doubt it will get any better. It's a bit of dark humor, which Reason seems to do very well.