America's Not the Greatest Country in the World Anymore
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"...It's NOT the greatest country in the world, Professor. That's my answer.
Fine. Sharon, the NEA is a loser. Yeah, it accounts for a penny out of our paycheck, but he gets to hit you with it anytime he wants. It doesn't cost money. It costs votes. It costs airtime. And column inches. You know why people don't like liberals? Because they lose. If liberals are so fuckin' smart then how come they lose so goddamn always?
And with a straight face, you're gonna sit there and tell students that America is so star-spangled awesome that we're the only ones in the world who have freedom? Canada has freedom. Japan has freedom. The U.K. France. Italy. Germany. Spain. Australia. BELGIUM has freedom. Two hundred and seven sovereign states in the world, like, a hundred and eighty of them have freedom.
...And you, Sorority Girl, just in case you accidentally wander into a voting booth one day, there's some things you should know. One of them is there's absolutely no evidence to support the statement that we're the greatest country in the world. We're seventh in literacy. Twenty-seventh in math. Twenty-second in science. Forty-ninth in life expectancy. A hundred and seventy-eighth in infant mortality. Third in median household income. Number four in labor force and number four in exports. We lead the world in only three categories: Number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real, and defense spending, where we spend more than the next twenty-six countries combined, twenty-five of whom are allies.
Now none of this is the fault of a twenty-year-old college student, but you nonetheless are without a doubt a member of the worst, period, generation, period, ever, period. So when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world, I dunno what the fuck you're talkin' about. Yosemite?
Sure used to be. We stood up for what was right. We fought for moral reasons. We passed laws, struck down laws, for moral reasons. We waged wars on poverty, not poor people. We sacrificed. We cared about our neighbors. We put our money where our mouths were. And we never beat our chest.
We built great big things, made ungodly technological advances, explored the universe, cured diseases, and we cultivated the world's greatest artists and the world's greatest economy. We reached for the stars. Acted like men.
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We aspired to intelligence. We didn't belittle it, it didn't make us feel inferior.
We didn't identify ourselves by who we voted for in the last election, and we didn't, oh, we didn't scare so easy. Ha. We were able to be all these things and do all these things because we were informed. By great men. Men who were revered. First step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one. America is not the greatest country in the world anymore. Enough?"
This clip is from HBO's political drama "The Newsroom" Actor is Jeff Daniels who plays Will McAvoy, bagged him Emmy Award
Disgusting.
Emmys are useless Give whoever wrote it a role in the government
I wish that one American president would say this to America’s face.
Imagine a American president saying this in the 1900s Imagine all the racists people faces it will gold.
God i love this speech, i wish a real person of influence had said it.
This a fucking terrible speech its a boomer pretending that the Bush administration didnt scuttle the economy and they all gave birth to a miraculous "lazy and entitled" generation. Its propoganda spread by thieves.
@Angelo Siracusa I mean I can type it again for you....?
@@jotrachsel saying that the USA is the greatest country is propaganda itself.
It's a TV show. Chill dude, it's not a speech. It's a monologue.
@@aFrench88channel Yea... that's why I said "I wish a real person of influence said it", wake up dood, pay attention.
"If liberals are so fucking smart, how come they lose so God damn always?" This made me laugh my ass off
Imagine being the girl at the mic.
As cool as this scene was, and STILL is, I do NOT buy the "Karen" in the audience giving him his "cue card courage". GTFOH. Jeff Daniels not only owned this scene, but he owned this show, and didn't need "Mary Sue" to tell him when to be courageous. FOH.
I keep replaying this
That was a bad ass explanation!!!!
Jeff Daniels is easily top 3 greatest actors in history. Respect.
The original MAGA. I can never forget the first time I saw this...making America great again is about taking the ethical high road and not the shortcuts to wealth and power. Nobody does that anymore, its all self-interested identity politics and purse-snatching from the defenseless. Maybe we were never great, maybe nobody really can be, but we sure as hell used care about trying to be good...which is the measure of a people. Working together and not just for ourselves may not make anyone a great person but it is the only way to be a good person.
Well said, and, hopefully, some reforms will be passed in the government that will place individuals that actually value the wellness of the American people before their own pockets.
Garbage speech.
@@jotrachsel Agreed😂
Willingness to hold each other accountable, learn, and change for the better. Hugs and good vibes 💗🌈💗🌈💗
That was priceless!!!!!
This scene sums up where we are today.
Watching this with popcorn is going to be much better
I thought baby boomers were the worst generation ever...
HopefulOne you mean the millennial generation consider themselves entitled
So do the baby boomers
Boomers Being entitled wasn't the problem it was fucking their kids over, by pulling up the ladders they benefited from in terms of social mobility. Millenials were fucked by generation divorce, McDonalds dads and electronic devices being used as babysitters. They never had a dose of reality so think that sulking and shouting, tantrums is an effective solution to their perceived problems because thats what their guilt ridden absentee extended natural and step parents responded to, and would pacify them by giving them what they demanded. Cause and effect.
They have no idea what's coming.
Not even close. They actually did shit, they didn't whine like little bitches 24/7. I have worked with or taught members of the BB, Gen X, Millennials, and I-Gen and the Millennials are easily the WORST. GENERATION. EVER.
This is a smart man
I've never seen a scene be so honest and equally dishonest at the same time. It works dramatically though. But it is a truthful lie.
After ww2
America is still the greatest country because the rest of the world went to shit even worse.
"worst period generation period ever period", yes and i wonder period which period generation's period fault that is.
It seems like anyone under 23 is much better. Maybe things are turning around.
The US hud deen there research has everyone else!!!
The US Is bad asss!!! Is that enough alreadu????
There not wrong
Easy to criticize. So after eliminating all those countries where you cannot speak freely & criticize your own country,...of all those he named as democracies who is this character naming as "the Greatest Country". Not being able to specify another country says it all. True free democracy will always have messy disagreements, but it's made worse by the current environment with 2 overly dominate parties & a media that encourages the partisan divide. Sure the U.S. could do better in some ways, but even now there still isn't any other country in the world that so many people want to come to.
I thought he was dumb
3:02 Ok boomer.
He’s rights
Haha ok boomer so funny laughing so hard rn
@@-xnnybimb-9398 thanks man I tried my best. Hey, speaking of underrated memes, what a hilarious profile pic!
Alec ikr thank you it is mad funny but too bad it is a couple years old and I never changed it, it is extremely hilarious though. Every time I comment my profile pic has the whole squad laughing
@@-xnnybimb-9398 you're kidding. The whole squad? Damn that's so sick
He was talk about how the corporate media ( cnn, msnbc, cbs. U get the picture ). What happened was a slow creep of thr media being taken over by liberals. The country at one time was mostly hard working, religous, and lived in large farming communities and all white people.
mjs1231 naw b
Lol what??? When was this are you talking about the sliver of time between slaughtering the Indians and today?
Just because America is a continent, not a country. But yes, US is absolutely one of the greatest