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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Why Some Politicians Get Compromised... and Others Don't' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-12-20. Transcript available.

When, especially like as a country, when you're paying into taxes and you're,
and you're, um, showing up to vote and you're, um, trying to help your neighbor
and you're, you know, you're trying to follow the rules and do the best that
you can, uh, you, you know, you, at a certain point, that's like, you're, you're,
you're giving into something as a group that you're like giving into something
like, this is how we believe that we should behave and that it best suits us
moving forward.
And then when it's, it's really started to just feel, and I think it's kind of
obvious at this point that the higher ups are not working for us anymore.
They're not working with us.
And that's what I think has become the most evident, uh, in the past year,
especially is that people are like, oh, are no matter who we elect on which
side, whatever it is, it's all this sort of shell game.
And we're finally starting to see some of it.
And I thought it was interesting that, um.
Well, not working for us is the, is the kind of the most benign description,
like not working for you.
That's just indifference.
That's an abandonment.
That's when your parents like go on vacation and don't come home.
What's happening to us is having like a creepy stepfather.
Like I actually think there's malicious intent here.
But how could so many politicians and stuff get compromised?
That's what I don't understand.
Wouldn't there be more people that stood up and said, hey, this isn't right.
Like I, I, I, that's what I find hard to believe.
Well, um, because they all made the deal and all of them, all of them make the
deal.
And the deal is not always explicit in the deal.
Everyone thinks it's about sexual blackmail, which is totally real.
All the porn sites are visible.
Like go to a porn site.
People know exactly what you're looking at.
And there's a video of you looking at it.
It's just a fact.
And, um, okay, so there's that.
Yeah.
And there are a lot of them are secretly gay.
Of course we know that, but I don't think, and have drinking problems or
cheating their wives or whatever.
Is that enough to keep people?
No, I think it's actually deeper than that.
It's not enough.
It's not enough.
Like the obvious ones, like why is Lindsey Graham for this or that war?
It's like, okay, yeah, I got it.
But if you're trying to slurp on little fellas or whatever, or you're jacking
off to like, you know,
butt activity or whatever, like, does that like, you know, like, I mean,
definitely pedophiles.
Slurping on little fellas.
I mean, pedophiling is bad.
It is not good at all.
It's horrible.
Right.
But if you're just like looking at pornography, I'm just like.
That's not the answer though.
That's not, that's not most of them are not being sexually blackmailed.
Some are.
I mean, I think the Epstein thing was probably that to some extent, but no, it's
much deeper
and more recognizable and part of our daily life than that.
It's much more insidious than that because it's less dramatic than that.
It's the deal that we all make with ourselves to get what we want.
Like, I want to be powerful.
I want to get reelected.
I want to get rich.
I want to bang that girl.
And you make these compromises with yourself in which you consciously decide to
be dishonest.
You decide in some cases violent.
That is true or whatever.
How do you get so many people though?
Because like you look at some of these system itself is that like you get in
order to get
elected.
I have to do the following things.
I have to basically subvert democracy by carrying water for a tiny group of
people against the
interests of my actual voters.
Like that itself is a sin.
It's a crime, but it's so ubiquitous.
You don't even notice it.
It's deals like that.
I'm going to take money from a foreign lobby that somehow isn't registered as a
foreign
lobby or whatever.
I'll support this thing that I think is probably pretty wrong, but I'm going to
do it because
I have to.
It's those kind of moral compromises that wind up making people slaves.
And that's what they are.
They're slaves.
We have hundreds of slaves, otherwise known as members of Congress.
And what are they slaves to?
Evil.
Because they've made these compromises in order to get what they think is the
prize, which
is reelection.
Dang!
It's a crazy movie.
It's real though, man.
I know.
That's a crazy-
But it's all of us.
Like all of us have made that deal.
That's why it's so important to reframe it in your head.
It's not just some freak on Petto Island, you know, banging a child and then,
oh, they
have him by the balls because they have videotape of him.
No, no, no.
It's all of us.
If I just do this thing, it's worth it, man.
It's for the greater good.
It's for my family.
It's for, you know, I need, you hear this every election season.
Right.
I need a vote.
I need a-
I don't want to vote for this shit, but we need to control the Congress.
What is that?
You're making a deal with the devil, dude.
With the devil.
That's what that is.
Bow down before me and all of this will be yours.
That's the deal.
Don't make that deal because you lose yourself.
You lose your freedom.
All of a sudden, you're a slave and you see these politicians.
They're like, oh, no, it's not.
No, there are good reasons for doing this.
No, really.
What is that?
It's not a free man.
That's an enslaved man.
And you know the people who are free because they exude this kind of peace and
joy.
And they're like, no, I don't care.
I'll say whatever I think is true.
You can shoot me.
Go ahead and shoot me.
It's not going to change anything because you're lying and I'm not.
Right.
It's freedom versus slavery.
And we put ourselves in slavery with that deal.
Well, the pain of holding on to lies and stuff like that.
Yes.
And shame and stuff like that.
It's really-
But haven't we all lived that?
You've lived that, right?
For sure.
Like, do you think that if we elected different officials that things would be
different or do you think that no matter who gets in there that the compromising
happens these days?
No, I think leadership is the most important thing.
Why doesn't somebody come up with an app that tells us, like, who's running,
right?
Because a lot of people don't have time to focus on exactly who's running,
right?
They don't have as much time.
They're busy.
Both parents are working.
People are running around.
They're picking their kids up.
They've got to get their kid to T-ball.
They've got to make sure their kids get fed, and they have to make sure that
one of the parents is there to read them a bedtime story before the other
parent goes and works on that as a security guard somewhere just to make ends
meet, right?
So why don't they have, like, an app that says, okay, these are the candidates.
This one doesn't accept any money from any of these places.
It feels like it would be very easy and obvious to create an app like that that
would tell you exactly who to vote for.
I think that's right.
The problem is we're getting to a point of, like, knowledge about things.
Like, people sort of are figuring out what's going on that in order to be
honest now, you have to be truly honest.
If I think people are so wary of being lied to that if you sense that someone's,
like, got to, you know, I'll be all honest about this stuff but not about that
thing, that's not enough.
So true honesty, also called integrity, is what is needed.
It's hard.
Well, you get killed.
You know, you get killed.
Like, the system itself, and this is not the result of any foreign power or any
– this is just, like, the nature of systems, will work to expel you the same
way your body works to expel bacteria or cancer.
It's like the organism doesn't want this, and you see it.
I've known very few honest members of Congress.
I've known a couple, however.
One of them just left Congress, and the other is being primaried.
MTG you're talking about?
Marjorie Taylor Greene?
Exactly, and Thomas Massey from Kentucky.
And, by the way, I don't agree with everything.
It's not even about that.
What does being primaried mean?
I'm sorry to interrupt you.
It means that your own party says, we want you out, and so we're going to run
someone from your party against you in the primary.
Your party has turned on you, and it's like, what is that about?
And it's about not simply the fact that he disagrees with them on foreign
policy, which is really – the whole project really is just foreign policy,
nothing to do with, like, your tax rates or your debt load.
Yeah, he's, like, anti-APAC.
He's bigger against those types of things.
Yeah, and he's not for pointless wars.
So that's a deal killer, but it's not just that.
It's the he – so, yeah, the Israeli lobby's mad at him.
Got it.
But it's deeper.
It's he won't be controlled, and if he doesn't think something, he's not going
to say it, period.
He may be wrong, but he's sincere.
Sincerity is the kryptonite.
That's what makes the evil person die, is sincerity.
No, I really mean it.
I'm not kidding.
I can't be bought.
I'm totally sincere.
If they smell sincerity on you, well, that's why they're calling me the most
dangerous anti-Semite since Adolf Hitler himself.
It's like, what?
Because I'm not a genius.
I'm not powerful at all.
I'm a fucking podcaster.
Like, I don't have actually any power, but I'm not kidding at all.
I'm completely sincere.
I may be wrong.
I often have been, but I'm not joking.
Yeah.
That itself – so they're hassling me.
Imagine if I was a member of Congress or a presidential candidate or anybody
who has sincerity is marked immediately because that person's a threat to
everybody currently benefiting from the system.
They accuse you of what they are, and what they are is corrupt.
So, Marjorie, did she make a ton of money trading on stocks with insider
information?
I bet my house she didn't.
I mean, this is somebody I know well.
You do know her well.
I know her well.
And you can agree or disagree with her, of course, but you can't say she's in
it for the money, really?
I don't think so.
I don't think she's interested in money.
I think she's interested in the country.
And again, we can debate whether she's on the right track or the wrong track.
You think her ideas are smart or stupid, but her sincerity is the most obvious
thing about her, and it's also the most threatening thing about her.
In fact, it's the only thing that they hate is sincerity because sincerity is
purity, and it can't be bought.
And so, of course, the first thing, they're like, oh, you must be getting paid
by somebody.
No, I'm not, and that's why you hate me.
Yeah.
If I was as corrupt as Dan Crenshaw, you really think they would hassle me?
Dan Crenshaw, the guy from Texas?
Yeah.
Is he corrupt?
Well, on the most deep, on a moral level, he's completely corrupt.
I mean, he takes orders from his donors to do things that have nothing to do
with the welfare of his voters.
So, by definition, he's corrupt, yes, and also crazy and drunk and all the rest.
Sad, sad.
I'm not, actually.
Oh, I think I met him at a nightclub one time.
Yeah, well, I'm sure you did.
But I shouldn't be, I feel sorry for Dan Crenshaw being serious.
But anyway, the point is, the more corrupt you are, the more they like you
because they can control you.
What they don't want is someone who might do something unexpected who they can't
control.
That's what they fear, obviously.
It's what everybody fears.
But do you think that as, well, so for Marjorie, do you, what do you think
happened in that meeting?
Because she had a meeting, I guess, with Trump?
I don't know.
I don't know what happened between her and Trump.
I know what happened to her over the past five years serving in Congress, which
was, she was like...
Trump withdrew his political endorsement and publicly insulted Greene, labeling
her as a traitor due to her vocal opposition to his handling of Epstein files
and other policy disagreements.
Yeah.
Greene announced her resignation effective January 5th, 2026 to avoid a divisive
primary challenge.
But why not...
Is it divisive?
Huh?
Is it divisive?
A primary challenge?
Divisive.
Oh, divisive, probably.
I've never figured it out.
They change it so much.
Yeah, they do.
They do.
Do they...
But why not go and challenge then?
Why secede then?
Why not go and say, okay, I'm going to keep fighting and people are going to
support you?
I honestly don't know the answer.
You don't?
The only thing I know...
I really don't.
I haven't talked to her about it and I don't know the answer.
I'm sure there's thinking behind it that I'm not that great at, you know,
thinking about what the right move in politics is.
But I know big picture what happened because I saw it up close, which is she
showed up very much like any other person.
It's like, this country has problems.
I want to fix them.
And she shows up and all people are like, shut up, honey.
She was getting too close to what the truth is.
And the truth is, the people running the system are completely corrupt and the
welfare of their people, our country's people, is not even on their list of
concerns at all.
They're beholden to the people who pay them and or who threaten them.
And she said that out loud.
And, oh, man, she had, like, very few allies.
Once you say that, you're marked.
So I think she concluded, this is my understanding, she concluded, I can't, I'm
having no effect here at all.
It's driving me crazy.
It's driving me crazy.

Why Some Politicians Get Compromised... and Others Don't

When, especially like as a country, when you're paying into taxes and you're,
and you're, um, showing up to vote and you're, um, trying to help your neighbor
and you're, you know, you're trying to follow the rules and do the best that
you can, uh, you, you know, you, at a certain point, that's like, you're, you're,
you're giving into something as a group that you're like giving into something
like, this is how we believe that we should behave and that it best suits us
moving forward.
And then when it's, it's really started to just feel, and I think it's kind of
obvious at this point that the higher ups are not working for us anymore.
They're not working with us.
And that's what I think has become the most evident, uh, in the past year,
especially is that people are like, oh, are no matter who we elect on which
side, whatever it is, it's all this sort of shell game.
And we're finally starting to see some of it.
And I thought it was interesting that, um.
Well, not working for us is the, is the kind of the most benign description,
like not working for you.
That's just indifference.
That's an abandonment.
That's when your parents like go on vacation and don't come home.
What's happening to us is having like a creepy stepfather.
Like I actually think there's malicious intent here.
But how could so many politicians and stuff get compromised?
That's what I don't understand.
Wouldn't there be more people that stood up and said, hey, this isn't right.
Like I, I, I, that's what I find hard to believe.
Well, um, because they all made the deal and all of them, all of them make the
deal.
And the deal is not always explicit in the deal.
Everyone thinks it's about sexual blackmail, which is totally real.
All the porn sites are visible.
Like go to a porn site.
People know exactly what you're looking at.
And there's a video of you looking at it.
It's just a fact.
And, um, okay, so there's that.
Yeah.
And there are a lot of them are secretly gay.
Of course we know that, but I don't think, and have drinking problems or
cheating their wives or whatever.
Is that enough to keep people?
No, I think it's actually deeper than that.
It's not enough.
It's not enough.
Like the obvious ones, like why is Lindsey Graham for this or that war?
It's like, okay, yeah, I got it.
But if you're trying to slurp on little fellas or whatever, or you're jacking
off to like, you know,
butt activity or whatever, like, does that like, you know, like, I mean,
definitely pedophiles.
Slurping on little fellas.
I mean, pedophiling is bad.
It is not good at all.
It's horrible.
Right.
But if you're just like looking at pornography, I'm just like.
That's not the answer though.
That's not, that's not most of them are not being sexually blackmailed.
Some are.
I mean, I think the Epstein thing was probably that to some extent, but no, it's
much deeper
and more recognizable and part of our daily life than that.
It's much more insidious than that because it's less dramatic than that.
It's the deal that we all make with ourselves to get what we want.
Like, I want to be powerful.
I want to get reelected.
I want to get rich.
I want to bang that girl.
And you make these compromises with yourself in which you consciously decide to
be dishonest.
You decide in some cases violent.
That is true or whatever.
How do you get so many people though?
Because like you look at some of these system itself is that like you get in
order to get
elected.
I have to do the following things.
I have to basically subvert democracy by carrying water for a tiny group of
people against the
interests of my actual voters.
Like that itself is a sin.
It's a crime, but it's so ubiquitous.
You don't even notice it.
It's deals like that.
I'm going to take money from a foreign lobby that somehow isn't registered as a
foreign
lobby or whatever.
I'll support this thing that I think is probably pretty wrong, but I'm going to
do it because
I have to.
It's those kind of moral compromises that wind up making people slaves.
And that's what they are.
They're slaves.
We have hundreds of slaves, otherwise known as members of Congress.
And what are they slaves to?
Evil.
Because they've made these compromises in order to get what they think is the
prize, which
is reelection.
Dang!
It's a crazy movie.
It's real though, man.
I know.
That's a crazy-
But it's all of us.
Like all of us have made that deal.
That's why it's so important to reframe it in your head.
It's not just some freak on Petto Island, you know, banging a child and then,
oh, they
have him by the balls because they have videotape of him.
No, no, no.
It's all of us.
If I just do this thing, it's worth it, man.
It's for the greater good.
It's for my family.
It's for, you know, I need, you hear this every election season.
Right.
I need a vote.
I need a-
I don't want to vote for this shit, but we need to control the Congress.
What is that?
You're making a deal with the devil, dude.
With the devil.
That's what that is.
Bow down before me and all of this will be yours.
That's the deal.
Don't make that deal because you lose yourself.
You lose your freedom.
All of a sudden, you're a slave and you see these politicians.
They're like, oh, no, it's not.
No, there are good reasons for doing this.
No, really.
What is that?
It's not a free man.
That's an enslaved man.
And you know the people who are free because they exude this kind of peace and
joy.
And they're like, no, I don't care.
I'll say whatever I think is true.
You can shoot me.
Go ahead and shoot me.
It's not going to change anything because you're lying and I'm not.
Right.
It's freedom versus slavery.
And we put ourselves in slavery with that deal.
Well, the pain of holding on to lies and stuff like that.
Yes.
And shame and stuff like that.
It's really-
But haven't we all lived that?
You've lived that, right?
For sure.
Like, do you think that if we elected different officials that things would be
different or do you think that no matter who gets in there that the compromising
happens these days?
No, I think leadership is the most important thing.
Why doesn't somebody come up with an app that tells us, like, who's running,
right?
Because a lot of people don't have time to focus on exactly who's running,
right?
They don't have as much time.
They're busy.
Both parents are working.
People are running around.
They're picking their kids up.
They've got to get their kid to T-ball.
They've got to make sure their kids get fed, and they have to make sure that
one of the parents is there to read them a bedtime story before the other
parent goes and works on that as a security guard somewhere just to make ends
meet, right?
So why don't they have, like, an app that says, okay, these are the candidates.
This one doesn't accept any money from any of these places.
It feels like it would be very easy and obvious to create an app like that that
would tell you exactly who to vote for.
I think that's right.
The problem is we're getting to a point of, like, knowledge about things.
Like, people sort of are figuring out what's going on that in order to be
honest now, you have to be truly honest.
If I think people are so wary of being lied to that if you sense that someone's,
like, got to, you know, I'll be all honest about this stuff but not about that
thing, that's not enough.
So true honesty, also called integrity, is what is needed.
It's hard.
Well, you get killed.
You know, you get killed.
Like, the system itself, and this is not the result of any foreign power or any
– this is just, like, the nature of systems, will work to expel you the same
way your body works to expel bacteria or cancer.
It's like the organism doesn't want this, and you see it.
I've known very few honest members of Congress.
I've known a couple, however.
One of them just left Congress, and the other is being primaried.
MTG you're talking about?
Marjorie Taylor Greene?
Exactly, and Thomas Massey from Kentucky.
And, by the way, I don't agree with everything.
It's not even about that.
What does being primaried mean?
I'm sorry to interrupt you.
It means that your own party says, we want you out, and so we're going to run
someone from your party against you in the primary.
Your party has turned on you, and it's like, what is that about?
And it's about not simply the fact that he disagrees with them on foreign
policy, which is really – the whole project really is just foreign policy,
nothing to do with, like, your tax rates or your debt load.
Yeah, he's, like, anti-APAC.
He's bigger against those types of things.
Yeah, and he's not for pointless wars.
So that's a deal killer, but it's not just that.
It's the he – so, yeah, the Israeli lobby's mad at him.
Got it.
But it's deeper.
It's he won't be controlled, and if he doesn't think something, he's not going
to say it, period.
He may be wrong, but he's sincere.
Sincerity is the kryptonite.
That's what makes the evil person die, is sincerity.
No, I really mean it.
I'm not kidding.
I can't be bought.
I'm totally sincere.
If they smell sincerity on you, well, that's why they're calling me the most
dangerous anti-Semite since Adolf Hitler himself.
It's like, what?
Because I'm not a genius.
I'm not powerful at all.
I'm a fucking podcaster.
Like, I don't have actually any power, but I'm not kidding at all.
I'm completely sincere.
I may be wrong.
I often have been, but I'm not joking.
Yeah.
That itself – so they're hassling me.
Imagine if I was a member of Congress or a presidential candidate or anybody
who has sincerity is marked immediately because that person's a threat to
everybody currently benefiting from the system.
They accuse you of what they are, and what they are is corrupt.
So, Marjorie, did she make a ton of money trading on stocks with insider
information?
I bet my house she didn't.
I mean, this is somebody I know well.
You do know her well.
I know her well.
And you can agree or disagree with her, of course, but you can't say she's in
it for the money, really?
I don't think so.
I don't think she's interested in money.
I think she's interested in the country.
And again, we can debate whether she's on the right track or the wrong track.
You think her ideas are smart or stupid, but her sincerity is the most obvious
thing about her, and it's also the most threatening thing about her.
In fact, it's the only thing that they hate is sincerity because sincerity is
purity, and it can't be bought.
And so, of course, the first thing, they're like, oh, you must be getting paid
by somebody.
No, I'm not, and that's why you hate me.
Yeah.
If I was as corrupt as Dan Crenshaw, you really think they would hassle me?
Dan Crenshaw, the guy from Texas?
Yeah.
Is he corrupt?
Well, on the most deep, on a moral level, he's completely corrupt.
I mean, he takes orders from his donors to do things that have nothing to do
with the welfare of his voters.
So, by definition, he's corrupt, yes, and also crazy and drunk and all the rest.
Sad, sad.
I'm not, actually.
Oh, I think I met him at a nightclub one time.
Yeah, well, I'm sure you did.
But I shouldn't be, I feel sorry for Dan Crenshaw being serious.
But anyway, the point is, the more corrupt you are, the more they like you
because they can control you.
What they don't want is someone who might do something unexpected who they can't
control.
That's what they fear, obviously.
It's what everybody fears.
But do you think that as, well, so for Marjorie, do you, what do you think
happened in that meeting?
Because she had a meeting, I guess, with Trump?
I don't know.
I don't know what happened between her and Trump.
I know what happened to her over the past five years serving in Congress, which
was, she was like...
Trump withdrew his political endorsement and publicly insulted Greene, labeling
her as a traitor due to her vocal opposition to his handling of Epstein files
and other policy disagreements.
Yeah.
Greene announced her resignation effective January 5th, 2026 to avoid a divisive
primary challenge.
But why not...
Is it divisive?
Huh?
Is it di