Name: How Politicians Get Compromised, and Why They Stay in Power So Long
Uploaded: 2025-04-23T14:45:03.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'How Politicians Get Compromised, and Why They Stay in Power So Long' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-04-23. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'How Politicians Get Compromised, and Why They Stay in Power So Long' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-04-23. Transcript available.

why do you think it takes like this is one thing i'm noticing about government
it's like
no matter who's in office whether it's republicans or democrats um
it's always the same shit it nothing ever changes you know it's like you would
think at some point
they would give you the you know you would get some of these things solved like
even with this
like why does it take something so long like are both sides just screwing you
start to think that
just both sides are just screwing us well what we need term limits this is the
problem so if you have
no incentive if you are going into government and you know that you can stay in
government forever
then you have to think of government as your employer and you want the company
that you work
for in the same way that you have a company i have a company to be to grow
right obviously your job here
when you're doing this podcast you're not like well what can i do to make the
you know the podcast
smaller you know and so they are going there and if they had term limits they
would be like well in
four years if we say four or six years whatever it is i got to go back and be a
regular american so my
i have no incentive to help grow government i have every incentive to help grow
individuals and grow
families and make sure that prices are low they're going in with the exact
wrong mentality then they
get in there and it's like you can actually be here in time how old is nancy
pelosi she's like the
crypt keeper yeah right think about how old our government is and they've been
there forever
biden's been in government forever so their incentive becomes this is my
company and i'm
going to help grow it and then the lobbyists come to them and they want to stay
in office forever they
want to go to chuck schumer that slurp lizard's been in there for freaking
forever yes and so that
would change overnight their incentives to do to recognize that they're going
to spend the majority
of their life outside of government would make them go in there and want to
make things better for
us and that's the problem so i'm a big uh supporter of term limits and there's
a problem where
people shouldn't be able if they're in government they shouldn't be able to
then work for lobbies
right after because then they're working for the lobbies um that was one thing
the lobbying shouldn't
be a lot in my view period it should be just completely outlawed but every
american feels that way
so why is it like what are we even fucking doing then it feels like because
they don't care what we
think and that's why trump referred to it as a swamp right they don't actually
care what we think they're
once you get them into office their job is to keep themselves into office keep
themselves empowered
forever and they're just in the business of trying to explain in really dumb
terms to the american
people like like i said fear-mongering well the reason i had to sign this it's
all buried it's like
three thousand that's why i love thomas massey by the way because thomas massey
will say we just need
these bills that we're signing or we're one line instead it's like if they even
ever agree to do
anything for us it's because they've already done 37 million things for
themselves in the first 37
000 pages of the document on the last page it's something for the american
people it's crazy why
why do bills need to be 300 pages long yeah and lobbyists are writing half of
the bills too that's
one of the craziest they're writing the bills they're getting the bills passed
and we have a bunch of
traitors in congress i mean that is just the reality of the circumstances and
anybody telling you that
it's just traitors on the left or traitors on the right is lying to you it's we
have traitors on both
sides it's it's very obvious we have traitors on both sides but how do they
keep them from just saying
hey wouldn't you think some like at least two or three people a year would be
like hey this whole
thing's a fucking charade like they do rand paul uh ron paul rand paul thomas
so few so few because
that's what money is people worship money they don't worship values we have
this issue in the media we have
this issue in government we have this issue in business you know there is just
something about money
that just turns everyone into a prostitute and it's sad i mean i've seen it up
close i've been
um you know there's this expression never meet your idols yeah and i felt that
the closer that i got
to politics the more i realized how much i hate politics i've always hated
politics but you hate it extra
once you start to meet people and you realize that everyone's in it just to
enrich themselves
and and so few people will be able to to walk away from riches so to speak to
because they actually
want to to do something good and those people tend to have something that's so
much better than riches
which is like their lives are in order they have families they're they're
actually happy they don't
want more you know so yeah yeah i think that's what stump found me the most and
you believe this
program you believe it because as like i guess like an american or a citizen of
any country you want to
believe in the altruistic nature not totally altruistic but at least maybe 75
altruistic nature
of people or that people want to do well um yeah i think that's one of the
things that's most baffling
and then at a certain point does that just have to start to turn because the
grossness of wealth
is starts you just start to see how sick it is and how sour it is um that's
easy for me to say that
you know i can pay my mortgage and i have you know know that i can afford food
um so maybe that's an
unfair thing for me to say but i just think there's this overall um kind of
theory there or feeling there