Jordan Peterson, Bernie Sanders, and Elon Musk on the 2024 election – with comedian James Adomian
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté
Useful Idiots, LLC
4.6 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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You know him from a hundred cartoons and a thousand podcasts – and now he’s a Useful Idiot. It’s comedian James Adomian, bringing jaw-dropping impressions of Jordan Peterson, Bernie Sanders, Elon Musk, Mike Pillow, Marc Maron, and more.
And all of them have a lot to say about the Harris/Trump matchup.
Who is Elon Musk’s new fascist girlfriend? Does Bernie think he sold himself out? What would Chris Matthews say about the election if he were still at MSNBC? Close your eyes, and you’ll be convinced they’re all really here.
Plus, James does a deep dive on the changing nature of comedy, from the conservative era post-9/11 in which he and Katie had to fight to get progressive voices heard, to the leftist scene in the Obama years, and the swing back right in the 2020s. He explains how, similar to left journalism, the progressive comedy space is spread thin, losing ground to a smaller and more cohesive (and heavily funded) right.
Subscribe for the full episode where James gives a roadmap for the left to escape this rut, shares his path as a gay man in comedy, and teaches us about the history of oppression in his family’s country of Armenia (okay, maybe it wasn’t all so lighthearted).
You can watch James’ hilarious new standup special here.
USEFUL IDIOTS NEWS: We have a bonus interview coming out later today with Cornell student Momodou Taal, who Cornell is attempting to deport for his pro-Palestine protests. Stay tuned.
00:00 Intro
01:14 Two presidents admit to foreign interference
27:45 Aaron returns to Piers Morgan
36:12 James Adomian interview
36:38 A comedian's take on 2024
42:46 Jesse Ventura's endorsement
44:30 Dems' ballot censorship
47:04 Did Bernie Sanders sell out?
50:21 Elon Musk's fascist girlfriend
52:29 Jordan Peterson on Elon Musk
53:28 What's happening in Armenia?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to useful idiots. I'm one of your host Katie Helper. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm the second host Aaron Matte. Hey everybody, thank you so much for joining us. |
| 0:12.0 | The world is getting bleaker and bleaker. So the least we can do is gather and try to make sense of it in these terrible times and maybe even have a little bit of a laugh because laughter does |
| 0:23.8 | help and this week we have someone very helpful toward that goal of James Adomian. |
| 0:30.1 | He is a comedian someone who's made me laugh for a very long time and for a little bit of levity in these |
| 0:35.2 | dark times and in these grim times, we're going to speak to him about his comedy and here's some really funny impressions. |
| 0:41.6 | Yeah, and make sure you check out his special path of most resistance. |
| 0:46.8 | This week we also have a very exciting announcement which is that we have an extra interview |
| 0:51.0 | with Mama Du Tahl. He's from the UK but he's a PhD student at |
| 0:55.0 | Cornell University in Africana Studies and he is facing deportation |
| 1:00.4 | threats over his activism on Palestine. That's right. Cornell University is |
| 1:05.2 | trying to deport him back to England because of his speaking out on Palestine. |
| 1:10.0 | And stay tuned to our channel. We'll be dropping that extra interview very shortly. |
| 1:15.0 | Because we are doing a more light-hard interview this week, we are going to jam-pack the four basic food groups with tons of political content to catch you up on all of the horrors in the news. |
| 1:28.4 | Let's start with the Middle East where Joe Biden, after bragging a week after Israel began attacking Gaza last October, |
| 1:38.0 | if you recall this interview with CBS News, Joe Biden bragged that of course the U.S. can fuel |
| 1:42.4 | two wars at the same time. He said, |
| 1:44.0 | were the United States for God six? Okay, of course we can fuel two regional wars in |
| 1:48.9 | Ukraine and in the Middle East. Well, Joe Biden is fulfilling the prophecy of God that he invoked and |
| 1:56.1 | was very proud of because Israel has now expanded its aggression intensively in Lebanon, carrying out strikes, killing hundreds of people, displacing tens of thousands, and now we're talking more and more about all-out war. |
| 2:10.0 | And what does Joe Biden have to say about it? Well, he actually thinks it's quite possible. |
| 2:14.3 | An all out war is possible, but I think there's also the opportunity |
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