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writer extra there journalist all right nice guy welcome back thanks for all right so we finish up our last conversation talking about some cultural themes the the zite geist as it were you know you work over there rolling stone rolling stone has always been a barometer of the culture of the pop culture the rock altar the youth culture and that's had like hunter s. thompson wrote for ling stone you write for rolling stone right p.j. o'rourke you're well positioned i think to to have a good insight into this the day social changes and and moves in the way we were talking about this there's two movements out there one is the what i would perceive as the reaction to the shooting in florida of a more of oh a serious post general post-millennial out of generations of the of the have a name yet. really come up with a term who will write you should come up with the term zero zero and we're always doing this interview. we're at the millennial writing this post millennial so there

without a term road you never think could you know what will yelping we're going to go up with something maybe right now we'll think of something but so this generation i saw them on t.v. and they are serious that mean that their their attitude is the n.r.a. is trying to kill us you know there were existentially threatened here. and so that's that movement and then there's the me too movement and ok that's also getting movable let's talk about this possible audio movement this is now seems like a a bookend to the sixty's anti-war movement in a lot of ways. can you dig into that a little bit more you know put your guys explore ation had on and what do you see. well it's definitely brought back to kind of an ironic left right. but the difference is the sixty's were it was peace and love and. there was this you know explosion of kind of music and there was

a vibe to it that was later brought back the own ironic old left ok this unpack that for a second so the last lesson we had relaxed in america was like there is lack panthers that was left out was left right and that was black guys with guns you know and there was a real strong reaction to this the yes you know exactly ok and now and then we went into a phase of really right. wing kind of middle of the road conservatism and the left even though people say hollywood is the left and yet yeah nobody is going to usa today ninety four percent of women in hollywood get sexually abused or so there are predators in the liberal left of hollywood it's a predatory state yeah right and i would dispute the fact that hollywood use is really all that lefty i mean if you look back at the movies from that era from the reagan era especially i mean they were incredibly conservative right i mean there

were there was all kinds of messages to talk about prototypical movies on the left in america and there wasn't when i was growing up anyway so the an ironic left refers back to a muscular you know left wing that was it really post jim crow i mean this was the movement to restore justice to all citizens in the united states and so now we're so now you're saying possible swing back to an ironic left and so the stark could be dead the ironic it was called the jerry seinfeld school of humor is kind of maybe dead right and we're going back and we're going into a new. era and does it dovetail into this. need to move or is not a completely separate movement because you have feminism in the seventies i really this is questions for white ranging sugar free range question yeah but yeah the feminism of the seventies that kind of died it's a lie in a lot of ways in my view right now that could be coming back and having

a more serious approach to more famine as women so as a feminism and the more as you say is all coming together now what do you think i mean i think it's a great question the the bringing of seinfeld it's actually really right on because what was seinfeld seinfeld was a show about nothing right that and that was the disposal of the virtue of it was that we turned it on and we and we we didn't think about politics and that was cool we the show didn't have any themes that were dangerous really you just it was all just zany goofy stuff today if you if you say to somebody i'm going to i'm going to not think about politics i'm going to affirmatively engage in an activity that takes me away from thinking about what the world is really all about those they'll say that's that's privilege right like that only somebody who is not affected by the politics has the luxury of engaging in a show about nothing right and so everything has to be about something and this is this is this is. kind of a radical change in the way we think about everything journalism humor culture it

all has to be sort of directed towards political and and it's it's become hard i mean i notice that for me because you know what i what i do is so different from that i mean i think part of part of the way i work is based on trying to you know look at things from a humorous and a little bit. reserved point of view. but. that's that's not really acceptable right now humor without. you know sort of humor for its own sake is now it's sort of discouraged in the pop in the popular writers or you slip in there it's a charged word privilege right so this is a hot worry right. as white privilege is is the topic and so what you're suggesting here is that everything now the idea of being the jerry seinfeld ask type of camera non-game gauge it all is only available to the privileged to basically are

benefiting they are the razzi a class they're the inherent tours of this new generation that's doing all the work they have all the jobs there are tearing what they perceive to be a crazy president a crazy atomic weapon armed world and they've inherited a horrible situation and they don't want to not to not anymore they want to be engaged they want to make because their life is a existential threat so where do they have room to engage weren't were they going to take this or their movement where are they going to go with it well they're going lots of places within i'm in the me too movement is obviously taken off and has gone lots of places and it was as achieved a lot already i think a lot of this energy right now is being directed. towards domestic politics towards sort of ousting trope. but there is but there is a split there i mean if you if you look at the american youth culture and follow the kind of the debates that go on online you know between you know there's

a slight jacobin right which is which is exactly beyond ironic left or right there are leftist politics and there are serious earnest people but there's sort of a split between people who actually want to install. a socialistic new regime you know modeled after corben or bernie sanders or something like that and sort of democratic party which has appropriated a lot of the language of the jury corben for a second because his popularity is soaring and he is a frickin you know little fish and exotic thirty years ago like michael foot in a labor politician in the u.k. a complete repeat. they factor in reaganomics and he and he could very well be the next prime minister of britain and he's got tremendous support so that would be a signifier that we are going to turning to a huge left wing possibly you know movement politically in seeing it in the u.k.

and bernie sanders it was kind of the equivalent in the u.s. but i'm not sure he has enough gas in the tank run for president again but are there do you see stirrings like a korban asked type absolutely what do you see yeah i know it's out there that sentiment is out there and a new bernie sanders for a long time ago and spent a lot of time writing about it before this election cycle but i never saw what happened in two thousand and sixteen coming with the outpouring of support for him and that had a lot to do both with this sort of new newly coalescing leftist politics but also with pent up frustrations towards the status quo towards the democrats and towards this idea that but what you're talking about the. the existing political parties have left us with these huge horrible scary problems and we just can't elect them anymore we have to go in a sharper more serious direction and we saw that on both sides of the aisle but

that's and it's definitely still out there where you're writing because you're writing as you mentioned before he said it hinted at that it has an illness satire to it or humor how do you now. are going to you know this is your market this is the folks that are be reading your stuff what's the process do you. listen to what's happening out there and it goes into the writing organically or do you have a certain style that you feel is your quote unquote brand that needs to be maintained i really that's kind of an odd question but it's tough you know you're saying no i mean it's been difficult o.b.l. be honest i mean. there is a party. when i do i've always believed humor for its own sake is sort of an inherently iconoclast like when people laugh and they laugh at anything if you watch money python it's not political it doesn't tell you to be left or right beside us the generation is like humorless degree yeah my generation believe that

laughing at all politicians was healthy right look if you looked at all of them and realize they're all on some level posers and silly and we should be suspicious of everything that they say that it was a healthy response no it is not quite like that now humor humor of that sort is a little bit sort of discounted it has to be targeted has to be out of the direction i mean all the humor and southern alive in the last year has been about trump you know it's putin coming down the chimney or whatever it is and. i don't know i want to do it is humorists have a responsibility to be equal opportunity in the sense that sam and i live they never bring up hillary's foibles and the fact that she's very easily satirized because. it's someone who lost a game show host essentially i mean i can't satirize that you know you're not a satirist yet they feel like somehow that show like they have

a responsibility above and beyond humor right and is that. i mean that seems like they are. violating their or their role there so do a code you have to offer the public a way to vent and have a release from the from the stuff that's going on because they are becoming as political as rachel maddow and it's the same thing in journalism right so journalists of my generation we grew up with the idea that our only responsibility was to get things right right we tell the story we see it we call it where we see it in every direction we put it out there and we let society figure it out they make the responsible decisions from there these days the idea is we have to. the outcome we have to be political we have to make a political decision prior to putting the information out there and what's what you're seeing now is instead of journalists reporting in all directions that are just becoming messaging platforms that just essentially in sync with one of the

other political parties and it's kind of the fox is ation of news and it's going on across the media landscape and i think that's it's very dangerous and unhealthy because as soon as you know a political media i mean that's a classic feature of a third world country when one media outlets don't report all directions you know i listen them all and i can assimilate it all and i come up with my own conclusion but that what's happened is you had a nation of symbols are becoming schizophrenia they wrote telling multi personality they had their they change their chemical composition looking at their for news outlets to correspond with what's going on they can't synthesize all this stuff brain is not capable of doing all it's to make those sophisticated choices and live life at the same time so you end up with a completely fractured view of things then none of it represents reality and through that we end up with like charlie munger coming out and saying laws fargo should be forgiven for stealing money out of everyone's accounts right now so i could often kowtow really exactly you know i mean you're absolutely right when when when nobody is reporting on the foibles of their own party the nobody is

trustworthy and that's the problem when you have this information landscape where people are reporting the negative things about their quote unquote their side you know you basically have a desert you know you have this gigantic oasis of of on trust with the media and people are consuming tons and tons and tons of it but they're not making sense of the word think that it's fake and it's jumping is it's only a beast lots of lies right. exactly right matt thanks so much for being us out of course dr wright was going to do this edition of the kaiser report with me nice guys or stacy ever like as a matter of me if you want to reach us on twitter it's kaiser report and. in some american cities the police have built themselves cling to read each nation

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it was. bloody lusine unveils russia's new strategic optional including a nuclear capable misawa he says can defeat all existing defense systems this comes in response to the u.s. development of an anti missile shield. around with the world reacting to president putin speech the u.s. state department briefing turns ugly after the spokes person refuses to take questions from russian journalists. who say that they are unique out jerry and from their shift in the atmosphere yeah ok ok enough said dan our move on. out of south africa's parliament passes a measure that could see white farmers stripped of their land without compensation

we hear arguments for and against the controversial move. this is r.t. international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us. but in a putin has delivered his annual state of the nation address to parliament sharing his vision of the country's future the president announced the development of new strategic weapons which he said outmaneuver all existing missile defenses r.t. senior correspondent would have guessed there as. if you aren't russian the first hour of putin's speech would have been boring taxes and corruption and science and industry that sort of thing after that though it got real hot real fast and i mean russia is a major nuclear power basically nobody wanted to talk to us nobody listened to us

so listen to us now rockets liza's nukes. in a rush hooted unveiled an arsenal of new weapons bigger faster stronger and deadlier than any that came before. the some super heavy i.c.b.m. two hundred ton missile capable of penetrating any existing defense in service at the end of the year next an enigmatic new development seemingly nuclear powered cruise missile it flies extremely low to avoid detection and can hit almost anywhere in the world says putin up next it's just fantastic an underwater drone submarine also nuclear powered with a nuclear payload it can reportedly underwater for months and months silent and

undetectable next to the oven god the hypersonic missile extremely fast rockets that can actively dog and the vaid anti missile defenses. that is heading for the target like a meteorite to top all of that off laser weapons systems though putin didn't go into detail saying only that it still classified the russian president says all of this isn't to intimidate or scare anyone or invade anyone these serious weapons designed for one thing restore and garan see russia's strategic power in an age where an ever expanding nato is trying to nullify it. rushes growing military might is not meant to threaten anybody we have no plans and have never had plans to use this potential to achieve offensive or aggressive in

russia's in his military power is simply a guarantee for peace on our planet. restore parity in the world through the new point in gauging in a senseless arms race after all mutually assured destruction has kept the world safe for the best part of a sentry want to stress his point the new weapons serve only to balance the world powers putin pointed out that u.s. missile defense is already deployed in alaska and california and following nato expansion into the east two sites have also been set up in romania and poland and new science are said to be established soon in japan and south korea report from ground lord weapons the system also includes a naval component this has five cruisers and certainly destroyers which are stationed close to russia's borders we talked to several analysts to find out what

they made of putin's unexpected military announcements. decades after the cold war the usa really ruled the world and that balance of power is now shifting with russia coming in with many other major players and you look at some of the disastrous walls the west is involved ourselves in namely libya and iraq so there's some sort of balance coming back but as i see it from what putin is saying and i hope he's absolutely right that this is a deterrent against the american led defense system and that's a very important. effective tool to have so i don't see intensification of hostile talk or scheming and planning in the cards what is possible and what was what was put into terms was to sober up the west and to bring that back to reality what russia has done is brusque so the united states whatever it says publicly is going to have to have a deep breathe of everything of spending no on military because it's useless we

were very surprised because we didn't know that russia was so advanced in the hypersonic technology and the real surprise in my opinion that not only. elaborated the but they're working actually and though both due to serve in the russian armies in my opinion we can compare this breakthrough with. nine hundred fifty seven when the when the soviet union for the first time since put in the space. well the economy was also a key issue in the speech an annual four percent rise in g.d.p. was promised which would mean an overall rise of fifty percent by twenty twenty five also average life expectancy is targeted to rise over eighteen years russia's economic development and finance ministers told r.t. what they think of the goals that putin has set for them. oh the is

a restriction stimulated russia to increase production and we've been drug growth not just in sectors such as i recall trend every day goods we see the reorientation of our economy in science towards what we previously received via inputs we're developing our own high tech industries. which are pretty at the key priorities taking konami growth rates above the global average the goal set before the government of vital and will require more investment but all six key initiatives highlighted by the president development increased life expectancy improved business climate developing human capital assets boosting workforce productivity and reducing poverty have already be making progress for half a year now we're going to take them to the next level. but anyway more reaction to putin's revelations about russia's nuclear capability have been coming in from around the world the pentagon said it was not surprised adding it had been expecting such an announcement but tensions were pretty high at the u.s.

state department darkeys americano joins us now with the details well i guess american tell us a bit more about what happened at the briefing. well the state department says that russia's new hypersonic missile violates international treaties and heather now it was particularly concerned about the video or imagery that was released claiming that it showed the missile targeting the view west and when reporters asked about this the scene turned pretty ugly and then now revealed just how uncomfortable she was when she a slammed the russians reporters who pressed her on this as officials of the russian government let's take a quick look at. it it will slow to take in the united states interests new styles all sent a different direction so i had to say that they are you know you ran from there she didn't want you you know that ok enough said then i'll move on. which is what if it did happen they're not officials of the russian government they're

just asking a question about me overtly ok well we know that. r.t. and other russian news or so-called news organizations are there i'm good and directed by the russian government so if i don't have a lot of questions over how they're going to set you up at about moment you know this is. the studio that you're talking about yes which is not an excuse me. and it was met with significant backlash from reporters all across the room but how did she respond with several doses of sarcasm of course for the record this is her usual m.o. when she wants to avoid answering questions in the past she's referred to me and my colleagues as representatives of the russian government as well so but when matt lee asked a follow up to the russian reporter's question that earned now it's resentment which then carried over when he asked for

a completely unrelated question. if there were people in line to replace the people people were leaving and the fact is that it was you are not aware of it does not mean that that does not exist ok have a good moment ok there are there are people in mind and in line for those types of positions perhaps you've just not heard about yet. and then amid a berridge of questions now or shut down the entire press conference and then rejected a reporter's question which rightfully upset the reporter who then stood up from her chair and followed now or out of the room we've got it we've got to go i was wrong i will talk to you after the know the iraqi parliament voted wednesday to call for a timetable for the iraq for foreign shoot. it's unclear what exactly agitated now are but it could have been the continuous stream of questions regarding president putin's address but.