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Moment of Clarity

Redacted Tonight #613-Wealth ReDistribution, The Real Unemployment Rate, Ecuadorian Election, Judah Friedlander & more!

Moment of Clarity

Lee Camp

News Commentary, Comedy, News

4.8671 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

The richest people in the world have stolen trillions from average Americans over the last four decades. Lee Camp takes a look at the redistribution of wealth that our ruling class loves and what we can do about it. The rich have been stealing from the public coffers for too long and taking that money back isn't a radical proposition. PLUS Ollie Vargas and Judah Friedlander!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, let's roll, let's roll, never get their control.

0:04.6

They've got their money, but we've got our soul.

0:08.0

Let's roll, let's roll, let's roll, never get their control.

0:11.9

It's ain't got their money, but we've got our soul.

0:17.8

Hello, welcome to redact to tonight.

0:26.3

This is the comedy show where Americans in America covering American news are called foreign agents.

0:38.9

So, yes, I want wealth redistribution. There, I said it. I know it's the third rail, but I ain't running for shit,

0:44.3

so I get to speak the truth. Well, I am running for president of my neighborhood elementary school's PTA, but I'm pretty sure I'll win that easily since my campaign slogan is

0:49.1

extend the school day to 20 hours because we don't want to have to deal with those little

0:53.5

goddamn monsters.

0:55.0

You take them.

0:56.0

Well, I'll win as long as they don't find out I don't have a kid.

1:00.0

Anyway, I want wealth redistribution.

1:04.0

And here's the part that's going to blow your mind straight out your ass.

1:08.0

It's time for wealth redistribution because we've already had it for decades.

1:15.0

$50 trillion has been redistributed from the poorest Americans to the top 1%.

1:23.2

The richest motherfuckers in the world have stolen trillions from average Americans over the past several decades.

1:31.9

You know how mad you get when someone takes the last donut?

1:36.0

Well, imagine that times 50 trillion.

1:40.8

A new study has calculated that the cumulative tab for our four-decade-long experiment in radical

1:47.9

inequality has grown over $47 trillion from 1975 through 2018.

1:54.4

At the recent pace of about $2.5 trillion a year, that number is estimated to have crossed

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