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Dear PatronsHere is the latest Honest Government Ad you helped us to make! Honest Government Ad | Democracy™ feat. 🇮🇳 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇺🇲 🇿🇦 🇮🇩 🇵🇰 🇮🇷 🇮🇱 🇷🇸 🇲🇽 🇻🇪 🇧🇾 🇷🇺 🇧🇬This one required tons of research, and lots of time spent chatting with people around the world to find out about their local elections and the issues we should mention. (I love this collaborative approach!) I hope you like how it turned out. As you probably know, this is is the biggest election year in human history - over 4 billion people are eligible to vote. Which, it has to be acknowledged, is an incredible achievement considering that less than 2 centuries ago there were no state democracies around to speak of. At the same time, it's clear that some governments are only cosplaying at democracy - using the tools and language of democracy to undermine it from within. And not surprisingly, the global index of democracy is in decline. The HGA series has played a role in highlighting government shitfuckery over the years. But as I hope you know, we don't this to undermine trust in democracy; we do it precisely because we care about democracy and we want it to succeed. Unlike anti-democratric forces, that is, which aim to sow distrust in democratic institutions in order to undermine and destroy them. So that's what this Honest Government Ad is all about. As you'll see, India gets the lion share of this episode. We've had thousands of requests from Indians to make an HGA for them, so we gave the Chosen One a good shot. I'm sure we'll be getting some complaints from his fans. I should probably scratch off India from my list of holiday destinations - along with Iran and Indonesia. Ok, that's all from me for now. I'll catch you with our next Honest Government Ad(Do you have any topic requests for me?!)Till then, take care - and as always, thank you sincerely for supporting our workGiordano & team

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The Government™ has made an ad about the state of democracy, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative! feat. 🇮🇳 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇺🇲 🇿🇦 🇮🇩 🇵🇰 🇮🇷 🇮🇱 🇷🇸 🇲🇽 🇻🇪 🇧🇾 🇷🇺 🇧🇬 👉 Ways to help us keep governments honest: 🔹 Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/thejuicemedia 🔹 Tip us: https://www.paypal.me/thejuicemedia 🔹 Merch: https://shop.thejuicemedia.com 🔹 More options: https://www.thejuicemedia.com/support 👉 CREDITS 🔹 Produced by Patrons of The Juice Media 🔹 Written by Giordano for The Juice Media 🔹 Performed by Zoë Amanda Wilson x Voice by Lucy 🔹 With contributions from The Savala Vada https://www.instagram.com/thesavalavada Chris, Dbot, Mehdi, Antony, Tali, Ronny, Adso, Martin, Nadezhda, Мартин, The Gap Podcast @inthegappodcast 🔹 Music by pmwa: https://audiojungle.net/item/timelapse/12027034 👉 SOURCES & FURTHER READING: 🔹 Coming soon.... 👉 We're also on: 🔹https://www.instagram.com/thejuicemedia 🔹https://twitter.com/thejuicemedia 🔹https://www.facebook.com/thejuicemedia 🔹https://www.tiktok.com/@thejuicemedia 🔹https://mastodon.social/@thejuicemedia 🔹https://www.threads.net/@thejuicemedia

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Mark D Larsen

This ad couldn't be more timely and apropos! Here in Yankeeland, our Convicted Felon candidate and his cult keep screaming that we don't have a democracy, but rather a "constitutional republic." Talk about stupid distractions! The real truth is that we now live under an Oligarchy, which is gaining more and more power worldwide. It's high time we finally had a democracy, like Abraham Lincoln envisioned: "OF the people, BY the people, FOR the people." Oh… and Zoë: you nailed it again!

John L Smith

Excellent as usual. An as usual I learn lots along the way.

David Bishton

Juice Media vs. "Free" World. If the Juice wins, we all win! (points to wristwatch)

Robert Bismuth

Awesome! Brilliant work and I'll do my bit to push getting it viral. The message is critical: get out and vote to fight for the right to vote in the future!! Your video production is so wonderfully smooth, seamless and professional. I can only imagine how much care you all took in the research, writing, direction, filming and, of course, acting.

Francesco Finucci

The EU vote is going to be a hard joke this year. We all know the Union is yet again going to be divided between neoliberals and fascists, so I don't see any point in going to vote.

Simona

and it'll largely be a choice between those who will make war and those who will make war

Dave Forbes

Yes fabulous. We have state elections here in NSW and sneaky so called independents who are just old Nats and libs, attacking anyone protecting environment, planet or addressing climate change or developers or miners wet dreams.

SALLY WARMINGTON

Great work! Chilling. Urgent need for this message. Thanks Giordano and your stellar team!

Francesco Finucci

I've always felt we are caught in the same interior conflict between two economic establishments, those who stand by international, big companies (neoliberals) and those who stand by smaller companies (populists). The same old struggle to expoliate poorer classes. And the same context of pre-fascist Europe. That was when liberals had to choose between preserving liberty and fight fascists or preserving wealth for themselves and fight communists and socialists. We know well how things went. And as now parliaments are crippled by the infight among them, I don't see much hope in voting or parliamentary politics in general.

Alan Marel

Great Giordano. Another rip-snorter! Watching Trumpy-Dumpty and his enablers trying to dismember democracy in the US is truly frightening. As far as future topic subjects…….you could have a lot of fun pointing out how ridiculous the COALition’s nuclear power plan is. The “small” modular reactors that they are pushing don’t currently commercially exist, nor are there even any facilities to make them. Keep up your great work battling shit-fuckery from politicians of all persuasions.

Howard

Thank you for shining a light on the situation in India. The Indian PM gets away with a lot on the international stage because his most violent rhetoric is often coded in the vernacular. For context, the largest right-wing organization in the world, RSS, is in India. Their founders were inspired by Nazi ideals in the 1930s and their vision for India is antithetical to democratic principles. The RSS was complicit in the assassination of Gandhi and the PM is part of their political wing - the BJP. Followers of the current dispensation are already drawing inspiration from genocidal acts around the world.

Joe Root's Rush of Blood

nice one! hang onto your hats juice media, socials will combust methinks 😬 thank you for this timely as ever video.

E

Giordano & Team - another classic for the ages - what (almost) unbelievable times we live in... everywhere you look democracy under the hammer. Would you please consider doing a HGA on [non]"transparency" at some stage in the lead up to the next Oz election please? Possibly also one on why inflation (cozzie livin' - arrrrrggghhhh) remains so stubbornly high - i.e. is it because rich bastards just keep spending a shit tonne of $$$$ and the abysmal wealth disparities mean that no matter how much the less well off or poor have to hand over in rent, food etc the inflation Rumpelstiltskin is not going to come to a stop? Or could you do another one of your intermittent interviews with Yanis Verafarkus please - I just read his new book Technofeudalism and I think its actually fairly much on the money (so to speak). Keep up the great work, proud to support such stellar talent in a world full of murky media mediocrity.

Leonnie Fay Blumson

Excellent exposé and messaging. Voting is a hard-won right, people - don't throw it away!

Jason Orcamoon

Iran: Guardians of the Shitfuckery graphic BRILLIANT!

DrWex

The world tour that the world really needs

Gary Willson

Well done Giordano and team. Another brilliant exposé.

Ewan McEwan

If you haven’t read it, Martin Wolf’s (economic editor for the Financial Times for the last 10 years) covers a lot of ground - worth a look.; The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

Formidable Vegetable

Currently reading 'The Indi Way' by the Voices For Indi crew about the success of the independents movement in Aus and it's inspiring more hope (and action!) for participatory democracy than I ever thought possible. As they say: "Don't get mad, get elected!"

Flozza

Love every single video of yours but this might be my favourite. Amazing work!

Josephus Franks

Political comedy is damn hard to do, and this is good but the Sheinbaum smear should be dropped, it's the rightwing's narrative to discredit her. Where's the actual evidence that she's amlo's puppet? All conjecture

thejuicemedia

So glad to make that dream come true haha - even if briefly! (for now)

thejuicemedia

Haha yeah. Honestly I've always wanted to make these kinds of HGAs so that we get a chance to see how the shitfuckery unites us all

thejuicemedia

So stoked to hear that, it was hard work but I really love it too

thejuicemedia

Hi Josephus, where did we say Sheinbaum would be AMLO's puppet? The guy in the photo isn't AMLO, it's Carlos Slim. I think it's a pretty tame thing to say, certainly not a smear

thejuicemedia

Yeah a lot of work went into this one (as always!). Thank you Roberta xo

thejuicemedia

Please vote! I am eligibile to vote in the EU elections, but cannot do so from Australia

thejuicemedia

Thanks Dave. State elections in NSW this year!?

thejuicemedia

Thanks Alan - Dutton's nuclear plans are definitely in my sights

thejuicemedia

We had so many requests toi make an HGA for India, i'm only sad it took us this long

thejuicemedia

Thank you E, transparency is definitely on the radar, in fact it might be our next HGA :)

Josephus Franks

Oops, you're right, that is most certainly not AMLO! That was my brain embarassingly swapping Carlos Slim with AMLO. Because there is a widely circulated narrative that Sheinbaum will be a mere puppet of AMLO, which the cited AP article is a rather tame variant of (https://apnews.com/article/mexico-election-female-president-debt-budget-constraints-ff107d2e0655b04c5e7c75d9f50041c8 - basically boiling down to: the preceding president started a bunch of infrastructure projects that are still ongoing, so according to conventional rightwing economic ideology, that means Sheinbaum will be unable to spend on additional public infrastructure or the social safety net, because trust me bro, and oh here are some mathematical models of a fantasyland with little resemblance to the real world if you still aren't convinced). The pure puppet narrative is worse (and has been circulated by the Right for a while now; e.g., https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/05/14/mexico-claudia-sheinbaum-presidential-election-profile-amlo/). But the brief mention sounded a lot like the AMLO's-puppet narrative, because elected leaders being constrained by oligarchs in capitalist democracies is as Mexican as pizza; that is, not at all unique to Mexico, but universal.

thejuicemedia

Thank you Josephus, yes I gathered as much and that is why I avoided using AMLO's picture and went for Slim instead. Of course, you're right that the problem isn't unique to Mexico, but the same goes for some of the other problems we've associated to other countries. Maybe I should've just left Mexico out of it entirely, but if I'd done that, people would have complained about that too! Tough choices!

Josephus Franks

Yeah, political comedy is damned hard... Add me to your writers room and you'll just get unfunny pedantry! At least by combining the Slim pic with that AP article, you made the otherwise shitty AP article seem sensible - him and the other oligarchs are the real impediment, not past public infrastructure spending

Formidable Vegetable

Awesome! Would love to be there… might check to see if they’re streaming. Communities for PM! ✊🏼

Sandra Kirby

Terrifying. Lunacy is devouring the human world.

Martin Short

Was the little 'black out' at the close of the South Africa segment deliberate or was that Youtube censorship? Happily democracy seems to have survived in India where Modi lost so many votes he now has to, for the very first time, lead a coalition parliament!

Mark william lane

Very glad to see Paul Jay airs your work on his wonderful web show “The Analysis.news” . A great investigative reporter in his own right and boy has he been targeted, know him? If not look him up please.

doug johnson

I am not sure any country is a Democracy any more. Pseudo Democracy is more like what we have here in the USA.