1 00:00:01,760 --> 00:00:06,480 Speaker 1: I'm about to show you a performance. The performer is 2 00:00:06,519 --> 00:00:12,160 Speaker 1: a South Carolina senator, a politician running for president, and 3 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:15,280 Speaker 1: he's starting to feel his oats. He's starting to get 4 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:18,160 Speaker 1: his game on. He's getting used to being in front 5 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:21,640 Speaker 1: of the crowd. You can tell that he can feed 6 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:25,600 Speaker 1: off the energy a bit. Let's watch Tim Scott talk 7 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:29,920 Speaker 1: about the United Auto Workers strike by turning back the 8 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:34,680 Speaker 1: clock to the Patco strike of nineteen eighty one. 9 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:37,800 Speaker 2: I think ro Ra Ronald Reagan gave us a great 10 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:42,880 Speaker 2: example when Federal Voice decided there was a strike. You strike, 11 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:47,080 Speaker 2: you're fired. Simple concept to me to we can use 12 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:50,760 Speaker 2: that once again. Absolutely. The second thing I would do, though, 13 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:54,560 Speaker 2: is very important. This is a probably not a well 14 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:58,600 Speaker 2: known fact. The first thing part of the challenge that 15 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:01,520 Speaker 2: we have at a with president then is I don't 16 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:03,080 Speaker 2: mean this would be disingenuous. I mean this would be 17 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 2: here unles sure if the words are bought and paid for, 18 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:09,880 Speaker 2: but it certainly he has been leased by the unions. 19 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:11,800 Speaker 3: And I say that. 20 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:15,200 Speaker 2: Because the first bill he passed, y'all remember the one 21 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:18,800 Speaker 2: point nine trillion dollars COVID relief backage I only had 22 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:25,200 Speaker 2: for COVID vaccines. I had eighty six billion dollars. I 23 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 2: believe for union pensions. 24 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:34,200 Speaker 3: Because they keep making these deals and as a result 25 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:39,399 Speaker 3: of the deal, they promised too much, deliver too little, 26 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:43,080 Speaker 3: and the tax payers pick up the tab. 27 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 1: Now, first, it is incredible that a United States senator 28 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:57,440 Speaker 1: can possibly be so ignorant. It's why we probably shouldn't 29 00:01:57,440 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 1: get rid of teaching history in schools because someday some 30 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:06,320 Speaker 1: of those kids may grow up to be senators. And 31 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:10,519 Speaker 1: unlike Kim Scott, it would be healthy and helpful in 32 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:15,079 Speaker 1: moments if those senators knew what it was that they 33 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:20,800 Speaker 1: were talking about. Now, the ua W strike of twenty 34 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:27,800 Speaker 1: twenty three has exactly, absolutely nothing to do with the 35 00:02:27,919 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 1: pat Goo air traffic controller strike of nineteen eighty one, 36 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:38,960 Speaker 1: But something Tim Scott said talking about the air traffic 37 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:43,400 Speaker 1: controller strike of nineteen eighty one has a lot of 38 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:51,160 Speaker 1: relevance to workers in twenty twenty three. Sometimes politicians, when 39 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:55,799 Speaker 1: they're sloppy, say the quiet part out loud. Let's watch 40 00:02:55,960 --> 00:03:00,959 Speaker 1: Tim Scott do it again when he says, if you strike, 41 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:03,480 Speaker 1: you should be fired as a worker. 42 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:07,840 Speaker 2: I think all Unald Rayton gave was a great example 43 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 2: when Federal Voice side was strike you sight your fired 44 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 2: civile concept to me, No. 45 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:21,120 Speaker 1: Tim Scott, that's not how it works in America. I'm 46 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:26,800 Speaker 1: going to explain this to you. In the mid nineteenth century, 47 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:33,799 Speaker 1: there was something called the Industrial Revolution. What the Industrial 48 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:39,920 Speaker 1: Revolution was, Senator, was an epoch in history when people 49 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:44,800 Speaker 1: who worked on farms began to move into the cities 50 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:50,840 Speaker 1: as machines began to mass produce products that could be 51 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 1: sold at an increasingly globalized scale. Now there were the 52 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 1: people who owned the factories and the geniuses who invented 53 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 1: the machines, and then there were the people who worked 54 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 1: in the factories, and society had to deal with a 55 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:18,640 Speaker 1: changing circumstance and dynamic. The people who worked in the factories. 56 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:23,359 Speaker 1: Were they entitled to dignity? Were they entitled to a 57 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:31,400 Speaker 1: decent living from their labor? Were they slaves? Indentured servants, disposable? 58 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:37,400 Speaker 1: Were they the equivalent of what you see in China 59 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:42,800 Speaker 1: today slave labor? And in the United States of America, 60 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:49,120 Speaker 1: through a long process of struggle and sacrifice, the American 61 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:53,359 Speaker 1: labor movement was born, the union movement. And in the 62 00:04:53,480 --> 00:05:00,960 Speaker 1: United States, Senator, workers have a right to organize and 63 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:07,039 Speaker 1: they have a right to strike. Now, in nineteen eighty one, 64 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:13,360 Speaker 1: the air traffic controllers went on strike, and then there 65 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:17,320 Speaker 1: was a problem with that. The problem has nothing to 66 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 1: do with anything that the UAW workers are talking about today. 67 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:28,320 Speaker 1: The problem in nineteen eighty one was a nineteen fifty 68 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:36,599 Speaker 1: five law. It made it illegal for federal employees to 69 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:42,760 Speaker 1: go on strike. Now, Tim Scott, I'm going to set 70 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 1: the record straight about the history on this for you 71 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:47,960 Speaker 1: a bit so you can do better when you're on 72 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:53,719 Speaker 1: television next time. So one you probably didn't know. In 73 00:05:53,839 --> 00:06:02,040 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty Pat go endorsed Ronald Reagan did the Teamsters. 74 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:08,080 Speaker 1: It made sense. Ronald Reagan was the only union president 75 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:13,000 Speaker 1: to ever become President of the United States. He was 76 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:18,120 Speaker 1: president of the Screen Actors Guild, which currently, like the 77 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:22,599 Speaker 1: United Auto Workers and the Writer's Guild of America, is 78 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:28,480 Speaker 1: out on strike now. The reason for the strike is 79 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:34,200 Speaker 1: because those people are part of a process that creates 80 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:40,160 Speaker 1: billions in profits, and they don't get a fair cut 81 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:48,279 Speaker 1: of the profits. What they get is detritus, a sprinkling, 82 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:54,839 Speaker 1: not a living wage, but at any rate, what the 83 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:59,760 Speaker 1: Writer's Guild of America, what the United Auto Workers, and 84 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:03,760 Speaker 1: what the Screen Actors Guild have in common as opposed 85 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:08,320 Speaker 1: to Pat Coo, is that those union members are not 86 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:15,680 Speaker 1: federal government employees. They are private sector employees. The UAW 87 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:22,160 Speaker 1: senator is not the federal government workforce, and they have 88 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:26,960 Speaker 1: a right under law to strike, and your calls to 89 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:32,080 Speaker 1: fire the UAW workers who are demanding higher wages so 90 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 1: they can send their kids to college is deeply offensive 91 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:41,720 Speaker 1: and wrong in a historic Now, coming back to Ronald 92 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:46,880 Speaker 1: Reagan in nineteen eighty one, what he promised the air 93 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:50,720 Speaker 1: traffic controllers was that he would negotiate in good faith 94 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:54,800 Speaker 1: when they went out on strike. Whether you think Reagan 95 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:58,800 Speaker 1: was right or wrong, Reagan took that strike as an 96 00:07:58,840 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 1: assault on his presidency and on his authority, and Ronald 97 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:08,120 Speaker 1: Reagan used his maximum power under the law to end 98 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:15,440 Speaker 1: the strike. Again, this has nothing to do whatsoever with 99 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:21,800 Speaker 1: anything that's happening forty years later. But for Tim Scott, 100 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:27,840 Speaker 1: it's always nineteen eighty it's always the Reagan Revolution, It's 101 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:32,160 Speaker 1: always Ronald Reagan's morning in America, despite the fact that 102 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:36,040 Speaker 1: it's Donald Trump's maga Republican Party today, and that is 103 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:41,000 Speaker 1: a dark party, an insidious force that is advancing fascism 104 00:08:41,040 --> 00:08:47,000 Speaker 1: in America now, in the end, when Ronald Reagan fired 105 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:53,120 Speaker 1: the air traffic controllers, someone paid attention to that. The Soviets, 106 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:58,360 Speaker 1: many years later in the archives the correspondence between Soviet 107 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:03,120 Speaker 1: officials watching domestic politics in the United States play out. 108 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:07,000 Speaker 1: Wrote to each other, and they said, this American president 109 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:11,360 Speaker 1: is different. He means what he says, he will do 110 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:17,480 Speaker 1: exactly what he says. Here's the point about that our 111 00:09:17,559 --> 00:09:22,800 Speaker 1: foreign adversaries haven't stopped watching our domestic politics. When they 112 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:27,120 Speaker 1: see people like Tim Scott, when they see the eight 113 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:31,200 Speaker 1: clowns on a Republican debate stage, raise their hands and say, 114 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:34,240 Speaker 1: we pledge forever fidelity to the man who tried to 115 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:39,319 Speaker 1: burn down the constitution. When they see Kevin McCarthy, when 116 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:42,679 Speaker 1: they see Lauren Bobert and mark my words, they do 117 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:47,760 Speaker 1: see them. What they see is decay. What they see 118 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:53,600 Speaker 1: is weakness, and what they confuse is the national character 119 00:09:54,360 --> 00:10:01,640 Speaker 1: for the lack of character, and our politicians everything that 120 00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:07,319 Speaker 1: matters in this moment, every virtue that you can think 121 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:14,600 Speaker 1: of is under assault. That's why it's important to understand 122 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:18,960 Speaker 1: when you hear a United States senator talk that they 123 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:20,600 Speaker 1: have no idea what they're talking about.