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Speaker 2: Michael coast.
Speaker 3: Well, welcome to The Daily Show. I'm Michael Costa. We've
Speaker 3: got so much to talk about.
Speaker 1: Tonight, President Obama shows off his rap skills. John Kelly
Speaker 1: gives Trump a history lesson, and I'll fix our entire
Speaker 1: voting system forever.
Speaker 3: You're welcome.
Speaker 1: So let's get right into it with another installment of
Speaker 1: Indecision twenty twenty four. We're thirteen days away from the
Speaker 1: election and it's a toss up at this point.
Speaker 3: In the past few weeks, Trump has made the.
Speaker 1: Pulls tighter than his shirt collar around his little neck puss.
Speaker 1: So now Democrats are bringing out the big guns, starting
Speaker 1: with a rally last night in Detroit, where the opening
Speaker 1: act was local legend Eminem. That's right, people, Slim Shady
Speaker 1: aka Marshall Mathers aka the reason Stan drove off that bridge.
Speaker 3: Stan, you really think stars like Eminem read their own mail? Idiot?
Speaker 3: But oh man, this is gonna be good.
Speaker 1: Eminem has recorded some of the most brutal tracks of
Speaker 1: all time. He has a song where he stuffs people
Speaker 1: in the trunk of a car. He rapped about wanting
Speaker 1: to see President Bush dead. He called his own mom
Speaker 1: a slot. The point is, Eminem is going to destroy Trump,
Speaker 1: so let's go. The spotlight is on us.
Speaker 3: More than ever.
Speaker 1: And I think it's important to use your voice.
Speaker 4: So I'm encouraging everybody to get out a vote.
Speaker 5: Please, please, please, Wow, this guy got polite.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now, everybody in the three one three, put your mother
Speaker 1: hands up and fill out your voter registration the timely fashion.
Speaker 3: Please.
Speaker 1: And em didn't even perform, But that was okay because
Speaker 1: he was just the warm up to Barack Obama, the
Speaker 1: real wrapper of the night. I was feeling some kind of.
Speaker 3: Way following Eminem.
Speaker 6: Now, I notice my palms are sweating me's week. I'ms
Speaker 6: a heaven Bamaha, my sweater rudder mon spagett it. I'm nervous,
Speaker 6: but I'm a surface on the comb and run it
Speaker 6: for drop bombs, but I keep bomb forget it.
Speaker 1: Holy shit, did he just come up with that on
Speaker 1: the spot. I mean, that was so good it should
Speaker 1: be a song.
Speaker 3: But it's nice to.
Speaker 1: See Obama pay homage to Eminem because it means that
Speaker 1: black people have finally accepted that Eminem is the greatest
Speaker 1: rapper of all time.
Speaker 3: Hey, look close, stop, I know how it feels.
Speaker 1: I went through it every time Tiger Woods won a
Speaker 1: golf tournament. Okay, I will say, maybe Obama should skip
Speaker 1: that line about dropping bombs.
Speaker 3: You know, are you still rapping? Are you doing a
Speaker 3: drone strike? Too real? Don't laugh? Too real, too real,
Speaker 3: too real. But even if you were to be let
Speaker 3: down that Eminem didn't go.
Speaker 1: Hard, don't worry, because over in Wisconsin, an up and
Speaker 1: coming rapper drop an epic Donald Trump distrack.
Speaker 3: He's duck to Bates, but you can't blame him.
Speaker 1: When you get your ass whip that hard, you don't
Speaker 1: come back for seconds.
Speaker 3: He has been rambling more than the normal rambling. He
Speaker 3: calls it the weave.
Speaker 2: Donald.
Speaker 4: Come on, we know there's only one weave that you
Speaker 4: know anything about.
Speaker 7: Being at McDonald, he looks much more like Ronald McDonald
Speaker 7: and the clown that he.
Speaker 1: Actually is, and Ronald wears less makeup.
Speaker 3: His running mate, Elon Musk.
Speaker 1: Look, Elon's on that stage, jumping around, skipping like a
Speaker 1: dipshit on these stuns.
Speaker 8: You know me?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 1: Wow, this campaign has changed Tim Walls. A month ago
Speaker 1: he was like, oh gee, Whizzy, I love going dimon nerds,
Speaker 1: And now he's all, how about you suck my nerds?
Speaker 3: Huh, yeah, suck my Nard.
Speaker 1: And I know some people think it's stooping to Trump's
Speaker 1: level when Democrats throw around insults like dipshit, But personally,
Speaker 1: I think politicians should be swearing way more often. Audiences
Speaker 1: always love it. Oh yeah, isn't that right, you dip shits?
Speaker 3: I swear audience.
Speaker 1: But the biggest attack against Trump at the moment isn't
Speaker 1: coming from Obomber or Walls.
Speaker 3: It's coming from one of the top people in Trump's
Speaker 3: own White House.
Speaker 9: This morning, Donald Trump's former chief of staff and retired
Speaker 9: General John Kelly, with a blistering rebuke of the Republican
Speaker 9: nominee for president, calling him a fascist with no concept for.
Speaker 1: The rule of law or the constitution.
Speaker 3: What do you think? Do you think he's a fascist?
Speaker 10: It certainly falls into the general definition of a fascist
Speaker 10: for sure.
Speaker 1: Wow, Donald Trump's old chief of staff is calling him
Speaker 1: a fascist.
Speaker 3: That is huge.
Speaker 1: Although I will say telling America you're about to elect
Speaker 1: a fascist is a.
Speaker 3: Pretty major thing to announce. In an audio clip. You know, you.
Speaker 1: Couldn't put on pants and say it into a camera.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like if aliens were invading and the
Speaker 1: President told us in a screenshot from his notes app
Speaker 1: just seems like the wrong medium.
Speaker 3: Let me back up here for a second.
Speaker 1: That word fascism gets thrown around a lot, and it's
Speaker 1: one of those words you hear frequently, but you don't
Speaker 1: actually know what it means, like emoluments or demure.
Speaker 3: So let me give you a definition.
Speaker 1: Fascism is a nationalist political movement that builds a cult
Speaker 1: around an all powerful leader who vows to protect his
Speaker 1: loyal subjects from racially inferior others and the enemy within.
Speaker 1: Now now that you know that, upon hearing John Kelly
Speaker 1: calling Trump a fascists, you're probably thinking yeah, er. By
Speaker 1: the way, Kelly isn't even the only general who served
Speaker 1: with Trump who feels this way. General Millie, Trump's chairman
Speaker 1: of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also said Trump is
Speaker 1: a fascist to the core. General Mattis, General McMaster, both
Speaker 1: Trump cabinet officials have said Trump.
Speaker 3: Violated the Constitution.
Speaker 1: And keep in mind, these guys were the adults in
Speaker 1: the room in the first Trump administration, keeping Trump from
Speaker 1: going full dictator, and they're not going to be there
Speaker 1: the second time around. Maybe it's just me, but I'm
Speaker 1: not ready to put the future of American democracy in
Speaker 1: the hands of Secretary of Defense, my pillow guy.
Speaker 3: But it gets even crazier.
Speaker 1: It gets crazier because, according to John Kelly, Trump's such
Speaker 1: a fascist that he even has an all time favorite dictator.
Speaker 1: And if you're thinking no, no, no, no, no, no, it can't
Speaker 1: be yes, it.
Speaker 4: Can he would call it more than ones that.
Speaker 6: You know, Hitler did some good things too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Hitler did some good things. I mean, after all,
Speaker 1: he killed himself.
Speaker 3: Do we clap at that? Are we? Seriously? Trump? Hitler
Speaker 3: never did anything that he even sucked at.
Speaker 1: Waving like, dude, God gave you elbows, use them.
Speaker 3: That's how I wave.
Speaker 1: But what Kelly explained in an interview with The Atlanta
Speaker 1: Magazine is that Trump what Trump really loved about Hitler
Speaker 1: was how he surrounded himself with yes men, or as
Speaker 1: they say in Germany, yah men.
Speaker 11: The title of the piece quotes Trump as once having
Speaker 11: said I need the kind of generals that Hitler had,
Speaker 11: Trump adding people who were totally loyal to him that
Speaker 11: follow orders.
Speaker 1: I feel like Trump took the wrong lesson from the Holocaust.
Speaker 1: The lesson I learned was not to do the Holocaust,
Speaker 1: but the lesson he learned was, well, the Nazis were
Speaker 1: great listeners. And apparently the first time Kelly heard this,
Speaker 1: Trump didn't mention Hitler at first, he just said German generals.
Speaker 1: So Kelly tried to give Trump an off ramp, but
Speaker 1: he wasn't.
Speaker 3: Taking it, Kelly told Goldberg.
Speaker 11: When Trump raised the subject, he responded by asking, do
Speaker 11: you mean Bismarck's generals. Kelly went on quote, I mean
Speaker 11: I knew he didn't know who Bismarck was or about
Speaker 11: the Franco Prussian War. I said, do you mean the
Speaker 11: Kaiser's generals. Surely you can't mean Hitler's generals. Said yeah, yeah,
Speaker 11: Hitler's generals.
Speaker 3: I mean, Kelly was trying so hard to give him
Speaker 3: an out.
Speaker 1: Okay, you said German generals, but you don't mean Hitler's generals. Okay,
Speaker 1: you do mean Hitler, but you mean like Nathan Hitler,
Speaker 1: the guy my wife goes to pilates with.
Speaker 3: Right, help me out here, man, help me.
Speaker 1: I love how he was like, you mean Bismarck's generals, right,
Speaker 1: my man. The only generals Trump knows are the Chinese
Speaker 1: one that makes that chicken and the guy who teamed
Speaker 1: up with Shaq to sell car insurance.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 1: Anyway, This is pretty indefensible stuff, and when Trump does
Speaker 1: something truly indefensible, you can always count on Fox News.
Speaker 3: To defend him.
Speaker 12: It's your job to do with the president wants. And
Speaker 12: I could absolutely see him go. Now, you know what,
Speaker 12: it'd be great to have German generals and actually do
Speaker 12: what we ask them to do, knowing that's maybe not
Speaker 12: fully being cognizant of the third rail of German general's
Speaker 12: we're Nazis or whatever.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, did you just whatever? The Holocaust whatever is for.
Speaker 1: Insignificant things like when you put the plastic recycling in
Speaker 1: the paper recycling. It's not oops, I did a genocide.
Speaker 3: I like that kill meat thinks.
Speaker 1: Praising Hitler is a third rail, like it's a taboo subject.
Speaker 3: That's not pc to discuss at the office anymore.
Speaker 1: Uh, you can't even compliment a woman's haircut or tell
Speaker 1: her about all the good things Hitler did anymore.
Speaker 3: Thanks woke police.
Speaker 1: This was even a little too far for some of
Speaker 1: the other people on the couch. Watch Steve Doocey as
Speaker 1: he realizes where kill Meat is going with this.
Speaker 12: You know what, it would be great to have German
Speaker 12: generals and actually do what we asked them to do.
Speaker 1: Poor guy, He looks nervous, his palms are sweaty, me's
Speaker 1: weak arms heavy, goes vomited on.
Speaker 3: His sweater already.
Speaker 1: Look, almost everybody has figured out that Hitler was bad,
Speaker 1: but for that one person that didn't, who also might
Speaker 1: be the next president.
Speaker 3: Great job, everybody.
Speaker 1: Maybe the media can drive that point home a bit more.
Speaker 4: Here at the History Channel, we've spent the past three
Speaker 4: decades pumping out World War Two documentaries for Grandpa's but
Speaker 4: we're starting to think we haven't been clear enough about
Speaker 4: whether or not you should root for Hitler. So we're
Speaker 4: eliminating that confusion with our new lineup of World War
Speaker 4: Two programming.
Speaker 3: Join us.
Speaker 4: Mondays at seven four Defeating the Fury, who, to be clear,
Speaker 4: was the bad guy, followed at eight by Hitler's generals,
Speaker 4: the also very bad guys behind the main very very
Speaker 4: bad guy. Then at nine one hour of just a
Speaker 4: black Screen that says Hitler was bad, plus All of
Speaker 4: our other shows now have helpful graphics in case you
Speaker 4: forget halfway through that Hitler was bad, And of course
Speaker 4: you can still enjoy all our other programming like Ancient Aliens.
Speaker 12: I believe that the Pyramids were built by aliens, and
Speaker 12: even I know Hitler was bad.
Speaker 4: We've even teamed up with our sister network to present
Speaker 4: Shark Week, the Hitler's of the Sea. Wait, does that
Speaker 4: make Hitler sound cool? Forget it, so please enjoy the
Speaker 4: History Channel. The h is for history, not Hitler, who
Speaker 4: was bad.
Speaker 3: I can't believe that to say.
Speaker 13: When we come back, I go home to Michigan. Don't
Speaker 13: go away, alcome last.
Speaker 3: Of the show.
Speaker 1: Last night we aired part of my investigative series on
Speaker 1: the electoral College and now the thrilling conclusion.
Speaker 3: We're breaking news now.
Speaker 8: The cocky clown Michael Costa headed to the battleground state
Speaker 8: of Michigan, going there to see if they.
Speaker 3: Will ask the national popular vote.
Speaker 8: It's still a long shot, especially now for someone as
Speaker 8: aft as Michael cost.
Speaker 1: I'm in Michigan, the state known for being where I'm from,
Speaker 1: at the capitol to inspire lawmakers to pass the national
Speaker 1: popular Vote bill. It's got so I'm speaking with Carrie
Speaker 1: Ryan Gans, the sponsor of the bill, to find out
Speaker 1: how to get it pushed over the finish line.
Speaker 3: How does this National Popular Vote bill get voted on it?
Speaker 3: And where does that happen?
Speaker 14: So on the House floor. If we get it on
Speaker 14: the agenda, we'll be able to have it. But you
Speaker 14: put up on the board and we will be invited
Speaker 14: to vote on it.
Speaker 1: And you feel like you have the votes you need, yes,
Speaker 1: So then why not just pass it right now while
Speaker 1: your boys here?
Speaker 3: Well, I do expect a vote by the end.
Speaker 9: Of the year.
Speaker 3: End of the year doesn't really work for me.
Speaker 1: This is the time that I'm going to be in
Speaker 1: Michigan because I got a.
Speaker 3: Flight in thirty six hours. Who do I have to
Speaker 3: talk to you to get this bill passed? Because I'll
Speaker 3: do it.
Speaker 1: I'm like the most famous guy from Michigan ever, well
Speaker 1: besides Tim Allen, but that guy sucks.
Speaker 3: Well, we have been really busy.
Speaker 1: This term voting on what's the best fight shop in
Speaker 1: Macinai Island. No, we don't need to well, which Michigan
Speaker 1: are can eat the most snow?
Speaker 14: No, we've been doing important work, so we do deliver.
Speaker 14: We do want to vote on this, and this is
Speaker 14: really a nonpartisan issue.
Speaker 3: What can I do to push this through?
Speaker 1: Because let's be honest, if this thing passes, who's the
Speaker 1: hero boom right?
Speaker 3: And I need that right now?
Speaker 14: You know, it might be really helpful to hear from
Speaker 14: just more people in Michigan. The general public I think
Speaker 14: would totally support this.
Speaker 3: You want me to hang out with the general public.
Speaker 1: Yes, my mission was clear. If I was going to
Speaker 1: get this bill passed before my flight, I had to
Speaker 1: use my star power to get the people on my side.
Speaker 1: Because one thing was certain. I will not pay a
Speaker 1: change fee.
Speaker 3: How do you feel about the electoral college tick? It sucks?
Speaker 3: Does it feel outdated? Sometimes?
Speaker 1: I'm not a fan of the electoral college. I'm actually
Speaker 1: more of a fan of popular vote. What if I
Speaker 1: told you that tomorrow there might be a bill being
Speaker 1: introduced that would support a national popular vote to determining
Speaker 1: the presidency, I would be uh, I would be excited.
Speaker 10: I think that would mean Michigan's.
Speaker 1: Just right on the right track.
Speaker 3: So maybe that's gonna happen to mine.
Speaker 10: I'm not putting money on.
Speaker 3: That, okay, but if it did happen tomorrow, Terry, that
Speaker 3: would be great.
Speaker 1: Look into that camera and show me the face you're
Speaker 1: gonna make if the National Popular Vote Bill passes.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, I think a popular thing is a good one.
Speaker 3: Would you want Michigan to pass the National Popular Vote Bill?
Speaker 3: Hell yeah?
Speaker 1: Would you want Michigan to pass the National Popular Vote Bill? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Go great?
Speaker 8: Go light who.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that settles it. Michigan needed to pass the National
Speaker 1: Popular Vote Bill. Michigan, let's get this National Popular Vote
Speaker 1: Bill done.
Speaker 8: Who.
Speaker 1: After checking my victory balloons at security, I started wheeling
Speaker 1: and dealing on the floor.
Speaker 3: What are you here for?
Speaker 1: We're hoping the National Popular Vote Bill gets introduced and
Speaker 1: passed today. Would I single handedly be able to get
Speaker 1: Michigan to pass the National Popular Vote Bill? Specifically, before
Speaker 1: my flight National Popular Vote the word was getting around
Speaker 1: that Costa was in the House and things were starting
Speaker 1: to happen. We're hoping the National Popular Vote Bill that's
Speaker 1: introduced today and voted on, that's got up.
Speaker 3: That's got up. That's why we're here.
Speaker 1: But after a tedious legislative session, this is not our bill.
Speaker 3: Relax, it's not our bill.
Speaker 1: It was clear the vote was not happening. It could
Speaker 1: be in the Delta sky Lounge in thirty five minutes.
Speaker 3: I can't do it. I gotta go.
Speaker 1: I can't believe it.
Speaker 3: It's too bad.
Speaker 1: Man shot Michigan lawmakers. You have really left the people,
Speaker 1: but more importantly me down.
Speaker 3: It's okay, buddy, God damn it.
Speaker 1: John King's gonna have a field day to this thing.
Speaker 3: This breaking news.
Speaker 8: The depressing dufus Michael Costa has failed to get the
Speaker 8: national Popular vote Phil passed here in battleground Michigan. He
Speaker 8: didn't even get it on the agenda. Now, it's not
Speaker 8: an end to the National Popular Vote movement, but it is.
Speaker 8: It's definitely an end to anyone caring about Michael Costa.
Speaker 8: In fact, they're just getting exclusive footage of a dejected
Speaker 8: Costa leaving the Michigan State Capitol. Take a peek, just
Speaker 8: like the little sad boy he is, and CNN can
Speaker 8: now officially project Michael Costa is pathetic.
Speaker 7: Dun king out and welcome back, David Hogg, and they're
Speaker 7: joining me on the show, so don't go away.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to the David Show.
Speaker 1: My guest tonight is a leader in the fight to
Speaker 1: end gun violence and the co founder of the Leaders
Speaker 1: We Deserve Pack.
Speaker 3: Please welcome David Hogg. It had it all right, Star
Speaker 3: getting You're twenty four years old. You're twenty four years old.
Speaker 1: You co founded March for Our Lives after surviving the
Speaker 1: Parkland shooting to support gun control legislation. You've now co
Speaker 1: founded Leaders We Deserve Pack. Yes, tell us what is that?
Speaker 1: So it's basically the second step in our process. You know,
Speaker 1: we work to with March for Our Lives to help
Speaker 1: elect better people to change gun laws. But our generation
Speaker 1: is getting old enough now that many of the young
Speaker 1: people that marched out with us, that protested with us
Speaker 1: and organized in twenty eighteen in the largest student protest
Speaker 1: in American history, are now old enough to run for office.
Speaker 10: So my philosophy, So my philosophy around that is, if
Speaker 10: our government is not willing to change gun laws, then
Speaker 10: it's time to change whoosing government.
Speaker 3: Oh sure.
Speaker 10: And the way that we do that, Michael, is we
Speaker 10: help fund great generational leaders under the age of thirty
Speaker 10: for state legislature and under the age of thirty five
Speaker 10: for congress, people like Congressman Maxwell Frost and soon to
Speaker 10: be Congresswoman Sarah McBride in Delaware, and work that I'm
Speaker 10: on a day to day basis on everything that they
Speaker 10: need to be able to win.
Speaker 1: You're tired of old people having a monopoly of power
Speaker 1: in our government.
Speaker 3: But isn't one of the solutions just waiting?
Speaker 10: Well, funny enough, I think that that's our long term plan.
Speaker 1: Ultimately, you know, whenever people stick it out, they're gonna
Speaker 1: die exactly.
Speaker 10: But it's about creating an intergenerational coalition in our government.
Speaker 10: So many of the greatest presidents we've ever had, whether
Speaker 10: that was Abraham Lincoln, he was twenty five when he
Speaker 10: was first elected to the Illinois State House.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 10: Lbj was twenty eight when he was first elected to Congress,
Speaker 10: Joe Biden, And I know this is hard to believe
Speaker 10: for the younger people. It was twenty nine when he
Speaker 10: was first elected. And those men went on to become
Speaker 10: so successful, I believe because they started when they were
Speaker 10: so young. And it makes sense. If you start when
Speaker 10: you're young, you know how to get stuff done. And
Speaker 10: if people want to know more about what we do,
Speaker 10: they can go to leaders we deserve dot Com.
Speaker 1: So yeah, silly question, do young people want to run
Speaker 1: for office? Because it seems to me like and I'm
Speaker 1: an old man. It seems like every young person I
Speaker 1: see is just on TikTok.
Speaker 10: Well, they are certainly on TikTok, yes, but they're also
Speaker 10: engaging with all kinds of things on there because they
Speaker 10: all want to help create a better world. Ultimately, we
Speaker 10: see young people over the past several years, ever since
Speaker 10: Donald Trump got elected march for their lives in the
Speaker 10: form of March for Our Lives. We've seen them protest,
Speaker 10: to fight for action on climate change, and so much more.
Speaker 10: And ultimately we've grown up hearing the mantra gen z
Speaker 10: was taught along inside our ABC's the mantra of run,
Speaker 10: hide and fight, right right right. I think it's time
Speaker 10: for our generation to repurpose that and realize it's we
Speaker 10: have a responsibility not to hide from the responsibility to
Speaker 10: protect the next generation so that they don't go through this.
Speaker 10: We have to fight to create that future, and if necessary,
Speaker 10: we need to run for office to make that future
Speaker 10: a reality.
Speaker 3: Well how when by the way, Michael, yeh, by the way.
Speaker 10: My mom literally just called me when I was a
Speaker 10: makeup that she wanted me to say that she has
Speaker 10: a huge crush on John.
Speaker 1: And this guy's got comedic timing, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I was just about to promote it some more what
Speaker 1: you were doing.
Speaker 10: But if anything, Michael, you guys know the importance of
Speaker 10: having young people join a show for example, right, and
Speaker 10: johnstill comes on once weeks, So your show is an
Speaker 10: intergenerational coalition.
Speaker 3: That's true.
Speaker 1: And I honestly, John I think thinks the rest of
Speaker 1: us are all just the same person. So but when
Speaker 1: you're it's not when you're looking for a gen z,
Speaker 1: I know, it's like, hey, I.
Speaker 10: Know you're different. I watch the show religiously.
Speaker 3: That's thank you for real.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, But so like they're older people, they watch
Speaker 1: it on a cable channel. You watch it on your
Speaker 1: friend's YouTube or something. Yeah, great, which is which is
Speaker 1: why nobody has any money. But when you're looking for
Speaker 1: a gen Zer to run, you've said you're looking for
Speaker 1: someone that has the juice.
Speaker 3: Yes, what is the juice?
Speaker 10: Great question?
Speaker 3: Do I have the juice?
Speaker 10: Well?
Speaker 3: Can I get some juice? You?
Speaker 10: I think it's possible for anybody to get it. But
Speaker 10: I think that you, especially as somebody that does this
Speaker 10: work to help communicate the news to young people that
Speaker 10: so often are tired of hearing cynical worldview constantly. The
Speaker 10: thing that I hate most is the I think the
Speaker 10: greatest threat to our democracy is also on the things
Speaker 10: that keeps me up the most at night, obviously, which
Speaker 10: is the hopelessness and apathy that so many young people have.
Speaker 10: That is a self fulfilling prophecy. And I don't think
Speaker 10: that you have that. So I think we do have
Speaker 10: the Jews.
Speaker 3: I got the Jews, but I think.
Speaker 10: In terms I got the Jews in terms in terms
Speaker 10: of what does the Jews really mean? Though, fifty percent
Speaker 10: of what decides who we endorse as a candidate, it
Speaker 10: goes beyond our questionnaire and where they stand on the issues.
Speaker 10: That's forty nine percent of it. Fifty one percent of
Speaker 10: it is why are you running for office. We're not
Speaker 10: here just to support somebody because they they want to
Speaker 10: have you know, congressmen or woman next to their name,
Speaker 10: or they want to be a representative just for the
Speaker 10: sake of having power, for the sake of having power.
Speaker 10: We want to elect somebody because they want to use
Speaker 10: that power for good, to help the people that don't
Speaker 10: have it right now, to help build a more perfect union.
Speaker 10: And part of how we do that is our candidates.
Speaker 10: They don't take corporate money. We don't take corporate money.
Speaker 1: I'm going to ask you about moat. Yeah, let's talk
Speaker 1: about money. So, first of all, there's a great movie
Speaker 1: that came out in nineteen ninety two called Juice.
Speaker 3: You weren't even born yet, you weren't even a thought yet.
Speaker 3: Your parents probably hadn't even met yet.
Speaker 1: Now, the very last scene, he goes, you got the
Speaker 1: juice now, man, and he goes, no, I just I
Speaker 1: want you just to think about that.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I'll have to follow up on it.
Speaker 3: Money. So I go to leaders we Deserve website. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 3: And before I.
Speaker 1: Even really read the bio and see the video, it's like, yo,
Speaker 1: click here for some money.
Speaker 3: So that has me thinking, where is your money coming from?
Speaker 10: So that's a great question.
Speaker 3: You're welcome.
Speaker 10: When we started. When we started, it was a huge
Speaker 10: risk that we took because we were actually ready to
Speaker 10: launch on the day, the day that we were supposed
Speaker 10: to launch, twelve hours before Donald Trump got indicted the
Speaker 10: first time, right, and then we launched a week after that,
Speaker 10: and then he got indicted a week yes, right, But
Speaker 10: when we launched, we had no money actually, and what
Speaker 10: happened is we took a huge risk and we put
Speaker 10: it out there. We raised over a million dollars in
Speaker 10: our first seventy two hours.
Speaker 3: Ye is crazy.
Speaker 10: And what I'm most proud of, by far, is right now,
Speaker 10: in our first fourteen months of existence, with just a
Speaker 10: small team of four people and great friends around us,
Speaker 10: we've been able to raise nearly twelve million dollars to
Speaker 10: support young people. But that would not be possible without
Speaker 10: one hundred and thirty thousand individual donors who donated on
Speaker 10: average far less than one thousand dollars to our organization.
Speaker 10: Are No single person has control over us other than
Speaker 10: just making sure we do the right thing and our
Speaker 10: candidates do the right thing.
Speaker 3: I mean, we need more.
Speaker 1: Once you take money from a corporation, it does change things,
Speaker 1: doesn't it Just a little bit.
Speaker 3: It taints things a little bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so you're saying that that's not what you got, Okay,
Speaker 1: great young men of your generation, not putting us all
Speaker 1: on you, But I am curious a lot of them
Speaker 1: are supporting Donald Trump.
Speaker 3: Yeah what's all that about, dude?
Speaker 1: That's a great question. Yeah, well are you? And as leaders,
Speaker 1: we deserve supporting Democrats, progressives, conservatives who.
Speaker 10: So right now. Excellent question.
Speaker 3: I'm not just going to be your friend. They're gonna
Speaker 3: push back alot.
Speaker 10: You absolutely should. We support young progressives running for state
Speaker 10: legislature in Congress, and the main places that we look
Speaker 10: for them are people that have a background in social movements,
Speaker 10: people like Bryceberry, who's running and will soon be the
Speaker 10: youngest person ever elected to the Georgia State Legislature at
Speaker 10: the age of twenty three. He is a seventh grade
Speaker 10: algebra teacher, Jesus and a former organizer with Mark Carlans
Speaker 10: and then the So's.
Speaker 1: That's really also proving that if you know algebra, it
Speaker 1: still has no relevance in the mind.
Speaker 3: Exactly. You got to become a state legislature Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 10: And so that's really what we're what we're doing.
Speaker 1: If you could talk or give advice to Kamala Harris,
Speaker 1: the one thing you could tell her to mobilize young
Speaker 1: Democratic voters, what would it be? And please tell me
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with the Huktwah podcast.
Speaker 10: It does not. What I would say is listen to
Speaker 10: us and what we're saying.
Speaker 3: Thing I just showed out WHI I was. I didn't
Speaker 3: even say that, right, right? Yeah?
Speaker 10: What I would say, what I would say is listen
Speaker 10: to us and what these what these young people are saying,
Speaker 10: and what we're going through right and realizing and I
Speaker 10: think this to a large extent, she's she's done a
Speaker 10: pretty good job of that. But there's still a lot
Speaker 10: more work that we need to do to make sure
Speaker 10: that we're we're listening to these young people and giving
Speaker 10: them faith that their voice and their vote actually matters
Speaker 10: to somebody like the vice president or the future ideally
Speaker 10: future president of the United States, and that they know
Speaker 10: that there's a lot more elections that affect you than
Speaker 10: just the presidency. This presidential election and abortion ban is
Speaker 10: really going to be decided by your state legislature. And
Speaker 10: that's why most of the work we do isn't even
Speaker 10: in Congress right now, it's in state legislatures to help
Speaker 10: put up a fight against the radical abortion vans were
Speaker 10: just earlier today. That's why, that's why this year we've
Speaker 10: been investing. The state that we've actually invested the most
Speaker 10: in this year is Texas, where we spent over one
Speaker 10: point five million dollars.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 10: And the reason for that. The reason for that is
Speaker 10: we know as Texas grows and when we do you
Speaker 10: flip Texas, because I believe that Texas, like Florida, is
Speaker 10: not a red state, it is a gerrymanderd in voter
Speaker 10: suppressed state. Okay, right, If we flip Texas, we could
Speaker 10: have a future where we don't even need to win Pennsylvania, Michigan,
Speaker 10: Wisconsin to win the presidency, because all you need is
Speaker 10: Texas in that scenreo with the key typical Democratic strongholds,
Speaker 10: and we're not investing for one cycle with our pack.
Speaker 10: We're investing with time in the market of change, if
Speaker 10: you will, where we know that we have the greatest
Speaker 10: advantage on our side that anybody can have in politics.
Speaker 10: Then none of these corporations, not even people like the
Speaker 10: Koch brothers, can buy more of which is the fact
Speaker 10: that we're going to outlive most of the people who
Speaker 10: are against right.
Speaker 3: It's a good point.
Speaker 1: When we get our ballots, we're always very familiar with
Speaker 1: the presidency, but there's so many other people on the ballot,
Speaker 1: and it would be nice if those names were as
Speaker 1: familiar as well. Exactly, you were survivor of the Parkland
Speaker 1: shooting in twenty eighteen. Since then, depending on how you
Speaker 1: fine a mass shooting has been fifty four more mass
Speaker 1: shootings in this country.
Speaker 3: This could be very disheartening.
Speaker 1: Yet when I see you, when I meet you, and
Speaker 1: when I see on TV or anywhere, you seem resilient,
Speaker 1: you seem inspired, You don't seem disheartened.
Speaker 3: Tell me what is the trick? How do you stay up?
Speaker 3: Because it can break you.
Speaker 10: It can.
Speaker 3: You know that better than anybody.
Speaker 10: It can't. And I'm going to be completely honest with you, Michael,
Speaker 10: and that truly it's things like The Daily Show. And
Speaker 10: I'm a good answer, no, but truly, And the reason
Speaker 10: why I say that is because there's so much negativity
Speaker 10: and in vitriol in the media constantly. It's hard to
Speaker 10: watch it when it feels like you're being told constantly
Speaker 10: the world is on fire. But you still need to
Speaker 10: be informed watching things like The Daily Show. And really,
Speaker 10: a huge person that I have to thank for getting
Speaker 10: involved in politics in the first place is actually John Oliver. Sure,
Speaker 10: because I started as a young debate student when I
Speaker 10: was in ninth gradehigh school. I started watching his show
Speaker 10: and it gave me a completely different perspective into how
Speaker 10: hilariously corrupt a lot of these different state legislatures and
Speaker 10: politicians are, but how it doesn't have to be that way.
Speaker 10: And one thing that was really hard for me to learn,
Speaker 10: the hardest thing for me to learn after the shooting,
Speaker 10: and I think this goes for a lot of my classmates,
Speaker 10: was that it's okay to be happy no matter what
Speaker 10: you've gone through. And I say that, I say that
Speaker 10: because I have learned. I've learned it is an absolute happiness.
Speaker 10: Joy are not anathetical to progress, no matter how hard
Speaker 10: the issue is that you were working on. They're an
Speaker 10: essential part of it. And that was a hard lesson
Speaker 10: to learn.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because.
Speaker 10: Thank you. Because after the shooting, there were so many people,
Speaker 10: you know, naturally, what do you do in a photo
Speaker 10: if somebody takes it with you, no matter what you've
Speaker 10: gone through, you smile, right. There were so many people
Speaker 10: that would make, you know, right wing people online that
Speaker 10: would make memes of us smile ling, saying these are
Speaker 10: the faces that you make when you're standing on the
Speaker 10: bodies of your dead classmates.
Speaker 3: Jesus Christ.
Speaker 10: Yeah, And that had a horrible effect on us, and
Speaker 10: it really started to tear us apart. But I realized
Speaker 10: at a certain point that they actually need us not
Speaker 10: to be happy and believed to believe that change isn't possible,
Speaker 10: because I know from talking to people like Dolores Fuerta,
Speaker 10: who I was at a protest with a few years ago,
Speaker 10: and I asked her, what is the most important thing
Speaker 10: that you can tell other young people, other activists for
Speaker 10: them to know, and she said, the most important thing
Speaker 10: is that you have to make people believe that change
Speaker 10: is actually possible. If we didn't believe change was possible
Speaker 10: after Parkland, if we didn't believe change was possible, if
Speaker 10: we didn't have in some ways the ignorance to believe
Speaker 10: change was possible, and a Republican state legislature like Florida was,
Speaker 10: we wouldn't have been able to raise the age to
Speaker 10: twenty one because we would have listened to those negative
Speaker 10: ad peddlers and polsters and Shrundans.
Speaker 1: It was a Republican governor, a Republican and you actually
Speaker 1: achieved some change.
Speaker 10: And we raised the age to buygon twenty one in Florida.
Speaker 10: And not just that, we passed red flag law that
Speaker 10: can disarm people that are risk themselves in others and
Speaker 10: that law has since been used in Florida alone over
Speaker 10: nineteen thousand times.
Speaker 3: Wow, and.
Speaker 10: Michael guests who uses it most Republican sheriffs, right Republican sharfs,
Speaker 10: and guess who hasn't repealed it, Ron DeSantis. Because it
Speaker 10: has such wide bipartisan support, we cannot buy into this
Speaker 10: lie that this is such a partisan issue we can't
Speaker 10: do anything about it.
Speaker 1: And I liked I heard you say somewhere else that
Speaker 1: a lot of the Republicans that helped pass that still
Speaker 1: got reelected.
Speaker 3: They did, because that is ultimately what it comes down to.
Speaker 1: If they fear, oh, I'm not going to get relected,
Speaker 1: but they got re elected exactly.
Speaker 3: Some of them are still there.
Speaker 10: But that's why it's so important that young people use
Speaker 10: their voice. And I'm not going to say to them
Speaker 10: right now that this is going to get solved. If
Speaker 10: you just elect Kamala Harris, everything's going to be better.
Speaker 10: It's not going to be. We're we're putting. We've been
Speaker 10: left eight the results of a fifty year chess gin
Speaker 10: that Conservatives have played here through things like the Federalist Society,
Speaker 10: the Heritage Foundation, and so many of these other institutions
Speaker 10: that Donald Trump is simply a symptom of, and he
Speaker 10: is only that a symtom of it. If it wasn't him,
Speaker 10: it was going to be somebody else. Our generation has
Speaker 10: to start laying the groundwork now to reverse engineer a
Speaker 10: lot of that so that we can actually we can
Speaker 10: reinstate things like Roe versus Weight, so that we can
Speaker 10: overturn things like DC versus Heller and Citizens United and
Speaker 10: all these other insane decisions as the Supreme Court is made.
Speaker 3: Keep it up. Thank your positivity is very inspiring.
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Speaker 1: David Hogg, everybody.
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