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So 16 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 1: new inflation numbers out, the picture continues to be dire. 17 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:05,640 Speaker 1: We have all of the details there for you. President 18 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:09,199 Speaker 1: Biden also addressing this in a major speech, clearly trying 19 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 1: to reframe the debate on inflation, which has been obviously 20 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:15,880 Speaker 1: very damaging for you all, but politically dire for Democrats, 21 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:18,080 Speaker 1: So we'll bring you all of those details. But there's 22 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:20,039 Speaker 1: a lot else that is going on as well. A 23 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:25,480 Speaker 1: massive package of aid mostly going to defense contractors, ultimately 24 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:29,559 Speaker 1: passing with regards to the war in Ukraine, very little descent, 25 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 1: but where the descent came from is actually kind of interesting, 26 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:34,920 Speaker 1: so we'll give you the details of that. Also, and 27 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:39,360 Speaker 1: a Palestine American journalist was shot and killed while covering 28 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 1: an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank. We will 29 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:45,680 Speaker 1: tell you everything we know about what unfolded. They're really 30 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:49,600 Speaker 1: a horrific, horrific tragedy. We also have new numbers with 31 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:53,400 Speaker 1: regards to overdose deaths. The numbers continue to go up. 32 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:56,280 Speaker 1: There was some hope that that might not be the 33 00:01:56,320 --> 00:01:58,800 Speaker 1: case as the pandemic started to ease in twenty twenty 34 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:01,480 Speaker 1: one and lockdown came to an end, but in fact 35 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:04,280 Speaker 1: the numbers just continue to get worse and worse. So 36 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:07,800 Speaker 1: the details they are also important to get into. And finally, 37 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:11,680 Speaker 1: we have some new numbers with regards to the ratings 38 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:15,880 Speaker 1: of Simone Sanders' debut on MSNBC. Just how did her 39 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:19,120 Speaker 1: first show featuring the First Lady? How did that go? 40 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:21,680 Speaker 1: We'll tell you about that. Ryan Grimm is going to 41 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:25,079 Speaker 1: join us as well. He actually reported out an extraordinary 42 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:30,280 Speaker 1: story about the sort of derailing of a DSA progressive 43 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:35,080 Speaker 1: campaign political campaign close to DC that is interesting and instructive. 44 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:37,440 Speaker 1: It tells you a lot a lot of ways. So 45 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 1: we're going to have him lay that out since he 46 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 1: did the reporting on this, But we do want to 47 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:43,680 Speaker 1: start with those brand new numbers on inflation Saga. Yeah, 48 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:45,080 Speaker 1: that's right. Let's go ahead and put this up there 49 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:47,440 Speaker 1: on the screen. These are really important numbers. So this 50 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 1: is the overall year over year increase by price in 51 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:53,760 Speaker 1: terms of specific product categories. So I'm just going to 52 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:56,320 Speaker 1: read some of those for Jess who are listening. Gas 53 00:02:56,440 --> 00:02:59,360 Speaker 1: forty four percent up year over year, airfare up thirty 54 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:02,919 Speaker 1: three percent year over year, eggs up twenty three percent 55 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:06,240 Speaker 1: year over year, utility gas twenty three, used cars twenty three, 56 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:11,640 Speaker 1: hotels twenty three, bacon eighteen, chicken fifteen, milk fifteen, furniture fifteen, 57 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:16,520 Speaker 1: coffee fourteen, beef fourteen, flour fourteen, new cars fourteen, fish thirteen, 58 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:22,000 Speaker 1: electricity eleven, health, insurance ten, rent five. So basically, everything 59 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:25,639 Speaker 1: you need in your entire life is at a minimum 60 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:29,480 Speaker 1: up five and at a maximum is up around twenty. 61 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:33,560 Speaker 1: So not a good situation. Now. The way that the 62 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:35,040 Speaker 1: media is trying to spin this, and I'm doing an 63 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 1: entire monologue just on the media and inflation is just 64 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:39,880 Speaker 1: so hilarious to me. Let's put this up there on 65 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:43,080 Speaker 1: the screen. The AP says, US inflation dips from the 66 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 1: four decade high but still causing pain. It's like, yeah, 67 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:49,680 Speaker 1: it drip dipped to eight point three from eight point five, 68 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:53,600 Speaker 1: so not necessarily a huge win. And actually in terms 69 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:56,800 Speaker 1: of the overall increase in price, which you see in 70 00:03:56,840 --> 00:04:02,880 Speaker 1: the most critical categories like gas and food and gas, food, rent, housing, 71 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:05,480 Speaker 1: et cetera, I mean, you just have a situation where 72 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:09,160 Speaker 1: it's devastating for most Americans. So Biden administration, we'll get 73 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:10,920 Speaker 1: to his speech, is trying to spin it talking about 74 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:14,280 Speaker 1: wage increased, so well, wages are up two to three percent. 75 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:15,800 Speaker 1: It's like that was not even going to cover your 76 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 1: rent inflation. I mean, it's we're going to cover your 77 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:22,360 Speaker 1: rent inflation, let alone food inflation, let alone gas. I 78 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:25,760 Speaker 1: mean the lack of focus here on the most basic 79 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:31,360 Speaker 1: bread butter like household expenses by the administration is going 80 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:33,640 Speaker 1: to kill them. And I think that the really depressing 81 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:35,200 Speaker 1: part about this, and kind of was the end of 82 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:38,800 Speaker 1: my diesel monologue on Tuesday, is there ain't no way 83 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:40,720 Speaker 1: out of this thing right now. I mean, gas right 84 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 1: now is still four thirty a gallon. Crystal. Airfare is 85 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:47,440 Speaker 1: very high, specifically not only because of high demand because 86 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:50,120 Speaker 1: everybody wants to travel this summer, but jet fuel is 87 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:53,239 Speaker 1: like seven dollars a gallon in New York Harbor. Eggs 88 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:56,000 Speaker 1: same thing. I didn't know this, but ten percent of 89 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:58,720 Speaker 1: the all the chickens in America apparently died of some 90 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:01,479 Speaker 1: weird bird flu. So we have some crazy I know, 91 00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:04,320 Speaker 1: like this year came not possibly catch a break on 92 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:08,320 Speaker 1: a single ten of all the chickens die from a 93 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:11,839 Speaker 1: crazy bird flu this year. And then utility gas obviously 94 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:16,159 Speaker 1: that comes from natural gas. Hotels demand is sky high. Bacon. 95 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:19,400 Speaker 1: I've talked before about the pig shortage and meat, and 96 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:21,960 Speaker 1: there's all kinds of crazy things going on in the 97 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:24,600 Speaker 1: meat supply chain. Same problem with milk. I mean, you know, 98 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:26,960 Speaker 1: just on I can go on forever every single one 99 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,599 Speaker 1: of these categories. The price here is probably only going 100 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:34,240 Speaker 1: to increase over the next year, maybe even two years, 101 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:37,039 Speaker 1: as the supply chain problems shake out, and there's not 102 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:38,680 Speaker 1: a lot the Biden is. I mean, they could have 103 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:41,320 Speaker 1: done something, you know, maybe a year ago, six months ago. 104 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:43,400 Speaker 1: At this point, they've just showing us that they're not 105 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:45,719 Speaker 1: really going to do anything. This is here to stay 106 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:49,359 Speaker 1: for a long time to come, and that has major ramifications. Yeah, no, 107 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:53,000 Speaker 1: that's right. And the way that they're trying to spin 108 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:55,920 Speaker 1: it and say, well, there are some there's some good 109 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 1: news buried within this report, even though actually the inflation 110 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:03,040 Speaker 1: and increased more than they were expecting, so it was 111 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:05,679 Speaker 1: a worse report than they were expecting. In the stock 112 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:08,360 Speaker 1: market once again dipped because of that, because they're looking 113 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 1: not just at inflation, but they're also reading the tea 114 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:14,839 Speaker 1: leaves of Okay, if inflation remains high, that's going to 115 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:17,839 Speaker 1: force the federal reserves hand in terms of having to 116 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:20,880 Speaker 1: tighten the economy more and potentially, you know, end up 117 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:23,000 Speaker 1: with what they did in the seventies and eighties, which 118 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:25,839 Speaker 1: is forcing the country into recession to try to get 119 00:06:25,839 --> 00:06:28,600 Speaker 1: inflation under control. But so what they're pointing to is 120 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:32,839 Speaker 1: they say, oh, well, core prices, so called core prices 121 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:34,640 Speaker 1: jumped twice as much from March to April as they 122 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:37,599 Speaker 1: did the previous month, but there are signs that supply 123 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:41,040 Speaker 1: chains are improving for some goods. Prices for appliances and 124 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:44,080 Speaker 1: clothing both fell. Cost of used cars dropped. You remember 125 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:46,960 Speaker 1: the used cars sort of like led the charge in terms, 126 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:49,080 Speaker 1: they were one of the sting indicator. Yeah, it was, 127 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:53,320 Speaker 1: It ended up being a leading indicator. But those prices, 128 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:56,400 Speaker 1: you know, for things that are essential to you, for 129 00:06:56,520 --> 00:07:00,279 Speaker 1: food and for rent and for gasoline, continuing to like 130 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:03,080 Speaker 1: at such a rapid pace. I mean that those are 131 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:06,240 Speaker 1: the things that really hit household budgets, and that there's 132 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:10,679 Speaker 1: just obviously no avoiding paying to get to work, paying 133 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:14,320 Speaker 1: to feed yourself and your family, for example. So it's 134 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:17,840 Speaker 1: an extraordinarily difficult situation. And yeah, I was reading one 135 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 1: analysis I thought this was interesting too about the how 136 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:26,080 Speaker 1: this impacts people psychologically as well, because you know, even 137 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:30,160 Speaker 1: in a downturn, when you lose your job, we have 138 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:32,680 Speaker 1: this whole mythology about the bootstraps and know, if you 139 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:35,080 Speaker 1: just work harder and you just put yourself down there, 140 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:38,800 Speaker 1: then you can overcome these circumstances with inflation. There's no 141 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:43,120 Speaker 1: mythology about like, well, this is really somehow your fault everybody. 142 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 1: It feels completely out of your control. There's nothing you 143 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:48,559 Speaker 1: can do other than just like cut corners and cut 144 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:52,000 Speaker 1: back and cut to the bone what you're ultimately spending 145 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:54,920 Speaker 1: for yourself and your family budget. And that sense of 146 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:58,360 Speaker 1: powerless is also, I mean, that's just a really horrible 147 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:00,640 Speaker 1: feeling where you know that there's nothing you can do 148 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:04,080 Speaker 1: to keep up with these rising prices, where you know 149 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:06,200 Speaker 1: that every time you go to the grocery store you're 150 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:07,760 Speaker 1: going to be able to get a little bit less 151 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:09,600 Speaker 1: and a little bit less and a little bit less 152 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 1: with your dollars. So I think that part of it too. 153 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:16,000 Speaker 1: You know, it's it's the reality of the cuts people 154 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:18,480 Speaker 1: are having to make, and also that sense of powerless 155 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:21,520 Speaker 1: that there is there's just nothing in your control that 156 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:23,480 Speaker 1: you can do about this whatsoever. I think that's an 157 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:25,240 Speaker 1: excellent point. You actually was talking about this with some 158 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:27,560 Speaker 1: friends yesterday about how I finally understand some of my 159 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:30,880 Speaker 1: parents quirks about like paying down their mortgage and the 160 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:33,160 Speaker 1: way that they're like relentless. And it's like, well, they 161 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:36,200 Speaker 1: had mortgages that were like nine percent whenever they were 162 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:38,880 Speaker 1: whenever they came to this country. A lot of people 163 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:41,320 Speaker 1: had mortgages which were like twelve percent. I mean, I 164 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:44,200 Speaker 1: can't even conceive of what that looks like. And a 165 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 1: lot of people, you know, even probably older than my parents, 166 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:52,480 Speaker 1: really remember the nineteen seventies and like the chaos of 167 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:57,360 Speaker 1: having to stand in a gas line for eight hours 168 00:08:57,480 --> 00:08:59,280 Speaker 1: or going to the grocery. I mean, at that time, 169 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:02,360 Speaker 1: you know, runaway inflation was a really real thing, and 170 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:04,920 Speaker 1: then you have crazy economy and it just feels like 171 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:07,520 Speaker 1: the whole world is falling apart. I'm starting to understand 172 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:09,360 Speaker 1: how some of this stuff can imprint on you as 173 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:12,400 Speaker 1: a eneration. I'm sure. Honestly, I think you'll probably imprint 174 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:14,320 Speaker 1: on us. I mean, twenty years from now, you're gonna 175 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:15,800 Speaker 1: be like, hey man, you don't know what it was like. Like, 176 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:17,360 Speaker 1: I mean, I can't be the only guy. You go 177 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:19,280 Speaker 1: to the grocery store. You see the same pack of 178 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:22,360 Speaker 1: something you bought like two months ago, and you're like, what, 179 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:25,280 Speaker 1: like this is ten dollars more expensive. Yeah, You're like 180 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:28,959 Speaker 1: this is crazy town, and you know you ring up 181 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:31,600 Speaker 1: and even though you think you're being economical, you're like 182 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:33,719 Speaker 1: it's two hundred and fifty bucks. You know, it's like 183 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:36,400 Speaker 1: what is happening here. This is one of those things 184 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:38,720 Speaker 1: where that is just going to stay with you for 185 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:40,599 Speaker 1: a long time. I mean, I think I try to 186 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:42,520 Speaker 1: think back on the Great Recession and how it kind 187 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:45,120 Speaker 1: of imprinted us and like change our whole politics, maybe 188 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:49,200 Speaker 1: as much as much as the Iraq War. And for me, 189 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:52,480 Speaker 1: it was I lost faith in the entire financial system. 190 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:54,200 Speaker 1: I was like, oh, this thing is fake. I was like, 191 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:56,520 Speaker 1: I don't know exactly why. You know, we can talk 192 00:09:56,559 --> 00:09:59,280 Speaker 1: about mortgage backed securities and like exact right, but I 193 00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:00,720 Speaker 1: just looked at it and then you know the fact 194 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:02,560 Speaker 1: that they got bailed out, and then the fact that 195 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:04,920 Speaker 1: they all got rich but so many people lost their homes. 196 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:07,319 Speaker 1: I just posted a photo yesterday was really just bummed 197 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:08,920 Speaker 1: the hell out of me. And it was a side 198 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:11,880 Speaker 1: by side photo of Detroit in two thousand and nine, 199 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:14,600 Speaker 1: the same house versus the same house in twenty nineteen 200 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:16,400 Speaker 1: and two thousand and nine. There was a kiddie pool 201 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:18,319 Speaker 1: in the front, and there's a guy outside mowing's lawn. 202 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:20,520 Speaker 1: This is like Google mass something. Yeah, twoent nineteen. The 203 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:23,920 Speaker 1: whole thing is overgrown, the garage is trashed, and the 204 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:26,600 Speaker 1: whole street is empty. Yeah, And you're like, oh my god, 205 00:10:26,679 --> 00:10:28,960 Speaker 1: I mean that really is the legacy of that that 206 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:31,400 Speaker 1: imprinted really heavily on me. I think inflation is going 207 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:34,400 Speaker 1: to imprint heavily on all of us, gen Z everybody. Well, 208 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:37,160 Speaker 1: the thing is too that these crises are no longer 209 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:40,920 Speaker 1: coming once a generation. It's like it's speeding up. I mean, 210 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:44,120 Speaker 1: you know, you live through the Iraq War and the crash, 211 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:47,240 Speaker 1: and the and COVID and the COVID crash and now this, 212 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:51,520 Speaker 1: you know, this chaotic economic circumstances that we see right now, 213 00:10:51,559 --> 00:10:54,160 Speaker 1: so it just feels like it's all coming so quickly. 214 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:57,240 Speaker 1: I definitely saw. My dad is older and so he 215 00:10:57,400 --> 00:11:00,760 Speaker 1: was born during the Great Depression in West Virginia, you know, 216 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:04,240 Speaker 1: grew up in in pop complete poverty, I mean, lived 217 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:07,080 Speaker 1: in like a one room shandy that his dad built. 218 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:12,000 Speaker 1: And you definitely see the way that that frugality stayed 219 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:15,959 Speaker 1: with him his entire life, you know, continues with him 220 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:18,559 Speaker 1: today where he can tell you, like he's the classic 221 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:20,600 Speaker 1: guy who had the same coat that he bought in 222 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:24,240 Speaker 1: the seventies that you know he's wrapped in duct tape 223 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:26,400 Speaker 1: and can tell you exactly what it cost when he 224 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:28,959 Speaker 1: bought it. In nineteen seventy three, like that's my dad. 225 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:33,080 Speaker 1: So there's no doubt that these things have massive generational impacts. 226 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:35,480 Speaker 1: And you also see right now we talk to some 227 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:40,600 Speaker 1: about the crypto crash and that stable coin that we 228 00:11:40,679 --> 00:11:43,680 Speaker 1: talked about before. Yeah, it's I mean, it's it's a 229 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:46,000 Speaker 1: complete disaster. Was down to like fifty cents. This thing 230 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:48,200 Speaker 1: is supposed to be pegged at a dollar. And now 231 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:50,600 Speaker 1: you have people who sort of put their faith in 232 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:54,319 Speaker 1: crypto and put their faith in the stable coin in particular, 233 00:11:54,559 --> 00:11:58,520 Speaker 1: they're posting on Reddit like suicide hotlines. They've lost everything, 234 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:01,600 Speaker 1: and so yeah, is that going to stay with people 235 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:04,000 Speaker 1: for their entire life? Is that going to not just 236 00:12:04,040 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 1: psychologically but just from a literal like what do your 237 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:09,960 Speaker 1: life chances and choices and what does it look like 238 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:13,240 Speaker 1: for you from here on out? Yeah, that's that's going 239 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:15,920 Speaker 1: to be with people and set their trajectory for their 240 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:20,320 Speaker 1: entire lives. So those are you know, it's it's a 241 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:23,040 Speaker 1: very dire time. And I think when we and this 242 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:25,400 Speaker 1: is a good way to transition to the politics piece 243 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:29,000 Speaker 1: of this. When you look at the numbers among young 244 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:31,599 Speaker 1: people and how they feel about Joe Biden and the 245 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:36,040 Speaker 1: Democratic Party and how in just a year's time frame 246 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:40,559 Speaker 1: it has fallen off a cliff. This is pretty extraordinary, 247 00:12:40,679 --> 00:12:43,000 Speaker 1: and I think it has a lot to do with 248 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:47,640 Speaker 1: the sense of broken promises number one, the sense that 249 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:50,520 Speaker 1: you know, they he came in, I'm going to be 250 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:52,840 Speaker 1: FDR and I'm going to do all these things, and 251 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:55,520 Speaker 1: then one by one, all of these things which were 252 00:12:55,720 --> 00:12:58,480 Speaker 1: popular and important and would help people get through these 253 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:01,600 Speaker 1: difficult times get so of like ceremonially shot in the 254 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:04,560 Speaker 1: head week after week. And so now you have a 255 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:09,280 Speaker 1: situation where, coming in, young demographics were the strongest supporter 256 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:12,560 Speaker 1: of Joe Biden, and now it's completely reversed. Actually, the 257 00:13:12,679 --> 00:13:16,440 Speaker 1: older older you are, the more likely you are to say, 258 00:13:16,640 --> 00:13:18,880 Speaker 1: have a favorable opinion of Joe Biden. At this point, 259 00:13:19,160 --> 00:13:23,199 Speaker 1: young people are despairing of how this administration has ultimately 260 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:24,840 Speaker 1: gone for them. Now that doesn't mean they like the 261 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:27,319 Speaker 1: Republicans are going to vote for them, but are they 262 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:31,480 Speaker 1: completely disenchanted with what the Democratic Party, led by Joe 263 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:34,840 Speaker 1: Biden has done for them. Absolutely. So. The Democrats have 264 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:38,440 Speaker 1: apparently finally realized that inflation is a major issue and 265 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:41,240 Speaker 1: that this is hitting people. Giving them a pay cut 266 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:43,960 Speaker 1: every single week. Biden gave what was billed as a 267 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:46,920 Speaker 1: sort of major address on Tuesday to try to reset 268 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:50,200 Speaker 1: the narrative around inflation and lay out what he thinks 269 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:52,520 Speaker 1: is going on and what his plans are versus what 270 00:13:52,559 --> 00:13:54,439 Speaker 1: the Republican plans are. Let's take a listen to a 271 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:56,960 Speaker 1: little bit of that. I know the families all across 272 00:13:56,960 --> 00:14:00,920 Speaker 1: Fromerica are hurting because of inflation. I understand what it 273 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:04,200 Speaker 1: feels like. I come from a family where the when 274 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:06,520 Speaker 1: the price of gas and food went up, we felt 275 00:14:06,559 --> 00:14:09,680 Speaker 1: it was a discussion of the kitchen table. I went, 276 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:13,200 Speaker 1: I want every America to know that I'm taking inflation 277 00:14:14,679 --> 00:14:18,960 Speaker 1: very seriously and it's my top domestic priority. Let me start. 278 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:23,720 Speaker 1: Let me start with the putin price hike, high gas 279 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:28,120 Speaker 1: prices and energy prices. My plan is already in motion. 280 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:31,760 Speaker 1: I led the world and other countries to be join 281 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:35,480 Speaker 1: with us to coordinate the largest release of oil from 282 00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:39,360 Speaker 1: our stockpiles of all the countries in history, two hundred 283 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:43,600 Speaker 1: and forty million barrels. My plan is the lower employer, 284 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:46,800 Speaker 1: lower every day it costs for everyday costs for hard 285 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:50,480 Speaker 1: work in Americans, and lower the deficit by asking large 286 00:14:50,520 --> 00:14:56,640 Speaker 1: corporations The other path is the ultra Maga plan put 287 00:14:56,720 --> 00:15:02,440 Speaker 1: forward by Congressional Republicans to raise working families, lower the 288 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:07,760 Speaker 1: income of American workers, threaten sacred programs Americas count on 289 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:12,480 Speaker 1: like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, and give break after 290 00:15:12,560 --> 00:15:16,920 Speaker 1: break to big corporations and billionaires, just like they did 291 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:19,920 Speaker 1: the last time they were in power. Well, if there's 292 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:22,000 Speaker 1: one thing the Democrats are good at soccer, it's coming 293 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:25,280 Speaker 1: up with a cringe tag. Bluten price hike is genuinely 294 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:28,240 Speaker 1: one of the most cringe things I've ever heard in 295 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:31,040 Speaker 1: my entire Worldra Maga also pretty bad. Yeah, what does 296 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:34,160 Speaker 1: ultra maga mean? That's the thing is, like, if you're 297 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:37,240 Speaker 1: it doesn't mean. That's the thing is if you're going 298 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:39,280 Speaker 1: to have a slogan or tagline like this that you're 299 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:40,680 Speaker 1: going to lean into. And by the way, some of 300 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:43,360 Speaker 1: the reportings suggest that this came from Bill Clinton's at 301 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:46,800 Speaker 1: old mind, because they met last week and it sort 302 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:49,160 Speaker 1: of is along the lines of the type of political 303 00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:52,440 Speaker 1: strategies that he engages. I guess that's the speculation about this. 304 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:57,000 Speaker 1: But yeah, for your average person, it doesn't land. It 305 00:15:57,040 --> 00:16:00,920 Speaker 1: doesn't mean anything. Really, They're just like okay, and I 306 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:03,200 Speaker 1: mean he's right. The Republican plan laid out by Rick 307 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:07,040 Speaker 1: Scott totally sucks. It would be wildly unpopular. It does 308 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:10,440 Speaker 1: entail a tax hike for you know, millions of Americans. 309 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:13,240 Speaker 1: It also has this bizarre provision of like we're going 310 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:17,240 Speaker 1: to sunset every single social welfare for every program every 311 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 1: five years, so that we have to go and re 312 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:22,480 Speaker 1: up Medicare, reup Medicaid, re up Social Security, and of 313 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:24,360 Speaker 1: course they're going to like extract their pound of flight. 314 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:27,760 Speaker 1: He's right about all of this, but this is hardly 315 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:33,800 Speaker 1: a confidence inspiring speech. He only barely called out the 316 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:36,040 Speaker 1: corporate price gouging that's going on. We'll get to a 317 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:40,160 Speaker 1: little bit more of that. And you know, he's laid 318 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:44,440 Speaker 1: out stuff that they already did tapping the strategic patrol umbers. Okay, well, 319 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:46,200 Speaker 1: how much did that do for us? Not a whole 320 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:48,400 Speaker 1: heck of a lot. And what he lays out going 321 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:53,080 Speaker 1: forward is also really sort of milk toast, and most 322 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:55,440 Speaker 1: of it doesn't have any chance of succeeding in the 323 00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:58,880 Speaker 1: Senate as is currently constituted. So he has no plan zero. 324 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 1: And at this point, I don't don't think we should 325 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:03,680 Speaker 1: have any trust in the President's ability in order to 326 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:06,480 Speaker 1: do anything about it. And the other point is, I 327 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:10,960 Speaker 1: don't really understand what universe these people live in. But 328 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:13,879 Speaker 1: you and I both caught this article yesterday. Let's put 329 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:17,520 Speaker 1: this up there on the screen about how Representative Katie Porter, 330 00:17:17,560 --> 00:17:21,199 Speaker 1: who I actually like, has some great times sometimes some 331 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:24,879 Speaker 1: of these CEOs in Congress, you know, she says, only 332 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:28,359 Speaker 1: after Representative Katie Porter put bacon in her cart at 333 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:31,320 Speaker 1: the local grocery store did she notice that its price 334 00:17:31,359 --> 00:17:34,280 Speaker 1: had spiked to nine to ninety nine pound. Reluctantly she 335 00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:37,200 Speaker 1: put the package back. It was a dose of reality 336 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:40,119 Speaker 1: that Porter, and a single mom of three, has long understood. 337 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:43,399 Speaker 1: But she's not all sure her Democratic colleague share her interests, 338 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:47,000 Speaker 1: and so she said, only after she gave an emotional 339 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:51,840 Speaker 1: speech like last week to the House Democratic Caucus, did 340 00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:56,200 Speaker 1: maybe Congress began to understand. And here's the thing, as 341 00:17:56,320 --> 00:17:58,520 Speaker 1: many people pointed out, do you know how to read 342 00:17:58,560 --> 00:18:02,280 Speaker 1: a poll? This has been the top issue for a year. 343 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:06,000 Speaker 1: It's basic. I mean, how much of a bubble are 344 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:09,200 Speaker 1: these people living in that they could not understand that 345 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:13,320 Speaker 1: stuff is way too expensive all across the board, causing 346 00:18:13,440 --> 00:18:18,760 Speaker 1: chaos in people's lives, from gas to food, to housing, electricity, 347 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:21,919 Speaker 1: all everything that you have to buy these days is 348 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:25,959 Speaker 1: too expensive. This has been self evident for eighteen months 349 00:18:26,119 --> 00:18:29,879 Speaker 1: and really especially in the last year. What planet are 350 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:31,960 Speaker 1: you living on? That's what it feels like to me, 351 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:34,119 Speaker 1: is like Biden's The theme of Biden's speech in The 352 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:36,680 Speaker 1: Southern New York Times wrote it up was Biden urges 353 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:39,880 Speaker 1: Americans to have patients. No, dude, you run the country. 354 00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:42,919 Speaker 1: You people literally run it. What are you gonna do 355 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:46,400 Speaker 1: for me? Why should I have any trust? And especially 356 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:50,520 Speaker 1: what it took one lady buying some bacon in May 357 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:54,200 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two for you guys to wake up what's 358 00:18:54,240 --> 00:18:56,399 Speaker 1: happening here? Well? This story that was, I mean, that 359 00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:59,800 Speaker 1: was crazy, right, Like, I mean, we've been talking about 360 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:04,719 Speaker 1: inflation for a long time now. I genuinely don't understand 361 00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:08,080 Speaker 1: how you could have missed this dynamic. And then one 362 00:19:08,119 --> 00:19:12,040 Speaker 1: of purportedly, according to Katie Porter, one of her colleagues, 363 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:14,080 Speaker 1: said to her, well, it's not showing up in the polls, 364 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:18,280 Speaker 1: Like what, that's not even what are you saying? For 365 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:21,520 Speaker 1: how long? That inflation is their number one issues? So 366 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:24,600 Speaker 1: the whole thing is bizarre. I mean, Katie Porter. Obviously, 367 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:26,800 Speaker 1: she earns a congressional stars one hundred and seventy four 368 00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:29,280 Speaker 1: thousand dollars, which is a lot of money, way more 369 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:32,400 Speaker 1: than what your average American earns. But in fairness to her, 370 00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:36,480 Speaker 1: she has to maintain residents in two very expensive locations, 371 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:39,640 Speaker 1: and she's a single mom with three kids. So it 372 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:42,080 Speaker 1: rings true to me that she has to pay a 373 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:45,760 Speaker 1: lot more attention to her budget than most members of Contoy, 374 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:49,800 Speaker 1: who are right, who are you know, multimillionaires, Most of 375 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:53,080 Speaker 1: her colleagues, this is completely they can afford to be 376 00:19:53,119 --> 00:19:56,080 Speaker 1: completely oblivious to whatever the prices of whatever they're buying 377 00:19:56,119 --> 00:19:57,800 Speaker 1: at the grocery store and whatever the cost of the 378 00:19:57,800 --> 00:19:59,919 Speaker 1: pump ultimately is. So it does strike me as tr 379 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:01,720 Speaker 1: true that she would be one of the ones who 380 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:04,560 Speaker 1: would actually have to pay attention to like, oh my god, 381 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:06,879 Speaker 1: this pack of bacon is now ten dollars. This is 382 00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:09,359 Speaker 1: not going to work out for me. But the fact 383 00:20:09,359 --> 00:20:12,720 Speaker 1: that I just I can't even believe that it's taken 384 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:16,840 Speaker 1: till now for them to really register what a massive 385 00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:20,760 Speaker 1: problem and total crisis this is for Americans. But we've 386 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:23,000 Speaker 1: seen it in the rhetoric. I mean, for how long 387 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:25,800 Speaker 1: have we seen them trying to spend the economy and 388 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:29,080 Speaker 1: basically say, like, you don't really understand how good the 389 00:20:29,119 --> 00:20:33,280 Speaker 1: economy actually is. Right now, the negative numbers are almost 390 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:36,440 Speaker 1: as high on how people feel about the economy as 391 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:38,280 Speaker 1: they were during the Great Recession. I mean, that's how 392 00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:40,679 Speaker 1: direr things are for the American people right now and 393 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:44,440 Speaker 1: how much they're feeling the squeeze of every single month 394 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:47,200 Speaker 1: their paycheck goes down and down and down in real 395 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:50,879 Speaker 1: terms as a result of inflation. So they were trying 396 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:53,919 Speaker 1: to paint it as like the media is not covering 397 00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:57,320 Speaker 1: properly how good the economy actually is. And look at 398 00:20:57,359 --> 00:21:00,520 Speaker 1: how low on the unemployment is. But if you have 399 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:03,440 Speaker 1: a job but you can't pay your bills, like that's 400 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:07,040 Speaker 1: still a really bad economy. That's still a dire situation 401 00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:09,320 Speaker 1: for you. Thank you. This is the stuff that drives me. 402 00:21:09,359 --> 00:21:11,119 Speaker 1: They're like, did you not know that your paychecking up? 403 00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:13,600 Speaker 1: But it's like, dude, I can't afford the stuff I 404 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:16,480 Speaker 1: used to buy. It's simple, that's it. Yeah, I mean 405 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:19,800 Speaker 1: that is how people think about the economy, and honestly, 406 00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:22,760 Speaker 1: that's how they should think about the economy. Nobody cares 407 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:25,879 Speaker 1: about nominal GDP and GDP per capita when the stuff 408 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:28,840 Speaker 1: that you'd experience in your daily life is more expensive 409 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:31,040 Speaker 1: and there's no plan in order to bring it down. 410 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:33,440 Speaker 1: And you know, Americans are really unanimous right now in 411 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:35,680 Speaker 1: terms of inflation causing a problem, but they don't really 412 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:37,600 Speaker 1: agree on what's causing it, which I think is really 413 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:40,560 Speaker 1: interesting if you look at how the breakdown is. So here, 414 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:42,200 Speaker 1: this is from the New York Times, in terms of 415 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:45,520 Speaker 1: their polling. Now, a lot of people, about forty five 416 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:48,080 Speaker 1: percent blame the COVID nineteen pandemic, and I think that's 417 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:50,280 Speaker 1: very fair, So a lot and a little forty five 418 00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:53,200 Speaker 1: plus thirty eight, so about eighty six percent of people now. 419 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:56,920 Speaker 1: Supply chain disruption is again almost universally agreed upon as 420 00:21:57,040 --> 00:21:59,680 Speaker 1: a lot or a little in terms of blaming inflation. 421 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:02,719 Speaker 1: But things begin to break down a little bit, so 422 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:06,800 Speaker 1: people forty percent of people blame corporations a lot, thirty 423 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:10,360 Speaker 1: eight percent a little, so again generally unanimous, but then 424 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:14,200 Speaker 1: things start to get real split whenever it comes to policy, Crystal, 425 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:17,399 Speaker 1: the American Rescue Plan is thirty percent. A lot of 426 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:20,560 Speaker 1: people blame, probably mostly Republicans thirty seven percent say a little, 427 00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:22,840 Speaker 1: thirty percent say not at all. And then the war 428 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:26,879 Speaker 1: in Ukraine is also very very split the prutent pricepect 429 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:29,040 Speaker 1: And so I was just gonna say, which one is 430 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:32,959 Speaker 1: the administration going with crystal? Which of those are they 431 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:35,680 Speaker 1: blaming inflation on the most the one that the least 432 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:38,399 Speaker 1: amount of people agree with. And by the way, this 433 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:41,880 Speaker 1: is what I love about America. They our people are 434 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:44,280 Speaker 1: not stupid. Like they look at that and they're like, 435 00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:46,960 Speaker 1: I don't believe you, and you shouldn't. They're like, stuff 436 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:50,439 Speaker 1: has been way more expensive before Russia invaded Ukraine. Don't 437 00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:53,000 Speaker 1: gaslight me. Yeah. Most people are like, yeah, I think 438 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:55,159 Speaker 1: it's COVID and I think it's supply. Now. Look, we 439 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:58,639 Speaker 1: can all disagree on why exactly that is, but you know, 440 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:01,879 Speaker 1: some eighty to ninety per of Americans are not dumb. 441 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,679 Speaker 1: They're like, yeah, there's a supply problem. There's all this 442 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:07,080 Speaker 1: crazy stuff going on with China, and also the pandemic 443 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:09,639 Speaker 1: is kind of crazy, you know. And of course the 444 00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:12,600 Speaker 1: administration goes with the war in Ukraine. Yeah, to blame 445 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:15,880 Speaker 1: this stuff, it's not because that puts it totally, that's all. 446 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:20,600 Speaker 1: And even that though, is disingenuous because obviously we are 447 00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:23,480 Speaker 1: very involved and we're going to talk in the next 448 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:25,879 Speaker 1: block about this more, but we are very involved in 449 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:28,840 Speaker 1: what's going on in Ukraine, and this administration has set 450 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:31,200 Speaker 1: a policy of we don't actually want the war to end, 451 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:34,040 Speaker 1: we want the war to continue with you know, dire 452 00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:38,320 Speaker 1: consequences for Ukraine and Ukrainian lives, and also dire consequences 453 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:42,199 Speaker 1: for Americans and what they are ultimately paying at the 454 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:45,080 Speaker 1: pump and paying, you know, in terms of food prices. 455 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:48,160 Speaker 1: But to your point, the reason people are not going 456 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:50,520 Speaker 1: with that explanation, I mean, I think they buy like, okay, 457 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:52,800 Speaker 1: that has something to do with what's going on right now. 458 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:55,800 Speaker 1: But obviously inflation was going up before the war started, 459 00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:59,400 Speaker 1: so we're like, we didn't forget it's still a three 460 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:03,679 Speaker 1: fifty gallon, right the Putin price hike. But that's I mean, 461 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:06,480 Speaker 1: that's their way of being like, not on us, It's 462 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:10,160 Speaker 1: it's Russia's fault. It's Putin's fault, as is apparently everything 463 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:13,520 Speaker 1: that happens in this country bad ever to Democrats, and 464 00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:17,280 Speaker 1: you know, Stolar has really been laser focused on how 465 00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:20,440 Speaker 1: much of this has to do also with corporations who 466 00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:23,639 Speaker 1: have monopoly power looking at this landscape and saying, Aha, 467 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:26,600 Speaker 1: we can use this as an excuse to further raised prices. 468 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:29,720 Speaker 1: And here's some more numbers to back that up. He says, 469 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:32,480 Speaker 1: this is a very weird inflationary period with an unusually 470 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:36,280 Speaker 1: large share going to profits and an unusually small share 471 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:41,680 Speaker 1: going to wages. So this is yet another indication. They 472 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:45,320 Speaker 1: have fifty four percent of normal and recent contributions to 473 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:48,439 Speaker 1: growth and unit prices in the non financial corporate sector, 474 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:51,560 Speaker 1: fifty four percent of that is going to corporate profits 475 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:57,520 Speaker 1: and only eight percent is going to labor. So overwhelmingly 476 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:01,879 Speaker 1: the increase in prices and costs is not coming from 477 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:03,200 Speaker 1: you know, a lot of times you hear this from 478 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:05,400 Speaker 1: right like, oh, wages are going up, and that means 479 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:07,479 Speaker 1: that everything's going to be more expensive. No, that's that 480 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:10,000 Speaker 1: is not what's going on here. Whatsoever, Wages have gone 481 00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:12,440 Speaker 1: up a little bit, not even close to enough to 482 00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:16,240 Speaker 1: keep up with inflation. Meanwhile, corporate profits are skyrocketing. And 483 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:20,040 Speaker 1: no surprise given that, we've heard CEO saying basically like 484 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:22,200 Speaker 1: this is a great time for us because we can 485 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:24,399 Speaker 1: lift prices and consumers just have to take it, and 486 00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:26,720 Speaker 1: they will take it because they understand that inflation is 487 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:29,960 Speaker 1: happening right now. So again it was frustrating to me 488 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:33,399 Speaker 1: because that is, of everything that's going on in the 489 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:37,000 Speaker 1: world and contributing to inflation, that corporate price gouging part 490 00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:38,919 Speaker 1: is actually the part that the White House could do 491 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:42,000 Speaker 1: the most about, and so the fact that they, you know, 492 00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:44,040 Speaker 1: we had like one line about it. He said that 493 00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:47,680 Speaker 1: the two major causes are COVID supply chain and Putin's 494 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:50,159 Speaker 1: price hike. Buried in the speech is like, oh, and 495 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:52,520 Speaker 1: by the way, corporations are lifting their prices too much. 496 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:55,840 Speaker 1: But that's the piece you should actually be really focusing 497 00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:59,600 Speaker 1: on because number one, it's clearly a significant contributor here 498 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:02,040 Speaker 1: in numbers too. It's something that the administration could do 499 00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:04,520 Speaker 1: a lot more about than say, you know, whether or 500 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:06,920 Speaker 1: not Shanghai is lockdown right now. I you know, I 501 00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:10,960 Speaker 1: feel like I am just repeating myself over and over again. 502 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,000 Speaker 1: But you know, I was talking with some friends yesterday, 503 00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:17,040 Speaker 1: like the Biden administration should declare a national emergency over 504 00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:21,480 Speaker 1: the baby formula shortage right now, invoke the Defense Production Act, 505 00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:25,399 Speaker 1: talk to the FDA and say, hey, what's the problem. Okay, 506 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:28,600 Speaker 1: Abbot pharmacy or abbit foods isn't producing enough. What can 507 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:31,240 Speaker 1: we do? Oh, Europe has a ton of baby formula, 508 00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:33,800 Speaker 1: Let's go buy some. I mean, this is one of 509 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:37,480 Speaker 1: those most basic functions of government. These are little little kids, 510 00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:41,480 Speaker 1: and then expand that across all of the entire economy. 511 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:43,720 Speaker 1: The meat packing thing. You I was talking about this 512 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:47,040 Speaker 1: with friends yesterday. What happened to that investigation? They ordered 513 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:49,359 Speaker 1: some investigation to the meat packing supply chain. That was 514 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:52,080 Speaker 1: six seven months ago, So what's happening? I mean, meat 515 00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:55,000 Speaker 1: is still really expensive all kinds, and these are the 516 00:26:55,119 --> 00:26:57,080 Speaker 1: you know, tip of the spear types of things that 517 00:26:57,119 --> 00:26:59,119 Speaker 1: you could do to affect the economy. But you know, 518 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:01,760 Speaker 1: they're focused on other things right now. By the way 519 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:04,400 Speaker 1: we learned on the baby formula and shortage, I might 520 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:06,439 Speaker 1: do my Monday lacologue on this because this is just 521 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:11,040 Speaker 1: so enraging but also so perfect part of what happened 522 00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:14,640 Speaker 1: and why there is such a disastrous shortage right now 523 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:17,480 Speaker 1: and why moms and babies are I mean, this is 524 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:19,760 Speaker 1: it's just it's horrible. I can't imagine being in that 525 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:21,959 Speaker 1: situation where you don't know where you're going to get 526 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:27,680 Speaker 1: your babies next. Meta horrible, horrible. Abbott had to recall 527 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:30,960 Speaker 1: all of their formula, or significant amount of their formula 528 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:35,040 Speaker 1: because you had four babies who had a bacterial infection, 529 00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:39,560 Speaker 1: two of whom died. And now we're learning that apparently 530 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:45,680 Speaker 1: they had refused to repair dilapidated drying machines and that 531 00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:50,280 Speaker 1: made their plants into potential petri dishes for these bacterial infections. 532 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:52,800 Speaker 1: At the same time, Sagara, though they didn't want to 533 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:55,160 Speaker 1: take the money to use to invest in actually making 534 00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:58,520 Speaker 1: sure that babies are safe. Instead, they did invest five 535 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:00,520 Speaker 1: point sevent three billion dollars in stuff. I was gonna say, 536 00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:03,760 Speaker 1: she's about to say stock by that by that every time. Perfect. 537 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:05,280 Speaker 1: You know, this is a good example. Though, this is 538 00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:09,119 Speaker 1: about monopolization, which is that Abbott has a direct contract 539 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:12,080 Speaker 1: with WIC the Wick programs we talked about earlier. We 540 00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:14,840 Speaker 1: need more competition in this sector. And I now know 541 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:17,239 Speaker 1: much more about baby formula than I ever did in 542 00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:19,240 Speaker 1: my life. But you know, I was telling you there's 543 00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:22,439 Speaker 1: a wealthy black market for European baby formula. A lot 544 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:25,120 Speaker 1: of instagram moms are obsessed with European baby formula because 545 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,720 Speaker 1: it doesn't have plant based additives like ours and has 546 00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:29,600 Speaker 1: more whatever. We don't have to get into all of 547 00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:32,000 Speaker 1: the science on it. But the point is is that 548 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:36,480 Speaker 1: there's already an existing market here for European baby formula. Now, look, 549 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:38,800 Speaker 1: I'm a protectionist at heart, but if we don't have 550 00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:40,920 Speaker 1: it and we have a crisis, let's go get some. 551 00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:43,719 Speaker 1: I mean, these are not hard things to do. I 552 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:46,480 Speaker 1: was also reading that there are certain facilities and others 553 00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:49,200 Speaker 1: that we could easily convert if Biden invoked the Defense 554 00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:52,440 Speaker 1: Production Act in order to spin up baby formula production instead, 555 00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:55,840 Speaker 1: you know, thumb up, you know what over at the 556 00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:59,520 Speaker 1: administration doing absolutely nothing, and I got you know, I 557 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:02,400 Speaker 1: got two friends actually right now have newborn infants, and 558 00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:05,240 Speaker 1: both of them texting me about how much one of 559 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:07,680 Speaker 1: them is a prepper. Actually, so he foresaw this crisis. 560 00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:09,720 Speaker 1: And he's got like three months. But he's like, listen, man, 561 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:10,960 Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm gonna do after three months, 562 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:13,480 Speaker 1: because I really hope that, you know, there's not still surety. 563 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:15,680 Speaker 1: His wife is freaking out talking to him about it. 564 00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:17,760 Speaker 1: I don't want to be in this. I can't imagine me. Yeah, 565 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:20,920 Speaker 1: I was reading about mom so babies who have allergies 566 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:23,920 Speaker 1: are particularly like if it's one thing. I mean, this 567 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,760 Speaker 1: is bad for everybody, and there are states where there's 568 00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:28,719 Speaker 1: as much as fifty percent out of stock. I mean, 569 00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:31,520 Speaker 1: if you go on Amazon, for example, you can't possibly 570 00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:33,840 Speaker 1: buy it. But if you need a specific kind of 571 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:37,120 Speaker 1: formula for your baby in particular, it is a really 572 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:40,360 Speaker 1: really bad situation. Of course, it's even worse if you 573 00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:42,760 Speaker 1: are low income and it's hard for you to afford 574 00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:46,280 Speaker 1: to start with, and then prices are skyrocketing. So I mean, 575 00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:50,840 Speaker 1: I can't imagine a more clear cut instance of we have. 576 00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:54,640 Speaker 1: This is a complete crisis. We have to do something 577 00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:56,960 Speaker 1: about it now, Like if that isn't a clear cut 578 00:29:57,080 --> 00:30:01,160 Speaker 1: case for whatever it takes, like go and buy the 579 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:03,560 Speaker 1: baby formula, you're bring it here, given on for Free 580 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:06,880 Speaker 1: Defense Production Act, whatever you ultimately have to do. And 581 00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:08,959 Speaker 1: the last thing I'll say about all of this is, 582 00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:12,320 Speaker 1: you know, the whole promise of this particular system of 583 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:15,239 Speaker 1: sort of like radical free market capitalism that we have 584 00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:18,080 Speaker 1: is that listen, Yes, corporations are going to get rich. 585 00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:20,240 Speaker 1: Yes your jobs are going to get stipped overseas, that's 586 00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:22,480 Speaker 1: all true, but your prices are going to be low, 587 00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:24,560 Speaker 1: and you're never going to have to worry about like 588 00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:28,080 Speaker 1: the you know, food crises that they have in communist countries. 589 00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:30,840 Speaker 1: That's not going to happen here. Well, guess what, you 590 00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:34,720 Speaker 1: got the job shipped overseas and you still had prices increase. 591 00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:37,680 Speaker 1: You're still paying too much. So none of the promises 592 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:40,360 Speaker 1: of this system, the way that it was architected, have 593 00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:42,800 Speaker 1: ultimately come true. And you know, I think that's a 594 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:45,479 Speaker 1: big learning to take from all of this as we 595 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:47,600 Speaker 1: move forward. Huge learning. And you know, I was reading 596 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:50,640 Speaker 1: yesterday about these little these moms on Facebook groups who 597 00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:52,920 Speaker 1: are having to like swap breast milk, and I'm like, 598 00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:57,320 Speaker 1: I that is some failed state like nineteen fifteen, completely 599 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:01,160 Speaker 1: completely even imagine it. Okay, let's move on because it's 600 00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:04,840 Speaker 1: somewhat pertains to the baby formulating crisis. This is about Ukraine. 601 00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:07,240 Speaker 1: So let's put this up there on the screen. So 602 00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:10,560 Speaker 1: this is the only article I could find where it 603 00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:13,520 Speaker 1: talked about the US House passes forty billion dollars, which 604 00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:18,640 Speaker 1: actually listed crystal what that actual aid does. Everybody just 605 00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:21,479 Speaker 1: says forty billion, Okay, that's a lot of money, What 606 00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:25,200 Speaker 1: kind of weapons? What is earmarked? Exactly which billion is 607 00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:27,440 Speaker 1: going where? So here's what they wrote, and I guess 608 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:29,960 Speaker 1: boa is American Propaganda's what kind of makes sense? The 609 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:36,120 Speaker 1: package includes six billion first security assistance including training, equipment, weapons, 610 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:40,280 Speaker 1: and support, eight point seven billion to replenish stocks of 611 00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:44,280 Speaker 1: existing US equipment sent to Ukraine. Think javelin missiles, those 612 00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:47,880 Speaker 1: type of things. Then three point nine billion for European 613 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:50,720 Speaker 1: Command operations. I don't know what that means. In addition, 614 00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:54,520 Speaker 1: the legislation authorizes a further eleven billion dollars in Presidential 615 00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:58,320 Speaker 1: draw down Authority, which allows the President to authorize the 616 00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:03,200 Speaker 1: transfer of articles and services from US stocks without congressional 617 00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:07,920 Speaker 1: approval in response to an emergency. Biden had only asked 618 00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:11,400 Speaker 1: for five billion, so let that sink in. The President said, 619 00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:15,840 Speaker 1: I only need five billion in discretionary authority to send 620 00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:18,800 Speaker 1: whatever the hell I want from US military stocks to Ukraine. 621 00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:21,080 Speaker 1: Congress was like, yeah, yeah, but what if we double 622 00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:24,000 Speaker 1: that and then added in an extra billion? So why 623 00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:27,160 Speaker 1: don't you give me eleven billion for you to send 624 00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:32,080 Speaker 1: again without congressional approval whatever you want. Why does this matter? 625 00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:35,920 Speaker 1: Because the administration and the President in particular now has 626 00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:39,320 Speaker 1: the capacity and the congressional authority. If this bill is 627 00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:43,479 Speaker 1: ratified by the Senate in order to send offensive style 628 00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:46,240 Speaker 1: weapons to Ukraine. Now, look, he already has a limited 629 00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:48,880 Speaker 1: ability in order to do that, but Congress has now 630 00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:53,040 Speaker 1: given him eleven billion dollars worth of military equipment, think 631 00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:56,440 Speaker 1: everything that we have if he so chooses to do so, 632 00:32:56,880 --> 00:33:00,600 Speaker 1: And now he is the sole discretionary authority for what 633 00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:03,960 Speaker 1: exactly gets sent over there, and not in regards to 634 00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:06,880 Speaker 1: this particular pool of funds. You cool with that. You 635 00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:08,560 Speaker 1: want to put all that power in the man, in 636 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:10,280 Speaker 1: the hands of a single man. It's not like the 637 00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:13,840 Speaker 1: president doesn't have enough power. Now, I'll continue four billion 638 00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:17,160 Speaker 1: dollars in foreign military financing to provide support for Ukraine 639 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:20,160 Speaker 1: affected by the crisis. So in e fact, we're backstopping 640 00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:22,000 Speaker 1: some of the loans and other things that they've taken out. 641 00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:24,800 Speaker 1: And then in addition, the US is rushed three point 642 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:28,440 Speaker 1: five billion dollars worth of armaments to Ukraine since Urcane invaded, 643 00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:33,640 Speaker 1: including Howitzer's anti aircraft singer systems, anti tank javelin systems, ammunition, 644 00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:37,400 Speaker 1: and recently disclosed ghost drones. Again, not a lot of 645 00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:40,680 Speaker 1: clarity on what exactly those ghost drones are doing. Now, 646 00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:43,280 Speaker 1: how exactly did the vote on this breakdown. Let's put 647 00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:45,760 Speaker 1: this up there on the screen. Well, it went three 648 00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:49,400 Speaker 1: hundred and sixty eight to fifty seven. Now, every single 649 00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:53,080 Speaker 1: no vote on that bill, Crystal were Republicans. And I 650 00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:57,520 Speaker 1: think it really bears noting that not only did not 651 00:33:57,560 --> 00:34:01,040 Speaker 1: a single Democrat dissent from this, but there was no 652 00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:05,080 Speaker 1: explanation given to the American people as to why the 653 00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,719 Speaker 1: administration asks for thirty three billion dollars to Ukraine and 654 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:11,280 Speaker 1: Congress is like, yeah, but we'll give you forty Why 655 00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:14,440 Speaker 1: who is this money going to? Who exactly is the 656 00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:18,520 Speaker 1: beneficiary of this extra We'll get to that. They get 657 00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:21,480 Speaker 1: They're all here where in the Beltway, all the defense 658 00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:25,040 Speaker 1: contractors that got massively wealthy during the Afghanistan warren during 659 00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:27,600 Speaker 1: every other conflict. We need to ask these questions. And look, 660 00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:29,400 Speaker 1: I'm not going to say all these fifty seven Republicans 661 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:31,040 Speaker 1: were noble. We have a nit list, we can put 662 00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:32,640 Speaker 1: it up there on the screen. I think a lot 663 00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:35,800 Speaker 1: of them did so for deficit reasons, but hey, whatever, 664 00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:39,080 Speaker 1: I will say. I actually thought, and it pains me 665 00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:41,880 Speaker 1: to say this, that one of the better responses on 666 00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:44,600 Speaker 1: this was actually Marjorie Taylor Green. So let's put this 667 00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:47,120 Speaker 1: up there. Here's what she had to say. Let's go 668 00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:49,440 Speaker 1: to the next one there, guys, which is that she 669 00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:52,200 Speaker 1: says in America last, and you know, forgive her rhetoric. 670 00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:56,120 Speaker 1: Forty billion dollar Ukraine first bill we are voting on tonight. 671 00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:58,320 Speaker 1: There is an authorization for funds to be given to 672 00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:00,240 Speaker 1: the CIA for who knows what and for who knows 673 00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:03,480 Speaker 1: how much, But there is no baby formula for American mothers. Now, 674 00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:06,560 Speaker 1: look before the inevitable trolls come out. Of course, it 675 00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:09,279 Speaker 1: is not a one to one situation. But to me, 676 00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:15,120 Speaker 1: it's about what gets default bipartisan overwhelming support and billions 677 00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:18,320 Speaker 1: of dollars of funds with no questions asked, no public debate, 678 00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:22,080 Speaker 1: et cetera, and what gets talked about on podcasts and 679 00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:25,960 Speaker 1: online and on Facebook groups amongst millions of new moms, 680 00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:30,240 Speaker 1: and gets no support in Congress, right, no attention, no stakes, nothing. 681 00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:33,799 Speaker 1: So let me speak to the Democrats first. It is 682 00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:37,719 Speaker 1: so pathetic that there not only was there not a 683 00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:41,360 Speaker 1: single no vote, there was not a word of dissent 684 00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:43,920 Speaker 1: as far as I could see. And you know, early 685 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:45,799 Speaker 1: on you had at least ilhan Omer. I think she 686 00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:49,360 Speaker 1: might have been basically the only one but raising questions about, 687 00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:52,839 Speaker 1: hey guys, maybe we need to slow down, maybe we 688 00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:55,960 Speaker 1: need to actually debate these things, because we are going 689 00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:58,960 Speaker 1: really far and really fast, and I think we should 690 00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:02,359 Speaker 1: press the pause button and actually dig into what we're 691 00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:05,080 Speaker 1: doing here, what the goals are, what the endgame? Is 692 00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:09,640 Speaker 1: not a word of any of that from anyone, And 693 00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:14,600 Speaker 1: given that we now know the administration's goal is not 694 00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:17,919 Speaker 1: to achieve peace in Ukraine, it's to quote unquote week 695 00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:21,800 Speaker 1: in Russia, which means to keep this war going indefinitely. 696 00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:23,840 Speaker 1: Now that we know there are reports of Boris Johnson 697 00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:27,160 Speaker 1: when he went to Ukraine met with Zelensky specifically to 698 00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:30,680 Speaker 1: say we do not want a negotiated piece right now. 699 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:35,239 Speaker 1: Given all of that, where are the elected voices on 700 00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:39,400 Speaker 1: the left saying, hey, guys, forty billion dollars for defense 701 00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:42,040 Speaker 1: contractions and we're just thrown around extra billions and given 702 00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:44,080 Speaker 1: eleven billion to buyen to do whatever the hell he 703 00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:46,760 Speaker 1: wants with it, and potentially offensive weapons which was supposed 704 00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:48,919 Speaker 1: to be more or less off the table, Like what 705 00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:54,759 Speaker 1: are we doing here? Okay? Not to mention that originally 706 00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:57,040 Speaker 1: the idea was this was going to be tied together 707 00:36:57,320 --> 00:36:59,680 Speaker 1: with COVID money which was going to go to things 708 00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:03,399 Speaker 1: which should be uncontroversial, in particular making sure that people 709 00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:05,680 Speaker 1: who are poor can still get tested and can still 710 00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:09,680 Speaker 1: get vaccines, which seems kind of important for domestic population 711 00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:13,000 Speaker 1: as well. Well, there was Republican descent over that, so 712 00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:15,440 Speaker 1: they put that off the table. So think about what 713 00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:21,040 Speaker 1: that sets. Funding a proxy war against Russia to the 714 00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:24,200 Speaker 1: tune of multi billions of tens of billions of dollars 715 00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:28,239 Speaker 1: is actually less controversial in Congress. Then making sure that 716 00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:31,600 Speaker 1: poor people can get a COVID vaccine like that is 717 00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:35,600 Speaker 1: mind boggling. There was someone on Twitter who said, basically, 718 00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:39,239 Speaker 1: Congress is just an armstealer now, and that's effectively the case. Now. 719 00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:41,680 Speaker 1: I do want to say on the Republican side, Listen, 720 00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:44,319 Speaker 1: these people are full of shit because ultimately, number one, 721 00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:46,040 Speaker 1: they didn't want to vote for the COVID like the 722 00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:47,680 Speaker 1: stuff that would go to the popular. I don't know 723 00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:52,080 Speaker 1: what number two. Like, Listen, if we actually had a 724 00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:53,719 Speaker 1: bill that was like we're going to give out free 725 00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:55,799 Speaker 1: baby formula to the popular, do you think that these 726 00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:58,719 Speaker 1: people would actually vote for that. Madison Cawthorne was out 727 00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:01,320 Speaker 1: there saying, like, imagine if we spent forty billion on 728 00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:05,480 Speaker 1: veterans instead of doing this. This dude just voted against 729 00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:09,200 Speaker 1: twenty billion for burn Pick victims like last month. So 730 00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:12,359 Speaker 1: let's be clear that on all of this they're all 731 00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:14,360 Speaker 1: full of shit. Good, it'd still be good to put it. 732 00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:15,759 Speaker 1: I would love to see it put on the floor. 733 00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:17,120 Speaker 1: I'd love to see them vote against them. What the 734 00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:19,520 Speaker 1: baby formula? Yeah, I'll be like, yeah, let's do it. 735 00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:21,920 Speaker 1: I would love to see that get put on the floor. 736 00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:24,360 Speaker 1: I think what it comes down. Look, I support sending 737 00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:27,520 Speaker 1: weapons to Ukraine, some type of weapons. I support supporting Ukraine. 738 00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:30,239 Speaker 1: I think that Ukraine's cause is righteous. Now, all of 739 00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:32,319 Speaker 1: that being said, the reason I'm framing it this way 740 00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:36,120 Speaker 1: is we need to have debates about grand strategic games. Now, 741 00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:39,440 Speaker 1: if the Ukrainians want to continue fighting on that's great. Now, 742 00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:42,680 Speaker 1: what exactly are we also doing in terms of ensuring 743 00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:47,280 Speaker 1: that Congress exercises his constitutional authority to say, well, okay, 744 00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:49,640 Speaker 1: we support you on this, but we don't want offensive 745 00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:51,840 Speaker 1: weapons going over there. So why is it not written 746 00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:53,640 Speaker 1: into the bill that Biden isn't allowed to do that? 747 00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:55,759 Speaker 1: I mean, why are we not making it so that 748 00:38:55,840 --> 00:39:01,080 Speaker 1: Congress has an overwhelming and Advisory Authority on exactly projecting 749 00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:03,560 Speaker 1: the people's will, which is what Congress is supposed to be. 750 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:07,080 Speaker 1: Is if most Americans agree we should help out Ukraine, 751 00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:09,399 Speaker 1: to what end? And this is the problem with I see, 752 00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:11,440 Speaker 1: which is this is just runaway, which is that they 753 00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:13,640 Speaker 1: come to us, they're like, we want thirty three billion, 754 00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:15,279 Speaker 1: and we're like, okay, we'll give you forty billion. Well 755 00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:18,000 Speaker 1: where's that where's the extra money going? And it's like, 756 00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:19,680 Speaker 1: this is what Glenn wrote about, let's put this up 757 00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:22,520 Speaker 1: there on the screen, which is that Biden wanted thirty 758 00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:26,120 Speaker 1: three billion for Ukraine. Congress quickly raised it to forty billion. 759 00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:30,160 Speaker 1: Who benefits? And look, I think we all know who benefits, 760 00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:33,600 Speaker 1: which is that there is a defense industrial complex here 761 00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:36,640 Speaker 1: in DC. And also, you know, this is taking away 762 00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:39,160 Speaker 1: from a lot of others. You know, some people who 763 00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:42,040 Speaker 1: talk about Ukraine say that they care about Taiwan. Guess what. 764 00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:43,920 Speaker 1: Taiwan's been trying to buy weapons of for US now 765 00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:46,239 Speaker 1: for a while and they're not able to get the 766 00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:48,560 Speaker 1: weapons that they want because we sent them all to Ukraine. 767 00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:51,560 Speaker 1: Here's the other problem. We have a semiconductor crisis in 768 00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:55,640 Speaker 1: this country. Every javelin anti tach weapons system requires a 769 00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:59,400 Speaker 1: ton of semiconductors, so much so that the administration is 770 00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:02,439 Speaker 1: now trying to tell Congress on passing this new semiconductor 771 00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:05,880 Speaker 1: bill by saying, we need these semiconductors to put into 772 00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:08,480 Speaker 1: our weapons systems so that we can send it over 773 00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:10,080 Speaker 1: to Ukraine. Now you don't have to agree with that. 774 00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:12,680 Speaker 1: I think that's kind of crazy, but my point being 775 00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:15,520 Speaker 1: that we are you know, we may need these weapons 776 00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:18,600 Speaker 1: sometime too. What are we gonna do we have enough javelins? 777 00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:20,479 Speaker 1: By the way, the answer to that is no, because 778 00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:23,359 Speaker 1: we've sent all of them over to Ukraine. There's all 779 00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:26,440 Speaker 1: kinds of downstream effects here. And then also when the 780 00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:29,640 Speaker 1: president sends over existing US military stock, well then the 781 00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:32,320 Speaker 1: military has to go buy new ones. So who benefits 782 00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:34,680 Speaker 1: from that? Crystals? Like this is what I'm saying. There 783 00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:38,600 Speaker 1: are all kinds of downstream, you know, very big and 784 00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:42,960 Speaker 1: nuanced discussions that need to happen whenever it comes to 785 00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:46,160 Speaker 1: what do we want to do in is this is 786 00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:48,600 Speaker 1: you know what it's been two months now, this has 787 00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:51,520 Speaker 1: been going on. Ukrainians have fought a righteous war. They're 788 00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:55,000 Speaker 1: gonna They've battled them in the East. They're keeping them basically, 789 00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:57,399 Speaker 1: you know, it's a rough stalemate, and I'm not saying 790 00:40:57,400 --> 00:41:00,120 Speaker 1: that hundreds of people aren't dying. That isn't a tragedy. 791 00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:02,920 Speaker 1: Where do we go from here? Is flooding the whole 792 00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:05,200 Speaker 1: country full of weapons? Is that a good thing? Is 793 00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:06,880 Speaker 1: it a bad thing? I don't know. I mean we 794 00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:09,799 Speaker 1: should all have independent assessments. And the fact that they 795 00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:11,759 Speaker 1: just not only rubber stand it, but gating and more 796 00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:13,880 Speaker 1: is what troubles me the most. And I what I 797 00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:16,960 Speaker 1: know with war is there's always fortieth order consequences. Of course, 798 00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:19,279 Speaker 1: of course, I mean how many times do we have 799 00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:22,480 Speaker 1: to learn that lesson over and over and over again? 800 00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:25,400 Speaker 1: When it comes back to buy the entire world but 801 00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:28,480 Speaker 1: also us specifically, I mean gun points out. Isn't it 802 00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:32,120 Speaker 1: convenient that just as their grift in Afghanistan ends, they 803 00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:36,239 Speaker 1: get a new, even more lucrative funding project for the 804 00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:38,239 Speaker 1: defense contract. You know, for those of you who are 805 00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:40,920 Speaker 1: suffering in the market right now, you certainly couldn't go 806 00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:45,319 Speaker 1: wrong with buying in on Raytheon or Lockheed Martin or 807 00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:51,200 Speaker 1: one of these defense industrial complex machines, because ultimately Congress 808 00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:54,240 Speaker 1: is very reliable in making sure that they have even 809 00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:57,919 Speaker 1: more funding than ultimately what's requested. Think about the disparity 810 00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:02,120 Speaker 1: in how this conversation unfolds, because if the administration was 811 00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:04,960 Speaker 1: found to be putting pressure on the Ukrainians to make 812 00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:08,200 Speaker 1: concessions and negotiate a peace, there would be outrage about that. 813 00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:11,360 Speaker 1: How could you? How could you do that? But we 814 00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:14,800 Speaker 1: know that they're putting pressure effectively on Ukraine to continue 815 00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:18,200 Speaker 1: the war, to continue fighting, and somehow that's fine that 816 00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:20,880 Speaker 1: part for us to put pressure on them in that direction, 817 00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:23,239 Speaker 1: because I know people say, oh, well, you know, they 818 00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:25,440 Speaker 1: the Ukrainians, they want to keep fighting, they want to 819 00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:28,200 Speaker 1: keep going. Do you really know that because it was 820 00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:32,200 Speaker 1: someone close to Zelenski who leaked that news to Ukrainian Pravda. 821 00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:34,880 Speaker 1: By the way that Boris Johnson was putting pressure on 822 00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:38,640 Speaker 1: them to continue the war, to continue fighting. So yes, listen, 823 00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:42,000 Speaker 1: Russia is the aggressor in the situation. All of the 824 00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:44,520 Speaker 1: conversation about NATO and all of that very clear, like 825 00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:46,880 Speaker 1: the way that this was ultimately predictable. But they're the 826 00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:50,359 Speaker 1: ones who are responsible, They're the ones who invaded. None 827 00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:53,400 Speaker 1: of that is justified whatsoever. And they could end it tomorrow, 828 00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:55,760 Speaker 1: and they could end up tomorrow and that is certainly 829 00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:58,920 Speaker 1: the case, but you know there is there is no 830 00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:01,359 Speaker 1: I even saw an article where Biden was saying like, oh, 831 00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:03,320 Speaker 1: I'm worried that there's no offering for Putin. It's like, 832 00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:05,719 Speaker 1: what do you think your whole policy of your administration 833 00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:07,759 Speaker 1: has been? I mean, you all are admitting this out 834 00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:12,000 Speaker 1: right now. So that's a bigger question. Is right now 835 00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:14,799 Speaker 1: the US policy and this forty billion dollars is part 836 00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:18,560 Speaker 1: of this is to keep war going with Russia. Democratic 837 00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:21,399 Speaker 1: Congress and Seth Milton admitting we are basically at war 838 00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:23,960 Speaker 1: with Russia? Now did you vote for that? Is that 839 00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:27,719 Speaker 1: what you really wanted our representatives to be doing? Do 840 00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:29,879 Speaker 1: you want this all to unfold and us keep going 841 00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:33,760 Speaker 1: further and further and further and further with no public 842 00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:36,439 Speaker 1: debate about what any of it means, with no accountability 843 00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:40,040 Speaker 1: whatsoever about who or what this money is ultimately funding. 844 00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:42,239 Speaker 1: Is that really what you wanted here? Yeah? And I 845 00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:44,880 Speaker 1: think look, that is the ultimate question that all of 846 00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:48,000 Speaker 1: us should ask. And this is Congress and eat specifically 847 00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:50,719 Speaker 1: the House, the people's House is supposed to be where 848 00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:54,640 Speaker 1: the most raucous debates and all that stuff happened. So yeah, 849 00:43:54,680 --> 00:43:57,800 Speaker 1: when they come in and they're supposed to control the purse. 850 00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:01,879 Speaker 1: That's what the founders intended to have the most direct democracy, 851 00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:05,840 Speaker 1: democratic body in the world, not do that. It's a 852 00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:12,200 Speaker 1: serious issue, indeed. And you know another thing I've been 853 00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:16,560 Speaker 1: thinking about lately, and this transitions into our next block, 854 00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:20,160 Speaker 1: is there are a lot of righteous causes and a 855 00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:23,239 Speaker 1: lot of atrocities unfolding in the world. And it's incredible 856 00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:26,759 Speaker 1: the way that the media can focus attention on one 857 00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:29,520 Speaker 1: specific one. I mean, I was thinking about this in 858 00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:31,880 Speaker 1: context of I drove by like a mini van that 859 00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:35,360 Speaker 1: had to support Ukraine flag on it, which is okay, fine, 860 00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:37,640 Speaker 1: well and good. But you know, all of the other 861 00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:40,040 Speaker 1: tragedies that are unfolding in the world, and all of 862 00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:42,960 Speaker 1: the other causes which are just like the cause of Palestinians, 863 00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:47,160 Speaker 1: for example, those get pushed aside. Those get whitewashed if 864 00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:50,200 Speaker 1: they happen to involve someone that the US state considers 865 00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:51,960 Speaker 1: to be an ally. So let's talk about what is 866 00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:55,480 Speaker 1: unfolding in Israel right now. Let's put this tear sheet 867 00:44:55,600 --> 00:45:01,120 Speaker 1: up on the screen. So a really trail blazing Palestinian 868 00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:06,520 Speaker 1: American journalist for Al Jazeera was shot and killed while 869 00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:11,120 Speaker 1: reporting on an Israeli raid in a Palestinian refugee camp 870 00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:15,719 Speaker 1: Jeanine within the occupied West Bank. And let me just 871 00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:19,719 Speaker 1: read you a little bit of what everybody is saying 872 00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:24,120 Speaker 1: happened here. So Sharin Abu Akla, who was one of 873 00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:28,200 Speaker 1: the first female prominent journalists in the region, who has 874 00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:30,719 Speaker 1: been sort of like a household name within the Middle 875 00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:35,200 Speaker 1: East for her reporting on the Palestinian cause. So she 876 00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:38,879 Speaker 1: was killed at this refugee camp. She was there with 877 00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:42,520 Speaker 1: multiple other journalists. There were several eyewitnesses on the scene. 878 00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:45,120 Speaker 1: And what all the eyewitnesses and the fellow journalists say 879 00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:48,640 Speaker 1: is that even though this camp is known for having 880 00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:56,120 Speaker 1: a active armed Palestinian military fighters, none of those people 881 00:45:56,239 --> 00:45:59,760 Speaker 1: were there or active when this occurred. That the shooting 882 00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:04,440 Speaker 1: came from the Israeli military. Sharen at the time that 883 00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:06,520 Speaker 1: she was killed. She was shot in the head. One 884 00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:09,839 Speaker 1: of her fellow journalists also was shot in the back. 885 00:46:10,719 --> 00:46:12,799 Speaker 1: She was wearing a press jacket, she was wearing a 886 00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:15,719 Speaker 1: press helmet, as were her colleagues who were there on 887 00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:20,399 Speaker 1: the scene. Also reportedly they had alerted the idea after 888 00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:22,480 Speaker 1: the fact that they would be there and what their 889 00:46:22,520 --> 00:46:26,719 Speaker 1: general position would ultimately be so. Needless to say, Al 890 00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:32,200 Speaker 1: Jazeera has put out a scathing, scathing statement about this killing. 891 00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:38,040 Speaker 1: They said that this is a blatant murder, violating international 892 00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:42,120 Speaker 1: law and norms. Israeli occupation forces assassinated in cold blood 893 00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:46,719 Speaker 1: Al Jazeera's correspondent in Palestine, Sharene Abu Akla, targeting her 894 00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:49,840 Speaker 1: with live fire early this morning while conducting her journalistic duty. 895 00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:52,920 Speaker 1: Network called on the international community to hold the Israeli 896 00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:56,319 Speaker 1: government and military accountable for the quote intentional targeting and 897 00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:59,719 Speaker 1: killing of a journalist. Al Jazeera, we should say, is 898 00:46:59,719 --> 00:47:03,040 Speaker 1: partly funded by Katar. Let me give you the Israeli side, 899 00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:06,960 Speaker 1: which I actually think is very telling. So initially the 900 00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:10,680 Speaker 1: Israeli said it could have been the Palestinian military. There 901 00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:14,640 Speaker 1: was fire that was being exchanged, which again the eyewitnesses 902 00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:17,440 Speaker 1: on the scene and the other journalists who were there 903 00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:19,759 Speaker 1: said that's not the case. The only ones who were 904 00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:23,000 Speaker 1: firing at this location at this time was the Israeli military, 905 00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:25,480 Speaker 1: so they said, could have been that. There's reason to 906 00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:29,760 Speaker 1: believe that it was armed Palestinians. They said, it appears 907 00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:32,960 Speaker 1: likely that armed Palestinians who were firing indiscriminately at the 908 00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:36,280 Speaker 1: time were responsible for the unfortunate death of the journalists. 909 00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:39,879 Speaker 1: What they put out they offered no evidence, but they 910 00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:44,120 Speaker 1: did put out this video that showed Palestinian militants at 911 00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:47,400 Speaker 1: that same camp shooting down an alleyway and saying that 912 00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:49,600 Speaker 1: they hit someone, and they sort of suggested like this 913 00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:52,600 Speaker 1: could have been what actually happened. Well, then they got 914 00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:55,360 Speaker 1: called out for the fact that that video didn't occur 915 00:47:55,520 --> 00:47:59,360 Speaker 1: anywhere near or during the timeframe that Sharen was ultimately 916 00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:01,640 Speaker 1: hidden killed. So they kind of walk that back and say, oh, 917 00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:04,840 Speaker 1: we weren't suggesting that this was actually what happened, and 918 00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:07,080 Speaker 1: there's no way to know. So their final statement, what 919 00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:10,040 Speaker 1: statement was not it appears likely it was Palestinians. What 920 00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:13,240 Speaker 1: they landed on was no way to know what ultimately 921 00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:17,720 Speaker 1: happened here. So on one side, you have multiple eyewitnesses 922 00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:22,040 Speaker 1: and multiple journalists saying that she was killed and in fact, 923 00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:24,719 Speaker 1: what the language they used, that she was actually targeted 924 00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:27,200 Speaker 1: for being a journalist, and that she was shot and 925 00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:29,600 Speaker 1: killed by the IDF, and Israeli's going, eh, who can know. 926 00:48:30,640 --> 00:48:33,759 Speaker 1: Let me also just say that this would not be 927 00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:38,719 Speaker 1: the first time that Israel has targeted journalists or journalistic outlets. 928 00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:43,640 Speaker 1: You will recall that almost exactly a year ago. In fact, 929 00:48:43,640 --> 00:48:45,680 Speaker 1: it was like in three days, it will be exactly 930 00:48:45,719 --> 00:48:49,839 Speaker 1: a year ago Israel bombed in Gaza the building that 931 00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:53,040 Speaker 1: housed both the AP and Al Jazeero. I have a 932 00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:55,920 Speaker 1: tweet up on the screen here says a reminder. One 933 00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:58,840 Speaker 1: year ago this week, Israeli military bombed civilian building in 934 00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:02,040 Speaker 1: Gaza housing the AP and Nol Jazeera and Sagar. What 935 00:49:02,080 --> 00:49:04,480 Speaker 1: they said at the time was very similar to this. 936 00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:07,080 Speaker 1: It was there were militants involved, there were militants in 937 00:49:07,120 --> 00:49:09,839 Speaker 1: this building. We're going to give you the proof. Don't worry. Well, 938 00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:13,160 Speaker 1: Ned Price, the State Department spokesman who yesterday was grilled 939 00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:16,000 Speaker 1: by journalists and totally of course, you know, carrying water 940 00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:17,960 Speaker 1: for Israel and promising, of course they're going to do 941 00:49:17,960 --> 00:49:21,440 Speaker 1: a free and fair investigation. He was pressed again on okay, well, 942 00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:23,719 Speaker 1: did you get that evidence that there were militants in 943 00:49:23,719 --> 00:49:26,440 Speaker 1: that building and so the targeting of these journalistic outlets 944 00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:30,200 Speaker 1: was ultimately justified, and he had to admit, no, they 945 00:49:30,200 --> 00:49:32,280 Speaker 1: said they were going to give that, they never provided 946 00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:35,439 Speaker 1: the evidence that that was ultimately the case. Not to mention. 947 00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:42,400 Speaker 1: According to International Human Rights organizations. Something like fifty journalists 948 00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:47,040 Speaker 1: have either been killed or injured by Israel. You had 949 00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:50,280 Speaker 1: the UN after the Great March of Return in twenty 950 00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:54,520 Speaker 1: eighteen issuing a report saying that there was cause to 951 00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:58,320 Speaker 1: believe that Israel had targeted in that not just journalists, 952 00:49:58,320 --> 00:50:03,200 Speaker 1: but also people with disabilities, also medics, also children, and 953 00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:07,960 Speaker 1: six thousand plus civilians who were injured or killed during 954 00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:13,280 Speaker 1: that time period. So again, Israel has a history of 955 00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:17,880 Speaker 1: targeting and injuring and killing journalists. And right now you 956 00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:21,600 Speaker 1: have eyewitnesses and journalists on the scene saying that is 957 00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:23,400 Speaker 1: once again what happened to here? Yeah, And you know, 958 00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:25,480 Speaker 1: I think what's particularly crazy is that some of the 959 00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:28,360 Speaker 1: details really don't line up. So the map locations that 960 00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:31,200 Speaker 1: were determined by the GPS coordinates were a nine hundred 961 00:50:31,239 --> 00:50:33,560 Speaker 1: and fifty feet apart, which is, you know, if you 962 00:50:33,560 --> 00:50:36,040 Speaker 1: think of it, it's like one fifth of a mile 963 00:50:36,480 --> 00:50:40,440 Speaker 1: away from where previous firefight had occurred. And Post reporters 964 00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:43,440 Speaker 1: of Washington Post reporters who actually visited the fight confirmed 965 00:50:43,440 --> 00:50:46,000 Speaker 1: that there was a big dissonance between the two locations 966 00:50:46,239 --> 00:50:48,400 Speaker 1: and they found no setting similar to the one that 967 00:50:48,440 --> 00:50:51,279 Speaker 1: was depicted in a video that was released by the 968 00:50:51,320 --> 00:50:54,560 Speaker 1: IDF and what they point to in why that matters 969 00:50:54,680 --> 00:50:56,640 Speaker 1: is that the people who were there on the ground 970 00:50:56,760 --> 00:50:58,879 Speaker 1: say that there were just shots that kind of rang 971 00:50:58,960 --> 00:51:02,080 Speaker 1: out of nowhere and they hit her producer in the 972 00:51:02,160 --> 00:51:04,960 Speaker 1: back right, so like he was either fleeing or like 973 00:51:04,960 --> 00:51:08,040 Speaker 1: trying to climb something, and that she was actually again 974 00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:11,400 Speaker 1: according to them, she was hitting the head, so obviously 975 00:51:11,440 --> 00:51:14,200 Speaker 1: you know, devastating critical wound. And I think she died 976 00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:17,200 Speaker 1: on site before she was reviewed there. And yeah, I mean, 977 00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:20,000 Speaker 1: I think the most telling part of this is that 978 00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:23,239 Speaker 1: the Israeli the IDEF initially said that she was very 979 00:51:23,360 --> 00:51:26,040 Speaker 1: likely killed in Palestinian gunfire, and then they walked it 980 00:51:26,080 --> 00:51:29,279 Speaker 1: back significantly. They got called out. Yeah, so after they 981 00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:31,359 Speaker 1: got called out, even their own lieutenant general, the chief 982 00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:33,520 Speaker 1: of staff of the IDF himself, so that at this 983 00:51:33,560 --> 00:51:35,920 Speaker 1: point it is not impossible to determine the source of 984 00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:37,920 Speaker 1: the gunfire which hit her, and they're calling for you know, 985 00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:41,160 Speaker 1: like an investigation. Okay, like we'll see. I think that 986 00:51:41,440 --> 00:51:44,399 Speaker 1: the media treatment on it is outrageous. Look, you can 987 00:51:44,520 --> 00:51:48,719 Speaker 1: even like Israel and just be like, hey, uh, this 988 00:51:48,800 --> 00:51:52,560 Speaker 1: is really crazy. It's very clear that there was a 989 00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:55,040 Speaker 1: major gunfight here and instead, you know, the way that 990 00:51:55,080 --> 00:51:57,720 Speaker 1: the media wrote it up is just like American reporter 991 00:51:57,920 --> 00:52:03,520 Speaker 1: dies of a gunshot in Westute language. Yeah, it's like, yeah, 992 00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:07,160 Speaker 1: but who And ask yourself how it would be covered 993 00:52:07,320 --> 00:52:12,280 Speaker 1: if it was Russian forces killing and injuring that almost happened. 994 00:52:12,280 --> 00:52:14,640 Speaker 1: Remember there was that American journalist who used to work 995 00:52:14,680 --> 00:52:16,520 Speaker 1: over at the New York Times. By the way, nobody 996 00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:18,279 Speaker 1: knows how he died, but at the time and it 997 00:52:18,360 --> 00:52:20,799 Speaker 1: was an out I still think it was an outrageous event. 998 00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:24,600 Speaker 1: Or my friend Trey Yanst his partner in who works 999 00:52:24,640 --> 00:52:28,560 Speaker 1: for Fox News, I forget his name, Benjamin Hall, I 1000 00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:31,319 Speaker 1: believe it is. I mean, that guy lost his leg 1001 00:52:31,400 --> 00:52:34,720 Speaker 1: and all this in Russian shelling in Keith and anyway, 1002 00:52:35,080 --> 00:52:37,480 Speaker 1: that should be not only condemned, that's crazy. He's gonna 1003 00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:39,279 Speaker 1: be crippled for the rest of his life thanks to 1004 00:52:39,320 --> 00:52:42,359 Speaker 1: these people. We should condemn that fully. And the US 1005 00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:45,200 Speaker 1: State Department actually is I think they helped airlift him 1006 00:52:45,239 --> 00:52:48,640 Speaker 1: out of that country. But you know, look, this woman 1007 00:52:49,120 --> 00:52:51,360 Speaker 1: was one of our citizens. She's not just pous that 1008 00:52:51,520 --> 00:52:54,400 Speaker 1: she's an American citizen. And I very much feel like, 1009 00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:56,680 Speaker 1: you know, there's like a saying, you know, at the 1010 00:52:56,680 --> 00:52:58,440 Speaker 1: time of the Roman Empire, as long as you had 1011 00:52:58,480 --> 00:53:01,240 Speaker 1: the crest of Rome, like you were part all throughout, 1012 00:53:01,400 --> 00:53:04,280 Speaker 1: I think it should be the same way, regardless of 1013 00:53:04,320 --> 00:53:07,480 Speaker 1: where you are. She was an American citizen, an American reporter, 1014 00:53:07,760 --> 00:53:10,680 Speaker 1: and she was killed according to her network, which you know, 1015 00:53:10,719 --> 00:53:12,520 Speaker 1: I obviously might beef with the Kataris. I don't know 1016 00:53:12,520 --> 00:53:14,000 Speaker 1: if they're telling the truth, but a lot of the 1017 00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:16,000 Speaker 1: evidence seems to line up behind that, and I think 1018 00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:17,800 Speaker 1: at Israel should have to pay a price for we 1019 00:53:17,840 --> 00:53:21,640 Speaker 1: should say it's not just Al Jazeer and journalists, right 1020 00:53:21,960 --> 00:53:26,320 Speaker 1: Washington Post journalists. There's you know, there are multiple journalists 1021 00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:29,080 Speaker 1: on the scene. They all say the same thing. There 1022 00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:32,120 Speaker 1: were additional eyewitnesses who also say the same thing. And 1023 00:53:32,200 --> 00:53:34,600 Speaker 1: yet the New York Times how they report this is 1024 00:53:35,600 --> 00:53:37,880 Speaker 1: Al Jazeera said one of its journalists was killed in 1025 00:53:37,880 --> 00:53:41,760 Speaker 1: the West Bank city of Janine during clashes between Israeli 1026 00:53:41,800 --> 00:53:46,480 Speaker 1: forces and Palestinian gunman. Again, there isn't actually any evidence 1027 00:53:46,640 --> 00:53:50,120 Speaker 1: that there were clashes at this point going on between 1028 00:53:50,160 --> 00:53:54,360 Speaker 1: that you can understand right, between IDF and Palestinian gunman. 1029 00:53:54,719 --> 00:53:58,880 Speaker 1: So this isn't even accurate. Set aside, the fact, you know, 1030 00:53:58,920 --> 00:54:01,279 Speaker 1: they're trying to use this like neutral language, trying to 1031 00:54:01,280 --> 00:54:03,279 Speaker 1: play oh, we're you know, we're neutral and bounce down 1032 00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:05,440 Speaker 1: the middle. No, when you phrase it like this, you 1033 00:54:05,440 --> 00:54:08,560 Speaker 1: you are in fact taking a side. And it wasn't 1034 00:54:08,600 --> 00:54:10,840 Speaker 1: just The New York Times. I mean basically every American 1035 00:54:10,880 --> 00:54:14,040 Speaker 1: media outlet, including the ones including the AP who just 1036 00:54:14,080 --> 00:54:17,200 Speaker 1: had their shit bombed a year ago, still using this 1037 00:54:17,440 --> 00:54:21,600 Speaker 1: like amid clashes and they say this, and this one 1038 00:54:21,680 --> 00:54:25,960 Speaker 1: says that. So the media coverage of it is and 1039 00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:28,319 Speaker 1: I do think it again fits with the fact that 1040 00:54:28,680 --> 00:54:32,400 Speaker 1: you know, the media has has understandably and righteously focused 1041 00:54:32,440 --> 00:54:36,319 Speaker 1: attention on the just Ukrainian cause. But you know, if 1042 00:54:36,360 --> 00:54:39,000 Speaker 1: you even post like a Palestinian flag, you can get 1043 00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:42,120 Speaker 1: like banned from Instagram or whatever. We've seen that happen. 1044 00:54:42,280 --> 00:54:48,560 Speaker 1: So so it's very selective which conflicts and which atrocities 1045 00:54:48,840 --> 00:54:52,080 Speaker 1: they feel are worthy of bringing to the American public 1046 00:54:52,120 --> 00:54:57,120 Speaker 1: and really whipping up righteous outrage about ultimately, and so 1047 00:54:57,320 --> 00:55:00,399 Speaker 1: it's it's an extremely sad situation. And the other thing 1048 00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:02,560 Speaker 1: that we know from history is that there is very 1049 00:55:03,200 --> 00:55:05,799 Speaker 1: is very unlikely that they'll face any accountability. Again, this 1050 00:55:05,840 --> 00:55:07,400 Speaker 1: has a lot to do with the US. The way 1051 00:55:07,480 --> 00:55:11,640 Speaker 1: we protect Israel in particular at the UN and make 1052 00:55:11,680 --> 00:55:14,680 Speaker 1: sure that they don't face any scrutiny. That's partly why, 1053 00:55:14,800 --> 00:55:17,040 Speaker 1: you know, potentially some of their soldiers feel that they 1054 00:55:17,080 --> 00:55:19,359 Speaker 1: can act with impunity, is because what is the cost? 1055 00:55:19,480 --> 00:55:23,120 Speaker 1: Ultimately there's never any accountability. Yeah, well that's the biggest 1056 00:55:23,120 --> 00:55:24,959 Speaker 1: problem I think on this one. Okay, let's go ahead 1057 00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:27,840 Speaker 1: and move This is such a terrible and a tragic story. 1058 00:55:27,880 --> 00:55:30,080 Speaker 1: Let's go put this up there on the screen, which 1059 00:55:30,120 --> 00:55:32,560 Speaker 1: is that we were hoping that twenty twenty one was 1060 00:55:32,560 --> 00:55:34,520 Speaker 1: a flash in the pan as a result of the 1061 00:55:34,560 --> 00:55:37,839 Speaker 1: pandemic of a major increase in overdose debts, sorry twenty 1062 00:55:37,880 --> 00:55:42,040 Speaker 1: twenty but overall, we now have initial data compiled by 1063 00:55:42,040 --> 00:55:45,799 Speaker 1: the CDC that the nation actually saw even more of 1064 00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:49,200 Speaker 1: an increase in deaths from overdoses in twenty twenty one 1065 00:55:49,520 --> 00:55:54,840 Speaker 1: by fifteen percent. Crystal, So that surge in overall deaths 1066 00:55:55,160 --> 00:56:00,279 Speaker 1: now overwhelmingly includes fentanyl and methamphetamine, and in some case 1067 00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:04,000 Speaker 1: is actually a combination of both. And so right now 1068 00:56:04,080 --> 00:56:07,640 Speaker 1: we have a catastrophic increase of debts that have increased 1069 00:56:07,840 --> 00:56:13,960 Speaker 1: to one hundred and eight thousand Americans who died last 1070 00:56:14,160 --> 00:56:18,440 Speaker 1: year of a drug overdose one hundred and eight thousand 1071 00:56:18,520 --> 00:56:21,920 Speaker 1: and real recall, you know, last year it actually overtook 1072 00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:24,640 Speaker 1: some of the other causes of death amongst people who 1073 00:56:24,640 --> 00:56:27,000 Speaker 1: are between eighteen and sixty five. It's one of the 1074 00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:29,440 Speaker 1: most common ways now for people who are our age 1075 00:56:29,560 --> 00:56:32,239 Speaker 1: in order to die is if they do die, is 1076 00:56:32,280 --> 00:56:35,680 Speaker 1: a result of a drug overdose. And actually, what's really 1077 00:56:35,760 --> 00:56:39,280 Speaker 1: nuts is if you consider the overall increase, twenty twenty 1078 00:56:39,640 --> 00:56:43,640 Speaker 1: was already a thirty percent increase year over year to 1079 00:56:43,719 --> 00:56:48,360 Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, and now we're up fifteen percent twenty twenty 1080 00:56:48,400 --> 00:56:54,160 Speaker 1: one on twenty twenty and actually, all current indications out 1081 00:56:54,200 --> 00:56:57,399 Speaker 1: of a lot of the people in the community are 1082 00:56:57,600 --> 00:57:01,440 Speaker 1: that this year will be just as bad, if not worse, 1083 00:57:01,760 --> 00:57:04,040 Speaker 1: as twenty twenty one. We did a lot of work 1084 00:57:04,040 --> 00:57:08,440 Speaker 1: in this country twenty seventeen onward where we actually not dropped, 1085 00:57:08,480 --> 00:57:13,359 Speaker 1: but you know, relatively stabilized the opioid overdose death rate. 1086 00:57:13,640 --> 00:57:18,440 Speaker 1: The pandemic destroyed that, it destroyed AA meetings, NA meetings, 1087 00:57:18,760 --> 00:57:21,560 Speaker 1: a lot of people went back and overdosed as a 1088 00:57:21,600 --> 00:57:24,880 Speaker 1: result of there was isolation. New study just came out 1089 00:57:24,880 --> 00:57:28,080 Speaker 1: that said American friendships at a record low. There's obviously 1090 00:57:28,120 --> 00:57:30,320 Speaker 1: all kinds of things that are happening. You combine that 1091 00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:35,000 Speaker 1: really with synthetic fentanyl and methamphetamine, which is largely coming 1092 00:57:35,200 --> 00:57:38,560 Speaker 1: from Chinese chemicals shipped over to Mexico, manufactured by the 1093 00:57:38,600 --> 00:57:41,240 Speaker 1: drug cartels and brought up over the border, well, you 1094 00:57:41,360 --> 00:57:43,320 Speaker 1: now have a growing combination what they point to a 1095 00:57:43,400 --> 00:57:47,320 Speaker 1: crystal in this article known as speedballs and as goofballs, 1096 00:57:47,480 --> 00:57:50,520 Speaker 1: which is an increase in the use of stimulants and 1097 00:57:50,800 --> 00:57:53,480 Speaker 1: potent opioids, both of which are likely to be spiked 1098 00:57:53,640 --> 00:57:57,560 Speaker 1: with fentanyl. And so that is apparently one of the 1099 00:57:57,600 --> 00:58:01,400 Speaker 1: most common causes of like all was immediate overdose and 1100 00:58:01,480 --> 00:58:04,240 Speaker 1: death on the American street. So it really is a 1101 00:58:04,240 --> 00:58:05,960 Speaker 1: total disaster. Let me read a little bit of this 1102 00:58:06,040 --> 00:58:08,480 Speaker 1: because I think this is actually really important because they say, 1103 00:58:08,600 --> 00:58:12,320 Speaker 1: you know, the pandemic was definitely a contributing factor and 1104 00:58:12,440 --> 00:58:15,280 Speaker 1: no doubt about it, but it doesn't explain the entire spike, 1105 00:58:15,400 --> 00:58:18,240 Speaker 1: especially since you've continued to have an increase even after 1106 00:58:18,520 --> 00:58:22,600 Speaker 1: lockdown has has eased. They say A recent study of 1107 00:58:22,600 --> 00:58:25,960 Speaker 1: illicit pills seized by drug enforcement authorities found a substantial 1108 00:58:26,000 --> 00:58:30,160 Speaker 1: share of what is marketed as oxy, xanax or adderall 1109 00:58:30,600 --> 00:58:34,480 Speaker 1: now contains ventanyl. So you've got kids who think they're 1110 00:58:34,480 --> 00:58:38,680 Speaker 1: getting adderall or oxy and they're getting fentyl. Yeah, so 1111 00:58:38,720 --> 00:58:41,520 Speaker 1: that's a very common way that people die in accidental overdose. 1112 00:58:41,600 --> 00:58:44,360 Speaker 1: They say the spread of these counterfeit pills might explain 1113 00:58:44,440 --> 00:58:48,280 Speaker 1: a recent sharp increase in overdose deaths among teenagers, who 1114 00:58:48,320 --> 00:58:51,320 Speaker 1: are less likely to inject drugs than older people. They 1115 00:58:51,400 --> 00:58:54,680 Speaker 1: talk to the organ Health Authority director. Apparently, Oregon has 1116 00:58:54,720 --> 00:58:59,080 Speaker 1: had a massive spike in overdose deaths, and Pat Allen 1117 00:58:59,120 --> 00:59:00,920 Speaker 1: said that, as was the case in other states with 1118 00:59:00,920 --> 00:59:03,880 Speaker 1: searching overdose deaths, the clear difference in twenty twenty one 1119 00:59:04,240 --> 00:59:08,240 Speaker 1: was the ubiquity of fentanyl. Children as young as twelve 1120 00:59:08,640 --> 00:59:12,640 Speaker 1: are considered at high risk of obtaining counterfeit pills containing fentanyl. 1121 00:59:13,120 --> 00:59:17,040 Speaker 1: High schoolers are overdosing on them, believing their opioid painkillers 1122 00:59:17,120 --> 00:59:20,560 Speaker 1: or anti anxiety medication. The state was working to send 1123 00:59:20,560 --> 00:59:23,960 Speaker 1: the lockx own toolkits to schools, similar to a program 1124 00:59:24,080 --> 00:59:27,240 Speaker 1: it's used in fast food restaurants where people were overdosing 1125 00:59:27,400 --> 00:59:30,680 Speaker 1: in bathrooms. And I have to say with all of 1126 00:59:30,720 --> 00:59:35,240 Speaker 1: this that the reason that kids and people are dying 1127 00:59:35,320 --> 00:59:37,120 Speaker 1: at these this rate. I mean, when you look at 1128 00:59:37,120 --> 00:59:39,720 Speaker 1: the facts of this, a big part of this is 1129 00:59:39,800 --> 00:59:43,720 Speaker 1: because of prohibition and the War on drugs. People don't 1130 00:59:43,760 --> 00:59:46,600 Speaker 1: want ventanyl. That's not what they think they're signing up for, 1131 00:59:46,920 --> 00:59:50,000 Speaker 1: and that's how they end up ultimately dead. So we 1132 00:59:50,120 --> 00:59:52,960 Speaker 1: know the pattern of you know, we know Purdue Pharma 1133 00:59:53,000 --> 00:59:56,200 Speaker 1: and how they pushed oxy on. You know, got people 1134 00:59:56,200 --> 01:00:00,720 Speaker 1: addicted to oxy. But it's actually typically not the oxy 1135 01:00:00,800 --> 01:00:03,200 Speaker 1: that kills them. It's when they get their script cut 1136 01:00:03,320 --> 01:00:05,880 Speaker 1: and the doctor won't give it to them anymore, and 1137 01:00:05,920 --> 01:00:08,400 Speaker 1: they go to street drugs and they don't even know 1138 01:00:08,480 --> 01:00:12,040 Speaker 1: what they're getting or what they're taking. That's when people die. 1139 01:00:12,360 --> 01:00:15,160 Speaker 1: And so that's why when you look at this data 1140 01:00:15,320 --> 01:00:17,440 Speaker 1: and you look at what's happening and causing people to 1141 01:00:17,640 --> 01:00:21,360 Speaker 1: actually die, not just get addicted to drugs, that's how 1142 01:00:21,400 --> 01:00:26,960 Speaker 1: you can see very clearly like the prevalence of fentanyl 1143 01:00:27,040 --> 01:00:30,040 Speaker 1: in these counterfeit pills is a direct result of our 1144 01:00:30,080 --> 01:00:32,560 Speaker 1: policies of prohibition in the War on drugs. Yeah, I'll 1145 01:00:32,600 --> 01:00:34,480 Speaker 1: say I had a lot of my minds changed on 1146 01:00:34,920 --> 01:00:37,320 Speaker 1: I don't think we should legalize drugs. But Michael Schallenberger 1147 01:00:37,400 --> 01:00:41,760 Speaker 1: is somebody who pointed out the Portuguese model, which does 1148 01:00:41,840 --> 01:00:44,000 Speaker 1: seem to have a lot of benefits. I don't know 1149 01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:46,800 Speaker 1: if it can be replicated on the American system with 1150 01:00:46,840 --> 01:00:49,920 Speaker 1: federalism and all of that, but the basic premise is 1151 01:00:49,920 --> 01:00:52,840 Speaker 1: that over there drugs are legal. But if you're an 1152 01:00:52,840 --> 01:00:54,840 Speaker 1: ivy drug user just sitting in a park like the 1153 01:00:54,880 --> 01:00:58,120 Speaker 1: people are in San Francisco or in Los Angeles, like, 1154 01:00:58,120 --> 01:00:59,800 Speaker 1: that's not gonna happen. You're gonna get arrested and you're 1155 01:00:59,800 --> 01:01:02,720 Speaker 1: gonna gets sent to treatment. And what he's running for governor, 1156 01:01:02,720 --> 01:01:04,160 Speaker 1: I encourage people to go check him out. I think 1157 01:01:04,160 --> 01:01:05,960 Speaker 1: he's an interesting guy. And one of the things that 1158 01:01:06,000 --> 01:01:09,040 Speaker 1: he's pointed out is that we have a situation where 1159 01:01:09,120 --> 01:01:11,120 Speaker 1: a lot of these people need to be removed if 1160 01:01:11,160 --> 01:01:14,520 Speaker 1: they're going to be insisting on forceably using drugs to 1161 01:01:15,040 --> 01:01:19,400 Speaker 1: outpatient facilities like far away from the urban centers that 1162 01:01:19,440 --> 01:01:23,760 Speaker 1: are drug treatment. Already, heroin and opioid recidivism is sky high, 1163 01:01:23,800 --> 01:01:27,000 Speaker 1: but it's kind of more of a paternalistic model, and 1164 01:01:27,040 --> 01:01:29,440 Speaker 1: that's hard to square for a lot of people. But 1165 01:01:29,480 --> 01:01:31,920 Speaker 1: the current system, I will agree with you, is completely 1166 01:01:32,040 --> 01:01:34,680 Speaker 1: nuts and insane. And people are dying at the very 1167 01:01:34,800 --> 01:01:39,440 Speaker 1: least something that I've seen advocated for that I think 1168 01:01:39,560 --> 01:01:42,960 Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense because obviously, listen, Biden's a 1169 01:01:43,000 --> 01:01:46,479 Speaker 1: drug warrior. I mean, he hasn't even descheduled marijuana, which 1170 01:01:46,520 --> 01:01:50,920 Speaker 1: he could personally do, and you know it's extremely popular, 1171 01:01:50,960 --> 01:01:53,720 Speaker 1: it has like eighty percent approval rating at this point, 1172 01:01:54,160 --> 01:01:56,560 Speaker 1: and still won't even do that. So Biden is a 1173 01:01:56,600 --> 01:01:59,120 Speaker 1: drug warrior. I think it's ideological. I think he's always 1174 01:01:59,120 --> 01:02:01,200 Speaker 1: been that. I think he will always be that. But 1175 01:02:01,360 --> 01:02:04,320 Speaker 1: another thing you could do in terms of harm reduction 1176 01:02:05,360 --> 01:02:07,240 Speaker 1: that doesn't go all the way to where we should go, 1177 01:02:07,320 --> 01:02:10,000 Speaker 1: which is ending the war on drugs completely, But if 1178 01:02:10,040 --> 01:02:12,360 Speaker 1: you made it easy for people to test what they 1179 01:02:12,400 --> 01:02:15,560 Speaker 1: have so they know what they're taking, that would at least, 1180 01:02:15,600 --> 01:02:18,280 Speaker 1: I mean, that would help in terms of harm reduction, 1181 01:02:18,480 --> 01:02:20,560 Speaker 1: so that you know you're you know, if you think 1182 01:02:20,560 --> 01:02:23,800 Speaker 1: you're taking oxy, you're actually taking oxy, not fentanyl. You 1183 01:02:23,800 --> 01:02:26,600 Speaker 1: think you're taking xanax, you think you're taking adderall. I mean, 1184 01:02:26,800 --> 01:02:28,560 Speaker 1: how many of you all took adderall when you were 1185 01:02:28,600 --> 01:02:30,960 Speaker 1: in college, or when you're in high school or even now, 1186 01:02:31,160 --> 01:02:34,720 Speaker 1: like totally common and you never would think I'm going 1187 01:02:34,720 --> 01:02:37,880 Speaker 1: to take an adderall and I could die. I mean, 1188 01:02:38,160 --> 01:02:40,520 Speaker 1: so I think it was Eric bowlingsn as Son died 1189 01:02:40,760 --> 01:02:44,720 Speaker 1: phyl Jesus Christ. Yeah, so I mean, so listen again, 1190 01:02:45,160 --> 01:02:48,120 Speaker 1: I don't encourage people to abuse drugs or whatever, although 1191 01:02:48,120 --> 01:02:50,400 Speaker 1: I have no problem with recreational drug use personally, and 1192 01:02:50,400 --> 01:02:53,320 Speaker 1: I think it's been demonised. That's another discussion for another day. 1193 01:02:53,400 --> 01:02:56,480 Speaker 1: But you should at least have the ability to know 1194 01:02:56,960 --> 01:02:59,840 Speaker 1: that what you think you're taking is what you're actually 1195 01:03:00,520 --> 01:03:02,920 Speaker 1: and you know, the fact that fentanyl has become so 1196 01:03:03,080 --> 01:03:07,240 Speaker 1: ubiquitous in all of these illicit pills and black market 1197 01:03:07,320 --> 01:03:10,560 Speaker 1: drugs is just a complete health disaster and it is 1198 01:03:10,640 --> 01:03:12,880 Speaker 1: killing our teenagers. I don't know though, if the testing 1199 01:03:12,880 --> 01:03:14,480 Speaker 1: strips would make all that much of a difference, so 1200 01:03:14,600 --> 01:03:16,640 Speaker 1: as I understand it. And again this is from some 1201 01:03:16,760 --> 01:03:19,120 Speaker 1: YouTube videos and stuff I've watched with interviews of addicts 1202 01:03:19,120 --> 01:03:20,680 Speaker 1: who are on the street. A lot of them want 1203 01:03:20,720 --> 01:03:23,480 Speaker 1: fentanyl because it gets you really high. And so actually 1204 01:03:23,600 --> 01:03:25,600 Speaker 1: I remember there was a funny interview with a guy 1205 01:03:25,600 --> 01:03:27,640 Speaker 1: who was like, look, man, I just do heroin. He's like, 1206 01:03:27,680 --> 01:03:29,440 Speaker 1: I don't want any of this. He's like one of 1207 01:03:29,480 --> 01:03:31,800 Speaker 1: the few guys on skid Row, who just wants to 1208 01:03:31,840 --> 01:03:35,160 Speaker 1: continue using heroin and not have anything fentanyl lace. But 1209 01:03:35,600 --> 01:03:38,080 Speaker 1: you know a lot of people actually who are opioid users, 1210 01:03:38,200 --> 01:03:40,640 Speaker 1: especially the ones who are deeply strung out, they want 1211 01:03:40,680 --> 01:03:43,400 Speaker 1: ventanyl and a lot of them, you know, they're okay 1212 01:03:43,480 --> 01:03:46,000 Speaker 1: with basically rolling a dice. So I'm not saying it 1213 01:03:46,000 --> 01:03:48,200 Speaker 1: wouldn't reduce anything. I do think we just need to 1214 01:03:48,280 --> 01:03:51,240 Speaker 1: move to a much more rehab focused one. One of 1215 01:03:51,280 --> 01:03:53,760 Speaker 1: the things that they point to in here is that 1216 01:03:53,880 --> 01:03:58,640 Speaker 1: loosening permit take home method owned treatment was very beneficial. Actually, look, 1217 01:03:58,680 --> 01:04:01,080 Speaker 1: a lot of this is going aroun around the edges, 1218 01:04:01,120 --> 01:04:03,400 Speaker 1: but I do think moving towards a much more of 1219 01:04:03,440 --> 01:04:06,880 Speaker 1: a forcible rehab type situation and a lack of permissiveness 1220 01:04:06,880 --> 01:04:08,840 Speaker 1: like what's happening in Los Angeles. I told you I 1221 01:04:08,880 --> 01:04:12,040 Speaker 1: went to skid Row. I was horrified. I'd never seen 1222 01:04:12,080 --> 01:04:14,360 Speaker 1: anything like that in the Western world. And that's not 1223 01:04:14,360 --> 01:04:16,880 Speaker 1: a homeless problem. That's a drug problem. Like all of 1224 01:04:16,960 --> 01:04:20,160 Speaker 1: almost all of those people, and it's all are one 1225 01:04:20,240 --> 01:04:23,360 Speaker 1: hundred percent strung out on drugs. And I don't I'm 1226 01:04:23,400 --> 01:04:26,360 Speaker 1: not mad at them. I feel bad for them, Like 1227 01:04:26,760 --> 01:04:30,640 Speaker 1: it's a human tragedy. I had an actually uber driver 1228 01:04:30,720 --> 01:04:32,600 Speaker 1: who picked me up in skid row and he's like, yeah, 1229 01:04:32,640 --> 01:04:34,200 Speaker 1: two years ago, I was one of those guys, he said. 1230 01:04:34,200 --> 01:04:35,880 Speaker 1: I was sitting right out there on the street and 1231 01:04:35,880 --> 01:04:37,160 Speaker 1: he told me about how he got arrested, how he 1232 01:04:37,160 --> 01:04:39,520 Speaker 1: turned his life around. But look, that's very much love 1233 01:04:39,680 --> 01:04:42,320 Speaker 1: of the noise. That's the other part of the Portuguese 1234 01:04:42,520 --> 01:04:45,880 Speaker 1: model which has been extremely successful by every count in 1235 01:04:45,960 --> 01:04:51,720 Speaker 1: terms of reducing addiction, reducing certainly overdose deaths. I mean 1236 01:04:52,320 --> 01:04:55,640 Speaker 1: is that if you are if you are getting your 1237 01:04:55,720 --> 01:04:58,400 Speaker 1: hit in a you know, in a clinic with UH 1238 01:04:59,000 --> 01:05:02,520 Speaker 1: with government official, with people there who can get you help, 1239 01:05:03,040 --> 01:05:07,040 Speaker 1: then you are connected to the system. You're not disconnected 1240 01:05:07,080 --> 01:05:09,760 Speaker 1: from the system. And so you know, the moment that 1241 01:05:09,800 --> 01:05:13,040 Speaker 1: you're ready to say I'm ready for like I want 1242 01:05:13,040 --> 01:05:16,440 Speaker 1: to change, not only are you you know, are you 1243 01:05:16,520 --> 01:05:20,360 Speaker 1: kept safe? And it's incredibly important terms of harm reduction, 1244 01:05:20,480 --> 01:05:23,600 Speaker 1: But then the minute you're ready to actually commit to 1245 01:05:24,000 --> 01:05:27,000 Speaker 1: making that change, that the resources are ultimately there for you. 1246 01:05:27,080 --> 01:05:29,320 Speaker 1: But you know, again with regards to these kids who 1247 01:05:29,400 --> 01:05:32,400 Speaker 1: are taken oxy or adderall and as a fentanyl and 1248 01:05:32,440 --> 01:05:34,760 Speaker 1: they end up dying like they're not looking for a fentanyl. 1249 01:05:34,960 --> 01:05:36,960 Speaker 1: That's a good point. Let's also talk it's not just 1250 01:05:37,160 --> 01:05:39,560 Speaker 1: ivy drugs. Unfortunately, it's put us up there on the screen. 1251 01:05:39,680 --> 01:05:42,880 Speaker 1: Alcohol use disorder deaths have risen during the pandemic. This 1252 01:05:42,960 --> 01:05:44,920 Speaker 1: is the I mean, look, everybody knew it that it 1253 01:05:44,960 --> 01:05:47,560 Speaker 1: was already happening. But this is from the Journal of 1254 01:05:47,720 --> 01:05:50,200 Speaker 1: American Medicine. So here's what they point to. Based on 1255 01:05:50,200 --> 01:05:52,880 Speaker 1: the figures from the last eight years, deaths caused by 1256 01:05:52,920 --> 01:05:59,480 Speaker 1: alcohol use nationally are twenty two percent higher than projected 1257 01:05:59,560 --> 01:06:03,080 Speaker 1: last year. Crystal, they were twenty five percent higher already 1258 01:06:03,480 --> 01:06:07,840 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty. So this isn't just heroin. This is 1259 01:06:08,160 --> 01:06:12,280 Speaker 1: legal grade A alcohol. And look, I'll just tell you, 1260 01:06:12,360 --> 01:06:14,760 Speaker 1: on a personal level, I drink probably eighty percent less 1261 01:06:14,760 --> 01:06:16,440 Speaker 1: than I used to. I feel better than I ever 1262 01:06:16,520 --> 01:06:18,120 Speaker 1: have in my whole life. Yeah, And for a lot 1263 01:06:18,120 --> 01:06:20,200 Speaker 1: of people who are out there, I understand, you know, 1264 01:06:20,240 --> 01:06:23,440 Speaker 1: the social pressure and all of that, but alcohol is 1265 01:06:23,560 --> 01:06:27,040 Speaker 1: not good for you. It's incredibly bad actually, and casual 1266 01:06:27,160 --> 01:06:30,600 Speaker 1: alcohol use can spiral for what fifteen something percent of 1267 01:06:30,640 --> 01:06:33,560 Speaker 1: the population into going to a direction that you don't 1268 01:06:33,560 --> 01:06:35,000 Speaker 1: want to go to. And there's a lot of cultural 1269 01:06:35,040 --> 01:06:38,120 Speaker 1: reasons why exactly that we don't address this, but this 1270 01:06:38,160 --> 01:06:41,080 Speaker 1: is what, This is a catastrophe. I mean, alcohol will 1271 01:06:41,200 --> 01:06:44,600 Speaker 1: kill you as very obviously. It killed millions of people 1272 01:06:44,960 --> 01:06:47,400 Speaker 1: just last year. And I don't think there's enough focus 1273 01:06:47,480 --> 01:06:49,080 Speaker 1: on I think the people who hold my position on 1274 01:06:49,160 --> 01:06:51,880 Speaker 1: drugs and on on recreational substance use and all that 1275 01:06:51,880 --> 01:06:54,880 Speaker 1: don't do nearly enough talking about alcohol. And like, look, 1276 01:06:54,960 --> 01:06:57,480 Speaker 1: alcohol it kills a lot of people. A lot of 1277 01:06:57,480 --> 01:07:00,600 Speaker 1: people are suffering right now from alcohol use. I think 1278 01:07:00,640 --> 01:07:03,480 Speaker 1: it's a total catastrophe. And I know we need to 1279 01:07:03,520 --> 01:07:06,200 Speaker 1: have a serious conversation happening here because I think this 1280 01:07:06,240 --> 01:07:08,520 Speaker 1: is all derivative, not all of it, but a lot 1281 01:07:08,520 --> 01:07:11,240 Speaker 1: of it is derivative of loneliness. I did that whole 1282 01:07:11,240 --> 01:07:13,320 Speaker 1: thing on friendship a couple months back. You know, most 1283 01:07:13,320 --> 01:07:15,040 Speaker 1: people just have a lot more friends, a lot less 1284 01:07:15,080 --> 01:07:18,120 Speaker 1: friends than they did twenty years ago. Most people only 1285 01:07:18,160 --> 01:07:20,520 Speaker 1: report having like one or two friends. And in the 1286 01:07:20,520 --> 01:07:22,120 Speaker 1: way a lot of ways work from home was a 1287 01:07:22,120 --> 01:07:25,000 Speaker 1: disaster because we oriented our entire culture to making it 1288 01:07:25,040 --> 01:07:27,040 Speaker 1: so the only friends you make are at work, and 1289 01:07:27,040 --> 01:07:28,600 Speaker 1: so you work from home, you don't have a lot 1290 01:07:28,600 --> 01:07:32,680 Speaker 1: of friends. Loneliness is higher than has ever been antidepressant 1291 01:07:32,800 --> 01:07:36,520 Speaker 1: use and all of that is sky high. Combining that 1292 01:07:36,600 --> 01:07:39,880 Speaker 1: with alcohol, which every antidepressant on earth, even though I'm 1293 01:07:39,880 --> 01:07:42,920 Speaker 1: against anti depressent, tells you not to do that. So 1294 01:07:43,080 --> 01:07:45,520 Speaker 1: you know, you just have a whole cocktail of things 1295 01:07:45,560 --> 01:07:48,280 Speaker 1: that are flowing around in people's systems while their macro 1296 01:07:48,400 --> 01:07:51,280 Speaker 1: socio political life is falling apart. I don't know, it's 1297 01:07:51,400 --> 01:07:53,760 Speaker 1: very concerning to me. Yeah, alcohol use like this is 1298 01:07:53,840 --> 01:07:55,560 Speaker 1: just so high, and I don't think enough people are 1299 01:07:55,560 --> 01:07:58,440 Speaker 1: talking about it. I'm a supporter of people doing whatever 1300 01:07:58,480 --> 01:08:01,000 Speaker 1: they need to do to get through the day. I'm 1301 01:08:01,000 --> 01:08:03,600 Speaker 1: not I'm not going to judge anyone for any of that. 1302 01:08:04,520 --> 01:08:07,000 Speaker 1: I will say I'm like personally in a much like 1303 01:08:07,080 --> 01:08:09,000 Speaker 1: happier and better place in my life right now. And 1304 01:08:09,040 --> 01:08:12,520 Speaker 1: I also i'd like barely drink. I had like one 1305 01:08:12,600 --> 01:08:14,120 Speaker 1: drink last week and it was the first time in 1306 01:08:14,200 --> 01:08:18,280 Speaker 1: like months. Yeah, And so I mean, all these the 1307 01:08:18,360 --> 01:08:22,679 Speaker 1: reason why you see skyrocketing drug use, skyrocketing alcohol use, 1308 01:08:22,880 --> 01:08:28,639 Speaker 1: skyrocketing anti anxiety and depression, uh use, medication use, it's 1309 01:08:28,640 --> 01:08:32,679 Speaker 1: all because people are People are miserable, you know, they're lonely, 1310 01:08:32,760 --> 01:08:35,280 Speaker 1: they're disconnected, they don't have meaning in their life, like, 1311 01:08:35,800 --> 01:08:37,320 Speaker 1: you know, I don't want I'm not going to say 1312 01:08:37,360 --> 01:08:39,640 Speaker 1: that's like the only factor. But when you look at 1313 01:08:39,640 --> 01:08:43,440 Speaker 1: the fact that this country is an outlier on these measures, 1314 01:08:43,720 --> 01:08:46,840 Speaker 1: there's no doubt that this is a you know, a 1315 01:08:46,960 --> 01:08:50,439 Speaker 1: really clear indicator that we have failed our citizens on 1316 01:08:50,479 --> 01:08:54,639 Speaker 1: some really frickin basic levels. So the fact that this 1317 01:08:55,240 --> 01:08:58,920 Speaker 1: these skyrocketing overdose rates did not ease up, that they 1318 01:08:58,960 --> 01:09:02,960 Speaker 1: continued to ask late even as lockdowns eased, is yet 1319 01:09:03,000 --> 01:09:07,040 Speaker 1: another sign that, you know, it's just it's really dire 1320 01:09:07,160 --> 01:09:11,160 Speaker 1: and grim and stressful and depressing and lonely for far 1321 01:09:11,200 --> 01:09:14,000 Speaker 1: too many people out there. Yeah, absolutely, all right, let's 1322 01:09:14,000 --> 01:09:17,200 Speaker 1: turn to something a little bit lighter here, Simone Sanders, 1323 01:09:17,840 --> 01:09:20,680 Speaker 1: who at one time aren't for Bernie Sanders. Yes, that's right, 1324 01:09:21,200 --> 01:09:25,920 Speaker 1: then switched over to Joe Biden. Imagine what that says 1325 01:09:25,920 --> 01:09:28,360 Speaker 1: about you, that you could just be like all that 1326 01:09:28,439 --> 01:09:31,240 Speaker 1: stuff I've said about medicare for all, Now I'm going 1327 01:09:31,280 --> 01:09:33,320 Speaker 1: to be with the dude who says he'd veto medicare 1328 01:09:33,360 --> 01:09:37,240 Speaker 1: for all. Okay, So then she ended up in Kamala 1329 01:09:37,240 --> 01:09:41,040 Speaker 1: Harris's shop working for the Vice president once the administration started, 1330 01:09:41,080 --> 01:09:44,440 Speaker 1: So she was among a number of Kamala Harris staffers 1331 01:09:44,439 --> 01:09:48,840 Speaker 1: who exited amid what seems to be very tumultuous and 1332 01:09:48,880 --> 01:09:51,640 Speaker 1: we'll use the word toxic because that's the hot buzzword 1333 01:09:51,760 --> 01:09:55,320 Speaker 1: work environment over there in the Vice President's office. And 1334 01:09:55,760 --> 01:09:59,439 Speaker 1: she has been given a show on MSNBC on the 1335 01:09:59,439 --> 01:10:03,759 Speaker 1: weekend four PM called Simone, And we have the numbers 1336 01:10:03,760 --> 01:10:06,840 Speaker 1: now about how her debut show actually went. Let's go 1337 01:10:06,840 --> 01:10:09,280 Speaker 1: ahead and throw this up on the screen. So she 1338 01:10:09,479 --> 01:10:14,120 Speaker 1: drew overall three hundred and sixty one thousand total viewers 1339 01:10:14,760 --> 01:10:17,759 Speaker 1: in the demographic, which is actually the only thing that matters. 1340 01:10:17,760 --> 01:10:19,400 Speaker 1: I shouldn't even say the three hundred and sixty one 1341 01:10:19,400 --> 01:10:21,920 Speaker 1: because those people are completely irrelevant. The whole thing in 1342 01:10:22,000 --> 01:10:24,559 Speaker 1: terms of advertisers is the twenty five to fifty four 1343 01:10:24,640 --> 01:10:29,040 Speaker 1: year olds. Twenty nine thousand viewers. Oh my god, that 1344 01:10:29,080 --> 01:10:32,479 Speaker 1: compares to Fox's competitor at that time did one hundred 1345 01:10:32,479 --> 01:10:35,560 Speaker 1: and sixty three thousand viewers. I mean this in fairness, 1346 01:10:35,640 --> 01:10:38,960 Speaker 1: the four pm slot on Saturday is like the worst 1347 01:10:39,000 --> 01:10:42,599 Speaker 1: possible time slot that you could have. But I mean 1348 01:10:42,640 --> 01:10:44,680 Speaker 1: this was her debut, her big launch. She had a 1349 01:10:44,680 --> 01:10:48,679 Speaker 1: big get. As they say in the viz. Doctor Jill Biden. 1350 01:10:48,760 --> 01:10:51,439 Speaker 1: Joe Bid the first lady sat down with her, and 1351 01:10:51,479 --> 01:10:53,360 Speaker 1: I have to say I find doctor Jill to She's 1352 01:10:53,400 --> 01:10:56,280 Speaker 1: probably one of the most sort of like in touch 1353 01:10:56,280 --> 01:10:58,640 Speaker 1: with reality people in this administration as far as I 1354 01:10:58,640 --> 01:11:02,799 Speaker 1: can tell, because she's continued to teach. Yeah, and also 1355 01:11:03,080 --> 01:11:06,400 Speaker 1: she's funny. She also told Joe not to pick Kamala 1356 01:11:06,400 --> 01:11:09,320 Speaker 1: Harris for her vice presidential nominee. But anyway, so she 1357 01:11:09,400 --> 01:11:11,479 Speaker 1: had this big get this big sit down. She had 1358 01:11:11,560 --> 01:11:14,080 Speaker 1: promised that she was no longer going to just like 1359 01:11:14,120 --> 01:11:16,320 Speaker 1: carry water for the administration, that that was in the past. 1360 01:11:16,320 --> 01:11:17,559 Speaker 1: She's going to tell it like it is. But of 1361 01:11:17,560 --> 01:11:20,400 Speaker 1: course it was an extremely fluffy interview. Ultimately, I find 1362 01:11:20,400 --> 01:11:23,639 Speaker 1: doctor Jill to be a delightful lady. I think she's 1363 01:11:24,240 --> 01:11:25,880 Speaker 1: very very nice, and I think one of the things 1364 01:11:25,920 --> 01:11:27,240 Speaker 1: is that, you know, people don't say this enough. I 1365 01:11:27,280 --> 01:11:30,000 Speaker 1: think something admirable about Biden and actually Obama too, was 1366 01:11:30,840 --> 01:11:33,479 Speaker 1: genuinely love their wives and their family. So I think 1367 01:11:33,520 --> 01:11:35,519 Speaker 1: that's a cool thing. Yeah, in order to have she 1368 01:11:35,760 --> 01:11:39,080 Speaker 1: she stepped into their you know, these they suffered a 1369 01:11:39,120 --> 01:11:42,280 Speaker 1: lot signs up with these little kids. Yeah, the whole bit. 1370 01:11:42,360 --> 01:11:43,640 Speaker 1: I want to put that out there because I think 1371 01:11:43,760 --> 01:11:46,640 Speaker 1: there's too much negativity sometimes whenever we talk about this, 1372 01:11:47,080 --> 01:11:50,880 Speaker 1: but whenever it comes to Simone Sanders, her show is 1373 01:11:50,880 --> 01:11:52,600 Speaker 1: a total flop. And the reason why we have to 1374 01:11:52,600 --> 01:11:55,080 Speaker 1: look at it is that this is a precursor to 1375 01:11:55,120 --> 01:11:58,200 Speaker 1: somebody who's leaving the White House this week, Crystal jen Zaki, 1376 01:11:58,439 --> 01:12:01,720 Speaker 1: who is headed straight over to MSNBC, where she too 1377 01:12:01,840 --> 01:12:04,160 Speaker 1: is apparently going to be playing the Simone Sanders playbook, 1378 01:12:04,320 --> 01:12:06,880 Speaker 1: having some sort of peacock type show and then also 1379 01:12:07,040 --> 01:12:09,519 Speaker 1: being like once a week on programming. So let's put 1380 01:12:09,560 --> 01:12:12,000 Speaker 1: this up there on the screen. You know. MSM Fox 1381 01:12:12,000 --> 01:12:14,240 Speaker 1: actually had a decent write up. Now obviously they have 1382 01:12:14,240 --> 01:12:18,240 Speaker 1: an incentive order write colleagues, this is actually a pretty 1383 01:12:18,280 --> 01:12:21,599 Speaker 1: good analysis. And what they're saying is that MSNBC during 1384 01:12:21,960 --> 01:12:25,599 Speaker 1: Maddow's absences is just really seeking its identity. It doesn't 1385 01:12:25,640 --> 01:12:28,400 Speaker 1: know what to do. Rachel Maddow was the backbone of 1386 01:12:28,400 --> 01:12:31,000 Speaker 1: that entire network. She had to come back and basically 1387 01:12:31,080 --> 01:12:33,280 Speaker 1: try and save it, you know, once a week whenever 1388 01:12:33,320 --> 01:12:35,679 Speaker 1: she's on. But she's working on all these different types 1389 01:12:35,680 --> 01:12:38,799 Speaker 1: of products, and in the meantime, they have no idea 1390 01:12:38,960 --> 01:12:43,120 Speaker 1: what to do. Nobody else rates. They just fired, not fired, 1391 01:12:43,400 --> 01:12:47,719 Speaker 1: let's be kind, moved Chuck Todd off the air onto 1392 01:12:48,000 --> 01:12:51,800 Speaker 1: NBC News now, which of course everybody is watching out there, 1393 01:12:52,360 --> 01:12:54,760 Speaker 1: and for meet the press. I mean, that's humiliating and 1394 01:12:54,800 --> 01:12:58,120 Speaker 1: embarrassing for him. But it's a titanic shift because now 1395 01:12:58,120 --> 01:13:00,639 Speaker 1: they're like, Okay, straight news definitely and work and Chuck 1396 01:13:00,680 --> 01:13:03,320 Speaker 1: Todd obviously sucks. They're like, but what do we do 1397 01:13:03,800 --> 01:13:06,799 Speaker 1: in the meantime? Simone doesn't rate. All of their peacock 1398 01:13:06,880 --> 01:13:10,439 Speaker 1: shows have been a complete flop and a disaster. They're 1399 01:13:10,479 --> 01:13:13,080 Speaker 1: not releasing any of those for a reason, and none 1400 01:13:13,120 --> 01:13:15,880 Speaker 1: of them many get any real press. Well, so now 1401 01:13:15,880 --> 01:13:18,320 Speaker 1: what you know at this point, I think this is 1402 01:13:18,360 --> 01:13:20,840 Speaker 1: a harbinger of how the Saki Show is going to go. 1403 01:13:21,160 --> 01:13:23,400 Speaker 1: At the end of the day, Simone Sanders and Saki 1404 01:13:23,479 --> 01:13:25,920 Speaker 1: cannot tell the truth about the Biden administration the list 1405 01:13:25,960 --> 01:13:28,719 Speaker 1: of work there, It's just not possible, and so they're 1406 01:13:28,720 --> 01:13:31,479 Speaker 1: going to have to continue to fluff the least popular 1407 01:13:31,520 --> 01:13:34,679 Speaker 1: president of our lifetime. And at the same time, anybody 1408 01:13:34,720 --> 01:13:36,320 Speaker 1: who would have a critical point of view of the 1409 01:13:36,320 --> 01:13:39,160 Speaker 1: Biden administration can't be on because they're going to anger 1410 01:13:39,240 --> 01:13:41,960 Speaker 1: the core base of the entire network. So, yeah, they're 1411 01:13:42,000 --> 01:13:45,599 Speaker 1: in a real catastrophe. Outside of Mattow, they got nothing 1412 01:13:45,600 --> 01:13:49,080 Speaker 1: else that is true. Yeah, because it's really I think 1413 01:13:49,120 --> 01:13:52,920 Speaker 1: the fact that Simone's show didn't read it really doesn't 1414 01:13:52,920 --> 01:13:55,200 Speaker 1: have anything to do with her. Yes, it has to 1415 01:13:55,240 --> 01:13:56,920 Speaker 1: do with the fact. And this is why we can 1416 01:13:56,920 --> 01:13:59,600 Speaker 1: so confidently predict like Jnsaki show is also not going 1417 01:13:59,680 --> 01:14:01,719 Speaker 1: to perform. Well, it has to do with the fact, 1418 01:14:01,840 --> 01:14:06,519 Speaker 1: like who's really interested in another hour of the same? Like, yeah, 1419 01:14:06,640 --> 01:14:10,760 Speaker 1: like a pro administration Biden propaganda, you can get that 1420 01:14:10,880 --> 01:14:13,960 Speaker 1: in any number of places. It's boring, it's predictable, it's 1421 01:14:13,960 --> 01:14:16,679 Speaker 1: not interesting, there's really no reason to tune into it. Ultimately, 1422 01:14:17,120 --> 01:14:22,599 Speaker 1: And MSNBC also has a sort of they have a 1423 01:14:22,680 --> 01:14:28,000 Speaker 1: structural problem because as compared to Fox News, because the 1424 01:14:28,240 --> 01:14:32,639 Speaker 1: liberals who watch MSNBC, they feel comfortable with any range 1425 01:14:32,640 --> 01:14:35,000 Speaker 1: of news outlets. They can go to the New York Times, 1426 01:14:35,000 --> 01:14:37,920 Speaker 1: they can go to CNN, they can go to ABC, 1427 01:14:38,120 --> 01:14:41,800 Speaker 1: NBC anywhere, and they feel NPR they feel like they're 1428 01:14:41,920 --> 01:14:45,720 Speaker 1: getting their sort of views of the world mostly validated, 1429 01:14:45,760 --> 01:14:49,240 Speaker 1: and they feel comfortable there, whereas with the conservative base, 1430 01:14:50,120 --> 01:14:54,120 Speaker 1: they only effectively feel like they can get the truth 1431 01:14:54,200 --> 01:14:56,320 Speaker 1: from Fox News. No, they're not getting the truth from 1432 01:14:56,320 --> 01:14:59,280 Speaker 1: Fox News. But that's that's the sentiment. And so that 1433 01:14:59,400 --> 01:15:02,240 Speaker 1: means that you you have almost like a monopoly. I mean, 1434 01:15:02,320 --> 01:15:04,479 Speaker 1: now we have Newsmax and one American news network, but 1435 01:15:04,560 --> 01:15:07,200 Speaker 1: Fox is still overwhelmingly the juggernaut, So they have sort 1436 01:15:07,200 --> 01:15:09,880 Speaker 1: of a monopoly on the conservative base, whereas the liberal 1437 01:15:09,920 --> 01:15:13,320 Speaker 1: base is splintered across all of these different news networks. 1438 01:15:13,400 --> 01:15:16,880 Speaker 1: And yeah, so ultimately, I think it's it's not that 1439 01:15:17,120 --> 01:15:20,519 Speaker 1: you know, there's anything wrong with Samone Sanders per se, 1440 01:15:20,600 --> 01:15:26,080 Speaker 1: it's that the entire ideology is like boring, predictable, nothing different, 1441 01:15:26,760 --> 01:15:29,360 Speaker 1: no real reason for people ultimately to tune in and 1442 01:15:29,400 --> 01:15:31,360 Speaker 1: show up for it. Well, I won't go far to 1443 01:15:31,400 --> 01:15:34,719 Speaker 1: say that there's nothing wrong with Sands, but I mostly 1444 01:15:34,800 --> 01:15:39,519 Speaker 1: co sign olive what he said, Crystal, what are you 1445 01:15:39,520 --> 01:15:43,719 Speaker 1: taking a look at? Well? Friends. Conservative activist Danesh Desusa 1446 01:15:43,800 --> 01:15:46,280 Speaker 1: is out with a new movie that purports to blow 1447 01:15:46,400 --> 01:15:49,439 Speaker 1: the lid off a massive election ringing scheme that handed 1448 01:15:49,520 --> 01:15:52,400 Speaker 1: Joe Biden the win over Donald Trump. And because I 1449 01:15:52,439 --> 01:15:56,120 Speaker 1: love you, I watched it, wasting my thirty dollars on it, 1450 01:15:56,160 --> 01:15:58,880 Speaker 1: so that you don't have to. Apparently, the movie called 1451 01:15:58,920 --> 01:16:01,479 Speaker 1: two Thousand Mules is actually getting a lot of traction. 1452 01:16:01,680 --> 01:16:03,400 Speaker 1: In its first twelve hours, it grows more than a 1453 01:16:03,439 --> 01:16:07,240 Speaker 1: million dollars on alternative platforms, Rumble and locals, good enough 1454 01:16:07,280 --> 01:16:10,200 Speaker 1: figures for it to crack the box office top ten. 1455 01:16:10,560 --> 01:16:12,559 Speaker 1: The movie has also gotten a boost from the former 1456 01:16:12,600 --> 01:16:16,599 Speaker 1: president himself. Notable supporters of Trump like Kyle Rittenhouse, Jenna Ellis, 1457 01:16:16,640 --> 01:16:19,360 Speaker 1: and Congressman Marjorie Taylor Green were among those who attended 1458 01:16:19,400 --> 01:16:23,040 Speaker 1: this screening last week Wednesday at mar A Lago. As 1459 01:16:23,080 --> 01:16:25,840 Speaker 1: you know, we hear a breaking points in it rising. Previously, 1460 01:16:25,880 --> 01:16:28,360 Speaker 1: we've tried to approach stop the steel claims, not by 1461 01:16:28,360 --> 01:16:32,640 Speaker 1: outright dismissal and censorship, but by engagement and by analysis. 1462 01:16:32,840 --> 01:16:36,439 Speaker 1: Danesh DSUSA has every right to put on his film, 1463 01:16:36,520 --> 01:16:39,040 Speaker 1: and I have every right to tell you after watching 1464 01:16:39,040 --> 01:16:42,280 Speaker 1: it and evaluating the claims that it is a dishonest, 1465 01:16:42,800 --> 01:16:46,800 Speaker 1: error riddled, propaganda filled hustle from beginning to end, this 1466 01:16:46,840 --> 01:16:49,000 Speaker 1: film really has it all. It's got it all, from 1467 01:16:49,120 --> 01:16:52,360 Speaker 1: massive obvious holes to outright lies, and it relies on 1468 01:16:52,439 --> 01:16:55,320 Speaker 1: little more than conjecture dressed up as data and evidence. 1469 01:16:55,439 --> 01:16:58,559 Speaker 1: It won't convince anyone that the election was stolen by 1470 01:16:58,560 --> 01:17:02,679 Speaker 1: thousands of vote harvesting human mules, but it will persuade 1471 01:17:02,680 --> 01:17:05,320 Speaker 1: plenty of true believers to part with even more of 1472 01:17:05,360 --> 01:17:09,280 Speaker 1: their cash, feeding it once again into the perpetual Maga grift. 1473 01:17:09,640 --> 01:17:12,000 Speaker 1: I can only presume that that was the intended goal. 1474 01:17:12,120 --> 01:17:15,640 Speaker 1: So on that front, mission accomplished. I guess let's dive in, 1475 01:17:15,720 --> 01:17:18,880 Speaker 1: shall we. The title two thousand mules refers to the 1476 01:17:18,960 --> 01:17:21,800 Speaker 1: thousands of people that Desuza alleges were involved in five 1477 01:17:21,880 --> 01:17:26,720 Speaker 1: key swing states Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. Now 1478 01:17:26,720 --> 01:17:29,360 Speaker 1: in turning in ballots that they were not authorized to handle, 1479 01:17:29,400 --> 01:17:32,519 Speaker 1: that's the allegation, but in fact, in order to arrive 1480 01:17:32,560 --> 01:17:35,280 Speaker 1: at sufficient vote totals to switch the election result from 1481 01:17:35,280 --> 01:17:38,320 Speaker 1: Biden to Trump, Desuza posits that there were really more 1482 01:17:38,360 --> 01:17:42,559 Speaker 1: than fifty thousand of these individuals operating in just these 1483 01:17:42,600 --> 01:17:46,800 Speaker 1: five states. Now, before I get into the sketchy data 1484 01:17:46,920 --> 01:17:50,200 Speaker 1: undergirding those assumptions, just ask yourself, if that theory passes 1485 01:17:50,240 --> 01:17:54,040 Speaker 1: the smell test, do you believe tens and potentially hundreds 1486 01:17:54,040 --> 01:17:57,240 Speaker 1: of thousands of Americans could be enlisted in a national 1487 01:17:57,400 --> 01:18:00,640 Speaker 1: vote rigging scheme without anyone breathe a word of it 1488 01:18:00,720 --> 01:18:03,440 Speaker 1: and no one sniffing it out. Does it seem plausible 1489 01:18:03,439 --> 01:18:07,000 Speaker 1: to you that anyone could execute such a mammoth undertaking 1490 01:18:07,080 --> 01:18:11,200 Speaker 1: in complete secrecy. The basis for Deseuz's outlandish claims is 1491 01:18:11,280 --> 01:18:14,519 Speaker 1: data gathered by the conservative nonprofit Through the Vote. True. 1492 01:18:14,560 --> 01:18:16,640 Speaker 1: The Vote was birth during the Obama era by a 1493 01:18:16,720 --> 01:18:19,520 Speaker 1: leader of a Texas Tea party group. So this organization 1494 01:18:19,880 --> 01:18:22,599 Speaker 1: they purchased cell phone location data in these five states 1495 01:18:22,800 --> 01:18:25,439 Speaker 1: and then positive that any cell phone which traveled near 1496 01:18:25,479 --> 01:18:28,120 Speaker 1: a number of ballot drop boxes multiple times and also 1497 01:18:28,200 --> 01:18:32,639 Speaker 1: near some unspecified nonprofit organizations during a similar timeframe must 1498 01:18:32,680 --> 01:18:35,600 Speaker 1: definitely belong to a mule who is part of this 1499 01:18:35,720 --> 01:18:39,000 Speaker 1: nationwide election ringing scheme. Now, there are some obvious problems 1500 01:18:39,000 --> 01:18:41,240 Speaker 1: with this number. One, cell phone location data is just 1501 01:18:41,360 --> 01:18:44,000 Speaker 1: not that precise. Number two, there are any number of 1502 01:18:44,120 --> 01:18:46,640 Speaker 1: innocent reasons why someone going about their day, going to 1503 01:18:46,720 --> 01:18:49,479 Speaker 1: and from work, delivering Uber Eats or Amazon packages, or 1504 01:18:49,560 --> 01:18:52,240 Speaker 1: just generally living their life might pass by a number 1505 01:18:52,280 --> 01:18:55,599 Speaker 1: of ballot drop boxes on any given day, especially because 1506 01:18:55,640 --> 01:18:58,639 Speaker 1: those ballot drop boxes were often intentionally placed in highly 1507 01:18:58,640 --> 01:19:02,880 Speaker 1: trafficked areas. Number three, the nonprofit entities central to this 1508 01:19:02,920 --> 01:19:05,720 Speaker 1: whole cell phone data driven mule theory were, as far 1509 01:19:05,720 --> 01:19:07,960 Speaker 1: as I can tell, just picked at random, and none 1510 01:19:08,000 --> 01:19:10,280 Speaker 1: of them are actually even named in the film. And 1511 01:19:10,400 --> 01:19:13,920 Speaker 1: number four, based on an analysis of the data in Georgia, 1512 01:19:14,000 --> 01:19:17,479 Speaker 1: at least, the whole thing is actually just completely made up, 1513 01:19:17,720 --> 01:19:20,719 Speaker 1: just outright lies. According to a Georgia reporter who reviewed 1514 01:19:20,720 --> 01:19:24,120 Speaker 1: the film, quote they claim there were more drop boxes 1515 01:19:24,160 --> 01:19:27,599 Speaker 1: in metro Atlanta three hundred and nine than actually existed 1516 01:19:27,640 --> 01:19:31,000 Speaker 1: in the entire state just under three hundred. The cell 1517 01:19:31,040 --> 01:19:35,080 Speaker 1: phone pings of quote Antifa rioters don't really correspond to 1518 01:19:35,120 --> 01:19:37,480 Speaker 1: real places, like there were a bunch of the cemetery 1519 01:19:37,920 --> 01:19:41,880 Speaker 1: the mule route does not line up with dropboxes. So yeah, 1520 01:19:42,400 --> 01:19:45,160 Speaker 1: basically none of what they were resting their entire mule 1521 01:19:45,200 --> 01:19:48,760 Speaker 1: case on was real at all. Desuza then couples this 1522 01:19:48,960 --> 01:19:51,519 Speaker 1: with surveillance footage also gathered by True of the the Vote, 1523 01:19:51,520 --> 01:19:55,439 Speaker 1: showing individuals placing multiple ballots into dropboxes. Now, this video 1524 01:19:55,439 --> 01:19:58,439 Speaker 1: footage is supposed to be the real smoking gun, catching 1525 01:19:58,520 --> 01:20:02,759 Speaker 1: Disuza's mules in action. In reality, there is nothing inherently 1526 01:20:02,800 --> 01:20:06,400 Speaker 1: sinister about the video evidence at all, it's just regular 1527 01:20:06,439 --> 01:20:08,960 Speaker 1: looking voters putting a handful of ballots in a dropbox, 1528 01:20:09,080 --> 01:20:13,160 Speaker 1: something they are legally allowed to do under certain specific circumstances, 1529 01:20:13,160 --> 01:20:15,559 Speaker 1: and I'll get to that. I believe the largest number 1530 01:20:15,560 --> 01:20:17,360 Speaker 1: that I could see of ballots that their videos show 1531 01:20:17,400 --> 01:20:20,360 Speaker 1: dropped was five, maybe six. Now, a number of states 1532 01:20:20,439 --> 01:20:23,840 Speaker 1: actually permit voters to quote harvest ballots, which just means 1533 01:20:23,880 --> 01:20:26,320 Speaker 1: collecting sealed mail in ballots and dropping them in the 1534 01:20:26,360 --> 01:20:29,320 Speaker 1: mail or at a designated dropbox. But even in the 1535 01:20:29,320 --> 01:20:33,080 Speaker 1: states like Georgia, where so called ballot harvesting is illegal, 1536 01:20:33,479 --> 01:20:36,439 Speaker 1: you are still permitted to drop off multiple ballots for 1537 01:20:36,520 --> 01:20:39,120 Speaker 1: family members and for the disabled if you are their caregiver. 1538 01:20:39,520 --> 01:20:42,400 Speaker 1: It is quite easy to imagine why one voter might 1539 01:20:42,479 --> 01:20:45,240 Speaker 1: drop off multiple ballots for themselves and for their family members, 1540 01:20:45,479 --> 01:20:48,000 Speaker 1: especially during a pandemic when we were all trying very 1541 01:20:48,080 --> 01:20:50,920 Speaker 1: hard to keep Gramma and Grandpa from getting killed. Was 1542 01:20:51,000 --> 01:20:54,360 Speaker 1: this obvious and very innocent rationale floated at all in 1543 01:20:54,400 --> 01:20:58,400 Speaker 1: the film, No, of course not. Instead, in typical propaganda style, 1544 01:20:58,560 --> 01:21:01,559 Speaker 1: every single action is viewed in a potentially sinister light. 1545 01:21:02,080 --> 01:21:04,840 Speaker 1: Voter's casting ballots at odd times of day. That's proof 1546 01:21:04,880 --> 01:21:07,479 Speaker 1: of sinister motives. Voter's casting ballots in the middle of 1547 01:21:07,520 --> 01:21:10,479 Speaker 1: the day with others around is also proof of sinister motives. 1548 01:21:10,720 --> 01:21:12,880 Speaker 1: In one instance, a voter takes a picture and they 1549 01:21:12,920 --> 01:21:15,760 Speaker 1: concoct an elaborate story about how this picture was necessary 1550 01:21:15,760 --> 01:21:18,680 Speaker 1: for this mule to get paid. No explanation why the 1551 01:21:18,720 --> 01:21:20,800 Speaker 1: other mules apparently didn't care enough to get paid to 1552 01:21:20,840 --> 01:21:23,360 Speaker 1: also take a picture. In another instance, a voter wears 1553 01:21:23,400 --> 01:21:26,040 Speaker 1: surgical gloves to open the drop box and deposit ballots, 1554 01:21:26,040 --> 01:21:29,080 Speaker 1: and then discard the gloves. This is taken as ironclad 1555 01:21:29,120 --> 01:21:31,360 Speaker 1: proof that they were trying to avoid having fingerprints on 1556 01:21:31,400 --> 01:21:34,640 Speaker 1: the envelopes. Of course, an alternative explanation is that it 1557 01:21:34,800 --> 01:21:37,240 Speaker 1: was the middle of the pandemic, before vaccines, and some 1558 01:21:37,280 --> 01:21:39,640 Speaker 1: people were still freaked down about touching surfaces that have 1559 01:21:39,720 --> 01:21:41,600 Speaker 1: been touched by a lot of other people in the 1560 01:21:41,640 --> 01:21:44,160 Speaker 1: beginning of the pandemic. I kept a box of surgical 1561 01:21:44,200 --> 01:21:46,360 Speaker 1: gloves in my car and use them for pumping gas 1562 01:21:46,360 --> 01:21:50,120 Speaker 1: and going into convenience stores. Was I paranoid? Absolutely? Was 1563 01:21:50,160 --> 01:21:53,800 Speaker 1: I illegally ballot harvesting at the sheets? No? I was not. Also, 1564 01:21:53,920 --> 01:21:56,000 Speaker 1: by the way, if I was a paid mule in 1565 01:21:56,040 --> 01:21:59,439 Speaker 1: a nationwide vote rigging scheme. Pretty sure, I would just 1566 01:21:59,479 --> 01:22:02,559 Speaker 1: put my back ballots in mail privately, not at a 1567 01:22:02,600 --> 01:22:05,960 Speaker 1: public dropbox with a surveillance camera. But that's just me. 1568 01:22:06,680 --> 01:22:09,800 Speaker 1: Even the details of what ballot harvesting actually is are 1569 01:22:09,960 --> 01:22:13,280 Speaker 1: left intentionally murky, So ballot harvesting is actually perfectly fine 1570 01:22:13,320 --> 01:22:15,599 Speaker 1: and legal in twenty six states. But even if these 1571 01:22:15,600 --> 01:22:19,760 Speaker 1: supposed fifty thousand mules really did exist and really did 1572 01:22:19,840 --> 01:22:22,120 Speaker 1: engage in ballot harvesting in states where it was illegal, 1573 01:22:22,680 --> 01:22:26,679 Speaker 1: that would actually in no way invalidate actual, legitimate, sealed 1574 01:22:26,720 --> 01:22:29,080 Speaker 1: ballots that were cast, even if they were cast by 1575 01:22:29,120 --> 01:22:32,160 Speaker 1: one of these mules. The ballot harvester could be charged 1576 01:22:32,160 --> 01:22:35,200 Speaker 1: with a crime, of course, But when real voters cast 1577 01:22:35,280 --> 01:22:38,880 Speaker 1: real votes, they still count regardless of how they ended 1578 01:22:38,960 --> 01:22:41,200 Speaker 1: up in the dropbox. And it's not like you can 1579 01:22:41,280 --> 01:22:43,760 Speaker 1: just invent voters and have them cast fake votes out 1580 01:22:43,800 --> 01:22:47,360 Speaker 1: of whole cloth. In Georgia, for example, every absentee voters 1581 01:22:47,479 --> 01:22:50,639 Speaker 1: is assigned a unique absentee ballot which must be returned 1582 01:22:50,680 --> 01:22:54,800 Speaker 1: along with signature registration information, and a barcode has to 1583 01:22:54,800 --> 01:22:58,240 Speaker 1: be inside of a sealed envelope, and obviously voters can 1584 01:22:58,280 --> 01:23:01,240 Speaker 1: only cast one ballot film does not explain how these 1585 01:23:01,240 --> 01:23:05,280 Speaker 1: secret billionaire cabal circumvented all of these protections. Is also 1586 01:23:05,400 --> 01:23:07,600 Speaker 1: very noteworthy what the film does not show. In not 1587 01:23:07,720 --> 01:23:11,919 Speaker 1: a single instance do they show one individual making multiple 1588 01:23:11,960 --> 01:23:15,000 Speaker 1: ballot drops, even though that is what they allege is happening. 1589 01:23:15,080 --> 01:23:19,360 Speaker 1: In the film, they alleged, remember fifty thousand plus mules 1590 01:23:19,360 --> 01:23:22,879 Speaker 1: making dozens of ballot box drops, and yet they couldn't 1591 01:23:22,880 --> 01:23:27,160 Speaker 1: find a single mule actually making one of their repeat trips. Odd. 1592 01:23:27,760 --> 01:23:30,479 Speaker 1: The Lanta Journal Constitution did a good job analyzing the film, 1593 01:23:30,600 --> 01:23:33,000 Speaker 1: especially with regards the claims made about Georgia, which were 1594 01:23:33,040 --> 01:23:36,000 Speaker 1: central to the film. According to the AJAC, several of 1595 01:23:36,040 --> 01:23:39,320 Speaker 1: the ballot drop box videos were reviewed by election investigators 1596 01:23:39,360 --> 01:23:42,000 Speaker 1: and no fraud was found. In fact, according to the 1597 01:23:42,040 --> 01:23:45,280 Speaker 1: Republican Secretary of State, one Gwennette County man, who came 1598 01:23:45,320 --> 01:23:48,760 Speaker 1: under particular scrutiny for dropping off five ballots, was investigated 1599 01:23:49,160 --> 01:23:52,519 Speaker 1: turned down. Guess what he was dropping off ballots for 1600 01:23:52,600 --> 01:23:55,479 Speaker 1: family members as is permitted by law. I know you'll 1601 01:23:55,479 --> 01:23:58,280 Speaker 1: be shocked to learn that this rather inconvenient fact was 1602 01:23:58,400 --> 01:24:01,600 Speaker 1: also left out of the film. Other piece of evidence 1603 01:24:01,720 --> 01:24:03,920 Speaker 1: offered is the fact that Although in several of these 1604 01:24:03,960 --> 01:24:06,400 Speaker 1: states Trump was up early in the night, vote total 1605 01:24:06,400 --> 01:24:09,360 Speaker 1: shifted in Biden's favor as the evening turned into night. 1606 01:24:09,640 --> 01:24:12,639 Speaker 1: Now they put together whole montage of anchors acting really 1607 01:24:12,680 --> 01:24:16,040 Speaker 1: surprised at the shift. But if you were paying attention 1608 01:24:16,280 --> 01:24:18,000 Speaker 1: or you were watching Rising at the time, you know 1609 01:24:18,160 --> 01:24:22,320 Speaker 1: to expect exactly this dynamic. Trump famously told his voters 1610 01:24:22,360 --> 01:24:24,599 Speaker 1: not to vote by mail, but instead to wait in 1611 01:24:24,600 --> 01:24:27,080 Speaker 1: cast ballots in person. In a number of states the 1612 01:24:27,160 --> 01:24:30,160 Speaker 1: day of election, ballots were tallied first, and those then 1613 01:24:30,280 --> 01:24:33,880 Speaker 1: predictably skewed towards Trump. Democrats, on the other hand, leaned 1614 01:24:33,960 --> 01:24:36,479 Speaker 1: into mail in voting, so when these ballots were counted, 1615 01:24:36,520 --> 01:24:40,439 Speaker 1: they predictably skewed towards Democrats. That was not evidence of fraud. 1616 01:24:40,560 --> 01:24:43,720 Speaker 1: It was just evidence of Trump's really stupid strategy to 1617 01:24:43,800 --> 01:24:46,600 Speaker 1: keep his people from voting by mail. The result was 1618 01:24:46,640 --> 01:24:50,599 Speaker 1: both predictable and was actually predicted by us, among many 1619 01:24:50,600 --> 01:24:53,400 Speaker 1: other people. Honest actors who were not just trying to 1620 01:24:53,520 --> 01:24:56,600 Speaker 1: lie and manipulate their audience explained all of this so 1621 01:24:56,640 --> 01:24:59,599 Speaker 1: that people could understand the results as they were coming in. 1622 01:25:00,160 --> 01:25:02,080 Speaker 1: The movie also leans into the charge that it was 1623 01:25:02,200 --> 01:25:05,280 Speaker 1: cities like Philadelphia and Detroit, where mules were most active. 1624 01:25:05,560 --> 01:25:08,240 Speaker 1: The fact that Trump actually improved his performance in these 1625 01:25:08,240 --> 01:25:11,040 Speaker 1: cities is kind of inconvenient to that claim too. So 1626 01:25:11,080 --> 01:25:13,640 Speaker 1: what are we left to hear. We're left with the 1627 01:25:13,680 --> 01:25:16,360 Speaker 1: cell phone data, which is strained, circumstantial, and based on 1628 01:25:16,400 --> 01:25:20,280 Speaker 1: outright lies, so obviously that should be completely disregarded. The 1629 01:25:20,920 --> 01:25:24,120 Speaker 1: box videos are easily explained by perfectly legal actions of 1630 01:25:24,200 --> 01:25:26,599 Speaker 1: voters dropping off bouts for family members, and don't show 1631 01:25:26,600 --> 01:25:30,040 Speaker 1: a single instance of one individual making multiple drops as 1632 01:25:30,120 --> 01:25:33,040 Speaker 1: they claimed happened literally hundreds of thousands of times. And 1633 01:25:33,640 --> 01:25:36,599 Speaker 1: the macrodata might have surprised some Trump voters who were 1634 01:25:36,600 --> 01:25:39,160 Speaker 1: fed a steady diet of propaganda, but it was exactly 1635 01:25:39,160 --> 01:25:42,479 Speaker 1: what anyone with good information might have expected. In fact, 1636 01:25:42,680 --> 01:25:45,920 Speaker 1: the only election violations associated with this film come from 1637 01:25:45,920 --> 01:25:48,759 Speaker 1: the filmmaker himself, who was found guilty of making illegal 1638 01:25:48,800 --> 01:25:52,639 Speaker 1: straw campaign contributions. Kind of ironic come the only fraud 1639 01:25:52,840 --> 01:25:55,160 Speaker 1: are from those who would sell this pack of deceptions 1640 01:25:55,160 --> 01:25:58,080 Speaker 1: and lies as truth. Now, let me be clear here. 1641 01:25:58,640 --> 01:26:01,439 Speaker 1: My contempt for this film and I have plenty and 1642 01:26:01,479 --> 01:26:04,080 Speaker 1: those pushing it, does not mean I have content for 1643 01:26:04,080 --> 01:26:06,320 Speaker 1: those who buy into the stop the steal because I 1644 01:26:06,360 --> 01:26:09,400 Speaker 1: genuinely understand why people don't trust a single American institution, 1645 01:26:09,520 --> 01:26:12,200 Speaker 1: including your electoral system. Nor do I think that it's 1646 01:26:12,240 --> 01:26:15,280 Speaker 1: remotely off limits to question the legitimacy of our elections. 1647 01:26:15,439 --> 01:26:17,360 Speaker 1: Just look at what they did to Bernie in twenty sixteen, 1648 01:26:17,439 --> 01:26:19,080 Speaker 1: or what they did to al Gore in two thousand. 1649 01:26:19,560 --> 01:26:21,960 Speaker 1: That's why we have taken a lot of time, and 1650 01:26:21,960 --> 01:26:24,080 Speaker 1: why I took a lot of time today to review 1651 01:26:24,120 --> 01:26:27,360 Speaker 1: claims and lawsuits and judicial rulings. But what I find 1652 01:26:27,800 --> 01:26:34,360 Speaker 1: absolutely disgusting is using people, lying to them, exploiting the 1653 01:26:34,400 --> 01:26:37,360 Speaker 1: well a built up mistrust, not to make things better, 1654 01:26:37,520 --> 01:26:41,200 Speaker 1: but for your own profit. There is a special place 1655 01:26:41,240 --> 01:26:43,720 Speaker 1: in hell for those who would claim to expose the 1656 01:26:43,760 --> 01:26:48,759 Speaker 1: truth but instead knowingly pedal their own personally profitable deception. 1657 01:26:49,640 --> 01:26:54,120 Speaker 1: So Sager, there you go. Much more patience, And if 1658 01:26:54,160 --> 01:26:56,920 Speaker 1: you want to hear my reaction to Crystal's monologue, become 1659 01:26:56,920 --> 01:27:01,920 Speaker 1: a premium subscriber today at breakingpoints dot com. All right, taker, 1660 01:27:01,960 --> 01:27:04,040 Speaker 1: what are you looking at? Well? On Tuesday evening, Joe 1661 01:27:04,040 --> 01:27:06,200 Speaker 1: Biden gave a speech on inflation and which he sought 1662 01:27:06,200 --> 01:27:09,280 Speaker 1: to blame everybody but himself for the situation His main 1663 01:27:09,320 --> 01:27:12,479 Speaker 1: message to Americans was please have patience, which you might 1664 01:27:12,520 --> 01:27:14,840 Speaker 1: think is an okay message if he was running for 1665 01:27:14,920 --> 01:27:17,320 Speaker 1: something instead of the guy who has been in charge 1666 01:27:17,520 --> 01:27:19,719 Speaker 1: of this entire with his entire party in the seats 1667 01:27:19,760 --> 01:27:22,599 Speaker 1: of power for more than fifteen months, where at this point, 1668 01:27:22,760 --> 01:27:24,479 Speaker 1: if he had a plan and a way to fix it, 1669 01:27:24,680 --> 01:27:27,840 Speaker 1: we would probably know about it. Biden's solutions at this point, 1670 01:27:27,880 --> 01:27:30,760 Speaker 1: whereas follows, while the Fed can act, you should pass 1671 01:27:30,800 --> 01:27:34,120 Speaker 1: build back better for drug price reduction, which look, I 1672 01:27:34,240 --> 01:27:36,280 Speaker 1: definitely support that, but is not even in the top 1673 01:27:36,320 --> 01:27:39,200 Speaker 1: ten of inflationary effects right now. You should tell companies 1674 01:27:39,200 --> 01:27:42,240 Speaker 1: not to price gouge. By tell, I mean yes, literally 1675 01:27:42,280 --> 01:27:45,840 Speaker 1: tell and do nothing about it. You should increase biofuels, 1676 01:27:45,920 --> 01:27:48,800 Speaker 1: even though biofuel conversion is part of the reason that 1677 01:27:48,840 --> 01:27:51,639 Speaker 1: we have a diesel crisis right now. We should quote 1678 01:27:51,680 --> 01:27:54,599 Speaker 1: speed up the ports, which he's had at this point 1679 01:27:54,720 --> 01:27:57,320 Speaker 1: well over a year to do so. And we should 1680 01:27:57,400 --> 01:28:01,960 Speaker 1: quote promote competition. Literally all of those things are nebulous 1681 01:28:02,000 --> 01:28:04,080 Speaker 1: and things that should have been done a year ago 1682 01:28:04,400 --> 01:28:07,080 Speaker 1: because it was easy. So the answer is he's either 1683 01:28:07,120 --> 01:28:10,040 Speaker 1: been holding back this entire time, or he's unable to 1684 01:28:10,040 --> 01:28:12,880 Speaker 1: do anything and much more drastic action needs to be 1685 01:28:12,920 --> 01:28:17,080 Speaker 1: taken and considered right now. Obvious question is, Okay, Biden, 1686 01:28:17,400 --> 01:28:19,400 Speaker 1: how are you going to do that? How are you 1687 01:28:19,439 --> 01:28:21,519 Speaker 1: going to lower the price of gas? How are you 1688 01:28:21,600 --> 01:28:24,200 Speaker 1: going to produce more energy to lower the cost of 1689 01:28:24,240 --> 01:28:27,320 Speaker 1: living by balancing also our future problems? How are you 1690 01:28:27,360 --> 01:28:31,320 Speaker 1: going to punish companies using the executive office branch? How 1691 01:28:31,320 --> 01:28:34,760 Speaker 1: are you going to quote promote competition with your administration? 1692 01:28:35,160 --> 01:28:39,040 Speaker 1: Those are the obvious questions. Instead, the media asked two 1693 01:28:39,120 --> 01:28:41,760 Speaker 1: questions on inflation, and two of them, the only two 1694 01:28:41,800 --> 01:28:45,040 Speaker 1: at the top, are so idiotic and emblematic of how 1695 01:28:45,120 --> 01:28:47,559 Speaker 1: dumb they are, but of the mindset that the elites 1696 01:28:47,560 --> 01:28:50,120 Speaker 1: in this country really have. Let's take a listen to 1697 01:28:50,200 --> 01:28:57,920 Speaker 1: the very first question after Joe Biden's speechil gasoline prices 1698 01:28:57,960 --> 01:29:00,840 Speaker 1: and DISO price a record highs. Yet you have yet 1699 01:29:00,880 --> 01:29:04,519 Speaker 1: to ask Americans to consume less? Your trained guye, have 1700 01:29:04,600 --> 01:29:08,519 Speaker 1: you ever thought your administration asking Americans to drive less 1701 01:29:08,560 --> 01:29:11,240 Speaker 1: to take public transport? Well, if you ever raised a 1702 01:29:11,280 --> 01:29:13,840 Speaker 1: family like mine, you don't have to tell them. They're 1703 01:29:13,840 --> 01:29:16,760 Speaker 1: doing everything and their power to figure out how not 1704 01:29:16,840 --> 01:29:19,960 Speaker 1: to have to show up with the gas pump that's why. 1705 01:29:20,200 --> 01:29:21,880 Speaker 1: For example, one of the things is going to help 1706 01:29:21,920 --> 01:29:24,280 Speaker 1: a lot, but it's going to take time, is our 1707 01:29:24,320 --> 01:29:28,320 Speaker 1: infrastructure bill. The very first question of the president about 1708 01:29:28,360 --> 01:29:30,559 Speaker 1: inflation is not how are you going to fix it? 1709 01:29:30,560 --> 01:29:33,160 Speaker 1: It's not what's your plan? It's why are you not 1710 01:29:33,360 --> 01:29:37,240 Speaker 1: telling Americans to drive less? And honestly, Biden is right, 1711 01:29:37,560 --> 01:29:40,040 Speaker 1: you think people at home aren't already figuring it out. 1712 01:29:40,400 --> 01:29:43,519 Speaker 1: Some people have to work, lady. Maybe that's never occurred 1713 01:29:43,560 --> 01:29:46,760 Speaker 1: to you. They don't have company sponsored ubers and metros 1714 01:29:46,920 --> 01:29:50,400 Speaker 1: to their urban accessible abodes. Some people, and by that 1715 01:29:50,479 --> 01:29:53,680 Speaker 1: I mean most of this country have zero access to 1716 01:29:53,720 --> 01:29:56,839 Speaker 1: public transit and they got to drive to work. In effect, 1717 01:29:57,000 --> 01:29:59,920 Speaker 1: the media is asking Biden why he isn't telling people 1718 01:30:00,160 --> 01:30:03,559 Speaker 1: to limit travel and quality of life as a way 1719 01:30:03,640 --> 01:30:06,160 Speaker 1: in order to lessen the price of gas. It is 1720 01:30:06,240 --> 01:30:10,719 Speaker 1: a purely scarcity mindset. It's also an elitist mindset, and worse, 1721 01:30:10,960 --> 01:30:14,080 Speaker 1: it is one that lets him off the hook. It's 1722 01:30:14,439 --> 01:30:17,920 Speaker 1: his job to fix the most pressing problems in our 1723 01:30:18,040 --> 01:30:21,559 Speaker 1: life that are tied to government policy. This is where 1724 01:30:21,600 --> 01:30:24,479 Speaker 1: the overwhelming action can at least lessen the burden in 1725 01:30:24,520 --> 01:30:26,840 Speaker 1: the short term, or at least give people a plan 1726 01:30:26,960 --> 01:30:30,400 Speaker 1: on a way out. Instead, he abandoned us. Gas right 1727 01:30:30,439 --> 01:30:33,040 Speaker 1: now is probably going to decrease, possibly in the next 1728 01:30:33,120 --> 01:30:36,160 Speaker 1: month or so, not through any action by Biden. It 1729 01:30:36,240 --> 01:30:39,439 Speaker 1: is due to the overwhelming lockdowns in China, which is 1730 01:30:39,479 --> 01:30:42,400 Speaker 1: the largest importer of gas on the planet. You cannot 1731 01:30:42,479 --> 01:30:45,679 Speaker 1: count on that to save you. He needs to do something, 1732 01:30:45,840 --> 01:30:48,280 Speaker 1: but of course our media is letting him off the hook. 1733 01:30:48,439 --> 01:30:51,400 Speaker 1: They put the blame on you for living your life. 1734 01:30:51,520 --> 01:30:54,240 Speaker 1: The second question was dumber too, but it also reveals 1735 01:30:54,240 --> 01:30:57,639 Speaker 1: something core about them. Scarcity and neoliberalism are the only 1736 01:30:57,720 --> 01:31:00,840 Speaker 1: things these idiots understand. The second question to Biden was 1737 01:31:01,240 --> 01:31:04,880 Speaker 1: why is he not dropping the tariffs on China in 1738 01:31:05,000 --> 01:31:08,200 Speaker 1: order to fight inflation, to which he had the audacity 1739 01:31:08,280 --> 01:31:11,280 Speaker 1: to say, they're actually considering it. So let's really go 1740 01:31:11,360 --> 01:31:14,240 Speaker 1: through what the media is saying here. Why don't you 1741 01:31:14,360 --> 01:31:18,160 Speaker 1: drop tariffs on China to reduce inflation when the cause 1742 01:31:18,280 --> 01:31:20,439 Speaker 1: of the vast majority of the inflation that you all 1743 01:31:20,479 --> 01:31:23,320 Speaker 1: are experiencing right now is the result of the fact 1744 01:31:23,520 --> 01:31:28,000 Speaker 1: that we don't make anything here anymore. Really consider how 1745 01:31:28,080 --> 01:31:30,479 Speaker 1: dumb that is. Here is a list of where Americans 1746 01:31:30,479 --> 01:31:34,120 Speaker 1: are experiencing the most inflation. Gas, airfare, eggs, utility gas, 1747 01:31:34,200 --> 01:31:37,920 Speaker 1: used car, hotel, bacon, chicken, milk, the furniture. The only 1748 01:31:37,960 --> 01:31:39,519 Speaker 1: one of those that I just listened that comes from 1749 01:31:39,600 --> 01:31:42,280 Speaker 1: China is furniture, and it's literally all the way at 1750 01:31:42,280 --> 01:31:45,400 Speaker 1: the very bottom. Tariffs off of China would be a 1751 01:31:45,479 --> 01:31:49,200 Speaker 1: boon to the Chinese economy, which is struggling. It would 1752 01:31:49,200 --> 01:31:52,280 Speaker 1: be a boon to the corporations who would buy things 1753 01:31:52,280 --> 01:31:55,840 Speaker 1: for cheaper and still price gouge us, and it would 1754 01:31:55,840 --> 01:31:59,120 Speaker 1: be a robbery away from the American businesses who are 1755 01:31:59,160 --> 01:32:02,400 Speaker 1: trying to compete in the marketplace. We got into this 1756 01:32:02,479 --> 01:32:06,000 Speaker 1: situation because we have an executive branch which for more 1757 01:32:06,040 --> 01:32:08,599 Speaker 1: than forty years talked a big game and did virtually 1758 01:32:08,640 --> 01:32:12,200 Speaker 1: nothing to increase overall American industry, so that when a 1759 01:32:12,240 --> 01:32:15,519 Speaker 1: major crunch like COVID hit, we have zero resilience in 1760 01:32:15,520 --> 01:32:19,080 Speaker 1: the system, no ability to produce anything for ourselves. This 1761 01:32:19,160 --> 01:32:21,639 Speaker 1: has led the media and many Americans to assume there's 1762 01:32:21,680 --> 01:32:24,639 Speaker 1: nothing can be done. Hence why the first question is, hey, 1763 01:32:24,640 --> 01:32:27,880 Speaker 1: why don't you just not drive since you literally don't 1764 01:32:27,920 --> 01:32:30,160 Speaker 1: need to, Or the next one is why don't you 1765 01:32:30,280 --> 01:32:33,400 Speaker 1: cut tariffs when not having tariffs in the first place 1766 01:32:33,560 --> 01:32:36,439 Speaker 1: are how we even had a country eviscerated at the 1767 01:32:36,479 --> 01:32:39,720 Speaker 1: set at this time. The media mindset matters much more 1768 01:32:39,760 --> 01:32:42,800 Speaker 1: than many of you might consider, because, as I've explained previously, 1769 01:32:42,960 --> 01:32:45,599 Speaker 1: the White House only responds to incentives in the media. 1770 01:32:45,680 --> 01:32:48,120 Speaker 1: Those incentives are the most well known to us, as 1771 01:32:48,160 --> 01:32:50,640 Speaker 1: the questions that they ask they prepare based upon the 1772 01:32:50,640 --> 01:32:53,160 Speaker 1: pressure that they get. So if the only pressure is 1773 01:32:53,200 --> 01:32:55,240 Speaker 1: not to drive and to cut tariffs, what do you 1774 01:32:55,240 --> 01:32:57,080 Speaker 1: think they're going to have to do to get good 1775 01:32:57,080 --> 01:33:00,880 Speaker 1: media attention? Nobody is asking Biden right now, have you 1776 01:33:01,000 --> 01:33:03,160 Speaker 1: used the full force the federal government to ensure that 1777 01:33:03,160 --> 01:33:06,000 Speaker 1: we have more drilling asap? Or on the progress of 1778 01:33:06,000 --> 01:33:09,120 Speaker 1: his foreign relations with Saudi Arabia or Venezuela or a 1779 01:33:09,320 --> 01:33:12,600 Speaker 1: multitude of other things. The languishing state of our politics, 1780 01:33:12,720 --> 01:33:15,920 Speaker 1: where we assume nothing can be done, squabble about abortion, 1781 01:33:16,160 --> 01:33:18,360 Speaker 1: and then have an idiotic press not actually hold our 1782 01:33:18,400 --> 01:33:21,920 Speaker 1: president to account, is seemingly how we got here and 1783 01:33:22,000 --> 01:33:25,880 Speaker 1: why we are ruled by corruption and idiocy. Idiocy. We 1784 01:33:26,000 --> 01:33:27,880 Speaker 1: deserve a hell of a lot better, and we should 1785 01:33:27,920 --> 01:33:30,280 Speaker 1: actually demand a lot more. And I really hope I 1786 01:33:30,320 --> 01:33:33,120 Speaker 1: live in a country like that. Someday I mean, first question, 1787 01:33:33,520 --> 01:33:36,920 Speaker 1: first question, and if you want to hear my reaction 1788 01:33:37,000 --> 01:33:40,680 Speaker 1: to Sager's monologue, become a premium subscriber today at breakingpoints 1789 01:33:40,720 --> 01:33:45,759 Speaker 1: dot com. Join us. Now we have the Washington Bureau, 1790 01:33:45,760 --> 01:33:48,839 Speaker 1: a chief from the Intercept and host of the Intercepted podcast, 1791 01:33:48,840 --> 01:33:52,920 Speaker 1: the one and only Ryan grimgreag to Caeesar. Great to you. Okay, 1792 01:33:52,960 --> 01:33:55,439 Speaker 1: so let's go ahead and throw your latest reporting. I 1793 01:33:55,439 --> 01:33:57,680 Speaker 1: don't know maybe you've written something after this, but the 1794 01:33:57,760 --> 01:33:59,559 Speaker 1: latest thing that I read from you up on the 1795 01:33:59,600 --> 01:34:05,680 Speaker 1: screen restorative just insice the implosion of a Democratic Socialist campaign. 1796 01:34:06,400 --> 01:34:09,439 Speaker 1: In it, you in a lengthy piece which I really 1797 01:34:09,479 --> 01:34:11,800 Speaker 1: recommend that you read from top to bottom because it 1798 01:34:11,840 --> 01:34:16,000 Speaker 1: is quite a journey. You go into detail about a 1799 01:34:16,400 --> 01:34:19,439 Speaker 1: candidate who was running with the backing of DSA for 1800 01:34:19,800 --> 01:34:24,519 Speaker 1: Montgomery County City Council. So the big question is why 1801 01:34:25,000 --> 01:34:27,800 Speaker 1: why did you What was important about this story? What 1802 01:34:27,880 --> 01:34:29,800 Speaker 1: did you want to lay out for people? I mean, 1803 01:34:29,960 --> 01:34:32,240 Speaker 1: I think there's so much in it, like you can, 1804 01:34:32,320 --> 01:34:36,000 Speaker 1: and as people read it, they will see all sorts 1805 01:34:36,040 --> 01:34:38,720 Speaker 1: of different themes that we've talked about for years kind 1806 01:34:38,760 --> 01:34:43,280 Speaker 1: of all coalescing right into this particular parable race. It 1807 01:34:43,360 --> 01:34:46,240 Speaker 1: is and you know, an at large county council candidate 1808 01:34:46,320 --> 01:34:49,200 Speaker 1: represents a million people, which is more than a member 1809 01:34:49,200 --> 01:34:53,320 Speaker 1: of Congress. In fact, though the things that they're deciding 1810 01:34:53,320 --> 01:34:57,000 Speaker 1: on are it's not war and peace, it's it's property taxes, 1811 01:34:57,080 --> 01:35:00,519 Speaker 1: it's service, it's minimum wage for the area. But to 1812 01:35:00,600 --> 01:35:03,480 Speaker 1: have a Democratic Socialist in one of the richest counties 1813 01:35:04,080 --> 01:35:07,320 Speaker 1: in the country would have given them a toe hold 1814 01:35:07,320 --> 01:35:09,400 Speaker 1: in a place where there is a lot of inequality. 1815 01:35:09,520 --> 01:35:12,240 Speaker 1: Like it is true that it's the richest or one 1816 01:35:12,240 --> 01:35:14,200 Speaker 1: of the richest counties in the country, but you know, 1817 01:35:14,280 --> 01:35:16,160 Speaker 1: there are a lot of people who are struggling and 1818 01:35:16,200 --> 01:35:18,720 Speaker 1: a lot of and certainly a lot of people who 1819 01:35:18,760 --> 01:35:22,519 Speaker 1: are getting left behind as housing prices are exploding, and 1820 01:35:22,520 --> 01:35:25,360 Speaker 1: so there would be a lot that a democratic Socialist 1821 01:35:25,439 --> 01:35:30,519 Speaker 1: leaning kind of council could do to help hundreds of 1822 01:35:30,560 --> 01:35:33,080 Speaker 1: thousands of struggling people in the county. So it's not 1823 01:35:33,120 --> 01:35:35,800 Speaker 1: that it's meaningless as a just small local story, but 1824 01:35:36,400 --> 01:35:39,799 Speaker 1: it's much more interesting for the larger the largest questions. 1825 01:35:39,840 --> 01:35:43,479 Speaker 1: And the question to me really was, is the left 1826 01:35:43,720 --> 01:35:47,560 Speaker 1: kind of like what's becoming of the Bernie left capable 1827 01:35:47,720 --> 01:35:52,800 Speaker 1: of forming organizations and institutions and movements and campaigns that 1828 01:35:52,840 --> 01:35:57,120 Speaker 1: can be functional with an aim toward winning power, because 1829 01:35:57,120 --> 01:35:59,840 Speaker 1: that's now an actual open question, like is there something 1830 01:36:00,040 --> 01:36:03,479 Speaker 1: embedded in the movement that just makes it impossible for 1831 01:36:03,520 --> 01:36:05,320 Speaker 1: them to function well. Part of the things that I 1832 01:36:05,360 --> 01:36:07,960 Speaker 1: really took away from that is on a micro level, 1833 01:36:08,000 --> 01:36:10,519 Speaker 1: the answer appears to be no. So why don't you 1834 01:36:10,560 --> 01:36:14,160 Speaker 1: detail for us exactly how the campaign fell apart? Right? So, 1835 01:36:14,600 --> 01:36:17,080 Speaker 1: the candidate's name is Brandy Brooks. She's still running. I 1836 01:36:17,120 --> 01:36:21,040 Speaker 1: think it's July nineteenth is the primary. She had the 1837 01:36:21,080 --> 01:36:24,719 Speaker 1: support of the local DSSA, the Montgomery County branch, plus 1838 01:36:24,840 --> 01:36:30,280 Speaker 1: the DC regional DSSA. At some point, she got a 1839 01:36:30,320 --> 01:36:33,280 Speaker 1: complaint of a hostile workplace from one of her four 1840 01:36:33,400 --> 01:36:38,720 Speaker 1: kind of unionized employees, the shop steward, in fact, and 1841 01:36:38,200 --> 01:36:43,120 Speaker 1: they had been friends for several years. Nobody disagrees on 1842 01:36:43,160 --> 01:36:46,320 Speaker 1: whether or not she behaved inappropriately in the workplace. Like 1843 01:36:46,360 --> 01:36:50,280 Speaker 1: everybody says yes, she did, including her that she took 1844 01:36:50,320 --> 01:36:53,120 Speaker 1: personal boundaries, pushed them beyond what should have been in 1845 01:36:53,120 --> 01:36:56,400 Speaker 1: a professional setting, and created a situation where there was 1846 01:36:56,560 --> 01:37:01,360 Speaker 1: sexual harassment. So she takes account ability for this, and 1847 01:37:01,400 --> 01:37:04,800 Speaker 1: she enters into a mediation process with this employee. And 1848 01:37:04,840 --> 01:37:09,400 Speaker 1: so the question at this point is is this sin 1849 01:37:09,600 --> 01:37:14,559 Speaker 1: that she's committed so significant that she needs to be 1850 01:37:14,640 --> 01:37:17,760 Speaker 1: driven out of the campaign? Is this somebody who's just 1851 01:37:17,800 --> 01:37:21,440 Speaker 1: completely kind of irredeemable At this point, give some details 1852 01:37:21,479 --> 01:37:25,120 Speaker 1: about what the incident in question actually is. Takes place 1853 01:37:25,160 --> 01:37:27,320 Speaker 1: at a well. The major ancident takes place at a 1854 01:37:27,400 --> 01:37:34,759 Speaker 1: Rockville Chipotely. So the staffer and her friend, the staffer 1855 01:37:34,880 --> 01:37:38,240 Speaker 1: and Brandy are at the Rockville Chipotely. They have like 1856 01:37:38,320 --> 01:37:42,360 Speaker 1: a two or three hour one, like raw raw lunch. 1857 01:37:42,479 --> 01:37:45,360 Speaker 1: They had a lot of these emotionally raw conversations over 1858 01:37:45,400 --> 01:37:48,599 Speaker 1: the years, and this one. She eventually says at some 1859 01:37:48,600 --> 01:37:51,479 Speaker 1: point in the conversation, I'm so glad that we're able 1860 01:37:51,520 --> 01:37:53,240 Speaker 1: to be vulnerable with each other. And she says, it's 1861 01:37:53,320 --> 01:37:56,559 Speaker 1: very difficult for me actually to be vulnerable around people. 1862 01:37:57,000 --> 01:37:59,479 Speaker 1: And she's implying, like you who I have a romantic 1863 01:37:59,560 --> 01:38:03,559 Speaker 1: and textual attraction towards And there's something so classic about 1864 01:38:03,600 --> 01:38:08,439 Speaker 1: just saying that, rather than like flirtatiously, like alluding to it, 1865 01:38:08,520 --> 01:38:10,840 Speaker 1: just actually just coming right out and saying romantic and sectually. 1866 01:38:10,840 --> 01:38:13,720 Speaker 1: They both agree that she's used that phrase romantic and 1867 01:38:13,760 --> 01:38:17,639 Speaker 1: sexual attraction, and she says that she changes the subject. 1868 01:38:18,160 --> 01:38:21,040 Speaker 1: This is inappropriate. She's totally embarrassed, she doesn't want to 1869 01:38:21,040 --> 01:38:24,680 Speaker 1: talk about it. The person on the other end of 1870 01:38:24,720 --> 01:38:28,840 Speaker 1: the staff the staffer, feels like the situation changed for 1871 01:38:28,920 --> 01:38:34,200 Speaker 1: them after that, and that she started being in retaliating 1872 01:38:34,439 --> 01:38:36,640 Speaker 1: in ways that are difficult to put your finger on, 1873 01:38:37,000 --> 01:38:40,599 Speaker 1: but a much less pleasant workplace environment, which is totally totally, 1874 01:38:41,040 --> 01:38:44,320 Speaker 1: totally understand you. And what you lay out from Brandy's 1875 01:38:44,400 --> 01:38:50,000 Speaker 1: perspective is she recognized, Okay, this was a transgression, this 1876 01:38:50,080 --> 01:38:52,479 Speaker 1: went too far. Even though I do think it's important 1877 01:38:52,560 --> 01:38:54,680 Speaker 1: the context, and I mean, you and I have been 1878 01:38:54,680 --> 01:38:56,920 Speaker 1: around enough campaigns and I've actually run a campaign to 1879 01:38:57,000 --> 01:39:00,200 Speaker 1: know that within them there's a lot of blending of 1880 01:39:00,240 --> 01:39:02,920 Speaker 1: the personal and the professional. It's not like a you know, 1881 01:39:03,080 --> 01:39:06,280 Speaker 1: office environment. This is someone who she had been friends 1882 01:39:06,280 --> 01:39:08,320 Speaker 1: close friends with for a lot of times. I do 1883 01:39:08,360 --> 01:39:12,000 Speaker 1: think that contact matters. But so she recognizes there's a transgression, 1884 01:39:12,160 --> 01:39:16,960 Speaker 1: and so what was perceived by the staffer as almost 1885 01:39:16,960 --> 01:39:21,080 Speaker 1: like retaliation, she was actually trying to draw these lines 1886 01:39:21,120 --> 01:39:24,600 Speaker 1: more carefully and create a more professional environment so that 1887 01:39:24,680 --> 01:39:26,960 Speaker 1: she wouldn't sort of cross the lines again and that 1888 01:39:27,360 --> 01:39:30,599 Speaker 1: is that right, right? And then the staffer also tried 1889 01:39:30,640 --> 01:39:32,920 Speaker 1: to create some lines as well, and the whole thing 1890 01:39:33,120 --> 01:39:37,639 Speaker 1: got pretty emotionally messy. And then eventually the staffer goes 1891 01:39:37,680 --> 01:39:40,360 Speaker 1: to her sister, who's the campaign manager. Is the sister 1892 01:39:40,400 --> 01:39:41,880 Speaker 1: and the mother were on the campaign, good friend on 1893 01:39:41,920 --> 01:39:44,599 Speaker 1: the camp's this is kind of a very typical local campaign. 1894 01:39:44,880 --> 01:39:47,600 Speaker 1: It's it's your friends and family. Yeah, we're helping you 1895 01:39:47,680 --> 01:39:50,519 Speaker 1: run and says, I feel like this is a hostile 1896 01:39:50,520 --> 01:39:53,560 Speaker 1: workplace environment. This is these are the things that have happened. 1897 01:39:53,760 --> 01:39:58,040 Speaker 1: The sister recommends mediation, restorative justice, like let's we always 1898 01:39:58,080 --> 01:40:00,640 Speaker 1: talk about restorative justice, you know, let's let's see if 1899 01:40:00,640 --> 01:40:02,479 Speaker 1: we can work this out. And so they enter into 1900 01:40:02,600 --> 01:40:06,400 Speaker 1: this process, this mediation process. They go through two sessions. 1901 01:40:06,720 --> 01:40:09,559 Speaker 1: She writes an accountability statement, and the agreement is she 1902 01:40:09,600 --> 01:40:12,880 Speaker 1: will read it to her entire staff and her advisors, 1903 01:40:13,640 --> 01:40:16,519 Speaker 1: laying out what she did and taking responsibility for it. 1904 01:40:16,960 --> 01:40:19,439 Speaker 1: She does that, you said, she does it a second 1905 01:40:19,439 --> 01:40:21,600 Speaker 1: time because there was an agreement that everybody would hear it, 1906 01:40:21,600 --> 01:40:23,800 Speaker 1: and two people had missed it. And then afterwards the 1907 01:40:23,840 --> 01:40:26,000 Speaker 1: person says, you know what, I don't actually feel like 1908 01:40:26,040 --> 01:40:28,800 Speaker 1: you've taken full accountability even though this was what was 1909 01:40:28,960 --> 01:40:34,719 Speaker 1: agreed to, right, and so I've since the staffer declined 1910 01:40:34,720 --> 01:40:36,679 Speaker 1: to speak to me for the article. I have since 1911 01:40:37,000 --> 01:40:39,320 Speaker 1: been able to speak to the staffer. Okay, what they 1912 01:40:39,360 --> 01:40:42,040 Speaker 1: say is that when they signed this paper, and the 1913 01:40:42,080 --> 01:40:45,479 Speaker 1: paper says very clearly, I will not push this complaint 1914 01:40:45,520 --> 01:40:47,800 Speaker 1: any further. I feel like this was entered into in 1915 01:40:47,840 --> 01:40:50,720 Speaker 1: good faith. We can move beyond this. They say. What 1916 01:40:50,760 --> 01:40:53,479 Speaker 1: they meant is that they wouldn't sue, they wouldn't go 1917 01:40:53,520 --> 01:40:57,639 Speaker 1: to the EEOC, they wouldn't, you know, otherwise grieve through 1918 01:40:57,640 --> 01:41:00,400 Speaker 1: the union process this complaint. But it did not mean 1919 01:41:01,560 --> 01:41:06,240 Speaker 1: that they were accepting of Brooks continuing to run the campaign, 1920 01:41:06,640 --> 01:41:11,080 Speaker 1: or that they wouldn't talk to outside endorsers and other people. 1921 01:41:11,880 --> 01:41:15,760 Speaker 1: So that seems to be a pretty fundamental dispose. Even 1922 01:41:15,880 --> 01:41:18,559 Speaker 1: what this mediation, I think, I'm sorry to like get 1923 01:41:18,560 --> 01:41:21,640 Speaker 1: bogged out in the details, but your reporting also indicated 1924 01:41:21,680 --> 01:41:24,800 Speaker 1: that not only did the staffer say yes, I agree 1925 01:41:24,880 --> 01:41:27,719 Speaker 1: to this, this is acceptable, the staff are actually said 1926 01:41:27,880 --> 01:41:31,080 Speaker 1: this goes beyond what I even was expecting here. So 1927 01:41:31,120 --> 01:41:33,600 Speaker 1: it wasn't like I don't really love this, but I 1928 01:41:33,600 --> 01:41:36,200 Speaker 1: guess I'll sign on to it. It was a sort 1929 01:41:36,200 --> 01:41:39,479 Speaker 1: of full throat and embrace. And this goes beyond what 1930 01:41:39,520 --> 01:41:41,880 Speaker 1: I was even expecting in this statement. Right, yeah, no, 1931 01:41:41,960 --> 01:41:45,960 Speaker 1: that's right, that's right. And now rumors then start seeping 1932 01:41:46,000 --> 01:41:50,719 Speaker 1: out into the progressive community that she's of trading sex 1933 01:41:51,240 --> 01:41:56,040 Speaker 1: for job offers, and so because the person said that 1934 01:41:56,080 --> 01:41:57,720 Speaker 1: they felt like they had an offer for a chief 1935 01:41:57,760 --> 01:42:00,160 Speaker 1: of staff job which they felt like was rescinded, she 1936 01:42:00,200 --> 01:42:03,720 Speaker 1: disputes that. She says, I was willing to talk about it, 1937 01:42:03,760 --> 01:42:06,040 Speaker 1: then I'm still willing to talk about it. Whatever. So 1938 01:42:06,560 --> 01:42:09,000 Speaker 1: she starts hearing those rumors and she calls all these 1939 01:42:09,040 --> 01:42:11,040 Speaker 1: endorsing groups and says, these rumors are not true. I'm 1940 01:42:11,080 --> 01:42:13,599 Speaker 1: not trading sex for like the job offers and retaliating 1941 01:42:13,640 --> 01:42:16,960 Speaker 1: against people if I'm turned down. And so that also 1942 01:42:17,000 --> 01:42:20,479 Speaker 1: seems to have set people off sick because now she's 1943 01:42:21,600 --> 01:42:25,680 Speaker 1: seen as like walking back her previous accountability. But it 1944 01:42:25,720 --> 01:42:28,080 Speaker 1: puts her in a very difficult place. She's supposed to 1945 01:42:28,120 --> 01:42:32,120 Speaker 1: just allow these rumors about her to just continue to circulate, 1946 01:42:32,240 --> 01:42:36,120 Speaker 1: as the rumors aren't just rumors. They're being used by 1947 01:42:36,120 --> 01:42:40,680 Speaker 1: some organizations to reconsider whether they're going to endorse her 1948 01:42:40,920 --> 01:42:43,240 Speaker 1: if they unendorse, then boom, She's done. So let's just 1949 01:42:43,400 --> 01:42:45,320 Speaker 1: put it in the broader context. Why does any of 1950 01:42:45,400 --> 01:42:48,960 Speaker 1: this matter, Like why is all this hand ring and 1951 01:42:49,040 --> 01:42:52,759 Speaker 1: you know, feelings and mediation, and why does that matter 1952 01:42:52,800 --> 01:42:55,840 Speaker 1: for a broader political project. I'm still trying to get 1953 01:42:55,840 --> 01:42:59,000 Speaker 1: my head around it, but I think that the problem 1954 01:42:59,000 --> 01:43:02,880 Speaker 1: that the current left has is that they exist in 1955 01:43:03,080 --> 01:43:10,559 Speaker 1: a structure that tells them that common projects are really 1956 01:43:10,600 --> 01:43:16,400 Speaker 1: not possible. Liberalism followed by neoliberalism basically, you know, with 1957 01:43:16,439 --> 01:43:18,880 Speaker 1: the structure of capitalism over top of it. Has said 1958 01:43:18,920 --> 01:43:21,479 Speaker 1: that the individual is the only thing that matters. Would 1959 01:43:21,560 --> 01:43:24,880 Speaker 1: Margaret Thatcher say there is no such thing as society? 1960 01:43:25,800 --> 01:43:28,599 Speaker 1: And so the left's idea has always been I want 1961 01:43:28,600 --> 01:43:31,320 Speaker 1: to be part of something that's bigger than me. But 1962 01:43:31,400 --> 01:43:33,400 Speaker 1: there's now a belief that there is no such thing 1963 01:43:33,439 --> 01:43:36,840 Speaker 1: that's bigger than you, And so getting involved in politics 1964 01:43:36,880 --> 01:43:42,000 Speaker 1: becomes a way for you to signal and for you 1965 01:43:42,080 --> 01:43:45,519 Speaker 1: to live out your values. You don't actually necessarily believe 1966 01:43:46,840 --> 01:43:49,400 Speaker 1: that a common project can make the world a better place, 1967 01:43:49,439 --> 01:43:51,360 Speaker 1: but what you do think you can do is you 1968 01:43:51,360 --> 01:43:54,719 Speaker 1: can live your own values. And that's the most important 1969 01:43:54,760 --> 01:43:59,280 Speaker 1: thing as an individual and so if you're part of 1970 01:43:59,280 --> 01:44:02,479 Speaker 1: a campaign that is supposed to benefit a million people 1971 01:44:02,520 --> 01:44:06,920 Speaker 1: in Montgomery County, but you don't necessarily believe that it's 1972 01:44:06,920 --> 01:44:10,840 Speaker 1: actually going to benefit a million people, You don't necessarily 1973 01:44:10,840 --> 01:44:13,679 Speaker 1: consciously think that, but unconsciously you've been taught that nothing 1974 01:44:13,720 --> 01:44:16,080 Speaker 1: is possible. This is all all we're doing, is all 1975 01:44:16,120 --> 01:44:17,880 Speaker 1: we can do is be our best selves and live 1976 01:44:17,920 --> 01:44:22,080 Speaker 1: our best weird values. It will live right because it's 1977 01:44:22,320 --> 01:44:25,480 Speaker 1: it's because it's fundamentally embedded in the structures of individualism 1978 01:44:25,520 --> 01:44:30,040 Speaker 1: and neoliberalism. And so when you get presented with this situation, 1979 01:44:31,040 --> 01:44:33,840 Speaker 1: you say, well, I'm going to live my values, and 1980 01:44:33,960 --> 01:44:39,280 Speaker 1: my values are workplace harassment is wrong, and we're out 1981 01:44:39,320 --> 01:44:41,559 Speaker 1: of here. And so the DSA's response to this has 1982 01:44:41,560 --> 01:44:44,800 Speaker 1: been I think telling on this point. They've consistently said, look, 1983 01:44:45,360 --> 01:44:50,040 Speaker 1: nobody has a right to our endorsement. And on the surface, yes, 1984 01:44:50,120 --> 01:44:53,120 Speaker 1: of course, of course nobody has a right to endorsement. 1985 01:44:53,200 --> 01:44:58,760 Speaker 1: But focusing on your endorsement as a right of an 1986 01:44:58,800 --> 01:45:03,520 Speaker 1: individual gets you right back to this libertarian ideas versus 1987 01:45:03,320 --> 01:45:05,760 Speaker 1: it's not about that person, It's about the million people 1988 01:45:05,760 --> 01:45:07,920 Speaker 1: who live in Montgomery County. It's about the it's about 1989 01:45:07,920 --> 01:45:11,360 Speaker 1: the people that the movement is trying to benefit. It's 1990 01:45:11,360 --> 01:45:14,360 Speaker 1: one thing. I mean, listen, you're certainly not arguing no 1991 01:45:14,400 --> 01:45:16,800 Speaker 1: one would that if you had someone who really was 1992 01:45:16,960 --> 01:45:21,799 Speaker 1: like chronically sexually harassing people, and because that speaks to them, Okay, 1993 01:45:21,840 --> 01:45:23,760 Speaker 1: are you actually going to be able to fulfill the 1994 01:45:24,200 --> 01:45:27,799 Speaker 1: mission to better lives for you know, this million people? 1995 01:45:27,880 --> 01:45:30,280 Speaker 1: But it reminds me of the reporting that you did. 1996 01:45:30,280 --> 01:45:33,679 Speaker 1: And I'm blanking on the dude's name who was running 1997 01:45:33,680 --> 01:45:36,560 Speaker 1: for Congress in a Democratic primary and he gets accused 1998 01:45:36,600 --> 01:45:39,920 Speaker 1: and it comes out that's basically a setup Alix Laws 1999 01:45:41,280 --> 01:45:45,800 Speaker 1: running against Riche Neil. Yeah, he gets accused of sexual harassment. 2000 01:45:46,040 --> 01:45:49,679 Speaker 1: All the initial accusation they're very vague, they're very squishy, 2001 01:45:50,040 --> 01:45:54,840 Speaker 1: but with no proof, a bunch of progressive groups unendorsed 2002 01:45:54,960 --> 01:45:57,280 Speaker 1: jumped out of the race. And even though the truth 2003 01:45:57,360 --> 01:46:00,960 Speaker 1: ultimately came out that the allegations wereless that it looks 2004 01:46:01,080 --> 01:46:03,599 Speaker 1: very much that they were done in collusion with Richie Neial, 2005 01:46:04,240 --> 01:46:05,960 Speaker 1: it was kind of too late. You know, the wind 2006 01:46:06,040 --> 01:46:09,400 Speaker 1: had been taken out of the sales, and so this 2007 01:46:09,680 --> 01:46:15,240 Speaker 1: instinct towards the you know the that my like living 2008 01:46:15,360 --> 01:46:18,479 Speaker 1: my values and what's happening in this little narrow instance 2009 01:46:18,560 --> 01:46:20,360 Speaker 1: is the most important thing. I mean, it's it's the 2010 01:46:20,439 --> 01:46:24,200 Speaker 1: direct opposite of solidarity, which is supposed to be the 2011 01:46:24,240 --> 01:46:27,519 Speaker 1: core value of the left and how you ultimately, you know, 2012 01:46:28,040 --> 01:46:32,120 Speaker 1: form coalitions and ultimately build power in a serious political project. Right. 2013 01:46:32,160 --> 01:46:38,360 Speaker 1: And these are all worthy principles and values, sometimes in conflict, 2014 01:46:38,360 --> 01:46:40,120 Speaker 1: because of course, you want to live your values, like 2015 01:46:40,160 --> 01:46:44,320 Speaker 1: nobody's saying, don't live your values. But if if the 2016 01:46:44,360 --> 01:46:47,800 Speaker 1: most important thing is to be seen like you're living 2017 01:46:47,840 --> 01:46:52,320 Speaker 1: your values, then the thing you do is immediately denounce 2018 01:46:52,439 --> 01:46:55,640 Speaker 1: Alex Morse or you immediately denounced Brandy Broke, which is 2019 01:46:55,680 --> 01:46:59,200 Speaker 1: what happened, right, Because then if you haven't denounced, you 2020 01:46:59,280 --> 01:47:01,960 Speaker 1: start to have people saying, wait a minute, you know, 2021 01:47:01,960 --> 01:47:05,120 Speaker 1: where's Crystal on this? Does she support sexual health? You're 2022 01:47:05,160 --> 01:47:08,720 Speaker 1: in favor of people training for job offers that, yeah, 2023 01:47:08,760 --> 01:47:11,240 Speaker 1: I mean that's what they do, and they like essentialize 2024 01:47:11,240 --> 01:47:13,120 Speaker 1: it in that way too. Yes. And there was the 2025 01:47:13,160 --> 01:47:15,960 Speaker 1: case of this kid, Aaron Coleman, who was running out 2026 01:47:15,960 --> 01:47:18,840 Speaker 1: in Kansas, who the New York Times reported when he 2027 01:47:18,880 --> 01:47:21,840 Speaker 1: was twelve had like done some revenge porn and some 2028 01:47:21,960 --> 01:47:24,360 Speaker 1: like bomb threats, and like awful stuff. And so I said, 2029 01:47:24,360 --> 01:47:26,560 Speaker 1: wait a minute, we should we should, we should investigate 2030 01:47:26,960 --> 01:47:30,720 Speaker 1: whether or not this kid's behavior has carried forward as 2031 01:47:30,720 --> 01:47:32,519 Speaker 1: an adult. If it's just, if it's just a kid, 2032 01:47:32,600 --> 01:47:35,040 Speaker 1: you cannot hold that against him for his entire life. 2033 01:47:35,640 --> 01:47:38,800 Speaker 1: I then actually investigated what he had done as an 2034 01:47:38,840 --> 01:47:43,000 Speaker 1: adult and found that six months earlier or so, had 2035 01:47:43,280 --> 01:47:46,000 Speaker 1: beat his girlfriend. I spoke to his girlfriend. I spoke 2036 01:47:46,040 --> 01:47:50,559 Speaker 1: to witnesses. I got the Airbnb receipts, like proved it showed, 2037 01:47:50,680 --> 01:47:56,000 Speaker 1: like ran the story like, look, investigate, you pause, you investigate, 2038 01:47:56,520 --> 01:47:59,200 Speaker 1: and then if you find out that that this guy 2039 01:47:59,280 --> 01:48:02,120 Speaker 1: is still still who he is. And to this day 2040 01:48:02,320 --> 01:48:04,280 Speaker 1: I will have people saying to me, what about what 2041 01:48:04,320 --> 01:48:06,240 Speaker 1: about Aaron whatever his name? I remember his name is 2042 01:48:06,240 --> 01:48:09,280 Speaker 1: a second ago, I've not Aaron Maon Coleman. What about 2043 01:48:09,280 --> 01:48:11,200 Speaker 1: Aaron Coleman. You defended Aaron Coleman. No, I did not 2044 01:48:11,280 --> 01:48:14,720 Speaker 1: defend Aaron Coleman. I said, you should look, let's investigate. 2045 01:48:14,840 --> 01:48:17,320 Speaker 1: That's the whole ane. Yeah, Aaron Coleman did before deciding 2046 01:48:17,320 --> 01:48:20,200 Speaker 1: ahead of time, and it okay, yes, it took maybe 2047 01:48:20,320 --> 01:48:22,680 Speaker 1: forty eight hours. I was on vacation sh at the 2048 01:48:22,680 --> 01:48:24,240 Speaker 1: beach in North Kin So I could have done it 2049 01:48:24,280 --> 01:48:26,080 Speaker 1: maybe in twenty four hours, but it took me forty 2050 01:48:26,120 --> 01:48:28,519 Speaker 1: eight or seventy two hours broke the news on this 2051 01:48:29,400 --> 01:48:31,759 Speaker 1: and then it's out there, and then you can say, Okay, 2052 01:48:31,800 --> 01:48:34,920 Speaker 1: you know what, this guy's still right like now, he's 2053 01:48:35,120 --> 01:48:38,400 Speaker 1: nineteen twenty years old, he's an adult. He choked his girlfriend. 2054 01:48:38,520 --> 01:48:42,680 Speaker 1: It's like, that's like bad news. That's exactly the way 2055 01:48:42,680 --> 01:48:45,000 Speaker 1: it should be. I think this story really does tell 2056 01:48:45,040 --> 01:48:47,599 Speaker 1: us a lot about exactly like a meta political movement. 2057 01:48:47,640 --> 01:48:49,479 Speaker 1: I think it's been very valuable and I hope people 2058 01:48:49,720 --> 01:48:51,840 Speaker 1: take that away. Ryan, thank you so much for joining man. 2059 01:48:51,920 --> 01:48:54,280 Speaker 1: We really appreciate it, for having you, and Ryan's going 2060 01:48:54,320 --> 01:48:55,640 Speaker 1: to be doing some more videos for us. So you 2061 01:48:55,680 --> 01:48:59,000 Speaker 1: guys you got on the channel Ken, Yeah, coming in 2062 01:48:59,040 --> 01:49:01,800 Speaker 1: the intercept. It's very very nice to have that. So again, 2063 01:49:01,880 --> 01:49:04,760 Speaker 1: more partnerships enable thanks to the premium subscribers. 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