WEBVTT - 50/50 Future 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:14.400 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to ok F Daily with 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:18.279 Meet Your Girl. Daniel Moody recording from the Home Bunker. 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:22.120 I want to start off today with talking about the 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:28.639 two debates that were announced. So first off, I got 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:32.960 to say that I will be surprised if these debates 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:37.760 take place. The first one is supposed to happen, I 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:42.960 believe in June, I want to say, And this second 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:48.640 one is supposed to take place in September. And the 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:53.120 Biden administration is calling for, you know, two debates instead 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:57.840 of three, and putting them much earlier in the calendar year. 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:00.560 And you have some folks that are having the most 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:06.200 ridiculous takes on this change, right and talking about, oh, 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:10.360 the Biden, particularly Nate Silver, who I don't understand at all, 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:14.160 but who says that the Biden administration is supposed to 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:17.200 be the organization is supposed to be the administration that 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:22.720 upholds norms. First off, what the fuck norms do we 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:26.440 have left in this country? And are we supposed to 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:29.959 pretend that Donald Trump did not blow off debates, did 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:33.679 not bring COVID to one of the debates that he 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:37.720 attended as a way to I don't know, get Biden 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:41.920 sick or everyone in the audience sick. Do we not 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:45.640 recognize that we no longer live in an environment where 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:50.160 political norms are upheld? And so this idea that one 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:52.600 party is supposed to be the party that holds up 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:55.640 political norms while the other one can be as badshit 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:57.880 crazy as they'd like, doesn't make any sense to me. 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:03.120 And so I think that it is incredibly important one that, 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:07.000 of course there'll be some sense of normalcy, meaning that 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:09.800 the Biden administration is going to move forward as they 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:13.679 would normally do when seeking a second term, but they're 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:16.040 going to do so on their terms of what makes 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:19.400 sense for them. Because Donald Trump, like, why are we 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:22.320 trying to negotiate in good faith with the domestic terrorists? 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:25.560 I have no idea. Also, I think that debates are stupid. 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:29.200 No one is going to watch a debate for anything 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:32.920 other than some type of entertainment value. People do not 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:35.880 make decisions about which candidate they're going to vote for 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:41.400 based on how someone performed with prescripted questions by a 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:43.960 moderator that is not going to offer any type of 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:46.359 hard questions, that is not going to do any type 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:52.000 of follow up like this. Debates are essentially a game show, right, 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:54.440 If you really want to hear from people, if you 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:58.120 really want to understand the substance of whatever the campaign 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:02.919 agendas are, then to me, town halls make more sense, right, 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:05.680 actual town halls, and not with your super supporters, but 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:10.359 with the mix of independence, Democrats and Republicans from all 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:13.800 walks of life that actually reflect America and allow people 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:16.960 to ask questions that like make sense to their day 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:20.799 to day lives, and the candidates then respond to that. 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:24.520 I can tell you that I remember. I'm not, you know, 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:30.240 too old to remember when MTV was doing you know, 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:34.560 debates and Bill Clinton went on, right, and you're sitting 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:39.560 with a group of like, you know, young people and 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:41.640 getting to know what's on their mind, and like you, 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:44.880 there's no way to really prep right, like you're you're 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:48.520 listening and you're answering questions and you're trying to connect. 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:50.640 I miss those days. I don't think that we'll ever 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:53.240 return to them. But I think that it's important for 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:57.640 us to understand that like, this is political theater. This 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:01.680 is not some type of framework that is meant to 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:04.720 give you any more or less information than you have 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:07.560 right now. And the fact is is that most people 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:11.520 only begin to tune in to the election, maybe about 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:15.120 two months to a month beforehand. So even this first 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:18.880 debate taking place on June twenty seventh, will most Americans 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:22.280 be tuned in, probably but probably to see what kind 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:23.720 of hot shit is going to come out of Donald 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:26.960 Trump's mouth, whether or not he's going to fall asleep 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:30.760 or fart, and whether or not the moderator who, regardless 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:32.960 of who they are, going to have the worst job 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:35.720 on that day, because no one will think that they 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:38.520 did well, and if they do do well, it'll be 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:42.159 based on you know, which candidate ended up doing well. 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:45.200 No one wins in this right, But I think that 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:48.560 the takes that I'm seeing on social media around the 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:53.080 scheduling and whether or not Donald Trump will actually show 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:55.360 up and show up in a way like I don't 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:58.240 really care. We already know who Donald Trump is, right, 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:01.760 anybody with eyes and ears no know what Donald Trump is, 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:05.080 what he is about, what he cares about, and what 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:08.200 The plan that the Republican Party has for this country 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:12.120 is Project twenty twenty five. It is about finishing the 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:15.240 gut job on our democracy, taking over the agencies and 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:20.120 rooting out who they deem as you know, politicized actors, 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:25.400 which is exactly the opposite of who works in government, right, 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:29.320 they are apolitical. But the fact is that you know, 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:32.839 we know what the Republicans are going to do, whether 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:38.000 it is voting against raising the age of children to 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:41.000 be able to get married right until they are adults 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:46.200 at like eighteen, whether it is reversing child labor laws, 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:52.680 whether it is further marginalizing trans people and the LGBTQ community, 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:55.600 whether it is trying to stamp out the advancements that 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:58.640 black people have made since the Civil Rights movement, whether 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:02.479 it is to criminals lies Latin X people, whether it 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:06.960 is to criminalize migrants and immigrants that are trying to 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:09.520 find work in this country because of the ways in 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:15.279 which the United States has interfered in the political structure 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:19.159 in their countries making it unsafe, which America has done 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:22.159 for decades in Latin America. So I think that what 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:28.120 we have to understand here is that debates, I think, 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:33.320 in this day and age again are mostly of entertainment value, 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:37.760 and the fact remains on whether or not Biden can 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:43.320 really sell right what his vision is for America. In 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:47.560 stark contrast to Donald Trump. Now, Biden has a lot 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:51.600 of other issues that are in front of him, Gaza 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:54.960 being the most glaring one, with net and Yahoo most 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:59.560 recently saying that they're not a whatever it was, some 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:04.520 colony or whatever it was of the United States. And 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:08.200 you know, here's what I will say about net Yahoo 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:10.320 who this is what he said, We are not a 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:15.240 vassal of the United States. When it pertains to Biden 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:18.880 saying that the RAFA invasion is the red line, you know, 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:23.120 my whole thing is that Netanyahu has been playing chess, 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:25.200 and I don't know what the fuck game Biden has 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:27.640 been playing in Gaza, but he is losing. He is 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:32.560 losing public sympathy, he is losing public engagement, and the 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:36.960 unrest around. Our tax dollars going to fund a genocide 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:41.760 are getting bigger and bigger and bigger by the day. 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:46.280 And so when this man Netnyaho decides to publicly embarrass 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:48.800 Joe Biden and the United States, do you know what 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:50.960 I do in response to that, I pull the fucking 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:56.920 funds right and stop playing games and let Netanyah who 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:00.080 know who exactly is in charge and he wants to 0:07:59.920 --> 0:08:02.680 go it alone to pursue his genocide, then let him 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:06.720 fucking do that right, But Joe Biden is facing that 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:11.560 in this election right where a war that is not 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:16.920 happening on our shores are shaping public opinion, and not 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:19.800 to mention the trials that are taking place right and 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:23.960 people feeling like in some instances that these are politicized 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:28.200 when in fact that they're not. Because had Merrick Garland 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:30.320 done what the fuck he was supposed to do in 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:33.600 twenty twenty one, we wouldn't be here right now. So 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:38.080 will Biden the Biden that we saw at the State 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:40.280 of the Union show up at these debates? I think 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:43.040 if that Joe Biden shows up and is very clear, 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:48.280 is very assertive, is forceful and commanding, then I think 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:50.360 that we have a shot. But right now we're at 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:52.720 a fifty to fifty toss up and that scares the 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:57.040 shit out of me. Coming up next, my friends, our 0:08:57.160 --> 0:09:00.600 conversation with our in house doctor, doctor John Than Metsill, 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:04.160 where we talk about Biden's latest poll numbers, whether or 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:07.679 not they matter, what Democrats need to be doing in 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:17.040 these critical days leading up to the twenty twenty four election. Folks, 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:19.240 you know that whenever we have the opportunity to speak 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:22.520 with our in house doctor, doctor Jonathan Metzel. We are 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:27.079 always thrilled it is you, and so this week we 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:32.880 are going to discuss Joe Biden's latest poll numbers, which, surprise, surprise, 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:36.160 not great. You know how I feel about polls this early, 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:38.079 but we'll still dig into them because I think it's 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:41.959 a good barometer for where things stand right now, as 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:46.440 we can all see different headlines playing out. Jonathan, So 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:52.880 you're saying, latest polls tell us Biden is down everywhere. 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:56.679 Yeah, that it was a couple of days ago, and 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:58.880 whys and other people have been tweeting about this A 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:02.679 lot two things have a first, Biden's pretty much down 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:05.840 at least five percent in most swing states according to 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:10.240 some pretty convincing polls recently, and it's true across the board. 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:14.720 And so that's point number one. And then point number 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:17.560 two is he and his advisors at least are saying 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:20.319 publicly in these interviews and stuff that they're not concerned 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:23.560 about it. And so, you know, I guess the question is, 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:26.280 did they share your disdain for polls. One of the 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:28.280 things a lot of articles are pointing out right now 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:33.559 is that Biden voters are much more invested in speaking 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:36.920 to polsters, and so If anything, the fear is that 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:39.880 it understates the number of people who are actually voting 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:42.680 for Trump. So I guess the question is, you know, 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:45.720 where are we now? Like may I think it is? 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:49.920 What does this mean? Is there going to be some rallying? 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:52.640 And usually there's a bump? I mean, think about Biden 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:56.480 for example, everybody thought he was weekend at Bernie's and 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:58.920 then he did that stadium with the Union dress, and 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:01.319 all of a sudden, everybody's like it totally stopped all 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:05.000 that talk about you know, at least for now all 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:06.840 that talk. So is there going to be like a 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:09.640 bump moment, a turn moment? Do they have some secret 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:13.080 strategy that civilians like you and I don't know about, 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:16.120 like the old member like Obama, like they had this 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:19.240 secret where like people didn't know about like digital marketing 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:23.040 quite yet or something like that. And so is there 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:27.320 some is there people smart people? Or is this oblivious? 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:30.320 And I hope it's not the third one, but it 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:33.640 just seems like the the I mean again, there's so 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:36.880 many things that could happen. Trump could get convicted. I 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:39.920 send you a great article about you did ye? Trump 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:42.600 now being as smart as he thinks he is this. 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:45.440 This trial shows it that his impulses are often wrong. 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:48.280 So there's a million things he could do wrong. But 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:51.120 I don't know, like, what do we do at this point? 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:54.559 You know, for a while there was a oh my god, 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:57.120 we're going to go to the convention and then we're 0:11:57.160 --> 0:12:02.840 going to nominate like Omegatron or I don't know, stay Puff, 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:07.120 marshmallow Man or somebody else. But I don't know what's 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:08.000 your sense of all this? 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:12.120 So I will say this that everybody knows that, you know, 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:15.920 polls are subjective, right, depending on the questions that are asked, 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:18.320 who they're asked, and how they're sent and all of 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:21.720 these things. I say that as a precursor. I think 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:27.080 that largely when I talk to folks, the Biden administration 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:30.400 has a lot of wins. And I'm just speaking domestically, 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:33.400 they have a lot of wins. What they are terrible 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:37.360 at as every single Democrat, it seems, is really talking 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:41.120 about those wins. Where I think that there is a 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:48.080 lot of issue right now is that one Biden is 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:51.280 not I think that the people that are around him 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:54.800 do not have the pulse, like their finger on the 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:57.640 pulse of what's happening on the ground. I think that 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:01.840 they believed that with Donald Trump dogged, with all of 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:06.160 these different trials, with him saying these outlandish things and 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:11.200 spiraling out of control, that that was going to be enough. Right, 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:14.760 it's not because the only people that are paying attention 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:18.240 to the Trump trials are people that watch CNN and MSNBC. 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:21.800 It is not being played on Fox, it's not being 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:24.640 played in the right wing. It's not being talked about 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:28.200 at all. So even when reporters, when people go to 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:29.920 Trump rallies and they're like, well, what do you think 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:33.560 about what's happening in the electoral fraud trial the hush 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:36.840 money case, they don't know what you're talking about. So 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:39.840 two things can be true. I don't think that Biden 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:43.600 is getting the right advice. That's one two. I also 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:47.000 don't think that Trump is expanding his base at all. 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:50.199 He is not going to be able to win without 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:52.760 expanding his base. The only people that we talk to 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:56.320 are the most fervent Trump supporters that don't care who 0:13:56.360 --> 0:14:00.719 he kills, what he does, any of that. But that 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:03.880 is thirty percent of the population. You're not going to 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:05.000 win with thirty percent. 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:09.400 I mean. The red herring, of course, is the Helman 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:14.360 and the brain campaign of RFK Junior, you know all 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:18.560 these other things. I just texted you the polls, But 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:21.760 I mean, I don't know. Like again, I don't want 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:24.680 to oversimplify them. Like there's a million times that I've thought, 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:28.840 oh my gosh, you know, those people are idiots, and 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:31.160 then it turns out they had some strategy I didn't 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:32.920 know about, and that you know, they probably have access 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:35.960 to a lot of data, a lot of methods. But 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:40.440 I will say that, like I study guns, right, eighty 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:43.120 five percent of people support background checks, but that doesn't 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:45.680 mean anybody's going to win an election based on a 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:49.480 background check, right. People don't vote based on gun issues. 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:51.880 Liberals don't vote based on gun issues. So even though 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:54.720 eighty five percent of people will tell you I support 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:58.440 background checks, Democrats for so long have misinterpreted with that 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:02.080 data means because popular support is not the same thing 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:05.160 as winning an election. And so I don't know there. 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:07.200 I mean, I just feel like we're like floating around 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:09.360 in space right now. There are so many different medias 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:10.120 that could hit us. 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:14.160 You know, that's good, that's such a good enough. 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:16.920 I mean, I went down the route all of watching 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:22.760 the part of the speech of RFK Junior's vice presidential candidate, 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:29.680 Like I do, it is time and and so you know, 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:31.880 I just think there's so many things that could happen. 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:35.800 But again that's where like having a really robust they're 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:38.720 gonna have to mount some kind of really robust, vibrant campaign. 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:41.960 I mean, there are things that are happening, Like did 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:45.200 you see that Biden now is raising all these tariffs 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:47.720 on China in ways that people are actually going to feel, 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:50.760 So you know, that's such a Trump move. He's kind 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:55.480 of taking a page out of Trump's playbook. So I 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:59.080 mean again, there if for some if some miracle, they 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:03.440 get a a cease fire and some viable strategy forward. 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:06.560 I mean, I actually think, in my opinion, Lincoln's making 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:09.320 a ton of sense right now about the long term plan, 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:13.080 and so if any of these things could kind of 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:16.920 change course. And I don't know what's happening behind the scenes, 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:19.000 but I will this is what let me say. This 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:22.040 is my long way of sharing your nervousness but not 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:23.920 wanting to articulate it. 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:27.560 I mean, but I will say this, Like to be honest, 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:33.200 I think that Joe Biden needs to not run a 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:36.280 campaign against Donald Trump. I think that he needs to 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:39.680 run a campaign against the Republican Party. Yeah, and I 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:41.920 think that what we are missing right now, and I 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:45.720 literally just talked about this on another show, is that 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:50.120 the Republican Party take out Donald Trump and the circus 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:54.120 of the trials, right, and now all of these Republicans 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:56.920 going down to the courthouse where his family isn't even 0:16:57.320 --> 0:16:58.640 so that they can show their. 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:01.200 Subject, well Johnson's corn trial. 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:04.800 Right or auditioned for you know, Vice president, Like, this 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:07.679 is what they're doing, right, to show their support. His 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:09.920 own family's not showing up except for Eric and who 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:14.560 cares about him. But in the meantime, what do we 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:19.639 have going on in Missouri? Well, the Missouri Republicans have 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:23.320 decided to block a measure to raise the age of 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:28.360 marriage from sixteen to eighteen years old. Right in twenty eighteen, 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:32.160 the age to marry in Missouri was fourteen years old. 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:36.000 Oh yeah, right, and they raised it from yeah. And 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:38.639 so now two of there are Republicans that are blocking 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:41.199 it with the audacity of saying that people need to 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:45.000 stay out of other people's private lives, the audacity right, 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:48.240 at the same time that they don't want to raise 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:53.520 the age of child marriage. They're also rolling back child 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:58.800 worker protection laws in Alabama, right, and in Florida. You 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:02.800 are seeing this attack of this slow roll back of 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:09.120 an industrialized modern country into like back to a developing age. 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:12.960 And we're not paying attention to that because we want 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:15.280 to know if Donald Trump is farting or is falling 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:18.320 asleep in a courtroom. And I'm like, and meanwhile, you 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:23.640 have Republicans that are literally we just Arizona people might 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:27.480 not have had that eighteen sixty four piece of legislation 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:30.400 stay on the books if not for it making the headline. 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:34.320 So we're not talking about what this party as a 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:37.960 whole is doing outside of what Donald Trump is doing. 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:41.399 So if I'm the Biden campaign, I don't care about 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:45.320 Donald Trump. I care about what Republicans are doing with 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:48.240 or without him, right, and making the case that the 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:49.720 American people need to see that. 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:52.600 Okay, I want to give you three rebettal points. 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:58.960 Viral means, can we. 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:08.040 Get a screenshot of the do it? Okay? See here's 0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:10.040 the I'm from Missouri and I live in Tennessee, and 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:13.520 Tennessee you can marry your cousin now it's legal. 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:16.919 Yeah I can't. That's not real life. 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:19.240 But the thing is, it's not like that's any surprise, 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:22.920 but this keeps happen. People don't lose elections in red 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:26.840 states for this, and so the Republican Party is a 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:29.840 known quantity and and and they still win. And it's 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:33.680 not because they have public public support. It's because they 0:19:33.720 --> 0:19:36.960 have from the ground up rigged the system by jerremandering 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:40.879 and so people are safe, like nobody's even after the 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:45.440 Covenant School shooting, when all these Republican ams were demanded guniform, 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:47.840 they didn't have. They didn't threaten these guys. And so 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:50.600 in a way, part of the story is about the 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:53.200 it's about the system. And that's why I was kind 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:55.960 of hemming on a little bit before, is like, what's 0:19:56.000 --> 0:19:58.320 the goal of a presidential election which I don't know 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:02.000 enough about, but is it sway popular opinion or is 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:05.800 it to convince these twenty people in this one little 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:08.000 area that might swing a swing state? You know, I 0:20:08.040 --> 0:20:12.159 think it's it's just the checks and balances about this stuff. 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:13.960 And I the reason I say this is because like 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:17.800 every time in Tennessee, like literally a month ago, they 0:20:17.920 --> 0:20:20.639 legalized and it's because a guy, one of the legislators 0:20:20.640 --> 0:20:23.960 had had marry his cousin, and I'm like, oh my god, 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:25.639 there people are going to see it for it. But 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:28.800 now look, I mean, we've got Mike Johnson at the 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:33.159 porn trial, you know, at the adultery trial, and so 0:20:33.320 --> 0:20:35.840 it's all it's a power game. It's a power game, 0:20:35.880 --> 0:20:39.679 and so the question is exposing stuff that will that 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:42.719 bring people to our side or are we trying to 0:20:42.760 --> 0:20:44.639 just mobilize our own coalition. 0:20:44.720 --> 0:20:46.720 I mean, I think that we're only trying to mobilize 0:20:46.720 --> 0:20:48.080 our own coalition, So. 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:50.120 In that sense, I mean, and I don't know why 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:54.040 this is, but like if you turn on a s 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:58.960 NBC or something like that, it's Trump for four hours 0:20:58.960 --> 0:21:01.359 every single night. Yeah, get a story about Biden. But 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:04.320 like last night there was a two hour special about 0:21:04.359 --> 0:21:06.960 the Trump trial, and then the next show was a 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:10.159 whole hour about sun trial. And maybe they feel like 0:21:10.280 --> 0:21:13.280 that is what drives revenue or audience. Now, there are 0:21:13.320 --> 0:21:15.520 some I think great lessons about the Trump trial. I 0:21:15.520 --> 0:21:18.040 mean Trump, I don't know what's going to happen. I 0:21:18.720 --> 0:21:21.320 cannot believe that they're going to get a unanimous jury 0:21:21.359 --> 0:21:24.000 on anything about Trump, just because the way the country is. 0:21:24.840 --> 0:21:28.440 But there are great articles in Politico really looking how 0:21:28.480 --> 0:21:31.600 Trump is giving all this advice. That's terrible. He's not 0:21:31.840 --> 0:21:35.000 as smart as he thinks he is. He's sabotaging his 0:21:35.040 --> 0:21:37.399 own case by his own stubbornness, all these kinds. But 0:21:37.440 --> 0:21:40.520 there are things about Trump that, if you follow that trial, 0:21:40.920 --> 0:21:44.120 would make you nervous about that guy being president, even 0:21:44.160 --> 0:21:46.480 if you didn't know anything about all the other stuff 0:21:46.480 --> 0:21:48.760 you've done. So I think there are stories about that, 0:21:49.240 --> 0:21:51.199 but its just I don't know. I felt this for 0:21:51.359 --> 0:21:54.920 for a while, like if Biden was in our nominee, 0:21:54.920 --> 0:21:58.399 if it was Gvin Newsom or somebody else, it just 0:21:58.400 --> 0:22:00.920 seems like we would have a more news worthy candidate. 0:22:01.119 --> 0:22:04.119 But we don't, and so in that vacuum, it's just 0:22:04.200 --> 0:22:06.840 four hours a night of Trump. And so in a way, 0:22:06.880 --> 0:22:10.000 like liberal media and all that kind of stuff in 0:22:10.040 --> 0:22:12.760 our Twitter feeds and all that all kind of play 0:22:12.840 --> 0:22:15.280 into that. And so I guess my question for you is, 0:22:15.560 --> 0:22:18.760 are you suggesting I don't know why they do that. Honestly, 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:20.879 it doesn't make any sense to me except that it 0:22:20.960 --> 0:22:23.359 probably drives ratings or something. But are you saying we 0:22:23.359 --> 0:22:26.240 should focus on other stories or something or what? 0:22:26.359 --> 0:22:30.560 Yeah, I think that First of all, what MSMBC does 0:22:30.760 --> 0:22:35.840 with their four hours of Trump trial coverage, This is like, honestly, 0:22:36.040 --> 0:22:38.159 this is not the O. J. Simpson trial. This is 0:22:38.200 --> 0:22:41.680 not a murder trial. If it was the document's case, right, 0:22:41.800 --> 0:22:44.919 and if it was actually televised and then you're playing 0:22:45.000 --> 0:22:53.880 back clips, this wouldn't that would make sense. In the meantime, 0:22:54.240 --> 0:22:58.679 you have Senator Katie Britt who just rolled out a 0:22:58.720 --> 0:23:02.760 piece of legislation to start a pregnancy database to track 0:23:02.840 --> 0:23:08.919 women's pregnancies nationally, right, to track their movements. No linkage 0:23:09.000 --> 0:23:15.480 to obgyns, to actual reproductive health clinics. No, it's all 0:23:15.520 --> 0:23:19.000 about religious zelots and these fake clinics that they put 0:23:19.080 --> 0:23:23.440 up to scare women into having their babies. She's created 0:23:23.440 --> 0:23:28.240 a national policy around that. That's a fucking headline news story, right. 0:23:28.400 --> 0:23:32.120 That goes along with the IVF blockages that came out 0:23:32.160 --> 0:23:35.399 of Alabama. That goes again to say half of this 0:23:35.560 --> 0:23:39.399 country are women and people with uteruses. Pay attention to 0:23:39.480 --> 0:23:42.920 what they're doing. Because Donald Trump becomes president and you're 0:23:42.960 --> 0:23:46.520 looking at this abortion band that's in twenty states being 0:23:46.600 --> 0:23:50.080 in fifty states, and you're looking at these national registries 0:23:50.200 --> 0:23:54.320 right like these to me are important stories that are 0:23:54.359 --> 0:23:58.639 not being like even if Biden was only putting this 0:23:58.720 --> 0:24:01.600 shit up in his social fi feeds, right and saying, 0:24:01.840 --> 0:24:05.199