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07-19-2024 · 4h 11m
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To the President of Ukraine
Who has as much courage
As he has determination
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Thank you For being friends with me president so oh so Are you fucking kidding me?
What's going on everybody?
I hope everyone is having a fantastic evening,
fantastic afternoon,
fantastic pre-noon.
No matter where you
are in the world, I'm a soft biker of this dog
that ever broadcasts up to you live
from
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Sunny California, Los Angeles folks we're live and alive and that was a Megaponics W Trump featuring Hasanabe and Old Joe.
Absolute banger of an intro song, just wanted to get the day started, set the mood right,
you know what I'm saying?
Anyway, I'm live and alive and I hope all the boys, girls, and enbies are having a fantastic one because today is a beautiful day. Today's a wonderful day.
Today is
a very
special day.
Very special day for
a very special
gaze. That's right for the all the gays girls men straight
man all the queers.
Why?
Is the question many people have on their minds.
Oh why is it a special day?
Is it because the RNC was last night, it's finally over?
Is it because Donald Trump united the country
because he's the great uniter
and he did that? Is it because
like the entire
internet collapsed yesterday.
Computers were showing blue screens
of death left and right
and
flights were grounded across
the board? Is that what it is?
Is that the reason?
And to all of you, I say yes and no.
It's a very special day because it's a very special day
of the week every week.
It's Friday. special day of the week every week you know we finally it's friday it's friday that's right ladies and gentlemen it's friday every week every week we celebrate the joyous occasion that the turn of the week is here.
The end of the week is here.
Wage cucks can have a sense of autonomy and a sense of humanity,
A sense of dignity in their lives.
That our forefathers fought long and hard for labor unions
Trade unionists, socialists, communists
They fought hard so you can appreciate the goddamn weekend crack a cold one with the boys have some fun forget that your wage slave for like three and a half seconds
And that's why we celebrate
Fridays up in this bitch unless you're a service sector employee
In which case you fucking are just starting your day and your
Fridays are basically
everyone else's Monday.
But, you know,
most of your viewers work weekends
lol. I mean, I know know and i work weekends myself so
work a mega law no there's plenty of people i think in
this community that like to tune in while they're working on the job, I'm the J-O-B.
Oh
my lord! In any case,
this is the part of the broadcast where I tell you
a little bit about my personal news about what's
going on in the world of usan, Hassan Abipiker.
And honestly a lot
has happened. I ended the broadcast after
11 hours yesterday
because you know another 11 hour almost 12-hour half day. You already
know. You already know how this shit works. I'm quiet quitting. I'm quiet quitting.
I'm not putting in the effort. I'm not putting in the initiative.
What the hell is this guy doing?
Where does he get off, this
guy? Doing a half
day? Just kidding. 12 hours
is basically just half of the full day like when i say i do have day
i mean i mean i'm literally like burning half of the day in front of this
goddamn computer.
Luckily for
me and everyone else that actually
is a Hasan Abiy
broadcast enjoyer, I never update my windows
until Windows basically comes to
my house with agents
that have weapons in hand
that go, if you don't fucking
if you don't fucking if you don't fucking update your windows we will kill
you that's usually when i update my windows
okay they come in they beat my ass. They use hammers and
they fuck me up or sometimes
my computer due to a power outage
will automatically
turn off and then
turn on.
Before I realized that I had Windows 11
on this fucking dumbass piece of shit
that I never wanted.
But anyway,
Microsoft on Macro Hard um but anyway microsoft i'm macro hard bro your windows doesn't have the antivirus
that up even if you updated you'd be fine okay i'm gonna hear from a lot of unbearable it nerds today
okay this is going gonna be your day.
I know, hold on we're going to get there
let me crack off a couple jokes
before you start talking about how
you guys are the first line of defense,
how you're braver than the Marine Corps.
I know this is obviously Twitch.
There's a very IT focused space in general.
Every every IT specialist that fucking has a job where they have to tell 40-year-old men
to just turn their computers on and off whenever there's a goddamn problem.
And that's like the maximum amount of troubleshooting
you have to do is going to be talking in here
like they're, you know, comp sci engineers
that actually are solving complex math equations today.
Okay?
Crowd strike, I know.
Okay, we know you're going to be striking.
Crowd stroke more like it.
Anyway. it.
Anyway,
most of IT nerd is your chat including me? No, I know. Oh, I know. Trust me. Are you kidding me? You think I don't know most of my community
has either had some experience in IT
or is currently working in an IT
anytime there's an issue on my computer
everyone is literally an IT specialist people are like come on
give me remote access to your desktop please let me fix it let me fix it
anyway but that's besides the point. We'll get there in a little bit.
We'll talk about that...
What is this? What is all of this? Oh, the freaking
thing came out.
I am a raffle by the way.
I'm not going to be auctioning anything.
I'm just raffled.
Connor relegated me to raffle status between 345 and 530 on the auction schedule.
Anyway, folks...
We got a lot going on in the world,
but this is a part of the broadcast where I tell you about my personal news
about what's going on in the world of us on Austin.
I'll be piker in between the time period where I press the stop shooting
button and press the start streaming button and of course of course A lot has happened.
One thing I want to immediately talk about,
one thing I want to immediately talk about is this.
Okay?
Ended the broadcast last night after a half day
because I'm quite quitting
and what did
I do? Not really much.
I just fucking ordered some food
because I was starving,
but food got canceled.
Hello guys, Koreatown canceled my ass.
Okay.
Which was probably a good thing
because I was so tired
Even though I was starving
But I didn't end up ordering more food
I just slammed the protein shake
And that's it
I slammed the protein shake and I passed
the fuck out. I was so tired
I couldn't even jork it.
Do you understand?
I was so goddamn tired
that I could not even jork it. That's how
devastating the situation is
just put the fries in the bag
right? I don't know what
this means. I see it on TikTok
all the time. Okay?
But, like...
I don't know what that means.
I think it's, like, a TikTok comment to be, like...
Like, shut the fuck up and, you know, do your job brokey or something?
Is that what it is?
Is that what it's like a reference to just put the fries in the bag.
Like they're saying,
you're a minimum wagee?
Is that what that means?
I find that rather strange.
Sir, this is a Wendy's but Gen X?
Okay.
Wait, is it Gen X or Gen Z? Nah, it's a you fell off meme of you read the last chapter of My Hero Academia. What?
They're saying your washed and broke.
Oh yeah, no, I know.
Famously, I'm
very washed and very broke.
But also simultaneously, I'm the richest most powerful man in America and therefore bad at socialism or something
I don't fucking know
it means you fell off and you did get a job at fast food I don't fucking know. But yeah,
it means you fell off and you need to get a job at fast food.
Doesn't make sense in this case at all.
Okay.
Um,
people say that the people who are washed or doing cringe activities. Got it.
Okay, makes sense. Anyway, so
I'm such a fucking
I'm such a goddamn boomer that I don't even understand
I needed like eight minutes of people
explaining
uh, eight minutes of people
explaining what that meme even means to me.
That is how outside of my orbit
my periphery
this commentary is. So, we're going to be talking about a lot but yeah no anyway I passed out, I woke up, I passed out, I woke up. I passed out.
I woke up
and
I woke Alex
up.
Well,
as
was actually
awake
before me even.
And we went to work out, it was squat day, okay?
Ass is on lock.
Alex squatted for the first time in his life with a barbell.
It was the first time he ever did a barbell squat,
which we're very proud of, okay?
I also went, uh, I also went pretty high on my, uh, on my back squat,
my barbell back squat.
I went like 308 or something which is the first time
I've done that weight
um so I'm, I mean in a while. First time I did that weight in a while
uh I will not be posting
A video of it because I had a
Because I had a weight belt
Around me and that shit
Basically took all
Of my remaining skin and fat,
and bunched it up so I look kind of ugly.
So I will not be posting that.
Apologies ahead of time.
You know, if you were looking forward to that,
it's not happening.
But um... forward to that it's not happening but beyond that
beyond that
what do we pay you for? I know, I know.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry that you don't get to see
that.
But
I'll post myself
doing 265 at least because I did not have a weight belt on there.
Hit 265 for 10, not a big deal.
I'm on a severe deficit.
One thing I wanted to talk about that
with respect to the deficit, as a matter of fact...
Low bar or high bar?
No, I'm doing high bar now.
I'm a high bar back squatter finally.
We're back to high bars.
Anyway, one thing that I wanted to say...
Alex has been on my regimen for the most part while he's been here.
He's been eating more than me. I've been trying to like,
get him to eat more. The VOD isn't working King?
Wanted to watch Mufasa wait why anyway
what you gonna apologize to aoc now
the reports have come out that Biden is staying in the race?
What?
Why would I apologize to AOC?
AOC's a politician.
So,
anyway, listen, listen, listen.
What I was saying is, I've been on a deficit for quite some time as you guys know, I'm trying to cut down. I've been trying to get down to 220 pounds. I'm at 230, I'm at the bottom of 230, I'm trying to cut into 220.
I saw 227 yesterday on the scale and it made me very excited.
But of course this morning I was 231,
but the reason why I'm talking about this is because Alex is a pretty,
pretty high metabolism, like higher than normal, right? Like a lot higher than normal right like a lot higher than
normal that's why he's super shredded for me
no shot you're 230 kilograms?
No, 230.
I broke some news for you in the start of the stream.
You can collab with Trump now, sleepover stream.
Yes, Slasher.
I'm very excited at the prospect
of having the former president and also
the next president. And also,
if you're a real one,
if you're a real patriot,
the current president.
Anyway, my metabolism is dog shit and a lot of people don't believe me.
Okay?
My metabolism is dog shit and a lot of people don't believe me
They're like no you're tubby, you must be eating a lot
Like whatever This entire past week alex has been on my training
regimen and also simultaneously he's been eating even more than myself. I've been trying to give him
more food
than even I eat, than I consume
right?
This motherfucker lost 10 pounds
almost. He lost 8 pounds since he's been here with my,
like with my cardio and with my training regimen,
I have stayed the same way and I eat less than him and I eat
and I work out more than him
he skipped a couple workouts in between
and when we go play
basketball, he just like sits out a lot of the games
when I still keep playing
so I'm working out more than he is
and also simultaneously eating more than he is and also simultaneously
eating less than he is. My weight
does not fucking move. He lost
eight pounds
okay? And even like
yeah, he went out drinking a couple nights ago and I have 30 fucking 40 pounds on
him.
40 pounds
on him, and I have a lot
more muscle mass than he does.
My metabolism is supposed to be
much faster across the board.
My resting metabolic rate
is supposed to be higher than his.
I have 40 pounds on him.
And we are around the same
age like he's only one year younger
than me so
I'm telling you right
now it is wild
how bad, I mean how good his metabolism is wild how bad i mean how good his metabolism
is and how bad my metabolism is is wild some people do literally just burn more
or less than others it comes to the individual difference between people
investing metabolic rate? No, I know.
Yeah.
Hasanabi,
I'm 6'3", 240,
and I clear 3.5 to 4K calories
to maintain your metabolism is...
Not ideal. No.
My cut is insane. Think about
it this way. I'm 230
pounds, 6'4".
I eat on my deficit
days like on my higher deficit days i eat less than 2 000
calories while simultaneously staying above 220 sometimes 230 grams of protein. Okay?
That's crazy,
like my deficit is insane.
Like this is like competition,
like bodybuilders that are getting ready for competition have this level of
deficit with like this much tweaking of their
of their uh macronutrients
anyway so new study suggests working out does not change how much you burn.
Your body burns around the same level is mostly a matter of food regulation.
Yeah, I know.
But my food regulation is also incredibly low though
is the whole point of this conversation.
I know that working out
doesn't necessarily,
you can't outwork your diet
but my diet
is also unimaginably,
unimaginably fucking
it's just my calories, my daily caloric unimaginably fucking...
My calories, my daily calories are super fucking low.
How do you get 200 plus grams of
protein in? I eat a shit ton
and I mean a shit ton of proat.
I'm the proat goat.
Okay?
I'm the proat
throat goat.
Okay?
I'm throat and proat.
You look insanely lean
I mean,
I am.
I am definitely
very lean now
but it is crazy
I'm throat and protein I'm so protein filled no, I'm throat and pro
I'm so protein pilled no I'm creatine
Pilled I fucking love creatine
So much it's the greatest invention of all time
I love it I love it I love it anyway
Um you're probably putting on a lot of muscle too no because i'm actually weaker
i'm literally freaking weaker than i
i i, you know
I'm definitely losing muscle mass as well
It's impossible to fucking
At my level keep maintaining like
The same level of muscle mass
While also losing fat
should i start lifting man i just turned 30 is this what you do when you hit 30.
you should have been lifting there's never there's never a bad time to start though
this is why calories inverse carries us so frustrating because it's true but very
reductive to what it means for people's daily lives imagine if you had a different job less
time you might be a lot more obese
right now. Still, you've done brilliantly. Oh, 100%.
Strength does not
correlate to muscle mass on a deficit?
Fair.
And then I watch shit like this. I just saw a comment where a guy was, like...
And then I see shit like
this and it makes me sad and I'm like, I need to do steroids.
If you ate 1,000 calories
a day of just donuts you will get fat and i
re i replied to the comment i'm like i disagree
it's not even if i mean he's wrong that person is wrong sam stillick is right
you will never, you will
not get fat if you eat only a thousand
you will die
before you get fat. You will lose weight
okay? Unless
you're like a baby. Also 1,000 calories of donuts is like three donuts.
What do you mean?
Imagine being like yeah my diet is three donuts.
Sick.
That's also crazy.
Do you have nutritionist recommendations or cardio tips?
Yeah.
Obviously the best possible cardio for fat burn or weight loss in general
is staying between 120 to 130 beats per minute.
More than that is going to be too much exertion
that'll make you even hungrier.
That'll make you way more exerted
but it's good
to also obviously do that
for regular cardio reasons.
Like it's better to improve your cardio by pushing the limit
and doing high intensity interval training,
but that is besides the point
And as far as cardio goes do what you like
do what you enjoy
do what you find to be fun
there's definitely an activity
that you can enjoy doing. Some people
like basketball, I love basketball
That's what I do for my cardio
I hate running, I love basketball
However
some people love running, they're freaks, okay? I don't get it.
Thank you to Macy's for the playlist.
Some people like rowing.
Rowing is great. I like rowing as well.
I mean, I still get bored doing it, but
basketball is so much more dynamic for me.
Some people like rock climbing that's another good exercise as well.
So overall some people like soccer just like find something that you enjoy doing
even walking is
great if you like that sort of thing
some people like tennis
just find something you enjoy doing
and then just keep doing it over and over again but you definitely need to
she ate your earplugs
like ate them what is wrong with her
no don't pet her while she's you should have What is wrong with her?
No, don't pet her while she's you should have fucking yelled at her and like
That's insane
Well when she shits them out time for it... Oh, it's just earwax probably yeah.
That's probably what it is.
My cat doesn't eat my earplugs all the time.
What are they? AirPods? Oh, the ones for sleeping. Oh, she one's for sleeping.
Oh, she ate your phone.
Wait, where?
Was it on your bed or something?
She just went and was like yum.
She's so fucking fat dude.
It's crazy. It's crazy how fat this dog is
You guys don't understand
Like she's actually not physically fat
But spiritually
She's such a fucking fat ass
I'm not even kidding.
Like, physically she's like 100 pounds
but like,
she's just all muscle and bone
but she looks fluffy
because of her coat
but she is so spiritually a fucking fat ass, just like her dad.
Like he just literally lays up this bitch.
She knows I'm talking about her.
Why are you looking at me like that
you're so fat dude why are you the fattest to ever do it the fattest in the game right now.
No, seriously.
She is...
She will run around a little bit and then be like
I'm done.
She'll run and then be like, I'm done. She'll run
around and be like, okay
I've gotten my exercise in for the day
and we'll just lay the fuck
down and we'll be like, I'm good.
You make her lay there all day and then call
her fat for laying there?
Yeah.
And I mean obviously
it's because of the summer but she does that in the winter too.
Another fat activity
that she is always like,
she's just...
Physically,
she can't do certain things
because she's just really heavy.
That's what it is, honestly. She's just spiritually heavy. That's what it is, honestly.
She's just spiritually fat because she's so big.
Fat shaming Kaya is upsetting?
No, she deserves it.
Also,
it's not even fat shaming. It's fat loving.
I love that she's fat.
Yeah.
And
she acts like her daddy. that's what it is.
She is very cat coded I will say that.
Anyway...
What are the monthly expenses for owning a dog that size I don't fucking know
a lot
dude I have no idea
I have not done the accounting
um I have no idea. I have not done the accounting.
Anyway, so so
let's
get into it, let's blast off
okay
let's do a big blast off
and let's get the
people coming in.
There's a lot going on in the world,
obviously.
Where is it?
Okay. Trump's
fashy RNC speech
does little
to
unify
Is It Unify.
Is it Jover?
Brandon thinks not.
AOC
defends Joe Biden
let's see
defends
Biden
decision
um decision Tel Aviv
struck
with
Houthi drone, ICJ blasts Israel.
And more news
Get in now
Yeah today I'm going to be
Like I am actually literally doing a half day today,
by the way,
because I have the Connor dog,
Virginia Connor dog veterans affairs. And, Connor Dog Virginia, Connor Dog Veterans Affairs
IDF charity
which is not the
Israel Defense Force
but instead
it's not the Israel Defense Force
but the Immune Deficiency
Fund. Oh my god
dude there's so much
happening that like I forgot the crowd
like there are things
there is so much happening in the world
that I forget
that there
are literally news
like really relevant news things
that are occurring.
And I forget to even mention them in the title
or just like lose track of all the things
that I need to talk about.
Yeah.
Y2K happened last night and we'll talk about that as well
okay
um it's hard to keep up. We need a stream agenda.
I have a stream agenda.
I'm saying that so much happens
all the freaking time that it's hard to keep up
even with the agenda.
Now that he's on band, do you think Trump will finish the Elder Ring DLC on stream before you? Yes.
Hillary holding on for dear fucking life yeah
Hillary is
Hillary's holding on because she doesn't want
Kamala Harris to be the first female president.
That's literally, I'm glad that people are recognizing this
America's First Madam President
Madame President Kamala Harris
absolutely drilling into her brain
like it was a Kill Bill siren. Yeah, 100 OP.
MoonMoon is going
to finish it at SL1 before you?
Yeah.
... Yeah, last night Y2K occurred and I only found out about it because my mom
I woke up to a text message
on the family group chat from my mom.
I don't know if your moms are like this too
but like
my mom is so ominous
with her fucking vague posting.
She's in Turkey right now,
and she just dropped the most vague general statement at 1.37 a.m., Los Angeles time, she texted hello dot dot dot are you aware of what's going on question mark exclamation mark
it's 1 37 a.m
what's beautiful about this is that she didn't even say anything else. That's it. So I woke up to
that text message thinking like something happened, like something devastating
happened to the family. You know what I mean?
And it's like,
I just,
I was like,
I sent a bunch of question marks.
Is everything okay?
And then she starts talking about the cyber attack at 6 AM and it's like, mom
you can't do that
Like, you can't just like drop a vague post like that and let my mind as soon as
I wake up at 630 AM. That's the first thing I see see i'm like oh my god what's going on is she okay
is my family okay you know is everything going to be all right
and it wasn't even a cyber attack but it's just like my mom at the time thought it was.
I don't know why moms do that when they vague post. it's not even a sense of humor thing
chatters she just
has this ominous energy when she
texts I think it's because
it's a generational thing.
I think she just doesn't know
like,
I don't think she knows
how to
send these sorts of text messages
in a way that is not like vague.
My mom did the call me when you get
a chance text when I was at work
the other day and I was thinking
someone has died but she just needed
me to check on the family dog
when they were out of town.
Yeah, it is wild, I don't know what
it is like, it's like a very
mom thing to do and
I don't know why
I don't think they recognize that they're like
when they send a text message like
that most people's reaction to
that text message is like a
death has occurred in the
family you know what I mean
something super serious has
gone down.
There's a whole trad on Twitter and Instagram of these vague texts that scare the hell out of kids.
Like, anyway they think of it as a phone call that they have to establish communications first? Leave them on read and they learn real
quick to stop doing their shit. No, I are...
First of all, she sent that 1.30 a.m.
So obviously
I left there on read
because I was sleeping
My mom hits me with
can you get a hold
of your brother
and I usually think he's dead
Oh my god
my mom did that yesterday.
My mom did that yesterday.
It's like
we haven't been able to reach him.
I'm like,
yeah,
he's probably working
like it's fine.
Why are
you like this?
Why is everything so
amped up like
you can't be sending these ominous-ass text messages, mom.
Oh man.
All right.
My dad loves to do the no warning call so I freak out and he says,
oh, I bought you some cream cheese or
some shit anyway
huh my dad texted me call
me when you're out of class and I spent the next hour
thinking my mom was dead but he just had
an it question Okay.
My My favorite is
Call Me. Okay,
I thought
it was just me being a stress head.
No, this is just like I think it's just
like a boomer thing.
I don't know what
it is Biden dot
dot dot.
Anyway, let's get started i blasted off already like i said
trump's fashy RNC speech
Does little to unify
Is it Jover?
Brandon thinks not
AOC defends Biden decision
Why'd you have it last night
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Legit Q Why is every political dude Get in now.
Why is every political dude framing the media's coverage of Biden as the elites forcing him out like the voters don't want him no more?
Yeah, it's because it's a weird dynamic.
It's a weird dynamic where like the
Democratic Party
The-the Democratic Party is so used to
just like voters voting unconditionally for whoever the fuck the Democratic Party is so used to just like voters voting unconditionally for whoever
the fuck the Democratic Party wants.
And Biden is basically taking advantage of that
because, like, the Democratic Party's posture
has always been we get
elected because the other side is much worse.
So it's fear based voting and Biden and his team are making this calculation
more so Biden's team that's making this calculation
that fear is going to set in
when it's too late
to make this decision,
when it's too late
to change the course,
to change the trajectory.
And that is of course
that is of course um
that is of course the the uh dnc once we get to the convention it's over
biden as a candidate and everyone will fucking
get together uh everyone will get together.
Everyone will get together and
unify
under the Biden ticket, and we'll start
yelling at everybody that doesn't want to vote for Joe
Biden and tell them that they want fascism.
Okay?
That's what the Biden,
that's what the Biden campaign
is basically gearing up for.
Okay?
That's what they're going, that's why I've been
saying for months now that
Biden is not even trying to, Biden's team
is not even trying to put him
across the finish line on November
5th, they're trying
to get him across the finish line
for the DNC. After that
it doesn't matter even if he fucking dies
they're just going to roll his carcass over They're going to roll this carcass over.
They're going to roll his carcass over
and
say you have to vote for this carcass
and nothing else like you can't do anything.
Now there's a couple different motivations here though.
There's a couple different motivations here,
like the democratic party's establishment,
like all of these,
uh,
all of these people that have like had control over the Democratic Party,
like Mitch McConnell has ideological interest in the continuation of the Republican Party.
Nancy Pelosi, in a similar vein,
has an ideological interest in the continuation of the Democratic Party, right?
Sure.
They fundraise off of Trump pretty well
but they don't want Donald
Trump and also on top of that
like a red house
and a red Senate
and then have nothing
and then have the Donald Trump administration
basically do project 2025
and rip apart the federal agencies and institute like
severe
mechanisms that are impossible
to roll back
as the last Trump presidency
kind of fucked a lot of stuff up.
So,
that's the reason why they are genuinely
and I do believe this, terrified
of the Biden re-election chances.
They're looking at the polls,
they're recognizing that a lot of people,
a lot of...
Um, they're, you know,
they're looking at
a lot of people that normally would have voted for the Democratic
Party, refusing to vote for Biden
and
they're very worried about that. They're very
worried about the prospect of a Trump
re-election
What's the media's place in this? Why aren't they also of a Trump re-election.
What's the media's place in this?
Why aren't they also putting pressure on Biden?
They are,
they're basically covering it nonstop.
There's leaks everywhere.
It's a leaky faucet up in this bitch.
Virtually every uh virtually every member of congress and people in positions of power that are close to biden have openly stated that he must drop out with the exception of like eight people okay
yeah nothing good just repatriated Native American remains from a museum.
Orange man bad except for how he fights for Native Americans tenfold?
Wait, what?
She is incarcerating blacks for smoking joints so they end up used for her prison workforces
passports brought 90 of missing persons that are found not murdered and missing law wait
are you are you like a woke trump supporter? Like, you're like a
Trump cares about indigenous rights
style Trump supporter.
Is that what you're saying?
What is happening right now?
Dude, I love Maga.
Except for last night when I did not love Maga.
Okay. Last night I was losing my mind a little bit.
I was tired tired and I think
there was a couple moments where
I definitely did pop off a little
bit too hard
but anyway, what is James Medlock saying?
All straight forward from here.
One, Biden reveals his bad debate performance
as a clever point of reveal who his true heir is.
Biden makes AOC his VP and then resigns the presidency
to implement socialism where we have 100 years of glorious prosperity?
Yes, that's what's going on.
You're cranky but I would be too.
Yeah no
Major donors told Biden and his team in the DNC that they will not be donating anymore
I know.
I know.
The reason why
donors have a
say in this process, because that's all
the Democratic Party and the Republican Party
cares about.
Voters did not fall out of a coconut tree a majority agree that you exist in the context
of all do you wish and live before he came wait what voters agree that we
exist in the context of all in which we live? What the fuck kind of poll is this?
Are they just doing meme polls now?
What the fuck?
I think Twitter is just like memeing Kamala Harris into existence,
like President Mamala
into existence,
which is at this point fine.
Like I'll take whatever fucking...
I'll take whatever exit ramp
we can get. But before we get to the AOC stuff, let's dial it back for a second.
And let's watch some of the media coverage,
because I wanted to see how the media would frame Donald Trump's statements
because he started off with like emotional calls and being like,
I was shot.
It was so emotional.
I cried tears.
I will never tell you the story ever again.
And it's like, he did that and that's fine.
You know, he's going to milk it obviously.
He got fucking shot at.
But then he turned around
and basically did the rally.
I think that he was going to do before he got domed, right?
Like he literally went for two hours non-stop he broke his previous records in both 2016 and 2020
for longest speech at a convention, like longest presidential
candidacy acceptance speech
was formerly broken
in 2016. Then that was broken again
by Trump in 2020 and then
he broke it again this time around.
And he was unstoppable
in terms of yapping,
and the yap sesh got so out of control and so fucking boring that I feel as though even his, like, most ride-or-die MAGA fans were by the end of it like, we've heard this before. Come on, please.
Lots
of papers clearly printed today's
front pages based on the prepared not to deliver
remarks. Yeah, it's obvious in a departure Trump calls for based on the prepared, not the delivered remarks?
Yeah. It's obvious.
In a departure Trump calls for unity healing in America. Trump emphasizes
unity from the Dallas Morning News.
Pioneer Press, Trump takes a unity tone. He did
not. After attempt on life, can Trump unite
the U.S. from the RNC?
And it's so obvious.
Trump, we must heal discord.
Somber Trump pledges everything I have to give.
And it's like so obvious that they just did not listen
to the speech and turned around and wrote it
because this was not even remotely different
from any of his normal speeches.
The only difference in this speech,
the only difference in this speech
was that he did not call out joe biden by name with
the exception of like two or three different times but over the course of the two-hour
speech that he delivered he rarely rarely talked about Joe Biden,
which I think was strategic
and it wasn't because
he wanted to do a call for unity.
It was because
he knows that Joe Biden
might not be the candidate.
So he switched the narrative,
He switched the narrative from you
from Joe Biden to this administration.
He kept saying this administration why did he say this administration? Because he recognizes that there's a high likelihood that Joe Biden drops out and Kamala Harris replaces him on the ticket.
Tonight has been a journey for us all Oh here, this is a pretty good
summary of how the speech started
and where it went It's a weird but pretty good speech.
The past few weeks have gone about as badly
as possible for Democrats,
and they're likely underdogs against Trump
regardless of who they nominate.
But the opportunity to reset the campaign
with a non-Biden nominee is a twist of good fortune semi retract this tweet
this speech is this speech is boring as but there are worse things politically
speaking than being boring fully retract and rescind sometimes it seems like both
parties are trying to throw this election. It's not sometimes,
it's all the time.
Everything
that I have seen
from both parties so far in this
election cycle is a race to the bottom.
They are trying to do what Felix likes to call
The Record-Breaking Election
where only 50,000 people vote
It legitimately feels
like both parties are locked
in this weird secret
deal where they're like how can we get
99%
of eligible voters to not vote in this upcoming
election.
Because Republicans
regularly at the state level
keep doing insane shit
like they're like, hey I know right now that we are called the Christo
fascist party, but I don't really care. I do want to do Christo fascism. I think
we should, you know, I think we should force everyone to read the Bible
for three of
the courses in
class until grade 8.
And it's like why did you do that? Where did this
come from? Absolutely zero people were demanding
this why are you just popping off like this
okay we need to put a copy of the ten
commandments in every fucking classroom shit like that and it's
like no one asked for this.
You're just kind of popping out of the gates
with no reason right now.
They'll be like oh yeah,
right now this is a time
when everyone has dialed in
on abortion
and women's bodily autonomy
and reproductive rights. Let's
ban IVF or let's
make a serious on the record statement.
Let's get together,
and let's bring all the Baptist together
and let's officially make a statement
about like restricting IVF
which is polling at like 90%,
like 98% approval.
You know what I mean?
Why would you do that?
Like, why would you do that?
That's the Republican side on
the Democratic side.
We have a carcass.
The Democratic platform is not unpopular.
Democratic senators and Democratic congresspersons that are running on the same ballot underneath Joe Biden have been
outperforming Joe Biden, sometimes by
10 points which is insane.
Now that number is actually
closing in. Why is it closing
because people are recognizing that Biden is a fucking carcass.
And that has down ballot consequences as well.
You don't have a lot of split ticket voters, that's not like a real thing.
Joe Biden, every other day when he is not going ah!
When in his more coherent moments, moments is talking about how much he loves Israel
and talking about
how much he wants to do Trump-style
immigration policies. Basically
making sure that not a single Hispanic or young voter, sometimes both because the Hispanic vote is pretty young in some of these important states like Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico,
is basically ensuring that
no young Hispanic ever votes
for him. Okay?
Which is weird. Don't understand.
Don't understand why
Biden is just like desperately trying to make it so that if
you're under the age of 35 you just definitely won't vote for either candidate
so the instincts are very weird on both sides
very strange election
this part was crazy a legit thought It was photoshopped.
Did Trump walk on stage
at the RNC in front of
a giant sign that said,
come what?
What? no what do you mean mostly true
yeah anyway We're going to talk about the ICJ ruling as well
Of course, chatters
Calm down
It's in the fucking...
It's in the docket.
Okay? Please. Obviously.
It's a historic ruling from the ICJ.
So... Um, so it makes sense.
Most young people are more anti-capitalist and they don't want them to mobilize. The sign did say come, it was anti-Kamala messaging?
Okay.
All right guys, let's get back to serious business for a second.
But let us hear what the media had to say
because I feel like
a lot of the reaction,
I was fearful that a lot of the reaction
to Trump's RNC speech was going to be the classic
he became president on this day.
He was doing a great, he was doing a great job.
He was so united and some of the local news,
some of the local press reflects that false narrative,
especially in the titles as we just saw.
However, however, I don't believe
that live network television coverage
is going to reflect that because it was very obvious
that
Donald Trump was not trying to be the great uniter
last night at all. The only time he
brought up unity as a matter of fact
was when he was talking about how
in order to unite this country
you have to drop all of the cases against me.
Which seems
a little self-serving, doesn't it?
Alright, let's take a look at what the media had to say.
Turning now to that big night at the RNC
and former President Trump's first
speech since Saturday's attempt on his life.
Accepting his party's nomination, he spoke
of unity while also repeating the attacks
and false claims that have helped divide this country.
Tony is in Milwaukee where he has been leading our coverage.
Tony, good morning.
Good morning Nate you laid it out pretty well there. His voice was softer, his ear
was still bandaged and he promised to be president for all of America but after Donald Trump
detailed in sober tone Saturday's attempted assassination and said the division in discord must be healed.
Donald Trump returned to being Donald Trump he returned to form and by the time he finished
after midnight Eastern Time, he'd called a former House Speaker crazy re up false claims of cheating last election. HE HAD CALLED THE FORMER HOUSE SPEAKER CRAZY, REUP FALSE CLAIMS OF CHEATING LAST ELECTION AND ACCUSED JOE BIDEN OF DESTROYING AMERICA.
SO FOR MORE ON THIS I'M JOINED BY ED O'KEEFE WHO WAS ON THE FLOOR WITH ME TO THE BALLOON FILLED ED.
GOOD MORNING TO YOU.
GOOD TO SEE YOU. LOOK THERE WAS THAT TALK OF UNITY. to the balloon-filled edge. Good morning to you.
Good to see you.
Look, there was that talk of unity,
but perhaps most strikingly
the president spent much
of the address recounting
his heroin brush with death.
I'm not supposed
to be here tonight. kelly a right-wing darling he is like spoken at right wing conventions okay a crypto weirdo
who uh swapped out the official currency of el salvador to like Bitcoin, who is very famously incredibly reactionary in
terms of dealing with crime in his country.
He built this massive prison facility.
We've watched it before.
We've watched YouTubers go there and glaze up
this concentration camp
that has now
a reclamation now a
really
harrowing record of
human rights violations.
Donald Trump
claimed that Bukele was actually secretly sending all the MS-13 guys into the United States of America after training them to be more violent.
Donald Trump also said, hundreds of thousands of Americans are being murdered
by migrants.
Which was crazy.
It is...
it is...
It was nutty.
Like, the tone
was a little bit different
He wasn't as fired up
which I think contributed to how boring
this speech was But having said that,
the message
was incredibly violent,
incredibly reactionary.
Okay?
Not supposed to be here.
Yes you are! Not for long!
The longest acceptance speech in convention
history began with a dramatic
recounting of the assassination attempt
There was blood pouring everywhere and yet, THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT. THERE WAS BLOOD POURING
EVERYWHERE AND YET IN A
CERTAIN WAY I FELT VERY SAFE
BECAUSE I HAD GOD ON MY SIDE.
IF I HAD NOT MOVED I felt that. If I had not moved my head at
the very last instant,
The assassin's bullet would have
perfectly hit its mark
and I would not be here tonight I WOULD NOT BE HERE TONIGHT. FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP
HONORED FIREFIGHTER CORY
COMPARATORI, A FATHER OF TWO WHO
DIED IN THE SHOOTING PROTECTING
HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTERS.
HE LOST HIS LIFE SELF-SUFFERING TO AN ATTACK ON A BUSINESS He lost his life selflessly acting as a human shield to protect them from flying bullets.
He went right over the top of them and was hit.
Yeah, he...
Dude, it was awesome. When he kissed
Donald Trump
was on point last night. I will say
this much, okay? There were a couple
moments where Donald Trump popped the fuck off.
When he kissed
the
firefighter helmet, that was
incredible. I thought that was wild.
But also when he blew a kissy-poo...
When he blew a kissy-poo at Hulk Hogan before his speech,
I think that was the best part of the night.
Here it is.
Donald Trump
blew Hulk Hogan a kiss after his R&C
speech, I am not lying.
That was incredible.
What did,
what was he thinking?
Like what was going on there?
It's just like it literally jumped out of him.
He is so bicoded. He is such a... He is zesty.
He is queer, okay?
I'm sorry, this is like
This is the lock.
He got so excited at this big hulking man glazing him up, okay?
This big entertaining hulking man glazing him up and goddamn Hulk Hogan's speech was
entertaining I will admit, okay? That he literally... And goddamn Hulk Hogan's speech was entertaining.
I will admit, okay?
That he literally the emotions jumped out of him
and he just was like what can I do in this moment?
He wasn't even thinking at that moment like he was just reacting I enjoyed Hulk slipping up and calling him Donald Dick Gay Trump.
What? What?
Yeah, Donald Trump also had some funny moments
where he ignored Tiffany Trump.
That was funny.
Donald Trump literally on his own speech was basically like,
it was shocking how good Eric Trump was am I right? And it was crazy because he
was just dunking on his own son. He literally just hates his children, except for
Ivanka.
Yeah, no kissy-poos
for her. All the
kissy-poos are
reserved for Hulk Hogan.
He loves Baron and he loves Ivanka
that's it. He hates Don Jr.
He despises Eric Trump.
Uh, he does not even care.
He forgets that Tiffany is his like actual daughter.
Um, but yeah.
What a fine man he was.
At times, Trump tried to emphasize unity saying division in the country must be healed. I am running to be president for all of America, not half of America. But if reelected Trump said he would work to
restore southern speed but isn't a Trump vote just further improving most of the average hatters in
here? I feel like with how the economy has been it can only aid
better with our economy along with what is to come yeah no uh donald trump's donald trump's policies
did not improve your life with the exception of the stimmy checks that you got
during COVID. But beyond that
Donald Trump's policies did not improve
the American economy and it certainly did not
improve the economy for
the actual working class Americans,
which many of my community is comprised of.
I don't think I have a lot of landlords
and real estate moguls in here.
So I highly doubt that unless you're like,
C-suite executive at fucking Raytheon or whatever,
or not even just Raytheon but like ExxonMobil,
I doubt that you saw genuine improvements in your material conditions under the Trump administration.
You're just experiencing amnesia, okay? Okay.
The moment I get my bag, I'm canceling my subscription and hating hard?
Good luck to you, chatter. I hope
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as it used to be
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Trump like any grifter prophet was inheriting and improving
economy and took credit for it. Yeah, that's
the classic... That is also the
classic Republican gambit. Democrats
come in and they have to
redirect the economy uh at least under
like capitalist market conditions,
redirecting the economy under capitalist market conditions into
a growing economy and then obviously their eight
years are over.
So then the
Republicans can come in and fuck
it up again, and then the Democrats
have to come back in and fix it.
It doesn't usually happen with a one-term,
one-term swap.
It usually happens at the end of eight years.
I mean, if you recall,
George W. Bush absolutely gutted everything and
oversaw the collapse of
the American economy
and then Barack Obama had to come in
and pick up the pieces
and then change the direction only for Donald Trump to come in
and, you know, take advantage of that
and drive it further off of a cliff. Cliff.
That's such a cop-out?
I don't think it's a cop-out. Okay. out one of the yeah this was a unique moment what you're describing is not
the norm george hw bush raised tax and cl tax and Clinton took credit for the surpluses.
What I'm describing is
something pretty, I mean it's a pretty common trend.
. The biggest scion is the focus on pipeline is currently spiraling out of control
and now claiming I run Twitch. Wait, really?
Yeah, I run Twitch. Wait, really? Yeah,
I run Twitch so hard that
I run Twitch so hard
that when Donald Trump
got shot
Twitch literally
didn't even have adequate bandwidth
to cover
my immediate
increase in viewership.
And I just like literally
was getting rate limited by the company that I run secretly.
And they had to go back and like fix the problem. Anyway.
Okay. Is there somewhere you can prove that so I can show my father-in-law?
Sure.
All right, let's continue what in his view the biden administration has undone with proper
leadership every disaster we are now enduring yeah i run twitch that's why i demanded that by uh EVERY DISASTER WE ARE NOW ENDURING.
YEAH, I RUN TWITCH THAT'S WHY
I DEMANDED THAT DONALD TRUMP'S
ACCOUNT GET REINSTATED.
WILL BE FIXED AND IT WILL
BE FIXED VERY QUICKLY.
FORMER FIRST LADY MELANIA
TRUMP MADE HER FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE WEEK LAST NIGHT TO WATCH
HER HUSBAND ACCEPT THE NOMINATION AS DID TRUMP'S OLDEST DAUGHTER IVONKA TRUMP AND HER HUSBAND
JARED KUSHNER.
THE EVENING AT TIMES RESEMBLED A PRO-WRESTLING TOURNAMENT. Jared Kushner. The evening at times resembled a pro wrestling tournament, less of traditional campaign rallying.
When they took a shot at my hero and they tried to kill the next President of the United States.
This was fire.
Enough was enough!
And I said, let's
have the maniacs run wild
brother. Delegates like...
That was sick. That was actually sick.
I'm sorry.
It's very stupid and everyone will be like,
it's idiocracy but honestly that was fire.
Call me a
fucking stupid idiot the way I thought
that that was awesome.
I don't know what the fuck's wrong with this country.
Many things are wrong with this country,
but...
But I will say...
I will say...
That that was not one of the things that was rightfully... that
was not one of the things
that was wrong with this country. It was awesome.
Brooke McGowan
from North Carolina believed Trump's speech
kept a momentous week
for Republicans. He took a bullet for us on saturday and we could
have had a much different outcome this week just could have been a week of mourning and scrambling
to try to figure out who would be our non-me because no one can hold a candle
to Donald J. Trump
in response
to the speech that Biden campaign noted
former President Trump never made any
mention of issues like access to abortion services or his support for January 6th rioters
And they said the choice for voters now has never been more clear tomorrow
Trump heads for his first campaign rally with this running mate jd vance they're off to the battleground
state of michigan and for the record longest convention speech ever can't repeat that enough
it was a long night get some sleep thank you much. The balloon drop has commenced.
Donald Trump giving his acceptance speech,
accepting for the third time presidential nomination of the Republican Party
joined on stage by
his wife, Alana Trump.
He does not...
So why did Trump recount his assassination attempt with the most boring
Patriot Slideshow? Bro, what is he supposed to do?
Recreate it? Actually, I wouldn't put it past him
To do that. Do exactly that
I could see him do that
Just like recreate it step by step
And just like break out into song and dance. ever appear with him anymore.
So this is the first time that she's been seen by his side,
I don't know exactly in how long but in a very long time
having sort of an awkward um reading with her on the stage that i think is a little
performative he's appeared to be trump literally kissed everything but his wife last night you're
wrong he did kiss his wife he gives his wife on stage after his speech was over.
I watched it.
Don't ever come for my president like that, okay?
My real president.
Just a feigning surprise to see her, but that was...
And then the rest of the family, and his running mate
J.D. Vance and his wife
Do you believe Trump can end all wars?
Yeah
Definitely
Yes, I'm delusional
I was comatose
For the four years of Donald Trump's presidency
So of course
I think Trump can end all wars.
Which by the way, under his reign he ended zero but you know.
Under his reign, under his rule, America did not end any of their wars even though he claimed he would.
He will
say he's not engaging
like, he says
that he ended all wars under his presidency
and I think people
are too stupid
and think that that is the truth, but you know.
Not just the longest convention speech in the modern era. It is the longest convention
speech in the modern era by a very long way
The previous record holder was Donald Trump
in 2016 when he gave what was then the longest
convention speech that had ever been given
Biden ended more wars but
had a worse net war change yes
that is also technically not
untrue uh that is true, that is technically
true. Biden did end one
of the wars, Afghanistan
which was
technically Trump's
Afghan withdrawal policy which Biden followed through on to a T.
And I will always give him credit for that.
I will always give him credit for that.
The media, however, was very mad that he did that
and that I think was the turning point in
his administration. That's when the media
had to fucking knives out for him. They went
nutty mode over it. And then of
course, the Afghan withdrawal was
nothing because
Russia
invaded Ukraine
and then after Russia invaded Ukraine
then we had an energy crisis, a simultaneous energy crisis that was made worse by the fact that greedflation was going nutty mode where all of these corporations were taking advantage of like
the increased prices, where demand went up people started shopping again whereas supply could not keep up as a consequence of
the logistical issues that occurred during covid and then they realized like oh we
could just keep the prices this high and then the energy crisis post-Ukraine
invasion,
you know, people experienced
a lot of
negative real wage growth for
a year and a half under
the Biden administration. Some real wage growth for a year and a half under the
Biden administration, something that they will
not forget obviously
And then
on top of that October 7th
at the last minute
in the last year
of Brandon's administration.
October 7 happened and Israel has been
doing a genocide ever since,
which Brandon has been
obviously defending
this um passed up i think about 20 minutes
um we knew this was going to be a long speech when we got
first the excerpts and then the full text of it scripted at probably, uh, probably about probably
about an hour
but this came in
over an hour and a half
playing with the fucking balloon
experience former president did get to most of the words on
the teleprompter, but added a whole lot more.
Yeah there was a lot of extra cereal in the box if you will
yeah Nicole Wallace what did she think? I THINK IT'S A GOOD IDEA.
WHAT DID YOU THINK OF THE
SERIAL IN THE BOX, IF YOU WILL?
NICOLE WALLACE, WHAT DID YOU
THINK?
INTERESTINGLY, IT WAS POINTED OUT TO ME THAT FOX NEWS HAD carrying his speeches about a month ago. And I,
I thought that was curious and it was when there was a lot in them
about electrocution.
Yeah.
If one of those balloons pop while Trump was giving his fucking speech...
Yes. That would have dramatically altered the trajectory of this election, okay?
You don't understand. One balloon pop and it's game over okay we would have seen a
very different trump after that
and then sharks um i think when you watch what is arguably his biggest opportunity to speak before the most
Americans, we see a little bit of where some of that thinking might be right this is very extemporaneous
it was i think about half and half right half of it was descriptive speech and there was
about 50 extra added in the room it was messianic, people were crying
and they definitely loved it
Trump who... At the beginning
they loved it and were crying
Okay bro, glaze like this should be illegal dude
I mean, I guess technically they're not wrong
like the room felt an air
of there was a messianic
energy in the fucking room
yeah
they do think he's the messiah
but like I don't know maybe put a little bit
of fucking energy on here and
you know talk about how that's
kind of weird I think
The New York Times actually reported
and we're trying to chase this down with that.
Aloha, a bunch of former leaders
around the world have come out
with heavy support of Trump.
I'm more convinced than ever
that Trump has the strength and bravery to save Ukraine
and end this appalling war.
Yeah, okay Boris.
Okay Boris go to bed. HE SAID HE WOULD CHANGE. I THINK IT WAS A LITTLE BIT
DIFFERENT FROM THE BEGINNING.
HE SAID HE'D CHANGE BY THE END
AND IT'S PRETTY CLEAR HE HADN'T
VERY MUCH.
I THINK IF YOU'RE WONDERING
WHAT IMPACT THIS HAS ON THE
VIEWING AUDIENCE, YOU HAVE TO WONDER HOW MUCH OF IT THE THE BASEBALL GAME WAS A LONG TIME.
IT WAS VERY LENGTHY AND
IMPORTANT TO MEANINGFULLY
PEOPLE WHO WERE WATCHING IT
STAYED THROUGH.
IT WAS LONGER THAN MODERN
BASEBALL GAMES WITH THE NEW
PITCHING CLOCK. ALL BASEBALL GAMES LAST THAT I HOPE THAT THE BIGGER MESSAGE ANYONE IN THE PRO-DEMOCRACY SIDE GOT TONIGHT IS THAT
THE PRO-DEMOCRACY CANDIDATE, THE DEMOCRATIC PERSON CAN BEAT HIM AND BY A LOT AND DECISIVELY
RENDERING THE STORY THAT YOU COVERED WITH JIM RUTENBERG MEANINGLESS. a lot and decisively rendering the story that you covered, which in Rutenberg
meaningless if that should happen. The other thing is if you're looking in here for
kernels of substance describing what
happened to him on Saturday night saying this isn't one and only time he'll do that we'll see WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM ON SATURDAY NIGHT, SAYING THIS IS THE ONE AND ONLY TIME HE'LL DO THAT.
WE'LL SEE, RIGHT?
IT SEEMED LIKE A STORY THAT ONCE HE GOT INTO IT, HE ENJOYED CONNECTING OVER AND SHARING.
I THINK...
SLOW DOWN ON THAT POINT JUST FOR A SECOND, JUST TO MAKE SURE PEOPLE UNDERSTAND WHEN TRUMP sharing. I think... Slow down on that point just for a second,
just to make sure the people understand when Trump in case you didn't watch the whole...
I remember, didn't he say England is memed as the Americans of Europe? That's what my Thai friends
say. Yeah. England is the America of Europe. Yes. Oh, yes.
At the beginning of his speech...
Are you streaming tomorrow? Why wouldn't I be?
...with a reticent
very soft-spoken kind of sing song but very tightly scripted THE TELEPROMPTER. HE WAS SO EXCITED ABOUT IT.
I THINK THAT'S WHAT MADE HIM
FEEL LIKE A RETICENT, VERY
SOFT-SPOKEN KIND OF SCENE SONG
BUT TIGHTLY SCRIPTED READING
THE TELEPROMPTER, CREATION, THE SHOOTING AT HIS RALLY LAST SATURDAY. PEOPLE IN THE CROWD WERE WEEPING AND HE DID VERY
DRAMATICALLY SAY YOU WILL HEAR THIS FROM ME ONCE AND THEN
NEVER AGAIN BECAUSE IT IS TOO PAINFUL TO SPEAK ABOUT IT.
IT WAS A VERY STRANGE OPENING FOR THE SPEECHES, VERY MOVING
WITH THE PEOPLE IN THE ROOM. AND WE'LL SEE IF THAT'S THE ONLY TIME WE HAVE RELEASED I THINK IT'S VERY STRANGE. IT'S A VERY STRANGE OPENING TO
THE SPEECHES, VERY MOVING WITH
PEOPLE IN THE ROOM.
WE'LL SEE IF THAT'S THE ONLY
TIME HE EVER TELLS THE STORY,
IF IT IS, YOU KNOW, A LITTLE
BIT OF POLITICAL HISTORY THAT all witnessed, I guess together. There's a lot of audacity there are also a few tells
I mean, I think you saw the impact
to the immunity decision in some of this speech bragging
about calling people who come to the country illegally an invasion
so that he could use the military.
It was a line in his speech.
I thought he also showed his hand a little bit on how we would pursue or identify enemies saying they say I'm a threat to democracy.
Well, I'm protecting democracy. So I saw a few sort of flashing yellow lights in this.
I think the larger political force I THINK THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION. IT IS A GREAT QUESTION AND
THERE ARE A FEW FLASHING YELLOW
LIGHTS IN THIS.
I THINK THE LARGER POLITICAL
THING FOR EVERYONE TO UNDERSTAND
IS THAT THIS IS NOT A FOCUSED CANDIDATE, THIS IS NOT A CANDIDATE WITH A SIMPLE MESSAGE OF WHAT HE WANTS
TO DO. WHEN HE STANDS ALONE,
HE CERTAINLY APPEARS TO BE SOMEONE WHO SHOULD EASILY BE
CONTRASTED TO. CHRIS HAYES? THE FIRST PART OF THE SPEECH, I WAS STRUCK BY THE FACT THAT THIS
IS A 78-YEAR-OLD MAN WHO HAD
JUST GONE THROUGH A PROFOUNDLY
TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE AND WAS
FORCED TO RECKON WITH HIS OWN
MORTALITY AND HOW SCARY THAT WAS TO HIM. and was forced to reckon with his own mortality and how scary that was to him.
And, um...
That he is an old man in the latter stages of his life
most likely. He's 78 years old, the time comes for all of us LATER STAGES OF HIS LIFE, MOST LIKELY.
HE'S 78 YEARS OLD.
THE TIME COMES FOR ALL OF US.
AND THAT PART OF IT WAS A PART
OF TRUMP YOU DON'T SEE BECAUSE I
DON'T THINK HE ENJOYS THINKING
ABOUT THAT AT ALL. I ALSO FELT LIKE THE DECISION because I don't think he enjoys thinking about that at all.
I also felt like the biggest
takeaway after
what has been three of the most
painful weeks that I've ever seen
in Democratic politics,
this is not a colossus, this is not the big bad wolf,
this is not a vigorous and incredibly deft political communicator.
This is an old man in decline who's been doing the same shtick for a very good long time,
And it's really wearing pretty thin. THE SAME STICK FOR A VERY GOOD LONG TIME AND IT'S REALLY WEARING PRETTY FEMME.
AND HE IS A BEATABLE CANDIDATE. THIS WAS NOT, AND DEMOCRATS HAVE BEEN FEELING
A LOT OF PANIC AND FEAR AND ANXIETY AND UNDERSTANDABLY SO BUT I DON'T THINK ANYONE WATCHED feeling a lot of panic and fear and anxiety and understandably so.
But I don't think anyone watched that speech.
I mean, yeah,
I get what he's saying.
I get what he's saying. He's basically
saying this is the old Trump, this is the classic Trump
he didn't actually make like a genuine pivot
for unity
or what remains
of like the goodwill that he could have
cultivated here, he kind of cast aside.
And it's not wrong.
He's not wrong. Donald Trump,
the old Trump,
the Trump that we know is the Trump
that everybody fucking hates.
Okay?
He just did,
he basically
had like a brief moment
in the beginning where he was like, oh yeah
it was really sad. I got
shot at and it was terrifying
and then immediately
went to the hits
He basically did the same fucking
rally speech he was going to do. The only thing that was different
is that he did not actually call out
Biden by name, call him Sleepy Joe, whatever
and the only reason why he didn't
do that it was because it was strategic
That's because it was strategic.
That's it.
He strategically did not take a lot of shots at
Joe Biden, he did at the Democrats
he did at Nancy Pelosi
he intervened he did at the Democrats, he did it Nancy Pelosi.
He is still very much beatable.
Okay?
He is still very much beatable.
Of course he is.
He was the president.
He has already maxed out
on name recognition, just like Biden has
maxed out on name recognition. He's the incumbent,
right? So people are
people are already,
they've made their opinions on Trump.
Okay?
They've made up their minds on Trump.
That's why even post-assassination attempt.
Like you didn't see a dramatic shift in the polls.
Coping hard?
This isn't coping.
I still think that...
I still think that the current Democratic Party with Biden leading the ticket has a very hard,
has a very bad chance of defeating Donald Trump.
Okay?
I do.
This race should not be close at all.
This race should not be closed at all.
This race should not be closed at all, and yet it is
and it's currently favoring Donald Trump.
This
is the first time
Donald Trump has actually been leading in the polls.
In 2020, he never led in the polls.
He lost.
In 2016, he never led in the polls and he won.
This is the first time where he has consistently led in the polls.
Okay?
Despite Biden's glaringly obvious flaws.
Okay, what is happening? What is this entire place?
What the hell just came
over here and just sat down
next to me like I called her over here or something.
Ugh.
Of this group, 11 of the 13
oh we'll do
the undecided
voter uh
focus group
I love
a dumb shit
like this
anyway
just curious
what does your
what does your twitter for you page look like?
Is it just filled with right-wing nuts as well?
Yes.
That's literally the reason why I don't use Twitter
as much anymore.
Yeah, Biden's approval rating is underwater historic lows for an incumbent. No incumbent has ever won when they are this far that they are this unpopular.
Okay?
It doesn't work like that.
That's a major issue.
Okay?
That's a major issue
that the Biden camp
or at least what remains of the Biden
camp refuses to recognize.
Having said all of that, however, and I reiterate this position quite frequently in my endless ceaseless coverage of Joe Biden's diminishing.
Uh, Joe Biden is deteriorating brain.
One thing that I consistently point to is how unpopular Trump is as well.
There is, however, a major difference between Joe Biden and Trump.
This is yet again, just like 2020 a Trump election.
Okay? In 2020
people voted against Trump. They did not
vote for Biden. They voted against
Trump. They voted for Biden because they
were led to believe that
Joe Biden is the best person
to beat Trump.
Okay? Now
that argument has gone away.
There is no Joe Biden is the best person to
beat Trump argument you can make any longer.
So there is no reason
for Joe Biden to stay in the race
and that is precisely the
reason why so many people are looking at what is going on and saying, maybe Joe Biden should drop out and be subbed with a candidate that is at least competent, semi-competent.
Okay?
But that doesn't change
the reality
that Donald Trump is still
a deeply polarizing
and deeply unpopular figure.
He is phenomenally popular in his base.
He is phenomenally popular in his base. He is
phenomenally unpopular outside
of his immediate base, okay?
Joe Biden doesn't really have a
base. His base is just
diehard Democrats for the most part
let's continue wow that that's an incredible like that's going to be hard to top.
That's gonna be hard to beat. How are we gonna message against this guy?
Yo can you open the door for delivery?
That was just a Trump rally with some speech sort of woven through.
Thanks.
I just think you've gotta look at that and think like it's really important if you're on the pro-democracy part of the country to stop them from getting back into office.
But that should be a doable thing.
So the concept of conventions in the television age... THE CONCEPT OF CONVENTIONS IN
THE TELEVISION AGE HAS BEEN
PRIME TIME.
THERE ARE THREE HOURS OF PRIME
TIME IN TELEVISION, EIGHT, NINE
AND TEN.
AND THE JOB OF THE FINAL NIGHTINEE WAS ON BETWEEN 10 AND 11.
THAT'S WHERE WE WOULD SEE
PRIMETIME, 8, 9, AND 10.
AND THE JOB OF THE FINAL NIGHT
OF THE CONVENTION WAS TO MAKE
SURE THAT THE PRESIDENTIAL the final hour of primetime because that actually reaches across the country
uh more strongly than any of the other hours of prime time given the way our times ultimately
he'd get on at 10 30 which means 30 minutes of his speech was in prime time and then he went on for another hour after
that. And so, that is a complete failure of convention scheduling that people have
been working with you know since the 1960s that-that you're supposed to try THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH HIM, THEY ARE
NOT GOING TO TALK ABOUT THIS
CONTRACTION SCHEDULING THAT
PEOPLE HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH
SINCE 1960s THAT YOU'RE
SUPPOSED TO TRY TO OBSERVE. THE PEOPLE WHO ARE INVOLVED IN THIS, THEY'RE NOT GOING TO
UNDERSTAND THAT.
BUT DONALD TRUMP WATCHING THAT
GUY, THE ADJECTION DONALD TRUMP
HAS FOR GUYS LIKE THAT IS LOW
ENERGY.
HE'S THE ONE WHO INVENTED THAT That was a very low energy Donald Trump.
You have to be a Donald Trump worshiper
To hang in for the whole 90 minutes
To listen to all of it
This is the speech in which you're trying
I think he went longer than 90 didn't
he go for like two hours already have i don't see how that's this speech could have done
uh to paraphrase er Eric Killmonger.
I mean, you watch the whole thing?
I did.
It was 93 minutes is 92 minutes.
It felt like a lifetime.
I'm not,
I'm not joking.
It was one hour and 32 minutes and it felt like it was eight hours.
It was so long,
so boring,
so convoluted and so filled to the brim
with all of his classic tropes,
all of the classic tropes,
all of the classic reactionary politics.
This time with lower energy than usual too.
I was driving while listening, how long it took the distance he's done?
I had driven 567 miles.
What are you on a plane?
Mago is this your king? MAGA, IS THIS YOUR KING?
IF JOE BIDEN HAD GIVEN A
RAMBLING, SHAMBLING ALL OVER THE
PLACE SPEECH LIKE THAT, WHAT shambling all over the place speech like that.
Elected Democrats-
All right, let's...
Okay I don't care about the MSNBC takes as much
As far as like as far as the high notes
goes,
I mean,
Trump obviously did
the classic immigrants are killing every
single person you've ever seen and new
people that haven't even been born yet.
He said hundreds of thousands
of Americans are being murdered by immigrants.
He claimed that Venezuela
and El Salvador
are actually dumping all of their criminally insane into the United States
of America in a deliberate attempt to invade the United States of America, which is a wild
thing to say because all the people that are coming in from Venezuela actually under Trump's administration
and under Joe Biden's administration have gotten
temporary protected status because they
are ideologically opposed to the Venezuelan
government. So, they're like anti-communist,
right? They're supposed to be anti-communist, anti-Maduro.
It's like... They are literally
some of the more right wing Venezuelans as a matter
of fact. They're pro-Trump.
They literally are
anti-Maduro.
Like, you are welcoming them into the country
in the same way that you're doing...
You're welcoming them into the country
in the same way that you did with Cubans, right?
So that's rather shocking to me.
Okay.
Immigrants are taking 107% of created American jobs.
Immigrants are both taking all the jobs,
but they're also taking
all the jobs of the murderers.
Okay?
They're taking all the jobs
of the murderers.
Like immigrants aren't just taking the regular jobs of the murderers. Like immigrants aren't just
taking the regular jobs, right?
They're not just becoming
like CEOs of companies.
They're not just becoming like
they're not just taking over
like the coal mines and stuff,
but they're also simultaneously
lazy, eating all the welfare,
eating all the social safety nets that
they can't even take advantage of by the way.
But they're also out competing
our criminals. They've taken over all
the murder, the murder rate does not
reflect the reality that hundreds of thousands of Americans
are being murdered all the fucking time non-stop
especially let alone by
undocumented migrants but Trump has
one or two cases that he can always point to
and be like yeah, that's right.
Anyway That is Anyway.
That is literally what conservatives think, by the way.
Because they don't think.
They don't think at all.
They just go...
That's what they do.
Anyway,
um...
What do you mean they can't get social services?
Undocumented migrants cannot take advantage of welfare in this country
the only thing that uh the republicans lie about in the least decent way possible
is that they will turn around
and claim that the children of undocumented
migrants who were born on US soil
are literally actual American
citizens. No matter how
hard Republicans try to claim that they're not
it doesn't change the reality that they absolutely are American citizens
their
cost
is tacked on
to the overall billions of dollars undocumented migrants are actually
taking from the social safety nets they say their children born into a family with at
least one parent that is undocumented is still technically taking
advantage of, is still tacked
on to the undocumented migrant
number.
There are no
benefits they can take. They actually put into the social security.
Uh,
they actually contribute to sales taxes,
obviously.
Are you leaving?
Oh,
okay.
All right.
Damn, you're going early as hell.
But that's like hella early.
That's crazy
early. Alright.
Hello. Is your flight fine? that's crazy early all right hello
is your flight fine are you have you figured it out i mean apparently okay i don't know i just like i hope the plane doesn't like blue screen midair. Yeah, no it'll be fine.
Mraz said it's a Boeing plane
so you're fine.
Following
the speech David Axelrod said on CNN that
it was the first good thing that's happened to Democrats in the last three weeks.
Yeah.
Why is Alexis not coming
to the auction? Does he hate charity? Yes,
he does. That's why Alexis
is not coming to the auction. He hates charity.
And we already told you he died in the fire video.
Yeah, we lit him on fire and killed him.
He immolated too hard.
All right, let's continue.
This is Undecided Voters, voters grading Trump's performance at RNC.
11 of the 13 still haven't decided
who they're going to vote for president in November.
Two of them have decided this gentleman
right here, Kevin.
For Donald Trump he knows that already.
This woman here Paula for Joe Biden
or the Democrat who might eventually take his place
she knows that already
but what I want to ask you all first at this point
all 13 of you,
what you thought of the speech.
Not a yes or no answer if you thought it was good or not good.
I want you to give a letter grade to it like you're in school.
So I'm going to start here with you.
What letter grade do you give that speech?
B.
C. B. C. you what letter grade do you give that speech b c b c d a c b b c a So, B and C seem to be the most prevalent
grades. I'm gonna start with you. Kevin and
Dawn are in a couple right here. That's crazy!
Talking to them like children. You're both still undecided about who they'll vote for. Well that's
a focus group. And they ARE children. They're fucking undecided
voters. How are you
undecided? You have to have
brain damage to be undecided at this
point. You either have decided you're not
voting for anybody or you have decided that're not voting for anybody,
or you've decided that you're voting
for one party over the other.
Like who the fuck's like, I don't know?
I don't know about the former president
of the United States of America
versus the current president of the United States of America versus the current president of the United States
of America. It's like, this is a rerun
episode, dude. You've already made
your decision one time.
Also what I don't understand is
Biden is old, yes?
But he was old before.
Like nothing has really changed.
Well, I mean,
he got older and...
He was still demented before.
Like it's weird
that people are like,
oh, massive difference.
He was always demented.
I think that the difference
is the media is now covering it
with a little bit of truth, so
people have actually started recognizing
and people that only watch
news media never really got to
see how bad things actually
were until it was
impossible to avoid.
They
were able to maintain a narrative.
They will...
They were able to maintain this narrative
like Biden is fine.
You know what I mean?
And not like...
Not just just losing his
brain power
until
that debate.
Tell me what
the most
important thing
you thought
about
when he
Classic,
bro.
Classic.
I was
listening to this guy his tone of voice,
to his way of speaking and encouraging us
in bringing unity to the country
and those individuals that might be outside
of the Republican Party.
What grade did you give it again?
B.
Dawn, what grade did you give it again?
I gave a C.
And what did you think of this speech?
I thought the beginning was really good.
I was looking for unity speaking outside of the Republican party I WAS LOOKING FOR UNITY, SPEAKING OUTSIDE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
AND I THOUGHT I HEARD WE A LOT AND NOT SO MUCH ABOUT HIMSELF.
KEVIN, YOU'RE SUPPORTING DONALD TRUMP.
YOU'VE ALREADY SAID THAT.
YOU GAVE THE GRADE OF? A B. WHAT DID YOU THINK OF HIS SPEECH? supporting Donald Trump, you've already said that. You gave the grade of?
A B.
What did you think of his speech?
I thought it was too long.
Dude, I love these focus groups because they demonstrate
that American voters
are just absolutely insane.
Okay?
I always say the median voter,
the median U.S. voter is a sea of contradictions
and these guys basically demonstrate that once again.
Another thing that I always reiterate
is that American voters vote based on vibes
and not like actual policy.
And so when
Donald Trump
is tonally a little
bit more held back.
That's all it takes for these guys
to be like, well he was seemingly very presidential.
And it's like, no he wasn't.
He was still Hitlerian in his politics
but just because
he wasn't yelling and being like
Biden is old!
I will kill every migrant!
Migrants are poisoning the blood of the nation like because he didn't say
that because he was like migrants are responsible for this great nation and its death rate skyrocketing even though murder rates
are down historically you know even like just as long as the tone is there they're like oh I guess it's fine.
Think it started off slow but as a progress album, I believe you got a lot better.
Lena, you gave what great? I C. And Lena and Rich are also married right here.
Yes. Why'd you give it a C? Because his brother hasn't changed about the election
2020 election.
And I'm really concerned that we're going to have another issue
um, depending on who wins.
So, you know, I'm just really praying that if Trump wins,
the guardrails of democracy will hold.
Rich, what grade did you give it?
So I gave his speech a D.
It started out great, but then he went into mistruths and grievances
and attacks, and it just totally contradicted itself in terms of what
he wanted to achieve with unity.
All the grade you gave it?
A D. And your bible yes or whoever takes
his place if that happens what did you think about it i i think i do believe he started
off with a pretty good tone for him i thought it was was good but then he lapsed back into
the donald trump of old okay up there in the corner robin and kirsten mother and daughter
great you gave it i gave it an eight and why'd you give it
a name the thing i was looking for was a change
and i felt i heard that changing his voice
i was looking for i mean that haircut says it all for me.
Okay?
That haircut says it all for me.
Ladies with that haircut have a 75% chance of having the most Hitlerian politics.
Okay?
Like, that's a
lady who is going to start
talking about securing the nation
for our white children.
You know what I mean?
This one, yeah.
Straight Hitlerian politics dude.
Straight. That's basically
the Klansman robe.
Or his discussion on getting unity together in the country as well
as border control and inflation.
Kirsten, what grade did you give it?
C And why? It started off so good control and inflation. Kirsten, what grade did you give it?
See why it started off strong just
like some other people have said,
but the same old thing it went from him
doesn't Hill dog have that haircut
point proven instantly OK? what do you mean probably just reading the teleprompter
and actually reciting the speech to into his whole song and dance of
just putting his own spin on things.
And that's where I feel like a lot of his points get lost.
Gary and Nancy you're married couple too? Yes. You gave it what grade Gary?
I gave it a B. Calling women Karen is sexist than racist
Yeah because I am okay. the fuck do you mean?
Yes. Calling women Karen
is both sexist and anti-white
racism, and I'm both of those things.
Suck my dick.
Good first name on the way way Gary. Get over it!
YB. He went into some
negativity, I was expecting much more negativity but he did go a little bit of
negativity and also some exaggerated statistics
and exaggerated goals of getting us to number one in the world
as far as schools going south.
Those are just unrealistic.
Can Nancy give it?
I gave it a B.
I thought it was not negative on women which I was-
The truth comes out A.
I love people just like thinking that this is
like a narrative
that will stick. For the past three years, people have
desperately tried to make this a thing, to be like, dude, he says
cracker. He's an anti-white racist like it hasn't stuck okay that's
not a real thing i'm white i'm joking law oh okay i thought you were being serious sorry
there are people who like unironically try to do that thing.
They're all on Reddit.
It just doesn't work, but let's continue.
I thought his tone was pleasant and something that
i thought when he said there's an undocumented migrant
in every corner waiting to do rapes i I thought that was very pleasant,
the tone
that he took.
The tone that he took
when he said that
when he said
personally
that
El Salvador is releasing every criminal trapped in an insane asylum and dumping them into Wisconsin.
I thought to myself, that's right. That's happening right now. pumping them into Wisconsin.
I thought to myself, that's right, it's happening right now.
As a leader, maybe I would be proud
to have him as a leader with his more relaxed tone susan what grade did you give it a c and why did you say
well i was led to believe that uh there would be a change in his approach to people and i don't i don't feel that he met those expectations like
others i thought he started out strong and then went downhill ray and barb you're married couple
too ready to give it what grade i gave it an eight and why'd you're a married couple too. Ray, what grade? I gave it an A
And why'd you give it an A?
Because it's Donald Trump!
Yeah because I'm old and racist
so is Donald Trump. And I love that."
"-He was who he always has been.
And even though..."
Why are these guys... Not a single
person I have seen
in this focus group is undecided.
Like, it sounds like every single one of them
have decided long before
this speech ever occurred, by the way.
What a phenomenal group of undecided voters.
By the way, this is Waukesha which is like...
There's a reason why there's only one black guy
there, okay? And I doubt that
even he is from Waukesha.
Alright? They had to
maybe extend the zip code
a little bit
to make sure that... extend the zip code a little bit to
make sure that
there were some people who were just not
oh, there's Black Lady there too.
I gave him an A because he's Donald Trump.
I'm undecided.
But no young voters either.
Everyone is age 50 plus.
Yeah, they reached out to the young voters and they were like, sorry...
Back off. Sorry, ask me about my opinion on this they reached out the young voters and they were like sorry i'm off
sorry ask me about my fan my opinion on phantom tax and i will give it to you
but not this with the incident that happened saturday
he still came out as himself. Barb, what grade did you give it?
I gave it a B.
And why'd you give it a B?
I gave it a B because like so many people said
he started out good, strong, grateful, thankful
and then into bragging.
Have any of you changed your mind?
Eleven of you were undecided.
Any of those eleven made a decision based on this speech or is it still the same?
I think I'm more decided.
And what have you decided? I've decided that I'm more decided. And what have you decided?
I've decided that I will support Trump
Anyone else make a decision yet?
I have
Like the guy gave him an A and said it's because
It's Donald Trump What do you mean? You're not going to raise your hand?
Like, what are we...
Do you think we are
fucking stupid, sir?
Maybe he's just holding out like if Hulk
Hogan suddenly ran for the Democrats, then he'd be
like well maybe now
I'll change my mind. Yeah, I think
possibly might vote for Hulk Hogan
I'm holding out hope
I made a decision to support him.
So two of our 11, anyone else?
The two of you.
Trump.
So four of our 11.
You're going to watch Biden in five weeks?
Oh yes.
Give us the answer. Yes. Okay. You gonna watch Biden in five weeks? Oh, yes.
Give us a chance.
Okay!
Now we've got an update on the investigation.
So yeah, Secret Service was notified but overall I want to get back to some of this stuff
in terms of
the RNC. Is there any more?
Because AOC had
some takes post-RNC
and uh post rnc aoc had a aoc came out post-rnc
uh he was here's ryan grimm's take on it i thought she was pretty clear. She said
here's why she feels the way she
feels, but she doesn't blame people for disagreeing.
She doesn't trust the people leading the change
leading the charge to oust them a legit
point and doesn't think they have a reasonable plan
to replace him and win.
If you believe like me
that he has a near zero shot at this point
then you have nothing to lose in replacing him.
She clearly thinks he can still potentially win.
That's it.
And I think that the other political calculation
which I think AOC probably
should not have gone live and done
this but
um But. What is this has legal ballot access issues. She brought up a bunch of stuff that I've heard from the chair and I've heard from other like, uh, bright and dead enders that i don't agree with
aoc glazing 2.0 like do her people not watch you what the um
bernie also had an interview on Colbert last night
where he breaks down his logic as well.
Yeah, the reason why the progressives
are sticking with Biden, in my opinion,
is because of what Sam Adler-Bell said yesterday as well,
and I think that analysis is still correct.
They were a junior partner in the coalition for Biden.
They believe that Biden will be honest and actually
follow through on promises
that he probably gave, the assurances
that they gave to the Progressive Caucus
if they stick around for Biden
they will turn around
or for their defensive for Biden. They will turn around and
for their defense of Biden in this
moment, Biden will
if he ends up sticking it through the convention
remember that and respond in kind
and return the favor
and add a bunch of these progressive policy
positions into his agenda.
Now I don't believe that.
I don't think that Biden will do that.
I don't think that Biden will have enough momentum
even if he was to make it
across the finish line at the DNC.
I don't believe that Biden would win,
but let's say he won.
I don't believe
that he would actually change his agenda.
He would actually change
his agenda dramatically
to reflect progressive policy prescriptions.
I don't think that is going to happen either,
and I think for them considering
that this mostly a conversation
that's being had, considering
that this is mostly a conversation
being had by establishment Democrats.
They have nothing. Progressives
have nothing to lose in
this circumstance
I mean they'll lose a little bit of
Favor in the eyes of like the broader
In the eyes of like
The broader electorate
You know progressive voters Will look at them and be like
what the fuck are you guys doing? But ultimately
I've said this from day one that this is a conversation
being had by establishment democrats so as long as they sidestep
and as long as they don't like actively defend biden then they have nothing to lose aoc has gone
above and beyond in defending Biden, however.
And so is Bernie Sanders
and maybe even Inhan Omar.
And I think that that is a error on their part.
Yeah, definitely.
But they must genuinely believe
that Biden is going to...
They must genuinely believe that Biden is going to change
his agenda
to reflect more progressive values.
Having your progressive agenda tied
to a loser is damaging? No, there's
that aspect of it as well but that's besides the point.
He's not going to
remember. Because do I think
Kamala Harris is not going to
listen to the Progressive Caucus
more than Biden? No, I think Kamala Harris would absolutely listen to the Progressive Caucus more than Biden?
No, I think Kamala Harris would absolutely listen to the Progressive Caucus.
What about our arguments around getting
into the state ballots?
Yeah, all that stuff is nonsense.
The Republicans will launch
a
legal case against putting
a different candidate on the ballot,
but that's all bullshit.
Okay? That's all bullshit. Okay? That's all bullshit.
Ohio was one
state in contention, and that's
the reason why they were going to do an early
roll call, which Ohio
turned around and said no we'll wait until after the commission.
We'll wait until like 60 to 90 days,
I think before the election,
which is normal.
Things happen in the election cycle guys.
Up until recently,
the Democratic Party did not actually
figure out who the fucking candidate was
until the DNC
anyway.
So, the idea that
like... The idea that like, the idea
that a American state
might be...
Oh, you're leaving?
Yep.
Bye-bye everybody.
All right.
That was fun.
So much happened when we were here.
I know,
it was non-stop.
Bye bye.
I'll see you at the auction?
I'll be there around
after 2pm. two.
Are you bringing your stuff there?
Oh, okay.
Alright.
You got the steam deck, right? Alright. You got the Steam Deck, right? Alright, perfect
You're gonna need a charger for it
Okay good I hope that is enough to keep it charged.
Yeah, I gave him my old Steam Deck.
Bro you just lost your aura.
I'm leaving.
You need more hot men?
I know.
What will I do?
Don't worry.
I'll find more hot men to have on.
If they didn't have a major party's candidate on the ballot, you can basically call
the election illegitimate?
Yeah, that's not a thing that could happen like that's a ridiculous
That's a ridiculous assessment and it would not have happened for Trump either
And you have to remember
People were bringing that shit up during the Trump situation
where like some States were making a move to take Trump off the ballot because he's
like criminal or whatever.
And you know, that was already, that was ridiculous and i told you it was
ridiculous back then and this is also ridiculous
anyway so the legal the legal considerations I find to be fraudulent as far as in terms of an argument.
And I think it's just a simple defense that is borderline gaslighting.
Okay. that is borderline gaslighting.
I think that beyond that,
I think that the war purse
that will be lost is also silly.
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris will have
access to all of it, and if
it's not Kamala Harris, the DNC will have
access to all of it. It's
crazy to assume that it's crazy to assume that
uh, it's crazy
to make this assertion in the United States
of America that like money cannot
exchange hands. Especially because
during presidential runs like
candidates can fucking die.
You know what I mean?
What happens in that situation?
Think about it like that.
Think about it as this isn't a direct swap out
between an alive candidate and another
alive candidate.
And think about it as,
as if like,
you know,
what if someone would have,
what if a presidential candidate before convention died?
Like,
think about that.
What if they did it after?
It's ridiculous.
You really want Jamie Harrison in charge of all that money, though?
Do you spend $100 million to lose Lindsey Graham?
I mean, it doesn't matter.
That's the DN Graham? I mean, it doesn't matter. This is a DNC person.
Yeah, I mean,
it happened to Bobby Kennedy.
So that's not a real...
In my opinion,
that's not a real consideration. the candidate gets buried in a mausoleum with all
the funds and all the staffers alive
yeah funds and all the staffers alive. Yeah.
The one thing that pissed me out by the AOC talk was her saying, you should have said this
a year ago. We have. She's who was hiding
in the cognitive decline and not pushing that narrative
we can all see this clear as day
I think AOC wasn't responding to us
I think AOC was responding to
uh
I think AOC was talking to the establishment Democrats
when she said that.
If you want Sam Cedar's take
I think you guys are
Missing the gist
Of what she is doing
She is making an argument
About Again She is making an argument against the donors,
The establishment of the party,
And the sort of like Iglesias'
and the Ezra Klein's
and all of whom have advocated
open convention
she is making an argument of, if you're
going to do this, you do
it with Harris.
That's what's going on here in this.
I mean,
she's not...
So the union stuff
that wasn't about like oh we can't change
to Harris because
the unions might not endorse Harris?
Because she mentioned the coconut people explicitly there.
I think she's just saying that
what she's
doing is, she's arguing
that opening up this
process is problematic.
She's not going to turn around.
No, she's not talking to us!
She emphasized the unions there.
Again, I am fine
with... I know the people that are pulling
levers here and the donors.
I don't share their politics,
but when you say,
well, we can't be all coconut island
because the unions might not get
their paperwork together.
She didn't say we can't be coconut island.
She said,
I know you coconut people. No, no, she said
yeah, I don't care if you're on Coconut Island.
I don't care if you ride with Biden.
We have to work hard at this.
The point is that like she's
I
I don't know if it's because you're not seeing it in
context but
there is, she has
a position. She has staked out this
position
There is, think about it as a she has staked out this position.
There is,
think about it as a dam, right?
Her position is a dam.
Now she's letting water flow through. Everything that
she is talking about, she is trying to direct where
that water that is flowing
through to release a little bit of that pressure
to go in a certain direction.
The reason why I didn't
like the IG live specifically is because in my
opinion,
by my assessment,
she covered the naysayers and the,
and the people who are criticizing her
like
talking about the people criticizing her from
a very
individualized
framework Like, oh, people are yelling Like very individualized framework.
Like, oh people are yelling at me and I wanted to... I wanted to let everybody know like this is why I made this decision.
And I think that ultimately,
um,
ultimately,
especially if you're going to break caucus at a time like
this one,
like there is more,
um,
the democratic party across the board
is like
seemingly united.
That's why
Hakeem Jeffries,
the leader in the House
and Chuck Schumer
leader in the Senate, both individually went to Biden
and reflected the views of the caucus.
Um, for her to break rank in this situation and put her name out there
and put her influence
out there
I think that it
should have come with a
I think it should have come
with a
like with a narrative that was more airtight than hearing Jamie Harrison be reiterated.
Like the talking points that I've heard from the DNC chair
talking points that I've heard from Biden
dead enders in general about
potential legal troubles
and also the war
purse not being
switched up. The one aspect
of
the one thing that she did bring up
that was interesting
is the chaos internally.
Right?
The chaos in the Democratic Party
internally,
even going so far as to say that like
they don't even want Kamala Harris.
They don't even want Kamala Harris which is crazy
Like that part is actually new information and she demanded that those who are against Biden should come out and make bold declarative
statements. Now the reason
why I think people who are against
Biden have not made bold declarative
statements
okay
is obvious.
I've explained it time and time again.
They don't want to show disunity.
They want the Democratic Party
to look United.
They don't want to spell,
they don't want to show chaos within the ranks because that is one of
the major,
uh, that is one of the, that is one of the
major advantages
that the Democratic Party has
over the Republican Party.
And they are trying to
tell an old man as gently
and as kindly as possible
that he needs to step aside.
Okay?
The issue, however,
is that Biden
is refusing to hear these gentle calls and as a matter of fact taking advantage of the fact that they're not openly in
public, in broad daylight, saying
like you need to step down. You need to step down.
You need to step down.
And I think this will push
the Democrats to make one of two decisions. If past this point of the weekend, Biden sticks it out and says no I'm staying in the race.
Seemingly he might be doing that. If he says that,
then either Democrats are going to turn around
and start openly stating it,
making like...
putting their names out
in the same way that Seth Moulton did,
in the same way that
what was the guy from Montana?
He recently came out as well last night
I think.
There are going to be more senators and more
House of Representative members, especially
John Tester, in contested
seats that will come out
and say this is my name
this is who I am.
I am the representative from such-and-such
And i think Biden should step down
And that
Is going to create even more
It is going to create more disunity it's going to create even more disunity.
It's gonna create more chaos.
Some Democrats on the other hand,
who are allergic to that sort of declarative, bold proclamation
are not gonna do that.
And it will create...
It will cause even more limbo for whether or not biden actually comes out but what will
happen is what will 100% happen is
it will be uglier than it was before.
Okay?
And the ugliness
could only
stop if Biden listened to these calls and did
the right thing, which is step aside.
Okay?
But he won't, seemingly.
Saying they have allergies is tropes?
What?
I don't even know what that's a reference to
but
yeah, that's my assessment
and I think that Biden is selfishly
taking advantage of the fact
that no Democrat wants to come out and fuck up the bag. No Democrat wants
to come out and say the thing that everyone is secretly quietly saying
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No.
You're wrong.
I literally have one of the lowest ad densities on this platform.
This is... I don't know where you came up
with this narrative but
you are absolutely incorrect
The only reason why it feels that way is because I mention it before I run it.
Something we democratically voted on in this community a long time ago, by the way. BoobaTuba!
Thank you for the 521 gift to subs. I don't know
it feels that way
Yeah
There are top streamers on this platform Yeah.
There are top streamers on this platform that run like 12 minutes, okay?
You are insane.
Like triple,
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I have the lowest ad density on the platform.
Like the lowest
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It's also significantly
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let's continue. Wait, what? rat fucked us previously. We are getting President Mark Kelly and if
we're lucky the
Dems keep his
Senate seat.
Wait, what?
Yeah.
There was a
point in time
when I asked
this community
if you want me
to announce
when I'm running the big ad break
or just run it
without telling you and we
gamified it
and the community said
that they would rather have me announce it than just run it Let's continue.
She knows that
she does not
have the ability
to shift
whether Biden
stays or
not
all she has
to do
as that
pressure builds
is to direct
it in a
certain way and she I THINK THAT'S THE BIGGEST PROBLEM.
WHAT SHE DOESN'T WANT TO
EXPRESS, IS TO DIRECT IT IN A
CERTAIN WAY.
AND SHE CAN'T EXPLICITLY COME willing to dump Biden at this point if we just have Harris, because she doesn't
have that ability to set that. What she's doing is she's saying and she made it
explicit at the beginning of this.
This is an argument about people, all
of whom share the idea that we want to get rid of Trump.
And she's saying that if you're going
to get behind this Harris thing, understand every time she talks about a challenge there, knowing that the water is flowing down in this different direction.
All she can do is shift
it slightly, and
this is what
you know
this is what this kind of politics
is. She's not, I mean she's
claiming that she's being completely transparent here
and I don't think that that's the case.
I think she has an agenda
and I think that agenda is not to save Biden's
presidency at this point.
She's not capable of doing that,
but what she is capable of doing
is making people a little bit more suspect
about other agendas that are in play
that we have a perception of
who's on the playing field.
She's telling us there are other people
on the playing field.
If you're going into this and you're
on Coconut Island, be aware of this
and i think that's important thing because once this once biden steps down
if it becomes an open uh convention A, I think it's problematic
in terms of election but B
it's also really problematic
No she did
She did. That's why I'm saying
like the most significant aspect of her
uh, the most significant
aspect of her live stream was when she literally said
people that want to replace Biden
do not have a
legitimate plan of attack for what comes next and that's legitimately terrifying
an open convention would be absolutely awful now she might be lying
um she might just
be straight up lying because that's how
ride or die she is for Biden,
but I don't think so.
That actually does
come across
like that actually does come across um,
that actually does come across like very
patently Democratic Party.
I think that the Democratic Party
I could totally see
with the exception of Nancy Nancy Pelosi and whatnot,
I could totally see other dummies coming out
and being like, well maybe this is my opportunity to shine. The focus coconut Island as a hog.
I love when hogs refer to themselves as a hog.
Coconut Island is, is Kamala Harris.
There's a lot of people on Twitter who are, like, memeing about...
You know?
Because Kamala Harris has talked about, like,
you didn't fall out of a coconut tree.
So people have
started saying that
they are coconut
heads or
they're on Coconut Island. They just like reference
coconut to talk about Kamala Harris, which is kind of funny because
technically it could be
seen as a
racially charged thing to say
about
a woman of color, but that's not the reason why people are using it like that
normally coconut means like you're brown on the outside white on the inside
but the reason why people are on the outside, white on the inside. But
the reason why people are using coconut
to talk about Kamala Harris is because
she said
this beautiful thing.
Everything is in context. My mother
used to, she would give us a hard time
sometimes and she would say to us
I don't know what's wrong with you young people
You think you just fell out of a coconut
tree?
You exist in the context of all in which you live and what
came before you. Now, a lot of people meme about this. This is sound historical materialism. Okay? I mean that's literally what this is.
This is an openly Marxist
analysis of history
okay
and it's goofy
and she's goofy here but like
she's not wrong.
But yeah people myself included found this to be very
funny that she just randomly dropped this.
And
that's the reason why it stuck.
Everyone who is riding with
Mamala says
they're on Coconut Island
or their coconut heads.
As far as as far
as
her takes on like
being unburdened by what has been
or whatever some of that is word salad but the coconut
one is actually pretty solid
... salad but the coconut one is actually pretty solid which just means like you are defined
by uh all of the events that took place before you yeah the tradition of dead generations weighs like a
nightmare on the brains of the living do you think it just fell out of a coconut tree
you exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.
It's true. so Anyway, have you seen the
Viralty targeted at Kamala saying this?
The song Put My Coconuts In Your Mouth
by Kim Petras. I left my fucking ass off. No, I have not.
Yeah.
Karl Marx Harris?
Yeah.
Alright.
It's not word salad it means don't let your past
limit your future
I know but like
it's
it's not delivered as
well as this line
in my opinion
so this line in my opinion. So...
We shall see. We shall see what happens.
But yeah, that's my analysis and my assessment on the AOC live stream after the RNC.
There are things that I obviously disagree with on.
On the, on the stream require a name to be enrolled and certified on their ballot
even before the convention.
This is something I disagree with,
this has been like
um...this is something that
obviously has been uh..this is something that obviously has been adequately rebuked.
It's not a real...
It's not a real issue.
The war chest is not
a real issue. AOC apparently
also gave me
a shout out while I was like,
well,
I had muted her
because some dumb fucks
in the chat
were going into her chat
and saying stupid shit.
I would.
Hassan is beefing with you on stream.
He cares about this election
profoundly and deeply, just like
all of you.
And... People are so stupid dude it's like drama
frogs
drama frogs are actually the dumbest
people on the planet I just
despise them so much
like dude I just, I despise them so much.
Like dude,
you can't do like,
this isn't like your you as a drama frog chat hopping to another person's
chat and behaving like this
is a he
said she said situation between
me and Asmongold or whatever
is ridiculous.
Okay?
I don't know how to
stop that.
Drama baiters are awful humans with zero joy in their lives, 100%.
I suspect it is not a member
of this community that did that.
It was mostly just like hate watchers
but this is not a
fucking streamer. This is a congressperson, you know what I mean?
Like, what the fuck are you guys doing?
As a person that is invested in our success, I feel like I would regret not raising some of these matters that I feel are not getting appropriate consideration. And
it kind of bums me out because the vast
majority of people
are not following this conversation as closely
as the people who are following this conversation think.
And if the president makes a decision unto himself, that's on him. But it bums me out when I see how many people and perspectives are not in the room, and in the consideration of folks making these decisions.
And like,
I'm going to cringe.
Someone says Hassan is beefing with you on stream.
Love you,
Hassan.
Like I could be totally wrong.
Like, I'm not here cause I'm-
Like this is not...
This isn't like why?
This is never something that
these are not words
they should come out of the mouth
of a Congress personperson like I'm so
upset
it's so embarrassing why are you guys
fucking so
annoying and so lame
and so cringe that you went over there
and like started
tried to start fucking drama.
Like this is not
this is not like me
versus Asmongold
or like XQC
said this.
What beef? You didn't even
say anything? You just said you didn't agree that's not
beef people are so dumb? I know.
And yeah, it's annoying
specifically because like
I might disagree with
AOC on some aspects
of her commentary on this
issue but ultimately I've been
just like Sam Seder pretty understanding, pretty charitable of the decisions that they're
making regardless of my disagreements.
I I'm not beefing with Hassan. And I can tell you, like my everyday live reality is like.
I'm and i'm not if this isn't like a knock or anything like that like, my job every day is I'm, like, being so for real right now.
It's not watching TV.
It's not obsessing over polls.
Like, I'm telling you – I was just telling you at the beginning of this,
I've been in Puerto Rico
for several days.
Anyway.
Either someone's trying to make a joke or a hater trying to stir the pot yeah it's just like so embarrassing
anyway
that was definitely not my finest moment, I will say. that's rough buddy yeah i mean if i was like a jimmy dore type
i would love cutting content off of this and being
like see you know uh it's real the beef is real or
whatever but i don't i'm not in that business
okay i'm not,
I find it very annoying that stuff like this happens.
Yeah.
I was muted in that moment.
I muted her right as she was talking about me because Yeah, I was muted in that moment.
I muted her right as she was talking about me because I was yelling at chatters while she was saying that
about like going into AOC's chat and just like saying dumb shit.
Like... and just like saying dumb shit
that's the reason why i was muted while she was responding to some dumb in her chat
all right. Oh, all right.
So you literally had to cover her chat to stop clutches exactly I hate the even, but
Central Committee acknowledged
the reasoning for
progressives writing so hard.
People keep trying to come in
and pit your takes against
each other, but Mike doesn't
take the bait?
Exactly!
People do this stuff.
It's understandable to do it between me and Mike which is not going to work
but like it's ridiculous to try and
do that for fucking
It's ridiculous trying to do that between a congressperson.
Like, it's insane.
All right?
You can have disagreements with people while still being in the same camp.
That is, I think a major difference between someone like myself
and someone like Jimmy
Door type or the MAGA communists
who
use this as an opportunity to
break away, to make a fucking name
for themselves,
to like brand themselves
in a different way.
Anyway, that's so dumb.
Um... And like a thing that I see a lot in this community launched against me regularly as well
is this attitude that like people could not be straightforward and honest with their intention when they tell you something. Like when chatters were assuming that I was like secretly hiding the truth about Cody Ko
and I just didn't want to cover it
because he's my friend or some
shit like that. And it's like,
no man. Sometimes it's because
the fucking president almost got
assassinated, you know what I mean? Former president, but he's real, He's my current president.
Yeah,
Chatter is being like,
Who the fuck?
Who the fuck is Cody Coe?
So funny.
Anyway.
Um... it's okay and healthy to not agree with every single thing
that your favorite streamer says,
every single thing
that your congressperson says.
All right, let's hear
what Chuck Todd had to say
about Biden's chances.
And then we're going to move on to the shooter again at this stage.
I mean where do you think we are in this?
Will he or won't he pass the torch look I think now it's impossible for Biden to stay in.
Even if he wants to stay in.
We watched this yesterday.
Because there are too many Democrats on the record saying
that he needs to get out, they question whether
he can serve another term. How do they suddenly put
that toothpaste back in the tube? Let's say they do it and you try to put Biden out there.
How do these people answer the question in their own political debates,
in their own interviews with local television,
bloggers, podcasts, regular voters.
They're sitting here right now basically
the leaders of the Democratic Party making the case to the country
this man cannot serve another four years hard stop by the way we
don't think he can win but many of them are simply saying he can't serve another four years how do
they flip that so at this point essentially he's been forced off because I don't think we're getting to the
point where I don't think you can win a nomination with his own delegates. Okay? He's losing
control of that process too. So I'm not going to get into his head but you know this is
gonna be there's only hundred Biden and Joe Biden left yeah to tell him he's
it's pretty clear to me that many of the non relatives have come to a certain conclusion I THINK THAT'S THE BEST WAY TO DO IT.
BUT I WOULD SAY, MANY OF THE
NON-RELATIVES HAVE COME TO A
CERTAIN CONCLUSION.
PEOPLE WITH THE LAST NAME OF
BIDEN HAVE NOT.
AND THAT'S WHERE WE'RE AT RIGHT
NOW. JUST WHAT YOU WOULD EXPECT IN BIDEN FORWARD. in Biden. I was going to say, ultimately it is going to be a conversation and decision
that he makes with family, right? That's right.
And you know, he's at home.
He's in Rehoboth. All the
families there. So, you know,
is it this weekend?
But this is unsustainable.
And now his campaign is unwinnable.
Can you say... Yeah, the emperor has no clothes.
What's important here is that Todd
who definitely has established
a democratic connection
has some information
that there could be
a delegate revolt
if Biden refuses to step aside.
It would be
the most chaotic
like I think
Biden's chances of winning right now
if I were to tier list like
what happens next
in terms of like
chances of winning
I would say the absolute in terms of like chances of winning,
I would say the absolute worst thing that can happen
is like contested
convention, delegate
chaos. Biden doesn't step aside
and the DNC
is just like lit on fire
basically with this drama
okay
that would be
a 100% that would be the one
like
that would be
a 100%
lock for
Donald Trump
like
I'm not talking
99%
I'm talking
100%
lock
Donald Trump
wins
Donald Trump actually not only
wins but the down ballot race is also
turned in favor of the Republican
Party as well. He's got this
fucking... he's got a
red Senate a red Senate,
a red house.
The white house is red.
Everything's read project 2025
is looking like,
uh,
like silliness.
Okay. They move beyond that that you get the broad popular mandate
okay that's the absolute worst thing that can happen
the second worst thing that can fucking happen is
if Biden stays in the race
and loses
and a similar outcome occurs.
Okay?
The best possible outcome of this is a swift change in the ticket.
Biden steps down honorably and says, like, it's time for a younger voice to move my legacy further.
I made tremendous accomplishments in the last four years,
I've been a legislator for 50. Okay?
I've been around quite a long time, and it's time
for a new generation to bring
about the change that will
actually help Americans.
Okay?
That is the best possible outcome, the best possible scenario. The Democrats immediately fucking move on with their messaging and shift their focus on Kamala winning the election. They pick a vice president that is good, balanced, reasonable, probably a white guy.
A white man. Cisgender
heterosexual white man and we move on
like Andy Beshear on.
Like an Andy Beshear type person or
maybe even
Josh Speer, but probably not.
Mark but probably not. Mark Kelly, sure
I know there's a lot
of Mark Kelly heads that's another one
potentially essentially.
Kamala has 0% chance,
easily the worst retail politician ever?
Yeah.
If Joe Biden at this stage is in a fucking 49-51 deadlock
against Donald Trump
and he has no retail instincts
that remain because
his brain has fucking deteriorated.
Kamala Harris is going to be a little bit better
than Joe Biden as a retail politician.
You are crazy if you think that. It's like
we're talking about a race right now
where it is the Democrats
race to lose and they are losing
okay so race to lose and they are losing okay is the democrats raise to lose and
they're fucking losing so there's no downsides only upsides as
long as this swap occurs with expediency and with the
swiftness that it deserves because of you know because time is running out. Trump is not a good candidate
Trump is a weak
Candidate
Trump is the weakest possible
Candidate for the republicans he is one that
the republicans can't actually uh cast aside they tried they failed because the base wants
them but the base is increasingly
more unhinged
this is not even just a simple
Trump problem, this is just a Republican Party
problem in general
you can say nah that's copium This is just a Republican Party problem in general.
You can say, nah, that's copium.
But obviously we have a fucking cadaver.
We have a cadaver in charge right now. A cadaver that has completely capitulated to
a genocidal nation
that is also demonstrating
his worst possible instincts in terms of his reelection chances.
And even then, it's a 50-50 split cutting in Trump's direction of course
that implies
that Donald Trump is
very fucking weak
you're crazy crazy.
Come on, guys.
And it's because 67% of Biden supporters don't care about
Biden! They just don't want Trump to be president.
This is the exact same dynamic of
the 2020 election,
except
the difference is Joe Biden has not
been president for four years.
A lot of chaos ensued in the minds of Americans that still remember their negative real wage growth and not only that but also on
top of that he has gotten his mental faculties
have diminished even further. His mental faculties
were obviously diminished in terms
of in comparison to his 2016
appearances
on television but they've gotten to a point where
it's impossible not
to recognize.
It's Jover.
Crazy how you have to keep saying this you've been saying this for four years now i know What?
Why not just sit this one out, let the libs deal with it Not our right
You mean not our fight
Which is pretty funny
I'm a political commentator
My job is to make sense of the chaos that you're experiencing and try to describe to you what the motivations are,
what the ambitions are of each individual candidate. Why they're moving in a direction that they're moving in.
That's what I do. why they're moving in a direction that they're moving in.
That's what I do, okay?
Are you dumb?
Trump might win.
Trump being a weak candidate for the Republicans does not change the dynamic that he might win.
Yeah, I'm looking at the polls.
Okay? Yes, Trump has a pretty decent
chance of winning right now.
But winning right now. But when you look at the
raises, especially in
key states,
okay?
In swing states. Okay? In swing states
and you look at
must win states for example
where Biden is deadlocked or even
losing to Donald Trump by a couple points
and you look at the down ballot races and
like, the Democratic candidates have remained
strong there. That to me
spells one
thing, and that is people
are not invested in the president, but they don't mind the Democratic Party.
They don't mind the Democratic Party's candidates in their down ballot races.
They just simply do not
like
this cadaver.
...officials and his
advisors have also hit going to TV shows
and also really making this case that they have no plans
to support a alternative nominee
and that they stand firm behind Biden.
And, really,
they had a phone call just earlier today
where even
they were talking
to campaign officials
and really trying to...
Oh, by the way,
this is a pretty solid way
to try to lock Biden in
for the record and also
shift the blame over
to the entirety of the Democratic Party.
If Joe Biden doesn't have
the cognitive function
to run for re-election,
then he certainly doesn't
have the cognitive function
to remain as commander-in-chief. How can any of them
pushing him to drop out of the presidential race
argue in good faith that they should
stay on as
POTUS? That is
a pretty solid way to try to lock Joe Biden in.
If the vice president, if the vice presidential candidate
is running with this narrative specifically
to try to lock Joe Biden into the candidacy.
Perhaps that should ring some
alarm bells in the minds of people.
Okay?
So, you know...
... so you know
people need to mark halperin he's got another fucking take after yesterday he hasn't stopped this man holy shit
when joe biden will announce his retirement the decisions joe
bottom faces now as he moves to end
his presidential campaign and his career are personally
and professionally painful for him.
He's the reason why yesterday
so many chatters were coming in here and being like
Asmongold said biden dropped out
he's the reason why so many normies were texting me
being like wait joe biden dropped out already and now he's come out with another banger.
He's a Newsmax commentator,
and I don't think that his reporting was correct, especially because some of the stuff that he said yesterday was insane. Joe Biden is going to drop out before
this weekend ends? Fine, that is probably true, okay? That's what I thought as well.
I would never say that that is a certainty and I would
never say breaking news, Joe
Biden is dropping out this
weekend. There's a difference
between saying that and
saying in my estimation,
Joe Biden's likelihood of
dropping out this weekend is pretty high.
But then he followed through and said that there would be an open convention,
a contested convention,
and that Joe Biden would not endorse Kamala Harris,
which is insane.
Okay?
Like that he was not going to endorse Kamala Harris.
He was going to drop out and not endorse Kamala Harris.
Come on.
Based on my reporting and having covered and watched Joe Biden for decades,
it's pretty clear what's happening.
Nancy Pelosi?
Yeah, he used to be a Newsmax regular
or MSNBC regular
but he's at Newsmax now because he...
He's at Newsmax now because he...
Um,
he's at Newsmax now because he I think he called Obama a
dick or something and then they
dropped him. He was at Huffington Post as well.
Anyway,
that's where you go to die when your career is done because
you've defended your brother who has done sexual harassment, for example.
Apparently he also had
essay allegations? Is that what it is?
He's a sex pest? Anyway
again, Newsmax
is the liberal version of that. That's where the libs go
or is it news nation? I'm fucking it up
I forget, I don't care about these outlets
Newsmax is the hog Newsmax is the hog
central.
NewsNation is the place you go to
like Chris Cuomo's at
NewsNation.
NewsMax is hog, it's like OAN
far right
trumper shit
It was only suspended for a month from MSNBC
for saying Obama was being a bit of a dick when he was on morning joe
oh nbc and msnbc sacked him over harassment allegations in 2017.
Got it.
Anyway, let's continue.
I got more.
Nancy Pelosi is forcing Biden's hand.
This is true.
She's gone out of her way so far to make this process painless for him as possible, also true, but she knows him well enough to know that he's one of the world's worst and slowest
decision makers, someone who will delay as long as possible before picking a path among unattractive opinion
options which means she will do whatever it takes now to get the right forcing mechanisms in place
the rainbow coalition of new members of congress coming out
against biden today is another series
of turtles on fence post.
The message is clear, do what needs to be done now Joe or the level of pain will be ratcheted up.
Okay this analysis is correct even though it's coming from Mark Halperin.
Amongst the many paradoxes and ironies in play now are that these new applications of pain will produce more
of the kind of embarrassments or humiliations that are amongst
the most painful aspects
of his experience for the president. And another paradox, those feelings will
make Biden less likely to be willing to reach decision day
because they make him angry so Pelosi will likely have to break him
fully to get him to act
A little pain won't work
Biden faces many decisions now
I mean this is Ezra Klein said similar things yesterday
And I agree with Ezra Klein on that
Okay
Biden is a very vehement on that. Okay?
Biden is a very vindictive man.
Biden has not forgotten that he would have won in
2016 if it wasn't for Barack Obama
telling him not to run.
Okay?
That is a real point of contention here for him.
I can't believe that we're having this conversation
that is so...
Like, this is a world-changing decision having this conversation that is so like,
this is a world changing decision and it's being.
And it's being talked about on the boundaries of the individual's own
personal mania and their narcissistic desires
and how spiteful they are.
It's crazy, but that is the reality right now, okay?
The reality right now is that Biden genuinely feels like he has always been cast aside.
He's been called a dumbass.
He's been called a brain- loser since the beginning of his political career 50 fucking years ago.
That part is true, they used to always make fun of him.
He had to drop out of the race in
disgrace because he was outed as a
serial plagiarist,
okay? Back when things like
that would hurt your chances of election.
Obviously we are so far past that point now,
but that is the reason why he is hyper defensive and hypersensitive when
he comes out and says things like,
Oh,
they always tell me I was going to lose and then I win.
And I win and win and win over and over again.
They always say I'm the underdog.
Okay?
I'm the underdog Jack.
Like when he says stuff like that he means it.
He is being for real. that is his genuine opinion. That's
not just a narrative that he has designed because he actually thinks that's like a winning
narrative. That is something that he actually believes
He thinks
He genuinely thinks
that they always have cast him aside
even though he's a brilliant fucking legislator
Even though he wasn't. Okay? And that
finally this is his time.
This is his time to shine
and he believes in his own mind
that for the past four years
he's been able to accomplish
many of the agenda items
that he ran on.
And in terms
of past performance
of like Democratic leadership
or Republican leadership
but specifically
Democratic leadership like what leadership. Like what they
promise and what they end up achieving. Joe
Biden actually does hit decent marks.
So he thinks in his mind
like, what the fuck are you guys talking about?
I passed the IRA. That's a massive fucking bipartisan
bill to him. That's like an
unimaginable legislative accomplishment.
He thinks, oh, I passed a bipartisan
gun control bill which was marginal. It
was ineffective. It doesn't matter,
but in his mind he's like
that's a huge thing
that I did.
How the fuck do people not...
How the fuck are people
still doubting me
is his opinion.
He's looking at the 2022 midterm election,
which Republicans lost due to the Supreme Court
and due to their hyper focus on like insane
trans panic defenses and
crime is out of control arguments and narratives.
Okay?
And he's thinking, I won that.
I actually am the reason why
the red wave that was supposed to happen
became a red puddle
because that's a
you know, that can be seen as
approval of the current administration.
Okay?
And it's funny because
Republicans lost that midterm because of
obviously Roe v. Wade and obviously
because of Donald Trump
and how hyper extremist
His hand selected candidates
Were
Like genuinely repulsive
Candidates guys
Josh Shapiro beat a dude who was like
a straight-up QAnon freak.
Okay?
The Pennsylvania gubernatorial race
was between a guy... Pennsylvania gubernatorial race was
between a guy who
would hold up a fucking sword and be like
this is, I'm QAnon
and this is my sword that I will wage war
with versus Josh Shapiro.
Do you understand?
Like, I think we
kind of forgot how fucking nutty
openly nutty the Republicans were
in 2022. That was the reason why the Republicans were in 2022.
That was the reason why the Republicans were trying to get Donald
Trump out of the equation.
That's why they were like, we got to get DeSantis
in. We have to get DeSantis
in. Donald Trump is poison for moderates, and they were right.
What they were obviously wrong on, however,
is that it's not just Donald Trump that's poison for moderates.
It's that the attitude
from the broad majority
of Americans
was that the Republican Party has
gotten out of control.
Okay? You are entirely too close
to the Supreme Court decision
that took away
the reproductive rights of half
the fucking population in this country
for you to actually
be able to, uh...
For you to actually retriangulate your position
as like a moderate fucking party.
You can't do that.
Trump
is a very weak
candidate, however having said
that he's also the only candidate
That could like at least bring his base back into
The fold What?
He said...
He said he killed your dog and you did nothing but
cried about it I never
what are you bro we
okay take your medication
please
take your medication chatter
your medication, chatter.
Your medication order is up.
Okay?
You have forgotten to take your medication
this morning.
Please take it.
Take your meds.
All right?
You will feel better. I promise. You are Take your meds. Alright?
You will feel better, I promise.
You are currently hallucinating in this chat.
Anyway, let's continue. Are you going to Connors Auction?
Is the video calling in? No, I am going to Connors Auction.
Should he endorse or not endorse vice president harris the plan was for him to not endorse in order to create it oh he's just like running defense for his
earlier statements, dude.
In order to create the appearance of Harris earning this on her own
and creating distance between her
and her unpopular boss
but some Harris advocates
many women were infuriated
by my reporting on Thursday
and say it'd be disrespectful
if Biden not to give his
V the full throated backing.
Yeah,
this doesn't make any sense.
I don't know why I'm reading this.
Okay.
I'm done.
I'm done reading this thing.
Okay. Maybe Harris done reading this thing. Okay?
Maybe Harris doesn't want it. You guys are
crazy. What are you talking about?
Biden is
going to announce that auction. I will die
if Biden announces that he's dropping out while I'm at the fucking
Sea Dog Va auction, I will die.
I will perish on the spot.
You will watch me die on camera. I'm going to be honest.
The biggest issue I see by Democrats not addressing rural communities,
they've abandoned them.
I also never see you talking about them either.
Yeah,
you're wrong about that.
I talk about this shit all the fucking time.
I talk about the lack of access
to adequate healthcare,
no hospitals, no
social safety nets regularly
in rural communities.
Democrats are never winning in rural communities though.
Like that's just, you know...
This is not happening. Anyway.
Chatter saw this QRrt tweet i think
okay let's continue
are you talking about west virginia more than anyone else what is this guy talking about West Virginia more than anyone else?
What is this guy talking about?
Yeah, I don't know.
I've also spent like the last two days specifically talking
about Appalachia because of J.D. Vance,
of J.D. Vance
Vance refrigeration.
Like that's
also another
like legitimate reason as to why I've been talking about it more than I normally do even.
Anyway, let's continue.
Let's get to the new details
on
the Secret Service
which was notified of the government
before he shot at Donald Trump
and also something else that's kind of funny about the I THINK THAT'S A GOOD IDEA.
IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT THE
INVESTIGATION OF DONALD TRUMP
AND ALSO SOMETHING ELSE
THAT IS KIND OF FUNNY
ABOUT THE DUDE WHO SHOT AT
DONALD TRUMP. of the attempted assassination
of former President Trump.
CBS News has confirmed
that the gunman's father
called police...
Please be careful
teasing people
about psychiatric medication
it helps a lot of us
feel a sense of normalcy
and is life-saving
wait what i'm not even teasing i'm being very serious
when i say that it's not a joke.
Right before the shooting, he was very concerned about his sons and his son's whereabouts.
Meg Oliver is tracking the critical half hour before Donald Trump was wounded.
Multiple sources tell CBS News that the Secret Service says it was notified of a suspicious person with a range finder 20 minutes before the shooting took place in Butler, Pennsylvania.
A local tactical sniper inside a neighboring building spotted him from a second floor window
and snapped this picture. Crooks pulled out the rangefinder
and the sniper alerted his team.
Then,
the shooter climbed down
an air conditioning unit
to reach the roof of a building
near the sniper's position.
At 5.51 p.m., Pennsylvania State Police notified
the Secret Service there was a suspicious person
on the premises. One minute later, that was relayed
to counter-sniper teams above Trump.
At 6 o'clock,
Trump was allowed to go on stage
and begin remarks. Ten
minutes later, snipers were told
police were addressing an issue
but it was too late. One minute after that, shots the crowd. The police say they were not allowed to
address an issue, but it was
too late one minute after that
shots rang out former Secret
Service agent Charles Marino says if agents knew there was THE CITY'S GOVERNOR, PRESIDENT TRUMP, SAID HE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO ADDRESS
THE THREAT.
BUT IF IT WAS A THREAT THAT
FAR IN ADVANCE, TRUMP SHOULD
NEVER HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO
ADDRESS THE CROWN.
HE SHOULD BE HELD IN A
SECURE AREA UNTIL THE THREAT IS ULTIMATELY RESOLVED AND and then it's concluded that there's no additional other threats.
Sources tell CBS News Trump was permitted on stage
because there was no indication the suspicious person had any weapons.
South of the rally site in Freeport, Pennsylvania, hundreds of mourners are... THEIR FAMILY. THEY WERE ABLE TO GET
INVOLVED WITH THE RALLY AND
HAD A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO WANTED
TO HELP THEM OUT.
SOUTH OF THE RALLY SITE
IN FREEPORT, PENNSYLVANIA HUNDREDS ARE PAYING RESPECTS Smith was his next door neighbor growing up. My sister texted me and told
me that Cory was the one who was shot, and it killed me inside. For CBS
Mornings I'm Meg Oliver in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
I've done some stuff personally in the past
and not planning on doing that this time
And that includes you know
not endorsing either of the candidates.
Now look, there's obviously a lot
of crazy stuff going on in the world
and historic events over the weekend
and I mean, on a personal note
it's seeing Donald Trump get up after getting shot in the face and pump his fist in the air with the American flag is one of the most...
We're not going to talk about Zuck yet.
Even though, yeah, he thinks it's badass.
All the tech CEOs,
all the tech bros are just like openly showing
that they
have always been
fucking right-wing charlatans.
They just don't even have to hide behind
this, like, veneer of liberalism
any longer.
Oh my god.
In some ways I love that
though because I've known this for a while. They are
literally fucking neo-feudalists.
Okay?
But now that Donald Trump
is sweeping
clearing the rest of these tech CEOs
these Silicon Valley charlatans
you know
they're just open about their perspective.
Thank you. I think that's a really good question.
Badass things I've ever seen in my life, but look,
and it's as... And I's at some level is an American.
It's like hard to not get kind of emotional about that spirit in that fight.
And I think that that's why a lot of people like the guy.
Let's discuss all of them. I think that's why a lot of people like the guy.
Let's discuss all of it.
So before we get to Biden's exit plans, there's more on the shooting that I want to cover.
Specifically this aspect from the New York Post.
Trump shooter Thomas Matthew Krug's
last online search was porn.
Failed Donald Trump assassin Tom Matthew Crooks' last online search was porn.
Failed Donald Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks' final online search for the Pennsylvania
rally shooting last
weekend was pornography,
according to a report.
Crooks' last search was found
when the FBI gained access
to 20-year-old's encrypted Samsung phone,
a senior law enforcement official told The Daily Beast.
Initial attempts to bust into the Android device
at the Pittsburgh field office failed,
and the phone had to be flown to Quantico for the agents
to take a look at it.
The source explained.
The only other recent activity FBI found on the phone
was texts from Cook's parents asking where he was.
The messages started around 1 p. 1pm and continued through the afternoon
Crooks' parents apparently believed their son
had taken one of his father's F-15 rifles
and had gone to a local shooting range
Around 6pm, Crooks opened fire at the Trump rally at Butler Farm
showgrounds, grazing Trump's ear and killing
one rally attendee and critically wounding two
others, and he was shot
dead. By 6 p.m., he was dead, a source
told The Daily Beast.
Agents found four rifle magazines by his body
as well as a remote control that could detonate
the explosives found in his car nearby.
Six days after the assassination attempt,
the FBI has mostly finished looking at Crooks' phone and is now focused on his laptop
and hard drives that were found in his bedroom.
They added...
So far investigators have found
troubling online history
that included search for
Oxford High School shooter Ethan Crumbly
and other mass shooters law enforcement told
uh laws were law enforcement forces
told sources told the post
um
yeah that's actually kind of interesting
that he looked up Ethan Crumbly
watched live stream with Trump
just before trying to kill him
maybe he just like didn't want to
you know uh, he didn't want to, you know,
uh,
he didn't want to get his parents in trouble.
Right?
Isn't that the one Ethan Crumbly is the,
uh,
Ethan Crumbly is the Ethan Crumbly
Is the kid
The mass shooter
That his parents
Actually
His parents
Actually got in
Trouble over
Right
The one whose
Parents actually
Went to
The government Then started the one whose parents actually went to.
The gunman then scoped one of Crooks' two phones
with a dozen contacts.
On the day of the rally,
Crook's online searches included
photos of the rally location
and for local gun stores
where he later purchased ammunition.
That Saturday morning, Chris was visited
visited the farm grounds for over an hour
He then returned home
or investigators believed that he grabbed an AR-15 rifle
owned by his father. His dad, Matthew
Crooks told authorities that he saw his son leave with the
rifle and assumed he was going to the shooting range they
frequently visited together. So
far, they've refrained from offering a specific motive for the
shooting. Truly hit Trump's ear.
Family and people who worked with Crooks described him as quiet
without any overt political affiliation.
That's a lie by the way. Thank you New York Post for lying.
Many people who knew him said he was a conservative.
A pair of former high school classmates remember him
from being cut from the school rifle team
for being a bad shot.
Yeah, he searched major depressive disorder,
depressive crisis treatment.
They found explosives
and in the home they found 14 firearms
and more explosives.
It was a second cell phone,
a laptop and a hard drive.
Okay. a second cell phone, a laptop and a hard drive.
All right, hold on. Inside Turkey's top yachting destination?
What the fuck?
Hold on, watch this for a second.
I got to do something. God damn it
They don't want you to know the truth about
The top yachting destination alright Let's you to know the truth about the top-yachting destination. All right, let's get to the Biden family begins discussing potential exit plan.
This is now with Pete Seed, a former White House spokesman for the Bush administration.
Also with us, Alencia Johnson, former senior advisor to President Biden's 2020 campaign.
Alencia, you worked on the Biden 2020 campaign.
What does it say to you that these are the people his family, Jill Biden, Hunter Biden, Valerie Owens,
his sister who are having these discussions about a potential exit plan? Well listen this is this
means that it's a very serious conversation, right?
These are the people that he actually really listens to.
But I want to be very clear here.
The reason that we're having a lot of this discussion
is because there are party elites who continue to drive
this conversation that he cannot beat Donald Trump. And yet, just before this program you saw
Senator Bernie Sanders on MSNBC staunchly supporting President Joe Biden.
That shows you progressive leadership,
you also have congressional Hispanic caucus
leadership, the Congressional Black Caucus
leadership, you have voters on the ground
black and Latino voters who are saying hey we want to
move forward because we have a plan. We have issues that actually can beat
the other side. And so I think this conversation is a matter of how do we get that focus on the campaign to win in November and President Biden has to make that decision firmly footed.
And I think that's the conversations he's probably having with his family.
But the reality is there are a lot of people in our coalition
that still want to support President Biden.
So there is that internal conflict, obviously.
Pete, what's your reaction to where we are right now?
Well all this sounds awfully Trumpian to me
Right? You listen to the Biden campaign
To Jen O'Malley and Dylan on Morning Joe, and they're dismissive of polls that they don't like.
They lean on this idea of a silent majority. She effectively said, you know, for every one
senator who comes out and says withdraw from the race.
There are 30 who are privately calling us
and telling us to stick it out.
Well, where were those people publicly?
Why aren't they saying
those things publicly?
It just it's so unbelievably if you took some of these quotes and put them on a screen without attribution
and ask the American people who said this,
they would probably think it was Donald Trump.
And it turns out it's Joe Biden and his team not seeing the reality. They have this belief
that loyalty is marching to defeat when loyalty is telling Joe Biden what he doesn't want
to hear.
Alencia, you talk about it in the party elites and some may describe them this
way but they're also people who i think deeply care about
president biden people like his former president he served alongside president obama who is
expressing concerns about the path forward for joe if he stays on the ticket. We also have
reporting that Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries have all had conversations with Biden
about the realistic chances of winning reelection, the impacts on the downball races, House, Senate all
involved here. And yes we
know he is somebody who
isn't wired to quit this
what we were told
specifically especially in
the face of big adversity.
That's right.
But how much could that political pressure
impact his decision?
Look it's mounting political pressure
and I actually have to disagree
with what was just said by the other guest. There
are a lot of party leadership out here still supporting President Biden, again Senator Bernie
Sanders. I don't know what bigger beyond Chuck Schumer that is to have that support
but i think this conversation
that's happening, it's two
conversations happening.
This one that's a browbeating
he absolutely has to get out
of the race or voters you
absolutely have to get in line
with President Biden versus the conversation that brings all of
voters involved, which is there can be concerns. How do we move forward whether or not he stays
in the race? And what are the issues that will have voters showing up in November?
You had a letter that came out yesterday with 1400 black women in these states
that we need to win saying that they support President biden and so the biden campaign has to weigh what
they're hearing on the ground with yes the people that care about him nancy pelosi's the president
obama's how do you reconcile that when you're hearing two different conversations?
And I do think it's imperative that they're doing that.
I just want to make sure that the tone coming from both sides of this faction
actually thinks about the existential crisis that we have on the other side.
Well, Democrats are all on the same team, I guess is what I'm hearing you say.
Pete if Biden did step aside and to be clear,
that has not happened yet his campaign has repeatedly said they intend to be on the ballot in November.
But if it does happen, then what?
There's obviously not a lot of time
to figure this out.
Yeah, well, it seems more than likely
if it does happen that vice president Kamala Harris would
Sorry, I did.
Cheri gives the best reacts rewind that shut
the fuck up bitch obviously i had something that
I needed to take care of off camera for like a brief moment
anyway
and now I'm back.
No, it's not pooping. Don't worry.
This is what ASU was afraid of and said will likely happen?
Well,
what's likely to happen right now
is you seeing a three-minute ad break because at the top of
the hour, there's a three-minute ad break.
Biden can't tout support
for Bernie as a counter.
If I'm not on camera, there's like a pretty good reason for it usually.
And it's not pooping.
Yeah, I saw the shooter watch porn and I was like that reminds me.
I got to go crack one out.
Well.
Anyway at the top of the hour there's a three minute ad break. I came back just in time so I could serve you a three minute ad break baby.
You already know...
Here it is.
Establishing Dems are scapegoating progressives and will blame their labor is...
Establishing Dems are scapegoating progressives and we'll blame them later when Trump
wins? I
fucking
hope not.
So... So, why can't they keep Harris as VP but get a new frontrunner if the issue is campaign funding?
I think it looks weak.
While I think
that there are far better candidates in Kamala Harris is as people that would run the ticket.
I still think that it would make the administration look weak. It would make the administration look weak.
It would make the administration look incompetent.
It would make Kamala Harris
look super weak in general.
Why the fuck is she on the ticket then?
It should be someone else then entirely.
You can't always a bridesmaid
never a bride your way into
the presidency. like Biden thought she was capable of being VP,
which means she's capable of being P,
but now not so much.
There's not really much you can do.
We're locked down in that situation. Anyway, not a single Democrat I've spoken to um anyway
not a single
Democrat I've
spoken to
who doubts
that if Biden
endorses Harris
the party will
unite behind her
at this point
given how little
time is left
before the convention
and how strong
she's been since
the debate
that probably happens even if
he doesn't endorse her.
I've been arguing for an open
convention since February.
What Democrats deprived themselves of Biden
was information. A mini primary process would give them
more information, but they've not planned for it
built consensus for it and in my reporting
they don't have the stomach for it.
By the way this is where I do disagree
with Ezra Klein on even though he's coming to my position now
on this issue as well that he doesn't think an open
contested primary would be good.
I don't think that if Biden steps
aside, the party falls in the chaos. This
is what's happening right now is a partying chaos. It has lost confidence in the chaos this is what's happening right now is a party in chaos it has lost confidence
in the presumptive nominee and it is recognized that most voters have lost confidence in him long
ago party actors like AOC could easily rally the party around Harris.
Biden could easily rally the party around Harris.
That's where it already mostly wants to go.
Instead, his staff has often been quietly talking her down
to fortify his position.
The other thing worth seeing on harris is she has in a very sh is she has in a very tricky situation but showing how she'd run every day since
the debate democrats who've been watching her have been impressed she changed minds
she hasn't misplaced a foot not once in a very high stakes period she was underrated before some
of that was on her but a lot of it wasn't become Become the nominee for the Democratic Party,
and I know coming out
of the Republican National Convention,
a lot of Republicans,
the delegates are on an emotional
and spiritual high.
They think that Donald Trump could beat Tom Brady in the Super Bowl right now, but I would just caution everyone to say Kamala Harris is formidable insofar as that she is not Joe Biden.
At this point, I think my mini-golden doodle
Paxson could probably fare better against
Donald Trump than Joe Biden in November.
Democrats need to get realistic about
this and what is happening, and I don't necessarily
want Democrats to win, but it also
concerns me just as an American
watching the sitting president
of the United States
have these challenges everywhere he goes,
not just one night at a debate but interviews
and on-the-world stage.
It's constantly happening and the American
people have caught on, you see the polling, they think he is too old to continue
and their not interested in him being there nominee.
Hey there MSNBC fans I'm Luke Russert and be sure to join me, Rachel Maddow, Jen Psaki,
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Yeah, we'll talk about Bernie's takes here,
okay?
Nobody in America about bernie's takes here okay nobody in america should be voting for trump says bernie sanders
running defense for abiding again on this uh on this broadcast.
Ladies and gentlemen, my guest tonight is the senior senator from the great state of Vermont,
a two-time presidential candidate.
Please welcome back to The Late Show Senator Bernie Sanders.
-♪ I'm gonna be green That's what I mean all right Very good!
Senator Sanders? Bernie, Bernie, Bernie! Bro, this motherfucker should run still, bro.
I swear to God.
I mean, he's so old.
I mean, he's so old i mean he's so dumb but
you should be like yeah i don't want biden to run i need we need to go older I accept your nomination.
We'll get to that.
Now, tonight Trump addressed the RNC with a speech
as I said before is the longest acceptance
speech in human history and as I said before, is the longest acceptance speech
in human history.
And going into this, we were told
that this was gonna be all different,
that he overhauled his speech,
especially in light of the harrowing attack
that he suffered this past weekend.
What version of Trump did you see?
Well, I think it was different.
I gave up after the first hour and a half though.
You know what stuns me about these things, Stephen, is how little the real problems of
the country are discussed and how few real solutions are given.
Basically what the speech is about
is country is in terrible shape, vote for me
and I'm going to bring wonderful things
to all of you.
You don't know how, why?
I'll be able do it just trust me and that is not
the way a democracy should be run. Now the one thing...
Especially since this isn't,
in theory we've actually had.
It is pretty wild to see a dude
who's literally older than Joe Biden
by like I think three or four years
demonstrate that you can still have your cognitive function intact
like bernie sanders is so much more coherent than Joe Biden. It's not
even on the same playing field.
It seems so great. Is it only one year?
Oh, I thought he was like two or three
years older.
He's literally older.
Like he just, that's the point though.
Like it doesn't matter.
Okay.
He's two years older.
Does he, does he come across?
And he literally had a heart attack while he was
running for president.
Like, think about that.
This motherfucker had a heart attack running for president, bro.
Look at him versus Joe Biden.
Joe Biden can't even walk! Had four years, we know exactly what happened.
Right, right. And you didn't notice
it was the greatest time in the history of humankind.
I missed that part.
I missed it too. Just...
You're right, but... But just stop and think. I missed that part. I missed it, too. Just the right one.
But just stop and think.
The one policy issue
that he did briefly discuss
—and I want everybody
to appreciate this—
is not just Bernie Sanders
but every scientist who studies the issue
tells us that climate change
is an existential threat to the planet.
That if we don't get our act together...
If we don't get our act together as a nation and as a world,
the planet we're going to be leaving
our kids and our grandchildren is going to be increasingly uninhabitable
And unhealthy, trillions of dollars of damage is going to be caused
And his solution having taken huge amounts of money
from the oil companies and the fossil fuel industry,
his brilliant answer to that question
is that climate change is a hoax created in China.
Now, that would be funny if it wasn't so frightening.
So I would hope that anybody out there
whether you're a farmer in the Midwest So I would hope that anybody out there,
whether you're a farmer in the Midwest
or your work or any place in this country
where they were young person hoping to have kids
and grandchildren think about the future of this planet. if we don't tackle climate change
and having a president who wants to bring more carbon emissions
into the atmosphere.
Just on that basis alone,
nobody in America should be voting for Trump.
He's so good.
He's so right.
My fucking God.
I want to talk about something
that surprised me here
is that the Democratic Party,
you particularly have always supported
the unions very strongly.
Especially Teamster Press...
Bro! As long as Bernie Sanders
doesn't talk about Israel,
it's just like how can you hate him?
You know?
And even on Israel he he is like obviously more radical than the rest of Congress.
But it's just not enough.
And my expectations from him are obviously much higher because he has been a long-time advocate of denying Israel weapon shipments.
So for him, it was a change of pace from his, I think former political posture
on Israel post-October 7th
but beyond that he's just like
he's my fucking goat
That's why I love him
It's just hard.
Hard to see.
It's like watching
what could have been,
you know what I mean?
Sean O'Brien who was a a keynote speaker I believe on Monday night and the first time a member of the Teamsters has ever – leader of the Teamsters has ever addressed the RNC.
And for good reason.
What do you make of the fact that it happened this time?
Well, I think the speech that O'Brien gave
a lot of what he said was good
but I think anybody who has any illusion
that the Republican Party casts two wits
for the working class in this country is terribly wrong.
I served in the United States Senate, I am trying, as chairman of the relevant committee
to raise the minimum wage to a living wage.
You know how much Republican...
You know how much Republican support we're getting?
Zero.
I'm supporting efforts to make it easier for workers
to join unions, called the PRO Act,
so that employers can't intimidate and threaten
workers who want to join a union,
which is what they're doing now.
You know how many Republicans voters we have in the Senate? Zero.
Republicans want to give massive tax breaks to billionaires.
In the House of Representatives,
90% of Republicans
want to cut Social Security
in one way or another.
So anyone who has any illusion that Republicans will do
anything to benefit the working class of this country
is solely mistaken.
Now, speaking of which, Elon Musk, your buddy Elon said that he would not be giving money to either candidate back in March.
But last week...
Because he's a fucking dinosaur don't be an ageist hypocrite if Biden
is so old
so is Bernie even if he's great or agrees
with your views we need to get the
wrinkly old white guys out of here thank you dude
for your sound
American political guys out of here thank you dude for your sound american um political analysis
you know donald trump is like almost as old
as Joe Biden too, right?
There's a difference
between the way
that Donald Trump
is perceived
and the way
that Joe Biden
is perceived though
because one has
significantly worse
and an observable cognitive decline.
Also I recognize that the American public would obviously
laugh at the notion of like Bernie Sanders being
the guy to replace Joe
Biden because he's fucking older.
I'm just simply wishing
let me fucking have a simply wishing.
Let me fucking have a moment.
He's not running.
He's defending Biden.
$45 million a month to a Trump super PAC
between now and the election,
180 million dollars.
If you would just do whatever billionaires tell you
that money could be yours Bernie.
Have you thought about it?
Stephen, I haven't, but thanks for telling me.
Uh, I'll take that into consideration.
All right, but...
You raise a really important question and in a sense we should thank Musk for making
this issue so obvious.
What we have in America now is a corrupt political system.
That's all.
We do not really live in a democracy,
we live in a semi-democracy.
You have the right to vote
but a billionaire out there
has the right to contribute
hundreds of millions
of dollars to further his or her aims.
And what Musk has done and other billionaires are doing,
falling into line behind Trump because they know they're going to get massive tax breaks.
If you're in the fossil-fuel industry,
you're gonna drill baby drill
is a good reason to support Trump
But there are billionaires who also support Biden.
But to Biden's credit,
Biden understands that we have to overturn
this disastrous Supreme Court decision on Citizens United.
I'll have to hold you right there because we've got to go.
I love that donor switched up on Biden and now he's talking a big game.
Donor switched on Biden and now he's like, yeah, we got to fucking abolish billionaires, baby.
Fuck this shit. fuck their shit yeah totally
all it took was for Biden to get 50% of his fucking donor,
uh, his donors cut.
He's like, yeah, that's right, Jack.
I'm going to makealin look like an anarchist a little heartbreak here I'm afraid. Stick around, we'll be right back with more
Senator Bernie Sanders everybody.
Hey everybody! I'm Bernie Sanders Hey, everybody.
Back here with Senator Bernie Sanders.
Senator, you wrote a New York Times op-ed
defending Biden's candidacy this past Saturday.
And you told Democrats to, quote,
stop the bickering.
Since then, Representative Schiff, Pelosi, Jeffries
and Senator Schumer have questioned his ability to win.
Some to his face
And 65% of Democrats have agreed in recent polls
What happens now?
Well, the ultimate decision will be with
the president. There is enormous
pressure on him and let me
very clear as to why I support
the President think of all
of the candidates out there,
I am more than aware
of the disastrous debate
that he had
and the problems
that he has.
But I am also aware
that he has been
the strongest,
most progressive president in my lifetime.
He is the first president in American history...
Mine is Israel. Bernie Sanders is not far
off.
The bar
is that fucking low. You can make
two inferences out of that. Either one
that you love Joe Biden
or two, that's how fucking
low the bar is.
Okay,
to be fair, Bernie has been alive for a very
long time actually.
I mean this motherfucker's lifespan is so long that it kind of changes the dynamic a little bit.
When I say my lifetime, that's what I mean.
It was true.
So.... I'm gonna go ahead and read this one. television. Bro was there when television wasn't invented.
Bro was there when people,
men became political, okay?
Are you kidding me?
FDR died when Bernie was four, guys.
So yeah, he's wrong, but still.
To stand with workers on a picket line.
He has taken on farm and lowered the cost of prescription drugs.
We are now rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure.
We put more money into climate change than any time in the history of this country.
Five million Americans have gotten student debt relief,
and that's for a start.
So he has a record to run on, but equally important Stephen,
He has recently as you may know come out with what he calls 100 day agenda
If re-elected what will do with the democratic house and senate in the first hundred? This is what I mean,
by the way. This is why I think
Bernie is riding so hard. One, because
he hates like the oh that person
has old narratives because he's fucking old
and he got hit with that pretty hard. So I think
he has a legitimate distaste for that.
That's number one.
Number two,
I think that
I think that he just likes
Biden. He was too soft on
Biden already when he was running against
Biden. This was a genuine
weakness for Bernie Sanders that
I called out quite a bit in that last
election cycle, in the primaries.
Okay? He just loves Biden.
I'm sorry. There's this weird old
man code. I don't know if they saw each other's dicks
in the fucking locker room after playing badminton or whatever.
But that is the reality, okay?
They touched hips. So that part is also real. they touch tips.
So that part is also real.
And last but not least,
perhaps most significant here
is that I think he legitimately believes like Biden was
like, yeah.
Stay, you know,
stay on my side and I will dramatically alter my policy agenda to reflect your values.
I think this is foolish, but I think they're looking at how closely Biden, I guess, made the progressives like a junior coalition partner and going, well, it's more than what we've ever gotten from the establishment Dems.
So I guess like maybe Biden is being honest when he says that he will change his first 100 days policies to reflect some of our opinions.
I think that's stupid, though, ultimately.
It was good.
All right.
One up soon
today's and the ideas that he is talking about, I think will resonate with the middle class
and working class of this country.
You got half of the elderly people in America trying to make it on $30,000 a year or less.
And you've got Republicans who want to cut Social Security.
And you know what Biden is saying?
We're not going to cut Social Security.
We're going to expand Social Security benefits
by taxing the wealthy.
Let's talk about some of the other things,
some of the other things.
As you said, he's put out what he would do for a second term.
Capping rent hikes enormously important in New York City and Burlington, Vermont, all over this country.
People cannot afford the outrageous rents that landlords are charging and banks
are buying up single family absolutely they all in las vegas it is unbelievable these big
wall street firms buying up housing all over the place. So building millions of units
of affordable housing,
putting a cap to the degree that we can
in Washington on rents
is an enormous step forward
for working families in this country.
What do you think of Biden's Supreme Court decision? enormous step forward for working families in this country.
What do you think of Biden's Supreme Court reform?
From what I understand about it,
I think it's an important step forward.
They don't have the kind of code of ethics that members of Congress have.
So there would be a binding
code of ethics as well?
There would be a binding code of ethics, and I think it may
well be time for term limits for the
members of the Supreme Court.
The Constitution
provides lifetime
tenure, but not necessarily on
the Supreme Court. There are other federal courts
as well. But the other things that biden is talking about you know if you're an
elderly person today you know i deal with this on chairman of the committee elderly people can't
afford dental care they can't afford hearing. They can't afford eyeglasses.
And he is talking about expanding
Medicare to cover dental,
vision and hearing. He's talking
about forgiving...
You want to hear one of the craziest things. Look I think most of us agree that
our health care system is broken. Is it not? All right so we're the only major
country not to guarantee health care at all.
And one of the insane, cruel aspects of that...
This is the most 2016 I've ever felt. Watching a man
that I have so much admiration for
do a better job campaigning
for a person
that is slated
to lose the election
to Donald Trump.
It's literally 2016.
Bernie Sanders campaigned for Hillary Rodham Clinton harder than
Hillary Rodham Clinton ever campaigned
for herself.
It is literally
2016. It is the most
2016-ass situation you could ever arrive at.
Joel ever arrive at. Joe Biden would never be able to string these sentences together with this level of coherence. Bernie Sanders, yet again, demonstrating that he can do a better job if he just like body swap with Biden somehow.
Somebody gets canceled.
They've got to worry about getting well.
If Bernie was somehow magically on the ticket
instead of Biden currently,
these conversations
would not be had at all people say oh
he's old and most people will say yeah you're right he is kind of old but look
at how fucking dynamic he is a quarter of the people who get cancer end up going bankrupt or losing their homes because
of the enormous expense they undertake.
Can you imagine dealing with cancer or some other serious illness and then worry about the financial burden on your family?
That is disgraceful.
Biden is in favor of eliminating all medical debt.
That's the right thing to do.
We have to take one more break here, but stick around.
More Bernie Sanders will come in just a minute.
God I love him so much.
And then obviously
big change of pace
from Bernard Sanders
talking about making the case
for why he's riding with Biden
which is identical
to what like AOC was trying
to do last night. It's basically, I think, like I said
a promise made to the progressives that will stick by Biden's side
it's a bet, it's a gamble, I don't think Biden's side. It's a bet, it's a gamble
I don't think Biden survives this
but if he did
um, I still don't think
Biden wins, but if he did
I still don't think Biden applies these progressive policy measures in his first 100 days in office.
But if he did, it would be really, really – it would be an unimaginable bet
okay do you understand why i am at this i am
at odds with the progressives on this issue
i gave you three different unlikely things that need to happen
for this bet to pay off. The payoff
would be massive, it would be unimaginable
people would write fucking
movies about it
they'd be like this is how the progressives came in
and saved Joe Biden. And then Joe Biden
saved America. You know what I mean?
I don't think it's likely to happen.
But, you know, that's what it is.
President Barack Obama reportedly has concerns about President Biden's ability to stay at the top of
the ticket.
That is what two sources told
NBC News, that former president
sees Biden's victory as
quote, getting harder.
One of the sources said,
The Washington Post reports former President Obama has said President Biden needs to seriously consider the viability of his candidacy.
And with those comments, he really finds himself in a situation that is getting more grave.
Yeah. And the Biden camp, though, pushed back.
They did. The Biden camp offered some of pushed back. They did.
The Biden camp offered some of
the most aggressive pushback with one
source telling NBC News quote Can we all
just remember for a minute that these
are the same people who are trying to
push Joe Biden out? Are the same people who were trying to push Joe Biden out,
or the same people who literally gave us all Donald Trump.
In 2015 Obama, Pelosi, Schumer pushed
Biden aside in favor of Hillary.
They were wrong then and they are wrong now."
The source also pouring water on concerns
over Biden's poll numbers, pointing to polling back
in 2016,
the election that showed Hillary Clinton
leading Trump by as much as nine points.
That source adding quote,
how did this all work out for everyone back in 2016?
Perhaps we should learn a few lessons from 2016.
One of them is polls are BS, just ask Secretary Clinton and two maybe just maybe Joe Biden is more in touch with actual Americans than Obama Pelosi Schumer.
So John Hyland.
No. Do I remember correctly, Biden refused to run?
Well...you do remember the media narrative correctly but if you were in here
I've talked about this quite a bit.
I talked about this in 2020 as a matter of fact.
Obama told Joe Biden not to run
in 2016 against Hillary Clinton.
That's literally what he did.
Obama then, I think
for two different reasons. One because he was terrified of Bernie Sanders
and two because he felt bad, I guess
about doing that
launched an advocacy campaign for Joe Biden when it was far too late.
This morning. This is fascinating because there was sort of a tale of two Biden campaigns yesterday and,
and,
and a tale of, of two Democratic parties.
You would listen to most of the people that were talking yesterday
were suggesting that the president is moving in
the direction of getting out of the race and
there's very specific discussions taking place
but you also had campaign officials uh who
aggressively pushed back on the fact. But again, let's be clear here that
you have had Schumer, Pelosi, Jeffries, obama just about every major democrat expressing their concern directly
to president biden reverend shark and i saw in the new york times
in an article uh expressing their concerns that
he could lose and he could damage his legacy
and a spate of polls. Now even public polls, CBS
has him down five points.
Swing state polls seem to keep going
What happened bro?
What happened Joe?
Joe!
Joe what's going on?
Joe.
I am only a
Joe Scarborough watcher and nothing
else. And let me tell you, I am
shocked.
Shocked
I tell you of the
severe narrative change
over the course of the past 48 hours.
Joe, why are you saying things that are the exact opposite of what you were saying up until 48 hours ago, Joe?
Now the polls are relevant?
What the hell's going on, Joe?
I thought you told me to not look at
the polls.
I thought you told me it was actually silly that the Democratic Party insiders were operating at the behest of elitists against the populist, socialist revolutionary Joe Biden. The proletarian hero, Joe Biden,
the proletarian hero
Joe Biden.
They hated
him because of what
he presented. They hated
him for what he represented.
You know, a working class movement.
I thought that it was racist to say Joe Biden should step aside
for a black woman. But still,
it's racist for Joe Biden to step aside.
What the hell is going on?
Bad direction, New Mexico, Minnesota,
Virginia,
New Hampshire. A lot of states that
were not in play leading up to the debate
suddenly more than in play for
Donald Trump. So, what happens?
Yeah Joe and I think
well I think one thing that happened
yesterday was
we were on this yesterday morning
talking about the kind of extraordinary
kind of orchestrated series
of things that happened the day before.
Yes, what yesterday,
there was a little bit feeding frenzy around this and I think we have, there was a feeding frenzy around this.
And I think that with especially
with President Biden having COVID and being in Rehoboth
the din, kind of the clamor on cable news
um... i think for some people around
uh... present by the start to feel kind disrespectful
and that there was not a world where he is an isolated state
you know where he was are isolated state, you know, where he was sick.
Not, you know, not I'm not trying to overblow it,
but I think there was a little bit of an effort
on the part of some people around
or on the Biden campaign
to kind of put the brakes,
especially when some very specific reporting uh people started making very specific
claims about timetables and that that the decision had been made
and there was a time table and here was what
he was going to do and i don't know about the quality of some of that reporting,
but I'll say they pushed back hard on some of that
and I think it kind of got overboard with them in that regard
and they wanted to throw a brushback pitch
and sort of say,
President Biden needs time,
still needs some time,
especially given the fact that he's ill.
It is the case
that the factors that you uh mika and i and everybody else in
the show talked about yesterday did not get better yesterday and by that i mean
um you know some very basic things How do you run a presidential campaign
without any money?
That problem has gotten got worse yesterday
because donors and again,
say what you want to say about them,
you know, have now gone to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and basically said we're not just shutting off
Joe Biden right now. We're going to shut off the congressional campaigns because
your guy's job is
from our point of view
is to talk sense to Joe Biden.
And if you
can't talk sense to Joe Biden, why are we giving –
If we're not going to give him money because we think he has no path
and he's going to drag –
We believe on the basis of what –
On the metrics that we're looking at.
I'm speaking as a fake donor here.
He's going to drag you down?
Why should we throw good money after bad into the lost cause
in the House and Senate?
So we're not talking about donors flexing their muscles
in a way that threatens not just the reelection
campaign of the president but also all those people who are running for re-election or seeking
election uh in the democratic caucus and the House and Senate.
And so that has exacerbated the problem. I literally never thought
in my entire life that I would be in a
position where I'm in agreement with
elite Democratic Party donors,
Nancy Pelosi,
Chuck Schumer,
Hakeem Jeffries,
the damn near entirety of the mainstream media
apparatus, David Axelrod, Barack Obama
standing against
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Bernie Sanders
and Ilhan Omar.
Like what the fuck is
happening?
... broken clock is right twice a day the libification yeah the I left a left moment, I know
it's actually the supremely
leftist thing to do
the supreme The supremely leftist thing to do is ensure that a
genocide dare who's 850,000
years old
for simply malicious
and spiteful
and selfish reasons, stays in the race
because it's his time
and then he fucking loses to an out-and-about
fascist.
What's really annoying to me about all of this is that like,
God, the donors have so much fucking power.
I feel like
the more they talk about the donors, the more people
are going to fucking polarize against
pushing Biden
out because they're like, well if the donors want them then fuck
you and fuck the donors now i'm riding with biden you know what i mean and
some of the things that...
No, they're mad at Biden because they can't control him. He's an independent force in
the DNC and with him gone,
the Pelosi Schumer dominance has no opposition to Schumer dominance.
I hope you're trying to make a joke
and you're not being serious, right?
Kamala won't be as progressive
as Biden though.
All of this is making me support
Biden instead.
They'll replace Biden
in someone they can't control.
Can't you see that?
Why are you making
QAnon
conspiracies for Biden
and in your QAnon
conspiracy for Biden Biden being this,
like this is blue MAGA.
You know that right?
Like the idea that like Trump actually
is not a representation of like exactly
what the deep state is supposed to do
and instead like a brave bold fighter against the Deep State
you're doing that for Biden right now
because I
trust AOC and Bernie
...
... you
hmm So Biden drops out and AOC and Bernie say, okay well GG's GGs. You know, we tried.
Kamala Harris is great.
Will you forget how you feel
about Kamala Harris?
Don't put any
fucking blind confidence
in a singular person let alone a politician that's insane
you can also like i said even those of us saying you love certain politicians,
you love their legacy and still vehemently disagree with them.
I've done that with Bernie Sanders quite a bit.
Okay?
Are we not going to auction Because it started 40 minutes ago
I am going to the auction
I'm finishing this food and then I'm going to the auction
I told Connor
I'd be a little late
How grave That problem is a little late.
How grave that problem is
rapidly becoming very clear
so that pressure is still very much
on and I think that, as you
said some of the polling numbers
as they become increasingly
public. And i would just focus on one thing in particular where some of these numbers forget
about what you think about battleground state horse race numbers.
The attribute numbers, the number now about whether President Biden is mentally fit for
office are getting to a point where they're quite scary.
And you can't, it's very difficult to be re-elected president if upwards of 80%
of voters in the country don't think you're equipped for office.
And that's, so there's polling around
that I know the Biden team, Schumer, Pelosi, Obama,
all those people have seen just in the past few days
that say that.
And not only are they bad, but they're very hard to turn around.
It's hard to imagine how you're going to turn that around going forward.
Right.
So Mika, just underline a couple of things that John said.
That's nailed it.
The biggest issue, immediate issue is money.
The donors have stopped giving money and
I'm just confused because Biden said he'll do it without them
That was
really funny when he was like,
when he was like, yeah, I'll do it
without the donors then!
And then immediately 50% of the
donations dried up because obviously
even more than 50% of donors
or donations to the campaign
is coming from the omega wealthy.
Like, what are we talking
about dude? There is no grassroots mobilization in this fucking country.
Let alone for someone versus Joe Biden goes on progressive legislation,
like I don't put a lot of emphasis
on what a California
senator did in their tenure.
Okay? But
Kamala Harris has a relatively progressive track record,
especially because she was a senator when Trump was president.
And when Trump was president,
she could make bold declarative statements about how much of a fucking
Marxist proletarian revolutionary
she is because they knew they had no power.
In that process
she actually voted for a shift on
progressive legislation.
So if the metrics of your measurement
for the boundaries of
whether you think a politician is good or not,
then Kamala Harris is literally fucking more
progressive than Joe Biden. It's not even a question.
I don't trust that regardless
though.
. one thing that I can point to however is that Kamala Harris has better instincts than Joe Biden in this process because post-October 7,
especially a couple months in,
she openly and also
through quote unquote
leaks was
fielding the media on her position
on a ceasefire in Gaza.
She literally was outflanking Joe Biden.
That is actually unique.
You don't really hear that,
you don't really see that normally, okay?
So that is like one of the only instances...
That is one of the only instances where I've looked at something and went,
I think Kamala Harris might be trying to separate herself from the top
of the ticket a little bit.
At least on this issue.
And that to me shows good political instinct terrible instincts you think
that's bad are you kidding me talking about uh ceasefire in Gaza
like three months before
Joe Biden
ever even
brought forward a three-phrase negotiation
process, which he's never
followed through
on by the way, is literally
actually very good.
At worst, it shows
that Kamala Harris recognizes
that there's a youth vote contingency
out there and
dearborn voter contingency
out there that desperately
needs to hear something
that speaks of the humanity
of those who are being lost
through this genocide.
Right? I don't see the point of progressives now as you said they're betting on a dead horse with a low chance
of winning and actually doing what he said but what are the odds
of a president even mentioning progressive policies probably
even lower? No.
No I don't think it's that low.
I think that all of the other possible members
are going to because of Joe Biden's track record, whoever comes after Joe Biden is going to either a be just as progressive as Joe Biden which is not a lot or b be more progressive than Joe Biden, which is not a lot. Or B, be more
progressive than Joe Biden because Joe
Biden wasn't all that progressive to begin with.
So your guys are wrong on that front.
Like, Joe Biden's
legislative agenda has been more progressive than Democratic presidents have passed.
But that is actually not a consequence of Joe Biden's own personal conviction.
That is a consequence of what the material
conditions look like and what the demands
are.
It's kind of like this. Republicans
used to lie about climate change
they still lie but they used to lie back then as well.
But now Republicans at least have to vote for hardening our infrastructure
against some of the most damaging aspects of climate change
because that part is unavoidable. That's something
that people in Texas are experiencing right now, you know what I mean?
Legislators might say it's the Chinese conspiracy but it still
doesn't change the reality that you need to put funds
in at least some kind of
climate change
combating infrastructure hardening initiative.
Okay? That's why Republicans
have moved beyond like, oh we're spending too much money on this
shit. It's made up. It's gay. It's fake.
Chinese people made it up to
yeah Chinese people made it up but we will vote
for this fucking infrastructure hardening.
We will actually demand money
to you to protect our voters and the people that live in this region.
So it became unavoidable, in many respects for any administration that would come into power
to not do any kind of like IRA style build. That's the reason why Joe Biden was more
progressive than
previous presidents. And he went above that
too in some respects
for sure
But having said all For sure.
But having said all of this,
the likelihood that whoever comes after Joe Biden will be more progressive than he is
I mean it's pretty high.
Here's an 800-year-old
center right Democratic Party creature.
It, it's almost completely ground down to a halt.
The story of Jeffrey Katzenberg telling President Biden this got eclipsed from the COVID diagnosis.
So that is a problem.
I will say also, you've got a lot of information yesterday.
There's a lot of information,
a lot off information, a lot of off-the-record conversations.
A lot of plans being made about President Biden
moving toward getting out of the race this weekend.
That stopped when there
was some very specific reporting
later in the afternoon,
Mark Halprin being
very specific on
some reporting that other reporters,
newspapers and networks
had parts of that reporting
but not all of it together.
I think at that point is when we started to see the campaign pushing back because what people close to Joe Biden have said all along is he's a man of great pride.
He can be stubborn and tough, don't back him into the corner.
If he's going to do this let him do it his way on his timeframe
And when all these reports started coming out, that's when the campaign
started pushing back and I think part of that is giving him the space to make this decision
to finish making this decision
with his family
this weekend.
He's also a man of faith
and a man
of tremendous
historic accomplishment
and look,
it's impossible
to ignore
where this is going
and exactly what started it.
I'm not unaware of that at the same time.
I still believe that you don't know what you have until it's gone
and that there will be that feeling at some point.
You think if he leaves the race, you think Democrats will regret it?
I do.
Yeah.
I do.
He said when he—and had to correct himself. people in Gaza.
Yeah, Kamala Harris gave the speech back in March recognizing
the situation in Gaza and this community gave her some credit at the time I was here. Yep.
Um...who the fuck is gonna be like, oh man...
You know?
You don't know what you got till it's gone.
You pay Paradise and put up a parking lot.
You swapped out a fucking 800-year-old guy
for someone who is at least
a little bit more dynamic
and younger
and more coherent. who would be a good VP pig if they went with her
a white man
a white man
a white man from a contested a white man from a state that is like
either like a red state or a white man from a state that is a swing state. Not
a woman, people saying AOC.
Hopefully not Pete Buttigieg
either.
... Mark Kelly, Andy Bishar.
I know that what I'm saying also implies John Fetterman. I would die if that happened. I'm against charter schools. They are wrong for our commonwealth.
They take taxpayer dollars away from the already underfunded public schools.
My dick has never been harder than hearing
a Kentucky accent
say
the words, I'm against charter schools.
They take away dollars from public schools.
This is pornography for me.
This is pornographic material.
I have never nutted so hard in my life.
In the Commonwealth, and our taxpayer dollars should not be redirected
to for-profit entities that run charter schools.
As Attorney General, I can tell you the number of prosecutions we had against
for-profit colleges, how so many of them took advantage of so many people and the idea
that we would open up that same ability.
Someone said this is like the socialist of the 30s?
Yeah, he needs to just say the N-word
to finalize the equation.
Okay?
If it was like, and black people should go to separate schools.
Then it's like that he's the perfect Southern Democrat. God.
For people to prey on our even younger students
is simply not the direction Kentucky should go.
There's so much talent in the Democratic Party, man.
Kamala and Andy could be running an insanely high energy campaign with three states in a day each.
FYI, completely cool with Shapiro or Cooper, any other person she picks.
I don't think it'll be Andy Bashar.
Kentucky's not a state he can carry.
He is pretty popular. I mean, he is pretty popular.
If Biden ends his reelection campaign,
Democrats get a new presidential nominee,
Arizona U S Senator Mark Kelly's among the names circulating as a possible running man for Kamala Harris. Yeah, it has
to be like... It has to
be a white man.
100%.
It is literally the fucking
Barack Obama equation but this time even worse
because one, Kamala is not as...
Kamala is nowhere near
as charismatic as Barack Obama
and also she's a woman.
Okay? Barack Obama, and also she's a woman. These are definitely things that voters
will look at.
I don't know if it's Mark Kelly, but it will be a white man.
Why not Newsom? Kamala is already from California. Gavin Newsom is not as popular
as a standalone figure
as people think he is.
All right. Why not Big Reg? if she's a woman is ridiculous dude. Dude, what are we talking about?
So what if she's a woman is ridiculous, dude.
Two-woman ticket?
I mean, I'd love it.
I like Gretchen Whitmer.
But two-woman ticket is like...
Let's... woman ticket is like, let's not forget that 52% of white women
voted for Donald Trump. That's number one.
Number two, the difference
between the percentage of white women voting for Biden over Trump is far smaller than the difference between the percentage of men voting for Trump over Biden. Because women also are incredibly fucking misogynistic.
Women have a shit ton of internalized misogyny.
We're talking about Republican women specifically. They will
absolutely go, pfft, a woman?
Two women as president?
Get the fuck out of here.. Anyway. He also took pictures of the attendees at a rally.
One such group he posed with was the so-called Derby City sisters of professional indulgence a group of drag queens
who describe themselves to order a sacred clown knows his goals to bring education awareness about
the lgbtq community this is a harmless picture with a harmless group providing
if nice a symbolic show of solidarity between the new governor
and his constituents. And it drove Republicans
insane at a political event
held a week after the Fairness Campaign's rally.
Philip Wheeler, a Republican state senator from eastern Kentucky
had a temper tantrum about the photo walking for person to
person he showed his constituents the picture of his phone and ranted about how Bashir was
trying to corrupt children and defile the state capitol. He and other Republicans in a trap
uh Republican he and other Republicans may have thought that they caught Bashir in a trap. He and other Republicans may have thought
that they caught Beshear in a trap, one that could
evaporate his support among the many socially conservative
white working class voters who brought him
into office the year prior. The governor
certainly didn't think so. When asked about Wheeler's comments, Beshear reiterated his pride in being the first Kentucky
governor to go to a gay rights rally.
This could have been a way for him to sidestep around Wheeler's comments, but he avoided
doing so.
Beshear went on to declare that he would absolutely
take that picture again because those
were Kentuckians who were here at
their capital. That brings
a fucking tear to my eye thinking about
he brought up the Wheeler had made racist comments in the past
and accused him of now making significant homophobic
comments. Then he demanded that Wheeler
give an apology to every single person
in that picture, and that he do it
personally. His allies then called on Wheeler to immediately resign. that right there is a democrat who fucking fights that's kent Kentucky's Democratic governor, Chad.
That is Kentucky's
Democratic and dare
I say very popular
governor.
Now it's not unique to have a blue governor in a red state or a red governor and a blue
state that happens all the time, the governorship
The gubernatorial race is one that is often
deeply
personal. It's the
one issue where, it's the one race
where most voters vote for
the person and not the party affiliation.
Historically, that has always been
the case but
the fact that he's in Kentucky
he's popular
and also a Democrat and does shit like this is pretty significant so Anyway. Is there any real reason why Kamala
wouldn't be a great pick for the Dems? She's an outwardly
well-spoken, unifying candidate. What do you mean
unifying candidate?
She's just like ultimately for the past
four years, she has deliberately been presented
as a non-entity
It's at best
a little bit of an advantage now
because the Republicans haven't really shifted their focus on her at
all throughout that entire process.
But obviously
that is also part of the reason why she doesn't
have a shit ton of name recognition
and the people that do know her, know her as like
the person who was an absolute abysmal
failure during the primary
where she lost their own state
and is a massive charisma suck.
All of the
Mamala jokes aside,
yeah,
the only reason why she's presented as like a solid pick right now
Is because of what the alternative is
The alternative is a carcass
So yes, in comparison to the carcass she can speak.
And that's it and considering plenty of people are willing to vote for a fucking carcass,
they're obviously going to vote for someone who can speak better than the carcass.
Anyway, I have to go.
I'm going to run the last three-minute ad break right now
and I am going to go To the auction
The charity auction
Okay
I'm gonna raid
The charity auction as well
I love you all
I will see you tomorrow
Tomorrow I'm gonna be playing basketball I love you all. I will see you tomorrow. Tomorrow,
I'm going to be playing basketball
with FaZe Jason the WeeWee
and FaZe Blackboy Max.
I don't know if Ludwig
will be able to attend that.
It was supposed to be a 2v2 If it's not, I'll be able to attend that it was supposed to be a 2v2 if it's not i'll be able to either find someone
else or we'll figure out what happens but that's later in the day before then i will be talking
about the icj decision i will obviously be talking about a lot of the stuff that I didn't get to today.
He is 1,000% dropping out while you're not covering politics.
Please don't say that!
I don't want to hear that.
I don't want to think about that.
I am legitimately worried
that anytime
I'm not actually fucking live
is a moment where Biden
could potentially drop out,
especially during the workday.
Okay?
There's too much happening for you to be having fun jk okay anyway um but yeah where can we watch the auction don't worry fear not i'm gonna raid the auction right now
wait what the fuck?
I'm rating the auction currently.
Tonight is also the Creator League draft at 8pm ESD.
Yeah, they will obviously
be bringing my
ass up because I'm on the Creator League.
I'm going to be playing at dream con anyway.
Um,
I'll see you all on the other side.
Okay.