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To support the show visit patreon.com forward slash HumanistReport or become a member at HumanistReport.com Now enjoy the show Welcome to the Humanist Report podcast my name is Mike Figueredo And this is the 208th edition of the program today is Friday August 30th And before we get started I want to take some time to thank all of our newest Patreon PayPal and YouTube members all of which signed up for the very first time to support us this week and that includes Alderman Gomez Colton Austin Dylan Bundy Gothic 1 Jean Eidelman Jay Rob Wilson Kyle Odell Feng Quach Sam Oh Tosca and William Hudson So thank you so much to all of these kind individuals who we'd also like to support the show and join the independent progressive Media Revolution you can do so by going to humanistreport.com slash support or by checking out patreon.com forward slash Humanist Report or underneath any one of our YouTube videos you can click join So this week on the Humanist Report podcast Bernie Sanders surges in the polls Elizabeth Warren is buttering up Democratic Party elites Donald Trump wants to nuke hurricanes literally Bernie Sanders goes after Mitch McConnell on his home turf Fox News attacks Bernie Sanders for caring about climate change Andrew Yang doesn't like what Bernie Sanders had to say about universal basic income Bernie Sanders talks about how he deal with gyro bull scenario and put pressure on him to protect the Amazon rainforest Sean Hennedy is triggered by Bill Maher's response to David Koch's death and finally we will talk to 2020 congressional candidate Rebecca Parsons about her progressive political campaign So that's what we've got on the agenda for today. I am incredibly excited. So let's go ahead and get to it I think it's safe to say that Bernie Sanders has had an incredible week So as you all know last week on the show we talked about how he has proposed numerous sweeping policy proposals criminal justice reform a workplace democracy pro union plan a Green New Deal which would potentially save the planet and these proposals Generally speaking have been received very well now on top of that He received an endorsement from the United Electrical Workers Union, which is huge and also polling is starting to show that he is in fact Reclaiming his spot at the top now as a general rule You never really want to rely too heavily on just one poll Individually because polling data is much more reliable and stable at the aggregate level however Polls are still useful at the individual level because they tell us that there may or may not be a sudden shift coming and one Poll from Monmouth University is demonstrating that maybe the tide is starting to turn in Bernie's favor even more and against Joe Biden now I Tent to not talk about individual polls But this poll is important because it has the potential to unilaterally on its own Transform national dialogue because up until this point even though Bernie Sanders has solidly remained in second place You know, it seems as if everyone is you just focusing on Biden and to a lesser extent Elizabeth Warren and just ignoring Bernie Sanders But this new poll from Monmouth makes it very difficult to not take Bernie Sanders seriously And as Max Greenwood of the Hill reports Joe Biden's support in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination is slipping According to a new survey from Monmouth University poll that shows the former vice president dropping below 20% the survey showed Biden with support from 19% of Democratic and Democratic leaning voters nationally a Double-digit decline from Monmouth's most recent poll in June when he led the pack with 32% Now the dynamics have changed according to the Monmouth survey Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren the primary fields top progressive candidates are each at 20% Putting them in a statistical tie with Biden and indicating a tightening three-way race So this obviously is phenomenal news now a little bit more about this poll It includes a random sample of 800 adults who are contacted both via cell phone and landlides And it does have a relatively large margin of error at 5.7 percentage points and generally you want to try to keep that under 5% However, demographically speaking this poll actually does seem representative of the general public and it does have a good mixture of young and Old voters as well as different racial groups So, you know, this is good now getting to the results as you can see both Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are tied for first place with 20% and Bernie Sanders got the largest bump in terms of percentage and Joe Biden is now in a statistical tie with Bernie and Warren at 19% So he's just one point behind But he did see the biggest decrease which is in the double digits as the article pointed out And when you compare his numbers, you know from August to June this drop is absolutely Devastating for Joe Biden. Now, you then see Kamala Harris in a distant fourth place with 8% Cory Booker and Pete Buttigieg tied for fifth with 4% Andrew Yang and fifth with 3% Julian Castro, Beto O'Rourke and Marianne Williamson tied for sixth place with 2% each and Bill de Blasio Tulsi Gabbard and Amy Klobuchar tied for seventh place with 1% each now Everyone else is either polling at less than 1% or 0% with a total of 10% of voters Saying that they are undecided now when it comes to who's leading in states with early primaries here We see Elizabeth Warren with the biggest jump at 20% tied with Biden and Bernie in third with only a 1% Jump in comparison with June now the biggest aspect of the story arguably is that Joe Biden took a gigantic hit in the polls and Polling is starting to show more and more that this primary is starting to shape up into a standoff between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, which is actually good news because these are two of the better options in this race You see a ton of corporate Democrats and centrists So to see the more left-wing candidates kind of be the frontrunners that is good Although we do have to defeat Elizabeth Warren because when it comes to her versus Bernie I'm sorry. The difference is still night and day. Even though she is better than Biden and I'm glad to see her overtake Biden Bernie Sanders is the candidate who wants to change the system itself and not just reform it So when it really does come down to a race between Bernie and Elizabeth Warren If that is in fact the case Then I think it will be useful for us to focus more heavily on the differences between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren but for now It still makes sense that we continue to drive home the point that Joe Biden is not electable Joe Biden is a gaff machine and Joe Biden He doesn't have the policies He's not gonna excite the base and he could potentially lose to Donald Trump and what's really odd is that Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren They are not cutting into each other's basis. One is not taking votes away from the other However, what I would not have expected, you know prior to this primary is that Bernie Sanders is actually the second choice For a lot of Joe Biden supporters So the implication with regard to the Monmouth poll is that as you know, Joe Biden goes down Bernie Sanders goes up. In other words, Biden's loss is Bernie's gain weirdly enough and I think that a lot of this has to do with name recognition and not necessarily so much with policy So assuming that Joe Biden will continue to fall that should theoretically give Bernie Sanders a boost over Warren if you know Bernie Sanders does remain the second choice for a Lot of Biden supporters, but again, I want to stress that this is just one poll It could very well be an outlier So I don't want to get your hopes up just yet But it could signal a change, you know in this race This could change the dynamic and again This could very well mean that national dialogue changes just because this poll is so devastating For Joe Biden and it could kind of become this self-fulfilling Prophecy where this poll leads to mainstream news pundits asking questions about whether or not Joe Biden is Dropping and then you know that is reflected in the polls because that becomes the narrative So it's still important to talk about individual polls Just for purposes of kind of setting, you know or changing really the narrative Now the reason why I really wanted to cover this even though I try to stay away from individual polls is Because of the response that this is garnered all of the headlines now from Politico the Hill They're all saying that a Biden is falling and Bernie is rising as well as Elizabeth Warren And I have to share with you the response from MSNBC because they basically Up until this point believed that Joe Biden just couldn't possibly fall. They largely ignored Bernie Sanders even Nate Silver You know the whiz kid apparently claimed that this would be a race between Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren But now this poll is changing the discourse and it's really nice to see that So this is a compilation of MSNBC clips put together by Jeff Miami on Twitter It's not the best quality, but nonetheless, it still is fascinating. Take a look Sanders movement is strong And it is durable and she's obviously got a lot of momentum But they are not right now taking votes away from each other And the problem is if you look at the crosstabs in this poll, Bernie Sanders starting to take votes away from Joe Biden Yeah, and that is a problem for Joe Biden because he's got a lot of moderate vote a lot of moderate candidates going after It's working, but he's also got a working class candidate from the left who's chipping away at some of his support He's he's got a lot of issues coming from a lot of different people from a lot of directions I'm stunned to see Bernie Sanders doing so well after he's been not doing so well And I think that's an indication that we're not entirely sure where this is gonna look You know, I Thanksgiving as opposed to when voting starts in February. I think it's such a smart point because I always love The reminders of how much we miss the national medium This is so much of what happens on the ground for these campaigns and these candidacies and while the Sanders Campaign isn't all sort of above ground. There is sort of a movement I was surprised to see him tied with Warren and Biden It's important to point out that this poll has a five to seven point margin of error Biden campaign pushing back vigorously against its findings. David Jolly your thoughts Look, you've got to put this in the context of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina and Elizabeth Warren's in a very good spot in Iowa. She very well might overtake Biden I think for Bernie Sanders it comes down to New Hampshire and as things fluctuate We don't often talk about Bernie Sanders because his numbers always kind of stay the same money has a very loyal constituency But as Biden falls all of a sudden Sanders is now in range Warren and and Sanders have a real competition in New Hampshire And I think whichever one comes out on top in New Hampshire. It's looking very good to be the foil to Joe Biden I don't like there's it's hard to war game all this out And I'll say I'll say two things one is you're Joe Biden now I care how big the margin of error is to be losing that kind of altitude in a respectable poll like this It's got to make you a little bit nervous, especially since you've built your whole campaign on the premise of I'm the electable one I have the net area of inevitability once that starts to get shipped away You start to see those downward numbers. It's that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy The other thing to your point of call is that people have made a fundamental mistake with Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren Everybody puts them in the same bucket. They're the left wing. They're the progressive part They are not come gathering the same voters Bernie Sanders's coalition is a down is a middle class and down coalition Her coalition is a upscale college coalition. They are definitely both on the progressive side But by and large it is not the same Coalitions those two are putting together and they could both go very deep into this nomination fight because the Sanders movement is strong And it is durable and she's obviously you got a lot of momentum But they are not right now taking votes away from each other So I haven't said this in a really long time, but um Good job MSNBC. I mean You see just constantly them basically doing pro-biden propaganda Kyle Kalinsky covered a segment that they ran where they talked about all of Joe Biden's gas and included Claire McCaskill and she basically said well look Joe Biden may be a gas machine, but you know We understand what Joe Biden is saying and trying to say I'm paraphrasing of course But I mean up until this point they're all about Joe Biden but now they just can't really do that because Joe Biden isn't necessarily this powerhouse that they thought he was and You know this poll indicates that maybe he's the house of cards that progressives were saying he was Again could be an outlier, but we need to see Joe Biden's numbers plummet And this poll is the first indication that they are in fact plummeting not just steadily declining But plummeting because if you see a double digit drop From june from the same polling outlet that is absolutely just devastating and crushing i'm assuming To you know Joe Biden's team i'm sure that they are terrified So some of the things that they acknowledged here that biden is having his votes taken away From bernie sanders because as you know, Joe Biden's support base jump ship It seems like they're going to bernie which again is weird I did a video on this talking about why that may be the case and largely i'm shocking this up to name recognition, but i mean What Joe biden is losing bernie's gaining and him and liz They just don't have the same support bases and one of the pundits said it best bernie's coalition is a middle-class and down coalition and warren's coalition is an upscale college education so wealthy whites love warren and Poor voters. I'm also including communities of color voters from all different demographics love bernie sanders So you really do see this true rainbow coalition with bernie and that's great now. Um I love that they actually admitted here that national media misses everything And um, they finally acknowledged that bernie has been polling in second place And uh, someone even said i'm stunned bernie sanders is polling so well. I mean How do you miss this? He's consistently been In second place. He was in first place until biden entered the race and then he fell to second And then you see this surge from warren where she kind of overtakes bernie In certain polls, but still when you look at aggregate polling data bernie is in second place So the fact that they dismissed him doesn't necessarily tell me that they care about the numbers They just want to downplay bernie So they hope that this will kind of you know be reflected in the polls where voters will think Oh, well, you know bernie must be going down because that's what I hear from mainstream media So they have an agenda, but when the numbers change so drastically as we're seeing From this monmouth poll it's kind of difficult to dismiss it because you just look like a hack and they already look like hacks But you don't want to appear that you're biased and you have an agenda to just normal voters Who don't necessarily follow politics as closely as you or me So overall this surge is absolutely just such good news And i'm trying not to get my hopes up too much because you never want to put too much stock in one poll But just gauging The noise that this poll made, you know in political discourse in national corporate media It tells me that this could be a continuing trend. So i'm hoping i'm crossing my fingers that this is signaling A brand new trend where we see bernie and warren overtake biden And then as progressives what we do is we shift away from biden and we start focusing on The differences between bernie sanders and elizabeth warren because the differences are many Warren may be a solid candidate, but she's flaky on medicare for all. She's awful when it comes to foreign policy And then we just need to convince people that it's bernie who you want because he's the person Who is saying very clearly that i want to change the system and not just tweak it That's what warren wants to do so um it'd be nice to just have this be erased between bernie sanders and elizabeth warren and us not have to focus so much On joe biden and that's what the polls are showing So i'm going to watch this closely really look at the next couple of polls the next two to three polls that come out and see if The results from those polls kind of mirror what we're seeing here in this monmouth poll Because then that will tell us that this is in fact the start of a new trend Which will be great news. So um all around if you're a burner today's a good day Bernie sander sat down for an interview with crystal ball of the hill tv And he explained why he recently paid a visit to kentucky And it is to put pressure on mitch mcconnell Now he also gave us a little bit more insight into what he would do to pressure mcconnell assuming he remains the senate majority leader If bernie sanders is elected president take a look. Why did you want to come to kentucky? For a very simple reason i happened to believe in democracy and i happened to be a member of the united state senate And there are enormous challenges facing this country and the world And i'm here in kentucky because mitch mcconnell the senator from kentucky happens to be the majority leader of the united state senate Now mcconnell can vote any way he wants on an issue But what i find really outrageous and extremely undemocratic Is his obstructionism and his refusal to allow major legislation to come to the floor for a debate and for a vote So essentially well enormous problems face this country everybody knows it There's very little that's going on in the senate It is a do nothing body and that is because of mcconnell and i came here to kentucky To ask the people of this state to demand that their united state senate allow real debate On the floor so that we can begin doing something to represent working families So he proudly calls himself the grim reaper because he kills any and all democratic legislation that comes to the floor He also recently wrote not bad saying that we should keep the filibuster in place What's your view on the filibuster? Well, let me talk about the grim reaper I mean and all that he is talking about Is that we are seeing some decent legislation not as strong as i would like but some decent legislation coming from the house In terms of raising the minimum wage through a living wage that would be a profound Have a profound impact on the state of kentucky, which as you know is a poor state a lot of low wage workers in this state And that you have a senator from kentucky who is refusing to bring a bill passed In the house to the floor is really an insult to the working people of kentucky And that's true for gun safety legislation It's true for legislation trying to protect the integrity of our elections from interference from russia and other countries In terms of the filibuster, I believe we need a strong filibuster reform I don't think that some staff member can send down a message A note that says we're going to be required to have 60 votes if you want to have a 60 vote margin You want to filibuster get on the floor and talk? I did it for eight and a half hours some years ago That's what you can do. So I don't believe the senate should be The house, but I do believe in strong filibuster reform and also I think On major major issues like medicare for all which I intend to get past the elected president We can do budget reconciliation and other Provisions other ways to get that through with the majority vote to me I think this is one of the most important questions for you and for other presidential contenders If mitch mcconnell is still in charge of the senate, how do you get your agenda passed? Well, I'll tell you how You do what has historically Always been done when real change takes place And that is you do what I've done today except coming back as president We could do with a little bit more force And that is speak to the people state by state and have them understand what their senator is doing in my view The vast majority of the people in this state of kentucky want to raise that minimum wage to 15 dollars an hour And if mcconnell happens to be and I hope he will not be and I'll do everything I can to prevent that But if he happens to be to stay on as a majority leader, I will be back in kentucky To talk about the need to raise The minimum wage to 15 dollars an hour the need to guarantee health care to all people And I think when you rally the american people not just in kentucky all over this country around an agenda that works for working people You're going to be putting enormous pressure on those elected officials like mcconnell Who consistently represent the wealthy and the powerful against the interests of the people in their own states So what bernie sanders is doing here is he's going above and beyond what other politicians are willing to do because They'll make these tweets about mitch mcconnell. They'll publicly denounce what he does But nobody actually goes to mitch mcconnell's home turf And campaigns against him now for those of you who don't know mitch mcconnell is actually up for reelection in 2020 So currently to go to his home state and make noise about why he's not representing his own constituents That really is powerful as crystal ball pointed out mitch mcconnell is the self-proclaimed grim reaper of any and all Progressive policies, but really, you know, it's not just progressive policies that he's killing He's killing any and all policies. He won't allow a vote on pretty much anything the house passes something He won't even allow a vote on it even if he knows that he has the majority republicans control the senate So they're most likely going to vote down or whatever they don't like That is sent to them from the house, but he still just won't allow it. He is literally stopping democracy Unilaterally, so mitch mcconnell is one of the biggest threats to democracy currently He may be a bigger threat than donald trump, although that's arguable But what bernie sanders is essentially doing is he's saying look mitch mcconnell is not going to continue To make a joke of our democracy He's not going to be able to get away with blocking legislation and not allowing a vote if he does this when i'm president I will show up to kentucky and campaign against him and have his own constituents Call and put pressure on him. No, it's not a sure bet that that strategy would work But really if you are the president of the united states You are in control of that bully pulpit. You really could make a difference potentially now I really hope that bernie sanders extends this strategy to members of his own party if he's elected president You're going to have to put in time It's not just mitch mcconnell who you're going to have to put pressure on you're going to have to put pressure On the centrist mealy-mouthed spineless corporate democrats Who are going to fight you on issues like medicare for all student loan dead cancellation? Although donald trump did just use his pen to cancel student loans for um disabled veterans So hopefully bernie sanders would pursue that route as well But for whatever, you know policy bernie cannot pursue Via executive order the strategy should be replicated I mean politicians should be doing this if all progressives Make noise in this way and put in that extra step To campaign in the home states of politicians mitch mcconnell Democrats and republicans if we do this this really could be a huge national movement where we do c shift because If you don't get money out of politics, they are not going to budge So of course the end result is to remove money from politics entirely But until we get there we are going to have to do things like this You know campaign in our home states now One thing that bernie sanders said here. I do disagree with He says that when it comes to the filibuster, he doesn't think that it should be eliminated Now i don't agree with that I think that the filibuster is just at this point Republicans they've nuked the filibuster So we have no reason to arbitrarily impose rules on ourselves if we reclaim the senate We meaning bernie sanders and democrats when republicans are willing to do that So why should we? impose rules on ourselves that republicans don't impose on themselves to me that just feels like asymmetric warfare And it's just inherently unfair although I do kind of give bernie credit here and can give him a pass because Even if he doesn't believe that the filibuster should be eliminated He is open to filibuster reform And he did state that he would use something like budget reconciliation to pass policies like medicare for all if you expect To get medicare for all while not getting rid of the filibuster, it's not going to happen I mean, you're just not going to get 60 votes for something like medicare for all you'd be lucky to get 51 votes for medicare for all, you know, so um the fact that he is open to Passing big policies in some way be it budget reconciliation or filibuster reform Where he just needs that 50 plus one majority That's good. Although. I really would like to see him be bold here And just agree that we should be getting rid of the filibuster full stop Because republicans are the ones who decided that you know what? Maybe the filibuster shouldn't exist now that we have power So I see no reason for us to limit ourselves But back to the overarching point about mitch mcconnell Bernie sanders here is showing everyone why he is a real leader He's not just going to do politics as usual in the sense that He'll tell someone from the house or the senate to propose legislation And then it'll be vote on and then either it passes or it fails But that will be the end of the story No, he's actually going to fight for what he's proposing which you need because If you honestly expect to pass anything that is bold or a sweeping reform of whatever type You're not going to get that done just by you know, the usual legislative procedure That's just not going to happen in this day and age when we are incredibly polarized You have to crack skulls and burning standards thus far Is the only politician that is communicating to me that he will be doing that that he gets that and that's important And that's what really sets himself apart from people like elizabeth warren Who makes it very clear that she's a team player and you know, she's on team democrat And you know if they disagree Well, that's fine. She's not going to push them too hard No, I want an outsider who isn't part of a team who's going to say you're going to follow my lead And if not, then i'm going to campaign against you in your own home state That's what we need. We have to be aggressive because We don't have a choice the planet depends on it The american people depend on us being aggressive and being relentless as we advocate for these policies that would substantially help people And change and save lives So bernie sanders unquestionably has the right idea And we need him to be elected So that way he can implement this strategy and then other future presidents who are democratic Will replicate this strategy because I have no doubt that this has a chance of being successful I'm not going to say it's going to guarantee that mitch mcconnell will buckle But at least when you put in that extra time and effort It's more pressure than he would usually face something that he's not necessarily used to Because if you're shamed in your own home state if people turn against you in your own home state Guess what your political career is done and bernie sanders understands that and that's why he understands the importance Of taking it a step further and traveling the country not just remaining in dc If he's president That's why i support bernie because i want someone who's going to fight and time and again He has reassured me as a supporter that he will fight if he's elected Slowly but surely the primary field is starting to thin and based on polls that we've seen recently It's becoming increasingly clear that we could see A race between bernie sanders and elizabeth warren because joe biden is continuing to plummet And it just seems like the race Is going to come down to bernie sanders versus elizabeth warren now if you watch the mainstream media Which you should not but if you do there's this underlying assumption that if you support bernie sanders over elizabeth warren It must be because You are uh sexist Few puddits will say this explicitly, but this is something that is implied You know, they try to prime you to think about it in this way because the idea is Look, if these candidates politically are virtually the same Why would you opt for an old straight white male when you can elect the first woman president? And while i agree that the goal of electing a woman president is important The number one priority is not gender or identity It is about the policy substance and to the chagrin of mainstream news pundits If this race really does come down to a battle between bernie sanders and elizabeth warren We will make it very clear that bernie sanders Is different than elizabeth warren because they're different with regard to policies bernie sanders is much better When it comes to foreign policy elizabeth warren is quite frankly Terrible when it comes to foreign policy But it's not just the policies that differentiate these two candidates when it comes to just having political courage and politics bernie sanders is much different than elizabeth warren because I don't need to rehash what happened in 2016 when she demonstrated to us that she lacks political courage She's more ideologically aligned with bernie sanders, but she didn't endorse him She waited until the primary was over and then she was one of hillary clinton's biggest cheerleaders Now I get that you know you're campaigning for hillary clinton because you want to defeat donald trump That's fine But you could have had the candidate be the nominee with your help that would have went on to defeat donald trump But you wanted to be her vp So you made a political calculation that ended up backfiring and it led to you losing support among progressives But that's not the only time when she demonstrated that she has no political courage When the water protectors at the standing rock sue reservation were being Assaulted by militarized police Elizabeth warren said nothing she was silent and she didn't speak up about that until After the issue was pretty much over So there's problems with elizabeth warren and one of my biggest issues with her is that she is a quote unquote team player Where she's made it clear she's committed to the democratic party And she's not an outsider and you know, she's not going to Blow up the system in the same way that bernie sanders will now It's evident that even if the media would like you to believe that bernie sanders and elizabeth warren are the same There's a very important reason why third way is saying a lot of nice things about elizabeth warren There's a reason why wall street executives are communicating that you know They'd be more open to elizabeth warren than bernie sanders because they realize that there really is a difference Between bernie sanders and elizabeth warren And there's an article from the new york times that really highlights that key difference And this is in the way that they campaign and their campaign strategy bernie sanders is relentless in saying i am with the american people The forgotten people he's a real populist unlike donald trump, but elizabeth warren she's saying i'm with the people But i'm also with the elites because according to this article from the new york times Here's what she's quietly telling elites in the democratic party as jonathan martin of the new york times reports This is the overall point. She's been trying to make while her liberal agenda may be further left than some in the democratic establishment would prefer She is a team player who is seeking to lead the party Not stage a hostile takeover of it as miss warren steadily rises in the polls She is working diligently to protect her left flank Lining up with progressives on nearly every issue and trying to diffuse potential attacks From supporters of senator bernie sanders of vermont. I'm with bernie She responds when asked what is perhaps the most contentious issue of the primary race medicare for all Yet publicly and even more in private She is signaling to party leaders that far from wanting to stage a quote political revolution in the fashion of mr sanders She wants to revive the beleaguered democratic national committee and help recapture the senate while retaining the house in 2020 Miss warren's moving could prove important should the nominating process dudlock at the democratic national convention next summer Many of the officials she is courting are so-called super delegates who are able to cast a binding vote Should the primary go beyond a first ballot? So this is incredibly telling and this highlights one of the key differences Between bernie sanders and elizabeth warren She is a team player who's seeking to lead the party Not stage a hostile takeover of it Now a problem with that is the democratic party the dnc. It is fundamentally Broken it's run to the core So to say that I'm a team player when your team has been losing when your team is Going down the tubes when your team is so incompetent they lost to a fascistic Demagogue like donald trump That's not a team that i want to be a part of that's not a team that i am proud To represent so if you truly were a team player and you wanted to Remain committed to this idea that you're a team player Then ideally what you would say is look I'm going to lead the team in a new direction But she's not saying that and during an interview with jen uger of tyt When the issues with joe mansion were brought up she mounted what she called a quote spirited defense Unquote of joe mansion. I want to I want to make a spirited defense That there folks like joe mansion He works hard On issues that affect working people in west virginia Sure jam So it doesn't matter how horrible the democrat is they have a d next to their name So they matter they're important according to elizabeth warren when they're part of the problem too the system itself has corrupted both parties capitalism Like a virus has infected both parties So if you are saying that you know i'm all about my team winning and the other team losing you're missing the point You're missing the force for the trees and that is why elizabeth warren Is nowhere near as good as bernie sanders because bernie sanders is saying i'm coming in as an outsider And i'm not going to change the rules of the game. I'm going to blow up the game So elizabeth warren she doesn't want to do that. She wants to make a few substantial tweaks around the edges But she doesn't want to fundamentally change the system in the way that bernie sanders wants to do it Because she knows that she can't really fundamentally change the system You know given the current democratic party status quo if you say we're no longer going to take corporate pack money If you say we're going to do medicare for all regardless if members of the party leadership like it or not You're basically going to war with your own party and bernie sanders has made it clear that he's willing to do that Whereas elizabeth warren is not wanting to do that She is a team player and that's the problem that we have With elizabeth warren you're buttering up the elites when Average voters hate them. We don't like the democratic party. Most people identify as independence So we're not on team democrat elizabeth warren contrary to popular belief We don't like them. We hate them and we want you to change the entire system Including the democratic party's infrastructure because they are fundamentally broken And we want you to be so bold so progressive that if somebody doesn't want to change within the democratic party They flee the party and they join republicans where they belong and your response to that is say la vie But it doesn't seem like elizabeth warren wants to do that in in the event Let's say she were president and she proposed medicare for all and democrats like joe manchin Threatened to leave the party She is someone who i could honestly see would change that policy and water it down just to make it more appealing to people like joe manchin Because that's the way that she has governed and that doesn't necessarily mean that she has a bad record right Her record is fairly progressive. She has one of the better records But just in terms of who do you want as president? Who do you want fighting for you? The answer is clear It is bernie sanders now Here's the thing about her strategy when it comes to buttering up elites It does seem like that's actually working and it may even be giving her the edge over bernie sanders because individuals within the democratic party Who should theoretically side with bernie sanders or have sided with him before? They're actually opting for warren this time. So for example, raul grihalva Was bernie sanders first congressional endorsement in 2016 When everyone else was lining up behind hillary clinton like good little soldiers Raul grihalva said, you know what i'm gonna Shun, you know that democratic party orthodoxy and i'm going for bernie sanders But this time he flipped and he did not endorse bernie sanders He endorsed elizabeth warren deb holland who was one of the first two native american women elected to congress in 2018 Who campaigned as a bold progressive? She got elected and then she voted for pego and then she recently voted to condemn bds right alongside corporate democrats and republicans and now she has endorsed elizabeth warren and deb's endorsement for elizabeth warren is actually Obviously pretty controversial because elizabeth warren embarrassed herself with the dna test debacle And not only that she didn't say a single word while members of standing rock sue were being brutalized by militarized police as i brought up earlier So they were fighting to protect their sovereignty They were fighting to not allow the construction of the dakota access pipeline to violate their rights to clean drinking water And elizabeth warren remains silent so i understand why deb holland's own constituents are saying wait really you're gonna endorse elizabeth warren what So understand elizabeth warren is winning over a lot of party elites because quote She is a team player who is seeking to lead the party not stage a hostile takeover of it So that's why they like elizabeth warren. That's the key difference between her and bernie sanders And it's part of the reason why elizabeth warren is not as good as bernie sanders period Now besides her attempt to butter up elites Here's what she's also assuring to the establishment because they've been reaping praise on her lately Which is interesting right because if somebody is truly progressive you should be attacked relentlessly by the establishment You know the mainstream news pundits. They should be pouncing on you You should have third way running attack ads on you But that's not happening and it's because elizabeth warren has been putting in the work to butter them up So here's what she's promised them while miss warren has been careful to avoid directly criticizing mr sanders her regular references to being a capitalist withstanding She is also quietly taking steps within the party to make clear that she does not want to create a competing power base Should she become president? She was one of the first democratic candidates to sign a pledge Circulated last month by the association of state democratic committees Vowing not to create any parallel political or organizing infrastructure that would compete with the national or state democratic parties The same pledge which was shared by a democratic official Also includes a promise to share all of my data collected during the presidential campaign With the dnc and the state parties the state leaders were trying to ensure that the eventual nominee Would turn over his or her fundraising list and any voter file that was compiled for future races More broadly they also wanted to ensure that the nominees political organization is housed within the architecture of the party So it's clear why this pledge exists part of it is probably you know obama's organizing for action, but It's obviously because bernie sanders refused to turn over his email list Which we did not want him to turn over his email list because I don't want my email Being given to democratic party elites who are going to fundraise when they've betrayed me when they don't represent me So look this really is the difference between bernie sanders and elizabeth warren and I hate to break it to warren But while you may be one of the better candidates in this race That doesn't necessarily mean that you're better than bernie sanders or anywhere near bernie sanders In the same league as bernie elizabeth warren and bernie sanders are very very different So if this were just a normal election If we weren't going up against donald trump if there wasn't this health care crisis If climate change wasn't going to kill us all so soon I'd say you know what elizabeth warren is a fine candidate her More gradualistic incrementalist approach. It's gonna suffice But we're not in this time. We need a figure who is going to be transformative like f dr Like reagan but on the left and elizabeth warren has made it crystal clear. She is not that transformative figure She's proposed some great bold policies, but time and again. She has reiterated I'm on team democrat. I'm not going to fundamentally change the system. I'm a capitalist bernie's not saying that bernie's saying we need a political revolution And guess what he's right about that because anything short of a political revolution where we change the status quo Is not going to cut it. It's just not we can't have another president Who's going to follow the usual legislative process where policy is proposed? And then either it's passed and signed into law or it dies in the house or the senate And then that's that no we need someone who's going to be a fighter Who's not just going to fight mitch mcconnell and the republicans But is willing to fight their own party go to war with their colleagues If they don't get on board with these policies like medicare for all that we need So elizabeth warren she may be a good candidate But she is no bernie sanders and we may never get the opportunity to elect a politician like bernie sanders Again, certainly within our lifetimes and even if she did have the courage to change the system She's made it clear that that's not what she wants to do So she may be a solid candidate. She may be a great ally to bernie sanders and progressives sometimes But when it comes to who we should elect as president, we have to have a political revolution We have to have a figure who's transformative. That's not elizabeth warren This article makes that crystal clear because currently she's buttering up elites When she should be going after them like bernie sanders when she should be approaching Reform from the outside saying no, you know what if you're not with me, then you're against me elizabeth warren is not that kind of a politician. She's a team player And unfortunately her team is corrupt and garbage, which is why we have to elect bernie sanders Someone who's going to change the system and make it acceptable to be A team player on the democratic party again because currently as they stand now They are atrocious and they are Not representative of the people everything that they stand for is against the interests of the american people It's in favor of the donor class and elites So that's why you can't be a team player and anyone who's saying they're going to be a team player They're essentially telling you that they're not with you. They're with the elites So listen, I don't like to criticize people who are allied with bernie sanders But unfortunately we have to be real here. I'm a realist elizabeth warren is no bernie sanders Donald trump is Completely and utterly just exhausting. I mean the amount of stupidity spewed from him It's just so exhausting. I mean every single day He says something that is either factually incorrect or something so stupid so beyond the pale That you just can't help But be turned off by him and want to shut down and not even pay attention to what he's doing because the man Is a moron. He's communicated to us time and again That he doesn't know anything about anything. His brain is obviously melting out of his ears He's mentally deteriorating his cognitive capacity Is basically that of a child I don't know what else to say about donald trump at this point If you're still following him if you still think that he is this, you know strategic mastermind and you know, he's not really stupid He's just saying all of this to distract you or he's playing four-dimensional chess I don't know what to tell you donald trump says and does stupid things because donald trump is a stupid person Now the latest thing that he said according to jonathan swan and margaret telev of axios President trump has suggested multiple times to senior homeland security and national security officials That they explore using nuclear bombs to stop hurricanes from hitting the united states According to sources who have heard the president's private remarks and been briefed on a national security council memorandum that recorded those comments during one hurricane briefing at the white house trump said I got it. I got it. Why don't we nuke them according to one source who was there They start forming off the coast of africa as they're moving across the atlantic We drop a bomb inside the eye of the hurricane and it disrupts it. Why can't we do that? The source added paraphrasing the president's remarks trump also raised the idea in another conversation with a senior administration official A 2017 nsc memo describes that second conversation In which trump asked whether the administration should bomb hurricanes to stop them from hitting the homeland A source briefed on the nsc memo said it does not contain the word nuclear It just says the president talked about bombing hurricanes The briefer was knocked back on his heels the source in the room added You could hear a nath fart in that meeting people were astonished after the meeting ended We thought what the f what do we do with this? Yeah, how do you not just laugh at him if he seriously Suggest this like if he's being facetious and he's saying why don't we just nuke the hurricanes? That's a totally different story, but He's being serious here. He's literally suggesting that we nuke hurricanes to stop them this is Basically idiocracy that movie was not supposed to be a documentary. It wasn't supposed to be a prediction It was just supposed to be entertainment But donald trump Is that movie personified when the president couldn't figure out why all of the crops across the country were dying? Because they started using gatorade to water the plants That's donald trump in a nutshell He is that movie idiocracy personified because I mean, how else do you explain this? He's literally seriously saying why don't we stop hurricanes by nuking them? I mean How stupid do you have to be to think that that's a solution just on its face? It's so insane that any reasonable adult who has two functioning brain cells that are working would just laugh at that But this is the president the man with his finger on the nuclear button Who is literally saying hey guys? What are we doing? Why haven't we nuked hurricanes yet? The shit like literally gives me a headache Like trump is making me physically ill to deal with this stupidity Why can't we nuke hurricanes? I mean I I honestly don't know what to say. I'm speechless now To be fair trump is not the first person to promote this idiotic idea because a government scientist back in the eisenhower Administration had previously floated this idea. Hey Maybe we can nuke hurricanes and stop them that way and ever since that was floated The idea has kind of taken up a life of its own and idiots thought it was so brilliant that till this day They can't let it go and it's become such a prominent idea That the national oceanic and atmospheric administration literally had to address this on their fact page explaining That there is no evidence suggesting that a nuclear bomb could alter a storm at all But most importantly the resulting radioactive fallout Obviously that would spread pretty quickly would make matters exponentially worse fast And the fact that this has to be explained to people is embarrassing But I mean it honestly like I shouldn't be too shocked because we are living in an era where flat earthers chemtrail conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers are all like gaining popularity gaining ground So I mean this probably is the least crazy out of all those ideas But nonetheless, it's still an idiotic and childish assumption to even think that bombing a hurricane would work at all And not cause more damage even if it could get the hurricane to dissipate. I mean, what do you think would happen? Do you think that we'd be okay if the hurricane goes away? But then there's that nuclear fallout that poisons all of us I mean The amount of stupidity to say that not once but twice It honestly is it's unfathomable if donald trump can become president You clearly can do whatever you want to do in life. It's possible. So um Well, actually not if you don't have money, but nonetheless, I mean still being that stupid and Becoming president is really it's just it's remarkable Now in response to this story donald trump, of course denied it because we're all making fun of him And he tweeted the story by axios that president trump wanted to blow up large hurricanes with nuclear weapons Prior to reaching shore is ridiculous. I never said this just more fake news Now one thing that's interesting to me about this is He referred to himself in the third person presumably so he can say this was a staffer that said it But then he goes on to say in the next sentence. I never said this So now he's just like going out of his way to more frequently refer to himself In the third person. I mean Who is Not sick and tired of donald trump like if you are a supporter of donald trump How are you not just exhausted at this point trying to defend everything that he says trying to chalk up His idiotic gaffes to him playing 4d in five dimensional chess I mean, how are you not sick of him already politically speaking? He fires up the base, but I mean he's not delivering anything He is leading us into potentially another recession due to his idiotic trade war with china Because he doesn't know how to handle this situation like a grown-up. There's something wrong with you if you support him You have to have something Not working right in your brain to think that this man should remain president The fact that he was elected in the first place is an embarrassment to all of us But to still support him till this day When he is declining mentally Rapidly I don't I don't know what to say to you. You just you have to have something wrong with you Like and I know that that sounds condescending. It sounds smug But the man is a moron How do you not see it? If you can't see that he is a moron Then there's something wrong with you. That means that you must Be intellectually dim as well if you don't see what everyone else sees In an interview with crystal ball on the hill tv, bernie sanders was asked about ubi being a potential solution To an increase in the rise of automation and his answer didn't go over too well with one of universal basic income's biggest champions Andrew yang, so we'll hear what bernie sanders had to say and then I will tell you andrew yang's response I believe in a Jobs guarantee there are an enormous amount of work Uh, there is an enormous amount of work that has to be done all the way from child care Uh, to health care to education to rebuilding our infrastructure to combating climate change to dealing with our growing elderly population Normalist number of jobs out there and I believe under a sanders administration What we would do is create those jobs and as people lose their jobs they were the other jobs available But bottom line is we cannot allow robotics technology artificial intelligence to simply throw people out on the street Technology has got to benefit all of us not just the heads of large corporation Why is a federal jobs guarantee better than a universal basic income? I will tell you why Uh, a simple reason I think most people want to work. They want to be a productive member of society I think it's a very deeply ingrained Feeling that people have they don't want to sit on the side. Yes, of course Getting a guaranteed income is better than having nothing and sleeping out on the street. That's for sure But I think people want to be part of you know part of our humanity To be truthful and how we feel good about ourselves Is when we are productive members of our society. We're contributing something Uh, and I think people feel that very strongly And I think there is more than enough work to be done in so many areas and our job is to say If you are able to work, we have a job for you because the truth is We have so much work to do to rebuild this country in so many ways Now here's what andrew yang had to say about that He tweeted bernie ignores the facts that money in our hands would one create hundreds of thousands of local jobs And to recognize and reward the nurturing work being done in our homes and communities every day He also assumes that everyone wants to work for the government, which isn't true. He added it's very strange He seemed open and warm to the idea of a universal basic income not too long ago Now he seems irritated every time it comes up So my initial reaction was that this is kind of an overreaction From andrew yang because I don't really feel like what bernie sanders had to say there Was that problematic like it didn't seem like he was trying to attack ubi And furthermore like it didn't seem like bernie sanders was even irritated there So i'm not sure why andrew yang was so angry with what bernie sanders had to say And I also don't believe that bernie sanders is ignoring how beneficial it would be to increase purchasing power of americans because bernie sanders He talks about this all the time and when bernie sanders says that people want to work He's not necessarily saying that they want to work exclusively for the federal government But what he's saying is that people enjoy working they like doing things I mean when I was on unemployment when I lost my job I was bored like within a month I felt desperate like it was nice to get a little bit of a break But I mean I was ready to go back to work Because I I wanted to do something right people genuinely want to work And one thing that I think that andrew yang and bernie sanders is missing here is that Both a federal jobs guarantee and ubi. These are not mutually exclusive things like you actually Can't have both and I support both simultaneously To a degree Now I will say that when it comes to andrew yang's argument for ubi When he does say that you know ubi would reward the nurturing work Of mothers or fathers who stay at home and caretakers and whatnot I do think that that actually is a really persuasive way to sell ubi However, it seemed really out of character for him to kind of go after bernie here But here's the thing I do believe that andrew yang to a degree is kind of overselling ubi because look Don't get me wrong a thousand dollars per month would be phenomenal for a lot of families But do you honestly believe that that's an end all be all like if we just give Every single american a thousand dollars per month or in the case of andrew yang You know if you're already getting food stamps or welfare you have to choose between that and a one thousand dollars per month If we just give everyone one thousand dollars per month, is that honestly going to solve all of the country's problems? No now to be fair andrew yang doesn't actually suggest that this is the case However, he doesn't talk about the other policy proposals that he has He kind of just remains committed to this idea that universal basic income will solve so many problems when in actuality It's not going to solve that many problems. Again, it would be great But it's not the end all be all what do you honestly believe would be more beneficial giving every single person one thousand dollars per month Which adds up to 12 000 per year or guaranteeing everyone a job that pays 70 80 000 per year and provides them with union Benefits stability and whatnot. I mean the answer is obvious Now that doesn't necessarily mean that if you support a federal jobs guarantee that you can't be in favor of ubi I actually do support a ubi That supplements our existing social safety net because if you create this ubi That can one day replace our current social safety net We're not making ourselves any better off So you don't want ubi to be implemented in a way where it can be used as a trojan horse Now when I brought andrew yang on my program I asked him about this and he told me and i'm paraphrasing You know, I wouldn't want social safety net programs to be cut He basically made it seem like I don't want ubi to be a trojan horse to gut our social safety net However, when he went on rave dubenshow He said basically the opposite that you know, ubi could potentially act as a replacement to welfare programs one day I've talked to people who are on various welfare programs and they love the idea of getting a thousand dollars on conditional Because they dislike the case manager the reporting requirements everything else And so you can reduce the enrollments in our existing programs significantly Uh and so and it brings down the headline cost very quickly because if someone's already getting 700 dollars in benefits Then the cost is 300 instead of a thousand and even if he has adjusted his ubi program So individuals on social security don't have to choose between ubi and their social security benefits that they pay it into Still if you are making somebody choose between welfare and ubi Then that's not truly universal because somebody who is on food stamps and is poor They're not technically getting you know that extra thousand dollars Per month they're having to choose whereas somebody who makes a hundred thousand dollars per year And isn't on welfare. They don't have to choose. So, you know, someone who's better off They just get an extra thousand dollars, you know, no questions asked whereas someone who's poor does not get that You know, so what's more important and what bernie sanders communicates more so than andrew yang Is that we need to change the system? Ubi alone isn't going to fix the economy and I don't necessarily think that andrew yang thinks that that's true as well But what do you think is more important changing the entire system restructuring our economy? Or giving everyone a thousand dollars within our existing system and just saying all right, that's good I mean, that's not a very sufficient long-term solution. And look Again, I think that they're both Wrong in the sense that you don't have to choose between ubi and a federal jobs guarantee You can technically have both of them. You can have your cake and eat it too But if you are going to choose between one or the other, which is the implication here that both of them believe Then obviously you want something that will increase purchasing power More and that's going to be a federal jobs guarantee like $12,000 a year isn't going to be enough for people to survive. Of course, that's not going to be enough So, you know, you need to make sure that people are guaranteed a good paying job Where they can have union membership So to just say, you know what ubi is better than a federal jobs guarantee I think you're kind of missing the force for the trees And you can also argue that maybe bernie sanders is being a little bit too dismissive of ubi here But if I had to choose which it's you know, it's kind of a false choice a false dichotomy here I would still say that the federal jobs guarantee Long term is more important, but that's not to say that ubi wouldn't help I just don't really get why andrew yang is Criticizing bernie sanders here. There are genuine good faith critiques of ubi and bernie sanders He didn't seem irritated here. So I just don't really understand this here You can be in favor of both if I were andrew yang, I'd say, all right, you know what I'm going to outflank bernie from his left. I'm going to propose a federal jobs guarantee and ubi That isn't a replacement for our social safety net. It supplements our existing social safety net But I mean, I don't know andrew yang. He's a good person, right? He is a smart guy I think he's a genuine person this seemed out of character for him to go after bernie better because bernie sanders really I mean if he criticized ubi it was a tepid criticism at best now if andrew yang were to say Look bernie, if you support a federal jobs guarantee, that's fine. But if you're not also supporting ubi Here's why you're wrong that would make more sense But for him to just make it seem as if oh well, you're wrong if you don't support ubi In lieu of a federal jobs guarantee just long term and looking at the bigger picture That doesn't make sense a federal jobs guarantee would do more for people than $12,000 a year bigger picture fixing the entire economy is more important than giving people You know $1,000 per month and not changing the system the goal number one priority Is to change the system bernie wants to do that andrew yang Wants to make some tweaks around the edges, which is why I support bernie sanders over andrew yang As many of you know right-wing billionaire david coke has recently died Now I am just completely you know upset and taken aback by this as you can tell No, but seriously, let me explain something to a lot of right-wingers who are taking this badly One I think they're upset because they're losing one of their main sugar daddies But they're clutching their pearls because liberals are explaining why this was a very bad person I mean if climate change ends up killing everyone and the planet becomes uninhabitable and human beings go extinct David coke in large part Shares the blame. He's not solely responsible But he certainly is largely culpable for that because that's the legacy that this individual leaves behind And dying doesn't just suddenly make people Good like if you lived your life as an evil human being who caused harm To not just communities but to the planet I'm sorry because you die that doesn't mean that we have to handle you with kid gloves and say nice things about you No, if you were a bad person then we need to be realistic and evaluate your legacy that way And as I alluded to david coke was a horrible person I mean he funneled billions of dollars into organizations that promoted climate change Denialism and he did this because he knew regulations to mitigate the damage that climate change would cause Would cut into his company's profits potentially so as tim dickinson explained in this 2014 piece for rolling stone Coke industries were some of the biggest polluters in the world He bought off politicians that killed unions He contributed to conservative organizations that fought against lgbtq and women's rights They fueled much of the astroturbe elements of the tea party movement in the early 2010s This is someone who was an absolute monster. So forgive me For not really caring as conservatives clutch their pearls when the left points this out If you're a bad person, we're not just going to pretend like you were a good person to make other people feel better I mean his family has billions of dollars. So I think that they're going to be okay But I mean the pearl clutching is just par for the course. That's what conservatives do They call the left snowflakes say that we're hypersensitive and then whenever something happens that offends them Then they denounce that and say that we're being overly sensitive Ben Shapiro did it pretty much everyone did it and it's because you know david coke and the coke network They had their hands in every single cookie jar How many people are funded by the coke brothers? Even dav rubin sold out and started taking coke money So everyone loves the coax because the coax I mean they spent a lot of money buying people off now an example that really stood out to me Of pearl clutching came from sean hannity who didn't like what bill marr had to say about this now look I don't like bill marr. I can't stand him to be frank, but bill marr's reaction to david coke's death Was pretty reasonable. So this is what sean hannity said in response to bill marr's reaction All right our villain of the day. Yeah, it's a guy named bill marr. This is what he said about well billionaire david coke who passed away Yesterday david coke of the zillionaire coke brothers died Please Of prostate cancer. I guess i'm going to have to reevaluate my low opinion of prostate cancer So the amazon is burning up. I'm glad he's dead A little message for bill, you know, I never called for his firing It's conservatives who stood up from when he worked at abc not liberals. Uh, I never called for boycotts. I'm not gonna start now You're a jackass. You're a mean spirited jackass I have other words. I really want to use but Unlike you I work on a network that has some standards And if I said it I have to spend all day tomorrow on the next day dealing with that crap The guy you're talking about and his wife donated 1.3 billion dollars to charity until you do that Just keep your big mouth shut We have a special snowflake I absolutely detest anyone who makes the respectability and civility argument But if there's anyone who I think should say the least about this, it's definitely definitely sean hennedy One of the most Lovesome people biggest hypocrites in all of politics Now he says I'd never call for boycotts and I wouldn't call for bill mar to be fired Although if somebody happened to start a petition, I wouldn't be too mad about that I mean, that's essentially why he brought that up He's not bringing this up to communicate to people that he's principled because he's not principled This is someone who's a hack. He's pretty brazen about his hackiness. I mean he has a very close personal relationship to donald trump So he's not objective He's not fair and balanced if he actually cared about freedom of speech and was principled He would condemn the movements that aim to criminalize bts But I mean, this is someone who's nothing more than a right wing fraud He denounces handouts Meanwhile, he doesn't tell you that the government helped him get his real estate business jump started So this is someone who has absolutely no room to talk about hypocrisy No room to talk about pretty much anything Sean hennedy is the fraud of all frauds and he's probably one of the biggest bad faith actors in all of cable news Now he says to bill mar. You're a jackass. You're a mean spirited jackass. I have other words I really want to use but unlike you. I work for a network that has some standards Really Fox news has standards What are these standards? Sean hennedy explained to me what these standards are I mean the fact that he would have the audacity to say this is just absurd Just because you're number one in all of cable news that doesn't necessarily mean that fox news does good work Fox news is the worst thing to happen to journalism in perhaps the history of our country because they are pure Propaganda and that's not to say that cnn and msnbc aren't bad But the fact that you think that fox news is somehow better than them when you are exponentially worse It shows how delusional you are and he also recited a line that a lot of other Conservatives are using to defend david coke The guy you're talking about and his wife donated 1.3 billion dollars to charity until you do that Just keep your big mouth shut Oh, yes, don't criticize david coke because he was such a huge philanthropist and all the headlines stated this too okay This is something that you shouldn't be bragging about his net worth was 42.4 billion So the fact that he only donated 1.3 billion is actually embarrassing Especially considering the fact that he weaponized his philanthropy and that was likely tax deductible Let's be real and he did that to spread the coke name to have departments in universities named after him He did that to give himself and his brother cover so they can continue to ruin the planet But anytime someone criticizes him hacks and propagandists like sean hennedy can defend him by saying well Look at all of the great contributions. He's made to cancer research I mean to suggest that the charitable contributions that david coke made would somehow erase the damage He's caused is laughable Maybe you know sean hennedy at some point in his life Did something good? Maybe he gave five bucks to a homeless person that one individual act Doesn't say anything about his overall character. It's just one instance of him choosing to do something good But the thing about david coke is it's not like we even know for sure that he was motivated To make these contributions out of the goodness of his heart. These were weaponized contributions because again He wanted to shield himself from criticism because he was being criticized Because he's kind of fucking up the planet. So sean hennedy I mean the fact that you are Going to say this acts so triggered and outraged by bill more and then probably a week from now You'll do a segment about how college campuses and students on college campuses rather Are so triggered and outraged by everything and they're the pc police I mean there was just there's a certain set of standards that the right will apply to the left That they don't hold themselves To right So they can be as outraged as easily offended as they want to be and that's not hypocritical But any instance of left wing hypersensitivity Understand that they will be the first to call that out Immediately So whenever you hear a right winger talk about how easily offended the left is show them this clip of sean hennedy Show them the clips of tommy loren denouncing people who kneel during the national anthem Show them the tweets of kandace owens who claim somebody should literally lose citizenship if they choose to desecrate a flag I mean there is no shortage of snow flaggery, right at the end of the day sean hennedy is a Complete and utter joke and the only types of people who take him seriously are people who Are completely either low information voters or genuinely have something wrong with them mentally Surprise surprise fox news is attacking bernie sanders again and this new round of attacks comes after he introduced a fully fleshed out Green new deal proposal. So I anticipated these attacks But what is surprising to me is just the sheer level of laziness In the way that they're choosing to attack him because they're not even trying to attack him In an intellectual way like they're just trotting out the same argument that they used before That wasn't very persuasive then and it still isn't very persuasive now But essentially what they're trying to say is bernie sanders must be a hypocrite because he has a carbon footprint But also cares about climate change and it's just it's it honestly is baffling that they still think that This is a persuasive line of attack. Take a look bernie sanders getting called out on the campaign trail after rolling out his 16 trillion dollar green new deal Turns out the socialist is a bit of a hypocrite though when it comes to climate watch You seem adamant about climate change. Yep, of course So what ways would you take to practice what you preach if you were to become president? No, i'm not going to walk to california. All right, you know Look, you know, I understand that you know, we we do the best we can as an example But i'm not going to sit here and tell you that we're not going to use fossil fuels I'm not going to tell you i'm not going to get on a plane that would not be true I mean it seems like people like bernie Have a higher threshold martha when it comes to you know Walking the walk Absolutely. I mean when I watched that moment It reminded me of when we did our town hall with bernie sanders And it had just been announced that he made over a million dollars on his book And I asked him, you know, you say that millionaires and billionaires should pay more in their taxes So would you volunteer? You know to walk the walk to say, you know what I should be paying more because I am now a millionaire What did he say after that? You know, he he was mean first of all and and he said, you know, why don't you pay more? And I said, well, I'm not running for president And i'm not advocating any of the things that you're that you're talking about But why why wouldn't you so he doesn't like to be pressed on these These issues that he claims to feel strongly about and that was another example You can tell you're right that that is his biggest weakness when you accuse him of hypocrisy He gets very defensive Well first i had bernie better call up the obamas because they just purchased a 12 million dollar mansion on the coast Now if you listen to the dems that coast will not be there in 10 years So the obamas know something that the dems don't that it's all bs which stands for bernie sanders The thing is the secret to being a progressive Is to be on top Because if you're on top then you could enforce your beliefs without ever having to adhere to them And then when people come after you you can be like the blaze and you go well You know what i got everybody else to obey and to sacrifice Which allows me to go to the gym in brook in brooklyn with an entourage or with bernie to own three homes and fly private or first class Yeah, that's like bill marr He can root for a recession because he can he can wait out a recession with his money Well, i remember when beto's tax returns or financials came out and and people said well Why haven't you donated more to charity since you come from a very wealthy family and he essentially said well I am the gift I am the gift and i'm running for president to do the most good And people like bernie sanders want to control every type of industry so that the little guy has to come and beg them for Whatever it is that they need He's the guy that said that bread lines in nicaragua were a good thing, right? I mean, but he's the one who's not gonna be standing in those lines, right? No, that's not true You know, i listened to you too much you probably should but i must i'm so curious because it seems to me that when I look at the people who are backing donald trump the big donors They're on top and they seem to be but they're not taking it away from everyone else Donald trump is doing great with the big don't with the steve ross isn't all and the little donors Well, the 60% is doing a little better But you know what you look at the money that comes from pax greg you let the so-called dark Oh, he has a huge lead in this but to get back to bernie for a second All of you i think are not understanding that bernie is not playing small ball. He's talking Transformational politics on issues that the republicans have nothing to say about then he will be the nominee as i predicted But i don't know you see i don't know that democrats feel confident That he won't be easily portrayed he calls himself a socialist and and what does trump want a You see a stronger candidate than then energy wise than joe You know what the way that you change behavior especially when it comes to pollution And the environment is to do it on an individual level and if someone like bernie sanders can't name one possible thing That he's willing to cut back on when he's telling everyone else We're gonna tax the you to the out the wadzu tax the middle class sue the oil companies completely Take over the government with the oil companies for no crime that they've committed And yet he's not willing to say one thing he's willing to do So i don't know what that town hall participants said because for whatever reason fox news Conspicuously edited out what he said and i couldn't find the original clip But let me just respond to that individual by saying first of all There is no ethical consumption under capitalism and second of all Climate change cannot be solved at the individual level because 100 corporations emit 70 percent of greenhouse gas emissions So you can personally choose to go vegan. You can personally choose to start biking to work But that's not going to save the planet We need government action here because climate change is an issue that is interconnected when the planet's temperature increases This affects a multitude of different things. This isn't just About driving. This leads to desertification ocean acidification. This has political ramifications This could lead to mass migration areas of the planet becoming uninhabitable the middle east, for example It would be too hot for people to survive areas of the country Being flooded being underwater permanently potentially florida, for example So for you to say, oh, you know, if I just choose to make better decisions as a consumer, that's going to save the planet One that's not reasonable to expect people to do that and two even if every single person Even if 100 of us at the individual level did that as I stated not going to save the planet So if you make this argument, it just tells me that you're not clever. You're not smart. You're uneducated about this issue period now they also decided to Like in what bernie sanders said about flying and air travel to him not wanting to raise His own taxes. So one of the hosts on the table there She co-hosted bernie sanders town hall and she said, look, I asked him about this. I said, you're a millionaire Why don't you volunteer more taxes? That is such a dumb argument. First of all, it doesn't work that way Bernie sanders can't just send the irs an extra check and say, here's some extra money to he I love paying taxes like nobody loves paying taxes just for the sake of paying taxes Nobody writes a check to the irs because they like the way it makes them feel The reason why bernie sanders is saying that we should increase taxes on wealthy people Including himself is because we expect something in return Raising his taxes to help fund medicare for all is something that's valuable Just needlessly giving the irs more money when you know that that's going to be used To bomb children in the middle east of north africa What point does that serve the point of increasing taxes on the rich? Is to have that money go towards things that help people So that's just an idiotic thing to say and to claim that that's hypocritical I mean that's so disingenuous and she claimed that bernie sanders doesn't mean in his response, but I mean look You asked a stupid question. So you should expect a stupid answer Now here's what one of the hosts said bernie wants to control every type of industry So the little guy has to beg them for whatever it is that they need This is the guy who said that bread lines in nicaragua are a good thing So first of all bernie sanders has not advocated that the government be in control of every type of industry But if we're being honest here, that's more preferable than private companies Being in control of every single industry. So I mean for example healthcare You don't want private companies delivering healthcare to us because there's a conflict of interest They care more about making money increasing profits increasing shareholder value So to say that in all instances, you know, I'm just I'm hyper capitalist. We should never allow the government to be involved Well, when it comes to healthcare at least just that's just one example Who would you prefer to be in charge of that industry? The government who answers to the people who is accountable to the people or private corporations Who is accountable to no one whose board members we can't elect? I mean, I think the answer is pretty obvious You can make the case that maybe you know when it comes to fashion and clothing and video games That can be up to private companies, but I mean she this is someone who's not You know a good faith actor. She's just trying to smear bernie sanders Now I want to give you the full context about that quote that she cited because she keeps bringing this up This is the actual video of what bernie sanders said when he was asked about bread lines in nicaragua It's funny sometimes american journalists talk about how bad a country is because people are lining up for food That's a good thing In other countries people don't line up for food the rich get the food Now to give you some additional context here that she conveniently left out Or doesn't know about bernie sanders is not suggesting that we should have people in this country be so impoverished So, you know economically Um disadvantaged that they have to line up for bread. That's provided by the government That's literally the opposite of what he wants like he wants us to have economic independence He wants to increase our purchasing power But in the context of the way he was talking about bread lines is he was saying governments Should be responsive to the needs of the people and a government in a highly impoverished country That is at least trying to offer bread to people. That's better than a government that just says, you know what starve So context absolutely matters. He's not saying like are you honestly saying that bernie sanders wants us To be as bad as nicaragua where we have to have these bread lines. Of course not. He's talking about need He's talking about the delivery of goods and services. He's talking about being responsive to the needs of the people So for you to twist that is incredibly nefarious and disingenuous But this is one of the dumber fox news hosts and you're gonna see that so As usual won williams. He was the only reasonable person on the panel and he said bernie is talking Transformational politics on issues that the republicans have nothing to say about now Here's where she chimed in and she almost made my head explode You know won the way that you change behavior, especially when it comes to pollution and the environment Is to do it all on an individual level Oh my god you moron Have you like read anything about climate change and climate change mitigation and adaptation? Do you know anything do you even believe in climate change for one? but I mean do you honestly believe That One all americans would be willing to make these changes at the at the individual level and even if They did make those changes. Do you honestly believe that that would suffice? Of course not because we're talking about large multinational corporations that pollute the fucking planet Get that through your thick skull dummy We're not talking about the climate changing and becoming uninhabitable because a bunch of people are polluting the water that we drink And pumping greenhouse gases into the air from their fucking xboxes We're talking about large multinational corporations that cut corners and pollute the planet to increase profits You dumb fucker. How do you not get that? God fox news hosts like I hope That she's just being disingenuous I hope that she's just lying through her teeth because if you're that stupid then you absolutely should not be on national television espouting whatever nonsense you believe because it's just fucking dumb like I know i'm being a dick, but I I can't help it Like the planet is on the cusp Of becoming uninhabitable for us right so for you to suggest. Oh, well, you know, let's all just do better guys Come on. Let's reduce our carbon footprints individually. That's not realistic You need a government and governments plural to come together and address this issue The united states is the biggest country militarily economically so we can easily be a leader here But donald trump is an imbecile. He doesn't even believe in climate change So what bernie sanders is saying is i'm going to make us a world leader I'm going to make sure that we have a green new deal that doesn't just make us a world leader when it comes to green renewable technology But it pays for itself within 15 years It brings other countries together creates a fund for developing countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions And guess what we could potentially save the planet this way. We changed the way our economy functions But this fox news host um since she's getting paid. I'm assuming six figures would rather lie about that It's just it's disgusting now. Here's where she really shows all of her cards here She says bernie sanders can't name one possible thing to cut back on when he's telling us He's going to tax you out the wazoo tax the middle class through the oil companies Completely take over the government with the oil companies for no crime. They've committed and yet he's not willing to say one thing He's willing to do but wait, didn't you just contradict yourself? Because you're saying oh bernie sanders wants to do all of these things and sue fossil fuel companies But yet he's not saying a single thing that he wants to do You just cited some of the things that he wants to do now part of that You know was you lying but He wants to do something But of course, you know, it has to be at the individual level because if you're a fox news host You know, that's the only thing that you can say That would be acceptable To fox news is right wing advertisers and the bosses are at fox news because you're supposed to pretend like climate change is um a hoax Or at best it's real, but you know, the climate is just always changing. So that's all it takes though, right? Why didn't we think about this sooner individuals could have solved this climate crisis a long time ago? I guess that the indigenous tribes in the amazon can just choose to not have their homes destroyed By private corporations. I guess that we can choose to not create large multinational corporations and pollute the planet ourselves done I mean, what are you saying? We have what 11 years to act to take drastic action To stop a climate catastrophe and there are still people on fox news Who have no sense of urgency whatsoever and they're still promoting this harmful idea that at the individual level That's the way that we solve climate change This is a micro level issue and definitely not a macro level issue So you should probably stop pressuring lawmakers to impose more regulations on these companies that are polluting the planet And just you know, choose to not pollute the planet yourself, uh, you know recycle more I mean, this is just downright dangerous now. Like I would love to say this is just fox news stupidity So let's laugh and point the finger at them and make fun of them. But I mean, we're in crunch mode We have 11 years to potentially stop Climate catastrophe and save the planet So this this can't stand anyone who's saying this at this point in time is a danger to the world Is a danger to the world and I don't think that that's being hyperbolic We recently talked about how under Jair Bolsonaro's leadership Deforestation of the amazon rainforest is up 80 in comparison with last year Which is absolutely horrifying considering that the amazon rainforest is largely known as The lungs of the earth now in response to this increased brutal deforestation of the amazon rainforest germany Threatened to cut 35 million euros in aid If Jair Bolsonaro didn't you know pump the brakes a little bit and his response to germany was essentially All right, that's fine. Don't need your money if there's going to be stipulations So This individual is becoming one of the most dangerous people In the world because what he does in brazil doesn't just affect brazilians It affects everyone on the planet now about a week or so I think less than a week in fact after we talked about Jair Bolsonaro And how deforestation has accelerated under his leadership. Well, as you all know, the amazon is currently on fire It's on fire and Jair Bolsonaro, even though he deployed brazilian troops to help fight the fires He's made it very clear that brazil does not have the resources needed to fight these fires And since this is an issue that affects everyone French president Emmanuel Macron called it an international crisis and he recommended Reasonably, so I think that this is something that should have been discussed at the g7 summit But because macron recommended that global leaders address this very serious issue Bolsonaro accused him of having a quote colonial mindset that was inappropriate in the 21st century Which is essentially the international equivalent of the weaponization of identity politics So this is peak stupidity here I mean to say that Another leader taking an interest into what's happening in your country if it affects the world Is having a colonial mindset That's just that's So stupid I don't even know how to respond to that and in true trumpian fashion What Jair Bolsonaro decided to do next was attack Emmanuel Macron So a user on Jair Bolsonaro's facebook page posted a meme comparing Macron and Bolsonaro's wives Essentially saying look at the both of them. Macron is probably jealous and Bolsonaro responded jokingly by saying don't embarrass the guy So let's just take a step back and reflect on what's happening Jair Bolsonaro is mad That macron have the audacity to recognize the international importance Of the burning of the amazon rainforest So He decided to attack Macron's wife for that Now I would love to tell you that that's the most craziest part of the story But it's not Because on monday Emmanuel Macron offered millions of euros to brazil to help them fight the fires And after Bolsonaro said we don't have the resources to fight this Guess what he did He rejected the money That macron offered Now thankfully he hinted that he'd be open to change his mind But I mean he already rejected aid from germany So of course like the petulant child that he is he would also reject the aid from france So He's worse than donald trump donald trump may actually Literally be more mature than jair bolson arrow, which is almost unfathomable, but the amazon rainforest The earth's lungs is on fire And jair bolson arrow is getting into these petty fights with world leaders who want to help What an idiot Now donald trump himself His hands aren't clean as well because he is the president of the united states But he's another idiot. He doesn't even believe that climate change Is a thing and as the leader of our country he could say Maybe we should do something about the fact that the amazon rainforest is burning Maybe brazil you should accept the aid from germany and france But he's not doing that Now we heard from a real leader And what this individual would do in the event he was president And here's what bernie sanders said he would do to put pressure on brazil in this situation when We have to act if you were president today How would you pressure present bolson arrow to cut off those very strong carrots and very strong sticks? I mean, you know as people have said The rainforest in the amazon is the lungs of the of the planet. They are absorbing carbon dioxide They are producing oxygen you destroy that You impact not only the people of brazil but the people of the entire planet And we as a planet, I mean, you know, you have a president who literally thinks Shockingly that climate change is a hoax if i'm elected president I will lead the world As as the leader of the most powerful nation on earth bring countries together to understand that this is not an american issue It's not a brazilian issue. It's not a german issue or russian issue We have got to go forward as a planet to transform our energy system We are in it together. We are tied together And we have got to got to got to transform our energy system And I think when we do that by the way We can create many millions of jobs not only in this country, but throughout the world But what's going on in brazil right now would you consider sanctions? Absolutely? Absolutely what is going on in brazil is extremely dangerous And I think as many people know The new president over there is a trump acolyte I mean, this is somebody who looks at the world the way trump does and that is very very frightening So I think we would use all of the tools that I would disposal the carrots and the sticks the punishments and the inducements To try to make sure that we stop the burning of the amazon And in fact that we work with the entire world To move forward to protect the planet and that is exactly what I would expect a leader to do Desperate times calls for desperate measures and if brazil is going to act petulant if jair bolson arrow Is going to reject aid From other countries after saying brazil itself can't fight these fires Then you have to take action you have to take Very Sometimes, you know aggressive action and impose sanctions. No, I know what people will say, you know sanctions aren't necessarily the best route It's too aggressive and you know sanctions oftentimes Can hurt people but here's how I respond to that first of all You can target the sanctions in a way so it limits the impact on people, but overall We don't really have a choice. We have one planet We have one planet and in the event our planet is destroyed and it becomes uninhabitable Guess what happens? We can't move to mars. We can't live on the moon. We die So we don't have a choice. We have to be aggressive now I'm not I'm not saying that we go to war with brazil over this But i'm saying we need a leader who will take action who will put pressure on them Because this is something that doesn't just affect brazil. This affects everyone And if you're worried about the pain that putting pressure on brazil via sanctions would potentially cause Think about what is happening currently in the amazon rainforest There are indigenous tribes who are losing their home all because jirebal scenario Thinks more and more of the amazon rainforest should be privatized And this is what's happening to indigenous people as the amazon rainforest burns in donald trump's. It's idly bind does nothing They're watching their homes Vanished before their very eyes Bayapi tribe have been the stewards of these waters And the land that caresses it In return the amazon rainforest has given back with every drop And seeds safeguarding their livelihood tradition and ultimately their survival We live here inside the amazon rainforest Because this amazon rainforest brings health to us Health to the world, that's what it means This air Is in the world Air pollution brings a lot of problems to us Problems of health and sadness For the isolated way api 1500 strong across 92 villages in amapa state Say they've never felt so under threat as they do today And it seems not even the demarcation set by brazil's 1988 constitution can protect them That is now perilously close With president jirebal sonado calling for protected and demarcated sections of the amazon to be opened up to roads ranching farming and mining Arguing this demarcated area is too large for the indigenous and is hindering development On the ground the yip tellers they have already begun to feel the impact of his words and policies With getting pedos wildcat miners loggers and ranches invading and assaulting their land They're already starting to kill indigenous people And we don't want any more bloodshed Audio provided to brazilian journalists just after their chief was killed on july 22nd shows their urgency for action But they say the savagery didn't stop there They may be shaken but the yapi are not running scared instead in silence They ward off evil spirits and ready for battle That's just it's tragic Now let me remind you that this is all happening while donald trump sits idly by And says and does nothing because corporations gotta make money So that's more important Than allowing these indigenous people to keep their homes Capitalism is literally killing the planet because we have prioritized the profits of private companies Above not just indigenous people and their lands and sovereignty But over the entire planet that we live on i mean i don't even really know what to say about this This is maddening. This is absolute lunacy And i don't care What jair bolsonero has to say if he thinks that world leaders Trying to help is colonialism If he doesn't like that people are interested in the affairs of brazil too bad Because what happens in brazil what happens at the amazon rainforest affects all of us So for you to just sit idly by and allow it to Die and burn to the ground And not Except the help from you know world leaders because you're too petty Because maybe something that they said or worded in an improper way to you was off-putting or offensive Get over it because we don't care about your feelings jair bolsonero. We care about the planet. So i mean The rise of these trumpian figures It couldn't have happened at a worse time. I mean The rise of fascism it's never welcome. We never want to see these far-right demagogues Spring to power like this, but the fact that it's happening now when we need to take Swift and drastic action to combat climate change I mean, I don't know what to say It's just it's devastating to see this happen Just a few weeks ago on the show we talked about how one of cnn's fact checks of a bernie sanders claim made about healthcare spending Ended up blowing up in their faces when it was revealed that they made that same claim themselves Previously so it's obvious that they're being overly nitpicky on bernie sanders and they're looking for reasons to discredit him We talked about that cnn fact check fail on the program I'm gonna show a really quick snippet just so you kind of get the gist of what happened So cnn politics tweeted fact check bernie sanders is once again saying the us spends twice as much on healthcare per capita as any other country in the world It's a claim he has been making since at least 2009 When politifact noted that it was false It's still false now and when you go to the article they claim again that he's been making the same false claim for 10 years now Now here's why they say they rated this claim false facts first It's still false now the us does spend the highest amount on healthcare per capita of any organization for economic cooperation and development country, but not double Every single one so the issue isn't necessarily that he was lying The issue was that he wasn't being specific enough because even if we spend double Many countries when it comes to healthcare spending we just don't spend double every single country So the word every is really what's at issue here It's a little bit misleading and here's how they say he could have been more correct sanders could have accurately said the us spends more than twice the average for oecd countries Which was an estimated 3,992 in 2018 and a firmer 3,854 in 2017 and what i love is that bernie sanders actually responded to this and it's in the actual article and he says Actually, we were referring to the average for oecd countries and noted that this was confirmed by cnn who in january of this year published an article with the headline us spends twice as much on healthcare As its peers So in short cnn rated one of bernie sanders claims false after they had previously published an article where they essentially said The exact same thing now. That's the cliff notes version. It's an oversimplification I will link you to that full video down below because there's more to it And we kind of go into why they specifically say that bernie sanders was incorrect But that same thing just happened again But this time instead of cnn doing it the washington post did it now david dole Cover the story in such a thorough and phenomenal way that i'm going to share His video with you and just again a really quick snippet And then when we come back i'm going to tell you the aftermath of that story because To say that this also blew up in the washington post's face would be an understatement because i think that this Makes them look worse Then cnn looked even bernie tweeted out 500 000 americans will go bankrupt this year from medical bills Now this is citing a published study in the american journal of public health that says uh medical bankruptcy is still common despite the affordable care act and they Published this number. Actually the number is even a bit higher, which i'll get to in a minute but The washington post took issue with this fact that bernie tweeted out Putting out this article saying sanders flaw statistic 500 000 medical bankruptcies a year Giving him three pinocchios out of a possible four Claiming that this is a classic case of cherry picking a number from a scientific study and twisting it to make a political point this study Before bernie cited it Was widely widely cited by a number of outlets A number of outlets including the washington post themselves So this article from february The health 202 utah is trying to roll back medicaid expansion plans on a shaky assumption 530 000 families deal with bankruptcies related to illness or medical bills The washington post Cited this same statistic Themselves now if you haven't watched david's full video I would encourage you to pause this video go watch that video first So you kind of get the full context because the story is a lot crazier than that like he goes into all of the details I'll link to it down below. It's just it's a it's a mind-blowing story Um, and I I can't believe that the washington post Would even publish that after they published the same thing themselves And david just does such a phenomenal job breaking it down But the point is these fact checkers at two different outlets now they proved that they're not being objective They're just trying to discredit bernie sanders because they're probably banking on the fact That most people will see that headline and not go any further not read the article itself And then they'll just think oh well bernie sanders is a liar He lied about this claim with regard to health care spending and now he's lying about this claim about medical bankruptcies He must just be like donald trump So it's really disgusting And it's almost like the mainstream media hates bernie sanders And he's right about there being a bias against him But the way that this story blew up in the washington post's face is so embarrassing because the author of the study that they cited here dr. David himmelstein Literally contacted the washington post and demand that they issue a public retraction. That's how bad he thought Their article was now again I sound redundant, but author of the study Is contacting them embarrassing embarrassing, but here's what he said Dear salvador rizzo. This is the author of the washington post fact check article Your washington post fact checker article falsely claimed that my article in the american journal of public health Had not undergone peer review While some other editorials that appear in that journal may not undergo such review As indicated in the email included below that I received from the editor-in-chief of the journal Mine clearly did your false claim has besmirched my reputation as a scholar I demand that you immediately publicly retracted and the rest of your article And that you pursue vigorous efforts to inform readers of your error Now he attached a response from the editor-in-chief of the american journal public health Where he does in fact confirm that himmelstein's paper had in fact undergone peer review And in that article, what's mind boggling to me is that the fact checker literally reached out to himmelstein Dr. Himmelstein responded and he said Bernie sanders largely described my study accurately and they still gave bernie sanders three panocchios They're just shameless Now the story doesn't end there because senior advisor to bernie sanders campaign warren gunnels actually tweeted out Dr. Himmelstein's letter which then prompted glenn kesler of the washington post who was another fact checker To respond saying this is false Article did not say it was not peer reviewed We quote an editor saying the editorial did not undergo the same peer reviewed editing process as a research article But note it used a methodology similar to what the researchers used in a 2005 peer reviewed study Now warren responded to that saying glenn honest question What type of peer review does your quote unquote fact check go through? The only person you could find to say bernie was wrong is the former chief economist of a right wing think tank That represents fast food tobacco and alcohol interests Why didn't you mention that and he then provided the receipts, of course So I was genuinely shocked at that cnn fact check kerfuffle But this one from the washington post Is just exponentially worse because they say, you know what bernie sanders what you said here is wrong We're going to give you three panocchios after one of the articles we published has the same headline saying Exactly what you said But in this fact check we're going to reach out to the author of that study And then we're going to quote him in our fact check of you saying that what you said was correct And then still proceed to give you a three panocchios and then double down when that author calls us out Jesus I mean fox news would probably go a bit further in order to hide their bias, but the washington post now This is just pure propaganda. I don't know what else to say about this And here's what's sad about this We shouldn't have to worry about fact checkers being biased because if you are going to fact check You are supposed to be objective. You're supposed to be the most objective We all have biases and a lot of times fact checks You know these fact checkers they're going to have to make executive decisions based on their interpretation But this is not one of those instances where anything is left up to interpretation to fact check What bernie sanders said they reached out to the author of the study he was citing And he said bernie's correct and they still said bernie's incorrect and then doubled down after the author of said study called them out This is madness. I mean, this is just so embarrassing if we have to worry now this much about fact checkers Trying to discredit bernie sanders then it's no wonder why there is a crisis in trust in corporate media because this is absolutely Disgusting and for them to then complain about bernie sanders calling out their bias And the fact that they're owned by jeff bezos It makes the situation that much more ridiculous because just a couple of weeks ago They were saying that bernie sanders was spreading conspiracy theories by suggesting that maybe the washington post was biased against them Because it's owned by jeff bezos and here they publish this fact check where they are going out of their way to give bernie sanders three panocchios when The author of the fucking study Is saying bernie's right To take on the author Of the study in this direct way to where he has to come out and demand that they issue a public retraction This is a new low and it's frankly, they should be embarrassed But they're shameless They have an agenda And for them to still tell us that that's not the case It's as if they're pissing on our legs and telling us it's raining No, you guys are absolutely biased And if you didn't want us to call out that bias Then maybe tone it down a bit be a little bit less brazen In trying to just go out of your way to discredit bernie sanders in hopes that people won't read beyond the headlines I mean, I'm still like i'm genuinely shocked by this Um, again, if you haven't already watched david dole's video because the story is just so bizarre so So bad even by the washington post standards that it Enough can't be said about this. This is madness So I don't even know what to say about joe biden at this point We all know about the gaffes, but the gaffes have now Transformed into these long sentences that I don't know how else to describe other than just Pure word salad my long friend time friend and she's a friend She's been my friend in and out of public life and on top of that He forgot brock obama's name very notably Um on the campaign trail Because they invaded another country and annexed a significant portion of it called crimina He's saying that it was president My boss It was his fault so joe biden's campaign Has been an unmitigated Disaster and just on a human level. I actually feel bad for him I feel bad because this individual clearly is not Supposed to be running for president. You should be at home. Your mental capacity is deteriorating rapidly before our very eyes You shouldn't be doing this. You should not be In the race So just on a human level. I feel bad for him, but on the other hand Joe biden throughout his career has been a very selfish individual He has taken positions that are awful for purposes of political expediency And now, you know, even if I can you know sympathize with him and empathize with him to a degree on a human level Because of all of the horrible things that has happened to him throughout his life Even though he is wealthy and he's a privileged Former vice president. He's gone through things that are absolutely horrible that no human being should have to experience He has you know witnessed the deaths of family members So I feel bad for him because of that But now it's to the point where he is using their deaths And politicizing them to argue against progress to argue against policies specifically That would save lives and prevent future deaths So, you know, put aside all of the gaffes and let's just look at joe biden's politics. He released an ad Where I kid you not he is using the deaths of his family members and his son To argue against medicare for all and attack advocates like bernie sanders of medicare for all This is absolutely disgraceful Take a look and then I will show you Someone who is in a similar situation as joe biden what they had to say about this I was sworn into the united states senate next to hospital bed My wife and daughter had been killed in a car crash and lying in that bedroom my two surviving little boys I couldn't imagine what it would have been like if we didn't have the health care they needed immediately 40 years later one of those little boys My son bow was diagnosed with terminal cancer And given only months to live I can't fathom what would have happened if the insurance companies had said for the last six months of his life You're on your own The fact of the matter is health care is personal to me Obamacare is personal to me When I see the president try to tear it down and others propose or replace it and start over That's personal to me too We got to build on what we did because every american deserves affordable health care I'm joe biden and I approve this message That's so disgusting That you are trotting out your son's death as a political prop to say we shouldn't have the one policy That would eliminate deaths Due to people not having health insurance It doesn't get any lower than this. This is basically as low as it goes This is gutter politics and he equated what donald trump is doing In repealing the affordable care act chipping away at it to someone Like bernie sanders and he didn't cite bernie by name, but Essentially, he attacked bernie said he wants to start all over now. First of all, obamacare was starting all over Bernie sanders is not starting all over. He is taking an existing political program Medicare which has a very high approval rating And He's retooling that so there's no more gaps and then he's expanding coverage. That's not starting over We are not saying That you know, we shouldn't have obamacare because we hate obama But what it seems like you're saying is that you just want to hang on to the affordable care act because there's sentimental value there because obama did it or Your boss did it if you can remember his name and it's just it's so Disgusting Now amy velela she is an individual who lost her daughter Because she did not have proof that she had health insurance This is what amy velela had to say in response to joe biden using his son To argue against medicare for all. I can imagine what it's like for my child Not to have the health care. She needed immediately. I had to hold My 22 year old daughter as she took her last breath. I had to watch my children well at her bedside I had to be pulled away from her coffin. No middle ground medicare for all and then she adds scott knows what it's like for his child not to have the health care his son danie needed Immediately as a matter of fact 30,000 americans every year know what it's like to have their loved ones Not have the health care they need immediately people are dying That's the reality of not having health care immediately. The only true solution Is medicare for all and she included the image. This is the reality of having no insurance and for-profit hospitals Shelyn was a student who worked two jobs and had just moved to another state She went to the hospital with every symptom of a blood clot and was told at an er to go get insurance and see a specialist They didn't even give for a medical screening a right. She had under mtala She left humiliated and continued working on obtaining insurance time was not on her side Unfortunately, she died from a pulmonary embolism. Her life could have been saved with a simple inexpensive test No middle ground medicare for all and on the show. We have shared amy's story multiple times And if you watched the documentary knocked down the house, she Told her story shelyn's story. So to see joe biden Exploit his son's death trotted out as a prop to say we shouldn't have medicare for all when his policy Would allow for medical bankruptcies and deaths due to a lack of health insurance to persist There's nothing to be said about that joe biden is a disgusting cretin Not only is he un-electable because His brain is melting out of his ears very much like donald trump. He doesn't have the cognitive capacity to run for president but he's also Not electable because someone who is willing to say That we shouldn't advocate for medicare for all otherwise. We're somehow going against the legacy of his son That's someone who is not qualified to represent the american people because they are so disgusting so dirty that they would use their own son's death To argue for a system that maintains the for-profit status quo where people do die Due to a lack of health insurance and sometimes they have health insurance But they can't afford the deductible and they still either go bankrupt or die So this is the lowest thing that joe biden has done in recent history But you know, this is part for the course with a corporate democrat. These corporate democrats are soulless They are spineless. They have no core. They only care about getting elected They only care about getting into positions that are powerful because they don't care about political ideology They care about power. So that is disgusting. Shame on joe biden He needs to drop out not just because politically he's out of step with the base of the democratic party But because it's evident that he does not have the capacity to run for president Stay at home joe retire Enjoy your life. You're wealthy and privileged enough to where you can live out whatever you want to do The rest of your day is doing whatever Stay out of the race because we absolutely don't want you and we certainly don't need your disgusting gutter politics in the 2020 election cycle We've talked before on the show about fox news's obsession with alexandria ocasio-cortez and it's beyond the point Where you know, we can accurately classify their obsession with her as pathetic But it's starting to honestly get a little bit creepy because now what they're doing is they are fishing through her instagram In order to find a reason To attack her based on something that she said so she had this instagram live stream and she said the most benign insignificant thing most Uncontroversial thing ever and they still Try to find some way to attack her for it and said that she was insulting the past generation When in actuality she was really just praising her own generation But they didn't really know how to attack her that was evident So what this segment turned into was essentially them just bashing millennials. That's what this was It was an anti aoc segment that devolved into a millennial bashing spree And then towards the end They are going to reveal that all the problems that they have with millennials are actually applicable to them as well Not even kidding. So everything that they say will be disqualified after they say Oh, well, you know what this thing that I hear about millennials is also true for me. It's just it's unbelievable Fox news. I mean to say that they're a joke is the understatement of the century But let's watch and then I have a lot to say Progressive darling, alexander acasio-cortez is turning some heads in her latest instagram live video The near congresswoman boldly claiming millennials and generation z are quote More informed and are quote willing to go to the streets in protest and are more well versed in history Acasio-cortez apparently forgetting about the civil rights movement and vietnam war activism of the 1960s Oh, and there's that conflict a world war two The greatest generation that saved the world from authoritarian rule because of the sacrifice of teenagers Here's a casio-cortez This is great. I think that Um, they're badass. I think young people are More informed and dynamic than their predecessors. I think they're profoundly courageous because they're willing to Puncture taboos and conversate and have conversations that frankly older generations sometimes struggle to have Hello brian Yeah, they took to the streets to celebrate victory against fascism and nazism same thing took to the streets when uh When they were actually trying to fight for our freedom and they actually did take to the streets in the depression to get food So that was lining up in a soup as soup lines and bread lines So it's unbelievable that the people at boston university must be just cringing holding their heads under the desk right now She graduated and feels she's part of the greatest generation. Hey our military is as good as it ever is But as they right now as a society There's a reason uh, if you watched the d-day celebration and you saw who fought and what was at stake I uh, you'd be embarrassed. Can't believe you're dissing the millennials brian. I know offended right now I think millennials should stand up and defend the greatest general. I completely agree Look, there are a number of people in our generation who have done amazing things the people who joined the military after 9 11 that was a defining moment Of our generation people in the tech industry mark zuckerberg who created facebook I know there's a lot of questions and problems with facebook, but it changed the world But this idea that we're going to say that we are better than the greatest generation that saved the world From authoritarianism nazism communism Really is quite disrespectful and ironic considering. She's saying that Previous generations don't know about american history when they're the ones who set it up So we have a free future. I think that part of what has happened here is it's this this aoc Instagram live in and of itself is reflective of the Self-absorbed culture that we currently live in and I hate to diss millennials too and I cling to my genet status Don't worry. Um, I I you know a present company excluded, but Thank you honest to god I mean what I see here is a self-absorbed generation that thinks that Because they tweet and because they march with funny hats that somehow that they have some sort of moral superiority That is going to change the world I my grandfather who served in world war two would beg to differ the greatest generation storms in rama and diva each So that she could instagram live in her kitchen. That's right. There you go, right with full face of makeup I want to point out and we left out all the kind of completely off the charts discussion about climate change, but yeah The one that she also does on yeah about the disease is being frozen in ice all the time too. Me too. Me too I love instagram that you were talking about so they complained about how self-absorbed millennials like aoc are You know, we're always taking selfies and we're on the twitter and the facebook and then they admitted Oh, I actually love instagram This aoc Instagram live in and of itself is reflective of the self-absorbed culture 12 seconds later. Me too. I love instagram that person that you were talking about So what was the point of you criticizing aoc how is Millennials You know seeming obsession with social media Relevant to what she said about her generation being awesome and second of all, are you honestly saying that? older generations gen X and boomers don't like social media Because there's literally subreddits of basically just boomer posts. It's called insane people facebook Everyone is on social media because we have access to the internet a lot of people do So we're just all on social media. In fact, I think that platforms like facebook are probably more popular Among older generations and instagram is more popular among younger generations So I don't even know how that criticism was relevant but for them to just basically Criticize aoc and millennials for one thing and then admit that they're also guilty of that It shows that they they had no Objective going into this segment. They just watched something of aoc And they tried to look for a reason to criticize her See that just makes you look like hacks and let's get to aoc's quote here Quote, I think they're badass meaning her generation. I think young people are more informed and dynamic than their predecessors I think they're profoundly courageous because they're willing to puncture taboos and have conversations that frankly older generations sometimes struggle to have How is that controversial? How is that something that is offensive to you? How is that disrespectful to previous generations? How it's factually correct? Think about this. She says that we're more informed and dynamic than our predecessors We have cell phones now. All of us have cell phones. We literally have infinite knowledge at our disposal Anytime we needed previous generations did not have that access to information Had more barriers. You had to listen to the radio or you know, read the newspaper But you couldn't specifically seek out a very You know a specific set of Information or knowledge about something unless you went to the library now we can stay home I can learn about something while i'm taking a dump. That's what she's talking about here Access to the information that we seek to grow and educate ourselves with has increased How is that controversial? She also says that our generation is more willing to puncture taboos How is that debatable? LGBTQ people have existed since human beings have existed But yet we're only talking about that now because my generation has pushed the envelope We've been open about our sexual orientations and gender identities Whereas that really was taboo For the previous generation now It's probably going to be the case that there are taboos now that my generation won't discuss That the next generation will that's just the way that you know society functions You know there's always growth Society is always growing. We are always changing. We're just the dynamic species. That's what we are So how is what she said disrespectful to The previous generations and all that they could You know invoke is people who fought during world war two So basically, oh well really millennials are better. What about the people who fought during world war two? Okay, i'm sure that she would say that she respects them What's your point? It's not an insult to say you think your generation is the best That's not an insult Is it an insult to every other country to say that you think america is in the number one country because we all know That the nationalists over at valox news would say that So I just I they are going out of their way to look for reasons to be offended It's almost as if they're like the snowflakes. They frequently denounce on their program But here's what brian kilmeade said he just straight up made word solid I don't even understand the point I was trying to make she graduated and feels she's part of the greatest generation Hey, our military is as good as it ever is but right now as a society There's a reason if you watched the d-day celebration and saw who fought and what was at stake you'd be embarrassed Amazing. Yeah. Yeah, I genuinely don't know what he was trying to say He just knew that he was offended or maybe you know, he had to be offended even though what he was saying It seemed contrived But he just he knew that this was an anti aoc segment So we had to come up with something and he couldn't which is why he just made word solid and came up with this Weird incoherent argument against what she said when it's not Again, it's banal. It's Unimportant, right? She's not arguing aren't old people just terrible aren't boomers so stupid Like aren't their posts really incoherent and batshit insane. She's not making that argument Jesus christ Now one of the other hosts said this idea that we're going to say we're better than the greatest generation that saved the world From authoritarianism, nazism, communism really is quite disrespectful and ironic considering She's saying that previous generations don't know about american history So first of all, she did not say that she did not say that our generation knows more about american history than previous generations If you're going to lie about her quote, then you can't play the clip for us You have to hide that away But she also took issue with aoc's assertion that we are more informed again We have unlimited knowledge in the palms of our hands Of course, we are literally more informed because we have that now and I love how you know She threw when oh well the previous generation the silent generation the greatest generation They helped defeat nazis and communism Didn't communists helped defeat nazis And at this point, that's where they kind of lay off of aoc and it just it devolved into millennial bashing And that's when it switched from them being triggered to me being triggered because I don't understand why millennials are always The targets of uh being bashed when we can't help the fact that we graduated into an economy That was not hospitable to us. We graduated during the great recession We will retire into the apocalypse You guys the previous generations You attended college and graduated with little to no debt You can get a full-time job or even a part-time job working at taco bell And within a couple of years save up enough to buy a house put yourself through school by a car We don't have that luxury. So I don't understand Why people hate millennials so much and then the other hosts chimed in and said the greatest generation Stormed normandy beach so she could instagram live in her kitchen I mean, how petty is that just admit that you don't like aoc That you can say the same thing about you the greatest generation Stormed normandy beach so you can go on fox news and espouse these right wing talking points that are fed to you By fox news producers. You can say that about anything. What's the point? What does that prove about aoc? How does that prove that her economic and social ideology is bad for people? It doesn't now. Here's where they kind of show their cards and reveal how stupid they are a host chimed in and said this about aoc We left out the off the charts discussion about climate change about the diseases being frozen in ice So during that instagram live stream. I haven't seen this um aoc Apparently talked about how with climate change with temperatures rising that will lead to new diseases reemerging new for us anyways that are trapped in the ice and That fox news host claimed that aoc was stupid for believing that But this is a headline from bbc There are diseases hidden in the ice and they are waking up long dormant bacteria and viruses trapped in ice And permafrost for centuries are reviving as the earth's climate warms So she's right and you're wrong and the fact that you insinuated that she might be dumb or insane for suggesting that shows How out of touch and misinformed you are So this is really the tragedy of this segment in an attempt to make aoc seem like this, you know, brainless Uh ditzy young person they ended up making themselves look like petulant petty children And it's just I honestly I feel bad for them Well, I don't really feel bad for them But I feel bad that they had a goal They had this objective to attack aoc and they just ended up putting out this cringe inducing segment where it just showed that We just attack aoc for the sake of attacking her because she is a political opponent And we're going to do whatever we can whenever we can to try to make her look bad So if that means we've got a creep on her instagram and try to see if she says anything, you know That might be deemed controversial possibly or maybe we can misinterpret to sell to our audience is controversial I think that that would be who of us to do. I mean they had to have thought what are we supposed to do at this segment What are we supposed to say about this club? This isn't really an issue I don't care about this Is this really something that we should be attacking or form when I mean maybe we can bring up something else that we disagree with Maybe a policy They're just stupid and they only embarrass themselves here and They're only helping aoc Because they're boosting her name recognition and they're making themselves Look idiotic in the process. So I guess keep it up because it's not hurting her. It's only helping her and hurting you The dnc announced the top 10 candidates that have Qualified for the september debate and that includes joe biden, bernie sanders, kamala harris, elizabeth warren pete buddha judge, beto owork, quarry booker, amy klobuchar, andrew yang And julian castro now absent from this list Is billionaire tom steyer and I say Good riddance you never should have been able to run for president because He basically poured millions of dollars into his own campaign with his own money to advertise and get his name out there Which is why he was able to amass 130,000 individual donations and I just don't think that that's fair Just because you have more money that shouldn't give you the edge over other candidates Who have been knocking on doors and building up, you know their name with residents by talking to people So it just it's unfair to allow a billionaire To buy his way into the debate. So i'm glad that tom steyer's left out another individual that is not qualified That includes don delaney who poured 24 million of his own Money into his campaign that just went nowhere What's there to like about john delaney? He has campaign events where 11 people show up if he's lucky So he's going nowhere. It's good that he's excluded because all he's doing is spreading more misinformation about medicare for all And we know it's because he has investments in the health industry So it's good that these bad faith actors will be excluded So that way the more serious candidates can actually have an honest discussion About policy issues that affect the american people But you know the fact that some people will be excluded who i don't believe should be excluded from that third debate It really is disappointing. So even if we got some good news that tom steyer and john delaney are left out Well, we also got some bad news because also excluded, of course Is maryanne williamson and also tulsi gabard and tulsi gabard is the one who i absolutely feel the worst for because She received 165 000 individual donations There is real grassroots support and online support For her but she's still left out. So when it comes to the debate criteria There's two things two requirements that a candidate needs to meet in order to qualify. The first is they need 130 000 individual donations Tulsi blew that out of the water But the second requirement that they need to meet Is they need to pull out a minimum of two percent in four dnc Qualifying polls now when it comes to dnc qualifying polls Tulsi gabard has unfortunately only reached two percent In two of them now when it comes to polls not qualified by the dnc Tulsi gabard has reached two percent or higher in 24 of them 24 of them So this is a situation that is identical to the mike revel situation. He reached that 65 thousand individual donor threshold He met the polling threshold But he was still excluded and individuals like steve bullock and john delaney ended up taking his place and now Even if it's the case that in 24 polls tulsi gabard met the polling requirement Well, unfortunately The dnc doesn't consider these polls qualifying polls. Therefore She will be excluded She only met one of the two requirements according to the dnc now what organizations have conducted these polls That the dnc considers non qualifying. Well, these aren't from fringe organizations. They're fairly reputable In fact, I'd say that they're very reputable if you take what 538 has to say with regard to their analysis of these polls This includes harvard harris emerson the economist in ugov harris x change research gravis marketing suffoke university and the boston globe So it's not like these are fringe polling organizations And 538 gives them as high of grades if not higher than some dnc qualifying polls So for example, cnn's poll is considered qualifying according to the dnc But they have a b plus as does emerson and suffoke But those aren't dnc qualifying polls now Maybe it's because cnn conducted a poll in conjunction with ssrs Which has an a minus but the point is we're not sure Why the dnc considers some polling organizations qualifying and why some are not qualifying The criteria seems completely arbitrary and random So what tulsi gabbert has done is I think very reasonably called on the dnc To be transparent if some polls Are dnc qualifying and some polls are not Then please release the criteria that you use to evaluate these polls Because it doesn't make any sense. It seems like Since you're lacking transparency here You can just pick and choose the polls in order to include or exclude candidates that you do or don't want there And that's not acceptable. So tulsi's campaign released a statement And here's a couple of paragraphs from that statement The presidential campaign of us congresswoman tulsi gabbert is calling on the democratic national committee to revise their list of debate Qualifying polls to ensure transparency and fairness in light of numerous irregularities and the selection and timing of those polls The gabbert campaign is calling on the dnc to hold true to their promise and make adjustments to the process now To ensure transparency and fairness crucial decisions on debate qualifications that impact the right of the american people To have the opportunity to participate fully in the democratic process should not be made in secret by party bosses For the sake of democracy those decisions must be made openly with clear and consistent standards And a sufficient window of opportunity for candidates to demonstrate genuine grassroots momentum and enthusiasm And I think that that is perfectly reasonable. So What happened to tulsi gabbert here Is exactly what happened to mike revel except i would argue that tulsi gabbert even has a stronger case to be included Than mike revel because she blew that first requirement out of the park And there's enough polls where she reached at least two percent to where it feels It feels wrong to exclude her but yet Here we are now tulsi is not my number one candidate bernie sanders is my number one candidate bernie sanders is my first second third fourth so on and so forth choice Um, but tulsi gabbert is a good candidate. I have my criticisms of her But I think that her being on that debate stage it does to an extent push the overton window to the left At least with regard to foreign policy if she gets the chance to speak enough So to not have her there is frustrating just from a policy standpoint But in terms of the optics after that debacle that happened in 2016 The dnc should be going out of their way to be fair to candidates and extra transparent But we're not getting that here and i'm not just going to care about fairness and transparency when it affects My candidate the standards should be universal and they should be applied equally to each and every single candidate There's been countless times when the democratic party establishment will use their institutional advantages to marginalize grassroots candidates And I think that that is totally unacceptable I think that making grassroots fundraising one of the requirements to qualify for the debates in the first place Was a great idea But at the same time if you're not going to be transparent then I mean you're you're not going to garner trust You're not going to win back the people you lost after what you did in 2016 We have to have a consistent standard and the dnc Should be held to a consistent standard and we're not getting that here the fact that we don't know why some polls qualify and some Don't qualify when they are reputable based on 538 analysis and I have issues with date silver I think everyone does but I mean just in evaluating and gridding these polls They're legitimate. They're reputable. So I just I don't understand why the dnc would choose some polls Over others. It's almost like they have an agenda and they're trying to shut out candidates Who they don't like and we all know tulsi gabard is Hated and loathed by the establishment because she bucked party orthodoxy when she resigned from the dnc in 2016 in order to endorse bernie sanders and at that last debate she single-handedly Killed kamala's campaign kamala is hanging on by a thread. So they don't want Tulsi gabard to get in there and you know throw that death blow to kamala harris at the end of the day I feel really bad for tulsi gabard supporters here And I feel bad for tulsi gabard because she's been working her butt off to qualify and then this happens arbitrarily so but I mean look this isn't surprising it happened to my gravel and We're seeing this happen again So this is why you have to be hyper vigilant and always keep an eye on the dnc because They have an agenda. They don't want grassroots funded candidates to be included in the conversation because they know that anyone who poses a threat to the status quo or speaks out against the status quo Is someone who would hurt their bottom line ultimately and with candidates like bernie sanders He has so much support that they can't possibly find a way to exclude him yet based on this arbitrary criteria But for anyone else like maryanne williamson or mike revel or tulsi gabard They will find some reason to exclude them now It's not as clear why maryanne williamson was excluded Based on you know, what she said on twitter just seems like she didn't Reach two percent in enough polls, but with tulsi gabard having reached two percent or higher in 24 polls It's just dirty for them to exclude her. So they're already on thin ice. They voted down a climate change debate Presumably because the members who voted against it wanted to protect joe biden Who has one of the worst records on the environment in that race? Who would only you know have another chance to make gaffes and were the salad on a national stage and heard his numbers more So the dnc, they're never ever going to win back the trust of their voters Um or anyone who would be inclined to vote for the democratic party by doing things like this by going out of their way brazenly To shield other establishment friendly candidates It's grotesque and we absolutely have to call it out and speak out against what they're doing here because this is arbitrary And it's wrong Hello, everyone. I am here with rebecca parson. She is running in washington states sixth congressional district as a democratic socialist And she is here to talk about her progressive political campaign rebecca. Thank you so much for coming on the show I like thanks for having me. I'm excited. I'm very excited to have you on. There's so many great candidates running I can't keep track of even half of them, but it's nice to talk to as many as I possibly can So you're challenging derek kilmer in this district. He's been a representative here since 2013 He is a very establishment pretty conservative democrat And you are running as a non corrupt grassroots funded democratic socialist You're a member of the lgbtq community your platform is absolutely fantastic and your history is absolutely robust So just let us know why you decided to run and um, why you think you are better than derek kilmer Yeah, so we have had this representation since 2013 and before we had represented derek kilmer We had norm dicks who was very similar to derek kilmer and he actually handpicked derek kilmer to run when he decided to retire So we've had about 30 40 unbroken years of exactly the same type of corporate democratic representation and I first started thinking about running after trump won because I thought well if trump can get elected and then maybe If he can get elected president, maybe I can get elected to something and I think it would be a good way to serve and It served served my community. I got more and more interested. I was thinking about it Uh, I actually co led indivisible to coma for about a year and a half and um, I love the indivisible guide I think it's super smart the way it takes the tea party tactics and then applies it To what we want on the liberal or progressive agenda But what I found is that it's pretty difficult when we have democratic Representatives or at least the ones that we do in this area They just don't budge and they'll just give platitudes like Yeah, well, let's get more dems voted, you know vote blue no matter who let's you know get more good dems elected in other parts and You know, my hands are tied. There's only so much I can do and you know I would call and call and write and write and go to offices and just get like form letter responses And you know, it's almost like contacting Comcast like dear value customer form letter Like nothing changes. It's like pulling teeth Yeah, it is And so I started to think about that actually running against Derek Kilmer for the seat and all around the district You know, it's a large district includes the entire living peninsula, which is the northwestern most part of Washington state Includes Tacoma where I am as well. So it's a very big area. It includes a national park and forest and But all over the district and the rural and urban areas are progressives who Are really tired of this representation And of him not listening to us and not supporting the policies we want And not only is he does he take a lot of money from corporate interests, including wall street defense healthcare Pharmaceuticals real estate lots of these industries which are devastating our district because you know, we're struggling with Addiction homelessness rising rents People being pushed out of their housing and in the urban and rural areas we have the same problems that we're facing these these really big issues and You know, not only is he a corporate democrat, but he's chair of the new democrats Which is the third-way centrist caucus of conservative democrats in congress And it's just you know, nothing We're not going to get the chair of the third of the third way, you know new democrats in congress To cosponsor medicare for all or the green new deal just not gonna happen And I actually heard from some activists who met with his staff recently In district They asked him, you know, they were asking about the green new deal They asked the staffer and the staffer said no, he's not going to cosponsor it So we got an answer on that medicare for all. We've just been getting a lot of Prevarication and kind of putting us off and stuff and you know, we just really really need these policies here You know in the olympic peninsula, we had the timber industry for years and years and the company's just kind of You know de-forced a lot of land extracted the profit and then left and it left behind this gaping hole and One of my friends there on the olympic peninsula the way she puts it is if a community could have ptsd This is what it would look like And you know addiction homelessness suicide Unemployment, you know, there aren't many jobs the jobs that are there don't pay well You can't work 40 hours a weekend live And there are for example Aberdeen, which is where Kurt Cobain was from that's in my district And the town has 16,000 people a thousand of them are homeless So one in 16 people are homeless. It's just a gigantic problem And the same in Tacoma, you know There's we have an addiction problem here as well There's one detox facility in the entire city that takes medicaid. It's almost always full You know, I think the two number one things we can do to address You know successfully address the addiction epidemic here and maybe in other parts of the country as well But like definitely here where I've been talking to Voters and residents Is a number one medicare for all so that people can get drug treatment detox and ongoing mental health services They can get clean and stover and stay clean and sober Um, so I'll say actually three things and the second one is housing as a human right So I support national rent control as well as a massive investment in public housing Which I think will go a long way towards eradicating homelessness And then the third thing is a federal jobs guarantee Which um, I think is extremely important economically that everybody should be able to work 40 hours a week and afford to live And it should be a you know, $15 plus living wage union job But the other thing that's great about the federal jobs guarantee is that it addresses the pervasive despair That's all over the district like well What's the point like i'm just going to grind out the rest of my life Working two or three part-time jobs because no employer will hire me full time because they want to avoid giving me benefits You know, so grinding it out at these jobs barely making it like despair really sets in hard With that, you know, we you know that you have that to look forward to for your whole life And if people have a federal jobs guarantee where it's like if you want a job you can get one It's going to pay well You know where you don't have to spend more than 30 percent of your income on housing And you can have you know vacation every year and raise your kids and pay for the things that you want and need Like I think it'll just go Such a long way to giving people lives that they don't feel the need to check out of So those are some of my policies and and why i'm running And it's really nice to hear you talk about all of these solutions like you have answers For all of these problems that are originating in your community due to you know, largely corporatization And what's interesting, you know, one thing that really stood out to me on your website because I can kind of relate is that you kind of stress You know, washington state is one of the bluest states in the country if not the bluest but yet the representation coming out of there It's just it's corporate democrat. It's mealymouth is centrism And so it's really nice to see a ton of different progressives really rise up I mean joshua collins is running in denny hex district We have sarah smith and there are a plethora of others and you know as someone who is in a neighboring state I kind of feel the same way whereas now we have a challenger to earl blooming hours So it's just a matter of you know, it's time that we get the representation That actually lines up with the priorities of the people in that district So it's nice to hear you just list all of you know, these things just right away that will solve so many problems Because I just I just feel like people in congress they get comfortable They really as you stated he was hand selected by his predecessor and We need people who are going to represent their actual constituents and be attentive To the details, you know in the community the problems in that community And for you you have such a robust history like I kind of just want to go over some of the things Um, I can't possibly list all of it, but you have such a unique record here Just in terms of an activist. So you were a human rights observer in the zapatista village in mexico. That is incredibly fascinating to me You worked with genocide scholars and you really see that, you know care for human rights reflected in your platform You um, you were a teacher and then one thing that really struck me was you said that you know You saw firsthand how zip codes really reflect the quality and type of education that you receive So talk a little bit about your background and what you think kind of Propelled you to this position that you're in now where you identify as a democratic socialist Like what do you think in your life was the most meaningful that really kind of led you to this current path Yeah, there's a bunch of things and and the genocide studies started in college I took a course on genocide studies and it just happened that at my small state school We had a an expert, you know the founder of the international association of genocide scholars So he offered this course in at the undergrad level and it was extremely interesting. It was where I first I think started to learn and understand how the u.s. Military Works overseas what really goes on there And cases where we choose to intervene and those where we don't intervene and why And I then I interned with that organization and I got a scholarship to present a paper at their 2007 conference in Sarajevo and that was I believe the 12th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre Which was the largest massacre on european soil since world war two and Over a thousand or I think thousands of men mostly men and boys But also children and girls were massacred there and every year at least i'm not sure at I am this point anymore if they still are but at that point they were still uncovering the mass graves and so I went I presented the conference and then we actually went to The burial, you know every year they have a funeral for the people that they have dug up and identified And we you know, I stood at the edge of a mass grave and could look in and see Um people bones and clothes and there was a young man there who was about my age And he was translating for us and as he was translating like a single tear was going down his face Because he was from that area and he knew people who had been massacred. I saw that I was like this is what happened when we have Dehumanizing language, you know my professor dr. Gregory Stanton created a framework called the 10 stages of genocide And it shows you the predictable but not inexorable Path that genocide goes along and one of the earliest is dehumanizing and using dehumanizing language calling people vermin pests stuff like that, you know in guatemala. They referred to You know, if we can't fill the if we can't kill the fish. We'll just drain the water And that was referring to like the villages, you know Draining their support outside the villages But when you refer to people as vermin animals past this kind of thing like That's an early stage of what I saw at the very end And so I'm not saying like that's where we're headed here But I'm saying because I can't predict the future. I'm saying it's extremely concerning and um, That was one big thing that has always stuck with me and then through that class I got interested in guatemala because uh, guatemala had a 30 plus year civil war and it was kicked off by our intervention And our intervention is starting a coup in guatemala toppling the democratically elected leader And then during that genocide during that civil war There was a genocide of the mayan population in guatemala and I was interested in learning more about it So that's where I went for a few months to study spanish And then I had heard about this appetistas from some friends of mining college And how they had this kind of self governing society Of indigenous people who had taken power for themselves and it was just fascinating to me So I went they had a language school So I went there for a week till language school and then I did two 10 day trips as a human rights observer in a zapatista village in the jungle Um, because it was good. We weren't using this term back then But the idea was like white privilege, especially white foreigner white american privilege like with the Mexican funded Mexican government funded paramilitaries They're much less likely to uh, they were constantly threatening villages, but they're much less likely to actually do something with White americans and europeans. They're recording So that was I did that and that was just incredible like the zapatistas have drastically lowered maternal mortality rates They've increased the status of women women have much more Stronger rights than they do in the surrounding communities and in mexico as a whole I think They have schools hospitals clinics They're controlled millions of dollars worth of like farming and millions of acres of land and it's all self determined in true democratic fashion like true Uh democracy where they get to choose how they live and it's not just political democracy. It's economic democracy And it's just I got to see Naomi Klein speak there with sub commandante marcos and just incredible her book The shock doctrine was one thing that also like really opened my eyes You know, we invade iraq and then set up mcdonald's I mean Her book is much more complicated than that. But if you want to just put it in that shelf And then um in albuquerque. Yeah, I lived there. I was a substitute teacher and I saw I taught in private schools catholic schools and public schools and I saw how different it is even Within the public school system, you know kids just one or two miles apart have totally different experiences You know one school all the kids are getting free breakfast and lunch and another one They're coming with their nice, you know lunch packed by their parents and stuff and why is that and you know the poverty and uh systemic racism um And then I think in terms of like moving to identifying as a democratic socialist it was seeing Bernie sanders talk about it and then aoc talk about it and her election was just extremely inspiring like I Have been on the email list of justice democrats and brand new congress Since they started and I remembered getting their first emails Back in I guess it would have been early 2017 and being like literally thrilled because like this is where the vision is This is where it's happening. This is not the corporate bullshit. Like this is really A left progressive vision that's really going to help people and I got the first email From I don't remember which one of the two it was but like hey, he's here's our newest slate of candidates We've just announced and aoc being one of them and when she started to rise I was following her and then she won I looked back through my email inbox. I was like there was that first email where she was just there Like, you know local local organizer bartender, alexandria casio-bortez And then she went on to win and I watched the whole thing happen And it was just incredibly inspiring And isn't it amazing how there's only Like a handful of justice democrats in office and they are the ones who get all the attention They're the loudest they've become the face of the democratic party According to a lot of people which is arguable, of course But just in a matter of a year and not even a year, right? And it's so amazing. So the way that I kind of keep myself from getting too cynical, you know When I just look at things from like a number perspective in terms of corporate democrats versus progressive democrats It's the think of the impact that people have and if we add like just 10 more justice democrats What a momentous impact that would be like we're getting such a powerful little block in congress That we really can like the tea party in a way kind of dictate policy drive the discussion drive political discourse And it really is so exciting to see and what I love is that as I learn about each of these candidates and talk to them And look at their backgrounds Like you can kind of see in their policy platform all of their life experiences reflected there Like I really see, you know a heavy emphasis on human rights in your platform And it's just so fascinating one thing that really stood out to me because I don't see, you know, too many candidates talking about this We have, you know, the standard medicare for all free college and whatnot, but you emphasize something that's extremely important to me So it's ending rank choice or excuse me ending gerrymandering and instituting nationwide rank choice voting Talk a little bit about this because this is so important. This really could be A game changer because if we have electoral reform That would really pave the way potentially for multiple parties like people talk about a third party But I always argue we don't need a third party. We need like Multiple parties. We need five or six parties. We need robust like Political ideologies represented in congress. So why is this something that's really important and a key plank to you? Yeah, I think that's a really good point, you know, and I've heard people say I think it's right that in other countries The progressives and centrists would not be in the same party And we we don't really blog in the same party like we have this to You know, I'm a democratic pco. I support, you know, it's because of democrats that you know, I was able to get married like Absolutely, they are different from republicans in ways that have materially impacted my life But we are also like, you know moderates or centrists compared to me very different on some things and so if we You know had rank choice voting. I think it would really get rid of this kind of A lesser of two evils approach to voting It would let people vote for who they're really excited about It would be much more fair, you know ending gerrymandering is extremely important to me because we just have these absurd districts You know, they go like that and then around and that kind of thing so that they Have the voters they want and also enact voter suppression, particularly Of people of color and black voters. So it's extremely important. Yeah, that's one thing that's really been on my radar and There there was a bill and I'm blanking on the number currently that I believe rocona sponsored that actually did just that like it It actually moved to multi-member districts And I can't remember the number there the district magnitude was like two or three, which is still great Um and did rank choice voting and did gerrymandering and it didn't get a lot of support And I think it's because people don't really know about the specifics like a lot of people Have this idea that if we just organize a third party, that's how we can get it into power But there are real institutional barriers that make that so difficult and passing something like rank choice voting That's really the first step It's not a guarantee because nobody really knows how those institutions will you know, affect party politics and whatnot But it's just it's one of the necessities needed So we can actually have some choices in this country because it like you said We should not have to share a party with centrists, you know, it's Economically speaking, you know Centrist democrats are very much aligned with republicans not of course the same but very close But in terms of social politics and issues related to social justice and whatnot They are aligned more with progressives So we're forced to form this alliance and that makes us a little bit less I think effective because we're always butting heads whereas with republicans, you know, they're all Lined up on everything pretty much for the most part and it's allowed them I think to be a lot more effective not just in terms of Shifting the narrative in the overton window, but elect electorally speaking, you know So let's talk about your platform a little bit more You have a really robust platform But it's going to be difficult to fight for all the things that we need to fix our country So first year I always like to ask the candidates What do you think would be your top two or top three priorities in terms of what you think you can realistically accomplish In the event we're assuming we have a bernie sanders president and you know a democratic senate and house Best case scenario, you know, what do you think you would push for in that first year? Yeah, and that's what my dream is to happen is we have bernie sanders in the white house We have a democratic senate and house and then I think it could really be the start of a new era You know like people who just talks about let's bring in a new era like that's not you're not You're not that new era that center stuff is not that is not a new era A new era is is a democratic socialist president And then like a democratic socialist group of people or caucus or whatever you want to say in congress And then actually, you know sweeping it in like the era of raganism and clintonism and all that is over This is the new new deal and I think it could be so exciting and we could look back on it in history It's like this is when a new tide swept in of like Progressivism to really get stuff done and it completely changed the country And I think it's just so exciting that there are all these candidates around the country running to make that happen and my top three would be The green you deal because that's one of the reasons i'm running, you know people ask Why didn't you choose something more attainable or you know, what makes you think you can do this start small Or if they're you know friends of mine who are just concerned they'll say, you know Like you're a great candidate. That's why I want you to run for something you can actually win And uh, so the reason I think I can win it, you know, I'm in it to win it and I think there's a definite path to victory and One of but one of the reasons that I didn't wait is that doing the traditional political path To make myself, you know deemed viable by the establishment, you know Going through all the steps all the things I need to do that would take much I would get to that point by way past 2030 and we do not have the time for that And representative dara kilmer is not going to support the green you deal and we need action right now Like we need a congress in 2020 that elected in 2020 that is going to make it happen Because that's an existential threat And I think as well I really like that the green you deal includes All these different elements of addressing what's some of the fundamental issues of our country like making sure That it's racially just and that is just from a class perspective as well that it has the federal jobs guarantee So it's great about it And for one of many things that is great about the green you deal is it addresses this existential threat And then it also addresses other extremely serious problems that we need to tackle The next thing We're not next but you know these three Um priority things would be uh medicare for all and true single payer medicare for all not kind of a lightweight plan I'm not going to cosponsor it and then say oh, I don't know anymore. I went to talk in the hamptons And I'm not sure anymore if I like it Like no, I am I am on the board of whole washington Which is a washington state organization fighting to get single payer health care in washington state And we're doing it by initiative We did an initiative to the people and this time we're doing initiative to the legislature And like, you know, we have a very good shot of making it happen. I think we are going to make it happen and um, I think that um, it's great to have this be going on like Dual tracks at the same time nationally and statewide But you know, I'm on that because I don't believe in these kind of halfway solutions You know, that's another reason that it's so urgent is that people are literally dying because they don't have access to health care And that's the thing like you get into congress You get your nice health care and then you deny us what you have You know, you have nice cushy health care and you won't give it to us You won't let us have it because you take hundreds of thousands of dollars From the pharmaceutical industry and the health insurance industry and darry kilmer, you know He's taking money from a big pharma pack The members of that pack are currently being sued for manufacturing the opioid epidemic, which is decimating our district There's one county in my district clown county Where they found that over a six there was a report in the paper recently over a six year period That people were prescribed on average 60 to 70 addictive prescription pills per person And now they have one of the highest opioid death rates in the state, you know, there's no coincidence It's cause and effect and so, you know, we absolutely need Medicare for all that includes vision dental And drug treatment and therapy And mental health And then the third thing would be housing policy I think that we need national rent control And accompanied by a massive investment in public housing so that the rent is stabilized, but there's also enough units for people Currently there's a shortage. I think of about 12 million units And national rent control is super exciting to me because so far the fight has been local and state And I've been involved in it locally with the Tacoma attendance organizing committee Which formed after a mass eviction and we just have these mass evictions happen in Tacoma with regularity You know developer comes in they buy unit evict everybody in it Usually there were low income on disability in recovery Evict them There many of them become homeless this particular apartment building Two people have died since being evicted and that's one thing that I think our establishment corporate democrats don't understand Is that housing is a matter of life and death If you're in recovery and you go out in the streets that threatens your recovery if you are disabled, you know There is a woman in Aberdeen who I met Who moved to Aberdeen from somewhere else in washington state to be closer to family and she Got to the apartment. She had found it was the only thing she could afford She got there and found it didn't have a ramp for her wheelchair the landlord refused to put one in and he just said never mind I'm just going to use it as an office because he didn't want to put the ramp in And she didn't have anywhere else to live that was the only place she found that she could afford, you know So she went to the bus station Where she was able to plug in her wheelchair and just sat there in her wheelchair for three nights Just sitting there in her chair Until somebody from the station Called somebody at the homeless camp We have a homeless encampment in Aberdeen and there's a guy there who's kind of like the Coordinator he lives there and he coordinates and they had his number they called him and they came and got her but it's like This woman is a senior citizen in a wheelchair In a greyhound station For three nights straight day and night like that's the result of our broken housing system and housing Is for housing it's for people to live in that's its primary purpose. It is not for people to make money off of it's not for speculation it's not for flipping housing is for people and that's what my policy is about and We've had some amazing wins around the country with local rent control and statewide I think that with national rent control we could really fill in some of those gaps like You know centrists make the argument that well in san francisco when they implemented rent control Then the rent just outside san francisco went up That's been disputed whether that study is true or not. I think it might just be you know a centrist a third-way talking point But even if it were true, okay So you're saying that the way one person put it to me was like, okay, we have a leaky bucket That doesn't prove we shouldn't have buckets. It just proves we should fix the holes And what we need is national universal rent control that applies to everywhere in the country And then accompanied with an investment in public housing. So those would be my top three Green New Deal Medicare for all and housing. I like that and When you I first of all, I love the leaky bucket analogy But it sounds like that person is making the case for a national, you know housing and rent control type system No, but one thing that really stood out to me on your website because now I think that you and I We're realizing that there are people who know that they have to say they support Medicare for all because It's going to be difficult to get elected when the overwhelming majority of the democratic party base wants it But you have to really differentiate between Who's real and who isn't like tim ryan was on the debate stage, you know talking about how horrible medicare for all is But he co-sponsored primal a giant paul's bill So I love how on your website you put very clearly Medicare for all real medicare for all single-payer no incrementalism like I just kind of like a little applause right there When I saw that because it's it's so important Um, so I I absolutely love everything that you're talking about You've hit your opponent for supporting the tpp Um supporting anti-free speech condemnations of bds So anyone who's in that district, they're going to know that you are the real deal I think to me the real Objective is just making sure that people know who you are and know that you exist because when you present them with this Option between an establishment entrenched democrat who's a centrist and someone who actually cares who's hungry to get in there and fight They're going to choose you over him. It's just a matter of getting your name out there So let me allow you to make your pitch. I think that anyone who's watching will be won over The audience already is going to love you I can tell But tell people why it's so important to go that extra step and share, you know information about you Um donate to you and sign up to support you even if you don't live in the sixth congressional district of washington You can still phone bank for rebecca. So just basically make your pitch and tell us what we can do to support your campaign Yeah, and thank you. I appreciate the opportunity So it's really important to share information about, you know, go to twitter, uh, follow me Share my tweets engage. I'm really active on there and I engage with people and it's important because um representative kilmer Is not that well known nationally But he has a very critical role as chair of the new democrats And this is a role that I believe Joe Crowley had about 10 years ago And so it's something that you kind of take on your path to building your career Up into leadership of the house, you know, and I would not be surprised if he's kind of piecing together a career So eventually he can be speaker of the house And you know as chair of the new democrats He has power of the purse over like where you know The new democrats coalition spends a lot of money on campaigns. They funnel it to other centrists He also belongs to the new the no labels pack, which um, there's a washington post headline saying What was it? Um, no, it's not no labels is the pack I think and then the problem solvers is the caucus in congress And the washington post headline was something like critics alleged that the problem solvers have solved few problems It's like, yeah, they Really haven't they've actually caused more problems, you know, except molten as part of them The problem solvers were were behind the push to not have Nancy Pelosi be speaker Which you know, I'm not a huge fan of Pelosi, but she was I think the best choice we had Well, they wanted someone to the right of her which exactly is unfathomable like she yeah, she's already conservative So it's like, what do you what do you expect a republican? Sorry? That's what they want That's what they want, you know, they're like it pride themselves on being a bipartisan republican and democrat They're funded by republican billionaires and dark money. It's not like no labels It's just it's the one percent versus the rest of us. That's just the epitome of it. And so I think it's really important because Taking down the chair, you know, me winning and You know defeating the chair of the new democrats would really send a message that the third way stuff is not working And that it's on its way to extinction And that what's really going to work in this country is progressive democratic socialist ideas and In my district as well, you know, Derek Kilmer has name recognition and that's something I need to Really build up and I'm going to do that with a massive canvassing campaign I have lots of volunteers who are reaching out and who are already involved and helping me and are like Just tell us where to go. We're ready. We're going to go do it. We're going to knock every single door in this county Like they're so Ready and they've been waiting and wanting this to happen And so I'm going to be doing a lot of voter contact going to a lot of events and meeting people Which I've already been doing it just been so incredibly exciting Like I'm going off on a tangent a little bit But I was canvassing with a green you deal group which is out Canvassing in borough washington to make sure that the green you deal Is good for borough washington as well as for the cities and we went door to door And after we would explain what the green you deal is we would ask them Show them a list of policies and say if the green you deal happened Which one of these policies or which of these policies would be most important to you? and it was stuff like universal child care federal jobs guarantee Just a laundry list of progressive policies And they would look at it and even the people who said they voted for trump Which we didn't ask them. They would just volunteer it even those people would say well I don't know. It's hard to say because I really like all of these like yes You know, I'm not I'm not targeting my message to try to win over Conservatives I'm targeting my message based on what is best for the people and working class People look at this and say this is what I want And so helping get my message out getting more attention to me Will really help the working class people of this district, which is a very working class district and so You can help me by getting on my email list That's one of the top two things that a candidate needs to do when they're at an early stage like mine you know fundraising and Getting people on their email list so they can stay in touch And you can go to rebecca for wa.com slash humanist and I have a page set up there for Viewers of the show where you can sign up for my email list I that would be the number one thing I would ask you to do and it would be Really really helpful so that I can stay in touch and build my audience and also have back and forth You know like when you get an email from me, you can just respond and that's a thing With a lot of email lists you just get it especially from the d triple c It's like the sky's falling donate money now And you know if you if you write back It's like you're just gonna whatever consultant is writing these bs emails is not going to write back But you know if you write back to me like you could very well get a response and like I will definitely read it So get on to the list. That would be great rebecca for wa.com slash humanist And then i'm on social media, uh, facebook instagram and twitter at rebecca for wa Um on social media and my site. It's r e d e c c a f o r w a Well, thank you so much for coming on the program again, that's rebecca for wa.com Phenomenal candidate. This is a national movement and we will all be watching this race closely and of course rooting for you because I mean it just like Let me just say this whenever I talk to someone like I can tell within the first five minutes Just how enthusiastic they are and you never see that like from these centrist corporate democrats like these new candidates They're ready to get in and fight and it's just so refreshing to see it And whenever I talk to you guys I get amped up myself I just get excited because it's like finally, you know something is happening all together We are coalescing around this movement and this message and and it's great to see so if you can please support rebecca This is a national movement what she does in the sixth congressional district isn't just going to affect that district This is a national movement. It will help you as well. So please support her and get involved Thank you so much rebecca. It's been a blast. Thank you mike Well, that's all that I've got for you guys today Thank you so much for tuning in if you've made it as far and listened to me speak for that long As usual we can't end the show without thanking all of our newest patreon paypal and youtube members I also want to send a shout out to um anyone who listens to us on itunes and soundcloud I absolutely appreciate your viewership or listenership if you will. Thank you all so much. Um, I'm done talking I don't know what else to say. I'll see you all next week. Take care everyone