 So I want to show you a couple of clips from last night's debate where Joe Biden was caught in a lie and Bernie Sanders masterfully backed him into a corner and wouldn't let him out and got him to admit that he was lying So when it comes to the issue of Social Security Biden has repeatedly denied that he ever floated cuts to Social Security. In fact, he once accused Bernie Sanders team of doctoring a video of him where he says very clearly You can watch the video that he wants to cut Social Security now What Bernie Sanders did was get him to basically admit that he was open to it now He still denied it after he admitted it in this debate. Nonetheless, I think that it was very clear what was happening here. Joe Biden Showed his cards and Bernie Sanders played this very well. Take a look. Joe. Let me repeat it again. I want you just to Be straight with the American people. I am saying You have been on the floor of the Senate time and time again Talking about the need to cut Social Security Medicare and veterans programs. Is that true? No, it's not true. What that is not true That is not true. What is true is in terms of the negotiations are taking place how to deal with the deficit Everything was on the table. I did not support any of those cuts and social security or in veterans. Oh, whoa, whoa You everything was on the table. All right, you're right You just said it including in your judgment cuts the social security and veterans in order to get the Kinds of changes we need on other things related Joe, but it just but we did not cut it I know because people like me helped stop that but Joe you just contradict Joe. You just Contradicted yourself one minute. Yeah, excuse me one minute. You said I was not on the floor the next minute You say well, yes, there was a reason why I was worried about the deficit. Maybe that's good reason Maybe it's not all that I am saying is you were prepared to cut and advocated for the cuts Let's just let me I did not I never voted to cut social not talking about voting Joe That's not what I said voted but look I voted to protect it I was the just go look at the debate with Paul Ryan for the vice presidency look at what I did and Bernie Will you acknowledge your campaign took out a context that whole exchange between Paul Ryan? Are you saying political fact is wrong? Are you saying yeah, well believe me the washing the post political fact is wrong a whole lot of times But are they wrong on that Bernie? Okay, are they wrong on that? Joe Bernie? Did you miss Joe? Did Joe wait a minute? I'll answer your question. You answer mine. I answered yours. No, you didn't all right one more time Were you on the floor time and time yet for whatever reason? Talking about the need to cut social security and Medicare and Veterans program No, I did not talk about the need to cut any of those programs Okay, all that I would say to the American people go to YouTube. It's all over the place Joe said it many many times I'm surprised, you know, you can defend that or change your mind on it But you can't deny the reality senator because you brought up social security and you've been talking about it I want to ask you about something that you wrote in 1996 You were a member of the house and you wrote an op-ed that said quote it is clear We will have to make incremental adjustments in social security taxes and benefits. Yeah Why are your past comments any less relevant than incremental adjustments what I advocated? adjustments that I advocated and have advocated for years is Among other things increasing the cost of living Assistant no, you're not gonna find me ever calling for cuts the social security I mean, what do you even say to that if you watch that and you don't see how disingenuous Joe Biden is being I don't know what to say like he admitted there. He was open to cutting social security I'd never said I'd cut social security Bernie Sanders. You're lying All I said was that I was open to put everything on the table including social security Which I specifically named and called a sacred cow, but I never said I'd cut social security Wait, you just admitted that everything was on the table including social security But you don't want to cut social security like this really I think should show people How easy it is for politicians to just outright lie and use double-speak. No, I never said the words specifically verbatim I want to cut social security. Therefore. I never floated cuts to social security Sure, Jan now what I love is that once he was back into the corner He tried to get out of that by basically saying well look I never did cut social security in actuality and I'm paraphrasing, you know Even if he proposed cuts it never happened and then Bernie Sanders came in with a death blow and said because I stopped that from happening Brilliantly brilliantly played by Bernie Sanders. That was just that was phenomenal And this is what Bernie Sanders needed to do because Joe Biden has the support of older voters And they don't realize that by voting for Joe Biden They are voting against their own self-interest because this is someone who has throughout the years said he's open to cutting social security Now you can choose to not believe that in spite of all of the evidence That's online go to the YouTube to find it as Bernie Sanders put it But he's been saying he wants to cut social security Not necessarily that he wants to do it, but he's open to do it And if he's in power what would Republicans want to do? Of course, they'd want to cut it under a democratic administration so they can blame Democrats for it and then boast to the public We've never supported cuts to social security. We voted to cut social security, but it was a democratic president who cut social security Now what irritated me to no end was how Dana Bash Came through and basically implied that Bernie wanted to cut social security. She said well Bernie You floated adjustments to social security now She didn't provide you with that additional context that what Bernie Sanders meant by adjustments was that we need to increase The standard of living for recipients of social security lift the cap on taxable income So it's solved meant even longer in the future And that that's just it shows how the media tries to manufacture consent because a lot of people point to Joe Biden using that code word adjustments, right and back in the 90s Bernie Sanders did say we need to make adjustments to social security So what they tried to do when the story originally came up was say aha gotcha Bernie because you and your team said Adjustments as code for cuts, but you said adjustment except the problem is that if you Follow the word adjustment and see what else he said after that, you know Follow the the entire sentence to its conclusion You'd see that he said specifically how to adjust it when politicians say adjust it and they leave it vague That means cuts usually because we've been dealing with this for decades Wall Street has been salivating over social security They want to cut it So we've had to be incredibly vigilant and look out for doublespeak look out for code words or weasel words as Cal Kalinsky would put it when politicians they say something But they try not to reveal their true colors to the public when we know what they actually are intending to do but overall I mean, this was a great move by Bernie Sanders now another move that was just so Painfully bad for Joe Biden. It was cringe worthy was when the subject of super PACs came up now to give you some additional Context because I'm not gonna play the entire clip because it would be too long Bernie Sanders was talking about the power structures in America, right that the reason why Americans are losing their voice the reason why politicians are almost exclusively doing the bidding of their corporate donors is because of the power Structures in the country large multinational corporations and billionaires they buy off politicians Hence why all of the policy outcomes reflect their interests. So, you know, Bernie Sanders, you know, he tacitly implied that Joe Biden's financial contributions are the reason why we're in this state not just Joe Biden, but all of the politicians and Joe Biden is you know, just a pawn in the game that's being played to rig the rules against normal Americans and Joe Biden basically tried to pivot by saying Well, look if you're trying to point to, you know, my campaign contributions I haven't taken more than $2,800 which is when Bernie Sanders correctly identified the problem is that there are these super PACs that flood campaigns with dark money to which Joe Biden then tried to accuse Bernie of also having super PACs Didn't go too well as you're gonna see and the implication is I'm getting these I've not accepted a contribution of anybody over $2,800 number one. My average contribution is $44 just this month. I've raised $33 million average contribution $51 the idea that this is Bernie's implication is somehow I'm being funded by millionaires Burn look in the last Super Tuesday and before that Bernie outspent me two, three, four, five, six to one and I still want I didn't have any money and I still want Senator Sanders It's good that you had an idea 30 years ago. I don't want to join you. Why don't you join me? Why don't you get rid of the super PAC that you have right now, which is running very ugly negative ads about me Don't laugh Joe. That's just the truth and they got two other super PACs running ads Against us. Why don't you just say right now go on television and say hey, you know what? I think in the past, Joe If I'm not mistaken you condemned super PACs that correct You get rid of the nine super PACs you have I don't have a nine super. I don't have any money to list them No, yeah, you go ahead. Let's get come on. Give me a break. No, I won't give you a break on this one Joe you condemned super PACs you got a super PAC is running negative, but here's the point this is the point in the richest country in the history of the world Half of our people should not be struggling to put food on the table and the reason for that is you have a political structure in which Big money interest not only dominate the political system, but dominate our economy as well. Somebody makes a decision We're gonna shut down a factory in America. We're gonna move to China We're gonna move to Mexico pay people's salvation wages there This is an issue that has got to be ultimately deal with who has the power in America Are we content with so few exercising so much power when so many people have given up on the political process? That was really embarrassing. That was perhaps the worst moment of the debate for Joe Biden Are you gonna condemn the nine super PACs that you have Bernie? You want me to name them? Bernie Sanders then says yes name them and then Joe Biden says give me a break So he tried to play chicken with Bernie Sanders and he backed down immediately This tells you everything you need to know About Joe Biden now. It's funny because this is the same lie that Elizabeth Warren used against Bernie Sanders and the rationale for her Getting her own super PAC. Well, Bernie has super PACs So it's all you know It's only fair that I get my own super PAC when what they were referring to as super PACs were our revolution Sunrise movement dream defenders organizations funded by you know, either their members like the national nurses united PAC which is technically a PAC or you know grassroots Donations like sunrise movement. So they're trying to suggest that these are dark money groups That's what people to judges did as well because they want to hide their own corruption But what it did was make them look like disingenuous Fools and when you try to play that game with Bernie Sanders sometimes you end up fucking yourself over That's what happened with Joe Biden. That's what happened when you tried to call out Bernie Sanders super PACs And you end up looking foolish So these were these two clips were my favorite moments from the debate It really made Bernie Sanders look strong and I really I'm just crossing my fingers and hoping that people see through Joe Biden Right see how disingenuous He was because he didn't display how he was in cognitive decline He hit it well enough for that to our debate, which is astonishing nonetheless I think he hit it well, but he still proved how much of a liar and disingenuous Regular, you know a standard politician he is Saying and doing anything to get ahead and I really hope that the voters see that you know and watching this debate if they Did watch it