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And we'll discuss whether or not AOC has been compromised and talk about the Amazon and Instacart worker strike. And we'll also have more stories. So sit tight. We've got a long episode for you. Hopefully you will enjoy the program. Let's go ahead and get right to it. So let me just take some time to ask you, how are you doing? Because we're in week three of social distancing and self-quarantine. And I know that a lot of you are going a little bit stir crazy. So how are you doing? I think it's important for us to take the time to acknowledge that this is a lot to deal with, even if we don't know anyone who's been affected with COVID-19. For those of us who have to stay home and are not used to that, this can be really difficult. Like this is going to lead to depression. It's going to lead to excess anxiety. So I really want people to acknowledge that if you're feeling worse because of the COVID-19 crisis, just know that you're not alone. There's a lot of people, everyone who's currently experiencing the same thing. For me, I'm dealing with quarantine just fine because this isn't that much different than my usual lifestyle, to be honest. But still, it has caused some depression because it feels so surreal. You see this kind of things happen in movies, but never in real life. You almost think that a global pandemic, this could never happen. We're living through something that is truly just, it's crazy. So it really is difficult to believe that this is actually happening. And I think that this is going to become very real as more and more people that we know become infected or affected with COVID-19. So that being said, let's talk about what's going on when it comes to COVID-19. Last week, we left on a really terrifying note where Donald Trump and Republicans were insisting that we shouldn't allow the cure to be worse than the virus itself. And Trump wanted to reopen the country, reopen the country in whatever capacity he can by Easter because the thought of packed churches on Easter Sunday sounded beautiful to him. Now to me, that sounds like a nightmare, a bunch of elderly people coughing on each other and shaking hands. That sounds horrifying, but thankfully he has chosen to extend the deadline for at least 30 days. Now, you've just got to play it by ear. You don't necessarily know how long this is going to last. Models predict that we won't peak until mid-April. Now we don't know how long we'll be in the peak process and when we start to kind of go down. But buckle up, we're just getting started. And it's going to be a long ride. But thankfully, Trump is not choosing to send everyone back to work yet to sacrifice them to the gods of capitalism. And Dr. Fauci explains why Donald Trump came to this conclusion. Long story short, because more people that are smart got to him than the dumb people. Take a look. Why have the guidelines been extended to the end of April? Why was that decision made? Well, gentlemen, you look at the kinetics of the outbreak, the patterns that are going on now even as we speak. They were not going to reach a peak and turn around the way we wanted to within the time frame that was originally estimated. So I thought it was prudent and I think the right decision to extend them another 30 days. Because what you really want to do is you want to start seeing some flattening out and turning around the curve and it coming down. It wasn't doing that. If you look at New York, it was doing this. If you look at New Orleans, it was doing this. Detroit is certainly going to start doing that. It would not have been a good idea to pull back at a time when you really needed to be pressing your foot on the pedal as opposed to on the brakes. You keep talking about the peak. Can you explain to the American people what exactly that peak is? Looks like and how it will tax the system? Well, there are a number of factors that are going on at the same time. One is the number of new cases per day. The other is the number of deaths that you have. So if you have like 100 cases today, 200 cases tomorrow, 400 cases the next day, 600 cases the next day, you are clearly going in the wrong direction. You don't want to interfere except to try and suppress that. If you reach the point where the number of new cases starts to equilibrate so that yesterday you have 150, today you have 150, tomorrow you have 125. They're starting to level off, which is the kind of the beginning of the turning around of the curve of it coming down. Deaths tend to linger a little bit more after the hospitalizations. But when you see the new hospitalizations start to do this, you know you're going in the right direction. And we weren't doing that. And we felt that if we prematurely pulled back, we would only form an acceleration or a rebound of something, which would have put you behind where you were before. And that's the reason why we argued strongly with the president that he not withdraw those guidelines after 15 days but that he extend them and he did listen. You argued strongly, you said with the president. Our reporting is that among other things you showed him these models that suggest that even with the current guidelines, the death total in the United States could be between 100,000 and 200,000. So why do you think that was so convincing? Well, it was quite convincing when the president is first, as he said multiple times at the press conference yesterday, his first goal is to prevent suffering and death. And we made it very clear to him that if we pulled back on what we were doing and didn't extend them, there would be more avoidable suffering and avoidable death. So it was a pretty clear decision on this part. So I just want to take a moment to applaud anyone who is close to Trump that convinced him to not reopen the country by Easter. This is a decision that will literally save lives. So thank you. Trump is easily persuadable. It's usually like the last person who was in his ear before he has to make a decision that will be the most influential. So whoever got to him, you're doing the Lord's work. Thank you. Now, let me just again reiterate that reopening the country too early is idiotic. Like he was expecting a trade off. Like we can save the economy if we sacrifice people, but that's not necessarily how things work, right? If you reopen the economy, the economy is probably still going to suffer because people dying is bad for the economy. There's still going to be global economic ramifications. We lived in a highly globalized society. World capitalism is currently dominant, right? So just because the United States chooses to send all its people back to work to die doesn't mean that other countries are going to do the same thing. That's going to impact trade. That's going to impact global markets. So to just think that you can somehow stop the economy from collapsing if you send people to work to die is idiotic. It's fucking moronic to even think that. So I'm glad that somebody convinced him to not do that. With that being said, this crisis is still very real and Trump is still in charge ultimately. He's the leader and he's the worst possible person to be the leader. And it's getting worse. And currently the United States is the number one country when it comes to COVID cases, the number one country. And I want to share another Dr. Fauci interview where he kind of tells us a little bit of what to expect based on current models and what they project. Well, Dr. Burke said yesterday, as you know, that she doesn't think any city will be spared from this virus. How many cases do you think the US will reach? A million cases to 10 million cases? Or do we not even have any idea? You know, Jake, to be honest with you, we don't really have any firm idea. There are things called models. And when someone creates a model, they put in various assumptions. And the model is only as good and as accurate as your assumptions. And whenever the model is come in, they give a worst case scenario and a best case scenario. Generally, the reality is somewhere in the middle. I've never seen a model of the diseases that I've dealt with, which the worst case scenario actually came out. They always overshoot. So when you use numbers like a million, a million and a half, two million, that almost certainly is off the chart. Now, it's not impossible, but very, very unlikely. So it's difficult to present. I mean, looking at what we're seeing now, you know, I would say between 100 and 200,000 cases, but I don't want to be held to that because it's excuse me, deaths. I mean, we're going to have millions of cases. But I just don't think that we really need to make a projection when it's such a moving target that you can so easily be wrong and mislead people. What we do know, Jake, is that we got a serious problem in New York. We have a serious problem in New Orleans, and we're going to be developing serious problems in other areas. So although people like to model it, let's just look at the data of what we have and not worry about these worst case and best case scenarios. So I want to just stress here that this is speculation. It's based on models. There's really no way of knowing how many people will be affected and ultimately die because of COVID-19. But what Dr. Fauci says here, I mean, I just want you to think a little bit harder about this. He says it's not going to be, you know, one to two million people, most likely it's possible, right? It's within the realm of possibility, but it's highly unlikely. However, what we're looking at is probably 100,000 to 200,000 people dying. To put that into perspective, on 9-11, we lost 2,977 people and we are already almost at 3,000. When it comes to the lives we've lost due to COVID-19. So if, you know, these models bear out, not the best case scenario, but not the worst case scenario, and we land somewhere in the middle, which is what Dr. Fauci estimates will be the actual case. It's still going to be one of the biggest crises we've ever had to face. And that's true not just for America, but for the human race. And that's really terrifying. And it doesn't help that we have the worst possible leader at a time when we need someone who's at least semi-competent, just semi-competent. We see Donald Trump caring more about his own image and perception. He's getting into spats with governors. He is not agreeing with how much ventilators hospitals say they need. He's sending, you know, states broken medical equipment, including ventilators. And on top of that, he's trying to lie to people and mislead them for purposes of doing damage control to make him look less bad. So when it comes to us being the number one country with COVID cases, he said that's because, you know, we just are testing more people, which is factually incorrect. But here's the clip of him saying that. We are testing nearly 100,000 people a day, which is more than any other country in the world. And the reason we have more cases than anybody is because we're finding more people because we're testing much more. So when the fake news goes and says, well, we have more, the fact is that if you look at other countries, you have countries with 1.5 billion people, those countries, if they tested everybody, you know, be a whole different story. But yeah, that's just not true. Tests are not widely available. There are people who are taking the social media to voice their grievances about how they're experiencing COVID-19 like symptoms, shortness of breath, high fever, and they are not able to get a test. Doctors are telling them to just stay home, self quarantine because there's just not enough tests to go around. If we actually tested everyone who wanted a test or who were experiencing symptoms that needed a test, then the number would be much higher of suspected cases, of confirmed cases, that is. So that's just not true. But look, we don't know how long this is going to last. And that uncertainty is, I think, the most difficult part for people because working within complete information, it makes crises a lot worse. Like if we get a sense of a timeline, it's easier for us to mentally grapple with how long we have to hunker down in our homes. But the fact that we don't know the fact that it's just kind of an open question, it makes it that much worse for people. And I really hope that in the future, we kind of have more measures in place to better prepare ourselves, not just for global pandemics, but any types of crises. And, you know, I don't want to be even a bigger Debbie Downer here, but I don't think that this is going to be the last global pandemic. Climate change will expose us to new diseases as the ice thaws. But on top of that, it will introduce us to new crises. And even when this crisis is over, we could see a resurgence of COVID-19 after we think it's gone. So we just have to be better prepared. We have to give people the option of seeing a therapist online. But that also means they have to be able to afford it and not just afford it. They should be able to get it regardless if they can or can't afford it. Right. Because affordability is something that is incredibly subjective. So as we enter, you know, this new week, I just hope that people take time for themselves, find a way to treat themselves. If that means being a little bit lazy, lounging around the house, playing Animal Crossing, whatever you can do psychologically for yourself to cope, exercise in your house, do it. Don't feel guilty about it because we have to make sure that we social distance, we quarantine and just from my own experience and anyone I've talked to had to leave who starts to work. People are not taking this shit seriously. They're not taking this seriously. And we need to. There's a lot of people taking this seriously, but not everyone is. So if we all actually abided by what the CDC is recommending, then this would be over faster. That's what people need to realize. But it's impossible to get everyone to do the same thing. Right. We can't force everyone to social distance and self quarantine. So those of us who are behaving good, we are only as strong. This pandemic will only last as long as our most stubborn citizens and stubborn government officials. So we don't necessarily know when this will be over, but just understand that it will be over at some point in time. This, like all crises, will come to an end at some point. And that's what you have to keep telling yourself as difficult as it is to imagine, because we're not even in the middle at this point, we're not even to the middle point. But just know this isn't going to last forever. Things will be different afterwards. But there will be a degree of normalcy, at least in the sense that we can go to the store and not have to worry about, you know, getting exposed to it or we can go to the movie theater and not worry about getting exposed. So just try to tell yourself that and do what you need to do. Any psychological crutches that you have video games, like indulge yourself if you have food at your house that's unhealthy, eat it. Just try to give yourself a pass during this time because we have to do everything we can to stay sane because it's tough currently, I know. Some Amazon warehouse workers in New York and Instacart workers nationwide have announced on Monday that they are going on strike because since they're considered essential during this global pandemic, well, their health and well-being should also be considered essential. But they are saying that their employers aren't taking their concerns about coronavirus seriously. Hence, they're striking until their demands are met. So for more on this story, we go to Alina Salika and Shannon Bond of NPR, who report some Amazon warehouse workers in Staten Island, New York and Instacart's grocery delivery workers nationwide walked off their jobs on Monday. They're demanding stepped up protection and pay as they continue to work while much of the country is asked to isolate as a safeguard against the coronavirus. The protests come as Amazon and Instacart have said they plan to hire tens of thousands of new workers online shopping and grocery home delivery are skyrocketing as much of the nation hunkers down and people stay at home following recommendations from federal and local governments. This has put a spotlight on workers who shop, pack and deliver these high demand supplies. Companies referred to the workers as heroes, but workers say their employers aren't doing enough to keep them safe. The workers are asking for a variety of changes. Workers from both Amazon and Instacart want more access to paid sick time off. At this time, it's available only to those who have tested positive for the coronavirus or get placed on mandatory self quarantine. Amazon workers want their warehouse to be closed for a longer cleaning with guaranteed pay. Instacart's grocery delivery gig workers are asking for disinfectant wipes and hand sanitizer and better pay to offset the risk they are taking. Workers at Amazon Staten Island facility have said that multiple people at the warehouse have been diagnosed with COVID-19. Some of them plan to walk off the job on Monday to pressure the company to close the warehouse for an extended deep cleaning at Amazon, which employs some 800,000 people. Workers have diagnosed positively for COVID-19 and at least 11 warehouses forcing a prolonged closure of at least one warehouse in Kentucky. Now, what they're asking for, I think it's perfectly reasonable. So these demands shouldn't be very difficult for these companies to meet. And I would encourage all of you to not cross the picket line. Do not shop at these companies as they as they have these negotiations. And, you know, we have to show solidarity with the workers. These are things that should not have to be asked for. They should just be automatically provided to workers. But the fact that we have Amazon, a company where they're literally asking employees to donate their sick time to people with COVID-19, rather than just offering extended paid sick leave to everyone. It's just we shouldn't have this happening. Now, of course, we need to have federal protections codified into law. But the mere fact that workers have to ask for these things. Hand sanitizer, extra paid sick leave during a global pandemic. It shows you the priorities of corporate America. They don't care about their workers. To them, their workers are easily replaceable, right? It doesn't really matter if they get sick or they die even. They see them as just cogs in a machine that they can easily replace with someone else who's desperate. Lots of people are losing their jobs. So likely, you know, they're going to turn to these types of jobs in the gig economy, right? Uber Eats, Instacart. So right now they probably don't really feel like they have to pay attention to their workers because they're not going to do it just out of the goodness of their heart. But if we all choose to not shop at these outlets, use these services until they meet the demands, maybe they'll actually take their employees seriously. Now, I do want to share a video of the protests and just let you see what they have to say. At least one Amazon worker has to say. I think that this is perfectly reasonable. I mean, who hears her and thinks how unreasonable is she being? Why should these workers put their lives on the line for an employer who doesn't respect them? Why should they do that? The answer is they shouldn't do that. They shouldn't do that. And, you know, finally, as someone who formerly worked in fast food and retail, it's nice to see people finally pay lip service to us and say, you know, hey, we really appreciate you, you know, brave in the storm, so to speak, and working during this crisis. Well, if you believe in that, then definitely support workers' rights, support increases in the minimum wage. The same people who basically denounce a $15 an hour minimum wage are the same people like Tommy Lahren, for example, who are talking about how heroic the grocery store cashed years are. All right. Well, if you believe that, then actually acknowledge their full humanity, acknowledge that they deserve paid sick leave, a livable wage, vacation time, that's paid, where you don't just take it off and have to save money, not just for the vacation, but extra money to cover the bills. In most instances, you just don't get a vacation. But I mean, it's time that we acknowledge how valuable all of these workers are, not just during a global pandemic, but just all the time, all the time. If you are a fast food worker, you deserve a livable wage. If you work for an Amazon warehouse, you shouldn't be forced to piss in bottles to make sure that you meet your strict delivery guidelines. I shouldn't even have to say that, right? So I really hope that these demands are met. But if they are not, we all should not cross the picket line. Do not support these companies if they are not going to support their employees. Because if they know that this protest isn't going to affect their bottom line, if they know that customers are still going to shop there and not pay attention, they're going to replace all these workers and just hire other people. Because there's lots of people looking for work currently because they're losing their jobs because of this pandemic. And in these industries, and Amazon, and Instacart, and Uber Eats, they're going to be booming currently, these delivery services. So they can't capitalize on this crisis by just treating their workers like garbage. They have to acknowledge that we see as consumers what they do and how they treat their workers. And we will respond accordingly if they don't choose to value their employers. So I hope that this is effective and I hope that they get all that they want and more because they deserve it. Everyone deserves this. So last week, we learned that Bernie Sanders will be staying in the race for the foreseeable future. In fact, he intends on debating Joe Biden if he isn't a coward and actually chooses to debate Bernie Sanders. But predictably, Democrats, specifically the Democratic Party establishment, they're not too happy with Bernie Sanders' decision because they want him to drop out immediately so that way we can wrap this thing up and coordinate Joe Biden. And because that's not happening, well, they are having a meltdown. And this article from The Washington Post explains the situation, I think, really well. And let me just tell you, their tears are delicious. Quote, behind the growing fear among many Democrats that Senator Bernie Sanders continued presence in the presidential race could spell doom in November, is the belief that they've seen it happen before in the last campaign. Although Sanders has long pledged to do all he can to help the eventual nominee defeat President Trump, Democrats are still haunted by the last grueling battle, which didn't end after it became clear that Clinton would be the nominee and instead stretched into the summer convention and beyond. Then as now an impassioned band of Sanders supporters voiced their displeasure loudly and widely, sometimes echoing the harshest attacks of Trump and his allies with a little reproach from Sanders. So we're just like the MAGA Cheds, according to them, moved by an urgency to come together against Trump as the coronavirus pandemic has upended the presidential race. Some party leaders feel that Sanders should end his campaign and help the Democratic Party position itself for the November general election. Quote, I just think it's a terrible decision for him to make because he looks very selfish, said former Democratic senator Barbara Boxer of California, who backs Biden. If Sanders is genuine about going all into defeat Trump, then get out, she said. Although Sanders personally is not waging a scorched earth campaign against Biden, some of his most visible supporters continue to rail against the former vice president's policy ideas and question his cognitive abilities, a trend that worries party leaders. Senior Democrats have expressed concern in recent days that Sanders is once again obliquely giving his supporters permission to continue to question Biden's fitness as the Democratic nominee. There is growing anticipation for him to start to help, said one senior Democratic strategist who spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak more frankly about the concerns for his movement to be successful. He needs to find the right way to land the plane at the Joe Biden International Airport. Among the moderates, there remains a frustration that the Sanders forces demand that the winning primary candidates conform to his views and not the other way around. They suggest the situation is even more dire this year than in 2016, given the party's antipathy toward Trump. So a couple of things stand out to me. The first is that they are very clearly, explicitly, blaming Bernie Sanders and his supporters for Hillary Clinton's loss in 2016. Let me remind you, she didn't set foot in Wisconsin, but Bernie's to blame. So they're saying, well look, you already helped Hillary Clinton lose in 2016, so do you really want that to happen again? Now the second thing is that they want him to drop out, because if he doesn't, then he's being selfish. There was a quote from a former Clinton aide who said, look, we shouldn't pretend like Bernie cares about anything but himself. I'm paraphrasing, but that was the sentiment. Now again, I want to stress to you that before Joe Biden became the frontrunner pre-Super Tuesday, we were looking at a situation where if Bernie Sanders ended up with a plurality of pledged delegates, even if you know he had a strong plurality, if he didn't get that 50 plus 1% majority, well, Democrats would try to opt for a contested convention and steal it away from Bernie. Even Joe Biden said if he, uh, if Bernie gets plurality, he's opting for a contested convention. Elizabeth Warren said the same thing. All Democrats said, look, I know what I've said about wanting to be Donald Trump, but if Bernie doesn't get a majority, we're going to try to steal it from him. But it's funny, because now that the shoe is on the other foot, they're not really saying that. Uh, they're screaming, Bernie, what are you doing? Get out! Do not see that Donald Trump is the president and we need to defeat him. Well, where was that energy a couple of weeks ago, before Super Tuesday? When, uh, Bernie was looking like the eventual nominee and all of the Democrats, except for him, claimed that they would try to get super delegates to steal it away from Bernie at the convention. Where was that energy then? Where was the urgency to defeat Donald Trump back then, when it looked like Bernie Sanders was going to be the nominee? It's funny how quickly they moved the goalpost, right? All of a sudden, defeating Donald Trump is really important. It's priority number one. It wasn't before Super Tuesday, but now it really is. And, you know, staying in the race is the worst thing that Bernie can possibly do. Imagine if Bernie actually said, no, I'm going to opt for a contested convention and try to get super delegates to steal it away from Joe Biden and give it to me. Imagine if he said that, there would be like shrieks from all the Democratic Party establishment members, non-stop, right? But he's very politely opting to stay in the race and not even go negative against Joe Biden and they're still losing it. These people are hypocrites and they stand for absolutely nothing. And it's interesting to me how they are shamelessly suggesting that, you know, getting Bernie supporters to back Biden, it's not Biden's responsibility. Actually, it is Bernie's responsibility. A former Obama advisor actually said this pretty explicitly in response to a tweet from ABC News, which says that 15% of Bernie Sanders supporters would back Trump over Biden. Well, this is what Ben LeBalt had to say. This is a huge problem and something Bernie Sanders needs to work on every day from now until November. He is responsible for the outcome with this segment of voters and his effort to persuade them to support Joe Biden should start today. So it's not Joe Biden's responsibility to win over Bernie Sanders supporters, it is solely Bernie Sanders' responsibility to get his supporters to back Biden. In spite of zero concessions being made at this point in time. Like, do you see how ridiculous this is? I feel like the only people who can see how hypocritical the Democratic Party establishment is are progressives, like nobody else can see it. Centrists don't care at all that every other contender wanted to steal the nomination away from Bernie Sanders just a couple of weeks ago, but all of a sudden, now that the race is down to two people, just the fact that Bernie Sanders is in the race is heresy. They have a different set of standards that apply to you, that apply to Bernie Sanders and progressives, that they don't apply to themselves. And this shouldn't surprise anyone. If you've been following Democratic Party politics and intra-party warfare, their goal is to crush the left. They don't want to win over the left, they'd rather lose than actually adopt any of the policies offered by the left. Their goal is to silence the left and get them to acquiesce, but adopting their policies to get their votes, not going to happen. They're not interested in that. They would rather lose to Donald Trump because again, they have no reason to support Joe Biden over Donald Trump. Think about this, if you are just a member of the House of Representatives in the Democratic Party, how does having Donald Trump as president affect you more than a Joe Biden presidency? Well, in some ways, it's better. It might be worse for the country, but you can fundraise off of Donald Trump. That's been a really lucrative strategy for Democrats. On top of that, you don't have to do jack shit. You don't have to piss off the base by actually proposing policies like, or shooting down policies like Medicare for All. You can just pass a bunch of policies and say, well, you really tried to pass them, but our hands are tied because Mitch McConnell won't let us vote on them. Like, you can do all of that. There's a lot of excuses if Trump is president. But if Biden is president, all those excuses kind of just go away and now you kind of have to put up, right? You kind of have to put up or shut up. And it's easier for them to kind of just sit on their asses for another four more years, watch the country go to shit, and fundraise off of Donald Trump. The situation is really grim and the fact that we are forced to share a party with Democrats, it shouldn't happen. The left should have their own party and corporate Democrats should have to share a party with Republicans because they are more ideologically aligned. The only thing in theory that progressives agree with the center on are social issues, but Democrats don't even care about that. They've proven they couldn't care less about that. I mean, when it comes to this Me Too issue, which is hugely significant, what have Democrats done after crying about Brett Kavanaugh and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's allegations, they're silent when it comes to Joe Biden. So anything that they claimed to believe in, they don't in actuality. It's lip service because if they abandon, you know, their support for social issues, then they have nothing to pitch to the left. They can't say, well, at least we're better on trans issues. At least we're going to look out for marginalized people a little bit more. But when push comes to shove, they never ever deliver. So I mean, I don't even know what to say anymore. This isn't surprising, but the Democratic Party is going to do the same exact thing they did in 2016 and mark my words, if they lose to Donald Trump, they're not going to have any introspection whatsoever. They're not going to have a single autopsy. They're not going to try to change their tactics to win because so long as the left is, you know, powerless and silenced, that is what they care the most about because then they can continue to be an opposition party but not offend their corporate donors. But the minute they actually do take power and they've got to deliver, well, that's an issue because they're going to piss off their corporate donors if they do anything that the left wants, like Medicare for All. So the situation we are in is incredibly frustrating and left-wing parties all over the place have failed. Supposedly, left-wing parties all over the place, all over the world have failed the countries. That's why you see the rise of these right-wing demagogues in places like India, Turkey, Brazil. It's because the left loses a leader. The left ends up having to acquiesce and join centrists and it just, it never works out. You know, dissatisfaction with the establishment has led to the resurgence of fascism. And if Democrats were serious about defeating Donald Trump, then they would take the left seriously. But because they're not, then whenever they fearmonger about Donald Trump, you know, their fears are valid. We should fear Donald Trump, but I don't believe that they fear Donald Trump. I think they're trying to get you scared so you support them no matter what. But I don't buy anything that they say. These people are full of shit and they're not your allies. They're your enemy. So with Joe Biden being the Democratic Party's front-runner, you would think that currently, if he genuinely wanted to win, he would be doing everything in his power to win over Bernie Sanders supporters. Now, one thing that he could do that might help is endorse Medicare for All. I say might because none of us would believe that he actually believed in it, but if he at least endorsed the idea of Medicare for All, it would give Bernie Sanders supporters just a little indication that maybe he's serious about winning us over, but he's not willing to do that. But putting politics aside, let's say he didn't want to embrace Medicare for All for purposes of political expediency. He should at least reconsider his current position out of necessity given the global pandemic that we are dealing with because before this pandemic hit, he claimed that he would veto Medicare for All. Okay, that's horrible, you're a bad person because 68,000 lives would be saved according to a Yale study every single year if we passed Medicare for All. But if you actually cared about the people, this global pandemic, if nothing else, should get you to rethink your position. Now, the way that COVID-19 is going to have a very direct impact on our lives isn't just through, you know, social distancing and self-quarantining. It's going to be on health care costs to where even if you're one of the lucky ones who don't get COVID-19 or know anyone, this still may affect you because health insurance companies are going to raise the costs because that's the only way that they're going to be able to recoup what they've lost fighting this pandemic. And this headline from the New York Times explains it well. Coronavirus may add billions to the nation's health care bill. Insurance premiums could spike as much as 40% next year. A new analysis warns as employers and insurers confront the projected tens of billions of dollars in additional costs of treating coronavirus patients. So I want you to think about that before we go into the article. Insurance premiums could jump to as high as 40%. So even if you personally don't get COVID-19 people who are on the same health insurance plan that you're on will and this is going to cost the insurance companies millions of dollars to pay for the treatment and whatnot. So you know the costs are going to go up because they're not just going to eat that loss. These are businesses remember their number one goals to make money not provide people with health care. So they're going to pass that cost on to the consumer rather than just eating it themselves not taking an extra bonus. And it really shows why private insurance companies should not exist. We should abolish them and opt for single pair at a minimum a national health system at a maximum. But let's get to the story because I think it's very telling about the current situation. Reid Abelson reports with so much still uncertain about how widespread hospitalizations for coronavirus patients will be around the United States a new analysis says premiums could increase as much as 40% next year if the pandemic results in millions of Americans needing hospital stays. Health plans went into 2020 with no hint of coronavirus on the horizon said Peter V Lee the executive director of covered California the state insurance marketplace created under the Affordable Care Act which conducted the analysis to protect businesses and individuals from sharply higher rates he supports a temporary federal program that would cover some of these costs no insurer no state planned and put money away for something of this significance Mr. Lee said insurers and employers are already prodding Congress to consider helping them pay for a crisis by setting up a special reinsurance program that would cover the most expensive medical claims the federal government would fund the program to lower the amount being paid by employers and insurers while insurers have enjoyed strong profits in recent years they say the cost of the pandemic could be overwhelming especially to employers and workers already struggling to pay for coverage without help lowering their costs by having government pay for the most expensive hospital stays Mr. Lee warned that insurers are likely to seek rates that are double their additional costs from the virus their costs go up 20% Mr. Lee says rates could jump as much as 40% in 2021 so just pause and really think about this think about how disgusting this is we are told to pull ourselves up buy our bootstraps we are told that if we have an emergency that we can't afford maybe we should have saved that money maybe we shouldn't have bought that new iPhone maybe we shouldn't be buying coffees maybe we should save that money for a rainy day well why isn't the government telling the CEOs and CFOs and COOs of these companies hey rather than pocketing the profits that you made why didn't you guys save for a global pandemic why didn't you put away money for a situation like this why is the first thing that you're doing is crying to the government for help begging for corporate socialism that's unacceptable and really what's hilarious to me is after spending four years trying to convince us how much we love our employer-based private health insurance plans well they're really not doing a good job of making the case for themselves in favor of their existence they're making the case against themselves because if you can't weather this storm so to speak during a global pandemic then why should we have private insurance companies maybe the government should be the sole insurer of Americans maybe the government should be the single payer if these private companies are going to beg the government for help anyways why should we put more money into a private system when the government can just offer socialized insurance to Americans and that's not a minimum i'm getting to the point where medicare for all just isn't enough i want a national health system because these private insurance companies private hospitals maybe they can't deal with a global pandemic sufficiently maybe we need a full-on great britain model right so they're not helping to make the case for their existence but seeing what's playing out seeing the need for healthcare during a global pandemic and seeing how this may impact individual human beings in this country you think that that would trigger at least some level of introspection and at least maybe make joe biden rethink for a second his previous anti-medicare for all stance but he's not doing that asked about this in an interview whether or not you know he would consider softening his stance towards medicare for all he unequivocally said nope not gonna do it take a look i do have one final question for you because as you've been seeing our healthcare system seems to be crumbling underneath this crisis there is not enough there's not enough support for the healthcare system there's not enough support for the american people inside of the healthcare system are you now reconsidering your position when it comes to single-payer healthcare single-payer will not solve that at all the thing that is needed is for example we have a whole number of hospitals that are being so stretched including rural hospitals they're going to need more financing that doesn't come from a single-payer system that comes from the federal government stepping up and dealing with the concerns that they have the reimbursement that they're going to get how they're going to be able to move forward and how they're going to be able to make provide all the needed help that are needed in their communities this is an opportunity to look at reconstructing the healthcare system in a way that in fact can respond more rapidly and more and more and more effectively to these kinds of crises because it's going to come again we should be spending and we are spending a great deal of time and effort finding a vaccine finding a way we can deal with preventing these diseases further down the road but for example we had people when our administration we had CDC people in other countries because we wanted to anticipate when in fact another virus would occur when in fact the pandemic might occur as a consequence of a spreading virus in another country to act quickly President we threw those people I insisted I didn't insist I suggested that we should have people in China at the outset of this event and when it all started in Lujan province and what happened we did not insist that they go into the areas you wanted to do so I just that's all I can do is do what I know has to be done say what I know has to be done okay well then fuck you no Medicare for all no vote fuck you it's that simple if you won't even consider it then I won't even consider voting for you now it's not like Joe Biden would be let off his leash by his health industry donors because once he entered this race we all know that the health insurance industry was betting on him to save their asses so he's doing this for self-interested reasons he wouldn't dare support Medicare for all because his donors in the health insurance industry wouldn't be too happy about that and maybe they wouldn't support his campaign as willingly as they are now now I just want to note that in that entire interview not once was he asked about Tara Reid's allegations of sexual assault so just keep that in mind now you know what's interesting about this is the way he answered that question like first he said no and then he said that single pair wouldn't help and then he went on to do word salad and just change the subject basically he started talking about vaccines and the CDC and whatnot and the reason why he can actually give a cogent answer to that question aside from the fact that he is obviously in cognitive decline is because there is no serious answer that you can give to that this global pandemic COVID-19 has proven why we need Medicare for all and in every single state so far that has voted in this primary process even in states where Joe Biden won in a landslide still a majority of voters opted for Medicare for all so the fact that he won't even consider it consider this one concession it shows you where his priorities lie he doesn't care about the American people or at a minimum he cares less about them than the profits of health insurance companies maybe he cares about the American people maybe he genuinely doesn't want people to die but he doesn't care enough to opt for a Medicare for all system now what's funny is that he still wants to pretend as if he's the hero he tweeted out let me be clear no one should have to pay for coronavirus testing or treatment to which Ashra Taylor responded saying then why should they have to pay for chemo exactly if you think it's unreasonable to make people pay for treatment for something that's out of their control that they would choose not to get why can't we extend that logic to other sicknesses why are we suddenly making an exception for COVID-19 Kamala Harris tweeted the same thing I thought she supported Medicare for all one point in time what a big joke that turned out to be but why is it that you think they should pay for chemo but they shouldn't pay for coronavirus now of course I don't believe that anyone should have to pay for treatment for COVID-19 but they also shouldn't have to pay for anything healthcare should be free at the point of service because if you don't have a dime to your name that doesn't mean that you should be denied access to healthcare and I'm not talking access to health insurance I'm talking direct access to health care itself so I mean the state of American politics is just disgusting we can literally be hit with a global pandemic and that'll be the number one country in the world with COVID-19 cases and the Democratic Party the supposedly left wing party the party of the working class still won't even consider for a second Medicare for all and Democrats wonder why there's so little enthusiasm for Joe Biden and I'm sure that they're going to wonder why he lost to Donald Trump if that does in fact happen in November but if they want to know and they seriously want to know why they're so hated by everyone they need to look in the mirror because they lost their souls they used to be the party of the FDR and now they are the party of I don't know what they stand for to be honest they don't stand for working people so this party is a disgrace Joe Biden is a terrible candidate and out of a field of what 20 plus candidates we really shouldn't allow it to be lost on us that Democrats opted for one of the worst one of the worst the only person who would have been worse than Joe Biden is Michael Bloomberg but the fact that they opted for the second worst I mean what a joke so last week Ryan Grimm and Katie Halper broke Tara Reid's Me Too story and she alleges that when she worked for Joe Biden back in the 90s he sexually assaulted her now we don't necessarily know whether or not these claims are valid if you listen to Tara Reid's story I mean you can make that decision on your own I certainly believe her but what's interesting is that the media has taken very little interest in this story in fact there's almost been a complete blackout aside from a few sources covering this story The Huffington Post to their credit talked about this story Vox covered this story and Yahoo News temporarily covered this story as well before eventually moving it over to their sports section and then the link broke and now it's just not available definitely not weird nothing to see here folks now when it comes to cable news we've seen basically complete silence CNN and MSNBC both extensions of the Democratic Party by and large haven't talked about this surprise surprise now it's interesting because they try to make us believe that they actually cared about the Me Too and Time's Up movements and that women maybe should be able to come out share their stories and not be silenced when men in powerful positions sexually assault and or sexually harass them but they haven't said a word now when they cover the Brett Kavanaugh and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's story they covered it a lot there was wall-to-wall coverage and I think that them covering that a lot was warranted because if you are auditioning for a job in a very powerful position and you're going to be dictating judicial precedent for or legal precedent for years to come then I mean I think that the American people have a right to know at a minimum so give us the details let us at least decide on our own you just have to lay it out for us and that's it but the media isn't doing that now the media isn't too surprising but what's interesting is the way that Joe Biden's campaign is responding to this and by and large they're just trying to pretend like this isn't happening they're trying to bury their heads in the sand and the way that they're doing this is just embarrassingly pathetic so Simone Sanders for example Biden's press spokesperson she had a lot to say about the Christine Blasey Ford testimony so much so that she tweeted about it almost non-stop she went on CNN to talk about it and suddenly she deleted all of her tweets where she talked about men in power abusing women and how she believed Christine Blasey Ford so let me share some of what she said and this is now deleted just keep that in mind she wrote it's the moralizing to watch the patriarchy in America continue to silence the voices of so many but the patriarchy's day is coming we will not go silently into the night Brett Kavanaugh is not out of the woods yet his nomination can still be stopped but regardless of what happens this weekend if your stance is on the side of justice of truth we cannot stop fighting this seems applicable to Joe Biden now today Senate Republicans on the Judiciary Committee seemingly forgot Dr. Ford's testimony they seemingly forgot the lack of documents and seemingly forgot that Brett Kavanaugh was interviewing for a job a promotion that he is not entitled to have also applicable to Biden after her powerful testimony we heard from Kavanaugh as he sat before the Senate Judiciary Committee he oozed with privilege and looked like a man who had never been met with a challenge he exuded partisan talking points and refused to call for an investigation to clear his name hmm I wonder if Joe Biden's gonna call for an investigation and if she'll recommend that Dr. Ford's courage was powerful it was infectious and courageous prior to her testimony her courage inspired me to to my own story of a college rape unfortunately many Senate Republicans just seemed to not care I mean these were the people that stand and stood by Trump and there's more but we'll stop there because you get the point she was so moved by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's testimony that she told her own story and now all of this gone like that she deleted them deleted these tweets because all of a sudden I guess that what she said no longer stands like I'm trying to figure out what's going on here like if you have a stand nothing should convince you to change that stand remain principled I don't care what job it is I don't care if this will impact your career down the line if you truly believe in something then no matter what the consequences are you should hold true to that belief but like the coward and sell out that she is Simone Sanders chose to delete all of these tweets why? I mean it's obvious right because it makes her look like a hypocrite everything that she said about Brett Kavanaugh can be applied to Joe Biden in this instance with Tara Reid and she knows that and she doesn't want to jeopardize her opportunity to be the White House press secretary for Joe Biden she wants a job she wants a future in politics so she knows sometimes you know you've gotta roll over on your principles and bite the bullet all to make sure that people in power don't get hurt by these types of claims this is exactly why the Me Too movement came to fruition right was it not so that white women felt like they had the right to come out and share these allegations against men who were previously thought to be untouchable men with wealth in positions of power like what was all the point of that what was the point of the Me Too movement if some of the loudest cheerleaders of this movement all of a sudden are brushing everything they set aside and making an exception for Joe Biden what was the point of all of that it's just it's sad it's really sad because think of the message that descends to victims of sexual assault and rape you know what your voice matters unless you come out against someone and your claim is kind of inconvenient for us because we're trying to win an election it's embarrassing now I want to share this clip from Simone Sanders on CNN I believe she was still a CNN contributor at this time before she worked for Biden listen to what she said about Dr Christine Bozzie Ford and Brett Kavanaugh I don't care it's been 20 years 50 years I would come forward because I don't think anyone that has ever done that whether it was once in their life or 50 times deserves to sit at the highest I could I totally agree with that but you have no knowledge whether Brett Kavanaugh did it or not it doesn't matter I believe Christine Ford because no because when you to come forward she has no there's no enticements for her to come forward and to have her life destroyed to have folks sit on panels such as these and even others and have the the Senate the leader in the Senate basically tear down her character and assert that she's a liar so there's no incentive for her to come forward except to tell the truth so why doesn't any of what you said about Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Bozzie Ford apply to Joe Biden and Tara Reid explain that for me Simone Sanders let's go through what she said quote I don't think anyone who's ever done that whether it's been once in their life or 50 times deserves to sit at the highest precipice of power apparently you don't believe that anymore quote I believe Christine Ford because to come forward there's no enticement for her to come forward and to have her life destroyed there's no incentives for her to come forward except to tell the truth are you going to extend that same logic to Tara Reid I just these people are such frauds they will believe passionately in what they believed in until the minute it becomes inconvenient and then they will abandon those beliefs for purposes of political expediency and it's just it's sad it's pathetic look hypothetically speaking in the event this type of accusation was lodged against Bernie Sanders I have no doubt that the media would cover this nonstop but as a Bernie Sanders supporter how would I handle this well first of all I would expect Bernie Sanders to be responsible and call for an independent investigation call for the FBI to investigate these claims hear out the accuser and potentially abandon my support for Bernie Sanders which I admit would be difficult because I believe in policy but just based on principle and morality basic morality I couldn't support someone even if ideologically they agreed with me if I believed that they did something like that now maybe Simone Sanders doesn't believe Tara Reid maybe she just believes that Joe Biden is innocent okay well then explain your logic explain your reasoning and tell us your side of the story but instead she's choosing to be a coward and hide from all of this and delete what she said about Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford so she doesn't look like a hypocrite well guess what too late once you put it up on the internet it is there forever it's there forever so I mean this shouldn't surprise anyone to see that Democrats are complete frauds and they're hypocrites but you know just the depths of their hypocrisy and how quickly they're willing to abandon what they claimed to stand for it's just pathetic I don't know what else to say it's just downright pathetic the Democratic Party establishment has been conspicuously silent in the face of very serious allegations against Joe Biden however one finally decided to speak up but what this individual decided to say isn't too surprising it was Howard Dean and he decided to rather than actually responding to these claims shoot the messenger as they say he tweeted this story may or may not be true but it's from the intercept which one is often not credible two was started by Glenn Greenwald who helped Assange and Putin undermine the 2016 election I tend to believe victims but skeptical about sources like this they are the fox of the left now first of all how is the intercept not credible how are they less credible than sources that you support that are either owned by billionaire oligarchs or by large multi-billion-dollar corporations MSNBC is owned by Comcast Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos the intercept was started by an investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald now I know you don't like Glenn Greenwald but it's Ryan Grimm who reported on this story and Katie Halper who interviewed Tara Reid so what about the intercept do you not like like you can't just throw out a claim like that and try to discredit this organization without explaining specifically why you don't like them but you see the thing about Howard Dean is he is a hack he is currently a lobbyist he used to be progressive but now he's a lobbyist and anytime he has an opportunity to undermine the left he does it and it doesn't matter what he said or what the Democratic Party establishment said about Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Boziford what matters is that their team wins always so if their team is in a position where it may not look good for their particular players then they're going to lie smear slander invoke Russian conspiracy theories and how Glenn Greenwald assisted Assange and Russia I don't even know what that means I think what he means by that is that the intercept publish articles talking about the WikiLeaks revelations that the DNC rigged the primary against Bernie Sanders that allegedly came from Russia I don't know what he means by that but all I know is that this is pathetic this is sad the same thing was said about Tara Reid she was accused of being a Russian asset when she initially accused Joe Biden of sexual assault which is why she chose to go back into silence so Democrats don't really have anything left but to try out Russia discredit you know the organizations that are reporting on stories that they don't like shoot the messenger if you will but it shows you how pathetic they are it shows you how they stand for absolutely nothing they have zero integrity now it's sad that I have to criticize Howard Dean because at least he acknowledged the existence of Tara Reid and this story he at least did that the bare minimum, right but everyone else in the Democratic Party establishment has remained silent Joe Biden has been on MSNBC and CNN multiple times since this story broke and the number of times he's been asked about Tara Reid zero so the mere fact that Howard Dean is even acknowledging this story I think is a win in and of itself but of course the way that he's responding is predictably pathetic and disgusting so Howard Dean is a spineless coward he is the biggest shill I think he's the perfect representative of the corporate democratic wing of the party and you know it doesn't matter what they said about Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh what matters as I said is that their team wins at all costs it doesn't matter if you look you know like you have no integrity and they don't care about that but you know as much as they want to hide this story away the minute that the democratic party primaries are officially over I guarantee you Republicans will make this the number one story in America and they are a lot more disciplined than Democrats are in messaging so whatever they want the narrative to be that's what it's going to be and they're going to try to get revenge on Democrats who they believe wrongly accused Brett Kavanaugh but as someone who dislikes Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump and Joe Biden and the Democratic Party establishment I can tell you they're all hypocrites they're all opportunists who are all you know in politics for self-serving reasons and none of them give a damn about women because they're not consistent right being consistent and actually remaining principled means that sometimes you have to abandon people who are doing things that are contrary to what they say they believe in right so yes you think that Joe Biden has stood up for women throughout his career I disagree with that but now you have a very serious allegation something that the left claimed for years now with the Me Too movement that we should take seriously we should vet these claims Joe Biden should call for an investigation but the fact that that's not happening it shows you how fake and phony the Democratic Party is they stand for nothing they stand for absolutely nothing and if this doesn't prove that to you then absolutely nothing will a new poll conducted by ABC News and The Washington Post has some not so great news for Joe Biden so even though overall he's pulling ahead of Donald Trump albeit marginally the enthusiasm deficit that he's had throughout the Democratic primary hasn't gotten any better now when you look at levels of enthusiasm in the general election well 85% of Trump supporters overall are either very or somewhat enthusiastic while 73% of Biden supporters are very or somewhat enthusiastic translation Trump supporters are far more enthusiastic than Joe Biden supporters overall now when you look at those who are very enthusiastic 53% of Donald Trump supporters are very enthusiastic while only 24% of Joe Biden supporters are very enthusiastic that is a 29 point difference 29 points that's a lot now enthusiasm doesn't necessarily translate into votes and there are a lot of external factors that can currently influence the outcome of the 2020 election in November currently you know we don't we don't know how this COVID-19 pandemic is going to play out we don't know how this will impact the economy and how much of a blame Donald Trump will take at least how much voters will blame him for this and how he handles it we just don't know so there's a lot of external factors but currently as it stands now this poll is very bad news for Joe Biden because what does this indicate to us if there's a lack of enthusiasm in a general election turnout is low now riddle me this when turnout is low who's more likely to benefit from that Democrats or Republicans Republicans because the same loyal Republicans who vote every two years are going to come out again and loyally support Donald Trump but Democrats win when they get out the vote when they register new voters and expand the base attracts independents go after non-voters but if you have a nominee at the top of your ticket who's not able to do that that is a very bad sign that's an indicator of what's to come another four years of Donald Trump now ABC News puts these numbers into context for us perhaps the Democrats' biggest risk is under the surface in Trump's big advantage in backers who are very enthusiastic about supporting him strong enthusiasm for a candidate can help boost turnout on election day a must-have particularly for Democrats who rely more on motivating less frequent voters to come to the polls there's deja vu in these results former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton found herself in largely the same position four years ago she too had a slim lead among Democrats for the nomination and ran essentially evenly with Trump among registered voters and she lagged in enthusiasm with a low of 32% very enthusiastic in September 2016 Biden is eight points under that mark now bad as Biden's enthusiasm score is we've seen worse as few as 17% of former Republican presidential nominee and Arizona Senator John McCain supporters were very enthusiastic about his candidacy in 2008 and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney saw 23% in 2012 the poor omen for Biden is that Clinton McCain and Romney all lost and the fact that Joe Biden is eight points behind where Hillary Clinton was and she lost to Donald Trump Biden's probably gonna lose I'm just gonna say that Biden is probably going to lose that's not a foregone conclusion but if you nominate Joe Biden you get Donald Trump for another four years now if Joe Biden loses the left will be blamed they'll say that you know not enough Bernie Sanders supporters fell in line and supported the nominee but we've been telling you since last year the beginning of last year that Joe Biden is not electable and what did they say oh well you have to vote for Joe Biden because he's the most electable Jill Biden Joe Biden's wife said look I know that you don't like my husband's shitty healthcare policy I'm paraphrasing but you should probably just suck it up and vote for him anyway because he's the one who's most electable now this all sounds eerily familiar to what was said back in 2016 we were told that Hillary Clinton was the most electable so they used the exact same playbook and Democratic voters fell for it again because guess what they agree with Bernie on the policies in every single state that voted a majority of voters agree with Bernie Sanders a majority of voters want Medicare for all but they're voting strategically for the person who they think is best positioned to defeat Donald Trump and you know part of this is the media brainwashing them constantly getting them to think that if they want to beat Donald Trump which is basically their number one goal they have to go for Joe Biden so maybe you don't like Joe Biden but I mean do you really want to beat Donald Trump or do you not if you want to beat Trump you've got to go for Joe Biden and now we're in a position where there is so little enthusiasm for Joe Biden that there's even less enthusiasm for him than there was for Hillary Clinton and any candidate who has very little enthusiasm ends up losing Republican or Democrat but especially Democrat who again relies on turnout to win what a goddamn disaster and Democrats have nobody to thank but themselves for constantly trying to push home this point that Biden is the most electable Biden did it too but I mean the media didn't have to fall in line the media didn't have to do that but here we are again it's so incredibly frustrating and you know the counterpoint will be well if you know way more people are enthusiastic about Bernie Sanders than why isn't he winning and I hear you but we all live in a bubble all of us who you know are very in tuned to what's going on in the Democratic Party primary we are the exception not the rule so most people pay attention to presidential races and the general not the primaries so in the event Bernie Sanders were the nominee I think his chances of winning would be better I'm not going to say Bernie is you know a sure bet because nobody is Donald Trump is more powerful now than he was back in 2016 because he has that advantage of incumbency and he's running on a strong economy which persuades voters more often than not even if that economy isn't benefiting everyone so like this combination is terrible Joe Biden is weaker than Hillary Clinton and he's going up against a stronger Donald Trump put two and two together he's gonna lose if he wins it'd be a miracle basically so another four years of Donald Trump I don't have to tell you what a disaster that will be Donald Trump will almost certainly name at least one more Supreme Court pick but I'm honestly more concerned about the judges that he will appoint to lower courts the federal judges he's been very effective at doing that I'm terrified at four more years of undoing what little progress we've made when it comes to climate change undoing the Affordable Care Act like it'd be a disaster but this is a disaster that Democrats have to own if it in fact happens right I'm rooting against Trump I'm not rooting for Biden because he alone is a disaster but I'm certainly not rooting for Trump and I hope he loses I hope Biden is able to beat him if he's the nominee even if I'm not going to support him but Democrats got to own this this is what they did they made their bed now they've got to lie in it Obama you've got to own this bud sorry you know it hid behind the curtain here and you got everyone to consolidate drop out support Joe Biden you wanted this you moved heaven and earth to make sure that Biden beats Bernie so own it this is your disaster you've made your bed laying it Democrats got to own this they can't blame anyone about themselves they knew that you know running a moderate who was unlikeable didn't work in 2016 so to think that it would work in 2020 it's just stupidity so they've got to own this this is their making their disaster in the making more specifically they've got to live with it they can't blame us this is their doing I have been a supporter of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez since day one you know she came on my show I interviewed her and then when she won like I had tears in my eyes because I truly believe that maybe that was the beginning of a new era in American politics maybe the left finally would actually be able to obtain power and effect change but some of what AOC has been doing lately it just it flies in the face of reason what she's doing doesn't make sense she's making political calculations that are very obviously antithetical to what the left wants right now I don't believe that we should tear down all of our allies I think that we definitely need to hold them accountable but what I do want people to understand is that when red flags present themselves very clearly to us we have to take those red flags seriously even if it might make us feel uncomfortable to do so I had to force myself to fight through the cognitive dissonance to vet Tulsi Gabbard and it turns out she's not the real deal she endorsed Joe Biden I you know vetted Andrew Yang and I went through why his agenda is actually very problematic Elizabeth Warren abandoned progressives back in 2016 I don't think I was hard enough on her certainly I was critical of her and was still criticized by centrist for being too hard on her but those little red flags eventually add up and it's to a point now where AOC is proving to us that even if she may still be an ally in spite of the article that I'm going to read to you her being the new standard bearer of progressivism in the United States the new successor to Bernie Sanders I just don't see it I don't see it certainly she is an ally to us I'm not going to discount her value on what she brings to the table but what she's doing here the things that I will talk to you about based on this political article they're very serious and I've seen some of this and you know I thought I don't know if I should bring this up as an issue namely one of them is her unwillingness to endorse Cory Bush Cory Bush as you all know is someone who we desperately need in Congress AOC enthusiastically endorsed her back in 2018 and now she's nowhere to be found so we're going to read this article from Alex Thompson and Holly Otterbin of Politico who write soon after her upset primary victory against the Democratic Party boss in 2018 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez traveled to St. Louis to prove her victory wasn't a one-off by campaigning for Cory Bush who was similarly taking on a longtime Democratic congressman Bush lost that race but is challenging Representative William Lacey Clay again in an August primary she has more money and higher name recognition and earned the endorsement of Bernie Sanders but Ocasio-Cortez isn't helping Bush this time of the half dozen incumbent primary challengers Justice Democrats is backing the cycle Ocasio-Cortez has endorsed just two neither was a particularly risky move both candidates Jessica Cisneros in Texas and Marie Newman in Illinois were taking on conservative Democrats who oppose abortion rights and later earned the support of several prominent national Democrats Ocasio-Cortez's reluctance marks a break with the outsider tactics of the activist left represented by groups like Justice Democrats Ocasio-Cortez's shift coincides with turnover among top aides in her congressional office replacing some outspoken radicals with more traditional political professionals along with a broader reckoning on the left on how to expand Sanders' coalition after his failure to significantly do so in the presidential primary Ocasio-Cortez's endorsement moves are not a fluke but part of a larger change over the past several months after her disruptive burnt down early months in Congress Ocasio-Cortez who colleagues say is often conflict-aversed in person has increasingly been trying to work more within the system she is building coalitions with fellow Democratic members and picking her fights more selectively after starting some high-profile fights with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and tweaking Democratic colleagues on Twitter early in her tenure Ocasio-Cortez has been more conciliatory toward other House Democrats in February she dubbed Pelosi the mama bear of the Democratic Party that makes me want to vomit over the past few weeks Ocasio-Cortez has also chided Sanders supporters for online harassment and delivered soft critiques of Sanders and some of his allies for being too conflict-based the moves have drawn surprise praise from some moderate and veteran Democrats near attendant president of the liberal think tank center for American progress and a longtime Hillary Clinton aide called Ocasio-Cortez a shift quote a sign of leadership instead of supporting Justice Democrats full slate of incumbent challengers Ocasio-Cortez launched her own pack earlier this year that's been more focused on electing progressives in Republican held or open seats Ocasio-Cortez declined to be interviewed but her new communications director Lauren Hit noted that Bush's August 4th primary is still several months away and that the congresswoman is monitoring other primaries quote we don't usually endorse so far out Hit said Ocasio-Cortez however endorsed Newman six months before her primary and backed Cisneros more than four months before hers the changes go beyond rhetoric and include personnel two of her most senior aides who worked on her insurgent campaign and co-founded Justice Democrats have left her operation chief of staff Sycott Chakrabati in August and communications director Corbyn Shrent earlier this month the hiring of Lauren Hit as Trent's replacement speaks to Ocasio-Cortez's new approach an experienced operative Hit has worked for more moderate Democrats like Governor John Hickenlooper and Representative Beto O'Rourke during their recent presidential bids as well as left-wing candidates such as former New York gubernatorial contender Cynthia Nixon Chakrabati was a firebrand on the Hill after Ocasio-Cortez's victory in November of 2018 he earned enemies in the Democratic Caucus by declaring we got a primary folks they were livid in June when he called some members new Southern Democrats Ocasio-Cortez replaced him with legislative director Ariel Ekbland who joined her office in January 2019 after working for Senator Kamala Harris so long story short she is withholding endorsements in crucial races where she could actually make a difference and on top of that she is replacing the more firebrand members of her staff with establishment-approved choices if you will embarrassing and here's the thing you have to acknowledge that the Democratic Party AOC speaking directly to her they are not your ally they are your enemy if somebody is punching you in the chest while another person is stabbing you they're both bad one may be causing more harm to you objectively than the other but the person who's punching you still isn't your ally they're your enemy and they're hurting you actively so trying to align with the corporate wing of the party isn't going to help you get progressive policies passed and now I'm not saying that she is capitulating when it comes to policy but you've got to have the correct strategy if you actually want those policies codified into law to try to work with Democrats who are very openly corrupt corporatists to call Nancy Pelosi mama bearer of the Democratic Party you're embarrassing yourself you are embarrassing yourself and this leads to people I think rightfully thinking you were co-opted in a number of ways maybe they've managed to bully you into silence because I've covered the articles of you know Democrats anonymously saying how horrible she is so maybe she just got tired of fighting them and just decided this is easier for me going forward I get it but it's sad now you can tell how effective she is here not necessarily at winning over the Democratic Party but just getting their approval temporarily because we had that quote from near attendant and I also I want to share what James Carville had to say about her because this gives you an indication as to why she's doing this you know she's just tired of fighting them the Democratic Party is the party of coalitions not a cult said James Carville a top strategist for Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign and vocal critic of Sanders during the primary I've observed her and I think she's really talented wait James Carville is saying this that's weird that she's really smart maybe she is I don't speak for her coming to the conclusion that she wants to be part of the coalition there it is there it is so they probably had a talk with her look I get that you support all these progressive policies but you know coming to congress protesting with the sunrise movement in the office of Nancy Pelosi that's just not really how we do things here in DC and she said it herself there's a lot of corporate voices in your ear a lot of voices that want you to acquiesce that will put pressure on you to bend you and ultimately break you and it seems like that's the indication that we're getting that the establishment broke AOC I think she probably still believes in all the policies she came to congress believing in but what this article tells us is that she has been deluded into thinking that working with the establishment is the only way forward like there were people quoted in this article saying oh this is a savvy move no it's not you can't work with the enemy and expect to accomplish change because they're just going to placate you they don't care about Medicare for all they don't care about what your wing of the party has to say they don't care they don't like you AOC and near attendant and James Carville they're saying nice things about you to butter you up but at the end of the day they don't care about the left so what are you doing I don't get what you're doing look this is the easier path for her objectively speaking I get that right it's probably really stressful for her to constantly be at war with people who she has to work with every single day but here's the thing this is what you signed up for you signed up exactly for this job you promised us you'd be a fighter for us and calling Nancy Pelosi mama bear of the Democrats I don't think that that's what people who voted for you wanted they want you to go after Nancy Pelosi who has blood on her hands she refuses to back any of the policies that progressives want so you can kiss her ass all you want it's not going to change anything so you don't have a choice if you want progressive change working with the Democrats is not the way to get progressive change fighting them at every step of the way is the way you get progressive change because you're the one with credibility you're the one who has millions of followers and they don't so you were a bigger threat to them when you actually fought them but now that they're twisting your arm and trying to butter you up you think that you're actually going to get things done no of course not of course not now part of me is worried about even talking about this because here's the thing like it or not I feel as though I am a representative of progressives and democratic socialists and like I don't feel like a representative but what I'm saying is that like democratic party loyalists near a tandem Joanne Reed they've used me before as an example as to how bad the Bernie Sanders movement is so like I try to watch my peas and queues as much as I possibly can while being authentic still and I try not to be overly divisive overly down so it's like by talking about this I know what they're going to say about me right Joanne Reed has quoted me or not quoted me but paraphrased what I said before NBC news articles have quoted me and they try to portray me and other progressives to be fair as toxic right so by talking about this people are going to say oh well look at Mike he's just further proof that progressives and democratic socialists are toxic and this is why they're not serious about getting power because they're willing to tear down anyone the first moment they show signs that they're not going to toe the progressive line or whatever that may be but here's the thing we know how powerful this system is and I am smart enough to know that nothing I say or do no matter how polite or civilized I try to be on camera I'm not going to win them over they're always going to be negative so I have absolutely no reason to try to win these people over and I want AOC to get that drift as well nothing she says or does will actually win them over they don't like her and so long as she truly believes in Medicare for All they're not going to like her because she poses a threat to the status quo in the sense that she's doing or fighting for what their donors don't want so by them trying to silence her try to get her to acquiesce and co-opt her they're doing that for their own good not for her good and I think she needs to get that and you know I'm not trying to imply that she's as bad as Elizabeth Warren because she endorsed Bernie Sanders so she already proved that she has more courage than Elizabeth Warren ever had but we have to take seriously the red flags and as a movement we have to hold our own accountable and put pressure on them and yes they're going to say look at these Bernie brothers they're toxic she endorsed Bernie and they're still attacking her we have to hold our own accountable and politely tell AOC that working with the establishment is like making a deal with the devil it's never for your own good it's for their own good and you're not going to get policies accomplished by working with them you have to fight them and break them not let them break you that's what Elizabeth Warren didn't get and that's why by trying to appease you know the center and the left she ended up appeasing nobody right you have to pick a side this is a civil war in the democratic party this is intra-party warfare so there's no way that you can walk that fine line and appease corporate democrats and progressive democrats simultaneously you have to pick a side because our views are diametrically opposed what we are in favor of the corporate wing of the democratic party is against we're diametrically opposed so AOC has got to realize that this is not the right path this is not the right path you can't do this AOC you have to endorse Cory Bush you have to fight in the same way that you came into congress fighting and to even hire someone who worked with Beto O'Rourke or Kamala Harris shows that that's a big problem because the people who you work with in congress who you see daily who advise you little by little they will shape your world view we saw how this affected Elizabeth Warren who she was when she announced her 2020 campaign was a different person by the end of it and she already sucked when she announced right she was still the sellout spineless coward but like comparing 2019 Warren to 2020 Warren the difference is like night and day so I'll end with this so long as AOC continues fighting for the progressive policies that I want I will always see her as an ally but but there's a caveat I will never see her as a leader I will never see her as the successor to Bernie Sanders movement because if you are willing to get in bed with the establishment whatever you think may be the benefit of that it's not going to help you you may think that doing this kissing Nancy Pelosi's ass hiring political operatives that worked with Kamala Harris and better work is going to net you a benefit make you stronger better position you to fight for policies like Medicare for all and a Green New Deal but I promise you it absolutely will not the only option that we have if we ever want to get progressive policies passed is to absolutely win over the corporate wing and I don't mean win them over and get them on our side I mean win beat them kick them out of the party force party realignment where they join the Republican Party take over the Democratic Party permanently working with them is not an option and I say that not necessarily because I don't believe it to be true but because empirical evidence what we've seen proves it to be true so you know I've had my concerns with AOC for quite some time namely the Cory Bush endorsement is something that I've been watching and I'll just say if she doesn't endorse Cory Bush she's proving to everyone that she's not the real deal and this is it's a cowardly thing to do to abandon someone who you desperately need in Congress with you to fight for the policies you say you believe in so um you have no choice if you genuinely want Medicare for all a great new deal raising the normal wage you have to endorse Cory Bush you can still believe in those policies but you're not serious about getting them if you're going to allow all these really important progressive primary challengers to just fight their own battles like progressives worked like hell to get you elected people like myself and Kyle Kalinsky berated Ro Khanna when he didn't endorse you and then he did the dual endorsement which is better than nothing but we fought to get you elected and we fought to you know extend your platform don't betray us like this because you're not helping yourself and us get progressive policies you're just helping the corporate wing in an Instagram live stream Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez responded to the claims made by the Politico article about how she is you know pivoting a little bit towards being less divisive and trying to work with Democrats as opposed to you know challenging them at every step of the way and she responded by basically dismissing the concerns of progressives take a look oh if anything I've only gotten more ardent in my positions but I do think it's funny that all these folks that one day are like keep your third eye open manufacture consent are the same ones who fall the fastest for these ploys yeah I think that this tweet put it best I guess y'all missed that part of manufacturing consent where Chomsky calls Nancy Pelosi his political mama bear exactly now I get the point that she's trying to make I believe that the media would of course want nothing more for than the left to eat itself and attack AOC and push her further into the arms of the Democratic Party establishment however the article was written in part by Holly Otterbean and that's kind of an insult to her as she's one of the better reporters at Politico and what she mentions here are several facts these aren't you know things that she made up this isn't her analysis these are facts that she presented us with in this article you called Nancy Pelosi mama bear now maybe you know that's something that we can dismiss maybe I'm being a little bit too petty but I don't think kissing the ass of the person who has laughed at you essentially and tried to marginalize you within Congress is a good idea she called your Green New Deal the green dream or whatever so trying to play nice with her and you know calling her the mama bear I think that that's problematic I think that it legitimizes someone who the left should absolutely view as the enemy because Nancy Pelosi quite frankly is our enemy on top of that the article mentions how you're not endorsing primary challengers who are taking on incumbent Democrats that's an issue address that additionally the article cites how you factually this isn't made up decided to get rid of more radical members of your your team like Corbyn Shrent Shaka Shaka Rabadi and replace them with establishment-approved choices you also scolded Bernie Sanders supporters for not being civilized enough now I'm not saying that you're a sellout but what I'm saying is that these are very big red flags and I think that you should address them and I think that you should pay respect to the movement that got you elected without progressives you wouldn't be in that position so at a minimum even if you think these claims are laughable even if you think you know our fears are a bit much you at least owe us the respect to not laugh and try to gaslight us by saying oh no I'm Chomsky manufacturing consent no that's not what this article is trying to do that's not what this article is trying to do there are legitimate concerns red flags that it would be nice for you to address now you don't have to but to just kind of laugh it off I find that insulting because we worked really hard to get you elected now again I'm not saying that you're selling out or anything like that I'm overall just I'm irritated with the strategy that you're choosing to pursue because I know that you think that working with the establishment and being less divisive is going to put you in a better position to get policies like Medicare for All passed but that shows that you fundamentally misunderstand politics in America because the reason why Nancy Pelosi and corporate Democrats aren't choosing to back policies like Medicare for All isn't because progressives are too impolite it's not because you know you're not taking Nancy Pelosi out to dinner and kissing her ass enough it's because she has corporate donors that pay her to be against these policies so changing up your tone being more civilized that is not going to impact policy outcomes at all so what you have to do is name and shame these politicians until they are afraid to go against the movement I mean at first AOC she was you know she was putting pressure on leadership and other Democrats and that was a really effective strategy because they were worried there were articles that I shared on this program where members of Congress didn't want to you know offend AOC if you will they didn't want her horde of Twitter followers going after them so they tried to you know play it safe and not speak up or only talk on the condition of anonymity if they wanted to talk shit about AOC so your strategy the one that you're pursuing now you may think it's going to help you but it's not but here's the thing we can disagree on strategy that's perfectly fine but I think that you owe us an explanation and if you don't want to say anything at a minimum don't laugh off the claims or the legitimate concerns that people have that were brought up in this article rightfully so by Holly Otterbein like to just kind of like disregard the concerns that progressives have I view that as a slap in the face because again we did everything in our power to help get you elected I brought you on this show to interview you to tell my viewers to donate to your campaign so we helped you so we feel like we're a part of this together so for you to just kind of disregard us now it's a little bit uh frustrating to say the least like you should be trying to pay it forward like once you get in you shouldn't close the door behind you still help other progressives running endorse Cory Bush what are you doing endorse you know uh the other progressives that are running I've had 30 progressives on my program and you're choosing to endorse only the safest choices the only one that she endorsed that I've had on my program was same Lee Slope as so I just I don't I don't think that this is going to help you by you know kind of brushing aside the concerns of progressives that I think are legitimate and you know getting cozy with the establishment and I'll repeat that I don't think that she is a sell-out but we don't want you to go down that path to where being a sell-out is possible to where you become compromised or you get a little bit friendly with the establishment and they start to influence your worldview as your staffers can do it happened with Elizabeth Warren so that's all I'll say AOC is a good politician so long as she's fighting for Medicare for All and all the policies that I uh that I agree with but if the strategy doesn't pan out well and I don't think it will then we told you so but I mean if you think you know best if you truly believe that kissing the ass of Nancy Pelosi is the best strategy all right we'll just have to agree to disagree but when we bring up these concerns and we vocalize our disagreements at least pay us the respect to not be condescending during your Instagram live streams and dismiss our concerns as uh you know we're falling for the media trap you know we're smarter than that and I would expect you to know that so Bernie Sanders press spokesperson Brianna Joy Gray she is probably the sweetest person ever she genuinely cares about the plight of the less fortunate and the marginalized and you can see it like everything she does is advocate for you know people who need healthcare who need education who need student debt relief so you know every once in a while she'll respond to politicians and effectively shame them into coming around to a better position now one person Kamala Harris who I believe maybe it was in uh 1990 uh 1995 no that's right it was in 2017 endorsed Medicare for all but all of a sudden she uh doesn't talk about Medicare for all it's almost like she endorsed that policy for purposes of political expediency and then ran away from it the minute it became a little bit inconvenient but she put out a tweet saying that tests and um healthcare for COVID-19 treatments should be free now I have no disagreements with Kamala Harris there except the difference between her and I is that I believe that everything should be free when it comes to healthcare chemo treatments uh insulin everything should be free at the point of service because uh if you don't agree with that then I genuinely want to hear from you what illnesses what diseases do you think people should have to pay for because that's what I genuinely want to know so Kamala Harris put out this tweet saying testing for coronavirus and treatment needs to be free period to which Brianna Joy Gray responded saying this is a good start but is it okay to die from cancer or diabetes because you're poor and I totally agree with this point I think that this is um not controversial at all and Joe Biden has said the same thing via Twitter he said that you know treatments and care for COVID-19 should be free and you know the left always responds by predictably saying all right well if you think that should be free why don't you think that treatments for chemo should also be free why should people who get cancer which is out of their control mind you have to be forced into bankruptcy because they don't have health insurance why shouldn't chemo be free as well and I think it's a basic logical point we're basically calling on them to do better we're calling on them to be better than the milk toast neoliberals that they are to their cores right it's just asking them to extend the logic that they're using for this issue to every single health care related issue so you'd think that this is a benign tweet it's not controversial except all hell broke loose because Brianna Joy Gray dared to respond to Queen Kamala Harris how dare you question her and when I say that all hell broke loose all hell broke loose basically on Twitter the entire day shit libs centrists were dogging on Brianna Joy Gray because she dared to ask Kamala Harris to offer peasants a little bit more than crumbs so for example Zerlina Maxwell scolded her for her tone tweeting the tone of this tweet is mean and disrespectful especially considering Kamala's mother died from cancer well wouldn't you think that if that were the case she would be even more radical in her claim that health care should be free at the point of service because if you saw firsthand the way that your mother died from cancer which is tragic then can you imagine an extra layer of tragedy if somebody died from cancer but you don't even know if they could have been saved because they couldn't afford treatment like that doesn't prove your point it makes you look petty it makes it seem as if Kamala Harris should be doing better be you know a better advocate for people who are suffering with cancer who don't have health insurance or maybe they're underinsured so this doesn't help you I don't know what Zerlina Maxwell thought that she was doing but she's one of the biggest hacks in American politics so of course she's going to make sure that she is there she has the back of her team members at all costs Bakari Sellers responded by saying this is toxic she's been a part of the problem yes advocating for poor people to have health care definitely part of the problem and sure Michael Singleton responded saying we've both been in politics long enough to know that this person is putting herself in a very bad position for future opportunities I hope she knows exactly what she's doing because making unnecessary enemies is a fool's errand to which Bakari Sellers responded saying we remember so now what they're doing is they're literally threatening her lively they're saying well you know we're gonna remember this when you look for a job in DC we're gonna remember that you said this this toxicity we'll remember it I mean these people are absolutely ruthless and they police us for our tone they're trying to police Breonna Joy Gray for her tone but in the same breath they're basically saying because you said something that we don't like we think that you should never get a job in this town in DC ever again how fucked up is that and these are just a few examples like when I say that people were dogging on her all day I mean she was the number one trending topic on Twitter yesterday and even celebrities like Yvette Nicole Brown got in on the action and shared this poorly photoshopped image of Nina Turner and Breonna Joy Gray as Diamond and Silk so because she dared to advocate on behalf of people who don't have healthcare she is like MAGA chuds Diamond and Silk how fucking disgusting and morally reprehensible you are as a human being to think that she's like these fascist clowns because she thinks that people shouldn't die because they don't have healthcare this is embarrassing like how are we supposed to work with these people how are we supposed to continuously hold hands and sing kumbaya with these centrist neo liberals when they get offended literally if you dare to advocate that everyone should have healthcare how are we supposed to work with them the answer is we can't work with them that's the answer and once you realize that these centrist shit libs are not your allies once you realize that they're your enemies if you're a lefty then politics makes a lot more sense they are working to undermine you at every step of the way what you are for they are against what you're fighting for they're fighting you to stop that these people are not your friends the democratic party they are not your friends there is a civil war going on in this party there's intra-party warfare and let me say there's anyone who thinks that they can you know appease both sides Elizabeth Warren, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to a lesser extent you're horribly mistaken you can't ride the fence you've got to pick a side it's the left or the center one has to win and the other has to lose we're not going to come to any agreement uh there's going to be a perpetual budding of our heads until one completely overrides the other until the other is beaten into oblivion and can't return whether that's the centrists whether that's progressives I don't know who but one of us has to win and the other has to lose period now I will be fighting like hell to make sure that the left prevails right but you have to acknowledge that these people are not our political allies centrists are not your allies ideologically speaking they're closer to republicans than the left so to call them centrists is kind of a misnomer in a way because they're not actually centrists they're center right we're leftists and we're not even that radical when you consider the fact that most developed countries have some form of universal healthcare be it single payer or a national health system so these people are not your friends they're not your allies they're your enemies because if they are going to freak out and have this meltdown because Briana Joy Gray dared to advocate for healthcare for poor people do you honestly think ask yourself can you work with these people are these people even worth your time I think the answer is clear it's an unequivocal no fuck these people fuck centrist democrats we have to absolutely beat them otherwise them and republicans who they claim to hate so much will continue to win politically speaking because they agree on basically everything they do democrats and republicans that line between them is getting a lot more blurred and it's going to happen if centrists keep winning so just know what you're getting yourself into the democratic party their leadership most of their members their followers their loyalists they're not your friends they are your enemy never forget that fact as many of you know Bernie Sanders appeared on ABC's The View once again and this show is how do I put this politely trash it's basically Fox News for centrists Karens wine moms and shit libs alike and as you could have predicted they weren't too kind to Bernie Sanders but before I even play any portion of their interview with him look at this preview that they aired for the upcoming interview this is pants on head worms in your brain downright fucking idiocy to accuse someone of politicizing healthcare during a global pandemic is fucking stupid that's like saying you're politicizing war by talking about peace so to even suggest that politicization of healthcare is possible during a literal global pandemic where people desperately need healthcare more than ever I don't even know like how many people this pass through before they approved it but this makes them look very stupid even their viewers who are brainwashed can't hear that and think wow what a cogent point it's stupidity now on top of that they said that by him staying in the race he could guarantee Trump another victory that is what I like to call a propaganda fail because your words are at odds with one another could he or will he guarantee victory you see they want you to think that Bernie's ongoing presence in this race could lead to Joe Biden losing and you see they're already pre-blaming him for Joe Biden's defeat because you know that that's what they were going to do but let's get into the actual nitty gritty here because Whoopi Goldberg really starts to hammer him on why he won't drop out of the race and Whoopi Goldberg is a very smug insufferable individual but I've never seen her more condescending than in this clip take a look I have to ask you this question now because I've been watching to see what you were going to do and I'm told that you intend to stay in this race for president because you believe there is a path to victory I want to know what that path is because this feels a little bit like it did when you didn't come out when Hillary Clinton was clearly the person folks were going for so can you explain why you're still in the race and what this path is that you see well one of the reasons that's not quite accurate I worked as hard as I could for Hillary Clinton but the reason there is a path Bernie just so we're clear you worked for Hillary but it took you a very very long time to hop in and your people also it took a very long time for them to hop in so when I say that that's what I'm talking about I don't accept that characterization but the point is people have a right why are you still in the race people have a right last I heard people in a democracy have a right to vote and have a right to vote for the agenda that they think can work for America especially in this very very difficult moment we are assessing our campaign as a matter of fact where we want to go forward but people in a democracy do have a right to vote and right now in this unprecedented moment in American history I think we need to have a very serious discussion about how we go forward and one of the things that I am working on with other members of the Senate and Congress is a new stimulus package which not only makes sure that all of our people in this crisis have health care but also that they continue to receive their paycheck we have got to understand where we are at and right now is April 1st it is likely possible there are millions of people who cannot pay their rent they are really lucky that Bernie Sanders is so nice because if I were in Bernie Sanders position just to spite them I would declare that I'm not going anywhere I'm staying in all the way until the convention and if I don't win then I'll be running as an independent maybe I'll be endorsing the Green Party nominee like they don't realize that if Bernie Sanders really wanted to be nasty he could be nasty and I think it's warranted given all of the poor treatment that they've given him I mean think about this back in 2015 when the Republican Party establishment and Fox News were all pressuring Donald Trump to you know support the nominee don't be divisive after he basically said I would run as an independent if they're if they're going to treat me like this what did he do well after signing a loyalty pledge he doubled down and said actually maybe I will run as an independent like Bernie has got to understand that these people they don't like him he's only useful to them insofar as he provides them with ratings and he's willing to be obedient but since he's not being obedient since he's not obeying like a good little soldier and falling in line and supporting Joe Biden they absolutely despise him and it's funny how Whoopi Goldberg is pretending to be a good journalist there but why wouldn't she bring on Joe Biden and ask him about the credible rape allegation that nobody in the media is talking about if you actually want to be a trailblazer be a good journalist Whoopi Goldberg if that's what you're calling yourself now I don't know what why wouldn't you actually be a serious person and focus on the real issues and not trying to pressure Bernie Sanders to drop out when half the country hasn't even made their voices heard now what irritated me even more about that clip is the aftermath when Democratic Party hack Alyssa Milano was so pleased with Whoopi's questioning that she tweeted out thank you Whoopi Goldberg this moment in time is too important to take bullshit from our politicians Hey Alyssa any word on the rape allegations against the candidate that you support like you're this huge feminist icon a leader in the Me Too movement no why haven't you said anything about the rape allegations don't act like you don't see us tweeting this news to you don't act like you don't see us pressing you to give an answer we know you hear us you're just choosing to ignore it because you know it makes you look really hypocritical so the best move for you is to pretend like they don't exist so rather than focusing on Bernie Sanders why don't you focus on your friend as you call him and ask him whether or not these rape allegations are legitimate and why he hasn't called for an FBI investigation into the claims of terror read why haven't you done that yet Alyssa Milano until you do that kindly shut the fuck up now moving on they get to the discussion about Medicare for all and this is where the interview really goes off the rails because they posed the question to Bernie Sanders about Medicare for all and how it would be valuable during a global pandemic which should be obvious but they set up the question by basically lying about other systems other countries with single pair systems to be exact take a look countries with universal health care L health care routinely have to wait longer and sometimes die before receiving many of the medical treatments right now if you can't afford to wait because corona isn't they're having this it's not something you can wait on health care for so what would your counter be to why that would be beneficial right now well sir I mean the truth is that there are long waiting a lot of before corona virus there were long waiting lines in treatment for people who need health care the truth is that in our country there are if for many in many many instances other countries for normal procedures get health care a lot more rapidly than we do in this country we have areas of America right now in rural areas for example where you don't have the kind of doctors we should where hospitals are being closed down we are paying far more for prescription drugs than other people in any other country in some cases 10 times more because we don't negotiate prices for prescription drugs so I don't accept the basic premise of your argument I think the truth is that in Canada in other countries around the world their health care systems are far more popular than our system is because the function of our system to be honest is to make billions of dollars in profits for the insurance companies and the drug companies not to provide quality care to all people I want to repeat what she said countries with universal health care routinely have to wait longer and sometimes die before receiving many of the medical treatments okay what study are you citing which country are you talking about what anecdotes do you have to prove this point name it provide us with the study provide us with the data oh you don't have that because you're lying because guess what every single country has wait times including the United States and some countries with national or single pair systems actually have shorter wait times than the United States now our neighbor Canada they actually do have longer wait times than us but let me ask you this question how many people in Canada die because they don't have health care the answer is zero people now contrast that with the United States how many people in this country die every single year because they don't have health care 68,000 this is not according to Mike from the Humanist Report this is according to a peer reviewed Yale study what do you have where's your data where's your numbers where's your studies cite them or shut the fuck up see the thing that they don't tell you about is elective procedures you know that does have a longer waiting time because everyone is covered so if there is a procedure that is more urgent they're going to prioritize that person that individual who needs a necessary procedure to survive will jump to the front of the line and sometimes those just seeking elective procedures minor surgeries have to wait a little bit longer but guess what nobody dies because they don't have health care zero people die in Canada because they don't have health care so you can try to cite statistics and facts but if you really want to play that game I advise you not to unless you want to look like an absolute fucking liar now believe it or not it gets worse because Sonny Hostin comes in and she brings up the claim that Bernie Sanders is supposedly politicizing a global pandemic by talking about the number one thing that we should be looking at during a global pandemic health care take a look some are accusing you of using the pandemic to push Medicare for all and they're saying you know at a time at this time we should put politics aside and come together behind the president what is your response to politicizing this application that everyone is politicizing? Well I don't know who is making the allegation you know I have political opponents who make all kinds of accusations but should we put politics aside and all come together of course we should and when we all come together it seems to me we have to do several things one of them is guarantee health care to all people right now the absurdity that you may be diagnosed with the coronavirus and you go into the hospital and you spend thousands of dollars getting treated and maybe God willing you come out alive well you got a huge bill out there if you're being diagnosed with cancer right now the truth is that we have 500,000 people a year who go bankrupt because of medically related bills so let us come together you're absolutely right but in coming together we got to do a couple of things so one thing to say that especially in this crisis people should not have to worry about the course of health care they should not have to worry about whether they can afford prescription drugs or not they should not have to worry whether the pharmaceutical industry is going to make billions of dollars by creating a vaccine that will be unaffordable to ordinary people it must be free to all so let's come together on that premise oh so some people are accusing Bernie Sanders of politicizing this issue who? name them name the author of the article you read you sound like Donald Trump Sonny many people are saying that you are politicizing this pandemic my Trump impression is horrible but I mean you get the point you're saying that just admit it and as she broadcasts from her mansion her beautiful home I think that she should just be honest and word that question in the way that we know she wants to why should I a multimillionaire who gets paid so much money more than most Americans will have in their lives why should I give a shit about poor people dying I have healthcare fuck them I got mine why should I care about poor people just like word the question that way we know that you don't care about poor people dying Sonny you've been very clear you've been very hostile towards Medicare for all you and your hosts at the view but just admit that you don't care that 68,000 people die every single year because they don't have healthcare their lives don't matter to you because you are an elitist right and continuing to push this issue of Medicare for all makes your party your team look bad because they are unwilling to support it because they've been bought and paid for by the private health industry so just admit that you don't actually care about the lives of poor people and them dying it doesn't matter to you because the talk of Medicare for all is inconvenient because it makes your team look bad just fucking admit it you goddamn hacks you goddamn frauds like these are genuinely bad people and I saw a tweet from June otherwise known as Shuwan Head on Twitter who put up a poll and said if you had to destroy one but only one between Fox News, MSNBC and The View after this segment I think I would have to choose The View because when it comes to who's doing the most damage in this country The View has to be towards the top of that list because think about this people who watch Fox News it's a certain segment of the population who will always believe Fox News no matter what and the same is true for MSNBC but when it comes to The View that's also true but the problem is that people who watch The View I'm assuming are a bit more apolitical than MSNBC viewers so people who otherwise don't necessarily have any strong political positions are getting this biased take and they are shaping the world view of apolitical Karens everywhere so I mean The View has got to be one of the most harmful shows because of the misinformation that they spread actively you saw it that host literally tried to claim that people are dying in countries with single-payer healthcare because they have to wait so long that's not happening and if it is prove me wrong cite a study just one just one you can't do it because you are fucking liars manufacturing consents so The View is just terrible and I've said this before and I'm gonna say it every single time I talk about The View the collective IQ of the United States would increase by at least 10 maybe 15 points if this show were canceled and the day that it's canceled we should all be celebrating because that means that Americans will be a little bit smarter by not having to listen to these rich clowns talk down to the peasants from their ivory towers while pretending to know what they're talking about while pretending to care what the peasants go through as they tell you how bad Medicare for all is from their fucking mansions where they're protected so I'll be the first to admit that I don't agree with Marianne Williamson on everything but out of everyone else who ran for president in 2020 she is the only one besides Bernie Sanders who actually has proven to be principled who actually cares about the issues and where I disagree with her on the policy I don't think it's because she's bought or sold out or not courageous enough I think there's just a legitimate policy disagreement so Marianne Williamson is someone who I just I have grown to really respect lately and she keeps offending Bernie and it's making me love her anymore because at a time where you have basically no allies in mainstream media and American politics it's nice to see at least someone willing to speak out for you so as you all know the view recently interviewed Bernie Sanders and it was an absolute train wreck I cover that in a different video we won't rehash it but Alyssa Milano tweeted out a segment where she thanked Whoopi Goldberg saying this moment in time is too important to take bullshit from our politicians and she said this in response to Whoopi Goldberg pressing Bernie Sanders to drop out now in response to this Marianne Williamson says this to Alyssa Milano Bernie has nothing to apologize for Alyssa the bullshit here isn't coming from him she then added George Washington warned us against political parties saying it would create factions of people more concerned with their faction than with their country those placing the will of the DNC before the will of the people are doing exactly what he warned us against it's ludicrous here I think you dropped this queen put it on it's your crown put it on I have no choice but to stand her from this point forward um she's correct American politics we don't often talk about policy this has devolved into a team sport where everyone on one side is raw raw team blue and everyone on the other side is raw raw team red and you have a small subsection of the electorate the left who genuinely cares about policy above everything else we're not looking at charisma we're not looking at strategy in so far as you know that helps us get the policies we want codified into law but it's policy over platitudes and personality that's where we're coming from um so it's nice to see someone with a high profile call out that team sport especially when it's gone to the point where they're arguing which rapist is better like they're saying now at least our team captain hasn't raped as many women as your team captain so he has a lot of raping to do to catch up like this is a real tweet that somebody said that's where we're at that's the state of American politics because people are so blinded by party loyalty that they are willing to abandon all of their principles all to make sure that their team wins this is a game to them this is a game they don't care about policy Alyssa Milano is a multi-millionaire who's gonna be fine regardless of who occupies the White House and Congress to her this is basically a hobby it doesn't matter the outcome of policies isn't going to impact her life in any way shape or form she's privileged so it's nice to see people like Marianne Williamson who doesn't have to care genuinely care care about poor people want to fix the country want to heal the divide in a real way so I don't really have much left to say about this I just wanted to share this Marianne Williamson lately has been so great and look I think that we all really began to respect her once she ripped Dave Rubin a new asshole that was just lovely to see but there were some dark moments where she claimed that she couldn't support Medicare for all at a debate because she'd be an agent of chaos and then she was a little wishy-washy on it there but look if she genuinely comes around to Medicare for all and actually advocates for it like I could support her in the future who else is there like that's that's where we're at right um it'd be difficult for her to build a political coalition or you know build up her name recognition in a way that Bernie has but at this point you know who's going to be the next successor to Bernie Sanders maybe it's Marianne Williamson I don't know but all I know is right now in the moment I really appreciate what she's doing I um I have a newfound respect for her and I have no choice but to stand um the new queen of the progressive left so far many states have chosen to postpone their primaries until June and rightfully so because we're dealing with a global pandemic that has no end date we don't necessarily know how long self-quarantine and social distancing will be required so the best course of action for states currently is to postpone their primaries to June and in the meanwhile get in place some sort of vote-by-mail mechanism to allow people to make their voices heard but not all states have postponed their primaries Wisconsin is set to vote on April 7th and as you all know that's unsafe after Joe Biden and Tom Perez all insisted that it was safe for people to vote on March 17th guess what happened people got infected with COVID-19 this happened in Florida you have elderly people who are vulnerable working in the polls it's not safe so people shouldn't be forced to risk their lives to make their voices heard like you shouldn't have to weigh whether or not exercising your democratic right to vote is more important than risking your life like this isn't real democracy right in third world countries if we see a level of a level of intimidation that makes people you know disinclined to vote we say that that election is illegitimate so here we should hold ourselves to the same standard that we hold third world countries to if our citizens feel afraid to vote we have to postpone that vote implement vote by mail in the meantime and Bernie Sanders thankfully spoke out he agrees he tweeted people shouldn't have to put their lives on the line to vote Wisconsin should join the 15 states delaying elections delay Tuesday's vote extend early voting and work to send every voter a ballot by mail while we wait for a decision we urge our supporters to vote by mail now the response from Santrists if I'm allowed to generalize here has been basically to attack Bernie Sanders for not dropping out because basically the burden here is being put on him since he is choosing to stay in the race well then him single-handedly he's the one responsible for putting people's lives at risk because he's going to lose in their view so what does it matter you know it's not on states who have had ample time to institute some sort of vote by mail it's not on them it's not their responsibility their responsibility is on Bernie Sanders to drop out interesting it's almost like they have a political agenda and they don't care about democracy now when it comes to Wisconsin Bernie Sanders is down like 25 points according to the last poll that I saw so even if you postpone it to June I don't think he's going to make up that deficit it would be very very difficult for him so this isn't even about politics this is about protecting people's lives so I know that Democrats want to hurry up and rush through this primary so they can coordinate Joe Biden but I don't think they have to worry things most likely won't change Bernie isn't out of the running yet but will he likely win probably not so rather than pressuring Bernie Sanders to drop out just do the right fucking thing and implement vote by mail like think of what they're saying here half of the Democratic Party has yet to vote and they're blaming Bernie for staying in the race rather than trying to give voters an extra option look my niece she turned 19 and she is finally old enough to vote for the very first time and she will enthusiastically be supporting Bernie Sanders you really want to deny her her right to vote something she's enthusiastic to do for the first time and it's not just my niece a lot of people Zoomers are finally eligible to vote and the Democratic Party wants to silence all of them just to wrap up this primary because they are too lazy or too stupid to carry out some sort of vote by mail procedure by June no fuck off people deserve to vote people deserve to make their voices heard I haven't gotten a chance to vote do I think that you know these upcoming primaries are going to change the dynamics of this race not necessarily but we still need to make our voices heard we have two very different options and I want to be able to vote and have my fucking say is that too difficult like it's so fresh writing to me that the Democratic Party never takes responsibility they always find the scapegoat in this instance it's Bernie Sanders it's not them for being too stupid to carry out vote by mail when they knew this was going to be an issue when they knew these primaries were coming up they blame Bernie Sanders look this party is doing everything they possibly can do to drive away voters and not allowing people to make their voices heard by forcing them to risk their lives to vote during a global pandemic that's not going to make you any more popular so do the right thing postpone these primaries and while you postpone them implement vote by mail it's not that difficult if you can't do this then maybe you're not competent enough to run the country figure it out get it done as much as centrists like to tone police the left lately their own tone has been getting a little bit out of control and their calls for Bernie Sanders to drop out haven't just gotten expectedly louder we all expected this knew it would happen but they are now getting a little bit nastier and they've resorted to name calling in order to cry bully Bernie out of the Democratic Party primary so as the hills Amy Parnes and Jonathan Eastley report Joe Biden's allies are privately grumbling that Senator Bernie Sanders will not get out of the presidential race preventing the party from uniting ahead of the general election Sanders' decision to stay in the race has Democrats worried they are repeating the problem of 2016 when a long primary fight was seen as hurting Hillary Clinton the eventual nominee at the same time frustration is growing among some of Biden's aides and allies behind the scenes as the coronavirus pandemic has effectively sidelined Biden and President Trump's approval rating has been on the rise team Biden believes that it's impossible for him to fully pivot to taking on Trump while Sanders is still in the race and there are growing fears that they're losing valuable time I think he should get out one Biden aide said it's a lost cause for him and everyone knows it if you really care about beating Donald Trump you'd get out and help consolidate the party in what is already a very stressful time for the nation it's not helpful to anyone to stay in period the aide also said Sanders is unlikely to win more policy concessions from Biden by remaining in the race quote I don't think they can push Biden any more to the left than he's gone how far to the left has he gone exactly the aide said but what he can do is solidify support and make sure we don't have another four years of Donald Trump the longer they stay and the worse it is at a certain point it looks selfish and self-centered somehow he's made this all about himself quote he's had lots of time to bow out gracefully and now he needs to do the right thing one major democratic donor said it's April we're dealing with a global pandemic the country is in a deep recession and the last thing we need is Bernie Sanders telling us what we're doing wrong give me a fucking break time is at the essence we all need to be on the same team right now another fundraiser was more blunt he's an asshole it's over Bernie folks are clinging as they always do so basically their message is fuck you drop out so we can unify dickhead these people are so insufferable no how about this go fuck yourself if I were Bernie Sanders I would stay in all the way until the convention and then run as an independent against Joe Biden I'd say fuck you because look everything that they're saying about the necessity of beating Donald Trump the need to unify as if there'd ever be any unity between them and us it's all bullshit because let me remind you what Joe Biden said back when Bernie Sanders was the frontrunner just a little over a month ago quote Biden says he'll contest the democratic nomination if no one gets a majority of delegates if Sanders leads in delegates but doesn't have a majority Biden said he'll fight for the nomination so now that Biden doesn't have a majority he has a plurality even though he's in the lead it seems like going by Biden's standards Bernie Sanders should in fact stay in and fight for the nomination because back then Biden didn't cite concerns about the need to unify and beat Donald Trump he just said I'm gonna stay in and fight for the nomination so guess what take that show it up your ass Bernie isn't going anywhere and neither are we and if you think that bullying Bernie out of the race is going to help us unify you've got another thing coming because I'm going to vote for the Green Party if Bernie drops out when he drops out if that's the case and you can cry about that you can tell me that I am a Russian asset and my response will be fuck you because after all of the time that we have spent fighting for our nominee for our candidate when we were in the lead all we heard from the media for about two straight weeks was how the Bernie bros would react in the event they stole the nomination away from us was that the party is the one that actually has the most say during nominations it's not actually voters so go fuck yourselves I am not gonna fall in line fuck you they think that if they spit in our faces slap us across the face stab us in the back call us dickheads and then tell us to unify that everything will be peachy keen no that's not the way that things work and to think that Biden can't possibly go any further left or he won't what concession has he even fucking made what he adopted Elizabeth Warren's a bankruptcy proposal that will undo the damage that he caused what other concessions could he make there's nothing he can do he's already gone so far to the left to appease Bernie Sanders and it's not working these people are the biggest clowns ever they are the biggest clowns ever and if they lose to Donald Trump mark my words they're gonna blame you they're gonna blame me they're gonna blame third party voters they're gonna blame Bernie Sanders and Bernie Sanders supporters but just know they made this bed and they have to lie with it right they're the ones who created the standard that you know you should stay in even if you know you lose just to make sure you can maybe contest the convention still been out I don't think Bernie would contest the convention but I mean at a minimum he's just trying to get a plurality of pledged delegates which is more courteous than what they were willing to do to him when they just outright wanted to steal it from him so fuck off Bernie should stay in the race and if you think that we're going to unify with you we're not gonna unify with you so you can try all you want to bully Bernie Sanders but you know eventually if he obeys you and he drops out and endorses and ultimately campaigns for Joe Biden if you think that we're gonna listen to Bernie Sanders you've got another thing coming because I'm not voting for Joe Biden so you're gonna have to make up those votes that you're losing by pissing off progressives elsewhere I don't know go to Fox News and see if you can pull in more center right people I don't know but you're not getting my vote so take that and shove it during a virtual town hall with Anderson Cooper on CNN Joe Biden got a question from someone who most likely has COVID-19 she has all the symptoms of COVID-19 and healthcare professional suspect that that's what she has although she hasn't been able to confirm that because she can't get a test now she explained her situation to Joe Biden and how she has to pay $2,000 per month for her family's healthcare and they have to choose between food rent or healthcare which one do they choose and Joe Biden as the presumptive democratic party nominee if we want to call him that at this point in time he was supposed to be a leader and reassure her that everything is going to be okay and come forward with real solutions to help people in her and her family's predicament but what he offered instead was nothing more than word salad take a look I'm wearing this mask to protect my family as I've been diagnosed based on my symptoms for the coronavirus although I cannot be tested due to the limited number of tests available here in New York City my husband and I are both hardworking college educated Americans who like countless other Americans will suffer as a result of this pandemic I work full-time for a small company that does not offer health benefits my husband is a freelancer we currently pay over $2,000 a month for health insurance for our family of three my question for you is that when our savings account inevitably runs out due to him not being able to work right now what is it that we sacrifice do we sacrifice food wrench or health care you should not have to sacrifice anything let me say that again you should not have to sacrifice anything not just because it's the fair thing you'd be taking care of your entire family and every family in your circumstance but because it's best for the whole country the entire economy it's not just doing a favor for any individual number one your health care you should not have to pay a penny for testing and it should be available to you by now we were promised that a while ago you should it should be available for you to be tested and determine what needs to be done number two the house just passed an unemployment proposal that increases by $600 the unemployment insurance should get whether or not you were part of you had been covered by unemployment insurance or paid into it before including your husband who may have been he's a entrepreneur on his own doesn't have employees you will be covered and that should be done but that requires the government to be the federal government to help the states set up the unemployment offices in a way that they can handle this enormous enormous call on the need for being the unemployment insurance thirdly the cost of a test should be absolutely zero for you number one and number two I think the house and the Senate are going to have to go back and make sure so after listening to him give that answer ask yourself if you were in that woman's predicament what would you take away from that would you feel any better would you have any sort of reassurance that everything is going to be okay that if he's elected he's going to fix the issues that led to her being in this current predicament her job doesn't offer health insurance her husband he does freelance work so they have to pay $2,000 per month I'm assuming that they you know are buying insurance on the exchanges that him and Obama put together what are you going to do specifically to help her out he offered her zero solutions now he says you should not have to sacrifice anything I'll repeat that you should not have to sacrifice anything well you know nobody should have to sacrifice anything nobody should have to choose between rent food and healthcare nobody should die because they don't have health insurance but the reality is that they will so should not doesn't mean anything what it could have should have fuck are you gonna do that's the question what are you gonna do and his answer in a nutshell is uh nothing nothing for them now he always likes to number his points you know he'll go through point one point two point three and um point number two I believe was you should not have to pay a penny for a COVID-19 test and then when he moved on to point number three he said the cost of the test should be zero dollars for her awesome except let's uh extend that a little bit further let's assume that she tests positive for COVID-19 and uh then she needs healthcare then what what if her husband and baby gets it then what do you understand why these types of milk toast solutions never suffice why people become increasingly desperate after each successive election it's because a free test doesn't mean anything healthcare is what people need so not only should she get that test for free of course she should get the healthcare that she needs for free but again we have to extend that logic let's say somebody is experiencing cancer symptoms should that test be free should treatment for their cancer be free Joe Biden would answer no he probably wouldn't directly say it he'd beat around the bush and use double speak to explain that but his answer is no if you don't have healthcare in America Joe Biden thinks it's perfectly reasonable for you to die he said this he admitted this by saying he would veto Medicare for all he admitted this in an interview on MSNBC with Florence O'Donnell in the event a Democratic-controlled House and Senate historically passed Medicare for all he would veto it he would veto the bill that saves 68,000 American lives every single year and that's a conservative estimate because it doesn't take into account under insured people so do you understand why when progressives and the left told Democrats that the selectability argument was bullshit why we were so vocal about that because he's offering no solutions he's offering no solutions can anyone name a single policy that Joe Biden has proposed ask the average voter ask a Joe Biden supporter I bet you they couldn't name one because this man stands for nothing he's friends with Obama and he's electable so you should vote for him in spite of his terrible record in spite of the fact that he's going to do fuck all for Americans if he's elected so let's say you know we're able to be lucky enough to kick Donald Trump out of office then we get Joe Biden then what people continue to die or go bankrupt because they don't have health care people continue to lose their homes lose their jobs because of COVID-19 and you won't offer a federal jobs guarantee no Medicare for all no robust solutions that would actually fix the problems that we're dealing with like what do we have to look forward to what do we have to look forward to because the Democrats don't want to offer us any real solutions they want to nibble around the edges and tell us to shut the fuck up and accept our crumbs and when we say we want more than crumbs then they uh try to browbeat us and guilt trip us into supporting their shitty politicians like do you understand why so many people don't come out to vote because Democrats aren't offering them anything this used to be the party of the working class and now look at them they're a bunch of clowns they are a bunch of clowns pink hat wearing Republicans that's what they are they don't actually care about helping people the only thing that they care about the ones in power are keeping their jobs keeping their seats warm making sure that you know their futures will be intact but for regular Americans who don't have access to wealth or power they couldn't care less about us and Joe Biden proved it even if he wanted to or uh could have been able to articulate a clear vision does anyone believe that it would have been sufficient does anyone believe that that mother and her family would have felt you know like they had a reason to support him of course not so that was absolutely embarrassingly pathetic and i genuinely feel bad for her there are so many people in this predicament so many people I know personally who lost their jobs or who work in healthcare and they're the one provider for the family because daycare is too expensive and they're working with COVID-19 people testing them like people are watching the world devolve into chaos and they're worried about losing their livelihoods and the best thing that Democrats could do right now is assure them with a huge policy vision that everything's going to be okay because they have fixes to all of these problems but what they're doing is offering nothing they're putting up an alleged rapist with uh you know cognitive decline and they're telling us we better be happy with this otherwise we're to blame if Donald Trump wins yeah well we'll see about that because if you lose again you have to take responsibility now I know that that's a joke because they won't but don't let them guilt-trip you into thinking that you're responsible for their losses their incompetence is what led to their defeat if you know Joe Biden in fact loses so I'll leave that there all right folks that's all that I've got for you today as usual we're not going to end this show without thanking all of our Patreon PayPal and YouTube members you all are the lifeblood of this show you help us not just to survive but thrive and I cannot thank you enough you're incredible so um yeah that's what we've got hopefully you guys um enjoyed that the episodes have been longer than usual I've been trying to make up for the fact that we haven't been doing interviews I want to resume them but we'll see how that works because all of the candidates that I had interviewed I did those and I didn't reschedule anymore I don't know how campaigns are campaigning during this global pandemic but I'd like to talk to them and see how they're doing so I'm hoping to restart that soon if not we'll have something else in mind um so um yeah hopefully you guys enjoyed that I already said that but whatever I'm tired now I'm just rambling I'll see you all next week take care everybody