 So I want to talk about a video featuring Claire McCaskill that aired last week on MSNBC I know that by now most of you have probably seen this and it's technically old news But I could not talk about this because this clip left me so thoroughly triggered that I can't stop thinking about it So I've got to talk about it So she was responding to something that Hillary Clinton said and I'm not gonna engage with what Hillary Clinton said We're not gonna entertain any of Hillary Clinton's ideas Because Hillary Clinton needs to go away because she lost and she is a loser But it seems like no matter how hard I try to ignore Hillary Clinton She keeps trying to bait me into making a video about her and I mean she's teaching a masterclass on resilience What does that even mean? Why is she qualified to teach a masterclass on resilience? See she's she's baiting me again I know Hillary Clinton is gonna be put aside Moving on to Claire McCaskill. She's responding to something that Hillary Clinton said and she's going to say Something that you expect from her She's gonna try out the same bad advice after losing her election because she's a loser And she's gonna tell progressives that they need to lower their standards and accept that some Democrats Have to move to the center in order to win elections Listen all the other things are important and I know I'm gonna get yelled at if this isn't about abandoning progressive values This is about being smart about winning elections That's the essence of what Hillary Clinton was trying to say and I know this No, we she lost. What does she know? Oh, Claire. What what does she know? Well, let me tell you For for people who run places that aren't bright blue. We actually know a lot, but she won some elections I won elections in tough places So have many of the moderates of the Democratic Party and we can't just give them the back of our hand We've got to talk about those things that those voters care. I Love how she's at least aware of the fact that nobody really takes her advice seriously since she's a loser who lost But yet she still gives her advice as if she has any unique insight and she says, you know This isn't necessarily about abandoning progressive values. This is about being smart and winning elections Except let's look back at Claire McCaskill's 2018 campaign against Josh Hawley Ask yourself this did this individual Abandoned their progressive values or are they merely positioning themselves to appeal to moderates in order to win? I would argue she didn't just abandon her progressive values She went full-fash in order to win over Trump voters I voted for every one of President Obama's Supreme Court nominees and then you voted against Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh So they say, you know, how is that not just moving with your party where it wants to go? I voted for over 70% of President Trump's judicial nominees 70% I voted for more than half of his cabinet members. I vote with him half the time He signed 38 of my bills into law That doesn't sound like to me somebody who is knee jerk. Some of my colleagues are knee jerk against the president I don't get up every day figuring out how to fight the president I get up every day trying to figure out how I can fight for Missourians to that point You have this radio ad out now that says at one point in an exchange. She's not one of these crazy Democrats Claire's not afraid to stand up against her own party. Yep, and Claire's not one of those crazy Democrats Who's the crazy Democrats? The crazy Democrats are people who walk in restaurants and Scream in elected official spaces. The crazy Democrats are we have a state senator here in Missouri that actually Advocated for the assassination of President Trump. That's a crazy Democrat I don't do those things. I am not somebody who thinks that we should ever be uncivil I think what most Missourians want is for us to listen to each other Figure out where we can compromise Not scream in each other's faces not call each other names. So I'm really talking about Civility here. I'm talking about being polite having good manners. Just to be clear There's not another crazy Democrat in the Senate. Well, I would say this I would not call my colleagues crazy, but Elizabeth Warren sure went after me when I advocated Tooling back some of the regulations for small banks and and credit unions. I certainly disagree with Bernie Sanders on a bunch of stuff So I'm not afraid, you know, I've done those kinds of things which do separate me. I think from some of the knee jerk Folks that just are against the president. No matter you regret supporting Hillary Clinton in 2016 That's a hard question You know, obviously my state Disagreed with me on that immigration. So this caravan is getting a lot of attention It's off of the border and what do you do when they get to the border? What do you do? I think that president has to use every tool He has at his disposal and I'm a hundred percent back him up on that whether it is turning them back Because we are not equipped to handle that many asylum claims into our system And by the way, that's one of the issues here We've got a surge and use technology to address when somebody comes across the border and they ask us for asylum The law says we need to hear him, but we're waiting way too long to hear it We need to hear him right away So I do not want our borders overrun and I support the president's efforts to make sure they're not She went full-on fasc for nothing because she lost she quite literally said stop him at the border Went full-on racist and then she advocated for us to violate both domestic and international law and not allow Those migrants to apply for asylum and then she talked about how close she was to Donald Trump You know, I voted for 70% of his judicial nominees. I voted for more than half of his cabinet members I voted with him half of the time and then she said we should never not be civilized And she even refused to state whether or not she regretted supporting Hillary Clinton an individual who she defended in the first clip that we watched It's comical. This is the person who's giving advice to Democrats on how to win elections She ran one of the worst campaigns. I've ever seen a centrist Democrat run On top of that she bragged about getting called out by Elizabeth Warren for wanting to Deregulate the big banks. What am I missing here? There's so much. Oh, um, she criticized crazy Democrats For screaming in people's faces at restaurants You mean screaming at Sarah Huckabee Sanders because Donald Trump's administration was quite literally taking children away from their families at the border Is that is that the crazy people who you were talking about because I would argue that the people who weren't outraged at that Were the ones who were crazy Clare McCaskill is a fucking moron and I'm not just saying that because I harshly Want to vocalize the way that I disagree with her. I mean quite literally I think that she has a low IQ She's dumb but yes She's probably getting paid millions of dollars per year to share bad advice with Democrats on National television when this buffoon lost in the most humiliating way imaginable Imagine being a Democrat in her state and you hear the Democrats talking about how much they agree with Donald Trump They vote with Donald Trump all the time. What's your instinct gonna be? Well, fuck that I'm not gonna stand in line for hours and you know waste my time voting for you if you're just gonna be like Donald Trump Imagine how a Republican would act If they saw a Republican politician talking about how much they love Joe Biden how much they vote with Joe Biden They would never let that stand But yet she thinks that it is Really politically astute to just straight up go to the far right in order to win over voters You're not winning over new voters You're just losing old voters the Democratic Party's base isn't going to come out if they see no discernible differences between you and The Republican and she lost her strategy is a proven failure and yet she still thinks that it's a good strategy It's truly mind-numbing Lee Infuriating now as David Dole pointed out on Twitter. Hi, Clare McCaskill Have you spoken with representative Katie Porter who flipped a longtime red district first Democrat elected there by being progressive? It's odd. You never offer examples of moderates aka corporate Dems flipping red districts yet. You claim that's how Democrats win exactly That is exactly it She's hired by MSNBC because she is someone who they know will say what the Democratic Party establishment wants to hear Don't worry about going, you know Too far to the right don't worry about remaining in the center and abandoning your base and making sure that Nobody is inspired to vote for you. Just do what you need to do to win in that red state What if we tried something different for once? What if we tried to actually? register new voters galvanize your base and Win that way rather than trying to win over people who are conservative and will vote conservative Why not try to make sure that your own base isn't irate with you half the time? I Just I don't know what to say Democrats like this are the reason why this country is in the state that it's in because we have a right-wing party that has gone insane Most Republicans are quite literally against democracy in some GOP controlled states They're passing laws to give them the ability to appoint their own Electors to the electoral college to steal elections away from Democrats in future elections They're doing voter suppression laws rigging their way back to power with gerrymandering and yet Democrats they just sit there and They do fuck all about it if you actually fought Maybe we'd be in a better state currently if you actually fought Maybe it's the case that the country wouldn't be devolving further and further into fascism So I mean, I don't know what to say. It's Clare McCaskill So I think that everyone expected her to say this Clare McCaskill is just a perpetual bad take machine where whenever she opens her mouth There's at least the 75% chance that she's going to say something incredibly stupid and incorrect So yeah, I had to talk about this. I don't know why MSNBC pays her for this terrible advice I mean what she's saying it. I mean they want her to say this, but it's nothing new So why not hire somebody else to say it? This is somebody who? Delegitimizes the message that they're trying to propagate. I mean she fucking lost on the MSNBC strategy She lost by using the Clinton playbook and she went work like further than Clinton Because she wouldn't even admit that she supported Hillary Clinton or didn't regret supporting Hillary Clinton in 2018 Somebody who according to her maybe she was too far to the left Hillary Clinton really I just I don't know what to say If the Democratic Party does not alienate people like this and drive them out of the party and people who think like this They will continue to lose