 This is the Humanist Report with Mike Figueredo The Humanist Report podcast is funded by viewers like you through patreon and PayPal To support the show visit patreon.com forward slash humanist report or become a member at Humanist report comm now enjoy the show Welcome to the humanist for podcast My name is Mike Figueredo, and this is episode 268 of the program today is Friday November 27th And before we get started I want to take some time to thank all of the individuals who make this show possible all of our patreon PayPal and YouTube members All of which either signed up for the very first time to support us this week or increase the monthly pledge that they were Already giving to us and that includes barter club Corey Schiffman David Carney Eric Miller Joana Voizine Lucas Dykes Matt 6 Melissa Murphy Oscar Barroso Richard Scott Wigton Soul light 16 TA 15 vis-vess Kanzo Teresa Gosnell Tyler Weichel and Tyra Hoke So thank you so much to all of these kind individuals if you'd also like to support the show and join the independent progressive media Revolution you can do so by going to humanist report comm slash support Patreon comm slash humanist report by clicking join underneath any one of our YouTube videos or by streaming our content on Means TV and hey if you can't support us monetarily You can just watch the program like our videos and that honestly really helps a lot at least with YouTube's algorithm If you're watching there, uh, so we've got a pretty lengthy show this week on the show Donald Trump finally concedes to Joe Biden Um, kinda So we'll talk about that Also, his supporters are now vowing to destroy the careers of any politicians in the Republican Party who betrayed Donald Trump when he was trying to steal an Election he clearly lost and of course Congresswoman elect Marjorie Taylor Greene will not be among those Republicans because she is indeed a Trump cultist who explains on Newsmax TV how Democrats successfully rigged Georgia's election against Donald Trump But forgot to rig the election against her Speaking of Marjorie Taylor Greene, she decided to randomly attack Ilhan Omar for seemingly no reason and While we're on the subject of the squad Nikki Haley tried to dunk on AOC But as you're going to see it didn't turn out too well for her also COVID-19 is rising in this country rapidly, but we do have some genuinely good news regarding therapeutics and vaccines But of course we still need to be careful But Ted Cruz and other megachats are encouraging people to ignore warnings just to own the libs I guess so we'll talk about that and we'll also talk about the release of domestic terrorists Kyle Rittenhouse And you know why this shows how dysfunctional our so-called criminal justice system is But first Joe Biden's administration is beginning to take shape We'll look at the warmongers and corporatists that he is appointing the high positions of power And we will also share an op-ed from Aaron Brockovich who calls out a particularly egregious individual associated with team Biden That's what we've got on the agenda for today's episode. Let's waste no time and get right to it So we are continuing to learn more and more about who Joe Biden will be putting in his administration and unsurprisingly most of his picks with a few exceptions are completely terrible people Yeah, Ronald Klain is someone who we found out about last week He will be Joe Biden's chief of staff and this individual has had a long career at a venture capital firm Oh, goodie, but this week he announced more picks for key roles including Tony Blinken as secretary of state Alejandro Mayorkas as DHS secretary Linda Thomas Greenfield as UN ambassador John Kerry as climate envoy with NSC seat of real Haynes as director of national intelligence and Jake Sullivan as national security advisor now not all of these names are terrible I think that Linda Thomas Greenfield as UN ambassador that doesn't necessarily Concern me. I think that Alejandro Mayorkas He is the individual who basically is the architect of DACA during the Obama era So I don't I don't have any problems with him being DHS secretary However, what I do have a problem with is Tony Blinken and to a lesser extent Jake Sullivan who is basically the same type of person Tony Blinken is an individual who has repeatedly defended the atrocities of the apartheid state of Israel And he bragged about defending them He bragged about the United States being the only country to defend Israel when everyone else in the world Condemned their behavior. Take a look that Unprecedented support is true in terms of our vigilance to protect Israel's legitimacy on the world stage and fight for its full and equal participation in UN institutions We help secure Israel's permanent membership in the Western European and others group as well as its membership in the like-minded human rights Caucus from which it had long been excluded in New York last year the United States opposed 18 resolutions in the UN General Assembly that were biased against Israel on Five occasions last year the US cast the only no vote against unfair anti-israel measures in the UN's human rights Council We will Continue to stand with Israel and against one-sided biased resolutions even if we are the only country on earth to do so So someone who is pro-apartheid who's literally racist against Palestinians and Muslims in the Middle East That individual I don't think is qualified to be Secretary of State But when it comes to his foreign policy, he is arguably to the right of Joe Biden on foreign policy So as Jake Johnson of common dreams reports Blinken served as deputy national security adviser and deputy Secretary of State in the Obama administration and as the Washington Post reported Sunday Has been described as having a centrist view of the world and has also supported interventionist positions Oh goody He once broke with Biden and supported military action in Libya For example the post noted referring to the Obama White House's catastrophic decision to join with NATO to bomb that country an armed Intervention that helped unleash a violent civil war that is still ongoing when it came to Syria policy under Obama Blinken is also reported to have supported Aggressive military measures against the government of President Bashar al-Assad and more recently has indicated that the Biden administration Would opt for leaving US troops in the war-torn country when Biden then a senator and chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee Voted in 2002 to authorize the Bush administration's disastrous invasion of Iraq a decision He has since described as a mistake Blinken was the Democratic staff director of the committee the intercepts Ryan Grimm reported last July That Blinken helped craft Biden's own support for the Iraq war Speaking to the New York Times earlier this year Blinken characterized the vote to invade Iraq as a vote for tough diplomacy. That's not diplomacy That's the lack of diplomacy So we will have a president who supported the invasion of Iraq and a secretary of state Tony Blinken Who supported the invasion of Iraq tweeted Medea Benjamin co-founder of anti-war group code pink in the US? There is no accountability for supporting the worst foreign policy disaster in modern history only rewards So this is the individual who will be secretary of state Now speaking of ghouls who are hawkish John Kerry will also play a key part in Biden's administration as the climate envoy and as Andrea Germanos of common dreams explains Food and water action called the choice an alarming red flag and the group's executive director When known a hotter accused Kerry of being a long-time apologist for fossil fuel fracking and a reliable promoter of false climate solutions Like market-based carbon trading schemes Kerry's proposals are tired ideas from years past That will do little or nothing to address our climate crisis and will actually continue to place a disproportionate unjust burden on Vulnerable communities that have borne the brunt of fossil fuel pollution and climate impacts for decades now She said as such we have our work cut out for us added hotter Now I will say that even though Food and water action are speaking out against John Kerry There isn't universal condemnation within Progressive circles because Greenpeace USA as well as Sunrise. They are actually coming out and saying we're not too angry About this decision here to make John Kerry the climate envoy In fact the co-founder and executive director of the Sunrise movement Varshini Prakash Tweeted out support for Kerry saying I served with secretary Kerry this summer on the Biden Sanders task force and one thing is clear He really does care about stopping climate change That's something we can work with and encouraging move from the Biden team Now I'm keeping my eyes peeled for a domestic equivalent now on top of that John Kerry did say that the United States has to do more than just getting back into the Paris Climate Accord Which is encouraging however I'm not as optimistic as my fellow progressives here because John Kerry is someone who has been in government forever and He is a centrist arguably a moderate Republican and if he truly believed that climate change was the national Emergency that he said it was when this position was announced Then don't you think he would have opted to endorse someone other than Joe Biden? He endorsed Joe Biden in the Democratic Party primaries when there were other options available with more solid Climate change policies Bernie Sanders. He could have even endorsed Elizabeth Warren or Jay Inslee I mean the bar is super low, but he endorsed Joe Biden someone with a bad plan like comes to climate change I mean better than Donald Trump of course, but in comparison with Bernie Sanders Climate organizations rated him. What was that a DD minus? So if you truly cared about climate change and say it is as big of an emergency As it is then why wouldn't you endorse someone and put politics aside who actually cares? John Kerry knows that if he endorsed Bernie Sanders He wouldn't get a spot in Bernie's administration and you know endorsing Joe Biden would secure him another job But if you truly care about climate change Don't you put politics aside, so that's why I'm not optimistic, but here's what I say to John Kerry prove me wrong prove to me that My cynicism is unwarranted Don't think I'm gonna be proven wrong, but I would love to stand corrected here now when it comes to Avril Haines She's going to be appointed as director of national intelligence and Um, there's some red flags to say the least I think I'm being incredibly charitable to describe my concerns about her as red flags because as Alex Koch pointed out Avril Haines helped create the legal justification for Obama's drone wars helped cover up the CIA's torture program and then supported Gina Haspel to lead the agency and consulted for Palantir Haines is credited with moderating the drone policy people say without her there would have been even more drone bombings She also worked to make sure the drone bombings they did were legal Sounds kind of like being a proponent of clean coal But people die instantly and he's exactly right. It's not just immoral, but illegal not only under domestic law, but international law as well This individual should be nowhere near power, but yet She's going to get a spot in Biden's administration And what has the mainstream media said about this? Well that we should be happy because a woman is serving in this position and this is historic I mean, I'm sure that the people in Pakistan Yemen and Somalia who are having bombs dropped on their heads by Bannon's administration We'll take comfort knowing that it's a woman who's bombing them instead of a man. So there's that Despicable now on top of that Janet Yellen will be Treasury Secretary Let me just take a moment to laugh at Elizabeth Warren who sold out Bernie Sanders to get a spot in Biden's administration only to be shunned But Janet Yellen is not someone who I am enthusiastic about Wall Street is excited about her That tells you everything you need to know And additionally someone who is being considered by Joe Biden is someone who should be nowhere near power We're talking about Rahm Emanuel for Transportation Secretary and the fact that Joe Biden would even consider someone this morally bankrupt I mean it speaks to how shitty Joe Biden is as a human being and I think that AOC put it best What is so hard to understand about this? Rahm Emanuel helped cover up the murder of Laquan McDonald covering up a murder is disqualifying for public leadership Now there's good news and bad news with regard to Rahm Emanuel The good news is that Biden hears our complaints and concerns and he's trying to Respond to that the bad news is that his response is to placate us and rather than making Rahm Emanuel Transportation Secretary now he wants to put Rahm Emanuel in a less visible position Why do you have to have Rahm Emanuel in your administration? Are we not going to draw the line anywhere he covered up the murder of Laquan McDonald Does that not mean anything to you? Does that not like strike a chord? I don't get it why do you have to put him in your administration and The thing about Joe Biden that you're gonna see is that there's this ongoing theme that the people who he is Appointing to his administration. It's all Obama era alum So I mean this is this is really concerning and it should be concerning to people It's not surprising. None of this is surprising to me But here is why you should be concerned about this if Joe Biden Conducts business as usual and we just basically see a continuation of Obama's administration a third Obama term if you will What's gonna happen? Well, Obama's failures is part of the reason why we got a Donald Trump presidency so if Joe Biden doesn't actually make meaningful changes and materially improve people's lives in 2024 do you honestly expect him to win again? I think he probably would have lost had it not been for Joe for Donald Trump's bungling of COVID-19 So do we honestly believe that if Joe Biden just gets in there and occupies the Oval Office for four years and does fuck all the Help Americans that he's gonna be rewarded with a second term or Democrats will be rewarded with a second term I mean if you are worried about right-wing extremism in this country Then you shouldn't be worried about the fact or angry about the fact that I'm criticizing Joe Biden You should join me in criticizing Joe Biden because if you are afraid of Republicans taking power again Then understand that if Joe Biden changes nothing They will be emboldened and more powerful than ever in 2024 and I get that that's a ways away We can't necessarily think that far ahead. Sure, but Do you honestly think that just having someone who's not Trump in power will suffice that that's enough? If so, then you are in an incredibly privileged position So it's frustrating because if you tune into mainstream media They talk about how diverse all of these pics are and how historic it is that you know Biden is appointing a woman to this position and that position, but at the end of the day Americans are going to lose faith in your party and give Republicans the keys to power again if you fuck this up Joe Biden has a unique opportunity. We are we're at a crossroads in American history He can actually make change and all of this tells us right now The people who he's choosing to surround him during this presidency. It tells us that he's not up to the challenge This is what progressives had warned you about So I've been really critical of people who Joe Biden is appointing to his administration and I think for good reason and I've made my arguments But I think it's really important that we hear from people who have been activists for quite some time because their perspective is Very valuable because they know the intricate details about how specific companies hurt communities in this country So the intercept reports of Biden EPA transition team member helped to depart Dodd responsibility for PFOA Michael McCabe a former EPA official and aid to Joe Biden led the defense of the toxic PFAS chemical PFOA now the fact that anyone associated with a company who did any polluting whatsoever is going to work for Joe Biden in and of itself It's scandalous But I'm not going to share my opinion about this because I think that Aaron Brockovich a long time activist She said everything that I wanted to say in an open letter to Joe Biden titled dear Joe Biden Are you kidding me and she writes dare? I say I had hopes that this new administration would usher in the dawning of a new day as picks for president-elect Joe Biden's Environmental Protection Agency transition team were announced. I felt concerned and disheartened about a chemical industry insider being on the list Are you kidding me Michael McCabe a former employee of Biden and a former deputy environmental protection agency administrator? Later jumped ship to work as a consultant on communication strategy for Dupont during a time when the chemical company Was looking to fight regulations of their star chemical PFOA also known as C8 the toxic man-made chemical is used in everything from waterproof clothes Stain resistant textiles and food packaging to non-stick pans The compound has been linked to lowered fertility Cancer and liver damage the Guardian reported this week that Harvard School of Public Health Professor Philippe Grandjean who studies environmental health warns that PFAS chemicals of which PFOA is one might reduce the efficacy of a COVID-19 vaccine this smells of the dawn of the same old to quote the who meet the new boss same as the old boss It should go without saying that someone who advised Dupont on how to avoid regulations is not someone who we want Advising this new administration PFOA pollutes the blood of nearly every American and can pass from mother to unborn child in the womb This toxic product of industry is a stable compound not easily broken down in the environment giving it the nickname forever chemical Scientists have found it in living beings across the globe from animals living in the depths of the sea to birds on remote islands The environmental protection agency has set no enforceable national drinking water limits for perfluorinated chemicals including PFOA Tens of thousands of community drinking water systems across the country have never even been tested for these contaminants the caves Started managing Dupont's communications with the EPA about the toxic chemical in 2003 according to an article in the intercept This was the time in which Dupont faced a barrage of litigation after the company dumped 7,100 tons of PFOA filled waste in West Virginia, which made its way into the drinking water of 100,000 people countless members of the community faced debilitating illnesses as a result the legal battle with the company was turned into the film Dark Waters in 2019 mind you Dupont suspected that the product was harmful since the 1960s Experiments they conducted in 1961 showed that PFOA has affected the livers of dogs and rabbits McCabe's work inevitably contributed to staving off costly cleanup and additional regulation headaches for the company Are we the people supposed to trust a former Dupont man in a transition team? tasked with reviewing the chemical safety board is this how the newly elected leadership wants to start what is supposed to be a healing and unifying administration and the answer to that is yes Because Joe Biden is going to be a healer and a unifier Not for the working class though for the capitalist and business class for corporate America They're all going to love him because his policies aren't going to be that different from Donald Trump There's gonna be some positive changes But for the most part, you know, there's no mean tweets people can basically ignore Joe Biden He's not this spectacle as Trump is and you know, it's it's easier for people to Put aside all of Joe Biden's laws and go back to brunch and pretend as if everything is copacetic when in actuality Joe Biden needs to be fought It's not a matter of pushing Joe Biden to the left because that would suggest that he was ever malleable in the first place It's a matter of fighting Joe Biden fighting him on things like this because an industry shill for Dupont That's not someone who's gonna be looking out for us and The fact that anyone I don't care if you're a corporate Democrat or a Republican would appoint someone like this It's idiotic It's idiotic because you're putting someone in control That doesn't care if your own family is poisoned. I mean rich people aren't completely shielded in their mansions From bad drinking water and you know, they they need breathable air to so it's it's self-destructive and It's self-defeating for an administration that Supposedly claimed that oh well, he knows the task ahead and he's got to be like the next FDR Give me a fucking break. Give me a fucking break It's why when there are people who? Tried to make the case for Joe Biden by championing his so-called progressive platform I Mean this is why we were skeptical because Joe Biden has a long history history of doing things like this and Erin Brockovich it's important that she speaks up because she knows about all of this She has firsthand experience dealing with this. There's literally a movie about Erin Brockovich So, um, you know, it's not surprising but because we're not surprised Doesn't mean that we should be unmoved and not be infuriated and not call him out We have to educate people About these sort of things and I think that Erin Brockovich is doing a public service by calling out Joe Biden here In what I believe is a shocking turn of events Donald J. Trump current president of the United States has admitted that he lost the selection He has conceded to Joe Biden albeit informally and unofficially, but nonetheless, it still is a concession Now what this means is that his coup attempt has officially failed I can confidently say that Donald Trump will not be able to steal the selection and We'll talk about all the specifics as to why I think that it's safe to conclude this But let's talk about why he is conceding because he has instructed the individual in charge of the general services Administration Emily Murphy to go ahead with the transition process meaning I know I'm leaving and I know that Biden is coming in and Let's begin that process So he tweeted out. I want to thank Emily Murphy at GSA for his steadfast dedication and loyalty to our country Yeah, right more like loyalty to Donald Trump She has been harassed threatened and abused and I do not want to see this happen to her her family or employees of GSA our case strongly continues sure we will keep up the good fight and I believe we will prevail No, you don't nevertheless in the best interest of our country I am recommending that Emily and her team do what needs to be done with regard to initial protocols And I've told my team to do the same now when he says do what needs to be done That's his way of saying start the transition process because Biden is going to be the next President now look publicly He's still in spite of this going to maintain the facade that there's still a chance because we talked about this before This is a grift for Donald Trump What he's doing is he's trying to get all of his supporters primarily his cultists to donate to his legal defense fund When in actuality they're paying down his campaign debt and contributing to his newly formed super PAC So he can still have control over the Republican Party meanwhile It's over. In fact, his lawyers are still going on television saying Donald Trump won and we're going to prove that he won take a look The point of all this Well, the point of this of course is to get to fair and accurate results because the election was stolen and President Trump won by a landslide And how you're mischaracterizing this I think that your viewers need to understand the truth of this So Donald Trump didn't just win he won by a landslide. I mean we're getting further and further away from reality but meanwhile It's over Trump has told his aides that he knows it's over and he's already planning for his life after the presidency And he may announce a 2024 run. You wouldn't be talking about these things if you didn't Acknowledge that you lost the selection, but again, he has to maintain this facade so he can continue to raise money He's gonna maintain this as long as he possibly can meanwhile It's already official Emily Murphy has already signed off on the transition process So there's nothing left that he can do it's over states are certifying the results the electoral college will make it official in December and There's nothing left for him to do There's no more avenues that he can take to steal the selection now I will say that even though his coup attempt was unsuccessful That doesn't necessarily mean that what he did throughout these last couple of weeks did not do long-term damage to our Democracy because what he was able to prove was that if you truly want to pull off a coup attempt in America It's really not that difficult It's really really easy to get at least half of the Republican Party's base to believe that this election was rigged and furthermore Democrats proved that even while there's an active coup attempt, they're not gonna fight back They're just gonna fist bump individuals for trying to get entire counties that went for Biden and validated as we saw with Kamala Harris and Lindsey Graham And on top of that they're they're not really going to say anything as there's this active effort to overturn the results of the election So in the event down the road, we get an election result. That's closer Not as easy to steal with a more competent fascist that the Republican Party establishment likes we could actually see a coup Be successful and that's horrifying and I want people to understand the gravity of this situation And there are some people who just love to do damage control for Donald Trump and downplayed the severity of the coup like Michael Tracy who is talking about how oh well This isn't a coup Trump going ahead with this transition process basically proves that this was never a coup attempt except a Coup isn't black or white There are different types of coups not all coups occur violently and by use of force Some coups are soft coups political coups where you have an individual who is an opportunist Exploit the flaws in our political institutions to consolidate power in an illegitimate way. That's exactly what Donald Trump tried to do. I Mean to say that this wasn't a coup attempt is As ridiculous as saying there wasn't a coup in Bolivia where we saw the results of the election be called into question This time by an international entity OAS and then we have the fascists You know they ousted Eva Morales, but when MAS the Socialist Party won that election You know the fascists ultimately accepted the results of that election and they conceded That was still a coup the coup ultimately failed But nonetheless it was still a coup attempt sure So I think that we have to call it what it is That's really important because if we don't call it what it is Then we can't fix the problem and prevent it in the future We have to make fundamental changes to our system to prevent a coup from taking place Donald Trump in a way kind of did us a Service by proving how fragile democracy is even here in America Now what he did was he tried to steal the selection by two methods the first method was through the courts We all know that he stacked the federal judiciary with his loyalists But still he lost because his legal team presented zero evidence in court They had more than 30 cases thrown out and all that they were left to do was try to you know grasp for some procedural victories You know they had a recount in Georgia and then Trump says okay. Well, let's do another recount Even though that's not gonna change anything. Let's do it anyway so we can convince my you know cultists that we're doing something But I mean it's Abundantly clear that legally and through the courts Trump isn't going to be able to overturn the results of this election That's just not a feasible way of stealing it So what he then tried to do was pivot to plan B Where he tries to find loyalists in each state to overturn the will of voters in that state Now we talked about this before the election because Barton Gelman wrote an article for the Atlantic where he explains That Trump's legal team already said they were pursuing this as an option where basically if Biden wins a state and it's close They try to cry fraud and then get that state's Republican legislature to overturn the results Now this is tough to do because Biden won multiple states in Battleground states so it's not like there was just like one or two states that Trump needed to overturn There were a lot of states that Trump needed to overturn and steal in order to make this coup successful So it was more difficult But he focused on Michigan because if he were able to be successful in Michigan Well, perhaps that could you know give more Republicans in other states confidence that they too can pull off this coup So after Republican lawmakers in Michigan vocalized some interest in appointing their own electors to vote against Biden Even though he won their state Well, the Republican Senate majority leader Mike Shurkey basically stated that that's not gonna happen We're not going to do that because you know just overturning the results in that one state You're not going to change the result of the election nationally and you're just going to piss off a lot of people So if you need this to happen, it's got to happen in multiple states It's got to be much more of a coordinated effort So Mike Shurkey said no, we're not going to do this and Mike Shurkey He may be seemingly reasonable based on what I'm telling you that he won't just like overturn the will of His states voters. I know the bar is low but this also is a right-wing extremist and Once he vocalized that he's not going to be stealing the selection overturning his state's results in favor of Donald Trump By pointing their own electors to the Electoral College to vote against Biden Well, then what happened was incredibly disturbing Mike Shurkey was then invited to meet with Donald Trump And he agreed to set meeting which I mean since he's a Republican and also an extremist Republican A lot of people myself included were worried that Trump would be able to convince him which led to people Protesting Mike Shurkey when he arrived in DC because they thought oh my god. Is this actually happening? Are you going to be convinced to overturn the will of Voters in Michigan? Take a look Now thankfully Michigan certified the results of the election on Monday So Mike Shurkey was not convinced to his credit But the fact that people had a reason to be concerned That shows you how fragile democracy is and if we don't actually make institutional changes Who is possible in the near future assuming the Republican Party continues to shift further and further to the right and Openly embrace authoritarianism. I mean, it's not just Donald Trump. Remember that Lindsey Graham was trying to get Entire counties in Georgia overturned now not all Republicans are as authoritarian as Donald Trump Even though Brian Kemp successfully suppressed enough votes in Georgia to win his gubernatorial race He still refused to just openly overturn the results of the election because you can't Close Pandora's box once you open it like that is Something entirely different like voter suppression is evil in and of itself But to actually take it to the next step where the results are in and you overturn those results We're just in straight-up authoritarian territory So because Trump's legal battle has failed because now he just he can't win by appointing his own electors at the state level It's over and I think that you could argue that Trump's coup attempt really started to unravel Once Trump's lawyers proved to people that they are not serious individuals so Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell they put on a press conference that I think can only be described as Batshit fucking insane where for whatever reason Rudy Giuliani was secreting black liquid and Sidney Powell claimed that millions of votes were switched from Trump to Biden and of course Presented no evidence, but the problem is that they got too crazy to the point where they were undermining their own argument even at their original argument was Not factual and it was just laughable So think about how far away they strayed from their original claim They originally started out by claiming that the mail-in ballots was the Democrats way of rigging this election That was the cat the catalyst. That's where they're gonna be committing fraud But then they moved the goalposts so much to where Sidney Powell publicly is saying actually millions of votes were flipped and This is also some coordinated conspiracy between Venezuela Cuba the Democrats Bernie Sanders. I mean it's just it's so batshit insane That even Trump's lawyers like Rudy Giuliani thought that this was making them look bad Which is why Trump's team decided to distance themselves from Sidney Powell after that press conference in other words They fired her. She's not a part of Trump's legal team Which caused a lot of chaos and confusion within Maga cultist circles because they're wondering wait. She is the most firebrand most loyal individuals So why would Trump want to distance himself from her? Well, it's because You can only be so crazy To where you're laughed out of the room and that's where we were getting I mean, it was bad enough that Rudy Giuliani was getting laughed out of courts across the country And it was already laughable, but they took it to the next level like you have to dial down the craziness Otherwise, you're going to look even more dumb than you already do now in terms of why they distanced themselves from Sidney Powell I'm going to let really Rudy Giuliani Explain why they decided to do this because I think his explanation is very telling the question I've got is now we're we've been watching you pursue both Electoral fraud through the mail-in ballots Electoral fraud as well through the software and the claims about dominion a break with Sidney Powell over the weekend What's behind that and what is the motive the the reason for the split between? Powell and Giuliani at all Well, I think it's because we're pursuing two different theories our our theory of the case to get to the Supreme Court now in four places and it's soon going to be in two others and there'll be an overall lawsuit is basically Misconduct of the election by state officials in at least five or six different states in which the misconduct of the election Involved deprivation of constitutional rights for the president. So in other words, Sidney Powell was let go because she's even too crazy For someone like me. I am a ghoul who literally secretes black fluid from my skull And I'm worried that she is gonna make us look bad If if you're too crazy for someone like Rudy Giuliani That's a problem and even Donald Trump Reportedly was worried that his lawyers are just too crazy like they're going to make him look bad and undermine his effort Like he worked so hard to lie about mail-in ballots and now they're like taking it to the next level where they're saying No, no, it's not just mail-in ballots like votes are literally being flipped Okay Show us evidence even Tucker Carlson asked for evidence now He has since done a 180 but nonetheless when you have the biggest propagandists for the Republican Party Questioning your narrative and not towing the party line when you have more and more Senate Republicans Break from Donald Trump because they can't possibly maintain this insane facade any longer It's over the best move for Trump is to understand He's run out of options and he's running out of time and the best thing that he can do now is save face and possibly prep for 2024 so This is a concession like I think that that is the only way to characterize this for Donald Trump to go ahead and initiate this process Give Emily Murphy to go ahead That is a concession. It's over. This is him publicly admitting defeat in a very cowardly way, but nonetheless It's still defeat. So I think it's important, but still The extent to which he tried to steal this election in a number of ways It should scare everyone because Donald Trump isn't as Unique as people want to believe like sure. He is a unique threat to democracy because he's so brazen But the Republican Party throughout this process. They showed their cards Lindsey Graham again Tried to meddle to get entire can counties invalidated Trump's legal team has been arguing to basically invalidate the votes of millions of black voters in Detroit in cities across the country that went for Biden This is insane and brazen and if they're this brazen now, I Mean, they're not going to change in the future. So look, I'm glad that Trump conceded You know, it's a little bit of a relief that he now knows that he can't steal this election because that means That there will in fact be a transition of power I didn't necessarily think that the odds of him succeeding in this coup would be successful But still the fact that he's attempting it and he's trying to find any way to steal this election That was deeply unsettling anyone who's worried about democracy or cares about democracy should have been watching this worried about the results because you know a democracy it's fragile and every single democracy it Does have an expiration date and the question was whether or not our democracy would die now Or if it still has a little bit life left in it or can possibly be saved. So um, it's over for Donald Trump, but Trust me the Republican Party is not suddenly going to have this coming to Jesus moment Once he's out of office and out of power He'll still have influence over the Republican Party and the shift to the right that he has facilitated within the Republican Party That will continue the Trump legacy is going to be a pretty long-lasting legacy If not politically then at least judicially since he stacked the courts with you know, Federalist Society goons. So you know Now we move on to the next chapter and we just hope that he Doesn't cause that much damage before leaving office. Hopefully he won't start a war with Iran or fuck up too much Stuff we know he's gonna be insufferable But so long as you know, he doesn't do too much to ruin the country That'll be great But of course we are not going to be able to sleep until he's out and then we have to fight Biden So it's just it's a never-ending battle But nonetheless, at least we can check off coup from things we have to worry about now And I just hit my microphone. So we'll end that there So it kind of appears as if there are some rifts starting to form within the Republican Party And this is all over Donald Trump's claim of election fraud and that the election was stolen from him by Democrats Now you have establishment oriented Republicans who are kind of just biting their tongues They know that Donald Trump is a psychopath But they don't want to say anything to criticize Donald Trump because they know that you know The heart and soul of the Republican Party the base it lies with Donald Trump So if they say something they risk alienating their own base And then you have individuals who do embrace Donald Trump the Kelly Loeffler's and Marjorie Taylor Greene's of the world Who are part of this MAGA Colt and so what you see are two different factions within the Republican Party So the question is will this end up leading to intra-party warfare comparable to the warfare that we see on the Democratic Party side where you see the Democratic Party establishment fight against the progressive left and You know, there's a lot of implications about this But first of all, I want to show you what some MAGA chuds are saying with regard to the Republican Party's response to Trump's voter fraud claims Because outside of the I believe Georgia legislator you had some Trump supporters Lashing out at Republicans like the governor of Georgia Brian Kemp or Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger Because they're not playing ball with Donald Trump when he cries fraud now when I say they're not playing ball What I mean an actuality is that they're not allowing Trump to just outright steal the election So they don't like that and they're not accepting anything but a Trump victory So listen to what they say at least one Trump supporter says and the response from the crowd when he says You better play ball with us help Donald Trump or we will destroy you. Take a look To show up Stop the skill we will make sure you are never elected ever again I Mean he lost bro. What do you want him to do? What do you want Brian Kemp to do like realistically speaking? What do you expect? I think we know what they expect They want the results to be overturned in Georgia Now they say that Republicans that did not show up for Trump were traitors who are complicit in Some alleged scheme again. I mean these folks they just have to think about this Longer than a minute or two and they'll see why their claims are ridiculous because when you have far Right Trump supporters like Marjorie Taylor Greene win her election in Georgia and a landslide Why would Democrats rig the presidential race but forget to rig the House and Senate races like it doesn't make any sense But they want loyalty. That's what they're saying and it's not just the Republican Party establishment Who they're pissed off by now They're mad at Fox News as well because they feel as if Fox News by trying to pretend to be a serious news outlet Has betrayed them and this mega chud is going to explain why he is outraged by Fox News and even Tucker Carlson There's no question and I don't know about you, but I was awfully disappointed yesterday with Tucker Carlson I mean what the hell We do and you know something on election night It was Fox News that first called Arizona prematurely provided It was Fox News that refused to carry President Trump's press conference two days after the election And we expect that from the liberal media, of course We expect that from CNN and MSNBC and every other network But we are the people that are watching Fox News and they betrayed us And I'll tell you I've been a fan of Tucker Carlson for a long time He has said things that a lot of people are afraid to say and he has given a voice to a variety of Conservatism, which I think most people in the country agree with strongly and After Fox News called Arizona prematurely for Joe Biden. I said I will never watch Fox News again I said, but maybe Tucker is okay But since the election, what is Tucker Carlson been talking about? Where are you? The day after the election he was talking about how the polls are really fake Really? The polls are fake? We've known that for five years We've known that for decades the polls are fake the polls are fake the ballots are fake And the ballots are what decides the election. Why don't you talk about that? And last week he's talking about how well the Democrats didn't fear so well because Defund the police isn't good political messaging Talking about the political messaging of the left. We're in the fight of our lives So they are genuinely unhinged and this is worrying now There's this question of how long will this rift last like is this going to lead to a greater Rift within the Republican Party and I think that's a possibility Or a likelihood actually at this point will this be great for the Democratic Party because you know you see Republicans and Their base not showing up to support them at the polls What can we expect for this and even though at face value it might seem as if this is good for the left and Democrats in Actuality I worry that this will facilitate another shift to the right for the Republican Party If you can even imagine that because we saw what happened when a rift emerged within the Republican Party in the early 2010s with the Tea Party movement and it wasn't as if that rift lasted for a while I mean sure they primaried a couple of Republican establishment figures successfully But ultimately the Republican Party ended up Co-opting and absorbing the Tea Party and now the Republican Party looks like the Tea Party They are part of the Republican Party's base and sure the overall Tea Party message has been watered down a little bit But they are one cohesive unit So the thing that worries me about this rift is that you know Republicans? They're not going to be like the Democratic Party establishment and try to you know isolate and Delegitimize and marginalize the MAGA chuds and MAGA cultists my fear is that they're going to embrace the MAGA chuds and More and more the party is going to look like Donald Trump I mean already kind of does where you have individuals like Lindsey Graham openly trying to invalidate the results of elections in certain counties Cancel millions potentially of votes This is different than just them trying to suppress the vote that in and of itself is scandalous But now there are some Republicans openly calling for the cancellation of votes Following Trump's lead so I don't necessarily think that this rift that we're seeing is Going to lead to you know this clash between the Republican establishment and MAGA chuds I think that what we're going to see is the Republican Party Bend to the will of the Trump cultists because unlike the Democratic Party establishment the Republican Party establishment is horrified of their base They are always trying to appease their base throwing more red meat to the base being more extreme to appease their xenophobic and Racist base so when you have a lot of MAGA chuds who seemingly want the Republican Party to shift even even even further to the right I mean I can't help but worry about what's to come now You know that MAGA chud in that video we talked about he was outraged at Tucker Carlson for daring to ask Sidney Powell for evidence That millions of votes were switched But what did Tucker Carlson ultimately do he did a 180 he backtracked and claimed that the election was rigged days later Yeah, so do we honestly just expect the Republicans to let this rift form and and Let it cause them to lose elections Do we believe that Fox News is all of a sudden going to lose ground to Newsmax and OAN who's going to cater more to Trump supporters? No We've seen these types of rifts in the Republican Party emerged before and we've seen how it played out The Tea Party is one of many examples think of the NRA when gun owners of America Started to you know encroach on the NRA's territory and siphon off some of their memberships and attack NRA What happened? Well the NRA they took a more hard line approach to gun regulations and Any and all regulations were all of a sudden off the table because they felt that pressure from gun owners of America And that's how they kept their hegemony, you know in this sphere of politics And I think the same is gonna happen with Fox News like a lot of people are thinking well At least Fox News is gonna be discredited now since you know Trump supporters are mad at them I don't think that's gonna be the case I think they're going to become more like OAN and Newsmax like I think that there is a higher likelihood that the MAGA chuds can remake the Republican Party and you know Republican adjacent Organizations such as Fox News in their image quicker than the left can remake their Democratic Party in their own image and That should worry everyone because what does that mean if MAGA chuds get their way and they win this civil war pretty easily Which I think is possible. I Mean we see a more far-right Republican Party The Republicans from 10 years ago look completely different than the MAGA chuds we see today I mean compare Sarah Palin to Marjorie Taylor-Green remember when we all thought that Sarah Palin was like Appalling the fact that the Republican Party could produce someone as crazy as this now you look to Sarah Palin And she looks like a moderate compared to Marjorie Taylor-Green or Kelly Loeffler So the party is going to continue shifting right because that's where the base is whereas the Democratic Party They don't really care about what their base wants because they know that you know Republicans are so bad You're gonna support them no matter what? So, you know, I'm not necessarily optimistic that this rift is going to hurt the Republican Party I'd love for that to be the case, but I don't think that's going to be what happens I think ultimately this will make their Republican Party overall more crazy as they absorb the Trump cultists and try to you know I don't know if not placate them then outright embrace their ideas and you know, that's why we're not seeing Many Republicans speak up and admit the obvious that Joe Biden won the selection or at least it took them a while because they don't want to Fend the Trump supporters because Trump has a very high approval rating within the Republican Party again He has the heart and soul of the Republican Party's base So, you know, I would love love love love to see a split in the Republican Party But I just think that the Republican Party is more savvy than Democrats and they won't allow this to happen And they'll find some way to accommodate the Trump cultists Which means that you know, if Republicans ship further to the right Democrats will likely follow them to the right because that's what Democrats Have been doing for decades now. So, you know, I'm worried I hope that I'm wrong, but I fear that this ultimately is going to have a negative impact On the country if Maga Cheds do remake the Republican Party in their image, they'll be more extreme if you could even imagine that Congresswoman elect and QAnon conspiracy theorist Marjorie Taylor Greene from Georgia Went on Newsmax TV to explain to viewers with a straight face mind you why she believes It's the case that Democrats managed to rig the election in Georgia against Donald Trump But somehow forgot to rig the election against her and her Democratic opponent now when she makes this argument She is willing to contradict herself in less than one minute and I mean, this is just comical to me So we'll take a look and then I have another clip to show you after this So did you have an opportunity at all to listen to the news conference earlier from the president's attorneys there and some of the things They're questioning they mentioned specifically with Georgia where all of these votes seem to be being Discovered that they expect to follow lawsuit in Georgia tomorrow They they definitely should follow lawsuit I want to tell you right now Georgia voters have lost complete confidence in our secretary of state Brad Raffensperger We've lost confidence in the Dominion voting machines and we've lost comp confidence in our election And this is an important time. We know for a fact that President Trump won Georgia We do not believe Joe Biden won our state. We are not a blue state And we want our election secure going into our very important send-off runoff races on January 5th Marjorie, do you believe that you were fairly elected that that part or do you feel like you are kind of in with all of this that was unfair in some way I Know that I'm fairly elected. I live in a very strong Republican district. It's our plus 27 So I have great confidence in in my election given the fact that my district is such a strong Republican district But what I do know in Georgia my state as a whole we have we have a lot of counties that need to be Completely looked at we have 159 counties in our state and when we're picking up 2600 brand-new votes Just in my county alone in Floyd County in my district and we're picking up votes in other counties We know we need to look at every single county in Georgia But the real issue here is look at these Dominion voting systems. They have ties to countries like Venezuela They keep their servers where over in companies like Germany and Spain, you know The real issue is something that President Trump brought forward is we need to put America first and that includes our elections Including the servers that contain important information From voters in our elections and and that's something that I would like to bring up Now I hate to be redundant, but I've got to read what she said back to you She says Georgia voters have lost complete confidence in our Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger We've lost confidence in the demon in the Dominion voting machines And we've lost confidence in our elections then literally seconds later. She says I have great confidence in my election So Democrats rigged the election against Donald Trump, but not you. Why would they forget that? I mean you are pretty out there, right? You think that if they're gonna rig any elections, they wouldn't want to forget your election But you know people in Georgia, they don't have any faith in the Dominion voting machines in Brad Raffensperger The Secretary of State when it comes to the presidential race, but when it comes to your race They have great confidence in the Dominion voting machines and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger Why would this be the case like you only have to think about this for a few seconds to understand how ridiculous it is Why would Democrats Not rig the House and Senate elections, but only rig the presidential race that makes no sense If they're going to do any rigging whatsoever, you think they'd go all out, right? But she she has no facts no no evidence not even basic logic what she says here is nonsensical um and On top of that I have to get to Something else she said in a different interview with Newsmax because she echoed the same sentiment About the election being rigged, but she said something else that was really peculiar to me Well, I think I think a lot of Georgia voters are not confident in our elections right now And I'm very happy Governor Kemp has has made those calls to audit the signatures and for and you know Basically backing President Trump for the recount. I think we need to go further I really want to see the state legislators come together with a special session I want to see the loophole close to stop Democrat activists from all over the country from moving to Georgia And and trying to vote in our very important Senate runoffs Now if it sounded to you like she basically said I want to stop Democrats from moving to Georgia so that way they can't vote here um That is exactly what she's saying She says I want to see the loophole closed to stop Democrat activists from all over the country From moving to Georgia and vote in our very important Senate runoff What loophole is she referring to now? I I did some research and I don't know exactly what legal loophole She's referring to but the only thing that I could find is The loophole being that uh Registration ends on December 7th So if you are someone who's moving to Georgia you can still register to vote in this upcoming Senate runoff By December 7th So the fact that someone who just moved to Georgia being able to register to vote until December 7th That is what i'm assuming Is the loophole she's referring to but in terms of the evidence that there's this huge wave of Democrats moving to Georgia To tip the scales in favor of Democrats I don't see it but the only thing that I found was Andrew yang who tweeted out that he will be moving to Georgia To help ossoff and warlock win and he didn't even say that he'd be voting for them He just said that he would help campaign for them Um, I hate to tell you this but that's perfectly legal That's perfectly legal american citizens can move to other states And guess what republicans can do the same thing republicans from texas can move to georgia to help purdue and loafler win So, I mean, what do you what do you propose the solution be to this problem? Should we ban democrats from moving to georgia? I don't know what the expectation is it seems like you just want to complain That Democrats Or one democrat andre yang is moving to georgia to help influence this election I don't know if he's gonna canvas or whatever But that's that's legal This is one country with different states and we can move around I don't know how many people are actually going to want to base their residency on one single election But nonetheless if people want to do that they can do that democrats can do that republicans can do that What do you expect? This doesn't mean that there is evidence that democrats are rigging this election This just means that andrew yang really cares about these two runoff races So, I mean everything she says it has no evidence. It's all just you know, uh, conjecture conspiracy theories Um, and to really even call it theories at this point That gives it too much credit because she's just like vomiting out words That don't have any connection to reality. This woman is untethered to reality And she talks about you know, dominion voting machines And it's funny because all you have to do is a quick 30 second google search And you'll see that most of the things republicans have said about them Are laughably stupid So i've seen some boomer means memes shared on facebook where basically they share this logo that looks super nefarious that says dominion changing the way people vote And as you can see a red ballot goes in a blue ballot comes out and they make it seem as if this is super nefarious But if you go to their website and look at their actual logo, that isn't their logo That's literally fake news and i almost forgot to mention in that first video She brought up venezuela and that dominion a company based in denver colorado Has ties to venezuela. I mean the things that she is saying Are fucking stupid They're fucking stupid and look here's the thing we can find some common ground here marjorie. How about this? I also agreed that maybe we shouldn't have private companies Tabulate the voting results. So why don't you and I propose that we nationalize dominion? Well, she wouldn't support that because then that would be socialism and socialism bad And for individuals like marjorie taylor green and anyone who follows her who are actually concerned That the election is fraudulent you can actually audit this election yourself you can go to your county And ask to audit this election everyone can do that We have the ability to do that, but you don't want to do that because you're just too lazy It's easier to listen to what donald trump tells you to do and just you know, take him at his word While not actually taking the time to either research things yourself or audit the election results in your county So, I mean, this is why you know, america is in this Sad state of affairs because we are in this post factual era where nobody can even agree on What's in front of us empirical reality? Like that doesn't bode well for the long-term health of our country if we have people who Are basically delusional So people like marjorie taylor green aren't helping but i'm not gonna lie She is quickly becoming one of my favorite members of congress because um, this is a train wreck that I am not Going to want to look away from uh, she is uh, she's out there And it's really interesting to see how the republican party establishment responds to her But if I had to guess they're probably going to embrace her I mean, you'll see people like mit romney shun her But in terms of like the aggregate republican party She's going to be a rising star because the crazier you are the faster you move up the ranks in the republican party Trump became president. So uh, this type of politics is popular among the maga base. So Yeah, great Corrupt republican kelly loafler in georgia is currently competing For a us senate seat and she really should be in prison She shouldn't be running for president after we just found out that she was doing insider trading this year Sold her stocks after she was briefed on the corona virus But nonetheless, she's still running But I want to look at her campaign strategy because it's really interesting to me The way that she is criticizing her opponent rafael warlock is by trying to tie him to members of the squad And claim that this individual is an extremist now reverend rafael warlock is nothing like any of the members of the squad Unfortunately, he's just a milk toast centrist democrat He doesn't even support medicare for all and he's a reverend who supposedly believes in jesus because you know, of course jesus supported Access to affordable health care, but I digress she is trying to Attack him by comparing him to the squad. So she tweeted this out It's no wonder the squad fully supports reverend warlock. He totally supports their dangerous and extreme agenda I wish and ilhan omar completely agrees with his disgraceful comments about our active service members veterans and their families now the article that she links to is completely fucking stupid because It's apparently a scandal that in 2011 in a sermon reverend warlock said that nobody can serve god in the military at the same time And none of this is relevant because god is not real He's not there's no evidence that god exists. So it's not going to be relevant What somebody says about god for this us senate seat and this race in general But furthermore if you are going to Self identify as someone who is religious If you're pro-life as kelly loafler is i'm assuming then you might want to tone down The worship of our military and us militarism and militarism in general But nonetheless, uh, this is supposedly a scandal like I don't get why this is so controversial But nonetheless ilhan omar, you know, she doesn't support reverend warlock because he's quote unquote extreme She supports him because he's not kelly loafler She is a literal criminal who should be in prison because again, she was caught doing insider trading But instead of being punished she is running for a united states senate seat Now ilhan responded pointing this out saying blatant lies from the disastrous insider trading QAnon conspiracy supporting fear mongering appointed kelly pro tip to win an election You run on ideas debate your actual opponent and defend your record not run against the squad Ask trump. He fucked around and found out now. I love that response from her and uh, when she says qanon conspiracy supporting Basically, uh, the reason why she's pointing this out with regard to kelly loafler isn't necessarily because kelly loafler Supports qanon or believes in that but she has embraced qanon congresswoman elect marjorie taylor green And marjorie taylor green is on the stump for her which is someone who you want to distance yourself from If you want people to think that you're sane But kelly loafler responded basically by saying um, no you when it comes to corruption and she tweeted ilhan We saw the video of you smiling and laughing while talking about al qaeda and 9 11 We know that you funneled millions of dollars to your new husband's consulting firm And we know that you're an unabashed anti-semite. You should be expelled from congress. Now, of course, none of this is true At all, uh, when she says that ilhan omar was smiling and laughing Talking about al qaeda and 9 11 ilhan omar. I mean we talked about this on the program She was saying because some people did something She doesn't want the entire community of muslims in the world Which is more than a billion people To be demonized and make it seem as if they you know supported the attacks on 9 11 We didn't even have to get through all of this because uh, you know going through all of these attacks one by one We know that this is a bad faith actor She's an anti-semite because she speaks up for palestinian rights, right? And if she's an anti-semite kelly, then you are in islamafo because you don't care about palestinian rights So ilhan responded to this by basically brushing it aside saying Sorry kelly. If you need help writing a real clap back. I am here to help This ain't it try harder and I think that's really all that you can say because kelly loafler is not a serious person Again, this individual Should be in prison She should at least be fined But she's running for a u.s. Senate seat and yet she has the audacity to say that ilhan omar is the one Who should be expelled from congress? Why? What's the specific reason why you think that she should be expelled from congress? You should not be allowed to run for the senate after you have been busted insider trading Like this should be a bigger scandal than it is But the fact that she is still there and her colleagues are there like diane feinstein and other senators Who literally got caught doing insider trading that should be outrageous to everyone Uh, but that kind of ended between kelly loafler and ilhan omar and then out of the blue QAnon congresswoman elect herself marjorie taylor green decided to jump in And attack ilhan omar in the dumbest way imaginable saying back down ilhan omar You married your brother so you're so you're disqualified from running your mouth got her now seeing that there is About a 60 or higher chance that marjorie taylor green fucked her cousin at least once I don't think that she of all people should be uh using this particular conspiracy theory about ilhan omar I mean there are other conspiracy theories that you can use but she's using this one now ilhan omar responded by saying Looks like crazy lady has log on. I know things might be different where you come from But you have to get off of the looney train That you are in congress marjorie then responded saying don't even get me started on where you come from We don't marry our brothers here in america So i'm not sure who you're calling crazy and i love that she's just like so committed to this conspiracy theory that ilhan omar married her brother lady You believe in kunan so nothing that you believe Is valid or legitimate like anything that you say should be dismissed because you said it like that's how crazy you are But ilhan omar she stopped responding at that point But she did however retweet one of her colleagues who responded to marjorie taylor green in a way that was surprisingly savage So congressional progressive caucus coach our mark pokon actually tweeted out my new colleague is classless I hope she decides to be more professional when she gets worn in so far She's off to an awful start you were elected to be a member of congress not a spokesperson for qanon lunatics Try growing the fuck up, please. Yeah, that's uh That pretty much says it all and you know in Some ways i'm really i'm discouraged to see political discourse uh come to this where we're not necessarily debating policies Or ideology and you have these dipshits like marjorie taylor green and kelly loafler Tweeting out conspiracy theories about ilhan omar that she married her fucking brother or supports 9 11 or laughed at 9 11 I mean, this is what we have to deal with how are we supposed to we being like anyone who's not a republican Work with these types of people unify with these types of people. There's just there's no common ground There's a disconnect there Between them and reality. So how do you find any? Areas of opportunity to work with individuals like this Who are just insane like marjorie taylor green kelly loafler? These are like your racist facebook aunts that share boomer memes all the time About how hillary clinton like made a deal with the devil literally to like become the president or some shit It just it's a sad state of affairs when we have these types of republicans Coming to power because they are so insane that they make individuals like sarah palin who was previously seen as the most crazy Look relatively reasonable so it's uh It's a little disturbing, but nonetheless I am gonna admit. I do find it entertaining. So there's that I guess So the other day representative alexandria ocasio-cortez put out a tweet that I think Is basically just common sense. She says to get the virus under control. We need to pay people to stay home Yeah That's exactly what we need to do But for whatever reason This was incredibly controversial republicans talked about this and Attacked her for this as if it's so extreme to do what other countries are doing To get the virus under control who have been more successful. Mind you at getting the virus under control So one of the people who attacked her was uh, Nikki haley who tweeted out aoc. Are you suggesting you want to pay people to stay home? From the money you take by defending the police or was that for the student debt? You wanted to pay off the green new dealer medicare for all hashtag. Where is the money now? I mean clearly she's a bad faith actor and she's going to try to find a way to interpret uh, aoc's tweet in the least charitable way imaginable But what she ended up doing was revealing How stupid she is What you just said proves That you don't know about the government That you worked for because aoc pointed out nicky I'm suggesting republicans find the spine to stand up to their corporate donors and vote for the same measures They did in march except without the wall street bailout this time and I know you're confused about actual governance But police budgets are municipal not federal I'm really embarrassing that this woman was a governor and still doesn't have a grasp on public investment Wonder if she says federal financing works like a piggy bank or household too All this faux seriousness from folks who worship trump for running the country like his casino. Damn Just like that AOC dismantled her entire political career If you want to attack aoc you're free to do that you can criticize her but They're not even trying to present themselves as serious people and I think that she knows that Her base probably won't notice the distinction because you just want to attack aoc for being extreme For calling for the police to be defunded whatever but You look like a stupid person when you say things like this when you don't even Express that you have a basic grasp of the way That our federalist system works I mean saying that she wants to defund the police To pay for medicare for all it makes you sound like a fucking stupid person It just does like I don't mean to be crass but You want to run for president like i'm assuming you want to run for president You were a governor you were within trump's administration as you an ambassador You want to run for president one day and this is the best that you've got See they can't come up with an argument to actually rebut what aoc is saying So what do they do they try to use this straw man and claim as if you know she Is ridiculous they use buzzwords like socialism and venezuela and communism and yada yada yada And all they do is make themselves look fucking idiotic Imagine a situation where it's 2024 and aoc is the democratic party nominee and nicky hayley Is the republican party nominee? Can you imagine how a debate would go? Nicky hayley has proven that she is an idiot and i don't even like i'm not convinced she believes What she's saying here like i think she knows what aoc is trying to say I think that she's aware of the fact that municipal budgets can't be used to fund federal programs But nonetheless, you know, she she likes to Try to find ways to criticize the left But you know, she presents herself as the serious republican when you're not a serious person If you don't even have a grasp of basic governance And you know if you actually know the way that things work and the way that things are funded Then you probably shouldn't pretend that you don't because that makes you look stupid not aoc But i just had to share this because aoc um It's it's great to see her clap back at all of these politicians who try to attack her because They're clearly like they they don't know how to respond to her She is more intelligent than them and she knows more about policy than they do Or maybe they know a lot more than they let on but they're just corporate stooges and they don't actually care about You know working for the people so they try to find ways to rationalize their their corporatism I don't know what it is but it doesn't matter when you step up and you take a swing at aoc You better make sure that you don't miss because you end up looking like a fucking fool if you do And that's exactly what happened to nicky hailey embarrassing So kyle brunhouse the teenager who went to kenosha wisconsin and ended up killing two people He has been released Now this is old news by now, but i still wanted to talk about this because i think that I have to point out the absurdity of our so-called criminal justice system and how this is This is just it exposes everything wrong With our system so cnn reports kenosha shooting suspect kyle brunhouse posts two million bail Two million and he posted that now That in and of itself the fact that he's being released When he's a domestic terrorist literally should disgust you but what's even Perhaps more disgusting is the fact that right wingers celebrated this as if He's a hero He took two lives Two human beings are dead Because of him They will never live again And you're celebrating this Now whenever i talk about kyle brunhouse and i call him a domestic terrorist, which he is maga chuds will respond by saying But mike he he had to do that he had to kill them because that was self-defense No, you have no evidence of that all you have are conspiracy theories, but what we know that is confirmed Is that this individual Is the aggressor He showed up with a gun looking for problems It's despicable now I want to share some tweets from aoc because i think she made Phenomenal points that should be common sense to everyone She says people who argue that dramatic changes to policing including budgetary ones will mean violent people will be led out of jail to Rome free rarely ever acknowledge that's actually the current system we have today for the privileged Does anyone believe written house would be released if he were muslim into the same thing in a different context For people who say systemic racism doesn't exist This is what it looks like protection of white supremacy baked deep into our carceral systems law and disorder And that's exactly it. That is exactly it I mean think about how outrageous it is That police officers will respond to black lives matter protesters even peaceful ones with violence But individuals armed thugs from militias will show up with the guns And they work with them Who's actually violent the people with the guns? Or the people with the signs Not sure occasionally these protests turn into riots But that violence is a response to state sanctioned violence The violence in minneapolis was a response to violence against george floyd The violence in kenosha was a response to the shooting of jacob lake, but that violence Is never justified and acceptable police violence is this type of uh militias who kill people That's acceptable Our criminal justice system is a fucking joke I mean it's already bad enough that we have a two-tier justice system where the rich getaways got free no matter what types of crimes they commit I mean how many united states senators got busted doing insider trading this year and how many of them are in In prison zero, but on top of that we have a white supremacist system. We have a system where weed is virtually legal for white americans, but black americans get locked up for smoking it. It's just It's despicable and you know, I would encourage everyone who hasn't already To read michelle alexander's the new jim crow because you will see How racist our system is in actuality and you know the fact that This domestic terrorist is now going to be free It's disgusting. It shows that This This country is in really poor shape The fact that there's disagreement about whether or not a domestic terrorist should be free Is disturbing So last week on the program we talked about how republicans and maga chuds they were outraged because Reasonable people dared to warn that as covet cases surge You might want to consider scaling back your thanksgiving celebration. So we don't spread covet 19 to our loved ones And of course, you know, the right they threw a tantrum over that charlie kerr claimed that the left doesn't actually care about covet And this is just our covert effort to destroy Thanksgiving as if we don't also like to eat delicious food and hang out with our friends and family On top of that, uh, you had other individuals such as steven crowded tweet out as for me and my household We will celebrate Thanksgiving. We will have a house full of family friends and kin We will give thanks together pray together and make merry with grateful and joyous hearts. This is now rebellion So in other words, let's kill grand matta on the libs Very smart very big brain steven crowded And i love how he's trying to make it seem as if like praying together with family and friends is rebellious Motherfucker if you were born 50 years earlier, you would be one of the people Sounding the alarm about how rock and roll is devil worship and it's making teenagers more promiscuous or some bullshit like that You are not someone who has a rebellious heart. You are a bootlicker. You are a quintessential bootlicker So shut the fuck up But I mean like this is what I expect from these sorts of right wing ideologues But when it comes to members of the united states congress, you'd expect them to be at least a little bit more responsible But unfortunately that is uh, not what we got because ted crews decided to tweet out you want my turkey liberals You better come and take it from me. I'm the only one Who's going to be fucking this turkey? I mean even this turkey So I mean it's funny because he's like trying to be this bad ass and he's like come and get my turkey Ted you're not some defender of liberty. You literally tried to get dildos banned in texas Like you don't even think that americans deserve the liberty to fuck themselves So don't pretend as if you are like this fighter for american values Like you're you're a clown you are a clown and because it's ted crews And even though he tries so hard to make people like him He's just so hateable. He has a punchable face and as someone with a bunchable face myself I can actually say that and I don't think it's controversial But the internet responded as the internet Responds to things that ted crew says. I mean they ruthlessly and hilariously clowned on him majority report responded saying good one ted And they shared this gif of him trying to dribble a basketball through his legs I love this gif. You've got people pointing out the thousands of individuals landing up in texas for food Which is his state and you think that if he's worried about a war on thanksgiving I mean, I can't imagine anything worse than people literally going hungry on a holiday that he Wants to defend so I mean maybe he should do something about that You have another twist on the don't tread on me flag with patriotic choking noises, which is you know sad But actually kind of accurate you have folks memeing His come-and-take-it photo with a stretcher and a body bag Because that's what he's basically encouraging. I mean we have some pretty good judge judy and john oliver memes Somebody posted a photo of corona virus saying come get it and then You have this one, which made me laugh out loud this meme saying a weird hill to die on but at least you're dead That's So ruthless You have somebody making a reference to the porn that he liked on his public twitter account When he didn't realize that he wasn't logged on to his throwaway account And of course you have more memes with a come and get it featuring corona virus And pictures of ted cruise's face photoshopped on a turkey, which I have to admit made me laugh Way harder than it should have probably and this just goes on and on And on and on and I feel like even though this is a serious issue. It's healthy for normal people reasonable people To laugh at things like this because it really like when you sit back and you think about it This really is depressing like ted cruise It's not just one person saying this. It's not just sad because a member of the united states senate is saying this This type of mindset is widespread in the united states of america where if you go to any local news outlet posting, you know, just general statistics about covet 19 you see all the comments Where's the evidence? hoax Like just batch it insane things So, you know, it's nice to see people clown on stupid people Not necessarily because I think this is going to help move the needle But because you know individuals in congress, even though the bar is super low, we should at least expect them To try to like set a good example But individuals like ted cruise he's trying to position himself to be the next edgy outsider like donald trump And so he does things like this he makes these weird cringe worthy tweets on twitter Where he tries to like make it seem as if he is this badass and your ted cruise So that persona is never going to apply to you because you are ted cruise You are a goober who ate a booger on national television during a televised debate You're just you're unlikable and you know, the worst part is you don't even have policies that benefit people's lives If you were unlikable, but had good policies I'd give you a pass but you're a dipshit and you have policies that would destroy the planet and the country So whenever ted cruise gets dunked on i'm gonna be here for it because he deserves it So we are going to have a really long and rough couple of months ahead when it comes to covet 19 And as bad as it is now it could get even worse. I mean, we are seeing Almost 200,000 new cases per day. We've surpassed 250,000 deaths in the united states due to covet 19 And even though the virus is spreading more and more americans Are disregarding, you know social distancing protocols They are traveling in larger numbers for the holidays And when governors take action and issue more lockdown orders such as in oregon residents are defying said orders And they're protesting outside of the governor's residence and on one hand, you know, it's easy to be angry at these folks For not wanting another lockdown but at the same time the federal government hasn't taken any action So governors, they don't have the power of the purse that congress has So without another federal stimulus if a governor locks down, which is the right thing to do to mitigate the spread of the virus Then you're just harming small businesses. So it's this really Horrible situation that we find ourselves in where there's no federal money that states have to assist them with this lockdown But you have to lock down otherwise more people will catch the virus and die But yet more small businesses will go bankrupt. People will suffer It's a disaster and we're not even Thinking right now about what's going to happen january 1st when the moratorium on evictions expires Is trump a lame duck president going to want to reissue that How many people are going to face eviction how many more people will go hungry before the holiday season like it's It's genuinely depressing to think about all of this and to make matters worse, you know You have politicians like congresswoman elect marjorie taylor green Irresponsibly post selfies of herself bragging about how they're not wearing masks in georgia We're still seeing the viral videos of carons getting kicked out of cascos for refusing to wear masks And it just proves that people are incredibly selfish Incredibly selfish and not only that that our government just doesn't care about us The united states government, which is the richest country in the world responded to this pandemic As you would expect a failed state to respond to it I mean think about how insane it is that with all of the economic ruin that this pandemic has caused Americans got one Payment just one of 1200 dollars They expect americans to survive on that So It's gonna get worse It's going to get worse Having said that though, I do think that There is some room for optimism We are starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel because we have two vaccines that are very effective And on top of that the university of oxford found that astro zenica's vaccine Is very effective at stopping someone from contracting covet 19 And on top of that the FDA has authorized regenerans antibody cocktail for emergency use on high risk patients with mild to moderate symptoms And the government is apparently subsidizing some of the treatment. So that way there's no out of pocket costs I think that the devil is in the details there, but you know, it's getting worse But at the same time we're starting to see a glimmer of hope With regard to vaccines and therapeutics. So the question is You know as it gets worse and we start to see, you know, uh A cure basically in the form of that of a vaccine. How long is this going to go on for? I mean, everyone has quarantine fatigue myself included Nobody likes wearing masks. We just be grudgingly do it because we we want to protect others So how long until things start to get back to normal? And uh, there is some encouraging news with regard to when we might start to see some normality again as the pandemic goes away, uh But there's a lot of caveats So according to one vaccine expert It could be as early as may of next year that things could get back to normal Meaning we could actually have a relatively normal summer So as the guardians joanna walters explains as the number of covet 19 cases in the united states passed 12 million The trump administration's vaccine program advisor predicted that life in america Could be back to normal around may of 2021 as immunization is set to begin The note of optimism came even as millions of americans were expected to travel for the upcoming thanksgiving holiday this week And many appeared to be ignoring warnings from health officials about furthering the spread of the infectious disease monsef slawui chief scientific advisor of the government's operation warp speed vaccine development and distribution program Which involves the military and the private sector as well as government health experts said that pending regulatory approval for the first vaccine Means that first americans could be vaccinated outside of clinical trial by mid december And slawui said that if the vaccination distribution and immunization plan goes well Enough americans should be vaccinated by may or something like that of 2021 to allow life to go back to normal The first application to the u.s. Government for vaccine approval was made on friday by the pharmaceutical team of visor And its partner bio and tech the food and drug administration regulatory body is scheduled to hold a key meeting on december 10th That could award the team emergency authorization for the vaccine by december 11th or 12th I'm hopeful the first people will be immunized across the united states in all states Slawui told cnn state of the union politics show on sunday morning The administration plans to vaccinate 20 million people in december and another 30 million per month thereafter health care workers and the most vulnerable populations such as residents of nursing homes are expected to be the first in line Slawui said that with the first vaccines the u.s. Pharmaceutical firm maderna is expected to apply for regulatory Authorization soon on its vaccine need to be given to at least 70 percent of the u.s. Population For true herd immunity to take place So if he's right and you know, we could have 70 percent of the population vaccinated by may This is this is really good news I will admit though, you know, uh, i'm not that optimistic and there's a million different caveats And when dr. Fauci was asked about this timeline he was a little bit more skeptical because The next task that we're going to have as a country is Getting people to take vaccines because as we know there has been increasing anti-vax sentiment in this country Although when it comes to covet 19 it doesn't seem to be as prevalent as normal vaccines and gallup shows That support for a covet 19 vaccination is that 58 percent meaning that 58 percent of americans would take a vaccine And when you control for party affiliation unsurprisingly more democrats would take the vaccine than republicans So if it is the case that 58 percent of americans in total take this vaccine You know when you factor in that as well as all of the people who have antibody responses generated from having covet 19 We could be close to 70 percent to reach herd immunity But it's going to be tough uh to convince people because joe biden will be president and trump supporters Will be more conspiratorial and think that it's unsafe It's going to be I think a really huge struggle. So I'm kind of more in line with what dr. Fauci says and that It's probably a little bit too optimistic to think may is when things are going to return to normal But to me I take this as sometime in 2021 things Will return to normal most likely Now there's there's some reason to want donald trump to take credit for The vaccine at least some credit for the vaccine because if donald trump doesn't give it his stamp of approval Will his supporters take it We need people to take the vaccine in order to have herd immunity In order to protect ourselves and the world from the virus. So just getting people To take this vaccine is going to be tough in and of itself Now the good news is that if a lot of people don't want to take it immediately You know others will have access to the vaccine assuming it's affordable Or accessible at all who knows that's a different story for a different day Or discussion for a different day, I should say but I mean look We're gonna have to wait and see but um, you know, there there is I think cause for Optimism there's a glimmer of hope we're starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel just a little bit But to get to that point where we See, you know a more normal country and world again What we have to go through to get there is going to be tough. We still have to take precautions and I mean given how americans have responded. They're probably going to celebrate Thanksgiving a lot of people at least As if there isn't a pandemic which is worrisome because you know, it's not like These celebrations, you know will occur In a vacuum society doesn't exist in a vacuum. So if you You know, uh travel and you see your family and you contract COVID-19 You could give that to others your grocery store clerks and whatnot. So it's just It's exhausting. Um, and this is just It's gonna take a long time But I think that There's some cause for optimism. We should try to hang on to that because it's going to be a really really rough couple of months So last week on the program we talked about a gut-wrenching story from south dakota Where a nurse who is caring for COVID-19 patients Describes how they are in denial of the virus as they literally die from it because they believe Donald Trump's lies they believe that this is a hoax and that what they're experiencing the the illness that they Feel it's not from the virus. It's from something else Now another story, uh has emerged featuring another nurse who's working on the front lines caring for COVID-19 patients And what she says is genuinely just Heartbreaking and I wanted to share her story because I think that these these types of uh stories from nurses Are really important. So she writes I am tired. I spent the last eight months caring for COVID patients I've missed my family and friends. I've missed birthdays and my own wedding anniversary I've coded nurses and doctors who worked in the same hospital as I when they contracted coronavirus I kept going. I believed my country needed my skills to save american lives So I dropped everything and flew to new york. I've worked in south jersey philadelphia pennsylvania chester pennsylvania And now i'm back in texas. We were making gains the numbers were dropping the curve was flattening I was able to leave the kovat icu. I was assigned to a non kovat floor I was finally able to go home my toddler has stopped crying every time I leave the room because she was scared I wasn't coming back It's heartbreaking to watch a happy child get sad because she thinks her mama is leaving again Children don't understand their parents being gone for months at a time We were finally settling in and getting back out to the new normal But then donald trump and his followers started this anti-mask bullshit Now our numbers are climbing again. Actually, they are worse in my hospital than the first wave I'm going back to the kovat unit. I'm going back to a small cold one bedroom apartment and leaving my home I'm going back to an uncertain future. I'm going back except now i'm losing hope The worst part of it all is my little one. She is so happy that her mama is home Now I have to leave again. I dread the holidays not one of these selfish Anti-maskers is going to care that I'll spend my holidays alone So they can be assholes and not wear masks. They don't have to see my child's tears They wouldn't care anyway. She won't get to eat my sweet potato pie on friendship and fellowship day This will be the first year that she's excited about our tree and the gifts under it I'm going to miss it all This is what I have to give up so these horribly selfish people can go to their grandmas house and infect her with kovat Then they'll bring her to my hospital. They're not kind They are entitled assholes who think someone else got grandmas sick They're the ones that will follow you to another patient's room to tell you their grandmother Is more important than the patient you're going to see They're the ones that will take out their air vote to blame china for the china virus They're the ones that call me girl They tell me how admirable it is that I speak good english and manage to overcome to get a college degree They are racist kovitiates and they refuse to acknowledge the harm they cause I deserve a break. I deserve to watch my baby open her gifts on christmas I deserve to work without fear that today might be the day I contract corona virus. I am fucking tired now hearing the story it Like the last story it brought tears to my eyes because you know in the last story You know the the south dakota nurse talked about how painful it is to see You know patients who she cares for in denial But this story it really It gives you the perspective of a nurse and this just reinforces The reality that when this is all said and done These nurses are going to have PTSD. They're going to have decades of trauma from this experience They're putting everything on the line sacrificing their own lives To care for people in a country that don't seem To take the virus seriously I mean most people do but a large enough portion of american society just doesn't seem to care or take it seriously things It's a joke and that anyone who is taking it seriously Is you know being too alarmist And then you know, this is the cost It's taking a toll on the personal lives of nurses and doctors who Have to give up everything to fight and they're putting their lives at risk I mean this this to me It might have hit me harder than the other story with the south dakota nurse because I mean Even though that's sad as well, this really just shows you that This is not an easy job. I mean the trauma that they're experiencing is comparable To veterans of war like what they're seeing they're seeing their colleagues die They're caring for patients That are saying racist things to them It's just It's so sad and devastating and I've said this before but I don't think we're truly going to grasp The the scale of devastation from this virus until decades later I mean when there's something like 9 11, which is a singular event where 3000 americans die You know, you can easily reflect on that because it's just this one sudden shock But you know the thing about these types of pandemics is the devastation occurs at a more gradual rate It's like, you know the frog that you throw into a boiling pot if he feels that heat He's going to jump out immediately But if you throw a frog into a pot and then you gradually turn up the temperature He's going to get accustomed to it and that's what I think is happening with covet 19 Like as the numbers tick up as we reach more than a quarter million deaths People tune out like the number just is too big for our minds to fathom psychologically So I think maybe there's you know some form of protection that we're imposing on ourselves by putting up this wall Or maybe we're just growing numb to it either way People who are fighting this virus first hand like this nurse. She doesn't get to be numb to it She sees it every single day So it's super convenient that individuals like you and I Can just like try to tune it out try to stay home in quarantine and play video games and distract ourselves But folks like this They don't they don't have that luxury And their families are suffering for this because they're choosing To fight this virus and save lives and what do they get in return? nothing And like this hits close to home because I have Friends and family members in healthcare who are working with covid patients and you know When I hear stories that you know, they're putting their lives at risk and getting exposed to the virus It's it's horrifying. You know, we're starting to see a lead at the end of the tunnel because You know, we're having multiple vaccines show to be pretty effective highly effective even But how much devastation will we see Before getting to that point, I mean How many more people are going to die who are alive today who haven't yet been infected? It's just it's horrifying to think about so I think that these stories are important like I don't believe We should look away from this. I think we have to face this and we have to do something about this Nurses and frontline workers are going to be absolutely Traumatized for decades And we have to take care of them. We can't just abandon them But we live in this cold late-stage capitalist society where you know We don't look out for our own. So this was uh If I sit close to home and you know, this thread was was really informative You know, we we oftentimes if we're not in this position don't have to think about it But when we hear from these folks Man, is this uh Is this horrifying? Well, that's everything. I don't think I have anything left to say. I said everything that was on my heart. So If you'd like to support the show You can do so by going to humanistreport.com Slash support patreon.com slash humanist report or by clicking join underneath any one of our youtube videos Uh, but we have to thank the individuals who make the show possible who help us not just to survive but thrive as well You all are truly incredible people and I really value your patronage And even if you you can't afford to watch or to support the show monetarily again just watching It truly it really does make a difference. So as long as you are a consistent viewer You're helping the show honestly. So that's all that I've got as we go into the holiday season season. I look forward to Transitioning to discussing the war on Christmas Because trump will be out biden will be in so I hope that the right talks about that because this is one of my favorite subjects So if they do Then I've got you covered. But anyways, I'm gonna bounce. I'll see you all next week. This has been the humanist report I'm mike figurado. Take care everyone