 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 HumanistReport.com Now enjoy the show Welcome to the Figueredo Report. I am Humanist Mike And this is episode 263 of the program. Today is Friday, October 23rd And we are just over a week away from the big election And we're gonna talk about all of that. But before we dive into those topics I want to take some time to thank all of the people 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 increased the monthly pledge that they were already giving us and that includes Bonnie Verhuntz 1111, Francis Ellis, Jockeyboy, Jan Weisbart, Linda Childers, Ravi Yajnik, Ryan Skates, the product DS, Trey Palmer, and Willid de Mooney. 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And while we're on the subject of Joe Biden We'll discuss the prospect of Republicans being part of his cabinet if he's elected rapper 50 cent makes an endorsement in the presidential election and Pat Robertson makes a very bold prediction about the election and In the event Trump loses the election Maga Chuds do have a plan B Trump Jr. Ted Cruz tries to concoct a plan to block Democrats from packing the Supreme Court and During a pandemic the rich are still getting richer and the poor are getting even more poor a CNN reporter visited a QAnon rally And it was entertaining to say the least and finally we'll talk about Allison Camarota's latest voter panel from September that we missed and She kind of gauges where voters are at and what their thoughts are on the current election But first we will talk about some phenomenal news The landslide victory in Bolivia for evil morale is socialist party It was phenomenal So of course we have to start the show with that because it's not very often that we get good news So I want to take the time to celebrate first before we talk about anything else and get into the more like heavy Demoralizing stuff. So let's get right to it and try the show everyone Folks, I know that it's a Monday in 2020, but regardless I still have some surprisingly good news The coup in Bolivia the coup attempt in Bolivia by the United States government Has officially failed because they held an election and the socialists didn't just win they won Big they won in a landslide according to exit polls capturing 52.4 percent of the vote the Socialist Party MAS Formerly run by Eva Morales has won big so much so that there will be no need for a runoff election in November and this was such a decisive victory that the Fascist president the individual who let me remind you declared herself the president after Eva Morales was ousted Jeanine Agnes Even she was forced to concede and this led to people dancing in the streets in the middle of the night celebrating this victory and Fascists such as Fernando Camacho crying as the results came in and after the news broke former president of Bolivia Eva Morales Stated that he will be returning to his country because he was exiled once the fascists came to power and he was in Argentina But he's coming back. So this is just phenomenal news and before we get into the specifics here about this I just want to explain to you why this is so important This situation could have been absolutely Deadly if the fascists hung on to power because back when the United States government overthrew the Socialist government in Chile Salvador Allende guess what happened? Pinochet came to power and he was one of the most brutal dictators the world has ever seen So we were looking at a situation where Jeanine Agnes could have been as brutal As Pinochet and there were already signs that this was a very violent and repressive regime that we were seeing starting to emerge Um, so that's one of the reasons why this is important because the lives are probably going to be saved countless lives Because this election went this way. Um, and second of all it also signals that the United States government is losing its influence in Latin America because what did we just try to do a Year ago a little over a year ago We just tried to overthrow Maduro in Venezuela and install Juan Guaidó our puppet That failed and now our coup attempt here in Bolivia also failed And yes, you should question our motives because you know, I don't think it's a coincidence That the countries that we always target and want regime change in happen to have a lot of resources in Venezuela They have the number one oil reserves in the world in Bolivia lots and lots of lithium Which private corporations in america want so this is a victory for the people And for the world quite frankly for the international socialist movement So for more details on this we go to jake johnson of common dreams who explains a year after former bolivian president Evo Morales was ousted in a military coup that installed a brutal fall rate regime Morales ally Luis art game declared victory in the south american nation's high stakes presidential election early monday after exit polls Showed the socialist candidate with a large advantage over his two main competitors Quote democracy has won art gay who served as morales finance minister Said in an address to the nation after one exit poll showed him leading the race with 52.4 percent of the vote And former president carlos mesa in a distant second with 31.5 percent right wing candidate luiz camacho an ally of unelected interim president Jeanine annes won just 14.1 percent of the vote that's astonishing according to the survey the washington post reported that if The exit poll numbers are confirmed by the official count which was being tabulated slowly late sunday It would be more than enough to avoid a november runoff and claim outright victory art gay characterized his apparently decisive victory Which annes was forced to acknowledge as a mandate to continue the policies of the morales government Which lifted millions of bolivians out of poverty and expanded the nation's economy I think the bolivian people want to retake the path. We were on art gay said monday Twice postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic sunday's election was a do-over of last year's presidential contest Which was thrown into chaos after the u.s. dominated organization of american states oas Leveled baseless allegations of fraud by morales who was eventually forced to resign and flee the country under threat by bolivia's military The coup against morales sparked a wave of indigenous led protests That were violently repressed by the bolivian military and police forces Which were granted sweeping immunity from prosecution by the anti indigenous annes government The oas allegations were indeed the main political foundation of the coup that followed the october 20th election three weeks later mark weisbrot co director of the center for economic and policy research wrote last month But they provided no evidence to support these allegations because there wasn't any this has since been established repeatedly by a Slew of expert statistical studies. So this really is just excellent news However, the question is why did this happen in the first place? Why was there a coup attempt? Why did the oas declare their electoral victory fraudulent? Well, this is about lithium This is what evo morales said But i want you to hear it from evo morales himself Because he explained in an interview with glenn greenwald of the intercept that this really was a lithium coup as he called it because What they were doing was they were taking the money that they were making from lithium in this country And they were helping to lift people out of poverty using their country's resources to benefit their own people and the united states government mostly uh large multinational Corporations private companies they didn't like that they weren't getting a piece of the pie So this ended up leading to a coup and evo morales puts it concisely and explains quite simply This is about lithium and that's it We had proposed 41 plants The majority of industrial lithium for example, lithium hydroxyl, lithium carbonate Potassium carbonate was the plant of battery The others for insumes and the others for sub-products Sub-products for medicine and for food And i'm not an expert but i had to understand Debating with the technicians, with ministers, vice ministers management of the lithium issue And we started, last year we entered, we inaugurated a plant As i mentioned earlier We are exporting the potassium And we are exporting the lithium but from the pilot plant in the next year we are going to inaugurate the plant Of the industry of lithium carbonate So if i feel that that That energy sector that is so important that from Bolivia We even had the opportunity to put the price of lithium for the whole world But with participation from Europe, China, Asia and from outside of the United States that doesn't support it That an Indian handles that And as a state besides that So if i'm convinced this is a coup d'etat of lithium This was a lithium coup d'etat. That's what he called it Now with Venezuela John Bolton admitted the quiet part out loud Uh remembering an interview with Fox News where he said you know what really would be nice If american companies and venezuelan companies of course got access to venezuelan's oil So this is always about natural resources always about natural resources and um They didn't work this time and it's funny because these private companies who wanted access to bolivia's lithium They were so confident that they could actually carry out this coup successfully That they were literally bragging about it because tesla's CEO elan musk when confronted about his company monetarily benefiting from bolivia's lithium Said we will coup whoever we want deal with it. Yeah Seems like not so much anymore, right elan So i know that you're gonna say mike you're oversimplifying the situation. No, it really is that simple It really is that simple you just have to connect the dots And i want to go to a tweet from ardy hail who has the most concise summary that we need if someone is confused About this situation show them this tweet because it explains Perfectly what happened so for those unclear about bolivia's situation one bolivia democratically elected socialists two us wanted bolivia's lithium Three socialists said no four us claimed fraudulent elections five us overthrew socialists six evidence showed us slide seven Socialists one general election again eight imperialism lost and this is a happy ending for now We don't know what the future will bring but for now This is a really huge rebuke of fascism in bolivia And it's a message to the us government that we are not going to allow you to continue to destroy our democracies So private companies private american corporations can make money off of us Make money off of our suffering so you can install brutal regimes That repress our people and you do so under the guise of promoting democracy like this is really Phenomenal news and let me just say What's obvious here? This proves that socialism really is the antidote to fascism because the material conditions that lead to people becoming so desperate That they're even susceptible to being radicalized into fascism Those are all addressed with socialism and guess what they experienced socialism under evo morales And it was working his government lifted millions of bolivians out of poverty Because rather than just taking all of the resources that bolivia has and hoarding it They actually benefited the people they used the resources of bolivia To create social programs that lifted people out of poverty and it worked But in order to make sure that A population can benefit off of their own natural resources You know you have to make sure that you resist imperialism by the u.s. government and other countries as well And it's been difficult because the united states has a lot of influence In the region this has been basically their backyard latin america has been their backyard And they've been dominant But now they're starting to lose that influence and that's a really good sign and this isn't just good for bolivia I mean it's really great for bolivia, but this shows That the international socialist movement is growing. It's more powerful. It's legitimized now Um, so this is great. I look forward to seeing evo morales returning to power Um, uh, maybe being part of the party again This is just honestly, um I'm a little bit shocked by this news because when I saw the news roll in on sunday evening. I thought Okay We'll sleep on this and see because nothing good could come of this horrible wretched year. It's not possible And I was proven wrong. Um, my cynicism was uh proven wrong and this is just honestly such great news For people in bolivia and around the world Um, you know, it's a message to the u.s. government. You can't just you can't do What you want when you want For purposes of you know, um monetary gain for private corporations. This is This is great news Well, once again, covet 19 cases are beginning to spike and we have easily surpassed 60 000 new cases over the last couple of days Now, I don't know how bad it's gonna get how high that number will go But this isn't necessarily surprising if you listen to the experts the scientists the epidemiologists Because they warned us that as the weather changes as it gets colder and more and more people congregate indoors This will lead to a spike in cases. So once again the experts the scientists have been proven wrong Everything that they warned us about is now coming to fruition But that doesn't stop idiots like donald trump and his ilk from still criticizing scientists demonizing scientists And it's honestly shocking because you think that if they actually had an interest in winning the selection that's approaching in two weeks They'd at least pretend to be grown-ups But they don't know how to act like adults. They just don't and just this week We learned that donald trump called dr. Anthony Fauci the nation's top infectious disease expert an idiot And trump's attacks on Anthony Fauci have gotten so bad that he revealed in a 60 minutes interview He now has to be accompanied by security detail at all times because he receives so many death threats And his family is now receiving non-stop harassment. And this isn't just because of donald trump It's also because of fox news oan tucker carlson all of the sick fans around donald trump who support him Who are helping him perpetuate these attacks and smears on individuals like dr. Fauci Who are just trying to give us the information that we desperately require because we need transparency We need information. We need statistics But donald trump doesn't want that because he thinks that this is all about him It's all an attempt to make him look bad But regardless, I mean this has led to a massive backlash among the public Which is why donald trump is down in the polls currently But what does he do he ends up leaning into all of these idiotic attacks attacks dr. Fauci More criticizes him even more And he just he doesn't know how to help himself again He can't even put up this facade that he cares that he's taking the scientists seriously And what is he doing now? We'll add a recent rally. He decided to attack joe biden in a way so mind numbingly stupid I have no doubt in my mind. This is actually going to help joe biden And the reason why I know that this is going to help Joe biden is because even joe biden knows This is going to help him because he's promoting what trump said here at this rally We have like five or six of these democrats keeping their states closed because they're trying to hurt us On november 3rd, but the numbers are so good. Anyway, they'd be even better Look as a leftist I could find literally hundreds of reasons to attack joe biden But what trump just said there is not a reason why we'd attack joe biden My argument would be that he's not listening to the scientists enough, right? Because during a pandemic we need more than just for you to increase testing We need a two thousand dollar a month ubi. We need medicare for all So if i'm going to criticize joe biden for anything, it's that he's not listening to the scientists enough, but what does trump say? He's going to listen to the scientists mockingly. He says that as if that's a bad thing Um, he says I'll listen to the scientists if I totally listened to the scientists We would right now have a country that would be in a massive depression instead of uh, we're we're like a rocket ship Take a look at the numbers. That's what he says. So understand there that he has No concern whatsoever for the amount of people affected with covet 19 or the people who have died the 218 thousand Family members who lost loved one because of this pandemic all he cares about is the numbers But if he actually listened to the scientists, it's not like we wouldn't be in an economic depression Because that would depend on what we do But regardless we would still probably be in a depression right now But the difference is that maybe we wouldn't have so many people infected with the illness Maybe we wouldn't have so many people die from this disease because we have four percent of the world's population But 25 percent of all covet cases as of june This is a failure of leadership This shows that donald trump should have listened to scientists more But now he is literally attacking joe biden mocking him because he wants to listen to the scientists I mean you have to be an imbecile to think this is going to land I honestly cannot believe That donald trump is using this line of attack right now when there's just a couple of weeks out until the election And he's down. He has to at least pretend to be a serious person, but he can't even fake it to make it Now this attack is so bad That joe biden is promoting it because joe biden even knows this is going to help him So in response to a headline on twitter from the hill Saying uh trump says biden will listen to scientists if elected joe biden responded simply by saying dot dot dot Yes, and that's all yes to say Listen if your attacks are so bad that your opponent is willingly promoting them You are running a terrible campaign now on top of that tweet joe biden also responded with an ad Uh, but first he says for once donald trump is correct. I will listen to scientists and he then shared this video I mean the ad writes itself The ad writes itself in my opinion some of the most effective anti trump joe biden ads Have been videos that they've put out where they just like don't even edit donald trump They just let trump Have enough rope to hang himself and that's it You know a video of trump saying if I lose this election to joe biden I will go away forever and then it cuts to joe biden saying i'm joe biden. I approve this message I mean donald trump is his own worst enemy It's hilarious. I mean you love to see it because he needs to be defeated But I mean you just think that there'd be at least a little bit more common sense If not like with him Specifically then the people around him would think all right. This clearly is something that we shouldn't say and It's that stupid because this is definitely going to play well like with his cultists at his rallies But I mean overall the normal like the average person who's going to be voting Is not going to like what donald trump is saying if trump says joe biden is going to listen to the scientists more That is going to make them like joe biden more And this was confirmed in a poll from last month that the new york times and sienna college published Where they found that i mean americans they still trust medical scientists the cdc and dr. Fauci Overwhelmingly it's not even close so 84 of americans trust medical scientists And that does include 75 of republicans 77 of americans trust the cdc that includes 71 of republicans 67 of americans trust dr. Fauci that includes still a slight majority of republicans at 51 And only 26 of americans trust donald trump when it comes to covet 19 Now when you compare donald trump and dr. Anthony Fauci among trust within the republican party You do see that most republicans trust trump more than dr. Fauci Uh, although they still do trust scientists more than donald trump But donald trump needs independence to win who trust dr. Fauci and scientists more than him So i mean if you're looking at this at face value and you think okay, it looks like republicans trust Trump more than anthony fowl. She maybe we should let him lean into these attacks You'd be mistaken because you already have republicans unlock The goal is to win undecided voters. The goal is to win independence The goal is to get some of those obama to trump voters to remain loyal and uh, not flip back to the democratic party That's if you're donald trump, but donald trump doesn't seem like he's playing to win And that's good because he's got to go but you'd think that there'd be at least a little bit more Competence from the guy who actually ran a surprisingly good campaign in 2016 I mean there were times where I questioned if he was serious about winning But overall he was more capable of reading the room in 2016. He knew that there was this anti-establishment populist sentiment throughout the country and he capitalized on it But now the mood in the country is entirely different people are exhausted when it comes to COVID-19 And he rightfully states, you know that people are sick and tired of it. They are They have COVID-19 fatigue But it's because we're not doing anything about it. We're all irritated that we still have to social distance and wear masks But that doesn't mean oh, well, let's just stop doing it. That means let's get someone in there That's going to take it seriously. So look this election is not over yet It's not a foregone conclusion that joe biden is going to win But if donald trump does in fact lose this is definitely going to be part of the story This is definitely going to be part of the reason why because he is so tone deaf that he can't even pretend That he's a responsible grown-up where you're literally making fun of your opponent because they're going to trust the scientists During a global pandemic I mean if you do something like that you deserve to lose because you're that out of touch you're that dim-witted Okay, we are going to talk about 50 cent. Uh, this story is hilarious But it's also simultaneously a little bit sad and depressing because it shows you just how greedy rich people are So 50 cent he is worth an estimated 30 million dollars And he just made an endorsement entirely based on him keeping more of his cash So, um, the reason why he made an endorsement is because of joe biden's tax plan Now joe biden as many of you know is no progressive But when you juxtapose his tax plan with donald trump's joe biden's is much more progressive Trump's is regressive any middle-class tax cut that donald trump has included in his plan Expires after 10 years whereas joe biden. I mean, this isn't the best tax rate ever He's basically taxing anyone who makes more than 400 000 dollars per year at a higher rate I mean that is more progressive But it's not the most progressive tax plan because I would argue that if somebody makes More than 250 000 even 100 000 per year they can afford a lot higher of a tax rate But I mean 400 000 that's perfectly reasonable if you're gonna raise taxes on anyone making that much money That's fine But 50 cent apparently disagrees with that and he tweeted out joe biden's tax plan and endorsed donald trump saying What the fuck vote for trump? I'm out. Fuck new york. The nicks never win anyway I don't care that trump doesn't like black people Wow 62 percent. Are you out of your fucking mind? SHUT UP! I don't care that trump doesn't like black people 62 percent That is honestly Astonishing to me and it shows you how morally bankrupt rich people are it shows you how money corrupts people at an individual level Like it doesn't just corrupt institutions. When we're talking about capitalism We have to talk about the effect that it has on us Psychologically as well because this is this is destructive You're telling all of your followers on Instagram and Twitter, hey, vote for the guy, even though he's racist, but I just care about keeping more of my money. So he might hurt you, he might hate black people, but hey, I want more money. 50 Cent, you have 30 million dollars in net worth, you're gonna be okay. You're gonna be fine. And I'm assuming that 50 Cent like doesn't even know the specifics about this, like we're talking about a marginal tax rate, which means that that 62% doesn't kick in until after you make $400,000 in one year. We're not talking about a wealth tax, which we should, where we just tax all of 50 Cent's 30 million wealth at 62%. Joe Biden is not saying I'm going to take 62% of everything you own. That's not what we're talking about here. We're saying that every dollar that 50 Cent makes per year after $400,000 will be taxed at 62%. That is incredibly reasonable. It's been higher before. It's been in the 90s before in the United States, but either he's too stupid or too selfish to acknowledge that. And so this led to him basically saying, listen to all of my supporters. I know, I know this man is a racist and he doesn't like you, but I need this money. I need to make more money than I already have. I mean, you're never going to lose that money. Like you have 30 million in net worth. You're going to have that for the rest of your life. How old are you in your 40s, 50s? You're going to have that forever. But yet you're so greedy that even though you acknowledge how harmful Donald Trump is to black Americans, demonstrably his policies hurt them, you care only about yourself. That is the definition of selfish and just it's perverted. It's disgusting, honestly. Now it's funny because he made this, I guess you could call it an endorsement, not the most ringing endorsement if we're going to call it that, but conservatives are so desperate they still prop this up. They propped up the guy who endorsed Trump, even though he said he knows Trump hates black people, but because he said vote for Donald Trump, conservatives still loved it. So in the responses, Tommy Loren replied saying welcome to the Trump train. And she also said amen. Candice Owens also shared her excitement. Isn't Candice Owens the person who said that we don't care what celebrities think? Dear celebrities, I'm sorry to be the one to have to break this to you, but we do not care, not in the slightest particle of an imaginary thing, what you think. Sure, Jan. But if a celebrity endorses a conservative or Donald Trump, all of a sudden she's like ecstatic. This is embarrassing. Why would you celebrate the endorsement when it's kind of an anti-endorsement? Like he's admitting how selfish he is. He's only supporting Donald Trump because he wants more money. He wants to make more than he already has. And he's admitting though that black people, they're not better off under Donald Trump, but yet people like Candice Owens, whose entire goal is to basically do this black zip thing where you convince black people that Trump isn't that bad and he actually loves them. I mean, it's just, it's astonishing to me. And you know, they'll point to things like, oh, will Trump increase funding for HBCUs? Okay, but what has Trump said about reparations? What is Donald Trump doing to fix healthcare disparities when it comes to black Americans and people of color? Police brutality against black Americans. Donald Trump literally would not even admit in interviews in town halls that systemic racism is a thing. So, I mean, you can't possibly make the case that Trump is in favor of black people, doesn't hate black people. I think it's obvious that Trump is racist, but the people who have been trying to prove to everyone that Trump isn't racist are now propping up this pseudo endorsement, even if he calls Trump racist, all because it's a celebrity that supports Donald Trump. I mean, these people are all stupid. I don't know what else to say. 50 Cent is a clown. He should be ashamed of himself for caring more about his own wealth than black Americans. Tommy Loren and Candice Owens, you know, the fact that they're so desperate to get more celebrities to support Donald Trump, that they'd even prop up an endorsement when the celebrity endorsing Donald Trump says he knows he doesn't like black people. I mean, this shows how stupid American politics has become. It's a joke. So, look, overall, 50 Cent should be ashamed of himself. Let me just say for the record, G-Unit sucks ass. Olivia is okay, though. And actually, young Buck and Lloyd Banks aren't that bad either. 50 Cent sucks ass, and G-Unit sucks ass because it's a brand associated with him. But this dude is selfish. This dude isn't imbecile. Don't listen to him. Don't listen to rich celebrities who only are looking out for themselves. Don't vote for Donald Trump. Like, I think that his own supporters are going to know this because clearly, like, rooted in this endorsement is this assumption that, oh, my God, I got to keep more money. I want to make more money. Dude, you already have millions of dollars. At one point, I think he was 100 millionaire. Fuck off. Fuck all the way off. You're going to have millions of dollars until the day you die. Fuck off, you absolutely greedy tool. I mean, this is really making the case as to why we need to tax the rich even more because they are so greedy. They're willing to throw their own community under a bus. So they can have more money. It's just honestly appalling. It's disgusting. I don't necessarily think that Democrats are going to pursue court packing. I hope that they prove me wrong. But this is the right course of action. And just the fact that this is something that even the pundit class is contemplating, it does have Republicans scared and rightfully so. They should be afraid because they should expect Democrats, if they are going to be a competent opposition party, to retaliate because what Republicans are doing is tax amount to court packing. I mean, if you hold open a Supreme Court seat for nearly a year and don't even allow a single hearing, if you rush through a nominee and try to confirm that individual before an election, after saying we don't confirm Supreme Court nominees during an election year, I mean, that's court packing. I don't know what else to call it. It's court packing. It's not court packing in the sense that we expand the number of justices on the Supreme Court. But it still is court packing. You're making sure that the ideological tilt goes into your party's favor. So the Republican Party, they know that there is at least going to be a push from the left in the Democratic Party for court packing and they're afraid. So they're preparing, they're trying to make it so that way they can pack the court and then they stop Democrats from packing the court. So as Seungmin Kim of the Washington Post explains, ahead of Judge Amy Coney Barrett's expected confirmation to the Supreme Court in the coming days, a coalition of Senate Republicans is offering proposals intended to prevent Democrats from so-called court packing. The symbolic measures are intended for Republicans to go on the offensive against Democrats as the issue of whether to expand the number of seats on the nine-member Supreme Court remains a delicate one in the final days of the presidential incentive campaigns. A half dozen senators led by Senator Ted Cruz will unveil the proposals later Monday. The first is a constitutional amendment which would require support of two-thirds of Congress and then ratification by three-fourths of individual states barring the contraction or expansion of the number of seats on the Supreme Court. The second would bar any proposals to change the size of the Supreme Court from even being considered in the Senate unless two-thirds of its members agree. Make no mistake, if Democrats win the election they will end the filibuster and pack the Supreme Court expanding the number of justices to advance their radical political agenda, entrenching their power for generations and destroying the foundations of our democratic system, Ted Cruz said in a statement describing his proposals. He added we must take action before election day to safeguard the Supreme Court and the constitutional liberties that hang in the balance. Endorsing the measures are three Senate Republicans in competitive contests in November. Senators Tom Tillis, Martha McSally and Kelly Loeffler who have warned of court packing should Democrats win the White House and retake the Senate majority in November. So this was expected but it's funny because they know that what they're doing warrants retaliation. They know that they're in the wrong. They know that what they're doing is going to lead to at least some members of the Democratic Party calling for court packing. The fact that Republicans are even pursuing a constitutional amendment now shows you that they know what they're doing is completely cynical, completely cynical because if this were a legitimate confirmation process then there would be no discussions about court packing but they know that they're packing the court. This is basically court packing light, right? And it's just, it's hilarious. So here's what I would say. My thinking is, all right, you don't want Democrats to pack the Supreme Court. If I'm Democrats I'm playing hardball. I'll say, look, we will vow to not expand the number of justices on the Supreme Court. Granted, you have Donald Trump withdraw his nomination of Amy Coney Barrett. You do that, we don't pack the Supreme Court. Then we call it even. Thankfully AOC expressed the same sentiment as I just did because she tweeted out in response to this plan is the plan to withdraw Barrett's nomination because if not, I've got the world's tiniest violin at the ready. And that's exactly what I want to hear. That's some wholesome trolling that we need to see because what they're trying to do is they're trying to frame talks surrounding court packing as them playing defense and Democrats going on the offensive and they're saying we're going to retaliate. But understand, it's Democrats who should pack the Supreme Court as a means of retaliating because that's what you're doing. So what they're trying to do is they want to pack the Supreme Court and then impose a constitutional amendment to stop Democrats from further expanding the court. Except that's not going to pass. And what I propose is Democrats go tit for tat because even if you go tit for tat, you add two justices to make up for the two that Republicans stole, we'll let them add two more. We go back and forth because here's the way I see it. If Democrats do not pack the Supreme Court, that is 20 to 30 years of nonstop conservative rulings if Amy Coney Barrett is in fact confirmed. So even if Democrats choose to add five, six justices to the Supreme Court, Republicans then retaliate, that's still better than what we know will for sure be the case where we have nonstop conservative rulings. If both parties go tit for tat and keep expanding the number of justices on the Supreme Court, at least there's going to be some periods of time where there will be a liberal majority on the Supreme Court. But if we don't expand the Supreme Court, then that means nonstop conservative rulings. Not acceptable. That means that Roe v. Wade is on the chopping block. Obergefell v. Hodges is on the chopping block. Citizens United and McCutcheon will be expanded with even more cases. I mean, there's so much at stake and we can't afford to be rehashing all of these old battles, so you've got to go tit for tat. But I don't argue that, you know, let them go tit for tat, that's fine, without making my own case to block Republicans from packing the court as well. Because as I've stated on this show before, Democrats shouldn't just expand the Supreme Court and then wait for Republicans to retaliate when Democrats are the ones who retaliated. What they should do is expand the Supreme Court and then stop Republicans from doing that. How do you do that? Well, you don't do that by, you know, trying to promote some constitutional amendment. That's not going to pass, you're not going to get that ratified. But what you need to do is you stop Republicans from packing the Supreme Court by expanding democracy. Because when we expand democracy in America, the Republican Party is a minority party. That makes it more difficult for them to win. So if they're going to win, they have to appeal to more people if we further enhance our democracy. So what do I mean by that? Well, first of all, we add more states to the union. We make DC a state. We make Puerto Rico a state. And when I say we make Puerto Rico a state, we allow them to determine whether or not they want to join the United States. We try to entice them perhaps, but we let them ultimately have their say. And if both of those states are added to the union, we have 52 states, then guess what? That's four more senators for Democrats. Now Republicans could get dirty. They could try to add more states to the union themselves. They can try to carve up Texas into multiple states. That's fine. We'll just carve up California into multiple states. They want to make it so that way Democrats can't win after they've expanded the size of the Senate and they do more voter suppression. That's fine. What Democrats do is opt for compulsory voting. So people are now required to vote, because we all know when turnout is higher, Democrats win and Republicans lose, because again, this is a minority party. So our argument is from a place of democracy. We're trying to, yes, technically block Republicans from expanding the Supreme Court and retaliating, but we're not doing it by putting up these barriers, by imposing a constitutional amendment after we get the ideological tilt on the court that we want. No, we just expand democracy. We consolidate our democracy and franchise more people, make it so that way more voices are heard, more people have representation. And if you can't win under those circumstances, under a more democratic country, then that's on you. It's on Republicans to win over people in DC and people in Puerto Rico, or the different states of California that could emerge hypothetically, or to this new block of voters that emerge if we make voting compulsory. So what I say is, of course you expand the Supreme Court because we don't have a choice. And if it comes down to it, if both parties go tit for tat, that's fine, because that's better than the alternative of 20 to 30 years of nonstop conservative role. And I know I sound like a broken record, but it cannot be overstated how horrible it would be for another Lochner era, but except this would be, you know, the Lochner era on steroids were issues that we thought were already solved were having to rehash everything again, all these same fights, you know, the decades it took for LGBTQ people to get rights. We can't just let that be overturned by a rogue Supreme Court who is in fact ideological. So, you know, it's funny that Republicans now are trying to come up with some plan, but their plan is not going to work. A constitutional amendment is not going to pass. You're not going to get three fourths of states to ratify it. You're not going to make this happen. But our plan actually is more feasible. The plan to expand the union at two more states, that's something that's easier. So, if really they want to go tit for tat, I mean, if Democrats really played their cards, right, which I'm assuming they won't, but if they did, Democrats would have the upper hand here. They could expand the number of justices and then they could block Republicans just by making our country more democratic. So, Ted Cruz here, after his party, has packed the Supreme Court, wants to play victim and make it seem as if, oh, we have to protect the Constitution and defend ourselves. Save it. You are the ones who brought this on yourselves. You're the ones who stole a Supreme Court seat from Obama. You're the ones rushing through a confirmation process right before an election after you said we don't do that. So, you're the ones who made your bed. Lie in it and cope. So, in what may probably be the least surprising news ever, Joe Biden, the guy who naively claimed that Republicans will all of a sudden have an epiphany once Donald Trump is out of office, who even considered a Republican running mate at one time, or at least said he was open to it, who has repeatedly praised Republicans over and over again, is reportedly considering Republicans for cabinet positions. Now, this isn't shocking news, but it still is extremely infuriating and it's an idiotic strategy. So, according to Politico, Joe Biden's transition team is vetting a handful of Republicans for potential cabinet positions, despite doubts it will win him new support from the right and the risk it will enrage the left. Reaching across the aisle to pick senior members of his administration could shore up Biden's credentials as a unity candidate. Yeah, right. A message he's made a cornerstone of his campaign. Past presidents, including George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama have all done the same, but that tradition died with President Donald Trump and liberal Democrats are already warning that a Republican pick, even a moderate one, could so distrust within the party before Biden even takes office. My primary concern is that he involves people in the cabinet who push back against corporate power and support a massive economic stimulus and the broad provision of healthcare, said David Siegel, the executive director of Demand Progress, a liberal advocacy group. Unfortunately, there are no prominent Republicans I know of who are on board with that agenda. Nevertheless, one person close to the Biden transition said it remains a priority to have options from different parts of the ideological spectrum for the former vice president to consider. That person and another official familiar with the transition deliberations confirmed to Politico that Biden staffers are analyzing some Republicans backgrounds and resumes as they compile short lists of candidates for high profile cabinet positions. The goal is to have some GOP options among the finalists that Biden would choose from after the election. Among the names being floated for possible Biden cabinet posts are Meg Whitman, the CEO of Quibi and former CEO of eBay and former Ohio governor John Kasich, shocker, both of whom spoke at August's Democratic National Convention. Massachusetts GOP governor Charlie Baker and former Senator Jeff Flake have also been mentioned as has former representative Charlie Dent who resigned from Congress in 2018 and became a lobbyist. Wow. When asked for comment, a spokesperson for the Biden transition said only that the team is not making any personnel decisions before the November 3rd election but stressed that diversity of ideology and background is a core value of the transition. Is that so? So are there any socialists that Biden's team is considering? Are there any communists that he's considering? Any anarchists? Because I mean if we truly want to capture the entire range of the political spectrum then surely you would have communists advising you, right? You'd have some individuals who subscribe to modern monetary theory, Stephanie Kelton. Hell, maybe you'd have some pretty prominent progressives such as Bernie Sanders. I mean when they say ideological diversity understand that they're talking about a binary choice between right-wingers and far-right-wingers, Democrats and Republicans. That's what they're talking about. So let's be clear about that. So first of all, whether or not this story is true, I do believe it because the fact that his team is being coy and they're saying well we're considering some Republicans but I mean we're considering everyone. Like that's all that we need to know and this isn't that surprising so I'm not necessarily going to pick apart whether or not this story is credible. I think it's probably pretty obvious that Biden will be choosing some Republicans at least to be part of his transition team. Who knows if they actually make it into the cabinet. But here's the thing. Biden is 100% delusional. He has repeatedly insisted that Republicans will have an epiphany. We talked about that at the beginning of this segment but after he said that and he got some pushback because people called him naive rightfully so he even doubled down. So he genuinely believes or is at least stupid enough to think that Republicans will warm up to him and Democrats once Trump is out of office but this is bizarre to me because Joe Biden is part of Obama's administration. They were in power for eight years and what was their parting gift to you? They literally stole a Supreme Court seat from you. They're trying to jam through another Supreme Court confirmation before the election. They don't want to work with you. It doesn't matter what you propose. It doesn't matter how often you meet them in the middle. The Republican Party is going to obstruct everything that you do and even if you literally adopt one of their policies they will reject it because you are bad by definition, by default. So they're not going to accept what you want. If you try to extend an olive branch they're going to shoot it down. If Biden wins this is not going to be because Biden ran a winning campaign. It's because Donald Trump lost. I really felt like Trump going into this election. He had that incumbent advantage but had it not been for COVID-19 something that none of us have experienced before and the subsequent economic crash I think Trump probably would likely be sailing towards a reelection right now. I mean it really depends. You can't really say for sure but if Biden ends up becoming the president it's not going to necessarily be because he won this election. It's going to be because Donald Trump lost this election. Now that's a distinction without a difference and I don't think he cares but look this is going to be something that we are going to expect from corporate Democrats. They're reaching out to Republicans because I think that ideologically they agree with Republicans on quite a bit. So understand we know exactly what we're getting with Joe Biden. The benefit is that with Obama he at least pretended to be progressive and that was troubling because it kind of made all of us get a little bit complacent but with Joe Biden he's coming in straight up as a Republican-like candidate. So we know we don't give him a chance. We don't wait to see what he's going to do. No immediately like if he actually wins this election his first day in office he needs to be pushed as hard as we possibly can push him. Now he's going to resist change from the left. He probably won't be inclined to listen to the left. In fact I don't think he's going to listen to the left if history proves right again but we make his life a living hell if he's elected. Yes he is the lesser of two evils. We want Donald Trump to be defeated. We want him to become president because he's the only person that stands between Donald Trump and the White House for another four years. But understand that doesn't make him an inherently good candidate and that's what articles like this prove. You don't need to suspend criticism and not be objective just because you're too afraid to like make sure we're not helping Donald Trump. No we can be realistic and I think it's actually healthier to be realistic about what voters can expect with Joe Biden. He's going to be a terrible president and he's going to cause lots of damage. But luckily for him less damaged in Donald Trump and I think a lot of people recognize this. So I mean this just shows this isn't going to be a period of time where you're going to go to brunch. You're going to have to fight the entire time. But still fighting Biden obviously is more preferable than fighting Donald Trump because Donald Trump just like there's no chance that we can persuade him to do anything. But at least with Joe Biden you know maybe maybe there's a chance that we can at least put enough pressure on him that we can stop him from doing shitty things like I'm not under the delusion that he's going to adopt progressive policies like Medicare for all but maybe there's a chance a small chance that we can stop him from doing the most harmful things that he probably wants to do. And I'll leave that there because I don't want to dwell on this too much. Again this isn't a shocking story to me but still we've got to talk about it because I'm not going to bite my tongue because you know Joe Biden is the one person who stands between Donald Trump in another four years. I'm not going to bite my tongue. It's incumbent on him to win people over and that means you don't be idiotic in your strategy. You don't piss off the people who you need currently for a really small margin of voters who you're not going to win over. So I just found out that Pat Robertson is not only still alive till this day but he's still on television for whatever reason. Now I don't want to you know propagate any conspiracy theories but it is entirely possible that he died a long time ago and that a reptilian is controlling his body or a puppeteer is making him move and talk but either way he's here on the 700 Club and he is still dishing out some really piping hot takes and his latest is it's a doozy. So he claims that God told him who's going to win this election and what will happen subsequently afterwards. Now what I find interesting about this take is that if God is real do you honestly think that he cares about like an election that's taking place something that we think is important on this random planet around this random star in a random galaxy in one of what may be infinite universes and infinite timelines why would God who's omnipotent and benevolent give a shit about our election like if he's going to talk to you about anything like wouldn't he give you the secrets of the universe but nonetheless Pat Robertson says God gave him some election spoilers so this is what he says God told him. There's going to be a war Ezekiel 38 is going to be the next thing down the line then a time of peace then maybe the end but nobody knows the day or the hour when the Lord is going to come back he said the angels don't know it and only the Father knows it so I'm not saying this is the second coming but I am saying there are things that people have thought would be during a millennial time with the coming of Jesus that are going to happen in our lifetime and the next thing is the election that's coming up in just a few weeks at which time according to what I believe the Lord told me the President is going to be re-elected I'm saying by all means get out and vote to vote for whoever you want to vote for but by all means let your voice be heard but it's going to lead to civil unrest of great proportion then a war against Israel and so forth and so on Oh Pat Pat Pat okay I don't even know where to begin let's just take it from the top first he says there's going to be war then a time of peace then maybe the end okay so excluding the end the end times um so pretty much like all of history it's not like wars are some like new phenomenon they've been happening because humankind is a very flawed species and we haven't evolved to a point where we uh are not killing ourselves any longer so like he says that as if oh well you know this is just evidence that the end is near there's always been wars like they could have said that the end times are near if you think that wars are evidence that Jesus is coming back like thousands of years ago literally but here's what he says and then immediately contradicts himself that maybe laugh out loud so he says nobody really knows when the end times will actually happen not even the angels in heaven knows but directly after saying that he goes on to make a prediction as if he knows when Pat what is wrong with you it's like he he's talking and there's noise coming out of his mouth but the words aren't connected to the thoughts in his head and he's just like babbling incoherently my dude is fading away he also says according to what I believe the Lord told me the president is going to be re-elected but then he says make sure to vote because this election definitely isn't a foregone conclusion but wait if if God literally is saying Trump's gonna win then why are you so unsure why are you making sure to persuade people to vote because regardless of how many people vote for Trump or not isn't this election a foregone conclusion because God said it God can make anything happen right is he not omnipotent so I mean even if nobody voted for Donald Trump if God wanted to God can make Trump the president can he not if God wanted to I could chop off my arm and he could make it grow back immediately can he not is God not all powerful okay he then says Trump's victory will lead to civil unrest of great proportion I think it's gonna happen now Trump loses more than anything but that's possible he then says Trump's victory will lead to civil unrest of great proportion and then he says the most puzzling thing ever after Trump wins quote then a war against Israel and so forth and so on wait so if Donald Trump wins someone who you all claim is an ally to Israel if he wins then we're gonna go to war with Israel like is it us that's going to war is somebody else in the Middle East going to go to war with Israel if Trump is president wouldn't you know under your belief if you believe in Trump and what he stands for wouldn't he protect Israel I don't understand what you're saying see this is why you don't base your political ideology on biblical teachings because if you try to make predictions or you know give a political analysis based on the Bible you end up sounding like a stupid person I mean I don't mean to be blunt but it's the truth you're trying to like connect what the Bible says to the real world now and you can see like you have to make a lot of logical leaps that you don't have any evidence for whatsoever like how do we go to war with Israel or how does Israel devolve into war and chaos you have to explain these things you can't just say things because the Bible gives you reason to believe something will happen or that you know because of what the Bible said we're in like a certain era in time like you can't just say that you have to supply us with evidence or even reasoning fuck even cite a Bible quote I mean I guess you did cite one there but like you're not making any sense because there has to be so many different things a series of events that has to happen to lead to what you say will happen and that's if Donald Trump even wins now you say that God told you but yet you seem unsure but if Trump does win then things are going to get more crazy there's going to be more chaos and we're going to go to war with Israel Pat listen this comes from a place of love I take that back it comes from a place of concern because you're a human being you've got to wrap it up buddy you've got to retire listen folks even though the MAGA chuds that hate watch this channel will tell me that I am suffering from full-on Trump derangement syndrome and they're probably right I still can admit with my libtard brain even though I'm not a liberal that there's one good thing about Donald Trump one thing that he did that I think that most of us in this country will be thankful for to him eternally in spite of all of the damage that he caused he single-handedly crushed both the Bush and Clinton dynasties which was really nice to see to see him clown on Jeb Bush and shit on George Bush's legacy call out to Hillary Clinton like all of this was great because those two families were like stank on shit they were like cockroaches they wouldn't go away they just won't get out of the spotlight and single-handedly you have this rookie enter politics and just embarrass them thoroughly and that was great to see however in exchange for him crushing two dynasties that we all hate is a new dynasty that is poised to be worse than the Bush and Clinton dynasties perhaps combined depending on how how much longevity this dynasty has and of course I'm talking about the Trump dynasty because there is already a plan in place once Trump is out of power because there's going to be a vacuum that Trump leaves when he inevitably leaves office now who knows if that's on November 3rd or maybe it's 2024 either way the Trump era will come to an end and there's going to be someone else who wants to fill that space that Trump occupied right maybe it'll be another republican Ted Cruz seems to like want to be that edgy outsider now even though he's an establishment politician but one individual or at least a multitude of people who seem to be sure bets is the Trump children themselves and it seems like MAGA cheds are already yearning for that they very clearly want the Trump family to continue his legacy after he leaves office and as you can see from this shirt that this boomer is wearing they would like Ivanka to run and then after Ivanka Don Jr then Eric Trump then Tiffany then Baron I mean Baron could be an Antifa super soldier who knows but they want him to run and I know that you've probably seen this image your crazy racist uncle on Facebook has probably shared it at least once and you know you're probably going to say they're just triggering the libs Mike they're not serious about this but they are serious about this they are serious about this they want the Trump dynasty to continue on and on and on and on I mean if they had their way they would make America a monarchy and you don't have to take my word for it take their word for it because the telegraph actually asked MAGA chuds at a recent Trump rally hey what do you think about Trump Jr. running they were very very open to the idea to say the least Donald Jr. is on his way to something something big and he would have a big base behind him right here I think he's definitely got the skills for it it's all up to him if that's what he wants to do I mean I've seen him speak I know him actually personally as well as his father and he's a very intelligent bright young man and I shouldn't see why not it's all if you have the stomach and you want to go through what his father went I need him to separate himself from his dad but I definitely would consider any Trump I think they're all very well educated and I think they're all they have a unique perspective of America although they grew up very privileged I think they've been able to bring themselves down to the very common levels and I think that's what makes them a dynamic family I think that if he had the same patriotism and enthusiasm that he has right now and that his dad I would most certainly support him and if he stays conservative and if he stays for America then yes I would support him you know who's going to be his campaign biggest campaign advisor and manager is probably going to be the father and the good thing about Don Sr. and Don Jr. is they go on the defensive and then counter punch on the offensive I don't see that is his the crowds and everything would be diminished in any way you remember when he's a businessman he's very pragmatic he believes that freedom is the way to go not big government and that's that's what it's all about the reason people come to the United States is because they want freedom they wanted big government they would stay where they were they want to have freedom of religion freedom of speech rights to bear arms and to make their own futures through their hard work and labor he has compassion like his father he could communicate like his father and he's above everything he's humble very humble there is no attitude nothing about him like that that would I would feel comfortable walking up to him so that video made me lose faith in humanity because regardless of like what shitty politician is ousted they're always going to have someone who benefits within their family nepotism is something that runs deep in this country we basically live in an oligarchy and you know you're not just going to defeat Trumpism and Trumpian politics by getting out Donald Trump you know that Trump era will persist probably for quite some time after Trump is out of office and his legacy might just continue on with one of his children his supporters are down for it like even as someone who supports Bernie Sanders let's say Bernie Sanders hypothetically became president and then he served his two terms and then his son Levy Sanders wanted to become president even if I agreed with Levy Sanders on the policies and he would continue on Bernie's legacy assuming I didn't hate Bernie Sanders after eight years which let's be honest I probably would be dissatisfied because that's the person I am but like even if let's say like in a perfect world Bernie was president and Levy wanted to carry on that legacy I would be reluctant to support him I mean maybe I would but I would probably opt for someone else who wanted to carry on Bernie's policy legacy other than his son because I think that political dynasties are a very very problematic thing for democracy like it shouldn't happen but they don't see it that way so one person says he would have a big base behind him and I think that she's right about that I think that Trump's base would easily get behind Trump Jr. or Ivanka Trump it doesn't matter who as long as they have Trump as their last name I think that that base would gravitate towards towards Donald Trump towards one of his family members what I will say is that if somebody has the same politics as Donald Trump but conducts himself in a more grown-up manner they could be much more effective like if Donald Trump wasn't such a blistering buffoon and like always so arrogant and never shuts the fuck up I think he could be a lot more effective but he's in over his head like he doesn't know what he's doing but like if you are actually politically savvy and you just like have that Trump facade and you try to carry on the Trump legacy I mean you could do some damage and Trump's kids are probably more politically savvy than him but it's funny one guy says I think he's definitely got the skills for it about Trump Jr. now what do you mean by that what skills like what qualifies him to literally be the president of the United States because his last name is Donald Trump now I will admit like if given the choice between Trump Jr. or Ivanka and Donald Trump I think his kids are probably much more smarter than he is but the bar is really low but they don't even care like as long as somebody has Trump as their last name and they're going to do the same thing same harmful policies they're gonna get behind him like this really proves that it is a cult of personality like how often did you hear one of those chuds talk about policy there's no policies one person said that I would definitely consider any Trump just because Trump is their last name and one lady says if he stays conservative and if he stays pro-american I would definitely support him what does that even mean I mean of course he's going to stay conservative but what does pro-american mean like you have to describe what that means to you are you saying that like a democrat isn't pro-american like what does that even fucking mean that's not a policy prescription so if you just like or a politician and you literally lube up a gun and fuck yourself with it and hump an American flag does that constitute you being pro-american I mean what's the standards if your standard is be pro-american that's so far-reaching and broad and amorphous that that can mean anything so what they're effectively saying here is look I don't give a fuck I don't care about policy hell Trump's policies probably hurt me directly but if they have Trump on their last name I'm gonna go for them and I want one of his family members to carry on this legacy America America America America you never cease to disappoint me I want to say that you know I think these people are maybe on the fringes and once Trump's out of power you know nobody else will really be able to truly recapture the magic but who the fuck knows I want to show you two separate headlines that taken together really put into perspective just how broken our system is so on October 16th NBC News reported 8 million Americans slipped into poverty amid coronavirus pandemic new study says researchers looked at the devastating financial effect the pandemic has had on Americans with blacks, Latinos and children fearing the worst and then just four days later on October 20th Common Dreams reported billionaire wealth has surged by 931 billion dollars during seven months of the pandemic economic collapse now before we dive into both of these articles which we will I just want to take some time to try to digest this information this is astonishing and it doesn't even make sense it is the hallmark of society in decline this is peak late stage capitalism because theoretically speaking if we are seeing an unprecedented crisis where we have both a global pandemic and an economic depression upon us simultaneously you think that everyone would be affected equally because if poor people don't have money if they have less purchasing power then theoretically if that economy functions appropriately and as it should then rich people should also be hurt as well because if poor people can't buy the things that capitalists produce then of course that's going to hurt them as well but we're not seeing that so something is off here something is really wrong here and let me assure you this is not a coincidence these things are not unrelated these are related capitalists and billionaires are getting richer precisely because the poor are getting poorer this system is fundamentally broken and with how bad it is I don't even know if this is salvageable like how do you even craft structural reforms that fix all of the problems like it would take a really long time to actually do it and get it done and there's going to be periods where we have reformers and revolutionaries not in power and the reactionaries will come to power and try to undo you know the reforms that the reformists and revolutionaries put in place so it's like we're playing whack-a-mole and it just seems like everything is getting worse and worse as time goes on but let's get to the specifics here because as Jake Johnson of Common Dreams further explains over just the past seven months as millions lost their jobs in health insurance tens of thousands of small businesses shuttered permanently and more than 200,000 Americans were killed by the coronavirus US billionaires saw their combined net worth surge by more than 930 billion dollars bringing the collective wealth of just 644 people to a staggering 3.88 trillion dollars that's according to an analysis released Tuesday morning by Americans for Tax Fairness and the Institute for Policy Studies progressive organizations that have been tracking the explosion of billionaire wealth since the start of coronavirus lockdowns in mid-March the new analysis shows that the collective wealth of America's billionaires grew by 931 billion or nearly 33% between March 18th and October 13th a period that also saw unprecedented job loss a nationwide surge in hunger and a sharp increase in housing insecurity the groups noted that the jump in billionaire wealth over the past seven months exceeds the size of both Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's so-called skinny COVID-19 relief bill and the estimated two-year budget gaps of all state and local governments which have been forced to lay off more than a million public sector workers due to revenue shortfalls caused by the coronavirus crisis sadly the gilded ages here again ATF Executive Director Frank Clemente said in a statement we have extraordinary gains in wealth by a small sliver of the population while millions suffer this time from the ravages of the pandemic much of which could have been avoided now let's try to put this timeline into perspective here so between March 18th and October 13th billionaires got a lot wealthier all while the poorest have been suffering more and more people have fallen into poverty now the NBC News article by Stephen Sykes explains that even if the CARES Act was imperfect in fact I think it was really flawed it contained a giant corporate giveaway even having said that it did help a little bit not much but a little bit it didn't like stop poverty you can say arguably it postponed people from falling into poverty but now if Congress doesn't take action and even do the bare minimum things are going to get worse so NBC News explains the number of Americans living in poverty grew by 8 million since May according to a Columbia University study which found an increase in poverty rates after early coronavirus relief ended without more to follow although the federal CARES Act which gave Americans a one-time stimulus check of $1200 and unemployed workers an extra 600 a week was successful at offsetting growing poverty rates in the spring the effects were short lived researchers found in the study published Thursday after aid diminished towards the end of summer poverty rates especially those among minorities and children rebounded they said the CARES Act despite its flaws was broadly successful in preventing large increases in poverty said Zach Perlin a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University and one of the study's authors the federal stimulus saved about 18 million Americans from poverty in April he said but as of September that number is down to 4 million so a one-time economic relief package can only go so far and we're seeing it wear off and now we're in the situation where who knows if they're gonna get it done before the election which means that it's not gonna happen until February which means that millions of Americans literally will suffer and fall into poverty because Congress is unable to act it's just honestly it's shocking that our country has responded in this way and I'm not necessarily shocked at the response I'm shocked at the lack of response because what we see and I've said this before is a response that you'd expect from a failed state not a developed country the richest country in the world and look I'm no deficits gold I subscribe to modern monetary theory even though admittedly I'm still learning more about it I'm reading Stephanie Kelton's book right now but it's not like we only have a limited amount of resources even if you care about the deficit you see the ticket right there billionaires collectively almost made a trillion dollars more just during this pandemic why aren't we taxing that why are they able to maximize profits when everyone else is suffering the only reason why that happens is because our country does not function our economic system is set up to do just that so you know when people talk about this story they're probably going to say look capitalism isn't working except I would argue it's working exactly as we'd expect it to work because when you get towards this late a stage of capitalism this is exactly what starts to happen you know income inequality becomes so unsustainable that society itself begins to collapse capitalism starts to eat itself when you have so much resources in the hands of so few people that's not sustainable at all so I mean I think that the story it speaks for itself it is insane that at a time when people are suffering people like Jeff Bezos Elon Musk the billionaire class is getting far richer than they ever had like the the economic crisis has been great for people like Jeff Bezos how stunning is that so everyone on the left myself included all you know have at one point or another made fun of Prager you because they are just so obnoxious like a year or two ago before what seemed like every single YouTube video you'd see a Prager you add and it was so annoying the problem however is that even if we're annoyed because we know better we know that this is just far-right propaganda funded by right-wing oligarchs most Americans don't know any better lots of Americans have been exposed to Prager you and their videos unfortunately are very effective but this video that we're going to talk about the this article that we're going to talk about today it will have you longing for the days where the biggest concern with regard to Prager you was that we saw their ads too much because now they are trying to outright brainwash your children they're trying to get Prager you videos taught in schools yeah so as Rebecca Kline of HuffPost reports an Ohio public school has been giving students extra credit for watching videos from Prager you a right-wing website that produces clips of talking heads such as Candice Owens and Ben Shapiro discussing conservative viewpoints HuffPost has learned the Prager you videos with titles such as build the wall while the right was right and the left ruins everything were assigned to a 10th grade history class at Ma May High School along with a series of questions about the video's most important messages wow the assignment came at the same time that the website has tried to gain further influence in K through 12 classrooms earlier this month the organization launched a program directly aimed at parents and educators complete with study guides with sections such as conservatives are the real environmentalists and the Ferguson lie based on a HuffPost review of the materials Andrea Cutway the mother of a 16-year-old student Avery Lewis brought the assignment to the attention of Ma May City Schools administrators and immediately pulled her daughter out of the class Ma May is about 10 miles southwest of Toledo administrators first tried what they deemed a compromise by allowing the student to include videos that reflected views from the other side of the political spectrum Cutway said this was her daughter's suggestion not the school's Cutway noted other students were still instructed to complete the work using the original videos Cutway said but after HuffPost reached out to the school about the assignment it decided to remove the materials from the syllabus Todd Cramer superintendent of Ma May City Schools told HuffPost other PragerU videos on its website dissect issues in five-minute clips and have titles such as there is no gender wage gap how to steal an election mail-in ballots and is Islam a religion of peace the teacher's class website shows that she also assigned the videos last year the homework assignment appeared unrelated to PragerU's latest venture called PragerU educators and parents or PREP which launched several weeks ago the inception of such a program suggested that these types of assignments may become more prevalent in schools already 2,000 parents and educators have already signed up for PREP Craig Straszary chief marketing officer of PragerU said in an email to HuffPost so the one incident where you know you have a single teacher teaching this garbage you know that to me it's worrying but it's far less problematic than this PREP initiative where PragerU actively tries to get their far-right propaganda taught in schools and 2,000 parents and educators have already signed up that doesn't necessarily mean that like 2,000 different classrooms will have this but still the fact that there's any interest in this is worrying because it shows you what the right wants to do they know that if all things as they stand currently don't change regardless if they like it or not the future is progressive because millennials Gen Zers I mean these are generations that are far more diverse far more tolerant far more progressive and much more open to socialism so if they just let this generation you know flourish and grow and come to power they will change things in this country they will change the status quo eventually it's inevitable as it stands now but they want to stop that so rather than just basically accepting that the future is likely going to be left-wing social democracy they're trying to brainwash children at an early age now we're already seeing turning point USA attempt to try to like push back on what they see as liberal indoctrination at colleges because they often complain that you know these college campuses across the country these are just like liberal breeding grounds they're safe spaces and you can go into college as a conservative and come out as a bleeding heart liberal or a socialist or even a communist and they want to stop that with turning point USA but with PragerU and their prep thing that they're offering whatever you want to call it a service a strategy I don't know but with this they're trying to appeal to a younger demographic K through 12 where they're teaching possibly elementary students about right-wing propaganda lying to them indoctrinating them and let me tell you what they can do if they're successful with this strategy is far more damage to the country long-term than even Fox News has done to this country to brainwash Americans and that is absolutely horrifying and it may be an early thing that they just launched with only 2000 people signing up but when you have virtually unlimited resources at your disposal and lots of right-wing investors who want to fund this project because they know down the road they're going to have to convince young people that capitalism is great and you know they deserve more tax cuts this could be really really troubling so here's what I would tell you that you need to do if you want to counter this support the Grevelle Institute because this is the only organization that is attacking PragerU's influence head on the Grevelle Institute is trying to undo the damage caused by PragerU because PragerU videos are actually incredibly far-reaching like just in my own social circles I was arguing with my idiot cousin about politics he's a megachud and we were talking about socialism and one of his idiotic friends jumped in and tried to educate me about socialism by sharing a PragerU video not just one but multiple PragerU videos and whatever I said about capitalism and socialism they had like a PragerU video to respond like they already anticipated the arguments of PragerU and like you don't even if you're a right winger you don't even have to grapple with the arguments that your opponent is making in a debate like this like you just have to copy and paste the link to one of their videos and they do the thinking for you so like it's become such a common phenomenon that I'm seeing normies bring up PragerU and that really shows I mean this is anecdotal evidence of course but it shows the wide reach that PragerU has I mean we see that turning point USA has been relatively dominant I don't know the overall effect that they've had but PragerU has had an effect and if they actually are able to infiltrate schools and indoctrinate and basically brainwash young children at a young age that would be terrible so we have another CNN voter panel with Alison Camarota that I want to take a look at I always find these super fascinating even if it's a really small sample size I do think that it gives us a nice snapshot as to what some voters are thinking at least like what the normies are thinking in terms of politics for lack of a better word now I haven't seen this one this is I guess it's from late September I want to say maybe mid-September so it's a little bit outdated nonetheless I do want to know what these voters are thinking in terms of Biden, Trump, third parties where their heads are at because I think that these types of conversations are important because as leftists it helps us determine how to talk to people helps us get out of our bubbles helps us craft a message that is tailored to people who aren't glued to politics nonstop like you or myself I haven't seen this yet so we're going into this blind I've skimmed it but for the most part I don't know what to expect if you've seen any of my previous videos where I talk about these voter panels basically every single one of them with the exception of like one or two has completely demolished my faith in humanity so I'm hoping this one won't actually crush my spirit that much nonetheless I'm hoping for the best but fully expecting the worst so take it away Allison just tell me what is the issue that is is driving you to the polls in November quite frankly I'm tired of turning on the news and watching people look like me being slaughtered for sport yeah that makes sense at the point now where I don't want to have to keep explaining to my kids like why they have to move differently because of the color of their skin my son is 14 and I fear for my son sometimes because you know just because of the way he looks and that should not be a reality in 2020 but here we are I'm just ready for somebody to actually like do what they say they're going to do and you don't think that that's President Trump absolutely not no my top issue I mean yeah I think that what she's saying is perfectly valid and reasonable yeah this is this is something that you know you'd hope to hear something that really is a huge issue like you want to hear the things that we talk about on this program you know you want you want to hear from other people who aren't glued to politics yeah these things are important to me you know you're not missing the mark or miss reading the room so I mean what she said there how does that not resonate with you you know she has a 14-year-old son and she's literally concerned that he'll be murdered extra judicially that's a difficult word by the police I mean that that's heartbreaking that's so heartbreaking this might crush my soul but like in a different way because it's just that really is you know a terrible thing that nobody should have to deal with is similar to the young lady be right before me I'm tired of seeing this country racially divided we haven't dealt with the original Senators country makes worse and I think that if we don't start to deal with that we're going to have a bigger problem on our hands and I think that President Trump has proven that he's not the man to deal with that those issues and we see that our country is in turmoil so I'm I'm I'm betting that we are going to be able to make some headway with candidate Veid my dumpy shoe is I mean I'm not holding my breath but like what they're saying it's valid I mean how could you not be exhausted how could you not like be tired of the divisiveness that Trump sows in society like his policies in practice aren't that different from other Republicans but the impact that he has on culture is outsized you know compared to other Republicans the way that he's able to pit Americans against each other it's almost like he's an expert at doing that so I mean what they're saying it's a hundred percent valid and I totally sympathize with them it's I want to return to some kind of a status quo it is great to renegotiate some trade deals that I don't think we're right but hey if you frame that on the chaos in racial division that we're leaving today I don't want it I'm going to respond well definitely that guy kind of reminds me of one of the centrist voters and I'm maybe like reading way into this and over generalizing but like one of the centrist voters who'd be protesting at the women's march with a sign that says if Hillary won we'd be out to brunch because he wants to see a return to the status quo or maybe like he was anti-establishment back in 2016 but he saw that you know the anti-establishment choice that ended up winning made people long for the days of what they perceived to be normality yeah it's interesting I would want to press him further on that if I were Alison Camarota maybe she did but they didn't play it but yeah so far I mean this is all reasonable to me so far from the guess I think the president is making every effort to do as best for people of color and people that are not of color we can help the current president make things better for all of us so I just think that the president is bringing us together what? wait wait you just said that the president is bringing us together even if you are the biggest MAGAchud Kool-Aid drinker ever there's no way you believe that he's bringing people together like even Trump supporters that have been in these panels before they admit okay I get that like he's not like your usual politician and he's a little bit bombastic and you know he can be just divisive at times but look at the end of the day he cares about people this dude is like convinced himself of what he wants to believe like you're not even living in reality and you're saying that Trump is trying to bring people together like this is like one of those people that I was telling you about that are just too far gone you're not ever going to win him over if he literally thinks that Trump is bringing people together too far gone straight up stupid and when I go to those events I feel comfortable I don't feel threatened you you feel comfortable at Trump events with other Trump supporters where you're all in the same like bubble and agreement of course you're gonna feel like comfortable with other people and you're probably going to feel like more welcomed at Trump rallies because Trump doesn't have a lot of voters of color who support him he's performing very poorly against with black people among black people so like whenever there's like black people at his rallies he tries to get them like directly behind him so that way it makes it seem like he has more black support than he does in actuality so when they see you there they probably welcome you with open arms because they're trying to you know fight this narrative that Trump is a racist and can't attract black voters and it's not even narrative like it's it's just the truth but that's why you probably feel more welcomed but I mean even if that isn't the case you're of course going to feel welcome with people you agree with more like obviously that's not evidence that Trump is bringing people together oh my god you're so stupid and and and basically what he's saying is that you know let's make our country that we all live in great and that's including everyone I think he's okay oh I gotta take a moment to try to digest that Trump is trying to bring people together he's including everyone Trump is being inclusive holy shit that that is probably gonna be the dumb dumb of the panel there's always like one idiot that they bring on just to like fuck with people to entertain us they always find some person that's like a psychopath like on the last panel there was a Trump supporter I think she's the president of Latinos for Trump I'm gonna blank on her name but she was like this weird like loud anti-masker who claimed that she has a medical problem she can't wear masks she was insane like I don't think that guy's as bad this guy however I will say that like he's probably a stupid person of the of the panel but we'll see we haven't heard from the other two which I'm assuming are Trump supporters phenomenal job and he has my vote absolutely absolutely but what part is he doing a phenomenal job on that he fights for my rights so I can most definitely make my own decisions that's my number one thing like so what rights in particular you can make your own decision your rights as a woman with regard to like your own bodily autonomy is are you saying that he's fighting for your rights there I don't believe this like at all just so you know I mean he gassed peaceful protesters his attorney general did for a photo op is he really fighting for rights or is that just what Fox News and OAN is telling you to believe I feel like in what issue in California a lot of things have been stripped she's in California so it doesn't matter a lot of my rights have been stripped for instance like about the masks you know of course oh no she's an anti-masker oh they're the dumbest of all of Trump supporters I was hoping that there wouldn't be one on this panel oh f*** my life but you should wear a mask and why isn't he wearing a mask oh wait hang on is she criticizing Trump now for not wearing a mask okay I'll eat crow I'll admit that I was wrong please make my own decisions that's my number one thing like I feel like in what issue in California a lot of things have been stripped a lot of my rights have been stripped for instance like about the masks of course yeah you should wear a mask and why isn't he wearing a mask well that's his that's his opinion right isn't that his his his choice lady what the f*** are you saying oh my god so like she makes the he's fighting for my liberty argument and the example she uses is masks but simultaneously she's you know she wants him to wear a mask but at the same time if he doesn't that's his liberty except this is a pandemic and a virus doesn't know about liberty it doesn't have like a party affiliation it's not like you exercising your liberty if you're a dumb ass and you don't wear a mask because guess what liberty for you ends at your neighbor's nose like the right you have like the freedom to swing your fist ends before it hits your neighbor's nose and that extends to masks so you aren't like making a choice individually to not wear masks that only affects you like if you don't wear a mask you're spreading your disgusting germs on everyone else by you not wearing a mask you are infringing on other people's liberties by potentially exposing them to a very contagious deadly disease right now that we're all trying to fight so the liberty argument is not applicable to this conversation and by trying to use it it shows how stupid and naive and gullible quite frankly you are and if you think that Trump should wear a mask more like why are you making the liberty argument like this is basically what Trump said right Trump in his interview with Chris Wallace if I'm remembering correctly he said he likes masks but he doesn't want a national mask mandate because he thinks people should have the right again like you having the right to not wear a mask you infringe on other people's rights and liberties to not want to contract COVID fucking 19 so anyone who makes this argument like they have shit for brains and they are literally stupid if they think this like you are so fucking stupid you're so far gone you're irredeemable like who believes this like Americans just believe everything is my rights so if you go to like fucking McDonald's and you ask for a milkshake and the machine is down you literally think that like your civil liberties have been violated that's like the way that Americans have been you know led to believe that they they're entitled to everything my liberty my freedom when it's it's not like this isn't that complicated I don't know why you're over complicating it but I I need to shut the fuck up and let her talk though you wear a mask because you're conscientious about your neighbors you want the freedom to not wear a mask yeah Allison Allison like her head is going to explode let me go back let me watch her reaction this this reaction right there says it all like her eyes are about to roll back into her head she like is trying to process the stupidity that she's hearing about your neighbors you want the freedom to not wear a mask oh yeah yes yes I want I don't want it because I'm fucking stupid like um you have to and it's like a bad thing if you don't it's a pandemic dumbass oh my fucking god people it's not like we're asking people to fucking like do something so inconvenient you're just asked to put a fucking piece of cloth on your goddamn face like the anti-mass stuff like anyone who's anti-mask I just immediately assume that they're like the stupidest in America like the the lowest of the low in terms of stupidity because that I mean honestly I don't know what to say I'm repeating myself because I'm just gonna rant on this lady she's the dumbest I take it back I apologize to the weird glasses guy this lady is definitely the dumbest um even this guy who's probably a Trump supporter knows she's a dumbass okay Dan your top issue I think my top issue go ahead Dan is about the economy specifically my economy and my state because you know I look at what what Biden's proposing on the the tax increases on the wealthy it's I'll just stop them right there I'm guessing that this guy who saw Biden's tax plan doesn't know what a marginal tax rate is he thinks that his taxes will be taxed at 62% not knowing that it doesn't apply to him most likely unless he makes over $400,000 per year but Biden's tax plan kicks into effect on your 400 and uh first thousand dollar I just fucked up that number but after you make $400,000 every dollar after that is taxed at 62% but like people don't get taxes either they're purposefully obtuse or they they think they're going to be rich someday unless this guy's actually rich then I'd say okay well I mean at least that makes sense logically but let's let's hear him out first before I blab on it's all about soaking the rich you know I don't there are a lot of things I don't like about Trump I mean I wish I could cut off his thumbs that he would stop tweeting and it would just be quiet but the truth of the matter is policy wise he's not done that bad and if we want to fix racial injustice in this country one of the best things the foundation is fix the economy and I think we have a better chance of doing that going forward than with Joe Biden okay basically he's admitting that you know Trump in terms of Republicans he isn't that bad if he didn't do the mean tweets he'd basically be perfect but he's basically making a class reductionist argument that hey everyone if you know everyone's material conditions were met everything would be copacetic there'd be you know no racial injustice now the economic desperation certainly does lead to more racism it exacerbates the problem but hypothetically speaking let's say that the economy was doing better purchasing power was up black Americans actually had wealth would that lead to less racism in America would racism go away no now maybe if you know we pressed upon this he'd make you know a more nuanced argument um but basically you can't just say oh well you you only exclusively focus on the economy and then racism itself will get better you can't like these things are inextricably linked you have to fight them simultaneously you can't just put them like only addressing the economic issues is going to lead to racism going away because that's not the way that it works you know this whole war on the suburbs saying that Joe Biden's talking about we're already kind of seeing Joe Biden's not talking about that Trump is talking about that I mean are you listen what has Joe Biden said that is a war on the suburbs yeah it's it's if you go even on his website you go through and read the policies right he hasn't even read the policies things like the whole map there are some there are some things in the bottom of that with respect to local zoning like basically taking control of local zoning and saying well you can't do it because if you have local zoning then you're you're excluding everybody and it's the suburban shit is basically let's call it what it is it's a dog whistle it's a racist dog whistle that Trump uses he's speaking directly to white suburban voters when he talks about this shit and the fact that this guy fell for it's kind of embarrassing very heavy a headed approach to taking over local politics that's the way I view it any of you motivated by what's happened with the supreme court show of hands okay so four of you that is you had your hand up first what do you see I see hypocrisy I see you know the republican congresses basically doing everything they they said they wouldn't do you know this is too fast to put to put someone in the seat the american people aren't going to get a say in it it's basically going to be a rush job has it made you more motivated I think it definitely made me change my local vote in my senate race here how so previously I was considering possibly voting for Lindsey Graham and why were you going to vote for Lindsey Graham he has done some things with the with the ports here in Charleston creating you know some some jobs here in South Carolina whoever you get is going to give you pork if that's what you're concerned with my dude but this this fellow is just not a man his word okay weird election year I mean it just feels like everybody is like doing the absolute most to try to like push through whatever it is that they want to happen and it's not always in our favor I feel like so I agree I see a lot of hypocrisy I see them I I remember very vividly what happened in 2016 when Scalia died and I remember the comments of all the to some extent I agree with them at that point now they are all turning around on their pivoting on their own position to their favor there's a lot of hypocrisy that's interesting because I wasn't sure that like the normies would remember the 2016 thing but he kind of agreed with Republicans and now that they're you know violating what they said that is having an effect this guy's voting for Biden in Florida that's that's really interesting because I I felt like you know the GOP they can be as hypocritical as they want to be and never have to worry about losing voters so long as they pander when it comes to cultural issues you know abortion for example and the Supreme Court so that's interesting that it actually is hurting them their hypocrisy at least like with this sample of people on both sides right now unfortunately on both sides of this really dude you're gonna both sides this he's like a Trump supporter that's kind of like an enlightened centrist who back in 2016 was really enthusiastic about John Kasich but you know he begrudgingly voted for Donald Trump but you know if Donald Trump just you know didn't do these mean tweets I don't like this guy like I don't know who I hate more because this guy's like the enlightened centrist and he should know better I don't know I don't know this has come around many times that happened in 2016 and at that time Obama appointed somebody which he should have and the Senate should have given Garland a hearing but they didn't hope they appoint somebody to the to the bench who is not an activist either way and who believes in the precedent good luck and as we move forward that you know we need to get that in place as soon as we can good luck bud good luck is that it that's it okay yeah I don't know how long this video is but now but look I'll be honest that wasn't the worst there's been far stupider people it's just it's interesting to see where the average voter is because you know we're we're all kind of in our bubbles right like if you're online and you're a leftist like you're always hearing people kind of reinforcing your own opinion and I'm sure that the same is true to an extent on the right so it's nice to hear from people who aren't always hyper engaged in politics and it's nice to know that you know the things that happen like blatant hypocrisy with Republicans and the Supreme Court it does have an effect it is hurting them I mean this guy he was going to support Lindsey Graham just because of the pork barrel projects that Lindsey Graham produces for South Carolina but Lindsey Graham's hypocrisy ended up hurting them with this voter that's interesting same with this guy too so yeah this is really interesting the anti-mask lady really got under my skin I think she's probably the worst here having said that though that's my thoughts I don't know if we'll have another voter panel before the election but if so I will enthusiastically cover it because I do think these are entertaining even if sometimes they can be a little bit soul-crushing so a CNN reporter showed up to a QAnon rally for educational purposes I am assuming and we are going to watch to see what happened because I think that this new group as it gains prominence is something that we all should focus on because like I don't know what happens in this video because I haven't seen it yet but what I do know is that based on like other videos where reporters have gone to QAnon events they are absolutely unhinged and deranged and the line between reality and delusions is it's obscured like these people are unhinged and I know that there is multiple branches to QAnon to an extent but most of them believe that Donald Trump of all people who have been who has been accused of sexual assault by multiple women apparently he is the one who's finally cracking down on all of these covert pedophile rings that exist in Hollywood and Washington DC and it's only the Democrats who are pedophiles apparently no Republicans even though Donald Trump was friends with Jeffrey Epstein and according to these people he's the savior now what's interesting before we watch the video as the insider reports here QAnon followers say Trump is a savior for trafficked children but the Justice Department has gone after fewer cases on his watch so even if Donald Trump was cracking down on pedophilia and child sex trafficking at a higher rates that wouldn't be enough evidence to suggest that he is like the savior here but even like the bare minimum that you'd hope to confirm this conspiracy theory is not there it's not accurate according to believers of the QAnon conspiracy theory President Donald Trump is the country's savior from liberal elites who are kidnapping children and running the secret sex trafficking rings but data shows that federal sex trafficking prosecutions have actually decreased since Trump took office according to the human trafficking institutes 2019 federal report which was released in May 2020 73 new federal criminal cases involving the sex trafficking of children only were prosecuted last year compared to 87 in 2018 and 124 in 2017 Trump's first year in office experts say QAnon believers are latching on to misinformation to boost their cause but ignore evidence-based solutions to the issue so I mean like prosecutions for these cases have decreased over the years but like it seems as if the way that they frame this we're about to see like the logical conclusion to all of this and Donald Trump is going to finally crack down on all of them and you know masks will come off and everyone will be exposed just these people are batshit insane so we're gonna watch and I'll share my thoughts as we see this pain is coming a fact that you guys are attacking us and making us look like we're crazy when we're just trying to save some f***ing children pisses me off okay already if you want that's a comment on this if you want people to think that you're not crazy then you have to at a minimum at least while the cameras are on not act crazy like that guy probably shitting himself like this lady is scary like how could you not be afraid that's just that's terrifying I don't care who you are that's just scary when people like start acting like that where they have to convince you that they're not f***ing crazy like they're probably crazy I'm sorry we're just trying to save some f***ing children pisses me off we're just trying to save some f***ing children so don't get in our way okay the real pandemic is child trafficking you might have seen people sharing the hashtag save the children or save our children over the past few the hashtag that they're using is really interesting because these are all Donald Trump supporters they've all drank in the Kool-Aid drank the Kool-Aid they're all mega-cheds but it's interesting because Donald Trump the president who they worship is bombing children in the Middle East and North Africa his first raid that he greenlit in Yemen led to the death of what was it six seven-year-old Nawar Alalaki and when it comes to healthcare what is Trump doing we had to fight Republicans to get them to renew the children's health insurance program Dreamers I mean everything that Trump has said his entire ideology openly has been f*** them kids and yet they're saying save the children and they think that Trump is a savior like this mindset is so weird like these people do not live in reality they've made up their own reality like the world that they fabricated is not one that we're all living in and they're living in their own like little bubble and it's super culty like this is a cult within a cult because you have Donald Trump supporters who are definitely a cult like the diehards and then within that cult you have people who are even further entrenched in this weird cult bubble like Trump has really brought out like the craziest elements in American society it's just I don't know if they've always I'm sure they've always been there but are just like more vocal now but this is just bizarre it's on social media but much of this online activity has nothing to do with the respected and real Save the Children charity which has been around for more than one hundred years its name Save the Children has been hijacked by followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory in a statement that charity has emphasized they have not don't tread on me with this movement I love how people with that don't tread on me flag they basically are against big government that vague notion but really what they're asking for is you know not for big government to tread on us but for large multinational corporations to tread on us if I were an alien that landed down from Mars how would you explain to me what QAnon is so QAnon is just a way for Trump supporters to look at what Trump is doing and say this doesn't match what I want I thought he was gonna kick out literally every illegal immigrant I thought he was gonna lock her up so basically like it's cognitive dissonance is that what it is a way that they've convinced themselves that Trump is still good I guess that explains it that's interesting that stuff's not happening why they view it as okay Trump won the election but Trump's not in control of the government actually the deep state is yeah I'm supposed to be the dragon and the Q butterfly they're about to get eaten hopefully okay I just have to comment that dog is so adorable what a good boy just sitting there not barking just like chilling the website that helped spread QAnon and pizza gate he left the site a few years ago so pizza gate is connected of course so say the children is sort of a gateway a soft front into QAnon correct yes because I've spoken to people that's interesting that's really interesting because like if you just say save the children and you vocalize how you're against human sex trafficking and you know pedophilia nobody's going to disagree with that so if somebody like buys into that very obvious premise every reasonable person wants to save children and is against pedophilia you can see how they get like roped in like this guy's really explaining how people are getting duped well-meaning people who want to protect children rightfully so are getting you know QAnon to believe this this is interesting and they're adamant they say I'm not a QAnon believer that's ridiculous I mean just go to the event right and talk to people there and see what they believe in so you're a QAnon follower 100% got it talk about it why aren't you talking about it why are we not talking about all the kids that are going missing why that makes me question you you're on camera right now my dude talk about it this dude has a survivor buff that's interesting Scotty the kid a singer and activist has been organizing a case never heard of him much like how they've co-opted the name save the children they have also seized on and are distracting from the very real and serious issue of missing and exploited children much of their focus instead is on conspiracy theories about Hollywood stars and Democrats so there's no Republicans like I want them to be asked how do you reconcile the fact that the savior of children was friends with Jeffrey Epstein who had a literal island that he raped children on like how how do they like not think that Donald Trump is part of the problem it's just such a weird bizarre way to look at the world like I don't I don't get it it's like do they just pretend like that's fake and Trump was never friends with Jeffrey Epstein like they need to they need to explain this you do follow QAnon the FBI says it's a dangerous conspiracy theory do I follow no I don't follow I don't know what it looks like you drank like a ton of Kool-Aid and we're like super sloppy I don't know if you think that's effective but you look kind of stupid right now do I follow the missing children I have a child right now in Ohio that my team is saving that's what I want to talk about but not a conspiracy you posted about QAnon yesterday right on your Instagram story gotcha bitch so your mom watching cna so if your mom watches cna and she's probably seeing people like me on tv saying pizza gates a conspiracy theory you don't believe it's a conspiracy theory no it's definitely not pizza is a code word for child pornography cheese pizza child pornography they believe that wait cheese wait because c p l they're nuts okay well can't you apply that to Donald Trump Donald Trump D.P. definitely pedophile gotcha bitch that's not evidence jesus christ I believe Hillary Clinton is a pedophile they believe almost every high democrat is a pedophile pedestal all of them it's crazy what's going on with Tom Hanks there's a lot of people who are pedophiles Beyonce knows as a pedophile as well wow so basically everyone in Hollywood is a pedophile like all of them are pedophiles interesting sure jam pedo would interesting they literally just believe that like everyone who's a democrat is a pedophile if they're in Hollywood but they're like conservatives like Kevin Sorbo who's a conservative I guess he's not a pedophile this shit doesn't make any fucking sense like even for a conspiracy theory I get how people get roped into it because it's based off of like a real issue so they get roped into it but then all they do is make these really huge assumptions about other people with zero evidence like the jumps that they make there's not enough evidence to go from point A to point B so like they start at an issue that's serious and then they very easily cross over into fucking Cougouville and it's just how did they make that jump that's one thing that I still don't understand because like oh cheese pizza child pornography like that's not enough evidence how is that persuasive to you you could literally take any fucking acronym and make it into something nefarious but that's not evidence and so you guys just want me to explain everything today huh yeah bitch you're there that's that's suspicion how do you know that Tom Hanks says how do you know this why can't you prove a negative fucking fake news prove a negative prove that Tom Hanks isn't a pedophile you can't gotcha prove a negative non-fact because you don't know the information you're saying it's a fact that they're not but neater do you we're in an impasse then because we're reporting literally the same thing but neater do you but you have them on your sign you're calling them a pedophile yes prove that you're not a pedophile how do we know that you're not like a fucking plant from the deep state how do they get to that position of power save the children is a good message everyone wants to save the children so they were putting this veneer of legitimacy on the Q stuff and the idea that there's a deep state cabal going online and doing these kind of performative demonstrations where your real target is political not any actual abuse you know you're not helping any child by doing that children going missing those numbers they're out there they're the gist I guess the disconnected I see and I think maybe your mom might agree with me she's watching this in CNN is that you know this is a real problem but then there's all this stuff online that seems as your mom might say a bit crazy well what we're saying is crazy is the satanists who are hurting children the satanists okay I was curious because like I know that there are parts of uh cubanon that believe that these aren't just pedophiles like they're satanists but on top of like being pedophiles they drink the blood of children and I don't know like if that's all cubanon people but certainly a large portion of them believe that it is just bad shit fucking insane the people who are trying to expose it and save us yeah so that was about what I expected there's just there's no evidence they take an actual issue and they extrapolate you know they bring up these inferences and implications and they think well this is a real issue so Tom Hanks is probably a pedophile like they make a lot of logical leaps that they don't have evidence for and it just comes off as very weird I kind of want to check out some of these comments just to see what people are saying so absolutely no evidence people are saying Donald Trump yeah that's true many people are saying and what if what cubanon is saying is true why do they get so angry whenever someone questions them about it they don't want to be challenged on it yeah that's true that's a good point imagine being in your history lesson back at school teacher Michael who started the Second Civil War Michael Charlie Wonka prove me prove to me that he did not yeah I mean people thankfully seem pretty reasonable in the comment section which is something that you don't usually see from YouTube it's usually nothing but like toxic bullshit but yeah I mean this is scary only because like it's no longer this fringe element of society like it's growing and it's becoming more prominent and now we actually have people who will be members of Congress who are part of this I don't know what you want to call it a movement Marjorie Taylor Greene so it's sad because like Americans and humanity in general we have access to more information than ever before at our fingertips with our phones and yet we buy into more bullshit rather than seeking out new information we find like these weird conspiracies to latch on to because they give our lives meaning or something it's just it's sad it's really sad and I wonder what will happen to the QAnon group once Donald Trump is out of power it's interesting what's Wayne C I guess well that's all that I've got on the agenda for today's program I hope you all enjoy that before we go of course I want to thank all of our latest latest Patreon PayPal and YouTube members all of which helped us to grow and are helping us not just to survive but thrive I mean truly you all are just you are the definition of comrades and I truly I just I love you all so much thank you but yeah that's it I've run out of steam I don't have anything else to talk about so we're gonna end the show right there next week is the last episode before the election and it's bittersweet because on one hand I wanted to be over because oh my god this election has been just a nightmare but on another hand I feel a sense of overwhelming dread because I know exactly that regardless of the outcome chaos is gonna unfold like if we see a Biden victory Trump supporters may rebel if we see a Trump victory that's gonna be like four more years of torture with Donald Trump so I mean either way I'm embracing myself hoping for the best but expecting the worst and I'm sure you all feel the same way so we'll definitely talk about it I don't plan to do a live stream during election night because I just have way too much like anxiety and I'm glued to numbers and I'm switching between live streams I'm a mess right so I'll of course do my post-election wrap ups and also I don't know that we're gonna get a winner on that first night I think probably we won't know who wins until after Tuesday may take a week or even longer so you know we'll talk about it you know of course I'm not gonna miss that so I'm rambling now so I'll see you all next week take care