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If you'd also like to support the show and join the independent progressive media revolution, you can do so by going to humanistreport.com slash support, patreon.com forward slash humanistreport or clicking join underneath any one of our YouTube videos. So this week, we've got a great show for you all. We'll talk about Joe Biden's absence as well as Donald Trump's inability to act like a grownup during times of crisis. And we'll also talk about how Donald Trump may put everyone's life at risk all to make sure that he protects big business. Bernie Sanders won the Democrats a broad primary and we'll discuss whether or not this is a sign of things to come. And I'll make the case for him staying in the race in spite of calls for him to drop out. We'll talk about the lieutenant governor of Texas who thinks that all people's lives are less valuable than profits of big business. David Sarota demolishes near a tandem. AOC tells us to brace ourselves in the midst of a global pandemic and Biden is still struggling to appeal to young voters. I'll tell you what I think he can do to win them over. That and more will be discussed on today's episode. Hopefully you all will enjoy the program. Let's go ahead and get right into it. Look I'll admit for a second Donald Trump and the Republican Party they were doing a mildly good job. They were doing an adequate job at convincing people that maybe they cared a little bit about working Americans. Now of course this was nothing more than a ruse because it's not the Americans who they care about. What I said was that you know capitalists they acknowledge that we can't buy their goods and services if we have no money. So if we're going to be looking at another economic recession possibly a great depression scenario you have to take care of workers otherwise the entire system itself can't survive capitalism implodes right. But the problem here is that if we really want to take drastic action flatten the curve so to speak we have to make sure that we are practicing social distancing people are staying home but the problem is this will lead to industries failing. The casino industry is asking for a bailout. The airline industry is asking for a bailout because people aren't traveling unless it's essential. So now what Republicans are doing is they're just taking the mask off. With Donald Trump as of late he's gone full mask off. He's revealing that when push comes to shove he doesn't give a damn about the American people. He cares about the profits of large multinational corporations because look at what he tweeted out. In all caps he says we cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself. At the end of the 15 day period we will make a decision as to which way we want to go. You know I mean I don't think that during a global pandemic these types of cryptic tweets are very helpful because you can't really tell what he means by this so all we can do is speculate but if he really means what we all think it means this is horrific. Like the implications of this are absolutely horrifying because what he chooses to do doesn't just impact America. It impacts the rest of the world. So if he says you know what I hear you about flattening the curve and you know all of this social distancing but we're gonna send everyone back to work. We're gonna make sure that the economy doesn't suffer and its business as usual if he does this people are going to die a lot of people are going to die. Now it's already the case that COVID-19 is going to kill thousands hundreds of thousands potentially of human beings. It's just a matter of what are we going to do to limit the death toll. That's really what we're faced with now and part of limiting the death toll flattening the curve means we have to take extreme measures. Will the economy and certain industries suffer? Yes but that's something that we have to do if we truly care about human lives but Trump is revealing here actually the economy is more important to me. Why? Because if the economy tanks what's going to happen? Well if you are an incumbent president and you're in an election year and the economy suffers you usually lose that's what history indicates anyways. So basically if the economy suffers then he may suffer. So this is about self-interest that's if he truly is going to do this. Now he gave us an indication that yeah I care more about the economy than saving human lives because as Axios reports Trump says coronavirus restrictions will be lifted soon dismissing health experts and he hinted at this during his latest press conference and this is just this is insane. And I will say we're going to be watching our senior citizens very closely we're going to be watching certain hot spots like New York and within New York you have areas which are troubling and we'll be working with the governor and the mayor and everybody else on those spots but at the same time at a certain point we have to get open and we have to be we have to get moving. We don't want to lose these companies we don't want to lose these workers we want to take care of our workers so we'll be doing something I think relatively quickly but we've learned a lot during this period this was a very necessary period tremendous information was gained but we can do two things at one time you know and again I say we have a very active flu season more active than most it's looking like it's heading to 50,000 or more deaths deaths not cases 50,000 deaths which is that's a lot and you look at automobile accidents which are far greater than any numbers we're talking about that doesn't mean we're going to tell everybody no more driving of cars so we we have to do things to get our country open but this has been an incredible period of learning and we'll have announcements over the next fairly short period as to the timing. In other words yeah I get that social distancing is absolutely necessary if we want to flatten the curve I hear you but this is hurting the economy social distancing is hurting the economy and if the economy suffers that's going to hurt my reelection chances so I hear what the CDC says I hear what the World Health Organization says I hear you but I just don't care now there are some estimates that say this could last until spring of 2021 and Donald Trump said at this press conference quote I'm not looking at months I can tell you that right now so let's say that we need social distancing for three months he's telling you flat out not gonna happen not gonna happen because profits the economy that matters more than the lives of human beings and like this is you would think it goes against his own self-interest because the people who are disproportionately impacted are elderly voters who by and large are propping up the republican parties so if you kill off your base that's gonna hurt you but I mean he's not thinking logically he's just panicking and he's not a leader he you know he's in over his head he doesn't know what to do he's not cut out for this and it's to a point now where I think the CNN headline that Ken Clippenstein shared is terrifyingly accurate it describes the situation too well dollars versus deaths how many lives is the world economy worth that's what President Trump faces as coronavirus creates a self-inflicted economic shutdown just the mere fact that we have to have this debate and question whether or not our government values the economy over human lives in certain industries over human lives shows you how much of a failure capitalism is it's already killing the planet itself like earth is becoming uninhabitable because we value the profits of private companies over the habitability of our planet and you're seeing firsthand how they don't even care if it kills people if it kills off a large portion of the American population and the world population meh I'd rather just make sure that it's business as usual because I don't want the economy to suffer now you have to like if you are a world leader from a different country you have to be furious right now because if Donald Trump says hey everyone it's business as usual that's going to have implications for the world because the virus will spread here in the united states and in turn it will proliferate throughout the world so I mean the fact that this is even something that we're considering the fact that it's mask off and they're just saying the quiet part out loud now is absolutely insane I mean the lieutenant governor of Texas Dan Patrick admitted that he would rather risk his own survival to make sure that the economy continues on the current trajectory well even if it's the case that he does send everyone back to work its business as usual right not every single country will do that there are still going to be economic ramifications that will negatively impact us if other countries follow precautions so this is unnecessary if he chooses unilaterally to you know discourage social distancing people may die for nothing and we still may have a global recession but again he's desperate he's not thinking rationally he's not a very logical person he's an emotional person hence why we see so many all caps tweets from him now to be fair it's not just Donald Trump because governor Andrew Cuomo of New York one of the states that has been hit the hardest if not the hardest kind of hinted at the same thing because as Anthony Pascal of New York one tweeted breaking governor Cuomo quote we have to plan the pivot back to economic functionality says we may not have to isolate everyone could allow the healthy less vulnerable to work COVID-19 survival rate is 98% New York forward plan to look into restarting economic engine Cuomo at some point you have to open the valve because this is not sustainable says he has no second thoughts about keeping all non-essential workers home despite damage to the economy says there will be political consequences but claims he doesn't care Cuomo the first order of business is to deal with this health crisis we are still in the relative calm before the storm once we get through a health crisis we will plan for economy so it's subtle but what he's hinting at here is look I get the necessity of social distancing and yes you know we're on lockdown but what if we just let maybe some young people return to work who are healthy I mean this should tell you everything that you need to know about our economic system capitalism and what it has done to our leaders they literally care more about the economy than your life that should tell you something that should make you irate you're paying taxes into a system that doesn't value you it values our economic system and big business more than you that should make you feel completely uneasy with the capitalist status quo it should make everyone an anti-capitalist and I don't care what you are democratic socialist anarcho-syndicalist an anarchist so long as you're not a capitalist then I think that that's logical but if you're still a capitalist when this system is going full mask off and we can see it I mean it's already gone mask off right it's already done enough to reveal itself but if you're still proudly capitalist I don't know what to tell you there's a reason why younger people disproportionately are more in favor of socialism than capitalism because look at what the system is doing it values the economy and the profits of big business more than our lives and that should make everyone incredibly angry so I don't really know what else to say all that I will tell you is disregard what the government says if they're telling you to put your life at risk for the economy if you work for a large multinational corporation like GameStop they close now but and they're telling you that you should risk your life just to make them profits disregard what they say like at the end of the day you have to acknowledge that your life is more important and capitalism has basically made people buy into this notion that their lives don't really matter they're you know just a cog in the machine and making sure that customers get video games or fucking I don't know something that doesn't really matter is more important than your own life but that's not true the economy can't survive without human beings and because of that we should be valuing human lives over everything else but I mean Donald Trump he just he genuinely doesn't care he's rich he's going to be okay he's older but he has money so he will receive the best health care he's being constantly tested for COVID-19 he's going to be okay at the end of the day but the individuals who will suffer the most are the people who are vulnerable who are at the bottom of our economic totem pole and that should absolutely enrage everyone but the fact that people are still complicit and have bought into this disgusting cult of an economic system it tells you how effective it is and how much more vocal we're going to have to be in defeating it so I want to pose a hypothetical question to you the viewer if given the choice between letting hundreds of thousands if not millions of old people die or letting the economy stagnate potentially suffer for a little bit which would you choose I mean to me that's a really easy choice of course we're saving lives human lives are much more valuable than the economy because the economy and money these are all social phenomena we made these things up so without human beings to partake in an economy without human beings to be able to spend money these things have no value so human life is the most valuable thing but given how coronavirus isn't just going to impact our health and safety but it will also have some pretty huge ramifications with regard to the economy if we really want to flatten the curve so to speak we have to take action and yes the economy will suffer well Republicans are basically now saying the quiet part out loud and they're admitting that they would rather let lots and lots of old people die rather than basically allowing some companies to lose profits not even kidding so in an interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox News lieutenant governor of Texas Dan Patrick said this and I still can't believe it take a look and you know Tucker no one reached out to me and said as a senior citizen are you willing to take a chance on your survival in exchange for keeping the America that all America loves for your children and grandchildren and if that's the exchange I'm all in and that doesn't make me noble or brave or anything like that I just think there are lots of grandparents out there in this country like me I have six grandchildren that what we all care about and what we love more than anything are those children and I want to you know live smart and and see through this but I don't want the whole country to be sacrificed and I and that's what I see I've talked to hundreds of people Tucker and just in the last week and making calls all the time and and everyone says pretty much the same thing that we can't lose our whole country we we're having an economic collapse I'm also a small businessman I understand it and I talked with business people all the time Tucker and and I'm so my I'm just my heart is lifted tonight by what I heard the president say because we can do more than you know one thing at a time we can do two things so you know my message is that um let's get back to work let's get back to living let's be smart about it uh and those of us who are 70 plus we'll take care of ourselves but don't sacrifice the country don't do that don't ruin so you're you're basically saying that this disease could take your life but that's not the scariest thing to you there's something that would be worse than dying yeah I can't believe he said that and I have seen this clip multiple times in preparation for the segment and I am still speechless we all knew that capitalism was a cult but the way that they're kind of explicitly admitting that this is one of those crazy suicidal cults it's just it's remarkable wow and he said look I don't want to seem noble or brave by admitting that you know I'd rather die than let the economy tank a little bit um first of all it's not people like Dan Patrick who who will die it's the vulnerable people the elderly people who have not much money to their name the elderly people who are struggling to get by and uh get groceries for themselves that's the people who this is going to disproportionately impact because it's never the rich it's never the elite class or the powerful it's always the most vulnerable those at the tippy top will be fine but it's your grandma it's my grandma it's the people who are already struggling they're the ones who will be affected by this and he says look given the choice between taking a chance on my survival or having us be the same America for my children and grandchildren I'm gonna opt for you know keeping things as is I'd rather die than uh have these CEOs of large multinational corporations take a little bit of a hit I mean this logic is absolutely insane and anyone who is a capitalist after we make it through this pandemic needs to wake the fuck up because this is really showing just how cruel and ruthless our economic system is where we are literally valuing a made up economic system that we created over our own well-being and health is that not maddening what are we doing yes the economy will likely suffer if we truly do practice very disciplined social distancing for a while but there are things that you can do policies you can enact to ameliorate that right you can make sure that workers have enough money because if we don't have money then we can't stimulate the economy the economy kind of needs us to have a little bit of purchasing power if you want it to function properly but I mean there are steps that you can take now we saw republicans float ways to help americans and I made a video last week where they were kind of sounding like bernie sanders tom cotton kind of sounded a little bit like bernie sanders because during a pandemic everyone sounds like a socialist because that's the only thing that works you can't let the free market do its thing during a global pandemic you need to directly put money in the hands of workers and not these large multinational corporations because if you bail out the airline and casino industries but people don't have money to put it back into the economy to spend money at these casinos or airline industries what's the point of it if you want capitalism to function people have to have money to stimulate the economy now I thought that capitalists realized that but um apparently they don't and this is really showing that people in this country our leaders capitalists they literally are willing to not just let people die in order to avoid any type of economic ramifications that may you know come to fruition with this virus they're admitting it they're telling you how your life is not valuable if you are a republican voter and you're old I mean they're telling you they're admitting now that your life doesn't mean anything to them the GOP is willing to kill off their own voting base just to make sure that their corporate donors don't lose any profits how can you continue voting for this party this party is psychopathic this is a death cult that's what this is this is a psychopathic death cult how can you continue to support them is xenophobia and racism really that important because they're telling you I don't care if you die the dude wants old people to die just to make sure the economy doesn't suffer at all and trump has the same line of thinking now I'm just kind of taken aback by this because it's not like this is surprising to me it's just what's surprising I think is the fact that they're admitting this like I never expected them to just openly admit of course we value you know profit over the lives of people I never thought that they would admit this but here we are and yet there's still going to be millions of people in this country who proudly identify as capitalist when they see exactly what the system does and what it's doing during a time of crisis like everyone should abandon capitalism nobody should be a capitalist after COVID-19 and you already shouldn't have been a capitalist if you've been working nine to five and can barely pay the bills but nonetheless I mean everything is laid out to bear here you see it you see it firsthand what's more valuable it's not your life it's profits so after 9-11 George W. Bush had the highest approval rating of any president ever in Gallup's history with a 90% approval rating and even though we all know now that he ended up being one of the most incompetent and destructive presidents in American history he at least was cognizant of the fact that during times of crisis Americans seek one thing and that is a leader and the bar is really really low like you don't even have to be that good at it you just have to be present be visible make lots of speeches give us nice platitudes assure us that everything is going to be okay don't shit your pants on national television and that's it you'll get a higher approval rating and even though Donald Trump has already botched his response to COVID-19 he's benefiting by just being present because a majority of Americans approved of his coronavirus response which I mean is astonishing given that he has been very dismissive of the crisis he you know downplayed its severity and only recently took it seriously but this poll shows us that Americans just want a leader so just the mere fact that he has these White House press briefings frequently just the mere fact that he has a more calm demeanor people are going to respond to that because Americans want a leader that's what this poll says that's what the Gallup you know approval rating for George W. Bush tells us and you know for a little bit he was doing okay he was acting like an adult kind of but you can see that he's already starting to unravel because he's incapable of being a grown-up he's incapable of being a leader and I'll show you why that is so he did a White House press briefing last week and a reporter threw him the like easiest softball question ever just lobbed it right down the center and he could have easily just hit it out of the park but what does he do instead he chooses to have a complete meltdown and throw a temper tantrum because you got offended by the reporter because he misunderstood the question that the reporter was asking take a look what do you say the Americans were scared though I guess nearly 200 dead 14,000 who are sick millions as you witness who are scared right now what do you say to Americans we're watching you right now who are scared I say that you're a terrible reporter that's what I say I think it's a very nasty question and I think it's a very bad signal that you're putting out to the American people the American people are looking for answers and they're looking for hope and you're doing sensationalism and the same with NBC and Concast I don't quote I don't quote Concast I quote Concast let me just have for whom you work let me just say something that's really bad reporting and you want to get back to reporting instead of sensationalism let's see if it works it might and it might not I happen to feel good about it but who knows I've been right a lot I get angry when I think about it but then I watch the clip again and then I just I can't I can't not laugh this was so easy mr president what do you say to Americans who are watching you who are scared here's an answer just I'm pulling this out of my ass I tell them to rest assured that the American people we have the spirit to persevere we've made it through worse things before and I guarantee you we'll make it through this stronger than we've ever been before like say something like that but what does he do um I say you're a terrible reporter very nasty question terrible what are you doing that was a softball he threw you a fucking softball and you have a fucking conniption fit because you think that he is lobbing a personal attack towards you no dummy he was giving you a softball a question that shouldn't have been asked because it's such a softball idiotic question so I agree with you know he's probably a terrible reporter because he asked such a dumb softball question that's unnecessary but I mean maybe he just feels look maybe I should give Donald Trump the opportunity to be a leader here and Donald Trump just fucking face planted I mean this is this is the bare minimum that you have to do as president just be a fucking leader pretend lie like just make it seem as if you know what you're doing and you have your shit together but he can't help himself the guy is a maniac this dude is a fucking maniac and if his handlers don't constantly cater to him give him a juice box set him in front of a tv with fox news on he's going to have temper tantrums we're seeing that there now on top of that he made a very very alarming tweet in all caps he says we cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself at the end of the 15-day period we will make a decision as to which way we want to go now I address the meaning of that I try to decode it because it's very cryptic in a different video so I'm not going to dive into the substance here not that there was much but just in general the overall tone and I don't usually focus on tone because I think that policy substance matters above all else but again during times of crisis like politically speaking it's very easy for you to rack up points by just acting like a grown-up and here he is tweeting in all caps during a crisis making this cryptic tweet about something that we're all paranoid about currently watching we're glued to our televisions I know I'm researching COVID-19 watching videos on it trying to you know inform myself as much as possible so we all want to hear what the president has to say even if we don't like him and yet this is what he does like he just squanders any political capital he has because he just he can't not humiliate himself he has to act like a fucking big baby embarrassing so I mean it's not like this is surprising but like I was almost like going to give him credit because he seemed to be taking it more seriously I mean we can't forget the fact that he botched COVID-19 like he didn't take coronavirus serious he dismissed it referred to it as a hoax or implied it was a hoax and you know he tried to right that wrong presumably and act like a grown-up at least try to be a leader pull pull up his pants you know put on his big boy pants and yeah that lasted like five minutes what a fucking dipshit Donald Trump is in an interview with Jake Tapper on CNN Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez talked a little bit about COVID-19 and what needs to be done in order to protect Americans and the reason why this interview stood out so much to me is because we've been talking a lot lately about leadership and you know how Trump is incapable of being a leader Joe Biden has pretty much been MIA for the last week and Bernie Sanders is currently leading his he's mobilizing his supporters to donate to coronavirus relief efforts but the media won't talk about it so to see someone nationally be a leader and you know tell us what solutions need to be implemented I think this is important and matters because people are scrambling to find anything to take comfort in they're looking for a leader and they don't know what active measures need to be taken right in order to stop this from spreading and stop you know us from going into economic ruin personally so AOC basically laid it all out and I thought that what she said here it showed why she is such a valuable leader in this country one of the things that we're hearing over and over again from hospitals again is this point on personal protective equipment there are not enough face masks gloves ventilators hospital beds to get us through this many hospitals are already at capacity or approaching capacity and there is kind of no real stream in sight from the federal government on where these materials are coming from you know companies are donating what they can that is great it is not enough and the fact that the president has not really invoked the defense production act for the purpose of manufacturing of emergency manufacture is going to cost lives the FEMA administrator I asked him about that he said it's not needed because so many American companies are stepping up to the plate and volunteering to do the right thing your response it is absolutely needed you know we are thankful to anyone who's pitching in on this effort but we are nowhere near the beds the capacity and the capacity that we need in this country and the you know we're hearing it every step of the way from this administration first we were hearing it was a hoax then we were hearing that everything was fine then we were hearing that the fundamentals of the economy was okay until the crash comes and we cannot wait until people start really dying in large numbers to start production especially of conflict more complicated equipment like ventilators and hospital beds we need to start this production right now to get ready for the surge that is coming in two to three weeks let's turn to Congress right now negotiations are ongoing on an economic stimulus package chief White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said yesterday could be as high as two trillion dollars you've suggested that's still not enough if you were writing this bill how much would you spend and where would the money go well I think first and foremost there is almost no number too small I don't think a lot of people out there really understand the systemic shock that is being experienced in the economy right now you know folks are comparing this to 2008 this is very very different than even 2008 because what we have seen is that almost overnight our entire economy even the felt economy from jobs is seizing almost overnight so the question is not just the size but what we are doing with those funds because if we are having a huge package and this is something for people to look out for when this package rolls out there is no reason for corporate bailouts to be included in an emergency relief package we should be focusing is unemployment expanding are we getting checks in people's hands are we suspending mortgage rent and and debt payments if we're able to do that if we're able to get money into households and stop the bleeding with with pauses on money going out of households then we can get working families through this thing but if all of this money is going to bailing out the airline industry in a way that does not help workers if we're if it's going to billing out banks and other industries without helping workers then it's then it's not going to be enough and in fact it could be too big so it's really about how we're using these funds so you you seem to be suggesting that you support as as a lot of people do in both parties direct payments to the American people some Democrats have said that the $1,200 figure that's been proposed is way too small how much money do you think the government should be giving the public directly and it should should it go to everyone or just people who need it well so the financial services committee actually released their own plan and I I am very supportive of that plan which has about $2,000 this month for every American with an additional thousand dollars per child but in addition to that it stops payments so it stopped it halts mortgage payments rent payments and all major consumer debt and that is the key because when you're able to stop the money going out then that money that you do give goes a much longer way so I'm very supportive of both of those measures the Democrats are truly lucky to have her and it's really a shame that she has to share a party with people like Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden because they're just they're diametrically opposed and they don't deserve to benefit from her credibility you know and her you know vision and leadership they don't deserve her but everything she said there was incredibly crucial first of all she made it very clear that the thing to do now is for Trump to utilize the defense the defense production act and let's make some medical equipment like the number one thing we are hearing from healthcare providers and doctors and professionals is that they're running out of medical equipment masks ventilators like what are we doing like we're talking about flattening the curve and I think that's really important it's why we have to practice social distancing but if we can't flatten the curve and hospitals become overburdened we also have to prepare for that situation as well because we can't afford not to be prepared we can't afford to you know assume that social distancing is going to work or you know a Wuhan style lockdown is going to work we have to prepare for the worst hope for the best and the fact that Trump isn't utilizing the defense production act is such a missed opportunity it shows that he doesn't really know what he's doing like he's in over his head and I'm glad that she said that now at the rate that we're going unless we take substantial action and we do prepare for hospitals around the country being overburdened we could be worse off than Italy or Spain and I'm not being hyperbolic the rate to which corona tests are coming back positive is growing faster than any other country in the world now part of that is because we're finally actually making testing more available and easier to access mostly for rich people but slowly but surely more people are getting tested hence why the number is going up but as we kind of learn just how bad the pandemic is going to get the depths of it we have to prepare for everything and the fact that we're not it just is so frustrating and you know at a time when we should be making direct cash payments to Americans our number one priority that's not what we're doing and she spoke to that as well she talks about how the government can take meaningful action to make sure that working Americans don't suffer if we in fact face a recession and it's not going to be a 2008 style recession like we're talking great depression or worse possibly based on current projections I mean if we actually get to 30 unemployment that would surpass great depression levels of unemployment it would be unthinkable it would be a disaster so there are things we can do though but they don't want to do that republicans don't want to actually ameliorate this crisis they care about doing the bidding of their corporate donors and it seemed like for a second maybe they would try to throw the American people a bone because they probably recognize that capitalism can't function if the working class has no money to buy the goods and services produced by capitalists however the fact that they're prioritizing corporate bailouts it tells you exactly where their priorities lie they never for a second actually cared about the American people they only care about Americans in so far as they are some benefit to American corporations and elites but so long as we're unable to contribute to large multinational corporations and American corporations then our lives then become meaningless protecting us is only important in so far as it doesn't hurt the economy so the fact that we even have to debate this long about what to do it is absolutely mind-boggling because like you can leave workers and normal americans stranded for years decades that's what they've been doing but when push comes to shove if we see a 30% worst-case scenario unemployment rate if we see thousands of people kicked out because they can't afford to pay rents if we see an increase in homelessness i mean fuck all of these bailouts for companies the oil industry the airlines that doesn't matter because if americans can't afford airline tickets if they can't afford to spend money and stimulate the economy capitalism can't survive so you have to at least provide the bare minimum to americans and in this crisis giving them the bare minimum assuring that they're not going to lose everything is the bare minimum and it seems swift it seems drastic right to consider direct cash payments to people universal basic income temporarily but that's what you have to do if you want the system to remain in place because you know people are very apathetic and complacent generally speaking when it comes to politics but if you don't do anything as they watched our livelihoods being taken away from them that's when we're going to go into full crisis mode because people are only going to be apathetic and so far as you keep them at least a little bit comfortable but when you strip away that comfort and take everything away from them that's when things start to get rough rough for lawmakers that is on monday we finally heard from joe biden for the first time since march 17th which is when he gave a really unusual victory speech after winning three more primaries and in case you missed it this is how that went oh thanks thanks okay you doing okay yeah you need any help now before that weird thing that happened i don't even know how to describe it the last time we heard from him was when he did this virtual town hall on covid 19 and as the verges mckenna kelly describes it was a technical nightmare and if you watched it live parts of it just didn't work like the audio was cutting out and then other parts of it his brain wasn't working he was wandering off the screen it was just a complete mess that's why we're connecting virtually today we're going to have to get better at the technical side of this no president can promise to prevent future after this well i can promise to the online president better respond better recover better science was i was one of the sponsors of the endangered species act and one of the other things we've done is we in the state of delaware for example set up the coastal zone legislation which means that they can't build any factories or any anything within one mile of the estuary of the delaware river and the Atlantic ocean and the chest peak and so the whole point of this is that we can do a lot to deal with endangered species and one of the things i would like to raise is that we have to deal with this on an international basis as well yeah so look i understand that it's his team strategy to hide him away from the public i get that i think it's actually a smart strategy and they executed it well throughout the course of the primary but you're the friend runner now you will very likely be the democratic party's nominee and donald trump is bungling his response to covet 19 so this is a political opportunity like you can step up and be the leader that americans are looking for currently and i get that he's prone to fuck ups and his staff still wants to hide him but regardless i mean you have to be the leader you wanted to be president you still do i'm assuming so step up the mere fact that he hasn't shown his face it's giving people who uh propped him up members of the democratic party elites and their loyalists a little bit of buyer's remorse because they're realizing maybe we made a mistake for example daily coast founder marcos mulitz has tweeted why isn't biden leading the democratic response to coronavirus every single day why cede the ground to trump's propaganda if biden won't do it make it warren just find someone yeah well i mean this is your guy this is who you all propped up so um you made your bed lying it now what he's missing here is that there actually is someone who is stepping up bernie sanders he mobilized his base of small donors to raise two million dollars for coronavirus relief efforts but the problem is that bernie's bad and everyone else is good so the media they can't actually give bernie sanders credit for this because the primary isn't technically over and if they give him too much credit then voters might see that he's actually a better leader than joe biden and opt for him in the remaining primaries so they're just ignoring that and as a result um joe biden is ceding ground to donald trump i agree with marcos mulitz is there never thought i'd say that and what's interesting is that the individual on the democratic party side who is the most visible at this time is new york governor andrew quomo and he's just there like people are gravitating towards him because he's on tv and it seems as if he's exhibiting leadership qualities now i think that he's botched the coveted response because he waited too long to enact all these measures that he needed to enact i mean it's it's a little too late right but i mean the fact that he's present and it seems like he's doing something even if his response is inadequate he's just there so it led to the democratic party's base uh really wanting him to be the president not joe biden because president quomo started trending on twitter and um just days before where's biden was trending on twitter so do you understand like joe biden is basically about to wrap up this primary when more votes take place if we continue on this path with his momentum and democrats are already looking elsewhere for leadership that's a really really bad sign because it shows you that joe biden may have even less support than hillary clinton had in fact i would guess that he had less he has less support than hillary clinton had so i mean you can't just go m i a for six days straight if you are likely to be the democratic party's nominee and we have this global crisis what are you doing you can't retreat to your house you have to come out and be a leader say something but don't worry because um he did speak up he gave us a sign that he's still alive because yes there are people that were you know at first jokingly saying hey where's joe biden is he still alive maybe he should take a picture with the current newspaper but then you know on day four day five people started to get a little bit more serious and ask wait is joe biden still alive like literally um but rest assured because his staff his press secretary simon sanders did let us know that he never left us because he made an epic appearance during dj d nice's instagram live stream and he dropped an epic thumbs up nice now i know what you're thinking simon sanders probably just logged in to joe biden's official instagram account sent the thumbs up emoji and then screen shot at it and then shared it to twitter i know but you know um finally he did make his triumphant return or not so triumphant return on the 23rd but not before providing us with an excuse as to why he wasn't present more often he told abc news that he was setting up a home studio to do more regular broadcasts quote the bottom line is that everything from providing better access to where i physically live and be able to broadcast from there as well as our headquarters is underway we've hired a professional team to do that now biden told reporters it's a little above my pay grade as to how we do that but that's desperately what we're trying to do because i want to be in daily or at least you know significant contact with the american people and communicate what i would be doing what i think we should be doing and how we should be doing it but i promise you that's on the way hopefully god willing by monday a source with knowledge of the campaign said biden's team is working on scaling up that infrastructure and dealing with the realities of biden's wilmington home like the fact that there aren't particularly high ceilings which can make lighting a challenge oh okay that makes sense so the reason why he's gone m i a for six days is because uh they couldn't get the lighting right he could have gone on cnn msnbc i'm sure they would have loved to hear from you no you know it was because he's setting up this new home studio and it's so difficult to get the lighting right you know uh forget the fact that bernie sanders hosted a fireside chat just using ordinary lamps while joe biden you know uh had a whole team and they couldn't even get basic lighting figured out but i mean during a crisis there's no excuse like we should be hearing from you regularly if you want to convince the american people that you are the better leader now like that's what you're doing that's the campaign right now we're not talking about anything but covid 19 because this is what is affecting people's lives the most so you have to be a leader you have to assure them that we're going to be okay we're gonna make it through this but the fact that you went missing that's just not a good luck like do you not want to win like i have my doubts that he even wants to beat donald trump because if you do something like this it just it's idiotic i mean turn on your phone you don't need the perfect setup just turn on your phone hit record and then upload that to youtube and if you don't know how to do that have one of your team members do it for you have one of your grandchildren do it for you the granddaughter that he kisses on the mouth looks young enough so i mean i'm sure that she'd know how to do it this isn't hard just figure it the f*** out but regardless i mean it took six days but we still heard from him and um it went about as well as you would expect any joe biden livestream to go his teleprompter malfunctioned and um just watch my principal focus today and every day will be on what we should do to get this response fixed to save lives provide economic assistance to the tens of millions of americans who need it and need it now and are going to need in the weeks and months ahead it starts with adopting a mindset of real urgency for too long the warning signs were ignored we need to activate the reserve corps of doctors and nurses and beef up the number of responders dealing with the crush these crush of cases and uh and in addition to that uh in addition to that we have to make sure that we uh we are in a position that we are well let me let me go the second thing i've spoken up enough the president must use the defense production act to radically increase the supply of critical goods needed to treat patients and protect our health care workers and first responders including the protective gear like face mask and critical equipment like ventilators so desperately needed in our hospitals it means working with all our allies and partners to get supplies from overseas when available dispatching us military assets to retrieve them quickly if they are available it means federal coordination of a supply change to accelerate deliveries and get them to the right places at the right time and much more and we need to build an arsenal of democracy and as we did in 1940 we can take we we can make a personal productive equipment look here's the deal we have to do what we did in the 40s in the 20s in the 2020s and we can do that we need to build a medical arsenal here unfortunately as of last night president trump and mitch mcconnell were offering a plan to let big corporations off the hook they proposed the five hundred billion dollar slush slush fund for corporations with almost no conditions under their plan the trump administration could even allow companies to use the money that they're being given to them by taxpayers money to buy back stocks increased executive pays if that's what the secretary of treasury decided they wouldn't have to make commitments to keep workers employed these big corporations they wouldn't have to tell the american the americans where the money goes for months now in case you were wondering this is the like to this like ratio on that video and his other streams aren't that different and just right off the bat i have a couple of questions first of all why did you use a green screen setup like that's now i can understand why it was more difficult to get the lighting correct like just go by a window and film so you made it more difficult on yourselves and second of all why is the ticker on the bottom of the screen static why isn't it like scrolling why do you have parts of it cut off if you're not going to make it scroll like there are so many questions and it's still difficult for me to believe that he had a team set this up but still you know i'm not going to take issue with the substance because i do think that if you just strip away all of the malfunctions you know the brain farts the substance was okay you know he called on trump to fully utilize the defense production act he was right to call for more tests and to condemn down on trump's slow response but saying the right thing alone it isn't enough and he did make some good points and uh you know this needed to be said he said that you know the republican party they're just passing the bill that is corporate welfare it's tantamount to corporate welfare because they're bailing out the companies the large multinational corporations and they're not looking at helping workers enough but you know when you're trying to prove who's the real leader you also have to propose solutions and the thing about joe biden is that you know he hasn't talked much about policy he's had nothing but platitudes and you can condemn donald trump and the republicans but if you don't come with your own solution then none of this means anything like you can criticize what donald trump is doing but you have to offer solutions that's part of proving that you're the better leader but this is his solution to you know corporate welfare on sunday his campaign tweeted i am calling on every ceo in america to publicly commit now to not buying back their company stock over the course of the next year as workers face the physical and economic consequences of coronavirus our corporate leaders cannot see responsibility for their employees yeah that's not good enough you're running to be the president so you should call on congress to enact legislation that bans them from buying their stock back like the fact that this is legal should be an outrage to everyone but for you to just say oh i'm calling on them to not do this i'm calling on these private companies with a fiduciary responsibility to increase shareholder value at all costs to just do the right thing do the moral thing think ethically for once i mean how is this different than when hillary clinton said i went to wall street and i said you cut it out it's not this is factless leadership so i mean not only is he showing to all of us that he doesn't have what it takes to lead at a moment when americans are looking for anyone to be a leader hence why president qualmo was trending but he doesn't even offer us solutions now look maybe i'm being too unfair to joe biden maybe i'm being as unfair to him as msnbc is to bernie sanders but i'm sorry you had a chance for real leadership in this country we we could have got bernie sanders and they opted for this guy who struggles to articulate himself who can barely spit out a coherent sentence who went mia for six days that's who we're supposed to look to as the alternate to donald trump who's having a meltdown and still throwing temper tantrums and refuses to be a leader like the situation is so grim in america because we have donald trump dipshit or joe biden dipshit which melting brain boomer do you want the orange one or the white one pick one i mean that that's the options that were presented with so i'm sorry that i feel a little bit more or sound a little bit more pessimistic than usual to be specific but i mean the situation just sucks and you know the democratic party loyalists who are only now seeing it who are only now experiencing buyer's remorse maybe you should have listened to us all along when we warned you about joe biden maybe you know obama who decided to make everyone get out of the race convinced them to drop out to endorse joe biden maybe he should be a leader step up we know that you did this obama come out of hiding you wanted joe biden this is your guy so step up because we need some alternative to donald trump and joe biden just isn't that he's bungling it so somebody on the democratic party side take responsibility for this this is the mess that you created once again so the democratic party establishment did everything in their power to shove joe biden down our throats and now that he will likely become the democratic party's nominee they're realizing oh wait i forgot that he's such a terrible candidate that he's probably going to lose to donald trump now i think that there's a good portion of the democratic party elected democratic party people who don't actually care if the democratic party nominee loses to donald trump because trump is someone who can unite democrats they can fundraise off of him so it's not really the worst case scenario for them if they can sit on their ass for four more years and fear monger about donald trump and not actually resist him but there are people who i think actually do want to beat donald trump i think that most democrats probably want to beat donald trump but now that he is likely to be the nominee you know everything is just laid out in front of them his flaws they realize he's not a good candidate and part of the problem is that he can't attract young people and this is something that was obvious nonetheless now they're grappling with it and they're realizing he's got a really tough you know job ahead of him that convincing people to come out and vote for him so as sahil kapoor of nbc news explains voters under 45 continued to support burning sanders by huge margins in florida illinois and arizona even as other groups came around to biden the gap has been largest with voters in their 20s or teens mirroring a problem that hurt hillary clinton in key states in 2016 a lack of excitement among the young i'm deeply concerned about the impact that a lack of enthusiasm from young voters could have in a general election said neil shroka a spokesman for democracy for america progressive advocacy group that backs sanders the consistent concern has been that nominating vice president biden would be essentially a repeat of the 2016 election failing to excite young voters in the primary has been a significant red flag for democrats in recent decades shroka said brak obama and bill clinton who were backed by young people went on to win the election while hillary clinton john carrion al gore lacked that enthusiasm and ended up losing voters under 30 made up 19 percent of the electorate in 2016 and in 2012 but hillary clinton's margin of victory with this group was five points lower than obama's according to exit polls the numbers were devastating in swing states that decided the election in 2012 wisconsin voters under 30 backed obama by 23 points in 2016 that group dipped as a share of the electorate and clinton won them by a mere three points in 2012 pennsylvania voters under 30 supported obama by 28 points in 2016 they favored clinton by nine points the biden campaign sees three major differences with clinton's 2016 campaign according to a source familiar with its thinking the first is that trump is president unlike four years ago when many young people were complacent because they assumed he'd lose the second is that biden's 2020 platform is more progressive than clinton's was in 2016 and the third is that biden and sanders like each other personally which will make it easier to coalesce okay so there's quite a bit that i want to say about that um the first that i want to point out is that um not only is this a problem but i see no hope of this problem improving for joe biden because the recommendations that we've seen here from polling experts at least you know andrew baman was one of them that was quoted in this article the things that he recommends aren't going to suffice so he says look if joe biden were to adopt some of sanders policy proposals like anti-corruption measures really go you know full force focused on climate change or if he had a meeting with sunrise maybe that could help um let me just say first hand as a millennial that's not going to help and the three differences that his campaign cites like he admits that this is an issue but the reason why he thinks that he's in a better position than clinton is because well there's a number of factors here trump is president now so that might galvanize the democratic party electorate including young people to come out and vote for him except there's an issue with that line of logic now that donald trump is the incumbent there's no fears about what he could be we know what he could be we've dealt with him for four years so that effect to galvanize voters i think has diminished since 2016 because in 2016 we didn't know what to expect with donald trump would we look like fascist germany or would we see just another george w bush ask republican neo-conservative um xenophobe who you know is fear mongering about immigrants and is dog whistling left and right what is it going to look like now we know what that's going to look like and the problem is that young people know that joe biden isn't going to improve their lives the same conditions that led to donald trump's electoral success will remain present after four years of joe biden so i don't actually think that donald trump is going to be as good of a mobilizer as they're thinking i mean don't bank on this sure it's going to encourage some people to come out but it's not going to be everything now the second thing they say is that joe biden's platform is actually more progressive than hillary clinton's now that's technically true at least when it comes to health care because joe biden is openly supporting a public option hillary clinton wouldn't even admit to supporting a public option or agree to support a public option more specifically so he's to the left of her marginally but the problem is that like hillary clinton voters by and large don't know what his platform is because he doesn't talk about policy it's always orange man bad republicans bad and voters want to come out and will only come out to vote for something not vote against someone and democrats just haven't realized that that's what motivates people it's not you know voting against this evil person it doesn't really matter like you have to give them something something that they know will change their lives a policy that you know you have been fighting for for decades and joe biden just has none of that everything he's fought for has been destructive the crime bill you know wall street relief like he is the quintessential neoliberal corporate democrat so you're not going to convince people because everyone knows that you're a fraud so you know when it comes to the public option even though he's to the left of hillary clinton on that he supported a public option when he ran with obama and they didn't even propose it so the question is why are we supposed to believe that you've changed your mind when the health insurance industry has been betting on you to be successful and to save them from medicare for all like you're in their tank they're raising money for you they're donating to you so why should we believe that you'd even go so far as to even give us a public option we don't and that's a problem now the last thing that they say is that um biden and sanders like each other personally yeah i couldn't care less i think this is a non-factor bernie sanders can say how much joe biden is his friend over and over and over again and it doesn't make me like joe biden more it actually makes me like bernie sanders less literally that doesn't matter voters don't care about friendships in washington dc couldn't care less but that's not to say that there isn't something that joe biden can do an extreme measure he would never consider but something that would theoretically help him win over young voters and he's not gonna like this but if you really want to win you can't win without young voters and kao kalinsky tweeted this out the only way joe biden can earn my vote in the general election is to pick bernie sanders or nina turner for vice president sign the petition for that here if you agree with me now i'll link you to his petition look i'll just say first off joe biden is not going to agree to this i don't think that kao kalinsky think he's gonna think he's going to agree to this he's most likely gonna pick some corporate clown um like stacey abram's friend of mike bloomberg so he's not going to listen uh but if in a hypothetical situation he chose bernie sanders as a vp to me that wouldn't necessarily matter as much because he's still president and bernie wouldn't really i mean maybe he'd influence him to a degree but it doesn't matter but if he picks a nina turner for me i would vote for joe biden in that very statistically unlikely circumstance why because look here's the thing he can say that he supports some of sanders policy proposals but that doesn't matter like i don't even think it's necessary for him to say i you know we'll fight for this policy or that policy that sanders supports it doesn't matter because we don't believe you like all these financial contributions you are taking from every special interest the military industrial complex health insurers big farmer it doesn't matter so we don't believe you so any policy concession that he makes will not be enough however if he were to choose nina turner as vp that would give at least me a reason to vote for him and i don't speak for everyone i'm sure people still wouldn't come out and support him but the reason why i could justify voting for joe biden in that instance is because that gives us a chance at a progressive president in the future if you pick nina turner that sets her up for a presidential run in 2024 2028 and that's good because currently progressives are so down and demoralized because there's no successor to brony sanders who's next i can't think of anyone anyone that wants to run or is eligible to run aoc probably won't run she's not gonna want to do that you know for decades so who's gonna carry the torch we know that you know this movement it can exist without bernie sanders but leadership is really i think one of those things that makes movements it gives them more staying power like occupy i feel would have lasted longer had it had real leadership but it you know it didn't organize in that way they didn't want leadership and they prided themselves on that but i think that you do need a leader to kind of help you know mobilize people and galvanize certain blocks of the electorate and so if we're able to look to nina turner who i think would try to influence joe biden and wouldn't sell out i think that that is one way that he could win over young people one of the only ways now i will say this he may just be unable to win over young people that's a possibility it's probably the most likely scenario because they just don't believe him so young people they have to put up with voter suppression voter id laws they're not going to pay the cost to vote if they don't feel as if there's going to be a high enough reward so you've gotta you've gotta make sure that they feel as if it's worth it to vote for you and nina turner as vp if she would even want to do this because he's a horrible person that would be the only situation that i could honestly see people getting out to vote now i do think that more voters would respond if bernie sanders was vp but if you're giving me the choice i would pick nina turner because bernie's not going to want to run for president after joe biden i don't think he's going to want to run for president again and we need someone in the executive office who's a leader nina turner is young she is the most trusted among progressives nobody else can really carry the torch now i'm going to say that i think that she should run for president in 2024 2028 regardless if she's vp because media propped up a mayor from you know um south bent indiana and told us that he was qualified so you can't say that someone like nina turner who was a state senator isn't qualified because i do think that she is qualified um but would this certainly help with you know the media at least and trying to take her more seriously or at least not downplaying her enough sure so if you pick nina turner as vp that'd give me something to vote for will he do this no i'm not going to say there's a zero percent chance but i'm going to say the chance of him picking nina turner is 0.001 he's going to pick some type of corporate clown like amy clubicharm but if he was serious about winning over young voters this is something he should consider but i don't think he's serious about winning over young voters i think he just doesn't care because he stated before he has no empathy for us he's told us to fuck off he'd veto medicare for all so i think that you know he's just gonna try to win without us it's possible but is it um gonna be a lot harder for him yeah it's gonna be a lot harder for him all right folks we've got some good news um it's not the best news ever but i'll take anything we can get so voters living in 180 different countries who are americans just participated in the democratic party primary and even though there weren't that much delegates to be awarded brenny sanders still won and he won overwhelmingly so as zach montalera of politico reports sanders won 58 of the vote which included just under 40 000 americans living abroad and sanders will be awarded nine delegates to the national convention over the summer according to the release from democrats abroad biden won 23 percent of the vote and will take home four delegates turned out was up 15 percent over 2016 democrats abroad said for the group's largest recorded primary in-person voting took place from march 3rd through march 10th at sites around the world voters could also submit electronic ballots americans living in the united kingdom accounted for the most voters 5 689 with germany canada france and mexico rounding out the top five so there are two things i want to talk about why this is good news and maybe a sign of what's to come and why this might not necessarily matter too much even if it is good news so the first thing is that this is good news because even though the bar was low we were just kind of looking for a sign of life like is there anyone left who's voting in this primary that isn't willing to just suck it up and vote for joe biden are we just gonna coordinate him or are we still going to make our voices heard and voters overwhelmingly said no i support bernie sanders i think that the vision that he is you know um putting forward it's the vision that i agree with the most and i don't care that joe biden is currently the frontrunner i'm going to support bernie sanders and it doesn't matter that beto or rork and kamala harris and uh pete buddha judge and amy klobuchar all fell in line and backed biden i support bernie sanders so this is this is good news but to um put the brakes on the optimism just a little bit um on one hand it's not it may not matter because there aren't that much delegates that are going to be awarded so it's certainly not enough to change the trajectory of this primary bernie gets nine delegates biden gets four right now could it be you know a sign that maybe there's this shift in momentum maybe bernie is gaining that's certainly possible um but i will say that bernie sanders was kind of poised to win democrats abroad because if you are living in the united kingdom germany france you already are experiencing firsthand some of the policies that bernie sanders is proposing right so they have socialized medicine in the uk what bernie sanders is asking for is socialized insurance so it's not even as extreme so of course if you're living in the uk and you have any experience first hand with their national health system you're going to obviously realize that what bernie sanders is proposing is superior to biden's vision of a public option i guess he proposed it before but we didn't get that i mean that's obvious right bernie sanders actually has policies that are not radical because they've been implemented throughout the world but a problem with this is this sample of voters democrats abroad they're likely not representative of democrats living here at home because if you have exposure to these types of social democratic policies then they're less you know they're they're less foreign to you for lack of a better word so you're familiar with them they don't seem extreme so you know people at home they might still kind of just fall in line because momentum is a difficult thing to shift and you know it's going to be that much more tough for us to get a swing in momentum because of covid 19 like bernie sanders is currently doing all of these phenomenal things he's holding almost daily town halls where people can ask questions to him and healthcare professionals or other policy makers he had his entire base raised two million for corona relief efforts i mean he's doing so much but they're ignoring it and they're focusing on corona virus which they should be but when they bring in the political aspect they talk about donald trump or andrew quomo so i mean it's tough to get that that switch to flip so it goes from biden to bernie in terms of momentum but this is good news and whenever there's good news in dark times i think we should grab onto it and hold on to it for as long as we possibly can because we need it right now i'm not saying that this is a sign of things to come but you know does it give me a little bit of hope a little bit not too much but a little bit overall i'm still very cynical very pessimistic because our future is uncertain i don't know what's going to happen we have donald trump who is completely incapable of being a leader and then we have joe biden who's feckless and mostly absent bernie was our chance to really not just change the country but save the world and people in this primary they decided to go for joe biden because the media is very effective at brainwashing people but i don't have to get into that because this is supposed to be a good news video so i'm gonna i'm gonna i'm gonna self censor and we'll just say congratulations bernie for winning this so it's evident that the dnc and the democratic party's biggest loyalists they're you know hacks and media they want to wrap this democratic party primary process up already they don't want to hear what the rest of the voters have to say they just want it to be over with and they want bernie sanders to drop out just last week or maybe the week before i put on a video talking about how democratic party hacks like bakari sellers and you know journalists quote unquote journalists like jennifer rubin won him out of the race but he hasn't left now i don't necessarily know how long he's gonna stay in i personally believe that he should stay in all the way into the convention and i'll make that case in this video but according to washington posts jennon johnson he is weighing out his options currently and he has three options according to his closest confidants according to the washington post one keep his campaign technically active but forego airing attack ads on joe biden two stay in the race and aggressively compete i'm assuming that means airing attack ads against joe biden or three end the campaign drop out call it quits endorse joe biden there's a lot of uncertainty currently not just in the world but in american politics and if there's still time i want to make my pitch he should opt for number two don't drop out don't endorse joe biden don't withhold your criticisms of joe biden bernie sanders shouldn't just choose to you know stay in the race but i'm going to explain why i think it's absolutely necessary for him to stay in the race um first of all is just the easiest um argument democracy what we've seen is a competing vision between bernie sanders and joe biden half the country hasn't voted yet i haven't made my voice heard they're offering two competing world views joe biden is offering the status quo business as usual and bernie sanders is offering an alternative vision you shouldn't deny voters the chance to make their voices heard even if it doesn't necessarily change the outcome if bernie stays in the race we at least need to gauge where the democratic party electorate is at and maybe this you know process isn't going to tell us much but at least you know it's going to give us some indication of where voters are how many democratic party voters at this time think that joe biden is the best person how many think it's bernie sanders like we just need to give people the chance to make their voices heard new york hasn't voted yet my state hasn't voted yet as i stated so we shouldn't deny voters that chance right these are two very very different views of the world and i think they should be allowed to compete now another reason why bernie sanders should stay in the race is because so long as he's an active competitor that forces joe biden to do better and as much as democrats hate that it's good for joe biden joe biden wouldn't feel pressure to you know make these live streams if it weren't for bernie sanders they would his staffers would hide him away until september when it's time to debate donald trump so bernie sanders forces joe biden to be a better candidate i'm not saying that biden is going to adopt the policies that bernie sanders wants but he still has to compete in some way because it's not over yet he could still technically lose right bernie isn't mathematically eliminated so joe biden has to do better by the mere fact that bernie is remaining in the race that's another reason why joe biden supporters even should want bernie to stay in the race and bernie sanders has leverage so long as he stays in the race and forces joe biden to compete on top of that joe biden doesn't have the support of young voters our voices matter if you're a millennial or a zoomer or a gen xer i don't think that you should just be forced to support who you know these people in other states coordinated as the nominee i think that's bullshit joe biden needs to be competitive he has to win our votes so let us make our voices heard in the states where we haven't voted yet on top of that you know um bernie can still use his campaign to mobilize like he's been doing to um help with the covet 19 i think that bernie still has this huge grassroots army that can raise money for various causes and sure that technically won't just dissipate once he's out of the race but it certainly is better to have this cohesive unit this block of the democratic party mobilized and ready to respond to you know various crises that may pop up as a result of coronavirus you know directly and indirectly how it impacts the country and the economy and disadvantaged and marginalized groups so if i'm bernie sanders i'm not going anywhere i am staying in this race i'm using the leverage that i have to make as big of a difference as i possibly can and the biggest reason is that he should hold out because you know things can change this is an unprecedented crisis that we are dealing with now you know my thinking was that if it didn't change after march 17th then it's unlikely to change but that doesn't mean that it's impossible so he should stay in this race just in case it changes joe biden is already proving that he is incapable of being a leader that's why president qualmo was trending because democratic party voters are already a little bit disillusioned with the choice that they made in propping up joe biden so bernie shouldn't go anywhere he should stay in the race let the rest of the country make their voices clear we have two competing visions of america let us vote stay in the race you have nothing to lose and everything to gain by staying in this race and i don't think bernie sanders should drop out no i know that people are going to say that i'm being unrealistic and that you know i'm not willing to see the writing that's on the wall no i know that it's going to be difficult most likely it will be joe biden who's the nominee but is that a foregone conclusion no not necessarily yet and if there's even just a little tiny glimmer of hope i'm going to hang on to that until it's completely gone so stay in the race bernie don't drop out fight to the very end and fight aggressively because even though the democratic party is going to attack you for criticizing joe biden one it's going to make him do better hopefully and two you're not going to win them over by doing what they want they want you to drop out and endorse joe biden and even if you do that they're still not going to like you so since they're not going to like you fuck them stay in compete make joe biden do better force him to be a better candidate and maybe you can win who knows it's unlikely but it's not out of the realm of possibility crazier things have happened in this country joe biden looked all but done after coming in what was it like fifth in new hampshire so things can change this primary has been incredibly volatile just don't leave yet i think that we need you to compete we need you as a leader and being in this race makes you a more visible leader don't don't drop out yet if you're watching this then you probably don't need to be convinced at just how terrible of a human being near attendent is who is the president of the center for american progress but she's also incredibly petty because for being in such a powerful position to where she has access to the entire democratic party establishment and not only access influence she spends like most of her day and i'm going to guess and say like 40 maybe 50 just arguing with bernie sanders supporters on twitter i've gotten into twitter arguments with near attendent and was subsequently blocked she is uh blocking more people by the day she's just she's petty and it's uh it's kind of sad right because you would think that being in a position of great influence and power you'd at least grow up a little bit like i don't even see for all of donald trump's mean tweets like you don't see him responding to everyone in his mentions calling him a fraud so for her i mean she's like hyper aware of all of the criticisms and yet she's not trying to do better instead she's kind of like doubling down and she's just going back and forth and it's it's so immature and i'm not saying that i'm i'm better than that because i've gotten into a lot of twitter arguments myself but i mean like nobody's as bad as her she's such a petty person on top of being just genuinely evil i think but it's funny because finally somebody put her in her place um she as you all know won't stop attacking bernie sanders and she responded to a new york times article saying this we have a virus to deal with and more important issues but for a campaign that was seen as too divisive by democratic voters which led them to look for alternatives that the rationale for defeat is that it wasn't negative enough that's not serious now the speechwriter for the sanders campaign david surota responded with a clap back that um i don't want to use this word to describe it but i'm gonna have to do it even if it's cringe it was epic and i say that because well we'll just read it you run a corporate funded think tank whose legacy is undermining medicare for all in the lead up to a pandemic and your personal claim to fame is reportedly outing a harassment victim busting a union and being affiliated with a campaign that lost to trump maybe sit out a few plays now i am guessing that if he had a little bit more space a little bit more characters he would have included a lot more how they omitted a portion of a report on profiling of muslim americans after mike bloomberg was in it and he donated to the center for american progress like this is a fraudulent organization run by a fraudulent ghoul and there's there's so many negative things to say about near attendant like i think that she is genuinely a bad person like her organization is fighting to prop up war criminals like benjamin netanyahu and they're fighting to stop medicare for all a policy that would save 68 000 lives every single year like i know that people accuse me of being hyperbolic often because i use words like evil to describe politicians but what else do you call this what else do you call that if you are actively stopping good and promoting bad in the world i don't know what else to say to describe you so i just had to share this i thought that david sirota's tweet was phenomenal and i wish that more people would respond to near attendant like this more people in positions of power and influence that is because she gets a pass from the democratic party establishment because a lot of people don't want her wrath because when you have power when you have influence you know you you can say things you can get away with a lot of things that normal people like you and i can't get away with so i'm glad that someone at least was willing to stand up to her because the only way to deal with the bully is to stand up for yourself and this is the only way to deal with her after being criticized for hiding from the public for almost a week when he's very likely going to be the democratic party's nominee joe biden finally decided to show his face on monday and he made up for his absence by going on a media tour on tuesday and it went about as good as you'd expect a joe biden media towards you go and um there's a series of clips that i want to show you that should definitely give people who supported joe biden at least you know a second thought at a minimum but at worst full on buyer's remorse because this man is not capable of leading so first watch this clip where he claims donald trump is soft on xenophobia and he describes him as a yo-yo and now he's being soft on his xenophobia in the past so i just i just can't figure the guy it's like i don't know it's like watching a yo-yo i shouldn't have said it that way it's like watching it feels that way i want to ask you i want it that's okay that silence was painful uh like it's it's physically cringe worthy and my reaction as i watched that was basically the reaction that joe biden had on his face albeit for different reasons now in this same interview he tried to make a point and then he just gave up take a look we have never never never failed to respond to a crisis as a people and i tell you what i'm so darn proud and those poor people who have lost you know anyway mood now in this next clip same interview mind you he kind of gets into a little bit of a disagreement with himself and there's this was back and forth between him and himself um the look on nicole wallace's face is going to forever be etched in my memory we should be we should be making those masks we should be moving on those ventilators we can do that why doesn't he just act like a president that's a stupid way to say you know don't sorry go ahead no no i probably best i don't vote for joe biden they said he's our best shot against donald trump they said like at at a certain point i feel like being incredibly pessimistic and cynical just turns into laughing at the horrible situation that we're all in like we're in the apocalypse and we're all going down like we're we're about to hit an iceberg we're all on the titanic and you know what do you do but laugh and let me just say this to the viewers at home you deserve someone who looks at you the way that nicole wallace looks at joe biden as his brain starts melting on national television now um moving on to a different different interview he went on the view and he made an incredibly sound and cogent point for once about trump's handling of covet 19 and whether or not people should return to work i'm just kidding of course what he said was completely incoherent this is sarah hanes in hot topics we talked about trump saying the government would reassess the recommended period for keeping businesses shut and people at home are you at all concerned as trump said that we cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself we have to take care of the cure that will make the problem worse no matter what we have to take care of the cure that will make the problem worse no matter what i'm sitting here reading this quote back to myself over and over and over again and like i'm the math lady meme where numbers are like flying i'm literally crying i don't know what to say this man very clearly should not be the democratic party's nominee and let me just say i don't know what his staff gave him before that last debate or told him whatever their strategy was whatever the particular substances that they gave to him were i'd like to know so please dm me my dms on twitter are open if you follow me just let me know because i want some of that because i mean he's clearly in cognitive decline and it is genuinely sad like yes this is horrible because he's a bad politician he's a bad person his policies hurt people and won't protect people but at the same time like you can't not feel bad because this is clearly someone who's lost who should be at home spending time with his grandchildren keeping six feet of course but i mean it just he shouldn't be doing this and this is a point that i've made consistently throughout the course of this primary joe biden should not be doing this and it's almost it feels somewhat cruel to have his staffers parade him around when clearly he's not capable of doing this like it's it's sad to watch like i'm laughing not necessarily at joe biden although kind of but i'm laughing more at the situation because it's like we're in the sequel of idiocracy but you know this is this is nonfiction like it's just it's the times that we're living in are so absurd that fiction couldn't even really capture just how strange the times are if we made up some type of alternate political reality about american politics but let me move on because i have one last clip to show you and i think that this one i wanted to say for last because i think this is like a grand finale in a way not necessarily because he messes up but just because the exchange between him and jake tapron cnn was just so cringe worthy um and kind of funny i had to share it sanders is ramping up for the next round of primaries including in the state of new york uh excuse me you know you're supposed to cough into your elbow i don't know sir i learned that actually covering your white house that you know actually actually that's true but fortunately i'm alone in my home but that's okay all right i agree you're right you should just it's just it's kind of old school to do it with your hand do it into the elbow you're supposed to do it um thank you let me let me ask you um given the the coronavirus pandemic do you think the democratic national committee should call off the planned in-person democratic convention this summer no i don't think so i think we ought to be able to conduct our democratic processes as well as deal with this issue but look that decision we made is a state of the nation at the moment um but i don't think it should be called off and i don't think we should call off any elections i just wow and to his point about holding elections the way that he kept repeatedly coughing into his hands is precisely why we shouldn't hold elections unless they are vote by mail we need to do this will it be difficult to set up yes but make it happen we have no choice democracy must go on but voting in person is dangerous because people like that will cough in their hands touch voting machines in danger workers at the poll who are oftentimes elderly like what do you say like i i've worked in retail i've worked in fast food and let me just say people are germ machines and they spread it without even thinking like they cough on their hands swipe their credit card enter in their pin number it's it's disgusting and as someone who is a germaphobe with you know uh obsessive compulsive compulsive disorder um i know firsthand of how dirty people are because i'm very hyper aware of how people kind of just um touch everything touch their face it's just you see germ spreading in real time so the thought of even more people going to the polls during a global pandemic when the cdc and world health organization is definitely saying we have to social distance we have to self quarantine it's uh it's it's frightening right to be real and can i just say that the coronavirus background that cnn has had on for the past week or so it's a little creepy kind of in poor taste um i don't know maybe you know i shouldn't have said that it doesn't matter but like it just it weirded me out in a way so i mean look i i don't know what to say about this we're seeing what was obvious for months joe biden clearly he's not he's not capable of running the country and to put him up against donald trump the likelihood of him beating donald trump i think it's slim you know unless the economy really does tank due to coronavirus like i don't know at this point in time politics is so weird but i mean like even if he's able to beat trump do we really expect him to be an adequate leader do we really expect him to respond to the needs of people no it's going to be his handlers and advisors running the show and it's just the situation is grim that you know i kind of i feel like i have to laugh at it because if i don't then all we have is just you know black pill depression sadness so whatever joy we can take out of this horrible predicament that we're all in i think we should we should take it and run with itself watching all of these cringe worthy joe biden interviews puts a smile on your face don't feel bad about it i'm not because um um sometimes reality is uh stranger than fiction and we are certainly in that time the supposedly pro-life party has been saying a lot of really um troubling things lately for a party that is so concerned with the health and well-being of other human beings because at a white house press briefing donald trump admitted that he's willing to endanger the lives of americans just to make sure we protect the stock market he literally said that and after he made this comment lieutenant governor dan patrick of texas went on fox news in an interview with tucker carlson and basically echoed that same sentiment saying yeah i think we should let old people die to make sure that we protect the profits of private companies now every once in a while donald trump will say something that's bizarre or unhinged he'll get pushed back and then he'll kind of walk back that statement but he's not doing that this time when we really need him to do that when we need him to reconsider desperately so because he doubled down in an interview on uh fox news and he said that not only is he willing to do this to actually send people back to work resume business as usual regardless of people die he's gonna do it really soon how soon by easter which for those of you who don't know is less than three weeks away take a look during our town hall today you threw out a date where you think america can be working again and that's easter sunday that's 19 days from now how did you come up with that well it's 19 days but add another seven because we've been doing this now for seven so that's from the time we heard about it seven and nine from the time well yes so from the time we close it up so you could add seven to nine uh look easter is a very special day for me and i see it's sort of in that timeline that i'm thinking about and i say wouldn't it be great to have all of the churches full you know the churches aren't allowed essentially to have much of a congregation there and most of them i watched on sunday online and he was terrific by the way but order line is never going to be like being there so i think easter sunday and you'll have packed churches all over our country i think it would be a beautiful time and it's just about the timeline that i think is right yes because packed churches is certainly the most beautiful thing that i can think about during a global pandemic like this is absolutely irresponsible borderline psychopathic if not full-on psychopathic behavior people are going to die those packed churches are going to be disease spreading factories where covid is going to fucking spread like what are you doing people who go to church disproportionately are the base of the republican party elderly people so they're more than willing to sacrifice their own base all to protect the gods of capitalism to make sure the stock markets are doing okay to make sure that the gears of the economy just keep turning this is so morally reprehensible like anyone who votes for republican their boomer base acknowledge that they're talking about you you're disposable to them they're willing to sacrifice you to protect profits your life doesn't matter so if you voted republican you've been duped now the good news is there's still time to change it but your votes for republicans may have doomed us all so if we weather this storm right there's a lot more that we have to deal with as a species because of what capitalism has done to our society climate change this probably won't be the last global pandemic that we see um we have to clean up the mess that this party which is basically a death cult has made so stop voting for them now this isn't surprising because we already knew that this is what you know republicans prioritize they put the profits over the health and well-being of people it's always profits over people that's all they care about but what is honestly surprising to me is the fact that they're saying it so explicitly like i expected them to just hint at this i thought republicans would use double speak or maybe accuse us of being hyperbolic when we actually call out their agenda to just let old people die to protect the profits of big business but they're not even trying to hide their agenda in fact they're excitedly vocalizing to the world that they love this idea so many republicans are coming out in droves to say yeah you know what if all people are gonna die i think that's fine so long as we protect the economy which is a thing that we made up as human beings like do you understand like the economy money these things have no value without human beings there to value them do you understand that but they don't care they're willing to kill off their entire base to appease their corporate overlords and i'm sure boomers will still happily vote republican so let me just give you a few examples of what republicans have said in order to really vocalize their support for trump's plan to send everyone back to work and endanger their lives so right wing radio host jesse kelly tweeted out if given the choice between dying and plunging the country i love into a great depression i'd happily die all right well nobody's stopping you but if you actually meant that put your life at risk go bag groceries go ring up people be a cashier swap out your job for a cashier or probably would have a better talk show than you have like actually do something that would make you vulnerable but they can say this and it doesn't mean anything because they're not vulnerable they're protected in their studios i know i can stay home talk into my microphone and it's fine but i worked retail before i know the germs that people spread firsthand they cough into their hands use the credit card machines it's absolutely disgusting and these people who are ringing up groceries healthcare providers they are putting their lives on the line and you're saying it's worth it and you die now you don't mean that you mean that you let the peasants die not yourself we all know if push comes to shove that's what they're talking about now another republican idiot kandace owens decided to chime in uh with a platitude that republicans often use mafreedom she tweeted to the frauds claiming we need to shut down society to protect the elderly world war two generation world war two generation we will die before we give up our freedom this generation we will give up every single one of our freedoms before we risk dying cowardice dressed up as nobility freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction wear your masks give up your rights stay at home but stop hiding behind the generation that gave you all of your freedoms to do it just admit that we are a coddled fearful egocentric generation of weak men i'm sorry that people aren't willing to die for some abstract notion of freedom but forcing people to work just to make sure that we protect the profits of industry that doesn't sound like freedom to me and i'm sorry but this whole notion of freedom if we're going to accept that that's what we're talking about because freedom is irrelevant she brought that into the conversation freedom means nothing without people being alive to partake in said freedom i mean you have to be alive to be able to enjoy freedom or any freedoms if you are dead you cannot enjoy freedom if you are dead you cannot contribute to the economy and she says that we're hiding behind this generation um so republicans are basically saying let's sacrifice the lives of old people more mostly to make sure that there's no recession and when we say no don't kill people you call us cowards but yet you still claim to be pro-life like you have to pick a side either your pro-life or your pro-death the republican party has always been a pro-death party they've been the party of death and destruction they are the party that is absolutely the biggest cheerleaders imaginable for capitalism right so i mean like we're speaking out trying to protect our loved ones right we oftentimes will be angry with boomers for ruining the economy and voting for republicans and corporate democrats but at the end of the day these people are our family members there are grandparents our parents so by us speaking up on their behalf we're not the ones who are cowards you're the fucking coward at kandace ellens and again these people can talk a really big game when they don't have to leave their homes they don't have to actually go to work for a real job they just have big fucking mouths they talk into a microphone and they can say whatever they want without consequences and you know act as if they're you know they'd be noble and would sacrifice their own lives to save the economy when an actuality these cowards are talking about the peasants not themselves now it's funny because glenn beck said the same thing he said i'm willing to sacrifice my own life to save the economy and just watch i'll tell you why this is so idiotic coming from him of all people i want to have a frank conversation with you and and ask you where you stand i i mean i'm in the danger zone uh i'm right at the edge i'm 56 in italy they're saying if you're sick and you're 60 don't even come in so i'm in the danger zone i would rather have my children stay home and all of us who are over 50 go in and keep this economy going and working even if we all get sick i'd rather die than kill the country because it's not the economy that's dying it's the country you know the happy music just doesn't really seem appropriate for the morbid borderline genocidal conversation that he's having but the reason why this isn't necessarily applicable to someone like glenn beck is because one he's rich so he's going to have access to the best healthcare in the world uh then money can buy and two because he works in a studio like if you're not going to work with the public if you're not putting your life on the line shut the fuck up you can't talk about i'm willing to die for this country if you talk into a goddamn microphone and this is why i find these right-wing radio hosts so insufferable like they've never had a real job these are the real coddled pricks and their parents probably went to ivy league schools you know bought them an education they never had to work in retail they never had to have a real fucking job so it's so easy for them to say you know i think old people should die i'm old but you're not going to be affected it's going to be the peasants and you're an elite so shut up but i mean glenn beck isn't the only one because tom fitton of a judicial watch said the same thing sorry if it comes down to the economy and uh killing old people we're going to opt for killing old people i appreciate the efforts of the public health officials uh but you know dr fouchie for instance was saying it could be several more weeks before we get the country open again that can't that can't that simply can't be allowed to happen we've got to get the country moving again it's the only way to rescue the economy and frankly when it comes to the long-term public health of the nation a strong economy is the best way to protect it and it doesn't mean you can't take significant steps and continue significant restrictions to secure the public health whether it be at the border or internally but we've just got to get people moving back to work back to school in a regular organized way while taking to account the public health risk because i don't want the cure to kill the patient which is what i'm concerned about he doesn't want the cure to kill the patient because that's somehow worse than the disease killing the patient these people are so stupid so painfully fucking stupid but you know i honestly i shouldn't call them stupid because i think they know what they're doing they're smart smart enough to know what they're doing they're trying to rile up their right wing base and get them to accept what their party is about to make them do send them to work endanger their own lives and basically die to protect wall street so if you buy into this against your own self-interest very explicitly they're not hiding it i don't know what to say you're just stupid if you vote republican after them explicitly saying we don't care if you die you're just fucking stupid i don't know what to say i don't know what to say if a party told me that i was loyal to that they don't care if i live or die then i would stop supporting that party maybe you should do maybe you should rethink your vote for republicans after they're now telling you very explicitly that your lives don't matter and uh think about this think about how easily they're willing to just throw their base under a bus to protect the profits of private corporations and they're gonna do this right because we're not talking about this we're not having this conversation in week 13 or week 14 of quarantine it's week two week two and we're already talking about this so brace for impact prepare for disaster because they're gonna do the unthinkable they're going to send people back to work resume business as usual and if more than a million people die estimates say two million fuck it there's money to be made so that's what we're going to do now some of them some republicans are already resuming business as usual for example jerry fallwell jr is reopening liberty university this week and ordering all faculty members back to work how many of them are immuno compromised how many of them are elderly i mean what a pro life move to make like these people are the biggest frauds ever they are pro life only in so far as they're able to weaponize the pro life issue to help them win elections to then fuck you over economically now i want to share some responses that i thought were just perfect for this brie newson base had the best response i think she said everyone arguing that one to two percent of the population dying isn't a big deal needs to identify one or two close family members or friends that they are willing to offer up to death in this moment for capitalism name them say their names out loud and speak it into the universe with the same ease you condemn others to death that is exactly it kandis owens if you think that old people should die are you willing to sacrifice your grandmother or your mother to capitalism glenn beck are you actually willing to die for capitalism to protect the prophets of wall street you're gonna go volunteer for a homeless shelter you're gonna go bag groceries you're gonna name anyone in your family who you think is worth killing to protect the economy like this is what we should force them to do because we all know they're not talking about their loved ones they're talking about our loved ones the individuals who are disposable just cogs in the machine who bag our groceries you know who box the things that we buy from amazon that's who they're talking about they're not talking about themselves they're not talking about elites they're not talking about oligarchs they're not talking about the ruling class they're talking about you and your loved ones your grandma now i want to share a tweet also from natalie shore who provides us with some much needed perspective she writes if you're rightfully irate that republicans are now openly asserting that they'll trade lives for points on the dow please know that this moment represents a difference of degree but not kind and that this exact calculus is baked into the very structure of capitalism perfectly put perfectly put this is the result of capitalism we're in late stage capitalism where we've stripped away all of the regulations and now we've unleashed the beast and you know capitalism is like a bull in a china shop it's just wreaking havoc and we're just sitting by and watching it destroy everything and even if it literally starts killing people at a higher rate to where people know what's the cause of their death oh well we've already unleashed the beast you know there's no putting the cat back in the bag we've opened pandora's box and now we just have to wait until it destroys us and hope that we can somehow restart society after this apocalypse i mean the situation is so grim and you know let me just say this to the democratic party frauds who are trying to capitalize on this i think it's smart but for example joe biden tweeted out that we shouldn't sacrifice people's lives just to make money or help the stock market but this is an individual who said he would veto medicare for all as president which is a policy that saves 68 000 lives per year this is an estimate that comes from yale university not mike from the humanist report but yale in a peer reviewed study so i mean nobody in this system will have your back he's doing this because he has donors in the healthcare industry republicans have donors on wall street and that's why they're willing to push everyone out push them all back to work to make sure that you get the economy running for them so they can continue to live like kings and queens while you die to make sure that you know the wheels keep turning well i say to hell with that you should reject that it's time for a general strike if the government isn't going to stop the economy send people home then it's on us to shut this motherfucker down call for a general strike shut everything down because if government is going to tell us that we're so useless we mean so little that we should die to save wall street and big business we have to stand up for ourselves you have to acknowledge that your life has value your life has meaning and no you shouldn't endanger yourself to protect your employer or your landlord or the republican party or wall street your life has value and i know that capitalism has kind of brainwashed all of us to get us to think that the most important thing is profits but your life has value it's time to deprogram get out of that cult that is capitalism and have a general strike and take matters into our own hands politico put together a really interesting graphic where they actually go through and they map which people which worker specifically are the most at risk for contracting covid 19 now as you probably suspected it is the lowest wage earners in america so this is a group of about 24 million workers this includes cashiers nursing assistants paramedics and they usually make less than $35,000 per year so the people who are the most vulnerable are the least well off which makes for an absolutely disastrous predicament because if you catch covid 19 there will be medical expenses there's a story that just came out where one survivor of covid 19 was billed $35,000 in total that's an estimate and i'm paraphrasing the story but it's it's a really bad predicament so what they do here on this graph is they map it out so as you can see vertically this is the salary and horizontally they have the amount of contact and people in the 50 to 100 range of contact they are moderately at risk and the most high at risk now obviously you know the one that stands out are registered nurses you know physical proximity scale is 94 so they are getting a lot of physical contact almost three million individuals in this country are registered nurses and they make $70,000 per year that's better than a lot of people but certainly nowhere near enough given the risk that this job poses to their health now one that is um towards the low end but they're still high at risk are heavy and tractor trailer truck drivers they're at 42 on the physical proximity scale now what i found um not surprising are these areas low wage jobs a retail sales person they're fairly high on the physical proximity scale at 69 and we have 4.4 million people in this industry and they're getting $24,000 per year barely over two grand a month and they are putting their lives at risk cash years 75 on the physical proximity scale 3.6 million people here and they're getting $22,000 per year less than 2000 per month to put their lives on the line elementary school teachers thankfully schools are shut in some states in my state of Oregon they're shut until the end of April but 79 on the physical proximity scale and they get $59,000 per year uh personal care aids there are multiple people in my family in this industry physical proximity scale 86 so people who aren't making that much money if they end up contracting COVID-19 then they're going to be worse off if they're able to survive it they will be burdened with debt if they don't have insurance or maybe they have insurance but it's not great insurance it doesn't cover everything so the fact that we have to worry about this and not just worry about you know trying to protect ourselves you know we have to worry about the aftermath with regard to bills and health care it makes this type of crisis that much worse now let's look at some of these other categories here so we have nursing assistants 28,000 per year 91 on the physical proximity scale first line supervisors of food preparation very high proximity 95 on the physical proximity scale highly at risk hairdressers hair stylists cosmetologists these are people who are in close contact there are barbers you know cutting our hair make 24,000 a year and look at how at risk they are this is really it's crazy waiters and waitresses 78 on the physical proximity scale cooks 81 on the physical proximity scale social and human service assistants are in contact with the public often 79 on the physical proximity scale bus drivers school or a special client 84 medical assistants obviously high risk not much money 33,000 per year like this is this is insane uh let's see here emergency medical technicians and paramedics 97 very high risk they make 34,000 a year that's just insane dental assistants 99 on the physical proximity scale and they make 38,000 per year and my niece just became a dental hygienist she finished school got a job ready to start life got engaged got laid off just this week has to postpone the wedding worried about now not being able to pay rent like I don't know what to tell young people you know my generation millennials we graduated into the great recession and that was bad but now zoomers are graduating into another recession possibly a depression and a global pandemic like it keeps getting worse and worse for each successive generation so let's look at the um higher income level here so general and operations managers you know they're mid range here when it comes to physical proximity so management probably gonna be better off certainly more so than their workers um we have computer systems analysts by the way I will put this link into the description box so you can look at it I think it's fascinating um the lowest risk are artists physical proximity scale uh they're out of nine so artists you know people who stay home um they're better off podcast hosts you know people on youtube if they do this full time you know we're better off um so we have to find other ways to help others you know who aren't engineering teachers post-secondary let's see administrative uh services managers everyone in management and upper management is like up here and they're better off generally speaking first line supervisors kinics my dad was a mechanic always in contact with people um teachers high risk um supervisors police and detectives high risk veterinarians at high risk physical therapists high risk I mean yeah that's the highest risk imaginable because you're touching people like you're close you know you're you're in their face um veterinarians uh you know even though animals can't contract COVID like dogs pets you're in these small rooms as they check out your pet but what's interesting is I had to take my dog to the vet and we just waited in our car they came out got him took them in came out with the bill I gave him my card went back in self quarantine it worked out great so um I'm glad that businesses are you know finding ways to keep social distancing and you know safely conduct business because they shouldn't put their lives at risk we have janitors maids kind of mid range there on the uh on the scale and they don't make very much money like what you kind of see here is that there's a cluster that's in the low earning area and uh the highest risk right so in the uh right bottom quadrant if we imagine like this is where you don't want to be and it looks like the most people are here the highest risk you know food prep workers cashiers so I'm not I'm not you know talking about this to scare you if you are in retail or cashier a lot of people I know are cashiers because I came from retail and fast food but let me just say that your life and well-being is more important than your job and the economy just know that know your individual self-worth and if you are choosing to go to work because you really feel like you don't have a choice please take precautions to protect yourself try to practice good sanitation habits absolutely do not touch your face as you grab or bag people's groceries um if people cough don't feel ashamed to like step away from them because you have to protect yourself you are at a high-risk job now in a global pandemic and a lot of people just they disregard these types of low-age workers they don't think they should make a living wage they don't think that they're worth anything they think this is unskilled labor because anyone can do it well no not everyone can do it and a lot of people are unwilling to do it but a lot of people they do it because they don't have a choice and so we have to make it known that their lives are valuable okay the people bagging groceries are needed for society to function right the retail workers the fast food employees like they are important to our economy so it's about time we start treating them with the respect that they deserve um so yeah I'll link to this down below and um you can take a look I've stared at this now for a while it's it's fascinating there's a lot to this graphic but um yeah low risk low wage workers at the highest risk and that's um it's not surprising but still very terrifying while Joe Biden is on tv comparing Donald Trump to a yo-yo and literally arguing with himself Bernie Sanders is actually proposing real solutions that would help people make it out of this global pandemic and the reason why Bernie Sanders is able to speak so clearly to the needs of working americans is because he has already demonstrated that he is knowledgeable of what normal americans are experiencing so he knows and can predict the depths of this crisis he knows how bad it could get if we don't take action and not just any action very precise action to protect the working class so in an interview with Chris Hayes on MSNBC he demonstrated why out of a time when we really need a leader Bernie Sanders is the leader we've all been looking for listen to the way he just eloquently and beautifully explains how we have to make sure we look out for working people and you know this crisis shouldn't have just made us aware of you know the needs of working class people you know the fact that it got to this point to where people are living paycheck to paycheck and are now missing paychecks it's not just a crisis that's created by the global pandemic this is a crisis that we kind of brought on by ourselves with our absolutely ruthless and brutal economic system known as capitalism take a look we face at this moment in terms of the pandemic in terms of the economic meltdown the most serious set of crises that have been faced in this country perhaps for 100 years and our job right now is to think big is to act in an unprecedented way both in terms of health care and in terms of the economy and it is going to cost a lot of money but not spending that money now will make a bad situation even worse because as you know there are some people out there are talking about by the end of June unemployment being 20 25 30 percent so right now our focus has got to be in my view to make sure that all workers in this country are kept whole they continue to get their paycheck to make certain that in addition to that people get a check of two thousand dollars a month to make certain right now that we move in an unbelievably aggressive way to make sure that our health care providers our doctors and our nurses are not dying on the job trying to protect us and that means that trump has got to enforce in a vigorous way the defense production act to make sure that companies now are not producing t-shirts and underwear that is not our major need at the moment masks gowns gloves are the need and companies have got to do that some are already voluntarily doing it they need to be compensated well but they got to transform their production capabilities to deal with the crises that we face right now the other thing i think chris you know is that while congress and they're going to be people up all night right now working on this two trillion dollar bill people are working really hard they understand the extent of the tragedy we also have to take a deep breath and ask how we got to be in a country where so many people are in financial despair right now what i worry about is that at time when half of our people live in paycheck to paycheck those paychecks are stopping there are people out there watching this program was saying i can't feed my kids tomorrow how did we get there how do we have a health care system which was so unprepared among many other things for this epidemic so contrast that interview that you just saw with any interview that joe biden has done in the last week he did three or four today what you hear from bernie sanders is clarity and leadership he is very quick to speak precisely to the needs of the american people he says donald trump needs to utilize the defense production act we're hearing a lot about this but he goes further he explains exactly what it can do and why it's necessary you know we don't need come companies producing t-shirts and underwear as he put it we need them making equipment that can assist health care workers because guess what if we don't have the necessary equipment to protect people with covet 19 to protect the health care workers who are making sure that those people stay alive then this crisis is going to get a lot worse really fast and speaking to the financial need of people what we need is obvious two thousand dollars per month to people throughout the duration of this crisis i think it should be permanent after that one thousand at least but that's something that will help on top of that we have to make sure that we suspend rent we suspend mortgages we don't allow people to go further into debt suspend student loan payments freeze all of that like if we're not talking about cancellation at a bare minimum everyone in government should be talking about freezes but the fact that only bernie sanders and a handful of lawmakers are talking about this it's kind of insane it shows you how out of touch they are but bernie sanders said something here that really should scare every single out of touch elite this isn't surprising to you or me but the out of touch elites in dc the pundits the politicians they really need to heed his warning he said at a time when half-hour people are living paycheck to paycheck those paychecks are stopping i don't think people really get that i don't think they grasp the gravity of the situation people in government that is they don't get it like you can you know fuck people over you can leave them out to dry for decades but at the end of the day so long as there's no more distractions there's no more need for them to continue you know being a cog in the machine because they're losing everything that's when shit gets real for lack of a better word that's when social order starts you know going into chaos right people they behave they go to work they come home and they distract themselves with video games and netflix but when you take away their livelihoods and they feel as if they have nothing left to lose that's when people really start taking to the streets that's when we see a general strike so lawmakers who aren't taking this seriously they do it at their own peril because if workers have nothing left and you're not willing to stop them from losing what little they have do you honestly think that capitalism is going to be able to survive no the system will implode in on itself and this is what anti-capitalists like myself have been warning people about capitalism if you don't at least try to rein it in it's difficult but if you don't try it eventually becomes so big to where it enters late stage capitalism and now end stage capitalism and it starts to literally eat itself where it takes away everything from workers because that need to you know increase profits is so strong that oh wait we've taken all the money from the peasants and now they have nothing and they can't buy the products and the services that we're producing what do we do and it's reaching that point COVID-19 this global pandemic could accelerate that process and with the way that you know government is dragging its feet we had a lot of talk about universal basic income temporarily but democrats were talking about means testing it and now republicans don't really want to do anything for workers at least what they're proposing isn't sufficient but you know if democrats go along with this then they're also bailing out large industries private companies you know corporate welfare and there's no stipulations no assurances at all that that money isn't just going to go into stock buybacks and you know we need it to help workers so the situation is grim and lawmakers I don't think that they fully grasp what's about to happen how society will devolve into chaos if they don't actually take this seriously both from a healthcare standpoint and economically but Bernie Sanders gets it and look there's still a chance he can still be the president he can still be the nominee so half the country in the democratic primary they still haven't voted yet I haven't voted New Yorkers haven't voted yet it's not too late we could have a real leader we could have a real leader and it's tough Bernie's gonna struggle to get headlines during a global pandemic it's difficult to you know organize when you can't knock on doors but there's still a chance for us to turn this entire thing around save the country and save the planet if Bernie's president but anything short of that I just don't think we have a chance and even if he does become president that doesn't mean that our path forward is easier it's going to get tougher regardless our trajectory that we're on you know our prospects are relatively grim so we just need someone who's willing to fight that's it and we can still we can still have that with Bernie Sanders so whatever you do convince convince people in your family um digitally don't see them in person because they're social distancing convince them that they have to vote for Bernie Sanders if they actually want to change the country for the better because he cares he cares about the people and this is self-sacrifice he's not running for self-serving reasons I mean if he were wanting to be president he probably would have ran when he were when he was younger but I mean he's running because he cares help him help you vote for Bernie Sanders if you haven't already we still have a chance so there was a little bit of rumbling last week and at the beginning of this week that Bernie Sanders was considering the possibility of dropping out but thankfully it appears that that's not going to be the case because the New York Times released an article where according to his campaign his closest confidants he's going to stay in the race he's going to compete and if there is in fact another debate in April he's going to show up and he's going to fight for the nomination and I think that that really is important because this is an unprecedented time before this crisis happened the nomination was an entirely different race and now that it happened and we're kind of all experiencing this together we need to hear different ideas we need to hear different approaches so I think it is important that Bernie Sanders stays in allow the rest of the country to make their voices heard and you know there's some logistics to figure out how do we institute vote by mail in time for these primaries will they be postponed there's a lot to figure out but Bernie should stay in and if you haven't seen it check out my video I will provide you with some reasons in that video as to why I think you should stay in but um Joe Biden was asked whether or not he'd be willing to debate Bernie Sanders and quite frankly he says no secondly Bernie Sanders campaign has said that he would debate if there was a debate in April do you think there should be another debate in April and would you participate my focus is just dealing with this crisis right now I haven't thought about any more debates I think we've had enough debates I think we should get on with this but um so he's focusing on coronavirus what exactly are you doing because you went MIA for almost a week after winning three states on March 17th and now you're too busy to participate in a two-hour debate three maximum but most likely two-hour debate like what are you doing you're not doing shit Joe Biden you're not doing shit and he knows damn well that in the events he debates Bernie Sanders that is you know going to be another possibility for him to face plant potentially look like a fool and lose momentum now if you look at public opinion polls there hasn't been much lately but national polling suggests that Joe Biden is starting to lose momentum Bernie is starting to gain momentum now the problem is that the rate to which Bernie's gaining momentum it's very slow so Biden knows you know he doesn't have this wrapped up yet Bernie Sanders isn't mathematically eliminated so if he debates Bernie Sanders and it goes horribly wrong it goes any way that you know his last interviews went it could be bad for him it could be enough to change the dynamic of the race now I don't necessarily believe that any debate with Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders could be as catastrophic for Joe Biden as that Mike Bloomberg debate was because like that was a different time in America even though that was like a month away now everyone is glued to their televisions looking for information on COVID-19 mainstream media isn't going to talk about the Democratic Party primary they're going to pretend as if it's over so it's going to be harder to get everyone's attention but still you know even if nothing it changes when we see this debate and Biden has another solid performance you still have to do it because this primary isn't over and since the last debate and last couple of debates things in this country and the world have changed dramatically so of course you have to you know show people that you're still you know you're in tune to what they're dealing with and if anything Joe Biden needs more practice before going up against Donald Trump in September if he is the nominee so I mean this is just going to help you but I mean we all know Joe Biden is scared his team wants to hide him away and I'll admit I think that's a good strategy if I were working for Joe Biden I never would but if I were I would hide him away as much as possible from the public because the more he's out the more visible he is of course you know the more chance that people will see him face plan or make a gap or say something stupid um but I mean he wanted to be president so this is uh what you have to do now Bernie was asked about this in an interview with CNN Anderson Cooper asked him what he thought about Joe Biden's you know disregard of the possibility of a debate and Bernie Sanders I think made a really strong case for another debate Vice President Biden was asked about whether there should be another debate in in April he essentially said you know uh that the time is done for for that um I'm wondering what you made of his response well I you know I don't agree with him I mean I think that what is happening right now obviously it's a very strange moment for any campaign and that is state after state I think Pennsylvania yesterday or today is delaying their elections Kentucky has delayed their elections in New York state considering delaying their elections so we've got a strange moment but I think you know one of the things that I think the people want is especially in this unprecedented crisis in modern American history is to hear the ideas of candidates as to how we got into this disaster why do we have such a dysfunctional health care system why do we have an economy in which half of our people living paycheck to paycheck scared to death tonight that if their paycheck ceases uh how they're going to feed their kids and take and pay the rent so I think we need a good debate as to where we go not only just now but in the future and to my mind if there's anything that this unprecedented moment in American history should teach us we got to rethink the basic structures of American society and that is guarantee health care all is a human right create an economy that provides for all people not just the wealthy yeah I agree with Bernie Sanders things have changed substantially just within the span of a couple of weeks our lives are incredibly different now so you have to give people the option to maybe go in a different direction and you know it's not like it's a foregone conclusion that a debate is going to fundamentally reshape the dynamics of this race a lot of people have just moved on the media certainly has moved on but you have to have this debate you have two competitors one of them is the frontrunner but the other is not mathematically eliminated so just you agree to 12 debates Joe Biden agreed to 12 debates so to not at least meet the bare minimum and just suck it up for two hours and have another debate I mean come on for Bernie Sanders though he has everything to gain nothing to lose Joe Biden has everything to lose and nothing to gain but it's probably not even that serious so the fact that he doesn't want to debate Bernie Sanders it shows what a coward he is look if you can't debate Bernie Sanders someone who's willing to be really nice to you then you can't take on Donald Trump and I think that he realizes that people are losing confidence in him his six-day MIA right his media tours his gaffes the fact that he hasn't been a leader during this COVID-19 crisis people are losing confidence in him and so there's a lot of pressure in these debates if he doesn't perform well Democrats may lose even more faith in him so he knows that there's a lot at stake but regardless you agree to 12 at least do 12 that's the bare minimum it's the right thing to do it's the democratic thing to do and people deserve to see another debate we've had one one-on-one debate with Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden let's at least have one more before you try to wrap this thing up and democratic party elites try to wrap this thing up so currently Joe Biden is vetting several women to possibly be VP and you know there is different criteria that I'm assuming he's using but one specific thing he's really looking for is someone who is prepared to lead the country should he not be able to be president now this is according to a report by Mariana Sotomayor and Tim Stello of NBC News and some people on the left are kind of thinking does this mean like is he kind of signaling that he doesn't think he'll be able to serve a full term I don't necessarily think that that's the case I think that he may just be choosing someone who he thinks can take over in the event he chooses not to pursue a second term if he's elected president but nonetheless let's hear him out so democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden said Sunday that he has talked with former president Barack Obama about a potential vice presidential pick speaking to over 70 Georgia donors on a fundraising call Biden said he and Obama recently agreed that his vice presidential nominee must have the political experience to step in as president if he were unable to serve the most important thing and I've actually talked to Brock about this the most important thing is that there has to be someone who the day after they're picked is prepared to be president of the United States of America if something happened Biden said they have to be prepared Biden said once I pick someone God willing if I'm the nominee that there's not going to be any snafu Biden has said repeatedly that he would prefer to pick a woman as his vice president but he disclosed only recently that he is taking his age he is 77 into consideration as he makes his choice I have to pick someone if God forbid tomorrow if I contracted what my son had or something like that that the person is ready on day one to be president of the United States Biden said in February at a CNN town hall in Manchester New Hampshire so look I will admit that I think that people are probably reading a little bit too much into this anytime you are trying to figure out who should be your vice presidential pick you do have to take that into consideration if something catastrophic happens and you die that person has to be ready to assume the role as president and you know as we saw back in 2008 especially if you're older you can really make a choice that just ruined your chances like John McCain chose Sarah Palin and now the Republican Party is perfectly you know comfortable with that type of politician since we have Donald Trump a lot of people view that as you know hurting his chances if he died you know while he was in office Sarah Palin would become president and she is an imbecile right so I think that Joe Biden knows he has to pick someone that's competent but without being said given the state of his cognitive functions you know is there a possibility that he's choosing someone to lead should he not be able to even complete a term I mean sure it's it's entirely possible but what I kind of think when I see this is one sure you have to be responsible and pick someone who's ready but two I don't think he wants to run for a second term if he's elected president I don't even think he really wants to be president I think that he thought this would be easy you know he wouldn't have to fight hard for it he just runs and is president he's always running president so why not I don't think he actually wants to do this I don't think he's up to the task so if he's elected he is choosing someone who he thinks will be his successor in the same way that he was Obama's successor he's choosing someone to basically carry on his legacy whatever that may be and that's kind of what I am looking at which is why I think that having Joe Biden be the Democratic Party nominee is really harmful to the progressive movement because if he is the president sure that's preferable to Donald Trump getting another four years given how close you know he is to replacing another seat on the Supreme Court then whoever Joe Biden's nominee is does have a really good chance of becoming the next nominee because name recognition is incredibly important so let's say he picks some corporate tool like Stacey Abrams well automatically she is well positioned to run in 2024 2028 and that sucks because she has a good shot of winning in that instance if she was a former vice president and she's a terrible candidate she's not a good candidate she's a corporate sellout she's friends with Mike Bloomberg of all people so you know who he picks is going to influence the Democratic Party and their trajectory for the coming years if not decades so that is what you know I think he's looking at you know who is going to carry on this pro-corporate legacy you know because we've heard there are various reports that Bill Clinton told Tom Perez to not let Bernie Sanders take over the Democratic Party we know that the elites the leaders in the Democratic Party Barack Obama stepped in to make sure that Keith Ellison couldn't be the DNC chair so that way Tom Perez would when he made calls on his behalf so the party doesn't want to relinquish control to the progressive wing of the party they don't want to do that so I think that this is also what Biden is considering but sure I do think there's a possibility that you know maybe he is worried about his own health maybe he is worried that you know cognitively he may not be able to handle being president um but I think that mostly what this is about is someone who he believes can carry on his legacy once he chooses to step down and not seek a second term because I really can't imagine a situation to where he's elected president and he is looking for a second term I mean with Bernie if he were president sure you can expect him to seek a second term because you know he's currently sharp you know he he's quick on his toes he's doing okay but with Joe Biden I mean we all see that it's obvious he clearly should not be doing this it almost feels really cruel to have him run for president and to have his staffers you know push him so hard because it's like he should be spending time with his grandchildren and retiring so you know I don't know what this means certainly you know all we can do is speculate but Joe Biden kind of put his foot in his mouth by using specific words like you know if there's any snafu I mean that's not really doing anything to assure people that you know you're you're confident in your own ability and more importantly healthy because you know age is not the most important thing ever but you know you you have to give us confidence and with statements like this he's not really giving people confidence so to people reading you know I think a little bit too much into what I don't necessarily blame them because this does seem like he's not really confident that he's going to be able to serve you know a full term even if I don't necessarily think that that's what he's implying but I mean he just he can't not say a thing that makes us feel uneasy about him being the nominee so I mean look it's not too late you can still vote for Bernie Sanders someone who clearly will be capable of serving at least four years so um vote for Bernie because Joe Biden would be a disaster and you know even if he's just in there for four years whoever his VP will be will probably be terrible and continue this corporate neoliberal legacy that of the Democratic party and the one that the trajectory that they're on currently and that is something that we just can't afford to do any longer so as many of you know several women came forward last year with allegations against Joe Biden and these allegations claim that he touched them inappropriately now the things that these women individuals like Lucy Flores alleged were that he you know without their consent smelled their hair kissed their heads you know things of that nature um and he apologized and then the media after defending him moved on however now we are learning about an allegation from a woman named Tara Reid that is very serious this is the most serious allegation that has been alleged about Joe Biden and she reportedly tried to come forward at the time when other women were coming forward although she was discouraged after being attacked and defamed and she reached out to an organization called Times Up which is supposed to help me too victims and she was denied because they claim that since they are a nonprofit they can't help her against someone who's running for federal office which is really a dubious claim to make legally speaking but the story goes a little bit deeper and Ryan Grimm released an article in the Intercept that explains that there's a conflict of interest that prevented them from helping her out but before we get to that I actually want to go over her claims because these haven't been independently vetted yet Ryan Grimm didn't really talk about these claims in his article he talks more so about the aspects of Times Up not wanting to assist her but she did appear on Katie Halper's podcast and she described what Joe Biden allegedly did to her and this is very serious now I can't provide you with the evidence I can't independently verify the claims that she's making myself so all we have right now are her story her words her story and we have not heard at the time I'm recording this from Joe Biden or his team yet but I do think that she deserves to be heard and I think that this is important it goes beyond politics this is about making sure that people in power men in power specifically can't use their positions of power to get their subordinates to do things that are inappropriate that they don't feel comfortable doing so I'm going to play a little clip this is about two minutes long from her interview with Katie Halper you can find this full video here on Katie's Twitter but she hasn't released the full interview as of yet when that does come out I'll link to it down below but here's a quick overview of what she claims Biden did to her back in the 90s when she worked for him he just said hey come here Tara and then I handed him the thing and he greeted me he remembered my name and then it we were alone and it was the strangest thing there was no like exchange really he just had me up against the wall and I was wearing like a skirt and you know a business skirt but I wasn't wearing stockings it was kind of a hot day that day and I was wearing heels and I remember my legs had been hurting from the marble you know of the capital like walking and I so I remember that kind of stuff I remember like I was wearing a blouse and he just had me up against the wall and the wall was cold and I remember he it happened all at once the gym bag I don't know where it went I handed it to him was gone and then his hands were on me and underneath my clothes and um yeah and then he went oh he went down my skirt but then up inside it and he penetrated me with his fingers and um I uh he was kissing me at the same time and he was saying something to me he said several things and I can't remember everything he said I remember a couple of things I remember him saying first before like as he was doing it do you want to go somewhere else and then him saying to me when I pulled away he um got finished doing what he was doing and I how he was pulled back and he said he said come on man I heard you liked me and it's that phrase stayed with me because I kept thinking what I might have said and I can't remember exactly if he said I thought or if I heard but it's like he implied like that I had done this like I don't know and for me it was like everything shattered in that moment because I knew like we were alone it was over right he wasn't trying to do anything more but it's I looked up to him he was like my father's age he was this champion of women's rights in my eyes and I couldn't believe it was happening it didn't see it seems surreal so as you heard from the details of this these are very serious allegations you know the inappropriate touching was one thing but what she is describing here is full-on sexual assault so what I think needs to happen is the FBI needs to investigate this if Joe Biden you know wanted to be responsible he would call for an FBI investigation but um yeah this is uh this is very disturbing now she went on to talk about how he pointed at her he put his finger in her face or something like that and said you're nothing to me because he was offended that she rejected his advance it's it's really really troubling now I do want to get to Ryan Grimm's piece here this isn't the full story but I'll link to that also down below what he describes here is also really disturbing because it shows that you know conflicts of interests exist in politics and even though organizations do good at the end of the day you know politics is politics and people in power are going to have a lot of their little uh minions look out for them so Ryan Grimm writes last April Tara Reid watched as a familiar conversation around her former boss Joe Biden and his relationship with personal space unfolded on the national stage Nevada politician Lucy Flores alleged that Biden had inappropriately sniffed her hair and kissed the back of her head as she waited to go on stage at a rally in 2014 Biden in a statement in response said that not once in his career did he believe that he had acted inappropriately but Flores's allegations sounded accurate to Reid she said because Reid had experienced something very similar as a staffer in Biden's Senate office years earlier after she saw an episode of the ABC show the view in which most of the panelists stood up for Biden and attacked Flores as politically motivated Reid decided that she had no choice but to come forward and support Flores she gave an interview to a local reporter describing several instances in which Biden had behaved similarly toward her inappropriately touching her during her early 90s tenure in his Senate office in that first interview she decided to tell a piece of the story she said that matched what had happened to Flores plus she had filed a contemporaneous complaint and there were witnesses so she considered the allegation bulletproof the short article brought a wave of attention on her along with accusations that she was doing the bidding of Russian president Vladimir Putin so Reid went quiet as the campaign went on Reid who first supported senator Elizabeth Warren and then senator Bernie Sanders began to reconsider staying silent she thought about the world she wanted her daughter to live in and decided that she wanted to continue telling her story and push back against what she saw as online defamation to get legal help and manage what she knew from her first go round would be serious backlash she reached out to the organization Times Up established in the wake of the Me Too movement to help survivors tell their stories by February she learned from a new conversation with Times Up which also involved director Sharon Tejani that no assistance could be provided because the person she was accusing Biden was a candidate for federal office and assisting a case against him could jeopardize the organization's non-profit status the public relations firm that works on behalf of the Times Up legal defense fund is skd nickerbocker who's managing director Anita Dunn is the top advisor to Biden's presidential campaign a spokesperson for Biden declined to comment the skdk spokesperson assigned to Times Up referred questions back to the national women's law center so you know it's it's absurd to think that they will lose their non-profit status because first of all the whole point of the Me Too movement is to communicate to people in positions of power that they are not protected from these types of allegations Harvey Weinstein you know politicians so if you're saying that your goal is to protect women but you can't touch anyone who's a politician who's running for office what's the point now of course this is nonsensical lawyers who Ryan Grim consulted with said no that what they're saying is a stretch it doesn't really make sense what I think makes sense is that Anita Dunn she is working with Biden's campaign and um they didn't want to pursue this because they knew that it could potentially hurt him politically and Tara as far as I know is a credible person her allegation is very serious and I understand her reasoning as to why she didn't want to come out first of all she initially supported Elizabeth Warren and then moved on to Bernie Sanders so by supporting Biden's opponents his biggest opponents she didn't want this to seem politically motivated on top of this she didn't want to single-handedly hurt Joe Biden's chances because she doesn't want Donald Trump to get reelected and on top of that Democrats attacked her by calling her a Russian asset how despicable is that they're not being responsible and calling for an investigation they're not calling for these claims to be vetted they smeared and famed her that's what they chose to do this is just despicable now after we just saw Christine Blasey Ford come out against Brett Kavanaugh everyone who was in the Democratic Party said that you know Brett Kavanaugh if he were truly innocent would call for an investigation would actually vet these claims and they were critical of Republicans rightfully so but now all of a sudden crickets silence the media is ignoring this story so far Me Too activists like Alyssa Milano defended Joe Biden last year and are saying nothing now at the time I record this video about Tara Reid's claims these are very serious claims this is exactly what the Me Too movement was created for to let women know that they can actually share their story right if they had someone who was in a powerful position come on to them touch them inappropriately sexually assault them they could share their story and this movement had their backs but what Democrats are doing is choosing to put politics over morality and that's genuinely disgusting like this story beyond like the actual details makes me lose a lot of faith in humanity because I already knew that Democrats didn't actually care about the causes that they you know try to promote women's rights marginalized communities I know that they use these types of communities as props to help themselves get elected it seemed you know legitimate to the left but just how brazen they are at just not caring at all about a very serious allegation because they don't want to hurt Joe Biden's chances I mean who cares about politics in this instance who cares about politics and you know I know that as a Bernie Sanders supporter that sounds you know rich coming from me of all people but in the event a politician that I supported was accused of something like this I would expect from them what I expect from anyone else call on the FBI to investigate and vet these claims you would want it to be looked into further if you truly are innocent now we don't know about these details we don't necessarily know at this point in time what Joe Biden's team is saying so far they haven't responded to Ryan Grimm's article and they're kind of just trying to sleep on this story in hopes that it will die and that you know everyone will ignore it since we're all focused on COVID-19 but I think that Tara has a right to be heard as far as we know she seems perfectly credible she tried to come out at a time when other women who felt you know that they were violated by Joe Biden if he touched them kissed them were coming out and that's reasonable but she didn't want to deal with the backlash if you are a normal citizen and you suddenly get a wave of attention and it's disproportionately negative that's really really scary that's really scary like I know firsthand not because of this but like when I first was doing YouTube videos and one of the first videos I posted um when semi-viral because it appeared on the front page of reddit I actually put that video on private so people couldn't see it because the comments that were said about me really like they kind of crushed my soul so you know getting attention just in general is really scary but if you're getting that kind of attention if people are calling you a Russian asset that's really scary especially if you're coming out and you're saying something that is really serious like this so I totally understand her reasoning I think it's it's sound like I would I wouldn't know what to do and this is why a lot of women don't share their stories because it's incredibly scary and they have no confidence that anything will be done but I mean the me too movement the times up fund was created specifically for this purpose so women live in an environment where they feel comfortable sharing their stories and now that it's someone that you know they like they're like no sorry we're gonna leave you hanging we'll refer you to the women's law center but we're not going to help you so we again have to acknowledge that these are allegations at this point they have not been confirmed these claims have not as far as I know been vetted but we need the authorities to get involved we need the FBI to investigate this she has witnesses people she talked to at the time and shared her story with you know her brother friends she shared the story with her mother who has since passed away Ryan Grimm talks about this in an interview with Chris a ball on the hill but this is incredibly serious and you know people need to know about this putting aside the political ramifications we have to be consistent because we can't just pick and choose when to take these claims seriously if it's politically expedient we have to be consistent and bet all of these claims and make sure that we hear these types of stories out right and let the people decide if they choose to believe it or not but this is serious and action needs to be taken attention needs to be paid to this story so you have the details um you'll just have to decide but we'll wait to see if the media actually covers this and actually does a more comprehensive investigation all right folks that is everything as usual before we leave on I think all of our patreon paypal and youtube members for helping the show not just to survive but thrive as well I know that you all are getting a little bit of um ansiness you're feeling cabin fever because this is now week two of you 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