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So this week on the Humanist Report podcast AOC, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Presley responded to Donald Trump's racist tirade on Twitter Lindsey Graham calls them Communists and Bernie Sanders called out Joe Biden's totally absurd lies about Medicare for all We'll take a look at migrant detention facilities otherwise known as concentration camps And I'll let you be the judge as to what they should be called We'll look at Bernie Sanders interview with Robert Costa of the Washington Post and we will take Bernie Sanders quiz To determine if we can tell who said what about Medicare for all when it comes to Joe Biden, Mitch McConnell, Donald Trump or health Industry executives. We'll talk about how house Democrats are going after AOC's chief of staff Psycho chakra body and I will interview Anthony Clark who is running for Congress and Finally on the program. I'll make my debut on Prager you not necessarily, but you know, it'll be funny So stick around. So that's what we've got today on the agenda. Hopefully you guys will enjoy the program Let's go ahead and start the show So we spent a pretty good portion of last week's show talking about how Nancy Pelosi was relentlessly and viciously going after freshman members of Congress members of the squad which includes Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Ilhan Omar Rashida Tlaib and Ianna Presley and This week somebody else in a very powerful position is choosing to single them out and target and attack them It's Donald Trump and what he's saying about them isn't just factually incorrect It's mind-blowing. So this is what he tweeted about them on July 14th So interesting to see quote progressive Democrat Congresswomen who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total Catastrophe the worst most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world if they even have a function and government at all now Loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States the greatest and most powerful nation on earth How our government is to be run? Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came Then come back and show us how it's done. These places need your help badly. You can't leave fast enough I'm sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements So he's saying how dare these women tell us the greatest country on the planet how our country is to be run Hey dipshit they're members of Congress. They reside in a co-equal branch of Government so first of all your criticism isn't even valid because they are running the country Second of all, it's also not valid because these are not immigrants The only one who is an immigrant is Ilhan Omar, but Rashida Tlaib AOC and Ayanna Presley they were born in the United States So when you're telling them to go back to the country that they came from that doesn't even fucking make sense But we all know exactly why he's doing it Because these are women who are brown and black so they can't possibly be Americans It must obviously have been the case that they moved here from a foreign country and now these Immigrants are telling us how to run our country, which is the greatest country ever Absolutely unacceptable see I can criticize America and say let's make America great again implying that it's not currently great But if they criticize America, they must hate our country. I mean this is such an overt racist attack That it's difficult to Really even supplement this with commentary. It just speaks for itself, but obviously there were people who Took some issue with what he said here and called it racist because it pretty obviously is But then the response from people on the right they said that individuals who said this is Racist are actually the ones who are race baiting So you're not allowed to call Donald Trump's comments here racist Otherwise you're a race baiter Except what was his original tweet was that not race baiting like you can't call things that are racist racist because that's offensive See this anti SJW hysteria has come full circle. It originally started because people are too sensitive You know, you're not allowed to speak out against things that are offensive But now saying that something is offensive has become offensive in and of itself It's all come full circle, but I digress getting back to Donald Trump. So rather than apologizing for this insanely idiotic Tweet that he put out which nobody expected him to but rather than apologizing. He said no It's actually them who need to apologize to me not kidding So here's what he tweeted out afterwards When will the radical left congresswomen apologize to our country the people of Israel and even to the office of the president For the foul language they have used and the terrible things they have said so many people are angry at them And they're horrible and disgusting Actions so his response is pretty much know you Mr. President Don't you think you should apologize for saying something so egregious know you I Didn't say something outrageous They've said things that are outrageous so they should apologize to me To the office of the presidency, which means to me to the people of America and to Israel Why are you randomly invoking Israel like you're outraged because they're criticizing America? But then he brings up Israel is Israel like the 51st state. Why are we talking about Israel exactly Trump? The man is a fucking moron, but at a press conference he doubled down and he didn't just double down He said things that are even more absurd and things that are downright dangerous If you're not happy here, you can leave and that's what I say all the time That's what I said in a tweet which I guess some people think is controversial a lot of people love it by the way a lot of people love it But if you're not happy in the US if you're complaining all the time Very simply you can leave you can leave right now. I Mean I look at the one I look at Omar. I don't know. I never met her. I hear the way she talks about Al Qaeda Al Qaeda has killed many Americans. She said you can hold your chest out. You can when I think of America, huh? When I think of Al Qaeda, I can hold my chest down when she talked about the World Trade Center being knocked down some people You remember the famous some people These are people that in my opinion hate our country and in one case you have somebody that comes from Somalia, which is a failed government a failed state Who left Somalia who ultimately came here and now is a Congresswoman who's never happy says horrible things about Israel hates Israel Hates Jews hates Jews Their socialist definitely as to whether or not their confidence. I would think they might be a Politician that here's somebody where we're at war with Al Qaeda and see somebody talking about how great Al Qaeda is Pick out her statement. That was Omar. How great Al Qaeda is these are people that hate our country, but but John They hate our country, but they hate it. I think with a passion now. It's possible. I'm wrong The voter will decide but when I hear the way they talk about our country when I hear the Anti-Semitic language they use when I hear the hatred they have for Israel and the love they have for enemies like Al Qaeda Then you know what? I will tell you that I Do I do not believe this is good for the Democrat party? It doesn't concern you that many people saw that tweet as racist and That white nationalist groups are finding common cause with you on that point It doesn't concern me because many people agree with me It's insufferable listening to this idiot speak, but essentially the takeaway is if there's any takeaway You're not allowed to ever criticize America ever otherwise I'm going to say that you hate us if you criticize us But please you know forget the fact that my slogan literally implies that America isn't perfect and that may be criticism is in fact Warranted but you probably shouldn't criticize America and you especially should not criticize America if you're black or brown only white People who are the real Americans should be able to criticize America But let's let's get to what he said about Ilhan Omar because this is when he took the situation and made a bad situation Exponentially worse. He claimed that she quote H Jews and then he lied and said that she praised Al Qaeda She absolutely never praised Al Qaeda, but he's saying here. She praised Al Qaeda and she hates Jews Do you understand how dangerous this is? He's telling his low information Racist supporters that this person is dangerous. We have an Al Qaeda sympathizer in Congress who also H Jews I Mean she gets death threats on a daily basis as there's AOC But the president of the United States is saying that a sitting member of Congress praised Al Qaeda I Mean this is This is deranged This is absolutely insane One because it's a lie and two because this could get her killed literally Why are we not talking about invoking the 25th amendment? He's mentally unstable Somebody with a brain wouldn't do something like this This is not normal behavior for anyone let alone a fucking president He's communicating to all of his supporters that you should be afraid of Ilhan Omar because she's an Al Qaeda sympathizer She hates Jews and also she hates America and she's not one of us so if she doesn't like the country then She can leave and Anyone else who criticizes America they can leave to even if they're American citizens What he's saying the rhetoric that he's using it sounds incredibly similar to a segment that we saw on Fox News From Tucker Carlson somebody who is very influential on Donald Trump somebody who Donald Trump watches So this is why when I talked about that segment I said that Tucker Carlson is dangerous and he's a white supremacist because what he says Resonates with the president and now we see Donald Trump echoing the same sentiment about Ilhan Omar What a bizarre and just morally grotesque thing that we are seeing Before our very eyes and this isn't like a closed-door meeting where he said all of this about Ilhan Omar and the squad He said this at a fucking press conference and yet we're not allowed to say that this is racist. Otherwise. We're race-baiting unreal unbelievable Unbelievable now members of the squad all four congresswomen they held their own joint press conference where they responded and they basically said Look, this is a distraction He can't defend himself based on policy and he can't debate us on the substance of the issues that we talk about So this is why he frequently just goes after us because of our identities. This is what they said I encourage the american people and all of us In this room and beyond to not take the bait This is a disruptive distraction from the issues of care concern and consequence to the american people He would love nothing more than to divide our country based on race religion gender orientation or immigration status Because this is the only way he knows he can prevent the solidarity Of us working together across all of our differences The only way to prevent us confronting the problems our country is facing whether it is health care climate change student debt or endless wars I am not surprised that he used uses the rhetoric that he does When he violates international human rights and takes thousands of children away from their families I am not surprised that he has turned our public education system under the leadership of betsy devos into a cash cow to enrich Himself and his friends. I am not surprised when he corrupts via the secretary of transportation. I am not surprised at what he's doing But I also know that we're focused on making it better Because we don't leave the things that we love And when we love this country What that means is that we propose the solutions to fix it We cannot allow these hateful actions by the president to distract us from the critical work to hold this administration Accountable to the inhumane conditions at the border that is separating children from their loved ones and caging them up in illegal horrific conditions Now when people say if you say a negative thing about the policies in this country, you hate this country To me it sort of speaks to the hypocrisy and alex and i were talking about this when this president ran and until today He talked about everything that was wrong in this country and how he was going to make it great And so for him to condemn us and to say we are an american for wanting to work hard To make this country be the country we all deserve to live in Complete hypocrisy absolutely and I I don't think it would have changed anything because first of all he made statements that were blatantly untrue So whether he was citing comments or not citing comments if he didn't have what he wanted to say He would make it up this president operates in complete bad faith. He does not operate in in good faith weak minds and leaders challenge loyalty to our country In order to avoid Challenging and debating the policy This president does not know how to make the argument that americans do not deserve health care He does not know how to defend his policies. So what he does is attack us personally And that is what this is all about he can't look a child in the face And he can't look all americans in the face and justify Why this country is throwing them in cages? So instead he tells us that I should go back to the great borough of the broncs and make it better And that's what i'm here to do now on top of what they said there Um, they also called for his impeachment not because he said these things But they went on to list the numerous crimes that he's committed the numerous violations of the constitution That he has committed and is currently Committing because the day he was sworn in office since he didn't put his businesses in a blind trust He was in violation of the emoluments cause. So I think it was important for them to also Bring up impeachment now everything that they said here Incredibly incredibly important because when you juxtapose Donald trump's policy agenda with theirs There's no contest like he can't compete with them based on the merits Other arguments he just can't because everything he's saying is incredibly unpopular tax cuts for the rich You know taking away health care So what does he do? He has to question their loyalty to the country So what they're saying is correct But the difference is that they can make this very persuasive argument this counter argument But donald trump has the bully pulpit. He's the president of the united states So any and everything that he says Will automatically be 10 times louder than anything that they say Okay So Like this is such an unbelievable story to me. It's like donald trump He's known to say idiotic things because I think his mental capacity Is rapidly declining So at what point are we going to hold him accountable? When will nanti pelosi actually use the power that she has to do something? Well, the answer is never because she announced that this is what she's going to be doing in response To donald trump's comments here. She announced that they're going to be voting on a house resolution to condemn his comments So this is definitely Going to put him in his place way more than impeachment ever could now I'm not saying that we impeach him because of this I'm just saying you have more than enough ammunition with regard to impeachment But you're not using it. You're holding a house vote on a resolution That will be functionally useless to condemn his remarks Nancy pelosi is beyond hopeless She's so useless This is the best that she can come up with See, this is why donald trump continues to do things like this. It's because he knows there will never be any Consequences for his actions and things that he says that are downright dangerous Tie his hands He's in violation of the emoluments clause In the molar report, there were 10 different instances where he committed obstruction He violated campaign finance laws michael cohen brought the check And showed it to everyone Tie his hands Make it so he can't do anything but think about impeachment So he's not thinking about maybe we should bomb our own Maybe I should target these female members of congress and suggest that they're not loyal to the country And that they hate our country Tie his hands So all he can focus on is impeachment not only because Morally and legally speaking that's the correct course of action But because also as a strategy, it's the right thing to do But of course, you know, you can never expect nancy pelosi to the to do the right thing because Her donors don't want her to impeach. So she's gonna listen to them over everyone else But I don't want to make this about nancy pelosi. This is about donald trump And what he said here is downright dangerous lindsay graham appeared on a recent taping of fox and friends And he took some time to suck off the president and talk about how great he is at golfing He then went on to fear monger about iran and why we should definitely go to war with them and further escalate And then finally he turned his attention to aoc and members of the squad freshman congress women Who donald trump recently attacked via twitter Now he went on an unhinged tirade against these women himself where he calls them all kinds of names And just says things that are factually incorrect and downright bizarre But what's odd to me is he's gonna do all of this and say all of this While claiming moral high ground He is essentially trying to present himself as the adult in the room who is kind of Condemning donald trump's remarks about them. He's saying maybe he shouldn't do this But in the process he's saying well, you know It's true that these women are all of these horrible things that donald trump says but maybe don't say this So, I mean the rent is a bizarre and unhinged But he presents himself as the grown-up and it's absurd So watch and then we will discuss when we come back because What a joke lindsay graham is I want to ask you a question about the election because there are a lot of polls that say if the If the election were tomorrow the president wouldn't win. What does the president need to do to ensure a win make sure it's not tomorrow So no, he's gonna win if you'll just miss president You're gonna win just knock it down a notch And why in what way well, we all know That aoc and this crowd are a bunch of communists. They hate israel. They hate our own country They're calling the guards along our border the board patrol agents concentration camp guards They accuse people of support israel of doing it for the benjamins They're anti-semitic. They're anti america. Don't get that aim higher We don't need to know anything about them personally talk about their policy senator. It sounds too negative I think they're american citizens who are duly elected that are running on an agenda that is disgusting That the american people will reject talk about what it means for america to have Free health care for illegal immigrants and no Criminalization of coming into the country see see how that works for controlling immigration their ideas. They're anti-semitic They talk about the israeli state if they're a bunch of thugs not victims of the entire region They they wanted to impeach trump on day one. They're socialist. They're anti-semitic They stand for all the things that most americans disagree with make them the face of the future of the democratic party You will destroy the democratic party. It sounds like you're saying the president went too far with these I just don't think you aim higher. You don't need to talk. They're they are american citizens They won an election take on their policies. Ladies and gentlemen, that is who a lot of people in mainstream media Claim is a moderate republican I mean, what do you say about that? That was unhinged. That was such a stupid rant It was completely incoherent It was also contradictory and I have a question for you before we talk about the substance there Not that there was any substance But before we talk about the substance for all of the people Who claims to have left the democratic party or quote unquote walked away because they're sick and tired of the democratic party's identity politics Aren't you getting tired of the republican party's identity politics because that's exactly what we just saw Lindsey Graham invoked identity politics and claimed that any and all criticism of israel is tantamount To anti-semitism because he claims that these women are anti-semitic and anti-american And the only thing that he cited to validate that claim Was that they accuse people who support israel of doing it for the benjamin's in other words They said this thing that offended me They're anti-semitic I mean, I thought that it was the right who's supposed to be against the use of identity politics Who shouldn't be offended so easily by things and call any and everything racist or islamophobic or bigoted or whatever See when the republican party does it and when they repeatedly invoke white identity politics and freak out about immigrants Well, you know, it's fine because they're republicans So their concerns when they take offense to things that's valid But when the left does it when the democratic party does it it's invalid Now that's not to say that the democratic party does not weaponize identity politics to punch left But if you're claiming that it's only the democratic party who does this Then you're just factually incorrect and you're not paying attention now We claimed that um, these are a bunch of socialists and then he also said that They're a bunch of communists So, um, I don't know which one it is and whenever somebody says that aoc or bernie is a communist Force them to define what they think that means because nine times out of ten In fact, I would wager ten times out of ten They don't even know what communism is or means and they can't describe it He then urged donald trump to not talk about them and to rather talk about The policies that they are promoting because if donald trump quote makes them the face and the future of the democratic party You will destroy the democratic party. Oh, so you want to talk about policies Are you sure about that lindsey because i'm pretty sure that if we juxtapose our foreign policy with your foreign policy in any policy Nine times out of ten in fact again ten times out of ten the american people are going to side with us And not you because right before he made that silly argument He was talking about why we need to escalate with iran the american people even though we're being bombarded with propaganda We're against war with iran. We're against all of these regime change Interventionist wars So time after time even if you fear monger and try to make the case that we should be invading every single country on the god damn planet People don't agree with you lindsey. They agree with us and when it comes to policies What are the policies that aoc and other members of the squad are championing? Medicare for all Taxing the rich regulating wall street all things that are incredibly popular So this is why trump doesn't talk about policy one because he doesn't know anything about policy specifics He's not a policy wonk He just regurgitates whatever fox news says and two because if you do juxtapose your policies with ours You lose every single time So he brought up some examples. So let's try to parse out these examples here He says talk about what it means for america to have free healthcare for illegal immigrants Free healthcare for illegal immigrants. First of all, we're saying we should have free healthcare for everyone Where healthcare is free at the point of service But why would you include illegal immigrants and why do you think that's popular? Because all you have to do is explain to american people Why undocumented people need healthcare too because let's say hypothetically speaking if an undocumented immigrant is bitten by a snake A poisonous snake and they need the antidote Do we not give that to them? Do we just watch them die because um, they're undocumented immigrants If the answer is you let them die if somebody is dying and bleeding out And needs immediate medical attention If your answer is we let them die and we don't give them medical attention Then you're a disgusting human being there's no way around that So if you truly don't want people to move here Lindsey Graham Then maybe you should stop backing all of these interventions and regime change wars and meddling Where that actually increases the number of immigrants who want to move here because they wouldn't be seeking refugee status here or asylum here if we didn't fuck up their country to begin with you moron And he also says that we should talk about how they wanted to impeach Donald Trump on day one Because he was in violation of the emoluments clause of the constitution on day one dipshit So you claim to be from the party that it's pro law and order So are you are are you not law and order because being law and order means you have to abide by the constitution And if the president is in violation of the constitution then congress Must exercise their power to impeach because nobody gets to be above the law I don't care if you're president or a member of congress if you're breaking the law and violating the constitution Then you have to be impeached. So everything that he's saying here Is not just wrong, but it's idiotic. It's unhinged and yet he claims to be the grown-up Lindsey Graham is not the grown-up He's an idiot and he's immoral and all he cares about is power And his own personal status, which is why he went from attacking Donald Trump in 2015 To now gargling his fucking nuts in his mouth Because he knows that you're not going to make it in the 2019 version of the of the republican party Unless you kiss Donald Trump's ring. So he's doing what he needs to do and he's conforming. He's becoming a Donald Trump sycophant So he is a spineless individual who has absolutely no room to talk And if he genuinely believes that you know, he should put pit his policies against ours Then I'm down for that because you will lose every single time we do that Lindsey Graham So last week we talked about how Joe Biden was lying about progressive policy proposals like Medicare for all And this week he is continuing with that same trend He's lying And now he is name dropping other progressives in the race who support policies like Medicare for all So we're gonna get to what biden said and then I'm gonna tell you bernie sanders response because finally bernie sanders Is beginning to take off the gloves And that is long Overdue because if you're going to sit here and lie about Medicare for all Then you deserve To be attacked because you are propping up a system that incentivizes profit over people and that's immoral that makes you a bad person But joe biden is rich So he doesn't have to worry about losing health insurance. This is just about Maintaining the status quo. That's why he's running. He's saying if I become elected nothing will fundamentally change He says this to rich elites in a closed door meeting So he is the status quo candidate And he continues to attack these new bold progressive policy proposals that he was too chicken to fight for when he was in power So here's what he said specifically according to kate glook of the new york times He said quote I admire the rest of the field from bernie to elizabeth to kamala who want, you know Medicare for all but let me tell you I think one of the most Significant things we've done in our administration is passed the affordable care act Mr. Biden said to applause Here's saturday morning referencing the signature healthcare measure passed under the obama administration He said that he wanted to strengthen the affordable care act and to add a public option Something he acknowledged could come with a significant price tag But it doesn't cost three trillion and it can be done quickly He continued when asked about differences among the democratic candidates Quote I don't know why we'd get rid of what in fact is working and moved to something totally new And so there are differences bernie's been very honest about it. He said of medicare for all He said you're going to have to raise taxes in the middle class. He says it's going to end all private insurance I mean he's been straightforward about it and he's making his case So here joe biden is being a disingenuous smear merchant He's saying bernie sanders wants to raise your taxes The implication is bernie sanders is trying to harm you But what he's leaving out conveniently so is that if we raise taxes to pay for health care You're no longer going to be paying your monthly health insurance premium Co-pays deductibles and overall you end up saving thousands of dollars per year If you are the average american so he's lying. This is a lie joe biden even though he's a dumb guy He's intelligent enough to know the policy details He knows that medicare for all is better for people But he's trying to frame it as something that's radical and new when the affordable care act was something that was new It was a new idea cooked up by the heritage foundation and was implemented by mit romney and it was a response originally To the support that was emerging for single payer and bernie is the one who's saying look Let's take our existing system and let's tweak it. Let's improve medicare first Close all the gaps and then we'll just expand what we already have That's simple and then everyone will have health care It'll be free at the point of service and then nobody will die if they can't afford insurance But joe biden's lying now bernie responded and thankfully He's starting to get a little bit more forceful in pushing back because these are lies And you need to treat them very seriously because this is harmful So here's what bernie said in an interview mr sanders who introduced the medicare for all act in the senate and sometimes comes in second to mr biden in early polls Bristled at mr. biden's remarks as he stressed that he too had been committed to passing and protecting the affordable care act Even as he now advocates for something more far-reaching He also took issue with what he perceived as mr. biden's suggestion that the transition to medicare for all Could leave people with gaps in medical care calling such an implication totally absurd Obviously what biden was doing mr. sanders said is what the insurance companies and the pharmaceutical industries Republicans do Ignoring the fact that people will save money on their health care because they will no longer have to pay premiums or out-of-pocket expenses They will no longer have high deductibles and high copayments Asked whether it was fair to put mr. biden in the same category as the insurance and pharmaceutical industries given his role in advancing the affordable care act In the first place, mr. sanders replied the charge that he's making is exactly what the republicans are saying And this is exactly what bernie sanders needs to do take the fucking gloves off Don't preface any criticism you have of joe biden with well, you know joe biden is a friend of mine, but Take the gloves off Start really saying what joe biden is about He's propping up a system where people are dying people are dying because of our current system joe biden has blood on his hands Because he refuses to challenge the for-profit health care industry that profits off of ripping people off Who need health care take the gloves off and he's finally starting to realize that this is what you have to do No more playing nice No more playing nice with people who don't care About human beings and they're suffering he only cares about getting elected And he knows joe biden knows that part of getting elected means you have to take lots of money From the pharmaceutical industry from the health care industry And that means you also have to do their bidding No more playing nice take the gloves off and rip him a new fucking asshole because that's what's warranted Because if you're gonna prop up a pro-death system, then that's what you should be called Someone who is advocating on behalf of a pro-death system where we don't prioritize health care We prioritize profit, which means There's gonna be a lot of casualties as a result thousands of people will die every single year if we keep the current system in place And even if we get a public option with which i don't believe that joe biden actually supports because he didn't even push for it When him and obama had power when they had a super majority So even if we got that though people will still be left out because if you don't have a penny to your name And you need health care You still can't afford it. You can't afford a public option A public option that will inevitably be watered down by the for-profit market forces that you are leaving Intact under your bullshit incrementalist approach Now bernie also tweeted a little bit more about this saying human lives are more important than corporate profits period hashtag medicare for all Our dysfunctional system is designed not to provide health care in the most cost-effective way But to make as much money as possible for insurance and drug companies investment banks and real estate firms That's wrong. That's moral and we are going to change it under medicare for all you will never lose coverage Even if you change jobs turn 26 move to another state Have a pre-existing condition start a business get laid off get divorced retire early Not crazy passing medicare for all and guaranteeing health care like every other major country Actually crazy a health care system designed to make as much profit for corporations as possible While letting ordinary people die now He also talked about how he campaigned for and defended the affordable care act And I love everything that he's saying here, but he's got to go a step further. He's got to tie Joe biden's name to it attack him hit him hard bernie because this is what you have to do to win Other people are starting to creep up on you. Elizabeth Warren Kamala Harris They're getting close to you in the polls and Joe Biden even though he's coming down He's not coming down fast enough. So take the gloves off Put Joe Biden on defense because what Kamala Harris showed was that he doesn't know how to defend himself He doesn't know how to defend himself call him a shill because he is a shill like bernie has got to start getting tough Like this is your last shot. This is your last chance to become president I mean, I think that bernie sanders largely is running a good campaign He knows what he's doing and he's not wrong to stay issues focused But he's got to take the gloves off. He's got to attack There's a reason why people like Kamala Harris are gaining in the polls It's because they've taken the gloves off and they are attacking Joe biden and exposing him for the fraud that he is If you want to also climb the polls bernie, you've got to do that too. He's calling out your signature policy So you have every right to respond and attack it as viciously as he's attacking medicare for all So, I mean bernie sanders has got to take the gloves off and he started to do that here But take it a step further call him out by name Call out the donations that he has received from the health insurance industry put him on the defensive Because if you really want him to shut up about medicare for all and stop attacking it That's what you've got to do because once Kamala went after him for talking about how wonderful these Segregationists were in congress that he worked with he stopped talking about it So he's someone who doesn't respond well to criticism because he's a narcissist So attack him and watch him unravel. It's that simple You've got to take the gloves off You didn't draw first blood if you respond to an attack that he lobbed against you initially You're just responding to criticism. It's that simple So keep this up bernie, but go harder because that's the only way you're gonna win bernard sat down for a nearly hour-long interview with robert costa of the washington post And I thoroughly enjoyed this interview Bernie sanders was really at his best and the entire thing was phenomenal all linked to it down below if you want to watch it but I want to show you some highlights here and what I found to just be great because Not only did he make some great points about the state of the 2020 race as well as what his presidency would look like But he didn't hesitate to take some some pretty bold shots at the venue itself, which I found the most entertaining Thanks so much for being here the bank of america really sponsoring this Well, let's just get into the interview The awkwardness that you can hear in um the interviewer's voice robert costa It was palpable and I thoroughly enjoyed that This is why I love bernard. He's at his best when he's outspoken when he doesn't hold back You can tell when bernie is pulling punches But when he just you know is himself It comes across as organic and it's just he shines and he really shined throughout this entire interview But I've got two more really short Um less substantive clips here So bernie was asked about what joe biden said in the event he were the nominee and he went up against donald trump And his response was that he would consider challenging donald trump To a push-up competition or something along those lines in the event donald trump question If joe biden was weak or something along those lines bernie's response here was perfect His president biden said in terms of fighting president trump beating president trump on morning joe this morning He may challenge the president to push-ups i'm no comment on that That was the best response ever it was short but sweet But effective because look that level of stupidity it really shouldn't be dignified with a thoughtful response What joe biden is going to do if he becomes the nominee which i hope he doesn't but in the event He's the nominee it's going to be a gigantic pissing contest between him and donald trump Whereas if bernie sanders was the nominee We know that it would be about the policy substance Donald trump would inevitably call him crazy bernie tweet about him attack him But bernie sanders would remain glued To the policy agenda and that's how you win So you can't really dignify these things that joe biden says because he also has this kind of i'm a tough guy persona Which is just it's insufferable to me. It's insufferable. Like who does that play to does that really play to Members of the democratic party. Is that going to excite them to come out and vote for you? I think joe biden thinks so because he's a narcissist like donald trump and it's insufferable So bernie's response there was absolutely perfect But one last thing i want to uh touch on here before we start getting into the policy details Is a question about busing came up the interviewer was trying to frame it as if bernie sanders made an anti busing statement So bernie would be technically in the same camp as joe biden bernie sanders shut that shit down in a beautiful way in 1974 you said that busing policies were well meaning in theory But sometimes result in quote racial hostility. What else did i say in there? Tell me. No, you got it there read Read the whole quote. I don't have the whole quote the whole quote is the federal government doesn't give a shit about african america Oh, that is true. That's why i didn't include it sure jen. That's definitely why you didn't want to include it because you know It was a curse word even though bernie sanders said the curse word and you didn't Sensor what he said there was no bleep So you see this is what the media tries to do they try to take bernie sanders out of context So people will hear what he's saying and interpret his words in a different way than they are intended to be interpreted I mean the same thing thing happens When it comes to raising taxes to pay for medicare for all they'll often ask bernie Do you think that medicare for all would require you to raise taxes on the middle class? bernie sanders gives a thoughtful answer and he says yes, but they'll be saving money But they don't actually report The main point they bury the lead intentionally so people just read the headline and think oh bernie wants to raise my taxes Fuck bernie. So they know what they're doing and bernie knows what they're doing And I think he's become savvy enough to call it out Of course bernie sanders was not in the same league as joe biden while joe biden was teaming up with Segregationists to do segregation bernie sanders was leading the fight to desegregate college campuses So I mean how dare you even try to portray bernie sanders in that same light how despicable But I mean it's it's not surprising This is the washington post and as you're going to see here bernie sanders did not hesitate to take even more shots at them Um, and it was amazing. So what we're going to see now is bernie sanders will explain What we can expect if he is the president because we have this idea Of the legislative process, you know, somebody will propose a policy and then it'll be debated between republicans and democrats And then they'll ultimately be a watered-down version of said policy But what bernie sanders is going to do here is explain look my Presidency is not going to be a normal presidency. We're not going to continue to do politics as usual I'm going to make the case That we are not executing my agenda as president We're executing the agenda of the american people And he has a very specific plan to name and shame people who actually don't want to get on board with policies Like medicare for all and I loved everything he said here because he alluded to it in the past But he was very specific here about what that would look like in practice President obama had to make concessions on the aca Would you be willing to make concessions as president on medicare for well? I think one of the points that I want to make is a bernie sanders presidency would be a different type of presidency In other words, I hold the radical vision that maybe just Maybe a president and a congress should do what the american people want them to do I know that's a radical idea I think it's in reality mitzvah leader mcconnell doesn't let me talk about reality Let me talk about doesn't seem to pay a political price for not taking up the house democrats bill Let me talk about reality. All right And again, I you know what we are trying to do is something a bit different than other presidents. That's my history politically And what I believe Is that right now you have a congress That is heavily done, especially the republican party. You tell me I maybe the washington post might want to do a poll on this And that is to ask the american people whether they think we should give huge tax breaks to billionaires Greatly expand military spending and then cut back on social security medicare medicare and education Now if you did that poll how many what percentage of the american people would think that's a good idea But that's exactly what mitzvah mcconnell believes. All right way out of touch With the people of kentucky with the people of america What we need is presidential leadership that goes to kentucky by the way A very poor state And says that Stand up and tell your senators that health care is a human right that you will save money by moving to a medicare program Right now in my campaign for president The thing i'm most proud of is that we have over one million volunteers The reason i believe we're going to win the democratic nomination and defeat trump is because of our grassroots movement And as president what i will do is expand that movement and create a process where people all over this country become engaged in the political process Working class people Young people in a way that we have never seen before and put pressure On republics that i will do everything i can to make sure by the way that the republicans do not continue to control the senate What put pressure on republicans and democrats to move this country forward In a way that reflects the needs of the working class of this country. What does that mean? It means raising the minimum wage to a living wage It means rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure and creating many millions of decent paying jobs It means expanding the trade union movement making it easier for workers to join unions It means demanding that the wealthiest people in this country start paying their fair share of taxes Now i know we're in jeff bezos building But amazon last year made over 10 billion dollars a profit. What are they paying taxes not a nickel in federal income taxes Does anyone think that that is vaguely sane? Okay, first of all, i loved that jab that he took at jeff bezos there at the end second of all This right here tells you everything you need to know about the entirety of The democratic party primary in 2020. There's one candidate who's truly Fighting for you and actually has a plan to get your agenda implemented legislatively It's bernie sanders He's saying here. I am not fighting from my agenda. My agenda is what the american people want He says what we need is presidential leadership that goes to kentucky mitch mcconnell's state a very poor state And says stand up and tell your senators that healthcare is a human right He'd put pressure on republicans and democrats to move this country forward in a way that reflects the needs of the working class in this country Understand what he's saying and why this is so unprecedented He's saying i am gearing up to go to war with the special interests with republicans with members of my own party If i'm president because i know that i will be opposed by all types of forces if i'm elected So what we're going to do is fight tooth and nail and we know That we're going to have to do this in order to get what we want Implemented all campaign in kentucky if mitch mcconnell is still the senate majority leader I will go to the districts of congress members who are in the democratic party and tell their constituents Why they're siding with the health insurance industry as opposed to them This is what you have to do you play politics and you fucking crack skulls bernie sanders is the only person who's explicitly saying I will not be doing politics as usual and no this isn't you know the obama promise of hope and change We're gonna change the way we do politics. He's saying yes, we're gonna change the way we do politics But here's my plan. This is specifically what i will do to make sure that your agenda is implemented It's amazing to see somebody say this I mean, how could you not vote for them if you plug your ears and ignore bernie sanders? Then you have no reason to complain because you have a candidate who's willing to do your bidding unequivocally uncompromisingly Do you expect any other presidential candidate to go to the home state of a different lawmaker? And campaign against them in such a brazen way. I mean who would do that? He knows to be attacked by the mainstream media. He knows that this would invite, you know In intraparty warfare, perhaps democrats would attack him the dnc would attack him They would try to primary him in 2024 But he doesn't care because he knows that there's no other way that you get something like medicare for all You don't have a choice if you genuinely believe that we should have medicare for all And you know that that's what the american people want You have no choice if you're not willing to do this You're not gonna get medicare for all So all these other candidates like elizabeth warren she could say look, I you know I support abolishing private insurance But at the end of the day, who do you want battling for you elizabeth warren Who oftentimes kowtows to the establishment? Or bernie sanders who says i don't give a fuck what they have to say about me This is such a fascinating interview Bernie sanders truly is one of a kind like I would be surprised if we see another politician like him Who's this strategically savvy in our lifetimes? Now moving on bernie sanders hasn't been accused of being too consistent and that's apparently a negative He has the same exact message as he did in 2016 But what's interesting is that there are so many swagger jacking Santrists who are copying his message. They're plagiarizing him But yet he's being accused of being a one-trick pony So he was asked how he distinguishes himself In a primary where there's a lot of fake bernie sanders who are running to be bernie sanders light And um, this is his response, which I thought was just great And there's a real choice as you outlined today between vice president biden's view of the world and your view of the world But you have a crowded lane this time a lot of people echo in your views stuff you talked about in 2016 How do you persuade voters that they should side with you? It's crowded this time around I think I would ask people to look at the record you're on the record No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, that's no, I think it is fair to look at the record I mean anybody can come up with any position today. They can do a poll It's a warm boy. I bet it's a what medicare for all. It's popular among democrats You think some democrats have I'm not well you can make that determination all that i'm saying Is flying down, you know, you talked about other people saying what i'm saying Four years ago was not so easy Because I got condemned by the washing the post and everybody else By talking about raising the minimum wage to 15 bucks an hour talk about medicare for all single payer system Talking about making public colleges and universities tuition free and dealing with student debt Talked about a trillion dollar investment to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure talked about criminal justice reform and comprehensive Immigration reform I was there. I did it. It wasn't first enough this time. No, it's not enough But it should tell the average voter that I am prepared to lead in a different type of way that I am prepared To take on the political establishment to take on the corporate establishment and stand up for the working class of this country One he took another jab at the washing post which I loved and to He made a phenomenal point I mean you're running to be president because you believe that you have leadership Qualities that are necessary for that position. So he says look I led on these issues. It was politically Not expedient for me to be talking about medicare for all or you know It was promoted this idea that you shouldn't talk about these policy ideas that are too progressive or too radical but he said I Just ran on what I thought was you know, the right policies I led the charge now everyone else is following behind me. Nobody talked about medicare for all Even people who are deemed progressive Elizabeth Warren. She didn't talk about medicare for all until I talked about medicare for all Why because I'm a leader. They're following me. I'm the one leading on these issues So do you want diet bernie sanders or do you want the real deal? And that's exactly the point. He needs to hammer home He was the leader while everyone else was too afraid playing politics to talk about these issues that we all have been wanting For decades. I mean single payer healthcare is not some new idea This is what liberals have been wanting left wing and progressive people. They've been wanting this for decades I've always wanted single payer. So the fact that bernie is just the only politician who capitalized on this Policy, you know that shows not only that he's politically savvy But he's also brave because you know strategists in dc would say, you know, you just can't take a stance on an issue until it pulls out Above 50 percent once it reaches 51 percent you can endorse it But you know if it's below 50 percent Stay away from that policy bernie isn't a focus group driven poll minded politician He speaks authentically from the heart and that's why people like him because when he says I'm gonna fight for medicare for all We can believe him because there's no conflict of interest that suggests He's going to you know, uh, not do what he's saying. He's going to do when he gets elected because the people who helped get him in power are Not the industries who would benefit by killing off a plan like medicare for all So again, I will link you to the full interview. It's absolutely phenomenal. I would encourage you to watch the entire thing Bernie was really at his best here. He was snappy. He was charming. I loved it Um, we need to share this interview because we need people to see Bernie sanders, you know, uh in his best, uh in his best light, right? He's phenomenal here and he explains very clearly How he's going to be fighting for people if he's elected and people need to see this Because they need to see that there's one person in this race. Who's the real deal? It's bernie sanders and he makes that crystal clear. I think in this interview So recently on the program we talked about how bernie sanders finally cold out joe biden because Joe biden is quite literally shilling for the health insurance industry I mean, he takes donations from them. He takes donations from the pharmaceutical industry So bernie sanders finally Realized that what he needs to do is take the gloves off once and for all And attack joe biden head on and I applauded bernie for that But I said he also Needs to be more fierce and more direct like name drop joe biden more frequently because we need to know Or we need to let the american people know more specifically that this man is not fighting for them He is a show and he's only fighting for his donors Um, I don't think bernie sanders is listening, but certainly he did something that um I can applaud that is along what I hoped I would see from him So he created this poll Or it really it's a quiz And it says joe biden is attacking medicare for all with lies straight out of the playbook of donald trump Mitch mcconnell and the health insurance industry. Can you guess who said it? Um, so I haven't taken a look at this So you're gonna see my genuine reaction to this quiz because i'm gonna take the quiz Um and see if I could pass it But this is exactly what you need to do because this is wholesome trolling you're trolling joe biden By getting people to take a quiz that we'll see if they can distinguish between a quote from joe biden mitch mcconnell Or donald trump because it really shows you that there's really not that big of a difference between the health insurance industry republicans And joe biden which matters in a democratic party primary So let's go ahead and take the quiz Um, and I'll just say I should probably do relatively good at this quiz because you know I follow politics for a living But joe biden has said things that are indistinguishable from the health industry from republicans So, um, if bernie constructed this in a good way, then I will get some of these wrong So the first one quote medicare goes away as you know it all the medicare you have Is gone See, um I believe that joe biden just said something like that, but that last sentence there, um, it's kind of It's kind of iffy to me because it sounds like something that donald trump would say all the medicare you have is gone Bigly so, um That's tough. It's between donald trump and joe biden but I'm gonna say joe biden here Correct fact medicare for all will expand medicare To cover everyone and provide the services seniors need the most including dental care hearing aids routine vision exams Podiatry and more so not only are you, um getting the message across that what joe biden is saying is comparable to what health industry Executives are saying and donald trump is saying but he's also educating people bernie. This is this is brilliant. Love it Okay, so let's go to the next question Quote medicare for all would really be medicare for none. Today's medicare would be forced to die So I actually I feel like I covered this quote on my show before but, um medicare for none See, this is tough and I feel like maybe he, um It's gonna have a lot of joe biden's in here since he's trying to drive home the point That joe biden sounds a lot like these health industry executives and republicans But it's tough medicare for all would really be medicare for none. Today's health care would be forced to die You know, I'm gonna say that this is something that the united health care CEO david wickman said no idea if this is correct Incorrect. That was donald trump. Okay Um fact medicare for all will expand medicare to cover everyone and vastly improve it by covering dental Hearing and vision as well as all other necessary services. Okay, so that was donald trump I've got one right and one wrong. Let's continue here Quote 180 million americans would lose private insurance that many of them negotiated for at work Um, I'm pretty sure joe biden said something exactly like this just a couple of weeks ago It may not be a direct quote, but he basically said this. So i'm gonna say joe biden Incorrect. It was mitch mcconnell. Okay. Um medicare for all would guarantee health care for all and allow americans To negotiate for higher wages instead of better health benefits. All right. Well played bernie Quote how many of you out there have had someone you've lost to cancer or cancer yourself? No time we cannot have a hiatus of six months a year two three to get something done So joe biden definitely said something like this at the democratic party debate. So i'm gonna say joe biden Correct. That was joe biden fact under medicare for all over a 40 over a four year period We will transition to a system in which medicare is expanded to cover everyone And end the horror of millions of people going into financial distress simply because they need care for serious conditions Okay, next question How many of you like your employer based health care? Do you think it was adequate? Now if I come along and say you're finished, you can't have it anymore Well, that's what medicare for all does you cannot have it period number one There's a hiatus in between by the way of how long it's going to take So just my process of elimination. We haven't had um any quotes from David wickman yet, so i'm going to select him, but I honestly have no idea because it could be anyone here It was joe biden. Okay. Okay fact medicare for all will free americans from the greed of health insurance companies That prioritize profits over people's lives. There will be no hiatus or lapse in coverage over a four year period Every american will transition off their current health insurance to medicare for all now. I should say Four years is too long. I really hope that bernie sanders Bill reaches parity with primal agiapals. She has a two-year rollout But what bernie sanders did was he allowed kirsten jillibrand to write that portion of the rollout So maybe he let her write that and make it a little bit more shittier Just so she'd support it But I think bernie if he were elected would rewrite it so it matches primal agiapals Because there's no reason to wait that long and give republicans that much time Where there's uncertainty about what medicare for all would look like, you know and Potentially get public opinion to go down. Um, okay, so there's one more question I really want to try to get this one correct Quote I happen to be a proponent of a single payer universal health care plan I see no reason why the united states of america the wealthiest country and the history of the world is spending 14 percent of its gnp Cannot provide basic health insurance to everybody Um, okay. This is this one is a little bit tricky Because I happen to be a proponent of single payer health care, but then they kind of switch it Towards the end to health insurance um Oh, and they added brock obama into the mix um I'm gonna say brock obama just because that is a new one here Correct that was brock obama. So we got a little bit of a switcheroo at the end there You know, he says all these things that joe biden said that sounds pretty republicany And then at the end he had obama say he supports single payer Now we all know that that is horseshit because um obama He didn't even push for a public option, but I see what bernie's trying to do here This is brilliant by the way. This is absolutely brilliant by the way One other thing that I want him to do is like when elizabeth warren she came out With a student loan debt cancellation plan She put up a calculator so you can put your income in and it will tell you about how much of your student debt would be cancelled He should do the same But obviously since he's canceling 100 percent of student loan debt Every single time the result would be zero Zero dollars would be uh remaining because I think that would be great. It's not an attack on elizabeth warren It's just a fact. Um, okay, so it says continue. I'm assuming this is going to be about fundraising It's going to ask for money because that's what you've got to do Um, yeah, so before you go if you agree It's time that the united states guarantee healthcare a right for every man woman and child in this country sign bernie sanders petition Tell congress to pass a medicare for all single payer health system So for sighing a petition sure i'll sign it That email doesn't look valid. Oh, I didn't add the dot com submit Okay, and then we go to the donation page. Um, I am Enrolled in monthly donations, so I am not going to contribute here But um, yeah, that was great bernie is um This was a brilliant move here. He is trolling joe biden in Not a hostile way in a very wholesome way and I absolutely love it great move by bernie Keep it up. I want to see more of this and I want to see you Rip joe biden a new one because it is Warranted for the way that he's been, you know attacking medicare for all viciously as a blade When it comes to migrants in detention facilities at the border, there's been so much discussion in politics About whether or not it's appropriate to call them concentration camps or even accurate to say that they're Comparable to concentration camps But as we have this conversation as mainstream media continues to dwell on this as republicans hammer away at how Insensitive it is for someone like aoc to call them that We're missing a broader issue. We're missing what's actually Happening in these facilities regardless of what you want to call them Now when you look at these migrant detention facilities slash concentration camps I don't know how you can dispute the fact that these are in fact concentration camps And me personally that's what i'm going to call them because I call it like I see it That's what it looks like what we're going to do though is i'm going to show you footage From these facilities and allow you to judge for yourself because what you're going to see here is actual human Suffering that's going on people who are begging and pleading for individuals that bring their cell phones into the facilities To get the word out about the conditions and it's absolutely gut-wrenching. It's heartbreaking and when you see this if you Actually believe that all human beings are equal and you have human Compassion and just basic empathy Then something will go off in you as you watch this You're going to feel for these people So the first video i'm going to show you is from representative, um mcgovern who took a video of I want to say a couple dozen migrants in a relatively small room And this is their reaction to him filming them Are you being fed Food So he's been here for over 40 days No showers no meals Le le tienen la luz prendida por la noche No pueden dormir bien So they're saying that the lights are kept on all night long That was really really difficult to watch you see the tears in their eyes. You see just You see people genuinely suffering And you know, it's hard to really grasp that this is happening in our country our tax dollars Are funding that suffering that we're seeing And they talked about how they haven't showered in 40 days. Can you imagine how uncomfortable that would be? How gross you would feel And then when it comes to how often they're being fed it was difficult to really grasp what they were saying But one guy he put up his finger Which kind of signaled, you know, maybe they're not eating very often. Maybe once per day So they're not showering They are Presumably not eating very frequently. They're having to sleep with the lights on This is Absolutely morally reprehensible They're stripping away the dignity That human beings should always have but I mean that's the point What they're doing here is they're trying to send a message to other people Who may think about crossing the border If you come here into our country, this is not a place that will be welcoming to you This is what you're going to have to deal with So by, you know, not allowing them to shower feeding them infrequently putting them in these small confined areas with a lot of people that are obviously overcrowded That's the point. The point is to strip away their human dignity You know, they're cruel because they want other people to not want to come into the country And the Trump administration isn't necessarily trying to hide This type of footage. In fact, they released footage of Mike Pence Going into one of these facilities And touring the facility and you see people in cages basically with the same response And I'm going to play that a video clip for you But look at Mike Pence's face because you will see just this blank stare on his face Completely apathetic not caring at all. I mean you see them. They're trying to send a message You know, we have an eaten they're doing, you know, the four zero And there's nothing just complete and utter lack of empathy Entirely it's baffling. Take a look How can you go into a facility see all of those people crammed into a confined area? I mean watching that I've I felt claustrophobic myself How can you go into that facility though and just not even acknowledge their existence? It's like he walked into a fucking zoo And was checking out an exhibit. That's the response But in fact It's even worse than that because if you walked into a zoo, you know There would be some type of human emotion that would be expressed on a normal human being's face But we got nothing there from Mike Pence We got a seemingly sociopathic response from him. He didn't care at all That there were all these people in cages behind this fence and obviously too many people for one area And towards the end there, you know, it seemed like they were lying down trying to demonstrate that one If they're going to sleep, it's going to be on concrete But two even if they wanted to sleep on the concrete They can't really do that because there's not enough room for all of them because there's so many people confined to a singular area Now let me remind you Trump's administration released this video. They want people to see it They want the word to get out about these conditions. Now, they're not overtly saying, you know These are the horrible conditions. In fact, they would maintain that the conditions are lovely In fact, Mike Pence said, you know, um, I talked to somebody and she told me how wonderful it is And how her children are being taken care of and whatnot So they're going to say that they're going to try to maintain that facade But Mike Pence knows exactly what he's trying to do this information Was deliberately released by Donald Trump's administration because they want us to see it They want people who may or may not cross the border to see it They want that to dissuade them and they also want their supporters to see look This is what we're doing. All these people that would be trying to integrate into your society, your white society They're now locked behind cages. Look at what we're doing. So this is propaganda and it accomplishes numerous things for the Trump administration numerous things See when you and I see it We feel disgusted. We feel nauseous by looking at the way that our government Is treating other human beings But when a Trump supporter who is highly xenophobic sees this He or she applauds it and thinks my government is doing something Trump knows this Mike Pence knows this and they also hope that other immigrants Get the message too Now a couple of weeks ago, we talked about aOC's visit to the border And she talked about how poorly Women and children were treated one of the migrants asked for water. They told her to drink out of a toilet So i'm going to play a clip of aOC's testimony before congress Because that really what you're going to see here is emotion From someone who's normal like if you go into these facilities and you try to process what's happening This should be the response. You should be appalled. You should be disgusted So what you're going to see is aOC cry as she describes this You're also going to hear from rishita talib towards the end of the clip But try to think about her reaction, which is a normal human reaction And juxtapose that with the reaction of mike pence In your mind as you watch this and what was worse about this Mr. Chairman Was the fact that there were american flags hanging all over these facilities That children being separated from their parents In front of an american flag That women were being called these names under an american flag Mr. Chairman it needs to be noted into record I spoke to cpb agents even though they told us not to speak to them too Remember that And I said what do you think we need to do because you guys are overwhelmed They said one of them stopped sending money. It's not working another one said I wasn't trained for this. I am not a social worker. I am a medical not a medical care worker He actually said I want to be at the border. That's what I was trained to be at The separate the one other one the last one mr. Chairman The separation policy isn't working. He said so what you saw there was a genuine Normal reaction to have to other human beings suffering We're no different than the migrants that are in those cages. We can feel claustrophobic. We can feel Hunger we can feel sad And so aoc is seeing herself in them as any human being would But when you contrast that with mike pence's response, it was cold And he clearly had no remorse now one last video I want to show you it's from a lawyer who met with Child detainees and she gives us a little bit more insight into the conditions Again, you're seeing somebody who was affected in I think a normal way React to horrible conditions. Many had not brushed their teeth for days They were wearing the same clothes they had on when they crossed the border Clothes that were covered in nasal mucus vomit breast milk urine Multiple children had a strong stench emanating from them because they had not showered in days at clint. I met a six-year-old boy who I will never forget He was tiny and he hardly spoke When I asked him if he was at clint with anyone He began to sob Nearly inconsolably for an hour nearly an hour This is happening in the united states of america But please Whatever you do Don't call them concentration camps So I'll let you decide now you saw the footage you saw the testimony from people who toured these facilities Who couldn't show us everything because they couldn't bring their cell phones Even though some of them snuck, you know their phones in and got some photographs, but you saw it for yourself How are these not Concentration camps, how is it inaccurate to call them concentration camps? How? We know what these are these are concentration camps and by calling them what they are We're getting people to really take a second look at the practices that are going on in these facilities We're getting people To think wait a minute We're calling them concentration camps. So maybe I should see for myself What the conditions are like so I can be the judge So calling them concentration camps isn't just effective politically But it's accurate You saw them these people are suffering in there And they're suffering at the hands of our government and we're the ones who are paying for that Now I want to switch gears a little bit because we cover the human angle But I want to talk about the capitalist angle because even if you see that suffering And could think who's benefiting from this, right? Well, the capitalist system absolutely finds a way to extract Good from even horrific situations and turns a profit out of it because these concentration camps oftentimes Are privately run and as stefanite of axios explains as of november 2017 71 percent of detained immigrants were being held in private detention facilities According to government data obtained by the national immigrant justice center since trump became president ice has awarded more than 480 million in federal funds to geo group and more than 330 million to core civic according to usa spending It's a similar situation to the late 1980s and early 1990s when all levels of government Began struggling to handle the surge in prison populations and turned to private prison companies to help Brett and center for justice program director in a my chatty are told axios The government is rapidly increasing immigration detention and outsourcing it to the private sector Between the lines these privately run detention centers often hire fewer staff members Require less training of them or don't implement programming for detainees Randy caps director of research for us programs at the migration policy institute told axios Some have even been sued for imposing forced labor on immigrants When you have kind of weak standards And you have a for-profit motive you wind up with understaffing and you wind up with lack of services and activities cap said That's where you get to health problems. And you probably have mental health problems, too So we have a system That is carrying out Large-scale human suffering. We are detaining human beings and keeping them in cages And we also live in a system that incentivizes The profitization of everything everything is commodified. So these private facilities that are overseeing Detainees they have an incentive To keep costs low Which means you squeeze more migrants Into smaller facilities you have left staff And it's just a recipe for disaster This is what capitalism does now even if you eliminate capitalism That doesn't mean that xenophobia would be eliminated as well But certainly you can see how here how you know these things are related and capitalism exacerbates the issue that we're all seeing So overall, I just want you to see this to see the footage Because if you see this and you have no response if your reaction is just ambivalence Then I need you to question how you see other human beings Because if you don't get some type of visceral response to seeing that if you don't think man This is difficult to watch even if you're against immigration Even if you're a trump supporter if you don't have the switch in your head go off And you don't feel something for these people you need to reevaluate yourself and reevaluate your priorities because You have bought in to this idea that other human beings can be less than you and inferior to you And that's incorrect And it's fundamentally against What we should be as human beings who are the same as these migrants just as we may feel claustrophobic in those conditions They would feel that way as well. Just as we feel disgusting if we couldn't shower They feel that way as well Because they're human beings and we should treat them as human beings So let's talk about psychotrack robotic He is originally from the bernie sanders 2016 campaign He then went on to be one of the four original co-founders Of justice democrats along with kyle kalinsky and jen yuger and i'm forgetting who the fourth person is But nonetheless, he was a part of that original group. He then went on to become aoc's chief of staff and now the establishment has kind of targeted him because He is just as outspoken In condemning the democratic party and all of their failures and weaknesses So on twitter, he oftentimes calls out democrats who are corporatists He calls out democratic party leadership. Nancy Pelosi and he's relentless He's doing what somebody who was on the left should be doing And let's just take a moment to think about this Like do you think that people who are progressive who are democratic socialists such as myself? Do you think we want to spend any time criticizing the democratic party when the republican party is a proto fascist party? And they are as extreme perhaps as they've ever been. I mean, do you think we enjoy wasting time on this? No, of course, we want to move on to the republican party But the democratic party has become so bad so weak They become trump and republican party enablers and we shouldn't have to call them out We shouldn't have to hold their hands and make them oppose Donald Trump in a meaningful way But that's the reality of the situation. That's the world that we're living in We are not in a world where we have a competent opposition party that keeps this fascist party in check The republicans. So what do we have to do? We have to hold them accountable So they hold republicans accountable as well again I would rather dedicate all of my time into attacking republicans But democrats have power and they're the closest to us ideologically even if there's a lot of distance there So what we have to do is get them to use their power to keep republicans in check So when psychot calls out Nancy Pelosi and the democratic party's corporatism He's doing a public service because now he's in a position that is relatively influential He is the chief of staff for one of the most popular politicians in america Certainly perhaps one with the most name recognition out of everyone the aoc So he's calling them out because he wants them to do better not because He's trying to create this false equivalence and that Democrats are bad, you know, and republicans are good, of course not But what you're gonna see here is how the democratic party establishment responds to his criticism and Predictably they don't take it very well. But before we get to their response Let's get to what psychot is saying because I don't think these criticisms Are even that controversial. So he tweeted out the greatest threat to mankind is the cowardice of the democratic party This is a quote from a ryan grim article that he shared He says if democratic leaders cannot lead fearlessly in a time like this, we may not get another chance Our civilization is at stake All these articles want to claim what a legislative mastermind Pelosi is but i'm seeing way more strategic smarts From freshman members like aoc ilhan omar reshita talib and iana presley Pelosi is just mad that she got outmaneuvered again by republicans Pelosi claims we can't focus on impeachment because it's a distraction from kitchen table issues But i'd challenge you to find voters that can name a single thing How democrats have done for their kitchen table this year What is this legislative mastermind doing? We are in a time that calls for leaders that lead leaders like aoc ilhan omar reshita talib and iana presley Voters want representatives who will fight even if they lose the fact that house democratic leadership doesn't see this Is incredibly troubling. So he's approaching this From the position that hey I need you to do your job. I need you to do better because you are the only governmental force That actually has the power and authority to check republican party tyranny. Do your fucking job Do your job, but nancy pelosi isn't doing her job Like we shouldn't have to force nancy pelosi to stand up to donald trump She should see that this party is becoming increasingly fascist and there should be a switch that goes off in her head Where she just knows okay. I need to defeat him and stop their harmful legislative agenda, but that's not happening That's not happening. So that's why people like sycott people like myself have to stand up and say Democrats, where are you we need you to fight? And that's what he's doing The point is that he's calling on nancy pelosi by name because she's failing But here's what they're really pissed about. This is a tweet that he put out recently after nancy pelosi and 90 democrats Caved to mitch mcconnell didn't realize this needed to be said But you can be someone who does not personally harbor ill will towards a race But through your actions still enable a racist system and a lot of new democrats and blue dogs did that today This is in reference to my comparing blue dogs and new democrats to 1940s southern democrats southern democrats enabled a racist system too I have no idea how personally racist they all are and we're seeing the same dynamic play out now Now somebody then responded to him and said well Does it make sense to say that a congresswoman like charise davids who is a native american? Does it make sense to say that someone like her? Is enabling a racist system when obviously she personally wouldn't be benefiting from that at all And this is what he said in response. I think the point still stands I don't think people have to be personally racist to enable a racist system And the same could even be said of the southern democrats I don't believe charise is a racist person But her votes are showing her to enable a racist system And he says this because she voted for the bill that funds donald trump's border migrant detention concentration camps Uh with absolutely no checks. Um, no, uh care. No, uh, accountability whatsoever. She voted for that So he's calling her out because she did something that is harmful that enables fascism He called that out democrats absolutely hated that and here's what they said in response Who is this guy and why is he explicitly singling out a native american woman of color? Her name is congresswoman davids not charise. She is a phenomenal new member who flipped a red seed blue Keep her name out of your mouth So as you can see, um, how dare you respond to a question About charise davids. How dare you you see because the democratic party They really need us to believe that they are fantastic on social justice and racial issues because that's literally all that they have To prove to their left-wing base that they aren't as bad as republicans I mean if you take away this idea that democrats are good on gender race, you know sexual orientation gender identity Uh, what's left the equivalence between them them and republicans Would vanish so they have to protect this idea that they're absolutely anti-racist and anyone who says otherwise Is in the wrong and now since he said that since he challenged that sacred idea They are coming after him and they're coming after him really really hard In fact, members of the democratic party establishment want him fired and are directly calling for that Now as mike lillis and scott wong of the hill ripe in recent weeks psychot shock robotic has tweeted messages Suggesting pelosi is an ineffective legislator that a native american lawmaker voted to quote enable a racist system And that moderate democrats are modern-day segregationists because they backed a senate border aid bill It's all put additional pressure on ocasio-cortez a new york democrat who has taken congress by storm That's just a terrible statement to make. That's a terrible statement to make representative gregory meeks a congressional black caucus member said of chakra body segregationist tweets Somebody's got to be held accountable If my staff did something that was not right then i have to handle my staff The question is do you think it's appropriate for your staff to say something like that adan meeks who in recent days Has threatened to back a primary challenger against ocasio-cortez chakra bodies outspoken style combined with his history of fighting to topple incumbent democrats deemed too conservative to bear The party brand has made him a target of fierce new scrutiny while raising questions about his longevity on capitol hill Do i think aoc's chief of staff needs to be fired? Of course i do so the moderate democratic lawmaker who is in charge in that office Is she unable to fire him for his racist comments another democratic lawmaker added My chief would have the honor to resign if he tweeted those things Chakra body is a snot-nosed punk who doesn't have a clue about the liberal battles the grizzled 79-year-old speaker has led over the years Former representative rom immanuel who served under pelosi as head of the house democratic caucus and campaign arm Said in an interview with the new york times now there were more quotes that i didn't even touch on from uh democratic aides representatives and strategists who were saying you know, it's really odd that He hasn't been reprimanded for his racist comments even though he was calling out racism He's being racist Because he was talking about a woman of color even though he's a man of color But he's being racist and it's really odd that aoc hasn't done anything Um, maybe she should fire him. Maybe we should get her kicked out of congress if she doesn't reign in her attack dog I mean, this is what the democratic party does I said this once i'll say it again. They are resisting progressives. They're resisting the left More strongly than they resist republicans. Do you ever see members of the democratic party establishment go this hard against republicans I mean, they'll take shots at republicans sure they'll talk about how much of a threat donald trump is But they continue to enable him they vote for his military budgets They vote to fund his concentration camps while not having any type of stipulation for accountability Or any extra resources to make the migrants actually not feel Horrible like they're suffering. I mean, this is what they do so when sci-cott called out them and the way that they enabled, you know, the racist System that we have in place currently the racist status quo That was a bridge too far Because when you go after the democratic party when it comes to issues related to race and any social racial justice issues Then you're attacking their legitimacy Directly because that's all they got again. They're conservative economically So if people start to lose faith and their ability to stand up on behalf of people when it comes to racial and social justice They're toast. I mean, they're already pretty much Incompetent and incapable of running successful campaigns against republicans But I mean they're toast if they lose that that's why they're responding so forcefully to sci-cott here But he needs to keep it up because if they don't want to be criticized There's a very easy solution that can get people like sci-cott people like myself off of their backs They can fucking do better It's that simple stand up to republicans and start resisting them even half as much as you do progressives That's a start Hi before you skip this ad take a moment to hear me out. But first let me ask you a couple of questions Do you find blue-haired left-wingers on college campuses who oftentimes cry about social justice as insufferable as I do? 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I don't know if it was positive or negative But I mean she said things that I think were endearing She then decided to fundraise for Mike Ravel in order to help him meet the debate threshold And she just keeps going up in my book and now she went up even higher in my book Because she went on the Rubin report And proceeded to completely dismantle His right wing worldview and it was absolutely glorious because I don't know if she was familiar with the Rubin report But it was clear that she Was honestly dumbfounded by some of the idiotic things that he was saying like she was able to call out Right wing talking points like that and you could tell like she was speechless at certain points Based on the things that he said and how stupid that they were So I've got a couple of clips for you and there's a lot here But first I want to show you a clip where she responded to something that he said that was obviously Pretty weird So they were talking about reparations for american descendants of slavery And she was talking about how healthy it's been for german society to atone for the crimes That were committed against german jews during the holocaust And she thoroughly lays out all the crimes that the united states government Committed against black americans from slavery to jim crowe to red lining But dav rubin then tries to challenge her on that point And he posits that you know, maybe it's not acceptable for us to compare, you know, the holocaust to slavery Watch her response here because I think it's going to speak for pretty much everyone Uh Who knows what dav rubin is about I mean a couple of times you're referencing the genocide of the jews to slavery seems like a little bit of a Slippery slope there now I don't even know how we can say that actually and I say that as a jew If you read up much on slavery, yeah, we're talking abject slavery day I mean nobody's in a contest. Nobody has a monopoly on human suffering This was abject slavery Million and also if you started slavery in 16 19 and you had two and a half years Two and a half centuries And then at the end there were four to five million enslaved people Do you realize generation after generation how many millions of people we're talking about? She was genuinely baffled by his ignorance baffled by it Like he is probably of the mind that look we abolished slavery We freed the slaves and now they're free spread your wings and fly But life isn't that simple life isn't that simple discrimination doesn't just go away It still exists. There was still very explicit discriminatory policies Against black and brown people in this country. This shouldn't have to be explained to someone who's a political commentator You should just know it but the fact that he doesn't know it and he clearly did not read up on the history of slavery I mean that speaks to Marianne's response there. She was weirded out So I don't really have anything to add because her reaction there said everything that I wanted to say But moving on there was a point where he straw manned Members of the democratic party who are running for president And this is a straw man of the left in general whenever the issue of immigration comes up The right straw man doesn't says oh will you support open borders when I mean you can never find an example of a lefty talking about open borders So she acknowledges that and then shuts it down immediately It seems like everyone's kind of veering to some version of open borders that that's somehow Something kind of so tell me Well, I don't consider I don't consider myself a democrat anymore. I don't consider myself a republican, but I'm definitely not a democrat I have not heard one candidate. Well, they won't say it, but well, but the policies seem so Oh, you don't say it, but you relate me ways is that is that healthy honorable debate? You say it if you believe it I don't believe it. You can have healthy. No, I I take them at their word and it seems to me that the policies ultimately are Why why if you say we should have proper security at the border? But that is going to take remember the president has closed a lot of the ports of entry That is what has created so much of the squeeze here because he's closed so many of the of the border entry points Of course, we need we need border enforcement now Right before they got to that part of the conversation Dave Rubin was talking about how healthy it is to have this debate, you know From people who have different opinions on things and then she took it and threw it right back in his face When he proceeded to straw man members of the left. She said is that healthy and honorable debate, Dave? That was absolutely Brilliant and then Dave Rubin tried to justify his claim that democrat support open borders by saying look I take them at their word and it seems to me that the policies ultimately are dot dot dot What what are the policies that suggest they support open borders because there's no policy from anyone running for president Or anyone in congress, I'd argue that supports open borders So name a policy that you think would facilitate open borders name one name a single policy, Dave You can't do it and he says i'm going to take them at their word and then admits that he's not taking them at their word Because he looks at their policies and the policies are really telling you that they support open borders So do you take them at their word or do you look at the policies which one? Because what you're saying is contradictory, but he doesn't even realize it and I think that this just speaks to the stupidity of Dave Rubin now I haven't seen like a long-form discussion with Dave Rubin I think since the david pacman interview But I mean listening to him speak and I watched the whole whole thing It really is insufferable like he clearly doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about And it's not just that he's uneducated and ignorant about the issues that he's supposed to know about Given that he's a political commentator, but he also asked just downright weird questions to Marianne case in point Do you want to be president or do you want to be sort of like a Like that there should almost be like a side thing next to president sort of like where we're in the you know In many other countries, there's a president and a prime minister where there's sort of we have a constitution I'm fine with the constitution. So I'm not suggesting we alter the constitution No, no, no, I mean that I actually mean that more spiritually where a lot of the things you're talking about maybe Hey person who's running for president. Do you actually want to be president or would you rather be you know sort of a side thing? What's a side thing? And then he gives the example of countries that have presidents and Prime ministers So I think that the word he was looking for when he said side thing was head of state And yes, it is true that there are countries with presidents and prime ministers But Dave those are parliamentary systems where the president oftentimes will serve as the role of head of state That's how turkey was for a long time until it was reformed by Erdogan So like he literally doesn't know what a head of state is like, how are you a political commentator? How do you have a million subscribers when you don't know basic things? Why would she be running to be a side thing when if you are elected president Part of the job is that you also serve as head of state, which just means you are a glorified representative of the united states I mean, what a weird question of all the questions that you can ask a presidential candidate. That's what he comes up with What? That's so stupid. Dave. Do you not understand how you sound? That's so stupid What the fuck? I mean It's bizarre, but that's not the only time where he said something that was completely bizarre You know, I know billionaires who say sounds right to me I know a billionaire who said to me living in this town who once said to me my taxes are so low It's obscene and what is why why does he need the government to do something with his money? Correct me if i'm wrong, but it seems like you're asking Marianne Williamson Why the government does stuff? Is that literally what you're asking her? Why does the government Have to do something with the money from billionaires because they're not just going to voluntarily give up their wealth So you have to take it from them and then redistribute that but in his ideal Libertarian scenario, you know, they would just willy-nilly voluntarily give up their wealth But what he doesn't realize is that even if billionaires were not greedy and they chose to subvert government and distribute their money back to their communities That would be an incredibly complex complicated process Which would require them to form some sort of organization and determine You know, what's the best way to redistribute their wealth? Which would require some type of structure Which then requires a type of leadership situation in a hierarchy But then how do you determine who gets what but wait, doesn't that sound familiar? Doesn't it seem like we've come full circle and now even if in your ideal scenario That sounds a lot like governance I mean, yes governments do stuff. Dave. That's what they do. Their goal is governance. That's what governments do Like he doesn't even seem to have an elementary Understanding of the way that things work and it's just it's perplexing that you can have that big of a platform and be that Ignorant to basic details about political systems. Like he doesn't know what a head of state is presumably He's literally asking a presidential candidate. Hey, why does government does stuff? What? He then goes on to challenge this idea that you know, maybe governments shouldn't compel businesses To raise the minimum wage and then Marianne Williamson again Proceeds to give him a rhetorical beatdown So if I wanted to hire somebody here just a pa or somebody to fill water glasses and things You would want the government to be able to tell me to tell my company No, because we're in Los Angeles and you can afford $15 an hour theoretically Well, right, but it's not about what I can theoretically afford or not if I How is that so if I because I have tons of people that would love to work for me for free We pay our interns. I don't have I don't want anyone I pay a hundred percent of all my Employees health insurance. I don't want anyone to work for me for free But the idea that the government could come in if I wanted to pay someone say $12 because I could have Several people do it for free the idea that the government could come in and tell me Something like fast food restaurants. Okay. Yeah, so 20 years ago somebody worked as a at a fast food food restaurant as a after school You know, there were young people today. This is how people pay their bills And have to have two and three jobs There are but if you force those companies to pay those people aren't they just going to replace those people with iPads I mean we see that happening now This is mentally exhausting If you force those companies to pay people more, aren't they just going to replace those workers with iPads? Dave You're a capitalist. Do you not even understand How the system that you shill for works I mean To believe that you would suppose that you know these companies If you make them pay their employees a higher wage Then they're going to retaliate and then they're just going to lay people off They're going to say, you know what I'm going to punish you by laying you off now since I have to pay you more And now I'm going to replace you with an iPad. Ha ha. Oh, what's that? You want to unionize and demand more? Well, I'm just going to automate away your job if you do that peasant I mean, that's not how capitalism works The goal is to maximize profits. So they're going to replace workers It's inevitable with iPads if they believe that they can do that and it will be profitable for them They're not going to do that as a means of protesting against the minimum wage increase Regardless if government raises the minimum wage or not They're going to automate away as much jobs as they possibly can Because their behavior is driven by the desire to always increase profits That's the way that capitalism has and always will work It's why companies like Activision Blizzard, for example, they ranked in record profits and then they still laid off 800 employees It's because they wanted to make even more money after making a shit ton of money I mean, this is what a capitalist system incentivizes So to suggest, oh, well, you know, we don't want to do too much in terms of regulation Because these companies might be spiteful and automate away these jobs No, they're going to automate away the jobs regardless of what government does and does not do Because if they believe that they will make more money by automating away jobs That's exactly what they are going to do regardless of if we increase or decrease the minimum wage, which seems like, uh, is what you want Now He makes all these right-wing libertarian arguments, but he still has the audacity to laughably say this No, believe it or not. I actually consider myself a liberal Sure, jam. Oh give it a rest already I mean, nobody believes that you're a liberal Functionally speaking, you are not liberal. You're not left-wing and I get it This is a grift you make more money and you cultivate more legitimacy if you say that you are left-wing But I'm criticizing the left like it makes it seem as if you're someone who's being introspective and cares about the left But I mean in order to maintain that facade There has to be a certain line that you draw for yourself that you don't cross meaning if I cross into this Territory too much people might suspect that I'm not actually a liberal and not only did you cross that line You veered way off to the opposite side. I mean you're teaming up with Prager you turning point USA These are organizations that are funded by right-wing billionaires The ruben report teamed up with learn liberty, which is funded by the Koch brothers I mean, how can you possibly still with the straight face say I'm liberal After you have lived your life as a conservative for the past two three years I mean give it a rest nobody believes you nobody believes you the grift has to be believable In order to continue But at this point you just need to own that you're conservative because you are but he's still till this day gets triggered whenever somebody calls him Conservative and he said it twice during this interview. He said no, I'm actually a liberal Okay, Dave sure Jan now I want to get to the final part Which is probably my favorite clip here because he's going to promote this idea that small government is inherently superior and Marianne Williamson though is going to come through and totally dismantle that naive idea in a matter of minutes And what she did here was just artful I give money to poor people when I can and I volunteer when I can and things that I do at sort of the personal level But that it seems like a lot of the answers that are coming out from everybody on the democratic side right now Or just that the government should do these things and I would me personally would always be leery of the government Because the government is the people that put people in slavery The government is the thing that that exterminated six million jews, etc, etc So my preference would always be that we're always taking power away from the government We're giving the government less money We're so that it will spend less and do less things so that we can do all of those things in our personal life And I wish I heard more out of from the democrats about that sort of thing There is a healthy skepticism that anyone should feel any american to feel left or right towards government overreach And leftist feel just as much as you do. It just tends to be in different places Okay, like stay out of our bedroom, etc. Okay, so healthy skepticism about overreach by government But let's not kid ourselves. Dave the people we're talking about government doing less today aren't saying small government They're saying let's just give the money to corporate control So whereas you're saying you don't want overreach by government I'm saying what it has turned into in this country. It's code less. Let's control less overreach by government has turned into Huge overreach by corporate forces So all the money that you're saying well, I don't want the government to do that All that money has just been marched over to short-term profit maximization for health insurance companies and big pharmaceutical companies and gun manufacturers and chemical companies and fossil fuel companies Defense contractors their overreach the overreach of this new matrix of corporate overlords is to me to be feared just as much as overreach by government So you think that's something by the way, no amount you talked about how you give No amount of private charity and we always need private charity and government can't do everything or should government do everything But no amount of private charity can can compensate for a basic lack of social justice You know you you can give a million dollars and it's also wonderful But basically because of our tax structure billions are going to the same situation that makes it so difficult for that person So that just dropping a million dollars into a charity It helps, but it doesn't in any way change the fundamental pattern of injustice I was thoroughly impressed by mary anne williams in here She said quote the people saying small government should do less today aren't saying small government They're saying let's just give the money to corporate control Exactly Because if you truly are arguing in favor of smaller government in a capitalist system Then you're not getting rid of tyranny. You're just trading it for a different type of tyranny You're saying I want large multinational corporations to handle the job of government, which is governance And the problem with that is see government is at least accountable to people you can vote and you can argue in debate about how Powerful that makes you in a democratic society, but nonetheless you can still exercise some level of power Which means that you have accountability over government But when it comes to nike or amazon or concast, we don't elect members on their board We have no say So you're not getting rid of tyranny and authoritarianism if you reduce the size of government You're just trading it for a different type of governance that I would argue Is a lot more harmful, but see to him he simplifies the view of the world like to him Good governance and crafting public policy isn't necessarily all of these complicated interrelated things It's just a matter of determining how big government should be on any given political issue You see on this issue. I think that we should adjust the size of the government scale To a six. We'll make it that big and on this other issue. Let's reduce it to a two. Let's make it really small there I mean intelligent people realize that good public policy And making good public policy is a lot more complicated than that But Dave Rubin doesn't get that to him big government versus small government is the entirety of the discussion when it comes to politics You can reduce all of politics down to the size of government to Dave Rubin He's like a 12 year old. He's so naive But I'll end it there You know, there were other things that I wanted to show you He literally had the audacity to ask her if Trump deserves credit because he changed his mind About bombing Iran and she shut that down and There was so much it was difficult to single out just a couple of clips because I could talk about this entire interview And just do an entire humanist report episode on this alone But we have to cut it off somewhere. This video is already way too long Um, and we'll leave that there Marianne Williamson completely and utterly dismantled Dave Rubin's libertarian worldview in less than two minutes Brilliant. Well played Marianne. Keep up the good work Okay So let's talk about a clip from the Candace Owens show and yes, unfortunately That is a thing. Now, if you know anything about Candace Owens, you know that he absolutely hates transgender people And is always saying some transphobic explicitly hateful thing about this marginalized and vulnerable community But in this particular clip that I'm about to play for you Candace Owens is going to take the trans hate and he's going to turn it up to an 11 So let's go ahead and watch. It's a short clip, but I have so much to say about this I could talk about this literally for hours possibly but um I'll bring it down for you and why everything that he's saying here Is disgusting. I even I'm actually like staunchly conservative when it comes to the trans to be and people say Oh, well, even if a person is trans you should have the decency and the respect to call them by their preferred pronoun I don't play that game and what I always say to people is if you have a mental disorder That's fine. You know, I don't need to come up to you and tell you that I think you have a mental disorder That would be rude But when you have a mental disorder and you're now requiring that I have a mental disorder Right to meet your mental disorder that doesn't work for me Which is to say that if somebody was walking around as a schizophrenic and saying that they were a superman And then telling me that I was required to treat them like superman. I wouldn't play the game. That's how I feel about trans I think the the slope is so slippery and they find that to be bigotry No, I don't need I'm not going to call you she I'm not going to call you her Just because you're a grown man and you're wearing a wig and a dress That that's literally telling me that I am now required to have a mental disorder because you have one You know, I try to to do it in public where I will not use the The fake pronoun so now now it's so confusing because if there's a man who thinks he's a woman And you refer to him as a man what the culture tells you is you're misgendering him The only the only people misgendering anybody or the ones pretending the man is a woman So I refuse to refer to the man as she however in a in an interpersonal if we were at a dinner party or something I will use whatever language he wants me to use to refer to him in the same way that if there were Schizophrenic at a dinner party. I would indulge the delusion that there were voices speaking. I mean it is a Obviously, it's a psychological condition But what the left wants is to have their cake and eat it too They want to say this is a very serious psychological condition and you have to indulge it Also, you want you have to treat it as though it's objectively true Right, that's where I change the bathroom signs now right because this person this this person Now needs to feel like there's a place for them to go that safe And I'm like, could you imagine a world take it take it out of the trans debate where we had to now accommodate everyone That was suffering with schizophrenia and we needed to make the world look like as they were seeing or the voices that they were hearing we we needed to basically get on our knees and and Um support whatever it is that they were saying people would say that was that was crazy that that was nuts But they they think it's different somehow with the trans debate And I don't know why the trans debate is now being steamrolled into the lgb debate How is that not obvious to you? How do you not recognize the commonality between all people within the broad lgbtq plus category The reason why we put lgb and t in the same category Is because we all violate the same sex and gender norms I don't know How she hasn't picked up on this yet since she talks about it all the time But I mean when you are born And let's say you're born with a penis Well society ascribes a role to you. You're supposed to act masculine You're supposed to be attracted to women and date women and have sexual intercourse with women And if you're born with a vagina, you're supposed to act feminine and express yourself that way and wear dresses and have long hair And date men and be attracted to men But not everyone fits neatly Into one box Lesbians gays and bisexuals as well as transgender people and non-binary people Don't conform but yet we still are discriminated against because we violate the same sex and gender norms that have been Assigned to us at birth. That's why we put all of them in the same category I don't even know how this is an obvious at this point But everything that kandace owens says here He just he takes the hate And he takes it further than ever before and by the way Since kandace owens isn't going to respect the preferred pronouns of transgender people Then I have absolutely no reason to respect his preferred pronouns So i'm assuming that uh kandace would like to use she her pronouns But I mean i'm not gonna respect hers if she's not gonna respect trans peoples So I will be using male pronouns to refer to kandace owens because um if you want to be addicted trans people Then you need to expect that there are going to be people that will give you a taste of your own Medicine, so let's break down why what he said here is utterly fucking absurd It's incorrect and it's laughable like this is stupidity that we just saw quote I'm stonestly conservative when it comes to the trans debate And people say oh well even if a person is trans you should have the decency and respect To call them by their preferred pronoun. I don't play that game Okay, so I won't play that game either, but how is this a game like Respecting people and not being dicks to people. That's a game to kandace owens Respecting the wishes of someone is a game to her. Oh, no, I don't have to play that game because it's a fact Scientifically speaking because I definitely know what I'm talking about that you are not biologically male or female So I don't have to play that quote unquote game because facts first facts don't care about your feelings But when it comes to climate change, I don't believe this like at all Just so you know quote when you have a mental disorder And you're now requiring that I have a mental disorder to meet your mental disorder. That doesn't work for me That's now literally requiring me to have a mental disorder because you have one in other words If you are a trans person and you expect me to use your preferred pronouns Well, I'm just buying into your delusions because if somebody is hallucinating and they see a bunch of bugs crawling on the wall And they're not there Then why should I have to play to that and say oh, you know, you're correct. There are bugs crawling on the wall No, I don't have to do that So what she's saying here is really dumb and the example that she uses like she creates an analogy to demonstrate why we shouldn't do this Quote if somebody were walking around as a schizophrenic and telling me they're superman I'm required to treat them like they're superman I wouldn't play that game Understand why this is such an idiotic comparison to make it's obviously a false equivalence But it's just downright fucking dumb like There are people in the world that express themselves as either masculine or feminine Somewhere in between or somewhere outside of that spectrum But there is nobody in the world who is capable Of flying and having superhuman strength like do you understand why these are not the same things? Candice One of them actually is not realistic In the laws of physics like somebody can't literally be superman But somebody can express a gender identity. We all do it. So what are you talking about? What are you even talking about? Obviously? This is a false equivalence, but understand what she's doing here. It's so stupid. She's essentially saying that Gender dysphoria and schizophrenia. These are comparable. These are basically the same things take it from me Because I definitely know more than the american psychological association I know more than the american medical association So disregard what they say about gender dysphoria and mental health and listen to what I say And what she says is basically look you've got to rip the band-aid off You need to tell people That you were born male. So uh, you're a man Don't buy into their delusions According to Candice Owens. I mean what she's essentially Proposing here is a type of cognitive behavioral exposure type therapy to trans people Where you believe that you know the best way to overcome a mental health issue or something that you're fearful of more specifically is You get exposure to it. What she's saying is you know, if trans people Are given the same type of recommendation if we tell them just be exposed To what makes you feel uncomfortable. That is your original gender That was assigned to you at birth on the basis of your sex Then obviously that's a way to overcome it. So i'm actually helping you Because by saying no, you're not actually a man. I'm exposing you to the reality of the situation and that's good for you except There's a flaw with this line of thinking and why it's obviously a false equivalence Transgender people have undergone the most extensive exposure therapy imaginable They lived their lives As the gender that they don't identify with They have a brain that is the opposite gender than the one that was assigned to them So they've been exposed to it and they didn't just willy-nilly decide You know what? I think I want to try living as the opposite gender or a non-binary gender Just to see how it feels they've been exposed to it So this is why i'm saying when you start getting in the realm of psychology and you start trying to analyze or psychoanalyze transgender people My response is shut the fuck up kand. It's because you obviously have no clue what you're talking about Don't you find it odd that plastic surgery can cure a mental disorder? This reminds me of there was a subreddit before I don't remember what it was called It was either called fat hate or fat people hate and essentially what the members of this subreddit would do Was they would take pictures of unsuspecting overweight people Post it to the subreddit and then everyone would make fun of them and say wow How disgusting it is that this person is overweight Now what's insane about this is people in this subreddit They actually deluded themselves into thinking that they weren't just bullying people who were overweight They were actually doing something good because the ideal was if we just make fun of these people That will give them the courage to change because they'll see how disgusting we think they are And then that will encourage them to lose weight A problem though is that this doesn't work Shaming people into doing what you think is best for them is never a strategy that is best for them In fact, it's incredibly destructive And as she says this about trans people she acts like she's saying something revolutionary Like do you realize that for every historically marginalized and oppressed group in society? This has been the same response like you're not proposing anything new and innovative What did we say about gay people? It's a mental disorder If we just force them to date the opposite gender then eventually they'll get over it Oh, what's that you want to be in an interracial relationship? Don't you know that this is not natural? So we should tell them directly that we disapprove. Oh, what's that? You're a slave and you think you should have equal rights as me a white property owner Well, I should tell you that you're being delusional here. I mean what she's saying Is completely old. It's it's been what we use To justify bigotry against marginalized communities. But what Candace Owens is saying is look, I have the solution We just have to treat transgender people like shit enough to where they'll De-transition and then they'll go away and this won't be an issue But it's incredibly hateful. You're literally encouraging hatred You're encouraging hatred and history is going to judge you Candace Very harshly because of this now. I know that Candace Owens himself will be fine, right? Candace Owens is always going to be able to make money off of this grift So long as she remains committed to this right-wing conservative ideology because there's going to be You know a a market need For her type of shilling but for the people who watch Candace Owens who actually respect her And take what she's saying seriously They're going to make social media posts about transgender people and how horrible they are and disgusting they are And then 10 15 years down the line when transgender people are actually fully accepted And have full rights because that's going to happen. We will win this battle Then these people will get fired. They'll have to come out and apologize But look, you don't even have to put yourself through all of this misery We've seen this story play out before Civil rights Will be one for transgender people and we're never going to fully get 100 success rate in terms of social acceptance But by and large just like gay people the tide will turn in their favor It's just a matter of when will that happen and which side do you want to be on? Because this isn't a debate Candace. It's non debatable. We don't debate whether or not we treat people Who are different than us as equals. We just treat them equally and those who don't will be judged very harshly by history So that's all I'll say. I'll leave it there because I could talk about this For a really long time because this is personal to me like I am part of the lgbtq Community I may be cisgender, but these are my people These are my people and so you are actively encouraging people to treat them poorly and you're Trying to do that under the guise of oh no, no, I I'm helping them. I promise you Get the fuck out of here. You're disgusting. You're a transphobic bigot And I really do hope that you one day regret the way that you feel I hope that you wake up because being hateful It may pay off for you in the short term but long term you're not helping yourself And you're certainly not helping society Candace I don't know why I continue to do this to myself. But here we are So I have another one of cnn's voter panels Every time I watch one of these my you know, um My view of humanity tends to go down and this one is probably going to cause humanity to take the biggest hit yet Because this panel contains female trump voters and they respond to his racist tirade Against members of the squad and for those of you who don't know obviously that is alexandria ocasio-cortez ilhan omar ianna pressley and reshita to leave so What he said about them go back to your own country. Obviously it was racist. Obviously donald trump is racist himself Um, but let's see what they have to say because I think you know, if you had to guess they probably loved it All right, here we go How many of you don't think what the president said was racist raise your hand these eight republican All eight of them raised their hands. How do you not think that that's racist? I mean, what else does he have to do? he could literally like wear blackface and Use, you know racial slurs and they would still raise their hands and say, of course, he's not racist How could he be racist? What's racist about it? I mean, there's literally there's no ceiling like there's no level Of racism that donald trump can express that would get them to say, oh, he must be racist Like there's no switch the lightbulb's never going off. It doesn't matter what he does. He's never racist in their eyes From dallas don't see anything wrong with president trump telling four democratic congresswomen To go back where they came from he was saying that if they hate america so much because what we're seeing out of them and hearing out of them They hate america If it's so bad, there's a lot of places they can go. I'm a brown-skinned woman I am a legal immigrant. I agree with him. Yeah, I don't think that's racist to say that's not at all Not at all. It's a demonstration of how their Ideology spills over even though they're american now so to speak They're not acting american. I'm glad that the president said what he said because Okay, they're not acting american. What does it mean to act american? You could make the same argument About donald trump. He's not acting american because we've never had a president this dumb this belligerent. So what does that even mean? She's imposing what she believes american means And let's let's be real being american in their view means you have to be white And you have to be pro flag. You have to hump the flag and fuck your guns That's the only way you're american enough for these people. Uh, there's absolutely no other way That you are equal to them If you don't do these things like these people are they're not serious people They're not serious people. They have a very naive worldview They probably get all of their news and information from fox news Which means that they actually are less informed than people who consume no news But nonetheless, this is the reality of the situation these people vote and this lady just said Something to the effect of if i'm remembering correctly. I'm glad he said it All they're they're doing is They're they're it's they're inciting hatred and division and that's not what our country's about We it's it's not about that at all and i don't know what the president does with some of his own comments His own racist, but he didn't say anything about color. We know the president Come on come on. Oh my god How how can you say that with a straight face? You know these women they're just so divisive But isn't that what the president is doing? Yeah, but he didn't say anything about color No hope for humanity no hope Color we know the president is not racist. He loves people from you know, hispanics of black people all across the board. Let me just Okay, you can believe that the president is not racist I would contend that you're probably a little bit delusional at this point But if you believe that he's not racist, then how do you explain why his policies Have a racial effect like they hurt people they hurt marginalized people you can think Oddly if you want to believe that he loves transgender people, but he banned them from serving in the military so even if You believe that he's not racist How do you not get that conflict in your mind that oh well? He's doing policies x y and z and i've gone too far I'm giving them too much credit because they would never accept that his policies, you know have racial consequences They would never accept that you know anything the republican party does voter ID laws These are not racist even though they are intended to target And reduce the turnout of people of color Here with you the definition of racism from mary and webster dictionary A belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority Of a particular race based on that definition. Do you not think what the president has been saying? No, he dated a black woman for two years What if she let me go back if she said what I think she said then i'm gonna die I don't think what the president has been saying No, he dated a black woman for two years Oh, I can't this is like He can't be racist One time, you know, he went to the store and the cashier was black and he didn't say anything racist There's your evidence boom gotcha mic drop These people Are just they're not living in the same Reality that we're all living in like it's an alternate universe that coexists between you know their universe and our universe like How are they not seeing what we see? His wives are immigrants. He is not a xenophobic racist But the first the black billionaire is endorsing president trump. Yeah, how can you call him racist? That's such a great point. The first black billionaire endorsed him so there's no way he could possibly be racist Wow, why didn't I think about that? Amazing So if you ever say anything racist just get uh, I'm assuming she's talking about kanye west Just get kanye west to say that what you said or did is not racist and boom your hands are clean I mean, I just I don't get how this is compelling to them How is this a compelling argument? Do you really believe that because kanye likes him? This doesn't make him racist. How do you explain central park five? How do you explain? Him discriminating against black tenants in the 70s and 80s How how do you explain that? Do you just not know about this or do you do know and then you're woefully, you know ignorant after that? I mean, you're defending someone who is not just maybe racist. He is explicitly openly racist This isn't dog whistle racism that donald trump is expressing This is bullhorn racism and you're defending that and it's not just that he is a bad person because he's racist He's a bad person because he has a history of hurting people hurting vulnerable communities He's literally an accused rapist and you're defending this asshole I mean, jesus christ. I can understand Separating, you know the politician and the policies from the personal life. I get it But at what point do you drive a line like if bernie sanders was accused of rape? If he was accused of being racist and there was reason to believe that he was in fact racist Various examples and anecdotes to demonstrate how racist he is I don't think I could support him even if he had good policy because I mean, I you would have to draw the line somewhere Having good moral character that does matter if you're running The country because we have the most strong military the biggest economy ever So, I mean, yeah, I think that having Morality it does matter contrary to popular belief But let's continue. I don't know why I'm getting upset because I this is what I expected He's congressman these congressmen who said they ran for congress ran for office because they explicitly love this country. You're saying that's a lie Yeah, you're saying they hate this country. Yes, you ever brought these questions up It's clearly that they're very manipulative to accuse as a Instead of extracting the truth it's a tactic because when you say, you know, don't you think he's racist? You're accusing us. You're accusing him I'm asking I'm asking you what you think Okay, let's go relevant. Here's one thing that I think all republicans have in common accusing someone of being racist is Worst sin than actually being racist like you hear them denounce people who accuse others of being racist But how frequently do they actually denounce? racism I mean, that's the bigger sin Don't ever accuse anyone of being racist because that's worse than actual racism These people are not serious It has nothing to do with the real issue has nothing to do with the premise of the issues here Exactly and whatever Do you think it's just a coincidence that these four congressmen that the president is going after none of them are white I don't think it matters. Yeah, it's idiotic what they're saying So it doesn't matter whether they're white What they're saying is idiotic. What specifically are they saying that you deem idiotic? And let's remember you support donald trump The man who said that portorico is surrounded by big water So before you call any other politician idiotic You need to evaluate Who you're supporting because we are seeing donald trump's brain melt out of his ears like he he has decayed mentally Substantially since he was sworn into office So I think that if you're worried about the intelligence and mental capacity of anyone in congress or anyone in government You need to look to donald trump first because there's nobody dumber than him Nobody dumber and i'm not just saying look donald trump has a low IQ I'm saying not only do I think he has a low IQ, but he also Has very substantial underlying psychological issues going on there. That's obvious Everyone sees it except you man woman Brown yellow anything. I wish that there was a white one that they they um, why are they not racist? How come they haven't befriended one of their white Female congresswoman colleagues and her joy because they won't a good point. They don't like white people. Come on Oh my god, okay. Let me just let her finish racist. How many of you still plan to vote for president trump? Absolutely. Absolutely Randy K see Wow There's no white members of the squad so um They must be racist What? I mean, do you hear yourself? first of all They all have a liking to one another and their friends because they all Ran on the justice democrats platform. They're all justice democrats. They all were part of brand new congress so they all ran on the same platform of Not taking corporate money being uncompromisingly and unapologetically progressive So they have that commonality, but I mean to say oh, well, they don't have any white members of the squad Let's say that there was a white person who was part of the squad Would donald trump target her out as much as he targets out them? Probably not and do we know why? It's because he's a fucking racist Bernie sanders is as unapologetically progressive As they are. How often does donald trump attack bernie sanders? Representative mark pocan very very progressive male He's white. Does trump ever go after him? Is it just a coincidence that he only goes after Brown and black people You don't find that odd Even if you thought it was just the coincidence, maybe you would think well the optics don't look too good So maybe he should refrain from attacking only black people I mean, I don't know what else to say. Um, I expected them to be This dumb quite frankly, but um, I mean, these are the people who I think are just too far gone You're not going to get them And it wouldn't be a problem if people realize this But the democratic party believes that there are things you can do to win these people over You're not going to win them over. You're not going to win them over You have to do What the republican party does if you want to win and beat republicans what they do is they throw red Meat to the base. That's what donald trump did when he singled out members of the squad So democrats have to have a parallel but opposite Strategy And that strategy is you, you know throw red meat to your base That's it's as simple as that But not to get you know too far off track here Man seeing stuff like this I just There's no fucking hope I need to stop watching these because um Sometimes they're great most of the time like nine times out of ten. These videos are soul crushing You want to know a joke? CNN I love how I'll tell the most unfunny dad joke ever and then proceed to laugh at my own joke I I acknowledge how insufferable I am sometimes so I apologize for that. Look the point is CNN is blatantly biased against Bernie Sanders. That's what I'm trying to convey to you the viewer And as someone who has had membership to the brotherhood of the bernard for many years now Um, I can spot it easily But they're making it easier to spot because they're being so Raisin so in an interview with bernie sanders campaign manager faii Shakir Um, what they did here was just shameless. They cherry-picked data to make bernie sanders appear less selectable than he is in actuality and then proceeded To falsely say that bernie sanders actually doesn't even have support Of the democratic party base his policies are not popular Among the democratic party now I think that faii's did a pretty good job at shutting down this misinformation and pushing back But we'll watch and then I have you know some commentary to supplement this clip because it's just Again, it's shameless not to be redundant. No, no good We just we want to talk a little bit about socialism To and we both have a few questions for you on socialism because we heard it was on this program yesterday that house minority leader kevin McCarthy said this is the new democratic socialist majority Which maybe you guys embraced right because of the the position of senator sanders as a socialist Um, is that helpful though to the democratic party overall? Do you guys think well? So let me let me just say about donald trump who's attacking in a very racist way For members really just tight on time and asking you about I just I just want to say like that what he's doing is attacking them because their policies Which is free tuition at public colleges and universities cancelling student debt medicare for all Instead of having that debate about policies He wants to take it into a racist place What i'm saying is those policies are quite popular and instead of having that debate on policies He's trying to elide that debate. We think that this is the popular Approach to go americans support this across the board the numbers don't support it actually There's an abc new washington post poll that found that trump would beat a candidate perceived as a socialist by 49 percent to 43 percent whereas other candidates Not perceived as socialists would beat him so i'm just curious are you convinced you have the public behind you Jim there's there's a guy with the name bernie sanders And I hope you will take a look at bernie sanders Against donald trump and look at those head-to-head numbers and then report back to me what you find jim Because I think you'll find in the 25 of the last 25 polls bernie sanders is beating donald trump head-to-head in every poll out there Can you challenge me on that? Well, I could challenge you on the because we're talking about positions that are his signature issues Which don't have the backing of the majority of democratic voters. Of course those issues are going to be discussed, you know Absolutely coming what do you think jim that most people know about bernie sanders? Do you what do you think they know about him? He ran for president before and head-to-head in places like wisconsin michigan and pennsylvania. He's crushing donald trump How do you explain that to me jim? Well, listen, we'll let the voters decide. I'm just saying on the issues that you're making your signature issues The polls show they don't back those particular issues and as voters learn about those issues that might be factored into their decision We're going to keep up the conversation because we got a lot of time till november 2020. Come back Come back soon. Okay. We really appreciate it. Thanks so much. Listen fies. Let's cut to the chase I just want you to accept and admit that socialism is bad Can you just do that for me or if not, we're just you know, we're going to cut off your mic I mean, that's what it seemed like, you know, they were kind of leading towards but he cited a poll Where it found that someone who was perceived to be a socialist would lose to donald trump trump would win 49 to 43 percent and then he poses the question. Are you convinced that the public would be behind you given the results of this poll? Except what's the obvious response? You cherry picked the data when you look at 29 polls bernie sanders beats donald trump 28 Times and in the one poll where he loses to donald trump other candidates weren't faring too well either So faiz was almost correct in saying bernie sanders beach trump in 25 out of the last 25 polls Maybe he's referring to internal polls But I mean the point is bernie sanders performs very well in hypothetical matchups against donald trump and most importantly He's beating trump in the rust belt states that hillary lost and the last poll that just came out Showed bernie beating trump by seven points. That's outside the margin of error So by citing one poll That shows that donald trump would perform well against a generic socialist democrat You're not educating your viewers. You're cherry picking data In order to lend credence to this claim that you know a socialist would be inherently less selectable Against donald trump, but the data doesn't actually show that I know you have that one poll But we look at aggregate polling data if we want to be the most accurate because that's the most Reliable like if you take any one poll sure there can be some value in that But you just look like a liar Like I understand that cnn wants to present themselves as neutral arbiters of information But you're not helping with that case here when you do things like this Now another quote that I wanted to get here get to here We're talking about positions which are his signature issues which don't have the backing of the majority of democratic voters Now he said this twice Now bernie sanders is a populist He has the backing his policies are backed by a majority of people when you look at most of his policies Most americans support it But when you actually control for democratic party voters They especially Back bernie's policy ideas So what are you talking about? I mean, let's just look at bernie sanders And his signature policy proposal for example medicare for all So when you look at this poll that was conducted between june 29th and july 1st from the morning consult It found that democrats are actually the most supportive i repeat the most supportive Of medicare for all and a majority of democrats still support it even when you tell them It diminishes the role of private insurers But 78% supported when you tell them that they get to keep their doctors and still go to the same hospital So i mean, what are you talking about? What the fuck are you talking about? The policies that bernie sanders are promoting they have majority support, but they're especially popular Among democratic party voters and it's not just medicare for all the green new deal is supported by over 90% of democrats A poll from may showed that elizabeth warren's plan to cancel most student debt Has majority support so i could only imagine that bernie's plan to cancel 100 of student loan debt is even more popular Especially among democrats most americans support free college And raising the minimum wage the overwhelming majority of americans support paid maternity leave and government funding for child care And as i tell you about how popular all of these policies are that bernie sanders is proposing They're popular among the majority of the population for the most part But they are especially popular among democratic party voters So what are you saying? These are incredibly popular policies among the democratic party base And that's what you want to do to win an election especially a primary You throw out policies that you know will excite the base it sounds to me like you just are not excited You and your rich colleagues at cnn who'll probably get paid six figure salaries every single year to espouse corporate talking points Seems like you're the one who doesn't like this and maybe you identify as a democrat and you're a democrat voter I don't know what the case is but what you're saying is factually incorrect It's demonstrably untrue and you should feel ashamed of yourself to say something like this Because it's a verifiable lie. We could just look at one public opinion poll on any given policy From bernie sanders and most of the time that particular policy that he is championing will be supported by a majority of americans And especially democratic party voters But faiz again, he did a great job at shutting down this bias, but i mean How are you supposed to expect us to take you seriously when you keep doing things like this? Like this isn't a one-off This isn't a one-off you keep presenting biased information You clearly have contempt for bernie sanders and his supporters and you expect us to trust you really You're not calling it like you see it. You're not calling balls and stripes It's evidence to everyone watching That you're trying to construct a narrative you want voters to believe bernie sanders is less selectable So they don't vote for him. So they vote for someone like joe biden who will maintain the corporate status quo Uh, not gonna happen because in the age of the internet. We can actually look stuff up now. We don't just have to take your word for it I am here with 2020 congressional candidate anthony clark running against danie k davis in illinois seven congressional district And he's here to talk about his campaign anthony. Thank you so much for coming on the program No, no, hello everyone. How you doing? Hello. Thank you for having me. I truly appreciate the opportunity Yeah, I've been following your campaign now, um, because this is the second time that you're running And I wanted to have you on the first time didn't get you on but now i'm writing that wrong And we're letting everyone know that you are a phenomenal candidate You're one of the original justice democrats members of brand new congress And I always ask this to candidates because there's a number of people running for congress, um for a second time You're one of several so quarry bush is another one who's running for congress had her on the show last time Um, so what made you want to run for congress because you're incredibly busy you run a non-profit You have a lot going on. You're a teacher So you're dedicating so much of your time and energy Just running for congress once like I could imagine would be exhausting. What made you want to do it a second time? Um, why why put yourself through this when you already are doing so much for your community? Yeah, definitely wonderful question. Uh, you know, thanks for asking it You know to understand while I ran the first time or while I'm running again You know it ties directly into my parents, uh, ron and blanche cart shout out to them love them to death My best friends to this day, uh, you know just the sacrifices they made throughout their lives to in effort to provide me with greater opportunity, right? Access to opportunity that's a key theme throughout our campaign and has been throughout my life And then when you combine that with the fact that you know, I obsess over Muhammad Ali like I'm a huge Muhammad Ali fan Uh, you know watch his fight still to this day followed his fights You know followed his career inside and outside of the ring and he was someone like my father Who I believe to be a true hero, uh, you know to have true courage and to not always go with status quo And one of his best quotes, uh, you know that I continue to take with me and I actually have it Tatted on my forearm here. I don't think you if you can see it or not But it says the rent I pay uh because the Ali quote is service to others is the rent you pay for room here on this earth Uh, so throughout my life, you know, I served in the military. Uh, that was not necessarily by choice You know, I did find myself in some trouble as a youth like many of us do And trying to get myself out of that, you know, the military happened to be an option Uh, so serving in the military and seeing firsthand the military industrial complex Seeing firsthand how one person's patriot could be another person's terrorist getting that exposure Coming home becoming a high school teacher Seeing how our educational system is essentially broken How so many families and students are failing within a public school system That's inequitable because of the public funding model that exists how property taxes Essentially fund our schools, uh, you know founding a nonprofit, you know prior to this new administration in 2016 focused on equity work Uh, you know being the co-founder of a small business employing at risk youth everything i've been doing You know inside and outside of employment, you know in the community has been an effort to pay rent You know, because even as a black man in america, you know, I recognize the privilege I've had throughout my life particularly having such a strong parental base Uh, you know, so that's what led me essentially to accept the nomination in the first place Because when the community nominated me, you know, I was village of the year in 2017 whatever the hell that means You know, I'm really not big on personal accolades You know, I thank the community for that because we truly work together But when I was nominated I was hesitant at first, you know, because I never saw myself as a politician Uh, I was jaded, you know by current representative representation How our current policies were going and so on and so forth But when I sat down I started thinking to myself as a teacher As a nonprofit director, you know as a small business co-owner, you know as a community activist and organizer I was essentially treating symptoms I was never I never had the ability to truly target the root cause So for example running a nonprofit, we would constantly do food food drives clothing drives You know for the homeless populations that exist But we never got to the root cause of why homelessness exists and the fact that homeless housing should be a human right, correct So we weren't treating the root cause housing should be a human right But at my level I was essentially treating a symptom the same people we were helping on monday They would still need help on friday. So how could we change things on a systemic level? Uh, so when again when I was nominated, I finally figured out that running for office accepting that nomination becoming one of the OGs which we are now what some of the originals Yep, uh, was the ability to truly get within congress and change policy We have to change policy. We have to change legislation Uh, but legislation is even enough We have to change the hearts and the minds of the american people if we truly want to address What I believe is a society built upon the genocide of natives and the enslavement of africans and african descendants To perpetuate capitalism and to promote and maintain white supremacy If we're going to truly change that we have to address root causes and that's why I accepted the nomination Uh, and anybody knows hopefully that anybody out there if you run once Please run again because the way the machine and the establishment the way some of the ways they maintain power is by Building name recognition and counting on corporate dollars, you know They're going to have more money than a grassroots candidate and if they've been in office for 10 to 20 years because of course They like to maintain power. Uh, they have larger name recognition You know, so you have to run to lay a foundation, you know, congresswoman alexandria casio-cortez congresswoman ilha omar I mean, they're superstars, you know, I look up to them. They're idols Uh, you know, I know aoc personally. I thank her for everything. She's done and inspiring me and others But not every race is going to be like that You can be awesome yourself, but it may take more than once it may take more than two times But the fight is that important. So for me running once was never going to be an option You run once of course we were in it to win We came up short But we learned so much from that race and now we're back building at a momentum. We're better prepared and we're going to take it this time And that's kind of what I'm hearing and it's really inspiring like amy valela is another individual who ran for congress And she didn't win she came up short, but she kind of said the same thing like, you know I learned so much now. I know what I need to do to win I have the tools needed and you brought up your representative. Um, so his name is dany k davis He's been in that seat since 1997 And when you compare someone like him who's entrenched within the political establishment to someone like you I mean, I really feel like it's no contest It really is a matter of people knowing who you are and you're already so involved with your community So you you're you're doing things to help people on a daily basis Like you're not suspending the work that you're doing to help out your peers Just because you're running for congress like before we came on For viewers anthony was telling me about a program that he's doing to get people to donate fans To people in the heat and whatnot. Um, do you want to talk a little bit about that and some of the things that you're doing? Like to help feed members who are less fortunate in your community because I think that it can't be, you know It can't be overstated How important this is because you're doing it one because you genuinely care But I think that this is a true representative Like you're already representing people in the seventh district So talk a little bit about your nonprofit work and what you're doing because I find it just absolutely fascinating Yeah, yeah, definitely. First and foremost, I want to give a shout out to Amy. It's her birthday today. So happy birthday. Happy birthday, Amy That is the homegirl for life, you know, thank you for everything that you do love you and your family and thank you for believing in us So, yeah, so in 2016, you know prior to ever being a candidate prior to ever being nominated Again being in the community and just seeing so many of my young students and families struggling Within a system that by design was not created To empower them. I felt like I had to do more, you know, it wasn't enough to, you know, get inside the classroom It wasn't enough to just organize and simply show up I wanted to go further and actually create an organization that again Try to try to because we haven't yet but try to attack more of the root causes that exist So suburban unity alliance suburban unity.org is my nonprofit organization. We're 501c3 You know, we're 100 volunteer base. I make no money from this nonprofit because let's be honest Some nonprofits are part of the issue as well. I think we saw in the news today particular non-profit that let go of some Employees that have disabilities because again, it was hurting their bottom line So again, we are 100 grassroots 100 volunteer base And it's just about getting out and building bridges between communities Because we truly believe the health of one community directly impacts the health of other communities like the health of the individual Directly impacts the health of other individuals. So we've done a lot of work on building empathy Building bridges between communities that you can literally cross the street And everything changes from the access to opportunity to the level of gun violence to food deserts that exist So based upon that work based upon building extremely strong coalitions with other organizations like best the proviso township Like opart call to action like passo west suburban action project We've been involved and had our hands and so many different things some things that I could throw out there We had two young women who were attending my high school They were victims, but I like to call them survivors and warriors of sex trafficking And they were under the salvation army and they were living in a organize at a home called ann's house Well, the salvation army cut funding. So these young women these two young women were essentially going to be left on the street They had nowhere to go They were going to have to leave the school that they were currently in at the time So we put it out to the community. We organized and in one day we raised over 13 thousand dollars We found these two young women a new placement and they were able to you know, continue their educational careers And and finish high school, you know, they're able to graduate now. Was it perfect again? Did we treat the root cause? No, but at least we were getting out trying to get behind and empower These wonderful students these wonderful young ladies other things we've done, you know There was a rape that had occurred in on the school district, you know Young women came to us. We got behind them empowered them. We created a petition Actually got out into the community and literally changed the sexual assault policy collaborating with other organizations Within the community We've changed the racial equity policy within the community as well and actually had a racial equity coordinator position created Through collaboration. We've helped to support Paso in passing welcoming village ordinances within the local community So I mean we could go on and on, you know But it's powerful because it taps in and it builds empathy because I feel like throughout history Ignorance has also led to so many individuals being complicit in the dehumanization and oppression of others You know similar to what we're seeing with our immigrant populations currently you dehumanize So then people on the outside that it's not directly impacting. Oh, you know, it doesn't they don't care You know, this is not impacting me, you know, like oh the current president said these are rapists These are drug dealers who cares But we should all care because again, it should impact us as human beings So we've engaged in network, you know, one of the biggest things and I'll leave it here because we could go on and on There was a local church that was being harassed by white supremacist organizations They reached out to our organization. We were able to fundraise. We purchased this local church State of the art security system to surround the church and we took it further than that We actually went to the church, uh, you know got trained on filling out DACA renewal applications So we would go there almost every week and sit with dreamers and learn more about their lives You know, learn more about their journeys and their truths and help them fill out these forms To fight, you know to fight to remain in this country that they've given so much to And it was interesting that so many people didn't even realize that many of our undocumented population They actually pay taxes, you know, they're working. They're paying taxes. They're giving to a community does not get back to them You know, so things like that help to break down those ignorance is hopefully and help to break down those barriers So that's what we've engaged in at SUA, you know, we're fighters. We rock the boat You know, I've been in trouble often for rocking the boat, you know through my organization suspended several times My life has been threatened. I've been attacked But the community has always stepped up in support and protest and sit-ins You know, I really have our backs because they believe in again It's bigger than just legislation like we're actually fighting, you know, ideological war And you know, that's what we engage in and this is why like you're already a representative or the representative It's just a matter of now, you know, you can get elected and gain the power to really Treat these root causes which you talked about and it's remarkable like few people do this because you know It requires a lot of time. It requires a lot of dedication and it can be demoralizing You know seeing all of these things that are going on all these issues in your community But it's just it's a dedication that I see with congressional again It's that you don't see like when you when you juxtapose the work that you're doing with any member of congress You just see that detachment like they're not in their communities. They don't even hold town halls often, you know So no, it's so it the difference is night and day between candidates like you progressive grassroots funded candidates and Basically anyone from the establishment So what I usually do on the show is whenever I get a candidate on we'll do like these rapid fire Questions while I ask you something and you know, see if you Check all the boxes the progressive boxes just so people know how progressive you are But I've realized that that's pointless because you these candidates running everyone including you you check all the boxes And you are phenomenal and all these ideas that you're proposing are are absolutely They'd be life changing basically So let me just go through a couple of them Medicare for all reparations for American descendants of slavery Canceling student loan debt like these are things that you lay out in your ad and when I looked at your website one thing that really stood out to me which is kind of I wouldn't say new but it's talked about less often is You mentioned animal rights and anti cruelty legislation. So I mean these are things that we're not hearing being discussed in congress Um, so with that being said along those lines of policy Let's say you're elected to congress and there's all these issues like you have a 100 point plan as to what you want to do I think you have a more robust policy platform than most people running for president So what do you do when you're elected like how do you focus like what would be your main priorities? Because I don't know where I would begin just personally if I were elected. I don't know where I would start So what do you think you would do as an elected member of congress? Um within the first year, what would you fight for? You know initially so to answer that question first and foremost I think you know many of us understand that the issues are interconnected So they require interconnected solutions And for me it starts at a micro and a macro level when I become the next representative of Illinois 7th congressional district Because within our district it's extremely gerrymandered I mean we have communities within our district where the median household income is around 110 thousand dollars And then you could go literally across the street and the median household income drops down to 34 thousand dollars I mean that's vast disparity that exists and often these communities have operated with Metaphorical and physical walls between them where they're not collaborating They're not working together to truly push for improvements So at a micro level when I become the next representative I'm going to take the work we've already been doing You know as a nonprofit leader as a teacher You know as a community activist and organizer to knock down these metaphorical and physical walls and to get our communities to work Stronger together, you know to come together because again in the austin community We have food deserts within the 7th congressional district So where do individuals have to shop, you know, either a cornish store eating processed foods Or they have to go into a community like oak park bring their money So their money doesn't even remain in their community Uh to invest in other communities because they need to eat proper food and proper produce So let's work together. Let's talk about the importance of building co-ops Cooperatives empowering people within our communities on the ground So using that influence to further educate because honestly the democratic party benefits just like the republican party I think from you know lack of voter education low voter turnout You know the jadedness of many voters like I had I had been before in my lifetime So we have to address those issues on a micro level, you know truly build coalitions on the ground Truly use our influence to strengthen all communities and have communities work together and empower each other And at a macro level, of course we have I mean for wonderful Congress persons right now with strong representation, you know truly speaking truth to power Truly rocking the boat. Uh, so I think once I win this seat and once I get into office One of my roles is to get behind them back them and help to empower them use whatever privilege I have to further strengthen their messages Because again, we see how the establishment is responding We see how the republican party is responding when you rock the boat When you don't accept status quo like our incumbent and the seventh has been doing for decades You are identified as a problem and again We need support, you know, we really do so I want to support them and all their efforts and all their work And I think for everything that we're fighting for Uh, the climate is the most important issue honestly because we don't have a earth to live on right now We have what 11 years left to address this existential crisis So the green new deal has to be at the top of the list We have to truly fight for and support the green new deal We're building support on the ground, you know, shout out to sunrise movement sunrise movement chicago We've been doing a lot of collaborative work with them. So many wonderful young leaders out there again Not waiting not being patient not patiently knocking on the door They're kicking the door down because they know how important these issues are And again, you know, climbing chains extremely important the green new deal I think is first and foremost Uh, the main issue that I would like to fight for give behind and help support And then after that, of course, you names many of them You know, we have to address the military industrial complex Because education is a huge issue within our community I think we could take the billions of dollars that we're spending on our military and our warp sense of what patriotism is And we direct that to community infrastructure to our educational systems that are inequitably funded by property taxes Uh, so we have to address those issues. The war on drugs has to end. No question You know, we were the only campaign in 2018 to push for the legalization of cannabis with a focus on racial justice You know, we weren't waiting on the wave. We weren't waiting on the community to step up We were being bowed in taking that stand. Of course, single-payer healthcare is extremely important All these things lead to, you know, greater job opportunity greater infrastructure investment and overall empowerment for the people that exist And like you mentioned, we're fighting for both issues as well like reparations You know, if you understand if you understand that again throughout history, the government has played a direct role in oppressing individuals locally and at a federal level The uh determining that black and brown communities primarily do not build Generational social and economic wealth. You will understand the importance of reparations. It cannot just be one check It cannot just be one check because many of our white families and our white allies, they built their wealth through what? Home ownership passing that value down that property down through generations You're able to build up generational wealth through redlining through gym crow through slavery Many individuals have not been able to do that. So we have to address those issues So we could go on and on But the most important thing again at the end of the day is to understand that we have to build stronger coalitions And we have to recognize that yes, we have to fight for and push both legislation Like the decriminal sex work. We didn't mention that for 100 the decriminalization of sex work. That's extremely important But also we have to fight this ideological war and we cannot be afraid to face down white supremacy Stare it in the eyes and let it know we're not stopping and call it what it is Like I think a lot of people are conditioned by republicans to like not call tucker carlson, for example A white supremacist or not call racism racism But you see people who in congress are not backing down now Like the way that progressives and democratic socialists have moved this conversation It really is remarkable Like I still think that the overton window is shifted too far to the right But just to see how far we've moved dialogue It's amazing and this is kind of and you can correct me if i'm wrong here The way that I feel and what i'm learning as we see more and more congressional races Is that it's a matter of getting your name out like I I truly believe that if enough people know you Uh, and they don't just go off of name recognition of your opponent you win like 10 times out of 10 you'd win So talk a little bit about your opponent because you're running against uh, dany k davis Um, what is it about him that you think needs to be challenged? Why is he inadequate in representing your community? Yeah, I mean for me, you know great question I think it's impossible to Call yourself a progressive if the district that you represent is not progressing or if you're not actively fighting for progress I think too often, you know within our political scope and realm Yes, we have like republican candidates that a democrat make challenge that gets a lot of attention right because of course You want to flip a district you want to flip an area or we have an unpopular democratic representative that maybe oftentimes votes republican Or you know just you know is against you know progressive issues such as lgbtq i plus rights women's rights So on and so forth So it's easy to get the community up You know it's easy to get the community to pay attention and support You know a uprising grassroots candidate But somebody like dany k davis who's been in office for decades and decades to me, you know, I thank him for his service I'm not a negative individual But he's just essentially maintained status quo Individuals like him survive on voting the right way But you also also fight You have to also be bold Don't wait till someone else comes forward and pushes the legalization of cannabis which he was against in 2018 But then now you feel the pressure and now you see the wave so now, okay You know i'll sponsor it i'll cosponsor it i'll jump on the wave We have to create the wave and he hasn't created any progressive ways in this district for decades and decades I mean our unemployment rate used to be at four times the national average It's still at 2.5 percent the national average Individuals in our community are moving out by droves Illinois is either one two or three across the nation and individuals moving out of the state And our district leads elinoy and in regards to individuals moving out of the city You know communities like the austin community They're dealing with gun violence on a daily and weekly basis I have lost 11 students to gun violence in my 10 years of teaching I'm wearing one of my wrists right now. Eliza sims was murdered shot in the head a day before his 17th birthday And we go out into the community constantly fighting for justice for him fighting to address the root cause issues that led to gun violence That took his life and others lives. It's a serious issue that exists. We have food deserts. I mean, there's a video online I challenge people to look it up. You could type in danie davis and arnie duncan I know if you're familiar with arnie duncan mr. Privatization I'm a hundred percent against privatization of our prison industries of our educational systems A course of our healthcare because again any privatization puts profit before the people We have multiple school closures that exist in our district multiple mental health facility closures that exist Lack of infrastructure investment in our communities. We could go on and on I mean how we're impacted by our environment to let in our water to let in our paint the high levels of asthma that exists The heroin highway that exists. I mean, there's so many different connections So at the end of the day, I thank him for his service But he's been someone that's been focused on individual power Maintaining status quo not rocking the boat. Meanwhile, we're coming along at being extremely bold building bold coalitions And pushing for progressive issues and for change and we're not waiting We're setting the trends. We're not waiting for the trend to set itself and then jumping on We're setting it and moving forward and trying to help educate the community on why it's important to be progressive in boat Why it's important to empower people and recognize that the government has played a role The government is part of the problem, which includes the democratic party Uh, so, I mean, it's no question to me It's time for change and if you look at our website as you stated I think we have what 24 policy positions fully articulated policy positions. I'm leaving no room for any loopholes No, no room for pandering no room for backing off You know exactly where we stand and exactly what we're fighting for because it's that important Thank you for saying that because it's really important Especially in these types of races like you're not running against someone who is a democratic superstar Like you're not challenging someone with a lot of name recognition or has particularly been a target to progressives and social democrats So it is important for you to really lay out. I think these key distinctions like you can't just ride the wave of change You have to be a leader and if anybody in your community has been a leader It's been you so I don't think anyone who's watching this who's a regular viewer of the human support is not going to be convinced So now we go to what do we do to guarantee your victory because I think this time you're going to win Um, so how do we guarantee that win? What can we do to help you? Can we phone bank if we don't live in Illinois? Right? Um, can we donate? What where can we go? Give us give us what we can do Yeah, I mean and I'll tell a quick story when we ran in 2018 Then company and his team spent an ordnance amount of hours stealing our yard signs, you know harassing us He told me to my face the reason he was going to win was because he had 30 years of name recognition And literally his slogan On his literature was the name, you know, like that was his slogan. Wow the name, you know Uh, so we have to build name recognition and our campaign our team is out there on a daily basis Canvassing door knocking phone banking building relationships with community members and yet i'm still teaching full time Yet i'm still running my nonprofit full time because that work is extremely important So one thing you definitely can do is spread the message, you know If you listen to this interview today If you like what you hear if you like what you see if you visit our website at boat anthony clark dot com And you truly believe in the movement that we are part of let your friends know let your families know call everybody You know in shot town in chicago in oak park in the entire seventh congressional district and let them know Hey, there's an option out there. There's somebody out there truly fighting for change and you can believe in them And they're going to support you as an individual and as a collective. We also need donations. Yes donations are extremely important Again, we're not going against an incumbent as you know, extremely popular extremely controversial They just exist. They're just there allowing their communities to suffer while they maintain individual power So individual small donations because we're 100 grass roots. We took the pledge. We're taking zero corporate money We're taking zero medical or pharmaceutical money by the way the incumbent is he says he's again jumping the wave of Medicare for All but yet you're taking money from pharmaceutical companies thousands of dollars You say you're for immigrant rights, but yet you're taking thousands of dollars from amazon Who is known to work with the department of homeland security and ice? So these are huge issues and because often we don't pay attention We allow individuals to co-opt and cloak themselves in progressivism So again spread the message help build name recognition You can phone bank if you don't live locally. We have a wonderful online system reach out to us Through vote anthony clerk dot com and you can sign up to volunteer Donate donate donate and i'll be honest with you. My team gets on me all the time because i'm a horrible fundraiser I'll be straight up with you. I know how many of us are struggling out there. I know how hard it is I have bill collectors calling me On a weekly basis So I know but I guarantee you if you have a dollar to spare five dollars to spare ten dollars to spare Twenty dollars to spare know that it's going to a righteous cause and i'm not taking your donation in vain because i'm giving everything we have I'm giving everything i have and everything we have as a team to truly fight So go to vote anthony clerk dot com sign up to volunteer help share the link spread the message Donate if you can because that's truly going to help us continue take the fight to the democratic establishment And to the republican party as well and to the overall institution a system that exists That oppresses individuals like ourselves. Uh, so that's extremely important And thank you for running as well Let me just add um a little bit to your pitch as well And I always say this so it sounds redundant But this is a national movement like this isn't just about the seven congressional district Of course, anthony is running to represent that but What if you donate to anthony and you don't live in the seventh district? That's still essentially is an investment because I mean look at ilhan omar She's not from my state But she just sponsored legislation that would cancel my student loan debt So by supporting these candidates monetarily and just through sharing the message This is something that will benefit you personally and this is an investment and you know We're we're laying the groundwork for revolutionary change in this country And it starts by just giving up a buck or two if that's all you can spare because a little bit goes a long way And if a lot of people do a little bit it has a huge difference so go to vote anthony clerk dot com anthony Thank you so much for coming on the program. Um, again, I apologize for not bringing you on in 2018 I miss you. I missed so many candidates, but I'm writing that wrong this time. Thank you so much Is there anything else you want to say before we leave? You know, you know, I just want to you know, give a shout out and truly thank each and everybody that's in this fight You know, uh, another quote that I love and I'm going to end it with this as Martin Luther King You know his quote is if you can't fly then run if you can't run then walk if you can't walk Then crawl but whatever you do keep moving forward So many of us continue to move forward push for progress But also remember self-care is extremely important because this fight is daunting. It takes a lot out of us It's a marathon not a sprint But I sincerely thank and appreciate each and every one of you that play a role in moving us forward And again challenge yourselves look yourselves in the mirror after this interview and also ask yourself What are you willing to risk and sacrifice for real change because we have to do more than facebook posts We have to do more than just show up at a march on the saturday Then go back to work within the same system monday through friday that led to the oppression We were marching against it's really going to take us sacrificing and putting ourselves on the line for systemic change But again, love you all vote anthony clark dot com all power to the people Well, that's all that I've got for you guys today Thank you so much for tuning in if you've made it this far and listen to me speak for that long I truly appreciate your viewership You can always support the show by liking the video and sharing our content And it really does go a long way because in youtube's algorithm where independent media is De-prioritized the fact that you like and even dislike videos quite frankly It shows that we have viewers that are engaged with the content and it goes a long way it truly helps So anything you can do liking commenting subscribing doing all that other shit that youtubers tell you to do Now i'm gonna need you to do that So we don't continue to be de-prioritized in youtube's algorithm, but um i digress let's go ahead and end the show Shout out to everyone who supports this show. I will see you all next week. My name is mike figurado. Take care everyone