 All right, folks this video is going to be dark We are going to take some time to catastrophize a little bit and usually I try to stay away from doing things like that I don't want to you know contribute any more toxicity to This primary process then is already out there nonetheless. I do believe it's important for us to kind of consider Certain scenarios, you know dwelling on this brokered convention I worry about talking about it too much because I don't want you to take away from these videos that You know the situation is hopeless and we can't win therefore you might as well check out and not Canvas and phone bank and donate to Bernie Sanders. That's not what I want you to take away from this video I want us to understand that we're going up against a political behemoth and this might literally be our last Attempt to save democracy. So if you're in a good mood, please do not watch this video Do yourself the favor, but I do think it's important that we indulge a little bit here After that debate in Nevada When I saw every single candidate on that stage with the exception of Bernie Sanders say that They're open to superdelegates stealing the nomination away from the person with the most votes it literally gave me this sick feeling in my stomach like I felt physically nauseous from that and Since that debate I've been haunted by that like this thought in the back of my mind thinking Do we even live in a democracy and this entire election really is going to put our democracy to the test and it? Honestly may not survive. It may not survive Because we have a substantial portion in the Democratic Party openly Suggesting that maybe it's a good idea that we have a brokered convention in order to allow superdelegates to steal the nomination away From Bernie Sanders and everyone on that debate stage was basically jockeying for it to be them including Elizabeth Warren and We need to talk about this so we can maybe plan some scenarios Protests and whatnot But it doesn't just seem like this is something that they're considering as a possibility in order to defeat Bernie Sanders now With the insurmountable lead that he's going to have after super Tuesday This is the strategy now the strategy I repeat is to steal it from Bernie Sanders because that's the only way that they can stop him There's an article in Politico that says that that is Mike Bloomberg's key strategy and on top of that other Democrats Also have this strategy so understand they know they can't get enough pledged delegates to surpass Bernie But they can still be the nominee they will still remain in the race in hopes of pulling their delegates and Just taking it away from Bernie Sanders. I mean, I just want to take a moment to think about how Morally repugnant that is like let me just explain my position like my mom for example She's someone who was never politically engaged She registered for the first time in her life at 65 years old to vote for Bernie Sanders in 2016 Just the other day she donated $15 to Bernie Sanders This is the first donation that she's ever given to a political candidate in her entire life so to take that away from someone and She's just one of many people But I'm sure that a lot of people have been brought into the process mainly young people but to take that away from them For them to get so excited knock on doors donate to a candidate that they believe in and then you just snatch that away from them like that There's just no going back. There's no recovering from that and it's just interesting and hypocritical how Nobody's talking about the popular vote anymore. We had Elizabeth Warren people would judge Democrats everywhere Screeching at the top of their lungs But how important it was that we abolish the electoral college because I mean the person with the most votes wins, right? That's the way it should be and now they're saying, you know what? party bosses they should have a say in Stealing the nomination away from Bernie Sanders if maybe I can benefit from that It truly is Morally reprehensible and I want to get to this Politico article by David Siders Because he's going to explain a little bit of the details of Mike Bloomberg strategy how he's currently lobbying party bosses To take the nomination away from Bernie and give it to him He writes Mike Bloomberg is privately lobbying Democratic Party officials and donors allied with his moderate opponents to flip their Allegiance to him and block Bernie Sanders in the event of a brokered national convention The effort largely executed by Bloomberg senior state-level advisors in recent weeks Attempts to prime Bloomberg for a second ballot contest at the Democratic National Convention in July by poaching supporters of Joe Biden and other Moderate Democrats according to two different strategists familiar with the talks and unaffiliated with Bloomberg The outreach has involved meetings and telephone calls with supporters of Biden and Pete Buttigieg as well as uncommitted DNC members in Virginia, Texas, Florida, Oklahoma and North Carolina according to one of the strategists who participated in meetings and calls with Sanders Emergence as the frontrunner in the presidential primary Democrats in those states have recently raised the prospect that the Democratic Socialist could be a top-of-the-ticket Liability there's a whole operation going on which is genius said one of the strategists who is unaffiliated with any campaign And it's going to help them win on the second ballot. They're telling them. That's their strategy Other candidates have quietly been in contact for months with superdelegates The DNC members members of Congress and other party officials who cannot vote on the first ballot at a contested national convention But none have showcased it as a feature of their campaign as Hillary Clinton did in 2016 If Sanders secures a plurality of delegates, but loses the nomination on a second ballot Many moderate and progressive Democrats like predict the National Convention in Milwaukee would devolve into chaos following the debate former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Via Gallerosa who has endorsed Mike Bloomberg has chaired the 2012 Democratic National Convention Said a second ballot will likely be required this year. So let's just get one thing straight Anyone who claims that the nomination should be taken from Bernie Sanders and given to someone else They're lying to you if electability is The justification for that because do you honestly believe that if you steal this nomination away from the most popular politician in America That we're gonna fall in line and support anyone else even if it's Elizabeth Warren You are handing Donald Trump a landslide and I've said this before that is the least of your concerns because unquestionably Trump cruises to reelection But on top of that the Democratic Party is going to self-destruct blow itself to pieces and afterwards they're going to try to pick up the scraps and It can't survive this the party as an institution would die No institution can remain legitimate after something like that once you take it that far Then nobody believes in the process. Let me tell you this. I will never ever vote for another Democrat ever again If this were to be the case, I promise you that because I can't support an institution That doesn't believe in democracy like sometimes in politics you're gonna win Sometimes you're gonna lose but if the fight's fair I can accept that right if we did everything in our power to get Bernie elected But Biden won fair and square Man, that would be really disappointed Disappointing but at least it was a fair fight if you tell us effectively that our votes do not matter and You undermine every single fucking thing that we have done now for five years to get Bernie Sanders elected I'm never voting Democrat again and guess what like back in 2016 when all of these Democratic Party loyalists Were brow beating us because we wouldn't come out to support Hillary Clinton after the DNC rigged the primary against Bernie Sanders I still voted and Democrats didn't like that. I voted for Jill Stein, but guess what I also voted for Democrats Down the ticket, right? I voted in house races for Democrats and local races for Democrats But guess what? When I say I'll never vote for a Democrat again. I mean never again So my senator Jeff Merkley is up for reelection if Democrats deal the nomination not even Jeff Merkley gets my vote I don't vote Democrat ever again because this institution is illegitimate and I cannot lend my support to that illegitimate institution and Look, I just want people in the comment section if you're still watching What would you do if the nomination is taken from you? Would you support the nominee? Just we'll see this because I have a feeling that maybe this video gets attention from other people and they're going to say look at this Bernie, bro. He's Bernie or bust. It's not just me. It's everyone and not only do I personally make the choice To not vote in this election and just boycott the entire election I tell the 300,000 people in my audience to do the same exact fucking thing because if you're going to steal a Nomination away from us. We're not going to give you power. We're not going to give you permission to rule To be you know in control of government when you just told all of us that our voices don't matter No, not at all and guess what my audience may only be 300,000 But there's another 300,000 with David Dole another 800,000 with Kyle Kalinsky another 200,000 With Tim black all of us collectively in indie media as a block Will form a boycott of this entire election and maybe that's not enough but understand You're gonna lose if you do this like we don't even have to do anything Like we can sit back and just not vote and not say anything and you still lose because this is such a brazen theft of an election of democracy that Normal people won't take it non politically savvy individuals won't stand for that and I can already envision this situation where they steal it from Bernie and give it to Elizabeth Warren and then they browbeat us because oh This is the most left-leaning Democratic nominee in decades. No Absolutely not and look I was already Bernie or bust in 2016 I've been Bernie or bust in 2020 But I'm someone who kind of likes to hold my cards close to my chest because I wanted to tell everyone to vote No matter who once Bernie becomes a nominee but understand nobody gets my vote unless it's Bernie Sanders and on top of that I take that a step further if the nomination is stolen. I don't vote Democrat anymore. I'm done with that and I guarantee you I'm not the only one a lot of other people are going to say the same fucking thing because again We cannot participate in a process that is illegitimate. Okay So the party will be just demolished and even David Plooth said this on MSNBC The party can't recover from this They can't recover from this so it doesn't matter if you browbeat people and fear monger about Donald Trump Nothing will matter if you do this you destroy the party, but understand that they know this This is the strategy They would rather lose to Trump and literally destroy the fucking party if it means stopping Bernie Sanders That's how morally bankrupt the Democratic Party is including Elizabeth Warren if Bernie Sanders wins That's basically our only hope because then he can take control of the party apparatus Change those institutional mechanisms that are just brazenly undemocratic get rid of super delegates But if he loses and you tell us very explicitly that there's no fucking way that our voices matter Because if we ever get another candidate, you're just gonna take it if you don't like them That party cannot survive as an institution that party collapses and I will actively Campaign to get people to not vote because you can't participate in a process That just flies in the face of democracy You have to boycott this election. You have no choice. That's the only moral option This isn't just about the next four years with Donald Trump This is about the next 100 years with our democracy if we can even survive that far with fucking climate change and not all die So I don't know what else to say about this the fact that we have to contemplate what would happen if our votes just get stolen from us It shouldn't be the case But even fucking Elizabeth Warren and her surrogates these little sycophantic Democratic Party loyalists are okay with that well, we are going to Absolutely fight to stop you from doing that and if you're successful here There's gonna be hell to pay people will take to the streets and protests in every fucking city in America You're not going to be able to steal this from us. We're not gonna take this lying down We will not accept you stealing it from us with whatever justification that you have we won't take that There will be hell to pay. I promise you that so I don't care who it is Michael Bloomberg Elizabeth Warren You can steal this nomination and give it to AOC if Bernie gets the most votes He becomes the nominee I don't give a flying fuck if he gets 29 percent and then the person closest to him gets 28.5 percent more votes We win we walk in and we walk out as the nominee period end of story We're not negotiating here So I want everyone to be as loud as they possibly can in telling Tom Perez and telling the DNC In telling Elizabeth Warren and telling Pete would a judge that if you steal this from us You lose you lose and you destroy the party and we don't vote and it's not just that we don't vote For the top of the ticket. We don't vote in local races. We don't vote in senate and house races You lose the house. You lose the senate You lose the white house and then your entire fucking party collapses So choose wisely think about how badly you want to defeat Bernie Sanders because if you truly want to risk everything Risk destroying the party to defeat Bernie Sanders Understand the consequences that will come to fruition if you fucking do that you goddamn ghouls fucking try us Fucking try us. I dare you