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Episode Date: July 10, 2024

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You're listening to the Young Turks, the online news show. Make sure to follow and rate our show with not one, not two, not three, not four, but five stars. You're awesome. Thank you. All right, live from the Polymarket Studio in Los Angeles, the Young Turks, Jane Hugo, Anna Kasparian, on a very exciting Juries in on what's going to happen with Joe Biden, at least in the short term for the moment being. The decision has been made. We will share that with you in a little bit. Exciting stuff going on here at TYT as well.

We're gonna launch Trump brackets or Trump madness tonight. What is that? We'll see it a little bit later. We also have ASPAC question for you a little bit later in the program fund for everybody. Operation Joy in the bonus episode for the members and then old school tonight. So action-packed show for you guys. We host and with Michael Shore and what is a cheat day? Everyone knows. When, well, some people know a lot of people don't know.

Anyways, and when should, but the critical part, when should you take it? Okay, when should you take a cheat day? The weekend. That's on old school tonight. No, well, hold, whole, am I ruining, am I ruining your old school episode? No, a weekend is not a cheat day, it's just a weekend. Okay. The weekend is where all bets are off. Okay, time to get wet and wild. If you say something, it sounds fun. But for me, wet and wild is like, you know, only 11 hours

of work. Anyways, okay, guys, that's an old school tonight. So you got a lot to check out today, but obviously huge news on the Biden front. Let's just let them lose, okay? They want to do. They want to lose. So let let the losers lose. Anyway, let's start with this. Just to be clear, sir, you do not want the president to drop out? Sir, is your support for the president a pragmatic consideration given this president, I said you will remain in? Well, yeah, I know he said he was going to remain in. He's our candidate.

that kind of needs you with no choice that night. I take it. I'm talking about William. Well, yes. As the president said, something like 90% of Democrats voted in the primaries. He won the nomination. That sad sight was a Democratic lawmaker Jerry Nadler,

who previously erred his concerns about Biden remaining in the race, urged him to no longer remain in the general. election, but quickly fell in line following a meeting with Joe Biden. But I do want to be clear that while it appears publicly, Democrats are engaging in a united front to back up Joe Biden, there's still very much is division within the Democratic caucus on this issue, Jenk. And the cowardice, I mean, I don't know how many Democrats in the country are feeling what I'm feeling or what you might be feeling, but I would not like to.

to be associated with cowardly politicians. And all I see is wall to wall cowardice. Yeah, there's no question about it. So look, maybe we'll even ask you a question about it in a sec. But, and we're gonna show you clips of Joe Biden, you know, being a disaster again. So, but first of all, the most important part is that they met today, the Congress. You know, the Democrats in the House and the Senate met, and they basically decided to bow their heads. And so what happened was Biden called her bluff and he said, yeah, oh yeah, I'm all in.

I'm staying in the race. Now what are you going to do? Now if you say negative things about me, even though I'm obviously going to lose and I clearly have giant mental health issues, if you say anything against me, I'm gonna blame you for the loss. And I'm gonna say that, oh, I would have won if it wasn't for you guys. And all the Democrats, like not all, but 99% of them, no courage at all, just folded like a house of cards.

Like okay sir yes sir we'll all lose on behalf of you sir they're gonna get annihilated in congressional elections so but they made their bed today just note that those discussions happened today and they decided we will give the mad king whatever he wants so later when they lose because of their own decision and their own cowardice don't come crying to anybody else but also people are going to feel about this, but I'm going to say it like it is because this is what the truth is. The Democrats made their bed. The Democrats knew years ago that Biden was experiencing mental decline, but they backed him anyway. Some of them engaged in the cover up. And then this time around, during this election, let's be abundantly clear. While Biden keeps repeating that he

won the primary, there was no primary. The Democratic Party did not allow for a primary process to take place and all of those elected politicians, every single one of those Democratic lawmakers except for one who was willing to run against Biden, but wasn't really given a shot because there was no primary, backed Biden and was totally okay with the DNC ensuring that there would not be a robust primary taking place on the Democratic side. So look, there was never an attempt, Jenk, to find the best possible candidate this time around to beat Joe Biden. So Democrats Democrats continue to want to mess that bed up as much as possible. So revel in it.

They want to be losers. We live in a free country, no? Yeah, and guys, here's how you know if there was a real primary or not. So normally if people are getting one, two, three percent, they wind up in debates. You'll see you remember Andrew Yang, Marianne Williamson, all those folks in 2020. Some of them were just barely around one or two percent, right? But we had all of them in the race, at one point we had 27 of them. That was a real primary, and that was on the Democratic side.

Obviously in 2016, the Republicans had a very vibrant primary. You saw it with your own eyes. In this case, early primary against Biden, RFK Jr., whether you like them or you don't, is not relevant. He was above 20 points. That's a giant number. Of course you go to a debate if you got over 20 points. And the Democrats are like, no debates, how dare you?

Why? And think about why. Not only are they shutting down the primary, it's totally a force, it's a joke. Anyone telling you, oh, the American people, the Democratic voters already weighed in on this. Total nonsense, total propaganda. You can't have a real primary if the voters never see the options. And the way they see the options is debates.

So not only did they cover up and cancel the primary, in essence, but on top of that, they already knew. Yep. Bobby Kennedy Jr., and everybody makes fun of them because Warren made his brain and everybody loves that joke. And they say, oh, he's a kooky. conspiracy, so Biden couldn't stand up to him. Biden, this, remember, early primary, him and Mary Ann are the only ones in the race.

And Cornell West, they drove Cornell and RFK Jr. out, by the way, then costing them votes in the general election because they desperately, desperately didn't want Joe Biden on a debate stage, no matter who he was on there with. That's exactly right. Because they knew, they knew all along. So understand this guys, it's really important for you to understand this. We ended up with Joe Biden because number one, he's. He lied to everybody.

He claimed that he was only gonna run for that one term and then he was gonna step aside. That he was gonna be the bridge president, you know, making, making way for a more diverse option in the presidency. That was complete and utter BS. Let's put that, let's put that aside. But then the party, the very party that is running a campaign that mainly focuses on the need to protect democracy, ended up with the worst possible Democratic nominee. thanks to their undemocratic behavior and their unwillingness to hold a robust

primary on the Democratic side to ensure that they had the best candidate to beat Donald Trump. So my point is the Democratic establishment has made its bed and now when you see these comments from Democratic lawmakers, you know, after they had the meeting, there was one Democratic lawmaker who was like, oh, it's worse than a funeral. Then why don't you say something? So look, two more things about that. One is I'm now tired of every anchor on cable telling us, well, behind the scenes, all the Democrats are really worried and it's like a funeral in there. It was super sad. And they're very concerned and they're wondering if Joe Biden should drop out in front of the cameras. They're like,

oh, of course Joe Biden is great. He's 18 years old. He's wonderful. He's just, I, I want him to run my household. I want him to drive an 18 wheeler. Okay, by the way, would anyone let Joe Biden drive an 18 wheeler? To be fair, I wouldn't let most people Okay, all right. You wouldn't let Joe Biden drive a tricycle, get real, okay? But and then the Republicans are going to use all of this later. Everyone who's on camera saying, oh, Biden's fine. You think Biden's not gonna collapse again?

You think they're gonna be able to hide him for four months and win the election? Do a 16 point comeback while hiding Joe Biden. If they don't hide Joe Biden, he's going to melt. It's an absolute guarantee. He already did it. It's not even close. It's already begun. Elise Stefanik and a few other Republican lawmakers held a press conference just today, arguing that

Democrats engaged in this giant cover up, which they did in protecting Joe Biden and deceiving the American people about his true mental decline and his condition. And that is a smart strategy if you're a Republican lawmaker, if you're the Republican Party, because number one, it's true. And it doesn't make the Democratic Party look good that they're still engaging in this cover-up while privately telling reporters that they're worried. Okay, so why are they doing that? Part of the reason is the cowardice that we've been talking about. But the other reason is, look, the only person who can make the ultimate decision is Joe Biden,

and he is refusing to step down. And so if he remains stubborn, Democrats publicly criticizing him or airing their grievances about him, not only hurts Joe Biden's chances of beating Donald Trump, which already at this point is inconceivable to me that he would beat Donald Trump, but they're concerned that it's going to further harm them or harm the Democratic Party in down ballot races. So let me give you the details as reported by semaphore, because I think this perfectly encapsulates what I'm talking about here. What Biden can, what Biden can do is be stubborn in a way that sets up a scenario of mutually assured destruction for Democrats. So long as opponents of his nomination

believe it's impossible to force him to step aside, any escalation of their criticism risks damaging him even further in November. And the worse his standing gets, the more his party is likely to suffer up and down the ballot. If Biden really is willing to fight a democratic civil war, and it appears he is willing to do it, it would mean heading into convention season with key chunks of the party on the record with doubts about their nominee and pro-Biden factions accusing them of sabotage, all while Republicans quietly sit back and munch popcorn. And to be sure, that is what Republicans have been doing, including Donald Trump, who's been chilling, he's been golfing, he's been relatively silent, which is uncharacteristic

for Donald Trump, but he's playing it exactly right. Yeah, here is a senior GOP strategist, tell a notice. Joe Biden is an anvil wrapped around the neck of every Democratic candidate and incumbent. Republicans should be praying nonstop, he stays in the race. So that's Republican strategist saying, ladies and gentlemen, we got him. Can you believe they let the mad king stay in the race? Be cool, be cool, and we're going to launch an avalanche of those ads. And we're gonna wrap that anvil around the neck of every Democrat.

So go ahead, what are you gonna do now? Blame progressives like you always do, blame your own voters like you always do? No, you're 100% responsible. The only look here, first of all, that's it I'm doing it. Snap poll in the chat, I'm curious what you guys think. Who's the bigger narcissist, Donald Trump or Joe Biden? I mean, Donald Trump's record was seemed unbeatable, the world's largest narcissist. But here comes Joe Biden from behind.

The one thing he might actually be able to beat Donald Trump on, a narcissism that could destroy his entire party, and he's in the middle of doing it. But the leaders of the Blue Maga Coulter back, Joy Behar's back from vacation. Of course. So now the view with Whoopi and Joy saying, how dare anybody criticize Joe Biden? I want everyone out there lie, lie, lie, lie on behalf of Joe Vine. Pretend he's young, pretend he's energetic, pretend everything you have to do. And Whoopi Goldberg literally said, I don't care if he poops his pants.

It's so ridiculous. She's saying, let's just do propaganda, who cares? It makes a mockery out of the executive branch. It makes a mockery out of this country. All be, anyway. Okay, and then the last, The last leaders of the little cult, as you guys know, of course, Mika Brasinski and Joe Scarborough, and now they're back. They, Joe is flipped, as we showed you yesterday, and they're like,

oh, Biden, of course, Biden, Biden, Biden, if anyone disagrees, they're helping Trump. It's the number one thing they say, no, all of you guys, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Joe Scarborough, Mika Prisinski, there are no four people in the country who are helping Donald Trump get reelected more than those four, period, not close. And look, if that's the role they want to take, that's totally fine. I just don't want to hear any more hyperventilating from them about how much of a threat Donald Trump is. I don't want to hear it. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. They're not actually afraid of Donald Trump at all. They're full of it, totally full of it. All they do is trade in the politics

of fear, coercion, and smear tactics. You know, as you know what I'm going to say, Anna, this is what I got for Mika, Joe, Joy Behar, and Whoopi Goldberg. A tall glass of shut up juice. Exactly. Don't tell me that this is the most important election of our time. And they say, I don't care if our candidate poops his pants, who cares? I don't care if our candidate has eight out of ten Americans thinking that he's not mentally healthy enough, that his brain doesn't work enough. I don't care, let's lose the Trump.

Most important election, democracy's on the line about money, money, money, money, money, money, Blue Maga, I'm your cult leader. Remember, always obey authority and always obey the rich. Oh, look at that, all four of them happen to be multi, multi, multi, multi millionaires. Oh, look at that. Of course they want you obeying authority. They don't give a goddamn who wins. They're going to get an extra tax gun from Donald Trump.

Yes, I think you guys are traitors. How do you like them apples? So recently, Jank and I were discussing all of the various media figures who were privy to Biden's mental decline, but engaged in the cover-up themselves. Now they're pretending to be aggrieved, now they pretend that they've been betrayed by the Biden camp, that they've been lied to, I'm not buying any of that. However, there is one person in cable news who I actually think was genuinely duped and is genuinely angry and feels genuinely betrayed. And that person is Jake Tapper because of all people.

His segments have been honestly the best segments on this issue on cable news, in my opinion. And it's because he's not holding back and he's calling a spade a spade and anyone who's willing to do that in the mainstream press gets some props or respect for me. And so I want to go to this first clip because Tapper was irritated with Biden arguing that those attacking him, are just the elites, that the people really want him. And it's the elites that are trying to get rid of him. So let's watch what he had to say. President Biden seems to be trying to frame what's going on right now as the average voters

who want him versus the elites of the Democratic Party, donors and lawmakers and opinion makers, many of whom have serious concerns about Biden's ability to be the candidate and have called for him to step down after that debate performance that let's call baffling. In reality, 72% of voters say that they believe President Biden is too old. That's according to CNN's most recent polling. Voters have been saying this for quite a long time. The reality is that the Democratic elites are mostly late to acknowledge these age and ability issues compared to the rest of the public.

The elites have been forced to reckon with it after the debate just 11 days ago. I am so happy that he made that clear. Because it wasn't just after that disastrous debate performance that the majority of voters were concerned about Biden's age. Poll after poll, we had been covering those poll results. We had been covering the fact that the majority of Democratic voters for a while now have been concerned about Biden's age. But that's just been pushed aside from the very beginning because, look, this is the biggest issue. The Democratic Party hasn't really given us something to vote for in how many elections? cycles? Like, I'm actually jealous of Republican voters. I'm jealous of Trump's base because

they're excited to show up and vote for their candidate. They're energized by him. When was the last time we were energized by a Democratic candidate, Jank? Well, of course, it was Bernie Sanders. And what did the Democratic Party do? They threw a cold, you know, bucket of water on that excitement and said, how dare you? Get back in line. Vote for the one we anointed, okay? You're gonna pick Hillary Clinton or you're gonna pick Joe Biden. You're gonna shut up about it. That's what Joe Scarborough does, that's what the view does. Anytime anybody gets excited about a Democrat, they come and assassinate them.

Yeah. Character assassinations galore from these thugs in mainstream media that create this blue mega. Remember, only the leader of the Democratic Party, only leadership in the DNC, only the donors know best, follow what the donors say. Now they're pretending they're against the elites? Joe Biden and Joe Scarborough are pretending they're against the elites? Yeah, get the F out of here, man. Nobody believes you obvious, ridiculous liars. But my point is, Democrats have simply relied on the politics of fear mongering and coercion to get Democratic voters to fall in line and back their preferred candidate.

And I don't know how much longer that's going to work with the majority of Democratic voters, but understand what that means. Democrats look at the polling, they see that the vast majority of Democratic voters, likely Democratic voters, are concerned about Biden. age, this was happening even prior to the debate, and they're like, it's okay, we'll just supercharge our fear mongering about Trump and make them feel like pieces of crap if they don't vote for our preferred candidate. Do you remember the Democratic Party of JFK that had so much hope and vibrancy and tried to actually deliver for the American people? You know, even Lyndon Johnson, I mean, you've got the great society, Medicare, he tried

to raise the wages of almost all Americans in the country. He did a hundred things wrong, but at least he gave people hope that their wages were going to be higher, that they were going to get some sort of health care. Remember the party of FDR that did Social Security and that fought back against what he would say were evil, rich people who were trying to rob you blind? Like FDR right now would be considered to the left of Bernie Sanders. And they would say, radical, how dare you? You have to pick a good moderate like Herbert Hoover.

Right? So, and they would, they glorify Herbert Hoover to the hilt now. Yeah. And so it's mainstream media, it's the establishment that is killing any hope of a Democratic party that's excited and wants to do something in the world. Let's, why don't we do paid family? Oh, if you can, look guys, they repeat this because it's at 84% paid family leave. The whole country wants it. Democratic voters are begging for you to do it. Why do we have to constantly beg our politicians? The modern Democratic Party is not interested in doing that. So it's time to accept it and ask yourself if you're willing to continue voting for a Democratic candidate simply based on the fear that they're constantly selling you. Let's go to one more clip because in this next one, Jake Tapper also makes abundantly clear, no, this isn't about the elites going after Joe Biden. This is about all of the fumbles we've been seeing from Joe Biden, not just during that debate, before the debate, and also after the debate.

Let's watch. How can you assure you're going to be on, you know, faith, I can intervene on your way to go to, you know, work tomorrow. Age wasn't, you know, the idea is not too old. Did you ever watch the debate afterwards? I don't think I did now. He doesn't think he did? By the way, I'm proud to be as I said.

The first vice president, first black woman, served. with a black president, proud of the whole of the first black woman in the Supreme Court. There's just so much that we can do because together we, there's nothing, look, this is in the United States America. And if that wasn't bad enough, then you have John Kirby, Karin Jean-Pierre holding press conferences, and I don't know why they're saying this. It's not a good look, but just check this out. After that, the president will hold a press conference. I get It's a big boy press conference is what we're calling it and take some questions from you all. This week, President Biden will speak to national labor leaders of AFL-CIO,

host the NATO summit to show the unprecedented strength of our alliance. Hold a press conference, a big boy press conference, according to Justin Sink from Bloomberg. Come on. What are we doing? What are we doing? So, okay, let's review now, and I got the poll results for you. So he's gonna have a big boy conference. Remember Joe, you answered every question.

You did a good job answering every question. So if you, hey, if you say, oh, you don't want to, I don't like you guys making fun of Joe Biden. Well brother, what do you want me to do? The entire party is going to go underwater. You want us to just let it go underwater because of the ego and the selfishness, the narcissism and the feelings of, let's be honest, Jill Biden more than Joe Biden. Because Joe Biden doesn't even know what he's doing anymore. He doesn't even realize he's losing the race. He has no idea.

He's about to get landslided. He's aware enough, okay? He's part of the decision. Yes, I agree. Jill Biden is a huge influence. So is Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden. Previously, by the way, you know, he had no role in government

and he wasn't serving as an advisor to Biden. But now that he is, really, we're going to have someone. Yeah, so look, under Biden was doing crack like three days ago. It's crazy. And he's advising the president. to stay in, so the overwhelming majority of Democratic voters are not listened to. Right. But the modern artist formerly known as Hunter is making decisions about the world,

about the world. I'm gonna turn back around and start supporting hearings in favor about Hunter Biden. Because I didn't know he was in charge. I didn't know he was part of the decision making process. If he is, is he still on crack? Where the hell did he get that money for the so-called modern art? Okay, now we always knew he's a con man and we told you all along. We never lied to you. That guy's a scam artist through and through. But we were sure two billion times that he had nothing to do with the administration. Turns out yet another lie by the Biden administration.

So I'm gonna get to your results in a second. But I wanted to focus on that quote that Jake Tapper mentioned there. And he did a great job of breaking down. But, and he said this too, remember, that was the interview where they fed them the questions. Yeah. He Biden already knew what was going to be asked. And remember, that was the interview where they were going to show how mentally healthy he is. This is after the debate, that's why they picked a tiny little radio station,

African American, because they think that's their strength, right? They give the questions ahead of time. And it's on the radio, all he has to do is read the answer. He has the answer in front of him that his staffer wrote for him. And he says that he was the first black women to serve with a black president. His brain is not working. And you're making us the bad guys for saying things that are obviously true. He is not the first black woman to serve with a black president.

In fact, that's never happened and he's not black or a woman. And that is when he was like, oh, watch this. Watch how well my brain is working. Remember, I'm the first black woman in age. Did you see that Scarborough train wreck? I mean, how many walls did he drive right into? drive right into. Meanwhile, they're back to gas lighting. Oh, no, no, totally fine. And the people who are telling you the truth, they're evil. They want Trump to win.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. This is like, you know what it's like? Israel supporters with calling everybody an anti-Semite. We're done with it. Bye, bye. We don't give us crap about your stupid talking point. In fact, you're the ones helping Trump. So anyways, we did this poll because look, our audience is massively. against Trump. So I was curious what you guys think. YouTube community does come out. No, still 77% saying Donald Trump is a bigger narcissist. I don't blame you guys. Donald Trump world record-shattering narcissist, okay? So that's why it's a tough question. Twitch just cheated and they were like Joe Biden 8% Donald Trump 36% equal 56%. If you put an equal,

everyone's gonna vote equal. I mean they're giant, they're the twin towers of narcissism. And then on the YouTube chat, watch this show live. Monday through Friday, 6 o'clock, be part of the show. So the chat's part of the show over 1,600 votes already, that's closer. Donald Trump, 57, Joe Biden, 43% now saying on a, in a left wing show, our audience, a couple of thousand votes almost already saying maybe Joe Biden's an even bigger narcissist than Donald Trump. Because if you look, because they said that Donald Trump was going to drag down the Republican Party, but he didn't. But Joe Biden is dragging down and might certainly in the short run and the Democratic Party. This is going to be a landslide. They're going to run that ad connecting Biden to all the congressional people,

and they're going to lose the House and the Senate by giant margins. If Biden goes all the way to the end, he's going to lose tons of non-swing states. He might not even come in second. I know people think I'm crazy when I say that. that nobody's gonna vote for this guy other than Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, Mika, Brasinski, and Joe Scarbo. Those are gonna be the four votes he gets at the end. When we come back from the break, I actually wanna get into the polling, including how this is impacting congressional races for Democrats.

So stick around for that and more, we've got some incredible data to get to. I am not going anywhere. I'm not leaving. I'm not leaving. All right, I'm going to read this one of super chat. It's Benjamin was generous as always, anyway, back on the Young Turks, obviously. Benjamin Gilbert Lyft wrote in, Sam and Emma said they think AOC and the squad are publicly backing Biden because they don't want to polarize the issue and make it an establishment versus progressive issue, i.e., let the establishment push Biden off the cliff, and then the squad will nudge him off the edge. thoughts or push Biden to the cliff and the squad will nudge him off. Scott's not going to

nudge anything off, okay? The squad, and where's the, is it always four dimensional chess, right? Well, Biden's in and he's going to get slaughtered. Where's the chess? Where's the chess? Eventually, eventually we got to stop providing cover for the failures of the squad, okay? And by the way, I don't even want to say the squad because I don't know where Rashida Talib falls on this. Because Rashida Talib has been stronger and has been more vocal against Biden, certainly with him aiding and abetting a genocide in Gaza, but did AOC forget about that too? Did she? Yeah, apparently all of a sudden, Gaza doesn't matter. Right. Anyways, look, guys, I get the logic of you don't want to make it progressive versus establishment,

but that doesn't mean you should join the establishment side and say Biden's totally fine. I love Biden. I want Biden to be the candidate. They're colon-powling them. They're making them, go out there, walk the plank, and say how great Biden is, just like Dick Cheney made Colin Powell, the person who was most hesitant, sell their Iraq war at the U.N. So Bernie and AOC are like, oh, okay, we love Joe Biden, we think he's going to be great. Well, now you're on tape. Okay, great job. Genius strategy, genius strategy. Okay, I'm so frustrated with people who have no idea how to do strategy. And they just go there and they're enormously selfish.

Anyway, Nick Garcia, Peter Hodge, Joseph Settles, Perry Ford, James Paul, those are all American heroes who just joined by hitting the join button below. We love you guys for it. All right, more news. So I wanted to get into some of the data here. So let's do that for those who still are under the impression that maybe Biden will eke out a win. So polling indicates that Biden was in fact harmed by his disastrous debate performance. but it's not just about how Biden is performing in the polling, it's also about how him deciding to remain in the race is hurting Democrats down ballot. So we're gonna show you some of the results

as reported by Harry Enton. First I want to start off with Harry Enton kind of pushing back against the notion that the polling has consistently underestimated Joe Biden, that Joe Biden's actually performing much better, and in fact, even back in 2020, he was performing with way better than the polling had indicated. Well, here's Harry Anton pouring cold water on that notion. Right now, Donald Trump leads in an aggregate of national polls by about three percentage points. If you go back four years ago at this point, Joe Biden was ahead by nine points. This right now don't look anything like what we saw four years ago at this point. I then decided to take it a step further. What was Biden's worst 2020 polling position?

He was ahead by four points, which basically match what he ended up beating Donald Trump by in the national popular vote. So this three point advantage for Donald Trump is Donald Trump's best position versus Joe Biden, whether you include the polls this year or you include the polls last cycle. The idea that the polls underestimated Joe Biden last time around simply put does not hold any water. I think it's important to have that historical context and to do that comparative analysis because it helps you stay tethered to reality and it helps you understand what a risk the Democratic Party is taking and what a risk Biden is taking by remaining in the race. And by the way, Jenks, so that had to do with the national polling. We all know that nationally the Democratic candidate needs to beat their opponent by at least five

points in order to win the electoral college. So explain that a little more. You've done it before. I know that you're probably tired of repeating it, but it's important to know. Yeah, it's okay. And actually, I'm very frustrated that not every anchor is saying that. You have to say it every time. Otherwise people get a completely skewed view of the race.

So Joe Biden last time did win by four and a half points. The polling was correct. I thought he would win even more comfortably. But I was dismayed to see that when he came to the electoral college, even though he won the popular vote by 7 million votes, in the electoral college, he only won by three swing states and combined only a 44,000 vote margin. That is microscopic. He nearly lost last time, even though he won the popular vote by four and a half points.

So you gotta win by five to be comfortable if you're the Democrat, that sucks. And Joe Biden should have done something about it while he was president, he didn't do anything, he's an idiot, but anyway, so if he's down by three, that means he's down by eight. And the CNN polls are the most friendly to him. New York Times has him down by six. Another poll that came out the other day has him down by six. That means he's down by 11. That's unrecoverable.

And he barely won when he was up by nine. Now he's down by three. Look, numbers aren't lying. The number one copium in politics is, oh, the polls are all wrong. It's flippant, it's what everybody says. It's not remotely true. The majority of the polls are enormously accurate. You just don't know politics if you keep saying the polls are wrong.

Every once in a while, an odd poll will be off. There'll be an outlier, but the aggregate of the polls are totally correct. Every losing candidates is, the pals are wrong. That's what Romney said, that's what Trump said. And so, and that's now what Biden is saying. It's the, it's the constellation of all losers that the polls are wrong. What? Let's talk a little bit about congressional races because an unpopular Democratic candidate is obviously going to hurt some of the congressional races.

And so Enten gets into the data on that, the polling on that, let's take a look. But the fact of the matter is, you look at the national polling, the generic congressional ballot. Why just survive back to school when you can thrive by creating a space that does it all for you, no matter the size. Whether you're taking over your parents' basement or moving to campus, IKEA has hundreds of design ideas and affordable options to complement any budget. After all, you're in your small space era. It's time to own it. Shop now at Ikea.ca. Look at this. CNN poll plus two Republican.

Wall Street Journal poll plus three Republicans. Mom, it's University of Paul plus three Republican. Yeah, Joe Biden may be in slightly worse shape in these particular polls, but the fact is when Biden's down four or five, six points these polls, you can only run so far ahead of Joe Biden at this particular point, at least in the race for the House, it does seem like Republicans are ahead because Donald Trump is so far ahead. landscape?

Yeah, what's the Senate landscape? I mean, take a look here. GOP needs just a gain of one for control if Trump wins, and their path is extremely clear, because their best chance for a pick-up opportunity is in West Virginia. That's a very likely GOP win with Joe Manchin retiring. And the best them pick-up chance, perhaps to reverse that so the GOP doesn't gain, net gain of at least one, is Texas, but that's still a likely GOP win. So the fact is, if Donald Trump wins this election, the race for the Senate, for all intents

of purposes in my mind, is over. But we're the bad guys, right? We're the bad guys for raising alarm and telling the truth about the insane vulnerability of running Biden against Donald Trump. Not just for Biden himself, not just for the executive branch, but obviously for congressional races as well. So we're gonna give you a sample of a swing state in a second, Wisconsin. But look, I wanna make a distinction between the professionals and citizens.

If you're a regular citizen out there and you think the polls are wrong, that's normal. Because you hear it in the media all the time. You're not a, this isn't your profession. You're a dentist, you're an accountant, you're doing other things, right? But there are professionals whose job is to look at this all the time. And that's part of our job. So when you look at all the polling numbers and all the people who are Harry Enten, Nate Silver, Ezra Klein, myself, all the professionals are Carville, Axelrod.

You can just go down the list. All the people who can read numbers and understand what it means are going, it's over. So there's and they're understating it. Yeah, yeah, because they're trying to be polite because they're on TV and they know Biden, right? So if you don't know that, I get it and I get super angry that they're lying to you. They're giving you false hope. I love hope, but it's got to be real, because if it isn't real, you're just gonna wake up on election day miserable when you find out, oh my God, we got clobbered and you had no idea it was coming

because these guys keep like you. So CNN is now back into objective reality world. So welcome back Sienna. This is after the debate. Before the debate, they were also an alternate reality about how wonderful Joe Biden is, right? But at least they're back. MSNBC, totally an alternate reality, lying to their audience 24-7, Loris O'Donnell, the prime time shows, the morning shows, every show. Oh, yeah, Biden is great. Don't know if anybody criticizes Biden, they're helping Trump. Oh, yeah, we're going to win. Oh, yeah, polls don't mean anything. Numbers are lies. Yeah, so, okay. Let's go to Wisconsin. Let's see if there's a lie. So Trump at 44, Biden at 38, he's losing by six in Wisconsin. That's not an important state to win, is it? Not only is it important, not only is it a swing state, it's the easiest one for the Democrats. That's the first one you got to check off. Okay, obviously we won Wisconsin. If we didn't win Wisconsin, we already got slaughtered. That's, again, if you're a plumber, you don't know that, no problem. But everybody in politics knows if you didn't win Wisconsin, it's already over,

Okay, he's down by six. So, oh, he said, well, you know, maybe tough times the brand has an issue. No, Joe Biden has an issue because Tammy Baldwin is winning in Wisconsin. She's up six. Joe Biden is 12 points behind. Let's be honest, just the mediocre, normal, generic Democratic senator in Wisconsin. The Democrat, people in Wisconsin want to vote for a Democrat, but they're not going to if it's Joe Biden.

The polling shows you that crystal clear. So when you see people pretending that the polling doesn't matter or that Joe Biden's not that far behind, you have to understand that they're lying to you. Do not believe them. So look, what would have been great is putting pressure on Biden to drop out of the race. And I wish we had a tsunami of Democratic voters asking to do that. We have a petition. We tried.

But he said. He doesn't care about the voters, Jank. You would need Democratic leadership. That's the only thing that would push him out. That's true, Anna, but I want to make this clear, okay, because it's important. A lot of the congressmen and senators went back to their homes, they were already back home, right? And they talked to constituents. And a lot of the constituents, and Baldwin says this about Wisconsin goes, are going, what are we doing?

Get them out, get them out, get them out, get them out. Okay, but tons of their constituents, especially for the ones that said like Jerry Nadler, that he shouldn't be Biden. Oh, they got a wave of blue maga cult coming at them going, you're betraying us, you're pro Trump, I'm never going to vote for you again. You're never going to get another dollar. How dare you? I want you to lie to me. I want you to lie to me.

And so that's why Nadler and the other congressman panicked. They're like, oh my God. And Joe Scarborough even said it. He said people are shouting out of their cars at me saying, oh my God, you betrayed Biden. So they scurried back to audience capture and the small cult capture. So that's why the voters did make a difference, unfortunately, in the wrong direction. because the cults are more energized than the non-cults. That's why the Trump's MAGA cult is overwhelming the rest of the Republican Party.

And now we have Blue MAGA and they're so crazed in their love of leadership. And they do not want to hear the truth. So they're yelling at the top of their lungs at anyone who dares to tell them the truth. So now Blue Magas partly at this moment, it could change and I hope it does change because they're not the majority of the party, but that super loud cult minority in the Democratic Party is driving this car, and it's, and they're driving it right into a brick wall. When we come back from the break, we'll talk about a pretty explosive report in the Wall Street Journal about, well, the Biden camp's efforts in covering up his mental decline, and

also there are some pretty damning anecdotes that had never been shared before about what's been happening when he meets or fails to meet with world leaders. Well, what I gotta say, later in the show, you're gonna, this is amazing story, where they just admit how they rigged the election against Bernie Sanders. It is incredible, yeah. So don't miss that, come stay right here. All right, back on TYT, I'm going to read one member comment from our website. Sabaria said, I like Jank better when he actually cusses.

That's why I'm a member at TYT.com and get all the bonus content where he does. Well, I appreciate your brother. And now that we brought old school to just members only when it's live, oh, I curse like a stop. Do you know how fast you were going? I'm going to have to write you a ticket to my new movie, The Naked Gun. Liam Neeson. Buy your tickets now and get a free Tilly dog. Chili dog, not included.

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Those are the concerns that I'm talking about that are showing up in the numbers and that are affecting his approval rating. What I find interesting is that issue is more around ageism and ableism and not what this president, President Biden has done. Perfect case study of how Democrats weaponize identity to shut down any legitimate criticism, even criticism or concern coming from their own voters. So that was a Democratic congressman Stephen Horsford essentially smearing American voters who have a legitimate concern about Joe Biden, his age and his mental acuity. Now Biden allies unfortunately have been playing all sorts of dirty games in order to keep him in a race where he is surely going to to lose the election to Donald Trump.

And now in a new piece by the Wall Street Journal, we have some pretty shocking examples of how those around Biden have essentially covered up the fact that he has experienced significant mental decline. Here's the most damning anecdote from the Wall Street Journal. German officials, aware of Biden's fatigue at night, sought to accommodate the president by planning a June 22. This is two years ago, June 22 event

with German Chancellor Olaf Schultz in the early evening. The informal event during the group of seven summit was arranged as a confidential meeting on Ukraine in a relaxed setting. Biden didn't show surprising the chancellor and his aides official said. Instead, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, someone we did not elect, arrived and announced that Biden had to go to bed according to two people who were there. Now later after this report, Matthew Miller, a State Department spokesperson, denied that Blinken ever said that Biden needed to go to bed.

I don't believe anything that comes out of their mouths. But with that said, we should see how Corrine Jean-Pierre, White House Press Secretary, handled questions about this incident in the Wall Street Journal reporting. When the president wasn't Italy for the G7, and you remember he skipped one of the leaders' dinner, which was a major event for the summit, and I remember you were asked about it by reporters and he said, you know, we shouldn't read too much into the fact that he's skipping one dinner. I mean, would the explanation actually have been that he was tired and that he needed to skip something that was happening? And my answer stays the same. I wouldn't read too much

into it. It's not the first time that he has. He has a really busy schedule and there's a lot going on. As you know, when the president is abroad, he has continued to do domestic stuff as well as, as well as meet with global leaders. And so I truly would not read too much into it. Yeah, the president of the United States tends to have a busy schedule and should have the energy and the ability to handle that busy schedule because it turns out that president of the United States is a pretty serious job, but now we're making a mockery out of it. By the way, I just want to note, Biden also met with Democratic governors after his disastrous debate performance and told them, don't worry, I have a plan. I just need more naps.

Yeah. So that's what I wanted to bring up. And then I want to read one of our members' comments because they made a really good point. So first off, he himself told the governors that he can't function after 8 o'clock. And that one of his, you know, realizations is that he has to stop doing things after 8 p.m. So who's the president after 8 o'clock? Who's making the important decisions? I guess Blinken? Yeah. Or let's keep it real. Jill Biden, the first lady, is the president. Okay? So we know Joe Biden's not. He says he can't function after 8 o'clock. So I mean, I didn't say it, he said it. And so okay, Jonathan Boras Johnny, YouTube member hit the join button below be part of the show. He wrote in, all I'm saying is Biden can't finish sentences. Let's forget about the election.

He needs to leave office now. He cannot have one more meeting alone with any world leader. And look, we were super worried about Trump at the end, well throughout, but especially at the end, Because we had known that like he ripped up the notes of the translator after he met with Putin. And we're like, can we trust them to be alone with a world leader? He's crazy. What's he going to say?

Is he going to sell us out, all this stuff? Now we can't trust Biden to be with a world leader because we literally have no idea what he's going to say. And along the points you're making, Anna, there was a meeting at one of these G7s where they all of the actual conversations between the world leaders happened when after the press leaves, everybody else leaves. He couldn't make it because he was too tired. It's a different one than the one Anna told you about. Well, if he can't function, he can't be a president, and he's going to be president and

run for president at the same time and make up a 16 point deficit in popularity. Okay, you have to be an occult to believe that. To be fair though, I think American voters, especially the independents who tend to be the kingmakers in these elections, I think that they're actually, they find it very appealing that one of the candidates needs to take a lot of naps in a day just to function at like 30%. But by the way, I'm not kidding, there are Democrats who are making that argument, including Democratic lawmakers Chantel Brown, who argues that Biden needing more naps is actually great. It's something that a man of integrity would say.

Let's watch. When the president spoke to governors last week at the White House, he told them Congresswoman that he needs to sleep more and work less. If Congresswoman, if a member of your staff said to you, you know what Congresswoman, Brown, I got to sleep more and work less. You'd fire them, won't you? Or you'd start looking for their replacement, would you not? Absolutely not. Listen, the fact that the president can admit, the fact that the president can admit his shortcomings, I think is a blessing. I think it demonstrates his integrity. I think it demonstrates his authenticity. And I think it demonstrates how genuine

he is when it comes to telling the truth. The Democratic Party does not respect its voters at all, At all, not even a little bit. It's disgusting. It really grosses me out. Chantelle Brown's a crook. So just so you understand her, the context of who she is, Nina Turner was running against 11 people in Cleveland, and she was a heavy favorite.

She had a huge lead. And nobody knew any of the other 11. Chantel put a statement on our website saying, out of the blue, how much she loves and would support Israel unequivocally. And all of a sudden, $4 million from Democratic majority for Israel showed up. So basic, and she had corruption issues already. There was a scandal about how she got funneled money to her boyfriend, okay? So she raised her hand and I said, I'll be the most corrupt Democrat in this race.

And A-PAC aligned PACs were like, great, that's the one we wanted. And that's how she got elected. Four million dollars swamped a 35-point lead. So she's, so of course they're gonna send her out, she'll say anything. So she'll tell you how Joe Biden's lying about his age proves how authentic he is. And that the fact that he can't do the job shows what a great president he is. Okay, all right, you can believe anything you like. But I'm glad it's on tape.

I hope they use it against her one day. Well, you can believe members of the Democratic Party who are providing cover for Biden and pretending like he's totally fine. Or you can believe all of the polling that's been coming out, including the latest poll jank. This is from the Cook Political Report. Appropriate because Biden's cooked. Yep, definitely. I don't know if you heard, but he beat Medicare. And he's the first black woman.

They have moved six states in favor of Trump as Biden continues campaigning and as his campaign flounders. So what they're reporting is that Arizona is a toss up that leans Republican. Georgia toss up leans Republican. Minnesota, likely to lean Democrat. Then you have New Hampshire likely to lean Democrat. Nevada. But I want you to understand. As you're hearing likely to lean Democrat, those were in the category of Democrat. Yeah.

They have now moved to toss up leaning Democrat, but might not necessarily be the case. And Nevada toss up to lean Republican. Now Nevada's got, it used to be a swing state. Now it's leaning Republican. Yep. Because remember, one of the polls, Biden was losing by 12 there. He's losing by 6 in Wisconsin. You can't even come close to losing Wisconsin. He's losing by 7 in Pennsylvania. This thing's a bloodbath. So you can deny reality all you like.

but numbers don't care about your feelings. So they're just going to just show up. That's just what's gonna happen. And I got tons of comments here from our members going, I'm not voting, but one guy said they canceled the North Carolina primary. They didn't want me to vote in the primary. What am I gonna vote in the general election for?

You didn't give me an opportunity to vote for a candidate that I wanted. And tons of people are saying, I'm tired of the lies. I don't wanna be lied to. I don't wanna be made to feel like a sucker for going to vote for Joe Biden. And either way, the only strategy As Anna said earlier in the show, that the Democrats have is yell at their own voters.

I want you to be a sucker. Just believe my obvious crazy lies. Remember, I'm the first black woman, okay? And that was in the interview where he was supposed to reassure us. And he had their answer prepared, and he still flubbed it. He flubs every answer. No, don't believe you're lying eyes. And then when he loses, of course, it's not the beloved leader's fault.

It's your fault. They'll yell at you again. So by the way, these are all anecdotes, examples of what has happened in previous years with Biden that was totally shielded or concealed from the American public and Democratic voters. I want to give you one other example that was laid out in this Wall Street Journal report. During a fundraiser at the four seasons in New York in June of last year, Biden spoke for five to ten minutes and then took a few questions, said attendees who bought a ticket.

They were struck by how fragile he seemed. At one point, Biden couldn't recall the word for veteran. The president asked the group to help him find the word saying he wanted to refer to a person who had served in the army or navy. And look, guys, things are not going to, his condition is not going to improve, meaning that as he stays in the race and as he continues campaigning, there will be more and more examples of these issues in the press. And of course, Republicans are going to use it to their advantage.

Why wouldn't they? That's a smart strategy if you want to win elections. They're definitely going to do that. And let's just be clear about what White House aides have been up to. How far they go to conceal the true mental state of Joe Biden. Let's go to graphic five here. White House aides often erect barriers to keep reporters from asking Biden questions. Journalists are sometimes kept dozens or even hundreds of feet away from the president at events.

House staff often blast music, so questions can't be heard during the president's exit. Because sometimes as he's walking away, remember he usually doesn't take questions from reporters. Sometimes as he's walking away, reporters will be shouting questions at him and he'll decide to answer one or two. And the White House agents are like, no, no, no, no, we got to make him stop doing that. And so now they play super loud music so we can't hear the reporters asking him questions. Because we've all seen it, guys. Remember when he's walking out of the press conferences, he's walking super slowly, And someone shouts a question at him and he goes, huh? And he turns around like this and then he'll give a nonsensical answer that doesn't make any sense

and then walk off. That's why they're like, oh, we got a genius idea, since we're all pathological liars who are trying to deceive all the voters and keep this guy so we can keep our job, who cares if he gets humiliated, and who cares if Democrats lose, who cares if Trump wins. So but we gotta keep getting paid, it's our job, it's our ego. Just turn up the music, turn up the music so they can't hear the old man that we all know, is having cognitive difficulties, but we're all going to lie to you. Everybody who's part of that campaign, everybody who's part of that White House,

should forever be marked as someone who was pathetic, pathological, and, and self-interested. Worked against the Democratic voters, worked against the American people, worked against democracy, all for their own ego and their salaries, they're disgusting. Look, one last thing that you should understand, this sometimes I do shoe on the other foot so that you get a sense of like, oh yeah, imagine if that had happened, right? Imagine if in the height of 2016 or 2020 race, Bernie Sanders said, well, I'm too old and I can't work past 8 o'clock at night.

What do you think the press would have done to Bernie Sanders? I'm sure Democrats like Chantel Brown would go on national television to defend him and say that this is a man of integrity for admitting what his weakness is on. They would have shredded him and you know it, right? They would have said he can't even work. He's so old, Bernie's so old. He can't even work person at eight o'clock. Well, who's gonna be president past eight o'clock?

But when it's Biden, oh, so authentic and wonderful, can you see the lies now? What we're trying to do here at the Young Turks is lift the veil. I think you lift it this way. Okay, and then when you see the guy behind the curtain, you go, oh, that's the guy who's in charge. That's the one we were told is a genius. And oh my, we should never question them.

because they're so smart and bold and amazing and angels, that pathological narcissist that can't even form a sentence anymore, that's the genius I'm supposed to trust the rest of my life? No, they've been lying to you the whole time because they care about their interests, not your interests. Well, we come back from the break. One of the saddest interviews I've seen involving Senator Bernie Sanders, very, very disappointing.

So we've got that and more coming up. Don't miss it. I'm going to go to bed. All right, back on TYT at Jankana with you guys. And Todd Vrandenberg in Summertime 87, they just hit the join button below to become members. Guys, we need the membership to begin with because of the state of the media industry. We're one of the few networks left. But on top of that, we took a bold chance by telling you the truth. We knew that we would lose a lot of members.

who did not not because they're bad people just because they got lied to by other people in media and thought oh my god Biden's great and he's gonna win and I don't know why these guys are talking against them a lot of folks came back after realizing we were right right but a lot of them didn't so we need more members and so if you want to reward truth telling and you want to keep independent media alive that actually does the real news whether it's right like meaning like in our side on our favor or not in our favor but has a courage to be honest with you. then hit the join button and become part of this team. We need you guys and we appreciate you guys. All right, Anna. All right. Well, there was a stunning admission by Democratic lawmaker Adam Smith during his CNN interview. And it's something that as a progressive I've known about. I think most progressives have known about this.

But it's entirely different to hear it stated so clearly from a Democrat. Let's watch. Let's remember what happened in 2020. Okay, the president did not run a great primary campaign. He lost badly in Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada. He came out in Nevada, and Bernie Sanders looked like the presumptive nominee. And this exact same group of people. The elites.

That the president is now deriding as elites. And by the way, they're not. They're Democrats, okay? They're party operatives, their donors, their volunteers decided, and to all the Bernie supporters out there, I'm not judging this positively or negatively, They decided they didn't want Bernie Sanders to be the nominee. They decided that Joe Biden would be the better nominee and credit again to the president.

He decided that because he did eight years as vice president. He did the years in the Senate. He had the record to be a strong president. And so they, through their support behind Joe Biden, and Pete Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren and Mike Bloomberg and Amy Klobuchar, and I may be forgetting a few others, stepped aside. Thus, allowing Biden to take the nomination back in 2020. Understand what he just confessed to there, that in order to stop Bernie Sanders from winning the Democratic nomination, which he was poised to do, he was performing really well while Biden was performing poorly, Democrats got together, hatched this plot, and helped Biden beat Bernie just to ensure that Bernie would never see the day as United States president. which sounds pretty, I don't know, undemocratic. So guys, I think this is an incredible piece of tape.

And I love that he accidentally admitted it just because of the moment and also because they feel so comfortable. They could just say things like this out loud and think that there's. Remember that the whole time we've been talking about primaries, 2016, 2020. When we say raid, we don't mean it like the MAGA guys. We don't mean like they fix the votes or whatever. to say the DNC cheats on behalf of the corporate candidate, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden. How do they do that? They did a money laundering scheme that was exposed in 2016, where they route the big donor money through the states, they do the less debates, etc.

But here in 2020, Adam Smith and Jay Tapper, if you notice, agreeing, just flat out saying, oh yeah, the elites, including the donors, he said the donors, got together and decided they don't want Bernie Sanders, is bad for business. Instead, they want Joe Biden, because he's the corporate establishment candidate. Right. So all the things that we had told you about how the elites decided that election by getting all the, and why did Buttigieg and Klobuchar and all those guys go along with it? So it seemed like there was consensus, because they also get money from those same donors. And they also get either positive or negative press, depending on what Democratic leadership says.

So did they work together to rig the election, not in the voting, but in the context of the election to make sure Bernie didn't win? Well, you just heard it with your own ears. Adam Smith is a conservative establishment Democrat. He's one of the guys who works with Big Pharma the most. He's just flat out admitting it. Yeah. No, I mean, I just want this to sink in. The party that pretends to want to protect democracy the most. I mean pretends as deeply as that word can mean, right? Like they don't actually care about democracy at all. Everyone is so hyper focused on the general election, which is why Democrats have gotten away with their undemocratic behavior during the primaries.

But if you pay attention to the primaries, you'll see how undemocratic the democratic establishment really is, okay? You'll see what they'll do to destroy the chances of someone who seems to be favored by Democratic voters, and that's what they did to Bernie, okay? You'll see what they'll do in order to support the incumbent and prevent a primary from happening to challenge him, even if the incumbent, Joe Biden, is showing signs of significant mental decline that they have provided cover for and concealed from the American people for many years now. It's just, how are they going to go around talking about how they're protectors and warriors on behalf of our democratic process, when in reality, they despise our democratic process and engage. The only reason why they've gotten away with it, by the way, is what I mentioned earlier,

people are more focused on the general election when the primaries are actually incredibly important. But also, look, when Republicans say that the mainstream media is liberal media, they're not lying. It is liberal media. It's liberal media in that they've been providing cover for the Democratic Party and the disgusting games that the Democratic Party plays when it comes to the primary elections. Yeah, but let's be clear, because a lot of people don't understand the word liberal because it's using so many different ones. ways now, what Anna is referring to is basically neoliberals. So these are the establishment Democrats. I'm referring to people in cable news and in network news that are hardcore

Democratic establishment fans. And they will do anything to protect the Democratic establishment. Even as they engage in undemocratic behavior, they will provide cover for that while pointing fingers at the other party for engaging in undemocratic behavior. And look, to be sure what Trump and his cronies did with the fake electors plot was wrong, and he should suffer consequences for that, which may never come, because if Biden is not elected, okay? If Trump is elected, those cases go away. They just do. We all know it. So the Democratic establishment, by the way, the media used to be in favor of both the Democratic and the Republican establishment, but Trump took over the Republican Party.

So now that that's why they're mainly just corporate Democrats. Now if there's a couple of corporate Republicans left, they still love them and will praise them and tell you what a moderate day are, et cetera, et cetera, like Mitt Romney, oh my God, Liz Cheney, or huge fans of those guys, they voted for the Iraq war or supported it. you know, vote wanted to cut your health care. They don't care, they don't care. They're for the donor class. But, but mainly, I want to ask you guys something.

So if you were in those primaries and you voted for Biden and Hillary Clinton instead of Bernie Sanders, and you heard people saying to you, oh, no, the elites aren't deciding anything, you guys are. No, the idea that mainstream media and all the donors are on Hillary's side or Joe's side, that's just conspiracy theories, that's crazy. Well, you just saw it with your own eyes now. So who was telling you the truth and who was lying to you earlier? And you notice one other phrase that Adam Smith used. He said at that point, Bernie Sanders was basically the presumptive nominee.

Now did Adam Smith or any of those other guys or Jake Tapper ever called Bernie Sanders the presumptive nominee? No. They said, it's no big deal. I mean, it was basically a tie in a couple of those states. And Nevada doesn't really count. I mean, it's so small and he's already doing better with Latinos. It's not a big deal. The only thing that matters is South Carolina, because that's where

African Americans are. If you don't, if you count any of the three states as you're borderline racist, you know, because the only thing that matters is South Carolina. The fact that he won those three doesn't mean anything, he's not the presumptive nominee, right? Now all of sudden, in hindsight, they're like, yeah, of course we were lying to you. He was a presumptive nominee until the donors and the elites got together and decided to torpedo him and put Joe Biden into place. That's way when Joe Biden now says, oh, the elites are against me. Here you got to give a tip of the hat to Adam Smith for telling you the truth at this late date saying, brother, the elites put you in there. So now all of a sudden you're against the elites?

Who's the top of you're nothing without the elites? You're just a puppet of the elites. Yes, that's exactly right. I mean, one of the biggest cheerleaders for Biden, even now is Jeffrey Katzenberg. Okay, incredibly wealthy donor to Biden. He's part of the elite and he's gonna argue that the elite is against him, that the elite is demanding that he get out of the race? Could it be that the people who want you out of the race are those who are actually concerned that you're gonna lose to Trump? I mean, it's just delusional, it's absolutely delusional. I don't know what's left with the Democratic Party at this point.

What's left? They don't respect their voters, they don't respect the primary process and engage in undemocratic, disgusting, dirty tricks, okay? They pretend like they care about the common man, they care about blue collar workers, when in reality they'll do a little bit of policy around the edges, which usually involve public corporate partnerships that, you know, funnel taxpayer money to corporations who squander it on nonsense. I'm just, I'm fed up with it. I'm fed up with the lies. I'm fed up with them literally doing nothing but engage in fear mongering in order to pressure people to vote for them.

At some point, we got to stop feeding into their BS narratives and their pressure to support them even when they do nothing for us. I'm sorry, that's where I stand on Democrats right now. I'm done with presidential elections where I'm like, yeah, I really don't like that candidate at all, but I guess I got to vote for this person because the other guy is worse. No, I'm done with that, okay? Either give the voter something to actually feel inspired about, something to vote for, or get out of the race. Yeah, I was in a debate recently where someone challenged me on Anna's opinion on that.

And they're like, now she's saying that she won't just even vote mindlessly for any Democrat that the donor spent. Correct. as an independent, the Democratic Party, I find deeply, deeply embarrassing. So I do not want to be referred to as a Democrat. I find them so embarrassing. Okay, so listen, the problem is that the Democratic Party used to be the party of the working class. Not anymore. FDR, JFK, LBJ, etc. And that's the Democratic Party we all love and want to go back to. That's when we were successful. We got the best bills passed.

We worked for the American people. We grew the largest middle class. The world has ever. seen. We were both moral and intelligent and effective. And we got all those things done. Go back and read FDR speeches. He was vicious to the Republicans. He was not at all civil. So the idea that you should just be quiet and accept what the donors tell you. He FDR said, I welcome their hatred. Can you imagine if anybody said that today? It's about time that all of these goons lose their races and come to the realization. that they've got to do more for voters than disrespect them, fear monger to them, pressure them to support them even though they're doing nothing for them.

It's about time that they realize, oh, as Democrats, it turns out that we actually have to legislate and fight on behalf of our constituents, otherwise we're not going to win our elections. Oh, it turns out that we need to be honest with our constituents and not provide cover for 81-year-old presidential candidates who are going to lose the election to someone that should be easy to beat, who should be a layup, okay, in terms of beating. It's just, it's pathetic. At some point, I mean, I know that the vast majority of viewers are Democrats. I get it, I was a lifelong Democrat too, at least from when I was able to vote.

But aren't you tired of being disrespected? That's what I want to know. I'm tired of being disrespected and lied to. Yeah, and the last thing I'll say on this is, whenever you say I would like better Democrats, I would like FDR Democrats, I would like Democrats who fight for us. They say, oh, so you're in favor of Trump. Okay, if Trump is that if you, are you making the case that that's who Trump is? No, no, no, no.

They're making the case that if you don't bow your head and obey the donors, then you're helping Trump. No, brother. No, you're helping you're helping Trump. Yep. Now it's proven definitively. At this point, the establishment, despite what Adam Smith is complaining about, it's coming back around to, I guess it's Joe Biden. They wanted Joe Biden back in 2020.

They wanted him for the whole year of this lead up to this campaign. And now they're tenuously sticking with Joe Biden. And you're to obey orders. We're to have the worst possible candidate that eight out of ten Americans think that he is not mentally well enough to be president. Eight out of ten. But you must have him because the elites want him. And now Joe Biden says, I used to have all the elites.

Now I only have half the elites on my side. Oh, I'm against the elites. And then he says it on Morning Joe, the epicenter of the elites, right? So this is the force that they want you to support. And then they say, if you want anything better from the Democratic Party, you're a Republican. No, brother, I want to beat the Republicans. I want the Democrats to actually be Democrats instead of being basically warmed over Republicans doing the donor's bidding. But you won't get any of that message through mainstream media, because they'll lie to you,

24 7 and pretend that the real Democrats are the radicals and the progressives who want to help Republicans and the corporate goons that work strictly for the donors are the real Democrats. No, they're not. They're frauds and they're totally corrupt. All right, when we come back, we have more news for you, including the new Republican National Convention platform. So we're gonna share that with you ahead of their giant which takes place next week. Come right back.

So not everybody is Bernie Sanders on your show. All right, well, let's move over to the Republican side of the political aisle, because there is some news with them as well, so let's get into it. Let's get into it. The Republican National Committee has now put out its platform with Donald Trump, apparently personally writing portions of it. And what's interesting is how Trump's role ended up moderating certain contentious policy issues for the Republican Party.

But I actually think it was a smart political move because the extremists in the Republican party were actually pushing for loser policy ideas. And I think Trump, to his credit, realized. is, oh, this is actually going to hurt the chances of Republicans winning congressional races and potentially Donald Trump himself in the general election, although, you know, Democrats decided to provide cover for Biden, who is now very likely going to lose to Trump if he stays in the race. Now with that in mind, the document was apparently chopped down from 66 pages in 2016

to just 16 pages this year. And some are in fact complaining that it was developed behind closed doors and approved by delegates in just a few hours Monday morning. Now, some prominent rank and file evangelicals criticized the language for backpedaling on the GOP's longstanding promise to ban abortions nationally. But to be fair, I mean, Trump has said repeatedly on national television, publicly that he's not going to push for a national abortion ban, not because of his principles, but because he realizes it's a big loser for Republicans. That's the main reason why Republicans didn't have such a massive red wave during the midterms.

And so he learned a lesson from that and is trying to moderate the Republicans' messaging on that. But evangelicals, especially evangelical leaders like Tony Perkins, not happy about this. And so Perkins, who's the president of the Family Research Council, says that the 2024 platform is a decent statement of campaign priorities, but not necessarily the enduring principles of a party. Unfortunately, the process was unbecoming of constitutional conservatives, which did not allow the document to be amended or improved. And so Perkins' work to gather support for basically a constitutional convention so they can implement an amendment to the constitution that would essentially ban abortions nationally. I don't think that's going to go anywhere. But I am curious what you think, Jank, about Trump's willingness to push back on evangelical

demands here. So as I saw this platform, I thought there's a couple of things that are pretty dangerous in there. And I'll get to those in a minute. But overall, I thought, oh no, we're so going to lose, obviously because of Biden, we're already toast. But even if you were to get Biden out, we got to, we have some catching up to do. Why, because that document is pretty populist.

It is. And it, but he keeps talking about the voters. Yep. I know for Democrats, so like, whoa, who are those? Yeah, the people that Democrats like to disrespect on a regular basis. Yeah, no, so don't get me wrong. I know Trump's a con man, nobody's talked more about what a con man he is than I have. And I know that those scary parts of that he might actually do.

The parts where he protects Social Security and Medicare, not necessarily. so. But as you read the document from an analysis point of view, I thought this is going to be fairly effective. And he's taking out most of the crazy radical stuff and the stuff that isn't popular. You know why? Because he's a con man. And what a con man does is get you to believe in him. So he tells you what you want to hear. But in politics, that's what you're supposed to do. Now, what would be amazing is a politician who tells you what you want to hear and then delivers it. Oh my God, give us one in our lifetime, please, right? So Trump tells you what you want to hear and then doesn't deliver it, but at least he's savvy enough and

his team is savvy enough to tell you the things you want to hear and and to take out the ones you don't want like abortion. I'm gonna say something that you're gonna disagree with, but this is my view of Trump versus whoever the Democratic candidate typically is. Trump actually listens to his supporters and I'm gonna give you a few examples from his first term. He was itching to go to war with Iran. You remember that? He was itching for it. But the America first MAGA crowd, they're kind of isolationists. They don't want more war. And so I remember seeing headlines and I remember seeing commentary from his supporters saying that they didn't want him to go to war with Iran. And he listened.

There were other examples as well, but look, you're right that he does what it takes to win. And so if he thinks moderating the message on abortion might help him win, he's going to do that. But at the end of the day, what's been clear to me is that he seems to have more respect for his constituents, for his base, than Democrats do. Okay, Democrats will look at the policies that Democratic voters want in favor, and they'll basically say, F off, you have to support us because the other guy is evil and dangerous, whereas Trump actually listens to his voters, and that's the reason why he has an energized base, they're galvanized, they're super excited to vote for him. Even when Biden didn't have all these negative headlines following his disastrous debate performance, do you think Democratic voters were super jazz

to vote for him? Were they ever excited to vote for him? Now I'm hearing people talking about Biden voters, I'm like, which Biden voters? So like, because for all the blue MAGA that's Biden voters, if you just told them, the new leader is Kamala Harris or the new leader is Josh Shapiro, they were like, where I'm voting for Josh Shapiro? So it's, Biden doesn't have any voters who care about him. All of his voters just say I will vote for anything democratic leadership puts up in front of me. So his personal voters are zero.

Anyways, now to end, look, to your point out of this, couple things, right? So I understand, yeah, I remember the time that he didn't do the bombing, et cetera. But on the other hand, he would do crazy things all the time. And that's why we were all on edge. And he would lie to you and tell you he was a populist and then pass a giant tax cut for corporations. the most record breaking gift to corporate rule that any president's ever done. So let's not forget that he's actually totally full of crap. So but I separated out to reality and the policies and what's smart politics in terms of what's going to help him get

elected or not, right? So when you look at smart politics, I look at number five and number six on this list and they say stop outsourcing and turn the United States into a manufacturing superpower. Can he really do that? Not really. And the idea of doing the tariffs will lead to more inflation and is a bad idea. Pause for a second, though, on the on the tariffs. Look, we didn't cover the story, mostly because we didn't have time, but Biden continued with those tariffs. Not only did he continue, he engaged in even more protectionism when it comes to China. And I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. No, but Trump is proposing an order of magnitude difference in tariffs. And he's, look, we I'm not here to debate tariffs. What I'm saying about

this one is that it will appeal to most Americans, right or wrong on policy grounds. A lot of people are going to go protect manufacturing, keep jobs at home, they're going to like that, right? Now actually Biden could make a perfectly good case on that if he could speak. Anyways, number six, large tax cuts for workers and no tax on tips. Sounds pretty good. That sounds amazing. I don't believe he's going to do that at all, okay? But it's It sounds good, so when he's offering things up for the voters, and Biden isn't, this is, it's gonna be a slaughter. Okay, now let me tell you the dangerous parts of this platform, because it's important

that you know the reality. Number two, carry out the largest deportation operation in American history. I think he's gonna actually try it. He promised it eight different ways, and when he does, it's going to be a holy mess. Then they'll stop because even Republicans were like, oh, I didn't mean my friend. I meant other randos, right? I didn't mean the workers at my factory. I meant other randos, right?

But they're gonna try it and it's gonna be a giant mess. But I think the last two are more important, 18 and 19. That's why they're all the way down at 18 and 19. Deport pro Hamas radicals and make our college campuses safe and patriotic again. So he doesn't mean Hamas. If it was Hamas, you don't deport them, you arrest them and put him in jail. No, he means anyone who disagrees with Israel is gonna get arrested and may be deported. Come on, he's definitely saying it.

He said it super clearly, he went to Republican Jewish leaders. He says a lot of crazy things, Jank. So you, okay, you're gonna trust Biden? You think he's gonna arrest and deport pro peace protesters? Oh, he's definitely gonna, Biden arrested pro. Deport them where? A lot of them are American citizens. Where is he gonna deport them, Jake?

It doesn't matter, he's gonna play up to his base. And he's gonna say, hey, you know what, under Biden, they arrested these guys too, which is true. And then he's gonna arrest them. Then he's gonna say, hey, you know what, that guy's from a Muslim country, and that guy's, his grandparents were from a Muslim country. I'm gonna deport them there. So what, what are you going to do about it? And everybody's going to get all riled up.

And then his base is going to be ecstatic. Oh, we got the Muslims. We got the Hamas guys, et cetera. No, no, he's got dictatorial tendencies. I don't, this is playing with fire there like this guy. What do you mean deport American citizens? Okay, and by the way, if you're MAGA, why don't you ask, wait, hey, how far do we have to go back? Is it just Muslim countries or can he deport Irish people who supported Irish independence?

Oh yeah, your grandparents are terrorists. I'm gonna deport you even though you're a citizen. I know, he'll do it only on racial lines. 19, secure our elections including same day voting, voter identification, paper ballots, and proof of citizenship. It sounds to look good, oh, we're protecting, no, that ends mail-in voting, that ends much larger participation in our democracy and means that the Republicans will have a massive advantage, we will not be able to recover from, as they funnel all of our money to their corporate donors. And by the way, why does he have 18th thing about the college campus anyway?

Because Miriam Adelson is going to give him $90 to $100 million, and she wants anyone who does not support Israel to be arrested. She wants Israel to annex the West Bank. Heretz is reporting it in Israel. So, and by the way, last time, if you're MAGA, you should know this, if you're independents, you should know this. Trump told Sheldon, give me the $100 million for his campaign,

And you want to move our embassy? I'll give you the ability to do US foreign policy. And Sheldon said, yes, here's the money. Now do as you're told, and Trump did. He risked a giant war in the Middle East just to make sure his donor was happy. That's who Donald Trump is. So this is a disaster, but it's going to be framed in a positive way, and it's taken out some of the positions that are very unpopular in the polling.

It is politically savvy and it is going to lead to not a good. We're already in such a disastrous situation. As long as Biden's the nominee, none of this matters because he has a 0% chance of winning. But get ready for Trump to be president because this is, we're completely headed in that direction. All right, when we come back from the break, I want to talk a little bit about what's happening in Barcelona. The local residents of Barcelona are not happy with tourists, which I'm really happy to find out about as I'm closer to literally visiting Barcelona in just a few weeks. We'll be right back.

A water fight on the streets of Barcelona. Some locals spraying tourists with water guns as they ate at popular restaurants, sending visitors fleeing from their tables. Thousands of protesters walking through the city over the weekend, chanting tourists go home and carrying signs with anti-tourists slogans. The residents of Barcelona are attacking tourists with water guns to basically make a point about how they're not welcome. that the residents of Barcelona don't want the tourists there, that they're annoyed by them. But I do think that they might be displacing their rage. And I'll explain why in just a moment. Now aside from using these little water guns to attack the tourists, the local community, as you can see in this video, is also taping off entrances to businesses like restaurants and other places where tourists are gathering.

But again, I just want to really reiterate that I think that they're taking their frustrations out. on the wrong people. While it's true that some tourists might engage in some behavior that they should be checked on, the fact of the matter is tourism brings in a lot of money to Barcelona. So 33 million people visited Barcelona in the past five months of 2024. Tourism also brought in 9.6 billion euros in 2023 alone. So it's a huge source of revenue for Barcelona. But it is also important to hear the local community out and understand

why they're so frustrated in the first place. So let's watch. But some locals say mass tourism is not only overwhelming the city, but also making the cost of living unaffordable to its residents. I would stress the declining quality of life for local residents, and that would include the increasing cost of housing, the noise, the litter, the displacement of long-term residents, and the relentless construction.

Rents in Barcelona has risen nearly 70% in just the last. decade, according to Mayor Jauma Colboni. In June, the mayor announcing a plan to stop renewing permits for rentals used by foreign visitors by 2028 after saying a boom in short-term rentals is to blame. The city assuring the move would make 10,000 units available to locals in four years. So to me, it's pretty clear that the main point of contention here is the fact that the housing has become incredibly unaffordable due to the increase in short-term. term rentals. And so yeah, that should be dealt with. But I don't really see how attacking the tourists. I have an idea. And I don't know if they've already thought of this and it's not

practical, but it seems like it's a relatively easy fix. Why don't you just charge the tourists way more taxes and fees? No, but they are. So but no, then increase it more and more because obviously they're still coming. So that way you collect a lot more taxes that you could use for your own citizens to build more housing, to provide more services, and that way eventually the market will correct itself and less people will come, but they'll pay more. So you'll actually get more taxes and fees for the government. You'll have less crowds, and you'll be able to serve your citizens. Just cutting off all the tourists are, you know, they're not really attacking the tourists. But yeah. What do you mean? They're squirting them in the face with water guns.

No, no, I know, I know. Are you kidding me right now? No, no, hold on. I'm saying that they're not attacking them like violently. They're not like weirdo thugs or anything, but I was gonna say, hold on, Anna. Spraying a woman in the face and hair, okay, with us, that's violent. That's not okay. Okay, I don't know about violent or not, but what I was going to say is, but it's super annoying and why don't do that, right? That's obviously not the productive way to go. If I'm eating lunch somewhere and I went to your city because I love your city and it's beautiful and I want to appreciate it and then you, you know, throw water on me or whatever, that you're saying, you know, we don't want you here, obviously, and that's their message.

But that's the wrong message. I get it brothers and sisters. And believe me, we live in L.A. The housing prices are crazy, right? And we have a lot of the similar issues that you guys do, not necessarily because of tourism, but because all of our politicians are crooks. But there's a more productive way to do this. Everything has a downside.

Look, if you do that, then less middle class people will be able to be able to. to go to Barcelona and how do you enforce it anyway and so you can even charge more rent for non Spanish people you enforce it just through a passport you had a Spanish passport these are the rules and fees that apply you don't have a Spanish passport then these are the fees that apply and I think that makes a lot of sense and probably the right way to solve this but this is not productive yeah so the protesters listed some of their demands in a manifesto they published over the weekend they want restrictions on tourist

accommodations, I'm guessing limitations on short-term rentals, fewer cruise terminals in the city's port, and an end to tourism advertisements using public money, which, look, I understand why public money is used, because the whole idea is tourism brings in revenue for the city, and the revenue can be helpful. But if the local community isn't benefiting from that increased revenue, then they're going to be super bitter about it, right? If you're using public money to encourage more tourism, but the revenue from that tourism isn't used to improve the lives of the public community. Well, then that's gonna be an issue. So I understand their frustration there. And I agree with you wholeheartedly. Attacking the tourists is not

productive at all. Like I don't think that's going to solve any of the issues. It's just going to make people real angry. Yeah, my last point here is that I mainly blamed the people of Barcelona, not just now, but especially in the past. You made the city too beautiful. What are you gonna to do. I went on a backpacking trip, you know, cliched one many years ago, about a quarter of a century ago. And Barcelona was easily the most beautiful city, along with Rome, in my opinion. So it's a gorgeous, gorgeous city. It's, it's great that the whole world wants to share it. We just got to figure out how to share it. Just charge us more money. Okay, that's a short-term fix, but it'll probably get you most of what you need. And the tourists will thin out.

All right. Let's move on to the next story. Giant Medicare Advantage insurers are overcharging the government. They are peddling false promises. And then they're turning around and denying care to seniors and people with disabilities. Turns out insurers are robbing American taxpayers through the Medicare Advantage program by essentially charging the Medicare system for diagnoses that no doctor ever diagnosed patients with and never even treated patients with.

Now, new reporting for the Wall Street Journal notes that private insurers made hundreds of thousands of questionable diagnoses that triggered extra taxpayer-funded payments from 28, through 2021, and the questionable diagnoses included some for potentially deadly illnesses, like AIDS, for instance, which patients never received any treatment or care for, and actually were not tested positive for. Often patients and doctors are totally in the dark about this, by the way, okay? Which could be disastrous on a whole other level, because yes, while they're robbing the Medicare system of our resources, it could also potentially hurt Americans, who are like falsely diagnosed by the insurers and might want,

might want to get like a life insurance policy or something that they won't be approved for. Yeah, and it's even worse than that, guys. So one of the tricks they do is hey, can we send you a free nurse? So well, that sounds like a lovely offer. Oh, you know what, we'll even give you $50 if you take the nurse. Be careful because then the nurse is going to come and falsely diagnose you. And one of the things that they did in one of the examples of the Wall Street Journal had was a woman they told her she has blocked arteries. She started panicking. She's just scared to death that she might die because of blocked arteries.

Though her doctor checks it, she don't have block arteries. They're just trying to scam the American taxpayers out of more money. I'm going to give you some devastating numbers in a minute. So understand how Medicare Advantage works, right? It is publicly funded, but think of it as like privately run, right? The private insurance companies are very much involved. And And ironically, the initial thinking was, well, having the private industry involved might actually be more efficient and it might actually save more money. That is not what has happened because the way this is set up literally incentivizes the private insurers to make up diagnoses in order to rip off the system and engage in fraud.

So, and again, this is the Wall Street Journal. It was an excellent, excellent investigative report, all the credit to them for doing this. And here's what they found, that instead of saving taxpayers money, Medicare Advantage has added tens of billions of dollars in costs, researchers and some government officials have said. The system gives insurers way too much power, since they can add diagnoses to ones that patients own doctors, you know, have submitted, right? So if the doctor themselves have not submitted it, they can add to the diagnoses a diagnosis that isn't real like just totally made up. Medicare gave insurers that option so that they can

basically catch conditions that doctors might have missed. But again, it's a problem when they're just making up diagnoses. And the Wall Street Journal analysis found that many diagnoses were added for which patients receive no treatment or that contradicted their doctor's views. The federal government also pays private insurers a base rate for each Medicare Advantage members. However, they end up getting paid even more for certain ailments, right? So they'll lie about conditions for patients that might not have these issues because the insurers are entitled to extra money when their patients are diagnosed with certain conditions that are costly to treat.

And so insurers added diabetic cataract diagnoses to 148 patients treated by Dr. Howard Chen. This is just one example. He's an ophthalmologist in Goodyear, Arizona. he said he saw at most one or two such cases a year, not 148. And so more than 66,000 Medicare Advantage patients were diagnosed with diabetic cataracts, even though they had already gotten cataract surgery. So they had already gotten surgery for it.

And after the fact, the private insurers diagnosed them with diabetic cataracts, the government paid all Medicare Advantage insurers more than 700 million. from 2019 to 2021 for diabetic cataracts, most of the diagnoses were added by insurers. And in all, Medicare paid insurers about $50 billion for diagnoses added just by insurers in the three years ending in 2021. Okay, so now let me clarify what all of this means. First of all, the $50 billion, they just stole out of your pocket.

So we get frustrated with crime here and then we have, have fights with people on the left, et cetera. And so if you're frustrated by the crime at the CVS, we're on your side and the carjackings and all that stuff. But these sons of bitches are stealing $50 billion. And there's no one doing anything about it. Now, let me give you a sense of how egregious this is. So number one, on cataract, they said that 66% of people still had it.

It needed to be treated for it of the people who already had surgery. But if you have surgery, they take out your lens. Having cataract is impossible. So they're just lying, about 66% of the numbers. So how about Epiditis C? They said 50% of the people who had gotten treated still needed treatment and has had to be charged. But in reality, once you get treatment for hepatitis C,

it has a 99% cure rate. It ain't 50%. They just keep charging and charging. And us, the American taxpayers, have to pay for all of this. It's just a flat out robbery. I'll give you more numbers on the not robbery in a second. How about HIV? I mean, super serious AIDS, right?

Now, in 83% of the cases, they said they're not taking the cocktail of drugs that an AIDS patient needs to take. No doctor would allow that. They must take those drugs, otherwise they would die. So they're lying about 83% of the numbers. This is highway robbery. So Cigna got caught on one of these scams and paid 172, million fine. What is that? That's just cost of doing business. They stole so much more than that. They pay you a small little portion back. There you go, American taxpayer. It doesn't matter.

We have all the politicians in our back pockets. They let us rob you blind every single day. We're big farmer. We're big health insurance companies. How about United Health? Do you know how much of their money comes from this? They made 17 billion recently in a year. I think it was 2021. And of that, $8.7 billion was from this operation. So the majority of their multi-billion dollar enterprise is basically ripping off the American taxpayer. Yeah. Okay, but nobody's watching the henhouse. So thank you Wall Street Journal for doing great journalism on this one.

But overall, are the politicians going to do anything about it? No, they're funded by all these guys. All the donations come in to the Republican and Democratic politicians. so they let them steal $50 billion from us. And if you're wondering how this impacted you on an individual level, let's go to Graphic 5 here. Medicare Advantage has cost the government an extra $591 billion over the past 18 years compared with what Medicare would have cost

without the help of the private plans. That amounts to $4,300 per US tax filer. But understand something. If you want the things that are in Medicare Advantage, We don't need a private company to give it to you. The government gives you Medicare to begin with. It could just give you more, the same stuff you get for Medicare advantage, without the $190 billion or so that the private companies got for no reason,

for no reason other than donor money. If you see you get frustrated on other stories and you see, APEC gave this much money to Israel, and now they all are saying Israel can do whatever they want, that's true. But it's even more true of corporations. They buy all of our politicians and make them serve them instead of us. We got to stop the robbery, vote out all the corporate politicians.

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