The Young Turks - Boos Cruz

Episode Date: March 28, 2021

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Now with power, drop it. Power Power panel. John I don't know, David Schuster with you guys, told you was a power panel, told you. And those, that opening will be updated once a decade, we promise. So I have to fall behind. Yeah. Yeah. So we got an exciting show for you guys. I'm going to present the second hour. So I'm psyched about that. Tucker Carlson's crew basically come out and saying, oh, yeah, yeah, the right wing is going to like the fascist. So apparently they're here for it. They know it. So that's the state of the Republican Party.

We'll talk about that in the second hour. And there's so many more exciting stories. So I, Without further ado, what are we doing? Let's do the news. Oh, geez, okay, let's jump right into it. Whatever else you might think about the situation at the border, I think we can all agree that it is a serious situation that requires serious people with serious ideas discussing. And I believe that we finally have that with Ted Cruz.

Take a look. So it's past midnight. I'm standing on the shore of the Rio Grande. The water is right behind me. I'm down the Texas border, along with 18 senators. We made the trip to see the crisis that is playing out. We've already gone to detention facilities that are overrun. Many of them with families, small children.

We saw multiple mothers who were nursing infant babies who had just crossed over and were being housed in outdoor holding pens where they were sleeping on the floor and nursing their babies. Ted Cruz's normal schick where he like pretends to have empathy and a bit of gravitas. That seems out of place in the Senate chamber. When he's dragged some reluctant cameraman down to a random bush near the water, it just seems even more ridiculous. Dude, get out of the underbrush. What are you doing? What do you both think about this? Yeah. So first of all, I think you're being unfair to Ted Cruz's audition tape for Survivor, Cucking Cancun. I thought he hit it out of the park.

While he is not naked, thankfully, he's always afraid. He's so afraid. Yeah, I mean, there's so many things here. They, you know, it also was that the one where they're always whispering and then people are yelling in the background, the horror movie. It was like, it's a Blair Witch Project. Yeah, Blair Witch Project. There you go. He's saying, I saw immigrant women, I'm so scared, right? So, I mean, I like the twist at the end where he's like concerned about detainee conditions. Oh, is that what we're concerned about now? Because Ted, it didn't seem like you were concerned about that for four years under Trump.

Oh, what's the big deal about cages? I mean, cages are fine. I mean, they're for, yeah, different animals. It's also for humans. Now he's like, I'm out here in the bush. I'm scared alone and partially naked. But aren't these detainees? What's happening?

I can't believe it. Come on, man. Come on. Other people are allowed to say that. You're not allowed to say that. I mean, I thought mainly he was there because he's like, this is where the Rio Grande is, but we can't see it, by the way. Rio Grande also behind this screen, just, he might have done that in his backyard. I don't know. But then somebody whispers, Ted, Mexico is on the other side of the river. He's like, I'm making a break for it.

He jumps and starts swimming. He's got to get to Cancun somehow. Well, given how much his fellow Republicans, and by the way, only Republicans that are on this He's lucky that he wasn't pushed in because, I mean, his fellow Republicans hate this guy. But a couple of things. I think we should be happy that there's finally a Mexico expert who is there along the border. And, you know, because Ted Cruz of the time that he spent in Cancun just a couple of weeks ago when he decided to abandon Texas in the middle of a deadly winter storm, who better for the Republicans to put along the border and be the face of their efforts there than Texas,

Cancun, Ted Cruz. The other part about it is later on the tape, he goes on and points and says, the cartel, We've heard the cartel right there. Yeah, he hears voices and says that's the cartel. How does he know that? Does he have the special Ted Cruz, Cancun, eye goggles and help him see the cartel? I mean, it's insane. And in all seriousness, if the Republicans did not tell Ted Cruz in advance, you know, maybe

this is not such a good idea. Maybe you should lay low on all things, Mexico for at least a little while. If no Republicans spoke up about this, the Republican Party isn't even worse shape than any of us think. This was pathetic. Yeah. But to be fair, David, the cartel might recognize us. And they're like, dude, that's Ted Cruz. Remember he was at the resort the other week?

Yeah, he said that they were mocking the border patrol. I think they were just mocking him specifically. And it's not just Mexicans, we do it here too. I think that that video by Ted Cruz was pretty perfect, actually. As a bit of border xenophobia hysteria propaganda by the right in that it notably did not include any Mexicans. There was no people. Now, look, part of this is Biden's fault. He doesn't want cameras in the places where people being held. They should totally change that. That sort of policy was wrong under Trump. It's wrong now. But if you could get cameras in there, I don't know

that Ted Cruz would have wanted to do a video there because you can't show all of those people in horrid situations without making some of the people watching the video think, hey, shouldn't we treat them better? And that's the thing. While Ted Cruz wants to make this a big deal because he thinks it might hurt Biden. And he, you know, in some hypothetical world under Biden, he would want to change border policy. It's not because he cares about the human suffering that kids are being held that in theory they might be separated from their families. This is like, this is xenophobia about people absent any humanity whatsoever. We don't acknowledge their humanity. Ted Cruz expresses no humanity. It's like a perfect sort of vague. Republican politics

is so disconnected from the actual intersection of government policy on people. lives and how that might be shifted to create a more equitable world with less human suffering in it. But it's also buffoonish, right? I mean, you know, it's like somebody said to Ted Cruz, hey, because you're doing a documentary style film, make sure to point back there at the darkness because, you know, viewers really like that. I mean, it was silly. This was like a terrible Saturday Night Live sketch or somebody posted on social media. This is like the absolute worst series imaginable on Netflix. Bear Grills, he is not. And oh, by the way, that vest, I think the only thing missing. I just am surprised that he wasn't wearing like a bulletproof vest if he

wanted to make the point about xenophobia and how dangerous it is along the border. But I mean, it was just, it was, it was laughable. And again, the guy has no self-awareness. And I think that's why Democrats, I don't think need to be afraid of somebody like Ted Cruz, who was as much of a buffoon and lack of self-awareness as Donald Trump. I think they need to be worried about other Republicans who are a little bit more serious. Yeah. So to build on the points you guys are making, first of all, I love one of the local newscasters are like, earlier today, there was something interesting happening behind me, but it's not there anymore. I don't know why I'm in this shot. So maybe he was taking an excuse from there. And look, to John's point, if he showed detainees

suffering under Biden, it might increase Biden's popularity in the right wing. So that's another reason why he wouldn't want to show it. In fact, you move past that mom comment real quick. And then in the rest of the videos, like, oh, scary Latinos, I mean, not me, but the other guy, the Mexicans, I mean, immigrants. I mean, I'm also an immigrant. But you know, scary people that you hate that look like me, but you get it, right? So that's why he gets confused with his talking points because he's like, wait, do I say Biden's a terrible guy? But if I do, Republicans, if I like him more. And but the number one problem is how fake he is. Yeah. John said it earlier. I mean, how do you watch that smarmy guy. guy and not know he's faking it. I mean, it's, but look, to be fair, that's on the Democratic side too. I mean, Democrats love fake politicians. I mean, give him a good Kamala Harris laugh. And if you point out that that laugh doesn't sound that organic, how dare you? That's a beloved politician. The politicians are so real, if you say so, brother. And then, and then And last thing is, I can never stomach the irony of Cuban American Republicans like Ted Cruz

telling us we shouldn't let immigrants in. You know, Cubans have complete amnesty. They get to America any illegal way they like, and instantly they get literal amnesty and they're allowed to stay here. I don't mind that. But if you say that's the rule for Cubans, but the rest of the Latinos we're gonna kick in face when they get here and the rest of the planet we're going to throw dirt on. And then we're going to send a Cuban guy whose family, you know, generally speaking, and they came through

Canada, but same concept, left Cuba, got here somehow, and then says, oh, well, yeah, it was, but I want different rules for you. I want you to suffer and not have any of the advantages that I had. So it's kind of rubbing it in everybody's face, like we're the bad guys. But again, And for Republican voters, that's what they're here for. They like bad guys, so they're gonna vote for that heel. In just a second, I wanna show you very briefly something that arguably might be more embarrassing than the video we just showed you. Really fast though, only because it's a Friday show, I felt a bit of nostalgia

watching this because almost nobody watching this is gonna remember the period of TYT that I'm gonna refer to, but Jank probably will maybe Brett. There was a period, a brief period where we used to send Dave Kohler via green screen, to do location reporting. Jank, do you remember that? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. He did live hurricane reports. He reported from the surface of Mars.

I would have loved to send him to some random bush the Rio Grande to do this. Maybe someday when we can all be in a studio again, we can make that happen. Anyway, so Ted Cruz is obviously a fun guy. He's a guy's guy's guy. You know, he likes to joke around. So he has some new merch, he tweeted about.

Show you're a proud member of the cruise crew. crew. Get your spring break gear right now. And it's a shirt with McConnell in the front, Maga in the back. I don't know what message he thinks he's sending with that slogan. I don't like it. And I don't even know, like, politically, he doesn't generally seem to get along with McConnell. Why is he branding himself as McConnell in the front? I get that he's trying to be cool and either he gets or he doesn't get that he's talking about spring break and talking about a cruise crew when he just got in trouble for a tropical vacation. I just don't like, he's just not cool. That's my takeaway. Yeah, there's so many amazing things about it. But in terms of

its mission, its mission is probably to make sure that if you know how there's some portion of the right wing has this thing about like Chastity, I don't watch porn or to save yourself for marriage and stuff. Well, if you need to do that, this would be your best tool for that. You put this shirt on and you ain't getting late before marriage. Trust me. Okay. I mean, who looks at that shirt and thinks like, oh, the guy who put this on is probably really cool. Come on. I mean, even if you thought that, I mean, right before you, but you know what, forget it. Well, since this is Friday, and I tend to like to try to look at the bright side on things, Maybe we should be grateful that it's just the T-shirt and that Ted Cruz is not actually modeling this tank top himself because I know I'll confess that I have gained some pounds over the pandemic. And from all the photographs, clearly Ted Cruz has as well, there's certain people who should not be wearing tank top. So at least he's just advertising the shirt and he's not putting himself in it. But, you know, the more serious point in all of this, I think, is, look, I mean, Joe Biden, for all the things that he said at his press conference, he was absolutely right when he said every time of year, except for the pandemic last year, January, February, March, there was always a

surge and people who are trying to cross the border. It's up from March compared to February, which compared to January, is the same thing two years ago. So this crisis, if you want to call it a crisis or a situation, it is exactly the same as it was two years ago. And this idea that all of a sudden, Republicans are now spotting something that's going on to the Biden administration that hasn't happened before. That's nonsense. And it goes along with the nonsensical nature of Ted Cruz's merchandise. And anybody who really wants to buy this stuff, God bless him. God save him. No, I want to make more fun of the T-shirt. So first of all, look, I can't attest to whether Ted Cruz is attractive gentleman or not,

but I don't, like, it's an interesting sign of what they think of their voters, that they chose the ugliest picture of Ted Cruz to put on a shirt, right? Like, it's like if I put on a shirt a picture of me with a double chin or, you know, on a bad day triple chin, why? Why would I choose to do that, right? Why am I trying to turn off the people that are on my side? And they think, think, oh yeah, we have redneck voters and they'll like this. I mean, why did Ted Cruz do the mullet in the first place? The guy went to Harvard. Mullet, Ted, mullet. You know why? Because he's a pander bear. And he thinks, okay, my voters like people who look like this. So yeah, sure, what do I? There's not a single person at Harvard who had a mullet, okay?

Let's just understand who Ted Cruz is. So the way that he's pandering here is just, It's just like, it's so stupid and annoying. If you're right when you're, you should be more annoyed than I am. Like, you know that dude didn't want to have a mullet. You know, he's basically making fun of you. It's, and so, and then the, what was it, the cruise bruise or whatever the thing or clues crews crew. Cruz crew, that's not a thing.

And the McConnell in the front, no, you idiot. I know you're trying to impan to Republican voters. But the Republican voters don't like Mitch McConnell. They only vote for him because he's a Republican in Kentucky. His popularity among Republican voters is terrible, especially after he gave the speech against Trump. But he thinks like, oh, I really like McConnell. Boy, I'd love to be Senate minority or majority leader. One day, it's a McConnell on the front, right, right?

But also like, mullets in the back or whatever you people are. Well, bullets and tank tops, though, Jane, they do go together, right? I mean, can we establish that they, I mean, that's, that's a style, especially when it's warm out. Jank, you think we should take the first break? All right, yeah, especially gankered. No, anyways, all right, yes, let's take a quick break here. We've got more Republicans will make fun of when we come back. We need to talk about a relatively new show called Un-F-The Republic or UNFTR.

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a wheels off the bus cartoon. So I like that, but there's actually a really serious point in there that I missed. This is the knuckleheads and the cruise team thinking, oh, the way we win the presidency in 2024 is by reaching out to the establishment Republicans and MAGA at the same time and threading that needle. So we'll say McConnell in the front and MAGA in the back and we'll make it super ugly with a mullet. And so that'll appeal to our voters, et cetera. No, But you're trying to thread a needle that doesn't exist. The Republican voters hate McConnell. They love Trump.

They want MAGA on the front, the back and the middle. So as usual, Ted Cruz's politicalistics, not quite right. Now, some shoutouts of Twitch. We're going to Twitch early. I got to get on this train before it takes off. The one wing dragon gifted a sub, so he's a good person. It's not the only marker of a good person, but God bless. Returiko gifted a sub, Barclay tea gifted a sub, Kerchung.

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I'm going to be able to be. All right, back on me. I'm Turks, Jake, John, and David with you guys today. So let's do it, John. More news. Okay, let's do it. Yesterday in Georgia, Brian Kemp signed the Republican-led and only Republican voted on voter suppression bill in his office, literally under a picture, a painting of a plantation, which is sort of perfect. Outside that door was a black state legislator. This is representative Park Canada. And she was trying to get into the room by very politely knocking on it to ask him about the bill to express her concerns about it. And I want you to take a look at a video of what happened as she was doing that. The governor is signing a bill that affects all Georgians. Why is he doing it in a private and why is he trying to keep elected officials who are representing us out of the process? Exactly.

I know you don't have control over anything like that suppressing people's right to vote and using your guides and your abilities to talk. Yeah, you said you gave her one more time, like you're going to do something. Are you serious? No, you are not. She's not under arrest. For what? Under arrest for what?

For trying to see something that our governor is doing? our governor is signing a bill that affects all Georgians and you're going to arrest an elected representative why does the governor have more power than they're that a representative why are you arresting her stop arresting her why are you arresting her why are you arrested the violation cite the code what is she in violation of I want you to stop arresting her Cite the code. Cite the code. Cited. Why do you cite the code? Cite the code. Cite the code.

Why are you arresting her? Under what? Under what? Under what law are you arresting her? And of course, the cops wouldn't respond to all of those. Please, to find out why this state legislator was being arrested for doing seemingly nothing. The reason for that is, of course, there was no justifiable reason. We understand why those two white cops would want to arrest her in that situation, but they're hardly going to say that while being filmed.

Now, she was eventually released and is now facing two felony charges, felony obstruction and preventing or disrupting General Assembly session. We saw the whole video. Not entirely sure how the General Assembly was being disrupted by that. And I believe that the felony obstruction charge is one of the most common charges that the capital insurgents are facing. So we're supposed to believe that what you just saw from Representative Cannon there rises to the level of the QAnon shaman or the people who are beating cops with flagpoles. What are your thoughts? So I guess that's knocking while black.

And there's a 0% chance that a white male Republican legislator would have been arrested under similar circumstances for knocking on a door. A state legislature for knocking on a door. That's insane. By the way, inside there was basically about nine white men standing around, taking away the voting rights of black people. And then they had two white police officers that scored a black legislator away for having being, the outrage, the felony of knocking on a door. Okay. So now I actually want to show you guys another video. of guys who knocked on a door in a different way and who actually did not get arrested on the spot. Let's watch that video and see if you can tell a difference.

So I want to be clear that first part was the groaning you heard was the cop. He was trapped in that door and they're mangling him. The second part of that video is when they were tasing a police officer. Not the police officer, tasing the rioters, the rioters tasing the police officer. They did not get arrested on the spot. The state legislator in Georgia arrested on the spot. And people say, oh, we can't see the racism. We don't know. Disparate treatment. What name so? We can't see the disparate treatment.

No, that's flat outrason. We're totally back to Jim Crow era. Republicans are not trying to win Democratic elections fairly anymore. They're just basically saying, that's it. We're going back to putting the hoods on. And we're going to try to make sure as little black people vote as possible in Georgia. And if they dare even politely knock on our door, we will have them arrested and facing felony charges. That's the racist Republicans down in Georgia. Let me be clear. Jack, you're absolutely right.

And it breaks my heart because I never thought that in this day and age, 2021, we would see such sort of disparity in our United States of America. And the other thing about it is there was once a time where I think there were at least some Republicans who had a spine or a backbone that if they were going to actually try to pass something that was controversial, they would invite people who were opposed to and say, fine, you want to come to the signing ceremony? You're welcome to it. You want to disrupt the signing ceremony, then at that point you'll be taken out and I'll have a funny retort to whatever it is.

But to actually lock the door, to only have, you know, eight or nine people, all white men in there, do this essentially in secret and not allow anybody in the room. And then to have your state police with their ridiculous, you know, caps haul somebody away because she tries to knock on the door. I mean, she couldn't have been more polite to the state police and to the situation there. I mean, this is one of the most sickening videos, I think, that I've seen going back now to January 6th, again, it's the flip side of the coin. And I think for people who say, oh, no, we don't have racism in the United States or it's isolated. No, we have institutional racism all across the United States, and you just saw the latest example coming from Georgia. Yeah, I just want to say one more thing about the knocking because, look, when I saw the headline on this story, I came in with a totally open mind because sometimes activists do significant disruption. And you've heard me say it a hundred times on the show if you watch for a while.

I said, look, let folks make their protests. It's a free country. And then if there's disruption that lasts too long, at some point, police have to come in. It doesn't matter if it's left wing or right wing, right? So I thought maybe that's what was going on here. Then I watched the video and I'm like, there was no disruption. She wasn't even allowed in the room. And all she did was polite knocking on the door.

I was just stunned by the video. And so I guess in Georgia, they think, yeah, no, black people aren't allowed to do anything. We don't care if they have power. We don't care if they were elected. We don't care how polite they are. No, we're openly racist. And if you dare complain about white rule in Georgia, we'll just arrest you and try to ruin your life. We're going to, in just a second, we're going to run through some of what was in that bill.

We're holding off on it because we've covered it many times actually. But we want to make sure that if anyone knew, they see that really fast though. I did want to mention, I think it's amazing. And maybe it's not even worth pointing out. Maybe it's just so obvious that I shouldn't think it's no worthy. But the Republicans lost control of the House a couple of years ago. A couple months ago, they lost the presidency. An incumbent president lost. Almost never happens in America, and they lost the Senate with Georgia simultaneously electing two Democrats. And in the months Since, there hasn't been, as far as I can tell, and maybe I'm in a bubble, any talk about

what they need to do to win in the future. Like what's a new legislative path we can follow? What are some new solutions we can push to try to form a narrative for an election? In the past, even when the Republicans had lost, there might have been talk about, we need to do a post-mortem, figure out how can we appeal to new voters. Certainly the Democrats have had to in the wake of losses, rethink how they pitch themselves, I haven't heard any talk about that on the right, following their massive losses year after year, an incumbent president losing by millions and millions of votes. There's just nothing.

And obviously this is the solution, just try to make it so that fewer people can vote. But it's just weird that they don't even have to pretend, just like during the election. Trump didn't have to pretend to have a platform. He could be asked incredibly softball questions by Sean Hannity, what do you want to do with your second term. Over and over, he's asked that. Never had an answer. Never had anything you wanted to do. And going into the midterms, I still haven't heard anything that they want to do. Anyway, really fast. The bill that was just passed would require voters to provide a driver's license or state issued ID card number to request and submit absentee ballots. It would curtail the use

of ballot drop boxes, limiting their placement to early voting locations and making them accessible only while the precinct is open. The legislation also gives the Georgia's state elections Board, the ability to effectively take over county election boards in areas that it determines are in need of oversight. The Secretary of State would also be removed as chair of the state elections board, a proposal that critics say would strip the state's top elections official of a key power. It also takes aim at the state's absentee ballot request period, setting the deadline for voters to request absentee ballots at 11 days before an election. It also calls for prohibiting people from giving food or drinks to voters waiting in line to cast their ballots.

So it really is, it's everything. It's cutting back on as many forms of earlier, more accessible voting as you can imagine. It is incredibly petty on a personal level trying to make the act of voting more inconvenient, literally making you have to be hungry while doing it. And because we know their secretary of state didn't solve all their problems is last time around, well, he's out. He just, he doesn't have the power anymore and the legislature can take over if they want. It's really fascinating. Yeah, well, it looks like that's their,

strategy, John. I mean, you're asking, what's the political strategy for winning again? One is we don't let the voters pick the politicians. The politicians pick the voters. They pick the voters they want to vote and they try to deny the vote to anyone they don't want to vote. There's another word for it. It's called cheating. So they're doing it now. And look, we said this during the 2020 election between Trump and Biden and as Georgia was a hot spot there. We said that basically the Republicans in Georgia were telling Trump, you idiot, we cheat before the election, not after. After the election, it's really hard and it's brazen and you're going to get caught and you're obviously breaking laws. Before the election, you cheat so that.

Chank, I just lost your audio. I'm not sure if everyone is not hearing you. Yeah. You know what, to Jenks' point, and the whole idea of sort of cheating, and look, to literally starve people or to deny them, you know, hydration, because they have to wait in a line for seven hours. I mean, they shouldn't have to be waiting in a line for seven or eight hours anyway. But can you imagine, I mean, as terrible as this video was of Cannon Park being dragged away from the Capitol, imagine what's going to happen at the next election when you see these incredibly long lines. And suppose, you know, I'm down there and I see somebody who's having a medical condition or seems not to be doing well. I throw them a bottle of water. Do I now face a felony? Do I now get dragged off by the state police because I happen to do the humane thing and provide somebody with water while they exercise their right to vote? That's crazy. We should be making it easier for people to vote, not more difficult, but to your points, this is the Republican playbook. It's Georgia, it's Iowa, it's Texas. It's all these states where they've decided they cannot win on the merits. And it's not even worth doing any self-reflection now. To your point, John, about maybe the Republican Party should try to figure out what went. wrong. No, this is all now about trying to rig this and to make this as difficult as possible, particularly for minority voters and minority districts. That is disgusting. Yeah. And so look, some folks say, well, driver's license is a requirement and they make you do it twice, etc. What's the big deal? Like if you, this is my point about perspective that I make on the show all the time.

Because the overhauling majority of you have a driver's license in your wall right now. And you think, what's the big deal? I just take it out, right? Well, if you live in a city, you might, not have a car, you might not need a car, then you don't have a driver's license. And what you have to do is you have to go through a giant ring of a roll to go get a state-sanctioned photo ID that isn't a driver's license. And does that make you less likely to vote? Of course, of course, and they know that. And the cities vote more democratic. And they're honestly, socioeconomic conditions has a situation where there are black folks with less cars as a percentage of their population, right? So the Republicans know all that and they take advantage of it,

and then they turn and go, oh, doesn't everybody have a driver's license? Right? And so finally, well, actually two things. First, that brave legislative you saw, Representative Park Cannon, is going to be on the Young Turks. She's going to be on the conversation on Wednesday at 530. She's being interviewed by Dr. Rashad Ritchie. You should check that out. You'll get her side of the view right here on the TYT network. And then the last thing is, I'm going to quote Bain here, of course. Victory has defeated you, he told Batman, and that's kind of what's happened to the Republicans here. They got so used to picking their own voters through gerrymandering, through voter purges, through all these things that they got lazy. They thought, we never have to adjust.

We'll just run the same playbook. And by the way, their playbook is called the Southern Strategy. And the Southern Strategy has been documented endlessly is to appeal to racist voters. That's the very, very, very core of the Republican Party. So they don't have a plan B. And they brag about not being prepared. I mean, John made that point earlier while I was talking about how, look, normally you steal elections ahead of time if you're the Republicans,

but Trump didn't bother preparing. Sean Hennedy just last night was like, look at Biden. He came in with a binder and was prepared for his press conference. He literally asked Kaylee McInney. Trump never prepared for press conferences, right? They're bragging about it. They're like, I mean, we're the lazy dump party. So our strategy is we don't let you vote. Well, thank you for admitting that you hate America.

We always suspected it. And now it's crystal clear. Well, and it'd be even clear, I suppose. I mean, look, I think the Republicans might at least be able to start the argument. Let's just imagine, for argument's sake, for health sake, let's just suppose there's massive voter fraud and there was provable voter fraud in state after state. And you couldn't decide who won and was a mess. Okay, then at that point, sure, then do we need to have a conversation about how do we become more transparent? How do we cut down on voter fraud? But even, you know, Even in Georgia, they did multiple recounts, they did multiple audits and found the numbers were the same, there was no fraud.

The legislation is to fix something that isn't broken. And again, that's why the Republicans, it baffles me, because this is a party that has no shame, even less shame than they had 10 years ago or 20 years ago. And the direction of the party, I keep thinking, well, it can't get any crazier, and it just does. And by the way, I've got to make this point again that I made on the show yesterday that those Those are the same exact guys who said there was no voter fraud at all in this election in Georgia, remember?

I mean, it's just the most famous thing. Trump kept complaining that the Republicans in Georgia said, no, seriously, there was no voter fraud here at all. Those same guys turn around and go, oh, we gotta make sure black people can't vote in Georgia because the voter fraud's out of control. They have no shame left at all. They think the truth is optional and their voters don't care about truth. So they came for the racism and stayed for the racism.

Yeah. Yeah. Why don't we quickly cover this next story. I think we can fit this in before our next break. Since the inauguration, Joe Biden has been facing a crisis and it has been getting worse every day. And we have to give credit to Fox News for acknowledging it. That crisis, him not having a press conference. And at one point, it got so bad, as Aaron Rupar pointed out, he'd gone 49 days without a press conference. And they will not stand for that. That's why they were on the press office under Trump for going months and months and months without actually talking to reporters. They were very bad about that. Now, of course, Biden had a press conference. But what he didn't realize that was in having

a press conference, he was turning one crisis into another. Because before he hadn't had any press conferences, now he's only had one. 37 executive orders, they say, but just one news conference. Again, Aaron Rupar pointing that out. So I mean, I think I know what the crisis will be after he has his second. I think I could do the math on that. But anyway, look, he had his press conference. And what's going to be interesting about this is that the criticism coming at Joe Biden is not particularly unified. Normally Fox News is very good at staying on message. But depending on who you listen to on Fox, one of two things actually happened. Either Joe Biden was so barely able to keep it together, that it's a wonder he didn't stroke out behind the podium,

or it was such a magnificent performance that clearly it had to have been scripted. Either he was just reading off of something, or as some are saying, the media themselves were in on the script. But anyway, we're going to have examples of both of those different kinds of criticism. Let's start, though, with Sean Hannity. Serious questions? Okay, is Vice President Harris now in charge? Is she running the country? Is she going to do the press briefing tomorrow?

Because once again, Joe Biden seemed lost, dazed, and confused. Kelly McInney, true or false? Did Donald Trump ever prepare for press conferences like this? Did he even prepare at all? I love that precedent. All future presidents must be as lazy and unprepared as the dumbest one we've ever had. But anyway, yeah. So he couldn't get through it so much so that Sean Hannity's ready to just move on.

It's now the Harris presidency slash he also prepared too much for it. I don't know how you're supposed to respond to that. I think you're not really supposed to be able to. Can I clarify one thing? And again, the Republicans and they keep saying, oh, no press conferences for 49 days. But it's pretty funny, two points, it's pretty funny to hear them say, oh, and by the way, Fox News has been shut out, frozen out from the White House when there's the reporter reporting from the North Law. The second point about it is Peter Ducey, their main reporter, he has asked

Joe Biden questions. I mean, the idea that, okay, one formal news conference that that is somehow so different from Joe Biden going into the briefing room about something else and taking questions or being asked questions when he's on this way to the helicopter. I mean, they have access to the president, the reporters at the White House have access to Biden every week. The idea that, oh, well, but formal press conferences are different. No, they're not. The reporters continue to be able to ask questions of the commander-in-chief, this idea that it only counts. If it's a formal White House press conference, that's a bunch of insanity. And again, Fox News, and we've seen the clips of, you know, Peter Ducey and Joe Biden pairing each other and Biden making some funny remarks back

to Ducey. He gets his opportunity to ask questions. And so anybody at Fox News who says, oh, no, Joe Biden is hiding from the press, they are flat out lying. And they're flatter, again, being shameful and shameless about the extent to which they like. Okay, just cherry on top of that irony was today, Ducey asked Jen Saki, White House spokesperson. Are we getting frozen out? You're asking the White House spokesperson of questions. The irony is loaded into that question. Okay, so apparently not is the correct answer. So, by the way, try being a progressive, even in Democratic administration. Then you'll see what frozen out looks like.

How many questions did our reporter get? How many questions about the minimum wage? Oh, there was a question about whether Biden's going to run in 2024, but not a single question about his 2020 campaign promise to raise the minimum wage. I mean, yeah, to your point, it's the progressives who are certainly shut out or not getting access or don't have the opportunity. But anyway, I don't interrupt. Yeah.

No, no, that's exactly. Right, God forbid, anybody should ask about actual policy, you know, goals that Biden said he had. I mean, shouldn't the $15 minimum wage be the first question asked in a sense? You said you were for $15 minimum wage. You actively killed $15 minimum wage. I mean, if you're Fox News, wouldn't you want to catch them on that hypocrisy? No, because you also work for corporations and you don't want people to have higher wages. You want them to have lower wages.

So you want to do stupid antics. Like, as I'm being called on for this question, I'd like to ask if we're not being called on for questions, okay? And then John's right about, it's no winning with Hannity, right? He's, oh, he won't do a press conference. He's too prepared for the press conferences. But it doesn't matter because the Fox News audience isn't there for the intelligent commentary. If they want an intelligent commentary, as Tyrion would say, they've come to the wrong place.

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They said Ari Fleischer was on Fox and said, no president has ever had notes for a press conference before. Trump would just have pieces of paper with big sharpy letters written on it of the things he's supposed to say. It's just like I guess we sort of, I guess we engage with this because we believe that press conferences do matter. that criticism of the president is important, they're doing this, it's not satire. I don't even know what this is. It has all of the sort of, to go back to TDR, the poppin circumstance of criticism of the president, but without any substance, like they want their guy to have a question, but not to ask about anything important, not even like David was just criticizing Biden for breaking campaign promises. They would never make that criticism because they don't

want the minimum wage to go up any more than many centrist Democrats do. The whole thing is just such a ridiculous waste of time. It's also, I mean, to me it's surprising how fragile Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson and Fox News have become. I mean, wouldn't it make more sense for them to try to be strong and tough and pick their battles. But when you whine, when you're like that four-year-old, it's like, oh, I can't get my ice cream today. I mean, it's, it's annoying. And it's no wonder to me that Fox News is doing so badly compared to the other cable channels, because I think also So their audience is sick of the whining and they want them to fight on legitimate stuff. This is not legitimate. And again, it's just, it's annoying, it's frustrating the idea that,

and it's I think a part of the downfall of Fox News, which is a whole other point. But again, to your point, John, I mean, White House's prepare, and Jenk as well, White House's prepare briefing books and notes for presidential speeches, for presidential meetings, for presidential news conferences. Certainly Ari Fleischer had his presidential briefing books for his news conferences. You know, so this is a pretty thin read that the Republicans are grasping. Yeah, Chris Wallace also on Fox News, said something that effective, like he's never seen a president have talking points like that for a press conference. Come on, Chris, you're better than that. That's a ridiculous thing to say. They've used prompters before. What the hell do you think a prompter is? They put a script in a prompter. It's not just a talking point. It's the whole conversation. So, no, like, so, no, these guys pretending like, and just. Look, and to John's point, remember Sarah Palin, she wrote the words on our hand.

We want to talk about talking points. And we saw the pictures of Trump's paper with like big words like freedom, me good, others bad. Those are also talking points. And it's so sad that they had to write those out. Anyway, last thing is that celebration of laziness at the end was astounding to me. You remember when the Republican Party, and I remember this because I used to be a liberal Republican back in the 1980s and 90s. So they, at the time, they were pretending, and I realized later that they were pretending about everything, everything was alive, right? But they were pretending that they cared about the work ethic and, and, you know, you can get ahead by working hard and meritocracy and all that stuff.

Now they're like, nobody wants to prepare. Biden had nerd, smart. You don't want to be smart. You want to be a dummy. Remember Trump? Hey, Kaylee, Kaylee, he never prepared for anything, right? That's the kind of president you want. But in that moment, as I was astounded by their, like, celebrate.

of stupidity and lack of hard work. I realized, oh my God, what am I talking about? Right wingers in this country were built on laziness. They didn't want to do their own work so much that they brought in slaves to do their work for them. They've always been the laziest people in the country. Right wingers are bums who don't want to work. So they're always trying to find somebody else to do their work. That's just a historical fact in America.

And the anti-intellectualism is, I think, a piece of this, right? Because you want to poo-poo on people who actually have thoughts and original ideas and debate policy and get into things. But if your whole point is, well, no, we want to appeal to the dumb masses and say, you know what, it's okay to be stupid because look, look at us. We're not preparing. Look at Donald Trump. He didn't prepare. It's okay for you not to take school seriously, not to learn, not to believe in science, because people who do are intellectuals. And we hate intellectuals. And that's yet another step on the road to. it's fascism. Jake, why don't we do our second break? Yeah, let's do it. We've got more amazing news when we return. That's the kind of tease you do when you don't remember what the next story is. We'll be right back. So, you know,

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In Ohio, they have this open Senate seat, and there are at least four different Republicans considered semi-serious that would like to be the nominee. So they need Trump's approval. So he effectively just has like an off-the-book's version of Apprentice, where it has them duke it out and argue over who will be most loyal to him. The contenders in this particular case, although we're going to see this repeated for many different states over the next couple of years, you have former state treasurer Josh Mandel,

former state GOP chair, James Timkin, technology company executive Bernie Marino and investment banker Mike Gibbons. They flew down to attend a fundraiser to benefit a Trump endorsed Ohio candidate looking to oust one of the 10 House Republicans who backed his impeachment. So he's there helping a House candidate. going so that they can then be the Senate candidate eventually, down in Mar-a-Lago. What ensued was a 10-minute backroom, backbiting session, lots of backs, reminiscent of Trump's reality TV show. Mandel said he was crushing, Timken and polling. Timken touted her support on the ground, thanks to her time as state party chair. Gibbons mentioned how he'd

helped Trump's campaign financially. Marino noted that his daughter had worked on Trump's 2020 campaign. And you might think, especially for that last one, what does that have to do with anything, Well, have you met Donald Trump? What do you think they were saying in that room? And look, we have, we have an ad, we can show you, and we can certainly speculate, but this is, I think we should all acknowledge. Well, maybe we like the chaos on the right, I don't know. This is a really sad state for a major party to be in, where these are the sorts of things you need to do to get his nod, which could make or break your campaign. Yeah, but you know, John, as with everything with Trump, it's not,

It's not that he started a lot of these problems, it's just that he's so much more brazen about it. In the issue of racism, the Republican Party ran the southern strategy. That was, the whole point of that was to be racist. And that's not like some sort of hyperbole, that was literally the strategy. Let's go get racist voters in the South by being against civil rights. So when Trump just started saying racist things instead of using dog whistle, People are shocked to chagrin. Why? Because he put an ugly face on an ugly policy? No, that's actually in a sense more honest, right? So same thing here. The corruption is totally systemic, or corporate Republicans, corporate Democrats do it. So they, you have to have a check to get

seen by a national politician, federal level politician, and if you pay them enough, they'll do whatever you want. So Trump is just taking the hood off and he's taking all the pretense off here. So you just gets them in a room and goes, okay, what did you do for me? Based on whoever is going to help me more, I'll probably make the decision based on that, or almost certainly. So I mean, look at the thing that John just read you. And there's more too. Mandel was like, oh, no, I was the first one to endorse you in 2016. So since I, you know, I was your first ass consider you should pick me. And then Timkin comes and says, no, no, but you appointed me at some point. And then Trump says, wait a minute, but you didn't say the guy I want

fired, who's in the Republican Party should be fired for supporting my impeachment. She said, no, no, no, I clean that up. Like, oh, clean. Forget factual correctness. Forget ideology. I am now politically correct. Don't worry. Yes, sir, dear leaders, sir, fascist leaders, sir, I am not politically correct. I have cleaned up my earlier principled position. And then look at the other two. Like, family members, yeah, what do you need? You need a deal. You need a deal. You need a Favor, no problem. And the other guy's just flat out like I bribed you. Remember, I'm the guy who bribed you the most. I gave you the most money. So you should give it to me. He'll probably win. And by the way, like I said, that is American politics. It's almost all of American politics. They're just not as brazen about it. Well, and Jake, your point about ugliness is terrific because it reminds me of the ugliness that we saw in the White House where there's Donald Trump. He enjoyed pitting aides against each other and having the fights in front of him. He enjoys when people are arguing in front of him and tearing his. other and he could just sort of sit back and enjoy it. And clearly that was what was going on in Florida. And I just am struck by how humiliating it is to the people who are involved to,

you know, maybe serious about running for Senate or serious about policy and to have to put up with this. If that's the ticket these days, the ticket to entry in Republican politics, I think they're going to chase away. I think this should be a good, this should be celebrated, I think, among progressives and those of us on the left because it's going to chase away talent on the right and conservative talent, and there is some of it out there, it's going to chase them away because nobody with any self-respect wants to go through this malarkey. And so great, I think Donald Trump should have a powwow for every open race, every group of candidates. He should be the kingmaker. Great.

Yeah, I want to show. Yeah, go ahead, John. I want to make it. I want to make sure that we get to this ad. You might recall Ron DeSantis ran some of the most cringy political ads, I think ever about how he's going, like all of his young kids' education growing up is going to be about how the kids should try to be like Trump and all that. Well, there's going to be some competition in terms of how cringy these ads can become. I want to show you one from one of the four who is in that room, Jane Timkin. Here is an ad trying to make the case for her. I'm running for the United States Senate to stand up for you.

Just like when I stood next to President Trump and supported his America First agenda. As Ohio Republican Party chairman, I cleaned house of the Kasich establishment who tried to elect Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden. I unified the party and delivered a second decisive Ohio win for President Trump. As your senator, I will advance the Trump agenda without fear or hesitation. Yeah, before you get to advancing the Trump agenda, could you define it? Could you like mention anything? Because you said that like you're going to stand next to people. You're going to stand next to them and talk about a bunch of stuff that has nothing to do with any policies whatsoever.

I have no idea what she stands for, what differences, if any, exist. between her and Mandel or any of these other candidates. But that's, I mean, I think that ad is going to be like the prototype for virtually every candidate over the next four years. It is just, I'm the most loyal to Trump. There's not going to be any acknowledgement of any economic problems you have. And remember, the right only supports Trump because of economic anxiety, but they're certainly not going to advertise to try to appeal to that.

It's just the loyalty. No, they're becoming parodies now. I didn't just kiss his ring, I kiss his ass. And that's the ad, you know, eventually the ads are going to break down to, I bribed Trump even more. While my opponent was giving him $100,000, I gave him $200,000. And it was like, yeah, he'd trade bribed Trump more. Oh, we love that guy. Drain the swamp.

Wait, what? Okay, so that's where we are right now. And two more points. I think David made a great point. I think there's like this could do long-term damage the Republican Party because here's a bunch of betas coming in and basically sending subliminal message to the voters. We're pathetically weak. You can see us with your own eyes groveling to this guy. And so in order to be a Republican now, you have to be a pathetic groveler. And that's not such a bad thing for Democrats.

I mean, a Democratic leadership for 40, 50 years in this country sent subliminal message saying we're pathetically weak. We will surrender to any Republican if they happen to walk by on any issue. They're better than us and people believe them and generally voted Republican. Now the Republicans are turning around and saying, remember, every one of us is incredibly weak. The minute we see a fascist, we all get grovel on the ground. I'll smear my face on the ground, I'll drop, drop, trauma. And that kind of weakness is, it's a turnoff in the long run, free.

For sure. But when you're in the room with him, though, you have to pretend to be tough. So Mandel talking about Timkin said, oh, I'm crushing her in the polls. And then this is so designed for Trump, I'll give you one more quote from the meeting. And by the way, they were in a circular table where they had to face each other. Soon it'll be an octagon. And it's going to be that scene out of the dark night. Trump is just going to break a pool cue and throw it on the ground.

Yeah. I was wondering what would break first, your spirit, or your body, or your self-respect. Anyway, Mandel says, Mr. President, I only know two ways to do things. Either not at all or balls to the wall, he said this, okay? I hired a bunch of killers on my team. I'm a killer, and we're going to win the primary and then the general. They think, like, you appeal to Trump by being over-the-top, fake masculine, and he's, like, literally, we're talking about Hunger Games, right?

This is like Hunger Games. And he's literally saying, that woman over there, I will kill her. Now, I know that it's symbolic. I don't think he's going to actually murder her. It's Republicans, you never know. But look, he is verbally, rhetorically saying, I will kill for you. And that's it, Republican Party 101 now. And it's good for Democrats because it keeps the Civil War going. A bunch of Neanderthals firing shots at each other in the circular firing squad, whatever sort of analogy you want to use. And it's only agitating people who are involved in this process. And so I think great news for Democrats. At a certain point, I fear the Republican Party will make its decision about Donald Trump, yea or nay, and then they'll unify. But in the meantime,

I think this is great. Yeah, unless of course they win again. All right. So we gotta go. First of all, you guys, you gotta check out David on RHQ, that's Rebel HQ. He's killing it over there. make sure you check out the videos on t yt.com on youtube facebook etc and damage reports all right and john hosts that show and he's a dragon of some sort uh but oh man i love uh ribbing johnny pie i haven't called you johnny pine forever got to get back then you know this is my first time on with john and john this is an honor to be on with you so thanks for having me yeah i doubt it but okay

No, all right, all right. You know what, John is a killer. He kills things on damage report. That's what's called damage report. You got to look around for the damage after John's done, okay? So check that out too. All right, you guys are awesome. Thank you.

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