The Young Turks - Congressional Cucktastrophe

Episode Date: June 15, 2024

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Matching, yeah. Purple hair. Did the Frantifa make you do that? Yes. They didn't know. It is my favorite. You look especially John like superheroic. Like you're going to just like rip off the suit and, you know, fly.

I'm going to need more gifted memberships to do that. Yeah. I know. If you have a thousand gifted members, John will fly by the end of the hour. Okay, but we could try. We could go, no, all right. Anyways, but I agree with Frannie that you do look weirdly, slightly superhero-ish.

So that's the upside. MCU, call me. Doubted. But nevertheless, all right, we got an amazing show for you guys. A lot of Trump antics and the Republicans, like there's a lot of ass kissing on this show, right? So Trump's trying to kiss corporate ass. The Republicans are trying to kiss his ass. It's a circle. It's an ass circle.

So we'll explain. What are we doing today? Anyway, okay, we'll get to the ass circle. First, we have to talk about the SCOTUS, which is, that kind of describes them too. But anyway, let's talk about this. The U.S. Supreme Court struck down the federal ban on bump stocks earlier today, declaring that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives had exceeded its authority

when it banned the devices on the grounds that they converted otherwise legal semi-automatic firearms into effectively illegal machine guns. It was a 6-3 vote, and feel free to guess how that broke down. But anyway, no, the three liberals, of course, put out a dissent, and it was a scathing dissent. And stick around for that because it's awesome and totally right. But anyway, if you're not familiar with bump stocks, take a look at this. A bump stock creates a cradle for a semi-automatic rifle to rest in, so let the gun naturally slides back and forth from recoil while being fired. If the shooter pulls forward at the same time, the trigger will hit his finger quickly and repeatedly, creating the effect of machine gun fire. So that's effectively what it's

designed to do. It serves no purpose other than increasing the fire rate of the weapon approximating what a fully automatic weapon would be able to do. It is not necessary nor useful in hunting or self-defense, but there is one purpose that it's pretty good for, and that's actually how the device rose to national prominence. You might remember that. The Trump administration actually decided to ban bump stocks after a shooter opened fire on a music festival in Las Vegas back in 2017, killing 58 people and wounding over 500 in just a matter of moments. It's one of the worst massacre. in American history, and it was brought to you courtesy of bump stocks.

Actually, a dozen of the rifles that the gunmen used were modified with the devices, allowing him to shoot more than 1,000 rounds from a window at the Mandalay Bay Hotel into a crowd of 22,000 people. That's what they're designed to do. Now, originally, the reason they needed to be developed is there is a law making the selling of automatic weapons or so-called machine guns illegal. It traces back to 1986, and the Trump administration determined, that this law is broad enough to encompass bump stocks. That law defines a machine gun to

include quote, any weapon which shoots is designed to shoot or can be readily restored to shoot automatically more than one shot without manual reloading by a single function of the trigger. Basically, one pull of the trigger produces more than one bullet of effect and that is what bump stocks are designed to do. Now the conservatives on the Supreme Court did not really address sort of like the Second Amendment aspect of this, they're not saying that you cannot ban bump stocks, but they are saying that that law, which has already been passed, does not outlaw these devices. They go through these incredibly convoluted and technical ways of pretending that the finger is still depressing once for each bullet. And that was not convincing to many

people, including the liberals on the core. And so here's part of what Sonia Sotomayor had to say. Today, the court puts bump stocks back in civilian hands. To do so, it casts aside Congress's definition of machine gun and seizes upon one that is inconsistent with the ordinary meaning of the statutory text and unsupported by context or purpose. When I see a duck that walks like a duck, or sorry, when I see a bird that walks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck. Sotomayor read her dissent from the bench, a rare move underlining her disagreement. It was actually the first time that she did that this year. And she said, this is not a hard case. All the textual evidence points to the same interpretation,

whereas the majority had to ignore common sense and rely on obscure technical arguments. Quote, its interpretation requires six diagrams and an animation to decipher the meaning of the statutory text. She said that the decision in effect enables gun users and manufacturers to circumvent federal law. And starting soon, they will be able to do that. These devices will once again be available and plenty of people are excited about this. Not all of them want to go on some sort of killing spree with these devices, but you have to imagine that if you do fancy yourself the next mass shooter, today is a particularly good day for you. Yeah, so there's two different issues here. One is who gets to regulate this,

ATF or does Congress have to pass a law? That's a perfectly legitimate issue and one that you could have honest disagreement about. Now the reason they ATF says we get to regulate this, is because it's already in essence a machine gun and we're allowed to regulate machine guns because that law has already been passed so then that becomes the question of that the Supreme Court has to decide is it a machine gun or isn't it and so Thomas makes the absurd argument that it's not by technically he says you have when you press it you have to do something else kind of and then it fires like a machine gun I read it it was gobbledy gook and

By the way, if you're a gun owner out there, you're like, you don't even know that. You know both suck and you requires every quarter of a second. You don't know about guns to make these laws. No, no, I know. We showed you the video. It's a goddamn machine gun. It fires hundreds of bullets in a minute. It's super, I mean, we show, it is a goddamn machine gun.

So you just stop lying. If you want machine guns to be legal, just say I want machine guns to be legal and that sucks that I want to pass that law, but they're not legal and that's a goddamn machine gun. So technically, it doesn't mean a gun. The goddamn thing, man, that's just saying I want to make the second, I want to pretend the Second Amendment is about heavy weaponry and God, you know, all the founding fathers won't always have tanks and RPGs and nukes. That's why, man, it has nothing to do with the militia.

It has everything to do with the militia. So let me ask you this, so here's the Second Amendment. A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. That is, in order to keep a militia that we need, we need some weapons, right? That's not, who cares about militias, who cares if they exist or not? Yeah, everybody have fun, get machine guns, kill each other. And that's why you're in terms, you're not honest, you're nowhere near honest.

So by the way, what happened to the moderate right wing justice? So don't worry. I mean, we got a couple of freaks on there, like Alito and Thomas and stuff. But oh my God, Justice Roberts, he's so reasonable. Kavanaugh is surprisingly, no, six to three. So what's gonna happen here? This is a stone cold fact. Literally hundreds of more people and probably thousands will die because of this decision.

Because it's not like the mass shootings wouldn't happen, they would still happen. And so in a mass shooting you might have seven people who die without a bump stock. With a bump stock, it's gonna be 70 or 17 or 27. If you're arguing that that's not gonna happen, You're being ridiculous. You could say, hey, I know that's going to happen. I know thousands of more people are going to die because psychos are immediately going to put bump stocks to turn their guns into rifles, et cetera, into machine guns. I know that's, of course that's going to, of course that's going to happen.

But I'm a jackass who likes to go in the woods and go, it hurts so much fun. So I don't mind if those thousands of people die. At least have the decency to be honest, Randy. Yeah, yeah, and there's still some states that have bans on bump stocks, but we know, you know, with all the loopholes when it comes to things like gun shows that people can get their hands on bump stocks anyway. I mean, the question that I just have not had answered for me when it comes to gun safety and gun control is what is this for? What are you doing with bump stocks? What are you doing with machine guns that like what are you doing outside of a war content?

Are you in a war? Yes or no? A lot of them will be like, yeah, we are. We're in a race war. Like, and if that's the answer, you probably shouldn't have a gun. Like, what I'm trying to say is, no one can tell you what it's for. If it is for shooting feral hogs in Texas, which I understand are a big thing, and it's like, now I guess it's a sport and we go up and it sounds pretty awful. Okay, in that one area. But other than that, what it actually has become for is mass death of people, of innocent, people as we've seen. I mean, this is a health and safety thing. The fact the ATF can't regulate that is absolutely wild. Meanwhile, we've got like the Supreme Court ruling on like, I don't know if the FDA, Miffa Pristone's safe, even though it went through like triple the amount of review as other medicine, right? Like, and thankfully they ruled on the right way on that. But you see what

I'm saying, like you have these, these two issues. And one is bad faith supposedly about health, the Miffapristone, and then you have this one, which should be about health, like the right and the health to be able to not die when you're going to a concert or going to a mall or wherever mass shootings take place. And that it's just, it's argued on a legal point. And last thing, if they did rule that this was effectively a machine gun, how do you think they would have ruled differently? They wouldn't have. It's the same thing, because they don't care. They're using the technicality as an out. They want to allow because of the, the, Weapons industry and the gun manufacturers, they want to make sure they can make hand over fist money, doesn't matter how many people have to die.

Yeah, I want to read you just a couple more things because there's a few more really fascinating facts here. So first of all, Samuel Alito, like to Jenks point that theoretically it could it could be legislated that these were banned at the federal level. That's what Samuel Alito says. Like they don't don't get on our backs. Now the situation is clear. Congress can act, which yeah, no, it technically can. It technically can. Bear in mind, Congress did try to ban these in the immediate aftermath of that shooting. It wasn't like the Trump administration's goal, like they just wanted to do it unilaterally. No, Congress tried to do it and they weren't successful.

Even the immediate aftermath of this devastating shooting that was only possible at this level, because of those devices, Congress still couldn't act. The NRA, by the way, supports some regulations on bump stocks, but not an outright ban. Remember, the organization that used to be for responsible gun ownership is now cool with you continuing to be able to convert it into illegal machine guns. And here's the most amazing thing about that. He says, well, just legislate it. And they couldn't. And I would argue they definitely can't now, despite the fact that 82% of respondents say that bumpstock should be banned.

82% have you ever seen a number that high for anything in politics? And it doesn't matter because that would only matter in a democracy. Oh, by the way, I just think this is amazing. Similar numbers favor banning assault-style weapons, that's 79%. And high-capacity magazines that hold more than 10 rounds, 10 rounds, 78%. So anytime you start to mistakenly feel like a radical for thinking that these things should be regulated, no, almost everyone in America, including the vast majority of Republicans, agrees with you, it's just that our view is utterly irrelevant. So I think those numbers are amazing. The most amazing thing here, and it's a little bit, you know, like old time here, whatever I think, is the fact that, as we already discussed, in 1986, America successfully banned machine guns. And thank God that they did it in 1986 because I don't think there'd be any chance of them doing it today if they weren't already banned. They'd have, you know, M60s, you'd have, you know, crew-supported machine guns, belt fed.

You'd be buying those in Walmart if it hadn't been done in a more civilized time. Well, dude, the founding fathers wanted us to have gatling guns, but da-tut-da-da-tut-da, right? So look, I fear making jokes about RPGs because they're next, right? Do you think that the right wing is not going to demand RPGs and say that it's part of the second-in-way? Do you really think that? No, they're gonna want it. They're like, oh, dude, man, if you army attacks, I want to be able to murder as many military, U.S. militaries as I can. And if they bring the cops, don't defund the cops, murder the cops with my new machine gun bumps. I'm okay, all right, oh yeah, you guys are really for the blue, are you? Okay, oh yeah.

With a bit of red mixed in. Yeah, and I'm such a patriot. That's why I've been planning for years to murder U.S. soldiers in my fantasies where I'm in the woods and murdering you guys nonstop. Okay, anyways, or you're here, let me go to a member and cue up the video one more time, guys. I'm going to go back I'm gonna go back to that in a second and we'll do a shooting, right? Joint TYT member says every single respectable gun owner, myself included, say that bump stocks are useless when it comes to accurate controlled fire. I'm just happy switches on glocks are illegal, basically a bomb stock for pistols. So there are plenty of people on the left who own guns, there's people here that own guns,

et cetera, and we understand that the majority of Americans want guns in general to be legal, okay? Although that majority shrinks every day because of all the nonstop mass shootings, school shootings, et cetera, but this is not a normal gun. This is, it's an absurd argument, an absurd argument. Speaking of absurd art, I said, I'm here for Jenks analysis, but I stay for his machine gun sound effects. So that's why I want to show you the video again, so you don't have to rely on me. First of all, thank you to the members, t.yt.com slash team.

See you're part of this show. We love doing the show with our community, okay? Or hit the join button below. So now, guys, remember Clarence Thomas's decision joined by all six justices, is that this is not a machine gun that you have to pull the trigger for every bullet. Now watch the video and see if you have to pull the trigger for every bullet. A bump stop creates a cradle for a semi-automatic rifle to rest in. So let the gun naturally slides back and forth from recoil while being fired.

If the shooter pulls forward at the same time, the trigger will hit his finger quickly and repeatedly, creating the effect of machine gun fire. That's not a machine gun. The brr is not a machine gun. You guys, okay, just admit your liars. And then you go, oh, well, no, no, the radicals, I mean, they're wonderful Supreme Court justice on the right. They deserve no blame. Sam Alito's right. Congress didn't pass it. Well, why didn't Congress? Congress pass it because of other jackass Republican politicians who are like, oh, that's going to lead to mass murder. No hunter ever used it. You don't use it to defend your house. You might accidentally kill your kids because it goes, da, da, da, right? And so, okay, so you have no legitimate

reason other than mass murder and playing, you know, some sort of ass slap rifle games in the, in the woods with your best buddies. Oh, yeah. So come on keep it real, guys. So the Republican politicians say, yes, we do not mind hundreds of America is being slaughtered by these machine guns because NRA paid me and I got 18% of the country who wants to do weird sexual games in the woods with these guns. Yep. And lastly, look, Jank, you make the RPG thing, it's going to happen. Like, I'm sorry, but our, the weapons industry, the military, is the militarism in this country, the what we export abroad, it's coming back here, in my opinion. And it's the same thing with the abortion rights movement. We're like, oh, what are they going to go after IVF next?

Those are embryos. Yeah, we got what we ironically did not wish for. We were just using it as an example. And now, of course, they're going after IVF. But the same thing. Yes, they'll be like, here, your personal own RPG in the safety of your own home because you never know what the unhoused will do. Like straight up, it's coming. Like, mark my words. Okay, so I think we should take our first break. When we come back, we gotta check in on Congress. They had a visit from President Trump, but apparently it was just, it was the best talk with the GOP. We'll be back after this.

All right, back on TYT, Jank, John and Frannie with you guys, John Scott Moore News. I do. Let's start, though, with this. He was really sweet to me. He said to Speaker Johnson, he goes, okay, you got one more seat, you need to be tougher. He saw me, I was sitting back a little ways. He saw me in there, and he was like, hello, Marjorie. He's always so sweet and recognizes me. And he said, are you being nice?

He was joking. Are you being nice to Speaker Johnson? And I said, eh, and he said, okay, be nice to him. And I nodded in my head. We'll return to the stuff about Speaker Mike Johnson, but that is Congresswoman Marjorie Green fan-girling out because Donald Trump recognized her like they met once. You're a congresswoman. You've been on the campaign trail with him.

It would be weird if he didn't recognize you or deeply troubling about the state of his brain. But he did. And he recognized the trouble that she's presented to the GOP because, of course, as was said by Congresswoman Green there. He asked her if she was being nice to Mike Johnson. That apparently drew a round of laughter from the Republicans. There was apparently an eruption of laughter, according to tweets.

I don't know if that's like joy at Mike Johnson having the trouble or them knowingly acknowledging that she's a massive troublemaker that makes their job harder on a daily basis. I'm not sure, but those sorts of comments on Twitter about it. She doesn't think that that's a fair way to characterize the interaction that she had with President Trump. And so she went on a novel length rant on Twitter about what he had said. And I'm going to read it. Not all of it. There's a lot. But nothing's worse than a reporter that only reports half the story. She left off all the nice compliments President Trump

said about me to our conference. President Trump is right. I'm loyal and unapologetically support him everywhere and all the time. And I am. capable. That's why I'll be nice to Johnson as long as he's nice to my favorite president. Was this written by a second grader? Am I being unfair? Is it mean to point out that she is speaking like a child about their favorite puppy? It is a congresswoman talking about the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party and she's talking about how nice his compliments are and I'm loyal everywhere and all the time. And then she goes on to talk about how thrilled She is to hear that he's going to eliminate the income tax and instead replace it with tariffs.

That will be a massive tax on the poorest and even middle class in America. I'm not going to criticize her too much on that. There is absolutely no way that she understands the effect of that policy change. She goes on to say President Trump is committed to winning the White House, the Senate, and the House. This is one of the best speeches I've ever heard. Okay, and apparently he got a standing ovation after standing ovation. He was talking to the Republicans in the House. All of whom owe the entirety of their career to his continued support of them.

The fact that they stood and cheered for him is about as meaningful as shows of support for a North Korean dictator from bureaucrats there. Yeah, they don't want to be murdered, that doesn't mean they actually love the guy. And by the way, we know from their leaks and they're off the record comments that most of them can't stand his guts. But this is what happens when you replace a party with a cult. It descends to these embarrassing levels, Cenk, what do you think? Yeah, so I was curious about the video, because I read that she was fawning in her praise of Trump, but clearly Trump, you know, put her down. Yeah, he noted her presence and then basically told her, cut the crap out and stop attacking Mike Johnson. That's the thrust of his message to Marjorie Green.

So I was wondering if she was faking it or if she really is like a pathetic little fan girl. And my read of that video, you guys can come to your own conclusion because we just showed it to you. But my read of it was, oh, she's actually a pathetic fan girl. She's like, oh my God, he said my name. I mean, look, to be fair, he sounds like, she sounds like me when I was in fourth grade and Carrie, you know, gave me a Valentine's card like she did to everyone in class. But she wrote love. And I was like, does she love me? Does she love me?

I have such a crush on her. Just quickly, it's the scene, it's the scene in mean girls. It's like the day was November 5th and he turned around and he was like, you know, what's today's date or whatever? You know, like, she could have might as well have been in a girl's bathroom being like, and then he said, and then I said, and then he said, but he was like, your eyes are green and they match your sweatshirt, but my eyes are actually blue and but it didn't matter. Like that was the level, it's just like, it was so embarrassing, like comport yourself a little

bit like a congresswoman just be like, yes, and we're going to get this done. Like, do what Marge does. But I think she's, sorry to interrupt, Jane, but I think she's making up for the fact that she's not on the short list for Veep. That's true. Yeah, that's definitely got us thing. Yeah, look guys, you see us. We like Bernie Sanders.

Everybody knows we like Bernie Sanders. And you know, you have a nice interaction with him. God bless, that's a fun thing to report. So we're not trying to be jerks about it. But if Bernie Sanders called me out and said, stop criticizing AOC, right? I wouldn't be like, oh my God, I saw Bernie, I've already said something about me. I'm like, no, I don't agree.

Yeah, like the things I agree with, great. The things I don't agree with, I don't, by definition, I don't, why do I have to cower and like, they're so servile, it's so sad. And to John's point, I'm just going to reread one sentence. I'm loyal and unapologetically support him everywhere and all the time. Okay, so you have no mind of your own, you're not an independent human being, you're just a sad little puppet of Donald Trump. Yeah.

support him everywhere and all the time. Well, what if he said, you know, all right, we're going to get rid of all guns? I mean, he's the one who passed the bump stock regulation at the ATF, etc. What if he says, I don't believe in the Second Amendment, I'm burning it, right? It doesn't matter. It's not a drop. Okay, yeah, I mean, how do we take you seriously? And then, by the way, and then the end of that sentence, and I'm capable. What is that? She's good enough. She's smart enough. And doggone it, people like her. Yeah, that's the literal, that's I thought the same thing, Stuart Smalley over here.

Yeah. And I'm capable, I'm capable of taking what little brain cells I have and letting Donald Trump have them. But I'd like to re-up what you said, though, that was his bump stock ban. So March, you support him. You should be sponsoring the legislation to put back into effect one of the only things he did in office. And by the way- Or Operation Warp Speed or rolling out the vaccine. Well, yeah, she doesn't support Operation Warp Speed, obviously. So there's a little bit of a gap in what she said there.

But look, we're mocking her because she's very, very mockable and also awful. And also your Bernie thing isn't exactly the same thing because Bernie doesn't go around, threatening or advocating for mass murder against people. He didn't just lose a hush money case for an affair he had on his wife. He wasn't found earlier this year of sexually abused Dijian Carroll. Like her fan girling over a monster walking around is way worse than us fan girling over like Ilhan Omar or something. But look, the reason that I want to mock her coming out of that meeting is, It's not that she just, she likes a politician on her side. That's fine. They can like politicians.

It's that that meeting was a clown show. Like reports from it say that he couldn't, he couldn't follow what he was saying. He was all over the place. He's making wild claims that Nancy Pelosi's daughter is saying that in some alternate life, Trump and Pelosi could have hooked up or something. He's making wild claims about tariffs paying for everything that the United States government needs. It's just nonsense upon nonsense. He's smearing, as we'll get to, the city that the RNC is going to be held in. Like it's one thing if he came in and delivered a killer speech and raised morale and maybe pledged to stop putting forward horrible candidates for Senate seats that dooms the

Republicans' chance to take over that chamber, then sure, fan girl, but when it was the same sort of nonsensical, substance-free, bessery that he always delivers, that sort of fan-going performance makes very little sense. That's my only point. Yeah, but I mean, look, I think Trump's insanity is baked in. So you know me, I'm a huge critic of Biden and his failing mental, you know, faculties. But Trump is failing just as hard. He's just melting in front of the cameras. Yeah. But the difference, but I was going to say the difference, actually there isn't a difference, to be honest, because the MAGA people anywhere from actual voters to Marjorie Taylor Green go, I don't see the clown show. I think that was Professor Trump that just walked in.

He looked very sophisticated. And then to be honest, Biden voters are like, I don't see that he's old. He looks like a dynamo to me. No, they were saying he was old. They were saying he was old until he started, you know, throwing down with genocide. And now they're like, oh, he's great. What? But like, you know, even Ezra Klein and like Nate Silver and all these People are like, I think we need a better candidate. So I just, I just wanna, I think they, they pivoted on the old thing when people had legitimate concerns, like stop selling weapons to, you know, war criminals. But you know, on the Trump thing, it doesn't matter, guys.

This is lipstick on a pig, even more so than it was in 2016. All they want is their Trojan horse for their tax breaks. That is it, period, full stop, right? Yeah. Like tariffs, they're, first of all, they're not going to allow whatever like hairbrain scheme he has to like supposedly center the American worker, even though he's so anti-union. It like hurts, right? But it's just about them. It's just about them. Their tax rate offs, being able to write another PJ off, right? I still can't get over. You can write off a

$60 million plane. And end of story, no matter how much lipstick they need. I didn't realize you're talking about private jets. I thought that was a Beetlejuice reference. Former President Donald Trump returning to Capitol Hill as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee and a convicted felon. It is in this photo here, Mitch McConnell, shaking hands with Donald Trump. This was the first time. The two of them have spoken. since January 6th, since that election of Joe Biden was certified. Yes, Mitch McConnell has bent the knee and shook the hand of Donald Trump, a guy who he placed the blame for January 6th on, which makes sense because it was his fault. And he's doing that despite two good reasons to never shake that guy's hand. One being that he doesn't need Donald

Trump to support him. His political career is not long for this earth, and it's easy to imagine that neither is he. But the better reason is that Donald Trump has viciously attacked his wife. Take a look at this. Mitch McConnell, he's a disaster. We got to get him the hell out. He's a problem, big problem. We need good leadership.

Mitch McConnell has not done a great job. I think they should change Mitch McConnell. Mitch McConnell has made the Biden presidency look much better than it would have without the old crow pushing massive Green New Deal type funding. for the radical left Democrats. After the former president repeatedly used in a meaning term in his social media posts to describe Chow, I won't say it, but you can see it there highlighted on the screen. He has also singled out her Asian American heritage as Ms. McConnell's quote,

China loving wife. Yeah, he spoke about her in the same racist terms that he spoke about all Chinese Americans. And we remember how much violence was inspired by that turn from Donald Trump and the Republican Party in 2020. And so he managed to get past these issues, Mitch McConnell, and now he's going to, I guess, work with Donald Trump. It seems pathetic to me, but how do you read it, Jank? I think he should change his name to bitch McConnell because that's what he is for Donald Trump. So look, guys, Donald Trump attacks him on politics, no problem. I'm not a guy who cares much about decorum as you could already tell, right?

He attacks him as an old crow. Who cares? No problem. He attacks his wife from a policy perspective or a corruption or something along those lines. No problem. Okay. My wife is Asian. I cannot conceive of me ever shaking the hand of someone who called her Coco Chow or said that's your China loving wife. They're cucks. They are they are. That's it. Franny's right. It's a cuck. And so look, just when they bow down, I think there's some chance that Trump can actually get them to literally kiss his ass. If he said to Mitch McConnell, hey, listen, Coco Chow's, Mr. Coco Chow, come here, come here. I know your career is over and I know you're about to freeze any second, but I know your whole job is to kiss ass for money. That's how you got Republicans a billion dollars over your career, right? You've kissed banker's ass, oil peer executives ass. There isn't an ass you haven't kissed, Mitch.

So get out of your goddamn knees, you bitch McConnell. I bet he would do it. I bet he would do it. What's crazy about Mitch McConnell, yes, shaking the hand of a guy who's openly racist to his wife, who was in his own administration. Like, do we remember this? You chose her for the job. It's that it really reveals that Republicans are so craven that they will absolutely sacrifice their entire families and their entire dignity.

And on top of that, their legacy, Mitch McConnell is the reason that you have these six, three rulings in the Supreme Court right now. He has done more for the far right extremist, Christian nationalist business-loving right wing than maybe. be anyone in this country, right? And he should rightfully take some credit for that. And Trump should, you know, respect him for doing that, respect him for handing him, those three Supreme Court justice seats, right? And also Ruth Bader Ginsburg basically did as well.

But you know what I'm saying? And instead, because they're so craven, because they stand for nothing, because they don't even care about their own respectability, all they care, their stock portfolio and their money keeps going up, up, up, up, up. They were, they'll shake his hand. They don't even care. But it's like, dude, if you actually believed in your political legacy in like what you've done, you'd have a backbone. It doesn't matter because they know Trump is the guy for the job. They need the cult leader because they have nothing to run on. They have not delivered for the American people. They need the xenophobia. They need the outright racism. They need that Coco chow stuff because the Republican Party is nothing without it. I will say I was surprised I spoke to a number of CEOs who I would say walked into the meeting being Trump supporter-ish or thinking that they might be leaning that direction who said that he was remarkably.

meandering could not keep a straight thought was all over the map and that they which may be not surprising but was interesting to me because these were people who I think might have been actually predisposed to him and actually walked out of the room less predisposed to him actually predisposed to thinking this is not necessary as one person said this may not be any different or better than a Biden thought if you're thinking that way. meandering? That's all he ever is meandering. It's amazing how little attention these business people pay. But it turns out they're probably going to support him anyway because of something that Donald Trump promised them. We're gonna get to that in a second. John's got the

facts. We will. Yeah, they'll give the support. They just won't necessarily give the respect to him. But all of this is coming out of Donald Trump's meeting with a group of about 80 CEOs on the Hill. That includes Tim Cook, Jamie Diamond, a number of others representing tech companies. companies and finance companies and things like that. And according to Andrew Ross Sorkin, as you saw in that clip, they did not come away very impressed by what they heard. He wasn't the only one of reporting that, by the way. CNBC's Brian Schwartz double down tweeting, what I heard from a person close to one of the CEOs, Trump doesn't know what he's talking about. Why?

Many of the ideas lack details and some likely will need Congress. Of course. I don't, yeah. Were these CEOs just crafted in a lab yesterday? That's what he is. He doesn't know what he's talking about and he has no idea how government works. But anyway, like again, I'm not saying you have to study his speeches. Just listen to the people who worked with Donald Trump.

His chief economic advisor, Gary Cohn, once described him as dumb as S. I'll blank that out, explaining that Trump won't read anything. Not one page memos, not the brief policy papers, nothing. He gets up halfway through meetings with world leaders because he is bored. And I've always said, so many people rant about the attention span of Gen Z, but it's former presidents that we need to worry about their attention span. And anyway, look, and then of course there's the stuff that he says that should convince you that he's a moron. Listen to this. I say, what would happen if the boat sank from its weight

and you're in the boat and you have this tremendously powerful battery and the battery is now underwater and there's a shark that's approximately 10 yards over there. Do I get electrocuted if the boat is sinking, water goes over the battery, the boat is sinking. Do I stay on top of the boat and get electrocated? Or do I jump over by the shark and not get electrocuted? All I know about magnets is this. Give me a glass of water. Let me drop it on the magnet. That's the end of the magnet. Another Republican source told reporters that Trump was rambling to the crowd, said it was like, and I quote, talking to your drunk uncle at the family reunion. I don't think that's how magnets work. But bear in mind, that shark electrocution thing is basically

what we're talking about with the CEOs because the story he was telling at that rally was him recounting a story he'd told to a guy who sells boats and in Trump's mind, that story impressed the boat seller so much that he came away thinking Trump was very smart because Trump doesn't know what he's talking about and tells experts his dumb stupid kid version of it and doesn't realize that people leave every conversation with him with less respect than they entered it. In this case with the CEOs, he wasn't talking about electrication, electrician or boats or magnets or whatever.

He was talking about wanting to cut income taxes like all the way. Corporate taxes to 20% from 21, but income tax is gone. We won't have anymore and instead the government will be funded by new tariffs, which is an absolute joke for a variety of reasons and would result in a massive decrease in effective income and wealth for virtually everyone who's not in the 1%. But he's talking about these things like tariffs with people who actually know what those are, and I am sure amongst themselves, they are laughing their asses off at him. Yeah, and by the way, tariffs, especially at that scale, would lead to massive inflation.

Massive. Yes. So, okay, look, I'm curious what the CEOs think. Really, I am. And you, And you guys might be surprised at my guess, because there's only two possibilities here. One is that the CEOs know nothing about politics. And they've never seen a Trump speech. They've never heard him speak. And the first time they hear him speak, they're like, whoa, holy cow, that guy's dumb, right? Or they thought it was an act because the public likes it, right? And the public does like it.

You have to distinguish. So when he goes on those big giant weirdo rants on his rallies, oh, they love it. They eat it up. Like, oh, dude, man, shark or magnet, oh, I don't know, so great, so smart, so smart, Shark or Magnet. They're gonna start a new show.

If only. So maybe they think, hey, look, we're all, you know, relatively speaking liars here, right? And we tell people, oh yeah, we're out looking out for the best interest of our consumers, Meanwhile, we're like, I charge him more. So he's probably doing the same thing, right? But really, you think he's acting dumb in front of the cameras?

But when he goes behind the scenes, all of a sudden he's a genius. But on the other hand, the Democrats say, oh, you should see Joe Biden behind the scenes. Dynamo. Come on guys. So one guy's acting senile, another guy's acting like a moron. But behind the scenes, they're geniuses? No, no, Trump is a mess. He's one of the dumbest people who has ever been in politics.

I mean, John, we can give a hundred examples, but remember the hairbrain idea, should we nuke a hurricane? Can we stop the hurricane by launching nukes at it? And they're like, sir, that would spread it to the entire eastern coast. Like the entire, please, please, we're begging you, no, okay. And then remember when the hurricane came by and he lied about it? So he used the magic marker to change the path. of the hurricane. I mean, he's a child. He's a child. He's like, but in Meg, too, the trench,

what they did to lure him out? And it's like, sir, like now it's wild. It is wild. I didn't mean to interrupt you, uh, Jank. I don't know if you were done, but I'll let me just keep going with my thought, which is, um, I think it's telling that he's meeting with these CEOs instead of working people. Look, I'm not saying that the Biden campaign, uh, is not also heavily compromised by money. But I do think that the one thing they've got going for them is some of their stances in the FTC and their antitrust, right? Looking into Google, going after Google, going after Amazon, like those are huge things. There is a willingness not to break up big tech, but to hold them accountable for some of their anti-business practices. They're anti-capitalistic

practices, if you want to be real with it. And so, but it's very, and the fact that, you know, Joe Biden's also endorsed by the head of the UAW, Sean Fane. He walked a picket line. Then you've got Donald Trump being like, literally at Mar-a-Lago, like, oh, right, oil executives, oh, what do you get, give me a billion dollars, and you can literally put a, you can dig for oil in the White House. Like, that's all that matters, and it's so transactional. What's crazy to me is, Jenk, I think they, I think it's gotten worse.

Like I absolutely think Trump, Trump's brain is far more melty, just like Biden's brain is melty. They're two types of different kinds of senility. It's just pick your poison. But I also think it's crazy to like, this is what the CEOs have to decide. Do they want the lower corporate tax rate? Do they want, and then for personally, a lower tax rate, do they want, again, all their tax breaks that expire in 2025 to be extended,

which they benefited from personally? Do they want to make sure that there won't be a raise in a minimum wage, which is a much less of a threat to their bottom lines and their share. holders under Trump versus under Biden, although who knows, but also do you gamble with this tariffs plan, which what are we going to put a slap a bunch of tariffs on China? Who not only are building our goods, hello Tim Cook and Apple, but like that we import everything from and they're going to be slap with tariffs, who is that going to hurt? It's going to hurt them.

It's going to hurt their cost of manufacturing. It's gonna hurt the American consumer. Like, you gotta wonder if they're actually kind of scared that his idiocy, especially around the economy, might actually go and bite them in the ass. Yeah. So look, guys, I wanna focus one last thing here on that I think is the most important. Like, so Trump's a dumb ass, welcome to America, welcome to the year 2024. Okay, we all know that, right?

If you're conscious at all, you know that. But the most important thing here is he's saying basically the same thing he's so told to the oil executives, give me a billion dollars and I give you whatever you want. And that way we'll make these dumb ass Americans live under corporate rule. And they won't know it. And he not only did he promised them corporate tax cuts, he promised them deregulation. So you can poison the local lake and the kids. Who cares? Just give me the money.

I'll let you poison anything you like. Spending extra money for the safety of your workers. You don't have to do that anymore. They're workers can get their arms and legs chopped off. I don't care. Just give me the goddamn money and you guys are in charge. I give you, this is the guy pretending to be a populist. That income tax proposal has no chance of passing.

It would bankrupt the country and make us a banana republic. We'd have inflation at 100, 200%. If we took all income taxes away and just made it all tariffs, it would be insanity. And the average American, as John pointed out, would have to pay almost all the taxes. The rich would pay almost none of the taxes. So he is just a giant thief in favor of corporations. He just has verbal diarrhea, so he just tells them. He's like, you give me money.

I let you hurt people and I give you money there by people's money. I give it to you. They don't even know. They think I'm on their side. I just give it to you and then you can hurt them too. Right? And they're like, wow, that's not very subtle. Usually when politicians come in, they say the same exact thing,

but they do it in a sophisticated way. way. So let's keep it real. Trump is not on your side if you're an average American. If you're average MAGA, he's given your whole, he's given away everything so that you live under corporate rule and your family's hurt. But at the same time, mainstream media, don't tell me that this is shocking news to you, and only Trump does it. Everybody, including Hillary Clinton, gives the same exact speech, except not as ridiculous. This is I'm going to get rid of all income taxes and she's way more sophisticated about it. Now, of course, we could look into creating innovation through deregulation.

And we, you know, and obviously open up the freedom of the banks and the oil companies that really provide even more stimulation for the economy through lower tax cuts and lower rates and blah. Same exact thing. You give me the money. I take the American poor American people's money and I give it to you. Yeah. Okay, I think we should probably take our last break of the hour. One more story coming up after this.

That's John Show and Francesca is often on there as well. Vicky R gifted a membership on YouTube as a vote for a John gun show so that he could rip off his suit and show us his guns. Dami Mommy Matrix also gifted one also for a John gun show. It's a thing, it's instantly started. Oh boy. We have to wait to see if the Supreme Court will okay it. Yeah, well, as Franie said, you got bump stocks under there. Okay, so all right, I got the next stories for you guys.

So there's a Republican running in Colorado for Congress. His problem is that he paid a girlfriend to have an abortion. Oops. But to be fair though, he's of course not a hypocrite. He's approaching. Oh wait, what are right? Pro life. Of course!

Now normally that stuff never gets challenged, but he went on a local news station where it got challenged. So there's a here, give you one of the quick, funny, quotes, she had an abortion. Was that her choice? Yes. Did she have that right? Yes. Was it my choice, Kyle? No. Well, you did kind of pay for it. So we're gonna give you all the facts on how this dude was stone cold bust that it's hilarious. John's got more. 100%. And how the story has sort of developed or changed arguably over time. But he is adamantly pro-life and a critic of abortion in very stark terms, by the way. This is Representative Holthorff did make headlines earlier this year for admitting that he had paid a former

girlfriend to get an abortion, although he tells it differently depending on who is asking when. So during a house floor speech, he said this, I also believe in women's rights. I have five daughters, so it's extremely complex. So let's talk about the next part of this little story. When I was in college, I had a girlfriend and she was a beautiful young woman. And I don't know why that's a relevant part of the story. And we had the unfortunate experience of her getting pregnant. I'm Catholic, so you know my position on life. But I had to respect her rights, because she said she didn't want to keep her baby. It becomes her baby in that case. And that's hard. That's hard for a man who respects women. But I respected her rights and actually gave her money

to help her through her important critical time so she could live her best life. So there is a journalist who initially sort of broke the story. This is Kyle Clark, who sat down for an interview with Holtorf and sort of pressed this question, asked in point blank, you have voted to limit abortion access for other women, but you say that you respected your girlfriend's right to an abortion so that she could live her best life. If abortion was the best choice for your girlfriend, why tried to deny that to other women? Now as you would expect, he did not want to give a straight answer to this, but Clark kept asking and eventually they got to this.

Holtorf said, there are times when that choice can't be made or it's complicated, particularly for the woman, okay, and I understand that. I found out that she was pregnant the week I deployed to military training in the summer of, I think, 1986. So now the way he's telling it is that he went off to that training, comes back months later. His girlfriend had already had the abortion despite him telling her to wait months, I guess, before making the decision, and said she had an abortion. Was that her choice? Yes, did she have that right? Yes.

Was it my choice, Kyle? No. And he says, then he financially helped her her after the fact, which is not the exact same story that we've been told before. But he says, when she came to me and said she'd had an abortion and she was having trouble financially, what does a good person do, try to help another person that's in trouble? So I did give her money, I helped her, and we continued to date and try to salvage our relationship, which didn't work out okay, but I absolutely did help her because that was the right human thing to do. And he eventually says, I'm a pro-life person, I think you should choose life or try to choose life every time, but there are exceptions and there are times when you need an abortion,

abortion is a medical procedure, to which Clark said is one of the exceptions when Richard Holthorff is the father. And he says, that's a tough question. And he says, no, it isn't that, it's not about me, don't personalize it, make it about me, okay? And he closes by saying, that's a story, okay, that's not what that important, what's more important is the policy. But like, okay, I agree, your personal story is not that important to me, the policy is, but he sponsored a failed 2020 measure to ban abortion in Colorado after 22 weeks. And he's also called abortion rights supporters godless heathens, which I guess would include his ex-girlfriend who had the abortion.

And him since he paid for it. Well, 100%. Now look, I know the part of this story that you're super interested in, which seems like you think he more enthusiastically did it back then and then change it, that's entirely possible. But for me, I don't even need to question his story to have an issue with this. He says in that speech, I also believe in women's rights. But he doesn't mean inherent rights. He doesn't mean fundamental rights. He means I will respect whatever rights we allow you to have right now.

I guess if it's not banned, I guess you can do it. But if we can ban it, we're gonna ban it. And then it's not about respect anymore. It's not about rights anymore. You're difficult situation or whatever. I don't care. If we can ban it, we ban it. it, we ban it. And then I only have to respect those rights from then on. And that I absolutely

hate. Yeah, no, I don't actually have an opinion on what he was thinking when he first said it. I do have an opinion on him basically doing the most Republican thing in the world, which is that rules should apply to you, not me. He says, don't personalize it. What do you mean don't personalize it? When you take away abortion rights, reproductive rights, you're personalizing that affects every woman personally. But he doesn't know or care about them because they're not him. So he's like, oh yeah, I can take away their rights. But me, no, me and my, I mean, I knocked her up.

I didn't want him to marry her. Don't personalize. It's like OJ saying that he's in favor of a rule against homicide. And they're like, well, a little inconvenient. And he's like, hey, don't personalize it. Don't personalize. Okay, so guys, look at how he refers to his girlfriend. friend and then the bill that he passed.

He said, it was the right human thing to do to pay for her abortion. So when it's him, come on, I'm just being a human. I mean, my heart goes out to that poor lady. She's, you know, I knocked her up and then she had this difficult situation and was going to ruin her life. Well, how about every other woman in that situation? Who cares about that? God damn it.

I'm doing the human thing there, but I'm doing the inhuman thing as a legislator. And he said, so she could live her best life. So but other women. have to live their worst life. He doesn't care about them living their best lives. But that was a woman he knew. So guys, I'm sorry, but for a lot of Republicans, the number one thing is, like, it's not that they don't have empathy.

They have empathy for themselves and for people right in a very small circle around themselves. But the minute they don't know the person, empathy's gone, it falls off a cliff. And all of a sudden they don't have, who cares about doing the human thing, the right thing, so they could live their best lives. And then, I mean, and the perfect example of that was the other quote to John Red. I mean, there's certain exceptions, right? For banning abortion. Well, what are the exceptions?

The exceptions, why don't you? Okay, but who do you, anyway, if you can't see how hypocritical this is, you got a massive problem. But by the way, Republicans won't care at all, at all. Di Jarlay, a congressman from Tennessee, paid for three abortions. Two from his wife and one from his mistress. Reelected, reelected, reelected. Cause they're just using it to control women.

They don't care about it in reality at all. They don't think it's a moral issue. I'm sorry, even if you think that you think it's a moral issue, you don't. You'll vote for this guy, you voted for Dijarlay, you vote for Donald Trump. It's not a moral issue at all. You're just trying to find a way to go back to the old ways.

The old ways when women knew their goddamn role. That's what Republicans stand for. And you will grow two inches because of it. You won't, it won't happen. Jobs won't come back to the country because women are back in the house. It's just so funny to me. I look, I love the idea that like the loophole is like, yeah, well, what about other women?

Well, they're not my girlfriends yet. Like this all feels like a long con to like get women to like date Republicans so they can somehow have reproductive rights. I mean, the real thing about this is abortion and Roe v. Wade specifically is about what? It's not about when you think a life becomes a life. It's not about whether you would have an abortion yourself or whatever. It's about privacy.

It is about privacy under the 14th Amendment that the government doesn't have a right to obligate you to bear children. That's it to start a family. Period. End of story. It is nothing to do with your morality or yes, your desire to control women. It is all about the right to privacy. And so we keep on coming back to this.

And you're totally right, Jank. This is about Republicans having zero object permanence when it comes to empathy. They like, as soon as it's not someone they know, they absolutely have, they have no idea. When it's like, no, no, no, that could be your girlfriend, Richard. Think about that, that she could be pregnant with yours. How do you know? You know, and like, if that's how we have to reverse engineer this, then I don't know, let's do it. But it's, we all know that mistresses of Republicans and Republican women themselves and happily married Republicans.

If they have the money, they will be able to get abortions discreetly. They'll be able to have, you know, the private clinics. They can pay the money to fly themselves to a state that has, you know, actual reproductive rights. And they'll do it. But poor people, working people will not have that right. Yeah, I'm going to say one last thing here. Anybody who watches the show regularly knows, I criticize Democrats all the time into people's great frustration. I go after everyone, depending on what they're actually doing or not doing, right?

In this case, there is no dispute. If you vote for Republicans, they will take your rights away if you're a woman. They will say you don't get to control your body. Big government controls your body. You no longer have freedom under certain circumstances. The big jackbooted thugs in the government like this guy are going to come and say, the state now owns your body for nine to ten months. And by the way, then you have to take care of the baby.

I don't care of rape me, whatever, I don't care of the baby, make more babies. And you now work for the state. You don't get to control your own freedom anymore. That's a stone cold fact. There is no version of this story where if you vote for Republicans, that you'll still have rights as a woman. They are there for taking away your reproductive rights in every state and at the national level.

And they don't deny it. They're like, yes, we think we should take your rights away because God told me to. Yeah, sure he did, buddy. So it's indisputable. So if you're a woman and you don't believe that you should have freedom and you think jerks like Richard Haltorf should have the right to determine, what you do with your body? Okay, vote Republican, but don't say we didn't tell you.

It's a fact. And if you're blind to that factor, you don't mind, okay, sign up to be chattel. But that's not how we roll around here. We actually believe in America and we believe in freedom, unlike Republicans. All right, we gotta go. Everybody check out Bituay Shroom and Damage Report. We didn't get to the RFQ Junior story, but don't worry, I got an interview with him Monday. So we will certainly talk about Gaza in that as well.

So it is going to be an interesting one. That's 8 o'clock on Monday. Eastern, of course, we have an amazing second hour for you guys, including more Republicans kissing more Trump ass on different issues. And Republicans are attacking women's rights on a different issue and pretending that they didn't. So all that's coming up. So stay right here, we'll be right back.

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