The Young Turks - Cruz Control

Episode Date: June 21, 2024

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Thank you. All right, live from the Polybarker studio in Los Angeles, it's the young church, Jake Uger and Jordan Yule with you guys, a hell of a day. We do have another story about Biden, but you know what, now it's all of a sudden it's getting a little complicated about the polling and the results because there's a lot of panic going on. But lately, couple of polls are not that bad. And then a disastrous one. So it's a mess, but it's an interesting way. It's a lot better than not a mess just losing terribly, right? So it's starting to get to be a little bit of mixed news. We do have Republicans acting poorly,

but we also have a Republican acting really great. No, that can't be true. And wait until you find out who it is. And I'm going to tell you why. There's a really good reason why. a Republican is actually holding corporate wrongdoing accountable. Like it hasn't happened in my lifetime. So, okay, apparently an unprecedented thing on today's show. All right, so a lot to get to Jordan. Watch this. This bill mandates the display of the 10 commandments in every classroom in public,

parliamentary, secondary, and post-education schools in the state of Louisiana. Because if you want to respect the rule of law, you've got to start from the original law given, which was most. All right. Louisiana's education law is so bad that one of the witnesses to its passage literally fainted. And while we hope she's okay, the law itself is very bad and we have more information on it. Hold on, you're very good at it for me. I mean, look, if we're putting up the Ten Commandments in the schools and a young girl that attends one of those schools passes out, I mean, who struck her down?

I don't know. I don't know. Maybe this is bad news. Maybe you picked the wrong command. I don't know. You guys are the ones who say this is going to help. So for all it's done is hurt. Okay, that's 0 and 1 is their starting record. All right, we'll get to that story and how you can fight back to. Of course. It does feel like an ominous warning. And they're not going to heat it. But the legislation which Republican Governor Jeff Landry signed into law yesterday makes Louisiana the first state in the country to require the Ten Commandments in classrooms. This includes publicly funded schools. House Bill 71 approved by state lawmakers last month mandates that a poster size display of the Ten Commandments with large, easily readable font be in every classroom at schools that receives state funding from kindergarten through the university level. Under the law, state funds won't be used to implement the mandate, the posters would be paid for through donations.

Before signing the bill, Landry called it one of his favorites. Legislation specifies the exact language that must be printed on the classroom displays, including, I am the Lord thy God, thou shalt not, thou shalt have no other gods before me, thou shalt not make to thyself any graven images, thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. Can I pause there for saying, Jordan again? So look, these are, we're going to show you the ten commandments as they're putting them up. But first of all, I am Lord, I am the Lord thy God. Yeah, but that could kind of apply to anybody, couldn't it?

Like, so why is Vishnu the Lord thy God? It doesn't specify, so every God says they're the God, right? Like the Ohio State. So like that's a commandment. That's like one of the 10 most important things, a God saying, I'm the right God. And why are they constantly competing? And I thought there was one God.

Anyway, thou shalt have no other gods before me, always very jealous. If I was the most powerful creature in the universe, probably wouldn't have time for jealousy, okay? Thou shall not make myself any graven images. Huh, that's interesting. Are we sure this is an Islam?

Because remember, if you draw the picture of Muhammad, they got a big trouble, but outgraven image, hmm. So can we put up the Muslim version too, that if you draw the Prophet Muhammad right underneath the Ten Commandments? Because as long as we're putting up religion in the schools, why discriminate?

I mean, this seems pretty anti-Semitic. Why not put up something from the Torah or et cetera, right? Now look, I get it, Old Testament, New Testament, but you might not know the Quran is a third book, Old Testament, New Testament, Quran, right? So why not put something out from all the books? Why not put the Bhagwad Gita up, right? Because as long as we're talking about not graven image,

really, by the way, making a graven image of God is one of the 10 worst things in the world. Like that we got, hey, don't do that, okay? And of course you can't take the Lord's name in vain because if the all powerful creative of the universe hears you sniping about him. Oh, he's gonna catch feelings. And that is gonna be a giant problem.

Okay, so guys, this, I'm falling into the trap of what they want us to do, which is to make in front of these absurdities, right? And that is why they're putting this up so that they can go, ha ha, you guys are Christians, we're the real Christians, Christians should rule. Come on Christians, vote against them, vote against them, right? And so are we a secular country or aren't we?

But there's more issues here, and we'll in you more of the commandments that are so important. And then how can you fight back here? It involves posting Allah Wah'uqba in the schools. So we'll get to that. Of course, they want you to remember the Sabbath and to keep it holy. Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not commit adultery, which is a big issue in kindergarten classrooms.

You've got kindergarteners first grade. But to be fair, Jordan, the kindergartes don't want their parents committing adultery. That's true. That's true. They're big on that. That affects them more than almost anything else on there. By the way, that's not even illegal. So I mean, it's one of the 10 most important things, but not illegal.

But at least now we're into a zone of like, okay, these make sense. Sure. These are universal. And by the way, if you're a Christian out there and you love these, God bless, there's nothing wrong with loving these. Nothing wrong with being a devout Christian. We're just not having the government do it because it discriminates against other religions. If the other religions did it and they left Christianity out,

you wouldn't like that either, I hope, right? And so this again, you don't want to commit adultery, great, you don't want to steal or kill, great. But you could put that same exact line, those same exact lines from Hindu philosophy, from Taoist philosophy or religion, and Islam, et cetera, et cetera, just so you know, right? Because sometimes people don't know, they grew up in a certain religion, they think, oh, this is morality, everything else is evil, okay? Or it's not that you grew up in it or you went to school in Louisiana and you got propaganda from the government telling you which religion to believe in. Could be that too soon.

Yeah, of course. They don't want you to steal. Thou shalt not steal. Of course, thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. I really could use that one. I got a lot of people bearing false witness online about me. I don't know if you're my neighbor, but you should cut it out. See, I'm in favor.

Maybe you bring that upon yourself. No, no, no. I never hire anyone wrong. Thou shalt not cover thy neighbor's house. Thou shalt not cover it thy neighbor's wife, nor his maidservants though. No, I'm just kidding. Nor his man servant, nor his maid servant, nor his cattle, nor anything that is thy neighbors. Because every kindergartner needs to learn about coveting maid servants.

So law also demands that the text of the Ten Commandments must be the central focus of the poster or framed document. Proponents said the measure is not solely religious, but that it has historical significance in the language of the law. The Ten Commandments are foundational documents of our state and national government. On the other side, opponents of the bill are arguing that a state requiring a religious text in all classrooms would violate the establishment clause of the constitution, which says Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. Ahead of the signing on two,

Tuesday, the bill Landry declared during a Republican fundraiser on Saturday, I can't wait to be sued. And he's in luck because the ACLU, the ACLU of Louisiana, the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and Americans United for Separation of Church and State put out a joint statement saying the law would result in unconstitutional religious coercion of students. And the ACLU has already announced that they're suing Louisiana. But for now, all public school students in Louisiana will be subjected to Christian moralizing every time they walk into the classroom. Jank, it seems like you have a lot of thoughts about this. Any more?

Yeah, look, the one thing I appreciate about that version of the Ten Commandments, because sometimes it's written slightly differently, is that it's fair. It's one of the most fair documents in the Bible. It says, do not cover thy neighbor's wife or maid servant, or if you're so inclined, the man servant. The man's servant can be quite tempting sometimes, apparently. Of course. And you should not cover that either. Well, I appreciate the clarity, okay? And they didn't say just don't cover the man servant.

Also don't cover the, covet the maid servant. And I mean, Jesus, you know, like, I mean, if I had a dollar for every man servant or maid servant that I coveted, I think I'd have zero dollars. But okay, okay, this seems super relevant in our lives. Do a lot of people in Louisiana have like a ton of cattle that they're coveting by their neighbors? Oh, look, look at the man servants with the cattle.

Ooh, they both look good. Okay, anyways, okay, but why does the governor say, I can't wait to be sued? Because of the trick that I told you about in the beginning. This is all about politics and getting your votes and telling the good people of Louisiana, we're more Christian than the Democrats. Look at these no good Democrats. They're suing us over just a 10 commandments, man. Everybody loves the 10 commandments.

Nobody wants to covet the man servant. Come on. Wait a minute. Do Democrats want to covet your? cattle. So that's and that's why when they see segments like this, I'm not doing political strategy here. I'm being honest about my opinions, but they'll love it. They'll be like, oh my God, you see that? He's making fun of the Ten Commandments. We need to put 20 commandments up. We're more pro-Christian. But that defeats the whole point of a secular country like

America. That's why we said, do not establish a religion. We're the first secular country in the world. We should be enormously proud of that. Why should we be proud of that? Not because it hurts religion, because it gets the religions to stop fighting one another. If you declare one religion that the state's government, the government's state religion, I should say, then all the other religions catch feelings. By the way, I mean, there are like three major religious states that pop to mind. Let's see how they've done so far. Saudi Arabia claims that it's a Muslim state.

Wow, that seems like such a great role model. But Iran also claims that it's a Muslim state, but Shia instead of Sunni. Who, we're 0 for two. Israel claims to be a Jewish state, 0 for three, okay? I mean, is that going well? Is Israel, Gaza going well? It's because, oh, it turns out when you say I only care about this religion, the other religions get really mad, and then we have endless conflict.

And that's not just against the other, within religions too, who's going to rule? The Presbyterians, the Episcopalians, the Southern Baptist, some, by the way, a lot of Pentecostals in Louisiana. So are we all going to have to wrap snakes around our kids' heads and said before that we sent them to school? So I'm sorry about Pentecostals, that whole snake stuff's and talking in tongues, cuckoo for cocoa puffs. So if you catch feelings over that, that's fine.

I got no problem. You think I'm going to go to hell and be tortured by Satan for eternity. So we're at a minimum even, okay, in terms of what we think of each other. Book Club on Monday Gym on Tuesday Date night on Wednesday Out on the town on Thursday Quiet night in on Friday

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our hero the week on t.com, is from Louisiana and he heard, and he's Christian, and he heard that this was happening. He's like, this is wrong. This is not what America is. And he proposed that we somehow fight back. So we're going to ideate a word I really don't enjoy. I don't know why I use it around the, come up with ideas is how normal people say, about how to fight back against is my first idea is that you just post other religious things right next to it. Because that's fair, right? If we're posting one religious thing, why not other religious things? So the kids or the parents should go by and just not make a nice little poster.

They just says, Allahu Akbar, and put it right on underneath it. And then bismillah Rahman and Rahim, and then I shahdhah, by the third one, we're done with it. Okay, Lou, you're going on, this is establishing Sharia law? No, no, you guys established Sharia law, Christian Sharia. We're just adding to it, fun for everybody, right? And by the way, those things that I said are super inoffensive. Allah, it just means God is great. And I would ask the good people of Louisiana,

what are you saying God isn't great? Is that what you're saying? It literally just translated in Arabic. It doesn't have anything to do with Islam. It just translated as God is great. Could be thy God, right? So I hope you can see why this is absurd and not a great idea. But finally, Jordan, I remember these same guys all going,

all go, the Democrats want to indoctrinate our children. So I guess this is the governor of Louisiana saying, let's get there first. Yeah. So we've seen, I think mostly stunts from groups like the Satanic Temple, the Church of Satan, whatever, where they've put up statues in different cities or on public land next to state capitals to point out how all of these efforts to display the Ten Commandments, which isn't new, are rooted in a violation of the First Amendment. And you see these same conservatives freak out, clutch their pearls. Oh, no, we can't have that.

And public kids could see that. That's terrible. And it reflects what Jenk is talking about. They want a sectarian society. They want a purely Christian society. They don't want to welcome other religions. As much as many of these same people pretend to care about Jews in Israel, if you really get it, if you really boil it down when it comes

down to their end of time's prophecy, all of those Jews are going to get killed. Jesus is going to come back, take the Christians, and leave everyone else behind to get destroyed. And they certainly won't go to heaven. It's purely hypocritical, but there is a really funny justification from Kaylee McEnany on Fox News when she heard this news. And this is how she took it. Take a look. His tweet about this, Louisiana has the worst crime rate in the nation, but this is their priority. Okay, so apparently it's wrong to have a priority to put the 10 commandments in schools, but here's the priority in California. The federalist headline, San Francisco's London breed

thinks the mayor's top job is naming drag queens. That's what she challenged her debater to do on stage. So that's the priority in California. And I just want to challenge what he said quickly. So it's wrong to have the 10 commandments in schools. It won't solve any of our remedies or problems. But Madeline Murray O'Hare, she founded American atheist. She's responsible for getting prayer out of schools. Her son became a minister. And let me just read one sentence from him. July 17th, 1963 was the first day Baltimore's children could not pray in schools before that date. There had not been a single murder in Baltimore schools. 30 years later, there's a Baltimore school police officer to deal with violence and drugs in schools. So laugh all you want.

Ten Commandments, I think, is a better solution than naming drag queens. Jank, did they pray the murderer away? Is that how that worked? I mean, did you follow that chain of so-called logic? There was once an atheist, and she had a son, and then that son made this point many years ago. Ha ha, I want to know, atheists. Gotcha. Did you? Did you? And, well, before we used to pray to God, we didn't have any problems at all when we were enslaving millions of people and massacring the Native Americans, et cetera. We didn't have any problems at all, at all.

Now all of a sudden, though, now we got crime and problems because we're not praying enough. Okay, if you say so, but look, you know they're going to go in this direction. This is, this is the old playbook. They try, they attack on, and this is why things are so upside down now. This is one of the oldest tricks that the Republicans have. One is flag burning so that you go, well, I mean, technically you are allowed to burn the flag. It is constitutional. They go, ah, they ain't America.

But now they're the ones turning the flag upside down and attacking law enforcement. Like they used to do all of these tricks. Oh, are you saying you're against cops and law and order? But now they're like, oh, screw law and order. We hate the FBI, defund everything, right? So, like, soon, who knows? Like, if Trump, you know, Trump doesn't believe religion at all, right? He's never read the Bible in his life.

I'm not sure he's read a single sentence in the Bible. I'm not joking. And then you know what happens when they ask him about, what's your favorite part of the Bible? All of it. All of it. I just love it all so much. I just so good. So good.

Okay, so maybe they when they find out that Trump is massively atheist, right? That they'll come back around like they have on the flag and on cops and stuff, be like, no way, man, you turn the Ten Commandments upside down. Make them the O-1 commandments, boo! So just hold. Mag will change their minds. So, but look, guys, we do as I'm doing. Don't get too serious about it because don't fall into their traps.

So here, I'll give you a couple of members with interesting points. First of all, Tony C says, I went to school in Louise. This is his opinion, not mine. I went to school in Louisiana in the 50s, so I could tell you the horror stories. But don't worry, they can't read it anyway. Okay, I denounce and reject anyone laughing at that. I'm just saying, okay, I love Louisiana. Rep says, thou shalt not covet your neighbor's Amazon packages.

Wow, that's a good one. Okay, it's a lot more relevant than the manservant these days. Okay, so okay, by the way, we do the show with our members. We love our members. Hit the join button below if you're watching on YouTube, tyt.com slash team for anyone else. Okay, so have fun with it is my point, just like the Amazon package point, right? If you put that underneath the Ten Commandments, are they going to rip it down that you should not covet thy neighbor's Amazon packages?

I don't know, maybe they leave it up, right? So the ACLU will take care of the lawsuit, right? But in terms of citizens, like don't make fun of people's religion. Don't do, thou shalt not copy jank. Okay, just be respectful, but put other things up. Put other good religious statements from other religions up. Put, you know, funny things that are about coveting, you know, there's Amazon packages or whatever else you guys come up with.

You're more clever than I am. So anyway, we'll see you in the town hall on Wednesdays at 830. We'll come up more ideas, maybe we'll do an Operation Hope project over. Okay, but let's keep America America and not a theocracy. Sure. The education point though, we're certainly not laughing at anybody for poor educational outcomes, but I was checking before we did the show. Louisiana ranks 40th in the country in K through 12 education,

and they put out a press release two months ago, bragging about how they bumped up a spot from 41, and it was the biggest gain in years for them. The problem is that they're not investing in public education. The problem is you have right-wing governance across that state for years, gutting them, attacking the teachers' unions, if there are teachers' unions left, framing teachers as greedy, and now you have a right-wing national campaign, demonizing teachers. Who cares what's on the wall?

Why can't you invest in these classrooms? Why are teachers having to go out and buy school supplies out of pocket? And there was a hearing today in the Senate with a very poorly attended hearing in the Senate. The only senator who was there was Bill Cassidy and he was making the argument that teachers are paid too much and there's too much money going to public schools and the outcomes the educational outcomes aren't sufficient while Bernie who leads that committee was arguing we need to have a much greater investment in public schools and when he used the example if you have four hedge fund managers in this country who make more than

all of the kindergarten teachers in the country combined Clearly, your priorities are lopsided. So it's just a perfect, it's a perfect timing for this hearing when you have the governor of that state celebrating this new educational law that doesn't benefit students, doesn't benefit teachers, and certainly doesn't change these poor educational outcomes. Right, just to be clear, Bill Cassidy is from Louisiana. So he's arguing for more commandments, but less teachers. If you think that's a good idea, you were gonna vote Republican anyway. And so, but you think that maybe more teachers is the better way to go than vote with common sense, please. All right, we're going to take a quick break.

When we come back, we've got the Biden problem. Is it Biden or the Democrats that are the problem? Because there's interesting polling showing that Democrats might be doing pretty good, except one guy. All right, we'll come back. All right on TYT, jang, Jordan with you guys. One of our members on TYT.com, Shilohiezel wrote a chipper jovial jank is the best jank. But thank you, I appreciate it. I like chipper jank too.

All right, what do you got, Jordan? After an onslaught of dismal polls for Joe Biden, establishment Democrats are finally realizing what we have known for a while, that the problem with Biden's underperforming campaign is Biden himself. That's shocking, right? In all seriousness, that was the topic of a Politico piece published this morning titled Why Democrats Think Biden's Problem is Biden. The piece reads, interviews with Democratic lawmakers, strategists, and former party,

officials in Washington and the states found Democrats increasingly willing to acknowledge that the president's political difficulties are anchored in Biden's individual vulnerabilities, including his age, his inconsistent messaging, and his dismal support among young people. The president is not only unpopular, he is more so than both Trump and Obama were at the same point in the fourth year of their presidencies, according to Gallup. Biden's unpopularity is so notable because other Democrats are polling so much better. A merest poll released last week showed Senator Sherrod Brown running five percentage points ahead of his Republican challenger in Ohio. Trump leads Biden by seven points in the same survey. Democratic Senator Bob Casey

leads his Republican rival by six points in a new merest poll of Pennsylvania while Biden trails Trump by two points. And a New York Times Sienna college poll Wisconsin released last month showed Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin trouncing her Republican challenger by nine points. Biden, meanwhile, is ahead of Trump by just two. The Biden campaign responded to that piece stating that the party's midterms overperformance and down ballot gains so far this cycle have proven that Democrats have a winning message, but noted that many voters are not yet tuned into the presidential race. To be fair, the Biden campaign did get some encouraging news yesterday, thanks to a Fox poll that showed Biden leading Trump in a head-to-head matchup

for the first time since last October. A bare majority, 50% of respondents said they would vote for Biden in November, while 48% said they would back Trump. Here's a graph that shows how the polling has changed over time. You could see, the last time Biden was ahead was in October by one percentage point. Today was a bit different, or was a bit of a roll of a roll of for the polls, though, because two very different headlines broke on the same day. Here's one. Biden pulls ahead of Trump in 538 average for polls for the first time in months. Biden's lead was 0.1%. And here's the other headline. Trump stuns in a new poll, sweeps all the swing states and is tied in state GOP hasn't won in 50 years. And that state is Minnesota. More data from that poll by the hill on the swing states here for you.

You could see Trump is up by three in Wisconsin, two in Pennsylvania, one in Michigan, four in Arizona, four in Georgia, three in Nevada, and they are tied in Minnesota. That is, that is horrifying. Biden's one saving grace might be improving voter sentiment on the economy. Respondents were more positive about the economy than in previous months. Nearly a third, 32% of respondents said they have an excellent or good feeling about the economy, the highest mark of Biden's presidency, Despite that, a 56% majority of respondents still had a negative outlook on the economy.

I mean, these are pretty damning polls. This is, this is scary stuff. I don't think they should read much into the national average being up by 0.1% do you? Yeah. So remember, Biden won the popular vote by 4.5% last time and almost lost electoral college by 44,000 votes on three swing states. I keep reminding you of that because that means any Democratic people, candidate has to win by bare minimum four and a half percent.

And that's too close, it's just squeaker at four and a half. So let's say five, right? That doesn't give you a lot of margin, it gives you half a point of margin, right? So you got to win by five. So if you're up by point one, you're actually down about five points. So making up five points in nationally is very, very difficult. So look, but the reason for that is because he wins California, New York, et cetera, by so much. So that's why the swing states are more important because that's going to decide the

election, the electoral college count, so you got to win these states. Now, as we've been telling him for a long time, he's, he was losing ground as we accurately predicted for you guys. And we predicted it because we saw it a trajectory. We're not making it up. We're just looking at numbers, right? And so as you saw that long stretch where he was down significantly to Trump, those are all the times we were telling our hair is on fire. There is some good news here. And I'm going to tell you one thing Jordan didn't. That is, that is beginning to, for the first time, give me a tiny bit of hope that Trump might not win, okay? I'll get to that in a sec. But in terms of the bad news, the swing states, he's losing all of them. And I told you, don't sleep

on Minnesota. Minnesota is not a lock because there's a lot of Muslim voters there, a lot of young voters who are upset, a lot of progressive voters who are upset. Minnesota is in trouble, not because it's leading more red, but because it has a lot of progressive voters. And so, and they hate what Biden has done in Gaza. So look, I mean, Biden's amazing. And the whole Democratic party's amazing and this whole system is amazing because he's losing 30 points among younger voters on Gaza alone. Now we've just seen that in poll after poll after poll. And it very, very easily could cost him the election. I mean, Minnesota and Michigan are so, they're the most important states to win and they may almost certainly ride on this one issue. And Biden to this

day is like, nope, I'm going to give Israel $20 billion. I'm going to let them. And then Netanyahu screams at him and he's like, I'd rather lose the election than defy APEC. So you got no one to blame but yourself. If you don't want to win the election and you do something that you know is costing you 30 points among a demographic you absolutely positively need, and you're like, yeah, but I care more about my donors. Okay, then you care more about your donors than winning this election. Okay, so let me get to the good news.

Look, first of all, small one, Nevada in other polls were, was like 12 point lead for Trump. So the fact that it's down to three points of this polls, kind of a relief, because you can close a three point lead in five months. You can't close a 12 point lead. And so understand, you've got to take the average of the polls. It's not 12, it's not three. It's the average of the polls. So in the average of the polls, he keeps losing all the swing states. That's the disaster.

The good news is he's picking up more senior citizen voters. The older voters are coming around to Biden. And older voters do vote more. So now for the first time, I think there's like a slight chance that the older voters come to the rescue. And I don't know why they're liking Biden more, but it is possible that they're annoyed that everybody keeps calling them old. So like, I'm serious. Like I don't know that that's a large factor, but I would love to poll that, right, instead of guessing at it. But I think there's some percent of chance that some significant block of older voters are like, oh yeah, there's nothing wrong with old people that I'm going with Biden, right?

And so that might be the most ironic win of all time in politics. But hey, a glimmer of hope to beat Trump in that regard. But the most important part of the story, Jordan, is is it the Democrats or is it Biden? Because 2022 went better than expected. That's definitely true. The special elections have gone well. Look, there's some outliers like, hey, we won that seat in New York. It was George Santos's seat.

Were they really going to vote for another Republican after Santos, right? So, but the other special elections have gone well. So but what this political piece is pointing out is, yeah, but it's Biden dragging down those numbers. It's not like Biden is pushing up those numbers and that's why we're winning. Every poll shows he's dragging it down. And by the way, that could be a huge problem down ballot, not only a Biden loss, but if Biden drags down the Senate and the House seats, then we're in a world of trouble because

then the Republicans can pick up the House, the Senate, and the White House, and then They're not going to pull a Biden, they're not going to care about the parliamentarian. I remember when Trump was in office four years. Literally the news never once mentioned the parliamentarian, right? So they're not going to stop, they're going to do project 2025, etc. And Biden being over the top ridiculously, monumentally selfish, not only in potentially losing to Trump, but dragging down the entire Democratic Party with him. Yeah, absolutely. I'm really worried about some of these Senate races, because these are

states that should be safe. And if he's polling so poorly in states like Minnesota, hopefully Baldwin can hang on, but good Lord. And there's- Wisconsin for- Sorry, sorry, yes, yes, yes. But there are legitimate concerns that have been expressed about his campaign, and in response, his campaign has been to shut that criticism down. The upcoming election, of course, is not just concerning because he's weak. It's also concerning because Biden and his campaign are pretty insular, and they're exiling dissenters. Here's what we learned in an Axio piece yesterday. People close to the president told Axios, they worry about raising concerns and meetings because Biden's group of long-time

loyal aides can exile dissenters. And it's usually a winning strategy. Oh, like, you're trying to to do constructive critique to make our better, get out, okay, we don't want to improve. We just want everybody who's drank the Kool-Aid here. So that's a terrible sign. It is, it is really alarming. If you've ever been in a brainstorming meeting, what's the first thing you hear? There are no bad ideas. Yeah, I mean, look, you know me a little bit behind the scenes, everybody else here does.

I always tell people, don't be afraid to make mistakes, don't be afraid to suggest anything that's bad. I don't mind. What I mind is not trying, and this is purposely not trying and kicking and kicking people out of the room for pointing out things that are true. Absolutely, and that's just a terrible way to run a campaign. It's a terrible way to run any group effort at all. It's ridiculous. But an anonymous source in Biden's orbit told Axios, even for those close to the center, there's a hesitance to raise skepticism or doubt

about the current path for fear of being viewed as disloyal. So instead of taking suggestions and changing course, the Biden campaign is sticking to their strategy. Mike Donnellon, Biden's top political aid, privately has reassured people that voters will do the right thing in November by embracing democracy and rejecting Trump. But why is the Biden campaign so unwilling to listen to criticism? Reportedly, it's because of Biden's victory in 2020 and the lack of so-called red wave in the 22 midterms. But should the Biden campaign really be patting themselves on the back? After all, even with a once in a century pandemic,

Biden barely beat Trump by less than 45,000 votes across three states. Biden didn't win, Trump lost. One Democrat close to the White House put it. As for 2022, one Democratic operative who worked on several close races in the midterms told Axios, 2020 was a classic case of running away from a president and their takeaway was, wow, people really like us. I get why they spun it that way, but I also think many of them Believe it, the shutting down feedback and criticism, I think, is really frustrating, especially because they're polling so poorly with younger voters, and they're doing things that are unpopular with younger voters, and that voting block was one of the reasons they won

in 2020. I don't understand what they're doing here. Yeah, so look, again, it's, this is, believe it, as terrible as these numbers are, and he's losing beyond the swing states, just as like I told you he would. Like I said, glimmer of hope for the first time because if the Democrats will not do obvious things because it'll upset their donors. But the one thing they're good at is beating up the Republicans on Social Security and Medicare. And the Heritage Foundation just gift wrapped something for them for the election here. They proposed cutting Social Security and raising the retirement age, which takes tens of thousands of dollars out of your pocket every year if you're going to retire. Not only doesn't make you retire later, but you never get that money that you would have gone.

gotten in those years. So it's just literally robbing the elderly, okay? And those are the guys who came up with Project 2025, and that's like destroying the government, replacing democracy, etc. That motivates some people. But if you add on top of destroying democracy, we're going to rob the elderly and cut Social Security, that's going to really piss people off. So if Biden and the Democrats don't pick up that ball and run with it, then it is grotesque encompass. But that one, probably will. They're usually pretty good at that. So you can cross your fingers on that one. But last thing is, this whole idea that if you criticize even constructively a Democratic leadership that you're being disloyal, as this article alludes to, it's one of the core cancers within

the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party is not supposed to be the authoritarian party, where everyone has to bow their heads. And okay, yes, sir, of course, sir, whatever the leader says, sir. That's the antithesis of the Democratic parties, at least foundations, right? And so, and they've done that to us. They've done it to all progressives. They've done it to anyone who dare to pose the corporate donor, you know, dominance within the Democratic Party. And that's a cancer that eats away at the body.

And that's why when you have a candidate that's losing every state he needs to win, instead of saying, how do we change it? They go, just kick out everyone who's disloyal, and let's just run straight into the iceberg. And we think that that's the better way to go. It's obviously not the better way to go. And the people who are the most stubborn are Joe Biden. And I got to tell you, one of the top aides in this, the top three people deciding campaign strategy is the first lady's aide.

I don't know what the first lady's assistant has to do with the election. But Jill Biden is way more powerful inside the White House. It's a third rail in Washington. You're not allowed to talk about it because Joe will get really upset. You are not allowed to talk about my wife. Okay, no brothers and sisters, but he, she interviews by herself, some people that work in the administration. I've never heard of a first lady doing that. And now she's got her aid in there and insisting that they kick out anyone who might actually help.

So look, okay, I'll say it. And you know what they'll do? You're disloyal, chink. You're not allowed to bring up things that make them powerful uncomfortable. But I don't know what that assistant is doing in those meetings. And it makes no sense. And if her idea is we protect Joe by never telling him bad news, that is a terrible political idea, terrible.

But if we can't criticize the first lady, then we can't fix that core problem. So this is a problem of this mob mentality, which by the way, I mean, we hate Trump for that, right? He values loyalty over competence. And here we have the Biden team valuing loyalty over competence. Yeah. We're going to be in a scenario, potentially. where these people, these young people who brought Biden to victory in 2020 don't show up,

they lose, and these same Democrats who shut down any criticism or feedback that could have led that campaign to pivoting to try to win those votes, they're going to go out and insult those same people for not showing up. We saw it after 2016. Everything that Trump did, how many times did you see or hear? Well, you didn't want to vote for Hillary and now you got this. No, Hillary didn't campaign in key swing states in the run up to the election. Hillary didn't try to win over voters who were on the fence. Hillary ran on a terrible labor campaign, an international trade campaign that she later tried to flip-flop on. These are all things that add up.

You have, there are consequences to politics. There are consequences for things that you do. And when you have Joe Biden, helping commit a genocide in Gaza, when you have Joe Biden fulfilling to follow through, failing to follow through, on student debt relief, continuing to expand drilling, continuing to perpetuate climate change, despite some of the good things that he has done to address climate change, and something that's very popular with young people, while not the same level of significance, supporting a ban of the most popular app among young people, all of these things add up and it's going to create a lack of enthusiasm, these people aren't going to show up.

And then inevitably, if and when Biden loses, these same consultants, these same campaign staffers, and many of these same loyalists are going to turn around and point the finger, it's your fault. You could have won these people over. You still can win these people over. That's politics. You can't just say it's my way or you're, or the highway is you're screwed. You have to win these people over. You have to go out there and try to relate to them and do things that are popular among them. They don't want to, and it's going to be their own fault if and when they lose.

All right, when we come back, Ted Cruz gets caught revealing his donors and how much he's asking for from them. And then all of a sudden, Twitter decides they're not free speech absolutists. Interesting. We'll be back. All right, back on TYT. Jay and Jordan with you guys and all of our wonderful members. So let's do some more news. A reporter found secret donor files belonging to Ted Cruz. And what was in them isn't the most shocking part of this story.

Pablo Menriquez, who's an independent reporter in DC, found this cache of documents in the Senate on Tuesday. They contain the names, bios, and suggested monetary ask of several wealthy prospective donors he was planning to meet with over the next few days. And we have an example of one of those documents for you. In preparation for Cruz's meeting with Ambassador Ron Louder, Cruz was instructed to thank Ambassador Louder for taking the time to meet with you, tell the ambassador about the Ted Cruz Victory Fund, and ask if he will contribute $119,200, $200.

to your race. Ask Ambassador louder to talk to your team about outside efforts. Other files, Menriquez found, included the following asks. From Ambassador John Loeb, $119,000. Peter Thornan, who is the executive vice president of Access Industries, 59,600. Marvin Shankan, publisher of wine, spectator and cigar aficionado, 34,600. Dr. Jay Reble, preferred health care founder, 11,600. The documents also contained a dossier on each individual attending a group dinner at the Swanky Steakhouse Capitol Grill on Tuesday evening. And what each attendee, all representing different corporations and interest groups, had pledged to Cruz's campaign.

You can see those documents here. But when Menrique has posted these documents on X, this is Elon Musk's purported free speech platform, they were swiftly taken down. If you were to go to these tweets now, it would look like this. Users were unable to see the documents. Only a notice that the posts violated the X rules. Now, these rules state that you may not publish or post other people's private information, such as home phone number and address without their express authorization and permission. Now, Musk has prided himself on being a free speech absolutist and claims

X is a free speech platform. For instance, in January, he posted this. As promised, this platform will fight for your freedom to speak. We expect many such battles in the future. Freedom of speech is the bedrock of democracy. Without it, America ends. Jank, what do you make of this? Do you think it was right?

Because some of these documents had phone numbers for some of these prospective donors. So that's why they were likely taken down. What do you make of this? Super easy way to fix this. So number one, I agree with the rule. Don't put home phone numbers or addresses online. So great, no problem. But there's redacted versions now. So let's put up the redacted versions and see if he takes them down. I don't see any of the redacted versions on X. I don't know if they're taking him down or not. But like Mr. Free Speech Absoluteus, well, there's two issues there. One is, you see how absolutism doesn't make

sense and they don't believe it either. So they say, I'll put anything for free speech. And you're like, okay, how about phone numbers? No, not that. How about this? No, not that. How about Elon Musk's flight pattern? No, not that. Okay, all right, fine, no problem. I actually agree with a lot of that. But then you're not an absolutist. And in fact, what does that leave? The only thing that leaves is just hate speech. Like, hey speech is okay, everything else. You're not a free speech, absolutely. So then don't say it even has to do with free speech. Just say, I'm okay with hate speech and I want it on X.

The other stuff we're not going to allow anyway, right? So, okay, now number two is, is there some chance that they actually just don't want you to find out how the donors control all of our politicians? I mean, there doesn't get any more core free speech than that. It is exactly what politics is about, but the minute Elon Musk sees it, who he himself is a donor, he's like, no, no, no, no, not the identity of the donors. Oh, interesting. I mean, if ever you should be a free speech absolutist on anything, it should be about the donors that buy off our politicians. But somehow, golly gee, we just can't find a way to put that on X. So free speech my ass. So that's the bottom line on X. But now we go back to Cruz. Guys, do you get it?

This is not like, oh, we got Ted Cruz. What a slime ball. Ha ha. Let's make fun of him. He's the one guy that does this. No, he's not anywhere near the worst. This is, but this is very, very normal politics. Okay, you go beg this rich guy for money. You beg the other rich guy for money. And you beg and you, but you not only beg, remember, ROI, return on investment. I swear to God, I'll give you whatever you want. Oh, screw over the American tax period. They're not at this fancy steakhouse where they are they? They're not giving me $59,000 like you are, are they? I don't worry about it. And they all do this.

Cruz actually made a pledge. I mean, you can't trust a thing that Cruz says. But he was one of three Republicans that did a pledge. Josh Hawley, who we'll see later in the program, actually do something positive. Matt Gates and Ted Cruz saying that they won't take corporate PAC money. But that doesn't mean they're not taking any money. they're going around and begging rich people for money and promising them tax cuts anyway, right? Why do you think the Republicans are obsessed with tax cuts?

Especially for like the richest people in the world and corporations. You think they think that that's the number way, one way to help the average American is by giving billionaires tax cuts? No, because all their donors are billionaires and multimillionaires. That's why. Last thing on this is some of the numbers are over $100,000. Wait, I thought the limit was 6,000. All of these numbers are above 6,000. Supreme Court said in Citizens United, no, it's okay.

If they give to independent expenditure packs, then it has no connection to the campaign. And it couldn't possibly influence the politicians. But here are politicians telling donors give a giant amount to my pack, wink, wink, wink, and then I'll do whatever you want. How does that not influence politicians? Citizens United is a joke, and this is how they get around it and just totally and utterly by all of our politicians, almost all of them. And remember, if you're under the delusion that this is just the evil Republicans, no, the Democrats do the same exact thing. Yeah, I think what these documents show us is something really important and is how the sausage gets made.

Like you're saying, there are limits. And what we can see on the FEC's website only goes up to a certain dollar amount and it's pretty small. But we know there's more money going into these efforts. And this shows you exactly how much. If they were going to donate individually, it'd be several thousand dollars. But when he says, oh, talk to my team about outside efforts. What he means is talk to all these dark money groups that we don't have access to. There's no transparency for.

And then it's not specifically him asking for that money. Those donors would then talk to his team who he's not coordinating with or people working on these super PACs who are supporting crews, but he's not working with. And then they dump six figure sums into these efforts bypassing the law. It just flies in the face of any campaign transparency or ethics or what it should mean to have a free and fair election system. So it's it's a loophole in the system that we can't look at. But now we can see just one example of how big some of these single donations can be. Of course we see much larger donations from people like the Adelson's, but on the pack thing for someone to take this pledge, we now see he's begging corporate packs in these documents for donations. Of course, no one trusted Ted Cruz, of course, but now we can see if you needed any further evidence that he's a liar, there you go.

And one last thing, credit to Pablo Menrique's here, because there are probably many, I don't know how many, you can't quantify, but there are probably many reporters on the hill, especially people who rely on access for their journalism, who, if they found those, probably would have given them back. They probably would have waited, given them back, or done nothing with it. That he published them, I think speaks to his character in his ability and ethics as a journalist. So credit to Pablo Manriquez for doing that, who then caught up with Ted Cruz today. Asked him for a statement.

Cruz, he said, do you have any comments on these documents? Cruz reportedly said, nah, smiled at him and drove off. Yeah, sounds about right. All right, super last thing. Look, guys, how is this not bribes? In fact, it's obviously bribes. He's like, give me $19,000. And what do you think the rest of that conversation is?

And don't worry about it. Do you think the donors are like, don't worry about any of my interests? Let's just talk about sports. No, he's going to tell him exactly what he wants him in return. And everyone who is not a lunatic or a mainstream media reporter knows that. So most obviously. So AOC today being criticized in Washington because she said, you think it's just because people in Washington love Israel?

No, people in Congress are afraid of APEC. And she pointed to the $14 million that APEC and allied groups are spending against Jamal Bowman. By the way, you should support Jamal Bowman in his upcoming race next week. If you live in New York in his district, please go out and vote. Because if they defeat him, they're going to say, you see that? Anyone who dares to criticize Israel, we're going to totally and utterly eliminate by spending a gargantuan $14 million in a race, right?

And then they tell AOC, you're anti-Semitic for pointing out that they're spending 14 million. Well, what do you want me to do? Lie about it and say, it was Norway? I mean, how do I get around? Are facts anti-Semitic? Are they spending the goddamn money or aren't they? They spend more money in that race than everyone else combined. Everyone else combined.

And so guys, we hear us talking about A-PAC because we're not afraid. Mainstream media will, oh, A-Pak, oh, somebody's gonna call me anti-Semitic. Okay, I don't, are we also anti-Farma? Anti, no, big pharma, big oil, big sugar, big rando, They all buy our politicians, and you see it in the Ted Cruz files. They just go to them and go, yes, I get what you want me to do? In the case of AIPAC, it happens to be a foreign government that they're serving. But you think they're the only foreign governments funneling money through American citizens?

No, I've told you before, there's guys who go around going, I'm a friend of India, I'm friend of Turkey, I'm friend of Albania, they're all trying to get, they're all scum, trying to get money from different areas, because politicians are just low morality, servants. They're the manservants that we were talking about earlier in the show. And so their job is to go and take orders. They're like an extra waiter at those restaurants. Oh, we'll have a steak and I'll also have a tax cut and a deregulation of my industry. Hey, you're writing boy? And it's like, I'm writing. I'm sorry. I'm writing. Right. Okay, deregulate. And we'll call that freedom, right? It ain't A-pack. It's all the lobbyists and the donors. And these guys are all bought. And we're the radicals for pointing out the most obvious thing in the world.

Come on. All right, this sucks because I want to do more stories. Of course, ah, we're out of time, nothing we can do. All right, everybody check out Jordan on Rebel Headquarters and the Insurgents Podcasts. We appreciate your brother. We got a whole great second hour coming up, including Boeing getting his ass handed to it, which was fun, and you'll never believe what Great Kelly compared Trump to. Oh, Jesus, all right, we'll be back.

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