The Young Turks - Deception & Dementia

Episode Date: June 18, 2024

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You're listening to The Young Turks, the online news show. Make sure to follow and rate our show with not one, not two, not three, not four, but five stars. You're awesome. Thank you. Woo! Live from the Polymarket Studio in Los Angeles, Jake Huger, Jordan Yule, it's the Young Turks. So, hell of a show for you guys today, a bit gigantic. So number one, we're going to have polls throughout the show, very interactive today.

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in the interview. So an amazing day at TYT. Also, by the way, tomorrow at noon Eastern live, Cornell, well, we play it out live, Cornell West joins us. Okay, so Cornell West. And then next week, Charlemagne the God. So things are cooking at TYT. So now let's give you all the top news. Jordan. Take a look at this. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dissolved his war cabinet. Once a coalition of rivals meant to sow unity during the conflict in Gaza. That changed last week when Benny Gantz, the leading moderate opponent of the prime minister, resigned over the absence of a plan to govern Gaza after the war. Many have feared Netanyahu would now lurch towards the hard right, the linchpin of his remaining support.

Does the disbanding of the war cabinet mean that Netanyahu might cave to even more right-wing pressure? We'll discuss that, but first, we have to talk about a major accusation made over the weekend by Beebe's rival, Benny Gantz. As we know, the Israeli and American governments keep telling us, Hamas has been the only thing standing in the way of a cease-series. fire. But according to Benny Gantz, one of only five members of the now dissolved war cabinet, that's not true. In interviews with Israeli media outlets, he called out Netanyahu for undercutting attempts at a ceasefire for political purposes. Take a look. Mettwey the chattvaeufes, sit in the war,

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Of course, the Lakud Party accused Gants of fabricating the story, saying in a statement, Prime Minister Netanyahu gave the negotiating team a full mandate to reach a deal five times. But Hamas is the one who refused and demanded an end to the war before all its goals were completed. Today, everyone knows that Hamas was and is the only obstacle to the release of our hostages. But Gantz isn't the only person with insider knowledge making these claims. Here is Alon Pink, as a former advisor to members of the Israeli government. You know, it's unfortunate for me as an Israeli to admit to this, but this has been duplicitous and deceitful and mendacious. He basically rejected Israel's own offer, which sounds like

George Orwell's 1984, but it's actually Mr. Netanyahu's 2020. So we have more, but Jake, I want to bring you in here on these claims that Netanyahu has been disrupting these negotiations. Yeah, there's a couple of different issues here, including what we're going to get to in a second about the disroom between Netanyahu and the Israeli military about humanitarian pauses. That's, I think, super interesting. And are we going to get a peace deal or not? So in this issue about the ceasefire, number one, look, there's a certain group of people that believe in anything that comes out of Israel mythology, right? Israel is the most moral army on earth, no matter how many civilians they kill, et cetera,

et cetera. One of that pieces of mythology is Israel is eminently reasonable, and they have always offered the best deals to the Palestinians. I mean, you can keep 13% of your land or maybe 7.5% we're so reasonable. We're so reasonable. I'm doing hyperbole, okay? But some of the deals were awful that Israel proposed. Now, in America, that's like unacceptable. You can't say that. You have to pretend that every offer that Israel has ever made in for the last 50 years, it was the greatest gift from God. And the Palestinians, the monster savages that they are. We're like, oh, no, right?

I want to kill all the girl. Right. So I know, this is the nonsense that American media tells you. So the reality, of course, is no, both leaders are bad. Both the leaders of Hamas and Israel. Unfortunately, at this point, neither side for a long, long time wanted to get to peace. They both gained from this conflict, and it sucks, but it's true. And so if you think, no, that's only the Palestinians, never the beloved Israelis.

It's absurd. Nanyahu loves war. has greatly profited off of war for in his personal political career, et cetera. So in this case, as you see this, Hamas, and now there's other reporting say, they're saying over and over again, including yesterday. Yes, we say yes. Our answer is yes. We want this deal, yes, right?

And as the Israeli negotiator there alluded to, it's the Israelis that are going, no, we pull our own deal. I don't want it, okay? Because it was always fake. He was bluffing. He doesn't want the war to end. If the war ends, they go to an election. And for a long time, it looked like Nanyahu is going to lose.

Now it's not as clear that Nanyahu is going to lose, by the way. So watch out for that. The minute he gets the lead in the polls, you might get the new election. So it's complicated because of a parliamentary system. But I want to say one last thing for now about this. Nanyahu is unfortunately great at politics. Sorry, our job is telling you the truth. Okay.

So to give you a sense of it, Nanyahu at one point had a power sharing, agreement with Benny Gantz, not in this version of the government, but an earlier version, okay? And they were, and Netanyahu negotiated, so he would go first as Prime Minister, and then Benny Gans would be prime minister. And the minute that it was supposed to go to Benny Gans, Netanyahu refused to approve the budget deal, thereby, by definition, sinking the government. So I guess Benny doesn't get his chance. Back to me. So he's really good at this maneuvering. The problem is he's maneuvering with people's lives. And so here he's trying to balance between, hey, if I get rid of Ben Gavira and Smotrich,

the government collapses. I got to go against Benny Ganssen in a general election that I might lose. I don't want that, besides which he agrees with Ben Gavira and Smutrich. All this talk of like, oh God, they're twisting his arm into being a radical right winger. No, Netanyahu is as deeply radical or right-wing politician as I've ever seen. So you don't have to convince him to agree with the monsters. He is the monster, right? So, so is he navigating so that he avoids the election, pretends that he's modern enough

so he doesn't piss off the secular branch of Israelis and all the other things that are going on, doesn't have anybody else leave his government. But meanwhile, it gives the far right wing everything they want so they don't leave the government. Yeah, that's exactly what he's doing. So Gantz is right about all of this, but whether, you know, Netanyahu will be exposed and, you know, and they get a new election, that's a much harder question because he's good at this. Yeah, I'm really curious. We've seen a couple leaks, pretty big leaks about some of

this stuff over the past couple weeks. CNN did a segment about a week ago, week and a half ago, talking about how Israel was intentionally undermining their negotiations by stressing that any deal must include basically the total eradication of Hamas. Now, this isn't to support Hamas, but if you were on the receiving end of a deal, hey, whatever we agree to, you're going to die, that's not going to happen. Like no one's going to willingly, even the worst, most irrational person is not going to be like, oh, okay, I guess I have to die. And that they were stressing that, CNN was reporting that they were doing that intentionally

to tank these deals, so or take the negotiations so they could pin the blame on Hamas. And that doesn't seem to be the case, as we're seeing now, Hamas is just kind of asking questions and wanting to negotiate, wanting to reach a resolution here. So that plus, the story we saw today out of the Jerusalem Post, showing, that they had information on October 7th, two weeks in advance. I'm sure we'll get to it tomorrow, but it looks like top Israeli intelligence officials knew exactly, even down to the number of hostages Hamas was planning to take, or Hamas was planning to take, two weeks prior, and they didn't act on it.

Negligence, they're totally ignoring it or what? Yeah, Jordan, real quick on that. Look, I have a theory that sometimes governments, they don't plan conspiracies and go, okay, I'm going to send the IDF to do that. I'm going to send the Navy team seals to do, et cetera. But there are some people within governments that see tons of plots against their own people stop most of them, but sometimes when it's politically expedient, maybe they don't stop one because they think it's really going to help their brand of politics.

And that's, so you could make, look, we all are seeing the same information. You guys can draw, we don't have any secret information. You can draw your own conclusions. But why would the far right wing whose main claim to fame in Israel is that they're going to keep people safe, know that Hamas is going to attack exactly how they're going to attack, and how many hostages they're going to take, and then, golly, gee, decide that's the one time that Hamas is not a threat. Maybe, maybe, but we all have eyes and we all have ears. And it certainly would further, like you're saying, it would further Smotrich and Ben-Gavir's plans for settlements through taking Gaza. I mean, these are, these are people who, Ben Kavir just on Flag Day, led the march in Jerusalem saying that all of that belonged to Israel. So it would, it would certainly play right into their hands if they had a national rallying cry.

But more on this war cabinet. So it was formed after the attacks of October 7th, which led to the military response, of course. And after Gantz resigned last week, far right finance minister Smotrich and national security minister Ben Gavir both demanded that. Netanyahu add them to the war cabinet, which may have been part of the motivation to disband it. Another interpretation is that without Gantz in it, there was no longer any point in keeping the war cabinet going. Instead, an Israeli official tells CNN, Netanyahu will in the future hold smaller forms to discuss sensitive matters relating to the war with Hamas. The larger security cabinet will also play a role in making decisions about the war. Ben Gavir and Smotrich both attend Israel's security cabinet meetings.

Finally, all of this as there seems to be rising contention between the Israeli government and the IDF over a plan for a tactical pause. And this is specifically along an aid route where military operations are. I mean, here's more. Take a look. Israeli military announcing over the weekends, it is putting in place these daily pauses of 11 hours to allow more humanitarian aid in through a specific area. This is Eastern Rafa near the Kerem Shalom crossing. The far right of Benjamin Netanyahu's government is blasting this decision.

They say there should be less aid going to civilians in Gaza, not more. They say whoever made the decision to allow the aid in is a fool who should not be allowed to stay in his position. And an Israeli official is saying that Prime Minister Netanyahu himself apparently was unaware of this decision. He says it's unacceptable and that the fighting will continue in other areas of Rafa. To be clear, the IDF has not said they will escort any of the aid into Gaza. Rather, the tactical pause is supposed to allow aid organizations to come through the Kerem Shalom crossing to pick up the aid and distribute it throughout the strip. but many of the groups say that even with this alleged pause and fighting along that route,

it's still too dangerous. Cenk, what do you make of this new kitchen cabinet that Netanyahu is formed? Do you think that'll make a difference? Yeah, no, I don't think any of that makes a difference. So the war cabinet was, they had three voting members, Benny Ganslov, Yorov-Gallon, Osloz, voting member left. So a cabinet with two people is not a cabinet. Okay, and so, and then on top of, they had two observers, but that's not relevant when it came to the voting. Besides, I don't think any of it was relevant because then, yeah, I was definitely in charge.

Then he has a security cabinet, it gets confusing because it's not like America where there's only one cabinet, right? And in the security cabinet, it's filled with fascists like Smart Rich and Ben Gavir. If it hurts your feelings that there's now Israeli fascists, sorry, go deal with your therapist. But they're definitely fascists. They often talk about from the river to the sea. They often talk about annihilating the Palestinians and literally stealing their land. So these are the people that are in Israel's security cabinet. So those are the people that are now saying the IDF is too soft.

They haven't killed enough Palestinians. They haven't starved enough Palestinians. How dare they take an 11 hour break during the day to get humanitarian aid in between the killing of the Palestinians? So I look, again, this is very different than America because I don't think U.S. military officials can make decisions like that without conferring with the leader of the country, but it looks like maybe they did. Or Nanyahu, as usual, is lying. He could have told the idea if you go do the tactical pause, tell Ben Gavira Smotrich, oh, I didn't agree to the tactical pause.

Because that's the kind of stuff he does all the time. Never ever believe Net Yahoo on anything. I've never seen him not lie. Okay, so who, so, like, so it doesn't matter what Nanyahu thinks. What matters is, are they going to continue to do the tactical pause, so at least they can get some aid in? I mean, look, guys, even we lose focus of it from time to time. They're killing Palestinians every single day. They killed seven more today.

The IDF is not the most moral army on earth. They have done, in my opinion, and by empirical facts, 30 times the terrorism that Hamas has. They've killed 30 times as many civilians, shown deep disregard for human life. They have kill zones. They have program called Where's Daddy, where they kill family members on purpose, children, women on purpose. But even the IDF is like, bounds the reason. Maybe we don't let them all start because we're going to look bad.

And the fascists in the Israeli cabinet are like, no, right? So that's where we are now. Bottom line on all of this is, until you remove Netanyahu, the Israeli people do, right? Through an election, none of this is going to change. He gave a fake peace deal. The minute his bluff was called, he says, yeah, I'm just kidding, I don't want the peace. Of course! Now he's bombing the hell out of Lebanon, killing Hezbollah leaders nonstop. And then when Hezbollah fires rockets back, they're like, I can't believe they fired back. Oh, it's no, no good Lebanon. Now we've got to go to war in Lebanon. Oh, look

at that, the war will never end. They wipe all of Gaza off. the map. Now they wipe Rafa clean. They're like, you know, killing seven people at a time now, right? And so they're like, oh, we can need new targets. Let's go to Lebanon. So Netanyahu is going to drag this war out and Israel is going to pay a super heavy price as they have an international criticism and their reputation is just disastrous. One of the worst in the world now thanks to Netanyahu. And of course the Palestinians keep getting slaughtered and the war gets risks getting broader and broader every day that Netanyahu stays in power. So he's the bottom line. He is Ben Gavir and Smokic. He is the fascist that loves these wars

and continues these wars and did not protect Israel. So whether it was on purpose or not, there is absolutely no question that Benjamin Netanyahu was a grotesque failure in protecting Israel. So until Israel gets rid of him, we're going to have permanent war. Okay, we gotta take a break, guys. When we come back, so we've got a story about how executives, minus me, of course, are robbing you blind, and then we get into the mental decline of both candidates. We'll be right back. What we're going to go. Oh, what would you do if you were given a $56 billion pay package?

And would it look anything like that? That was Elon Musk at the Tesla annual shareholder meeting last week, shortly after investors approved the largest CEO pay package in the country. And while Musk's multi-year compensation package is larger than his peers, he may not be at the top for very long because new analysis finds that median CEO pay has risen by 12% just this year across all S&P 500 companies. That means it's rising at the fastest rate in 14 years. For comparison, worker wages have only risen 4.1% since last year.

The latest annual figures from Trade Union AFL-CIO revealed that the average CEO at the 500 largest S&P companies hauled in 16.7 million in 2022. That means it would take workers 272 years to make what their chief executives earn annually. pay disparity has become an unignorable problem, even for those on corporate boards. Executive pay has gotten out of control. William George, a former compensation committee chair at Exxon said, this is going to cause a further split in our country between the haves and the have-nots. This is a grave concern to me because I think there will be a loss of trust in companies. I mean, 56 billion across 10 years, this is restoring the 2018 compensation agreement.

This is billions every year for the next 10 years. This has got, and they're cheering. The shareholders are cheering it. But this rate of increase is horrifying. What do you make of this? Yeah, so there's a couple of different things here. Number one, if you have an honest board and they decided, hey, you know what, Elon Musk, we're fill in the blank, a really good guy has made a giant difference.

And they made a hundred billion dollar difference and they're going to give him 56 billion of that. I'd say, well, that's a lot of, that's a big chunk of. it, right? But it depends on how much stock he has, how many shares he has he actually delivered. So I'm actually believe it or not less concerned about that. Okay, so that happens to be Elon Musk in one particular personality. And yet we might have other issues with him. But, you know, that particular compensation, I don't have enough expertise to judge. But I do know this. The real underlying problem, guys, is severalfold. But first is, a lot of times the boards are not that independent of the executives. Sometimes the executives pick the board and then the board

decides to give the executives a ton of money. And so that is money that could have gone to workers. That's money that could have gone to shareholders. That's, there's a lot of people that that money could have gone to instead of the executives. And sometimes the executives earn it, but we've shown you now hundreds of stories where the company is nose diving, just absolutely crashing. And the executives getting crazy pay anyway. We've shown you stories where people have put their dentist on the board of a company, right? Just because they want a rubber stamp. Oh yeah, I should get all the money. Oh yeah, I should make 4,000 times with the average employee makes. And then they'll, then you'll see them on top complain, oh, the workers are

making too much money. But guys, you guys are making hundreds of times. If they're, okay, fine, if your company's in trouble and the workers are making too much money, then obviously you're making too much money. Obviously, you're the one who's crashing a company at the top in a lot of cases. And you're the one taking the most money. So obviously we should reduce It's your pay. Never. That conversation never happens on CNBC. That conversation never happens anywhere in power. And that is, and what are the exact last thing, what do the executives do to get these kind of things? One is the boards that I expect. The second is politicians. They grease up all the politicians to remove any regulations, any guardrails, any way to check

these executives so that they actually serve their entire company, including their employees and stakeholders, the government goes, I don't care, do whatever you want. You know what? We're going to deregulate the companies because of freedom. No, they're deregulating companies so the executives can rob everybody else blind because the executives are the ones giving them the campaign donations. Yeah. So Musk's deal is based on stock options. It's hundreds of millions of stock options that could fluctuate. And it has fluctuated since they agreed to this last week because the stock or in and also since April since the stock has continued to to fall but if he hits a bunch of incentives and a bunch of price points he could end up getting tens of billions of

dollars through this over the next 10 years that is astronomical nobody needs that much money nobody not a single person there's no amount of goodwill that he can lie and say that he's doing that would ever warrant that amount of money it's never going to happen he especially has outrageous, bold-faced lies about charity work and goodwill around the country that he has never fulfilled. And he's taken credit for a lot of things that other people have done. Unfortunately, a lot of people who invest in that company because they want to profit off of it buy into this myth that he is using that money for good. And that's simply not true. But overall, this reflects a major problem with the ultra wealthy in this country.

And the IRS is attempting to close a major loophole that could collect over 50 billion from the ultra wealthy over the next 10 years. The proposed rule and guidance announced on Monday includes plans to essentially stop partnership basis shifting, a process by which a business or person can move assets among a series of related parties to avoid paying taxes. Now the Biden administration claims this is part of an ongoing effort to crack down on wealthy tax sheets. The IRS says filings for large pass through businesses used for the type of tax avoidance in the guidance increased 70% from 174,000 in 2010 to 297,419. However, audit rates for these businesses fell from 3.8% to 0.1% in the same time frame. Additionally, the IRS is planning to audit over 20% of companies with over 250 million in assets. by 2026 up from 8.8 percent in 2019. I mean, is this the best way they can go about it?

I mean, how do you feel about this this new maneuver and this new rule from the IRS, Jank? Yeah, so I don't think that this addresses the whole issue, but it's a good start. And so Biden has done a couple of things you should give him credit for. This is one of them. Another one was the 15% minimum tax on corporations. So that's a big deal. So that allows us to collect some taxes when these companies, usually have these giant loopholes that you can drive a Mac truck through, right? So now, in reality, that it was a worldwide initiative started by the OECD, but at least we cooperated with the rest of the world, whereas Trump would have been like,

no way, man, corporations are the best. You should be able to pay zero. We should make the actual Americans pay all the goddamn taxes. It's not my beloved corporations. By the way, I'm a populist. Are you? Are you? And you know, he's going around the country now promising oil executives and bankers and casino magnets.

all of these extra goodies. I'll give you all the money. I'll take those poor suckers and losers money and I'll give it to you. Just give me a billion dollars. I'm going to drain the swamp. Hilarious, hilarious. So look, I think Biden's terrible on money in politics as well. But Bruce of the pudding, you give me two laws that the Republicans would have never done. And I'll take it. It's, it's, I would do a lot more, but it's definitely better than Trump and the Republicans in this case. Yeah, I struggle to differentiate between Biden and Trump on a lot of things. And I think administrative state issues, especially when it comes to

organized labor. That's the Department of Labor. It would be noticeably different under Trump. I think there are some aspects of the IRS that are different under Biden. He's pushing for cracking down on the ultra wealthy, taxing more, which is great. Even if their hand was forced, it is a difference. But I wish we had a president and even a Democratic Party at large that was willing to take bolder stances on this. Auditing also is a harder thing to sell in an election. Oh yeah, we're auditing more people who it's just a tough thing for me to see as a rallying cry for a political candidate in a national election because it just sends a chill about anyone's spine. No one wants to be audited. You're kind of scared of it.

It's nerve-wracking. I just don't see that playing as well as we're coming after the wealth. You saw the movement that Bernie Sanders built on bold messaging around cracking down the ultra-wealthy, not kind of like tweaking around the edges through auditing, through cracking down on some loopholes here and there. It's just, it's not thorough enough, I think. But Jordan, so I hear you on that, but it's all in the framing too, but this is where Biden's really going to fall flat, unfortunately, I think. Not I think I know. So look, I can sell an audit for you, real easy. I'm going to order those sons of bitches. Let's find out what you got, okay? Let's see how much taxes you've been cheating on. I'm going to find you. I'm going to catch you, and then you're

going to find out. That's what I got to this corporate gougers who have increased inflation for all you guys while saying your pay shouldn't go up, wouldn't it be amazing if you had a Democratic candidate who could do that? I actually think it's a bare minimum. Have you thought about running for president? Hilarious. Okay, so, but the thing is, so you saw that and people might like that, right? Yeah. And, you know, if you don't know, I did briefly run for president against Biden, but no mainstream media network would put me on to say that, because that would be really popular. So, so now, look, what's Biden going to say? I'm not an audit being wrong.

Where bad to look from? Come on, prove me wrong, please Biden. Prove me wrong. Show me a strong Biden that says, oh Jake, step aside, Butch, watch this, right? And does it better than I just did. But everyone watching, even like Dr. Jill Biden's like, he can't, everybody knows he can't. I just don't think they want it because they rely on the same corporate

corporate donors. I don't think they actually want this. It's okay, they close a loophole. Okay, they close a loophole, they could say job, well done, we did it, great. There are still many other problems contributing to and fueling wealth disparity that they don't want to touch. And Jordan, you're really hitting the nail on the head there because one is his inability to market anything and push anything. But you're right, the more important part is he don't want to. Like the 15% minimum tax on corporations, I've given him credit for that like 200 times on the show.

And that's a hundred ninety-nine times more than he's given himself credit. He never talks about it. His administration never talks about it. It's like the best thing he's done and has, he barely says a word about it. Because to him, criticizing corporations or rich people is like a third rail. He's like, ah, he's like, that's why he's like, in the issue of Israel, he's like, I said some stern words against the donor. And he thinks that's like the greatest thing on earth. It's the bravest thing he's ever done, right?

He, of course, gave the donor whatever they want. In that case, it happens to be AIPAC, but in the case of all these other things, he gives them. So he's not going to fight for this. But last thing is I want to show you guys graphics five here, because it gives you a sense of scale, because I don't want you to think like, oh, we took one particular case. Oh, he got $56 billion and we're making a, no, no, look at the numbers. So look at aggregated CEO to worker compensation ratio of the 350 largest publicly owned companies in the U.S. That's not CEO pay going up.

That CEO to worker compensation ratio, okay? I mean, people complain about getting ratioed on Twitter. The American workers getting ratioed by CEOs. That is sky high. Here, I'll give you another chart. Maybe this, it's just different ways of looking at it. Since 1978, the growth of CEO pay has radically outpaced typical worker compensation. So workers, congratulations, 18%.

Since 1978. Meanwhile, CEO compensation, 1,460% increase. If you're saying, where's the 18% look down, look down. It's like the last thing. It's like the one that's nearly flat next to the line. That's your pay. The CEO pay through the frickin' roof. If you think this happens naturally, well, why doesn't it happen in other countries,

which are also capitalist? Why doesn't it happen all the time in history? It doesn't. It happens when you set the rules that allows for, limited pay to executives who donate to politicians and no pay for you guys who don't donate to politicians. And that's how we got this system. Yeah, it just one other thing on this, you look at the 18% gain since 1978. And even just look at even since then, the 4% that we saw over the last year, you have to acknowledge that most, if not all of that has been erased by

inflation. So even on paper factoring in a 4.1% increase year every year for workers just since last year with consumer confidence low, with people feeling strains at the grocery store, so much so that stores had to lower their prices to get people to come back because they're price gouging them so much. These are these gains are being erased by corporate greed fueling this increase in CEO compensation among dividends for shareholders. It's it's It is disgusting and at some point it's going to hit a breaking point. I don't know when. I don't know what that's going to look like.

But I can't imagine you can keep a population of millions and millions of people oppressed and starving and hungry for much longer. Yeah, and that's why we're in the situation that we're in now. And that's why Trump rose up. He's a fake populist, but he noticed that anger in the country that the establishment Democrats can't notice because they're in Washington. They all live in castles. And so, and when they go to their parties, everybody agrees. Oh, everything's wonderful, wonderful. Stock markets up, high five, high five, high five.

And they can't see the real pain that those numbers show you are real in this country. The minute the Democrats have a populist leader, they're going to capture the country completely. They're going to win super easily. But as long as the corrupt continue to control the Democratic Party, the Republicans are going to win just by being fake populace. Because these numbers are real. Look, last thing, in my book, Justice is Coming. I have a whole chapter about this. That 1978 date is not an accident.

It is the moment that every, all the numbers turn, you'll see going in your life throughout your life, you'll see whenever you see a graph of economic numbers that diverge in America, they always start in 1978 because that was a Supreme Court decision that allowed corporate money into politics. That was pre-citizens United, 78th the Supreme Court allows bribery to become basically legal in America. And that's when corporations and their executives bribe all the politicians ad nauseum until they capture the entire system. And currently, we barely live in a democracy. These guys are the our version of the Iranian mullahs and the Chinese Politburo. They control

the politicians that you get the pick from. So that's the sorry, sorry state the country is in. And the core cause of that is money in politics. Until you end the corruption, we're never going to end any of the other problems. Okay, we got to take a break here. When we come back, finally, the viral videos from Biden and Trump, what a mess they are. And is it real? Is it not real? There's going to be a dispute. There's going to be debates. And you guys are going to vote. We'll be back. All right, back on TYT, Jane can join with you guys. Blocks, thank you for gifting a membership.

We appreciate it. In a little over an hour, I'm going to talk to RFK Jr. We're going to have a long interview here. Nina Turner is going to analyze it with me afterwards. And if you think you know my opinions about RFK, you don't. So it's got to be interesting. Jordan. Take a look at this.

All right, that seems pretty clear to me, but not to the Democrats, there's a giant debate about whether that was video was accurate or not. We're going to show you several different angles because this is a pruder film. So stay around for that. And we're going to ask you a question. It's a very simple one. Do you think Biden is in mental decline? So while we're live, we're asking it in the chat. And I'll give you the results of that snap poll, as they say in media.

A little bit later in this story, we're also putting it up on YouTube community and t.com. But first, get the facts, Jordan. At a star-studded Joe Biden fundraiser in Los Angeles this weekend, it was overshed. by a viral clip of the events finale, which you just saw. We'll get to the discourse around it in a minute. But first, there's additional context that you need to help prepare you for this conversation. In recent weeks, Democrats have claimed that right-wingers, Republicans, operatives have been circulating and editing deceptive clips showing Joe Biden in decline or dealing with age and cognitive ability issues, including claims of Biden wandering off. and allegedly pooping himself.

Sunday's video that you just saw features Biden and former president Barack Obama at stage at the conclusion of a fundraiser in Hollywood, taking in the crowd's cheers. The president and his predecessor had just sat through an interview with late night host Jimmy Kimmel for more than a half hour at Los Angeles's peacock theater. Right wing outlets pounced on that clip of the finale, depicting what they alleged to be Biden freezing and needing former president Barack Obama to help him off stage. you could see the New York Post's framing here. Biden's team quickly pushed back, arguing that after waving to the audience,

Obama reached out and gently touched Biden on the arm before walking off stage together. Fresh off being fact-checked by at least six mainstream outlets for lying about President Biden with cheap fakes. Rupert Murdoch's sad little super pack, the New York Post, is back to disrespecting its readers and itself once again. Their ethical standards could do with a little unfreezing. That was a statement from Andrew Bates, who's the White House senior deputy press secretary. He also adds, by pretending the president taking in an applauding crowd for a few seconds as somehow wrong, all they're really admitting once again is they can't take on the

leadership that's fueling the strongest economic growth in the world, bringing violent crime to a 50-year low, restoring manufacturing jobs from overseas, and strengthening our alliances. But this is the video Biden's team decided to use as their proof. look. Okay, so so far it looks good. Okay, Biden's hanging in there. We've got a couple jump cuts already though. And by the way, now frozen, frozen. Oh, take the wide shot. Take the wide shot. See this, they are claiming this proves that Biden didn't freeze. Well, then why did you take the white shot at that time? And then there's Obama escorting him off. You saw the video earlier. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah. So we all, we all, we all,

also have the two videos synced up. So you could see the impact of the cuts from the Biden team live stream. Take a look. So you could see, this is the exact, it's the exact same thing you saw on the cell phone camera footage from the audience. But after a prolonged period on stage of him not moving, not doing anything, they cut to the entire arena, the entire auditorium. That to me, Jake, I'm curious what you think, but that to me shows that even the producers in that moment were a little too uneasy about his, his, his, motionlessness. Well, Jordan, there's two different things here. One is, okay, how bad a shape is Biden? I'll come back to that. But the other is, this is like almost a giant sociology experiment.

Like, what do you see? Do you see purple, blue or yellow? Right? Do you remember that? Yeah. So, because everyone that isn't a hardcore Democrat sees the same video. They see a video of a man who's very, very old, seems to have frozen. The former President Obama helps him get off the stage, right? But if you're a Democrat, you don't see that at all. When they pan away so that you can't see, all over social media and the Daily Beast and so many other articles writing like, ah ha, you see, Biden didn't freeze. It's just now they become full blown, in my opinion, full blown MAGA, oh yeah, Trump won

the election in 2020. Oh, yeah, numbers don't matter. Oh, yeah, losing 60 cases in a row doesn't matter. Who cares about stupid facts? And now I see Democrats going, who cares about stupid facts? Oh, yeah, oh yeah, before that he was waving. He was waving. That's a really low bar, guys. He was waving earlier, right? So that brings us back to the second issue, which is the state of Biden. Does anybody remember Biden earlier in his career? Because I haven't covered politics a long time. I remember a really vibrant guy. You know, he would do these theatrics and he'd just, he'd war in the Senate, one of the biggest senators of my lifetime. And whether you agreed with him or disagreed with him, he had this air of being grand. Like he's, he's a tall

guy, he'd stand up there and he'd be like, we've got to put them in jail, right? Or we've got to go to war with Iraq. Now, I'm exaggerating. He did vote for the war in Iraq. No, but seriously, he used to thunder. And that's why when he said, no, no, no, and he would come in and whisper, you remember that? It would, it was a big difference between his thundering speeches and when he whispered. Now, and that's like the good parts, that's the good parts. And they're like, oh, you see that? He was going, eh, that's what you're bragging about?

And then every once in a while, he'll pull at Mitch McConnell. And then somebody's got to walk him on and say, guys, if you can't see it, look, there's last thing from the this perspective. And then I'm apparently skewing the poll a little bit. Okay, you guys make your own decision. And that's part of the reason I'm doing the poll. But maybe I'm the crazy one. And you guys are like, no, I see a super young, energetic, vibrant candidate. Jank, you're blind. I can't believe it, right? So, but guys, do you, if you're among those core Democrats that are still defending Biden, do you want to win the election or don't you? Because you guys constantly accuse us of like, oh, you're trying to help Trump by pointing out things

that are obviously true about Biden. Boo, hide those facts. But you're trying to help Trump win by going with a candidate who could barely walk and talk. We want a candidate who can kick Trump's ass. And you say, no, no, no, no, I don't want that candidate. I don't want a good candidate. I want to go and I brag about it. Okay, good luck. But this guy's definitely going to lose to Trump. And if you're in favor of keeping Biden, it's definitely your fault. Sorry. This is, it's really insulting to voters. It's really insulting to the American public. I just, I'm so fed up with Democrats going, making the rounds in the media on the Sunday show saying, well, behind the scenes, Biden is sharp. He's attentive. I nearly spit out my water.

But they're saying it. Yeah, but why would he do that? Right. I mean, Saturday at line, please, You gotta do a skid on it. Like he goes behind the scenes, like, all right, now this is what I want. I need that memo and he did that presidential daily briefing. And then he goes out, he's like, how would that help him win? Right. Why would he make such a crazy rational decision? Yeah, I just, it's like, don't piss on my leg and then tell me it's raining.

It just, I don't believe it. Nobody, no rational person believes it. And they're still trying this line. And you're the crazy one if you think that behind the scenes, Biden is sharp, but in public in front of a camera, he just loses all motor functions. Give me a break. And that isn't to say that there aren't instances of deceptive editing on the right. We'll get those in a second, but I just, I'm so fed up with this idea that we have to buy into this narrative that they're pushing. Think back to 2019, late 2019 in the height of the Democratic primary when they're

having all of these debates, Corey Booker and Castro, who are both running and both running against Biden in the debates and in the interviews in the spin rooms were talking about Biden's mental decline. As soon as he became the nominee, off limits. It's a stutter. His stutter is why he's making up these stories. The stutter is why he's all of a sudden not able to talk for several seconds at a time or locking up at events. Stop lying. Like Jenk just said, we all can remember when he was in the Senate, 80s, 90s, 2000s, when he was vice president. The onion, half of the onion sight when he was the vice president was about how cool he was and how exciting and energetic he was driving convertibles. Like that's who even to satire sites Biden was. Now it's the guy

can't formulate a sentence. He can't stay awake. So I just I don't think it's resonating and it's working this this democratic spin. So but on to be fair, some of these other instances where they are deceptively cutting, we have some examples. As we said earlier over the past couple weeks, there have been more of these clips. Two weeks ago, several white right wing account including the RNC's rapid response opposition research account shared a video that made it seem like Biden soiled himself at the D-Day ceremony. Take a look. Distinguished guests, please welcome the Honorable Lloyd J. So that's where their video cuts off. They show him bending his knees,

And then they cut the video, but as you can see in the full clip, he's just getting ready to sit down. Take a look. Distinguished guests, please welcome the Honorable Lloyd J. Austin the 3rd, Secretary of Defense of the United States of America. So you could see it's deceptively edited. They tried to make it into something that wasn't. A pretty simple clip. He just started to sit down earlier. He is old, of course, might take him a little bit longer to sit down. That's not as big of a deal. So there are other, they put again during the G7 summit last week, Ray Wingers shared around this video. Take a look. So he's walking around. He looks like he's wandering off and that's the framing that they went with. It's giving a thumbs up, who's there? Of course, this is a vertical video, so you can't, you can't see what's happened.

He's brought back. He looks confused. He's back in action. Now, New York Post put that on their front page. You could see it here. Meander in chief Biden embarrasses US with confused wanderings at world conference. But again, if you see the uncropped video,

again, that's a vertical video. It's a different aspect ratio. There was something over there. Take a look. Now you can see there's paratroopers there. They just flew in. You see other world leaders. leaders. Now he's going over to the side. He's about to give his thumbs up. He's talking to the

paratroopers. It's a pretty deliberate cut that emits relevant evidence. Jank, how do you feel about these two clips? So this is the problem with Republicans in right wing media. You can't ever trust them. So look, if you're saying, hey, Jank, I've assumed that when they panned out that Biden was It's fine because the right wing lies approximately 98% of the time. I hear you, that's a fair point, right? So when I saw him with the potential Paul Pierce moment with this sitting on the chair or not, I thought there's no way that that's real, okay, he's not soiling himself, that's ridiculous. And so I'm like, let me see the whole video.

So look, you should look at anything from right wing media with enormous skepticism. But shockingly enough, in this case, they don't have to lie. Okay, so it was true in the in the gala, but it's, you guys, we see it a hundred times. And the reason why even the fake videos resonate is because we've seen Biden in other contexts. And we've seen him be super old, we've seen him forget his thoughts, we've seen him forget where he was, we've seen him say, I need to take a nap in the middle of a press conference. We've seen him shake hands with a person that doesn't exist. He shook hands with air, he's like, oh, what is that?

What is that? So that's why when the right wing, in the right wing, you're so dumb, because you're, you don't need to lie, right? You can just show actual videos, but they can't help themselves, right? When media is based on a mountain of lies, so they're like, ah, let's just abuse it, right? So our job is to tell you what's real and what's not real, and then the people get confused. I've said this a hundred times, which side are you on? We're on the side of what's true.

There are earlier videos not true. The Gala video, true, okay? It's not Biden or Trump. All right, now let's go to you guys, which side are you on? No, you also care about what's real. And lots of results here from the polls. So do you think Biden is in mental decline? Here are some of the results.

If I could find them in this giant document that I have. Okay, from our t.t.com, 97% percent. percent say he is in mental decline. That's interesting. From the YouTube community, this is the closest one because this went up before the show. It's not the Snapchat, snap poll that I'm doing is not Snapchat. It's a snap poll in the chat. So YouTube community only has it at 55, 45, 45, and a ton of votes. But 55 saying mental decline, 45 saying no. On Twitch, it's 973. And in the YouTube chat, it's 79 to 20. Yes, mental decline. So it's interesting until like YouTube

community security, like I said, they just happened to be voting before they saw all the evidence. So if you don't see the evidence, it's the exact phenomenon we were just talking about. I don't believe the right wing, right? If they're telling me it's a video, it's probably doctored because it's doctored 98% of the time. But when you see the video with your own eyes, then it turns into 973 or 7920. Yeah, the brother has issues. And so we're not, I've never been against Biden because, oh, he didn't do enough. And so that's a different fight. We lost that fight, okay?

I'm against Biden because he's definitely going to lose the Trump. And I don't want Trump to win. I don't know why that's so complicated. Yeah. It's just, I think your point about there being enough out there that shows that Biden is not all there, is an important one. And I hate that we are even talking about, like you said, like a Zuprooter film, at the situation like, oh, we've got a second camera in the back of the auditorium to see Biden's

movements. How long is he frozen? None of this instills any confidence in voters. And you're going into an election where Trump is very clearly is building momentum. His base is energized. They're out for blood. They want, they've got vengeance in their hearts. They want retribution. They see him as a victim. And you have many people, I'm not saying everybody, there are people who are excited to vote for Biden. I don't know why, but you have a lot of people on the left who maybe will vote begrudgingly or because the alternative is worse. That's not a great situation to be in, especially as people seem to have forgotten just how bad it was during the Trump years. You don't have that same type of enthusiasm. You don't have that

energy and you don't have a candidate who can build that up. He has no vigor. I mean, to be a little Machiavellian in the analysis, he doesn't have charisma that it's going to get people inspired, it's going to get different key aspects of your voting base to show up to get out and get people out to vote, to organize. There's a lot of people who are upset about various different things, fulfilling to, for failing to fulfill pledges on canceling student debt, granted there were legal challenges, but especially furthering their support and standing behind Netanyahu and Israel in this war in Gaza. That's a big component. None of this makes voters feel any good. Meanwhile, Trump is making the rounds to huge crowds. You could, and then

the Democrats can split hairs. Oh, well, there weren't that many people in the church. Here's the thing, he's continually getting out in front of crowds. Biden physically cannot at the same clip that Trump can. Yeah, Joe Biden has no plan. He's got absolutely no plan. He doesn't even know what the word inflation means. I don't think if you gave him a quiz. I think he should take a cognitive test like I did.

I took a cognitive test and I aced it. Dr. Ronnie. Dr. Ronnie Johnson. Does everyone know Ronnie Johnson, Congressman from Texas? He was the White House doctor. And he said, I was the healthiest president he feels in history. Does everyone know Ronnie Johnson? Because I don't.

Why? It's actually Ronnie Jackson. So Trump was trying to make fun of Biden's mental decline. And he's like, I had a great doctor. Pass a beautiful IQ test. It was a dementia test. His name is Ronnie Johnson. His name is Ronnie Jackson.

Amazing, he's the worst. All right. So we're doing a poll, snap poll in the YouTube chat. watch the show live, participate in those. So is Trump in mental decline? Yes or no. But let's give you all the facts. When Trump challenged Joe Biden to a cognitive test at a turning point action rally this weekend,

he made one major mistake. The doctor like Jenks said, who administered his cognitive test was named Ronnie Jackson, not Ronnie Johnson. But Trump didn't let that slip up get in the way of bragging about his cognitive test yet. Again, let's look. But I said, Ronnie, should I take a test? He said, well, you know, it's Walter Reed. It's sort of a public hospital.

If you don't do well, they're going to find out about it. I said, well, you know, like I'm a smart person. How tough is it? He said, it gets very tough as you get to the middle of it. And I did something that he's never seen done. I aced it. I got every question right. I aced it in front of a lot of people.

Okay. So we've pooled some of these difficult questions that Trump aced, just so you understand what kind of genius we're working with here. The Montreal cognitive assessment includes remembering a list of spoken words, listening to a list of random numbers and repeating them backward, naming as many words that begin with, say, the letter F as possible within a minute, accurately drawing a cube and describing concrete ways that two objects like a train and a train and a a bicycle are alike. That is, that's high level stuff. But no one's ever been able to describe it before train and bicycle.

No one knows, only Trump knows. Trump knows the best about how trains and bicycles are similar. They said it couldn't be done, but he did it. They said he couldn't be done. Okay, wait till you see the rest of it. So here's what one part looks like in which the test takers asked to identify different animals. Okay, can't be done. I don't know what those animals, no one has ever figured out with

those animals are, only Trump. I'm stuck on the first one. Yeah, that's a tough one. I'm familiar with the last one though, one with a hump. I've seen that around. Okay, so who says no one could do this test? This is literally a dementia test.

It's literally like scoring 100% means you don't have dementia. That's it, it's the lowest bar possible. And did he really pass? If you don't know that it was a dementia test, that's probably should be in the test. So if they took it for a guy here test, you probably didn't actually pass. So the fact that he's bragging about it and maybe lying about his performance, I mean, that makes me think that there's something there that they're covering up.

But let's take a look at this clip from 2018 just after he took this test. It was 30 or 35 questions. The first questions are very easy. The last questions are much more difficult. Like a memory question, it's like you'll go person. woman, man, camera, TV. So they say, could you repeat that? So I said, yeah.

So it's person, woman, man, camera, TV. Okay, that's very good. That is impressive. That's really impressive. My favorite part of that clip always is the Fox doctor. That's just sitting there going, oh, geez. Sent a man.

Okay, okay. Look, I'll do the next part. Graphic three here. Let me show you what an IQ test looks like and what a dementia test looks like, okay? So that's an IQ test. You give that to Trump and here's what he's going to say, no one plays space invaders better than I do. No one knew this was space invaders. A lot of people thought it was Galactica, but I solved it.

I please somebody give this test to Donald Trump. You're kidding, there's no way. Now, back to the test that he passed and thought was an IQ test. test. How could you think that's an IQ test? How could you think that's? Guys, there's no more subtlety. You just have to say lion, rhino, camel. That's it. That's the test. It's impressive. And he thinks the one on the right was the one on the left. Oh my God. All right. So now we're going to look at our, because look, now the thing is, why the poll question is relevant. So with Biden, it's like a giant controversy. You said,

mental decline, everybody in media will attack you. There's no mental decline, he's an itemo behind the scenes. We never show how great he is, because that's a smart way to run a campaign. But with Trump, people go, oh, no, no, it's not mental decline. He's always an idiot. And there's some truth to that. So I mean, like, he doesn't have much to decline. So that's more of an open question.

So we go to our audience. Let's see here, do we have, yeah, do you think Trump is in mental decline, yes or no, we got that up on YouTube community as well, so make sure you're checking that out. All right, here we go, same the results is Biden for the t-y-t.com audience, 97% mental decline. So going from like four IQ points to three, anyway, result from the YouTube community, this one's a lot more decisive than the Biden one, 8713, yes, mental decline, and Twitch chat is also fairly unanimous 98 to 2, mental decline.

And from the YouTube chat, that's the Snapchat. That's my favorite one because people watching the show live, they're getting to see the videos live with it. So come watch the show live Monday, the Friday, 6 to 8 p.m. Eastern, and then sometimes surprise guests like RFK Jr. show up, like that's gonna happen today at 8 o'clock. The next week, Charlemagne, tomorrow Cornel West. Anyway, last one is from that YouTube chat, 85 to 15,

with about 700 votes saying, yeah, mental decline. I want to know who is in the no camp for both. I want to me, those people need to be in focus groups. I want to better understand how they think about politics. Maybe they're in that circle where they're like, man, I just couldn't tell if that it was a lion or a dog or I don't know. So and did he free is? Anyways, guys, we're screwed. These are two choices in the most disastrous election of our lifetimes.

And that's just reality. All right, keep the voting going. We'll check back in on it tomorrow. All right, we got to go. Jordan, thank you, brother. We appreciate everybody to check him out on Rebel Headquarters. That's another channel we have on the TYT network. We got Ben Glebe coming in.

We got huge stories coming up in the second hour as well, including Donald Trump's pastor with an interesting confession, or not necessarily his pastor because he don't have one, but a guy he likes and has promoted has done some things that are questionable. I know you're shocked. I know you are. And then in about an hour, RFK Jr. right here. We'll be back.