The Young Turks - Fill The Swamp

Episode Date: September 7, 2024

Judge delays Trump's sentencing until after the election. JD Vance says school shootings are a ""fact of life"" and calls for better security. Jessica Tarlov challenges Fox News co-hosts to explain Trump's rambling: ""Tell me what the hell he was talking about"" (Greg Gutfeld is unable to explain). Trump says Elon Musk has agreed to lead a proposed government efficiency commission as the ex-president unveils new economic plans. American activist shot dead in occupied West Bank. " HOST: Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur), John Iadarola (@johniadarola), Mondale Robinson (@mondalerobinson) SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE: ☞ https://www.youtube.com/user/theyoungturks FACEBOOK: ☞ https://www.facebook.com/theyoungturks TWITTER: ☞ https://www.twitter.com/theyoungturks INSTAGRAM: ☞ https://www.instagram.com/theyoungturks TIKTOK: ☞ https://www.tiktok.com/@theyoungturks 👕 Merch: https://shoptyt.com ❤ Donate: http://www.tyt.com/go 🔗 Website: https://www.tyt.com 📱App: http://www.tyt.com/app 📬 Newsletters: https://www.tyt.com/newsletters/ If you want to watch more videos from TYT, consider subscribing to other channels in our network: The Watchlist https://www.youtube.com/watchlisttyt Indisputable with Dr. Rashad Richey https://www.youtube.com/indisputabletyt The Damage Report ▶ https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport TYT Sports ▶ https://www.youtube.com/tytsports The Conversation ▶ https://www.youtube.com/tytconversation Rebel HQ ▶ https://www.youtube.com/rebelhq TYT Investigates ▶ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwNJt9PYyN1uyw2XhNIQMMA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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three lighting Drop it like a bad habit. All right, live from the non-Russian studios here in L.A. from the Polymarket studio. Live from Red Square. It's so funny that the right wing got taken over by the Russians. I mean, that we should, like, that is not insignificantly funny. Okay, so anyways, power panels you see, Jenke, who are John Adirola, Mondale Robinson,

Mondale's on rebel headquarters, John's on damage report, and here we all are together on the Young Turks. So we got a hell of a show for you guys today. Trump continues to ramble endlessly saying absolutely crazy things about attempted assassinations, about, well, was it about child care? We'll get to that in a minute. So tons of things on that. And unfortunately, also some tragic news peppered in as well as usual in the news. But lots of fun political activities today. Oh, also this, okay, balls to the walls. That's my t-shirt. I'm, and whenever Anna's away, I get to wear the t-shirt with a blazer. Okay, shop t-y-t.com. And we're going to do something funny throughout the show. Well, funny, fun, we'll see. We're asking you to be our Russians,

okay? So t-y-t.com slash team. And we're going to try to raise $100,000 from you guys, so we serve you, unlike the other guys serving the Russians for $100,000. Okay, it's gonna be harder to get it from you guys, but at least that way, we're on your team and not on somebody else who's just giving money like that from a foreign government. Okay, so fun for everybody, John, let's get it started. Okay, let's start off with a story that I knew you were going to have thoughts about. Let's jump into this. Today, Judge Juan Mershan announced that the sentencing phase of the New York Hush Money trial will not, in fact, be happening before the election. He's pushing it back until after all the votes are cast, and only then will we find out

what's actually going to happen with Donald Trump after being convicted of dozens of felony counts. So it was originally scheduled for September 18th, meaning that if Donald Trump is going to end up going to jail, which isn't a guarantee, it might not even be likely, but it could happen. People could and perhaps should know that before they vote him into the White House. Instead, they will not have the opportunity to know that until after he is either won or lost the election. So here is the updated timeline as we understand it right now. On November 12th, a week after the election, Mershahn will rule on Trump's attempt to vacate his guilty verdict, that being tied to the Supreme Court elevating him to the position of a god emperor.

If Murchin does not grant that request, he will sentence Trump on November 26th. The election day, of course, is November 5th, meaning that weeks after the, election, then we will find out. It's also conveniently a good number of weeks between before inauguration, before January 6th, the certification. Will Donald Trump be able to attend any of those events? Stay tuned to find out. So his lawyers had originally asked to postpone the sentencing from its original date. It's back on July 11th. We could have already been done with all this so that he could reconsider the request to overturn the conviction based on the SCOTUS decision. But when just the the the

justice said he would rule on the immunity bid on September 16th, two days before the sentencing, Trump's lawyers demanded yet another delay. There they said that the judge's timetable was too compressed. All of this is taking place over the course of months and months and months. And they continually say, how dare you let this stuff happen right before an election as they push to get it closer and closer to that election. You see how this is like a perfect system they've got there. Mershant wrote that he made the decision, and this is my favorite part, to avoid any appearance, however unwarranted, that the proceeding has been affected by or seeks to affect the approaching presidential election in which the defendant is a candidate.

No, the court is a fair, impartial, and apolitical institution. He added that the postponement should dispel any suggestion that the court will have issued any decision or imposed sentence either to give an advantage to or to create a disadvantage for any political party and or any candidate for any office. And this is where we need to discuss, but I just want to briefly say, when you delay it until after the election, you know you're giving an advantage to the person who could get really bad news on that day. You could.

And by the way, you saying that you've made this decision to make it so that nobody can think that the sentencing is being affected by the election is just about the craziest and stupidest thing I think I've ever heard my life. You are literally delaying it until after the election so that no one will think that it's gonna affect the election as being influenced by the election. It is one, that's your argument. The reason you're doing it is the thing you say that it's not doing. Am I crazy?

I'm not a judge, I'm not a lawyer, but I kind of feel like none of this makes any sense. Yeah, what's that about justice delayed? So here we are. So look, there are points on both sides of this, but I like John's rage and I largely concur with it. The thing that I'm most upset about is this rewards Donald Trump's stalling and whining. Those are his top two legal strategies. He never has any evidence, that's why he almost always loses in court, he's never won

on a case of facts, he's one on the so-called law at the Supreme Court, where the Supreme court literally made up new law that the president has immunity for everything he does in office. So that's the only time he's ever won when the Supreme Court literally invented a new law, okay? Other than that, he always loses because he has never has any evidence, he's always wrong. And if you say, well, that sounds extreme. I mean, really? No, no, I'm being literal. Go back and look at all of his different criminal cases, civil lawsuits, the suits that he filed after the 2020 election where he went 0 and 61, him and his allies did. So, and the reason why he's perfected the order of stalling is he thinks, well, look,

they're going to want to let me get away with it. I'm one of the elites, right? So when you're an elite, you're basically above the law. So let me just find a way to delay, delay, and that way I don't have to pay the money right up front when it's a civil lawsuit. And then I get the value of the interest rate there until, you know, I have to pay it at a later date already he's making money off of that and a hundred other ways that he uses to stall and the whining is even worse he's like oh if you need to be if you

have me followed the law like any other human being then you're picking on me and I'm the victim and it turns out the right wing loves that they eat that for breakfast lunch and dinner they're like oh where are the victims where are the victims or at least should be above the law but you know what we should all serve the billionaire wait I thought we were populist okay so It drives me crazy that he's above law. Now, just from purely political point of view, I think this is a win for Kamala Harris, and I'll tell you why.

Because if he had handed him a prison sentence to be served in November or December after the election, every MAGA guy would have gone to vote for him and dragged every family member, every friend, every acquaintance to vote for him to keep him out of prison. So that would have become the most, like the biggest cause for the Maga cult, right? And it would have driven voter turnout like you've never seen. Did the judge take that in account? I hope he didn't. Because now I go to the core of what John is saying.

It reminds me of Torabora. You wonder why Torabora, right? Okay, so here's why, guys. In 2005, because we've been around forever, longest running show in Internet history, not a big deal. We interviewed James Rising from the New York Times about a story that he did shortly after the 2004 election. Of course, that was John Kerry versus George W. Bush. New York Times had a story, which is actually an explosive story that never got enough attention, which is that we had bin Laden cornered in Toribora early on in the war in Afghanistan.

And a US general asked for permission to pursue, and Don Rumsfeld said no. though to the point where bin Laden had done his final prayer. They knew the Americans were around the corner, they did a last prayer and waited to die. But Rumsfeld did not send in the troops. So I asked Ryzen, when did you guys have this? He said, we had it earlier. And I said, why didn't you run it before the election? They said, because it would have influenced election.

No brother, holding the story influences the election. knowing ahead of time that Bush's team chose not to pursue bin Laden, that was a massively political decision by the New York Times. And in favor of as usual Republicans. If you're new to this, you're gonna be like, what do you mean as usual Republicans? Don't you mean the mainstream media hates Republicans? No, no. The mainstream media bends over backwards to be, to say through Republicans, we're being

fair, please don't cry. You guys cry so much, no, no, no, no, we'll protect George W. Bush. Don't tell him that he could have gotten bin Laden, and chose not to, which could have massively affected the election. By the way, the other thing that happened is they posted it after the election and no one cared anymore. That was a giant story, and they made an enormously political decision. So here, Judge Murchon, he can say anything he likes, but the decision either way affects the election. It doesn't affect it just in one way. It affects it in both ways, acts of omission and commission.

All right, Mondia. Yeah, I mean, listen, let's be clear. I mean, you said something that is extremely poignant, and I think the fact that the only time Trump can ink a win is at the Supreme Court level, and that is not even considered a fair win when you consider that he appointed a third of the justices, right? So I think when you consider that as much as this man is in court,

then you already understand what's happening with this delay. Furthermore, merchant should be forced to make his decision on the 18th and lock it in a time lock safe so nobody can save. that he changed his decision based on what the outcome of the election is. I'm absolutely flabbergasted because he must have also been asleep all of the last weeks of the 2016 election when the Justice Department said, oh, yeah, we're investigating Hillary Clinton as well for email. So I think this idea that decisions from the media or anything isn't political in an election year is absolutely ridiculous. I mean, everything is political in the year of an election.

So the idea that the media is cautioning or anybody is cautioning on the side of one candidate or another is dumb. I mean, that's just the nicest way to say it because the truth of the matter is you should just tell the truth of what happened and what's happening. And if you wouldn't do it for anybody, I mean, by God, Donald Trump has already been given favor in the justice system, even though he felt like he's been treated like a black man in the justice system. And there's a two-tier justice system. We continue to see that Donald Trump has his way at every, at every angle with the justice system. And this is no different. And that, to me, is political as hell. And overall, look, obviously there's, people get put in difficult positions by Donald Trump because he does things that are unprecedented and unacceptable. So no judge wants to lock up a political candidate, let alone a president or an incoming, you don't want to have to do that.

But unfortunately, we rolled the dice and they came up Trump. And so it would be very difficult to lock up a guy two months before the election. So what, you're going to do it a month after he wins? Yeah. That's going to happen? You know, you know when you do this? You do this way before the election so the Republicans can replace him with another candidate. That's what you do.

And so now it is inconceivable to me that even if the judge objectively believes that he should serve jail time that he would actually do it, especially after this move. He's already shown how easily swayed he is by political considerations. So the idea that we will get anything that is objectively like the justice we should get seems impossible now. And if Trump loses, I still don't think that he's likely to lock him up. But if he wins, there's zero chance. Yeah, last couple of things here. If he wins, he's going to skate. And we all know it. They're not going to lock up to president of the United States. So this is another get out of jail free card for Donald Trump. Again, always should note that the prosecutors are massively to blame, both in this case,

Bragg and Garland for delaying for two and a half years before pursuing these cases that they should have brought immediately. And it's not just brag, it's worse yet with Cyrus Vance. His predecessor should have brought the case much, much earlier. And then lastly, guys, you always have to be principled. I think that if he had been sentenced to prison time today, it would have helped him in the election. I'm positive of it. But they should have done it anyway, because you shouldn't do it based on politics. You should do it based on application of the law.

Yeah, I think, you know, I think I also think that, you know, I don't know, you know, I think it might have helped him with his base, but his base is not growing, right? We got to look at the demographics of America. Demographics of America does not say that Donald Trump is going to ever be able to expand beyond where he is at this point, meaning, since. Since the 26th election, since Donald Trump became a politician, we've seen so many baby boomers, so many white men pass away and or age out of voting. And so many other people come into the election.

I think we're somewhere around 40 million new wire zirs and also 20 million. We lost 20 million boomers. I think that demographic shift makes it extremely hard for Donald Trump to expand this elector beyond those who are crazy about him. And that does not to me lead directly to an election or a benefit. that can change the outcome of the election. Yeah. Yeah, there's a lot that we can, we can try to figure out it's impossible.

The only thing that we know for sure is that this was 100% affected by the election, regardless of what the judge says. That's laying out one potential consequence if he wins in November. Why don't we transition now to one other? Donald Trump announced earlier this week that if he wins this November, if he gets a second term, he's going to put Elon Musk in charge of a government agency intending to do to the rest of the government what Elon Musk has already done to Twitter. It's in the name of efficiency and cutting spending and stuff like that, but we've seen

what happens when he does that. Things stop working and everything gets way more racist. So anyway, Trump was talking to the Economic Club of New York, which is where regular people go. It's just regular Joe's at the Economic Club New York. He's a populist, you understand people. And he said, at the suggestion of Elon Musk, who has given me his complete and total endorsement, I will create a government efficiency commission tasked with conducting a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government and making recommendations for drastic reforms.

We need to do it. Can't go on the way we are now. And obviously from my intro and if you've been watching it for a while, you know that I don't necessarily have a lot of respect for Elon Musk, but that doesn't mean that he can't be efficient. I mean, if you take a look at this headline, like he was able to destroy the value of Twitter way faster than anyone would have expected. It was super efficient how he made $24 billion just vanish, gone. It only took a couple of years for him.

And, you know, Tesla's reputation is in worse straits than ever before. He decided rather than to pursue the part of the market, people actually care about, affordable electric cars. He decided he'd make the worst truck that's ever existed. And so some of these are bold and or efficient moves, but I don't know that it's necessarily going to help our government. And he has said, Musk, that this commission would aim to examine how agencies are spending money. You know, agencies across the federal government working in areas that have one thing in common, Elon Musk doesn't know anything about any of it, but he'll evaluate whether they need to be spending money that way. And he said he will eliminate unsensible spending. Again, he has no training

or inclination to be able to evaluate that, but he'll be in charge. And by the way, just for the purposes of our discussion, at that same economic club meeting, Trump said he's going to further reduce the corporate tax rate. So that's going to go down to 15% from the 21% it's at now. Bear in mind before he became president, it was 35. So it will be a nice chunk less than half, half what it was less than a decade ago, so mission accomplished for the wealthiest people in the country, he's going to stimulate more energy production, and that's necessary because they pretend that we're not already exporting more energy than we ever have as a country, which of course we are, get rid of government regulations, businesses don't like them,

and make us the crypto center of the world. So he has proposed some plans. Yeah, so part of fascism is combining the state with corporate interests. And so when you say, oh, here's a guy who runs, you know, SpaceX, X, X, Tesla, et cetera. Why don't you just take over the government? He's going to do an audit of the entire federal government. And he's going to be in charge of doing a drastic overhaul that we're just handing it to one of Trump's donors. Not just the businessman, not the richest, just the richest man in the world, which is already.

I already think about it, we're handing America over to the richest man in the world, like here, just have it, do whatever you want with it. I mean, if you're a populist, you should loathe this. But on top of that, he's one of Trump's donors. So Trump is saying he gave me his complete and strong endorsement, in other words, a ton of money, so I'm giving him the US government in return. That's insanity. So look, I play fantasy football and our friends joke around whenever we have a

vote on an issue. If it affects you that week in whether you on who you get to start or whatever, we always voted our own self-interest, of course, right? And then go, I'm not voting out of self-interest. I just genuinely believe this, right? So that's what Elon Musk is going to do. He's going to go in there and go, hey, look at all these things that massively help my companies and maybe hurt my competition. And whatever else I decided to do, because now it's the American government is my toy, so we're supposed to believe that he's not, that he's going to show, you know what? I don't even care about making money, even though I've been obsessed with it my entire life. I don't even care about power, even though it's obvious that

I'm trying to accumulate as much power as humanly possible. I'm going to reform the American government on your behalf and ignore the fact that I've given Donald Trump, what, is it up to $100 million, but a ton of money to be able to purchase this ability to totally gut the U.S. government and turn it into something that is nothing but corporate friendly, corporate rule, and crushed the average guy. Mondale. I mean, that's what efficiency means to these guys. Jake and John, think about it. I mean, both of these guys have an extremely similar upbringing. Both of them exist in a capacity. where we are even talking about either one of them because they're dad's wealth.

Neither one of them did anything if people throw around genius when they talk about Elon, but geniuses display, you know, quirkiness. Yeah, he has that or childlike behavior. Yeah, he has that. He's eccentric, yeah, but he's not creative. He doesn't have a new idea or he does not bring a new relationship between idea and unthought of things like Einstein with mass and energy. That's not Elon Musk.

What Elon Musk does, he use his dad's wealth that was transferred to, him by the luck of jeans, not D.K. and Y, but jeans, and literally, and just take that money and buy the experts in the field until he can't use him anymore, then he run them off, i.e. Tesla, the two founders of it, and any other idea that, I.E. Twitter. Like, so this guy is not a genius. We just throw that word around when we equated with people with a lot of money. I mean, hell, last year, Kanye West was considered a genius. And I think Donald Trump finds comfort in the fact that he is worthless without his dad's money when he see Elon must be the richest man in the world.

And that is the glue that will never break up that relationship. So guys, I always say on the show said it hundreds of times. Just if you think something, well, if you're just trying to evaluate something, the thing about it is shoe on the other foot and see if it still works, right? So we do that all the time when it affects us. And if you're MAGA, right wing, independent, I'm asking you to do it in this case. Now, he says, well, Elon Musk is an incredibly successful businessman. So obviously I should hand over the entire federal government to him.

By the way, I thought you were president. Anyway, and he's going to reform the whole government. Why don't you do it? Anyway, but okay, he's a super successful businessman. We've got to give it to him. Imagine if a Democrat said the same exact thing, but just changed the name from Elon Musk to Bill Gates. Are you still in favor of it? No, no, the 5G and the Bill Gates of the children.

No way, no way. He's going to take over the whole government of the 5G to put it in my head. But no, Elon Musk is a saint. Bill Gates is an evil businessman if you're on the right these days and maybe on the left. But Elon Musk is a saint who's just going to do it on your behalf. You sure? You sure, dog? Okay, let's do one last thing.

How about another super successful businessman who's also a giant donor like Elon Musk is? Can you imagine if Kamala Harris said, oh yeah, once I'm in, I'm going to hand the entire federal government over to George Soros. Republicans you know it you know without a shadow of a doubt this is what your head would do right government yeah and right now I guarantee you every right winger watching this who you can do that anyway no she's not she's gonna hand it over in mass to our overall donors because that's what every politician does and we're the only show that's honest about both sides doing it but she's not gonna just pick one guy the other donors would be mad right and just give him the

government and say, oh, just shred it. Just do whatever the hell you want with it, right? She's definitely not going to do that. You're living in a total delusion if you think she's just going to give it to one donor. But it doesn't matter because even in that scenario where you've convinced yourself, oh yeah, but what about you? Then right back at your brother, what about you? Your guy just said in public to a bunch of incredibly wealthy businessman, I'm going to take

the one who's giving me the most money and hand the U.S. government over to them. If you're not sickened by that, like, okay, congratulations, you love the elites, you love corruption, you love money in politics, and just admit it and go, oh, MAGA's for the elites. If only a couple of billionaires could shred our government and not give a damn about the American people, yes, MAGA, let the poor elites run this place for once. And that's what MAGA turned into from drain the swamp to fill the swamp. You lost your way along the way. Just a quick comment. I mean, the MAGA was never about draining a swamp.

It was actually about hating who Donald Trump and the white people that support him, hates. I'm not saying every single MAGA supporter is racist. I am saying every single MAGA supporter is racist. Okay, I don't agree. That goes too far. Okay, I think, I think it's 50-50 and people can get mad at that. But, but I think, Mondale, I think a ton of Magger guys actually hate the corruption. Now, you could say, hey, maybe that plus what you're saying, or you could say, you and I don't agree on the percentages. But, and by the way, if you think Mondale's completely wrong, and there's just no races in the country.

And golly, she, the racists would never support Donald Trump. You're also being ridiculous. So, yeah, but hey, we all have different opinions on this and our ranges between, well, let's say, may be a quarter to a hundred percent. So there. 66. Anyway, we're going to take a break. We'll be right back. with you guys, and if you guys can help out today, be our Russians, t-y-t.com slash team, be the people that fund us so that we serve you instead of some other foreign interests,

t-y-t.com slash team. All right, John. Okay, let's jump into one of the big media controversies of the day, starting with this. What happened in Georgia is just an awful tragedy. And I know we've got a lot of parents and a lot of grandparents in this room. I mean, I cannot imagine. You know, little kids so excited to go back to school. God love them. And they're at their first week back from the summer. And an absolute barbarian decides to open fire and take their lives and also a couple teachers. We got to think about these people. If you're the praying type and I know I am, we got to hold them up in prayer. We've got to be hoping for the best for this incredible community because no parents should have to deal with this. So that is J.D. Vance doing the thing that

Republicans need to do 50 to 100 times a year. When there's a big mass shooting, a big school shooting, they need to come out and be seen to briefly talk about it as if it's a tragedy that they'll do anything to stop. But in this particular case, J.D. Vance is actually getting some backlash for his comments. Now, others are saying the media has taken him out of context. We're going to evaluate all of that. But first of all, here is what he actually said. The Kamala Harris answer to this is to take law-abiding American citizens' guns away from them. That is what Kamala Harris wants to do. What is going to solve this problem, and I really do believe this is, look, I don't like this, I don't like to admit this, I don't like that this

is a fact of life. But if you're, if you are a psycho and you want to make headlines, you realize that our schools are soft targets. And we have got to bolster security in our schools so that a person who walks through the front door, we've got to bolster security so that if a psycho wants to walk through the front door and kill a bunch of children, they're not able to. And again, as a parent, do I want my kids' school to have additional security? No, of course I don't. I don't want my kids to go to school in a place where they feel like you've got to have additional security, but that is increasingly the reality that we live in.

He does the thing there, in addition to many other things that people have a problem with, where he asks himself a really easy question so he can answer it and make him self look smart. Like, do I want these things to happen? I would love him to answer a question. When the psycho, the barbarian, bust through the door, do you want him to have an AR-15? Or do you not? Would it be better if he didn't have access to an AR-15? Answer a question that you maybe don't want to.

But the relevant phrase there was fact of life. And you've probably seen this going around. He said at least once, maybe twice, that this is a fact of life. And that has been used in tweets and in ads and in press releases where Kamala Harrison are allies, people who want to see her get elected, are saying that he has described what happened as a fact of life. And now on the right, they say that's not fair. What he was describing is it's a fact of life that some psycho wanting to make a name for themselves can attack a school. But oh, he's saying he doesn't like that as if that changes that he's identifying that it's a fact of life.

life and also he wants there to be more security. So here's the thing, that is being described as taking him out of context. And I don't think that's true at all. It might have taken him out of the specific sentence that it appeared in, but that's not what context is, context is the remarks he was making. What they're asserting Kamala Harris and the others, when they say he's just saying it's a fact of life is, he's saying, what are you gonna do? We're not gonna change anything, it's just gonna happen the way that it does one to 200 times

a year in America. And the right would say that's not fair, that's not literally what he said, you're taking him out of context. So what's the context here? He said, I don't like it, it's really bad, let's pray for them, let's have more security, let's have a guard, let's lock a door, let's do X, Y, and Z, the things they always say let's do, the things we know won't stop these things from happen. So the context is he's doing what Republicans always do.

He's pretending to have an issue with the fact that people lost their lives. He's proposing changes that protect gun manufacturers and the NRA from anything that affects their bottom line and doing nothing to actually stop the next shooting or the next 10 shootings or the next 100 shootings from happening. That's the context. The context is he believes it's a fact of life. The context is he's gonna make sure that it keeps happening. happening. So maybe Kamala Harris could have put more words inside of the quotation marks, but they're dead on in terms of what the context of J.D. Vance was. Yeah. So let me take this

one of the time. First of all, thoughts and prayers. Has it worked yet? Because we've had nonstop thoughts and prayers about mass shootings. You would think by now that would have worked, right? Oh, right. Yeah, that's totally irrelevant. And so look, if you're a good religious person out there, God bless you, thank you for caring in your own way to, you know, when you do the thoughts and prayers and you mean it, it's not going to prevent the next shooting, but you're trying to do the right thing as much as you can. But remember, a lot of these politicians are soulless, and tons of them, remember that almost the entire Republican Party wants Donald Trump to lose, the politicians do, right?

They just want to be rid of them. That was a story that came out recently. And so they're constantly lying in when they're on TV, in public. Of course, the number one lie is, oh, my donors, Joe Manchin said on the young Turks, I don't know who my top donors are. So Paul, it just lie all the time. A lot of these guys are atheists. So they see the thoughts and prayers line as kind of an internal joke.

They think it's going to nothing. And they're like, that way I could just keep taking the money from the gun manufacturers and the NRA. and I'll have these, their own voters, they treat as suckers, like, oh, you had two thoughts and prayers, and all right, send me the check. It's really gross. Now, on whether he was in or out of context, I don't really care. So in a place where you take someone out of context, and he didn't mean that at all, if you add the last part, it turns out it reverses what he was saying, right?

It was a joke and you never got to the punchline. It was sarcastic. It was this or that, right? In this case, what's he trying to say? He's trying to say, like, this is relatively normal, so I have a new plan first so that it's not normal, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt there, right? And my new plan is, let's just turn the country into a giant militarized state where there's men with weapons in front of all the doors.

And first we'll start with the schools, and so we'll scare the crap out of all of our kids and they'll have to walk past weapons every day like they live in some developing country from the 1960s with, you know, at any point there could be a junta, right? And I've been, I've seen countries where there are men with weapons at, at the doors. They are not pleasant countries, okay? And so the idea is, as usual, let me help my donors. And instead of having less guns, which would actually help, let's do more guns. And it's not, and they always, do this lie of, hey, if you want to do any gun control, like, hey, red flag laws if there's a mental health issue, or if there was violence before, or somebody had posed a threat

before, you're going to take away all of our guns. No, no, brother, we're trying to have a reasonable discussion here, which, what amount of gun control should we do, okay? So how about just registering your gun, which allows us to track when a murderer uses a gun. In fact, an overwhelming majority of gun owners are in favor of that because they don't plan to commit a crime with their gun. The only people that are against it is the NRA because they want the guns to go to the bad guys and be unaccountable. And then the good guys panic and they buy more guns, etc. So it's overwhelmingly favorable. Should we do that one?

You're trying to take away all over. No, no, no, you're lying. You're totally utterly lying on behalf of your donors. And yes, a little bit of this gun culture that's lost its way. But But overall, the Republican solution is either absolutely nothing, let's say, or immoronic ideas like teachers with guns, only one door to school, like as if doors are the, no, guns aren't the problem, doors are the problem. That's what that dumb ass Ted Cruz said last time, or was it seven mass shootings ago? It's hard to remember. And does it look like the Republicans have proposed a single thing that protects your kids?

So a lot of yapping about when it's, oh, God, pro-life, I care so much about the kids. Oh, they murdered your kids in a school? Who cares? I don't want to do anything about it. Oh, I care so much about kids. Well, how about the kids in Gaza? Who cares about that, man? I just want to control women's values.

Get out of here. They never, how about mental health? Always talking about, oh, it's a mental health thing. Stop the guns. It's not the guns. It's mental health. As if we're the only ones that have mental health issues. The entire world has a certain percentage of people that have mental health problems.

But, okay, put that aside. Did you propose to increase, mental health funding so we can fix the problem that as you claim is the number one issue. Good news, it did get proposed. All the Republicans voted against it. These Republican politicians are 100% liars. So you don't have to take them out of context. You can put them in context and they will tell you something vicious, stupid, and a total lie. Mondale. I mean, I think that's, listen, here's, here's my problem with this context conversation. Let's have a context conversation around the AR 15 and while civilians have access to it in the first place when the guy who created who happens to be a Marine just like me created it because he felt the military, the United States military, not United States regular citizens or civilians, military needed a lightweight rifle to make them more efficient at war, at war. So we continue to see people being killed in schools by a machine that was created.

to be more efficient at killing at war, at war, and that's the context of which we should be having this conversation. But much like John said, J.D. Vance or no Republican will ever asked them that question because it will cause them the badge of honor that comes along with been having an A rating from the NRA. The idea that people in this country continues to blame people with mental health issues every time there's a shooting is dastardly to me. Just as you said, we have, I mean, we are one of 190 plus countries in this world. There are people with mental health issues all over. They just don't have access to guns like we do.

We don't have the goal to address our gun problem. And so we don't. Australia had one mass shooting and immediately addressed it. And they've not had another one since. Sweden locks up. You can own a gun in Sweden, but they lock them up in a community center. You cannot take it home overnight. They don't have the gun problem we do.

Japan don't have the good problem we do. It's an American thing to own these guns and kill other Americans with guns, because that too is as American as apple pie and baseball. Yeah, you got into this. I just, I love that we continually act as if we're the only country that exists. There's no other society. There's no examples we can learn from. As if we are not surrounded by close to 200 other countries, none of whom have the sort of mass violence school shootings and all that that we, that we do. And as you point out, you know, they have music. They have video games. They have doors. Like does anyone think that if like you were to go to Japan, it's like to get into the school, there's like a little tube like this. That's the only way in. And the rest of it's

just mithril all around. Who thinks that? We, what is the, what is the actual difference between us and them? It's not mental health, as you said. That's a human thing. It's everywhere. it's just it's just the guns. It's just the easy access to the guns. If you can't get those guns, you can't do the crimes that those guns enable you to do. This is the simplest thing in the world. And so much money and effort on the right goes into getting people who should be thinking about the safety and security of their kids and their loved ones to instead buy these lies and to follow a squirrel down to more doors or a security officer or whatever. It's insane. So, to be fair, John, it might be the video games.

Japan doesn't have any video games, right? Okay, all right, I'm going to give a last word to Gary Cooper, one of our members. I love our members, I love making them part of our show, hit the join button below the video on YouTube, become one of our members, be part of the show. Gary wrote it on a much lighter note about J.D. Vance always sounds like a squid who's trying to imagine what life for humans must be like and giving advice based on those assumptions. That is like a really weird way of putting it, but it's also hilarious. Now I can't get the squid out of my head after I read that, Gary. So from now on, whenever I see J.D. Vance, he's going to be like, imagine you just squid in his head going, what would humans do?

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$100,000 for the Russians, got that one video, you get a whole show, maybe even more. Let's keep it going at t.com slash team. All right, John. Okay, let's have a little bit of fun with this. If you win in November, can you commit to prioritizing legislation to make child care affordable? And if so, what specific piece of legislation will you advance? That is a great question right there of Donald Trump. Will you commit to specific legislation?

What specifically will you do to bring down the cost of child care, which is way too high, as any parent can tell you? Okay, so that's the setup. Donald Trump is going to scrape together the three to five neurons he has left in his head, and this is the best he can do. Well, I would do that, and we're sitting down. You know, I was somebody, we had Senator Marco Rubio, and my daughter Ivanka was so impactful on that issue. It's a very important issue.

But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I'm talking about, that because child care is child care couldn't you know there's something you have to have it in this country you have to have it but when you talk about those numbers compared to the kind of numbers that I'm talking about by taxing

foreign nations at levels that they're not used to but they'll get used to it very quickly and it's not going to stop them from doing business with us but they'll have a very substantial tax when they send product into our country those numbers are so much bigger than any numbers that we're talking about including

child care, that it's going to take care. We're going to have, I look forward to having no deficits within a fairly short period of time, coupled with the reductions that I told you about on waste and fraud and all of the other things that are going on in our country. Okay, we needed to cut that off somewhere. He's still giving that answer. But I have to imagine that the woman who asked him a great question, a specific question. Halfway through, we showed you, she was probably thinking, could you talk about?

about electrocuting sharks again, because this is terrible. You're giving me nothing here. It's a serious question. People are struggling with the cost of many things. Child care in, I believe it's the vast majority of states. Full-time child care is more expensive on average than rent. It is out of reach of so many working parents. And it deserves more than whatever the hell that was. There was no commitment to prioritizing it. There was no commitment to specific legislation. There was no mention of legislation at all. The The closest thing to an answer, and he didn't even give it. We have to mine through the muck of that was, I'm gonna put tariffs on stuff, I'm going

to pretend that that raises money rather than costing consumers in America money. And because we'll have more money, something, I don't know, he didn't say that he would use it to spend to subsidize childcare, but I guess we're supposed to assume that's what he means. I'm confused, a lot of people are confused. White House Senior Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates said, if you have any idea what the hell that answer means you're a better detective than I am, because these tariffs that he wants to apply across the board would amount to a $4,000 tax increase on working families because

that's how tariffs work. And so it would be significantly more difficult under this plan to be able to afford childcare because you'd be out thousands of dollars that could otherwise be going towards it. Anyway, we're to get to more and we will remind everyone of J.D. Vance's swing and a miss on that same question, but what do you make of that, Jay? Yeah, so number one, he obviously has no command of the material. Like doesn't know any policy, can't begin to know policy. Number two, super obvious that he has no idea what he's going to do about child care. You know why?

Because he's not going to do anything about child care, never given up one minute of thought. That's it, look, he's never given all of these issues one minute of thought. That's why when one of his own supporters asked about housing prices, he said, well, drill, baby drill. He just goes back to the same talking points. And at this point, the talking points are all based on different donors. So we're going to stimulate the economy by giving more corporate tax cuts. Give me, send me checks, send me checks, right? Oh, you've got a problem with the rent is too high.

Drill, baby, drill. Exxon Mobil, send me checks, send me checks, send me checks. Oh, you've got a problem with child care. Elon Musk, going to take over the whole government. Elon, send me checks, send me checks. Israel. I'm going to let Miriam Anderson do whatever she wants. Send me checks, send me checks.

This is the populist talking to a bunch of rich people in the middle of New York doing word salads with absolutely no policy. So you know, people criticize Kamala Harris on two things. One I think is unfair, the other one I think is fair, but this handles both of those, okay? So on policy, they say, oh, Kamala Harris doesn't have enough policy. I don't know why people keep saying that. Like if anyone's gonna criticize her on that, it would be me. But she's introduced a lot of policies.

In fact, she's taken back more policies than Donald Trump has introduced. Okay? So, and she got very specific on housing, on grocery prices. She got so specific, everyone said, oh, no, all the CNBC anchors had collective aneurysm, right? So she has these policies, Trump has almost no policies. His policies are, me like tariffs, me give everything to donors. And then you ask him, look, simple, like housing prices, what are you gonna do? I don't know, Joe for oil.

I mean, that's a moronic answer. There's no other way to describe that than moronic. And hey, what are you gonna do about childcare? Child care is a massive problem. If you have word salad, blue cheese, walnuts, cranberries, lettuce, and drill baby drill, Elon Musk, Mirren medicine. And then the second one is word salads.

So Kamala Harris kids' criticism for some of the words salads she's done in the past, I think that is justified. I've said that many times. It's one of the things I'm worried about if the word salads come back. I'm no longer worried about it. So on policy, advantage Kamala by an order of magnitude, by thousands, okay? On word salad, now advantage Kamala. She has word salads too, but ain't nothing going to match that.

So now his word salad is 10,000 times worse. He never had any thought in his head to begin with other than me, me, me, money, money, Spotlight, spotlight, right? So those are the three things that bounce around like a confused pong in his head, right? So now, though, he's got nothing but senile word salad, no policy at all. Look, whatever issues you have with Kamala Harris, you're really going to vote for this bozo, the clown? Come on. All right, Mondale.

Listen, the seven components to write a speech like Donald Trump. Name two people, name a place, say America first, say a word from the question, say your slogan, get confused, repeat your slogan, watch this. Jesus Christ, Genghis Khan, America first, babies, child care, employing, make America great again. What the hell did we just listen to? The fact that people are talking about policy and this, now most of the time voters don't vote for policy anyway. People don't want to hear that because people want to believe that elections are about

issues when in actuality it's about personalities most of the time. And even worse, it's about the amount of money spent on certain personalities to force people to go participate in the elections. That's just the truth in the nature of our electoral process. However, however, the fact that Donald Trump people want to talk about sit down interviews and the fact that they want to brag about Donald Trump having town halls and Donald Trump doing these press conference or whatever this tea time was with rich people, it is absolutely sick that they're missing the fact that what he's saying is giving her a pass on not having to do an interview. This guy cannot finish a sentence without losing himself, but don't worry about it. Jesus Christ and gang is caught. I actually liked your speech.

I would get a ticket for that. We don't have a lot of time. Can we get video B5 ready to go? Because I want to make sure that I get your guys thoughts on this. This is a response to the same sort of question from Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk asked J.D. Vance a good question. Serious question. He was not going to get an answer for it, and that didn't seem to bother him.

but some credit for asking it. And J.D. Vance gives what I'm going to call the most condescending answer to a question I've ever heard in politics before. You guys feel free to tell me if you agree or disagree, but here it is. And I think one of the things that we can do is make it easier for family models to choose or for families to choose whatever model they want, right? So one of the ways that you might be able to relieve a little bit of pressure on people who are paying so much for daycare is make it so that, you know, maybe like,

Like grandma or grandpa wants to help out a little bit more. Or maybe there's an aunt or uncle that wants to help out a little bit more. If that happens, you relieve some of the pressure on all the resources that we're spending in daycare. So J.D. Vance has asked a question from Charlie Kirk, an incredibly friendly interviewer to a J.D. Vance. And he says, child care is too expensive. How are you going to bring down prices? And J.D. Vance, theoretically a human, responds, have you thought about asking Grandma? Maybe she would help, and then you wouldn't have to pay for it. Yeah.

That's insane. So it's, look, guys, to me, the more interesting part of that answer is how they wrap everything in the frame of freedom. And he said, well, you know, give parents the choice of whatever model they want for child care. you know, you could have grandpa and grandpa or an aunt and uncle take care of them because we're not going to help you. That's the answer. The real answer is where, what do you mean choice? What choice?

If you said, hey, the government is here to, it can help on this or you could go with grandma and grandpa, that would be a choice. Here, you're saying, I'm going to give you nothing. So your only choice is grandma and grandpa or an aunt and uncle. But I wrapped that in freedom, so it sounded good. No, corporations don't want you to have child care. And so because God forbid that their taxes should be raised by 0.01% so you're not going to get child care because Mr. venture capitalist J.D. Vance is never ever going to help you as the average person.

These are the so-called populace. So to summarize, Trump, what do you think about child care? Tariffs. Hey, J.D. Vance, what do you think about child care? Go get grandpa to help you. Wow, you guys seem like you're really looking out for us. I think that is a wonderful analysis, like the fact that you said that the real answer is we're not going to help you. The government's not going to help you. And that is a tragic situation to be in because America spends less on early child care and we see it when kids are an adult. So this idea that we want to put young kids who are super impressionable who should be around other kids of their age in a learning environment, we want to put them with grandma and grandpa while they're trying to find their teeth and glasses is absolutely ridiculous.

And it also is why America is having the problems we're having with our adults and their love of ARs and not each other. Yeah. Yeah, and it's both of you are 100% right. I just think like that audience is full of parents. And they're they like him. They're looking to him to say something smart because he's the smart guy after all, right? He's the guy who really understands the working man, even though neither him nor Donald Trump have ever had to worry about the cost of child care. Because by the time they had kids, they were multi-millionaires many times over. they've literally never had to worry about that. And they're told, have you considered asking family? I have a child.

My mom helps. The reason she helps is how could we possibly afford to do it any other way? I did not need a Silicon Valley millionaire to tell me to ask family to help. I was forced into that position. I'm very glad that she gets to spend time with her and that my mom is around to do that. But it's just so deeply condescending. Like, forget libs. Like, he doesn't care if he condescended lips.

To conservative struggling to pay for this, every conservative has already had that thought, J.D. Vance, you're not breaking new ground, okay? They know they can ask family if they're lucky enough to have family that's free to do it. And so like to say that and to imply that that's some new idea. He's shedding light on a new problem. He is, he is so not the person he was pitched to be. No charisma whatsoever, no ability to interact with the common man. No, no interesting new ideas. He's worse than Ron DeSantis. He was a terrible pick for VP. My idea of Ben Carson's looking pretty good right now, I think, actually. Yeah, last word goes to one of our viewers. Jack Spain wrote in a super chat. Do they not realize that grandma and grandpa are working to?

Also true. Another good point. A 26-year-old American woman was allegedly fatally shot in the head by Israeli forces in the West Bank earlier today. This is Aishinor Aige, who's also a Turkish citizen. So she is reported to have been participating in a protest against Jewish settlement expansion in the town of Beta. Beta is next to a settler outpost named Eviatar, which was unauthorized by the Israeli state until it was finally legalized earlier this year. John Oliver actually did a great episode on how some of these that had been protested against and weren't even authorized eventually just are. The Israeli government's just like, okay, you weren't supposed to be there for years and years, but I guess we're good with it now. In any event, she had been involved in a campaign to protect farmers from Israeli settler violence.

And here is another one of the demonstrators from that protest recounting what it happened. Stand with solidarity with the people of Betta against the expropriation of the lands of them, the mountain called Jabile Sabir, in order to build a colony on it, the colony of Eviatau. We came here and peaceful demonstrations was violently oppressed by tear gas, by live ammunition. And in other means, at some point, we had gunfire, we looked at the back and we saw that Ayla is short in the head. She wasn't responding, and an ambulance came and evacuated her to Rafidia Hospital in Navelis. And so here is the statement from the IDF. They admit that they fired live ammunition at the demonstrators.

They said today during Israeli security forces activity adjacent to the area of beta, the forces responded with fire toward a main instigator of violent activity who hurled rocks at the forces and posed a threat to them. Posed a threat to one of the most capable militaries in the world because they had rocks. And so obviously you had to shoot a young unarmed woman in the head. They say they're looking into reports that a foreign national was killed. It's all hypothetical at this point. And so they're gonna review it everybody. And I don't know about you watching this, but oh, I'm on the edge of my seat for this review.

Maybe there will be a report. That will be really exciting. Now, I also just want to mention some added context here. So absolute tragedy that I snore was killed in that way. There was another protester who I saw in a separate video that said that over the last three years, I believe the number cited was there were 13 protesters that were shot dead by the IDF at these. sorts of protests. They were all Palestinian.

And I think it's awesome that this particular instance is making international news. She's an American and so that makes it a thing that people will pay attention to. But it's not like this is the first time the IDF didn't like that Iraq was being thrown and shot someone in the head who was just protesting. It happens on a very regular basis. By the way, there is a good, wonderful Israeli citizens at that protest too. Yeah. Somehow they didn't get shot, but I'm sure they were just firing at the guys who threw rocks,

if any such guys actually existed. Look, guys, I know for Israeli supporters, like, oh, somebody threw a feather at you. Of course you killed them, right? That's not even close. But if I was in the IDF or any military, and I'm in full armor and some kid or guy throws a rock at me, I would not murder them. I know for a lot of people that's like, oh, that's outrageous. And a rock, that could hurt you.

So of course you shoot them in the head and murder them. Of course you do that. I don't find that in of course at all. In fact, I think you're deeply immoral if you do that. But this is not firing at the person throwing a rock if any such person exists that the IDF almost always lies. Okay. They just fired into the crowd. Or they shot her on purpose.

They're like, oh, not the Israelis. Whoever's not, whoever's a dirty Muslim shoot him in the head. And they shot her in the head. Now, in this case, it was inconvenient for the Israelis because if you murder a normal Palestinian Muslim, no one cares. That you just become a statistic. But in this case, it's an American citizen. So they're like, oh, this one was unfortunate.

We were in grave danger because rocks were kind of thrown maybe at us from what distance? Were they right next to the IDF? My guess is that they were very far from the IDF. The chance of those so called rocks being life threatening, come on, even if you're the most diehard Israeli supporter there is, you really, you don't believe that. You just think they should be able to murder any protest that they like. Be honest with yourself for once. And I'm not talking about all Israelis since I just told you that there were Israelis at the

protest saying, for God's sake, we've got to stop, right? But if you're one of these zealots who are like, ah, oh, you throw anything, you go, oh, yeah, it was right to murder you under any circumstances. And if you say, oh, I object to the term murder. So in Gaza, they made over 30,000, even taking the IDF numbers on how many Hamas was in Gaza that they killed. Even if you take, give them the benefit of the doubt, which you never should. You also shouldn't give it to Hamas, by the way. Over 30,000 times they accidentally killed someone.

The worst, most incompetent military in the history of the world. Oops, there goes another 8,000 people I actually. accidentally killed. Sure, you tell yourself any pretty little lie, but they just murdered an American citizen. And I got news for you, they're definitely going to get away with it. America, in stern response to this, will send them several more billion dollars.

Mondale. Yeah, I think this is absolutely, I think this is, you know, it's deterring the stair step in of life. Because like you said, we've almost lost more people in Gaza than all of American people who died during the Vietnam War and Gaza is nowhere near the size of the United States. It is tragic that we allow Israel to get away with what they're getting away with under Benjamin Netanyahu's government. And it's not just a new thing. I mean, like they've literally been taking land for 50 plus years and it's as at their discretion

what they and how much they're going to take. Eighty-six percent of East Jerusalem right now is under Israeli control for Israelis. It is absolutely crazy that there's 750,000 people, Jewish people living on private land that belong to Palestinian, less than 50 years, five years before I was born, standing there, all of that land was Palestinians. And yet a government that is not Palestinian of Palestinians or looking out for Palestinian,

allow for their citizens to come take this land. Anywhere else, the rest of the world will be screaming. Actually, I think we're supporting Ukraine for Russia doing the exact same damn thing to them. So it is absolutely disgusting that you see an American protesting the atrocities that is Israeli's government right now. And as you said, the only punishment will be someone, one person will not be on the tank to next week, but he'll be back in the military problem from now.

Yeah, their kangaroo court for the idea of military courts, it quits 99% of the time. Oh, you shot her right in the head. Oh, and it looks like you totally intended it, if that's the kick. Not guilty. Wait, hold on, I'm sorry. Let me do this right. Was she Muslim? She was?

Not guilty. Okay, so keep it real. America's not going to do anything, but send them a thank you check for murdering a U.S. citizen. All right, we got to go. Everybody check out John on the Damage Report over a million subs, super proud. Check it out on YouTube. Check out Mondale on Rebel headquarters.

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