The Young Turks - House of Horror

Episode Date: October 11, 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. All right, well, the young Turks, jank you're Anna Kasparian with you guys. Live, obviously, from the Polymarket Studio at L.A. Why am I doing like that? No one knows. I'm trying to lighten the mood because we have two impending disasters headed down the barrel, okay?

Well, I mean, we already had a disaster literally in Florida, obviously, and let alone in North Carolina, Georgia with the two hurricanes I did. But that's not what I'm referring to. One is the broadening war in the Middle East. We've got more on that for you guys, unfortunately. And Israel's totally out of control. And I mean that very literally, we'll explain when we get there. But also, the polls have turned significantly. So I did it live about this last night.

we're going to talk about it more here. Kamala Harris is definitely the underdog now to the point where I have started to buckle up. So let's hold on, you know, nothing's done yet, but not great numbers. It's weird. So trying to appeal to disaffected Republicans isn't working? The seven Republicans in the suburbs they were going to get with the raw, raw, Dick Cheney, corporate CEOs, hasn't worked. Huh, I wonder who said that earlier, but who's also outside of radical, you know,

populace that no one should listen to. I thought you were right winger, though. Also that. I happened to accidentally be correct about almost every part of this campaign for the last year, but it's okay, the establishment guys have more status. They get it. So since they have higher status, I'm sure that they're right. And the fact that they're now losing with about 25 days left to go, and we're in absolute panic mode,

and not just according to me, but according to James Carville and David Axelrod, but I'm sure they've got it on lockdown and the geniuses, the brain trust that brought you the Biden campaign that's now currently running the Kamala Harris campaign, I'm sure they've got it all figured out. But let's give you the news. Well, we actually begin with some international news on that broadening war in the Middle East. So let's take a look at what's happening in Lebanon. Their job has to look at infractions across the border, either by Israel or by Hezbollah, but they're under threat. Israel has asked them to vacate their bases.

Now, Unifil have said that that's not something they are willing to do. In fact, the Irish president, who an island is a major component of the peacekeeping force, Michael Higgins has said it was outrageous that the Israeli defense forces, Israeli army threatened unifil peacekeepers and attempted them to get them to evacuate the villages and towns that they're supposed to be protecting. The United Nations is calling out Israel and the Israeli defense forces for intentionally opening fire at peacekeepers in Lebanon, wounding two of them as a result. Now, there are two separate episodes where Israelis ended up risking the lives of these UN peacekeepers.

One of them was in Nakura and the other was in Labune, which is nearby. Now, let's start with Nakura and what happened there. The two soldiers, luckily, are not dead. It's actually a shocking update to that story, considering the fact that oftentimes we do these stories, people do end up dying, but they receive treatment at the hospital. they do not have life-threatening injuries. However, those two individuals were from Indonesia, and it's important to kind of know what Unifil is, right?

So Unifil is a peacekeeping group in Lebanon, and they were formed after the Israelis had left the occupied territories of Lebanon. And so the whole point is to keep the peace between, you know, Hezbollah and the Israelis. And what's interesting is it seems like they're being targeted here. So the peacekeeping mission in Lebanon or Unifil says that the Israeli tank hit an observation tower at their headquarters in Nakura. And according to a Unifil spokesperson, Israel's military established new positions right next to this peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon. And the IDF was firing at Hezbollah positions from those locations, which obviously put the lives of civilians and in this case the peacekeepers at risk. Israel's military, though, says it had asked Unifil to relocate its personnel as it invaded

southern Lebanon, but that the mission had declined to do so. An Israeli military official confirmed the presence near that peacekeeping base and said that Hezbollah was launching rockets from next to the base with impunity. But I think the second incident is the more questionable one, if I want to be generous in the way I describe it. This is the one that happened in Labune, which is about two miles. away from Nakura. And so basically it appears that the IDF was intentionally targeting the peacekeepers in

the second episode, which because the IDF soldiers ended up hitting the entrance of a bunker at this separate base nearby where the peacekeepers are sheltering. So Unifil said vehicles and communications equipment were damaged. It also said that a day earlier, Israeli soldiers had fired at and disabled the the security cameras around the perimeter of the UN facility in Labune. I wonder why they did that. Real strange. Now, any deliberate attack, this is a statement, of course, from the UN on peacekeepers

is a grave violation of international humanitarian law. The UN force said in a statement on Thursday, adding that it was following up with the Israeli military. But when asked for comment, Israel's military said it was doing what they always do, looking into the reports that its forces had fired on peacekeepers. And look, we know what the results of those internal investigations end up being. Either they don't ever follow up and we never hear about it again because they commit some other atrocity that people are outraged by.

Or they say that they have cleared the IDF of any wrongdoing and it was totally the fault of some militant that was using human beings as a human shield. So I'm not really giving Israel any faith in doing a proper investigation into this. Oh, they're doing an investigation of themselves. The kind that acquits them 99% of the time. Huh, interesting. I'm on pins and needles to see how that'll turn out. But human shields is a very relevant thing that we just mentioned here.

I'm going to come back to that in a second. So first, why do they want the peacekeepers to move out? Why does Israel want that? Well, the peacekeepers are supposed to be keeping a buffer zone there so the both sides don't transgress too much. Oh, right. Israel would like to occupy a bigger part of southern Lebanon. So in order to do that, they have to move the peacekeepers out.

So if you wanted to move the peacekeepers out to grab more land in southern Lebanon, what's the first thing you do? You need to evacuate to a safer location. Now why? And after you say to, hey, listen, this location's not safe anymore. I know because you're shooting into it. Yeah, that's right. We are. So, and we don't want basically Israel saying we literally don't want peacekeepers here, right?

And so then what's the second thing you would do? maybe shoot out the cameras so people don't see the crimes you're about to commit against the United Nations. A day earlier, yeah. Huh, that seems pretty, you know, thinking ahead of time. Let's put it that way, right? So then what would you do? Well, you'd fire it's the peacekeepers so that you can then say, well, now that we fired at them, they're biased. Like, they're biased against us because we try to murder them. So that's why you can't trust the peacekeepers anymore. They should just get rid of them entirely. How do they make an excuse for targeting the bunker where Italian members of Unifil are sheltering?

Was Hezbollah shooting from the bunker? Yeah, that leads to two important things. Number one, Israel's totally out of control now. And so firing at Italians, what are you nuts? Are you nuts? Okay, so the people of Israel, the people that support Israel, you really think, I know you think that you're defending yourself against the mighty Palestinians and the mighty Lebanese who are about to wipe you out any second now.

And you can't see because you're so blinded by your bias. No, you're Goliath. You have a massive military that has now attacked five of your neighbors. Lebanon has not entered into Israel. Israel has entered into Lebanon. I know you can't see any of that. But why on God's green earth would you be trying to kill peacekeepers and attack Italians? You know why?

Because you're out of control, totally out of control. So look, Naomi Klein had a brilliant article. You should all read it. We'll get the link. We'll put it in the description box below if you're watching this later. Because she explained how Israel, not Jewish people, she's Jewish. Okay, that's why never make it about our Jewish brothers and sisters. It's not about that at all.

But she explains Israel is using victimization and mourning as an excuse to go on the offense. And then when you see it frame that way and you see her trace Israeli actions, oh, we are the victims. Look at how badly we were hurt. And then using that as an excuse to grab more land, to do more atrocity, do worse than what was done to them over and over and over. again. And so it's so she explains it perfectly in that sense. So here they've, they're saying, we have a right to defend ourselves. That's why we invaded a foreign country with ground troops and took land. Gee, who, who said they were defending the homeland and took nearby land before? You could have come up with a lot of analogies, by the way. It's not just one group of people.

It is every aggressor, every imperial power that would like to take more land. Now, back to human shields, Zana because this is super important. Okay. So in the midst of this article, they explained last week, a uniform spokesman said that Israel's military had established new positions beside a peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon and had been firing at Hezbollah positions from those locations, raising concerns about the peacekeeper's safety. So wait, let's focus on that quote.

So Israel took a position behind the peacekeepers inviting Hezbollah to attack through the peacekeepers keepers or not attacked at all, oh, that's a human shield. Israel and the IDF is literally using the UN peacekeepers as human shields right now in Lebanon. They are doing everything that they said they despised. And that's how humanity works. Power leads to corruption and absolute power leads to absolute corruption. Let's talk about absolute power because, you know, I think anyone who doesn't really have a dog in the fight. I have no dog in the fight. I just want this killing to stop.

I want the war to stop. You look at the situation and you can see how Israel's, you know, governance and their military is more and more out of control as this war broadens, the longer this war goes on. And the reason why this is happening is because Israel knows that it has the backing of the globe's foremost military superpower. And that's the United States. And And so what did State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller have to say about this incident? What does he see Unifil's role as being? And before we go to this clip, I want to remind you all, this is an international coalition of peacekeepers, okay? You have representatives from dozens of different countries serving as part of Unifil, and they are soldiers.

So I mean, when you talk about peacekeeping, the peacekeeping mission, they're supposed to have the ability to act as soldiers. In some cases, even use force in order to keep the peace, if one side is acting belligerent or is threatening that peace with violence. So with that in mind, here's what Matthew Miller thinks the role of Unifil should be. What is it that you want Unifil to do? Nothing? Just stand there and watch? So we want to ultimately see Unifil fulfill its security role. The question about what they do in the immediate days is a question for Unifil to make. Not the United States, but we want to see them not be put in harm.

Sure. Yeah, but they're a peacekeeping force. Correct. There are peacekeeping force there to push Hezbollah back from the border. So you don't see Unifil as having any role in terms of Israelis going into Lebanon. Their role is there to keep Hezbollah back. Now, for a variety of reasons, Unifil and the Laf have not been able. Peacekeeping involves.

You're keeping the peace not between one side. But for a variety of reasons, Unifil and Laf have not been able to prevent Hezbollah from sitting in those areas just over the border from Israel and launching rocket strikes and other attacks against Israel. So Israel is taking steps. What has the United States done to stop Israeli aggression against Lebanon? To stop them from bombing, literally bombing Beirut. Yeah, they're taking on entire apartment buildings.

Over 2,000 dead already in Beirut. But also just look at how one side of that was, Jank, right? Unifil is there to aid and abet Israel. That's it. That's the only reason why we believe they should be there. So that right there was so telling. And Israel attacking the peacekeepers are so telling because that's Matthew Miller going, no, no, no, peace aren't to keep the peace between the two different sides.

The peacekeepers are supposed to be frauds who are supposed to attack Hezbollah on Israel's behalf. And on our behalf, I don't want them keeping the peace with Israel. know if Israel wants war, then the U.S. should be for war and the peacekeepers should be for war as long as Israel wants it. Guys, look, that's why I said in the beginning, they're totally out of control. Why did I emphasize them hitting not just the UN but like allies like Italy and Spain is outraged or France is outraged and all these. The only reason you would do that is if you think I'm above the law. I won't follow any war crimes. I won't follow any laws. I don't care about international law. I don't care about allies. I killed American journalists

in America sent me a thank you note and a $26 billion check. They've killed more journalists than any, all the other conflicts combined. They've killed over a thousand health care workers in Palestine. There's stories about a hundred American doctors saying to the New York Times and to the administration, they're shooting an extraordinary percentage of children in the head. Yeah. So that is unbelievable because they're saying we're going to break everything. Every law and convention there is, we don't care about humanitarian laws. And what you're not realizing if you support Israel is, that's them saying we're officially the bad guys.

We kill civilians, we kill health. You know how many ambulances they've already bombed in Lebanon? You know they've almost destroyed all of the hospitals in Gaza? You know how many kids are starving to death right now in Gaza? You think you're the good guys? You're not within a billion miles of the good guys. And so when you attack the United Nations peacekeepers, what you're saying is, I'm attacking peace itself. I'm attacking the entire world because I think me and my one ally, the United States, are stronger than the rest of you.

And I don't have to follow your laws or your morality. I could just kill anyone I like and take any land I like. So the more, the deep immorality of this Israeli government will haunt us all. It'll haunt them. It'll haunt them. You think this is going to lead to peace for the Israelis? Which, by the way, I don't think Netanyahu and that disgusting government care about it all. Because think about it.

I mean, look, the Iron Dome and the defense capabilities that Israel has, luckily is able to shoot down a lot of the missiles that are being fired into Israel. They're being fired into Israel because Israel is, you know, bombing the crap out of Beirut. Gaza, Syria, all these different countries, but guess what? Some of them land. And two innocent civilians in Israel got killed recently. Netanyahu and that far right government has blood on its hands. All over its hands, are you kidding me, hands, feet, the whole body.

This is some of the worst war crimes of our lifetime. This is a crime against humanity happening right in front of our eyes. Kids who looked like they came straight out of the Holocaust, starving. There's one kid that the doctor's report, his whole family's dead. Did we get to that part of the story? Yeah, we will. Hold on. So in that, and he says, you know what?

What's the point of living? Why don't I just go join the rest of my family in heaven? And so if you can't see that you've become what you despised, there's something wrong with you, deeply wrong with you. So, so I don't want to hear any garbage about anti-Semitism. So you don't get to murder and slaughter. slaughter children and doctors and peacekeepers, and then claim that you're offended at the criticism.

I'm offended by the war crimes and the crimes against humanity, and you're making us pay for. It's disgusting, and history will judge you super harshly for what you've done. And this is what happens every time. Power corrupts absolute power corrupts absolutely. So it is our fault in America, that we have given them absolute power. And every time you do a war crime, we go, well, the peacekeepers shouldn't have been there. You know, the U.S. should be killed as long as Israel is doing it. Here's another check.

I'm sick of sending them checks to slaughter more people. The government of Israel is totally and utterly out of control. And they're a danger to the whole planet. Let's take a break. When we come back, I think it's important to get into the details about what doctors, international doctors who have been, you know, donating their time and their effort and their energy. in Gaza, what they've been seeing when it comes to literal children showing up at these hospitals. We'll be right back.

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And now some of the international doctors, including American doctors, are speaking out about the pattern of children in Gaza who are getting shot in the head. So you can actually read a lengthy piece written by one surgeon who has spent some time in Gaza. It's in the New York Times titled 65 doctors, nurses and paramedics, what we saw in Gaza. And in this op-ed, Dr. Faroze Sidwa, who's a trauma and general surgeon, details these experiences in Khan Yunis. He was in Con Unis for two weeks. And here's what he writes. Nearly every day I was there, I saw a new young child who had been shot in the head or chest, virtually all of whom went on to die, 13 in total.

There's more. At the time, I assumed that this had to be the work of a particularly sadistic soldier located nearby. But after returning home, I met an emergency medicine physician who had worked in a different hospital in Gaza two months before me. I couldn't believe the number of kids I saw shot in the head, I told him. To my surprise, he responded, yeah, me too, every single day. So Sidwa actually spoke to 65 other health care workers. 44 of them said that they had seen cases of pre-teen children shot either in the head or the chest.

And out of these 65 individuals who he spoke to, 57 of them were actually willing to go on the record to talk about what they experienced in Gaza. One of those doctors is Dr. Mohamed Rasul, Abu Noir, who's a bariatric and four-gut surgeon. This is a quote from that individual. So one night in the emergency department over the course of four hours, I saw six children between the ages of five and 12, all with single gunshot wounds to the skull. There's more. Another doctor by the name of Irfan Galaria said, our team cared for about four or five children ages five to eight years old. They were all shot with single shots to the head.

They all presented to the emergency room at the same time. They all died. Israel has become what they most despised. So shooting children in the head. I mean, does it get worse than that? Is there a form of terrorism that's worse than that? So now you like collateral damage? What do you mean?

You shot him in the head. That's not, oh man, shrapnel flew into the wrong side of the street and killed one kid by accident. No, dozens and dozens of kids shot in the head by monsters, total monsters. So guys, why has this happened? It's not because of religion or ethnicity. It happens every time in humanity. When you have someone who is powerless, they get crushed, and then they try to fight back in some way. And the occupying power then uses that as excuse to do horrible things to the people that they were abusing in the first place and occupying in the first place.

This has happened throughout history, different religions, different ethnic backgrounds hundreds of times. But Israel can't see that they have become the powerful and that they have become the abusers and the oppressors. and the occupiers, they have become the thing that they feared and loathed the most. And so if I know, because they're in such a blind, biased rage, and they think that they are the tiny little David fighting against the mighty Palestinians because they have lost their minds. You'd have to be institutionalized. You'd have to be a different level of crazy to think that the Palestinians are oppressing the Israelis. You have, you're a lunatic if you believe that. But you can't talk them out of it. Well, we're the victims. We had to shoot their children

in the head. And by reporting it, you're being mean to us. You should just let the government of Israel shoot kids in the head and shut up about it. Otherwise, we're going to say, you're the hateful person. No, that's not working anymore at all. No, the people who advocate for the slaughter and annihilation of Gaza, you are deeply immoral. The other guys are not the bad guys, you're the bad guys. And if that breaks your heart, good. You should live in shame for what Israel is doing if you support it. And for the children who managed to survive, the peace also gets into some details about what they are experiencing and how much they wish they weren't alive.

So one child who had lost all of his family wished he had been killed too, saying everyone I love is in heaven. I don't want to be here anymore. Sorry, I don't want to be here anymore. Pediatric critical care doctor Tanya Hodge Hassan said. It is so disgusting that we are aiding and abetting this, that the U.S. government is funding this. This is what we're doing. It's really important for people to know that. So in the last story, we told you about Israel now shooting at UN peacekeepers and using them as human shields reported in the New York Times. This is reported in the New York Times. over and over again, they have the documentation, they have the evidence. They write in to the White House, in that case, about 100 US doctors.

And they say we have seen some of the worst crimes of our lifetimes. This is, these atrocities are unspeakable and they've already killed a thousand Palestinian health workers because they're killing people in the ambulances. And now in Lebanon, they've started bombing ambulances again, 65 ambulances already knocked out by Israel. The people inside murdered. It's not collateral damage to hit an ambulance. That's exactly right. Do you remember, do you remember why Chelsea Manning was imprisoned and placed in solitary confinement and torture? Do you remember why? Well, one of the main things was the Apache helicopter video. What was the Apache helicopter video? So that's when US fired on Iraqis,

if I remember, right? Yeah. And so then they see ambulances arriving. and healthcare workers arriving, and they murder them too. That was us, by the way. That was a huge scandal. That was a huge scandal, such a huge scandal, that the U.S. government was embarrassed by it and decided to rain terror on Chelsea Manning for leaking that information. And by the way, you know who did that?

The legendary saint, Barack Obama. At the very end, he pardoned her, right? But he tortured her, he detained her, he drove Edward Snow down to the country. because if anyone tells you how evil the U.S. government is being, they have to be chased to the end of the earth. They have to be captured, imprisoned, their liberties taken away. You know how many people that actually murdered those health care workers in the Apache helicopter video went to jail?

Zero. Do you know how many Israeli soldiers that have murdered people in ambulances in Gaza and Lebanon and have destroyed hospitals have gone to jail? Zero. The ones that starved the babies knocked out the incubators, so that the newly born babies would die. How many of them have gone to jail? Zero, because in Israel, and by extension, us,

because we finance all of their war crimes. Their crimes against humanity, museums will be built based on the horrors of what Israel is doing right now as we speak. And we financed all of it. And there'll be a whole special wing on America and our disgusting politicians who gave that monster, Netanyahu standing ovation after standing ovation,

Blank check after blank check, and you think they don't know they're shooting the babies in the head? You think they don't know that it's not collateral damage? You think they don't know that they're grabbing land? That they, in the West Bank, throughout the last 57 years, they have grabbed bigger and bigger chunks of land, put in lunatic settlers who believe that Jews are superior to everyone. And if anyone doesn't agree, they murder them. And they drive them from their land and they steal it. It is not because they're Jewish.

It is because power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. But we empower these lunatics to go, oh, you guys are superior. Go kill them and take their land. Oh, because you're defending yourself. This is not defending yourself. And by the way, October 7th. So the guys who could blow up every pager and every walkie talking in Lebanon and knew exactly where Nostrola was after he said he would sign the ceasefire.

They knew exactly where it was. They know all of this incredible intelligence. They knew where every nuclear physicist in Iran was and murder all of them. They know all of that. But golly gee, when they got handed this giant plan of Hamas to attack on October 7th, they just couldn't figure out how to stop it. And then, as Naomi Klein brilliantly writes about, oh, we are in mourning. We are the victims.

So we're going to have to go take a big chunk of Gaza, annihilated first, then demand to occupy it. Meanwhile, kill people in the West Bank, take more of their land. Meanwhile, invade southern Lebanon, take more of their land. You see how we are defending ourselves. Oh, we are the tiny little victims. No, you're not. You're the monster Goliath now, and it breaks my heart, and it should break your heart. All right, let's change gears, talk a little bit about what's currently happening with

the U.S. presidential elections, starting with this. But really nobody makes the case against lying Kamala Harris better than Kamala herself. So Kamala just said that she can't think of one thing she'd do differently than crooked Joe Biden, right? Well, as expected, Kamala Harris' comments on The View are coming back to haunt her. As Donald Trump exploits a statement that she made about how she would do nothing differently than Joe Biden should she get elected into office as president of the United States. In fact, here's a reminder of what she said.

If anything, would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years? There is not a thing that comes to mind in terms of, and I've been a part of most of the decisions that have had impact. Now Republicans are planning to use that clip in a massive ad campaign in the hopes of tying Kamala Harris to all of Biden's leadership and issues. Trump also played a clip or the clip at a rally in Pennsylvania yesterday for the crowds to hear in real time. One Trump ally told Axios, quote, expect to see this clip every single time you turn on the television between now and November 5th. And this is something that we warned about. The one thing that Kamala Harris is polling well on is that she is seen as a change candidate.

That is working to her favor. And so when she ties herself to Joe Biden and says, no, I would do nothing differently, Well, that's not going to bode well for her because she's signaling that it's going to be a continuation of this administration, which whether you like it or not, does not have a great approval rating and could hurt her in the election. Yeah, look, anytime we try to warn them, they say, oh, you like Trump. No, we're trying to beat Trump. At least I am, okay? And if you want to beat him, saying, oh, I agree with a deeply unpopular president who none of you like and who's polling in the low 30s, They haven't pulled him in a while.

He might be in the upper 20s now. How does that help beat Trump? That's a really terrible answer. So, and a lot of this is Joe Biden's fault, because there's internal stories about anytime Kamala Harris' distances are herself from Joe Biden, Joe and Jill Biden apparently get all animated. And they're like, how dare you? He's the most important person in the world.

Who cares if you lose? Who cares if Donald Trump wins? I mean, when we were running, we were losing to him by eight points. We had no chance of winning, and we didn't care, as long as the glory of Joe Biden is appeased, right? And trumpeted. So now, Kamala Harris, listening to these idiots, and remember, she adopted the Biden campaign team, filled to the rim with utter morons who were getting annihilated by Donald Trump, who was about three brain cells in his head. I mean, you'd never be, like, it's humiliating to lose to Donald Trump, and they're getting their asses handed to them. Now again for God's sake and these idiots thought oh yeah let's be kind to Biden and say we're

with the incredibly unpopular incumbent. So I'm gonna ask you how you would have answered that question in just a minute but let me just say I understand that Kamala Harris is in a difficult spot when she is confronted with that kind of question because it's not just that she used to serve in the Biden administration years ago and doesn't want to hurt his feelings it's that she's the vice president of the Biden administration right now. Yeah, who cares? Okay, so it's a great question. So because guys, understand why it's a great question. It's easy to say that only one side of it, right? I'm not unaware that Kamala Harris has to seem like she's not too disloyal because that will make her less likable,

right? And that might depress voter turn out in some small ways, even though the Democrats that love Biden are all going to vote and they're all going to vote for Kamala Harris. So you don't have to worry too much about that flank, but you still have to care about optics, et cetera, right? So the right way to answer that is, and look, I'm not saying, be honest. If I was honest, I'd say, I got nothing to do with that guy, okay? I don't want anything to do with that guy at all. Here's my plans on how I'm going to fight for you. But I know she can't do that. So here's what I would do. I would say, look, Joe Biden has been a terrific president. Look at all these amazing things that we passed. Infrastructure built. We're going to build bridges

and roads all over the country is going to create millions of jobs. And we got internet to even rural area. So I'm so proud that I worked with Joe Biden on these wonderful accomplishments that we had. Do we have some disagreements? Of course we do. We're two individual human beings. We fought against each other in the 2020 primary, but he was so magnanimous in accepting me as his vice president. But I got to tell you, so what I love about Joe Biden is he cares so much about the system and the rules and how we have to have tradition, et cetera. So that's why, and he comes from the Senate. That's why he respects the rules and the traditions of the Senate so much. But I'm a different person and I don't. So when they say to me,

we can't pass paid family leave, we can't pass higher minimum wage, we can't pass a public option because of the filibuster and the parliamentarian. I respect Joe Biden's position and a lot of Democrats and Republicans' position on that. But my position is I don't care about the filibuster or the parliamentarian. I'm going to get this done. If you have a baby in this country, you're going to get 12 weeks off. There's no possible scenario where I let these corporations drive you back to work the day after you had a baby. It's not going to happen, and I don't give a goddamn about the parliamentarian or a filibuster. Voting rights, we're going to get that immediately.

And I don't care if the parliamentarian thinks that people shouldn't have civil rights. We're going to get higher wages. You know why? Because it's got to keep up with inflation. They say, oh, the wages are causing the inflation. No, the wages are barely keeping up with inflation. I'm going to fight for the average man. How would that answer be?

It's a good answer. I don't know if she has the capability of giving an answer like that. Isn't that so sad? It is, it is sad. That the Democrats have all of these people in the country to choose from. And they can't find one person to give that answer. Okay, you say, like, I don't know if you, like, if any of you thought, no, Jank, that's not the right.

I like Kamla's answer better. Okay, well, it doesn't matter what you like. What matters is what the general electorate thinks and how they feel about it. And she's slipping in the polls. And so look, if you've been paying close attention and if you watch this show, you definitely have been paying close attention, there was a pivot at some point in her campaign where she kind of moved off of the more, you know, economic populist messaging and tried to center her campaign on attracting the disaffected Republicans.

And so she starts talking about her Glock. She starts talking about, you know, how she's, she loves capitalism and she wants to do something for the business community. And she made the mistake that she made on the view by tying her, you know, future agenda to that of Joe Biden's. And so what are we seeing in the polls? There's a new New York Times, Sienna College poll. And there is a bit of good news. Even though she said what she said on the view, it does appear that the majority of voters seem to think that she represents change. So let's take a look at that graphic. So it says, which candidate represents change more, 46% say that Kamala Harris does, 44% say that Donald Trump does,

but just a note of caution, the results are within the margin of error. So Kamala Harris's lead is within the margin of error of 2.4 percentage points. But that was the first time that the Times-Siena College poll where Harris had been identified as the candidate of change. Now, a Gallup poll released today found that Kamala Harris has a major lead when it comes to likeability as well. That doesn't surprise me. I think that the way she carries herself definitely makes her a more likable person. Donald Trump likes to, you know, cause conflict and all of that. So let's take a look at that.

So 60% of respondents say that Harris is likable compared to 38% who said the same about Trump. More respondents also said Harris has a strong moral character and is honest. and trustworthy. But Trump also has some clear advantages, according to the polling. So let's take a look at the next one. So nearly 60% of respondents said Trump is a strong and decisive leader compared to 48% of voters who said the same about Harris. 61% of respondents say Trump can get things done compared to 49% for Kamala. Additionally, if we go back to the New York Times poll that I referenced earlier, 42% of respondents said Trump's policies had helped them personally compared with 22% who said the same about Biden's policies.

So again, going back to what she said on the view, she needs to move off that messaging entirely because if you look at the polling, it indicates that a far higher percentage of Americans felt that their lives were better or benefited under Trump's policies versus Biden's policies. All right, one of our members on Twitch, Jesperado, said, how's Harris's campaign going to bounce back from this? It's not over yet. Please tell me it's not over yet. No, it's not over yet. And so, look, I might, you know, do something different at the end of this show.

Just stay tuned right here, okay, because I've got to explain, apparently they're not getting it. So I've got to explain how to beat Donald Trump. And so is it still possible? Yeah, you've got 25 days left. In a normal election, 25 days goes by in a blink of an eye and really doesn't make much of a difference. It's almost over by the time. you're at this point, right? But in this election, 25 days is in lifetime.

The lead can change three or four times, though. So it's not likely that it's going to. The usual pattern is, it gets locked in around now, okay? So I'm not saying, oh, yeah, don't worry, it'll go bounce back and forth. They might never bounce back, okay? But yes, it can bounce back. So look, guys, the situation is dire because she's now losing not only according to the public polls, but according to private polls and other places, six out of seven of the swing states.

Yeah, let's take a look at the average. But they're really close. So let's show you the numbers, and then we'll talk about how to get back in the right direction. So this is Graphic Six. It's the real clear politics average of polls. So this isn't based on one poll. And it looks at the swing states. And as you can see, Trump does have a lead in most of these swing states.

It's not a giant lead. So I don't think all is lost for the Harris campaign. But it does signal that Harris is headed in a bad direction and should maybe reconsider the pivot that she has recently engaged in to attract neocons and disaffected Republicans. So those are the average of polls. But when you look at the most recent polls, they're all trending towards Trump, including in Wisconsin. So there she's losing in five out of seven polls. As I explained last night, Mark Halperin says in his private polling, she's losing almost all the swing states. You can say, hey, Mark Halper, I don't really trust that guy.

And what do you mean private polling, et cetera? But then you look at the Democratic reaction. James Carville, David Axelrod, and others are all over TV going, we're in trouble. We don't think we won this election. We didn't win this election. We've got to work really hard. We have to be quote unquote aggressive, et cetera, because they're seeing the same numbers we're seeing. It's all trending against Kamala Harris.

So whether it's five or six out of the seven swing states is irrelevant. Because if she doesn't win those states, it's over, right? And she doesn't have to win all of them. But she does have to almost definitely has to win Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. If she doesn't win those three, she'd have to pull off a miracle upset other in other places. And right now, she's losing in Michigan and Pennsylvania. And it's not trending in the right direction in Wisconsin. it. So it's bad. It's definitely bad. Okay, so how can you turn it around? Well, look, I can spend

hours and hours talking about that and I probably will at some point. But the things not to do, so she realized, oh wait, me saying, me bear hugging Biden didn't play well. So she goes on Stephen Colbert and Stephen Colbert says, what are you looking forward to doing when you get into the White House? Easiest question in the world. That should be the number one question you're prepared for whenever you're running, right? And she says, well, first of all, First of all, I'm not Joe Biden. Okay, good, I'm glad you adjusted, but it's a weird time to say that, right? What are you going to do?

But wait, wait, wait, that would be fine by itself. The next thing she says is, and I'm not Trump. Oh my God. Yes, but what are you going to do? What are you going to do? Okay, so these are terrible answers. And then she mumbles for about a minute, and then she finally gets back around to some of her policies. What are we doing here?

What are we doing here? What are we doing? Talk about your policies. Go populous. So here's one proposal. Again, it's symbolic, but in and of itself, this would do it. It's not too late. So she's already proposed on price gouging the housing, and then she dropped it because

business interests and donors yelled at her, right? So you need something new to energize people. Donald Trump is giving away tax cuts like he's Oprah, okay? Yeah. And Tyra. Oh, look under your seats. You got a tax cut, you got a tax cut, right? Is he making it up?

is, right? But it's effective. So you don't have to make it up. Go with paid family leave. The Republicans will have to oppose you. And then you're on the side of moms. You're on the side of a proposal that 84% of Americans want. 74% of your beloved Republicans want. Instead of saying you like Dick Cheney and Republicans, why don't you say you're like paid family leave, which three-quarters of Republican voters love, okay? So that way you're appealing to the actual voters instead of appealing to these deeply unpopular people. And if you say, hey, I'm getting paid family leave pass so that every one of you, once you have a kid, you're going to get 12 weeks up. We're the only country that almost in the entire world that doesn't have it. And I'm

going to absolutely make sure that you're going to get it no matter what. And if I don't get it, you should never reelect me, okay? That's how far I'm willing to go. We're going to get that done, hell or high water, right? What is that going to force the Republicans to do? Go, oh, paid family leave is bad because all their corporate donors don't want it, right? Then you've got an amazing advantage on an incredibly popular and populist proposal that is economic and helps the average American instead of the CEOs. Will they do that? Of course not.

They won't do any of it. There isn't a single populace in the building. Nobody's even going to think of it. They're going to say, oh, what other business interests should we please? Well, that's how you lose an election. Well, why don't we actually talk about the latest proposal from Donald Trump in regard to tax breaks. When we come back from the break, don't miss that because it's an incredible story. And I can't wait to share it with you.

We'll be right back. All right, back on TYT, Jank and Anna with you guys, more news. Well, let's talk a little bit about a specific policy that Donald Trump floated recently. Let's take a look. Today, I am also announcing that as part of our tax cuts, we will make interest on car loans fully deductible. That's going to revolutionize your industry. This will stimulate massive domestic auto production. and make car ownership dramatically more affordable for millions and millions of working American

families. This is a phenomenal thing. During a campaign stop in Michigan, Detroit to be specific, Donald Trump decided to propose a specific economic proposal directed at consumers who are purchasing vehicles. Now, as we know, car prices have gone up significantly. The car industry was impacted by inflation. we have high interest rates, meaning that taking out loans in order to finance a car is far more expensive today compared to just a few years ago. And so as a result, Donald Trump is proposing that car loan interests be deductible for Americans, which I think is actually a really good policy. And if you think that this is novel, it's not. The United States actually

had this tax break and decided to end it in 1986 in order to simplify our tax code, but notice how they got rid of a deduction that ordinary Americans would benefit from to simplify their tax code. Now, he said that it'll make car ownership dramatically more affordable for millions and millions of working American families. And there is some truth to that, especially when it comes to Americans who were unfortunate enough to take out a car loan that was subprime. That was something that's been going on in the car industry.

And so when interest rates shoot up, the interest rate for that car loan also shoots up, which is why there's been a prevalence of Americans unable to make their car payments. But I'm curious what you think about this, Jank. Yeah. So first of all, I don't believe him at all. He's not going to do any of these tax breaks except the corporate one. He's going to definitely do that one because that's what he did last time. He didn't give you guys a single thing when he was in office last time, but he gave corporations the biggest tax cut in the United States history. So it's total BS. Don't believe him for a second. Having said that, it's obviously smart politics. It's old school politics.

The type of politics that both corporate Democrats and Republicans forgot about. So it's a politician going, yeah, chicken in every pot, right? They're Oprah and Tyra. You get a tax cut, you get a tax cut. Tip workers, you get a tax cut. You got an auto loan what we all do. You get a tax cut, right? And it appeals to the average guy.

It doesn't matter if it's true or not true. You just say it so that you get all those voters. Wow, that's so complicated. Meanwhile, Kamala Harris is assuring business interests that she won't harm their interests at all. Yeah. There's seven of them. Yeah, I know they're super rich and they, but they already gave you a billion dollars. You don't need their money anymore, there's only 25 days left.

So turn around and promise things to the average American. And the reason that establishment Democrats or Republicans are not used to doing that, and they don't understand like basic elementary politics is because they're in rooms with donors 24-7. And so they think the whole world is filled with super rich people who love corporate giveaways hate anything that helps the average American. So they can't see straight. So this is obviously correct political strategy by Trump. Yeah.

And a few weeks ago, or maybe it was last week, I was doing a story about Kamala Harris's pivot in her campaigning to attract, you know, business interests and also disaffected Republicans. And I said, you know, one of the things that she needs to do more. is specific policies to improve Americans lives. And people get really upset when you say that because they think, well, Trump never says anything specific or substantive. There's no policy discussion with Trump. But guys, you have to put your disdain for Trump aside and actually listen to what he says during these rallies. He does make specific proposals.

Whether or not you believe he's actually going to pursue those proposals is another thing. But no tax on tips. It's a simple, easy to understand policy that he just put out there, no tax on overtime. Again, another policy that would positively impact working class people. Now you have a tax deduction on your auto loan interest, a specific policy. He's not putting out these nebulous like, you know, statements. He is being very specific and he is specifically saying things that would attract working class voters. Okay, I need Democratic voters and viewers to understand.

There's something there's different between analysis and perspective and opinion. Analysis, this is what I think's going to happen, whether I like it or not. And then here's what I want to happen. This is the opinion that I have, right? So our analysis is that this is good politics on Trump's part. It doesn't mean that we believe him. It doesn't mean that we like him or that we want him to win. That is such an easy, easy concept.

But unfortunately, because mainstream media has programmed people, if you like someone, you always say nice things about them, it doesn't matter if it's true. If you're voting against the other person, you have to say everything is terrible about him and no matter what. So people are used to like, wait, oh, so you said something positive about Trump that he's using good political strategy. That must be, and you love Donald Trump. No, no, if you want to beat him, you have to understand what makes him tick and what works and what doesn't work. I have to explain these super simple concepts because of the mass brainwashing mainstream media has done to keep us separated in our different groups here. Yeah, I got to say though, the no tax on tips and no tax on overtime, I'm super skeptical

that he'll actually pursue that. With this, I think that there would be a possibility he would. And this is the reason why. This is something that wouldn't just benefit the consumers that would need to take out auto loans in order to buy a car, it would also benefit the auto industry because it would make financing a vehicle a lot more affordable for ordinary American. So if it stimulates the auto industry, that could be something that, you know, motivates politicians.

Oh my God, you nailed it, Anna, I just realized why this tax break rather than other tax breaks. Yeah. Because he's handing him out like candy, all these promises, and why you're right that it might happen. who's a giant auto maker, Tesla, who is now the largest donor to Donald Trump, Elon Musk? Exactly. So she's right, this one might happen, not because it benefits you, but because it benefits his biggest donor. Exactly, yeah.

And so, okay, this America is in such bad shape, man. Everything is geared around the donors, whether they're Republicans or Democrats, keep it real. If you think that they're trying to help you, oh my God, you're so naive. It's so sad to see it breaks my heart, please hold these people accountable on both sides. Now look, I don't, again, I don't want Donald Trump winning. I think he's deranged. Now he's talking about arresting people as CBS because he didn't like the way they edited an interview. And he's for freedom, freedom of speech?

No, I don't want that guy in charge. And he does projection. So remember when they were like, oh, yeah, the Democrats, they just want to give everything away, right? Like Obama phones. Oh, they're going to give phones to all black people because of Obama, right? And what are they doing right before the election? You get a tax break, you get a tax break. Basically, Brian, I mean, Elon Musk is talking about giving you $47 for every, for a single person that you register.

They're flooding it with money and with goodies. They're not going to do the overwhelming majority. but you must counteract them if you don't then come in as more populist you're going to lose so you what is populist means mean it doesn't mean something evil it doesn't mean good intent or bad intent it means things that appeal to the average person god they've lost track of the most elementary politics they're so blinded by their love of donors that they can't see straight. All right, we got to take a break.

When we come back for the second hour of the show, we're going to get into that 60 Minutes interview that Kamala Harris did. There were some edits, and the Trump camp is very furious about it. And so we're going to get into whether or not they have any cause for anger or concern. Stick around. We'll be right back. I don't know.