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Episode Date: June 17, 2022

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Look, the word on the street is that we're gonna have an excellent show. That's the buzz, and I'm here to tell you that the buzz is correct, okay? It's gonna happen. Ravanna, I haven't checked in in a while real quick before we get started. You still banned from Twitter? No, I got it back almost the night after our video was posted where we talked about it on that power panel. So thank you. Yeah, no problem.

Not a big deal, is the power panel a little too powerful? I mean, that's what people are saying. That's what they're buzzing about. It's just not me to report that news to you guys. So I've got that problem fixed right away. All right, awesome. I'd love to hear the sound of justice. Okay.

Speaking of justice, I bring to you John I'd rolla. Like, am I an embodiment of justice? Yes, you are Captain America. Because I don't think this story is necessary. No, no, not the story. I do have the shield, though. Thanks an awesome member of our audience. is for truth, justice in the American way.

I hear that. Justice is right in the middle of it. Well, when it comes to the news, I can do this all day. Let's jump it in the story. Oh, that's a reference, and I get it, which was also a reference. Anyway, we're going to talk about it incredible. Great, now I'm making jokes, and this is super serious. Super serious.

Serious, everyone. Rayvana, get serious. Come on. Mainly her. Mainly her. Yeah, mainly. The British government has announced that the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange can in fact be extradited, sent to the United States to stand trial on espionage

charges. Now, it isn't necessarily going to happen. He is expected to appeal it. This is how the legal system works, but it is far more likely to happen right now. And for a number of people who have been legally defending Julian Assange, are advocating on his behalf for some time. This is a particularly scary move. On the other hand, you have the Home Secretary of the UK, Pretty Patel, who said that his extradition would. not be incompatible with his human rights, including his right to a fair trial and the freedom of expression sounding like some sort of bizarre cyborg there. In any event, others are incredibly worried, not just about what can happen to him, although that's a significant

concern, but about the precedent that is being set with this ongoing legal effort and whatever the next phases could be. You have one of the heads of Amnesty International, Agnes Kalimard previously worked at the United Nations as a human rights expert said that allowing Julian Assange to be extradited to the US would put him at great risk and sends a chilling message to journalists the world over. And that might well be the intent, in fact, not just the effect. But they also say if the extradition proceeds, Amnesty International is extremely concerned that Assange faces a high risk of prolonged solitary confinement, which would violate the prohibition on torture or other ill treatment. Diplomatic assurances provided by the U.S. that Assange will not

be kept in solitary confinement, cannot be kept on face value given previous history, both in terms of how he has been held in the past, but also that's the United States criminal justice system. We use solitary confinement as like a standard everyday tool, and it is just as inhumane as Amnesty International is saying there. So we have more on this, including Juliana Sanja's wife, but I wanted to give both of you an opportunity to weigh in. Yeah, so this isn't about Assange the person. This is about principles that we have as a country or don't have. So the two, and I say that because, look, there's some things that Assange did later in this career that I didn't love, like offering $100,000 for information about stories that kind of incentivizes you to create that evidence, whether it actually exists or not.

So I've got some, like, very specific bones to pick on issues like that. But this is not about any of that. This is about his earlier work, which was exemplary. And by the way, world changing. It's, in my opinion, in a lot of ways, exactly what journalism is supposed to be. So the two principles at hand here, freedom of speech and freedom of the press, right, as one, are supposed to be our First Amendment. And more importantly, how Assange has been outcast from the rest of the press, like the government picked them off because he was easier. He didn't have a big brand. He didn't

have a multi-billion dollar corporation. So he was in the New York Times or CNN. And so they go, oh, that guy. That guy's an independent journalist. So he won't get as much backing from the rest of the press and everybody else. And he caused the most amount of trouble because he's not playing ball. The rest of the mainstream press, relatively speaking, plays ball with the people who are powerful, gives us credit for always being right. And they write down our opinions as if it's true, and I can go on and on. But he didn't play ball. So we're going to banish him.

And in that way, we intimidate the rest of the press, and we effectively take away freedom of the press, and we beat up an outsider, which the powerful love to do, right? And then the second issue is even broader, as John pointed out, it's that the rest of the world now is afraid, certainly portions of their governments and their people, are afraid to send us any detaining. Whether it's about this issue or any issue, because we torture people and we do it regularly.

And you think, oh, come on, really? Torture, that's a strong. Solitaire confinement is definitely torture by all international law. Why? Because it drives you crazy, literally, literally. It's not like, oh, metaphorically, kind of, oh, it was a little tough. I mean, even a limited period of time of solitary confinement, it causes significant mental issues, deterioration, et cetera. So they've studied it. There's no question about it.

And we do it at a barbaric rate. I mean, the rest of the world is barely now waking up to, oh, America's kind of monstrous. It's like, you know, in the old days I was sending someone to Saudi Arabia, they're going to chop off their arms and stuff, which by the way, they kind of do, right? And it's still the case, unfortunately, after all these years. And but America, I'll tell you, I mean, human rights and the United Nations and stuff. No, no, we torture people here. We did it under Cheney and Bush that was.

illegal until then and Obama afterwards said, it is now legal. Okay, I choose not to torture people, but it's not a crime anymore. So now everyone, people are very legitimately worried. Yes, Assange will be tortured and he'll be tortured for the crime of doing journalism. So that's the sick, sick state of America today. Ray Vana. Yeah, I mean, that's exactly it, right? Julian Assange is a journalist and a publisher who did journalism and publishing and is being prosecuted by the United States government for the, you know, crime of exposing their crimes and making them look bad, which, you know, is a big no-no apparently. But I also just want to point out that this is not like one party or the other.

This is a bipartisan attack on journalism because, you know, it started under Obama, continued under the Trump administration, even though he had praised Julian Assange and sort of heavily indicated that there might be, you know, some sort of pardon for him, which never came. And it's being continued under the Biden administration. So it doesn't matter what parties in power. This attack on journalism, you know, continues on. And it's also amazing. Like I understand there's this thing in the media where people just make everything about

everything else. And so I try to avoid that. But like, they've been hounding him across the face of the earth for so many years. And like, I don't know, did Trump try to do it? a coup? I don't know, we have to get into his frame of mind. Did he believe that it was a coup? Did he believe that he'd like the stuff that if like as Jank pointed out to, if you are powerful, well connected, if you are considered untouchable, you can do basically whatever you want, stuff that is far more objectively more damaging than anything that

Julian Assange did. And but on, but on the case of him, like they'll, they're going to be pursuing this. If they don't get him this time for decades, it will never end. And I don't understand it. In any event, I want to go to some video of Stella Assange, Julian Assange's wife, talking about this development. Pretty Patel would approve sending Julian to the country that has plotted to assassinate him to the country that Julian exposed the crimes of, the crimes of. And we're not at the end of the road here. We're going to fight this. We're going to use every appeal avenue. And we're going to fight. I'm going to spend every waking hour.

fighting for Julian until he's free, until justice is served. And the next steps in that path include the possibility, as I alluded to earlier, that Assange can appeal the decision at London's high court. That would then have to give its approval for a challenge to proceed. Ultimately, it could reach the UK Supreme Court. But if it's refused, then he could be extradited within the next 28 days. and, you know, God only knows what the timeline would be like after that. But if he is found guilty in the end of all of the 17 Espionage Act charges that he's facing,

originally brought by the Trump administration, he faces 175 years in prison. Which, that is just utter, there's a lot that comes up day to day in the news that just leaves you dumbfounded at the state of things. But that is absolute madness. Murderous don't face. I will never understand it. I just, I don't understand the obsession. Whether you, whether you like him as an individual or not, and I think that there's plenty

that he's done outside of his work that's just reprehensible as a leftist. Like he was perfectly happy to help a fascist get elected as president of United States doing, you know, untold damage to so many vulnerable communities in the U.S. But this is about his work. It is madness that you could spend a year in person. prison, let alone close to two centuries. And that should not be controversial. I don't know why it is. I understand inside of the news media, as Jank so perfectly put it. But for regular people, if they pay attention to this, and it won't get talked about much, so there's a good

chance that they won't, nobody would understand why any of this works the way that it does. Yeah, well, so that's going to get to my critique of the rest of the media in a second. But first, to double down on what Rayvano was saying. So it's not just bipartisanship here America, it's every government that's dealt with this, the UK, Sweden, et cetera, whatever the American Empire wants, the American Empire receives. You would like to us turn over a journalist? Well, I mean, look, again, the Saudis chopped up Jamal Khashoggi, who was a journalist for the Washington Post.

Instead, what, we're threatening to end someone's life by putting them in prison for 175 years and maybe torture them for the rest of their lives. Okay, we're better. marginally, marginally, we shouldn't be marginally better than, by the way, our allies who are chopping up journalists, or our ally that murdered a journalist and Shereen Abouacli, right? And then that gets to the rest of the press. What are you guys doing? I mean, you should, at the White House press air conferences, you guys should be going nuts

over, Assange and Shereen, et cetera, because that's killing journalists, that's imprisoning journalists for doing their jobs, but they don't view them as one of them. They view them as the dissenters. And punishing dissent is good, because then corporate media has even more power because they don't dissent. Then they get more access, and they're the only show in town, and they're a monopoly, and you better be inside the mob, because if you're not, well, you got no protection, you got no compos. Oh, you did great journalism, Assange, and expose how awful the American government was acting. Well, maybe you shouldn't done that, huh? Right? Where the hell are you guys? A bunch of frauds. Frauds, totally, utterly

frauds. Okay, so back to the Trump, the fraud. You know the person who threatened to assassinate him is Mike Pompeo working for Donald Trump. They put together a memo about how should we murder Assange. That's after Trump was like, I don't know, maybe I give him a pardon. Meanwhile, he's like, go kill him, who cares? Just to do a memo on how to kill him, murder that guy. He helped you anywhere, you idiot, right? But he doesn't care, he doesn't care about anybody, right? There's no loyalty. Yeah, of course not.

So for God's sake, just let him go already. He's a journalist, let him go. And the fact that everybody isn't outraged by it shows you, no, they're not interested in challenges the powerful. They're interested in serving the powerful. Yeah, and you brought up two things I wanted to talk about, Jenk, which was Shireen's murder and the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. Because I think that it's like all of these, those two journalists and Julian Assange are, you know, emblematic of the, you know, Biden administration's attack on journalism. Because Biden is planning a trip to Saudi Arabia next month to go beg MBS for more oil. This is the country that murdered Jamal Khashoggi brutally, violently, you know, murdered him.

And there's no repercussion seemingly from America, despite the fact that Jamal Khashoggi, was a WAPO reporter and an American citizen. The same goes for Shereen, Abby Martin, wonderful journalist, asked Anthony Blinken what the United States was going to do about it. And he pretended that there had been no credible investigation. That's what he said. We don't know that it was the Israeli government that killed her. Despite the fact that by that time, CNN had published their investigation

that showed that not only was she murdered by the IDF, that it was a targeted attack, that they targeted, They targeted her to be murdered. So this is just a broad attack on journalism. And it is a scary time to be a journalist tonight. When I say that, I don't mean an establishment media talking head, but like a real journalist who's uncovering actual crimes being committed globally. Yeah, it's always a good time to be a news actor.

The news actors never run out of work, right? But actual reporters, it's very dangerous time. Yeah, Biden's a monster for what he's doing. doing to Assange? I don't care what all you comfortable neolibs in Washington. They go, oh, you can't call Biden a monster just because we're gonna go put a journalist in jail and maybe torture him. No, that's the problem. Not me calling Biden a monster. No, no, no, no, but Assange is not in the elites. Biden is in the elites and you're offending the elites. You're a very bad person. Oh, do you agree with what Assange said about Trump?

I don't care what Assange said about Trump. That's not the point of this. Can you concentrate? Do you have any principles? And the answer for the powerful is, as always, no. By the way, they've already ruined the guy's life. How many years has he spent now hiding from them, you know, whether it's in an embassy and now under detention, for God's saying, you've done enough damage, okay? Is it not enough? No, for the powerful, the biggest problem in the world is dissent.

It must be criminalized and it must be punished. But if you actually committed crimes like Trump did, no, you're free to go. Oh, you want to actually destroy democracy. You're free to go. You're among the elites. No consequences at all. But you touched the elites a tiny bit like Assange did. That's it.

We're going to chase you to the end of the earth. That's what the ugly face of the empire looks like. It's actually kind of amazing that he hasn't turned up dead. Considering how much some of the most powerful, I know it sounds, you know, we're the young turks. It's not CNN. We can, like considering his enemies, it is. amazing that he has lived as long as he has and yeah all those caveats okay with

that we do have to take our first break though there's a lot of other stuff to talk about including Lindsay Graham you know potentially duking it out with Ted Cruz to be the most pathetic modern-day Republican we'll have the video evidence of that after this All right, back on TYT, Jank, John, and Ravanna with you guys. John's got more news. I, in fact, do. Who is the most pathetic Republican senator?

I know what you're thinking. It's obviously Ted Cruz. Almost anyone would say that, including most of his family. But we have a dark horse candidate, Lindsay Graham, speaking today at the Faith and Freedom Coalition. conference in Nashville, Tennessee, decided to debase himself to try to get Trump's favor, I guess. Take a look. You know, where I lied about Trump, everybody was afraid of him. Including me.

The Chinese ambassador came in and said, we're trying to figure out Trump. I said, take a number, get in line. But here's one thing I can tell you about him. Don't cross him. Don't you miss that? Don't you miss an America that people respected and we're a little bit afraid of? Dear God. So that is, look, he's getting his applause by sucking up to Trump, but that is at least a genre that he has often dabbled in.

If you don't recall, here are a few of the standout moments. I actually like President Trump. He's been very nice to me. He's allowed me to be in his world. He allows me to give my two cents worth about different issues when he was president. This is his party. If you don't get that, you missed a lot at CPAC. Let's just be honest.

The bad guys were afraid of Trump. He's the most consequential Republican since Ronald Reagan. It's his nomination if he wants it. And I think he'll get reelected in 2024. And I'm not going to vote for anybody for leader of the Senate as a Republican unless they can prove to me that they can advocate an American first agenda and have a working relationship with President Trump, because if you can't do that, you will fail.

President Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize and then some. President Trump is the most consequential Republican in the party. If Mitch McConnell doesn't understand that, he's missing a lot. As to President Trump, in that poll, you own the Republican Party, my friend. You are the hope of the future of conservatism, President Trump. Well, he owns the Republican Party. It's his nomination. The president has a hell of a story to tell about what he did.

for this country and more importantly what he can do. This is the party of Donald Trump. If you think otherwise you're in for a rude awakening. If you play Trump, you're gonna be a big loser. Okay, almost as big of the loser as Trump in 2020. Is it his party? Yes, in a very real sense it is, I suppose. Although those numbers have been shifting throughout the last year or so, he's also destroyed whatever it was in the Republican Party that Lindsey Graham at one point clearly liked. He still wants to be in power. And to do that, he has to have Trump's favor, that's true. But the idea that he can't see through Trump, he doesn't understand how petulant and spiteful Trump is. All of this is nonsense because he's experienced it.

Lindsay Graham has been repeatedly attacked and mocked by Donald Trump. Donald Trump routinely in just recent days calls him a Republican in name only. It is so pathetic. And it might be that this is actually required of Lindsey Graham to stay as a relevant Republican to have Trump not support, you know, a primary contender. Maybe he does have to debase himself in this way. But at some point you have to have self-respect. If you supposedly admire strong men, consider being one. Just resign. Whatever, whatever's left of your dignity, your self-esteem, go take that.

Take that and the millions of dollars you have and just go live the rest of your life. It is so utterly pathetic. Yeah, so I think it's even more pathetic than we even realize because it's not that we don't realize it. It's that it's not repeated enough in the press so that it doesn't sink into people. Trump and Lindsay Graham were kind of battling for the 2016 presidency during those primaries. and then Graham said a lot of terrible things about Trump when he thought, oh, this outsider, he's never going to win. And I have a better chance than he does.

And then when Trump crushed him, and then he became gullum that you see here. But there's another layer to it. I mean, Trump has said the most horrific things about Lindsey Graham. He even docs Lindsey Graham. He gave out his actual phone number in the middle of those primaries and said everybody should harass him. And that was the beginning of his threats to other politicians, physical threats, right? And Trump once said about Lindsey Graham, he's one of the dumbest human beings I've ever seen. And Lizzie Graham comes out and says, oh, he's a real leader. I love him.

I think he's a real leader at the Republican Party. You've got to go through Trump. Trump's the man. Right? Like, Jesus Christ, man. I mean, it's so pathetic. You have to avert your eyes. You're like, Jesus, it's like a gruesome train wreck.

It's just disgusting to look at. That's who Lindsey Graham is. It's the monkey thing that you talked about years ago. It's the just offering up your banana. And that was what the speech was. It was him offering up his banana, and the whole room was filled up with monkeys offering up their banana to Trump. They're all scared of him.

One of the most pathetic human beings to ever walk the face of the earth. They're all terrified of him. Yeah, for monkeys, they offer up their bananas to Alpha. Males. And if the alpha male does not have to be nice to them. And if the alpha males mean to them, they offer more bananas. Okay. And it depends on the kind of monkey, of course. And one of the things is, okay, there's a lot of different monkeys, different cultural practices, obviously. We all know this. Okay. Anyways, so a lot of times it's bananas, but sometimes like just symbolically, they'll just offer their hand and they'll do this. And that's Lizzie Graham's. Okay. And so if you,

We're paying attention in that, to the crowd in that speech. And he says, you know, I like that people were scared of him. People like, okay, polite applause. And he's like, even me. Then everyone was like, that's true. That's a Republican crowd. It's a super right wing crowd. And their reaction to that, go back and rewind it if you want.

It was hilarious, right? Once he admitted that he was part of the banana giving monkeys, they're like, all right, go ahead, go ahead. Otherwise, you're going to call you a rhino and say, stupid you're ah ha ha ha ha ha it's a good so look as much damages they do the country which is massive seeing people like lindsay graham humiliate themselves that base themselves on a daily basis has been quite a pleasure oh yeah this was honestly some of the most cucked stuff i've ever seen in my life like i don't i don't know though because there's of course ted cruise exists

And Trump essentially told Ted Cruz that his wife had a horse face and was disgusting and so ugly that no one would ever want to have sex with her. And then Ted Cruz, there's that famous picture of him phone banking for Trump, just like looking so miserable on the phone with the Trump side behind him. And, you know, he's done nothing but praised Trump ever since. So like they're in a, you know, cuckoff competition with one another, him and Lindsay Graham. But, you know, Graham did, he did say something that was true, which was that Trump is the Republican Party. And that's true at that point. I don't know so much now, you know, his endorsed candidates haven't been winning. So maybe that shows that his stranglehold on the party is a little bit looser. But I mean, the Republican platform in 2020 was just whatever Trump wanted it to be.

It was very true at that time. You needed to be nice to Trump. you know, otherwise your electoral chances were a little bit lower than they would be otherwise. So, you know, they really were just truly an entire party of cucks. Yeah. So I want to build real quick off of what Rayvonne says. So number one, she called it a cuck off. Fair enough. I think it's a cucktastrophe. So they're competing for top cuck. Yeah, that's what I think. Top cuck. Pack the balls and go. Okay. Okay. So and you know how Jefferson and Adam had that rivalry and at the end, one of them said, does Jefferson still live on their deathbed?

Or does Adam still live? And in this case, it's going to be, does Cruz still live? Am I the biggest cuckaball? Okay. So, but now to the serious point that Ray Vaughna made, look, guys, it is a good strategy to intimidate people in your own party. It just is. So sad day, if that makes people, hurts people's feelings. I don't care. It's true. I wish we had a progressive who could bully the cowards in the Democrat. party into compliance with higher wages, more health care for everyone. That's actually my goal that that person exists one day. But there's a second part of this.

He said at the very end there, and Trump talked about it at that same conference, don't you miss the good old days when Trump was in charge? And this is what might drive me nuts about the Democratic Party, because unfortunately, that is probably a winning strategy for them to say. Look, if the Democrats had made it clear when Trump had the good economy, that it was obviously riding off of Obama's wave, but like the idiots that they are, Pelosi Schumer and everybody else,

was like, oh, no, you never make your own case. And so they pretended like Trump brought in this spectacular economy on day one, a thing that is not economically possible, that it's just not a factual thing. You cannot just get it going. It takes years to ramp up, right? And by the way, we're super fair. So Biden's economic issues are not just Trump.

Trump's fault. So you can say, hey, normally you'd have a Trump wave. And by the way, Republicans do this all the time. They inherit a good economy from Democrats. They ruin it and hand it off to the next Democrat and then blame him for it, right? But that's not exactly what happened with Biden. Both Trump and Biden printed tons and tons of money, trillions of dollars, and handed it largely to the biggest companies in the world. Okay. And some to real Americans. Yeah. That's what drove of inflation. And we did a story that shows you that there's a loophole in Dodd-Frank that's causing at least 25% of the price hikes. That's a giant number, and that's bankers.

But Trump loves the bankers. And so, no, deregulation. Deregulate the banks. Do not touch my beloved banker friends. And so they do speculation on commodities like oil that drove the price up, but it's also Biden's fault. He can actually regulate the bankers right now and lower prices by 25%. but he won't do it because both parties are corrupt.

So they're going to get to say, hey, it was great during the Trump years, and people are going to kind of remember good economic times versus bad economic times, and we're ruined. Why don't we turn to other news? Sure, this won't get you fired up. The strategists in the Democratic Party are kind of in a tough position as the midterms draw near. Biden and the Democratic Party are incredibly unpopular and they have basically nothing to run on because, you know, they chose Biden and that was inevitably going to happen. But they do have a strategy, a wild card that they're banking on. it is running ads for Republicans, for the most extreme Republicans to try to get them to win

their primary challenges. And so this is being reported on by the New York Times. Even as National Democrats set off alarms over the threats posed by far right Republican candidates, like in the January 6 hearings, their campaign partners are pursuing an enormously risky strategy, promoting some of those same candidates in GOP primaries in hopes that those candidates will be easier for Democrats to beat. And we're going to profile a couple of examples of this. But the first involves a race in California. There is a new campaign ad attacking Representative David Valado, a relatively moderate Republican for whatever that's worth in the modern era, for voting to impeach Donald Trump. And we have a bit of that ad. Take a look at this. Same label. So

Republicans got to check the ingredients. David Valadeo claims he's Republican. Yet David Valadeo Valedo voted to impeach President Trump. Yeah, Valadeo voted to impeach Trump. And Republican Chris Matisse, a true conservative, 100% pro-Trump and proud. Just to be clear, that is a Democratic linked ad that is trying to get the 100% pro-Trump guy elected. They call him a military veteran, local businessman, the other guy. I mean, he voted to impeach Trump. Like literally everyone who donated to make that ad wanted Trump to be impeached.

But now that's the kiss of death. And you can see there the comparison they make, the weird can stuff. But of course, like the guy that they're pushing for, maybe might be easier to beat. But if he gets into office, he's a legitimate crazy person, as is the case in most of these instances where the Democrats are meddling in Republican primaries. And look, they're doing this because they're in a tough spot. But because they're in a tough spot, it is increasingly likely. that these radical candidates could end up winning.

And so that makes the strategy extremely risky. Yeah, so this is a terrible idea. So, but at the same time, I want to acknowledge that you can't have cookie cutter approaches. So is there a time in politics where spending money on a crazy person and the other party makes sense? Yes, but it's super rare, okay? So they had an example of McCaskill doing it with Todd Aiken back in 2012. and that is a very good example of it, and I can name you a couple of others.

But you have to be extraordinarily careful, and it should be in a rare situation. But the Democrats are not at all careful, let alone extraordinarily careful. Now, the best example of this gone awry is the Clintons were positive. And the best person to run against would be Donald Trump. So they continually aided and abetted him during the Republican primaries. There's even a story about how Bill Clinton went to play golf with Donald Trump before the Republican primary. he's encouraging him to run. Because they thought, oh, he'll destroy the Republican Party.

And of course, there's no way he could beat Hillary Clinton. I mean, look, after you've already done the world's worst political calculation, literally, I mean, certainly in American history, the worst political calculation ever, to double down on that across the country today in this environment is nuts. So, guys, the country's in a populist mood. Of course, the Democratic Party filled to the room with elites, doesn't see it at all. And they're like, if we get these wild-active populists to run against the establishment Democrats will win easily. Will you?

Or did you just spend millions of millions of dollars helping the worst people on earth? And guys, once you spend the money to build up their name recognition, you can't take it back. That is just a huge win for those candidates and the Republican Party overall. And every dollar you spend helping a Republican is a dollar you could have spent on a Democrat. And of course, what would they have done with that money anyway? They would have spent it trying to hurt progressives within the Democratic Party. That's all they're spending it on today. Right, they're not, all of the primary ads are like, this progressive is not enough of a Democrat.

And they literally take Republican money to run ads against progressives. Then they take Democratic money to run ads on behalf of Republicans. That's how deeply incompetent the Democratic Party is. The only reason why they haven't absolutely cratered is because of corporate media that does just giant, complete fabrication, marketing on their behalf. Oh, they're so smart. They're so crafty, really crafty, so fourth dimensional chess. No, there are a bunch of morons who lost the Donald Trump and are now helping the worst people on Earth. Yep.

I mean, this is the exact type of incompetence that I've really just come to expect from the Democratic Party. But I mean, but really, what are we to expect from the Democrats and the DNC when all they do is hire losers? And when I say losers, I don't mean personality-wise, although a little bit, I mean personality-wise. But look at the people who are running the DNC. These are people who lost their campaigns. Jamie Harrison, who is one of the people who was cited. a couple times as being one of the masterminds behind this brilliant electoral strategy of propping up fascists lost his race in 2020 by a large margin.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz lost her race. She was also working for the Clinton campaign at the time that they employed the same failure failure strategy with Trump. I mean even Tom Perez was going to lose to be the DNC chair before Obama stepped in and made sure a real progressive like Keith who's actually a winner and actually knows how to win elections wouldn't have that position because then the Democrats might actually get something done. But, you know, this is just a way for them to make sure they never have to have policy goals, to make sure they never have to run on anything and just can continue to run against someone who is scary. It's just such deep incompetence within the party.

Well, I can see, I'm listening to both of you. I know that you're both worried. I want to reassure you if we can jump ahead to Graphic 9, Democrats involved acknowledge the game they're playing. They insist, though, they only have one job to preserve their party's slender majority and that they're only targeting races where the extremist candidates cannot prevail. No, because what you guys don't understand is this can't, this can't fail. It's a foolproof plan being thought up by fools. Do you not get? Why? they would be experts on such to such things. No, but like when someone says, hey, this is a crazy strategy. And literally everyone, as we are, points out the very high profile case in 2016, where this clearly didn't work. And it was sort of consequential when it failed. They still respond with, but no, you don't have to worry because this can't lose. Okay.

Yeah, it's only the fate of our country. You're only going to potentially pack congressional, senatorial races with people who would love to overturn our entire constitutional order to hand over the. election of Trump if he doesn't just win outright, which running against this Democratic Party, how could he lose? Yeah, guys, as usual, they're not just in common. They're liars. One of their districts is only plus four for us. So you could easily lose a plus four district, especially in a wave like this, where the Republicans are likely to have a wave. They're playing with absolute fire, okay? And by the way, you don't need this in super safe districts.

Nobody's running ads for Republicans in a plus 50 district for Democrats. By definition, running them in tighter races so they can have a more extremist candidate rather than a moderate Republican they're more likely to lose to. So they're totally utterly lying that they're only doing it in safe seats. And then to Rayvana's point, I mean, the New York Times gives the example of McCaskill doing it right in back in 2012. What they don't mention is that McCaskill then ran a Republican light strategy in the next election and got her ass handed to her. Lost, lost badly. And at a time when the minimum wage was out of the ballot in Missouri and won easily crushed, got 62% of the vote. If she would run as a Democrat, she would have won.

Instead, she ran as a Republican, which is basically a political theory that is adjacent to this one, a corollary to this one, you know, then she lost running as a Republican. But they never clarify that for you. They never clarified Jamie Harris and McCaskill. All these people are losers. We're taking advice from people who have no idea how. to win and who've blown giant elections before. And finally, there's one thing you shouldn't forget about this disastrous strategy. They're punishing the Republicans who voted the right way.

Yep. So those Republicans voted to impeach Trump. And then Pelosi and her goons decided, oh, that was a mistake. We'll now run millions of dollars in ads against you for voting against Trump. That's a great point. And then what are we going to do then? then none of them are going to vote against Trump. Not because of Trump's, just because of Trump's intimidation, but because of Pelosi's intimidation.

Pelosi and Trump are a tag team here saying you better never vote against Trump. Otherwise, one of us, if not both of us, are going to use it in primaries against you. I can't think of a worse thing to teach Republicans in Congress, a worse lesson. It's just our leadership. Do not believe the mainstream media. They're deeply incompetent. This iceberg is straight ahead, and they're staring right into it because they're a bunch of absolute morons. 100%.

All right. Yeah, that's unfortunate all the time we have for right now. We do have to go to our second break. We come back, though. Just seemingly everyone on the right spends 24 hours a day thinking about and then attacking the transgender community, and we've got the evidence after this. All right. All right, back on the power panel, Jank John Ravanna, Dragon Ratlord, Muzpresh 77 Dragon. Dragon, they just hit join button below on YouTube. So they're part of the show now.

They're part of the other turns. Yeah, welcome all those amazing dragons. You could do likewise, or if you're not on YouTube, t.com slash join. Today's a great day to do it because you can win a $100 gift card today. So God bless. John. Okay, with that, let's jump. They are underqualified to have children. They should have their children taken away from them because it's child abuse. It is child abuse to put a half naked adults in the room, but they small child and having them read a book. It's just child abuse. That's what it is. It's child abuse. So that is Candace Owens just openly saying that if you bring your child to, for instance, a drag queen story hour, the government should be able to strip your children away from you.

And that might cause a bit of whiplash considering that this is a party that in a political movement that just a few months ago was saying that parents should rule all. They are the ones who determine everything for their children. How dare the government try to, for instance, teach them things or vaccinate them, parents' rights above all, until Drag Queen Story Hour, in which case, just strip them away. And I know what you might be thinking. You know, she's a blowhard, she's crazy. What does it matter what she thinks? Well, she represents the party. And in fact, we're gonna show you a clip from just earlier today. Donald Trump at the Faith and Freedom Coalition, when I'm terming a hate rally,

effectively, take a look at what he had to say. gender ideology, woke gender ideology. Think of it. On young people is nothing less than child abuse. No teacher should ever be allowed to teach transgender to our children without the parents consent. And I don't think too many people are going to be giving that consent, Mark. Not too many. So just a few years ago, he said, don't worry LGBTQ plus community. I will be an ally to you. He literally said that. He brought out TIFTQ, Tiffany Trump to say that. And then flash forward to today, nobody should be able to teach transgender to people. I don't know what that's supposed to mean. I doubt that he knows what

it's supposed to mean. But this is the movement. It should not be allowed. And in fact, if you're a parent who allows it, you might not be a parent for much longer. I want to go to just a bit more of Candace Owens making her case. You are seeing right now that adults are getting behind this narrative so that they can have a woke t-shirt on and say, I love my children. I allow my child to pick their gender and pick their species. And they feel proud of themselves because they can go and they can say this on Facebook up there in a wonderful, accepting and loving adults. When in reality, they are underqualified to have children. They should have their children taken away from them because it's child abuse.

Okay. So look, as with the arguments coming out of the Evaldi mass shooting, the right does seem to understand that they are widely perceived to be and are accurately described as completely heartless. They don't care about kids. Kids are convenient tools. And they know that parents who don't want their kids to be constantly depressed, have an incredibly elevated risk of suicide, do need understanding and acceptance. And they're not interested in that. That's inconvenient to them. They've found something that can get their movement riled up, that can get crowds to go hound people at a parent teacher conferences and things like that. And if you have to strip apart a couple of families, what's the difference? They got very used to that during the Trump years.

They're fine doing it to families now. Yeah, I don't believe in playing defense. I believe in playing offense. So let me be clear. I think right wing ideology is hateful. It teaches people and yes, children to hate others. Oh, one of our viewers just wrote it on super chat, trans rights their human rights. Well, that's by definition, right? But they don't think so. They think we should treat trans people as less than human. We should treat gay people as less than human. And they teach their children this kind of disgusting, hateful ideology. I think that's way worse child abuse than anything I've heard. I mean, you're emotionally warping those kids to have no empathy for other human beings, to be monstrous, hateful people that you're unleashing into the world.

that's child abuse. I think right winger should have their children taken away from them. Oh, what, you don't like it? Oh, did I hurt your feelings? But when you say it about trans people, you don't mind saying it at all. Oh, that's okay for you to say, but if I say it about you, you go, how dare you? What do you mean, how dare I? How dare you? So you're saying, oh, I don't like that person's ideology. I don't like that person's way of thinking. I don't like their freedom. So I like to take their kids away and abuse them and make them feel inferior and make sure that they do not have equal rights in America. No deal. You take their kids away. I'm gonna push as hard as I can in the blue states to take away kids from right wing parents who teach them hate. That is way worse

child abuse. You want to play? Oh no, but you can't do that to us. Oh really? Why not? You do it to others and you never even think twice because you guys are monsters. It's okay, so Candace Owens talks about half naked drag queens and then right after that has a picture of a child putting money in the underwear of someone who's not a drag queen. She's a burlesque dancer, a straight person has nothing to do with drag queens, has nothing to do with queer people, has absolutely nothing to do with trans people. And she knows that and the other conservatives who have been using that picture to fear monger know that. That was in no way shape or form a drag story hour. It was a parent who irresponsibly took

their child to what is essentially a strip show. And that is obviously something that people will be outraged about. So then they use that picture to lie and pretend that it was a drag story hour because there is not an example of a real drag story hour they can show that will elicit the same reaction because it's just not offensive. It isn't. I mean, to the point where she pretends that she cares about protecting children, how many kids have been abused at drag story hours? As far as I know, it's zero. How many kids have been abused in the churches? It's a lot more than zero. And where was Candace Owens when this investigation came out about this decades long system of child abuse and child sexual assault in these southern churches?

What does she have to say about that? Has she ever uttered a bad word about Matt Gates, who's who, you know, allegedly trafficked an underage girl for sex? No, she hasn't because she doesn't give a crap about protecting children. She doesn't care about protecting children, she cares about pushing a bigoted ideology and making sure that that bigoted ideology becomes policy. And there's just something so, you know, laughable about Candace Owens condemning the big government that is pushing, you know,

this this trans ideology on our kids and then immediately in that same freaking sentence saying that the government should come take your kids away if you commit the crime of loving your trans child she's disgusting she is a disgusting person the conservatives that push this bigotry are disgusting people and they don't care about protecting kids not one bit yeah it's a great point about the southern baptist churches well if you there's there's there's They are vipers nest of pedophiles. So hundreds of cases, that's an undeniable fact. They acknowledge it themselves.

So you send in your kids to a place that, where you're openly exposing them to pedophiles, like the people who run the Southern Baptist churches, according to your way of thinking, we should start taking your kids away because you're endangering them and it's child abuse. It's not my way of thinking, it's your way of thinking. What? It only should apply to the left, but it shouldn't apply to the right, even though you guys are a thousand times worse, and expose your kids knowingly

to pedophiles all the time, whether it's the Catholic Church, the Southern Baptist churches, or many of the other organizations you guys are involved with, including the Republican Party, we should look into child abuse charges against all these right-wingers. And by the way, look at how stupid they are. The government is trying to cause mental health issues, because the government is trying to control you. come on so many right wingers believe in such a dumb dumb conspiracy theory you know who's trying to control our lives right wingers oh don't be trans don't be gay don't love that person don't

marry that person don't have sex with that person don't have sex in that way that don't do that with your body don't do this with your body don't take that don't do this what we just want to be left alone as progresses can you monsters please leave us alone oh no you want to control us. No, it's projection because you can't, you love power. You love it. That's how you view the government. Well, when I'm in the government, I'm going to control everybody's life. That's how our right winger thinks. That's how every right winger thinks. And so when they project that onto us, oh my God, when the left gets in government, they're going to want to control our lives. We don't want anything to do with your lives. We just want you to leave us alone. You have no

empathy. You guys constantly are attacking everyone else in society. You guys are toxic. I don't want anything to do with you. Nonetheless, when we're in charge, you know what we're going to do? We're going to get you better wages and better health care. You schmucks. And that's why this exists. Like, they're all transphobes. And I apologize. If you watch all of our content every day, I know that I go on about this for a long time. But there is a reason that Candace Owens now can't go one show without talking about the trans community and that same applies for Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Michael Knowles, Charlie, Charlie Kirk, all of them. I have a challenge for them. Go one day without talking about the trans community, without a representative of the community

being on your show. Why weren't they ranting about this six months ago or two years ago? Now, it's not that they weren't attacking the LGBT community broadly or the trans community specifically. They've been, you know, demonizing, you know, the bathroom issue and all that for some time. But it was not like 90% of their political ideology. until recently, it's because it's not an actual threat and nothing has changed in that regard. They are using it. During the pandemic, hundreds of billions of dollars have been transferred from working class Americans to the richest Americans. That's what actually happened. And they desperately need to get people to not focus on that. They need something that is going to freak

regular conservatives out enough that they will elect anybody. No substance, no plan, just someone who is going to attack the community, they've been trained to hate. Certainly nobody who's going to regulate businesses or increase taxes or anything like that. There was talk a couple of years ago about wealth taxes and all that, that terrified them. So they need a distraction. That's what this is. And if it leads to some people showing up to a drag queen story hour and beating the hell out of people or killing them, if it leads to regular teachers being hounded everywhere they go with constant death threats and all that,

That is just a part of making the omelet of keeping conservatives so enraged and angry and scared that they will never notice that their economic lives are a ruin, that they have no chance of buying a home or retiring with dignity, no chance of their kids going to college. All of that is true. They're in worse shape than they were just a few years ago, and it certainly wasn't a holiday then, but they can't focus on that. They certainly can't prioritize that politically so long as they're terrified about this satanic panic of pedophile teachers and drag queens that control all reigns of government power.

The Republican Party at this point is basically a hate group. And so if you tell me that you're a Republican, you're telling me that you joined a hate group. And you wonder why we want nothing to do with you guys. All right, we're out of time, unfortunately. All right, everybody check out Ray Vaughn on Rebel headquarters. Obviously, John on damage report. Thank you guys. We're really appreciate it. We'll come back with another excellent power panel. And speaking of what John just talked about, this poor, brilliant African-American teacher goes down to teach in Georgia and the new revised clan without the hoods, chase her out, and then start following her around the country. These people are monsters, man. You'll see when we come back. turks support our work listen ad free access members only bonus content and more by

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