The Young Turks - Hurricane Marjorie

Episode Date: October 5, 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. Three-a-tracking, three-o-jee, three-l-chee, three-lach-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-hack-h. All right, power, power panel on the young Turks, Jane Hugo, Francesca Fiorentini, and John Iderola, what I like to refer to as the Mediterranean panel, and so two Italians and a Turk. And so the cloud-seated hurricane, of course, is a conspiracy theory by Marjorie Taylor

Green. We're going to get to that a little bit later in the program. Obviously, we're live from the Polymarket Studio here in L.A. And we have very important news on who's winning the race, Kamala Harris or Donald Trump, that's a little bit later. How much money Elon Musk has secretly funneled to the Republicans? Tons of amazing stories for you guys today. So without further ado, Mr. Ida-Rollum. No, there's no more time for adieu, okay?

I bid you adieu as we launch into this. Why didn't you answer the question last night during the debate about who won the 2020 presidential election? Well, look, here's the simple reason. The media's obsessed with talking about the election of four years ago. I'm focused on the election of 33 days from now because I want to throw Kamala Harris out of office and get back to common sense economic policies. That is, of course, Republican nominee for the vice presidency J.D. Vance, continuing to Dodge answering the simplest question that's ever been asked, saying there that the simple reason is

that the media is focused on it. Obviously the media is focused on it because you're refusing to answer and it's super suspicious and you know that, and you know that we know that, and we know that we know that. And everybody knows what's going on right here. It's super embarrassing that this is how adults, let alone nominees for the Vice Presidency Act. But that's what we've got as of a couple of days ago. Bear in mind, the reason he was asked that question at the rally was because of this back and forth at the actual debate where Tim Walls had asked, did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election, which, spoiler alert, he did. J.D. Vance then said, Tim, I'm focused on the future, which you are legally required to be

lying when you say that. That's like a law of the universe. That's not actually what's going on when you say I'm focused on the future. And then he tries to talk about censorship or whatever. And Tim Walz said, that's a damning non-answer. And it was, but it also wasn't the only non-answer. You saw it in the video and because he didn't answer at the debate and he didn't answer at the rally, obviously people are going to be continuing to pepper him with the question. The simple solution to all of this, of course, would be to just answer it preferably truthfully. We're gonna get like half of that, but not the full thing. And even to get to the half, we have to turn to a video uploaded by the good liars. Take a look at this.

Who won the 2020 election? Just answered, did Donald Trump win yes or no? Yes, he did win. So will you concede, will you concede? If your opponent gets, your opponent gets more votes, will you concede? I really feel bad for you, man. I just want to know, if your opponent gets more votes, will you concede? Get a little party.

I love that, that's Jason Selvig of The Good Liars. And what's going on there, of course, is J.D. Vance, knows that Donald Trump lost the election. He knows that we have his text messages from after the election saying that all of the legal challenges to the results of the election were unpersuasive. There's just nothing there. He knew. And so you have reporter after reporter and now Jason Selvig going up and asking him like,

can you can you just admit what we know you know, which is that Donald Trump lost? And he says to Jason Selvig, I feel sorry for you. And I think that's amazing. Now obviously he's just trying to be an A-hole or whatever, but like he's, he's just trying to be an A-hole or whatever. But he supposedly, if we believe what he's saying, feel sorry for a reporter asking your question, which is what reporter is supposed to do, and knowing that J.D. Vance is going to lie because he has to, because Donald Trump would flip his wig if he didn't lie. And you feel sorry for the reporter.

Not for you, a guy who used to write books and go on the news and tell the truth about what was going on in the country, what Donald Trump was doing to conservatives. You feel sorry for the guy who can't admit what has actually happened. I feel sorry for J.D. Vance. I mean, I know that he's in the middle of like a selling your soul type thing. So I guess I shouldn't feel too sorry, but that's just pathetic. And it's been pathetic now for quite a while. Yeah, so the gas lighting, of course, what always is maddening to me.

So Vance with this constant, you guys are so obsessed with this. I mean, you guys won't let it go, right? So, well, there's two things about that. As you guys know, we're not the only one. I'm pretty sure Donald Trump's obsessed by it. And it's not like he was obsessed by it for two, three years and like talked about it nonstop. But at least he's now let it go. No, he's still doing it at the rallies as we speak.

You want the most recent one? But the second thing I'm going to tell you is even more important. But let's show you the Trump example right now. We did great in 2016. A lot of people don't know. We did much better in 2020. We won. We did one.

There's a rigged election. It was a rigged election. You have to tell Kamala Harris, that's why I'm doing it again. If I thought I lost, I wouldn't be doing this again. You know where I'd be right now in the beaches of Monte Carlo maybe or someplace. Well, hard to get that out of your head. Okay, okay, please don't go to a beach and take a picture. All right.

So now, look, Trump is can't stop crying about it. He's a spoiled little baby who lost his toy, the American government. You've heard me talk about that. Now, the second point is more important like, oh, you guys, this is just one of the issues in the campaign, but you guys are weirdly obsessed by it. No, this is not a normal issue. This is, hey, we're about to have an election. The last time we had a presidential election like this, you guys lost and then tried

to steal the election. So if you lose this time, we're worried you're going to start another riot and another fake collector scheme and another conspiracy to steal another election. So we're trying to make sure that that we have a normal functioning democracy here. So we're asking you literally the simplest question in the world. If you lose, will you continue to try to cheat and steal and try to take the election by violence? And as Trump said, terminate the constitution?

Or are you going to say, oh yeah, if we lose, we lose. no problem. Then we could move on. But both J.D. Vance and Donald Trump absolutely positively refused to say that if they lose, they'll accept it. They're like, no way, nope, nope. And as you saw in the motion that Jack Smith filed earlier this week, Trump had said before the election and told his staff, whether we win or lose, we're going to fight like hell. We're not going to care if we lost, we're still going to claim that we won. So that's the maniac that is your presidential candidate, J.D. Vance. So whether that maniac is going to accept the results of this election is monumentally important. I mean, the fact that your party put up this maniac,

again, shows you that your party is in terrible, terrible shape. I mean, you guys hate America. You would rather have Trump win than us keep our democracy or our constitution. So don't dismiss it like, oh, you guys are obsessed with this. What is this tiny little question around the edges of some minutia policy? No, do you believe in the country or don't you? So don't gaslight us, you piece of crap, who thought that Donald Trump was Hitler like a minute ago? And who knows without any shadow of a doubt that he's lying and trying to. tried to cheat and destroy our democracy last time around.

Now he's like, so what? Because I want to be famous and powerful and rich, I think Donald Trump should be able to destroy America. But you guys are making such a big deal out of it. Okay, Randy. Yeah, I mean, it is the simplest of questions, and it is of the utmost consequence. And everyone is right to focus on it.

It truly does matter. But just like they gaslit, and J.D. Vance is great at this, gaslighting around abortion rights. and controlling women's bodies and how he didn't say all the reactionary psycho retrograde handmade stale stuff that he has said, he's doing the same thing. But with the election, and honestly, most Americans, that's not enough. They don't want the drama.

They don't want the drama of a whiner loser trying to steal an election. And they certainly want, they want someone to be realistic with them. Hey, realistically, women are being told to wait until they're dying before they can get life-saving abortion care. Realistically, Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. Can we just live in reality? Then you can fight on whatever terrain and you can say, look, we thought we had a case, but we didn't, but either way, Donald Trump fought valiantly. Like, meet us at a certain level of reality, but they're not even willing to do that. Here's my problem with the narrative as we're hurtling to the election. What if Donald Trump wins the election? But because there is,

massive misinformation campaigns. The election boards that have been seized by Republicans across this country, and especially in swing states like Georgia, finally do Donald Trump's bidding, throwing out ballots, registrations, on and on and on. And Democrats have legitimate claims to, gee, there seems like there might have been a little bit of interference here. What if there's, you know, it gets moved to a state Supreme Court? Or heaven forbid, like in 2000, up to the federal Supreme Court. All of this also sort of, I think, paves a way to say that if there are irregularities or if there is genuine voter suppression, that Democrats should also say nothing.

Do you guys see what I'm saying? So I hate that we are in the situation because in a lot of states, it might look like Republicans might have learned the 2020 lesson and say, we're going to preempt this. We're not going to whine once we lose. we're going to make sure that we win. Yeah, yeah, I do think that it's laying the groundwork to make it a little bit harder for the Democrats to actually say or do anything, even if there is actually good cause. But I want to reassure you, Francesca, they're the Democrats.

They wouldn't have said anything anyway. They'll just go along with it and hand over the Supreme Court and hand over the presidency. Yeah, I'll just say one quick thing about that. So the Republicans' inability or unwillingness to be able to make distinctions between differences, degree is amazing. So what do I mean by that? Hillary Clinton, did she whine after the 2016 election? Definitely. Did she blame everyone else? Yes, we know because she partly blamed us. And she blamed Bernie Sanders and Russia and the weather, et cetera, right? But did she then come up with a whole slate of fake electors, have a violent mob attack the Capitol so that they

could delay the certification so that her party can bring in the fake collectors and steal an election that she knows she lost. No, she was complaining about why she lost. She never said she didn't lose. She never tried to rig the election or pretend that she had more votes or electoral college votes than Donald Trump. She didn't do any of that. And meanwhile, the other guy did all the things that I listed. And they're like, oh, that's the same thing. Well, look, guys, if you can't Tell that that's not the same thing, I can't ever convince you of anything because you, I'm going to say something super rude, but you don't have the intellect to be able to understand the simplest of concepts.

Whining about a loss is not the same thing as organizing a criminal conspiracy. And by the way, many people have been arrested, including his fake electors in the swing states. One quick thing, this is an aside here. Did you know Trump had real electors that refused to go along with this plot? That's why they had to bring in the fake electors. And those real Trump electors were right. You get arrested if you sign fraudulent papers claiming Trump won when you know he didn't win.

And that's why those guys got arrested. So that's a criminal conspiracy. If you can't understand the difference between that and God, it's the Russian's fault and Bernie's fault, then you just can't understand anything. Yeah. It did take her like hours to concede, though. Like it was, I think maybe after midnight, maybe not. quite after midnight, but it was like almost midnight.

Yeah, she conceded out the same day. Meanwhile, Donald Trump's went on and by the way, Donald Trump had every right to ask for recounts and hand recounts and all the things that he asked for. And they all confirmed that he lost. Every Republican in the swing states confirmed, he lost. Even his real electors confirmed, he lost. Yeah. But if you still say no, but we should have tried to rig it anyway.

And like Donald Trump said, terminate the constitution so they could put him back in. then you don't like this country. You want to live under authoritarian rule. There's a lot of countries for you, but it's not America. Well, Zana has been pointing out, he's pretty clear about that. He says he's post liberal and not like the libs, like liberalism, the idea that, you know, people matter. There should be a vote, that sort of thing. I'm just going to briefly, because he, you know, he said to Jason Selvig, who seems like a really good guy.

I feel sorry for you. He made it personal, so I'm going to make it personal. And maybe this is naive of me. Maybe I'll seem really corny to say this, but like, I don't understand the lying. I don't, like I know that you get paid. Like I know that you end up with like a really nice car in a really nice kitchen or whatever. Like really nice back splash because you tell these massively beneficial lies for your side. But like, but like when JD Vance does the like the super transparent thing on the debate stage,

like every single person knows exactly what he's doing. Some of them want him to do it, but they still know what he's doing. And then and then he's asked at the rally or whatever, like I automatically go to. not like, like, would a swing voters in Pennsylvania thing? I think, what does Usha think? Like when his kids someday see that, what do they think? Like, you know, maybe they're close to him and so they put blinders on or something. But like, like I imagine, if I stood in front of the entire country and told a vicious

lie with a stupid little awkward look on my face because I know that that's what I'm doing. And my daughter saw that someday, there's no sedan nice enough. to justify that to make me feel better about how deeply to the core of your being embarrassing that is. He has to go back. After that debate, really fast, after that debate, he meets up with his wife. His wife looks him in the face and she seems like a lovely person. So she knows what's going on there.

Like does he see the lessening of the respect from what he's doing? And you know, maybe the lie compared to linking up with Donald Trump, maybe that doesn't even register anymore. But anyway, sorry, Francesca, it's just I don't get. how these people can live with themselves? No, I mean, I think you're absolutely right. I will just say that as we've traced the pattern of the right and specifically the MAGA right over, you know, the last eight years, it really comes back down to every accusation

is a confession. And they're JD Vance. Look Jason Selva right in the eye. And Jason, by the way, I love how he wields his like, like six foot fiveness or however the hell tall he is, which I believe is the only people can really like interview like MAGA or like very tall white men who look like they belong. But he looked at him and he's like, man, I feel sorry for you. And you had it right the first time.

He's talking to himself. Every accusation is a confession. This man has to live with his own hypocrisy every single waking moment in this clawing bucket of crabs, you know, effort to what? Be the next neck in the noose of Donald Trump when he refuses to leave office. God bless. Yeah, it's super last thing. If a family member or a friend, a really close friend went from telling me in private, of course Trump's near borderline Hitler and he was a terrible guy and obviously

still tried to steal the election and then decides that it's gonna be personally advantageous to him and then he goes out in public and starts telling everybody how great Donald Trump is and how we should elect him and put him back in charge that's not a close call I would disown them immediately not because they're supporting Trump but because they apparently have no moral character at all and I don't want to be associated with people that are that, you know, that shallow, that much of a careerist that they think. But enough about Jimmy Dor.

Well, that actually did happen. We did this on them. But anyway, but seriously, like for people who care so much about money, power, and fame and their own stupid career, that they would do things that malicious. And that's why, look, I get it, MAGA doesn't know it, a lot of independents don't pay too much attention to politics, but for people who know it, people like J.D. Vanssen, like, that's why Marjorie Taylor Green, we're going to talk about her later. She's crazier maybe, not maybe, definitely, but at least she's genuine. Like, she really believes these things.

But guys like J.D. Vance, Vivek Ramoswamy, they don't believe it at all. And so when I see them acting in front of the camera like that, it sickens me. It makes me want to vomit. Yeah, 100%. Okay, well, I think we should take a break because we all want to get to that hurricane story, we'll have that for you and more after this. I wanted to, oh, I wanted to say, nuke and futt, which is kind of hilarious, joined by hitting the join button below, and they joined at a high level. Everybody who does that, we appreciate you so much, because it allows us to keep prices exactly where they are, and we never move them through inflation.

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All right, John. Okay. Let's talk. If you were to go back maybe 100,000 years into Earth's past, you might have come across Neanderthals who, in the face of climate devastation, storms and fires and earthquakes might have tried to explain it away as a curse or something to do with the gods. You know, these big things happen and they could be scary. We want to understand them, but they had very small brains and they didn't have science. Now, of course, that was a long time ago. And the cavemen are all gone and we now use science or at least most of us do, there are still some throwbacks walking around and that takes us to Marjorie Green. See, Hurricane

Helene caused a lot of damage in the United States and left 215 people dead. That number will almost certainly rise and most people who care at all about how the world actually works understand that hurricanes happen, they are devastating and in fact getting worse in no small part thanks to the fact that climate change has resulted in warmer ocean temperatures that make these hurricanes more fierce when they do hit. That's what the scientists say. Marjorie Green believes, as always, that she knows better. She says, yes, they can control the weather.

It's ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can't be done. They, which is how you speak. When you don't know what you're actually saying or who you're actually talking about, but you want to say something, so you just throw it onto a they. And so what's the they? How are they controlling the weather? And what does this have to do with anything? Well, she also tweeted this. This is a map of hurricane affected areas with an overlay of electoral map by political party shows how hurricane devastation could affect the election. So there's all sorts of grammatical and spelling errors there. But the basic idea is that Hurricane Helene, if we could bring that, leave that up for a second, you'll see that, oh my God, it hit a lot of red areas when it hit Florida and Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia. She appears to have gotten that map from Matt Wallace, a crypto influencer. And the idea there is they, the Democrats, or she, there's probably a little bit of Jewish people in there.

It's Marjorie Green after all. She doesn't want to be specific for reasons that should be clear. They're doing this to hurt the red areas. And I think that that's really amazing for a few reasons that we'll get into. Now, she's not the only one making this case. Alex Jones said on Thursday that the government uses weather weapons and said the hurricane conveniently destroyed the reddest areas in four southern states so that votes cannot be cast by Trump voters in the upcoming election.

Now the Democrats don't want the rural areas of the state brought back online to ensure the blue cities can steal it again. First of all, the hurricane devastated entire states. The rural areas, yes, and also the urban areas. that map, you can see a number of cities that are bright blue on there that were also hit. I guess they didn't care about the Democrats getting hit in the crossfire. And I know we're gonna talk about this, so we're talking about cloud seeding. I just wanna say that, like I almost understand that if something happens that's super rare,

couldn't have been predicted, like simplistic ignorant people could turn to conspiracy theories to feel better about the world, that the world is chaotic and things can just happen. But here is what is not unexplainable. The fact that a hurricane hit the southeastern end of the United States, that's where they hit. Like if it's not like, well, this one didn't hit Seattle. I wonder why. Maybe they did it. It hit Florida. It hit North Carolina. That's the area that gets hit by hurricanes. But if you're Marjorie Greeter, if you're one of the people in the incredibly sorry state of believing her and trusting her on stuff like this, it seems like, oh my God, she's on to something. It must be the weather machines.

Yeah. So look, if Democrats acted the same way as Republicans, we'd be like, all of a sudden, winter storms in blue states like Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan. Oh my God, also Maine in Vermont and New Hampshire. Don't like they're creating the weather. They're sending blizzards to the blue states. Come on, guys. It's embarrassing. That's where hurricanes hit. What do you, that's so sad. And so, okay, maybe we can get them to believe climate change is real and actually causing this if we spin it as a conspiracy theory, which by the way, like the funny thing is

causing climate change is an actual conspiracy where a bunch of oil companies got together in their internal documents say, oh, we know this is going to cause climate change and it's going to cost an unbelievable amount of money for the whole world. But let's make them pay for it. We don't want to pay for the cost of our own goods, right? So we'll just pay a lot of money to the politicians. And the politicians will pretend that climate change doesn't exist. And it was cloud seeding or something, they didn't mention cloud seating in the memos.

Okay, but they actually literally did that is to manufacture doubt, right? So that is the thing that actually happened that created climate change, which doesn't create hurricanes, but makes them more severe. And this one was very severe. So when we should be talking about climate change and how it's 180 people died here. And by the way, those families had to pay for it. Now the government and hence U.S. taxpayers have to pay up for all the cleanup, et cetera. The oil companies got to keep the money. That's the byproduct of their product, right?

Now, normal businesses, when they have a toxic byproduct, have to pay for it and factor that into the cost and lose some profits. Not the oil companies, they just stick you with the bill. So I have a different theory on, now there's the God angle, right? I have a different theory on that and why God might have wanted to hit the red states. And it involves abortion. No, I mean, I was going to lead with that, Jank. I mean, you can jump off on that because I feel like this is like stolen valor from God. Like if you actually believed in God and you're going to blame the hurricane on the Democrats,

like, don't raise the Democrats up to God-like stature, you know? There's only like, like, if you really believe that, like, oh, now you're saying, oh, yeah, well, the Dems did it. Like God's like, I did it. What do you mean? First, I sent you a global pandemic to try to buck Trump and you're welcome. And now this, you know, and so, but Jenk is right. Like the conspiracy is right and it hits you right in the face. It is climate change. Climate change, yeah, it's a corporate conspiracy. And yes, oil companies have been doing nothing but privatizing the profits from extraction and then publicizing and nationalizing the consequences. So we have to pay for it vis-a-vis,

obviously FEMA and federal agencies, and Biden has pledged 100% of all the costs incurred by these southeastern states will be paid for by the federal government. I'm old enough to remember when Donald Trump was blaming Californians for our own wildfires. You got to clean all this stuff up. You guys remember that? Right. So we can never imagine if Biden actually doing that because he's not doing it. And so like the real thing is this, though, people grasp for conspiracy theories well, because they're anti-Semites, but also because we live in unprecedented times. I mean, there is something to be said about Asheville, North Carolina being 400 miles from any coastline and being also heavily blue, by the way, but again, don't tell Marge.

And being hit with these like once in a hundred years storms, if that. And so, you know, in these sort of apocalyptic times, there's two ways you can go. You can be like, well, we're being punished for all the trans or we're being punished for all the oligarchy. We're being punished for allowing oil and gas companies to run roughshod over our air rights and human rights and water rights and just our lives. And contributing to climate change and facing no consequences themselves in a better United States. Oil and gas companies would be the ones paying the reparations, the fix it, It's all making the people who've been displaced in these regions whole. And I hope we get there in our lifetimes.

Yeah. Yeah. So I'm going to go to our members next and then I'll give you my abortion theory on God on the hurricane. Because these are hilarious. Nice job, guys. Wang Chun said, Marjorie Taylor Green is like a Facebook comment section that made a wish to become a real person. That's pretty good. That is really funny.

Okay. you get a hundred dollar blue apron gift card rewards at t yt.com you got to be a member but if you are we love our members hit the join button below or t yt.com slash team i got another one for you pessimistic progressive says if republicans are so upset about the path of their hurricane why didn't they just draw a different one beforehand that's really funny too of course trump famously redrew the line afterwards to be fair okay but i like that one you get a hundred All the Blue Apron gift card awards at t.wit.com and post-traumatic South Disorder said Marjorie thinks the blue wave is literal. Come on, that's three in a row. You get a whole blue apron

gift card. That one's good. Yeah. So nice job, guys. I love our members. Will you be part of this show? Hit the Joy moment below. Okay, so look, you guys know if you watch The Young Toast long enough that the Bible's pro-abortion, right? I've read you the passages many times. numbers 511 through 31, if you think your wife cheated on you, you take her to a priest, he does a toxic potion, he gives it to her. If she didn't cheat, she's fine, but if she did, then God orders an abortion and the fetus is discharged, right? So it's a literal abortion, it's in the Bible, the priest carries it out, and God commands it. So. Still not really progressive though, not very bodily autonomy, but yeah. No, no, it's not

Not exactly liberal, no, but it isn't the Bible, it is. And Republicans should like it. Yeah, I didn't write it. If you think I'm lying, go read numbers 5-11 through 31 in your Trump Bible. See how it turns out, okay? So, and the hurricane did hit the red states, maybe God is mad that they outlawed abortion. I mean, God is pro-abortion, indisputable in the Bible. So he might be like, what are you guys doing?

We had Roe v. Wade, and now you're going outlawed? Well, how are you gonna take care of your cheating wives? How are you gonna give them abortions? That's it, you hit him with a hurricane. See there, I just came up with a beautiful conspiracy theory and now they might believe it. No one actually has a little bit more logic behind it. Anyway, yeah, by the way, my final like policy point, in the immediate lead up to the hurricane, Matt Gates, who went on to say, you gotta give us more money, which by the way,

Florida should get money to deal with the storm, him and all the other Florida Republicans voted against increased disaster aid for FEMA. We're not going to play the video, but Marjorie Green said she's not going to give FEMA another dollar. And now she's like, the Democrats aren't going to help the rebuild. Like you were literally saying we shouldn't rebuild. And they do this every single time. Look at like Ted Cruz and all the winter storms in Texas and he just flees and doesn't do

anything. They never get better. Like, when are MAGA people going to realize you are like literally out of the way? in the storm by yourself when you're relying on Republicans. Like they'll beg for government assistance after the fact if it affects their exact area, but they don't want to be a part of the solution for other people. They're certainly not going to plan for these sorts of events. I mean even just in the short term, I'm not talking about like actually doing something

about climate change so that we don't get far worse hurricanes a year from now, five years from now, 20 years from now. And so I just don't understand when you're gonna like, like Republicans are so hyper conscious about the need to be defended and safe and they do not care about the fact that Republicans will literally never defend them from the real threats that face them and their family. And just to that point, John, I mean, like also Marjorie Green is out here going like, we spent $650 million on illegals or, you know, rattling off, like million, million, even if the numbers you say are correct. And yeah, okay, they're going to fund

illegal, whatever it is, million. A country named Israel has received eight, what was our last shipment, I don't know, $8,9 billion in U.S. weapons. And it seems to match pretty overlapping what the FEMA shortfall for their budget was this year. Huh, methinks you're looking in the wrong direction. But again, be careful if she looks too hard at Israel because, yes, known anti-Semite don't look too hard at Israel. Yeah, but look, last quick thing here. So the $8.7 billion was part of the $26 billion package, so it's an even larger amount. But I now see right wingers online going, yeah, wait a minute, we got a shortfall here. We can't take care of the people in Georgia and North Carolina.

What are we spending all this money on Ukraine and Israel? But when I watched Marjorie Taylor Green in this segment that we're talking about, she said, and what are we sending money to Ukraine anyway? Instead of giving it to people, I was like, oh, that was interesting. Because look, here it's not, to me, yeah, we know her crazy anti-Semitic things about the Jewish space lasers, et cetera. So I don't know what her views on Israel are and I don't want to know and I don't care because I don't respect her opinions on that because I'm concerned that she's biased in a direction and not just making a rational decision on who's right and who's wrong. But it is interesting that Republican politicians overall are not saying what their base is saying. They're bases saying, why are we sending it to Ukraine and Israel?

Whereas when the politicians come out and they go, why are we sending it to Ukraine? Just because they were invaded by Russia, our enemy, we should be sending it to Israel that got hit on October 7th, which was a year ago and has been slaughtering people for the last 10 months. That was totally fine. And that now just attacked five of its neighbors in super aggressive fashion to start a war. So Israel being the aggressor and attacking all those countries, totally. fine. Ukraine suffering from Russian aggression, not fine. Gee, I wonder who's got giant donors helping them and who doesn't in this country. Keep it real. Filmmaker Michael Moore is confident, according to his newly released writing on Substack,

that Kamala Harris will win the election. But he does have a couple of scenarios that if that's how the election plays out, he thinks she could still potentially lose. And he is quite confident. He says right now if you know how to really read the polls, or if you have access to the various private and internal polling being conducted by and shared only amongst the elites, Wall Street and members of Congress, then you already know that this election was over weeks ago. So he's very confident, like he's all but saying this thing is done. But he thinks

that there's a couple things that she could potentially do. So he says that if in these final four to five weeks, if Harris is advised by her wealthy donors to shun the left and drop her more progressive positions in favor of a quote move to the center, this too could reduce or to press the vote for Harris, especially among the base. I know many of you don't want to hear that, But I'm just trying to warn you that the actions of party hacks and pundits have consequences. And so he has more to say about that. But that's the basic point that potentially if she were to suddenly like tack to the center in this last month, then that could be bad. And look, I understand why he'd be worried about that. Democratic candidates for the presidency have

always done that in the last month, I think. But what I would say is in terms of her policies, I don't know that I would really characterize her previous positions as being really overly progressive. Like I think that they're probably to the left of like a Joe Biden, but I don't think that she's been like hardcore trying to court Bernie voters or anything. That said, we're now facing a widening war in the Middle East. You know, we had and now it seems like we've averted that dock worker strike. There's certainly opportunities in this last month where if she has to take a stand, she could choose to appeal to one side or the other. So I understand Michael Moore's concern about that. Yeah. So first of all, just quick side note here, where are these

Polls for the elites, apparently we're not elites because I didn't get the internal elite polls. I only see the public ones. But okay, and so having only seen the public ones, I don't agree with, this is a very rare time I don't agree with Michael Moore. Normally, I think he nails it. And he is with the overall point. But this, when he says, oh, this election was over weeks ago, no, it wasn't, it's not even over now. It's not even close to over now. So I don't know what polls he's seeing. I see polls where she has a one point lead in half the swing states. That, that's not, like the minute you take like a tiny, tiny lead, that doesn't mean you definitely won. So anyways, back to the main point. Did she attack the Senate? Actually, John, I'd screw with you a little bit.

I think that when she picked Tim Walz, build the walls. I agree about Tim Walls. Okay, that was definitely progressive and the most progressive choice, right? But then she released that populist economic agenda, right? So, hey, we're worried about prices, we're worried about housing, and here's what we're going to do. We're going to prevent price gouging. We're going to help you with housing prices. And there was even talk of, you know, who's causing the housing problem. And it was an accurate description.

There was a bunch of things in there where we were like, wow, I didn't expect that. That's great, right? So then obviously all of our donors got on your ear, and this is where Michael Moore's 100%, right? And they're like, no, wait a minute, you're not going to raise my taxes. Are you? You don't want to be a radical. Are you, you're not going to defund the police. They don't care about any of that.

The defund and the immigration and said, the only thing they care about is the taxes, right? And the deregulation and all that stuff. So then she started having surrogates go all over CNBC. And we've been covering those for weeks now right here on the Young Turks. No, no, no. She loves business. She loves business way more than Biden does. And these policies, don't worry about these policies, okay?

The real policies are going to be really pro business, right? I don't think they're lying. I think they're telling the truth. And Mark Cuban, who again, I like Mark Cuban, but as, and I saw a video today where he's like, raise my taxes, why billionaires' taxes should be higher. So credit to him on that. But he's told anchors at CNBC, we talked to her three to four times a week. And she keeps telling us that, you know, all these things about how she's going to help businesses

be way more conservative than Biden was economically. And not only is that a concern in terms of her policies if she gets into office, but he's absolutely right. The biggest concern is right now, she had the surge when she went populist progressive on economic issues. You can argue about fracking, you can argue about immigration and crime, et cetera. But on economic issues, that's what led to her rise in the polls. Once you start backing away from that, I mean, Anna and I have been warning about this for

weeks, stop, stop saying how much you love Dick Cheney, that's about war, and stop saying how much you love business interest and corporate interests, and don't worry, you're going to take care of them. The American people hate to hear that. So his warning should be heated. It's, it's definitely the wrong path. Yeah, I agree. I mean, and I think it's, you know, part, this whole like, someone comes into my house, they're going to get shot. And I'm going to, nope, no change on Israel policy. Yep. Yes, we know we are throwing down. We're. with a madman who wants to get Trump elected by starting World War III, yep, no change. Like all that is already working against her. She is tacking to the center. I mean, Liz Cheney,

for who? Who? Who? Nobody. There is nobody there is nobody there. And I think the other thing is this Lena Khan battle is very interesting. The head, you know, the FTC chair. Lena Khan's going to be hitting the road, going to be campaigning, which I think is part and parcel of her own survival, but also to say, look, Lena Khan has been doing amazing, amazing antitrust work, suing meta, suing Amazon, actually going into the breaking up big tech, holding them accountable as the right always wants to do. So here's where I, here's my thing about Kamala. I don't know why she walks away from the best parts of Biden's policies and just cozies up to the worst parts about of Biden's policies. And I don't mean left, right,

what progressives love. I mean what everyone loves. Everyone wants to go after like big businesses that are gouging people and talk about greedflation. Everyone wants to also stop sending weapons to Israel. But instead she's again walking away from and Biden this week said he was offended, you know, that oh, Kamala seems to be walking away from it. I kind of agree with him. I think that on labor, on antitrust, on some of these economic issues, amazing jobs report out today, right? adding, what was it, 250,000 new jobs or more. Like, why isn't Kamala Harris actually talking about that? Instead, we get this sort of like consultant speak opportunity economy.

I don't like it at all. And Michael Moore is very much like the World Cup octopus of elections. And so whatever he says, I'm like, do what he says. Okay, well, I think we're going to take our second break and we're going to think about that metaphor, a little bit more, but more news coming up after this. came out on shop tyt.com and it is it's a beautiful piece of art sorry we don't have the graphic for it yet so go to shop t yt.com and check it out and 10% of the proceeds go to a Palestinian charity to help the kids and the civilians there. It's called Palestine Children's Relief Fund. Okay, John.

Okay, let's have a little bit of fun. For the first time in TYT history, we're going to be talking about money in politics. The popular mythology around Elon Musk would have Have you believe that prior to endorsing Donald Trump like two months ago, Elon Musk was not political and anyone who asserted that they knew what side of the aisle he was on just had Trump derangement syndrome. Now obviously from my tone, you can tell that I think that that's always been BS, but new reporting by the Wall Street Journal shows just how wrong that concept is. Apparently, Elon Musk donated tens of millions of dollars to the presidential campaign of Ron DeSantis, as well as to fund Republican attack ads during the 2022 midterms.

Now recently, there's been a lot of focus on Elon Musk's political spending when it was announced that he had started a pro-Trump super PAC that was going to spend close to $50 million per month to get Donald Trump elected. So he says that that's not true. But he did start the pack, and he has been spending money to support him. We don't know exactly how much, perhaps someday we'll find out. And if it turns out that he was lying, well, there goes his fan base. I mean, they're not gonna stand by him as he lies to them.

But anyway, around the same time that that pack was set up, there was a weird coincidence, which was that Donald Trump started saying things like this. And I'm for electric cars, I have to be, you know, because Elon endorsed me very strongly Elon. So I have no choice. suggestion of Elon Musk, who has given me his complete and total endorsement. That's nice. Smart guy. He knows what he's doing. He knows what he's doing. That's very, very much appreciated. I will create a government efficiency commission task with conducting a complete financial and

performance audit of the entire federal government and making recommendations for drastic reform. And Elon, because he's not very busy, has agreed to head that task force. Which is amazing. And I would classify the procedure whereby you spend maybe $100, $200 million to get a guy elected. And then he puts you in charge, despite the fact that you have no government experience whatsoever, in doing a total review of government spending, much of which goes to your companies as corruption, maybe, bribery is another way to put that. Well, also fact check, Elon Musk very much does not know what he's doing in the vast majority

of cases. But yeah, back in the fall of 2022, he spent more than $50 million with a group called Citizens for Sanity. Now, we didn't know about this for a long time because a lot of this money is of the dark variety. But though that organization ran ads in battleground states before the midterms focused on medical care for transgender children and illegal immigration. And of course, He also, as we said, spent $10 million to support DeSantis as he ran for president. Musk apparently liked DeSantis because of his opposition to DEI and anything woke, implying that if Musk is to be believed in this rare case, he really has drunk the Kool-Aids, and he is as crazy as he seems on Twitter.

Of course, by the way, the donations to Citizens for Sanity and Ron DeSantis, an organization and a man who literally never stopped demonizing trans people came Only months after his transgender daughter disowned him. So did he deal with that well? Apparently not. Yeah. So let's review here. Trump back in 2016 won on the very popular theme of Drain the Swamp. What's interesting is that you haven't heard that much at all anymore, right? You didn't hear it in the 2020 race where he lost.

You're not hearing it in this race. It's very popular. It led to his only victory. So why not repeat it? because he is the swamp and so now drain the swamp has turned into I was against electric vehicles but Elon gave me his complete endorsement so now I'm for electric vehicles and you heard him with your own ears there he said I have to now and I have no choice because he just got a legalized bribe and it's not a little bribe it's a giant bribe before they were already

He's saying it was a big bribe, and that was before we found out about the dark money and the 50 million. And by the way, that's only one organization we found out about. And that's because somebody leaked it. But all the other dark money groups, God knows where the money is coming from. Could be coming from foreign governments, individuals, corporations. And a lot of these guys give publicly anyway. So Jesus Christ, who's giving nonpublicly, right?

And so now all of a sudden drain the swamp has become fill the swamp, fill the swamp. So he not only is saying he's flipping his positions on electric vehicles because of corruption and he's admitting it in the rallies, but he's also saying, well, this guy's given me so much money that I'm going to put him in charge of a complete audit of the entire federal government and he's allowed to do quote, drastic reform. So apparently if you give Donald Trump enough bribes, he will let you literally decide what's What's in the government and what's not in the government. I've never heard of a power like that and like the president doesn't have a power like that.

But Trump says, no, no, we're gonna create that power and give it to my top donor. And the other top donor I have Miriam Edelson sets my Israeli policy and we might let Israel annex the West Bank. What's amazing about Trump is not that he's putting up the government for sale, a lot of politicians do that. He said he just says it at his rallies to his fans. I'm corrupt and I got such strong bribes, I'm handing over the entire US government to my donors. And you guys think he's draining the swamp, you must be out of your minds. Yeah, and to the point where like even his donors think it's gauche the way he's doing the bribes, right? Like him asking a bunch of oil executives in Mar-a-Lago that all they need to do is give him a billion dollars and he will kill the EV, which is funny,

because it kind of runs in direct contrast to accepting millions of dollars from Elon Musk, but who cares? We'll work out the details later. They were like, well, I never. That's not how I usually go about bribing. And here's the point. Look, I think there are still people who think that billionaires are okay, right? Like, it's fine. They must have earned it. You must have been smart. Not Elon, of course, but at some point, you earn that money. And I'm here to tell you no, never. And if you, if, let's say you do believe, okay, that's fine, billionaires, they earn that money. Selina Gomez made all that money off of makeup. She's an exception. Look, look at the people that are donating and who they are donating to. We have to tax billionaires

out of existence to save our democracy. Elon Musk is one guy. You've got Peter Thiel, you've got David Sacks, you've got Travis Kallanick, you know, the guy from Uber, all of these people, Rupert Murdoch, the OGs, right, all of these billionaires who know where their bread is buttered. They know who's going to make it easier for them to rob the American people through taxes, but also through things like crypto scams, also through things like the AI revolution that we're promised going to make everything easier slash put you and your family out of work. Like, this is who, this is what's happening. And so it's like almost just for our pure democratic survival, we need to tax billionaires

out of existence. And so it's just like, and it's like the one billionaire, Soros, who like donates to some not right wing causes. They're like, oh, he's terrible. He's a lizard person. Like, it's just like, no, it's because he doesn't donate the way every other billionaire does. Yeah, it's super last thing. You don't have to agree with Fannie on billionaires, but the one thing we should all agree on

and used to agree on before Donald Trump was, well, at least don't let the billionaires buy off all of our politicians. Our government is supposed to be a democracy, and these guys are clearly buying Trump, and yes, corporate Democrats for sure, corporate Republicans, for sure, Trump's not the only one doing, he's the one who's, A, doing it most spectacularly and most brazenly, and he has verbal diarrhea so he can't help himself from just admitting it, right? And he's the only one that's saying, hey, look, I'm not going to be subtle about it and put in one of your guys into my cabinet and you'll move things around a little bit. He's saying, just take the whole government. Just take

US foreign policy, right? But this is a thing that we all agreed on. Don't let super rich people by the government. Otherwise, it's not a democracy. But ironically, Trump took a bunch of actual angry populist on the right who actually hated corruption. And he's now made some of them a fan of corruption because he's doing it. You lost the thread, guys. Remember, you originally liked him because you thought he was against corruption. You're not supposed to defend his corruption. We don't defend democratic corruption.

You shouldn't defend Trump's corruption. That's the least we can ask. Yeah, and I just want to mention. So we obviously, we've talked about the EVs, he flipped on EVs, used to demonize him. Now he can't, he has no choice. And you mentioned the oil. where the most obvious quid pro quo in history. And he flipped on crypto when he decided he could line his own pockets with it.

And of course, he wanted to ban TikTok. Then he got TikTok money and now he's totally in favor of TikTok. So all of this should be super obvious that he can be easily bought. But I don't know that that's going to convince right wingers. What I would say is since you guys seem to want billionaires to take over the government run it, could you at least get better billionaires? Donald, like, do you know that Donald Trump's stock is down like 80% this year? Do you know that a report came out that Elon Musk, Twitter, is down 80% since he bought it?

I'm not even going to try to convince you that businessmen shouldn't run the government, but why should failed businessmen run the government? That's my question to you. John, he's only had six major bankruptcies, please. That's for only six. And Trump hilariously said, well, that's good business when you go bankrupt. I'm pretty sure it's the opposite. Yeah.

Okay, but he can get his guys to believe anything. All right, we're out of time, unfortunately. Okay. Okay. And so, vituation room, damage report, everybody go check it out. This ceasefire shirt is growing nuts. Everybody go to shop, dy.com and check that out as well. Much love, guys.

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