The Young Turks - Kiss Ass Vance

Episode Date: October 19, 2022

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You're listening to the Young Turks, the online news show. Make sure to follow and rate our show with not one, not two, not three, not four, but five stars. You're awesome. Thank you. Woo! It's up! Welcome to the Young Turks, Jake Uy, Anna Kasperin with you guys. Are we going to do a fantastic show? So things are going to happen.

They are, I am. It's all, everything is true. And I'm probably going to call the election today, the midterm elections. Yeah, it's not that hard to read the tea leaves or the Turkish coffee cup. Ooh, yeah. Okay. Culture. I understand.

Culture, hashtag culture. Okay, hashtag TYT. All right, hashtag let's get started, Casper, go. Well, we begin today's show with one of our favorite individuals to dunk on, Dave Rubin. Let's go over to Georgia, which is right north of us here in Florida. I don't know what accent that was that I'm using, but does that sound like a Georgian accent? No, I don't know. You all shook your head at the same time. Here is Stacey Abrams. And Stacey Abrams, who of course has no resume. This is a woman who the only thing she is known for, besides for setting a record at the Golden Corral Buffet, is that she ran for governor last time. And then when she lost, she said that it was an illegitimate election.

Does she have no resume, Dave Rubin? Is that really the case? Now, of course, throwing in not so subtle shaming of her body was the point of that. entire commentary, but I want to actually focus on the heart of what Dave Rubin is arguing here in regard to Stacey Abrams, who I don't know, Jenk, I would venture to say is known for much, much more than what Dave Rubin is known for and certainly has a lot more on her resume, politically speaking, than Dave Rubin ever has and ever will. But I want to provide some evidence to really back up the point that I'm making here. Before I do, I want to give you an opportunity to jump in. Yeah. No, look, there's obviously two different issues here. One is the

enormous irony of lightweight Deer Rubin talking about anybody else's credentials, but we will address that. The other is the obvious, ha ha, she's overweight joke. And he's a failed comedian. We're going to address that as well. And you could tell in lines like that. And guys, look, There's a little bit of immunity idol, right? So I might have a little bit more leeway in criticizing fellow Turks or Muslims or torques, apparently, and fellow twerkers. And so I might be able to make a Chris Christie joke here and there because I'm also an overweight New Jerseyan.

But Ruben, good for him, has no like to stand on physically here. He's in perfectly good shape. And him go, yeah, aren't my opponent's fat. It's pretty gross. So, but that's par for the course, I suppose. Yeah, I, I've got no immunity idol in regard to that. I also am on the record fat shaming Alex Jones. So the critique toward Dave Rubin on this might even extend to me, although I see Alex Jones

is a disgusting like person, just absolutely horrific grotesque person. And so I'm not saying that's an excuse, it is what it is. But I actually think the accusation that there is no substance to Stacey Abrams. It's just a fascinating accusation coming from Dave Rubin. Because regardless of what you think about Stacey Abrams and her politics, let's say you're on the left and you don't really agree with some of her stances that tend to be a little more moderate when it comes to some issues, fact of the matter is she did spearhead an incredibly important effort to galvanize voters in Georgia to, you know, and she's not solely responsible

for that. I think that liberal media outlets really went overboard and giving her pretty much all the credit. But she did something that's incredibly difficult to do, which is provide a strategy, engage in a strategy that galvanize voters in the state of Georgia. And that made all the difference when it came to Senate runoff races, when it came to the election of Joe Biden, of course. She's very much an important role in that context. And she's certainly a lot smarter than Dave Rubin, but I feel a little gross even saying that because it is literally the lowest bar imaginable. Okay, she's a smart woman, she's a successful woman, and she's a force to be reckoned with, Whereas Dave Rubin is not only an individual who provides comedic relief to the left.

He provides comedic relief to the right. I mean, he is a human dunk fest. Like it's constant with him. And if you don't believe me, I'm gonna show you this next video, which both shows the insane lack of self-awareness coming from Dave Rubin when it comes to accusing others of not having the credentials necessary to be taken seriously. And also shows just how deeply untalented he really. is. Let's watch. I was a good comic. I really was. I'll send you some stand-up or you or something. Like I was. Like I'm a good comic. Trust me, I'm a good comic. Don't wear the MAGA hat. You guys in the mood for a tremendous. This girl's reading everything. You just want to

read. I feel like that would, if you read a lot, you'd become bisexual. Like, you just keep reading. And then one day you get, I don't know, some words and then, okay. You have your foot up his balls. We went a little delay here. What happened? You were with me. Now I needed you. That's where I could have used you.

I'm very happy. The comics are literally so excited. As I walked out, one of the comedians said to me, how gay are you going to be for this show? Which I think, that's a sign, don't you think? Okay, we'll edit laughter in there. Good grammar. Leachy.

I got some leachy. I'm not kidding. As I had it in my mouth, she said to me, Dave, you know, that has the same consistency as vagina. And I've been out of the game for probably 10 years. And can anyone else confirm that? Is it a heavy vagina feeling? Very good.

So is this your lady right here? Are you in a lady mode? Do you go in modes? I'm always wondering about the bisexuals. No. No. So you just, you don't. Lesbians giving other lesbians flowers.

Have you ever heard anything more beautiful than that? Obviously you have. This is my impression. It's the only impression I do. I literally haven't done it for years. This is my impression of Yoda having sex. Yoda having sex. Oh,

That was, that was stand-up comedy that he attempted to do. Just in case anyone's confused about what that was, that was his attempted stand-up comedy. Well, and I do want to give him credit for a couple of things. He got me, yeah, I do, I do. So look at how fair I'm about to be. He got me to sympathize with Bill Maher for the first time in like a decade. Where Bill Maher was like, right. When you have to tell people seven times, no, but really, really I'm a good comic. Maybe you're not, maybe you're not. You should think about that a little bit. No, but really, but really I am. Right. Okay. So, and remember, Bill Maher uses this guy too, like that. This is the, hey, look, he, you know, the immunity idol that I was kidding around about before, like the right way he thinks it's real. They're like, oh, no, Dave Rubin's gay. So he's a lot to say terrible, hateful things about gay people to validate all of our opinions, right? And then Mar agrees with him on other things, et cetera. Anyway, and I like the lady in the audience, too, when he was talking to, I don't, he claimed they were bisexual. One of the ladies in the audience,

was like about his joke. Okay, so that was all of America. But I just want to clarify just in case anybody missed it. Stacey Abrams was the minority leader in the Georgia House of Representatives. No credentials, Jake. No credentials. Right? That's not like a little position.

She was the minority leader, the leader of the Democratic Party in the Georgia House of Representatives. And she was there. Now, this is always a funny word. This word is funnier than Dave Rubin's entire career, gubernatorial candidate twice, right? So, so the idea that Dave Rubin, who's like, no, but I swear I was a comic was. I swear I was really good is criticizing her credentials and then going, she's overweight. Oh, I'm so funny. Okay, that tells you all you need to know.

Yeah, final thing I'll say about this is, in my mind, there are two kinds of people. And this is really the only characteristic that matters to me because if I'm dealing with a group of people who have this characteristic, I could at least have a conversation with them, right? And that characteristic is integrity. That's the most important characteristic in my mind. People with integrity, even if they disagree with you politically, at least they're coming from a sincere place and they're not paid mouthpieces for moneyed interests and for corporate goons. Dave Rubin has zero integrity. That is, again, the most important credential that he lacks, personality trait that he lacks. He's got no values, no principles, no integrity whatsoever. So to hear someone who's literally a paid propagandist talk smack about someone who not only has credentials, but more importantly, seems to be a sincere person who has integrity, is laughable. And that mashup of his failed stand-up was something I came across a few weeks ago.

Thought about showing it on the program. And then I said, no, you know what? It's actually so cringe, I almost feel bad for him. So why? Why needlessly bring this up? But Dave Rubin made me do it. You made me do it, Dave. You made me do it.

Congratulations. All right, by the way, I just going to know, I'm going to do one last note here. Dave Rubin is so bad at what he does. he actually kind of started the fake left, to be fair to the guy, right? But even the fake left's like, oh, no, obviously Dave Rubin is not part of us. When you lose even the fake, their whole stick is being fake, right? And they're like, no, no, he's, no, he's too fake. No.

He's got no fans anywhere. Like, dude, man, politically unhoused and definitely earned it. So I hope he enjoys his actual house because, That's all he's got left, no integrity, no friends, no allies, no fans, no nothing. You know, even in the video where he decided to make a fat joke about Stacey Abrams, it's hilarious because he paused for laughter and no one in the room laughed. None of his producers, none of the stage crew, no one. There was that like awkward pause even during his disgusting fat joke.

But it is what it is. That's who Dave Rubin is. All right, let's move on. Because I want to talk about, in my opinion, the appropriate way to engage in a political debate. I give you Tim Ryan pummeling J.D. Vance. Talking about replacement theory, there's no big grand conspiracy. This is a country who's been enriched by immigrants from all quarters of the world. There's no, in the problem.

It's shameful for you to accuse me that, give them our family, Tim. It's shameful for you to accuse me that. My turn, pal, my turn. Oh, buddy. Congressman Tim Ryan, a Democrat, absolutely pummeled J.D. Vance at another debate, by the way, for Ohio's Senate seat. Now, it was a joy to watch, mostly because it's so rare to see Democratic candidates debate so aggressively.

And Tim Ryan showed just how aggressive he's willing to be during the first debate, which we covered about a week ago. But this is yet another debate, and let's give credit where credit is due. J.D. Vance was beaten down in the first debate. He agreed to another one. And he continued to be pummeled. This time, specifically on the issue, of supporting members of the Republican Party who spew the right wing white replacement theory. The idea that the Democrats are intentionally allowing undocumented immigrants to pour into the country to essentially have a voter base that will vote for them and replace white voters

in America. It is an insanely disgusting divisive thought and conspiracy theory, which of course motivated the mass shooting that took place in Buffalo, New York, and of course killed innocent black shoppers at a Topps grocery store. And so Tim Ryan called out J.D. Vance for, you know, rubbing shoulders with individuals like that. And J.D. Vance didn't like it. So let's watch. All these great replacement theory writings that J.D. Vance agrees with. Some sicko got this information that he's peddling with, again, those extremists that he runs around with, Marjorie Taylor Green, Ted Cruz, all these guys, they just want to stoke this racial violence. We're tired. We have eight. Hold on, J.D. Stop in our resume. This is disgusting. I'd like to get one more. Here's exactly what happens when the media and people like Tim Ryan accuse me of engaging the great replacement theory. You're peddling it.

I'll say exactly what happens, Tim. What happens is that my own children, my biracial children, get attacked by scumbags online and in person because you are so desperate for political power that you'll accuse me, the father of three beautiful biracial babies of engaging in racism. We are sick of it. I'm not racist. Some of my best children are biracial. I mean, the use of his children as political props when it's convenient for him on a debate stage is pretty gross.

And to be quite frank, I was completely unaware that he had biracial children because he never talks about it. He doesn't take the mantle of wanting to fight against, you know, discriminatory practices against people of color, certainly against people who are biracial. And of course, this made me want to look into who his wife is. Does he have biracial children? I mean, J.D. Vance has been caught lying so many times that you've got to confirm what he's saying. And it turns out, yes, he is married to an Indian American woman whom he met at Yale. And she is currently working as a lawyer, civil litigation, to be specific. She actually used to be a United States Supreme Court law clerk for Justice John Roberts between 2017 and 2018. And she previously worked for Brett Kavanaugh. So, employer's there, glad that she's had some personal experiences with Brett Kavanaugh. But nonetheless, they do have three kids together. And it's important to know how his wife is actually very successful in her career because while he's got a wife who's bringing in that dough, bringing in that income to their dual income household, what J.D. Vance is promoting on Twitter

is something completely different. I'll give you one example. If your worldview tells you that it's bad for women to become mothers, but liberating for them to work 90 hours a week in a cubicle at the New York Times or Goldman Sachs, you've been had. You know, going along with this right wing talking point about how, you know, women need to forego having a career. It's not going to make them happier or fulfilled because the men tell you so. And so stay home and raise the children. In the meantime, obviously, they have incredibly successful wives. In this case, an Indian American woman who is working in civil litigation as a lawyer. So what's Tim and I referring to?

First of all, J.D. Vance put out an ad among many other statements that he made where he said he starts out with, do you hate Mexicans? It sounds like he wants people like, oh, you raise your hand. Good, I'm your candidate then. And he goes on to talk about how basically they're replacing you and taking your jobs, etc. So and he's part of a very extreme right wing group that sometimes, is in favor of monarchy, i.e. dictatorship. He's as extreme as it gets. But when he's on that debate floor and Tim Ryan challenges him on it, all of a sudden, he's like, extremist, what name so?

Mexico, I love my racial kids. I love all the different races. Do you hate Mexicans like, oh, I do? Wait, hold on. Then why'd you run that ad, right? Look, I'm kidding about the like I do part. That's implied it wasn't literal in the ad, just to be clear. Okay, so, but Most importantly, I love Tim Ryan's attitude. Okay, so I have a self-serving theory about this, which is not at all true, but let's have fun with it. Tim Ryan was the congressman that came on the Young Turks the most, probably in TYT history. So that was a long time ago back when we used to agree, then he became a little bit more establishment and conservative. And then we had our disagreements, but he still came on all the time, including on his presidential run.

Maybe we rubbed off on him. And I, you know, I've said to him and to every other person who will listen a thousand times, get tougher. There's no reason not to get tough, right? You're running against us on bitch. It's in Ohio. You're the underdog. There's no reason why you shouldn't punch him in the face politically. And so now I see him punching people in the face.

Look, guys, forget the credit for us. I'm just kidding around. But the really important thing is that if he wins, he was a significant underdog in Ohio, okay? That shows you that's, of course, that's what you have to do. of course. I mean, we're having debates with just, I hate using the word. I'm overusing it. But the Democratic establishment morons, we're like, no, we shouldn't fight against our opponents. So I have to debate these folks. No, of course you should do like he did. And at a minimum, that race will be way tighter than it would have been. He should have lost by nine. He might even

win. And the polls are super tight now. So he's running a great race. Now, there's one other part of that debate that I really want to get to because, man, J.D. Vance is bad at debating. He accuses Tim Ryan of something that can easily be, you know, like thrown back at him because they're running for the same Senate seat. So with that said, let's watch. This just shows how desperate this guy is for political power. I know you've been in office for 20 years, Tim, and I know it's a sweet gig, but you're so desperate not to have a real job that you'll slander me and slander my family. So did J.D. Vance just admit that he is running for a Senate seat because it's not a real job. Let me repeat exactly what he said verbatim.

He said, you're so desperate not to have a real job, you'll slander me and my family. It's disgraceful. Hey, JD, you're on a debate stage. debating your Democratic opponent for the Senate seat in Ohio. The same Senate seat that you just described as not a real job, man, he's really bad at this. Like really, really bad at this. Yeah. So look, man, if Fetterman wins fighting super hard against Oz, even after he had a stroke. And then Tim Ryan pulls off this miracle. And the Democrats still don't get it that you're supposed to fight the other party.

They're utterly hopeless. But look, we're probably going to lose the House. But so that key, at least keeping the Senate, it will block some nonsense investigations, et cetera, and could make a difference. But if we hold on in the House and the Tim Ryan's and the Federmines of the world deliver the Senate for the Democrats, I hope to God that the Democratic Party can finally, finally learn a lesson. You're supposed to hit the other guys.

When we come back from the break, there are a few more clips from that debate, I think, are worth watching, including J.D. Vance getting caught in a massive lie. And then later in the show, we'll also talk about Tim Swalwell's latest political ad. It's pretty effective. And it shows you just what is at stake as Republicans gain more power in Congress. Come right back. All right, back on TYT, Jank and Anna, with new and improved hair. Also, Stephen Plummer, Stephen just joined. You're awesome, Stephen. You make this show possible. All of our members, if you're a member, you did this. I hope you're happy about it. What is up with you today? You're feeling saucy. I'm just playing around. You guys are the best.

T.Y.t.com slash join. Come join the best people on earth. All right. Casper, what do we got? Well, let's get back to J.D. Vance getting embarrassed on a debate stage. So Democrat Tim Ryan continued his hot streak in debating J.D. Vance. This is over a Senate seat in the state of Ohio. And J.D. Vance really struggled to honestly deny who he really is, deny the issues he campaigned on.

And even basically make sure that he divides himself or separates himself from some of the more nefarious figures in the right wing. Now, while he has a record of supporting and publicly stating that he is totally defending the worst, most nefarious figures in the right, he doesn't want that to come out on. the debate stage. So get a load of this wonderful moment during the debate. We are running for the United States Senate. This is the highest office you could get in this country except for president. And he's running around backing these extremists. The most extreme people in the country, a guy who denied Sandy Hawk. He's like, no, he's credible. Thank you, I mean, you don't have to. We can talk about, you know, how I got in hot water with with saying that Alex Jones was a more credible source of information than Rachel Maddow.

But like one of the things that I saw in the reaction to that tweet was people are terrified of unconventional people, of people who don't think the thoughts that they're supposed to think. And that to me is like the opposite of what you would want in an elite. You would want an elite that's willing to think outside the box that's willing to say, well, maybe this is like a crazy idea, but maybe it's true. Hey, brother. You're on tape, man. I never said that, Tim, go and run the tape and find out exactly what I said.

It'll be like 30 minutes and we're all going to know your life. I never said that. Now, Midas Touch had that video up and ready to go within 30 minutes. So Tim Ryan's prediction was actually pretty incredible. But look, the point here isn't just that JD Vance is willing to defend Alex Jones as a credible news source, which is insane on it. own, of course. It's the fact that he has absolutely no problem saying one thing when he is out there campaigning and then saying something completely different once he's on that debate stage. It is incredible to see how much more measured Republican candidates tend to be when they're

on the debate stage because they don't want to own the lunacy that they've either defended or engaged in. And that's the reason why I wanted to point that out to you in regard to J.D. Vance. I mean, he's a guy who went from calling Trump Hitler to all of a sudden getting on his knees and showing Donald Trump how much he loves him just because he wanted Trump's endorsement. This is a person who has no integrity or principles. And we've got a ton of that in Congress already. We really don't need more of it. Yeah, and we're about to see more of us hypocrisy in a second. But I just want to say one thing to be clear. So Tim Ryan these days has some opinions that are more conservative than mine, for example. But there's two

different things. There's policy and then there's politics. And I think the Democratic leadership has been doing both wrong. So on the policy, they'll go conservative. And on the politics, they'll go soft. So they say, oh, you just kiss Republican ass and hope that their voters vote for us instead of them. It makes no sense. It's never made any sense. It's the world's worst strategy. They've lost a million races doing that, et cetera. Now, but that's different from policy, right? So Tim and I probably agree on a lot of policy, but we probably disagree on a healthy chunk of policy. But we now agree on politics. He's now left the Democratic establishment when it comes to political strategy. The political strategy of most democratic

establishment is lie down on the floor and let the Republicans walk all over you like a good mat. And that's brilliant strategy. Tim is now saying along with Federman and a couple others, no, that is not good strategy. Good strategy is punching the other. guy in the face and playing hardball and making sure that you people understand you're the candidate to vote for and the other party sucks and they definitely should not vote for them. Hey, we got one out of two. All right. So we've got at least a guy who understands politics, even if we disagree with him on some policies. Yeah, I think that distinction is so incredibly important because oftentimes like in this case where we're applauding Tim Ryan, it's specifically

in regard to his handling of this debate. It doesn't mean that he's a perfect candidate, doesn't mean we agree with him 100% on everything he endorses and promotes. But in terms of the way he handled this debate and the fact that he did deviate from the typical putting soft Democrat tendencies is a good sign. And I'd like to see more of that. Now, Jank, I actually saved the best for last. And I say best for last because this is specifically almost like verbatim.

What you've wanted Democrats to say on the debate stage, and here it is. You have to have the courage to take on your own leaders. These leaders in D.C. They will, they will eat you up like a chew toy, right? I mean, you were calling Trump, America's Hitler. Then you kissed his ass. It's not true. It is true.

And then you kissed his ass, and then he endorsed you. And you said he's the greatest president of all time. Mitch McConnell gave you $40 million to prop up your campaign. Peter Thiel gave you $15 million. That's $55 million, J.D. What do you think they want for that? They want your loyalty. And you proved that you'll kiss their ass too.

All I'm going to say is, hmm, that was good. But you take it away because this is your. So there's two things that were wonderful there. One is super aggressive and correct. So why that wasn't that hard, right? The Republicans give you these softballs all the time. Did he call Trump America's Hitler? Yes. He wrote in a text to a friend, which was then outed that Trump back in 2016 was either a cynical aho like Richard Nixon or America's Hitler. And then did Trump say, hey, here's JD kissing my ass at JD Vance's own rally. Yes, definitely.

Did J.D. Vance then go on stage like a cuck and go, oh, okay, thank you so much, Mr. President. Yes, definitely. So why don't you hit him with it? We've said a thousand times on this show. And finally, a Democrat did it. They did the thing that is so obvious that you should do in politics. So thank you, Tim Rite. And then, of course, the issue itself, money in politics.

My God, how many times have I said and screamed on this show? Why don't you just talk about the money they're taking? People hate corruption. And when you say Peter Thiel gave him $15 million, everybody knows that he works for Peter Teal. And when McConnell gives him $40 million, you know that he's going to vote with McConnell. These things are obvious. And finally, a Democrat cleared the lowest bar.

They're like, oh, yeah, corruption, the number one issue in politics all across the world. I'll use it. There, he did it, right? So is that going to work? Of course it's going to work. And by the way, it's already working. Tim Ryan was supposed to lose a selection by nine or ten. Now they're neck and neck. You see, be tough, argue against corruption. Now look, the only Achilles heel he has is, it's true that Tim Ryan's voted with Nancy Pelosi nearly 100% of the time. And that's the point that J.T. J.D. Vance was saying.

Now, when we told Democrats, you don't have to vote with Democratic leadership 100% of the time, They're like, no, no, it is the biggest offense in Washington to vote against Nancy Pelosi. And all the mainstream media girl, don't you dare do it? Bow your head, they told every Democrat. Now it's being used against them. Oh, who was right about politics? Put aside policy. Who was right about politics?

We were right about politics. He should have never voted with her 100%. And most importantly, the progressives shouldn't vote with her 100%. He should come close to that number, right? And does he take money from Pelosi? And does he take money from other contributors? Yeah, he does. Tim Ryan does.

But as a matter of politics, if JD Vance didn't say it, well, that he's an idiot. People don't know, right? But Tim Ryan did say it about J.D. Vance. So now everybody thinks J.D. Vance is corrupt. That's correct politics. All right, well, let's, let's keep going with the correct politics. Let's do that, Jank.

This is kind of a shocking show because it's not typically what we talk about, because these stories typically don't exist. But nonetheless, let's get to the next story. pregnancy. You gotta be kidding me. That is my personal business. That's for the courts to decide, ma'am. Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell just put out a political ad that helps Americans visualize where we are headed as a country with anti-abortion Republicans outlawing abortion in various red states and congressional Republicans threatening to outlaw abortion on a federal level. Now, it's It's important to watch that clip in context. And then I'll tell you how this isn't hyperbole.

This is actually already happened in our country. Let's watch. Oh. Gross. No. No. Mary Anderson. Yes.

I have a warrant for your arrest. Arrest for what? Penal code 243 violation, unlawful termination of a pregnancy. You gotta be kidding me. That is my personal business. That's for the courts to decide, ma'am. Your medical records have been subpoenaed, and Dr. Landry's already in custody.

No, my God, you can't just... You will have to submit to a physical examination. What? By who? No, no, no one's touching. Sir, get that. Man, turn around. Put your hands behind your back. Now.

Why is this happening? Love you. We're just enforcing the law here. Elections have consequences. Vote Democrat on November 8th. Now elections absolutely do have consequences, although just a quick caveat before I continue. It's worth noting that when Democrats in Congress had the opportunity to codify Roe v. Wade, codify reproductive rights in this country under the Obama administration when we had,

of course, a Democratic president and a super majority of Democrats in Congress, they failed to do it. In fact, Obama had campaigned on codifying row. And then once he was elected, he backed away from it saying that it just wasn't a priority. Well, now the chickens have come home to roost and women in this country, especially those living in red states, are suffering the consequences of of democratic negligence and the impotent politics that we've experienced from them for the last several decades. With that said though, I do want to lend some credibility to what might appear as a hyperbolic political ad, right? Some might think that's not gonna have, they're not gonna arrest women, get out of here. But remember, the evangelical right in this

country who have a firm grip on the Republican Party want to go back to the days prior to Roe, when women had no protections in regard to their reproductive rights. And women absolutely were being arrested for getting abortions. And I want to give you one quick example because our history is important to remember. The whole point of history is to, you know, avoid repeating it. And so one woman in Florida by the name of Shirley Wheeler had been arrested after she was told that she should get an abortion due to complications. When she did, she suffered some consequences.

Let's watch. 23-year-old Shirley Wheeler was living in Florida. She was pregnant and advised by her doctor to seek an abortion for medical reasons. But abortion was illegal in most U.S. states, including Florida. So Ms. Wheeler did what an estimated one million women did each year before 1973. Three, she found a way to end her pregnancy. She paid $150 to have an abortion and developed complications. When she went to the hospital, someone reported her to the police.

When she refused to name the person who had performed the abortion, police officers arrested her. She was charged with the crime of manslaughter and faced a possible sentence of up to 20 years in prison. She not only was prosecuted, she was convicted for that abortion and she was then sentenced to two years of probation, get a load of this. The conditions of her probation were as followed. She was told that she needed to marry Robert Wheeler, the man that she was living with for three years. And if she refused to marry him, and of course he's also the man who had gotten her pregnant. And if she refused to marry him, then she would have to leave that household and move back in with her parents. in North Carolina. She was a 23 year old woman. And if she refused to do it, well then she would be violating her probation. She also had to get a load of this,

avoid injurious or vicious habits, whatever that means. But as you can imagine, back in the 50s and 60s, the treatment toward women and the way they were expected to behave was gross, vicious, and of course had a major double

standard relative to how men were expected to behave. But Jake, this is a reality that we've already faced in the country. And the right wing wants to get us right back there. Yeah. So I don't know why anybody would say any of this is hyperbolic. They're saying we want to make it illegal. They have made it illegal in many states. And they're saying it's the equivalent of murder that you're ending a life.

So are they going to arrest people for what they call the equivalent of murder? of course they are. So maybe they'll just start with the doctors in some states, but we've already seen women being punished in other states already. So women who are having miscarriages, and they say, no, you have to bleed out. We won't let you take out a fetus that's already deceased, has no chance of being born alive. They're like, it doesn't matter. You're to go home and keep bleeding. That's a fact. They chase a 10-year-old. girl out of Ohio and then they when she went and got an abortion because she was a victim of incest and rape then they pursued the doctor who did the abortion in Indiana no no no it's happening

right now so you don't have to worry about oh it's hey maybe it'll happen later and and we're all sleep walking through it and I think part of the reason honestly it's just the culture in American media of you have to call everything 50-50. So maybe they'll arrest people. Nope, they're not maybe. They're doing it now, right? And so will they start arresting women regularly for abortion? Of course they will.

They made it illegal and they say it's murder. You're nuts if you don't think they're going to start arresting women. Let alone the fact that they're already doing that same exact thing to doctors, to doctors. Now, these, so when you accurately describe them as what they are, tyrannical government, then the media goes, don't, you're not allowed to say things that are true, okay? It, God damn it, it is tyranny. And by the way, you know why you don't see it as often? Because the middle class and the poor in this country are invisible.

They do this kind of thug tactics to real people all the time. You only ever see it when it touches the elites. that everybody gets out. Did you know that they're arresting doctors? Yeah, that's the whole goddamn point of making it illegal. Yes, we knew that. And so, and one more thing about that, I want to also pick up on what Anna said about the Democrats.

So we're an honest show. I know that's like crazy in today's media, right? So you have to pick a side and you have to say, okay, these are all, or these guys on this side are 100% correct, or these guys on this side are 100% great. No, it's not true. So Democrats, they could have made abortion legal nationwide. They had many opportunities they chose not to, including just now.

They say, oh, well, our beloved filibuster that protects all of our corporate donors. Without that, we'd have to pass minimum wage and higher wages and give you guys health care. We don't want to do any of that. We just don't think abortion is that important. And by the way, can they raise the filibuster? Can they make it even an exception for the filibuster? Yeah, they did it for raising the debt ceiling. So they say for our stock portfolio, it's important to do an exception for the filibuster.

Well, they're going to start arresting women across the country. We'll use it as a political prop. So no, we're not going to do it, not important enough to make an exception for the filibuster. So the Democrats are hypocritical lying ahoes. But the Republicans are actually fascist monsters who are actually going to do exactly what you saw in that ad. So thank you to Eric Swalwell, who's apparently a good fighting Democrat. Now it wants to point that out. I love any Democrat and wants to fight back against Republicans, there just aren't that many of them.

When we come back from the break, even though the issue of reproductive rights is an important one, when you poll likely voters, it's not number one on the list. And there's yet another poll showing that Democrats aren't a lot of trouble, particularly those in the House. So that story and more coming right up. All right back on TYPhee Jankana with you guys. And yet another member, Tree Lickie just joined by hitting that join button below the video on YouTube. You guys are awesome. Every member makes this show possible. We're proud of you guys. I hope we do all right by you. Everybody, you can join so easy at tyt.com slash join and is a great week to do it because

we're giving away a hundred free gift cards of $100 in free food with from Blue Apron. All right, Casper, what's next? Well, there's a new Harvard Harris poll that shows that Democrats running for reelection are in a bit of trouble. Now, the issues that matter most to voters, including likely Democratic voters tend to be issues that these voters think Republicans are doing a better job representing. And so there's a messaging issue here. And there is this, in my opinion, oblivious nature to the way the Democratic Party has handled topics like the economy and yes, crime. Something that I've been warning about. People thought that I was just being

a copagandist, but when you look at these communities, when you look at what they're most concerned about, if you just get off the internet and talk to people, including your neighbors, you get a better sense of what worries voters. And this is yet another poll that kind of doubles down on some of my concerns here. So let's get a broad look at what this poll has found. Now, Republicans are unfortunately winning the generic congressional ballot, 53% to 47% among likely voters. Also, 55% of Americans blame Biden for inflation. And that includes 43% of Democrats. Not a majority, but 43% of Democrats, that's a pretty big chunk of the Democratic base who want to blame Biden for what's currently transpiring with inflation. Now, we've done many

videos on inflation. Different sectors of the economy happen to be, you know, experiencing inflation for different reasons. There are different factors involved. Inflation is also something that's being experienced globally. So to blame it all on Biden is a little ridiculous. But nonetheless, not everyone is steeped in politics. People are busy. They're trying to provide for their families. So messaging really does matter here. And it does appear that the Democratic Party, along with Democratic candidates has dropped the ball on this. Now, I want to go to this graphic that shows you how important are each of the following issues in your vote in the midterms, okay? And as you can see, the top two issues, inflation, crime. Coming in at number four is

immigration, coming in at number, I'm sorry, coming in number three is immigration and number four is abortion, right? So while Democrats experienced a little bit of an uptick in support after the reversal of Roe v. Wade, you know, that support has kind of dissipated as other issues have impacted voters' lives, including inflation and crime. Now, 96% of likely voters, both Democrats and Republicans, express how important the issue of, you know, inflation is. 95% of voters find crime to be an incredibly important issue, abortion again is fourth on that list with 84% finding that issue important. Now, on all three top issues, though, voters are more likely to vote Republican rather than Democrat. Let's go to the next graph. Because this shows how will each of

the following issues affect your vote in the midterms for Congress? So it shows that 48% of likely voters are more likely to vote for Republicans because of inflation. Now, when you compare that number to 36% for Democrats, you can see that, again, Democrats have really lost the messaging war on the issue of inflation. And I want to pause for a second, because the problem that I have with Democrats, not only is the messaging, but it's the fact that they have allowed Republicans to kind of take the mantle of, hey, we're the politicians who are going to combat information. inflation without providing a shred of evidence, without providing any policy proposals,

absolutely no solutions. I mean, Republicans are the kings and queens of negative campaigning. They just attack, attack, attack, and they're successful at it. But you also have to keep in mind that they have offered absolutely no solutions for what is being experienced, not just here domestically with inflation, but an issue that's being felt all across the globe. Now let's go to crime. 47% of likely voters say that they are likely to vote for for Republican candidates due to the issue of crime. Compare that to 35% who say they are likely to vote for Democrats when considering that important issue. And you can see the rest of the graph and where, you know, where everyone falls, where everyone is leaning toward when it comes to these issues that matter to them, including immigration, abortion, what have you. In fact, abortion is one of the issues where voters are likely or more likely to support Democrats.

Now, inflation, crime, and immigration are the most important issues voters picked heading into the midterms. And based on each, voters say they are over 10 points more likely to vote Republican than Democrat. And this really jives with a recent poll that Sienna College and the New York Times did, a poll that we talked about this week, very similar results. again, concerning to say the least. Because it's one thing to have an outlier poll, it's something entirely different to have several polls that kind of tell you the same thing over and over again. Jank, I've got a lot more data to share on this,

but I know you've got some thoughts. So before I go on, I want to hear what you think. Yeah, so there's a number of issues here. First of all, jury's in. It looks like the Democrats are going to lose the midterms. So there's now enough polling to show you that they don't have enough time turn around. There's about three weeks left. And in order for things to turn around, the Democrats would have to actually fight back. And I'm going to show you how they could

fight back in a second. But you know Democrats, other than a couple of Mike Federman and Ryan, nobody's ever going to fight back. So it looks like we're toast. So Republicans have an advantage that Anna explained six points in Congress, about a five-point swing, now generic public versus Democrat in terms of party loyalty, now four-point advantage of the Republicans, 18-pointed swing, I'm sorry, 18-point advantage now among independent women. So, okay, there goes the potential row advantage. So it's a rebuttable presumption. It's not, you don't put it in stone, right? But right now, it looks like Republicans are going to take the house. So now, Second thing, it's important, of course, is the policies and why it happened, right?

So inflation is a giant part of it. I'm going to get to that in a second. But crime, here at TYT, we warned folks that this is going to be a big issue. And as always, they shot the messenger. So since we're the messenger, we get shot on a regular basis and from every quarter, right? So we've been calling out the right wing for 20 years straight. They've been shooting at us for 20 years straight. Then we call on establishment Democrats, and they say, oh, no, Hillary.

Clinton's got this. No, it's you messengers that are the problem. The American people love the establishment. Oops, we were right. They were wrong. They learned nothing from it. We said, don't do the Iraq war. We were right. They were wrong. I can give you dozens of examples. They never learn anything from it. What do they do? Shoot the messenger. And now the left wing is doing it. So the extreme left says, no, in the midst of an increase in crime, we should pretend that there isn't an increase in crime. And we should talk about absurd things like abolishing prisons. Okay, we told you that's not going to play well. We were 100% right. And then they're like, no, it's okay, this problem will be solved if we just shoot the messenger. Okay, that's just not how it

works. I mean, I wish all these people were young Turks viewers. And we had that the kind of power that the establishment thinks we have, the left wing and the right wing think we have. Because then we can influence them to vote against Republicans. But these folks are voting this way, whether we like it or not. Our job is to tell you about it. We did. And unfortunately, we were right again. Now finally to the how you could turn these numbers around in the last three weeks. It would take courage. It would take intelligence. Unfortunately, democratic leadership has none. So I'll give you inflation as the example. The economy. Oh my God, the economy is so bad. Should the Democrats play defense or should they not talk about the issue? I've now seen a dozen

articles about that. No, wrong. Both answers are wrong. The framing's wrong. No, Democrats should play offense. And they should say, hey, we're going to bring you higher wages to keep up with inflation. All the cost of everything is high. So we're going to do $15 minimum wage and it's going to increase everybody's wages because it's going to push wages up, right? And then what are the Republicans forced to do? They're forced to argue for lower wages. When you attack, when you play offense on politics, you win. But a Democratic leader wouldn't know how to win if it slapped him across the face. So the schmucks are like, I don't know, should we run? Or should we cower? Those are not your only two options. But since you think it is, those, those,

then you're going to lose, and that's where we are today. Yeah, in fact, I want to provide just one more data point for the audience because of how important this is, right? I mean, putting your head in the sand and shooting the messenger just isn't helpful. I mean, we all hear things we don't want to know. We don't want to hear about. But the truth is important so you can recalibrate your approach. And that was the whole point, right? So Democrats recalibrate your approach, especially at a time when you have literally monarchists like funding the Republican candidates who are, you know, incredibly insane. I mean, how many like Senate debates have we talked about? How many Republican Senate candidates

have we talked about who not only are not qualified to serve in the Senate, but are deeply corrupted by moneyed interests and would make things far worse. So it's incredibly important for, you know, the Democratic Party and for the left overall, broadly speaking, to look at this data and see how they can recalibrate their messaging to ensure that we're not willy-nilly giving power to our opponents. So let me move on to this one other data point that I think is important here. So they asked the survey takers, do you think crime is rising, dropping, or staying the same? Now, what's incredibly frustrating is I keep hearing this talking point from the left about like, oh yeah, well, the crime isn't as bad as it was in the 90s.

Oh, yeah. Really? Like, that's a terrible talking point, especially for people who have been victimized by crime. If someone, like the woman whose dog was beaten to death in Park Slope, Brooklyn, if you tell that woman, well, I mean, yeah, this is bad, but, you know, crime isn't as bad as it was in the 90s. You think that that's going to console her? You think that she's going to be supportive of the party that gives her that messaging? No, of course not. But nonetheless, let's go to this graph, this pie chart, I should say, do you think crime is rising, dropping, or staying the same? And they break it down based on, you know, party. And it shows that 55% of Democrat voters, Democratic voters believe that crime is in fact rising. It's unsurprising that the GOP number

is much higher at 81%. And that's because their candidates talk about crime and pretty much nothing else. And inflation, of course. And then the important number here is the independent voters. 60% of independent voters do believe that crime is rising. So the perception here is important. Regardless of the debates about the numbers and whether or not the numbers are even accurate, I think there's actually a lot of underreporting when it comes to crime. A lot of people don't report crimes that happen to them. It doesn't even matter, right? You could squabble over the numbers. Fact of the matter is voters think that crime is up and they're concerned about it. Let's go to the final graph here. Do you think that the increase in crime is the fault of woke politicians or

other factors? Even 52% of Democratic voters, Democrats, registered Democratic voters, blame the so-called woke politicians. And among independents, that number jumps up to 60%. Yeah, we're toast. So 6040 losing independence is good night Irene and they're not just blaming the left for crime. They're blamed they're using weirdo Republican propaganda talking points like wokeism. I don't know even know what that means in regards to criminal justice reform or what they're referring to, right? But it doesn't matter. Even 52% of Democrats think that. So that gets to a second problem.

The number one problem is the policy itself is creating issues that we weren't. you about. Unfortunately, they're now here and it's too late. This three weeks before the election, no, we, the ship, we told you to turn the ship. They didn't turn the ship. Now we're headed straight for the iceberg, right? So now, but there's also a messaging issue. So the Democrats could have beat down this wokeism nonsense a long time ago, but they're so afraid of their own shadows. The Republicans says, oh, you're woke and Democrats run like their hairs on fire and run out of the building. Why don't you fight back, you moron? No. No, never, never.

The Democrats think fighting back is like impolite and uncivil and NPR would be aghast if they fought back. So I could tell them a thousand ways to fight back on all of these issues. But we've been telling them for 20 straight years. They're never going to listen. Look at that crime is up. Independence says, 16% of independent say, yes, crime is up? Only 11% say it's down. Gee, I wonder what people are thinking.

It's not complicated. Okay? The numbers are right there. We didn't make up the numbers. And if you're putting, burying your head in the sand, if you're on the left, you're doing the same thing that Trump people do. They just bury their head in the sand. I don't see any stolen documents. I don't see him being an idiot, right? Oh, I don't see it at all. I don't see any of the crimes. I don't see any of the con man. And you guys are saying, I don't see crime going up. I don't see the whole country saying crime is going up. I don't see that costing us in the elections. Well, you're trying super hard not to see it. It's right there. All right, that does it for our first hour, but stay tuned for the second hour because Ron DeSantis has yet another disgusting political stunt where he uses vulnerable people as pawns. And later in the show, we'll also dive into Chris Cuomo's interview of Kanye West. Stick around. Read the polls, Jack. Thanks for listening to the full episode of the Young Turks. Support our work, listen to ad-free, access members-only bonus content, and more by subscribing to Apple Podcasts at apple.com slash t-y-t.

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