The Young Turks - Part 1: Day 2 of 2020 RNC

Episode Date: October 7, 2020

Part 1: John Iadarola and Benjamin Dixon breakdown day 2 of the 2020 RNC.  Speakers: Melania Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Sen. Rand Paul, Nicholas Sandmann, Eric Trump, Tiffany Trump Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Hello everyone and welcome back to our coverage of the R&C now. And it's second night, I'm John Adrola. Ben Dixon, how's it going? It's going well, John. I don't know if I'm ready for the madness that they're going to give us tonight.

But I'm glad to be here with you. I mean, how could you? And if you were, would that really be good? Would that say anything good about you? It would say that I have completely died on the inside, yes. Well, look, it's going to be a big night, everybody. If you're tuning in now, man, buckle up. If you don't have a drink, consider it. You know, something, I've got caffeine, just something to take the edge off. Because last night was crazy and tonight is probably going to be at least as crazy.

This is the only night that I'm doing RNC coverage. So Ben, let me just say I'm glad that I got paired up with you. Always glad to do the show with you. Can't wait to see your perspectives. It's an honor, man. Let's do it. Let's do it. So we're gonna be getting sort of the heads up about when the speakers start. I don't know exactly when that's gonna begin unless that lighthouse was speaking. But anyway, let's give a little bit of an overview of what is on store tonight. So this is the Republican Party, which is the cult of Trump. So you know what you got? You got Trumps, even like the B and C grade trumps. So we're gonna get Melania Shore, but we're also gonna get Eric Trump, the lesser son, and Tiffany Trump as

well, apparently back on speaking terms with the family. So three separate Trumps are gonna be speaking. You saw Don Jr. last night, I assume, Ben. Yeah, yeah. I saw him in his line of substance. What did you, what did you make a, what did you make his speech? You know, it was somewhere in between like, well, you know what? I didn't check. Are we, are we streaming on broadcast or is this internet only? Because I need to be able to describe some things that he said in his speech. But I'll keep- Let's air on the side of peace. Let's air on the side of caution. Okay, it was a combination of a mixture of Trumpism, cultism, and cocaine. It was completely out of control. His mannerisms, the way he was speaking, not to mention what he was saying.

So I don't know if we'll get that from the other Trumps tonight. I think the other Trumps might be a little more conservative in their intake before they speak. Oh my God, yeah. And so the way that I always think about it is that, you know, despite the assurances we were given that Don Jr. and Eric, they're just going to be focusing on the business. Don Jr. has been like at least as enthusiastic about this whole right wing thing as his father has. Like, I think he's hotter for the office than Donald Trump is at this point. But I also have often thought that whatever it is, the special sauce, the special, you know, like dictator sauce that Trump has, I feel like Don Jr. doesn't have it. Like, I feel like it is a cheap imitation. Do you, do you feel that way or am I missing something the same

way that I am. You hit that. You nail that on the head. He's not as talented as his father. And that's to say a lot because his father's not really that talented. He just had a lot of money, right? So Don Jr. has aspirations for more. But really, as soon as his father leaves the scene, he, no one is going to give him any of the time of day. So it's going to be a really depressing future for him. So I kind of feel the same way. My inclination is to say I feel the same way. But we do have to bear in mind that even if Donald Trump leaves in November, like I imagine that Trump's views on things are going to drive a lot of voter behavior on the right. So what if he tells people, no, you got to get, you got to get behind Don Jr. Like, it's not like he's

not going to get primary or anything. Like, there's not going to be any opposition. But if Donald Trump points to Don Jr. and says he's the guy, do you think that enough of the Republican establishment, the non-Trump Republican establishment would line up against that? Or do you think that once Trump is gone, they're going to try to like seize the reins of power on the party again. So I think it's multi-layered, right? So one, I think Donald Trump would do that for Ivanka before he would Don Jr. I don't think he likes Don Jr. as much as he likes Ivanka and that kind of shows. But two, as soon as Donald Trump is off the scene, Trumpism will still exist in the base. But I think the party players will try to gain power back from the Trumpist that are in

the party now. So I think there will be a power struggle once he leaves the scene. Yeah, you know, I think it is, it's really, it's one of the big questions is, you know, what is the future of the Republican Party. Is this like a five to six year dip into their entire ideology, the centuries long history, the party is all about Trump? Or is that more durable? Yeah, Ivanka just seems like behind the scenes, she's legit corrupt and all that. But she doesn't seem as into it in terms of stoking the xenophobia like Don Jr. does. He seems to like more of the showmanship. And Ivanka, I think, just agrees with virtually all of Donald Trump's economic plans? Maybe if they ran together or something, together, they would make one Don Sr.

Yeah, yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I think she has more personality than Don Jr. And that's saying a lot because I think she has a personality of a chalkboard. So it really, no, no, I'm serious. Like Donald, Donald Sr. actually has some comedic and timing and, you know, he had stage presence. I don't think his kids inherited that. Well, perhaps we'll see. We're going to see a bunch of his kids tonight. So we are seeing some speakers. Let's bear in mind, this is the R&C, and also it's basically every day it's getting more and more it looks like, and we'll talk about in the future, it's gonna just gonna be the Q show. So I'm ready to pull the trigger on not listening to any of these jokers, but why don't we at least give them a chance? Let's go to this

first speaker and see what they've got. Okay, um, apparently they didn't have much, no, I'm kidding, we're having some kind of technical problem, obviously with the audio, considering night one might be for the best, but we're gonna, behind the scenes, we're gonna try to get it. get that resolved in anticipation of some of these other speakers. Ben, you want to go through a little bit more of who's going to be speaking tonight? Yeah, let's do it. Okay, so we've got Nicholas Sandman. Are you familiar with Nicholas Sandman? I, the last name sounds familiar, but no, I'm not. I don't know. So he's the young conservative who sued CNN and MSNBC. Yes. So he is speaking. I thought that was a joke. So he is on the Ross. No, it is a joke, but he's speaking.

The party's a joke. But yeah, no, he's speaking. So the only reason anyone knows who he is is because he had best case scenario and extremely uncomfortable and really regrettable interaction with a Native American activist. Then they swore, the media had falsely portrayed what he was about, that they had been unfair to him. He wasn't some sort of crazy maga head or anything. And he is proving that by speaking at the RNC for support of Donald Trump, I guess. We look forward to hosting you very soon.

This is going to be interesting because, you know, if he represents, if he's going to say anything, he's going to talk something along the lines of cancel culture, because I can't really think what else he would have to contribute to a national conversation. Yeah, I guess. I mean, I guess they would point to him as one of the examples of that. Of course, he did try to sue into destruction to media outlets. So there's a little bit of cancel culture there too, but obviously they're not gonna, they're not gonna notice that hypocrisy. It just, man, I just, I can't wait. Like, I wish I could fast forward and see in five years if he's like running as a Republican congressman or if he's got a like right wing YouTube channel.

Like he is, he is going to launch into this thing by saying that he was being he was unfairly like tarred basically by the media. And then he is going to do everything he possibly can to prove the media right with his chasing after a right wing sort of like pundit career or something like that, but we'll see. A lot of these names, I'm going to be completely honest. I'm not that familiar with. There are a few people like, you know, Pam Bondi has been involved in some of Donald Trump's corruption in the past. So I'm not that surprised by that. I didn't want to briefly mention two of the speakers we're going to have tonight. I believe Abby Johnson, if I remember correctly, she is a pro-life speaker who believes that women shouldn't necessarily have the right

to vote. So that's going to be an exciting outreach to conservative. I'm not even kidding. Like, she tweets about how the head of the household should vote, not like everyone else. It should just be like presumably the man that's in charge. But, okay, so we're hearing that we might actually have audio. So let's check in with the speakers. And every since that day, I got up off that floor. And my life went in a 180 degree turn in the other direction.

Well, John got a sentence. I just shook my head and said, well, John, you were destined for bigger things than prison. When he was Richard Beasley, I was an FBI special agent for about 25 and a half year. It was something about his, me, when he walked in that room, I had this feeling like everything's going to be okay. Then when he got out, he gave me calls to say, hey, let's, look. So I met him at Big Donster, and he said, I've seen that before where guys have used a Bible as a problem. It took me about 30 seconds of time. This was about Prabhu, John.

He was a changed guy from the man I arrested several years before. When I saw the way that he treated me fairly, you know, I saw the man behind the suit. I started thinking. Okay, so obviously we're having a little bit of issues with the audio and video. I like to imagine that it's not on our end. That's just, you know, the slapdash manner of the RNC this year, but we don't know for sure. What I believe this is, is I know that there's going to be a couple of instances of them talking about like rehabilitated criminals. It's an interesting strategy for them considering the rest of what they have to say

about the criminal justice system and the fact that it doesn't need any reform or anything like that. I don't know the specific details of this individual. Ben, are you familiar with it at all? No, not what this particular case. But you know, you can see what they're trying to do. One of the things that the Republican Party is definitely interested in doing is casting light on their version of criminal justice reform and their version of what's acceptable in terms of like blackness and rehabilitating this reform person, bring them back into the culture, those type of things. And so like not knocking the individual who, you know, made it out of prison and whatnot, but definitely it's a concerted effort by the Republicans to cast that type of

narrative. Yeah, and I'm assuming the goal is a strategic, a pragmatic one of, you know, We wanna make sure that we get a couple percentage points of the vote from various communities. So we're gonna talk about this thing. Even though simultaneously, I mean, like look at their reaction to the most recent shooting or any of like the protests. There's no, there's no give 1% on any sort of reform outside of the one that Donald Trump teamed up with Kim Kardashian on. Like they believe that, oh, that was good. We found the one crack in the system. We patched it. Now we're good. We don't need to worry about anything else. And it just seems odd to me to focus on, look, there have been these prisoners that were

rehabilitated, which is like the entire point of what leftist critics of our jail, of our prison system are saying that we need to fundamentally change the way we approach incarceration and focus more on a system of rehabilitation like in many European countries rather than just, you know, lock them up, throw away the key and all of that. And they're also making the case that these people, even if they've been rehabilitated, shouldn't be allowed to vote. I mean, look to what DeSantis is doing in Florida and the strike back against Bernie Sanders advocating for, you know, prisoners to continue to have the right to vote. It's a very weird jumbled messaging around this issue. Yeah, I think you nailed it, right? They have, they found one sliver,

one lane that they're comfortable with saying, okay, this is our version of criminal justice reform because this version of criminal justice reform does not challenge or threaten any of their power structure, right? So anything that would be a challenge to their power structure, they oppose vehemently. And so that's that's where we find ourselves. Yeah, and you know, they don't seem to make any explicit appeals to, like for instance, like if you're running or, you know, trying to expand private prisons, I guess that they already know that they have the support of those those individuals. And hypothetically, that's one area where perhaps under a new administration there could be some sort of reform. But yeah, there's just, there's a lot of cases where, like,

We're watching the R&C and we pay, what percentile are we in and paying attention to politics? Like the top 5 percent, something like that probably, you can tell in the damage to our physical and mental well-being. So for a regular person who's tuning in, this is just the first of several instances perhaps we'll talk about where I don't know how you're supposed to make heads or tails of what their position is, that they want to pretend that for instance, Donald Trump took decisive leadership in dealing with COVID. That was sort of yesterday, even though if you are a conservative, you know what Trump was telling you. He was telling you not to worry about it. It's not gonna be

serious, we don't need to lock down. And I'm not just saying like, hey, could you remember that he said that? They liked it at the time. They wanted him to say those things. And so it's a weird rewriting of it. And now we have that too with criminal justice. I don't know what other topics they're gonna hit on tonight. But like for instance, even related to it with Joe Biden, They rightly want to attack him, for instance, for his vote for the crime bill. And obviously his, you know, he was a big part of getting that passed. But then they also want to pitch him as like Antifa Joe that he's out there wanting to take away every last scent that the police have. So again, if you're watching this and you aren't in the top

five percentile of watching politics, what, what opinion of Joe Biden do you come away with? Or is it just one where you're confused and maybe they think that that benefits them. No, I think you're right, right? If low information voters are watching this, then they're going to pick up whatever, whatever narrative is successfully woven throughout the night. But anyone with a little bit of attention, anyone who's paid any amount of attention over the years, you know, or can. At the same time, they themselves want to be hard on crime. They themselves want to increase the police state. And I know it's like asking a lot, but that's what we're here for, right? We have to help people to understand that, you know, some of

these things that they just intuitively, like people have a gut instinct that something's wrong, we have to help explain it to them. Yeah, and you know, I don't know about you. I don't, I don't have a ton of people that I talk to on a regular basis that are like extreme Trump fans or anything like that. I have people generally on Facebook that I know. I saw a comment from one saying that the first night of the RNC, their logic was a nice counterpoint to the emotion of the DNC last week. Oh, come on, man. And I just wanna like, look, it's cool. If you want to have a death cult of personality, go ahead and have one. I just hate when they try to then describe it

as logical or rational in some sense. Like for instance, so they're gonna show you these reformed prisoners. They're gonna have these instances of generally black and brown individuals that have been reformed and they're going to say, look, look, this is supposed to be proof of something to do with us in criminal justice reform. Okay, but I heard the McCloskey's yesterday, that reformed can he move in your neighborhood? Are you gonna freak out if he moves in your neighborhood? Like, come on, give me some logic, you know? You say that he's reformed, do you want him to be able to vote? Do you want him to live near you? Do you want to employ him? How far does your like willingness to pat yourself on the back for supporting this actually go? And I doubt it goes very far.

Yeah, yeah, you know, you're framing it perfectly, right? And what we're finding out is like, honestly, anything that they could simply say, this is logic. That's all that matters. No matter how illogical it is, no matter how counterfactual it is, as long as they say, this is logic. And we made a good, robust argument. Like, that's the entire nature of Ben Shapiro. Exactly, yeah, that's one of the most frustrating things. Look, Ben Shapiro is seemingly good at doing a good job for himself as a young conservative of launching, you know, a Bill O'Reilly type career when he's really young. And certainly he's benefited from the fact that billionaires have spent literally millions of dollars advertising for him online. But

it's the, it's the thing that he gives these crazy emotional screeds about groups in society that he's afraid of and doesn't understand and all of that. And then labels it as logic. Right. And he and he's gonna do that. But like when the New York Times is labeling him as some sort of intellectual gladiator and things like that, that's that's what's so frustrating. Like if if they are giving emotional white identity based appeals for politics, they're gonna do that. We're not gonna stop them, but we can identify it when they're doing that. We don't have to pretend that this is, you know, the rebirth of Socrates or something like that because I have a feeling based on my viewing of his reading of the lyrics from WAP that that's

not really the direction he's coming from in terms of his political analysis. I, you know, and that's that's the those are the facts, right? But I think there's a concerted effort, right? I think a lot of money has has been put into giving the facade and the veneer that conservatism is intellectual and that it is logic based. Like you said, a lot of money has been poured into that. And if you really just slow down and think that, you know, Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro are supposed to be the most logical faces in the conservative movement, then that should let you know how there's really a dearth in that movement. But we're gonna see a lot of this tonight. We're gonna see a lot of pontificating, a lot of

grandstanding and then it won't have any logical consistencies, but tomorrow everyone will say how great and how logical it was. Yeah, I mean, I'm, so I'm looking at the list and you know that the headliner is Melania Trump. I mean, obviously we think that's funny for a number of reasons, but I get it, you know, she's the first lady, she's going to speak, they basically always do, nothing wrong with that. And even look, as much as I joke about his family speaking, family members do give speeches, that happens, not all the time, but it does happen. It's weird when you have this many, when you're, you're going that deep into the roster, but it happens. But then like, so what else do they have? Like Mike Pompeo is apparently going

to violate the hatch act to give a speech tonight. We've got that. They've got Rand Paul, a guy who how much did he despise Donald Trump and warn against him back in 2015? But at least he's a senator. I mean, they got a senator. I'm amazed. I wonder if Ted Cruz is going to speak, If Rand Paul can bring himself to speak, Ted Cruz may be able to bring himself to speak, seeing as Donald Trump insulted him, his wife, and his father. Yeah, I would guess that he is going to. He seems pretty fully behind this thing. And by the way, to the question of the future of the Republican Party that we're talking about earlier, like two years after Trump is gone, he's going to be saying that he stood up to him if the party

moves away from it. But for right now, he is 100% behind him. So to give you a little update on the the tech situation, we are, I'm getting an update right now. We, okay, we are looking for an alternative stream that is not as choppy. Apparently that's on the side of the stream. While they're keying that in, let me just read a few of these super chats that we've been getting from the people that are watching the stream right now. Matt Joseph from California said, just a few bucks in the tip cup, you are appreciated. Thank you Matt Joseph. I appreciate that. Dr. Dennis business says just a few bucks, you are appreciated. Man, you'll super We're appreciated tonight. Let's see. Responding to the tech troubles, Robeson says, well,

John clearly drew the TYT anchor short straw. No, we're gonna get it resolved. And it would have been the same if Jake was here. Nora and Novoa said, I appreciate the suits, nice touch. And it looks like we have, thank you for that. It looks like we have Rand Paul. Okay, let's see how fully he gets behind the big guy. Trump, because he believes, as I do, that a strong America cannot fight endless wars. We must not continue to leave our blood and treasure in Middle East quagmires. I flew with him to Dover Air Force Base to honor two soldiers whose remains were coming home from Afghanistan. I'll never forget that evening.

I can tell you the president not only felt the pain of these families, but that the president is committed to ending this war. President Trump is the first president in a generation to seek to end war rather than start one. He intends to end the war in Afghanistan. He is bringing our men and women home. Madison once wrote, No nation can preserve its freedom in the midst of continuous warfare. I'm proud to finally see a president who agrees with that. Compare President Trump with the disastrous record of Joe Biden,

who is consistently called for more war. Joe Biden voted for the Iraq war, which President Trump has long called the worst geopolitical mistake of our generation. I fear Biden will choose war again. He supported the war in Serbia, Syria, Libya. Joe Biden will continue to spill our blood and treasure. President Trump will bring our heroes home. If you hate war like I hate war, if you want us to quit sending $50 billion,

every year to Afghanistan to build their roads and bridges, instead of building them here at home, you need to support President Trump for another term. So to our soldiers and their families, join me in supporting President Trump. To those of you who want lower taxes and better, less expensive health care, join me in supporting President Trump. To those of you who want to stand up and fight the socialist poisoning our schools and and burning our cities, join me in supporting President Trump. Let's rebuild America together.

Okay, so that seems again like an oddly short speech. But to be fair, the DNC did that too, gave even less time to people who deserve far more. What's your immediate reaction to some of what we heard from Rand Paul? That Rand Paul is one of the most prolific liars on the face of the planet, that he has no problem spinning half-truths. There is not a war that Donald Trump has brought us out of or has even seriously considered bringing us out of. He has rhetoric, but he has no actions to back it up.

Donald Trump doesn't get a consolation prize for not accidentally taking us into wars when he get us on the precipice, on the edge of so many disasters since he's been in the office. But that doesn't stop Rand Paul from spinning these lies. 100%. I mean, look, some of this is just so easy. And I understand, as I always acknowledge, pointing out hypocrisy in modern day politics is irrelevant because they have no shame and they don't care. In January of this year, Rand Paul said, I think President Trump has been very consistent saying he doesn't want perpetual war, but I have pushed back and I've said, if you keep sending more troops, you will have perpetual war. So in January, he was saying, yeah, he says he doesn't

want it, but he keeps sending troops there. Now all of a sudden, a couple months from the election, oh, he's pulling all of our troops back, even though he's not. To be fair, Rand Paul earlier this year, you know, in the before times when Trump was this close to starting a war with Iran, warned Trump against doing that, but Rand Paul knows how badly Trump wants to attack Iran. So to stand there and pretend that he's against war, it's, I get it strategically, and we'll talk a little bit about that. But also, Rand Paul knows that Donald Trump supported the war in Iraq. He didn't have to cast a vote on it, but he definitely supported it. He was very clear at the time. And Rand Paul knows that he is such a, as you said, a prolific liar.

Somebody in the chat room said Rand Paul's neighbor 2020. Here here. Near here, yeah. I'd like to see that neighbor strike back. But anyway, yeah, and saying Trump felt the pain of each one of our soldiers who died. Come on, you know who your guy is, you know that he doesn't have a bit of feeling for anyone that's not in his immediate family. I don't mean to cut you up, but there was a specific example. And I think it was the special ops soldiers who were killed.

killed, or one particular who was killed in Nigeria, I believe. And the wife got on national television and spoke as to how callous Donald Trump was about the death of her husband. And the fact that she didn't even have his complete remains with him. And he just didn't care. So I mean, there's just too much evidence to counteract to counteract what Rand Paul said. Yeah, and definitely like the biggest example is Iran. Like Trump wants to take us to war with Iran. There's a good chance it'll happen if he gets reelected. Yeah, I don't remember the exact instance. I think it was one of our soldiers that died in Operation Africa.

He ended up publicly feuding with the widow after his call went sour. That's the word. And the Floyd family said that Trump, like, made it worse. And we've seen like him going to the hospitals and posing with thumbs up and things like that. He can't even pretend to have empathy, doesn't understand it well enough. But all of that said, Rand Paul, massive liar, Rand Paul's neighbor 2020 and forever. But they are now, this is two nights of we're the party that's going to end the wars. It's not true. It's a massive lie. And we're in most of these wars because of them.

But they're focusing on it. And the Democrats did far less of that with their time last week. And they did not make it a priority, perhaps because it's not one of their priorities necessarily. Yeah. Well, it's not the priority of the establishment in general, right? That's why neither Barack Obama nor Donald Trump was able to pull us out of Afghanistan successfully. Like there's a consensus that they don't want to admit to, but the Republicans are better at weaponizing that consensus against the Democrats. And I think it really is going to be impactful. Like, we know that it's lies. But if you look at the latest polling on independent numbers, Donald Trump is actually ahead on independence. And so I think this message might actually be

resonating. Yeah, yeah. I think the CBS News poll, I think it was. He was up by a significant point, more than 10 points among independents. Now, I've seen other polls that showed Biden up with independence, but more recently, I don't know. And they're going to pay attention to what you say in your convention. And at the end of the day, the answer to every issue that we face is not necessarily just Joe Biden's a nicer guy. He gives more authentic hugs. Like at a certain point, you need more. And I understand like in the pandemic, perhaps, you know, the American presence in Iraq isn't foremost on people's minds. But it is a major issue. And to just forget that all of that is going on for the most part seems to me like a massive,

a massive mistake. Well, and also actually, I think I appreciate the way you just framed that, right? Because truth be told, we have our own war going on here with COVID-19 and 170,000 deaths. And so I think the Republicans have like home court advantage. They're the last up, their convention it is last and that's going to be the last word on it. But I think as soon as we move away from the convention on all the anti, full anti-war talk goes away, you're going to see the reality set back in that we're waging a war against COVID-19 and Donald Trump is losing it. Exactly. Yeah. Okay, let's check in and see what's going on with the speakers. From all over northern Wisconsin helped haul them to other farms where they stayed until we could

rebuild. By the end of 2018, we had a new state-of-the-art robotic milking facility that allows our cows to milk themselves three times a day. At about the same time, President Trump's economic boon began helping dairy farmers across the nation. As a businessman, President Trump understands that farming is a complicated, capital-intensive, and risky business. More than any president in my lifetime, he has acknowledged the importance of farmers, and agriculture. That support and focus on negotiating new trade deals gave us the confidence to rebuild our barn and dairy operation.

Business was booming again, and business boomed right until the COVID-19 shutdown in March. Many people probably don't realize that our country is one of the few in the world that produces nearly all of its own food. Fewers still understand how close our food production and distribution system came to collapsing this past spring. But President Trump understood and again took steps to provide the supports we needed. President Trump took the necessary action knowing that agriculture is our backbone and strength, critical to our national security. Our entire economy and dairy farming are once again roaring back. One person deserves the credit and our vote, President Donald J. Trump.

What was happening? Okay, so that seemed like a convention thing that happens. They got, she apparently is the like the chief executive officer, financial officer of a dairy farm that she co-owns with her husband. And they spoke about how Trump somehow helped them or other, and maybe some of it's true. But it wasn't about QAnon, so I think that's a win for the Republicans. And so when I am, you know, it was fascinating to hear about cows milking themselves three times a day. That was absolutely fascinating. But, you know, it's the thing with conservatives, like

you could hear that he was directly helpful to them, right? And so, so long as Donald Trump has been a direct help to them, they're not really concerned about all the other places where Donald Trump has been detrimental to people. Yeah, and look, I mean, this is the sort of thing. The DNC had a bunch of the these sorts of random people speaking about their experience and they're totally allowed to do that. We know at large his trade war with China has been very damaging to a number of different types of farmers. Obviously they're not going to focus on that. They're going to focus on the person who got the milking machine, but that's fine. I much prefer that to some of their other types of

speakers. Okay, now I know that some of the speakers are going to be sort of back to back. Let's touch base and see if it's an actual speaker. This administration has done simplifying the government. It's really cut the handcuffs off of America again and allowed us to grow and move forward in a way that I have never seen in my lifetime. When you pool regulation and allow smart companies to go out there and be able to play in the game, that is the American dream. People feel that they can support and have a family and it can build and make us stronger as Americans. What could be taken away if he doesn't win again? Joe Biden said the first thing is going to do is increase taxes on everyone. Over-regulated

and making it where a small business can grow. That's taken away. No, he didn't say that. Like, ah, it's so frustrating. Like, we criticized him for saying, like, you know, he's got these huge cutoff points. He's not going to massively increase taxes on everybody. Over 400,000, right? No, I was just going to say, like, he's going to raise taxes on people who make more than 400,000. Like, that's probably, you know, what percentage of Americans make over 400,000. And so, but that's the same commercial, I think, that they ran last night. And it is, it is riddled with so many lies. And the question is, is like, do the lies even matter? Does it even matter to people that they are being lied to?

Or they just, they want to hear the lies. Conservatives want to hear these lies. Yeah, and it's a really weird position where like, I don't know about you, but virtually everything I hear about what Biden plans to do, especially the evolutions over the past month or two, have made me really angry. And then to see this bizarre leftist fever dream version of Joe Biden is like insult to injury. Okay, speaking of insult to injury, here's Larry Kudlow. It was a roaring success. Inheriting a stagnant economy on the front end of recession,

the program of tax cuts, historic rollback of onerous regulations that crippled small business. Unleashing energy become the world's number one producer and free, fair, and reciprocal trade deals to bolster manufacturing, agriculture, technology, and other sectors. The economy was rebuilt in three years. Unemployment fell to the lowest rate of 3.5%. Blue-collar, African Americans, Hispanics, women, all groups benefited enormously.

Everyone was better off. A rising tide lifted all boat. Then came a once-in-one-year pandemic. It was awful. Health and economic impacts were tragic. Hardship and heartbreak were everywhere. presidential leadership came swiftly and effectively with an extraordinary rescue for health and safety successfully fight the COVID virus. The great bipartisan rescue also saved the economy. Right now,

our economic health is coming back with emergency spending and tax cuts. Americans are going back to work. There's a housing boom. There's an auto boom, a manufacturing boom, a consumer spending boom. stocks are in record territory. A V-shaped recovery is pointing to better than 20% growth in the second half of this year. Now, looking ahead, more tax cuts and regulatory rollback will be in store. A-roll tax cuts for higher wages, income tax cuts for the middle class, capital gains tax cuts for investment, productivity, and job, much more regulatory relief for small businesses. In economic terms, folks, this is no time for a $4 trillion tax hike. Coming out of the deep pandemic, who in their right mind would pick the pockets of taxpayers

and drain money from their wallets and purses? Look, our economic choice is very clear. Do you want economic health, prosperity, opportunity, and optimism? Or do you want to turn back to the dark? days of stagnation, recession, and estimates. I believe there can't be better economic policies than we've had in recent years. So I say stay with banking. Stamping our products and services made in the U.S. Okay, I'm sure he makes great medals and everything, but we got to talk about Larry Cudlow.

Any thoughts about it? I just can't, listen, John, I know it's kind of futile to point out the lies and to point out the hypocrisy. But at some point, at some point, we have to be able to tell that the sky is blue and the grass is green. Like, like, to say that they recovered the economy, like they had a booming economy when they came into the White House. President Obama had to recover from the recession of 2007, 2008, and 2009, but they're pretending as though that time didn't exist at all. And Donald Trump came in and actually saved Barack Obama retroactively through time. Like it's such a ridiculous notion, but it's forwarded with a level of confidence that resonates with their voters because they want to be lied to.

Yeah, they do, which is why they still listen to Larry Cudlow, the guy that after about a month of hearing government briefings about the pandemic was like, no, everybody should be buying stocks right before the entire thing fell off a cliff. Yeah. And this is the same, this is the same Cudlow that said, no, if you if you're, even if you're feeling sick, then stay home. But if you're not feeling sick, go back to work. And then he said, oh, we can open up to schools. Everything is fine. Like this guy is sadistic. Yeah, he's either the dumbest person in government or he actively wants Americans to die from this virus, which by the way, let's just briefly notice. He did talk about the virus. He talked about how it was bad. The economic effect was bad.

Everything was in the past tense. What universe does he live in? The most recent report, over 1,100 people died. As of yesterday's reporting, there's no was, there is and will be, in no small part because of the failures of Donald Trump, Larry Cudlow, and a bunch of other I got I don't know exactly what the language standards are. So I'll just say bad people who made horrible decisions and people, including people I know, died as a result of it. Yeah, there's no was. There's no, oh, we've all recovered.

Yeah, stocks are doing well. And Bezos and other billionaires made a lot of their money back because the American economy is set up in a way that no matter what happens to workers, billionaires are going to be just fine. Yeah, we get that. We get that. But no, the idea that do you want optimism? It's 2020.

Who's optimistic? You've given us literally the worst year in living memory. You think we're optimistic for four more years of this? You really think that, Larry Cudlow? But you know what? Who really thinks that? Conservatives. Conservatives who are so, they're more interested in winning the chat room wars or the online social media debate, that they don't really care that Donald Trump and Larry Cudlow are making decisions that will get them and their family members killed. They don't care. The most important thing to them is that they own the lives. They're willing to die to own the lives. Yeah, and many of them are dying to own the libs. I guess I'm owned. I had a family member die. Is that what being owned is? It's awful, I can say that. Thanks for that, right wing. Yeah, the Trump's emergency spending, dude, he didn't even, he didn't even wanna do that.

And you're talking about something that was passed in like the beginning of April. Right, right. And you're talking about like, you know, we're still suffering. We're still suffering and we need emergency spending now. You guys don't support it. You don't want it to happen, but you're still running as if it happened. It didn't happen. You didn't support it. There's going to be a housing boom or there is a housing boom. We're facing an eviction crisis and a mortgage crisis that you guys aren't doing jack to avoid. Okay, we'll talk more about Cudlow, but let's see what's going on with the granddaughter of the late Billy Graham. religion. But what we often forget, the actual words are free exercise of religion. That means

living out our faith in our daily lives, in our schools, and our jobs, and yes, even in the public square. Our founders did not envision a quiet, hidden faith. They fought to ensure that the voices of faith were always welcomed, not silenced, not bullied. But during the Obama-Biden administration, these freedoms were under attack. Democrats tried to make faith organizations pay for abortion-inducing drugs. Democrats tried to force adoption agencies to violate their deeply held beliefs. Democrats pressured schools to allow boys to compete in girls' sports and use girls' locker rooms. Those are the facts. But then, we the people elected Donald Trump. People of faith suddenly had a fierce advocate in the White House.

He appointed judges who respect the First Amendment. He supported religious beliefs in court. He ensured religious ministries would not be forced to violate their beliefs. He withdrew the policies that placed our little girls at risk. And on the world stage, President Trump became the first president to talk about the importance of religious freedom at the United Nations. giving hope to people of faith around the world. In America, we have not yet experienced physical persecution, even though the left has tried to silence us.

Even during the pandemic, we saw how quickly life can change. Some Democratic leaders tried to ban church services while marijuana shops and abortion clinics were declared essential. But you know what truly is essential? Our right to worship freely and live, our faith in every aspect of life. The Biden-Harris vision for America leaves no room for people of faith. Whether you're a baker, a florist, or a football coach, they will force the choice between being obedient to God or to Caesar because the radical lefts God is government power.

So in the words of my grandfather, Billy Graham, let us stand for political freedom, moral freedom, religious freedom, and the rights of all Americans, and let's never give in to those who would attempt to take it from us. Tonight, I'm proudly standing in that public square, and I hope and pray, you will join me in voting to re-elect President Trump. I am Bob Voslovich, Mayor of Edliff. A small time. Okay, yeah, no, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are both religious people, obviously, like every single Democrat that's ever been the nominee is. Like, I don't, I don't know what world some people live in. I understand that she lives in a, you know, crazy religious

world and all that, but like, like she was making the point. I understand. I'm an atheist, I understand not everyone has been. I actually, I don't know about your, your religious position. I know enough though that when she says things like our founders didn't envision a quiet, hidden faith. I don't know. Maybe that's true about the founders. I know that Matthew said, and when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly, I tell you, they have received their reward in full. And she did the little tricky thing with God and with Caesar. But the whole, the original quote was that you have to give unto both what they, like the two separate worlds,

not one over the other, totally pushing the other out. I don't believe that that book is anything special, but I know more about it than whoever that was. Yeah, yeah. Listen, I'm a Christian. And let me say that this woman is full of stuff. Because again, we don't know if we're on broadcast radio, but she's full of it. And she can kiss my Christian, all of that. Listen, it's a mass manipulation tool. It has always been one, right? There's two versions, I mean, multiple versions, but you either look at Christianity as a tool to bludgeon people who don't agree with your faith? Or you look at it as a tool of liberation. I look at it as a tool of liberation trying to help people be set free no matter where they are in the world. She, along with Donald

Trump, along with her father and her grandfather, along with Jerry Falwell, Jerry Falwell Jr. And all of his sexual shenanigans. They all view Christianity as a tool to control and to maintain and obtain power. Nothing more, nothing less. So every time they read the Bible, they interpret it as if they are trying to amass power, not as if they're trying to help people. Yeah, some of the issues, first of all, that Trump is a fierce advocate for people of faith, like he believes any of it. Man, I'm being up front. I'm an atheist, and I believe way more than Donald Trump. That guy doesn't believe. If he believes in a God, he believes that he is one. That's it. I mean, I believe, look, two Corinthians, right? Two Corinthians and, and the fact that,

like, have you ever been, have you ever asked for forgiveness? And he was like, why? And I'm like, Dude, that's the cornerstone of Christianity is to ask for forgiveness. Donald Trump's like, why, why? You know, I take the little wine and the little cracker and then, you know, so that man is not, I mean, I don't care if he's Christian or not, but he certainly doesn't have any knowledge of it. And he, whatever knowledge he has, he doesn't use it for the betterment of society. He uses it to obtain power. No, he was asked if you're more of like an Old Testament, a New Testament guy,

and he refused to say because he couldn't, he couldn't figure out enough to actually say. Oh yeah, hold on. So I believe this is the woman, if I'm correct. Who doesn't believe that women should vote. So let's go and see if apparently she's giving an extremely graphic pro-life speech. So let's find out about that. Promotion to director of the clinic. I truly believed I was helping women, but things drastically changed in 2009.

In April, I was awarded Planned Parenthood's Employee of the Year Award and invited to their annual gala, where they present the Margaret Sanger Award, named for their founder. And Margaret Sanger was a racist who believed in eugenics. Her goal when founding Planned Parenthood was to eradicate the minority population. Today, almost 80% of Planned Parenthood abortion facilities are strategically located in minority neighborhoods. And every year, Planned Parenthood celebrates its racist roots by presenting the Margaret Sanger Award. Later in August, my supervisor assigned me a new quota to meet, an abortion quota. I was expected to sell double the abortions performed the previous year. When I pushed back underscoring Planned Parenthood's public-facing goal of decreasing abortions,

I was reprimanded and told abortion is how we make our money. But the tipping point came a month later when a physician asked me to assist, with an ultrasound guided abortion. Nothing prepared me for what I saw on the screen. An unborn baby fighting back, desperate to move away from the suction. And I'll never forget what the doctor said next. Beam me up, Scotty. The last thing I saw was a spine twirling around in the mother's womb before succumbing

to the force of the suction. On October 6th, I left the clinic, looking back only to remember why I now advocate so passionately for life. I founded and currently run, and then there were none, a nonprofit organization that's helped nearly 600 abortion workers

transition out of the industry. For most people who consider themselves pro-life, abortion is abstract. They can't even concede. of the barbarity. They don't know about the products of conception room in abortion clinics where infant corpses are pieced back together to ensure nothing remains in the mother's wombs, or that we joked and called it the pieces of children room. You see, for me, abortion is real. I know what it sounds like. I know what abortion smells like. Did you know abortion even

had a smell. I've been the perpetrator to these babies, to these women, and I now support President Trump because he has done more for the unborn than any other president. During his first month in office, he banned federal funds for global health groups that promote abortion. That same year, he overturned an Obama-Biden rule that allowed government subsidy of abortion. He appointed a record number of pro-life judges, including two Supreme Court justices. And importantly, he announced a new rule protecting the rights of health care workers. Okay, yeah. No, I have no doubt that hypothetically more Trump will give you more judges that will make abortion totally legal, even though I guarantee Donald Trump does not care at all about whether some random woman can get

abortion. He doesn't care. If I don't know everything, I don't know everybody's passed, there is literally no way he has not been involved in abortion. I'm just going to say that. I'm going to put that out there. It's speculation. There's no way he hasn't. But whatever, fine. If you think, and this is going out to everybody watching this, if you believe that someone's rights should be dependent on whether their rights produce a smell, then we think about politics very differently. Medical procedures can be. be messy. That's true. That's true. That doesn't mean people shouldn't have rights, honestly. It just doesn't mean that. And you know, we got some more stuff about that individual for you

to understand a little bit about who they are. But based on what you saw, this sort of segues pretty naturally from the people should be free to choose how they exercise their religion into everyone should have to abide by my view of how this should be done. Yeah, yeah, no, absolutely. So one of the things that the Republicans or conservatives will never tell you is that 65% of the individuals who receive abortions are Christian. They're either Catholic or they're Protestant, they're Christian. So like if they preach what they preach at home, if they actually manage to make that work within their churches, then we'd have a great victory for our life.

But they're not, they're not doing that. They're trying to control what you do, not what's going on in their own households. Yeah, are we, can we quickly see? I don't know if they're transitioning into salmon. I'm not sure how long that's gonna be. Let's hear this. his story. Good evening, everyone.

My name is Nick Sandman, and I'm the teenager who was defamed by the media after an encounter with a group of protesters on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial last year. Before I begin, I'd like to thank President Trump for the opportunity to share some of my story and why it matters so much to this November's election. In 2019, I attended the March for Life in Washington, D.C., where I did mention in defense of the unborn. Later that day, I bought a Make America Great Again hat because our president, Donald Trump,

has distinguished himself as one of the most pro-life presidents in the history of our country, and I wanted to express my support for him too. Looking back now, how could I possibly imagine that the simple act of putting on that red hat would unleash hate from the left and make myself the target of network and cable news networks nationwide.

Being from Kentucky, the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln, my classmates and I visited the Lincoln Memorial. I found myself face to face with Nathan Phillips and other professional protesters looking to turn me into the latest poster child showing why Trump is bad. While the media portrayed me as an aggressor with a relentless smirk on my face, In reality, the video confirms I was standing with my hands behind my back and an awkward smile on my face that had two thoughts.

One, don't do anything that might further agitate the man banging a drum in my face. And two, I was trying to follow a family friend's advice. Never to do anything to embarrass your family, your school, or your community. Before I knew what was happening, it was over. One of Mr. Phillips' fellow agitators yelled out. We got him. It's all right here on video, and we won, Grandpa. What I thought was a strange encounter quickly developed into a major news story, complete

with video footage. My life changed forever in that one moment. The full war machine of the mainstream media revved up into attack mode. They did so without researching the full video of the incident, without ever investigating Mr. Phillips' motives or without ever asking me for my side of the story. And do you know why? Because the truth was not important. Advancing their anti-Christian, anti-conservative, anti-Donald Trump narrative was all that mattered.

And if advancing their narrative ruined the reputation and future of a teenager from Covington, Kentucky, well so be it. That would teach him not to wear a mega hat. I learned what was happening to me had a name. It was called being canceled, as in annulled, as in revoked, as in made void. Cancelled is what's happening to people around this country who refuse to be silenced by the far left. Many are being fired, humiliated, or even threatened. And often, the media is a willing participant. But I would not be canceled. I fought back hard to expose the media for what they do.

the media for what they did to me and I want a personal victory. While much more must be done, I look forward to the day that the media returns to providing balanced, responsible, and accountable news coverage. I know President Trump hopes for that too. And I know you'll agree with me when we say that no one in this country has been a victim of unfair media coverage more than President Donald Trump. In November, I believe this country must unite around a president. who calls the media out and refuses to allow them to create a narrative instead of reporting the facts.

I believe we must join a president who will challenge the media to return to objective journalism. And together, I believe we must all embrace our First Amendment rights and not hide in fear of the media or from the tech companies or from the outrage mob either. This is worth fighting for. This is worth voting for. This is what Donald Trump stands for. Thank you all for listening to me tonight. And one more thing, let's make America great again. Okay, so we're gonna have to go back to that shortly, yeah.

So continuing the theme of striking out against the left's victim. hood complex you had. They gave what, four times as much time to Nicholas Sandman as the DNC gave to AOC last week, conservatively, at least four times as much. Yeah, yeah. And like we said at the beginning, that's the only thing he can contribute to the conversation is the conversation about cancel culture. So, but that's a lot of aggrieved, a lot of aggrieved conservatives around the country. They want to feel like they are the victims of something. Yeah, so Trump wants balanced informative media coverage. I learned that. He, there is a study in 2019, he tweeted directly in response to what he was watching in real time on Fox

nearly 700 times. Yeah, and he calls into Sean Hannity seemingly every night. He just wants balanced informative media coverage. He just wants fair media coverage. I mean, look, we can't have very high expectations for him. Honestly, Nick Sandman is to some extent the victim in this. A random kid like this shouldn't be taken by these political operatives and then told to give a speech that they had to edit to within like an inch of its life. They weren't cutting between shots every three seconds just randomly. But that's not on him. He's a random kid that now all of a sudden his path to, you know, like stardom and notoriety and clout and all that. is putting on a hat and smirking again at the camera, it's again, he's to some extent the victim.

Yes, I understand he's a willing participant, but I don't even think he's of age. And yeah, it's just just getting to the whole cancel culture thing. That's the significant problem. People around the country are being canceled. They're not dying of a virus, we got past that. They're being canceled and that is the true threat to your health and well-being. No, no, absolutely. That's what they're concerned about more than the number of people dying of COVID-19. Just ridiculous. What a country. Okay, what's going on with Pam Bondi? Now let's talk about China. Fact. Joe Biden flew to China on Air Force 2 with Hunter along for the ride. They said he was just there as a family member, but we know that's untrue. In Beijing, Hunter didn't

just go sightseeing. He had meetings with his Chinese bank partners. Hunter even arranged for his dad to meet with one of the partners. Ten days later, those Chinese communist bankers approved millions to go to Hunter's firm. And those bankers work for the Chinese Communist Party, which oppresses their people, cheated American workers for decades and covered up a deadly virus. To this day, Hunter controls a 10% stake in that firm. And Joe Biden's done more than look the other way on China. He said, the Chinese aren't our competition.

Come on, man, they're not bad folks. Come on, Joe. Talk to the folks in middle America who lost countless jobs to China while your son was getting rich with them. But there's more. Fact. There have been numerous press reports that have shown other close Biden family members benefited from Joe's 47-year political career.

Biden was point person on Iraq. The president of a construction firm met with Biden's team in the White House and then who did they hire to build thousands of houses in Iraq? Joe Biden's close family member, who you guessed it, had no experience in the industry and no experience in Iraq. A company official bragged that it helps to have a family member of the vice president as partner. The family member put it more bluntly by saying there is a a line of 747s filled with cash ready to invest. Now, let's follow the money down south. Again, as reported in the press, yet another close family member of Joe's set his sights on Costa Rica and Jamaica,

where millions of dollars flowed from the Obama-Biden administration in taxpayer-backed loans to projects linked to. Yes, that same family member. These aren't isolated incidents. It is a deliberate pattern of conduct. And that's just what he did as vice- Yeah, okay. Okay, so we get where that's going. Hunter Biden and he got all these business deals and everything.

So, so again, we're trying to decipher like consistent principles of the right. The family members of politicians shouldn't get preferential treatment, involvement in politics that they have no personal experience in, business deals and things like that. Okay, so that's a principle that we can rely on, right, Ben? Yeah, well, ask Postmaster General DeJoy about his skill set, right? And his previous experience, ask any of the Trump's kids about any of their achievements in life whatsoever. I mean, obviously, no. The answer is no. I mean, Jared Kushner is in charge of literally everything. Me moving back into the studio,

was in charge of that. That dude's got his fingers in everything. And he has no experience. He sort of sold real estate that his father gave to him. That's the only experience. Don Jr. was just speaking last night about American foreign policy. The dude works for his dad's company. How many, how many trademarks did Ivanka get from the communist Chinese just a couple of years ago? How much investment has Jared Kushner and his family gotten from the U.S. UAE and from Saudi Arabia and all of that. Is this really where the road we want to go down? By the way, I would like none of it. Hunter Biden should have never been involved in literally anything. And if we wanted to have some sort of ban on family members being involved in politics,

if they don't have any actual experience and don't get their unmerit, I would be fine with that. But that is clearly not what they're interested in. We're going to be hearing from multiple Trump family members literally tonight. I'm assuming Ivanka's speaking tomorrow. Like this is just such a ridiculous charade that they're against corruption when every single conservative watching this loves the Trump corruption and wants to see more of it. They worship Don Jr. and they worship Ivanka. They'll tolerate Eric, but they want to see them get paid, honestly. So don't pretend that you care about corruption. You just care about Hunter, kind of, because Rudy Giuliani told you you should. Yeah, no, no. I love the way

you're framing that, man, because honestly, it is a charade. It's designed. It's designed. specifically to keep us chasing, to keep the Democratic Party chasing behind its tail and to keep those of us in media chasing behind it. While they obviously know that they're lying, they obviously know that they're being hypocritical, that's the point. And because they know we're gonna get tied up with the hypocrisy, that frees them up to go ahead and continue doing all the corrupt things that they're doing every single day. And you know, it's, there's been so much corruption over the past few years that it's hard for me to even remember exactly, but Pam Bondi has been involved in his corruption. Like what, what a ridiculous

joke this is. Okay, well, look, if you're actually against corruption, if you want to make sure that politicians and their families aren't benefiting from their connections, okay, let's not just stop it. Hunter Biden shouldn't be taking trips to China that result in planes coming back loaded up with cash as if that's how money is transferred internationally. Okay, no, none of these politicians should be able to own stock individually. They should literally not be able to benefit financially from the knowledge that they have. Do we want to, do we want to go down that road? Do we want to talk about all the politicians, mostly on the right, but some in the Democratic Party as well in the run up to this pandemic that we're benefiting financially

from it using their connections? Let's get rid of all of that. If there's a swamp, that's definitely a big part of the swamp. So let's ban all of it. But they don't want that. Pam Bondi doesn't want that. She wants to get rich off of this stuff too. Yeah, yeah, no, no. I mean, if you go down that road, you got to stop through Georgia. with Kelly Loeffler, the people who actually made sure they took care of their investments before they took care of their constituents as it pertains to COVID-19. I mean, the level of swampiness that saturates this Trump administration and all of the conservative movement is to a level of absurdity, but again, they don't care.

And I know you know this, I'm just saying this from my own personal health so that I don't snap. I mean, we have to recognize that this is a part of their strategy, to lie to to deflect to do what they're accusing you of doing, projection, all of those things. And then along the way, they are getting away with everything they want to get away with making themselves even richer than they already won't. And they've managed to convince their base to support it too. Like it's not just that Trump will benefit financially and his family will. If you were to ask Trump voters, do you think it's okay if Ivanka becomes rich using the connection she gets? They want them to get rich. They love it.

They're wholly in that. And by the way, I'd forgotten some of the details. And this is hardly the only thing Pam Bondi was involved in. But when there was an investigation about to take place against Trump University, when he defrauded a bunch of the people that looked up to him, they donated $25,000 to her. And she tried to get in the way of it, basically. So again, against corruption. Against corruption. Come on. Okay, well, let's look against corruption. Turks, support our work, listen ad-free, access members-only bonus content, and more by subscribing to Apple Podcasts at apple.com slash t-y-t. I'm your host, Shank Huger, and I'll see you soon.