The Young Turks - Part 3: Day 1 of 2020 RNC

Episode Date: October 7, 2020

Part 3: Cenk Uygur and Jayar Jackson breakdown day 1 of the 2020 RNC.  Speakers: Sen. Tim Scott, House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, Rep. Matt Gaetz, Rep. Jim Jordan, Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel, Mark and Patricia McCloskey, Donald Trump Jr., Kimberly Guilfoyle, Charlie Kirk. 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. Yeah, so we're skipping this nonsense video. So the pattern is here's a black person saying nothing but plantation, don't let the Democrats actually try to help you. Here's a Latino or Latina person telling you the same exact thing with no policy, no help, no nothing. And then in between is deeply hateful white speakers.

We're like, watch out of my dogs coming to the suburbs. We've got to either shoot him or block them. No, you don't want to be the sales majority. You've got to be allowed to say a racist thing on Twitter. Okay. So that's this convention. So before we do anything else, they're going to come back on to Jim George. Lots to speak. Oh, great. And they're probably going to close with Tim Scott, just to go, remember black folks. We found the seven African Americans on our side, okay?

And they definitely packed them all into one first night. So then by the end of this whole week, you won't be seen in quotas. But here they are. Yeah. And apparently both Democrats and Republicans think black folks are going to decide this election. So that's a good thing. Okay. So I got to tell you guys. that you're making this possible. So you do that in two ways. T.yt.com slash go. Let's grow now. Let's grow. With your help, we can actually expand our programming,

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We'll give the comments after all the speeches are done. And there's so many speeches that we saw and didn't get a chance to comment on yet. They like the cancer survivor and how Donald Trump saved her life by injecting our bleach or whatever he did. Okay. So we'll get to all of that in our overall analysis. But so far, my main takeaway from this is, wow, it's like they are, there's no pulling punches here. Just 100% hateful.

And I'm so curious whether this is going to work or their numbers are going to go down after this convention. I don't think much will change. It's kind of hard to. This is like, it's like a tornado. It's coming so fast. constantly. Like then there's the barn. There's the cow. There's the house. Like, oh, it's all flying at me at the same time. I have no idea which one to dodge and which one to maybe grab onto. Maybe I can have some safety here. It's, it's, it's a bizarre. It's constant. And you're like,

wait, what did they just say? Oh, but he's on to the next thing that I need to ask, what did he just say? It's a barrage of insanity. But just for Donald Trump Jr. right there, He was actually, as much as his speech was full of lies, fear mongering, and misconceptions about reality of the world, he was the least from what I could tell, the first one that tried to make an appeal for Donald Trump as a person that's going to do something for someone else. It was full of lies. None of it was real. But he was saying, he's trying to do something for you. And then after doing that, he's going to do this for you and you and you. And we're looking for you. looking out for you. Everything else before that is you're going to die. Biden hates you. Democrats want to kill you. Fire brimstone. Minorities looking to shoot you, Marxists, socialist, it's all that. He was the first one to say Donald Trump is going to help you. Even though that's a crazy lie, he was the first to say it. Yeah, you know, it's funny. I guess he let his partner do the heavy talking

Kimberly Guilfoyle and gave such an angry speech. His was not as angry. We'll talk more about it. That's Senator Tim Scott. Tonight, but our country is experiencing something none of us envisioned. From a global pandemic to the deaths of George Floyd and Brianna Taylor, 2020 has tested our nation in ways we haven't seen for decades. But regardless of the challenges presented to us, every four years, Americans come. together to vote to share stories of what makes our nation strong and the lessons we have learned that can strengthen it for further generations. Because while this election is between Donald

Trump and Joe Biden, it is not solely about Donald Trump and Joe Biden. It's about the promise of America. It's about you and me. Our challenges and heartbreaks, hopes and dreams. It's about how we respond when tackling critical issues like police reform. When Democrats called our work a token effort and walked out of the room during negotiations, because they wanted the issue more than they wanted a solution. Do we want a society that breeds success or a culture that cancels everything it even slightly disagrees with? I know where I stand because, you see, I am living my mother's American dream. My parents divorced when I was seven years old, and we moved in with my grandparents into a two-bedroom home with me, my mom, and my brother sharing a room in one bed.

My mom worked 16 hours a day to keep food on the table and a roof over our heads. She knew that if we could find the opportunity, bigger things would come. I thought I had to use football to succeed in life, and my focus on academics faded away. My freshman year, I failed out. I failed four subjects, Spanish, English, world geography, and even civics. Trust me, though, after seven years in the Senate, I know I'm not the only one in Congress who failed civics. But even while I was failing the ninth grade, my mother always said to me, Timmy, if you would just shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you'll be among the stars.

She never lost faith in me, even when I lost faith in myself. Because of her encouragement, I went to summer school and caught up. The next year, I met my mentor, John Monez, a Chick-fil-A operator. John saw something in me that I could not see in myself and started teaching me valuable life lessons. Like having a job would be a good thing, but creating jobs would be even better, that having an income could change my lifestyle, but creating a profit could change my community. He planted the seeds of what would become Opportunity Zones. This initiative that the president and I worked together on is now bringing more than $75 billion

of private sector investment into distressed communities. I took those lessons to heart and started putting the pieces of my life back together. I realized a quality education is the closest thing to magic in America. That's why I fight to this day for school choice to make sure every child in every neighborhood has a quality education. I don't care if it's a public, private, charter, virtual, or a homeschool. When a parent has a choice, their kid has a better chance. And the president has fought alongside me on that. Later in life, I started my own small business.

That's why I know it is critical for us to have a tax code that encourages growth. We actually saw revenues to the Treasury increase after we lowered taxes in 2017. Rest assured, the Democrats do not want you to know that. After starting my small business and spending some time in local government, I decided to run for Congress in 2010. The district is based in Charleston, South Carolina, where the civil war started, against a son of our legendary senator, Strom Thurman. You may be asking yourself, how does a poor black kid from a single-parent household run and win in a race crowded with Republicans against the Thurman? Because of the evolution of the southern heart.

In an overwhelmingly white district, the voters judged me not on the color of my skin, but on the content of my character. We live in a world that only wants you to believe in the bad news, racially, economically, and culturally polarizing news. The truth is, our nation's arc always bends back towards fairness. We are not fully where we want to be, but I thank God Almighty, we are not where we used to be. We are always striving to be better. When we stumble, and we will, we pick ourselves back up and try again. We don't give in to cancel culture or the radical and factually baseless belief that things are worse today than in the 1860s or the 1960s. We have work to do, but I believe in the goodness of America, the promise that all men and all women are created equal.

And if you're watching tonight, I'm betting you do too. Over the past four years, we have made tremendous progress towards that promise. President Trump built the most inclusive economy ever. Seven million jobs created pre-COVID-19, and two-thirds of them went to women, African Americans, and Hispanics. The first new major effort to tackle poverty in a generation, opportunity zones. We put hard-earned tax dollars back in people's pockets by cutting their taxes, especially for single-parent households like the one I grew up in, cutting single mother's taxes 70% on average. President Trump supported these tax cuts for those single moms and other working families

and signed these policies into law, and our nation is better off for it. So I'm going to ask you, the American people, not to simply look at what the candidates say, but to look back at what they've done. This election is about your future, and it is critical to paint a full picture of the records of Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Joe Biden said if a black man didn't vote for him, he wasn't truly black. Joe Biden said black people are a monolithic community. It was Joe Biden who said poor kids can be just as smart as white kids. And while his words are one thing, his actions take it to a whole new level.

In 1994, Biden led the charge on a crime bill that put millions of black Americans behind bars. President Trump's criminal justice reform law fixed many of the disparities Biden created and made our system more fair and just for all Americans. Joe Biden also failed our nation's historically black college. and universities heaping blame on them as they fought to ensure our young folks had access to higher education. Once again, to clean up Joe Biden's mess, President Trump signed into law historically high funding for HBCUs as well as a bill to give them permanent funding for the first time ever. And now Joe Biden wants to come for your pocketbooks.

Unless, of course, you're a blue state millionaire. I'm serious. That's one of their solutions for the pandemic. They want to take more money from your pocket and give it to Manhattan elites and Hollywood moguls. So they get a tax break. Republicans, however, passed President Trump's once in a generation tax reform bill that lower taxes for single moms, working families, and those in need. So when it comes to what Joe Biden says he'll do, look at his actions, look at his policies, look at what he already did and what he didn't do while he's been in Washington for 47 years. Ladies and gentlemen, people don't always see those failures because they think we're having a policy debate on two sides of an issue.

That is not what is happening. Our side is working on policy while Joe Biden's radical Democrats are trying to permanently transform what it means to be an American. Make no mistake. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris want a cultural revolution,

a fundamentally different America. If we let them, they will turn our country into a socialist utopia. And history has taught us that path only leads to pain and misery, especially for hardworking people hoping to rise. Instead, we must focus on the promise of the American journey. I know that journey well. My grandfather's 99th birthday would have been tomorrow.

Growing up, he had to cross the street if a white person was coming. He suffered the indignity of being forced out of school as a third grader to pick cotton, and he never learned to read or write. Yet he lived long enough to see his grandson become the first African American to be elected to both the United States House and the United States Senate in the history of this country. our family went from cotton to Congress in one lifetime. And that's why I believe the next American century can be better than the last. There are millions of families just like mine all across this nation full of potential seeking to live the American dream. And I'm here tonight to tell you that supporting the Republican ticket gives you the best chance of making that dream a reality.

God bless you. And Father, please continue blessing the United States of America. God bless. You're going to be able to be. All right. Is it over? It's six minutes left to eight. And I feel like they can squeeze in five more minutes of racism.

It's kind of a wasted opportunity here. They're coming to the suburbs. The only person that didn't speak, unless we missed them, I guess is possible, is Jim Jordan. I thought Tim Scott might close the night. I don't know if Jordan is going to. I hope not, because I don't want them to drag on longer. So we'll keep you updated to see if anybody else comes up. I'll take this quick opportunity here before summaries to say new folks that have joined on YouTube.

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Okay. I don't know if Ida Rodriguez came up with this one. I know she came up with a couple of them. Mitch better have my money. Oops, here we go. I can't figure out of the camera. Yeah. Mitch better have my money.

By the way, he is holding up the minimum wage, $15 an hour. Mitch McConnell is the only reason why the corporations have that money instead of yours. There's enough is enough shirt. There's a cool. Oh, I'm going to show you this other one. So they gave me another great indoors one. I love that. Oh, here's some more masks.

The election is coming. Last one, last one. You guys know all of this. Okay. Jay, I don't know if you've ever, if you've seen this one yet. Let's see if I could figure out where they camera is. That's right. Okay.

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with the red tie on? Third. Did I miss... Read that? Oh, I think it was Man Woman People Camera TV or something like that. And there's a T-by-T in the TV.

See, I forgot it. See? You're losing it. Really hard to get it right. Six months later. You lost your fastball. A person camera TV. Person, no, person woman, man.

See? See? See? Just quick, months later, you forget the exact order. I'm saying, Jay. Okay. Your fastball is 82 miles an hour now.

All right, we're gonna do the whole summary in in one second, I promise. And then later your comments from YouTube Super Chat and from our member section, Andrew Solano, Hanif Hinton, sorry, Hannah Hinton and the Casero 13, George Gonzalez. These are all new young Turks members on YouTube. I love you guys. Keep it going, join buttons down below or t-y-t.com slash join. All right, let's do it. So, tonight was the first night of the Republican National Convention and it was a doozy. Stop. Do you know how fast you were going? I'm going to have to write you a ticket to my new movie, The Naked Gun. Liam Neeson. Buy your tickets now. I get a free Tilly Dog. Chilly dog, not included.

The Naked God. Tickets on sale now. August 1st. So, um, he had basically had two themes. One is, here's a black person saying largely nothing but telling you to leave a Democratic Party. Here's a Latina or a Latino person telling you, oh my God, my family loves America. You should love America too. And if you love America and you work hard, you should vote for Republicans. Why? I don't do it. It's not based on palsy or anything, but they told me I get money if I get it. No, I'm kidding. Look, Kimberly Guilfoil, all of a sudden is Latina.

Apparently she's her half Puerto Rican, half Italian or something. But she never talked about it when she was on Fox News. All of a sudden at the Republican event, she's like, I am half Puerto Rican and this Latina is here to tell you. Okay, all right, all right, all right. My ears are still bleeding from the Kimberly Guilfoil speech. Kimberly Guilfoyle speech. Okay, so that's, that was half, but Kimberly Gilfoyles in the other half as well. And the other half was just largely white folks coming up and screaming at you, danger, danger. Who used to do that? That's mystical, right?

Mr. Oh, I'm proud of you, Jane. He's going to be tomorrow night at the R&C. All he's going to do is he's just giving him back They got to see if they can use his music for Trump speeches. You know, consider no one else will allow him to use their music. And it'll fit just fine. Just use that one part. That's all you need. Yeah.

So, no, seriously, I've never seen anything like it. They're coming to the suburbs. They're a dangerous mob. Who's they? You know who they is. They're burning everything down. They're rioting all over the place. If you don't elect Donald Trump, we're going to lose everything.

everything. The first speech, Charlie Kirk said they're going to, quote, eliminate everything we love. How's that for hyperbole? Who's we and who's they? And then what are those things that you love? Oh, exactly. And then if it wasn't clear enough, when they brought on the McCloskey's, it became patently clear. So those are the two, that's the couple in St. Louis that pointed their weapons and peaceful protesters, and they just came out and it was not a dog whistle, it was a bullhorn. Dog whistles, humans aren't supposed to be able to hear its kind of hints at racial undertones. There are no undertones here, they're overtones.

They hit you in our head with that two by four of racial overtones. They're coming to the suburbs and they walked around our house and didn't even get arrested. When we pointed weapons at them to threaten their lives, we got arrested. Can you believe that? Remember that America we loved when white people could just brutalize black people and threatened to kill them, and there'd be no consequences. They're going to take our entitlement away. Danger. There was one of the theme that I did see, and it was the praising and the deity-like deference to Donald Trump. It was anytime he spoke about Donald, not every time, most times that you spoke about Donald Trump, you almost spoke to him. Mr. Trump, you're amazing.

Mr. Trump, you've done this. Then there was that little roundtable of, I think it was veterans, potentially. We jumped in the middle of it. They were talking about some of them were captured and things like that. Trump spoke to another very well-known veteran that was captured, and he had no respect for him and his service to the country. Only these guys because they're kneeling for him. So, and under that objective, you have to, there was a, again, correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't know if there was the same kind of, you have to talk directly to Trump. Tell him he's amazing.

Tell him he's done revolutionary things that have never been done before. Without saying President Trump has done, you have to go, Mr. President, you've done these things. Mr. President, I want to thank you for what you did me. Mr. President, you yourself have done nothing else. They put together a video where people were talking about how much they love him, fine. But they tell him how much they love him to him so that he could take in all of the praise and fulfill his ego. It wasn't about trying to portray to the American people or even Republican voting. that this is the guy who cares about your life.

Look at how he cared about this person's life. No, it was, Mr. President, you care so much that I love you to the degree that I'm willing to die for you. There was no direction towards the voters. It was all about him. Now, we all know conventions are all about the nominee. We get that.

But this was directly and solely about him. You have to talk about how awesome you are, not how awesome Donald Trump is. So, J.R., I have perfect example that in a second. But the members keep rolling in on YouTube. You know, hit the join button below and you become a member, and I'm seeing your names live. So Billy Wigg just joined. I am that I am just joined.

Born Beauty Star just joined. And Patrick Darnel just upgraded their membership. You do it at t.yt.com slash showing it, or you can hit the join button below if you're watching on YouTube. Love you guys. You make this show possible. Okay. To J.R.'s point, when they had Joe Biden speaking to real people at the DNC, now these are all choreographed, both at the Democratic convention, the Republican one, right? But he would listen to their stories. Oh, I'm a farmer in Indiana. I'm a worker in Pennsylvania. It's almost always swing states, right? Indiana, I made up, but it was probably Wisconsin. Okay, instead, right? And Joe Biden would listen to them and go, oh, man, yeah, that sucks. I feel for you. because that's Joe Biden, I didn't say schick, but it's largely true empathy, right?

But the farmers wouldn't come on and be like, Joe Biden, you are the greatest person that ever lived. Without you, my head would explode. And him going, yeah, uh-huh, uh-huh. That didn't happen because that's insane. But with Trump, we've gotten used to it. So I'm not sure it even seems insane anymore. So yes, J.R, the one you're referring to, they were all captives. One was in Iran, Venezuela, et cetera, all these different countries.

And they're like, President Trump, you got me out. I would have died if it was a Democrat, but you are the greatest person that ever lived. Trump's like, that is true. Who's next? Oh, you are the best person ever. That is true. Who's next? Okay.

By the way, half those guys are probably CIA. What are they doing in the middle of those countries? Okay. But not a big deal. is what I thought how they were going to end each one of their speeches. Anyways. So now, even the less offensive speeches were riddled with lies because it's Republicans. There's no good things to say. No, that's not true. Look, I'll give him credit for a couple of things that were mentioned throughout that are fair points, which I always do, criminal justice

reform. Trump did do that. In fact, one of the speakers made a decent point. It was Vernon Jones, who was the Democrat who's supporting Donald Trump. He's African American. He's a state legislator in Georgia. And he said, look, Joe Biden did the crime bill, locked a lot of people up. Donald Trump did criminal justice reform. Best point of the night easily. Okay.

So now there's nuance to that, but overall that's true. And they get to say that. So to what degree do they get to jump in and not finish? What degree do they get to say it? Because there's a New York Times article that I just went on a blitz to try to find because I read it months ago when they had the press conference where he had some, a couple of black folks that he, or a couple of white folks also that he released from prison off of whatever charges they had, three to four of them, maybe seven. And immediately after that, just going off of memory, there was policies put in place by administration or people in charge of that aspect that completely kneecapped his criminal justice reform that, stopped or made it even harder for those same people that he was just crazy and put on stage to actually have a viable chance at post prison life. Like, or even more people that qualified

for that same recognition and release were not giving it because it was just smoking mirrors. It was, let me put forward a few people, name those few people, and then move on. Oh, hey, Kanye's wife helped me help me help me get this one lady out of prison. prison. So that's all you got. And then you're going to talk how you've done more for black people of all. First of all, if you think the only thing black people need in this country is to be released from prison, you've already told us that you think all black folks either are in prison or deserve to be in prison, because that's what the makeup of helping black people in this country is, number one. Number two, you release five of them and you say you've

renovated criminal justice reform in America. No, you have it. You, again, like you always do, put a couple of people in front of you to make sure it looks a certain way. And then behind the scenes completely disrupt the same policy that you said you've done to help black people. Yeah. So, JR, look, you're right on a thousand factors, and they didn't water it down in the bill that was passed. And in fact, we reported on a story where Donald Trump was apparently furious of Jared Kushner for having him pass that bill. He's like, my base doesn't like it. I don't know why we passed that bill, right? Got about that part, yeah.

Yep, so I know that all that is true, but it like, but at least they did do it and they did pass it, okay, and I'm just trying to be fair, okay, so that's the best case they got. Now, but even in the midst of saying stuff like that, they can't help but to totally pervert things. So Tim Scott came out and said, oh, the Democrats, they are using coronavirus to try to take money from you and give it to millionaires in New York and Hollywood. That was the best one. Look, I can't stand the Democratic establishment.

And if they were trying to do that, I'd be the first one to tell you. And I'd be the first one lined up to kick their ass. I don't know what the hell they're talking about. Okay. And they're like, oh, and the tax cuts went to you. And can you? No, they didn't. 83% of the tax cuts are going to go to the top 1%.

They just stole $2 trillion from us, taking money from us and giving it to the rich. That's exactly what the Trump tax cuts were. So as I sympathize with Tim Scott's life story, and there's a lot of, you know, compelling parts of that story, he then turns around and uses it to get as many breaks for the already rich as he possibly can at the expense of the poor and the middle class. So it's hard to have sympathy, even for their best speakers on their best nights. Yeah. Haley.

So she comes out and she says, you know, Donald Trump's been so tough on dictators and Biden will be soft. Like, for example, nobody's been tougher on North Korea. I mean, what a preposterous lie. Donald Trump literally said he fell in love with Kim Jong-un, the North Korean communist dictator, literally said we fell in love. And they wrote love letters back to back and forth. Imagine if Joe Biden or Barack Obama had done that. So Nikki Haley is not a dumb person. She knows she's lying through her teeth. And then she says, and I'm here to tell you as a South Asian woman who was given an opportunity by this country, quote, America is not a racist country. And then she went on to explain that her father used to wear a turban, suffered

discrimination his whole life. And then what she didn't tell you is she changed her from her name from Nimrata Randwaha to Nikki Haley. Why? Because America is not a racist country. Okay. So now look, they claim Nikki means little girl or something. And Haley is, I get it, is her husband's last name. But she didn't go, Barack Obama went from Barry to Barack. Okay. He owned his identity. Okay. And going into politics, he didn't mind doing that national office. He didn't mind. Nikki Haley, on the other hand, is going in the opposite direction. while telling us how non-racist this country is, by the way, she also converted to Christianity, but, you know, just to be safe. Because she knows, man, this electorate doesn't mind non-Christians and brown people at all. That's why, hey, she's Nikki Haley. Christian.

Okay, anyway. So those are the least offensive. But Kimberly Guilfoyle would have given a, I gave a speech that Benito Mussolini would have been proud of. So my God, the only thing she didn't do was take her shoe off and pound it on the table. So it was the loudest speech I've ever heard in my life. It was filled to the rim with hatred. And it's Gilfoyle, Charlie Kirk, Matt Gates, the McCloskey's, all of them. Two themes nonstop.

The mob, the black mob is coming for you. They never say the word black. They just say, the mob, the rob, the. rioters, the looters. What if they come to the white suburbs? Okay. And then number two was Joe Biden, the Marxist, communist socialist. Remember when every lying cable news pundit told you, oh my God, if you pick Bernie Sanders, they're going to call him a socialist communist Marxist. They just called Joe Biden that. What difference does it make? They call everybody that. They called Obama that. And every punant on cable news knows that. They just wanted to

scare you so you vote for their buddy Joe Biden and make sure you don't vote for Bernie Sanders. If they're going to call us Marxists, well, we might as at least be progressive, but we're not. Instead, we have a Republican light running and they call them a communist anyway. Yeah, you need to have a running questionnaire for someone who's actually buying this, because honestly, I don't think even the supporters are buying it. I know this is a theme I've come back to a few times, but there's no way that Republican voters really think that Nancy Pelosi, AOC, Ilhan Omar, and the squad, as they threw out, they say AOC and the squad. They combined her with Joe Biden, combined her with Nancy Pelosi, AOC, I'm saying, and these socialist policies that have taken over the party.

When at the same time that AOC and all them were fighting with Nancy Pelosi and, well, not necessarily straightforward Joe Biden, but Nancy Pelosi about policies and directions that the House needs to go in. They were celebrating all this division amongst the Democratic Party. Which one is it, bro? Is it that they're fighting and that these progressives are too out of hand and look what they've created and allowing these progressives to be elected? Which, by the way, they didn't. They were against them. Or is it that they've all on the same path now? And they're all just these wild, crazy socialists that want to take over the country and regulate how much water you drink every day.

There's so many senseless points made tonight that, again, they come in such rapid succession like. Oh, that's right. I heard Pelosi's name in there when they mentioned AOC and Biden. Where? Where? The holes in Democratic Party, the holes in Joe Biden's campaign are their dismissal of progressives, their dismissal of liberals. And every conservative knows that. So again, if you're watching it, where is the logic? I need to have some cohesive thought process. You can say, hey, look at this establishment Democratic Party and how they've shunned their young voters. They've shunned their black They're shutting to say all that stuff about Joe Biden because he has his history, which I'm going to get to Tim Scott and him talking about Joe Biden and his history. But if you say all that, you can't then say that they're all in agreement. It's impossible. Who listens to it? And he goes, yeah, man, that divided, unified Democratic Party. Which one is it, bro? Which one is it? Yeah, and JR, to your point, and I want to have you get to Tim Scott in one second. At least the Republicans, you got to hear them this.

One, as I said earlier in the night, as we're doing the live coverage of the speeches, which you should check out every night, by the way, during the RNC. At least two speakers gave anti-war speeches, including Don Jr. There was no anti-war speeches at the Democratic Party, and that is really, really sad. Secondly, they love their base. I think they're going too hard into their base for the first time, right? And I've always said them going to their base is actually smart politics because they turn out their voters way better than Democrats do.

I think they over did it, but at least they like their base. The Democrats in their convention, you could tell they can't stand their base. Their base is not allowed to speak, they're represented demographically, but they are not represented ideologically or through policy or even rhetoric. By the way, young Turks, we love our base. that just signed up as Midge, Geraldo Cisneros, Megan Stepka. We love all you guys hit the join button below. We see all your names. Jared, Tim Scott. So Tim Scott, I had the most notes on Tim Scott. Because Tim Scott, and one thing I wrote in the middle of this was, he reminds

me a little bit of Michael Steele, when he was the head of the RNC, back during the Bush years. And There was always this back of my mind going, I feel like, I feel like this was a lot of them, but it was stronger with him. I feel like he doesn't believe the BS he says more than anyone else. Like as he's saying it, there's just this lack of genuine energy. There's this, I'm going to do this because they need me to. And this is where I've been for the past however many years. And at this point, there's no turning back. There were some policies that were Republican-like that I was on board for.

And I saw an opening for myself as a black Republican that could get this seat. He talks about how he won a seat that was heavily white and racist. And that's because those Southerners are actually redeemable. What is it that you said to them that's redeemable? Is it just because you're a black person and suddenly just this one district in your state, agreed that a black person can be there? Because trust me, we know how the rest of many of the voting, Republican voters down there don't give a damn about black people.

In fact, aggressively dislike them. We heard it tonight all night during your convention. So as, but he has this aura of I am the non-threatening, unifying black voice in the Democrat, I'm sorry, in the Republican Party, right? And he does it well. It's just you have to listen to him because he'll throw in the disdain for Democrats. He'll throw in the lies about tax cuts. He'll throw in about how they're looking to fund Hollywood types and elites.

But they won't say that stuff that much because people will start to ask, if they say it the way the Kim Gilfoyle said it, people will go, really? Let me look up how these Democrats have given all this money to elites while the Republican Party wants nothing to do. He may even mention New York elites. You know who New York elites are? Wall Street. That's who the New York elites are. And do you really think every time Donald Trump and his administration talks about, just from talking about this pandemic, every time they talk about how great the economy is doing and all this money that's flowing through with the greatest economy ever built, that's based on Wall Street. That's based on rich people.

That's based on what they've given them. And this middle class tax cut and working class Americans, all that madness is nowhere near base in reality. But Tim Scott tells the story of his grandmother and his mother and his family and failing partially through high school and then turning around and picking himself up and figuring things out and understanding he thought he was just an athlete and now he's this. All that stuff is very palatable and it takes down people's guards and makes people say, oh, Tim Scott, you know what? He's a reasonable black Republican. He didn't mention a plantation once, which is all the rest of them do. He just mentioned this freedom of thought. He's a free black man while the rest of these black folks are beholding with their chains. That's offensive stuff to say.

Tim Scott knows a little bit better. He's probably the one guy who wrote his own speech. But he sits in this lane of being the guy who speaks 25% reality and then 75% BS. But the 75% BS is couched every 2%, 3% of reality that he gives. So you're trying to decipher. Wait, he just said something stupid. Oh, wait, he just said something that's based in reality. Oh, he just said something else that was ridiculous.

Oh, but the next thing he said was reality. He talked about how he gets pulled over by Capitol Police. And if he doesn't have his pin on, remember this? Yeah. If he doesn't have his pin on, they treat him the same way as any other black person that's pulled over in the streets. Why doesn't he keep talking about that? Why doesn't he keep talking about that? Exactly.

Because he means good enough to give himself a validity. Then after giving himself that validity, he moves back on to the party line. Yeah, so politics is a lot about what you emphasize. And Tim Scott is not going to emphasize anything that makes white Republican voters uncomfortable. And of course, as we've seen a lot of the minorities that are Republicans, their whole point is to give comfort to white folks by saying, oh, no, it's really the real problem is black culture. And now, Tim Scott, to be fair to him, as Chair pointed out, does not do that nearly as much as other minorities do, including tonight that are Republicans. But he does it implicitly.

In a sense, he's smarter about it, right? He says, now my family worked hard. And he starts with another thing that Ben Carson does that the white Republicans love, I was an idiot. I failed ninth grade, I failed this, I failed that, I failed this, okay? Now Ben Carson goes over the top, and then he says, the Lord came to me in a dream. And he taught me chemistry overnight. And I, you know, and Ben Carson says, I used to attack my mom and my friends with hammers, but it would bounce off their buckle belts and absurd, stereotypical racism that the white audience loves and eats up, right? Tim Scott is just better at it and he's way more subtle.

But I was an idiot until I was saved, okay? And then I worked hard and I'm successful. The other black folks that you see, you know, they just stayed the failures that they are. That's because they didn't work hard and believe in Jesus and say yes to the white man, okay? So now Tim Scott can say that's unfair. I'm not doing dog whistles, I'm just telling you my story, okay? But I'm just telling you that is that that was like that.

And Tim Scott's speech was probably the best at the convention, okay? It was, it was. Yeah. And it was still littered with, in a sense, you know why is Eric? Because Tim Scott was an old school Republican. He brought the dog whistle. Everybody else brought the bullhorn. But dog whistle or not, it's still the same crap. We're going to cut taxes for the rich. We're going to take it from you. And remember, the good ones are safe and make you feel comfortable. The other ones are the Marxist revolutionaries yelling at those poor McCloskey's in St. Louis. Right. And in fact, I want to go to our members real quick, because at t.t.com slash joining those comments we read first. Kim Classic is a black republic running in Baltimore, and she said a bunch of things, and J.R. said, like, I don't know, that doesn't ring true to me, but we'll look into her campaign. Well, I'm out of here as a member, ironically, and wrote in, Kim Classic is a complete fraud.

I live in Baltimore and I have never seen anyone walking through Baltimore in five inch red stilettos and a red dress that she did in her video. She doesn't know Baltimore and has done nothing to change things. Baltimore is not all bad. So, boy, color me surprised, fractured mine 68, just put it more succinctly. She's making me physically ill. Okay. So, and that's, and the, you had, we didn't even get the diamond and silk, they weren't done on the first night. But we had everything from Democrats who are on a plantation. I think maybe at least three speakers said that, right? And they're taking away your freedom, whatever, et cetera, and get rid of your chains or whatever other language that they use evoking slave imagery, all the way to Tim Scott being the most. Yeah, and honestly, the comparison I had with Michael Steele, because I've caught a little bit of trouble for this, because I've met Michael Steele and spoke with him, and as we know, he's an MSNBC guy.

Now, I think he's still there. I haven't seen him in a minute. But he's one of those guys that something happened where it was no longer worth it, or he could no longer take it. whatever it is that happened, the people that were surrounding him, their true selves exposed themselves to him. And he's like, I can no longer be, like, just deal with this. This was a job. I decided to take it. It's a good opportunity. Maybe I can draw them to reality. I really think that's where Michael Stewart was trying to go with it. And to a degree, you have to agree with the ridiculous policies that the party that you're involved in takes on.

And then you're trying to draw them over to a degree. And then he discovered that draw is never going to work. I don't know if Tim Scott is ever going to figure out that that draw is just never going to work. Like they need you for their benefit. And in whatever benefit you use them for is going to run out. It's a finite amount of usefulness that you can get out of them. The amount they can get out of you will last forever. As long as they're surviving, they can use you to portray themselves in a way that is the opposite of who they really are.

So I don't know if Tim Scott's going to find that or if somebody better at that is going to challenge him and then do something to change what his position is because we all know every politician, I don't care what party you're part of, every politician has to find a way to keep their job. And everything they do say and breathe is about keeping their job. Trust me, everything. And then when they don't keep their job, there's the backup which has become like a lobbyist or work on some other kind of deal that will make you more money and you completely flip who you are. on Dana. Let's not forget. So all these things happen. So I don't know when the clock is going to end on Tim Scott and his usefulness from the Republican Party and vice versa. But I get a sense that he's, as with most politicians, the acting job is beginning to get tiring. And they used them the best way tonight. He was the most palatable. He was the most, he was the easiest

to listen to. He was the nicest guy out there. He was the one who gave his backstory. He didn't actually say, hey, President Trump, you're my savior. But he still lied about Trump's record. He just did it quietly. He did it in the middle of saying good things about himself. So that was a positive for them tonight. The problem is, is their base does not like it. Yeah, he was quiet thunder. They are more in line with loudsunder, i.e. Kimberly Gilfoyle. By the way, this is a moment in the night to remind you guys. Kimberly Yilfoyle used to go out with Gavin Newsom. And if you notice in her speech, she said California used to be the richest, most wonderful

state, and now it's littered with heroin needles and poverty and all these different things. Okay, I get it, I get it, you're bitter, you still want to be going out with Gavin Newsom That's a big deal. Okay, kind of obvious. Yeah, I'm glad you brought that up. Sorry, heroin needles in the middle of a state, and we're going to focus solely on like the big city, San Francisco, L.A., where rent will get you a one-bedroom apartment for 3K. But heroin needles, which they're there. Those heroin needles are there, as they're also in Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas, Florida, Trust. They're everywhere. Because it's not like drugs stops at the board of California. It's ridiculous lies.

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