The Young Turks - Teamster Trash Talk

Episode Date: October 9, 2024

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August 1st. Welcome to our Trash Revolution. I'm so upset. Oh my God. Bega! All right, welcome to the young Turks. What the bejes, here we are at the Polymarket studio in L.A. It's Jake Ugar. It's the dangerous and controversial Anna Cusparian. So dungenous.

Just like we like her. Okay, very bad girl. She has been naughty. Okay, so listen guys, we got a hell of a show for you guys today. So yeah, of course, usual disastrous stories, yada, yada, but we're gonna make them fun. At the end, we're gonna make fun of modern art. Sorry artists, you're gonna hate us and cancel us, but okay, hold on, we're gonna do a poll on it. You know, some modern art they say are very fine pieces of art.

Yeah, but you know, some are just trash. Well, actually literally in this case. Yeah. But anyway, but I hear others are good art. Okay, so anyways, but of all the different fun, interesting, amazing stories today, the Bob Woodward's book one, you might think like, oh, normal, okay, here we go, establishment guy comes out with a book and Trump's a bad guy. Oh my God, there's Russia.

Hold, I need you to hold on that story because that story is so much more interesting. Is it? It is. And I think actually that book has so many more negative things about Biden. It does. Than it does about Trump. It does. And so A, that's interesting. And B, the way the media has covered it is interesting. Absolutely. Like the perspective they look at it with all these devastating stories about Biden and all the headlines are about Trump. That is so interesting. Yes, I can't wait to get to that story. Don't we can't wait to get to it. I told you was interesting.

And you didn't believe me. Here we are though. All right, let's do it. Well, I wanted to begin with, you know, a bit of an analysis on the aftermath of Hurricane Haleen and what could have been done beforehand in order to make towns like Asheville, North Carolina, for instance, more resilient. Now, did the local politicians do that? Well, you're about to find out. In Western North Carolina, no end to the struggle after Hurricane Haleen's floodwaters isolated so many communities, many people forced to rely on each other for help. And Tonya Hilton is there. Tonight, President Biden sending 500 more troops into North Carolina as the reality of recovery sets in. Thousands still without running water. Some loved ones still missing. North Carolina is still reeling from the devastation in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.

But according to a recent investigative report by the lever, state Republicans in North Carolina have been wielding their power to make the state even less resilient in the face of natural disasters. Now, of course, there is a lot of blame to go around in regard to whether or not there's a decent enough response to the hurricane, whether or not we are doing enough to respond to the very real climate emergency. But oftentimes, guys, when we hear from the naysayers in regard to climate change or those who claim that individuals concerned about climate change are doomers, they say, look, don't, we've got human ingenuity. And human ingenuity will find technological solutions to make towns more resilient so they can withstand the impact or the consequences of climate change. Now, will our politicians

actually invest in those mitigation efforts? It appears in North Carolina. No, that was not the case. So let's rewind back to the early 2000s, because the lever report finds that the state actually implemented a number of policies meant to mitigate the impact or effects of climate change. But then at around 2010, suddenly Republicans start getting elected into the state legislature and they take over. They start to control the majority. And a lot of that progress on mitigation efforts kind of comes to a halt. In the years following the Republican takeover, the state legislature ended up gutting the budget for the state's environmental watchdog agency, which I think is a big mistake.

Then last year, the Republicans in the state legislature passed two bills that are worth talking about here, potentially endangering their own constituents. The first blocked home sheeting inspections to determine whether homes can bear hurricane force wins. And the North Carolina Home Builders Association, not a fan of that potential regulation. It's a trade group representing home building companies. And they fought hard for the bill arguing that upgrading housing to withstand hurricane force winds wasn't needed outside of coastal areas and would increase home prices. The trade group, by the way, didn't just argue for the bill, basically they spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on lobbying to get their way.

The Builders Association spent more than $346,000 lobbying state lawmakers in 2023 and has given more than $28,000 in campaign donations to state representative Mark Brody, the bill's author throughout his career. According to emails obtained by the Energy and Policy Institute, the Environmental Watchdog group via a records request, the lobbying group also helped write. the bill. So again, they blocked the home sheathing inspections regulation, essentially. And so there's more where that came from. But again, I want to reiterate, those who are arguing, especially those on the right who argue, we don't have to worry about climate change

because new technological advances can help us mitigate the impact of climate change. They should be really upset at this. But I'm not hearing anything. Yeah. So look, guys, there's two corruption stories here. Number one, is when Anna just explained to you guys that, of course, they're going to want cut costs. They don't want extra regulation. So when you hear deregulation spouted by Republicans over and over again, we're just let you know freeing these companies. They're not human beings.

They don't need to be freed from all rules, regulations on laws. What they're doing is they're saying take more safety risks. It's okay. You can take it sometimes with your employees. We don't need more safety regulations in the workplace. sometimes with local communities and sometimes here at large with your homes and natural disasters. So when you see, oh my God, I've had this massive issue and it turns out the government

could have protected me but didn't understand that's deregulation. That's what cost you, okay? So there's only propaganda against regulation. In fact, the word regulation is misleading. All regulation means is laws. You want more laws or less laws? Well, doesn't that depend? So for either side, the left or the right to say, no, more regulations always answer,

or less regulations always answer, that literally makes no sense. It depends on the task at hand. And protecting you from natural disasters is a pretty important task. Now, that gets to the much larger corruption, which is the oil companies, the fossil fuel companies, that know that climate change was going to take these category threes and turn them into fours and fives, take the ones and turn them into threes, make them more extreme. They've known since the 1970s. They wrote it down themselves.

They did their own research, 70s and 80s. They knew we now have the internal memos. They knew it for a fact. But we also have the memos on them saying, hey, if we buy off the politicians, we'll be able to create doubt and we'll do think tanks and other things so that we confuse at least half the population, the thinking it might not be a problem at all. By the time their house is wiped away and their family members are dead and we stick them with the bill, they'll be so confused as to who's at fault.

The reality is this is a byproduct of their, the consumer good that they are producing. Do we need some sort of energy to power the whole world? Of course. In the short term, is fossil fuel a part of that? Very, very likely. Do we need to eventually phase it out so we don't have hurricanes wiping us out, let alone all the other problems that come with it? Yes.

How do we phase them out is the real question, not whether we should go, You know what? No big deal. And when it wipes away your family in Georgia or North Carolina, ExxonMobil that already took home trillions of dollars, their executives, shareholders, et cetera, and get subsidies from us shouldn't pay any of the cost of their product. Instead, you should pay it and your family should pay it. Exactly. And that's what's unacceptable. Yeah. And look, a lot of my critique or criticism toward efforts to combat climate change center on the fact that most of the onus, most of the pressure has been. been placed on individual Americans rather than industry. And that bothers me because individual Americans have been paying the consequences for something that they barely contributed to when you consider how much fossil fuel companies have contributed to the rapidly warming climate. And so things like EV mandates do get under my skin a little bit because it's this

assumption that people are going to be able to just willy-nilly afford EVs. A lot of Americans are not driving like brand new cars or leasing brand new cars every three years or five years. This is an expensive thing to have to worry about. And I just think there needs to be more support for Americans if they're gonna implement these types of mandates. But let's get to the second bill that the lever wanted to draw some attention to. So the second bill opened 2.5 million acres of North Carolina wetlands for development.

Now, unsurprisingly, that bill was backed by the Builders Association, because again, it allows for development on the wetlands. Now, scientists say wetlands are essential for absorbing water in storm surges, like the one that accompanied Hurricane Helene. Some research suggests that a single acre of wetlands, about one foot deep, can absorb up to 330,000 gallons of water, enough to flood about 13 homes downstream. with several feet of water. And these problems, guys, are only going to get worse because, you know, global warming

is going to continue to intensify. And so, as the lever notes, using increasingly precise attribution science, experts are already finding evidence that climate change fueled Helene's destruction, including that warmer ocean temperatures likely exacerbated the storm's rain. The most recent national climate assessment completed last year, found. that the amount of precipitation in the most intense rainstorms has increased 37% in the southeast since 1958. So that's real data, those are real numbers, and obviously you have ordinary people

suffering the consequences, and it is devastating, and it's going to continue to get more and more expensive, not just for them, but also for American taxpayers overall, as we have to beef up resources for governmental organizations like FEMA. So guys, whenever you hear corporations talking about freedom, understand that means they're here to screw you. It has nothing to do with your freedom. So when we show you these numbers that are verified by scientists, I know that Republicans sometimes have turned the word scientists and the career of science is like a dirty word. Like people that study facts to find out what's true. Boo!

Right? But they didn't devote, like none of these guys are getting rich often. They didn't devote their lives to science because they wanted to screw you over. It's because they really care about things that are true. And so when you see all the numbers on how the weather is, or the climate is getting significantly worse and then you see the impact with your own eyes, understand that the people that are bringing you the facts are the ones that are telling you the truth, not the corporations who stand to make billions of dollars from your inaction. And those guys, by the way, if you don't know, we give the oil companies about $30 billion in subsidies every single year. That's more than we give to Israel. And it's every single year.

And they're the most, I mean, and then we talk about how Israel has paid family leave and universal health care and we don't. Why are we giving them money? Well, we don't have any of those things. And ExxonMobil, we're giving them $30 billion. They're the most profitable companies in the world. So what are we doing here? So as they're destroying the planet, not only that, the part that bothers me, not just as an American citizen, but as a capitalist is, they get to take all of their costs and go, here, America, you deal with it.

Here are citizens of the world, a bunch of suckers. We'll just buy off your politicians. Both Republicans and Democrats, we'll buy the Democrats, a little less than the Republicans is a little bit more in this case. And Trump will buy the most, so he'll go around puppeting our talking boys, drill, baby, drill, drill, baby drill. So we'll buy those guys off. And then half of you'll be confused, even though the science is absolutely clear, you'll do nothing. And we'll get to put all our costs on you. And every once in a while, your house will get wiped away. But it doesn't matter because you and the taxpayers have to foot the bill. Never Exxon Mobil.

Well, I want to pivot to the potentially devastating hurricane that's coming. So let's reset for that, starting with this video. Helene was a wake-up call. This is literally catastrophic. And I can say without any dramatization whatsoever, if you choose to stay in one of those evacuation areas, you're going to die. States like Georgia and North Carolina are still suffering from the brunt of Hurricane Helene. And unfortunately, there is another massive hurricane barreling toward the state of Florida.

Last night, Tampa mayor Jane Castor, the woman that you just heard from in that video, issued the dire warning to her constituents that Hurricane Milton closes in on the state of Florida soon. they must evacuate if they've been given evacuation orders, because if they don't, it is unlikely that they will be unharmed from this hurricane. Florida meteorologist John Morales even went viral because as he was reporting on this hurricane, he just really understood what the devastation is going to be and became incredibly emotional about it. Now, he later posted on social media, quote, extreme weather driven by global warming has changed me. Frankly, you, You should be shaken to and demand climate action now.

Here's more on Hurricane Milton from CNN. Florida highways were crammed Monday, with what state officials expect could be the largest evacuation since 2017's Hurricane Irma. Milton threatened storm surge, rain and flash flooding. But due to Hurricane Helene's devastation, there's another threat, the potential for flying debris. Florida's governor has deployed the National Guard to help. assist with debris removal that could cause more damage from Milton's forecasted winds, which got up to 180 miles per hour Monday. The storm is projected to weaken and make landfall as a category three near the Tampa area

on Wednesday packing 120 mile per hour winds. It's dangerous I-N-I-Wall could come ashore anywhere from Cedar Key in the north to Naples in the south. So if you are in Florida and you've been given the evacuation, order, please evacuate, don't treat this as if it's, you know, maybe get a weekend. You're gonna take a chance, please don't take a chance, please get to safety. And by the way, I mean, it's difficult because for some people, evacuating is not a possibility, right? Either they don't have the proper transportation to go to a safer place, they don't have a place to go.

But please check in with your state resources and see if there's potentially a shelter you can, can go to do not stay where you shouldn't stay. If you're told to evacuate, do it. Yeah. So I told a story a long time ago on the show, maybe for the members or whatever in one of our bonus episodes about how when I was in South Beach, Jesus has been over 20 years now. And we had a hurricane warning and I stayed. And it was a fun story. And I got a bunch of beer and went down to the beach. And the weatherman told me and others to cut our partying attitude out. But I want you to understand the difference between that. this. That was maybe it'll kind of graze you. And I got the sense that it wasn't really

going to hit us too much. And it didn't. Now, I got lucky because even if I was right about my analysis, which I shouldn't be, I should trust the meteorologist. It could have moved. Then you're screwed, right? So, but here it's saying, no, there's almost no question. It's going to hit you square. And if it hits you square at a category three, I saw Fort Myers afterwards. I saw it about almost a year afterwards, there were still boats on top of trees. There were couches on top of trees. I read this story about this poor older woman in chimney rock that was in North Carolina. And so that was the time that the town that was just totally wiped out.

The mud came in and wiped it off the face of the earth almost. And she died because she was the one person who was stubborn and said, no, this is my house. And I'm not moving. Do you see that in the movies and they usually survive? But this is the real world and not the movies. No, the mud wiped her out. So don't make that mistake. This is not the one to play around with when the authorities.

And don't, this is not like, oh, hey, the deep state this and it's Sharpie, that. No, when the authorities are telling you in this case, you got to go, it really means you got to go. Don't, this is not in a mess around with. Mother Nature is not interested in what your feelings. It, you know, it hits you with a 160 mile per hour wind and you're a goner. So make sure you're following what what these folks are trying to say your life are telling you to do. Well, Kamala Harris has been making the rounds doing a bunch of interviews, including an appearance on The View today. And when we come back from the break, I'm going to ask Jank whether or not he still agrees with what he said just a few days ago about how Kamala Harris should do more interviews.

Oh, drops. We'll be back. All right, back on to IT, Jane, Anna, Kevin Randall and Lego, my heart. What a fun handle. Okay, you Lego my heart. Okay, they grabbed it by hitting the join button below. You can do likewise become an American hero and a young Turks member. By the way, somebody mentioned during the break when I was reading the super chats about Israel.

We do have a really powerful piece of art, the ceasefire shirt that we've got to shop t-y-t.com. Check that out if you get a chance. And 10% of that goes to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, which is desperately needed. So thank you guys. And thank you to one of our members, and Ron Scha, for creating that beautiful, amazing shirt. Yeah, definitely. All right, Anna. All right, well, interviews do be happening.

Let's watch. If anything, would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years? There is not a thing that comes to mind in terms of, and I've been a part of most of the decisions that have had impact. Oh boy. Okay, we're doing an instant poll in the chat right now. Okay. Should Kamala Harris do more interviews or no? because that's a terrible answer. So there's a whole drama as to whether she should have answered that. Later she went back to amended, hold for that. And then I'm going to weigh in on whether I think she should keep doing these interviews or not.

Back to your Anna. Well, Kamala Harris has been doing more interviews. And to be fair, she's been urged to do more interviews. And that might be one of the few things that she's been listening to. So credit where credit is due on that. However, during her appearance on the view, she did what she seemed to want to, not do, which is distance herself from Joe Biden. Instead, she decided to say that, no, no, no, I'm totally in line with everything Joe Biden has done. And it's a bizarre move because

according to a recent CNN report, her campaign team is well aware that anything having to do with Biden is extremely unpopular with voters at the moment. Now, we're going to get back to that report in a second. And it's important to know the details of that. But before we do, Let's hear more of what Kamala Harris has to say about the Biden administration. The work that we have done, for example, capping the cost of insulin at $35 a month for our seniors is something I care deeply about, about allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices and bring the cost of prescription medication down for seniors, but my intention is to expand that for all Americans. The work we have done to invest in American industries, whether it be in terms of manufacturing and creating almost,

almost 800,000 new jobs around manufacturing, those were all a shared priority. So let me just say, while I think that it is definitely risky to tie yourself to policies that were implemented by Biden, there are policies implemented by Biden that are popular. And so I like that she decided to focus on the cost of pharmaceutical drugs, right? She focused on the right things. Now, had she decided to instead focus on sending tens of billions of dollars in military funding to Israel or hundreds of billions of dollars in military funding to Ukraine, that kind of stuff. Or if she touted the Biden administration's immigration policy, which whether you are in favor of

his policies or not, they are not polling well. If she attached herself to that, that would hurt her politically, big time, in my opinion. But at least she focused on the right issues. Yeah, look at that poll moving live. I love that. Okay, so keep voting in the poll move as we go. Let me put up the split screen. Yeah, there it is. Okay. Interesting. So I'm going to weigh in on the poll in a second. But first, let's keep going about this. Look, we're going to give you the debate in a second as to whether, you know, what direction she should go on staying with Biden and say, yeah, I'm proud to be with Biden or starting to create distance between herself and Biden. So that's a different question than whether she should do interviews.

In that question, I say, stay away from Biden. Biden is not a popular person. So I hate to break the hearts of Democrats. But if you would like to beat Donald Trump, please do rational things and not just things that appease powerful Democrats. That's for another day when we're not trying to win a national election. That's for like your feelings and you want to do rosé all day at another time and go to brunch and and mop up Biden's tears. But right now, number one, you look like you're not the change candidate,

which you desperately need to be if you want to win this race. If you stick very close to Joe Biden, number two, he has some unpopular policies that then gets stuck on to you. And rhetorically, you want to be a fresh new thing, not, oh yeah, I would have done the same thing as Biden for the last four years. I don't know if you know this, Biden's not in the race anymore. And his health and mental deterioration is a part of it, but also he wasn't going to win. Because right now, only about a quarter of Americans think we're going on the right path.

So if you're going to do interviews, which here I'll give you a teaser, I think she should. You have got to get a better handle on this issue. You've got to have a terrific answer for, here's what I agree with Joe Biden on and I'm proud of, right? We lowered drug prices. Where the hell are the Republicans lowering drug prices? And here's the part I do not agree with Joe Biden. Washington, I know that that's a giant crime. That's never going to happen.

Right. Yeah. They're like, saying you would disagree with a Democratic president. Guys, this isn't time for your stupid little club and you guys all patting each other on the ass. We love Joe, we love Joe, we're so on the end. This is time to win. So oftentimes, like you'll refer to people like Trump as like a blunt instrument, right?

And I think you're good at recognizing blunt instruments because I think you yourself are a blunt instrument. Damn right. I am. Okay, so look, I overall agree with what you're saying, but I do think that the framing and the tone is everything. Because there are plenty of voters within the Democratic base who love Joe Biden and would not take kindly to Kamala Harris being as aggressive as you were in the way that you frame that and the way that you said it, right? But I do agree with you that when it comes to the unpopular policies that were implemented or the failures of the Biden administration, she should try to distance herself. But Anna, look, here, let me make one more counter argument because the Biden lovers have a zero percent chance of not voting for Kamala Harris.

You never know. No, no, no, no. I mean, seven of them will stay home. If she spat in his face, seven of them would stay home and only seven. You know why? Because they're diehards. They hate Trump. They're never going to move over Trump.

And remember, they follow the current Democratic leader no matter what. he could come out and be like, oh, die, finally defeated America. And they'd be like, he's young, he's 25. He's 25, he's dynamic, okay? He's the best possible candidate we have. Those guys are not going to vote against the Democratic leader, no matter what Kamala Harris says. So for God's sake, go get the undecideds, who I hate to break it to you, don't love Joe Biden. Yeah, that's definitely true. And that is the reason why internally over at the Harris campaign, things are happening, guys.

Things are happening. So CNN reports that internal Harris campaign research on the September presidential debate found that one of the most popular moments for the vice president was when she said, clearly, I'm not Joe Biden. Read a poll, brothers and sisters. Of course that's the most popular. Now you know it's the most popular. Please read a poll. There's more. In mid-September, the Democratic Research and Polling Initiative Blueprint conducted a national poll testing, a long series of potential statements Harris could make about herself and Biden. Those that performed best, the polling found, were those that displayed a clear break between her and Biden, while those that performed worst were those portrayed, were those that portrayed a future Harris

administration as building on the accomplishments of the Biden era. Any mention of Biden, the polling found, led to less support. Oh, that's interesting. Even if the position it had Harris taking was the same, those numbers have made their way around Harris AIDS. So they're looking at that poll and they're trying to do the distancing. But clearly during her interview with the view, she failed to do the distancing. And so look, it's not just about the view. She does, in my opinion, still struggle a little bit in these interviews. But who knows? Maybe she'll get better at it. Maybe she'll get more practice. There's going to be fumbles here and there. But But the main point is that people are still getting to know Kamala Harris.

So whether you like it or not, whether we like it or not, whether she likes it or not, she's going to have to do more interviews. But she's got to remember, you know, what kind of messaging resonates most with the voters who are getting to know her. And so I guess associating with the Biden administration, even though she is VP, not a popular move to make. The reason why I say do more interviews is because, so these are, it's, you're going to get missteps. Even if you're a great politician, you're going to have missteps from now and then.

And in fact, I think Tim Walls is a super popular guy, borderline great politician. Why do I see great politician not because of his rhetoric, but because he actually got things done in Minnesota. And if you're a right winger and you don't like Tim Walls and you don't. don't like the things that he got done, that's fine, but he got him done. And you can't, you can't argue with that. He got all those bills passed. So that's why he knows what he's doing. But even he, in the middle of the debate, you know, had to quote him, a knucklehead moment, right? And so, and he should have had a better answer prepared for that. And he shouldn't have fibbed about when he was in China, et cetera, right? So, but people don't remember, like, all of your

little missteps, especially if you flood the zone. And there's two great examples of this. The first was Charles Barkley. So my whole life, Charles Barkley would say amazing, outrageous things. Now, I love nearly all of them, even the ones I disagreed with, because I thought, now we're having fun. At least this guy's got a personality, et cetera. But by the end, everybody loved Charles. You know why? And did everybody agree with 100% of what he said? That's impossible, right? But they appreciated the guy. They're like, okay, he's real. He's real. He's real. and he's honest, et cetera, right? Now, that's a good example.

The bad example, but it's still true, is Donald Trump. So Donald Trump, oh, my God, he frauds the zone with insanity day after day after day. You can't possibly remember. You know, we play Trump brackets where we have all the 64 worst things he's done. We'll play later today, right? But, like, the one that always sticks out for me is when he said that nobody can do anything about the judges that Hillary Clinton appoints if she wins back in 2016, except the Second Amendment, guys, they could do something.

I mean, that is directly asking for those judges to be killed. And so there's no, Second Amendment doesn't have flowers and unicorns. It has guns, okay? So, but nobody remembers because he said 2,000 crazy things since that, including, oh, the audience in the live debate went crazy for me. There was no audience. He's cuckoo for cocoa pops. He often goes on rants about how he's going to beat Biden.

We're like totally, New York Times had a giant write-up about this. Half of these are examples I didn't love, it was just normal crazy Trump. But the other half were devastating, man. He keeps saying things where I go, oh my God, he sounds like Joe Biden. I know. So look, I think what he was referring to with the audience, debate audience was the online audience. No, no, no, no. I hear you Anna, because you said that last time, I looked into it and quadruple checked it.

Okay, I rewatched the tape three different times. There was no audience. And he wasn't saying, hey, he wasn't making a reference to the polls, which would also not be true, but at least more believable. He wasn't talking about the reaction he got online. He was talking about the audience because he said, I said this and then, then a crowd won, Chris, no, he's guys, he's losing it. I mean, he was already nuts. But, I mean, look, the already nuts part is when he said, Colin Harris isn't even having campaign rounds or no one's showing up. It's all AI images, right?

cuckoo for cocoa puffs. If you believe that, then you're like the Biden guys on the Democratic side. You'll believe anything from Trump, and you'll vote for Trump because you don't mind insanity, right? Yeah. But these things, my point is that Trump is still getting his message out. And what's his core message, the blunt instrument we talked about, which is, I'm for you guys, and I'm fighting for you guys. And the establishment hates me. Don't you hate the establishment?

I'm against the establishment. And through all the insanity and the mental decline and all of that, people are getting his core message. Kamala Harris has to deliver her core message. Whatever she thinks is the most winning message she has. You cannot give away hundreds of millions and maybe even billions of dollars in free media. You should be doing three, four, eight interviews a day. Tim Wall should be doing even more.

And then nobody's going to remember that you said that you were just like Joe Biden. Nobody's going to remember any of your missteps. You're just going to remember it over. Look at that. I see my position now winning 7426. Okay, I love doing these live. Thank you for voting guys. All right, let me finish this.

Let's go back to Biden, okay? Because, so we know how the polling is when Kamala Harris attaches herself or associates with the Biden administration. And this has created some pretty awkward interactions between the Harris campaign and also the Biden White House. So as CNN reports in September, Harris responded to the Federal Reserve's interest rate cut with a statement about how much more work needs to be, how much more work needs to be done. Then her aides had to spend hours negotiating with their White House counterparts to

scale back a victory lap speech Biden planned to give the next day, according to a person familiar with the matter. And complicating this issue even further is Biden himself, who did not do Harris any favors when he said this last week, quote, Harris was a major player in everything we've including the passage of legislation, which we were told we could never pass. She's been, and her staff is interlocked with mine in terms of all the things we're doing. However, later in the show, Harris did think of one thing she would do differently than Joe Biden. Let's take a look. Listen, I plan on having a Republican in my cabinet.

You asked me, what's the difference between Joe Biden and me? Well, that will be one of the differences. I'm going to have a Republican in my cabinet. Because I don't feel burdened by letting pride get in the way of a good idea. When she says that she'll appoint a Republican, think about the types of Republicans that have been supportive of her campaign. They're neocons. Please don't put neocons in your cabinet. Please, if you get elected, please don't do that.

Everyone hates the neocons. Okay, everyone. Let me break down why they're fundamentally wrong about the direction that they're going in when they do this strategy. So what's the strategy? The strategy is, we've got to win Republicans in the suburbs. And if we can just get the 12 Republicans who claim they're not voting for Trump, then we'll win the election because of how close it is in the swing states.

And so they keep going towards traditional Republicans, like the Chinese. But the traditional Republicans have two giant problems. why they're the wrong direction to go in. Number one, they love war and the country does not want war, undecided, independents don't want war, nobody wants war except to people in Washington, okay? So that is an unpopular idea. You might say, oh, I love war and I, please, let's fight seven more wars for Israel. They're just defending themselves and let's, okay, yes, but that's an unpopular position, okay? So the second thing that they're known for is give everything to the rich and for corporate, and to corporations, an incredibly unpopular position, right?

But maybe there's a couple of Exxon executives in the suburbs you're trying to win over. Okay, but they're not gonna make up for how unpopular those positions are. So what is the actual direction you should be going towards? Because you're trying to convince people that are not already Democrats, not already on the left, to vote for you. So going further left also doesn't make sense. So wait, if you can't go towards old school Republicans, you can't go left, where do you go?

You ignore that spectrum and you go to the populist establishment spectrum instead, and you go towards populism. Yeah, left and right makes less and less sense every election cycle. And especially when it comes to political messaging, because while I certainly am suspicious of the economic populist message that's spouted by the likes of J.D. Vance, it is a popular message, right? And it's a message, especially the messaging on tariffs, the pro tariffs messaging, that used to be a more left-wing policy. And now it's been adapted by the right wing with the Democrats kind of trashing it, even though Biden kept Trump's tariffs and expanded it. Like, none of this stuff really makes sense in the old paradigm of left and right. Yeah. And so I want to be clear, they're all fake populists.

J.D. Vance is a venture capitalist who are funded by Peter Thiel, who can't wait to give corporations the biggest tax cut they've ever seen. All of his populism's totally phony baloney. He's a giant fraud. Samford Trump, oh, you give me everything. That's not populism, no, populism is giving to the average American, right? But having said that, is, like, is Kamala Harris a populist? Of course not, not even close. So, JD-Vans says his fake populism, Kamala has the, oh, I'm gonna go after price

couching. No, she's not. But what happened? That increased her numbers because populism works. It's one of the greatest quotes of all time, it's just a rando guy who was working at a Waffle House that we interviewed in Western Virginia back in 2016 race. He said, look, we know when Trump tells us that he's going to get the cold jobs back that he's lying, but at least he has a decency to lie to us.

Whereas Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party give us no hope at all, right? So don't sit there and go, oh, yeah, I'm going to send Mark Cuban out. And again, I don't mind Mark Cuban. But sending out business leaders and billionaires all over TV, say, don't worry, big business, I'm on your side. say when she said I there's one thing I disagree with Biden on I was like oh okay what do we got right because this could be good and she's like I want more republics I'm like oh for God's sake you're missing the entire point right but the problem last thing guys the problem is

there's not a populist in the building so they don't even know that they're missing like so everyone around Kamala Harris everyone in the upper echelons of the Democratic Party are establishment. And so if a populace accidentally walked into the building and said, hey guys, I think you're misreading the moment. I think that people want you to fight for the average guy and not for the super rich donors you seem to be fighting for. They'd be like, radical, get him out of here.

Did any of the donors hear him? You didn't hear him, did they? Get them out of here, get them out, right? Well, that's how you lose elections. And then you could go cry later and blame us in Russia. But we just told you how to win the election. If you'd like to do that, go for it. If not, keep going down this path.

And then we're going to be all buckled up and waiting for impact for four brutal years of Donald Trump. All right. When we come back from the break, we're going to get into Teamsters president Sean O'Brien's appearance on the Theo Vaughn podcast. Democrats are very upset about it. But these days, everything seems to trigger Democrats. So we'll be right back with that and more. We'll be right back. All right, back on TYT, Jank and Anna with you guys.

More news. All right, buckle up for this one. You know, these politicians, both sides, Democrats and Republicans, and I'll be honest with you, I'm a Democrat, but they have fucked us over for the last 40 years and for once. And not all of them, but for once, we're standing up as a union, probably the only one, right? now saying what have you done for us? Teamsters President Sean O'Brien made an appearance on Theo Vaughn's podcast and talked a little bit about the state of the Democratic Party as it pertains to labor and real gains

on behalf of labor. And honestly, for the first time, for a long time, you actually have a union party leader or calling out the Democratic Party for the way that. they've been behaving toward workers over the policies that they have implemented or the policies that they've refused to implement. Now, I have kind of mixed views because I think one of the good things about the Biden administration has been the fact that he's been far more pro labor than previous administration, certainly in my lifetime. Yes, he squashed the rail workers strike, but behind the scenes, and he got no credit for this, by the way, behind the scenes,

he worked to negotiate to ensure that they got what they were asking for, which was the paid time off. So I wanted to give you that caveat. But without further ado, let's get to more of what he had to say. And I'm getting attacked from the left. You know, and we've given, since I've been in office two and a half years, we've given the Democratic machine $15.7 million. We've given Republicans about 340,000, troop be told. So it's like, you know, people say the Democratic Party is the party of the working people. They're bought and paid for by big tech. Those big tech companies. Yeah, tech is the new fossil field, man. That's what I said. Right. And you've got the Republicans who are now saying, hey, we want to be the working class party, right? And okay, you've got a great

opportunity right now to do that. And the Democrats, if 60% of our members aren't support you, the system's broken. So I certainly agree with him on that. And I've been kind of sad to see the reaction from the Democratic Party and Democratic voters in regard to the Teamsters members and how 60% of them, based on two separate polls, indicates that they support Trump over Kamala Harris. Now, I can understand if you think that makes no sense, if you think that's ridiculous, but I think the Democratic Party needs to try to figure out why do these Teamsters members feel this way. But instead, they're upset, and a lot of the criticisms I've seen, I've kind of focused on the belief that these teamsters members are supporting Trump because

they prefer bigotry over real gains for workers. I disagree with that take entirely. Well, we have one of our members whose team separate, we have many, but the one that just wrote in JMC. And I wanna give him the first word and then I'm weighing on it. He said, as a teamster, I'm not upset O'Brien went on CEO Vaughn's podcast. I'm mad how the right and certain journalists are twisting his words and creating a BS narrative That isn't true. So let me build on that. First, thank you for being a member.

Appreciate you guys. Hit the join button below to become a member. Be part of the show. So that's right. I think that the reason that he's right is that the headlines I'm seeing is, like as if Sean O'Brien and the Teamsters are now fully pro-Trump, pro-Republican. But wait a minute, they didn't endorse Kamala Harris or Donald Trump. And if you watch and listen to the podcast, he said he's a life of

long Democrat. And he's just frustrated that the Democrats are not delivering. So I'm going to ask a rhetorical question, but then I'll answer it. So what do you want them to do? Lie to you and say the Democrats did deliver when he knows that they didn't deliver? Yes. And yes, that's the answer. And so every establishment Democrat says, of course, of course you should lie and pretend the Democrats did things that they didn't do. And they say that with all earnestness. And they And they don't think they're the bad guys for saying that. They're positive that they're incredibly decent moral people for asking that brother to lie, right? Because in their minds, they think Trump is such an evil, so anything to make sure that he's defeated.

And hence, you have to say nothing but positive things about his opponents. No, the much better path is to be honest. So people believe you, okay? And that's what Sean O'Brien's doing. He's being absolutely honest. And I find him 10,000 times more credible than any partisan hack who comes. out there with their talking points that we've all already heard, spouting fake robotic BS. So thank you, Sean O'Brien.

Sean O'Brien's role as the head of the Teamsters Union is to represent the Teamsters, to represent their best interests. And so I need to understand from those individuals who are going after him so viciously, how do you expect the Democratic Party to ever change, to ever actually listen to the conservative of working people in the country to actually go back to what they were used to, what they used to be known as, which is the party of FDR. How do you expect any of that to happen if the Teamsters president or any other labor union leader doesn't call them out on what's been going on?

So let me give you the most obvious example that the press never talks about because it's inconvenient, okay? The pro act. So, and it's not just the pro act under the Biden administration. Every Democrat in my lifetime has said, oh, when we come in, we're going to pass this pro-labor bell. That's going to be our first priority all day. And none of them even propose it. Right.

And the Pro Act would allow for people to organize their workplace and form unions a little more easy than what they're experiencing now in some of these right to work states. To give you a sense of like, look, I don't even agree with the entire pro act. There's parts that I disagree with and parts that I love, right? But the point is that the Democrats should do what I want or what I like. These guys have given you millions and millions of dollars out of their paychecks. And I'm not talking about Sean O'Brien. I'm talking about the average teamster guy, okay? They take money out of his paycheck.

It goes to a union fund and they give it largely to Democrats. So when you keep telling the Teamsters in every other union that you're going to do the pro act or you're going to pass a bill that helps labor, and then you don't even try to do that, please spare me your BS. And all the establishment Democrats saying, no, lie, lie, lie, no, don't lie. Thank you, Sean O'Brien, for not lying. And you're never going to get them to pass any of those bills unless you hold them accountable. If they think, I'll just take these suckers' money and I never deliver for them, well, they're never going to listen to you.

Just like Israel never listens to us because we give them infinite money, total blankjinks, and we never hold them accountable. This is easy, obvious logic. time to go to screw over union to Democrats, they might think, oh, well, we could lose the teamsters. And that's a couple million dollars. And that's this and that's that. And that's a bunch of voters. Now they got a little fear in their heart. Good. That's how democracy is supposed to work. Exactly. Because you don't want to put fear in a politician's heart about violence or physicality. That's for losers. But on electoral consequences, you want to put a lot of fear in their heart. You want them to think, well, if I screw them over, I might not win. Yes,

otherwise they're never, ever going to deliver for you. So sorry to all the other union leaders whom I like a lot these days. The union leaders have gone from totally incompetent to like lions all of a sudden, right? But among those, even though he's not, he's the one not fighting Trump, and I hate Trump, I like Sean O'Brien the best now, because he's being the most honest and using his leverage most effectively. He's using his leverage, and I think that's important, especially during an election. Okay, so there's a final video that I want to go to because O'Brien decides to detail an interaction he had with Democratic leadership.

Let's take a look. I had a heated debate with heated discussion two weeks ago with Chuck Schumer. And it got ugly. Chuck Schumer is a piece of- And it got ugly because, you know, these politicians, you know, the one thing I've learned, They walk in and they tell you, I did this for you. Okay, great. Let me tell you what you haven't done for us or our members.

And we got into it pretty heavy. And I'm like, you had no problem taking $550,000 from me three weeks prior to me going on the Republican National Convention. And then you want to be a tough guy on Twitter or X or whatever it is and throw it out there about me. Like, whatever. I love his energy. I just do. I love his whole vibe, to be honest, because it's so straight to the point. And I love the fact that he's, he's not really calling out corruption, but in the way that

he's framing this issue, he's calling out, I mean, he's drawing attention to the corruption, right? Because oftentimes when we talk about corruption guys, we talk about it in the context of corporations. But remember, you know, police unions have a lot of power. They also do lobbying. So don't make the assumption that it's only corporations. Unions also have a tremendous amount of influence over politicians because they also contribute a lot of money to various politicians. And so do some foreign governments I hear. Okay, so look, guys, Sean O'Brien is, if you think he's like some sort of Republican

or operative, no, not even close. He nearly got into a fist fight with a Republican senator, Senator, Senator Waingrove from Oklahoma like just about a year ago. Do we have that on tape? We do have that video. Here, take a look at this. Quit the Tough Guy Act in these Senate hearings. You know where to find me.

Any place, any time, any time, cowboy. Sir, this is a time, this is a place. You want to run your mouth? We can be too consenting adults. We can finish it here. Okay, that's fine. Perfect. You want to do it now?

I'd love to do it right now. Well, stand your butt up then. You stand your butt up. Oh, hold on. Oh, stop it. Is that your solution every poll. No, no, sit down. Sit down.

You know, you're a United States senator. Okay, sit down, please. All right. Bernie's the best part, right? No, I love every part of that video, right? Especially because during one of the shots, all you see is Bernie's hand doing like the typical Bernie hand thing that he does. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You look, even if you didn't hear his classic voice, you would know it from the hand motion.

100%. Your United States Senator, sit down. Your United States Senator. But you see, that's Sean O'Brien, not like from 20 years ago. But like from a year ago, barely, maybe not even getting into a fight with a Republican senator because he's not playing and he's not trying to pick sides. He's trying to look out for his union members. And that's what he's supposed to do.

So now go over the Democrats, Chuck Schumer running his mouth, well, okay, but guys, when Chuck Schumer and other Democrats and the other Republicans, so Republicans, Teamsters, if you're watching or anybody that's watching, Republicans are the party of the rich. They're a party of big business. They've never helped you, they're never gonna help you, they're for lower wages, they always fight for lower wages, always, anytime that there's a strike, they say fire him, Donald Trump brags about firing everybody and say, oh yeah, I'd fire, fire, fire, right?

They hate the workers. So that's, to me, that's a given. But when you come over the Democrats, and so Chuck Schumer and all you guys, you take money from the corporations and you kiss their ass, you take money from me and you spit my face. Why should I applaud it and pretend it's raining? No, if you're going to take my money, then you're going to do what I tell you to do, just like every goddamn donor, okay? If you say, hey, we're not taking money anymore, we're not corrupt anymore, great, I love it.

Yeah. Because then we're going to, labor is going to win because we have more people on our side, and we have more voters, right? But if you're going to do your corruption, and the only people you don't listen to is labor, well, that's a raw deal. Totally. And if you're not calling that out, you're not standing up for your members. So thank you, Sean O'Brien.

Definitely. Now, unfortunately, the Democratic Party has been losing working class support. And I dive into that. I just wanted to quickly mention the very right wing piece I wrote recently. More working class voters are flocking to Trump. Can Democrats win them back? In it, I talk about what Democrats can do to win them back. So check that out. It's at casparian dot substack.com. But Anna, wait a minute. It's my God. Super right wing. I didn't know you were going to be honest in substack. I mean, quarter. polling about how the voter, the non-college educated voters are going towards Trump. What are you doing quoting facts? Have you turned right wing? I mean, come on guys. I'm wearing a red dress. Yeah. I mean, come on. Not maybe not a red bill, but a red dress. No guys, seriously, and all kidding aside. So for those of you don't know any of the internet drama, et cetera, people yelling and Anna for for like titles like that. But you got to at least read the piece and go, oh, I get it now.

She's trying to help Democrats go in a better direction instead of the direction that they're going, which isn't helping the voters or themselves. If you can't do that level of nuance, you are never going to like this show in the first place. Yeah. Right? So if you want just simple mind of thinking, this is my ideology. I like people who are repeating the same things I repeat all the time. There's a thousand shows on the internet for you.

But here we do nuance and we fight for the average American and we're honest about it. When we come back for the second hour of the show, we're going to talk about the revelations from Bob Woodward's latest book titled War. It's supposed to give us an inside scoop into the Biden administration. But what seems to be getting the most attention is section on Donald Trump and his conversations with Putin. So come right back. We'll give you the details on that story and more.