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Episode Date: November 11, 2021

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You're listening to The Young Turks, the online news show. Make sure to follow and rate our show with not one, not two, not three, not four, but five stars. You're awesome. Thank you. One of the Young Turks, Jane Cougar, Anna Kasperin, with you guys. Look, you know it's going to be a good show because, well, I mean, I was going to say we have crying billionaires, but assess they're jubilant billionaires. Yeah, they're not crying. Today is not a day to celebrate their tears, unfortunately. No, unfortunately, yes. And of course, what has sent them into screams of ecstasy is Joe Manchin. So we'll get to that in just a little bit. And Donald Trump now says, okay, cancel culture, a okay. We'll get to that as well.

It's an amazing show. So without further ado, the news with Annika Sparry. Maybe we should rename the show. I think about it. Let's table that. We'll circle back to it, okay? All right, fair enough. Fair enough.

All right, well, let's start with someone I can't stand, Senator Joe Manchin. Senator Joe Manchin is now citing inflation for why he wants to place a pause on Biden's bill. build back better agenda. Obviously, this is just an excuse. We have covered inflation in great detail on this show, especially because of the fact that it covers very specific sectors of the economy and is caused by supply chain issues related to the coronavirus pandemic and workers, you know, refusing to take jobs for low pay, all of that.

Now, Mansion doesn't want to pass the build back better agenda because it hurts his bottom line, it hurts the bottom line of his corporate donors, but nonetheless, he doesn't He said the following. And he's getting a lot of help from corporate media. Let me be clear about that as well. And I want you to pay particular attention to the stenography taking place over at Axios with one of their worst reporters, Hans Nichols, who loves to do all sorts of positive PR for corporate Democrats.

He writes, red hot inflation data validates the instinct of Senator Joe Manchin to punt President Biden's build back better agenda until next year, potentially killing a quick deal on the $1.75 trillion dollar package, people familiar with the matter tell Axios. Oh, really? People familiar with the matter tell Axios. Fascinating. Fascinating. Who are those people who are familiar with the matter? Yeah. So there's two things there. And then just to be slightly more accurate, what should have been right underneath that is this message paid for by all of our corporate advertisers who do not want that bill because it raises corporate taxes. So by the way, it doesn't even raise corporate taxes. It just gives you a minimum tax

of 15%. But God forbid those corporate advertisers should have to pay a nickel in taxes. Taxes is for you, not for the corporate advertisers of Axios. Keep it absolutely real, okay? And the second reason why he's kissing Manchin's ass by going, red hot inflation proves Manchin's so right. I'm an objective reporter, by the way, doing marketing for Joe Manchin. Just stenography. Right. The reason is because he's got a hot tip from Manchin's office. The insiders say it. Ooh, I'm a journalist. I got a hot tip. Manchin's press secretary gave me a press release.

And I wrote it like it was a breaking news event because that's what helps my career. And everybody else goes, hey, good job in the executive suite. They're like, oh, the advertisers love that one. Nice breaking news. Get out of here. Do your job. Do your actual job. I mean, he is doing his job.

This is his job. That's the problem. Yes. Yeah. Look, we're going to get into details about this story. But let me just get this out of the way because I have to. I'm not interested in this pathetic little dance that Mansion and Biden and corporate Democrats are going to engage in over who knows how many months, okay? We're not going to get the build back better agenda. Democrats who claim that they were in favor of the build back better agenda have essentially given away any and all leverage they had by already voting for and passing the bipartisan infrastructure bill, which corporate America loves.

They salivate over it, it's like Pavlov's dog, you know, the second they think about the government handouts, the corporations are going to get as a result of that bipartisan infrastructure bill, like they're literally their mouths start salivating. They love it, they love it, okay? And Democrats failed in passing that before they got a concrete strategy in place to get the build back better agenda passed. And so it is what it is. It's not going to pass. The only way I see it passing is if it's stripped down so much. that the only thing left is increasing the salt cap so people can save more on their taxes in some of these blue states or these high tax states. And if all of the real social spending is taken out, that's the only way it passes. So in other words, you're not, obviously you're not going to get paid family leave, you're probably not going to get any help with childcare, it's all garbage, you're not going to get anything. I just, because I don't want to play this game for another three months.

No, I want to play it. Let's play it at us. It's the, like, I, for Mansion, it's not about inflation. This Axios article doesn't go into his conflicts of interest at all. The fact that he's making half a million dollars a year off a coal company that he founded and is still heavily invested in. Did Axios mention that? Not at all. So like we can keep playing this game.

I'm not interested in it. They're not going to pass the build back better agenda. I think some progressives like Rokana failed in just trusting Biden. Yeah, we'll see how Biden's going to deliver for you. in just a minute. But Jank, why don't you take it away because you were right, I was right, and Democrats are failures. All right, okay, it's a fair summary.

All right, so look, Anna is telling you the conclusion of the game, Mansion here by saying that he's going to delay it completely until next year is basically rubbing it in the face of progressives. You dopes, of course we weren't going to pass it. The House version that Pelosi promised you and you trusted Biden. You think I'm going to pass the House version? But to be fair to mention, he already said he wasn't going to pass the House version. He said, I might and I might not.

We told you on the show earlier. And then Jayapal said, well, I trust him. But wait a minute, he didn't say he was going to do it. Well, Biden says he's going to do it. And I trust Biden. Okay, well, this is accountability time. So it appears that Jayapal was wrong. Now Manchin is basically mocking people, mocking progressives saying, you're suckers.

Of course we're not going to do the build back better bill, right? It's got a graphic three here. With a limited number of legislative days left in the year, writes Axios. Mansion is content to focus on the issues that need to be addressed, Axios is told. They include funding the government, raising the debt ceiling, and passing the national defense Authorization Act. So more military funding. Those are his priorities. So congratulations, Jayapal. You are an awful leader of the Progressive Caucus. And the Progressive Caucus, unfortunately, includes several progressives who aren't actual fighters for the working class in this

country. They claim to be, they claim to be, but they fold immediately. And now you have corporate media, including CNN, repeating incessantly that, oh, look at Biden. Biden's finally taking inflation seriously. He wasn't taking it so seriously last month, but he's taking it seriously now, but it really calls into question whether he's going to pass his agenda. He's not. He's not. Democrats are failures, okay? And this is why we're seeing elections play out the way they are. The right wing offers something to their base. It's something awful. It's fear mongering, right? It's nonstop fear mongering about the others and fear mongering about critical race theory and all this culture war garbage, but they give their voters something. What do the Democrats have?

All Democrats do is get baited into the culture wars because they haven't provided anything to their voters. Okay, like I was saying, it's failure. It's accountability time. That's all right. Look, you know, when you fail, there should be accountability. Otherwise, the whole caucus is saying, oh, that was a great job of failing. Let's do it again. So is it really failure by Jayapal and the so-called negotiators among progressives? Well, guys, Manchin just said, It's going to next year. I'm not even considering it. They say, well, no, hold on, hold on.

They say, well, look, maybe I'm going to do a couple of months this next year. It's not, is that a big deal? No, then he adds on to just to rub it in further. Oh, no, no, I'm going to put it behind three other bills. In other words, we're not going to get to it. I was actually too generous. Anna's skepticism in the earlier predictions so far appears to be more correct. Absolutely.

I thought that there was a bigger chance that they were going to take BBB and they were going to strip it down and take out anything their corporations don't approve of. It wasn't going to be paid for by any corporate tax increases or anything along those lines. But they were going to keep things like universal pre-K that corporations actually do want, right? So whatever was corporate approved, they were going to pass as a trash bill and then do marketing. Oh my God, I don't know, celebration, historic, et cetera. And I thought it was a lower chance that they would just go, no, we just dismiss you. Of course, we weren't going to pass anything, you fools. That's, I mean, I mean, that says I'm not even going to do marketing for you.

I'm not even going to let you pretend that you had a win. I'm going to slap you right across the face. Do they like it? Yeah, as Kurt Russell once famously asked Billy Bob Thornton, are you going to sit there and bleed all day? Or are you going to do something about it? No, I'm not going to eat all day. And the answer for progressives is no.

But look, now accountability on the other side, okay? There were six Justice Democrats who voted no on this Biff bill, on the bill that Manchin wanted. Why? They said, we don't want to give away our leverage. If we give away our leverage, we're not going to get build back better. Well, they were 100% right. So has the mainstream media come out and said, oh, our bad, no, it turns out AOC, Jamal Bowman, Cory Bush, Iana, Presley, Rashino, Tili, Bill Hon Omar. They're actually the smartest politicians in all of Washington. They knew that they would be giving away leverage and then Manchin would kill Bill back better. That's exactly what happened. No, they're

to keep writing the articles as if they voted against infrastructure because they wanted less for their voters. When it's the exact opposite, they wanted more for their voters. But you have to do it. Look, corporate media, the mask is off. Like, they're, they, right now when this whole propaganda about inflation, like the minute they got the corporate back bill passed and they don't want any other spending that goes to the voters pass, oh, inflation, oh my God, the debt, the deficit, oh my God, inflation, debt. They passed $2 trillion worth of the tax cuts for the rich under Trump. Nobody talked about inflation. Nobody talked about. Okay, you say, okay, forget inflation because, hey, the numbers are slightly different.

How about the debt, the deficit? No one, zero. None of the anchors talked about it. None of the Axios writers talked about it. Now a voter might get something. No, the progressives are wrong. How could they not back to corporate backed bill? Corporations are awesome.

They want something for their voters? They're evil, right? Get out of here, man. So the whole game is nonsense. Honestly, almost everybody in Washington except those six are corrupt. If you're in the progressive caucus and you didn't vote, no, are you really progressive? So yeah, that's a little dispiriting that the progressive caucus is a joke. But they could begin to repair the damage by getting new leadership.

Of course, Jayapal shouldn't be the leader anymore. That fail was so thorough and so quick, it's mind-boggling. I mean, that's mentioned, like I said, it was an open-handed slap. And likely, other than the six core Justice Democrats, the rest of the progressives will now meekly do marketing for their corporate democratic opponents, if they really are opponents. Right. Right. And now they will say, oh no, no, Jenkin, N are being unfair. We didn't really need build back better. We, the corporate Democrats are right. The infrastructure bill is good enough. It's good enough. I mean, almost every dollar goes to corporate America, but it builds bridges and

roads and it's good enough. That's the saddest part. That's the saddest part. When then they get turn around and make the progressive so called leaders do marketing for the for the bills pared down bills that they passed full well knowing they lost on all of their progressive priorities where is it where show me paid family leave show me lower drug prices you did not deliver that's a fact no matter how uncomfortable it makes you I mean we can't even get the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour zero wins zero I mean Bernie was campaigning on that in 20 Hey, wiki, wiki, wiki, it's 2021. And the numbers should actually be higher at this point.

You lost. They lost. No, they did. So anyway, look, let's just get to your videos, okay? Because like I'm done with this story, I'm done with the Democrats, I'm just done, absolutely done. They don't deliver, all they do is this ridiculous posturing about how like, oh, we're so much better than Republicans, because look at us, we actually care about the disenfranchise. And they never deliver. They never do it.

So go ahead. So I just look guys, the reason we're going to show you the videos is because, right, the giant pals of the world will now pretend to be surprised. Like Joe Manchin says he's not going to vote for the bill until we pass like 28 other bills. I'm so surprised. So I'm going to show us telling you that that was going to happen before it happened. This is before they voted.

Watch. Mansion on the other hand says, I do not promise it. He was very clear in his press conference. He said it is equally likely that I will vote no. So later when Jayapal, as you're going to see now, she's like, oh, I trust and love these people. My God, they would never, a politician lying, a corporate politician lying, it would never happen, my beloved Democratic colleagues, right? Well, later, Manchin will say, I didn't lie. I told you before you surrendered that I wasn't going to necessarily vote for your bill.

So don't pretend it's a surprise to you now. That was November 2nd. That was nine days ago. That was before your vote. And then we even told you that Mansion was going to make an excuse like fill in the blank. In this case, it happened to be inflation. Watch us tell you what's going to happen before it happened because it's really easy to predict. I'm telling you right now, the minute they pass the infrastructure bill, that's the corporate back bill.

They lose all leverage instantly. They have literally zero leverage. I wish it weren't the case. But that's the case. And so what is mansion going to do it? What any sensible negotiator would do? I changed my mind. In fact, I didn't even change my mind.

I told you ahead of time that I was equally likely to vote no. And you're an idiot and surrendered to me anyway. And I explained in that video, hey, he'll come up with an excuse of X, Y, Z. It doesn't matter what the excuse is. And so in this case, the convenient excuse was inflation. No, and it's actually a little sicker, right? Because while Mansion is citing inflation, as we've commented on several times, inflation is limited to very specific sectors of the economy that are impacted by either supply chain issues or in the case of gas, right? There is an increase of prices per gallon for gasoline at the pump.

We're talking about our oil dependency, right? We're still oil dependent. and the build back better agenda is supposed to focus on getting us, pivoting the country to renewable energy. And by the way, why are we experiencing higher gas prices right now? Is it because Joe Biden is like creepily sitting in the White House? Like, how can I make gas prices higher? No, because gas prices are manipulated by OPEC, oil producing countries that are part of OPEC,

this cartel, they make decisions about the production of oil. and they on purpose hold back the production of oil in order to see a spike in prices. And that's what they're doing right now because they want to make the money that they lost from the beginning of the pandemic when the demand for gasoline at the pump was at an all time low because people were staying home. So we're like basically vulnerable to this manipulation, this endless manipulation because we're still dependent on fossil fuels and Manchin who's now claiming that inflation is the problem here, right? He's worried about inflation. That's why he can't pass the build back better

agenda is who's keeping us dependent on fossil fuels when this bill is exactly what was supposed to get us off of that dependency. Oh, that's a great irony. And honestly, I hadn't even thought about that last piece of the irony. What can I say? Okay, so last things guys say here, don't give up all hope. Remember, we were worried that nobody was going to vote, no. But But the six just Democrats held strong, and by the way, they got massive nuclear blowback. The corporate media yelled at them at the top of their lungs. Every article smeared them, every single article. And they got tons of constituent calls because the New York Times and everybody else is a bunch of liars.

Well, they're like, oh, yeah, progressives watered less for their voters. Hey, the voters, they screwed you over. I mean, it's just, it's trash, pure trash, right? So they withstood that nuclear blast to do the right thing, the principal thing. So it turns out you can elect uncorrupted, clean progressives who actually fight for you. Okay, now the last thing is Joe Biden. Look, Joe Biden's a joke. He never meant any of those progressive provisions.

We told you he didn't mean it. We told you that it was all a joke and that him and Mansion were going to have a good laugh over it later. And the corporate press said, no, Joe, and Jayapal and Pelosi, oh, Joe Biden is very tough. And he knows how to negotiate. And he's got a. Rokana told us on this show that Biden has a secret deal with Mansion. Really? Where's the secret deal? Or they do have a secret deal, and the secret deal was to screw over progressives and have a belly laugh over it. There's only one promise that Biden is going to keep. And it's to his donors. Nothing will fundamentally change.

When we come back, a satanic-looking man, Ken Langone, gives props to the very precious and special Senator Joe Mansion. We've got that story and more when we return. All right, back on T.I.T. Jake and Anna with you guys. Go. Billionaire Ken Langone is given props to Senator Joe Manchin, who has been a massive obstacle in passing any type of social spending to better your life. Now, billionaires don't want to pay more in taxes, which is why Ken Langone is super, super happy with everything that Manchin's been doing lately. Let's watch.

this inflation is a lot worse than people think it is not transitory and trust me the little people people like my parents and lowry's parents they're going to suffer because it's a regret inflation is a regressive tax thank god for joe mansion by the way thank god for joe mansion the guy's got guts and courage and he did what he had to do and he'll continue to do what he has to do i'm going to have one of the biggest fundraisers he's a democrat i'm a republican i'm going to have one of the biggest fundraisers I've ever had for him. He's special, he's precious, he's a great American. You heard it here, folks.

Ken Langone, a billionaire believes that Democrat Joe Manchin is special and precious. And by the way, as a billionaire, I don't know if I would refer to my parents as the little guys, unless Ken Langone is just letting his elderly parents spend for themselves as he's, you know, swimming in billions of dollars. But who knows? Same thing occurred to me because it's a small point in an amazing clip there that she perfectly demonstrates American politics. But it was kind of funny, like, oh, like my infalliations going to kill my poor parents.

Jesus, dude, you have billions of dollars. Are you seriously saying you didn't provide for your parents? Bootstraps, mom. Okay, then you actually are the Sith Lord that you appear to be, right? So stop it, you're such an obvious liar, right? Either you're the worst person in the world. Which is- Which is possible, which is possible, all right?

Or you're the most obvious liar in the world, pick one. Now, the part where he's overwhelmingly telling, and obviously telling the truth, is a part where he's like, oh, Joe, man, shit, I just can't quit you. Okay, I mean, he talks about how precious he is and how he looks into his eyes and presumably there's stars and hearts everywhere, and he's in love with him. Now, that's a Republican. That's a Republican donor saying, my God. God, this is a Democrat. I love. Why? Because he's doing the Republican agenda.

He's doing the Republican agenda better than any Republican could. So now, though, the best part, where it's so brazen, there's no brakes in the car anymore because no one's holding them accountable. So a billionaire says on national television, I'm going to bribe the politician who made sure that my taxes would not be increased. That saved Ken Langone, hundreds of millions of dollars potentially. So he says, in return, I will bribe them later. I'll put together a spectacular fundraiser where we will all bring in our legalized bribes. Thank you to the Supreme Court for making these bribes legal. Just because they're legal doesn't mean they're not bribes.

When Ken Langone says, thank you for saving me all this money, you crooked, corrupt politician, I will announce on air that I will then give you a tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny percentage of that. For you being my bitch, my servant, Manchin does such a good job of cleaning my floors with his tongue. Then he finally gets to my boots. Bravo, precious mansion. Special. And then, does anybody challenge him on TV? They're like, oh, okay, good point.

All right. Brives her mansion from the billionaire. And nobody even notes it. They don't even note it. No, you know, okay, that makes sense. CNBC is actually pretty incredible in how transparent they are. Yeah, like it's, this is just one example. On any given day, if you're watching CNBC, it's like, do you see how we screwed over the American people?

How awesome was that? Like, you know, I'm paraphrasing, but that's the message that you get over and over and over again. I mean, they have a host who didn't know the difference between Ireland and Scotland. I'm not even kidding. I'm not kidding. He didn't know that Ireland was not in the UK. And, but it doesn't matter. They don't have to know the news because they're not news anchors.

They're news actors. So, I mean, and it's not just CNBC, MSNBC, the liberal channel in Washington. What a joke. Stephanie Ruhl, today talking about higher wages is bad, bad. It's inflation. I can't believe the workers are actually getting something, right? And this is corporate media, where they celebrate the corruption that is Washington. So, and last thing, right-wingers, you're celebrating like, yes, corporations what?

Wait, what? Guys, they're trying to make your wages lower. They're not trying to make your wages higher. What are you celebrating? You hate corrupt Democrats? Well, here's a corrupt Democrat, and here's a billionaire saying, yeah, I bought them, and I'm going to bribe them more so that I get the money, and you fools don't. You idiot, average voters, we're laughing at you on national TV.

So why would you celebrate that? As progressives, we hate that, and we call out our own, which is, by the way, the majority of the Democratic Party, they're corrupt. So are you ever going to do the same and go, why the hell are they giving all the breaks to the richest people in the country, to the corporations that are screwing you, and making sure you don't get high wages? You should also be incredibly mad and not just big government, but the big business that bought big government.

All right, let's switch gears to a former Democratic congresswoman who is now making her arounds among the right wing media, and that's Tulsi Gabbard. Tulsi Gabbard has weighed in on Kyle Rittenhouse's trial, and while it's very unlikely that he will be convicted of the homicide charges against him due to his defense of using self-defense in the shootings in Kenosha, Wisconsin, what I'm also noticing is that people like Tulsi Gabbiter trying to use his unlikeliness of getting convicted as something to clear his record of any wrongdoing of any type of bad behavior altogether. And so there's the criminal trial, right? And then there's also Kyle Rittenhouse as a person. And he is not on dealing

with charges based on his association with white supremacist or who he is as a person. In this country, you can legally be a white supremacist, unfortunately, right? And so she says this, and I think it's fascinating. Pay close attention to the wording too. With no evidence, with no evidence, mainstream media and Antifa loving politicians, oh come on. Immediately labeled written house a white supremacist terrorist. It's obvious now that he was just a foolish kid who felt he needed to protect people and the community from rioters and arsonists because the government failed to do so. Now I will agree with one thing, it's very clear that both Writtenhouse and members of militia

groups that showed up during the protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, did not believe that law enforcement would be able to handle the job or to do the job appropriately, which is why they showed up armed to carry out vigilante justice. That's why they were there. Okay? Now, to say that there's no evidence that Kyle Rittenhouse is a white supremacist or has ties to white supremacist, I think is a little bit ridiculous. And I want to provide the evidence for that, okay?

So first off, prior to the shooting happening, the shootings happening in Kenosha, Wisconsin last year, he was posting on social media, as most people do. And his posts are relevant, especially when you consider the climate in the country at the time. when you consider the number of police shootings that were taking place that led to the deaths of unarmed African Americans. Now, the public posts on Writtenhouse's Facebook are almost entirely dedicated to honoring police with blue Lives Matter graphics, which of course is a response to Black Lives Matter, photos of officers killed in the line of duty, and the thin blue line flag associated with support

for law enforcement. Now look, why is that relevant? Because when you think about cases like Philando Castile, who had a license to carry and told the cop during a routine traffic stop, hey, I have a licensed gun in the glove compartment, he was shot and killed immediately. No questions asked. Why did that happen? When you see cases like Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old who was playing with a toy gun at a park,

he was shot by a cop and killed within two seconds of the cop showing up. Cops didn't even get out of his car, showed up, boom, 12 year old gone dead. To see those videos of innocent black people getting shot and killed and respond to Black Lives Matter with Blue Lives Matter, it sends a message, but I'm not done yet. Rittenhouse attended a Trump rally in Des Moines sitting in the front row and posting a TikTok video from the January 30th event, BuzzFeed News reported at the time. The video, which has since been deleted, appeared to match C-SPAN footage of written house standing just to the left of the lectern. And look, we know what those Trump rallies

were like, we know what was appealing about Donald Trump among the right-wing electorate, so do with that information what you will. But there's one other thing I want to note in response to Tulsi Gabbard saying, with no evidence, there was security footage obtained from a Mount Pleasant Wisconsin bar. This is after written house had been bailed out of prison. And he was there with proud boy members, proud boys members. And there he is. Here's a screenshot of the security footage showing him making that hand gesture that white supremacists tend to make. The video taken two weeks before. And then there's other stuff which I'll get to in just a second. Let's take that down because I want to give more context before we get to that graphic.

But yes, this graphic of him making that hand just, like we all know what that is. We know the, you know right wingers and white supremacists use it to make a point. And so like to say there's no evidence, I think is ridiculous. Now do I, anyway, you go ahead, Jane. So look, written house, like all the militia members there, went there because they couldn't wait to shoot people. You have no business being vigilantees going and say, oh, well, blue lives matter. I support the cops completely, but they're complete losers. who can't do the job, so I'm going to have to step in and do their job for them because

they're incompetent, right? Wait, which one is it? Oh, you only like cops when they're shooting black people. I get it, I get it, right? And then all of a sudden, they tried to surrender to the cops, they wouldn't even take it. They're like, oh, you're a white killer, right winger? Oh, go on back home, who cares? Free to go.

Anyways, you guys know all that. That's not the interesting part of the story. The interesting part of the story is that Tulsi Gabbard is doing very standard right-wing talking points, right? And propaganda, yeah. Antifa loving politicians? Wait, that's a reference to the most progressive members of Congress. Just a little while ago, she was pretending to be one of the most progressive members of Congress.

She ran, where in the beginning she was saying that she was mainly to the left of Bernie Sanders. And she would often vote with the squad, et cetera. Now all of a sudden, here comes a paycheck and Tulsi Gabbas like, Antifa loving politicians. Can you believe the left and the Democrats, what they're doing with race is atrocious? Well, I mean, look, it's interesting because she's accusing people of smearing written house as a white supremacist. And in that same argument, she's smearing politicians as Antifa loving. So let's get specific, which politicians exactly are Antifa loving and what evidence do you have that they love Antifa or have defended Antifa? And I also, I'm curious, right? Because look,

We've covered a lot of the trial, the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, I've very clearly stated that based on the evidence that we've seen, the self-defense argument seems sound, right? We'll see how the trial plays out, but that's the way it's looking. It is what it is, those are the facts. But I am very curious, if the tables returned and it was a pro-Trump anti-mask rally or protest, and armed members of Antifa showed up, And then there was some sort of tussle where an Antifa member shot and killed a Trump supporter. And you look at video and it's similar to what we saw with the Kyle Rittenhouse video. Would we get similar reactions? No, look, everybody knows the answer. It could be Antifa.

If black militants went into the middle of an anti-vax protest or any right-wing protest, heavily armed. And then one of the anti-vax guys pushed them and then they started killing them, right? the black guys are going to be celebrated as heroes in the right wing for killing right wingers because they were using their Second Amendment rights and they were just doing self-defense. Get out of here, nobody thinks that. You know that. You're all liars. But on top of that, hey, let's take your own so-called principles and logic, right? Carol Kyle Rittenhouse, man, look, if he gets acquitted, that means he was innocent and a wonderful guy

who's been smeared, right? I got notice for you, O.J. Simpson was also acquitted. So if that's your logic, then you all owe OJ a giant apology. It turns out being acquitted means you're a wonderful human being who is innocent of everything. No, it just means in reality that they didn't have evidence beyond a reasonable doubt. It doesn't mean that you did something morally correct. Rukkah-Rittenhouse still went there with terrible intent, with heavily armed, and wound up killing two people that would be alive today if it wasn't for goddamn Rittenhouse.

And I want to just, look, Jank said something that was pretty harsh in this video, right? They couldn't wait to get there with their guns. They couldn't wait to shoot people. 100%. Hold on, hold on. But I want to, if you think that's too harsh, I just want you to consider this. Now, this is information, this is evidence that was considered inadmissible in court during the written house case.

But I think it is relevant to understand some of written house's intentions here. So a video taken two weeks before the Kenosha shooting showed Writtenhouse talking about an AR rifle and wanting to shoot people he allegedly thought were looting a CVS store. Prosecutor said the video shows that he eagerly made assumptions about the intentions of others even though he knew absolutely nothing about what was going on. The video also demonstrates that the defendant feverishly or I'm sorry fervently sought to insert himself as an armed vigilante into C. Situations that had nothing to do with him, court documents allege. Okay, the judge in this case is an absolute joke. So that's not admissible. But wait a minute, if I'm the family members of the people who were killed,

you're telling me, we can't tell the jury deciding that he bragged about how he intended to kill people with his weapon. And then he killed people with his weapon just like he intended. And he's on the record as saying, no. You can't admit that. All right, can we at least call the people who were killed victims? No, you cannot call them victims. You must call them arsonists or looters or rioters. There's no evidence indicating any of them were arsonous, looters, or rioters.

The judge might as well hide Rittenhouse under his robe. Are you okay? Are you okay, my beloved right-wing son? Don't worry, I'll let you kill anybody. Anyway, look, guys, there's it, like Anna said, it's a complicated and nuanced case, and there is a legitimate, I don't know how I would vote on the jury. But I get that there's a legitimate self-defense argument here, especially in regards to the guy who didn't die, who got shot in the arm because he was carrying a weapon and pointing at it. And it appears pointing at Rittenhouse.

But the other guy had a skateboard, another guy who was killed, another guy who was killed had a plastic bag. So, okay, you could say, oh, anybody with a plastic bag should be murdered if they throw it at me. Your right wingers, you probably do believe that. Anything that's a mild threat that's an excuse to murder people you probably love. That's why Rittenhouse is your hero. But let's go to Tulsi, because the next set of lies she's going to tell shows you how pathetic she has become. Pathetic. This is on Tucker Carlson's show.

And look at her blame the racial issues on Democrats, but not her beloved right wingers. All right. Hold on. Before we get to Tucker, because there are two videos I want to get to, listen, we need to get to the first clip where she's talking about whether written house should have been prosecuted in the first place. And then I'm going to explain why, yes, he should have been prosecuted. Let's watch. The prosecutor in this written house trial obviously did not do his due diligence before making the decision to prosecute. This tragedy never would have happened if the government had simply carried out its responsibilities to protect the safety, lives, and property of innocent people.

Okay, so let me remind everyone that Rittenhouse is facing six charges. Okay, one of those charges is possession of an illegal weapon, and that's the gun that he had, the AR-15 that was purchased for him by a friend in Wisconsin. Now he was 17 at the time, he could not legally be in possession of that gun because of his age. He admitted, just recently on the stand, that yes, I was in possession of an illegal gun. I'm paraphrasing, but that was the gist of what he said. He confessed to that. So is Tulsi Gabbard saying that if you're in possession of an illegal weapon, you shouldn't face any prosecution, you shouldn't face any consequences?

The other issue is, look, whether you like it or not, two individuals are gone, they're dead, and their families deserve to know what happened. And to not prosecute and to not investigate and to not figure out what went down that day, I think it's a miscarriage of justice. So if he's cleared of the homicide charges and it looks like that's likely to happen, At least we know that there was a trial, evidence was presented, everyone can look at that evidence, and you know, this is how we carry out justice in the country. To say like he shouldn't have been prosecuted at all is ridiculous. Yeah, well, I have only one comment about that part.

She said if the government had just done their jobs, poor Kyle Rittenhouse wouldn't have to go there and shoot people. What do you mean by the government? Whose job is it to protect the security of people? It's the police. Why don't you say it that way then? Notice how she's using right wing talking points, but actually blaming the cops, but she won't say the cops because then she'll lose her right wing audience and her right wing funding. That's right. And then she went on Tucker Carlson, of course, to make a point about what Democrats do that she has a problem with.

Let's watch. The problem that we have now is leaders who are so willing to manipulate the American people to further their own selfish political interests or money or power or whatever. it is. And we see this very clearly in how everything in our country is being racialized, that this is an intentional strategy to tear us apart based on the color of our skin because they think that there's some political gain to be had from it. And they don't care at all about the destruction that they leave in their wake. And this is what we as voters need to reject and choose leaders who do put the American people in our country first, who share that objective from both political parties.

Yeah, the example you just gave, which is at the center of so much of the rhetoric, is such an obvious dead end. It's, you know, the end point of that is violence and division, everyone can tell. Now, understand that Tulsi Gabbard is on Tucker Carlson's show, the guy who refers to immigrants as filthy, right? The guy who makes race issues,

the centerpiece of his programming, and not in a positive way to better the country, but to literally rip the country apart by racial lines, right? Yeah. And it's just, I mean, look, she knows what she's doing. And really, do we have to explain what's really going on here? I think it's pretty clear. Yeah.

So she said there that the Democrats are racializing the country. She went on to say it again after Tucker went and said that they're the ones. Democrats are the ones sewing division in this. country. Now look, if you want to say, hey, corporate Democrats play identity politics and they use it as cover for actually helping their donors while we're distracted by cultural war issues. That would be true. That we would agree with that, right? But if you pretend like it's just Democrats doing it and the most left Democrats, i.e. progressives, right? But that the Republicans are not doing it. That the guy who show you're on, that Tucker Carlson is not doing it. And it's

It's the left's fault that we're being driven apart and divided on racial issues. That is so beyond absurd. What's their shiny little object right now for the Republican Party? What's their shiny little distraction? Critical race theory. Huh? And then there's Tulsi doing a talking point about how the Democrats are, you know, the problem on the race issue.

If black people and minorities and Muslims would just shut up and know their role that Tucker has told them, they will not. replace us Americans, Tulsi says. Okay, so she's gone. She was gone from the very beginning. No, look, Anna, you called that before anybody else realized it. There's still some, I feel so sad for them. People who think they're on the left who got totally catfished into like, or fish hooked into. No, catfish is good. Oh, catfished. Okay. Or fish hooked. Either one works, but they're like, She does yoga videos. Oh, yeah.

Surfing. Yeah, and total progressive. Totally, yeah. And she's, well, she's not for Medicare for all anymore. And she's, I mean, she's for racializing things where we blame minorities. But she's more left, is she? Is she? Okay, anyways, the jury's in.

Tulsi Gabbard is now officially a right winger. And not because she had any change of heart or she can point the policy differences or anything. No, she's getting paid by rumble. She's trying to be a Fox News contributor. It's the saddest, most pathetic ending to her career, only, you know, equaled by Glenn Greenwald, who's kissing her ass all over social media. He took that clip and said, I don't understand what's anything objectionable about what Tulsi's saying. Oh, Glenn.

Oh, what an embarrassing, humiliating end to your career. You need the rumble money? You need, that's what you needed? pathetic. You can't tell the Tucker calls, your beloved friend Tucker Carlson is driving racial division in this country. You missed that? Look, Dumbledore might have missed it. Dave Ruben doesn't have thought in his mind. You could make a defense for them that they're too stupid to understand. You can't make that defense for Glenn Greenwald. He knows what he's doing. It's the epitome of pathetic and humiliating.

All right, we got to take a break. When we come back, the son of Glenn Yunkin apparently tried to vote illegally in his father's election twice. What happened after that? We got that story in more when we return. All right, back on TYT, Jankan, I'm with you guys. More news. That's what we do. A new poll asks American voters how they feel about public schools teaching about

American history, but specifically America's history of racism, right? Now, there are some positive results in this poll that are unexpected, but there's also some negative parts that I want to get into. This is done by Monmouth University, and here's what they found, that 43% of survey takers that identified as Republicans said that they are against the teaching of historical racism in public schools, as opposed to only 5% of Democrats who said the same thing. Now, where's the positive part? I would have thought that the Republican percentage would have been much higher, certainly above 50%.

But it's only 43%. Wow, what a positive news. So we only have tens of millions of Americans, not quite 100 million Americans who say, I don't even teach racism. Don't teach it. But is it part of our history? I know, I know. Well, we don't want science.

We don't want history. I told you they're going to come after math next. And then eventually they'll get to a point where you're like, don't even teach us how to read. We might learn something. We don't want to learn anything. We just want Tucker Carlson to tell us what's right. And Donald Trump to tell us what's right. It's books.

They're for liberals and progressives. So history, no, don't teach it. How could you possibly teach American history without talking about, slavery and the Civil War and Jim Crow and how racism, unfortunately, was an enormous part of this country, also against Native Americans, also against the Chinese who were banned from this country, also against Latinos, and we can go on and on. They're basically saying it makes me uncomfortable because, and then you have to ask, why does it make you uncomfortable?

It doesn't make me uncomfortable. It's just that their feelings don't care about the facts, you know? Yeah, there you go. It's because they take it personally, because they're still racist. If you're not racist, why would you take it personally? Like if they said, hey, we're gonna tell you about the Kimmer Rouge in Cambodia. Which right winger would jump up and go, no, don't teach the history of what happened in Cambodia.

I mean, who knows? Maybe because they're, you know, mass extermination, I don't know, I don't know. But I'm giving dad to you as an example, seriously, of, well, you wouldn't be bothered by it If you are personally affected by it, you wouldn't say, don't teach the industrial revolution. Why not? That's part of our history, right? You're only saying don't teach it because it makes you uncomfortable because you're racist. So it's 43% of Republicans saying do not teach American history correctly.

Lie to the kids. Just lie to them. And at a best case scenario, omit giant parts of our history to make us feel better. And you know what? They're so well organized and so well funded that it's likely that they'll get exactly what they want, even though it's not the majority of Republican voters. And even though the country isn't just dominated by Republican voters, there are also voters who actually want their kids to be educated in the public school system.

And so, I mean, they're free to take their kids out of the public school system and either put them in private schools or homeschool them. But of course, that's not what they're gonna do. And so looking at Democrats, 94% of Democrats, and 54% of Republicans said that they were in fact in favor of teaching about the history of racism. Well, I wanna make a point about that too, Anna. First of all, Democrats, 5% said also don't teach. I know it's kind of incredible, right?

So let's just note that 5% of Democrats are in the same boat. And then, so those Reagan Democrats or Trump Democrats, are they really Democrats? Anyways, and then, but to be fair, look, what I've been saying on the show is half of Republicans, it's the only correct thing that Hillary Clinton ever said, and she took the most seat for it, half of Republicans are deplorables. So don't teach racism, don't teach history, don't teach science, just teach our insane propaganda, et cetera, et cetera. And if you want me to, you're crying, oh, no, you can't say half of Republicans are racist.

Look at the polls, right? But credit to the other half, 54%. A but more than half said, no, of course we should teach history. So there is a big part of the Republican voters that are redeemable, that you could say to them, hey, guys, if you're looking for who screwed you, don't look down, look up. You can make an economic argument to, and they might listen to it. So there is actually good news in that point. But here's what the problem is, okay?

as we've spoken about before, critical race theory, which is part of a graduate level curriculum, is now being used as a catch-all phrase, right? It's anything having to do with race is now considered critical race theory in public schools. At least that's the way the Republican Party is marketing the issue to its voters. So voters on their side are absolutely convinced that their children are learning a graduate level curriculum in like fourth grade, which is hilarious, but that's what's happening. And unfortunately, when that happens, regular American history, not graduate level theory, is being cut out of curriculum in schools. Like we just did a story yesterday about a principal

in Texas who was accused of sanctioning critical race theory in his high school. And so the board of trustees for that school district voted unanimously not to renew his contract. Guys, doesn't have a job right now as a result. Okay, so they're already- Free speech. Free speech. Cancel culture. Cancelcholcher is a real problem, right? You're Republicans are a joke. You're a giant joke. All right, but I give you that preface to the second half of this Monmouth University poll because here's what they found. When respondents were asked about whether they approved of the teaching of critical race theory, 78% percent. of Republicans disapproved, with only 16% saying they were in favor of the practice.

So whether Republican voters are in favor of teaching U.S. history or not, it's irrelevant when the majority of them are convinced that students aren't just learning U.S. history in grade school. They're learning this shadowy graduate level curriculum called Critical Race Theory, which, by the way, Critical race theory just focuses on systemic racism, like structures in our society that perpetuate racism, right? Which, when you really think, like, why is that a scary thing to teach people, right? So if they had a way of boiling it down to a great school level curriculum, is it really that awful to teach kids about that? Have they really stopped to think about that?

No, they have no idea where critical race theory is. Every time they're asked on camera, they're like, I don't know what it is, but I hate it. That means don't teach racism. So yes, we're being generous in the earlier part of the video. But look, the way that it breaks down is 43% saying, no, I don't want any real history taught because it hurts my feelings. 35% can easily be tricked into thinking, oh, they're being racist against white people. Oh, no, don't teach that evil thing.

They're very easily manipulated, but there's still some hope in that 35%. And then credit to the 16% who maybe disagree with us about taxes. or actual policy, right? But think, no, well, in fact, they're in favor of teaching critical race theory in the high schools, apparently based on that poll, when it's not even being taught. So that's 16% of Republicans, hey, let's have a debate. And now that's 35% we can get to, but they can keep watching the Tucker Carlson propaganda that's brainwashing you with nothing but lies.

Just tune into one other thing, and maybe we can open up your mind to what the actual facts are. all right we got to take a break but when we come back we're going to talk about uh glen yonkin's son attempting to vote illegally twice it's fascinating how voter fraud and all those voter issues don't really matter to republicans once one of their own is engaging in it so we've got that story and more stick around thanks for listening to the full episode of the young turks support our work listen ad free access members only bonus content and more by subscribing to apple podcast at apple.com slash t yt. I'm your host, Shank Huger, and I'll see you soon.