The Young Turks - TYT Extended Clip - April 17th, 2020

Episode Date: April 18, 2020

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And the first thing my dad said when he saw him was, have boy head. And Chris was like, Christian was like, oh, thank you. He thought it was a compliment. And then later on, he thought about it. He's like, I think your dad said I looked like a little boy. And I was like, yep, yeah, he wasn't complimenting you. Okay. Well, for better or for worse, no one has compared me to a little boy in a long, long time. Okay. All right, guys, big show, big show, the big show show show. So we got a lot of stories for you guys, including Biden's cabinet. Who's going to be on Biden's cabinet?

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we covered in detail yesterday. Well, unfortunately, Donald Trump is adding fuel to the fire by encouraging some of the activity that's taking place. And while some of these protesters might have legitimate financial concerns, some of them are risking their lives and the lives of others by going out there and refusing to practice social distancing. So on Twitter, Trump, the same way a child would do, used all caps to tweet the following, liberate Michigan, liberate Minnesota, and then liberate Virginia and save your great second amendment, it is under siege. Now, let me just be clear about what's currently happening with guns in America during this pandemic. There was an analysis done by the New York Times to see if there was

any type of uptick in firearm purchases in response to the pandemic. And Americans bought about two million guns in March, and that's according to this New York Times analysis, a federal data. It was the second busiest month ever for gun sales, trailing only January 2013 just after Barack Obama's reelection and the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. So to say that gun rights are under attack is absolutely ridiculous. Many of these states have kept gun shops open saying that there are essential businesses. But also keep in mind that when it comes to these protests, at least in the case of Michigan, it was funded by a DeVos-backed group. So the Trump administration is very much involved in actually stoking tensions in some of these

states. So yesterday we covered his three-tiered strategy for reopening the country. And we said, hey, you know what? That's actually not that bad a plan. It should be in tiers. It seems more cautious than we've seen. Trump in other regards, it seems like he's taking the health of Americans in the account and listening to the scientists. So we do what we do, which is we call it like it is. And even though

we have a thousand problems with Trump, we thought that was a pretty good plan. So today he comes and undo does all of it by these insane tweets where we mean liberate Michigan. What does that mean? I mean, people went to the capital there with don't tread on me flags, let alone the confederate flags, even some swastikas were spotted. But I have to assume, and I hope to God, that that's a tiny, tiny minority. But even so, clearly very animated right-wingers, by the way, with weapons, went to the capital. And so when he says liberate Michigan, well, it's obviously a reference to the, movement that thinks that those states should reopen quicker.

So then why did you tell us about the three stages and the three tiers and how we're going to take this one step at a time if you're going to turn around the next day and go, screw the three stages, let's right to stay. Okay. I mean, that is at a bare minimum. It is wildly irrational, totally counter to the plan that he announced yesterday, makes it super obvious that he had nothing to do with that plan and doesn't really believe in that plan. He believes in wild screaming on the internet, liberate Minnesota, right? And then now,

of course, the worst part of it is not that he believes in a different plan. That clearly incites violence. So you've got people going with weapons to the state capitals already, and you're telling them, go finish the job, liberate the state. And then when you put in the Second Amendment reference in Virginia, it removes any doubt, any doubt at all. There is no Second Amendment issues. Right now, people, as Anna pointed out, are buying guns at record rates. So why is he referencing guns as he's writing in all caps liberate these states? That is so dangerous. If anyone gets hurt in any of those state capitals, I know that the Democrats have no stomach for any fight, let alone this fight.

But I swear to God, he should be impeached again. We can't have this deranged madman as our president at any time, let alone these times. So I want to hear from Governor Gretchen Whitmer because she has been the target of these protests because she has implemented these stay-at-home orders that the protesters are not fans of. So she talks about what she has experienced and seen in these protests. Take a quick look at that and then we'll discuss. It really was a political protest. It wasn't necessarily about the policy. You know, people said that they would drive by and not get out of their cars and would practice the CDC safe, you know, the guideline.

They congregated at the Capitol without masks, standing close together. I saw an adult passing candy out to kids bare hand to bare hand. These are people that came from all different parts of our state. Congregated did all of the things we know. put people in danger, and then they're going to go back to those rural parts of Michigan and possibly take COVID-19 with them or, you know, pick it up at a gas station as they filled up on the way in or the way out of town. I mean, this is how COVID-19 spreads. And it was definitely a political rally. I've, you know, I've not often seen a Confederate flag to stay capital,

and there were a few of them. There was someone that had sons. I had. have the swastika on it? So I think she's right. I think that there is some portion of these protesters who are not interested in any honest dialogue. They're bad actors. They're showing up to further escalate tensions. I have no love for anyone who shows up in a threatening manner with guns or any type of weapon.

Don't love the Confederate flags, obviously. But the thing that I worry about is there are people in that group. And look, they've been misled for decades about what can be done for them and they think that they need to rely on themselves. And the only way that they can live is if they go out there and work. So some of these people are small business owners. Some of them are struggling to put food on the table for their kids, for their families. And so that's the reason why they want the state to open up, the government to open up, the country

to open up because they don't think they can rely on any type of financial assistance from our federal government. And they're not wrong in thinking that. Think about how incredibly difficult it's been to get those stimulus checks, that one-time stimulus check. And even when it comes to the unemployment that's been fought for by Democrats in Congress, the unemployment systems in all these states are overwhelmed and they're not able to get through. So I just want to make sure that we like differentiate the crazy people who are just trying

to cause problems. And then the people who have legitimate concerns, I don't think that it makes it make sense to put yourself in harm's way to protest these issues. But when you're desperate and you feel like you have nothing else to lose, people do things like this. And we need to think about actual solutions rather than just like trashing all of them as, you know, the same type of protester, because I don't think that's the case. Well, I mean, I love how open-minded you are about it. And in a sense, you're describing the Trump voters from 2016. Half of them were deplorable, and half of them were just economically frustrated.

And their economic frustration was then led in a misdirected into other directions, including racial directions against Latinos, immigrants, Muslims, et cetera. So it's a combination of those things. And you see that here. I mean, the Confederate flag, it's Michigan. It doesn't have much more north than that. And if you don't know, by the way, Virginia actually asked me, Michigan to secede from the Union during the Civil War, and Michigan said something

to the effect of, I'm paraphrasing here, and I read it yesterday, we have no interest in joining a bunch of traitors, and they use the word traitors. And so, and you'll bring a Confederate flag to a protest in Michigan, only if you want to make a racial point. And so, and in this case, okay, let me give you the example of what happened in New Jersey. This is happening unfortunately in nursing homes throughout the country, but they found 17 dead bodies in a morgue at a one particular nursing home. They go to investigate further, turns out coronavirus is ripped through the place, 36 dead

overall, 120 infected. Now, why do I tell you that in the middle of this story? Because they're not kidding, it is incredibly contagious. So it's not a matter of opinion, it's a matter of fact. So when these folks get all riled up thinking, no, they're doing this for some political reason, and they're trying to tread on me. And this is an anti-Trump effort. That's why you see all the pro-Trump protesters there.

And in reality, it's not that contagious. Well, they're 100% wrong. And in fact, a new poll out, ABC News, Ipsis poll shows that the Republicans are on average, more misinformed than Democrats on almost every issue regarding coronavirus. And then that translates into action. So for example, they're 31% less likely to wear masks than Democrats are because they've been told it's no big deal. And that ain't true.

It is a big deal. You will get sick. And I don't want you guys to get sick. And I don't want you to just spread it to others either. Definitely. I mean, look, it really does, unfortunately, depend on where people are getting their news. And so there have been studies looking into the media to see how much of an impact. the cable news channels, for instance, have on someone's perception on the severity of this

virus, if you are a full-time Fox News viewer, you are much less likely to take coronavirus seriously. And so, yeah, it's, and look, we've been through this in different contexts before. I mean, coal workers, for instance, know about Black Lung. They know that it'll kill them. They know about how dangerous that is. Yet, coal workers rally. behind Donald Trump because he said that he was going to protect those jobs. People are willing to put themselves on the line. They're willing to risk their lives just to be able to provide for their families. This situation is dire.

Most Americans were already in a precarious economic situation before this pandemic hit. And this has only compounded the problem, tenfold, more than that. So go ahead. Yeah, last thing on this for me is, look, guys, Donald Trump's followers are not the most rational people in the country, statistically. And so when Trump eggs them on by saying, go liberate a state, and by the way, of course, he only picked swing states with Democratic governors. And so with a very specific political purpose, and if he had said, if he'd use more careful

language, hey, we need to get rid of those Democratic governors and make sure we elect Republicans. And there'd be nothing wrong with that statement. It's a perfectly normal statement. Going in saying, go liberate those states right now when there is no election, and in its context in Fox News had just on a segment on this, that's of course why he went and tweeted these things. In the context of right-wing protesters going there with weapons, that's a call to violence.

And imagine if he's really low in the polls and we're close to the election, or he's lost the election, and remember he doesn't go out of office until January 20th, what is he going to call for in the meanwhile. How much violence is he going to insinuate and how much are his unstable fans going to listen to that? I'm almost surprised there hasn't been violence yet. And, you know, cross your fingers that we make it through the weekend without someone doing something crazy because Trump told him to. He's their cult leader. And they listen to him without question. So he set up a very, very dangerous situation here. All right. Well, let's move on to our next story.

Now that Donald Trump has made a number of massive mistakes in responding to coronavirus, it's important to hear from his political opponents, namely the person who's going to be running against him during the general election, Joe Biden. So Joe Biden recently had an interview on CNN, speaking to Anderson Cooper and Sanjay Gupta. Let's hear what he had to say about Trump's handling of this pandemic. I found testing. It's about testing, tracing, and treatment. And still we're way behind on the testing piece.

And I don't quite understand why we're taking so long to do the kinds of things that have to be done. You know, there's a during World War II, you know, where Roosevelt came up with a thing that, you know, was totally different than a, than the, he called the, you know, the World War II. he had the war production board. I don't know why we don't set up something like a pandemic production board where we open up, you know, things that oversee, you know, surging production to test kits

and lab supplies, coordinating the distribution to states, identifying and testing sites and sufficient, you know, trade personnel to staff these things. Let me just note, Biden did release what the plan should be in responding to COVID.

19. And obviously, it's much better than anything that Trump's done. But clearly, just from watching that video, Biden continues to struggle in communicating, you know, a message that really resonates with voters. So there's two parts of that. There's the plan itself and what it indicates. And then there's Biden's performance, for lack of a better word. So in terms of the plan, I think that Trump's three-tiered plan from yesterday is fine. I think his liberation plan from today is a disaster and shows you exactly what's wrong with Trump and why you couldn't ever not vote, in my opinion, for the credible candidate against Trump.

I mean, your choices is anyone versus the fascist madman who's running around is telling people, liberate Michigan, Liberate Minnesota, bring your guns in Virginia. So, and references the Second Amendment. So that's a no brainer. But I think his three-tier strategy was fine. We talked about it down the show yesterday. Biden is adding on top of that, for God's sake, we got to do testing. And the president is responsible for making sure that we have a good testing system, which

is absolutely critical throughout the country. So- Jake, I gotta jump in, sorry, because the one thing, well, there are a few things, but one of the things that really does differentiate Biden from Trump is that Trump, even with his new plan to slowly reopen the country, does not want to be held responsible. responsible for testing. He thinks that the individual states should be held responsible. They need to deal with it on their own, whereas Biden offers a more, you know, central solution having the federal government step in and do what it's actually supposed to do. Go ahead.

100%. And I think Biden's plan is definitely better. So, and so what does that indicate then? Well, it indicates that Biden has a better team. So these are non-individual. Although with Trump, he almost is his own team because he doesn't take anyone's counsel. And he's He's too stupid to ever listen to anyone who's smarter them, which is just about anybody. Whereas Biden does take counsel. He does have a team around him, and they do come up with good, smart, efficient plans. Now, in a normal world, I have issues with some of their plans. I think they're too pro-corporate.

I can go on and on. But in this context, you want someone who's, you want a team that's smart, efficient, and manages the crisis well. And clearly, Biden is way better than Trump on that. Then you get to the performance part and look, we're all on pins and needles every time Biden talks. And you know it too. I don't care if you're the biggest Biden supporter. You hold your breath like, is he going to be okay?

Oh, that's a big long 10, 15 second stumble in the middle of that answer. Oh, he made it out. Okay. All right. He salvaged it at the end. And, you know, I guess it's okay by the time you look at it in its totality. But we all feel like Dr. Sanjay Gupta in that segment. Well, we're all looking like this.

No, it's painful to watch. And I get it. People get offended when you state the obvious, like this isn't an isolated incident. I mean, how many examples do you need from the last month that show that he really does struggle in communicating? He forgets things. He clearly had notes on his lap that he had to keep looking down on. And that worries me, right?

For all the Democratic voters, I'm not even talking about, you know, the poll. politicians and the so-called establishment, I'm talking about the voters who are gaslighting people on social media and pretending as though these issues don't exist. You know they exist, and you know that it's going to be a problem when Biden's going to be up against Trump on a debate stage. And, you know, we'll see if that even eventually happens. I hope it does under safe, you know, circumstances. But it's a problem that needs to be addressed, talked about, and this gaslighting is what's driving me insane because we all see it with our own two eyes. We hear it with our two ears.

And Jason Johnson's an example. He like went on Twitter and was like, I'm going to unfollow anyone who claims that Joe Biden is experiencing cognitive decline. Okay, see you later. Don't care. But like, really, you're going to pretend like this doesn't exist? It exists. It's a problem.

Yeah. Look, they are going to pretend that, but our job is to be honest. Now, does that mean that you should vote against Biden and in favor Trump? No, Trump's also in mental decline. And his decline started at a much lower point. So at least Biden at some point was an intelligent human being, and it's still arguably intelligent but is in some degree of decline, whereas Trump was a mess to start with and then started declining.

And Trump has fascist, not just tendencies, but he has begun to do the fascism and called for violence in excess in the streets with this liberate talking and a thousand other things that he's done. I mean, calling for people right-wingers to exercise the Second Amendment rights in Virginia. It's not like we didn't already have a massive right-wing protest in Virginia that turned violent, i.e. Charlottesville. So between a guy who's got cognitive decline and another guy who's got cognitive decline and is a fascist and threat and does not believe in our form of government, that's a no-brainer.

And so you say, oh, are you going to go to the guy in mental decline? Yeah, easily, easily, because they're both in mental decline and the other guys way worse. So, but that's the choices we have thanks to the establishment. And every four years, we fight like hell in the primaries. And honestly, we lost. We lost both times. And so we get stuck with what the establishment wants, which is a guy we're all crossing our fingers, can cross the finish line. Let's take a break.

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Chikata Ghanai says Trump is divorced from reality. That's a good joke. I like that. All right. I'm going to borrow that from now on. Nipple Pierce, Jenkins, skinny jeans says liberate Trump from the presidency on YouTube Super Chat. Wingway says, take my stimulus money, keep up to fight.

Thank you, Wingway. We really appreciate it. Thank you for using YouTube super chat. And last ones are on Twitter. Ecclectic Michelinia makes a great point. We don't need a Second Amendment remedy. We need a 25th Amendment remedy. That's 100% right.

And finally, AOC for Presidents, just imagine in Michigan, there were a bunch of black slash brown people with guns at the state capitol. Where are the cops? My God, if Joe Biden said, hey, you know what? I want a bunch of African Americans to, a bunch of black guys to go down and liberate the capital of Texas. And if they're showing up with guns and he's like, great, liberate Texas. People's heads would explode. To be fair, people's heads are exploding over what Trump said. But anyway, all right, Anna, more.

All right. Joe Biden has begun dropping hints about what his cabinet might look like. Now, he hasn't given any hints in regard to specific individuals, but he has said that he's thinking about the transition team along with individuals who'll be part of his cabinet. And he made these statements during a digital fundraiser that was hosted by Jed Katz. He's the managing director of a venture capitalist group known as javelin partners. And so during this digital fundraiser, Biden was quoted as saying one advantage of being around a long time is you get to know an awful lot of people in the private sector, in the public

sector, people who are committed, first and foremost, are thoroughly honorable. And then he makes it clear that he does plan to work with Republicans. I have had literally several hundred serious, serious players who have been held, who have held positions in every department in the federal government, who have said, including some Republicans, who have said, if you win, I want to come back, I'm ready to serve. By the way, this isn't the first time that Biden made clear that he is interested in working with Republicans. In a piece published last December, NBC News reported that Biden, who often touts his history

of working with Republicans, was asked by a woman at a town hall in Exeter, New Hampshire, if he thought that the best way to unite the country would be to pick a Republican vice president, here's his answer. The answer is I would, but I can't think of one now. There is some really decent Republicans that are out there still, but here's the problem right now of the well-known ones. They've got to step up. And as we know, none of them have really stepped up, with the exception of maybe Mitt Romney, who did vote to impeach Donald Trump on one of the impeachment charges. But the vast majority of Republican members of Congress, Republican politicians, they have defended Trump. They've helped to cover up for Trump. And to think of them in

a Democratic administration is just painful to say the least. So you're right, Anna. The only one who, quote unquote, stepped up was Mitt Romney on one of the counts of impeachment. So Biden, after running a whole campaign to defeat Mitt Romney, apparently would consider Mitt Romney for VP. And then people say, hey, there's huge difference in the parties. And in some cases, like the Supreme Court, there are big differences. But in a lot of cases, which the media will never acknowledge, there aren't that much differences.

So it depends on the issue, but on a huge number of issues and mainly economic issues, there's barely any difference at all. And Joe Biden proves that every day. So- Can I just say one more thing about that, though, that- Like, the reason why these Republican politicians haven't spoken up, and I also want to just give like a little, you know, I want to pour one for the homie Justin Amash, because he, I don't know, it seems like he's destroying his political career to have a spine, and he called out Trump, but he has now switched from Republican to independent. But I will say, look, Donald Trump's approval rating among Republican

voters stands at 93%, which is why these Republican lawmakers refuse to speak out against Trump, because they're looking out for their own political careers, right? I don't want any of that spinelessness in the federal government, in, you know, even like local government. These people are not interested in representing the best interests of Americans, of their constituents. All they do is parrot the talking points that benefit their political careers. And I think Americans have had enough of these like selfish, greedy, self-interested politicians. So we're not idealogs. If Republicans want to come in our direction, we're happy to have them.

Criminal Justice Reform was a progressive idea and a lot of Republicans voted for. Great Josh Hawley is a crazy right winger. for Missouri. I disagree with him vehemently on a huge percentage of issues. But he's also a bit of a populist. And from time to time, he's right about the banks, in which case, great. Then I'm happy to agree with him because he's agreeing with us. But when Biden keeps reaching out to establish for Republicans, well, the fact that they're not Trump does not help at all. Okay, yeah, they're not lunatics. That's a very, very low bar. But at the end of the day, the reason that Biden doesn't mind reaching out to corporate Republicans is that, again, on economic

issues, there's barely any difference between corporate Democrats and corporate Republicans. So if you wanted to put a Republican in charge of civil rights in the Biden administration, while that'd be nuts and Biden probably wouldn't agree. He doesn't have a great record on civil rights himself, but that's a category that Democrats do way better than Republicans on. But if you can talk about tax cuts, you're going to talk about economic issues, Biden thinks what's the difference? And he's probably right. And so I put in Amy Klobuchar or I put in Mitt Romney. They're both going to agree, give the rich most of what they want, give corporations

almost everything they want. And so, yeah, and this is what we warned you about. But older Democratic voters watched people on TV and they didn't listen. And they thought, no, no, no, he's going to be a great Democrat. Well, be careful what you wish for. So now if Biden wins, He might put a bunch of Republicans on his cabinet, but honestly, like I said, what difference does it make? Because if he puts corporate Democrats instead, they're all going to agree to the same policies. Democracy. So depressing.

Anyway, all right. Well, let's move on to a feel-good story because they exist. We've got to take the wins where we can get them. So recently we've been talking quite a bit about David Dayan's incredible reporting in the American prospect. And good journalism actually yields incredible results, which is what we've seen with USAA. This is a financial institution that caters or is supposed to cater to our veterans. They provide banking for veterans.

Well, through David Dayan's reporting, we found out that USAA was actually garnishing the stimulus checks that veterans were receiving through direct deposit into their USAA checkings accounts. So according to his reporting, USAA, the veterans serving financial institution took $3,400 in CARES Act payments from the family of a disabled veteran to offset an existing debt denying the family emergency funds during a time of personal economic stress. The spokesperson, spokesman for USAA, responded to David Dayan's request for comment and said a stimulus payment could be reduced when we execute legal garnishment or lien requirements. A reduction can also occur in circumstances when the stimulus payment is deposited into

an account with a negative balance. Now, accounts sometimes or oftentimes these days do have negative balances because people will overdraw and they do it because they're desperate and they start to accumulate overdraft charges. And so in some case, in a lot of cases, if you get your stimulus, stimulus check deposited in one of these accounts that has a negative balance, the money will go toward paying off that negative balance. And so Carrie, the wife of this disabled veteran, told the American prospect, I'm out of work and my husband is injured and can't work.

We don't know where rent is going to come from now. It was going to help my 18-month-old get her meds. I'm at a loss for words they don't care. But luckily, through David DeHan's reporting, USAA ended up. changing course and responded by saying, for members with negative deposit account balances, USAA will pause the collection of a negative account balance existing at the time their stimulus payment was deposited for 90 days. This will allow members to access their full stimulus payment to help cover the costs of rent, food, and other important necessities. Actual journalism is

important. I wish we had more of this. Yeah. So first of all, yes, a lot of times, people do owe money, they do legitimately owe it. And hopefully once we get past this, they'll have enough to repay those loans, et cetera. But you have to understand a lot of times that it's not even the issue. It'll be dead bank accounts and they'll keep charging fines and folks won't even know about it. And so if the stimulus check is sent to that account they're not using anymore, the bank then grabs it and says, oh, well, you had these penalties. I don't care that you didn't know about it.

You should have closed down the account, ha ha, and they'll grab the money. So now, and by the way, when bankers have giant toxic assets, nobody goes to them and goes, oh, personal responsibility and we're garnishing your stuff. No, the Fed just buys it from them at whatever price they set. So there's never any responsibility for the giant banks. So I love this journalism by David Day and wonderful work. Look, we started talking about it before it got results because we were like, this is absolutely right.

It's an absolute outrage. He's done some great reporting here. The big difference between the left-wing critique of the media and the right-wing critique of the media is the right-wing wants to destroy the media and replace it with their own propaganda because they don't like facts. And the same thing they do with professors, scientists, and you name it. Whereas the left-wing actually wants the journalism to be better to actually give us facts. rather than the political propaganda that the mainstream media puts out, which is biased

in favor of so-called centrist, which is really an excuse for corporate media to support a corporate agenda. But we're not against journalism. We love journalism. We'd love to see actual journalism like this one. And when you see it in action, you see it actually affects people's lives and brings you positive change. And then it was leveraged by veterans groups in this case to say, oh, no, no, no, you're not

going to do this to our veterans? And then the USAA got scared because people are going to start to withdraw money from their accounts because of what they're doing, the veterans, etc. Now, that's wonderful and great results. Now let's go do J.P. Morgan Chase. Yeah. You know, J.P. Morgan Chase was one of the only banks that responded to David Dayne as well. And they said that they would work with customers to prevent this type of behavior, like type of action from happening with their bank, but they were a little vague in their response. So I'm really curious to see how J.P. Morgan Chase customers are being treated at this difficult time. But that was the only other bank that said anything. All of these big banks that have taken

giant bailouts have not committed to ensuring that their clients, their customers get this money that they desperately need. So that's where we are. Credit where creditors do, at least J.P. Morgan Chase responded. And so, and if they're actually following through with that, great. And I'd love to give them credit for that. The other banks didn't even respond. They're in worse shape, and they're obviously going to do it. But really, it's not the job of Bank of America to protect us from Bank of America. It's the job of the government. And so the real problem here is Steve Mnuchin, who was a fraudulent banker to begin with. That's how he made his money. That's how he got his reputation. So, of course, he's letting the banks do this.

As Dave Dane originally reported, they were asked who the Federal Reserve was, the Treasury, etc. Are you going to let banks just simply take the $1,200 to garnish people's money without asking them? And basically, their answer was, yes, yes, we are. And that's their fault. It's the Trump administration and all those guys who allow that robbery to happen in the first place? When we come back from the break, a doctor was put in handcuffs as he was loading medical supplies onto a truck. We'll tell you why when we come back.

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Then we have a Republican as president, period. Easy, obvious. Be a Republican. Wait, it gets worse. Nipple Pierce Jenkins Skinny Jeans, writes in. If Biden picked a Republican vice president, the Republicans would impeach Biden so the vice president could take over. Duh.

Oh, God, that's such a devastating point. I mean, it's a great point, but the Republicans would literally do it on day one. And they'd be like, why are you impeaching him? They're like, because the vice president's Republican. Who cares? Let's just impeach him right away. Okay, for, I don't know, Benghazi emails, who cares? Tina makes a great point.

Corporate Dems are woke Republicans. I never thought of it that way, like I never framed it that way. And Tina, that's exactly right. I love our members. I love our members. TYT.com slash join to become a member. And then last two, one is from a YouTube super chat. Psychotic 23 writes in.

This stimulus bill was a way to keep the economy going without the help of the people. The money received was nothing but a hush payment. Bingo. Exactly, like, man, your guys framing on this stuff is so good. It's almost as if you should be part of a show. Oh, you are. Okay. Last one's from Twitter.

Riley Byrne, Kamala Harris is why we have Steve Mnuchin. That is totally true. If you know the history of that, Kamala Harris led him off the hook, which was attorney general in California. And by the way, the establishment wanted one of two people, and we told you this literally over a year ago, a year and a half ago, they wanted either Kamala Harris to be president and if Joe Biden's probably most likely to pick her for VP, and hence she might become president. The second person they wanted was Andrew Cuomo. And so they're either going to replace Biden

with Cuomo, or they're going to pick Harris as his VP, and then either way, this house is going to get exactly what they want. Now, it hasn't happened yet, but as usual, we tell you things ahead of time. So let's see how it turns out. All right, Casper, go. All right. A doctor in Miami was handcuffed right in front of his own home as he was loading medical supplies onto the back of a van. Now, I found out about this story through the reporting over at Democracy. Now, let's take a look at the details of the story. The police department is under fire after a video surfaced of an officer handcuffing and detaining an African-American doctor outside his home on Friday. The man, Armin Anderson, was wearing a

mask and preparing for a volunteer ship, helping protect homeless. people from the spread of COVID-19 when a patrol car pulled up to his home, surveillance video from Dr. Henderson's house shows him loading a van with supplies before the encounter. Dr. Henderson says the police officer handcuffed him after accusing him of littering and then asking for identification, which Henderson did not have on him. The officer was not wearing a mask. Dr. Henderson was, he had to yell to his wife inside their home to present identification before the officer finally released him.

Yeah. I mean, just to add insult to injury, the cop isn't even wearing anything on his face to prevent the spread of the virus if he's infected himself. So the police department is saying it was a legitimate thing to pursue, but they're looking into whether the police officer acted appropriately once he got there. So apparently neighbors had complained about trash, and then he saw things that were in the yard that looked like trash. Okay, I actually think that's a fair beginning to the story.

You know, in some of those articles, if you don't watch the video, they say that Dr. Henderson was wearing a mask, and so that might get you to think like, huh, maybe that's, you know, that drew the suspicion of the police officers. First of all, everybody's wearing masks. But most importantly, as you saw in the video, he's wearing a medical-type mask. So that's the most benign thing you could possibly imagine in the middle of coronavirus. Yeah, so go ahead. Yeah.

And so, but once you get there and the guy says, I'm a doctor, I mean, it's not a catch-all thing. It's not a get out of jail free card. Some people could lie and not be a doctor. But he's in front of his house. It doesn't look like the homeowners, if you believe he's not the homeowner, is bothered by it. I mean, he's laid out all of these things in the yard. There's so many context clues that gets you to think, maybe he owns the house.

Maybe he's lying when he says he's a doctor. Well, I think it's also important to hear from him because he was interviewed. And I want you to pay close attention to what the cop apparently accused him of, because that's important. pulled up next to me, questioning me if I live there, if I worked here, I told them that I lived there, I told him what I was doing, I told them that, you know, where I was putting the boxes was where the city of Miami comes to pick up our trash every week. For example, they're here this week, and people who have in my block are putting trash

in the same place that I put the boxes, you know, on Friday. And he just, at some point, he just didn't believe what I was saying, or he thought that I was being disrespectful and decided to get out of the car and escalate the situation. Once he got out of the car, go ahead. Keep going. Once he got out of the car, you know, he asked me for ID, which I said I didn't have. And, you know, I was trying my best to keep cool during the situation and, you know, remain steadfast on what I was doing.

was to be, you know, at downtown Miami delivering food and tents to homeless individuals that live downtown. And so I pretty much went ahead and continued to do what I was going to do because I didn't know where this, you know, this encounter was going. And then he just decided to put cuffs on me, basically. Once he put cuffs on me, I called for my wife. She came out and pretty much de-escalated the situation. But even before she came, he was like inches from my face.

basically yelling that I should call him sergeant, I should call him sir, and with no mask on, he had no gloves on, I could feel a saliva on my lips. It was just a crazy encounter. He was accused of disrespecting the police officer. How many times have I said it on the show, Anna, biggest crime in America is disrespecting a police officer. It's not in any legal book, it's not an actual crime, but that's the number one reason that the cops will harass you, arrest you, handcuff you, you name it. Why is he, he's the cop said, you're not respecting me. And, and that's why he put the cuffs on him. That's not a crime. Well, hey, you don't put handcuffs on someone because they didn't call you sir or sergeant.

And the reality is, he thinks, who is this black guy to not call me, sir? You think that if he was in Beverly Hills, and a white guy told him, hey, I'm a doctor. He'd go and handcuff him and say, how dare you not call me, sir? No one in America believes that. You all know you wouldn't do that to somebody in Beverly Hills. And so, look, this is what black folks have to deal with every day in America. So that guy's a doctor. He still has to deal with it. He still gets handcuffed. A story that Jamal Bowman wrote really shook me. He's running for Congress in New York. You should check him out. He's a wonderful progressive and a just Democrat.

He set up a middle school. He's the principal of. He's done amazing work. He's a respected educator in New York. And he said, yeah, during stop and frisk, I'd get pulled over, arrested for no reason, handcuffed, sent to jail, sent to sit on the floor with urine all over the floor. He's the principal of a school, but he's black. And so if you haven't lived through these indignities, please at least have the decent. to empathize.

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