The Young Turks - TYT Extended Clip - April 27th, 2020

Episode Date: April 28, 2020

Fox News isn’t right-wing enough for Trump. John Iadarola and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to The Young Turks, the online news show. Make sure to follow and rate our show with not one, not two, not three, not four, but five stars. You're awesome. Thank you. All right, welcome to the young church. You're John Iroo. Look at this twist. How you doing, John? It's been a while.

It's been a while. It has. Yeah. You know, since I guess I'm like an emotional lib, I'll say, I kind of missed you, brother. I've missed you. And the whole thing that we all do, it feels like a year ago, at least. I know, I know. My run for Congress feels like it was two years ago. It was six weeks ago. It was six weeks ago. That's the most unbelievable thing you've ever heard, right?

Yeah, I feel like this quarantine has stretched for most of my life. Like, isn't it crazy to think that, like, the whole Iran thing was this year. It was a couple months ago. It feels like forever ago. Oh, yeah, we killed General Soleimani in 2009, right? Yeah. So crazy. It is.

All right, it's Trump era, let alone coronavirus. Time both speeds up and slows down at the same time. So we're all learning more about quantum physics. All right. So John and I, of course, have a huge show ahead for you guys, and I'll do the usual here. One is checking on the thermometer, except we're not going to go to the thermometer. So we're doing the fundraising, and I was hit this morning with a lot of complicated math. Here's what I'm boiling it down to.

It would be fantastic to get the last 20,000 before April is up, and April is up. on Thursday. So I don't know that that's doable, but we're going to give it a try, because every one of these dollars makes a big, big difference on keeping Young Turks sustainable and having us press on. So t-y-t.com slash go. We can get 20,000 from now till basically the end of the week. That would be amazing. Thank you guys to everyone who's participating. I did a donor wall here. I think that video is already available to members only, and we'll put portions of it during the breaks because I love my new donor wall

here in my so-called studio. All right, anyway, so, and then shirts, there's a good question as to whether there's a discount today or not, whether these shirts are going to run out. This one's the best-selling one. Let me show you what it is. It's very simple.

It's just this. If you can read this, you're practicing social distancing. Shop t-y-t.com. I've got one as well, Jank. or in T-Y-Tined. Oh, I got that too. Not bad. It's not bad.

Yeah, me and the kids, actually just pro in this case. We spent some part of the weekend really just like putting my shirts in priority orders. So that's a fun conversation. Maybe we'll have it in the post game. TYT.com slash join to get more personal stories as well as extra stories before anyone else does. And speaking of membership, last thing, old school tomorrow night.

It's going to be me, Ben, and Vic, the mad ranter. What? Yes, the Bedetto that was yelling, screaming, spitting, and making a lot of sense in his rant out of New York in his car that a lot of you saw. He's going to be out old school. Sounds like you. I know, right? And that separates him for me, how? Anyways, all right, big, big show ahead for you guys, John, take it away.

Okay, let's start off with what passes for fun these days. Donald Trump spent most of the weekends stewing in impotent rage. And while he had mean things to say to many of his most common targets, he seemed most angry at one of his closest allies, Fox News. And we think we might know one reason why. But before we tell you that, let's show you what he had to say about Fox. He tweeted Fox News just doesn't get what's happening. They were being fed Democrat talking points, and they play them without hesitation or research.

He's a big one for research, Donald Trump. They forgot that fake news, CNN, and MSDNC wouldn't let Fox News participate even a little bit in the poor ratings Democrat debates. No respect for the people running Fox News. Fox keeps on plugging to try and become politically correct. The people, yeah, that's what they're doing. The people who are watching Fox News in record numbers, thank you, President Trump, are angry. They want an alternative now. So do I. So, uh, he managed to thank himself in there

for how well Fox is doing, even though Fox is awful in all the ways that would lead Trump fans to not like them, but apparently they still like it. It's a little bit confused. Um, but Jank, this is something that he commonly returns to. If, if he sees one thing he doesn't like on Fox, he starts threatening to bolt and take his cult with him. Yeah. So we're going to get to what might have triggered him here. And I always love all the projection that the right wing does. It never gets tired. Oh, yeah, you liberals love to get triggered.

You have a president who gets triggered at the drop of a hat at everything, right? There was one segment or one, in this case, one potential commercial on Fox News that he didn't like. Oh, I'm triggered. I'm triggered. And they talk about, oh, he lives rent free inside your head. Are you kidding me? He lives rent free inside his own head. So everything bothers him.

Fox commercials bother him, every program bothers him, everything on TV. If he doesn't get enough credit for ratings, it bothers him. No one has more emotional and mental baggage than Donald Trump. It's not just that tire he's carrying around his waist. It's also baggage up in his head, okay? And so, and look, half of it winds up being. helpful to them in terms of these wild attacks against the allies, because it scares the bejesus out of the allies.

And conservatives love alpha males, but that means that most of them are cucks, right? And so they love being cucked. And so they will immediately bow their head to an authoritarian figure. So that's why it works so well for Trump half the time. But it has a limit. And once you've reached the limit, and I'm not saying we're at the limit now, certainly with Fox News. But then at that point, you lose your allies, and then after you hear Ettu Brutei, a thousand knives follow. And so once he gets to that point, if he ever goes down,

and it's by his own guys like Fox News and Republicans, he won't have one knife in his back. He'll have a thousand because he has incinerated not just his opponents, but oftentimes his allies, and I don't know if he knows this. Fox News is more important to making Trump than Trump is. The media is everything. So if Fox News was to actually turn on him, rather than like criticism one to two percent of the time, he'd be toast. Yeah. I think the most likely outcome is he forgets that he's mad at Fox and they go back to loving each other. And that remains until he's out of politics. But if he, if they are going to eventually turn on him, he would have to do something like truly extreme, something truly indefensible, like allow his

lack of concern for the welfare of the American people and his lack of interest or understanding in science to result in 55,000 plus Americans dying far more than any other country around the world. Due to a disease, he doesn't understand and won't protect us against. Something that extreme would have to happen. So we'll see. No, John, you'd have to add on top of that that he would tell people to take household disinfectants and maybe consume them to cure a virus in a way that would kill a lot of his followers if they actually listen to him. I mean, at that point, Fox News would have less people that are watching them because the president actually accidentally killed off a lot of their base.

Then maybe they'd turn on him. But I mean, those outlandish scenarios obviously won't happen. Well, and in that case, he would mostly be finishing off the base, those who hadn't already been exposed to and contracted coronavirus because they regretted. decided to listen to the advice of Sean Hannity, Laura Ingram, and Tucker Carlson when it came to social distancing. I assume that's the full metaphor. But anyway, we believe that, as you alluded to, that we have some understanding of why he might have been so triggered by something he watched Fox News. So take a look at this ad. This is a Republicans for the Rule of Law ad that he had

an issue with. So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light, and I think you said that has image checked, but you're going to test it. And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do, either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you're going to test that too. Sounds interesting. Right. And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning? You can apply light and heat to cure.

I'm not a doctor. But I'm like a person that has a good, you know what. Yeah, but you know, all they did, all they did was quote them. That's all they did. And the damage is done because the damage is inside the building. It's Trump himself. That's why briefly they decided, well, let's not have these anymore because the more people hear from Donald Trump, the less they like them.

And the more they're beginning to realize the same thing we all realize inside the White House, which is the guy's a total jackass. So, you know, but that's an ad from Republicans that have, that are never Trumpers. And it's very effective and it's harsh, but all it does is tell you the number of people who died and what Donald Trump has said. Thereby showing you what we always tell you about how ineffective Democrats are are definitely true. Democrats can't make ads. They can't make attack ads.

I mean, they could sick the mainstream media on progressives and destroy. them, you know, through their friends in the media. But when it comes to Republicans, they couldn't make an ad of their life dependent on it. So we need never Trump Republicans to get under Trump's skin. And boom, look at how easy it is to get under his skin. Yeah, just quote him and then show the very reasonable, understandable response of a person who has to listen to the insane ramblings that he subjects her to. And all of America was Dr. Berks there. Only in that moment. She's awful 99% of the time outside of that. But I totally got where she was coming from in that reaction. Yeah. Just to be clear, she's not awful 99% of the time. She's probably

awful 35% of the time under Trump, which feels like 350%. Sure. But she does do good medical work while she's not covering up for Donald Trump and misstating things to appease his ego. Yes. Yes. So anyway. I hope the fight between Trump and Fox News gets more heated. I hope they part ways. I hope Fox News remembers the second word in their title, News. But the reality is none of that will happen. This is Trump just thrashing about wildly, because that's what children do.

And he will change his mind seven times today, let alone the next day. And so it's not a real thing. And Fox News will not go beyond criticizing Donald Trump 5%. Yeah. And just one last note, just for funzies, because, Jank, you're married and I'm married. Yesterday was Melania Trump's 50th birthday. It's important birthday. And he spent the day either not with her tweeting and retweeting dozens and dozens of increasingly

insane things, or with her tweeting and retweeting dozens and dozens of increasingly insane things, imagine if you spent your wife's birthday in the way that Donald Trump did. How would your domestic situation be going right now? Well, it might go with us swatting away each other's hands in public where cameras can see it. Oh, right, that's already happened too. Well, look, here's the game that Melania Trump and Donald Trump appear to be playing inside the White House, which is social distancing within the building. I'm pretty sure I have sources that tell me that Melania Trump has already bought this shirt. It says if told Trump, if you can read this, you're not practicing social distancing. It says shoptyt.com. I'm not saying that I know Melania Trump

bought it there because of the records that we have. In fact, I'm saying the opposite. But still, see my. Not sure he could read it anyway. Anyway, do we want to take our break? Is that one page? Because if it's one page, I can't read it. Too much. Give me some bullet points. You want to go to the first break? Sure. Okay. We'll be back up to this. We need to talk about a relatively new show called Un-F-The Republic or UNFTR. As a Young Turks fan, you already know that the government, the media, and corporations are constantly peddling lies that serve the interests of the rich and powerful. But now there's a podcast dedicated to unraveling those lies, debunking the conventional

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Look, I think it's a dubious strategy of collecting delegates anyway. I think you're either in the race or not. Maybe we can talk about it more in the post game. But yes, they did do that. Brent Parker on Twitter says Vic DiBidetto, I couldn't ask for a more appropriate guest in this moment on old school is super funny, justifiably angry, average show. I need more of that energy in my life right now. Well, you're going to get it right after the main show tomorrow on old school.

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Yeah. All right, John, take it away. Okay, let's move on. It appears that new marching orders have gone out to the Republican Party, and it's pretty simple. The strategy will be attack China. And eventually, there might be some sort of subtle forms of it, but the early attempts have been a bit stumbling.

Here is Tom Cotton giving it his best try. It scandal to me that we have trained so many of the Chinese Communist Party's brightest minds to go back to China to compete for our jobs, to take our business, and ultimately to steal our property and design weapons and other devices that can be used against the American people. So I think we need to take a very hard look at the visas that we give to Chinese nationals to come to the United States to study, especially at the postgraduate level in advanced scientific and technological fields. You know, if Chinese These students want to come here and study Shakespeare in the Federalist Papers, that's what

they need to learn from America. They don't need to learn quantum computing and artificial intelligence from America. Okay, so we're going to have the details about the marching orders for just a second. But I just wanted to give us a chance to respond specifically to what Tom Cotton said. There was a lot that was stupid there, but I do want to give him credit for pointing out that if you want to learn about Shakespeare, where better to go than a country he wasn't born in, never lived in and didn't die in, like America. The country didn't even exist back then.

No. But chance of Tom Cotton knowing that. Well, let's put it this way. A Chinese student is more likely to know that than Tom Cotton. Okay. So look, we're about to tell you the validly racist strategy that the Republicans have adopted one more time that Tom Cotton is the first to road test along with a couple of other Republicans in the country.

Specifically about Cotton's comments, this is the kind of ignorance that the right wing loves. And they see the polling apparently is working well for them on this. So they're like, oh, I got it. What if we bottle up the whole world and we bottle up information and we make it seem like, you know, the Chinese are particularly odious. And when they come to our universities to learn like anyone else, they're doing it in some nefarious plot to steal our information by attending college. No, you're just trying to rile people up against Chinese in general.

And this whole reference to the Chinese Communist Party, which is what they're supposed to say according to the talking points that they got, just super silly. How about the North Korean Communist Party whose leader that Donald Trump fell in love with? How about that? So it's all fake. part of it is fake. Now let's explain some of the racism, too. Actually, a weird connection there is that the North Korean leader actually wrote most of the plays commonly attributed to Shakespeare. So there is a connection there.

But anyway, here's basically what we know about the strategy. So it stresses three main lines of assault, that China caused the virus by covering it up, that Democrats are soft on China, and that Republicans will, quote, push for sanctions on China for its role in spreading this pandemic. And it says specifically, according to this memo, don't defend Trump other than the China travel ban, attack China. Which is, it's always interesting when you say explicitly, like, hey, our president indefensible, don't waste your time, don't defend him, except on this one thing, instead just attack. And I've actually seen a bit more of it happening today, which we'll get to, but let's also briefly mention that while this appears to be sort of an organized strategy

on the Republican side that has been rapidly disseminating multiple different politicians is doing this in one day, it's not like you can't find this on the other side, too. I mean, Joe Biden had that ad that was sort of implying that Trump hadn't been sufficiently harsh on China. So this sort of xenophobia or trying to make a convenient target to sort of distract people, that's not just going to be Tom Cotton and Donald Trump. Yeah, we've got other examples of a second. But look, the Republican Party ran on what's called the Southern Strategy for decades.

That is, after Lyndon Johnson got the Democrats the past, Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act, the Republicans sensed an opportunity, an opportunity to get racist votes in the South. This is literal, the head of the Republican Party, two different heads of it at two different times, has apologized for running this avowedly racist strategy for decades. So they jumped in and said, oh, these Democrats are the ones trying to give black people rights and freedoms. We're against that.

So hey, racist, come vote for us. That's why they captured the South. Now, it which used to be Dixiecrats, we used to be Democrats, now the Republicans. Republicans took on the mantle of racism. And then they've done it to target other groups at different times, 2004 election. They did anti-gay ballot measures all across the country to rile up hatred against gay people so that people would go out and vote for George W. Bush's reelection, which sorely needed the help because of the disaster of his first term.

So here they go back to the well. Now we're not doing it to black people, except our general stance against them in every policy we have. And we're not running a particular political strategy against gay people in this election. We've got a new boogeyman, the Chinese, okay? Chinese, Chinese, Chinese, they're the problem. Later in the memo, they explained, wow, look, you'll be charged with racism. You know why? They say that? Because they know it's a racist policy. That's why. John, have I ever sent you a memo saying, hey, we're going to do this story that is against this particular ethnic group. And afterwards, we'll be charged with racism.

So it shows your fake talking points on how to combat that. Not the Chinese specifically. Because a few instances, no, you've never sent me a talking point. Ever. And so it's obvious they know it's racist. They put out a couple of talking points you're supposed to say about their obviously racist strategy. Which is, no, no, no, we're saying the Chinese, and obviously you'll attack Chinese and other Asian people in America, but we'll say we meant the Chinese Communist Party, of course,

the no good Chinese Communist Party, which, by the way, just gave more trademarks to Ivanka Trump, which we really appreciate, and that's why we made some deals with them on the side. But otherwise, we're so against. Exactly, yeah. And let's also bear in mind that this seems to be sort of advice going out to politicians now. And we can expect that as soon as they roll it out, you're going to have hosts on Fox that are going to be doubling down on it. But you can never really say exactly who started it, if it's the chicken or the egg, because it's been weeks and weeks now of Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson pushing, you know, calling it the China flu and stuff like that and saying explicitly that we're not making it enough about the Chinese. So they've been doing that for some time. And I don't have exact quotes, but I've been trying to follow along as we've been doing this. Trump is doing his press conference right now.

And he apparently floated in some way, some sort of sanctions or reparations that we want to get from China for their role in this. I don't know the details on this, but that would certainly be a new direction to go in. Okay, two things about that. Number one, they're like, okay, we're gonna do sanctions on China. You've been doing sanctions all along. It's not because of the pandemic, it's because Trump believes in sanctions. And coronavirus wasn't around three years ago when you started the sanctions.

But again, facts don't matter because they're Republicans. And if you don't know that by now, you're lying or you're pretending, you know that. You know the Republican Party is not attached to facts. Anyone who thinks otherwise is an absolute fool, right? And then in terms of saying, well, China caused the, like, don't get me wrong, do I think the Chinese government, do I trust their numbers? No. Do I think that they hit a lot about the coronavirus? Absolutely. Is there a smart way to push back against that? Yes. Is it to run your political strategy to defeat Joe Biden and the Democrats? Wait a minute, that has nothing to

do with our foreign policy with China. Exactly. Okay. And then in terms of that pushback against China, if it was really about that, you would change some policy, but you already have the sanctions. All you're doing is, this is a 57-page memo saying, not our policy, our political strategy is to blame it on China. But if we're doing that, guys, we now have the most cases of coronavirus in the world by a lot. We have over a million cases. We cross that today.

And we have 56,000 that are dead already, triple the second closest country. So the rest of the world can say, oh, under your logic, the whole world is sanctioning America because America is spreading coronavirus worse than any country on the planet. And that's a fact. Yes. So this isn't about any of that. This is just about how do I get racist Republicans to get animated enough to vote for me on election day?

And you can expect two weeks ago, Lou Dobbs was already saying military action will be necessary against China. If Trump is coming out with like harsh talk against them, that's all he's going to be broadcasting for the next six months. Lou Dobbs, business news host will be calling for war against the Chinese. Well, no, he already did. We did. No, I know. I'm going to say, I'm saying that will be like, he sort of raises a possibility, obviously wants it. That's all he's going to be doing soon. And by the way, I just want to, I want to read you one other thing that Trump said, we're not gonna do a lot on the press conference. But when I saw this, I thought I gotta read it.

So this is according to Daniel Dale, who live tweets a lot of these press conferences, he says, told that states have reported an increase in people taking disinfectants since his comments last week, Trump says, quote, I can't imagine why, I can't imagine why, asked if he takes any responsibility, he says, quote, no, I don't. To which I say, of course. Thank you again to the reporters. What does that have been responsible for? A few weeks ago, the reporters who were saying, you know, this is a new Trump, this is a somber

Trump, it really seems to have sunk in, he really seems to understand this. He's not taking responsibility for telling people to inject themselves with disinfectants. So that's how far he's come, the new presidential Trump. Yeah, please. All right, and real quick, John, who are some of the other Republicans who now have started saying the Chinese talking points since they all got a memo? Yeah, so we do have the, Brett, if you get this ready, we have the attorney. Attorney General of Mississippi, who is threatening a lawsuit against China.

Let's take a look at that. My role is the Attorney General is to protect all Mississippians, their health, the security, and their prosperity. So by bringing this suit, it allows Mississippians to seek justice and hold China accountable. Because if you look at what they've done, this has been a very malicious, it's been a very dangerous cover up. Attorney General, I would never count out or mess with Mississippi. but what are the prospects of this lawsuit against one of the largest countries on the planet

who's going to want to just swat it aside? Doesn't even take responsibility on the international stage. Well, that's true. I mean, it's certainly a tough lawsuit. However, it's the right thing to do. We must hold them accountable. They have caused us not to be prepared, and this has damages us on so many levels, loss of life, economic damages. And so it's a tough one, but we're going to win because we're going to hold them accountable. You know, John, that's just a wild coincidence that Republican officials of Mississippi and Republican senators and the president all happen to be saying the same talking points after they all received a memo with those same exact talking points.

What a wild coincidence. I'm sure that she's really looking out for the taxpayers of Mississippi looking to win that lawsuit, which has zero percent chance of succeeding. But it does have a good chance of getting people riled up against Asians in this country. And it has like a 1% chance of ever being filed or even talked about again. That's probably the last you'll hear of it. And man, if Pete Heggseth, if he gets incensed by people not taking responsibility, he's going to love Trump's comments about the disinfectants and how he has nothing to do with that.

Yeah. And they're like, she, and her main basis for the lawsuit was, well, they prevented us from getting prepared. Well, under that basis, you should definitely sue Donald Trump. He prevented us from being prepared literally more than any person on the planet. He was the commander chief, refused to get more tests. Ask protective equipment and ventilators and waited for two months before taking any action. He's a thousand times more responsible than the Chinese, but you losers in the Republican Party

can't ever take personal responsibility. So instead, you choose to deflect through racism, as usual. Yeah. Okay, why don't we switch things up? Move on to another topic. So we've known for some time that people's stimulus checks were going to be delayed because not Donald Trump, he doesn't have anything to do it, but somebody wanted to put his signature on it, delaying them from being sent out. Well, you might have known at the time that if you had direct deposit, obviously you're not going to have a physical check. And so you can't get a signature, right? No, wrong. He's got something for that too. Let's bring up this first graphic. You're going to see a letter that has been going out to tons of Americans. We had multiple people at T.

T.T. Posting this at our company Slack earlier today. So even if you didn't get the physical check, you did get a physical letter. And as you might have noticed at the bottom, that screen grab from a Richter scale, that's Donald Trump's signature, which means that the guy that had nothing to do with it when reporters asked, he didn't have it, it wasn't his idea, he didn't want to delay it. He did find time to write wholly unnecessary, but expensive letters to send out to literally millions or tens of millions of Americans. And he did find the taxpayer money to send that out with. So you and I just paid for that letter.

That's really a campaign letter for Donald Trump. Reminding people that he's president. We kind of knew that already. And I'm pretty, I wonder if he's also going to be sending out a letter about his incompetence over the last three months and how he didn't order any tests or protective equipment. I wonder if that letter's coming next because he was also president during that action. But, but perhaps not.

And by the way, I hope he didn't use the post office for this because I know he's very against the post office. Yeah. I wouldn't want to send any. I mean, the letters will never get here, right, according to Trump? We were going to help the post office, but we spent all the money on my letters. So look, so he wants credit for this. Obviously, he denied knowledge of it, but that was obviously BS.

It was definitely his idea. He's been pushing it through everywhere that he can, even if it means that the checks are delayed. And for many people, they have been very, very much delayed. People who desperately need that help have needed it for some time. And definitely with rent coming up in the next few days, we'll need it again. So now the response, which comes in at least two very different forms. So the first from the Democrats, we have Chuck Schumer, who he's got a piece of legislation to try to stop what we just showed you. So the no PR Act puts an end of the president's exploitation of taxpayer money. There's a quote from Senator Chuck Schumer for promotional material

that only benefits his reelection campaign, delaying the release of stimulus checks so his signature could be added is a waste of time and money. Now, I know that many people greeted the announcement of this bill as a waste of time and money. I, look, if this is going to be your only response, I find that to be incredibly frustrating because we've been advocating as hard as we can for far more effort to be put into actually helping out the people who are suffering most during this pandemic. If it's one and done, if they can quickly pass it, which they definitely can't, that it'd be perfectly fine to stop Trump from, you know, spreading his propaganda at our expense, I think.

Yeah. So, when you put a specific title on a bill like that, it is for marketing purposes. So if it's a title that just runs on and is not an acronym of any sort, that's a normal title, and I don't have any problem with people putting on specific titles for marketing purposes. Like Bernie Sanders, for example, with Roe O'Connor had an acronym that spelled out something like Stop Bezos Act to get higher wages for Amazon workers. And it totally worked. Nothing wrong with it. But you can't claim that it's the no PR act when you're doing PR in the title. Yeah. It's not the no irony act, Jank. So. Why just survive back to school

when you can thrive by creating a space that does it all for you, no matter the size. Whether you're taking over your parents' basement or moving to campus, IKEA has hundreds of design ideas and affordable options to complement any budget. After all, you're in your small space era. It's time to own it. Shop now at IKEA.ca. So that's what Chuck Schumer's doing today. Others in the Democratic Party are worried a little bit less with the annoying propaganda being added to the stimulus checks, and more with the fact that those checks weren't enough by themselves. And it's been literally weak since that legislation was passed. And there doesn't really seem to be anything following it up to help out the people who were justifiably

in a horrible economic situation, because so many millions of Americans have lost their jobs during this issue. Well, now we've got another rent day coming up, and there's been no additional aid going out. Doesn't seem possible that it could by the time so many Americans have to pay their rent. And so they are advocating for a substantive response, substantive solutions to these people's problems. And we have several examples of that. The first is from Representative AOC, who tweeted, I want everyone to know that the White House, Mnuchin, McConnell, and Congress know that there is a housing crisis looming due to inaction on rent and mortgage relief. If we don't act ASAP, millions could face foreclosure and eviction. Dems have plans to stop it. It's being

blocked. Okay. I don't really believe Democratic leadership. I believe AOC and the progressives, and I think that they are, the reason she's making that public statement is not to put pressure on the Republicans, it's to put pressure on Democratic leadership. Because it's one thing to have a plan. It's another thing to fight for it. I believe that when I see it. But we've got more from progressives. Exactly. And so, you know, it's not just politicians that are trying to rally people to respond to the crushing economic burden that continuing to pay rent when you've lost all of your savings and you don't have a job.

So we have an organization working in New York, at least 400 families who live in buildings, each containing over 1,500 rent units are coordinating building-wide rent strikes, according to the campaign coordinator for housing justice for all, a New York-based coalition of tenants and housing activists. Additionally, over 5,000 people have committed through an online pledge to refuse to pay rent in May, as of this morning, at the very least. And so these people are organizing to say that they are not going to pay their rent. And you have some politicians who are trying to help them out. For instance, Representative Ilhan Omar, she unveiled her rent and mortgage cancellation act,

a bill to institute a nationwide cancellation of rents and home mortgage payments through the duration of the coronavirus pandemic. I actually think the best plan was the one that a comment came up with, Vic D. Bedetto. So he is a comedian in New York. He did an angry rant. Do we have that guys? No, okay. It's okay. You can see Vic on Old School tomorrow. Okay, so make sure you're watching that. The first part of it will be right here on YouTube.com slash T.Y.T. May show now starts at 5.30 with interviews, and then 6 o'clock Eastern is the Young Turks. And on Tuesdays, right after the May show, you got old school, and Vic's going to be on with us. He did an interview earlier today, and tomorrow it's all school. But no kidding around, his idea in the middle of

this raging rant that he did that went absolutely viral and got tens of millions of views was his idea that, hey, why don't, instead of canceling, instead of doing nothing or canceling the rent or mortgage, why don't you just, if you have a mortgage, for example, the banks could take the three months that you owe during coronavirus, right now the current plan is, in the fourth month, you have to pay all four months. But as Vic was pointing out angrily but correctly, people don't have that money. That's why they didn't pay the first three months. It's not like magically they're going to have four months of rent when it comes due. No, take those three months of mortgage, for example, and put it at the end of your mortgage so that you still pay it, you

extend it, but you don't have to pay it right now. Well, the banks don't want to do that, they lose a little bit of money. Not their principal, not the money overall, but they lose interest and they lose other things. So, I mean, the banks won't take one cent off your bill, right? So what you need is legislators to fight forcefully for that idea, which is now what progressives are doing, and Omar is going even further than that. But the real question is, is democratic leadership going to stick up for the average American. And John, they said, oh, yeah, we did a little bit in a $1,200 check. Democrats fought for that.

But the lion's share of that basically $6 trillion stimulus bill went to giant corporations. And then they did some for small business, which is great. And actual Americans come dead last. And they said that's going to be the fourth stimulus bill. They've done three so far. Now, you want to bet to see if the Democrats can fight and win against the Republicans on helping the average American? I've bet any money I have that they fail, and it's because they don't, they're not going to

fight that hard. I got a bit of a preview earlier today. I saw a clip of Nancy Pelosi being asked about, you know, some sort of ongoing UBI. And she seemed terrified to talk about it. Like she said, well, is that, you know, is that something that maybe we should Well, you know, yeah, a lot of people talking about maybe at some point, maybe something I don't know exactly what form, but no, maybe at some point, something like that, that might be something that we should talk.

Get her, get her off the air, put on AOC, put on Rashid Talib, put on Hadd Presley, put on Ilhan Omar. All of them are far better advocates for both the values and the policies that should underlie and represent the democratic response to coronavirus and the economic collapse that is precipitated. And we don't have that. We have effectively people that are just bodies. wasting time and space and giving Donald Trump and the Republicans all the time they need to formulate some sort of way to distract people from their own failings of the last few months.

When a corporate Democrat says, we'll begin to consider that. That means there's no way we're gonna do it. We might come back to it 30 years from now, okay? So John, the reason they don't put on AOC or Elon Omar, they wind up getting on air by themselves just fine. But they don't put them on air to represent the Democratic Party is because they do not. I know. They represent progressives.

And we are diametrically opposed to the corporate leadership of the Democratic Party who do not want UBI, who do not want any of those things that they're pretending to want. And they will soon say, oh, these Republicans, they're so bad. By the way, send me money, send me money, give it to my corporate Democrats. We've got to beat the Republicans, but golly G, there was nothing we could do. So write it down in stone. It's what happens every single time. It's not an accident.

That's part of the game that's played in Washington. Why don't we take our second break? All right, when we come back, more updates on the Tara Reid story, a couple more folks corroborating that story, even more so than on Friday. I talked to Dave Weigel, if you saw the interviews before the show, will anyone in Washington care? That's a really good question. Let's give you all of that when we return.

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Megan, the member section, says Tom Cotton looks like a human coat rack. LMG-15 says even Tom Cotton's name sounds racist. That's a funny comment. It doesn't mean anything, but it's funny. It doesn't mean anything. That's funny. Okay. Herkley's writes in,

it sounds like the Republicans want to bring back the hateful and racist Chinese Exclusion Act, which banned immigration from China between 1882 and 1943. That's true. That's a fun trivia fact slash a disastrous trivia fact. Only nationality ever banned completely from America. was Chinese. And so there's been a lot of racism in American history.

So it's hard to take the cake on that. But in terms of excluding immigrants, no one has been excluded and discriminated against worse than the Chinese in American history. Charles Massey writes in on YouTube Super Chat, blame, blame. The Republicans have their whole careers based on who they can push their screw-ups on to deflect from their own lies. Progressives 2024. Well, brother, I'm working on Progressives 2024. On May 5th, we're going to do a giant three-hour show where I'm going to unveil my five-year plan to get progressives into power.

And it was going to be a special surprise on there as well. And we're going to play some games, me, John, and Anna. A lot of fun to look forward to there. If you miss any portion of that show or any other show, TYT.com slash join to become a member. All right, John, what's next? Jank, could you whisper the surprise? I want to know before anyone else knows. Yeah. Oh, okay. Then I'll find out live, most likely. Okay, let's move on to very serious story. More individuals are coming forward to corroborate the allegations that Tara Reid has made against Joe Biden. Let's run through a few that have come out just in the past couple of days. Reed's former neighbor Linda Lacasse, a Biden supporter, tells Business Insider that Reed told her about

alleged assault in detail back in 1995 or 1996, quote, this happened and I know it did because I remember talking about it. She was crying, Lecasse said. Quote, she was upset and the more she talked about it, the more she started crying, I remember saying that she needed to file a police report. The other source, Lorraine Sanchez, who worked with Reed in the office of a California state senator in the mid-1990s, told insider that she recalls Reid complaining at the time that her former boss in Washington, D.C. had sexually harassed her and that she had been fired after raising concerns. And so, look, we know the details of what's being alleged, but now seemingly every few

days, more details are coming out, including individuals who are willing to go on the record with their name to say that they were told aspects or details of this story back at the time that Tara Reid is saying it happened. All right, so let's go over some of the facts here, and then let's talk about the politics of it as well. So the original accusation was, actually, when you say original, Tara Reid first said that Joe Biden had inappropriately touched her, as he had with many other women, the touch in the back, the hair, etc. But the latest allegation was a much more serious sexual assault where he reached underneath her skirt. And I don't want to get into the details of it every single time, but you probably heard it already. At the time, she said her mom, her brother, and another friend. And the brother and the friend confirmed she did say it at the time.

The mom had passed away recently. But on Friday, the intercept broke the story that the mom had called in to CNN's Larry King Live back in 1993 and said she was concerned because her daughter was with a very famous Senate, Senator, Senate office, and had recently left because of issues. Now, she didn't clarify the issues, so you could say it's not 100% corroborating, but boy, there she is on tape in 1993, concerned for her daughter. She didn't say Biden, but her daughter worked at Biden's office, and it is Tara Reid's mom that called in.

So now on top of that, we have two more corroborating witnesses that John just told you about. Okay, that's a lot of corroboration. I asked Dave Weigel about it a little while ago. He's a Washington Post reporter. It's not, don't blame him. He's just reporting this. I asked him about, is there any movement among Democrats? Is there any concern among Democrats in Washington? And he said, as long as Biden's poll numbers are still ahead of Trump's, there appears to be very little concern in Washington about these charges. And now, one more aspect of the politics, We told you ahead of time that they would not talk about these terror read allegations during the primaries.

The press, not forget establishment Democrats, forget Biden's team. I understand their motivations. But the press would not talk about it while Bernie Sanders was in the race. And then once he dropped out, they would talk about it nonstop. Tada. Well, we're magicians, John. It's amazing how we do this. Well, and the weird thing is that, you know,

It's this story, obviously, about a woman who's been victimized, a perfect example of the way that we've seen, that women in a number of different industries, but in politics, that's one of the big ones, women have been harassed, assaulted, and then when they've raised concerns, they've been ignored. And so by ignoring that story, the media seems to be implying that they don't necessarily care about these stories, or that they're caring about these stories is incredibly dependent on the woman doing the accusing, and especially the person who's not. being accused. But the weird thing is, the thing that I can't understand is that earlier this

year during the primary, when Elizabeth Warren claimed that Bernie Sanders had said he didn't think she could win because she was a woman, that became the biggest story in the primary for like two or three weeks. So it implied that the media did care about what people say and do when it comes to women. But then suddenly when it's not about a comment that they dispute was said, when it's about a woman who says that she was harassed and assaulted, like they weren't interested as long as it mattered. And I would say they haven't gotten to the point of even like constantly talking about it now. They're covering it. And I expect that they probably will once Donald Trump starts to raise it as a concern, which he 100% will. You can bet your last

dollar on that. But for now, they're still seeming to do a little bit of damage control for themselves while they continue to do damage control for Joe Biden. Yeah. And look, this is what we talked about when this first story broke, too. And some of the members of the press have said, well, the Republican Party is already covering it and putting pressure on for us to cover it, so we're not going to cover it. And we told you, of course, that's exactly what they'll do. Because to them, progressives are invisible. We're dirt. So if Tara Reid brings it out when they're still a progressive in the primary, they say no. Tariad was thinking of voting for Marianne Williamson, Elizabeth Warren, and eventually when they were both out Bernie Sanders,

That means she's a progressive. So she's dirt. She's invisible. We're not going to cover her. Oh, the Republicans want to talk about her. Well, they're real people. So now in the general election, New York Times is covered in business insiders has covered it.

Now, begrudgingly, the New York Times changed their story once the Biden campaign complained, changed it to me even more pro-Biden. It was already pretty pro-Briton to begin with. They had all of these huge caveat after caveat, which I don't remember in the Kavanaugh story. I don't remember any story about any progressive ever, et cetera. Now, people say, well, you know guys, I don't know if you know this Trump is worse. Yeah, you knuckleheads, we know that. We also covered those stories because apparently unlike anyone else in the media, we're

honest. When Trump does it, it is horrific, and he did it 12 more times than Biden did. But when Biden does it, just because Trump is worse, it doesn't mean Biden didn't do it. Now, again, I'm not saying definitively that Biden, and did, I'm just giving you the evidence. Right now, it doesn't look good. But this is a 100% certainty, and I don't care how much it bothers the establishment. The way they are treating this story is completely different than the way they have treated other stories in the press. And to dismiss Tyrese as they have, it's cruel, it's completely hypocritical, and it shows what frauds they are.

Agreed. Yeah. Okay. I mean, frustrating. Very frustrating. All right, guys. So we have so much more in the post game for you guys, including Donald Trump's mental decline. Yes, it's possible for several candidates to have it and for one of them to have it even worse.

And we'll also show you MAGA guys accidentally singing a gay anthem. We'll be back. for listening to the full episode of the Young Turks. Support our work, listen to ad-free, access members, only bonus content, and more by subscribing to Apple Podcasts at Apple.com slash t-y-t. I'm your host, Shank Huger, and I'll see you soon.