The Young Turks - TYT Extended Clip - July 1st, 2020

Episode Date: July 2, 2020

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Sorry. Smurfs. Only theaters July 18th. We're going to be able to be. What? Welcome to the Young Turks, Anna Casparian and John Ida Rolla with you. Brett Ehrlich on the ones and twos, except not really. He's just producing this show behind the scenes and he made me laugh right before we went live by for some reason brandishing his armpits. So thanks for that. But it happened. Yeah. It did happen. It did happen. It did happen. It

happened. We have an awesome show ahead for you today. Lots of important stories to get to, including Bernie Sanders, absolutely killing it on the Senate floor when it comes to amendments to a bill that apparently Donald Trump also has problems with, but for completely different reasons. So that, of course, has to do with the Defense Authorization Act. We'll get to that later in the show. But John, I think that it only makes sense for us to begin with yet another example of right wing men showing us just how pathetic and weak they really are. So let's do it. So considering how the right wing claim to be, you know, the strong ones, especially right wing men who claim that they're the so-called alphas who fight back against the alleged

pusification of males in this country, it is curious to see conservatives like Bill Mitchell make themselves out to be the weakest, most pathetic people online. So Bill Mitchell is probably someone you've never heard of, but I apologize that I have to inform you. He's just some conservative host who says ridiculous things. And one of the latest ridiculous things he said was on Twitter where he whined and cried about wearing masks. He said, quote, I put on a mask and literally within seconds, I'm struggling to breathe. Now that tweet was ratioed. And had many awesome responses, including this one from our very own Emma Vigland, where she said, man up snowflake. Because like, really, really? I'm struggling to breathe. You can hear it in Emma's

voice too. It was so good. I love that response. No, but look, every single day, there is at least one, usually several, Republican men who throw cold water on this narrative of male strength among conservatives. In fact, one of the people who made that argument right before Donald Trump was inaugurated was Sebastian Gorka. And I just want you to watch this snippet from an interview he had with Sean Hannity and laugh, as I do. You know, the message I have, it's a very simple one, to bump a sticker Sean. The era of the Pajama Boy is over January 20th and the alpha males are back. So John, are the alpha males back? Because it seems like they're having a very difficult time

doing simple things like putting a mask on. I have long held and said many times on the show that if there are actual alpha males and everybody wants to find out what it is that makes you one or doesn't make you one, I know that one thing cannot be true for you to be an alpha male, You can never have said the term alpha male nor thought about whether you were one. If you've done that, then you're not. That's the only thing I know for sure. But I love him being the messenger to announce that they're back. He didn't even need to say it.

When I saw his face, I knew that the reign of the alpha had begun. What a stupid, stupid narrative to try to push about a movement that constantly pitches itself as a victim about everything, about speech and Twitter's mean to me and look at these immigrants. They're doing, like, constantly presenting themselves to be victims and then wanting to assert at the same time that they are the last action hero. Well, you know, John, sometimes it's not so much about your actions. Sometimes it's about the bumper sticker, your car dons when you're driving on the 101 freeway in California. You must not act like an alpha male. You just need to have the bumper sticker. The pajama boys are not in town. They're out of town. What are the pajamas ways? I don't even know what that

means. No, I know. I know it. You just, you scratch the surface, guarantee it's something racist or anti-Semitic. I don't know for sure, but I have a feeling that it probably is. Yeah, it's just can I say on the- Go ahead. On the guy, I don't know much. about him. I know that he loves Donald Trump more than anything, apparently more than his own life since he prefers Trump over stopping COVID. And I'm sure that he'll say if he ends up responding to how ratio he is. And I don't think that he will because, you know, the plight of the right wing grifter is to get ratioed and push forward, you know, against all reason is he'll say, you know, it's a health thing or something like that. And they all say that. They all have a

health reason and they all are very concerned about hippo laws and don't want to tell you what it is, all of them. But it's not true. Doctors and nurses have lived for decades and decades wearing masks like this. I wear a mask all the time. I haven't gotten much exercise now for three and a half months, but I don't pass out after a couple of minutes of putting a little bit of cloth on my face. It's survivable. Yeah. As a culture, how much time have we spent thinking about what we would do in the apocalypse if the zombies came or something like that? Well, I don't know what, but hopefully nothing involving masks because that'll be the end. No, what's incredible is I haven't spent too much time thinking about what I would do during the

apocalypse or like if there were, if we were somehow taken over by zombies, which in some ways we already have been. I believe in the path of least resistance. Like, I don't want to live in a zombie apocalypse, right? So just take me. I'm gone. I give up immediately. But no, in this case, We're not dealing with, you know, something that can't be, you know, that can't be combated. We're dealing with a pandemic that is serious. There are health experts who are now saying that we are increasing the number of new coronavirus cases by as many as 100,000 each day. Okay. And part of the problem is that we do not have real leadership when it comes to very simple issues.

very simple tasks that people can take in order to prevent the spread of the virus. You know, today on CNN, I forget who the host was, but someone said something along the lines of, you know, we're trying to get people to understand that wearing the mask is about protecting other people from contracting it from you in case you have coronavirus. Yes. And I wanted to just like, I started screaming at the TV. I'm like, that's not effective messaging in the United States of America. Where there's a pretty significant portion of the population that's been conditioned to think

it's all about me, it's all about individualism, screw everyone else. I mean, I think maybe the messaging should have been, you need to wear a mask or you're going to die, right? Even if it's not accurate, I feel like that would be more effective than telling Americans wear a mask so you don't hurt other people by spreading it. I don't know, maybe I'm being unfair to Americans. But considering, you know, the nonstop chorus of right wingers who have shown just a complete and utter lack of concern, compassion, empathy, sympathy, whatever you want to call it. We have a problem, a cultural problem in this country.

And something as simple as a mask should not be as polarizing as it is today. We would hope. Well, let's talk about some COVID cowboys because they certainly exist, especially in Texas. So, while health experts are warning that the United States is already experiencing as many as 100,000 new cases of coronavirus in the country, unfortunately we have Republican lawmakers who are on the warpath, not against this pandemic, but against health experts like Dr. Anthony Fauci. So with that said, let's go to Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, who by the way, let me remind

you earlier floated the idea of allowing elderly people to die so they can go back to work and reopen the economy. Now he's actually attacking Anthony Fauci in one of the most ridiculous ways imaginable. Take a look. Reality is a lot different. We've had 2,200 and rather 2,424 people die and New York has had over 31,000. Even California has had almost three times as much as Texas. And remember, Laura, those two states have been locked down the whole time while we have been open. So locking down doesn't work. If it did, those two states would be doing better than Texas. All righty. So fact check time, because he is alleging that California and New York are far worse than Texas. And Texas did the right thing by opening businesses back up prematurely.

That is actually not the case. So if you look at the data, and this is from Johns Hopkins University, You, of course, need to look at the number of coronavirus cases per day per capita, right? Because, of course, in a more densely populated state, you're going to have a higher number overall. But how about per capita, per 100,000 people? Well, in Texas, right now as it stands, there are about 5,733 new cases per day, or 20 cases per 100,000 people per day. In California, you know, In California, there is 14 new cases per 100,000 people per day. So look, California, I am not going to pretend is doing well. California did the right thing in opening businesses up slowly, but unfortunately people

didn't take the social distancing guidelines seriously, have not been wearing masks, and that is what has led to a surge in coronavirus cases in the state of California. In Texas, they didn't take it seriously from the beginning. And as you know, they prematurely opened businesses up, which is why you're seeing a larger number of new coronavirus cases in that state. Now let's look at New York. In New York, side of the country's largest outbreak, the state's curve rose sharply before reaching over 170,000 total cases in April.

Since then, new cases have fallen from about 10,000 per day in mid-April to fewer than 700 per day in late June. So I just think it's important to do that fact check and not give Dan Patrick's ridiculous argument any type of validity or credibility. Yeah, I get it. He wants to open and he cares about that more than what happens with coronavirus. Either, you know, purely for economic reasons, he falsely believes that pretending that the pandemic doesn't exist will be better economically for Texas. Maybe he thinks that or maybe he thinks it's in Trump's, you know, and national Republicans best interest when it comes to the election to just pretend that it's not happening no matter how many times, no matter how many people get it or are hospitalized

or die to it. Maybe, I think he's wrong and all of those counts. The idea that, look, New York, they locked down and look, they're still suffering. Like, can you, can you imagine if they had not? What if New York hadn't? What if we hadn't freaked out those first, that first month, especially, the second month? What if we hadn't been making such a big deal about masks for the past couple of months? What if we hadn't been talking over the past few weeks about the rise of cases in Florida and Arizona and Texas and California that are all now reinstituting at least limited lockdowns? Do people like Abbott or, you know, DeSantis, do they seem like the the sort of people that would have independently come to the conclusion that those things needed

to happen if there wasn't a public outcry, that based on our experience with them. So look, I lived in Texas for a number of years. I still have family in Texas. I just want the people of Texas to know that there are people who do care about their lives. They just don't necessarily inhabit the governor's mansion at this particular point. Exactly. And always be skeptical of people in positions of power who don't need to put their lives and their bodies on the line to go to work. And what Dan Patrick and other conservatives like him want is for the economy to open back up. So, you know, the stock market isn't hurt by this pandemic. So they don't lose money due to this pandemic. But they know very well that there are giant risks associated

with forcing people to go back to work. And in regard to his comments on Anthony Fauci, well, here he is, again, Lieutenant Governor Denton Patrick, questioning the validity and the credibility of Fauci and the advice he's given so far. Fauci said today that he's concerned about states like Texas that skipped over certain things. He doesn't know what he's talking about.

We haven't skipped over anything. The only thing I'm skipping over is listening to him. You know, you have a lot of doctors on your show from day one. Your doctors have been right almost every time and he has been wrong every time on every issue. I don't need his advice anymore. We'll listen to a lot of science. We'll listen to a lot of doctors and Governor Abbott myself and other state leaders will make the decision. No thank you, Dr. Fauci. Well, while he rejects Dr. Anthony Fauci's advice, let me just give you some numbers on what's taking place in Texas today. For instance, in Texas, more than 6,500 patients were hospitalized

with the coronavirus Tuesday, and that's a record-breaking number and a figure that has gone up nearly every day since June 1st. So the situation in that state continues to worsen, And in the middle of it, you have local leadership, local politicians arguing that they're going to just reject the inconvenient truth about what needs to be done in order to get a handle on this virus. Yeah, I mean, it's 46,000 cases yesterday. And you can't get through to him. Like he, he thankfully behind the scenes is like he sort of shut down the bars a little bit

or something. But going on Fox News, he has to pretend that he hasn't even done that because actually doing something to serve the best interests of your constituents would get you mocked or attacked on Fox News. And they, after all of this, they don't, they still don't get it. They've decided this is going to be a culture war thing. Noted right wing scholar Charlie Kirk yesterday tweeted, end all the lockdowns, let people be responsible for themselves and make good decisions. Like we're in like the second phase of the first wave. And, and like some people are getting scared anew. Like, oh my God, I really hopes that we were past this, but apparently we weren't. And he's like, no, throw gasoline on that fire. Because I implied for months

now that this isn't serious, you don't have to take it seriously. And I'm not going to let your impending death change my mind about that. And whether it's the pundits or the governors, That's what they're saying. We gave credit really fast. We gave credit on the damage report to Mitch McConnell and Sean Hannity for advising people to wear masks recently because that's like the lowest possible bar, but they've done it. But beyond that, it doesn't seem like any death count is going to get through to them. By the way, I was wondering why it is that they were so willing to pivot toward mask wearing

all of a sudden. Goldman Sachs just released an analysis indicating that if people wear masks, our economy can save a lot of money. And of course, they're worried about their bottom line, trillion dollars, exactly. And so that's, look, we live in a hyper-capitalistic society where money trumps everything, including human lives. And so do they care what Anthony Fauci has to say, an actual health expert on these issues? No, do they care what Goldman Sachs has to say? Damn right, they do. And now you have the Mitch

McConnell's and the Sean Hannity's of the world all of a sudden changing their tune and urging people to wear masks. By the way, Vice President Mike Pence as well. Well, John, you cited a statistic and I wanted to talk about that a little bit more because you mentioned that recently there were 46,000 new coronavirus cases in the United States. And that is an insanely high number, something that should give everyone living in red states, especially some pause. You should really consider your own actions and keep yourself safe. But there's actually a lot of bad news when it comes to that number because it could be much higher. So Anthony Fauci had said that new cases could go up to 100,000 a day if people continue to defy advice on social distancing

and face masks. He said states like Arizona, California, Florida, and Texas have, have each had to roll back reopening plans as cases in those states climb, noting that half of the new cases statewide have been reported in those states. Well, here's some bad news. There are some health experts who argue, we're already there. It's just that while we've improved on testing, testing hasn't expanded to the point where we're catching all of the people who have coronavirus, but just don't know it yet. So let's go to this next video.

This is former FDA commissioner, Dr. Scott Gottlieb. He's talking about 100,000 diagnosed cases a day. The reality is we have well more than 100,000 infections a day and more than 100,000 cases a day right now. We're probably diagnosing, as we've talked about, maybe 1 in 10 infections nationally, a little less than that in these epidemic states where they're falling behind on testing. So the 40 to 50,000 infections that we're diagnosing each day right now really represents 400 to 500,000 infections. Now, those are infections. They're not all cases because not all those

people are symptomatic, but probably 200 to 300,000 of them are symptomatic, perhaps mildly symptomatic for a lot of them, so not enough to go get tested. But we're well more than 100,000 cases a day right now. Now, whether or not we could diagnose 100,000 cases a day, actually get them tested and confirmed on PCR tests, that's unclear because the problem is that even though we have a lot of testing in the country, we have well more than 500,000 tests a day, and that's going to continue to grow. We're going to be short on tests in places where there's epidemic. So states like Texas and Florida, they're falling behind on testing right now because the testing isn't evenly distributed across the country. So it might

be hard to diagnose 100,000 infections a day for the foreseeable future, but we're well more than 100,000 cases a day right now. And John, I think he makes a really good point there, because particularly in states like Texas, there is not even distribution of these tests in like rural areas, for instance. And that is a longstanding problem in states like Texas and Florida, where the rural parts of the state don't even have as much access to health care. Many, I remember doing a story years ago about how many people in rural parts of Texas rely on Planned Parenthood just to get their regular checkups, which is in state. And so it doesn't surprise me at all that, you know, some of these areas could have,

you know, high infection rates without people really knowing it or realizing it. Yeah, and we sort of, I guess are, we're forced to have been ground down or there's just no alternative. We have to sort of just take the information we have and think about the situation based on it. But as you say, the distribution of tests isn't even and isn't high enough to really know the extent of the virus. We don't know, still some states lump in antibody tests with the rest of the test numbers

that they're sending out. And if you're sophisticated when you're reading this, you can potentially get that. But some states aren't reporting hospitalizations, Florida still isn't doing that despite lots of pressure for literally weeks now to do so. They might be changing on that in the near future, but not yet. So again, we don't have information on exactly how bad the serious cases have gotten there. And we know that a number of states have sort of played little games with the data and caught, including Florida and Georgia. And of course, we're not in the end really going

to know for sure even close to how many people have actually died because we haven't yet had the time and the resources to go back and figure out which states were classifying people as a bizarre unexplained spike in flu cases and things like that at the same time that their COVID numbers weren't going up. So it's complicated and we have to use the information we have, but we should at least understand in the back of our minds that it is at best and complete. We're going to take a quick break. When we come back, we do have a little bit of good news coming from a red state.

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shopping, you get rewarded for that with aspiration. All right, a few member comments and super chats and then we'll get going. So millennial hero from our member comments, you can become a member by going to t.yt.com slash join. Whoa, Anna's Sebastian Gorka impression is way better than her Ben Shapiro impression. I think they're both pretty good. Best impressions. All right, Gabby Marita says athlete soldiers and fighter pilots all wear masks, but those are traditionally the three least manly professions, right? Such a good point. Jank's Instagram, Caffe says 32 seconds ago, got the timer out for Ben Shapiro's hot take on masks, and then 1.5 times voice, which means like the speed of it, increasing it. Tick, tick, tick, tick. Kido says, and here we all are in our pajamas in quarantine

because of Trump. Oops, such a good point. I wish I made that point to the show. All right, I'll read some super chats when we get back from the next break. But for now, let's let's do a little bit of good news because the people of Oklahoma have spoken and they actually like government-funded health care. So the conservative voters of Oklahoma have voted on a ballot initiative and they've made themselves clear. They are in favor of government-funded health care. So this ballot measure would allow for Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act. The money to expand Medicaid would overwhelmingly come from the federal government. This was a huge part of Obamacare. And so the Hill reports that the ballot measure did pass by only a few thousand votes prevailing

by 50.5% to 49.5% who opposed it. But look, here's the good news. It passed. And even when you're polling Republicans on an issue like Medicare for all, there have been polls indicating that Republicans favor it by a slim margin. So the expansion would allow upward of $1 billion in federal funds to flow into Oklahoma while the state would pick up only a small percentage of the cost. Now John, keep in mind, and we've talked about this in the past, there have been so many red states who were bitter at Obama and so defiant that they decided. to do their own constituents wrong and refuse to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. They refused to take federal money to help their own constituents out if they were unable

to afford private health insurance. And luckily in this case, it turned into a ballot initiative in Oklahoma and the people of Oklahoma have spoken. Luckily, they're going in the right direction. I'm gonna only partly disagree with you when you say that these red states did their constituents wrong, this aid would go to poor people and they don't consider those their constituents. So slight disagreement. But yeah, it's insane and great that it's been solved. But think about how much good could have been done if we hadn't had this massive gap of so many years before the voter stepped in and did it. You know, when I saw this, and it was so close, but when I saw this end, I thought, but we really do need these primaries right now, not just for inspiration

when it comes to some of the candidates who've actually won. But also a reminder that a lot of us were left after Bernie lost thinking, well, what are we supposed to do? Like he's out of it, he's not going to be running again. And we know on some level that, look, there's other races. You can certainly do down ballot stuff, try to take over state governments and everything. But these ballot measures, this isn't the first one that is like fundamentally changed things by, you know, stepping around our elected representatives. And it's a reminder that you can get involved in these sort of efforts in, you know, whether it's health care, tax stuff, social issues, all of that. Marijuana legalization, talk about trees like you were before. Like, that is one thing that you can turn your attention to if you're,

you know, sort of put off by presidential politics. Yeah. We're dealing with this pandemic right now where tens of millions of Americans have lost their jobs and they've lost their health care coverage along with it. And if ever there was a moment to make the case that we need to just completely reform how health care is done in this country, it's now. And it's amazing to me that it's still this ridiculous uphill battle as hundreds of thousands of Americans are contracting the virus and over 100,000 Americans have already died from the I mean, we're at like nearly 130,000 Americans who have died from coronavirus. And by the way, without the pandemic, we needed to really reform health care in America, right?

But this is just emphasized it and amplified the problem that we've been dealing with. And by the way, just to give you a sense of how many red states have rejected Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act, This ballot initiative, which has been favored by the majority of Oklahoma voters, makes Oklahoma the fifth state controlled by Republicans to approve Medicaid expansion through a ballot measure, joining the ranks of only Idaho, Maine, Nebraska, and Utah. But all those other red states, again, giving their people a giant middle finger and telling them, no, we're not going to take this money that has been specifically allocated for our state so we can keep you healthy and safe.

It's madness. It's madness. None of the politicians that support of that should still have their seats, but anyway. Totally agree. And the media should be focusing on just how wrong this is, right? Just, I don't know. It amazes because I think a lot of people just don't know, right? They're unaware that their elected officials are working against them constantly.

So anyway, let's move on to a street fight that's taking place. And it's by this country's number one thug, Donald Trump. So Trump's latest temper tantrum is over a Black Lives Matter mural, which would be painted near Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue. He's not happy about it. He's very, very, very bitter. And so he lashed out at Mayor Bill de Blasio for greenlighting this mural, and he called it a symbol of hate in a series of tweets. So let me tell you a little more detail about what this is and why Trump is so mad.

Trump also criticized city officials for agreeing to shift roughly $1 billion from the police department as part of its budget for the coming year. He complained that the financial cuts paired with plans to paint the mural along Fifth Avenue, were an affront to law enforcement. So he writes that New York City is cutting police money by $1 billion, and yet the New York City mayor is going to paint a big expensive yellow Black Lives Matter sign on Fifth Avenue. Oh, is it really expensive? I mean, I haven't seen any numbers on it. Is it like worth a billion dollars?

Doubt it. But anyway, let me continue. He says that this would denigrate this luxury. Avenue. So of course he's worried about his own property. This will further antagonize New York's finest who love New York and vividly remember the horrible Black Lives Matter chant, pigs in a blanket, fry him like bacon. Now, of course, there was literally one example of people chanting that from years ago. And right wingers have latched on to that as if it's like the motto or the slogan for Black Lives Matter, which of course it's not. But I

I just wanna remind people just how much cops in New York love New York and love the citizens of New York, okay? This next video is a compilation. I want to warn you that it's graphic and difficult to watch, but this is the love that Trump is talking about. Go! No! Go! Go! Go!

Let's go! Leave him! What are you flexed for? No flexed. Look, look, look, look. He didn't even do that. He didn't even do that. So rather than being

do nothing. He don't even do nothing. He didn't even do nothing. So rather than being upset about that brutality, Trump is worried about his Trump Tower and is worried about a mural. That's what he's complaining about. Yeah, yeah. And obviously so fundamentally dishonest in so many ways,

like they're bringing up the chant. Like yeah, often's the time I think about how much I wish that they had enchanted that because if they hadn't, the right would be so fair to BLM now, like it would change anything if they hadn't done that. Donald Trump is just worried about the denigration of Fifth Avenue. You know the place he fantasized about shooting someone. Like he really cares about its reputation. All of it is just, It's just such BS. It's okay, you can complain about it. You know, if the actual changes to these budgets are being made in cities across America, that's what's important. Him whining along the way, you know, that's, I guess, a cost that we should be fairly enthusiastically prepared

to pay. And by the way, I mean, he referred to a mural as a symbol of hate. And this is coming from a guy who just this past weekend tweeted a video of an elderly person in Florida screaming at the top of his lungs, white power. Yeah, okay. I mean, look, to be fair, if there were anyone in this country who would be an expert on hate, it would be Donald Trump. The only problem is he's a hypocrite and completely lack self-awareness. He is the top symbol of hate in this country and has only further divided the country in ways that didn't need to happen. I mean, he has polarized issues that don't need to be polarized. He has exploited racial tensions for his own political gain.

And now that he is like flay, like he doesn't know what he's doing. He's failing in every regard with the pandemic, with civil unrest, with everything, with the economy. All he can latch on to is what he exploited in 2016 to win. the election and that is hate and symbols of hate. So for him to call a mural a symbol of hate is so unbelievably ridiculous. And I mean, I think most people, most people who can think clearly can see through it. Yeah, yeah, the fact that he turns to hate, I guess, shouldn't surprise us. He found obviously, you know, Biden being the nominee. The only real inroads for that that he sort of has is focusing on some of the substance of some of Biden's past bills,

but he doesn't have the misogy and the racism, you know, to really explicitly run against so far with Biden. And he's really tried it with BLM. What's been really amazing, surprising, is that it hasn't really caught on that people's, you know, impression of BLM, the favorability has risen so much during these protests despite, you know, the obvious bias in the coverage and the right wing, uniformly demonizing them in insane language, calling them all terrorists and everything. The fact that it hasn't actually worked has been pretty shocking. And one other thing I want to remind everyone about is that Trump loves protecting symbols of hate. He has spoken out pretty aggressively in protecting or wanting to protect Confederate

statues throughout this country, military bases that are named after Confederates, and those Those are individuals who symbolized hate, who symbolized wanting to protect the institution of slavery in this country. Trump is nothing but hate, and he has absolutely no business, you know, putting himself out as the arbiter of whether or not Black Lives Matter is a hateful group. Black Lives Matter, he doesn't think they do, which is why he has taken the stances he has taken. We gotta take a quick break. When we come back, we'll actually talk a little more about the issue involving military

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here from Jess. And Jess says, I love John's rants. We hear you, John, and we love you. I had not thought that I had rented, but thank you for hearing me. You're loved. Jenks, Instagram, Caffe says, to be fair, Anna, it is a symbol of who hates Trump or who Trump hates. It's not even a question at this point, referring to the Black Lives Matter mural that will be painted on Fifth Avenue, and Trump referred to it, of course, as a symbol of hate. Let me read the super chat comments, as I promised. Andre says, thanks John and Anna for the amazing news. News has been pretty bad, but I know what you mean. Blazin says, my brother has CF lung disease and wears a mask, as he should. And Nathan Gee or G

He says, I think dogs should vote. Dogs for President 2020, you know I'm on board for that. Like, that sounds amazing. Come on. Can you imagine Charlie leading the country with love and cuddles? And peanut butter, because he loves peanut butter. All right. Well, we got stories to get to. So let's stop messing around and get to military bases, which are in the news today. So Donald Trump has threatened to veto military funding through the Defense Authorization Act over his support for traitors to the United States. Donald Trump wants to protect traders, and he is willing to defund the military in order to do that, in order to protect them.

So the Authorization Act might include an amendment that would change the name of military bases that honor Confederate traitors, you know, Confederate soldiers who are traitors to the United States and wanted to secede from the United States, those people. Trump is against it. So he says, I will veto the defense authorization bill if Elizabeth Warren, of course he calls her, you know, the name that he likes to call her, of all people amendment, which will lead to the renaming plus other bad things of Fort Bragg, Fort Robert E. Lee, and many other military bases from which we won two world wars is in the bill. Okay. So the Confederate soldiers did not help us win anything. The Confederate soldiers fought against the Union. And the reason why they fought

against the Union is because they were traitors who wanted to keep black people enslaved in this country. And so Warren's version, by the way, of the bill has already passed by the the Senate Armed Services Committee, which if I'm not mistaken, John, is a bipartisan committee. So it passed committee, and now the Senate gets to vote on it, the House gets to vote on it. And I think that it probably makes sense to not have military bases named after traitors, like Robert E. Lee, which I'll give you more details about in just a minute. But what do you think? Yeah, that makes some sense to me.

Yeah, Brett, could you put up the tweet for just a second because I love trying to get into his mind as he is messaging. So like little things. Like I love the two and two world wars is capitalized for some reason. But anyway, I think he gets that just the fact that it's being renamed isn't enough, like to really get people fired up, which is why he throws in the plus other bad things. What are the bad things? What other bad things are they doing to these forts? If there's anything, I haven't heard of it, and he's not being clear, it to me, screams insecurity about whether people are actually going to be on his side in this. And I think he should be clever enough at least to get why people might think when we're renaming other

things, you know, bridges and schools and all of that. Maybe it's about time. God, he's got such a punchable face. Like, I'm sorry, but every time we use that B-roll of him doing this face, like much, not this one. Sorry, I'm so sorry for interrupting you. This is like such a jank-like thing to do. That face, come on, that face, that face. Unearned confidence, unearned smugness. And I apologize for interrupting the really great point you were making to make that point. But come on. Anyway, go ahead, John. Sorry about that. No, I don't remember what I was saying. No, I'm kidding. Yeah, I would say unearned smugness, definitely confidence, eh, he pretends. I don't know internally how good he actually is.

Yeah, I don't really remember. Sorry about that. Something about naming the basis. His tweets and how he doesn't know. He's like other bad things. Yeah. I get it. So yeah, yeah.

And by the way, our soldiers train there and then they went and they won two world wars. That's a great point. That's history right there. Name them after some of the people from one of those wars that we won that are so significant, you know, where we were fighting against Nazis rather than they were fighting against us. us, you know, like maybe we can, maybe we can move that in direction. So look, I know a lot of you are super smart, you know your history, you know that Robert Lee was terrible, he was a Confederate, you know, he led the Confederates and he was a failure.

Not only did the Confederates lose, and not only were they traitors to the Union, there are quotes that like are so disgusting that are attributed to people like Robert E. So let me give you some details. So for instance, he agreed with secessionists in most areas, such as dislike of northern anti-slavery criticisms and prevention of expanding slavery to new territories and fear of its larger population. Lee supported the, I'm going to mispronounce this, but he supported constitutionally protected slavery. He wanted the constitution to include protections for slavery. Not like to protect the slaves, but to protect enslaving black people in this country. Lee's first field assignment, by the way, was commanding Confederate forces in Western Virginia,

where he was defeated. This was his first assignment. First assignment, what a loser. Why are we naming military bases after a loser like this? He was defeated at the Battle of Cheat Mountain, the first assignment. And of course, there were a number of other defeats following that. I don't know if you guys know this, but the Confederates were defeated and we're glad that they were defeated because they were traitors to the country. And we have military bases apparently named after loser traitors. Here are some quotes attributed to Robert E. Lee. My own opinion is that at this time, they, black Southerners, cannot vote intelligently and that giving them the vote would lead to a great deal of demagogism.

and lead to embarrassments in various ways. Let me just remind you all that he was a loser and also a traitor and thus was incredibly embarrassing as a person. He also said the blacks are immeasurably better off here than in Africa morally, socially and physically. The painful discipline they are undergoing is necessary for their instruction as a race and I hope will prepare and lead them to better things. How long their subjugation may be necessary is known and ordered by a wise, merciful

providence. No, he was trash and we shouldn't have anything named after him. We should never honor him. I hear people who say, well, this is part of our history and people should know about that. Put his ass in a museum somewhere where people will have the full context of who he is and what he did. But honoring him by naming military bases after him is ridiculous. All right. Final story for you, and this is a good one. It has to do with Bernie Sanders and what he's proposing in the Defense Authorization Act.

Bernie Sanders has proposed several important amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act, aimed at providing a number of things, including free masks for Americans every month, and also ending funding to the Saudi-led war in Yemen, which, of course, the United States is supporting. The amendments came in addition to the Vermont Senator's plan to slash the Senate's proposed $740.5 billion Pentagon budget by 10% and redirect the savings toward funding health care, housing, education, and jobs in impoverished U.S. communities. Here he is on the Senate floor making the case. We are spending more on the military than the next 11 nations combined. that's Russia, China, UK, France, you name it, more than all of them combined, and we're spending on the military budget

over half of our discretionary spending. If the horrific pandemic we are now experiencing has taught us anything, it is that national security means a lot more than building bombs, missiles, jet fighters, tanks, submarines, nuclear warheads, and other weapons of mass destruction. National security also means doing everything that we can to make sure that every man, woman, and child in this country

lives with dignity and security. And that includes many people and many communities around this country who have been abandoned by our government decade after decade. Without a moment's hesitation, we spend billions and billions on the military while we come to work and step over people who are sleeping out on the streets.

So, John, among other things, he wants to use the Defense Production Act in order to mass produce masks and ensure that every American in this country receives five new masks delivered by the post office every single month, which I think is important, especially considering, and I think this plays a huge role, by the way, in how conservatives are now messaging that people should wear masks. A team of economists at Goldman Sachs estimated that a nationwide mask mandate would save the U.S. economy $1 trillion by reducing the need for widespread lockdowns. And by the way, this is an important amendment that Bernie Sanders is including, but it's

not even the only important amendment. There's so many other things, but before we get to that, I want to hear your thoughts. Yeah, I mean, I first thought immediately, you probably had the same thought while you're watching and I wish he was the candidate. That would be great in this particular time. But unfortunately we don't have that. Yeah, like if the purpose of the government fundamentally is to stop the people in the country from dying, which a lot of what the government fundamentally does, that even the conservatives

could agree to is trace back to that. Then being prepared for a pandemic seems like a pretty important one. I mean, I don't know exactly how many trillion dollars we've spent so far as a result of 9-11, but it's a lot in which several thousand Americans died. Okay, so the pandemic so far has killed 40 9-11s worth of Americans and another one every week. Maybe a week and a half. Maybe we can spend a tiny, tiny fraction of what we've spent fighting global terror on fighting the thing that's literally still killing us, let alone all the ones that are coming up behind it, you know, the second wave, the third wave, the new pig flu that scientists in China are now talking about this week. Like those are guaranteed savers

of American lives. But it seems like unless it fires cannon shells, we can't get people fired up for the government to actually safeguard a life in that area. I mean, I think what we're going through with this pandemic is perfect evidence that the government was never really that interested in national security because our national security is under threat right now based on this pandemic and they're not providing the necessary resources to ensure that we're safe and that we combat it effectively. I also want to note that Bernie Sanders wants to force the Defense Department to do audits, something that they don't currently do and if they fail to do so there would be cuts to their budget and i love that all right postgame

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