The Young Turks - TYT Extended Clip - July 2nd, 2020

Episode Date: July 3, 2020

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Can I see 25,000? It's kind of like a, hey, happy kind of independent state, So t-y-t.com slash go so that we can have fun with you guys like this. All right, Casper, let's do it. All right. While new coronavirus cases continue to surge in the United States, Trump keeps communicating just how unbelievably delusional he really is. He still thinks that the virus will just go away on its own. This was something that he repeated multiple times early on in the pandemic,

and he did so again on Fox business. Take a look. We're headed back in a very strong fashion with a V, and I think we're going to be very good with the coronavirus. I think that at some point, that's going to sort of just disappear, I hope. You still believe so. Disappear. I do.

I do. Yeah, sure, at some point. And I think we're going to have a vaccine very soon, too. Now, of course, Jank, the virus is not just disappearing. In fact, as it stands today, there are more than 2.7 million cases, confirmed cases of coronavirus. coronavirus in the United States, and nearly 129,000 people have already died as a result. And in the beginning of that statement, he mentioned a V. And what he's referring to is the economy recovering in a V shape. Just want to remind you all that on May 21st, his own advisor,

Larry Cudlow, admitted that it's unlikely that there will be a V-shaped recovery. And while while there have been some jobs added to the economy in the last month, the truth is there are still tens of millions of Americans who are unemployed, and that number could go up considering all of these states that are now rolling back, reopening their local economies. Okay, on election day, the V is going to stand for vendetta. So we'll see if I was V shape recovery. In fact, I want to talk about that first, and I'll talk about the mask. So the stock market's still in pretty good shape. And everybody keeps looking at it like, what? Why? Why? I'll tell you why. It's really simple. The government and mainly the Fed just said, we'll buy everything. It doesn't matter

how terrible your assets are, how high risk they are, how toxic they are. We'll just buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy. So it's no longer on capitalism. It's just crony capitalism, 101, they will study this in the history books for how oligarchs in America captured the government and just gave trillions of dollars to themselves. Now having said that, like coronavirus, there is a certain reality that you cannot avoid. Science is real, and yes, economics is real. And at some point, this is going to catch up with us. Now, never ever invest based on anything I say. You know, you've got to talk to professionals, and the timing is impossible to figure out, Right. But it's not a V. It's going to be like in my opinion is it's going to explode in

spectacular fashion. Do I look forward to it? Absolutely not, right? You should guard against it to the best of your ability to. I don't know how we're going to guard against it well enough. But but guys, the stimulus checks are going to run out soon. I'm sorry, the unemployment checks that are elevated because the coronavirus is going to run out soon. Stimulus checks Simmons checks are already gone. Yeah, job numbers today were good, but overall, right now we have the peak number of cases. It's not like, oh, it's maybe it's a second one. People keep talking about like, oh, I wonder if there's going to be a second wave.

Dude, we're in the second wave. And the second wave is higher than the first wave. It's not a matter of opinion. It's not a political issue. It's just numbers. There are more cases now than we have ever had, including at the height in April. So now we turn to the mask, I'm sorry, into this idea that he's saying that it's going to disappear.

Remember, he said it's going to disappear and we're going to get a vaccine. So he doesn't mean like, oh, once we get the vaccine, obviously it'll die down, et cetera. He means it'll magically disappear, plus we will get a vaccine. No, even if you thought a series of factors, including social distancing, mass contact tracing, et cetera, or even herd immunity will bring the numbers down gradually. You still wouldn't want to say that it disappears because that makes us sound stupid. Well, the only reason you would say it is because you are in fact stupid. Well, he's definitely stupid.

And he wants nothing more than for this problem to just go away because it would in his mind help him get reelected, but this is not something that just goes away. And the numbers prove that. So let me give you where we're at with coronavirus as it stands today. The United States actually recorded 52,000 new cases on Wednesday of this week. And that's according to Johns Hopkins figures. This is a new all-time high. I do want to remind you, as we talked about recently, the former FDA commissioner, Scott Gottlieb, had shared that it's very likely that more than a hundred 100,000 Americans contract coronavirus in new coronavirus cases, but there are some parts of the country where tests are not being distributed evenly, right? So there are rural parts of Texas

and Florida, for instance, that don't have as much access to these tests. And so there could be people who have coronavirus and they're just unaware of it. And as we know, many people are asymptomatic when they do contract it. Infections are rising in up to 40 states, about 40% of the United States is now changing course on reopening. In fact, Texas happens to be one of those states where just today it was announced that wearing masks in public is mandated. It's not even just recommended as a guideline anymore. And the spike followed a warning by the public health expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, that the U.S. is, quote, going in the wrong direction and infections could be more than double to reach 100,000 cases a day. And again, just to repeat myself,

former FDA Commissioner Gottlieb said that we're probably already there. And Jake, when it comes to testing, Donald Trump not only talks the talk, he walks the walk, because he said very clearly that he wanted to slow the testing down in Tulsa. He later tried to, you know, after backlash, claim that that's not what he meant. But his actions prove otherwise. So the Trump administration made a move in a little noticed guideline released on June 23rd by the The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, CMS said that insurers no longer have to cover COVID-19 testing when employers mandate a test before an employee can return to work, or when

someone is tested as part of a public health surveillance program. So if you can remember, Congress had mandated at the start of the outbreak that the tests needed to be covered, that the individual looking to get tested didn't have to pay anything out of pocket. But essentially Congress did not provide resources for that. And so now the federal government as the insurer under Medicare and Medicaid can go ahead and decide what type of rules they have in place before someone gets approved for a free test. And the Trump administration is essentially saying, yeah, if your employer is mandating it, we're not going to cover it at all. Because they don't want people to feel like they have access to the test, that they can go

out there and get a test to see whether or not they are positive for COVID. So there's two different aspects of that. One is the one you're mentioning, Anna, that well, if it costs a lot of money, there's going to be less tests. Trump's going to be happy, but that has terrible consequences because that means a lot of people that are going into work now will not be tested because it costs too much. And they will spread that within the work. And we will have a lot more coronavirus cases and deaths, which by the way, does not help

the economy, you moron. So the second reason that they're doing it, other than Donald Trump's vanity about, oh, I just want to appear to have less cases, is because the health insurance companies don't want to pay for it. So they sent their lobbyists to the Republicans and said, you remember how we made a big deal out of what we're going to pay for it? Shut up. No, we're not.

We own you. You do as you're told. Now we're not going to pay for it. We already did the marketing. We all already got the good marketing like, oh my God, we're going to pay for it out of the goodness of our hearts. Now lie and don't provide it. Because our country's totally owned by several multinational corporations.

There's no actual leaders, there's no one representing the people. No, those insurance companies own the Republican Party, by the way, they also own the Democratic Party. So where's the Democrats? That happened June 23rd. Are the Democrats going crazy? Hey, wait a minute, we said there was going to be free tax. We passed the law. It is not in question. You must have free testing. Nope, Democrats

aren't saying anything. Why? Because they work for the insurance companies too. So that's how this game is played. So, and so why does America lead the world in not just cases, but deaths from coronavirus by a lot? Okay, why? Because our government is uniquely incompetent and corrupt. So we have a buffoon for a president who told people not to wear masks. That That's so gratuitous. There was no need for it. That doesn't even involve politics. I can see how the number of cases involved politics, the mass doesn't even involve politics,

but he did it anyway. So yeah, we're about to head into an iceberg like we haven't seen in a long time. If you think it's bad now, buckle up and brace for impact. Those coronavirus cases are skyrocketing now in Florida, Arizona, Texas, and California. We got a right-wing or lunatic governor or lieutenant governor in Texas. They're not going to mandate wearing masks unless they're in a cold sweat panic. So this thing's about to get way worse. Well, speaking of masks, there is a little bit of a change in how Trump is talking about

it. And I think it has a lot to do with his financial interests. So Donald Trump now claims that he's not against wearing masks in public during the coronavirus pandemic. In fact, he now suddenly thinks that maybe wearing a mask will make him look real cool. Take a look. Goldman Sachs put out a model yesterday saying that if there is universal masks, it would be a net positive for GDP. We know the IHME model says that if there were universal masks, that it would be beneficial, it would save lives. So if there is an economic benefit, sir, and there

is a public health benefit, sir, why not go forward and say there should be mandatory masks all across this country. Well, I don't know if you need mandatory, because you have many places in the country where people stay very long distance. You talk about social distancing, but I'm all for masks. I think masks are good. I would wear, if I were in a group of people and I was close. You would wear one.

Oh, I would, oh, I have. I mean, people have seen me wearing one. If I'm in a group of people where we're not, you know, 10 feet away and, but usually I'm not in that position and everyone's tested because of the president, they get tested before they see me. But if I were in a tight situation with people, I would have to be. You think the public will see that at some point? I mean, I'd have no problem.

Actually, I had a mask and I said, I like the way I looked. Okay, I thought it was okay. It was a dark, black mask, and I thought it looked okay. It looked like the Lone Ranger. But, no, I have no problem with it. I think, and if people feel good about it, they should do it. I just want to remind everyone that Donald Trump claims that he doesn't drink or do drugs. And for someone who's allegedly sober, it's incredible how far.

fried his brain is, because the Lone Ranger didn't wear a mask over his mouth, he wore one over his eyes. That's a small point to this story. And there is literally nothing that could ever make Donald Trump look cool or strong or brave because there's just too much evidence of his ridiculous personality on Twitter. But anyway, let me move on to what he previously said and why he's all of a sudden changing his tone. So just to remind you all, during a White House press briefing on the coronavirus, he said, I don't think I'm going to be doing it. Wearing a mask as I greet presidents, prime ministers, dictators, kings, queens, I just don't see it. And of course, that was after he was seen touring a Ford manufacturing plant in Michigan without a mask, despite being

told by the state's attorney general that he had a legal responsibility to wear one. The president told reporters that he wore one behind the scenes but didn't want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it. Now, if you really thought wearing a mask made him look cool, I'm sure that he would wear one constantly and make sure that the media sees it. He also criticized earlier in May, he was also criticized earlier in May for failing to wear a mask while visiting a Honeywell plant in Arizona. The Associated Press reported that the president didn't want to wear one because he was afraid he'd look ridiculous and that it would harm his reelection chance. And then finally, my personal favorite example of him being against masks previously was a statement

that he gave during a Wall Street Journal interview. He said that testing for COVID-19 was overrated and allowed for the possibility that some Americans wore facial coverings, not as a preventative measure, but as a way to signal disapproval of him. Jenk, and I think it was important for the Fox business reporter to mention the Goldman Sachs analysis about how wearing masks can save our economy money, it can help save our GDP, because I think that's really the number one influencing factor behind why Trump is now changing his tone. He wants the economy to do well, not only for his own political incentives, but also for

his own financial incentives. Okay, so first let's acknowledge that the Lone Ranger had the most ineffective mask in American history. Like if you see a shot of him like straightforward, it's the most obvious thing in the world who he actually is. Get a real mask, okay. Gee, I wonder who that is. I can't quite tell. If I knew that guy in real life, I couldn't tell at all who he is. Okay, anyways. All right, back to back to Trump. I'm not having this conversation. In the Trump rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, his staffers, who by the way had coronavirus, ripped down the signs in the stadium encouraging people to wear masks. He's doing an event in South Dakota at Mount Rushmore this weekend,

where they're discouraging mass. We're not having a conversation about whether Donald Trump is pro-mass. He's been anti-mast the whole time, gratuitously so. And not even based on politics, I know how selfish he is. I know how he doesn't care about anybody else's life but his own. I know all that. But really, being against mass hurt him politically because it caused more cases, more deaths, and hurt the economy, which hurts his reelection. He did it purely for vanity.

It's amazing, it's amazing. One of the theories that I love is that he doesn't want to wear a mask because once he takes it off, his makeup's gonna come off with it. So how do you like that? I don't want to wear a mask, I want to appear strong because my makeup might come off with the mask. Yeah, well, but that really makes you look super strong dude, okay? And then even in that interview, he's like, no, no, I don't know, I don't have a problem with that. I mean, I think I look good. I think I look good. I look good in a mask. Who cares if you look good in a mask? You're the president. And so here is the president of the United States with over 130,000 deaths now.

How many 9-11s is that, right? We're leading the world by an order of magnitude in deaths. And he's like, well, I don't mind masks because of how I look at a mask. Oh, for Christ's sake. And Anna, of course, the most important part of this is, of course, you're right. That Goldman Sachs report changed everything. So first of all, Goldman Sachs is their boss. So their boss just told him, shut up and wear masks.

So he's like, yes, sir, yes, sir. What do you put? Three people from Goldman Sachs into his cabinet. During the 2016 run, he's like, global elite is good. And he had a bunch of Goldman Sachs pictures up, right? Then as soon as he wins, he's like, okay, Lama Sachs, please run my company, I mean my government, please Goldman Sachs, right? So now when Goldman Sachs says, hey, bitch, put on a mask.

He's like, okay, yes, sir, yes, sir, I think I look good, I think I look good, right? So that's, but the second reason is because Goldman Sachs did a real analysis. be fair to them. And yes, not wearing masks, let alone the tens of thousands of deaths that it causes hurts the economy by 5%, which is very significant and makes it less likely that Donald Trump will get reelected. So now the moron realizes, uh, oh, this is against my self-interest. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I met mask. I met mask. Loser. It's incredible. Well, We're going to take a break. And when we come back, Donald Trump has other regrets, including some of the positive things he kind of did as president.

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So I am Sakwrites, said the economy will have a V-shaped recovery like Trump's abs. I don't know why I find that so amusing what I do. And Matt Kiddie wrote a long post, but you're right that he is short-term thinking. The reason he suppresses a test because he thinks, oh, that means lower numbers. but in the long term it creates bigger numbers and he's just too stupid to realize what long-term thinking is. All right, anyway, I got a fun and a depressing YouTube super chat here. Gina Gallagos writes, and just found out I have COVID. I think the anxiety of having it is making me feel even worse. Now I really have no patience for people downplaying this.

I've been sick for a week, I hope it goes away. Gina, obviously speedy recovery, we're all rooting for you. And unfortunately, you're not alone, 2.7 million cases in the country. Hang in there, make sure you take all the precautions. We love you guys, we're trying to keep you safe. And you know, by the way, that's another big difference between the left and the right. The right wing have all their hosts going around minimizing masks knowing, because they're not stupid. They know it'll kill more people.

Their viewers mainly, the left wing is not listening to Tucker Carlson, the right wing is. And they just don't mind as long as it helps their ratings. Whereas we actually give a damn about you. We care about you intensely. So Gina, hang in there. All right, so now totally switching gears. Cheryl wrote in and thank you, Cheryl, wonderful contribution on YouTube Super Chad. And all she says is Anna's Bunn 2020.

Yeah. Okay, when I first read that, I was like, what? And I was like, oh, right, Anna's Bun, 2020, right, got it, got it. Okay, anyway, all right, thank you for lightening the mood show. We really appreciate it. And by the way, t.com.com slash go, by the way, the join button is right underneath if you're on YouTube. The first level is just $1.99. That's $2 a month, okay? Just to support the show. And we see your badges and we know you support the show. At the higher levels, you get all of our videos. So please check it out and click that button. All right. Anna, what's next?

All right. It has been 12 days since Donald Trump's Tulsa rally, an event that Herman Kane, a former GOP presidential candidate, attended without wearing a mask. And now it's been confirmed that he's been hospitalized with coronavirus. We don't know if he contracted the virus at the event. What we do know is that people were not encouraged to wear masks at the Tulsa rally. And we also know that Herman Kane has not been very supportive of wearing masks during this pandemic. But in a statement, it was confirmed that he was, in fact, hospitalized. And, you know, we don't want anyone to suffer the consequences of this terrible virus. And we hope that he recovers, despite some of the misinformation that he spread about masks.

But I do want to just remind everyone that previously he had taken a picture when he was at the Trump rally in Tulsa. And in that photo that he tweeted, he also included the line that here's just a few of the black voices for Trump at tonight's rally, having a fantastic time. And you can see everyone like in close proximity to one another. And then on July 1st, meaning literally yesterday, he tweeted, mask will not be mandatory for the event, which will be attended by President Trump. people are fed up. And the event that he was talking about was the South Dakota Mount Rushmore 4th of July celebration where the governor of South Dakota, Christy Noem, said that she will not make masks mandatory and they will not be following social distancing guidelines. Herman Cain promoted that yesterday. So really important, they announced Herman Cain's got coronavirus today,

But they've known for a couple of days. So presumably his staff put out a tweet saying people are fed up with masks, full well knowing that Herman Kane has coronavirus, partly because he didn't wear a mask. So wow, I don't know if that's just his staff saying, who cares if our boss dies? It's more important to our paychecks to do this propaganda that we're all paid for. Or if they think, well, you know, our guy's down anyway, who cares of more right-wingers get infected? Did the check clear or did it not clear? That seems to be the main question at Herman Kane headquarters.

And so I got news for you, Herman. The check's not going to clear if you're dead. So we're the good guys. So we're rooting for you to get better. He's in his 70s. I am worried about him. And we don't want anyone to obviously to eat. get sick or to die from this. But I do have to say, if you're in that picture and you're all

smiling, you know, oh, black folks for Trump and Tulsa, Oklahoma Valley, and here we are all closed up together with no mess like a bunch of idiots. You've got to be in a panic right now. That dude right in the middle has coronavirus. The chance of you having it is now intensely high. And by the way, there's also some older folks in that picture. But you know, if you're an African American Republican, you're probably signed up for a lot of counterproductive things. So okay, I guess mark this one up for another one. Oh my God, are you offended?

Hey, Candace Hillens, are you offended? Okay, anyway, so they apparently asked Herman Kane if he wanted a mask. And he said, nine, nine, nine. So I don't know when I get to have Sean Brody over this, but is he still smiling, Brett? Is Herman Kay still smiling? Let's check in to find out. God. God.

I guess he is. I guess he is. I guess he is. I guess he is. Look, we get around, we kid around, because for the moment being, you know, we don't have, we don't have any word on his condition of whether it's worsened or not. So if it does worsened, then I'll feel sick to my stomach. Not about what we said. It's not on us, it's on him to do the right things. But just as a human

being that he's going through that, right? But guys, part of the reason we do this is, for God's sake, we're a mass. Do not listen to idiot right wingers. So otherwise, you're going to be in a situation like Herman Kane. Science is real. Hashtag science is real. And if you think it's not, you're in for a rude awakening. But science does not care. about Fox News propaganda. It's not like, oh, I was going to infect Herman Kane. But you know what? Tucker Carlson says that I shouldn't and that I'm not real. So I won't infect Herman Kane. That's not how science works. So gravity is real, coronavirus is real, and if you don't wear a mask, you're endangering your life.

All right. Well, in other news today, it looks like there is a rivalry between Donald Trump and his own son-in-law, Jared Kushner, especially when it comes to policy advice that Trump received from his son-in-law. We love the drama. Another episode of as the White House turns. mistakes. I ask for his resignation. I'm disappointed in the Attorney General. Jonathan Swan over at Axios is reporting that Donald Trump regrets passing criminal justice reform. And look, if you are a rational human being, then you would have known that Donald Trump never really cared about criminal justice reform. And the first step act was toothless.

to begin with, and you should have known the second Donald Trump was inaugurated and decided to reinstitute the use of private prisons for federal inmates. But anyway, here's what the latest is based on Axios' reporting. One person who spoke with the president interpreted his way of his thinking this way. No more of Jared's woke-ish. Another said Trump has indicated that following Kushner's advice, has harmed him politically. So Jared Kushner apparently was the influence behind the scenes, the person who was encouraging

Donald Trump to provide, you know, pardons to certain nonviolent offenders, to pass criminal justice reform. And apparently Trump realized that he is so racist and so terrible to minority communities, that that small effort would not actually lead to people of color voting for him. over a Democratic challenger. So Trump dipped his toe into police reform under pressure after a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd and an executive order that activists considered toothless, but he will likely go further to restrain, he likely will not go further to restrain law enforcement officers moving forward. So there was the initial criminal justice

reform, and then if you guys can remember, there was the executive order after the protest started, which essentially would do nothing. But it was enough to make the law enforcement community frustrated and angry with him. Conservatives have been angry with him. More importantly, someone he watches regularly on Fox News was angry with him. That was Tucker Carlson. And after he watched this segment, he decided to change course and move away from criminal justice reform.

Take a quick look. No one has more contempt for Donald Trump's voters than Jared Kushner does. And no one expresses it more frequently. In 2016, Donald Trump ran as a law and order candidate because he meant it, and his views remained fundamentally unchanged today. But the president's famously sharp instincts, the ones that won him the presidency almost four years ago, have been since subverted at every level by Jared Kushner. This is true on immigration, on foreign policy, and especially on law enforcement.

As crime in this country continues to rise, Jared Kushner has led a highly aggressive effort to let more criminals out of prison and back onto the streets. This is reckless. At this moment in time, it's insane, it continues to happen. So Trump has now made clear, Jank, that he wants to support law enforcement unequivocally, and he won't do anything that could be seen as undercutting police. So we'll see what happens with Kushner, but he seems to regret taking Kushner's advice. Yeah, I mean, he's going, as usual, full racists, especially when it comes to Black Lives

Matter. But I want to be clear about something and then come back to an important part of why he's listening to Tucker Carlson. So there's two different reforms that people are talking about. There's a criminal justice reform that was passed. And some people say that that was not enough. Of course it's not enough, but the question is, was it a good start? I actually think it was. And I know Van Jones took some heat recently for being part of that effort. I don't agree. I think that what he was trying to do was constructive and productive, and I think people on the left try to tear down constructive people too much. I'm keeping it real, okay?

So you can tell that it was real, because now Trump regrets it, and Tucker Carlson hates it. So it actually did have an effect, it is a good beginning, and you could tell by the right-wing reaction. Like that goddamn liberal Jared Kushner made us do it. Now that's ridiculous to call Jared Kushner a liberal. But that bill was not bad. And I have given Trump credit for that in the past, because we actually care about the truth. Now, the second reform they're talking about is the so-called reform that Trump proposed after

George Floyd got killed. And he's like, oh, okay, yeah, I hear this police brutality. All right, let's ban choke holes unless you feel like it. First of all, banning choke holes is incredibly minor reform. Choke holes are banned in most places anyway, and the cops do it. anyway, and they get away with it anyway. And in this case, he wasn't even banning it. He said if they feel like they're in danger, they can do a chokehold. Well, they don't do a chokehold because they're out to lunch, right? They do it because they claim and they feel like

they're in danger. So it was useless and on purpose. Because at that point, Trump had already turned away from criminal justice reform and thought, oh, no, no, no, it's better to lean into my base and to be vicious against black people. So now, why is he listening to Tucker According to the reporting, it's partly because Tucker Carlson is now the number one rated host on Fox News. So he's like he's got good ratings, so he must be right. You idiot, with one percent of the country watching you, you have the top rated cable news show in the country. There's 3 million people.

We've got 3 million people, you got the top show, but that's still only 1% of the country. Look at the polls. The polls say two thirds of Americans think that Trump has handled the George Floyd situation poorly, including an overwhelming majority of independence. But he does not have the ability to understand that. All he thinks is me on TV, me no ratings, ratings important, me get paid based on ratings, Tucker has good ratings, me listen to Tucker. Okay, God, what a moron.

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last one, for you boomers out there, I'm just kidding. All right, resist. Uh-huh. No, no, no. Okay. So, all right, guys, chop the way. You got it, we got to go. We got to go. We got more. more super fun stories. The Trump campaign is in complete chaos. People are moving around, there are individuals being transitioned out of their positions. We'll get to those details in just a second. But Gabriel Sherman over at Vanity Fair just published a piece after speaking to some White House insiders and Republican sources who have said that Trump is not in a good place mentally.

They describe him as depressed, down in the dumps, despondent. People around him think his heart is not into it, according to one Republican close to the White House. And he is so worried about his chances of getting re-elected that he's hitting up cable news hosts like Tucker Carlson and asking him, what do I do, what do I do? In fact, one Republican source told Gabriel Sherman to console himself. Trump still has moments of magical thinking. He says that polls are fake, for instance, but then he has these moments of reality, and

that's when he starts getting pretty depressed. One of the things that he's concerned about is the Republican Convention in Jacksonville, Florida, which the campaign is coming very close to canceling after it was reported that lawmakers in the state would make masks mandatory during the convention. And so the source who spoke to Gabriel Sherman said they probably won't have it, meaning they won't even have the convention. It's not going to be the soft landing Trump wanted. So there's more, Jenk, but I want to hear what you think.

I can't love this story enough. It has everything I've ever wanted. Like the internal dissension, babies crying, all of them attacking each other. And then like confused, pathetic longings. And it called Tuck, what do I do? What do I do? You call it Tuck Cross to figure out what they're doing in an election. All right, here's another one of my favorite quotes from this.

So Mark Meadows is the new chiefest to have. He's like, we gotta get Brad Parscale out. We're all gonna lose. This is insane, right? But Jared Kushner wants to keep him. Jared Kushner is beginning to lose power. It's a story that we reported earlier today. But he still has tremendous power because he's married to the one person that Donald Trump cares about, Ivanka.

And so, and apparently Mark Meadows was losing that battle from internally, which he's surprised by it. And then he says this, my God, I love this. Mark Wynne to Mick, that's Mick Mulvaney, the former chief of staff, quote, why didn't you warn me before I accepted the job? There's nothing for me to do. Yes, I love it. I love it. Look, here's part of what I love about it. The right wing celebrates their ignorance. They're like, oh, we don't need no stick in science. Professors are liberals, man. Journalists bring you information, and information sucks, right? So each one of them, we told them Donald Trump is a moron of epic proportions.

All he's going to do is humiliate you, never listen to you, and then blame everything on you. That's what he's done every single time. And guys like Mark Meadows are like, no way, man. He's going to listen to me. I'm going to be in charge. I'm going to be the one guy that gets through to Donald Trump. It's going to be awesome, man. And he goes in and he's like, oh my God. It turns out he's a raving lunatic.

Of course. What did we tell you? What did we tell you? I love it. It's so good. It's so good. So there are other changes within the campaign. I didn't really think this was too much of a big deal, but just to give you some of the details,

Trump campaign chief operating officer Michael Glasner, who had been heavily involved in planning the president's rallies, has been replaced by Trump's 2016 Arizona chair Jeff DeWitt, and that's considered a major shakeup apparently at the top of the president's campaign following the Tulsa rally debacle and four months from Election Day. So some of the campaign officials are alleging that it's much to do about nothing. We just want to ensure that Glasner focuses on the multiple lawsuits that Donald Trump is dealing with right now. And that's the reason why we made this transition or this change. But you should also keep in mind that Trump is struggling when it comes to fundraising based on how well Biden's doing.

So Biden outraised President Donald Trump with $141 million. in a fundraising hall in June, it's the second month in a row, Biden and the Democratic Party have outperformed Trump's reelection operation. Trump's reelection campaign also announced that the campaign and the Republican National Committee had taken $131 million in June. So Biden did beat Trump by raising $10 million more than him in the month of June. Also, the Biden campaign says that it raised $282.1 million in the second fundraising. quarter, which also exceeds Trump's fundraising hall for that April to June time period.

And then finally, Jank, a video that I'm sure is going to make you happy considering the bet that you and I are involved in. James Carville agrees with you. You and James Carville seem to have some similarities when it comes to the chances of Trump even continuing on with his campaign. Let's take a quick look at that. I think there's a significant chance he doesn't run. I mean, This thing is going so poorly. He's so far back. To me, it doesn't make much sense for him to run. This is the great Moscow mid-st strategy.

After Labor Day, we're going to turn on it. That's really going to work. I mean, McSally and Ernst and Sullivan and Lindsay been licking his boots for three years and nine months. But before come Labor Day, we're going to get some separation. The chances of that are working on zero. He is going to drag the whole outfit down with him. So, Jank, how do you feel about the fact that you're in agreement with an establishment operative?

I'm good with it. Okay, so first of all, obviously, James Carville and I do not agree about internal democratic politics. But when it comes to Democrats and Service Republicans, we do agree. I mean, he's saying right there, almost word for word, what I've been saying on the show for a long time about that Lindsey Graham, I'm licking Trump's boots. I mean, how many times have I said that on the air? And is there anyone clear on the record that Trump was not going to make it all the way? Set it on day one, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick.

Okay, so now to back up with Carville saying, what I'm saying, here's more from Gabriel Sherman. I love this quote. Okay, Sherman writes, nervous Republicans worried about losing the Senate are now debating when to break from Trump. Okay, guys, I got, I got one thing to say to you guys, the election is coming. Okay, they're giving Trump until Labor Day to turn things around. I'm very curious to see how they're going to react to him failing to turn things around, because that's certainly how it's looking right now.

Okay, look, I'm going to tell you something, that's real, okay? So, the only thing that politicians care about is their own power. So, and unlike Donald Trump, they're not all delusional, and they understand numbers. And so right now, Joni Ernst, they mentioned it in the article, is she's a senator from Iowa and in a total panic. She said, well, I wasn't supposed to lose. I wasn't supposed to lose, what have you done Donald Trump, right? And as it begins to dawn on them, and as they start running out of time before, you're

before the election, there's only five months left. Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. They're gonna realize it's me or him. It's me or him. Trump's numbers in Iowa are miserable, let alone Arizona. He's losing Arizona by six or nine or something along those eyes. Martha McSally was nice, not nice knowing you, bye bye, and all these folks are gonna lose, right? So I guarantee you at some point this ship is gonna break in half and they're both gonna go under.

And they're gonna, when the Republican Civil War begins, it is going to be awesome and delicious. The election is coming. Can't wait, can't wait. Yeah, I mean, look, in the very least, one of the positive things here is that we know that Donald Trump is down in the dumps. We know that he's upset. And you guys know that that always makes me feel better. Maybe that makes me a bad person, but I don't care. He's a horrible individual who's done terrible things to so many Americans.

But I do want to update you guys on a poll that we had on this very topic. We asked our viewers, do you think Trump will drop out of the race if he's losing badly enough? And look, the majority of viewers actually agreed with me. 69.5% say no, there's no way bad polling would make him drop out. would make him drop out. And a little over 30% of our viewers disagreed and said, yeah, yeah, he's gonna drop out if he's losing badly enough. So I don't know if anyone has changed their minds. In this poll, I still haven't because even if there's mounting pressure for Trump to drop out, I just don't think that he has it in him to accept that and to actually

follow through with dropping out of the race. But who knows, I could be wrong. And if I am wrong, I'm still going to be pretty happy because I want him out. Anna, I think he's going to drop out. Drop T.O.C.com. You're my boss. Like, you're my boss. Well, I think I look pretty good in a mask. I think I look pretty good. I mean, I don't know.

People are saying I look good in a mask. By the way, can you tell who I am? Lone Ranger, duh. Oh, good point, Brett. This is the moment of your establishment. I'm wondering that would break first, Donald Trump. Your spirit, or you buddy? Okay.

All right, well. Has defeated you. I can go all night long. I know. I know you can. But luckily, we're out of time. And our post game is going to be bananas. Yes, we are going to talk about the arrest of Grizzly.

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