The Young Turks - TYT Extended Clip - June 24th, 2020

Episode Date: June 25, 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, which means it is Wednesday. It is hump day. And we have a lot of news to share with you.

How are you guys doing? You can't answer that question. Yeah, they can't. It would be weird if they could, actually. How are you doing? I'm good. I'm a little bit uncomfortable about the hump day thing, but other than that, you know, it's a good day. We had some good news last night. When was the last time that happened?

I don't even remember the sensation. And, you know, hoping for a little bit more good electoral news. We're having to wait for some of these results, but I remain cautiously optimistic. Yes, yes. We are going to update you guys on what happened last night. In addition to giving you updates on, yes, the Bubba Wallace story, which right-wingers think prove something that they want proven. But we'll go to that in a little bit. And then we'll also give you an update on what's happening with coronavirus. That's where, unfortunately, there's additional bad news.

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All righty. So, John, you ready to get to the news? As ready as I'm going to be. All right, sounds good. So lots of good news in the primary elections recently. In fact, two Republicans who were endorsed by Donald Trump lost. They lost. That is good news because it's.

It shows some wavering support among Republican voters. And the two primaries that I'm talking about took place in North Carolina and Kentucky. So let's start off with North Carolina. In Western North Carolina, GOP voters picked a 24-year-old investor by the name of Madison Cawthorn, who uses a wheelchair following an accident over Trump-backed real estate agent, Linda Bennett. The runoff was for the seat vacated by GOP representative, Mark. Meadows who resigned to become Trump's chief of staff and joined his new boss in backing Bennett.

So Bennett did not win the primary. The Republican that Trump favored did not win. That's the important thing to take away from this. But the 24-year-old investor that I was speaking of did win. And unfortunately, he is a Trump supporter, even though Trump didn't endorse him. Let's hear a little bit from Cawthorne and then we'll discuss. Mr. Meadows has been very good to me throughout my life. I wish I could have had an endorsement early on, but it appears that we did not need it.

You know, we expected to win last night, but we didn't expect to win by that large of a margin. Have you heard from Mr. Meadows since your victory last night? I have not heard from Mr. Meadows, but I have heard from the president so far. And so, you know, it's been an honor getting a call from Air Force One. What did the president say to you? And so, Madison, what, yeah, what did he say? He would congratulate me. He was talking about how amazing a victory was. He defined it as beautiful, you know, just talking about how impressive it was that we were able to overcome just so many large obstacles that we did. And so I really appreciate where we're at right now. I believe, you know, the president recognized that we ran a campaign that was very difficult to beat. And also that we're someone who can really help ease this partisan divide that's going on our country right now. So by the time he gets sworn in, he will be 25 years old, which is the age, minimum

age requirement in order to be a member of Congress. And look, he's a Republican, very likely that we disagree with him on the vast majority of issues. He's a Trump supporter, very likely we don't agree with him on the vast majority of issues. But the positive takeaway here is that back in the day, if Donald Trump endorsed someone, that was a strong statement that would typically lead to whoever that candidate, is winning. And right now we're dealing with a president who has a wavering base, really. We always thought of his base is supporting him no matter what. But it does appear that some people aren't

buying what Trump is selling anymore. And I wanted to get your thoughts before we move on to Kentucky, John. Yeah. Yeah. When I saw this, it's really a question of like, it's how embarrassing is it for Donald Trump? I mean, obviously he would prefer that the people he endorses go on to win. But specifically to Trump, how embarrassing is it, and to the perception of Trump. Personally, to Trump, most of the endorsements he makes, whether of candidates or of books or whatever, he doesn't know anything about them. Like, he doesn't actually care. He's been told to tweet once or twice about a person.

So I doubt he's taking it all that personally. I mean, he'd prefer that the person he puts his label on wins so that he can then tweet you know, victoriously about it. But I doubt he was really all that invested in the person that Madison, this Linda Bennett, the person that Madison beat. In terms of the impact that it has on the perception of his power, the fact that the person who beat Linda happens to be a Trump supporter makes a little bit easier. But then I have to imagine that virtually every single Republican that's winning a race these days at least says that they're a fan of Donald Trump. It gets a little bit ridiculous when he talks about the phone call with Trump. And he says that he described it

as beautiful. Well, yeah, he would. It's either strong, beautiful, or like no one's ever seen before. That's the extent of his vocabulary. And Madison is young enough and seemingly intelligent enough that I have a feeling he probably knows that. In terms of what I've read about his politics, he seems like, you know, every other Republican imagine. He's a libertarian, but he believes some crazy things. It seems like he's less willing to go along explicitly with what some of the Republican establishment wants. We'll see if that actually continues. But yeah, as a right now, he's a libertarian. I love how you said he's a libertarian, but he believes some crazy things. I think the right phrasing is he's a libertarian, thus he believes

crazy things. Or because. But maybe, maybe. But look, it's impressive no matter what. Anyone that young that can win an election, even if I never agree with him in anything in his life again, it is impressive. I'll give him that. So Madison isn't the only non-Trump-backed Republican who won in the primaries yesterday. Let's move over to Kentucky, where Republican Representative Tom Massey, a libertarian who often clashes with GOP leaders, was nominated for a sixth House term. Trump is not a fan of his. He savaged Massey in March as a, quote, disaster for America, who should be ejected from the party

after he forced lawmakers to return to Washington during a pandemic to vote on a huge economic relief package. So Trump has been vocal against Massey, but Massey did in fact win the Republican primary in the state of Kentucky. So that is, I believe just another embarrassing move for Trump, an embarrassing development for Trump. But look, more importantly, it shows that Trump's brand isn't as effective or as powerful as it used to be. You know, Jeff Sessions, for instance, wants his Senate seat back. And he has

really embarrassed himself over and over again, trying to appeal to Trump, even though you can tell that he can't stand Trump, right? And Trump keeps ridiculing him, mocking him. He mocked Jeff Sessions accent. I mean, everything. And Jeff Sessions has had to play nice, because he's so worried that if Trump keeps attacking him, then it's gonna hurt him politically. So I bring that up because it's now appearing that it's not necessarily the case that you need Trump's backing to win as a Republican candidate. And his poll numbers are also not looking so good. So for instance, there is a new poll done by, I believe, Reuters. And what they found was that his popularity is decreasing. This was actually conducted by the New York Times in Siena College. And they found

that Biden, as it stands today, leads Trump by 14 points. And he's garnering 50% of the vote compared with Trump only gaining 36% of voter support in this poll. So this is good news. It shows that some of the devastation that's been caused by the Trump administration is having an impact on his polling. And it's been this way for a while now. It's not like this is the first poll that shows that Biden is leading Trump in double digits.

Yeah, yeah. Look, obviously, again, it's not where he'd want to be, but I also, you know, it's the most obvious thing in the world. I caution everyone against getting complacent. I'm looking right now, I Googled June 2016, 2016 polls Clinton versus Trump. She was up by 12 in a Washington Post ABC News poll, and that didn't turn out great. So, I mean, look, obviously the joy that I get out of it on a temporary basis is the fact that I know that it's enraging Donald Trump literally every day, and that's the only thing I get to be happy about. So there's that. But in terms of what effect it should have on how we behave electorally, no, still support candidates, donate money, make calls, you know, to the extent that you can canvas, do all of that stuff. Because the actual

satisfaction comes the day after election day. Assuming he doesn't contest the results. I think that it is, I would be shocked if he didn't contest results if he loses. But I think I think you're right. I think one of the biggest mistakes that Democratic voters could make is to get complacent. But I don't want to go too far in making that argument because the establishment might have a meltdown over it like they did with Maggie Haberman. But anyway, I do also want to just give you an update on what's happening with the Democratic primaries because there were real issues in both New York and Kentucky when it came to voter suppression. So let's start off with Kentucky. In Kentucky, voters who wanted to cast their ballot in the primaries did find

themselves experiencing difficulty because polling places were shut down. There were issues with mail-in ballots. And then this video from Louisville, Kentucky emerged that I want to show you. Let's take a look. So that video, while pretty devastating because it shows how difficult it was for some people to vote in Kentucky, it does give me a lot of hope because those are incredibly enthusiastic voters who are not going to be stopped from casting their ballots. And so eventually they were able to get the doors open so they can enter the building and vote.

Let's take a quick look at that. Go ahead. You're going to fight. You're going to buy. You're going to say. We're going to go. Thank you. Oh, thank you.

We have to go. You're going to go! We're going to go! Don't go! On the gun! Oh, that's going to go! The gun! Out of the gun!

Let's get a door! Let's go! Let's go! No! door! No! door! Do that door!

Do you go! Do not go! Go ahead! Let's it up! No window, straight through those center doors. Do not rush, do not run over. Do not run over people.

Straight into there, do not get into the other line, but straight in. Thank you. Thank you. So, John, as you can see, some people were able to get in, but there was a lot of difficulty voting because in Louisville, there was literally one physical, in-person voting location people can go to. And officials in Kentucky argued that they did this. They shut down the vast majority of voting locations in Kentucky in response to COVID.

But I don't know, it kind of sounds like a bad idea to create. cram a bunch of people into one area to vote. But I mean, again, it's a negative story. There's no question about it, but the one positive that I'm trying to take away from it is just how these voters are undeterred. They want to go there, they want to vote, they're going to do what they can to make it happen. Yeah, that is the silver lining, but can I just say how sick I am of voter suppression-related silver linings? Things like the story is every election that, you know, in Cleveland, there are people who waited eight hours.

Think about the devotion. No, I don't want them to be devoted. I want it to be as casual as getting a Big Mac. I want you to be able to walk in and do it quickly if you want to. You already have a tough life. Everyone does. Being engaged even for five consecutive minutes in politics is tough. I don't want the voting process to be grueling and to be so long.

The end of that video where they're like, you can make it, you can make it. That's supposed to be the end of a marathon. Not the rush to exercise your democratic rights. And the fact that it happens election after election after election, and that the Democratic party lets it happen, and that the media lets it happen, and that thinking that democracy would be a good thing has become an incredibly partisan position with massive disagreement on one side, and that one party being so vigorously and ceaselessly against democracy doesn't hurt them. They pay no electoral price, no public relations price. The Republicans can shred

voting rights everywhere for explicitly racist reasons, and it doesn't hurt them. And that is, that's a failure for America, but specifically a massive failure of the Democratic Party and the media that they allow it to go on. And they enter into every election knowing what's going to happen. None of this is a surprise. It honestly feels a little bit like body cameras. It's like we have the footage and it doesn't matter. And that is utterly depressing. It is depressing. And just to give you a little more context into the videos that we just showed you.

So basically people were waiting in outrageously long lines in order to vote. And then while people were still waiting in line, the polling location closed at 6 p.m., which is why people were banging on the doors demanding that they be let in. If you see people who have been waiting in line for literally hours and you decide that you're just going to shut down the polling place at 6 p.m., yeah, you should be met with that type of resistance and with that type of rage. And I just want to bring up something that's been frustrating to say the least. When it comes to the squirrel that Americans are directed toward, while actual democracy,

our democratic process is being threatened, it's being violated. I don't care to engage in a debate about the flag and whether or not people should be allowed to burn it. We've already been over this, okay? I don't go around burning the flag, but people have a First Amendment right to do it, okay? If you are upset at people burning the American flag because you feel that that is some sort of attack on our democracy, or it's an attack on the brave men and women who fight for our freedom and our democracy, okay, stop paying attention to the squirrel for a minute, because at the end of the day, it's an inanimate object, okay? It's a symbol. I get that the symbol means a lot to a lot of people. But our democracy

is being violated right now by voter suppression. And it happens election after election after election. What good is the flag if it represents nothing? If it represents a country that doesn't even allow its own citizens to vote, to go out there and cast their ballot? I mean, It's not a democracy if people aren't able to vote, right? And so we're seeing this become more and more of an issue. The voter suppression is becoming more and more of an issue. And you're right, John. I mean, I'm tired of trying to focus on silver lining so I don't lose my mind.

But that's what we've been minimized to because we don't have lawmakers who are fighting back aggressively enough against the voter suppression. And so look, we've been talking about Donald Trump, fear mongering about. mail-in voting, arguing that the election is rigged, all this nonsense, all these little tricks he's trying to pull out of his bag, right? So what are Democrats doing to prepare for that? Are they preparing for it? I want to know. Because we've had months to prepare for coronavirus and how it would impact primary elections. And it's very clear that there have not been safeguards put in place to ensure that everyone who wants to vote would have the ability to vote.

100%. Anyway, but just quick good news related to last night. So there were some important races where progressives were battling against incumbent Democrats. So I want to give you an update on Kentucky. So establishment Democrats are not in a good place right now. Although the race has not been called yet due to the high volume of mail-in ballots that have not been counted yet. You know, Amy McGrath in Kentucky is is battling a progressive Charles Booker for the Senate seat, Mitch McConnell's Senate seat to be specific. And so far we don't know for sure who's going to win. A lot of these mail-in ballots are coming from areas that are likely to vote for Charles Booker. But as it stands today, we have, let's see, let me give you the details. So,

Many counties, including Jefferson, the state's largest, faced piles of mail-in ballots and reported no results. The Associated Press doesn't expect to call the McGrath Booker race until June 30th when Kentucky plans to release additional tallies. Just want to note that currently McGrath is at 44 percent and Booker is at 37.6 percent. McGrath has also spent $16 million in ads compared to Booker's $2 million. So considering how much of an advantage she had there, it is kind of more. miraculous to see how well Booker is doing as it stands today.

But we'll give you guys the updates as we receive them. And then finally, the biggest news for the primary elections last night was Jamal Bowman. So the AP is refusing to call that election. However, just keep in mind that the incumbent Democrat, Elliot Engel, is at 34.9%. And Jamal Bowman has a giant lead at 61.8%. So some good news. It is, it is. That's great news. Mondeer Jones, great news. There were some other good progressives too that weren't quite as high profile that won some of these races. It's not considered as high

profile as with Jamal Bowman because, of course, taking down an incumbent like Elliott Engel that had like the full fury of the Democratic establishment behind it. That's the most impressive. The thing that worries me the most isn't necessarily the result that will come out of Kentucky, No matter what, even if Charles Booker comes up short and it still looks like he could potentially win, it was an amazing showing and certainly bodes well for future runs that he'll engage in. It's that so little additional votes have come in since last night. Like, I'm looking and nothing from Louisville is registering on any of the sites that I'm seeing. And the thing is, structurally, I don't know of any reason that counting these early and

absentee votes would be faster in the general election than it would in these primaries, means we're used to knowing on election night who won the presidency. But it's looking like we're probably not going to know. And do you really want to go to sleep that night, not knowing if Trump won re-election? I probably won't. But I mean, that's not rare these days. So anyway, we got to take a break. But when we come back, we will give you that update on the Bubba Wallace NASCAR story. And then later on in the show, we will. We'll give you an update on what's happening in the Arctic Circle. Climate change is a disaster, and no one's talking about it, except for maybe you, John.

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So search for UNFDR in your podcast app today and get ready to get informed, angered, and entertained all at the same time. What's up, everyone? Welcome back to the Young Turks, Anna Casparian, and John Ida Rola from Damage Report is here with us today. Thank you. By the way, I realize that Damage Report

is a reference to Star Wars, right? Star Trek. Oh, okay, yeah, yeah. Close. You know, it's the one with all the hobbits. Yeah, yeah, that one, that one. Okay, so. Thank you for trying.

I do appreciate it. Look, maybe I need to give Star Trek another shot because I used to think I wasn't into Lord of the Rings and then I started watching Lord of the Rings like years later and ended up loving it. So I'm going to give Star Trek another shot. Okay. Talk to me before you do.

I'll give you some advice, but I like this idea. Oh, I like advice. You've got to navigate it the right way. Okay, cool. I'll definitely ask. A few member comments and then we'll get to the thermometer. So we have blue lizard guts who wrote in one of our members saying, I'm really digging the map background.

Thank you. It's like Anna is in charge of John's board game nights. You know, I just realized you had a different background. It just hit me. I like it. It's a little bit like kind of newsy, you know, a little bit John Olivery or something. Yeah, it's a, it's a peel and stick wallpaper. I can tell.

No, I love. No, that's cool. Peel and stick wallpaper is one of my favorite things in the world. Anyway, cousin Vinnie says Anna has seemed to be in a really good mood for the last few days, which is one super nice to see since I know the news stresses. are out so much. And two, infectious, it puts me in a good mood too. Cousin Vinnie, that makes me really happy. So I'm glad that it puts you in a good mood. Max's mama says, how can a state close 95% of the voting locations and still claim they want a fair election? They can't. So you're

absolutely right. This is ridiculous. And I mean, after what happened to Stacey Abrams in Georgia, you know, when are we going to learn? And when are Democrats going to do? something. I know Stacey Abrams, you know, started organizing and did some activism around elections following what happened to her. But we need everyone on board. And there needs to be an aggressive fight to ensure that everyone who wants to vote, everyone who can vote gets the opportunity to vote. All right. So I'll read some super chat comments after the next break. But for now, let's take a quick look at the thermometer. We're trying to raise some money to keep TYT Sustainable. Look at that. I think we're at like 105 yesterday and now we're at 120, a little over

120. I want to like really show Jenk that I'm better than him at fundraising. So like if you if you can help out a little bit during today's show, you know, I can get a little bit of credit for it. Go to tyt.com slash go and that's how you can help contribute to keep us sustainable. We want to be funded and empowered by our audience, and thank you for allowing us to do what we do. With that said, let's move on to some updates, some stories that we did earlier in the week that have unfortunate, well, not unfortunate, fortunate updates that are being twisted in an unfortunate way. So the FBI is alleging that there was absolutely no hate crime committed against the black NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace, who was informed earlier this week that there was a noose hanging from his garage.

Now, the FBI claims that the discovery of the rope was actually just a garage pull rather than a noose. But I got to be honest, there are images of it now, and if you look at it, it looks like a news. So I can understand why there was some confusion here. Now, NBC News is reporting that a news was found hanging in black stock cart racer, Bubba Wallace's garage stall in Alabama, but it was a poll that had been placed there in October long before the stall was assigned to Wallace. Review of security video following the discovery of the news at Talladega Super Speedway showed that the news had been put up nearly eight months ago. And that's according to a joint statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office and the FBI. Wallace was assigned at the garage space last week, which, quote, nobody could have known in 2019, the statement said. So that's the update. Unfortunately, there are some pretty dishonest people using this to attack Bubba Wallace, although Bubba Wallace wasn't the person who discovered the news. He wasn't the person who reported the news.

In fact, he's going to explain that in more detail in the upcoming clip. So let's take a look at the first one. the FBI saying you were not the target of a hate crime and that it had been there at least since last October. When you found that out on Tuesday, Bubba, what was your initial reaction? You know, I was relieved just like many others to know that it wasn't targeted towards me. But it's still frustrating to know that, you know, people are always going to test you. and always just going to try to debunk you.

And that's what I'm trying to wrap my head around now from, you know, saying I'm a fake and all this stuff and that I reported it when it was news that was brought to me. It was information that was brought to me that was already reported. And so I was just kind of following suit. So unfortunately, Bubba Wallace is being targeted by right-wingers who are upset that NASCAR has banned the Confederate flag. at NASCAR events, Bubba Wallace was outspoken about that.

And so I think that some dishonest people are using this update to the new story to basically attack him and attack his character. But again, he's not the one who discovered it and he's not the one who reported it. The person who first reported it to Wallace was NASCAR president Steve Phelps. said in a virtual teleconference that rope went unnoticed as there had not been a race at the Speedway since October. He also wanted to be clear that the news had nothing to do with Wallace. And here is a quote. I want to be clear about the 43 team, the 43 team had nothing to do with this. The evidence is very clear that the news that was in the garage had been in the garage

previously. So that's the update coming from the NASCAR president. But I do want to hear a little more from Wallace. Let's take a look at the next clip and then I want your thoughts, John. When I did find out, I was very adamant on searching all the garages and making sure that this wasn't a garage pool and

ended up being one. But the photo evidence that I've seen and that I have in my possession of what was in our garage is exactly a garage pool. It is. That is a noose. So,

it's uh you know it's i don't know when we'll get to the point to release that that image but it's uh anybody sees it then it's it's it's alerting and it makes you makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up for sure but uh all and all like naskar says you know it's it's a thing that i wouldn't change a thing i would i would alert the naskar officials and let them kind of take care of it if i had seen it in person let let let them know about it and let them take care of it. So, John, look, given today's climate, it's not shocking to find a news, which is why so many people probably believed it to be a news.

Like whoever discovered it, the NASCAR president reporting it, there's the photo. So I mean, I can totally understand why someone would see that and think that, hey, that looks like a news because it looks like a news. So I wanted to get your thoughts, and then we have one more clip to get to. Okay, so two sets of thoughts. The first is, like, we are at such a disadvantage. And this story, I think, perfectly demonstrates it, that when you see this story, you want to know what actually happened, was there a hate crime, was a news left, was a target

of this individual, answers to facts, so that we can then understand what's going on. But the right wing isn't interested in that. They just want to use it to attack people, to pretend that hysteria is going on when it's not all of that. And he's now being affected by that. So even if the initial hate crime wasn't there, he is now receiving hate just because he was dragged into this thing. Isn't it convenient how that works out? And when, you know, the cops report that people put bleach in this and through that and there's a tampon in your coffee or whatever, and then it turns out that none of that's true. The right has already used it and moved on. They don't care about whether the things

actually happened. They got their use out of it. They squeezed all the juice they could out of it. and then they've moved on. All of these stories, the actual truth is irrelevant to our opposition. And that is very frustrating. But I just want to briefly say that with this story, and I admit partially because it's a sports story, I didn't actually learn about this story in the way that I normally do with the news. Normally, we have a very sort of efficient machine-like approach to digesting news, where

we go through multiple sources and all of that. With this, I didn't initially. I sort of followed it, like I imagine, a lot of people who are really distracted and don't of a ton of time where they're contractually obligated to follow the news did. And my experience was complete bewilderment as to what the actual facts were. Because every update seemingly fundamentally shifted what the story of the story was. And it's so hard to actually understand what was really going on. And I'm sure that's actually true of a lot of stories. If you, if you aren't being paid to follow this, like some of these stories are incredibly complicated to follow

along. And so I found that to be frustrating. And I imagine the experience of people just wanting to know what's really going on that this must have been a very frustrating past couple of days. Yeah, especially for Wallace above anyone else. And he shares a little bit of that in an interview with Don Lemon. Let's watch. Is that typical? Don, the image that I have and I have seen of what was hanging in my garage is not a it's not a garage pool. I've been racing all my life. We've raced out of hundreds of garages that never had garage pools like that.

So look, I don't blame anyone for discovering that and thinking that it's a news. That's what it looked like. I have to be honest, I would assume that the garage or the garages for NASCAR would be operated electronically rather than relying on a pool, a pull, but whatever. I mean, this is the update. And yeah, probably, you're probably right. But nonetheless, it's, this is not, he didn't do anything wrong. So the hatred directed toward him is absolutely disgusting and unacceptable. But let's say, you know, you give right wingers the benefit of the doubt, which I would never do. But let's say we did that, okay? And it turned out that this is some crazy conspiracy, Bubba Wallace is behind it, it doesn't erase the fact that we live in a country that's dealing with a very serious problem with racism. It doesn't change that. So if they're going to point to this story or, you know, compare it to what happened with Jesse Smollett, none of that. None of that erases the horrific video evidence that we've been seeing every single day for the

the past several weeks when it comes to black people in this country and how they're treated by law enforcement, how they're treated by private citizens on the streets, how they're treated when they go to the stores, when they go to banks, when they go anywhere. That is a very real systemic problem we have. And so they can go ahead and deflect and point to squirrels all they want. But this NASCAR story is just one tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny story that's on, you know, this enormous pile of race-related issues that we need to deal with in the country. 100% yeah. That's just the truth.

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And I don't know what this means, but I'm in favor of it. Obie Mom Canobi 7 writes in and says, donated 300 bits with a message, Bits for Anna. I like bits. I don't know what they are, but it sounds fun. It's like a digital currency thing. That's awesome.

Thank you. Very nice. Does digital currency like translate to real currency? Or is it just like I can buy like avatars and stuff with it? No, I think it does. Not for you or me, but for someone, yes. if it's to keep this place going, then that's fine. I'm okay with that. Exactly. And by the way, I don't know if you notice, but the person who sent in the bits, Obi-Mom Knobe, that's another

Star Trek reference. Yes, yes. And by the way, somebody also wrote in in regard to Star Trek and said, Star Trek is the most, this is from Nigel. Star Trek is the most social, wait, am I wrong? Were you kidding? Were you kidding? I was joking. It's a Star Wars reference. You were so enthusiastic. Oh, my God, I'm the famous. I can't believe you trolled me like that. Nigel from our member comments says, Star Trek is the most socialist show ever.

Many don't realize it takes place after society fell under capitalism. It takes place in a Marxist utopia if you pay attention. Now I'm going to have to watch it. Now I'm super interested. There are some issues. Racially, there are some issues with the show. historically, but economically, and in terms of that, the message is very good. All right.

And then super chat comments because I promised Charles wrote in saying, what are your thoughts on the rumors of Karen Bass being v.P. Pick? This is the first time hearing of it, to be honest. So give me some time to process it. And I'll come back with a strong opinion after I'm fully informed about it. Miguel says, I'm sending you so much money because the whole world sees Americans as neoliberal latency fascists. And you prove to me that this is not true.

Do not disappoint the world. Miguel, thank you. That's really sweet. And Peter Hamby says, of course we can, Anna, we do it here in the YouTube live channel and seeing progressive candidates stepping up to the plate is hope for the future. I totally agree. Thank you so much. All right, well, let's get to some coronavirus updates.

Donald Trump's approval rating on how he has responded to the pandemic is not good. In fact, he has reached a new low according to a new Reuters Ipsos poll. Only 37% of Americans approve of the way Trump has responded to the health crisis, the lowest percentage since the poll began asking the question in early March. Of those surveyed, 58% of Americans responded that they disapproved of how Trump and has reacted to the pandemic. Now, if anyone's, if everyone's paying attention to what's happening to the country right now,

I argue that that number should be much higher. But still, the majority of Americans are unhappy with how he's handled coronavirus. Just 43% of GOP voters said they thought the country was headed in the right direction, the lowest recorded level since Trump took office in January of 2017. Now, one of the issues with how Trump has handled coronavirus,

and believe me, There have been many issues has been the confusion and the chaos after he admitted during his Tulsa rally that he wanted to slow coronavirus testing down because, of course, that would suppress the numbers and make it appear as though we're defeating coronavirus when in reality we're not. And so if you don't believe that Trump wanted to slow down coronavirus testing, we have some more evidence that he does in fact want to do it, has wanted to do it. He's actually, as coronavirus cases are spiking in the country, defunding community testing efforts.

So according to the Hill, Trump's administration is ending its support for 13 coronavirus testing sites across the country at the end of the month, including seven in Texas as COVID-19 cases continue to spike in a number of areas nationwide. We now have dozens of states that have seen a spike in coronavirus cases. Let me give you some statistics that are pretty terrifying. Four of the seven, by the way, Texas sites in Jeopardy are in Houston and Harris County, which public experts say could become the area worst hit by coronavirus. Now, Texas's case count has been rising since Memorial Day with the state breaking records for its daily new case count on Monday and Tuesday, with 4,760 new cases.

5,080 new cases respectively. So the numbers are just devastating. We're seeing it all across the country right now. The number of new cases nationally, for instance, is above 30 per day. And that was over the weekend after having leveled off at 20,000 per day for week. So we're now at 30,000 per day earlier when we were flattening the curve. we would get about 20,000 roughly new cases a day. Sorry, I'm a little bit confused.

I'm trying to square a couple of things that you said. So he's shutting down the testing places, and you said that the numbers are too high. The numbers are going to go down once we stop testing people. I don't understand what exactly is it that you want. He's dealing with your problem. Okay, anyway. So many people have already died and so many more. people will needlessly die. I was just watching a report about ICU's completely at capacity

with not just coronavirus cases, to be fair, because remember, hospitals started accepting elective surgeries, they started booking them again. And so they're taking care of other patients as well. But now with the spike in coronavirus cases, hospitals are overwhelmed. And this is such a disaster. As someone who experienced what it was like having my mom in the hospital during this pandemic, not because of coronavirus, but because of some other health issue, it's terrifying. You're not allowed to even step foot in the hospital. You're not allowed to be there with your loved one for the first several days. We had very minimal communication with her. This is absolute devastation for so many people. And we've already lost nearly 122,000 Americans.

Yeah. Yeah. So, and let's just quickly reference, you said the 37% who support the way that he responded to it, they didn't even read the question. They certainly didn't think about it. They'd support anything that he does or doesn't do or whatever. It doesn't matter. They like him. That's what they like. It was so much worse than it needed to be. The bar that they had for him was buried deep underground. It's sort of meaningless. A third of the country doesn't think critically about literally anything that happens. But yeah, in terms of when he did the, the, you know, I want them to slow down the testing thing and like we talked about it. That's the sort of thing where I don't know if you experienced it, Anna, but I'm sure you've

experienced it for things like this. You get attacked saying, why are you focusing on the things that he says? He just says stuff. Yeah, and then he changes federal policy to actually slow down the testing. That's why we pay attention to it because he's the president and he has the power of life and death for thousands and thousands of people. And so when he jokes that he's gonna slow down the testing, and then 48 hours later starts slowing down the testing, maybe it's something that we should be focusing on as a country. And I don't know what other ways he can do it, but this is a pretty effective one. Texas looks bad. He doesn't want Texas to flip in the election, okay? And so he certainly doesn't want people there being worried about

coronavirus, so just completely hinder the testing and make it so that people don't know how bad it is. Maybe soon like Florida, they won't report hospitalization rates. And then we don't have to be worried about that either. And maybe they'll start classifying some of the deaths as just a massive, unexplainable spike in influenza deaths. And then we don't have to worry about the deaths either. Pandemics are hard to solve, but it's a little bit easier to just pretend that it's not happening. And that is the strategy that he and the GOP are pursuing. Yeah, you're right. And there are big consequences to that. And there's no winning with Trump. There's no redeeming quality overall, but there certainly is none when it comes to his response to coronavirus.

I mean, he's discouraged people from wearing masks. He thinks that people wear masks to make him look bad according to a statement that he gave to the Wall Street Journal. I keep bringing that up because it's just so part and parcel of who he is as a person. It's always about him. He's so narcissistic and sociopathic and we're losing so many innocent lives as a result of his actions, and he just doesn't care. All right, well, I promised you a climate change story, and I definitely want to do it. So I'm going to skip ahead to that, guys, and just discuss this heat wave in the Arctic Circle. So Siberia is experiencing a triple-digit heat wave, giving us a glimpse into the future

of the Arctic. Now, the Arctic Circle overall is experiencing this heat wave. For instance, much of Russia, by the way, has been facing a heat wave in recent day. with multiple locations reporting temperatures as high as 113 degrees on June 19th. The surprising warmth was also felt in other parts of the Arctic, like Northern Canada and Scandinavia. I want to just direct your attention to this map from the European Union, which shows just the area that's impacted by this and just how much this is really affected.

the Arctic. And Russia, by the way, is emerging from its hottest winter on record. And since the beginning of the year, temperatures have averaged 12.4 degrees Fahrenheit above what's typical in Siberia. So there's no question that climate change has contributed to the warming temperatures in the Arctic. But unfortunately, it's now become a vicious cycle, John, where melting ice will release perma, permafrost, and that permafrost will only accelerate the impact of climate change or accelerate climate change. So, for instance, in northern latitudes during the summer, there is near continuous sunlight. And that, you know, that environment, unfortunately, is accelerating things as well. Even at night, they have sunlight. And so that allows the heat to kind of accumulate in areas

that experience, you know, sunsets and can cool off in the evening. So since they don't have the evening during this time, they don't have that opportunity. And also one factor this year was the lack of snow, which is also due to climate change, with an unusually warm winter, less snow built up across parts of the Arctic. And with a warm spring, much of it melted sooner than usual. And keep in mind, like, that's a problem. problem because snow helps to reflect the sunlight and keep things cooler. So John, I know that this is a topic you're passionate about, which is why I included

it in the rundown. So I wanted to get your thoughts. Thank you. Yeah. Snow and waterborne ice as well, far more reflective than the ocean when it goes away. And so again, nonlinear. As you point out, methane gets released as permafrost heats up. just methane, also potentially lethal viruses and bacteria and things like that. So that's a

fun little consequence. But yeah, it's devastating. Thank you for that correction, by the way. I'm like, wait, it's not perma. No, no. People got what you were saying. Yeah. And it's like we were saying earlier, you know, I'm sick of silver linings. Hashtag no more silver linings. Like when the coronavirus was starting to rampage and we all shut down and then, you know, we were all like, hey, slightly less emissions. Okay, oddly enough, it didn't solve the problem. And the problem kept continuing, and it is going to keep continuing. We are in hell when it comes to dealing with the climate crisis. And honestly, the best case scenario coming out of this year is only going to be kind of as good as four or five years ago. But thankfully,

we do have some people in elected office that hopefully could lead the way. This is not something that we can necessarily think about constantly because there's so many other things that are punching us in the face on a daily basis. But it's not stopping just because we're distracted. Yeah, you're absolutely right. And one of our members wrote in in response to what John Bolton had to say about hoping that Donald Trump doesn't get reelected, because if he does get reelected, it would cause like irreparable harm to our country. But Donald Trump has already caused irreparable harm. I mean, he has rolled back the very few environmental protections that we had in place and has helped to accelerate climate change. I mean, he pulled

out of the Paris Climate Accord immediately as soon as he was inaugurated and we're going to suffer the consequences of that. Anyway, we're going to talk more about what's happening in the news in the post game. Become a member. TYT.com slash join to become one and we'll see you soon.

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