The Young Turks - TYT Extended Clip - June 5th, 2020

Episode Date: June 6, 2020

Video of a 75-year-old man violently pushed to the ground by police is going viral. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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see 42,000 today? Okay. Love you guys. All right. Let's do it, man. Let's do the news. We got good news, we got bad news, we got angry news. I like the start of the show because we haven't gotten the angry news yet and I'm still in a good mood. So, Anna, go ahead and run with that for me. It's kind of amazing how much of a good mood you're in. We have good news today, really where? Anyway, well, let's see my heart with the light and the darkness. T.I.T.com slash go. Man, look, people can say whatever they want about you, but one thing that is undeniable is how resilient your optimism is, I don't get it. But it's okay. Let's, let's move on. One day, somebody's going to sue me over that, too. He was just far too optimistic. It was

outrageous. For sure. That might be me. Good forward to it, Casper. Yeah. All right. Well, look, this next story is, like, it's difficult to even share the details of the story, but we have to, and it just just gives you a sense of just how much of an issue policing really is. It's not about a few bad apples. It's definitely a culture problem that we're seeing all throughout the country right now. So police in Buffalo, New York shoved an elderly man to the ground who was absolutely not a threat to them.

He posed no threat. And the video featuring what happened to this 75-year-old elderly man was just so heartbreaking and difficult to watch. It's incredibly graphic, but I think it really reveals quite a bit about the culture of policing in America. I want to give you as many warnings as possible. The video we're about to show you is graphic. It's difficult to watch. But I do want you to pay attention to what the cops do to this elderly man, but more importantly, what happens after they discover that he needs help? Take a look. He is flicking.

He's pleading out of here. He's bleeding out of here. Get a medic. What the f*** you walking up on here? I'm going to grab. Get back away. Come up. Come up.

You don't know what this. Back up. Get off the steps. Let's go. Get back. Get back. You better get an ambulance for him. We have an EMT on seeing.

So they had no interest in helping him, as you can see in that video. He was bleeding from his ear, again, 75 year old man. And they were far more interested in arresting a protester who was there, as opposed to helping him as he was laying there, bleeding from his ear. Jank, before I go to you, I just want to show one other angle to what happened. And the audio in this video is difficult, because you can literally hear his head. hitting the ground. Again, it's graphic. Let's go. critical yet stable condition. And that video definitely killed a part of me. Like a little tiny

part of me is gone. Like just that part of you that believes that there's some good in humanity watching something like that, watching their like nonchalant attitude towards someone who's literally on the ground bleeding from their ear, an elderly person who was not a threat to them at all. And just a little while earlier, by the way, you have the exact same cops, not the exact same cops who pushed him necessarily, but you have the same police department posing in pictures, kneeling with protesters as if they're the good guys. Please, everyone who's listening to this right now, stop doing the police's PR for them. It is a PR move to do these pictures where they're kneeling with protesters.

Okay, it's the same police department that did that. And then immediately afterwards, you see videos like this where they brutalize innocent people, including 75-year-olds, who pose no threat to them. I just, I can't get over how disgusting this, this whole situation is. Okay, so we have super important updates on the police officers involved and the gentleman involved. His name is Martin Gugino, and I'm going to explain to you why he's an American hero, not for getting pushed down, but for the work that he has done up until now, and you're

going to love some of his work and some of his quotes. But first on the video, so it's past curfew. They tell the officers to line up. They had been those, again, same police department talking to the protesters peacefully earlier in the day, and some of them had left. And then the others, once you go past curfew, it is some form of civil disobedience. So when that happens, very often you're willing to be arrested and you get a lot of. arrested without putting up any kind of fight.

I've been involved in movements like that. And so the protesters that you saw, that's about what there was. So there's very few folks left. They knew what the situation was. So cops line up in Gestapo lines, and they do. It looks like a military stormtrooper, Gestapo type of situation, and they're chanting or whatever they're doing and shouting on orders. And then they march like Gestapo, and then they act like Gestapo.

And the most important part is, as Anna pointed out, a couple of the stormtroopers have a human moment for a second. You see it in the second video too, where the guy goes like, ooh, and he looks and stuff. But no, they get the orders. You must proceed. We don't care about humans. Our job is to crush them and show them how tough we are and how they can never disobey our authority under any circumstance, because that is what the stormtroopers were taught.

So now we go to the updates. So two of the officers are suspended. And I can give you more than details, but 57 of the officers, other officers involved, are so outraged by the suspension that they say, oh, that's it, we're all resigning from this unit. First of all, good, good, good riddins, trash, all of them, every single one of them, garbage, garbage. They deserve to be jobless, okay? For that complete disregard for human life, that man's my dad's age. Disgusting.

Oh, they think they're so tough and they're so brave for resigning in solidarity. Your garbage, all of them are criminals, for warranting and sanctioning this type of behavior. Who knows how many people they've murdered, innocent people. Yeah. So I have that take, but also a second one. So the cops are outraged that they're not allowed to crack the skulls of 75-year-olds, just absolutely outraged. They're like, are you kidding me? How can we do this job if you don't let us viciously attack innocent civilians?

But the second part of it is they're right that they, that's the orders they were given, and that is what they're taught to do. So I don't want society now turning around and saying, oh, it's only 57 bad apples. No, we told them to be brutal. So what I'm asking society to do is to stop asking the cops to be brutal. And you can tell it from the reaction that you see on TV, I think a lot of the really well-paid anchors, which is almost all of them, are genuinely shocked. Like, they, I think they really didn't know what cops were doing to poor people, metal-class

people, minorities. Because when cops interact with people that have higher status, they do you think they push down cable news anchors into the pavement and cracked their skulls? No. When they interact with them, they're obsequious. And they're like, oh, do you need any help? Can I carry your bags? What can I do? And so the experience that rich people have with cops is that cops protect them and are wonderful to them. So I think those wealthy Americans are genuinely shocked to see video of cops doing what cops normally do to the rest of us. So I'm glad they saw And I'm glad it appears as some of them care a little bit.

But yes, yes, millions of African Americans have not been lying this whole time. Yes, that's what cops do them all the time. And yes, they also do it to other people. So who do they do it to? They do most of minorities, of the minorities, they do most of African Americans. And this is not just anecdotal, it's not just a video we're showing you recently. It is borne out by all the statistics. But they also do it to poor people.

They also do it not to right-wing protest, not to all protesters. Right-wing protesters are put on a pedestal. Oh, you want to come and point weapons at us? Of course, sir. You have Second Amendment rights, sir. You want to take over federal property? Well, we'll leave you there for months, sir. Of course, sir.

You do anything you like, sir, because the right-wing white males in this run this country or historically have run this country. That's why they're so mad. That's why they love Donald Trump so much. Because they think maybe we can reverse it. Oh, we hated when the black guy was in charge. We hated the idea that we don't run everything. But another category that the cops regularly pummel and assault with impunity is left-wing

protesters. Oh, you're against an oil pipeline. You're against my boss making money, how dare you? We'll crack your skull, tear gas, et cetera. We'll make it illegal to protest. You're a 75-year-old. I don't give a damn, okay? You'll bleed out from the ear, and we won't even call for up.

Did you notice in the first video, how much more the police prioritize getting the video camera shut down than they did in treating the guy bleeding out? To shut down, yeah, to shut that down and also to arrest a protester. That's what their priorities were. As someone was on the floor bleeding from his ear, that's what they were concerned about. Yeah, and I got more on Martin, and I know you got more, but the final thought on that piece of it is, look, we did teach him that. You got to own that. You got to own that. Because if you don't own it, you're not going to change it. So don't tell me that you're outraged by the two cops

who shoved them. You're outraged by Derek Chauvin, who was George Floyd's neck. You're outraged by the 57 people who resigned. No, you should be outraged by the culture of policing in the entire country. It doesn't mean all the cops are bad guys. I know some people think that, right? No, it means that we authorize and encourage them to be brutal to certain groups in America. So it's incumbent upon us to end it, for God's sake, end it. And if a politician that you put in office does not make it a top priority to retrain the police and say, just say it, police culture in this country is wrong. It's wrong.

Don't give me this BS about how police are on a pedestal and they're awesome and there's God's gift to humanity and then turn around and say, oh, golly, gee, did they crack another skull of a left-weight protester or a black person? Oh, man, I'm outraged. No, you're not. Unless you hold the politicians accountable and throw their asses out and throw out the police chiefs and the police union heads and all those guys and re-change the culture. You, you are responsible. And I got a lot of where they came from. No more, I'm not, I'm not interested in caveats anymore. I should have known, you know, because you want to be a reasonable person and you don't want to, you know, paint an entire group of people in a broad way and, you know, accuse them of things that, because, you know, I have a cop in my family and I know this person closely and I know that this is a good person. And so I refuse to buy into this notion that all cops are bad, right? But when you really think about it, Jank, how many of these people are, you know,

have been quiet, how many of the so-called good cops have been quiet or have covered up for their colleagues or have made excuses for all of the violence we've been experiencing for so long at the hands of local police departments, right? And I'm not having that conversation anymore. No caveats. The entire system is rotted to the core, okay, where the worst thing you can do as a fellow cop is call out one of your colleagues for brutality. That's the worst thing you can do. 57 people who watch a video like that and they think, no, no, that was awesome. That was awesome. We stand in solidarity with these two cops who should not be suspended right now. They should not only be fired. They should be facing serious criminal charges. That man was not a threat to them

at all, at all, 75 years old. He had a helmet. He had a police helmet in his hand. I don't know if he was intending on, you know, maybe he picked up a police helmet and he wanted to hand it to one of the cops. But that man was not a threat. And the fact that you have all these dozens of cops right now saying, no, no, that was totally okay. In fact, we're so outraged that people are outrage that we're going to quit in solidarity. This whole system is rotten to the core, period. If you're a cop and you consider yourself a good cop, but you've been sitting in silence, you're part of the garbage that we're against right now, at least that I'm against right now.

Because that is what, that is exactly what has empowered this rotten system, right? The so-called good cops who just stood by and allowed it to happen because they were too cowardly to call out their trash colleagues. Yeah. So I'll actually go further. So right now, including two that were suspended, the 57, that resigned from that division of the police force, don't get it wrong. They're all still on the job.

They're just saying, oh, I don't want to do that anymore if you don't let me have fun and kick 75-year-old's asses. I'd like another job, but you keep paying me in the meanwhile. No, they should all be fired immediately. you resigned. I gave you a job. You chose not to do that job. There's no further conversation. Can you imagine it your work? You're like, oh, yeah, you hire me to do this job, but I don't want to. I want to do another job. So you keep paying me while I do nothing for the moment being. And I'm protesting you. No, you're fired. Good night. Bye, bye. Clean up your stuff. Go home. Clean up, go home. They should all be fired immediately, immediately. You resign. You don't get to resign from the kind of job that the job you were assigned to, and maybe later you give me another job. No, you're gone, you're all fired, okay?

But even more importantly, of course, fire the police chief and impeach the mayor, because they all were part of a system where the 57 cops thought, well, you told me to crack skulls. And I'm so outraged that I don't get to crack skulls that I'm willing to throw my weight around and have moral, you know, it, you know, it. that you won't let me do this. Well, then obviously, obviously they were taught to do that. They were taught to do that. You have to fire everyone who taught him to do that and get someone else who actually wants the police the whole community and not just the privileged.

Okay, now one other part of that, that is so important that we did not touch on. The original police statement about that incident before the video came out was that a protester trip and fell. Okay, so although the incident took place outside Buffalo City Hall and daylight and full view of witnesses, including at least five journalists, the Buffalo Police Department initially said in his statement that, quote, during a skirmish involving protesters, one person was injured when he tripped and fell. Okay, cops in general are liars.

They lie all the time. They lie as a regular course of action. Is it because they're unique human beings who are prone to lie? No. It's the culture. They're taught to lie for each other. It's called thin blue line. So when one cop does something terrible, he's not a bad apple.

All the apples go, oh yeah, let's all perjure ourselves, lie to reporters, lie to the public, lie to everyone. There's a culture of, yeah, we cover up every crime that every cop ever does. What do you think thin blue line means? means, thin blue line means we get to break the law. We get to crush everything in our path and evade accountability by lying through our teeth. If you see a cop on a witness stand and they're testifying about police abuse, you should assume 100% that they're lying.

Unless they're saying the cop actually did it, it would be shocking if they weren't lying. I don't, are we still, you see, the core of the problem and why we're so upset is because to, at this late date, you turn on local news and oftentimes cable news. What you'll hear is credulous anchors say, now everybody remember, the cops are wonderful and they're always told the truth, and they're always here to protect you, but we had this one incident and blah, no, no, no, no, no, no, and media, stop lying on their behalf. You do. You know why?

Because you're friends with cops, and cops protect you, and you're among the privilege. But they don't treat the rest of us that way. So this is not abnormal. What happened in Buffalo happens in every city, every day, by all the police that we've trained to be both brutal and serial liars. Okay, one last thing, guys, I gotta tell you about Martin, the protest. We gotta go, Jank. We gotta take a break.

Okay, so let's take a break. And then I wanna come back and tell you about Martin Gugino. He's amazing. We'll come right back. We need to talk about a relatively new show called Un-F-The-Republic, or UNFTR. As a Young Turks fan, you already know that the government, the media, and corporations are constantly peddling lies that serve the interests of the rich and powerful. But now there's a podcast dedicated to unraveling those lies, debunking the conventional wisdom. In each episode of Un-F-The-Republic, or UNFTR, the host delves into a different historical episode or top of,

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Okay, let me go to this. So we've all now seen a horrific video in Buffalo, the 75-year-old man being pushed down cracked skull, you hear his skull hit the pavement, you see him bleeding out from the ear, you see the cops prioritizing, stopping the camera rather than helping the gentlemen, but you might not know who he is. He's Martin Gugino, and he turns out he's an amazing guy. And so I want to make sure you know about him. He was like, this is from The Intercept, wonderful article from The Intercept.

As usual, Robert Mackey wrote this. He says he was identified as a veteran activist, Martin Gugino, by his friend Mark Colville, one of seven Catholic anti-nuclear activists affiliated with plowshares and nuclear abolition movement currently away he sent the scene for breaking into Kings Bay, Naval's submarine base in St. Mary's Georgia in 2018 on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. There's a 75-year-old guy who all this time has been emulating Dr. King. There's a 75-year-old guy who's such a devout Catholic that he puts his body on the line, even at this late date, to say, hey, if you're going to hurt

other people, you're going to have to get through me. And unfortunately, the cops in Buffalo said, yeah, no problem. We can get through you. We'll crack your skull, and then if they don't, if the public is outraged by it, we'll all resign because we believe we have the ultimate right to do that. More from The Intercept. Colver wrote on Twitter, this is my good friend Martin Gugino, a longtime activist and political thinker, has struggled to close Guantanamo as a member of witness against torture, a man of deep faith who spends much of his free time visiting prisoners in Attica, and he's battling

catastrophic illness. Look, I tell you this because sometimes, you know, when we talk about religion, I'll do a caveat and I'll say, but some of the best people on earth are religious people. And so I might not agree with the religion, but I deeply appreciate those who follow correctly and who do these wonderful acts for other people. This is who I'm talking about. And if they had not pushed them down and hurt them that badly, you might never have known about Martin Gugino, but he would have been a hero nonetheless. He's not a hero for getting

pushed out. He's a hero for quietly fighting for you while you didn't know it all this time. One more. Last week, Gugino posted a YouTube statement addressed to the federal court in Brunswick, Georgia, where COLA is awaiting sentencing in support, in which he had signed Martin Luther King's belief that the arc of the moral universe is long but had been towards justice. Gugino added, what he doesn't say there is that it doesn't bend itself. We have to bend it. We have to go out in the culture and act justly, act morally, do good, and little by little,

it will bend the culture towards justice. And some of the times the culture doesn't want to be bent. And so they'll be conflict, and that's just part of it. He said before going out on these protests, he was worried about COVID. he's 75, and he was worried about, quote, the risk of getting pummeled because he's been through it before. But still, at the age of 75, quiet hero, Martin Gujito, got out that day. And like every other day, he went out there and he went to protest for others. Because that is what deeply religious people do. They don't hold Bibles upside down in front of churches for a photo op. And they do it not to get

recognize, but they do it because it's the right thing to do. So that's what an American hero looks like. And so the next time you hear people talking about left-wing protesters and saying they're terrorists, or we need to call them domestic terrorists, we need to hunt them down, we need to arrest them, we need to attack them. Remember Martin Gugino, because that's what a left-wing activist, and that's what an American hero actually looks like. All right, let's move on to other news today, also out of New York. So habeas corpus rights have been suspended in New York following a judge's ruling in regard to protesters who have been arrested because they were out past curfew.

So you are supposed to get charged if you are held in custody, you're supposed to have a reason to be held in custody. And so lawyers representing these detainees are saying, well, they've been behind bars for more than a day. So past 24 hours, they should be charged at this point. They have not been charged. And it looks like these people are just going to be detained indefinitely. And that's against their constitutional rights. And so now a judge has weighed in, and I want to give you what this judge had to say. As of the Thursday afternoon hearing, The number of people arrested in Manhattan who have been waiting to see a judge in cramped cells for more than 24 hours had climbed to 202, according to an NYPD lawyer.

So the Manhattan Supreme Court judge James Burke argues that there's a lack of resources to deal with this influx of people in jail. The entire police department has been deployed and the entire Manhattan's DA offices, quote, hands on deck and working to relieve the problems which we are currently addressing. It is simply a fact that virtual parts, remote hearings, slow down the pace of arraignments, including but not limited to technical issues. So Judge Burke is blaming this on coronavirus. Coronavirus is slowing things down. And then you have an influx of people coming into, you know, our jails. And we're not able to handle it.

We don't have the resources to do it, but it sounds like a bunch of BS, to be quite honest with you. Now, NYPD assistant deputy commissioner, Janine Gilbert said police have been slow to process arrest due to chaos in the streets, which she added has been downright scary. Okay. I would argue that, yeah, there's been a lot of scary stuff out in the streets, especially in New York when it comes to brutality at the hands of the NYPD. So one of the attorneys representing the people who have yet to be detained, arraigned, says they have 38,000 police officers. So they have plenty of police officers to do their policing work. The fact is the police department is not doing its job.

The NYPD is one of the wealthiest police departments in the world. They have access to the best technology. And that's why they can run around surveilling people, wiretapping people, doing all sorts of things. But now, when it comes to processing protesters, people who are assessing their First Amendment rights, oh, all of a sudden, because they're protesting police brutality, now we're back to the days of carrier pigeon. So the judge's ruling is important here, because that ruling indicates that, yeah, we can just go ahead and detain people indefinitely without an arraignment, without any charges.

Let's just put them in a jail cell and forget about them for as long as. as we can. That's basically what this ruling indicates. The judge is 100% wrong. The Constitution and our laws are not negotiable. You have a right to a speedy trial, and there are certain laws in New York, including this 24-hour one, and if you did not meet that standard, I don't care why you didn't meet it. Look, even if it applied to very serious criminals, if you have legal and constitutional standards, you must abide by them. It is not optional. Oh, yeah, well, you know, I couldn't get to it because we couldn't put enough cops on it or we couldn't put enough prosecutors on it. Okay, then

they're free to go. That doesn't mean that they're off, by the way. It just means they're released. They've still got processed. They still have to come back and go through whatever proceedings they have to. It's just that they're not crammed into a jail cell waiting to get coronavirus. And by the way, if you found a legal reason, like maybe one of them will throw them all top cocktail and you want to keep them in jail because it's is that, you want to deny and bail? Okay, that's fine. You're going through the legal process. I don't want dangerous people out there. But if you say, nah, I don't know, I was just too busy. I don't care. The law doesn't care. This judge is a billion percent wrong. The judge basically

is saying, I don't like these protesters. They scare me. Yeah, and hey, who knows, maybe they, you know, they might come into my neighborhood. And so as a person who's relatively wealthy and definitely privileged and with a lot of power, it's really keep him locked up more. So this is why, folks who use their privilege to protect others make a big difference. I've seen a young white woman step in front of young African-American men so that the cops won't hit them. They're about to hit them. The young woman steps in, and then the cops don't hit him because, oh, well, that's a person with privilege. And so a young white woman, it would seem bad if we hit her. I mean, we were super happy to hit the black guy, right? So in this sense, you know, if there's

these protests in your neighborhood, especially if you're wealthy, please go join them. Because if one wealthy person is in jail, they'll bring lawyers, and those lawyers will get those folks out, okay? Because that judge will then go, oh, that's Bob. Oh, Bob. Oh, well, Bob is wealthy. Well, we can't have Bob sitting in jail past 24 hours. That would violate the law. A bunch of young left-wing protesters and black people, keep them in jail.

Who gives a damn? Right? No, that, you know what? You want to make sure that they're processed in time? Hire more prosecutors, hire more cops. Reassign them. There's a bunch of cops that are now doing surveillance work on left-wing groups for no goddamn reason.

Why don't you reassign them to processing this? If you don't, I don't care. It's the law. Apply the law. It's funny how when it's rich folks who break the law, i.e. Trump's friends, all of a sudden, oh my God, but what about this? And oh, the FBI wanted him try to trick it, trap him into lie. Oh, my God, poor Roger Stone, poor Michael Flynn, poor Manafort, what's he going to do with

this ostrich jacket, et cetera, right? When it's people that aren't wealthy, who cares? Who cares about their rights? They don't have any goddamn rights. Just stuff him into prison and leave him beat. No, that judge, by the way, should be disbarred. Your job as a judge is to apply the law, not your biases. When we come back from the break, we'll talk.

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Exactly right. I was thinking about Kleeve Browder during that whole story. They never care when it's us. The progressive linguist says maybe they should sell one or two of the tanks that have been rolling down our streets and use the proceeds to hire additional staff. Exactly. Justin Anderson says, cop, screw your civil rights. Nobody cares less than we do.

New York judge. Hold my beer. Exactly right. Again, the math magician says, always keep Mark Gugino in our thoughts and consider them as a model of what the next generation of leftists need to be. Gene Lambe on YouTube, SuperChats, says, love your passion, love your show, standing support from Down Under. I just read that as a synthesis of all the folks who sent in wonderful messages. We really appreciate it, guys, from all over the world. And Mark McGuire, great point about what happened in Ireland.

And now go to the member section. Fix the Democracy says, I love that Jank reads members' comments. I know it must be a chore by giving everyone a seat at the table definitely makes TYT home and progresses. Imagine Fox News doing that. Tina says, oh my God, this man is beyond amazing about Gugino. He clearly is an extraordinary human being. Please let him be okay.

Caldo Head says, Martin Gugino makes me want to be a better person. Burrito Bandido says, stop, Jake, I'm getting for clamped. And finally, Gabby Marita says, how much do we have to donate to get Martin Gugino on T-YT interviews? Correct answer to a million dollars. No, you don't have to donate anything for that. That's what we do. We'll try to get Martin on the show as soon as we possibly can, hopefully after he's out of the hospital. Of course, you guys make this show possible.

I don't just read the comments, because we really believe it, okay? TYT.com slash go last time for the week, just checking on the thermometer, 41-270. If you guys can chip in, that would be amazing so we can do this show in the way that we do it. All right, Anna, what's next? The unemployment rate is in the double digits. Our economy is horrible. It is absolutely terrible for the vast majority of Americans because we have an unemployment rate of 13.3%. And that's if you're looking at the measure of the economy of the unemployment rate that's actually

a lot friendlier to our government and the business community. But since economists were expecting a 20% unemployment rate, the new jobs numbers that were just released by the Labor Department make everyone think, everyone who's elite think, oh, wow, this is cost for celebration. It's only 13.3% unemployment, the unemployment rate. Now, the numbers are actually higher for African Americans. Their unemployment rate stands at 16.8%. But I just want to do a quick distinction. Every once in a while when we talk about jobs reports,

we do mention this, but I want to do it in greater detail. So you guys understand where we really are right now as a country when it comes to the number of unemployed Americans who need help. Okay. So the real unemployment rate, which is referred to as U6, is a broader definition of unemployment than the official unemployment rate, also known as U3. The U6 or real unemployment rate includes the under-employed. That means people who want full-time work, but they can't find it, the marginally attached and discouraged workers. In May of 2020, it was 21.2%. That's almost as bad as a 25% rate during the Great Depression. Just something you guys should keep in mind as you watch the disgusting videos we're about to show you of all

these elitist cable news hosts and politicians celebrating these horrible numbers as Americans suffer. Brett put together a great montage to show you, you know, it just juxtaposes the situation or the lives of the elites compared to the rest of us. Take a look. Dupendous number. It's superb. I'm stunned. I'm happy. I'm doing cartwheels in my living room right now. It's such great news for the American people. Look at this market up 660 points on the down. Hopefully George is looking down right now and saying this great thing that's happening for our country. So the people who get paid multi-million dollars salaries to lie to the American people

on a daily basis, Jenk, think that this economy is great. I mean, we're experiencing a double digit unemployment rate, but they're making good money. The Dow's up, everybody. Everything's great. Maria Barteromo is the most useless hack imaginable, okay? And I'm going to tell you a little bit about how much money she makes to be a useless hack in just a minute. So for her, to share her joyous commentary about where we are as a country right now when

it comes to the economy is just so pathetic and completely disconnected from the realities that the vast majority of Americans are experiencing right now. So there are two different issues here. One is celebrating your beloved stock market in the middle of the chaos that we're living through here. Coronavirus, 110,000 dead, all these people unemployed, the protests, the police brutality, and the minute the stock market starts going back up, they're like, yes, cartwheels, who cares about anything else? Money, money, money, money, money.

Okay. Now, the second part of it is, so in May, the job numbers went up two and a half million now. So let's just talk about that without even the context of the protests or anything else. Two to a half million people now have jobs. But that's because over 20 million people lost jobs. We still have 21 million at a minimum unemployed. Like the, the, you know, The most conservative way of county has 21.5 million people unemployed. So as the economy reopens, of course we're gonna hire people like bartenders and waiters and construction jobs and hospitality, people who work at hotels as the hotels open back up.

But they make it sound like, oh my God, we're back everybody, we're back, okay? So we regain two and a half million out of, you know, you do that math out of 24 million. And again, those are the most conservative numbers. And they're like, oh, no, that's it. Chris Wallace today talking about how Donald Trump's real election chances are now much better off. Oh, thank God, the only thing that matters is your beloved Donald Trump. And Chris Wallace, the guy who from time to time challenges Trump on Fox News, but they can't

help it. Because number one, whatever they see, like even the tiniest little uptick, they blow it out of proportion, like, oh, my, it's as if we lost a million. jobs and they don't gain two and a half. No, we regained 10% of the goddamn jobs. And you're doing cartwheels over that. So every time we regain some of the jobs, these guys are going to be back out doing cartwheels and doing propaganda on behalf of Donald Trump. But understand why they're actually happy. What goes to Anna's point, it's because the stock markets back up and they're all getting richer. That's why they're all they care about. It's all they care about. Doesn't

matter if there's absolute chaos on the streets. Doesn't matter if hundreds of thousands of Americans are dying in the middle of this pandemic. How's the Dow doing? That's all that matters. Here is a clip of Maria Barteromo talking to Stephen Moore about the state of the economy. One policy takeaway from this, there is no need for a phase four plan. Stop spending money, Washington. We're done with it. Do a payroll tax cut and then be done with it. We don't need more government spending. I do want to mention we're having a challenge in manufacturing though because many of those jobs that are coming coming back even in automotive, the suppliers, just manufacturing in general are the lower wage jobs. And those employees are making more

money on unemployment and is very difficult to get people back to work. So to Steve Moore's point, we don't really need the stimulus right now. We've been railing on this idea that the unemployment benefits and that $600 going to people who are staying home. And in some in some cases, that's allowing those people to make more money while they're staying at home. And that program is in place until the end of July. So why come back when everybody's trying to reopen when you're making more money sitting at home? All right. All right. Hey, bitch, how much money are you making? All right? You're judging people who need unemployment. Oh, $600 a week. Oh, look at, don't you think it's a little bit of an issue that the employers don't want to

pay their workers a living wage? Isn't it a little bit of a problem when making $600 a week? Okay? Through unemployment means you're better off than working for the scum out there who refuse to pay their employees a living wage. Let's talk about what Maria Bartaromo makes to be a complete not a failure at her job. Multiple sources indicate she makes around $10 million a year. 10 million dollars a year. So let's say she's, let's assume she works seven days a week, which is laughable. But let's just, let's just assume she does. That means she makes $27,397.26 per day. If she gets six hours of sleep a night and she works the rest of the time, she's making $1,522 for every waking hour. And like, does she think she's a hard worker? I mean, she's just,

She's just a mouthpiece for the elitist scum that has led this country into complete and utter chaos, okay? She's nothing more than a propagandist. And she's sitting there judging people who need government help right now because they've lost their jobs in the middle of a pandemic. And Stephen Moore, oh, cut it out with this talk of, you know, stage four stimulus. Because even if we have literally tens of millions of Americans who are still unemployed, we don't need to help them out.

You know what? I have a better idea. Why don't we help out these businesses by cutting their taxes further? Let's cut the very taxes that help fund incredibly important and popular government programs like Social Security and Medicare. These people are goons. They need, we need them out. We need them out of the media.

We need them out of politics. We need to change this entire system. because it's not working for us, okay? All of us in one way or another, okay, if we're not part of this elitist class, have a need to our necks. I can't take it anymore. Like, listen to them judging people for having to take unemployment and choosing to, you know, maybe sit it out and wait to see if they can find a job that pays them more than unemployment does. It's just, it makes me so furious and angry, Jank. I can't take it anymore.

I just can't. So there's one part I disagree with you about. She is doing her job. Her job is to be a mouthpiece for the rich and powerful. That's why they pay her so much. Look, that's why the media jobs pay so much for a number of reasons. But one of them is because the media is so important in brainwashing people. Remember, average American worker is a bum, and if you give him an incentive not to work,

he'll take it. That's why they're so genuinely surprised. They're just, like, they were like, they went back to work. Oh my God, we thought they were just going to take the unemployment money and sit on their asses because they're all bums, right? Average American worker, they're never going to work, right? So when people are like, oh my God, you're rehire me, I'm immediately going back to work. These clowns are shocked because they really thought we're all bombs, that we chose not to

work. They got fired. They got fired. They didn't choose not to work, you idiots. But they're paid to do that propaganda because as they're having a conversation about the economy and stimulus bill, notice that they're talking about and assigning blame to the average American that got laid off and having a conversation about $600. But meanwhile, at least eight out of the $9 trillion, including the Fed expenditures in the stimulus

bills and the bailouts, went to the largest corporations and private equity companies in the world. But they have no segments on that. See, that's not an accident. It's not because they're not doing the news well. It's because they're doing their actual job really, really well, which is propaganda. the poor, blame the middle class, and at all costs, protect the upper class that took the trillions of dollars from the American taxpayer. And so that's why she gets $10 million a year, because it helps them protect trillions of

dollars a year by having people like barteroma do propaganda on their behalf. Yeah, and conservatives are urging Trump to avoid any talk of economic relief for average Americans, of course, not like he was actually considering it anyway. And then finally, since we're speaking about Trump, let's go to his ridiculous press conference where he tried to... A lot of the plan to get a great-in-lawful. So if you're going to say this is a very different way. And by the way, what's happened to our country and what you now see has been happening

is the greatest thing that can happen for race elections for the African-American community, The Asian American, for the Hispanic American for women for everything. What's your plan? Because our country is so strong, and that's what my plan is. We're going to have the strongest economy in the world. We're almost are there now. Black unemployment went up by 0.1 percent. Asian American unemployment went up by 0.5 percent.

How is that a victory? You are something. It's a coward. Complete and utter coward can't answer a single question because he's been a phony his entire life. White unemployment went down, black unemployment went up. And to be fair, the white folks back in jobs, that's great news. I'm happy about that. I want everybody else to join you, but it was also the lowest paying jobs.

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