The Young Turks - TYT Extended Clip - October 20, 2020

Episode Date: October 21, 2020

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Anyways, we have all that for you guys on Thursday night. All right, let's get the show started. Casper, go. All right. Joe Biden is continuing the trend of Democrats self-sabotaging by hinting that he's considering Republicans in his cabinet. Now, that is a high degree of risk with very little payoff, especially since this is now being floated in the middle of this election, where we keep hearing about how important it is

to beat Donald Trump. Now, this is based on new reporting by Politico that provides some specific names as to which Republicans could be serving on Biden's cabinet, and I do want to note that some of these names have been vetted, meaning that the Biden campaign has begun the vetting process, and And this isn't just some rumor, this appears to be a list of serious contenders in Biden's cabinet. So one person close to the Biden transition said it remains a priority to have options from different parts of the ideological spectrum for the former vice president to consider.

Really? No, it really shouldn't be a priority. If the whole point is to get Donald Trump out of office because he's been so disastrous, And if Donald Trump represents the Republican Party now, meaning what Republican voters want, you look at the polling, Republican voters love Trump. Why would you want to bring in that ideological perspective to your cabinet? Makes no sense, but let me give you some specific names. Among the names being floated for possible Biden cabinet posts are Meg Whitman, the CEO

of Quibi and former CEO of eBay, and former Ohio Governor John Kasich, who by the way is one of the names being vetted right now, both of whom spoke. at August's Democratic National Convention, Massachusetts GOP Governor Charlie Baker, and former Senator Jeff Flake, both Republicans have also been mentioned as has former Representative Charlie Dent from Pennsylvania, who resigned from Congress in 2018

and became a lobbyist, lots of fun there. Now, Jake, before you jump in, I just wanna remind you all of what the voting record was for Jeff Flake, you know, before he decided that he wouldn't run again. He voted along Donald Trump, or voted along with Donald Trump, 81.3% of the time, and that's according to analysis from 538, Representative Charlie Dent voted along with Donald Trump 93% of the time.

But we got to get Trump out of office. It's really important. It's a crisis. Anyway, go ahead, Jake. So there's several different things here. First of all, don't tell us how important it is to beat Republicans. And then at the same time, tell us, I can't wait to put Republicans. of my government. That makes no sense at all. And I know in Washington world that makes sense,

because that's how else would we get deals to cut taxes for the rich, unless corporate Democrats and corporate Republicans work together. Well, we don't want those deals. The Democratic voters don't want those deals. And the American people don't want those deals. And I'm basing that on polling. So second of all, look at how much they help a Republican framing. Oh, no, no, there's still moderate and reasonable Republicans. Republicans are totally moderate and reasonable. It's just Donald Trump, that's the problem. But Charlie Dent, who agreed with Trump, 93% of the time, that's a fact.

That's not an opinion that is not, hey, Charlie Dent went and looked respectable on television. Charlie Dent went and said something slightly critical of Donald Trump's two or three times in his life. No, he voted. Actions matter way more than anything else. He voted with Trump 93% of the time. Yeah, oh, that's wonderful. I can't wait to put him in the cabinet. When you put someone in the cabinet, you know what it means? It means theoretically that they are the most qualified person in the country for that job. So you would be saying, I don't think there's a single Democrat in the country who's more qualified than someone who voted with Donald Trump 93% of the time. That's an insane thing to say if you're a Democrat. God damn, you know nothing about politics, nothing.

So, and you say, hey, well, Jane, come on, he, the guy's about to be president. How could you say he knows nothing about politics? Because over the long term, the Democrats constantly reinforced Republican framing. That is why during the Obama years and the beginning of the Trump years, over a decade, they lost a thousand seats, a thousand seats nationally. And they have every demographic advantage. When you look at the polling, they have massive advantages on almost every policy issue. Democrats, with the positions that they hold, almost cannot lose national elections. But yet somehow they manage to lose to Donald Trump the first time around, because they're grotesquely incompetent.

And now they come around and go, oh, I'm going to fill my cabinet with Republicans, after I asked you to give me hundreds of millions of dollars to defeat Republicans. It's insanity. Now, one more thing, at least. So you're telling me you're looking across the ideological spectrum. So is Bob Rice going to be the Treasury Secretary? Yeah, right. How about, look, how about a moderate progressive? Elizabeth Warren, is she going to be Treasury Secretary?

Is she going to be Attorney General? Name a progressive. Okay, here, let's have a lot of fun. Senator Nina Turner, are you considering her for the cabinet? If I said that to the Biden team, I know what the reaction would be. It would be, Nina Turner, we would never consider her. Well, she's one of the leading progressives in the country.

You poll progressives right now. I challenge you. I bet she comes in the top, I think she comes in top two, but let's be generous and say top three. Okay, so you would never, ever consider someone who's incredibly popular with progressives. But Republicans who vote with Trump 90% of the time, oh, come on in.

Biden and administration is open for business. If on top of all this, they name a lobbyist slash Democratic consultant, especially a lobbyist, someone who works for corporations as his chief of staff, then you'll know, and it's not us progressives. It'll be Biden's team declaring war on progressives and saying, no, we're going to stuff the cabinet with the Republicans and lobbyists. And we were kidding. We were never going to do. All we're going to do is, yes, we'll protect democracy. We're not fascists.

You've dodged a bullet on that one, but everything else, business as usual, we're going to go back to the corporate machine crushing all of you until Democrats lose the next election. No, I mean, look, this outcome is worse than what we experienced during the Obama administration. As you guys can all remember, during the Obama administration, we had a president who was overwhelmingly concerned with criticism from the right wing. He was constantly trying to appease them. He was overwhelmingly concerned about how Fox News was covering him. And so now we get Trump, and some people were under the impression that Trump would be so terrible that it would create some sort of revolutionary moment in the country where we would move toward progressivism.

But what we're gonna get with Biden is actually gonna be worse than what we experienced with Obama, because Biden is starting to flirt with the idea of bringing in like Bush era Republicans, did we all forget about how awful the Bush administration was? Now the names that I mentioned as possible cabinet picks, I'm sure were influenced by the fine people over at the Lincoln Project, again, Bush era Republicans who very much hate Donald Trump, but did some pretty disastrous things in promoting Bush's policies when he was in charge. And so I'm worried that, yes, we're going to in some ways stop the bleeding when it comes to the dismantling of our democracy.

But when it comes to policies, Jake, I think you're 100% right. These names that are being floated right now essentially promote an ongoing war between the neoliberal faction of the Democratic Party and the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. And it's degrading. It's degrading as a progressive to read names like this.

And then have someone like Joe Biden and other establishment Democrats package it up as, no, no, no, this is all about unity. I don't want to engage in unity with bad people, right? Would you want to engage in unity with like serial killers? No, there are good people and bad people, reasonable people, reasonable people. Why do we want unity with unreasonable people? It makes no sense.

Okay, and further school of keeping it real. John Kasich nearly won the Republican nomination in the last election in 2016, not 20 years ago. He came in the top three, arguably top two, depending on how you look at it. he almost beat Trump. So you are, you are considering bringing the Republicans, one of the Republicans standard bearers in the country into your cabinet. And then think about how that affects 2024. Likely Biden is not going to run for re-election in 2024.

Then what did you do? You set up John Kasich perfectly so that he could win. Not only the Republican nomination, but the presidency. Who would be that monumentally stupid? And by the way, Kamala Harris, hello, anybody on Kamala's team? I know if it's a progressive, you guys are out there trying to make sure they don't get any cabinet positions so they won't challenge Kamala Harris when she runs in 2024. Hello, McFly, Kasek is going to run against you.

Why would you put him in the cabinet? God, these people are unbelievable. But to be fair to them, Obama put a Republican in the cabinet. He reached across the aisle. That's why he got so many votes from Republicans. As you all remember, zero votes, none, zero. They try to kill the, not only did they not vote for the Affordable Care Act, they try to kill it over 50 times while Obama was president and another 20 afterwards.

And so, and what did Obama get for reaching out across the aisle and for putting Republicans in his cabinet? We all know that it was nothing. So why would you repeat that mistake? And help Republican framing and help Republican reputations while you're doing it. Look, one of our members wrote in a funny comment. He's got a funny handle, too. His handle is nipple, Pierce, Jenkins, skinny jeans. Makes me uncomfortable every time I say it.

But you could have me say those things, too, if you're a member, t.com slash join. So anyway, he wrote in, hope Trump won't be in Biden cabinet. Team of rivals. Republicans are so reasonable. I mean, maybe, I mean, we've got to be Trump. And so if you're willing to put someone who agrees with Trump 90% of the time in the cabinet, I don't know, is Biden considering Trump? I know he would never consider real progressives in the cabinet.

God forbid, God forbid, that's his base. The ideological spectrum ends before we get to his base. But it extends all the way into Trump's base. Well played, Democrats, genius move. All right, well, let's move on to some other news, including what's happening with the stimulus, Not so great. So Trump is begging the Senate GOP to pass economic stimulus, and he's specific about wanting to pass something that's more robust than what House Democrats have approved. You know, they approved their stimulus package months ago to the tune of $2.2 trillion.

Now, during a recent interview with Fox and Friends, Trump tried to make his case, even though Mitch McConnell and Senate GOP are very much against this type of spending. Take a look. What could you tell us? Because Mitch McConnell isn't exactly on board with those negotiations. Well, he'll be on board if something comes. But let me just explain that it's very simple. I want to do it even bigger than the Democrats.

Not every Republican agrees with me, but they will. But I want to do it even bigger than the Democrats. We want to do it, but Nancy Pelosi doesn't want to do it. We'll see whether or not she changes her mind. But we want to do it. Mr. President, she's a 2.4 trillion. 2.4 trillion and you want to go bigger than that? John Thune says... He's at 2.2 and I would like to go, I would be willing to go more.

She doesn't want to do anything until after the election because she thinks that helps her. I actually think it helps us because everyone knows that she's the one that's breaking up the deal. Senator Thune says he doesn't want to even go close to $2 trillion. Would you pass this with mostly Democratic votes? Would you pass it with mostly Democratic votes? I'd take all the votes you could get, whether it's Democrat or Republican. Now, of course, Donald Trump is panicking because his re-election bid doesn't look so great and possibly passing stimulus could help him. At least that's what he thinks. Now, again, Mitch McConnell

has been against Donald Trump's version of stimulus. That proposal, we still don't know specific details about. We just know that Trump wants to spend 1.8 trillion dollars. John Thune isn't the only member of the Senate GOP who has spoken out against that type of spending. Mitt Romney was also asked about it, and Mitt Romney said that that price tag related to Trump's proposal is much too high. Also, Senate Republicans on Tuesday will try to advance a standalone paycheck protection program bill to help small businesses reeling from the coronavirus pandemic before moving on Wednesday to vote on the same $500 billion stimulus bill that Democrats blocked last month. So Mitch McConnell has been very clear in stating that the only type of legislation he's willing to support related to stimulus is that is the $500 billion proposal that specifically helps businesses.

But McConnell also noted today that if Steve Mnuchin and Nancy Pelosi negotiate and come to some sort of deal, he will allow for, or the Senate to vote on that legislation. However, we haven't heard anything from Pelosi and Mnuchin yet. We know that they were still negotiating today, but we still have no word as to whether or not they've come to any type of agreement. All right, so let's be clear about the facts. Pelosi's at 2.2 trillion, as Trump admitted there, Trump last we heard, was at 1.8 trillion. So he is not higher than Pelosi, it's just not true.

Second of all, Mitch McConnell is at 500 million, we're not the one saying that. Mitch McConnell's saying that. He's saying, I want to introduce a bill that's only 500 billion. And that's it. So he's nowhere near 2.2 trillion. So whose fault is it that they don't have a deal? Look, people think, oh, you guys are biased against Donald Trump. No, we're biased towards the facts. In this case, the person guilty is unquestionably Mitch McConnell. It's not Trump. So, and you know why, Trump's got an election coming up. He wants to send out $1,200 checks with his signature on him. That's not complicated. And he's thinking, what the hell are Republicans not doing this for?

What are you guys nuts? Let's go bribe people right before the election. How stupid are you? And on that, Trump is right. And I think part of the reason Pelosi's hesitating is because of the same reason. Are we really going to let Trump send out checks with his names on it? Like literally, as people are about to vote, they get a check in the mail with Trump's name that says $1,200. Is it because of Trump?

No, it's the whole government. But you know how optics work and people don't follow all the details of who's responsible, et cetera, on this stuff. But look, if you're wondering as I am, and I asked a guest recently on the conversation about this, what the hell is Mitch McConnell doing? Why would he hurt not only Trump's chance of winning, but his own senators who were in very vulnerable seats? If the Republican senators block this, they're nuts. Well, as usual, the donors. Now, the donors want the money to go to businesses. That's why there's like $500 billion to businesses.

Great. To actual Americans, no. We vote no. Okay? Now, I think that's insane because I think it'll crash the markets. It'll hurt themselves. But there's no end to the infinite greed. And so they don't want anything going to the average American.

They want to go all the business. And I saw Elon Musk tweet against the stimulus saying, no more for the workers and for the rest of the economy. I don't know why they have that position when I think it's absolutely mental. But according to the analysts, at least 20 Republican senators will vote no if it's higher than $500 billion. So even Mitt Romney's saying, I'm not comfortable with $1.8 trillion. I think it's too much. So have added host Republicans.

Kill it. We'll pass it right after the election. Okay, but understand that if there's one party responsible for making sure you're not getting any relief right now, it is indisputably the Republican Party. All right, well, we got to take a break. When we come back, we have more news for you guys, including Donald Trump basically admitting to briber, a felony bribery, and then Exxon Mobile trying to come to his rescue. It's one of my favorite stories of the day. and then Chief Justice John Roberts saves the day when it comes to expanding voting rights in Pennsylvania. We have that and more when we return.

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and we might talk after the election and do a fun little panel together, okay? So Aspiration.com All right. Now, thank you some of the members that just joined up on YouTube. Janet Schmidt, Sharon Kylie, Barles Charkley, that's funny, Dana Englebrecht. So they just hit the join button below on YouTube and signed up. And we appreciate it. Now let me go to our members on our website. No more Trigonometry says, yeah, and they told us Bernie wasn't a real Democrat. Meanwhile, Biden is welcoming Republicans into his cabinet with open arms.

Okay, hashtag facts. Susan R-26 says, Ohio had a constitutional ban on gay marriage, and Kasich fought to keep it there. By the way, this was tweeted by the Democrats' Twitter account back in 2015. Oh, Kasich, you want to make sure that gay people don't have the same rights as straight people. Welcome to Biden's cabinet. We're at least considering it, vetting it, et cetera. Progressives, no thank you, not interested. We're not that ideologically diverse.

And finally, Chris Durand, in the member section, at least, said, Stares at Biden in $250 donation to t-y-t.com slash go. And then he says, F-round and find out establishment Dems. I love that. So, hey, look, man, our job is to hold them accountable. You like that. You support us. We support you.

That's how it works. TYT.com slash go. Let's take a look at the thermometer real quick. Trying to get to 200,000. Hey, we were trying to get to 61,000 at the end of the segment or the show. yesterday we're at 61, 854. Let's try to get to 62 by the end of this segment. That would be amazing. Thank you guys. And last couple here are from Super Chat. Deemian wrote in TDR shirt arrived today. You guys are awesome. Wrong Dragon Squad. You're awesome. That's one is Mark

Keister. It's really easy to contact the Biden campaign. Maybe we all should. Of course. They keep sending you emails to raise money, right? So why don't you send them an email back saying You know what? How about you stop considering putting Republicans on your cabinet? Maybe they'll get the message. All right, Anna. All right. Donald Trump loves to publicly confess to crimes. And that was certainly the case during a recent rally in Arizona where he detailed felony bribery. Take a look. The greatest fundraiser in history. All I have to do is call up the head of every Wall Street firm, head of every major company, head of every major energy company. head of every major energy company do me a favor send me 10 million from my campaign yes sir they say the only thing is why didn't he ask for more sir i would be i would be the greatest fundraiser in history don't forget i'm not bad at that stuff anyway and i'm president so i call

some guy the head of exon i call the head of exon i don't know what you know i'll use it come hi how you doing how's energy coming when are you doing the exploration oh you need a couple of permits But I call the head of Exxon. I say, you know, I'd love to send me $25 million for the campaign. Absolutely, sir. Why didn't you? Would you like some more? And if I make the call, now people make the call, it's different.

You know, but if I made the call, I will hit a home run every single call. I would raise a billion dollars in one day if I wanted to. Hey, everyone, look at me. I'm the best at getting bribed. I'm the best at being corrupt. What he, I like the fact that his supporters applauded that, it's like they don't listen to anything he's saying. He's literally telling you, I am the best at getting bribed. And what he detailed there is quid pro quo bribery, which to be fair to Trump, he does have a lot of experience with that.

He got impeached for it when he withheld congressionally appropriated funding toward Ukraine, unless Ukraine announced some sham investigation into his political rival. Joe Biden. Again, he got impeached for that. But of course, later ExxonMobil had to clean up Donald Trump's mess. And they tweeted the following. We are aware of the president's statement regarding a hypothetical call with our CEO. And just so we're all clear, it never happened. But we should take a look at what does happen on a regular basis when it comes to legalize bribery in this country. Because Trump is crushing Joe Biden in campaign donations. From the embattled oil and gas industry, the president and outside groups aligned with him have raised nearly $13 million from individuals at oil and gas companies that easily dwarfs the $976,000 the industry has sent to Joe Biden. Trump has touted an agenda of American energy dominance marked by cutting environmental regulations and pushing energy exports.

That type of quid pro quo happens all the time every single day in America. The only thing that makes it illegal is if you call it what it is publicly and acknowledge that you're being bribed. If you're not saying those words overtly, it's totally fine. Okay, first funny part of this is I'd call them up, how is energy coming? What does that mean? How is energy coming? It's an unsolvable riddle. Anyway, so now on the important stuff, he says, well, I mean, it's a hypothetical, of course.

He's not going to call them up and ask them how energy is coming, and they're not going to send him checks. Except they did, as Anna just showed you, they sent him $13 million in checks. And he did open up public land for drilling, and he did give them literally every single policy they asked for, literally. Huh, but the $13 million that went to his campaign from them had nothing to do with the policies. That's what we're told. By the way, we're not just told that by Trump and the Republicans. We're also told that by the Democrats and the mainstream media. No, the $13 million from oil and gas companies are because they care about our health,

and they just wanted to be charitable. Who is maniacally stupid enough to believe that? Even Q&N wouldn't believe that. Nobody would believe that. Unless you work in Washington, you're like, oh, yes, sir, ExxonMobil, giving 13 million and the other oil and gas companies. Of course they did that for everybody's health, because they care so much about the American people.

That's why they give $13 million straight. No, it's a bribe. Everybody knows it's a bribe. Wolf-dashpack.com slash join. Fix it. Get an amendment. Supreme Court option is dead. Your only choice is wolf dash pack.com.

So anyway, I mean, and the crowd goes nuts. Remember his slogan in 2016, probably the single thing. The most helpful thing to him during a campaign was drain the swamp. Mm-hmm. Now they're basically chanting, fill the swamp, fill the swamp. Okay, now we say all of this as if like any of this is hypothetical or theoretical. Remind me who Donald Trump's Secretary of State was. Oh, right, the CEO of ExxonMobil.

I'm not kidding. Rex Tillerson, his first Secretary of State, was the CEO of Exxon Mobil. So it's not, and how would he know that he could do that with Exxon? Because he already did. If you can't see that, you're blind and you're in a cult. And you might be in one of two cults. Cult 45, Trump's cult. When Trump does, takes bribes, it's the best bribes, the best bribes.

He's so good at taking bribes, right? Congratulations. Or you're in a mainstream media cult where you're like, no, I don't see any bribes. No, I think all the politicians are honorable. I think they're wonderful people who are having ideological debates. And so I think tens of millions of dollars given to politicians is not at all corrupt. Everybody just cares about the American people so much. That's why they're doing it.

Okay. I mean, these guys claim to be in news. They claim to be in news. Yeah, look, Shank, look, the news doesn't really ever talk about bribery, right? I mean, it's- You know why? Because they don't want to tell the truth. and they don't want to draw attention to it because it's demonstrable.

Like you can see the quid pro quo bribery happening in politics every single day. And it's a virus that is infected every, both political parties, right? Like in this context, we're talking about the fossil fuel industry. And yes, Republicans have done away with environmental regulations. That's why the fossil fuel industry overwhelmingly gives to Republicans versus Democrats. But they give to Democrats as well, which is part of the reason why Joe Biden won't sign on to the Green New Deal, right? It's not because of ideological differences.

See, when you have money in politics, ideological differences don't matter. Because at the end of the day, the only thing that does matter is where the money's coming from. And when you have corporate cash flowing in, all of a sudden the ideology seemed pretty similar to one another, when it comes to the issues that mattered the most. And look, Jake, you mentioned how Trump said he was going to drain the swamp.

And I think it's really important to always share the receipts with our audience. So here's a fun compilation video that J.R. Jackson put together. If I'm elected president, we are going to drain the swamp in Washington, D.C. We are going to drain the swamp of corruption in Washington, D.C. It is indeed time to drain the swamp in Washington, D.C. You can send us Republicans like Mike Braun to drain the swamp. We're going to Washington, D.C.

to drain the swamp. Absolutely. When we win on November 8th, we are going to Washington, D.C., and we will drain the swamp. Ah, you probably heard me say it. Drain the swamp. He said.

We have lost. He of course. And then fill it with ExxonMobil oil. Fill it with ExxonMobil oil. I like how ExxonMobil did that tweet to clean it up. They're used to toxic cleanups. And guys, maybe the most important part of the story is what Anna alluded to. Yeah, they give $13 million to Trump, the oil and gas companies.

But they gave about a million bucks to Biden. And what did Biden say during the last debates? I won't end fracking. There's no way I'm going to end fracking, okay? Look at how cheaply they buy the Democrats. Oh, Republicans will give a lot of money to. We want them to win. But you guys be good boys and girls, okay?

I'll just bribe you less than 10% when I bribe them. And you'll do as you're told anyway, you're a Democrat. And anyone in news that isn't talking about this is the main motivating factor, let alone any motivating factor, doesn't actually do news. And by the way, that is part of the reason why there's so many conspiracy theories out there now. People have become nuts because they know one thing is I can't trust the news. Because the news tells me that the politicians are honorable people.

And I see them with my own eyes, taking millions of dollars in bribes. I see it. And every news person goes on TV and says, that is not a bribe. No, they're just, they're great people. And so when you lie to the American people like that, a thousand times over, a million times over, you shouldn't be surprised that they lost faith in you. Wolf-Pack.com slash join. Look, the reason I mention Wolfpack, they're not just trying to get money out of politics and end this corruption. They believe in a constitutional amendment to do that.

They're one of the very few groups on any side. They're nonpartisan. American Promises another one and move to amend. Those folks believe in an amendment. All the other Democratic groups are like, a convention. No way to put it together an amendment to change the Constitution to stop the corruption. No way. No way.

Nancy Pelosi told us that corruption is awesome. We won't support any of that. So all the elites agree, corruption is awesome, but the rest of us despise it, including, by the way, originally the Trump voters in 2016. You should remember that when now Donald Trump is celebrating the corruption that he's the head of in D.C. Well, we do have some good news today, so let's get to that story. the Supreme Court has upheld the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's ruling on ballots for this upcoming election. This is an incredibly important ruling, and luckily Chief Justice John Roberts joined liberal justices in the Supreme Court in voting in favor of upholding the state

Supreme Court decision on ballots. So let me give you the details on what that means. Well, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled in favor of Democratic state lawmakers in September, finding that mail-in ballots received within three days of November 3rd must be counted so long as the envelopes are postmarked by November 3rd. Of course, that's the day of the election. The ruling also said that ballot envelopes received by November 6th that are not postmarked at all would also be counted unless a preponderance of the evidence demonstrates that it was mailed after election day. So the point here is, as long as It's postmarked by election day, as long as there's reason to believe that the ballots were submitted before election day or by election day, then those are ballots that should be counted.

Of course, state Republicans are super salty about it. And you have other conservatives like the clown that throws the CPAC event every year, throwing a hisy fit about it as well. But before I get to him, Jank, what do you think about this ruling? Okay, there's only one arguable part of that decision by the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court, which is, hey, should we accept the ballots if there's no postmark, right? If it's postmarked by November 3rd, that means they voted by November 3rd. Why would you not accept those ballots? If they voted by November 3rd and you got it on November 4th, why would you throw those out? That doesn't make any sense. Whether it's a Democrat or Republican vote, or by the way, a vote from the military,

Sometimes those take longer to come because they're serving abroad. Why would you throw them in the trash can? Are you nuts? So, okay, whether you accept them even if they're not postmarked within three days? Okay, that's an arguable position. And I could be convinced either way of that, okay? Now, in this case, the state Supreme Court for Pennsylvania considered and decided, no, that part is also okay.

The Republicans say, no, don't accept any of them. We don't care if they're military. military. We don't care if they voted by November 3rd. Burn them. We don't, we don't want the votes. Of course not. Because mail and ballots, especially in Pennsylvania, are now coming much more predominantly from registered Democrats. So they're like, burn them. Make sure those votes don't count. Gee, I wonder who's on the right side of this issue. And so then, when it goes to the Supreme Court, four Republican justices, yes, they're Republicans. Let's please stop. spare me on, oh, no, they're neutral

and arbiters and blah, blah, blah. It just so happened, the four out of the five Republican justices decide, oh yeah, burn them, burn them, burn them, who cares? Don't count the votes. To be fair to them, there's a Supreme Court precedent of five Republican justices saying, oh, the Florida votes do not, under any circumstances,

recount them. Burn the votes. We hate democracy. We just want to call the Republican the winner, whether he actually won or not, by the way, if you recounted all the votes in Florida, Bush would have lost, the electoral college, and Gore would have been president. Supreme Court justices have already stolen one election for the Republican Party. The other four justices were on board for stealing this one as well.

Pennsylvania is perhaps the most critical swing state. John Roberts amazingly said no. Now, I don't know why he said, no, the court didn't clarify. They just explained who voted in which direction. But if you're a conservative, if you're a conservative, what's the number one thing that you believe? And maybe it's top three, maybe it's number one. States rights, states rights, right? So it is the right of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to rule on a Pennsylvania law.

There's no disputing that. There's zero dispute. So John Roberts likely thought, well, this is what I've been saying my whole life. This is what my colleagues have been saying our whole lives. So of course it's a state issue. The other four Supreme Court justices that are Republicans go, no, you're an idiot. We don't care about states. We don't care about any principles.

We don't care at all. We just want the Republicans to win so that we can get more power. And by the way, impose our religion on everyone else. John Roberts can't actually care about legal principles. That's funny. Well, now it's 4-4. By the way, Amy Coney-Barrick gets on. Good night, Irene.

If they get her on before the election, there's a pretty good chance that just flat-out steal the election. Because she'll vote with the other four. No question. No question. They saw, oh, the ballots we didn't count yet, past election day, Amy Cody Barrett agrees, put them all in a dumpster, light them on fire, we don't believe in democracy. Ha ha, we stole a second election from you. So that's what's headed down the pike, and the Democrats, as usual, with their total incompetence,

have done zero, nothing to stop Barrett, nothing. Of course not. Diane Feinstein gave Lindsay Graham a giant hug and said that the confirmation hearings were among the best that she's ever been part of, because she's a clown and she doesn't actually represent even liberal ideology. I mean, Diane Feinstein is just a conservative. Let's keep it real. But no, Jake, you brought up Amy Coney Barrett. And if they get her confirmed prior to the election, what that would mean. In a related story, Mitch McConnell had a conversation with Donald Trump and urged him to not try to pass stimulus before the election. Because he believes that

that engaging in the stimulus debate will derail them from confirming Amy Coney Barrett. Why do you think they're so desperate to confirm Amy Coney Barrett? I mean, look, I'm speculating as to how that conversation went down. But I would speculate that Mitch McConnell is telling Trump, look, I know you're freaking out about your chances of getting reelected, and that's why you want to pass this stimulus bill. But don't worry, we can go ahead and get this conservative confirmed on the Supreme Court, we'll just steal the election, don't worry about stimulus.

So I really do think that that conversation was related to Amy Coney Barrett and the fact that they just want to make sure that they get another conservative judge confirmed. So when push comes to shove and they're debating whether the election results are valid, of course the Supreme Court with that conservative majority would vote in favor of Trump. At least that's the calculation I think they're making. But one final thing about this story. So Matt Schlapp, who is the head of the American Conservative Union. He's also the person who puts together CPAC every year.

It's that conservative gathering, tweeted in response to Roberts' decision, and he just says, impeach Roberts. But it's not the first time he has suggested that Chief Justice John Roberts get impeached. Previously, this is a tweet from July 1st. He wrote the following. If John Roberts is going to act like a politician, the ACU conservatives should start grading his votes like a politician. He lied to the president, the Senate and the country. He's imposing his judgment over the law, which is despotism.

So what's amazing is the following tweet, which he also suggested impeaching Roberts. This is from May 30th. He says, impeach John Roberts, who lied to America when he said he would not play politics or be an activist. This is a reminder of what is at stake in 2020, no more weak GOP court picks. Okay, wait, wait, wait, hold on for a second. So are you criticizing him because you feel that he's playing politics? Are you criticizing him because he's not playing politics hard enough for the GOP? Bingo.

That's exactly right. There's no disputing that. It's as clear as day in his own tweets. And he's like he lied to the president and the Senate. No, he did the same thing everybody does when he goes up for confirmation. He says, I'm gonna call balls and strikes, et cetera. I thought he was lying. Everybody thought he was lying that he would just do whatever the Republicans wanted.

And by the way, in 90% of the cases, he does. But he dares to disagree in about 10% of the cases. Impeach Roberts! Because he's not doctrinarian. He won't let us steal elections. He actually believes in democracy. Impeach him! We want someone with no brain at all. Amy Coney Barrett apparently is perfect.

Schlapp loves her. Suck her brain out, put in and say, hey, vote only with the Republican Party. Republican Party. That's it. Perfect zombie for the Supreme Court. And he says he acts like a politician. Wait a minute, that doesn't make any sense. He's going against the party that nominated him in this rare instance. That would be the opposite of acting like a politician. On the other hand, Sam Alito, Clarence, Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh totally lied during their confirmation hearings. They vote almost every time with whatever the Republican

position is, whatever the Trump position is, and I'll go further than anybody as usual. They're un-American. They don't believe in counting votes. What's more on-American than that? They hate democracy. And to be fair, Republican justices have hated democracy for a long

time, including guys like Antonin Scalia who stole the 2000 election and said whatever you do, do not count votes. What do you think? This is a democracy? No, us Republicans love authoritarian government. We love fascism. We hate democracy. That's why we don't want you to count the votes.

Those are facts. If they rule the other way, great, no problem. But if they rule that way with no foundation at all other than burn the votes, that's the definition of being on American. When we come back from the break, we'll share some details on what Trump supporters are planning to do to intimidate voters at the polls. We have some specific messages from their message boards. And you don't want to miss the postgame today.

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another on publicly available chat forums. So these far right groups on the Donald. win say things like this. Consider this polling station on lockdown, says David Gilbert, says one individual. That's what a member of the far right message board, the Donald posted this week, alongside a picture of a South Carolina poll manager's handbook. David Gilbert is the vice reporter who is reporting on this. A comment on the same post also read, my polling place is going to be like trying to enter North Korea, effing lockdown. I will be honoring the BLM movement by working in blackface.

And by the way, this is the result of Trump calling on his supporters to be so-called poll watchers during the first debate. That was when he said it. And his campaign has been following up this rhetoric ever since. The Trump campaign has set up a website with the militaristic title, Army for Trump, which is recruiting supporters for election day operations. So now members of the Donald are acting on cues from Trump. One member posted a picture of a reference guide for a voter service and polling center judge in Arapaho County in Colorado with the caption, all your polling stations belong to us, a user called Linkinu posted a picture of a manual

for poll workers in New York State, while another user posted a picture of an electronic poll book training manual. So basically, they're literally getting hired as poll workers as well. We've shared stories in the past of how the Trump administration, Trump campaign, I should say, is planning on hiring armed off-duty law enforcement to also. serve as poll watchers. And so, listen, if you have the ability to vote by mail or vote ahead of time, vote early, do whatever you can. Because as we can see from the actions being taken by Trump supporters, they're doing anything and everything they can to intimidate people from voting. And don't, under any circumstances, let them intimidate you. Now, of course,

we have a giant problem here, which is that this problem should be taken care of right away. You get the police on it, they protect the country and democracy, and they find out who these folks are, if they can. But most importantly, on the day of the election, they're on standby, not the far right militias, but the police are on standby to immediately go to polling stations, sort out problems so people don't wait in line so they don't get intimidated. Because remember, the right wing doesn't have to win a fight at a polling station. They just have to create a fight. Once you create a fight, people are scared, and they don't show up to vote, it's in democratic areas, or heavily democratic areas, that's mission accomplished. So it is so important for the cops to be on top of that,

and to make sure that that does not happen under any circumstance. The problem is, oftentimes the cops are not on our sides. So there's a cop in one of these states who said, no, I'm not going to do anything about it. Okay, that was in the vice. story and and five of the battleground states allow for people to walk into polling stations armed so and then the police in that case rightfully go that's the law there's nothing i could do about it they could all walk in with weapons they can't point it at people they can't fire it we hope the police would do something about that but they could come in brandishing weapons

and try to intimidate people gee i wonder who's on the side of democracy and who's on the side of dictators and fascists. And these are the same little cry babies that said, oh, there was two Black Panthers at a polling station in one election in 2012 in Philadelphia. Oh my God, there was two black people. I was intimidated because they're black, right? Meanwhile, they come in heavily armed ahead of time telling you, oh, we're going to try to intimidate you and block you from voting,

including with our weapons. And there's barely anything done about it. The disparity in this country is mind boggling and maddening. Yeah, and one of the things, Jink, that really stands out to me is how they're under the impression that Democrats are trying to cheat. Donald Trump has burned through his campaign money, he's canceling ads all over the place, he's fallen behind in polling. I mean, Biden is leading nationally in the double digits. They're the ones who have tried to dismantle the post office and do a number of things to essentially get an edge in this. upcoming general election.

It's just pathetic that they think that Democrats are the ones who are trying to cheat here. Yeah, so look, one of the quotes is saying, well, we got to do all this stuff, including being armed because the Democrats are trying to steal the election. Look, guys, it's fascism 101 for them to put onto people what they themselves are doing. So there's so many things wrong with that. Anyways, we got to go, guys. An amazing post game, and old school's here right now. No, postgame is next.

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