The Young Turks - TYT Extended Clip - September 24, 2020

Episode Date: September 25, 2020

A large crowd decked and booed Trump while he paid respects to Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur 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

You're listening to The Young Turks, the online news show. Make sure to follow and rate our show with not one, not two, not three, not four, but five stars. You're awesome. Thank you. Welcome to Young Turks, Janeke U Granite with you guys. So we got a great show for you guys tonight. And then immediately following the show, well, roughly speaking, 5 p.m. Eastern, I'm sorry, 8 p.m. Eastern, 5 p.m. Pacific I'ma awards. So it's the 31st, 35th annual award ceremony that celebrates Latinos in film and television. And hosted by our own Ida Rodriguez, we're really proud to be hosting this award

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No. No. No. No. No. We're going to have. Go ahead.

Go ahead. Go ahead. Vote it out, vote him out, vote him out. Vote him out. Vote him out. Vote him out. So you can hear the crowd, Melania were there for about 11 minutes before they left.

for about 11 minutes before they left. And he actually wore a mask and for the first time he actually looked a little less repulsive and disgusting than usual because his face was covered. So maybe he should wear it more often. All right, so look, that moment was a little cathartic. So it was nice to see him getting booed like that. But there's also something relevant in it, which is that Trump lives in his own bubble. So he's firing anyone who would disagree with him.

So now he's surrounded by really pathetic sycophants who go around and say, oh, Mr. Trump, you're so right, Bissor Trump. Oh, my God, you're so right. And then he goes to these rallies with the massless idiots, and they cheer everything. He says, he's like, oh, I'm thinking of not counting any of the votes. Everyone's like, yeah, let's end democracy. That's such a good idea, Mr. Trump. So this is a very rare situation where he gets to see it dissent in person.

And not that it's going to matter because all of his ego is really centered around insecurity. So maybe it bothers him personally a little bit, maybe he's certainly not going to change any of his ideas. He's not going to be all of a sudden like, yeah, you know what? Maybe the ballots aren't a disaster. Maybe we should count them in a democracy. So that's not going to happen. But it's just a nice little moment for us to be able to see him getting booed.

He later pretended that he didn't hear much of it. And so, God, I hope that happens a lot more. Yeah, and look, Trump is the kind of guy who knows that his ideas are unpopular and that he has a pretty low approval rating. And that was the case from the moment he stepped foot in the White House. But rather than maybe listen to what people are concerned about and maybe do his best to represent the best interests of the majority of Americans, he's just decided to try to take to dismantle the post office, intimidate voters, put out this narrative about voter fraud tied to mail

and ballots, because he's trying to rig the election in his favor. People who know that their ideas are popular, people who know that their leadership is admired and valued by a country, they don't feel the need to do the things that Trump does. So he knows what a loser he is, which is why he spends 95% of his time crying on Twitter about how unfair his life is. I mean, he is the epitome of privilege, of wealth, supposedly, of success, of power. And all he does is whine and cry like a little baby all day long on social media, the same way you would expect a middle school student to. But Fox News was wondering, why did Trump even appear? Why did he go to the memorial service? Especially when he knows that he's not welcome. Watch.

I don't know why he went. He didn't go to John Lewis's memoriam. He wasn't there for that stuff. And for good reason, right? These people don't want him there. Ruth Bader Ginsburg's folks don't want him there. It's going to be an ugly scene. I guess he's the president. He can go wherever he wants and he has security so that he can go do it. But you just wonder what the political calculation was here in going to a place where you know you will be received poorly, going to a place where you know the folks there don't want you to. be. Maybe it's to get the booze. Maybe that's the idea. I highly doubt that Trump would put himself in a position intentionally looking to get booed. Like, that's just not who Trump is. He's just so thin-skinned and narcissistic. He reigns terror on anyone in his administration who dares to counter his bad points, gets rid of them immediately. And of course, goes after them on social media and criticizes them before firing them. So I just can't believe that he would go there knowing he was going to get booed and welcoming that kind of like treatment. Yeah, I have a fun theory. Donald Trump is a very, very simple man.

So when Kim Jong-goon praises him, he immediately falls in love with him and praises him back lavishly. So I think that he thought if he said nice things about Ruth Bader Ginsburg when she passed away, which he did, that when he showed up to see her casket, that people will then say nice things back about, oh, there's Trump. He said nice things about Ginsburg. Yay! Because that's how shallow he is. He thinks, well, that's all I have to do. I have to compliment you because you have a tiny ego that's filled with insecurity like mine, right? And then you'll love me. Oh, they don't. Oh, that's weird. But to be fair to Trump, which I'm not a big fan of. No, seriously, look, we've got to treat things fairly no matter what the situation is.

So in this case, honestly, if he hadn't gone, people said, well, why didn't he go? There's a Supreme Court justice, he's going to lie in state, he's the president, he should have gone. He does go, they boo him, they go, ha ha, look, he got booed. So I'm keeping it real. That is how things would have gone down. And then finally, look, maybe the most relevant part of this story is let's not forget, other than the Trump reaction, which again I said was cathartic and it's true.

It's that Ruth Bader Ginsburg is going to be the first woman ever to lie in state in the capital. And that is amazing. It's amazing that there hasn't been other women before. And it's also amazing that Ruth Bader Ginsburg is really a legend in her accomplishments in American history. Well, maybe part of the reason why people were booing is because of his statements yesterday. So let's talk about that. This one's a do. We're going to take some time with this story, but it has to do with the transition of power. Donald Trump has hinted multiple times that he has no intention of engaging in a peaceful transition of power if he loses the general election. We've heard these hints before,

but yesterday he refused to commit. He was just openly, transparently, refusing to commit to a transition, peaceful transition, unless he gets to dictate how our electoral process works. Watch. Will you commit to making sure that there is a peaceful transferal of power after the election? Well, we're going to have to see what happens. You know that I've been complaining very strongly about the ballots, and the ballots are a disaster. I understand that, but people are rioting. Do you commit to making sure that there's a peaceful transferal of power?

We want to get rid of the ballots, and you'll have a very peaceful, there won't be a transfer, frankly. There'll be a continuation. The ballots are out of control. You know it. So luckily, there are plenty of people in the media who are taking these threats seriously, and they should be taken seriously because Donald Trump, not just through his words, but also through his actions, has made it clear that he's trying to win this election unfairly by

suppressing the vote, by dismantling the post office, by spreading disinformation about how the election works and how there's allegedly ballot fraud when there's absolutely no evidence of that. And he's been, you know, putting this narrative together for months now. It seems like Democratic leadership thinks all they need to do is remind him that we live in a democracy. But when you're dealing with someone who has authoritarian tendencies, he doesn't care about a democracy, doesn't care about the Constitution. Jank, if you can recall earlier, while talking to Chris Wallace on Fox News, he hinted the very same thing. Take a look. In general, not talking about November, are you a good loser?

I'm not a good loser. I don't like to lose it. I don't lose too often. I don't like to lose. But are you gracious? You don't know until you see. It depends. I think mail-in voting is going to rig the election. I really do. Are you suggesting that you might not accept the results of the election? I have to see. Look, Hillary Clinton asked me the same thing. No, I asked you the same thing in the debate. And you know what? She's the one that. I agree. She never accepted her loss. And she looks like a fool. Can you give a direct answer? You will accept the election? I have to see. Look, you, I have to see. No, I'm not going to just say yes. I'm not going to say no, and I didn't last time either. You know, sometimes people in the media and Democrats driving crazy. Not sometimes, almost all the time. So Donald Trump said

three different times that he's not going to accept the results of the election before he said it at the press conference. That's why we already had a petition up. And please sign it because we've got to let the people in charge, the military secret service, whoever it might be, that is eventually going to make a decision about whether they're going to remove it from the building. That if you lose the election and they just let him stay, we're not going to accept it. So it's t.yt.com slash remove Trump. And the whole point of that petition is, and we'll have the link down below in the description box, is to say, look, if you guys aren't going to remove them, we will. Now, that's in the eventuality that he loses. Nobody's in. We actually believe in

democracy. So if he wins, it is what it is. So when he says Hillary Clinton still hasn't accepted it and Chris Wall says he agrees. No, wait, those are two different questions. She hasn't come to terms with it. I agree to that. But does she accept it physically? Yes, she's not in the White House. There's not some weird civil war happening. She accepted it immediately. So she didn't say, oh, no, I'm the president. I'm the president. I'm not going to accept it. So that's totally misleading. So now this is this fourth time. I mean, look at the quote from that press conference that we, the first video that we played you. He said, get rid of the ballots. And you'll have a very peaceful, well, there won't be a transfer, frankly. There'll be a

continuation. The ballots are out of control. He said, get rid of the ballots. See, look, He has verbal diarrhea. He can't stop himself from saying things that are in his mind. And he's thinking, we got to get rid of those ballots. Anna made this point earlier in the show. You know who doesn't want to get rid of ballots? Someone who thinks they're going to win. You don't see Joe Biden going around going, oh, you got to get rid of the ballots. The ballots are a disaster. Get rid of them. Why? Because he thinks he's going to win. Trump thinks, oh, I'm definitely going to lose. If we count all the votes, I have almost no chance of winning. So he has said now dozens, hundreds of times, I don't want to count the ballots. I don't want to count. Well, what is that? That means I want to be dictator and I don't want to count the votes. So there's no excuse for it whatsoever.

So, and honestly, anyone who's been paying close attention to his line of thinking and how he even handled himself during the 2016 general election, he referred to. First of all, he refused to accept that he lost the popular vote. Till this day, he claims that undocumented immigrants voted for Hillary Clinton, which is why it appears that she has won the popular vote in 2016. I mean, obviously, he's never provided any proof of that. It's a complete and utter lie. And prior to the election in 2016, during a rally in Delaware, Ohio, here's what he said. Ladies and gentlemen, I want to make a major announcement today, I would like to promise and pledge to all of my voters and supporters and to all the people of the United States that I will totally accept the results of this great and historic presidential election.

He paused, then made three sharp thrusts of his forefinger to punctuate the next words, if I win. So, I mean, all of his, it's not just what he says, it's also his actions. I mean, look, the popular vote doesn't matter, right? He won the Electoral College in 2016, he's president, but he can't even accept that he lost the popular vote, which gives you a sense of what's likely to happen if ballots are counted after election day, because of course there's going to be a bunch of mail-in ballots, and it indicates that he actually lost the election.

You think he's going to accept those results? And I'm going to give you details on what his campaign is planning and hatching up, which is important for Democrats to know because they need to stop it. They need to have a plan in place. Doesn't look like they do. Yeah, and that's why I said the media and Democrats driving crazy. He's said this repeatedly. And they just, they don't believe it. They're like, oh, no, of course. I mean, he's going to act like a normal human being eventually, right? No, no, he's not. He's never going to act like a normal human being. He's telling you over and over what he's going to do, because that's what he's going to do, you schmucks. And so finally,

since he said it right in front of all the press, they're like, oh, oh, I wonder if he's really going to do it. Yes, he's really going to do it. So they're going to try to stop the counts in anyway. Look, if you're a MAGA guy, when he said, oh, they had three million illegal votes. Okay, great, he put together a commission led by Chris Kobach, one of the worst right wingers in the country, what you would consider one of the best right wingers in the country, and then they shut down the commission and said, we found no evidence. So, What's your leg to stand and you don't, it's amazing to me that there is at least a third of this country that goes, I just don't care about facts. All I care about is my emotions. My

emotions says I love dear leader and I hate brown people. So you tell me, he says there's three million illegal votes. I know there's zero evidence for it. I know he tried to find it and found nothing. I don't care. I'm just going to accept it as fact anyway. Loyola Law School did a study where they looked into elections in America. It's true, there was voter fraud. 31 times, wow. Out of a billion votes, out of a billion votes. But again, they don't care about facts. And then finally, guys, if you really were worried that, hey, no, no, it's not that we're not going to count the votes. I'm worried that the Democrats are going to do voter fraud, like Trump says. Well, then wouldn't Trump and you guys want some sort of process

where Republicans and Democrats can fairly track the process and make sure that every vote is counted? Wouldn't Trump be super busy? If I thought I was going to get changed, cheated out of an election, I'd be super busy trying to make sure that all the votes are counted and counted fairly. Yet Trump isn't doing any of that. Instead, he's trying to figure out how to not count the votes. If you can't see that that's setting it up for cheating, you're trying super hard not to see it. So I really recommend that everyone who's watching this, take a look at a piece written in the Atlantic. It's one of the most comprehensive, well-written pieces about this very topic. It's written by Barton Gelman, and the title is the election that could

break America. If the vote is close, Donald Trump could easily throw the election into chaos and subvert the result. Who will stop him? And I think that's a really important question. And I want to give you some of the highlights of this piece, but again, we'll include a link to it in the description box below so you can read it for yourselves. You know, Gelman writes, the 20th Amendment is crystal clear that the president's term in office shall end at noon on January 20th, but two men could show up to be sworn in, meaning Biden and Trump. One of them would arrive with all the tools and power of the presidency already in hand, meaning Trump. Trump's state and national legal teams are already laying the groundwork for post-election maneuvers that would circumvent

the results of the vote count in battleground states. Ambiguities in the the Constitution and logic bombs in the Electoral Count Act make it possible to extend the dispute all the way to inauguration day, which would bring the nation to a precipice. And remember, Donald Trump is doing everything he can to basically ensure that a replacement for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is in place in the Supreme Court. That way they would have the Supreme Court on their side. If the election ends up being decided. by the Supreme Court, which is pretty terrifying. And he writes about something called the intraregnum, which is between election day and inauguration day, comprises of 79 days, carefully

bounded by law. Among them are the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December, this year, December 14th. When the electors meet in all 50 states in the District of Columbia to cast their ballots for president, the third day of January, when the newly elected Congress is ceded and the sixth day of January in this, yeah, and the sixth day of January when the House and Senate meet jointly for a formal count on the electoral vote. In most modern elections, these have been pro forma milestones irrelevant to the outcome. This year they may not be, meaning between election day and actual inauguration day, Donald Trump, if he loses, is going to do anything and everything possible to ensure that the outcome is exactly what he wants.

wants. And so there's this argument that if Biden wins by a landslide, well, then everything is, everything's going to be okay. Don't worry. We just need Biden to win by a landslide. But A, I don't know if I even believe that argument, but B, all the signs indicate right now that Biden is not going to win by a landslide. If you look at new voter registration, the demographics that would typically vote for Trump are registering to vote and they're fired up, Whereas the Democratic registration rate is actually pretty low. And I can get to those numbers in just a minute. Yeah, and look, I'm not sure I agree with that.

Biden is leading by seven points nationally. And in the swing states, he's still leading by a fairly comfortable margin. Not just leading, but no. Not in Florida or Arizona. No, no, I know. Look, the last Washington Post poll came on. They're like, oh, his lead in Arizona and Florida are not as large as they used to be. or Trump's taking a one point lead, it's tied, whatever you want to say. First of all, combination of polls, don't show that. Second of all, Biden doesn't need Florida or Arizona.

Arizona is getting deep into Republican territory. He doesn't need it at all. Okay, so I think that there's misconceptions about that. I actually am among the rare people who think there's still a very good chance. Why just survive back to school when you can thrive by creating a space that does it all for you, no matter the size. Whether you're taking over your parents' basement or moving to campus, IKEA has hundreds of design ideas and affordable options to complement any budget. After all, you're in your small space era. It's time to own it. Shop now at IKEA.ca.

That it's a blowout on election night, and Trump actually did a lot of this for theater and then comes out at the ending and actually concedes. Now, that doesn't mean that he won't whine about it for the rest of his life and that they won kind of political guerrilla warfare about how he actually won for years and decades to come. But what we have to be prepared for is that it's close enough that it's within cheating distance. And again, I'm going to give you a Trump quote here because he can't help himself. He said about do you want a lot of voting?

Does he believe he's going to win? He said levels of voting that if you ever agreed to it, you'd never have a Republican elected in this country again. So he's saying if we have high level of voting, I definitely lose. So I'm trying to block the vote. You're not supposed to say it out loud, but he's too stupid to check himself. So don't get me wrong. I am massively concerned. If I was a Democrat, I would be doing everything in the world if I was in the Biden campaign to make sure every voters counted and that you take those precautions ahead of time. And you do it in partnership with the Republican Party so people can't complain about it. Hey, we're doing this process together,

right? But yes, there is, I don't want people to get the wrong impression. Biden still has a very large lead. All right. And then one final thing I want to bring up because it's important and I know I'm pushing it. There was basically a top level advisor in the Trump campaign. He's no longer there, but his name was Justin Clark. And he was caught on tape. tape, admitting that the Republican Party is going to do everything possible to suppress the vote in order to ensure that Trump wins. And so let me read you those portions of what he said on tape. Again, Justin Clark, former Trump campaign senior advisor, Wisconsin's the state that's going to tip this one way or the other. So it makes election day operations really, really,

really important. Traditionally, it's always been Republicans suppressing votes. Democrats, voters are all in one part of the state, meaning Wisconsin. So let's start playing offense a little bit. And that's what you're going to see in 2020. That's what you're going, that's what's going to be markedly different. It's going to be a much bigger program, a much more aggressive program, a much better funded program. And we're going to need all the help we can get. And he specifically mentioned the expiration of a consent decree, which basically prevented Republicans from using armed law enforcement at these polls in an effort to intimidate voters. That decree has expired, which means that Republicans are able to essentially hire people who are armed,

who will go to the in-person voting places, and essentially intimidate voters. Anyone who they think looks sketchy, they can hassle them and intimidate them. And by the way, we've already seen some of that happen in some of the early voting that's been taking place in Virginia. And so in regard to the consent decree expiring, Justin Clark said on tape, the expiration of that order was a huge, huge, huge, huge deal. And they've already hired. Trump campaign has already hired 50,000 volunteers in 15 contested states to monitor polling places. That's what we're dealing with. Yeah, so I'll say two things about that.

First of all, what's wrong with Democrats? Why don't they hire 100,000 people to go to the voting areas as well? Why do they only whine about it afterwards? So like, oh my God, the Republicans, we know ahead of time. The Republicans are sending 50,000 people to the voting areas in their mind to intimidate voters. First of all, don't get intimidated, okay, don't let anyone stop you from voting. Second of all, if they're sending 50,000, let's send 100,000, let's send 500,000.

And so people think I'm kidding, Republicans are afraid of minorities for no reason. Well, because they're racist. So you get perfectly like get people in suits, it doesn't matter. Get African Americans, Latinos, Muslims, LGBTQ folks, it doesn't matter. Put them in front of voting areas. They have every right to be in front of voting areas within a certain distance. And Republicans will just get scared and go home just by the nature of their racism. So I don't want to sit here and whine about it afterwards.

I want to do something now. Why are the Republicans the only one, the only ones trying to win elections? You know, in whatever it means, look, now the final thing, guys, is the most important. The reason Trump is doing all this is because he knows the polling. The polling indicates that the people who are going to vote in person are favoring Trump 62 to 30. So that's a giant advantage for Trump. If you end it the minute the in-person voting is over and you don't count any of the mail-in, then he wins big. Now you want to know what percentage are favoring Biden on mail-in voting? 74 to 20, okay? So when you count the mail-in votes,

Trump has no chance. That's why he's saying a thousand times over, don't count the mail-in votes. Don't count the mailing votes, because if you do, it's a guaranteed loss for Trump. So that is why we have to be on as vigilant as humanly possible that every vote gets counted fairly and with no questions asked. And that's why Trump even said, again, the third time he's accidentally admitting things as to why his plan is. He said, we've got to get that last Supreme Court nominee in before the election in case we go to the Supreme Court. Why? Because the last time the Supreme Court stopped in 2000. They did what in Bush v. Regard? They stopped the counting. So he's thinking, if I get somebody else in there and I packed the court, we just call it immediately

and say I won and make, and the Supreme Court says, yeah, don't ever count any of the rest of the votes. That's the plan. There's no question what the plan is. The only question is, can Democrats stop it. And on that, God help us all. All right. Let's take a quick break. When we come back, we have more news for you, including the reality of right-wing violence in the country as Republicans are accusing protesters of being too organized. 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.

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And it makes a huge difference on our, on our Twitch streams and Born Beauty Star Watch, resumed for the third month after, and she writes, or this person writes three month street, WootW, TYT forever. That's awesome. Oh, by the way, tonight, Chewy Martinez on BMEU between me and Ugar at 8 o'clock Eastern. And then we've got game night after that. So check it out at twitch.tv slash TYT. You guys love it. All right, Anna. All right. Following a grand jury's decision to avoid charging a single cop in the murder of Brianna Taylor, protesters broke out across, or protests, I should say, broke out across the country. And yes, also in Louisville, Kentucky, where Brianna Taylor was living before plainclosed

officers busted into her home and shot her to death. And so the reaction from Laura Ingram and other right wingers to the protests is curious because their criticism is that these protests look like they may have been organized. Let's watch. The right wing is focusing on as evidence of some sort of conspiracy theory. I don't know what But their, like, their whole argument is that, oh, these are protesters who plan to protest. Yeah, that's how protests happen. Protests, like, usually aren't random, spontaneous things. We knew earlier this week that the grand jury was going to tell us what the decision was

in regard to criminal charges against these cops. We also knew that the officials in that county were going to declare. state of emergency in order to deal with possible protests. That was a giant red flag for anyone who cared about any justice for Brianna Taylor. So yeah, people plan to protest and then they protest. But Fox and Friends thought that there was some weird, nefarious situation, you know, maybe some well-funded, you know, billionaires who are encouraging chaos in cities across the country. Here's how that conversation went down. There was apparently a U-Haul, did you see this, that was unloading things.

They had all sorts of things like they were handing out great big signs that said abolish police, abolition now. They had the three- arrow logo associated with Antifa. They also apparently handed out things that could be used as shields. One woman is heard on a video saying shields, we got shields handed out by somebody who appeared to be an organizer. They had masks and goggles and water bottles, which they use when the police do deploy anti-crowd control measures. It looks like there is some sort of coordination. Whoa. They had water bottles and masks and signs? Oh my God. What about the other side? What did the right wingers who showed up have? Oh, they had assault weapons. They had guns. They had actual weapons to cause harm to people,

possibly murder people. That's what was going on on the right, by the way. Right wing militia showed up. But really, you guys are gonna have a conversation about a U-Haul truck and how protesters, they had signs. This is pathetic, pathetic. So first of all, I thought these guys were freedom of speech Advocates. Oh, first amendment, oh my God, we got to be able to say the N-word and we got to be able to say terrible things about gay people. First Amendment, freedom of speech, freedom of speech, right? Ben Shapiro's got to give a $40,000 speech, freedom of speech, right?

Can you believe these protesters showed up with signs? How dare they? And what else were they supposed to show up with at a protest? And basically they're saying, how dare you ever protest us? So, no, they don't believe in freedom of speech at all. And so then Lauren Grimm and Bill O'Reilly are on Twitter going, I wonder who paid for this. And media did a great job of investigating, found out that it's a U-Haul rental and cost $30.

And if you had tax and service fees and other things, it gets all the way up to $40. And all over social media, people who are saying, I'll pay it. We don't need Soros, I'll pay it. Okay. So now why do they do that? Why do they assume like it has to be funded by some nefarious forces? Because that's all they ever do on their side. Now I'm gonna, it's not just loose talk. I'm gonna show you an example. So we're gonna go, show you a video. I'm gonna give you the context for it. So this is during the Affordable Care Act, when they were considering it as legislation and it had not yet passed. America's for prosperity is funded by the Koch brothers. It's a right wing think tank funded by them. So they brought out

not a U-Haul truck for 40 bucks, as you're about to see 40 buses full of things. And so you're gonna see this is how right wing billionaires fund right wing protests. Hey, how's it going? How are you with? What are you doing here? What am I doing here? Yeah. I actually work for Americans for Prosperty.

I'm handing out stuff where all the people that are getting off our buses that come in from the region. So these are all your buses? Some had to go down that way to get off the Peace Circle because there are so many buses there have to have them unload in other areas. How many buses total do you think? Do you ride? Our alone, we have 25 buses. This is just from Pennsylvania and New Jersey. We have probably five or six from Maryland.

I have about 40 bus. And three from North Carolina alone. Hey, Anna, you remember that segment that Fox News did? They're like, who's paying for the 40 buses? Who's paying for the pre-printed signs? I remember covering that back in the day going, really? Like even before we knew about the buses and who was paying for it, I was like, all those signs are pre-printed at a print shop.

It's not like the left wing protesters that you guys saw, they obviously painted it on their own in their garage or something, right? And I'm like, who's paying for Dunkin' Donuts? And of course we found out through, I was think progress doing great work back then. That yeah, and they just admitted it. Oh yeah, the Koch brothers are paying for this manufactured protest. One last irony of that, they took the Tea Party guys who were so mad about the bank bailouts. And they wanted to protest the bankers. The Koch brothers send buses and divert them and don't go to Wall Street. And they divert them to say, oh, you're actually really mad about Obamacare. And you want the government hands off of Medicare and Social Security, which of course is

greatly ironic. And the right wing was like, oh yeah, okay, you got donuts? Yeah, you got preprinted signs. And then I'm really angry that they're about to give me health care. And so that's how their side works so they do projection and assume that there's left wing billionaires funding $30 U-Haul Trumps. Yeah, it's just, it's insane. I mean, it's this flat out rejection of the fact that people are angry about injustice, right? These protests happened throughout the country last night, they're going to continue happening because someone was shot and killed in her own home and she did nothing.

nothing wrong, nothing, nothing. She did nothing wrong. And there's no justice in that case. You have one cop who was indicted for wanton, you know, recklessness because he ran to the parking lot and started shooting into her apartment from the parking lot. And he missed her, by the way. None of his bullets hit her. But they could have hit neighbors. They could have hit other people. So he's facing criminal charges for it. But when it comes to all the other cops that were involved. The fact that that warrant was given to them based on a complete another lie, alleging that there were suspicious packages going to that home when the postmaster, or I'm sorry, the postal inspector said that was not the case. I mean, yeah, people are angry.

The same way Laura Ingram would be angry if someone raided her home and shot up her kids, she'd be angry, right? If there were no justice in that case. So to say that this is like some sort of George Soros project and people are getting paid to protest is absolutely ridiculous, especially when you consider how the police authorities, along with these right wing armed thugs, show up there and risk other people's lives on a regular basis when these protests happen. Who would risk their lives unless they feel passionately about changing a system that consistently leads to injustice? So that's why you perpetually hear, oh, George Soros, George Soros is funny, everything.

George Soros, because there is actually no one funding things. So they're like, I don't know, Soros sometimes funds these big organizations. He does it very publicly, et cetera. So I guess he's funding everything else, right? Because they assume, well, why would anybody do anything just because they believe it? Where's the grift? Because that's how the right wing thinks. So for example, in New York Times show, the Dennis Prager, his Prager, you gets funded between 20 to $25 million a year by two right wing billionaires. They just give them a gift and say, spread our propaganda for us, okay? Not an investment, you don't need to make a profit, you don't need to return.

It's just socialism, but for the rich. So here, here's their money. And so, and it turns out there might be a lot more right wingers on social media that were funded by those same billionaires. And so that's why they're like always constantly making stuff up about us and everyone else. We've never taken a dime from Soros. We want to get Soros's money out of politics and they're like, Oh, yeah, but I don't believe you.

I'm going to make up that you are taking money from Soros. Oh, you're taking money from Qatar. Are we? No, it doesn't matter because they can't get it through their head. Why would anyone do something because they actually care about it rather than being paid to do it? And so, no, our side, you could tell from those honestly, like very homemade signs, actually believes it in their heart. And yes, sometimes when you're going to a protest, you call your friend and say,

say, hey Bob, are you going to go on Tuesday? So am I. That's called organizing a protest. And it's literally the most American thing you could do. All right, we got to take a break. When we come back, a pretty explosive story about right-wing gang members who were planning on carrying out acts of violence in Portland, not getting a lot of attention, but we'll give you the deep. At TYT, we frequently talk about all the ways that big tech companies are taking control of our online lives, constantly monitoring us and storing our data. But that doesn't mean we have to let them. It's possible to stay anonymous online and hide your data from the prying eyes of big tech.

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All right. Yesterday following protests in, well, throughout the country, but certainly in Louisville, Kentucky as well, right wing gang members showed up, heavily armed with the intention of, intimidating protesters and even people who weren't part of the protests, who just happened to be in their cars as protests broke out. So this video was honestly not shocking at this point. We've seen so many similar videos. But this is how people in Louisville, Kentucky were intimidated by heavily armed gang members from the right. Take a look. Go home.

What's up? You got? Go home, y'all. You don't live here, baby. Oh. Emily. Emily. Emily.

You're out of the road. You're going to pull a gun on me? I don't have, my guys not pull a baby's holster. What's up? Hey, come on. Come on. Come on. And while Laura Ingram and the rest of the goons over at Fox News were concerned about a U-Haul truck supplying signs to protesters who want justice in the Brianna-Taylor case, in reality you have these, again, heavily armed right-wing gang members, not only intimidating,

people in the area, but also working with police officers who are advising them on what their plan should be for the night. Take a look. If you choose to come down there, there will probably be people on that north side of Churchill Downs. I'm going to watch over and protect everyone. That's what I do, right? So just be prepared. there's a lot of, later on today, there's a lot of to be. Some of hundreds of thousands of people. Don't try and come on Central. And don't try to take that South Sidewell.

We're here for y'all. We're just here on standby. We're not out there in that rally. You don't want to be in that rally. Because last time we kind of got shows, like we were counter-protesters, and that's not what we do. Okay. And all my people have orange on, so we'll all be together.

Okay. I just want to make sure you knew. that don't try and come in those areas, but I'm not going on. At four street. Okay, so third street and second street is still open. Third street and second street still open. You hit four street, you're going to have to turn your house out. Wow, it seems like there are more than just a few bad apples in law enforcement these days.

But look, this is a big problem, Jank, because we're getting more and more evidence through leaked email chains, leaked text messaging. messaging indicating that right wing gang members who are heavily armed are showing up to where they suspect protests will happen with the intention of carrying out acts of violence. Now in that video, of course, they just claim that they're there to protect the cops. But we've seen in case after case, instance after instance, they do carry out acts of violence. And in a piece for the Guardian, which I'm about to share with you, there are, there's coordination among them to literally carry out acts of violence and even assassinate individuals who they disagree with. But first, I want to get your thoughts. Yeah, I think it must have got the wrong video.

That was Kandahar, right? That was the Taliban talking to a random American police officer. I mean, what the hell was that? Did you see how heavily armed they are? That's insane. Now, just flip it for a second. Imagine that it's Black Lives Matter or Antifa protesters who come that heavily armed to a protest. First of all, the cop is not going to be calmly talking to them. He's going to be shooting them or arresting them, okay? Second of all, Fox News would flip out if the left wing came dressed like this. Can you imagine what they would do?

But the right wing just walk into the middle of protest, armed as heavily as al-Qaeda, no, actually probably more heavily armed than al-Qaeda. So this is sick, and it's basically the Gestapo and Brown shirts saying if you try to protest, we'll try to kill you. And remember, Rittenhouse, Fox News, and President Trump totally backed us. So they're probably looking to do more violence, as Anna's about to show you. So writers at The Guardian obtained some communication between members of these far-right gang groups. And here's what they found. Leak chat log show Portland area pro-Trump activists planning and training for violence, sourcing arms and ammunition, and even suggesting

political assassinations ahead of a series of contentious rallies in the Oregon city. The chats on the GroupMe app show conversations between Oregon members of the Patriots Coalition, growing more extreme as they discuss armed confrontations with left-wing Portland activists. So Mark Melchie is one of these right wing gang members. He's part of 1776 2.0. And he said in these logs, I saw someone say bats, mace, and stun guns are illegal downtown. If you're going to play by the books tomorrow night, we already lost. We are here to make a change. Laws will be broken. People will get hurt. It's lawlessness downtown and people need to be prepared for bad things. This won't be a simple fist fight, people will get shot, stabbed, and beat. He also says going after them at night

is the solution like we do in other states. Tactical ambushes at night while backing up the police are key. You get the leaders and the violent ones and the police are happy to shut their mouths and cameras. It literally sounds like Bain from Batman. I'm going to give you a line from Bain. He said, courts will be convened, spoils will be enjoyed, blood will be shed. It sounds almost exactly like the right wing gang members planning to go to these protesters. They admit over and over again, they plan to do the violence. They can't wait to do it. And they plan to break the law and have the cops assist them.

That's their plan. So there is very clear massive violence from one side. The only people who don't want to tell you about it is honestly the Democrats and media that are scared of their own shadow. Just tell people the violence they're planning, fight back politically and rhetorically. God, they're miserable at this. All right, postgame is next. We'll see you soon. Thanks for listening to the full episode of the Young Turks. Support our work, listen to ad-free, access members, only bonus content, and more by subscribing to Apple Podcasts at apple.com slash t-y-t.

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