The Young Turks - “Unicorn" Hunters

Episode Date: December 29, 2021

The man who recently gained widespread media coverage for using a veiled conservative expletive when speaking to President Joe Biden has surprised virtually no one by revealing that he falsely believes Donald Trump is his president, despite initially trying to convince the public otherwise. An 'unruly' passenger was taken into FBI custody after a mask dispute on Delta flight. Ben Shapiro used Ilhan Omar’s response to Joe Manchin to attack her. 'The View' Is reportedly struggling to find a conservative replacement for Meghan McCain. A video has resurfaced of Rep. Madison Cawthorn saying he met his soon-to-be ex-wife at a 'fake CrossFit competition' organized by a US Army captain he met in Russia. Hosts: Brett Erlich, Cenk Uygur 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. All right. Well, my Young Turks, Jake Yugar, Brad Ehrlich, let's go, Brett. Wait, that's a different story. Let's go Brandon. Brandon is the TD today.

So, well, there you go. That's the Brandon with an E.N. We'll go. Yeah, well, that's, I'm sure what they intend. Okay, that's a story in the rundown. In fact, it's the first one up. You'll see it in a second. We've got lots of fun stories for you guys. The right wing, of course, is turned on each other. That's always delicious. Candice versus Donald Trump, Navarro jumps in off the top. But which side is he on? Oh, it's the Vax Wars. You're going to love it. Okay.

Are we in the holiday spirit? I guess. We're going to have a fun show, I guess. All right, bread early, you can tell I'm in a mode. Oh, Anna, I just want to say before we get into this story, that won the Vax Wars. I downplayed it in the morning meeting, how much I wanted to do that story. J.R. will be doing it in the second hour. I was very nice and courteous. I was like, I'm not going to do it. I want it so bad.

I've been thinking about it all day. So everybody stay tuned. It's going to be an amazing, amazing story later on in the show. But we have news to get to, so let's get right into it. Yeah, I hope you guys have a wonderful Christmas as well. Let's go Brandon. Let's go Brandon. I agree. So that moment you just watched took place in basically a question and answer time for NORAD where the president and first lady basically were taking questions like happens every year you can call NORAD and find out where Santa Claus is.

But a certain individual decided to take advantage of that very heartwarming moment to just totally own Joe Biden. in a way that's universally funny, not pathetic in any way. You might be wondering what was the context for all that? We're going to later on show you what happened when that man went on Steve Bannon's show in order to explain himself. But first, here is the extended clip of the guy who told Joe Biden, let's go, Brandon. Oh, that's great. Well, that's great.

Yeah, oh, that's wonderful. That you have a two-year-old. Have a merry Christmas. Have a wonderful Christmas. And by the way, you guys had to be in bed by 9 o'clock, you know, and asleep between 9 and 12. He doesn't show up. This isn't to you, Jared. This is to the kids.

That's right. I hope you have a wonderful Christmas. Yeah, I hope you guys have a wonderful Christmas as well. Oh, thank you. And let's go, Brandon. Let's go, Brandon. I agree. Hey, by the way, are you in Oregon?

Where's your home? I think we lost him. I just wanted to play that whole extended clip because if you thought the Let's Go Brandon moment was the cringiest part of it. No, it wasn't. The entire minute long thing. We'll show you what he said when he had to explain to himself to Steve Bannon. But, Jank, what are your reactions? Okay, so a couple of things.

Number one, Merry Christmas. Go off yourself. I'm a right winger who believes in family values. Do you? It's okay. Pick one or the other. Hey, you know, we're rude. We're terrible. We love to insult the others. I just told the president to F off. That's what let's go. Brandon means it means F you Joe Biden. It's from a chant. You all know this, right? The only person who apparently doesn't know it in the country is Joe Biden. That was amazing. He repeated it. Okay. So was it slightly amusing in that way? Yeah, sure. But you can't say, no, we're family values.

We're upright Christians. No, we hate the war on. on Christmas, we're all about Jesus Christ. I don't think Jesus was one to be much like, let's go Brandon, let's go Brandon. Okay, so it doesn't really quite feel like the Christmas spirit there. Somebody's got to tell Joe Biden like the world's simplest internet memes, especially ones associated with him so he doesn't repeat it. There's so much about this that is fascinating and pathetic and ridiculous.

When I first watched it, I was like, I'm not sure Joe Biden doesn't know what this is. But like maybe he's a season enough politician, but like watching it three and four times. I just couldn't help but go, yeah, he doesn't know what this is. I don't know what Joe Biden's doing most of the time. I feel like he doesn't know what he's doing maybe a fifth of the time. At least. But but I just don't know how immersed in all this stuff he is to know it or not. But what strikes me is like they, this guy, it is just like a Christmas show where you call in and you have your kids there and your kids get to ask,

where is where is uh where is Santa Claus and oh my God the president's there I don't I it's supposed to be a time where you just for the benefit of your children you lie to them and I feel like this guy he can exercise his First Amendment right I don't begrudge him taking advantage of an opportunity to do that but just looking at it man this is pretty pathetic to do it in this moment and I love all the right wingers who are just fist bumping like I totally nailed it because I'm I'm so bold that I use the code to tell the president on Christmas to go F himself. Look, again, I look, I'm not mainstream media.

I don't really care, right? So I'm not offended by Let's Go, Brandon, but don't get offended when people say it back. Oh, by the way, go F yourself and Donald Trump. He's a loser and he should go F himself. And I could get way more graphic than that. But I know you're not offended because that wouldn't make any sense. You say to Biden without any hesitation or all. In fact, I'd like to say in the spirit in the spirit of Christmas,

F Donald Trump, what a loser. Ha ha ha ha ha. Okay, you guys don't mind, right? Because neither, I don't mind. I just don't want you to, I don't want you to catch feelings for some reason. I mean, you're not a beta, right? So okay, now here's a funny part. Remember this the same show, the thing that they do where they track Santa?

It used to be cute, you know? Like, oh yeah, well, where is Santa? You know, nothing's cute anymore. Let's remember when Trump, in that same situation, said to a seven-year-old, are you still a believer in Santa? Because it's seven, it's marginal, right? He said that. It's so ridiculous. He said that to a seven-year-old.

I don't know, like, yes, I am a, like, dead inside 39-year-old guy, so I kind of respect that more. But, like, the reason I selected that clip to play from that part is Jill Biden just got done saying, like, oh, my God, it's so amazing you have a two-year-old. And the guy sitting in the living room with the two-year-old. He explained himself to the Oregonian. And here's a quote from Jared Schmack, the guy. Oh, guy's perfect. His name is Schmeck. We're talking out of the morning meeting today how, like, I love the word Schmeckle.

It's just like a, it's not even a word, but it's, Jared Schmeckle says, at the end of the day, I have nothing against Mr. Biden. What? But I'm frustrated because I think he can be doing a better job. I mean no disrespect to him. No, no. You can't have it both ways. You can tell him to F off or you can have respect for him, but you can't have both. Okay. So Schmeckle, stop lying. Okay. So don't worry, he's going to stop lying when he gets to right wing media. Right. And so here's the thing. So I'm going to tell you what happened right before he went on Steve Bannon's show and then how he did that thing that we know right wingers to do all the things. time after they try to be decent for like a half a second and then they get caught by all their peers who are like, no, that's wrong, you've got to be the worst person at all time for no reason. So here is a quote that he, from the Oregonian who did a write up after talking

to him saying, Schmec said he's not a trumper, but described himself as a free thinking American and follower of Jesus Christ. Now, this subject came up when he went on the war room with Steve Bannon on the real American network, I think it's on, and that I am not a trumper argument seemed to vanish, as you'll know, by his headwear. But pay attention for the extended clip and what happens at the end as Bannon tosses to break. But here is Jared Schmeck explaining himself. They both picked up the phone. It was clear that it was not a recording. I didn't know it was being live streamed at that time. And throughout the conversation, it popped into my and I guess the rest is history.

For me, let's go, Brandon, is, and I've said it in other articles, I am a Christian man. It's, for me, it's God first and foremost. I don't follow any one man blindly. Some of the media's run with that and said I don't support Donald Trump. That's absolutely false. Donald Trump is my president, and he should still be president right now. The election was 100% stolen. So I just want to make that clear.

It's more than you say in a day, but you summed it up in about three seconds when you actually said that. And we're a big part of the FGB of movement also. And we think it's a, it summarizes a political philosophy of everything you talked about. That this is, the elections have consequences and stolen elections have catastrophic consequences. And we're seeing those catastrophic consequences all around us and so is all America. Because that's why they're imploding. That's why, and with this chaos, this happened over the Christmas holiday.

So it's just insane. So F.J. Biden in excelsies day, oh, like it was, he's talking about F. The President. I thought it was like a scene from an Adam McKay movie where like, yeah, just bring in the music that is the complete opposite of whatever ridiculousness this guy is spouting. But this, Jared Schmeck says he's a Christian and, and that explains everything in his life. What do you think? There's so many great things in here. You know, for me, it's God first and foremost. That's why I like to tell presidents and everyone else that I could find F off, okay?

That's what God first and foremost, and he told me to go after yourself, okay? Oh, Jesus Christ. I mean, really? And by the way, yeah, yeah. I mean, that movie, don't look up, had mixed reviews, which is hilarious, because the media caught feelings over it, because it was so over the top, but completely accurate. So we're having a legitimate debate about whether FU,

is the actual Christmas spirit. Like the right way, it's like, well, I mean, God, in Jesus and so F the president, right? Right? Am I, and so now we have to counter. No, that's not really the Christmas spirit. I mean, this is the insanity of current day America. So let me go to our members here and you guys using super chat because they made such

great points. I love how smart our audiences. Vedema Lagan wrote in, when the Pope goes out to his balcony in the Vatican, The crowd cheers, F, Satan, F, Satan, don't they? Don't they? Isn't that a thing? And the right wing will be like, yeah, I think that's what I think e pluribus unum means. No, wait, that doesn't have anything to do with the Pope.

That's not, all right, anyway, super Gregy pants, broodin. Yet it wasn't a lifetime the chance to critique the president with an audience of millions. And instead you say, let's go, Brandon, if only Jenk had called in. Now, thank you for saying that, it's very nice of you. But yeah, if you wanted to do a legitimate critique, that would be an amazing time to do it. Still not exactly the appropriate atmosphere, but we were like, if you were like, what happened to you canceling $10,000 in student loans? Right. And then that would get a ton of attention. Everybody like, wait a minute, he did say that and he didn't cancel the student loans.

Oh my God, Joe Biden's a liar. Now that is actually a much more powerful critique of Joe Biden, more effective critique of Joe Biden, and puts them on the spot. But the right wing does not have effective critique of Joe Biden because they actually agree with almost all of his. legislation or his lack of legislation. He passed one corporate bill, that's the infrastructure bill, which the right wing loves. Okay, they pretend, oh, no, go, he twisted our arms into giving corporations giant deals. Oh, golly, gee, we are so mad at Joe Biden. In fact, a lot of the Republicans even voted for that bill.

That's how you know it's filled with corporate donor goodies because they never give him a vote otherwise. Meanwhile, he's done nothing else. you'll see later in the show, Ben Shapiro actually totally agree with Joe Biden's accomplicements or lack thereof. They love that Biden's doing nothing. So since they have no critique of them, they're like, oh, lower wages, no health care, we love it, right?

Oh, I don't know, I got nothing left. I don't like you, F you, right? That's who they are. And finally, I am sock in the member section says, this Schmett guy is now considering running for office. I don't know if that's true. But that's the amazing part. We're all in an Adam McKay movie.

Could that guy run for office? Of course he can. Could he win? Of course he can. I'm just the strength of saying F you to a lib. He owned the libs. Good enough. Okay.

Like I think back on Joe the Plummer, right? Like that was at least an attempt to like get into the mind of a working class human being. And that was John McCain calling out Joe the plumber. and Joe the plumber became a thing and at least he was like a plumber. This guy, all he did, and I love the Adam McKay comparison because it is in something as ridiculous as having the president of the United States talk about the location of Santa on the NORAD site, which is like a huge military giant dollar investment that we are, we have spent millions and millions of dollars to monitor all the goings on on earth from

the satellite. And they're using it for like funsies on a time to talk to that. And this guy jumps in and says F. Joe Biden. The last thing I'll say is like, at least with the F Donald Trump comments, two things. One, F Donald Trump comments, whenever I saw a video of someone going and blasting the F Donald Trump song, it was like at a MAGA rally. It made more sense in context. It was someone going and blowing up them, you know, the scene.

a place where people were being terrible. This is like kids celebrating Santa Claus. I guess that's my only last point, but I think it's absolutely still. Yeah, you know, you're forcing me into a last point. You twisted my arm. I remember that lady who gave Donald Trump's motorcade the middle finger. Yeah. And I think she got fired, right?

Like, how dare you? That is disrespectful to the beloved, cherished president of the United States. And that was the right wing position. Yeah. She was unbelievably crass and needed to be canceled. How dare she do that to the president? And now they're all like, after president, after president, you for Jesus. And they genuinely believe it.

So yeah, it's scary to live on the same planet as these folks, but it's also kind of amusing. They like have no sense of logic or reason at all. And it's kind of hilarious. Yep. All right. We should take a break. That's one story down. We got four more to go in this hour, so let's free up some time by taking a break.

When we come back, we have someone who smacked grandpa on a plane, and I don't know who the good guy is in that situation. And then also- I know who the bad guy is. I know who the bad guy is in the next story. Ben Shapiro versus Ilhan Omar. Don't go away. We got more after this. All right, back on TYT, Jank and Brett with you guys. Fan favorite breader.

Like, they're all over. Look at Twitch. What do they say here? Bread in the studio, woohoo, rebel Mitch says. Yeah. You see that? Wifee's loving it, having the place all to herself. The other day, last night, she just goes, stop asking me what, what I want to do?

Just, I don't. I don't want to do anything. I want you to go to the other side of the house and leave me alone in peace for a minute because I just talk the whole time. Well, that's really funny because apparently the chat is defending your wife. After your quote, quote, I haven't been around human beings. So that happened. He's so truer than he purposed.

She's currently starting hashtag let's go, Brett. I have no difference. Okay. All right, except one, of course, he meant, and a lovely one and a brilliant, great one. Okay, all right, that's my save. All right, let's go. All right, let's take flight. Okay, since the start of the pandemic, we've seen countless videos of confrontations on planes.

where there's an anti-masker, and usually you know who the anti-masker is and who's not. In this situation, there was a pro-masker with her mask off, punching Grandpa in the face. We have the full explanation, but without further ado, I want to play for you, the video that you might have seen, you know, flying around out there. Take a look. Yes, you will. Yeah, but you're, you're asking us. Who invited to you in the population?

Drink your ass up. Don't you dare talk to me right that. God damn it. You stand to you. Stand your ass up. Stand your ass up. Sit down, Karen. Do you want the peace in each other around?

What about him? Mask up. Put your ass up. I'm eating and drinking. Damn him to mask. You got your mess. Sir. Did you go me?

I did. Stop going to get you. Now you're going to take it. You're going to say that. As soon as we get in Atlanta, you're going to jail. I won't get my mask on me. At least you're going to jail. Put your fucking mask on.

I won't get my mask on. I won't put my mask on when you put your mask on. At least she was negotiating there at the end. She was trying to negotiate a piece. Jank, first, we have we have the full information about who's she is and what went down, what inspired this back and forth, but first, reactions to the video. Yeah, so look, we're knee deep or neck deep in the culture wars, right? So you don't have your mask on, that means you have a certain identity, and the other person has a different

identity, so now we fight, right? And that's what happens all across America, and the media has gotten us to hate one another, right? And look, honestly, we're a part of that too, because we got to fight back against the other side. And a lot of Democrats, 99% of Democrats lay down and let the Republicans run all over them. So we got to fight back. But it does lead to nonsense like this. This is insane, okay? The person at fault here is not the one that seems to be ostensibly on our side,

telling the guy to mask up. She's definitely wrong. So unlike other parts of the media, we are actually willing to tell you things that are true, even if it looks like the person is on our side, it doesn't matter. Okay, you're not on our side, by the way, if you're telling someone to mask up and you don't have your mask on. Like, you're, that's right there instantly, you're a jackass. That makes no sense, and I'm not going to abide by complete irrationality, telling yelling at people at the top of your lungs and spitting on them to mask up while you're not mask and spitting on them. That's insane and totally intolerable.

She should definitely be arrested. And by the way, I'll go further. I don't know why the guy didn't have his mask on and I don't care. I might care if I had my mask on and we're in a different context, right? But people say, no, he shouldn't curse and shouldn't call her terrible things. Look, you got a crazy person in your grill. I don't give a damn if you say things that are quote unquote inappropriate. So right now, Brett, I'm waiting for more information, but I got it scored 100 to nothing against her.

I do want to point out that like I did not expect Gramps to call her a Karen. Like, I didn't expect the vernacular to make it there. Yeah. But it did. And I want to say, way to go grandpa or I keep calling him grandpa because we don't know his name. RTW is what he's referred to in all the reports. But this guy, it's just I don't, all I'm thinking it as a result of this is I do not want to get in a plane in the next three years. Because everybody seems to be so on edge.

I feel horrible for the flight attendants. A lot of flight attendants are in really, really precarious positions for their own health where they have to, I mean, I've heard yesterday that there's like communications from headquarters at various airlines where they're saying, like, if you've been exposed to someone with COVID, if you don't have any symptoms, like, you've got to go work. You don't get time off to go get a test. There is no help that you're getting. And meanwhile, like the CEO of Delta is telling the CDC, you guys need to cut down. how much time people have off. I feel horrible for everyone who has to work. 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

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I hate that this is someone's workplace and they have to endure this. But let's get to the details of what happened according to the report. The woman was arrested. The man, per the complaint, told authorities that Cornwall, the woman, made a Rosa Parks remark to a flight attendant while returning to the bathroom. Okay, we'll get to what that remark was in a second. The flight attendant asked Cornwall to find an open seat until beverage service was completed. the complaint said. Now, Cornwall responded to the flight attendant, quote, what am I, Rosa Parks? The man believed Cornwall's comment was inappropriate, and he responded to Cornwall that she, quote,

isn't black, this isn't Alabama, and this isn't a bus. I don't know what airline it was on because it might have been an air bus. But when the flight landed, Cornwall was arrested and charged for the assault. Here's part of the Atlanta Police Department statement. The disturbance led to the injury of fellow passengers and Delta employees. Based on the statements gathered invisible evidence, officers detained Ms. Cornwall and contacted the on-call FBI agent. FBI agents responded and took custody of Ms. Cornwall. So she said something like, you know, about being discriminated against because she's Rosa Parks because she was told to go to the back of the plane, essentially. Jank, who's Saigon now? Now I'm in favor of her

being double arrested. You're Rosa Parks? No. You're You are no Rosa Parks. I mean, you saw the video when we showed it again. I mean, she's got her hand cocked like this, ready to punch a guy who is considerably appears to be considerably older than her, right? She spits on him. And she spits on him and she slaps him. I mean, there is no end zips or butts.

This is not even close. And honestly, I guess, like, the way the culture wars break out, obviously we have no idea of their personal politics. And my guess is that it probably gets confusing. like which side they're on and which issues, et cetera. And I can't perfectly tell, but ostensibly, she's on the you should wear mask side. And he's maybe, presumably on the you shouldn't wear mask side. And so that's why I say presumably we would be on her side of the divine in the cultural wars.

But not if you're not actually on our side. You don't wear the mask and you assault people, which immediately means you're not an actual progressive. you can't conduct a battle of ideas and you get into something physical that's insane. So there's just a ton of reasons why this is so out about. He said he was drinking and eating or something. Maybe he was, maybe he wasn't. But it is just, it's, it is insane. Because the one fact of the culture wars, no matter what side someone's on, is just the overall

climate of discourse in America, has so many people convinced of one thing. And it's that they're right. Half the people are wrong, but all the sane people believe what they believe themselves. And so they look around and they're kind of taking stock of who they think is sane. They're making wild assumptions of everyone. And then they're basically concluding that I could spit on this man and not get in trouble for it in a plane. That's her thing. She wants him to face consequences.

Meanwhile, she's swinging her hands and spitting on an elderly guy who we all know, the elderly, we're essentially like, you know, the most vulnerable to dying from this thing. Yeah. So Karen is usually used against right wingers who want to call the manager on a black guy. But it's not always racial and it's not always on a black guy. And they're not, apparently, they're not always right wingers. Because I don't know again what her politics is, but if she's pro mass, maybe she's a left wing Karen. But she's definitely Karen in that she feels entitled. I feel entitled to get you to do what I want, okay? And I feel entitled to punch you in the face and spit on you and have no consequences because I matter and you don't.

Now, as progresses, we hate it when the right wing does that to us. We certainly should not do it back to them. Everyone obviously matters. I hope we can at least still agree to that, but I'm not Positive. And yeah, this is just, and we show this to you because unfortunately, it is an extreme case, but it is emblematic as well. Violence on the flights have gone up tremendously, 5,779, unruly passenger incidents already this year, way up from last year. 72% of the incidents are over mass. So we are fighting this cultural war very literally, and we're fighting it in the skies as well, which is kind of a dangerous place to fight in. So yes, we need to engage the battle of ideas if we're on the left.

We can't shirk away from a ideological fight, but making it physical is insane for everyone involved. Yeah, and this is like Delta's position on it. You read the stats, they are undeniable that there's been an uptick in these incidents. Gravick 5, this is Delta airline statement. Situation like these are rare for the vast majority of our customers, and Delta has zero tolerance for unruly behavior at our airports and aboard our aircraft. Vast majority of the customers, yes, but it's becoming more and more common when you fly these so-called friendly skies where, let's face it,

everybody would be miserable in a plane if it weren't a pandemic on. Everyone always self-medicates with alcohol, and alcohol, if you are the least bit frustrated, a lot of people, they act out in that situation, and it's really rough. Okay, super last thing, the lines are all getting blurred, guys, because there are absurd rules. So when you have to wear the mask going into a restaurant and then you could take it off immediately one foot later, it makes no sense. Let's just acknowledge that. And if somebody's frustrated with that rule, that doesn't mean they're a right winger or a Trump supporter. You don't know exactly where people stand.

Stop making assumptions as well. I know it's near impossible, but at some point, we have to be decent again to one. another. Yep. All right, let's move on to Ben Shapiro versus Ilhan Omar. Ben Shapiro's really grown as a person. He used to just attack Ilhan Omar for being Muslim on comparing her to the terrorists who shot up the synagogue in San Diego, but he's really evolved as a person. He's still attacking her, but this time he's attacking her for what she said to Joe Manchin on his hypocrisy overbilled back better. Now, his accusations against Omar are still made up, But as you'll see how it plays out, he thinks he, this guy from Beverly Hills, California,

who is well funded by giant corporations, he knows what the people of West Virginia want. Here is Ben Shapiro talking trash on Ilhan, playing a clip of her, and then finishing his point. Take a look. For a $7 trillion package, because AOC and Ilhan Omar wanted it, these people are out of their minds. They truly do seem to think that like small boroughs in New York govern the, the entire country. And that senators are not answerable to their home state. And Ilhan Omar joined the crew. She slammed mansion as well. Here is the horrible congresswoman from Minnesota. The excuses that he just made, I think, are a complete bullshit. It is really disheartening

to hear him say that he has been trying to get there for the people of West Virginia, because that's a complete lie. Well, I mean, if the people of West Virginia don't love Ilhan Omar, I mean, when she speaks, the people of West Virginia, listen, that is definitely a state, West Virginia, where Ilhan Omar, I'm sure, is wildly popular. Her perspectives are super popular in West Virginia. Again, the delusional nature of progressives who think they have a national program, as opposed to the reality of politics, which is you're always cobbling together, a coalition

to do incremental things. That is most of politics. and that it turns out Joe Biden did not have a mandate for anything remotely like this. It's amazing. And they will continue to looting themselves along these lines, the progressives, which means that Joe Biden should get with the program, right? If he had any brains at all, if he didn't have mush for brains at this point, which I mean physically mush for brains,

then he would probably be pushing for a piecemeal approach to a lot of this legislation. But I don't know if he can do it. Emma at the end, because we saw this on majority report, hat tip to them. But definitely, okay, so there's a couple things. One, he's saying that West Virginians do not support the build back better plan. Two, he's saying that progressives are wildly out of touch with America and have something that only works in the boroughs of New York and ostensibly Minnesota. And then there's some other stuff that he gets to.

Third, he thinks it should be a piecemeal approach to fixing these. So, Jank, those three points. What are your thoughts? Okay, so look, guys, we've told you 100 times that the people of West Virginia actually want build back better. And I'm going to give you stats about that in a second. And we're going to actually prove our case with facts, not feelings. But what Bench Bureau is doing there, let's not bury the lead, is really kind of an interesting admission on his part. Because he didn't say that the people of West Virginia, according to the polling, would be against Ilhan Omar's position.

He just said the people of West Virginia are not going to agree with Ilhan Omar. Why? Why wouldn't they agree with Ilhan Omar. For example, she's for higher wages. We know through the polling that the people of West Virginia, unsurprisingly, are for higher wages, including a higher minimum wage. And that's a policy issue where they would definitely agree with Ilhan Omar. But that's not what Ben's saying. He's saying they would never agree with her. Why? You know it. Because she's Muslim, she's black, she's a woman, she wears a headdress, right? All of those things. So Ben Shapiro is implicitly saying there without any question, he thinks the people of West Virginia are racist and bigoted. So just looking at Ilhan Omar, they would say, I don't agree with her because I don't like blacks, Muslims, women, et cetera, right?

Now, I didn't say that. You saw the video. You saw Ben very clearly implying that. And he's probably projecting, I don't know if that's true. By the way, I'm open to the idea that that might be true. that unfortunately there might be enough racism and bigotry in West Virginia where they wouldn't even hear her out. They just go Muslim woman, no way. I don't know. Ben seems to know. He thinks he knows, right? And at a bare minimum, he is definitely projecting his own views onto the voters of West Virginia.

She's a black Muslim woman. I would never listen to her on anything. It doesn't matter if she has my best interest in mind. And also, like, Ben Shapiro is a Los Angeles elitist. He couldn't be more. Isn't he like this rich kid from like from Beverly Hills, California? Yes. Yes.

But no, he moved out of California to save taxes. Where did he moved to? Do you move to Nashville or whatever? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, go to Nashville and tell me that like Nashville is like super hip now. It doesn't matter, but you're right. I mean, it's funny because like the Jimmy Doors of the world would say about people like Emma. Oh, she grew up on a cul-de-sac.

It just means dead end. It doesn't mean anything. Yeah, cul-de-sac. And so they're like the right-wingers will love. love to say, oh, yeah, they're rich and elitist. And the fake left wing joins in and that. And what happened? Max Blumenthal's dad is the most centrist, corporate Democrat in the history of America, Sydney Blumenthal, right?

And Ben Shapiro is an elitist who grew up in Beverly Hills with a silver spoon up his ass. And Jimmy's a cop. Jimmy's a cop. Jimmy's a cop. Like every time I sat next to him on this panel, it was like, my whole family's cops. I grew up his cops. Everything's a cop. cul-de-sac.

It's so frustrating. It's such a non-starter argument. It's the argument's a cul-de-sac. It's a dead end. Anyway, so that's Shapiro's. Look, I don't care about his background. I care about his ideas. It's just the irony of him with his faux populism.

Foe populism. Okay, you know who's a real populist? Someone who can't say faux populist. Anyways, back to the main argument. So are the people of West Virginia? with, you know, Ben Shapiro, or are they with Ilhan Omar? Well, let's find out, let's go to graphic one here. This is Data for Progress.

They did a poll of West Virginia's. Well, that makes sense. This support for build back better, its key provisions and its pay force isn't limited, they explain, to solidly blue states. And West Virginia specifically, all provisions of the bill, including clean energy investments, are supported by at least 60% of voters. This includes investments in long-term. care, that's a plus 78. That's not 78 approval. That's a plus 78. I've never seen anything

like that net support. Expanding Medicare coverage plus 70% child care investments plus 53% pay leave plus 46% universal pre-k plus 42% and clean energy investments. A stunning plus 28% in the state of West Virginia. So the voters of West Virginia most definitely agree with Il Han Omar. Get that through your thick skulls, you racist pricks, pretending you speak for the voters of West Virginia. Yeah, and it's not just West Virginia, by the way, polling from data for progress. And there's a bunch of polls that essentially mimic this exact finding. The overwhelming voter support in key states for buildback better, including Georgia, 53% net support, North Carolina plus 50, Pennsylvania plus 46, Michigan plus 46, West Virginia plus 43, Wisconsin. 39, Arizona 37%. So in, it has more support in, a lot of these are swing states, but like,

it is an insanely high amount of support. Why? Something that Republicans do all the time. They go and they test messages and they find polling data that supports a certain kind of message and they one of the hardest parts of getting older is feeling like something's off in your body, but not knowing exactly what. It's not just aging. It's often your hormones, too. When they fall out of balance, everything feels off. But here's the good news. This doesn't have to be the story of your next chapter. Hormone Harmony by Happy Mammoth is an herbal formula made with science-backed ingredients designed to fine-tune your hormones by balancing estrogen, testosterone, progesterone, and even stress hormones like cortisol. It helps with common issues such as hot flashes, poor sleep, low energy,

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to change their tune. But no, as you reported last week, the coal union is like, no, we probably want to shore up our union's power into the future. So please, please invest in different kinds of energy because we're already in the union and maybe we can switch over to a different section of it as different energy jobs, this time clean energy jobs happen. So every step of the way, Ben Shapiro is utterly freaking wrong. And this is their hegemon of argument and debate on the left.

And it doesn't make any damn sense. Yeah, their idea of intellectual is, ha ha, Muslim, and there's no way we agree with her. That's intellectual, hilarious. It seems like you're very deep in your feelings. couple of things here, guys. We have a correction. Apparently, Ben Shapiro has moved to Boca. A populist hotbed. There it is. Boca in Florida, you kidding me? Anyway, I don't know and I don't care where he lives, but that's what we hear. Okay, so the last things are, look, he says Biden has no mandate. No, and Emma and they talked about this majority report. He arguably had too big a

mandate. He didn't want that big a mandate because he's not a progressive at all. So he wins by million votes, he's got the entire Democratic Party behind him, and he promised all these things he doesn't actually want to do, like $15 minimum wage, negotiating drug prices, et cetera. And he's like, God damn it, what do I do with this mandate? I have to somehow destroy it. Hey, Joe Manchin, Chris's Cinema, can you help me trash my own mandate? And let's all pretend the Republicans are right. And let's trash our own theoretical agenda, which is actually a progressive agenda we don't believe in at all. And our donors told us that we are not allowed to do. So what did he do? He cut, and Joe Manchin helped him cut.

the $3.5 trillion bill into a $1.75 trillion bill, now a $0 bill because it doesn't exist. But at 1.75 lost nearly half its popularity because all, Republican, independent, and democratic voters all wanted to be higher, not lower. They wanted more for the average American worker, not less. And when you took out things like lowering drug prices, then they're like, well, what the hell? You just screwed me. You said you were going to do lower drug prices. and now you're rubbing it in my face that you're not. Now I don't like it as much, okay? And so that is, and hence, and Ben Shapiro here sounds just like the mainstream media.

All this rebel, right wing, intellectual dark, no, that's a corporate media talking point 101. Let's shred this thing until people are super pissed. Let's give them the crumbs and then kick them while they're down. Okay, so why don't you just go work at ABC or CNN? That's exactly Jake Tapper 101. You're not a rebel, you're not some sort of right-wing populist. You're a very standard, cheesy propagandist for corporate rule. The only thing he said that I agree with is, they should do it piecemeal.

Deal. Put up negotiating drug prices and have everybody vote on it. I want to see every Republican vote against it. They're all against it, every single Republican. It polls at about 90% in the country. in the country, almost all Republican voters wanted. Go ahead, go ahead, Bush Bureau. Put it up, put it up in West Virginia.

Put it up in Florida where you live. Yeah, go ahead, put it up in Boca. See how it does, okay? Should Medicare be allowed to negotiate drug price? I already know the answer. It's 88% say yes, okay? Go ahead, let's vote on it. Joe Manchin, Christmas Cinema, I want to see you vote against it.

And I want to see every single Republican scum, corrupt politician vote for higher drug prices because they get paid by the drug companies. Go ahead. I dare you. He won't do any of that. He'll hide behind the culture wars and racism and bigotry because that's all he's got. All right, we got to take a break when we come back. We've got some scandal trying to find a replacement for Megan McCain on The View. And then is Madison Cawthor, the victim of a honeypot scheme? Don't go away. We'll be back after this. We're reading your comments. All right, back on TYT, Jankabrett, with you guys.

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Okay. All right. Okay. There's no one quite like Megan McCain, at least reportedly, that's what the executives at ABC are experiencing when they're trying to replace her. Now, this is where things are at. It's a hilarious story that reveals just how messed up Republicans are in general when you can't find one that is just the right Goldilocks zone for instance. Okay, so before taking off the holidays, the four longstanding view hosts, according to Politico, had a message for executive producer Brian Teda.

We're tired of the rotating cast of Republican guest hosts. Since she left, and that was eight, six months ago, I think, these are the people that they have tried. So you'll see S.E. Cup, Alyssa Farah, who's an ex-White House comms director, Morgan Ortegis, who is an ex-state department spokesperson, Condoleezza Rice, Carly Fiorina. who should have been the vice president right alongside Ted Cruz, and then Gretchen Carlson. They're also going to try Barry Weiss and Lisa Ling coming up, but those don't fit the conservative angles that they're looking for. But here is what is being said behind the scenes, according to Politico.

Sources close to the show said that the search has stalled as executive struggle to find conservative cast member who checks all the right boxes. They will not consider a Republican, who is a denier of the 2020 election, embrace the January six riots, or is seen as flirting too heavily with fringe conspiracy theorists or the MAGA wing of the GOP, but at the same time, the host must have credibility with mainstream Republicans, many of whom still support Donald Trump. Two last quick quotes. The problem is that they bring people on under the mantle that this woman is a conservative when they're never Trump, so they don't represent the country, said one of the rotating

guess, one of the people ostensibly that we just showed the picture of. And then finally, a former Stafford told Politico, they're really looking for a unicorn. They want someone who's going to fight, but not too hard because they don't want it to be ugly and bickering. Sure, they don't. Well, so that last point, though, is exactly right. They're looking for something that's impossible. And actually, more importantly, pointless. So you're looking for a Republican that doesn't represent any actual Republicans. Let's keep it real, let's be honest, right? 93% of Republicans voted for Trump after knowing the disaster of COVID and how he dealt

with it. Now we thought we should inject bleach, how he thought we should ban Muslims, how he thought the people of Puerto Rico had the hurricane coming because they were lazy. I mean, we can go on and on a million insane things that he did and including racist, bigoted things. I mean, he drew a new path with a hurricane with a Sharpie. because he thought it helped him politically and put it up as if it was a real map. The guy's a freaking lunatic.

Then 93% of Republicans said, at a boy. And then these Democrats, they're total liars. They say, oh, no, it's okay. We got the 7% of Republicans. That's why we won. That's actually completely misleading. I just saw a poll a really interesting study that showed that during the Trump years, more Democrats flipped into being Republicans than Republicans flipped into being Democrats.

So those mythical Republican suburb voters that Pelosi and Biden are constantly talking about, it's always been a fantasy, it's always been an excuse to do what their corporate donors want. There are no unicorns of Republicans who are perfectly reasonable and just greedy. They just want tax cuts, right? That's all they want, and they're God-fearing good moral people. And they are just, I guess, that what Trump has done. And of course, they don't think the election is stolen. that is not a thing. It doesn't exist. If it does, it only exists in elite circles where you're all obsessed with your own, with your tax cuts and nothing else at all. But real Republicans believe crazy stuff. So either you're going to have someone who says that or you're not going to have a Republican, period.

Yeah, they ended up, they had some people on there for a while who were like libertarian-ish. And obviously, what was the woman's name who went to Fox and friends and teased out her hair about? bunch. No, there was another one. And anyways, there was, there was someone who was in the middle and then went to Fox and Friends and instantly went Jedediah Bila, who instantly went crazy off the deep end. She was like the I'm a lawyer voice of reason on kind of like the left right. But the truth is they shoot the show in New York. All the applause lines go to the like liberal, like neoliberal talking points. And so another thing that's happening behind the scenes is a lot of, they went out to someone who cat timf reportedly. This is all rumor and delightful speculation, but cat tymph who's on the Gutfeld

show and she said no, because this is just an amazing little fact. They think that Whoopi and Joy are too mean and they bully the conservative on the panel, which is just so good because you want, you want someone who is, they're trying to go out to like these real conservatives, but the conservatives are such snowflakes. They can't handle Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar. 100%. No, guys, seriously, it's like, the only people that are actually run this country are the donors and the advertisers, okay?

Everyone else that is vaunted, powerful elites are actually incredibly weak. Democratic leadership is really the weakest people I've ever seen in my entire life. But Republicans are also incredible snowflakes. Whoopi criticized me. I'm melting. Who cares. Whoopee criticizes us all the time. I love it. I think it's hilarious. I remember when when she's like, how dare they call themselves the justice justice? I love that she attacked that. She's like, what, you guys stand for justice? God damn right we do, Whoopi. How hard was that?

Right wingers, you're so goddamn tough. You can't stand up to Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar? Just disagree. So what? And stop crying. Megan, all she ever did was like, she'll say outrageous things, the minute somebody says, hey, that doesn't quite make sense. She's like, oh, I am a victim. God, the right wing is so weak. It's filled to the rim with betas. And it doesn't matter if they're women or men. They're all pathetically weak.

Oh, Trump came along. Oh, take my banana alpha monkey. Please take my banana. I'm begging you. You know, you guys look so tough. Guys, look, here's what the view should do. And I actually don't want to give them this advice. I thought about emailing Joy because we worked together at current TV, me, Brad, and Joy did, right?

And then I thought, I don't want them taking a good progressive. But if they were smart, they would actually get a good, strong progressive who would also disagree with them all the time because they're neolibs, right? And they're like, yay, capitalism and the status quo is wonderful. No one in this country loves the status quo more than Whoopi Goldberg. Okay. So you get a progressive in there, you'll get fireworks. They won't melt like a snowflake. And by the way, they'll actually large represent a larger percentage of Americans than a right winger would. And certainly a right winger that disagrees with Trump. That represents about one and a half percent of the country, right? But they'll never go in that direction because to them, a progressive disagreeing, well, how dare they?

They're not. They're supposed to be under our heel. They're not. No, they don't get a voice. we want a right winger who wants goddamn tax cuts. That's who's going to get the voice. Yeah. And they're correct on everything. That's the other thing is like I've been here for a very long time. I am correct. No one can criticize my position, especially

from the left. Like they don't they can't handle that. And I just want to say like the magic of Megan McCain was all the hypocrisy and like inconsistent position she took that she was completely oblivious to. Plus they accepted her.

her having all those positions because she was royalty, because she was John McCain's kid. So they tried Abby Huntsman, Abby's like peace. And you know, Jenna Hager Bush is over at NBC. So you're going to go with the other Bush twin? I don't think she's into that whole thing. They're running out of like royalty that's okay if they're batty. Anyways, I do want to get to this Honeypot Madsen Cawthorne story. We don't have a lot of time, but I do want to get to it. All right, here's a hilarious story that I am enjoying a whole bunch, but don't care that much about. But it is absolutely fascinating what it tells about all people in all parts of media. So Madison Cawthorne and his wife are getting a divorce, which is on its face hilarious that a religious person gets divorced.

I love it every second of the day after they tell us how we're not religious enough and then they get divorced. But recently a video surface that kind of implied that maybe Madison Cawthorne meeting his wife, through this weird interaction on jumping the border from Scandinavia into Russia. Also some kind of fake like CrossFit competition resulted in him meeting his wife and getting married. Maybe it was a honeypot situation, which is like SpyCraft 101. Anyways, here's the video that surfaced. Take a look and we'll discuss. So me and a bunch of my friends we went to, we got to go over to the over to, we're very close Russia. We went to Sweden and Norway. Then we got on a boat and went into St. Petersburg and Russia.

And, you know, we just decided to take $100 each and go into a casino and see how it went. And, you know, I ended up meeting an American there who was a captain in the army and who was originally from Miami. And so we hit it off. Later, I was down to Miami for work. And he texted me and said, hey, would you like to come compete in a CrossFit competition? And so I said, I was laugh and said, well, Todd, I'm in a wheelchair. I obviously can't do cross- And he said, well, just do the pull-up section. I was like, okay, it sounds good. And so I show up.

But anyways, it all was a sham. It was a fake cross-pit competition. He just wanted me to put me in the same room with the girl who is eventually going to become my fiance. And so we did, her and I hit it off. And it was really, it's been a magical relationship ever since. So the story seems to check out in one way or another. Todd Thompson, who is ostensibly the guy that he was referencing in that story, did comment on one of Christina, the soon-to-be ex-wife's photos in 2019.

Here's the photo on Instagram of them having a great time together. And then if you go through the comments, you see this. Who can take credit for introducing these two, theoretically Todd Thomason? So there you go. You have that. There's a lot more to this, but just how hilarious it is that it seemed like if you were, this is my take on it. If you're going to get mad at Eric Swalwell for being the victim and just harp on it

because some Chinese plant talked to him. And you're not going to talk about how suss it is that Madison Cothorn went to a fake competition to meet this woman that he met in Russia through a guy he met in Russia. Like I think it's hilarious that as soon as someone says anything like this, it's going to turn completely into like you guys are Russia, Russia, Russia and everything. Viewers were quick to comment on the, on Cawthorne's comments. like this seriously is word for word what Vladimir Putin would say if he was on American TV, wouldn't change a comma, he has to be reading off a teleprompter.

That was from RT, that is in response to this video, which we're going to play you right now. Take a listen. We're hearing a bipartisan call for the idea that we could put troops on the ground or that our fleets inside of the Black Sea could rain down destruction on the Russians. This is asinine at best. When these people believe that they're fighting in the late 1900s against the USSR who is completely prostrate and not capable of being able to defend themselves, we would be fighting right against their doorstep and their seat of power. We've been fighting in a sandbox and in caves for the last 20 years. Meanwhile, they've been creating hypersonic missiles, which could sink our entire fleet in the Black Sea. So there you go. This is basically, I don't know, and I don't really care if he was honeypotted or not, but it is so hilarious to see Matt.

Madison Cawthorne, Mr. America all day, I'm super religious and women are earthen vessels for the Lord to impregnate and bear his seed, like then turning around and getting divorced and like meeting his wife in a super weird way in Russia. Yeah, well, so first on the substance of the Cliff, I know that it's tangential of a story, but but maybe it isn't. That's the whole point of the honeypot conspiracy theory, right? Which is that he marries this woman that he found through this, what appears to be a Russian asset, right? But I don't know at all. We'll come back to that in a second, right?

And then all of a sudden, he's against military intervention in Ukraine. Now, it's one thing to say, hey, I don't think we should do military intervention. I don't think we should do military intervention, right? It's another thing to say the Russians are too strong. You've got to make a coffee brand out of them. They're just too strong. Like, oh, they would sink us in the Black Sea right away. They would kill us.

They're way better than us. I prostrate myself at the feet of Vladimir Putin. He didn't need to do say all that, right? It was kind of weird. And so, guys, is it weird that he got invited to a casino in St. Petersburg? By the way, there's no gambling in St. Petersburg. So he had to get invited to like something that the government sanctions while, you know, for the powerful and the elite. Because you can't just walk into a casino in St. Petersburg, it doesn't exist, right?

So he gets sent to a private casino that the government allows, meets a mysterious, American from Miami who used to be in the military, he then gets invited, that guy then invites him to a fake competition where he introduced him to this woman, right? And then they get married. And then all of a sudden, Caldorn is saying how awesome Russia is and how mighty Russia is and how we couldn't possibly mess with Russia because we're impotent America. Okay. And but I swear to God, I have no idea if the Todd dude, his name is really Todd. If he's an agent, not an ancient and asset. And if there was a real marriage, not, I have no idea.

But I do know this. We're not talking about Swalwell anymore. So we covered that story. The Chinese, okay, they do. The Chinese government's funny. Okay, they send somewhat attractive women and American men melt instantly. They did the right wingers, they did the left wingers. But Swalwell never gave away anything.

Swalwell never said we should bow down to China. But Cawthorne's much, much weaker. So he immediately, he's like, oh, I went to St. Petersburg, got hooked up with a bride. Hello, Russia. Motherland, Russia. Like, come, that was easy. And, like, yeah, it's just so stupid that he just walks right into it. And, like, and the reason that, again, like, I don't think, I don't care.

It is hilarious. It is not important to my life or anyone's life whatsoever. I'm not going to go too far down the rabbit hole of conspiracy and whether or not this was an actual honeypot sounds like one. It sounds like an episode of Archer where the guy is too stupid to realize he's getting honey potted. And then also it reminds me of how tenuous a connection needs to be to anything for it to become a central premise of right wing insanity. And they have to go and draw, they have to pull its strings and figure out and put these two things together. have nothing to do with each other.

And suddenly there is a basement pizza sex ring of drinking baby's blood. They have to piece together from which letter in what word was accidentally capitalized. That's how they get to their conspiracy theories. And here's Madison Cothard out there being like, yeah, definitely. I was supposed to be in Sweden. Some guy brought me into Russia and I met a woman. It's just so like. And they turn around and they're like, but that one's not real.

Yeah. Trump, here's a photo of Hillary Clinton's drinking blood. Meanwhile, here's a photo of Trump and Epstein and Gieland Maxwell together holding a baby and like, nothing, nothing. Okay, to be fair, there are multiple pictures of Trump with Maxwell and Epstein, but none holding a baby. Just to be clear, okay, but they're like, yeah, you take the Ivermectin and then you take the body antibodies and you take this and then you do a little zinc and then you rub it all over

your face. The vaccine, no, that doesn't make any sense. Oh, by the way, oh no, no, no, poll for you guys. Madison Cawthorne, yes, you got honeypotted, no, nothing fishy here. We don't really care, but we're amused. So we did a poll anyway, t-y-d.com slash polls. Have fun with it. You tell us what you think.

Don't worry, nobody's holding you to it, and we're not going to publish it like it's, yes, well, the people have voted that it was honey pot, so it was. Okay, we're not Fox News. All right. We'll be right back. 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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