Full Transcript for Midterm Mayhem | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas

it's in bro. 00:02:01.129 --> 00:02:03.209 It's not in English. No, it's not in English. 00:02:03.310 --> 00:02:06.069 But so basically what it is, is that if you are, 00:02:06.129 --> 00:02:10.129 you're able to apply for a new partnership program 00:02:10.129 --> 00:02:12.930 with them. What the partnership program is, is 00:02:12.930 --> 00:02:15.650 that the creator will get 90% of the ad revenue 00:02:15.650 --> 00:02:18.990 on eligible ads. Now, what the hell an eligible 00:02:18.990 --> 00:02:22.669 ad is, nobody knows. Nobody knows. But you get 00:02:22.669 --> 00:02:24.710 90% of the revenue for an eligible ad. What's 00:02:24.710 --> 00:02:28.360 an ineligible ad? Are there people who just sort 00:02:28.360 --> 00:02:30.819 of are doing ads randomly? They're going 00:02:30.819 --> 00:02:35.819 rogue? Because, unfortunately... Buy 00:02:35.819 --> 00:02:38.120 Weapons of Mass Destruction. They're awesome. 00:02:38.340 --> 00:02:40.860 What's an ineligible ad? Please come to 00:02:40.860 --> 00:02:43.259 West Glacier Gaming over on YouTube. This is 00:02:43.259 --> 00:02:46.020 an ineligible ad, by the way, because... Sorry, 00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:48.280 Jamarl, you were saying... Yeah, it's weird. I 00:02:48.280 --> 00:02:51.840 used to... God, man, when I used to write 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:55.310 shit like that... I would have an enumerated 00:02:55.310 --> 00:02:59.270 variable and eligible ad might be equal to one, 00:02:59.310 --> 00:03:05.469 ineligible ad would be two. And nobody knows 00:03:05.469 --> 00:03:08.090 what that should mean outside of the software 00:03:08.090 --> 00:03:12.129 engineers. Yeah, it's very strange. All right. 00:03:12.129 --> 00:03:14.509 Well, here's what we've got today. We will try 00:03:14.509 --> 00:03:16.870 to keep the show in English and we will not 00:03:17.469 --> 00:03:21.509 translated into bro. So it is Election Day. Most 00:03:21.509 --> 00:03:24.990 Americans have already voted. So they could actually, 00:03:25.169 --> 00:03:27.250 I don't know why they don't start counting 00:03:27.250 --> 00:03:29.250 the votes ahead of time, but most states don't. 00:03:29.250 --> 00:03:31.150 They just let them pile up and then they start 00:03:31.150 --> 00:03:33.629 counting them tonight, which seems a little stupid. 00:03:34.169 --> 00:03:36.569 I'm sure there's some rationale there. But anyway, 00:03:36.669 --> 00:03:38.889 we're expecting a giant blue wave, the House 00:03:38.889 --> 00:03:41.830 and probably the Senate as well, probably likely 00:03:41.830 --> 00:03:45.430 to go Democratic. The new polls are out. The 00:03:45.430 --> 00:03:50.069 Reuters Ipsos poll shows, no, what is it? Reuters? 00:03:50.189 --> 00:03:54.689 Yeah, it's Ipsos. Record low, 32% approval rating. 00:03:54.770 --> 00:03:57.490 That's the lowest that poll has ever shown for 00:03:57.490 --> 00:04:01.449 Donald Trump. And most terrifyingly for the president. 00:04:01.569 --> 00:04:05.050 And if it means anything, I kind of voted this 00:04:05.050 --> 00:04:07.840 way too. We talked about it yesterday. People 00:04:07.840 --> 00:04:11.139 are dying to send him a big fuck you message, 00:04:11.360 --> 00:04:13.699 which is why, and they're telling the pollsters, 00:04:13.840 --> 00:04:17.040 they're not that interested in their local state 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:19.699 representative. They just want to send a fuck 00:04:19.699 --> 00:04:23.480 you to Donald Trump. They're so pissed. I don't 00:04:23.480 --> 00:04:26.319 think in all my years of covering politics, I've 00:04:26.319 --> 00:04:29.279 ever seen voters quite that determined to do 00:04:29.279 --> 00:04:33.730 that. The Democrats are leading on generic ballots 00:04:33.730 --> 00:04:37.069 in all 50 states, pretty much. One out of 10 00:04:37.069 --> 00:04:40.449 Trump 2024 voters will vote straight Democratic 00:04:40.449 --> 00:04:45.430 today or already have. Latinos, a big coalition, 00:04:45.610 --> 00:04:48.129 part of Trump's coalition, have peeled away almost 00:04:48.129 --> 00:04:50.569 entirely. Young voters have peeled away almost 00:04:50.569 --> 00:04:54.100 entirely. The war. All that we'll talk about 00:04:54.100 --> 00:04:56.019 that obviously that's the main subject today 00:04:56.019 --> 00:04:58.959 as Americans complete casting their ballots. 00:04:58.959 --> 00:05:03.259 Also, one correction from yesterday: 00:05:03.259 --> 00:05:07.459 I incorrectly misread an article that was talking 00:05:07.459 --> 00:05:11.579 about damage that Iran had previously done to 00:05:11.579 --> 00:05:15.959 some U.S. bases in the Gulf and 00:05:15.959 --> 00:05:18.920 I thought these were referring to a new set 00:05:18.920 --> 00:05:21.300 of strikes over the weekend but instead what 00:05:21.300 --> 00:05:23.600 it was doing was just it wasn't they were 00:05:23.600 --> 00:05:26.339 they were basically adding up the billions of 00:05:26.339 --> 00:05:29.040 dollars that the United States taxpayer has been 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:32.139 done as a result. There were no new Iranian attacks 00:05:32.139 --> 00:05:35.420 over last weekend so I apologize for that. 00:05:35.420 --> 00:05:40.129 But what did happen is that American U.S. 00:05:40.149 --> 00:05:43.790 fighter jets have hit missile and alleged drone 00:05:43.790 --> 00:05:46.350 strikes along the Strait of Hormuz and on Qeshm 00:05:46.350 --> 00:05:49.930 Island. This was in apparent retaliation after 00:05:49.930 --> 00:05:52.670 Iran hit yet another cargo ship in the Strait 00:05:52.670 --> 00:05:55.670 of Hormuz. And last, and I don't know, maybe 00:05:55.670 --> 00:05:57.889 least, but I don't think so. Very interesting 00:05:57.889 --> 00:06:01.970 story. Labour and Green parties in the UK are 00:06:01.970 --> 00:06:06.250 part of a ruling coalition. The National Green 00:06:06.250 --> 00:06:09.810 Party in the UK just declared Zionism officially, 00:06:09.910 --> 00:06:13.290 according to their platform, a form of racism.

00:06:13.709 --> 00:06:16.250 After that happened, the Labour Party, which 00:06:16.250 --> 00:06:19.519 is more centrist. It's the old party of Tony 00:06:19.519 --> 00:06:22.519 Blair, decided to cut off all their power sharing 00:06:22.519 --> 00:06:25.899 deals with the Greens. That's affecting 11 local 00:06:25.899 --> 00:06:30.519 councils in the UK. So there's a split there 00:06:30.519 --> 00:06:32.939 in the left. And it's interesting to 00:06:32.939 --> 00:06:35.060 me that the Labour Party would be, it's like 00:06:35.060 --> 00:06:38.199 Haley Stevens is willing to destroy her entire 00:06:38.199 --> 00:06:41.439 reputation over Zionism. And the Labour Party 00:06:41.439 --> 00:06:43.720 in the UK, I guess, is rolling Haley Stevens 00:06:43.720 --> 00:06:47.399 style. They are perfectly willing to not rule 00:06:48.149 --> 00:06:53.129 the UK and force snap elections rather than go 00:06:53.129 --> 00:06:55.870 along with people who are coming out against 00:06:55.870 --> 00:06:58.870 Zionism. Good. Values are not without costs. 00:06:59.689 --> 00:07:06.370 True. As the great philosopher Jen Psaki. Our 00:07:06.370 --> 00:07:10.269 values are not without costs. I'm going to remember 00:07:10.269 --> 00:07:12.529 that forever. I love that statement. God, man, 00:07:12.569 --> 00:07:16.089 I love it. I love lines like that. Yeah, I love 00:07:16.089 --> 00:07:18.730 it. There was another one: aggressively neutral. 00:07:18.730 --> 00:07:20.689 It was, well he seems aggressively neutral. 00:07:20.689 --> 00:07:23.769 It's when they were talking about Imran 00:07:23.769 --> 00:07:26.670 Khan. The U.S. representative was talking to Pakistan 00:07:26.670 --> 00:07:28.569 about Imran Khan and of course at that point 00:07:28.569 --> 00:07:32.949 the military took over. Yeah, so good. 00:07:32.949 --> 00:07:35.589 The Green Party should take a stand against genocide. 00:07:35.589 --> 00:07:38.230 Yeah, and if the Labour Party wants to set themselves 00:07:38.230 --> 00:07:40.709 on fire in order to defend genocide, God bless, 00:07:40.709 --> 00:07:44.370 let them do it. I would say Zionism as actually 00:07:44.370 --> 00:07:47.790 practiced is obviously a form of racism. There's 00:07:47.790 --> 00:07:50.769 no question about it. Zionism as a theoretical 00:07:50.769 --> 00:07:55.170 construct in the 1880s may not have been obviously 00:07:55.170 --> 00:07:58.430 a form of racism, but it is now. And the way 00:07:58.430 --> 00:08:00.050 that it's used and the way that it's articulated, 00:08:00.310 --> 00:08:02.970 yeah. It basically means we're stealing 00:08:02.970 --> 00:08:06.490 somebody else's land and F off if they're on 00:08:06.490 --> 00:08:08.449 that land and just so happen to be on that land. 00:08:08.629 --> 00:08:11.129 And it allows you to effectively do whatever 00:08:11.129 --> 00:08:13.269 you want to the people who are on that land because 00:08:13.269 --> 00:08:15.879 you can scream, oh my God. They're defending 00:08:15.879 --> 00:08:18.319 themselves. So we obviously need to kill them 00:08:18.379 --> 00:08:22.389 in self-defense. The idea of 00:08:22.389 --> 00:08:26.129 it is absolutely insane. We are going, God gave 00:08:26.129 --> 00:08:30.519 us something thousands of years ago. So you say. 00:08:31.350 --> 00:08:34.830 Right, right, right. By the way, it's funny to 00:08:34.830 --> 00:08:37.289 me. Palestinians, most of them are 00:08:37.289 --> 00:08:41.309 Muslim, not all. Why don't they say, well, actually 00:08:41.309 --> 00:08:45.909 we talked to God too. God told us. We have confusion 00:08:45.909 --> 00:08:48.509 here. God's been talking out of both sides of 00:08:48.509 --> 00:08:55.210 his big omnipotent mouth here. I had this editor 00:08:55.210 --> 00:09:01.509 at the Newark Star-Ledger. We'll call him Rich 00:09:01.509 --> 00:09:05.549 Argood because his name was Rich Argood. He was 00:09:05.549 --> 00:09:09.129 a cartoon tease. He would basically tell 00:09:09.129 --> 00:09:11.210 everyone, Ted, I really want to bring 00:09:11.210 --> 00:09:13.450 you on and have you work full time for me. But 00:09:13.450 --> 00:09:15.809 he's also telling Signe Wilkinson that, and he's 00:09:15.809 --> 00:09:19.850 also telling Joel Pett that. And then we all 00:09:19.850 --> 00:09:21.809 start talking to each other. It's, I thought 00:09:21.809 --> 00:09:24.590 Richard was just, we had a monogamous relationship. 00:09:25.149 --> 00:09:27.570 But well, it was monogamous for me, but 00:09:27.570 --> 00:09:32.730 not for him. That's what the Palestinians 00:09:32.730 --> 00:09:36.000 should do. They'd be. Uh-uh God Allah told 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:43.049 us. Did he have a god-off? My God is better than 00:09:43.049 --> 00:09:45.789 your God. My God is better than your God. Well, 00:09:45.789 --> 00:09:48.570 there is one true God so there is that and it's 00:09:48.570 --> 00:09:50.529 the name. It's the name Jesus Christ in which 00:09:50.529 --> 00:09:52.870 that's the only name by which all men may be 00:09:52.870 --> 00:09:56.350 saved. However that being said when it comes to 00:09:56.350 --> 00:09:58.549 going to your God, my God says something different 00:09:58.549 --> 00:10:00.850 but your God's fake and mine's not. So anyway. 00:10:01.679 --> 00:10:06.139 The point that I'm trying to make is - My God 00:10:06.139 --> 00:10:08.960 performs miracles and yours just floats out in 00:10:08.960 --> 00:10:11.240 outer space. But anyway - What miracle has he 00:10:11.240 --> 00:10:15.000 promoted? There's all kinds of them. But before 00:10:15.000 --> 00:10:18.220 I derail - Give me one. Give me one. I'm curious. 00:10:19.070 --> 00:10:20.990 Okay. Well, he created the earth. He created 00:10:20.990 --> 00:10:23.970 life. He created all things. My God said he created 00:10:23.970 --> 00:10:28.580 the earth. Your God is a lying fake heifer. Your 00:10:28.580 --> 00:10:30.779 God is a lying fake heifer that needs to be deported. 00:10:31.080 -->

00:10:35.379 My God is a male God so he is a bull by definition, 00:10:35.379 --> 00:10:41.720 sir. It is not happening. Now this is fun but 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:44.759 no trans gods. We can't do that. Yeah, no, we can't 00:10:44.759 --> 00:10:47.659 do that but no seriously, when it comes 00:10:47.659 --> 00:10:49.720 to the whole, when it comes to the Zionists, no, 00:10:49.720 --> 00:10:52.139 you're right, Ted. They do say that God made a 00:10:52.139 --> 00:10:53.879 covenant with them and he promised them the land. 00:10:53.879 --> 00:10:56.620 However they forgot that there are terms and 00:10:56.620 --> 00:11:00.059 conditions applied to that covenant and the terms 00:11:00.059 --> 00:11:02.799 and conditions. And this is, they didn't. You're 00:11:02.799 --> 00:11:05.259 saying they didn't read it. They didn't read it. 00:11:05.259 --> 00:11:08.379 It was one of those things like when you don't, 00:11:08.379 --> 00:11:10.820 when you download the software, do you agree to 00:11:10.820 --> 00:11:14.179 these 54 pages? Yeah, well there's no small print. 00:11:14.179 --> 00:11:17.360 There's an entire book in very large type 00:11:17.799 --> 00:11:20.279 so that way people like John Hagee be able to 00:11:20.279 --> 00:11:24.620 read it with their itsy bitsy squinty eyes about 00:11:24.620 --> 00:11:28.460 what you must do. They chose not to do it. Therefore, 00:11:28.639 --> 00:11:30.519 they voided their contract. The entire book of 00:11:30.519 --> 00:11:35.360 Hosea is about God divorcing Israel. But no, 00:11:35.419 --> 00:11:39.879 you're a Zionist. We did this on the Bible show 00:11:39.879 --> 00:11:41.600 a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, that's fine. We 00:11:41.600 --> 00:11:43.039 don't need to do it again. And by the way, that's 00:11:43.039 --> 00:11:45.220 well worth seeing. Thank you very much for the 00:11:45.220 --> 00:11:48.110 $20 donation, Dead Meme Club. Happy Illusion 00:11:48.110 --> 00:11:50.830 of Choice Day. Thank you. Happy Illusion of Choice 00:11:50.830 --> 00:11:54.649 Day for you too. So true. Would you like a Zion 00:11:54.649 --> 00:11:59.350 with a red or a blue hat? Such a good question. 00:11:59.690 --> 00:12:04.990 Such a good question. Two out of three races 00:12:04.990 --> 00:12:06.950 in the United States today, when people go to 00:12:06.950 --> 00:12:09.889 the polls, will be unopposed entirely. Are you 00:12:09.889 --> 00:12:13.090 serious? Only one party will be running. Wait, 00:12:13.149 --> 00:12:16.509 two out of three? Two thirds? Uh-huh. Yeah, 00:12:16.549 --> 00:12:19.070 for state reps and sheriffs and all that 00:12:19.070 --> 00:12:21.850 kind of stuff. Yeah. And then two out of three. 00:12:21.909 --> 00:12:25.230 And then as for the remaining, 00:12:25.309 --> 00:12:29.629 you get to choose between a center-right corporatist 00:12:29.629 --> 00:12:33.809 pro-war Zionist Democratic Party or the same 00:12:33.809 --> 00:12:36.370 kind of Republican Party. Those are your choices 00:12:36.370 --> 00:12:39.210 in our so-called democracy. The Green Party 00:12:39.210 --> 00:12:42.269 is off the ballot in New York. And I had warned 00:12:42.269 --> 00:12:44.659 that this would happen if people didn't vote 00:12:44.659 --> 00:12:47.039 for Jill Stein because there's rules. You have 00:12:47.039 --> 00:12:49.600 to have a certain percentage of the vote in order 00:12:49.600 --> 00:12:51.500 to stay on the ballot in a lot of states. New 00:12:51.500 --> 00:12:54.990 York is one of them. So we're basically 00:12:54.990 --> 00:12:58.690 killing our own choices, the few choices 00:12:58.690 --> 00:13:01.570 that we have. But we should talk about the election 00:13:01.570 --> 00:13:04.330 obviously. I want to talk about Iran and 00:13:04.330 --> 00:13:07.190 the UK, but today is all about the 00:13:07.190 --> 00:13:11.309 election. It's Election Day. Yeah, okay, so let's 00:13:11.309 --> 00:13:16.919 do it. Okay, so I think this was a perfect storm 00:13:16.919 --> 00:13:20.120 a month or two ago for Donald Trump and the Republicans. 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:25.320 Now it's more of a perfect storm, if that's even 00:13:25.320 --> 00:13:28.480 possible. This goes to 11. This 00:13:28.480 --> 00:13:30.779 is literally, think about all the advantages 00:13:30.779 --> 00:13:34.059 that they tried to get for themselves. 00:13:34.080 --> 00:13:37.720 All the redistricting battles. All the 00:13:37.720 --> 00:13:41.419 sleazy moves in Texas and other states that normally 00:13:41.419 --> 00:13:43.639 aren't done. Normally this redistricting 00:13:43.639 --> 00:13:46.299 only happens every 10 years right after the census 00:13:46.299 --> 00:13:50.600 is done. With all of these advantages, all these 00:13:50.600 --> 00:13:53.379 gerrymandered districts like that crazy district 00:13:53.379 --> 00:13:56.580 in Tennessee, where basically they've decided 00:13:56.580 --> 00:13:59.080 that there are a few Black people in Tennessee, 00:13:59.159 --> 00:14:01.539 but apparently they don't get to have a vote 00:14:01.539 --> 00:14:04.450 that counts anymore. Back to the 00:14:04.450 --> 00:14:07.169 future, I guess, or future to the back. 00:14:08.870 --> 00:14:11.129 Despite all that, they're going to get their 00:14:11.129 --> 00:14:13.730 asses handed to them. They're going to lose the 00:14:13.730 --> 00:14:17.289 House by a substantial margin, almost certainly 00:14:17.289 --> 00:14:19.370 going to lose the Senate, too, although I'm not 00:14:19.370 --> 00:14:22.590 I can't. I refuse to be held accountable if that 00:14:22.590 --> 00:14:28.610 turns out not to be true. OK, and. I think it's 00:14:28.610 --> 00:14:31.529 going to be tight. I think it'll be by a few 00:14:31.529 --> 00:14:35.309 seats, three or four. That's not tight. 00:14:35.669 --> 00:14:39.169 I'm going to say three. That's significant. I 00:14:39.169 --> 00:14:43.750 think Susan Collins is bye-bye. I think Mike 00:14:43.750 --> 00:14:49.769 Rogers is bye-bye. By the way,

he's only pulled 00:14:49.769 --> 00:14:52.649 ahead. El-Sayed has only pulled ahead due to 00:14:52.649 --> 00:14:55.250 the Haley Stevens thing, according to the tracking 00:14:55.250 --> 00:15:00.039 polls. So overall, I guess the question 00:15:00.039 --> 00:15:02.919 is, this leads to a lot. We know where 00:15:02.919 --> 00:15:04.100 we're going to be tomorrow. We're going to be 00:15:04.100 --> 00:15:05.980 talking about this blue wave and what it means. 00:15:07.259 --> 00:15:09.620 I do think it's worth addressing 00:15:09.620 --> 00:15:12.950 the whole illusion of choice thing. What? 00:15:13.409 --> 00:15:15.809 Some things will change, but they're 00:15:15.809 --> 00:15:17.710 not the things that really affect everybody, 00:15:17.929 --> 00:15:20.289 people's ordinary lives. 00:15:20.289 --> 00:15:22.269 The prices are not going to go down. Wages are 00:15:22.269 --> 00:15:24.549 not going to go up. We're not going to have health 00:15:24.549 --> 00:15:28.330 care. If you have a kid who's 17, he or she will 00:15:28.330 --> 00:15:30.409 not be able to go to college. Those things are 00:15:30.409 --> 00:15:33.730 not going to change next year. But things will 00:15:33.730 --> 00:15:37.080 change. Well, the thing that will change is just 00:15:37.080 --> 00:15:40.019 political turmoil. It's just internal 00:15:40.019 --> 00:15:42.460 political combat. As opposed to having 00:15:42.460 --> 00:15:44.799 one political party that effectively has the 00:15:44.799 --> 00:15:47.360 House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court, and 00:15:47.360 --> 00:15:50.399 the presidency, which is just an astonishing 00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:54.000 amount of power. And you think to yourself, OK, 00:15:54.039 --> 00:15:56.710 what did you get done with that power? Right. 00:15:56.850 --> 00:16:00.009 You have an astonishing amount of power 00:16:00.009 --> 00:16:02.990 and you have Donald Trump who's effectively able 00:16:02.990 --> 00:16:05.649 to command all of the Republicans down the line 00:16:05.649 --> 00:16:07.830 for all intents and purposes. And you think to 00:16:07.830 --> 00:16:10.789 yourself, what did you do with that power? And 00:16:10.789 --> 00:16:12.250 then you turn to the American public and say, 00:16:12.330 --> 00:16:14.370 hey, what did he do with that power? Because 00:16:14.370 --> 00:16:16.269 that matters. You're effectively 00:16:16.269 --> 00:16:19.190 pointing out, OK, the American public gave you 00:16:19.190 --> 00:16:21.690 everything that you wanted and you claim that 00:16:21.690 --> 00:16:24.549 you had a mandate. And then your final message 00:16:24.549 --> 00:16:27.309 to the American public after, as they go 00:16:27.309 --> 00:16:30.470 and make their referendum on Trump, he's sitting 00:16:30.470 --> 00:16:32.809 there talking about the reflecting pool. And 00:16:32.809 --> 00:16:34.750 it's nonsense. And it's, well, we had to 00:16:34.750 --> 00:16:37.190 go. Can you believe that he went and gave his 00:16:37.190 --> 00:16:40.309 closing rally in front of the reflecting pool 00:16:40.309 --> 00:16:44.889 of all places? He's that out of touch. Yes. Which 00:16:44.889 --> 00:16:46.990 is part of the issue. He's that out of touch. 00:16:47.350 --> 00:16:50.429 He's incompetent. He's rich. He's a billionaire. 00:16:50.429 --> 00:16:52.830 He's a narcissist and oftentimes narcissists 00:16:52.830 --> 00:16:54.450 don't necessarily see the world clearly 00:16:54.450 --> 00:16:57.070 because they can only see themselves and in the 00:16:57.070 --> 00:17:00.110 early stages of dementia. Well, and that too. Yeah. 00:17:00.110 --> 00:17:02.629 And grabbing ass is apparently in the context 00:17:02.629 --> 00:17:04.890 of being into dementia. He's hanging out. Yeah. 00:17:04.890 --> 00:17:07.349 Now he's making moves for 00:17:07.349 --> 00:17:11.230 the LGBTQQ community by getting into male 00:17:11.230 --> 00:17:14.410 ass as well so you got to get points there. It's 00:17:14.410 --> 00:17:20.019 Trump gained one percentage point at the 00:17:20.019 --> 00:17:21.839 end of the polling, when they do the, at the 00:17:21.839 --> 00:17:24.220 end of the polling thing. It's, you expose, 00:17:24.480 --> 00:17:26.460 he's, well, there's a lot of ass grabbing 00:17:26.460 --> 00:17:28.440 in Donald Trump's speeches recently. And that 00:17:28.500 --> 00:17:31.880 made me more firm. No, man, it's 00:17:31.880 --> 00:17:34.440 wild. And then, there's this other 00:17:34.440 --> 00:17:38.000 question of, okay, once Democrats take it, then 00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:40.609 what? And it's, okay, well, they're probably 00:17:40.609 --> 00:17:43.380 gonna harass him, I suppose. They're probably 00:17:43.380 --> 00:17:44.859 going to be doing investigations and research. 00:17:45.140 --> 00:17:46.660 He's not going to be able to get anything passed 00:17:46.660 --> 00:17:48.980 through Congress, usually, depending upon what 00:17:48.980 --> 00:17:52.759 he's trying to get passed through Congress. No, 00:17:52.900 --> 00:17:56.559 the only reason to do this now is to tie Trump 00:17:56.559 --> 00:18:00.240 up in knots. That's it. It's you're not 00:18:00.240 --> 00:18:01.920 getting health care, as you pointed out. You're 00:18:01.920 --> 00:18:03.799 not getting Medicare for all. And then there's 00:18:03.799 --> 00:18:05.599 the secondary question of, OK, now the Democrats 00:18:05.599 --> 00:18:07.099 have the power. What are they going to do with 00:18:07.099 --> 00:18:09.680 the power? And how does this affect going into 00:18:09.680 --> 00:18:13.190 the election for the presidency. Because at this 00:18:13.190 --> 00:18:15.630 point, the moment that the votes are cast and 00:18:15.630 --> 00:18:17.990 finished, Donald Trump is a lame duck and his 00:18:17.990 --> 00:18:20.369 power would drain out of him as it goes through. 00:18:20.650 --> 00:18:23.029 A question for you, is this the end of MAGA? 00:18:23.960 --> 00:18:25.900 I had a conversation with Dr. Wimberley on this

00:18:25.900 --> 00:18:29.680 morning about this. Oh, well, I do want to hear 00:18:29.680 --> 00:18:33.240 what the good doctor had to say here. Because 00:18:33.240 --> 00:18:36.420 I really would. Is it the end of MAGA? 00:18:36.500 --> 00:18:40.140 MAGA has a succession crisis. Right. That's their 00:18:40.140 --> 00:18:43.819 real problem. MAGA is, some people 00:18:43.819 --> 00:18:47.559 would say a cult, but it's certainly a movement. 00:18:47.579 --> 00:18:49.920 I would say that, too. It's a movement surrounded 00:18:49.920 --> 00:18:54.019 by one. It's defined by one person. Right. And 00:18:54.019 --> 00:18:56.019 when that one person is no longer on the political 00:18:56.019 --> 00:19:00.819 stage, who do you have now? We've seen in succession 00:19:00.819 --> 00:19:05.140 crises internationally, situations where you're 00:19:05.140 --> 00:19:07.819 you can't imagine, for example, we couldn't 00:19:07.819 --> 00:19:12.160 imagine a communist Cuba after the death of Fidel 00:19:12.160 --> 00:19:16.119 Castro. And yet, they did manage to pull off 00:19:16.119 --> 00:19:18.559 that succession. It turned out that the regime, 00:19:18.740 --> 00:19:21.720 the government was sturdy enough and popular 00:19:21.720 --> 00:19:24.440 enough to be able to sustain that death and to 00:19:24.440 --> 00:19:27.319 put forward Raul as a transitional figure and 00:19:27.319 --> 00:19:30.750 then to move on. Could they pull that 00:19:30.750 --> 00:19:33.730 off? We're seeing basically right now, 00:19:33.789 --> 00:19:38.029 J.D. Vance is trying to become the heir to MAGA. 00:19:38.069 --> 00:19:41.130 He's always been kind of known as a very 00:19:41.130 --> 00:19:44.690 temperate, tonally temperate kind of 00:19:44.690 --> 00:19:48.569 person. And now in just the last few months, 00:19:48.809 --> 00:19:52.390 he's been crazy. He's been cursing 00:19:52.390 --> 00:19:55.690 on the campaign trail. He's been insulting. He's 00:19:55.690 --> 00:19:58.369 been diminishing. He's really kind 00:19:58.369 --> 00:20:00.569 of trying to get in touch with his inner Donald 00:20:00.569 --> 00:20:03.549 Trump. The question is, does he have an inner 00:20:03.549 --> 00:20:07.230 Donald Trump and will the faithful buy into it? 00:20:07.329 --> 00:20:10.309 And that's impossible. That's impossible to know. 00:20:10.470 --> 00:20:14.490 The question is, MAGA. 00:20:14.529 --> 00:20:17.369 So Chrissy Hynde, the lead singer of The 00:20:17.369 --> 00:20:21.309 Pretenders, she basically at one time she gave 00:20:21.309 --> 00:20:23.990 an interview and she was asked about the original 00:20:23.990 --> 00:20:27.170 lineup and, how's the band doing with these 00:20:27.170 --> 00:20:29.170 new people that she hires? And she says, look, 00:20:29.289 --> 00:20:32.289 The Pretenders is me. The Pretenders is me plus 00:20:32.289 --> 00:20:34.930 whoever I decide to hire. And I remember thinking, 00:20:35.049 --> 00:20:38.089 whoa, that's rude to the original band members.

00:20:38.210 --> 00:20:41.720 But. Okay, but that certainly is true 00:20:41.720 --> 00:20:44.420 now after all these years. The Pretenders have, 00:20:44.660 --> 00:20:46.779 everyone's come and gone, but the Pretenders 00:20:46.779 --> 00:20:50.740 is her plus whoever she hires. What is MAGA? 00:20:51.000 --> 00:20:56.160 I think MAGA is Donald Trump. And the question 00:20:56.160 --> 00:21:00.359 is, Marco Rubio cannot be the replacement 00:21:00.359 --> 00:21:02.660 there. It's not possible. He's too much of a 00:21:02.660 --> 00:21:07.880 neocon. And also, frankly, he's not white. So 00:21:07.880 --> 00:21:12.160 I think it has to be another white, populist, 00:21:12.180 --> 00:21:17.380 charismatic dude. Is Vance charismatic? I think 00:21:17.380 --> 00:21:20.539 that right there is exactly the question. And 00:21:20.539 --> 00:21:25.119 Vance isn't devoid. He doesn't 00:21:25.119 --> 00:21:27.460 have charisma like Donald Trump. He just doesn't. 00:21:27.480 --> 00:21:31.200 And I just don't see him filling stadiums the 00:21:31.200 --> 00:21:35.480 way that Trump does. I think MAGA is mortally 00:21:35.480 --> 00:21:41.599 wounded. It probably will not survive this. But 00:21:41.599 --> 00:21:46.960 I think that right-wing populist tendency in 00:21:46.960 --> 00:21:51.640 American politics, which goes back to things 00:21:51.640 --> 00:21:55.420 like the Tea Party and the John Birch Society 00:21:55.420 --> 00:21:57.839 and things like that, that's always going to 00:21:57.839 --> 00:22:01.240 be around. That'll go back into the ether. But 00:22:01.240 --> 00:22:03.680 those people are going to stop voting. They're 00:22:03.680 --> 00:22:05.319 not going to vote Democratic. They're just... 00:22:05.500 --> 00:22:07.839 They're just sort of going to go away. 00:22:08.019 --> 00:22:10.259 I think, sorry to be so long-winded, but 00:22:10.279 --> 00:22:12.339 I'm sort of thinking out loud here. I think they're 00:22:12.339 --> 00:22:17.529 what did Wilmer have to say? So Wilmer's thing 00:22:17.529 --> 00:22:20.509 was it depends on what you mean by MAGA. And 00:22:20.509 --> 00:22:24.589 Donald Trump, when Donald Trump 00:22:24.589 --> 00:22:27.869 articulated what MAGA meant, he said it means 00:22:27.869 --> 00:22:31.089 whatever I say it means. Right. And so it's kind 00:22:31.089 --> 00:22:33.049 of like Harold Melvin. Without the Blue Notes, 00:22:33.190 --> 00:22:35.579 you never go platinum. It's kind of like that. 00:22:35.579 --> 00:22:38.099 It's if you take Harold Melvin out of the 00:22:38.099 --> 00:22:41.640 Blue Notes, what the hell is the Blue Note? 00:22:41.640 --> 00:22:43.200 Nobody knows what they are. If you take 00:22:43.200 --> 00:22:45.680 Chrissy Hynde out of the 00:22:45.680 --> 00:22:48.460 Pretenders, nobody knows 00:22:48.460 --> 00:22:50.099 what the Pretenders are. If they don't become 00:22:50.099 --> 00:22:52.480 anything at that point but maybe backup singers. 00:22:52.480 --> 00:22:54.740 The Doors put out two albums after Jim Morrison 00:22:54.740 --> 00:22:58.819 died. Who cared? Yeah. And the thing is there's 00:22:58.819 --> 00:23:01.140 an inverse to that coin. So you 00:23:01.140 --> 00:23:03.420 had the MAGA, the Trump cult. Then you have people 00:23:03.420 --> 00:23:06.880 like me who are America First. Well, that's the 00:23:06.880 --> 00:23:10.079 interesting part. Does MAGA mean 00:23:10.079 --> 00:23:13.079 America First? Because Marjorie Taylor Greene 00:23:13.079 --> 00:23:17.420 and Tucker Carlson were ejected out of MAGA. MAGA's 00:23:17.420 --> 00:23:20.380 not America First. MAGA, Make America Great Again, 00:23:20.519 --> 00:23:25.000 is about maintaining, at the least, slowing the 00:23:25.000 --> 00:23:27.880 decline of the American empire while maintaining 00:23:27.880 --> 00:23:32.220 a global hegemon. America First is a total rejection 00:23:32.220 --> 00:23:35.000 of that. It's truly about putting the American 00:23:35.000 --> 00:23:38.259 people, the American nation first, not the rest 00:23:38.259 --> 00:23:40.519 of the world, not these other things. That's 00:23:40.519 --> 00:23:42.299 different than MAGA then. 100%. That's different 00:23:42.299 --> 00:23:45.660 than MAGA. That's the Civil War. So the catch 00:23:45.660 --> 00:23:49.839 becomes, okay, so the catch becomes if Donald 00:23:49.839 --> 00:23:53.140 Trump goes away. Because my thing is, it's not 00:23:53.140 --> 00:23:55.960 that Donald Trump just lost. Donald Trump is 00:23:55.960 --> 00:23:58.859 getting crushed. And state after state after 00:23:58.859 --> 00:24:01.220 state after state. And all of these Republicans 00:24:01.220 --> 00:24:03.980 that effectively made their bridges with Donald 00:24:03.980 --> 00:24:06.319 Trump. Those bridges are going to be burned tonight. 00:24:06.700 --> 00:24:09.059 Correct. Every single one of them. And they will 00:24:09.059 --> 00:24:12.460 not owe him anything. Nope. And what I strongly 00:24:12.460 --> 00:24:14.859 suspect is he will lose all his power. Elections 00:24:14.859 --> 00:24:17.519 that are in the middle go Democrat. All 00:24:17.519 --> 00:24:19.180 of them going to go Democrat or the very least 00:24:19.180 --> 00:24:20.920 most of them. Meaning I think it's going to be 00:24:20.920 --> 00:24:22.480 a historic election. It's going to be a complete 00:24:22.480 --> 00:24:24.799 repudiation of Donald Trump. It's going to be 00:24:24.799 --> 00:24:27.880 a referendum on Trump. And it's, okay, so 00:24:27.880 --> 00:24:31.119 after that referendum takes place, who the hell 00:24:31.119 --> 00:24:34.059 looks at that and says, hey, let's do that again? 00:24:35.210 --> 00:24:38.430 At least for a while. It would be shocking to 00:24:38.430 --> 00:24:42.369 me. What can Donald Trump offer anyone after 00:24:42.369 --> 00:24:47.049 tomorrow? Nothing. Maybe a job. Maybe a job in 00:24:47.049 --> 00:24:49.670 the administration. That's it. Yeah, but that 00:24:49.670 --> 00:24:53.029 is only going to be

for a few years. He had everybody 00:24:53.029 --> 00:24:57.099 quaking, the GOP quaking in fear. Privately Mitch 00:24:57.099 --> 00:25:00.140 McConnell hated Donald Trump but 00:25:00.140 --> 00:25:02.900 still he had to be 00:25:02.900 --> 00:25:05.140 he had to go along because he was terrified that 00:25:05.140 --> 00:25:08.500 Donald would get on his X feed and start talking 00:25:08.500 --> 00:25:11.920 about him and have him primaried out. Thomas 00:25:11.920 --> 00:25:15.079 Massie is the last official victim of Donald 00:25:15.079 --> 00:25:18.319 Trump. And by the way, they were scared of him 00:25:18.319 --> 00:25:20.720 physically scared of him. They were 00:25:20.720 --> 00:25:23.079 scared of the goons that he had at his disposal. 00:25:23.079 --> 00:25:27.730 Yeah. It was a few things. How does that? 00:25:27.730 --> 00:25:30.670 No one's scared of him anymore. It's the 00:25:30.670 --> 00:25:33.589 Zionists. Nobody's. You can now say 00:25:33.589 --> 00:25:36.589 I fucking hate Israel. I fucking hate Zionists. 00:25:36.589 --> 00:25:39.450 They all suck and you don't have to worry about 00:25:39.450 --> 00:25:43.109 losing. We're gonna have Professor Zenkis on our 00:25:43.109 --> 00:25:45.710 show. We're gonna 00:25:45.710 --> 00:25:48.450 do a pre-tape tomorrow at one. And 00:25:48.450 --> 00:25:52.180 he's a professor at Columbia. Don't forget 00:25:52.180 --> 00:25:54.339 during the protests. Just a few years 00:25:54.339 --> 00:25:58.319 ago, Columbia fired professors just like him 00:25:58.319 --> 00:26:01.660 for saying things just like he says now. I'm 00:26:01.660 --> 00:26:03.299 going to ask him, well, what's changed? 00:26:03.420 --> 00:26:05.740 How come you get to not be fired and they're 00:26:05.740 --> 00:26:08.420 still fired? And what's happened is things have 00:26:08.420 --> 00:26:11.799 changed. Israel's opinion is in the toilet. Trump, 00:26:11.920 --> 00:26:15.180 same thing. And partly because of his, 00:26:15.299 --> 00:26:17.900 we should, I don't think it's too early to do 00:26:17.900 --> 00:26:22.450 a post-mortem. What did Trump do wrong? Everything. 00:26:22.450 --> 00:26:26.369 Yeah, but let's weigh it. What were the biggest 00:26:26.369 --> 00:26:29.250 mistakes? I think the biggest mistake is that 00:26:29.250 --> 00:26:32.799 he caused pain. Meaning you could get away with 00:26:32.799 --> 00:26:34.539 a lot of stuff. America would let you do your 00:26:34.539 --> 00:26:40.480 pet projects as long as you do something that 00:26:40.480 --> 00:26:42.819 they care about. That's assuming that the opposition, 00:26:43.119 --> 00:26:45.680 those type of things. But let's be very clear. 00:26:45.720 --> 00:26:48.240 Donald Trump, I'm going to stop the wars. Something 00:26:48.240 --> 00:26:50.410 that the public agree with him on. I'm going 00:26:50.410 --> 00:26:52.329 to be awesome on the economy. You're going to 00:26:52.329 --> 00:26:53.990 be winning so much. You're going to be, 00:26:54.069 -->

00:26:56.490 God, man, I'm so sick of winning. These 00:26:56.490 --> 00:26:57.930 are the things that he was saying. In fact, he 00:26:57.930 --> 00:26:59.589 is still saying this stuff on the campaign trail 00:26:59.589 --> 00:27:03.220 today. You guys are going to be awesome. 00:27:03.319 --> 00:27:06.339 We're doing great. The world is fantastic. Lying 00:27:06.339 --> 00:27:09.099 to the public in such a shallow way is problematic 00:27:09.099 --> 00:27:11.460 by itself. Claiming that you're going to stop 00:27:11.460 --> 00:27:14.839 the wars and then you engage in a war that causes 00:27:14.839 --> 00:27:16.880 people's bills to go through the roof. Again, 00:27:16.900 --> 00:27:19.759 that is - And the tariffs. The tariffs, that's 00:27:19.759 --> 00:27:22.259 another thing, again, causing people's pain because 00:27:22.259 --> 00:27:24.299 we have to pay the cost for those tariffs. No, 00:27:24.359 --> 00:27:26.400 it's worse than that. Did y'all see his last 00:27:26.400 --> 00:27:29.380 rally that he did? Yeah, in front of the reflecting 00:27:29.380 --> 00:27:31.539 pool. And all he would talk about is himself 00:27:31.539 --> 00:27:34.700 and how he's redecorating Washington. Yeah, I 00:27:34.700 --> 00:27:37.099 there's another part. By the way, with 00:27:37.099 --> 00:27:39.859 our tax money. Even beside the reflecting pool, 00:27:40.039 --> 00:27:42.200 he started talking about gas prices. He said, 00:27:42.220 --> 00:27:44.480 we're making a fortune. It's great. We're not 00:27:44.480 --> 00:27:47.220 against prosperity. We're bringing record profits. 00:27:47.880 --> 00:27:49.680 He is in a room full of people who are being 00:27:49.680 --> 00:27:52.200 crushed because of his economic decisions. He's 00:27:52.200 --> 00:27:55.099 talking about how great this is. See, I wonder 00:27:55.200 --> 00:27:57.720 what's in his mind when he's saying stuff 00:27:57.720 --> 00:28:01.799 like that? It's dementia, man. He actually 00:28:01.799 --> 00:28:05.000 believes it. Or do you think? Because I can never, 00:28:05.059 --> 00:28:06.799 I got to be honest with you. My assumption was 00:28:06.799 --> 00:28:09.240 that Donald Trump is just lying. And I've come 00:28:09.240 --> 00:28:10.779 to the conclusion that I don't know that as a 00:28:10.779 --> 00:28:12.599 flat fact if he's lying or if he's out of his 00:28:12.599 --> 00:28:15.259 mind. I think it's a little bit of both. 00:28:15.420 --> 00:28:18.890 What he learned was a long time ago 00:28:18.890 --> 00:28:21.630 that if he just talked, a lot of people would 00:28:21.630 --> 00:28:24.130 just view it as trolling, owning the libs 00:28:24.130 --> 00:28:28.710 and that that's part of it. So he just 00:28:28.710 --> 00:28:30.670 lies like the day is long about the 00:28:30.670 --> 00:28:34.069 reflecting pool and oh, it was vandalized 00:28:34.069 --> 00:28:37.789 by antifa with their 00:28:37.789 --> 00:28:40.089 chopping, cutting it with their knives and all that, just 00:28:40.089 --> 00:28:43.549 making up. With this though, because this 00:28:43.549 --> 00:28:45.589 is that it's one thing if you are out of 00:28:45.589 --> 00:28:48.589 power and you have no responsibilities. And you 00:28:48.589 --> 00:28:50.990 control to your heart's content. The moment that 00:28:50.990 --> 00:28:52.769 you're in power, though, and you have a track 00:28:52.769 --> 00:28:56.170 record to back you up, it's people are paying 00:28:56.170 --> 00:28:57.589 more. People are paying thousands of dollars 00:28:57.589 --> 00:29:00.890 a year more because of Donald Trump. People feel 00:29:00.890 --> 00:29:03.390 unsafe because of Donald Trump with ICE goons 00:29:03.390 --> 00:29:05.230 running through the streets, snatching people. 00:29:05.509 --> 00:29:08.589 Meaning if you were snatching rapists, the public 00:29:08.589 --> 00:29:10.599 will probably be OK with that. You're just snatching 00:29:10.599 --> 00:29:13.039 regular, just anybody, and you're killing Americans 00:29:13.039 --> 00:29:15.380 in the process of doing so. Okay, again, that's 00:29:15.380 --> 00:29:17.880 problematic. People look at this as dramatic 00:29:17.880 --> 00:29:21.019 unsafety. You're firing into vehicles with kids 00:29:21.019 --> 00:29:25.220 in the back of the car. This is outrageous. I 00:29:25.220 --> 00:29:27.740 guess I'm saying he has a track record. So who 00:29:27.740 --> 00:29:29.779 is he trolling when he's saying shit like this? 00:29:29.940 --> 00:29:31.920 Yeah, well, I think Robby West's got 00:29:31.920 --> 00:29:34.559 a point. His brain is cheese. I think that 00:29:34.559 --> 00:29:37.140 we're not going to know the truth about this 00:29:37.140 --> 00:29:40.049 guy until the history books come out. And 00:29:40.049 --> 00:29:42.289 we're gonna and people inside the administration 00:29:42.289 --> 00:29:44.930 are gonna tell us stories that are gonna 00:29:44.930 --> 00:29:48.470 make our blood curdle when we hear 00:29:48.470 --> 00:29:51.650 how crazy it was inside the administration. 00:29:51.650 --> 00:29:55.369 I almost feel sorry for the people 00:29:55.369 --> 00:29:58.430 who have to, Susie, what's her name, 00:29:58.430 --> 00:30:02.569 the chief of staff. Yeah, and Vance and 00:30:02.569 --> 00:30:04.349 all those people and that they have to put 00:30:04.349 --> 00:30:10.079 up with. They chose. Sure. That's why I said 00:30:10.079 --> 00:30:12.720 almost feel sorry. Almost. And they could quit 00:30:12.720 --> 00:30:16.579 any time. And they have a patriotic duty to tell 00:30:16.579 --> 00:30:18.359 us the truth and call a press conference. 00:30:18.640 --> 00:30:21.220 And he should be 25th Amendmented, obviously. 00:30:21.799 --> 00:30:25.720 Yes. What's going on? I don't really 00:30:25.720 --> 00:30:29.299 know. Look, I imagine that he was trying to look 00:30:29.299 --> 00:30:31.599 for a positive spin on the gas prices and then 00:30:31.599 --> 00:30:34.359 he saw the record profits that Exxon 00:30:34.359

--> 00:30:37.119 Mobil and all these transnational energy corporations 00:30:37.119 --> 00:30:40.160 are racking up because of the oil price surge 00:30:40.160 --> 00:30:42.619 and then he's, well, that's kind of good news. 00:30:42.619 --> 00:30:45.579 Those stocks are going up. Those are 00:30:45.579 --> 00:30:48.119 there's American oil workers who will benefit 00:30:48.119 --> 00:30:52.809 from that. I think that's probably the logic. We 00:30:52.809 --> 00:30:56.299 have some comments. American oil workers 00:30:56.299 --> 00:30:58.359 are not going to benefit from stocks. No, most 00:30:58.359 --> 00:31:00.440 Americans are not in the stock market. Yeah. 00:31:00.559 --> 00:31:03.000 His entire focus seems to be on, 00:31:03.140 --> 00:31:06.259 hey, the rich is getting richer. I'm part of 00:31:06.259 --> 00:31:08.380 that rich. We're doing great. In that sense, 00:31:08.420 --> 00:31:10.960 he's a classic Republican. They're all like that. 00:31:11.079 --> 00:31:13.259 They don't, they just think, oh, 00:31:13.299 --> 00:31:14.819 well, the stock market's good. The economy is 00:31:14.819 --> 00:31:19.000 good. The Ted Rall Industrial Index is, 00:31:19.180 --> 00:31:24.349 can I pay my bills? Can I find a job if I want 00:31:24.349 --> 00:31:28.309 one? Can I get a house? Oh, and can I save for 00:31:28.309 --> 00:31:30.430 the future? That's part about, can I get 00:31:30.430 --> 00:31:32.329 a house? Basically, can I be comfortable? 00:31:33.170 --> 00:31:37.809 If most people say yes to those three questions, 00:31:38.029 --> 00:31:41.789 then the economy is okay. If most people don't 00:31:41.789 --> 00:31:43.750 say yes to all three of those questions, you've 00:31:43.750 --> 00:31:45.890 got a problem. Does my kid have a place in the 00:31:45.890 --> 00:31:49.640 society? That's the other one. But that's also, 00:31:49.740 --> 00:31:52.670 can I find a job? No, I think that's 00:31:52.670 --> 00:31:55.890 different. That's a future thing. That's a, do my 00:31:55.890 --> 00:31:58.890 kid, meaning my kid, when my kid grow up, is my 00:31:58.890 --> 00:32:00.569 kid gonna have a place? Think of Generation 00:32:00.569 --> 00:32:03.470 X right now in generation. What is the newest 00:32:03.470 --> 00:32:07.890 one? Generation Z. Generation, okay. Alpha kids. 00:32:07.890 --> 00:32:11.150 Yeah, they are looking at this thinking to themselves, 00:32:11.150 --> 00:32:14.920 I have no place in this world. I'm gonna 00:32:14.920 --> 00:32:17.250 have difficulty finding a job. AI is going to 00:32:17.250 --> 00:32:18.930 take a lot of it. Automation is going to take 00:32:18.930 --> 00:32:21.150 a lot of it. It's not like the political economy. 00:32:21.589 --> 00:32:23.549 They need to tear down the world and start from 00:32:23.549 --> 00:32:26.369 scratch. Right. They need to do something different. 00:32:26.930 --> 00:32:29.410 Yeah. Again, this was a conversation. This model 00:32:29.410 --> 00:32:32.369 doesn't work for us, much less,

and it can't 00:32:32.369 --> 00:32:34.630 work for them. Yeah. What are we going 00:32:34.630 --> 00:32:37.230 to do going forward into the future from the 00:32:37.230 --> 00:32:39.029 standpoint of employment, from the standpoint 00:32:39.029 --> 00:32:42.309 of, think of it truckers. 00:32:42.910 --> 00:32:44.190 At a certain point, you're not really going to 00:32:44.190 --> 00:32:46.920 need truckers in 10 years. You will have to pay 00:32:46.920 --> 00:32:49.440 for that truck to go from coast to coast without 00:32:49.440 --> 00:32:52.029 a person being in that truck. How many truck 00:32:52.029 --> 00:32:54.309 drivers are there? Just yesterday, I was listening 00:32:54.309 --> 00:32:56.509 to local New York City news, and they were talking 00:32:56.509 --> 00:33:00.990 about how the transit system wants to abolish 00:33:00.990 --> 00:33:04.029 all personnel driving the trains. They want all 00:33:04.029 --> 00:33:07.390 the trains to be completely automated. Yeah, 00:33:07.490 --> 00:33:10.690 it's just on a track. The new, brand new, the 00:33:10.690 --> 00:33:14.210 newest metro in the world is Riyadh. It has no 00:33:14.210 --> 00:33:16.319 one driving the trains. They're unnecessary. 00:33:16.940 --> 00:33:19.240 And you can do that throughout your society. 00:33:19.400 --> 00:33:21.660 Now, I would argue they are necessary because 00:33:21.660 --> 00:33:24.940 in case of emergency, nothing substitutes for 00:33:24.940 --> 00:33:27.779 having the equivalent of a flight attendant on 00:33:27.779 --> 00:33:31.059 board who helps guide people to safety and all 00:33:31.059 --> 00:33:34.980 that. You mean in lieu of a crash? Yeah. Yeah. 00:33:35.059 --> 00:33:37.940 If you have a crisis, subways have problems. 00:33:38.079 --> 00:33:41.859 Subways, you get fires, you get gas line 00:33:41.859 --> 00:33:44.539 situations. People have to be evacuated 00:33:44.539 --> 00:33:47.900 from subways all the time. It's better to have 00:33:47.900 --> 00:33:50.259 a person on board who can say, hey, everyone, 00:33:50.339 --> 00:33:52.599 follow me. It's this way. Yeah, but you can come 00:33:52.599 --> 00:33:54.779 up with a technological solution for that. I'm 00:33:54.779 --> 00:33:56.480 not convinced that you need a person for that. 00:33:57.279 --> 00:34:00.119 I think you need a person for that. I 00:34:00.119 --> 00:34:03.910 think nothing substitutes for that. I think human 00:34:03.910 --> 00:34:06.269 beings have a huge number of capabilities. 00:34:06.289 --> 00:34:08.050 For example, I can have something on the side 00:34:08.050 --> 00:34:10.530 of the rail pointing in a particular direction: 00:34:10.530 --> 00:34:14.250 go this way in lieu of a fire. Sure. And it might 00:34:14.250 --> 00:34:17.289 work, but it'd be, oh, but then the power 00:34:17.289 --> 00:34:19.289 supply went out to that big yellow arrow and 00:34:19.289 --> 00:34:21.570 it went out and then we were all confused and 00:34:21.570 --> 00:34:24.969 we didn't know

what to do. I do understand. And 00:34:24.969 --> 00:34:26.670 I do accept that. I'm just making a point of 00:34:26.670 --> 00:34:29.070 saying I can find a technological fix, especially 00:34:29.070 --> 00:34:31.570 if I'm the CEO of a company and I'm thinking 00:34:31.570 --> 00:34:36.130 to myself, I could save 20 million dollars 00:34:36.130 --> 00:34:40.619 off of and pay myself more and get that 00:34:40.619 --> 00:34:42.860 vacation house that I've been eyeing in Miami 00:34:42.860 --> 00:34:47.739 Beach. Yeah, F you. So we got a bunch of comments. 00:34:47.739 --> 00:34:50.159 We should do those. Robby West's God had a race change 00:34:50.159 --> 00:34:55.360 operation like Michael Jackson. Alexandria 00:34:55.360 --> 00:34:58.980 wants to know what is Robby West's native tribe. Robby, 00:34:58.980 --> 00:35:03.630 what is your native tribe? I have no idea what 00:35:03.630 --> 00:35:05.829 that even means. My ancestors came here 00:35:05.829 --> 00:35:10.909 back in the 1600s. Anglo-Saxons then. 00:35:12.329 --> 00:35:17.530 My lineage comes from the Essex border of England. 00:35:17.590 --> 00:35:19.730 It's the Welsh-English border. So I guess 00:35:19.730 --> 00:35:22.920 you could say Welsh. Interesting. This is really 00:35:22.920 --> 00:35:26.199 funny. KCHM2000, do you think this is AI, Robby? 00:35:26.320 --> 00:35:29.900 I don't follow your channel closely. Do you have 00:35:29.900 --> 00:35:32.559 a unique talking point that is not parroted elsewhere? 00:35:32.840 --> 00:35:37.079 I find too many lazy reaction videos. I don't 00:35:37.079 --> 00:35:38.699 think it's AI. I think it's just someone who 00:35:38.699 --> 00:35:40.639 doesn't understand what it is that they're watching. 00:35:41.340 --> 00:35:46.320 I think that really what it is is that one of 00:35:46.320 --> 00:35:49.880 the things that makes this show unique is that 00:35:49.880 --> 00:35:53.090 you have two lefties and a righty who agree 00:35:53.090 --> 00:35:55.369 on an awful lot of stuff, disregard other things 00:35:55.369 --> 00:35:58.789 and are still friends. And we try to actually 00:35:58.789 --> 00:36:03.800 make, I would use the word intelligent, the arguments 00:36:03.800 --> 00:36:07.239 with each other. And some people are just frankly 00:36:07.239 --> 00:36:10.019 too stupid to understand that. Well, we try to 00:36:10.019 --> 00:36:11.559 be straight with each other. A hundred percent. 00:36:11.559 --> 00:36:15.539 Totally. And when we fuck up, like I did yesterday. 00:36:15.980 --> 00:36:19.980 We correct it. And we have very real disagreements. 00:36:20.099 --> 00:36:22.960 Earlier, the tongue-in-cheek thing about religion. 00:36:24.739 --> 00:36:28.659 JT's agnostic. Ted's an atheist. I'm a fundamentalist 00:36:28.659 --> 00:36:32.219 Christian. And here's what's fun. We're able 00:36:32.219 --> 00:36:35.730 to joke about it and have fun, and we're still 00:36:35.730 --> 00:36:39.929 friends. So that's what makes it so unique. If 00:36:39.929 --> 00:36:42.730 you want to be a part of your tribe, you've got 00:36:42.730 --> 00:36:48.630 problems. Okay. All right. That's real life. 00:36:49.309 --> 00:36:51.750 Most people aren't one particular 00:36:51.750 --> 00:36:54.980 thing in real life. Oftentimes when people 00:36:54.980 --> 00:36:56.400 are engaging with each other, they're engaging 00:36:56.400 --> 00:36:59.019 with people with different political ideas, political 00:36:59.019 --> 00:37:00.920 ideologies, different ideas on the world, all 00:37:00.920 --> 00:37:03.179 that shit. And he still can get along. Blake 00:37:03.179 --> 00:37:06.960 is back with his obscene requests. Ted, will 00:37:06.960 --> 00:37:09.179 you please just unbutton those top three buttons 00:37:09.179 --> 00:37:11.880 for Teddy Tuesday? We'd all be very grateful. 00:37:12.099 --> 00:37:14.500 Tell you what, Blake, I'll give you one. One. 00:37:19.079 --> 00:37:23.400 Five bucks, but you're still about $4,900 away 00:37:23.400 --> 00:37:30.360 from paradise. All right. Let's move on here. 00:37:30.519 --> 00:37:31.860 Oh, my God. I'm going to get somebody to invest 00:37:31.860 --> 00:37:35.039 in that. He's going to drop $5,000. He's 00:37:35.039 --> 00:37:38.659 going to have to. Totally. Well, so, 00:37:38.659 --> 00:37:42.119 I totally agree with that postmortem, your postmortem 00:37:42.119 --> 00:37:44.900 on Trump. I want to say also there's been a major 00:37:44.900 --> 00:37:48.159 communications breakdown here in this White House 00:37:48.159 --> 00:37:51.420 where there's no connectivity whatsoever between 00:37:51.420 --> 00:37:53.800 the actual real life experience of the American 00:37:53.800 --> 00:37:57.159 people. And literally, they could literally 00:37:57.159 --> 00:38:00.719 just read the polls and just talk to communicate 00:38:00.719 --> 00:38:03.360 to the polls. And they're not even doing that. 00:38:03.519 --> 00:38:07.519 So it's. It's that part is crazy. 00:38:07.699 --> 00:38:09.739 It's the president's not even going to say, 00:38:09.739 --> 00:38:12.559 this is where politicians usually 00:38:12.559 --> 00:38:15.260 say, I feel your pain when times are rough. 00:38:16.349 --> 00:38:18.289 Where's that? Where's that happening now? And 00:38:18.289 --> 00:38:20.690 I know it's, look, it's not going to change the 00:38:20.690 --> 00:38:22.530 results, but it would, it would probably 00:38:22.530 --> 00:38:24.869 make a difference of a few seats. Right. 00:38:24.869 --> 00:38:27.739 If Trump had been saying, yeah, I'm working 00:38:27.739 --> 00:38:30.860 on it, J.D. and I are working on it. 00:38:30.900 --> 00:38:33.340 We're trying to fix the economy. I don't think 00:38:33.340 --> 00:38:37.639 so. Somebody who cares or at the very least is, 00:38:37.639 --> 00:38:40.260 you have to pretend to care is my point is they're 00:38:40.260 --> 00:38:42.260 not even pretending to care. I know they don't 00:38:42.260 --> 00:38:45.159 care. Yeah. Of course they don't

care but 00:38:45.159 --> 00:38:48.559 they don't. What I mean, how 00:38:48.559 --> 00:38:51.570 could he? It would be too much of a contradiction 00:38:51.570 --> 00:38:54.710 for him to do that. Again from his point 00:38:54.710 --> 00:38:56.889 of view, his framing of the world is we are winning. 00:38:57.849 --> 00:39:00.070 We're going to win and we're just winning. We're 00:39:00.070 --> 00:39:02.050 just completely winning. We're doing great. The 00:39:02.050 --> 00:39:03.849 farmers are doing great. The people are doing 00:39:03.849 --> 00:39:05.750 great. That baby is doing great. Everybody's 00:39:05.750 --> 00:39:08.110 doing great. We are winning so much. That's his 00:39:08.110 --> 00:39:10.510 argument. The cats are happy. The dogs are happy. 00:39:10.969 --> 00:39:15.150 Yeah. Even the dogs are happy. Except it's Greenfield. 00:39:15.849 --> 00:39:17.929 It's the penguins at that place that we 00:39:17.929 --> 00:39:20.170 put tariffs on. Even they're happy. They're even 00:39:20.170 --> 00:39:24.070 winning. How do you take that and then combine 00:39:24.070 --> 00:39:28.489 it with, I feel your pain? Yeah. They're completely 00:39:28.489 --> 00:39:31.170 incompatible. It's oil and water. 00:39:31.489 --> 00:39:34.150 But you could do that. Like 00:39:34.150 --> 00:39:37.409 Bill Clinton, didn't care about our 00:39:37.409 --> 00:39:39.530 pain. He caused a lot of pain. He signed 00:39:39.530 --> 00:39:41.969 the crime bill that sent shit tons of poor 00:39:41.969 --> 00:39:44.110 and Black people to prison for no good reason. 00:39:44.309 --> 00:39:48.630 He, NAFTA and GATT, WTO gutted the 00:39:48.630 --> 00:39:51.329 industrial Midwest that me and J.D. Vance are from, 00:39:51.389 --> 00:39:54.789 basically just, he didn't 00:39:54.789 --> 00:39:57.320 care about it, but he still knew how to pretend 00:39:57.320 --> 00:40:01.260 to care about us. Hillary Clinton, when she ran 00:40:01.260 --> 00:40:03.119 for Senate in New York, she had to go on a listening 00:40:03.119 --> 00:40:05.460 tour because she was so incredibly unlikable 00:40:05.460 --> 00:40:08.380 that she was in danger of losing a Democratic 00:40:08.380 --> 00:40:12.860 seat that had been held by RFK. But she 00:40:12.860 --> 00:40:15.340 had to learn how to pretend to be a human being. 00:40:15.519 --> 00:40:19.820 Donald Trump can't even pretend 00:40:19.820 --> 00:40:23.269 to be a human being. Well, I would argue that 00:40:23.269 --> 00:40:27.730 that was pre-internet. Meaning I would 00:40:27.730 --> 00:40:30.929 argue that mainstream media treated politicians 00:40:30.929 --> 00:40:33.489 a bit differently. And I would argue also that 00:40:33.489 --> 00:40:35.769 mainstream, that we had an internet, that 00:40:35.789 --> 00:40:38.030 that wasn't necessarily a main feature of news 00:40:38.030 --> 00:40:39.690 at the point where Bill Clinton was in office. 00:40:39.969 --> 00:40:42.309 And for that matter, even when - Social media 00:40:42.309 --> 00:40:44.650 did not exist at all. Yeah, it just didn't exist. 00:40:44.989 --> 00:40:48.230 Which means that this idea of having channels 00:40:48.230 --> 00:40:51.619 whittle away politicians. This constant refrain 00:40:51.619 --> 00:40:54.519 of being able to watch a politician 24/7 and 00:40:54.519 --> 00:40:56.340 that type of stuff, that stuff didn't really exist. 00:40:56.340 --> 00:40:58.579 That's something in the modern era. I'm not necessarily 00:40:58.579 --> 00:41:01.039 saying that that's an excuse for why Donald 00:41:01.039 --> 00:41:03.280 Trump acts the way he does. I'm trying to say 00:41:03.280 --> 00:41:06.880 he acts materially different than other politicians. 00:41:06.880 --> 00:41:10.420 Most politicians pretended to care. That's it. 00:41:10.420 --> 00:41:13.260 That's all I'm saying. That's all. No, no, I agree 00:41:13.260 --> 00:41:17.280 with you with that. He's like George H.W. Bush 00:41:17.280 --> 00:41:21.440 did not care. He was a cold fish. But about the, 00:41:21.440 --> 00:41:23.360 and there was a massive recession which is why 00:41:23.360 --> 00:41:27.840 he lost in '92. But he basically 00:41:27.840 --> 00:41:30.559 but he still said, guys, it's kind of like 00:41:30.559 --> 00:41:33.780 Herbert Hoover, it's gonna, it's gonna get better. 00:41:33.780 --> 00:41:36.519 The markets are going to work, are going to fix 00:41:36.519 --> 00:41:39.400 the problem and it'll be okay. Now we'll never 00:41:39.400 --> 00:41:41.179 know if that would. I think actually he 00:41:41.179 --> 00:41:44.500 was probably right because by '94 the economy 00:41:44.500 --> 00:41:47.719 was starting to turn around already. Herbert 00:41:47.719 --> 00:41:50.579 Hoover also had that same argument. The American 00:41:50.579 --> 00:41:53.139 people are, we're out of patience here. 00:41:53.139 --> 00:41:55.719 No, we're not giving you another chance. Awesome. 00:41:55.719 --> 00:41:59.239 This is a tale of two Trumps. Trump 2.0 00:41:59.239 --> 00:42:01.679 is completely different from the guy who ran 00:42:01.679 --> 00:42:04.480 in 2016. But see, I don't think the guy that ran 00:42:04.480 --> 00:42:07.440 in 2016 would have came out and said I feel your 00:42:07.440 --> 00:42:10.400 pain either. Well, he did better than that. But 00:42:10.400 --> 00:42:13.559 he went through all these places. I'll fix it. 00:42:13.579 --> 00:42:15.380 Only I can fix it. He went through all these 00:42:15.380 --> 00:42:19.440 houses. Trump, for the first time in his life, 00:42:19.880 --> 00:42:22.519 he told the truth and said, it must really suck 00:42:22.519 --> 00:42:25.119 to be here because there's no job. There's nothing 00:42:25.119 --> 00:42:27.940 here. You have no future. I know, but that's 00:42:27.940 --> 00:42:30.269 not Trump accepting responsibility for something 00:42:30.269 --> 00:42:32.230 Trump did. That's Trump blaming somebody else 00:42:32.230 --> 00:42:35.050 for something. Trump had never been in government 00:42:35.050

--> 00:42:37.090 so it's not anything that Trump did. So Trump 00:42:37.090 --> 00:42:40.909 in 2016, even Trump in 2016 would have never came 00:42:40.909 --> 00:42:43.050 out and said I feel your pain if he would have 00:42:43.050 --> 00:42:45.590 screwed the pooch. I just don't believe 00:42:45.590 --> 00:42:48.489 he has that in him as a person. He's too narcissistic. 00:42:48.489 --> 00:42:51.329 No, I completely agree but the reason why he won 00:42:51.329 --> 00:42:54.030 but and the reason why he was able to hijack 00:42:54.030 --> 00:42:56.769 the Republican Party the way that he did was 00:42:56.769 --> 00:43:02.789 because, rightly or wrongly, for probably since 00:43:02.789 --> 00:43:05.429 the 1920s he was the first president at least 00:43:05.429 --> 00:43:07.730 that I can think of. Ted, you might have a 00:43:07.730 --> 00:43:10.409 different take on this, who pretended like he was 00:43:10.409 --> 00:43:13.929 actually listening to what people had to say. 00:43:14.949 --> 00:43:20.210 Other presidents have been good at that too. 00:43:20.210 --> 00:43:24.289 FDR was remarkably good at that. Despite 00:43:24.289 --> 00:43:27.130 being a wealthy patrician from the Northeast, 00:43:27.840 --> 00:43:32.159 he somehow was able, like Donald Trump, to really 00:43:32.159 --> 00:43:35.139 sort of connect to how much it must suck 00:43:35.139 --> 00:43:38.480 to be unemployed and gutted and 00:43:38.480 --> 00:43:40.219 not feel like you have any hope in the future. 00:43:40.219 --> 00:43:43.739 FDR was amazing at that. Really good at that. I 00:43:43.739 --> 00:43:46.000 guess that because the Trump rally was the modern 00:43:46.000 --> 00:43:49.900 equivalent of FDR's fireside chats. That's what 00:43:49.900 --> 00:43:52.769 that was. But the message was the same. Richard 00:43:52.769 --> 00:43:55.349 Nixon connected to the right. Richard 00:43:55.349 --> 00:43:58.570 Nixon kind of connected to the right in a populist 00:43:58.570 --> 00:44:00.530 way when he was able to say, he talked 00:44:00.530 --> 00:44:03.150 about the silent majority and how they 00:44:03.150 --> 00:44:06.190 didn't like all the disruption, the hippies, 00:44:06.190 --> 00:44:09.489 the riots, the race riots, and people, 00:44:09.590 --> 00:44:11.929 and he kind of sussed out that people in the 00:44:11.929 --> 00:44:14.010 Midwest would want, and flyover country would 00:44:14.010 --> 00:44:17.670 want more law and order. That's, 00:44:17.670 --> 00:44:21.849 he could connect. He got it. 00:44:21.849 --> 00:44:25.159 But now fast forward to Trump 2.0. It's 00:44:25.159 --> 00:44:30.159 a completely, it is the mirror image of 00:44:30.159 --> 00:44:34.239 what he ran on at the beginning. 00:44:34.719 --> 00:44:37.480 No Trump, no 1.0. Why are we in all these stupid 00:44:37.480 --> 00:44:40.019 wars? Why are we in NATO? What's the point? Let's 00:44:40.019 --> 00:44:42.039 make America great again. Now, what does 00:44:42.039 --> 00:44:44.719 that mean? Let's pull out of NATO. Yeah. And 00:44:44.719 --> 00:44:47.159 now you have Trump. So, oh, don't you love those 00:44:47.159 --> 00:44:49.059 gas prices? Look at the stock market. Isn't that 00:44:49.059 --> 00:44:52.539 amazing? An entire civilization is going to die 00:44:52.539 --> 00:44:55.900 tonight. We're going to murder 90 million people. 00:44:57.059 --> 00:45:00.139 And let's fight a war. He is a drug of the highest 00:45:00.139 --> 00:45:03.400 order. Yeah, literally. Hey, Bibi Netanyahu had 00:45:03.400 --> 00:45:05.559 an idea for a war that we didn't even think of. 00:45:05.699 --> 00:45:09.119 Hey, we're going to do that one. Yeah. 00:45:09.199 --> 00:45:12.840 He is. See, I'm not convinced that he was a radically 00:45:12.840 --> 00:45:16.250 different person between these two periods. 00:45:16.250 --> 00:45:18.909 In one case he was wrapped up in the right. 00:45:18.909 --> 00:45:21.289 I think you're both right. Robby West's right that 00:45:21.289 --> 00:45:24.570 the policies are diametrically opposed to what 00:45:24.570 --> 00:45:27.909 he ran on in 2016. Oh, agree. No, that I agree, but 00:45:27.909 --> 00:45:31.210 you're also right. He hasn't changed that much 00:45:31.210 --> 00:45:34.650 as a person except he's become older, more insulated 00:45:34.650 --> 00:45:37.929 and more demented. Yeah, and he has nothing else 00:45:37.929 --> 00:45:41.909 to defend. He doesn't, he can't run again 00:45:41.909 --> 00:45:44.789 so it's not, oh, I have to be concerned 00:45:44.789 --> 00:45:46.210 about what people think of me in this case. He 00:45:46.210 --> 00:45:48.030 may be concerned about his legacy, but I think 00:45:48.030 --> 00:45:50.849 that's toast at this point. Thank you, Romero. 00:45:52.750 --> 00:45:55.030 It's a demeanor issue, though. I think 00:45:55.030 --> 00:45:56.650 more than anything else, more than substantive, 00:45:56.809 --> 00:45:59.250 I think it's a demeanor issue. He's still 00:45:59.250 --> 00:46:01.570 going through with U.S. policy. And if we're 00:46:01.570 --> 00:46:03.489 being honest, what Donald Trump is doing is effectively 00:46:03.489 --> 00:46:08.469 he feels that the country or the world is leaving 00:46:08.469 --> 00:46:11.699 the U.S. behind. And he seems to be doing everything 00:46:11.699 --> 00:46:14.519 in his power from this point on even to the 00:46:14.519 --> 00:46:16.880 standpoint of just naked aggression to try to 00:46:16.880 --> 00:46:18.340 hold back the night, kind of like Spider-Man 00:46:18.340 --> 00:46:19.900 when he's trying to hold back the train 00:46:19.900 --> 00:46:22.320 and the train. He seems to be trying 00:46:22.320 --> 00:46:26.380 to do that. He's going to fail at that but 00:46:26.380 --> 00:46:29.159 that's what he seems to be trying to do and whether 00:46:29.159 --> 00:46:32.610 it's going in the war with Iran, whether it's 00:46:32.610 --> 00:46:34.650 going after Venezuela, whether it's going after 00:46:34.650 --> 00:46:36.849 Cuba, it's we're going

to try to 00:46:36.849 --> 00:46:38.789 consolidate things back home. We're going to take 00:46:38.789 --> 00:46:41.150 Greenland. We're going to. This stuff is a 00:46:41.150 --> 00:46:43.110 country that is effectively feeling that is losing 00:46:43.110 --> 00:46:45.050 control and losing power doing everything in 00:46:45.050 --> 00:46:47.269 his power to do something about it from standpoint 00:46:47.269 --> 00:46:49.849 of just negative aggression. Usually they use 00:46:49.849 --> 00:46:52.469 soft power to try to get their way. At this point 00:46:52.469 --> 00:46:56.210 they've come to some assessment that that's not 00:46:56.210 --> 00:46:58.809 enough. And the reason why I say they is because 00:46:58.809 --> 00:47:00.230 I don't believe for a moment that Donald Trump 00:47:00.230 --> 00:47:02.650 is the one who's running policy in and of himself. 00:47:03.170 --> 00:47:05.809 I don't think he reads. How would he know where 00:47:05.809 --> 00:47:07.730 to even look in a particular way? How would he 00:47:07.730 --> 00:47:10.469 be advised? I think he's being advised in a way 00:47:10.469 --> 00:47:15.050 that is just basic U.S. policy. He is different 00:47:15.050 --> 00:47:18.659 in manner. I'll give you that. He's different 00:47:18.659 --> 00:47:20.940 in manner. Yeah, there's more cursing. We talked 00:47:20.940 --> 00:47:23.420 about all this yesterday. They think cursing 00:47:23.420 --> 00:47:25.639 is equivalent to populism, which I think is just 00:47:25.639 --> 00:47:29.500 absurd. No, but it is. But it is a sign. It is 00:47:29.500 --> 00:47:35.670 a sign of his. Yeah. 00:47:35.750 --> 00:47:38.269 I'm trying to put a, I want to put a fine point 00:47:38.269 --> 00:47:41.650 and we should move on to the rage. 00:47:41.650 --> 00:47:43.730 Why are they American? Low wages, 00:47:44.579 --> 00:47:47.800 high costs, that's been a problem before. It's 00:47:47.800 --> 00:47:50.420 been an ongoing issue. American wages 00:47:50.420 --> 00:47:53.079 have been shrinking relative to prices for decades. 00:47:53.420 --> 00:47:56.059 And why so angry? And I think I'll tell you, 00:47:56.099 --> 00:48:02.099 Ron, I think if you say I've been, he laid 00:48:02.099 --> 00:48:05.860 on the promises so thick. I can end 00:48:05.860 --> 00:48:09.960 the Ukraine war in 24 hours. I will fix. Only I 00:48:09.960 --> 00:48:13.019 can fix the economy. I have this experience as 00:48:13.019 --> 00:48:16.780 a business person. The promises were so big and 00:48:16.780 --> 00:48:21.219 for a lot of people provided real hope and then 00:48:21.219 --> 00:48:25.449 those hopes are dashed. And it's not like they're 00:48:25.449 --> 00:48:28.750 dashed by a guy who has been caught up by circumstance 00:48:28.750 --> 00:48:31.809 and who is doing his best. But there 00:48:31.809 --> 00:48:34.289 were a bunch of natural disasters that he didn't 00:48:34.289 --> 00:48:37.130 know one could have anticipated. This is a guy 00:48:37.130 --> 00:48:40.389 who

clearly is not doing his best. This is a 00:48:40.389 --> 00:48:43.969 guy who is fucking off and making a hash out 00:48:43.969 --> 00:48:47.030 of everything. And you're, so that chasm 00:48:47.030 --> 00:48:50.300 between. You told us you were Jesus Christ 00:48:50.300 --> 00:48:53.320 himself walking on water and that you were going 00:48:53.320 --> 00:48:56.079 to miraculously fix everything. And it turned 00:48:56.079 --> 00:48:59.559 out not only are you not Jesus Christ, you're 00:48:59.559 --> 00:49:01.880 not even just an ordinary dude. You're the fucking 00:49:01.880 --> 00:49:05.039 devil. And I think that's why people are so pissed. 00:49:05.340 --> 00:49:07.539 It's bigger than that. And I'd like to get your 00:49:07.539 --> 00:49:12.179 take on this. Here's the biggest difference. 00:49:12.300 --> 00:49:17.500 And Vivek is the perfect mirror for this. You 00:49:17.500 --> 00:49:19.900 lead your country. In Vivek's case, he wants 00:49:19.900 --> 00:49:23.389 to be the governor of Ohio. So what do you do? 00:49:23.409 --> 00:49:25.250 That's not going to happen. So whenever you look 00:49:25.250 --> 00:49:28.289 at the population who you need to support you, 00:49:28.389 --> 00:49:31.530 to give you their consent for you to take power, 00:49:31.750 --> 00:49:33.929 and then you look at these people, you look at 00:49:33.929 --> 00:49:36.070 these dead and dying towns, you look at the shuttered 00:49:36.070 --> 00:49:38.789 factories, you look at the stagnant wages and 00:49:38.789 --> 00:49:40.750 the higher cost of living. Do you know what the 00:49:40.750 --> 00:49:45.519 problem is? You bastards are too stupid. So I'm 00:49:45.519 --> 00:49:48.849 going to import thousands upon thousands of 00:49:48.849 --> 00:49:51.869 other people from other places in the world to 00:49:51.940 --> 00:49:55.579 work for 60 cents on the dollar, make them serfs 00:49:55.579 --> 00:50:00.210 to a job. And if you oppose it, then you are 00:50:00.210 --> 00:50:02.769 a racist. You're a xenophobe. You're a bigot. 00:50:02.769 --> 00:50:06.250 Sit down, take your medicine in the form of your 00:50:06.250 --> 00:50:09.050 meth and just go die somewhere because you are 00:50:09.050 --> 00:50:12.070 a useless eater. That is why people hate Donald 00:50:12.070 --> 00:50:16.099 Trump. It is that. That is the betrayal of the 00:50:16.099 --> 00:50:19.860 highest order. And they made that case perfectly 00:50:19.860 --> 00:50:22.019 in Ohio. But Donald Trump, look, I want 00:50:22.019 --> 00:50:25.500 to be fair here. Yeah, go ahead. Well, I think 00:50:25.500 --> 00:50:29.300 it's even worse than that. It's not a situation 00:50:29.300 --> 00:50:32.619 where Donald Trump wasn't handed power, meaning 00:50:32.619 --> 00:50:35.159 he made all of those promises and he had the 00:50:35.159 --> 00:50:37.760 capacity to keep those promises. He could have 00:50:37.760 --> 00:50:39.480 walked from Ukraine. He didn't have to start 00:50:39.480 --> 00:50:43.500 a war

with Yemen or start a war with 00:50:43.500 --> 00:50:47.539 Iran. He could have ended the war in Gaza. 00:50:47.539 --> 00:50:49.460 Let's be very clear. When Donald Trump 00:50:49.460 --> 00:50:51.320 came in and started making deals about, okay, 00:50:51.360 --> 00:50:52.960 these are going to be the deals, this is going 00:50:52.960 --> 00:50:55.320 to be what we do, and Israel will violate it, 00:50:55.320 --> 00:50:56.659 and he would just kind of ignore the fact that 00:50:56.659 --> 00:50:59.260 Israel will violate it. Again, he had power in 00:50:59.260 --> 00:51:02.039 all of these processes. He had the Congress, 00:51:02.239 --> 00:51:04.099 he had the Senate, he had the Supreme Court, 00:51:04.179 --> 00:51:06.539 and he had the presidency. And at no point did 00:51:06.539 --> 00:51:08.440 he use that power for the benefit of the American 00:51:08.440 --> 00:51:10.599 public. He used that power in order to make their 00:51:10.599 --> 00:51:15.610 lives that much worse. It's a betrayal on an 00:51:15.610 --> 00:51:18.710 order that is breathtaking. Yeah, and that's 00:51:18.710 --> 00:51:22.329 why people are furious. Yeah, they should be 00:51:22.329 --> 00:51:24.250 furious. What they're doing in Europe, 00:51:24.670 --> 00:51:28.329 Europe and the United States are not that radically 00:51:28.329 --> 00:51:29.969 different in regards to the way people think 00:51:29.969 --> 00:51:33.090 and the way people, how they act may be different. 00:51:33.090 --> 00:51:35.690 But they have a tradition of revolution and they 00:51:35.690 --> 00:51:38.130 have left-wing organizations. That's the difference. 00:51:38.210 --> 00:51:41.610 Yes, that's the difference. OK, so let's pivot 00:51:41.610 --> 00:51:47.090 over to Iran. So the U.S. clearly is 00:51:47.090 --> 00:51:50.050 taking basically the occasion of the midterm 00:51:50.050 --> 00:51:54.349 elections as an opportunity to try to simultaneously 00:51:54.349 --> 00:51:57.909 negotiate more of a permanent ceasefire while 00:51:57.909 --> 00:52:02.909 at the same time bombing Iranian sites. I view 00:52:02.909 --> 00:52:06.900 this as sort of the Americans know that they're 00:52:06.900 --> 00:52:09.170 going to have to make some concessions but they're 00:52:09.170 --> 00:52:13.070 trying to keep the Iranians from gaining even 00:52:13.070 --> 00:52:15.550 more advantage than they already have in the 00:52:15.550 --> 00:52:17.130 Strait of Hormuz because they've been sinking 00:52:17.130 --> 00:52:20.369 vessels like they're going out of style. And 00:52:20.369 --> 00:52:24.150 we all know that the global energy prices are 00:52:24.150 --> 00:52:26.190 continuing to skyrocket, and it's just going 00:52:26.190 --> 00:52:28.289 to get worse and worse from the standpoint of 00:52:28.289 --> 00:52:32.079 Europe and the United States. I don't know. I 00:52:32.079 --> 00:52:35.280 don't think this is a major military. What interests 00:52:35.280 --> 00:52:39.409 me is what happens after the midterms when the 00:52:39.409 --> 00:52:43.949 president feels, I don't know, is he 00:52:43.949 --> 00:52:45.929 going to feel compelled that he needs to do something 00:52:45.929 --> 00:52:49.829 radical about Iran? Or is he going to start to 00:52:49.829 --> 00:52:52.590 check out and view himself as a lame duck and 00:52:52.590 --> 00:52:56.969 be looking beyond 2028 and I'm 00:52:56.969 --> 00:52:58.829 not going to get much done from now on. I'm just 00:52:58.829 --> 00:53:01.269 going to be a veto machine. Everything that comes 00:53:01.269 --> 00:53:03.570 out of the Democratic Congress, I'll be stamping 00:53:03.570 --> 00:53:05.510 veto and I'll just hang out at Mar-a-Lago. 00:53:06.809 --> 00:53:08.789 It's very possible that those attacks, 00:53:09.030 --> 00:53:11.550 even though they may say it's because Iran shot 00:53:11.550 --> 00:53:15.750 down drone or because Iran fired at ships, it's 00:53:15.750 --> 00:53:19.909 a preload to trying to get rid of certain defense 00:53:19.909 --> 00:53:23.469 on that island for larger attacks later. I don't 00:53:23.469 --> 00:53:25.369 know what it is. The U.S. is trying to say, 00:53:25.570 --> 00:53:27.329 hey, hey, look, we're not trying to start anything. 00:53:27.909 --> 00:53:29.869 This is, you fired at us, so we're 00:53:29.869 --> 00:53:31.909 fired back. That's what they're trying to say. 00:53:31.969 --> 00:53:33.469 But I don't know if that's true. That could just 00:53:33.469 --> 00:53:35.969 be a cover. Iran shot down, what, two Reaper 00:53:35.969 --> 00:53:38.389 drones, and as you pointed out, were firing at 00:53:38.389 --> 00:53:41.309 boats that were going through the, quote, illegal 00:53:41.309 --> 00:53:46.050 part, unquote, of the Strait of Hormuz. The reality 00:53:46.050 --> 00:53:48.969 of it is, unless the U.S. continuously wants 00:53:48.969 --> 00:53:51.190 ships to keep getting blown up that are trying 00:53:51.190 --> 00:53:53.170 to go through the Strait of Hormuz, Donald Trump 00:53:53.170 --> 00:53:56.010 is going to feel compelled to do something. This 00:53:56.010 --> 00:53:58.289 something can only either be military action 00:53:58.289 --> 00:54:01.210 or backing away. How long can you effectively 00:54:01.210 --> 00:54:03.030 maintain a blockade that doesn't necessarily 00:54:03.030 --> 00:54:07.619 seem to be all that secure. So I think he's going 00:54:07.619 --> 00:54:10.699 to feel that he needs to do something. The question 00:54:10.699 --> 00:54:12.559 is, what is that something that he feels that 00:54:12.559 --> 00:54:14.280 he's going to need to do? Is this going to be 00:54:14.280 --> 00:54:16.760 a TACO moment where Donald Trump recognizes, 00:54:16.960 --> 00:54:19.559 if I go through with the attacks that I'm saying, 00:54:19.760 --> 00:54:22.119 the response that Iran is going to use is going 00:54:22.119 --> 00:54:23.920 to be so withering that it's going to destroy 00:54:23.920 --> 00:54:26.920 the global economy. Okay. Is it going to

be that? 00:54:27.780 --> 00:54:29.840 Or is it going to be, okay, we're going to make 00:54:29.840 --> 00:54:31.260 some concessions. We're going to try to get out 00:54:31.260 --> 00:54:33.460 of Dodge in this particular issue. Israel is 00:54:33.460 --> 00:54:35.960 lobbying, obviously, for the first one, which 00:54:35.960 --> 00:54:40.679 is wild. Which would be insane. Yeah. It's suicidal 00:54:40.679 --> 00:54:42.539 from the standpoint of Israel. Yeah. Goodbye, 00:54:42.679 --> 00:54:45.760 Tel Aviv. Yeah. Whether they realize 00:54:45.760 --> 00:54:48.900 it or not, maybe they don't quite get that. If 00:54:49.440 --> 00:54:52.300 he makes a deal and backs away, that's a Qatar 00:54:52.300 --> 00:54:54.619 option, apparently, because Qatar has been... 00:54:54.940 --> 00:54:57.420 Yep. Working very hard, apparently, over the 00:54:57.420 --> 00:54:59.360 course of the last several days. Well, Qatar 00:54:59.360 --> 00:55:02.119 definitely needs this to come to an end. Well, 00:55:02.159 --> 00:55:03.659 because they know what's going to happen to them. 00:55:03.900 --> 00:55:07.300 Yes. The U.S. goes through with this. This idea 00:55:07.300 --> 00:55:12.099 of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE remaining as they 00:55:12.099 --> 00:55:16.199 are will be nonsense. They have to know that. 00:55:16.300 --> 00:55:18.800 In which case, they're trying to say, hey, let's 00:55:18.800 --> 00:55:20.539 try to make some kind of compromise. Let's kind 00:55:20.539 --> 00:55:22.860 of make some kind of deal. The problem is the 00:55:22.860 --> 00:55:27.820 original sin. We attack them. One, in the middle 00:55:27.820 --> 00:55:31.460 of negotiations. And two, just attack them. They 00:55:31.460 --> 00:55:34.360 didn't do anything to us. We attack them. This 00:55:34.360 --> 00:55:36.360 gangsterism shit where you can go in and say, 00:55:36.420 --> 00:55:38.780 hey, we want to take your product from you. It's 00:55:38.780 --> 00:55:41.590 outrageous. So they shouldn't have to negotiate 00:55:41.590 --> 00:55:45.050 with us for anything short of leave. That's the 00:55:45.050 --> 00:55:48.750 negotiation. I don't think Iran is that maximalist. 00:55:49.679 --> 00:55:53.039 But the reality is the U.S. has two options. 00:55:53.619 --> 00:55:55.809 Either they try to move forward with military 00:55:55.809 --> 00:55:57.489 action that would be detrimental to the global 00:55:57.489 --> 00:56:00.369 economy. Or we leave, which would be detrimental 00:56:00.369 --> 00:56:05.360 to Donald Trump's ego. One comment and one more 00:56:05.360 --> 00:56:08.179 story. F you so. Robby West forgets about the part 00:56:08.179 --> 00:56:10.380 where we destroyed all these illegal immigrants' 00:56:10.579 --> 00:56:12.679 homes with our exploitation and imperialism. 00:56:12.860 --> 00:56:15.239 We can join the military and complete the cycle. 00:56:16.340 --> 00:56:19.019 I forget about that. I think I'm America First. 00:56:19.579 --> 00:56:22.119 I'm against American imperialism. That's the 00:56:22.119 --> 00:56:26.400 very definition. If you want to reduce all this 00:56:26.400 --> 00:56:29.599 crap, then what you do is that you focus inward, 00:56:29.659 --> 00:56:31.960 you rebuild your country, and you stop raping 00:56:31.960 --> 00:56:34.380 other countries. This is not difficult. Do not 00:56:34.380 --> 00:56:37.980 put words in my mouth. I'm important enough without 00:56:37.980 --> 00:56:40.639 you adding stuff to me that does not exist. All 00:56:40.639 --> 00:56:44.059 right, Mr. Deplorable. All right, so in the UK, 00:56:44.500 --> 00:56:48.599 the Green Party has officially declared Zionism 00:56:48.599 --> 00:56:52.070 to be a form of racism. The Labour Party, which 00:56:52.070 --> 00:56:54.570 is basically the Democratic Party of the UK, 00:56:54.849 --> 00:56:59.590 has decided to break off their political alliance 00:56:59.590 --> 00:57:02.710 with the Green Party over this. Political suicide 00:57:03.010 --> 00:57:08.389 for Labour? Why is it? It's crazy. 00:57:08.530 --> 00:57:10.929 No, I'm sorry. Well, yeah, you're right. Why 00:57:10.929 --> 00:57:14.059 is this real important to them? For the same 00:57:14.059 --> 00:57:15.699 reason that Israel is important to many of the 00:57:15.699 --> 00:57:17.539 Democrats here in the United States or the Republicans 00:57:17.539 --> 00:57:19.239 here in the United States. There's a disconnect 00:57:19.239 --> 00:57:21.199 between the leadership versus the public itself. 00:57:21.780 --> 00:57:23.380 Now, I don't think they get paid in the way that 00:57:23.380 --> 00:57:25.179 they do, but you have some people who are arch 00:57:25.179 --> 00:57:28.940 Zionists. Some of this stuff goes back to the 00:57:28.940 --> 00:57:31.320 war, meaning Europe was in the middle of that 00:57:31.320 --> 00:57:33.599 stuff in a way that we weren't. That's true. 00:57:34.099 --> 00:57:36.239 Kind of affects them a bit differently. And of 00:57:36.239 --> 00:57:37.940 course, obviously, if it weren't for the Balfour 00:57:37.940 --> 00:57:39.960 Declaration, Israel would have never been created. 00:57:40.440 --> 00:57:43.519 Exactly. And it's a British colonial project. 00:57:44.099 --> 00:57:47.219 Yeah, it's a British conception. And to your 00:57:47.219 --> 00:57:50.019 point, it's a British colonial project or a European 00:57:50.019 --> 00:57:51.800 colonial project. Many of those people are just 00:57:51.800 --> 00:57:55.980 Europeans. So Europe has a dog in this hunt also 00:57:55.980 --> 00:57:58.739 in the way that they look at Israel. Of course, 00:57:58.739 --> 00:58:00.340 when you get into Germany and stuff like 00:58:00.340 --> 00:58:05.679 that, they have the whole sin from the genocide. 00:58:05.679 --> 00:58:09.440 But no, they're lunatics about it. And God bless 00:58:09.440 --> 00:58:12.079 them for it. Let's see if they can stay in power 00:58:12.079 --> 00:58:15.739 after this. It may end up with a similar contingent 00:58:15.739 --> 00:58:22.539 of Greens and Labour and Conservatives. And then 00:58:22.539 --> 00:58:23.739 it's, okay, well, now you're in the same 00:58:23.739 --> 00:58:26.159 boat that you were in before the election. I 00:58:26.159 --> 00:58:29.849 don't know who's after this. So not worth it. 00:58:30.090 --> 00:58:31.409 Jamarl, what are you doing for election night? 00:58:31.550 --> 00:58:34.630 Are you streaming? I plan on having election 00:58:34.630 --> 00:58:37.349 night coverage. Garland is going to be on. You 00:58:37.349 --> 00:58:38.929 guys are welcome to join if you want. All right. 00:58:38.929 --> 00:58:41.630 Let me know if you need me. All right. You 00:58:41.630 --> 00:58:45.730 know how to find me. All right. So tomorrow. Remember 00:58:45.730 --> 00:58:49.909 one o'clock with Dr. Zenkis. So we'll 00:58:49.909 --> 00:58:52.130 have a full two hour show. We'll break down the 00:58:52.130 --> 00:58:54.389 election and anything else that happened overnight. 00:58:55.010 --> 00:58:58.150 That'll be from nine to 11 a.m. Eastern time. 00:58:58.230 --> 00:59:02.030 Robby West. Yes. So also Jeff Dornick will be having 00:59:02.030 --> 00:59:04.250 election night coverage. Ted Rall will be there 00:59:04.250 --> 00:59:07.389 today. Manila Chan will be there. We're going 00:59:07.389 --> 00:59:09.809 to have never Trumpers. We're going to have hard 00:59:09.809 --> 00:59:12.269 core Republicans. We're going to have, it's going 00:59:12.269 --> 00:59:14.800 to be everything. Be sure to tune in. There'll 00:59:14.800 --> 00:59:18.219 be some epic fireworks going on. What time are 00:59:18.219 --> 00:59:20.260 you having your election night coverage? Yeah, 00:59:20.280 --> 00:59:23.480 so it will start at 4 p.m. Mountain Time. So 00:59:23.480 --> 00:59:27.719 it's at 6 p.m. Eastern. Okay. All right. One 00:59:27.719 --> 00:59:30.039 last thing. Go ahead. How long is the thing for 00:59:30.039 --> 00:59:31.920 tomorrow at 1 p.m.? Is it 30 minutes or an hour? 00:59:32.260 --> 00:59:34.679 Well, I told him 30 to 40 minutes, but we could 00:59:34.679 --> 00:59:37.280 go up to an hour if the conversation was rocking. 00:59:38.000 --> 00:59:39.800 Okay. And one thing. Can you send me Thaddeus? 00:59:40.739 --> 00:59:42.719 Oh, yeah. Sorry. Yeah. I'll take care of it right 00:59:42.719 --> 00:59:44.980 after this. Okay. Sorry. One last thing. Is it 00:59:44.980 --> 00:59:48.880 possible also to get Greg Palast? Yeah. Here 00:59:48.880 --> 00:59:51.940 or for you? Ask him. He knows me. I've met him 00:59:51.940 --> 00:59:53.840 before. You want him or do you want him here 00:59:53.840 --> 00:59:55.900 or you want him on your show? I want him on my 00:59:55.900 --> 00:59:58.739 show. Okay. I'll just send you his digits. Thank 00:59:58.739 --> 01:00:01.900 you. Okay. All right. All right, guys. Ciao. 01:00:02.679 --> 01:00:04.099 Bye, everyone. See you tomorrow. Bye-bye.