This is The Humanist Report with Mike Figueredo The Humanist Report podcast is funded by viewers like you through Patreon and PayPal To support the show visit patreon.com forward slash humanist report or become a member at humanistreport.com Now enjoy the show Welcome to the Humanist Report podcast. My name is Mike Figueredo and this is episode 307 of the program Today is Friday, September 24th And before we get started as we usually do I want to take some time to thank all of the folks who make the show possible All of our newest Patreon, PayPal and YouTube members all of which either signed up for the very first time to support us this week or Increased the monthly pledge that they were already giving us and that includes Becca Link, Christopher Ware, Emily A, Enlighten Me 11, from Cradle to a Casket, Galen Thurber, Isaac Sadaka, Karen Sheets, Kenny Knot Blankenship, Kairion Printer, Maggie Temple, Mary Dorley, Papa Doc, and Stop Resisting. Thank you so much to all of these kind individuals. If you'd also like to support the show You can do so by going to humanistreport.com slash support patreon.com forward slash humanist report or by clicking join underneath any one of our YouTube videos We've got a great show for you today lots of different topics to talk about but certainly something for everyone Hopefully so we'll talk about mainstream media and how they're still pretending that the parliamentarians recommendations matter at all I will explain to you why they don't US Border Patrol agents were seen whipping Haitian migrants in a Texas border town We'll talk about that.  Let's go ahead and get right to it I hope you all enjoy what I have in store for you All right folks, so I want to give you an update to the 3.5 Trillion dollar reconciliation package that Bernie Sanders and the Democratic Party is currently putting together If you're wondering why I have an image of some random person behind me Well, you shouldn't really know who this person is None of us should know who this person is or be concerned with who this individual is But for those of you who don't recognize this face This is the Senate parliamentarian and her face is here because she represents a new chapter in the never-ending saga of Will they or won't they pass the 3.5 trillion dollar reconciliation package now before I Describe how the Senate parliamentarian comes into play. I want to give you a general update Not much has changed. I mean, I shouldn't say that things have changed But the overall trajectory that we're on I don't necessarily think has shifted that dramatically We're seeing this game of chicken between corporate Democrats and progressive Democrats Corporate Democrats want the bipartisan infrastructure proposal that the Senate passed and they need Leftists to support it but leftists don't really like that But they want the reconciliation proposal which contains a lot of really important things that would actually help the American people So basically we have corporate Democrats like Kirsten Sinema Joe Manchin Some individuals in the House of Representatives aligning with Kirsten Sinema Joe Manchin such as Kurt Schrader Kathleen Rice and They don't like certain elements of the reconciliation proposal But they really want the bipartisan infrastructure deal to go through because that's essentially a corporate giveaway to their donors Now on the other side you have leftists saying we don't really care about the bipartisan infrastructure deal We just want what's in the reconciliation package So if you deny us that or try to water it down more We're voting no on the bipartisan infrastructure deal So you have this back and forth and nothing really has changed that dynamic is still there However on the 27th of September, that's the deadline That's when Nancy Pelosi agreed to allow a vote on the bipartisan infrastructure in the house And I don't know what's gonna happen because the reconciliation package hasn't been finished yet They're still working out the details So to allow a vote on the bipartisan infrastructure deal without the reconciliation deal simultaneously I don't think leftists are gonna go for that at least they've been saying that they're not gonna go for that So I hope that they hold strong and they vote no on the bipartisan infrastructure deal If they don't get what they want in that 3.5 trillion dollar reconciliation proposal So that's basically where we're at now when it comes to negotiations. However in the Senate The parliamentarian is basically reviewing all of the policies and she has decided that you know what? The immigration reform that you included in that 3.5 trillion dollar reconciliation proposal It's actually not appropriate because it's not necessarily related to the budget So because that's the case. I am recommending that you do not include that and because the Senate parliamentarian has said this Well, all of a sudden the media and some Democrats are pretending as if her word is final when in fact That's not the case. So political broke the story of reporting Democrats have been quote blocked from including immigration reform in their reconciliation bill Which was described as quote a blow to the party's efforts to enact immigration reform They add immediately after the news broke Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Sunday evening that Democrats are deeply disappointed in the decision But plan to meet with the Senate parliamentarian in the coming days and pursue other options Oh, shit. Here we go again Now you probably already know what i'm going to say here because we had this conversation before When the Senate parliamentarian said that you can't include a minimum wage increase in the last Proposal that was passed using budget reconciliation So, you know, you might know what i'm going to say But if you don't spoiler alert what the Senate parliamentarian says Doesn't matter. It's not like she's blocking Democrats from including the immigration Reform aspect in their 3.5 trillion dollar reconciliation proposal This is merely a recommendation the Senate parliamentarian can easily be overrided or fired But it doesn't really matter like this isn't necessarily a news story But the way that it's being portrayed to people is as if oh, well This is just a roadblock in Democrats plans to pursue immigration reform when that's not actually the case I'll give you an example. Not just the political article, but this CNN segment where they made it seem as if oh, well This is it. This is the end of the line immigration reform can't be included in the reconciliation bill. Take a look We learned Maggie, uh, that the biden administration obviously Overnight is having another issue that kind of contributes to the domestic agenda hits that he's been taking Senate Democrats They're not going to be able to include a pathway to legalization from millions of immigrants in their huge their 3.5 trillion dollar bill After some new guidance from the senate parliamentarian, where does this put them? So they're they're going to attempt to try to revisit this Breonna. They're going to be there's I think four different efforts That pro immigration reform activists advocates have been making in terms of the senate parliamentarian They're going to come back at this the white house made clear They're going to come back at this on other pieces But certainly it is a hit and it is also just a reminder that this white house is playing this sort of triangulation move of You know, we're not going to have congress. We're not going to push congress to pass legislation We are going to try other maneuvers because the majority is so slam and because there are so many members who might not go Along with this it avoids putting pressure on them But at the end of the day a key piece of immigration reform still doesn't get done It's a blow. Anyway, you look at it even for the people who say they were expecting it Yeah, this look this is this is key john To president biden's agenda. He wants to move this thing along and here you see that roadblocks are coming up against it They absolutely are I think it shows the limits to larding up what you can pass in reconciliation I don't think folks should get over themselves and say, you know, the biden agenda is doomed But there are some serious hurdles and this dream has a deadline on it And the biden biden administration needs to be totally focused on passing this. You can't make the perfect family. They're good I think they know that they need to start acting that way that last line was basically directed right at progressives Look You're getting some stuff, right?  Take your crumbs and and just give the corporate democrats what they want No And that entire conversation was infuriating to me because what the senate parliamentarian says That's not the final word. I mean, do we ever hear about the Importance of the senate parliamentarian when republicans are in control when donald trump was empowered Did you hear once about the senate parliamentarian from any news outlet? Of course you didn't But democrats and the media they're using this as a kind of scapegoat But this entire conversation is a red herring and it doesn't matter The biden administration can easily override the senate parliamentarian the vp can override the senate parliamentarian But the only reason why this feels as if we're getting blocked from including immigration in the reconciliation bill Is because we know the biden administration doesn't want To override the parliamentarian, which is stupid, but listen to what the cnn host said Uh, quote, they're going they're not going to be able to include a pathway to legalization from millions of immigrants And then she says after some uh new guidance from the senate parliamentarian So like it's it's given away in their own language, right? Oh, well, they're not going to be able to include immigration because of this guidance What does the guidance mean like look up the definition of guidance? It doesn't mean that this is like the law of the land. This is an unelected official what she says It's not law. So I just don't understand Why they're choosing to portray this this way, uh, the other person make maggie haberman said It's a blow any way you look at it even for the people who say that they were expecting it No, it's not who cares what the senate parliamentarian says override what she says Rather than just suggesting that this is it and the senate parliamentarians word is final cnn should be educating their audience About the reality of the situation and the reality is that democrats they hold control Of the house the senate and the white house This is only an obstacle if they allow it to be an obstacle and ilhan omar was absolutely correct when she tweeted this out This ruling by the parliamentarian is only a recommendation senator schumer and the white house can and should ignore it We can't miss this once in a lifetime opportunity to do the right thing and she's exactly right The democratic party is trying to use the parliamentarian as a scapegoat as their sort of excuse as to why they didn't Accomplish immigration reform if they aren't indeed able to get it done before 2022 and 2024 But that's all it is a sin excuse as this meme from go left puts it This is basically the senate parliamentarians authority and if you're wondering what specifically the role of the senate parliamentarian is This article from common dreams breaks it down So jake johnson explains in a three page opinion senate parliamentarian elizabeth mcdonough Advised against the inclusion of democrats immigration proposal in the emerging reconciliation package Arguing the measure amounts to a policy change that substantially outweighs the budgetary impact of that change Under current senate rules, which the parliamentarian is tasked with interpreting all provisions of a reconciliation bill must have a direct And not merely incidental impact on the federal budget a highly subjective criterion that most recently sparked intense debate In the context of a proposal to raise long stagnant minimum wage The democratic majority is using the arcane reconciliation process to work around the senate's 60 vote filibuster rule Which a number of conservative democrats are refusing to repeal last week mcdonough heard arguments from both democrats and republicans On the immigration proposal which would establish a path to citizenship for around 8 million dreamers farm workers temporary protected status recipients And essential workers democrats contend that by making millions of people newly eligible for public programs The change would have a substantial impact on the federal budget an argument that policy experts have echoed and that's the extent of it It's a recommendation as elon all more put it It doesn't matter at the end of the day So the mere fact that we're even hearing about the senate parliamentarian at this point when most people who heard about the senate parliamentarian for the first time Now know that she doesn't matter It just shows that there is a failure on the mainstream media To educate people don't let the democrats get away with this You should be blasting democrats like chuck schumer who view this ruling as disappointing who cares what the senate parliamentarian says Again, let me throw the meme up on the screen Another time that's the roadblock presented by the senate parliamentarian It doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things now ask yourself this when the senate parliamentarian previously ruled against What the republican party wanted? What do you think they did do you think that they like talked about how disappointed they were that you know this This was the outcome No, that's not what they did They did what you'd expect a party in power to do who wants to get things accomplished They overrode the senate parliamentarian jake johnson explains on twitter representative rishita thaleeb alluded to republicans 2001 decision to fire then parliamentarian robert dove after he insisted a pair of recommendations that threaten the gop's tax cuts for the rich Quote an elected person isn't a real barrier to the much needed investments We were elected to make thyleeb wrote ignore this ruling or get a new one the gop didn't hesitate when they pushed their corporate agenda Exactly if this senate parliamentarian doesn't think that immigration Should be included in the budget reconciliation process because it doesn't directly impact the federal budget find someone Who thinks it does? Impact the federal budget directly This isn't that difficult of an issue and anytime we hear about the senate parliamentarians rulings Remind people that this does not matter what the senate parliamentarian says is nothing more than a recommendation and a recommendation that can indeed be Overridden the reason why it's not being overridden is because biden doesn't want to do this They didn't want to do this before when it came to the minimum wage And their unwillingness to override the parliamentarian now It doesn't necessarily signal that they've been blocked From doing this it signals that they don't actually want to be serious When it comes to passing immigration reform now democrats are saying that they're going to pursue alternate paths That's what chuck schumer is saying Okay, maybe they'll attach this to some other bill or proposal But either way if they don't get it done and that reconciliation bill passes and it excludes immigration reform This is a failure on democrats not on republicans not on the senate parliamentarian But on democrats who didn't want to actually fight when this isn't even that much Of a fight fire the parliamentarian stop talking about the senate parliamentarian for the love of god Haiti is in a state of crisis. They just experienced another catastrophic earthquake this time It was 7.2 magnitude the last earthquake that they experienced was in 2010 and many Haitians still haven't fully recovered from That disaster many had to flee the country But on top of that they are experiencing political instability and political violence Due to the assassination of their president So many people have either lost everything or they no longer feel safe and Haiti because of all of the violence And thousands have chosen to flee the country and many have come to the united states They arrived in mexico and then they crossed the border and there's about 14 to 15 thousand currently camped under a bridge in a texan border town And what they're hoping for is to be able to make their case for asylum many have been here for days And many are starving and they're hoping for a chance at a new life But before I get into the specifics here, I just want to give you a broad sense of what's happening This is an on the ground report that gives us some additional context But keep in mind by the time you see this video the numbers and details may have already changed But nonetheless, here's a general overview of basically what's happening on the ground right now I can tell you this is a very dynamic situation that has changed drastically over the last to 48 hours If you ask a border patrol, they will tell you that some of this may stem back to that 2010 earthquake in Haiti Which sent many people immigrating to south america and then following the 2016 Rio Olympics where many of those folks worked They then started that long process north But as what's happening right here right now the only border crossing into Mexico and del rio remains closed down And it is a 24 seven mission We're just on the side of the border fence and we are seeing agency after agency drive through the escape Maned by the national guard. You see border patrol trucks. You see customs vehicles here This is just part of the massive response. We've seen from authorities here In response to a group that essentially tripled in size in just a matter of days Go back to last wednesday the group beneath that bridge about 5,000 strong at last check over the weekend 15,000 people were essentially calling the shade of this border bridge home The goal right now trying to process every single one of those people Some of those busts to nearby processing facilities that are not overwhelmed others being Flowing on what they're calling lateral flights to do that same thing And then we've already confirmed over the weekend that those first deportation flights have already begun Three of which took off from san Antonio to port of prince hady But there are still so many people that whole group that flew back about 300 staff We still have at least 10,000 Haitian migrants Beneath this bridge. We were granted exclusive access yesterday had a chance to speak to one woman She said she had been under that bridge for eight days had barely eaten a thing We had seen food and water handouts there set up by the border patrol But I mean the supplies cannot come fast enough right now to try to take care of these people Just minutes before we spoke to you There was an ambulance here outside that a woman from a border patrol vehicle was transferred into and taken away And unfortunately that has been an all too common sight here So this is very obviously a huge humanitarian crisis. These people are starving. These people are desperate And all they want is to be able to make their case for asylum So of course, you know, the very compassionate biden administration is greeting them with a welcoming message and is telling them Listen, we're trying to process your cases as quickly as possible. That's that's what's happening, right? And so the biden administration is currently trying to direct resources To this area to feed and process all of these asylum seekers, right? No, of course not That's not what's happening. In fact, the message is The opposite and I think you probably predicted that and you probably knew that I was being facetious Because the dhs secretary sent a very clear message Get out. We don't want you here if you come to the united states illegally You will be returned Your journey will not succeed and you will be endangering your life and your family's lives This administration is committed to developing safe Orderly and humane pathways for migration, but this is not the way to do it Okay, so nobody else should come got it But that doesn't change the fact that 14 to 15 000 people are already here and they're currently under a bridge And I would argue that the overwhelming majority have a very compelling case For why they should be granted asylum. So what do you do? What do you do to mitigate their suffering? Well, of course, if you're the united states, you do the most american thing ever You uh Launch a mass expulsion campaign to send them all back to Haiti as quickly as possible And according to ap this could be one of america's swiftest Large-scale expulsions of migrants or refugees in decades. Yeah So how do you how do you do this if you aren't going to allow them to make their case or not allow Most of them to make their case for asylum. How do you do something like this?  And the answer is you don't you heard these people Into planes back to Haiti as if they're animals and if need be you literally whip them That's what we're doing. That's quite literally what's what's taking place in the Rio Grande currently US border patrol agents on horses are trying to herd Haitians drive them out back into mexico or onto planes and they're literally physically abusing them with Whips vice-news as emily green describes the scene border patrol officers on horseback swinging whips in the faces of Haitians Families with toddlers scrambling across the Rio Grande back into mexico to avoid being deported Haitian parents crying as they faced the prospect of being deported home to a social and political crisis That seems to see no end those were among the scenes in the town of del rio texas Over the weekend as the u.s. Government took a hard line stance against thousands of newly arrived Haitian migrants seeking protection The situation is becoming a public relations and humanitarian challenge for us president joe biden's administration As images of border patrol agents on horseback screaming at and chasing desperate Haitians reverberated across the internet Quote this is why your country's shit Because you use your women for this one officer on horseback shouted at a group of Haitian women Who were crossing the Rio Grande with bags of food showed one report by alchazira The situation along the southwest texas border at the entrance to del rio is becoming a bigger problem by the day for president biden Who is trying to assert control over the international line while fulfilling his promise to take a more humanitarian approach to immigration Well, you've already failed miserably On that regard joe so i mean i don't understand why you even maintain this facade that you're more compassionate than your predecessor when we see scenes of Haitian migrants who are desperately seeking asylum getting whipped by border patrol agents on your watch I mean why even pretend you've already gone full mask off. So stop pretending as if you care The truth is the united states government does not care. We don't even care about our own people We're letting thousands of people every single year die due to a lack of basic access to health care due to uh housing So of course we don't care about these immigrants. In fact, we don't even acknowledge that they're human beings We treat them like animals quite literally So it's just truly disgusting and to make matters worse as biden tries to claim or present himself as a moral Compassionate like and moral president He's literally using a rule created by the trump administration to expel immigrants in a very quick manner So as julia conley of common dreams explains the biden administration launched the deportations of the migrants under title 42 A section of the public health safety act which former president donald trump invoked during the pandemic to quickly expel asylum seekers From the country president joe biden has drawn international condemnation for continuing the policy Yeah, and i just want to remind you that this is taking place under a democratic administration Joe biden's administration is literally using a trump era rule to expel these migrants as quickly as possible and you can't expel a large group of people In a compassionate and humane way if you want to do it quickly I mean, it's not A humanitarian thing to do period if they're literally seeking asylum I think that they should be able to make their case but to do this rapidly Of course, there's going to be human rights abuses And so a lot of you are going to see the images which are absolutely disturbing of Haitian migrants being whipped By us border patrol agents on horses And that's gross But even if they weren't whipped by border patrol agents or harassed and assaulted by them They're still being treated like criminals So so rather than being treated as if they're seeking asylum You know, we should treat asylum seekers with respect and dignity and and respond to their needs But that's not happening They're reporting that they're being handcuffed and some of them are being lied to So they're saying hey get on this plane We'll take you to florida and rather than going to florida in hopes that their case will be processed At a facility there They're getting deported back to Haiti and Haiti is calling on a humanitarian moratorium on these deportations because they're saying listen We're in crisis mode currently We can't take in thousands of deportees When we're dealing with the crisis from the assassination of our president with the earthquake What are we supposed to do with thousands of people who are coming back to this country? Perhaps worse off than they were when they left There's no homes for them like what do you want us to do? So rather than doing the humane thing and at least temporarily halting these deportations The united states government at this point is not doing that and they're making Haiti's crisis even worse I mean, it's not like we don't have the resources to assist them here This isn't that many people in the grand scheme of things at a minimum Perhaps at least try to hear out their claims for asylum because I think that most of them If not all of them will be compelling But I mean if you're wondering what do we do when it comes to these sort sorts of crises There's never an easy answer by now with how old our country is with how many times this has happened and will continue to happen In the in the future, especially with the progenic climate change, you know We should have some sort of a system in place But whenever this happens whenever we see a large influx of migrants We immediately freak out and if there's a republican in power Then that republican president is going to be as cruel as possible And if there is a democratic administration in power when this happens That administration is also going to be as cruel as possible worrying that you know, if he's not actually Harsh enough it expelling these immigrants that you know, uh the insane xenophobic republicans are going to freak out and claim that he's too weak It's just it's so disgusting. So, you know, when it comes to the question of what do we do? Uh, why don't we just start by like not treating them literally like animals and whipping them? That's like a really really basic thing to start with maybe don't whip them Maybe Acknowledge that like us they're human beings with desires with fears with ambitions and maybe not whipping them is a really great place to start I don't know. Maybe maybe i'm crazy, right? Now, thankfully lawmakers have spoken out. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Ilhan Omar They all have condemned the whipping here because these are scenes that we shouldn't be seeing From a so-called compassionate administration.  So it's just you know over and over again. We see this And this situation is only going to continue to get worse as we start seeing the issue of climate refugees pop up So, um, you know, if you're disturbed by seeing these images then That's good. Don't try to run away from these images Acknowledge that this is taking place under a democratic administration And use this anger that you're feeling when you see these images To fight for a better world for fight to fight for actually a humane response To migrants, especially ones that are seeking asylum, which is a human right by the way Mr. Mike, when are you going to apologize for the million Iraqis that are dead because you lied You lied about weapons and mouth destruction. You lied about connections to 9 11 You set me to a rack you set me to a rack in 2003 my friends are dead You lie A million Iraqis are dead because you lied my friends are dead because you lied you need to apologize Apologize What just happened I'm wondering if they're going to arrest me, but I just disrupted George Bush speaking They dragged me out I guess the cops are not after me Yeah, um Uh, well what I did was I tried to read the names of friends of mine who died after going to Iraq and then died of injuries they came home with Um, the names of Iraqis who were killed by the u.s. Occupation in the east source square massacre Aditha those you saw in the collateral murder video Um, I tried to read the names, but the event runners immediately grabbed the list and tore it up Uh, but I was able to shut it down for a little while Right when bush was getting into his first little cheesy story about, um His life and all that trying to be funny, but uh, so hopefully I shook him and set a tone for the event The crowd was very mad. Um Typical crowd you would expect for George W. Bush, but they seemed to not be expecting it at all and um, here we are so Uh, I tried not to give him a little moment of peace because no one else gets it Touched by the war That was a rock war veteran and empire files producer mike prizner doing what I think is absolutely courageous and commendable Confronting war criminal george w. Bush at a speech that he was giving in beverly hills Now there is so much about that clip that I hated. I mean, I loved that mike, uh, decided to confront him But the fact that people showed up To listen to george w. Bush in the first place irritates me But they literally booed when mike prizner called out the wmd lie that led to a million araki deaths. They booed him I mean, maybe you want to hear george w.  They they literally booed him When he called out this lie that led to a million deaths Like every single person in that room has got to be a sociopath Like i'm just going to assume that they're all bad people and shady people to even want to hear george w. Bush But the fact that some people would boo mike prizner I mean, that's just that's that's gross. I don't know what else to say about that.   Bush speak Now getting to george w. Bush himself who should be riding an agl cell for the rest of his life He literally laughed off What mike prizner said did you hear it? So I don't know that I have the exact thing that he said But he did say something about behaving yourself and I listened to this again and again and again And this is what it sounded like. He was saying to mike prizner Senator carrey you said you'd behave yourself. He was saying this to mike prizner So basically he was cracking a joke about the fact that in the 2004 presidential election when he was running against john carrey John carrey called him out for the lie the wmd lie that led to the iraq war that was the basis for the invasion of iraq And john carrey is no saint. He voted for the iraq war himself, which I think is Just unforgivable But he's basically trying to joke about the fact that oh, well, this is a tired conversation mike what you're saying is the same thing I heard in 2004 from john carrey like You said you'd behave yourself senator carrey. I think that's what he said, but either way even the Hint that this person who's confronting a war criminal should behave themselves.  I mean you had to have heard mike say That He was there his friends died a million iraq. He's died But george bush literally couldn't care less and this isn't the first time that he's joked about this When he was still president, he literally joked about not being able to find wmds. I'm not kidding about this. Take a look Those weapons of mass destruction gotta be somewhere Nope, no weapons over there. Maybe under here Yeah, so he has no remorse whatsoever He doesn't care about the fact that he has blood on his hands He does not care and yet we have the media parading him around Rehabilitating his image as if he's some sort of moral authority On what is and isn't good policy in the united states? Why are we listening to him again? It's literally just because The g.o.p. Has gotten so demonstrably insane that when you look at someone like george w bush Who isn't necessarily frothing at the mouth, but it's more insidious in the threat that he poses and more um, you know more Irrespectable in the bad things that he does since he's kind of like this antithesis to trump and since he's anti trump the media thinks Oh, well great. We should parade george w bush around and that really it speaks to the moral bankruptcy of The ruling class in the united states the political elites media elites in the united states because to rehabilitate Somebody who is a mass murderer I just I don't know what to say about that now to give you some additional details This is what mike prisner tweeted out almost 20 years after he sent me to iraq I disrupted george w bush's speech tonight I tried to read a list of names mostly of iraqi's killed as well as my friends who became anti war activists after iraq Who then died of suicide or other war wounds? They ripped up my list Also on my list of names the victims in the collateral murder video the nasaar square massacre as well as us troops killed in iraq Whose parents then formed the powerful anti war organization gold star families for peace bush should never know peace for the lives he destroyed Couldn't have done this without my comrade marissa who helped sneak us in and filmed We assumed we'd both be arrested and our crew answered coalition holding a protest outside and running our support logistics We are not yet in the clear legally just learned that the event organizers were irate that the police did not arrest us So every single event Where george w bush speaks or is invited to that event should be shut down He should fear ever showing his disgusting face in public because this man is a sociopathic mass murderer And the fact that he has his freedom after he took so many lives But yet mike prisner has to fear that he's going to be arrested because he confronted This mass murder like it shows how fucked up and asked backwards our society is now for those of you who are unaware Of how mike prisner kind of like came to this current status where he's been radicalized He's this anti-war activist. Well, it was because of his experience in iraq Now this is about 10 years old But this clip it kind of gives us some insight into the things that he shares About like what he had to do when he was serving in iraq and it's truly gut wrenching take a look and we've heard a lot about different raids and kicking down the doors of people houses and ransacking their houses But this Mission was was different a different kind of raid I never got any explanation for these orders. We only told that this this group of houses five or six houses We're now property of the u.s. Military and we had to go in and make those families leave those houses so We went to these houses and informed the families that Those homes were no longer their homes We provided them no alternative nowhere to go no compensation And they are very confused and very scared and and Did not know what to do and would not leave so We had to remove them from those houses One family in particular a woman with two small girls Very elderly man and two middle-aged men We we dragged them from their houses and and threw them on the street And Arrested the men because they refused to leave arrested the old man and sent them off to prison and At that time I I didn't know what happened to people when we we tied their hands behind their back and put a sandbag on their head, but Unfortunately a few months later. I I had to find out I was we were short interrogators. So I was assigned to to work as an interrogator and I oversaw and participated in hundreds of interrogations one in particular I'm going to share with you is it was it was a moment for me that that really showed me the the nature of this occupation This this particular detainee when I was Sent to interrogate him he was stripped down to his underwear Hands behind his back and sandbag on his head.  He was he was injured and he kept like Like falling to the ground Uh And my the sergeant in charge would come and and tell me to get him up off his feet So we I'd have to pick him up and put him against the wall And oh, he kept going down. I just have to keep pulling him up and putting him against the wall and My sergeant came along and and he was upset with me for not, you know, continue to stand Uh, he picked him up and and slammed him against the wall several times um, and then He left and and when the man went down on the ground again, I noticed blood pouring down from under the sandbag uh And so I let him sit and when I noticed my sergeant coming again. I would Tell him quickly to stand up and I realized that I was supposed to be guarding my unit from this detainee and at that point I realized I was guarding the detainee from my unit And I tried hard to be proud of my service But all I could feel was shame And racism could no longer mask the reality of the occupation. These were people. These were human beings I've since been plagued by guilt any time I see an elderly man Like the one who couldn't walk who he rolled on to a stretcher and told the iraqi police to take him away I feel guilt anytime. I see a mother with her children Like the one who cried hysterically and screamed that we are worse than saddam as we forced her from her home I feel guilt anytime.  This is a monster and The fact that there's never going to be justice For his victims the fact that they'll never know that the person who would terrorize them is going to be behind bars It's really depressing to think about So at this point, I don't think that any real leftist seriously believes that tulsi gabbard is progressive I mean at best you could say that she's a centrist, but I think that functionally speaking She's basically just a right-wing grifter at this point I mean this has been her trajectory ever since she abandoned her congressional seat to pursue her failed presidential campaign Which was extremely stupid by the way, but she's even been hired by rumble a right-wing alternative to youtube to become an influencer and she's getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars per year to I mean i'm assuming warn her right-wing audience and astroturfed audience about the dangers of transgender high school athletes and how censorship is bad unless of course We're talking about censoring bds activists because then it seems like she's going to be on board for that form of censorship So she's just she's so strange. She's gone mask off multiple times even during her presidential campaign she abandoned medicare for all And now she is basically undermining one of the main reasons why people liked her Her anti-war stance and there were a lot of red flags here. So whenever she talked about how anti-war she was She would always use very Interesting and deliberate rhetoric, right? She talked about how regime change war is bad regime change war is bad regime change war is bad Okay, I get it. I agree with you technically I do think that regime change wars are bad But you don't have to add that caveat every single time you can just say war is bad in general And we'll know that you also mean regime change wars But there was a very specific reason why she said regime change war is bad and not all wars are bad She also conspicuously never denounced us imperialism And there's a reason for this because tolsey gabbert is a us imperialist And she also is pro war and you don't have to take my word for it You could take her word for it because she's going to tell you how pro war she is on tucker carlson's program Now before I show you the video clip, I do want to give you some additional context So last week the u.s. military admitted that it killed 10 innocent civilians via a drone strike in cobble And tucker carlson in this segment is going to criticize the biden administration for this and rightly so in my opinion But what's interesting to me is that tucker carlson said nothing when donald trump increased drone strikes overall by more than 20% So he is correct like I don't have an issue with him condemning drone strikes In fact, I wish that more news pundits would do this, but the hypocrisy is what I have an issue with So basically he's only talking about this He's only pretending to care because he's using this as an excuse to attack biden That's fine But he's going to bring in tolsey gabbert assuming that she's going to attack joe biden because this is the anti-war person Supposedly right Well, no, she's actually going to take this in a different direction And she's going to defend drone strikes Literally and she says a lot of other stuff that should make any Actual leftist field very very uncomfortable for weeks the biden administration told us that a drone strike had killed a group of Isis k terrorists whatever that is In cobble and there were secondary explosions that proved they were suicide bombers But they were lying Forced by the new york times to admit it. They've now conceded. They killed a number of innocent people including children Here's the interesting part mistakes happen But in this case, no one in the pentagon has been punished for this mistake or for lying about it We thought it'd be interesting to see what telsie gabbert thinks about this She's a former member of congress from hawaii. She served in iraq as a member of the hawaii army national guard She's still serving the country of the military. She joins us tonight congressman. Thanks so much for coming on So you get to lie.  You get caught and nothing happens to you. What kind of system is that? I mean this kind of accountability is critical. I want to point out first that Anytime there are civilian casualties in war. It is tragic and terrible War is a terrible thing and and I think it's important for the american people to understand that Islamist jihadists are continuing to wage war against us And the islamist ideology not the same as the religion of islam, but this islamist Ideology, which is a political ideology that inspired the terrorist attacks on our country on 9 11 is is The greatest threat that we're facing right now in this country in the world It is the foundation of governance of so-called islamic countries like turkey and iran and Saudi arabia and and pakistan And it's what's behind the discriminatory policies that they have in these countries against christians hindus buddhists atheists and others So as long as these islamist jihadists are waging war against us We have to work to defeat them militarily and ideologically and militarily We have two choices in how we do that number one We can continue to invade and occupy in nation-building countries around the world just as we did in afghanistan at great cost number two We can take a targeted approach using airstrikes using our special forces to go in and go after these terrorist cells The reality is that the cost The cost of the american people the cost to our troops the cost to civilians will be far less if we take this very targeted approach To go after these jihadist terrorist cells Then if we continue making the very same mistakes that we saw in afghanistan and other parts of the world of invasion occupation and nation building Yeah, so make no mistake about it when she said on the campaign trail that she was against regime change wars It's because she literally just had a tactical disagreement. She thought that regime change wars Weren't a good way to facilitate her ultimate goal And what she just did there was endorse drone strikes Just a couple of weeks ago air wars released a report Showing that the u.s. Government killed between 22,000 and 48,000 innocent civilians And yet she is just weeks later advocating for drone strikes on national television This is your anti-war candidate. Well any of the leftists who boosted her ever admit that they were wrong about her Now she says islamist jihadists are continuing to wage wars Against us. That's why she believes we should continue to do our illegal drone policy in pakistan yemen samalia and um she says that uh The greatest threat that we're facing right now in the country and in the world is a jihadism She said that with a straight face She said it is the greatest threat we're facing right now in the country and the world First of all, I would argue that the u.s. Government That is the biggest terrorist threat in the world But when it comes to threats that the world is facing How can you say that with a straight face knowing that climate change could literally eradicate our entire Species not just a human species But all types of species tree species are going extinct animal species plants I mean, I don't think that she's actually dumb I think that she's just extremely disingenuous and by saying this To tucker crawlsons right wing audience. They don't believe in climate change. So they think oh, wow She must be correct. So she knows who she's speaking to But it's just to say something like that. It's so Embarrassing the fact that she said that with a straight face I mean it says everything you need to know about tulsi gabard. Also. Um, she says that when it comes to the islamist jihadists We have to work to defeat them militarily And ideologically so she's already telling you Here's what we can do. We have no choice. We have to go after them So we can either wage regime change wars, which we all know she hates or Quote we can take a targeted approach using airstrikes. She is quite literally endorsing the use of drones Which have single-handedly killed tens of thousands of innocent civilians How does she sleep at night? This is the anti-war politician that everyone was waiting for She's endorsing drones and the drone strike that she was brought on to discuss specifically The fact that she had absolutely no remorse whatsoever and didn't even address it Side-stepped it to talk about how bad Muslims were It's just it's beyond the pale for me These are the victims some of the victims killed by that drone strike on the top left Those two little boys were nine and ten years old now on the bottom in the middle those two children in the orange sweaters They were three and four years old the little girl on the bottom right She was just two years old Tulsi said in that clip that we have to use drones Because this islamist jihadist threat So, you know, we use drones because they reduce the costs Tell the families of those victims Tell the family of that little girl who was two years old tulsi That these drone strikes reduced costs Say it to their faces.  You wouldn't do that because you know, it's not true.    I mean she's gone full mask off when somebody tells you who they are believe them So when it comes to the spread of misinformation regarding the covet 19 pandemic and the vaccines I think that most reasonable people know by now that fox news has been one of if not the worst Offenders here and it's not like they mostly get it right, but seldomly get something wrong No, every single night they are spreading this information about the covet 19 pandemic As media matters matthew girth points out here They do this every single night and you could see various examples of how they will fear manga about kids getting the covet 19 vaccine They will fear manga about vaccine mandates any mitigation measure that a local government might put into place To stop the spread of the virus be it mask mandates or social distancing They're against that too and this is all especially nefarious Knowing what we know about fox news 90 percent of fox news employees are vaccinated In fact, their vaccine requirements are even more stringent than the ones put into place by the biden administration Which their networks hosts condemn all the time So they're knowingly lying to millions and millions of people every single night And they're all intelligent enough to be aware of the consequences of their misinformation. In fact, their disinformation is deadly Literally and we have an example to point out how dangerous what they say is because one man Actually listened to tucker carlson. He took his advice didn't get vaccinated He contracted covet 19 and he died and this man's family believes that this disinformation Sold by people like tucker carlson is the reason why he was vaccine hesitant. Take a look. Yeah it was One month ago that he was completely healthy helping me move All my furniture into my first apartment Doing all the heavy lifting for me And he moved you in this is your first apartment at college. I might add he moved you in there He stayed the night with you and what did he say to you as he was leaving? He gave me a really big hug and he said i'm proud of you katie bug And he walked out my front door and if i had known that that was going to be my last time Seeing my dad in person alive and well, I I don't think I would have left go let go of him No Why was he so hesitant to get vaccinated katie? uh There there's multiple reasons. I think uh one of which was Some of the media that he ingested he wasn't by any means Far right. He was right in the middle and he consumed media from both sides And just some of the misinformation on one of those sides Made him hesitant. So he was going to wait for fda approval But by the time that fizer had been approved it was already too late Fizer got the full fda approval and your father was already sick evan talk to me about Your final goodbye to your father. Did you have a chance to spend any real time with him? Not really. I was already Staying at another house and he was just coming by to pick something up and He didn't even want to get too close because he was too worried about getting me sick So I didn't even get to hug him before he left and then Before I knew he was gone You guys are vaccinated now evan.  He wasn't anti-vaccine. He was just hesitant and I Now that you know, fizer has been fda approved. I don't think he would have anything wrong I was telling people to get that vaccine. He uh, his final words to my stepmom on a FaceTime call was that He wishes he wished that he was vaccinated Those were his final words To my stepmom The last call that she had with him. He said that He wished that he was vaccinated And katie you said from one media source in particular He was getting misinformation or he was getting information that led him to be hesitant on vaccines Who I mean, who was he listening to? He he watched some Tucker Carlson videos on youtube And some of those videos involved Some misinformation about vaccines and I believe that that played a role Misinformation and disinformation is always going to be harmful But during a pandemic it quite literally is deadly and that proves it. This is someone who as his children described He wasn't like some far-right loon. He wasn't necessarily explicitly anti-vax But he was vaccine hesitant because of people like Tucker Carlson who claim Hmm There's some stuff about the vaccines that you know, the government just isn't telling you maybe you should be afraid So he was waiting for it to get full FDA approval. But by then it was too late He got COVID-19 and he died because he listened to people like Tucker Carlson He watched youtube videos featuring Tucker Carlson And he died and his last words were that he wished he would have gotten the vaccine That's what he told that girl stepmom Tucker Carlson quite literally is partially to blame for this man's death Is Tucker Carlson going to pay for this family's funeral expenses or any health care costs? Of course not. Tucker Carlson is going to find out about this story He's going to know that these children blame him for their dad's death But do you think he's gonna care? Of course not. He's not gonna have any trouble sleeping at night whatsoever because Tucker Carlson He knows what he's doing. This is all about ratings to him and other fox news propagandists, right? They know that if they were to actually inform their viewers About how the vaccines are in actuality safe and effective That they would be angry, right? Every single person who watches fox news tunes in every single night because they want their biases to be confirmed They want the fox news hosts to tell them what they want to hear So they're not going to lose their ratings and you know Tell them what they should hear. They're just going to lie to them And those lies have consequences. Those consequences are deadly And the misinformation never stops with Tucker Carlson. Just this last week on monday He said this about the COVID-19 vaccines The point of mandatory vaccination is to identify the sincere Christians in the ranks The free thinkers the men with high-test testosterone levels and anyone else who does not love Joe Biden And make them leave immediately. It's a takeover of the u.s. Military. Here's how they're doing it This show has just obtained a power point that the army is using to justify mandatory vaccines to the troops This is an actual slide from it on your screen. You will notice there the sympathetic portrayal of satanism How many children were sacrificed to satan because the vaccine the slide reads apparently sarcastically? Then the presentation proceeds to list the so-called tenets of satanism Which are taken straight from the temple of satanism website So here you have the united states army doing pr for satanism The rest of the presentation is less shocking than that But it's utterly shoddy and dishonest for example it falsely claims that only three people have died from taking the COVID vaccine Reports collected by the biden administration itself indicate that number is actually in the thousands So you were just blasted with so much misinformation. It would take me hours to unpack all of it But we'll get to that last line in particular, which was especially troubling But think about what he's subtly suggesting here these vaccine mandates They target christians and this is being pedaled by satan worshipers, right? so if Christians are being targeted and the people targeting them are satan worshipers and they're trying to force you to take this vaccine maybe it's you know similar to them Forcing you to take the mark of the beast. Maybe these vaccines are basically the mark of the beast There's been some far-right evangelical pastures who has uh floated this but that's what Tucker Carlson is priming people to believe He's not explicitly saying it because he knows there'd be a lot of backlash So he's kind of just like nudging you in that direction to make you think yourself. Oh Maybe these vaccines are the mark of the beast if they're being pushed by satan worshipers. I don't want it Do we even know what he's talking about? No Is the military actually like sending out? Documents and slide shows talking about the core tenets of satanism I mean, I don't know if they are who cares that has nothing to do with the actual vaccine mandate itself It's necessary People in the military they take like how many vaccines so what's one other that's going to save their lives potentially But this is misinformation But the worst thing that he said there was a lie about the safetyness of these vaccines And max kennedy said it best notice the specific anti-vax lie at the end Tucker Carlson claims the Biden administration has data showing the number of people who quote died from taking the covid vaccine Is actually in the thousands. This is why we can't get the pandemic under control and that's exactly right He is very Deliberately trying to get people to think that these vaccines are dangerous and they might kill them Now, I don't know what figure he's referring to that the Biden administration supposedly put out But if I had to guess it would be a figure on the cdc's website Now if you go to the cdc's website They have a page where they talk about how the vaccines are indeed safe and effective But they do list all of the serious adverse side effects Even if they're rare they do state some of the more serious Adverse side effects that some people have gotten and I think that this is where he's getting that number from And once I read to you what it says if this is indeed what he's referring to You can see how he's misconstruing it So it reads reports of death after covid-19 vaccination are rare More than 386 million doses of covid-19 vaccines were administered in the united states from december 14th 2020 through september 20th 2021 during this time there's received 7 899 reports of death that's 0.0020 Among people who received a covid-19 vaccine That's the number that I think he's referring to but I'll continue reading fda requires health care providers to report any death After covid-19 vaccination to various even if it's unclear whether the vaccine was the cause reports of adverse effects This is key to there's following vaccination including deaths Do not necessarily mean that a vaccine caused a health problem a review of available clinical information Including death certificates autopsy and medical records has not established a causal link to covid-19 vaccines However recent reports indicate that a plausible causal relationship between the j and j vaccine And tts a rare and serious adverse event blood clots with low platelets Which has caused deaths So if there's going to be any risk that can lead to deaths, they're going to state it right here But I think that that's what tucker crawlsson is probably referring to That's 7 899 reported deaths But it very clearly says on this document that i'm assuming he's referring to It says that there's no causal relationship correlation does not equal causation So the fact that he would just put that out there into the universe and make his viewers think That thousands of people are dying from the covid-19 vaccines It's extremely irresponsible, but even if we accept his argument Let's at face value take that misinformation and let's assume that 10 000 people died From the vaccines and let's actually assume that it was directly related, right? They took the vaccines and they died. Let's assume that that is true for a moment It's not true. The vaccines are safe and effective, but let's assume for purposes of this argument that is true Well compare that 10 000 deaths to over 650 000 deaths from the virus It's still knowing that risk which doesn't exist. That's hypothetical, but knowing that risk It still makes more sense for people statistically to get the vaccine He knows what he's doing. He's not he's not dumb. This is a very very smart and strategic He knows exactly what he's doing even if the data that he's misconstruing meant What he thought it meant or wanted you to think it meant it still wouldn't prove his argument. It's still Better to get the vaccine. You're still better off to get the vaccine. It might save your life Studies have shown that it's that it saved hundreds of thousands of lives The covid vaccines have saved hundreds of thousands of lives but Tucker Carlson, he's on a mission to uh Stop people from doing what's in their best interest even if it's his own viewers and it's not just Tucker Carlson to be fair It's all of Fox News's hosts. It's anyone online who's spreading misinformation. All of this disinformation has deadly consequences deadly consequences And the problem is that there's just no accountability. He can spread this deadly disinformation And not have to face any repercussions So I know that I'm a little bit late to the party on this but I couldn't not talk about this So I want to discuss the new ad put out by marjorie green where she shoots A car that says socialism on it with a gun Now I get why people are kind of taken aback by this because it's kind of a tacit endorsement of violence But this whole meme of republicans pretending to be tough and shooting things that they don't like in their political ads It's not new like the trope has existed for quite some time I can recall politicians back in the 2010s, you know, they'd print up the entire Thousand plus affordable care act legislation and then shoot it with a gun And they'd say that's what we're gonna do to obama care And it's just extremely cringe worthy and this is what marjorie taylor green did when she was running for congress She literally wrote socialism on a sign and she shot it I mean, it's an embarrassing way to virtue signal But they continue to do it and they think that it's a good idea But a lot of people are talking about it And so I want to join this conversation because I have quite a bit to say about this So, uh, nevertheless take it away marjorie Joe biden abandoned americans in afghanistan got 13 of our best soldiers killed Gave a kill list of americans to the taliban and armed an islamic terrorist nation with 83 billion dollars in weapons Like this one biden should be impeached now I'm doing a gun giveaway of my own but for americans only I want you to win this 50 caliber rifle that democrats will ban if they keep the house next year While joe biden broke america's pledge to never leave a man behind Nancy polosi is sneaking the green new deal into the 3.5 trillion dollar budget and in 2022 I'm going to blow away the democrat socialist agenda Go to the website below and sign up to win my 50 caliber gun before joe biden bans it Well, I for one, uh, believe that socialism has been thoroughly destroyed because she shot a car That had socialism printed on it.  I just I feel like even though it's marjorie green And she's incredibly idiotic. There's got to be something deep inside of her That maybe just leads to her question for a second Should I be doing this as a grown adult? Is this a little bit childish? Is this a little bit cringe-worthy? But there's no There's nothing right that mechanism That self-awareness thing that's inside of us that gets us to think twice about embarrassing things that we do She doesn't have that it's lacking in her like what do you think that's going to accomplish?  Is that really the best way to like promote your message? I just if it's that easy then um, I'm gonna try it Give me a second. Okay See this Capitalism it's not in focus But it says capitalism. I just destroyed capitalism.  If a republican Unironically released that as an ad I would be like Yeah, I'm not shocked honestly That's the level of discourse that we're dealing with with the modern republican party.  It's like they want to have it both ways It's this contradiction, right? They want to present themselves as these like badass tough, you know Take no malarkey kinds of people But these are really the biggest snowflakes on the planet So I don't even know what to say. Um, I just wanted to talk about this ad because I wanted some excuse to shoehorn in that tick tock video of the girl farting on the uh, the punching bag thing I'll be honest. That's That's that's my intent here. Um, I like honestly Unironically though, if the republican party wanted to kind of workshop some ads with me I think we can make it a lot more ridiculous than her shooting that car that says socialism on it There's so much things that you can do so much things you can do, right? I mean, I have all the ideas swirling around in my head right now Um, but look I just I look forward to what she comes up with next.  That's the level of substance that you should expect From dumb fucks like her As you may know a couple of weeks ago the pandemic related unemployment insurance had run out And you may be thinking isn't that a little bit strange to have pandemic related Unemployment benefits expire right in the middle of a pandemic and yeah, that's logical I get it but we were told that it was really good that this extra 300 dollars per week would be going away Because currently there's a job shortage and nobody wants to work because they're getting so much money on unemployment but in actuality This trope that welfare makes people lazy Is actually wrong and it was disproven By data So in theory you would think that the states that ended their pandemic on the employment benefits early Would see a boost in job growth, right? Yeah, you would you would think that if that were actually true But the hypothesis was debunked by this headline axios reports states that ended cobit unemployment benefits see no Boost in job growth. I'm going to read that again states that ended COVID unemployment benefits see no boost in job growth wait So you're telling me that Having a social safety net doesn't actually lead to people being Lazier and that the job shortage doesn't necessarily have a direct connection to the 300 dollar unemployment benefits that people were receiving as a result of the pandemic Interesting So axios explains states that ended federal unemployment benefits earlier this summer Saw august job growth at less than half the rate of states that retained the benefits according to new data released friday By the bureau of labor statistics Leaders in the largely republican led states had insisted that the benefits were discouraging people from work And ended the assistance program early ahead of its planned expiration on september 6th The benefits which came in the form of weekly 300 payments had been in place in spring last year to help families through the pandemic A growing group of states began ending the benefits in june In what they called an effort to incentivize people to return to the workplace But here's what they're saying economists analyzing the unemployment issue have seen little evidence Yet that cutting off the benefits has provided a clear boost to local labor markets in part Because of difficulty separating the influence of the payments from larger shifts in the labor force Or of the potentially offsetting damage done by the pandemic Reuters writes So I mean if you ask me it might be a pretty good idea to reinstate those weekly benefits because all you're doing Is you're making people less off giving them less of a cushion that they desperately need During a pandemic that is still very much going on. It's not Solving the job shortage It's just not people relied on that and it was really cruel to take it away from them in hopes that you would help Big businesses now in terms of why there's a labor shortage It's difficult to say but there's a multitude of theories axios writer hope king believes that there's a worker Awakening that's happening in the country which arguably contributed to a shift in power back to workers as described by felix saman And I think that that definitely has something to do with it But the answer is probably pretty complicated And I think it's important that we try to be nuanced here when talking about this And there was one article that I think did a pretty good job at that It was written by emily steward and rani mala of vox And they really get into why there is this labor shortage and you know, it kind of goes both ways There's a labor shortage But a lot of people who are seeking employment are still having a difficult time Finding a good job So they explain for some of the jobs available people don't have the right skills or at least the skills employers say they're looking for Other jobs are undesirable They offer bad pay or an unpredictable schedule or just don't feel worth it to unemployed workers Many of whom are rethinking their priorities in some cases There are a host of perfectly acceptable candidates and jobs out there, but for a multitude of reasons They're just not being matched. There are also workers who are hesitant to go back They're nervous about covid 19 or they have care responsibilities or something else is holding them back The result is a disconnected environment that doesn't add up though It feels like it should the bureau of labor statistics says there are 8.4 million potential workers who are unemployed But it also says there are record 10.9 million jobs open The rate at which unemployed people are getting jobs is lower than it was pre pandemic And it's taking longer to hire people meanwhile job seekers say employers are unresponsive So if we're being intellectually honest, then it's a range of issues here This is a very complex issue and there's no simple answer But if I could reduce this down to one solution Primarily for employers it would be for them to stop being bloodsucking leeches and actually treat workers like human beings And then maybe they'd actually want to work for you now again It's an oversimplification But when you consider the fact that a survey published on flex jobs found that 46 of job seekers say they're only finding jobs that are low paying I mean that says a lot nobody wants to work for a job where they're overworked and underpaid during a fucking pandemic I mean Who wants to go and be a door greeter at walmart where you have to enforce their mask policy And have karen scream at you and cough in your faces like this is a serious time like like it or not the pandemic is not over So to expect people to lower their standards It just it doesn't make sense. So, I mean, I think that part of the problem not all Of the issue like not the totality of the issue here But part of the problem a large part of the problem Is that employers need to actually pay people Good wages and preferably the government the democratic party would force them to do that by raising the minimum wage But I mean if they weren't so fucking shitty and authoritarian and actually were more flexible with workers hours and gave them a consistent schedule And more options to work from home Maybe people would want to work for them But to suggest that getting an extra 300 per week temporarily would prevent someone from taking a job that would benefit their lives in the long term That's just unrealistic. It's it's absurd. Of course that 300 dollars was great people who are on it They desperately needed that they relied on that, right? But if somebody saw a job that would be better for themselves long term They're not going to choose to not take that job because that extra 300 dollars per week is so good They know it's temporary. They know it's going to expire So anyone who believed that this 300 dollars per week extra was leading to this job shortage I mean At best it's an oversimplification at worst. You're probably really naive to think that because people Are complicated people are looking out for themselves and you know that their best long term financial interests Of themselves and their families.  So, you know, I think that democrats Knowing this Data is out there now. They should reinstate that extra 300 dollars per week The biden administration just kind of like let it expire and put their hands up But that's stupid The pandemic is still going on and we should really be paying people to stay home, right? It's not like that extra 300 dollars was leading to people not wanting to work But really in truth, we should be paying people to stay home We should be paying people to not work right now Because the pandemic isn't going to go away if it continues to spread if people are still forced to go into work And this was the solution from the get-go pay people to stay home. That's how you flatten the curve That's how we could in theory do it again. But when you live in a late-stage capitalist society You know, that's not even an option. It's not even something that people are considering And that's that's kind of ridiculous. Is it not the idea that people should stay home and be paid So that way they're encouraged to stay home is outrageous to people It's leading to people, you know attacking our social safety net suggesting that, you know, these Unemployment benefits that people are getting, you know during the pandemic is a bad thing if employers are seeing a labor shortage And they expect people to want to work for them in the middle of a pandemic then they need to do more, right? Meet them halfway maybe even but that's not like the entire picture again This is complicated, right? But what I know for sure is that to take away that extra $300 per week that people on unemployment were relying on That's really cruel and it's a failure of the democratic party and the biden administration This proved that the argument that was used as the rationale to get rid of those benefits It was flawed shocker So give people that extra money because Regardless of what your opinion is on this We should be paying everyone to stay home right now. It's a pandemic. Stay home. Save lives. We should be doing that When it comes to climate change president Joe Biden talks a big game and that rhetorical difference between him and Donald Trump is actually Really important having said that though at the end of the day If your actions don't actually match the rhetoric that you're espousing then it really doesn't matter You're not really an ally and I don't think that anyone who watches this channel Thinks that Joe Biden is actually an ally when it comes to the fight against anthropogenic climate change But still you are the president you made many promises to young people And you're not following through on those campaign promises So as walker bragman of the daily poster explains President Joe Biden has been touring climate ravaged areas of america Warning that climate change is a code red emergency for the planet and yet his administration has continued to boost fossil fuel projects And is now preparing to vastly expand offshore drilling The white house argues that a court order it opposes and is appealing requires federal officials to lease more than 78 million acres of the gulf of mexico for fossil fuel exploration Environmental groups however assert that federal law gives the administration broad discretion over whether or not to hold such sales in fact Biden's officials have instead used that power to officially declare that the warnings in the recent intergovernmental panel on climate Change report does not present sufficient cause to reevaluate the drilling plan Wow With the help of the nonprofit public interest organization earth justice Several environmental and gulf groups have now launched a lawsuit against the administration to stop the gulf lease sale The complaint argues that the environmental analysis behind the lease sale is based on outdated and arbitrary science and violation of federal law So i want to go back to that quote The latest ipcc report on climate change quote does not present sufficient cause To reevaluate their drilling plan in other words They saw that same report that we all looked at that we talked about on this program and they thought Meh, we're still gonna drill in the gulf of mexico. That's what we're going to pursue It's just it's callous. It's heartless and it's It's psychopathic at this point. It is borderline psychopathic We've ran out of time when it comes to climate change Now it's a matter of how bad are we as a species going to allow it to get And it turns out there is no limit to how you know devastating these reports are they can say that you know the World is gonna end Tomorrow if we don't change everything immediately and they'd still continue to do the same fucking thing Now it's not like joe biden to be fair Lied about this thing because when he became the president He signed an executive order pausing all new leases for drilling on public lands and even cancelled the drilling lease for the gulf of mexico Drilling permit that we are talking about right now the 78 million acres and to be fair His administration cancelled drilling leases in multiple states which did actually prompt lawsuits by republicans But with these lawsuits that his administration is facing from republicans That's where the issue comes in because rather than fighting and holding strong will of course intrude democratic party fashion They caved so braggman continues in response to biden's order 13 republican states alabama alaska arkansas louisiana georgia mississippi missouri montana nebraska oklahoma texas utah And west virginia sued the administration to restart the leasing program in the gulf of mexico alaska and western states Wyoming also sued in a separate suit the state attorneys general involved in the suit were all members of the fossil fuel funded republican attorneys general association alabama attorney general steve marshal is the association's policy chairman in june a trump appointed federal judge in louisiana terry dowdy granted the 13 states a nationwide preliminary injunction against biden's moratorium Directing the leasing program be resumed dowdy ordered that the administration was specifically barred from implementing the pause With regards to the lease sales in the gulf of alaska Millions and possibly billions of dollars are at stake dowdy wrote Following the ruling the republican states involved in the lawsuit Filed a motion to hold the interior department in contempt for refusing to allow the order The motion sought to compel the department to hold the gulf of mexico lease sale in response The administration filed notice that it was appealing the judge's order as well as a defiant brief challenging the republican states Motion on the grounds that the court ordered did not compel interior to take the action specified by plaintiffs Let alone on urgent timeline specified in plaintiff's contempt motion Nevertheless on september 1st days after filing the brief the white house posted a new record of decision online Stating it would be moving forward with the gulf of mexico lease sale and saying that the ipcc report would not change its environmental views on the plan So that's what happened. It's not like joe biden did a switcheroo Right. He ran on ending drilling on federal property And then when he got into office, it was a change of story. No, he did actually follow through in the beginning But this inevitable legal battle against this new executive order, which he should have anticipated Because as i said, it's inevitable. He just chose not to fight. He chose to unilaterally disarm And think about the justification that the judge used the trump appointed judge used to um Go through with this uh this drilling millions and possibly billions of dollars are at stake That's what they care about It doesn't matter that millions and possibly billions of lives are at stake Money needs to be made here Look, I don't mean to sound like a broken record But if we don't end capitalism if we don't kill capitalism cap capitalism is going to kill us Global capitalism is going to kill the entire planet off And I just I can't see any way out of this crisis With the current economic system that we have in place with the current incentives that currently exist It's just unsustainable But I mean I'm obviously preaching to the choir But it's just really frustrating because even the bare minimum that we'd expect from a democratic administration We don't expect them to actually institute a green new deal, but to not allow Drilling on federal lands. That's like the bare minimum and he can't even fight to do The most minimal thing that would have the least amount of impact just no new drilling leases It's depressing honestly every single climate change story that I do I get more and more doom and gloom But it's not like we can turn away and bury our heads in the sand This is our planet and we have to fight and in order to fight We need to know what's going on and we need to know who's fighting for us And it's certainly not joe biden Which is why I was very very adamant about electing bernie sanders in 2020 because when it comes to climate change There's no compromises incrementalism isn't going to save us incrementalism is going to kill us and when it comes to the us pledge to finance developing countries transition to sustainable energy Biden just announced that we'd be doubling our contribution But still even with that bump this was likened to throwing droplets out of fire It's just not enough and that's exactly right. Whatever he does Even if it's a step in the right direction, it's woefully inadequate because this is a crisis I mean nobody's acting Like this is the crisis that it is in actuality. No nobody no politician is treating this with the urgency That it needs this is a hair on fire moment and everyone's just asleep at the wheel And I mean already we see The consequences of anthropogenic climate change record-breaking heat waves Wildfires that are now an annual thing and yet we're all still just allowing capitalism to reign supreme And the best we get Are these weak fighters and democrats who they'll talk tough But when push comes to shove they always back down And that's really sad But people like joe biden he's not going to have to bear the brunt of what climate change has to offer Future generations will and they're going to be absolutely furious At the catastrophe that we are handing off to them And I don't blame them On monday, we talked about how iraq war veteran mike prisner disrupted a george w bush event And now in the same week it happened once again another veteran has disrupted a george w bush event So jeb sprague on twitter who's the one who actually disrupted this event says here is video of me shutting down george w bush last night The wars he started in the middle east damaged the lives of so many He wasted trillions of dollars for nothing meanwhile He's made tens of millions of dollars in speaker fees since leaving office sick And he's absolutely right about that. It's really morally detestable to know that so many people Are wanting to actually hear what he has to say he's making millions of dollars as an ex-president In speaking fees when really this individual should be ostracized from society, right? He should be afraid to show his face in public because he is indeed a mass murderer Who has not been jailed for the crimes against humanity that he has committed, but without further ado Here's the video. This was fantastic This is the first time in my life I've done this No, okay Sir, this is not the time This is not the time for that, sir No, it is disrespectful to the audience There we go That's okay Here's the thing in america The good news is in other countries the guy would end up in jail for yelling at a president Here he's allowed to express himself and I want to apologize for uh That was absolutely incredible You can tell that he was actually rattled like we couldn't see his face In the speech that was disrupted by mike prisner, but you can tell he was actually visibly shaken by that And he should be Again every single bush event or speech Should be disrupted for the rest of his life He is never going to see a day in jail because He's an ex president because we don't hold our public officials Accountable when they commit crimes against humanity So this is not enough in terms of accountability, obviously, but it's it's something right? It at least gives us a little bit of satisfaction knowing That this mass murderer is going to be at least somewhat inconvenienced now I love how at the end he's like oh well in other countries, you know a guy would end up in jail for yelling at a president But he's allowed to express himself. Oh well how merciful of you how merciful of you? Hey another question for you george bush In other countries do they actually? Jail mass murderers do they jail public officials when they commit mass murder? In many countries no So it seems like we have more in common with these countries Then you would lead us to believe right and I love how the person who was hosting it Said that this is really disrespectful to the audience So fuck them if you actually want to hear what this mass murderer says You should be disrespected in my opinion.  Do you want to hear what ted bundy has to say? These people they don't comprehend The gruesome reality of george w. Bush's crimes. I don't even think he Comprehends the gruesome things that he did he didn't have to see firsthand The bloodshed that he caused he sent other people to do his bloodthirsty bidding And maybe that's how he sleeps at night right because those images of death and torture and suffering Those aren't actually burned into his his mind like they are for iraq war veterans like mike prisner, and i'm assuming uh jeb who is uh Disrupting this event, but either way again. I'll say it again Anytime there is an opportunity for you to disrupt or protest at a george w. Bush speaking event You should do that because if he's not going to go to prison at a minimum He should be embarrassed to show his face in public He should expect Large crowds of protests everywhere he goes for the rest of his life He should expect people to barge into every single speech or interview that he gives And protest because this is a mass murderer and we should treat him As we treat mass murderers with utter contempt and disgust Conservative writer john nolte penned an op-ed for bright bard and i don't really know how to even Describe this other than to call it a banger because this is the most absurd op-ed i have Ever read and i'm not being hyperbolic like we're talking the dumbest thing Ever written that was published in a major outlet So i don't even really need to give you that much setup I think you're going to see why on its face this argument is insane So he writes in a country where elections are decided on razor thin margins Does it not benefit one side if their opponents simply drop dead starting off strong?    They're all vaccinated and we're not and when you look at the numbers the only numbers that matter Which is who's dying? It's overwhelmingly the unvaccinated who are dying and they have just manipulated millions of their political enemies Into the unvaccinated camp. Wow.  What do you want me to say to this?   What does he expect?  Okay.  Maybe your party. Maybe right wingers should be a little bit introspective And try to figure out ways to stop being so reactionary and actually not be anti science at every step of the way in every aspect of life He adds I could be wrong. Maybe the left isn't that evil and sly Even if this isn't the left's plan, who's owning who?   Shouldn't you target the individuals who are spreading the disinformation that's leading to deaths of your side? Shouldn't you look at Tucker Carlson and republican party officials anti-maskers anti-vaxxers?   I don't want them to die. These are friends. These are family members Believe it or not.   I think that on its face this argument is absolutely irrational and absurd He's not looking within he's not looking to the failures of his party and his ideology and their anti science anti intellectual behavior He's still blaming democrats and everyone else Well folks we have a herman kane award to give out today for those of you unaware Herman kane awards are given out to folks who are anti vax anti mask and ultimately end up getting sick or dying because they refused to take covid 19 seriously and vaccinate themselves And today we have a doozy So this headline basically says it all anti mask florida g.o.p. Bookkeeper dies of covid leaving party without access to finance software His death also opened up a firestorm of conspiracy theories from other local republican party officials that headline is going to break my brain But I mean this is certainly Deserving of a herman kane award and the details of this story are just it's not surprising at this point in the pandemic but His death the way that it affected other people in the party and their response. It truly is Astonishing salon explains after spending months railing against covid 19 precautions and criticizing dr. Anthony Fauci A republican party official in florida passed away this week leaving his county level g.o.p Organization without access to critical financial accounts greg prentis 61 Served as accountant for the hillsboro county g.o.p. And also chaired the organization's committee for election integrity A software engineer by trade tempabase local patch outlet reported that he built and maintained The local republican party's campaign finance software last year and was responsible for filing its monthly reports to the federal elections commission FEC filing from the surviving members of the organization claims that prentis died without sharing Login information for these accounts or any sort of instructions for how to use them The letter also tells the regulatory agency It will likely need more time to complete a report on its august fundraising numbers and foreshadows trouble Compiling the local party's financials for future months as well In addition to his rule compiling the hillsboro county g.o.p's financials Prentice spent most of the past year fear mongering about covid-19 vaccines mask mandates and other pandemic safety measures Like many other conservatives in public life He took aim in particular at the white house covid-19 advisor dr. Anthony Fauci writing on facebook that america needed to end Fauciism you also argued that we need more socialist distancing than we do social distancing It sounds like we actually need more social distancing after all This is just a crazy crazy story.  This is an individual who designed this software and he may be a republican And I think that republicans and conservatives in general are inherently flawed in their thinking but this isn't like a dumb Person. This is someone who's relatively competent and yet He refused to get the vaccine And he died Now herman kane awards tweets out Not a fan of mask mandates refuses to get vaccinated wants to end Fauciism catches covid-19 lasts 24 hours We honor former florida g.o.p official greg prentice with the herman kane award And that really is well earned and I should add that the herman kane awards Like I don't necessarily believe that the goal is to be callous. The goal is to point out How your actions have consequences And if anything the herman kane awards should serve as a reminder to people how effective the vaccines are It's not people who are vaccinated who are taking up the icu's in hospitals across the country It's unvaccinated people who usually post covid-19 misinformation Anti-vax misinformation on their facebook accounts.  I've seen them posted to facebook former co-workers friends And it's just a matter of time before you know, I see someone Get a herman kane award who I know in real life I mean, we're all at some point at the rate We're going going to know someone who wins a herman kane award And I want to prevent that nobody wants to give out herman kane awards But I think it's necessary to raise awareness about how people not getting vaccinated They're playing with fire. They're rolling the dice with their own lives Now the circumstances surrounding his death Are even more bizarre because there was a bunch of conspiracy theories And um accusations against the hospital that he was at By his republican colleagues and this is truly Weird Prentice's death has also opened up a firestorm of conspiracy theories from other local republican party officials Including one who called covet 19 a medically engineered virus And suggested without evidence that his death was the result of wrongdoing on behalf of the hospital He was being treated at jason kimball a fellow hillsborough county gop member and close friend of prentice Even suggested that tampa general hospital was performing intubations illegally Patch reported kimball whose linkedin profile says he is a pharmacy technician at a local walmart Called the procedure a high fatality protocol in comments to the tampa city council ER and icu doctors are criminals and murderers kimball wrote on facebook They intubate everyone and stick them on a ventilator for no reason Just out of precaution as the doctor told me without consent from the family tampa general hospital is evil At least one council member interrupted his comments to denounce the conspiracies Well, there's that at least one person denounced the conspiracy theories What do you want the doctors to do? If these people don't have oxygen They're going to get intubated.  Whoa As they intubate more and more people they're just following procedure There's not much you can do for someone when they get to that point and Their initial instinct isn't to reflect on their stance towards this pandemic Their instinct is to attribute blame To the hospital to doctors The people who tried to help him rather than thinking.  No, they think all these doctors killed him It's just they're always moving the goalpost and it doesn't really matter how many wake-up calls and how many Herman Kane awards are awarded to people They're still like once your mind is set It's going to take a lot to actually convince you it has to come from someone who they trust And I just usually, you know, your social circle is all going to have the same opinion on this So, I mean, I don't know what to say The best that we can hope for is we share stories like this And we share the Herman Kane awards with people whenever somebody wins it In hopes that maybe we'll begin to get through to people But at this point, I mean time may be running out. I don't know what to say I don't want people to die, especially if their death is preventable Even if the republicans and I disagree with them.  Perhaps later we can rehabilitate them and they can move away from their conservative views But I'm not cold. I don't want them to die But I mean I have to be honest my sympathy for these people is running out because at this point in time With all of the available data we have if you don't get the vaccine I mean, I don't know what you expect.   You're not getting the vaccine because I want you to to appease me get the vaccine for yourself You're not owning the libs by not getting the vaccine. You're only fucking yourself over And I'll leave that there Well, that's all that I have for you Thank you all so much for tuning in if you've made it this far in the program as usual before we leave on it Take some time to spend a send a special Thank you to all of the people who make the show possible all of our patreon paypal and youtube members who help us Not just to survive but thrive as well. Uh, if you want to support the show I would encourage you to look at our patreon and youtube membership options Uh, but I think that that's all that I have on my heart So I will see you all next week. 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