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 humanistreport 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 272 of the program. Today is Friday, January 8th and this is our very first episode of 2021 and already we have quite a bit to talk about. But of course, before we get to the politics, I want to take some time to thank all of the folks who make the show possible. 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I don't even know where to begin. So here's what we've got on the agenda for today's show. We'll talk about the drama that unfolded over the holidays with the left when it comes to force the vote. Also, Donald Trump encouraged Georgia's Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, to quote unquote find the votes that he needs to steal the election. The United States has lost their extradition case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and we learned that there will be no charges filed against the police officer who shot Jacob Blake in the back seven times. We'll also talk about the far right podcast hosts who are spreading conspiracy theories about COVID-19 and now explicitly encouraging their viewers to defy COVID lockdown orders. And we'll also talk about the lies that Senator Josh Hawley spread about Antifa. He claims that they vandalized this property and tried to break into his house. But a video of the actual protest event proves that he's lying. We will also talk about the absolutely insane story of the pro Trump mob that stormed the US Capitol. I'll tell you why Donald Trump very obviously is to blame for this. And on top of that, we'll look at the double standard on display how Black Lives Matter protesters were treated in 2020 compared to these far right terrorists who literally staged a coup and invaded our Capitol. And of course, there was also a really important election this week. John Ossoff and Raphael Warnock won and now Democrats will retake the Senate. I'm going to tell you what to expect from that, what the implications are. And we've got more than that, so stay tuned. Hopefully you all will enjoy the program. Let's get right to it. Yeah, this is going to be quite a lengthy episode, but I hope that you all are going to enjoy it. I'm still in shock after what happened yesterday when we saw far right terrorists storm the United States Capitol and take it over. There's so much to talk about, so many angles to cover. And honestly, I'm still shocked by this. And I think that this really speaks to the poor shape that our country is in because even if Donald Trump is on his way out in a couple of weeks, the fact that this many people were duped into believing this con man that this election was stolen to the point where they would literally storm the Capitol in an attempt to do some sort of revolution or coup, whatever their intentions were. This is not healthy. Democracy can't survive. If this continues, if we have a large portion of the population who doesn't even believe that our elections are free and fair. Now, if they were successful, which they wouldn't have been, but if they were successful and they were able to permanently stop the certification of the election results and somehow get Donald Trump to remain president, they think that they'd be the ones that are being patriotic and saving democracy when in actuality, that's not the case. They're believing someone who is delusional. Now, we're going to talk through some things that really stood out to me that shows how dangerous this is. Like you can you can point to the folks who were taking selfies and just kind of walking through sitting at Nancy Pelosi's desk. But this was very serious. So first of all, they found at least one IED on Capitol grounds and second of all, one terrorist was seen with zip ties. Now, this is important because it indicates that he was planning on taking hostages. Thank God he didn't, but he was planning to do that. Now, also at the RNC and DNC headquarters, which is just a couple of blocks away from the Capitol, things were taking place that are extremely disturbing to say the least. So they found a pipe bomb at the RNC headquarters and at the DNC headquarters. They also found a package that looked suspicious. Now, it hasn't been identified at the time of this recording, but we have to call this what it is. This is fascism. This is fascism instigated directly, incited directly by the President of the United States. And I want to share with you this compilation video that Mother Jones put together that really shows you how specifically Trump's words led to what happened at the U.S. Capitol. Take a look. And we fight.  And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore. Stand back and stand by. I am your president of law and order. As he spoke, a remarkable scene unfolded outside the White House. Members of our armed forces were moving forcefully. Fired at, gassed and shoved. The president's tweet, an extraordinary line. When the looting starts, the shooting starts. You also had people that were very fine people on both sides. This election will decide whether we will defend the American way of life or whether we will allow a radical movement to completely dismantle and destroy it. We're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. I love Pennsylvania. And we're going to the Capitol. We're going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country. So let's walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. I want to thank you all.  Thank you all for being here. This is incredible. Thank you very much. Mr. President, stop inspiring people to commit potential acts of violence. Someone's going to get hurt, someone's going to get shot, someone's going to get killed. They brought out a woman on a stretcher, rushed her inside, blood gushing from her. We're told that she was shot in the chest. A short time ago, we learned that she has died. It's a very tough period of time. There's never been a time like this where such a thing happened where they could take it away from all of us, from me, from you, from our country. This was a fraudulent election. So go home. We love you. You're very special. Now, Donald Trump is directly responsible. And I hope that there are consequences, but I doubt there will be any consequences. I think he is facing a temporary suspension from Twitter and Facebook.  How is he not impeached again and jailed for something like this? This is literally traitorship that we're seeing from the president. He encouraged all of this. And any Republican who was opposing the certification of the election results, anyone who basically pandered to Donald Trump and played his game all to appeal to Trump's base, they're also responsible. And that's why I fully support the effort by Representative Corey Bush to get any Republican who encouraged this expelled from Congress. Because here's the thing. We cannot have a government where a large portion of them are pandering to literal traders who want to overthrow our democratic regime. We can't have that. We can't allow it. If you don't believe in democracy, you can't serve in Congress. And even if these Republicans like Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz don't even believe the lies that they're spewing and they're just pandering, it doesn't matter. What you're doing is seditious. This is sedition.  Just like Donald Trump, you all have to go. You have to be expelled from Congress. So this is deeply disturbing. There's really no amount of me talking or commentary that I can supply you with here that really does justice to just how outrageous the situation is. This is going to be a problem. And I think that a lot of folks are under this impression that once Donald Trump is gone, everything is going to be okay. Things will get back to quote unquote normal, but that's not going to be the case. It's not like Donald Trump, you know, he convinced all of these people. Well, I shouldn't say that he did convince them at least when it comes to, you know, the election being stolen. But it's not like, you know, he is what made them crazy. They were already predisposed to be duped by a demagogue like Donald Trump because of the circumstances in this country had the circumstances in this country been better. We wouldn't have even gotten a Donald Trump, but we had a demagogue come along and capitalize on the pain and suffering of people in this country. And if we don't take care of that, people will still be susceptible to radicalization and things like this will happen.  So we're in serious trouble as a country. I hate to say that, but we really are. We are in serious trouble when you have far right terrorists successfully storming the US Capitol and Capitol Police arguably letting them in. I mean, I don't know how else to explain it. They explain it. Either they let them in or they failed. You know, you can see different videos that point to different things, but we're in serious trouble. And if we don't fix this problem, then I don't know how American democracy can survive. I don't know how America itself can survive.   They are lunatics. You can't work with these people. You can't even have a policy debate with them because they don't even buy into reality anymore. So how do you go forward as a country with these folks? We're going to have to come to grips with this because the Trump era is coming to an end. But Trumpism and what he represents and the delusion that is widespread in this country. That's not going to go away anytime soon. When far right terrorists and traders stormed the US Capitol and took it over for a short period of time, it really showed to you how much the police are allowing right wingers to get away with. Like they were basically allowed to take selfies in the Senate, you know, just hang out chill in the offices of various members of Congress, including Nancy Pelosi and they all got to go home. Imagine that imagine being able to storm the Capitol, literally stage a coup and then still be home in time for dinner. Could you imagine what would happen if Black Lives Matter tried to do this? Could you imagine what would happen? They would be lucky if they landed in jail because that means that they would have survived because they all would have been shot because we know that police in America treat Black Lives Matter activists and Black people and even left wing causes entirely different than they treat right wingers. So in case you forgot, this is how Black Lives Matter activists were treated back in 2020 after the murder of George Floyd when protests erupted across the country. This is how the cops treated them.  That's just like in various cities. This is the Capitol. So Capitol Police are different, right? They're going to be more lenient. Well, no, in actuality, if any police in the country is going to be a lot more stringent in the way that they deal with protests, you'd think that the Capitol would be the area where they take protests more seriously because this is our Capitol. They have to protect the Capitol, right? So if you recall back in 2017, I think it was when the Republican Party was proposing their appeal of the Affordable Care Act and they were proposing cuts to Medicaid. There were dozens of disabled activists that protested outside of Mitch McConnell's office. And can you guess what happened? Capitol Police did not clear a path for them to go through. Capitol Police didn't allow them to make their voices heard. Capitol Police arrested them. Some of them were literally dragged out off of their wheelchairs. Take a look. Absolutely just stunning. You know, if those protesters wanted to stay and make their voices heard and remain outside of Mitch McConnell's office, now we know that all they needed to do was put on a MAGA hat and then they would have been allowed to stay by Capitol Police. Where was this energy when they stormed the Capitol? Where was that energy? It's shocking.  Adi Barkan tweeted out, I was arrested by Capitol Police for sitting peacefully eight times. These rioters get escorted out to freedom. Alexis Goldstein writes, when protesters tried to take the Capitol steps during the Kavanaugh nomination, every single person was arrested. But yet these folks got to go home. Trump and Republicans called on them to go home and that was it. You have folks literally looting the Capitol building. I thought that the party of law and order was against rioters and looters and they just get to go home. No jail time, nothing. Where was this restraint during the Black Lives Matter protests? This is how right-wingers are allowed to act. Remember when armed thugs stormed the Capitol building in Michigan to protest the lockdown orders due to COVID-19? I mean, look at the restraint that police officers exercised as armed thugs screamed in their faces and what we saw from the riots at the Capitol. I mean, they were, they were no different. There were clashes with pro-Trump terrorists and, you know, some were tear gassed. But for the most part, the individuals who literally tried to stage a coup of our government were not met with the ruthlessness that we saw during the Black Lives Matter protests. In fact, Capitol Police literally stood by as they watched far-right terrorists invade the Capitol building. Can you imagine how they would act if Black Lives Matter protesters would be doing that? I'd imagine they wouldn't be standing idly by. Now, if you're wondering, why are they letting them just do that? Why are they standing there? Why aren't they doing anything? Well, this video from TikTok shows that they opened the gates for them. They welcomed them in. Police are squabbling with protesters. Oh, there we go. And it gets worse because one Capitol Police officer even took a selfie with one of these terrorists. A-Caph, A-Caph. A-Caph, A-Caph. So you invade the Capitol building and Capitol Police rather than dragging you out as they did disabled protesters and peaceful protesters prior. They take selfies with you. Are they arrested? Are they brutalized? Like Black Lives Matter protesters would be. Like I'm not calling for them to be brutalized, right?  You should not be brutalized. That's not what I'm advocating. But what I'm saying here is we have to acknowledge the double standard. How often do we see peaceful protesters advocating for good causes arrested when leaving the Capitol building? But when you have a literal coup attempt, well, they don't arrest you. They let you leave. And sometimes they might hold your hand and help you out quite literally as we see from this video that was shared by Alexis Goldstein. Literally being escorted out as she takes her time and he's helping her. This is someone who just was part of a coup attempt and you see a Capitol Police officer in riot gear helping her. So the question is why were Capitol Police showing so much restraint? Why were they behaving in a way that's relatively respectful when Black Lives Matter protesters?  They get maced pepper sprayed, brutalized. Why were Capitol Police allowing this to happen? Well, as the New York Times reports inside the Capitol, an officer pleaded with a man in a green backpack saying, you guys just need to go outside. When asked why they weren't expelling the protesters, the officer said, we've just got to let them do their thing now. That is amazing.  You could literally storm the U.S. Capitol and stage a coup and you could just leave, they'll help you out. That is insane to me. When we just watched the video of Black Lives Matter protesters being sprayed from behind, getting pushed and kicked, but try to stage a coup. Take over our government and our democratic regime. And we just got to let them do their thing. They're just mad guys. And it's not just the Capitol Police who I'm furious at right now. It's public officials. Ivanka Trump before deleting this tweet, literally addressed them by calling them American patriots. And when Trump tweeted out a video where he addressed them, of course, he was kissing their asses too. I know you're pain. I know you're hurt. We love you. You're very special. Now contrast what he said there with the way he spoke about the protesters after George Floyd was murdered. Quote, these thugs are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd. And I won't let that happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walls and told him that the military is with him all the way, any difficulty, and we will assume control. But when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you. Now in his message to fascists, he didn't threaten to bring in the military or forcefully remove them. He asked them politely to go home. And if you're wondering why we had this double standard, well, I think that's pretty obvious.  You're protesting and rioting over the death of a black American at the hands of the state, completely unjustified.  Well, that's fine because you're white, your anger is justified. Your intentions are pure, but outrage over black deaths, never justifiable. You should stop looting and rioting. There's no amount of pain that would justify that kind of behavior. It's just astonishing.  And, you know, the reason why we have this double standard is because in a lot of instances, I'm generalizing, but in a lot of instances, if you ask a cop, nine times out of 10, they're going to say they're a Republican or a Trump supporter, not all of them, but the overwhelming majority of them. And that's a really big problem. The fact that law enforcement in America is a right wing and we have a right wing party who is authoritarian. That is a really big problem. Now, Capitol Police, you know, it's not like they're not capable of getting this crowd under control because if you'll remember last summer, they used chemical weapons against peaceful protesters. I don't know if that was Capitol Police and National Guard. I don't know what the case was, but they used chemical weapons, tear gas against peaceful protesters and they did this. Also, Donald Trump could take a photo up. So make no mistake about it. The only reason why this happened is because Capitol Police let it happen, a privilege that would never ever be afforded to Black Lives Matter protesters. Black people would never be allowed to behave this way at our nation's capital. And as journalist Garrett Graf puts it, I can't get over how thoroughly the Capitol Police, one of the nation's largest and best funded police forces, failed today. Their utter abdication of their most basic role, hold control and secure the Capitol Building endangered every person inside from the Vice President down. To be clear, this was a total strategic failure by Capitol Police, not a tactical one. This wasn't like a couple protesters slipped in a side door that was accidentally unlocked. Writers stormed up the main Capitol steps and waltzed in, and then just as appallingly waltzed out. Now Bill Kibben responded to this saying having been routinely arrested by them at a completely peaceful, utterly non-threatening pre-announced protest with a 93 year old woman, I can testify that they're capable of acting like jerks when they want to. So in other words, it happened because they let it happen. So this is extremely like demoralizing and depressing to see. I just don't know how as a country we move forward. You can't work with a party and a base that is completely delusional and violent. Being delusional in and of itself is an issue. But being violent and delusional that is a very dangerous, very dangerous combination. And that's what we saw take place and it's not going to go away with Donald Trump. I'm worried that this is going to take place at state capitals across the country. At the inauguration. And, you know, the FBI has been warning about far right violence for years now, but it's been swept under the rug. So maybe it's time that they actually pay attention because lawmakers were endangered today. Lawmakers were in danger. So if they don't take this seriously and start paying attention to far right violence in this country and far right terrorism, when will they? Believe it or not, the Georgia runoff race took place on Tuesday, but now after everything that's happened after extremists stormed the US Capitol, it seems like it was so far away, but that happened this week. And on Tuesday evening, I was contemplating making a video and releasing it. And I really wish that I did. Dave Wasserman had called the race. It had been called for Raphael Warnock, but John Ossoff, it wasn't called for him yet. And we were trying to determine whether or not he'd win by a large enough margin to not trigger a recount. And so I just thought if I make a video, I'm going to want to go into depth about what the implications of this are because if both of them win, then Dems to retake the Senate. And if it's not actually official, if Ossoff doesn't win, then that entire conversation will be moot. So I decided to wait. And then the following day, we had far-right extremists storm the Capitol and I didn't get to talk about this when I wanted to. But I think this is something that needs to be addressed. It's really, really significant. Democrats will retake the Senate. Bernie Sanders will become the Budget Committee Chairman. And we have a chance of getting Nina Turner elected to Congress. This is really good. And what we're seeing is a promise from Joe Biden and both John Ossoff and Rafael Warnock that $2,000 stimulus checks are coming. So there's actually a little bit of cause for optimism to be a little bit hopeful in the short term. Long term, we've got a lot of work to do. But I think that this is so, so important. Primarily because of one thing, Mitch McConnell will no longer be Senate majority leader. That to me is really what this is all about. Mitch McConnell has been an obstacle to anything getting done. Incrementalism, just basic governmental functioning. He has blocked everything like the damage that he has caused. The legacy is going to live on for decades. So just to have him not be Senate majority leader, I care about that more than anything. But having said that though, it is now the case that Democrats are in complete control of government and Kamala Harris will be the tiebreaker. So that means they could do whatever they want to do now. And I have a suspicion that some Democrats aren't too happy about this. Not all of them. I think a lot of them are genuinely happy and I'm talking about elected Democrats. But now they've got to put up. You can't blame anyone. You can't blame Donald Trump. You can't blame Mitch McConnell. If we're going to hold anyone in government accountable, we know which party is in power. It is the Democratic Party. So now there's no excuses. We're in the middle of a pandemic and expectations are very high.  Now it is usually the case that the party in control does lose control of, you know, the House or the Senate, one branch of government after the first election when they're in power. And so if they want to stop that from happening and actually really make some changes, there's a lot that I think they need to do. Of course, there's the usual policies that I'm always going to advocate for Medicare for all and I fully, fully expect progressive members of Congress to go to bat for that policy. Like don't allow them to just push for access to healthcare and accept that that's their position. No, you don't. You don't negotiate on their terms. You force them. You get rowdy. You make sure that you get what you want. But I'm just going to say that Democrats, the first few things that they have got to prioritize is they have to save democracy. And what I mean by that is you have to get electoral reform and this doesn't have to be substantial, but we need a new voting rights act. We need to make sure that voting is a national holiday so that we turn out as higher and you have to make sure that DC and Puerto Rico become states. If Democrats do that, if they strengthen democracy, just that one act can give them the edge in the following election when it's expected that they could lose even more ground because if you have DC and Puerto Rico as states, then that is two more senators from each state that will most likely be Democratic and people will respond by saying, Mike, this is like really dirty because you're trying to like change the institution to benefit, you know, the party who you hate to lease. But that's not actually the case because anytime we're literally strengthening democracy by expanding voting universally and franchising people making sure that more people have adequate representation in DC and Puerto Rico. That's a good thing for democracy. And so if that hurts Republicans, it makes it more difficult for them to win. They've got to convince those folks.  And then once Democrats do that, then they need to look seriously at reforming the Supreme Court. I want them to pack the court. I think that after Republicans stole two seats from you, it's completely reasonable for you to appoint two Supreme Court justices yourselves. Like there's nothing in the Constitution that limits the amount of judges that we have. It's just a norm that there's supposed to be nine Supreme Court justices. Expand the court or do some sort of reform, kill the filibuster. If they don't take these actions to actually reform these institutions, then we're going to be right back to square one where Republicans can just run rough shot over them.  And that's a result of, you know, them being deprived of material goods. Now, if they are able to do all of this, I think that that bodes well for the the functioning of democracy. And I say that because if Democrats strengthen democracy and they make it more difficult for Republicans to win since they can only win when they suppress turnout and whatnot, they're going to have no choice. Republicans will have to moderate at least a little bit. This party has been going further and further and further and further to the right. And what we just saw over the last couple of years was them slam into a brick wall. You can only move so far to the right until you reach full blown authoritarianism. And we saw that. So if it becomes more difficult for Republicans to win legitimately so because our democracy has been strengthened and suffrage has been expanded. They're going to have no choice. They have to moderate. They can still try to suppress the votes and implement voter ID laws and, you know, try to crush the postal service, but they're going to have to moderate at least a little bit. The extremism will have to be toned down. And I think overall that's a really good thing.  And, you know, my expectations are higher than they usually are because the Senate majority leader now is Chuck Schumer. And guess what? He's got a primary coming up in 2022. So all eyes are on Chuck Schumer. If we don't get the goods, you go. You go. Bye. Bye.  And it looks like he knows that the task ahead of him is absolutely momentous. So he's been pushing for a cancellation of $50,000 of student debt. That's that's great. Do it. Let's cancel it all. I hope that the left in Congress pushes for that, but deliver. Look, Democrats, if they don't deliver, if they don't do some major reforms, governmental reforms and policy reforms that stops people from suffering, we're going to be right back to square one. And when we get to a position where people feel depressed because government isn't responding to their needs and Republicans take over again, we're going to look back to these next two years and say it's because Democrats didn't do enough. So if they want to stop that from happening, they've got to deliver because again, no excuses. And that means we've got to be mobilized. We've got to be ready to dedicate like time every single day to call the phones of members of Congress. Take action. I mean, you can't do much during a pandemic. I'm not going to encourage people to, you know, protest in person when we see record numbers with hospitals being overrun. But when the pandemic actually is under control, that's when we can actually do more direct action. But for now, the most that I'll encourage is for you to do public pressure. You know, to everyone in Congress, make sure that the left is holding the conservative Democrats accountable. You know, we're expecting a lot and I really am hoping to see, you know, progressives challenge Democratic Party leadership, challenge them and not just accept their position as the valid and legitimate one. Like if we talk about healthcare reform, don't just accept that a public option is the best that we can get actually fight for Medicare for all. Use hardcore bargaining tactics. I don't care. And you know, when AOC showed up to her first day in Congress, she sat in Nancy Pelosi's office. Maybe we've got to do that again, like get hardcore because if you don't hold them accountable, we're going to hold you accountable. We're watching all eyes are on Democrats right now. So this is going to be really interesting. And I actually do feel enthusiastic about what's to come, even though I feel dread looming as well because I am fully expecting Democrats to disappoint me. But the expectations are very, very high.  But that doesn't mean we're not going to push them as hard as we possibly can. Moving Joe Biden left is not going to be an easy thing to do. And I think it's probably not possible to get him to to move left on a lot of issues, but we make progress where we can and we absolutely push the envelope on every single issue. If Democrats offer you one thing, you always counter offer and get as much as you possibly can. And if politicians, the squad leftist in Congress don't do enough, then that's on us. We've got to take account of the responsibility to if we don't hold them accountable. So I'll leave that there. There's a there's a lot and I'm really interested to see what happens in the next couple of years. But first Democrats got to come out the gate swinging and get reforms implemented, change government, expand them, expand democracy, strengthen our institutions. Otherwise, we're going to be right back to square one again, where we have another demagogue, you know, exploiting people's desperation due to radicalization.  So good luck. It is really astonishing to me to watch Republicans who incited the very insurrection that took place at the Capitol, all of a sudden feigned outrage at the site of violence. People like Ted Cruz, Josh Holly, you don't get to condemn violence now after you started all of this. You directly incited an insurrection. You told Donald Trump's cultist, delusional base that the election was stolen from them. So you worked them into a frenzy. You made them believe that the right course of action, of course, to save democracy is to storm the Capitol and to stop Joe Biden and illegitimate president from being sworn in. You did all of this. You incited the violence that you're now denouncing. So now it's funny to watch them, you know, sit there with their surprised Pikachu faces as if they didn't start this. Ted Cruz put out this statement. The attack at the Capitol was a despicable act of terrorism and a shocking assault on our democratic system. We must come together and put this anger and division behind us. We must and I am confident we will have a peaceful and orderly transition of power. My full statement, which we're not going to read, but it's funny. You're calling for an orderly and peaceful transition of power. That already has failed. We're not seeing an orderly and peaceful transition of power. We're seeing violence because you told delusional people that the election was stolen from them. In fact, in the Senate, you were leading the charge, Ted. You were leading the charge. So you don't get to try to save face now and pretend as if you weren't responsible. The four individuals who were killed storming the Capitol. Their blood is on your hands. But no, he condemns violence. And what they did was terrorism that he's not responsible for inciting in any way, shape, or form. Let me ask you this, Ted. If you condemn the violence that we saw, why did you say this? A couple of days prior. Stand shoulder to shoulder with you as we defend the United States of America as we defend our Constitution, as we defend our freedom and we will end the night. We will defend in the future and we are going to win. That you is that you saying we will not go silently into the night? Like it's just shocking to me.  Ted Cruz knows exactly what he's doing. I do think that there are Republicans elected Republicans who believe the election was stolen from Donald Trump because a lot of them are as idiotic as Donald Trump, albeit probably not as delusional, not as bad. But Ted Cruz is smart enough to know what he's doing. This is an educated man. He knows exactly what he's doing. He knows that if he doesn't pander to Donald Trump's base, then it's going to be very difficult for him to become president one day. So if you have political ambitions, if you're Josh Hawley or Ted Cruz, you know in order to win a Republican Party primary, you have to capture Donald Trump's base. This is what you're doing. And you thought that sacrificing democracy, threatening democracy by pandering to delusional people, a cult is worthwhile all for your political ambitions.  This was a coup attempt and it was a failed one. It was a laughable one, but nonetheless, it's still a serious attack on our democracy. What Ted Cruz did by playing along to Donald Trump, he was knowingly complicit in inciting an insurrection and thankfully individuals within the squad are calling them out and calling for accountability. So AOC tweeted out, Senator Cruz, you must accept responsibility for how your crave and self-serving actions contributed to the deaths of four people yesterday and how you fundraise off this riot. Both you and Senator Holly must resign. If you do not, the Senate should move for your expulsion. He then responded to her from the account that I believe he liked pouring on.   And sorry, I ain't going anywhere when you and your socialist buddies try to massively raise taxes when you try to pass the Green New Deal and destroy millions of jobs when you push for amnesty, when you try to pack the Supreme Court with activists to undermine our constitutional rights. I will fight that every step and stand with the people.   Packing the Supreme Court is exactly what the Republican Party has done over the last couple of years. You stole two Supreme Court justices. So I'm not even going to answer to that like respond to what he's saying because he's trying to deflect. He's trying to change the subject and his answer in pandering to Donald Trump trying to make them his supporters believe that the election was stolen. His response is, oh, well, you know, I'm just looking out for election integrity. Look, if you're an election integrity activist, Ted Cruz, which we know you're not, then what you push for is automatic recounts. If votes are within a certain margin, automatic audits at the county level. If you're an election integrity activist, you push for universal suffrage. But what you did, that wasn't you looking out for the integrity of our democracy and elections.   But it's not just Ted Cruz. So I don't want to only focus on Ted Cruz, even though he was kind of the ringleader in the Senate because he really wants to prove the Trump's base that he should be the heir to Trump's throne. But it's also individuals like Josh Hawley and also more than a hundred Republicans who were elected to the House of Representatives and the New York Times actually posted all of their faces. These 147 Republicans who were elected came out against democracy and this was after a group of far-right insurrectionists violently staged a coup. Look at their faces, soak this in. Do any of these scumbags represent you? Because if so, they need to be out and in spite of their pseudo patriotism and flag-cumping, these Republicans are traitors. They're not patriots. They are seditious traitors who rejected American democracy and there needs to be consequences for their actions. This is the effort they supported. Terrorists openly agitating for a civil war, wearing merch, broadcasting their intent to start a civil war, which would kill thousands of Americans, if not millions.  These are literal Nazis wearing Camp Auschwitz shirts and 6MWE shirts, which means 6 million Jews wasn't enough. These are the people who these Republicans emboldened and supported. And it turns out in addition to the pipe bombs that were found, along with the man who had zip ties, presumably because he wanted to take hostages, one person actually showed up with 11 Molotov cocktails that were ready to go according to the Justice Department. This is who those 147 Republicans supported and emboldened yesterday. After everything that they saw yesterday, those Republicans still chose to oppose the certification of a free and fair election. They incited this behavior. Let's be very clear about that. They incited this because when you tell folks that democracy is in trouble and an election was stolen, delusional people are going to respond accordingly. They're going to believe you. You have influence. You're persuasive to the Republican base. So when you tell them democracy was stolen from you, they're going to respond in a way that they believe is proportional. They're going to storm the Capitol and try to save democracy. You did this. And after they saw all of this take place, all of their lives were endangered by extremists. They still chose to go along with this scam. Pretend as if the election was stolen. It's just, it's shocking. So there has to be consequences. They have to be held accountable, which is why I fully support the effort by Cory Bush to get them expelled from Congress. Because if you don't support democracy, then you have no business serving in a Democratic body. There's lots of people who would love to take your spot and actually fight for your constituents. So Cory Bush tweeted this out. I believe the Republican members of Congress who have incited this domestic terror attack through their attempts to overturn the election must face consequences. They have broken their sacred oath of office. I will be introducing a resolution calling for their expulsion. Now, in an interview with the press, she explained why this is necessary. And I think the obvious thing that you do. The fact that someone lost their life today, that blood is on Donald Trump's hands and every Republican Congress person that is supporting this. People came into this Capitol building, broke through, broke windows and all of that came in, went into Congress members' offices, all in an attempt to attack our democracy. That life, that woman's life, no matter who she was, no matter what side she was on, her life is gone. There has to be consequences. And so that's why we introduced a resolution to say so. Those Republican members of Congress must go. And she is 100% right and I'm glad that she is holding them accountable. The reason why the Republican Party has shifted so far to the right is because there's been no check on them. Whenever they shift to the right, the Democratic Party at the aggregate level it shifts to the right as well. It follows them to the right. And some imbeciles like Chris Coons and Joe Manchin are saying, well, after we saw far-right extremists storm the Capitol, now is the time to really take them seriously. Now is the time for bipartisanship. This party has proven to you time and again that they don't care about bipartisanship. They've proven to you that they don't even care about democracy. I mean, the Republican Party has always rejected democracy with voter suppression efforts and whatnot. But now they couldn't be more brazen. Now is the time when you marginalize them and you get them expelled from Congress because this is what they instigated. Had it not been for their lies about the election being stolen, this wouldn't have happened. So they've got to be expelled.  And I'm actually encouraged to see individuals like Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi of all people who we've had to fight to hold Trump accountable, call on Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment. Now, I don't think that's actually going to bear out. I hope it does. There's reports that they were Trump's Cabinet was meeting to talk about this. But I think an easier solution if you want to remove him quickly would be impeachment. But I mean, he's going to be gone in a few weeks. So although this could be for nothing, but still, even if Trump is out and he's not impeached or we don't invoke the 25th Amendment, there's still more than 100 Republicans, 147 to be exact, that are traitors that absolutely are responsible for fomenting and insurrection. And they have to be held accountable. They have to be expelled from Congress because if they don't, then this is going to happen again and the party is going to continue to shift to the right and the base will become more and more extreme as a result. I feel like as soon as some of us saw a pro-Trump mob storm the Capitol, we already kind of expected what the right wing would say because they have to maintain this facade that it's only the left who riots and gets violent. It's never right-wingers. In fact, you can go back and see a lot of tweets from Charlie Kirk and Tommy Loren where they talk about how, you know, if Trump supporters see that Donald Trump lost this election, they're just going to resume their daily life. They're not going to riot as the radical left does. But of course, right-wingers, they rioted. Not only that, they literally tried to stage a coup. They committed an act of insurrection. And these are the folks who are supposed to be patriotic. Nonetheless, I think it's obvious.  So the only way to save democracy was to storm the Capitol. You blame those folks.  You blame Antifa because of course you do. We all knew this was coming. We knew that they would, you know, say this was maybe a false flag or imply that this wasn't actually Trump supporters because Trump supporters would never do something like this. Take a look at an elected member of Congress, Matt Gaetz from Florida, say that there is compelling evidence that it was Antifa who was part of this crowd who stormed the Capitol at the behest of Donald Trump. Some pretty compelling evidence from a facial recognition company showing that some of the people who breached the Capitol today were not Trump supporters. They were masquerading as Trump supporters. And in fact, we're members of the violent terrorist group Antifa. Now we should seek to build America up, not tear her down and destroy her. And I'm sure glad that at least for one day, I didn't hear my Democrat colleagues calling to defund the police.  How many times a day does he almost die from forgetting to breathe? How many times in his life has he tied his own shoelaces together?  Stupid. There's compelling evidence that some of the people were not Trump supporters. They were masquerading around as Trump supporters. And the evidence from this is one facial recognition company, except, hey, dumbass, none of the people there were wearing masks and Antifa always wears masks. Like I heard, I think it was Ethan Klein of H3 make this point and it's a really great point that, you know, of all the times for Trump supporters to not wanna wear masks, you'd think that when they stormed the Capitol and commit felonies, that would be the one time maybe they make an exception. But no, they still refuse to wear masks because that to them represents tyranny. But in what universe is it reasonable to think that Antifa was part of this crowd? Like, I don't really know. Does he think that like 10% of them were Antifa and they were just there to kind of like antagonize and rile everyone up? All you have to do is look to the social media accounts. Look at Parler as much as that will rot your brain, but there are screenshots of posts where they've been planning this now for a week or so. They actually have merch that says American Civil War, January 6th. They were planning this. And so you think this is Antifa? Like, there's no way he believes this. He's just saying that because that's what you do. You know, if you're unsure who to blame in any situation, it doesn't matter what the facts bear out. It doesn't matter what the, you know, the context and conditions. Are you just blame Antifa? That's what you do.     I don't know what it is. It's either dumb or disingenuity, but it's a distinction without a difference. For him to say this on the House floor is, is shocking. And he then goes on to like own the libs by saying, Oh, well, I'm really glad that my colleagues now don't want to defund the police. Ho, ho, ho. As if like the entire Democratic Party is talking about defunding the police. There's like what five people, members of the squad who support defunding the police explicitly. And you say this as if that's an own. When we saw Capitol Police basically open the gates for Trump supporters to storm the Capitol. I mean, look at this sweet, this says it all. You telling me this tactical genius overpowered the officers protecting the Capitol? Exactly. So if ever there was a time to defund the police, it's when we learned that they're complicit with an insurrection when they take selfies with terrorists, when they open the gates and allow them to storm the Capitol, the very building that they are paid to protect. Yeah, I'd say defending the police is a pretty damn good idea. It's just I don't, I don't, I don't know what to say. Like I'm at a loss for words. The Republican Party is so idiotic. Like we have the Democratic Party, which needs so many reforms to even be remotely representative of its constituents. But you have the Republican Party who's just out of this world.  They are insane. And I don't know how any conservative can support this party any longer. Like this is no longer the party of, you know, less taxes, which they were never about that. They were about less taxes for corporations. But this isn't the party of like gun rights and abortion rights. This is a party that denies objective empirical reality. They're delusional. So how can you support this? How do you not sign up to be a libertarian or independent? How can you support this party? The fact that so many Americans support this party, even if they're still a minority party, it's too many. Like one American is too many to support the Republican Party. They're just, they're insane. I don't know how else to put it. They're insane. And anyone who doesn't see that must be insane as well. So yeah, Matt Gaetz blaming Antifa for the pro-Trump insurrection because we all know how much Antifa loves Donald Trump.  That's the most persuasive line to these idiots. Donald Trump has never officially and formally conceded the election to Joe Biden and he will never officially formally concede to Joe Biden. But I think this is as close as we're going to get. This statement put out by White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Dan Scavino, where Trump told him this after the electoral certification, quote, even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election and the facts bear me out. No, they don't. Nevertheless, there will be an orderly transition on January 20th. I've always said we will continue our fight to ensure that only legal votes were counted while this represents the end of the greatest first term in presidential history, delusional. It's only the beginning of our fight to make America great again. Wow. So reasonable. So reasonable. Now he's saying there's going to be an orderly transition on January 20th, meaning I'm not going to flip over the desk in the Oval Office and like push it against the door and force them to drag me out in handcuffs. I'm just going to go willingly. That's basically what the statement says.  What a clown and he is incapable of telling the truth because I think he literally believes his own delusion now.     You've been boasting about four months and what have you done? Fumbled with the rollout. How many people have been vaccinated? Compare us to other countries per capita and you'll see the rollout has been a disaster. So it's just this is someone who is so beyond the pale so delusional that anyone who supports him should be ashamed of themselves and they're not going to see it now because they're still within that cult but as time goes on I am confident that Trump supporters will look back and be embarrassed. Actually I'm not confident as they say those words. They still like Reagan but I mean even Trump he's worse than Reagan. So this stupidity here that's on display like here's what I'll say if you don't look back and see what a buffoon Donald Trump was then it just speaks to you.  I mean he's a bumbling buffoon to believe him to be in this cult it's just embarrassing. It's not just embarrassing for you and your family and your friends.   Oh well I'm going to leave and I'm not going to force capital police to escort me out in handcuffs.  Unbelievable like I'm just astounded I'm astounded by all of this it will never ever not be crazy to me to think that Donald Trump was president even after he's gone it's still shocking that this imbecile made it to the White House and it shows you what poor of a state we are in as a country to allow this to happen. If this idiot can exploit the economic anxiety and racism to the extent that he did and get away with it then we've got a lot of work to do we've got a lot of work to do as a country so I'll leave that there because at this point I think I'm just ranting and raving and it's not going to be helpful to anyone but it's just I'm I'm continually shocked by Donald Trump whenever I feel like I'm getting desensitized to his shenanigans and antics he somehow manages to you know subvert all of my expectations and I'm just left again with my mouth open wondering how this is real how we're not in some weird simulation that has gone wrong it's just shocking so there we have it guys Donald Trump has officially conceited the election at least as close as will come to a formal concession and it's not even a real concession but this is as good as it gets when you are an idiot like Donald Trump wow Donald Trump will be out of office soon but when he's out there's still going to be millions of people millions of Trump supporters millions of people within this cult and they're not going to go away they either need to be brought back to reality or some other demagogue who may be even more effective politically than Donald Trump will come along and capitalize on their ignorance and stupidity and as a country we have to grapple with this we have to grapple with the fact that there's a large portion of American society that just rejects empirical reality how do we go forward as a country it's a real question it's an issue that we're all going to have to deal with so I've got a series of videos here one from status coup a couple from CNN where reporters will talk to Trump supporters and the things that they say it's downright delusional like this is cult-like it's sycophantic but it's just more so than anything else it makes you really feel just disturbed and hopeless at the situation so this one is from John Farina of status coup he talks to Trump supporters and what we see here I haven't seen all of this just watch and can you tell me about the steel the why are you here to stop the steel because they already proved in Pennsylvania that over 200,000 votes more than how many people voted in the state of Pennsylvania not include all the rest of the illegal votes that happened in all the other states yeah, I don't feel we're being represented we've got 80 million people now probably more like 90 million people that are pissed off about the election and everybody you know it they all know it's been stolen not fooling us Joe Biden's a farce can you tell me a little bit about the election and the steel and how it was stolen Dominion voting machines every which way but loose every which way you guys possibly could that's all he says Dominion voting machines and then he's got nothing every which way you could that's not evidence that isn't sufficient to prove the election was stolen I just these folks live in an alternate reality the cognitive dissonance is so strong that they've just like bought into their own delusions and like if Trump was like everything he said occurred in a vacuum and it only affected him that'd be one thing but the fact that his supporters believe his lies and stupidity that's the real issue here the fact that these folks believe the election was stolen from Donald Trump is insane it's insane if the election was stolen don't you think that Democrats would have you know done a little bit more to steal the house not lose ground in the house get a more comfortable margin in the Senate don't you think that the Republicans from Georgia such as Marjorie Taylor Greene who won handily would have lost their elections as well like there's no consistency here it's just convenient thinking because they don't want to believe that Daddy Trump could ever lose because you know he he built this brand of I'm the ultimate deal maker I'm a winner and you're never going to get tired of winning or whatever it's just you know they can't they can't believe anything that contradicts their worldviews so they just choose to literally reject empirical reality it's astonishing to me to watch this they don't want to be more cowardly I've dumped women for less evidence of cheating you know some men like Donald Trump I'm sure they're better off now dude he's leaving freedom and we're on the verge of losing freedom with a duly elected president and trying to take that away from us and I got a lot of friends back home just couldn't make it and just want to let everybody know that we got to keep these freedoms that we have or never get them back we got to keep these freedoms that we have this individual literally believes that democracy was stolen and so the only way to unrig this election is to take Biden's win away but to save democracy what he doesn't understand is he in his mind at saving democracy but in actuality you are the ones who are stealing democracy you're stealing democracy away from the rightful winner Joe Biden Lovam or Hadam got almost what was a 10 million more votes than Donald Trump and yet you still believe it was stolen and see that's the issue it's that like these folks genuinely believe that they are doing the right thing it's not them who's attacking democracy it's anyone who doesn't buy into these lies they're all part of it they're co-conspirators you know they're complicit this this is going to be an issue for a really long time like the outright delusional behavior of the Republican Party base will continue to be a problem so long as the Republican Party elected Republicans make them believe this stuff you know I think there's a lot of Republicans in Congress who are stupid and believe this bullshit like Marjorie Taylor Greene Louie Gomer there's a bunch of them but a lot of them know exactly what they're doing and they know that they are working these folks into a frenzy either because they are scared to challenge Donald Trump's stupidity or because you know they want to fundraise off of Donald Trump and make it seem as if they're fighting for Donald Trump it's a tipping point in America right now yeah it is he's right about that not for the reasons he thinks the election was stolen because you can see the church and the graphs I saw it up that night watching it and he sees Donald Trump the church is going like this and then all of a sudden they stop counting woke up the next morning and the graphs are going straight up man that's you know that's more evidence that I've heard I think we're done with this video yeah we're done that's more evidence than I've heard from anyone you know the graph goes up like this and then it goes up and the numbers go up and then it goes like this and it goes like this that's honestly like as incoherent as that was he presented more evidence than any other Trump supporter look let me just say this if these weird jumps weird to you in vote totals while they're counting the votes is suspicious then ask yourself this did you think that you know in the Georgia runoff race when all of a sudden Warnock and Ossoff were leading by like 1213 points and then seems like Lofler and Purdue just suddenly made this huge gain because certain areas came in like is that not suspicious to you did it seem like Republicans were stealing it or is it only election theft when you see these jumps happen that benefit Democrats I think we know the answer and the answer is whatever I want to believe I don't need evidence I just need my belief and I need to have faith and believe it's wrong enough okay so this next video is from CNN this is on January 4th this is before the Georgia runoff race and this has got to be the most batshit insane thing I've ever seen honestly the CNN reporter he has talked to so many MAGA chuds he has to be experiencing brain rot by now so this is truly an American Patriot for what he's doing I couldn't talk to this many Trump supporters and not lose faith in humanity but nonetheless he's here and what he documents is stunning they're saying this on January 4th with the inauguration weeks away they still believe Trump will be inaugurated I just I don't know what to say about this so will they believe that when Biden is actually inaugurated and we can all see it on television like do they think it's a false flag do they think that like this is some sort of shadow government and Trump is like actually still in charge I just like I don't know like I want to talk to these folks and pick their brains actually don't want to do that but it's just what they're saying is batshit fucking insane I don't know I don't know how else to describe this I have faith he's going to be there and he's going to be do he's going to be elected so he'll be president we'll see about that no he will be president till 2024 you're saying this on January 4th oh my gosh like what else more needs to happen every single state certified the election results the electoral college voted now Congress has since certified the only thing left is for Joe Biden to be sworn in at what point do you think maybe there's just a small chance that I'm wrong I don't think these people are capable of self-reflection practically every day since the election new supposed evidence purporting to prove whoa this dude looks familiar doesn't he this is one of the dudes who stormed the Capitol holy shit this dude is everywhere so he was in Georgia and that actually isn't this the leader of the Proud Boys they are busy they're on the move Joe Biden did not win circulates in the social media bubble Trump and his supporters live in hello Georgia by the way there's no way we lost Georgia there's no way two months in selection day and just two weeks to Biden's inauguration many are still refusing to accept reality obviously Trump is saying that the election was stolen from him in here in Georgia doesn't trust the Republican election officials here does that cause a problem or an issue yeah the Republicans the Republicans were complicit in stealing the election it has for several people yeah people are not have been demoralized and have actually told me that they do not want to vote because they feel like their vote isn't going to count yeah that happens when you're hearing from Trump supporters Republican voters saying I didn't even vote this week yeah but you know what most of them after we talked to them have voted I've spent a lot of time last week calling people up and and the people who first said that they weren't going to vote after I spoke to them they are going to vote in Georgia I'm so glad those goals lost the elections right Secretary of State they've said they've investigated and investigated they've counted three or four times and they said Biden has still won do you accept that no not all Republicans are good people just because they're Republicans Trump is keep saying that he didn't actually lose like why would Brian Kemp help Joe Biden steal the election like Brian Kemp himself is a fucking scumbag he oversaw his own election in 2018 when he was running for governor against Dacey Abrams he was the Secretary of State overseeing his own election purged black voters from the rolls like limited polling locations so this is a scumbag of course he would prefer Trump win of all people Brian Kemp like you'd think that they'd believe he's a true Kool-Aid drinker a true believer like they are but you know you didn't tell us what we wanted to hear so you're a traitor fuck you that's that's their thinking the election was stolen do you think it's just time for him to to give up and and like Biden take over step up and say let's walk away yeah okay let him do his job yeah you're in the I think you're in the only people today I was willing to hear he's genuinely shot why do you think that's important because they're showing who's the better person you know if you're going to continue fighting what's the use I mean you know if you've already lost it let it go wait till next term that a rare opinion at this Trump rally also rare but worrying talk of civil war will you accept Joe Biden as president no he'll never be my president okay but you know you accept that he's going to be inaugurated no I don't I mean how could that change at this point well it could be a civil war you never know oh there could be a civil war civil war do you I don't show us the voting machines show us the ballots show us that this was a fair what does that mean show us the voting machines will never accept another vote again ever these dumb mother fuckers don't realize that you are capable as a US citizen of auditing your own county's results like you know that right but you're too lazy you just want to believe what OAN and Newsmax and Donald Trump tells you and they always you know they'll agitate for a civil war and then they'll say oh well I don't want that yeah you do that's what you're agitating for you've shown that you have the capacity as a movement a quote unquote movement to get violent and that's what you want if you think that you know a civil war would lead to Donald Trump remaining in power that's exactly what you would opt for you've all proven yourselves you've shown your cards now this video is from the same reporter this is on the day where the pro Trump mob stormed the US Capitol their responses here when he asked them basic questions about if they're proud of what they did is it should be embarrassing but they have no shame are you proud of what happened here today I'm absolutely stand behind 100% what happened here today 1000% things terrible how this election was stolen and I had to come here and do my patriotic duty one aspect that a lot of folks probably didn't even think about I hadn't either is how much that event is going to be like a covid super spreader and it's these folks are going to be sick because none of them are wearing masks or very few of them were wearing masks it's just they think that they are doing the patriotic thing you know if you believe a democracy is at stake and the election was stolen you try to stop that from happening so they've been you know duped by Donald Trump at OAN and and whatnot and so these right wing media outlets and puddits you know Charlie Kirk Dave Rubin all these folks they bear a lot of the blame for this behavior now of course individual responsibility is something that's important like they have to be more responsible consumers of media but having said that though like when you work people into a frenzy to that extent I think that you share a lot of the blame you guys just left the Capitol grounds yeah are you proud of the scene that played out here today? I'm not proud of it I'm humbled by it and that I'm excited that for 1776 that we the people movement is moving forward should it show it's sad it's sad that it has to happen are you proud of what happened here today?  Absolutely I think we should have gone Absolutely Okay, so he's just going to play clips from what we just watched Yeah, I think everything he's saying is right you know these these social media companies they've basically become right-wing echo chambers and so much misinformation spreads on on Facebook like if you have anyone in your family who is like over the age of 70 on Facebook you know they they see a meme and they mistake it for news I've had like my crazy aunts share these types of pro Trump memes and I've removed them from my feed because I don't want to see that bullshit but like you you'd think that at a time when we have seemingly infinite knowledge at our fingertips we all have smartphones we're dumber than ever because we don't seek out new information we don't challenge ourselves we don't actually want new knowledge we just find whatever weird echo chamber exists online that will confirm our existing biases and we get dumber as a result like this what we're seeing here this is like a virus this is brain rot like how do we deprogram all of these people there's there's too many like I don't know what to do I don't know what it's going to take how do we convince these people to come back to reality and live in reality I know we can't wait until the next generation comes to power because by then climate change will have already like devoured you know portions of the world so I just I don't know there's this urgency but also really the obstacles seem insurmountable you know how we go forward as a country I just don't know the trajectory that we're on is very very bad so we have to find a way to take the folks who are presumably too far gone and make them see the light and this is a project that I wouldn't even know where to begin I don't even know where to begin because they don't think that it's them you know who's the problem they think it's us who's the problem and if we just came to their side then the country would be unified when what they're asking for is like crazy shit they want Trump to just be like a dictator they want to let the Republicans do whatever you know deregulate industries and we already have you know a neoliberal party in the Democrats so we don't need to turn that up to a 500 with Republicans I just I don't know like this is a really troubling time in American history and if we can overcome this as a society then I'll feel a lot more optimistic about our future but when you have this many people who don't believe in basic reality reject what they see in front of their eyes it's just it's sad it's sad it's demoralizing and the task ahead of us at trying to fix this country is absolutely daunting yeah so I will leave that there I feel like these videos crushed my soul but I mean how could you not feel demoralized at at the time you know America is in such a bad spot Josh Hawley is one of just over a dozen GOP senators who is very explicitly coming out against democracy and is refusing to certify the results of the November election taking a stand and basically saying I don't believe in democracy anymore I think that we should have a monarchy and Trump should be king and that's what they're doing because if they were successful in this laughable effort which is inevitably going to fail and they got what they wanted it would end democracy as we know it so by coming out and putting their names on the record I think that's good because we need to know who the authoritarians are but this is outrageous and for the record these are the individuals who are very explicitly admitting that they don't support democracy they're against democracy so the fact that there are that many I mean even though thankfully most Republicans aren't on board with this the fact that there's more than a dozen that tells you this party is so far gone so extreme that they were irredeemable and the only way to save America might be for the party to collapse if it doesn't collapse then I don't know how we go forward as a country when you have some individuals now who are quite literally against democracy so it's outrageous like even though it's going to fail it's still outrageous we need people to buy into the system and believe in democracy so it's we know what this is this political posturing Ted Cruz is the one who's leading this effort we know he hates Donald Trump but they're doing this because they want to be the heirs to the Trump throne this is them telling Trump's base listen I am a Kool-Aid drinker I'm part of the cult except me I'm even doing this I'm literally trying to stop democracy from happening that's how much I support Donald Trump please let me be the next president please let me be the next Donald Trump that's what this is about but regardless of what this is about even if it's for political expediency this is dangerous this is bad for democracy to have anyone even if it's political theater trying to stop democracy that's bad and people are angry about it rightfully so so there was a small group of individuals that showed up in front of Josh Holly's house to protest and this is what he claims happened quote tonight while I was in Missouri and Tifa scumbags came to our place in DC and threatened my wife and newborn daughter who can't travel they screamed threats vandalized and tried to pound open our door let me be clear my family and I will not be intimidated by left-wing violence so he's saying that in response to people who are rightfully outraged that he supports authoritarianism they tried to do violence thank God they weren't successful like they tried to pound down the door with his wife and newborn I mean what were they going to do like beat him up like what was the end game here right this sounds really serious except the problem is that he's a liar what happened in actuality is like nine people showed up and they held a candlelight vigil and this is what shut down DC the group who organized the event said it was as well it was less than an hour and they did a candlelight vigil to which Holly responded to saying now quote unquote vigil means screaming threats through bull horns vandalizing property pounding on the doors of homes and terrorizing innocent people and children so regardless of what shut down DC says he is maintaining that this wasn't some peaceful candlelight vigil this was a violent event it sounds like antitha extremists showed up to his home with pitchforks they vandalized his property and they were threatening his wife he's lying and it's not just that he's lying he got caught lying even the police in the area who responded to the event are saying this isn't what happened as the St. Louis post dispatch reports police say protesters outside senator josh holly's home were peaceful and they explain officers were called to holly's home in vienna a washington suburb around 7 45 p.m. after someone reported that there were people protesting in front of the house officers who responded to the scene found that the people were peaceful said master police officer Juan Vasquez a spokesman for the town of vienna police department Vasquez said the protesters had been violating several laws including a virginia code about picketing in front of a house a town ordinance about making noise in front of the home and a littering code but he said the officers explained the violations and everyone just left there were no issues no rests he said we didn't think it was that big of a deal that's the police that are saying this we didn't think it was that big of a deal that is a quote verbatim but josh holly's saying I'm the victim they vandalized my property they threatened me they were pounding on my door trying to get in this is serious but the police say no but if you don't believe the police and if you're a right winger I'm assuming you do because you always talk about backing the blue rights you're going to believe that they're trustworthy if you don't believe the police then I've gotten more for you we had the entire 50 minute long video where the protesters filmed the event and these are some moments from the event you're going to see how hostile these antifa extremists were what's the first chant you're going to leave us in well I holly holly what do you say how many votes are you suppressing today all right I don't know that's one I'll come up with others okay we got a couple blocks I welcome I like you I like you I like you I like you I like you I like you I like you I like you I like you I like you I like you I like you I like you I like you with the camels that go it's kind of sweet nothing no something to go for so somebody has a for where we're letting them right now he's so here actually I'm going to give mine out holly holly shame on you Biden, Harris, through and through holly holly shame on you Biden, Harris, through and through two diligence has been done Biden, Harris, have won two diligence have been done Biden, Harris, have won all is governing and allowing thousands of individuals to come to our city with no mask on knowing that coronavirus cases are big as hell so therefore we're going to hold people accountable and hold political officials accountable who are trying to swindle the election swindle democracy and don't give a rat ass about the American people so when democracy is under attack well I mean after seeing that I totally understand why he feared for his family's life I mean when you have the small group of people chanting pro-biden and Harris slogans I mean clearly I can't help but think these must be antifa extremists because we know how much the far left and antifa love Joe Biden and in case you missed it there was a glimpse of the vandalism he was referring to of course it's this chalk on the sidewalk where they wrote Trump lost that is what I'm guessing anyways that he interpreted as a as vandalism and this is what I'm assuming he said was them trying to pound down his door I don't even know if they were knocking I couldn't tell in the video it looked like they were like setting down a sign and a candle on his doorstep but it doesn't necessarily look like there's this angry mob of people trying to pound down his door and break into his home but I mean in case you're wondering because I'm a far left extremist if I'm just like cherry picking certain moments from the event that don't actually fully encapsulate the protest well let's scrub through it real quick I'll link you to the full video down below but as you can see they discussed their protest in the parking lot talk about what they want to say they then walk towards his house they stand outside with some bull horns a cop comes and says that it's illegal to protest in front of residential areas they politely say that they'll leave and then that's it they leave and that's all that happened but he's the victim guys the right wing persecution complex is real they desperately want to be the victims so that way you know normal Americans feel sympathetic towards them so they don't feel as angry when they see them fucking us over and literally trying to overthrow democracy and like for what you're doing if I was a politician and I was literally trying to stage a coup and overthrow democracy I would be thankful that that's the harshest form of protests that we see he should be thankful that they're not trying to like get him to resign and they're protesting in his office in Congress every single day but you try to overthrow democracy and that's the worst you get and you're still mad it's just unbelievable either you buy into our system of democracy believe that us voting who our leaders are is what we should continue doing or you don't but when you try to take away the voice from the people they will express their anger by yes sometimes protesting in front of your house it got your attention didn't it it worked you seem to be listening so I don't know what else to say Josh Hawley he's lying about this and he was busted lying but he's still lying if this doesn't tell you that Josh Hawley is a liar and a fraud than nothing else will it is absolutely hilarious to me that conservatives in America insist that really it's them they're the ones who are pro-life an actuality that applies to just a very narrow issue abortion but when it comes to protecting human beings actually putting this belief that human life is valuable into practice offering people universal health care ending wars they're not very pro-life and they've really gone full mask off during this pandemic when almost immediately after it began they recommended sacrificing grandma to the gods of capitalism in order to make sure that we don't hurt the economy now you'd think that after all of this time they'd learn that you don't get to choose between saving the economy and human lives because of human beings aren't flourishing the economy which needs human beings to function also wouldn't flourish but they've just disregarded any sense of reason and logic and now they they want to pretend as if the pandemic is over when it's at the worst it's ever been so you'll see how pro-life they are you know as they reject health care to people and financial assistance to people during a pandemic and you're really going to see how pro-life these so-called pro-life conservatives are when they are now actively encouraging people to just straight up defy lockdown orders which are essential to save lives and stop hospitals from becoming overrun which is literally happening right now but Charlie Kirk on his podcast he encouraged his thousands perhaps millions of viewers to go and defy lockdown orders and if you don't you're part of the problem this is literally something that he thought was a good idea to say to an audience that's probably really large take a look so before I get into what tape do we have the tape from the John Frederick's to show all the fraud that's happening in Georgia before we get into this I just have to give like a 30 second question why is America still locked down why do we not have everything open completely and totally no mask mandates make a decision as you see fit if you're afraid of the virus stay at home this has been one of the most disappointing chapters in American history how we have tolerated these lockdowns that are anti scientific anti human we have people committing suicide drug addiction and by the way you try and go find accurate suicide data do you notice the states aren't publishing them they're not publishing them because they're actually going to find out that more people young people are committing suicide than dining from the Chinese dining from the Chinese coronavirus it is a disgrace and we're letting it everyone's letting it happen but we at Turning Point USA we hosted the largest event of the entire year in Florida we did an amazing job to if you are not actively defying these state and city ordinances you're part of the problem okay so let's let's go to John Frederick who goes to show that our election in Georgia is being corrupted with play tape I love how that insane rants about covid lockdowns with sandwiched between this idiotic conspiracy theory about how the election in Georgia was fraudulent when we literally just listen to the phone call where the president of the United States which you support is trying to get the secretary of state of Georgia to commit an act of election fraud like it's hilarious to me words have no meaning fraud just means whatever they think hurts them it's insane but what he says here it shows you that Charlie Kirk is either dumb or disingenuous and I mistakenly said before that I think that even though he's wrong about everything he at least is somewhat intelligent now I'm questioning that I think he's probably stupid like I think he's now getting into Dave Rubin territory like that's that's where we're at he says why is America still locked down why do we not have everything open completely and totally no mask mandates and make a decision as you see fit why I don't know maybe it's because the pandemic is at the worst it's ever been and this isn't about individual liberty not wearing a mask isn't about someone's personal decision if I don't wear a mask I could potentially infect you if you don't wear a mask you could potentially infect me so it's not a personal decision to choose to not wear a mask you're making a decision for someone else you're choosing to spread your germs on other people during a pandemic that's the point of masks to prevent us from spending spreading our germs to other people so this isn't about individual liberty if you choose to not wear a mask you are infringing on the liberty of other individuals you fucking idiot and he says if you're afraid of the virus stay home yeah well why don't you tell that to people who work with the public who don't have the option to stay home if they don't stay if they don't go to work then they can't pay rent they don't have the luxury of staying home so explain to them why if you're afraid of the virus just stay home if he said that but then also said you know what we have to give everyone $2,000 per month I'd say all right you know what that's fine I can understand your rationale but he's not saying that if you're paying people to stay home that's a different story but people cannot stay home so you're basically just inadvertently pushing for herd immunity without actually saying the words he also says that the lockdowns are anti scientific they're anti human and we have people committing suicide and drug addiction and I've heard this from conservatives before as well and this is a real concern of course these lockdowns are isolating prolonged lockdowns are not good for our mental health I agree with the concern there but he doesn't actually care because if he truly cared about people's mental health what would he be doing he'd be pushing someone like Donald Trump who he has influence over to offer a more expansion of mental health coverage maybe we should make mental health care in America free maybe we should make health care in America free but you don't want to do that so you claim to care about mental health but really all I see is you just using that like you're exploiting a subject trying to pull on the heartstrings of people disingenuously so when you don't actually care about people's mental health if you care about mental health you would advocate for making health care free for making mental health care free even temporarily during a pandemic but you're not even fucking doing the bare minimum so spare me and the worst part of that entire video is when he says this if you are not actively defying the state and city ordinances you're part of the problem so he is quite literally encouraging people to go out in public pretend like the pandemic isn't a thing not wear a mask and this is going to get people killed Charlie Kirk by saying that the people who listen to him and believe him and trust him they're going to do this and some of them are going to get sick and may die so let me ask you this Charlie Kirk are you going to take responsibility if any of your viewers die and get sick due to COVID-19 are you going to admit that the blood is on your hands someone who's supposedly pro-life if this doesn't fact happen are you going to foot the bill for their burial services or their funerals if they take your advice and they defy lockdown because they have a misunderstanding of what liberty means because they're entitled are you going to take responsibility for that Charlie Kirk this is just unreal and a lot of people oftentimes argue correctly so I think that conservatives they never care about an issue unless it affects them unless it hits close to home you know Megan McCain had a baby and now she stresses the importance of maternity leave Dick Cheney you know he suddenly cared about gay marriage when he found out his daughter was a lesbian so you think that okay well Charlie Kirk maybe just has to know someone who was affected by COVID-19 maybe he has to be affected by it personally but he was look at this headline turning point USA co-founder dies of COVID-19 someone who co-founded the organization that he runs someone who he knows personally probably closely has died and he's still not taking it seriously it's just it's a joke to him and if he does personally take it seriously but he's still saying this because it's politically expedient and it's what's popular in right-wing circles then I don't know what to say you're just you're just this comeback but either way this is disgusting but I mean that's that's one way that the far right is responding to COVID-19 you have some individuals like Dave Rubin who are just conspiracy mongering and trying to raise doubts about the severity of it particularly in states like California which are experiencing really really bad outbreaks this is totally anecdotal but I you know I keep seeing that they're saying like something like all not not all of them but we're seeing like oh 90% of the hospital beds in in California are overtaken so Cal and LA all the hospital beds are overtaken there's two hospitals that I lived about 10 minutes between and I drove by both yesterday and they're pretty much empty I did not go in and check every bed so I'm just telling you what I can see on the outside which are pretty much empty parking lots and the lines for COVID testing that are completely empty and everything else it's just like what's going on here what's going on here I don't know I'm just I'm just asking you the questions see I can't see evidence that this is as severe as I'm told it is so I doubt that it's really that serious at all and look don't get mad at me I'm just asking questions I know exactly how my far right audience will interpret what I'm saying I know what I'm doing but I'm just asking questions it's not that big of a deal Dave Rubin is an absolute fucking clown and I know that he doesn't believe what he's saying he knows that by saying that you look like you're a rebel you look like you're standing up for Liberty but in actuality you're a fucking fraud downplaying the severity of COVID-19 conspiracy mongering and I want to share this tweet that Lauren Steiner an activist on Twitter shared that really puts things into perspective quote the LA County EMS has directed ambulance crews not to transport patients with little chance of survival to hospitals and to conserve the use of oxygen that's what's happening right now but I can't see lots of cars in the parking lots of hospitals so it must not be real it must not be as severe as people are telling me it is as the numbers indicate additionally they are trying to discharge COVID patients and all patients as quickly as possible because they're reaching full capacity if they haven't already reached it but Dave Rubin he has to see the cars he drove by like two hospitals guys so must not be as severe as he says it is we've only had what more than 350,000 deaths in America what is it going to take 500,000 700,000 a million by then will it be a serious enough illness for you I mean what is it going to take and the answer is there is no line like it doesn't matter what threshold we cross we can lose a million Americans and they're still going to say the same fucking thing because they have a political agenda and apparently now a pandemic is a political issue in reality like COVID-19 doesn't have a party affiliation and it doesn't care if you're a Republican doesn't care if you're a Democrat it is a virus and it is infecting people so whether you take it seriously or not will determine if you're affected or if you're going to infect other people or if other people will infect you and so we need people to take it seriously we need them to stay home we need them to know how bad it is in certain states but you have far right lunatics who are trying to contradict that and it's just it's deeply dangerous and I don't know how these dunes sleep at night but you know you can only have so much money profit off of the misinformation that you spread but I mean you still got to look yourself in the mirror at the end of the day and I want to think that they have trouble sleeping I want to think that they feel bad about the things that they say and do but I just I think that these are just soulless ghouls who don't care I'm sad to say that I'm not surprised by this but I'm not surprised by this we learned that there will be no charges against a police officer that shot Jacob Blake in the back seven times we saw the video and we'll go over it again I don't know how any reasonable human being can watch that video and not deduce that this was an attempted murder the officer was very clearly trying to kill Jacob Blake but yet no charges so for more on this we go to CVS news where Aaron Donahue reports no charges will be filed against the white police officer who shot a black man in the back over the summer in Kenosha Wisconsin the district attorney announced Tuesday Kenosha police officer Rustin Chesky had been responding to a domestic dispute on August 23rd when he fired seven times at Jacob Blake as Blake was trying to get inside an SUV Blake's three young children were in the backseat investigators have said they found a knife inside the vehicle but his family has denied that he was armed Blake was left paralyzed after the shooting which was captured on disturbing video that drew national outrage and several nights of unrest in Kenosha Ben Crump Patrick a Salvi the second and be ivory Lamar lawyers for Blake's family said in a statement they are immensely disappointed in district attorney Michael gravely's decision quote we feel this decision failed not only Jacob and his family but the community that protected and demanded justice the statement said yeah I think that's the understatement of the century this failed the community it failed every single black and brown person in America who fears for their lives whenever they interact with police officers I mean this is just really demoralizing and I want to go over the footage again because seeing it it really reiterates how outrageous this decision is so look at this footage and ask yourself this does this officer who's using deadly force against the civilian appear to be in danger in anyway at all I mean let's assume the worst about Jacob Blake he allegedly had a knife in his vehicle so let's assume that not only is that true but let's assume he was going to get that knife and physically attack one of the officers with it does the response to shoot him in the back seven times appear to be a proportionate response to that of course it doesn't no reasonable human being can deduce that it does we don't even know why Jacob Blake was going to his vehicle we don't know if the knife that was allegedly there was going to be used by him for all we know that was a pocket knife which lots of people carry around we don't know but he was shot in the back seven times with children in the car it's just this is an attempted murder but at a minimum you would expect manslaughter maybe the officer was like not right in his head but we get nothing it gets away scot-free and it's especially outrageous because over the summer in 2020 we saw the largest civil rights movement perhaps in human history maybe I mean we had the protests break out in Minneapolis and then they took place across the country and even in other cities around the world like many of us have never seen something like this before and what happened nothing Congress was completely unmoved we got zero action we got some action at the state and local level but nationally speaking our lawmakers were completely unmoved by that and not only did we get zero reform when it comes to police brutality we're still seeing the same exact thing where police officers can attempt to murder if not actually murder black and brown people and get away with it I mean this isn't the first time there in Wilson Mike Brown and now Jacob Blake is just you know another statistic now he gets no justice it's just it's absurd and I don't know what to say like it feels as if we live in a failed state like this this doesn't happen in an advanced society that protects its own citizens if its own citizens don't feel as if they're safe in their own communities then that's a failure of the state of the government this state sanctioned violence and murder that keeps happening this doesn't happen in a society in a regime that's capable of addressing the concerns of its citizens so I see this and it's not shocking but it's still outrageous it's just I don't know what else to say there are no words to discuss how grotesque this is how much of a joke our judicial system is so I'll leave that there because at this point I'm just ranting and I know that you all feel it but this is this is it's hurtful like if you are a black and brown person and you see this you see another instance where a police officer does this and there's no charges like what is the thought of course you think that your life it doesn't matter you think that your your meaningless to the state they don't care about you and their actions indicate that that's correct so it's just it's so sad it's heartbreaking to see this once again where a police officer is getting away with attempted murder the only you know silver lining is that thankfully Jacob Blake survived somehow but I mean he's he's paralyzed but his survival is a miracle in and of itself I just wish that there was at least a tiny tiny chance that there would be justice but I mean really the conclusion was that the likelihood of there being justice was always very small from the beginning even though the video went viral and you know catalyzed protest this is just what we've expected as the norm in America and even when we attempt to change it and protest in cities across the country during a pandemic nothing happens and we still get the same result so you know it's just it's deeply demoralizing and depressing to see this again and again and again I already know that I'm a bit late to the party in the Trump call with Brad Raffensperger the Secretary of State of Georgia but I've got to talk about this because this is genuinely it's shocking even for Donald Trump and I get that a lot of us were desensitized to the shenanigans that we see on a daily basis but for a United States president to do what he did this really is a new low and when I say that it doesn't sound persuasive because when we're talking about Donald Trump there's always a new low but the low has been lower than it's ever been like the bar is below the floor and he managed to still surprise me so in this call with Brad Raffensperger he is trying to convince him basically to steal the election for him now even if Brad Raffensperger listened to what Donald Trump wanted and did what he wanted it still would not be enough at this point to secure him another four years nonetheless listen to what he says this is some authoritarian dictatorial shit you're about to hear the having a correct you the people of Georgia are angry and these numbers are going to be repeated on Monday night along with others that we're going to have by that time which are much more substantially but and the people of Georgia are angry the people of the country are angry and there's nothing wrong we're saying that you know that you've recalculated well Mr. President the challenge that you have is the data you have as well now do you think it's possible that they shredded ballots in Fulton County because that's what the rumor is and also that Dominion took out machines that Dominion is really moving fast to get rid of their machinery do you know anything about that because that's a little Ryan Germany no Dominion is not moved any machinery out of Fulton County we're having but have they moved have they have they moved the inner parts of the machines and replace them with other parts no he's your Ryan I'm sure you should want to have an accurate election and you're a Republican we believe but we do have an accurate election no I know you don't know you don't have you don't have not even close you got you're off by hundreds of thousands of votes you know what they did and you're not reporting it that's a you know that's a criminal that's a criminal offense and and you know you can't let that happen that's that's a big risk to you and to Ryan your lawyers that's a big risk but they are shredding ballots in my opinion based on what I've heard and they are removing machinery and they're moving it as fast as they can both of which are criminal fines and you can't let it happen and you are letting it happen you know I mean I'm notifying you that you're letting it happen so look all I want to do is this I just want to find 11,780 votes which is one more than we have because we won the state so so tell me Brad what are we going to do we won the election and it's not fair to take it away from us like this and it's going to be very costly in many ways and I think you have to say that you're going to reexamine it and you can reexamine it but but reexamine it with people that want to find answers not people that don't want to find answers for instance I'm hearing Ryan and he's probably I'm sure a great lawyer and everything but he's making statements about those ballots that he doesn't know but he's making it with such he did make him with surety but now I think he's less sure because the answer is they all went to Biden and that alone wins us the election by a lot you know Mr. President you have people that submit information and we have our people that submit information and then it comes before the court and the court then has to make a determination we have to stand by our numbers we believe our numbers are right under law you're not allowed to give faulty election results okay you're not allowed to do that and that's what you've done that's shocking it's Donald Trump but he's still a United States president and you had a US president say I just want to find 11,780 votes which is one more than we have because we won the state this is unbelievable unbelievable and he just he doesn't he doesn't get it he doesn't realize that he lost and even if Brad Raffensperger obliged you still need to win Pennsylvania and Wisconsin like Georgia alone is not enough for you to win this election so he's insane he is downright insane and I was a little bit skeptical about whether or not he actually believed that he win but after this call he believes it like there's there's no doubt about it now in my mind he actually believes he won like I think he's convinced himself that he's won so he's bought into his own delusions in other words and he's just he's a sick man mentally speaking he is he's really really ill and it's almost sad it's almost sad like if he wasn't such a bad person I would feel compassionate for him because of how far gone he is like he this is someone who is not healthy he's not all there and again I've said this before his family the fact that they're not stepping in and trying to talk some sense into him is astounding to me it is astounding to me he then goes on to suggest that the Republicans in Georgia Kelly Loeffler David Perdue all of this is going to cost them the election if Brad Raffensperger doesn't cheat for Donald Trump and it's funny as he literally asks Brad Raffensperger to find votes for him which is illegal it's an impeachable offense I mean we don't have much time but it is an impeachable offense as he does all of this he sounds like an actual mob boss but not like the ones you see in movies like the ones that you see in like these slapstick comedies like not the serious movies but the ones where they're like fucking falling over themselves and you know walking into doors we're talking like quirky Romano level mob boss that's what we're talking about here because the things he says like he doesn't just say find me the votes he also implies heavily so that if Brad Raffensperger doesn't break the law then he's doing something that's illegal because you're complicit you see frauds taking place and you're not saying anything as Secretary of State that's illegal maybe there's going to be consequences for you like it's again like I I'm struggling to find the words to respond to this no amounts of commentary can add to this like this speaks for itself it speaks for itself quote there's nothing wrong with saying we've recalculated he's literally trying to convince him to lie now there are other lines that stood out not in that particular audio clip quote as you know every single state we want every state he said we won every state he thinks he won all 50 states in this last election that is I mean to call it delusion it doesn't do it justice like we need a new word he's not just delusional like he's crafted an entirely new reality and he's living in that reality and that from an individual standpoint is is troubling because he has power but the fact that people are joining him in said reality you have Marjorie Taylor Greene QAnon conspiracy theorists now a member of Congress showing up with a mask on that says Trump won I mean I'm glad she's wearing a mask but that is insane this is literally cult level bullshit that we're seeing also he says so dead people voted and I think the number is close to 5000 people completely just pulled that out of his ass you had out of state voters they voted in Georgia but they were from out of state of 4925 you had absentee ballots sent to vacant they were absentee ballots sent to vacant addresses yeah there's no evidence for any of this the only evidence that we have of somebody who's dead voting is a Republican doing it using his dead mother to vote for Donald Trump a second time that's literally the only shred of evidence that we've seen of voter fraud committed because statistically it is insignificant not enough to change the results of an election because it's not really worth it like who wants to commit voter fraud when the payoff isn't that high it's just what an extra voter so but the consequences are tremendous it's a felony who wants to do that that's why it's very uncommon so listen if we assumed that his delusions were true and everything you said was correct he still doesn't get that that's not enough for him to win if Georgia flips it's not enough for him to win and I get why he's focusing on Georgia it's because it's controlled by Republicans so they should be doing what he wants theoretically right but that's still not enough so the fact that you believe you won not just Georgia but every state there are no words for this like we really are going to need some space between now and the time when we actually try to dissect this because what we're in the moment this is too much like but when historians look back at this moment they're going to be shocked at the era that we're in right now it is absolutely as bizarre as it can possibly be and the saddest part isn't Donald Trump the saddest part is that people believe him when he says this when he says we wanted 50 states people believe that when he says that you know there's nothing wrong with lying and saying we recalculated people believe him and they think yeah why can't you just say that why can't you just say that on Trump won Brad Raffensperger I mean this is just so bizarre and we're getting to a point now where he's going to be out soon so is he actually going to like flip the desk in the Oval Office and like try to barricade himself in I kind of want to see it I'm not gonna lie I kind of want to see it it would be bad for democracy but it would be very entertaining and it's looking like he might actually just refuse to leave I don't know what's going to happen but Jesus Christ this is just what a weird Twilight Zone universe that we're living in like this timeline is clearly the stupidest all the parallel universe is like what the fuck so believe it or not I actually have some surprisingly good news the United States government's case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange the extradition case against him it has failed a British judge has turned it down and the reasoning for turning this down is really interesting to me it tells us a little bit about how the world sees us but let me just say before we get to the specifics that this is a win for the First Amendment I mean this isn't final news of course the United States government will appeal this decision but for now this is really important because the precedent that this would set if the US government was successful in extraditing him and then prosecuting him subsequently it would be a disaster for journalism in the United States and the First Amendment so the fact that this attempt has failed we should all breathe a little bit easier for now knowing that Julian Assange will not be extradited to the United States for prosecution but having said that though let's get to the specifics of the case as Ben Quinn of the Guardian reports Julian Assange will make a fresh bid to be released from prison on Wednesday after a British judge ruled that he cannot be extradited to the US to face charges of espionage and of hacking government computers lawyers for US authorities are appealing against the ruling at the old Bailey which rejected arguments that the WikiLeaks co-founder would not get a fair trial in the United States but blocked extradition on the basis that procedures in prisons there would not prevent him from potentially taking his own life Assange will appear on Wednesday at Westminster Magistrates Court in West London for a new bail application where his legal team is expected to refer to conditions at Belmarsh High Security Prison in South London against the backdrop of the worsening COVID-19 pandemic legal experts say they would be surprised if bail is granted given Assange's categorization as a flight risk wearing a mask and a navy suit the 49 year old listened on Monday from the dock at the central criminal court of England and Wales as the district judge Vanessa Barreth serve initially knocked down arguments by his lawyers one after another and accepted the US authorities assertion that his alleged activities fell outside of the realm of journalism but turning to evidence by medical experts about Assange's precarious mental health she said the overall impression is of a depressed and sometimes despairing man who is genuinely fearful about his future I found that the mental condition of Mr. Assange is such that it would be oppressive to extradite him to the United States of America she concluded so this is interesting to me it's still a victory and I'll take one where we can get it but not a victory on the grounds that I had hoped for basically he isn't getting extradited because the US prison system is inadequate because our system is worse than Britain worse than the rest of the world he's not winning this case on grounds that you know he actually is protected by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution he is winning this case because we're terrible so that to me is interesting very interesting so in other words if the US prison system was better and could actually offer protection for Julian Assange then he could have very well have been prosecuted under the espionage act because the allegation from the US government is that it's not just that WikiLeaks published Chelsea Manning's leaks but that they helped her hack into US encrypted computers and actually get that information they were part of this campaign it was espionage they took the information they didn't just publish it now it's interesting because I haven't heard this argument until they tried to extradite him because the case against Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning it has always been a well you know you can't publish information about the US government and evidence about war crimes because this it hurts us when it comes to national security whatever they you know pull the national security card whenever it's convenient but now they're saying no actually Julian Assange you hacked into our computers you didn't just publish hacked information so it's it's really interesting that this case ended up being determined because the US prison system is so cruel because when it comes to the substance in the event they were able to prosecute Julian Assange under the espionage act the precedent that this would set would have been horrific because any other journalist who wants to publish classified information now that this is precedent if it were precedent they could just think maybe I'll be better off just not publishing this because I could be prosecuted the government can say that I'm a co-conspirator I'm not just the publisher I'm actually helping them acquire this information they can make that argument and the government can use that against me so I don't want to publish this and that's bad it's not just bad for journalism it's bad because this is accountability right the media is supposed to be basically the fourth branch of government unofficially where they hold government accountable and as shitty as our media is they still have to have the capability to be able to publish information about our government that the government does not want getting out war crimes being one of them so if you can't do that and you're going to worry about retaliation from the US government by publishing dirt on them that's bad and this is what that could have potentially produced and it's not over because the appeal is coming I don't know if the United States government can say well we have a special you know facility we'll send him to will he where he'll be protected I don't know I don't think it's over yet but I'm glad we got this victory but it's just scary that we were this close to basically really taking a sledgehammer to the First Amendment and it's sad that people don't realize what was at stake in this case like people hate Julian Assange because of the 2016 Russia stuff but this is not about that this is about the Chelsea Manning Leagues that proved our government is doing war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan and nobody thinks about the long-term repercussions of this case they just kind of have this political hatred of Julian Assange but this isn't about Julian Assange this is about the broader precedent that this case would set like you have to remove him from the situation so you know it's a it's very interesting very very interesting that this is ultimately how this case ended for now but nonetheless I'm happy about it and this is a victory and I'm going to celebrate this victory because had he been extradited to the United States and prosecuted that would have been a new low for the United States it would have been an attack on the First Amendment unlike anything we've seen before so I took a couple of weeks off from Twitter and YouTube and I come back and things are a complete mess you know leaving YouTube and Twitter it really was nice like it was therapeutic because I feel like my mind has been cleared but every time like there's winter break there's always some sort of a drama that happens on left Twitter or YouTube and this year of course was no different I think back in 2017 or 2018 we had the Justice Democrats drama where they kicked out Cenk Yuger and then Kyle Kalinski resigned as well in 2019 we had the Tulsi Gabbard drama I was part of that unfortunately and now we have the force the vote drama now for those of you who are not aware I'll try to give you the rundown of it but basically this turned into this really huge thing that has led to 50% of the left online hating the other 50% of the left online and it seems like a large portion of people on left Twitter and YouTube now hate members of the squad because ultimately force the vote was not successful in getting them to get a floor vote on Medicare for all it's kind of a mess but I do feel like after watching way too many hours of force the vote material I've listened to a lot of takes both from proponents of force the vote and people who are critical of it I feel like I do have a pretty solid and objective perspective on this because I've heard out both sides and so my observations are going to be based largely on generalizations but I think that what I have to say I think it's useful and I kind of contemplated whether or not I should even talk about this because I don't I don't want to talk about something that is very clearly dividing the left which hurts us overall but I think that in order to move forward there has to be healing and in order to have healing you have to talk about things like you can't just sweep it under a rug so let's talk about it so when it comes to force the vote there's two main camps one camp as this image explains they just simply want progressives to withhold a vote for Nancy Pelosi to become Speaker of the House unless she agrees to you know get a floor vote on Medicare for all now baked into this demand is this assumption that we know about the inevitability of Nancy Pelosi we know that she's probably going to become Speaker again because there's no other challenger to the left of Nancy Pelosi like if it's not Nancy Pelosi it's probably someone worse than Nancy Pelosi to the right of Nancy Pelosi like Steny Hoyer or Hakim Jeffries so knowing that she's going to be Speaker again try to get something out of it try to extract some concession and the concession that we want is a floor vote on Medicare for all we know it's not going to pass we know this won't actually get us Medicare for all but we think we can use this as ammunition to strengthen our position and you know have Democrats go on the record like show your cards who's going to go on the record and deny their constituents Medicare for all during a pandemic so that's one side the other side says this isn't really a good idea now I've heard multiple takes as to why they think this isn't a good idea and I'll tell you which camp I fall in after I explain their position but on Chapo trap house will Medicare made the point that you know what this is just going to hurt our cause because it's going to demoralize people they're going to see Medicare for all fail and they're going to get disappointed and want to check out a politics I'm paraphrasing of course there are some individuals who will say you know what this isn't a good idea because it's going to put us in a worse off position because then Nancy Pelosi can point to the failure of this to pass and she'll say look I told you it's not popular we can't pass it so overall after listening to all of these arguments weighing out the pros and the cons I ultimately do fall into the camp of forced to vote ironically I found out about forced to vote through Sam Cedar when he talked about Jimmy Dore coming up with the strategy and I thought oh my God this could be something that's amazing because if you have Jimmy Dore and Sam Cedar agreeing on something two individuals who hate each other's guts this really could be something that you know we all coalesce around and unify the left but it's turned out to be like the opposite where now everyone hates each other more than ever and you see people online Jank Euger Jimmy Dore taking lots of shots against each other and it is getting ugly I mean that is hard to watch like I've watched these guys over the years and this is like watching two Titans in our bubble in our echo chamber go at it's like you know to Bob versus Biggie Jay Z versus Nos and so it's tough to watch and I don't think it needs to be this way you know I'm in the camp of forced to vote I think that this is a good strategy but I think that we have to acknowledge that there are valid criticisms from allies who definitely support Medicare for all but when things started to go down hill was when the factualization really started to happen there was a clip of Jimmy Dore basically screaming at AOC saying you know everyone is turning against you Humanist report is now turning against you Kyle Kalinsky is turning against you and my response to that is you've got to calm the fuck down Jimmy like here's the thing I don't like the criticisms that Jimmy Dore is just doing this for clicks he's a grifter I believe Jimmy Dore believes in this that's why he's angry and look he has a right to be angry but you've got to acknowledge that if somebody sees you know Jimmy Dore screaming at AOC calling her a sellout fuck you you don't support the strategy it's going to turn off a lot of people and think okay this doesn't seem like a good strategy if you're just going to yell at AOC she's already on our side from an optics perspective from a marketing perspective getting people on board means convincing them and that's not going to be something that persuades a lot of people and you know after seeing that a lot of people thought oh wow well I don't want to be associated with this I don't want to be associated with this dude online who's like screaming at people and so you had individuals try to kind of salvage the force to vote campaign and say look this isn't really about Jimmy Dore this is really about force to vote the substance he's just one individual who is a proponent of force to vote and sure he popularized it but you don't have to agree with Jimmy Dore and him screaming at AOC to still support force to vote and that was kind of my take like I think that anger is a good thing but I don't necessarily agree with like screaming at AOC I don't think that it's warranted just yet because I don't think that this necessarily proves that she's a sellout because she doesn't support this particular strategy you know there's just a disagreement and apparently her strategy was to negotiate with regard to Pego but still even having said that I think that AOC is wrong to say that oh well Jimmy Dore she didn't name Jimmy Dore but it's heavily implied that Jimmy Dore saying fuck you to her is tantamount to violence which I unequivocally disagree with like I think that Jimmy Dore went too far in his criticism of AOC saying that she's basically comparable to Nancy Pelosi or there's no difference I don't agree with that at all but I don't think that telling a politician fuck you or to go fuck themselves is tantamount to violence but still even if I don't agree with AOC saying that I think that Jimmy Dore did take it a little bit too far at times I think that you know when you have forced the vote and people aligning with you you have to acknowledge that there's going to be criticisms even within this faction that has kind of emerged so there's another viral clip of Jimmy Dore and Ben Spielberg talking about this and Ben Spielberg tried to push back against this claim that AOC and Pelosi are similar I think and Jimmy Dore was yelling at him and what not I think that these clips kind of sullied the momentum for forced the vote like you see a lot of solidarity but then you think okay I don't want to be associated with this it's getting a little bit too extreme too divisive but then people who support forced the vote they started to see individuals who were initially supportive of it flip so you see Cenk Ugoor who kind of like indicated that he supports forced the vote flip and is now critical of it saying it's it's not the best strategy you see Sam Cedar who initially said he agreed with Jimmy Dore kind of changes tune a little bit I don't know if he was still supportive of the strategy maybe he just didn't like Jimmy Dore's tactics and yelling but he kind of flipped you see you know the DSA come out and say we don't actually support this campaign when I believe they supported a floor vote on Medicare for all a couple years prior so if you're an individual and you don't care about these viral clips and you care about the substance well it's kind of like what the fuck you all supported it what changed I mean now that it's gaining momentum after saying you support it now you don't support it so I see that anger I see why people are disappointed but on the opposite side of the same coin folks who are disappointed with individuals who reject the strategy oftentimes take their criticisms way too far you know labeling someone a sellout because they don't support this is unreasonable putting someone on a list saying that these folks who rejected forced the vote or on the wrong side of history it doesn't make sense these are all allies who support Medicare for all they just don't agree with this particular strategy because they don't believe that it's the best way to get to Medicare for all this is becoming like a no true Scotsman fallacy where it's like if you don't support forced the vote you're not a real progressive when that's it's a strategy disagreement like this isn't a hill to die on necessarily because it's just a strategy I think folks who support forced the vote know that this isn't actually going to get us to Medicare for all it is just a means to an end it could increase our bargaining power going forward but of course there are pitfalls with this strategy I think there is insightful criticisms of it but it's not like the hill to die on like if you don't support this I don't support I don't think you hate Medicare for all you're a fraud progressive or a grifter you just disagree and that's fine like I've had my disagreements with people who support Medicare for all I've been disappointed in it disappointed in Jimmy Dore who when Tulsi Gabbard came out against Medicare for all you know he kind of gave her the softball interview and she supported a multi payer system she came out with like single payer plus and that's plus private insurance so it's no longer single payer it's a multi payer system it doesn't eliminate eliminate private insurance and I was expecting Jimmy Dore to rip her a new asshole but he didn't so it's like well where was that energy where was that fire for Tulsi Gabbard when she came out against Medicare for all isn't the standard that you're applying to AOC a lot more stringent and harsh than other politicians so there are disagreements there and the problem is that when YouTubers and left this pundits publicly disagree then their audiences kind of end up taking a side you know and so that becomes this huge issue and it becomes a factionalized clusterfuck and just a mess and you've got people who are like making fun of the small crowd size and that really bothered me as well if you look at like what the activists there were saying one of them was Joy Marie a friend of mine like she was passionately talking about why she needed Medicare for all so why would we make fun of that if you disagree with the strategy there's no need to make fun of that like we're all on the same side and so basically like this is getting already too convoluted but there's so much basically my my main criticism of forced to vote and all of this like both sides is that we don't communicate with each other we're talking past each other we're not talking to each other and so if I vocalize a criticism of forced to vote or you know I listen to a criticism of forced to vote rather than responding to someone else's criticism I immediately shut down and I think fuck that person I'm done with them I'm writing them off forever and we do this individually because you know there's so much at stake as I stated like there's a lot of anger and hurt and the necessity of Medicare for all it's never been higher during a pandemic so there's so much at stake and people have a right to be angry we just have to make sure we're angry at the right people and being angry at each other taking shots at each other this isn't healthy and it doesn't help that YouTubers online are participating in this because their viewers are going to take sides and the viewers will clash when altogether we have to be a cohesive block if we ever want to be successful and I'm preaching right now but I've been part of the problem as well I've gotten into many arguments with people online other leftist commentators so we just have to try to be more self-aware and not do this but the main issue here overall if I could step back and wrap all of this in one pretty package and hand it to you and tell you this is what I think is the main issue here it's a lack of communication it's a lack of communication not just with each other but between us and politicians members of the squad specifically because this is what it's about so fast forward to the day when all these members of Congress are sworn in and we see whether or not they're going to get anything for voting for Pelosi because we all expected them to vote for Nancy Pelosi and what happens they voted for Nancy Pelosi and we didn't get a floor vote on Medicare for all so a lot of people responded I think in a reasonable way by saying look I get it you know there I don't want to see them vote for Nancy Pelosi however they're going to do that because there's no other left-wing alternative I just hope that they extracted enough concessions to make that vote worth it because by voting for Nancy Pelosi like it or not you're voting for someone who's part of the problem who's against your interests so if you're going to make that choice to vote for Nancy Pelosi you better damn well get something for it that's what force to vote was about and then we saw a response that was the opposite where fraud squad was trending and people were attacking members of the squad for voting for Nancy Pelosi there's a lot to say about this first of all I think that labeling them the fraud squad I think that that goes too far but with that in mind I don't think that anger at the squad is unwarranted I think that anger at them voting for Nancy Pelosi irrespective of the circumstances they have to explain that and this is where communication comes into play right okay I get that there was no other left-wing challenger and the only alternative to Nancy Pelosi was a Democrat that was more conservative right someone like Hakeem Jeffries or a Steny Hoyer so I get that I can rationalize their their reasoning and if they feel as if you know getting the exceptions for Medicare for all and the Green New Deal under pay go to then force floor vote on Medicare for all later if they think that's enough then that's fine like I don't think voting for Nancy Pelosi makes them sellouts if I were in Congress would I vote for Nancy Pelosi no I wo