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So this week on the Humanist Report podcast, we'll talk about the rise of Bloomberg and his attack on Bernie Sanders supporters as well as his failed attempt to tie Bernie Sanders to Donald Trump that backfired absolutely horrifically for him. On top of that, we'll address the Bernie Bro myth once again and discuss possible pitfalls in the upcoming Nevada caucus. And we'll look at Elizabeth Warren's latest attack on Bernie Sanders supporters, Mike Bloomberg's threat to democracy, the Pod Save America podcast, it's a hot take on Bloomberg. And I'll give you my pre and post debate breakdowns of the Las Vegas debate. And finally, we closed the week by talking to 2020 congressional candidate from Washington state, Chris Armitage. And that's what we've got on the agenda for today's show. Hopefully you guys will enjoy it. So let's waste no time, get right to it. Mike Bloomberg has been spending hundreds of millions of dollars to basically buy his way into third place. And once the polls really started to show that he is someone who could be in this race for quite some time, given that he has unlimited resources, while online leftists began doing what they've been doing throughout the course of this primary. Voting Mike Bloomberg like all other candidates. And the reason why it's so important for people online to dig through the history of these candidates is because we don't have a competent mainstream media who's willing to do that. Not only are they incompetent, but they refuse to actually vet these candidates in a really meaningful way. So once we realized that Mike Bloomberg is someone that we should be taking seriously, people online decided to dig through his history and shocker, he has a lot of skeletons in his closet. So for example, Ben Dixon released audio of Mike Bloomberg at the Aspen Institute where he basically is being explicitly racist. Now, when these types of things come up, when you have direct audio and video footage of him saying racist and sexist and transphobic things, like there's no way that you can really spin that, you can't adequately defend yourself. So all you can basically do is deflect. And that's what we saw from mainstream media. For example, someone who was previously on Mike Bloomberg's payroll at CNN decided to, rather than defending the merits of what Mike Bloomberg said, decided to attack Ben Dixon because he released that audio. So here's the thing, important context here. We don't have the full tape. So this is obviously snippets that have been released. The podcaster and the writer that released this sound is clearly a Bernie supporter. If you look at his Twitter feed, he's very anti-Bloomberg. He is promoting a hashtag, Bloomberg is a racist. We don't know how he got the sound. To begin with, so lots of questions are being asked, especially on the timing of this, as you noted in your introduction, a poll yesterday shows Bloomberg rising in the polls and particularly strong support in the African-American community. He pulled at 22% just behind Joe Biden at 27%. So the timing here and the mission here, all calling into question. So like that's what you have to do if you're backed into a corner. You have no other way to defend yourself. That audio is absolutely incriminating and there's more. I mean, we just saw clips of Mike Bloomberg saying that black and brown people don't know how to behave. For example, take a look. But nevertheless, there's this enormous cohort of black and Latino males age, let's say 16 to 25 that don't have jobs, don't have any prospects, don't know how to find jobs, don't know what their skill sets are, don't know how to behave in the workplace where they have to work collaboratively. So this is indefensible. There's no way to defend yourself if you are Mike Bloomberg. And on top of that, there are more claims of sexual harassment against Mike Bloomberg than there are against Donald Trump. So if I'm Mike Bloomberg, what do I do in this situation? Well, if I were a good person, I'd drop out and stay out of politics forever, but that's not the reality of the situation. So what Mike Bloomberg has to do is basically try to delegitimize the people who are going after him. Now, primarily it's Bernie supporters going after him, but really this is a concerted effort by a lot of people online who don't want an oligarch to be able to buy elections because I mean, if Mike Bloomberg can do this, then are we gonna see Jeff Bezos do this in 2024 and the Walton family do this in 2028? Like it's a never ending cycle of plutocracy. We're further devolving into an oligarch and we don't want that to happen. So concerned citizens are vetting Mike Bloomberg since the media refuses to do that. And he has no choice but to delegitimize people, shoot the messengers rather than the message itself because this is all indefensible. So if you go after the people who are going after you, that's really the only way that you could possibly deflect. And that's what Mike Bloomberg tried to do. So he released an ad attacking Bernie Sanders supporters calling out the harassment of angry Bernie bros. And this is absolutely glorious because it really demonstrates how desperate he is.  It is vitally important for those of us who hold different views to be able to engage in a civil discourse. So listen, he's doing this because nobody is exposing Mike Bloomberg more than Bernie Sanders supporters. So every other candidate in this race currently needs to thank Bernie supporters rather than attacking them because nobody else is brave enough to call out Mike Bloomberg. And look, some of those tweets I admit were mean spirited but other tweets, if you pause the video and look at each individual one, you'll see that some of them actually were calling out Mike Bloomberg's racism. So what he's essentially communicating is that it's mean it's harassment to call out my racism. That's what we're seeing here. And it's funny because you can literally do this. You can make the same attack out against every other candidate. And back in 2016, when Bernie Bros were supposedly their all-time most harshest, well, it was actually Hillary Clinton supporters who were more aggressive with regard to the Democratic primary. And Bernie supporters were actually the least aggressive online. And it really doesn't matter who is and isn't the most aggressive because one example of someone being abusive online is not enough to denote general applicability. Just because someone online is mean to you who supports Bernie Sanders, that doesn't mean that that represents the entire campaign or base of support. But understand all this is Mike Bloomberg's attempt to deflect. He doesn't want you to dig through his record so he's trying to delegitimize the people who are actually vetting him and doing what the mainstream media refuses to do. Now, to their credit, they have been talking more about Mike Bloomberg's record still not as much as they should be. Like for someone who is spending hundreds of millions of dollars and effectively running this parallel primary where he features ads with people saying, hey, we need Mike Bloomberg, but he hides his face.  So his only move here strategically is to attack the people who are calling him out. That's what he's doing. And on top of that, what this is also about is what these candidates like Mike Bloomberg want is for Bernie Sanders supporters to demobilize. They want Bernie Sanders supporters to shut up, right? Because if they can get us to think that we're making Bernie Sanders look bad and therefore hurting his chances with our behavior, then maybe we'll be quiet when we see Mike Bloomberg saying something racist. Maybe we won't speak out if we see the mainstream media or Mike Bloomberg or anyone using pro-corporate talking points to argue against Medicare for All, a literal life-saving policy.  They want us to be quiet, but that's not gonna happen. And it doesn't matter if we're quiet or not, the narrative will always be that Bernie supporters are unlike every other candidate supporters. We are uniquely harsh. We harass people possibly more so than Trump and it doesn't matter what we do or don't do, the narrative will be what candidates believe it should be if they think that can actually hurt Bernie Sanders. And what Mike Bloomberg is willing to learn is that when you go after Bernie Sanders supporters directly, you are going after the most passionate, motivated and politically savvy group of people online. Sure, maybe at times we shitpost a little bit too much. I think I'm guilty of this myself, but at the end of the day, we are fighting for justice, economic justice, racial justice, social justice. We believe that we are fighting for the greater good of the country, for the world, right? Because we don't have a choice. So we're not going to stop calling out people who spread lies and misinformation and corporate propaganda. And Mike Bloomberg is going to learn firsthand that you're going to want to be wary about going after Bernie Sanders supporters in such a direct way. Because if you want to release an attack ad against us, we'll release an attack ad back against you. For example, this remix from John, which I found absolutely phenomenal. What's that saying again? You are the company you keep? Yeah, so that's one ad, but here's another one, which gets more into the details of all of the sexual harassment lawsuits against Mike Bloomberg. This one might be even more devastating. Mac and Latino males aged, let's say 16 to 25 don't know how to behave in the workplace. Zekai told her boss, Michael Bloomberg, she was pregnant. She thought he would be pleased and he said to her, kill it. Now that was incredible.  You get us to stop looking into the record of Mike Bloomberg. And maybe you silence a couple of us, right? Maybe you persuade us that we should be quiet, not call out other candidates, not criticize people in mainstream media because that's gonna hurt Bernie Sanders chances. But there are millions of us and not just here at home, but around the globe who are anxiously watching to see that we elect Bernie Sanders because we all wanna save the planet. This is a united front, not just in the United States, but internationally around the world. This is a global progressive movement. So you may be able to silence some people, but you're not going to be able to silence all of us. And whenever you push back against us, we're gonna hit back 10 times harder because what Mike Bloomberg is going to need to realize is that, you know, Bernie supporters and leftists in general, we're not like traditional Democrats. When Democrats face criticism and scrutiny, what they tend to do is roll over and die, but we always hit back. We actually fight because we actually believe in something. We stand up for ourselves because we're right and you're wrong. We're on the right side of history. You're on the wrong side of history. We're for justice, you're against justice in all forms. So Mike Bloomberg is a horrible human being and progressives are going to continue to expose his atrocious record. And we don't really even have to do that much. We don't have to dig that deep. All we have to do is show old clips of Bloomberg talking and he incriminates himself because he just is an objectively racist bad person who thinks he can be president because he has a lot of money. And maybe that can happen. Maybe he can buy his way into the White House, but it's not going to happen without the most forceful pushback imaginable from the left. And if we didn't push back against him, then I think that we would be acting immorally we have to stop what would be just the collapse of a democracy entirely, right? It would be a full blown oligarchy. If we had a second billionaire in two election cycles in a row buy his way into the White House, we have to push back because if we don't, then we're just as bad as everyone else who's complacent and not doing anything as things go to shit in this country, as people die because they don't have health insurance, as people sleep on the streets, we have to fight back because we don't have a choice, period. Even though mainstream news pundits don't want to admit this, everyone can see Bernie Sanders is the front runner. The pundits in mainstream media know it and certainly the 2020 Democratic Party presidential contenders know it. Hence why they have been attacking Bernie Sanders relentlessly as of late. Even though it may make us angry that they're attacking somebody who's fighting for justice, it's a good sign because it shows that we're winning and they have to attack him because they have no choice if they want to win. So we've seen Joe Biden attack Bernie and say that he has never gotten anything done or he doesn't get things done. We see people to judge ramping up the attacks on Medicare for all. We even see innocent little Elizabeth Warren going after her friend Bernie Sanders after previously saying, I'm with Bernie. Well, look, things get ugly during the primary process and the attacks are always going to be directed at the front runner and this upcoming debate is probably going to be pretty brutal for Bernie Sanders because he's gaining a lot of momentum as he continues to rack up these wins. Now, somebody who also decided to go after Bernie Sanders is Mike Bloomberg, who is arguably one of the front runners. He hasn't won a single state yet but he's spending hundreds of millions of dollars and after Super Tuesday, he can stay in the race all the way until the convention and never has to worry about running out of money. So I don't know if Mike Bloomberg is going to be a real contender but he's a threat that we absolutely should take seriously. And like all the other Democrats, he is now directing his fire towards Bernie Sanders but he is not just directly attacking Bernie Sanders. What he's trying to do is craft this victim narrative and suggest that, no, he's not attacking Bernie. He's just responding to the attacks of Bernie Sanders because understand this, you don't ever really want to be perceived as an aggressive candidate because when you attack someone, it can bring down their numbers but simultaneously your numbers tend to go down as well. Historically at least. So he doesn't want to directly attack because he is kind of creeping into that third place status and he doesn't want to lose that. So he's trying to position himself to attack Bernie but not make his numbers go down as well. He doesn't want to be perceived as aggressive. So we all know he put out the attack at against Bernie Sanders supporters. And on top of that, he released this email titled, Bernie's new bro, Donald Trump. Now, before we read this, let's just pause and reflect on that headline, Bernie's new bro, Donald Trump. Mike Bloomberg is literally friends with Donald Trump. They've been friends for years. He was on The Apprentice with Donald Trump. They've been friends for years, they're old golfing buddies. So that is a really, I guess we'll say interesting line of attack and Bernie is going to utterly dismantle this but let's just hear him out and read this email. In response to repeated attacks by Bernie Sanders, his spokespeople and supporters, today, Mike Bloomberg 2020 responded against baseless charges espoused online in print and on TV. Quote, it's a shameful turn of events to see Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump deployed the very same attacks and tactics against Mike. But the reason is clear. At this point, the primary is Bernie's to lose in hours to win. Bernie knows this, Trump knows this. That's why they are united in the campaign against Mike, said Bloomberg 2020 campaign manager, Kevin Sheekey. Now we'll get to some of these quote unquote attacks by Bernie Sanders people and supporters, but like he's trying to say that Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are attacking Mike Bloomberg in the same way. What is Donald Trump doing to attack Mike Bloomberg? He's calling him mini Mike and making fun of his height. What is Bernie Sanders team doing to attack Mike Bloomberg? They are correctly stating that he is an oligarch who's trying to buy the selection and he's also racist. So, I mean, different tactics here. Nonetheless, he's saying that they're the same and these are the attacks that he takes issue with. Quote, in the past week, Bernie Sanders national press secretary, Breonna Greyjoy, senior advisor, David Serota and national campaign co-chair, Nina Turner, have referred to Mike as a racist and an oligarch, both true. Implied Donald Trump is better than a fellow Democratic candidate for president and called Bloomberg supporters, enablers, all true. So if you call him a racist, if you call him an oligarch, both accurate claims, objectively true, that's an attack. You can't point out facts against me, otherwise I will take offense to it. Now, if I'm Mike Bloomberg's team, like it's indisputable, he is an oligarch, he's also racist, but if I'm Mike Bloomberg, rather than whining about it and crying about these attacks, I'm gonna own it. I'm gonna say, look, yeah, I'm an oligarch, but guess what? Donald Trump is also an oligarch and I have basically unlimited money. So if you truly wanna beat Donald Trump, you need an oligarch to take on Donald Trump. I will spend billions of my own money to defeat him. So hell yeah, I'm an oligarch, that's what it's going to take to defeat him. Now, that may not resonate with a lot of people, but for Democrats who are absolutely worried about electability, that could get them to come on board. But instead, he's choosing to play this role as I'm the victim and they called me an oligarch.  So these are the specific quotes that he takes issue with. This one is from Brianna Greyjoy.  This is in response to audio revealing that he is explicitly racist. And this from Nina Turner. Oligarch of the month, Michael Bloomberg. And also from Brianna Joy Gray. We have no reason to believe Bloomberg's newfound political commitments. He has demonstrated a willingness to change his stripes with the political wins. And because he's self-funded, literally accountable to no one, the danger he presents cannot be overstated. Another one from Brianna. Trump will say he has a better record on criminal justice than Bloomberg, and he may be right. Absolutely correct. This from David Sarota. I'm told Mike Bloomberg isn't an oligarch. He's just a billionaire who buys elections and is a part-time resident of a foreign tax haven. Also correct. And finally from Nina Turner. I may not have a PhD yet, but I do have the good sense of knowing what makes for oligarchy. Anyone caping for a billionaire with a media company able to buy endless ads and influence party rules halfway through is precisely a perpetrator of the corrupt system, i.e. an oligarch. Now in response to all of these quote unquote attacks, the email reads, these attacks are unacceptable. All Democrats should focus on the critical task of choosing a candidate that can compete against Donald Trump and win. In the face of the most consequential election of our lifetimes, it is unfortunate that we aren't even talking about such slanderous attacks from other Democrats. And we do have some live footage of Mike Bloomberg reacting to all of these vicious attacks. I've cried like that since Titanic. You and me, we're family. You promised never to do the same. And no one's ever gonna break us apart. Absolutely. That's pretty special. Wow, boy. So look, these are factual statements. Mike Bloomberg is a racist. Mike Bloomberg is an oligarch. Pointing these out doesn't inherently make them vicious attacks. It just means that they are giving you the blunt truth about Michael Bloomberg. And if you truly want to beat Donald Trump, then running a racist oligarch isn't the best strategy because what you need to do to beat Trump is turn out the base. Make sure that people are excited and galvanized and ready to come out and support someone they believe in. Do you honestly believe that the Democratic Party base is going to be excited about Michael Bloomberg, a former Republican who supported George W. Bush and the Iraq War, who's made recently transphobic and racist comments who defended Stop and Frisk?  Yes, I get he has money and you need money to beat Donald Trump. But guess what? Hillary outspent him by what a two-to-one margin and still lost. So maybe money isn't everything. Maybe you need a base who believes in the candidate that they're coming out to vote for, otherwise they might not vote at all. But I mean, this is strategy. Mike Bloomberg, again, he needs to find some way to defend himself or at least deflect and he wants to attack Bernie Sanders who is the front runner, but he can't do that directly. Otherwise he's going to hurt his own numbers. So he has to cry victim. He has to make it seem as if he isn't attacking. He's not going on the offense if he's just defending himself and counter punching. Except he's really showing how clueless he and his well-paid staff is because look at that headline again. It says Bernie's new bro, Donald Trump. Yeah, about that. So Bernie Sanders responded to that email and he absolutely obliterated Mike Bloomberg and he did this by not saying anything by just putting this picture next to that email. And that's all he needs to do. You are going to seriously claim that Bernie and Donald Trump are friends when you have literally been friends with Donald Trump for years. And I mean to call these attacks by Bernie's team, Trumpian. No, you're the Trumpian one because like Donald Trump, you're self-funding your campaign. You're accountable to not a single person. You have no grassroots donors, nobody. And you're friends with Donald Trump.  So it's just, it's a laughable attack and I don't know who he thinks he can convince here. Maybe he doesn't think he can convince anyone. Maybe by going after the front runner, strategically speaking, he's making it seem like he's the best positioned to take on Donald Trump because if Bernie Sanders cares about Mike Bloomberg and Bernie's team is attacking Mike Bloomberg, well then maybe it's the case that everyone should be worried about him. Maybe even Donald Trump should be worried about him. But we just talked about this. Donald Trump claimed I'd rather run against Bloomberg than Bernie Sanders because there's no support with Bloomberg there. He's just buying his way into third place. The only people who are supporting Mike Bloomberg are ignorant about the fact that propping him up and supporting him, they are basically cheering on the collapse of democracy. As we devolve into oligarchy, they're okay with it because they think that he can be Donald Trump. Well, I mean, what are some of the biggest criticisms of Donald Trump? He is racist. He's authoritarian. He's sexist. I mean, everything that you can say about Donald Trump is also true about Mike Bloomberg. So all of the Democrats' criticisms of Trump is true of Bloomberg. So you can't possibly think that running him against Trump is a good idea. And the fact that so many Democrats are coming out to endorse Mike Bloomberg, it's just, it's embarrassing. Any Democrat who supports Mike Bloomberg should be primaried. They should be out of politics forever because they're showing that they have the capacity to be bought. And they don't care about policy. They don't care about democracy. They don't mind that our country is devolving into an oligarchy. If you wanna even claim that it's democratic at all, they don't care. They're just about maintaining their own careers and Mike's got the money. That's why they're supporting Mike. So look, this is embarrassing. I'm really glad that Bernie Sanders responded to this. Don't let this oligarch take advantage of you. Don't be dissuaded from criticizing him and calling out his racism and Islamophobia because he did surveil the Muslim community in New York.   I mean, what happened to all of that? It's just a joke. So Mike Bloomberg has absolutely got to be stopped. But he's communicating to us that it's gonna be a little bit easier to stop him than we thought. Even if he has all this money because he is tone deaf, he's so out of touch with normal Americans. And if this is all that you've got saying that Bernie and Trump are best friends when you're literally besties with him, not gonna be so tough. We just have to make sure that we get the word out in spite of all the money that he's spending to prop himself up. So I'm sure that by now, most of you have noticed that as Bernie Sanders continues to surge, there's been an increase in pearl clutching as of late, not just by corporate news pundits, but by his 2020 rivals as well, because they're terrified and they realized that at this point, Bernie Sanders may be unstoppable. In fact, one Politico article describes how other Democratic candidates are privately conceding that at least when it comes to Nevada, they're basically competing for second or third place. So it's crunch time. They've got to do something. If they don't act, if they don't attack Bernie Sanders, they're done.  So you can't really attack him based on policy. And if you try to criticize him based on Medicare for All or something like that, he has this huge base of support who will dispel myths and misinformation. So what do they do to attack Bernie Sanders? They try to take on his biggest strength, one of his biggest assets, his supporters.  Because if we self-censor and we don't defend Bernie Sanders, then that gives them a huge advantage. And look, I'm not saying that corporate news pundits and 2020 Democrats all met in one big smoke filled room to discuss this strategy, but it's a narrative. And narratives tend to catch on when one person says it and others find it persuasive and they all just kind of parrot it. That's what happens. So now everyone is basically attacking Bernie Sanders' supporters. Last week after bosses from Nevada's Culinary Union claimed that they were swarmed by vicious Bernie bros after they of course lied about Medicare for All and were corrected, well all of Bernie's rivals almost simultaneously, including Elizabeth Warren, jumped at the opportunity to attack Sanders' supporters even knowing that this could hurt them because they may need these people down the line if they do win the nomination. But I mean still, they attacked Bernie Sanders' supporters.  And after Joe Biden called on Biden bros to defend him on social media, he actually decided that online attacks are actually bad. And he told NBC News, look, if any of my supporters did that, I disowned them. Sure, Dan. And this is my favorite story because it was just a couple of weeks ago, just at the end of January when he was saying, can I please have some Biden bros, please? And now all of a sudden he's looking around and everyone is saying, Bernie bros are bad. Now he's saying, yeah, Bernie bros are bad, but please defend me online because I'm getting eaten alive because I have no supporters.  But I get it, Bernie's the front runner. We were prepared for this.  But it's just interesting how aggressive they're being at attacking Bernie Sanders supporters. And it's not just 2020 candidates because pundits have been doing this as well. For example, reporter David Atkins clutched his pearls in response to a Nevada poll where a Bernie supporter dared to poke fun at the other candidates by calling Biden gropey and Warren a snake and Buttigieg a rat to which he responded, can you imagine if any other candidate supporters behaved like this? Yeah, I can't imagine a situation where anyone is worse than Bernie's supporters, especially in 2016. I mean, it was definitely the case that Bernie's supporters were way more aggressive online than Hillary supporters, correct?  And in fact, we have to push back against the mainstream media and other 2020 Democrats because they are beholden to the same multinational corporations who are hell-bent on taking down Bernie Sanders. But I mean, I don't wanna be overly unkind to David here because he's not alone. There were certainly a lot of pundits at MSNBC who agreed that Bernie Sanders supporters really are the worst. You know, certainly look, the so-called Bernie bros are out there. Those of us who have said or written anything negative about Bernie Sanders have heard about, heard from them at least on occasions, certainly the other candidates too. But I myself have members of your communications team blocked on Twitter just because of even before this campaign, going back to 2016, just the nastiness gets so bad that it's unbearable and you've got Sanders supporters and these are real humans, not bots, who will sick the Sanders legion on you if you just say Bernie Sanders in a non-smiling tone of voice. If you're not lauding him, you do get attacked by Sanders supporters. That's a real thing. Most of the black journalists I know who cover politics have experienced it, especially journalists of color. Now, when Joy Reed says that journalists of color are their main targets of Bernie bros, she's making that up.  She doesn't have statistics. She doesn't have data. And second of all, the 2020 Bernie bro, demographically speaking and statistically speaking is a woman of color.  It was bullshit in 2016 and it's especially not true now that Bernie Sanders has created the most diverse coalition out of all the candidates. He is winning among non-white voters so you can't keep parroting the lies that you said in 2016. And second of all, when it comes to Bernie Sanders supporters, I wonder Joy, do they really have a legitimate reason to push back against you? Why would they criticize someone like Joy Reed? I just can't figure it out. I mean, Bernie Sanders does have a sort of physicality when he talks. That is a shaking your finger at Hillary Clinton, shaking your finger, shoving, weirdy, you know, his physicality makes me think, yeah, he could have said, listen, I think in this environment, a woman can't win.  Well, first of all, I think Bernie's lying. We see him, he slouches forward anyway, Joy, but here he turtles. If you look at his eye level where he normally answers questions, when he makes the denial, his whole shoulders come up like a little kid getting caught. His eye level is below his shoulders. This is trying to hide in plain sight. Listen, I've said this once, I'll say it again. This is nothing more than a narrative. They want to be able to viciously smear Bernie Sanders and spread misinformation, pro-corporate talking points about his policies and not have anyone call them out, right? They're the media. They're the ones who have the authority. They're the ones who have a monopoly on political information. So how dare you criticize them for lying about your candidate? I mean, the thing about this is, look, liberals, they have this vision, not incorrectly, of Democrats.  But the thing about leftists, the thing about progressives and democratic socialists and Bernie Sanders supporters is that we're not like traditional Democrats.  We actually stand up and defend ourselves because guess what? We're the good people. You're not the good people. We're the good people. We're fighting for justice. You're fighting for corporate profits. That's what you're fighting for. So when we call you out because you lie about something like Medicare for All, we're not inherently evil for calling you out.  And we are fighting for the policies that would save lives or change lives for the better.  And see, the thing about social media is that they hate it because it evens the playing field. Like back in the early 2000s, they could lie about candidates. They can spread misinformation about certain policies and they get zero pushback. But on social media, it evens the playing field.  And they hate that.  But those days are gone. The peasants are revolting because we are absolutely done with the system. No more incrementalism, no more milk toast neo-liperals. I'm sorry, but people who have been hurt and oppressed by the system are not going to remain quiet. And that's what we're seeing in real time is rich people trying to grapple with the fact that poor people actually kind of have a voice. And even if they think they can drown us out with their propaganda, we're not going away and we're not going anywhere.  They can't take it. They don't like the fact that poor people have voices.  Those days are over. So this is why the Bernie Romance is so pervasive because we have a voice and they don't want us to have a voice. They want to be the only ones with the voice. But again, those days are done. And if you're not angry, then you're not paying attention or you haven't been hurt or oppressed by this disgustingly capitalist, vicious system. Now Michael Moore explained, I think, beautifully in an MSNBC segment, that people have a right to be outraged. It's not just Bernie supporters that are angry. Everyone is angry because we are hurting. Not so much they're Bernie supporters that are angry. The country is angry. They're angry that they're having to live under the rule of Donald J. Trump. They're angry because they have to live from paycheck to paycheck. They're angry because they can't afford the daycare. They don't know whether if they end up in the hospital they're gonna have to lose their home as a result of it. Yeah, people are angry. And they don't want half measures anymore. Obamacare was great for what it did, got rid of pre-existing conditions. The kids get to stay under their 26. But it did not, it didn't go all the way. We have to go all the way. We can't no more half measures on these things. Yeah, no more half measures. The half measures have not been working. We've been dealing with half measures for decades now and we're more desperate, more demoralized than ever. So what we're saying now is enough is enough. We are drawing a line in the sand and we're saying either you're with us or against us. We're not going to accept anything but a fundamental reshaping of this entire system. Now you can cry about that. You can say that we're being mean and overly aggressive. But that's where we're at. Bernie Sanders supporters and poor people in general who have checked out of the process, they can't afford anything less but fundamental reform. These types of nibbling around the edges, these tweaks to the system, it's not going to work. We've tested that theory, we've tried it your way and now we are demanding that we're gonna do it our way. And look, maybe it's the case that individuals like Joy Reid, they just really are ignorant. Maybe they're not actually angry that poor people finally have a voice through Twitter and whatnot because Bill Maher recently explained that he also thought that that stereotype of the Bernie bro, the white angry bro was real but he was educated and realized that, no actually that's not true. And Pramila Jayapal kind of helped shed light on this and explained that this coalition is huge. It's not just white men online. This is a diverse working class rainbow coalition and we need to acknowledge that because trying to pretend as if Bernie Sanders supporters are just the white bros, that is erasing the diversity that is huge in this movement. Like this is what Democrats have been saying they want, like a diverse, multi-racial, multi-ethnic working class coalition and now that they've got it in one candidate, well because it's not the candidate that they like, they're shitting on him but Pramila Jayapal explains that this really is something that's special. Tell me about something that I've been reading about lately that there is a myth of the Bernie bros. We had this image, I must admit I did too. Doesn't look like me. No, but you know that it was mostly these younger in-celly white men and I read the statistics and no, in fact Bernie does worse with white men than anybody and it's more women who are forum, more Latinos. Well, how did we get it wrong, Twitter? Twitter, I mean I do think Twitter is a big part of it. People look at that and think it means everything. But Bernie Sanders has assembled the most diverse coalition there is. He is energizing young people, he's got tons of women of color, he's got tons of people of color more broadly but he is also playing to a forgotten group of blue collar workers who really believe he's gonna fight for them and that combination of this very diverse coalition of voters that have not turned up before that frankly any other candidate would be thrilled to have this kind of coalition, he's got them but he is also speaking to a lot of people that really feel like he will fight for them. I mean just in 2016 we lost Michigan for the first time in 28 years, Democrats lost Michigan, we lost Wisconsin for the first time in 32 years. Guess who won 71 of 72 counties in Wisconsin? It was Bernie Sanders. So when you look at the appeal of Bernie Sanders I think it is really unusual to have somebody who can do both things. Really build that broader base but also play to these Trump, some of them Trump voters. And she's exactly correct. Look, rather than telling angry Bernie bros to stop yelling, maybe try listening because the Bernie bros, which now the average Bernie bro is a woman of color they're hurting. And as Aaron Stigl explains on Twitter I hear a lot about angry Bernie bros. What I don't hear a lot about is how the most diverse working class campaign in this race has the right to be mad because many of our livelihoods depend on Bernie Sanders becoming president. That is exactly it. To a lot of people, millions of Americans this election is literally life or death because some people don't have health insurance and they need it. And they are hoping that Bernie's elected and is successful in passing Medicare for all. A lot of people can't spend any money because they are overwhelmed with student debt. Like this is a fight for our lives. So much is at stake. So for people in the mainstream media and other Democrats to just minimize this pain and suffering and just reduce it down to angry Bernie bros online. It's not just a gross oversimplification but it's downright immoral because you are ignoring the voices of people who are crying out, who need help. And you're saying no, no, no. We're gonna do it my way. We're gonna tweak around the edges a little bit more.  Because we have corporate profits that need to be made and I don't wanna cut into those corporate profits because then these corporations might be mad at me for doing that and they won't donate to my campaign. Just listen to people. And even if you disagree, at least try to understand where Bernie supporters are coming from. These are normal people who are hurting, who need a candidate who they believe will fight for them. That's why you see so much passion. You may think that it's anger and vitriol but this is passion from people. And maybe at times we do get a little bit angry. I have been a little bit angry on Twitter and I've snarkily tweeted at the candidates but understand that there's so much at stake, literally life and death for a lot of people. Literally about the habitability of our planet. Like if we don't elect Bernie, I don't see any other candidate with a platform that will save the planet, like let alone the country but the planet we're talking about. So there is so much at stake. So at least try to understand. And for those of you who refuse to understand or still don't care, well, if you're an elitist, then I have nothing left to do but offer you the wisdom of Anna Kasparian.  So I'll leave you with that. Damn right, we're online. I'm considered a Bernie bro and we're angry.  It's a campaign and if they can't handle us emphasizing policy that makes him a superior candidate then you're not cut out for politics, log off. So I wanna take some time to talk about the upcoming Nevada caucus but before I do that, we have a public service announcement coming directly from the Bernie Sanders campaign. He tweeted, if you vote early, you must select three options on your ballot or your vote will not be counted. If you don't have a second or third choice candidate, select uncommitted as your second and third choices. See sample ballot here. Now, as you can see from the sample ballot, since this is a caucus, you do have the opportunity to rank your second and third choices. I believe you can select more than that but this is actually great in practice. However, there is a danger that if you don't rank your choices then your ballot will not be counted so please make sure that you follow the instructions. Now back to the Iowa caucus itself. Well, the good news is that Bernie Sanders is absolutely dominating according to polls. He is sitting at 35% and the only other candidate who reaches viability barely is Elizabeth Warren. Now mainstream media will spin this and say, well, you know what? 65% of the field doesn't support Bernie Sanders so actually he's not in first place but understand this, Bernie Sanders is poised to do well in Nevada and if he dominates in Nevada, he can have enough momentum to win South Carolina which is arguably Joe Biden's firewall. It's a must win state for Joe Biden. So this is huge but the bad news is that there's a lot of indications that the Nevada caucus will be a disaster just like the Iowa debacle. Now we don't know for sure yet although the preliminary rundown from volunteers is that it's not good. This headline from Politico kind of explains it, quote, a complete disaster. Fears grow over potential Nevada caucus malfunction. Volunteers complain of poor training for a vote reporting system that was adopted on the fly. So basically anyone who has been training who's been a volunteer or a caucus leader they've seen the tool that they're working with. It's not an app, it's an iPad tool so not an app, wink, wink and they're basically saying this is going to be a complete and utter disaster. Now, I mean, again, we should expect at a bare minimum that these state democratic parties will be able to count the votes and deliver the results to us but again, we have this situation where we don't know what to expect. Are we going to get the votes on Saturday? Will we know who won? Will they release the results gradually throughout the week as they did after Nevada? We don't know. Anyone associated with the Nevada caucus who's been volunteering is saying this, according to Laura Baron Lopez of Politico. In interviews, three caucus volunteers described serious concerns about rushed preparations for the February 22nd election, including insufficient training for a newly adopted electronic vote tally system and confusing instructions on how to administer the caucuses. There are also unanswered questions about the security of internet connections at some 2,000 precinct sites that will transmit results to a central war room set up by the Nevada Democratic Party. Some volunteers who will help run caucuses at precinct locations said they have not been trained on iPads that the party purchased to enter and transmit vote counts. Party officials scrambled to streamline their vote reporting system, settling on Google forums, accessible through a saved link on the iPads. After scrapping a pair of apps, they'd been planning to use until a similar app caused the fiasco in Iowa two weeks ago. The volunteers also said that the party has not provided sufficient training on how to use the Google forum that will compile vote totals, a complicated process in a caucus. One volunteer who has worked on past caucuses in Nevada said the Google forum that will be used to input vote totals wasn't even mentioned during a training session for precinct chairs late last week. The iPads weren't discussed until more than halfway through the presentation. The volunteer said, when someone asked how early vote totals would be added to the totals compiled live at each precinct, the person leading the training said not to worry because the iPads would do the math for them. Quote, there were old ladies looking at me like, oh, we're going to have iPads, the volunteer told Politico. After sitting through the two hour training session, the person predicted the caucus would be a quote, complete disaster.  Yikes, big yikes. This is just incredibly worrying. And the volunteers who are in charge of administering early voting are saying that there's already difficulties getting the app, or excuse me, the iPad tool to function. They're having difficulties getting it to connect to the internet. It's not functioning properly in some cases. I mean, early voting, if this were going smoothly, we would maybe think that there'd be some hope for the actual caucus itself. But I mean, they have the test right now, right? Early voting has started and you see a huge turnout, 18,000 plus people casting their ballots in early voting and they're already reporting that there are some issues. So this is incredibly, incredibly worrying. We don't need another Iowa debacle because if this continues to happen, you are going to depress the Democratic Party base. You're helping Donald Trump and Republicans and there has to be accountability for this, right? Otherwise, we're not going to be assured that this won't happen going forward. And sure, the Iowa Democratic Party leader, Troy Price, resigned, although, you know, there is a lot that the DNC did that hasn't really been reported. They, according to leaked documents, have been in charge of a lot of aspects that led to the app malfunctioning or the app itself. They didn't attest it. There's a lot of blame to go around but we haven't seen an adequate amount of accountability that tells us that the people who led to the Iowa debacle are out of the picture, right? We haven't seen resignations from anyone at the DNC. So we're expecting disaster. And a site leader in Nevada went on CNN and you could just hear in his voice, he is not confident that this is going to go well. Week out, early voting starts today. Organizers have had a significant amount of time to get ready for the caucuses. How far along in the trading are you, are other volunteers, are you as confident? I'm not quite as confident but they've been working very hard and I am personally really encouraging early voting because early voting will minimize many of the risks that we'll be talking about. It is accurate that we're not using an app per se but we are using an untested software tool in the caucus room and I do worry that the caucus process will be confusing and flawed. When you say untested, and I apologize if it sounds like I'm cutting you off because we've got a delay, but when you say untested, how's the training going on this new process? We've never, we have had a lot of training on the broad process. We have never seen or handled this tool. Oh wow. They keep telling us as early as last night that we'll show it to you when it is ready. So it's not ready a week out? That's what the trainers have said as recently as yesterday. Yeah, not very reassuring this process. I'm not ready for whatever this process delivers. Now he said later on in that clip that in the event something goes wrong with the iPad, what the Nevada State Democratic Party is telling caucus leaders and site leaders to do is to call them. Just give them a call, except what do they do in that situation if everything goes wrong at once and the phone lines are blocked? That's kind of what happened in Iowa, right? You had caucus leaders on hold for hours, couldn't get through, the phones were blocked.  Like we need to have a backup plan and then a backup plan for the backup plan, we need plans A, B, C, D because if something goes wrong and it probably will, you have to have some sort of failsafe. And the fact that people who are going to be in charge, the volunteers don't have the confidence tells me that this is going to be a huge debacle. And if it's not an outright disaster, then certainly some precincts are going to suffer. Like you're forcing older people who aren't familiar with iPads and technology in general to use iPads. Like why are you changing this? Just let them do what they did before. It worked fine or as fine as it possibly could with a caucus because caucuses just in general are clusterfucks. But why are you changing this? I mean, it's just, it's a debacle. It is a complete debacle. And early voting is the thing that gives me hope. Thankfully, you know, there's a form of ranked choice, but if you don't actually rank choices, you know, two and three, select them. If you don't select uncommitted, then it's not going to count.  What a disaster.  So how are we supposed to trust them to run the country? And again, bare minimum. That's all we're asking is for them to do the bare minimum. So I will wait and see. We all should wait and see, but let's just hope that they go above and beyond to make sure that their staffers, their volunteers are trained and they not just know what they're doing, but actually feel confident. Like they can teach it if they need to. Because this is an election. Like this is incredibly serious. People's lives are at stake. People take this seriously, rightfully so. So I mean, we shouldn't be worried that these caucus leaders don't feel confident and may make a mistake because they're forced to use an app on an iPad or an iPad tool that they don't think is going to work properly or they don't know how to use it. I mean, this shouldn't be happening and they shouldn't be trained this closely. You know, the minute that IOL went wrong, they should have been training them immediately, but they still don't have all the details. They don't necessarily know. They're having issues with the iPads with regard to them functioning improperly and connecting to the internet. Just whatever you do. Make it work. Figure it out and get it done. You have a few days, just get it done. I mean, we shouldn't have to be worrying about this. Just get it done. Jesus Christ, it's not that difficult. Just count the votes, have something in place. If the app doesn't work and just report the votes to us. That's all we're asking. Just be more competent than Iowa. The bar is very low. At least surpass that bar that they said, that low bar. Do that and I'll be happy. Listen, I cannot stress this enough. One of the most important rules in politics if you are running for any office is to never attack voters. Your surrogates can attack voters. Your supporters can attack other candidate supporters.  Now this week we saw both Mike Bloomberg and Joe Biden attack Bernie Sanders supporters. They're vicious. Joe Biden said that Bernie Sanders should speak out and that he would disown them if those were his supporters.  And now we have Elizabeth Warren, who rather than pushing back, who supposedly one of the leaders in the progressive movement decided to join in on this course of attacks. And she also decided to herself attack Bernie Sanders supporters when NBC News reporter Ali Vitale asked her about the culinary union's claim that Sanders supporters were harassing them.  You see, you be divisive and attack people and then claim, I'm for unity. Incredible. But nonetheless, take it away, Liz. When Culinary 226 did come out and criticize Bernie Sanders for Medicare for All, his supporters really attacked them.  I've said before that we are all responsible for what our supporters did. And I think Bernie has a lot of questions to answer here. And I am particularly worried about what happened to the attacks on members of the Culinary Union, particularly on the women in leadership. The whole notion of publishing their personal addresses, their phone numbers, and then making very aggressive threats against their own safety and the safety of their families. That is not how we build an inclusive democratic party. And it is not how we build Donald Trump. We do not build on a foundation of hate. We do not build on a foundation of hate. So she is literally implying there that Bernie Sanders, this entire movement centers on hatred. Incredible, absolutely incredible.   They hate the establishment that is oppressing them, that is bankrupting them, that is literally killing them.  They're channeling their anger into a political movement that the Democratic Party claimed it wanted. You've got it now. You've got a rainbow coalition. You've got enthusiastic young people, finally excited about a Democrat. And apparently now we're all hateful. And she implied that, you know, the Culinary Union, they were mostly like the women of the Culinary Union were targeted by Bernie Sanders supporters. So she's implying that Bernie Sanders supporters are sexist as Hillary Clinton did in 2016. Now my question to Liz is, are these sexist Bernie brothers the same ones who in 2014 begged you to run for president? Is that the same people who you believe are now hateful and sexist? Just curious, trying to find out who we're talking about here. Now when it comes to this claim that Bernie Sanders supporters attacked the Culinary Union and they were doxxed and harassed, I genuinely don't know what they're talking about. Like I am a very online person. I'm on Twitter, I'm tweeting every five seconds. And I don't know what they're talking about. Like I didn't even see the attack that the Culinary Union released about Medicare for All. I would have probably pushed back if I saw it. But like, I don't know what they're talking about. And if that happened, of course that's horrible. We don't condone harassment or doxxing. But I mean, you can't possibly say as she did, we are all responsible for what our supporters do. And I think Bernie has a lot of questions to answer for here because that's impossible. How can you say with a straight face that you are responsible for the actions of all of your supporters? That makes no sense. If that's the case, if Elizabeth Warren truly believed that, then I expect her to promptly condemn her own supporters who have been harassing Bernie supporter, Alison Metzger, who writes, I continue to be hounded by Liz Lads for answers that I have already given and documented ad nauseam with no substantive counter bullshit infinity. I'm also receiving DMs asking me if I am planning on a coffin or cremation when I die of cancer. Now she's saying this because she basically put out a tweet that said if Elizabeth Warren supporters are the reason why we don't get Medicare for All, I will never forgive them. And then after that, she was bombarded with hatred from Elizabeth Warren supporters because a prominent Elizabeth Warren supporter decided to quote tweeted and basically put her on blast when this is just a private citizen. Is Elizabeth Warren going to condemn that? Basically her own supporters excited about the fact that she has cancer? That's pretty toxic if you ask me. What about this? Glenn Greenwald writes, here's what one Warren supporter, not some random Twitter, but a blue check journalist with multiple MSNBC appearances and a prominent blog wrote about me this month. Has Elizabeth Warren demanded that this stop? I hope so. This kind of toxicity has no place in our discourse or unity.  And as you all know, Glenn Greenwald has been the target of a fascist government in Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro. And he's a journalist. Is Elizabeth Warren going to condemn this? Is she going to condemn all of her supporters who've been harassing Native American women? And as you can see from these screenshots here that this user posted, Warren supporters have been the worst when it comes to online attacks. And they're saying that they've received the most attacks from Warren stands. You also have a prominent Warren surrogate, not a supporter, but a paid surrogate, Ashley Preston have a history of racism and homophobia exposed. And Elizabeth Warren didn't come out to condemn the person that she hired. I've said before that we are all responsible for what our supporters did. Why hasn't Elizabeth Warren condemned all of this yet? Maybe she doesn't actually believe that you are responsible for the actions of your supporters. Maybe she's just saying this because she's desperate. And this is a pathetic attempt to get people to move away from Bernie Sanders and rally behind her. Well, guess what? That's not happening. That is not happening. You got trounced in Iowa and New Hampshire and 538 is projecting that on Super Tuesday, the only state where you're going to win any delegates will likely be Massachusetts, which is your home state. So for someone to claim that they're the unity candidate when we're not unifying behind you, we're all coalescing around Bernie Sanders. I mean, how can you claim that you're the unity candidate with the straight face when the left is rallying behind someone else? And when you're being divisive, you're attacking Bernie Sanders and not just the candidate, but his supporters. And you're the unity candidate? Sure, Dan. You see, the thing about Elizabeth Warren is that she just refuses to listen. She likes to talk at people because she's smart. She's the wonky technocratic millionaire and she expects you to listen. But we're telling her, we don't want to unify behind you. We want Bernie Sanders. We tried unifying behind you in 2014, but you told us no. You were too afraid to stand up to the Clinton machine, Bernie stepped up and now we're with him. So we are telling you very clearly it's reflected in the polls and in voting that we don't want you, we want Bernie Sanders. So why aren't you listening? Like the same is true with Medicare for All because like I was surprised that she stood her ground for so long, but the minute she started to lose her front runner status was when she moved away from Medicare for All because clearly she wasn't listening to voters. I mean, think about this. The way that she pitched her Medicare for All proposal and her rollout plan was that, look, we need two separate rollouts. We have to first roll out a public option and then we have to roll out Medicare for All in my third year as president. I'll probably lose the House or the Senate as historically most presidents do. That was her goal. Now, the reason why we had to push for not one but two major legislative battles, I mean, Obamacare in and of itself, we fought for that for what more than a year and it was still huge. We barely got it passed. It was voted along party lines, but the reason why we have to fight for one legislative battle and then move on to fight for another legislative battle is because after we get people a public option and we put Medicare for All into their hands, then they'll want to keep it. Well, this is just another example of Elizabeth Warren talking at people and not actually listening to voters because you don't have to put it in their hands. We have the shitty healthcare system in our hands already and we're telling you, we don't want this. We want Medicare for All. Look at the exit polls for Iowa and New Hampshire. All Democrats support Medicare for All overwhelmingly, not just Democrats. Look at public opinion polls. Most Americans, a majority now support Medicare for All, but yet she's telling us, no, I need you to have a public option so that way you'll want Medicare for All more and then it will be easier for us to get it. No, you're not listening. We're telling you we want it now. That's what we want. So we don't believe your strategy here and this tells us that she doesn't even understand what this battle will be about. This isn't about you convincing us to give us Medicare for All. You've already won a silver and that regard we want Medicare for All. This will be a battle between the health insurance industry and whoever becomes president if they choose to pursue Medicare for All. I promise you that after having a public option for two years, they're not going to be any more persuaded to just die and go away so Medicare for All can come to pass. Like that's absolutely delusional thinking, but it just goes to show you that Elizabeth Warren, she has a plan for everything. She doesn't care what you want. It's what she wants and what she says. So she never listens to voters and here she is now condemning all of us as sexist Bernie Bros. who are harassing and doxing members of the culinary union.  I mean, this is the problem with Elizabeth Warren. And as she claims that Bernie Sanders supporters are toxic, well back in what was it August, October when Bernie Sanders had his heart attack, when she was riding high in the polls, when she was in first place, you had some Elizabeth Warren supporters call on Bernie Sanders to drop out and unify behind her because she had the momentum and now that she has zero momentum, now that she has no real path towards the nomination, she's calling us toxic.  In spite of Bernie Sanders having all the momentum, leave him and unify behind me even though my campaign is gonna crash and burn at any minute now. I mean, listen, Elizabeth Warren has to ask herself this. Is she serious about getting progressive policies passed? I think that her actions will tell us how she really feels, right? Because if you truly were serious about uniting the left and getting progressive policies codified into law at a minimum, you would at least stop attacking Bernie Sanders and his supporters over and over and over again. And if she truly believed it, she'd drop out. Now it's her right to stay in as long as she wants. I can disagree with it, but that's her right. But if she truly believed in progressive policies and she wasn't just self-interested, she would at least practice the unity that she preaches, but the fact that we can't even get that, the fact that she has become a main opponent to Bernie Sanders, I mean, I just don't understand what she's doing. If I'm Elizabeth Warren currently, I'm seeing the writing on the wall. I'm realizing that my campaign should probably start winding down. I'm pulling ads from Nevada already, as she did. And I'm trying to carve a path for myself for the future. I'm uniting with Bernie to take down Biden and Bloomberg. So maybe I could be his running mate. I'm uniting with Bernie Sanders so maybe I can get a job in his administration.  Like you can condemn attacks on the culinary union, that's fine, but don't generalize, don't claim that that's representative of all of Bernie Sanders supporters if we even wanna claim that they were attacked. Because again, I have not seen these attacks. We're just going off of what the culinary union claims.  Keep preaching unity as you condemn people who you would need if you wanna run in 2024 or in 2028. I mean, keep doing it because we're seeing who you are. This is mask off. We're seeing the real Elizabeth Warren.  And because you surround yourself around people who are just terrible, who are democratic strategists, who are just lunatics, who hate Bernie Sanders and progressives, but really we're seeing the true Elizabeth Warren here. She was never serious about any of this. She talked a big game. She had a pretty good record up until now, but when push comes to shove, when the left really needs her, she's not there for us. This isn't the first time that she has shown us that. So this is the real Elizabeth Warren. Remember this, when she expects us to help her or support her down the line, because now that she's not here for us for a second time, a second election in a row, she can guarantee, she can count on us not being there for her. So because a lot of polls are currently showing that Mike Bloomberg is a viable contender for the 2020 nomination, a lot of us are grappling with the prospect of a Mike Bloomberg nomination or a presidency. I think he probably wouldn't get that far because he'd get clobbered by Donald Trump, but still the fact that he's able to make it this far, like we have to ask ourselves a lot of questions. There's gotta be some introspection about our democracy and how we let it get to this point. So we're asking ourselves all types of questions, but the guys over at Pod Save America, they are taking this in a different direction rather than saying what institutional mechanisms allowed this to happen. They're blaming the left, essentially, for Mike Bloomberg's rise. You see, because if everyone is a centrist, then basically no one is a centrist. So you know how Republicans call everything socialist, including Obama and Hillary Clinton? Well, that is an attack that becomes less persuasive over time. So what he's going to tell you in this clip is that we on the left have essentially done the same thing with everyone, and now people aren't going to take us seriously when we explain how Mike Bloomberg is a centrist. This is truly ridiculous, but nonetheless, we'll let them take it away. Look, I think the other thing that's tough here is there's a lot of folks on the left who spent a lot of this campaign telling us that Pete Buttigieg is some centrist shill and not a good enough Democrat, and Joe Biden is not a good enough Democrat, and Amy Klobuchar is not a good enough Democrat. And it's like now we have someone in Mike Bloomberg who really isn't a good enough Democrat, who really is a moderate Republican. And because a lot of times they spent this entire campaign telling us that good mainstream Democrats like Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar and Joe Biden aren't good enough for us, it's going to be harder for a lot of people to believe that that's true about Mike Bloomberg when it is true about Mike Bloomberg. This is the fable we will tell our children, a boy who cried centrist. Yeah, exactly. Okay, now hold, because I've got one more clip to show you. I don't have the full context for this. Nonetheless, I've got to play this.  What do you mean shape up? We're winning. Like what? Let me just put things in the perspective because this podcast features, you know, former Obama alum, right? You won because of us. We were part of that Obama coalition. We were called Obama boys back in 2008. And now we're the Bernie bros and we're winning, right? We're beating the centrists.   And I don't think that he is. I think he's just being disingenuous. Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg, we call them centrists because they are quite literally centrists. And if we tried to call them, you know, progressives or socialists, I think that they'd push back themselves against that claim because they are presenting themselves as centrists. So what are we supposed to do? Just accept that they are progressive. I mean, that term already has been watered down, but what does that even mean?  I mean, we want Medicare for all, they're fighting against it. We want to cancel student debt, they're fighting against that. So what are we supposed to do? We are at odds with each other ideologically speaking. So are we just supposed to say, well, you know what, because they have that D next to their name, they're great. And to say, well, you know what?  You dipshit. Look at the parties in the UK and all throughout Europe. Their right-wing parties are ideologically more in line with Democrats than they are with Republicans. Like the Tories in the UK, Boris Johnson, for example, he may want to privatize portions of Britain's national health system, but he still believes that, you know, basic healthcare should be free at the point of service. There are Democrats who don't just not believe that, but they're not even hiding that. They are openly running against Medicare for All. Pete Buttigieg attacks Medicare for All every other day. And the reason why he's attacking it after previously supporting it is because he took money from these large corporations, the health insurance industry, big pharma, and now he's doing their bidding. Like to not call that out is disgusting. You are misinforming your audience if you're not telling them about that. So who watches this show? Like that's my question. Who watches this trash?    And you have to understand that nuance is a thing that exists, right? Amy Klobuchar and, you know, Mayor Pete may be right here ideologically and their centrist, but you can still say that there's differences between them and Mike Bloomberg. Yes, he is demonstrably worse because he is further to the right than them. He's just right-wing. I wouldn't say that Mike Bloomberg is, you know, centrist. I'd probably say that he is about where Donald Trump is or the average Republican is ideologically speaking. But just because he's worse than Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg doesn't make our criticisms of them any less clear. They are clear. You just don't wanna listen.  And because you worked for Obama, you know everything about politics. No, when you worked for Obama throughout that process, how many seats did Democrats lose? A thousand, more than a thousand. Okay, and we were part of that coalition. So you don't get to just talk at us and claim that you know everything. And here's the reality. You have a large, large portion of the left, namely millennials and zoomers who are registering to vote for the very first time, who will not come out and support a Democrat who they don't believe in. 2016 proved that. So you can either accept that if the party wants to remain viable, they have to shift left, or you can just try to squeeze centrists and the left together in one party and see how that continues to work out. You have Republicans who are united. All you have to do is throw some red meat to their immigrant-hating base and they love it. They don't care who.  They'll vote for whatever. But on the left, we actually have standards. People around this country are not going to stand in line for hours to vote if they don't believe that a candidate is going to do much for them. If they think the difference between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, for example, isn't large enough to warrant them getting out and voting, they're going to stay home. And the fact that you are denigrating people who are calling out not just the centrism of Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, and Joe Biden, but actual corruption, conflicts of interest with the financial contributions that they're taking, I mean, it just shows that you are an elitist.  You don't care about the plight of poor people. You don't care that there's been this ongoing class warfare that's been waged against the poor by elites. You don't care that people are struggling and they're desperate currently. You don't care.  Vote blue, no matter who.  And now we have a real threat and you kind of ruined that. Thanks, lefties. No, it doesn't work that way. It doesn't work that way. This is a primary and there is a civil war that's going on in the Democratic Party. If the left doesn't win that civil war, then Republicans will be in control.   I'm sorry that you're mad at them for not coming out to vote blue, no matter who, when they are still going to be in the same predicament on the verge of bankruptcy due to medical debt or die because they don't have health insurance. I'm sorry. Yes, there may be a difference between Democrats and Republicans. We don't want to perpetuate that false equivalence, but you've got to understand the way that voters perceive this is I'm not going to come out and pay the cost of voting, standing in line for hours, sacrificing my time, maybe taking off of work if the payoff isn't going to be worthwhile. People are self-interested. They will vote for candidates that are going to do good things for them. Amy Klobuchar isn't saying what she'll do for voters. She's just saying you can't have Medicare for All.  He just wants to be president because he wants to be the next Obama. You have Joe Biden who is just running because he thinks he can run away with it because he was the former VP. I mean, you have people who clearly aren't representing the interests of working class Americans. And then finally, you have someone like Bernie Sanders and for the first time in almost a decade, you have people energized to support him. And what do you do? You dog on them for daring to compare contrast the candidates. Shameful. This is absolutely shameful. This is elitist garbage. And if you listen to this podcast, turn it off. You might as well put on CNN because you're going to get the same political analysis as you'd get from these elitists. So if the 2016 Democratic Party primary wasn't eye-opening to you, then 2020 should confirm beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Democratic Party has absolutely no principles. They stand for nothing and represent no one. They are vapid, they are hollow, and they are not to be taken seriously. And the only utility that they have for us on the left is that they have the infrastructure for us to take over and kick them all out. Because I mean, look at this.  After four years now, brow-beating Bernie Sanders supporters in the left for supposedly not being woke enough, saying that we don't actually care about communities of color and this left movement is just too white. Well, now they're supporting the worst possible person if they truly claim to care about communities of color, marginalized people, identities, identity politics, for lack of a better word. And on top of that, after screeching at the top of their lungs how we can't support Bernie Sanders because he's not a real Democrat, look how quickly they fall in line to support a Republican. So the Democratic Party is an absolute joke and Mike Bloomberg's rise reveals that to you. It reveals how craven and morally bankrupt they are as a party. Because they're supporting Mike Bloomberg, not necessarily because they believe what he's saying politically, but because he has money. And the Democratic Party, generally speaking, they don't care about policy so much as they care about maintaining their seat, maintaining their position of power. That's all that this is about. And if he's got the money, then they're going to be there for him regardless of what they said, you know, about voting Democrat and supporting the woke candidates. It's just, it honestly is embarrassing.  He has already at this point in time, remember, we're just in February, two contests have taken place. He's already outspent Obama's 2012 general election campaign spending. I'll repeat that. He has spent more already than Obama spent on his entire reelection campaign at $338 million. And he is open to spending a billion on this election. And, you know, aside from all of the millions of dollars on television advertisements that he's buying, that money is, you know, it's not just getting his name out there. It's clearly influencing networks to cover him more generously or at a minimum to ignore his scandals. He's donated to the DNC. He's donated to state Democratic parties, elected officials at local levels, hence why so many mayors are endorsing him. This individual bought the Democratic Party. I don't know how else to describe it. He bought an entire political party. That is where we're at in American politics. We are in the latest stage of capitalism, where you can become so rich that you can buy a political party. Think about that for a minute. Think about the implications that this has on democracy. If he proves that this strategy is successful, can you imagine what to expect in 2024, 2028? We're just gonna take turns with an oligarch running for president, Jeff Bezos. The Walton family, Mark Zuckerberg.   And if he's able to successfully buy his way to the nomination or at least, you know, remain in until the convention, that in and of itself is so, it's just, I can't even describe it. I don't think I can, with the straight face, say that we live in a democracy. Even now you can argue that we're in an all out oligarchy. But I mean, if he actually is successful with this strategy, I don't know what to say. I don't know what to say. It's horrifying. But here's what we need to do. We need to be very clear about the threat that he poses to democracy. And we need to take notes right now. Be very, you know, scrupulous in what you do and acknowledge that there's a lot of people, a lot of sellouts in the Democratic Party who are choosing to support Mike Bloomberg, not because they believe in what he represents. He represents nothing but oligarchy. And anyone who is choosing to, you know, not just refuse to speak out, but actually go so far as to endorse Mike Bloomberg, they absolutely must never be able to win another election again.  But if you go so far as to endorse what he's doing, there is no place even in the Democratic Party for you.  No, in actuality, the left isn't going to stand for that. And if he is the nominee, we have to make it very clear that we're not voting for him. The Democratic Party needs to know that we will not tolerate this. Because if we tolerate this in this election cycle, we're going to have to tolerate the next billionaire oligarch in the following election cycle. And let's all remember Donald Trump self-financed a lot of his campaign in the Republican primary in 2016. So Trump already kind of proved that it's successful, but Mike Bloomberg is showing what happens when you put that strategy on steroids. So anyone who isn't speaking up, note their silence because it's deafening and people who are actually endorsing Mike Bloomberg, they are a special kind of evil enablers and they absolutely must be primary. So I wanna go to this list that was put together by a Twitter user who lists all of the endorsers in Congress of Mike Bloomberg. And if they have a primary challenger, who that individual is. So the first is Max Rose, who represents New York's 11th Congressional District. We have Stephanie Murray from Florida's seven. We have Harley Ruda from California's 48th. We have Bobby Rush from Illinois's first. And he actually does have multiple primary challengers, but I actually brought on Robert Emmons on the program. He's a phenomenal candidate. He's been endorsed by Arrow Revolution. He is a true progressive. So if you are in that first Congressional District, you have to support him. You can't allow someone who endorsed Mike Bloomberg to remain in power because they're showing they don't care about democracy. We've got Scott Peters of California's 52nd. He does have a primary opponent. Her name is Nancy Cassidy. We have Ben McAdams, who is representing Utah's 4th. His primary opponent is Daniel Beckstrand. We have Juan Vargas representing California's 51st. We have Mikey Sherrill, who's representing New Jersey's 11th. And he has Mark Washburn as a primary opponent. We have Haley Stevens, representing Michigan's 11th Congressional District. We have Lucy McBeth, representing Georgia's 6th Congressional District. We have Stacey Plaskett, at-large representative for the Virgin Islands. We have Greg Remiques, representing New York's 5th Congressional District. And just a little side note about Greg Remiques. He claimed that we can't possibly support Bernie Sanders because he's not a Democrat. He literally endorsed the Republican, Mike Bloomberg. Isn't that amazing? Mike Bloomberg, I think he was an independent up until 2018, then he finally registered as a Democrat. So that's all it takes. I'm sure that if Bernie Sanders actually registered as a Democrat, even though he's running in the primary, but if he registered as a Democrat, then they'd all change their minds, right? Now, Greg Remiques does have a primary challenger, Shania Shadri. Support this individual, donate to them. I mean, this cannot be tolerated. We have Ted Deutsch, representing Florida's 22nd Congressional District. Also has a primary opponent, Imtiaz Ahmad Mohamed. Every single one of these people who are endorsing Mike Bloomberg, they are basically green-lighting the death of our democracy. They're communicating to you that they absolutely could not care less about the United States devolving into full-blown oligarchy. And I use the word devolving into full-blown oligarchy a little bit loosely here, because you can even argue that we're already a full-blown oligarchy if you're judging that based on policy outcomes, because we already know that's dictated by what elites want.  They're saying, you know what? I support what he's doing.  I believe someone can be so rich that they literally can buy one of two major political parties. How insane is that? So we've got, you know, the remaining Koch brother who has purchased the Republican Party, and we have this oligarch, Mike Bloomberg, who has purchased the Democratic Party. Why not just like give them the keys already? Well, like what's the point of us even voting? That's how bad the situation is becoming. This is the latest stage of capitalism before the system just collapses in on itself because this is not a tenable situation. Like this can't go on. You can't try to prop up this system that's wholly illegitimate anymore. So all of these people, they've got to be out of politics. Everything that they say going forward should not be taken seriously because they're proving that they just care about their own careers. And I'm sure that Mike Bloomberg gave them money. Either way, these people have to go. They cannot be trusted. They must be primaried. Anyone who supports Mike Bloomberg is the enemy.  Just admit that you're cool with oligarchy and authoritarianism at worst. I mean, this is an individual who changed the laws in New York to give himself a third term. This is what liberals are screaming about Trump possibly doing. Crying about, oh, what if he doesn't leave office if he loses in 2020? You have someone who is as bad as Donald Trump if not worse in many ways because he's more competent than Donald Trump. So who knows the damage that he can do? And if he takes over the Democratic Party, then I mean, we just have two far right parties. Is that where we're at? I mean, there's gotta be some point where we say, no, we're not gonna do this. We're not gonna vote Bloomberg no matter who. We will never support Mike Bloomberg.  He can run against the devil. We're not gonna give in to this.  So anyone who supports that, long story short, they're part of the problem and they've gotta go. They should never be able to find a job in politics. Again, all of these people must be primaried. So we have another Democratic Party primary debate taking place in Las Vegas ahead of the Nevada primary on Saturday and I've got good news and semi-bad news. The good news is that we knocked out one billionaire because Tom Steyer did not qualify for this debate. Asta Levista don't care. You should have never been able to buy your way onto that debate stage to begin with. But the bad news is that Mike Bloomberg, because the DNC changed the rules in his favor, has qualified. Now that's bad because it shows real corruption. I mean, after donating to the DNC, they changed the rules for you. Like that is inherently disgusting. It should be sickening to everyone. But on another hand, he should have to face the music. He should be challenged for his record. And if the mainstream media isn't going to challenge him, then certainly he needs to at least own up to what he's done as mayor of New York City, his record of donating to Republicans, his racist and sexist remarks from the other candidates. They should be able to challenge him, right? Because up until this point, he's ran this parallel Democratic primary where he just releases these ads and he's been hiding his face. He oftentimes doesn't even appear in these ads. He just has people talking about him. But I mean, we need to know who you are.  He has qualified for this debate. Will he actually show up? That is a different question. I don't know, but here's what I will say. When it comes to what we should expect or look for for these candidates, if I'm Mike Bloomberg, I have to make a really good first impression because for a lot of people nationally, this is the first time that they're seeing Mike Bloomberg, the man himself, the man behind the curtain, because they've seen his ads now. You can't watch TV without seeing his ads. So now they're gonna see, is he really what he's been leading us to believe? So he's going to have to make a good first impression. And on top of that, he's going to have to be able to withstand attacks from the other candidates that will inevitably come.  So he's gonna have to do that and be able to defend himself. You can't deflect and cry about me and Bernie Bros exposing your racism and sexism. You are going to have to defend your record. Will he be able to do that? I don't know. Now, when it comes to the other individuals who qualified, we have Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. Now, Joe Biden needs a good performance. And when I say a good performance, I wanna emphasize a really, really, really good performance. He is hanging on for dear life. Azhar, he's gonna get crushed in Nevada and he's clinging to that hope that maybe he can pull out a victory in South Carolina. I think that the odds are in his favor at this point in time, but if Bernie really does perform really well in Nevada like the polls are showing he will, that could give him enough momentum to carry him to victory in South Carolina, which is bad news for Joe Biden. So he's hanging on and he's gotta have a good performance. He should be attacking Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar primarily, even though Bernie Sanders is the front runner. You have three individuals competing for that centrist lane and he has to show people why he's the one to take on Bernie Sanders. He has to communicate to voters that he is the anti-Bernie choice if people don't like Bernie Sanders. If I'm Pete Buttigieg, he's gotta reassert himself. Go after Joe Biden and Amy Klobuchar and try to position himself as the anti-Bernie candidate. I mean, Amy Klobuchar has now kind of, you served him at least when it comes to momentum. She came in third place, but because the media was focused more on that than his second place victory in New Hampshire, well, she's kinda stealing that spotlight away from him. So he's gotta try to have a good performance and steal it back from her. If I'm Amy Klobuchar, I'm just doing what I say Pete Buttigieg and Joe Biden should do, try to present yourself as the competent anti-Bernie choice because you have three moderates essentially splitting the votes and even if they can't all pull delegates at the convention and try to steal it from Bernie Sanders, I mean, you want to have a really good case for yourself. You want a strong plurality and she's gotta make this case for herself. She's not doing well with voters of color. So she needs to at least recognize the issues that face the Latino community, black and brown people and she hasn't been doing well with them. So going into Nevada, she has to prove herself and she can assert that she's actually cognizant of the issues that these communities of color face at this debate. Will she do it? Probably not. I'm sure that she's going to say the same thing that she said throughout the past, eight debates and the media will once again declare her as the winner because they love her all of a sudden. When it comes to Elizabeth Warren, I don't know what to say about Elizabeth Warren. She could come in a distant second according to polls in Nevada, but if I'm Elizabeth Warren, here's what I'm doing. I am teaming up with Bernie Sanders strategically in this debate. Now she's been going in the opposite direction, attacking Bernie, attacking his supporters, but she did the best at these debates when her and Bernie worked together. If they formed this alliance at this debate and if she actually defended Bernie Sanders when the attacks inevitably are lobbed at him by the moderates, then she can get a lot of momentum. People can really maybe rekindle the flame. I don't think that's really possible, but at least not dislike her as much because of her recent divisiveness, if you will, as she preaches unity. So if she were able to kind of like ride on Bernie's coattails and try to defend him and be his wingman or wing woman during this debate, I think that can help her and maybe reignite talks of this Bernie Sanders Elizabeth Warren ticket. Will she do that? Probably not. She's most likely gonna take a backseat during the healthcare portion of this debate that will inevitably come up, not mention Medicare for all, and just come up with these vague platitudes about selfies and whatnot. I'm not expecting much, but she needs a good performance and I can't see any other way that she can actually shine unless she really tries to reinvigorate the left and it's a long shot, but it's your only hope right now. When it comes to Bernie Sanders, he needs a solid performance, but if I'm him, I'm probably not going to be super aggressive, but if somebody does attack me, I'm definitely counter punching if I'm Bernie Sanders. I'm going to be able to show that I can absorb blows and counter punch, give people a taste of their own medicine and I'm certainly going after Bloomberg if he says anything about me, if he says anything about toxic Bernie Bros, I am talking about his toxic behavior, his treatment of people who worked for him, the women, 64 individuals who claim that they were sexually harassed by Mike Bloomberg. That's what I would do if I'm Bernie Sanders, but overall this debate, I mean, no matter what happens, I think that the outcome is already predetermined by the mainstream media. Bernie Sanders will not win according to their standards. Maybe Mike Bloomberg will win because they don't want to say that he lost, maybe Amy Klobuchar or Pete Buttigieg pull it off, maybe Joe Biden has a comeback, but we don't know what's going to happen. All I know is that what's most important is what voters think when watching this, the non politically savvy, just casual observers. What they see as strength is what's going to matter the most and we won't really know until people vote on Saturday at the Nevada caucus, but this will be interesting. Maybe Mike Bloomberg will show up, maybe he won't. If he does then he's certainly a coward because the DNC already changed the rules at his behest. So you might as well show up and face the music. You've got to at some point, you can't hide your face forever. Will he do it? I don't know, but this will be certainly interesting if he is there and I would advise you to bring your popcorn. So look out for my post-debate analysis the day after the debate airs. That debate was crazy. Like the first hour of that debate was probably one of the most explosive debates I have ever watched and I truly believe that 20, 30 years down the line, political scientists are going to be looking back at this debate and really judging every aspect of it, really analyzing how a billionaire who tried to buy his way into the White House got absolutely embarrassed on national television. That was, I don't even know how to describe it. Like if I say it was brutal for Mike Bloomberg that really doesn't do it justice and usually I don't recommend this because these debates are so toxic, but I honestly think that if you didn't see this debate go back, watch the first half hour, one hour at a maximum and you will see that was incredible. And for all of this talk of unity that was real unity that I saw where you had each candidate basically taking turns dunking on the billionaire who tried to buy his way onto the debate stage with the exception of Pete Buttigieg who just had his nose up in the air the entire time and was basically trying to portray Bernie Sanders and Mike Bloomberg as equal threats to democracy and the party, which is interesting but we'll get into all of that. First, let's talk about some numbers. So when it comes to talk time, Elizabeth Warren clocked in 16 minutes and 35 seconds. Amy Klobuchar actually came in second place this time with a total of 15 minutes and 55 seconds. We had Bernie Sanders with 15 minutes and 24 seconds. Pete Buttigieg with 14 minutes and 46 seconds. Joe Biden with 13 minutes and 25 seconds and Mike Bloomberg with 13 minutes and two seconds. So there is a lot to talk about with regard to this debate. I think that this debate may actually change the dynamics of the Democratic Party primary in a way. That's how influential I think that this will be. But one thing that I know for sure is that this was a good debate for Bernie Sanders. He came in as the definitive front runner and I think he left as the front runner. Although there's things to talk about here because we had a lot of admissions from the candidates that they basically don't really believe in democracy with the exception of Bernie Sanders. But let me just jump right into it. Get to the winners, the losers and a new category that I am introducing. So when it comes to the winners in this category I am putting Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden here, but there is a clear standout. And that is Elizabeth Warren. I think she absolutely dominated this debate and she did what she needed to do. She needed to have a good night. She was hanging on by a thread going into this debate. The 538 projections claim that she had a one in 100 shot of winning a majority of Pledge Delegates. Now that's bad odds, right? It's really bad odds to put it into perspective. Bernie Sanders has about a 41% chance of winning a majority of Pledge Delegates. Warren had a one in 100 chance. So she needed a phenomenal performance. She needed to go after the other candidates, be aggressive and that she did. She attacked Bernie Sanders predictably because that's what she's been doing but she finally ended this weird alliance between her and Amy Klobuchar. She attacked Pete but a judge and perhaps more so than anyone else. She obliterated Mike Bloomberg. It was a bloodbath and individuals online who are reporters who were at Mike Bloomberg debate watching campaign headquarters or whatever. They were saying like members of his team were groaning during some of the exchanges between him and Elizabeth Warren because she absolutely exposed him. But that's not to say that Bernie Sanders didn't have a couple of times dunking on Mike Bloomberg asking him where his tax haven is, telling him that we live in a country where there is socialism for the rich and rugged individualism for the poor to cite Dr. Martin Luther King. And it was really brutal. Now, even though I think that Elizabeth Warren was the winner of this debate, I think that Bernie Sanders was in a fairly close second and more importantly, he was able to maintain as the front runner. Like he kind of just sat back as Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar took turns arguing and Elizabeth Warren and claiming Amy Klobuchar took turns arguing and Bernie Sanders just was riding high. He stepped in when he needed to. He had a phenomenal performance. And I think that this really is going to not change the trajectory for him. I think he's going into Nevada very strong. And this is setting him up very well for Super Tuesday. We'll say that. Now, there's one more debate next Tuesday before South Carolina and Super Tuesday. But I think Bernie Sanders did a phenomenal job even though Elizabeth Warren is the winner. Maybe she'll get a boost from this still. Bernie is looking really good. Now, Joe Biden, I do believe he is a winner, but he's not anywhere near Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. I do believe that there's some distance with regard to the winners in this category. You have, you know, Elizabeth Warren way at the top as the main winner. You have Bernie Sanders in second. And then at a distant, distant third, you have Joe Biden. And throughout the first half of this debate, he performed phenomenally well. He was articulate. He didn't seem to stumble over his own words. He was landing some pretty strong shots at Mike Bloomberg. And I think that the audience was feeling it. But towards the second half, didn't do too well during his closing statement. He was protested for his role in deporting 3 million undocumented immigrants. And he should have been protested for that. That's disgusting. Overall, I think he did pretty well. Now, in the loser category, I have Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg. Now I know what you're thinking, where's Mike Bloomberg? Hang on, we'll talk about him. But Pete Buttigieg, I don't know what he was trying to do, but he was attacking Bernie Sanders more than he was Mike Bloomberg during this debate.  Like you can see that this little rat was jockeying for some type of power. And he knows that Mike Bloomberg going into this debate was one of the front runners, which is maybe why he chose to hold his fire. But you can see he wants to be the VP. He wants money from Mike Bloomberg if he's the nominee. So it's all so fake, it's inauthentic. You could see how disingenuous he is. He has the same rehearsed lines at every single debate. And this time, what was different when it came to that healthcare portion where he tries to pretend as if he has the moral high ground was he got exposed by Bernie Sanders. Like he was talking about how his plan, Medicare for All Who Wanted has majority support, factually incorrect, Medicare for All has majority support. Elizabeth Warren called him out on that. You had Bernie Sanders call out his lies on Medicare for All and not only that, but call out the financial contributions, the support he's received from the pharmaceutical industry. I mean, this is just, this is bad for him. This is bad. And you can really tell he was getting on everyone's nerves, namely Amy Klobuchar, who I don't think that mainstream media can possibly spin as having a good night. The question about her prosecutorial record was brought up. And that was really, really cringe-worthy. The portion of the debate where she was asked about the fact that she forgot in an interview with Telemundo, the Mexican president's name.  I mean, that was genuinely cringe-worthy. And you can see her like visibly shaking and Pete put a judge towards the end of the debate, kept trying to push her and push her buttons more and more and more and it like honestly looked like she was going to physically assault him. Like it was wild to watch. And when Elizabeth Warren said that she looked at her healthcare plan and it's like two sentences, embarrassing, absolutely embarrassing. So I think that this Warren Klobuchar alliance, maybe it was just one for strategy and not necessarily ideology, it's officially over. Now, when it comes to Mike Bloomberg, I had to create a special category for him because he lost so bad.  That was a bloodbath. And I mean, Mike Bloomberg was demolished within 10 minutes and then they just kept taking more and more and more shots. And it's funny because everyone's paying attention. This is his debut, right? He's running all of these ads, spending hundreds of millions of dollars hiding behind a curtain. And I think voters are seeing why he didn't want to show his face. He has zero charisma, zero. He comes off as a creepy out of touch Republican claim that he earned his $50 billion. And then Bernie Sanders had a great line actually. I think that your workers are the ones who earned that. He just, he demonstrated that he's not cut out for the Democratic Party. A centrist and center right as the Democratic Party is, he's out of touch. He's too conservative for the modern Democratic Party, which really says a lot. And he just couldn't defend himself. No matter what he did, he couldn't land any lines. The audience was actually audibly groaning at some of the things that he said. He was booed. He called Bernie Sanders a communist. You could see that he was like sweating and desperate. I've never seen a performance this horrible.  And I don't know how else to describe it.    Oh, that's so embarrassing. That is so embarrassing. Like if I'm like Bloomberg, I'm hiding my face for sure I'm not showing up at the future debates. That was just harsh. Like it was almost cringe worthy. It was so embarrassing. And even though I love him, even though I think that billionaire shouldn't exist, you almost feel bad for him because he's just getting destroyed right there. But then you remember, oh yeah, this is a greedy oligarch who's literally ruining democracy, so you can't really feel bad for him. I don't know what to say. Mike Bloomberg obliterated. Absolutely curb stomped. Each candidate took turns dunking on him. He was visibly uncomfortable. There were moments where he was fidgety. I mean, I don't even know that I have the words to capture how poorly Mike Bloomberg did. And it's so bad that I don't even think that the media can spin this. Like how are you gonna spin this as a good performance? How can you possibly say that Mike Bloomberg did a good job or even performed okay? I mean, this was awful for him. This was embarrassing. Like I wouldn't be surprised if his number started to drop right after this debate. That's how poorly he performed. Now I'm not gonna say that like he's done but if he is done, if his campaign is over, it's this debate performance that did it. And I mean, you had how long to prepare for this? You knew that all of these attacks would come out. The candidates would bring them up if moderators didn't and they did. And your responses were just, it was laughable. It was embarrassing. Absolutely embarrassing.  Absolutely unreal. So Mike Bloomberg performed so poorly that I had to create a special category for him. So to recap, in the winner category, I've got Elizabeth Warren at the tippy top. I've got Bernie Sanders in second place, Joe Biden in a distant third and then I have Pete Buttigieg in fourth, Amy Klobuchar in fifth and Mike Bloomberg at one billion because that's how bad he did. Like honestly, like if you haven't seen this debate, again, I wanna stress, watch it. Watch at least that first hour, do yourself a favor. If you wanna see a billionaire get dunked on, it's gonna be glorious for you. I think that Kyle Kalinsky on Twitter described it as Bloomberg humiliation porn. And that is so accurate. And I saw a jiff from Jurassic Park that made me laugh about Mike Bloomberg entering the debate. And then I saw even from Trevor Noah who I think is a hack generally and not funny claim that, you know, a billionaire hasn't had this bad of a night since Bruce Wayne's dad in that alley. It was bad. And I think that it's universally seen that Mike Bloomberg was the biggest loser, not even close. He lost this debate and it might have tanked his entire campaign. All that money wasted possibly because of this debate. Now, getting to the specifics. When it comes to socialism, Bernie Sanders was absolutely dominant during this portion. So we have Lester Holt propose a poll and say, well, most people don't support socialism. And then Bernie's response was just incredible. He just stared at Lester and said, who's leading in that poll? Crushing that narrative. Responding to, you know, this anti-socialism bias that MSNBC clearly has an anti-Sanders bias more specifically that MSNBC had by saying we already have socialism for the rich in this country. As I alluded to earlier, he quoted Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. And it was just absolutely incredible. Bernie Sanders, I think at this debate, perhaps more so than others, even though he's not the winner necessarily, demonstrated that if anyone is going to be able to take on Donald Trump, it's him. Possibly Elizabeth Warren, but nobody else can hold their own. Now, I think that Elizabeth Warren would lose to Donald Trump. But at this debate at a really crucial time, she did demonstrate that she is a capable debater. Like these last couple of debates, she's just been fading into the background. And this time she came in guns blazing and that's what she needed. So kudos to her. She had a couple of cheap shots at Bernie Sanders when the moderators decided to divert attention away from Bloomberg because everyone was dunking on him too much and tried to get people to attack Bernie Sanders because of his supporters Elizabeth Warren joined in. But at the same time, I mean, Bernie Sanders held his own. I think that his responses were persuasive.  So this isn't something that's unique to Bernie Sanders in spite of what that little rat said on the debate stage. Pete Buttigieg literally tried to say that Bernie supporters are uniquely evil. Okay, well, these uniquely evil Bernie bros aren't gonna vote for you. So you better hope that you are successful in stealing the nomination, Pete, because you're not getting our vote. Now, on that note of election theft, one of the most striking things in this debate, I think possibly the standout moment besides all the dunking on Bloomberg was the fact that every single person on that stage, with the exception of Bernie Sanders, came out tonight against democracy. They revealed their inner authoritarian leanings because they all claimed that they would be open to stealing the nomination from someone, even if they have a plurality of delegates and the most votes. Even Elizabeth Warren said that. So we're gonna dive into that a little bit deeper in a separate clip, but that honestly made me feel sick to my stomach because it showed the Democratic Party, they are frauds.  Their party will be destroyed. Donald Trump gets a second term. Democracy will be dead and the Democratic Party will go the way of the dota. We'll just put it that way. So I'm gonna hold my fire with regard to that story because that is, it's scandalous. Like it should be an international story. The oldest democracy is now having people openly running for president, saying that they'd be open to undermining the will of the people, using superdelegates to steal the nomination away from the person with the most votes. And this comes at a time when all of these dipshits have been railing against the electoral college, claiming that the person with the most votes should be able to win. And now they're all saying, you know, since I'm probably not gonna be able to get more delegates than Bernie, yeah, I'd be open to stealing it. Disgusting, even from Elizabeth Warren. If they think they can do that and go on to win, I don't care how much brow-beating you do, Donald Trump gets a second term. It's basically guaranteed. And that's like the least that Democrats have to worry about because their party is just done at that point. But again, I don't wanna speak too much about that because I have a separate segment for that. But Democrats, they're playing with fire. Like I can't stress that enough. But getting back to the overall debate, that's basically all that I wanna say in my overall debate breakdown. Because I have more segments that I will plan on putting up just about individual little instances here. And look, this debate was great. If you're a Bernie Sanders supporter, you've already got the momentum going into this debate. And so what we needed was for Bernie Sanders to be able to maintain and show strength when he's tested. He did just that. He performed exceptionally well. Elizabeth Warren had the breakout performance. You can tell she really prepared and good on her. But the question I think that we have to ask ourselves after this debate is, can Mike Bloomberg survive this debate? I honestly believe it's an open question. And how will this debate impact Elizabeth Warren? I don't think that Joe Biden did enough to move the needle for him in Nevada. There's a poll that came out today that showed him and Bernie Sanders tied in South Carolina. Let me just explain. If Joe Biden loses South Carolina, his campaign can't survive. That is the firewall. He's been making everything on South Carolina. If he loses that, even if he ties, you can argue, he's done. It can't happen. So I don't believe he did enough to move the needle, but I think his performance was okay. If Elizabeth Warren gets a boost, I will probably attribute it to this debate, but I just don't think that she's going to be able to do that. She's really far behind in Nevada. She could pull out of a second place victory, possibly a victory if really her performance is viewed by voters as that great. But I think that Bernie Sanders performance was so solid that if you were already supporting Bernie Sanders, you have no reason to jump ship. All the momentum is behind Bernie Sanders. He has the most persuasive argument. And when it comes to healthcare, he really honed his craft. All these Democrats are talking about how Bernie Sanders wants to take away healthcare. And Bernie Sanders is able to respond in such a persuasive way that it makes them seem like liars and it's because they are lying, right? Nobody's wanting to take away healthcare. Bernie Sanders wants to expand healthcare to 100% of the population and people just plan about choice. I mean, his plans would raise costs for people. Elizabeth Warren exposed that. So I think that Elizabeth Warren's debate strategy in basically trying to go after everyone else, I think it worked for her. Because when you're behind, you have absolutely nothing to lose. So you might as well go guns blazing Elizabeth Warren. She had to turn up. And I think that she did that. But is it enough to overcome this gigantic behemoth in the race that is Bernie Sanders? I personally don't see it. I mean, Bernie Sanders has the entirety of the left coalescing behind him. And you see a lot of moderates now starting to break away from other candidates and on to Bernie Sanders. When you look at head to head matchups, Bernie versus Biden, Bernie versus Klobuchar. He's demolishing them. The only one who comes close is Elizabeth Warren. So the question is, did she peel off Bernie Sanders supporters? If any, it's not gonna be enough, I don't think. But she did do a great job at this debate. Overall, her and Bernie emerge victorious and Mike Bloomberg just had a horrible, horrible night. I said on Twitter that I know he's not accepting donations, but I would be willing to send him some ice because he is definitely going to need it after this debate. Ouch. So in my main post-debate breakdown, I talked about how excited I was about this debate. I thought it was really nice to see the candidates kind of team up to take on Mike Bloomberg, this billionaire oligarch who's trying to buy the election. Although one moment really stood out to me and it was such a disgusting moment that it literally made me feel sick to my stomach. So Chuck Todd asked this question and at first, you know, it was a little bit irritated that he asked this, but in the end, I'm glad he did. He asked whether or not the candidates would be okay with the person who got the most delegates and votes winning the nomination or if, you know, maybe something else happens at that convention in the event it is a contested convention. And what you're gonna see here is every single candidate on that stage, with the exception of Bernie Sanders, say that they are okay undermining the will of voters. Having superdelegates just selects someone else. Take a look. We are at the end here. I gotta let that one go. We are less than two weeks away from a national primary. And I wanna ask all of you this simple question. There's a very good chance none of you were gonna have enough delegates to the Democratic National Convention to cleanse this nomination, okay? If that happens, I want all of your opinions on this. Should the person with the most delegates at the end of this primary season be the nominee, even if they are short of a majority?  So instead, I will start with you, Mayor Bloomberg. Whatever the rules of the Democratic Party are, they should be followed. And if they have a process, which I believe they do. I'm trying to do this. Everybody else, everybody can do. So you want the convention to work its will? Yes. Senator Warren. The convention working its will means that people have the delegates that are pledged to them and they keep those delegates until you come to the convention, all of the people. All righty, Vice President Biden. Play by the rule. Yes or no, leading person with the delegates. Should they be the nominee or not? No, let the process work its way out. Mayor Buttigieg. Not necessarily, not to lose. Senator Klobuchar. Let the process work. Senator Sanders. Well, the process includes 500 superdelegates on the second ballot. So I think that the will of the people should go down. Yes. Thank you guys. Most votes should become the nominee. Live now is a yes. Yikes. Bernie Sanders said it simply. The person with the most votes should be the nominee. So everyone likes to claim that Bernie Sanders is polarizing. He's not a Democrat and he's a socialist, but he's the only one on that stage who is a true Democrat, small D Democrat in that he believes in democracy. The person who gets the most votes wins. And I thought that everyone else in the Democratic Party believed that as well because after the election when Hillary Clinton lost, even though she won the popular vote, we heard the Democratic Party screeching at the top of their lungs about how we should abolish the electoral college and respect the will of voters. And I agree with them. But now all of a sudden, if it might benefit them politically, they're okay using all of their delegates, pulling delegates to make sure that Bernie Sanders, if this happens, you know, with the most delegates loses. Even if he got the most votes. Even Elizabeth Warren said that. This is absolutely morally reprehensible and I just, I can't stress this enough. If this happens, if Bernie Sanders goes into that convention with a plurality of delegates and the most votes and he does not walk out as the nominee, it's not as simple as Donald Trump winning and being reelected because that is a certainty at that point. But the Democratic Party will be destroyed. And I've talked about this before as well. This party could not possibly withstand that. They couldn't withstand that. And anyone who's openly suggesting that this should happen or maybe, you know, they would be willing to do that, they have to admit, they're okay with Donald Trump getting a second term. Because even if in DC, in these elitist mainstream media, corporate Democrat bubbles, they would love to see the nomination be stolen from Bernie Sanders. If you honestly believe you're going to be able to win against Donald Trump after you just stole the nomination in front of all of our eyes, not happening, you're done. I mean, they had plausible deniability in 2016 when they rigged the primary against Bernie Sanders because this wasn't necessarily something that was very obvious. Sure, people commented on the lack of debates but nobody really saw the intricacies. Not very many people who are just regular, non-savvy political consumers saw what Donna Brazil said about the joint fundraising agreement that the DNC signed between Hillary Clinton and the DNC before she even secured the nomination. So nobody knows about that. But if you do this in the open, if you disrespect voters that much, you can't survive the selection. So losing the selection is the least of your concerns. Trying to put together the pieces of the Democratic Party after you just blow it to shreds that's gonna be your task. And I honestly don't know that the Democratic Party would be able to survive this. You'll have two generations, millennials and Zoomers, check out of politics permanently. Say, you know what? I'm done with electoral politics because if this is what happens, if I vote and my vote doesn't matter, why participate? That's what's going to happen. Like they don't realize they will blackpill two generations, perhaps Gen X as well, some boomers, I imagine, if they do this. And they do this knowing the consequences, but they believe honestly that beating Bernie Sanders is a greater priority than Donald Trump because they can't be naive enough to think that they can steal the nomination away from Bernie and still beat Trump. No, they know they lose. That's a guarantee. That is a guarantee they lose. But if they honestly think that they're still going to have a party after this, no. If they don't think that hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people, would take to the streets and protest this election theft that's brazen after this party cried about Russia for three years, I mean, I don't know what to say, right? And what's interesting is that in mainstream media, we have pundits openly, not just talking about this casually and not, you know, denouncing the prospect of election theft at a contested convention, but you have Dr. Jason Johnson on MSNBC say, I hope there's a contested convention. I want to see that happen. I want to see that scenario. And at this point, you might as well just admit that you want Donald Trump to get a second term, but nonetheless, this is what Dr. Jason Johnson said. I want to see a contested invention, not just because it'll be interesting to see and I'm a political scientist, but because it'll be the one test that we actually need for Bernie Sanders. For all the noise that he's making, I want to see, because someone actually started asking him about this tonight, Mike Bloomberg talked about it, some of the questions about it, how his staff behaves, how his supporters behave, how they've treated the culinary unit, how they treated the working families party. I want to see Bernie Sanders in his great and wonderful revolution go into a contested convention and try and wrangle those people when he's got to get a 44-year-old super delegate from Central Illinois to go to his side. I want to see him have to sit in a room with Elizabeth Warren, who he called a liar on a national stage a couple of weeks ago and say, hey, could you please release some of your delegates to me? That's what will prove whether or not his revolution actually works. He needs to go to a contested convention because if he can't do that there, then the Democrats should have another candidate to take that moniker and go against Donald Trump. This is a conversation that took place on national television. So they're trying to normalize people, basically get their feet warm, dip it in the water just a little bit. So it's not shocking if they're successful at stealing the nomination from Bernie Sanders.  So what we have to do as Bernie Sanders supporters and just supporters of democracy in general is make sure that if you wanna defeat Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders gets a majority of delegates on that first round. Otherwise, we've gotten a lot of indications that superdelegates are just gonna outright steal it and everyone, including Elizabeth Warren, is A-OK with that. Now, according to 538 projections, there's a 41% chance that Bernie Sanders does get a majority, but we can't risk it. That isn't a high enough chance if he doesn't get a majority or at least close to a majority be prepared. They may actually try to steal this from Bernie Sanders and the only way to stop them from doing that is if on that first round, he's able to secure the nomination. But the fact that we're even really entertaining this as a possibility, it really speaks to how far we've fallen as a country and how far the Democratic Party has fallen as an institution, because this is a party that literally has democracy in its name, right? They talk about voter suppression and how voter ID laws, they disenfranchise mostly people of color. And they're right to talk about that. They're right to talk about how gerrymandering helps a lot of Republicans. It helps them, certainly, but it allows individuals to redraw districts to secure their election for years to come and they're right. But if they do this, if they're that brazen to where in front of everyone, the entire country is watching and they steal a nomination away from the candidate with the most votes, they're done. The Democratic Party will go the way of the dodo. I can promise you, they will never get my vote ever again and I'm not the only one. And you don't have to just be worried about someone like me, who's this angry Bernie bro that a lot of them would say, because it's just normal people who wouldn't go for that as well. Like if it were the case that Joe Biden were able to get more pledge delegates than Bernie Sanders, if you want a plurality, I would be incredibly demoralized. I would be so frustrated, but I wouldn't support some type of mechanism or contested convention where they just steal it away from Joe Biden and give it to Amy Klobuchar or even give it to Bernie Sanders. Because if you believe in democracy, then you have to be as principled as you possibly can be, otherwise it doesn't work. It doesn't work. That's what you need for democracy because if you don't respect democracy and the will of the people, then it's delegitimized. And when a democracy becomes illegitimate, that democracy falls into authoritarianism. And we are already gradually devolving into an oligarchy. Voters are having less and less of a say in who gets elected because money determines who wins. Voters have basically a statistically insignificant impact on policy outcomes according to a Princeton University study. The situation is dire. Like I need you to understand democracies, they don't last forever. And our democracy is hanging on by a thread. And if Democrats honestly believe that they can still survive as a party after brazenly stealing the selection from Bernie Sanders, that is not going to be the case, I promise you. So shame on every single fraud on that stage who just revealed to everyone that they have authoritarian instincts. They don't actually care about democracy. They don't care about winning over voters. If they think there's some type of sleazy maneuver that they can do to steal the nomination away from Bernie Sanders in hopes that one of them can secure the nomination. If they think they're gonna take on Donald Trump, they've got another thing coming.  Respect the will of voters. And I shouldn't honestly be having to say this. Like I shouldn't have to tell people in the Democratic Party to respect the will of voters because democracy is literally in their name, but this is the situation where we find ourselves in. You know, the powers that be, the financial interests that control the Democratic Party and all of those puppets up on the stage, they're not going to just roll over and die. They're gonna do whatever they can to win. And if that includes cheating Bernie Sanders brazenly and committing theft of an election, they're gonna do that too. So we have to do what we need to to make sure Bernie Sanders gets that majority. Otherwise we're going into this convention and we're on shaky ground, even if Bernie Sanders is able to get the most votes. And it shouldn't even be something that we have to entertain. But in this day and age, the Democratic Party and all of its politicians, including Elizabeth Warren is so morally bankrupt that they're okay with stealing an election from all of us. Unbelievable. So if you didn't tune in to last night's debate, let me just say it was an absolute bloodbath.  And that person is Mike Bloomberg.  And I watched a little bit of MSNBC, something that nobody should ever do. And even they were saying that Mike Bloomberg was the loser. So you can't possibly spin this. You can't suggest that he came out on top. This was a bad, bad, brutal debate for Mike Bloomberg. Because not only did he have to defend himself when it comes to stop and frisk, he had to defend himself when it comes to redlining, sexual harassment, why he hasn't released his tax returns, why he has all of this wealth and whether or not it's earned and deserved. And it was so bad that after the debate, his Wikipedia page was updated and it claims that he was murdered by Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden. And guys, he lost so bad, his campaign put out a statement.  And it reads, Mike was just warming up tonight. We fully expect Mike will continue to build on tonight's performance when he appears on the stage in South Carolina next Tuesday. Yeah, you better hope so because if he has more performances like that, it doesn't matter how much money you spend, you can spend 10 billion of your own wealth.  Like he's going to enjoy it. Like what he did to Hillary Clinton on that debate stage in bringing on Bill Clinton's sexual assault accusers and calling out Hillary Clinton's record on trade, you know, basically trying to attack her from the left imagine what he can do with Mike Bloomberg. There's no way he'd be able to maintain any lead that he has currently over Donald Trump on a national debate stage.  So we're gonna go through a couple of clips here and I'm gonna show you how one by one, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, even Amy Klobuchar took turns dunking on Mayor Bloomberg.  I mean, he threw in a couple of jabs here and there, but it's clear that this, you know, opportunist is jockeying for position in Bloomberg's administration possibly or VP position and, you know, whatever. But the people who took shots at him, they got in some really good blows and they landed. And the first one is Bernie Sanders. He explained why Bloomberg is poised to lose to Donald Trump if he were to win the nomination. In order to beat Donald Trump, we're gonna need the largest voter turnout in the history of the United States. Mr. Bloomberg had policies in New York City of stop and frisk, which went after African American and Latino people in an outrageous way. That is not a way you're gonna grow voter turnout. What our movement is about is bringing working class people together. Black and white and Latino, Native American, Asian American around an agenda that works for all of us and not just the billionaire class. And that agenda says that maybe just maybe we should join the rest of the industrialized world, guarantee healthcare to all people as a human right, raise that minimum wage to a living wage of 15 bucks an hour and have the guts to take on the fossil fuel industry because their short-term profits are not more important than the future of this planet and the need to combat climate change. Those are some of the reasons we have the strongest campaign to defeat Donald Trump. And that is such a great point. If you wanna win, you have to increase voter turnout. If you don't recognize that, you can't beat Donald Trump because Democrats for too long have just been fi