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04-30-2026 · 7h 17m

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[00:10:56] The left's new golden boy, Twitch streamer, doesn't even try to hide it.

[00:11:04] 34-year-old Hassan Piker not only hates America, he's hinting at a civil war.

[00:11:10] A noted far-left influencer is declaring the Republican Party the biggest terrorist

[00:11:15] on earth.

[00:11:16] Breckett even Hassan Piker is unapologetic for his controversial comments on a range

[00:11:20] of issues.

[00:11:21] An anti-American far-left commentator, who is named Hassan Piker.

[00:11:25] that he's being highlighted, Democrats are flocking to it.

[00:11:29] She's not out there on Hassan Piker's show, for example, right?

[00:11:33] The man to his left is a very controversial guy.

[00:11:37] Hassan Piker insults just about everyone.

[00:11:39] Well, if you go back and listen to some of the things

[00:11:41] that he says, Carl, this guy's not going to wear well.

[00:11:45] Their so-called Joe Rogan of the left, Hassan Piker,

[00:11:49] is back in the headlines this time

[00:11:51] for calling Republicans terrorists.

[00:11:53] Piker has a controversial history.

[00:11:55] And we've been showing you this all week.

[00:11:57] You don't give somebody like Hassan Piker

[00:11:59] this kind of attention, this kind of platform.

[00:12:01] It only rewards the kind of rhetoric that I just described.

[00:12:03] Hundreds of students lined up and packed

[00:12:06] into these rallies, and they ate up the anti-war, anti-capitalist

[00:12:10] and anti-establishment messages.

[00:12:12] That's them, Hassan Piker.

[00:12:14] They should stay away from him.

[00:12:19] What's going on, everybody?

[00:12:21] I hope everyone's having a fantastic evening, afternoon,

[00:12:24] no matter where you are in the world in the sun, piker in the stars and I'm

[00:12:27] broadcast coming to you live from somewhat sunny, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania folks, we

[00:12:37] are live from the city of brotherly love. We're live and alive and I hope all

[00:12:42] the boys girls and MBS are having a fantastic one because today's a beautiful day.

[00:12:45] Today's a wonderful day. Today is Thursday, April 30th, 2026, 1034 a.m. in Los Angeles,

[00:12:59] California. We're coming to you live from stolen land in Philadelphia. That's right.

[00:13:05] We're live. We're live. It is 1 34 p.m. Here local time EST

[00:13:16] And there's a lot to go through there is a lot to cover

[00:13:20] But before I do all of that, of course, this is the part of the broadcast where I tell you about my

[00:13:26] Personal news about what's going on in the world of a son house and I'm a piker they call me Hasan from Pennsylvania now

[00:13:32] That's right. I've taken over the throne. I've taken over the mantle

[00:13:35] the real the real Pennsylvania boy is my is me none of this Michael from

[00:13:42] Pennsylvania shit he's from Taiwan

[00:13:49] going for the clergy look yes I don't know why you're cosplaying a Catholic

[00:13:56] priest. I just am, dude. Anyway, ladies and gentlemen, can we get a go flyers and

[00:14:07] fuck the pens? Sure, go flyers, fuck the pens, go birds as well. Okay, did you

[00:14:14] declare your love for Jalen Hurst this morning? Sure, I love Jalen Hurst. You're

[00:14:20] drip in different. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Okay. So ladies and

[00:14:26] gentlemen, boys, girls and MBS, this is part of the broadcast for I tell you about

[00:14:29] my personal news. Um, for those of you who don't know, obviously, uh, we're live,

[00:14:36] we're live. This is our broadcast coming to you. And, uh, we're live early.

[00:14:44] Paid, paid comment. Yeah.

[00:14:46] But, um, I got your, I got your bangers, Drew, who don't you worry?

[00:14:55] The problem, of course, is that I'm no longer in New York.

[00:15:00] So I'm actually in Philadelphia, so your bangers don't even work.

[00:15:03] So, ladies and gentlemen, boys, girls and MBS, we're live, we're alive from

[00:15:10] Philadelphia, but this is the part of the broadcast where I tell you about my

[00:15:13] Personal news about what's going on in the world of a son of a piker you look like Trotsky on the ebro show

[00:15:18] Oh God doesn't mean I'm balding did it look like I was balding is that what you're trying to say?

[00:15:27] Thank God you're not a priest I'm having sinful thoughts I

[00:15:33] Will bless you don't worry

[00:15:38] You sorry it from last night no it usually I have a delayed soreness

[00:15:43] That that comes later

[00:15:51] Remember what happened last time you wore this fit I was at the vanity fair party

[00:15:58] How was the ab track oh

[00:16:01] Let's get this some fun stuff

[00:16:04] Okay, let me tell you

[00:16:07] Let me tell you

[00:16:09] Okay

[00:16:11] So I ended the broadcast last night after lifting with Chiose some of you

[00:16:16] Remained and watched many of you left because you were like, oh, he's outside. He's doing IRL and it's not a college speech

[00:16:24] At a college campus. So I'm not interested

[00:16:28] right

[00:16:30] It's really funny a lot of you just

[00:16:34] Instantly will be like, yeah, not into that. Sorry. Oh, you're working out. Fuck yourself

[00:16:40] How about how about kill yourself? How about not interested in watching that not interested in thinking about that

[00:16:48] Not interested in being any you know being a part of that at all the gym is not a part of my lifestyle the gym

[00:16:56] The gym is where reactionary behavior grows

[00:16:59] The gym is where we foment counter-revolutionary sentiment. We don't like the gym so

[00:17:10] But it was a lot of fun, regardless.

[00:17:14] Fung out with the man, the myth, the legend,

[00:17:17] Gioce, and came back, passed out, ordered like a bowl of chicken,

[00:17:29] and passed the freak out after having a little bit of pro.

[00:17:34] and woke up early to do what?

[00:17:42] Some of you know this already. I got on a train. That's right. It was an incredible

[00:17:53] experience. We were on the verge of not making it for the record. We almost didn't make it,

[00:18:01] Ironically enough, we were late as always because I had to poop I had to shit and shower and

[00:18:11] You know when I whenever I do stuff like that, obviously it's you know, I'm always I'm always coming by an ass hair

[00:18:19] however

[00:18:21] luckily

[00:18:22] Zohran Kwame mum donnies mum Donna stand trains are not running on time. Okay, that's not a trains running on time

[00:18:29] is not a socialist thing, it's a fascist thing. Anyway, I'd be a little bit sus if the trains

[00:18:34] were running on timings or on Mumdanis, Mumdanistan. So luckily it was delayed. But let me tell you,

[00:18:43] okay, first of all, turns out train station, Hassanabi Central, a lot of you unironically

[00:18:54] actually travel by rail because boy oh boy so many of you so many of you were

[00:19:09] there fix your hair what do you mean it's wrong with my hair so many of you

[00:19:18] came up looking for pics. Okay, it's not, it's not fake. The autism is real in this community. Okay.

[00:19:29] The autism is really real in this community. Straight up.

[00:19:36] Yeah, autism central big dog. Also, it's pretty sick to be an Amtrak guy. You know, you just

[00:19:44] just kind of sit around and get to enjoy trains all day, I will say.

[00:19:53] You know, that's, that's pretty cool.

[00:19:59] It's pretty dope.

[00:20:02] Well, yeah, I took a Amtrak, I took a Amtrak train from New York

[00:20:06] city to Philadelphia.

[00:20:08] It was very cozy.

[00:20:10] It was a wonderful experience.

[00:20:12] And I'm not just saying that because of what you guys say is autism, right?

[00:20:17] Like it truly is an exciting experience. It's such a

[00:20:22] It is such a better mode of travel. It is unbelievable. We took business class

[00:20:30] Okay, and

[00:20:34] It's just great

[00:20:35] I mean when it's on time obviously it wasn't on time but that worked out in our favor regardless

[00:20:40] it was like 10 minutes later, 20 minutes late. Um, but it's just a fun experience, man. It's

[00:20:47] such a, it's, it's an infinitely better, more cozy mode of travel than planes. I feel like,

[00:20:56] you know, I travel around the country by, by plane all the time, as you guys know.

[00:21:02] It's always so chaotic, like there's this feeling of being treated like cattle, right?

[00:21:12] Where they're moving you from place to place, nobody's having a good time, everybody is

[00:21:21] in a last minute rush, even if they're not there last minute, right?

[00:21:27] Whereas you get on a train, it's like such a faster process of getting on board, sitting down.

[00:21:35] I don't know, I just, I really love trains, man. I really, really love trains. It's not a joke.

[00:21:42] And you can see the excitement in my eyes, of course. I was, you know, doing a little bit of light reading on the train, right?

[00:21:51] but also March snapped my ass not sure why people are not like

[00:22:04] it's just that it makes sense it makes sense to to be excited luxury

[00:22:21] communists taking business class brother it's the fucking Amtrak train

[00:22:26] between New York City what do you think the distinction between business class

[00:22:32] and coaches. It's just one seat. Like, this is like when Laura Loomer snapped me sleeping

[00:22:43] on the flight from Detroit back to Los Angeles. And like, I barely fit in the seat. And she

[00:22:51] was like, this is high-faluting socialist flying first class. It's like, well, bitch,

[00:22:56] you can see my situation. It's not like I'm living in the lap of luxury.

[00:23:02] like a fucking $20 extra, uh, the, you know, a seat difference.

[00:23:14] Kira is a shocking moment.

[00:23:16] Where is Kira dog shocker pansy?

[00:23:19] Hello.

[00:23:21] Kira is a shocking moment.

[00:23:22] Hasan reacted to Pegasus new vid.

[00:23:28] Oh, that's awesome.

[00:23:32] Anything short of third class, new Delhi train station experiences excess that should go

[00:23:42] to the people.

[00:23:43] My main is a free Kira.

[00:23:47] My dog's name is not Kira Chatter, it's Karla, but sometimes in first class they give you

[00:23:54] a hot towel. Anyway, Amtrak is awesome. I was very fortunate because I know, I know it can

[00:24:08] be really bad. I know it's like, it's a roll of the dice, right? Like sometimes you do it

[00:24:14] and it's not good, right? Sometimes you do it and you have to sit there for two and

[00:24:20] and a half hours in delays waiting for your train to come, right?

[00:24:25] I roll the dice.

[00:24:26] I got lucky.

[00:24:28] I had a great experience, right?

[00:24:32] I will say, uh, you know, it's, it's an amazing experience overall.

[00:24:40] I, I, I really, really enjoyed it and I can't recommend it enough.

[00:24:44] So, uh, we got into the hodl.

[00:24:47] We set up and now I'm here. There's not really much else going on in my world, right?

[00:24:54] And of course, while we were on our way, we got some news about Pills Mafia, the Pill Mill.

[00:25:12] mill. Obviously we'll be talking about that. Um, well, yeah, did you like the 30th Street

[00:25:29] station. Yeah, it was nice. In any case, folks, folks, folks, folks, folks. What is this big

[00:25:45] clavicle news, clavicular suit for allegedly injecting underage influencer with unimproved

[00:25:49] drug? Yeah, what do you mean, allegedly? We saw that happen. What? We saw that happen

[00:25:58] on camera like this is I know I know you got to say allegedly to cover your ass in you know

[00:26:06] a potential legal situation but like it's pretty funny okay this is like slowly getting

[00:26:13] Fuck. God damn it. Okay.

[00:26:24] Fuck. Alright, whatever.

[00:26:34] I'm also not be hugged. Yeah. What was the funeral you're going to today? Okay, man, the one time I wear the one time I wear a suit, y'all go, y'all go crazy mode. The mouse Catholic priest fit going hard today. I see. Yeah, the one time I swear black suit, everyone's got an issue with it.

[00:26:58] Everyone's got something to say God damn fucking annoying hold on let me see if I can fix this

[00:27:11] real quick damn March just fucking tighten the shit out of this but clearly not enough

[00:27:19] Ironically

[00:27:22] Hmm, okay

[00:27:25] My autism is gonna not let me fucking

[00:27:29] Let me live this down. Fuck. I hate that. It's like

[00:27:37] It's not level oh

[00:27:39] It's making me so annoyed. All right, whatever. I'm gonna try to not pay attention to the fact that it's not leveled

[00:27:46] And hope it doesn't kill me

[00:27:49] There we go, okay, okay, come on, hold it up, hold it up.

[00:28:04] You're the reason I stubbed my toe on the coffee table this morning and blamed me for

[00:28:06] everything?

[00:28:07] Yeah, it'd be like that sometimes.

[00:28:11] Anyway, get a voice changer, it would compliment your soundboard and increase the value

[00:28:17] No, thanks, but thank you for the suggestion in this fit you are save it all times worst-case scenario use a domain expansion. Yeah

[00:28:31] 17 articles in 24 hours Jesus Christ corporate media on a son piker. Oh my god 17 articles

[00:28:40] Unbelievable, but also very believable. You look great, but we love cracking jokes. I thought

[00:28:55] comedy was legal. Was that overturned? Is comedy illegal again? Shaking my head, yes.

[00:28:59] this. Comedy is very much illegal. Okay. Comedy is illegal now. It is totally illegal. But

[00:29:11] in any case, although comedy is illegal, it's still legal in this community obviously. And

[00:29:17] we'll get into all of that and more. Get Kyrie on the show. Brother, I have tried

[00:29:23] so hard. Okay, he does not fuck with me at all. I think he knows I have crazy handles

[00:29:30] and he's worried that like, you know, if we play basketball, I'm going to cross him up,

[00:29:35] you know what I mean? And he's just, it's going to be embarrassing for him. And I think

[00:29:38] that's probably the reason why he doesn't want to do it. Yeah. What did you think

[00:29:47] of the Amtrak Station in New York City? It was beautiful. Has it been like recently

[00:29:50] renovated or something because it was nice as hell.

[00:29:58] Um, Philly, Janet Saris, it's over.

[00:30:07] Hold on.

[00:30:09] Uh, Condemn, Hassanabe Bill, uh, fallout.

[00:30:15] Centrism is losing, redistricting battles, Hormuz closed, Chris Robb later, get in now.

[00:30:25] Renovated in like 2022, that makes sense. It was beautiful. It was very nice. It was like

[00:30:29] shockingly nice. My expectation is not that it's going to be nice usually.

[00:30:37] All right, we're blasting off pills mafia never dies. Well, we took a big hit today for the pills mills

[00:30:48] For the Janet mills mafia, we took a big hit today and we're gonna be obviously talking about that

[00:30:52] It's gonna be a

[00:30:53] It is gonna be a little bit of a flex mode

[00:30:57] you know, it's gonna it's gonna be for for all of the people in here that

[00:31:01] that obviously wanted to take the battle to corporate Democrats, to centrist Democrats.

[00:31:08] This is a pretty solid W in the primaries, as I've said before.

[00:31:13] I think the real problem always is getting these guys out of the primaries and not necessarily

[00:31:18] the general, but the battle still continues.

[00:31:23] Mods, please ban Hassanabi one man spam. It's so funny. It's funny. Every time someone says that

[00:31:32] on God is funny. Okay. Yes, you are in you are on the broadcast with a man of the cloth. Okay. Choose your words wisely.

[00:31:53] forgive me father for I have sinned let me tell you okay you're gonna do ten

[00:32:00] Hail Marys in 10 M Israel highs and you'll be fine and I need you to also

[00:32:07] obviously like and retweet the blast off meme you feel me that's how we do

[00:32:18] it around these parts if you want if you want father jihad also known as dr.

[00:32:25] jihad but also known as father jihad to bless you then you're gonna need to

[00:32:34] you're gonna need to interact with the blast off tweet are we doing

[00:32:38] confessionals for the next fear and ripping stray from the girly pops yeah

[00:32:43] Pay indulges the heaven by subscribing to the piker broadcasting service. Hold on

[00:33:13] But this would fit. Look.

[00:33:43] P O V Hassan Abbey's your sleep paralysis demon Catholic Maxing

[00:34:05] Hey son I've been listening to the Rosenberg listening to the Rosenberg for years and to see you and him talk was awesome hope to get on the show more often such a great combo

[00:34:13] Also hilarious how they got so nervous about January 6th. Yeah.

[00:34:18] Get a black hat so you can match Erica Kirk. Oh yeah.

[00:34:24] Can you read this? Loyola Press, traditional Catholic prayers in Latin.

[00:34:43] Advenia tregnum tum. Is that how you say it?

[00:34:50] Amenu. Amenu. Amenu.

[00:34:59] Fiat voluntus voluntas tua.

[00:35:06] I have four years of Latin in school sounds pretty good.

[00:35:26] Now Congress can't condemn you without answering the holy Z. Yeah, true, true. I'm Father

[00:35:32] Jihad now. I went from Doktor Jihad to Father Jihad. Awful pronunciation. Okay, whatever

[00:35:44] dude. Whatever I tried. Okay, I tried. You sound like my Imam. Oh, man. No. Okay. Um,

[00:35:55] anyway, ladies and gentlemen, uh, we have a lot going on.

[00:35:59] A lot happening in the world. So let's get right into it. We blast it off already. Welcome, welcome,

[00:36:09] welcome, welcoming people into the show. Tell us the neo leg in the scene in Fleabag season two.

[00:36:14] Please sorry chat horny bonk. We'll walk myself outlaw. Your pronunciation of pronunciation is

[00:36:23] wrong? Pronunciation, whatever. Anyway, we're going to keep, no one expects the jihad

[00:36:40] inquisition. Yeah, I said, I said, how about both sides on the holy Crusades? You

[00:36:47] know what I mean? Rate the room's patelle chair. It's very cozy. Very, very

[00:36:58] cozy. All right, well, let's get into it right in. There's a lot going on in the

[00:37:03] world. So obviously we must cover it all and we must get right into it. Ladies

[00:37:09] and gentlemen, our first story of today, breaking news, breaking news, is

[00:37:14] taking us to Maine. Many people are asking, are you sore from last night's

[00:37:23] workout? No. My soreness comes delayed. It'll probably kick in tonight or perhaps

[00:37:29] tomorrow. In any case, breaking news, Mills Mafia is down. Janet Mills, Pills

[00:37:38] Mafia, the Pill Mill, Janet Sarri's, unfortunately we have lost the candidate

[00:37:45] that we put all of our effort into the candidate that we knew had not been a

[00:37:52] four-tour machine gunner Marine Corps grunt Janet Mills who of course was the

[00:38:03] the ethical choice in this race

[00:38:05] for all the blue sky liberals

[00:38:08] and for all the ultra-left

[00:38:10] uh... malice third world is who actually don't even live in the united states of

[00:38:14] america in many instances

[00:38:16] uh... or uh... certainly think uh... voting is the most reactionary counter

[00:38:22] revolutionary thing you can do

[00:38:24] the candidate for all of those people in the democratic primary for the senate

[00:38:28] seat

[00:38:29] that is currently occupied by Susan Collins was Janet Mills.

[00:38:37] But unfortunately, but unfortunately,

[00:38:41] Janet Mills is down.

[00:38:42] Let's take a look.

[00:38:45] Good morning.

[00:38:46] We thank you for joining us.

[00:38:46] We are interrupting your regularly scheduled programming

[00:38:48] for some major breaking news and commitment.

[00:38:50] 2026 were just learning moments ago,

[00:38:53] Governor Mills announcing that she is suspending her campaign

[00:38:57] for US Senate after campaigning for the last six months.

[00:39:00] Yeah, and she's citing financial resources here.

[00:39:02] She says she had the drive and the compassion

[00:39:05] and the commitment and the experience she says

[00:39:07] to continue on, but she doesn't have

[00:39:09] what political campaigns required,

[00:39:11] the financial resources.

[00:39:12] That's why she's saying she made the difficult decision

[00:39:15] to suspend her campaign.

[00:39:17] This is new to our newsroom too.

[00:39:18] We have not yet heard anything

[00:39:19] from any other campaign regarding her dropout,

[00:39:22] but just getting into this,

[00:39:23] into our newsroom in the last two minutes.

[00:39:25] That's right, yeah, we're just learning about this.

[00:39:27] we are reaching out in real time right now to the grand planner campaign

[00:39:31] as well as the susan collins campaign

[00:39:33] for comment on this this is not an announcement at least that the most

[00:39:36] political observers

[00:39:37] were anticipating would come today these two had not met on a debate stage the

[00:39:42] governor of course was

[00:39:43] actively campaigning she was holding

[00:39:46] a series of events in different locations and speed

[00:39:49] yeah it wasn't a lack of funds let's be real

[00:39:52] i mean that would be an even more devastating story uh... ironically enough

[00:39:58] because

[00:40:01] uh... that would imply that the the ds cc has no motion whatsoever

[00:40:06] and they don't have the coffers

[00:40:08] to go against the disruptor

[00:40:10] uh... that is an outsider in every way shape and form

[00:40:15] initially backed by the independent senator from vermont

[00:40:19] bernard sanders so the idea that like

[00:40:23] the democratic party

[00:40:24] can't even cast aside uh... or can't even secure funds

[00:40:29] to oppose a primary challenger

[00:40:32] coming from their left flank with totally independent funding

[00:40:37] uh... is an even worse story if we're being real

[00:40:40] uh... then the fact that

[00:40:42] janet mills as the governor of the state

[00:40:46] did not have enough

[00:40:48] genuine enthusiasm

[00:40:51] backing her campaign and that's precisely what took place here

[00:40:55] the janet mills grand platner race

[00:40:58] is an unbelievably important primary as you guys know i've covered extensively

[00:41:03] of talked about extensively

[00:41:06] the reason why it's an unbelievably important primaries because

[00:41:10] it's one of the few instances where the centrist corporate back democratic

[00:41:15] party power center

[00:41:17] totally underestimated the opposition

[00:41:21] and thought, oh, we'll just front load a lot of APAC dollars

[00:41:25] to this decrepit, old

[00:41:29] governor of the state, and it'll be an easy lock. There's no way

[00:41:33] that an outsider could potentially coast to an easy victory,

[00:41:39] let alone

[00:41:40] ten, if not ten plus points over

[00:41:43] Janet Mills in the

[00:41:45] primary right there's no shot

[00:41:49] they were wrong

[00:41:51] they were wrong they were unbelievably wrong as a matter of fact

[00:42:00] grand platner

[00:42:01] is now secured

[00:42:03] the primary victory for the democratic party so now he can focus on unseating

[00:42:07] susan collins

[00:42:10] here's the thing

[00:42:14] This is a very important story for multiple reasons, right?

[00:42:21] As I said, this shows that a lot of the white power center, I shouldn't say power center,

[00:42:28] white power like that, the white voting block in this party, even in purple states like

[00:42:35] Maine or even in states that will be inevitably voting for a Republican seat to unseat and

[00:42:43] flip a republican seat with susan collins

[00:42:47] are no longer abiding by the old standard

[00:42:52] of electability favoring moderates arguments

[00:42:56] they no longer believe that you have to pivot to the center

[00:43:00] they no longer have the the power centers of the party no longer have

[00:43:04] the stranglehold the vice-grip

[00:43:06] that they have had

[00:43:09] over some of the most active voters in the party

[00:43:12] this is a huge deal

[00:43:15] because the primaries are what dictate the future of the democratic party

[00:43:19] and the general is what dictates the future

[00:43:21] of the country

[00:43:24] but in many respects

[00:43:26] for far too long

[00:43:28] we on the left-wing have not been active in these primaries right

[00:43:31] with some exceptions of notable exceptions like bernard sanders

[00:43:37] but we have not been active in the democratic party's primary systems

[00:43:41] all around the country

[00:43:44] and on top of that it's been a very

[00:43:46] uh... very hard hill decline

[00:43:49] for many outsider candidates left-flank candidates

[00:43:54] the establishment

[00:43:56] has been able to control

[00:43:58] the electability arguments

[00:44:01] over and over again

[00:44:04] in perpetuity constantly claiming

[00:44:06] the left-ranked candidates are not...

[00:44:12] the left-ranked candidates are not electable.

[00:44:15] You mustn't vote for them.

[00:44:17] You must vote

[00:44:18] for who we tell you to vote for, and that's what the

[00:44:21] centrists have been able to

[00:44:23] to accomplish over and over again all around the country

[00:44:27] lying

[00:44:28] to the base of support, claiming

[00:44:32] that the best possible candidate

[00:44:34] to vote for

[00:44:35] is the one that we tell you

[00:44:38] is most likely to defeat the republicans

[00:44:42] centrist establishment democrats have been able to

[00:44:46] basically educate their voter base

[00:44:48] uh... into a client base of support for

[00:44:51] centrist democrats

[00:44:54] constantly telling them

[00:44:55] you have to vote like a dnc consultant

[00:44:58] and not vote for who you think

[00:45:02] is the best

[00:45:03] possible candidate

[00:45:04] vote for who you associate with closely. Okay? They've been able to successfully

[00:45:12] put the fear of God in many Democratic Party primary voters and have been able to successfully

[00:45:19] teach them to vote for not who you think is the best, but vote for who you think others

[00:45:27] Considered to be the most selectable

[00:45:31] But of course after defeat after defeat after defeat specifically with Kamala Harris

[00:45:38] against the same

[00:45:39] incompetent fascist once again

[00:45:42] Donald Trump

[00:45:43] Many in the Democratic Party realized perhaps that this method was bullshit

[00:45:50] They realized it

[00:45:52] So many people said perhaps Bernie was right

[00:45:54] Wait, perhaps we were wrong that in 2016, Bernie could have defeated Donald Trump.

[00:46:02] In 2020, Bernie would have been a better candidate than Joe Biden.

[00:46:12] And here we are.

[00:46:18] Many former Clinton heads that have been lifelong Democratic Party boosters, donors, supporters

[00:46:26] have realized that Graham Platner is a far more viable option.

[00:46:33] Okay?

[00:46:34] A far better choice to vote for.

[00:46:37] So we're doing away with the old method of operating with what some people like to call

[00:46:44] pundit brain.

[00:46:46] doing away with the old method of not voting for who we want, but voting for who we think

[00:46:52] others would likely vote for.

[00:47:00] And that's what Graham Plattner has demonstrated.

[00:47:04] Now of course the job is not done, right?

[00:47:08] Don't be so callous as to assume that Graham Plattner will coast off into an easy victory.

[00:47:13] The Republican Party will probably do everything in its power to make sure Susan Collins remains

[00:47:18] in that seat.

[00:47:22] Okay?

[00:47:25] Having said that, however, this is a day of victory.

[00:47:28] Speaking with voters, it comes after as well recent polls.

[00:47:32] There were at least a few of them which showed that Graham Plattner, the political

[00:47:36] newcomer here in Maine, that he was generating more support, at least according to those

[00:47:41] polls than the governor was.

[00:47:43] And the statement that came into our newsroom too,

[00:47:45] the governor basically just expressing

[00:47:47] a lot of gratitude for Maine.

[00:47:49] She said in her campaign she recently traveled

[00:47:51] all the way to the north of the state

[00:47:53] to Matawaska down to York, across the state,

[00:47:56] saying that she is extremely grateful

[00:47:58] to the people of Maine saying, I love you,

[00:48:00] I will continue to fight for you relentlessly

[00:48:02] as governor, and for the next eight months

[00:48:04] she'll work hard to stand up for what's right

[00:48:06] and defend the constitution and preserve our democracy.

[00:48:10] So again, if you are just joining us,

[00:48:11] we are bringing you breaking news

[00:48:12] that Governor Janet Mills has dropped out of the race

[00:48:16] for US Senate seats.

[00:48:17] She was scheduled to have a debate here with us next week

[00:48:22] with Graham Plattner and the other candidates for Senate too.

[00:48:24] So obviously she will not face him on a debate stage.

[00:48:27] Graham Plattner has been holding events

[00:48:29] in many quarters of the state

[00:48:31] and through his reporting and our coverage of events

[00:48:34] like these, he has been drawing significant crowds

[00:48:37] to events like that.

[00:48:39] Governor Mills has had more controlled environments,

[00:48:41] more intimate settings with her supporters

[00:48:44] in the process of this campaign.

[00:48:46] She was viewed by many as the more establishment candidate.

[00:48:50] She was recruited to run and had the support

[00:48:52] of Senate leaders like Chuck Schumer,

[00:48:55] as Graham Platner has not received.

[00:48:57] This is a huge deal.

[00:49:00] Like, this is a huge deal.

[00:49:01] Don't let anybody act as though this is not a huge deal.

[00:49:05] Even in my most skeptical moments with Graham Platner

[00:49:08] looking at his background, looking at what he's done,

[00:49:11] what did I keep telling you that the silver lining here

[00:49:13] is the fact that regardless of the red flags

[00:49:15] that he has for my estimation,

[00:49:16] it's very clear that the main base,

[00:49:19] it does not care about those things.

[00:49:21] As a matter of fact, they might even see it as a benefit,

[00:49:23] the fact that he was a machine gunner

[00:49:24] and things like that.

[00:49:26] Give him an opportunity, give him a lot more legitimacy,

[00:49:30] a lot more credibility to speak on issues such as war.

[00:49:33] Many of you said his sentiments,

[00:49:36] is anti-war sentiments are not to your liking,

[00:49:40] because many of you refuse to grade politicians on a curve.

[00:49:44] And that's obviously always going to lead you

[00:49:49] into disappointment.

[00:49:50] But the reality of the matter is, as I said,

[00:49:58] over and over and over again, that these sorts

[00:50:06] the things that in the past, the things that he was advocating for, the things that he's

[00:50:14] still advocating for, like Medicare for All, saying that he's anti-Israel from the start,

[00:50:20] being promoted by Bernie Sanders off the rip, these were all early green flags for the

[00:50:30] the Bernie Cratt wing for the left-ranked candidacies

[00:50:34] that are propping up in primaries all around the country.

[00:50:37] So every single victory of this sort is going to be good.

[00:50:42] Okay?

[00:50:46] That same establishment of Washington DC support

[00:50:49] that at least that's the way that a lot of

[00:50:51] political insiders perceive it.

[00:50:52] And as Sarah said,

[00:50:53] we have reached out to Grand Platinum's campaign.

[00:50:55] We are currently reaching out

[00:50:56] to Senator Susan Collins' campaign as well.

[00:50:59] For reaction to this news,

[00:51:00] We will be sure to join you on air and online

[00:51:03] as we get updates.

[00:51:05] And we'll be sure to continue to update you

[00:51:07] with that information as well too.

[00:51:14] Here's Susan Collins,

[00:51:16] who Grant Plattner is obviously running against

[00:51:18] in the general.

[00:51:19] Susan Collins is a madam, I'm concerned.

[00:51:23] Many of you know her by her name,

[00:51:26] I'm concerned or Mrs. Concerning.

[00:51:30] Susan Collins is a moderate Republican, which means nothing really.

[00:51:36] It just means that she just keeps saying, oh, I'm very concerned whenever Trump is like,

[00:51:41] I'm going to set up all of our nuclear, I'm going to set off all of our nuclear arsenal

[00:51:47] and I don't know, wipe out Estonia off the map.

[00:51:52] People go to Susan Collins and be like, ma'am, what do you feel, how do you feel

[00:51:57] about this, and she'll say, I'm concerned, okay? No matter how insane Donald Trump gets,

[00:52:05] she will always say, look, I'm very concerned, but I'm gonna have to vote for whatever Trump

[00:52:12] is doing, you know? Oh, is he wiping off Estonia? Is he wiping Estonia off the map

[00:52:17] with nuclear arms? I'm concerned, but I will probably vote for it, okay?

[00:52:23] Yeah, she's like the EU of senators. She's just concerned but stands in line with the

[00:52:28] party. Yes. Madam, I'm sure he's learned his lesson. That's another one. And Susan Collins

[00:52:37] is obviously drawn enough ire from the president as well and the MAGA base as well for even

[00:52:45] demonstrating concern whenever Donald Trump says or does something unbelievably stupid,

[00:52:50] even if she's a loyal servant of the party when push comes to shove.

[00:52:55] So she's in this unique predicament.

[00:52:59] Men most likely will lose her seat.

[00:53:00] This is a Republican seat, so this will be a flip.

[00:53:03] And the reason why that's very important is because, Maine, I guess you could consider

[00:53:08] it maybe a purplish state, but it's a red seat, right?

[00:53:11] It's a Republican seat that will be luckily flipped.

[00:53:19] blue and what's really interesting about that is that this goes against all of the previous

[00:53:29] established commentary at talking points.

[00:53:33] Zoram-Mamdani is only popular in a place like New York where everyone is a woke, libtard,

[00:53:40] homosexual, with a septum ring and a degree in queer biology.

[00:53:49] No one with Zoran's politics could ever win in a red state.

[00:53:55] No one with Zoran's politics could ever win in a purple state.

[00:54:00] Talk to me when someone with Zoran Mamdani's politics ends up winning a red seat.

[00:54:07] This is what the reasoning has always been from centrist Democrats, claiming that people

[00:54:14] like AOC, people like Zoramumdani, people like Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib can only win

[00:54:20] in deep blue areas, okay?

[00:54:24] Deep blue areas where the electorate resembles a gender queer English major that is getting

[00:54:34] an education in liberal arts college with 150 other people.

[00:54:39] Okay?

[00:54:40] That's not the case.

[00:54:42] It turns out 65-year-old white ladies and 75-year-old white guys fucking love what Graham Plattner

[00:54:51] has been serving.

[00:54:53] Let's take a look at one of these rooms that he's filled.

[00:54:56] And these are rooms that he has filled all around the state, mind you.

[00:55:01] Plattner famously has traveled up and down the state of Maine going into towns with like

[00:55:08] a hundred people and selling out a thousand person arenas.

[00:55:15] He has this incredible capability walking like a chud and thinking like a woke where

[00:55:22] he's capable of filling up rooms and arenas in towns where there's just more people

[00:55:27] attending his speeches than there are people in the fucking town.

[00:55:46] Turns out people love a progressive mind and a manga body, okay?

[00:55:53] out people are demanding a progressive mind and a MAGA body demanding a peep

[00:55:58] demanding a person who walks like a chud but thinks like a woke walks like a

[00:56:04] chud but talks like a woke whatever you want to call it okay Vinnie de Bozo says

[00:56:11] does no one else find it a bit nuts that Platinum is able to command waves

[00:56:14] of 65 plus year old whites to the rallies where he talks about putting

[00:56:18] a Lido in Thomas in jail and passing Medicare for all by getting rid of the

[00:56:21] filibuster yeah like this is not a college campus in an urban area this is

[00:56:28] main two now people will still do their very best to confirm their priors okay

[00:56:37] you're gonna see a big race by the the matigalaceous constituency the

[00:56:44] commentariat that is getting paid by billionaires millionaires and the

[00:56:48] corporate lobbyist to constantly fucking feed that slop over and over again.

[00:56:54] The idea that, ah, you see, this victory actually doesn't do anything.

[00:57:00] If anything confirms my priors, that's what they're going to say.

[00:57:03] I'm sure they've already started to say this and will take a look at what they have to

[00:57:07] say in a moment.

[00:57:10] But let's get back to Susan Collins.

[00:57:13] concerning. I'm sure this was a very difficult decision for Governor Mills and I wish her

[00:57:22] well. She has devoted her life to public service in the state of Maine in many different capacities.

[00:57:33] and he has served the people of our state.

[00:57:40] And I'm sure this was a hard decision for her.

[00:57:44] Does more platinum be easier to be in your view?

[00:57:48] I'm not going to get into November election at this point.

[00:57:56] This is the governor's day

[00:57:59] And I think the focus should be on her

[00:58:04] and her wanting to give her message to the people of many.

[00:58:10] All the Democrats believe that she has the energy

[00:58:13] on the left.

[00:58:14] Does she bring all of the energy

[00:58:17] that she would have for the general election campaign?

[00:58:19] I'm not going to get into playing pundit

[00:58:22] in this race.

[00:58:26] This is the governor's decision.

[00:58:28] I'm sure it was very difficult.

[00:58:30] She spent decades in public service.

[00:58:34] She served as a district attorney,

[00:58:37] as the attorney general,

[00:58:39] and as a two-term governor of the state of Maine.

[00:58:43] We have worked well together in the past,

[00:58:47] and I'm sure we'll continue to work together

[00:58:52] for the remainder of her time in the state of Maine.

[00:58:55] Thank you.

[00:58:57] Governor Mills has dedicated her career to this beautiful state and we're all eternally

[00:59:09] grateful for her service to the state of Maine as governor and her lifelong career serving

[00:59:16] Mainers, as Attorney General, as District Attorney and in the Legislature.

[00:59:21] We both got into this race because we knew how critical it is to defeat Susan Collins.

[00:59:27] And her decision today reflects a commitment to that project.

[00:59:31] I look forward to working closely with her between now and November to do just that,

[00:59:36] to defeat Susan Collins and turn this seat blue again.

[00:59:41] The race has never been about me or really about one person.

[00:59:45] It's about a movement of working managers who are fed up with being robbed by billionaires

[00:59:51] and the politicians who

[00:59:53] so uh... grand cooks again obviously walk like a child think like a walk but

[00:59:59] uh...

[01:00:00] of course grand platter uh... does the graceful thing

[01:00:04] the gracious thing

[01:00:08] okay what is this

[01:00:10] platter looks different as picture grand planters arm and i mean something

[01:00:13] officially the future of the democratic party

[01:00:17] these are written in a way where i can even tell if this is like a pro

[01:00:21] piece

[01:00:23] or an anti-peace but given the overwhelming majority of of

[01:00:27] uh... the unbelievable like an unbelievable barrage of of hit pieces i

[01:00:33] suspect that this is just uh... you know

[01:00:35] probably another one of those things that's like cautioning the democrats

[01:00:38] for

[01:00:39] making a big mistake

[01:00:47] you

[01:01:17] We are now taking back our power.

[01:01:37] That is what this campaign is.

[01:01:39] We will defeat Citizen Collins.

[01:01:42] We will go to Washington and we will start tearing down the system that for too long

[01:01:47] has forgotten and written off the people who make Maine and this country what it is.

[01:01:57] People have said this campaign came out of nowhere, but those people don't know Maine.

[01:02:02] This movement came out of a lot of somewheres, from working waterfronts that have worked

[01:02:07] far too long only to be pushed to the brink. Still following by the way, Lamau, WChat. Oh

[01:02:14] my god. This is the streamer from yesterday. The one that has the, I'm sorry that you have

[01:02:22] insane parasocial stalkers that you have to deal with that are telling you to unfollow

[01:02:28] me that's an on that's you know no no love loss if you were to to lean into this

[01:02:46] but um you have it you have it a thousand times worse than I do I'm all good I mean yeah I get

[01:02:52] I eat it from every end you know

[01:02:58] If on falling gets you harassed less definitely do it but I appreciate you being here. Yeah.

[01:03:17] All right. Let's continue with the grand planner.

[01:03:19] The closest hospital is now hours away. For workers who pay more in the...

[01:03:24] You were going to interview them after the card debate. Yeah. We were supposed to.

[01:03:27] We were supposed to do a, like a main, we were supposed to do a main thing together after the

[01:03:36] Charlie Kirk debate, obviously that fell apart.

[01:03:41] And you know, I'm happy that he's cooking right now.

[01:03:45] Taxes than billionaires.

[01:03:47] For loggers who are just one mill closure away from bankruptcy, and for young people

[01:03:52] who wanna home to call their own

[01:03:55] and for seniors

[01:03:57] who are ready to demand the dignity

[01:03:59] that they deserve

[01:04:02] yeah what happened

[01:04:03] well i had to cancel my public appearances

[01:04:06] for at least a couple weeks if you recall

[01:04:09] you know because the guy who i was supposed to debate publicly

[01:04:13] in a public setting got publicly killed

[01:04:16] after being shot in the fucking neck

[01:04:18] you know

[01:04:19] for decades

[01:04:20] This system has taken piece by piece, store by store, hospital by hospital,

[01:04:28] shore by shore, town by town. They have taken from us and they took so much

[01:04:36] that they began to think that we didn't exist at all.

[01:04:40] But they don't know Maine. They don't know the power that we have here

[01:04:44] and we are taking back what is ours. Everyone who's come here today

[01:04:50] to endorse me. It is an absolute honor to have you here. I very much recognize that

[01:04:56] the project that we are engaged in, this is just a continuation of work that has happened

[01:05:00] for a very, very long time. And so to everyone who's here, I really want to say thank you

[01:05:07] very much and thank you for all your work all of these years, building the foundation

[01:05:12] that we all get to build on now, to build a state and to build a country that represents

[01:05:18] the people who build it. Thank you.

[01:05:30] Are you going to interview Taurico? Maybe. I like to do baits, by the way.

[01:05:37] So I want to cover one of the little baits that I did earlier on my way on the train

[01:05:44] to Philadelphia, okay? This has predictably alarmed a lot of people. What is to be done?

[01:05:56] By Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. Clearly, when you take a photo of yourself staring out the window while

[01:06:02] holding a fucking book, like, it's on purpose, okay? It's so funny that people are pointing to

[01:06:07] this to be like, whoa, he's not actually reading. You're pretending to read. It's like, yeah,

[01:06:11] dude that's the fucking joke you're an idiot okay um not only that but also uh incredible bait post

[01:06:19] that that alarmed everyone from michael rapaport dickhead is fake reading you poser clown bro take

[01:06:27] a pic of me while i fake read bro dickhead to pretending to read again so you can keep up with

[01:06:33] the socialist larval you actively sheepdog actual well-intentioned socialism to supporting

[01:06:37] in the Gaza genocide party, I forget. Please remind me, what chapter does Lenin talk about

[01:06:42] the need to tail the establishment party? Okay?

[01:06:47] And it's really funny because like, he then highlights this, who could have seen this

[01:06:51] coming? Everyone, we kept dealing about this. I think it's time for the liberals who are

[01:06:54] screaming at the left to bury the hatchet and actively reconfigure the Democratic party

[01:06:57] to be a real opposition party with a bold vision of change.

[01:07:00] And then notice how, notice the part he did not highlight, which says, or build a

[01:07:05] Really real alternative.

[01:07:09] Like buddy, it's right there.

[01:07:13] It's right there.

[01:07:14] The parts that you didn't highlight, also straight up explain that if the alternative

[01:07:20] is not there within the ranks of the Democratic Party, which is currently the only viable

[01:07:24] electoral option, right?

[01:07:26] And should be utilized to at least spread class consciousness, broad awareness, political

[01:07:31] education and also lean into or create some kind of revolutionary momentum in a country

[01:07:38] that is lacking of class consciousness.

[01:07:41] It's right there, okay?

[01:07:45] First time the Dems are playing with the new rules, Republicans abuse all time, and

[01:07:48] corporate media stooges, screaming about the rules is a great move, and I hope it inspires

[01:07:50] Democrats to fight back even harder, yeah.

[01:07:58] And then it's a compilation of all of the, the DSA candidates that I work with, like

[01:08:05] virtually all of these guys are DSA, virtually all of them with some exceptions, but the overwhelming

[01:08:12] majority are, are DSA.

[01:08:20] Go outside.

[01:08:21] Oh, you're talking about the, the, uh, I assume you're responding to this guy.

[01:08:25] I love these people.

[01:08:27] Okay.

[01:08:28] my mentally ill communist lapers you are my favorite type of poster on twitter keep posting

[01:08:34] that shit okay that's what i say to you to all the communist lapers in my fucking replies

[01:08:41] keep posting that shit big dog i love it i personally love it on the one hand for the

[01:08:48] the revolutionary communists of america for the uh... a cp guys i obviously am a sheep

[01:08:54] dog of the bourgeois neo-liberal corporate-backed democratic party and I'm actually a social

[01:08:59] fascist and for all of the actual social fascists I am an authoritarian Marxist Leninist, okay,

[01:09:08] who is not pragmatic at all, who doesn't understand how to fight Republicans, who doesn't care

[01:09:13] about fighting fascism at all, and wants to rebuild America in his own vision.

[01:09:17] Shannon Watts, of course, author of New York Times bestseller, fired up an organizer

[01:09:22] who started off as uh... you know one of those uh... moms for america not most

[01:09:27] remember like a anti-gun violence

[01:09:30] uh... activist who then now has become

[01:09:33] the number one supporter of of israel for some weird reason

[01:09:37] she went from being anti-gun control and anti-school shooting to being

[01:09:41] uh... pro-school shooting as long as it's in gaza

[01:09:44] or if it's in lebanon

[01:09:46] uh... or if it's in iran she's totally on board with those kinds of school

[01:09:50] shootings just not on board with school shootings happening in the united

[01:09:53] states of america

[01:09:55] uh... shana what says democrats on a normalized by her making a mistake he's

[01:09:58] not just a cool edgy guy who wants universal health care

[01:10:01] nor is he dislike simply because he speaks of her palestinians as a

[01:10:04] supporters would claim the core problem the sumpiker is that he is at most

[01:10:10] basic level and ideological authoritarian he promotes violence and repression

[01:10:14] whenever that violence and repression have a socialist lean

[01:10:17] Okay?

[01:10:20] Now of course the reality of the matter is if I was pro-Israel, she wouldn't be actively

[01:10:25] highlighting hit pieces and these hit pieces would not even be written at all.

[01:10:32] But you know, keep it up, keep up the hit pieces.

[01:10:35] I'm sure one day it'll work.

[01:10:36] Laura Hardline, Dem Party Centres are pivoting from Hassanis Hamas to Piker as Putin.

[01:10:41] Justin and Trench corrupt network protecting their racket from an outsider threat using

[01:10:45] whatever rhetorical weaponry they think will preserve their power.

[01:10:48] Yeah, Jeremiah Johnson has written the best critique of a Sompiker I've ever read.

[01:10:53] This is really about democracy versus authoritarianism.

[01:10:56] And if someone has the consistency to oppose any boot on your neck, whether it was made

[01:11:00] in a socialist or capitalist factory, Piker doesn't.

[01:11:04] The Sompiker is an authoritarianist, Jonathan Chait.

[01:11:07] So is Netanyahu.

[01:11:08] If liberals and I just want to survive, we must fight both.

[01:11:12] It's very funny. I love it personally. I know a lot of people are like, how do you deal

[01:11:25] with this? How do you keep up with this? To them I say, there's not really much you

[01:11:31] can do, you just got to keep pushing. Okay? It is what it is.

[01:11:42] Yeah. Joe Biden, both accused China of genocide and kept

[01:11:46] boasting about his relationship with Xi. Trump let China have

[01:11:48] some of our most advanced chips. I don't get why some

[01:11:50] pikers the issue with China, our own government practices

[01:11:52] appeasement. I said, I'm doing it foreigner style.

[01:12:01] In some ways, that's the case in but the reality of the matter is it's because they are

[01:12:10] Are your dumb ass option to call you pro autocracy because every seat of power is

[01:12:18] definitionally authoritarian? Yes, yeah, judge me by my enemies, your booze mean

[01:12:30] nothing when I've seen what makes you cheer. That's how it goes, okay? The people

[01:12:38] who eat Netanyahu's dick and have consistently done so for the past two

[01:12:43] and a half years, for people who have consistently defended Israel, for them to

[01:12:48] turn around and be like Hassan is the real danger. He's the real authoritarian. Okay.

[01:12:52] Well, sucks to suck. Would love to see the Venn diagram of pro genocide anti piker camps

[01:12:56] here is representative Josh Gottheimer. Hatred is hatred period. It doesn't matter whether

[01:13:01] it comes from the far right or the far left. Very influential voice like a son piker and

[01:13:04] can his own spread hate promote terrorism. All this good stuff. Right.

[01:13:10] Yeah, authoritarianism is when you demand that megacorporations don't slaughter people with

[01:13:21] its routine pollution campaigns at the behest of profit.

[01:13:29] That's authoritarianism.

[01:13:31] Unbelievable levels of authoritarianism.

[01:13:32] You're an authoritarian if you think we should put people ahead of the interest

[01:13:37] of profit.

[01:13:38] is what the authoritarianism is.

[01:13:41] That is what their fear is.

[01:13:43] Authoritarianism is when you say, hey,

[01:13:44] maybe we should actually punish and hold accountable

[01:13:47] countries that have been murdering school children

[01:13:49] in their schools, you know?

[01:13:50] That's probably something that we should do

[01:13:54] if we are, if we're honest,

[01:13:55] if we're actually humanitarian in the way

[01:13:57] that we promote ourselves, in the way that we see ourselves.

[01:13:59] Right?

[01:14:02] Unbelievable levels of authoritarianism.

[01:14:08] Yeah, not gaming is authoritarianism. I am a fascist in that regard. You're right

[01:14:14] For the gaming frogs

[01:14:16] My maggot that will actively say he doesn't want to live in a democracy anymore to random people he meets and they usually agree

[01:14:20] and rule Western PA

[01:14:26] He says he wants the government to run like a business. Oh my god, that's classic Republican classic Republican tropes here

[01:14:34] We got to run this government like a business

[01:14:38] So, yeah, corporate media has been going crazy mode, 17 articles written.

[01:15:07] the new york's son house bill

[01:15:10] uh... house bill calls out of some piker cancels refueling hater to jews

[01:15:13] national review

[01:15:14] micro looting still talking about that

[01:15:17] national review still

[01:15:18] elite leftist in the state political violence is cool now from the wall

[01:15:21] should journal sky news australia

[01:15:25] the sun piker tells sky news read a lot of it's time for lefties

[01:15:30] all of my god wait what the park

[01:15:32] the song by your tell sky news read a panel he to focus on dingo's and wallabies

[01:15:40] uh... uh...

[01:15:42] million and moxies clashes with scott news house

[01:15:46] uh... but why is she posting that

[01:15:50] this is the cell phone

[01:15:53] it that makes no damn sense and then we did she have josh hammer on again

[01:15:56] usually that's what they do

[01:15:58] Let's go!

[01:16:20] Clearly you're a theocrat, non-authoritarian, okay?

[01:16:23] Jerusalem Post.

[01:16:24] are bipartisan resolution condemning the spread of anti-semitism, Daily Wire, New York Post, Fox News.

[01:16:37] Okay, Jewish Insider wrote one, but it didn't pick up. There's a lot. There's a lot. It's all over.

[01:16:46] The New York Times didn't write one, which is crazy.

[01:16:49] Alan Dershowitz from the Christian Broadcasting Network. I got banned completely from the New

[01:16:57] York Times. Now they're platforming his Sompiker. I didn't see this one. That's funny.

[01:17:00] Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. The free press culture, the bread, Cole Allen, all this shit. JTA.

[01:17:10] times of Israel, holy fuck times of

[01:17:18] Rizrael's written a lot. Forward, Newsweek,

[01:17:22] Vox, Manhattan Institute, Jewish Chronicles,

[01:17:25] Politico, all this good stuff.

[01:17:28] All right, anyway, someone by your

[01:17:32] domain is redirected to a smear site.

[01:17:34] You can fight this with lawyers.

[01:17:36] Okay, dude, it's fine. It is what it is.

[01:17:38] All right. So, you know, that's, that's where we're at in the, in the smear, on the, on the smear side. But I did find it very funny, you know, because people are, the GOP is sending him via sealed train domain to undermine the Democrats.

[01:18:01] And then this guy goes should have been photographed performatively reading this would have been both funnier and confused a lot of people

[01:18:06] Why would it confuse people? Why would this confuse people?

[01:18:13] Like it's seemingly confusing to you what I'm doing there, which is you know deliberate it's by design

[01:18:22] This would be also in line with my beliefs I

[01:18:25] I like that Tyler Austin Harper, who acts as though he understands like fundamental Leninist critique,

[01:18:33] and then acts as though I would be one of the people being called out in left-wing communism and infantile disorder.

[01:18:42] It's very, very stupid.

[01:18:55] He doesn't have nearly the sense of humor, self-awareness, or willingness to make fun of himself to ever do something actually funny like this, case in point.

[01:19:01] No, you fucking idiot.

[01:19:04] It doesn't make sense, because it would be in line with this. It would be the exact same thing.

[01:19:15] Oh God, whatever, dude.

[01:19:17] It's just people throwing Marxist terminology around without understanding what it means,

[01:19:25] without understanding the nuances and the different ideological tendencies as well.

[01:19:39] A little Chugilum out, I mean it is, it's the whole point.

[01:19:43] Anyway, the post was expert paid the LeBron memes at me dying.

[01:19:52] Yeah.

[01:19:53] Oh, no, I'm sleeping in the bed I made the essay endorses Chris Rapp yet Democratic

[01:20:03] Socialist of America is endorsed Chris Rapp.

[01:20:05] The essay has only made two national endorsements in 2026.

[01:20:10] will be hanging out with Chris Rabb later today.

[01:20:17] Read theory on stream.

[01:20:19] You want to know what's fun.

[01:20:20] Jordan theory.

[01:20:23] Jordan underscore theory says read theory on stream.

[01:20:28] Ironic because I have done that and specifically left communism and infantile disorder.

[01:20:35] That's literally a thing that I have read on stream.

[01:20:39] I

[01:20:43] Given that I have been live given that I have more than 21,000 hours

[01:20:51] Okay

[01:20:54] Given that I have more than 21,000 hours on this fucking broadcast

[01:20:59] Everything that people always say why don't you do this? I most likely have done

[01:21:04] Okay, just

[01:21:07] Just Google it first

[01:21:09] search for it and you will find it. Okay, I promise you.

[01:21:32] I missed the weather report at the top of the broadcast is sunny in

[01:21:34] Philadelphia. Yes, that's why my transition lenses are lighting up

[01:21:38] if you haven't noticed

[01:21:41] yeah it's like saying this on a bitch would never talk about nine eleven on

[01:21:44] stream you know

[01:21:46] anyway let's see

[01:21:48] grand planner

[01:21:49] uh... met the house on challenges grand planner on his tattoo and more

[01:21:53] let's take a look now that now that grand planner is the it boy of the day

[01:21:57] uh... let's take a look at what grand planner saying what grand planner is

[01:22:01] done so far how he is defended himself

[01:22:03] This surely will not spark some unbelievably unproductive discourse in this community.

[01:22:10] Of all communities, let's take a look.

[01:22:33] How many people who run for office don't actually have any deeper political beliefs?

[01:22:37] When exactly did you find out that the tattoo on your chest could be a Nazi tattoo or seen as one?

[01:22:43] I had it for 17 years. I went through two security clearances. Never came up.

[01:22:47] Is there other stuff out there that's going to come up?

[01:22:49] Of course. Of course it never came up. They were like, oh, you're going to get promoted for having that tattoo.

[01:22:56] Graham Plattner came out of nowhere, an oyster farmer from Maine running to unsuit veteran

[01:23:06] Republican Senator Susan Collins in the midterm elections this fall.

[01:23:10] Plattner who formerly served with the Marines and the Army with deployment in Iraq and Afghanistan

[01:23:15] is running a very progressive anti-war campaign opposing Trump's war in Iran and speaking

[01:23:20] out about Israel's genocide in Gaza.

[01:23:23] He's leading in the polls against his big-name Democratic opponent in the June 9th primary,

[01:23:27] Governor Janet Mills.

[01:23:28] The Platinum's campaign is not without controversy.

[01:23:31] He joins me now to unpack it all.

[01:23:33] Welcome to Mayor of the Unfiltered, Graham Platner.

[01:23:35] Thank you very much, Mayor.

[01:23:36] It's a pleasure to be here.

[01:23:38] Graham, one of the central debates around your candidacy is the word, and you've

[01:23:42] heard it a lot, especially from the media, electability.

[01:23:46] The establishment view is that you are not electable.

[01:23:50] You are someone who is unorthodox, you have no experience, you have a lot of baggage, and

[01:23:56] that Janet Mills, the governor, who people know, she's the safe bet.

[01:24:00] What's your take on electability?

[01:24:02] Well, I think that that is a take that comes from people who are really trying to protect

[01:24:07] their interests and protect the system that they're working with.

[01:24:11] In their version of politics, sure, but their version of politics has been losing for

[01:24:15] quite some time.

[01:24:16] And the same guys still remain as pretty clear.

[01:24:19] People do not want to establish the politicians.

[01:24:22] People do not want to continue doing the exact same thing we've done for years.

[01:24:25] And people don't want to run the exact same kind of playbook that has lost to Susan Collins

[01:24:30] over and over and over again.

[01:24:33] We are doing something entirely different.

[01:24:35] And it is ironic to me that the people who are crowing about electability are the

[01:24:39] same folks who tend to take polls seriously.

[01:24:42] We are at now something like 12 or 13 consecutive polls

[01:24:47] that have been winning the primary by substantial margins

[01:24:50] and winning the general by significantly higher margins

[01:24:53] than the sitting governor would against Susan Collins.

[01:24:57] And so I think there has just been a shift

[01:25:01] in what politics is in this country

[01:25:03] and a lot of the people in places of political power,

[01:25:05] the people who think that they have experience

[01:25:07] to ground a shift beneath them

[01:25:09] and they don't really know how to react.

[01:25:12] Daddy come back. No, this is good having a little bit of unfiltered uninterrupted Grand Platinum in this community will be good

[01:25:19] There's a very fair point about polls

[01:25:22] Your critics I would say well March

[01:25:25] March sent you a pick by the way

[01:25:35] What is this oh

[01:25:37] Oh my fucking look wait what the hell this is not a real this is not a normal Philadelphia

[01:25:44] cheese thing okay this is above and beyond it seems oh my god dude what the fuck that

[01:25:56] shit looks

[01:25:58] on

[01:25:58] below the level

[01:26:04] who god

[01:26:06] they are measure was meant

[01:26:17] we have a republican president was elected in twenty sixteen with zero

[01:26:21] executive or legislative experience

[01:26:24] He didn't know anything about government, he'd never been in public life, he was a guy from

[01:26:27] reality TV and Home Alone 2.

[01:26:29] Why should Democrats follow that path?

[01:26:32] You are an oyster fisherman, a marine vet, which is great, but what do you know about

[01:26:37] legislating?

[01:26:38] What do you know about foreign policy, they might say?

[01:26:40] Well, I would say, one, it's not the same path, because I have an immense amount of

[01:26:45] experience dealing with American foreign policy first hand.

[01:26:48] Yes.

[01:26:49] I have an immense amount of experience with the challenges of returning home from

[01:26:52] the failures of that form of policy, but as with a lot of experience in re-engaging with

[01:26:57] my community and building a small business and being successful materially down here

[01:27:02] in the real world.

[01:27:04] I think that one of our problems is we have a lot of people who think that experience

[01:27:08] comes from being part of the political system that has brought us to this moment.

[01:27:13] But that politics that brought us here, that's the problem.

[01:27:17] experience in building the system that allows billionaires to consolidate the

[01:27:23] wealth they've consolidated that's allowed for a system that has created

[01:27:27] essentially unlivable conditions for a lot of working people in this country

[01:27:31] where things like housing and health care and general affordability of goods and

[01:27:34] services goes through the roof I have experience with that with the exact

[01:27:39] or I don't have experience with that I have experience with the outcomes of

[01:27:44] that kind of politics. And I think what we really need are people from the normal world

[01:27:49] who understand that policy gets real material things for people. And that is an experience

[01:27:55] that we have lost in many places in the halls of power. And I think it's one of the reasons

[01:27:59] why this campaign is so successful is many Americans, certainly many mayors, believe

[01:28:04] that that's exactly the kind of experience that's going to get us into a better future.

[01:28:08] That's undeniably true that politics and Congress does not reflect the real world

[01:28:12] or real people and working people and clearly you've been popular because of that.

[01:28:16] I'm not going to pretend I don't show you politics.

[01:28:20] I do.

[01:28:21] Everyone knows that.

[01:28:22] My, when I watch your list though, forgive me, I cannot think, I can't forget the John

[01:28:29] Federman race.

[01:28:30] John Federman was someone I supported in his primary.

[01:28:34] I supported him in the general.

[01:28:35] When he was being attacked by Republicans after his health issues, after his stroke,

[01:28:39] I defended him.

[01:28:41] And now you look at John Federman, and he is a genocidal, warmongering, Trump-loving Senate

[01:28:46] Democrat, refuses to go against the filibuster and all sorts of other things he promised

[01:28:51] to be a vote on.

[01:28:52] And of course, he wasn't just popular because he was a progressive, he was seen-

[01:28:55] Yeah, everyone's got that John Federman.

[01:29:00] John Federman got a stroke, and it caused him to become the most pro-Israel senator.

[01:29:07] It caused him to become the most right wing.

[01:29:09] of the most right wing senators in Congress.

[01:29:13] But it also basically stroked out half of the fucking left,

[01:29:17] where no one can look at a guy who codes as a chud

[01:29:24] and ever take them seriously ever again.

[01:29:26] Everyone is constantly terrified.

[01:29:28] There's this like genuine trauma.

[01:29:31] It wasn't just the head trauma that John Federman got.

[01:29:33] It was a head trauma that he delivered

[01:29:36] to like damn near the entirety of the electoral is left,

[01:29:41] where they're all like, no, every single guy is John Fetterman.

[01:29:45] Everyone is John Fetterman.

[01:29:48] I say it's a trauma response

[01:29:49] because you're not thinking clearly

[01:29:51] when you make these assessments, okay?

[01:29:56] John Fetterman is a unique once in a lifetime ordeal.

[01:30:02] Okay, he got hit with the CIA stroke gun

[01:30:04] that makes you pro-Israel.

[01:30:06] More pro-Israel than he already was he got hit with a CI stroke on the makes you the most right-wing senator in the country

[01:30:13] It's a very different

[01:30:16] Situation it's it's a it totally a stroke of luck or misfortune

[01:30:21] Whichever way you put it as an ordinary person to he was seen a he wore a hoodie

[01:30:25] I noticed you're wearing a hoodie right now. He wears a hoodie

[01:30:28] Yeah, so you must get this grand platinum like how do you avoid the John Federman vibes people say I like around platinum

[01:30:34] I hope he doesn't turn into John Fenneman once he's liking this video and don't just watch hit like share

[01:30:42] Independent journalism

[01:30:45] I will just say that man is the bane of my existence

[01:30:49] I will say this I'm going to wear a suit on the Senate floor

[01:30:52] Okay, I want that's how you can be on the South floor if you want to be affected in the Senate

[01:30:57] Well, so you have to be on the floor. Otherwise, I don't know what's the point the other thing is and I think this is really important

[01:31:03] You know

[01:31:05] Much the story around John Fetterman was a bit of a story

[01:31:08] You know, he had been trying to get into politics for quite some time. Yes

[01:31:12] You look at his background for many it was clear he had political ambitions

[01:31:16] You know, I really was just an oyster farmer and the extent of my political ambitions was being the harbour master in my town of a thousand people

[01:31:25] The reason I'm doing this is I do have a theory of power in which the US Senate

[01:31:30] Has a extremely important function. I think because it's a

[01:31:35] Was he has a black water? I don't know if Matthew asked him about black water, but let's be real plenty of people have already and

[01:31:42] The reality of the matter is this is not a part of the calculus

[01:31:46] At all for manors. Okay. It's just not

[01:31:52] Like I know you guys

[01:31:54] Desperately want to know you're like, oh what the fuck was the and I certainly do too

[01:31:59] And I've listened to some of his responses.

[01:32:03] To give it the fairest of all shakes, the idea, I mean, I find it totally ridiculous to join

[01:32:09] Blackwater in 2016 of all, of all times, right?

[01:32:14] It's like long after we know that this is a war crimes factory.

[01:32:20] And at best I think like if I'm being as charitable as possible, he joins Blackwater

[01:32:27] as many people have, after they've done their tours, when they feel like there's no other

[01:32:33] option for them to make money.

[01:32:35] For the record, I'm not giving this, this is not a moral assessment, I'm just telling

[01:32:40] you what the calculation is, okay?

[01:32:44] I know that everyone is going to look at what I just said and go, oh yeah dude, I'm

[01:32:49] gonna go and join the baby murder factor, I'm not saying it's a good thing, okay?

[01:32:52] I need you to understand.

[01:32:55] He joins, he does embassy security, and after like a couple months doing embassy securities

[01:33:03] like this shit sucks, and he leaves, okay?

[01:33:10] Somewhere along the line, I think he either got one-shotted by Shrooms and Michael Brooks

[01:33:18] and Majority Report, but somewhere along the line his mentality changes, and he turns

[01:33:22] into a somewhat of a, you know, radical person with politics that closely resemble ours, okay?

[01:33:35] I think that's probably what happened with Graham Plattner.

[01:33:42] The reason why I say that is because if you look closely at his

[01:33:48] social media activity, specifically his Reddit, you see that. You see that transition. He goes

[01:33:52] from in 2014 when he's like looking at the Hamas raid on an Israeli occupied

[01:33:59] occupying forces compound and he's like offering analysis on that he's not doing

[01:34:06] that from like from a place where he's like no anti-colonial resistance

[01:34:10] forces have a right to militarily resist against other militaries like it's

[01:34:13] totally ridiculous he's looking at it like a chud in 2014 when he's like

[01:34:17] covering that on Reddit when he's like being critical, when he's like talking about what

[01:34:25] Hamas did on that IDF base, he's looking at it like a chud, okay?

[01:34:33] Yeah, he was just like completely cold, calculated and analytical in his approach to the effective

[01:34:44] military campaign that the effective military operation that Hamas conducted on an IDF base, right?

[01:35:01] Where did you find that Reddit stuff? It's all over. What do you mean? It's been like the number one

[01:35:06] oppo

[01:35:07] this guy came out of the gates swinging

[01:35:12] this guy

[01:35:13] came out of the gates swinging

[01:35:16] against israel

[01:35:17] saying that he's pro medicare for all

[01:35:20] with a bernie sanders endorsement

[01:35:23] of course there was going to be opposition research

[01:35:27] of course they were going to come after him he's not like a professional

[01:35:29] politic uh... he's not a professional politician he doesn't have that same

[01:35:33] pedigree

[01:35:34] he's not like uh...

[01:35:35] like normally when you come from a military background

[01:35:38] you go through the officers program and then go to yell

[01:35:42] okay and get a law degree from the other nba from harvard

[01:35:45] and then you go into congress

[01:35:47] you do a brief stint through the officers program or potentially with the

[01:35:51] state department right but you know like a c a affiliated

[01:35:55] uh... role

[01:35:56] or in the case of jadie vance your uh... the i think he did

[01:36:00] was he a jaguar was the uh... now that was ronda santus uh... jd vance was like

[01:36:05] uh... marine corps press i think

[01:36:08] these that's the normal

[01:36:10] that's the normal professional

[01:36:13] career

[01:36:14] to become a politician

[01:36:15] you don't actually go through the process of grunt

[01:36:18] multiple tours serve

[01:36:20] actually in the line uh... actually in front of the line of fire

[01:36:23] uh... actually holding a machine gun and maybe even doing some heinous

[01:36:26] things that's not

[01:36:28] the normal route

[01:36:29] okay

[01:36:31] jd vance did yet

[01:36:32] no jd was combat camera exactly was press right

[01:36:35] he was marine corps press

[01:36:38] that's uh... that's a poor person

[01:36:41] that is uh... and in his background is not necessarily poor from what i

[01:36:45] understand is that upper middle class but

[01:36:48] but basically yeah my see fangirless is my fascist d a cousin did reserves in

[01:36:52] jag exactly you either do reserves

[01:36:55] uh... or you go to the officers program

[01:36:59] uh...

[01:37:01] you know you don't

[01:37:02] you don't do this route this route is actually very unique

[01:37:07] even for you know politicians that uh... are are

[01:37:11] sympathetic

[01:37:12] oftentimes like i said when you are

[01:37:16] uh... when you are uh... uh... going through this process

[01:37:20] you don't do fucking infantry you don't do you you're not holding a machine gun

[01:37:25] and actually firing it or being fired at

[01:37:28] okay

[01:37:34] there's a reason they call him rotc nazis yeah so

[01:37:38] so just understand that

[01:37:42] but there was an unbelievable op-ed up from the start and it didn't do anything

[01:37:46] so we know his background we know his like ideological

[01:37:49] uh... his his uh...

[01:37:52] ideological changes his uh... rehabilitation in some respects right

[01:37:56] we know the journey that he went through because it was well documented

[01:38:00] and it was also spread around like wildfire

[01:38:03] right

[01:38:06] he was a grunt he was a machine gunner for the fucking marine corps he's a crayon

[01:38:09] eater okay

[01:38:11] and somewhere along the line he had a real

[01:38:15] change of attitude

[01:38:17] it's very clear

[01:38:19] unless you personally think this is the most elaborate ruse from

[01:38:23] the cia

[01:38:25] to deeply embed in leftist communities with the notion that there would be a broad leftist

[01:38:33] movement somewhere along the line, and that the CIA would have to infiltrate it, and we're

[01:38:40] thinking like decades ahead, and this guy is the perfect guy to do that with.

[01:38:49] But then in an effort to like boost his profile as like a real one, they also tarnished his

[01:38:55] reputation as aggressively as possible, and he withstood one of the most cynical oppo

[01:39:01] dumps of all time for a fucking primary as Bronco from Jacobin writes, reminder that

[01:39:06] Grand Planner, whether one of the most cynical smear slash cancel culture campaigns, which

[01:39:10] painted him as holding virtually the exact opposite of every view he ever expressed,

[01:39:14] and by a dem establishment that five minutes earlier was decrying cancel culture no less.

[01:39:19] And a man are not dissimilar to what I've also withstood in these past couple of months.

[01:39:24] Sometimes identical lines of attack, hitting every avenue possible.

[01:39:30] It didn't work.

[01:39:32] For his goals, for what he was trying to accomplish was win the primary in the Senate race in

[01:39:38] the Democratic Party.

[01:39:39] It didn't work.

[01:39:40] Federman 2.0 confirmed, I'm gonna fucking, oh, I want to get fucking hit with the

[01:39:46] Federman Ray dude.

[01:39:47] Holy shit.

[01:39:48] I'm like, you know, maybe it's not so bad.

[01:40:10] And let's not pretend that a massive amount of the community ate this shit up.

[01:40:13] Oh, no, they did, but they ate it up leftistly.

[01:40:15] That's what I'm saying.

[01:40:16] was a very sophisticated smear campaign because if you recall at the time

[01:40:21] the jewish insider

[01:40:23] was the first outlet

[01:40:25] to release

[01:40:26] the the uh... story that grand platter was actually affiliated with the idea

[01:40:31] that his brother-in-law

[01:40:33] was literally like a like a security analyst

[01:40:36] that had

[01:40:37] uh... written about gaza that was actually uh... that was actually

[01:40:40] serving an embedded in the idea that this is real this is a real thing

[01:40:44] jewish insider was the one that leaked that story

[01:40:47] jewish insider was the one

[01:40:49] uh... put that story out there and then every fucking ultra

[01:40:53] eight dashed it up where they were like all do it since of the father this guy

[01:40:57] is fucking totally

[01:40:59] totally uh... a a

[01:41:01] uh... pro-israel stewart is a secret agent

[01:41:04] it was crazy

[01:41:06] and what did i tell you at the time was like look at where this information

[01:41:10] is coming from

[01:41:11] look who leaked this story

[01:41:14] look who put the story out there

[01:41:18] it was the mother fucking jewish insider there wrote it knowing full well

[01:41:22] that this would go to the right circles

[01:41:25] it would uh... it would circulate

[01:41:27] in in uh... all the right communities and it did a lot of people ate that shit up

[01:41:34] If the it's like if the finance times and air times uncovered you having a supposedly

[01:41:47] billionaire parent yet neither of which would write a story like that because it's not true.

[01:41:52] It is true that he has a an IDF relative like a brother-in-law who's in the IDF.

[01:41:58] Yeah, his brother-in-law is in the Israeli security establishment and it wasn't Jewish

[01:42:03] It was a random Twitter account highlighted by the Australian like don't lie

[01:42:07] Even if I don't care about his brother-in-law. Oh my fucking god

[01:42:10] No, it was the Jewish insider that wrote about it first. It was the first major

[01:42:14] Media outlet that wrote about that. They are the ones who broke that story. It's literally true

[01:42:19] I remember because I saw it unfold in real time

[01:42:33] What is this? Oh, shit.

[01:42:46] So fuck.

[01:42:53] Anyway, cock leaked. Yeah.

[01:42:59] Address this.

[01:43:03] Oh, this is the fear and ampersand collection. Yeah, it's coming out

[01:43:11] Mauricio Miranda serving serving cunt

[01:43:19] In any case in any case in any case getting back to

[01:43:24] Getting back to the story at hand. Okay

[01:43:27] He did he got he ate it from every end possible

[01:43:30] possible. He aided from centrist Democrats. He aided from the pro Israel newspapers. Um,

[01:43:36] he was he was receiving a barrage of attacks. And I'll admit, as far as getting ahead of

[01:43:44] the controversy with the totem cop tattoo, the pod jobs actually helped out big time

[01:43:50] where he, uh, instead of waiting for the news to break, he controlled the media cycle

[01:43:56] on the totem cough tattoo. He went on Pajans and was like this is the thing that is on

[01:44:01] my chest. I didn't know it was a totem cough Nazi tattoo. I'm covering it immediately.

[01:44:06] That was actually somewhat brilliant. It's ironic because the Pajans were also responsible

[01:44:10] at the time for Elizabeth Warren doing that blood quantum test on whether or not she

[01:44:15] was actually, you know, indigenous or not, which, you know, was in my opinion not their

[01:44:20] best moment but this was actually uh you know this was was unironically a very solid approach that he had

[01:44:33] uniquely it was built to be a place of power for elites to hold back working class power but that

[01:44:40] actually makes it a unique target to build working class power because the bang for your buck with

[01:44:45] senate seats is pretty spectacular when it comes to power versus

[01:44:49] the funds in the kind of apparatus necessary to win

[01:44:53] i did not believe it at first but then he said it was something on the wall in

[01:44:56] in croatia and bought it yeah i mean if you're getting a tattoo uh... on shore

[01:45:00] leaving croatia

[01:45:02] the likelihood that that is going to be a nazi tattoo is unbelievably high

[01:45:07] it's fucking croatia of course you went to a tattoo parlor

[01:45:10] and they were like hey this is you know we're gonna give you this tattoo

[01:45:13] most places in the united states of america most tattoo shops in the united

[01:45:17] states of america would not have that had to

[01:45:19] as a matter of fact

[01:45:21] they would never tattoo that as a matter of fact

[01:45:24] literally offer free coverage of tattoos like that

[01:45:28] because it's a nazi tattoo tattoo parlors know exactly what the common

[01:45:32] nazi tattoos are

[01:45:36] crocia

[01:45:37] is the one place

[01:45:39] where you have an unbelievably high likelihood that the tattoo that you're

[01:45:42] is probably a fucking Nazi tattoo. Anyway, I've covered this stuff extensively. It doesn't fucking matter anymore.

[01:45:49] I don't know why we're going over it over and over again, but yeah.

[01:45:53] But I think standing up against the Trump administration, building a better future, we need loud voices in the Senate

[01:45:59] who are willing to build power and wield it.

[01:46:02] Fetterman, you know, really doesn't come from that kind of, I think, one structural critique

[01:46:08] and certainly didn't have, when you look closer, a long track record of being very specific

[01:46:16] or very, what's the word I'm looking for here, consistent on his policies.

[01:46:21] For instance, on Israel, you know, long before that happened, he's been outspoken

[01:46:27] and supporting the Israeli government.

[01:46:29] Yes.

[01:46:30] I mean, you know, you can find op-eds I wrote in my local paper

[01:46:35] long before I ever thought about running for U.S. Senate,

[01:46:37] condemning the genocide in Gaza.

[01:46:40] So there are elements of me that I think are much more

[01:46:44] legitimate when it comes to some of the normal world.

[01:46:47] And yeah.

[01:46:49] I want to delve into Israel in just a moment.

[01:46:50] Just one other name that's associated with you

[01:46:53] when people talk about your candidacy.

[01:46:56] Some people call you the...

[01:46:57] Planner, a lot about his time during Blackwater.

[01:46:59] He said he never worked for Blackwater.

[01:47:00] know he said black water have been disbanded by that point and it was

[01:47:03] operating under a different name which is true technically he's just trying to

[01:47:06] get off on a technicality but it's bullshit regardless yes it's a black

[01:47:10] water it's it's what black water became it's one of the many different security

[01:47:16] contractors that most veterans go to work for it I think it was yeah

[01:47:21] Constellus at that point regardless doesn't matter it's still it's still

[01:47:25] totally worthy of suspicion and scrutiny. Blackwater was disbanded and then

[01:47:33] recreated under different names over and over again. Academy was another name for

[01:47:38] it as well. And the reason for why was because they kept doing fucking war

[01:47:42] crimes. Okay, that's it. Because that's what security contractors do. They do

[01:47:47] war crimes. White Mamdani. I don't know if you've had that phrase which made me

[01:47:52] What do you make of the comparisons with Zoran Mandani?

[01:47:56] Here is a proud Democratic Socialist who ran a very populist, leftist, anti-establishment

[01:48:00] primary campaign and then general election campaign and won.

[01:48:04] What do you make of the comparisons between you and Zoran Mandani?

[01:48:07] Here's the thing that people don't understand, or at least like the anti-electoralist left

[01:48:12] doesn't understand for some reason.

[01:48:14] If you're anti-electoralist and you have a principled stance on this, then fine.

[01:48:18] It's your choice, right?

[01:48:21] I'm not like that.

[01:48:22] i'm not going to argue against you all the god damn time i feel it is on

[01:48:25] productive there's like

[01:48:26] twelve total people on the planet who have a consistent perspective on the shit

[01:48:30] and it's utterly irrelevant in the grand scheme of things

[01:48:34] however if you're an anti-electoral is left is anyway

[01:48:38] this is not a conversation for you regardless because

[01:48:41] whether it's susan collins

[01:48:43] or whether it's janet mills or whether it's grand platner that's winning

[01:48:47] this uh... race winning the seat

[01:48:49] it doesn't matter they're all fucking bourgeois social fascists

[01:48:53] two sides of the same coin

[01:48:55] so it's not you know from your perspective it doesn't it doesn't change

[01:48:58] anything right

[01:49:01] so is that this is why i never understand why i like anti-electoral is

[01:49:05] left is or alters will fucking lose their minds as though

[01:49:08] they're making a sincere calculation here that like grand platter is going

[01:49:11] to be worse than fucking susan collins or janet mills

[01:49:15] he's not

[01:49:16] if you're making an electoral is calculation then you know of course

[01:49:19] grand planner is far better

[01:49:21] reluctantly or not you would most likely to care about voting for an election at

[01:49:25] all if you didn't think

[01:49:27] that it was uh...

[01:49:29] a totally

[01:49:30] uh... ridiculous thing for a a

[01:49:33] a real leftist to do with any idea you're gonna fucking vote for grand planner

[01:49:37] and for many people actually they're gonna be excitedly voting for grand

[01:49:40] planner because

[01:49:41] he demonstrates a lot of the values that many people want

[01:49:46] They just don't care about holding power in the U.S. Senate, which seems to be a very

[01:49:53] short-sighted idea.

[01:49:54] I know.

[01:49:55] I know.

[01:49:58] It just doesn't make any fucking sense, though.

[01:50:00] Like, given the options that are readily available, I don't think it's inherently anti-electoralist

[01:50:06] who want them to properly address his history, honestly, in my opinion.

[01:50:09] I mean, you're not...

[01:50:10] No disagreement is there, but I'm pretty sure he has already done so over and over

[01:50:14] again.

[01:50:15] going to be an answer that a lot of people are comfortable with. After all, he has a fucking

[01:50:20] Nazi tattoo. He had a Nazi tattoo on his chest. How do you explain that beyond, I'm a fucking

[01:50:25] idiot, I didn't know, okay? You can't explain it. It's impossible to explain. He literally

[01:50:31] says, I didn't know that it was a fucking Nazi tattoo when I got it. It's not going

[01:50:36] to be a satisfying answer because the social crime committed in that situation is the

[01:50:42] maximum social crime. There is literally nothing more egregious that you could do

[01:50:48] than get a fucking Nazi tattoo, okay? There is no satisfactory answer for that.

[01:50:54] When you have done the worst social crime possible, it's not a real crime. That's

[01:50:59] what I'm saying is a social crime, right? It's that's it. There's no

[01:51:04] satisfying answer for that. There's no like there's no answer that will

[01:51:08] satisfy the goals here like what he slipped and fell into a fucking totem

[01:51:14] cough no of course not did you just hear yourself wait what I am I'm saying I'm

[01:51:25] saying what I think I'm saying what I believe he's definitely a Nazi don't

[01:51:29] mean to change the subject well when is the merch shipping my girlfriend's

[01:51:32] birthday is May 14th I don't fucking know the answer to your question

[01:51:35] there's no social crime worse than a tattoo no I said there's no social crime

[01:51:40] worse than having a Nazi tattoo social crimes like saying slurs okay social

[01:51:46] crimes like being misogynistic to varying degrees you know if we're talking

[01:51:51] about social crimes not real crimes right things that people would consider

[01:51:56] to be missteps or things that that show who you are as a person yes it's the

[01:52:04] Worst fucking taboo, I guess if you want to call it that

[01:52:09] Yeah, you you left out a key part of this there's no worse social crime than a tattoo come on law

[01:52:15] Notice how you left out a key word there that changes it. It's not just like a silly thing, right?

[01:52:21] It's a Nazi tattoo. Yeah, I'm not see that. It was a pretty fucking high bar

[01:52:25] It's like the worst thing you could do as far as you know being a chud now

[01:52:30] Having said all of that having said all of that

[01:52:35] Do I think he knew it was a Nazi tattoo and got it and then changed his belief system, but didn't choose to change the tattoo

[01:52:41] I don't think so

[01:52:47] You sound way more Nazi than most of those you call a Nazi stop being so fake dude

[01:52:54] You have to take Israel's penis out of your ass when you type, okay?

[01:52:58] Okay? Anyone that calls me a fucking Nazi is just an unbelievable dick writer of the Zionist entity.

[01:53:05] Okay, that's it. There's no other human being on the planet that considers someone like myself to be a fucking Nazi other than people who are unironically 100% on board with the current iteration of the Fourth Reich, the Israeli government.

[01:53:20] Okay?

[01:53:21] Sounds so much like Hitler. Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally, totally. Yeah, everything,

[01:53:29] everyone that opposes the current Adolf Hitler version of what's going on in the world,

[01:53:36] everyone that actually opposes the current Adolf Hitler, Benjamin Nennyahu, is actually

[01:53:41] Adolf Hitler. Thank you. Yeah, between him and I, I haven't actually engaged in Holocaust

[01:53:45] Revisionism, he has. Okay? Famously. Benjamin Nenio engaged in Holocaust revisionism.

[01:53:52] Not that it matters, you don't give a shit, right?

[01:53:57] Yeah, why am I a Nazi? Explain to the class, why am I a Nazi? Go ahead. I already know,

[01:54:03] I already clapped your fucking dumbass bullshit, but go ahead, explain it.

[01:54:09] Why do I sound so much like Hitler? Because I think Palestinians are human beings

[01:54:13] whose lives are worthy of dignity. Palestinians are understandably seeking emancipation. Is that

[01:54:21] what it is? Because I want to end to the occupation. That's why I'm Adolf Hitler.

[01:54:23] I have a consistent perspective on this, okay? Just as I support the historical anti-Nazi

[01:54:38] movements, the Jewish partisans, for example, that sabotaged and ended up killing Nazis and

[01:54:45] maybe even civilians along the way because they were fighting a just war against the

[01:54:52] scourge of Nazism that would end up slaughtering six million Jews.

[01:54:58] Of course I support and understand why Palestinians would want to resist militarily against

[01:55:02] the Israeli occupation that has gone on for 80 fucking years.

[01:55:07] He left the chat, of course.

[01:55:10] Just a little bit of scrutiny.

[01:55:27] A little bit of light.

[01:55:28] And these fucking little pieces of shit.

[01:55:32] Skadaddle.

[01:55:34] I like this place.

[01:55:35] It's okay to be mean to stupid people.

[01:55:36] It's not okay to be mean to stupid people, it's okay to be mean to stupid people who

[01:55:40] are mean, who have repulsive visions of a worse future, right?

[01:55:50] The last living leader of the Warsaw Ghetto in Tafada was pro-Palestinian resistance,

[01:55:53] of course.

[01:56:03] I think more than terror is the word authoritarian has become the central load bearing cliche

[01:56:06] of our time in this world view genocide is not authoritarian but qualified praise of China is

[01:56:10] I think most morally healthy people uh uh see this cheesy Atlanticism uh or most to most morally uh

[01:56:18] healthy people this cheesy Atlanticism increasingly rings false if after the past three years you

[01:56:24] still believe authoritarianism versus democracy is a useful way to divide the world then you

[01:56:28] are a child who has no interest in engaging the world as it actually is either then or you're

[01:56:34] You're a cynic attempting to ingratiate yourself to power.

[01:56:52] You going to go back to trying to sell Blackwater Totem Cough now?

[01:56:56] Buddy, buddy, I don't have to sell them.

[01:56:59] He's already been sold to the Mainers.

[01:57:01] already been sold to the relevant parties here okay you can chirp about how

[01:57:06] unprincipled and how how ideologically unsound these candidates are but it

[01:57:14] doesn't fucking matter I know this is the most frustrating element of people to

[01:57:20] my left flank who think that participating in the democratic process

[01:57:25] is in idiotic endeavor regardless but from your perspective once again it

[01:57:31] It doesn't even matter.

[01:57:32] It doesn't matter.

[01:57:34] Your opinion in this regard is not only fucking annoying,

[01:57:38] but it's irrelevant.

[01:57:39] It's utterly irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, OK?

[01:57:42] And I know people get very mad, and they

[01:57:44] want to have a conversation about the morality of it all.

[01:57:47] But from your framework, it doesn't fucking matter

[01:57:50] if it's Graham Plattner or Susan Collins anyway, right?

[01:57:54] It doesn't matter.

[01:57:55] They're both social fascists, right?

[01:57:58] That's what you think.

[01:57:59] they're both social fascists participating in bourgeois democracy

[01:58:04] so why the fuck do you care you're chirping from outside of the club

[01:58:08] you don't want to be in the club right

[01:58:11] so you want susan coms i don't fucking understand you're not advancing this

[01:58:14] question to me right sincerely uh... i i assume you're talking to the other

[01:58:18] chatters

[01:58:21] does it not

[01:58:22] even remotely confuse you that you are doing a handshake with israel first

[01:58:26] democrats and centers corporate democrats here

[01:58:29] does it not shock you at all

[01:58:31] does it not confuse you at all

[01:58:33] when you look to your left and you look to your right and the people that you

[01:58:36] see

[01:58:37] fighting this battle this

[01:58:39] failing battle

[01:58:40] are people that you supposedly oppose that you despise

[01:58:44] and now in this in this stage of the battle

[01:58:47] you're now also joined by another unlikely ally

[01:58:50] republicans the reactionary wing of the social fascist uh... uh... the

[01:58:55] bourgeois democracy that we exist under

[01:58:58] Okay?

[01:59:02] When you read a Jewish insider article

[01:59:05] and you agree with it,

[01:59:06] doesn't that like weird you out a little bit?

[01:59:22] Only time will show if Grand Platinum's attitude shift

[01:59:26] has been sincere.

[01:59:27] That's what I've said since day one, okay?

[01:59:30] I'm willing to believe that he has had a real change of heart.

[01:59:35] He has had a real change of attitude,

[01:59:37] especially because I hear the way he talks about wars.

[01:59:41] I hear the way he talks about imperialism.

[01:59:44] He might not say that he's an anti-imperialist, right?

[01:59:50] But his version of communicating

[01:59:54] against the American war machine

[01:59:56] is not only sound but it also comes from a place of legitimacy

[02:00:01] okay

[02:00:03] him looking like a fucking chud

[02:00:05] and having that background as a machine gunner for the marine corps

[02:00:09] gives him unbelievable credibility to speak out against war in a way

[02:00:15] no one else can

[02:00:16] in a way that even the likes of john carry never could not that he would

[02:00:19] right

[02:00:20] in a way that

[02:00:21] Pete Buttigieg never could not that he would

[02:00:33] it's hard for me today that uh... when he lies personally

[02:00:37] he's he will say he hasn't worked for black water and i think that's dishonest

[02:00:40] i want to believe that he's changed too hard when he lies about it

[02:00:44] uh...

[02:00:45] yeah i think

[02:00:46] the reason why he's doing that is because he's running a fucking campaign

[02:00:49] and

[02:00:50] This kind of stuff doesn't actually impact anyone's opinion, but he's trying to hopefully get the squishy anti-war liberals to not look in that direction.

[02:01:06] But then again, I can't.

[02:01:09] Please ignore these anti-platinar altars or move on, Jeev.

[02:01:12] No, I think for a lot of people, for a lot of people, there's varying degrees of anti-platinar thought.

[02:01:20] Okay, in this community and in all communities, you have the blue sky liberals

[02:01:25] Okay, we'll pose him because he is an outsider and they can't stand a

[02:01:31] Candidate that has had any kind of it has demonstrated any kind of like

[02:01:36] Social behavior that they consider to be reactionary at any point in time

[02:01:39] They saw one Reddit post where he's talking about like

[02:01:43] Where he's victim blaming right and it's not the way it's presented is also unbelievably negative

[02:01:49] But like it's it's you know, he he is engaged in in thought crimes in the past

[02:01:54] Okay, even if he has taken accountability for it, right?

[02:01:58] So you have the anti-platina rights on the blue sky that were like oh my god

[02:02:02] This guy is actually a secret Republican. How can how can nobody see it for many of them?

[02:02:07] I think the aesthetics is what is their their major hang-up here

[02:02:10] They see someone that looks like a fucking chud and they can't get over it

[02:02:15] Many of those blue sky liberals also despise me for similar things. Maybe they saw a clip here and there that caused them to think

[02:02:22] I'm a reactionary or

[02:02:24] Maybe they saw the way that I look the way that I carry myself and it reminded them of people that shoved them into fucking lockers

[02:02:30] And they can't get over it. Okay?

[02:02:33] That's one wing of the anti-platina rights. Okay, the other wing of the anti-platina rights

[02:02:39] That that I think are the most valid

[02:02:41] In terms of their critique are people who are people who look to his background of being you know working for black water or

[02:02:48] Whatever subsidiary of black water that now exists

[02:02:52] Academy XE

[02:02:54] Constellus or whatever the fuck and think to themselves well this guy joined black water a black water subsidiary in 2016

[02:03:00] It's unbelievable after doing four fucking tours

[02:03:04] Okay, you don't see as many look like a woke think like a chud except for on the jubes. Yes

[02:03:09] Okay. And they say, I don't know if he's actually sincerely changed or not. Okay. Wait, you've got a

[02:03:19] point. I had two people on Blue Sky asking me about you and Platinum. There are people who see the

[02:03:26] tattoo. They see all of this stuff and they think, okay, well, the presentation here is,

[02:03:31] is red flags galore. Okay. There's a little bit more validity in that argument in the

[02:03:38] skepticism but once again you have to match that up with what he's saying

[02:03:42] right now what he's saying right now is the closest if you were to listen to what

[02:03:46] he has to say you would realize that his comments on this issue especially when

[02:03:52] judged with the rest of the fucking candidates that are out there especially

[02:03:56] when judged with the rest of the Senate is radical okay it is genuinely

[02:04:03] only the closest to our school of thought, an anti-imperialist school of thought.

[02:04:09] It's not entirely there, but it's very close.

[02:04:13] It's closer than I have ever encountered an American politician communicating with clarity

[02:04:19] on the issues of endless war, okay?

[02:04:26] Like further to the left is Zohram Mamdani in many respects, coming from a guy who shot

[02:04:32] in the direction of people who look like zohran mumdani okay

[02:04:36] so i understand that

[02:04:38] it's funny that people try to explain to me anti-imperialist thought in this

[02:04:42] fucking community when half of you guys

[02:04:44] were you know ten years ago thinking who are all thank god people are fucking

[02:04:49] joining the military so they can protect my fucking free speech in

[02:04:51] first amendment rights

[02:04:54] what was i do in ten years ago

[02:04:56] i was still talking in the same exact way that i was talking okay

[02:05:01] i get it you've had your own personal evolution

[02:05:04] in the way that you see the world but you can't factor in that other people

[02:05:07] might have also had a similar journey

[02:05:10] okay

[02:05:16] he got a statue covered is only shown growth no regression is policies and

[02:05:20] he carefully explains the reasoning behind his choice and policies on like

[02:05:22] all those other people will flip lovers yet

[02:05:25] if anything

[02:05:26] he most likely

[02:05:27] doesn't say

[02:05:28] what is actual believes are because he's worried that he's gonna come across as

[02:05:31] a radical

[02:05:32] i i also shy away from

[02:05:34] saying my full position because i know there's a lot of people watching right

[02:05:37] now that would love

[02:05:40] say grand platner is uh... is uh... is a very radical dangerous person similar to

[02:05:44] the son of son piker loves and so i just also shy away from

[02:05:48] uh... you know communicating on this issue

[02:05:50] with with the utmost clarity even though i can't fucking help myself

[02:05:53] especially when we end up arguing over this shit over and over again

[02:05:57] one of the things that they're using now the report of the rnc is using now is

[02:06:01] me saying what the fuck more do you want he was defending

[02:06:04] uh... humas in twenty fourteen that's literally going to appear on fox news at

[02:06:09] some point so just understand that unfortunately

[02:06:12] uh... even though i have a policy of of always saying the fucking truth no

[02:06:16] matter what it is and no matter how i feel no matter how other people might

[02:06:20] get mad about it or how i or other people might use it

[02:06:23] there are people who are going to

[02:06:26] uh... consistently bastard eyes and consistently chop up things that i'm

[02:06:30] saying to attack candidates okay

[02:06:34] i think the comparisons are at this point for me just because anybody who's

[02:06:38] doing something outside of the normal realm of politics with any kind of

[02:06:42] populist message

[02:06:44] for working-class people were going to go

[02:06:47] they're having uh...

[02:06:48] the mayor and i's backgrounds are intensely different yes uh...

[02:06:52] assume that my gun safe looks a little bit different than his

[02:06:55] And there are elements that think of where we come from in our worlds and our politics

[02:07:00] that are different.

[02:07:01] One thing that I think you can absolutely make a comparison about is our focus on organizing

[02:07:06] as a political tool, focusing on building power in communities to have that be part

[02:07:13] of your electoral strategy.

[02:07:14] We're very much doing that here in Maine.

[02:07:16] It's why we are succeeding at the rate that we are.

[02:07:19] And if you look at where the mayor won, it was because he had a lot of people who

[02:07:24] who turned out and organized the old-fashioned play.

[02:07:27] I think that's a fair comparison.

[02:07:28] Do you consider yourself to be a socialist?

[02:07:30] I know in the past online, you've

[02:07:32] written that you were a communist at one point.

[02:07:36] No, I don't.

[02:07:37] And if you read those comments, it's

[02:07:40] very clear that I'm being very sarcastic.

[02:07:44] We have a political world in which

[02:07:46] any kind of populism that's good for working people

[02:07:49] gets framed as either socialism or communism.

[02:07:52] I do really detacts the rich.

[02:07:54] I think we need to invest in social programs.

[02:07:56] I think we need to do all of that.

[02:07:57] The joke is that I'm certainly not that at all,

[02:08:01] but we have this kind of vapid political narrative

[02:08:04] that always has us using these words, frankly.

[02:08:08] The words are not being ever used in like a real context.

[02:08:11] I think Harry Truman famously said,

[02:08:13] you can call me socialist or you want.

[02:08:15] I'm just gonna do what I'm gonna do.

[02:08:17] Let's talk about Israel and the war.

[02:08:19] You are a military veteran.

[02:08:21] You spent the better part of a decade in the military.

[02:08:22] served in Iraq, Afghanistan. Is that what made you anti-war?

[02:08:30] It's part of it. I mean, even when I enlisted I was skeptical of American foreign policy.

[02:08:37] I will say once I got in it and it became like it became my profession and it became

[02:08:43] very much part of who I was and what I was doing, I then kind of threw myself into

[02:08:48] of the work. When I left after my fourth deployment, that was when I really began to look back

[02:08:54] and recognize that everything, and it was on my fourth deployment to Afghanistan. There

[02:08:59] was a moment where I was like, we are not doing what we say we're doing. We're not

[02:09:03] going to win this war. I don't even know what winning this war looks like. I don't

[02:09:06] think anybody knows it's running this war knows what winning it looks like. And at

[02:09:11] that point, I began to wonder if we're not doing the thing that we claim today

[02:09:14] for not bringing democracy.

[02:09:16] People obsessing over the four tours don't understand is,

[02:09:19] is literally just some banality of evil shit.

[02:09:21] If you don't see it until you step away from it,

[02:09:23] Blackwater becomes literally just job.

[02:09:25] When you're trying to hold onto a positive income

[02:09:26] with 30 years of propaganda on top.

[02:09:29] Yeah. What's, what's inconsistent in his background

[02:09:31] is the fact that he was like pro Palestine

[02:09:34] when he was like 14.

[02:09:35] And then he joined the American military,

[02:09:36] the Marine Corps became a machine gunner did four tours

[02:09:39] and then joined back to go on Blackwater.

[02:09:43] at times he has been uh... at times he has demonstrated

[02:09:46] uh... a a uh... negative opinion about american warfare and then he's also

[02:09:51] uh... been a willing participant of it

[02:09:53] uh... i personally

[02:09:55] and i've said this many times over

[02:09:57] i can't repeat this enough i don't give a shit

[02:10:01] a lot of people get super super mad

[02:10:04] when i say this

[02:10:05] it's the reality that we live in

[02:10:08] the reality that we live in

[02:10:10] absolutely normalize this death and destruction campaign

[02:10:15] okay

[02:10:17] the reality that we live in has normalizes that instruction campaign the

[02:10:20] average american

[02:10:21] one hundred percent does not have the same

[02:10:23] hang-ups that you do about joining the fucking military

[02:10:27] okay they don't

[02:10:28] they literally do not see it

[02:10:30] they don't understand it they have not comprehended it

[02:10:33] if at any point they do understand it then that's fucking fantastic and many

[02:10:37] veterans left-ranked vets in general

[02:10:40] have comprehended their actions and and work against

[02:10:43] uh... american imperialism now

[02:10:46] okay

[02:10:48] you can you can

[02:10:49] who pulled that away all day every day all we little infantry vet with an

[02:10:53] upper uh... our middle-class family offered a paper is cause you refused

[02:10:56] you i'd go to georgetown i got gifted an oyster business like

[02:11:00] again

[02:11:02] again and again and again yes

[02:11:05] this background

[02:11:07] Unbelievably normal. It's a lot more normal. What is abnormal here is who he is now, okay?

[02:11:19] Who he is now is what is unique not what he used to do

[02:11:24] Look logs if you want to see real arguments. I'm having fun. Sorry his gun safe. What his gun say what the fuck is he saying dude?

[02:11:32] I'm sorry and I this is gonna come across as harsh, okay, but your antisocial

[02:11:40] Personality disordered commentary about a fucking oyster business owning manor is

[02:11:47] Not like he is a lot closer to the fucking average manor than you are, okay? Oh

[02:11:54] My god

[02:11:55] It's the United States of America. I am not a fan of guns although

[02:12:00] So I do like shooting guns, I believe in gun control, significant regulations around the

[02:12:06] ownership of guns.

[02:12:08] But if you're fucking getting mad at a chud who served four tours and has a fucking gun

[02:12:13] safe in Maine, who do you think is closer to the average person?

[02:12:17] Who do you think is closer to the average manor?

[02:12:19] You are a guy who is unbelievably terrified at the prospect of someone having a fucking

[02:12:25] gun safe.

[02:12:29] It's difficult for you to comprehend that you might be the one who's out of touch.

[02:12:33] You understand that, right?

[02:12:41] I don't know.

[02:12:42] There's a couple reasons why when I hear what he's saying, I'm reminded of one of my best

[02:12:46] friends in college who was also in the Marine Corps and was unbelievably disillusioned

[02:12:52] by his experience.

[02:12:55] And that definitely changed my perspective quite a bit about people who served in the

[02:13:00] military, specifically in the Marines as well.

[02:13:03] I mean, coming from a family of, of, uh, like, I mean, his, his brother was a fentanyl addict.

[02:13:10] He himself struggled with addiction as well.

[02:13:13] He thought the only way for him to get out of that process, get out of his fucking,

[02:13:16] uh, bumfuck hometown was to join the goddamn Marine Corps.

[02:13:20] Okay.

[02:13:22] who was who had reached the bottom the bottom rungs of society and he thought

[02:13:26] this will be disciplined this will be organized will force my ass into to

[02:13:30] living a normal life now for your from your perspective you're like what the

[02:13:34] fuck oh so you got a murder brown children to get into a to have some

[02:13:39] discipline in your life what the fuck are you talking about you're not

[02:13:42] understanding how common this experience is and you're not understanding

[02:13:46] what people's starting points are what people's social conditioning is that

[02:13:52] that led them down this path, okay?

[02:13:56] That's the problem.

[02:13:58] That is a major difference between someone like myself

[02:14:00] and many other people in this community that see that

[02:14:03] and go, it doesn't matter.

[02:14:05] This is, he became a servant

[02:14:08] of an unbelievably violent force.

[02:14:10] And therefore, he might not ever be accountable for that.

[02:14:16] I've said over and over and over again

[02:14:19] that I do not care about who you were in the past.

[02:14:21] I care about who you are now, okay?

[02:14:23] I care about your experiences

[02:14:25] as long as they have actually guided you

[02:14:27] in the right direction.

[02:14:29] If I didn't believe that people had the capacity to change,

[02:14:32] I wouldn't be doing this, okay?

[02:14:38] Given that I've seen the same exact lines of attack

[02:14:41] against Graham Plattner that I've received over and over

[02:14:43] again, I'm certainly a little bit biased in his favor.

[02:14:46] That's number one.

[02:14:47] And number two, like I've explained already

[02:14:50] like I have, um, I, I know someone, someone who was very close to me, uh, that, that had

[02:14:57] a very similar experience, the grand planner who went through his own personal transformation.

[02:15:03] And there are many people like him in this community. A lot of you guys fucking yell

[02:15:06] all the time about how like every, every veteran is a baby killer, baby murderer. You don't

[02:15:11] realize that you're fucking surrounded by many of them. Okay. Many veterans that

[02:15:16] joined uh... went into active duty

[02:15:20] i mean i'd literally fucking interviewed a combat medic

[02:15:25] come out we is a combat medic

[02:15:28] he saw combat

[02:15:31] he was patching up the baby killers right

[02:15:34] that's your spirit that's your perspective right like your your attitude is

[02:15:37] like all these guys are uh... every veteran is a baby killer like you

[02:15:41] don't understand this is the united states of america

[02:15:46] cleric don't say if i'm defending you right now okay

[02:15:52] i'm trying to explain

[02:15:56] you can't have this kind of attitude if you want to fucking build

[02:15:59] uh... a movement if you want to organize

[02:16:02] you can't you have to do away with this uh... mentality that like people are

[02:16:06] beholden to the crimes that they've committed or people are beholden to

[02:16:10] and and permanently stuck is who they used to be

[02:16:29] this all goes back to your message and saying what i hear you say all the

[02:16:31] damages meeting people where they're at yes

[02:16:36] stop behaving like uh...

[02:16:38] uh... like personality disordered weirdos when you make these assessments

[02:16:53] you know people could easily say the same about the idea of not all them kill

[02:16:56] children

[02:16:57] buddy

[02:16:59] this is a consistent position that i have i have literally interviewed people

[02:17:03] who served in the parking idea

[02:17:07] hello

[02:17:11] this is a new found phenomena for everybody people who didn't even know

[02:17:15] what the fuck the idea was before october seven will come in here and start

[02:17:19] uh... you know posturing this way

[02:17:29] that's why

[02:17:30] people to my left-flank sam a Zionist

[02:17:36] in any case

[02:17:49] you can be poor and choose not to go chill kill children I and many others have done so I know you're more moral than grand platinum is okay you did it it doesn't matter though right

[02:18:01] this do other than just say you're just a better person? Okay? Then you go and

[02:18:09] run an outsider can't see, okay? And deliver a convincing anti-war message as

[02:18:14] well while doing so. And I'll back you to the fucking hill. But that's not the

[02:18:20] reality that we're existing in right now, okay? We're in the current reality.

[02:18:24] We got to get back to reality. What does that have to do with this

[02:18:28] conversation?

[02:18:31] Yeah, Ofer Kassiv was in the idea of a paratrooper and then he became a conscientious objecter.

[02:18:37] People are shaped by their circumstances but can change.

[02:18:39] That is a profoundly important value.

[02:18:41] It's one of the fundamentals in this community.

[02:18:49] In any case, a lot of people are fortunate enough to have not made this unbelievably bad

[02:19:00] decision.

[02:19:01] And that's it.

[02:19:04] So all you're doing in that situation is no different than when people chirp about like

[02:19:08] uh, being born with a copy of fucking, uh, dust capitol in one hand and, and being a,

[02:19:15] a principle Marx's Leninist since birth, you know what I mean?

[02:19:18] In comparison to these fucking rad lips who don't fully understand, who don't grasp

[02:19:22] the nuances of, of the theoretical framework of dialectical materialism and how it's

[02:19:27] It's actually supposed to be the guiding north star, the guiding principle of all revolutionaries.

[02:19:33] No, that just means that you had a very different upbringing than the overwhelming majority of people around you.

[02:19:39] But that doesn't make you a better person overall, or who you are now is what matters.

[02:19:46] Americans unfortunately have this belief that reform is impossible, that rehabilitation will never happen,

[02:19:53] People are insincerely claiming these new positions.

[02:19:57] They're cynically presenting themselves in a certain way.

[02:20:00] I choose to believe that rehabilitation is possible.

[02:20:03] If I didn't believe that rehabilitation was possible,

[02:20:06] I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing

[02:20:08] and I wouldn't be effective at what I'm doing anyway.

[02:20:11] Think about how many positions you have changed

[02:20:14] since you started watching this broadcast.

[02:20:16] Think about how different of a person you are now.

[02:20:18] So many of you come up to me every single day,

[02:20:21] including even today at the train station and say, look man,

[02:20:25] you've changed my life in such a meaningful way.

[02:20:27] You made me see the world in a very different way,

[02:20:30] and I really appreciate that.

[02:20:33] That is a universal message that I hear

[02:20:36] from many of you in this community, okay?

[02:20:40] Now imagine if I was like,

[02:20:41] tell me what kind of Radlib tendencies you had beforehand.

[02:20:44] What did you do before?

[02:20:45] And I bet you were a reactionary,

[02:20:46] I bet you were, oh, you were your Nazi?

[02:20:48] I bet you're faking changing now.

[02:20:50] Every single time someone came into this community

[02:20:53] and was like, I experienced a lot of growth

[02:20:55] as a consequence of being a part of this community.

[02:20:58] If I imagine if I just held you to who you were,

[02:21:01] the shameful experiences that you went through

[02:21:04] in the past, that would be fucking ridiculous

[02:21:06] and unbelievably unproductive.

[02:21:08] Many of you have the privilege of being anonymous

[02:21:12] on the internet when you talk like this, okay?

[02:21:15] I personally believe in rehabilitation, and that means rehabilitation for social crimes

[02:21:23] as well as even literal crimes, even fucking war crimes as a matter of fact.

[02:21:30] Because I find it to be unbelievably unproductive, to just like consistently chirp about where

[02:21:37] people used to be and not who they are now.

[02:21:42] People like to be super judgmental when they're anonymous seems odd.

[02:21:44] not it's not odd at all people people don't even realize people don't even

[02:21:51] realize what they're like what what people would look what how people would

[02:21:57] judge them if they could see their past experiences their past mistakes their

[02:22:01] past opinions their past actions right you're being really gay about this oh

[02:22:07] dude I am the number one dick eater when it comes to the concept of

[02:22:12] Rehabilitation and and being as kind and as charitable to people as possible as long

[02:22:16] You know until they show you that they are not actually reformed at all in any way shape reform and are simply lying because there are plenty of people

[02:22:23] Who will abuse that charitable?

[02:22:25] Okay, plenty of people do it in here all the time. They say oh just curious

[02:22:29] Can I give you constructive criticism and then it's not constructive criticism is all at all they'll be like hmm

[02:22:36] Hmm just curious. Why are you Adolf Hitler reincarnate? Okay? Well, you're not just curious, right?

[02:22:41] You're just abusing the charity that we have here

[02:22:50] We have to be committed in our belief that people have the capacity to change learn from their mistakes become better people

[02:22:57] And actually become comrades, okay?

[02:23:03] If we're not trying to make the world safer

[02:23:05] or what are we doing?

[02:23:07] And when I began to look closer,

[02:23:10] I really began to fully buy into the fact

[02:23:12] that these wars just make people wealthy

[02:23:14] and these wars are good for people in political power.

[02:23:17] They use them as electoral tools.

[02:23:20] They use them in ways to display like their

[02:23:23] quote unquote strength as leaders

[02:23:26] and none of them take into account the human cost.

[02:23:30] And for me, the human cost is not a theory

[02:23:34] and it's not something to be thought about

[02:23:36] in the sort of non-material way.

[02:23:41] The cost of war is something I have seen up front.

[02:23:43] I have seen friends die.

[02:23:45] I have seen what happens

[02:23:46] when high explosives interact with children.

[02:23:49] It's an awful thing.

[02:23:51] And I believe that it should not be the core

[02:23:55] of how we use our foreign policy.

[02:23:58] Do you believe that Donald Trump

[02:24:00] and the Trump family and Jared Kushner

[02:24:02] that part of this Iran war

[02:24:04] about them making money? Yes, of course. I mean, essentially, everything the Trump administration

[02:24:09] does at some point, we let down to them, their family members, or their inner circle making

[02:24:14] money off of it. That is certainly part of it. How would you describe the U.S. relationship

[02:24:18] with Israel? I mean, at this point, I would just say shameful. You know, this is what

[02:24:24] is happening Gaza is going, it's the moral question of our time. And we failed it

[02:24:30] miserably. We continue to fail. You know, there's a genocide that has been committed in Gaza,

[02:24:38] and we continue to not only not stand up against it, but allow it to happen, run political cover

[02:24:46] for it, run diplomatic cover for it. You know, down the road, history is not going to remember

[02:24:51] the leaders of this nation who, of both parties, by the way, who allowed this to happen. It's

[02:24:58] It's not going to remember them well.

[02:25:00] And it is, it brings me an immense amount of shame.

[02:25:08] And I think it brings a lot of shame

[02:25:09] to a lot of Americans that even now we're continuing

[02:25:13] to have this relationship and to support

[02:25:15] the mass killing of innocent civilians.

[02:25:18] So on that note, what would a Senator Graham Platner

[02:25:21] of Maine do in the United States Congress

[02:25:24] to prevent us from carrying on our complicit relationship

[02:25:28] with the genocidal nation?

[02:25:30] Well, I certainly would have voted

[02:25:31] with the 40 Democrats who yesterday voted

[02:25:33] to stop sending money and arms to the Israeli government.

[02:25:37] I would support that wholeheartedly.

[02:25:41] And down the road,

[02:25:44] if it is a relationship that is going to be repaired,

[02:25:47] we need to be looking at an entirely different government

[02:25:50] and an entirely different structure than what exists now.

[02:25:55] You know, we are not, it's not as simple for me as like the genocide just stops and then we turn the bombs and the money back on, right?

[02:26:04] Like, we need to see a hell of a lot more than that to justify American support for an ally who is...

[02:26:11] Are you saying you would want to see Israel make actual changes to the way it runs itself, controls the Palestinians, for example?

[02:26:18] Yeah, sorry, it's gonna be really tough for me to fucking poo poo this guy, okay?

[02:26:25] I mean come on come on did

[02:26:32] It blows my mind because I was wrong

[02:26:34] Because I was growing in this community there were troopers that would argue with you that have similar opinions of what I used to have

[02:26:39] I understand the hesitancy if some of us here, but people can change we need to help them change exactly

[02:26:47] Yeah, it's tough it's tough man

[02:26:51] perhaps that's the reason why so many of you make the wrong comparison when you

[02:26:57] say oh he could be like another John Fetterman or you're like oh what if he

[02:27:02] was an IDF veteran or whatever the fuck you don't listen to what he's saying

[02:27:06] right now you're like oh well this is a lesser evil vote it's how is any

[02:27:10] different than Kamala Harris is not a lesser evil vote what the fuck are you

[02:27:13] talking about

[02:27:16] is not a lesser evil vote at all

[02:27:21] It's apartheid policies. That would be an issue for you.

[02:27:27] Yes, absolutely. And illegal settlements need to end. In fact, they need to be rolled back.

[02:27:31] I mean, there's a lot of work that needs to be done to repair this relationship.

[02:27:34] Would you follow in the footsteps of Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez?

[02:27:37] The same altars that now think you condemn Hamas to be a silly question because they understand the conditions of the Palestinians will now, for some reason, refuse to understand why the poverty draft works or why someone would join the military when the major prevailing position in America and the military is good and honorable and you're serving your people.

[02:27:50] serving your people? No, but that's they're going to cook you for that

[02:27:54] comparison. They're going to say, what do you mean? Joining Hamas is an

[02:27:58] emancipatory goal as opposed to like joining an offensive unnecessary and

[02:28:03] unbelievably violent imperialist war. The reality is it's the social

[02:28:09] conditions that absolutely motivate people in the making these terrible

[02:28:14] decisions, okay? You can't make a comparison between someone who is living in the imperial

[02:28:21] core versus someone who is a victim of imperialist wars. There is definitely a different morality

[02:28:30] there.

[02:28:31] Israel, including for the quote unquote defensive Iron Dome. Yes. And look, we have laws on the

[02:28:38] books in this country that say that regimes governments committing war crimes do not get

[02:28:44] American aid. We're just all we are asking is that we follow our own laws here. It's not that

[02:28:50] complicated. Your opponent, Janet Mills, was recently asked if she denies that Israel is

[02:28:55] carrying out a genocide in Gaza. She kind of threw up her hands and just started talking

[02:28:59] about genocides in Sudan and weirdly in Somalia. She also mentioned the Rwandan genocide from

[02:29:05] over 30 years ago. She wouldn't say Israel is committing a genocide. She just dodged that

[02:29:09] point. What do you think is driving that kind of answer and behavior from her?

[02:29:14] You know, I very much think she just comes from an era of establishment politicians

[02:29:20] that are just fundamentally wrong on this issue. And who think that these sort of

[02:29:25] mealy-mouthed politically incoherent responses are going to be acceptable to the American people,

[02:29:36] and they're not. People don't want to hear like a 10-minute rambling, winding explanation invoking

[02:29:45] genocide from 30 years ago and about how concerning it all is. People don't want concern.

[02:29:50] people want it to stop. They want politicians and leaders who are going to call it for

[02:29:57] what it is, for what the entire world sees it for being. And I just think that there

[02:30:03] are a lot of established politicians who just cannot come to grips with this shift.

[02:30:08] Just on that note, just grabbing something you just said a moment ago, do you think

[02:30:12] the reason for your success so far in the polls is that you do speak like a normal

[02:30:15] person? Like is that a problem that is playing the Democratic Party that everyone talks

[02:30:19] like a consultant speaks in talking points. And actually Donald Trump showed us that it's

[02:30:23] absolutely 100% a big part of the reason why a lot of people also can't come to terms with

[02:30:30] who this guy is. Okay.

[02:30:39] That's what it is. A lot of people have been so conditioned into hearing perfectly crafted

[02:30:47] Focus group tested messaging that when they hear someone just go. Yeah, it's a fucking genocide

[02:30:53] Yeah, I was in black water or whatever all this shit when they when when they hear that it just like break

[02:30:59] Well the black water stuff they don't even give a fuck about the people I'm talking about are just like yeah

[02:31:03] I said some really fucked up things on Reddit. It's not who I am now. They go whoa. What the fuck?

[02:31:07] Fuck.

[02:31:15] Those people for the most part don't care

[02:31:17] that he was a fucking machine gunner

[02:31:19] or even joined Blackwater.

[02:31:20] I'm talking about Rad Libs in general.

[02:31:22] They care about the way he talks

[02:31:25] and the way he presents himself,

[02:31:28] the way he carries himself,

[02:31:29] the way he communicates on issues, right?

[02:31:33] In American public,

[02:31:34] not only don't care if you don't talk like a politician,

[02:31:36] that you prefer, if you never.

[02:31:38] Oh, by 100%.

[02:31:40] And if something was unfascinating for me

[02:31:42] in this entire experience, is realizing

[02:31:44] just how many people who run for office

[02:31:46] don't actually have any deeper political beliefs.

[02:31:50] Like, for me, being able to explain my positions

[02:31:53] is relatively easy.

[02:31:54] I feel like I've got a very strong political foundation.

[02:31:58] I know what I believe.

[02:31:59] I know why I believe it.

[02:32:00] And it's easy for me to talk about it,

[02:32:02] because this is stuff that I believe.

[02:32:04] It's not, I don't have these like pre-memorized focus group tested talking points that I have

[02:32:11] to roll a dex through in my brain.

[02:32:14] This is, I'm running on my politics.

[02:32:17] And what I have found is that when you run on your politics, people just find that accessible

[02:32:23] and understandable.

[02:32:24] And when you go out into communities like we've been doing, we hold town halls almost

[02:32:29] daily, when you do that and you talk about what you believe, why you believe it

[02:32:34] what policies you want to enact to make those beliefs a reality. People just, they understand

[02:32:40] it and they connect with it. And I think that very much has to do with why we've succeeded

[02:32:44] in the polls thus far.

[02:32:46] So on that note, a perfect segue into what I want to talk about next, which I'm sure

[02:32:50] you're fed up about talking about, but it's all the controversies associated with

[02:32:53] you and your, especially your online comments from the past. And since you said, you

[02:32:59] know, you're comfortable explaining yourself, let's talk very plainly about some of

[02:33:02] this stuff, because I know you've spoken about this before, but it's the first time you and

[02:33:06] I are speaking about any of this, the biggest single controversy of your campaign, which

[02:33:10] is not going to go away if Susan Collins has away. It's a tattoo you got in 2007 that you

[02:33:15] since had covered up of a skull and crossbones that resembles a very infamous Nazi symbol.

[02:33:20] Oh, before we get into this, look, look, look, look, the churpers are already out.

[02:33:24] Okay. Look at that. Look.

[02:33:27] Something you're seeing today is one of the signature characteristics of the left

[02:33:30] insurgents is that they're very graceless about winning

[02:33:33] they got what they wanted in main but instead of pivoting to bring people in

[02:33:36] and beat susan collins they're not doing ongoing factionalism

[02:33:40] hey matt

[02:33:41] what happened was or on one the fucking primary all that's right

[02:33:45] the centrist right wing candidate

[02:33:48] launched another candidacy against the fucking democrat

[02:33:52] and virtually all of the top level democratic party party bosses did not

[02:33:57] fucking endorse them even after Zoramumdani won the election resoundingly in the general

[02:34:04] What did the Democratic Party do? Oh, that's right. Kirsten Gillibrand went on a

[02:34:09] Radio show in New York City and called him a fucking jihadist. Okay

[02:34:14] Unbelievably racist shit. He had the withstand in that primary process and then certainly in the general

[02:34:20] What the fuck are you talking about man? What the hell are you talking about?

[02:34:37] It was incredibly, it was disgusting to see and hear from Kirsten Gillibrand,

[02:34:43] The shit that she said about Zohran after he won the general, okay

[02:34:49] Graceless talk about graceless

[02:34:53] Chuck Schumer to this day has not endorsed Zohran Kwame Mamdani by the way

[02:35:13] The entire establishment wing of the party either chose not to endorse him or tacitly supported the right wing candidacy, the right wing spoiler candidacy of Andrew Cuomo.

[02:35:43] Christian Gillibrand called him a jihadist after he became mayor, the Democratic mayor.

[02:36:10] What is this totally new history a historical that is not true.

[02:36:35] What do you mean what's not true?

[02:36:38] The entirety of the Democratic Party was in support after Zahram Mhamdani won the primary

[02:36:43] really.

[02:36:52] Was Gillibrand after the primary or after the general?

[02:36:55] I think Gillibrand was after the general.

[02:37:01] Was it not?

[02:37:02] remembering? Oh, he wasn't mayor when Gillibrand said that it was after the primary. It was

[02:37:27] June, okay.

[02:37:35] Hakim Jeffries gave the quietest possible endorsement.

[02:37:45] at the last minute.

[02:38:03] You don't even need to bring up Zora to review this, it's just a quote, Platinum statement.

[02:38:12] It's also, yeah, what's really funny, by the way, is that Graham Platner celebrated

[02:38:20] Janet Mills' accomplishments as governor and said that, you know, he basically was like,

[02:38:33] thank you for doing this. You've done incredible work in this state. I appreciate it. I look forward

[02:38:40] to, you know, working with you. Janet Mills did not endorse him.

[02:39:10] Yeah, Janet Mills is not yet endorsing her own platter for Senate and says he'll have

[02:39:23] to earn the support of main voters.

[02:39:25] Governor Mills has never voted for Susan Collins, and she will not do so in this election either.

[02:39:28] As Maine's governor, she will continue to support Democratic candidates across Maine,

[02:39:31] and she will continue to hear and watch how Grant Plattener works to earn the support

[02:39:34] of Maine voters, just as she will keep a close eye on Maine's congressional and

[02:39:38] gubernatorial primaries as well

[02:39:42] Like what are you talking about he earned it so fucking hard you had to drop out of the rays. What are you saying?

[02:40:08] Anyway, do you think the demo establishment right now might throw another candidate on

[02:40:35] the board or is it too late?

[02:40:37] I think it's too late, but remember what I told you about how there would absolutely

[02:40:48] be people that will engage in myth-making, rewriting of history, and talking about how

[02:40:54] this victory against the centrist candidacy of Janet Mills is actually confirming their priors.

[02:41:02] That's precisely what Matt Iglesias is doing. Look, I've been very bullish on platter from day one. The same people that would say Zoran's politics cannot work elsewhere. It only works in a fucking, you know, D plus 35 district. New York City is too woke.

[02:41:16] Try that shit in a fucking purple state. Are now going to turn around and be like, well, Maine is actually, you know, historically a democratic safe, a democratic safe seat, you know, even though he's literally running to unseat a Republican.

[02:41:32] Okay, yeah, here's the retcon coming in. I've been pretty bullish on Platinum from day one.

[02:41:37] And I would really like to see Democrats win the Senate seat to maximize their odds of halting the magnification of the judiciary, even though I don't really agree with Platinum about factional issues.

[02:41:46] Do people on the left want me to continue wanting Platinum to win because that will advance shared cross-factional goals?

[02:41:51] Or if he wins a D plus four state in a very favorable national political climate, will they insist that he is completely discredited at everything I believe in?

[02:41:58] Again, he has discredited everything you fucking believe in.

[02:42:01] Shut the fuck up, Egg Boy.

[02:42:04] Shut the fuck up.

[02:42:05] You don't know how to lose with grace.

[02:42:08] Your ideology is dying.

[02:42:12] Your methods have been proven to be wrong.

[02:42:14] And he does this over and over again.

[02:42:16] He does this with Palestine as well.

[02:42:18] He's like, oh, here we go.

[02:42:19] The pro-Palestinian crowd doing their thing again.

[02:42:22] They're, they're electoral poison.

[02:42:24] It turns out the electoral poison was

[02:42:25] madiglacious is style of politics

[02:42:27] which you fucking cheered on he was a lot of green with everything common here is

[02:42:30] saying and doing it's fantastic she's going to win the election

[02:42:33] turns out that was a fucking disqualifying moment for madiglacious but

[02:42:36] it doesn't matter because as long as you brown knows

[02:42:38] the super wealthy in this fucking country you will always have a sub

[02:42:41] stack but they keep

[02:42:42] pumping money into

[02:42:49] I

[02:42:55] Have a little bit of decency man have a little bit of decency have some fucking shut the fuck up juice

[02:43:07] Yeah, Matt Iglesias went from never talk about Palestine, it's electoral poison of course

[02:43:12] We're gonna support Israel too. Yeah, everyone should shut the fuck up about Hassan's opinions on Israel and go on a stream

[02:43:19] and argue about, I don't know, uh, uh, rezoning or whatever the fuck he cares about, right?

[02:43:25] Like, uh, removing building codes or whatever.

[02:43:38] I already lived through the message that got 51% of the vote in New York City points to the,

[02:43:42] points the way for the National Democratic Party news cycle without killing myself,

[02:43:45] so I suppose I can take a main cycle too, but at some point we need to win red states.

[02:43:48] See, he's moving on. He went from this won't work in a purple state for a red seat to this won't work in a deep red state.

[02:43:56] This dumb fuck is not going to stop until you're like, hey, if you don't win Mississippi,

[02:44:02] if you don't win Mississippi with Marxist-Leninist principles, then your method doesn't fucking work. Go post-moved again. Okay?

[02:44:12] Now for the record, I do believe

[02:44:14] That you can win Mississippi and Alabama with a similar style of left populism because those places

[02:44:21] Where where people are unbelievably poor could also benefit tremendously from leftist economic thought from leftist legislation

[02:44:33] That's what it is

[02:44:36] There are different versions don't say I don't know okay, we're done with this we're done with this mentality

[02:44:44] It will take time.

[02:44:46] But we absolutely can rebuild confidence in good governance in these places.

[02:44:51] We're talking about places where the government is left behind. People are are are basically lumping pros.

[02:44:56] They're unbelievably reactionary because they have no hope.

[02:45:00] They've never seen good governance. They've never experienced it.

[02:45:04] And that's precisely the reason why they lean into culture war reactionary frameworks.

[02:45:10] And think, well, you know, neither side is really doing it for me, but at least

[02:45:14] This side is more entertaining, and it's telling me who to fear.

[02:45:25] Historically, these were the places where communist movements thrived, okay?

[02:45:35] It's not going to happen overnight.

[02:45:36] But notice how this man shifted the goal post from oh it only works in New York City to okay

[02:45:46] it works in Maine too but talk to me when it works in Alabama talk to me when it works in

[02:45:52] Arkansas talk to me when it works in Nebraska talk to me when it works if it worked in Iowa

[02:46:01] he would say, huh, well, I was no Mississippi, you know, oh, Ohio, well, Ohio doesn't count.

[02:46:09] It's purplish. Try Kentucky. Oh, it worked in Kentucky. Well, you know, maybe it'll work in

[02:46:15] Oklahoma then, huh? Talk to me what it works in Oklahoma.

[02:46:17] It is seeing some success in place like Nebraska too, but you know, it is what it is.

[02:46:38] They're all the same working class union spaces run down by out of touch politicians sitting

[02:46:42] in their ivory tower in D.C., absolutely.

[02:46:45] Do we think that people in Alabama live in this magical universe where they couldn't

[02:46:49] benefit from free health care?

[02:46:51] Do we think that they don't need a roof over their heads?

[02:46:54] Do we think that they don't need their infrastructure to be fixed?

[02:46:58] They do.

[02:47:00] Do we think that they're like unbelievably invested in the American war machine for

[02:47:04] some reason?

[02:47:05] They're like, no, I actually don't want schools in my neighborhood.

[02:47:07] I would much rather give that money to Lockheed Martin so they can invent new ways

[02:47:12] of murdering children overseas.

[02:47:13] Please, that's what I want.

[02:47:15] I live in Alabama and that's what I want, I live, I'm a mythical being.

[02:47:19] I want moderates, that's what I want, I live in Alabama and I'm always looking for a more

[02:47:25] moderate Democrat to vote for potentially.

[02:47:43] It's ridiculous.

[02:47:48] That's why the Platinum race was important, and I said it from day one, that it breaks

[02:47:53] away.

[02:47:54] That's why these guys are chirping so hard, by the way, because it destroys their argument

[02:47:58] that like, Zoran can't be too radical because Zoran's policies won't work in Maine, right?

[02:48:04] Or even if the rest of the parties associated with Zoran, Mamdani, then people will actually,

[02:48:09] people in red areas, or people in red states, or people in purple states will

[02:48:12] never vote for the Democrats because they'll go oh but Zoran's a scary Islamist

[02:48:16] communist and Islamist communist well it turns out people aren't as fucking

[02:48:20] racist as you are dumbass. This is the death knell of centrism okay.

[02:48:31] True his views alienated a lot of nontrivial faction of Democrats and

[02:48:35] led to a fairly weak performance but New York City is very progressive so he won

[02:48:37] anyway oh my god you were just talking about

[02:48:45] factionalism you fucking dingus you were

[02:48:50] just talking about factionalism so it's

[02:48:54] okay when the centrists engage in

[02:48:56] factionalism

[02:49:07] You're complaining that an outsider, left-rank candidates, supporters can't celebrate that

[02:49:29] Your theory on Zauron style populism failing in purple states is falling apart.

[02:49:59] your theory on Zoran style poppies and failing in purple stages falling apart.

[02:50:13] celebrate the year theory on Zoran style populism failing in purple stages falling apart

[02:50:31] here in arkansas third congressional this year we have a really good apac tracker indoors free

[02:50:35] palestine medicare for all abolish ice candidate running i have no idea what is azzar but i build

[02:50:39] do way better than the last damn who ran.

[02:50:51] Southern organizers here most politically conscious people tend to leave the South to

[02:50:54] be the dumping ground and graveyard of the United States and don't realize that part

[02:50:57] of the reason is like this, slash they're not allowed to not cares because we have

[02:51:02] the highest density of black folks.

[02:51:03] Yeah, 100%.

[02:51:05] That is a huge part of this.

[02:51:07] QEP Newton was born here.

[02:51:08] We had some of the first multiracial solidarity strikes,

[02:51:10] et cetera, and no one questions why they leave us

[02:51:13] in the South to die.

[02:51:15] There's also a finite amount of resources.

[02:51:18] So because black folk have been so effectively shut out

[02:51:21] from the political process through redistricting,

[02:51:25] and that still continues obviously to this day,

[02:51:27] as we saw in the case of the Louisiana Supreme Court

[02:51:30] decision, that it's impossible hurdle

[02:51:34] for the Democratic Party to climb,

[02:51:36] therefore they don't give a shit. That's what it is. That's 100% what it is. I believe that not

[02:51:51] everyone is going to go with Zoran's policies, right? But adjusted to the localities, you can have

[02:51:58] Zoran-style left-ranked candidates that are born and raised in these communities that could

[02:52:03] absolutely defeat incumbent Republicans even. The hardest part for them is to gain prominence

[02:52:12] within the Democratic Party's machine. And the hardest part usually is for them to even go through

[02:52:18] the primary system. Because the primaries are so effective in shutting out, especially in the

[02:52:26] Deep South, so effective in shutting out disruptive candidates, candidates that are

[02:52:32] coming from the left flank, Bernie Krats. Yeah. There is also incredibly corrupt campaigning

[02:52:42] hurdles to overcome arrest. They say like Louisiana Dems will not invest in candidates

[02:52:45] here while the GOP dumps money in there. No, the Dems do invest in candidates there. They

[02:52:49] just invest in their kind of candidates because you see in place like Kentucky, you know, you

[02:52:54] got Amy McGrath, right? Think about how much money she was able to raise. What happened?

[02:53:00] It was an abject failure.

[02:53:02] But Amy McGrath was exactly the type of candidate that Democrats do like.

[02:53:07] You know?

[02:53:08] Air Force pilot.

[02:53:10] Centrist.

[02:53:11] Reasonable centrist Democrat.

[02:53:16] Anyway.

[02:53:21] Anyway.

[02:53:38] What the fuck?

[02:53:51] Any thoughts on this?

[02:53:52] Kexbert is saying that the 60-day limit on war powers doesn't apply tomorrow because

[02:53:55] the ceasefire paused the war.

[02:53:57] That's funny.

[02:53:59] Anyway, I don't think there's a winning message in the south that doesn't have an

[02:54:15] R-next to it and the current political environment will take time, it's beyond imagination

[02:54:19] now racially polarized the south is

[02:54:23] dude

[02:54:24] i don't believe that

[02:54:25] you can have you you can literally put

[02:54:28] think like a walk act like a child

[02:54:30] on the board in the south and it would surprise

[02:54:35] many people how successful how effective that could be use optics to your

[02:54:40] advantage

[02:54:41] okay

[02:54:42] you're not gonna have a a thirty four-year-old muslim communist run

[02:54:46] in every fucking seat that's not what I'm saying you know doesn't have to be brown boys galore

[02:54:55] It's just we've never we haven't had we haven't had a good string of candidacies so we don't know

[02:55:16] Funny that you're complaining that an outsider left-flank candidate supporters are celebrating

[02:55:27] that your theory on Zoran style pop is in failing purple states is falling apart.

[02:55:46] Disagreements.

[02:55:53] Anyway, I'm not even going to dignify Madaglacia's with the response, actually.

[02:56:05] Fuck it.

[02:56:08] Anyway, when are you heading to your event in Philly today?

[02:56:15] Uh, I don't know

[02:56:23] Sam Foster a black 26 or almost one on a Zora's thought platform the Merrill should been Marietta, Georgia three times the turnout he lost by 80 votes

[02:56:34] Yeah

[02:56:37] Yeah, let's look let's look at another one let's look at another one some thoughts as mill drops out

[02:56:42] I've been poorly inclined towards Platinum for the obvious reasons. No use re-litigating them.

[02:56:46] It seems pretty clear Platinum just has the juice with main voters and Mills did not.

[02:56:49] Is a better chance in the general. Despite my reservations, I would vote for Platinum over

[02:56:54] cons if I lived in Maine and encourage others to do the same. Control in the Senate is too

[02:56:57] important a risk. It's good that Mills is dropping out of a losing race rather than fighting a nasty

[02:57:01] battle to the end. Deserves some credit. Oh, yeah, how brave of her. Lots of people will

[02:57:06] want to universalize this race to be about their particular thing. Populism versus establishment,

[02:57:10] Levver Center, white working class aesthetics, et cetera.

[02:57:12] But Maine is an odd state,

[02:57:14] and I think it's too difficult to universalize it.

[02:57:19] Of course, of course,

[02:57:21] there's no lessons to be learned here, obviously.

[02:57:25] Please remember Abigail Spanberger.

[02:57:27] That's the only lesson you should learn.

[02:57:29] We should run Abigail Spanberger everywhere, okay?

[02:57:33] That is the universal lesson to learn,

[02:57:35] is when a centrist wins an election.

[02:57:37] when a left-ranked candidate wins a primary there's no lesson to be learned

[02:57:42] there

[02:57:44] the attempt here is the claim that it is personalities rather than policy of

[02:57:47] course this fraud says that law yeah obviously

[02:57:50] stop learning

[02:57:57] main is too woke and too gay

[02:58:00] that's what it is

[02:58:07] Remember when the Centres had 50 million bucks and underperformed Biden by 10 points?

[02:58:15] Don't even fucking... just... it's just so, so, so annoying.

[02:58:21] Yeah, it turns out in Maine they had tested this theory, putting a centrist with good

[02:58:29] in-state name recognition against Susan Collins and they kept fucking losing, okay?

[02:58:35] i think that's what uh... michael from not pennsylvania but i want is

[02:58:39] referencing here

[02:58:42] now there's a real shot to to flip the seat

[02:58:45] and all of a sudden

[02:58:46] all of the usual suspects that the the

[02:58:49] the praetorian guard of centrism

[02:58:51] are chirping about how

[02:58:53] there's no unique lesson to be learned here look away

[02:58:57] interesting you said you had no idea about the connection saying quote i

[02:59:00] absolutely would not have gone through life having this on my chest

[02:59:03] if i knew that

[02:59:04] When exactly did you find out that the tattoo on your chest could be a Nazi tattoo or seen as one?

[02:59:10] To about three or four days before I had it covered up.

[02:59:14] And I so I got that tattoo with some other Marines, what we were on shore leave in Croatia 2007.

[02:59:20] And then I had it for 17 years. I went through two security clearances.

[02:59:24] I re-enlisted the United States Army, got screened for gang and hate tattoos,

[02:59:28] and then I went to work for the State Department on the Ambassador Security Team

[02:59:31] at Kabul where I got a top secret clearance and also got screened never came up. I took my shirt off

[02:59:37] in front of my extended Jewish family the entire time. I would not have done that if I thought I had

[02:59:43] some obviously recognizable white supremacist or Nazis. Yeah, that's his biggest fucking defense,

[02:59:49] by the way. Like his relatives, his extended family is Jewish, bro. Like that photo that they

[02:59:57] released of him dancing with his shirt off.

[03:00:01] He's in front of his Jewish extended family there and they're dancing with him.

[03:00:07] To me this is unbelievable because I'm very tapped in on, you know, racist and Nazi tattoos.

[03:00:16] But it was shocking to hear both Bernie Sanders and Sam Cedar say, yeah I didn't know that

[03:00:23] was a Nazi tattoo. Who cares? Well, you know, we're not going to sit here and

[03:00:33] goysplain, okay? We're not going to do that. If the Council of Jewish Leftist

[03:00:39] Elders have spoken, then we sit and we learn, okay? We sit, we sit our

[03:00:46] Genpile ass is down and we listen, okay?

[03:00:55] They don't have a PhD and raises them like you that's true

[03:01:00] What did they say more about how the tattoo past government screenings yeah the government screening thing

[03:01:05] I don't care about because obviously fucking there's plenty of Marines with Nazi tattoos like straight up

[03:01:10] visible Nazi tattoos. It was shocking to me that even in this community, 60% of chat didn't

[03:01:18] even know at the time, which was genuinely confusing because I've talked about Nazi tattoos

[03:01:22] extensively, right?

[03:01:24] So, so, so, so, Graham, why then, and that all sounds perfectly reasonable, especially

[03:01:29] the security checks. So why then did a former top official in your campaign, Genevieve

[03:01:34] McDonald, your former political director to tell the Guardian last year, while he may

[03:01:37] may not have known what his tattoo meant when he selected the image, it's not plausible

[03:01:41] he remained ignorant of its meaning all these years.

[03:01:45] I don't know why she said that she was only on the campaign for a little over a month and

[03:01:51] would not have known my anything about things I would have known.

[03:01:57] She quit in rather spectacular fashion and then spent some time.

[03:02:02] Yeah, it's the same.

[03:02:03] does have a little too very interesting

[03:02:06] i'll do that a similar situation uh... former uh... person who worked on the

[03:02:10] campaign

[03:02:12] quits and then takes opposition research that he

[03:02:16] he he he basically fucking stole

[03:02:20] to right wing outlets from

[03:02:22] very interesting

[03:02:24] now the commonalities here between obdulous adding grand platter or what

[03:02:27] both bernie and dorsen both anti-zionist

[03:02:31] very strange

[03:02:33] very strange stuff folks

[03:02:43] cnn report that they spoke to an acquaintance of yours for more than a

[03:02:46] decade ago

[03:02:47] who said you talked to about your tattoo resembling a nazi symbol

[03:02:52] well i believe they actually reported on a

[03:02:54] jewish insider investigation

[03:02:56] which had spoken to one anonymous person

[03:02:59] who when they claimed they knew me it was years they said they knew me from when I

[03:03:05] worked at a bar from years I didn't even work at that bar okay and so you're

[03:03:09] denying that allegation just to be clear oh yeah absolutely it also came out

[03:03:13] after the story broke so it's just on the bigger picture and I can understand

[03:03:21] what you're saying and I'm hearing your denies and the point about your

[03:03:24] extended Jewish family it makes sense and you're a progressive so people are

[03:03:28] giving you a lot of leeway because they like your policy platform.

[03:03:32] I disagree, by the way.

[03:03:33] I don't think you get leeway as a progressive.

[03:03:36] I think you get a way higher standard as a progressive that no other person is ever fucking

[03:03:43] forced to abide by.

[03:03:46] A standard that you might not have even placed upon yourself.

[03:03:48] Now, not in the case of the Totemcroft attitude, but just in general.

[03:03:51] The idea, for example, that I'm traveling by train, but I took a business class

[03:03:57] rather than coach was only fucking what $30 to $50 more expensive for a ticket like these

[03:04:02] are the types of things these are the types of things that that people would never think

[03:04:07] twice about okay they would never think twice about but if you are you get unlimited leeway

[03:04:14] if you are not a self-identified progressive socialist leftist in general because people

[03:04:22] People will openly say it like they'll be like dude you're even in the in the realm of content right in the realm of content

[03:04:30] People will turn around and will shut up be like trainwrecks asmengold

[03:04:34] You're like openly saying your piece of shit

[03:04:36] But then you turn around and you have like a totally different standard of morality for this guy Hassan and they will just say well

[03:04:42] Yeah, that's because I'm not a fucking socialist like they openly say it

[03:04:45] They openly admitted they're like, yeah, I can do whatever the fuck I want. I'm saying I'm a bad guy. He's saying he's a good guy, but he's not I

[03:05:03] Think you and for someone like

[03:05:06] Graham Grant this is true of your immediate audience

[03:05:09] I think what method is gesturing is that a more white disaffected voters who are maybe looking for something different and realizing

[03:05:14] won't be served by rogues and dems were supposed to be there for him.

[03:05:16] But surely you would admit if you were a republican who would be found with that tattoo on your chest

[03:05:22] people, progressives, democrats would be losing their minds wouldn't they not?

[03:05:27] Well I think if I had that... Dude,

[03:05:30] Mehdi is such a fucking debate pervert I swear to God.

[03:05:35] He literally can't stop himself like that's a classic he can't stop himself.

[03:05:40] He has to he has to hit him. He I know he loves Grand Platinum. He really likes him

[03:05:48] Okay, but you know, he's just he's got that dog in him where he's like it's just chipping away

[03:05:54] He has to fucking chomp at it a little bit

[03:05:58] He loves debating so much. I mean look I respected, you know, it is what it is

[03:06:02] He's the only debate Lord I respect.

[03:06:05] Had displayed at any point in my life any affinity for fascism or bigotry or racism, then that

[03:06:15] would absolutely be something to connect.

[03:06:18] Things, and all of my Reddit posts, if you read through them, they've been out there

[03:06:22] since I've ever seen one of them, it's fairly clear that I have been long in

[03:06:28] a part of fascism, bigotry and racism, sometimes with language that people say is too extreme,

[03:06:35] even though fighting fascism seems like something we should all be dedicated to.

[03:06:39] On the language front though, this has caught up with you now. We talked a moment ago about how

[03:06:44] popular you've become because you speak like a normal person, but that comes with its own

[03:06:48] challenges in the political world, which is you've used the word retarded, which I saw

[03:06:52] you apologize for this. You've made comments about me. These are the R word. He dropped it, bro. Chill.

[03:07:01] Chill. What you wearing? Not gonna lie. You look afresh. Thank you, King. Women that both Janet

[03:07:09] Mills and Susan Collins have attacked you. Yeah, he should be like, I'm a redditor, bro. That's

[03:07:13] the real R word. Okay. The real R word, which is the same as a substitute for the other R word

[03:07:19] is that I'm a Redditor.

[03:07:21] For, there's the tattoo.

[03:07:23] Do you at least accept the going into the general election?

[03:07:26] This is gonna be an issue for you because the Republican Party are not gonna let this fly.

[03:07:30] They're gonna use this against you.

[03:07:32] Yeah, what are they gonna do?

[03:07:33] That he says slurs? That's so funny.

[03:07:36] Like, Republicans doing the fake woke shit is, is...

[03:07:41] I mean, I expect them to do it.

[03:07:43] They're doing it to me right now, right?

[03:07:45] Where they're like, oh, Hassan.

[03:07:47] Hassan is being mean to black people. It seems like he's anti-black.

[03:07:53] Bitch, if I was anti-black, you'd love me.

[03:07:56] The fuck do you mean?

[03:07:58] Like, oh, Hassan is anti-Asian.

[03:08:01] Again, if I was actually anti-Asian, if I was being hateful, you would love me.

[03:08:07] What are you talking about?

[03:08:09] Know the word baggage. Do you at least accept?

[03:08:11] Trump is literally called Biden the R-word. Yeah, exactly.

[03:08:16] That from a perceptional point of view regardless of your individual justifications for all of it

[03:08:20] Do you accept politically? It is a big challenge for you going into general lecture with all of this quote unquote baggage. I

[03:08:26] Will say I don't really think so because in my experience this far going around man a lot of people look at that

[03:08:32] And so like okay, so he's a guy that never wanted to run for office

[03:08:35] He's not of the system at all and he very clearly just comes from the normal world and has existed in the normal world coming with all of the

[03:08:43] things that come with that. I mean, I was in the Marine Corps infantry and I have

[03:08:47] worked on a boat on the ocean for the past decade. It's salty language, that kind of

[03:08:53] stuff. It is a thing that I am constantly working to improve.

[03:08:58] Dude, come on dude. That's why it's so funny that like Hassanabi heads especially are, it shocks me that there are people in this community

[03:09:07] they get that look at this dude and will literally

[03:09:13] Repeat the same fucking lines of attack that I receive on a daily basis

[03:09:17] You should be more in tune with this kind of like cynical outrage manufacturing than

[03:09:24] Anybody else even down to what he's saying here. That's what I say all the time in all of my media appearances

[03:09:33] What do I always say I'm like look man, you know

[03:09:35] I'm vulgar and I'm working on it and sometimes I say things that people don't like to hear

[03:09:41] But what matters is what's inside what matters is who you are what matters is what your advocacy is

[03:09:48] Also, this is the R word just outside stream. No, I don't and and I try not to in general

[03:09:54] Okay, and I've and I haven't in in a very long time, but it's just like

[03:09:59] Your empathy was never in question though. No, for the outsiders it is. What are you talking about?

[03:10:07] The community should not be saying the same things as the GOP. Yeah, exactly.

[03:10:17] If he was a fucking Nazi, the Republicans would love him. What are we talking about?

[03:10:25] you mentioned it on the ebro show i don't know where uh where i brought it up but you

[03:10:38] gotta give me a time stamp first time in the in the primers i was like bro come on like i'm

[03:10:43] i'm i'm helping you out here but you know my god for tag quit pro quo like we gotta we gotta do

[03:10:50] song for the Turks. Forgive my ignorance but why is saying the R was such a big deal? It's able

[03:11:00] this language that's hurtful to hear for many people. I was a slinger, a regular slinger of

[03:11:08] the R word. I've gotten a lot, I mean I don't say it at all any longer but it's just not a battle

[03:11:18] I'm willing to fight, you know what I mean? It's like such a stupid hill to stand on to fight like what you're fucking fighting

[03:11:26] You're right to say slurs. What's wrong with you?

[03:11:31] You know

[03:11:34] I'm just not gonna do that like there are obviously

[03:11:38] There are obviously people who take it way too far with a bit like you say psychotic

[03:11:44] You say crazy like these are also

[03:11:47] also to varying degrees of ableist terminology and it's like, okay, dude, well, you know,

[03:11:54] we have to make use of pejoratives, right? Like Jesus fucking Christ.

[03:11:59] Um, but it also very much gives, because of the place that I come from, the world that

[03:12:09] I come from, and I'm working very hard to always be improving and to always be being

[03:12:13] being a better version of myself. I think for a lot of people that's what they're working on too

[03:12:19] and it is a way that we can sort of demonstrate that you can change. You can improve yourself.

[03:12:25] Our word was used institutionally. Yeah, guess what? So was fucking idiot, okay?

[03:12:31] Idiot was also used institutionally. It's the euphemism treadmill. I'm not going to

[03:12:35] relitigate it. It's dumb as fuck, okay? You just pick and choose. Yes, it's hypocritical.

[03:12:40] we all do it. Who cares? It's a normal part of existing in a social setting, okay? Just

[03:12:46] be kind to people.

[03:12:47] You can take accountability for things that you've said in the past. And while of course

[03:12:53] the Republican Party is going to try to hand me in the ground on this stuff, but truthfully

[03:12:57] as I go around Maine, people in Maine don't care about that. People in Maine care about

[03:13:01] the fact that the hospital is closing.

[03:13:04] You do have a 27 point lead over Janet Mills, so clearly you're right about that.

[03:13:09] I think in the general, it's slightly different, right?

[03:13:11] Because the Republican body, as you know,

[03:13:13] and Susan Collins is no fool,

[03:13:14] she's held that seat for a while,

[03:13:16] they're doing their oppo research on you.

[03:13:19] I gotta ask the question, Graham,

[03:13:20] is there other stuff out there

[03:13:21] that's gonna come out now between now and November?

[03:13:24] Is there another chat forum we don't know about,

[03:13:26] another tattoo we haven't seen?

[03:13:28] No, man.

[03:13:29] The everybody's seeing all my tattoos now,

[03:13:32] and everybody's reading all my internet comments.

[03:13:35] And we released everything.

[03:13:37] We put it all back in October.

[03:13:39] time. Time looks like the Republican Party is absolutely going to lie. You know, at some

[03:13:45] point that's coming. They, you know, said they swip over to John Kerry. They said Barack

[03:13:48] Obama wasn't wasn't an American. So when it comes to the Republican Party, God only knows

[03:13:56] what they're going to come up with. That isn't true. They just ran an AI generated

[03:14:00] they did. Yes. Ridiculous. So like they're the dirty tricks. That's all going to

[03:14:04] happen.

[03:14:05] But one last question on this before we move on. What do you say to supporters of Janet Mills establishment every day?

[03:14:10] Look, it's just not worth the risk. Why put up someone with all of this stuff who has to explain away Nazi-looking tattoos?

[03:14:16] Why not just put up the governor of the state who's already won statewide as a Democrat and doesn't have a tattoo of a skeleton bones on there?

[03:14:23] Because the governor consistently loses in the polls

[03:14:26] Okay, Susan and the governor is very much

[03:14:31] Close to the political establishment the governor was was the DS candidate

[03:14:35] I'll tell you, that's far more risky right now. People don't want to establish in politics.

[03:14:44] People want real people in politics who are going to fight for the material needs of real

[03:14:48] people.

[03:14:49] On that note, let's do a quick rapid fire to see where you stand on some real issues.

[03:14:54] Would you vote in favor of a $20 minimum wage?

[03:14:56] Yes.

[03:14:57] Would you vote to get rid of the Senate filibuster?

[03:15:00] Yes.

[03:15:01] Would you vote to convict Donald Trump in an impeachment trial?

[03:15:04] Yes.

[03:15:05] Do you support statehood for DC and Puerto Rico?

[03:15:08] Yes.

[03:15:09] Do you support Chuck Schumer for Senate Majority?

[03:15:11] Okay, okay, brah, brah, brah, chill, chill.

[03:15:13] Now he's just copying my shit.

[03:15:16] Okay.

[03:15:17] I'm just, you know, I'm done.

[03:15:19] I'm done.

[03:15:20] I'm done.

[03:15:21] Luma, Lamau.

[03:15:22] Oh, I saw this.

[03:15:23] Hassan, you are a political wet toilet paper.

[03:15:25] I love that, like, we are currently covering a candidate

[03:15:30] that closely resembles my values.

[03:15:32] Okay, at least in his campaign strategy.

[03:15:36] A candidate that is doing the method.

[03:15:39] And you're like, dude, I know that there's a ginormous victory that this candidate just

[03:15:44] secured in the Democratic Party primaries, which is perhaps part of the reason why the

[03:15:49] Democrats in the controlling the levers of power in the party have been actively fucking

[03:15:54] slamming people like yourself as a stand-in for what they will do, what kind of disciplining

[03:16:00] operation they're engaging with, with their left-ranked candidates, they're insurgent and

[03:16:06] winning and taking away control from the Democratic Party, but also it's wet toilet paper, okay?

[03:16:14] It's just wet toilet paper.

[03:16:16] Well, I guess, you know, this is the wet toilet paper that is still wiping the asshole,

[03:16:20] okay?

[03:16:21] You're the fucking asshole and you're getting wiped, bitch.

[03:16:26] Do you support Hakeem Jeffries for House Speaker in 2027?

[03:16:35] No.

[03:16:36] Would you support a ban on assault weapons?

[03:16:39] No.

[03:16:40] If you go on to win your Senate seat in Maine, will you run for president in 2028?

[03:16:44] No.

[03:16:45] All right, so those answers, I think a lot of people will be nodding along apart from

[03:16:49] probably the assault weapons.

[03:16:50] You'd be 100% correct if your minute planner might be fake, might stab the left in the

[03:16:54] back because you don't, you're only 50% correct. Yeah, there's no reason for me to engage in

[03:16:59] this kind of, there's no reason for me to make these sorts of assumptions, and be disillusioned

[03:17:11] and be pessimistic right now.

[03:17:15] I think in a country that's already a wash and guns, we have 20 to 30 million air 15s

[03:17:33] in America, we don't actually know how many.

[03:17:35] Restricting access to people with a violent history or people who are going to commit

[03:17:39] a violent act, that is where we're going to see the most effect.

[03:17:43] I support universal background checks and I support red flag laws like the one that

[03:17:48] may pass by ballot measure overwhelmingly last November. I think that those combined

[03:17:54] with expanding mental health services across the board as part of a much more substantial

[03:17:59] health care system and using the power of the federal government to elevate people

[03:18:03] out of.

[03:18:04] I'm from Puerto Rico. What's your take on statehood or independence? Much respect.

[03:18:08] the Puerto Rican's want. I'm happy to abide by that. Whatever Puerto Rican's

[03:18:14] want, they should get. Obviously independence is much less viable as a

[03:18:20] pathway because it I think requires tremendous amounts of reparations and

[03:18:26] even independence alone is very difficult to to push for but then also

[03:18:31] reparations virtually impossible even though I think that's the just and

[03:18:35] moral thing to do because there's no fucking honestly and by my

[03:18:41] Estimation there's no independence without reparations like Puerto Rico deserves reparations

[03:18:47] Beyond independence Puerto Rico reserves reparations even if it doesn't get independence

[03:18:51] okay

[03:18:55] But if that's not the case or if the people want statehood then statehood is also perfectly fine

[03:19:01] But again, I think more so than statehood or independence, what Puerto Rico deserves, what Puerto Rico should get is reparations. I'm gonna keep saying that.

[03:19:19] Saying he might be fake is not an assumption.

[03:19:22] Brother, everyone can be fake. What do you mean? What are you saying?

[03:19:28] Yes, the reality of the matter is grand platter could just as well be a fake a phony, okay?

[03:19:34] And and totally stab the left in the back. You know who else could do that?

[03:19:38] Zoram Omdani, AOC every other fucking candidate

[03:19:43] That there's just that's a that's a likelihood for every candidate

[03:19:49] And if you ask someone this chat, they'll say

[03:19:52] If you ask them of the chat, they'll say they are they are fake. They're phony I

[03:19:59] Could be fucking fake

[03:20:03] Chatter you could be fake one day you could stare stare at the mirror and realize that someone else is looking back at you

[03:20:09] Okay, someone else that you never first foresaw you

[03:20:14] You would become

[03:20:16] I think, holistically, when we think about gun violence, that's where we're gonna get

[03:20:20] the most reduction.

[03:20:22] You said earlier this week that you think Chuck Schumer will back your candidacy if

[03:20:27] you're the general election official Democratic candidate going in.

[03:20:31] By the way, as far as like regretting, as far as being regretful over a service, I

[03:20:37] can't speak the worst in someone's heart, but I can tell you what's not going to

[03:20:42] be a good message to fucking put out there because he's not gonna get swift

[03:20:47] boated right now but if he were to run around and say he's regretful for a

[03:20:51] service he 100% would get fucking swift boated for those of you don't know

[03:20:56] that's John Kerry okay a guy who is a a grunt machine gunner for the Marine

[03:21:04] Corps coming out and being like I'm so I'm I'm so sad about all of the

[03:21:09] heinous things that I did when I was in war it would be over for him okay it

[03:21:17] would be fucking over for him just so you guys understand he's running a fucking

[03:21:22] election okay not even in a place like Maine that that is a a that would

[03:21:31] umbo that would be a generational mistake okay there are plenty of veterans

[03:21:38] who feel that way, many of them are in this community, and it doesn't fucking matter.

[03:21:44] The moment that you say, oh, we fucked up, the moment that you say, we fucked up, we

[03:21:49] shouldn't have done this, even if you're 100% right, that is an unbelievable controversy

[03:21:57] that the Republicans would pounce on.

[03:21:59] Okay?

[03:22:01] You guys have to wake up to the reality that there is a deification of the American

[03:22:07] military and u.s. empire in this fucking country and any candidate regardless if

[03:22:13] they had purple hearts or not if they were to come out and say what we did was

[03:22:17] wrong okay what I feel is is a personal distaste for the actions that I took

[03:22:25] participating in the fucking war machine sure that makes you sound feel

[03:22:30] good and it's the right thing to say it's the right thing to do okay but the

[03:22:37] idea, the idea that like Americans would look at that and go, oh yeah this guy's

[03:22:43] actually being bold and brave. Does that worship of the military exist among

[03:22:51] moderates or mainly Republicans? Brother, that worship of the military exists

[03:22:56] among liberals too. Hello? How do you think we justify all of this, the death

[03:23:04] and destruction campaigns. It's baby steps, okay? You gotta start off by trying to put

[03:23:11] a dent in the military industrial complex by talking about how there's an opportunity cost

[03:23:16] to all the wars that we're waging. How, you know, you gotta appeal to the selfish sensibilities

[03:23:22] of Americans by saying every dollar is being wasted overseas blowing up schools rather

[03:23:28] than fucking building schools here. Americans do not give a fuck for the most part about

[03:23:32] the morality of the equation. You did not make me angry.

[03:23:39] It's crazy to me how so much of the Commodore and Grand Planner is based on what some online

[03:23:43] leftist thinks and not as concrete plans for restoring the medical system in Maine. We've

[03:23:46] got a crisis in healthcare up here for well over a decade. It's gotten so much worse

[03:23:49] recently. He's the only one with a real plan. Thank you. You're 100% correct Benfish.

[03:23:54] Yes. And that's precisely the reason why he's winning. Okay?

[03:23:59] The Supreme Court ruling that could affect the upcoming midterm elections and beyond.

[03:24:14] The court ruled Louisiana's congressional map with two majority black districts is illegal

[03:24:18] because it relied too much on race to draw those district lines.

[03:24:22] A lower court had ordered redistricting, arguing the state's one-third black population

[03:24:26] was not properly represented. The Supreme Court decision weakened Section 2 of the

[03:24:31] Landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act and could have a lot of effects on elections

[03:24:36] this term and in the future. I know Keith is in Washington to bring us all the

[03:24:40] details and good morning. Major good to see you. Let's remind folks that the

[03:24:44] current balance of power shows Republicans with a real for thin majority

[03:24:49] there. Ultimately 218 seats is what you need to control House of

[03:24:52] Representatives and they're both the two parties fighting over where

[03:24:55] exactly they can it wasn't just a marine though man it was a mercenary should have

[03:24:59] killed people for money at least in the military you can spend your career in IT

[03:25:02] he was an infantry yeah it doesn't matter okay it literally I can't explain

[03:25:09] this to you enough it's very difficult for you to comprehend what matters to you

[03:25:14] is inconsequential to the voters okay that's it what matters to you is

[03:25:22] inconsequential to the voters. As a matter of fact, it's probably positive for many

[03:25:28] voters. They're like, oh my god, he's a fucking war hero. He actually fought in

[03:25:32] wars like the ones I watch in the movies like Black Hawk Down. Okay, that's

[03:25:39] it. The overwhelming majority of Americans do not have the same assessment

[03:25:47] of American imperialism as you do. We have to remind ourselves of this reality over and

[03:25:53] over again, especially when we're talking about electoral performance. Oh my fucking god,

[03:25:59] I'm losing my mind. It's not about the math of whether or not it's a good campaign. He's

[03:26:03] running a good campaign. I'm talking about specifically your response to us being suspicious.

[03:26:07] I'm not denying he's very viable. Yeah, the reason why I'm not as suspicious as

[03:26:11] you guys are is because I'm listening to what he's saying and he makes a lot of fucking sense.

[03:26:17] Okay

[03:26:19] I'm listening to what he's saying, and I'm telling you that what he's saying makes a lot of fucking sense

[03:26:24] I am being reasonable about what he can and can't say as he's currently running for Senate in Maine

[03:26:32] Okay, that's number one and number two

[03:26:37] I'm thinking about the overall social conditioning that leads people into taking decisions like this growing up in the United States of America

[03:26:47] I'm almost certain that you, at some point in time, would not have looked at a candidate like

[03:26:53] Grand Platinum's service, even in fucking black water, and have thought twice about it. You

[03:26:59] probably would have been like, yeah, no, that's awesome. But after being a 19 month subscriber

[03:27:03] in this community, a lot of your worldview has probably shifted radically. So now you're

[03:27:09] thinking with today's terms. What I urge you to always do is think with yesterday's terms

[03:27:14] to try to develop a better understanding of what leads people to make certain decisions

[03:27:19] like joining the fucking military.

[03:27:22] And then have that experience be so normalized in your life that you go, alright, fuck it,

[03:27:27] this is my only viable option for a job.

[03:27:29] It's not about the morality of it, I'm not endorsing it, okay?

[03:27:32] I'm saying that it is an immoral act in general from my calculations, but I can

[03:27:37] also understand how someone would make those decisions, okay?

[03:27:44] What matters to you is not what matters to the voters, how is this an argument for why

[03:27:54] people should trust them?

[03:27:59] What?

[03:28:05] The reason why I'm saying that is because he's running right now to become the next

[03:28:10] Senator and flip a red seat in Maine and not only is he doing that, but he's doing that with our values. Okay. This is what matters. His campaign has been a disruptive insurgency of left flank values. He is a Bernie

[03:28:28] So many of you cannot overcome the initial suspicions that you have, that you refuse

[03:28:35] to listen to what he's saying now.

[03:28:38] You refuse to understand what manors are hearing.

[03:28:42] And the reason why I keep bringing up the fact that what matters here doesn't matter

[03:28:46] to the average person in the United States of America is because it's an important lesson

[03:28:50] to learn so that you don't come across as like a fucking socially maladjusted

[03:28:55] weirdo when you're having normal conversations in the real world, okay? It's an important

[03:29:01] part of being a good organizer. It's an important part of being a good communicator when you're

[03:29:05] talking to normies. I worry quite a bit about what I'm teaching people in this community

[03:29:16] when I hear stuff like this all the time. Hasan is awesome, toxic masculinity, black

[03:29:23] white thinking today. See this is actually a great fucking example of what I'm talking about.

[03:29:32] Toxic masculinity, black and white thinking.

[03:29:39] Anyway, let's get to the Supreme Court striking down Louisiana's congressional map,

[03:29:43] wiggening voting. So let's go through this. Louisiana is the first place we expect this

[03:29:47] will happen. The governor's reportedly going to suspend this month's, next month's,

[03:29:51] primaries to redraw the map and deal with this specific blue district or

[03:29:55] stretches all the way from New Orleans out to Shreveport. If they can do that

[03:29:58] that's one potential Republican seat. Then go over to Florida, which is yesterday.

[03:30:01] Republican legislators approved a new map that potentially gives the GOP up

[03:30:06] to four more seats there. They called that special session anticipating the

[03:30:10] Supreme Court would rule this way. The other state that may very quickly

[03:30:13] redraw its map is Mississippi. They've got four seats in that state and that

[03:30:17] that big blue one there is the one that may potentially be up for redrawing.

[03:30:21] It's where most of the states African American voters live now that the Supreme Court has

[03:30:25] ruled that they can tweak the Voting Rights Act for Republicans saying they may try to

[03:30:29] draw there.

[03:30:30] Other states would like to do this major.

[03:30:31] The problem is the candidate registration deadline has passed, the primary has already

[03:30:35] been held, so you're looking now to 2028 to see a bunch of other states redraw

[03:30:39] their maps.

[03:30:40] So, hey, Ed, before you go, how do you expect the Democrats to respond to

[03:30:43] all of this?

[03:30:44] A few things.

[03:30:45] file a bunch of lawsuits to try to stop this in those individual states. Second,

[03:30:48] bunch of Democrats have said, you want to redraw the maps in those Republican

[03:30:52] controlled southern states? Well, introduce you to California, Illinois, New York,

[03:30:56] Colorado, places like that. You want to redraw there? We've got more seats in

[03:31:00] those states and we could potentially redraw those. And the idea now is see

[03:31:05] these two parties potentially fight over this. And then maybe at some point

[03:31:09] there's an ultimatum on trying to do this. That requires voters though to

[03:31:11] get upset. Call your congressman, your governor, and say, I don't like this.

[03:31:14] and maybe one day it stops.

[03:31:16] All right, to be continued, Ed, thank you.

[03:31:18] Always good to see you.

[03:31:19] President Trump celebrated after the Supreme Court's decision.

[03:31:22] Here's that moment.

[03:31:23] When did it kind of just end?

[03:31:26] No, it came out this morning, but basically very much in error.

[03:31:29] I was the voting right back then.

[03:31:30] Was he considered a windfrower?

[03:31:32] A windfrower pelican.

[03:31:33] I love it.

[03:31:36] Since Chief Data Analyst Harry Anton running the numbers on this one,

[03:31:39] Harry, let's kind of baseline it for everyone right now.

[03:31:42] How is the president doing right now with African-American voters with black voters now versus this point the first term?

[03:31:48] Yeah, I think what we're seeing right now in the numbers is President Trump and the Republican Party are

[03:31:52] Chipping away at the long-term advantage that Democrats have had with black voters with African-Americans

[03:31:58] You can see it right here. Look Trump's approval among African-Americans at this point in term one. He was at 12%

[03:32:03] You know, he's been losing ground with a lot of him. He's gaining. He's gaining ground with African-Americans

[03:32:09] He's up to 16% at this point and you say, this isn't that big of a shift, but I will tell you, Republicans absolutely love this shift that's going on, because Democrats have had such a long-term advantage, the fact that he's actually gaining ground versus where he was in term number one.

[03:32:25] This has major implications for elections down the line because Democrats, especially in a lot of these tight races, you talk about places like Georgia right down in the south, you see this type of movement for Trump actually gaining ground.

[03:32:36] gaining ground this could have major ramifications and help put Republicans

[03:32:40] over the top in a number of southern places in the midterm elections. Do you

[03:32:44] see this as part of a bigger trend? I see this as absolutely part of a bigger

[03:32:48] trend. Donald Trump's Republican Party is absolutely gaining ground not just

[03:32:53] him gaining in terms of his approval rating but look at the party ID

[03:32:57] margin Kate because this to me was absolutely stunning look at this

[03:33:00] party ID margin among African Americans at this point in Trump term

[03:33:03] Form number one, Democrats had a 63 point advantage.

[03:33:06] That is absolutely full.

[03:33:08] Look at where it is now.

[03:33:09] A double digit shift away.

[03:33:11] Democrats of course still have the advantage, but it's a 12 point shift to the Republican

[03:33:15] Party and I'll look back through Gallup's records.

[03:33:17] They sent me their records.

[03:33:19] And this in fact lead that Democrats have is actually smaller than any lead from

[03:33:23] 2006 to 2021.

[03:33:26] So Democrats are leading, but again we're talking about chipping away, Republicans

[03:33:30] are chipping away at this long-term advantage that Democrats have had among African-Americans.

[03:33:35] We see it in terms of Trump's approval rating, and we even see it to a wider degree among

[03:33:39] the party ID margin, where all of a sudden there are a number of African-Americans who

[03:33:43] are walking away from the Democrats.

[03:33:45] Yeah, I don't believe it.

[03:33:48] But it would be pretty crazy if the Democratic Party used the older black voting block

[03:33:55] as as uh...

[03:33:57] some of the most like uh... conservative some of the most like centrist

[03:34:02] uh... candidacy enjoyers for years in years only to have them turn around and

[03:34:06] be like okay we're republican now which is not gonna happen for the record i don't

[03:34:09] think it's correct

[03:34:11] this kind of shit happens all the time

[03:34:14] uh... specifically about the black voting uh... the black the black voting block

[03:34:19] which they always inevitably turn around and say up we were wrong i guess

[03:34:24] like one point distinction

[03:34:26] uh... any sort of marginal swing in uh... in the direction of of

[03:34:30] in the direction away from the republican party

[03:34:32] uh... oftentimes

[03:34:34] uh... is is seen as this like major uh... you know

[03:34:38] alarm bell and then

[03:34:39] uh... black voters are are of course as always the most reliable democratic party

[03:34:44] voters in general

[03:34:46] i've talked about this extensively with a comma heros campaign if you remember

[03:34:49] So, and a lot of them who are walking into the Republican tent, that is very interesting

[03:34:53] with looking at that past Gallup information.

[03:34:56] What does this mean for the race for control in Congress?

[03:34:58] Okay.

[03:34:59] So you see this right here.

[03:35:00] You see this 51 point advantage that Democrats have significantly less than you see that

[03:35:04] 63 point advantage.

[03:35:06] And what we will note was back in 2024, right?

[03:35:08] Donald Trump put in a historically strong performance among African Americans.

[03:35:13] Democrats perform the worst in a generation.

[03:35:15] they gained any of that coalition back from where they fell down to in 2024.

[03:35:21] But take a look here, okay, choice for election among African Americans.

[03:35:25] Kamala Harris was leading amongst that group in the pre-election polling by 63 points.

[03:35:30] Are Democrats gaining back any of that ground?

[03:35:33] Uh-uh, it's a 62-point advantage now.

[03:35:35] Republicans are holding on to the gains that they made among African Americans in 2024.

[03:35:40] Republicans are gaining among African Americans.

[03:35:42] They are chipping away at that long-term advantage.

[03:35:44] The Donald Trump-led Republican Party

[03:35:46] is making gains among African-Americans

[03:35:48] that we simply put have not seen the Republican Party make

[03:35:50] in a generation.

[03:35:51] Fascinating.

[03:35:52] Good to see you, Harold.

[03:35:52] Thanks so much for putting together.

[03:35:54] Six justices all but threw away the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

[03:36:00] Now, they left the words on the paper,

[03:36:02] but they erased the meaning.

[03:36:04] The way poll taxes and literacy tests

[03:36:07] and jelly bean counting tried to negate the 15th Amendment

[03:36:12] that gave black people the right to vote.

[03:36:14] Why?

[03:36:15] Because voting is the single most important power

[03:36:18] in a democracy.

[03:36:20] Not just the act of going to the polls

[03:36:22] and filling in some bubbles.

[03:36:23] No, it's the ability to vote for your candidate of choice.

[03:36:27] Now, you are not entitled to vote for the winner,

[03:36:31] but gerrymandering districts can

[03:36:33] mean that your power is so watered down

[03:36:36] that you never even had a chance

[03:36:38] to choose who represents you or pretends to.

[03:36:43] Enter Louisiana.

[03:36:44] The court struck down its map today,

[03:36:47] saying that lawmakers illegally used race

[03:36:50] to draw a majority black district.

[03:36:52] At the heart of the ruling was Section 2

[03:36:55] of the Civil Rights Act that LBJ signed.

[03:36:58] And before I explain Section 2,

[03:37:01] why don't you listen to what LBJ said

[03:37:04] when he signed that into law?

[03:37:08] Millions of Americans are denied

[03:37:12] the right to vote because of their color.

[03:37:16] This law will ensure them the right to vote.

[03:37:24] The wrong is one which no American in his heart can justify.

[03:37:32] Ensure them the right to vote.

[03:37:36] Section 2, it tried to prevent racial gerrymandering,

[03:37:40] precisely because it diluted voting power. And that's now all but out the window. And

[03:37:47] already today we saw Republican candidates across Alabama and Georgia.

[03:37:51] All right, Chad, we're going to get ready to move out right now. We're going to go link

[03:37:55] up with Chris Rabb, who just got the DSA endorsement, AOC endorsement and the like.

[03:38:02] But I'll keep playing these videos for you guys as we head over to our next destination.

[03:38:08] very excited. It's going to be a fun day. Okay. In South Carolina and others, all pushed

[03:38:14] for the maps to be redrawn to benefit their party.

[03:38:20] When did it come out just now? No, it came out this morning. But basically very much narrow.

[03:38:24] What's the voting right? Would you consider the wind for a little bit? I love it.

[03:38:31] Do you? Because I worked in the voting right section of the civil rights division.

[03:38:36] So I can tell you how instrumental Section 2 was to getting gerrymandered districts redrawn

[03:38:43] to be fair or prevent the maps from even getting drawn in the first place.

[03:38:49] It was critical to ensuring that voting rights meant anything to minority voters.

[03:38:55] Now it wasn't a cakewalk, but before today you had a fighting chance to ensure that the

[03:39:02] The blood, the sweat, the tears and the indignities and the violence towards those who have the

[03:39:08] audacity to believe in equality didn't fight in legislate and vain.

[03:39:15] It understood that racism, it could be right in your face.

[03:39:19] But it could also be strategic and covert.

[03:39:23] So you could prove that a district was unconstitutionally gerrymandered even if you couldn't show

[03:39:28] some smoking gun that said, you know why I'm drawing this crazy salamander or goofy shape

[03:39:35] district to make sure the black and brown voters can't gain strength in numbers. Who's

[03:39:42] writing that? Now if you could show that the map had that effect without those words

[03:39:50] the map could be withdrawn. But now the Supreme Court says, yeah, you have to bring that

[03:39:56] smoking gun. It's not enough to show that black voters were targeted or that black voters

[03:40:03] fuel the brunt of an illegal practice. No, now you got to eliminate the possibility. No

[03:40:09] matter how remote and in the category of pigs flying, that these black voters were targeted

[03:40:15] because they were black Democrats. You likely have to prove that race, not political party

[03:40:21] explains the harmful effect.

[03:40:25] Welcome to the wink and the nod portion

[03:40:27] of what MLK and so many others fighting for civil rights

[03:40:32] had to contend with.

[03:40:35] It's also an extremely high bar that will likely

[03:40:38] be insurmountable in most cases to prove that.

[03:40:42] And the why?

[03:40:44] Why the majority did this is, honey,

[03:40:48] you ought to pay close attention to.

[03:40:51] Because they said that there had been vast social change.

[03:40:54] That's the phrase, particularly in the South,

[03:40:57] that it made these considerations,

[03:41:00] considerations unnecessary.

[03:41:03] Are we back on the flawed theory

[03:41:06] that we live in a post-racial world?

[03:41:10] Wow, tell that to my mother,

[03:41:13] who was 13 years old

[03:41:14] when the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed.

[03:41:18] Or tell it to my 13-year-old son,

[03:41:20] who just saw it become what Justice Elena Kagan called

[03:41:24] a dead letter.

[03:41:27] My first guest is a longtime champion

[03:41:30] in the Civil Rights Act and has not left the fight.

[03:41:33] Former Attorney General under President Obama,

[03:41:35] Eric Holder joins me now and I should note

[03:41:38] I served as a career prosecutor

[03:41:39] during his tenure in the Civil Rights Division.

[03:41:43] Attorney General, thank you so much for being here.

[03:41:45] As you can imagine, this feels deeply personal

[03:41:48] to so many people and legally and analytically,

[03:41:52] completely unhinged, frankly, to me.

[03:41:55] But I have to ask you what your takeaway is,

[03:41:58] because there are those who will look at this and say,

[03:42:01] see, gerrymandering is bad,

[03:42:04] even if it's meant to undo entrenched racial discrimination.

[03:42:08] What's your thought?

[03:42:11] Well, I gotta tell you, I take this

[03:42:12] both personally and professionally.

[03:42:15] I was 13 years old when the 65 Voting Rights Act was passed.

[03:42:21] I was the Attorney General who had to deal with that first attack on the Voting Rights

[03:42:25] Act, the Shelby County case that has, unfortunately, my name attached to it.

[03:42:31] And I've seen the dismemberment of the Voting Rights Act by the Roberts Court.

[03:42:36] And you have to ask yourself, why?

[03:42:38] John Roberts, when he was a young lawyer at the Justice Department, apparently was

[03:42:42] against the Voting Rights Act.

[03:42:44] now that he is the Chief Justice of the United States,

[03:42:48] he has finally reached that dream of his to really come up

[03:42:52] with a way in which you get rid of the most important parts

[03:42:55] of the Voting Rights Act.

[03:42:57] So I feel as personally, as well as professionally.

[03:43:01] And it's something that I think we have to fight.

[03:43:02] And we have to do all that we can

[03:43:04] to try to manage this crisis that we are presently in,

[03:43:08] but then come up with long-term solutions

[03:43:10] so that we put this country back on the right path.

[03:43:14] Are you persuaded by Justice Alito's statements

[03:43:16] that the country is seeing vast social change,

[03:43:19] particularly in the South,

[03:43:20] as a reason, and what he wrote was,

[03:43:22] as black voters now participate in elections

[03:43:25] at similar rates as the rest of the day.

[03:43:28] Is that persuasive enough to gut section two?

[03:43:33] No, I mean, the reason that people,

[03:43:35] black people participate at essentially the same rate

[03:43:38] to the extent that that's true

[03:43:39] is because of the protections that you saw

[03:43:42] in the voting rights act of nineteen sixty five

[03:43:44] before that act was passed you did not see significant black voter

[03:43:47] participation it was difficult

[03:43:49] to register it was difficult uh... to vote

[03:43:52] sixty five voting rights that goes into effect ucs start number of people

[03:43:57] greater group number of people who register who vote

[03:44:00] who ultimately get elected

[03:44:02] uh... you so you know and the this notion that somehow another

[03:44:06] just because the nation has changed and it has changed we have to

[03:44:09] acknowledge that we don't

[03:44:11] We do a grave disservice to those who sacrificed to give me opportunities that they did not

[03:44:16] have.

[03:44:17] But the nation is not yet at the place where it should be.

[03:44:21] Race is still a factor.

[03:44:22] If you look at economic factors, maternal death rates, any number of things, wealth,

[03:44:29] education, black folks, Hispanic folks, are still not doing nearly as well as their

[03:44:35] white fellow citizens.

[03:44:37] Race is still a factor in this nation.

[03:44:39] And, of course, the Supreme Court has described partisan voting in gerrymandering as distinct

[03:44:44] from race-based because of Section 2 and when it actually had teeth.

[03:44:49] I mean, there's also been this debate that's gone on, Attorney General, that for years

[03:44:54] people have debated whether to expand the Supreme Court, obviously, a time like this

[03:44:59] in the 6-3 decision along ideological lines.

[03:45:03] are very angry about the ability to have six people determine and unravel six

[03:45:09] decades worth of progress. Do you think that part of the conversation moving

[03:45:15] forward should involve the composition or the numbers in the Supreme Court?

[03:45:22] I think that should be a part of the conversation. And I think we also have

[03:45:25] to realize when people say, well, you're just trying to pack the court.

[03:45:28] Well, the court is already packed.

[03:45:31] Merrick Garland never got a hearing.

[03:45:33] And so he never had an opportunity to become a justice on the Supreme Court.

[03:45:38] If rules had been followed as they normally had been, he would have been on the court.

[03:45:43] And the rule was, well, he was too close to an election for him to get a hearing

[03:45:48] or even an interview.

[03:45:49] Well, then Amy Coney Barrett comes along later on and is confirmed while people are

[03:45:53] in the process of voting.

[03:45:56] So those are two seats that probably should be seats appointed by a democratic president.

[03:46:01] So the criticism that in considering expanding the court is packing the court and that's

[03:46:06] something negative is again something that Republicans will criticize the very thing

[03:46:11] that they themselves get.

[03:46:13] But I think that has to be a part of the conversation.

[03:46:16] What's up y'all.

[03:46:17] So I wanted to record a video real quick on the big thing that dropped earlier today.

[03:46:24] they are some corporate Democrats, some APAC Democrats, decided they are going to

[03:46:30] draft a condemnation of the Sahn Piker. So, I think it's a bipartisan effort.

[03:46:37] Oh, it's a bipartisan effort, okay. So that makes it.

[03:46:40] And Matt Heimer and Mike Lawler is a Republican.

[03:46:43] This is, by the way, the exact same day that we learned that the Supreme Court

[03:46:47] gutted the Voting Rights Act. Yeah. That's awesome.

[03:46:51] This is also at the same time that Trump is still in this war and you know going back and forth on what he says on a daily

[03:46:59] Basis threatening war crimes on a daily basis gas prices are going up so fast right now that the guy that tracks gas prices

[03:47:05] Says his algorithm is broken and you can't keep up with it

[03:47:08] So that's that's happening

[03:47:11] Yeah, so do you have the text of it? I do yeah, so give everybody a taste of how ridiculous

[03:47:16] So this is what our elected representatives, these particular elected representatives, are spending their time on.

[03:47:22] Whereas, Hassan Piker, a prominent online streamer, has often used anti-Semitic rhetoric, including expressing support for Hamas, a designated foreign terrorist organization.

[03:47:33] Whereas, in August 2019, during a stream on Twitch, Hassan Piker stated that Americans deserve 9-11.

[03:47:39] Whereas the songwriter referred to orthodox Jews as Inbred, whereas the songwriter downplayed

[03:47:49] sexual violence, this is one that really bothers me the most actually, committed by Hamas,

[03:47:52] a designated foreign terrorist organization against innocent civilians on October 7, 2023,

[03:47:57] stating, quote, it doesn't matter if effing rapes happen on October 7, like that doesn't

[03:48:04] change the dynamic for me.

[03:48:05] His point was that doesn't mean genocide is okay.

[03:48:08] Exactly.

[03:48:09] That's what he's saying.

[03:48:09] And here's the thing is, I mean, the whole thing.

[03:48:12] And it just proves the point of why it was so important

[03:48:15] and brave, the work that people like Ryan did

[03:48:19] in exposing the fact, the limited evidence

[03:48:22] that there is, the lack of evidence of what was claimed,

[03:48:25] which is systematic as a weapon of war,

[03:48:29] rape and sexual violence being used on October 7th.

[03:48:31] There is not evidence of that.

[03:48:34] And it's not an accident that they pushed that.

[03:48:37] And you can see, you know, exactly how they use that to justify genocide.

[03:48:42] And then they say, no, if you don't accept all of our most maximal claims, or if you as a Hassan has always been careful to say, like, yeah, I don't know, like it's very possible that that did happen.

[03:48:52] And what he said in this quote is, even if it did, that doesn't mean that it justifies horrors in response to that, which is just, I mean, that's a very basic moral statement.

[03:49:03] Anyway, the last one here is.

[03:49:05] Well, wait a minute, didn't they have to retract the article?

[03:49:07] Wasn't there like this huge article?

[03:49:09] Yes, so this is, Screams is not words in The New York Times.

[03:49:13] And the person who wrote it turned out

[03:49:14] to be like in the fucking IDF or something like that, right?

[03:49:17] I'm trying to remember the details off the top of my head,

[03:49:20] but there was like this big scandal

[03:49:21] about how basically compromised the person once who wrote it.

[03:49:24] That this was literally just like war propaganda,

[03:49:26] like atrocity propaganda.

[03:49:28] They pulled up someone who had like,

[03:49:29] next-to-no reporting experience who was, you know,

[03:49:32] had a background of bias and I think had been previously

[03:49:34] in the IDF if memory serves.

[03:49:36] But if you look at the details too,

[03:49:39] they had to retract some significant parts of their claims

[03:49:43] because it was contradicted by their own prior reporting.

[03:49:46] It was so flimsy what they offered there

[03:49:50] that the New York Times, like main podcast, The Daily,

[03:49:52] refused to do an episode on it

[03:49:54] because they thought it was so weak.

[03:49:57] And then one of the people who was quoted in it

[03:49:59] retracted their claims.

[03:50:01] Like it was just, it was a mess,

[03:50:03] but they didn't retract the article,

[03:50:05] they really should have.

[03:50:06] It just now has parts of it that were taken out,

[03:50:09] long editorial notes, et cetera.

[03:50:11] So yeah, I mean, this has always been this very,

[03:50:16] it's one of those things where you feel like an athlete.

[03:50:19] I don't know if they can figure out where we're at.

[03:50:20] I keep it really tight.

[03:50:21] All right, okay, ingest on.

[03:50:26] What's up, everybody?

[03:50:27] We're back.

[03:50:29] I know you guys missed us for a little bit.

[03:50:31] I know you were enjoying Kyle Kalinsky driving recklessly with reckless abandon and

[03:50:41] Crystal reading tweets car stream the car stream transition, baby

[03:50:46] Put back the woke King the dark the dark woke general

[03:50:50] The commander you want to you want the light?

[03:50:55] No true

[03:50:57] Okay, while we wait

[03:50:58] So we are currently heading over to link up with Chris RAB

[03:51:04] I was running for Congress in Philly and it's very exciting. I'm gonna read you guys some background information on him

[03:51:11] but he is the

[03:51:14] Pro-Palestinian candidate in this race, obviously

[03:51:18] Pro labor pro worker

[03:51:21] Backed by the DSA DSA endorsed

[03:51:25] Okay

[03:51:26] Hold on. I'm gonna I'm putting my

[03:51:29] Charger on real quick pulling up chat real quick

[03:51:33] And then pulling up my notes real quick

[03:51:38] Of course, of course, of course Chris Rabb is a Pennsylvania State representative in PA 200

[03:51:44] And he's running for the US House in PA 3. It's a D plus 40 district

[03:51:50] So as you guys know the policy is running up the numbers getting the left most possible candidate

[03:51:55] running in all of the races all around the country.

[03:51:59] This is one of those places where it's like unbelievably safe

[03:52:02] so it's a really great opportunity to move the Democratic Party in a direction

[03:52:07] that's more responsive

[03:52:08] to working-class people in general rather than having

[03:52:12] a corporate-backed, centrist, pro-Israel candidate. This is a

[03:52:16] unique opportunity to have someone running in a

[03:52:20] in an unbelievably safe seat in an unbelievably safe dish. So the

[03:52:24] Primaries are more consequential than the general in this circumstance.

[03:52:28] But yeah, he is...

[03:52:36] Chris Rabb is a state representative running for U.S. House in Pennsylvania's

[03:52:40] third congressional district here in Philadelphia.

[03:52:43] As a founding member of the Pennsylvania Progressive Caucus and the Climate Caucus,

[03:52:47] Chris is the most progressive candidate running in this crowded Democratic primary

[03:52:52] primary to replace the retiring congressperson, Dwight Evans. This is one of the bluest districts

[03:52:59] in the United States of America where Obama and Biden both won by Assad numbers. We're

[03:53:06] talking 91 percent. Okay? Chris has been a vocal critic of Israel and has called for

[03:53:14] the Democrats to hold our own party more accountable for support of the genocide of the Palestinians

[03:53:21] and the war on Iran when asked at a forum whether he would meet with APAC.

[03:53:26] Chris famously said, fuck APAC.

[03:53:29] They're a racist organization and I won't meet with them.

[03:53:33] We'll be walking through Philly neighborhoods,

[03:53:35] discussing Chris's progressive vision.

[03:53:38] We're going to be talking about a stance on key issues like Palestine,

[03:53:40] healthcare and the affordability crisis and how he plans to bring

[03:53:44] grassroots activism and grassroots organizing experiences to his

[03:53:49] congressional seat. Okay. I have a lot of questions for him obviously, but I'm very

[03:53:56] excited to see this beautiful city that I haven't been to in quite a while. I've

[03:54:01] said often that unlike Los Angeles, Philadelphia is a real city or at

[03:54:07] least close to a real city. And we're looking at American standards. It's a

[03:54:11] beautiful place. There's, you know, some some semblance of a public

[03:54:17] transit system here unlike Los Angeles

[03:54:20] So very exciting stuff overall. I think

[03:54:25] Chris also had like a rally earlier today, which we didn't go to the rally was obviously during the day

[03:54:31] but we're gonna be going

[03:54:33] dining, whining and

[03:54:36] And I'm gonna be interviewing him after we get some food. So very exciting stuff over all and I hope you guys

[03:54:44] Will enjoy the process

[03:54:46] okay the restaurant you're going to is fireunk okay we'll also be attending a

[03:54:55] fundraiser afterwards as well so you guys get to do a little bit more inside

[03:54:59] baseball there's chatter saying on sep the on the way over to you okay I don't

[03:55:07] know how that stuff is gonna work so fuck the flyers 1975 is that fighting

[03:55:14] words or is that a good thing? I don't even know. Philly's doing well in hockey right now,

[03:55:23] right? All right. Are you guys like hockey? You look, you look at him and you're like,

[03:55:30] I just that's a crazy question. I don't know

[03:55:40] Yeah

[03:55:44] Skull burrs, right? Oh damn, okay

[03:55:50] Yeah, yeah. Okay, what team do you support? Okay, so you're not you're not OG from Philadelphia.

[03:56:11] Born and raised in Philadelphia, a Broncos fan? How did that happen?

[03:56:19] with my cousin right here in the 49ers and I'm just happy.

[03:56:24] What did you do?

[03:56:25] You pick it out of a hat?

[03:56:26] No.

[03:56:27] Go fuck?

[03:56:28] You know, it's crazy.

[03:56:29] I really like them because I like their jerseys when I was a kid.

[03:56:32] They're calling you a traitor in the chat right now just so you know.

[03:56:35] What?

[03:56:36] That's crazy.

[03:56:37] Okay.

[03:56:38] But it was a reason because I like their jerseys and then Tarello Davis was one

[03:56:44] of my favorite football players.

[03:56:45] I'm a LeBron fan across the board. I don't care. I'm agnostic to whichever team he plays in.

[03:57:05] So you're just a LeBron fan? Yeah, I'm just a LeBron fan.

[03:57:07] Some people are bandwagon hot. They only like LeBron.

[03:57:11] I'm not gonna say they love LePonse, they like whatever team you are, I don't care, it could be on the...

[03:57:16] Yeah, yeah, I'm agnostic to whichever team, yeah.

[03:57:27] What about in the NBA?

[03:57:31] I don't really care for the NBA too much.

[03:57:32] Okay, so you're like, you'd be in support of the Sixers, and you're fine with that.

[03:57:37] I mean, I mean, you hate every Philly team you don't fuck with hockey you don't

[03:58:07] That's crazy

[03:58:08] Teach us all, man

[03:58:09] You like who you like

[03:58:10] You agree with that cousin?

[03:58:12] Is that the assessment? Is he right?

[03:58:14] He over here, man

[03:58:16] He over here, man

[03:58:18] How do you support the finals?

[03:58:22] You don't even know, that's why you know he won

[03:58:24] I like it, Philadelphia

[03:58:26] I would rather watch

[03:58:28] What was that shit? What was that football he had?

[03:58:31] Yeah, the Philadelphia Soul, what was that?

[03:58:33] Arena football, I would rather watch that shit

[03:58:36] Wow!

[03:59:00] It's too soft. Football is too soft. That's what I think.

[03:59:03] Basketball is too airy, basketball is too airy.

[03:59:05] Wait, how old are you?

[03:59:06] If you don't mind, man.

[03:59:07] You're 37.

[03:59:08] Okay, first of all, you don't look 37.

[03:59:10] Damn.

[03:59:11] I don't look this little baby.

[03:59:12] No, no.

[03:59:13] I thought you were like 27.

[03:59:14] Well, thank you, good friend of yours.

[03:59:16] Yeah, I'm younger than you, which is crazy.

[03:59:18] I normally don't meet people older than me.

[03:59:21] So, you need to make these bankers over here.

[03:59:24] You know, you don't have to buy some land.

[03:59:26] Yeah, that is an onc thing to say though.

[03:59:28] Like, oh, football's soft now.

[03:59:30] You are on

[03:59:37] That's like you're you're close to OG status actually

[03:59:41] You're about to cross the boundary in the OG

[03:59:46] You're like you're like Michael Jordan played a real game of basketball

[04:00:00] Oh, man, you gotta be slots, right?

[04:00:02] Yeah, you just...

[04:00:03] Everybody loves Mike.

[04:00:05] Everybody loves Mike.

[04:00:07] Everybody loves Mike.

[04:00:08] You're just a rapper, you know that way.

[04:00:10] Right?

[04:00:11] You got a laugh, right?

[04:00:12] You got a laugh.

[04:00:13] You got a laugh.

[04:00:14] I'm a traitor.

[04:00:15] That's my blood.

[04:00:16] He treated all of me.

[04:00:17] Little bit.

[04:00:18] Oh, man.

[04:00:19] Yeah, everybody loves Mike, man, regardless of...

[04:00:22] Obviously they don't.

[04:00:23] Everybody loves Mike.

[04:00:24] I mean, look, I'm the...

[04:00:26] I think I'm in the boundary, so I'm a LeBron dick writer.

[04:00:30] I admit it. I'm a self-admitted LeBron dick writer.

[04:00:32] At least you can admit that you're not his dick.

[04:00:34] That's what makes you a dick.

[04:00:36] Listen, okay, but think about it this way.

[04:00:38] Some dicks deserve to be wrote.

[04:00:40] I've never heard that before.

[04:00:42] I've never heard that before.

[04:00:44] I've never heard that before.

[04:00:46] If it's valid, is it really dick writing?

[04:00:49] I mean, he's 42.

[04:00:52] He's throwing alley-oops to his son.

[04:00:55] That's crazy.

[04:00:57] That's crazy though. It's impressive. It's an impressive fee. I mean, I will say this

[04:01:05] That's cool.

[04:01:06] I think I'm going to play together. That's what's up. But his son, whether he's ready

[04:01:09] for the league right there. I mean, it's a good thing. He can say that the first father-son

[04:01:13] duo in history played on the same team. Yeah, in the playoffs too. That's what's

[04:01:17] up. But who the fuck? That shit does not help my life. What do you think about

[04:01:22] Wemby oh wait you oh you don't even yeah you don't really watch the NBA I mean I

[04:01:27] don't really watch the NBA yeah he's a freak yeah yeah yeah he's incredible

[04:01:43] he is nice though but a lot of the big man like I remember shaking to see it a

[04:01:48] lot of the big men in the league now like in there they don't play like big

[04:01:52] Yeah, he yeah, he can he can shoot a three like he he can he has he has handles which is crazy

[04:02:00] Because because how because of how tall he is the ball literally takes like a second to travel to the ground from where he's

[04:02:07] From where he's starting

[04:02:11] But I mean listen

[04:02:14] But I don't want to say everybody in the league saw off everybody

[04:02:17] you know, a bunch of bitches, but most of them...

[04:02:21] and then you got some real good players that will leave right here.

[04:02:24] I didn't want to check this shit with them.

[04:02:25] Personally, I didn't don't care.

[04:02:27] Can't see anyone.

[04:02:28] They have a trophy walking around.

[04:02:29] He might be a co-tribe player.

[04:02:31] Oh, what the fuck?

[04:02:32] They a player or a coach?

[04:02:34] They might be a player.

[04:02:35] You wanna ask him?

[04:02:37] Yeah.

[04:02:38] Don't ask him.

[04:02:39] He's smiling too hard.

[04:02:40] He definitely ain't even been there.

[04:02:42] It probably isn't.

[04:02:43] What is it?

[04:02:44] is it the trophy for the college basketball?

[04:02:51] you pay, you pay well I think they won the trophy

[04:02:54] Chat, what did they win?

[04:03:00] he's just walking around with the trophy in his hand

[04:03:02] it's my day, it ain't real good

[04:03:09] he's very serious, man

[04:03:14] I said chat. What is that? You said a trophy looks like yeah, no shit dude. I saw that too

[04:03:20] I'm saying what do you think the trophy is for? What has someone in the Pennsylvania State won?

[04:03:27] recently

[04:03:29] No

[04:03:30] 30,000 people in here. No single one of you have any

[04:03:34] Compton assessment

[04:03:38] Well, I mean there's not yeah

[04:03:40] These guys are not these get nose fun. These guys are nerds. So they don't I mean, I'm a nerd too

[04:03:47] That's probably why we we we follow politics like it's this that's that's what we care about the most

[04:03:55] That's your gladiator sport. Yeah, that is my gladiator sport

[04:04:05] You you have an agenda

[04:04:07] That's what it is. That's what it is. Your agenda is...

[04:04:11] It's got to be...

[04:04:12] My job is to drive and to cry and to have fun with it.

[04:04:17] It makes me a question now. I guess I'm all in, fellas.

[04:04:21] Yeah, no, it's fine. I mean, I like it.

[04:04:23] But you're putting that agenda back on the menu every time.

[04:04:28] You're like...

[04:04:29] Politicians are harder than the NBA.

[04:04:33] That's not true.

[04:04:34] Shag is also the only the last remaining proportional big man like when Bayama when you look at his proportion like that doesn't make sense

[04:05:05] He should he should be like 400 pounds 500 pounds without all he is

[04:05:12] You know when I stop really watch it that's what when they started doing that flopping shit, that's when I really saw watch

[04:05:21] The king of the flop yeah, the foul the foul merchant

[04:05:25] Now he's going to touch him and he, oh, oh, oh, that's why his hairline is going.

[04:05:30] Oh my God.

[04:05:31] Come on, because he's lying, because he's lying here now.

[04:05:34] You're coming for his hairline.

[04:05:35] That's crazy.

[04:05:36] Because he was flopping too much and his hairline said, okay, we're going to flop

[04:05:39] right off of this guy.

[04:05:40] That's so funny.

[04:05:41] But if you think about it, on the Greatswood Bowl, Jordan, Cokie, Jack, they all started

[04:05:47] off with here.

[04:05:48] So what do you say to the argument that Jordan was playing as plumbers and like

[04:05:51] high school teachers whereas like LeBron is playing against unbelievable athletes

[04:05:56] like like the level of the game is elevated tremendously since the Jordan

[04:06:02] time

[04:06:05] I don't want Mr. Trout.

[04:06:09] There's a bronze player against college kids.

[04:06:14] Fresh out of college.

[04:06:16] And they're soft.

[04:06:18] Yeah, for sure. You see them?

[04:06:20] Yeah, they don't play hardball.

[04:06:23] That's crazy. Hardball is crazy work.

[04:06:27] They just saw it. They cried.

[04:06:32] I feel like if you put if you put a guy like Wemby in the NBA in

[04:06:39] Like the 80s and 90s people be like what the fuck am I even looking at?

[04:06:44] True

[04:06:47] I know but was but Karima do Karima do you bar as far as like the complete package as far as like being able to

[04:06:55] As far as the handles goes as far as being able to to take three-point shots

[04:07:00] I'd be lethal from every part of the court. I mean these guys are doing these guys doing like half-core shots nowadays. It's crazy

[04:07:18] That's what I mean though, that's like the game has elevated, you know, they're a danger from every part

[04:07:23] Everybody wanted to be Steph Curry.

[04:07:24] Everybody wanted to be able to be a

[04:07:26] We're talking about guys in the 90s who couldn't even drive to the left, you know what I mean?

[04:07:29] Like they had no left hand.

[04:07:31] They had no left hand, but they would have still busted their heads.

[04:07:35] And they would have been in the 50s.

[04:07:37] I'm instigating, by the way.

[04:07:39] I'm totally instigating.

[04:07:40] And I still got the head.

[04:07:42] They would have still busted for bombing them asses and that.

[04:07:45] Oh, bro, it's true.

[04:07:46] Them motherfuckers, them motherfuckers, they were from cars back in the day.

[04:07:49] These are like engine bearing.

[04:07:51] It's got some typical screams and nothing.

[04:07:53] It effed in its back. I don't know what happened.

[04:08:09] That was weird.

[04:08:11] It like dropped me from my...

[04:08:14] It dropped me out too Chad. I don't know what happened.

[04:08:17] You twitched side?

[04:08:18] Yeah, it kicked me off. It was a twitch side issue, I think.

[04:08:24] Twitch bricked for a second.

[04:08:30] What made you want to get into politics?

[04:08:33] I don't know. I mean, I'm always... I grew up in Turkey.

[04:08:38] So, I was always invested in politics in Turkey.

[04:08:42] And it translated to my investment here as well when I came out to America in 2009

[04:08:49] Yeah

[04:09:02] You guys don't really care about is that much I assume I know

[04:09:06] or you do see in America people people always do this thing where they get shy

[04:09:13] about their their their political opinions in general I'm not saying you

[04:09:16] are you seem to be very you seem to say things that are probably much much more

[04:09:25] controversial in Philadelphia like you know fuck the Eagles that type of

[04:09:30] I fucked the Jets, or not Jets, the Eagles.

[04:09:34] Yeah, you're a Broncos fan in Philadelphia, so you're already used to contentious conversations.

[04:09:45] But what I was going to say is, like, as far as, as far as politics goes, Americans are

[04:09:56] worried about talking about politics, usually.

[04:09:58] You don't talk about politics or religion at the table, in Turkey it's different.

[04:10:02] You start with politics, it's politics first.

[04:10:05] car accident

[04:10:35] You see the tow trucks out here every day?

[04:10:42] I don't care about it.

[04:10:45] It's your fault.

[04:10:46] It's your fault.

[04:10:47] No, it'd be the tow truck brother.

[04:10:48] Yeah, our tow truck people don't like what you tell them.

[04:10:50] Oh, to see what you did first?

[04:10:51] Yeah, to see what you did the ticket.

[04:10:53] That's why I stopped calling.

[04:10:55] No, I was not in the car.

[04:10:57] I don't want to get in the car.

[04:11:05] Is this where always sunny in Philadelphia was a film?

[04:11:34] No.

[04:11:36] No.

[04:11:38] It's a very different part of Philadelphia.

[04:11:41] I'm sure.

[04:11:43] Thanks for asking me that, chatter.

[04:11:47] Yeah.

[04:11:49] Oh, you were wondering as well.

[04:11:52] Okay.

[04:11:55] Thank you.

[04:11:57] You're welcome.

[04:11:59] You're so welcome.

[04:12:01] I

[04:12:05] Heard the food is bomb

[04:12:14] Do you mean spring spring roll

[04:12:21] They're waiting over here

[04:12:24] Well, what the hell is there like there's a whole fucking professional camera crew I assume

[04:12:31] Alright, let's pull this out, two bars is not bad.

[04:12:40] Yeah.

[04:12:41] It's not that one.

[04:12:46] I think she can probably get out this way.

[04:12:53] All right, getting chest cam for a sec chat. Sorry

[04:13:05] Getting chest cam to be assessed

[04:13:11] Hey, what's happening guys

[04:13:23] Chris Radd, yeah.

[04:13:24] Long each year, thank you for being here.

[04:13:25] Yeah, thank you for coming out to Philly.

[04:13:26] Thank you for the song.

[04:13:27] Yeah, me, guys, nice to meet you.

[04:13:29] Hi, this is Mark, nice to meet you.

[04:13:32] Thanks to me.

[04:13:32] Thanks so much.

[04:13:34] All right, I'm very excited.

[04:13:35] Very excited about Todd.

[04:13:37] Oh, thank you.

[04:13:38] Yeah, good person for all of us.

[04:13:39] Thank you.

[04:13:40] This is Chef right here.

[04:13:41] Chef Colonel, this is his operation right here.

[04:13:44] Hell yeah.

[04:13:45] This is the dope shop.

[04:13:45] What part of Philadelphia are we in for the viewers?

[04:13:48] Chris Radd.

[04:13:49] Yeah.

[04:13:50] We're in West Philly and is actually represented

[04:13:52] by Representative Rick Krojewski to his legislative district,

[04:13:56] but it is within a larger congressional district,

[04:14:00] Lewis congressional district in the nation,

[04:14:02] and it's the billion left side of Philly.

[04:14:04] Yeah, we were just talking about that.

[04:14:05] Obama and Joe Biden both won by 91%.

[04:14:08] Sounds great.

[04:14:09] Unbelievable.

[04:14:10] Yeah.

[04:14:10] There are more raccoons than Republicans in this district.

[04:14:14] All right, great.

[04:14:14] We're in safe territory.

[04:14:15] Very much, very much.

[04:14:17] I got a lot of hops.

[04:14:19] OK.

[04:14:19] But I feel like no dude, too.

[04:14:20] We have some similar ops, as a matter of fact,

[04:14:23] but I'm very excited to talk to you about,

[04:14:26] you know, whatever we're going to be doing today.

[04:14:27] What are we, so we're going to be in here,

[04:14:29] we're going to have some food here, right?

[04:14:30] Yeah, yeah.

[04:14:31] Okay, good.

[04:14:32] I wasn't wrong about that.

[04:14:33] Yeah, yeah, let's get you fed.

[04:14:34] We're going to get some food

[04:14:36] and then we're going to head over,

[04:14:36] we're going to walk around, right?

[04:14:38] And then we're going to be sitting somewhere else,

[04:14:40] we're going to do an interview, right?

[04:14:42] Yeah.

[04:14:42] Okay.

[04:14:43] Yeah, whatever you want.

[04:14:44] Yeah, we're flexible.

[04:14:45] I think we're going to do a job for

[04:14:46] with a really good interview right here.

[04:14:47] Uh-huh.

[04:14:48] Okay

[04:14:55] Okay

[04:15:18] Well, I was gonna say I can handheld over here if you guys want to face that way, but

[04:15:37] We all put it there in the corner and face it out

[04:15:41] Okay, but where do we eat like here?

[04:15:48] We'll log out too.

[04:15:53] All right, Chad, bear with us while we get set up.

[04:16:05] This is all happening on the fly as you know.

[04:16:10] We've got a lot of, we've got a lot of security.

[04:16:15] Normally I don't, I have a policy of memory.

[04:16:17] I don't know anything about security, but since the recent,

[04:16:24] the recent campaign from Fox News,

[04:16:27] putting me in the cross-airs for pretty much everything

[04:16:31] that's going on, including the one-off course,

[04:16:33] one-off center attempt, you know, they're getting

[04:16:36] some concerns.

[04:16:37] Sure.

[04:16:37] Well, it'll be, but it's fine.

[04:16:39] Okay, so we'll do build a lot of my room for the DSA law mics on and then we're also going to be

[04:17:09] All right, Shay, you're gonna go eat deaf for a second, okay?

[04:17:16] That's to not hurt people's ears.

[04:18:09] Dragon why why are we here and not somewhere else I mean the food changed my life but I

[04:18:17] was I mean I heard people talking about him like oh this hype or whatever I mean I've

[04:18:21] had this move one is great but I've never had this kind of fusion before I mean you

[04:18:26] know Chinese and soul food like I've never heard of that before so I gotta try it and

[04:18:30] it and it's a well you gotta try the salmon cheese steak rolls like I'm like where salmon

[04:18:37] cheese take rolls?

[04:18:39] Uh, yeah, I mean...

[04:18:40] It's hardly any seafood.

[04:18:41] Yeah.

[04:18:42] But we took that into account.

[04:18:43] Yeah, yeah, we took that into account.

[04:18:44] We were told, yeah.

[04:18:45] But, um, I do.

[04:18:47] And it changed my life.

[04:18:49] But the other thing is, um, this brother has done a lot of good work, um, working

[04:18:54] in, uh, criminal justice space, uh, restorative justice, and, you know, we need to also

[04:18:59] lift up, um, black businesses that are locally based at a community center.

[04:19:03] Because there's very there's not no businesses that are building community wealth

[04:19:07] We have too many businesses that are about praying on folks

[04:19:10] Exploiting labor and so forth and so any opportunity I came to lift up local businesses particularly black-owned businesses

[04:19:16] I do it so yeah, but I mean even if it weren't the food is this that banging so how long is this

[04:19:23] Business been in operation

[04:19:27] Two years yeah, but the whole concept of the pop-ups I've been going I've been going on for about 12

[04:19:32] Oh, wow

[04:19:35] City other cities and stuff like that

[04:19:43] Yeah

[04:19:46] So this was a former Chinese store so as you can see like most of this stuff just lay out was here

[04:19:52] We took the bulletproof glass now because you have a service and the hood is a bulletproof glass hurry up by

[04:19:58] They actually put counters in it and gave access to a bear from them.

[04:20:01] So these are things that when you do code to a regular Chinese store, you don't have those.

[04:20:06] And we're not saying that as a way of agents being discriminative, but being able to come

[04:20:12] to America, they couldn't get money, they couldn't get loans to open businesses in

[04:20:16] white neighborhoods.

[04:20:17] So they forced you into a black neighborhood.

[04:20:19] And honestly, outside of living in a Chinese store, you don't see Asians in the community

[04:20:24] unless they're inside of this and they usually live upstairs and they work there.

[04:20:28] So the concept of the black dragon is a lot of the second and third generation Chinese Americans

[04:20:32] they're here, they don't have to education, they got jobs in tech, some of them are doctors,

[04:20:37] lawyers, they're just in a whole other field so they're not taking the stores off.

[04:20:42] Just in the Philadelphia area it's about 600 Chinese stores.

[04:20:46] It's more Chinese stores in the world, in America than it is in the downtown world.

[04:20:51] So the whole concept of the Chinese store is the second, third generation they're

[04:20:55] not taking them off.

[04:20:56] So it gave us the opportunity to come in and serve culturally relevant food to the communities

[04:21:00] that we serve.

[04:21:01] So we're going to bring some food out, got some different dishes, some different twists

[04:21:06] and being fulfilling, we have a huge Islamic population.

[04:21:10] So a lot of people don't eat beef.

[04:21:13] So we came up some like years ago in the city of Philadelphia where people make cheese

[04:21:17] steaks with salmon.

[04:21:18] So we make salmon cheese steaks, we got collardine egg rolls, we got a dish called

[04:21:24] General Roscoe's chicken, like General Tau's chicken.

[04:21:27] So General Roscoe Robinson was the first Black Ford

[04:21:29] Star General of America.

[04:21:30] He's from St. Louis, so it's like a St. Louis

[04:21:32] barbecue sauce style, tossed in like the chicken like that.

[04:21:37] Mangolia beef, we had some of that.

[04:21:39] I was already hungry.

[04:21:40] Roscoe's made a million projects in 240 warlins.

[04:21:43] So we run these in the dead dish.

[04:21:45] So we do a lot of fusion and twist on words.

[04:21:48] Hell yeah.

[04:21:49] It's dope.

[04:21:50] Like I think, you know, it's on your head.

[04:21:51] I think my mouth water is like,

[04:21:53] That's why I wanted to do it here, right?

[04:21:55] It's a lot of history here.

[04:21:56] Okay, I might get started.

[04:21:58] Yeah, I might get started.

[04:21:59] Yeah, so I know your uncle.

[04:22:03] Oh, really?

[04:22:04] I just saw him in DC.

[04:22:07] So you went on to Young Turns?

[04:22:09] Many years ago, when I was a political blogger,

[04:22:12] he would have me on the show a few times.

[04:22:14] Gosh, that was, I don't know, 15.

[04:22:17] Yeah, I'm gonna change your name.

[04:22:18] Let me put this down here real quick, sir.

[04:22:21] Ah, such an Orozco's chicken.

[04:22:24] And this is my plain and sweet and sour chicken.

[04:22:26] It's a sweet potato chicken.

[04:22:28] So you take a sweet potato, yam, juice, and air.

[04:22:31] We can still have it.

[04:22:33] This is, I feel like we're gonna have to

[04:22:35] fall asleep out of there.

[04:22:37] No, you don't get thitis.

[04:22:38] Yeah, that's thitis, yeah, yeah.

[04:22:40] Sweet potato donut.

[04:22:41] Oh, dude, oh.

[04:22:42] Oh my God.

[04:22:44] I got you.

[04:22:46] Thank you.

[04:22:47] I wanted it to be meaningful. I didn't want to take any spot, and this says a lot of, yeah, I mean, I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for black entrepreneurship.

[04:22:58] So I want to lift up all the folks who do the work, you know?

[04:23:03] I did something with with shorycott the other day in San Francisco and we made

[04:23:15] the mistake of going to a Palestinian I say mistake because I was uncontrollably

[04:23:22] just like staring at the food like pounding it right I'm gonna I'm gonna

[04:23:26] try to hold myself accountable this time and I'm gonna be a little bit more

[04:23:30] normal okay that's yeah so those are only the salmon cheese things these are

[04:23:37] these yeah now I just want to be transparent the reason I'm motivated

[04:23:53] about this opportunity is because my cred with my sons is next level that's

[04:23:59] That's what Rashida said, too.

[04:24:01] No, I'm just saying, I don't know how long it will last,

[04:24:05] but now my sons might actually vote for me.

[04:24:07] I mean, they're like, dad, it's son, Piker.

[04:24:11] They're like, hey, you actually returned my phone call.

[04:24:14] So if that's the only reason, I thank you.

[04:24:17] Well, I'm very excited about this.

[04:24:18] Thank you.

[04:24:19] Thank you for having us here today.

[04:24:21] Yeah.

[04:24:22] All right, when do we dig in?

[04:24:22] Yeah, you can dig in and right over to the backdrop.

[04:24:25] Yeah, I was going to ask about that.

[04:24:26] Yeah, tell me about that.

[04:24:28] So this was from a black panther, Riley in Oakland in the 70s,

[04:24:33] and power to black people and then black power.

[04:24:38] Power to the people, then black power to black people,

[04:24:41] then the yellow power to yellow people.

[04:24:43] So it showed a time when Asians, Americans, and black Americans

[04:24:47] had solidarity in this country.

[04:24:49] So when we do expand out of doing other black dragons,

[04:24:53] I have several images throughout history of blacks

[04:24:56] and Asians having solidarity with each other.

[04:24:58] So that's gonna be,

[04:24:59] it's always gonna be a mural like that

[04:25:01] in the next Black Dragon,

[04:25:02] in the next Black Dragon,

[04:25:03] we'll be in a former Chinese store as well, too.

[04:25:05] Yeah, yeah.

[04:25:06] And one of the things I love about it is,

[04:25:08] is I'm always talking about collective liberation, right?

[04:25:11] So, you know, I can't be free until you're free.

[04:25:14] And so how we connect

[04:25:15] and kind of the through line of my campaign is,

[04:25:18] you know, our fates are intertwined.

[04:25:21] So we gotta, you know,

[04:25:22] lift up all of our stores

[04:25:23] and see what we have in common.

[04:25:24] So, and I think, you know, some local important context on that, right, especially, you know,

[04:25:29] there was a recent fight here to push back against that arena in China.

[04:25:33] Yeah, so that was a good show.

[04:25:35] And so Chris and I were both opposed to it, and there was a narrative out there that,

[04:25:40] you know, black people wanted this arena, that they wanted us to have a new basketball

[04:25:44] arena.

[04:25:45] And we felt that it was important to show that the black community has a history of

[04:25:49] solidarity with the Asian community and that we're actually going to come together

[04:25:52] in solidarity to push back against this thing.

[04:25:55] And so I think Black Dragon, the worker on the arena,

[04:25:59] all this multiculturalism that you're seeing in the city

[04:26:01] is a really powerful moment of saying,

[04:26:04] we're not going to have the same division that happened

[04:26:07] when Asians were blacked out of businesses

[04:26:09] and ended up in black communities.

[04:26:11] And when we were redlined in those things,

[04:26:13] we were actually going to come together

[04:26:14] and do something beautiful and eat some great food.

[04:26:17] And we got to beat the billionaire class, too,

[04:26:19] while we were there.

[04:26:20] So why did you guys oppose the building of the arena if you don't want me asking?

[04:26:24] No, of course because it was displacing a historic community talking about 20,000 people and it would

[04:26:29] China town is so much more than Asian Americans in that space it attracts people from all over the world

[04:26:36] Like so as a tourist spot, but also has deep historic roots and why should we displace?

[04:26:42] These communities for the benefit of three billionaires who want to make more money yeah through gentrification and things that did not actually

[04:26:49] And they get tax subsidies as well as it's like usually created with tax dollars

[04:26:54] Only for 40 games this season

[04:26:56] Right, we're going to be 40 games. So it would be guesstolate half the time. Yeah, you have to have a

[04:27:02] Nice plan. They didn't have a plan for the arts. No reinvestment into the community

[04:27:07] Not it just was literally put stadium here and they weren't even actually in communication with

[04:27:14] Okay, all right, so

[04:27:16] Let's dig in. Let's dig in. I've been I'm waiting. Okay, so peace by peace. Let's go. This is it

[04:27:23] the cheese

[04:27:34] Oh, oh my god, I told you I told you

[04:27:40] They're gonna have this please

[04:27:46] just like taking the forks and go through and just take care of it.

[04:27:51] Yeah, thank you.

[04:27:53] All right, so this is a cheesesteak egg roll.

[04:27:58] Yes, cheesesteak egg rolls.

[04:28:00] It's delicious. Oh my god.

[04:28:08] Stand in the city of Philadelphia, what makes sense to put in the egg roll?

[04:28:11] Cheesesteak stuff.

[04:28:12] And this is hot sauce ketchup.

[04:28:16] yeah oh my god right this is amazing oh man

[04:28:27] okay pork

[04:28:30] you know March you want to try some

[04:28:34] huh uh-huh

[04:28:35] So I've been in maybe over three dozen candidate forums since this election cycle began in

[04:28:50] the summer.

[04:28:52] So oftentimes when I'm finished with the candidate forum or a community event in West

[04:28:57] because I live in Northwest Philly, Uptown.

[04:29:01] They, I try to come here, but if you close,

[04:29:04] if you gotta close before the thing,

[04:29:06] I'm like, oh, I want to go to Black Dragon.

[04:29:07] So it's like kind of one of the ways I celebrate

[04:29:11] when I have a good moment or a good event,

[04:29:14] come here and then I go home.

[04:29:16] So this is what they do.

[04:29:17] And we've known each other for a while.

[04:29:18] Yeah, we go back.

[04:29:19] Through my community organizing.

[04:29:20] So as a chef, I do a lot of my work

[04:29:22] as a political organizer.

[04:29:24] And I do a lot of my work as well.

[04:29:25] So he feeds a lot of the movement people and stakeholders in, you know, in the grass roots,

[04:29:37] criminal legal reform, all of that.

[04:29:40] And that's one of the things I've been working on, along with Representative Kuduski as well,

[04:29:46] in the state legislature.

[04:29:47] So I'm currently in the state legislature, been there 10 years.

[04:29:51] actually my bill to repeal the debt coming just passed out of judiciary

[04:29:55] committee like Monday so this is is is a special good is a good cause for

[04:30:01] celebration yeah absolutely okay so what's this one now that's the Magnolia

[04:30:07] project beef is like a lemon pepper state pepper station chat doesn't get to

[04:30:13] see that the Magnolia projects were cash money records was found.

[04:30:18] Oh,

[04:30:20] I had this one before.

[04:30:22] But super take a chicken.

[04:30:25] You have this one. It's like sweet and sour chicken, but we

[04:30:27] take sweet potato. So the concept of sweet and sour chicken is

[04:30:30] like pineapple juice ketchup and vinegar. But we take we take a

[04:30:36] juice, yam pineapple juice and we make our sauce out of it

[04:30:40] that way.

[04:30:41] And this is the vegetable domain. Yes. Is there a twist to this or just regular?

[04:30:47] So what we do is we try to put a lot of vegetables that like zucchini, squash,

[04:30:51] different vegetables in it that would come from the regular vegetable domain.

[04:30:56] We get it from the regular chain store.

[04:30:57] And we got to feed the vegetarians beans.

[04:31:02] So we have to get some of this.

[04:31:04] I told you.

[04:31:11] Oh my God.

[04:31:12] I thought that was good, they stopped talking.

[04:31:15] Yeah, I know.

[04:31:17] It's just mouth.

[04:31:18] It's just mouth.

[04:31:20] It's just mouth.

[04:31:22] Food is love.

[04:31:25] That's true.

[04:31:27] Right?

[04:31:28] And this food is amazing.

[04:31:30] Oh my God.

[04:31:33] And Chef Curry, he has multiple restaurants, so you gotta also just think, he came here and personally made this history all the time.

[04:31:40] He's also got a pizza spot of an orphility.

[04:31:43] Oh, cool. Cool.

[04:31:45] Wait, so is that also a fusion or is it just regular pizza?

[04:31:48] That's a regular pizza shop. So it's a pizza shop that I co-founded years ago.

[04:31:51] So a lot of the work I do around food is around mass incarceration.

[04:31:56] So I started this dinner series about 10 years ago called EMI Dinner Series.

[04:32:02] It's called En Mass Incarceration Dinner Series.

[04:32:05] Stakeholders are a community.

[04:32:08] We've had dinners with the district attorney, judges, perpetrators of crime,

[04:32:11] victims of crime, and we had dinner to talk about ways of reducing the prison

[04:32:15] population.

[04:32:16] So I have, due to those, I'm actually don't want to next year from Lawrenceville.

[04:32:21] It's a board member's school, I do one for them every year.

[04:32:23] But they bring like their social science students over.

[04:32:28] Their civil justice students over and they pretty much had a dinner.

[04:32:31] And they meet with someone that was been formerly incarcerated.

[04:32:34] But we're having dinner and they're telling them about their life, their trajectory.

[04:32:39] And usually some of my friends that have been formerly incarcerated there,

[04:32:42] where they're not a prophet, they're doing things in the city.

[04:32:45] Have them sit in front of them and talk to them about their life, their experiences.

[04:32:48] So like a kid coming from Marnsville.

[04:32:52] when they may make it into the center or governor's office.

[04:32:56] So he has this experience of talking to someone

[04:32:58] that was formerly incarcerated,

[04:33:00] seeing that everyone is the same.

[04:33:03] There's people that politicians are rarely ever hearing from.

[04:33:07] It is people who are formerly incarcerated or just, you know,

[04:33:12] have that experience.

[04:33:13] Oh, my God, I'm sorry.

[04:33:16] No, hey, look, that's why we got a commune

[04:33:20] in Feast.

[04:33:24] I was just reading Sour?

[04:33:25] Yeah, yeah, Sweet Potato.

[04:33:26] Sweet Potato, mm-hmm.

[04:33:29] And then this is the...

[04:33:30] General Roscoe.

[04:33:32] Oh, God.

[04:33:33] He was the first Black four-star general in America.

[04:33:36] And we're recently with all this news with Trump.

[04:33:38] It just means it hurts my heart that,

[04:33:41] like, you know, the fact that we have, like,

[04:33:42] we're actually losing Black generals

[04:33:43] and people in the military.

[04:33:45] Yeah.

[04:33:46] And General Roscoe,

[04:33:47] I'm supposed to be the first Black Forest Sergeant.

[04:33:50] Oh my God.

[04:33:52] Oh God.

[04:33:52] I think my favorite is General Osco, yeah.

[04:33:56] That's my favorite.

[04:33:57] That's one of my favorites.

[04:34:03] Oh my God.

[04:34:06] This is ridiculous, man.

[04:34:07] I know.

[04:34:08] I forget that I'm on camera.

[04:34:12] I can't wait to see.

[04:34:13] This was not pretty important.

[04:34:15] Yeah.

[04:34:16] So some of these coming on Saturday you bring her here to yeah, oh hell yeah, yeah, I love summer. Yeah, so we overlapped

[04:34:25] How many years did we overlap

[04:34:34] No, no, it's for them for yeah, we got a commissar to run for a Senate. Yo, listen take out that ogre

[04:34:43] He's called the f-word here.

[04:34:48] The f-word?

[04:34:49] Yeah, he's the real f-word.

[04:34:50] Okay, what does that mean?

[04:34:53] So what I'll do is, candidate forms, and I'll ask the moderator,

[04:34:56] says, I'm not allowed to use the f-word in this form,

[04:34:59] and they think I'm going to say, you know, I say,

[04:35:01] Fetterman.

[04:35:02] Okay.

[04:35:03] He's the real f-word.

[04:35:05] And the thing is, like, on the K-Bain Trail,

[04:35:08] I'll meet, like, young people who don't know me,

[04:35:11] don't know me, which is the majority of folks, right? And they're like, well, you know, you

[04:35:15] run it for Congress. Okay. How do I know you're not going to be the next FEDERMAN? I get

[04:35:19] that all the time. All the time.

[04:35:21] Everyone, he has, he has created, I mean, he wasn't the only one who got, who had a,

[04:35:26] who had a stroke. I feel like he gave everyone else a stroke with his, with his twists

[04:35:30] and turns.

[04:35:31] Everyone is so worried.

[04:35:34] No, that's a once in a lifetime situation, I think.

[04:35:41] what's that the when you when you are victim of the shrug and you

[04:35:45] genuinely become like republican i mean he was he's he's anti he's anti immigration his wife

[04:35:52] at the time it was an undocumented migrant in the united states of america it's just like so

[04:35:58] ridiculous that's the craziest thing i've ever done i think about that that's crazy

[04:36:02] yeah and she's a great she's great like everyone everyone loves her yeah everyone loves her

[04:36:09] I was never really a fan.

[04:36:11] But, of the wife?

[04:36:13] No, no, no, no.

[04:36:15] No, no, no.

[04:36:17] Yeah, I mean, I bet her she seems nice.

[04:36:19] But, you know, when he was Lieutenant Governor,

[04:36:22] it's a low bar for a lot of people, though.

[04:36:25] You know, like, oh, okay, he's for marriage equality.

[04:36:27] He's for weed.

[04:36:29] He's for criminal legal reform.

[04:36:31] But if you're from Philly, that's not impressive.

[04:36:33] That's the norm, you know, like that.

[04:36:35] If you don't get a gold star for that,

[04:36:37] I tell women, oh, I'm pro-choice.

[04:36:39] You want a cookie?

[04:36:40] Of course you're supposed to be pro-choice.

[04:36:43] So that was his thing.

[04:36:46] But he was quiet on fracking.

[04:36:48] Once he wanted to have bigger aspirations, all the things

[04:36:51] that people were hyped about, he started being quiet on.

[04:36:57] So this actually kind of ties back to your current race

[04:36:59] right now.

[04:37:02] This is the bluest district in America, or one

[04:37:04] of the bluest districts in America.

[04:37:07] and uh... well there's two questions that i have for you one is uh... about

[04:37:11] something i was just seeing on cnn right for a guy here harry andton

[04:37:15] uh... doing the classic like black people are leaving the democratic party

[04:37:19] uh... alarm bells that they bring all the time

[04:37:21] it is the common harris as well if you remember where they really do

[04:37:25] and even brock obama came out of the local i guess if you don't want to

[04:37:27] vote for commonly might be black men you might be misogynistic is

[04:37:30] ridiculous yes the hyper focus is ridiculous because

[04:37:35] the marginal swings are are almost utterly irrelevant especially when you

[04:37:39] look at like major swaths of

[04:37:42] the white male population that's overwhelmingly voting for republicans

[04:37:45] over and over again and it's never

[04:37:47] that's never that's taken for granted that's never like seen as a

[04:37:50] as uh... uh... as as significant right

[04:37:54] so there's a lot of uh... scapegoating of black people

[04:37:57] but do you feel like there's actually any changes and if there are

[04:38:01] where do you think that's coming from

[04:38:03] well i mean

[04:38:04] but there are a lot of disillusioned with the democratic party at this point

[04:38:07] because they just

[04:38:08] haven't like democrats have taken their vote for granted

[04:38:11] well yeah

[04:38:12] we also show up

[04:38:13] i mean i said

[04:38:16] you can't be a democratic candidate for president or for most statewide office

[04:38:21] and win without black people

[04:38:23] you know there's a rule of thumb in this state

[04:38:26] that you need uh... at least eleven percent

[04:38:28] uh... of the total

[04:38:30] voting population in pennsylvania for democrats with

[04:38:34] now eleven percent has to come from philly because we're the largest

[04:38:37] in city

[04:38:38] by a long shot

[04:38:40] and this is a black city

[04:38:43] if black folk don't show up

[04:38:45] we all lose

[04:38:47] but when we do show up

[04:38:49] we're not the first at the trough we don't get the things where our visor

[04:38:52] vote is taken for granted particularly black women

[04:38:54] because black women are the last true

[04:38:57] loyal bastion of the of the democratic base and but black men are not too far

[04:39:02] below that so

[04:39:03] Were there younger men of all ethnicities who were turned off or who felt disconnected?

[04:39:10] Yeah, but that's not based on blackness, that's based on exclusion and erasure across the board.

[04:39:17] You would see it among white, Latino, black, Asian-American, you saw that. But here's the thing,

[04:39:24] they invested, they reached them where they were. And you know, I'm going to be slam for

[04:39:30] or even talking to you, how dare I be on your show?

[04:39:33] How dare I engage you?

[04:39:35] But there's a double standard,

[04:39:36] because as a black progressive, I can't do this.

[04:39:39] I'm, you know, I'm, you know, part of the problem or something.

[04:39:43] But Pete Buttigieg, he goes on Fox News.

[04:39:45] Nobody says anything.

[04:39:47] Fox News is an inherently racist media outlet.

[04:39:49] 100%.

[04:39:50] Right?

[04:39:51] But no one,

[04:39:52] and no one-

[04:39:53] Half of the politicians that were like,

[04:39:54] oh, I would never go on Hasan Piker stream,

[04:39:56] were like, you go, you went on Bill Maher last week.

[04:39:59] Yeah, how do you justify that?

[04:40:01] Right.

[04:40:02] That's insane to me.

[04:40:03] Right.

[04:40:04] And so that double standard is real.

[04:40:06] And this is something that I love about Congresswoman Summer Lee.

[04:40:11] One of the many things.

[04:40:12] It's like, people need to understand that many of us

[04:40:15] who identify as progressive, we are progressive

[04:40:18] because we are black.

[04:40:21] And understanding that just inhabiting black bodies

[04:40:25] is a political act.

[04:40:26] and how it connects to however you choose to define progressivism that

[04:40:30] we can be truly free

[04:40:33] and have meaningful

[04:40:35] opportunities if we do not confront these structures

[04:40:38] that are inherently racist right and so

[04:40:41] that's why i'm a progressive that's why i'm a democratic socialist yeah like

[04:40:44] it's rooted in my blackness that you cannot talk about any of this

[04:40:48] without talking about race

[04:40:49] there's also the revolutionary history as well in general like a lot of black

[04:40:53] organizing

[04:40:54] uh... especially in the in the sixties and seventies and onward

[04:40:58] uh... before you know the fb i uh... got its hands on everything

[04:41:02] uh... was was rooted around

[04:41:04] principles that i think now a lot of americans would consider very radical

[04:41:08] what's like that their party was organized around the boundaries of

[04:41:12] somebody to say malice thought

[04:41:16] do you do you feel like there

[04:41:17] could be an opportunity for resurgence

[04:41:19] within democratic socialism

[04:41:21] for black voters at least in this district that you're a part of

[04:41:25] well absolutely i mean the disguise the limit

[04:41:28] the labels are maybe what's disconnected right because if you don't know anything

[04:41:32] about socialism or democratic socialism or

[04:41:35] the word has been

[04:41:37] building up more oligarchy you know or

[04:41:39] fascism

[04:41:41] maybe you don't understand those definitions but they understand

[04:41:44] fuckery

[04:41:46] right everyone understands that

[04:41:47] whether it's queer phobia or issues around immigration or whatever like

[04:41:51] Yeah, I get that viscerally. I understand that regardless of the labels you use and so we also have to understand that the things that

[04:41:59] most Americans want

[04:42:02] Are socialists in nature or they want to retain whether social security or Medicare or Medicaid or public education or any of these things

[04:42:10] Those in a free market system in a capitalistic society shouldn't exist. They existed because we made that happen

[04:42:18] You need to make sure that it is

[04:42:20] uh...

[04:42:21] better funded and broader so it includes everyone

[04:42:24] but yet we absolutely have that ability because we've done it

[04:42:29] is a never ending struggle we do take a lot of the stuff for granted i mean one

[04:42:32] of the simplest versions of this obvious is like the fire department for

[04:42:35] example initially

[04:42:36] uh... it was a for-profit private enterprise

[04:42:39] and obviously that created a lot of issues

[04:42:43] and then

[04:42:43] we decided

[04:42:44] that it shouldn't be privatized anymore should be a public service

[04:42:48] and yet um...

[04:42:50] maybe not the fire department with plenty of the other social safety nets of

[04:42:53] people have fought

[04:42:54] long and hard for

[04:42:55] are now uh... being taken away from americans and i feel like it creates an

[04:42:59] environment of anger and resentment

[04:43:01] and i think the republicans actually are very good at taking that anger and

[04:43:05] resentment and redirecting it to a right vulnerable populations redirecting it

[04:43:09] back to

[04:43:10] to black people brown people women in general queer people

[04:43:14] undocumented migrants here people that have uh... a lot more to lose

[04:43:17] and people that actually have the same exact class interest as the average white person.

[04:43:22] Yeah, that's so true. And one of the things that I really worry about sometimes is when

[04:43:30] in Pennsylvania, they'll say, oh, in between Philly and Pittsburgh is Kentucky, they'll

[04:43:34] call it pencil-tucky as a slight to people. I might have said that.

[04:43:40] All right. So look, that's cool because I'm seven generations Kentucky.

[04:43:45] But I also do think that we can win in Kentucky.

[04:43:47] Yes, but here's the thing, we shouldn't have rural communities be the butt of jokes, right?

[04:43:52] Because, like, my grandparents were civil rights activists in rural Jim Crow, Kentucky.

[04:43:59] Like they were doing the work against the Democratic Party, because then no self-respecting

[04:44:05] black person would ever be a Democrat in the 1920s.

[04:44:10] That's like being a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders.

[04:44:13] That didn't make any sense, right?

[04:44:15] They were proud Republicans, but they did amazing work in rural communities and our

[04:44:24] rural siblings, we have a lot in common.

[04:44:27] And so if we want them to respect the issues and priorities of urban communities, we've

[04:44:32] got to show that same respect.

[04:44:33] So I don't want to bash that in this also remember, the majority of black people in

[04:44:38] the south, right?

[04:44:40] And the majority of black folk in the north come from the south.

[04:44:44] So our roots are strong and look, like we're eating the food, but this is the brilliance

[04:44:49] of the culinary brilliance of enslaved people who now, all these things are like next level

[04:44:57] hot couture, you know, you know, high culinary stuff, but it was made by folks who were

[04:45:04] not even, they didn't even own their own humanity legally.

[04:45:08] So we got to connect the dots and find ways to engage folks where the billionaire

[04:45:13] class seeks to divide us. They're always doing it, and they're not going to do it, but

[04:45:18] for so long when we organize.

[04:45:21] Yeah. And I do think that there is a tremendous opportunity to do that right now, especially

[04:45:26] in this day and age, where I'm seeing a lot more frustration from regular lifelong Democrats

[04:45:34] who never would have considered the likes of Bernie Sanders, who voted against Bernie

[04:45:37] Sanders, come out and openly say, maybe Bernie was right, and it was a mistake to

[04:45:41] vote for Hillary Clinton. We're seeing different versions of that all around the country with

[04:45:46] these insurgency campaigns, these disruptive campaigns that are a lot more responsive to

[04:45:52] the needs of the voters. And I think the response that corporate media is delivering

[04:46:01] is because they're worried about losing their grip on power. They can no longer gatekeep

[04:46:07] who gets to talk and for how long they talk.

[04:46:09] Is that why they're afraid of you?

[04:46:11] I think that's part of it.

[04:46:12] I mean, look, so you wrote articles,

[04:46:16] you had a blog in the 2000s.

[04:46:20] It was called Afro Netizen.

[04:46:21] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[04:46:22] And if you don't mind, I would love to ask you

[04:46:24] a little bit about that.

[04:46:25] Like, what was the overall goal with this blog?

[04:46:29] Well, 1995, I was 25 years old.

[04:46:32] It was the year of the internet, right?

[04:46:33] And people were talking about it.

[04:46:37] There started to become platforms towards the end of the 90s and then there was something

[04:46:42] called New Media, which is the predecessor of social media, and they talk about the

[04:46:46] blogosphere.

[04:46:47] And there was a lot of folks who were saying, oh, this is the great equalizer.

[04:46:51] Everyone has access to the internet.

[04:46:52] It's free.

[04:46:53] You can do whatever you want.

[04:46:54] But they didn't look at the power structures.

[04:46:56] They didn't look at structural inequality to show how sites of privilege just recreated

[04:47:01] themselves in a new sphere.

[04:47:02] So I said, well, you know, we were called netizens, citizens of the net.

[04:47:07] And like, oh, this is this egalitarian thing.

[04:47:09] And I'm like, no, it's not.

[04:47:11] Because all the most important voices that were being lifted up by corporate media were

[04:47:16] the same most privileged people.

[04:47:18] And it didn't represent the diversity of our nation.

[04:47:21] And so I created Afro-netizens.

[04:47:23] And I say, yeah, there's black people on the internet, too.

[04:47:25] And we have ideas and opinions.

[04:47:27] So I talked about politics and culture in society.

[04:47:30] And then I saw that the Democratic Party was going to, it was in the New York Times, they

[04:47:36] were going to allow some top bloggers, all of whom were white guys who went to fancy

[04:47:43] schools, and go with the press corps to the 2004 Democratic National Convention.

[04:47:50] And I knew someone who worked in the DNC, and I saw the article and I called him

[04:47:54] and said, hey man, you need to make sure you get some black and brown folk in there.

[04:47:59] Because if you have an all-white crew, like that's, you know, and he's like, well, why

[04:48:04] don't you do it?

[04:48:05] Oh, boy, I'm not on that level.

[04:48:08] And I convinced myself to do it, I maxed out my credit card and did the thing, and I interviewed

[04:48:15] folks.

[04:48:16] I interviewed, gosh, I interviewed Obama after his big speech that put him on the

[04:48:20] map.

[04:48:21] I went to the RNC, the Republican Convention.

[04:48:24] That was nuts.

[04:48:25] And then after that, I kind of got on the speaking circuit talking about new media and representation and

[04:48:31] Yeah, so I just did my thing. There was no business model back then to sustain it, but I was really proud of

[04:48:38] Expanding the opportunity and range of voices and that was important to me because

[04:48:43] My great-great grandfather found it but the Baltimore Afro-American newspaper in the 1890s

[04:48:49] Which was a national publication people all over the country read this paper

[04:48:54] And it was so powerful that black folk had to hide the paper when they went south because if white people saw them

[04:49:00] Reading a black paper they could be lynched and that paper still exists five generations later

[04:49:06] And so there's a connection and this is one of the reasons I wanted to meet you. This is a form of media

[04:49:12] It says independent media. You are not controlled by the corporate overlords. Am I right?

[04:49:17] Yeah, right and you get in trouble for talking about the Epstein class and the billionaire class, right?

[04:49:22] Your reach is bigger than most local news stations, bigger than probably most national, in fact, right?

[04:49:29] That's the starting account of power that we need to move towards reclaiming a democracy that has always been fairly fragile,

[04:49:37] because we're really under authoritarianism right now, cloaked in democracy.

[04:49:42] And so what that means is we need to have a broader array of viewpoints and platforms to push against the tech bros

[04:49:51] We were trying to control everything.

[04:49:53] So this is actually an act of defiance that also expands the conversation about a range

[04:49:58] of issues that are not going to be talked about in corporate media now, giving examples.

[04:50:02] So they were trying to clown you yesterday.

[04:50:05] We have our biggest candidate form of the year.

[04:50:08] They brought it up after the debate.

[04:50:13] So I get surrounded by all these white journalists.

[04:50:17] Notice they say white journalists.

[04:50:18] And they all said, we understand that you're going to be with a son piker and he's very

[04:50:22] controversial and so forth and you know, how do you describe it?

[04:50:25] And I said, wait, time out.

[04:50:26] And I said the thing about Pete Buttigieg on Fox News.

[04:50:29] And I said, I was just on NBC.

[04:50:33] You used to be owned by General Electric, which was one of the largest defense contractors

[04:50:37] in the world.

[04:50:38] Should I not come back on your show?

[04:50:39] They didn't have anything to say.

[04:50:41] Well, there's also the optics of civility that I think a lot of mainstream outlets

[04:50:47] utilized where like I am vulgar, I'm a vulgar person, I'm a passionate person about the issues

[04:50:52] that I speak on.

[04:50:54] The reason why they don't like what I do is because of what I say is because of the issues

[04:50:59] that I advance, the issues that I advocate for, but the angle of attack is always on

[04:51:04] the vulgarity front.

[04:51:05] Right.

[04:51:06] Like, oh, you don't speak in the same way and in the same tone that mainstream

[04:51:09] outlets do, but we now live in a post-Trump universe where I think it's like we should

[04:51:16] be speaking in the same exact way that regular folks speak. I see no reason to try to censor

[04:51:22] myself or talk it a different way. And I also don't even think that they would care about

[04:51:28] my style if I was saying the right things. If I was like I'm pro-Israel unconditionally,

[04:51:36] I think corporations aren't the villain, Trump is. If I were to say stuff like that,

[04:51:41] then they wouldn't care. Then I would be the Joe Rogan of the left that they were

[04:51:43] supposedly looking for. So I actually get the same thing because sometimes I use

[04:51:49] colorful language and I understand that so I'm Gen X but the next generation they

[04:51:57] tend to be like slow up on the profanity but I make this point and I you know I

[04:52:01] think there's a difference profanity and vulgarity and so sometimes I use

[04:52:05] profane language because I'm passionate and so I'm not going to use

[04:52:09] use milk toast language when I'm feeling passionate. If I'm talking about justice, if I'm talking

[04:52:14] about systems of oppression, I'm not going to be polite. Like that defies the spirit of

[04:52:20] it. But here's the thing, should we be more concerned about dirty words than dirty policies,

[04:52:27] than profane policies that are deeply inhumane? If we're talking about putting children

[04:52:34] in cages for the rest of their life without the chance of parole, we've done that

[04:52:38] in Pennsylvania. In 2015 they ruled that it was unconstitutional to put children in cages

[04:52:43] for the rest of their lives with no chance of parole. That's profane. That's profane

[04:52:50] act that actually dehumanizes and throws away and they're largely poor black boys. Now they're

[04:52:58] finally coming home. And so if we're going to talk about words, we talk about deeds.

[04:53:04] So, you know, I'm all for it.

[04:53:06] Yeah, it's not an accident that I think

[04:53:08] the overwhelming majority of people that are like,

[04:53:10] oh, I won't go on a song show,

[04:53:12] or oh, you're dangerous radical,

[04:53:15] have no problem hanging out with Benjamin

[04:53:17] and yeah, taking photos with him,

[04:53:19] have no problem defending what I would consider

[04:53:22] to be the worst possible thing you could ever defend,

[04:53:25] a genocide of mayoral killers.

[04:53:27] But you can't say genocide, how dare you?

[04:53:30] Yeah, exactly, that's the real issue here,

[04:53:33] But I think many Americans are on our side, and I know that for a fact, especially on

[04:53:39] this issue, right?

[04:53:41] And I think that's another reason why there's a lot of fear and a lot of controversy surrounding

[04:53:45] this stuff.

[04:53:46] But the reality of the matter is, people are a lot more intelligent than what the

[04:53:50] elites give them credit for.

[04:53:52] What the elites think of them is that they're stupid and easy to manipulate and malleable.

[04:53:58] Because even in these last couple of months, this fake controversy's manufactured outrage

[04:54:04] has not actually succeeded in any way, shape, or form.

[04:54:09] And as a matter of fact, a lot more people have reached out to try to get on the stream.

[04:54:15] Now, of course, I don't do that with everybody.

[04:54:17] I only do that for people that I think are good.

[04:54:19] So if you don't mind me asking, I got a text from somebody.

[04:54:24] And it was, uh, sent me a link and it was you and someone else watching a speech I gave

[04:54:29] in West Philly.

[04:54:30] Uh-huh.

[04:54:31] I think it was the one where you said, fuck A-Pack.

[04:54:33] Is that the one?

[04:54:34] No.

[04:54:35] Well, it was another one where I was talking about you can't kill the demon unless you

[04:54:39] name it.

[04:54:40] Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[04:54:41] And you were, so I was watching you, thank you.

[04:54:44] So you were, I was watching you, watching me.

[04:54:48] It was very meta.

[04:54:49] Uh-huh.

[04:54:50] And there was a woman there.

[04:54:51] That's just what it is now.

[04:54:52] Yeah, you know, but I thought it was fascinating.

[04:54:53] like oh what's going on here because I'm not on Twitch I don't you know that's not

[04:54:58] my universe and so I'm being brought into kind of a new space with a generation

[04:55:04] that is very engaged and one of the first questions I get when I meet young

[04:55:08] people is where are you on Palestine right because they don't know me like

[04:55:12] because it's a litmus test if I bullshit them on that why would they

[04:55:16] believe me on Medicare for all right or a living wage for all or all those

[04:55:20] other things so.

[04:55:21] How nice of Coach said it best when he said, you know,

[04:55:24] how can you expect a party that won't stop a genocide

[04:55:26] to actually fight for democracy?

[04:55:28] And it's right.

[04:55:29] And I think that's a pretty sound assessment to make.

[04:55:32] Yeah, I agree 100%.

[04:55:33] Um, I'd say I need that battery back.

[04:55:36] Oh, which one?

[04:55:38] Perfect system, perfect system.

[04:55:39] Are you all cool?

[04:55:40] So we gotta go to the next one.

[04:55:42] We can continue this in the vehicle

[04:55:43] to the next location.

[04:55:44] Okay.

[04:55:45] All right.

[04:55:46] Is that cool?

[04:55:47] How are we gonna fit?

[04:55:48] So we're gonna be able to.

[04:55:49] And this, I don't know,

[04:55:49] we got a driver you can stand in the front seat and then you're also in the

[04:55:53] okay wait we got to have a donor first yeah we got hold on oh it's full this

[04:56:05] one yeah we got to get the move anyway we gotta get us down all right hold on

[04:56:11] I'm gonna get a donor first I gotta try this these are all the same yeah yeah I

[04:56:19] I think y'all need to jump in.

[04:56:21] Oh, oh my fucking god.

[04:56:24] Okay, bro.

[04:56:25] That's why we have profanity.

[04:56:27] Oh, right?

[04:56:29] That's why you, oh my god.

[04:56:34] Oh.

[04:56:38] Is it that good?

[04:56:38] I feel like I need one of those.

[04:56:39] Yo, yo.

[04:56:40] What's going on?

[04:56:41] You gotta get it straight.

[04:56:43] Rick, dude, come on, get some of it.

[04:56:45] Dude, the donut?

[04:56:46] I

[04:56:52] That is

[04:56:54] Okay, that that is the that one

[04:56:59] Yeah, yeah, oh god the Philly she say a rose bomb

[04:57:04] There are it's all amazing. I would like to general Roscoe chicken at the most

[04:57:08] But that donor

[04:57:10] Yeah, yeah

[04:57:13] That dude dude

[04:57:16] I've always wanted to do this.

[04:57:18] What are you doing?

[04:57:20] When y'all asked me, I said,

[04:57:22] come face to the chef.

[04:57:26] I told him.

[04:57:28] It was an easy choice.

[04:57:30] Why?

[04:57:32] What?

[04:57:34] I'm giving compliments to the chef, bro.

[04:57:36] That's what face you can do.

[04:57:40] Yeah, you gotta call out the chef.

[04:57:42] I wanna meet the chef.

[04:57:46] I mean, you're in great shape, because I'm always running around here doing cartwheels.

[04:58:04] I do cupware, though.

[04:58:06] Oh, you do cupware?

[04:58:07] No way.

[04:58:11] That's sick.

[04:58:14] My second character was Eddie Kudo, the one that I grew up with.

[04:58:18] I would spam the two buttons where you just flip the entire time you stonelock your opponent.

[04:58:23] So you're in LA, right?

[04:58:25] Yeah.

[04:58:26] So after I graduated from college, I moved to LA for the summer before I moved to Brazil,

[04:58:31] and I studied under a Brazilian instructor named Bohascha.

[04:58:35] Bohascha means rubber, because he could do a handstand where the bottom half of

[04:58:39] his body was parallel to the ground.

[04:58:41] He's like, his English wasn't good.

[04:58:43] And he said, I need you to walk down those stairs.

[04:58:46] And I said, okay, what's that about?

[04:58:48] He goes, no, on your hands.

[04:58:50] So at 22, I learned how to walk down a flight of stairs

[04:58:54] on my hands.

[04:58:55] I've been doing it ever since, but I told him.

[04:58:56] Have you whooped anyone's ass

[04:58:57] with the techniques in the Shreve fight or something?

[04:59:00] No comment.

[04:59:02] Whoa!

[04:59:03] That's sick.

[04:59:04] All right.

[04:59:06] I'm a man of peace.

[04:59:07] You just, that's crazy.

[04:59:09] So as long as you're gonna throw hands,

[04:59:10] you just go hold on you just do a roll and start spinning yeah you know all

[04:59:20] right this is your crew too yeah yeah we got a lot of what's up man hey how you

[04:59:26] doing Chris Ram nice to meet you pleasure pleasure hey how you doing

[04:59:32] Pleasure, likewise.

[04:59:35] My sister and I are doing the thing is I nailed that.

[04:59:38] Good.

[04:59:40] Hell yeah.

[04:59:42] Alright, where's your car?

[04:59:45] Right here.

[04:59:46] We're riding with them, yeah.

[04:59:59] Oh, Sid?

[05:00:00] Alright.

[05:00:01] Who else is coming in the car with us? Just me and Chris? All right let's do it.

[05:00:07] Okay I'll get on the other side. Okay. Okay. Thank you.

[05:00:17] What? Wait a minute. I'm time-blind. I'm aggressively neuro-spicy so when I'm in it I lose.

[05:00:28] I'm just saying so you see we're still live we're still live all right yeah

[05:00:34] we're live right there's it never stops yeah oh you want it I'm like that

[05:00:43] Already yeah, I'll get out

[05:00:55] He says he doesn't mind, okay

[05:01:06] So

[05:01:13] We'll get that for him.

[05:01:15] All right.

[05:01:16] That's good.

[05:01:24] All right.

[05:01:25] Hey, that food, are we saving that food?

[05:01:28] I don't know.

[05:01:31] The duty guys would have loved to have that.

[05:01:33] They were talking about it.

[05:01:34] Yeah, well they can have it.

[05:01:35] I mean, I don't believe in waste.

[05:01:37] No, it can't be.

[05:01:38] Yeah, especially not.

[05:01:39] Well, I'm on camera.

[05:01:40] Otherwise, I would have shown you.

[05:01:42] you what kind of what kind of performance I could show up yeah um all right so we got a silly one

[05:01:51] okay in 2022 Pennsylvania had to choose between a victim of a Mossad stroke gun and a genocide

[05:02:00] denying Turkish nationalist not our proudest work there dr. Oz and john fenneman from new jersey

[05:02:07] That's the worst crime for Dr. Oz.

[05:02:15] And of course, John Federman won.

[05:02:18] And after the Schroegi also started adopting even more and more reactionary frameworks and

[05:02:23] became probably, I think, one of the most conservative senators in Congress right now.

[05:02:29] Spends a lot more time on Fox News than many Republican senators do now.

[05:02:37] How do you plan on addressing Pennsylvania's severe mental health crisis, especially in

[05:02:42] the context of our current Senate representation?

[05:02:46] We have to destigmatize it.

[05:02:48] That's important.

[05:02:49] There's so many people who suffer, and they suffer in silence or in the shadows because

[05:02:54] of that stigma.

[05:02:56] So I think that's really important that we acknowledge that this is part of health

[05:02:59] care.

[05:03:00] There should be no separation.

[05:03:04] You know, also, like, there are people who are just assholes, regardless of condition,

[05:03:13] whether it's having a stroke or having mental illness.

[05:03:15] I think he was an asshole long before anything has befell him.

[05:03:18] True.

[05:03:19] Right?

[05:03:20] Some people just assholes.

[05:03:21] You can accelerate it in situations.

[05:03:22] Oh, yeah, no doubt.

[05:03:23] But, you know, like, he was raised in a conservative family, wealthy conservatives.

[05:03:27] I think it was populist cosplay for him.

[05:03:30] Yeah.

[05:03:31] I didn't trust him.

[05:03:32] Right?

[05:03:33] Looney is what you're saying in the shorts.

[05:03:35] Yeah, I mean that's a costume that I didn't buy.

[05:03:38] I didn't buy, I was not impressed.

[05:03:40] And I understand why people work.

[05:03:42] A lot of people want novelty.

[05:03:43] They see the same old folks in the same suits

[05:03:46] talking the same old pole tested stuff

[05:03:49] and it leaves them dry.

[05:03:51] When you see somebody like this, he's eight foot three.

[05:03:53] He makes you look, you know.

[05:03:55] Yeah.

[05:03:56] He's taller than me, huh?

[05:03:57] Yeah, a little bit.

[05:03:58] Damn.

[05:03:59] Right?

[05:04:00] He's mocking me.

[05:04:01] He's high.

[05:04:03] But like you know

[05:04:04] You don't see that kind of person in elective office and that gets your attention

[05:04:09] And then when he says stuff he trolls folks

[05:04:11] He was pretty good at trolling folks back in the day, but that's not enough

[05:04:15] I like to say when people ask well, how do I know you're not going to that's better minute. I said he had tweets

[05:04:21] I had receipts. I have ten years of a legislative track record. I have thousands of votes

[05:04:27] Hundreds of bills I've introduced hundreds of bills that I've co-sponsored

[05:04:31] So if you want to know what I'm gonna do in Congress you can see the ten years I've served in Harrisburg and say oh, okay

[05:04:37] Did I you know did I push stuff out about reparations? Yes. Did I do a 100% renewable energy? Yes

[05:04:44] 100% fair funding public education. Yes. So you did I take corporate PAC money for the ten years?

[05:04:50] I could have no because in Pennsylvania

[05:04:53] This is gonna blow your way in Pennsylvania

[05:04:55] You could cut me a million dollar check if I'm running on the state level. Uh-huh state level. Wow, but it's unlimited

[05:05:03] It's unlimited, but it's so much worse if you are lobbyist you could buy me a suburban

[05:05:08] That's crazy. You could buy me a summer house as long as I reported

[05:05:13] It's legal

[05:05:16] So to not take a dime of corporate PAC money in 10 years tells you who I am

[05:05:22] certain point I mean seems a little silly maybe you should have you know

[05:05:26] maybe you should have slid a little summer home no no I'll be listen listen I

[05:05:32] just want to tell my son's ideas. You're a son of a bitch. If I was your son I'd be pissed. What are you doing?

[05:05:39] I've got a Lamborghini. It's entirely possible but no the reason I wouldn't

[05:05:44] get that is because my politics would not align with people who'd want to cut

[05:05:49] a big old check or get me all that other stuff.

[05:05:53] Let's talk about that actually.

[05:05:54] So as reported by Dropside News,

[05:05:56] an APAC affiliated super PAC named 314 Action Fund

[05:06:00] has spent more than $2.6 million

[05:06:03] boosting your rival,

[05:06:04] Alah, Alah Stanford.

[05:06:06] Alah, Stanford.

[05:06:08] The super PAC says it's only mission

[05:06:10] is to elect doctors and scientists.

[05:06:13] However, Stanford says she supports Medicare for all,

[05:06:16] yet she has not committed to cosponsoring the Medicare for All bill.

[05:06:21] How do your health care policies differ from hers?

[05:06:24] And specifically, what's your plan for implementing Medicare for All?

[05:06:29] I don't know what her health care policies are.

[05:06:31] I've been on a lot of forums.

[05:06:32] I've been looking to it.

[05:06:34] It's very confusing.

[05:06:35] And the website?

[05:06:37] Not even the tweet stuff that she put out the other day where it was like,

[05:06:40] if you're taking a dime from APEC, she's like, what's APEC?

[05:06:43] And I got a little heat for that because people thought I was spreading rumors and I tell

[05:06:52] people, look, you don't have to trust me.

[05:06:55] Just Google it.

[05:06:56] You will see that there's independent reporting.

[05:06:59] You said drop site, right?

[05:07:00] Same person was at the Intercept in 2024 reported on it.

[05:07:05] So the other viral moment was when I said, APAC is trash, APAC knows it's brand

[05:07:11] is trash.

[05:07:12] So if they want to help someone, they don't give them money, they give money to an intermediary.

[05:07:17] And the intermediary, which is fully documented, is United Democracy Project.

[05:07:23] And that's how 314 was funded in part, but it's also funded by some billionaires too.

[05:07:29] So that's actually what I wanted to get to, which is, do you feel like even the hesitance

[05:07:33] in communicating full-throw to support for certain issues comes from, by your estimation,

[05:07:40] a willingness to accept

[05:07:42] these kinds of corporate pack uh... sponsorships basically from three one

[05:07:47] four and numerous other subsidiaries just like you pointed out

[05:07:50] a packed notes brand is toxic

[05:07:52] they don't go in uh... with it with a straightforward approach with a like

[05:07:56] where a pack and we're sponsoring this person because they're pro-israel

[05:07:59] usually they don't even mention israel all right on illinois right

[05:08:03] uh... and then they only celebrate after the fact right or they'll tap the

[05:08:06] person who's against a pack yeah right so they'll pull up stuff out of

[05:08:10] Context or something when they were kid or something like that and they'll make it a big thing

[05:08:13] Which is what's gonna happen to me like in a matter of days or weeks

[05:08:17] I'm sure the APAC folks and then you know all those other folks are gonna you know say Chris

[05:08:22] Rabb kicks puppies, you know, whatever, you know, like that's what you're hanging out with a dangerous radical is what they'll say probably

[05:08:30] Yeah, but but I think a lot of that stuff people see that and they understand exactly what's going on

[05:08:35] Yeah, but transparency is key

[05:08:37] I think it's important for people to understand that many of these groups, regardless of what

[05:08:42] they call themselves, is usually still funded by the same billionaires or directly by the

[05:08:46] same organizations like APEC.

[05:08:49] Oh, absolutely.

[05:08:50] Absolutely.

[05:08:51] But you asked about healthcare, so I'm the only one who has consistently said I would

[05:08:55] cosponsor the Medicare for all bill, and the prime sponsor of that bill just endorsing

[05:09:00] the Congresswoman, Jaya Paul, which is like a big affirmation, right?

[05:09:04] Because she doesn't have to get in the race.

[05:09:06] could just see whoever won because we're all saying we're for it but she knows

[05:09:10] that I'm actually going to do the thing and I'm gonna work in unison with

[05:09:14] progressives in Congress to make it happen and people think oh Medicare for

[05:09:19] all it's too big it's too bold but just think about what happened in a moderate

[05:09:23] Democratic administration with Biden right I mean he was no radical right

[05:09:28] yeah but they invested in expanding the child tax credit and it reduced

[05:09:34] child poverty but over half in a fucking year in one year that's how bold was it

[05:09:45] if he said oh we're gonna eradicate poverty I wouldn't thought it was crazy

[05:09:48] he had dementia or something like that but they almost did it if we had the

[05:09:52] ability to expand that political base and the power in the Senate and

[05:09:56] Congress we could have actually eradicated it it's a it is a policy

[05:10:01] choice to sustain poverty. We don't need it. It's an artificial thing. And when I'm getting

[05:10:09] the critique of me is, oh, he's too bold.

[05:10:13] Yeah, that's not a bad thing, especially in the Plus 40 district, regardless. It ties

[05:10:18] back to something that I believe, which is that there's this idea that like, our brand

[05:10:24] of politics won't work. And it only works in deep blue districts. Well, we're in a

[05:10:29] deep blue district. So there's no reason for a deep blue district to have a

[05:10:32] wishy-washy corporate Democrat who won't come out and say what Israel is

[05:10:37] committing is a genocide, for example, or will even go so far as to say things

[05:10:41] like calling what Israel is doing is a genocide to be hurtful. I'm of course

[05:10:45] referencing Stanford here. That's another point that I wanted to

[05:10:50] have your take on. It's an unbelievable quote, but I'm gonna

[05:10:58] read it. Stanford went on to say that describing Israel's genocide as a genocide is as hurtful

[05:11:06] to Israelis as it is to someone saying the n-word around her. As someone who's great-great-grandfather

[05:11:14] had to save up money to buy himself out of slavery here in the US, how do you view the

[05:11:17] connection between black liberation and Palestinian liberation? I think you referenced

[05:11:24] before there's a long connection and solidarity with with with black leaders

[05:11:29] and the Palestinian cause right that's nothing new okay I know but it's fine

[05:11:40] we'll keep it going that was it that was a powerful question for us to put in

[05:11:47] between but we can put you're on the law mic so you're fine okay so yeah yeah so

[05:11:55] liberation is a universal value right so you got another mic coming on I only

[05:12:00] have seven it's fine oh you want I'm gonna take another one too yeah okay

[05:12:05] which one's this for no damn left behind but the rebrand is no one left

[05:12:09] Okay, keeping better, right?

[05:12:11] Just one hour?

[05:12:13] You're going to give me the idea, right?

[05:12:14] I've got a console I've been talking about.

[05:12:16] Okay.

[05:12:17] All right, perfect.

[05:12:19] We'll be in time.

[05:12:20] If you...

[05:12:21] Collective liberation is just a slogan

[05:12:23] if you don't actually stand up for folks.

[05:12:25] Yeah.

[05:12:26] Right?

[05:12:27] And I find common cause with the Palestinian people.

[05:12:30] Right?

[05:12:31] I descend from...

[05:12:32] We talk about occupation.

[05:12:34] You know, I've introduced bills for indigenous rights,

[05:12:37] It's all connected.

[05:12:39] Yeah.

[05:12:40] What's going on?

[05:12:42] Nice to meet you.

[05:12:43] Hey.

[05:12:44] Thank you.

[05:12:45] All right.

[05:12:46] Thank you.

[05:12:47] What?

[05:12:48] I love you, mate.

[05:12:49] Yeah.

[05:12:50] Yeah.

[05:12:51] We have only in passing a while and if you remember.

[05:12:53] And I brought here.

[05:12:54] Is this the fundraiser?

[05:12:55] Oh.

[05:12:56] That makes sense.

[05:12:57] Yeah.

[05:12:58] Oh.

[05:12:59] Is that right?

[05:13:00] Yeah.

[05:13:01] Come on.

[05:13:02] I brought my son's here.

[05:13:04] Get off of your feet.

[05:13:06] He's just dabbing at the owner.

[05:13:07] All right, okay.

[05:13:08] I'm gonna drink a drink while you go out.

[05:13:10] No, I'm good. Thank you so much.

[05:13:12] Yeah, yeah.

[05:13:14] All right.

[05:13:14] Let's get him out there.

[05:13:21] Okay, wow.

[05:13:23] There is like more people.

[05:13:25] You!

[05:13:26] Oh, hi.

[05:13:27] Oh, my God.

[05:13:28] He did it.

[05:13:29] He did it.

[05:13:30] Wait a second, let's just get situated first.

[05:13:34] Let's do that definitely because I have some more questions that I want to ask

[05:13:41] Oh my gosh.

[05:13:42] What?

[05:13:43] Uh-oh.

[05:13:44] You want to go for it?

[05:13:45] There's no prizes?

[05:13:46] It's fine.

[05:13:47] It's fine.

[05:13:48] No.

[05:13:49] Do you see anything?

[05:13:50] There's no.

[05:13:51] That's too extreme.

[05:13:52] How about this?

[05:13:53] Is this the lower room?

[05:13:54] Listen, you've got to stay up here.

[05:13:55] And drop it up for just two minutes right here.

[05:13:56] Okay.

[05:13:57] And then we'll just get everybody situated real quick.

[05:13:58] Yeah, okay.

[05:13:59] All right.

[05:14:00] Where are we going?

[05:14:01] Hello again.

[05:14:02] That was nice to know.

[05:14:03] I can barely breathe.

[05:14:04] We have three.

[05:14:05] We have three.

[05:14:06] We have three.

[05:14:07] We have three.

[05:14:08] We have three.

[05:14:09] We have three.

[05:14:10] We have to...

[05:14:12] One second, guys.

[05:14:14] Oh my God.

[05:14:15] Alright.

[05:14:16] Is this the norm for you?

[05:14:17] Is this just...

[05:14:18] Not all the...

[05:14:19] I don't usually announce where I'm going at.

[05:14:20] Oh, yeah.

[05:14:21] So...

[05:14:22] It's probably the reason.

[05:14:23] Yeah.

[05:14:24] Did you see outside?

[05:14:25] Yeah, no.

[05:14:26] There's even more people outside.

[05:14:27] There's like hundreds of people outside.

[05:14:29] We're gonna get in trouble, I feel like.

[05:14:31] Good trouble.

[05:14:32] Good trouble.

[05:14:33] This is good trouble.

[05:14:35] Um...

[05:14:36] So, as far as your opponent goes, so I got two.

[05:14:44] Yeah.

[05:14:45] Well, I'm going to go back to Stanford today.

[05:14:47] Sure.

[05:14:48] Because she's done a lot.

[05:14:49] She would have often, Memorial for Colin Powell describing him as, in 2021, describing

[05:14:57] him as embodying greatness, continually striving for excellence and setting his own bar.

[05:15:02] For many Americans, Powell is remembered as the Republican Secretary of State who held

[05:15:08] up a vial of white powder at the United Nations and lied to the world to justify going to

[05:15:13] war with Iraq, which killed hundreds of thousands of millions.

[05:15:18] What's your reaction to Stanford's praise of Powell and how does that contrast with your

[05:15:22] views on U.S. foreign policy?

[05:15:25] Well, I'm an explicitly anti-war candidate, and I'm openly consistent about the anti-militarists

[05:15:34] and anti-imperialists, and I think that's important.

[05:15:36] And while there can be people who help internally in the military-industrial complex in positions

[05:15:44] of power who may promote multilateral diplomacy, when you put yourself in that position,

[05:15:52] We have to follow orders and he chose to follow orders that got us into a war that killed hundreds

[05:15:57] of thousands of people.

[05:15:58] And, you know, that's not my, and it's bigger than any one person, but we have to talk

[05:16:05] about the systems and not the symbols that may be anomalous somehow because the person

[05:16:10] may have had good positions on reproductive rights or, you know, affirmative action

[05:16:16] or so forth.

[05:16:17] We've got to talk about the structure, the systems.

[05:16:19] And if we don't do that, then we're complicit.

[05:16:21] Let's talk about your other opponent, Sharif Street, you called your criticism of APEC and

[05:16:28] Stanford over the top a few weeks ago, even as APEC aligned groups spent millions to influence

[05:16:34] this race.

[05:16:35] Even your stance that APEC is a racist organization, how do you respond to Street downplaying APEC's

[05:16:41] harmful influence?

[05:16:42] What does that say about his willingness to stand up to, not just APEC but also other

[05:16:46] corporate facts as well?

[05:16:48] Well, just yesterday he apologized.

[05:16:51] Oh, wow.

[05:16:52] Yes, he apologized because it came out with the direct connections where it to A-PAC in

[05:16:56] support for our opponent, but the irony is, Senator Street benefits from some of the biggest

[05:17:02] A-PAC donors who have maxed out to him.

[05:17:06] He said, I believe, in the debate setting that he didn't know if that was the case,

[05:17:11] right?

[05:17:12] Well, that's absurd because one of them is a billionaire and these are well-known

[05:17:16] folks connected to A-PAC.

[05:17:18] So that's a specious argument.

[05:17:21] And so the question shouldn't be for voters, which candidate takes the least money from

[05:17:27] APAC directly or indirectly?

[05:17:29] Which one publicly disavows APAC and is willing to say there's an ongoing genocide and we're

[05:17:36] complicit with our tax dollars?

[05:17:37] And I'm the only one in the race doing that.

[05:17:39] And I think that's important because it is related to how these campaigns are fueled.

[05:17:44] and if the fuel by insider money, billionaires and others,

[05:17:48] that's gonna tell you who you're gonna get in Congress.

[05:17:50] Do you say National Endorsed you earlier today?

[05:17:52] Yeah, just find that out, yeah.

[05:17:54] Huge deal.

[05:17:55] Congratulations.

[05:17:56] Thank you.

[05:17:57] It's one of only two national candidacies, I believe,

[05:18:00] if I'm not mistaken.

[05:18:03] What do you think that says about your candidacy?

[05:18:05] What do you think that says about your campaign

[05:18:08] in comparison to who you're running against right now?

[05:18:11] Well, I think irrespective of who I'm running against,

[05:18:13] about what I'm running for. I do not have to fear the S-word. I can lean into it because

[05:18:20] that's my ethic, that's my people. And by the way, you were talking about Paul Robson

[05:18:24] earlier. My great uncle was running buddies with Paul Robson, and they worked on the

[05:18:30] genocide decree against the U.S. government when they were saying that there was an

[05:18:36] act of genocide against African Americans in 1951. So that's like my family history.

[05:18:42] an inheritance that has helped build me to the person I am today and be the

[05:18:46] father I seek to be the public servant so if they were doing that in 1951 against

[05:18:52] much greater odds I'm sure as hell gonna stand up on the right side of history

[05:18:56] even if it hurts my campaign is what I keep telling my sons is if I have to

[05:19:01] lose my integrity to be more viable I shouldn't win. Yeah and you also

[05:19:06] already said you don't want a Lamborghini for your sons. That's true. Which I

[05:19:10] feel like it's foolish. But anyway, you organize a teacher's union at Temple

[05:19:15] and you've called for a worker's bill of rights. What's your vision to protect

[05:19:19] Americans who make a living working 95 jobs? Well we definitely need to strengthen

[05:19:24] worker rights. We need to make it easier for them to organize. We need to

[05:19:28] make sure that it's harder for corporations to retaliate. That's what

[05:19:32] happened to me at Temple University. I was one of a few people who helped

[05:19:35] to expand the current union to include adjunct professors.

[05:19:39] I was a part-time professor.

[05:19:40] We were paid a poverty wage.

[05:19:42] And these are folks with PhDs who are on public assistance.

[05:19:47] And no one in this country, whether they have a GED or a PhD,

[05:19:51] should be working 40 hours, right?

[05:19:54] 40 hours a week and still be in poverty, right?

[05:19:57] So I'm also big on a living wage for all.

[05:20:00] So it's not just bumping up the minimum wage,

[05:20:02] but making a living wage so that people

[05:20:04] can actually survive and ultimately thrive.

[05:20:06] Well, you will have a time to talk after orange as well.

[05:20:09] Yeah, yeah.

[05:20:10] Because I have a lot more questions I want to do.

[05:20:13] Are we supposed to start?

[05:20:15] Yeah.

[05:20:15] How much more time do we have?

[05:20:17] 40 seconds.

[05:20:18] So the rabbit's going to go to, there's like a city

[05:20:21] for Alzheimer's, and we're going to get all these people

[05:20:22] in the camp on campus, and we're going to give them

[05:20:24] a little talk.

[05:20:25] We've got like 400 chemistry students.

[05:20:27] Wow.

[05:20:28] That's the biggest in, like, Philly history.

[05:20:30] Yeah.

[05:20:31] Modern Philly history.

[05:20:32] So he's gonna have a while to talk for a little bit.

[05:20:34] If you want to talk for a few minutes,

[05:20:35] I'm sure everybody wants some pictures and stuff.

[05:20:38] Then we'll take a plumber and you can do more questions

[05:20:41] let's just chill in the car.

[05:20:42] I'll go to the next spot.

[05:20:43] Okay, what happens up there?

[05:20:45] All the darlings are outside.

[05:20:46] Oh, okay, okay.

[05:20:47] Okay.

[05:20:48] All right, let's do it.

[05:20:49] All right, here.

[05:20:50] Get right outside.

[05:20:52] All right.

[05:20:59] Hey, what's up, man?

[05:21:00] Hey there, too.

[05:21:01] What's up?

[05:21:01] Hello guys. Hello again. Yo, this is love. It's not a parker.

[05:21:12] That's crazy. Did you see that? It's wonderful.

[05:21:26] It's funny.

[05:21:28] Oh, no!

[05:21:30] Oh, no!

[05:21:32] Oh, no!

[05:21:34] Oh, no!

[05:21:36] Oh, no!

[05:21:38] Oh, no!

[05:21:40] Is that people?

[05:21:42] Oh, no!

[05:21:44] Are you all good?

[05:21:46] Oh, no!

[05:21:48] Oh, no!

[05:21:50] The damn!

[05:21:52] Can you guys just canvassering, talking to your neighbors, let them know what solidarity

[05:22:05] looks like, what movement looks like.

[05:22:12] I am loving this.

[05:22:15] This was supposed to be a sleepy old primary.

[05:22:19] Nothing sleepy about this shit.

[05:22:27] I am wide awake.

[05:22:31] In fact, I'm so awake, I'm woke.

[05:22:39] But you all aren't supposed to be here.

[05:22:43] supposed to be because you understand that you're supposed to be apathetic young people

[05:22:52] are not supposed to care but here well that's what they said that's what they said I'm not

[05:23:06] interested in they I'm interested in we

[05:23:10] this is this is what the real we looks like

[05:23:17] because 250 years ago when they won't be the people it wasn't us this is an

[05:23:27] aggressively fabulous outpouring of humanity. The question is, what we do with it? Because

[05:23:39] this is our moment, and it's rooted in movement. The moment is nice. The movement is necessary.

[05:23:52] And I'm just going to say it, on May 19th, I'm not going to win.

[05:24:00] Yeah, you are!

[05:24:01] No!

[05:24:02] No!

[05:24:03] You don't understand.

[05:24:04] On May 19th, I'm not going to win.

[05:24:05] We're going to win!

[05:24:06] You know it's true because only we can save us.

[05:24:17] because only we can save us.

[05:24:23] Y'all are not waiting for someone to descend from the clouds.

[05:24:28] You need to look in the mirror.

[05:24:29] And more importantly, you need to look around at each other right now.

[05:24:32] Why should we be able to save us?

[05:24:38] And I'm going to put a humble brag here real quick.

[05:24:43] I earned this.

[05:24:47] I'm gonna tell you why I'm here because listen, particularly young folk, any Gen Z folk here

[05:24:56] That's your people

[05:24:59] And I know 93% of you are here for a son fight and that's okay

[05:25:05] Maybe 97% that's alright

[05:25:09] It's a combo

[05:25:11] Oh thank you

[05:25:13] They like this tune

[05:25:17] Even though I'm not on the Twitch, is that it, is the Twitch, is that it?

[05:25:23] I don't know.

[05:25:25] I think, I found out I got endorsed by Congresswoman Rashida Taleed.

[05:25:31] And DSA National came in this morning.

[05:25:37] I guess the leading bigger news that I want to thank is on Piker 4.

[05:25:45] Today, I got endorsed by my two sons.

[05:25:48] So I want to thank you for making that happen.

[05:25:54] But I just want to thank all of you.

[05:25:59] I'm not used to this.

[05:26:06] I'm not used to this.

[05:26:13] This is what radiant love looks like.

[05:26:16] And I'm specific, I got that from my man, Rabbi Mordecai,

[05:26:23] and he used the term radiant love.

[05:26:25] And what I love about it is we can try to harvest and keep

[05:26:30] and hoard all the things we want for ourselves.

[05:26:33] But love is best when it's spread wide.

[05:26:36] And what we do in this moment with that love, just like how I feel about power, is we have

[05:26:46] to diffuse it and not concentrate it.

[05:26:50] Thank you.

[05:26:53] Do you want to announce your national defense enforcement?

[05:26:57] I don't have the political class's endorsement.

[05:27:00] You said it not me.

[05:27:05] But yes.

[05:27:07] Oh, yes!

[05:27:08] I didn't get any of those endorsements.

[05:27:17] The most important endorsement, oh, and my two sons, and my mama.

[05:27:25] The most important endorsement I can ever receive is your votes.

[05:27:34] Because that's how we're going to win, we've got to show up and we've got to send a message to the establishment.

[05:27:40] Listen, not just the mega extremists, that's fun.

[05:27:44] That's fun, you know, kick them around.

[05:27:47] But we also have to send a message to the Democratic Party.

[05:27:55] And for those of you who don't know politics and know why I'm running,

[05:28:01] I'm not running for the Democratic Party. I'm running for you.

[05:28:06] I'm running for you. The many, not the money.

[05:28:13] The many, not the money.

[05:28:17] So I'm not going to them and asking for permission.

[05:28:22] I'm listening to the people and I'm accountable to you,

[05:28:26] But now I need you to be accountable to this moment and SHOW THE FUCK UP!

[05:28:36] Because you may be actually voting for me, you're voting for WE!

[05:28:42] And you're voting for folks who want a vote but can't vote!

[05:28:48] For the 17 year olds!

[05:28:52] For the non-citizens!

[05:28:56] for the people in cages.

[05:28:58] Your vote is so much bigger than you.

[05:29:03] And we have an opportunity to share a powerful message

[05:29:09] that organized people will kick organized monies ass every time.

[05:29:17] We've got 11 more, we've got less than three weeks to go.

[05:29:28] This is ours.

[05:29:29] This is ours if we claim it.

[05:29:30] Look them under estimate.

[05:29:31] I love being underestimated.

[05:29:32] Oh, that's my love language.

[05:29:33] Please underestimate me.

[05:29:34] But when we show up in force, we are indomitable.

[05:29:35] We are indomitable.

[05:29:36] We are indomitable.

[05:29:37] We are indomitable.

[05:29:38] Oh, that's my love language. Please underestimate me.

[05:29:42] But when we show up in force, we are indomitable.

[05:29:46] And I want you to know that I see you.

[05:29:51] I see you. I see you. And I love you.

[05:29:55] Because this was a choice you all made. You didn't have to be here.

[05:30:00] But this is where you chose to be in this moment.

[05:30:03] And I love you for that. Not because you're going to put me in office,

[05:30:06] But you're going to transform the city of Philadelphia, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the entire Michigan.

[05:30:36] I don't think it's radical to be opposed to occupation, to be opposed to apartheid.

[05:30:54] We are on the right side of history and I want to thank all of the Jewish people.

[05:31:05] I just want to make this plane.

[05:31:08] There are a lot of people who are showing up,

[05:31:11] but there are people who have been connected to Israel

[05:31:15] through culture and familial ties.

[05:31:19] But who showed up because they believe in a free Palestine.

[05:31:23] And they've created space for people like me

[05:31:29] to stand up and solidarity.

[05:31:34] I don't believe I'm ready for saying there's a genocide.

[05:31:38] I got eyes I can see.

[05:31:43] But those folks who are on the front lines,

[05:31:49] my Muslim brothers and sisters,

[05:31:51] my abysses,

[05:31:55] Jewish folks,

[05:31:58] Palestinians in particular,

[05:32:01] You've been fighting this fight for too long on the margins, and you need more people who

[05:32:09] stand up for you, because I was told if I want to be viable and I want to win, I'm going

[05:32:17] to have to pull back on some of my positions.

[05:32:21] And I'll be honest, my sons were very nervous about my jumping into this race because

[05:32:31] they were afraid of political violence and the long history of black progressives.

[05:32:39] But black progressives were mowed down in one way or the other for speaking truth to

[05:32:44] power. But I told them that we descend from a rich history of bad asses.

[05:32:51] I'm not going down to anyone!

[05:32:53] This is Hire Fight!

[05:32:55] And so in this moment, I'm asking something from you.

[05:32:59] Many of you have already knocked doors.

[05:33:01] This is how we're going to win.

[05:33:03] It's talking to our neighbors.

[05:33:05] Bringing them out.

[05:33:07] Letting them know.

[05:33:09] We're going to win.

[05:33:11] We're going to win.

[05:33:13] We're going to win.

[05:33:15] We're going to win.

[05:33:17] We're going to win.

[05:33:19] bringing them out, letting them know that there is a future that they can see themselves a part of.

[05:33:25] But because I don't take corporate PAC money.

[05:33:32] Man, the 10 years I've been in public office in the state legislature, not a dime.

[05:33:39] Because I want people to know that when they speak, it's not because some corporation has its...

[05:33:49] Fingerprints, but I'm speaking for the people until I know a lot of you have special numbers

[05:33:59] that mean a lot to you.

[05:34:02] 18 is significant to a lot of folks in the Jewish state who've given me money.

[05:34:07] 27 is a number that a lot of Bernie crats.

[05:34:11] Right?

[05:34:12] 16 is my favorite number because it represents my 16 great-great-grandparents, all of whom

[05:34:18] were born into slavery, all who died free. Not a one of them was later to have a home

[05:34:25] labor. They died free because they saved themselves. So 16 is an important number to me. Whatever

[05:34:40] important number is to you, I would love for you to give me that number in US dollars.

[05:34:47] Did you say 3500 is your favorite number?

[05:34:51] 250 miles!

[05:34:53] 250 miles! Whatever it is!

[05:34:55] I'm not kidding!

[05:34:57] This is important!

[05:34:59] Take 7!

[05:35:01] What is take 7? I love it.

[05:35:03] Is it 607 or is it 67?

[05:35:05] I'll take 67.

[05:35:07] Alright.

[05:35:09] Whatever that number is,

[05:35:11] I need you to understand

[05:35:13] that whatever

[05:35:15] That dowel man is, is more than I started with.

[05:35:22] Some of you are struggling.

[05:35:25] You may be underemployed, underpaid, unemployed, disrespected, exploited.

[05:35:35] Whatever that number is, know that I am grateful for it and that money is not going to DC consultants.

[05:35:45] It's paying for the beautiful labor and collective wisdom of people on the ground, many of those

[05:35:53] folks are here today.

[05:35:54] That's where this money is going to, because we're fighting against folks who have billionaire

[05:36:00] backed, super packed money benefiting them, and wealthy insiders, but I believe in people

[05:36:11] power.

[05:36:12] And this is what people by all looks like.

[05:36:17] So whatever it is you can give, we have QR codes right here.

[05:36:22] Whatever it is, I thank you.

[05:36:25] I thank you.

[05:36:27] I thank you.

[05:36:28] On to victory!

[05:36:30] Without further ado, I'd like to introduce you to a young man who I'm not sure if

[05:36:41] familiar with them.

[05:36:43] That's how I'm proud of you!

[05:36:45] I don't know how this thing works.

[05:36:57] I've never used one of these before, so bear with me, everybody.

[05:37:01] Thank you so much for coming out, and thank you, Chris Wrapp,

[05:37:04] for introducing me to some amazing people here in Philadelphia today,

[05:37:10] I can't believe they keep making me follow the incredible orders like summer leave first

[05:37:33] and now there is. I don't know how to keep up with that energy and momentum, but thank

[05:37:40] you so much for having me here today. It's a real honor to get to meet all of you. I

[05:37:44] know I always say touch grass, and this is probably one of the best uses of touching grass

[05:37:49] that you possibly could do. Door knocking, being a part of your communities, talking

[05:37:58] to your neighbors, spreading the good word, and making sure that we can have responsive

[05:38:04] politics once again.

[05:38:06] This is a district that is plus 40 Democrat.

[05:38:13] It's a deep blue district.

[05:38:15] And that's why it's one of the more important districts.

[05:38:17] The reason why is because this is where we run up the numbers.

[05:38:22] This is a district that we cannot allow to build to a do-nothing Democrat that is going

[05:38:29] to do anything Democrat that can't see what Israel is doing as a genocide.

[05:38:37] This is not just a battle that we are fighting against the Republicans, the fascists, the

[05:38:47] reactionaries, but we are also fighting for more responsive politics to make sure all of

[05:38:53] our voices are heard and all of your needs are met.

[05:39:04] We've all been through struggle. We've all been through the process of going out and door-knocking for Bernie Sanders in 2016 and 2020.

[05:39:13] We've seen the disappointment. But right now, as someone who's been all around the country,

[05:39:20] let me tell you, I see a lot of people that I normally never would have thought that say

[05:39:25] Bernie was right and that we need left-populous politics in this country. Responsive politics

[05:39:38] that says no to corporate money, no to corporate donors,

[05:39:42] and yes, to ordinary Americans like you,

[05:39:45] a politics that will center the working class.

[05:39:48] And that's now, it's my great honor to announce to you

[05:39:58] that Chris Robb got the national DSA endorsement today.

[05:40:02] I better get one of those hats, too.

[05:40:20] I got the New York one, but I need the Philly one, too, now.

[05:40:28] I got it. I got it. I got it.

[05:40:40] My head is so hard it just didn't fit.

[05:40:46] They're giving me a note, they want me to tell you guys that May 4th is the last day for registration,

[05:41:04] the last day for mail-in, and you've got to go to chrisraub.com, that's chrisrabb.com

[05:41:11] to donate.

[05:41:12] to make sure that you donate to responsive politics, the politics that centers you, the

[05:41:17] working people, because, guess what?

[05:41:22] After this, after this Twitch stream, Chris is going to have even more enemies, okay?

[05:41:27] They're going to have this, they're going to have this, they're going to have this

[05:41:32] impact is already all over this race, they do everything in their power to undermine

[05:41:37] democracy. That's right, we're going to put a payback.

[05:41:41] We're going to put a payback in his car.

[05:41:45] Thank you so much, everybody.

[05:41:49] Thank you.

[05:41:53] Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

[05:41:57] Thank you. Thank you.

[05:42:01] I would do like, oh yeah, bet.

[05:42:05] We're getting out of the way!

[05:42:11] Oh boy, y'all!

[05:42:14] Oh, there's the roof!

[05:42:17] Woo!

[05:42:35] What's up people?

[05:42:42] I'm scared.

[05:42:45] What's that?

[05:42:47] That's a mouth mark.

[05:42:53] I'm scared.

[05:42:57] What's that?

[05:42:59] That's a mouth mark.

[05:43:01] I don't know how I'm gonna carry it, but

[05:43:05] this is crazy.

[05:43:09] Hey!

[05:43:13] Thank you.

[05:43:17] Hey, what's up, man? I gotta go.

[05:43:21] Thank you so much, man. You got it.

[05:43:25] I got a picture of you.

[05:43:29] All right

[05:43:55] Wow that was that was thank you

[05:43:59] All right, man.

[05:44:00] Oh, my god.

[05:44:01] I'm going to have to go to a garage.

[05:44:03] All right.

[05:44:03] Can you get the door?

[05:44:05] Oh, that's nuts.

[05:44:06] This shit dies.

[05:44:07] Yeah.

[05:44:08] Yeah.

[05:44:09] I guess that's a regular Thursday for you, huh?

[05:44:11] No, no, no.

[05:44:12] This is a pretty good.

[05:44:13] Yeah?

[05:44:14] This is a little bit extraordinary.

[05:44:17] Wait, March.

[05:44:18] Hello.

[05:44:19] Are you all going to a garage?

[05:44:20] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[05:44:22] Guys, real quick.

[05:44:23] I know you want to do more interview questions so we

[05:44:25] can kind of chill here.

[05:44:27] Well, let's say, let's say, we'll ride to the other spot and figure out a different...

[05:44:32] How are you doing?

[05:44:33] I'm doing great!

[05:44:34] Yeah?

[05:44:35] You got wet, I know I do.

[05:44:37] You good?

[05:44:38] Yeah, I think it's fine.

[05:44:42] This makes place where we do the search.

[05:44:54] Hell yeah.

[05:44:55] Alright!

[05:44:56] course oh my god March get that that's it hey oh wait here get your rug of

[05:45:05] Thank you. Oh my God

[05:45:35] Alright, alright, alright.

[05:45:37] Alright, alright, alright.

[05:45:39] Alright, alright, alright.

[05:45:41] Like, he can follow you. He doesn't know that you're right.

[05:45:43] Alright, watch out for Daniel! Watch out for Daniel!

[05:45:45] Alright, I'll see you again.

[05:45:47] It's on the way! It's on the way!

[05:45:49] Alright, alright, alright.

[05:45:51] Alright, okay.

[05:45:53] Alright.

[05:45:55] Oh my, I can't.

[05:45:57] We gotta go.

[05:45:59] It's you. It's security.

[05:46:01] I'm seeing you.

[05:46:03] I think I'm going to get up.

[05:46:05] You know?

[05:46:06] Jamir, what's up with me?

[05:46:07] I love you, man.

[05:46:08] Hey, man.

[05:46:09] I'm going to take you in the house.

[05:46:11] Hey, what's up with you?

[05:46:13] What's up?

[05:46:14] I'll be safe, folks.

[05:46:15] All right.

[05:46:16] We're going to get you a leg.

[05:46:17] We need food.

[05:46:18] All right.

[05:46:19] We're doing food.

[05:46:20] All right, brother.

[05:46:21] Hey, good to see you.

[05:46:22] What's up with me?

[05:46:23] I know I love it.

[05:46:24] Feet filling.

[05:46:25] Thank you, brother.

[05:46:26] Talk to you all.

[05:46:27] What's up, man?

[05:46:28] Bye, guys.

[05:46:29] Oh, my God.

[05:46:30] Oh

[05:46:32] Homies have the roomies. Oh, yeah point freeze. Good shit

[05:46:36] Good shit

[05:46:38] We got your hat, you know, that's your people man. Yeah, that's not my people. That's your people. I didn't know that until

[05:46:43] They're here to see you

[05:46:47] I'm not this is new for me, so yeah, I'll get used to it

[05:46:52] I was talking to Zora on the other day

[05:46:53] He was like the first time we ever hung out people would keep mobbing you when we were doing right and walking in the

[05:46:58] all story and now and at the time I was thinking I didn't realize that that

[05:47:02] would be my what my life would be like so get used to it inshallah shallah

[05:47:16] I'm more I'm more concerned about my son's that's all yeah wow this rain

[05:47:22] got crazy out of nowhere.

[05:47:25] This next one is like primarily students who are not super politically active. They're

[05:47:37] all volunteering so we got like a group of probably like 40 or 50 students there who

[05:47:40] are going to be like super volunteers. So it's like a tea coffee spot. So kind of like

[05:47:46] the same setup but we can talk in the car a little bit before we walk in.

[05:47:51] There's a back room in there where we could chill, there's a little more quiet.

[05:47:58] Alright, so while we're still in the car, that was tough-ass to follow man.

[05:48:08] You're so good, you got a lot of experience in doing activism and then speaking behind

[05:48:16] the megaphone.

[05:48:20] So you guys just broke history in recent Philly history, it seems, today?

[05:48:25] Well, barely statewide.

[05:48:26] Oh, wow.

[05:48:27] A lot of larger canvases, absolutely.

[05:48:28] That was a ton of people, you know?

[05:48:31] I mean, I've been doing this a while.

[05:48:34] I mean, I've been in office for 10 years, but I've been involved in, you know, this

[05:48:39] I haven't seen anything like this related to electoral politics.

[05:48:42] Yeah.

[05:48:43] No.

[05:48:44] Well, that's the next level.

[05:48:45] That's the thing.

[05:48:46] a lot of people are getting activated because you're the type of person that they know would

[05:48:55] be worth it. Especially young people. This is what I hear most commonly from all the other

[05:49:00] candidates I work with. And even Debbie Dingle who was at our University of Michigan rally

[05:49:09] that I did with Abdul, she showed up just to see the crowd. She told the associate

[05:49:15] It's like I've never seen this many young people before in any like this is a primary. Yeah, it's a Democratic Party primary

[05:49:21] What are young people doing here? This is normally like the the super boosters of the party there? Yeah, oftentimes older white

[05:49:27] You know unprecedented. Yeah, precedent

[05:49:31] But all right, let's get back to the questions because I have a I have a fire round of things that I'm gonna ask you

[05:49:38] You know, whether you're in favor of not or not

[05:49:41] But we talked a lot about, you know, military conflicts, militarism, you've been

[05:49:48] all spoken on ending military conflicts abroad, including in Palestine and Iran.

[05:49:52] What's your stance on the United States utilizing economic warfare, like we've

[05:49:57] seen in Venezuela, like we've seen in Iran in the build-up to the Iran war,

[05:50:02] and even in Cuba as well. I went and saw it personally, my own two eyes, the

[05:50:07] devastation that our policies, our economic terrorism, the sanctions regime is caused there.

[05:50:13] Well, I mean, I think it's important for people to know that the reason we go to war is for

[05:50:20] economics.

[05:50:21] Yeah.

[05:50:22] It's not to expand democracy or whatever.

[05:50:25] The U.S. imperialism, and imperialism generally, is the tip of the spear for corporations.

[05:50:34] Right?

[05:50:35] Right, so it's always connected.

[05:50:38] Right, you can't disconnect that.

[05:50:39] It's always about the money through military domination.

[05:50:44] Right, and so that's how it works.

[05:50:46] You get a foothold in these other nations

[05:50:49] and you extract, extract, extract.

[05:50:54] And then you control their political systems.

[05:50:56] You kill the leaders you don't want.

[05:50:58] You put in the dummy ones.

[05:51:00] And then we don't have the foresight to say,

[05:51:02] that might come back against us.

[05:51:04] That's what happened in Iran.

[05:51:06] All the things that we're now fighting are things that we caused through imperialist policies.

[05:51:13] And so we always have to, that's the norm.

[05:51:15] Yeah.

[05:51:16] Do you believe the United States should abandon the posturing of tariffs and export bans and

[05:51:22] the like and instead collaborate with countries that we previously considered foreign adversaries,

[05:51:29] countries like China, this is something that I talked to Matt Duss who does advisory role

[05:51:35] in AMC's foreign policy as well. And there's this new school of thought in American foreign

[05:51:40] policy that's growing with the Quincy Institute and the like, where they think that a collaborative

[05:51:45] approach to countries that we've previously ordained as foreign adversaries is probably

[05:51:48] the best path forward. How do you feel about that?

[05:51:50] I agree. I agree. And the tariffs policy of Trump is not even a Republican policy. It's

[05:51:59] a Trumpian policy. There are plenty of Republicans who know that this is not the appropriate path,

[05:52:04] right? Because of political domination, their voices are muted, just like America first

[05:52:09] conservatives. They don't want us in Iran. You don't have to be a leftist to realize

[05:52:14] we have no business being in Iran. Like, there is, and that's an opportunity to work across

[05:52:21] the aisle, right? Because you got to meet people where they are and realize you may not agree

[05:52:25] on 90% of things, but that 10% could avert the Third World War. And that's how I've

[05:52:33] been successful in the state house. I've had to work with folks who have radically

[05:52:37] different views than me and meet them where they are. And you know, like that's the

[05:52:41] think that corporate media and establishment folks, they don't want us to talk. They don't

[05:52:46] want me validating you and they don't want you validating me because they're afraid that

[05:52:51] if we find a common cause that we're going to disrupt things and we are and you and

[05:52:57] I don't have to agree on 100% of things. I don't agree with 100% of my closest friends

[05:53:01] and family. That's okay. But where we are united.

[05:53:05] Well, that's an organizing background because you've done this a lot. A lot of people,

[05:53:09] Even young leftists don't understand this.

[05:53:11] I try to communicate to them, like, you're not always going to agree on everything.

[05:53:15] Like Bernie, I love Bernie.

[05:53:16] I don't agree with certain things that Bernie does, but it doesn't matter because, like,

[05:53:20] I know what he means.

[05:53:22] I know what he means to this movement.

[05:53:25] I know what he's working towards.

[05:53:28] And I agree with the ultimate goal.

[05:53:31] And even if we don't agree on every single thing, it doesn't matter.

[05:53:34] Right?

[05:53:35] Absolutely.

[05:53:36] Absolutely.

[05:53:37] We can't have this purity test.

[05:53:38] The purity test is always put on us on the left.

[05:53:42] Never on the right, or moderates.

[05:53:43] It's never there.

[05:53:45] And I don't accept that.

[05:53:47] And it's interesting that the Germans who ask,

[05:53:52] who bring this up, they say, well, people say.

[05:53:54] I'm like, well, who are these people?

[05:53:56] Are you saying it?

[05:53:58] I haven't had people say anything

[05:54:00] about why this is problematic.

[05:54:02] You're bringing it up.

[05:54:03] But if you have an issue because you

[05:54:05] are an extension of corporate media,

[05:54:07] Tell me what issues you have because they're also interviewing people who may have repugnant

[05:54:13] politics.

[05:54:14] So how are you doing that?

[05:54:16] Like these double standards?

[05:54:17] Yeah.

[05:54:18] They have Randy Fine on, which by the way, I don't think I'm in the same vein as obviously

[05:54:22] there's no moral equivalence there.

[05:54:24] But we saw why they're afraid.

[05:54:27] We saw why they say, I'm such a dangerous radical.

[05:54:32] It's because hundreds of students, hundreds of Gen Z,

[05:54:38] like people who are much younger than the average person

[05:54:41] who's normally invested in the primary process,

[05:54:44] especially in the Democratic Party,

[05:54:46] are coming out and getting activated, getting primed.

[05:54:49] Obviously, they wouldn't do that if there wasn't

[05:54:52] a candidate that's not worthwhile.

[05:54:56] They're not gonna do that for every single person.

[05:54:58] They're doing it because you identify

[05:55:02] lot of the problems and you choose to solve those problems and it's like

[05:55:06] unheard of it unfortunately. And there's a convergence event. Yeah, we're not leaving

[05:55:09] here, we're still doing it anyway. Yeah. There's a convergence event. You couldn't do this if

[05:55:15] you were here for a corporate dem. But you wouldn't be here if I was a

[05:55:19] corporate dem. Exactly. So that convergence is very scary and let's

[05:55:23] remember when Martin Luther King was starting to talk about militarism and

[05:55:27] poverty and class issues he scared the establishment when Malcolm X was

[05:55:33] starting to talk about New York Times were to op-ed I still remember like I

[05:55:36] remember reading about it they wrote an op-ed after his Vietnam speech where

[05:55:40] they were like you should stick to your own lane yep talk about black issues

[05:55:43] instead that's right about this stuff when you're talking about we're not

[05:55:47] leaving it but when we're talking about collective liberation and how we have

[05:55:51] to bring all people together that's when they got very nervous and Malcolm

[05:55:55] and Martin were getting really close.

[05:55:57] We saw what happened.

[05:55:58] By the way, Malcolm X's birthday

[05:56:01] is the primary day of May 19th.

[05:56:02] Oh, well, hopefully it'll be a good birthday present.

[05:56:06] Insha'Allah.

[05:56:07] Yeah.

[05:56:09] So we were talking about finding common ground.

[05:56:11] It seems like a lot of the policies

[05:56:13] that you have embodied,

[05:56:15] a lot of positive advance,

[05:56:16] including restricting ICE all the way back in 2017

[05:56:19] and calling for its abolition since then

[05:56:21] is now being championed

[05:56:24] or at least being channeled by even your opposition Stanford specifically, I believe is also calling

[05:56:29] for the abolition of ICE.

[05:56:32] Is it, do you think that there is sincerity there, do you think it's more so just like

[05:56:36] responding to what the overall interests are, and what's your plans to protect immigrants

[05:56:43] from being thrown in the camps and the port of the countries they've never been

[05:56:46] to, do you support community members independently tracking ICE and engaging in like neighborhood

[05:56:51] watching things like that?

[05:56:52] Oh hell yeah.

[05:56:53] Oh my goodness.

[05:56:54] And one of the issues I have with liberals

[05:56:58] is they're upset at what's happening with society

[05:57:02] and so forth and they say, this is unprecedented.

[05:57:04] But that's deeply disrespectful to folks

[05:57:08] from communities that struggle like me

[05:57:09] as an African-American.

[05:57:11] When I was saying before about how my 16

[05:57:13] great-great grandparents were born into states

[05:57:16] where slavery was the state law,

[05:57:18] We had to organize ourselves in those moments to protect against deputized white men who

[05:57:26] would rip apart families after the 1850 fugitive slave law.

[05:57:31] So we didn't know who among our neighbors was there to stand up for us or there to strip

[05:57:37] us apart and then send us into slavery down south.

[05:57:42] And that's what's happening now, right?

[05:57:45] It's the same thing.

[05:57:46] It's an iteration of the same forms of systems of oppression.

[05:57:50] And we have to understand that this is rooted in the very fabric of our nation.

[05:57:57] So absolutely we need to make sure that we are not held hostage to a group of lawless

[05:58:02] thugs and masks.

[05:58:04] They are terrorizing our communities and they are destroying whatever like fibers

[05:58:10] are left of civil society.

[05:58:13] So yeah, we have to do all the things that are in our tradition to save ourselves, to

[05:58:18] protect ourselves.

[05:58:20] But with regard to the abolition of ICE, that's just the starting point.

[05:58:25] Like getting rid of a negative is not a positive.

[05:58:29] We also have to dismantle the immigrant concentration camps.

[05:58:33] And people don't understand that they weren't always there.

[05:58:36] It's only been around for like 25 years.

[05:58:38] And it was created.

[05:58:39] It was a false flag.

[05:58:41] created really just for profit maximization corporations because most of this is farmed

[05:58:46] out to major corporations who give to Republicans and Democrats and Geo and their for profit

[05:58:53] grizzly companies.

[05:58:54] So we got to get rid of those but we also have legislation already introduced by members

[05:58:57] of the Congressional Progressive Caucus that look at ways of creating an immigration

[05:59:03] system that is humane, efficient and just, right?

[05:59:08] Like, there are ways we can do this and that's one of the reasons I'm interested in going

[05:59:14] to Congress because progressives already doing the work in Congress, they need reinforcements,

[05:59:19] right?

[05:59:20] So there are policies that can address this.

[05:59:22] It's one thing to stop a bad thing.

[05:59:24] It's another to build comprehensive, substantive policy that keeps communities safe and allow

[05:59:31] immigrants to have wraparound services, housing, healthcare, etc., which is more

[05:59:37] more affordable than putting them in cages, actually, and it's not profit-driven either.

[05:59:43] The better sense of community, the better for the economy overall, if we were to...

[05:59:48] Immigration at the end of the day is a problem with paperwork.

[05:59:51] That's what I like to call it.

[05:59:52] I say these are paperwork crimes.

[05:59:53] They're not real paperwork.

[05:59:54] They're not criminal offenses.

[05:59:55] They're not crimes at all.

[05:59:56] They're paperwork violations, and faster processing would be beneficial for every

[06:00:02] single person, and yet keeping this two-tiered labor structure that exists is unbelievably

[06:00:08] beneficial for all of the wealthy people that own the agribusiness in the country, whether

[06:00:13] they're Republican or Democrat, doesn't matter. That's why Trump had to back away from doing

[06:00:17] the farm, the farm rates.

[06:00:19] Yes, and on the Agri-Fulture Committee, Pennsylvania is a huge agricultural industry, and very

[06:00:26] few Democrats are talking about farm workers. They're talking about farmers as though

[06:00:31] Farmers are working without farm workers. Yeah, right. And that's very disingenuous 70% of farm workers in this state

[06:00:38] Yeah, our immigrants and that's that's across the board actually

[06:00:43] 60% nationally. Yeah

[06:00:45] So it's that's the reason why they had to back away. It was like it was a real convergence of like

[06:00:51] or divergence of

[06:00:53] Racist values like white supremacist white native is anti-immigrant sentiment

[06:00:57] meeting the capitalist bottom line and all of a sudden capitalist bottom line

[06:01:02] went out in that conversation and now you have some real races who are mad they're

[06:01:06] like why are they not doing more deep rotations like well the entire process

[06:01:09] was designed so that people would be kept in limbo so that we so that these

[06:01:14] companies could justify paying them pennies on the dollar and keep on

[06:01:17] hyper exploitation that way there are some other questions that I have as

[06:01:22] well about I'm gonna do a rapid fire around and I'm gonna do the Zoran

[06:01:28] method as I like to call it like what are your five top-line policies so to

[06:01:30] think about that right now but before we get to that there was what else is I

[06:01:37] gonna ask you I had or you just talking about we're talking about

[06:01:41] immigration yeah oh there's this there's this concept I feel like that

[06:01:47] that Rear's ugly head every time there's like signature legislation, rotating villains.

[06:01:53] Right? We saw that with Goldman in the war powers resolution that couldn't pass by one

[06:02:00] vote. And he's in a, I think he's retiring if I'm not mistaken. And that's precisely

[06:02:06] the reason why they were able to find that one vote. I do think that internally there's

[06:02:10] a whipping process, or there's at least like a collaborative process from leadership

[06:02:15] of the party that finds those safe seats oftentimes where there's just enough Democrats that will

[06:02:22] vote alongside the Republicans to stop key pieces of legislation.

[06:02:27] We have the cinemas and the Joe Mansions and they certainly exist in the House of Representatives

[06:02:32] as well.

[06:02:33] Do you feel like the reason why they're coming after people like yourself, coming after someone

[06:02:39] like myself as well that offers a platform to candidates like yourself because we're

[06:02:45] we're doing away with the rotating villain structure and do you have an opinion on how

[06:02:49] to address the rotating villain system when you are in Congress?

[06:02:55] Well, I'm unbought and unbossed.

[06:02:59] That's a very dangerous position for someone like me, because there are not many of us

[06:03:05] who get elected and stay elected against a very powerful democratic machine where incumbency

[06:03:12] is the ideology. The ideology of any machine, where as Democratic or Republican, is in

[06:03:20] competency, is concentration of power. So if you have folks who have independent thought,

[06:03:25] who are not compromised by moneyed interests and insiders, you don't, they can't know

[06:03:32] if their influence is going to work when they want it to work the most. And that's

[06:03:37] very scary to them because they're used to controlling people. And that's why

[06:03:41] I don't have any support from the political class.

[06:03:44] Yeah.

[06:03:44] That's why.

[06:03:45] It's not because I'm a dino.

[06:03:46] It's not like I'm voting with Republicans,

[06:03:49] or I'm lazy, or corrupt, or stupid.

[06:03:52] None of those allegations have ever been made against me.

[06:03:54] The biggest critique I have is, I won't work with them.

[06:03:59] Yeah.

[06:03:59] But I'm not going to be complicit in an agenda that

[06:04:02] doesn't serve the people.

[06:04:04] If it's just about concentration of power,

[06:04:07] why are you Democrats?

[06:04:08] like what makes you any different than the folks

[06:04:11] you are claiming are evil or the problem with America.

[06:04:15] You're doing your own version of autocracy

[06:04:19] in the biggest city, in the most consequential

[06:04:23] swing state in the country.

[06:04:26] And I can't be a part of that.

[06:04:28] And again, my allegiance is not to party, it's to people.

[06:04:32] And that also scares them.

[06:04:34] So I have legislation for open primaries.

[06:04:36] They're particularly with young people.

[06:04:38] If you're 35 and under, the chances of you being a Democrat or Republican are very low.

[06:04:43] Most folks are independents, but in Pennsylvania, you're not allowed to vote in the primary

[06:04:48] if you're an independent.

[06:04:50] But many young people do not want to affiliate with the Democratic Party, even though their

[06:04:55] values more align with them than Republicans, because they understand the Democratic Party

[06:04:59] takes them for granted, does not listen to their, like, we went through this with

[06:05:03] the uncommitted movement.

[06:05:04] Yeah.

[06:05:05] Right?

[06:05:06] Democrats, we will vote for your candidate if you show the spine to say this is a genocide.

[06:05:14] They said we will vote, it's not about voting for Trump, but we're not going to give you

[06:05:18] our vote unless you fucking earn it.

[06:05:21] And Democrats said, fuck you.

[06:05:24] They did, yeah.

[06:05:25] And that also creates a lot of apathy.

[06:05:27] So I think what a lot of people don't understand in the party system and the national party

[06:05:33] in the DNC is that candidates like yourself

[06:05:37] are breathing life back into that political movement

[06:05:40] and making people more politically active.

[06:05:43] But then they're so invested in winning by their own design

[06:05:49] or even losing by their own design like Kamala did in 2024

[06:05:53] that they don't mind if there's tremendous voter apathy,

[06:05:56] but then they'll turn around and say,

[06:05:57] oh, well, we don't know what happened.

[06:05:59] Why didn't you vote for us?

[06:06:00] Harm reduction voting, that's not how it works, right?

[06:06:03] And people want to go live for something.

[06:06:05] Right, and they're blaming,

[06:06:07] that's the piece that people still don't get

[06:06:08] even now in this moment.

[06:06:10] They do not believe that young people will show up.

[06:06:14] They believe that young people are apathetic

[06:06:17] or disinterested or uninformed.

[06:06:21] No, that's the absolute opposite.

[06:06:24] They care about folks who care about them.

[06:06:26] Why would you give up your political capital

[06:06:29] and for someone who doesn't respect you,

[06:06:31] who doesn't see you and embrace your values.

[06:06:34] That makes perfect sense to me.

[06:06:38] So one last question before I get to the final round

[06:06:41] is that we have probably, do we have time still?

[06:06:44] Are we good?

[06:06:45] We can do a couple more questions.

[06:06:47] Okay, all right.

[06:06:48] Around 40% of all jobs in your district

[06:06:50] are susceptible to be displaced by AI.

[06:06:55] They can be automated away.

[06:06:57] How do you plan on assuring the residents

[06:06:59] of Pennsylvania's third district

[06:07:01] continue putting food on the table if and when that happens and do you support data centers

[06:07:06] being built in Philly?

[06:07:08] Oh hell no.

[06:07:09] That's an easy question.

[06:07:11] I believe we should have a national moratorium on the construction of data centers.

[06:07:15] Here's what people don't understand and you kind of let into it when you started by

[06:07:20] saying this 40% worker displacement in this congressional district.

[06:07:26] don't understand like AI will continue to exist without new data centers. The

[06:07:31] reason they're expanding capacity is to find more ways to more quickly displace

[06:07:37] as many workers as humanly possible to maximize profit without the regular

[06:07:43] body catching up to it as well. Exactly so the goal of the data center

[06:07:47] construction is not to affirm AI like a technology can be used for good or

[06:07:55] bad. The example I give is the cotton gin. People say oh we need innovation, we need growth.

[06:08:01] Innovation and growth came through the adoption of the cotton gin and so it created great wealth

[06:08:08] and great productivity, worker productivity. The problem was the workers were enslaved and because

[06:08:14] of the adoption of the cotton gin it meant that black people would now think that they would

[06:08:20] never be free or their grandkids because they were making their white owners so much money.

[06:08:27] So the fact that black folk freed themselves and we saved ourselves when no one thought

[06:08:33] it was possible is a tribute to organizing, right?

[06:08:37] And it goes to innovation.

[06:08:39] Innovation is only as good as what the value of it is.

[06:08:43] So if it's profit maximization, I don't care how innovative it is.

[06:08:46] If it's towards justice, I'm down.

[06:08:48] So AI can be used for any purpose, but the reason we're expanding its capacity, not

[06:08:54] we, Wall Street, corporations, is because they want to get rid of as many workers as

[06:09:01] possible to maximize the profit for the billionaire class.

[06:09:07] And so that's why we should stop it.

[06:09:09] Even if that weren't the issue, we'd have environmental issues, right?

[06:09:13] water supply, utility bills, other displacements. Ethics as well, like where is AI being used,

[06:09:22] dangers of misinformation. All of that. All of that would be addressed hopefully after

[06:09:26] a moratorium rather than going all in on AI in this way.

[06:09:31] Oh and you know what's also interesting about that? Some of the folks who were sounding

[06:09:35] the alarm, who were technologists, brilliant people, many of them were black women and

[06:09:41] They were ousted by Google and Metta and so forth,

[06:09:44] and they were sounding alarms

[06:09:45] and they were not being listened to.

[06:09:47] And so we have to make sure that we listen to voices

[06:09:51] in communities of struggle

[06:09:52] who may not be centered in these conversations,

[06:09:55] but whose brilliance must be affirmed.

[06:09:57] And there are articles about these women

[06:10:00] who are talking about the ethics,

[06:10:02] who are talking about the inherent biases in AI

[06:10:05] and how it's going to hurt us

[06:10:07] if we don't do that due diligence.

[06:10:09] Um, okay last question before I get to this or one you've been outspoken about Obama's failures in

[06:10:15] Handling the 2008 financial crisis. What do you believe Biden did wrong in his presidency to get us?

[06:10:21] Trump too

[06:10:24] Well, you know it's interesting

[06:10:27] The things he got right

[06:10:31] He didn't promote in ways that reach people in the understatement, right? Yes, like the things he actually did like

[06:10:37] The infrastructure bill, like, it was watered down because of Joe Manchin and other spoilers,

[06:10:42] but like, there was a lot of good in there with the IRA, and it's like, they did nothing

[06:10:47] to promote it.

[06:10:48] Even pulling out of Afghanistan, it was considered a critical moment, and everyone was panning

[06:10:54] him.

[06:10:55] It was people on the left that were like, no, this is good, like, he's doing the

[06:10:57] right thing.

[06:10:58] Right, you have to, listen, sometimes you have to show versus tell.

[06:11:04] An example I give is we legalized medical cannabis in Pennsylvania in 2016.

[06:11:11] I took office in 2017 and in 2018, we started having dispensaries pop up and a lot of folks

[06:11:17] in the black community, particularly our elders were like, no, this is bad.

[06:11:21] They're putting these bad businesses in black communities, you know, because they're trying

[06:11:25] to punish us.

[06:11:26] And I was trying to say, no, these businesses are creating good local jobs.

[06:11:31] They're the safest businesses on corridors because they require to have all of these cameras

[06:11:36] and such and there is a lot of medicinal benefit from the cannabis that's regulated that can

[06:11:41] benefit particularly a lot of elders who suffer from all kinds of ailments and it's so much

[06:11:46] better than the big pharma.

[06:11:49] And it was one thing to say that it was another thing to actually take them to

[06:11:55] a dispensary because when they heard dispensary they heard drug dealing, they heard crack

[06:12:01] house because they they didn't know what a dispensary was because how would they

[06:12:06] know so I picked up a bunch of little old ladies I drove to their house I picked

[06:12:11] them up and I drove them to the suburbs and I took them to a dispensary and it

[06:12:15] was like a beautiful like luxury spa looking places beautiful people were

[06:12:19] nice they're all well paid and it was just laid out wonderfully and they were

[06:12:23] like oh this is what a dispensary could look like in my neighborhood and I

[06:12:27] I said, don't you think we deserve businesses like this?

[06:12:31] They're gonna put another rent a center,

[06:12:32] and I put another family dollar,

[06:12:34] another fast food joint in our place.

[06:12:37] And then the businesses that are actually building

[06:12:39] community wealth that are safe and pay people well,

[06:12:41] that goes to the suburbs.

[06:12:43] And they change their views because of the experience

[06:12:47] they had showing them versus simply talking at them.

[06:12:50] And that's always a great way to engage people.

[06:12:53] All right, now to the Zora question.

[06:12:56] What?

[06:12:57] We go and do that on the right to the other place. We won't do it now.

[06:13:00] Oh wait, are we going inside right now?

[06:13:03] Yeah.

[06:13:03] Yeah, all right, let's do it. Let's just go inside.

[06:13:05] So quick, context. These are the students, young professionals, a lot of them unregistered,

[06:13:09] voters, or apathetics of the system. So they're all out here, so definitely hit like May 4th,

[06:13:15] deadline for voter registration and get anything else to move.

[06:13:19] Okay, are we giving speeches again?

[06:13:21] Uh, Grab and ask you to leave.

[06:13:23] Okay, I'll be back.

[06:13:25] Yeah, all right, how are you?

[06:13:27] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[06:13:29] Yeah, all right.

[06:13:39] All right.

[06:13:40] How are you feeling? Good?

[06:13:41] Yeah, good. Yeah, just keep me on time.

[06:13:43] Do you need some water?

[06:13:44] I have the bottles for you.

[06:13:45] Oh, yeah, thank you.

[06:13:51] How are you doing?

[06:13:52] Are we going?

[06:13:53] You're on?

[06:13:53] Yes, they tried.

[06:13:55] You're right, right.

[06:13:57] The other guy's not quite back.

[06:14:00] The bag is in the trunk.

[06:14:02] Yeah, yeah, that's fine.

[06:14:04] OK, where they at?

[06:14:36] Hey!

[06:14:36] Thank you.

[06:14:37] What's up?

[06:14:38] He's in our car.

[06:14:40] Oh, yeah, you're right.

[06:14:42] You have it?

[06:14:43] No, they have it.

[06:14:44] Can you guys grab the backpack from the car?

[06:14:46] Yeah.

[06:14:47] It's in our car?

[06:14:49] Yeah.

[06:14:50] This is one of the cars.

[06:14:51] Is it?

[06:14:52] Hmm?

[06:14:53] You're good?

[06:14:54] Hell yeah.

[06:14:55] We need to get into your car,

[06:14:56] get your team's car again to get out from the backpack.

[06:14:58] Oh, mom, they have a...

[06:15:00] Oh, didn't you grab it?

[06:15:01] Yeah.

[06:15:02] Oh, he's in the car?

[06:15:03] Yeah.

[06:15:04] What's up people?

[06:15:11] What's up little man?

[06:15:20] I'm Chris Webb and I'm running for Congress.

[06:15:49] And this is a song by her

[06:15:53] This is amazing. I'm told that

[06:15:59] I'm back at you. He's bothered. I'm loving it.

[06:16:04] I understand some of you were fairly young.

[06:16:07] Is that accurate? Some of you are maybe newly registered voters.

[06:16:14] some soon raise your hand if you're about to register to vote raise them a little higher

[06:16:23] let's show some love for them I would address those of you who are about to

[06:16:34] registered to vote. I've been voting a long time. Gosh, almost 40 years. I don't

[06:16:45] need you to pledge allegiance to a party. I want you to hear me when I say

[06:16:52] that. This is not about you becoming a Democrat or a Republican. This is about

[06:16:59] using the systems that allow you to express your voice and your values when

[06:17:06] it matters most because when you vote you will determine the trajectory of this

[06:17:15] city this state and this country and young people will determine who wins on

[06:17:26] May 19th. That is my prediction. And I want you to understand, I identify as a

[06:17:31] Democratic Socialist, but I'm running as a Democrat because the system creates

[06:17:37] this narrowness. But there's a bunch of Democrats running and we are not all

[06:17:43] the same. We are very different. We may share this label in this moment, in

[06:17:50] in this system, but we are very different. So if you choose to register as a Democrat,

[06:18:00] you are not pledging allegiance to that party. You are using your power in that moment to

[06:18:09] vote for the person who you believe reflects your interests, your interests, and the interests

[06:18:17] of the communities that you hold most dear. Some of whose members cannot vote because they

[06:18:25] may be too young, or they may not be citizens, or they may be incarcerated. There are a number

[06:18:32] of people who will not vote for any number of reasons. So when you're voting, you're

[06:18:37] voting for them as well. And many of those folks who you may be voting for are being

[06:18:44] erased by Democrats and Republicans alike. But if you vote for me, I see you. I see you.

[06:18:56] And I love you. I am running based on radiant love. I want to expand and diffuse it so everyone

[06:19:06] feels seen and respected. We're not all going to agree on everything. That's okay. Who

[06:19:13] Who has family members that they disagree with things on?

[06:19:16] All of us!

[06:19:17] That's okay.

[06:19:19] But if you believe in justice, you believe in care and empathy and compassion, you have

[06:19:28] one choice to make, and that choice will resonate, not just in this election, but for a very

[06:19:37] long time, and you will see yourself in that power.

[06:19:41] And so for those of you who care about justice overseas, if you understand that there's a

[06:19:50] genocide and you believe that this country is complicit in that and you don't want your

[06:19:59] tax dollars funding in humanity, then you have only one choice to make and you're looking

[06:20:06] at them.

[06:20:08] If you believe that you shouldn't work for 40 hours a week and still be in poverty, you

[06:20:17] got one choice to make.

[06:20:19] You're looking at them.

[06:20:22] If you believe in universal healthcare, Medicare for all, and stop playing around the edges

[06:20:28] and believe and invest in bold policies, that can be initiated in the near term.

[06:20:36] looking at the person who will represent you. You have a voice. I seek to amplify your voice

[06:20:44] in the halls of power and the reason you should feel confident that I will be accountable to

[06:20:52] you is because my campaign is funded by you. There are people in this room who are underemployed,

[06:21:01] underpaid, unemployed, who've given me a dollar,

[06:21:07] literally, or $5 or $10.

[06:21:11] Do you know how meaningful that is?

[06:21:14] That I have the affirmation of people who are struggling

[06:21:17] and have chosen to give me anything

[06:21:20] because they wanna feel like they are part of something

[06:21:23] bigger than themselves, bigger than me,

[06:21:26] bigger than this congressional district,

[06:21:28] bigger than the city of Philadelphia,

[06:21:30] And that we are on the right side of history, that in this moment, we are part of a movement

[06:21:37] that will transform society as we know it.

[06:21:41] And the reason I have so much confidence in this is because I've never seen anything

[06:21:46] like this before.

[06:21:48] This is all you know as young people.

[06:21:50] But I've been around the block a few times.

[06:21:52] I have never, ever, ever seen this level of aggressive,

[06:21:59] fab velocity in my life coming from young people.

[06:22:06] This is your moment.

[06:22:07] This is our moment.

[06:22:09] What we make of it is whatever we want to.

[06:22:13] But let's do it in love and care and humanity

[06:22:16] and creativity and resistance and feel

[06:22:20] joy in that solidarity knowing that you are standing up for your neighbors. I am in common

[06:22:27] cause with Palestinians. I am in common cause with Minnesotans. I'm in common cause with

[06:22:38] so many people who come from communities of struggle who have been erased and marginalized.

[06:22:43] I see you because I'm one of you. I descend from people who are not supposed to own

[06:22:50] their own labor. All of my grandparents, grandparents were property of other human beings. I am the

[06:23:03] example, I am the wildest dreams of my ancestors. What we do in this moment will change everything.

[06:23:15] And you all chose to be with me in this moment.

[06:23:19] What we do with it is entirely up to us, but we have to show up.

[06:23:24] We have to vote.

[06:23:25] And when you register and you want to vote for me and you register as a Democrat, I don't

[06:23:30] care if you change your party affiliation right after the election.

[06:23:36] I am not trying to get you to be a Democrat.

[06:23:39] I'm trying to get you to be a voter so that your voice will resonate in the halls of power

[06:23:46] and beyond.

[06:23:47] So I thank all of you so much for showing up, for being a part of something bigger than

[06:23:53] yourselves, and giving me your consideration, your labor, your love to help this transformation

[06:24:00] begin and extend and radiate across this nation.

[06:24:05] Thank you.

[06:24:07] I've never seen anything like this.

[06:24:12] This is nuts.

[06:24:16] Real quick, because I know everybody's waiting for Hasan's like,

[06:24:19] pay attention.

[06:24:21] Laundry list, May 4th is the last day to register to vote.

[06:24:25] So if y'all aren't registered, we got a few days left.

[06:24:28] May 4th.

[06:24:30] May 4th.

[06:24:32] If you are registered and you have family members who are registered, help them get registered.

[06:24:38] Also, have your A-PAC and the corporate tax money coming into the district.

[06:24:44] We don't have the money to compete with them, so you're not going to see us all the same.

[06:24:49] You're not going to see us all the same.

[06:24:51] What's worth is door to door not just people.

[06:24:54] That's how we get the message out there.

[06:24:56] 30% of registered holders of Philadelphia are undecided.

[06:25:00] to them because they're receptive to the message.

[06:25:04] So if you can please sign up.

[06:25:06] This Saturday we have a Canvas summer leave,

[06:25:08] Congresswoman Summer Lee is coming.

[06:25:10] Please come through.

[06:25:11] And any Canvas that you can join from now till May 19,

[06:25:15] that's how we're gonna win this race.

[06:25:16] People Powered Campaign organized people,

[06:25:20] trying to be organized money without further ado,

[06:25:22] Hassan.

[06:25:23] Woohoo!

[06:25:24] Woohoo!

[06:25:25] Thank you!

[06:25:26] Thank you!

[06:25:27] Thank you!

[06:25:28] All right, is everyone having a great time today?

[06:25:32] I wasn't used to the rain. I didn't realize it was going to rain when I came out here.

[06:25:38] I'm going to melt in the... I'm not only used to the California sun, but I'm very excited to be here with Chris and all of you guys.

[06:25:46] Thank you so much for coming out. Give yourself a round of applause for being here.

[06:25:50] I assume many of you went out there and protested if your students over the last two and a half

[06:25:59] years as Israel was committing a genocide with our tax dollars as the Democratic Party

[06:26:06] looked on and decided not to listen to your voices and your just demands, right?

[06:26:13] Shame on them.

[06:26:15] That creates a lot of apathy.

[06:26:18] It creates a lot of apathy when you go out and you doorknock for Bernie Sanders and the

[06:26:22] party does everything they can to make sure he doesn't actually win the candidacy for

[06:26:26] the Democrats.

[06:26:28] It creates a lot of apathy when you do the uncommitted movement, when you say, look,

[06:26:32] we got one voice, there's an election cycle going on.

[06:26:36] You have to listen to our demands.

[06:26:38] We will not vote for you if you continue committing a genocide.

[06:26:41] And the party says, no, we will win or lose, but we will win with our own design.

[06:26:48] and then they end up losing and things get much worse.

[06:26:51] Donald Trump becomes president.

[06:26:54] A lot of people in my community have also had apathy.

[06:26:58] However, with people like Chris,

[06:27:01] with the other candidates that I'm promoting,

[06:27:03] with the other candidates that I go out and talk to,

[06:27:07] I see a lot of hope.

[06:27:09] The reason why I see a lot of hope is because

[06:27:11] I think a lot of you also understand

[06:27:14] that candidates like Chris represent something different.

[06:27:19] We all know the Republicans suck.

[06:27:21] We all know they're racist, they're monsters,

[06:27:24] they love the Epstein class, they love waging war,

[06:27:28] they love corporations.

[06:27:30] But the Democrats, some of them also love

[06:27:32] the very same things.

[06:27:34] They don't love you.

[06:27:35] They don't care about you.

[06:27:36] They don't care about your interests.

[06:27:38] And that's precisely the reason why

[06:27:40] letting your voice be heard in the primary system

[06:27:43] is almost as important, if not more important,

[06:27:47] because the Democratic Party's primary

[06:27:50] is what determines the trajectory

[06:27:53] of the Democratic Party.

[06:27:54] If you're angry because there's people like Joe Manchin,

[06:27:57] Kirsten Sinema, people like John Federman.

[06:28:03] Don't say the N-word.

[06:28:04] Not a lot of Federman fans in here.

[06:28:07] Well, he's no fan of mine either.

[06:28:08] He's always on Fox News, he happened.

[06:28:10] But if you're mad that there are politicians like this that constantly ruin whatever kind

[06:28:18] of agenda that even the Democrats claim they care about, if you're mad about the fact that

[06:28:23] there are rotating villains in the party, where they always find just the right amount of

[06:28:29] votes to make sure that we can't put a check on Donald Trump's aggressive warmongering,

[06:28:36] Or if you're mad that there's never enough money for healthcare in this country, but unlimited

[06:28:41] funds to bomb other countries, well you have an opportunity to make that change.

[06:28:47] You have an opportunity to let your voice be heard.

[06:28:51] For far too long, people have been told, myself included, that we have to vote for

[06:28:56] harm reduction.

[06:28:58] We have to vote because we have to vote against the Republican Party.

[06:29:01] We all know the Republican Party is bad.

[06:29:05] But you now have an opportunity to vote for something.

[06:29:08] And not just Chris, but you have an opportunity to vote for Medicare for all, knowing full

[06:29:12] well that he's going to fight that battle for you.

[06:29:15] You have an opportunity to vote for a jobs guarantee, endless militarism, ending the

[06:29:22] endless militarism, to make sure that every single dollar that we spend on new ways

[06:29:28] to murder children overseas can be spent here taking care of our children, taking

[06:29:34] care of your family members, to make sure that instead of spending all that money blowing

[06:29:38] up schools overseas, we spend that money on building schools right here.

[06:29:44] And this is a universal value that many of you share and that's precisely the reason

[06:29:47] why the vote that you cast is not just for Philadelphia, it's not just for Pennsylvania,

[06:29:54] it's not just for even places like myself in Los Angeles, California, it's for people

[06:29:59] overseas as well.

[06:30:01] for everybody else. So, I'm very happy and very honored to endorse Chris and be here

[06:30:09] with him and get to see all of you and I'm very excited to see what we can do with a

[06:30:14] more responsive politics in this country. Thank you.

[06:30:18] All right, let's do it, let's turn around and get a picture real quick.

[06:30:31] I shaved my head.

[06:30:38] Yeah, after this we're gonna peel out. We're gonna go back.

[06:30:54] Damn, you're getting good at this shit. That's what you had to say.

[06:31:04] Let's do it.

[06:31:08] Let me speak a little bit more.

[06:31:18] Everybody say May 4th.

[06:31:26] May 4th!

[06:31:27] That's registration.

[06:31:28] That's registration.

[06:31:29] What day is voting?

[06:31:30] May 19th!

[06:31:31] Last day for mail-in ballots.

[06:31:34] May 12th.

[06:31:35] That's a quiz.

[06:31:36] All right, one more time, May 4th, May 12th is bailing balance, May 19th is voting in person.

[06:31:45] Does everyone register to volunteer?

[06:31:48] If you are not registered to volunteer, please see me at the front of the table.

[06:31:54] Also, there's no caffeine in the, I didn't need to, what's going on?

[06:31:57] Yeah, that's good.

[06:32:29] You want me to tag you?

[06:32:30] Yeah, I'll grab it.

[06:32:31] Thank you so much.

[06:32:32] March, you have the bag?

[06:32:33] I'll grab it.

[06:32:34] Okay.

[06:32:35] Can I get a photo with you?

[06:32:36] Sure.

[06:32:37] A grill please.

[06:32:38] A real fast grill.

[06:32:39] Snap a move.

[06:32:40] A real fast.

[06:32:41] Chad, we should understand how proud it is in here.

[06:32:44] I'm moving with one inch of space in every direction.

[06:32:47] That's what they can't hold on shaking.

[06:32:49] I don't know if we're close enough to get it.

[06:32:52] I got one.

[06:32:53] I got one.

[06:32:54] I got one.

[06:32:55] I got one.

[06:32:56] I got one.

[06:32:57] Sure, sure.

[06:32:59] How long has the photo been?

[06:33:01] No, real quick, real quick.

[06:33:03] We can't do a photo on my every book.

[06:33:05] Yeah, we gotta go.

[06:33:07] We just work for our batters, but the guy.

[06:33:09] Yeah, man, here's yours.

[06:33:11] Thank you.

[06:33:13] First anniversary, do you have all this stuff?

[06:33:15] I'm gonna take care of some stuff.

[06:33:17] Thank you.

[06:33:19] Thank you everybody.

[06:33:21] Thank you.

[06:33:23] Thank you for being here.

[06:33:25] Thank you for being here. Thank you for being here.

[06:33:28] Wait, we have to get stuff out of the other car as well.

[06:33:32] What's your plan?

[06:33:34] We're going to go back to the hotel.

[06:33:36] You're done with the interview part?

[06:33:38] Yeah, yeah, it's fine.

[06:33:39] We did it.

[06:33:40] Take the camera.

[06:33:41] Yeah, you don't have to leave on our board.

[06:33:43] You guys got a bunch of other stuff.

[06:33:45] We're going to go to Nicky Lopez now.

[06:33:46] So let them get that stuff in the car.

[06:33:48] Even if you want to talk to some students real quick before we go.

[06:33:51] There we go at Nicky Lopez.

[06:33:53] Yeah, yeah, this was great. This is fantastic. Thank you so much

[06:34:01] You want to give a quick shout out to the

[06:34:05] Camera tell them what you want to say, you know may forth all the dates and how people

[06:34:14] Chris wrap here look if you are in the third congressional district

[06:34:18] I would love your vote and your support.

[06:34:21] It's May 19th, May 4th to make sure that you either register or you register as a Democrat

[06:34:27] so you can vote for me.

[06:34:28] You don't have to love the Democratic Party to vote for me.

[06:34:31] I do not care because I'm not here for the party, I'm here for the people.

[06:34:35] I also appreciate if you check me out at chrisrabbe.com.

[06:34:39] You can volunteer even as far away as LA.

[06:34:41] You can volunteer remotely and you can also give because I do not take a dime of corporate

[06:34:47] I don't take money from APAC, APAC affiliates, subordinates, subsidiaries, allies.

[06:34:54] I take money from the people and I use it to invest in the folks who are closest to the pain and are part of the movement.

[06:35:01] So please, please, please, chrisrabb.com. That's RABB, that's short for rabble rouser.

[06:35:07] I love that.

[06:35:08] Alright, ready? Go!

[06:35:09] Alright, brother.

[06:35:10] Thank you.

[06:35:11] So nice meeting you.

[06:35:12] I'm right.

[06:35:13] I'm going to take my mic off.

[06:35:20] Hold on.

[06:35:22] We're walking this way.

[06:35:23] Yeah, I'm going to take my mic off.

[06:35:25] Oh, okay.

[06:35:26] I'm on my way out.

[06:35:31] Yeah, she got you.

[06:35:33] What's up, Casey?

[06:35:35] I can't hear you.

[06:35:37] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[06:35:39] What's up?

[06:35:40] There you go.

[06:35:41] I appreciate your time, this was great.

[06:35:43] Good to see you.

[06:35:44] I was at DSA, you know, in your DSA.

[06:35:46] Yeah, yeah, I saw that.

[06:35:47] Oh, thank you.

[06:35:49] Alright, we gotta grab stuff from the other car real quick.

[06:35:52] Okay, have a look.

[06:35:53] Yeah.

[06:35:55] And then this is the car, right?

[06:35:57] Yeah.

[06:35:58] Alright, we'll get into it in a second.

[06:35:59] I'll have a chat.

[06:36:02] Yeah, yeah, I do, I have a lot.

[06:36:06] I'm on.

[06:36:09] I have the big poster.

[06:36:10] okay all right I'll grab this stuff I don't know what this is but I got it I got

[06:36:20] it oops sorry

[06:36:26] okay sure you got it thank you all right let's do it hi

[06:36:40] Yeah, no, I'm good. I'll see him later.

[06:36:43] Can I get a picture?

[06:36:44] Yeah, yeah.

[06:36:50] What?

[06:36:52] Oh, wow. That's OG.

[06:37:03] I got it.

[06:37:05] I got the bag and everything, right?

[06:37:07] I did.

[06:37:08] wait I gotta go my man I'm sorry all right here sure let's do it real quick

[06:37:13] come on where's your phone yes thank you thank you here

[06:37:18] All right, all right, all right, all right.

[06:37:22] Okay, oh, Jesus Christ.

[06:37:25] I'm just gonna take a picture of you.

[06:37:27] All right.

[06:37:28] See, see, I'm feeling like I'm feeling like I'm feeling like a silly teen.

[06:37:33] Yeah.

[06:37:34] Why, what does this have to do with...

[06:37:36] I have a cover, sir.

[06:37:38] What does this have to do with silly teens?

[06:37:39] We just plug them in.

[06:37:40] We just plug them back in.

[06:37:41] Oh, I know.

[06:37:42] I'm gonna plug them back in.

[06:37:43] Okay.

[06:37:44] Plug the entire thing.

[06:37:45] I'm not gonna plug the entire thing.

[06:37:46] Plug the baggy plug the entire bag

[06:37:50] Where's the charge? Sorry China start the music

[06:38:03] Is he gonna say is the audio on with the

[06:38:08] Where we're gonna go like is he gonna say it on accident because we don't want to reveal where we're staying and stuff

[06:38:13] Yeah

[06:38:15] All right, all right word

[06:38:20] Chat I know it's dark. Hold on chat. We're fixing it

[06:38:24] Here

[06:38:30] You know, you were to ask them that they would say I'm very mean to them

[06:38:35] No, he says that plenty of times, okay, that a lot, they deserve it though, they deserve

[06:38:47] to be yelled at, let's be real.

[06:38:49] Alright, um, charging, charging, yeah, it's charging, let's go, we're good, alright, we

[06:38:56] made it, that's crazy, second time marches, okay, get the pegs in your room, you just

[06:39:03] to plug it in. Second time. To be fair, we ran way over. Oh, oh, that's what it is.

[06:39:21] Okay. What a day, huh? I was not expecting that crowd. That was crazy. That was fucking

[06:39:29] same. Yeah. Seems like Chris wasn't expecting either. Yeah, yeah, that was great. A lot of fun.

[06:39:38] We're gonna be in Missouri. How was the food? Oh my god, it was so good.

[06:39:43] No, no, no, no, it's not a lot bro. Oh my god. The general Roscoe's was excellent

[06:39:52] and the egg roll there's like a Philly cheesesteak. Chris had the salmon I don't

[06:39:59] eat seafood but I had the regular beef one. Oh so good. The donut was yeah I was

[06:40:08] fine. Okay okay. Why you gotta why you gotta call me I'm like yeah. Yeah no no no

[06:40:18] The doughnut was insane. It was a I think it was a sweet potato doughnut. Oh, so good

[06:40:28] See you see this is what I meant when I said is he gonna tell us what's going on and you said no

[06:40:38] Are you doing these yeah

[06:40:40] Yeah, yeah, okay

[06:40:42] We'll see you back

[06:40:45] Uh, I was not familiar with Chris Drabbs' game

[06:40:48] Yeah, he's got it like that

[06:40:50] He's fucking awesome

[06:40:52] Yeah, he's dope

[06:40:54] Yeah, bro, DSA National endorsed me

[06:40:56] That's a very...

[06:40:58] DSA National is...

[06:41:00] They will not endorse people

[06:41:02] Like they are...

[06:41:04] They're very careful

[06:41:06] What the fuck are they like what you're doing?

[06:41:08] What is happening up there are they close the road

[06:41:38] I'm born and raised on a playground, I spent my four days.

[06:41:42] Sorry, I can't sleep.

[06:41:46] I don't even hate when people see this.

[06:41:48] They say something about Philly.

[06:41:50] Yeah, they say, come here.

[06:41:52] Well, you don't like that either?

[06:41:54] What do you like about Philadelphia, bro?

[06:41:56] You hate everything about Philly.

[06:41:58] I hate that.

[06:42:00] Well, you grow up somewhere and you hear this shit all the time.

[06:42:02] It's like hearing the song Summertime every fucking summer.

[06:42:06] You want to hear in the fall switch it up a little bit

[06:42:12] I know my playlist so I can listen to it at random

[06:42:16] See that's how you operate it

[06:42:18] But no I love it don't get it wrong like I love silly and I don't get fucked with your chance

[06:42:22] They go huge and silly eat a dick

[06:42:24] I love my stuff

[06:42:26] It's just certain shit I don't like

[06:42:28] Yeah you just there's just a lot you don't like

[06:42:30] You don't like the sports teams

[06:42:32] You don't like the traffic

[06:42:34] You don't you don't like the theme song

[06:42:37] That's not our theme song, don't do that.

[06:42:39] What's the theme song for Philly?

[06:42:41] That shit, that shit.

[06:42:43] I don't want to hear that shit either.

[06:42:45] I don't want to hear that shit a little bit.

[06:42:47] I don't want to hear that shit either.

[06:42:49] That was the theme song for the Super Bowl, wasn't it?

[06:42:51] That was the theme song for like ten years, bro.

[06:42:53] I'm over that shit.

[06:42:55] That shit is everywhere.

[06:42:57] That shit is on commercials.

[06:42:59] That shit is at boxers.

[06:43:01] You got to go do a tour in Cleveland or something.

[06:43:03] I got to get on.

[06:43:05] of what it's like on the other side that's what I mean so you can come back and

[06:43:12] appreciate Philadelphia more I mean I mean that'd be some fake shit but I love

[06:43:25] everything I was the greatest city in the world was that what's here by your

[06:43:32] Estimation was the greatest in the world

[06:43:40] Wait, have you been

[06:43:46] And I like to be by myself most of the time like that's crazy

[06:43:51] You will be the only black person in Alaska

[06:43:56] You just want to be special

[06:44:02] shit

[06:44:12] Do you do you like the cold? Okay, that's that makes sense then

[06:44:25] I thought Phoenix goes like

[06:44:32] Was that Phoenix yeah, I think so yeah, that's only hot that's like when you get crack an egg on the sidewalk and it cooks

[06:44:42] It don't force you to do it

[06:44:54] But then I see people I think it's facing time to cut the ECP are there with no shoes on the foot flop

[06:44:58] You got a lot of flip-flopping though, so you can cook your head with that pink ass flip-flopping though

[06:45:04] I don't believe it

[06:45:07] I'm gonna sit here. I wasn't gonna cut the music room, but they ain't doing stuff. So I'm gonna sit here to chill

[06:45:12] Love you all came in

[06:45:16] Oh my god

[06:45:18] He's chill, man, hopefully ready, he's still there.

[06:45:26] They said he's on to something with the flip flops.

[06:45:29] They're saying it's sus.

[06:45:32] What's that about?

[06:45:34] I don't want to go into the comments.

[06:45:38] So you just stream on every platform?

[06:45:44] Yeah, I mean I'm I stream on twitch, but I we put the videos on YouTube and tick-tock

[06:45:52] Yeah, his ransom probably gonna make it on tick-tock

[06:46:06] What do they watch

[06:46:14] Who do they what do they watch on Twitch? Do you know?

[06:46:18] Wait, why no I might know them that's why man

[06:46:21] Everybody knows the little boy

[06:46:23] Who oh, okay

[06:46:30] Fanno

[06:46:36] The older dude. Oh my god

[06:46:39] do Dennis no no it's just funny how you're you're what's the other dudes the

[06:46:45] other chubby dirt skin with the fat one with the dreads with the big-ass

[06:46:48] forehead I don't know like a whole team my son like yeah yeah MP MP you're talking

[06:46:55] about MP yeah wait maybe maybe a chubby dude they were talking with the big

[06:46:59] forehead oh my god oh my god

[06:47:05] watch all of my son in my daughter's over the care for my son you watch it

[06:47:09] yo did he put tape on his bullet hole in his car bro he got tape on his bullet hole

[06:47:14] with the card wow that's crazy see what I mean yeah wait is it isn't Philadelphia

[06:47:20] open carry now or something I saw a tick talk of a dude who's walking around

[06:47:24] yeah he was like yeah he has a yellow t-shirt on that's crazy that they're

[06:47:34] like literally wait don't wait for them over they're gonna come out but that's

[06:47:42] crazy that they're intercepting the car um yeah there's a dude with like a

[06:47:47] yellow t-shirt I was watching and he like got this 18-year-old to also

[06:47:54] He was caught at eight times, but he got tape on it like regular tape.

[06:47:59] He was driving while he got caught by a knot.

[06:48:04] He probably was in his house sleep and they shot his car out.

[06:48:10] Yeah, there's no way.

[06:48:12] Yo, but he really did like tape on it.

[06:48:18] It wasn't like, it's like a dollar store thing.

[06:48:23] He doesn't want, he doesn't want to mess with the aerodynamics.

[06:48:27] Yo, they already fucked it up with the bulls.

[06:48:30] Why he should be wobbling when he's in the car.

[06:48:33] Yo, I'm not talking about that man.

[06:48:36] We got tape on his own.

[06:48:38] But yeah, what's that?

[06:48:39] So you do open carry now in Philadelphia?

[06:48:41] Yeah.

[06:48:42] That's crazy.

[06:48:43] I saw him like walking around cops and yelling.

[06:48:45] He seemed a little unwell though.

[06:48:47] I was like, there's a...

[06:48:48] Yeah, but he was only like 18 years old.

[06:48:50] I was like if there's a dude who shouldn't be open caring it's that guy

[06:48:54] He was like yelling. He's like you can't do anything. This is legal now. I was like, bro

[06:48:58] You should not be antagonizing

[06:49:04] Safety hazard could be on there with all this previous day he see he gave safety hazard vibes a little bit

[06:49:20] I'm just saying most of the fillings shouldn't be open-carry.

[06:49:26] Watch your mouth, yo.

[06:49:28] What would you say to that?

[06:49:30] He is very cheap, big kid.

[06:49:34] I want the small one of this.

[06:49:39] Okay, the glorious infidel?

[06:49:41] I want the small one.

[06:49:43] You know the big black redness beast mode, but...

[06:49:47] see a lot of extra height

[06:49:49] double behind this

[06:49:51] this is where I stay in the house most of the time

[06:49:53] you know

[06:49:55] same

[06:49:57] not no LA traffic way worse than this

[06:49:59] yeah but we never

[06:50:01] I never leave my house, I stream from my house usually

[06:50:03] so I just never have to leave

[06:50:05] I could do that really

[06:50:07] and with LA traffic it's like

[06:50:09] there's certain hours where it's unbearable

[06:50:11] but then the rest of the time it's fine

[06:50:13] and there's also

[06:50:15] Right like traffic is always going in one direction the other direction is wide open usually so if you're not going in the direction of the traffic

[06:50:21] You're fine

[06:50:24] These guys are what is the railroad or something?

[06:50:28] Trans station 33 straight so this is right here. This is the street that they just fucked up

[06:50:32] No, the city said they all had no money, but they want to dig every day

[06:50:39] That'll be good though so public transit is good and it will

[06:50:45] It will alleviate traffic density less cars

[06:50:59] Yeah, instead you got AI that's all you got and now

[06:51:03] No, you got AI or your god. That's your shit. That's that's the you how do you I'm 34?

[06:51:15] You're on not me. Not me. I'm good

[06:51:27] Damn, we all thought it was 25

[06:51:37] I'm taking that to the grave which is soon because I'm 34

[06:51:45] He checked out the Spoon Beans.

[06:51:48] I thought he was like, who's doing it?

[06:51:51] I thought he was doing it.

[06:51:52] Do you see it?

[06:51:53] I'm like, hey, you can't even call us up.

[06:51:55] Can you close my eyes?

[06:51:56] Yeah, no, I know.

[06:51:57] That's what they call me on.

[06:51:59] That's how it's played.

[06:52:01] Well, he was...

[06:52:02] I'm an OG.

[06:52:03] Yeah, well, he was also popping off about, you know, how the NBA is soft nowadays.

[06:52:10] The NBA is soft.

[06:52:12] LaBron is flopping.

[06:52:17] You know he was king flopper man.

[06:52:20] You know he was.

[06:52:22] You really can't hit LaBron.

[06:52:24] He was one of them fans, wasn't you?

[06:52:26] Yes, yes, yes.

[06:52:27] For sure, for sure.

[06:52:28] For sure.

[06:52:29] I was like, protect our national treasure.

[06:52:31] LaBron at the fucking, at the three point line

[06:52:34] and somebody at the free throw line

[06:52:36] and how the fuck he hit you open.

[06:52:38] He suffers enough with his hairline.

[06:52:40] hairline it's fine yeah no what happens is in the beginning of the season he

[06:52:58] gets like he gets it put in and then by the end of the season the the headband

[06:53:04] is just moving further and further traveling here is not there to hold

[06:53:08] Yeah, the head back is traveling further and further back by the end of the season.

[06:53:12] That's crazy.

[06:53:14] You mess y'all go.

[06:53:16] Who's your go?

[06:53:19] I'm an all basketball player.

[06:53:21] Uh-huh.

[06:53:22] Me, fucking fucking.

[06:53:23] Larry Burr.

[06:53:25] Larry Burr.

[06:53:26] Oh, my God.

[06:53:27] You'll make sure you're fucking lit, you know?

[06:53:29] I'm a different player.

[06:53:30] Larry Burr.

[06:53:31] And he is not.

[06:53:33] I only have a good basketball player.

[06:53:35] I would say if anybody I would say Bill Russel, Dennis Robin, you're going to be shot.

[06:53:43] People get shot at silly production like that, but I swear, I swear it'd be a whole

[06:53:49] kid.

[06:53:50] My question blank.

[06:53:51] I'm going to tell you a bit about you, you were showing off on the thing, you were

[06:53:59] strangers.

[06:54:00] It was like, to thousands, to thousands of streams on the internet.

[06:54:04] You just, you just, you just, you just, you just foot flopping.

[06:54:08] Reggie, I mean, he was a good guy, I guess.

[06:54:11] I was saying, I was saying, who's a Bill Russell?

[06:54:15] Ha, Chelsea, Bill.

[06:54:16] 13 rings, not only was he the player, but he was also a coach, and he still went

[06:54:20] to extra ring, that yeah, I would say Bill Russell.

[06:54:23] Way before my time, but still, I would say Bill Russell.

[06:54:26] right around your time I think

[06:54:28] hahahahaha

[06:54:30] that's funny, I was like 3 years in a row

[06:54:32] hahahaha

[06:54:34] that's your old guy

[06:54:36] hahahahahaha

[06:54:38] no it's cool you keep me

[06:54:40] I'm gonna try and be okay enough

[06:54:42] hahahahahaha

[06:54:44] ugh this is how my chatters

[06:54:46] feel when they call me unk and they're my age

[06:54:48] damn see

[06:54:50] it feels good

[06:54:52] I'm gonna do it more often

[06:54:54] That's what the kids call it.

[06:54:55] Yeah, clickbait.

[06:54:57] See, that's onk.

[06:54:58] He just said, that's what the kids call it.

[06:55:01] You're not doing yourself.

[06:55:02] It's 8 o'clock.

[06:55:03] Bro, go in the house.

[06:55:05] I'm learning, man.

[06:55:08] I'm learning.

[06:55:09] I don't really want to, but I can't help it, man.

[06:55:11] It's like it's just everywhere, everywhere where you

[06:55:14] go, that's what these young men say.

[06:55:17] These young, these young grasshoppers.

[06:55:20] Young whippersnappers.

[06:55:22] That is right. Yeah, rage beating. It's funny. So you don't go on tiktok. Now you're

[06:55:46] You're kidding, you're a kid!

[06:55:48] Now you tell billions of people about your kids!

[06:55:51] They're never going to meet my son so I don't care.

[06:55:54] I know, but you just brought up Kaisenat.

[06:55:57] What if Kaisenat hears that your son's got problems?

[06:56:01] Okay, you can't beat me either.

[06:56:04] And then I could just go in on this whole little team,

[06:56:07] have a little band loose in distress.

[06:56:10] And I'm gonna just have to go on there and I'm gonna just start...

[06:56:14] Is he still a violence man?

[06:56:16] Yeah, he's still a violence man.

[06:56:19] I'm breaking my violence, but I love violence.

[06:56:22] 26%

[06:56:23] I don't like it.

[06:56:24] It's normally the opposite.

[06:56:25] Normally people say,

[06:56:26] I hate violence, but...

[06:56:28] No, no.

[06:56:29] I'm breaking my violence, but I love violence.

[06:56:31] Look at that.

[06:56:33] This is only the same moment.

[06:56:35] What is this?

[06:56:36] I told you that it would be a great day.

[06:56:37] Did I not say that to you?

[06:56:38] Yeah, you guys got a new spot to go to now.

[06:56:42] I know, right?

[06:56:43] It was good for sure I wasn't I wasn't gassing it up because the chef was there

[06:56:51] Yeah, it was good

[06:57:00] Oh, yeah like the CEO

[06:57:06] No, no, it was I mean I I would have eaten a lot more I just you know

[06:57:11] We were trying to have a conversation. I was on camera

[06:57:14] It's like embarrassing and then and then people make fun of me all the time because like I did one of these with like another

[06:57:18] Person running for Congress and I was just like downing the food and I washed back the tape and I was like God damn

[06:57:25] Bro, I was staring at his food. I was while I was eating my plate while I was finishing my plate

[06:57:31] I was staring down his food. I was like and I remember in the moment. I was thinking to myself like I

[06:57:36] I want to like I kind of want to ask him if it's embarrassing, but I kind of ask

[06:57:41] Can I get some of you?

[06:57:43] I got a piece of some big, big shit, man.

[06:57:45] Oh, yeah, I'm definitely.

[06:57:47] Listen man, what are your tools, man?

[06:57:48] That way, nobody can leave you to get you.

[06:57:50] Yeah, they still do though.

[06:57:52] They still make fun of me.

[06:57:55] See, but that's because you and the public, honestly, you get them more to pick at.

[06:57:58] I bet you and I get them individually.

[06:58:00] You had so much ammo, man.

[06:58:02] Oh, yeah, exactly.

[06:58:03] It's so funny, it is all a good one.

[06:58:06] That's what happens on the internet.

[06:58:08] They chirp anonymously, you know?

[06:58:10] It's good, man, because like I said,

[06:58:12] it lets them see that you're a human.

[06:58:14] You're a normal person like everybody else.

[06:58:17] And we all got our own shit with us.

[06:58:18] See, this is the wise words you only get

[06:58:21] when you live for 37 years, OK?

[06:58:25] This is the wisdom.

[06:58:26] This is the wisdom that you arrive at.

[06:58:29] Listen, man, I've been through some shit.

[06:58:31] I've been around for a long time, brother.

[06:58:33] I'm sure

[06:58:37] No, but I'm giving out games

[06:58:40] He's running the clock. He's running the clock. He's like these

[06:58:45] These young folk need to hear this

[06:58:58] Okay, this is straight up on top

[06:59:03] You guys think you're hard.

[06:59:12] I don't even want to say that man, but they all do think they tough though, I'm going

[06:59:17] to say that.

[06:59:18] But now you're going to have some YAs looking for you later.

[06:59:21] Actually if I care about that.

[06:59:23] I don't even dare to leave YAs, they'll be mad.

[06:59:26] Yeah, like we saw it, we heard what you said.

[06:59:29] They listen they listen to podcasts there's this that

[06:59:45] Well, do you need to be giving them some of this game? No, no, I

[06:59:49] Don't listen to you. Yeah, they do not know they do not I wish they did I wish they did too. Yeah

[06:59:56] I would have an army

[06:59:59] We'd be storming the Capitol.

[07:00:03] January 6th style.

[07:00:05] Everybody's got the shiesties on.

[07:00:09] I know them shit stink.

[07:00:13] They got these balaclavas on. I know them shit stink, boy.

[07:00:16] I seen a young boy with one of them girls go like 80 degrees a couple of days ago.

[07:00:20] Young boys out here with the shiesties on.

[07:00:23] Some old walk passers early on.

[07:00:26] All black

[07:00:28] They be talking and spending and all that like I know that shit's thing, but oh my god

[07:00:33] Wait, is it they didn't make it illegal to where Shazie's here? Isn't that one of the thing? I feel like they did that somewhere

[07:00:39] I forget what's in here, but it didn't work out

[07:00:43] Yeah, it's also like telling them not to put black on yeah

[07:00:47] Every day the week. Yeah, also, it's just I mean it's kind of ridiculous to try and regulate a piece of clothing

[07:00:53] They did try to take it, they tried to take the hospital masses, but they ain't working for them.

[07:00:59] Yeah, they tried that too. But that's why they started rockin' the shikes.

[07:01:03] They started taking the hospital mass from people.

[07:01:06] You can't do a certain spot with a mask on.

[07:01:08] And then you tell them, you know, you can't wear this, they go, I can't wear it or what.

[07:01:13] This gives them all rights.

[07:01:15] I mean, it's true. It's true though. It is true, like, I mean, technically.

[07:01:20] Yeah, no, he's not here right now.

[07:01:22] What the hell is he doing?

[07:01:24] He looked weird in his darkness.

[07:01:26] Oh, God, man.

[07:01:28] Yeah, he's taking us the long way around.

[07:01:31] He's still spitting wisdom.

[07:01:34] Honestly, I want to go home and go to sleep.

[07:01:36] I got three minutes to sleep today.

[07:01:38] And I had to come here and deal with you and go with young thugs.

[07:01:41] Three years younger.

[07:01:44] Check the way you made it, Sam. You were 19.

[07:01:47] I mean, that's, hey, it felt good.

[07:01:49] It still feels good.

[07:01:51] That's crazy. I've never met people that much older than me.

[07:02:19] you

[07:02:49] you

[07:03:19] you

[07:03:49] you

[07:04:19] you

[07:04:49] you

[07:05:19] Bill Ma, Bill Ma has said openly racist things about Muslims, about black people, horrifically misogynistic things.

[07:05:26] You all go on Bill Ma. Like the double standard is just so brazen. People can see through this bullshit now.

[07:05:32] It's 2026, the old ways don't work.

[07:05:35] Doing that, Spicer?

[07:05:37] Sure. Okay, let's talk about Iran. Right now there's three major camps that I'm getting information about when it comes to Iran.

[07:05:42] WhatsApp, Reddit in the comments section. A very healthy IV drip.

[07:05:46] I'm sure you know exactly what's happening.

[07:05:48] You're on the show. You're plugged in. You have primary sources.

[07:05:52] What are you hearing as you ignore your family and you walk past them and log online?

[07:05:57] I do do that. Unfortunately. Yeah, I know. I know they're eating breakfast. You go. Let me just get

[07:06:01] right into the big frame. There's a war on us. Yeah. There's a war. You gotta make sacrifices.

[07:06:05] Sure. There's a war on. Yeah. Yeah. They're eating fruit loops. Stop. I didn't even know what they're

[07:06:10] eating. Who knows? Who knows? How many kids do you have? As long as they're nutritious.

[07:06:13] Sure. Two last time I checked. Last time you checked. Iran. What is happening in Iran?

[07:06:16] Yes. I mean, we're taping this today or two days after a ceasefire, which is not really a ceasefire because they just massacred a bunch of people in Lebanon.

[07:06:24] Then they said Lebanon wasn't part of the deal.

[07:06:26] But then the Iranians revealed the points that show Lebanon's part of the deal and the Pakistani prime minister's on record saying it's part of the deal.

[07:06:31] By the way, Pakistan peacemakers nice.

[07:06:34] I don't think it's over.

[07:06:35] If you think it's over, you're wrong.

[07:06:37] How do the America first people make sense of this?

[07:06:39] Because the whole consensus behind the MAGA movement was you have to put America first.

[07:06:46] and then of course the culture war. Why are the M&M's gay? And why is the little

[07:06:54] mermaid black? These were their core issues. And then, yeah, immigration. I

[07:06:58] just don't want brown people. But these were their core issues.

[07:07:02] How do they make sense of now Donald Trump being the famous anti-war

[07:07:08] president now getting the United States involved in a very serious war?

[07:07:12] I think you need to divide up the American public. You have the mega

[07:07:14] base and they have no core beliefs or principles. They are a Trump cult, right? Let's just be very clear about that.

[07:07:21] This is a Trump cult. I hear people telling me,

[07:07:23] MAGA's split on this war because of Tucker Carlson, because of Candace Owens. Yeah, I get it. The influences are split.

[07:07:29] The people? No, look at the polling. Trump still has 80% 70% support amongst the MAGA base when it comes to the Iran war.

[07:07:36] They will follow him wherever he goes. If Trump says we must invade Iran, MAGA supports it.

[07:07:41] If Trump says, we must not invade Iran, MAGA supports it.

[07:07:44] If tomorrow Trump says tariffs are bad, MAGA supports it.

[07:07:47] Tariffs are good, MAGA supports it.

[07:07:49] This is a cult.

[07:07:50] And when Trump says, I decide what MAGA is,

[07:07:53] that's one of the rare moments of the day when he's not lying.

[07:07:55] It's true.

[07:07:56] Donald Trump decides what MAGA is.

[07:07:57] There is no consistent philosophy.

[07:07:59] Don't be fooled.

[07:08:00] At the last election, the Republican Party didn't even put out a plank.

[07:08:03] They didn't put out a policy platform.

[07:08:04] They said, whatever Trump says, that's a cult.

[07:08:07] That's the definition of a cult.

[07:08:09] What moment happened for you that made you say, it's for sure a cult?

[07:08:14] Oh, very early on.

[07:08:15] Really?

[07:08:16] So late 2016.

[07:08:17] Oh, interesting.

[07:08:18] So the moment I knew it was a cult that people behind him, I didn't know the entire party

[07:08:21] would become a cult, but I knew that he had cultivated a cult.

[07:08:24] Do you remember he was sitting on stage and he said, John McCain, he wasn't a war hero.

[07:08:28] I like war heroes.

[07:08:29] He didn't get captured.

[07:08:30] He's not a war hero.

[07:08:31] War hero.

[07:08:32] He is a war hero.

[07:08:33] Five and a half years.

[07:08:34] He's a war hero because he was captured.

[07:08:36] I like people that weren't captured.

[07:08:37] I was like, oh, he's campaigned over.

[07:08:40] You can't say that about a war hero.

[07:08:42] That's in the Republican body.

[07:08:43] Yeah, Trump got away with this.

[07:08:44] Paul Radings went up.

[07:08:45] That was the moment I was like, oh, wow.

[07:08:47] This guy's Teflon.

[07:08:48] This guy can say whatever he wants and get away with it.

[07:08:50] Remember, he said during that campaign

[07:08:51] I could shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue

[07:08:53] and play with it.

[07:08:54] A rare truthful statement from Donald Trump.

[07:08:59] In fact, he shot two Americans this year.

[07:09:01] His forces did his paramilitary.

[07:09:03] Got away with it.

[07:09:04] Stim it off.

[07:09:05] On the MAGA front, I don't buy that they were ever anti-war. They were just whatever comes out at the time.

[07:09:09] Now, there is a constituency in the American public, swing voters who don't want foreign wars,

[07:09:14] are fatigued by endless war, don't want another Afghanistan war.

[07:09:35] I'm not sure if it's true, but I'm not sure.

[07:09:45] Fall for Trump's bullshit shtick? Yes.

[07:09:47] Did Muslims in places like Dibble, Michigan say,

[07:09:50] well, Kamala Harris is a warmonger, she's campaigning with Liz Janey,

[07:09:53] which she stupidly did.

[07:09:54] So Donald Trump came to Michigan, he said no more wars.

[07:09:57] Stephen Miller said, we're not going to send your boys to the Middle East.

[07:09:59] And some of them bought that shit.

[07:10:01] Some people like me were like, no, he's not anti-war.

[07:10:04] Remember the first term he bombed Somalia he bombed Syria he bombed Iraq. He killed Hassan Soleimani

[07:10:10] He did more drone strikes and Barack Obama

[07:10:12] We just never heard about this in all the shit show of turn one

[07:10:14] He was super warmongering in turn one and people thought he was gonna be anti-war and now to go back to your quest about America first

[07:10:21] They're arguing as we're just imperialists now right the Donro doctrine. We just take what we want like Venezuela

[07:10:27] We take the oil break green man Greenland's next. Yeah, we'll take out Greenland

[07:10:31] We'll take out Iran for the oil.

[07:10:32] You see what he said the other day when he lost about the Strait of Hormuz and the tolls that the Iranians are going to charge?

[07:10:36] We'll do it with them. It's a great idea. We'll make money.

[07:10:40] That's what he cares about.

[07:10:41] Hey there, it's Hasan. Before this podcast continues, I'm

[07:10:44] right now at the store with details because they super read.

[07:10:48] They're super into history. Everyone in Iran can tell you about what happened in 1953.

[07:10:52] In America, nobody knows what happened in 1953.

[07:10:54] So tell us what happened. 1953.

[07:10:56] 1953.

[07:10:57] It's a chat. We have a power cycle issue on this laptop and so we're trying to fix it

[07:11:15] right now, but it's not it's most likely not coming. I don't even know if it'll actually

[07:11:23] work I mean you could be good at BRB on toolkit and research laptop yeah we can

[07:11:28] just like restart the laptop but that would almost certainly work for us but

[07:11:32] honestly I just I think I'm just gonna end it don't do that I'm gonna end it's

[07:11:38] seven hours anyway okay it's just fine it's been a long day I mean there's no

[07:11:44] it's not it's not working we have to power cycle we're at 20k you go off

[07:11:52] Plano, Connecticut, the 10K people.

[07:11:55] Anyway, tomorrow we'll be at, tomorrow we will be at Missouri

[07:12:05] with Cory Bush.

[07:12:09] And I love you guys.

[07:12:11] I hope you guys had a good one.

[07:12:14] I'll look at some of the clips and stuff later tomorrow.

[07:12:20] And if you're going to take someone to the battery

[07:12:24] so you can charge them too.

[07:12:26] Yes.

[07:12:27] So we have them ready tomorrow, so we

[07:12:29] don't have the same problems that we ran into today.

[07:12:33] Anyway, big, great stream.

[07:12:36] First local news story already out.

[07:12:42] Controversial political streamer.

[07:12:50] Oh, that's not bad.

[07:12:55] Some break through frugally visa and allegation

[07:12:57] he's consistent in our even his criticism

[07:12:59] is really government not Jewish people.

[07:13:02] Through outrage, through a recent episode

[07:13:04] of Battleground Politics, I'm not aware

[07:13:06] of the language he's used, I'm recently aware

[07:13:08] of who he is through my son's actually.

[07:13:10] Mike and Ed were obviously planning

[07:13:11] on researching on the song.

[07:13:12] Not necessarily, there's no feedback

[07:13:13] when folks go on Bill Maher.

[07:13:20] Anyway,

[07:13:35] I hope you guys enjoyed it.

[07:13:38] The Kyoburg was amazing.

[07:13:43] I love seeing you guys out there. I'm really glad.

[07:13:47] and uh yeah we'll be back tomorrow

[07:13:52] you're getting really great at your speech brother really showing that

[07:13:54] charisma thank you um okay that'll be all for tonight like i said i'll see you

[07:14:04] tomorrow uh from miss ira from miss ira

[07:14:13] okay

[07:14:17] Stunning rope by introduction, starting off the day

[07:14:32] All the chatter's tricklin' in, I'll sell people hate

[07:14:39] Sonny Los Angeles, California says a song

[07:14:47] Stunned lock to the, stunned lock to the top is just begun

[07:14:55] Cause there is again a sun is streaming

[07:15:02] The sun is streaming, there is again

[07:15:09] The sun is streaming, the sun is streaming

[07:15:17] Leave you in a Chinese train, town-kile place

[07:15:24] Sun in as many channels, giving green is grace.

[07:15:32] Zoran winning NYC won two back with a force.

[07:15:40] Rogan of the left to me, a dumb humble still of course.

[07:15:48] The Charlie Kirk assassination, the fear, and online show

[07:15:56] Pay full fuckin' years of this, anymore to go

[07:16:04] Doing fun stuff tomorrow, throw pds up on the screen

[07:16:11] A man-made whore reaction brought to you by this life's dream

[07:16:20] Cause there he is again, a son is streaming

[07:16:27] A son is streaming

[07:16:30] There he is again, a son is streaming

[07:16:36] A son is screaming

[07:16:41] Cacked out in the DNC, Irel will march the good

[07:16:47] Committing the propaganda to shut down people's throats

[07:16:54] CBS Israeli news, a coup, a regime falls

[07:17:01] A full-blown fascist takeover and still the duty calls.

[07:17:10] Total radicalization coming out to sea.

[07:17:17] The system where he'll always fail, it's up to you.