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Hasan Piker, Socialist, Communist, Practical Left Influencer, Hasan Piker, Dirtbag Left,
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for our freedom.
If you ever heard someone mention the Strysand effect and wondered what they were talking
about, this phenomena is named after actress Barbara Strysand.
Sometimes when you try to cover something up, you end up bringing more attention to
it than if you had just let things feed.
The Assemblyman will not denounce the Sun Piper who said, America deserve 9-11, dude.
The Assemblyman just said he was in response to Sun Piper who says America deserve 9-11.
There you go. There you have it.
My friends, we have toppled a political dynasty.
Now to the Michigan Senate race where
El Sayed is campaigning in Michigan,
appearing on stage at two Michigan campaign rallies.
He's coactively campaigning alongside Piper.
The man who sent Puzzles flag is his favorite, because it's dope.
Why would you align yourself for a raging anti-Semite fight?
Who has defended Hamas terrorists?
Calling them the lesser of two vests.
Israel's compared to the government.
The evil's compared to the power struggle.
Lesser of two vats.
when I find a bridge too far.
When I went up to my good friend, Chad,
I said, hey, you walk into some more controversial statements
of a son, Piker, even Chad GPT went out of its way
to soften the edges of a son and give me context.
Thanks, but no thanks.
Chad GPT.
The son, Piker, is campaign poison.
Placing yourself on the wrong side of a 9-10 issue
is only going to make you look bad.
It's going to be good for me.
It's going to be good for the candidates that I work with.
Turns out it was true.
Abdul El Sayed at 27%
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Mayweather heroes, everybody.
It's the new heroes, huh?
Welcome to the broadcast.
Thank you for having me.
Oh my gosh.
What's going on, man?
What's up, dude?
It's good to see you.
That was really enjoyable, yeah.
How have you been?
He's trying to get out of here.
Wow!
What's going on, everybody?
I hope everyone's having a fantastic evening, afternoon, pre-noon, no matter where you are
in the world.
I'm the son of piker in this house and I'm broadcast come to you live from sunny California,
Los Angeles folks.
We're alive.
We're alive.
And I hope all the boys, girls and mbs are having a fantastic one.
Hold on.
I have to do something different here.
Hold on one sec.
We're live and I hope all the boys girls and Emmys are having a fantastic one because today's
a beautiful day.
Today's a wonderful day.
Today is yet another day.
It's news day Tuesday.
That's right.
Folks is news day Tuesday.
You already know.
I know I look like the daredevil every time I wear a suit and then I wear glasses.
I know. Um, but yeah, we're live. We're alive, baby.
Uh, Tom for some Wembley glaze. I mean, Victor Wemba, Neama, what can I say?
What can I say that hasn't been said? What can I say?
Can I use words?
Are there enough words in the English language to describe the new goat?
There are not.
Okay?
What do you say to someone that has broken the game of basketball?
What do you say to an alien that came from a far away planet and no I'm not talking
about France, I am not talking about Paris, I'm talking whatever fucking Faricas planet
he actually landed on an asteroid from where he probably was the shortest alien.
What do you say to a man who has broke the game of basketball?
A lot of people talked about Steph Curry destroying basketball.
Back in the day, you had a deep two, right?
Kevin Garnett around the perimeter, not a three pointer, somewhere around.
All of that's gone now.
You look at the shot attempts and everybody shoots threes.
Curry is responsible for it, right? Steph Curry broke the game of basketball. Many people are
very frustrated by it. All these games, they get 100 plus points. What the hell's going on?
You either shoot a three or you drive in and you rarely ever drive in because three
is bigger as a number than two. Okay? Three is a bigger number than two.
And I think Wambiyama has also destroyed the game of basketball.
What happened to the game that I love, but in ways that are not replicable.
And the reason for why they are not replicable is because it's just entirely physical.
He defies the laws of physics. He defies the laws of gravity. Let's take a look.
That's not even a deep three for him. That's a two given his size
He's like, oh, I'm wide open
I'm wide open pass it to me what is that that should be worth four that should be worth six
Bro, that's like, bro, you're in a different zip code, buddy. Have you guys been on a NBA
court? Like it feels different. Okay. Like that, that distance is not normal.
They must make three to drive into overtime, one oh five, 28 seconds, one oh five to one
oh eight.
And he just loves it, bro.
He just goes past to me, past to me here.
Okay.
He gets it.
Look.
I got this.
What do you do?
How can you guard a person that is 715 and can just shoot deep threes like that?
We used to talk about Yolkich, the Joker, okay?
incredible game IQ has unbelievable court vision, tall big boy can also lob threes.
Oftentimes will lob threes from a distance, right?
What do you do here?
What do you do to this guy?
What do you do when you have someone who's Yokojpa also doesn't hate playing the game
of basketball. He's 715. He's like 734. He's something I haven't seen before. Okay, 715
Ha not the same height of 8 3 he's like 8 12
Bro if you're the thunder what do you do?
do. It makes so much sense when you look at the build up to this moment. Cause like, obviously
they've been matched up plenty of time before and, and, uh, you know, the spurs cooked them,
right? In the past, but it's just like, what do you do? Chettanyahu owns him? No, no, no,
it's not, bro, Chet Holmgren. First of all, he is literally just a gas station cigarette.
Okay. The man looks, the man looks like he's, he's a Lucy that you find next to the trashcan
at a gas station. Okay. Chetney Yahoo. He's weak. Wemby looks weak cause he's got too
much, too much size to fill. He's skeleton is just, is too large. The only defense against
Wemby is an Iron Dome or anti-aircraft battery 100% 100% no they need weapons
like there's nothing you can do you just need to literally you need weapons like
actual I'm talking like a gun like the only way the only way that you can the
The only way that you can legitimately stop this person is with a gun, okay?
You need a nuke.
No, Oklahoma, honestly, okay, see?
Do they have a right to defend themselves?
Do they need nuclear arsenal?
Maybe, maybe that fucking, maybe that article the other day that got deleted, that got posted
and deleted like, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City Thunder is just like Israel unjustly maligned.
Maybe that article, they were cooking.
Do you believe in O.K.C.'s right to exist in the playoffs?
I do, but also, I don't know.
I don't know how well that's going to work.
when Bayama is, I mean, he's out of control. What do you do? What do you do when you have
just a fly swatter? Like rim protection is absolute. Oklahoma City can put a, like,
okay, see, doesn't have an iron dome that is anywhere near as good as the defensive capabilities.
He just sits there and just goes poof swats it. I mean, I did see shy. I did see SGA rip
one off of Wemby early on. But what do you do? There is nothing you can do. All right,
let's look at this. Wemby was unbelievable in his Western Conference finals debut. 41
20 combined in the fourth quarter over time, 24.
It's so stupid.
You can't be a defensive demon and also an offensive.
You can't.
Yeah.
It's shy.
Shy like shy David.
Yeah.
Yeah, like shy David check in body by a guard at the start of the clip. Why is he on the ground 5v5 v4?
Bro, if you have NBA career mode proportions, it turns out you can drop NBA career mode stats
Yeah, shy David a Gilgias Alexander
It's shy David
SGA foul baits in Israel, bulldoze homes that people have lived in for generations to kill
tens of thousands.
Okay.
All right.
I got your blast off memes.
Dude, this is just like, this is just like, he becomes the youngest player in NBA.
He's through 40 plus points and 20 plus rebounds in a postseason game, previously done by Karim
Abdul-Jabbar.
is one of those things I'm gonna be honest to you is one of those things where it's
like if you get posterized by Wemby it's not even disrespectful or embarrassing it's just
expected you know what I mean what are you supposed to do he's literally 814 okay he's
8 foot 14. He doesn't even jump. He can, but he doesn't even have to jump. Like, look at this.
Like, bro, okay, the way Wemby plays basketball, you know what it reminds me of?
It reminds me of me playing basketball in the pool with like my little baby cousins, okay?
Okay, like this move right here is not supposed to happen in a regular normal gravity situation.
Okay, this like, oh, oh, I'm dunking on you.
Haha, like you can only pull that shit off in a plastic basketball pool setting with
little kids.
Okay.
And yet he's doing it to NBA legends.
Like that move I've pulled, okay, I've done this, I've done this thing.
And many of you probably have done this as well in the pool.
You know what I mean?
Where you turn around and you're like, haha, I'm just dunking right behind me.
It's like a no look dunk.
That's insane.
Oh, okay.
In one cell swoop.
The MVP start to insert himself a little bit more.
That's nasty, nasty business.
There wasn't a 7.4 guy there with a wing span of 10-8.
Okay, he's got 10-8, but it looks like it.
Even the fucking announcers, bro.
Come on.
10-8 wingspan.
That's crazy.
That's crazy.
What do you mean?
What do you mean, bro?
What do you mean?
Look at where he is.
Look at this.
Also, this is knees, the knees right here don't look too good, bro, come on, you got to protect
yourself.
That's crazy.
That's crazy.
That kind of shit scares me, okay?
That's, that's nasty.
That's nasty business.
I know you're all on Wimby right now, but he has no bricks in his back pocket.
What they did, they're just so lethal on defense and on offense too, it's just nastiness.
It's fucked up
He said little boy
Little boy
Give me that
Look at the ease in which he just gets up there and just helps it gracefully
Boom. Yeah, no, I'll lead it in. It's fine
But it's a cheat code
It feels like a fucking cheat code. It feels like a cheat code
It looks like you you bricked the NBA career you bricked the career options like you took the character
Selection screen and you just boosted every stat
He can't get it back in the cell, he's been very active tonight from the Spurs' house.
Shot clock at eight, lamponiano, burn, spin, shoot, and hits!
Timeout Oklahoma City, 11.5 to go, Wendy's given the Spurs a two point lead.
Thunder wanted to travel up hold, five to two Dylan Harper on the pitch in it.
Come on look at the offensive rebound look at that bro look at that he's getting boxed
out too like he's getting boxed out but you can't box him out he's just too small like
literally he is physically too damn small
He picks it up like this
While he's getting boxed out. It's like playing basketball with your little bros. Okay. It's like it literally looks like a dad
Playing basketball with kids with their kids, you know with the neighborhood kids. They're all like 13 maybe 12 not even right
How do you box someone out when you can literally physically box out their lower body, right?
You can physically box out their lower body, but they're so tall that they can just reach
over you.
Like his ass cheese could be at the fucking foul line and his hands are under the rim.
What do you do?
What do you do in that situation?
It's so funny whenever I watch the press conferences, where they ask about Wemby, where
they at the press conferences just be like, they'll throw their hands in the air and go,
what am I supposed to, is nothing I can do.
And it's true, there's literally nothing you can do.
The
Williams to the basket
He's going to pull a deep three. Oh my goodness. Oh
Hey logo shot
28 footer ties in the 108 career high in minutes played
Did I blast off by the way speaking of which I don't even know if I did oh
Oh, I didn't shit. I got so I got so caught up in the fucking wimpy edits. I was looking
at the wimpy highlights that I didn't see. This is what happens when you allow giants
of men's sports. It's just nasty business. It's straight up, it's nasty business, man.
There is really not anything you can do about it. I feel kind of bad, honestly, because
He's uh, and he's pro ccp, yes, he like, it genuinely feels like, it legitimately feels
like it's a, it's an anime, like it's a basketball anime.
And Wendy is like a, like an anime character, you know what I mean, he's just like, his
proportions are so busted that it actually fucking feels like he's, uh, he's like a special
character.
Uh, anyway, primary day will Israel by Kentucky, SD Moss shooting, uh, uh, details, uh, Chris
rabbit PA3, EF day 81. Trump out of options. Get in now.
Luca never winning a chip, bro
Never say never
She don't case you just forfeit the rest of the series to avoid embarrassment. Okay, dude. Come on. I
Mean they I mean it was closed. They they went to overtime
It's not like
It went into overtime it's not like it's insignificant it's not it's not
that they, they obviously, okay. So fucking incredible as well.
And we're double over time actually. Yeah. Oh, cause he's an incredible team, dude.
I mean, I, they are a phenomenal team, deep bench, lots of talent, lots of young talent.
They have, they are basically the, in some ways they almost are like the, the people
are going to get mad at me for saying this, but they're like the, the fucking warriors,
like, you know, Mickey Mouse team perfectly placed, perfectly put together. They got very
lucky as well. So they're a fantastic team. It's just, what do you do? They're an incredible
team, but what do you fucking do?
This will be the Western Conference finals for the next 10 years.
You never know.
Things can change.
But my point is, you can have the best possible team and then the other team literally, like
Like it's a fucking anime, has a goddamn villain on the court, has an alien on the court.
Like not a human species, but a totally separate evolved species that can play basically every
role while also being seven foot twenty five.
What do you do?
What do you fucking do?
There's literally nothing you can do.
It's just not a thing you can do.
20 points, 24 rebounds, he's basically a fucking fly swatter down there.
Any time, like you have to pull him away from the basket.
You have to pull him away from the basket, but you can't even really do that because
he can block you from the fucking free throw line.
What is it?
What are you supposed to do?
How are you going to pull him away from the basket when he can just still, he can basically
from the entire like the the the he can swat you from around the key.
What do you do? He it's like playing against mom stars.
He's literally like you need.
It's
He looks like people's father on the court
This was chat homegirls response the wimby
Yes, and stacks more paper and gets more holes than you nigga absolutely
Yeah
Watched Wimby bitch chat. Then he got a banger slandering his name. The audience. Holy shit.
Two cakes.
are there any rules against picking up your, picking up your teammate and throwing him
up in the air to rival Wemby. Yes. I'm not a basketball guy. Can you explain like literally
everything that's happening right now? Dude, you don't need to be a basketball guy to understand.
Look at the fucking image in front of you, okay?
These are some of the greatest athletes on the fucking planet, okay?
The average height on this court, minus Wembleyama, is like 6'8", okay?
These guys are all jacked and they're all 6'8".
Now look at Wembleyama and the way he looks next to some of these fucking specimen.
keep your eye on the tall alien, okay? You don't have to understand basketball at all
to look at the situation where you're like, okay, these other guys, like, what's, what is this?
Are they like high school players or is this like, are they middle school players and they're
playing against like a, like a professional NBA player? Like what's going on here? Because that's
what it looks like. I didn't believe in the Nephilim before I saw Wembe Yama. Now I believe it. I
genuinely believe that the Nephilim is real. He is one of the guys, he's one of the descendants, okay?
They, they unlocked the cave that the Nephilim was in Afghanistan and it was Wembe Yama, okay?
Vladimir Putin opened up the ancient caves and found that, that Jesus Christ was actually black,
okay? And also that there is a real Nephilim and it was Wembe Yama.
Like do you need to understand anything about basketball to see what you're so crazy
When my man drives in
Sorry, not happening today. You know hope you had
Hope you had a good hope you enjoyed that flight. We're just gonna take it out. We're just gonna we're just gonna take you out here real quick
I
Denied
Mothafuckers from Elbap bro. He's the actual giant. He's a literal whole ass giant. It makes no damn sense. God. He's so sick
I'm so glad he has great politics on top of everything else. It's so it's so dope. I mean he I I
I, but gold tending, okay, first of all, he's, you know, that wasn't gold tending.
That's number one.
Number two, half of the, half of the swats he has our gold tends because he's just that
tall.
Okay.
That wasn't one of them.
And you know, obviously, obviously, okay, see, everybody knows the referees are playing
the referees are the six man for okay, see they're, they're on team okay, see no matter
where we go. Okay. I don't know what it is. I don't know if it's because NBA scripted.
I'm not going to say it, but they already, they already make those calls regardless.
It would be, it would have been a harder challenge to be impressive as politics was different.
When the lucky the refs led him into the stadium.
Casual ass take bro.
Okay.
I'm just playing.
I'm just playing.
I think O KC is a very fun team.
It's a very, it's a very, thank you for admitting he goaltends.
No, I'm not admitting that he goaltends.
I'm just saying it's like he's very careful not to goaltend.
But sometimes it's virtually impossible for him not to go to him because of his fucking size because of his height
You think Nas read deserved it. Don't you? I mean I I've made it very clear van be amma when by amma has a right to defend himself, okay?
And, and Nosbreed's head happened to be in the vicinity of Wemba Yama's elbows because
he's tall.
It was a misunderstanding and he shouldn't have even been suspended for one game.
And they wanted to do that because they really wanted to, they wanted to make things more
interesting.
I will accept no noz reads slander on this broadcast as a resident wolf superfan. I'm
just saying it's because of the the height difference. We all sound like her watching
mb
Buddy that guy don't seem real
It's true. It just looks ridiculous. It looks ridiculous. It genuinely makes the game look different
Okay from afar and you don't even necessarily have to be
Uh a massive basketball fan because the size difference is so crazy
He's just an he is literally like an anime villain, bro. He is an anime villain. He is literally you need new technology
Anyway
When beyond whether game one was personal after watching shy win
when Shay, when MVP, Shay Davide, Shay Davide.
They're all knowing that Shay had got that award
and you were in the top three for it.
And, you know, did any part of tonight feel personal?
I thought some of your facial expressions
kind of look like you were really, really going for it.
Yeah, for sure.
I think you just said.
So if that was in your mind at all.
They're going to have to let opponents use lacrosse
sticks to defend his ass.
Yeah, like those block when you're training, you know those like blockers that they have like those padded sticks
They're gonna be like why not?
How is that his voice holy fuck, what do you mean his vocal chords
Are longer like eight times longer than the average human beings vocal chords, bro. What what are you talking about?
It takes a long time for for his voice to travel from his stomach all the way up to his mouth
Okay, he's still growing all knowing that Shay had got that award and you were in the top three
Did any part of tonight feel personal?
Expressions kind of look like you were really really going for it
Yeah, sure. Oh
Yeah, he's still growing he's 22
That's the other thing was good. Let me see your tan. Let me see your tan. Austin just
fucking walked into my house and he's in his little undies and he's, he's, he's wearing
his swim trunks. Okay. He's completely naked. He's worried about getting touched by Kai.
I can tell you're genuinely fearful cause he just got, he just got a tan. Okay. Kai get
Kaya
Get him Kaya. Yeah, I did because you got a you got a spray tan like a woman
That's what happened do it is warm out let the man swim. No, he's not swimming. He's just got a tan. You got a spray tan
It'll be washable in three hours he says so where you better not fuck him put your
Your put your nasty ass
Okay, he's you're gonna sit in a speedo post it outside get a little bit of real sunlight
Oh, okay saying skin cancer is masculine. Yeah, hell yeah, it is. What do you mean?
Lives in LA and got a free time. First of all, he doesn't live in Los Angeles. And yes,
he is terrified of the sun. Have you guys never seen? Have you never seen this conversation
take place between me and Austin. He always gets mad. He always gets mad whenever I talk
about being under the sun. He's like, why are you doing that? Don't do it. Don't you dare
do it. And that's stupid. That's dumb to do. Anyway, all right, we're done. I can't believe
I spent the first 44 minutes of this broadcast, giving you guys an update on when the Yama
and, and, and barely fucking blasted off. But yeah, that was no, no personal news beyond
that. Honestly, I just, I woke up, I played a little bit of basketball. I was in the sun
a little bit. I need to get back to both toning my body and tanning my body. Okay. Last year
around this time, I was in the best fucking shape of my life. I had a six pack. I was
under the sun all the goddamn time I was tan I was doing a lot more cardio and
I was in a in a much better position over I used to have 44 minutes talking
about how my team is gonna get spanked by a mutant alien in the WCF yes a bit is
true no disrespect
you know no gaming but we get a basketball yapping sesh
Yeah, it's about, it's about to be slut boy summer. Okay. And I need to get ready for
it. And if you can't tone it, you tan it. Okay. And right now I'm not tanning it. And
I'm certainly not fucking toning it. All right.
Yes, I saw the Oklahoma and publishes and deletes op-ed comparing Oklahoma City Thunder
to Israel. I think I'm going to have to take up recreational alcoholism as long as the
rest of the world seems to have broke. It's anti-Semitic, not the roof for okay. City
Thunder woke the okay. City Thunder must be returned to their ancestral Zionist homeland
in Seattle. Oh man, your 35 ain't no slut boy summer for you, bro. 35 is basically the
new 25. Okay. Calm down. Did you read the actual article? No, I didn't. I did not. Okay.
Yeah, opinion. The parallels between Oklahoma City Thunder and the nation of Israel are
difficult to ignore. Neither was supposed to become what it is. Like Thunder, Israel
is an underdog that has become hated.
Yo, bro, they let you write this stuff. You didn't have a single person in your life that
was like, Hey man, maybe you shouldn't put this out. Like you shouldn't fucking put that
out. It's not going to be good. Okay. It's not going to look good. It's not going to
be good. It's not good for O K C Thunder at all. This is really fucking the game up.
This is really fucking the bag up for our boys here. Okay. They're already going to
have a tough time against Wemby and you're making it much, much worse. As someone who
watched might go get fucking swept by the Oklahoma city Thunder, I will say they are
basketball terrorists they are they are terrorists okay so in that regard yes the
Israel analog works okay it does they were terrorists oh my god when you have
such a fucking deep bench you get the hack all the time okay and just like the
nation-state of Israel, you can basically buy the referees. Okay, so yeah, yeah, I agree.
I agree. Maybe I'm a little bitter, okay? Maybe I'm a little bitter because you shouldn't
do that to the elderly. You should not do that to the elderly. Have some damn respect.
some decency. Okay? Luca's already gone. You don't have to, you don't have to sweep him.
Let him have one. Let him have one fucking game. You're really not going to do that.
Oh, we're sweeping. We're sweeping. Fuck you. That's terrorism. Okay. Anyway, just like Israel,
okay, so he gets to do whatever they want on defense, but as soon as you touch shy,
free throws. Yes. This is true. The Israel analog does work here. It really does. It
really does. It really does. I shouldn't say it, but it's true. Yeah.
Yeah. Okay. See tiny nation. Small team size of New Jersey size of Oklahoma City. Oh,
it's not a big team. Oh, it's not. It's not a big franchise team. Very tiny. Very tiny
basketball team surrounded by scary big big city teams Oklahoma City very tiny
This analogy is getting too real. Yeah. Yeah, no, exactly. Oh, okay. Is Oklahoma City not
allowed to defend itself? Not allowed to defend itself? Oh, I'll resub again next month. Use
my promise month on Shaanxi Barry Haynes 27 months you've been in here and all of a sudden
all of a sudden you're like the Macy's sent a playlist earlier by the way yeah I think
I have it or maybe I don't where's the to Macy's playlist complex ranked me 20 number
22. Yeah, that's a bit of a L. I'll be honest
But I saw where is it? I think I clicked on a link. Yeah, here it is complex ranks 25 best streamers right now
They put me a fucking 22, bro
I'm ass
Last year I was like top five now, I'm fucking barely cracking top 25. It's over is Jova for me
I'm done. I'm washed
Kaisen that hasn't even streamed in like a year. What the hell is going on? It's over.
I'm washed. I'm done. At least I beat Jinxie though, which is again, also kind of strange
because like, I feel like Jinxie should be way higher. No, Mark by academics. Wait, where
the fuck is oh my god dj academics a 17 brah it's over it's a i'm killing myself bro fucking
it's done it's done it's done it's over oh it's done rip sorry rip everybody this was
it. This was it. All of the, all of the fucking million articles, talking about how I'm a terrorist,
all that stuff was, was meaningless until I found out that I am so low on a list
in comparison to DJ Wacademics. A Drake fan made that Liz. Yeah.
Yeah. Tucker went on Israeli TV. Oh, shit. The Miami, he is actually the most moral,
the most honorable basketball team in the league. Oh yeah. I mean, dude, I mean, is
Is this, is this surprising to you? It's Miami. Miami is literally little Tel Aviv.
I'm in the trenches on Twitter, defending Shoei Cop. Uh, what is going on with the San Francisco left between this and LA mayor, the state of so busting, man.
Guys, don't do it. Don't do it. Don't do it.
There is nothing productive that will come out of, of drawing the enmity of the San Francisco left.
left. Okay. You shouldn't do that. You should just anytime someone tells you like, oh,
Shoycott is actually like a secret Elon Musk. What is this?
This might interest you because it's surprising. Emily Tampkin from the forward
said people are misrepresenting your views and it's counterproductive to the platform.
Ken Hassan, Piker B Deep platform, the Canadian Jewish news is from one day ago. Wait, what?
Someone is defending me out of nowhere. What the hell?
No, no, I agree with that.
And I think I think that's right.
And I think part of this is people ascribing sort of policy
motivation to him that he doesn't necessarily have or taking.
Like this is somebody who's talking for hours on end and taking one comment
and being like, that's a really deeply thought out comment, which it may be.
Right. I'm sure that they're, you know, I'm not trying to say that he
like, oh, he doesn't really mean it.
I'm not I'm not saying that.
But I am saying that I think that we are giving some of these statements.
Policy weight, 87 views, brother.
Man, shut the fuck up.
It's still important that like someone at the forward randomly is defending me guys guys not everything is just about
Oh my god
Please okay, sometimes you guys go. Oh this person only has 10 likes
I you behave like an idiot because you don't understand that the forward is a
very
Well read a Jewish newspaper. Okay, so if there's an editor or if there's a journals on the forward
Randomly going on a Canadian broadcast to defend me. Yeah, that's like fairly consequential. It's not fucking, you know
Just 84 views who gives a shit
Not defending it's trying to convince them to rethink their strategy is advice to them
They say that because you say that lol no there are instances where it's like utterly irrelevant if a fucking random youtuber
With like 12 subscribers has made a focus on video obviously that's not consequential
But if like a think tank if a think tank or someone who writes for a a much larger newspaper
paper or or you know someone from like third way is like writing an article like
yeah that's it doesn't matter if even if people aren't fucking watching that shit
it still has it still has a lot more motion a lot more emphasis in the in
crowd okay and yes we will talk about yeah views and influence are two separate
things, exactly. If you are an influencer and you have no views, then obviously you're,
you know, unfortunately a little irrelevant. But if you have influence and you have no
views, that's still relevant to discuss.
That they don't have because we're talking about a streamer, not a staff writer. Well,
it's tricky. I mean, but who's engaging with politicians, right? I mean, I would say like,
I think it does matter a lot. And that's why this is kind of hard to discuss because I
I think you have this valence that's really dominant now on the right where it's like I'm joking, but I'm not joking
I'm trolling, but I'm not trolling and it seems that he does the same thing but on the left
So she did say you have been misrepresented at 830, but of course she's not a fan of yours
Okay, not just that he's the Joe Rogan of the left
Yeah, that's why I was shocking uh because the forward is not exactly a fan of mine as a as a
Institution I wouldn't expect the forward to be like the forward will sometimes have writers that they'll
Well, the forward sometimes have writers that could be like agnostic to my position.
But as far as, as far as like the Jewish papers goes, you got JTA, you got the forward Jewish
insider is obviously like the maximum pro APAC like right wing think tank backed newspaper
that you barely can call a newspaper. Of course, many of these institutions are pro-Israel.
Jewish Currents is the only one I would say that isn't like a pro-Israel at all. It's
an anti-Zionist for the most part. It's a socialist publication. By the way, I had a conversation
with Jewish Currents as well. I don't know if it's going to come out soon or not, but
Regardless, anyway, let's continue this watch.
Young men who are very online are aware of who he is.
I think with Joe Rogan, it's not just that demographic,
but regardless, there's something where that is politics now.
You know what I mean?
And like the staff writer can write some kind of staid thing
or be replaced by an AI that writes the staid thing.
And then you have somebody like this
who's sort of like saying the absolute edgiest thing.
And then that's just, that is the mainstream now.
Right.
And I guess the point that I was trying to get across
in that article is that I think this is,
so the question is then, what do you do with that, right?
You try to say, okay, this person is off limits
and we can't engage with him
because of the edgiest version of what he said.
Do you try to parse these different comments?
Do you try to engage but push back at times?
And I think, to me, what's been interesting
is that some of what he said has been really almost
completely misrepresented in order
to sort of paint everything that he
said with his broad anti-Semitic brush
to say he should be totally off limits.
We can't engage with him.
And I guess what I argue in that piece
is that if your goal is really to try to push back
on anti-Semitism in American, Canadian, et cetera,
political discourse, I think we really need to think about,
OK, well, what is it that I'm trying to do?
and is my current behavior helping me reach those goals?
Because, for example, you had some people say that he,
that he, you know, he loves violence
and he boosted the attack in Boulder, Colorado.
This was an arson attack on a walk
in support of the hostages.
And in fact, he condemned it, right?
I don't-
Yeah.
So I think what she's saying is like,
she disagrees with me vehemently on my assessment
like the Palestinian resistance and whatnot. But she's also frustrated that this is consistently
misrepresenting my positions when I have the exact opposite positions end up serving my purpose
because I have a platform and people actually can see what I'm genuinely saying. It has the
exact opposite effect. When you come and you say, the classic misrepresentation that gets played
all the time is like, oh, it doesn't matter if rapes happen, right?
Like that one, that argument is so well-defined for most people, and it's one that most people agree
with. Like sexual violence, the occurrence of sexual violence on October 7 does not justify genocide.
Okay? That sentiment is the overwhelming majority's position. But when you turn around and you say,
all look at him like he said this gross thing, but then people actually scratch the surface
of that quote and they realize, like within context, it's actually a very agreeable statement.
They go, oh, there is this misrepresentation taking place once again, and it undermines
the credibility of the anti-Semitism allegations against those who actually are anti-Semitic
well because when you deploy that over and over and over again to people who are very
careful not to be anti-Semitic, who people who actually do fight against anti-Semitism,
at a time when most people have completely given up on even fighting that battle whatsoever,
it makes people go, ah, you say that about everybody. And that is where people like
Nick Fuentes actually do thrive. That's an environment where people like Nick Fuentes thrive
Because regardless of the fact that he is truly a Holocaust denier and even a Holocaust enjoyer,
because people have heard, the broader marketplace has heard, false allegations of anti-Semitism
so frequently being used against any and every critic of Israel, he can hide in that crowd.
He can be like, I'm just critical of Israel, and that's why they're calling me an anti-Semite.
It's poisonous to discourse in general. She did say you have been misrepresented, but of course she's not a fan of yours. She wants them to rethink their strategy, I guess. She later goes on to say the platforming influence is worth it, but it's not worth it for Hassan.
Interesting.
I don't think that that's helpful to our goal of making it, of having mainstream, not just
mainstream, broad, near universal recognition that violence against Jews is wrong, right?
Like to just misrepresent what somebody says.
And so I think there are, there's sort of two entangled but separate questions, which
is, one, how do you engage with this non-political-political figure, and, two, how do you make sense of, you
know, how do you do so in a way that is helpful and not hurtful to Jews?
So I have, I think that's all very smart, and I have a couple sort of questions that
get at this from different angles. Before we will, I promise a drug.
If you consider having a conversation, so she probably has. I'm not very familiar with
what's going on here with this conversation is all about, but I will say this.
I wanted to have that conversation. That's why I went to the Jewish telegraphic agency, right?
I went to the JTA to have that conversation. And they literally used and abused the the
fucking, you know, hour and a half that I gave JTA to basically do the exact same like ADL press
release in the first half and then barely put a couple quotes from that long hour and a half
conversation I had at the tail end, burying the lead. So I do think it's productive. I do think
it's good to have this kind of conversation because I do think that like these people are
invincible regardless of how inundated they are with like pro-Israel sentiment, because regardless
of how important Israel might have been in their development, in their social conditioning,
I think everyone is salvageable. I think everyone can be convinced. Of course, I believe that, right?
Sock them, question mark. Why is he wearing a Democratic socialist cap? What do you mean?
I'm wearing a Philadelphia Democratic Socialist of America hat today because
because Philly DSA is out there door knocking, getting people out to vote.
The midterms, baby. The midterms are upon us.
Anyway.
The whole Gia Tolentino lemon issue.
Yeah, for sure.
Because it's very entertaining. And also I might ask you just because I saw that you've
written about this briefly about Lena Dunham and her reputation.
Sure.
Her sort of revival, her comeback. I read the book. Did you read?
I don't know.
I won't. All right. I don't know. Loser. Oh, that's not nice. I think you're a winner chatter.
Some might say you're teetering on the verge of socialism, my guy.
It continues in a bit. For someone who shares many of the criticisms and you're more of like
Adam kind of want to silence such people, but let's say your fun is the systems of Israel up for discussion
Obviously, not all but many of them and I don't mean you personally but just one is
You would not want to silence such people but let's say you're somebody who doesn't and you're more in the kind of
anti-zionism is anti-Semitism school or the sort of like Adam Lewis find the thing to fight is
Oh my god, really you're
Come on Adam Lewis Klein
You're bringing up Adam fucking Lewis Klein. He is Adam Lewis clown, okay?
Ridiculous
That's the one that's the reply bot on Twitter. That's always like
Anti-zionism is the real form of anti-Semitism
It's just like guys like that
Unironically contribute to that mass hysteria that mass delusion. Okay, it's unbelievably
Believably unproductive to listen to people like that. Okay, you're just in a fucking hug box
Surrounded by normies that you will never be able to understand because he's telling you all manner of
Anti-zionist thought all matter of criticism
Directed at the beautiful nature state of Israel is coming from a deeply anti-semitic place. That's not helpful for you
continues at 12 just
China's in school or one of those schools, right?
If you're someone like that,
would they or should they change their principles
just cause they see that opinion polling
is showing that theirs is a losing cause?
Like I guess I'm wondering how would you convince somebody
who doesn't think that like,
that somebody like Hassan Piker is fundamentally coming
from the right place,
but too much of a provocateur
saying some nasty things, but somebody who just genuinely thinks he's wrong, politically,
like how do they engage? You know what I mean?
No, I totally know what you mean. I think it's a hard question because I think that
his popularity around specifically this issue is a symptom, not the cause. Like this to
me, my personal feeling, right? I don't think that it's the case that people are listening
to the Sondpiker and therefore they're becoming more critical of Israel or they're becoming
anti-Zionist. I think that if you look at, as you said-
I do think that that's happening for the record. I mean, not the two of my own
horn, but that definitely played a big role, for sure.
Okay. All of the polling, really in the last two years, particularly Democratic
voters in the United States have shifted. They're now more sympathetic to Palestinians.
They're more critical of-
I think she's right though. Yeah, no, it is a broader systemic shift.
No, I agree with that.
This is including, by the way, Democrats over the age of 50, who I think are not getting their views from their views or their news from Hiker.
No, they're right there with me on Poshmark looking at the clothing.
Exactly, they're looking for an actually dress.
I think that raises the question of like, well, why is that?
I'm just going to say, I think it's primarily their views are being driven by the conflict itself, right?
by Israel itself. They're there seeing that they're, you know, they also spent last summer reading
about Israel not letting food into Gaza. And you, you know, the people who to have these views might
say, well, it's more complicated than that. That's not fair. Okay, fine. But my point is that the
reason that people are changing their minds is not Hassan Piker. And if you say he has to be
persona non grata, I'm going to call any politician who appears with him, or who talks to him, or who
uplifts him or who, you know, whatever, at anti-Semite, I really think that all you're
doing, I actually think that you're making your cause look worse because you can't even defend it,
like you're not trying to engage on the merits anymore. You're not trying to say, no, here's why
it's more complicated, here's why it's wrong. You're not trying to go to your partners in Israel
and say, hey, like, here's how this is playing in the United States and Canada and wherever else.
You're just trying to shut down the the discussion around it. And as
I miss most of the same of how she being so charitable
This is good. It's it's good because I think
Some people are genuinely like I don't know what this person's background is
I don't know what this person's like opinion is on Israel, right?
But if she's a forward writer, I suspect that she's obviously sympathetic to Israel. She's pro Israel, right?
maybe a liberal Zionist but
Um, the fact that American Jews have a Hassan Piker problem, solving it is going to hurt.
This was she wrote on April 25th.
Did I, I didn't even read this, but, um, but I suspect that, uh, Pikers popular is a clear
sign that we must adjust our tactics for fighting anti-Semitism, not double down on condemnation.
But I think this is more so, um, this is more so coming at it with a recognition that like
You can't call basically here. I'll summarize it. I didn't even read it
But I think what she's saying is stop calling everyone a fucking anti-semite and demanding their condemnation
Because all we're doing is condemning ourselves
Okay
We're we're in increase we're an increasingly smaller and smaller group of people in American mainstream discourse
We get a lot of prominence in mainstream media, but we're deluding ourselves into thinking that we have the same institutional
motion to deny people access
to discourse at a time when you know the overwhelming majority
The overwhelming majority of Americans agree with people like myself. They might not
Identify the same issues. They might not be tackling the problem from the same root causes, but they broadly agree
And any time you say people like myself are deeply anti-Semitic or whatever
You're you're you're not reaching the if your goal is to
Stop people from paying attention to someone like myself. You're failing which is true
It's what I've said as well
That's why when I was getting inundated with a barrage of like Hasan is anti-Semitic pieces as on as a terrorist pieces
I what did I tell you?
I was like it's not a big problem at all as a matter of fact is beneficial
because the reality of the matter is normies nowadays don't fuck with Israel
at all and when they hear someone getting called an anti-semite when when
the average like when the median voter hears someone getting called an anti-
semi it doesn't cause them to to immediately shy away from exploring
what this person is saying as a matter of fact it actually works in the opposite
direction. And that has broader systemic consequences, broader systemic problems, because there are
real anti-Semites out there. So just fucking, you know, try to dial in on the actual anti-Semites
instead of fucking calling every critic of Israel an anti-Semite across the board. It's very stupid.
A flawed strategy. If pushing back against anti-Semites is the top priority for our community,
I suspect that writing Piker opposite anti-Semite with whom engagement simply can't be
uh... countenance will do more harm than go there are plenty of things to some
piker said that i too find offensive i agree with him on the most horrific
actions on october seven including access sexual violence don't
justify the slaughter of palestinian civilians in gaza but i think saying
that it doesn't matter whether rape happened in the humas attack
as piker has is a cruel and callous way to make that particular point
and while anti-scientism is not categorically anti-semitism i think
some bigger statement that anyone who's exhibited positive feelings about the
state of Israel be barred from consideration for any position of
of import, including the fucking local dog catcher,
runs the risk of creating a litmus test
for Jewish participation in civic life.
That's a concern I hope people running to be elected officials
in a pluralistic society take seriously.
But to say that Piker, whose fervent anti-zionism
can cross over into potentially damaging
and derisive territory, is akin to Nick Flint
as a Holocaust denier whose entire worldview is underpinned
by the idea that Jews are evil and exploitative,
is to make a claim that there is little evidence
to support the distinction matters.
went to zanthesemitism is so extreme and all encompassing that his fans and
followers will never be allies to american jews
there's little evidence to believe the same is true for piker to successfully
fight anti-semitism american jews need a broad base of allies in that context
piker's audience including the nearly three million fires on the streaming
platform twitch
is one
that it would be a mistake for us to hold the right off many people who follow
piker may agree both with his condemnation of israel's government
and his condemnation of the deadly attack on twenty twenty five houses
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Those people can help in the fight against American anti-Semitism, but not if we completely
refuse to engage with them.
You're basically saying that Hasan is being misrepresented in Jewish newspapers for the
most part and in broader mainstream media, and that's actually damaging because even
with the limited experience that she has, I assume, with my commentary, she has seen
enough of my defense of Jewish people as a whole, and also my defense against anti-Semitism,
my consistent combating of anti-Semitism, that it's a stupid and silly endeavor to just
write off people both in my audience and write off someone like myself.
I don't even know if this is as tactical as I initially assumed it was.
I don't even think this is like a a change of tactics. It's more so a demand to an audience
That's like a little bit hysterical about criticisms of Israel to just like dial it the fuck back
Because there are clearly people that are anti Israel that are not anti-Semitic
And I'm one of those people even if I use vulgar language at times
If American Jews goals of discouraging anti-Semitism encouraged people speak thoughtfully and empathetically about Jews
than treating piker as someone too extreme to engage with risk sending a message that
Jews don't want allies on the left.
This echoes a problem that arose during last year's New York City Marrow race.
Some Jewish groups discounted.
Now mayors are on Mondani's substantial efforts at Jewish outreach, instead focusing wholly
on criticism of Israel.
In practice, that choice risks suggesting that there was no reason for Mondani to bother
trying to support New York Jews because given his stance on Israel, no positive actions
he could take would ever be enough.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No.
I mean, they still are.
they still do it. I mean, Zoram, I'm not gonna have a an exclusively Jewish event last night
for Jewish Heritage Month and virtually all of the pro-Israel groups that were invited to this
event openly released statements denying that they would ever attend and that Zoram was a fucking
archantee semi because he denied the existence of Israel as a demographic majority Jewish state.
Okay. It's totally fucking ridiculous. So the silver lining here is that even amongst like
liberal Zionists, for example, there is now amongst liberal Zionist, there is now a change
change in attitude where they're not so aggressively, they're not so, like there are people who
are now urging a change in tactics.
So that means that like there are even some people amongst like the pro-Israel crowd that
recognizes that this is like totally unsustainable, the way that they've approached the issue.
it comes across as like outright hysterical, and it pushes people away.
There has been a push today to say he's anti-Semitic and how he held the event.
Yeah, I know.
It's fucking ridiculous, dude.
It's nasty, it's disgusting, it's ridiculous, it's delusional, it's unproductive, and it
leans into the fucking hysteria.
And once again, it causes especially American Jews over the age of like 50 to live in a totally
different environment, okay?
You're literally just creating fear and hysteria at that point.
And it's this like never ending cycle.
And you're pushing, you're outcasting yourself from regular polite society.
It's fucking insane.
I don't understand it.
I don't understand what.
what you get out of doing this because it's already, it's gone, it's over, you know what I mean?
Israel is, Israel has done such horrible things in fucking broad daylight,
in a way that even Americans that are some of the most propagandized people can see and understand,
and once those approval ratings swapped, where now more people in the United States of America
are sympathetic to the Palestinians over Israelis, sympathetic to Palestine over Israel, it's
done. You have to come to that recognition. It's never going to change. And, you know,
as, as, as American Jews, you got to fucking figure out why that swap happened. And you
can't just automatically say, Oh, it must be because everyone is anti-Semitic. Because
the the idea that like all of this enmity towards israel's coming from anti-semitism and not because
your emotional support apartheid state doing a genocide uh... is is uh... seen as as a gross entity
uh... is only going to foment more anti-semitism because it's like forcibly tying all american
jews back to the state of israel anyway
who's also a columnist at the forward has put it, you know, in some ways it, and I want to say like,
anti-Semitism is the fault of anti-Semites, right? So I'm not trying to say that these people are,
who are doing this are to blame for anti-Semitism, but as J. Michaelson said, like,
in a way it does confirm an anti-Semitic prior, which is that like, oh look, you're not allowed to
criticize the Jews, right? Because now they're shutting them down and now they're calling anti-Semites.
And I think there are times when that's worth it right like I personally think that
Saying we won't engage with Nick Fuentes who's a literal Holocaust denier like yeah, you can say that that's the Jews exercising too much power
I think that's worth it. I think that's worth the calculation. I
Just don't yeah, but but consistently putting me in the fucking crosshairs obviously
consistently putting me in the crosshairs, undermines the anti-Semitism allegations against
actual anti-Semites. That's the reason why the deep platform and conversation has completely
shifted at this point, and it's not working any longer. You know what I mean? What the
the fuck is this why are you guys spamming scuba is the fuck is happening in the chat
see how it is in his face and I don't think it's I don't think I'm telling people to
abandon their principles right like I understand that what he's saying is extremely offensive
to them there are things that he says that are extremely offensive to me but I guess
where I get stuck is, but how, but how does trying to say that he's the same as
Nicarentos or how does trying to say that any politician who appears with him
will never get your, like, how does this get you closer to what you want?
Well, isn't it sort of an overton window thing, right? It's like, if you can make it,
if you win, and you, I mean, so that's gonna get to my next question, which is
something that I've been thinking about a lot in a variety of cases and this kind
of interest me, because it's such an interesting illustration
of it.
I'm not a mid-east expert.
That is not really my area, but it's more the discourse
aspects.
And obviously, the always the stuff
with the Jewish angle being that this is the Jewish angle.
But I wanted to just talk about this question of platforming,
because people talk about this a lot.
And because it just hit me that we're
talking about two different questions.
One is whether Hassan Piker specifically
or any individual specifically is someone either of us would or wouldn't want to platform.
The other is whether de-platforming itself is even meaningfully possible, whether that's even a thing.
And I just want to pause for a moment on that.
What the f**k just happened?
The first question, well, this wasn't the first appearance.
The last one for me is...
I
Wait actually what the fuck is happening?
No, no, no, I
Sure, they're now more sympathetic to
He has to be personally their their views are being driven by the conflict itself right by Israel itself
Well, why is that what just happened?
actually what just fucking happened they disabled it to stop you from watching
I'm just gonna say I think it's primarily there their views are being driven by the
conflict itself right by Israel anyway all right whatever um that's good all right let's
get into it ladies and gentlemen primary day it's election day in the United States of
America in numerous states, Kentucky, Georgia, and Pennsylvania, the name of you. And we are
getting ready to rumble.
Holy Toledo, Philly, go out and vote Georgia. Go out and vote Kentucky. Go out and vote
Charles Booker, but also maybe Thomas Massey. Oh, no, no, no, you know, holy Toledo folks.
I'm going to go down real quick while this plays.
White a few states right now,
borders are open in Georgia, Alabama,
Pennsylvania and Kentucky, a race with huge stakes
and major amounts of money poured into it.
President Trump has been putting in the work to unseat
Republican incumbent, Thomas Massey.
The congressman has clashed with Trump White House over
several key issues and pushed for the release
of the EBSTEEN files.
We have reporters on the ground following
these key races today.
Jeff Sellingby is in Covington, Kentucky,
Danny Freeman is in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
First to you, Jeff, so far,
things have been open for a bit here a couple hours.
Plus, what are you seeing?
What are you hearing?
Hey, Sarah, good morning.
Yes, voters here have been voting since 6 a.m.
here in Northern Kentucky, a steady stream of voters.
And certainly we have talked to those
who are supporting Thomas Massey.
They said that they actually like
how he stands up to President Trump.
And we've talked to voters
who are supporting his opponent, Ed Galerine,
saying that it's time for President Trump
to have his own Republican congressman in office.
So we will see how this voting goes,
but it's really reflective of this very tight race here.
President Trump, I'm told by his advisors,
has been fixated on this contest.
He, of course, has been trying to unseat Thomas Massey
for more than a year or so.
Well, last night we caught up with the congressman
to ask him about the nationalization of this race.
This race has been nationalized, as you well know, talking about the revenge tour and the
revenge list.
Do you think that's how voters here in Kentucky see this race?
I don't think so.
We don't know what happened to Bill Cassidy or to those senators in Indiana.
And both of those situations are unique for mine.
Bill Cassidy voted to impeach the president.
That's something I've never done and I would never do.
And his constituents were mad about that, right?
God, I fucking love Thomas Massey so much.
He is such a freak, dude.
What a rare bird he is.
He's like, I'm so much more Magga than Bill Cassidy.
I would never, I would never vote to impeach Donald Trump.
It's awesome.
It's awesome.
He's so awesome.
Libertarian final boss?
Absolutely.
Yes.
Thomas Maserati, baby.
Gaia! What are you doing?
What are you doing?
Hello!
Hey there, okay, don't go in there, don't go in there, you know not to go on nerves.
Oh my god.
You American fuckers love nationalizing your elections, but not your healthcare services?
I mean, we don't even have
any fucking healthcare services, let it be real, we're talking about Kentucky.
Alright, bro, chill out, Jesus Christ, what the fuck?
Stop having a fucking medical incident in the chat, Jesus Christ, he's like,
well well how do you unlock collective consciousness chat blah blah blah shut the
fuck up
i'm still with my constituents in spite of the billion
billionaire spending millions of dollars to convince them i'm not i think most of
my constituents know that because i've been at this fourteen years
i haven't changed at all
so that of course is an interesting point there congress and massy has long
been opposed to spending bills he's long been a bit of a contrarian uh... the
The Republican Party has changed dramatically during this time, of course, during the Donald
Trump presidency.
But this is one of the most, if not the most expensive House primaries ever, more than
$30 million spent among the racer and talking to voters.
There's a sense of exhaustion as well.
But sir, this is not the most expensive primary race in the history of the United States of
America.
Number two and number three were Jamal Bowman and Corey Bush.
Now, what's the connective tissue there?
Why?
Why is the number one most expensive primary race in the history of the United States of
America and the number two most expensive primary race and the number three most expensive
primary race in the history of American elections?
What could it be?
What is the thing that connects Corey Bush, Jamal Bowman, two Democrats, and Thomas fucking
massy. That's right, it's Israel. It's just broad fucking daylight. They are literally
subverting the democratic process, a foreign lobby for a foreign state. The number one
ally of the United States of America. Okay, small nation, tiny nation, size of New Jersey,
surrounded by scary muslims
that's what it is no politic here do not say israel is buying seats how dare you how dare you say israel buying seats
an important point to keep in mind this is a closed primary that means only republicans can vote
this primary. We've talked to several Democratic voters here who said they would have liked to
have supported Congress in Massey, but he was not on their ballot. So that is something to keep
in mind as we go through the day here. Only registered Republicans can vote in this congressional
primary, but a very close one that the White House is keeping a very close eye on, Sarah.
Yes, I think your reporting spot on, especially if people are exhausted, I talked to one
Kentucky voter who was like, I just want this to be over at this point, but it will happen today.
Thank you so much, Jeff. Let's go now to Danny. Governor Josh Shapiro looking to leave
his mark, of course, on Pennsylvania.
What is this? You should check your login location history on your Google account. What
you think my Google account got boomed? And that's why I'm getting, that's why I just
like auto swap to Arabic translation. Is that what you think is going on? You think I got
hacked? Maybe.
It takes with the wind today, but he's also trying to, as Donald Trump is, kind of put
his finger on the scale, although Trump is doing it for revenge. What are you learning here?
Yeah, that's right, Sarah. There are two real big storylines happening in Pennsylvania today.
One is some of these swing districts that really the control of the House of Representatives come
November could flow through here. And then the other is Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro's influence
on all of that. Let me start with why we're in Allentown in this specific district. It's a district
You all will become very familiar with the 7th congressional district here in Pennsylvania. It is a swingy district a Republican Ryan McKenzie
He wanted alongside President Donald Trump. We're we're
We're all in on Bob Brooks
real union guy
Bob Brooks is very interested in Canada because he's been able to combine the forces of Josh Shapiro and also
Bernard Sanders
Bro, you just emailed me dog scuba
Okay
During his victory just a few years ago my man looks like he's right out of Paws Stars. He's he's awesome
Meanwhile, however, it's literally confirms the Kentucky primary is for Israel the most consequential Republican primary for Israel is happening in Kentucky
At some point we got to be like at some point we gotta be like this is a little fucked up now. What will it take?
What will it take, folks?
When will Americans wake the fuck up to what's going on?
I mean, this is totally ridiculous.
It's totally ridiculous.
It's happening in broad daylight.
It's almost as perverse.
It's almost as perverse and as ridiculous as Donald Trump taking $1.7 billion of taxpayer
revenue from the IRS to, to spend however he sees fit. Okay? We're there. It's happening
in broad fucking daylight. It's highway robbery and people are just sleepwalking. Donald Trump
doing, you know, 58 trades a day. This is the beginning of 2026. How did that happen? People
who got real mad about nancy and paul polosi myself included i was mad about that too and you
should be mad about that it's perfectly valid to be upset that uh... you know
congresspersons are trading on non publicly available information and yet
no such consideration is given to the president when he's doing it in broad daylight what are we
doing what's going on actually not to get all tucker carlson you know what the fuck's going on
We're not a country, we're not.
If you allow foreign lobbies to buy and sell seats like this, without any pushback whatsoever,
you can't be a country.
You're not, we're not a country.
The United States of America is no longer a country.
It's just a holdover state for corporate interests.
interest that can come in and buy elections foreign lobbies that can come in and buy elections
basically now yeah an israeli owned casino
shout out mary maddison
it's ridiculous and now democrats are trying to take it back and that's really the marquis race
on the ballot here is which democrat is going to step up and try and unseat this republican incumbent
The Democrats are Bob Brooks, Ryan Crosswell, Lamont McClure, and Carol Obando-Distune.
And the key thing here is that one of those candidates, although it's really a toss-up at
this point, one of those candidates has gotten the endorsement of Governor Josh Shapiro.
You see plenty of ads here in Pennsylvania as well. Bob Brooks is that candidate. He's a
firefighter in this area. And he, you cannot see an ad without him and also Governor Josh Shapiro.
that influence by the popular Democratic governor in the state really is on display here.
So those are the two stirrlines that we're going to be watching if that candidate, Shapiro's
chosen candidate, really can end up running up the scoreboard here.
But meanwhile, Sarah, when it comes to the voters here, they're really still laser focused
on just those issues of affordability.
I want you to listen to one voter I spoke with who's a small business owner here in
Allentown, and she's thinking about how hard it is for her young staff.
I think when you look at how expensive everything is for them just to even get started, I feel
a sense of responsibility to provide not just a great place to work but a great place to
make a living and that is a real challenge right now to watch young people want to build
a future that they're unsure of.
Does it feel like DC is helping that right now?
No, not at all.
You can hear right there, Sarah, that voter, Stephanie.
She's out here voting because things are really expensive and hard.
I passed by a gas station here in Allentown.
Four dollars and eighty-nine cents a gallon.
Those are the issues that are really bringing voters.
If Massey loses, do you think it has enough of an impact to disillusion people?
No.
It means that people are totally in a drunken stupor.
If Thomas Massey wins today, that's a huge fucking blow.
That means no amount of moneyed interest, no amount of cultish thinking that is in the
core of the Republican Party that's like anchoring the entire base at this point is enough to
unseat someone who's actually, you know, fought for his own moral convictions and said, I'm
not gonna, I'm not gonna compromise on my values.
Israel and Trump in unison wins here, which by the way, is not unexpected. Okay.
It shows something about the state of Republicans. And no, not independence,
state of Republicans. Because we're talking about the Republican primary, I believe is a close primary
in Kentucky. It says that the base is completely a cult, 100% a cult. Okay.
It's just totally a cult.
It's not necessarily a bad thing from our perspective.
In some ways, it's terrifying how cultish it is, but it's a cult that is getting smaller
and smaller.
So, from that perspective, I think it's beatable.
One example I will use is the Ken Paxton endorsement, right?
In Texas, Ken Paxton is a polarizing figure, not just for the Democrats, but amongst Republicans
as well.
But he's full maga.
And Donald Trump endorsed Ken Paxton today.
Ken Paxton actually performs worse against James Tallarico than Cornyn, right?
And now that Donald Trump is boosting Ken Paxton, this actually improves James Tallarico's
chances.
So you will see potential flips in areas that we never thought were possible to flip because
of the way that Trump is moving.
Trump is very clearly mustering up all the fucking forces, okay?
He's saying, this is my party.
It doesn't matter.
I care about ideological loyalty.
I care about loyalty to me more than anything else.
I don't care about the performance of the party at all.
I only care about making sure that my guys are, are, you know, winning.
You know how the Democrats have done a similar thing for, you know, maintaining the corporate
control over the party?
Something that caused them to lose over and over again.
Something that might even cause them to lose in the upcoming midterms in areas where they
could potentially win, right? That's what Trump is doing, but for himself.
This is how you lose. This is how you lose. This is how you lose elections that you could
possibly win. When there is unilateral control over the future of the party in the hands
of one fucking ego maniacal madman or a national party that chooses to defend corporate interests
even when the warning signs are right there for the democratic party, they lost the election
because they refused to lean into the demands being made by the masses as far as more bold,
radical changes in the economy that would help the working class, or their
unbelievable loyalty to the nation's state of Israel as it was engaging in
heinous war crimes and doing a genocide. That loyalty caused people to stay at
home. That loyalty is the reason why people didn't vote for the Democratic
Party and Trump won. But don't both parties support corporate interests? Yes,
Yes, they do, but it doesn't matter.
Trump is also a defender of corporate interests.
I mean, look at how he runs around and talks about the fucking stock market.
That's the only thing that he seemingly cares about.
So yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, I said, Chuang Jing-gou for the Democrats, Trump the nation builder, breaking Trump endorses
Ken Paxson in the Texas Senate race.
Trump the nation builder.
It's out here, but again, keep your eye on the seven congressional districts in Pennsylvania.
It could be incredibly import
control of the house come
is that stake for a lot of
you, Danny Freeman and al
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who is now running on the Democratic ticket
and former Atlanta mayor, Keisha Lance Bottoms.
CNN's Ryan Young is live on the ground in Atworth, Georgia.
Ryan, look, there are seats on Georgia Supreme Court
that are also on the ballot today.
There is a slew of things to bring out voters.
What do you see in?
Oh, there's a slew of options here
for people to talk about.
And of course, I felt all that energy
from Harry a little early this morning.
But so far, you can see Georgia voters
are really paying attention to this vote.
More than a million of them have already cast their ballots
already early voting that close on Friday.
Today, it's been steady at polling locations
throughout the state.
Just talking to some of the folks who've walked past me,
some of them have said, look, they are here
because they want to make sure they see some of the policies
they want to see in terms of economics move forward.
But this has been a nasty race when you talk
about the governor's race.
In fact, look at some of the ads that have been hitting
the airways over the last 60 days or so.
Freebie Rick Jackson and big baby Bert Jones
are too busy swinging mud at each other
to care about you.
In politics, some makeovers are only skin deep.
Rick Jackson, before the primary, he made a few changes.
New look, new story.
We're incredibly grateful for his leadership
and his friendship and his knowledge.
Thank you again, Rick, for all that you do for Georgia.
when you see burt's new attack ads remember he doesn't believe them either
yes there
people across the country may not know this people very popular governor here
in the state
he's actually stepping to the side now it's burnt jones
brisk rich accent those two have been locked in the battle that's really locked
up the are all american political as a piece yes there has been a significant
evolution significant regression
uh... as far as as you know every facet of american existence
and uh... certainly the the utilization of a i in campaign ads was an expected
uh... move in the wrong direction
yes there is a uh... degradation of public discourse
uh... no consensus reality
were unbelievably fucked
airways when it comes to commercials people are sort of out there casting
the vote to see who the next governor could be on that republican side and
And then of course you talked about the democratic race
in terms of the governor.
You have Keisha Lance Bottoms,
who in all the polls seems to be leading.
Of course, there's a lot of conversation
about what's gonna happen under her.
Because of course, whoever doesn't get that 50% vote
that they need could have a runoff,
which happens next month.
I will tell you though,
the people here have been energized about this vote.
It's, we've seen a lot of folks show up early
in other polling centers.
And I've actually talked to a few other reporters.
They've seen a steady path of people
who are casting their ballots pretty early this morning.
It should be interesting to watch throughout the day.
Two things you hit the nail on the head,
economics is big in people's minds.
But when you said that it was dirty,
I didn't realize it was actual mud slinging,
like real mud.
I'm like, oh, full-fledged mud slinging.
Then of course, on top of that,
you have these AI ads that have really got on television.
People are watching these.
The conversation really has been about
who's gonna move forward.
President has said that he wants Bert Jones
to be the next governor of this state.
It'd be interesting to see how this plays out
when it gets in this tight, tight political race.
Bill Cassidy in Louisiana lost his primary.
He, of course, he famously voted to convict President Trump
in his second impeachment.
Thomas Massity now is going up against Gal Rine here.
What do you make of this race?
And what does Cassidy's loss?
Could that mean anything for Massity?
Look, what is the overarching theme here?
And that is Donald Trump may have problems
with the center of the electorate in American politics.
But among Republicans, he is still king.
He is still very, very popular.
You mess with Trump, you go in the grinder.
I mean, you can see that overall,
approval rating with Republicans, right?
It's somewhere 82, 83% on average.
That is higher at this point in the second term than either Barack Obama was with Democrats
back in 2014 and certainly way higher than George W. Bush was at this point with Republicans
back in 2006.
I know Grindr, by the way, going into Grindr, that's a quote from Good Burger.
I like to, I love that movie, um, but what, what, what, what is, you know, what's so
important here is what happened in Louisiana?
Well, that necessarily hold in Kentucky.
Maybe, maybe not, but Bill Cassidy's performance on Saturday night, I went back to all the
spreadsheets I possibly could looking at every single primary that an incumbent senator
had.
After just after World War II back in 1946, Bill Cassidy's 25% was the weakest performance
of any incumbent senator in a primary.
Again, I don't think.
Yeah.
Trump is God.
Okay.
For MAGA, which is their entirety of the Republican Party, Donald Trump is God.
He is no longer just like a political figure.
He is a deity.
Okay.
You have to look at current modern day Republican voters as a cult.
That's it.
I genuinely think at this point if Donald Trump turned around and said that he is a communist,
we could have a communist party in this country.
That is the level of influence Donald Trump has over his base.
Okay, Donald Trump tomorrow could be like, I am a communist, I love communism.
Trump lander. Yes. The Republican Party is completely at the mercy of Donald Trump. Okay.
Bill Cassidy is a fucking demon. Yes, I hate Bill Cassidy. I don't give a shit about Bill Cassidy.
But the reality of the matter is seemingly Republicans don't give a shit about Bill
Cassidy either. Okay, they will drop any and every person that they have consistently voted
for. That's why the Kentucky race is important. The Kentucky primary for Thomas Massey is
unbelievably important. It's unbelievably important because Thomas Massey is not even
like Bill Cassidy, right? Bill Cassidy has had his woke moments, which Republicans love
punishing regardless. Thomas Massey is not woke at all. Thomas Massey is 90% of the way
with Donald Trump.
Thomas Massey is more MAGA than Trump is, okay? So at this point, is MAGA a definable
set of opinions and ideology and policies? Or is MAGA just whatever Donald Trump likes,
okay? And whatever Donald Trump hates is no longer MAGA.
the question taking shape within the Republican party primaries in Kentucky, okay? I personally
believe it's a cult.
This is an important moment, because if Thomas Massie wins, that means that there is actually
a fissure within the base of MAGA, where there are at least enough Republicans that are
capable of looking at individual policy and saying, look, I love Trump.
I love Massey.
Massey did great with the Epstein stuff.
He did great with Israel.
I agree with him.
At least for that district in Kentucky, we can figure out whether or not there is anything
redeemable about the Republican Party or not necessarily redeemable.
But is there something salvageable?
Because if there is a real fissure there, if Thomas Massie wins the primaries, that
means there is at least a fissure that couldn't be exploited, okay?
If Thomas Massie loses the primaries, he's fucking over it, there's no better indication.
I mean that paired up with Bill Cassidy, paired up with all the other things that have taken
place, it's done.
Trump can just, at least on the Republican side, destroy the candidacy, destroy the legacy
and the impact of any Republican no matter how loyal they are, okay?
That's what we're gonna find out today.
I hope Thomas Massey wins, because that means, I hope Thomas Massey wins, because if Thomas
Because Massey wins, that means that there is a deep fissure within the base, where for
the first time ever, maybe, regardless of their cultish attitude, regardless of their
dear leader praise, there are certain things that the base of support within MAGA still
sees and can make individual changes on.
That means that there is a little bit of hope to lean into that deep fissure, right?
Not that it matters for the record, because even if Thomas Massie loses, MAGA is fully
established as a cult, however, even if it's fully established as a cult, it's still
defeatable. Okay? It's up to the Democrats to actually defeat them. Why are we hoping
for hogs to be less hog like fuck them? No, no, no, no, no, no, you're misunderstanding.
That means you can snap some of these hogs out of their drunken stupor. That's what
I mean. Even if Thomas Massie loses tomorrow, he'll do that poorly. But that shows you,
along with Trump's popularity within the Republican ranks,
what type of wave?
It's always better if Trump's base is not at 37%,
but at like 30%.
Do you understand?
That's why I'm saying I'm hoping for a messy win
in the Republican primaries here,
because that means there is a chance
that the bottom is not firmly established at like 35%,
but maybe sub 30%.
That's huge.
The smaller the Trump train is,
the smaller the Trump cult is,
the easier it is to defeat them,
especially considering how unbelievably fucking weak
the Democratic Party is, okay?
The Democrats are weak.
They're faceless.
They're refusing to fight.
Or when they do wanna fight,
they only wanna fight against people like ourselves,
people on their left flank.
They're not ready to fucking fight against fascism.
they don't even want to admit that fascism is here in this country
okay
is that simple
but i'd be controversial is there anything you think trump has done right
the warrants credit yes of course uh... i've been
very clear on this what do you mean
like what he did in china in the Beijing summit i've glazed the shit out of it i
think it's the appropriate uh...
it is uh... uh...
weirdly sober
analysis
unexpected
Donald Trump. I thought he was going to continue warmongering, continue his China-hawker-y,
but Donald Trump sometimes will cut away from the established uniparty blob mentality when it comes
to certain aspects of foreign policy, right? Now this can be dangerous and damaging. He'll lean
into some of the worst aspects and some of the worst ambitions of foundations for defending
democracy like pro-Israeli think tanks when it comes to dealing with Iran, massive, massive
defeat, right?
And it's been horrible.
It's a spectacular quagmire that Donald Trump forced the United States into, and it was
totally avoidable, right?
was absolutely ready to negotiate. They made that very clear. They actually leaned into
American demands, like maximalist demands. Donald Trump could have gotten a better deal
than the JCPOA from the American perspective, from the American side, and he didn't do that,
right? He didn't do that because he was being used like a flesh puppet by Israel.
Terrible. And China, on the other hand, there are plenty of think tanks that want to wage war
against China, continue sending even more and more weapons to Taiwan, really expand on that,
really exhaust those tensions, right? Like really foment tension between
Chinese Taipei and Taiwan and, you know, mainland China, right?
Donald Trump's not doing that though, because in a weird way, he does actually respect power
war and recognizes that when he tries the wage war, like the tariff war, that he tried
the wage against China and he fails, he's like, oh shit, China had hands.
I need to be a little bit more restrained.
So that's good.
That's something that I've totally given Trump credit for.
That Thomas Massey has to fight against to win tomorrow.
Bill Cassidy's performance was the worst since World War II.
for any incumbent senator of either party.
I think Massie sort of represents what I would call whatever the oppositional energy is left
in the Republican Party, meaning people, he feels like he can say no to things.
And Trump has been found to be able to primary the people he does not like when you look
at what happened with the Republicans in Indiana.
Do you think that people who stand up to Trump, the way he does so specifically, can
survive primaries.
Well, we'll find out today.
And I think that what most Republicans, I've talked to our frustrated by, is when we had
the big, beautiful bill, for example, when we cut taxes on overtime tips, social security,
the common sense measures we put into place to secure the border, Thomas Vassie voted no.
It was the fundamental reason what gave us the opportunity to win in 2024, and he has
chosen to go to his own path and take his decision day.
Has he burned every bridge the way somebody implied here?
I think a lot of members see that he's looking out for Thomas Massey as opposed to what the
agenda is for Republican Party and today's decision day, we'll have to see what happens.
We saw what happened last weekend in Louisiana.
We'll have to see what happens tonight in Kentucky.
The biggest weakness that Massey has along with everyone else that identifies this way
in Congress is that they're libertarians.
Libertarians are inherently independent minded.
They support rugged individualism over the rest of the team and it's not very practical.
I think that the, I really do like the, the, the lady that was Trump came back on Twitter
is just a shit on Thomas Massey.
That's crazy, bro.
Horrible Congressman Thomas Massey put out an old endorsement from many years ago of
him by me long before I found out that he was the worst Congressman in the history of
our country.
I endorsed Ed Galerain, a true American patriot with, which Massey knows full well.
So the statement that he put out is fraudulent, just like he is fraudulent with dryer fake
statement Massey right now, President Donald J. Trump.
He's so mad.
He's such a fucking cuck to Israel.
Oh my God.
Where's that one chatter who asked me if there's anything redeemable about Trump that I gave
him actually a decent answer on?
I wonder if he, I wonder how he feels about Donald Trump being an insane cuck to Miriam
Madison and Israel.
Sign me in. Sign me in. What does Google sign in? What?
It's working in the kitchen who's saying, you know, I'm going to vote whoever I want.
That's so American.
There are certain states, New Hampshire, et cetera, places where people are like,
we don't want to be bossed around. We thought that about Indiana, and then five of the seven
Indiana Republicans that said no to redistricting are out of the job.
Well, that's why Trump has already won. Even if Thomas Massey actually
defeats, you know, wins and pulls this out tonight, the message has been sent. You cross the
president, there is going to be a huge political cost. And even if you do survive the primary,
I mean, Thomas Massey is now fighting for his political life, just as a result of that.
And the message has been sent, and you're going to see Republicans stay in line, at
least in the metro.
It's a very expensive message.
This is the most expensive primary in history, so for $35 million as of Monday.
There are a lot of donors also from APAC, the Republican Jewish Coalition, because of Massey's
comments on the war in Iran.
And I did wonder, with Hegzeff there, with the military base there, is this also a little
bit of a proxy for that conversation. It absolutely isn't 35 million is not even
getting past the surface. If you look at what happened in Louisiana with 50
million dollars, if you look in Texas with 150 million dollars, this is what's
great for a democratic strategist is none of that money was spent beating up
Democrats. That was money beating up Republicans, each other saying why they
suck. They went about us. And so we have to sit back and watch that. I'm glad
you're watching this. Let me finish. Yeah, I'll also say that Donald Trump is
still very popular in one little piece of the American electorate. And that is these
Republican primaries. To your point, Alex, is like, Lovey Merhady, I've always given
Donald Trump credit for being a good tactician when it comes to politics, but he is very
popular in the Democratic primary. Again, boys and girls at home, in a Democratic primary,
just a little bit of voters make a decision for the entire congressional district because
most of these guys, Democrat and Republican, are in very safe seats to where those primary
voters determine who will be your congressman.
In the meantime, do you think that Pete Hegsath should be campaigning for anyone right now?
Well, it's common things where a cabinet member's campaign, there's no doubt about it.
Not defense secretaries during a war.
Unless I miss Lohsfeldt hanging out in the midterms.
No, I mean, this is a reality of politics today.
He's out there aggressively pushing for the president's person.
Reality meaning no one is immune from the requirements of having to go onto the ground,
no matter what your gig is.
I think this is politics.
Welcome to it.
And this is, and talk about money, this is almost as much money as the Democrats burned in Virginia, doing a bad idea on, on reapportionment.
But that said, I think that Thomas Massou will have his day in court today, and we'll see the verdict, and I'm interested to see it just like everyone else.
I do think it's interesting though, when you see the Defense Secretary there in a time of war, and when you look specifically-
Dude, yeah. It's, I mean, you can't write a funnier situation, okay?
donald trump at the behest of israel is waging war with iran
and the fucking defense secretary in the midst of that battle that he's in
is going out there
to unseat
a fucking republican congressperson who's against this war
which by the way
so are many of the fucking voters
but it's it's it's hilarious is awesome but what the fuck are you doing
I saw, I can't believe I'm agreeing with this animal, but I saw wasn't Laura Ingram is fucking
and Colter make a statement about this where I was like, she's right.
And Colter was literally chirping about this where she was like, what are we fucking doing
here?
Like what's going on?
Whoa, whoa.
What's happening?
Where is it?
Let me see if I can find the actual statement.
Yeah, only 43% of Republican supporters think that Iran war will be worth the cost.
Only 55% want the next U.P. president to follow Trump's lead, but 80% approve a Trump's job
performance on immigration.
That's his highest number.
She's saying get back to the basics, be racist.
Where is it?
Where the fuck's the statement?
Yeah, the war with Iran is existential. I can't believe I like that and cold or tweet so I could bring it up on stream
The war with Iran is existential Iran could bomb a US city Americans must impoverish themselves to stop Iran from getting a new
Because civilization will die tonight man in charge of the war. Excuse me. I need to fly to a small Kentucky County to campaign against a Republican House member
Yeah, this is real America first in action right here, okay
up that's America first that's your fucking movement dude I can't see a
more Israel first moment for America first and this right here yeah I feel
dirty liking it I'm liking it now now that I'm done looking at this fucking
tweet God the audio is so busted I was so bad that BB himself would have come
and done a speaking engagement yeah I mean obviously they won't go to that
level because let's be real if they were to if they were to bring Benjamin in
yahoo there then people would maybe wake up but i don't even know anymore
i can see donald trump avenger benign yahoo fucking traveling around kentucky
stomping
for ed gallerain
uh... and and kentucky and still being like hell yeah brother that's right
united states israel and israel high sir
i love israel
i want to make sure
we spend all of our fucking tax dollars on israel baby
No, do not fix the potholes in Kentucky.
Don't fix the infrastructure in Kentucky.
Okay.
I don't need a hospital in a 50 mile radius.
Excuse me, sir.
Does this seem like I need a hospital in a 50 mile radius, sir?
I'm not an anti-Semite.
This is what I care about.
Donald Trump told me it's anti-Semitic, no thank you I say, M is real high.
Typically at this race, how it could also be a litmus test for the just how high frustration is when it comes to the war in Iran and the ramification of higher gas prices.
We talk about foreign policy a lot,
and the American people can be frustrated
with different foreign policy decisions,
but it doesn't always actually equate to being
a primary factor when it comes to electoral races.
Now, this could be different.
My colleague was in Kentucky recently, Jenny Medina,
and she did reporting there and found that a lot of people
like had that gas price on their mind,
had the initial America first promise on their mind
not to get involved in some of these prolonged conflicts.
I know the administration likes to say that this is
it's primary day in multiple states and one race in particular.
Michael Hastings fan, Hassan, I be shush. Don't tell chat.
I just voted my closed GOP primary.
Illegally, illegally.
That's right. What do you mean?
This is Hank pecker coming to you right now live from Kentucky. Okay.
We are a bunch of God dang patriots.
And guess what we are saying America first and that's why we're all voting for Thomas Massey illegally and legally
Voting hard
Get the hat or shut your filthy mouth. Oh, God damn. I don't make me put the hat on
one. I feel it in my plums every time I vote in my close, close GOP primary on where my
A political hat feel it down in my bones. The patriotism. After all, I got to vote illegally
because there's the, the illegals are voting Guatemalans, 10 million Guatemalans voting
for Israel right get back to the story about representative Massey facing a
Trump back primary challenge is drawing a whole lot of attention Republican
Congressman Thomas Massey of Kentucky is a frequent critic of President Trump and
Now, he is literally fighting for his political life
because of big money donations
from the president's wealthiest allies.
Ed O'Keefe is following all of this in Kentucky.
Ed, good morning to you.
The poll numbers do not look good
for Mr. Massey this morning.
Yeah, good to see you.
You know, after recent wins over fellow Republicans,
he considers his enemies in Indiana and Louisiana.
Kentucky now is the latest stop
on the president's political retribution tour.
And as you mentioned, because of big spending
by big outside groups, this is now the most expensive house
primary in American history.
Massey's the worst congressman in the history of our country.
President Trump on Monday from the Oval Office,
once again, denouncing Republican congressman,
Thomas Massey.
Always voting against Republicans and good values,
so get rid of Thomas Massey.
The president and Massey have sparked for years on policy,
but most recently on two things, especially sensitive
Trump. The Jeffrey Epstein investigation and the war with Iran. He's tweeted probably what eight or
ten times in the last 72 hours. He's literally losing sleep over this race because he's in with
both feet. In a sign of how much the White House wants Massey gone, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
traveled to northern Kentucky Monday to support the congressman's challenger for Navy Seal Ed
Gallride. Think about where we are in history right now and you're having the Secretary of War
coming here to little old Kentucky to see you today. Is that something?
Peg Seth made a stop earlier in the day at a military base in Kentucky,
but said he was appearing with Gal Ryan on his personal time.
There's nothing funnier than, first of all, I mean, this has to be illegal, right? Like,
what the fuck are we doing? That's number one. Number two, nothing funnier than having a bunch
of dumb fucks in a Kentucky military base be like, yeah, I'm gonna go vote for the guy who
who's going to send me to war for Israel. If you do that, but yes, the Hatch Act is nothing.
Okay. It doesn't exist anymore. Forget about it. But also, yeah, using tax dollars to,
to literally using tax dollars to fly to Kentucky to tell a bunch of chuds in the goddamn military
that they should vote for the guy that israel hand selected
that will absolutely vote to send you
to war
and died for israel fantastic
fan fucking past it did yet that's the real americans right there baby
real americans
fucking hogs man. Thomas Massey has acted like his job is to stand apart from the movement
that President Trump leads instead of strengthening it. You don't stand as secretary of war to
Kentucky during a war if you think your candidate has up ten points. That's what you do when
you realize your whole campaign is imploding. This contest across a district that stretches
from the suburbs of Louisville to northeastern parts of the state is now the most expensive
House primary race in U.S. history, with more than $32 million spent, mostly by pro-Israel
organizations and groups aligned with the president attacking Massey.
They tried to buy my vote for 14 years and it was never for sale.
They've tried, now they're trying to buy a seat here in Kentucky.
Kentucky Republicans today are also choosing their candidate to run to succeed the retiring
Senator Mitch McConnell.
There are also primaries today in Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, and Pennsylvania.
Nate, if it's Tuesday, they're voting somewhere.
Thomas Massey doesn't have a hope and a prayer to survive his primary.
He does.
It's because he has like...
He does.
I mean, it's a cult, but he actually does.
That's all I'll say.
Thank you.
It's true.
Thomas Massey, a terrible congressman.
Trump savages Kentucky Republican on primary day.
For Donald Trump, this is a part, you know, trying to punish anyone that steps out of
line, but it's also partially because he is a dog for Israel, okay?
Donald Trump is a dog for Israel.
He is a servile little puppy, okay?
He will do anything and everything for his fucking masters, all right?
This race is as expensive as it is, not just because Donald Trump is offended, personally.
I'm sure that plays a role as well, okay?
But it's because when Israel says bark, Donald Trump yips, okay?
He goes, yes, sir.
Straight up.
Thomas Bass is a terrible congressman. He's been a terrible congressman from day one.
Dealing with him is just horrible. I don't think he's a Republican. I think he's actually a Democrat.
He's not a libertarian. You know, sometimes they say he's really a Democrat.
He votes against us all the time.
He voted against the border wall.
He voted against men playing in women's courts.
He voted against transgender for everybody,
the mutualization of your children.
He voted against, again, open borders.
We have the best border we've ever had right now.
Nobody's coming in.
I mean, a report just came out in the last 11 months.
Literally nobody has been allowed into our country illegally.
We're taking people legally.
They go through a process.
Nobody's coming to our country, so we've taken out hundreds of thousands of people.
We had 10,000, 10,811,888 murders.
Many of these murders allowed into our country from prisons.
They were in prisons.
Thomas Massey wants to do transgender for everybody.
Thomas Massey wants to do Medicare for all.
He's woke.
He's a woke transgender himself.
Listen, I need you to understand something, okay?
You might think, well, how dumb is this the kind of argument that works?
And the answer to that scary question is yes, this is what works.
Yeah, Thomas Massey wants illegals powering over the borders and he wants transgender for everybody
and that's exactly the type of shit that that people actually eat. Okay, they're like, oh my god,
I can't believe it. Maybe he is. I think Trump is also trying to demonstrate that his coalition is
behind him despite the Iran war and Epstein. They want to avoid any cracks in his iron grip over
GMP voters because one crack could encourage more on top of the punishment and servility
to Israel. Yes, that's why I'm saying this is a very impactful and very important race.
You're absolutely correct.
Thomas Masi wants everything computer and transgender everybody.
Hassanabi are numbers guys or for trans or against trans for all? Yes, I'm a numbers guy who is also for transgender everybody
Imagine the crash out of mass he pulls it off. Oh god, he might just fucking have an aneurysm that turns them woke overnight
I don't know, but because I don't think he knew he was alive, but she Kamala was the
Portazar she never called that one time. She never called
The border patrol she never called ice. She never called lawns. She never went to the border. Think of it. I
Used to call every single day
And that's recently now I call less we have nobody coming through we have we had caravans coming through with tens of thousands of people
people, boring into our country. We had no idea who they were. We would have been, I
tell you what, our country would have been destroyed. If they won this election, our
country would have been, we have now the hottest country anywhere in the world. If they had
won the election, our country would have been destroyed. Our country was a dead country
two years ago, and now we have really the hottest country in the world. And this is
the ballroom, and it's going to be something incredible. You see the quality of it, and
go right into the roof, and on top of the roof we're going to have the greatest
drone empire that you've ever seen, and it's going to protect Washington. Thank you all very much.
Well today is primary election day in Pennsylvania. Voters across the Commonwealth will decide who
will be on the ballot for the general election in November. Polls open in less than 90 minutes,
as you can see there, at seven o'clock. Pennsylvania's third congressional district,
race is the one to watch locally in addition to be competitive political analysts say it could
also offer us a baby into Chris rap rap mentham rap mentham cbs news photo of your reporter
what keisha belly continues our voting coverage from today we're going to find out so now that
we talked about the the cult in the republican party there's also absolutely a machine politics
that has, uh, that has abs, that 100% has, has funneled votes into the most wishy washy
corporate Democrats with entrenched power at the democratic parties, uh, base as well. Okay.
This is a very important race. Chris Rabb is awesome. You guys know this. I've endorsed him.
I stumped for him and DSA, Philadelphia DSA in Pennsylvania is working tirelessly and
has actually broken records in the state knocking on doors. Okay.
Okay. Chris Rabb is going against Shreve Street and Aila Stanford in a district that
is the bluest district in the country. Okay, this is a district that is a very black district,
Pennsylvania 3, okay? 51%.
We're about to find out, I mean, and all three obviously of the,
all three of the candidates are black as well, before people get confused.
The rapture is upon us.
Sharif Street has gotten all of the institutional dem endorsements,
labor unions, he's backed by Josh Shapiro.
Chris Rab on the other hand has gotten a lot of the he's has picked up basically all the left flank
All the left flank insurgent candidate endorsements obviously
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez stumped
for Rab
This past weekend
It's it's going to be a real test here
The primary is what matters in Philadelphia. The advantages that we have for RAB obviously stem
from the advantages that that RAB has stem from the fact that this is a primary and therefore not
a lot of people pay close attention to the primary. So you can actually be quite impactful if you
are capable of activating low propensity voters, younger voters in general, which RAB obviously
has made a tremendous impact on.
Many of you have Canvas form, doorknock form in this community as well.
Obviously I'm still a little bit worried as I talked about last night and part of that
That is because the Democratic Party machine can just dial up the turnout on a lot of the
older voters that love voting, that love going out and voting for whoever the mainstream
candidate is, whoever the most conservative candidate is, whoever the Democratic establishment
wants to win. And Sharif Street is that person. Sharif Street is pro-Israel. Sharif Street
is pro-establishment Democrats, pro-corporate donations. Chris Rabb is everything Sharif
street is not. It's a different kind of politics, the kind of politics that I think would move
this country in a better direction. Why him and not the APAC lady? I don't necessarily know why
APAC's candidate in this race because I think, I guess, street is a little bit more critical of
Israel than Stanford was. There's a heat wave taking over Pennsylvania, hopefully that causes
some of the older voters to stay home and not vote. So we shall see.
It's very hot in Pennsylvania.
Having said that, it's not, I mean polls have shown Chris Rabb actually narrowly winning
this three-way
race
however
the dns of the democratic party in the state has actually pulled up bunch of
nasty little tricks
robo calls
spamming text messages without actually showing where those text messages were
coming from
text messages that even included my name in them apparently
uh... you know connecting chris rab to to anti-semitic conspiracy theories
connecting him uh... to myself
and the turnout machine, let's see if the turnout machine works here, okay? Because
the Unk Guard and the Aunt Guard, specifically Black aunties and uncles, are the backbone
of the Democratic Party. They turn out in the general and they certainly turn out in the
primaries as well. If the UNK Guard, that is the vanguard of the Democratic Party's base
of support for entrenched power, remains strong, if we are incapable of out-organizing and
door knocking the aunt guard.
Then Street will win the race.
Unc teetha, if you will.
Hopefully that doesn't happen.
In on Tabernacle in Mount
area this morning. Good morning,
Waukesha. Yeah, good morning,
in Seattle. Well, this major race that we've been talking about, it is to replace Congressman
Dwight Abbins. Now I spoke with political analysts and they tell us that this is really
more than just about politics. I sat down with Westchester University's John Kennedy
and political analyst Jasmine Sessoms ahead of primaries. Congress Dwight Abbins announced
he will step away after serving in Congress since 2016, following decades of service in
Harrisburg.
Buying for his seat is state senator.
Would you have endorsed Ramsey Robinson if he ran as a Democrat?
I would have endorsed Ramsey Robinson if he was polling at 10% plus.
Easiest endorsement of my life.
Not even a fucking question.
It doesn't matter if he's running as the Freedom Party, the PSL Cutout, or any number of different
things.
I don't care what he's running as.
a fucking independent for all I care. What I care about is if he had viability or not.
Okay? In a jungle primary system where the top two go to the general, I obviously can't,
you know, I obviously can't endorse someone who has no shot at reaching viability. He
He is obviously ideologically aligned with myself, same with Butchware as well.
Butchware has some interesting decisions that he's made in his career, but why'd you endure
Zoran when he was at 1% then?
Because it's an entirely different primary system in an entirely different city.
It's not a statewide election where there's a top two jungle primary system, okay?
And Zoran had the the ground game in a ranked choice Democratic Party primary who ran as
a fucking Democrat too he was a Democrat, a DSA, cadre Democrat in a crowded field where
that push obviously mattered a lot more.
i don't know why people
genuinely are confused about how these different electoral systems work i get
it and actually i do know why
it's because
it's because it's confusing every every state and in even cities sometimes
have different electoral system every state has a different election process
a jungle primary is just fully open okay republicans independent socialist they
all run together
and the top two reach the general
okay
in a situation like that you can have top two candidates that are both
republicans in a state that's overwhelmingly democrat
you can still have butch on the show
i mean ramsey robin of butch butch didn't even get on the ballot there's
like barack d obama shaw
on the ballot and butch is not on the ballot what do you what are you talking
about. He's not on the ballot.
Sharif Street, State Representative Chris
Rapp, Dr. Alaa Stanford, and tax attorney Sean
Griffith. The candidates have different
priorities, ranging from affordability and
education to health care, government reform and
utility cost. But analysts say voters are
focused on everyday concerns. They care about the pocketbook issues. How much is the price
of eggs going to climb right? So it really is about affordability and safety. Strategists also
say voters want someone who can navigate Washington while understanding the district's
diverse communities. Pennsylvania's third congressional district is the only African
American majority district in the state and also elected Robert NC Nix, the first African American
Pennsylvania congressman. It may give us a temperature or clue to where the Democratic
party is headed. If you look at the Cook Political Index, it's plus 40 Democratic district. That
means the average vote in this district is 40, 40 points higher than the national vote for in a
particular election. So just a couple of things. I think people legitimately think maybe due to all
of the narratives that we've seen in major media that I have the capacity to singularly
pick and choose candidates. I can give a modest bump if there is a shit ton of media coverage
on top of it, like with Abdul al-Said. We saw that. There was a little bit of a Hassanabi bump
for Abdul Al-Sayed, but they also have to have the fundamentals. Zoran and I were aligned almost
entirely in our worldview. It was a perfect, it was a perfect harmonious relationship,
right? But he was also unbelievably charismatic. He had the tremendous ground game, okay?
Okay? If someone is polling in a non-rank choice system at 1%, it's virtually impossible
for someone like myself to make them a viable candidate. Okay?
get a certain point, the individual candidate
and their campaign matters quite a bit, right?
But I think a lot of you look at the situation
and think that like, I can just like single-handedly pick
and create like a viable candidate
when there is no viability there
not yet but you will soon i mean i don't think so but
hope maybe maybe one day
inshallah
Media is smarter now. They didn't cover your rap collab as much. It's multiple factors
of play. Yeah. Yeah, I had Ray Huang early on before Nithya Raman ever even came out
to run, right? I gave the early bum a bunch of people from my community have been, you
know, door knocking and canvassing for her. It didn't make the distance, right? It didn't
cover the rest. It doesn't always work that way. I've never claimed that I'm a fucking
King maker. I don't have that capacity. We as a community don't have that capacity.
I saw that all the DSA LA City Council electeds endorse it endorse Karen Baz.
What's going on with DSA LA? I don't have additional insight into this, but what I can say is and I
guess we'll get into that in a little bit because we'll talk about that too. But in the mayoral
system in Los Angeles, the mayor actually has very limited power. It's still obviously a powerful
position, but it doesn't have the same level of power that the New York City mayor has, right?
What matters a lot more is the council members. So you have a strong council and a weak mayor
in Los Angeles and DSA LA's focus in this race has very clearly been to get all of the council
members elected, right? Which is a good strategy for the record. It is a great strategy.
So that's precisely what they've been focusing on. DSA LA has been working tirelessly to ensure
that they put up a more DSA LA backed council members.
Working tirelessly, no, but they have been, they have actually been working.
People now just think you're a socialist came maker as if a single appearance on
I understand that a few comments about them is what makes people vote for someone of that
work.
Kamala would have won after all of our celebrity endorsements.
I know.
I know polls open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Voters must be aligned by 8 p.m. and they will still be allowed to vote.
Now male and civilian absentee ballots must be returned by 8 p.m. today and military overseas
ballots must be received by next Tuesday, May 26.
Now we've been outside of
the Tabernacle Baptist Church where this is one of many polling sites throughout
the city and these candidates actually held a forum earlier during the race.
Well when the polls do close tonight we'll have the latest results as they
come into our newsroom online at cbsvildoffy.com. We'll also have live
election coverage on our streaming channel starting at 9 30 and we will
recap all the big races here on CBS News 4 dot be tonight at 11 o'clock as well
and we'll see you next week
for a live preview of what's
going on in the next few
days. We'll see you all as
tomorrow morning. NBC's more
Kunchesky reporting there.
Philadelphia's third district
Grace is one of the big ones
that we are keeping a close
eye on today. It's the Pennsylvania
primary and voters haven't
eight o'clock to cast their
ballots. NBC 10's Lily Zhang
is joining us. We're waiting
in line to keep staying in line.
Keep voting. Hey there. Yeah,
plenty of time to cast your
ballots right now. We're
that we've seen so far. So tons of opportunities to vote right here. Now,
one of the highly contested races that we've been keeping a close eye on is
that raised for Pennsylvania's third congressional district. There are four
candidates, state representative Chris Rab, state Senator Sherif Street, Dr
Aila Sanford and Sean Griffin. Now they all want your vote to replace
Congressman Dwight Evans. He is retiring after his term ends this morning, at
least two of the candidates. They cast their ballots in the Mount Airy and
has not hill areas. Rap tells us he will accept the results no matter what happens. While we're
at the polling sites, voters tell us that it doesn't matter who you support as long as you
exercise your right to vote. As the United States Marines serving this country, I did the hard part.
I went out there and served. All to the people out there, all you have to do is do the easy part.
come out and vote.
Now back out here live as long as you are in line to vote by eight o'clock you can cast your ballot.
So again, eight o'clock is when you have to be in line in order to vote.
For now reporting live in Center City, Lulizane, NBC 10 News.
We have a complete guide on all the candidates and the rest of the primary right now on NBC10.com.
Then make sure you tune in to NBC 10 News tonight at 11 for election results and on our streaming channel All Night Long.
The big race we're watching locally is the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania's third congressional district in Philadelphia.
Dr. Ayla Stanford, State Senator.
This is between Chris Rabb and Sharif Street, okay?
That's the race.
The race is between Chris Rabb, the insurgent candidate, and Sharif Street, the establishment candidate.
Sharif Street has picked up a bunch of local and also national endorsements from the establishment Democrats.
He is absolutely a product of entrenched power.
Sharif Street has in the past tried to redistrict within Pennsylvania that would favor conservatives
just so he could have a comfortable ass seat for himself.
It's a classic case of entrenched power within the Democratic Party going up against an actual
people-backed candidacy, okay?
It's a classic case.
interesting about it is that not a secret that the DSA and the left flank, whether it
be Bernie Sanders or numerous others, have actually never been able to make inroads with
black voters. Okay, with the exception of young black voters. This is a district that
is both young and very black. 51%. The demographics are 51% black. Okay, it's like fucking five
times higher than any other than any other district in the country, right? The average.
This was an issue for even for Zoran in New York City as well. New York City obviously also
is very black as well. This was an issue in the primaries for Zoran and Zoran dialed in,
in the general, and actually went out and focused on working within the Black community. Now,
of course, this is a little different because all three of the top candidates are Black,
Trief Street, Alice Danford, and Chris Rabber all Black. So, there is that difference. However,
However, however, Shreve Street has the institutional dem backing and therefore Shreve Street has
had the Democratic Party turn out machine that is very effective.
If your wife stopped chatting, you got to be white.
If your wife stopped chatting black only chat, it's true.
Sean Griffin is a non-entity. It doesn't matter in this race at all.
So this is a, this is a very important test.
I have said over and over again,
I've said over and over again that there is no socialist movement in this country
without black socialism. Okay. This is just true.
subjectively true, if we cannot make inroads through community organizing, through outreach,
by being in these spaces, by activating the nascent black revolutionary movement in this
country once again and have its resurgence, socialists will never fucking win in this country,
because you will never get out of the primary system, okay? You'll never be able to have a
third party movement regardless and you will never be able to get out of the primary system
either. Whether we're talking about the actual presidential run where notoriously the older
black voter population will go and vote for the establishment Democrat,
you'll never be able to make gains. You'll never be able to have inroads.
It's not a secret, and people have gotten very mad at me for talking about this, but
it's not a secret that the Congressional Black Caucus and the leadership, the Black leadership
within the Democratic Party is fairly conservative.
Okay?
The machine is conservative.
The voters are not necessarily conservative themselves, but they vote conservative, okay?
After all, the Congressional Black Caucus endorsed Hillary Rodham Clinton over Barack
Hussein Obama in the 2008 primaries, okay?
It's important to address that.
It's important to identify that because it's just true.
It's a very, it's entrenched power, it's boomers that are refusing to let go of their grip of power within the party in many respects. Okay?
But we can actually make changes. Okay, there are a lot of young black socialists
that are running in different parts of the country, okay?
And there are certainly a lot of younger voters that no longer have the same appetite to go out and
vote in the same numbers for the Democratic Party. They're not voting for the Republican Party either,
they're just turning in the non-voters, right? So as that turnout machine loses some of its grip
of power, it is important for us to activate the younger voters and, you know, get them on board.
And the only way to do that is through community outreach and to also speak on issues that pertain
to the day-to-day existence of young black voters and to be in areas where they're at.
Okay, there's an unbelievable level of disenfranchisement in this country,
especially in the South, and we're seeing that right now, where the Republicans are actively
erasing the voting power of black voters. Okay, some people shy away from this because they
always talk about this issue from the perspective of class, but in the United States of America,
this is an issue that needs special attention.
Okay?
There's Sharif Street.
State Representative Chris Radd and tax attorney Sean Griffith are all wanting to replace Congressman
Dwight Evans, who is retiring because there are no Republican challengers.
today's winner is very likely to join the new Congress in Washington, DC in January.
Pennsylvania's third congressional district is the only majority African-American district
in the Commonwealth spanning from South Philly to Chestnut Hill. That means African-American
voters will- 51% of this district is black. 51%. Okay? If Rad, I'm telling you right now,
If Chris Rabb, a democratic socialist, can win in this district, we can make significant
changes in this country's politics, okay?
We'll play a significant role in determining who wins today's primary.
CBS News' Fadati reporter, Wakesha Bailey, joins us from Inan Tabernacle in Mount Erich.
She's been there all morning.
And finally, there are some people starting to join you who are looking to cast their
ballots. Good morning, Waukesha. Yeah, good morning, C. Officer. We're still just a half
hour away from when polls open. And yeah, we've already seen people in line. This one
woman has been here since six o'clock this morning, ready to cast her vote. But we also
have a group that's going to be heading out. It's black voters matter. They're going to
be heading out door to door canvassing. And today isn't the first day getting started.
Call out Edwards is joining us this morning. And I met you but a few months ago here at
E now when you guys were already getting the word out. So tell us who is Black
Motors Matter and what is your organization about? Okay Black Motors
Matters organization, national organization based out Atlanta, Georgia.
Right now we have 28 different states. Wait isn't this is this Stacey Abrams's
operation? Am I crazy? All you meme lords and alters and terminally online
edge lords and Philly better put on your cleanest t-shirts, drag your asses out
your doomer kit out of your doomer caves and vote for this man Tuesday and go
back to watching old Eastern European documentaries and has below videos
later he's right he's right he's so right because Chris Rapp isn't even like
here's what's interesting about Chris Rapp so the DSA has obviously a caucus
system within the organization and you have some you know you have the DSA
right and you have the DSA left. The DSA right is what we usually call liberals, right? Social
Democrats, people who are hyper invested in electoralism. And then the DSA left is people who
are, you know, maybe even beyond that. Chris Rapp, Martin, usually DSA cadre candidates or
DSA, literally every caucus supports DSA. Yeah, of course, of course, I'm just saying, I'm saying,
You mean Rab. Yes. Every caucus, of course, is in support of Rab. I would go so far, I
say Chris RAB is a little bit to the left, more so than the regular DSA candidates that
run or the DSA endorsed candidates that are out there. He's radical in many respects,
in a very good way. Okay? Please don't call DSA right, liberals, Lamont. Okay. Well, I
say that ingest. Okay. I don't mean that is a bad thing. Half of you are DSA right in
here. Okay. Calm down. Okay. Cinemaxism, they are liberals. Here we go. You rarely, you
I rarely ever get a candidate that's in a Marxism likes, okay?
Listen, they need to quit acting like it then, yeah.
The concept of a DSA, right, is so fucking funny.
Wait, what?
No, it's totally normal in a political organization
like the Democratic Socialists of America.
Yeah, DSA is the political organization
that has people that will call those to their right social fascists.
So far left that you have people who will say these guys are social fascists is so so far right
within its ranks that you know
they're social democrats.
It was created since our fifth year at the university, so this was created to amplify
the voices of black voters, to amplify the issues that was impacting black voters and
to create some unity and joy of black folks getting to the polls.
Now, we're talking about a major race today, the Pennsylvania Congressional District 3.
That seat is going to be up for grabs.
How important is this race and what is your message to people today?
It is very important.
We have a new representative from the third congressional district as of the end of the
day and it's been a long time since the last year.
Maybe it's not Stacey.
It's wrong.
The third congressional district is 50% black.
So that choice is ours and we understand that it's black voters, but we need to get
selection polls and pick the right person there to represent us.
one that had long term and short term solutions to the issues that's impacting us every day.
Now that you're not up here this early for no reason, so what does your day look like?
This is a very serious day for me, so when you think about basketball players that practice all
year around to make it to the championship game, this is the day that we've been waiting for.
We understand election day is one day, but we also know our problems ain't starting election day,
you don't end on election day, but we do believe that a community that votes determines its own
So we are here just letting our young folks know, our older folks know that we need to get to the polls to amplify our voices.
Black voters, because they're expecting us not to show up to that.
And Colal, what are some of those issues that you're hearing since you're out here in the community speaking with people day to day?
I would say affordable housing, funded for public education, sustainable wages, reproductive rights for women.
Yeah, some some youth, young kids between 18 to 24, just one new rims on the basketball
courts and they wreck centers, new Wi-Fi and they wreck centers.
So we try to put the issue and letting folks know that their issue is going to be on the
ballot.
So just trying to put them two together.
I definitely appreciate the work that you're doing.
And for those people who are just still undecided, especially about this major race, what would
be your message to them?
This one I got to get serious.
I got to say get involved.
Get to the polls.
They will make a decision without you.
So it's our choice, it's our chance
to be a part of the process of electing someone
who's gonna represent us.
I tell folks all the time, once you don't vote,
you lose your right to complain.
So let's get out to those polls.
Moms bring your kids, kids bring your mothers,
and let's get out to the polls.
I remember my first time voting was my mom waking me up
at 18 years old saying, let's go to the polls,
and expect a lot that'll happen today.
Yeah, and you've been voting ever since.
Thank you so much for being with us,
and thank you all as well for the work that you do,
and for being with us. So just a couple of things that people need to know if
they are heading out to the polls today. So polls open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Voters in line by 8 p.m. They still will be allowed to vote male civilian absentee
ballots must be returned by 8 p.m. Today. Military overseas ballots must be
received by next Tuesday, May 26 and back out here live at Ina. As we
mentioned, we still have a couple of people that have already been in line
since six o'clock this morning and in the next hour, we're actually going to
talk to them to find out why they got here so early and what their message is to other
voters.
All right, see you after sending you back to you.
Yeah, we look forward to that great interview there as well.
Mckisha, thank you very much.
So from a 30 second commercial to breaking news.
All right, this is, we're now moving on to the Trump endorsement to the Texas race that's
taking shape right now.
Donald Trump in his endless appetite for unlimited fealty from all of his candidates has done
the goddamn thing and endorsed the much weaker candidate in this race, leaning heavily into
Ken Paxton.
Now this is Texas, so obviously, who knows what my, who knows what might happen.
Beloved, I'm black and these aren't Rob Rab heads, they're CBC heads.
Oh, I mean, I don't know what this oh, there was also another thing that I wanted to actually read from Geese magazine
That I think is a very interesting piece that was written about what Zoran must do
And I think it's gonna be a discourse bomb in general, but
But hold on let me see if I can find it
it. So, yeah, Geese Magazine wrote an article, or not Geese Magazine necessarily, but Tera
from DSA wrote an article about Zoram-Mumdani. This is a warning to Zoram-Mumdani. There
is no socialism without black socialists. I think this is one of the more important
conversations that need to be taking place right now as far as like outreach efforts
And as far as organizing efforts goes within socialist movements,
within the socialist movement broadly,
it's not just an electoralist argument, but it's also like,
I think something that we need to fundamentally focus on to,
to activate a lot of,
of not only black voters in general,
but to just like try to bring as many,
as many young black Americans into this organization,
into this movement in general,
because I think that's unbelievably important.
It will also diversify the coalition.
It will diversify the goals of this coalition.
And it is important to like,
and I'm saying this directionally,
like directly target young black voters in general. Okay? Um, but this is about New York
politics in particular. Okay?
There's no socialism without black socialists or I'm down. He's gained a lot from playing
ball with black political establishment in New York. But if he wants to achieve his agenda
in the longterm, he must turn to the black socialist insurgents. It's Thursday, June
26 the fresh winner of the democratic primary primaries or mum donnie is a problem and blaze it on the front page of the new york times
The story titled mum donnie triumph without a black without a majority of black voters
Where does that leave them the future mayor had won the democratic primary without winning a majority of black precincts
Given the unmistakable footprint of black political power in new york city. This is a serious problem
It would be impossible to govern effectively without black new yorkers is a key political constituency
So after mum donnie lost a black vote during the primary black supporters got organized black new yorkers mobilized to
organizations like New York City DSAs, Afro-Socialists and Socialists of
Color Caucus. We grew here in affinity groups like Afghans Rizoran. People
through parties, ran fundraisers, chemists throughout the city, focusing on
predominantly black and brown neighborhoods such as Jamaica, Browseville,
and East Flatbush. Many of these volunteers were young, some even in their
teens. These young people spoke with their parents, organized in their unions,
and worked hard successfully organizing their communities around the campaign.
Okay, Mamdani himself meanwhile prioritized building relationships with
black establishment figures several local elected officials
would originally endorse the disgrace andrew comal like assembly members
eric dylan
burn right switch teams once they saw the wind was behind mom donnie sales
when donnie also received a congratulatory call from president
brock obama
and even tepid endorsements from the former vice president comal harris
and house minority leader hekeem jeffreys the result
in the general election
mom donnie improved his vote margin with black votes by a land slide it
successfully brought the black political class into the affordability agenda.
His efforts had worked.
Then something happened on the heels of Mum Donnie's November victory.
Black 27 year old city council member, Chiyose.
Hassanabi head made a New York city DSA endorsement bid,
seeking the organization's support, the challenge, the seat of Akeem Jeffries.
During the primary and general election campaign,
Chiyose was one of Mum Donnie's fiercest advocates,
but he is also a political force in his own right.
In 2021, Osay won his insurgent city council race without the support of Black Brooklyn
political machine, instead winning his surprise victory by building a grassroots campaign
not beholden to corporate interests and unabashedly progressive in its vision.
At the endorsement forum, many of Mondani's most ardent Black volunteers called on New
York City DSA members to vote yes and endorse Osay's candidacy, hoping his campaign could
cohere a Black socialist alternative to the establishment politics of Hakeem Jeffries
in New York.
Mumdani, however, urged members of New York City DSA to vote no, something that I also was against.
He believed that the affordability agenda depended on support from important members of the Democratic establishment
and would be compromised if New York City DSA challenged the House Minority Leader.
Osay lost the endorsement vote by a slim margin.
Osay's endorsement fight illuminated a key feature of Mumdani's political strategy for black New Yorkers,
workers, protect the black political establishment through favors and protection from challengers,
and in return, they would support his affordability agenda.
In a truly remarkable fashion, the mayor was able to close this fiscal year's historic
budget deficit with a mix of state aid, new peter-taire tax, and a pension funding maneuver
with the support of New York State Assembly Speaker, Carl Hesty.
Many people have argued that this clearly validates Mum Donnie's approach, but in order
to fund the affordability agenda, the mayor will need more than insider politics. Despite
his success with the budget, there are cracks from his proxy fight in the city council
speaker's race to the botched property tax gambit.
Mamdani has not been able to build a true political allies within the black political
class.
For the Mamdani administration to achieve his ambitious goal, the mayor will need to
develop a political vision that speaks for the diversity of New York's black working class.
The mayor needs to cohere an alternative political poll that centers Black working class people
in New York politics, a socialism that centers Black New Yorkers with its own political leadership
and treats Black New Yorkers like their own active political subject.
The most pressing need is for the mayor to endorse all four of New York City DSA's Black
and Surgeon candidates, which your boy has endorsed.
Obviously, you met them.
Rad Blackburn, Darlisa Avila-Chevalier, which I will be linking up with in New York this
upcoming weekend. I'll be in New York for a Moral Day weekend.
Ian Huntley and Christian Celeste. The strategic motivations for this decision are clear. These
four candidates represent the beginnings of an alternative political poll in black New
York politics, one rooted in mass organizing and democratic socialist politics. Now, all
of these candidates are obviously running against entrenched black political power in New York
City politics, okay? They're running against entrenched power within the Democratic Party.
Let's just say it like that, not just black, you know, not just entrenched black political
power, but just entrenched Democratic Party power. They're running against the Democratic
party machine. And these insurgencies need to win. We have to unseat the old guard that
has for far too long done businesses usual politics. And the ones that remain will also
change their mentality as well. We'll recognize that this is a force to be reckoned with.
Very important. The strategic motivations for this decision
are clear. These four candidates represent the beginnings of an alternative political
Poland-Black-New York politics is one rooted in mass organizing and democratic socialist
politics. They want to tax the rich, protect our immigrant neighbors, and build a New
York everyone can afford, no political cover needed. With Mumdani's weight behind them,
they pose much more credible threats in their races and gain access to supporting resources
otherwise held exclusively by the decaying political establishment. This need is not
distinct from his desire to achieve the affordability agenda. The thing is, if Zoran can stick his
neck out for that other race that he lost. I forget her name now. She was one of the
early supporters of Zoran Mumdani as well. As DSA Kadri, a mayor of New York, he can
flex a little bit, I think. Lindsay Boylan, yes. And he is also sticking his neck out
for Claire Valdez, who I fucking love by the way. I mean, Claire has been phenomenal. Okay,
you guys know this. I'm a huge fan. Um, unbelievably impressive. Definitely. Uh, I already had,
you know, uh, I already had like, uh, uh, an expectation that she would be great, right?
But I did not think she would be this great. Okay. And that is a political decision. That's
That's a political maneuvering from Zoran against the working family's party back candidate.
Like that's, she's doing that, right?
She's doing that already.
Lindsay didn't have ground game.
It was a special election to be fair.
Yes, but it was already a, it was a political maneuver where Zoran Mamdani stuck his neck
out.
Just cast a fat L on that one according to Holly Pretzky, the city and state New York
reporter, regardless, I don't, you know, this is irrelevant to me, okay?
I think fight agency is great.
They work with a lot of candidates that I obviously like, a lot of candidates that I
have worked with as well, but they're not, that's an ad agency, okay?
those are how wonderful the people are at the fight agency, they're an ad agency. Okay.
They're not a political organization. The Democratic Socialists of America is a political
organization. Okay. The DSA has political goals, clear cut political goals, well established
political goals. They don't work with every single person. They have members. They have
members that there are paper endorsements, there are, you know, members who run for positions
of power. It's very different structure. Okay. Anyway, but the DSA isn't a political party.
It's not a political party for the time being. Yes, it is a part, it is a political organization
that works within the ranks of the Democratic Party as a political party in the current
duopoly that we have, okay? There are different schools of thought within the DSA as well
on this issue, but I'm not going to get into that right now, okay?
So to succeed, the mayor ultimately needs to build a coalition that has actively invested
his administration's success, while transactional politics may notch him some early successes,
black establishment figures are concerned with maintaining the status quo and see
democratic socialism as a threat to their own power. This is true. And it's not, it's beyond, like,
it's, uh, uh, black political power within the democratic party is entrenched political power
that is oftentimes, oftentimes backing pro-corporate Democrats, oftentimes has pro-Israel
politics. The CBC, in many respects, is unbelievably pro-Israel, not across the board, obviously.
But it's true, right? It is a very, very important part of the entrenched machine politics within
the Democratic Party, okay? It is a bulwark. It is the first line of defense for some of
the do-nothing Democrats within the Democratic Party. Did you know you cannot talk about
Democratic Socialist politicians on r slash Democrats? Oh my God, who gives a fuck? Okay.
This is clear from their most high-ranking leaders, House Minority Hakeem Jeffries has
been openly antagonistic to the socialist project, stating that he would never bend the
knee to hard-left democratic socialism, and is quietly dueled with mom Donnie Ally and
New York City DSA members, State Senator Jabari Brissport or Hegemony in Brooklyn.
Congressman Yvette Clark has all but called Democratic socialists like Bernie Sanders
interlopers in the Democratic Party.
exist and coexist as Americans. So I think people of good will are going to come together.
I keep sharing with people. I don't really believe that the era we're living in right
now is a right versus left. I think it's a right versus wrong and people see what's going on. I mean,
the corruption is rampant. People are being dragged out of their homes by DHS officers.
No one wants to live with that. No one wants to be a witness or a party to that.
And so I think that they're going to be people of good will who may not necessarily
register as Democrats. They're going to vote to make sure that this does not continue.
All right, we are going to leave it there.
Chair Clark, thank you so much.
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and our video and co-founder John Bresden had joined us back for the panel.
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All right. We just had CBC Chair Clark talking a lot about the Supreme Court case, its impact
on the CBC. I'll start with you, Michael. Do you think the CBC can bounce back from these
losses?
Yeah. I think the thing that's interesting to me, and I listened to Chair Clark, and
this is, you know, what the sentiment I've heard from all the members about this, speaking
to this week, is that they believe that, yeah, they're stricken numbers and the caucus is
as big as it's ever been, but they really do believe that they can be influential in
these eyes. So I think that they're trying to figure out how do they harness their influence?
How do they harness their power? Not in terms of how big was that the right time slot? Or
know. Was that the right time slot? No.
She it went viral on Twitter. I saw if your goal was to show us a little lobby at no,
I went to piss, okay?
Shut the fuck up chat. It was the it was a time stamp from the article, but I don't know if that was actually
All my fucking Lord Jesus Christ you guys are so goddamn annoying. Okay here. Oh my whole thing is
Dems got to get the majority
Period full stop and you still believe I wish I had a number. I'm sorry
I'm sorry and then sorry I've been following it to that extent state by state, but you still think Dems will win the majority
Absolutely, people of good will understand what time it is.
Everyone is hurting right now,
with the exception of some multi-millionaires, billionaires.
But most Americans are hurting right now.
And I think that even for those who it may not be so acute,
they understand the disruptive nature.
I mean, to witness in the United States of America,
people getting gunned down for protesting?
I don't know how people live your liberalism is showing king. What the fuck?
American petroleum advert. Let's fucking go. Oh my god.
We will never be able to
We will we will never lock in on in this community
Everyone all the outsiders all the naysayers and their their criticisms are correct. We're a bunch of babies. Okay with baby brains
uh and
And that's all it is. Okay. All right, so
So, um, taking Twitch chat seriously Lamont, I know I'm trying to have a serious conversation
about the future of American socialism on a fucking Twitch chat.
What am I expecting?
Of course, there's going to be little babies that want to have fun, they're bored of, of
the dialed in conversation that we're having.
Congressman and Queens from Democratic County chair, Gregory Meeks, never endorse or I'm
I'm Donnie.
Most importantly, all three Congress members take money from the Israel lobby.
Kim Jeffries, the man who said Israel today, Israel tomorrow, Israel forever, which is by
the way a segregationist credo, will not, will not allow himself to be usurped by a Muslim
anti Zionist democratic socialist, even if he's willing to engage in short-term compromise
to neutralize the challenge from the left. This is the clip I was looking for. Here's
the black hawks chair, Representative Yvette Clark saying Mayor of New York City, Zara
Mamdani should not be the face of the democratic party.
It's from Donnie the face of the Democratic Party.
Are they wrong to try?
Absolutely.
I keep sharing with people as a Democratic Party and they're the Democratic Socialists
of America.
The Democratic Socialists of America don't have a party.
So the closest alignment that they can have is to run as Democrats.
Every time Bernie Sanders runs for office, he's a Democrat.
But when he becomes a legislator in the Senate, he's an independent.
Yeah. This was what I was looking for. I don't know if that was the actual clip or not that
you saw, but when Mamdani pitches Marrow Race in New York City, DSA stated that his base
of sport would be young people, tennis who's motivated by Palestine's solidarity movement
and South Asian and Muslim New Yorkers. And he was correct. Mamdani's campaign cohere
to disparate group of people who had no political home into protagonist capable of advocating
for their own class interests, delivering one of the greatest political upsets of the
However, his vision for working-class protagonistism has not extended to Black New Yorkers in the
same way.
This is a mistake.
Few communities have more to gain from Democratic Socialist politics, or have been more consistently
denied political champions than Black New Yorkers.
Further, the crisis of Black political leadership is real, and the potential for Democratic
socialism is an answer to both economic and political problems facing Black New Yorkers
cannot be understated.
The affordability crisis has hit Black New Yorkers hard.
in 2020, there has been a sharp exodus of black working class, literally 200,000 people or
of 9% of black New Yorkers.
The political machines that built the black democratic establishment institutions have
correspondingly also been hollowed out.
In New York magazine, journalist and Insight City Hall host, Errol Lewis writes, worryingly
that local institutions can no longer attract young people.
And Carmason Meeks states that he has trouble even recruiting black male lawyers for judicial
slots.
zero that come in to get interviewed, he complains, is a real issue.
Every other election cycle commentators regularly talk about black men.
They talk about how black people are no longer voting for the Democratic Party.
that fear is often overstated, but there is an underlying reality that they're touching
on in possibly the worst way, okay? And that underlying reality is that, yes, young black
voters are no longer voting for either party, just as young people are no longer voting
or haven't really been activated appropriately regardless, okay? The Democrats have taken
the black vote for granite for far too long without actually offering
anything back in exchange
beyond simply stating
the truth which is that the opposition is overtly racist right
but that's not working
it's not working any longer
to build coalitions not working to activate the youth in general there's
a reason why bernie sanders
uh... who uh... could not receive the the
uh... endorsements or ever uh... activate
uh... black base of voters within the democratic party
was actually very successful in doing so amongst black youth
right overwhelming percentages
but there is so much more work that needs to be done in this regard
and i think
the the revolutionary politics
could be
the thing, the revolutionary politic socialism could be the thing that primes young black
voters in general and gets them more activated.
A lot of leftist erases, they just won't admit as much as conservatives, okay, sure, fine.
This is the opposite of that.
You know who's, you know, you know what is a great solution to that problem?
Okay.
You know, it's a great solution to that, working with black communities, okay, existing in
black communities.
It's a real issue.
The political anxieties of waiting black political power are manifest in the Mamdani administration,
profile black appointees like Afua Atamensa, who is the city's chief equity officer in Jamila Edwards,
the director of intergovernmental affairs, are not veterans of the Democratic clubhouse's Lewis
rights. Then in January, Mumdani announced appointments for five deputy mayors. None of them
were black, though he has since appointed a black woman as deputy mayor for community safety.
Renée de Francois, the narrative had been written. The Mumdani administration marks the
end of traditional black political power, or at least it marks the end of that particular strain
of black political power. When old institutions fail, new opportunities emerge. One example
is the rise of black socialist Charles Barron in East New York in the late 90s.
Shadows you some political organizer. Michael Lange profiles the Barron political machine
in a neighborhood that is 87% black and Hispanic, decades of disinvestment and systemic racism
and rendered democratic institutions non-existent. Murders were so high in East New York that
that the neighborhood was referred to popularly as the killing fields, but this meant the
field was open for an alternative as well. In 1997, the sitting democratic city council
member Priscilla Wooten endorsed Rudy Giuliani for mayor. This was a political opportunity,
a moment that showed that black elected officials were out of step with the political sentiments
of the black community.
Charles Barron seized upon this moment. He named an enemy the, he named an enemy the
bottom paid for black establishment and positioned himself as the working class alternative.
He ran twice for city council without institutional support, but was able to support the endorsement
of black democratic socialist and former mayor David Dinkins.
Baron won his city council seat on his second try in 2001, building a black socialist political
dynasty that lasted for over 20 years until he was narrowly defeated by Chris Banks in
2023.
Mamdani's victory reveals a similar political opportunity.
CNN exit polls from the mayoral general election show that Mamdani won a super majority of
black youth aged 18 to 29 and 84% compared to the 66% white youth. Okay, that's massive.
This is also, this is the example that I use all the fucking time. Okay, which is the idea
that like, oh, black voters are conservative by and large. No, the fuck they're not. Okay,
they just don't have someone to vote for. Okay, it's just objectively untrue when matched
the rest of the electorate, black voters have historically always been the most progressive
voting block, okay? 100% of the time, always. And it's very annoying whenever people make that
argument, whenever people have that conversation where it's like, oh, well, you know, the black men,
they're homophobic. It's like, dude, look at the rest of the fucking, like match the demographic
that you're talking about with the fucking rest of the population, okay? It's ridiculous. It's a
ridiculous argument to present. It's ridiculous. Two-thirds of Black New Yorkers are renters,
and nearly half of those New Yorkers live in rent-stabilized housing. The people most affected
by the affordability crisis in New York are young Black New Yorkers. The demographics of Black
New York have also shifted. Nearly half of Black New Yorkers are foreign-born.
This emergent class of Black New Yorkers needs new leadership that can unify their demands.
The Black establishment has no real plan to organize these emergent constituencies.
In order to maintain power, they cater to corporate sponsors who, in turn, undermine and
displace their own basis support through gentrification and the refusal to address the
affordability crisis. Moreover, the Republican opposition is aware of the fractures within
the working class and seeks to exploit these divisions. On November 2nd, 2024,
Donald Trump said that illegal immigrants are taking the job of African-Americans.
Establishment of immigrants are weak-willed, and feckless, and the MAGA opposition knows it.
Do-nothing Democrat leadership has been one of the most disorganizing forces for the American
working class, especially the Black working class, which again, another thing that people always say.
Labor unions are racist. Historically, there's truth to this sentiment.
Black people have a higher union participation rate than any other demographic in this country.
I bet you didn't fucking know that. It's right.
It's true. Literally, look it up.
The working class in the United States of America resembles
the demographics of the United States of America. America is a very diverse country,
okay, far more diverse than most countries, okay. And of course, it's reflected within the demographics
of labor union participation as well. Even more crucially, it is already on its way out if the
mayor continues to play the traditional blackest after he's choosing the losing team and risks
dissolving this crucial constituency.
What is this? You now have shared ops? What with the Texas
candidate? Oh, come on. Is it the Maureen Galindo lady? Is that where you're from?
Mumdani must choose. He can govern in coalition with an ideologically opposed eroding black
establishment, or he can organize the emergent black coalition that mobilized for him.
He cannot do both. Many in the political class have remarked on Mumdani's incredible talent for communication and charm.
But his most distinctive attribute is his commitment to political organization.
Thousand New Yorkers joined political organizations like New York City DSA when he won his election,
and many thousands more volunteered in his campaign. Mumdani can name a political adversary,
present a clear pathway for defeating the enemy, and then bring his coalition into an organization
where their struggles can be actualized. Take, for example, Harlem. New York DSA has no elected
officials in Harlem, but in the primary election, Mamdani won this region by 18 points in the first
round. Blackburn and Chevalier's races are an opportunity to consolidate this victory and
present New York City DSA and Mamdani as truly ascendant as a political project. Okay?
First, both candidates have clear principles that allow them to name enemies they can polarize
their basic ends, both Blackburn and Chevalier are anti-Sinus and democratic socialists. Blackburn
comes from a working class background, is the son of a single mother, and has dedicated his life
to service as a public defender and a union organizer. Wright is the heir to a political
dynasty with his father, Keith L.T. Wright. If you recall, we talked about this briefly with
Comrade when he was on stream, sitting in that same assembly seat for over 20 years, and in 2024
received the endorsement of Solidarity Pack, a pro-Israel group, before running for Congress.
Chevalier was a PhD student at Columbia, and like Mamdani, organized closely with students
for Justin Palestine. Congressman Espayat, by contrast, is an ardent supporter of Israel
and has received over $100,000 from APAC this cycle. I'm going to say it one more time.
I will be doing something with Dara Liza, Chevalier, this upcoming weekend. Okay.
Okay. Well, that's by out and right. Take money from the real estate corporations, even as their constituents experience record levels of displacement. These incumbents are out of step with the electorate.
The presentation of an alternative has been galvanizing for the base. Current growth in the Bronx and upper Manhattan branch of New York City, DSA far outpaces that of Brooklyn and Queens.
Even early polling shows, she really has already made a strong challenge to the 10 year incumbent. Take a look at that.
that challenger poll shows soft support for Espaya
in New York's 13.
Only 42% of likely Democratic primary voters
in the House district spanning upper Manhattan
and parts of the Bronx would vote
for long-time incumbent US representative Adriana Espaya
in the primary election,
according to an internal poll from challenger,
Daraliza Avila-Chevalier, am I,
I hope I'm not fucking up her name, Avila.
Based on name recognition,
a lot of voters picked Espaya over Chevalier,
42 to 28% according to results shared with the city. However, once respondents heard positive
message about Avila's platform, Darlie's platform, the challengers campaign said she leapfrog the
five term incumbent 46% to 35%. Another Democratic candidate in the 13th congressional district,
primary Oscar Romero comes in a distant third at 4%.
My, uh, the New York city election person says Darlie's raises a toss up. I guess that's good
news. It's only it's a good it's good news. However, however, what is this? Why
does this on a beef with Pac-Man? Didn't he say he was APAC funded? I don't know
how Pac-Man loves Israel. I listen to him daily and it doesn't mention Israel at
all. Also, I can't reply directly on mobile. I did not say David Pac-Man was
funded by APAC. I literally said the exact opposite of that. David Pac-Man has
made a reference to me saying he was funded by APEC when I have said the exact opposite of that.
I've literally said, I don't think David, David Pacman, I have jokingly referred to him as David
A. Pacman in the past because he has, has referenced that he doesn't know how to say the word APEC,
which I think is ridiculous. I think that was a lie. Okay.
Okay.
Sub Santana.
I don't even know.
Are you getting a clip off?
Is that what it is?
It may seem like you'd never heard of the word APEC or how to say it.
I think that's ridiculous.
And not only that, but of course you don't know his positions on Israel because he doesn't
talk about Israel all that much.
Anyway, even the haters can get free clips at the Hassanabi broadcast.
Come get the smoke.
Yeah.
Anyway, um, Tate and Huntley's raising a book.
Even more aptly represent mum donnie's power mum donnie won handily in these districts the fact that it's also a toss up for the record
He talked about israel to deny israel bomb hospitals and gods. Okay, whatever. I don't care about David pacman right now
Come on man lock in everybody lock it. Okay. We're we're moving on from David pacman
What the fuck what the fuck difference is David pacman make right now? We're talking about specific raises in New York City
Yeah, Bernie by the way endorse the entire New York City DSA slate for the record because he's beast mode
He is the goat. He has not endorsed the congressional races, however, in the DSA slate, which Darlisa is a part of.
It would be very nice if he did that, but I think it would be even more nice if
Mumdani, as the mayor, stuck his neck out a little bit for Darlisa specifically,
because Darlisa is running in a congressional race. It's not the local races.
Those were the ones that Bernie Sanders endorsed, right?
She's going to need help.
That's why I'm trying to offer as much help as I can, but I'm just one fucking person
on the outside.
I don't even live in New York City, right?
I can mobilize this community, which is what I urge you to do.
Obviously, go out and knock on doors for her.
But we need more help.
Zoran did stick his neck out for, uh, obviously a Valdes, right?
Going, uh, going against the, uh, the, the incumbent on our way out.
Pretty sure Espeyot endorse mom, Donnie.
Yeah.
I don't know if Espeyot endorse him or not, but he's not going to, he,
he's not going to take a, a risky initiative, uh, against Espeyot.
SBIOT campaign was Zoran and endorse Zoran. Okay. That makes sense.
As to why he wouldn't do it.
Bushwick by six, seven points in the primary and bedstie by 43 points.
Each of these candidates has a strong chance of winning their seats,
regardless of mom down his endorsement.
But by endorsing is the opportunity to make a positive intervention in the
success of black socialism in New York city.
There may be trepidation and endorsement against black incumbents,
especially SBIOT, right? And Tate's opponent,
Assemblymember Eric Dillon, each incumbent endorsed Mumnani during the general and together
helped produce the coalition that allowed him to take power is possible to argue that
endorsing these insurgents with alienate even more members of the black political class
and put a wrench in his governing coalition.
But the strongest coalitions are built on shared goals, not personal relationships.
Only a shared goal can provide a serious basis for cooperation.
Also, he's the other side of this.
If you have actual DSA people in those seats, if you can flip those seats to the insurgency
campaigns, okay?
Then all of a sudden, you have stronger leverage against the entrenched political class in New
York, okay?
Then you actually have a leverage when you go to the bargaining table, okay?
Sure.
There might be some anger.
might be a little bit of resentment, but you also, you know, what's better than anger and
resentment, leverage. Okay. This way, when you do have this leverage, you can just be like, look,
we're, we're buddy, buddy, we're boys, you know, let's dab it up. But also, look, we got our people
here as well. Okay. I don't think there is any other, what is it? I'm going to be honest, Bernie
might be a shidlip, but you got to respect them, opportunities, shidlips and leadership positions
and countries, refuse to push leadership for the left and even sabotage the left flank.
Bernie's a clear outlier in this regard. Okay, Bernie Sanders, you know, I have my criticism
of him on it when it comes to foreign policy and whatnot. But yes, he has always, one of
the things that I've always said, he's not, I wouldn't say he's a shit lib. Okay, that's
ridiculous. You have to adjust to the rest of Congress. That's insane.
But like Bernie Sanders has never shied away from making endorsements for people, like has
never shied away from endorsing people that are absolutely to his left on a lot of these
issues that I disagree with him on, like Israel, okay?
I have significant disagreements with Bernie Sanders on the issue of Israel.
Sanders has literally endorsed anti-Zionist over and over again. He is the primary vehicle
in many respects for a growing anti-Zionist movement in the country. Okay? It is ridiculous.
So, that is, in my opinion, much more consequential than his own personal politics that are unfortunately
unchanging because he's 800 years old anyway without that short goal even the most deep
personal connection will fall to the side and be replaced by political interests the
congressional race in New York seven is a prime example after announcing a retirement
congresswoman Nydia Velazquez this is what we were talking about with Claire with Claire
Valdez obviously endorse Brooklyn borough president Antonio rey nozo while Zoramum
Donnie endorsed fellow New York City DSA member Claire Valdez. Although the progressives and
socialists have worked together to win Mamdoni Mamda Mamdoni's Mamdoni's mayoralty, as soon
as the political stakes were clear, the war between the progressives and the socialists began.
So he stuck his neck out there, right? For Claire. And I'm really glad he did,
because Claire Valdez is fucking phenomenal. Okay. We'll be one of the best
Congress persons, and I'm super stoked on that race. I'm super stoked on Claire. She's phenomenal. Okay
He's willing to make the risky choices in that situation
Against Nydia Velazquez who's on her way out. So certainly the stakes are a little bit different, you know
But it's very clear that he's willing to even fight against the working families party in this race
To win the mayoralty, Mamdani had to build a large coalition with socialists and progressives
and in the general election, the liberal establishment all united under a single project.
Ensuring Andrew Cuomo's defeat, Congresswoman Velazquez was an early and prominent endorser
of the mayor, but she had a different vision for her congressional seat as political conditions
change so do coalitions.
The coalition that delivered the mayoralty had served its purpose.
Espaya and Dylan endorsed Cuomo in the primary and then endorsed Mamdani in the general not because
they suddenly believed in Mamdani's political vision but because they saw the movement's power
they needed to protect themselves to get along with Mamdani's movement or be left behind by
building working class power in the primary even while losing a plurality of black voters
he scared the black political establishment it is time for Mamdani to continue building
that same independent progressive working class power and to build it where it may be the weakest
Black New York. To secure the transformative vision of his administration, he will now need
to expand the base of the Black working class. You must include them, not merely as supporters,
but as active and political agents in his project, as people who share his political vision for what
society could be. Furthermore, building with Black socialists will make for a much more durable
coalition, because socialist primary goal is to shift power to the working class. The shared
interest between the Black working class and Moundani's own coalition is longer horizon and
and more distinct strategies, and a defined enemy, the billionaire class, black socialists
and comments like Assemblymember Farah, Sufran Forrest, City Councilmember Chiose, State
Senator Jabar Bidzport, genuinely believe in Mamdani's political project and for transforming
New York City disagreements like Ose's endorsement bid are strategic, not ideological. They all
share the same vision and work to actualize it. Relationships and favors can never substitute
the power of people coming together for a common goal. We have all but forgotten communist
affiliated institutions like the Highlander Research
and Education Center, founded in 1932
by white labor and civil rights activist Miles Horton.
The Highlander Research and Education Center
was a social justice school focused
on training critical leaders in progressive struggles,
including figures like Rosa Parks and Septima Clark,
the latter of whom was key in the fight for the Voting Rights
Act.
At Highlander, I found out for the first time in my adult life
that this could be a unified society.
I gain strength there to persevere in my work for freedom, not just for blacks, but for
all oppressed people, Parks Recalls, organization makes clear our shared goals, okay?
Black people have never done anything wrong ever.
here, eat this fucking perma-ban, and suck my cock on the way out, okay?
How is this your fucking takeaway here?
Like, I'm sorry, but that is genuinely white resentment, okay?
What you're demonstrating is genuinely fucking white resentment.
You are the annoying fucking leftist who's like, oh God, why are we talking about
fucking black people over and over again?
Black people are also working class.
As a matter of fact, in much higher percentages than everybody else, okay?
The fuck is wrong with you?
Stop.
Stop behaving this way.
Stop behaving in the way of like the, the classic stereotypical annoying
fucking white shit lib or a white leftist.
I don't think that guy was a leftist.
Rhodes said this earlier.
I get so confused, this is not talking about a chatter, yeah there's just like fucking
dumbass person that came in to talk shit.
And this political vision is not just necessary for New York City, black populations decrease
across blue cities in northern or western parts of the United States, some call this
phenomenon the new great migration as the cost of living crisis forced many black families
move from seas like Chicago, New York to Republican control states like North
Carolina, Tennessee, and Florida by displacing black urban dwellers. The
national affordability crisis, throttling working-class organization, were
strongest. Nearly 30% of black voters in New York City are unionized compared to
the average of 20%. For example, in right-to-work states in the southeast, the
number of black workers unionized is only 7%. Many of these states have weak
social safety nets, little to no public transit.
Jeremander maps such that black people have been drawn out of political power.
Talked about this earlier as well.
In your just shitlifts that say the black middle class doesn't want working-class politics?
No, there is a black petit bourgeois class. This is true. Many of them are boomers.
They've been able to have uh, they've been able to secure a comfortable nest egg for themselves.
Some of them even are homeowners and they are antagonistic to working-class politics.
But it doesn't fucking matter because they're not the majority.
Okay? Yes, that exists for sure in the United States of America. And guess what? It exists in
every fucking demographic, not just black people, okay? I know, Ankh talks about it all the time,
FD signifier. But here's what's not helpful. Constantly treating the entire demographic
of black voters or black people in general as like potentially a reactionary force.
You know, that's unbelievably stupid. It's literally untrue. And this is precisely what
I'm trying to get at here, that there are, like, here's one aspect that is always very
frustrating to me. Okay? Black women constantly get sidelined in all of these conversations.
Okay? They're very radical. And there are a bunch of, you know, black women that are
in this coalition. Ayanna Pressley is one of them. Summer Lee obviously is another example
and Cory Bush, right? And here's the thing. Here's the thing. I do think that the Congressional
Black Caucus sometimes also writes them off too, okay? Because they are a threat to entrenched
power and therefore they never get the appropriate shine that they deserve. In some respects,
not always, okay? Ihan Omar, another example. See, I'm doing it myself. I'm forgetting black
women personally. Okay, not always, not always, before people get mad at me, not always, okay,
not saying always, but there are certain instances where they do get sidelined when
they are worthy of all the praise, okay. They're incredible. They're fantastic. There's some of
obviously my favorite politicians in the country, as you guys know.
So, it's up to us to not only highlight them, but to also push for more black people to
run, black socialists to run as well.
Okay?
Nina Turner is another example.
Someday, Mdani will leave office.
Will they do it like mayor bill de Blasio is a competent manager in the city of intrusion and quality a
Effective black establishment and ever dwindling black political participation or will he be able to build a
Political movement that makes black new yorkers leaders in their own struggle for a better future
By not endorsing New York DSAs black and surrogate candidates and deferring to the black political establishment
The mayor is foreclosing opportunity to build a new political project that actually serves black new yorkers
This is not just a new york issue man. This is literally the issue. I think this is I
I often talk about how much of an opportunity exists in the South for revolutionary organizing,
for mobilizing DSA, and putting numbers on the fucking board.
Okay?
There is no organizing especially in the South without black organizing.
That's it.
In many respects, it is the most consequential issue for 2028.
If you want someone who is remotely a socialist or directly a socialist to come anywhere near
power within the ranks of the Democratic Party, you have to break through that, okay?
Is that simple?
Yeah, on that note, I gotta go to Atlanta when I know, I know.
i will come to atlanta
unlike the black political establishment mondani's many political successors
who share his vision however if he does not organize the successor in the
political forces socialist project new york and beyond is doomed to fail
by the numbers black voters of the most advanced section of the working class
they're the most unionized and most likely to be tenants
but they currently lack a political home
if mom dot it does not endorse the uxid is uh... ds a's black insert campaigns
he will suit that he will sever himself
from the emerging black socialist poll and in doing so fracture the social
movement rather than build it
this is not inevitable the mayor has a chance to build a bench of black
socialist leaders and organize a new constituency for the democratic socialism
for decades to come
he only has to reach forward
and take it
straight up
He was a canvas lead, the person who wrote this is a DSA guy and, you know, it's obviously
a very thoughtful piece.
It's a great article.
And I think it's 100% correct.
And it's not just, there's not just a lesson there for, what is this?
It's very ironic that the groundwork chair wrote this article, given how destructive
their caucus has been, the black organizing in Atlanta, DSA, dude, is there ever an opportunity
Slotty Maddie where you don't fucking, uh, where you guys don't churb about like internal dsa dynamics. I mean, he is
Like come on
Oh my god, oh my fucking god
God, hoskward, holy shit. Please just fucking nip it in the goddamn bud for like three and a half fucking seconds
Please
It's one of the worst aspects.
Ironically, I'm doing it as well currently, but it's one of the worst aspects of like, uh, you know internal conversations that become external drama for some fucking weird reason.
Don't make me, don't make me bust out the groundworks LaBooBoo, okay?
LaFooFoo, I will do it. I will fucking put it on my goddamn microphone if you keep chirping.
Is a caucus, Chatters?
Is a caucus, one of the caucuses in DSA, internal DSA arguments that have nothing to do with
this, nothing to do with New York City DSA, okay, nothing at all.
So Tara's not saying Zoran is like anti-black by any means.
He's not saying that at all.
He's just saying that Zoran is in a tricky situation where he has to gain the aid of
entrenched power in New York City.
And part of that is entrenched black political power in New York City in the Democratic Party
machine, but the entrenched black political power is institutional power and is absolutely
further to the right than the DSA agenda is.
And the New York City DSA slate has a bunch of insurgent candidates that Zoran has not
endorsed because he's moving very carefully because he's worried about offending or pissing
off key groups that he needs to govern effectively. And he's gotten some amenities from the allegiances
that he has, but the argument here is that those allegiances are going to be short-lived.
So when you have the maximum amount of motion, you should use it to make some risky decisions.
And there have been instances where he's made risky decisions, obviously, with the Boilin endorsement, and it was so, it was not only very risky, but it was also no love for mug.
Okay, dude. Yes, love for all the caucuses. I love all the caucuses. Okay. I am a fan of all of the DSA. Okay. I hug and kiss all of you.
Every single one of you. Okay. Jesus Christ.
No, not the root beer chatters. It's fucking was the Marxist unity group. That's what it is, right? Yeah, mug is the Marxist unity group. Yes, the internal politics is insufferable. Fine. It's it's it happens.
Democratic parasocialists of America.
Huh.
Ahem.
Lenin was right to ban factions.
Stop ignoring black voices.
We need to figure out a way to bring the black aunties the same way you've been able to bring the barbers and the devras, yeah.
That's why I actually had no issue with what Zoran was doing with Barack Obama.
Okay?
That's why I think it's good.
good that Barack Obama wanted a little bit of that Zoran motion. A lot of people don't
understand that. They were like, Whoa, what do you mean? He's a war criminal. Okay, dude.
Yeah. Good luck. Good luck with that mentality. Okay. He needs that every, every DSA. Sorry
for burping every DSA candidate could benefit from being aligned with Barack Obama. I promise
you. Not to make any concessions to Barack Obama's style of neoliberalism, but absolutely
impactful to get a little bit of that Barack Obama bump. Okay, need you in more establishment
black democrat media spaces. Yeah. You got to stop swearing if you want to attract the
black aunties. No, I know. I mean, I think black aunties like me, for the most part,
not K-Hive, but a lot of K-Hive is white anyway, so.
Yeah, AOC in Georgia, speech at the Ebenezer Baptist was good.
Yeah, to unlock the heart of Black aunties,
the fetein of the Democratic Party, the IRGC, to the Democratic Party's
Islamic Republic, which is the aunt guard. It's not even the aunt guard. It's the black auntie
guard. Okay. And the heart to that goes through, in some respects, the churches as well. You got to
be where you got to be or black aunties are. And you got to you got to speak to their issues,
their problems, and you have to organize in these communities. Okay. And also,
in some instances, you also have to be black. I think that's what you got to do.
Black women have a lot of power in the culture. Yeah, of course
My black auntie blames you for Kamala's loss
Yeah, I know I know black aunties love Kamala. I know yeah black sororities
Divine nine
Black universities. I mean, I think like entrenched political power also comes in some respects from like places like Howard for sure
The New York Post was still activists who sent Ian Omar's daughter and a son piker in Cuba a convoy has ties to Hamas in Iran
Wait, what?
Who are they did disparaging
Medea Benjamin my queen
Exclusive activists who sent Ian Omar's daughter and a son piker in Cuba a convoy has ties to Hamas in Iran as Medea Benjamin
Put some respect on her name
New York Post or California Post
Have any HPC use reached out for speaking engagements?
No.
Yeah, 2028 primary, dem primary cross tabs. Okay, this is 2028 dem primary cross tabs,
top four, black dems, Harris 40%, Newsom 17%, AOC 4%, with white dems, Harris is at 18%,
With Hispanic Dems, Harris is at 25. It's because of Democratic primary fucking
the the Democrats are they're they're they're busy on name recognition. Okay, it's not that's not
going to be a problem. Go speak at Howard University. You won't pussy. Wait, I would love to speak at
Howard University. The fuck are you talking about?
Anyway, this was a good piece overall.
Now let's get back to Donald Trump, everyone's favorite president, Donald Trump, and his endorsement
of Ken motherfucking Paxton.
News Tim, for you, Donald J. Trump on Truth Social, and it's pretty long, has posted that
he is endorsing in the Texas Senate runoff. Ken Paxton, no huge surprise, the incumbent
John Cornyn said just yesterday that, you know, that he was not expecting the endorsement.
But it's interesting when you, and I've only skimmed it to be fair because it was just
handed to me, he called Ken a true mega warrior who has always delivered for Texas. It's not
until paragraph four he brings up John Cornyn where he says,
We'll follow up with your team, but I know professors and clubs both at Howard and Georgetown would like to bring you out in the fall to speak
I would love that dude. I would fucking love to speak it especially Howard. Oh my god. That'd be so sick
You kidding me?
He's a good man I worked well with him, but he was not supportive of me when times were tough
Which is pretty much Donald Trump's decision-making in a nutshell
Support me or else? I don't know. I think this is pretty telling
it's a little bit of a back down for Trump. A Cornyn won, you know, this is,
we're learning to run off now. So in the first round of balloting, Cornyn had
to lead and Trump had said he was going to endorse the person that won the first
round of balloting because he didn't want this long drawn out primary. Thought it
might hurt the eventual nominee against James Tallarico. Huge backlash among his
supporters, mega supporters to that idea that he would endorse Cornyn and then he
kind of went quiet on the race for a while. For him to now flip and endorse
who lost in the first round to me, I think shows it's kind of a similar story to the
Massey story. He's worried about losing ground really for the first time in a long time with
his mega base. And while, you know, they might not have a majority in opposition to him, the fact
that he feels the need to try to shore that up by endorsing Ken Paxton, a very risky bet,
tons of baggage, and very possible that he could lose to James Tallarico. And that could be the
deciding vote in the Senate.
I think making such a risky bet to appease his mega allies
shows you that Trump's worried about losing
altitude with his own base.
Let me go back if I can to Michael Schnell.
You may be in Kentucky, but you have followed from your perch
on the hill.
This Texas race very closely.
What's your impression of this?
Yeah, I mean, this is a massive move
and a massive development for Senate GOP leadership.
Think about somebody like John Thune, the Senate
majority leader.
He had been pressing President Trump and his team to endorse John Cornyn in this race.
The establishment Republicans up on Capitol Hill wanted to see John Cornyn have another
term in the Senate.
So this is a massive blow to them and will have likely significant implications for that
Texas Senate runoff that's happening next week.
And I think as I'm here in Kentucky and we're talking about this Trump retribution tour.
Bro, I'm sorry, but this is fucking, this is exciting, okay?
I posted so many vague threats against Ken Paxton last summer that a surveillance drone
came and checked me out.
What the fuck are you admitting to, chatter?
We do not co-sign on that.
That's what the fuck are you talking about, dude?
That's crazy.
I disavowed that.
Okay.
What are you doing?
There's literally Fox News producers in my fucking chat.
I have been to the Fox News producers. We have banned that guy. We disavow it. We banned
it. Uh, it's not, not, uh, uh, yeah. All right. Moving on.
Uh, uh, John Cornyn is somebody who just had more of a bipartisan flair up on Capitol
Hill. He liked to work with Democrats. He supported more of those bipartisan deals.
He voted for them. He helped us craft them working with his colleagues. And he was a
a bit skeptical of President Trump's comeback. So it just shows that sort of this is what
Thomas Massie is going through. It's what Bill Cassidy just went through. It's what
those Indiana state senators are going through that in this modern day Republican Party,
if you're not completely in lockstep with President Trump, there could be some of these
repercussions. Clearly that happened in Indiana. It happened in Louisiana. It's happening
right now in Texas. That's what Thomas Massie is trying to show doesn't always have to
be the case. But as we're seeing, this seems to be the political gravity right now in the
Republican Party. So just a fascinating development that President Trump had pushed off for so
long. And again, a really big blow for Republican leadership up on Capitol Hill right now. Folks
who were really pressing President Trump's team to go with a corn and endorsement. Obviously
the news right now that he has gone with a Paxton endorsement.
Yeah, with that as the backdrop, if I can, there's a new poll from the Barbara Jordan
Public Policy Research and Survey Center at Texas Southern University and what
that found was a razor thin margin between the two potential candidates.
It found Senator John Cornyn leading Democrat James Talerico by 1% in a
hypothetical matchup. Ken Paxton and James Talerico are tied at 45% so
obviously these are results within the margin of error. Now I just got this from
for Texas, which is the statement they put out, and he said, as I said on primary night,
it doesn't matter who wins this runoff.
We already know what we're running against, the billionaire mega donors and their corrupt
political system.
So I wonder when you take all of that information together, Tim, what you make of it.
Well, look, I think it's going to be still a tough race for James Taylor, it's Texas
after all, but this is obviously a preferable opponent and make sense that he doesn't want
to say that, but it helps them make that case against corruption, which he's been making
on the campaign trail during the primary. And, you know, to have an opponent who is corrupt,
who'd been indicted, who's going to be backed by, you know, the big donors in the Epstein class,
I think that makes his case much easier. It's going to be a challenging race.
But look, I mean, I think the Telerico has run a good campaign so far and recognizes that he's
gotta win over some Trump voters. And I think-
Is it another Blex's wish casting? No, this is, I personally think, I don't wanna spoil
anything. I don't wanna engage in this sort of fucking hubris here, but I genuinely think
this is the closest we have been to a Blex's in years. I mean, this is even, I will go
so far as to say it's even better chances than what's his face, Beto. Straight up, this
This is a real, this is like, virtually every single thing.
It was such a long shot, right?
But every single thing that had to go right so far for this to happen has happened, right?
You have this heated Democratic Party primary between Talerico and Crockett.
Talarico had a better coalition for, for potentially winning than Crockett did.
I'm sorry.
Uh, Talarico didn't have some of the, you know, establishment Democrats stink that,
that, uh, Crockett had, uh, this is not, you know, I'm not no disrespect to Jasmine
Crockett.
I know there's a lot of diehard Jasmine Crockett heads out there and they're going to come
after me and they're going to fucking shank me in the side, uh, and, and kill me and leave
me for dead bleeding on the, on the sidewalk, but I, I'm just, you know, their
Crockett heads are pretty ruthless out here. They're, they're fucking ruthless.
They're, they will, she just endorsed Becerra today, but like Crockett had a lot of, um,
the Crocketeers, they, they, uh, Crockett had a lot of, of, uh, you know,
Democratic party allegiances, for example, that might not play well in a, in a, you know,
I mean, I might not play well in a general, right?
In any case, in any case, um, Talarico won that, uh, that primary, which was huge, but then also,
uh, but then also beyond that,
that. Kim Paxton was a far better candidate for Talarico to go up against.
So as much as I am a little bit worried about Talarico's allegiances, because like some
of the Paxton are backing him are, you know, the same exact ones that work with Mallory
McMoron, for example. So I'm a little shy about what he will do or what he will turn
into. I mean, he's got Liz Smith, the, that operation, that whole operation, but it doesn't
matter at the end of the day. This is Texas we're talking about. So I don't give a shit.
You know, I'll let bygones be bygones. I don't give a fuck. I do worry about what that, what
that could do to his, you know, how he will legislate, I guess, but it's Texas in the
end at the end of the day. So who gives a fuck? He has a long history on the ground.
Christ sock work. Yeah, but I mean, who knows? Obviously, in comparison, it fucking came
Paxton is not even a question. I mean, it's literally, he might as well be the second
coming of Lenin. Okay. If we're, if we're matching James fucking Talerico against Ken Paxton,
yes, he's literally a revolutionary. Okay. It's Ken Paxton. He's not just a regular
Republican and many of the regular Republicans are demonic. He is a cut above. Okay. We're
talking seventh layer of hell. He's literally the comptroller of hell, okay?
He is a demon that other Republican demons oppose. Understand, understand something.
Ken fucking Paxton is not just a regular Republican and the regular Republicans are
evil villains regardless. Ken Paxton is so controversial he has been opposed by Texas
Republicans. Okay. Senate votes take up measure to force Trump to end the Iran war. Let me
guess, John Federman voted with the Republicans on this. Cruz and Paxton and Abbott, we have
all the demons i know texas republicans man it just straight up straightforwardly demonic
just some of the worst all my god some of the worst of the fucking worst it's crazy
what is this galendo update no this is not an update this is old
um this they're just writing it uh now they're writing about it now but we covered this already
text 35 democratic candidate marina glendo says she will convert ice attention centers in carnts
county into an internment camp for American Zionists. It will also be a castration process
again for pedophiles, which will probably be most of the Zionists she added. I'm not
saying anything. Okay. I'm just shaking my head. John Favreau, this person should not
be anywhere near public office. Every new statement is somehow crazier and more vile
than the last. That's a, that's a professor, John Gist. Okay. She's a John Gist. Marxist
Lenin is youngest. Okay. Do you have any thoughts on viability between Francesca
Hong and Mandela Barnes for Wisconsin governor? I'm trying to figure out if I
can go to Wisconsin for Francesca. Okay, very excited about her. Your boy is
playing stupid too. I could not have believed this individual could possibly
become more reprehensible. I'm going to loss for war support her opponent and make it so
that people don't have to hear her say things anymore. I mean, she's an insane person. I've
already mentioned this. Okay. I already mentioned Maureen Galindo is a crazy person. I think
I think the more crazy she gets, I think the more crazy she gets, the more her chances
go up, but what do I know? I think this is Marjorie Taylor Blue, okay? This is Marjorie Taylor Blue.
We did it. We brought, we, we, the Democratic Party now has her own Marjorie Taylor Green, okay?
This is a new type of person. Oh, 100%. This is unlike anything I've ever
uh encountered before
objectively a crazy person 80% of the way you're like oh my god she's so base
and then the last 20% you're like oh my god what the fuck did you just say
literally she could keep it to like a like a normal level she could just been
like a relatively normal tamed candidate but new. Text 35 is one of those issues that went
from solid D to lean R in the new gerrymander. What is this? You're moving calcium markets.
Okay, why would you show me that? I don't want to see that.
As a Texan, she's as intense as psychotic revolvings here and that's not a good thing.
Two sides of the same unhinged coin here in Texas. Yeah, but does that actually put
an ass in a seat? That's the real question. I think this is unpredictable. Okay, I think
This is untested, uncharted waters.
That's all I'm saying.
What's the crazy part?
People like Joe Biden, Jake Sullivan, Jake Tapper are basically the entire Republican
Party need to be put in prison for the Gaza Genocide.
I mean, she's not just saying that.
Oh my God, your jealousy is coming through the screen, Lamal.
Bring Glendo, a Democrat running for Congress, the text 35 says in an Instagram post that
would turn an ICE detention center near San Antonio into a prison for American Zionists
and will also use it as a castration processing center for pedophiles,
which will probably be most of the Zionists. Yes, it's real. Yes, the pose is still up.
She has a runoff election next week. She literally won,
she won the fuck in primary with like $11,000.
Okay. It's insane. Like, what do they see in her? I mean, is this really a question? Is it really a
question? Yes, it's a mirror. That's what they see in her. They see in her exactly the energy
that they see in inside of them, okay? Come on, man. We're talking about the American
electorate.
We are talking about American voters. Okay. What do you mean? Why don't let this one insane
Marjorie Taylor green style then stop being pussy to get crazy with it. I mean, dude,
I'm already, I was already initially skeptical of Graham Plattner. What are we talking about?
This is a fucking, this is beyond the pale dude. She's absolutely a, a, a kook in every
way shape or form. It's funny because she has all of the right qualities as far as like
being a tenant organizer and all this stuff. Yeah, they're using this to attack track APAC
to. Like I said, I'm not, you know, I'm just, I don't know what San Antonio wants, but the
The democratic majority for Israel pack statement on Marine Galindo calling for internment camps
for
Look, look, God forbid a woman do anything. Okay. Um, yeah, she literally said Jews, casual
Hollywood in the banks. What are we doing bro? She's not a normal anti Zionism. I'm not.
No, I never said that. I'm not saying that at all. She's not.
She is, this is a no-no.
I'm not saying that she is a normal anti-Zionist.
I'm saying that she might be perfect for Texas.
She's not my candidate, okay?
But...
I want billionaire Zionists in prison.
That does not mean I want Jews in internment camps.
and main camps. So why am I getting a whole bunch of death threats and maga
installed? Which actually makes sense I realize like maga and Jewish Zionists
apparently are the exact same people. They talk the exact same way and that's
because maga is the developing Christian Zionists and that's how they want to
create a religion state in the United States of America through maga. Which
that's the goal of Zionism is to create these white supremacist religion states.
So like I don't care what religion you are if you are a Zionist meaning that you believe that you are just entitled to land
Or someone's just entitled to land
Based off of religious beliefs and that you'll kill all of the semites for it
Why is she wearing those toy glasses, I mean did you expect anything different?
She talks about you in the next one?
No!
Then yeah, I think that you're a danger to humanity and belong in prison, especially
if you have the political and economic resources to make that happen.
And that's how we would, that's how we will get all of the billionaires, Zionists, and
prison is through all of the business.
When I say that I want billionaires, I am a...
...in prison.
No she doesn't y'all are such fucking dickheads dude.
Bro I don't think you want the smoke man I've never been this scared for you I am I am scared.
No I'm not going to invite her on the show you guys are such fucking assholes dude.
Okay, what's wrong with you?
That what she's saying is quite literally
what mainstream media wants me to say
so they can create a convincing narrative
that I'm anti-semitic.
She mentions you in the other video on her page
when she was in a car.
Oh God, oh no.
This one?
I heard that a Sompiker is a popular leftist shirt,
Twitch streamer.
popular leftist um twitcher twitch live streamer um went in a deep dive on me on my anti-zionism
on his page and I just hope that he saw that almost everybody in Santa Antonio agrees with
me. And it's not because we're anti, Hey, Hey, to be fair, I did say she might be perfect
for San Antonio. Oh, I believe her. I'm just saying is not for me. Okay. Not for, I don't
live in San Antonio. I don't want to be a carpet bagger. I don't want to touch this race. Okay.
I think she might be right, bro. No, that's my suspicion as well.
DSA does not fuck with her, but Normie's here like her a lot. Yeah, I, I,
okay, I am the one who also said that. Okay. I'm the one who also said that.
God. American politics is so busted. I mean, what do you, what do you say to this? Do you
think Professor Zhang likes this kind of white woman? Maybe. Who knows? Dude, you just read
an article that says she did not say that. I hate you. You just believe that she keeps
saying Zion is not Jews. Okay, this is actually the thing that is unbelievably
frustrating. Chatter, she quite literally says, Zion is Jews are most likely
pedophiles in the fucking statement. What are you talking about that deserve to
be castrated? You can't say shit like that. Okay, Jesus Christ, you, I do, dude,
Just fucking shut up. Okay, seriously, you're you're causing me to put my fucking foot down
Thing to do with it and I also hope he found all of the connections between
Zionism and San Antonio a lot of these subs
Or I'm not running the fuck with this reaction or shit, man. They're literally there. They are literal Galindo heads in here asking you to stream with her
Jesus Christ, dude. Oh
My god, oh
My god, some of you guys are literally turning into this is you know what this is is you know what this reminds me of
There was a
Cartoonish depiction of the left shw's right
Right? This was delicately crafted by the Republican side in the commentary field. Okay?
And throughout Peek-Woke, I constantly found myself at odds with, at the time, long-term
community members who would behave in that exact same cartoonish ways. Okay? Nowadays,
Instead of the cartoonish depiction of the hysterical SJW or whatever the fuck that
Republicans would present the left as, you know, this, this, this woke scold who thinks
like all matter of fun is, is, is counter-revolutionary behavior.
Now that's turned into the cartoonish depiction of, of anti-Zionists, okay?
There are a lot of people in the media that are actively trying to depict the anti-Zionist
movement with this broad brush, where there are crazy people who just literally want to
castrate Jewish billionaires and bankers that own Hollywood or whatever the fuck.
That's the way that they talk about people like myself.
And then some of you turn around and go, no, actually, that's, actually, we should hand it to her, like, actually, we should hand it to her.
Like, I'm, I'm obviously, uh, you know, having fun over here because of how fucking insane American politics is.
But like, there's a difference between me going out to bat for a person that's saying
unhinged things like that, okay, you're, you're insane.
I think it's an interesting evolution in the, the realm of an interesting evolution in the
realm of American political discourse. Now we have a, a basket case, not dissimilar to
Marjorie Taylor Greene in some respects. Okay. On the democratic party side, but I'm not
touching that with a 10 foot pole is what I'm saying. Okay.
You're just jealous. There's a new shiny beacon of leftist intelligence here. You couldn't
be a massive leftist political commentator and a Professor Jiang fan, but she has done
much more for the lefto Jiangus cause than you ever can. Just hold your L, Hasan Duan
Piker is true.
Yeah, this is one of those things where I'm like, this is one of those things where I'm
like, I'm watching from afar. Okay. I personally, I'm watching from afar. It's not my kind of
politics, although there are some things that she's done in the past, the tenant organizer,
that is great. I'm not going to disparage that. But this is the most Professor Zhang fan
who's running for office I've ever seen.
The tenant organizing is the craziest part to me. No. I've said this before. You got to be a little crazy to go against entrenched power, corporate power, the power of fucking developers in the real estate lobby to go against landlords.
lords, you have to be a little crazy. A little crazy is, you know, good in certain instances.
I mean, she was, um, I think she was like, shut up homeless back in the day too.
Anyway, let's see what else she had to say.
I mean, yo, in Israel and San Antonio and why this is so important to expose.
And also, I don't know if there was the impression that this is like a huge part of my campaign,
because that's what I got a couple of messages about like, hey, I agree with you, but you
don't need to make this part of your paper. It never was. It was never part of my campaign.
It was something that I said before I was ever a candidate, before I ever knew I would
be running for Congress. And honestly, is that not...
Yeah, sometimes she sounds completely normal. And then other times she... This is again,
the Professor Jung Conundrum. Okay? Sometimes she sounds truly with the utmost moral conviction
and clarity. And then the 20% of the times, she says stuff that is insane. That's it.
Here's the thing. Professor Chung does this all the time, and he's one of the most popular
political commentators in the country right now. So clearly, there is a market demand
for this kind of thing. I will never fill that void. I can't possibly fill that void.
not who I am. I think I'm not only far too pragmatic, but maybe have a different understanding
of the world. She blames local media sensationalizing and hope you didn't fall for that. I mean,
I've seen her words, you know, it's not just the local media sensationalizing. I've heard
the words. And I hope that he just didn't fall for all of this and say, you know,
this is a Texan normie. See you by the way. What?
This is what do you mean? Texas normie see me as what is saying that I want concentration camps
for American Jewish Zionist billionaires that need to be castrated because there's
a likelihood that they're pedophiles. I have not said that and don't think that and would
never say that regardless. As funny as she is, I look, you think her winning would be
pretty bad because she said lens credibility, anti-semites hiding behind anti-zionism. I'm
going to be honest with you. I think Michael from Pennsylvania's assessment on her is probably
a little bit like this is a byproduct of the way that this conversation has been had in
the worst possible ways, okay?
I don't think she has the political education.
I think she's just like responding to what she has seen
and has been let astray and has like insane,
an insane set of beliefs, otherwise.
Like this is how Clifton ship be ready to be a cowboy buddy.
I don't even know what that means.
Yeah.
It's classic talism now. Oh for sure. I mean an endorsement from me would be that I'm not I wouldn't do that
She's bringing Sharia lot of Texas hell yeah, brother
This is what we call this Marxism from first principles in the intelligentsia. This is not
Marxism at all. What the fuck are you talking about? Yeah, I just I don't think she's like
a like a well-read ideologically like a ideologically well-read anti-Semitic neo-Nazi or anything like
that who's like making the deliberate choice to be like, oh no, I think all Jews, but also
at the same time, I'm just gonna, I know enough to not say all Jews and instead I'm saying Zionist,
like very clearly it's the exact opposite of that where I don't think she's like that would
require her to have a sophisticated position to shelter her true opinions. You see what I mean?
And I don't think there is that in there at all, if that makes sense.
Like I don't, I think she's just looking at the situation and has arrived at this, arrived
at this like very dangerous conclusion because of what she has seen thus far and how, like
what she's learned from, you know, the horrors that she's seen. And on top of that, the fact
that, you know, you got
He tests already.
No, we love this shit. Ironically, Marine Galindo is exactly what I have warned about.
right?
Marine Galindo is exactly what I've warned about.
And what I mean by that is, average Americans, when you constantly fucking harp on a certain
note, are going to learn the wrong lessons.
Marine Galindo is exactly what happens when every Jewish institution is like, no, we love
Israel.
The fuck are you talking about?
Shut up.
Like, you're anti-Semitic.
Remember what Ezra Klein was talking about as well when he said if you keep
telling people that Judaism and Zionism are inseparable and Jews and
Israel are inseparable they will learn that. That's it. That's the fucking
lesson.
Is what Felix meant when he said you're really gonna hate what comes next? No no
she's not what you would hate in terms of what comes next. But I do think that
that her success thus far is exactly the warning that I've been issuing.
Yeah, I already did. Yeah, I already told you she's a youngest. We know. She is a Professor Jong fan.
It's just really funny because she's like very clearly saying a lot of insane and anti-semitic
things, but she's also on the other hand, unbelievably woke.
Like on the other issue, she's like, we need to just like reorient the ice concentration
camp.
We need to abolish ice and we need to put the ice officers in the fucking ice detention
facilities instead.
like that. So that's why I said this is like unique territory, it's fresh ground, we've
never seen anything like it before.
Thanks to Dave Weigel for this very cool year. I have to ask him twice, Dems want her to
lose and are furious at the mysterious pop-up packed lead left that is running ads for her.
I'm rarely shocked, but this heinous antisemitic statement is truly shocking every elected Democrat needs to publicly condemn this immediately
I'm gonna be honest with you. I
Think you just don't fucking pay attention to the shit. Okay, that's it. That's my attitude on this. I
Like this whole like oh condemn this now like no don't play that fucking game
Okay, because Republicans never do Republicans never do yeah, I'll condemn it
I'll condemn it when the Republicans get together and fucking censure Randy fine. How about that?
That's what I'm talking about.
Senture Randy Fine, and I'll condemn it every damn day of the week.
How about that?
Yeah, you first.
But of course, Democrats will absolutely eat debate, as they always do, to be like, oh,
look at me, I'm so good, I'm so good.
Like, even if it's objectionable, which it is, okay?
It is objectively objectionable speech.
constantly just fucking engage in this dumb ass game where they lose all the fucking time.
Republicans never do. Learn from the Republicans. Okay?
Yeah, the teacher's pet instinct latent in the Democratic party.
Also, I think even if they even if they did condemn her, it might actually work in her favor.
I'm going to say it one more time. I think she might be the perfect candidate for San Antonio.
Not for me. Not for me. I don't agree. But San Antonio might be different.
It's all I'm saying. We've never had something like this. We've never had a real,
true Marjorie Taylor Greene style candidacy. Like, complete reversal of Marjorie Taylor Greene, right?
where, where you got a person who is like hyper woke on every issue and then
perhaps maybe fell off the deep end on some others. Look at the map of San Antonio
and half of Austin, she's absolutely perfect for those votes.
JwPanzer, you probably see the same stuff about me if I wanted to run.
Like what?
You're gonna fucking run and be like, yeah we need to cash rate Zionist Jewish pedophile
billionaires?
That's an insane thing to say, chatter.
What the fuck is wrong with you?
want to set up, even if it's not for the way she set it up. She said she wants to take the,
I mean, this is her post, by the way. That's why I'm saying like it's kind of crazy. Okay.
When Maureen gets in the Congress, she'll write legislation so that all Zionism and
support for Zionism is undoubtedly anti-Semitic. This design is harming the Semites.
She'll turn Karn's ice attention center into a prison for American Zionist and former ice officer for human trafficking.
It will be a cash register process center for pedophiles, which will probably be most of the Zionists.
Streets are saying you're misquoting Maureen.
No, she in other in other instances she talked about like control over Hollywood in the banking system and stuff like that.
Yes, she's a Professor John Fank quite honestly there are violent and unpredictable mutations
of US politics underway in many different directions that could make the current period
seem relatively stable and placid.
I agree with this assessment.
when be endorsing her, I don't think so.
Trump's endorsement in some of these races, we know that he's endorsed in that Senate
race doesn't make a difference.
Maureen Galindo is a perfect example of what happens when contradictions worsen and there
isn't enough class consciousness and political education.
A lot of you think I'm awesome nerdy shit when I say it's very important to engage in
the theory and develop a fully fleshed-out way of thinking about these sorts of things,
okay? But that's what happens when you're rudderless, when you just kind of experience
the contradictions and she certainly has. I mean, she was homeless for a period of time
and doesn't have the appropriate political language and doesn't have the appropriate
political education. It's important not to fall victim to do she's getting a
Mersheimer interview to the crank is too strong. Wait, what? She's not getting a
Mersheimer interview. She is.
Mercer was going to talk to her before me, they're certainly saying a lot of it. It's
unclear though how much it is really swaying the way that people are thinking about, about
this election. I will tell you, but of course we are in a sub we're in buckets. So we're
just outside of Atlanta. So it'll be interesting to see what folks in the rest of the state
are thinking as well. Priscilla Thompson live for us there in Georgia. Priscilla, thank
you very much. 15 minutes now until the polls close and she's going on the PBD value attainment
podcast next week. Oh my God.
That's it. We will be watching that very closely.
Yes. As we continue to watch what's happening in Georgia, Ryan Nobles joining us at the
table. Nice for you to join.
Great to see you. Let's start with Georgia, since we just heard from Priscilla there.
You heard about the enthusiasm on the ground. This is one of the fascinating races that
we're watching as Republicans try to unseat Senator John Assoff. And again, it bears repeating.
President Trump did not endorse in this Senate race. You have two representatives running
against former football coach Derek Dooley, who was endorsed by Governor Brian Kemp.
I guess the question is, will that give Derek Dooley any momentum? And is this actually a
gettable seat for Republican John Ossoff's? Pretty popular. Yeah, I think we should take
a step back and talk about Brian Kemp's role and all. Yeah. Before he endorsed Derek Dooley,
he was heavily recruited by the Republican leadership for one himself. He's a very popular
governor in that state would have probably easily won this race against John Ossoff.
if he had decided to get in, but for whatever reason, he decided he did not want to be a
United States Senator and decided to sit it out. That was a huge loss in the recruitment efforts
for Senate Republicans. For a guy who's got an 85% approval rating among Republicans. Exactly.
That's you. Exactly. And somebody who has successfully found a way to buck Donald Trump on occasion
and still maintain a level of popularity among Republican voters. He was really the dream candidate
for the Republican Party in a state like Georgia, which even though it tilts red,
has proven to be a swing state, especially in these statewide elections.
So that was the first difficult entry that the Republicans had into the Senate race.
The second thing was that they couldn't get Donald Trump to pick a candidate.
And Brian Kemp desperately wanted him to endorse Derek Dooley, who was the guy that
he went out as a childhood friend of the son of a very popular football coach there.
And Trump just wasn't interested.
You have Mike Collins, who kind of identifies himself as a MAGA guy, and then Buddy Carter,
who's been able to self-finance,
and is a kind of little-known congressman
without a ton of name recognition statewide.
So this became a jumbled mess for Republicans.
And what has John Ossoff done in the mid,
in the, while they've been fighting this out,
he's just been giving big speeches, drawing big crowds,
and raising tens of millions of dollars
to position himself for the general election.
By the way, we can't get another minute
into this Georgia conversation
without saying the word runoff, right?
Because you're 50 plus one, right?
So you're looking at, is it gonna be maybe Collins
plus either Dooley Carter, who knows,
based on where the polling has been.
The interesting piece of this, you know,
you look at Georgia, you also look,
I'm keeping an eye on the clock here,
because Kentucky polls close in about 13 minutes,
and there are states that can sometimes get vote count
and Steve Granaki knows fairly quickly.
When you look at that race, I mean,
you cover Congress, everybody knows your day job
as our team member, of course, honey.
You're there talking to him all the time.
You're talking to a number of these people
who are part of that group.
Massey prides himself on being
this kind of guy who's a libertarian streak.
The Gal Ryan campaign thinks that is actually
gonna be a liability for him in this state.
Yeah, and I think that's gonna be tested here tonight.
Kentucky voters have a way of beating to their own drum.
And you look at that with the folks
that already represent them.
Senator Rand Paul is not someone who votes
with Donald Trump every single time.
He prides himself on being a libertarian.
Massey is very much in that mold.
And so I think that, you know,
while Massey has proven to find a way
to chart his own path here, it could come at a cost.
I think the big difference between Tom Massey and what we saw with Bill Cassidy over the
weekend is that Cassidy Buck-Trump-
We're sitting in common, Senator, of course, in Louisiana.
Yeah, who lost his primary over the weekend.
Cassidy initially bucked Trump when he voted to convict him in the wake of January 6th.
He spent every minute after that doing everything he could to get back into his good graces.
It wasn't enough.
Tom Massey's taken a different approach.
He said, this is who I am, this is what I'm going to vote for, take me or leave me.
We'll have to see if that sort of authenticity resonates with voters tonight.
You have plans for the next seven hours of your life.
As long as it's with the two of you.
Those are the only plans I have.
Get comfortable, Ryan Nobles.
Let's go back to Steve Corny.
I'm going to have sex with you.
That's what Thomas Massey said.
Kentucky, but also from Georgia.
What are you watching right now?
Yeah, I mean, just to take you through quickly,
a little bit more here in Kentucky 4.
We don't have new vote in, but one other thing to flag,
because there is some population and there is some vote here.
And I didn't mention it before.
This is Greenup County.
This is in the eastern Kentucky coal field.
This is coal country in Kentucky here.
And like 6% or so of the vote in the district
is gonna come out of this county.
Again, you're like Portsmouth, Ohio is up here,
Huntington, West Virginia is over here.
And I only flagged this because again,
look at what Gowline is getting
with the vote that's reported out so far,
a 20 point margin over Massey.
This, unlike the Cincinnati suburbs
and unlike the Louisville suburbs I was talking about,
this is sort of the Trump country portion of the district.
more blue collar, more rural.
We talk about that degree divide in politics
and Republican politics,
much higher concentration of voters
without college degrees here.
So again, even in this part of the district here,
you see Galrin, the Trump endorsed candidate
with a 20 point advantage.
There are a fair number of counties
going across the span of the district here
that are somewhat light green up.
You know, they're much more Trump friendly demographically.
So that's the other piece of it.
Galrin getting that bump out of Kenton County early,
but also out in Trump country doing a little bit better there.
And there are other places like that too.
The other thing to keep in mind, we showed you Kenton County, that is the early vote
in Kenton County.
Most of the vote in Kentucky is conducted same day.
People going out and voting their person at the polls today.
One thing we saw in Louisiana over the weekend and we've seen in some of these other Republican
primaries, the pro Trump side.
When we've seen these races where Trump is going after Republican lawmakers and primaries.
No, I'm not, I'm not doing the Tom Steyer thing because we have to shoot the podcast
tonight because some people are leaving for vacation. Austin, yeah, election day vote has
been the kind that would be friendly to Galway and more friendly to him than Massey. It'll
have to be different than that probably for Massey tonight to have a shot here.
Okay. So polls close in the entire state of Kentucky and just about nine minutes from
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radical annoying
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me every time someone mentions me. I mean, it's funny, but what's the point of voting
if Israel is buying seats? The whole point of voting is so that Israel doesn't buy these
seats. What is this? Okay. Yeah, honorary transgender always catches
strays yeah I mean I guess in some ways there was like a brief moment that's not
true you are stray fucking everywhere the Kygeblishers you getting brought up in
fucking baseball videos yeah but the reason why is not because of the reason
I'm public enemy number one persona non grata for a lot of like centrist
liberals everyone on the right pretty much because of my political opinions and
And now it's just like a way to reference me whenever there's any sort of political conversation taking place about like wokeness or annoying leftist, they'll of course use the most common version which is the Kaige.
Yeah, it's a punchline.
Which, you know, who gives a fuck? I don't think most people give a shit.
We've been talking about Maureen Galindo, but we're forgetting the ancient text.
Cynthia McKinney PhD, I know where I'll be and what I'll be watching at 6pm Eastern
time today.
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Member of Congress and Green President candidate by the way for those who don't know
Political analysts also hanging out with us for the duration of the evening
So let me actually I'll start with you on what we just heard from Mike Thurman
In that Q&A session with Kristin and I here you got this sort of if a big
Oh, by the way, uh, before we get into the fucking, uh, live coverage of the primaries,
Jasmine Crockett endorsed Javier Becerra for governor today. Uh, and it's romantic.
This is the actual face of the establishment week of the democratic party today.
Not David Shore.
Or Maddie Glacier.
Is there any of the punters who says they've learned from past mistakes?
Yeah, it's beast mode time.
Anyway, how the fuck do we?
Oh, cause Ken Paxton, we were talking about today.
All right, let's see what Jenna Daya dickhead Vance had to say about the president endorsing
Kemp-Axton.
You saw the president endorse Kemp-Axton over John Cornyn and the Texas Senate race.
Do you think that sends a message going forward for the next cycle to senators, you know,
considering running for reelection or any mega-aligned potential candidates that are
considering challenging them?
Well, I'd say a couple things, Nick.
First of all, the President is very gratified by the response that he's heard from the base
and from a lot of voters.
I think we're passionate about Ken Paxton.
We think Ken Paxton is going to be a great senator for the people of Texas, but most
importantly, a great United States senator who can work on solving the problems that
all of us confront as a country together.
I've known John Cornyn for a long time, but unfortunately, you know, when it really counted,
Ken Paxton was there for the country, was there for the President, and that's why he
ultimately earned the president's endorsement he thinks he's going to be a
better senator thinks he's going to make a better candidate and so I do think
it sends a message but really not just a man but one of the president has done
effectively going back ten years in his leadership of the country as
president of the United States as he said you know I want to know who fight
for I'm done I'm done I'm done I'm done I mean it's it's early it's too soon to
tell, but god damn it! Fuck you! Fuck you, Democratic primary voters! Fuck you! Ah! Ah!
What? What the hell is going on? It's 3%, I know. That means 5,317 Kentucky primary
Every voters were like, oh my god, Amy McGrath, that's awesome.
She has a real shot this time.
Let's give her 10 more million dollars.
Toddler in a suit.
Oh my god.
Yes, I am a fucking baby in a suit.
Who is this Amy person?
not terminally online. Man, this has nothing to do with being terminally online.
Amy McGrath is a very famous case of Democratic Party failures. A very famous case of, here,
This is, this is Amy McGrath.
This is Amy McGrath.
Look up at the fast sky and hear it off the stage
Pour out five missiles in the sky
I watch my life flash before my eyes
But I got reason, there's one huge place
We know that the bottom world hides
A game won in Trump Island
Anyway, yeah, it's because I hate girl bosses. That's why that's why that's why look at this look at this look at this
Most of them voters from Louisville and Fayetteville in Kentucky. Those will come later. I'm pretty
sure she has an advantage with black vote. He has an advantage with black voters in Kentucky.
Yeah. A Booker McGrath primary in 2026, the closest thing imaginable to watching Carmelo
Anthony and Chris Ball face off in 2021. Like I found a time machine. At least Charles
Booker has like some, you know, unique qualities, okay?
At least there's something there, you know, Amy McGrath has nothing
Just a fucking failure. McGrath outraised McConnell by more than 32 million dollars
Nevertheless on November 3rd, McGrath lost to McConnell by a margin of nearly 20 percentage points
What the fuck?
Honestly, it's not a third times the charm type situation.
It's like, if that margin of defeat happens with the unbelievable amounts of funds that
you raise, you should be barred by the party.
This is what I mean when I say the Democratic Party is not a real fucking party, okay?
It's just not.
It's not a real party at all because a real party would be like, get the fuck out of here.
What are you doing?
Amy McGrath is literally the classic example of let's run someone who is a centrist, right-wing,
annoying, boring, moderate, liberal, and that will certainly activate the base.
It's just a failure.
that's the mitch mcconnell who's a fucking corpse at that point
the dnc elevated a man harrison because they can raise money but get nuked
that's all they care about yeah
I
Yeah, and guess what happened with Jamie Harrison he became the fucking DNC chair
Same thing happened with Harrison against Lindsey Graham, and they were like oh my god. You're such a graceful loser
We're gonna make you the fucking DSE chair. Oh
Oh
George Washington, I don't know who this is
But this is also kind of interesting because Andy, okay, so
Trump endorsed Andy Barr
You might be wondering why Trump endorsed any bar. That's because Daniel Cameron is
is the former Republican Attorney General of the state and Daniel Cameron was Mitch
McConnell's personally groomed candidate for the seat. Okay? And Donald Trump fucking
hates Mitch McConnell. So he's like, fuck you, Daniel Cameron. George Washington is the first
president of the United States. Hope this helps. Thank you.
You're saying you don't know the big GW on the 250th anniversary, Jesus.
Yeah, but it's good.
It's good because Daniel Cameron is a fucking demon.
Okay, Daniel Cameron famously as the attorney general of the state of Kentucky overturned
a ballot measure that was supposed to constitutionally enshrine abortion access and abortion protection
for the fucking state.
Genuine demonic entity.
Fucking bullshit these guys.
They're all, they're all, all the people in the United States, they're all fucking assholes.
They're all evil.
car stop. Oh my god. Galrain one. I don't think we know yet. We've been working overtime
since August of last year since we launched this race. We've talked about my record in
the state. Daniel Camry, Daniel Camaro stop it.
Congress and work alongside the president of his endorsement has been a
huge Thomas Chassis race and we feel really good about where we are we're
looking forward to seeing results come in here any minute and looking forward to
winning this thing and have an opportunity to go to Congress and work
alongside the president. Chris Raffhausen, Avi Bob, yes, we're at a Raff 4. Chris Raff 4.
We're too sure, we're eager for the results to come in and we've got Steve Cronack at the
board watching it all. I wonder though and listen I totally take the point that
you know local politics is a lot different sometimes than what folks on
the national level are talking about but you know you're part of...
Amy McClaren?
Early 30s, new wave, new generation of the Republicans coming in.
New York Times, while that's what I'll say, shows most young Republicans want the party
to move.
In the state of Kentucky.
In here, and not simply follow the president's lead.
So I'll ask here, where do you think there may be a split with President Trump on some
of these key issues that people care about, like the economy, like the war against Iran,
et cetera?
Well, I think that what the president's done is work, and I think the agenda, you know,
certainly like the war in Iran. We've got more time that certainly before the midterms. And I
think that what the president has done and what's going to happen is going to end up being a
successful, it's already been successful, but certainly what the president's moving forward on
I think is the right thing for our country for the long term to make sure that Iran never has a
nuclear weapon. And certainly, I think on the economy like what we've done here in Georgia
and what the one big beautiful bill did in Congress, those are long term fiscal policies
He's the tech, a little bit of time to implement, but it's my belief that as young people, I am 31.
It's my belief is young people in my age bracket, uh, learning as we do better job of telling our message.
We're going to win young voters across this country. I think in November and moving forward,
we just got to make sure we're telling our story, telling what we've done and continue to get things
done when we're elected in Congress. And so it's on Massey. Okay.
Since copying the Karnaki live stream concept, Steve is not live today.
Steve is not live today on his own interesting happen there. So we'll watch that play out there
My go John came get is out here, and I'll break this one down. I mean, this is Lewis County
This is where Tom Massey served served as a county judge before he came to Congress
It's also a county where Donald Trump in 2020 for that 87 on the out of the boat
So there's your rural test out here in Trump. This is more of your suburban test right here
I just want to go back and let's just blank this out and take a look again. You come here
We have no votes out here right now if Tom Massey loses his home county can he win the district?
Primary maybe but that's the biggest test right these are the people who know him best and where Trump got 80%
You talked about a president versus a congressman. That's a big deal right there
And if you want to come in here, let's say we do have votes in the Cincinnati suburbs
It's 23% we have a ways to go if I'm in the Massey campaign headquarters though
This does trouble me because this is where you need to win. This is number one the most populated area number two
These are more affluent, especially up close, the close-in suburbs here, more lower down
here, but if you're the close-in suburbs, they're more affluent, suburban Ohio, outside
of Cincinnati.
Yes, they vote for Donald Trump in a general election, but you know this as well as I do,
and these are some of the voters who really don't like how Donald Trump does his business,
who don't like Trump on some character issues.
They might like his tax policies, they might like other policies, but they don't really
like how he conducts himself.
Those are the kind of voters Tom Massie needs, that voters who would say, you know what,
We like that he stands up to Trump every now and then.
We like that he's a little different.
We like that he's not afraid to be an individual.
First votes have just come in over here in Boone County.
And again, 36%, the challenger is ahead in a place
where Tom Massey needs to win,
because that's where the most people live.
We're not done.
They could be from down here.
I can't do precinct level at the magic wall,
so they could be from the more rural areas down here.
So we have to wait to see as it fills up,
but you got 36% there, 23% there.
That does not look good if you are,
and then let's go over here.
Again, I said the Northeast Louisville suburbs,
only 2%, but the challenger on top there as well.
So the early look, Aaron, in the magic wall,
when you start to fill in the numbers is not good.
I want to emphasize the early part, early, early, early.
But you're looking at this right now.
What we need to see here is out here.
This is a small county down here.
I just tap on it to check on it.
We're at 24% of the vote in Spencer County,
much more rural, much more Trumpy.
This is, the question is pretty simple.
Are mega voters following Trump?
Or are mega voters trusting their local congressman?
At the moment, here, you would see
that mega voters are listening to the president who says,
it's time for a new voice.
But we still have still the ways to go.
The early results, though, don't look right for Mr. Massey,
but that's why we count.
Oh, he's having a hard time filling the dead air.
Oh, there.
he's having a hard time filling dead air dude
i want people who can't be bought by corporate lobbyists who can't be bought
by wall street who can't be bought by special interests are going to go to
washington
and fight for people who actually elected them
to those positions and i think i think that's what you know why uh... what do
you think about thomas massey then bitch tonight the california fair poll
anyway
let's see what connect he said in this district in county
right out since Cincinnati,
almost a quarter of the vote
is going to come out of Boone County tonight.
And we got more than a third of the vote
from that county.
And you can see Gallarine here leading that
by about a 14, 14 and a half point margin over Massey.
It's over.
Looking at early vote,
you are now looking at some of the election day vote here too.
So this is now a little bit of a mix of these two things.
We've been talking about not a huge difference
between those two chunks of vote.
And what that's done district wide
is it's moved Gallarine into a 14 point advantage.
But I think more significantly,
We said at the start of the night again, the supreme importance of these three Metro
Cincinnati counties here, especially to Massey, the idea here that they were sort of a different
brand, a very Republican, but a different brand of Republican and more libertarian brand,
a one that might be more willing to forgive sort of the places where he's departed from
Trump and the Republican Party.
But the results we're getting so far from Boone County, you see it right here, that's
a big chunk of the vote that's now in Boone County and next door from Kenton County, where
we got about a quarter of the vote. Those are not the numbers that Massey wants to see
right there. We also did get a little bit more voted. Now this is a smaller part of
the district right here, but in Spencer County. Again, this is this is the part of the district
we said demographically would be more pro Trump is delivering for galerine. That's not
a surprise there, but that's the mix in this district. You've got some metro areas around
Listen. This is the Republican cattle side of the equation. Later in the night we'll find out if
Democrats are hogs too.
Israel bought yet another seat successfully by the way.
Fuck American democracy at this point. It's over 13% of the good project good project a lot of issues
Women couldn't vote black people couldn't vote for the longest time. We we had like a good run. I
Think we had like a decent run for
Couple decades in the in the experiment where there was an attempt at like a real democratic process
It's it's over. It's fucking done
It's so done in communities. It would have to be here. You'd want I mean based on what we've seen in boon and based on what we're
Seeing in Kenton
I don't know what the expectations currently are in Campbell County, but he would want something out of Campbell County
really what he want what he needs is
We said split between the early vote in the election debate
He somehow I think needs these numbers to turn around here as more and more that election day voters counted
That would be counter to what we've seen in these other Republican primaries, but he probably needs something like that to happen
All right, Steve Kornacki stay close. We'll be back to you soon because we also want to know what's going on with Georgia
What polls are closed there?
Eric Gilchrist is joining us now from a polling site in Jackson
You've got some interesting races on both sides of the aisle here Republican and Democratic talk to me through what you're hearing from voters
As you're talking with them. I don't know if there's anybody still in line. They're probably on their way heading home at this point, huh?
You know what we actually do have several people that are still inside this well
This is the largest precinct here in Butts County, Georgia.
We saw a line start building in the six o'clock hour and suddenly it was stretching all the
way the length of the administration building here.
As we look inside the doors right now, the Sheriff's Office, they're only letting people
leave at this point.
We've had a few people walk up and the deputy said, no, the polls are closed.
They're only letting people who are already in line finish up their voting here.
I can tell you that here in Georgia, we've been able to find out about two incidents
where we know the polls are going to be open late.
Cobb County, which is north of Atlanta. We know that there were some equipment issues
and a couple of precincts there. And so they're going to be closing at different times through
this hour. The last one closing at eight o'clock. There's also one polling place in Fulton County
in Sandy Spring, Georgia, again, kind of north of the city of Atlanta where there was a police
activity earlier that shut down a polling location. So that site will stay open until
a little after 11 o'clock tonight, although we do still expect data to be rolling in.
And I can tell you as we've talked to voters here, a lot of folks who've been at this location
walking into those doors, they have encountered these uber long ballots, Democrat, Republican,
independent, three ballots available for people here in Georgia.
And depending on where you are in the state, if you're voting in the Republican primary,
they were T minus three hours before the Jewish insider style think pieces come about how
the people of Kentucky have spoken, they love Israel.
offices, some questions as well. And so just wait, just wait for all the think pieces. Cause
every time a pack secures a dub, these guys will come out and be like, see, this actually
proves our priors that everybody actually loves Israel in the state of Kentucky.
So a chili reception on the part of the old news, Mary Madelson spent so much money on
my election, they're going to have to scale down that ballroom that she was paying for
and she was born in Israel.
Yeah.
That's the rhetoric today from Massey.
This is an experiment.
Oh my God, they're talking about how anti-Semitic it is.
Massey and Tucker Carlson and Megan Kell, they're trying this out.
And I think they each have their reasons.
I think they're looking over at the left and seeing some of the division in the country
over the issue of Gaza.
I think it's much more prominent and fracturing on the left than it is on the right, but they're
looking at that.
I think some people like Tucker Carlson is trying to find a Trump alternative lane because
I think he's got a lot of problems.
There is no fracture on the left.
Liberals are united.
It's a 90-10 issue.
You can't say it's fracturing if it's 90-10.
It's just the voters versus the politicians.
Shut the fuck up.
Aggressives, they found a real home and constituency for that anti-Israel message.
They haven't found it yet on the right.
That's what Tucker's project is.
And I think Thomas Massie, Marjorie Taylor-Green, is...
There is no fracturing.
There's no fracturing on the left.
It's united.
The entire base is united on Israel.
Every single person, pretty much, with the exception of 10%.
The only fracture is between the voters and the elected.
This one's important because Trump had endorsed Andy Barr.
This is Mitch McConnell's seat that he's retiring from, and again, Van, this is the Trump-supported
candidate.
We'll see what happens in Texas tonight, right, with that very late jump in against
Cornyn for Paxton by Trump.
But this is another victory for Trump here.
Yeah, and, you know, but Barr was particularly depth at keeping the McConnell people with
him.
That was the thing that I thought was interesting, that he can actually, he's a very good politician
because in some people want to make it become a mcconnell the old to be
established with verses
he's what the baby and they will pull it off and so
i guess it's a big win for trump but also the wind for trump for somebody
who also uh... show real respect as much respect if you can
uh... to mcconnell in a state where mcconnell's a lot of pop and we've got
to have a lot of results here in just a few moments of the way to what we're
seeing coming out of the mcconnell was to walk for kentucky where he thought
is uh... groomed
Uh, his his like personally hand selected and groomed candidate is a black man
Okay, it's not even that for the most part the reason why it's fucking bars because it's trump
Okay, that's like look at that mitch mcconnell's own
Hand selected guy who was the motherfucking attorney general in the state
Can't even break 30 percent
Wow
Mitch McConnell was an institution
In this goddamn state that his fucking carcass put
Uh 30 points on Amy McGrath, okay
He's goddamn carcass put 30 points on Amy McGrath even though Amy McGrath had uh outraised Mitch McConnell by 30 million dollars
It's a goddamn cult man
It is a goddamn cult. That's it
Continue to do but you're saying that as a veteran is that wait wait the same as an American
I mean you don't send your secretary of defense to campaign against your political enemies
Pete X that should be fighting our foreign enemies. He should be worried about Iran not Tom Massey
This is a weaponization of the entire Defense Department and the narrative nationally
Which is absolutely out of bounds and very very dangerous, you know something on kind of the Cassidy switching
his vote. I mean, I think that in some ways we can explain the political incentives we
know that that now frees him to kind of act on this kind of popular sentiment. But it's
the exact type of thing that I think folks recognize that drives their sickness with
politicians, right? Like this is a electoral decision that was already, but I think for
a lot of people just shows the fecklessness of a lot of these sort of leaders that when
Donald Trump can no longer hold it on to you, then you're kind of empowered to act on some
then they're there to act.
So I'm saying in some ways, you know,
I mean, kudos for maybe Cassidy for reflecting
what we know as a true sentiment among Republicans.
But I think it's really a story about the cowardice
of Congress largely and how gerrymandering
has structurally built in their ability to not leave.
I think that's a really important point.
And I think a lot of voters are gonna see it that way.
But also just on the math,
it is really fun to imagine a Cassidy or a Cornyn
who will also win or lose, be around for the year,
deciding to really kind of mess with Trump
for the year on things like the ballroom funding,
war funding, judicial and cabinet appointments.
I mean, you're right about the sort of,
you know, the craveness of it, but, you know.
I hear you, I hear you.
Every opponent by now.
When you go out for business,
it's definitely breaking news.
But no, there's another massive open space too,
which is underserved, which is the angry middle, right?
45% of America that's unaffiliated and independent, millions that can't vote in these primaries
are fed up with all.
The question is, does Massey leave the party?
Does someone like Don Bacon leave the party?
Does someone on the left, like Jaren Golden, leave the party?
Because there is a huge middle that is longing for people to run against both parties and
the broken primary system, which has started at a 90% of congressional campaigns, are over
after the primary, 80% of Senate campaigns.
So most of the state in Kentucky didn't even vote, and they had no Congressmen potentially
that they had no say in.
broken and tonight is really a glaring example of how broken our electoral system is.
And we'll see here as these numbers come in in Kentucky, of course, also Georgia, Texas
and next are breaking news coverage of all of this continues here.
I'm going to speak to the former Republican Lieutenant Governor, Jeff Duncan of Georgia,
because guess what?
To your point, he's now running as we are getting more results out of Kentucky, where
Thomas Massey is fighting and he is fighting right now.
These numbers are just coming in, those early numbers, we'll see what happens here as we
start to get some really big numbers coming in and those suburbs in more
fall we'll bring them to you next. I'm surprised they haven't called it yet.
Silent exhaust coupe, a steam engine, SC CUSSY. Stop! Oh my god bro, stop it. Thomas
Chassis is better. That's not healthy. It's at 36% you know you're at home you're
thinking well when do you think it's gonna stick? I tend to be conservative
because we've had the 2000 election, we've had 2016, I lived through the
Perot election back in 1992, hanging chads in 2000 and all of that, so I tend to
be conservative, why not do the math? Why try to get out ahead of yourself? But
sometimes your eyes don't lie and you just see the dynamic that's happening.
And the question you know as you look through these so we have the one, this
is one of the things that gives you pause. Okay he's winning that one county,
You know, are we gonna have a trade off?
Bro, it's over.
It's fucking over.
I don't even know what they're counting at this point.
I'm gonna pop out for a little bit.
They're gonna yell at me if TV wants me or whisper to me.
They're polite.
I just wanna see just a few other things we have down here
as we go through this.
This, to me, is one of the
biggest things we have in the campaign
in the issues.
Now, the Democrats are not gonna come up.
We're in the state of Kentucky, so I'm gonna come out
and they're coming to nationally.
This is the biggest issue in the campaign.
all the time about affordability, affordability, affordability, right? And so in the United States,
the cost of living has increased faster than wages by 1.75 tons. You're all living this,
whether you're a Democrat or an independent. Your costs are outpacing wages. Now,
there's some counties in America where that's not true. Israel alongside Donald Trump, because
This isn't just about Israel, it's also Donald Trump as well.
But the reason why Donald Trump is at Oslo, Thomas Massie is because of Israel,
because Donald Trump is a fucking dog to Israel, okay?
Israel has bought yet another fucking congressional seat
straight up. I don't think they have that same motion in the Democratic primaries
anymore,
but it's very clear that they still, by way of Donald Trump,
have a
complete
stranglehold on
republicans
it's not gonna change anything at the legislative level
because
uh... you know i mean they did they lose one vote like israel has bought another
vote for congress
but
it is
fucking sanity how brazen it is
it proves
once again
that these guys are cattle that republican voters in kentucky are just
straight up in a cult
the ron war
and a lot of these green counties
this is just guessing but i've been a lot of places you're driving more
in rural america
And if you drive more, it's pretty obvious
you spend a lot more money on gas.
So I just want to show you some of the fun things we can do
in the magic wall as we go through things.
And now let's come back to where we are at the moment.
There's the Senate races, House Republicans.
Let's just come into tonight so we can just watch tonight.
Back to Kentucky.
19%.
Now you're starting to get nervous
if you're
massive campaign headquarters
because you're up to twenty percent king is so uncomfortable it's kind of funny
they're telling me if i just want to take a break i can just say what i could
break now it's hot in here so you see me sweating a little bit
uh... but i don't need to i don't need to take a break
seven forties that's a whole fifteen minutes we don't want to go for a
beer
so i think we talk about
probably should say this
but i'm gonna say it
what i think you talk about all people think this
it's not really magic
but it's not really magic but we think like if it was really magic
you know martini dispenser or
all my god john king is so uncomfortable doing a live stream
karnackie is is
uh... such a numbers artist that he can just go for hours john king is like uh...
uh...
i'm shaking a little bit
this guy's been doing this forever how to get worse uh... you don't understand
there's a difference between a pre-canned segment
where you talk
for like ten minutes about the numbers that are in front of you
in ten minute instances versus doing a live sequential
multiple hour long
like with
going through this this live stream
and having to uh... having to entertain having to deliver information for a
fucking hours and hours and hours is unbelievably difficult
money guys to now heavily invest in Texas in a way that they didn't have to before because
of Paxton's candidacy and the fact that he is not the same level of candidate that John
Cornyn is in a general election.
But I'm going to tell you, Kristen, one of the things that a lot of these folks that
we talked to on Capitol Hill today are nervous about is that the big money folks are not
going to be as willing to open up their pocketbooks to support a can taxing campaign in the same
that they would have a John Cornyn campaign.
So that makes it more difficult for the Republicans.
So what does that mean?
That doesn't mean they're not gonna give
to these Republican super PACs,
but it means those Republican super PACs
are gonna have to spend money
that they would have spent in North Carolina or in Maine.
Now they have to spend that in Texas.
Don't get mad at me, but I have to ask.
Do you give them arsenal?
No, Adam Friedland and Zora love arsenal.
So I guess I'm a gooner myself.
We're talking about Kentucky, Amy McGrath.
You know, I know we haven't talked about that race
on the Democratic side much with Andy Barthere, but like.
So I actually, in preparation for today, I reached out.
Oh my God, I forget you.
I reached out to some Democrats just to ask that question.
Do you think there's any shot in Kentucky?
And these were from Democrats, not Republicans.
Okay.
Let's say what we've called Andy Barr,
projected to the Republican.
The universal assessment was it would have to be
an incredibly good night for Democrats
if they were to take Kentucky.
Yes, Democrats have won there before.
Democrats, first of all, have to hold a number of seats and then have to play offense in
a couple of places.
Kentucky is behind Iowa.
It's behind Alaska.
I was by far your worst take, including 820.
Economic conditions are horrible.
I'm going to hell for setting my application to McKinsey.
I mean, I don't know, man.
Fuck it, we ball, I guess.
It doesn't really, what matters anymore?
It doesn't matter.
I think both parties are run by a cult and we're about to find out if the Democratic
party's entrenched power, still has the same level of motion over its voters, or if we
can have an insurgent victory here, I'm really, really holding out ho for Chris Rabb. But
it's very clear to me that the Republicans are gone. It's over. It has never been more
over than ever before.
I don't think that, I don't think a Democrat can ever win another Republican voter as long
Trump is alive. Doesn't look good in GA Supreme Court GOP Inc. ahead, Bethel at 58, 4% reported,
over ranking, Warren at 65, over Jordan, Jesus Christ.
I mean, this probably, I mean, I don't know. I don't know what's going on there, but
But next polls are closing in 31 years.
People say, OK, look, Lieutenant Governor, at that time,
popular Republican administration,
all of a sudden, now a Democrat.
How much does President Trump have
to do with your decision to switch parties?
It's certainly part of it.
I mean, the sitting president trying to steal an election
as a statewide elected official like I was,
certainly is part of it.
But I think it's the toxic, corrosive leadership style
that's spread like an infection across all Republicans
in all circles.
It's really just been an unfortunate series
of missteps by them.
And I think as I travel around the state running for governor
as a proud Democrat, folks are wanting
to talk about issues that Donald Trump and other Republicans
aren't talking about, the affordability crisis,
the health care crisis.
And yes, the Donald Trump crisis,
which even Republicans agree is a crisis at this point.
So you're one of the main Democratic candidates
for governor in Georgia.
Obviously, it's a very crowded field.
We've just got early numbers coming in.
Obviously, Keisha Lance Bottoms is way ahead
on these early numbers, 66%.
You're on the board there.
Trump has called you out as a failed former lieutenant
governor.
He's called you a total lightweight.
He's called you a total loser, all of which
is obviously consistent with things, words he uses to describe
opponents or people who've challenged him.
Has that helped you out at all in this race?
Yeah, everywhere I go, I get pats on the back.
thanks for your courage to stand up to Donald Trump.
And the reality is almost everybody that I meet
would have done exactly the same thing.
Most people don't wake up wanting to tell bold-faced lies
about an election or try to steal an election.
Be willing to embrace conspiracy theories
that make no sense.
And so that's certainly been part of the story,
but I think it's also about,
we all need to have more political courage
in this tough moment.
I mean, Donald Trump is the worst decision
this country's ever made,
and even Republicans are figuring that out firsthand.
And so we've gotta have honest umpires that show up
and be able to call balls and strikes right but in georgia expanding medicaid
is a must republicans have lost the narrative
i was on the other side of this argument for a number of years and and i was
wrong
the same with uh...
affordability crisis there will be a lot of interest i think i figure out
ways and solutions to
democratic back judicial candidates are in a difficult position warren is winning
a d plus fifty two douglas county dropped by fifteen points
suggesting the late
effort to inform Democratic voters, including Obama's involvement did not translate into
enough support.
What the fuck?
Dude, how do the Democrats, man?
Wow.
Wow.
I mean, what do I say?
What do I say?
I mean, they have literally all the advantages, dude.
They have literally every advantage.
This shows a severe lack of investment in basic political education given that nonpartisan
race in other states easily track one-to-one with partisanship, Abrams left the Georgia
Democratic Party a complete trash heap.
The exact same thing happened in Barrow in 2024, this has been a known problem for years,
not Democratic-backed, uh, judicial candidates were, I guess like, uh, they didn't inform
the voters fast enough or well enough, like, I don't understand.
Yo, Trump is right, dude.
It is the Democrats.
He's the motherfucking Democrats, bro.
Southeast anywhere.
So my feelings about limited government, deregulation,
protectionism, lowering the deficit,
strong national defense, taxes, none of that's changed.
Therefore, I won't go and become a Democrat.
But I understand, I think this goes to the brokenness
of politics.
You can't run and win as an independent.
It's really hard to do.
And we can lament that, and that might not always be the case.
but you've kind of got to pick a party.
But in that case, it says to me,
what do the parties even mean then?
What's the point of them?
Unless they're just fundraising machines.
It's a non-partisan election,
so they don't have a D or an R next to their name.
The Georgia Democratic Party is uniquely bad too.
They left it a mess.
I live in Georgia and there was no democratic voter.
My job even said the same thing, largest employer in GA.
It's sad.
Yeah, I mean, it's, I don't know what to say, she didn't work out.
I just think you're sort of, there's Trump.
He's the party and Democrats are kind of trying to figure out, well, what is our part?
What's the point of our party?
This is not an indictment on Jeff.
I'm just saying like 30,000 foot view.
This kind of stuff makes you feel like, what's the point of parties?
How many people though, when you think about, and I want to get Jeff back in here, but how
many people then, you know, Trump will cite as he loves to cite again and again and again,
the NBC crosstab and the poll that had him at 100% approval rating among MAGA Republicans.
Okay.
seen that maybe in the city of Cassidy and who knows what we'll see tonight, but you're
seeing some of that.
But then you do see a lot of people who are really angry in the middle.
Many of whom might have been moderate or Romney-like Republicans or Brian Kemp-like Republicans
like Jeff Duncan and Georgia.
Where are they going?
Well, I mean, I think they're either becoming independent or joining our party, but I think
a few things that are happening here.
You do have a challenge now in both parties.
is great because of free markets, rule of law, and if you're a hard worker you're welcome
here no matter what your color is.
Well, look, you've got now some of the Democratic Party want to move away from free markets.
You talk about Montani, they're moving towards socialism.
You have some people in the Republican Party who are so nativist, they don't even want
skilled immigrants.
They're mad at Indians, tech workers coming over here.
So you're starting to see people in both parties moving away from the things that used to be
pretty strong and so it does give people not many places to go. You're an independent.
The only thing less popular than Donald Trump is the Democratic Party and the future is
as you cut the future is the 45% of America. Why is this guy. Get him off the stage CNN.
Who does this serve. There is no such thing. Okay. There is no independent run. It's not
real, shut the fuck up. There is no like moderate centrist voter. It's not real. What voters
perceive as being moderate is not whatever this fucking asshole is talking about. Okay.
What voters perceive as moderate is Zoram Mammdani. What voters perceive as moderate used to be
Donald Trump.
So if you look at it like Georgia, and Jeff, I would imagine you don't have a choice, right?
there's party apparatus and if you want to win something,
you've got to pick a lane.
I mean, Jeff, do you think when you look
at two Democratic senators and we know
that the John Ossoff seat is obviously,
Democrats have to retain it to control the Senate.
Possibly you could have a Democrat become governor.
I mean, do you believe that Georgia, which was so red
and then became purple, is actually more of a blue,
purple now?
He's a horse on Abbey Head?
I don't think so.
The calculus I made was that the average Democratic Georgian
was more moderate than the national democratic platform and i think i think
as the s c
comments i think you know we have to do that
uh...
god what a fucking terrible day for fake ass american theoretical democracy
Direction, don't you have a woke libtard article to write? What is that?
Paul Reikoff, he's done great work for veterans, this is poor centrist take sometimes, not a Hassanabi head, but he's fine.
He was on majority report a few years ago and Sam ripped into him.
She was right. Look at the frontrunner for Lieutenant Governor in Georgia.
Yeah. Where is Lieutenant Governor?
Josh McLauren?
Wait.
Keep going.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy!
What the fuck?
John Fitzgerald Cardi? He's back?
Wow.
They're going to dig that poor man out of the ground for this.
Coming in from Kentucky here, starting to get more coming in.
Our John came by at the magic wall, going to show us the latest.
What does it mean for Trump's relentless battle against fellow Republican
Thomas Massey and Harry Anton on that major Trump endorsement last
minute, the Texas Senate race today.
So does that mean Democrats actually just got a big pickup in their
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There have always been two kinds of people in the world.
Just took over McGrath.
Fox Live Breaking News We are Charlie Kirk Reggae Remix.
Okay, Charles Booker has overtaken Amy McGrath.
Stop the count. Stop the count. Stop the count. And the votes. Call it.
The mostly final election day numbers are in, per a state official. Democrats make a 49.3%
election day vote, slightly edging Republicans who account for 48.2. The remainder of folks who
pulled nonpartisan ballots in a state where Republicans typically outpoll Democrats on
election day. This is a big deal, GA poll.
Wow, officially Democrats are now slightly leading Republicans at election day vote with
about 770,000 ballots cast so far. That's on top of the 150K D edge during early vote period.
This could have big implication for the George Supreme Court races.
George Democrats are aggressively campaigning to unseat two sitting Supreme Court Josephson,
Mark Descalation and officially nonpartisan races long true to a sleepy low profile contest.
The mostly final election day numbers are up.
Weren't we just dooming?
Yeah, well, the nonpartisan votes they might have actually fucked up on.
No, the Supreme Court the Supreme Court of votes. I'm pretty sure the Supreme Court votes didn't work
Regardless of the fact that there are more Democrats voting than Republicans
Let's see what John King said election nights. They're standing with me throughout this. They are the heroes of television
They really are
Everything you see at home. I'm just the guy I'm sorry for the tie. I said I wouldn't wear a tie on this normally
But I have to do the TV thing about the dinosaur TV thing. It's a joke and
but it's
The people who are on television, you know our names for better or worse, you know our faces for better or worse
Some days you like us some days you don't that's fine. I get it completely
But I hope you understand just the same place you work, too
Oh my god, he's not all right, dude. Get this man off the fucking get this man off the TV
He's falling apart. He like he doesn't make a fast decision. So he's watched this
He said he was I feel bad after the first primary. I think he got a little frustrated
He's had relationships close with both individuals in the race, and I think he knew this could make a difference.
Do you think James Tallorico has a choice?
That Texas has been out of reach for Democrats, even a bit of a work as Ryan was saying.
Got close maybe, but not close to how Miami strikes.
I'm from Florida. Florida and Texas have a lot of similarities.
I was absolutely shocked today when the president made the decision.
By the endorsement or by who he endorsed? Which part?
You made a decision to endorse the area.
Because Kevin's right, early voting has started.
Why would you do it now?
But I gotta let you know, Texas is still hard,
but Democrats are celebrating this endorsement.
I really do believe when you look at the kind of candidate
that Tellerico is, that he does have,
now we take nothing for granted, this is tough stuff,
but I do believe he has a real shot at winning Texas.
Can I ask you, if you can put on your hat
of electing House Republicans,
because that's what you did better than anybody.
Only speaker, only leader to always win seats.
That's right, that's right.
Even when Democrats won the president.
So put yourself back in that position,
and you see Donald Trump at his political arm
investing $30 million.
It's going to be the most expensive House primary
in American history in a seat to remove a Republican
to elect another Republican.
Does that frustrate you at all,
especially in the political environment
that House Republicans are facing right now?
I expect the leader to work closely with the president.
And it's not that you wait till the last minute
and the president makes some decision,
I would work with him all the way through.
There were no surprises ever.
And if we had a difference of opinion,
we've worked through that.
We were usually always on the same page.
And we helped recruiting.
He helped us win those seats.
He would do these telephone town halls.
But what you want to look at,
and you say these $30 million,
you know who's raised the most money,
President Trump.
if you line up all the republican money and all the democrat money at no time
is it so one-sided
republicans have eight hundred million the democrats have two hundred
but wouldn't that be better used in michael allers district or district
it's going to be used but but the money right stop precedence stops the one that
has raised the amount of money scuba!
the democrats have not done well
i mean the advantage in the climate is for the democrats their problem is their
money and their leadership
we're gonna pause this
we do have a call
Call it, girl.
All right.
NBC News can now project.
In the state of Georgia, the 14th district, Clay Fuller,
projected to win Republican House seat 14.
This is Marjorie Taylor Greene's seat.
Not a surprise.
800 votes.
Election Halley.
This is what we would have anticipated.
But again, what's significant about this,
this is Marjorie Taylor Greene's seat.
And so therefore, a lot of interest.
And a lot of interest in Georgia generally, I'm looking at the clock for 45 minutes now, past polls closed.
Steve is looking at Kentucky, he's looking at Georgia as vote count comes in, but as we take a look beyond just 4 to 14 here in the state generally, you talk about seats that Republicans want to put in this.
The Tucker coalition is done. Oh, they ended the broadcast. I feel bad. More like John King broke down unironically, instead of breaking down the primaries, he broke down.
And so you're at that point, Aaron, right?
So you see 10%, you say everybody stay tuned.
We gotta go a long way.
20%, let's hang in a little bit.
We're not done, we're at 49%,
but it's how that 49% breaks out.
Just you see the only two counties
where the incumbent, Tom Massey, is leading are over here.
I'm gonna start there just because this is his home county,
Lewis County, as I said earlier,
before we didn't have any results here.
Donald Trump got 87% of the vote
in Thomas Massey's home county in 2024.
We just got results in there and he's getting 63%
to 37% and it's 85% so the problem for Tom Massey is not a lot of people live here at
number one and he just got most of the math he's going to get at it down there.
Number two, so you pull out to the bigger picture and that's exactly what you have.
You have now a little less than a 10-point race.
I feel bad for him, I'm not like making fun of him.
A 46 point race if you're around.
Congressman Massey up right there but then it's just you're looking at the galerine
deeper red all over the place and when we talked at the top of the hour I said here's
where we need to look.
Saturday suburbs, the more populous areas of the district. And so you have Campbell
County, we're up to 78%. And it's a four point race. Carson Massey has closed it
since the beginning here, but not enough, at least as of now. So you see, you move
over here to Boone, Kenton County, I'm sorry. Kenton County is only 23% of the
voting. So if you're saying, is there enough math out there somewhere? Again,
you get into, you know, possibility and probability. Mathematical
possibility, there are a lot of votes out here in a big populous suburban
county in the district were only at 23%. Probability is when you look at
everything else, is there some probability that this place is suddenly
going to decide to vote very differently than this place, and this place, and this
place, and this place, and this place, and this place, and this place, and this place.
But if you're in a headquarters, you're still, but it's the possibility.
So I mentioned positive priority. Boo, and I mentioned earlier, again, you're up to
88%, and it's about 10 points here when you look at it. So in the places where
most of the people live here, and in the northeast Louisville suburbs down here,
Massey has closed it from when the early results came in. This is only at 22%.
Again, you're talking about possibility and probability. So 22% here in Oldham
County, 52-48, a small number of votes still. So if, as Jeff was saying, you know,
they're at the Massey headquarters, you're thinking it's not over, they're
still out there, we're at 49%. Well, yes, but you see what's filling in on the map.
So here and here, let's keep talking, Erin.
And you see, as you get from 22% in one, 23% in the other,
as you get to 30 and 40 and higher,
Massey has to make up that math,
and he has to make it up fast,
or else your eyes simply don't lie.
Right, right.
And when you talk about possibility versus probability,
and obviously you look at right now
with say 49% of the vote in,
you know, what does it take to turn around?
I mean, it has been gallrying up from the very beginning,
in terms of the numbers we've gotten, right?
isn't as if he's been going back and forth or anything like that. But you get to a certain
point where it becomes mathematically impossible. When you're looking at 49% of the vote in,
how close are you to that? Yeah, so I leave mathematically impossible
to the very talented people who work on the CNN political desk. And I don't want them
coming up here and telling me, you know, don't get too far out over your skis. But I also
trust my experience and my instincts here as you go through it. And so now we just hit
60%. Right? We just hit 60%. So we're talking, you're talking at 49%. Well, we just can't
just came up to sixty percent and i've got a point race right now
again
possible
probable the probability window is closing as that number goes up
if that number doesn't start to show it's over
the republican party the the the thing that i was looking uh... to to find out
tonight
was
whether or not
whether or not republicans
would
actually behave in this
incredibly cult-ish way or if there was any opportunity for a fissure in the
base, it's not. There is none. I think the the jank theory is busted. I'll be
honest with you. I didn't place a lot of confidence in that theory to begin with.
Okay, it's just a cult. 100% and it's not. There's no ideological. There is no,
So, there's no ideology backing this cult.
It's just whatever Donald Trump wants.
And right now, Donald Trump is pro-Israel, pro-Jeffrey Epstein, and so is the base of
Republicans.
Still, 4,600 Republicans voted against Trump's word.
That isn't nothing.
Nah.
Nah.
No way.
That's co-op.
It's just team sports.
No way. That's cold. It's just team sports. I mean, I think the opportunity here is that,
yeah, once Trump is no, Thomas Mazur, okay, stop. This poll also shows that Republicans
only like federal because Trump said he did. Yeah, well, yeah, of course.
Republicans at plus 33 Democrats at minus 30.
I mean the Indiana primaries were like pretty insane because in that instance these local
governments, these local, or not the local governments, the local state legislators were
literally abiding by the wishes of their base, their constituents.
And then Trump got mad and then boom, they flipped five out of seven seats.
I don't see anything but Trump here, that's it.
Massey lost, Israel won, Trump won.
This party does not have anything.
They don't have any goals, they don't have any agenda, it's just Trump.
Georgia Dems being hyped is fucked to vote even though they had no clue who to actually
vote for really speaks to this moment in politics. It's jover. It's so jover.
So I think it's a very, we can see where this thing is going.
I think it's very unhealthy for the country.
All right, well, we'll take a pause here.
We're going to be coming back as more of these results coming in.
Getting more coming in from Kentucky and Harry Antony.
I don't ever want to hear from any Democrat
about winning a fucking goddamn Republican voter
over and conceding on right-wing culture war framing ever
again for the rest of my life.
Okay. Just so you know, in 2010, the entire Republican Party spent 178 million for the
general election at the congressional level, 30 million from one primary. So insane. I
don't even know what to say. Yeah. You do know what to say. And so do I. It's a M Israel
high folks. That's what it is. Okay. Israel, tiny nation, Israel, number one nation, Israel,
number one, America, not even number two. That's it. M is real
high. What can you say? Again, there was a very brief moment
in American politics where, you know, black people had the
right to vote, women had the right to vote. And there was a
there was a couple decades between then. Oh, and there were
still plenty of issues, by the way, plenty of hurdles. But at
at least like there was a couple decades where America had like established theoretical democracy before Citizens United.
That's it. That was the only window where America actually had a theoretical democracy.
We haven't had it since Citizens United and it's over. It's super, super jover.
Like the scale, the money growth is making everything so crazy and people are falling for it. How do we get boomers?
so nihilistic, I don't know. 30 million spent, one-third of it from Israel. What an incredible
moment dude.
doing this amidst a energy crisis that was born out of the American America first president
and his intense investment into Israeli foreign policy. Like we are, Americans are paying
more at the pump directly because of Israel, okay? And the Republicans that are paying
more at the pump directly because of Israel still turned around and went, no, actually
fuck this guy who's against that. What do you, what do you say to that? Does this mean
Platinum's Cook, the culture strong? No. I, what, no, I fuck no, no, Platinum's a Democrat.
If you want an anti-Israel voter, if you want to vote for someone who is against Israel,
you have to vote Democrat. It's that simple. And not even all Democrats. The Israel tax
hitting all sectors of the U.S. economy? Yeah. Unbelievable, dude. Yeah, Republicans, Republicans
are forcibly excised their most anti-pedophile congressional member, member of Congress, should
be shocking to no one paying close attention to what's going on.
Great stuff overall.
Great stuff overall.
All right. Um, I want to be able to see what will happen at polls closing in Pennsylvania,
but I don't think I'll be able to actually watch it unfold with you guys because I have
to shoot the fucking podcast. That's the reason why I didn't do the, uh, the, the labor rally
today. I might not be able to see if we get the rab chur, the rab mentum. Yeah, half
day, Hossie. First result should come in 15 minutes after polls closed. Yeah, Kentucky
He's a close primary, so independence can't vote.
I know, but that's what we're talking about.
We're talking about the fucking,
we're talking specifically about the Republicans
and where they're at.
In Kentucky, and that is a seismic political decision
by made by voters in Kentucky tonight.
Let's go straight to Jeff Zellany.
He's at Thomas Massey's headquarters.
And Jeff, very, very clear and strong defeat
for Thomas Massey.
I mean, what is happening there?
This is being called, obviously, quite early.
Aaron, it certainly is.
I mean, the polls have been closed less than two hours
and just a few moments ago,
people began filling into the room.
Now, word has reached the supporters of Thomas Massie
that he has fallen short to Ed Galerine.
Ed Galerine is a farmer and a former Navy SEAL.
He was a big player in this race in many respects.
President Trump made this a one-on-one contest between him and Congressman Thomas Massey.
And the overwhelming amount of spending and money in this race was something that the
likes of which no House primary has ever seen.
So there's no question that Thomas Massey, who rose through the Tea Party era, starting
back in 2014, found himself in a very different Republican Party, a very different President
and President Trump.
And the question is, what comes next for Thomas Massey?
i think his speech tonight which i'm told he will be a delivering at some
point will be very interesting for the clues it holds and you're not forget he
is still a member of congress for six more months but for now at least the
outcome is not what the
yeah there's no information on the shooters i called it it's order of nine
angles
uh... san diego shooters live from the attack one attacker shot the other than
killed himself after driving away from the scene the alleged video cost to show
what appears to be clark sing in the driver's seat with a pistol
He reaches over and shoots his accomplice in the head,
reloads and shoots him again before putting the gun
under his own chin and pulling the trigger.
Yeah, and the manifesto I looked at it briefly,
talked about how their religion is the white race,
classic white supremacist screeds they were wearing.
One of them was wearing a son-in-rot on the chest plate.
You know, the usual.
Gas can of the shooters had a SS logo on it too. Yeah
Yeah
Meanwhile the fucking New York Post is talking about how the San Diego mosque might have deserved being shot at
Incredible stuff. Um, yes, I saw the San Diego may get berated live
It opens with sons of Tarrant, describes him as obviously both our biggest inspiration,
followed by Buffalo shooter Peyton Gendron, who of course, Tarrant and Gendron are a classic,
they are a classic hallmarks of a, oh, oh, okay.
popular in that state, particularly among Democrats.
He is going to face now from November.
The state's treasurer, Republican Stacey Garrity,
putting our projections here.
You see Stacey Garrity there.
Absolutely.
And in Alabama, the open race for governor
is still too early to call.
The president has endorsed Senator Tony Tupperville
in that race.
Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.
The Republican Senate nomination in Alabama,
that is also a race that is still too early to call.
And as we've been tracking some of the big races all night,
You see there the big projected winner in the big race that we've been following all night long
Kentucky's fourth congressional district, Ed Galerine. That's a win over Congressman Thomas Massey
who's been a huge thorn in the president's side. We are waiting for Massey to speak any moment now.
We'll bring that to you as you take a look at the balance of power in the house there with a ton of
battleground house races. We're watching in Pennsylvania this state that I think I can confidently say
We are obsessed with here on this evening with two native Pennsylvanians at the table because there are some super interesting
Battlegrounds here, and I think this graphic is important. It looks kind of like you're like, all right
What is it? It sets up the stakes for everything that we're talking about. Yes
It sets up the stage for control of Congress come November. That's what this is all about
You've got some races, especially in Pennsylvania. You look at Pennsylvania 7
We're gonna get into that in a second obviously no voting in PA yet with the polls having closed 90 seconds ago
But you look at that that's a place you've got a sitting Republican who Democrats think is vulnerable
You've got Josh Shapiro throwing his weight around.
You got a lot of action in that state.
And can we just acknowledge it's like eight Eastern and we've already got the Marquis
race of the night and there's still more to go.
There's a lot more to go.
Yeah.
No, I think Pennsylvania is kind of part and parcel to the Democrats plan to win back the
majority.
There are a lot of seats there.
The Democrats think that they have an opportunity and the Brian Fitzpatrick seat in particular
is a seat that has.
Fox County.
Let's let's do it.
One for Democrat in the last couple of election cycles.
it's patrick has as built the name for himself as some of the
okay this is all that's been democrats believe that this is their opportunity to
take him out and that would be a big part of it
all right come on give us the dumps give me the dumps give me the fucking dumps
rab momentum is good no this is good is good for rab is good for rab he's cooking
he's cooking he's cooking close race so far this is not bad this is good for rab
Okay. Uh, there is what, what's the total 31,000 votes so far? We got to get some rab
dumps before I go. Uh, not on NBC yet. Yeah. We went direct to the source. Okay. This is
how it goes. This is how it goes. Uh, democratic Pennsylvania house district three primary results.
Remember, this is a massive, massive race. We got rab momentum in our hearts. We got
rap meant them and we want some big dumps, massive dumps. Let's fucking shit for Chris
Rabb. Okay. Uh, well, what are you looking at? Okay. Hi. I'm almost done. Don't worry.
I'm just waiting for, oh, wait, really? Okay. Chris Rabb at 31% Alice Stanford at 39.9%
with 31,000 votes so far. I don't know why I'm doing the John King cadence right now,
This is a big deal. This is where the population lives and more competitive in the suburban counties than in the rural counties
But galerine still winning, you know, so even here this is this was masses only hope most of the people live up here
And it's 52 48 here. It's 53 47 there and it's 55 45 there if you round it
And again the only place where we were still waiting tells me Chris Rabb is at 86% on Kelsey. I'm going to fucking I
Am going to literally
Launch myself into the Sun by my I'm gonna build a fucking spaceship
I'm gonna build a spaceship. I
have a
Capable candidate of building that spaceship my brother he builds rocket ships for a living and I'm gonna put myself in that spaceship
And I'm gonna launch myself into the fucking Sun. I
Don't care
What some fucking gambling app has to say this is not the Harry Emden show sponsored by fucking Cal-Shi
Fuck
And the numbers guy
Tell me what chat GPT is saying. I will grok it. I will chat GPT it. I'm not gonna Cal-Shi it
I'm not gonna polymarket it
Fuck
Come on give us some dumps
Oh fuck you guys break the website god damn it chat
Fuck.
It feels and looks like a party atmosphere, but it is anything but a celebration.
Wagonwheel is playing for the second or third time here, and the anthem of this candidacy is going to be one of defeat by President Trump.
I mean, the only county, as John was just saying, that the Congressman Massie is winning
his Lewis County, and that is where we were with the Congressman last night at his final
rally in Vanceburg, Kentucky, on the banks of the Ohio River.
And the Congressman said that the Trump side is panicked.
That's why they're spending so much money against him.
Well, actually, that has proven to be incorrect.
They were spending so much money against him to defeat...
All right. In 2023, the inquirer did a camey's analysis identified six voting blocks of the
six blocks. There are four with a sizable present PA three black pro establishment,
black less affiliated, wealthy white liberals, and younger white progressives.
These are the groups that will decide today's primary rab has the clearest basis support
in the progressive neighborhoods. A rab win will include gang bosses, margin is home turf
of Mount airy 22nd ward, East Pass Yonk, first and second and Baltimore Avenue corridor
27th, 46th. He'll also need to win what I call progressive curious neighborhoods like
Germantown, Rocksboro, but the progressive block alone isn't enough for a rab win. Street's
base is pro establishment black voters, mostly concentrated in the 50th, 10th and 17th wards
in Northwest Philly. Those Stanford tried for this group with rep Evans's endorsement
and rab represents some of this area. The party should deliver these votes for street.
He also expects to perform well in his home district in North Philly, mostly made up of
less politically affiliated black voters.
Wards 13, 11, 16, 32, 47, and 29, but like Rab, streets based alone isn't enough to seal
the deal.
So what's left?
Wealthy white liberals in center city and less politically affiliated black voters in
West Philly, north of Baltimore Avenue corridor.
These are the areas I'll be watching most closely to see which way this election is
heading.
Stamford's path to victory involves winning both Center City and West Philly.
If her early TV presence was enough to lock down areas outside of Rabs and Streets Basis,
she could succeed Evans in Congress.
But with Stanford's stock dropping late in the race, Center City and or West Philly might
break for someone else.
Will they go for the party back street or the progressive inquirer endorsed Rab?
If either Center City or West Philly votes decisively for street, that should be enough
to win him the election.
if Rab fights to a draw or close to or close to it in both areas I expect to be headed to Congress, okay?
Right. Oh no. Oh God. Stanford, Jesus Christ. 40% of the votes. I mean, this is the same
uh, uh, from what we've seen, like Stanford and street are basically competing for similar
votes. Okay. They're competing for like similar voter profiles. Alice Stanford is the APAC
back candidate. Okay. That, that actually pulled support for some fucking reason because
they thought that she wasn't doing well. Um, and street is the establishment, uh, candidate.
is A-Luk versus Chris Rabb is obviously our guy.
If they possibly be splitting the centers,
though clearing a path or a rabbi, hopefully.
Insha'Allah.
Anyway, this is still very early, but as good the street is in third.
Keep in mind 314 the pack that back Stamford had pulling the header second and street third
with rabbit first? Keep the faith? Yeah.
Totally not scientific proof, but I imagine LD and West Philly and all I see
are Sharif signs. Nothing about Rab. I'd be shocked he wins, but hopefully... God damn
it, Chatter. Why you gotta do me like this?
Why you gotta fucking do me like this?
It's actually a good thing that Stanford is doing well early that means Street didn't
get, didn't bank establishment votes from early mail-in votes, I expect Rab to win election
day votes.
Yeah.
Hopefully, hopefully, hopefully.
Actually, Rabbi, second, if you look at the numbers and percentages, he has more than street. Wait, what? I know.
I know these are, I assume these are big dumps early on. It doesn't, it's probably what, like early voting numbers or something,
which would make sense because Stanford was doing all right initially and then
okay Chris Rabb 31% to Alice Stanford, Ayla Stanford's 40% what the fuck is this
what is this timer what is happening what the hell
Don't worry I live next to the LD 90% of these people don't vote.
It will account get you when the timer runs out.
Okay I'll keep refreshing it then.
Some release projected the win election easily beating her primary challenger, my queen.
Can anyone verify this? I'm hearing stories of State Senator Sharif Street had campuses
and sports wearing working families party shirts and hanging out street lit at polling
places. No, that's like illegal. What are you talking about? That's like insanely illegal.
Um, the major accusation is at the time on such a stand against the agenda of the president
that they overwhelmingly supported,
they take notice of it.
That's what I was saying.
But it's also about,
Republicans gonna win no matter what in this district.
And so a lot of voters do.
If you want one that helps Trump.
But a lot of voters in the primary
didn't have incentive to come out and vote today
because they know that whomever wins
between these two tonight is going to win
in the midterm election.
So there's less incentive.
I'm sorry.
I think Alyssa was closer to the,
I mean, what you were reciting
were the talking points of the candidate.
Well, you would know better.
the talking points of the campaign,
the talking points of the campaign,
which were around these issues, broader issues.
But the question is, what was the president's motivation?
And with Cornyn, when he says, when things weren't so good
for me, it was when-
All right, shut up, Axelrod.
All right, let's see what-
That I am watching as these numbers come in here-
Buck, look!
Really high value of the Senate's district.
Nice! Numbers on the board!
Two other Lauren big races
that we're watching in Pennsylvania tonight.
bucks county, not just for personal preference reasons, but because that is one that's going
to be a battleground coming November. And then of course, there's just three that we've
been talking about. Can you give us a sense that you've been, and we love having you on
cause nobody knows Billy area politics.
MBC's updated numbers are just the same numbers that we saw already. Yeah. APAC already fucking
gloating. Congratulations to us. Navy SEAL Ed Galbrain for defeating anti-Israel and
coming to Thomas Massey pros. Real Americans are proud of the backhand. Is it strong? America
Israel Alliance being pro-Israel is good, pausing good politics.
They're farting on us.
Yeah.
There is no Easter Bunny.
There is no tooth fairy.
There is no anti-war right.
It's 100% true.
There's none.
It doesn't exist.
There's no anti-petaphilia right either.
Okay.
Let's be real.
Let's be real.
it's official, okay? MAGA. MAGA is a fucking cult and their pro pedophilia,
pro Jeffrey Epstein, pro Israel, unconditionally, they are just a fucking cult.
That's it. That's it. There's no, there's no reason to fantasize about like, what
is Tucker Carlson gonna do? Is Tucker Carlson gonna fucking motivate the
people to not vote for the pro pedophilia, pro Trump, pro Epstein candidate? No, it
don't work. It's not real. It doesn't fucking exist, okay? These guys are insane. Yeah,
Galerain, by the way, didn't participate in any debates, barely campaigned, but he had
Trump's endorsement and tens of millions of dollars from pro-Zero groups behind him.
democracy. Straight up. He got fucking carried. He got fucking carried, okay? This is the
Republican closed primary. These are lifelong Republicans. Have you changed your mind on
Tucker's viability as a replacement for Trump? No, because Tucker doesn't exist in a world
where Trump exists. It doesn't change the calculation for me at all. What comes after
Trump will be Tucker Carlson, who will be just as cult like as Donald Trump.
That's what I think.
Once Trump is out of the picture, it doesn't matter.
The only person who can carry that same exact cult that has the capabilities of reading
the room of shit is going to be Tucker Carlson.
But while there is, while there is one guy, while Trump is around, it's Trump, and nobody
else.
All right, well, what I do think is Tucker might actually change his tune a little bit.
He might be singing a different tune after this.
I'm wrong, but he's a room reader and the room is fucking yelling at him
Yeah, notice any trim of the most expensive congressional races. It seems like there's a trend. Hmm
Hmm, I wonder how that happened
34 million Thomas Bass Thomas message versus gallery and Jamal Berman versus Latimer 25 million. These are primaries. Okay
Yeah, what good is it to be able to read the room if the base of
Support that you are going for is illiterate and can't read. Oh
My god
on a devastating again, like I said, it's now official the the
Republican Party is a fucking cult now
We're gonna find out if the Democrats are a cult too. It is the most expensive race ever
I think when they add it up right now, they can count 35 million
I think when they add it up
it's gonna be a lot more than that because on our side we know we spent more than 15 million and
We were able to go toe to toe. There was never a week that we got outspent more than two to one in this entire race
Once it got underway and that's that's remember guys. This doesn't mean
This doesn't mean that Ken Paxton has it in the fucking bag though because the rest of the country despises these fucking freaks
Okay, it's an increasingly shrinking base of cult-like support
Okay, but there's a limit to it. If the opposition, if the opposition is strong enough, they
can win. Okay, as it stands currently until Donald Trump decides he's gonna put armed
ICE agents at every fucking polling station who would not only ask for your papers, but
your voter affiliation, which could happen, could happen.
And Democrats could just turn around and say, what are we gonna do? Oh no, we have to vote
extra hard next time. I know they're shooting us at the fucking polling station, but we're
to vote, vote harder. But remember, the Republican Party is gone, okay? It's over. It's done.
There is no, oh, I'm a Trump supporter, but also I don't really fuck with Israel. I'm
done listening to this shit, okay? I'm done listening to this shit. As long as Trump
Trump is around, he is God, okay?
Trump is perceived as a fucking deity.
Trump is perceived as a God-like figure.
The Idaho primaries were the first inclination that people don't give a fuck about any personal
opinion whatsoever.
You don't have any ideological standing.
It's only Trump.
Trump is God, okay?
And then we saw, then we saw the fucking Louisiana race.
place dude incumbent getting in the third place there is no anti-war right it's fucking
over okay there is no anti-israel right there's no anti-war right as long as Donald Trump
is the president as long as Donald Trump stays pro-israel this party is pro-israel as long
as Donald Trump is pro-war, this party is pro-war. Progressives in the party won't withhold votes
or do anything to the bank corporate tax haven been 10 years since Bernie run. He's gonna
be done in a couple years. Yeah, it's incredible. Isn't Massey getting 45% important, though?
Trump candidate one is true, but not with a landslide. Dude, what do you mean this is
a fucking landslide, dude. What are you talking about? Anything but a decisive victory for
Thomas Massey implies that there is no base of support. There is no fucking base of support
for anything but Trump. That's it. That's where we're at. You're talking 10 points,
by the way. That is a fucking landslide. He won by a landslide. The fact that it wasn't
even a close race for Massey implies it's so gone.
Was leading the field.
Anyway, I can't wait for, wait, hold on.
I think, uh, I think everyone's here.
I got to go new dumps.
Fuck.
No, it's the same.
Are we good?
All right, I got to end it
Insha Allah Chris Rabb Rabb mentum the rapture is upon us. I have to go shoot the podcast right now. I apologize
And that's it
What a fucking devastating day for theoretical democracy in the United States of America so far
Remember, like I've said already, the first test was whether or not the
Republican Party is a fucking cult and they will just go whichever way the
money tells them to go. This was proven to be true. They are the pro Epstein, pro
pedophilia, pro Israel, pro Trump cult. That's what the Republicans are. The
The second test will be in Pennsylvania, third district.
Okay.
Pro Israel is on the side of both Sharif street and Stanford.
Okay.
The institutional Dems are behind Sharif street.
The people are behind Chris Rab.
So we shall see.
Yeah, big mistake for Thomas Massey running an expressly anti pedophilia ticket in the
grand old pedophiles party.
It's you know, what do you what else can you fucking say?
Hopefully hopefully the Democrats the Democratic voters and the DSA machine will deliver a
a decisive victory for Chris Rapp today. Very excited to see that. God damn it's hard to
fucking stay hopeful in this fucking country. It's crazy. Insane. Anyway, love you guys and
I'll see you tomorrow. Good night.
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