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A son piker, socialist, communist, radicalist, influencer, a son piker, dirtbag left, a
son piker, pro-terrorism, pro-homos, a son piker, a son piker, a son piker, going on
this vulgar rant mocking wounded Lord of Death for losing his eye fighting for our freedom.
Have 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 be.
The Assemblyman will not denounce the son Piper who said America deserved not 11
dude.
The Assemblyman will serve in his response to son Piper who says America deserved 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.
coactively campaigning alongside Piper. The man who said headless flag is his favorite because it's dope.
Why would you align yourself for a raging anti-Semite type who has defended Hamas terrorist?
Calling them the lesser of two is Israel's compared to the government's evil's
compressed. Lesser of two acts when I find a bridge too far. When I went up to my good friend
Chad and said, hey, you walk me through some little controversial statements of Assan Piper,
Even chat TPC went out of its way to soften the edges of the song and give me context.
Thanks, but no sex. Uh chat TPC.
The song piker is campaign poison. Placing yourself on the wrong side of a 19 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 Al Sayed is 27% Oliver Larkin.
Me like yours everybody. Welcome to the broadcast. Thank you for having me. Oh my god
What's going on everybody
I hope everyone's having a fantastic evening
Fantastic afternoon that there's a premium no matter where you are in the world
I'm a Sompiker and this awesome our broadcast coming to you live from sunny Detroit, Michigan,
United States of America. You already know what it is. I'm a Sompiker. I don't know what
the weather looks like right now. I'm going to tell you in a second when I figure it out,
but it's 86 degrees and sunny, even though it says cloudy on my weather app, 86 degrees
and sunny here in Detroit, Michigan. We're live. We're live. And I hope everyone is having a fantastic one. I
Flipped everything around and it's like fucking my brain up. It's so funny. I'm so goddamn used to just having this screen on my left side that
We set it up on the right side for the first time ever in a long time and it's just like I'm a little bit frazzled
But this is part of our guys where I tell you about my personal news. You already know what it is
It is 12.07 p.m. Pacific Time. It is 307 p.m. Michigan Time. It's 7 31 20 26 and
Oh
My lord. Oh my lord. Normally, I would tell you as far as personal news goes as part of our guests
We tell you about my personal news about what's going on in the world of us on us and I'll be biker
As far as personal news, I'll tell you I'm a shut-ass loser. I didn't do anything and I guess in some respects
There is truth to that I ended the broadcast yesterday filmed an episode of the fear and podcast
It was incredible
Unfortunately the norm Finkelstein conversation was cut short by the fact that we had to film the fear and podcast
I probably would have if we're being real I probably would have gone for another three hours and I know norm is a great a
Yapper to just like I am
So
For all of us, you know, this was there's just more opportunity in the future that convoy could have gone for like three more hours
I didn't even get to talk to him about gooners and how you know gooning is fascism
I didn't get to show them the Cougar maxing Republican only fans girl. I didn't get to talk to him about
Epstein II
But I think it was overall a very good interview. I want to issue
Something for all of the fan channels you got take those interviews down guys come on
You got to wait for our editors to cook
This is the one of the few things where we want to put that on the main channel. I normally don't do this
but a lot of the bot channels
They went crazy. They immediately uploaded the interview. My editors are literally sourcing data, sourcing information, pulling quotes,
you know, editing it to make sure that the interview is, you know, to make sure that we have the best product possible.
Meanwhile, all the fan channels are dumping uploads on it. So we got to not do that. And you know, I normally never ask for that.
I don't normally withhold any of my IP, but that's the one part where
We want to want to make sure so for all of the fan channels. You got to
You got to take those down man. What the hell we're doing? Um?
Your CNN moods actually covered you in DSA not in bad faith holy Toledo
Donnie left insurgency I know we're gonna talk about that. Donnie is promoting his documentary that's coming out on Sunday
it's going to be about me, David Hogg, and the left insurgency overall, but it's mostly just
going to be an opportunity for Josh Gottheimer's beautiful face to be prominently featured on CNN,
once again, as he complains about me and how radical we are and how bad we are. Yeah, I'm
issuing a FATWA. It's already up on your main channel. Good. Francesca was on Fox News. We got
all of that and more. We will be talking about all of that. I'm very excited. There's a lot
of excitement in the air. Maybe it's because I'm already here at the heart of where this radical
left insurgency is moving or maybe it's because I've been seeing a lot of these candidates that
didn't get the necessary national media attention, finally get their flowers a little bit on the
main stage and that's giving and that's exciting me a little bit and hopefully uh you guys as well
you had another cnn segment on abby philips coming up next for us one of the last most okay we'll
we'll we'll do that as well um but outside of all of that outside of all of that personal news wise
I basically shot the podcast until like 11, went to, packed my bag, went to sleep, woke
up two hours later, got on a flight, passed out on the flight for a little bit, woke
up, carried the bags into the hotel, immediately rushed to take a shower, and I'm here. So
I don't know if that's shut as loser status or not. I think it is. But yeah, that's all
I got. That's all I got for you guys. The hill put out a video on you, the soundpecker
exposed
What the fuck radical pro-china communists?
Exposed
You got to artwork for me to blast off. Okay. Well, this is not gonna help the
This is not gonna help the the
The the the radical pro-china ties narrative, you know, but fuck it. We'll use it fuck it. We ball
Do we have any other blast off me before I before I blast off on Twitter let the people know that we're live and we are alive
I have a little bit of a headache
We have a big lineup today. Obviously
We're gonna be going to an IRL event November 7 later as well
So, um, someone is telling me this is a special day today, but I can't for the life of me.
Remember, do you know, oh my God, I fucking forgot.
I forgot.
See, this is, this is, I'm frazzled, I'm frazzled.
And only one person reminded me, which is crazy.
I'm I've dropped the ball. I've dropped the ball ladies and gentlemen boys girls and MBs. I dropped the motherfucking ball
It's over the ball dropped
Just kidding we're bringing it back we're bringing it back. This is a very special day because it's a Friday. That's right
It's Friday
The vibes are going to be
Because it's a Friday
And some of you might be asking why on Fridays a day we celebrate all the time for the four fathers,
fought long and hard to make sure that we have a five-day work week to establish a sense of autonomy,
a sense of purpose, a sense of humanity back in our lives, every single weekend for all the wage cucks,
For all the weight trucks out there who are finally getting
It's Friday so the box will be immaculate
So it feels a little bit awkward going through the normal things that I do in the introduction of the screen
but
Here go goddamn, bro. Have you been the
Hassanabe caucus in Michigan?
Yeah, headed to Michigan ahead of next week, Sampagra, Ihanomar, Mellot, Keros, Adam Hamawee, Chris Rabb, Hassan Lahan to playbook DC.
I'm used to having underdogs get defeated by moneyed interest over and over again, but it's not going to happen this time.
That's right.
It's so funny that I gave Politico like these long and thoughtful answers that span
span for 25 minutes, and then they put like that as the quote.
Sir Longwell from Bull Work condemned your fans while doing a panel with sex
past any home. Interesting. It is what it is.
Um, in any case, in any case, let's get it. Let's get a pop in. Let's get it twisted.
Um, what's happening in Morocco? Oh, we'll talk about that too. Don't worry. Michigan
big races next Tuesday, straight closed situation monitor. Steven's lame closing argument. IRL
events later, get in now. We also have a phone bank that we're going to be doing for Donovan McKinney
in a little bit. Obviously, I'll be rallying the troops for everybody. We got a big race there as
well as Detroit. But yeah, here it is. This is the blast off. It's Friday. It's Friday. It's Friday.
a absolute crash out from Haley Stevens.
We're gonna be talking about her tweet.
Her closing message is literally
the most online shit I've ever fucking seen.
So what is really frustrating about the way that like
these establishment Democrats have been operating,
I've realized, they're just extremely online.
Like they are running the most extremely online campaign
possible. And the expectation usually from these guys, the way that they presented themselves
for many, many years, will start off with the Haley Stevens closing message. Okay.
One of the things that I have realized, one of the things that I have noticed, rather,
and find very interesting is the fact that the establishment wing of the
Democratic Party used to present themselves as the reasonable people
that understood the working class, people that didn't spend a good deal of time on
the internet, people that were, you know, doing the work, a workhorse if you will,
right? From Michigan. And what's really, what's been really interesting, what's been really
interesting about this process is that it turns out when left to their own devices, when they
actually have a real left flank insurgency that is taking out seats piece by piece,
The only tools that they have in their tool belt is the old-school shallow identity politics,
false smears of claiming that your opponent is anti-black or anti-woman,
and claiming electability to an increasingly smaller group of people at the heart of the party.
and last but not least, unbelievable levels of enmity towards people that they feel have wronged
them online. And it is a remarkably online candidacy for Hayley Stevens. You wouldn't expect it
because she's like goofy. She's got the the the u-per accent. She's like really building this up,
right? She's hyping herself up as a, I'm a roll my sleeves kind of gal to do
Michigan stuff, right? She's larping. When, when the only thing she has done,
and especially with her closing argument, is, is utterly devoid of policy, and dare I say,
trying to to foment racial animus and of course cynical deployment of anti
semi-tism smears against Abdul al-sayed. So we start here. You know when Abdul al-sayed
did this interview with Amani, Muslim girl, right? And in this interview, this is
one of the choice quotes in the interview, Abdul al-sayed says, APEC, come after me.
You know, when APAC watches this, come for me.
See what happens.
Come for me.
Like, you know, I know you keep coming, but like, you pick the, like, literally the least
capable candidate in America, right?
And then Chuck Schumer doubles down, and then APAC doubles down.
And part of me is like, OK, look, if you think you can beat money out of politics, money in
your pocket, Medicare for all, come.
But I'll tell you what people don't want.
They don't want money in a foreign government.
They want money here.
You know, when APAC watches this, come for me.
See what happens.
So it's pretty clear he's targeting APAC, which has spent, you know, upwards of $34 million on this race so far, almost $40 million on this race alone, and the primaries alone, that's a pretty significant number.
And it's perfectly understandable that he's even sidestepping Haley Stevens to a certain degree and just talking about
APEC and saying that APEC fucked up by choosing the wrong person.
Now this was very frustrating for Haley Stevens who is slated to lose his primary, inshallah, right?
And she delivered this, um, this closing message, Abdul. We were both on the ballot in 2018, which for those of you who don't know, 2018 was basically 40 years ago, you know, 2018, I was three years old back then.
then get it out of your system for all the chatters in here. We're gonna be like 2018.
That was 45 years ago, okay? Abdul! We were both on the ballot in 2018. I was capable of winning
my competitive primary in general election. You lost. You lost by over 20 points to Gresham
Whitmer and you will lose to Mike Rogers by talking like this. Everyone in America understands
You want to blame all your problems on Jewish Americans? What the fuck?
Where did that come from? Where did that come from Jewish Americans?
Let me tell you something
Okay
the notion
The notion that apac is representative of Jewish Americans
is perhaps one of the most anti-semitic things you can say. Now, and I'm not even
talking about it as like from the anti-Zionist perspective, right? I'm not
even saying that as like the woke guy who's always fucking talking about how
Israel is fomenting anti-Semites. I'm just straight up looking at the objective
numbers of what American Jews despise. A-PAC is up there. Okay? At this point, at this point,
there are few things less popular than A-PAC for American Jews. You can make an argument,
a separate argument about Zionism, what it means to American Jews or Israel and what it means to
American Jews to varying degrees, some people defend it, some people don't, whatever, right?
But APAC is seen as this far-right, mega-billionaire-backed
institutions, organization that is unbelievably undemocratic and unbelievably unpopular. So for
for her to just say, APEC is actually a substitute here for all American Jews, is more anti-Semitic
than anything that they have claimed Abdel El-Sahed has ever said.
Not anything he's actually said, because he's not anti-Semitic at all, but even their claims
do not come near the level of anti-Semitism demonstrated in this talking point, okay?
But of course, we expect that from the stick it to him.
That's the Michigan way, candidate.
But buddy, let me be very clear.
I will lower the cost of groceries, ban stock trading for elected officials, stop Trump's
abuses of power, and protect Michigan manufacturing.
And you'll just be a celebrity whining and writing books to get even richer.
You're part of the complainer class looking for their next book or podcast deal.
Bro, bro, bro, she said, bro, I just want to work for Michigan.
What gives?
Yeah.
So obviously, this is like, this is her closeout.
This is her final message.
And their final message is like, you're complaining too much, which by the way, given that Abdul
is, you know, running for office in a primary, she's not just saying that about Abdul, she's
saying that about all voters, voters who want to vote for Abdul, voters who, you know, might
share the same frustrations that Abdul is channeling and communicating solutions to.
So she's basically just saying, shut the fuck up, not just to Abdul, but to anyone that is complaining, anyone that is complaining about, you know, Donald Trump, prices, the level of influence that Israel has on American democracy, our endless war mongering overseas.
So, yeah, Haley Stevens saying that is so unbelievably out of touch, but it doesn't
matter, right?
The media still plays the same silly song and dance.
Although, if you look at this, most American Jews oppose APEC spending in Democratic primaries
survey finds.
Most have not heard much about the role pro-Israel groups have played in this year's primaries
another survey found. So, I found this to be waving the white flag, but in some respects,
she was waving the white flag after dumping 60 million. Okay, dumping 60 million into
this rate. Is Hailey Jewish? No. Contrary to what some people in the commentary sphere
have claimed, and contrary to how Hailey Stevens presents herself, Hailey Stevens is not Jewish.
She's not.
She's Christian.
But it doesn't end there.
Here's the other parting message.
And this is the part where we get really online.
Are you ready for this?
Stephen says they might not like how I sound, but I will make sure that Michigan is heard
There's those cool kids on the internet making fun of how I talk, but let's be real
They're making fun of Michigan their jokes makes me fight harder
Just like I did when I was working for President Obama like I'm doing standing up to Trump
Yeah, President Obama
When I was an intern I
I sat next to President Obama to stop ice they might not like how I sound but I am going
to make them sure they hear us in the halls of power.
So again, this is like an online phenomena, okay?
I'm willing to bet, I'm willing to bet not a single damn person in this room gives a
shit about the way you sound or has heard, I don't know, barbarism critic getting a fucking
viral tweet off on how you sound.
You know what I mean?
Can you imagine making that your fucking campaign?
It's somehow even dumber than making your campaign around like Abdul El Sayed hung out
with his sound panker.
And the Twitch streamer, you guys need to know about this guy.
He's real bad.
What gives?
Like, you really, you really got 70 year olds in the room being like, yeah, Haley, I'm voting
for you because Obama and they're making fun of the way you sound, which sounds very
normal and very real. Yeah. You never see so many black people on TV until it's voting
season. That's actually a very interesting point, especially nowadays when like the anti-woke
corporate attitudes really settled in and people were running the fucking gamut on the
anti-woke shit. Everyone in that room is on Medicare and they don't want you to
have it. Yeah, there's also an element to it. There's also an element of that in
there too. Boomer resentment, you know how it is. Boomer cons, conservative boomers,
that's how they operate. It is what it is, what are you gonna do? But I'm a
from Michigander and Ann Arbor,
and you sound exactly like Haley Stevens, right?
Obviously, that's what we've learned.
I mean, I've been up and down this state
quite a bit for Abdul in the last year and a half.
I have yet to encounter one motherfucking person
that sounds like Haley Stevens.
People from Michigan have said
she's trying to do a U-PER accent.
maybe I haven't been to the upper peninsula, okay?
This is how you know.
This is how you know I'm fucking Michigan, okay?
This is how you know I'm a real one.
I know this, okay?
But if you ask Haley Stevens,
who's now nationalized this Senate campaign,
the Senate primary, the only takeaway
that she wants you to have
From her disastrous dumpster fire of a campaign is that this is how I wanted Michigan speaks
That's that's devastating
Okay, that's devastating that is ridiculous I
Don't know bro. She's really growing on me like yeah, like a cancer
yes he's trying to pull the the john kennedy nonsense but as a democrat it's
actually really interesting to see it happen as a democrat
unexpected
you don't usually expect this from democrats
uh... democrats go in the opposite direction where they code switch when
they when they go to the south they they try to
to ham up their their black sent
right
That's usually how it goes.
Um, Ms. Rachel endures most of the remaining DSA Slate.
Ms. Rachel is our strongest warrior.
Let's be real.
I love her so much.
Rule Michigander here who travels all over the state.
I have also never heard anyone sound like her.
Yeah, because she's literally exaggerating it.
Bro, she went to a private school that is $60,000 a year, she's from Rochester.
She literally grew up in the same fucking town that Nick Paulum grew up in.
Does Nick Paulum sound like that?
That's one of the other characters of this race that I just don't fucking appreciate.
This like subtle but not so subtle way of saying like, I'm from Michigan.
My opponent is not.
Dog Abdul was born like 10 miles away from you. What the fuck are you talking about?
He's not real Michigan. I think we know what you're saying when you say the brown guy whose name is Abdul Rahman Muhammad al-sayed of
Egyptian descent is not real Michigan like you are
Okay, that's been hella annoying too
So, fuck, do you mean I'm real Michigan, unlike my opponent? Unlike my opponent? He doesn't have a quirky accent. That's real Michigan.
So, all of this, aside from the dog whistles, right? Aside from the dog whistles, all of this is signaling one thing and one thing only, okay?
Or maybe for some that that like sectarian animus will work
Could work especially for boomer comes right
But like that
Hyper focus on the way you speak the hyper focus on how like you're being bullied online
this kind of stuff is
Not in any way shape or form designed to be appealing and
and designed to to draw voter turnout unless you're signaling to one constituency only
and that is people that live in DC the consultant class that spend every waking
moment on Twitter just like we do and are constantly getting into battles on
there and the resentment that they carry over from anonymous Twitter accounts
with like you know DSA roses on them or anonymous Twitter accounts the hammer
and sickle on them carries into like some kind of political representation in the
real world as though as though these fractional battles these factional
battles between near attended and her reply guys and gals is in any way
shape or form going to have an impact on the lives and livelihoods of
Michiganders. I need people. I don't want to give advice to my
opposition. I don't want to give advice to my opposition, but it doesn't
really matter because they never listen to me. Even when I am literally yelling at
them over and over again about what's going to happen next and then it
inevitably comes true. Yes, there's IRL today. Okay, yes, there's IRL today and I'm
I'm just going to give them advice one more time.
Stop hyper-focusing on Twitter battles that you have.
These things are not appealing to the average people.
You have to.
You have to run on a policy-first platform.
Hopefully, this message carries over to some of the centrists that won their primary races
so that they don't run stupid fucking races in the general and lose to the
god damn republicans
okay
keep my warning
anyway on there was also another day why go tweet that i think is a maybe a
little bit off-color
outside is confident to the point of cockiness in a way you don't much see from the Dems. Steven
tried to make this an issue. I really think that losing the Trump twice made the Dems think,
maybe we don't need a, maybe we need a lax bro who will knock their teeth out.
Here's Abdul Al Sayed, the man who's likely to be the Democrat's nominee. This is Jim Garrity,
National Review Senior Political Correspondent. Say, here's Abdul Al Sayed, the man who's likely
to be the Democrat's nominee for U.S. Senator Michigan in a podcast interview in April. JD
J.D. Vance is brown kids who we think are less American than everyone else.
That's wild to look at your own kids and be like, you don't actually belong as much in
this country that I brought you into.
And honestly, J.D. Vance's kids, I love you.
Like Usha, get out, okay?
You still got time.
After Elsa had said that, the host Brian Allen turned to the camera and said, jokingly,
Vance, if I know you're going to see this, do not sue me, all right?
I did not know he was going to talk about you like this.
I had no idea.
See, even for Dave Weigel, now at the semaphore, who, you know,
roams around the country as a part of his job, this is a little bit out of touch.
This is precisely what voters are looking for.
A human touch, this codes as a real fighter for the voters because real voters,
just real Americans, they feel the same way when they hear,
about a guy who's the vice president of the United States of America, who has an Indian
American wife, who has Indian American children, right, running around hyping up white supremacist
values and claiming that his wife is probably going to go to fucking hell for not being a
committed Catholic like he is. That is a very normal take. This is not an abnormal thing to say.
It's uncivil to a certain degree, right?
But this is exactly what most normies think.
They hear this, they hear JD Vance and Usha, and they go,
your kid's name is fucking Vivek, man.
What do you mean America's getting too brown?
What the fuck are you talking about?
Your kid's name, one of your kid's name is Vivek, okay?
Vivek, your wife's name is Usha.
you went to Yale
You are supposed to be
hyping up how how multicultural and diverse this goddamn country is that's one of the best qualities of America our
Diversity is our strength and
Meanwhile
Jedidiah Vance over here on his eighth name change is running around being like yeah
No, it's actually kind of bad. We maybe we got too diverse motherfucker. You got too diverse. You made the country diverse
It doesn't make no damn sense.
It would be like if I ran around being like, you know, these motherfuckers named Hassan,
named Zohran, named Abdul Rahman are coming into this country telling us how we should
and shouldn't live our lives.
I'm sorry.
Your name's not Peter.
It's not Paul.
It's not John, it's not George, you don't get to tell us Americans how we can and can't
do things.
Can you imagine if that's what that was my commentary, everyone would be like, dude,
your name is a song.
What the fuck are you talking about?
Like, aren't you an American?
The fuck do you mean?
It is outright hypocritical and guess what?
People love.
love identifying and calling out hypocrisy. People like identifying and
calling out hypocrisy perhaps more than actual bad things that people do. They
care more about hypocrisy than they do or perceived hypocrisy than bad acts.
Okay?
In any case, isn't that just Patrick David's whole thing?
Yes, yes, but we call it out and it's for the average worker, it actually works a lot.
It actually works against them.
So, yeah, CNN and Fox are going a little crazy.
How do I, how do I skip this?
Oh, okay.
Holy shit, dude.
What the hell?
534 new articles were written about me on Mace Your Malice as I last visited this website.
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Piker predicts 2028, Democratic nominee won't be pro-Israel.
makes bold prediction about 2028 democratic presidential nominee? Yeah, that's not a bold
prediction, man. That's like me saying the 2028 democratic nominee is going to be pro-abortion.
Okay, that's only a unique take if you are still in 2026 completely and utterly out of
fucking touch and out of step with the actual voters please go outside and talk to a single
person I beg of you like you cannot have your only interaction if you're in the media if you're in
mainstream media okay your only interaction with the real world cannot be a door dasher that you
awkwardly that you awkwardly receive your your doordash delivery from. Okay.
Girl, they already started to the move to the left. Kamala Harris.
I know this is going to be controversial coming from me in particular. We need to revisit the
electoral college we need to revisit the point of expanding the court we need to revisit if they
so want stay hooked for Puerto Rico and D.C. Kamala Harris is back baby, Kameleon Harris.
FYI, Haley Stevens is lying about where she grew up. I grew up in Rochester also FYI that's not
accent I've ever heard, and she graduated from Seaholm of Birmingham High School. The only reason
to lie about growing up in Rochester is because you think Rochester is poor and relatable, which is
hilarious. Birmingham does make Rochester Hills look poor.
Yeah, Kamala Harris, Hassan Abihid, 2020, 2028.
It's really funny that I said a relatively uncontroversial thing and not just like relatively
uncontroversial in our community, right?
Like what I said about the 2028 Democratic nominee, I'm not going to have to worry about
them being, you know, pro-Israel, okay?
Why did I say that?
Well, the reason why I said it is because I'm a normal person I go outside
Okay
I'm in touch with it and with regular folk. I go door knocking. I
interact with my community I
Visit my public parks. I
Have a lot of normie friends
It's ironic saying this because obviously for many
They they look at me and they're like bro. You're literally live
eight hours a day, how dare you claim to be fucking normal?
Here's the thing, every moment, every moment that I'm not live
online, I'm around regular folk, regular people, my friends,
people that I meet out in the real world, I talk to them. I'll
give you one example. We're driving over to the hodl this
morning. Okay, hour ago. We start canvassing the driver, let's
be real. Okay, we start talking to the driver, you know how I
love, you know, hearing about people's unique political
perspectives. He's a kind of older guy, maybe in his 50s,
right? And we're like, What do you think about? I'll do all
said he goes, you know, I don't know much about him, but I have
19 year old son and he's a big fan and he's been trying to convince me but even with our
conversations no Hassan don't do a tale to show how normal you are please wait what no
this is not a tale about how normal I am the fuck's wrong with you this is just a conversation
that I had with a person. He says, says, one thing that really bothered me is I've heard
about him from my son. Don't know who I was going to vote for, but I think after this
conversation in the end of the conversation, he said he's voting for all the loss. But
before we get there. He said, my son's brought him up a little bit. Right. And at first, I
didn't know who he was. But then I, every time I go on YouTube, every time I watch my
little clips on YouTube every time I watch anything. Okay? I am getting inundated with
these ridiculous attack ads. They're calling him all these different names. And the reason
the what actually pissed them off apparently was that they kept calling him sexist. And he's like
He's like, they kept calling this guy sexist over and over again.
And then the reasons of the why they're calling him sexist is because what he like.
Ran against a woman in the past.
He's he's like said things about their their opinions.
I don't understand it.
Like what's what sexist about this?
And because no normies use the word inundated.
No, I'm I'm saying inundated.
Okay, he didn't say those words. He didn't say inundated. Shut the fuck up
He just said he sees these ads all the time. Okay every time he's on TV every time he turns on the television
There's another ad calling Abdul sexes every time he turns on the every time it turns on the YouTube's and he's watching his little clips
He said he sees ads running right before it. No, not a white guy brown guy
Indian
Anyway, he was just like, it turned me off.
It turned me off from Haley Stevens.
It turned me off from Haley Stevens because, and look, I think the honest assessment here
is that the average person may not give that much of a shit about sexism.
I'll say that. Okay. This also validates the other theory, which is boomers love when young people tell them who they like and who has got them activated enough to go and fucking vote.
That's why you have a really important opportunity to talk to your parents and to get them out, you know, canvass your parents.
And the barrage of ads is backfiring because people go, all right, well, what the fuck's
up with this guy?
They end up looking into it.
And if they have at least one person in their lives that is close enough to them or if there's
someone who's, you know, phone banking and it's like a young person on the other side
of the phone calling them up to be like, hey, I'm, you know, very excited to talk to you
about the primaries coming up. All of a sudden, all of those attack ads just feed into the
name recognition and they flip super easily. Okay.
that's it. That's it. So that is part of the reason why Abdul has a lot of appeal. Meanwhile,
the media is still desperately trying to present him as this like unelectable, radical, and
It's not working on the ground at all.
It's so not working on the ground at all.
But here, Semaphore wrote this article
about Hillary Skelton.
Abdul is going to win Hillary Skelton's district.
She's a Democrat in the House of Representatives,
controversial, has some allegations and rumors
that she might be having an affair
with the Republican running for governor.
She's been saying that she's not going to endorse
Abdul El Sayed, she's not going to work
to get Abdul El Sayed elected if Abdul is the candidate.
Going against the vote blue, no matter who,
there it is, oh shit, what is this?
Motrin, oh hell yeah, thank you.
Let's go with it.
And, of course, Adam Johnson, the media critic himself,
says this piece, the piece is tailored around one person, ironically.
And now, it makes it seem like there's a big point of difference here,
big controversy around, like many Democrats are saying,
they're not going to fucking support Abdul.
I'll say that.
But that's not the case. Democrats are staring down the possibility
them party that the party won't unify behind Oslo said who's leading by
double digits in Michigan's heated Democratic Senate primary Adam Johnson
says this piece cites exactly one person refusing to support outside Hillary
Sculton that's it that's the only evidence it also once again frames
opposition to lcd entirely as electability concerns not ideology or
donor pressure even though it's ideology and donor pressure
We have zero evidence Stevens is more electable polls are roughly even betting markets to the extent that these pose any insight are unmoved.
It's just racist. It's just a racist vibe, a dogma, a convenient narrative that allows pro-Israel and capitalist ideologues to launder their ideology.
their ideology. Okay.
Abdul El Sayed is far more electable than Hailey Stevens.
The evidence for that is the fact that he's going to win the primaries next
Tuesday. Okay.
It's really funny that random
centrist Democrats in districts that Abdul will win by 60 to 70 percent.
Think that their endorsement matters in any way shape or form when the polls have
remained unmoved in spite of the governor and the outbound senator endorsing
fucking Haley Stevens, Hillary Scoulton, what the fuck do you think your endorsement is
gonna do? Keep your endorsement. These guys don't understand where the base is. They don't
understand where the voters are. They think they understand it, but they've
given up on trying to understand it. It's very obvious. They have just sat
around in their comfortable perch, in their ivory towers, and kept spamming the
electability argument that corporate media consistently, consistently turns
out every fucking primary every general election every midterm season every presidential campaign
oh we got to pivot to the center because the voters demand moderate democrats
bullshit
There's also a new polling that suggests that with black voters, I'll say it is up five,
at least in one poll. It's a bit of an outlier in comparison to the other polls that have
pulled black voters, but not shocking to me. These are the crosstabs coming from Mitchell
research, but I suspect if we look at the the cross tabs, they might have
oversampled, not oversampled necessarily, but oversampled in comparison to
other pollsters, the youth vote, and that's probably the reason why
Abdul gains an advantage in the black voters. But yes, if he is capable of
bringing turnout in Detroit, Wayne County, if he's capable of bringing out the
youth vote in Wayne County, then yeah, Abdul might even defeat Hayley Stevens
on this demographic as well a lot of the 20 plus or so by polls for Haley sample
Detroit a fuck ton compared to the state at large Haley unfortunately has a
large base in Detroit yeah it's older older black voters the last vanguard of
the establishment Democrats. That's what it is. But that voting block will never not vote.
And they will certainly never not vote for the Democrat. Unless there is a establishment
Democrat spoiler and Jim Clyburn tries to come in and tries to rat fuck the race or
something which is not going to happen because the the the Senate Democratic
majority hinges on this race they're not going to do that in the same way that
they tried with Andrew Cuomo against Zora Mamdani in New York and failed right?
No one is once the primaries over I suspect that most of the Democrats will
consolidate behind Abdul and will be pushing for it they won't be as
enthusiastic as they would for like a James Talarico for example but it
doesn't really matter, right? As long as they do not present a hurdle, which some might,
but those people who do this for the record, the ones who will still try to present a hurdle
will be outcasts. They will not have enough motion. That's my suspicion. This is speculation.
Maybe I'm wrong, maybe the Democrats will show a side, like maybe the Democrats will
show cynicism to that degree, a degree that even I don't expect, where they will just
in order to prove, in order to try to prove their narrative that like in swing states
you can't have a socialist friendly candidate, they'll try to rat fuck it, they'll try to
destroy the chances, they'll try to launch an opposition, I don't think so.
good press about you. I don't know if this is going to be good press or bad
press. We'll see. It's, you know, it's Donnie, but it's a CNN. So it's probably
received as much scrutiny as anything you will ever see. It's, you know, it's
going to be me talking for a little bit and then minutes and minutes of Josh
Scott Heimer calling me a monster and you know
James Carle will be like hey, I'm not what I talk about that type of shit
But this is one piece of that which apparently hit
election Twitter
Like a like a goddamn atom bomb
okay
Everyone is very upset
Everyone is very upset about two things that that have come out from this interview so far and don't he he's pumping it
He is hyping up this goddamn. He's hyping up this goddamn documentary like his life depended on it and he loves it
Okay, he loves how how he's retweeting everyone from every part of the ideological spectrum being like oh, yeah
You this pissed you off, huh? You should tune in on Sunday to watch the whole thing
But we'll see I have no idea what the final product is gonna look like I
I expected to have, to give me somewhat of a fair shake, it's fair of a shake possible
from the current formation at ZNN, so we'll see, but this was one clip that everyone got
really mad about.
The guys have failed so publicly and so spectacularly that it has caused people to seek out alternatives.
I see challenges from the quote, progressive left quote,
and these people are too fortunate to know
that they're not popular.
People don't like them.
Yeah, everybody likes, you know who everybody likes?
Bill Clinton.
Everyone knows if there's one figure that's popular
in American politics in 2026, there's Bill Clinton.
Y'all remember Bill Clinton?
They don't win elections.
They never run against Republicans.
They just run against other Democrats.
And their only message is we're going to blow everything up.
James Carville says this is all going to implode at the general election.
Yeah, as opposed to previous neoliberal Democratic candidacies that have been spectacular successes so far.
Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2016 and Kamala Harris in 2024.
There are a lot of people who are just like, this is not working.
The cost of living crisis is completely out of control.
Democrats haven't done anything about it. Republicans haven't done anything about it.
There has to be a different alternative.
I have one simple philosophy about politics.
Winning is everything stupid.
Let's think of somebody. Bernie Sanders.
Bernie Sanders ran for president twice.
You know what he did twice? He lost.
By a lie.
Because for progressives, getting out of the primary
is a far more difficult battle than winning in the general.
This is our theory.
The reason for that is because
Republicans don't have a vision for change.
Socialists do.
So, obviously, this is a shortened version of my broader theory that I've talked about
quite extensively here on this broadcast, which is the idea that if Democrats consolidate
their turnout machine behind socialist candidates, left populist candidates, they will do tremendously
well in the general election because left populist candidates and democratic socialists
in particular have an agenda, right? They have a theory of change. They have long term
goals. They have short term goals. Unfortunately, neoliberal Democrats, the right wing flank
of the party, the centrist, they do not. They're constantly finding themselves a defensive
posture against the Republicans. They're constantly playing by the Republicans game.
That needs to change. But we've never been able to show this theory of change because the primaries
for the longest time were impossible to get out of, right? Now that's changing. Now the primaries
are actually, you know, in our favor because the Democrats no longer, like the Democratic voters,
No longer believe that ridiculous electability argument, the pivot to moderation, the arguments that were presented with Hillary Clinton, with Kamala Harris as well, to a certain degree with Joe Biden, to a certain degree where everybody consolidated behind Joe Biden because they were like, oh, it's impossible, Bernie will never make it out.
Rua Roman is criticizing you on this clip. I know. So I saw that. And I think there's
a misunderstanding here. Okay. She says strongly disagree with us on the hunt on this. And
I'm once again strongly encouraging him to come visit the South, both primaries and
general elections are extremely hard, just in different ways. We cannot be complacent
going into November. There is no point where I've ever said we have to be complacent.
I didn't say that. I just said that my worldview is, my opinion on this is, and we will show
the world this reality, we will shock the world, okay, that left flank Democrats will
defeat Republicans more handily than centrist neoliberals with no vision. That's it.
That's it. I didn't say the general is going to be easy. It's going to be horrible
In any case
In any case
There was another clip from this where David Hogg actually does a really good job with this
This is a comparison that you've probably heard me make towards Shannon Watts
Comparing a pack to the NRA
Democrats unironically gave up the party to the left for Israel, yep, that's precisely what happened.
That's precisely what happened.
And we're going to keep doing that.
Because that's just a pure expression of democracy.
If our electeds refuse to represent our interests, then yeah, of course we're going to fucking run people that do that.
We're going to run people that will represent the interests of the masses.
It's that simple.
They're losing because they forgot that the fundamental principle of theoretical democracy
is to represent the needs of the fucking masses.
Anyway, David Hawke compares APAC to the NRA.
Great take.
When I first started working in D.C., when I went from working on the outside of politics
in the advocacy world to then working on the inside, one of the first things that I was
told when I got here was do not talk about APEC.
Do not mention them.
Do not think about them.
Don't dare go against them.
And the thing that was striking to me about that was how eerily similar that sounded to
what I remember hearing about the NRA after Parkland, where people said to me, you know,
You're too powerful.
You guys are just a bunch of kids.
What happened at your high school is horrible, but you don't understand.
This is the NRA.
Nobody's ever going to take them on, but we did and we won.
And we made that organization go from standing for the National Rifle Association to standing
for not relevant anymore.
Yeah, I think a lot of people watching this to hear you, a Parkland survivor, talk about
APAC in the same red as NRA will be surprising.
It shouldn't be.
Both are getting kids killed.
Yep.
This is what I've been pointing out to Fred Gutenberg and Shannon Watts.
Non-fucking stop.
So having David Hogg come out and say this on CNN.
Oof.
Excellent.
Because it's true.
They're both funded by mega-billionaires, sometimes the same mega-billionaires.
They're both heavily invested in subverting American democracy, and they're primarily
focused in melting children at schools.
Over there in Gaza, in Iran, in Lebanon, it's blowing up children in schools with American
munitions
Here in America. It's blowing up kids in schools with air 15s
That's it it's the same shit
Yeah, Bill Crystal abolish eyes
It's it's kind of funny because Bill Crystal is obviously the editor at large and the co-founder of the Bulwark
And he is far more woke than Shannon
Uh, the other Sarah Longwell, uh, far more woke than everybody else with the exception of like maybe Tim Miller
It's so funny to me that the guy that the neocon devil himself Bill crystal is far more fucking woke
Than all of the other people that he hired for the former George W. Bush Democrats
Yeah
not the biggest fan of the bulwark but and certainly not a very big fan of
crystal himself but I'll take it
shannon was reposted a tweet what is this shannon was a gun violence prevention
activist and the founder of mom's demand action reposts that account quoting this
out of context group to dissuade people from voting for Dr. Abdul El Sayed.
Oh yeah, this is people saying Hassan Piker is an op.
That's unconstitutional. Man, you can fuck and suck me from the back. Okay.
I fuck the Constitution. I wet my ass with the Constitution.
It's a fucking piece of paper, dude.
Shut the fuck up. Mother fuck the Constitution and mother fuck this country.
Okay, you stupid bitch.
I wonder what I could have been possibly talking about when I said that oh it seems like it seems like this was very
Frustrating oh, what was that? Oh, that's right. It happened on February 14th, 2023 is almost covering the MSU shooting
That's almost advocating for mental health evaluations before allowing someone to buy a gun when a chatter came in and said that's unconstitutional
The fact that like we don't do the mental health evaluations before we allow everybody to have a gun is insane
You can't say mental health is a problem in this country not the guns and then turn around and block every bill
That would ever suggest a mental health evaluation before you can fucking use a gun. I
Have never understood why people think that it is crazy that we do not at least have the same level of restrictions
in
firearm ownership as we do for
drivers licenses, okay? I will never understand that. It is such a wild thing.
That's unconstitutional. Man, you can fuck and suck me from the back. Wow. Wow.
You mean to tell me that the person who found Mom's Demand Action, the person who
found it, Mom's Demand Action, is very upset at the language I'm
using, wow, oh my god. Again, civility fetishists that will turn around and say,
oh my god, this is going to play really poorly in the election.
Meanwhile, they're literally pointing to it to try and get it to play a role in the election.
That was the Michigan State University shooting. I said what I said, okay? The Constitution is a
living, breathing document. It's supposed to be interpreted. And also, if it's a setback towards
progress, if it's a setback that harms children in this country, then it needs to change. Who cares?
I have no reverence to a piece of paper. What are we talking about?
We live in the Trump world, so the the civility purists, the civility fetishists are completely
out of step regardless. So this is doubly out of step and unbelievably hypocritical.
Because Shannon Watts, for those of you who don't know, because you probably only know her,
probably only know Shannon Watts as the person who's like weirdly very pro-Israel for some
fucking strange reason, but
Shannon Watts
Came on the scene as a anti-gun violence advocate
and
Here she is
Clipping something to to weaponize against myself and Abdul when the thing that she's clipping in the broader
Conversation is something that she should wholeheartedly agree with
And I don't draw a line between whether it's kids in Parkland, kids on any street in America
in any community, or if it's kids in Palestine.
It's not okay.
When you first got here to DC and you were told, whatever you do, don't talk about APAC.
Don't come after APAC.
big pharma, puts a lot of money into this town, big oil, whatever. Why do you think it
was A-PAC you were told to stay quite about more so than anything else? There are a few
groups that had the winning streak that A-PAC had. That's the reality. What people fear
more than anything are people that they perceive to be strong winners. That can be decisive
in elections.
Yeah, and we've been destroying that narrative. Okay? We have been destroying that narrative,
I'm unbelievably proud of this community for playing a formative role in absolutely break-by-brick,
breaking that APAC barrier that politicians were so terrified of, which kept them quiet
on these issues, on these human rights atrocities, that we are complicit in.
Okay?
I mean, think about it.
race in Michigan is a statewide race. They claim Michigan is a swing state. It's not.
It's not a fucking swing state. Michigan is only a swing state because Democrats have
been complicit. Okay? Not just about Israel, but a litany of different issues as well.
Democrats have placed corporate interests ahead of the interests of the population for far
too long. That's why this state is a fucking swing state. Okay? But even then, even then,
In this pivotal race, in the primaries, APAC has dumped close to $40 million into the
race on a record breaking amount of money.
And it still hasn't made a fucking dent for Hailey Stevens.
Okay?
That's it.
APAC did not make anyone available for an interview.
In a statement, APAC called Hogg's comments despicable and disgusting.
APAC said it is proud to support quote principle Democrats who share our commitment to a partnership
that is integral to America's national security.
It also pointed out that many Democrats it supports are winning their primaries.
Yeah, okay.
Perhaps it's because they haven't run against our guys.
Shannon Watts openly admits to being Israel first in this tweet.
Oh, yeah, this is the second tweet that went viral from the
Clip from the upcoming CNN documentary that don't he is shamelessly promoting
Shamelessly, I mean I cannot believe this man
This man basically
Slit me up and down and lowered me into the ocean with a bunch of fucking sharks like I'm goddamn chum. Okay
Love, Donnie, but let's be real. He is dangling this thing in front of all of the, the, uh, variants, the Republicans, the fucking liberals and the establishment that despise me. He is, he's using me up.
He's using every part of my body. Okay. He is slutting me out. Let's take a look at this one.
Look at this one.
You endorse the 2028 candidates if they are pro-Israel in a way that you don't like.
If you ultimately are about defeating fascism in this country as you describe it, surely
shouldn't you get on board with whoever the main candidate is?
Luckily, I don't have to make that calculation at all because there is zero percent chance
that whoever the elected Democrat is that wins the primary will be pro-Israel in any
way, shape, or form.
will see. Will you endorse the ... This is as normal of a day. If you live in the real
world, okay, if you exist in the confines of the real world, if you have had a conversation
in the last year or so with a regular person that doesn't work for Raytheon as a lobbyist,
doesn't work in the Hill. This is the most normal take of all time, okay? Especially if someone is
leaning Democratic or has voted for the Democratic Party in like the last 10 years, okay? This is
a take as normal and not bold at all, okay? This is a take as normal. This is a take as normal as
saying, there's 0% chance that the 2028 Democrat that makes it out of the
primary is going to be anti-abortion.
If I said that, no one would disagree.
So why do people disagree with this very normal take?
It's because they are still unbelievably at a step with the fucking voters.
That's it.
Anyone that is shocked by this very normal, anyone that is shocked by this very normal take, especially even after the sequence of primary victories in 2026 so far as we are heading into the general.
Anyone that's still shocked by this take is just not paying attention, like they're not doing their fucking jobs.
It blows my mind like isn't your job to just like read the fucking polls. What are you doing? Sure
You don't care to I don't know pop open the window and see if it's fucking raining outside or not
Maybe you're oblivious to what's going on in the world
But like a part of your job is to at least read the fucking polls, right?
A part of your job is if you're in DC a part of your job is to
understand what people are saying what people are thinking or at least like
who's winning races and what kind of plank they're winning those races on you
have to be the most oblivious person on the fucking planet to think that what I
just said there was bold but again every time they want to have this fucking
conversation it benefits us because every time they want to have this
conversation go that's a ridiculously anti-semitic thing to say I can't believe
be saying that. They show how out of step they are. They show how out of touch they
are with the masses and they show how out of step they are with the base, with the actual
base of the Democratic Party. While there's a group called Democratic Majority for Israel
when there is no group in the Democratic Coalition that agrees with the establishment position
on unlimited unconditional aid to Israel in perpetuity, even most Jewish voters disagree.
This is via the National Jewish Survey, which of the following comes close to what you think
the US policy on financial aid and military assistance that Israel should be.
The US should provide unconditional and financial military assistance to Israel, 31%, which is
obviously very high.
This is the National Jewish Survey.
The US should only provide financial and military assistance to Israel if they comply
with US law.
It's at 44%, it's the plurality.
The US should stop providing financial and military assistance to Israel is at 26%.
It's fucking over because the current attitude in DC is unconditional aid, shut the fuck
up.
How dare you even question this?
What are you an anti-Semite?
What are you out of your fucking mind?
Meanwhile, this is American Jews by plurality saying at least make them fucking, you know,
the law or saying, no, no, no, embargo, 26% of Americans use say no embargo.
Yes, Scott Jennings, he speaks the truth. The number one plank of the Democratic Party platform
is and will be anti-Semitism above everything else.
It's anti-Semitic.
To oppose sending aid and arms to a country that's doing genocide and maintaining apartheid while falsely claiming it's doing it for all Jews?
What a strange thing to say.
Can you tell them to suck my dick in that tweet as well?
At plus like oh, no, I'm not going to do that. Sorry, plus like oh.
Would you ever do that panel show Jennings is on or do they only let you on CNN and super edited
pre-produced segments? Yes, they will never have me on MSNBC, they will never have me on CNN.
Let's be real, it's not happening anytime soon. I mean, that might change. Who knows where we'll
be by 2028, but for the time being, well, CNN in 2028 is going to be under the control of Ellison,
and so they'll definitely never have me on, but
you are the breaking news story every day on Hannity now.
What the fuck?
Sean Hannity has made Hassan the breaking news story
on Fox News every single day this past week.
He no longer needs to explain who Hassan is
because everyone is boomer audience already knows him now.
The US Senate, we have a full report.
John Federman has a message from Michigan's
radical socialist back Senate candidate
who likes to campaign with Hassan Piker
and more straight out.
I cannot believe this fucking puffy face loser said he wanted me to go on his fucking podcast.
I literally said I would fly out to Florida for him to do his goddamn podcast and he backed
away and then he chirps about me every fucking day.
I'm so mad.
He had a goddamn word criminal on his fucking podcast that he pay wall the interview portion
of before you have my eyes on talking about me every day, never talking to me.
Holy shit.
But yeah, this is expected.
This is expected, right?
This is expected.
We, we know, we know that Fox News is going to be doing this.
Obviously it's their midterm strategy.
It's very stupid.
It's not going to work, but it doesn't matter.
It's really funny that they're like trying to get people to be agitated enough about who I am so that like the mere mention of my name
Will at least like invoke some kind of fear, some kind of fury and then they'll be like this guy is hanging out with the Democrats
And then the boomers will be like, oh, we got to go out and vote. They're fucking stupid, right?
But what's frustrating, what's been endlessly frustrating is seeing that exact same attitude from Democrats obviously Shannon Watts
Right here is demonstrating that says with the Israel take that I had which is a perfectly normal take if you're a Democrat
You should know this by now either idiocy or sabotage to be giving these kinds of interviews going into the primary election
There's your percent chance any 2028 Democrat nominee will be pro-Israel in any way shape or form
So stupid
Shannon
if you've
been around normal folk in the last year that have voted for a Democrat in the last decade.
You'd know this take is as uncontroversial as claiming the 28th Dem Nominee won't be anti-abortion.
Hey, I was on one jump into a quick game of fortnight. No dog. I'm sorry. I can't play fort right now
Thank you
Dem nominee will be pro-choice that's a better way to frame that
If you've been around normal folk in the last year that have voted for a Democratic candidate,
voted for a Democrat, in the last decade, you'd know this take is as uncontroversial
as claiming the 2028, then nominee will be pro-choice.
Michigan poll dropped. Latest Xenith research poll on behalf of Abdul El-Sahed's, fighting
for Michigan PAC, finds El-Sahed leads Haley Stevens by 19 points, which was conducted
to July 26th to July 30th.
Fox News is running the shit out of that 0% chance quote, by the way. Barlow Streamer
and Sampakar guarantees Democratic nominee. You know what's really funny about this, by
By the way, this is great.
This is great for us, not just for us on the insurgent left, but this is great for the
broader anti-Maga, anti-Trump movement that extends far beyond the left-flank insurgencies,
that extends into the Democratic base of support broadly and even independence and maybe even
some Republicans who are increasingly more frustrated, okay? Increasingly more frustrated
with the unconditional loyalty demonstrated by Trump and his allies to Israel. Why? This,
once again, positions them as the unconditional loyalty to Israel party. That is so good. This is
This is so good that like I sometimes feel like the Democrats don't deserve this level of promotion
Okay, what have they done to receive this level of promotion?
Yeah
We must internalize that identity politics extremist polarized themselves in actual racism not because of hypocrisy
But because that's the end result of liberal identity politics and ideology that privileges racial sectarianism and owning the left will find the red pill
Yeah, there seems to be a play to double down on Raising McGinnis, I'll go all side by Pro
Haley Stevens post to keep popping up in my feed. Yeah, we we we covered this before, right?
It was the the school board lady. For years, these guys talked nonstop about how dirtbag
leftists were going to become fascists. Oops, it was the other way around. We're in 2026 in liberal
identity politics, the cornerstone of the Palestinian genocide, transgenocide, crackdowns on leftist
speech, and the woke right.
I just want Larkin to win in a huge upset in Florida.
Establishment Dems will commit Sipoku live on CNN.
Yeah, we're going to work on that.
Don't worry.
Hello, Assan.
Glad you're in Michigan.
Abdul's going to win by 5 to 10 points, I suspect.
I have heard that from folks close to the campaign.
It's great you're trying to mobilize your fans and followers
to the ground.
We're on the ground.
Political action says H. Bizzle.
LibBizl is back. AFL CIA is very own. LibBizl is back. Back in the building. Now that elections
are coming up, of course, are UAW champion. LibBizl is the only person, as I've jokingly
referred to over and over again over the years for those of you who know, we've been part
of this community.
Libyzo is the only person who can actually show pay stubs from the DNC.
And we've duped it out over and over again, all up and down the timeline, and he's on
our side.
But you know who else is on our side?
Perhaps the most unlikely ally.
You might recognize him as a prominent fixture of Cahive.
That's right, ladies and gentlemen, two raw, two real has thrown his hat in the ring and
has endorsed Abdul Al Sayed.
It's over.
There is no clearer, definitional proof that it's fucking over.
And Samuel Robinson, Sam Robinson, who's awesome, the Michigan Roving reporter, the
Troy's very own. Sam Robinson also points to South says this is a bigger surprise than any endorsement I've seen in this race so far. He's right.
He's right. This is literally, this is the most confusing endorsement so far. This would be the equivalent of Josh Gottheimer endorsing Abdul El Sayed. Okay.
This means that they went to him and they showed him a big purse and he was like, no,
I see the writing on the wall.
I actually have better instincts than fucking Gretchen Whitmer.
Okay.
I'm my own black ass out to the carpet because my silence has been a little louder than my
advocacy.
a supporter for Abdul El Saeed for a long-ass menopause in it. In fact, one of the first
creators who interviewed him, I'm a collaborator on that fucking video. Meaning, it's got my
stamp of approval, ho. Well, why can't you know that pecker would pecker likes him? What
the fuck they got to do with me? That's his issue. I'm focused on the-
That. Brilliant. Brilliant. I love that. Thank you. I like that he still had to do a subtle,
You know, snide remark, being like, oh well, Hasan Pekker likes some, which is bad, but
I don't care because I care about the issues, great.
That is exactly what I expect from Democrats, even the worst grifters out there, okay?
Like that's what I expect from Shannon Was, when Shannon Was was like, no, it's a bridge
too far for me that he's like, you know, cooperating and collaborating with Hasan Piker.
That's the reason why I can't find myself voting for this person.
I don't give a shit. I don't give a shit who any candidate fucking collabs with dude. Can you imagine?
I'm like, oh you went on ms now
You went on ms now. I can no longer endorse you. Sincerely the fuck no
I want my candidates to fucking go everywhere. I want my candidates that to to build an actual big tent
That's how you win elections, man
be bigger. The fact Syed is winning big in MI7. Slaakins Ose should be a big canary for
the party. Yup. Yup. It turns out, it turns out MI7. They are going to say for MI7, that's
a big one, right? That's a big one. We're going to talk about that in a little bit.
Let me finish this first because I want to keep gloating. But after that, after that,
we will get to MI7, we'll get to Donovan's race too. Obviously there's a lot of exciting
things to unpack from the projections so far.
Issues. Like this is not no click shit, this is politics. And I'm not gonna play politics
for people's lives. Well Kenny, I thought you didn't like progressives. Well I don't
like prejudice progressives. I don't like milk toast moderates. I don't like racist
ass republicans. It's all anything that stems in anti-blackness bitch, I don't like it.
I'm politically homeless.
King, King, you're, dude, you're on camera.
No, it's fine.
You can just go, no, it's fine, it's fine.
You can just plug it.
You don't have to crawl on the ground.
That's so funny.
You're like, he's like trying to marine crawl.
So he's like off the camera.
I was like, it's not gonna work.
Well, here, there's a, hold on.
I got you. Let's just so happen to be a black person who's registered as a
Democrat y'all the lily whites who like to live by motherfucking labels not mean Abdul is a motherfucker real one
He ain't like these other motherfucking progressives. He's not a class reductionist
He believes that you cannot deal with class unless you deal with race. He continuously shows up in black spaces
He doesn't diminish our experiences or chop it up as a dandy politics
In fact, he even teamed up and collaborated with one of the most productive women in Congress Lauren Underwood
Well, Kenny wasn't even part of the uncommitted movement, yes he was, but he wasn't like the motherfucking crackheads that turned from uncommitted to abandoned Harris.
They originally had, in good intentions, but just like every motherfucking movement, there are some people who decide to derail the fucking movement and do some other shit.
Let's roll this shit back real quick. Originally, the uncommitted movement was to apply pressure to the president to call first he's fired and to end the devastation that was happening in Palestine.
When Joe Biden dropped out and said he wasn't seeking reelection, it wasn't even a day later
that Abdul was calling on Kamala Harris to be the Democratic nominee. He endorsed her immediately,
even before any delegates even voted for her to be the presumptive nominee. Like I said,
he ain't crazy and his ass ain't DSA neither. I know that capitalism works. I just know that it
does not work when you have monopolies or oligopolis. This is so good. This is so goddamn good.
I mean, I love it. Like he is obviously one of the like this is a this has been like an ongoing one-sided beef
He fucking hates my ass, right? He hates everything. I represent. He constantly will cynically claim that I'm like racist. I'm anti-black
Whatever, okay
But he is showing he's demonstrating a level of sensibility here that I haven't seen from so many other
Twitter brain broken pundits dude. I don't know what the fuck's going on
Also
There's a Chan internal this shows her five points away from Scott Weiner this is not great
I've already said I I would I would support her if she wants it it's coming close Connie
And I'm saying that as someone, again, here's a great example of this. Okay, Connie Chen, not my
favorite pick in the primaries. You guys know I tried to lend support to Shoecott. He lost. But
what did I say? After the primaries over, we can't let Scott Wiener occupy that seat. He will,
he will occupy it as, as one of the, the most viciously pro-Israel candidates who's currently
lying. Okay, who's currently lying about not being pro-Israel.
Connie Chan called me an anti-Asian racist in the primaries.
I call me an anti-Asian racist because, if you guys recall, I was complaining about the
the tokenization of, like, Asian people that were hired specifically to be the face of the
anti-DEI movement during the Supreme Court case against affirmative action. And I was ripping
into these, like, tokenized, self-tokenized Asians that wanted to be the face of this
movement, this white supremacist movement. And they clipped it, and they were like,
Oh, he's fucking anti-Asian. He's an unbelievable racist against Asians.
The reason why they were doing that, of course, the reason why the right wing forces and the primaries were doing that was because they didn't want Shoikot in a very heavily Asian-populated district like San Francisco to actually make it into the primaries.
It's funny that they said this, by the way, because it's a very... San Francisco is one
of those districts where there is a very large chunk of Chinese Americans, and many of them
actually don't have negative opinions about China, contrary to what people would believe.
And Shorcott himself was Asian, obviously is Asian, and that didn't really matter.
But what was interesting about that is I have been presented in mainstream media, usually
as a guy who's like two pro-Asian countries.
So it was really funny that they threw me for a loop where they were like, he's actually
anti-Asian.
He's an anti-Asian racist.
To show you how cynical this kind of stuff is, the deployment of like the weaponization
of like cynical, hollow identity politics.
A great example of this is like people who on the one hand
will say, this guy, Hasan loves China.
He loves China.
He loves China.
And then to be like, oh, he's like an anti-Chinese,
anti-Asian racist.
Ridiculous.
I mean, aren't you also technically Asian?
Yeah, but not the kind of Asian that Americans
and the San Francisco voters think of when they think of Asian.
Yeah.
I mean, think about the last like,
Think about the last week's coverage, the last week's fake controversy, it was the
I wore a Zhongshan suit, a Chinese suit, a suit that looks like a narrow suit, like
a suit that is, is a very, very common, very popular in the Asian continent, all
up and down the continent.
And these motherfuckers were running around being like, that's Mao.
He's Maoist.
He's, he's a Maoist.
He wants the cultural revolution to take place in America.
Look at the suit he's wearing.
A suit that I personally love that that you know it the Chinese
Taylor made for me a bespoke suit and they were trying to bully me over which by the way again backfired
Obama pantsuit moment many of the Democrats many of the normies on Facebook were like oh really this is what we're worried about
Cost of living crisis is exploding and this is what Fox News wants to fucking complain about and put streamer wearing a suit
What are you fucking nuts?
The reason why I support him is because I want to show and set a president anyway. My point is in spite of all of that
I would still lend support Connie Chan because she is a far better pick than Scott winter
It's not even a question because I don't give a shit. I
Don't give a shit about people playing politics even when they call me cynically
To win their primary even when they call me cynically a an anti-Asia reason
I'm like, I'll let bygones be bygones. I don't give a shit.
For progressives to know that you can win without the anti-blackness,
you can win without the prejudice.
You can win without being a class reductionist.
You can win without always having to feed into white grievance.
You can win without diminishing black experiences.
You can win with being inclusive. You can win without...
You know what's really funny about this take?
It's identical to my take as well, for not just black people either,
but for all marginalized identity groups that Democrats constantly try to fucking,
You know throw the wayside in order to win elections to moderate to the center
And that's what's really funny about it is like that that's my point of view as well
But he will never recognize that because he thinks that I've like he he has made up his fucking mind that I'm like a anti-black racist
Trying to defame black people from the Democratic Party and then immediately turns around and and fucking
hits
Will Lawrence Michigan seven we'll talk about that thing black people from the Democratic Party the reason why I support Abdul's because we agree on so
Many issues particularly when it comes to policy
Medicare for all I agree with that shit
But because he understands the issue of class and race he understands that even passing Medicare for all will not deal with the root
Causes on why black women are more likely to die than their white counterparts because of this connections and collaborations with black women
Like Lauren Underwood the woman who actually wrote the mom in this bill because he's not a class reductionist because he understands that class
Reduction is surely these guys pro Corey Bush, right? Yes. He I don't know where he's at on stuff like that
Okay, but this is a pivot. He's a cynical grifter. I don't really care. I welcome it. Okay. I
Welcome it with open arms. I mean arms distance regardless, but open arms nonetheless great
Facebook boomers agree with you. Yeah
Bar-Lev Schremer declares there is a 0% chance that the 2028 Democratic nominee will be pro-Israel
Park and made a prediction during a Senate interview with Preston whether he back a pro-Israel
Democrat folks again defeating fascism. Schremer also recently drew scrutiny for framing a 9-11
newspaper front page behind a streaming desk years after saying America deserved 9-11 in
the 2019 clip. He later apologized. Bar-Lev is hilarious. Fantastic. Now Republicans can
do the same. We'll start making it America great again. Political debates. This is Fox
news boomers, bro, on Facebook. These are boomers on Facebook responding to the Fox News article.
It's jover, dude. It is so fucking over. It's not even close how over it is. Political debates
continue to evolve as different voice shape conversations about foreign policy elections
and future party dialogue and accountability remain important to democracy. If that's true,
I vote Democrat for the first time ever, says Alex Martinez. Why are you booing him? He's
Right. When Zahram Moudani was asked what country he would like to visit, he won the election.
When everyone said Israel, he did and he won. He's our mayor and not a foreign country.
From his mouth to Jesus' ears, amen. There's a chance they might be anti-America as well.
I think we need someone who's pro-United States.
Criticism of the Israeli government's actions of the law, he's a...
If he's far left, that's funny. That'd be great. America first. He's correct on all accounts.
Oh, no. Not nuanced thought.
This man's hate for Israel the Jewish people is disturbing. What's more disturbing is the people who listen to him
He only has hate in his heart 26 people laughing at that comment
That's what's really funny about this
Donald Trump tapped into populist rage very effectively, but because his comment he didn't actually follow through on it
Like the isolationist perspective no more wars. He's the peace ticket. This is the pro-peace ticket
America first
Let's rebuild our our industrial base
These are not controversial ideas these are universally
Positive ideas that the American voters are demanding. They're begging Trump happened to capitalize on the Democratic Party's inability to address these demands
That's it
That's it and now that he hasn't followed through on it and exposed themselves as a fucking charlatan
Can you imagine a world if the Democrats got their fucking shit together and said look he's not doing it?
We actually will
That is the promise of the insurgent left
Hopefully he's right. Why do they always have that look about them sounds good
Well, yeah, they can't run far enough or fast enough to the left on any policy if they want any chance
they'll need the most extreme democratic social they can find on tiktok. I love all the photos
of the boy millionaires socials, 2k, Cartier glasses. We can only hope he's right. America
first, haki kappbom azim, he's truth new in Turkish.
You can't really be focused on defeating fascism and pro-Israel at the same time. And that's
why they will win easily in 2028 and 2032. Trump has been the best president Democrats
ever had. He will hand him three, all three house for years, maybe decades. No lies detected.
first now considered far left. Oh, it's so good. It's so fucking
good.
Um, yeah, Fran Hong on to hit her with a with a litany of
gotchas, but it's fucking great for us. Once again, any moment,
any moment that Francesca is on mainstream news is excellent.
Okay
Excellent racism is the root causes on why all these things are happening
So if I didn't say it before let me say it full throat
Okay, great too raw too real welcome to the fucking left insurgency. All right, so
Um, we'll do the french's kahong thing in a second. Uh, what was I gonna show you?
Wow in the 18 toss up house districts 92 of black voters and 75 of his fanning voters were less likely to back a candidate
who strongly supports Israel and continue US military, 61% of moderates were less likely
to support a pro-Israel candidate.
Holy fuck, this is the truth, Samson option, okay?
This is the truth, nuke of all nukes.
What are we doing?
God, the Democrats are so fucking incompetent.
It's awesome.
I'll be honest with you, if they were smarter about this shit, if they tried to play their
cards a little bit better, if they weren't such corporate stooges, they literally would
have recognized the moment and would have at least tried to present themselves as being
like critical of Israel, but in the appropriate way, but they didn't.
Because they're such corporate stooges.
They're such goddamn corporate stooges that they could not get themselves to say the necessary
things to even lie to the base.
And here we are.
Her inability to play the game has caused them.
They has, what is this, Shannon, you've been around normal folk.
You couldn't organize your way out of a Halloween maze.
I mean, who cares, whatever.
Yeah, she's right.
Fine.
Fine. Organizing for Shannon literally means getting paid 20 grand a pop to go
speak at events. Oftentimes, fundraised by pro-Israel donors. Okay, that's what
that's what organizing means to her. If I'm so bad at organizing, then why the
fuck are my candidates who are getting outgunned and outfundraised by outside
expenditures, beating the shit out of your candidates, all up and down.
Yeah, I know, Bernie Marino is gay, by the way. Yes, I'm surprised that people are
shocked by this. I've covered it before. And that's part of the reason why he has
been awfully quiet about Max Miller, who brutalized his daughter. We've briefly
touched on this, I've covered it a couple times, but we'll do it.
Sanchez Liberals are now sounding indistinguishable for MAGA in the way they're panicking over
Hasan and the DSA.
Let's take a look.
At a small faction of radicals drive more people toward Donald Trump.
There is a small group of far left extremists gaining influence, Democratic socialists who
now have a chokehold all over the Democratic Party.
The reality is very, very scary.
At this point, a majority of the governing board is controlled by people who are explicitly
communists.
They attach themselves to popular causes.
They take real concerns about health care housing, police misconduct, and use them to
sell what is actually an authoritarian worldview.
They want to toss out our constitution, eliminate all checks and balances.
They want to concentrate power, control entirely the means of production.
Or you move in this incredibly authoritarian way, right where you get secret police, people
being rounded up and brutalized and I'm afraid that that's what we're seeing in
DSA right now. These are people who even 10 or 15 years ago that would have been
relegated to the outer extreme fringes of the Democrat Party. Over a 10-year
period we saw the organization just become more and more extreme. 10 years
ago when I would interview DSA people, socialists, etc. they would say to me
very soberly they would go listen David I'm a socialist you're not but our next
stops on this bus are the same yeah we still say that it's just the problem is you don't want to
be on the bus no more that's the issue that's the issue the issue the bus is still the bus
unfortunately has been moving in the opposite direction because it's been you know the driver
is Donald Trump? Yeah, okay. Good take from David, I guess. He is refusing to reckon
with the reality. Part of it is because of his own opinions about foreign policy. Let's
Let's be real, okay?
It sucks to say, but his perspective on, his perspective being at a step with the voters
on American foreign policy as it pertains to Israel, maybe not just even Israel, but
like American militarism, for example, has forced him to reconsider his other positions
as well.
Now he's like, maybe the DSA is too radical, I don't know, I want Medicare for all, I want
Social democracy. I'm a social democrat, but then he fucking complains about the people who are advancing social democracy in this goddamn country
It's extremely. I mean really extremely
You see it on the position with Israel. What's been called the red-green alliance, which is definitely a short-term arrangement
Between Islamic fascism dogma know the fuck out of you until you talk about DIOP Harris. I know you see this
I don't see it and I hate when people say I know you see this
D.O.P. Harris?
In socialism.
In order for us to be progressive, we now have to believe ideas and support ideas that are completely nuts.
These are people trusting his mouth.
Piker, you know, in those mal pajamas.
Hassan Piker was dressed like Mal.
Okay, the Humanist Report.
Great fucking great edit from the Humanist Report Respect.
Anyway, but here is the left insurgency.
We have this on the, let's see, I don't know if it's like one of the videos that's on the
docket here, but this was the Abby Phillips.
Those polarizing voices are speaking out about the litmus test that he believes candidates
will face in 2028. Moment or a movement, a new CNN special takes viewers across the
country to explore the battle over the Democratic Party's future and its ongoing debate over
socialist politics, our own.
Okay. First of all, someone asked, are we going to watch on Sunday, the Sunday special?
What do you think? Chatters. We will be fucking seated. Okay. No matter where I am, we will,
asked we parked popcorn in hand we will be seated and then when Monday rolls
around the take machine is going to go nutty mode they already are positioning
this documentary as though I'm like this insane person saying insane things you
haven't even seen my commentary because this will be the quintuple down on
on palestinians right to resistance just so you guys understand obviously
there were a lot of questions
that don't ask me
not to tease it too much but
don't he basically printed out the fucking josh gotheimer
michael aller
uh... congressional
uh... dvd the uh... demanded the platform ebill right
bills not going anywhere but it's doing its uh... purpose is doing his job
yes i will be seated like that
This is how I'll be waiting.
I don't know why it looks so goddamn Turkish in this.
But I doubt all of it makes it.
No, no, no.
I'm certain that they will want.
They will want anything and everything
I've ever said about Hamas, anything or everything
that I've said about the Palestinian resistance,
international law, and international right
afforded to the Palestinians to militarily resist
against the Israeli apartheid, the Israeli occupation,
it will be definitely featured on it.
Because it's one of those statements
that's objectively true, but it's
analysis that no one ever hears in mainstream outlets.
And therefore, it's yet another instance
where they will present that, and they'll say,
this is a ridiculous position.
And every time they put that on television,
every time they put that like, you said,
I'm awesome. I was better than Israel. How dare you say such a fucking crazy thing like every time they play that position
More and more people go actually I don't think that's wrong
Okay
That's it and they don't realize it
Which Sunday special I honestly don't know what you're referring referring to says my yuck mason
There's a Sunday documentary coming out on CNN that Donnie made about the insurgent left movement.
You know, part of it features my commentary, what I've been doing up and down the countryside.
Anyway, and of course, CNN is teasing the special over and over again.
This is the whole story. The left insurgency airs Sunday at 8 p.m. Eastern time.
Eastern time.
Tony O'Sullivan sat down with one of the left's most controversial figures who offered a bold prediction about 2028.
How am I controversial?
Will you endorse?
Controversial for who?
Controversial for who?
The 2028 candidates, if they are pro-Israel in a way that you don't like, if you ultimately are about defeating fascism in this country as you describe it,
Surely shouldn't you get on board with whoever the main candidate is?
Luckily, I don't have to make that calculation at all because there is
zero percent chance that whoever the elected Democrat is that wins the
primary will be pro-Israel in any way, shape, or form. You'll see.
Tony joins us here at the table now. So Tony, in your reporting, what do you think
is the balance between the sort of economic populism that's motivating some of the candidates.
And this is real issue, which is very real, that Hassan Piker is talking about.
Yeah, it's huge.
And they view this as going hand in hand.
I mean, the reason I asked Hassan Piker that question, and for, I'm guessing most people
watching this program now know who Hassan Piker is, but for those who do not, you know,
he has become the sort of lightning rod within the Democratic Party, within the debates
for what direction the Democratic Party should go.
The reason I asked him that question was
because we bumped into him, we interviewed him
at the 2024 DNC.
He had been invited as part of the DNC
as they tried to broaden their tents and bring creators in.
He was there streaming live
and he was not supporting Harris.
He did not endorse her.
He didn't tell his viewers of Ofer.
And I think this is the real crux of this problem,
this issue here.
They call themselves, was it the uncommitted?
The uncommitted movement, yeah.
But I think you could see where this is going in terms of,
as we get into the 2028 primary,
probably beginning on New Year's Eve, right?
This year is that,
will the party come together at the very end?
It looks like there are-
Yeah, to be fair, I was excited about the changes
that were taking place in the party until I saw her speech.
The last day at the DNC was the day where I was like,
oh, fuck, it's over.
bulls apart right now and you know you can see people are entrenched.
There's no way they come together. I mean you've got a large group of this party that
is not just accepting the fact that you have to be anti-Israel but they decided to justify
a dude with a Nazi tattoo. I mean there's a rise of anti-Semitism on the left. As a
Jew it's absolutely terrifying to me to see that as a Republican. I say at least-
Really? As a Jewish Republican it wasn't terrifying to you that the most, the wealthiest person
on the fucking planet, who had dumped $250 million into Trump's election, sig hiled
twice at the fucking inauguration, get the fuck out of here. Get the fuck. These guys
are such phonies, man. They are such liars.
It's guaranteeing at the national level, the White House probably going to be a lot easier
for the republicans if we're truly going to go up against either someone who is
an anti-semite or
choosing to reject that and then upsetting the base that's not going to go
well i know i sound like a broken record when i say this but
uh... we we have to acknowledge
that this movement away from israel is not solely a democratic phenomenon is
happening on at the right and on the left
but but on the democrats
uh... this our poll our cn poll finds that uh... sixty nine percent if you add
enthusiastic and okay of Democrats say that they are okay or enthusiastic about somebody
being nominated who supports cutting U.S. aid to Israel.
Again, I think it would be a political mistake for Republicans to believe that this is a
solely Democratic issue.
But it's so much more pronounced on the Democratic left right now, and that very polling suggests
that it's a big issue for those who identify with and would support Democratic socialists.
But conventional Democrats, it's a much less salient issue.
Do you have any polls to back up this statement? No, of course you don't because you're fucking lying keep lying to yourself
Keep lying on CNN keep lying to the fucking boomers that watch CNN
Maybe they'll trust you I guess even though you're very clearly the Republican opposition here as well alongside the other guy
But I mean look at happy space
He's like whoa interesting interesting take we have seen exactly zero polls that suggested
But this is not a salient issue for all voters across all demographics, okay?
The last bastion of support for Israel in this country is not coming from American Jews,
coming from the evangelicals.
And even then, even there, the support is diminishing for Israel, okay?
So who remains in this country other than white evangelical protestants that is at the
heart of trumps
uh... militancy this is the heart of trumps like base of support is the core
voters for donald trump
who amongst
the the american voters
is actually saying like now this is you know support for israel's a fucking
core issue for me salient ish for me is bullshit
democrats who receive a pack money are the most likely to do worse against
potential republican opponents are democrats who oppose all corporate
funding wow
shocked
also washington post-polling sixty nine percent and we just talked about
the self-identified democratic socialists only a third but also i don't know
i don't know if i don't know if you thought about also like this whole thing
this is this is the problem that we've had around anti-symmetism in israel
in this political debate is because people have made it a political football
when in all honesty is not
you have an entire movement the groper movement nick fuentes
who are rooted in anti-symmetism
you have people on that you have people on the far right
i mean marjorie taylor green talked about jews controlling the weather in
space laser so let's not act as if
my mother is not a big difference is that i'm perfectly comfortable calling out
marjorie taylor green i don't agree but if the democrats let that now is to pose
their
will lead their party with a modest on by
who we talk about
now it's really funny because he's the op of mine as well
okay
so
So, for him to go, who are you talking about, even though he very clearly knows who I am as well, because he also hates me.
Everyone on this panel, from everyone on this panel, from the liberals to the Republicans, to the far-right reactioners, they all are actually united under the umbrella of despising what this movement represents, who I am.
Um, but I love that even Bacari sell out turned around. I was like, who are you talking about?
percent of the country says we will not support a democratic socialist and that includes by the way two to one margins among
Democrats, what's the percentage of the country that says they will not support Trump?
Like, you can play that game. The poll that they're looking at also showed something spectacular.
A lot of people, immediately, a lot of the centrists, a lot of the Republicans, like immediately
went and cherry-picked data points. They're being like, the DSA is so unpopular. The
DSA is so unpopular. Bitch, the DSA is more popular in that poll than the Democratic Party
is and the Republican Party. What are you talking about?
the SA Democratic Socialists in that fucking poll had a higher approval
rating than the Democrats did and the Republicans did why would you bring that
up why would you bring that point up as though it's like a good point it's a good
own. That's who are black. We we're trying to educate you to establishment
figures like James Carville and others. Also, since that one college professor
passed away, DSA has more money than the DNC. Let's fucking go. We're moneyed up.
We're breaded up. Okay. Socialists are breaded the fuck up right now. We are
gonna go and buy the DNC headquarters can Martin put that shit out can Martin put the entire house
on the parlay we are about to come in and seize the motherfucking headquarters okay
DNC has got minus 20 million dollars cash on hand dsa up five million okay turns out
It's the broke boys of the DNC that are losing
We got our bread up get your money up. Not your fucking funny up, dude
Yeah bread and roses bread and roses means real bread breaded the fuck up
He pawned the DNC crib dude. That's what I'm saying. We're about the fucking four clothes on that bitch
We're about to move like Citadel on that situational awareness
a guy who fucking put the house on on one fucking AI company. Okay, we're about to move
We're about to make big money moves
Yeah, that's right, why do you think I'm wearing the suits baby import export I love when straights are open
I love commerce. I'm a big business man
Do you get the sense that they understand they fully grasp what is happening right now in the party and how to address it?
Well, I think, you know, to this point, there is, and it's hard to even call it the fringes anymore, right?
Because a lot of these ideas are becoming very mainstream.
I mean, I think Cassandre Biker was a sort of fringe character a few years ago.
You can see he's sort of central in this debate within the party now.
What you see on both the right and the left, I mean, if you're watching Tucker Carlson as
millions of people do every day now, you know, I was at CPAC earlier this year, speaking
to many of those young MAGA guys who are very disappointed about the start of the Iran war.
They have the same feelings towards Israel, right?
I mean, this is the thing that's happening on both sides of the party.
I don't think that's, you know, the likes of the James Carville necessarily understand
and what is happening because I think so much of it also has to do with where these guys,
young guys oftentimes are getting their information, their news and information, they're not getting
it from mainstream media, they're getting it from online.
A big generational component to this, so super interesting stuff.
You can catch more of Donnie's reporting on the whole.
Yup.
Yup.
So that was one.
That was one of the highlights.
So here's a moment from the Norm Finkelstein conversation, shot out to Emma for the edit.
I love that Norm doesn't even skip a beat, he's just like, no, this is a matter of fact.
Just as it was a matter of fact that the UN gave Trump the deed of Gaza, it's a matter
of fact that he is a, you know, I'm not going to repeat what he said, but you know, I was
locked in.
I was trying to be as serious as possible, but it was virtually impossible for me.
You also managed to make Norm laugh.
Yeah, that was a high.
Jewish sports heroes like Hank Greenberg, um, they're gonna name you come back and breathe them.
They're gonna fume.
You love that. You thought that was so funny.
Oh, I have drama.
After the interview ended, I asked them, which interview was better for you?
Like, which interview did you enjoy more?
And he said yours.
Yeah, he said, Adam was weird.
And then he said that Adam was a lot smarter than he lets on, which of course we know already, but it was funny.
Did you offer him some water always leave out a fresh bottle or something bro? You're talking about Norm Finkelstein like he's a stray cat
Okay, what the fuck dog? Yes, every guest that we have when they come into the house
We offer them food and beverages
Okay, we actually select snacks that we know ahead of time from our
investigations snacks that they like snacks that they enjoy we lay it out
okay on a table Jesus fucking Christ you guys are so goddamn parasocial it is
unbearable oh my lord
she's good okay except for Francesca Hong which I went out and and you know made
the major mistake and I fucked up
I messed up. Okay. All right. Where were we? Where were we? There was another, there was
another like CNN one. Oh, here's see how informative the conversation is when that Goldberg decade
is not spewing lies as he swears fear also W for us on the hun chats cameo sources tonight
are CNN's senior correspondent, Doni O'Sullivan, who has a new documentary on the left insurgency
for the whole story with Anderson Cooper that is airing this Sunday night, and also CNN's
chief data analyst, Harry Enten, who is digging into the new poll numbers that came out today.
And Doni, you've been spending six months traveling the country, looking at the rise
of the Democratic Party's progressive movement.
What have been your biggest takeaways?
Yeah, Katelyn.
I mean, obviously, they have momentum right now, and we saw that especially since the
started a summer with the New York primaries, there is an overwhelming confidence, I would
say.
And also, I mean, one thing that really stuck out to me is this is really, I think, underlined
just how sophisticated the Democrats side or the left, however you want to look at it,
their media infrastructure has grown.
I think we've seen this sort of mega media universe of the Steve Bannon show and things
like that explode over the past few years and just how effectively Trump used that in
2016 and in 2020 and of course in 2024, you can really see how these campaigns are, you
know, rather than relying on mainstream outlets, which of course they still speak to and they
have the debates as so, so big a role is, is the YouTubers and the streamers and the
podcast, Pod Save America, all those types. So it's, I think it's, it's both, there's
There's a conference there, but there's also this infrastructure behind it for them to get their message out.
Well, I mean, Harry, when you look at that, and it comes to what this is actually looking like in this divide, how big is it?
I mean, it kind of seems to be something that Democrats here are really wrapping their heads around and trying to say, okay, let's see what we're going to do.
don't know longer like you said most of the other end of the table is you all my
god did of course i wasn't i didn't mean don't need okay all my god you guys are
so fucking
by a yi a little babies to do what this means for what we should be doing right
now
now i mean look the bottom line is this this is the democratic socialist
movement i do i would never believe that two years ago
maybe a year ago was around on the start of the leader
but this is a nationwide phenomenon this is not something just in the coast
it's not just something in the major cities we saw it in colorado right
earlier this month
uh... or certainly last month and we've seen it
as well nationally you can see our cnm paul i mean just look at the
percentage of democratic voters
nationwide who identify as democratic socialist
it's forty one percent
that is forty one percent of democrats nationwide democratic voters
nationwide this is a nationwide fall
now i should point out right what holds for democrats doesn't necessarily hold
for overall. Just 16% of voters nationwide identify as democratic socialists. It can be very interesting
to see what happens when they hit the general election, especially in swing states, swing
states like Wisconsin. But the bottom line is this, among Democrats, this is the democratic
socialist movement. We're talking about two in five democratic voters nationwide identifying
it's that. And more than that, the ones that don't, many of them, are still okay with voting for a
democratic socialist. Well, I mean, when we, when we see the popularity, obviously, we see the
positions and what those look like and some of them have you know more extreme positions they want
to abolish ICE entirely don't even so when you look at those positions that moderate democrats
raise concerns about hurting them in the fall when you talk holy Toledo fucking loves what's
happening do you try so hard to control himself no it's because he just loves numbers dude that's
what it is he's the real numbers guys not Patrick but David it's mr. holy Toledo anytime he sees
he's another poll that's like, here's how the, here's, anytime he sees a poll where
like the DSA is, uh, you're surging in numbers, he's like, oh my God, these are new numbers
that I've never seen before.
That's, that's the only reason why he's excited.
It's not like he's like ideologically a, a socialist or anything.
He just ideologically a numbers guy to, to some of the biggest progressive, uh, podcasters,
streamers, one of them is a Hassan Piker that you, I know have interviewed for the documentary
on Sunday night, when you talk to them and the concerns that you hear from the more mainstream
Democrats, what do they tell you?
They're largely unapologetic, you know, I mean, I think they view themselves as sort
of being in this position of having the upper hand right now.
You know, I've heard people sort of compare this to the Democratic Party's Tea Party
moment in terms of an insurgent group trying to remake the party in its image.
But really, I think what you're seeing is, and as Harry alluded to, is that this idea
that democratic socialism, particularly the word socialism, is scary.
It is still scary to a lot of Americans.
I mean, there's the connection, people equated with communism, back to McCarthyism, everything
else.
Of course, what we're seeing is many young people view democratic socialism as Norway
and many European countries.
They're not thinking of Soviet Russia or something like that.
But of course, the key question is going to be how will all that actually play out in
a general election, which of course is why Michigan is so critical on Tuesday.
Yeah, and obviously we're looking to that on Tuesday.
I mean, when you're looking at this and whether or not these candidates can win, Harry, what
do the numbers show you so far?
You know, we're talking about Wisconsin, right?
We're talking about Wisconsin.
Hong, very much the clear in the driver's seat, that primary, not Tuesday, but just a few
weeks away.
Look at the general election polling.
She can win.
She can do this thing.
At this particular point, given how unpopular Donald Trump is, I think anyone that has any
prevalence of any sort of campaign that doesn't completely turn on voters can win.
You see it right there among likely voters.
Now, maybe if she was more towards the center, she'd be blowing Tiffany out.
But the fact is, in the year in which Donald Trump's approval rating nationwide or latest
seeing him poll was what, 34% is one in three?
And we're talking about two in three Americans who disapprove?
i think that you could definitely see a lot of democratic socials even in
swing states
winning given how popular this president is i mean i feel like given that and
given what we're going to be watching in michigan on tuesday night
that don't need your documentary on sunday night it's airing here on cnn it
really is required viewing for people to kind of get a sense and understand
what this movement like and you know how long it's been building okay it's not
a great thing and and what your biggest takeaways have been
that is so kind of you taking
and he said is required viewing
harry emden laughing
smiling from ear to ear because he knows new numbers will come out
not because
not because he's a loyalist not because he's a socialist none of that
just he knows
that is going to yield even newer numbers numbers he's never seen before
Okay, great. It's absolutely a record.
And, you know, we've, as you mentioned, we've traveled the country all throughout the year doing this.
I want to play a clip from the No Kings protest here in Manhattan from a few months ago, where we spoke to Cynthia Nixon.
You might remember her as Miranda on Sex and the City.
She ran as a Democratic socialist candidate back in 2018, and she just talks about just how much things have changed over the past few years.
I think the Democratic Party because of its donor base keeps trying to push its base towards
the center and nobody wants to be in the center right now.
I've always identified as a Miranda.
What has you think changed within the Democratic Party since you ran for governor?
I think not enough has changed within-
Caitlyn, Loki, and Marsys, you guys are insane, dude. You're actually insane. No, she's not.
What the fuck are you talking about?
The Democratic Party. And I think the Democratic Party is a slow, lumbering, giant, very slow to wake up.
No kings! No kings! No Cuomo! No Cuomo! No kings! No kings!
the election of Zoran Mamdani, the Democratic Socialist, which is a dirty word for a lot of people.
Yeah, remember that? Wow, Zoran, he smiles so much. He's so nice. Why can't anybody else be like him?
It's so funny because they just completely wiped out how vicious Zoran could be at times.
Necessary, by the way, during both his primary and also in the general for the Meryl race.
Like people just completely forgot how Zoran was and how he got and what kind of a tax he received as well.
But like it is really funny where they're like, well, look at Zoran.
He's like, he's, he's, uh, you know, he's playing ball with the rest of the Democrats.
Why can't you guys be like Zoran?
It's like, trust me, I don't even think Abdul has, has done half of what Zoran did during the fucking primaries in his primary.
Okay.
people people totally forgot how aggressive he was which was totally valid it was totally valid
more and more people like him running across the country
and you can see more of Donys new documentary the left insurgency for the whole story the
Anderson Cooper this Sunday at 8 p.m. Eastern you want Zoran prime let's see
Mr. Cuomo I have never had to resign in disgrace I have never cut Medicaid I
have never stolen hundreds of millions of dollars from the MTA I have never
hounded the 13 women who credibly accused me of sexual harassment I have
never sued for their gynecological records and I have never done those
things because I am not you Mr. Cuomo and furthermore the name is Mamdani
M-A-M-D-A-N-I, you should learn how to say it.
To Mr. Cuomo.
The beauty of that last line, the name is Mamdani, spell it out, you should learn how to say it, is that the line doesn't actually end there, okay?
The line actually is, you should learn how to say it because I'm gonna be your next mayor.
But he doesn't have to say that last part.
That's the trick.
That's the beauty of that bar.
Okay.
It's perfect.
Now, people just kind of forgot about how my man was running, how my man was moving.
Especially in the primaries.
He says because it's important, I know, but what he is, what he is signaling is, because
I'm going to be your next mayor.
He doesn't say that.
It was a missed op.
He said, we got to get it right.
No, he, I'm, I'm not even going to get into this guys.
Okay, whatever.
Sure, you're right.
I'm wrong.
Okay.
Why did they cut it like that, you think?
Why did they cut it like that? What is the implication?
Okay, Mr. Rappgenius, I'm not the Rappgenius, he is, okay?
No longer your man since he denounced you. Yes, he hates me now and I hate him.
This is a very real thing that schizos on the internet have not designed in their minds.
even said in an interview that he wanted to say that
he literally said in an interview that that's what he wanted to say but decided to pivot
it.
Does that mean he hates us?
Yes.
Zoramamani hates me and all of you.
I'm offering Zoramani a song so you can say I'm playing both sides.
Yes.
Mr. Piker, why are you a Democratic robot puppeteer by a small man named Morris Katz as part of the fight club? Yeah
That's my favorite skit. So
The skit shows have been out on the timeline. I don't even want to give them any attention
But I never I can't help myself. I can't stop myself ever
But I saw they were they were loving the Norm Finkelstein interview because they were like Norm Finkelstein destroys Hassan with
You know maximum
Anti-Israel takes that Hassan clearly is too afraid to recognize and admit his chat
Well, literally chat is like spamming bases like his liberal chat is freaking the fuck out
They all killed themselves after this interview
No one can ever oppose me in a normal way they have to get schizo with it every time dude
whether it be the the right or the right-wing liberals I have a CCP handler
that's like puppeteering me I have Morris cats puppeteering me for Fight Club or
I mean fight agency it's just it's never it's never what it actually is don't
link me this dumb shit please socialists Adri
Please, I don't even want to fucking dignify that dumb skit, so shit, all right.
Politico, S.Piker will be in Michigan over the weekend through primary day to build a ground operation to convert viewers into real world voter turnout.
Bring me the seats of these dinos and these pinos, these pinos and dinos.
I love this.
The Viltramites rise up
Don't break the first rule. Yeah, that's why I can't say it because Morris cats is puppeteering me
I can't the first rule of Fight Club is to never talk about
Having a CCP handler who also I have a CCP handler and a Fight Club handler who's working for the DNC and is actually very pro
Israel secretly
I'm I think I might literally be the only person who is simultaneously the biggest Zionist and also backed by the IRGC
Simultaneous is anti-Asian, but also backed by the CCP. I'm all of it. There is a it's it's full spectrum
It's full spectrum if you're like if you are a Maoist third world is you're like Hassan
You are insufficiently in support of Mao Zedong if you are a you know Republican Hassan
You are two you are a loyal servant of Mao Zedong you are a Maoist or world is I'm everything all the time
I'm in many respects. I'm the perfect centrist. Okay. I'm all of it
Anyway, where was I okay, so let's get to another
Another incredible sequence of interviews, okay
the
I'm really surprised you didn't ask Norm about the conversation with sex-past any it's irrelevant
utterly immaterial
Meaning by the way speaking of which breaking the United States and Israel planning the bombard energy-related targets in Iran sources tell CBS news
Here is why I don't think this is real. You want to know why I don't think this is real
You want to know why I think this is fake. I mean hopefully hopefully I'm not wrong
Okay, so there were three plans that I think were presented to Donald Trump either the first plan situation monitoring is happening right now
By the way for those of you who are listening to the situation monitors. It's time. We will we will situation monitor o'clock
Okay, let me explain something to you
There is speculation that there were three different plans that were presented to Donald Trump one was continue bombing targets in a tit for tat
You know escalation
Ladder tactic that we have utilized thus far, which is you know yielded no military results guys
I can hear I can hear you what you guys are saying and also the guys I
Can hear everything you guys are saying
Yeah, and they can hear you as well
probably
Okay, sorry
Number one
number one
tit for tat bombing campaign Iran
Maintains primacy over the Shred of Hormuz then the United States of America
Goes back and strikes, you know southern targets
all this stuff
What we've done for the last
160 days in this back-and-forth that has been an abject failure as far as achieving any of the military
Goals that the United States of America wants to achieve
okay
the second option is
is going through the process of trying to establish a military
foothold in the coastal area of Iran and potentially the island
chains that are approximately 20 to 30 kilometers off of the coastline
of Iran, Kesham Island, Karg Island.
There are numerous different islands
that the United States of America believes
could potentially hold with boots on the ground military warfare okay with a full blown invasion
now that's less likely because this would require a tremendous amount of american casualties and
trump so far is not invested in the american casualties he doesn't want to do this big military
the conquest. But who knows, as the situation worsens for him, he could get more erratic
because he's an insane person. Okay? The third option is even funnier, and that's
the one that they're presenting right now on CBS News as the likely scenario. US and
Israel are preparing to bombard energy-related targets in Iran, sources say. Now, there's
There's a reason why this is unlikely, but who knows?
Maybe they'll do it.
Two reasons.
Number one, if they bomb energy-related targets in Iran, Iran will retaliate by bombing energy
targets in the Gulf and will destroy the global energy supply for a decade and onward, okay,
for a decade to come.
Because as it stands currently, this is basically the energy nuclear option, right?
Iran has not deployed this, Iran has not attacked all of the energy infrastructure in the Gulf,
because that would destroy the global markets permanently.
It would destroy it in an irreparable manner that even Trump could not manipulate his way
around.
This would have tremendous, tremendous, this would create tremendous volatility in the
stock markets.
This is not something that Donald Trump wants to do.
That's the number one reason why they haven't done this.
The number two reason why they haven't done this so far is even funnier.
It's because we don't have the missiles.
We literally do not have enough standoff munitions and we haven't been able to establish
air superiority given that even with the manpads that Iran has, they've been able to establish
sufficient anti-air defenses.
That is part of the reason why we've been deploying our standoff munitions rather than
deploying these unguided gravity bombs and J-DAMs over Iranian airspace, which requires
F-35s and other fighter jets to fly over the Iranian airspace.
They've rejected these options over and over again, even though these are the only options
that remain on the table, right?
TIT for TAT with the standoff munitions, number one, which is what we've been doing, which
has been an abject failure.
This is why they're looking for number two and number three now.
Number two being a boots on the ground invasion of the coastal area of Iran and potentially
the invasion of the islands.
But even if you invade, there is going to be tremendous amounts of casualties on the
American side.
This is far too costly for the Americans to lean into at least for the time being, Trump
has shown no appetite to do this, right?
And number three being the destruction of the entire energy infrastructure in Iran.
The refineries and the like.
Now the third option is also, once again, unlikely.
And the reason why it's unlikely is because we do not have enough standoff munitions to
destroy the entirety of the Iranian power plants, to destroy the entirety of Iran's critical
energy infrastructure.
This is before we even factor in the reality that Iran will retaliate by blowing up the
entire Gulf's critical energy infrastructure.
So we don't even have the missiles.
We don't even have the offensive capabilities to continue deploying sufficient munitions
from afar to destroy the entirety of Iran's critical energy infrastructure.
Think about that.
So, what are we to do?
What can we do here?
Are we just going to go beast mode?
Have we developed a secret fighter jet that no one knew about that is capable of flying
over the Iranian airspace without Iranian anti-air defenses targeting them and taking
them out?
Is there a way to do it?
Are they going to try to overwhelm the Iranian airspace with an incredible amount of force
by just sending in as many fighter jets as possible and sacrificing some of these $40
million, $50 million, $100 million assets, including but not limited to the American
pilots or even the Israeli pilots, which is even less likely because Israel obviously
is notoriously careful about not putting any of their pilots in the line of fire.
Because that's seemingly the only other alternative, both the boots on the ground military invasion
option and the aerial assault option requires America to be comfortable with a significant
number of casualties, a significant number of pilots dying in the process. Because we, again,
I'm going to repeat this one more time. According to the CSIS studies, according to the CSIS papers,
America does not have sufficient munitions, sufficient standoff munitions to strike all of
the Iranian plants from afar. That is where we're at. And this is a ZBS week. So I suspect it's
still Trump trying to engage in his own version of madman theory, madman diplomacy. ZBS says the
United States and Israel are planning what would be one of the harshest bombing campaigns to date
Against energy infrastructure targets in Iran multiple sources told CBS news which strikes possible throughout the weekend
There was some discussion about trying to conclude by time financial markets open Monday because of concern about how the bombings will affect the
US and global economy, but an endpoint wasn't locked in I told you guys this early this week
This has been the exact same
strategy over and over again the definition of insanity is trying to do
the same thing over and over again and expecting different results we are
insane we are insane every time the markets close Donald Trump comes in and
screams bloody murder we are going to nuke Iran he says by the time markets are
opening on Sunday night he says Iran is begging for a ceasefire
meanwhile there's been reports coming from Reuters which China has denied of
course, but who knows? That Iran is expected to receive up to 400 Chinese manpads with
the first deliveries arriving within weeks, multiple sources told the Reuters. The deal
includes Chinese-made QW-12 and FN-16 surface-to-air missiles supplied through a Hong Kong-based
intermediary. The contract covers a purchase of between 300 and 400 manpads, manned portable
air defense systems, including Chinese-made QW-12 and FN-16 missiles, the sources said.
As foreign ministry said, the relevant reports are completely groundless, China has consistently
played a role in promoting peace and ending the conflict.
Beijing-based Zhong Qing Baoshan Group, the parent company of Zhong Qing Baoshan, did
not immediately respond to an email request for comment on Tuesday.
China pulling a land lease America style arrangement here, as America once did for the USSR, is
not shocking, I guess. I don't know. Very interesting predicament. China's deal with
the Houthis adjusts for long US war with Iran. China is cutting its own deals and gaining
wartime leverage with the Trump administration scrambles to contain the war and reopen Hormuz.
China also has another weapon here.
Not only does China have a tremendous amount of resources that they could send to Iran,
in order for Iran to defend itself sufficiently in this war of aggression that started through
perfidy, not only can they do that, but China also has numerous tools in the tool belt.
China has numerous cards that they have not played.
China has spent the last 160 days stabilizing the energy markets
by destroying their own demand or destroying their own imports.
By more than half, they've cut their imports
by more than half, leaning into their strategic petroleum reserves,
which no one in the world knows how big they are for the record.
That is leverage for China.
China could turn around and tweak the dial again.
China could then increase demand one more time.
China could turn around and start increasing their imports.
Their imports of oil.
All of a sudden, the Asian market would collapse.
China also obviously has strategic export controls
that it could deploy.
If you recall last year in the day of liberty,
the tariffs regime that Donald Trump tried to implement
against China and against China's trade partners
to try to decouple the rest of the world from China,
one of the instances,
in one of the instances where the American side
went back on their previous,
went back on their previous negotiations,
China turned around and said,
Okay, we're implementing strategic export controls for rare earth minerals and specifically magnets
These are necessary components and necessary resources for national defense
Remember how we earlier talked about how America is running out of munitions
Not only is our procurement strategy
unbelievably slow and unbelievably costly due to defense bloat without
Chinese magnets without Chinese rare earth minerals which China has a damn
near monopoly on we cannot make a single missile that is the trade nuclear
option so if China deployed that it would be over so what are we talking
about this is before this is before we even get into China this is before we
We acknowledge that China has a lot more cards that they could deploy.
Here is Jennifer Jacobs of ZBS News.
During his Tuesday Oval Office meeting with Netanyahu, Israel was struck by Mr. Trump's
serious and very clinical approach to the Iran War.
Netanyahu counseled the president on three options for the war, an enforceable deal
focused on removal of the nuclear material, a blockade with added economic pressure, military
Both their strikes focused on attacking land routes used for transporting supplies.
Now what's really interesting about this is none of this is relevant.
As we covered last week, Iran has decided, or has been covered a couple days ago as a
matter of fact when I had a conversation with Trita Parsi, the Quincy Institute, Iran has
now decided to take a new posture where they want to now maintain control over the pacing
of the current battle.
struck first at U.S. military installations in Jordan without being struck by the American
side first. This is what's causing panic in Washington, D.C., because this is new. For
the longest time, even throughout the Operation Epic Fury, Iran has always taken a defensive
posture only striking back at the Gulf or striking back against American targets whenever
america hit iran first
the only time iran established any kind of deterrence any kind of
uh... uh... uh... military deterrence is
is to to
reassert its primacy over the straight of hormones
oftentimes against commercial vessels that are trying to transit the straight
of hormones
at direct odds with the memorandum of understanding through the omani coastline
this is the only time iran
strikes first right
never towards American military installations, never towards the Gulf.
They only strike towards the Gulf and at American military installations after America responds.
So Iran controls the pacing of the battle now.
Or at the very least, Iran is saying that they want to control the pacing of the battle now.
That's very different than the posture that Iran has represented thus far.
So Donald Trump taking a serious approach to the Iran war by implementing a blockade
or this or that is utterly immaterial.
It's utterly irrelevant.
What is relevant here is how we arrive at the negotiations table, how we get Iran to
believe that we will hold our word once again.
There is tremendous leverage favoring the Iranian side here.
There is no leverage whatsoever favoring the American side.
And the Israeli side doesn't really need leverage because they're fucking insane.
The Israeli side just wants death and destruction, a failed state in Iran.
Is there any side with Nukeran, if there were no setbacks from deploying the nuclear weapons?
If this did not destroy the pre-existing nuclear deterrence.
And as days go by, Iran's leverage grows.
As days go by, market volatility increases. As days go by, the strategic petroleum reserves
deplete. And as market volatility increases, Iran gains even more leverage.
So this information strikes me as odd. U.S. and Israel preparing to bombard energy-related
in our resources say, or rather, not that it strikes me as odd, it's just an unbelievable
disaster if they implement this scenario, even if they don't have the necessary resources
to implement this scenario without tremendous cost.
Either we just destroy what remains of our standoff munitions and never really achieve
our military goals here, because as I've repeatedly explained to you over and over again, we simply
do not have enough missiles. We simply do not have enough standoff munitions to strike
all of Iran's critical energy infrastructure. And then on top of that, Iran can turn around
and blow up the entire Gulf's energy refineries, which would destroy the global markets permanently
in a way that Donald Trump can no longer manipulate his way out of.
Or we try to deploy our standout munitions and then we send as many fighter jets over
the Iranian airspace as possible and try to overwhelm their anti-air defense systems.
But this time, instead of overwhelming their anti-air defense systems with ballistic munitions,
We will be overwhelming their anti-air defense systems with Air Force pilots.
We will be sacrificing American fighter pilots and potentially upwards of a billion dollars
worth of very complex machinery, very expensive machinery with proprietary technology over
the Iranian airspace.
be throwing bodies into the pile Russian meat grinder style it makes no
sense perhaps a better perhaps a better analogy is is not Russian meat grinder
style but Japanese imperial Japanese kamikaze style so I don't see any
Realistic military scenario, and I know if I can't see one the American generals also see that same reality
No American general regardless of how
How loyal they are to Donald Trump is going to put their name on a mission like this
Especially considering that there is no guarantee of success at the end of this and only a guarantee of failure
Okay?
It doesn't make any sense.
But, we are fucking insane, so who knows?
As I've said before, even deploying nuclear arms does not guarantee Iran standing down.
It doesn't guarantee Iran refusing to strike back or destroying Iran's capabilities to strike back.
So if that's the case, even the highest point of the escalation ladder would end up with a military failure.
And yes, of course, this is the classic report after this war is over, I don't think the
Straits are going to be that powerful of a leverage because people will move the energy
pipelines out of the Straits to the Red Sea from there to Israel and the Mediterranean.
We can unblock this choke point and we will.
Failing to consider, and this is the classic line that you hear from the analysts, the
classic line that you hear from the Foundation for Defending Democracy from Israel, this
is something Israel has wanted to do for a very long time, our over-reliance on the
Strait of Hormuz.
This choke point that is dangerous, which wasn't really dangerous until Trump decided
to implement Operation Epic Fury.
But here's the issue, all this can be resolved if we simply design an alternative way to
transport oil that's also within the range of Iranian standoff weaponry.
Chris Cappy was also fantasizing about something similar.
This is classic, okay?
This is like, this is classic couch guy,
you know, Monday morning quarterbacking.
People have floated this idea over and over again.
Everybody loves floating this idea.
But they fail to recognize, one,
the infrastructure necessary to develop this
would take far too much time,
and no one would be able to develop it
because the world would collapse before we got there
if the Strait of Hormuz is blocked for years
while they're trying to develop these pipelines.
And two, even if these pipelines were
to be developed in a short enough time, right?
Let's say they magically were able to cut
the development process timeline in half.
And instead of eight years, they did it in four years.
These pipelines are still within range of Iranian standoff munitions.
So what do you do?
It's not like pipelines are an effective counter to Iranian ballistic munitions.
Nord Stream 2 showed that if there's a will, there's a way to blow up fucking pipelines.
Okay, and them them bitches were underwater deep underwater
Not only are pipelines not capable of pushing the same volume as oil tankers are there's a reason why we
There's a reason why we use oil tankers rather than fucking pipelines for a lot of this stuff
Okay
You can't push the same volume and worst of all
Worst of all, the pipelines are just sitting there. They don't move, which means they're far more susceptible to sabotage.
They're far more susceptible to a barrage of missiles from Iranian standout munitions.
So even then you don't solve the problem. So here was what my response was to Chris Cappy
who says something like this. He says something along these lines. He also had this exact
same take. He said, the war in Iran is a strategic disaster. At least he recognizes that tactical
success is a side-cope. Chris Copey, I'd like to see the Islamic Republic
replaced but it's not happening without boost on the ground which would be a
terrible move at least he recognizes that whether it was right to launch the
war or not aside again can't even fucking admit that it was a spectacular
failure everything aside the current situation is a huge disaster recognizes
that it's a disaster so that's good at least the military is looking at moving
bases west to Israel Iran will control Hormuz and rebuild its missiles they have
every reason to accelerate nuclear weapons development, true.
Bombing 200 more targets will change none of this, also true.
We have more than two options.
It's not just Invader Give Up, but the other options suck too.
We're likely going to concede Iran control over the Hormuz and build pipelines around
Iraq and Syria to circumvent it and reduce Iran's leverage.
But Iran's proxies, the PMF in Iraq, can just attack those oil pipelines.
My guess, we do a big bombing or a limited SF raid on an island and then leave the region
and calling it a victory while we build the pipelines.
I said pipelines are even more vulnerable to drone strikes.
The only way out of this is through diplomacy.
We lost.
It's not the worst reality.
We have to restrain ourselves, no more endless belligerence
at the direction of Israel.
We being the RGC that supported all your favorite Islamic terror
groups, the one that kills tens of thousands
for protesting, that's not the same we.
You're on your own.
Who's we?
Brother, you're not on the fucking team, Lamal.
I'm an American taxpayer,
and I pay a lot more taxes than you do.
Dumb fuck on Twitter with a Ukrainian flag
and an American flag on your descriptor.
Here's the other, I guess, alternative issue
that the Americans are throwing in.
Officials now believe the IRGC is firmly in control of Iran's decision-making, yes, leaving political figures in the U.S.
leaving political figures the U.S. has been talking to with, talking with, as figureheads.
Complicating matters are internal dynamics of the IRGC itself, where a handful of senior commanders are all jockeying for control.
That is a leading reason why U.S. officials and regional partners fear the conflict is likely to drag on.
The problem for the American side is that the IRGC is in control, and the IRGC, unlike
the previous leadership that they fucking assassinated, understand that strategic restraint
has only delivered negative consequences. Strategic restraint has only hurt Iran, because
Americans and the Israelis are stupid. The Americans and the Israelis are dumb enough
to believe that strategic restraint was actually because Iran simply did not have the capability
of retaliation.
The IRGC proved that it has the capability of retaliation.
Now the disagreements that exist within the IRGC, we don't obviously know what those disagreements
are, but the speculation from people far smarter than the American side is the disagreements
are ultimately marginal. The hardliners are in control. The ones who want to fight back
are very clearly in control. It's just how much they want to fight back. There's one
school of thought that is more pragmatic. They're still hardliners, they still want
to fight back, they understand the necessity to fight back, but they're still saying,
we need to use the leverage that we've developed through military strength to inevitably teach
America a lesson and to, you know, get them out of the region. The other group is saying we have to
fight until Americans no longer exist in the region. And same with the Israelis, until they are no
longer a real threat. The problem for the hardliners that want to fight until it's an inevitability
that everybody understands that America and Israel can no longer exist in the region,
is that they don't have the munitions to be able to keep up that battle, okay?
Now, in between the situation monitoring, we are going to get to a phone bank that I'm going to be launching for Donovan McKinney, okay?
We have a phone bank for Donovan McKinney, there's a donation link.
The reason why we're doing the phone bank and the donations is because Donovan is doing
pretty good, he's doing great.
Having said that, his race is unfortunately a lot closer as far as we understand than
the Abdul Al Sayed race. What is a phone bank? Okay, good question. We've done it before.
Hopefully the Zoom application works, because there's always issues with that. So we shall
see. It feels to me like the microphone, okay, the microphone is working. Start virtual
camera. Okay, that's working too. Okay, that's good. Yeah, all
right, I'm in the. All right.
Okay. So, Chatters, Donovan McKinney is the candidate that
I've had on this broadcast before when I went to Denver to do a rally that was canceled
with Melon Kiro, so you guys might remember him.
He's running in Michigan 13, Michigan's 13th Congressional District.
His website is Donovanforcongress.com.
So, okay, what breakout rooms do we think we need?
Should we just do-
Okay.
Wait, can you guys hear me?
We can see you.
We can hear you.
Okay.
I'm just letting you guys know you're live on the broadcast.
want me to mute you and stuff?
That's, it's probably fine.
Or me, yes.
Yeah.
Yeah, please.
We're doing.
Okay.
I'll just, uh, you know, send me a, send me a note.
Hi.
Send me a note when, uh, you guys are, you guys are, you know, done talking
and you want me to talk because you just want me to do a, you just want me to fire
up the troops, right?
Like we've done before fire up the trees.
We'll be ready in, in like two minutes.
Okay.
I'm, I'm muting you now.
And meeting myself.
Okay.
Hot mic? No, it's not a hot mic. All right, anyway, as I was saying, as I was saying,
so Donovan McKinney has a bunch of great endorsements. Senator Bernie Sanders, Congresswoman
Rashida Tlaib, former Congresswoman Brenda Lawrence, former Congressman Andy Levin,
lieutenant governor
garland gill christ
wane county executive warren evans
s c i u michigan working families party justice democrats michigan afl cio
sunrise movement our revolution
and u a w
election day is obviously august fourth as you guys know from seven a m to eight
p m in the early voting period is between july twenty-fifth
and august second
michigan thirteenth congressional district is a uh...
united states congressional district in wane county michigan is currently being
represented by
the incumbent shriek
tana dar
tree tana dar is known as having probably the worst hairpiece in all
of uh... the house of representatives
The district includes portions of Detroit and some of its suburbs.
And from 2013 to 2023, it was the only congressional district in Michigan to be contained within a single county district boundaries were redrawn in 1993, 2003, 2013, and 2023,
due to the reapportionment of the following respective senses.
Okay.
Sharia Thanadar is a controversial figure. This is also a black district as well. And yet,
Donovan McKinney is black, Sharia Thanadar is not. And the Congressional Black Caucus pack,
which is very pro-Israel of course, has endorsed Sri Thanadar and yet some of
the senior representatives within the CBC, wait what is this, they're have
endorsed Donovan McKinney splitting with Hakim Jeffries and numerous others. One
For the biggest issues for the region is obviously economic security, living wages, and union
jobs.
Okay?
Donovan McKinney as a legislator has in Michigan with a democratic trifecta.
Donovan and his colleagues were able to raise the minimum wage, reverse right to work, and
pass a prevailing wage as a state legislator.
Donovan partners with Labor to expand workforce development and protect collective bargaining
rights.
also endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America.
Okay?
I spoke about this extensively.
Donovan is another one of our candidates that is running on the insurgent left ticket.
a candidate that places the interest of the working class over the interest of corporate
donations. Shri Thanadar, on the other hand, is profoundly wealthy and has been using his own
personal wealth, is also very pro-Israel. Ms. Rachel also recently endorsed Donovan, Will Lawrence,
and Abdul as well. Okay. He's in favor of health care and housing for all. I am going to be doing
Donovan is my cousin. I love him so much. Such a cool guy. Yeah, he's great
I'm going to be doing an interview with Donovan McKinney tomorrow
But before we do that, I wanted to fire the troops off and do this phone bank
Okay
Now why are we doing this phone bank because this race is close?
It's far closer than it should be
okay, and
And another reason why we're doing this phone bank is because this is how we can make a major impact
It's the greatest bang for your buck and we've shown this already
We've proven that this is your this is an opportunity for this community to make a tremendous amount of impact
With the Daria Lisa Avila Chevalier's campaign
campaign. We had 600 phone bankers from this community in the DAC campaign that was running
against the incumbent Adriana Espayat in a very close race. And those 600 phone bankers
actually made up the difference that DAC won. This was two nights prior to the actual election.
Here is D.A.C.'s campaign recognizing your impact on the night of her election.
First of all, I'm fishing them on the FPC DSM.
Oh yeah, no, yeah.
That's free.
So when we did that phone back last night,
we were kind of like,
maybe we get lucky, maybe not.
We've got 600 fucking vehicles.
$90,000.
If the dollar wins this race,
you hear that, son?
That's bad.
I fucking told you.
Y'all did this.
We did this.
Yes, anybody did this!
I told you!
So first of all I'm pretty sure I'm on NBC at the estate.
That's free.
So when we did that phone bank last night,
we were kind of like,
maybe we can't vote the year tonight?
600 fucking people!
600 people, do we get to talk to girls? Girls and boys, yes.
600 people made 90,000 calls on the first night,
and then hundreds of thousands of calls throughout the next two days,
And there were 2,000 yeses that they got out of that, which happened to be her margin of victory.
Okay?
So, if you're feeling discouraged, if you get frustrated when you see the likes of
Nira Tandon and all of these establishment Democrats consistently undermine us, consistently
talk about how we don't know how to win, we don't know how to organize, if you're feeling
a little worried about Donovan McKinney's chances, this is your opportunity to make an
impact. Okay? This is your opportunity to make a difference. There's no age restriction
here. As far as I know, there's no geographic restrictions either. I think you can call in
And, you know, and be that difference anywhere around the world.
But this is our opportunity.
When are you going to start wearing vice city suits like Norm yesterday?
Oh, my God, Norm was Norm was was throwing looks, man.
normal
all right when are we when am I going in what's happening here
norm suit mog you yeah
restrict that one chatter from talking to girls. Yeah, Norm came in with the yeezes I was like,
damn I got yeezes on he was like, he's like they're fake. I got him for 20 bucks
You're good on mute on zoom, by the way. Okay
Okay, oh.
Hello everybody, thank you for joining this phone call
and I'm really excited to be here in Michigan
because this is a very important race.
As you know, we had a great victory in New Jersey
just in June, but I can't do this alone.
In Congress, I need members that.
I can't hear what happened.
We lost them
That our mission the
Donovan because they're afraid they're afraid that he could win
But I need people that are going to be fighting for the issues that I care about and he needs people as well
So I want to make sure that he's able to get the money out of politics
I want to make sure that he gets Medicare for all past and I want to make sure that he gets universal health care
and childcare, and he's gonna fight for the same issues
that I care about as well.
And they could try to pour in money
and make sure that they run ads to scare people away,
and what they don't have are people like you.
And it's so important, these phone calls
that you're going to make,
because you're having contact
with actual human beings in conversations,
and you're gonna tell them about the issues
that they're being distracted about.
So thank you very much for joining.
This is critical now.
We got four days left for the election,
So the calls that you make today can really make a difference.
And again, this is a team effort,
and thank you for being part of this team.
All right, thank you so much, Dr. Hamoui.
Really appreciate those words and your being here.
And next up, I wanna pass it to our friend
who is live right now, Hasan Piker.
Hello, hopefully you guys can hear me well.
It says it's a low network bandwidth.
I'm coming to you live from Detroit, Michigan.
Ladies and gentlemen, boys, girls, and enbies,
we're live with approximately 30,000 people watching right now.
And I just want to say it's a great honor
to join the battle once again, and smile and dial.
We've seen a tremendous amount of impact out here.
Your voices matter, OK?
This race, much like many of the other races
that we've been a part of is a race where a leftist DSA aligned
or DSA endorsed candidate in Donovan's case, DSA endorsed
candidate is going up against another corporate Democrat,
another do nothing Democrat. And lucky for us, we've seen a
tremendous sequence of victories thus far. And I'm hoping
that we're going to put another notch on our belt. As Adam Halloween also correctly pointed to,
we need as many numbers as we can. Numbers amongst those who place your interest,
to place the interest of the working class over the interests of corporations.
Shritanodar is unbelievably wealthy and has consistently voted alongside his class interest,
which happens to be antagonistic to your interests.
So if you want a real fighter,
and you're worried about the prospects of Donovan,
you got to smile and dial.
You got to make an impact,
because one of the things that we've seen in all of these races
is the barrage of attack ads.
It is our opportunity in these sorts of phone banks
to turn those attack ads into name recognition.
I've talked to voters all around the country,
and the one thing that they consistently tell me
is when they see all of these negative ads, it doesn't end up working
in the favor of the person or the campaign that's running them.
It actually annoys people to constantly hear
about how bad a particular candidate is.
But that's name recognition,
So it's pertinent, and it's important for us to take that name recognition and to show the truth, to say the truth to the voters of Detroit, to the voters of Wayne County,
and to tell them that Donovan McKinney will be that fighter, because this is a very poor district at the end of the day.
This is one of those districts that has been left behind by these do nothing Democrats, by these corporate Democrats.
This is a district that requires a real fighter like Donovan McKinney.
And while the parties, the establishment Democrats forces have decided to gather around Shri Thanadar as
APEC has allegedly
Reimbursed Shri's campaign when Shri's campaign has decided to make
strange decisions around cryptocurrency
to reimburse those losses
Those losses come at a cost and the cost is to you if you feel
still frustrated when you hear from the likes of do nothing Democrats consistently voting
to place a foreign country like Israel's interest over your interest.
If you're frustrated with the reality that Democrats end up spending our productive output
and our tax dollars to go blow up schools overseas rather than fix the schools in your
neighborhoods, then you need a real fighter like Donovan McKinney.
And that's why I'm here.
We've seen tremendous impact in these phone banks in the past.
I briefly talked about it before I got on here on my stream about the Dalia-Liza-Avila-Chevalier
campaign.
It was running up against the head of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, an establishment
Democrat by the name of Adriana Espaya.
A lot of people left that race out.
A lot of people were not focusing on that race.
But we knew that we could make an impact, and we did.
600 people called in to the district, and overnight, we were able to make the distance.
Gaudia Lisa of Villa Chevalier won by approximately 2,000 plus votes.
We were able to get 2,000 confirmed voters for DAC on those phone bank operations.
So remember, you're feeling discouraged.
you feel like there is there's no positive outcome here this is your
opportunity to make that difference this will make the victory ever sweeter so
thank you thank you for having me on I'm very excited to participate in this and
I don't know who the next guest is so can you push chat to join the phone bank
because we're at 68 people are here right now I bet we can get that up to 600
real quick no absolutely and I don't know why the mods haven't been spamming the
link I asked my team to push for the link as well 68 it's tiny url.com tiny
url.com slash Hassan calls yeah ti ny url.com slash Hassan calls don't know
why we didn't have that already being spammed this entire time that's a
embarrassing that's embarrassing for you know for our end it's embarrassing that
our chatters have not joined the phone bank operation. Only 68. That's disastrous chat.
I need to get those numbers up. We need to get those numbers up.
We need you, chatters.
And while we wait for folks-
No, not URLs, tinyurl.com. Tinyurl.com slash Hassan calls.
And while we let folks join, it's starting to grow, let's hear from our guy, State Representative
Donovan McKinney.
Hey everybody, just appreciate you all for taking the time out and being here.
Hassan man, thank you so much for your support, for your voice, for your leadership.
Right now we are in the midst and the thick of this fight, four days left.
All we have is four days to make some noise, to make as many phone calls as possible, not
grow as many doors as possible, raise as much money as possible to go against the grain
of what's happening.
We are fed up and tired.
Each and every one of us are fed up and tired of the status quo politician that just read
off the talking points, give us the platitudes and things we want to hear.
But in reality, behind closed doors sell us out every time.
And I was on a song streaming before and I talked about people in these positions of
power and influence that lack courage and courage to me doesn't necessarily mean the
absence of being afraid.
Courage to me means even when you're afraid you still step up and do the right thing on
behalf of the people you represent.
And then that's what the hell we're going to do every single day as we become the next
congressman elect in Michigan's mighty 13th district.
I got to give a shout out to the congressman elect Adam out of New Jersey.
on the ground with us right now in Michigan as we go out here and we're out in the left
right in Michigan.
We're going to work it out.
We're going to do this on our message.
We're going to work it out.
We're going to be in Jersey.
We have to get on with us right now in Michigan.
We're going to work it out here.
So this is not a matter of sight.
We saw the duty of phones to not go as many doors as possible, view on our state, but
make these phone calls.
Let them know that the way we change our society is through the vote and we have to get the
vote out. And we have to tell people utilize your voice by utilizing your vote because
if you don't use it, you lose it. They're spending countless dollars against us right
now tens of millions of dollars. I just got confirmation that between a doula of sciatus
running for the U. S. Senate here in Michigan and myself, just our two races alone is the
most expensive primary in the history of our country. And so we want to show the rest of
the world, that this movement is just a coastal movement from New York, New Jersey to California.
But this can happen in middle of America. This can happen right here in the state of
Michigan. We need everybody to stand up to show the rest of the country that our movement
means business. And that is time that we elect people that's going to work on our behalf
and put working people first instead of sending resources. And our tax per money abroad for
war and I got to give a shout out to Tupac man. I say it's called the term. They got
money for war but they don't have any money to feed the poor. What in the hell are we
doing? The world we live in is like the twilight zone right now. We're drinking water out of
a fire hose and we need everybody on this call to make sure that everybody knows that
we're going to care for them and we're going to put working people first. So thank you
so much for your time. I appreciate you all. Shout out to the chatters. Shout out man.
Let's make these phone calls. Let's get the word out and let's win four days to go y'all. Let's do it
All right, let's go
Thank you so much
Donovan really awesome. We are here in the final stretch is time to smile and dial
We have a hundred twenty two people in the room right now. So we have we have doubled already. I bet we can grow
We gotta get those numbers up. We gotta get those numbers up. I need to see 200
I need to see 200 or the tank top stream is never happening chat. Okay. Sorry
Promises may promises not kept if you don't
It's true, this is serious stuff it takes has got dramatically higher
But if you are currently in the zoom and you are good to go
There are breakout rooms that I'm about to open and so there are five breakout rooms
you can join any of the breakout rooms one through five to get trained and
and just join one that has less people in it
when you happen to join.
If you run into tech issues,
so your scale to win doesn't work,
you're having issues on Zoom,
you just get through the training
and you're having issues and you need technical support,
there is a special tech support room.
So please, I'm gonna open those rooms now
and if you are ready to go,
hop into one of those rooms one through five
and go ahead and get trained.
If you are having trouble getting in a breakout room,
just let us know in the chat
and we will happily assign you to it.
So you get a little prompt on your screen
and amazing trainers will be in there
to help you get all trained up
and get out there and dialing.
I see multiple,
and remember,
there are bees in the chat already.
So the screen is definitely working.
So go ahead,
join those breakout rooms,
get trained,
start making some dials,
send that link to all your friends,
tinygirl.com slash Hassan,
calls and let's make some call.
Thanks for being here.
If you have social anxiety and you're worried,
remember, people are unbelievably polite.
Wait, is there, can I, can I give some more feedback? Cause like,
I know there's a some common things that people are afraid of.
Okay. So one of the most common things,
one of the most common refrains here is, is social anxiety. Obviously,
a lot of Twitch watchers, a lot of Twitch streamers don't realize maybe they
haven't done this before. Um, you know,
some of you have already participated in phone banks before,
but it's basically like a quick time event.
It gamifies your,
The process of making these phone calls,
and it makes it unbelievably easy,
very turnkey solution, okay?
So you have to remember that,
because many of you will be like,
oh, well I'm a little worried.
I have social anxiety,
I don't wanna talk to people on the phone.
A lot of Zoomers hate talking on the phone, okay?
I'm not a Zoomer, I'm a millennial,
and even I hate talking on the phone as well.
This actually forces you to have these conversations
on the phone with others in a very productive way.
And once you get the hang of it
after the first couple of phone calls,
you will not believe how easy this process is.
Most of the people are not even going to pick up the phone,
you're gonna leave a voicemail, okay?
But there are gonna be those
who actually do pick up the phone.
And the reality is, those people are always
incredibly polite and incredibly invested
in what you have to say.
When they hear someone like yourselves,
when they hear younger people,
what I always say, a lot of the boomers that you call,
When they have to hear from a younger person, they get very excited, okay?
Old people love talking on the phone, and they especially love talking on the phone
to the youth, especially the youth that love doing their favorite hobby, which is voting.
Civic participation and civic engagement.
So it's a much easier process and a much better process than you think it will be, okay?
That's all I got to say.
Awesome.
All right, folks, those breakout rooms are open.
You haven't yet joined the phone bank, joined the phone bank.
We're going to start making some calls, talking to some voters.
This is a super close race.
It's going to be single digits.
Your call could be the difference.
And you know, a lot of elections in this state get decided by a couple hundred votes.
I think Congresswoman Tau-Lib won her election by like 600 and 900 votes the first time.
So you could be the difference in this race.
So hop on the Zoom.
If you're currently on the Zoom, join a breakout room,
any of them one through five to get trained.
If you're having trouble, just let us know in the chat
and we can assign you a breakout room.
If you folks hop in in and you'll get trained in there
if you have tech issues in a special tech support room.
Also Vincent, can people, where can people join from?
Is there, are there, are there, you know,
is it geo-located, are there other restrictions?
Can people join, can American citizens join from
wherever they may reside, for example.
Great question.
There are no geographic restrictions whatsoever.
You can join from anywhere you would like.
This is one of the most accessible forms of volunteering
because you can do it anywhere.
You can do it from Antarctica if you want to.
If you have a device that can make phone calls,
you're good to go.
The software makes it super easy.
So wherever you are,
you can make some calls for Donovan McKinney tonight.
And it's a huge effort
and we appreciate everybody who's doing it.
No geographic restrictions. You don't have to be here in Michigan. You can call from anywhere.
Yeah, the thing is like, it's also the most bang for your book as far as like the greatest ROI.
I'm a numbers guy. Obviously, I love ROI. Okay. I love return on investment. I love,
I love commerce. I love, I love doing international shipping. And I love numbers. And this is one of
One of the greatest ways that you can get the most bang for your buck, it's even easier
to do than door knocking, which is also obviously very reliable, very important, and very good.
So I would say that this is one of the more important things that you guys do specifically.
I'm a numbers guy, obviously.
Okay.
There's a lot of people who are unmuting themselves.
Okay.
All right.
back to you. Back to you. Make some calls, Spurps. Hop in those breakout rooms, millions
of dollars in spending against Donovan from crypto, APAC, they can't beat your conversations
with voters. That's the other thing, folks. There are millions of dollars being spent
against Donovan McKinney and none of it is as powerful as your conversation with a voter,
debunking the lies and telling them the good word of Donovan McKinney and his incredible
platform. So we need you out here countering APAC and crypto and you have the power to do that tonight.
So hop in the phone bank, make some calls. I see folks are trickling into the breakout rooms.
What are we at? Any issues? We are at, let's see, how many people total? There are 178 people in
the zoo. I think we can do better than that. We haven't gotten to 200. That's crazy. Okay,
tanked option canceled chat you did it.
Total are a hundred and
really horrifying to hear my own voice.
Okay, I don't know how you do it.
Chat, you did it.
Okay folks, members are kicking up. I see if you're currently in the Zoom and you're having issues
getting into a breakout room, just let us know in the chat and we will assign you to a breakout room
and finally should pop up on your screen prompting you to join.
Otherwise, you should be able to select a room.
Any room one to five will do.
You'll get trained on how to make calls and we'll get you all set and ready to go.
You can join if you're not American.
You can join if you're not American.
Go ahead and join any breakout room.
You can call from anywhere in the world and we're thrilled to have you here.
Join any room one through five.
If you're having issues getting into a breakout room, just let us know and we'll assign you
to a room.
Okay, we're getting there.
Welcome folks, welcome new folks.
Thank you so much for being here.
welcome. If you are just joining now, go ahead and join any breakout room. We're thrilled to have
you. Any room one through five will do and that is where you will get trained. Super happy to have
you here. If you are unable to get into a breakout room, if you're not seeing it for some reason,
let us know in the chat and we will get you in a room. The wonderful, incredible, charming,
illustrious Casey is working hard on doing just that right now. We appreciate Casey so much.
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Thank you. Thank you. Also, another another thing is welcome folks. Welcome new
folks joining. I also want you to go ahead and join any breakout room you guys have had.
And it also helps us identify where the voters are. You can do it anywhere in the world.
It helps us identify where the voters are as well. So one of the most fun experiences
after doing these sorts of phone banking operations is the next day where people come in and they're
like, this is a conversation that I had, a personal anecdote, like a personal experience
that you had with a voter a conversion is really fun, but then also there will be people who are like
haters as well. Um, you know, so
Maya would get 400. How long is the training take? It's not that long.
It's it's literally like five minutes. It's not even
And like, there's no, this is a very, this is an unbelievably easy process to be a part
of.
They make it, they make it so easy that you can know nothing and, and just join in randomly
and they teach you in a matter of five minutes, like exactly what links to click.
They, everything else, no, it doesn't show your phone number.
It's all an automated process.
The entire thing is automated.
It's turnkey.
just click on a link and that's it. And then it starts making those calls for you. It is
super simple. Okay. You are right. I converted a mail out voter for Colorado. I was very
nervous, but it was super easy and it felt amazing to secure the vote chat is like a
dialogue tree in a video game. Yes. They basically give you a dialogue tree. What's up? Oh shit.
Okay. All right. And then we're going to move on to our next destination because I have an
IRL event that I have to go to as well. So I'm going to tell. Hold on.
Hold on. Hold on. Okay.
kill
the give you a script no voicemails and auto dials the next call
the cave
arm in some work in after work in after mobilize and on our end
We are currently sitting at,
love how I just didn't pop up after I said that.
We are at 221.
All right guys.
Yeah, all right.
And people are joining every second.
So welcome folks, if you're not currently in a breakout room,
please join any breakout.
You get a script and the worst thing that can happen
is they hang out for international callers.
They sometimes think it's really cool.
There's international interest in their own politics.
Everyone wants a better foreign policy for the US.
Yeah, American policy ends up impacting your life
no matter wherever you are in the world.
Anyway, you forgot the promise
carrying the Flamin' 300.
I can't be doing that right now.
All right, let's be fucking serious for a moment, please.
Okay.
where was okay let me turn on the boom
I'm flipping the camera I am all right we're good to
we're good to go all right I got I got to go good luck guys
Okay, you just take the whole thing, go on.
Okay.
All right, up next, we are going to an event in Dearborn, Michigan, ladies and gentlemen,
Prodigal Sun Returns.
I really wish you would address the current concern I had, I don't think it's the same
as anxiety or needing a script and I believe other chatters may feel the same way but don't
want to say it.
What is it?
is your anxiety. Singapore chatters rise up. Unironically, would it be on anxiety? People
think they're awkward or off-putting and will just hurt the cause. No, dude, what the fuck
are you talking about? That's not a real concern. What are you saying? That you're gonna be
off-putting and hurt the cause? No, that's not how this works. It literally gives you
a script. All you need to do is just follow the script. Also, you listen to me talk all
the time. This is your opportunity. That is social anxiety. You're literally
describing social anxiety while you said that. What about social anxiety? Okay?
It's so funny, Chad. I was like, look, this is not social anxiety. It's a very
different concern. Just and then describes anxiety. Okay. Will you be
meeting the mayor, Dearborn again? I don't know. I don't know what he's up to. But yeah, we're going to be going to Dearborn, Michigan. And you would have to try to be outputting to mess it up. I hate phone calls and I love phone banking. Yeah, it's a super, it's such an easy process. Easy process of all time. I mean, I've done it on stream before. You guys know.
I've done it on stream and I was hella cringe, but it didn't matter
You know we had like three converges on stream immediately back to back to back hundred percent success rate
And I wasn't like exceptional in any way shape or form. It was just you know people are far more receptive than you think
People are far more receptive than you think, you know, I've always wondered do you travel with the soundboard? No, I do not I
Do not travel with the soundboard chatters
I don't know if I will have the honor to meet him, but.
Baltimore Malice, legend Rupraj, I doubt it.
Remember, even with canvassing in person,
even with door knocking,
which we've done on stream as well,
I can't explain to you how good it feels to go out and engage in a canvass operation,
And you talk to some voters from, you know, communities that are rarely ever represented.
Okay. Communities that are rarely ever represented. And the successes are mind boggling, where people
literally hear for the first time. People hear for the first time from someone who is just interested
in what's going on in their lives, okay? Interested in offering a solution.
And they are super positive and super responsive.
It's fake too, you make it then it becomes second nature, yes.
Are you covering the IDEVs update later? I understand there's more important things going
going on, but I also like your coverage on these things. Yeah, we'll take a look at stuff
like that later. Not right now, obviously. Maybe on the way over. Maybe on the way over
it to the next event that we're going to. Yeah. Yeah, it's working. It's live. Did you
call the Uber? Oh, it's here. Okay. All right, everybody, I'm going to start off with the
the show
dana perino grills socialist governor hopeful on the
bar left tweets
uh... this is of course for the wisconsin gubernatorial primary
okay it's seen as one of the most competitive toss up states this
November
the primary is less than two weeks away poll show my next guest as the
democratic front runner for on the other side of the state assembly woman and a
democratic socialist and she
It's not shy from far left proposals.
Take a listen to this.
Ravifier, do you support Repealing Act 10?
Yes.
Universal childcare?
Yes.
Free school meals?
Yes.
Guaranteed pay leave?
Yes.
Abolishing ice?
Yes.
A one-year data center moratorium?
Yes.
Breaking up Big Ag?
Yes.
Public grocery stores?
Yes.
Right to repair?
Yes.
Legalizing cannabis?
Yes.
Overturning Citizens United?
Yes.
A Workers' Bill of Rights?
Yes.
free Palestine. Yes. And for Jessica Hong is a candidate for Wisconsin Governor and
even yesterday it looks like you will be the nominee as another one of your closest competitors
who was even far behind you has dropped out of the race. Is there anything in that list
of what you told Hassan Piker that you disavow now? No. Okay. Is there anything in the DSA
platform that you disagree with? Yes. Okay. Good. What would that be? Abolishing the Senate
I believe it's nonsensical and non-practical at this time.
Okay, would you abolish the Supreme Court?
No. I believe in checks and balances.
So, do you, so you consider yourself a democratic socialist, is that correct?
Yes. Would you, would you defund the Department of War?
Define it? Take away the money from the defense department.
No, I think it's troubling how many times they've failed an audit, and they're one of the highest
funded agency. And I think that stewardship of taxpayer dollars is incredibly important,
that where there may be fraud, waste, or abuse, that we make sure to vet the agency.
Okay. Would you advocate for public ownership of America's largest corporations or those in
in Wisconsin?
I have to say, first of all, we are incredibly proud of our Green Bay Packers, a publicly
owned NFL team.
But I believe there are some manufacturing and corporation that is irresponsible to have
full public control.
Like what?
No, I think it depends really on the type of mega corporation.
We know that here in Wisconsin, we'd like to bring more middle manufacturing down.
When jobs were sent overseas, when there was more desire for profit over the people of
Wisconsin, that we can be selective and put working class people first when it comes to
jobs and mega corporations.
Do you think you would be able to recruit corporations to come to Wisconsin to then
be taken over by the state government?
No.
I don't think that it would be responsible for the state to bring in a mega corporation
that would potentially be run by the state.
I think that we want to create good jobs with good benefits
and ensure that people have the freedom
to pursue the type of life they would like.
And I think when I talk to voters all across the state,
it is so much about being able to take care of themselves
and their loved ones.
There is deep concern about people who get to age
with dignity in our state.
I care a lot about our seniors and making sure that
We're one of the states where there's a great opportunity for great public education.
Okay, so you say people want to take care of themselves, and I agree, but the Socialist
Program is for the government to take care of people.
And I know that you've bristled a little bit about anyone pointing out previous things
that you have said, but I just want to show everybody on the board here.
This is on some of your far left posts.
I would say they're pretty far left, right?
For example, you say abolish the Senate.
You want ICE out of Wisconsin.
I understand the abolishing of ISIS is something you probably still want, but you also said
to defund the police four times.
And you want to defund the police as a first step towards abolishing the police.
Now, President Trump won Wisconsin twice.
It is the ultimate purple state.
I set my novel there for a reason.
It is the place where you have to have the most appeal to both sides or to independent
voters.
shouldn't people take you at your word when you say that you want to defund the police
and go towards abolishing it?
Dana, first of all, I have to say thank you so much for featuring my home state in your
novel.
And I believe that as a democratic socialist, what that means is that I would like to put
working class people first over.
Why is defunding the police working class people first?
I think you're about to enter into a general election,
likely with Tom Tiffany, the Republican.
That's not going to be an easy race.
It's going to be very easy for people to put up on the board
and say, you said, abolish the Senate.
Defund the police.
Abolish the police.
And why should they not believe that you
would want to do that?
That you would try to do that if you became governor?
I believe that people can evolve.
We need Trump voters from previous elections
who now would like to vote for me,
who have a sign in their yard.
So who needs to evolve?
The voter or you?
The voter cannot defund the police
and I won't defund the police.
So you have to vote.
The things we know prevent crime,
like getting guns off of our street,
making sure there is victims for justice,
that there are places where our kids
can go after school and thrive.
We can't be tough on causes.
We have to be tough on causes if we would like to be.
Yep.
Everything good? It looks good?
Yeah.
Okay, flipping it.
The ice in the tunnels.
Okay.
Yeah, I'm going to turn on the lights.
Alright, ladies and gentlemen, we're back.
And I'm sorry to take you away from Francesca Hong.
I know you were probably listening to her.
But David, this angle is crazy.
You like it?
No, it's super, super low.
for a loan what are we doing? It's like a crotch shot. Anyway, as I was saying, we are on our
way to a Dearborn Michigan event where we are yeah we're only like we're not that far away.
We're on our way to a Dearborn Michigan event. It is going to be the Dearborn Heights Hamtramic
Muslim knock out the vote tour there are a lot of superstars that are at this
event someone was asking are you going to see the mayor and I told you no it
turns out I was wrong the mayor will be there and he'll be speaking a little bit
as a matter of fact so will Adam Halloween so we'll appreciate you to leave
even on Omar and then Abdul El Sayed the stars show will be there as well that
will not be speaking at the knock out the vote tour just gonna be there hanging
out and talk with folks that went there, talking to the people on the ground and seeing what
the level of enthusiasm is.
Yeah, what a line up I know.
Michigan Avengers basically.
Francesca Hong mobs this little headed guy true. She does
Well now they're gonna shove you on stage probably not they already have free
time slots for the people that were speaking
I want the Hawesboro Lake spread his song it's not gonna happen
Okay
Oh, yeah, the Cootermaxing, Cootermaxing is what is known as now, and forever.
I love Dearborn, one of the best copies of my life.
I'm hoping, I haven't eaten yet today, so I'm hoping there will be some food at this event,
because I am starting to get hungry.
Are you gonna stop by Chicago or traveling between Michigan and Wisconsin? No, I will not be going to Chicago this time
Don't know why I would do that
But yeah
It does have some of the best Arab food in America dude you're telling me I know I know already
I've had it. I've had it last time I was in Dearborn with Abdullah as a matter of fact
And with the mayor too
I went to the coffee shop, which I assume this will be a coffee shop, this will be everything
the Dearborn economy has run on coffee shops owned and operated by Yemeni people.
That's what the, it's kebabs and coffee shops.
In Detroit, Pita.
Are we?
Yeah.
Oh, hell yeah, with Don and McKinney.
Perfect.
I actually do fuck with the short pizza, this is going to piss off a lot of Illinois folks,
but I prefer the short pizza, the Chicago deep dish, yeah, I said it, I think it's really
good, I don't know if it beats any way, no you're not wrong, no, no, Connecticut pizza
is I think Connecticut pizza is your truth or I think Connecticut pizza at
least the Connecticut pizza I've had is is competitive which with New York
slices there's a reason why people say they're better because it's it's
technically not wrong and I think even the likes of Dave Portboy yeah even
admitted that this is the this is the truth nuke of all truth nukes is New
York pizza is very good like it's it's like 10 out of 10 we're talking about
we're making a distinction between like 10 out of 10 pizza and like I guess 11
out of 10 pizza right I would not say that for Chicago deep dish though I I
I don't.
I don't really like Chicago deep dish.
Chicago Tavern style is real Chicago pizza.
I know, that's the coke that I hear.
Which means that the battle has been lost already.
You know what I mean?
I am Poochy Maxing, yes.
It's not co-gum-ass, okay, sure.
Deep dishes are Haley Stevens?
Okay, dude.
Okay, okay, yeah, yeah, Chicago, Chicago deep dish pizza makes me go Israel comes to me in my dreams
Oh my gosh shut up Tamar's style and yours you also never develop taste
Deep dishes legit tourist trash no one eats deep dish. Why does Chicago have so many tourist trash things though?
I mean that's a that's a sincere question because
Because it's very interesting to me that Chicago has a litany of tourist trap style things
that they point to as like real cultural exports.
Okay?
The fucking Mallort as a drink.
Oh dude.
Mallort as a drink.
I think he's eating all of that.
Deep dish pizza.
I don't even...
I mean the real the real like
This is gonna piss off all the Chicago people, but I don't prefer the Chicago hot dog
Yeah, I think there's
There's the thing that they have on it. That's like strange
What is it like?
Is it the celery?
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it's not quite a pickle.
Wine cross?
It's a pickle.
No, tomato I like, tomato I like.
I don't have Asian with a tomato.
I just prefer, guys, I just prefer,
I just prefer dirty water dogs with mustard and ketchup.
That's my preference.
I'm a simple man.
I have a simple baby taste, if you wanna call it that.
But is the relish and the celery salt?
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
The relish and the celery salt freak me out.
I feel like you're getting a glissie.
Just get a glissie, don't get a salad on it.
Yeah.
But like, I also don't prefer chili dogs either.
No, I don't even think so.
I am a simple hot dog guy, because I think I've never
had a chili dog in my life that I have enjoyed the experience
consuming because the the the vehicle for consuming because you would say I love
chili I love cheese okay when you put chili cheese on a dog and all of a sudden
it is such a like it's such a filthy experience like when you're when you're
ravaging it you're you feel nasty doesn't leave you feeling good about
yourself. It's one of those things where the experience, the experience is so easy.
That's how I feel.
Maybe I have a lot of
strange opinions on that but those are my opinions. Having said that, I am very excited
because I do hope that we will have some good Dearborn food here. Maybe hopefully some
some Middle Eastern kebabs or some shawarma or something my mouth is water
and thinking about the prospect of having a kebab
smash I'm not taking food advice from cheese gates okay you serve you serve
I have called the gym with cheese.
What was the cheese gate?
Cheese gate is Francesca Hong came to my house.
The interviews that we did,
the Fox News was playing when we were walking out.
Yeah.
And in the interview,
she's Korean American, she operated a restaurant,
she's a foodie, and I wanted to share with her
My favorite L.A. Korean food, but it was not authentic.
It was, it was Khabi Jim, but it has cheese on it.
And as soon as she saw the cheese, she was like,
what the fuck is this?
I feel like you have it too.
And she ripped into me because she's honest.
She's unlike, unlike, like a politician would have eaten
that and been like, mm, delicious.
Right? She's a real one.
And I respected, but I also was devastated.
It's like your favorite album.
And you're sitting in the car and you got the aux chord.
And you're like, oh, you want to share this experience
with others.
And everyone's like, this is doo-doo.
Yeah, you loved it so much.
Yeah, because I still love it.
I mean, I ate all of it.
Like, it was a big bucket.
It was a big bucket of prime rib and her short ribs
and all this other stuff and rice cakes.
And it was delicious.
But as soon as she saw the cheese, she locked in on it.
and you're like, this is not real Kalbijim.
And you're ordered a special for her?
Well, I order it for myself all the time,
but like, yeah, in this instance,
I ordered it especially for her
because I wanted to share this decadent dining experience.
Did she even touch it?
She had like a little bit off of it
and then was like, I'm not having this.
And then chatter's never let me live it down
And now I have fucking trauma from, you know, making this mistake.
Dude, talk about messy on camera.
Maybe she don't want it.
This sounds like a messy dish.
No, no, no.
I mean, it's not.
It wasn't like that. No, no, she was very clear.
And she's like, this is not how this dish is prepared.
Yeah, I think we're almost here.
Oh my god, okay.
If someone adopted by a Korean family I worked for, some Koreans add cheese. Yeah, I mean
chili dog take. Not to eat like a classic dog, but I do chili dogs like spaghetti in that I put two
hot dogs with buns and toppings on a plate and then cover them in chili and cheese and then eat it
with a fork and knife style that is the most autistic thing I've ever heard
anyone say in this chat you are officially banned from Chicago just
like the UK okay put that on the yeah I know the mayor he's gonna ban me
officially chat that's not even a chili dog at that point that's just like an
an entirely separate thing.
What you're describing is no longer a chili dog.
The Rideau liquor detected.
I don't even know what that means.
Ew.
If we're just going to really want to be the governor
of Wisconsin, she would have loved the cheese.
She loves the cheese.
She said she loves the cheese.
That's a good point about cheese.
No, that's the other reason why I was like,
I did think that this was gonna bang.
You know what I mean, I was, yeah, I think so, yeah.
That's what you're saying.
The typical pandering politician would have been like,
I gotta be pro-cheese.
I'm trying to win governorship of Wisconsin.
There's such a cheese there.
Yeah.
Francesca.
Yeah, yeah.
Francesca Hall.
I think you're getting a cup.
Definitely banning you from Wisconsin over Cheesegate.
First thing she does in office, first of all,
That would be the most problematic thing that she would endorse as a policy platform if
she was banning someone who was a cheese lover, and secondly, no, she won't because I'm going
to be in Wisconsin on Sunday.
So.
It's on a May 20 calls, hell yeah, neurodivergen.
You're not done.
We're going to finish before you step on.
You're done?
Thank you.
No problem.
You all have a nice one.
All right.
We'll have a problem.
Y'all have a nice one.
Alright.
What's up, Chief?
What's up?
What are you doing?
I'm doing alright, I have to pee really bad.
I got you.
Alright.
Alright.
When it comes to what I'm saying,
I can tell you from the serious,
you will be 100% sure about this game.
You need two things that are not about animalized traffic police or children in the U.S.
If they don't rely on you, what do you find with people?
Seek from here, seek from places that are in principles of journalism.
Like, there's probably no ground for these things from easily.
You're all here because you're working. You're all here because you're not going to be able to get into the culture.
I'm just going to allow my senior chief and my senior.
Okay, I'm going to the bathroom.
Alright.
Okay, you stay with me.
I'm going to open some...
I'm entertaining the chat.
Absolutely, I can entertain the chat.
Okay, I'm going to call you.
Yeah, let's see.
Last time I checked, we were at 5,000 dials,
but then at that moment, most people had finished their training
and we were accelerating to like 5,000 dials for every five minutes.
So I think the number is probably a lot higher, but we'll see.
So it's really important, because this race is so close, like the Donovan race.
Abdul is very important and is doing very well.
And we love Abdul and we need to put all the effort there too.
But Donovan's race is like razor thin.
There was, I think there was a poll that we've tweeted out recently from one of the independent
expenditures that had Donovan down four points, which is like so tight.
And before that it was a much bigger spread.
So this is razor thin margin. So your dials really help and you can still hop in the phone bank
If you're not currently in it, you can join right now tinyurl.com slash Hasan calls and it makes a huge difference
I mean people are often scared to phone bank because they think people will be hostile
But the thing about phone banking and phone banking technology right now is that the people you speak to you are the people who answer so
So if you're answering an unknown number, you are probably greatly indexed to be nice
to people who call you randomly because you're choosing not to ignore that call.
So you don't sit there dealing with voicemails, you don't have to leave voicemails, but all
the system does it automatically, you just get voters.
And I mean, Donovan's race is going to be so tight.
And the other problem we have is there are abdull voters in Donovan's district who do
not know who Donovan is.
And like Shree, there is no, there is no like prototypical Shree voter.
There is no Shree base.
There's just people who've seen a lot of advertising.
And Shree is an insane character.
I mean he, his facility in New Jersey, at a pharmaceutical testing facility in New Jersey,
where he abused dogs.
Like he literally left hundreds of beagles to die in this facility when it went bankrupt
and monkeys and like this local like p to ask volunteer group had to rescue them and
the former employees of his bank or facility were hopping the fences to feed the dogs and
the monkeys which is psychotic and he he carpet bagged in Detroit. He spent millions of his
own money. He votes for Republicans on the committees on crypto especially. He's a huge
sellout to crypto, sellout to AI. He completely flipped his positions. He was he was briefly
Speaking about Palestine and then once he got in office he became totally pro-Israel takes APAC money
But people don't know who Donovan is so it's really really important that you make those calls because
4-point race a week ago. I mean that's a field margin
I heard from the bathroom you talking about Shreya Thanadar because I heard Beagle murderer
He's the only he's the only you know dog abuser involved in this race
It's true.
It's true.
It's true.
Down it are.
And like, calm it please sir.
You heard like the full like, the like local Peter was like hopping the fences to rescue
the dogs in New Jersey.
Why did he want to murder so many people?
Well the facility went bankrupt.
There's pharmaceutical testing and he was just noped out.
It's thought for the nerd to start the debt.
So the choice in this election is a champion of the working class versus a dog and monkey
of using crypto and APAC bankrolls and do nothing congressman.
So you gotta just get that message out.
Voters love Donovan.
Once you tell them who he is, but voters don't know who he is.
So this is why phones right now are so important, because you can flip so many people with these
conversations.
And that is not always the case.
This is not a situation where both candidates have total name rack.
This is a situation where our candidate wins almost every conversation that we have.
We just have to have the conversations and this race has not gotten the attention other races have gotten
This is not me a lot. This is not even Daria. Even will Lawrence's race has gotten more national attention for you know better for worse
Then Donovan's unfortunately, which is so which is such a lot because this is like a this is a good
What's really interesting is the racial dynamic in this race as well?
Obviously her to what they was talking about this but like there is a reality there where I mean obviously Donovan is is you know
born of red Detroit. Wayne County has a higher density of black voters in many
other places in Michigan and it was remarkable when King Jeffery actually
endorsed Shreya Donovan over Donovan. Well there's also a number of congressional
black office members that are endorsing Donovan. It's not just the
progressives that we know and love. Like the former president of the CBC, Stephen
horse fur endorsed Donovan. And that also speaks to the fact that tree sucks. No one
likes him in DC. There's a really funny Axios article where it's like all of the establishment
Dems who are like, well, not the worst guy in the race.
You don't really care.
So that's been, but that has also been interesting because like in all these other races, in
a lot of the races that we worked on, like we have younger black and brown candidates
going up against older establishment candidates and yet there's always this component where
where the establishment will try to weaponize identity politics in a cynical way.
Sometimes doing a lot of racially charged, sometimes it gives you a lot of racially charged narratives,
especially in the ones that we've seen with the Abdull Rays, where like,
now there's a new poll that shows actually Abdull with black voters as far closer to Haley Stevens,
and yet the establishment has been so used to just saying, like, you know,
black voters actually want this candidate over the insurgent, and therefore,
your racist you're not appealing to, Black voters are not the case.
And yet they don't talk about their racial component in the Donovan's race at all.
Well, and you're going to see when you wrap it up in Detroit, there's huge numbers of people,
Black folks who are voting for Abdul and for Donovan, so it's like it's a lot of narratives that...
Well, of course, as is always the case, the Twitter narrative that drives discourse in
mainstream media is, I mean, it couldn't be further than the truth when you go down on the ground
and you dial in and you take a look at who's actually voting for who.
But yeah, I'm excited. There's a lot of very cool speakers that are going to be speaking today.
Are there any agreement? Yeah, I want to go and see.
We're students, okay?
Yes, of course.
We're going to try to get down on Monday.
Oh, okay.
Alright, perfect.
Should we go inside all right? We're live by the way. I know that. We're always
We're always like hey
What's happening?
What's good, King?
How you doing?
All right, how are you? Good. Good to see you.
Oh my god.
I'm good. Very exciting.
Oh, thank you. You always look great.
always look great as always yeah you you did you did put some stink on it that's
fine I guess it's okay I was better than Adam so that's what matters most I
think anyway okay so there is no food you know I got water and like an old
coke bottle that's it I was like damn we're going to Dearborn we'll have some
I love some chihuahua, I love some bacalazzo, nope, never mind, it's fine.
You could get it tonight, there's still time.
There's still time, no, for sure.
I'm not, yeah, I'm not leaving.
There's no shortage of good eating places and good coffee shops and plenty of other things.
How you been?
I can't complain, still standing, doing good.
You started roaming around, going to other candidates and doing some of the rest of it.
to help other people win so that you know you've got a team in place that's
going to appear in Michigan and we were able to help Daria Lisa and Denver so we're good we're looking great yeah yeah no these are these are some
really exciting races what about uh what about the mainstream attention I feel
like has anything changed since you won your race are people a little bit
more palatable are they a little or are they still
hitting you with some ridiculous smears.
I'm still getting hit with the ridiculous smears,
but that's, I think, going to be consistent.
I mean, that's going to be something
I have to live with and deal with.
But I think most of the Democrats are, you know,
I'm at least getting on the team.
So we have to work together.
So people are understanding that.
So we have to get to Washington and still, you know,
be able to pass bills.
I think the primary goal here is, of course,
to defeat Republicans.
We still, there are a lot of people
who always make it seem like left-ranking,
surging candidates.
They only come after Democrats.
They don't come after Republicans.
It's like, no, we only go after Democrats
if they're not sufficiently fighting back
against the Republicans.
And I don't think people understand that for some weird
reason.
No, our first and foremost, our goal always
is to serve the people, but then also to fight back
against Trumpism in this country.
I mean, it's not like we're actually going after them.
This is what people want.
Yeah, that's true.
People are upset that the Democrats have been sitting
at the sidelines and not fighting back.
And we are representing that as we should.
So it's not like a group of people got together in a room
said let's go after you know centers to over establishment Democrats it's like
people are upset with the current system they're upset with people doing
nothing and we are the people's voice yeah what a lineup what a lineup today
star studded star studded audio check is it good is audio fine I don't see any
in place. Okay. Which is surprising. Yeah. Okay. Um, we pass how many 10,000 10,000 calls?
Okay, that's good. And that's for for, uh, on the phone. Like we were on earlier,
good. Okay. 10,000 people out to vote. Yeah.
There's four days left. So we'll just time to do some damage. Yeah.
Oh 30,000. That was the old number. My bad. 30,000. That's good. We get the 40,000. I'll have I'll have
some some shawarma on stream. How about that? Which you might think is actually rewarding me. But
it's rewarding you guys as well. I promise. Mostly rewarding me. I'm starving.
These guys are around the clock. They're working. They're working now. Stop.
This guy's...
Yeah, yeah. They have the talking points. They have... I mean, it's a pretty turnkey.
He knows he's been doing this for a minute.
It's just the sheet that I got, is it the same as earlier?
It's all based off that.
That's like the raw.
Yeah, mostly just talking about Donovan's record
as a legislator and holding DTE accountable.
We're having a big money Medicare for all car.
There you go.
Grab your door to join today.
It helped us to tell them who he was running against.
No, oh, yeah, it was, yeah.
Because he's such a recognizable figure.
Let's just say.
I'm not much of a fan of Shuri.
Shuri is not for anything.
I'm not.
We just had a caller in the chat right now
who's saying that they were going to vote for him
just because he is a familiar name.
But then they were comparing stances of Donovan and Shuri,
and after that, it's changed their vote.
This is literally every single time with all of the income with all of the
the races that we worked on what I have heard so consistently from all of my
chatters who've been doing phone banks and whatnot and canvassing is there's
always low name recognition for the insurgent for the insurgent candidates
but as soon as they hear the positions are like oh that's it like I'm
definitely voting I'm definitely voting for the younger
much noise right now in Michigan, I'm sure if you just turn on the TV you'll see one
after the other. So it's sometimes it's really hard to get through it. That's why
yeah I'm just anxious about Donovan sprays. So this morning, oh look who it is.
Hi, I'm good, how are you?
It's around the clock dude, it's around the clock, there's no days off, that's why I'm
always telling you guys, when you guys are like, oh dude you work too much, it's like
Well, there's a lot of work to be done, so...
You mentioned food.
Shawarma?
I got it.
You can't leave different one without you.
Of course, of course.
Nice place.
But no worries if there's nothing here.
You don't have to worry about it.
I'll have some.
I'll have some.
I'll have some.
I will.
Is that good?
Of course.
Welcome, Michigan.
Back, welcome back.
I know.
How you finding it?
It's fucking awesome.
It's always awesome.
You get some kebab?
What?
You get some kebab?
Not yet.
I'm going to figure it out after this.
That's one of the important things.
I did think that there was going to be food.
Because you were like, oh, you're going to win.
I was like, of course there's going to be some kabob.
There's definitely food close to here.
Yeah.
I feel like, I feel like GOTV rally is not quite the food spot.
Yeah.
No, it's all good.
It'll get you fed.
It'll get you fed.
We'll give you the racks.
How you feeling?
For good reason.
Where'd you go before this?
You've been all serious down there.
Serious as games.
I don't even know what I was doing.
Serious meetings, we did some Friday prayer,
a couple different places,
I think we did four different Friday prayers.
Nice.
Do you have to be at the mosque?
So yeah, man, it's okay.
It's okay.
Appreciate it there.
Of course.
Of course, this is, what a change of pace
from the first time you came to my house.
I mean, this is...
That was like 20, 25, that was like late 20, 25.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, it's been like, I think it's been a year, right, Chad?
I feel like
Take a husband a year
Yeah
Take a husband a year
And even since the last time I was here
It was the last time we went in
We worked out in Dearborn
Oh, okay
What was the place like?
That was Dearborn, New York
That's the place you gotta go
I actually had a follow-up story
Oh
I had an interview
I was like, ah, we're in Dearborn, New York
You gotta go, actually, you know you gotta do
You gotta go and have it in person
It's like a different experience
Having it carry out is one thing
But having it there
Hold it in an experience
No, I'm down
down. Yeah, but it's just been here. It's been here around.
Yeah, well, here's one thing that I've been saying. I've been thinking about it,
because I'm like, this is obviously one of the races that I was very adamant about,
one of the races that I've been like, working with for a minute,
but I was thinking like, there's only a finite amount of resources,
So the one positive is, look, you know, we're still working like we're 10 points down.
However, polls don't vote people to exactly. And regardless of what the results are, even if it's
like a total blowout, in my mind, I'm like, at least we, you know, this was a, this was a major
moment. This has been a major moment where like, there's so much, so much money being done in these
experience. We calculated with the reservations that I have through the end of election day,
$70 million. $70 million. It's like, think about what you can do with, you know how much
medical debt you can limit with $70 million?
No.
$70 bill.
Yeah.
And instead like, dumped on fire on TV ads.
Yeah.
But I'll tell you, we got to keep that energy as a general. It's going to be a real general
for sure.
I mean, like, you know, Mike Rogers has run before. He's got statewide name ID. I mean,
he's corrupt as heck. He's never seen a corporate check in his life. He helped
the architect the opioid epidemic which doesn't want anybody to know about.
You're also a perfect match up against him as a
as a as a product as well.
I mean, of course.
Very excited. Very excited about this.
Appreciate that for a man who's appreciate this poor man.
We gotta keep the numbers and go into this.
and we got all the folks here, it's like these are the moments you sort of step out of things
and you're really grateful for people. Everything you do in politics is because somebody else
decided they wanted to do something. They don't do anything about ourselves, right?
Yeah.
And I'm just so grateful for everybody. Everybody's all over the place.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And for the rallies we've had for the past couple of weeks, it's just a lot of gratitude
really.
Yeah. I mean, this is how a real movement begins, though, you know, and we, someone had to
Like people have to step up, people have to step into the plate and people have to be that person.
You also were that person a long time ago.
Like a lot of people, I mean, Haley Stevens brought up this fact when you ran in 2013.
And it's so interesting because like, yeah, the dynamic was very different back then
as far as places that were considered like swing states,
like there wasn't the establishment
democratic message of like, you know, we have to have a moderate who can
and defeat the Republicans like that,
that was still a depressing message, unfortunately.
It was wrong back then, too.
I think it was Michael Moore who said in 2016,
like, Michigan's not a swing state.
Michigan's not a swing state.
It's a blue state.
The only reason why it's a swing state
is because establishment Democrats
have dropped the ball in respect to anti-interfaction.
It's also like this idea that people walk around wondering,
like, where do I stand on the left, right side?
Yeah.
Is that a foreboding, like,
I don't mind if I'm wearing my clothes or my ass
I'm going to read how much of an answer for you this day.
And if you don't have honest, direct answers to that question,
I'll be surprised when people ask you.
So we're trying to answer that question.
I'm demonstrating how you actually can...
I want to thump my drivers.
I don't want to just beat them. I want to thump them.
I want to send them back to Florida crying.
At the end of the day, that's what this is about.
This is about demonstrating what happens when you actually have a positive
information about the world to be like when leaders aren't bought off by politicians.
No, I think that's it. That's a huge part of this is like this is a
battleground
where we won't just show that we can
win in swing states as
progressives
But that we can win all around the country with a message that unites the base across the board
If you can actually
incredibly fight for a solution to somebody's life.
What's the point of politics in the first place?
Why do all the while's do this?
I understand.
I thought it was about winning is the power.
And then collecting paychecks.
You know, for years.
I've never watched a film.
I've never seen one of that.
Come on.
This guy's different.
I mean, I've ordered like, you know each other personally.
You know, we went to a couple of college classes together.
But that best is the state representative.
Life for real, actually.
You know, British Bay, South Lebanon,
is the capital of the Rosista, so here we are, here by the way.
Well hey, Dearborn is the capital of where we disrupt and really overtake the democratic
establishment and we do away with business as you.
What's up sir?
How are you?
How are you?
Do you know the significance of the place you're standing at?
Oh see, he's gonna do it now.
You know how this place is called?
It's here, what is it called?
This is the biggest place in the world.
You know the significance of the place you're standing at?
Oh, see, he's going to do it now.
No, no, no.
You know how this place is called?
It's here.
This is the British Vale Cultural Center.
What does that mean?
You know what the British Vale is at?
On the front lines.
Right on the border right there, where our school is just destroyed, homes are being systematically
erased, and folks here locally understand, like the houses you walk outside, right?
Every one of those houses is having people killed in Israeli air strikes.
Israeli airspace. Don't feel that in their bones. This isn't a far away thing.
Me and my brothers had attended funerals right here for people who've been killed in
Poland.
You're alive by the way.
Yeah.
I'm just letting you know, this is a very special place.
This is exactly the type of place where we can change the cultures of our country.
Alright, I got to play a game.
You know, I've been telling me that you texted him.
She's like, he sounds like he's live?
Like, what does that mean?
There's always, we're always live shooting, always.
Yeah, yeah.
40,000 dials, Trapper, Don McKinney, let's go.
Let's keep those numbers up.
Let's get those numbers up.
Oh, are you filming me?
Yeah.
Well, I wanted to let you know,
my sister really wants you to know
that you're welcome to the GSA Long Beach.
Summer is so short.
She loves the GSA Long Beach.
That's crazy.
Sorry, I just had to tell you.
No, no, it's all good.
Your sister's in DSA in Long Beach?
Yeah, she's the comms director there, and I just wanted you to know.
They're always in my chat. Always inviting me to DSA events in Long Beach.
Okay, well, just want you to know they love you. They love you.
Okay, well, it's so nice to meet you. Thank you so much.
Okay, thank you. Thanks for getting on the phone.
Of course. I'm gonna grab a coffee. You want one, Dave?
I think it's coffee. I hope it's coffee. Oh, it is coffee. Nice.
The same thing is green hearted lives.
The last three days, what is going to be said
and the number of people who are not aware of that
and everything that is being lied on for today.
Can you show your video to the viewers?
I don't know.
I don't know.
And we have...
No, no, they're talking about seasickness.
It's also being lied from on seasickness.
Seasickness.
We'll see you at the one-minute morning.
We'll do like a little wave or something like that.
I broke my seasickness.
They had brain bugs, smashed it.
Angry?
Angryly?
No.
I've had Illinois primaries, actually.
You and your George Jackson...
The Trayodathon.
How did you operate secret troll accounts?
For sure.
I'll put water in my coffee because it's too hot.
I'm going to keep slurping.
You say you want to stop the lot?
No.
You know?
Yeah, you too, right?
I'm good.
Oh, thank you.
A more winter year?
No more winter gear.
It's good to see.
It's our security, our protection, our security in freezing cold Minneapolis, Minnesota weather.
We run security for Elon.
You might remember him from the attacker guy.
Remember him.
Are you anti-mining, squirty internet?
I was out of vinegar at the covers.
Yes, I was just explaining.
Hey, what's good?
I'm good man, how are you?
I'm good.
Christian, you're back?
I'm good.
How you doing?
I'm up.
I'm the president of Quikha.
I'm the instigator of this organization.
We're going to stay in the team.
I'm trying to follow up.
You know what?
I watch this pilot test, I watch this push-ups.
The left got them in right with this guy.
Let's go.
Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you too.
I got to go outside.
Everything okay?
All right, we're good.
Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you.
See you.
I'm up.
Nice to meet you.
See you guys.
Of course, I mean, this is...
...Consonavia Central.
You don't have to remember, there's not like...
...there weren't a lot of outlets...
...especially for many, many years. We kind of take for granted...
...how much the environment has shifted, especially as it pertains to...
...you know, speaking about Israel, speaking about American foreign policy in a very critical way.
way, mainstream media for the most part, especially in the western world, doesn't
offer any critical tone, and they still fail, in my opinion. They sometimes will
engage the conversation from a partisan manner, but overall it's
rarely, it's very insufficient, and it's rarely as critical as it deserves to be.
So for a lot of people here, they feel heard with commentary like ours, you know,
My legs are so sore, it's crazy, I'm having a hard time sitting down and standing up.
My butt hurts.
You know?
I'll take you to your room.
I'll run it out of two hours of sleep, bro.
That is true.
It's okay.
That is also true.
Running out of two hours of sleep and zero food.
As well.
Butt hurts kinda hot.
No, from squatting.
I've been doing weighted lunges up and down the block.
Crazy
Someone get this man a cane
Move over to the five HP HP bar blinkin you're out of your dang mind you're crazy for saying that
I'm at 120 HP
Especially after I have this coffee.
I can't stand up at 35.
Yeah, you gotta get the cardio up.
It's true. I do gotta get the cardio up.
Yeah.
I wonder if we should go outside and listen to the speeches.
speeches. Oh, we'll go outside in a little bit to film the speeches. Did you meet with
your boy? Okay, dude. Okay, dude. No, David didn't want a coffee. Chatter. You're so old
Of course, what do you mean? They always are.
How many phone calls? I mean, it was like 40k, so it's probably past that now. 50k now.
Whoa! Keep it going!
Yeah.
Yeah, well, then 68 people, by the time we left, it was at 200, then it's at 50,000 calls now.
I won't be delivering a speech.
Not for this campaign, it just means in general on your own free time if you ever...
You just...
What?
Yeah, that's good journalism.
When you have no opinions, that's the true unbiased journalism.
That's good.
Sometimes...
Yeah, how many people are in the district?
Yeah.
Um, it's like the standard amount that I'm forgetting.
Like 700,000 people in the Crescent district.
But it's a pretty low turnout primary, so the actual number of primary voters will be less than 100,000, I would guess.
So, very decisive.
So we've called half of the likely...
So you've done a full pass up at the University of Washington.
So our goal is to call first and foremost every young voter.
We've done the full...
First and foremost call every young voter, and then our full University of voters that we wanted to speak to,
like getting them out, and that's been done twice.
We're doing 1k calls a minute right now.
Or, yeah.
Yeah, something like that. That's really true.
Yeah, once in a minute.
That tie is fucking awesome.
Isn't this great?
Thrifted?
This is actually entirely thrifted out, man.
Yeah.
That's the move.
Fun times.
What are your plans after this round?
I'm probably...
Well, we'll see.
I might go back
to streaming.
to streaming. We do have a little care break about where you should be. Which is that
we're gonna do a nighttime tour of Handtram, like with Donovan coffee and all the coffee
and like, cupa shops. So if you want, you're doing multiple Donovan activities, so it's
there. It's there. Alright, well I think we gotta, we haven't really covered the news
that much, so I might have to, I might have to, no, no, it's not that, that's a very entertaining
event. Like I love that. I love Hamtrami. Straight up dates need to happen. Like Detroit football club,
we went to, I think it was Detroit FC right? Yeah. We went and we visited the like little
soccer pitch they have in the middle of the neighborhood in Hamtrami. I don't know if you've
seen it. It's sick. It's like it's super cool. The community gathers, they all watch, they all watch
People play soccer. It's like the B-lead or something. Oh, yeah. Yeah
Yeah, okay as a curfew
New people are joining that's good. Hi everyone if you're not currently in a break out we're still spamming you join
Breakout rooms one through five and he will do you have trouble getting into a break out room
Just let me know and I will assign you
Now the shot can quickly go up very, very high.
It's great.
Love it.
Absolutely.
Our lesson from this though is that we need a, oh no, I just put some on the waiting
room.
We need a breakout room that's just like latecomers.
We've navigated it, but every one of these is like a lesson in zoom logistics.
Yeah.
How many have you done so far?
In my life?
Like since the beginning of the primaries, this cycle, hundreds and some sort of number.
I mean like the huge end of the race ones, like whatever number of races there have been
like one to two per race, but in terms of overall zoom fome, it's like an incomprehensible
number probably to me.
Multiple every week.
Multiple every week, yeah.
They're muted, yes, okay, but I'm sure they're trying to fit in.
Yeah, that's true.
And I could have done this.
You could do both.
Donation ask, get out in phone bank, and also, where's such good friends?
Okay, specifically for that.
Let's do a Donovan, let's do like a, get out, make calls for Donovan and a dual vote if you're in Michigan, and then just do a fun one.
Do you feel comfortable just pitching that, or do you want to do that?
We'll try.
Okay, let me know.
We have someone who's drinking six people to vote with them because they're so excited.
That's awesome.
Dude, one of the things that I realized, I mean I've done like canvassing stuff before,
but especially in these races, maybe it's because of the candidates that are so much more dynamic
and so much more interesting, maybe it's because there's a lot more like national appetite
for exactly this kind of change, but it is or it's the data centers in Israel for sure as well.
issues that are like very specific but you get so much bang for your buck by
just simply talking to people like whereas I feel like if you're if you're
doing it for Hillary Clinton or something it's not the same it really
doesn't hit the same but when you're doing it in a in a small race like a
of smaller rates like this in a district like this.
And you're reaching out to people
who are like disaffected voters
that no one has really spoken to.
And you explain to them the policy positions,
you explain to them the differences
between the incumbent and the insurgent.
And the responsiveness is unbelievable.
Like people actually get excited
to go out and vote for someone,
which is kind of the theory, right?
It's kind of the theory of change
that we've been talking about for a very long time,
even from obviously like the 2016 Bernie campaign
to now all of these different primaries
all around the country.
That's why I keep urging people to go out
and join these sorts of phone banks
and go out and canvass for these campaigns,
canvass for these candidates,
because the results are incredible.
And you get to know full well in the back of your mind that you're probably
pissing off a lot of pro-Israel donors that are just dumping boatloads of money
into these races. The cope that I have at least in my mind for like hyper-
focusing on the dual race has always been even though you know I don't want to
I don't want to come across too cocky here but it does seem that the likelihood
is very high that he will succeed is that there's a finite amount of money
out there, it's not infinite. So he's he's basically tanking $60 million worth or $70
million worth of outside expenditures earmarked for this race that could have
gone to the Cory Bush race right that could have gone to the parcel gray race
there's so many wonderful candidates all around the country and you know it's not
a secret that a lot of these donors are cooking up a double donation drive right
now but yeah as I was saying there's a lot of single issue
donors out there you know some people like eight now blue cross blue shield
single issue on on maintaining a for-profit healthcare system they can
spend that on this race or they could spend that against other Medicare for
all insurgents in smaller markets in in races that haven't gotten the same
necessary national media attention. So given that this race has a lot of
national media attention even like whether or not this became a nationally
relevant race or not didn't change the reality that the 70 million was here
right so that money is being deployed here and I in my mind I'm thinking like
it's he's he's all those able to tank it he's like a tank he's able to withstand
the attacks partially because of the excitement and the enthusiasm that you
guys have shown as well
You know
Just like you I mean I guess
He's he's versatile to his tank, but he also is a great DPS
He's a deep he's definitely a DPS player to it's just that it's just that he hasn't yeah
He's a DPS build very agile boot like
huge dexterity, huge with critical hits. Here's the thing though. In the primaries, I think you
guys are going to be surprised. You're going to see a very different Abdul in the general.
He's in the primaries. He's obviously not going to go super hard against Haley Stevens.
Haley Stevens is a Democrat, Michigan legislator. So obviously there's a limitation
to how hard you can go against your opponent,
especially because in the general,
you obviously need the rest of the backing
from the Democrats,
who can't feel too discouraged,
can't feel too upset.
Whereas in the general,
it's fucking no old bar, right?
In the general...
In the general, you'll see the DPS.
It will just be...
Yeah, it'll be the second phase.
the domain expansion.
I'm looking forward to that.
We are just helping out.
The truth?
No.
Damn.
You said we're even interns.
I'm a consultant.
You're a consultant?
Yeah.
So you're a private consultant for your life?
No.
I'm friends that I move into electoral work.
This is media, by the way.
So if you don't want to talk to them, you say I plead the fifth.
I co-in a consulting firm called eGrid Strategies.
We work with left-candidates all over the country.
Dr. Humleigh, he's definitely a campaign manager, he's helping out Donovan in the final stretch.
We'll be affected by what you said.
It's okay.
Now, 23.
24.
It's okay.
No, these are the craps.
This is my decade mark.
Decade mark.
I've even given him the honorary
Failennial title as well.
He's, he worked, he worked.
That's really meaningful.
My theory is that the millennials
are what he's going to carry,
are going to usher in the era of American socialism.
I think, given like their entry point of the job market
where they've only seen bus cycle after bus cycle,
I have this, I mean it's a joking theory.
It's not a serious one.
You're taking notes now.
You're taking these down his nose, Tyler.
Okay, no show's not.
But, give me pages, give me a page.
But, I jokingly say that the phalenials
are what are going to usher in the era of American socialism.
You know, a newer, new deal type democracy.
Yeah, Gen Z has been a little bit inconsistent.
So you got the older Gen Z
that are also zillennials.
It's a pre-COVID, post-COVID situation.
So if you went through your adolescence before COVID,
and you had a healthier development,
you have a lot of like, failennial tendencies.
You're less reactionary.
You still have like somewhat of a radical streak
as far as your politics goes, as we've
seen with millennials as well, who just said, don't have no hope.
Is it because of COVID radicalized right?
Because they turned against lockdowns and stuff?
I think they just didn't grow up healthy.
Let's just say.
OK.
Well, I do think that, yes.
I mean, as we've seen with John Federman,
I think a little bit of brain damage
is surefire way that you'll become a right-wing reactionary.
But yeah, I think that younger Gen Z, at least in my experience,
are like, they have very strange beliefs.
A much younger Gen Z. I mean, there's definitely a lot in
comparison to other political other watchers of politics. Yes,
but I would say that mine is mostly like my wheelhouse is
like millennials, and then older Gen Z.
We want to grow up with you. And they're like, pretty much.
Yeah. So they were like maybe like 1820. And now they're like
25
Even if they're Gen Z like there's people who've been watching me since like they were you know 13 years old which is crazy
But I guess better watch me than Andrew Tate, you know what I mean?
But that's the that's the way I see it
It's like if you were younger Gen Z you got your brain a little bit poisoned by kick streamers
It and Ross Andrew Tate people like that your older Gen Z you're more likely got invested in politics a little bit
Started watching me
Also, Gen-Z is just like a wide, wide array, it's like we, when I think Gen-Z, I think
like, oh, someone who's like 20 years old, but actually they're 30 now, I think, right?
Gen-Z, oldest Gen-Z turned 30 at this point.
I'm 19 and I've been watching since I was like 15, Lomao, yeah, see, yeah.
Which, I'll ask that person if their brains didn't get broken by COVID lockdowns, or what's your...
Well, I mean, if they're in here, their brains probably didn't get broken down by COVID lockdowns. That's my assessment.
Because, like, everybody was slotted into different online communities for a lot of people, and they were going through that period in their lives.
Because, like, there's no one, I think, during the COVID period that didn't find an online community.
So, if they found this online community, I believe that they had a healthier development
that tries to take some of that anxiety that they feel about a future, you know, the prospects
of a worse future overall or a better future overall, and then take that anxiety and do
something productive with it.
Because I always try to get people to go out and join DSA, you know, engage with their
their communities, organizing their communities, organizing in their workplaces.
So I feel like that's a far healthier attitude than, you know, these different routes that
they could, different routes that you go down, which is usually filled with despair.
The right is oftentimes bringing people into the fold and redirecting their animosity
towards less productive routes, oftentimes shifting the blame over to other marginalized
identities, trans people, women, oftentimes you see it like they'll blame everything
on women and women's position in society and how that it's a zero-sum game.
One generational thing about the Philanials is interesting is that the Gen Zs are going
to have this AI threat, where it's like we as millennials are like observing like
rarely from afar like oh that's really messed up but like we you know we didn't
have to contend it right out of college right? Depending on your age group like
even with millennials like I I lived in a world where you know cell phones were
not readily available. Yeah I grew up in an environment yeah yeah there was like
a little bit of exactly so like there was a there was a time frame where we
just like didn't have readily available cell phones no internet access all the
time the internet access that was available was also like disrupted often
times when you get a phone call in the house right? So that was my experience.
You don't like to talk on the phone? Like I can talk on the phone?
I still don't like it. I don't like it. No. I have friends that my podcast
always Austin loves. Loves being on the phone. Yeah that motherfuckers on the phone
all the time. Nostop. And I don't understand it. But for me, you know, I hate it. I can
still do it though.
I'm sorry.
Anyway.
What's up sir?
How are you doing?
Fantastic.
Only other guy who, I mean the man who hype-mogged me every time.
time yeah how you doing the last time we spoke IRL I know it's outside the
20 24 dnc it was suspected that it was that conversation that led me to get
kicked out of the DNC no way yeah well not you but just like in general it was
the he's uncommitted you want to this is a journalist
Hey, what's your name?
I'm a boss. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you too, Simon.
My name is Aboss, ABBAS.
Folks can learn about me, Aboss4MI.com
but yeah, State Senate.
Here in Senate District 2,
Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, Allen Park, Melvin, Nail, Taylor.
So Dearborn Area, Gun River Community, is a part of the trial.
What are you doing?
I'm running for State Senate.
But he was at an uncommitted movement.
Yeah.
I was one of the co-founders of the Intimidation School.
So what happened is, first day DNC starts, I went to the protest of course, instead of
immediately going to the DNC, and then after the protest ended, I went into the DNC.
I did some coverage from the DNC, second day, same thing, third day, it was, no, no, no,
in the DNC.
No, no, I was invited.
I was a creator for Kamala.
No, no, no, no, I went in as, again,
yeah, I was a creator for Kamala,
which is really interesting because I think
at the time, there was,
like the DNC did not, like DNC as the establishment
does not like me, and they never did, for obvious reasons,
but the Kamala campaign, I think, was more
excited about bringing additional eyeballs
to the entire event.
And they were pretty nice, they gave me a crazy sweep that like, you know, all these
other media outlets had to pay $500,000 or whatever for, right?
So I had like crazy seats.
Well, the first day was just like impromptu, it was a bar cart that I was streaming off
of.
Then you could see an image of it when Donnie was like filming me.
But eventually they...
Donnie...
Yeah.
No, he's been...
I've known...
So I was always, when Donny first started at CNN, I was very interested in his coverage
because I was like, oh, this guy gets it.
He's going to some of the more extreme right wing circles.
He's going out and he's actually talking to real voters as opposed to the...
Yeah.
Anyway, yeah.
Anyway, so yeah, we linked up with the DIC last day.
I had just pulled an all-nighter outside because we made our Christopher Poussiney American
speaker and they said no and so we said okay we're not leaving so he stayed outside.
Let's go out and listen to Rashida's speech.
Well basically the shortest suite of it is I interviewed them outside like they were
inside the DNC but outside the DNC if that makes sense they were outside the building
And I interviewed them.
And then after that, I was being, just like you,
there was a New York Tongue supporter with me
the entire time.
And they literally revoked my press access
amidst that experience in front of like 80,000 live viewers.
Oh, because I was criticizing the DNC and said,
the straw that broke the camel's back, as I said.
They're behaving like Israel by lying
about the uncommitted movement.
And then they proved the point by kicking me out.
Yeah, that's the set.
But they did it in a way where it was like ambiguous.
It was just like, oh, you don't have access
to this floor anymore.
You know, that kind of thing.
All right, let's go, let's see what we see.
Of course, let's do it.
Hello.
Nice to meet you.
You don't know what you're talking about.
You don't know what you're talking about.
You don't know what you're talking about.
It's directing, you know,
this energy around directing and contact.
Shouldn't go through there?
Reaching out to folks that feel real invisible.
They feel unheard and unseen by their own government.
But when it's neighborhood and neighborhood,
people talk to each other.
You can outwork all the hate, all the misinformation.
I mean, it is more powerful than NTP,
Can we keep you here so we can find something here?
There is so much noise that it's exhausting for our residents.
That's what they want. They want us to be completely exhausted.
But we know that we've seen it over and over again
for my race where literally I was the underdog in 2019
and I won about 900 votes.
That's it. And we can't miss it today.
But we did it as it happened, no longer the last two months, but we now have 55,000 doors.
We ran out of water sands, we ran out of lives.
I said, again, here's what's right behind us.
But we did it.
We made history together because we believe in that direct human contact and that grassroots
organizing and movement work that is important.
But as you all know, as you say, there are people right now, and you know them, I'm the only support team.
Now, they don't let you call it out by name, which ones they are, by family, but you know who they are, your family.
You know who they are, you're all looking down, you know exactly who it is, that you need to text, yeah, right?
I'm serious, like, I don't want you to, it's me, I don't want you to, you call me one more time, and all I see is that you didn't vote.
I'm a voting member. No, primary is as important.
You've got family members that are telling you,
I want to know remember, you know what?
You've got to tell them primary election
in August 4th is important.
You know there is a person out there
that if you just nudge them, just a little bit.
Even if it's to send them a photo.
I'm telling all my girlfriends, look at them,
he's a girl dad, we love girls dads.
But anything to try to drive on to that human connection
and make it, because they trust you.
These are people that I always say work your backyard.
not literally, but your network of people.
And I watched my brother rushid, yes,
there's a Rashad rushid and a Rashida in my family.
There's like 14 of us.
But he's texting me and he's like,
look, I just got on his books,
I work with this person that changes my diapers.
I mean, he's just, it's like built in us
because we had a UAW dad that just his voting was like
so embedded in his brain.
It's like, when I became 18 years old,
go register, you didn't even say happy birthday to him,
he said go register the bubble.
So for my brother watching,
I think all of this happening and seeing all the negativity
and to me, you know, the underlining kind of racist tropes
that they're using against our brother at school,
I can tell you, you know, it just motivates us
to go out and work that hate,
and that means again, working in your backyard.
I heard today at one of the early voting locations,
there were 1,400 people today.
Before I introduce someone that is very important and special to me, I need you all to know this, there are people holding on to their ballots.
I'm telling you because you're the person they're going to call and text and say, what do I do with this?
They can take you to the polling location and they can slow you down, right?
Or they can go and drop it off at one of the, literally, up until 8 p.m. on election day.
They can put it in one of the drop boxes, that says anything, okay?
The other really important thing, we got calls today. I need a register to vote.
You can register to vote at any early voting location.
Say again, we get people coming up and they're like, well, I just figured out my cousin's not registered,
registered, my daughter's not registered, you take them to an early voting location,
they can register in a voting location, you can get the little white one in there.
Really important too, polls again open, early voting, you can do early voting until Sunday,
August 2nd, at all locations around the community. Think about it, Saturday is Sunday, this is time
where folks on Tuesday anything could happen, encourage them to vote early. On election day,
from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. If you're in line, the system question comes up all the time. If you're in line at 8 p.m., you get to stay in line, you get to vote.
Again, you are best if you know this, but people are going to ask you and I want you to share that information with folks.
With that, I need to tell you, when in 2019, I came in with the largest incoming class, the most diverse, largest incoming class in the history of the United States Congress.
And in there was one of the tiniest people you've ever seen, but boy was she spicy and
feisty.
No, no, really.
She acts like she's the older sister, by the way, and I'm older than her.
She is no little sister.
But what I love about this person is I think the first week, I can't remember what it was,
she has a very much activist family, which I love, same as my family.
And I think somebody was saying something about her online.
And I have to know me, Mama Bear, I'm like, Ilhan, who's my super-cheater?
South West Trist, what's going on?
She puts her hand up to those Rashidahs.
I'm fine, I survived war, I can survive this.
That's incredible.
And one thing about that, and the other one, is that lived experience, you know, Ilhan and I didn't run to be the first of anything,
but it is our lived experience that helps us move with urgency, helps us see
things that take people years to see. I mean look at these folks running the other way.
We knew a long time ago. We knew it wasn't left or right, it was right or wrong.
When she thinks I love it, we try to stay cool and not get in trouble because you all know
Sometimes I need that strength. I'll sit down next to you. I sit down next to her and I think I will all be calm.
And that doesn't happen, as you see in the State of Union speeches. It gets a little crazy when I'm out of my mind
next year, but I'll tell you, I will sit next to this woman any time, any day. The strength that loses from her
and what she has to deal with in Congress,
what she has to deal with in society.
I don't know how she continues to do it, but man,
she deserves a round of applause
from the 12th Congressional District, the St. Kurt,
for her thoughts and for the life that has been hallowed.
I'll look into, uh, give it up for my sister, Rashida.
I'm actually coming in to support her in the Merri re-election, so this is the first time
we're both here supporting a candidate for her senate, so it's a really cool thing to
be in Michigan with you, sis.
How's everybody feeling?
I won't often campaign for people, but I knew I had to come here to support Abdul,
because there is something special happening in Michigan.
I am seeing so much hope in the politics of what's possible.
For far too long, establishment and progress have told voters we can only achieve incremental progress.
But that is simply not true.
I'm going to show you what politics should be about.
Politics should be joyful.
Politics should be about taking care of one another.
As a Minnesotan, I know something
about the spirit of the Midwest.
We know that when we look out for one another,
everyone does better.
As the great late Senator for Wells Fargo said,
politics is about the improvement of people's lives.
Lessening human suffering and advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and in the world.
And that is why I am here.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
Because this place isn't just about one Senate seat.
It's about what we believe America can become.
I know something about believing in the politics of what
is possible in our country.
I came here as a refugee, was raised by my single father,
a man who worked very, very hard every single day
and deeply believed in the promise of America.
He believed that if you did your part,
if you served your community, and if you looked out
for your neighbors, you could build
a better future, not just for your family, but for everyone else.
He believed in the power of democracy, like only someone who has experienced its absence can.
That's the America we work hard for.
Not in America where only few people get ahead,
America where every single person, no matter where they came from or what their last name
is, has the opportunity to thrive.
America opened the door for my family and because it did, I had the privilege of serving
in the United States Congress.
And that this is the America I love, not because it has always lifted up its ideals, but because
ordinary people have always thought to make those ideals real.
That is why Abdul's story speaks to me, because when I look at him, I see another child of
immigrants who believes this country is worth fighting for.
His dad came here from Egypt believing in the promise of America.
He worked hard.
His parents raised a son who had self in school, became a doctor, and earned one of the world's
most prestigious scholarships.
Then he made a decision that tells you everything you need to know about his character.
He came home.
He came home to serve Michiganders.
He didn't dedicate his life to making himself richer.
He dedicated it to making people healthier.
We understood that health care is about dignity.
That every child deserves a healthy start.
That every family deserves security.
That where you are born should not
determine how long you live.
That is the American dream.
Not as the achieving success for yourself,
but using success and service of others.
Recently we've heard some attacks
from sitting elected officials suggesting that Abdul
has allowed anti-American sentiment
to enter our public dialogue.
I want to talk about that,
because I know what it feels like
when people question your patriotism
because of your name, your faith, or because of their challenge,
the status quo.
And I reject that politics.
The patriotism is measured by who you fight for.
If you fight so every American can see a downturn
to make here for all, that is true patriotism.
If you fight so every parent can access universal child care, that is true patriotism.
If you fight so working families don't have to choose between paying the rent or putting food on the table, that is true patriotism.
If you fight so workers earn a living wage with ideas to have dignity and every child has a shot, that is true patriotism.
If you fight so that our Constitution applies to everyone, it's rights and responsibility
of life that is to repeat yourself. Because that is love of country and health. And what
it means to believe America can be better. There is nothing anti-American about believing
healthcare is a human right. There is nothing anti-American about believing housing should
be affordable. There's nothing anti-American about the legate that government should work
for working people in San Billionaires. They are the values that make America great. And
nowhere have those ideals been fought for more fiercely than here in the Midwest.
the workers didn't just build automobiles, they built the American middle class, they
proved that when workers organize and when humans are strong, our entire country becomes
better. That's why we do so much that our building has earned the trust of the labor
we've met and the people who literally build America every single day. Our workers know
Who has stood with them?
They know who has walked their picket line.
They know who has fought for manufacturing,
for collective bargaining, and for good union jobs.
Their endorsement says something profound.
That people who make America run the league of duals
will play for them in the U.S. Senate.
And that's why when I hear powerful people
whisper about electability, I laugh at them.
Nobody understands what eligibility is that I'm about to.
And that's because he understands that Michigan is built every single day by workers, by nurses, by teachers, by other workers, by factory workers, by delivery drivers, caregivers, and everyone who gets up before sunrise to build the event of life.
for their family. And those are the people who get to decide what electability looks
like here in Michigan.
So if you're ready like I am to alert someone who believes in Medicare for all, universal
child care, affordable housing, a government that serves people and their corporations,
AI and their center policy is grounded in what its guests for people and not what the corporation wants.
Economy, where our hard work is rewarded with its stability and not endless struggle,
because none of those ideas are too rapid.
And the Midwest has always been in the forefront, showing the rest of the country what the politics of joy looks like.
So we have to organize, we have to build a state that is more resilient where every president
thrives.
Now is the time to leave again.
Let's send the son of an immigrant who defies the American community to the United States
Senate.
Let's choose hope over cynicism.
Let's reject the politics that is moving in the synophobia and the vision and let's elect
Abdul Al-Qa'id, who is the United States head.
And today we're going to do this together.
Attention of the incredible Abdul Al-Qa'id.
Applause
All of us in the bottom line here... Money Outer?
All of us.
We can do that a little bit louder.
Money Outer?
All of us.
Money Outer?
All of us.
Medicare for?
All of us.
Ford Town, Money Outer?
All of us.
Medicare for?
All of us.
Medicare for?
All of us.
The White strong?
We know what we have to do.
And today, I just want to reflect on a word that people have been talking about for some time.
You heard the Congresswoman. You heard our incredible speakers.
By the way, could we have one more round of applause for our fellow members of the House?
Of course, you've been leading the fight all over this state,
and we're very, very much on that fight.
And the word is electability.
Share that word.
It's one of those many syllable words that nobody really has one definition for.
Now the simplest definition for the idea of electability is that you get elected.
But they will never use the word if you haven't been elected before.
And it's a word that gets used to highlight things about you that you can't quite repeat.
Electability.
My whole life is Abdul Rahman, Muhammad, and the Sikhs.
My first day alone has another mother's day.
Ghasals have come out of part of people's throats. They don't know what I have.
And for most of my life, I thought I made men that I would be fundamentally unalike.
Because my whole life I had mentors and people who met me say,
someday you'll run for office.
And I'm glad that you've seen my name though.
And now I'm at my college graduation.
I tell the speech sometimes on the stump.
I was without a quote in my class in Michigan,
and got to give this to the commencement teacher.
No armor.
And the only person that anybody went to go listen to that day
was a former president that they go close to.
including my old parents.
And I give my speech.
President Clinton gives his speech.
He says the really nice things about me and his speech.
My dad passed away for the first time in my whole life.
And then after his speech, he comes up to me.
He looks at me and he doesn't say,
no, thanks.
Sorry.
Why are you going to medical school?
Because I'm brown and muslin, so we do.
But I love science, and I love people, and this is how I want to serve them.
He said, that's great, but you've got to give to your speaking.
Maybe someday you'll work for office.
I literally just laughed in the space.
I said, Mr. President, could you let me say, did you see my name?
People are like, we don't get to run for office.
Thought about it for a second, and then you troubled and walked away.
I have thought that I was unalikeable for most of my life.
I didn't think politics was ever anything that I would do.
I became a doctor because I really did want to heal.
And at some point, you start to think a little bit about
the problems that you want to solve.
You're working as Detroit's health director
in a health department that they shut down.
Despite being the oldest health department
in the entire state, 185 years old.
You start looking at the decisions that get made,
you wonder who's making these decisions.
And then I'm drunk out of my canine, I said,
You know what? If that man can get elected, what the hell is the whole accountability
going to be anyway?
I'll answer the question. Didn't know when I was born. I said I'm going to go big or go
home. I'm a big young one home. But we earned $330,000.
to the second and three in a three-way climate.
The more global and sex-centric that I think folks are quite ready to hear.
Donald Trump is on himself the disease. He's just the worst symptom of the disease of our politics.
The disease is the system that allows billionaires, corporations, and special interests like ACAC
to buy and sell the politicians to rig the system against them.
And if you don't believe me, what the $70 million spent in a primary for the U.S. Senate?
What is that except for corporations and billionaires and specialty trusts trying to buy politicians
to rig the system against us?
Thank you, Mr. Trump.
Trump has been elected a second class.
I'm sitting in my office.
They closed federal funds.
Had to ask myself, where's the fight for public health?
because I'm sitting here trying to get wig checks out the door one more week or keep
our federally qualified health centers open.
And our three U.S. members announced that day that he's not seeking re-election.
And that's what we campaigned across 110 different cities now, 500 plus public events.
I get this word like the ability all the time.
Here's the interesting thing.
When people say we don't know if he's electable, it seems like they're talking about me, about
my name, about my faith, that that's actually all they're talking about.
See, there's nobody with more political experience, they name it Abul, except for maybe the Merit
of the Airport, than me in all of Michigan.
I'm pretty good at being the guy named Abul in Michigan.
We don't, they're talking about, talking about all of us, all of you, all the people in the state.
And what bothers me about that is not the comment that they're making about me,
it's the comment that they're making about the 10 million open-minded, big-hearted people in the state.
I was al-Bool the year after 9-11 when my teammates voted me for Paul Kavanaugh.
They didn't have to do that. They didn't look like me.
I was probably the first al-Bool to look closer than they meant.
And yet they saw past my name and said,
we think you'd be a good leader for our team.
Here in Michigan, we are a community that brings together
the rest of Midwest earnestness and grit.
That's what Michigan is.
And across the communities that are visited,
places like Alcastor, places like Askenau,
places like Manistit, right here in New York,
Detroit, Grand Rapids, I see that earnestness
and grit in people.
And I also see a politics that has betrayed them so much.
And on this campaign, we've taken the time to go and listen to people, to understand their challenges,
to recognize the pain they feel when they have to pay a bill they can't.
When they go to the grocery store and their kid says,
can we get that? And they say, I don't know, I think I've been wanting for that.
When they drop their kids off at school and wonder why that school looks exactly like it did when they went there.
When they drive over that same car, hold it over and over and over again.
Michigan's earnestness and grit, they've been betrayed by the politicians who say they serve us.
And so as I've traveled the state taking the time to listen and learn and pay attention to the problems people have
and share ideas about what we can do to address their problems, you know, people don't ask, how do you pray?
But I have been asked, what do you pray for?
People don't care as much about my name. They care if I care to remember their name.
I say this in Dearborn where a lot of folks happen to share an ethnicity with me.
The experience of being an Arab and a Muslim in Michigan is the experience of consistently watching as your state uplifts and empowers and embraces you.
That's been my experience.
And so I get real pissed off when they say,
oh, you're on a blacklist because your name is out of rule.
Because for me, I push back and say, you don't know Michigan like I know Michigan.
You don't know Michigan better than I know Michigan better.
You don't know where our state needs and deserves that.
I know where our state needs and deserves that.
You have lessons in Michigan better than what they need.
If you think the best possible politics for people as earnest and as free as Michiganders are is the politics that sells them off to the highest bidder, whether it's DTE or B-Pros or Big Tech or Big Farmer, whether it's A-Pack,
Then you don't understand Michigan. If you think what's electable in Michigan has more
to do with a name than it has to do with the politics that delivers, you don't know Michigan.
Here's where we are.
They're going to spend $70 million in this race.
They're going to set two records.
I keep waiting for the Guinness Book of World Records people to be like, there's no record
here.
I want the black.
8-Pack has never spent more to beat one single candidate. Honestly, I'm fun.
Woo!
Applause
Beyond 8-Pack, the big corporations who are funding all of these other super-packs,
Collectively, they set another record, more money spent in a senatorial primary than ever before in history.
And they're not spending it against me yet.
I face my bill intact. Oh, I keep touching the bill intact.
Oh, Nierga took my face that much.
They're spending it against me.
Against the movement of people coming together for the politics we need and deserve.
They're spending it against more good wills, more open heart, more big money.
They're spending it against more wills against a lot of politics that actually shows you that money isn't about me.
It's about what they think they can make you think about you.
And they think that somehow 30-second commercials are going to change your fundamental experience of living right now.
They think they can get you to stop paying attention to the fact that your health care
is unattainable, that your groceries are unaffordable, and that we are wasting your tax dollars to
fight wars for new genocides that have nothing to do with your best interests and are at
the same time raising your gas prices to make that unaffordable too.
They think they can trick you, but here's the thing, we always knew that this was coming
and we always knew that we should gain better support bigger than that.
So here's where we are. We've got three days left. I don't even know how to count this.
You count today, you count election day, I don't even know.
Three, four days, you know, I take counting weights each person.
We've got tomorrow, Sunday, and Monday to get out of the way.
We've got to make a point. I know you've probably seen the polls. Polls don't vote people vote.
Don't pay any attention to what the polls say.
We've got to make a point, though, about what politics ought to be moving forward.
So my ask of you is that beyond the $70 million in lives that they spent,
The 70 million dollars attempting to drag us into the most cynical politics.
Beyond the 70 million dollars in Ava for Ava for Ava, they have money we got from men.
And I am asking you to put yourself into this movement every day for the next three days
and the next 13 weeks after that.
If you watch those ads and thought to yourself how cynical do they think this is?
Your answer has to be in the hope that you bring to those doors, those phone calls for
the next three days.
Our politics are so much bigger than being dragged in and mugged in ads.
Our politics are about the ability to look someone in the eye and have an honest conversation
about who we are and who we want to be.
We get the opportunity to do that in the next three days.
And I'll just finish here.
As a kid who understood just how blessed I was
to grow up in America, because I would have summers
in the place that look for the accident of history,
I should have been born in, where there is no democracy.
Our democracy is only as good as the choices we make
to use it.
So if you want to send me an argument to them about what kind of politics we will accept
here in Michigan, I want to make an argument to each other about what we really can't
have, a movement that's honest about getting money out of our politics so that we can put
money back in pockets by standing with unions, by taxing zillionaires their wealth, by keeping
By keeping our money here at home, and setting it at a wall and wall.
By standing up to work with monopolies that are adopted.
By finally fulfilling the promise and guaranteeing healthcare to every single person in this world.
By ending the dark wars we never should have been fighting on behalf of other governments.
by ending the children in our streets the whole time, by taking our democracy back,
winning the future for our kids and grandkids who will ask us what we did in this moment.
You get to have those conversations every day for the next three days.
And then, willing for the next 13 weeks, and then god willing for the next six years,
because this is not about OUSSN.
It's not about me, not even about you.
This is about us, and the collective we want to build
and what that means for the future we deserve,
and we also hand it off to our kids.
Dear Warren, thank you so much for showing up for that.
Let's go win this race!
I need your attention for three to four minutes. I know we've already done a big training, but this is an easy one. I mean everyone can follow five simple steps.
Can everyone raise their hands so they don't have a point of view like this?
Of course.
If you don't have a point of view like this, can you please raise your hand?
Okay, so they don't stand at all like the whole convention.
So I want everyone to take a look at the people who are working on this.
First, if you're going to sit on the bottom, this is how we're going to make a meeting.
Oh, everyone is standing at the barcode.
You're not from here.
You can start down the way you are.
This school is what we call open-voting.
This is what we call open-voting.
Originally I'm a Turkish.
I live in Atlanta.
Basically I'm an old man.
I was in a show.
They started to do that.
It's a really interesting moment for all of us today.
So as you download your app,
as you create your own tasks,
you can add to your code.
The second one, the best.
I like it.
All of our codes.
At least it's how I'm going to keep code.
You are our core team.
It's 503.135.
That's a big picture of how nice it is to come home.
There's going to be a lot of seats.
I know, like, there's all the events, but...
Be this.
There's a lot of seats.
There's a lot of seats.
There's a lot of seats.
There's a lot of seats.
You can take a time or two in this class.
There's a lot of seats.
There's a lot of seats.
There's a lot of seats.
And we see dignified the voters of Hawaii,
which is what I was really frustrated by,
when I was
Oh nice lens oh, yeah
I'm gonna grab a water and I think we can
Are you gonna fit in for that? Are you gonna? No, I'm gonna head out. I mean I guess I could
I said no to it earlier. It's just all the all the people that are here, right?
Adam, Duel, Elfan, and Ishida.
And then Amami.
They're not her part?
No, they're not her part.
They have like a safe fence the whole time.
Oh, okay.
I don't know. I don't like it.
It's like a mommy, right?
Yeah.
And who else?
And then you sit this before me.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, she asked me to be a part of it, but I was like, I don't know.
I don't need to take up space there, it's fine.
That was a really dramatic entry today.
Yeah, of course. What do you want me to say?
She's pretty cute.
Yeah.
Mom, son has a message for you.
You're very attractive, and I'm sure you're here.
Her name's Paris.
It's beautiful name.
Thank you.
She's gonna like, rewind that.
You got it.
You got it.
I'm sure there are a lot of moms that would do like that for you.
I was trying to show you like the way you show your audience.
Yeah, yeah, no, no.
There are definitely moms.
There are definitely moms in the audience.
See, I said, because I didn't know you were going to come here otherwise I'd be like,
mom, you have to come.
Oh, not me.
You still have to come.
You don't have to.
You don't have to literally just help them.
What?
Marky.
Marky.
He's just doing some nonsense
You know this is also a building. It's a good space. This was my water, okay
And it's on call with it whenever you want it
Um, I'm trying to figure out if I should go back or if I should end it here because I'm tired. It's 8 30
Yeah, I think because we got a big day tomorrow. I'm gonna end it here on this note chat
What's up
Monday at 4 p.m. You can RSVP at
at mobilized.us slash Donovan beginning for progress.
There you go.
There you go.
All right.
I am gonna end here, but I'll be live tomorrow
at the regular hour,
because we actually started late today,
because we were in transit,
but we got a bunch of stuff going on tomorrow.
Let me look through the schedule real quick.
We got regular desktop stream,
And then we might go out and do man on the street stuff potentially and then we have
dinner with Donovan at 6 30 p.m. We're gonna be having some Detroit pizza which I'm very
excited about personally. I do love me some Detroit pizzas I talked about already and
And yeah, good seeing you.
But this is the first day of events and we'll do a little bit more situation monitoring,
a little bit more news coverage tomorrow, more desktop stuff before we get out and do
other things.
Anyway, love you guys.
Thank you for tuning in.
And thank you for watching, and we'll see you.
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