Kamala's New Reliance On John Bolton & Other Warmongers; Liberal Attack On Disobedient Non-White Voters; Nick Cruse On Kamala's Desperate Pandering
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Welcome to a new episode of System Update, our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 p.m.
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Tonight, Donald Trump gave a speech earlier today, or I believe last week, in which he denounced the warmongering of George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Barack Obama as achieving nothing other than what he said was, quote, leaving a bunch of dead people.
Meanwhile, Kamala Harris' campaign, apparently unsatisfied with continuing to drag around Dick and Liz Cheney, released a new ad featuring the wise words of one John Bolton, the person who is almost certainly the most psychotic and unhinged warmonger to reach national office in the last several decades.
Perhaps only John McCain and Lindsey Graham compete with him for that title.
The Harris campaign continues to be shaped and driven by reliance on the support of some of the worst sociopaths of the D.C. swamp and the military-industrial complex.
And when one views the ideology and policies of the Democratic Party, that all makes sense.
And we'll examine all of that.
Both public polls and campaign internal polls continue to show the worst nightmare possible for the Democratic Party and the Harris campaign, namely the ongoing migration of both Latino voters and even black voters, primarily black men, away from the Democratic Party and toward Donald Trump.
We've actually seen this trend for several years now, even as the national media spends every day calling Donald Trump a white supremacist.
But it has intensified over the last year with more and more non-white voters signifying that they don't want to vote for the Democratic Party.
And while the Harris campaign reacts with desperate pandering or hauling out actoring accusations of misogyny from Barack Obama, liberal media outlets like the New York Times do what they always do, We'll
take a look at the New York Times' latest attack, basically, on the intelligence of nonwhite voters who refuse to do as they're told.
And finally... Nick Cruz of the Revolutionary Blackout Network is one of the most vocal and incisive critics of the Democratic Party and its condescending tactics to deceive various groups of voters to believe that they're on their side.
He is a friend of the show he's been on before because of how great his commentary is.
And he has a lot to say about Kamala's latest desperate last minute pandering, including her brand new agenda for the black man and the blatantly false gestures she and her campaign and followers are now making on Israel and Gaza.
And he'll talk with us tonight about all of that and more.
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One of the main points on which I've focused essentially for the last eight years has been the obvious realignment taking place ever since it became apparent that Donald Trump and his very unorthodox policy views for a Republican candidate would actually prevail and would begin to reshape the political landscape.
There was obviously a large part of that, which was about economic populism in a way the Democratic Party had abandoned and never gotten near since at least three or four decades ago with the emergence of Bill Clinton and his linking of the Democratic Party to a strictly corporatist agenda and donor base.
But it was even more true when it came to foreign policy, where Trump's campaign in 2016 was based on a very vocal and emphatic repudiation of the foreign policy of George Bush and Dick Cheney and Barack Obama and neoconservatism and the idea that the United States should go around the world fighting all sorts of pointless wars.
And although there were things that Trump administration did like sending arms to Ukraine, lethal arms to Ukraine, and other things that one can definitely argue with, nonetheless it is just the case, it is just a historical fact that Donald Trump was the first president in decades not to involve the U.S. in a new war, unlike say the Biden administration's involvement of the U.S. in the war in Ukraine and Russia,
our involvement in the war by Israel in Gaza, the broader Middle East wars where we deployed military assets and bombed the Houthis in Yemen and various sectors of Iraq.
There was no new war that the Trump administration and Donald Trump got the U.S. involved into.
Meanwhile, Kamala Harris' campaign continues to rely on the endorsements and the support of basically the worst warmongers that the United States knows and has seen over the last several decades.
Obviously, we spent a lot of time covering the fact that she has repeatedly touted as though it's something to be proud of the fact that Liz Cheney and Dick Cheney have endorsed her and not just touted the endorsement, but he prays on them for doing so.
He prays on Dick Cheney as a great patriot, someone who has served his country with such honor and distinction, Dick Cheney.
She has a new ad, Kamala Harris does, for this closing part of the campaign.
It was produced last month.
It's now up in multiple swing states.
And the people who she's touting and whose words she's elevating as someone that you should listen to are, on some level, even worse than Dick and Liz Cheney.
Here they are. In 2016, Donald Trump said he would choose only the best people to work in his White House.
Now those people have a warning for America.
Trump is not fit to be president again.
Here's his vice president.
Anyone who puts himself over the Constitution should never be president of the United States.
It should come as no surprise that I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year.
His defense secretary.
Do you think Trump can be trusted with the nation's secrets ever again?
No. I mean, it's just irresponsible action that places our service members at risk, places our nation's security at risk.
His national security advisor.
Donald Trump will cause a lot of damage.
The only thing he cares about is Donald Trump.
And the nation's highest ranking military officer.
We don't take an oath to a king, or a queen, or a tyrant, or a dictator.
And we don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator.
Take it from the people who knew him best.
Donald Trump is a danger to our troops and our democracy.
We can't let him lead our country again.
I'm Kamala Harris, and I approve this message.
So, there you have it.
These are people who, in the case of John Bolton, and Mike Pence for that matter, are fanatical warmongers, have supported basically every U.S. war of the past 20 years, but have proposed and advocated for many others.
In fact, Bolton left when Trump wouldn't take more aggressive action against Iran, wouldn't pursue the coup that he wanted to engineer in Venezuela, when he essentially, Trump did, was resisting all sorts of further aggression that Bolton has long advocated throughout the world.
And this is who Kamala Harris is now presenting as some wise statesman whose voice should be heard and listened to as some kind of guru of national security, where if he dislikes Trump, That means, given how wise and noble John Bolton is, it means that you too should not trust Trump.
And then you have people like Mark Espers, who was Donald Trump's defense secretary, who, although Trump did appoint him, is straight from the military-industrial swamp, somebody who has been in and out of the revolving doors in military corporations and the Defense Department.
And of course, he too hates Trump for not pursuing the standard foreign policy that has governed the United States for decades.
And then other orthodoxies that Trump challenges, like membership in NATO, that are central to the entire war-making machine of the United States.
Of course, these people not only don't want Trump, but hope that Kamala Harris wins.
And the fact that Kamala Harris continues to put these people front and center, John Bolton, who was so anathema to Democratic Party politics that during the Bush administration, when Bush could get everything he wanted because it was in the wake of 9-11, John Bolton was the only bridge too far for congressional Democrats, and even for some Republicans.
When Bush tried to nominate him for a position that required congressional approval and Senate confirmation, the Senate rejected his nomination, John Bolton, because he was just such a madman, such a fanatic.
This is who now forms one of the centerpieces of Kamala Harris' argument that she is better than Donald Trump.
Now, here, speaking of sociopathic neocons and warmongers, the Jewish insider yesterday had an article entitled, quote, Never Trump Republicans Make a Conservative Jewish Case for Kamala Harris.
And the people they're referring to are Bill Kristol, Who I guess I should have put in, along with Lindsey Graham and John McCain, is one of the only people who could compete with John Bolton when it comes to sociopathic warmongering, and Elliot Cohen, who worked in various positions in the Bush-Cheney administration, who is a long time one of the core neocon architects of war in the Middle East to protect Israel.
And here's Bill Kristol and Elliot Cohen arguing that, despite some disagreements, Kamala Harris is pro-Israel and would be a more consistent and reliable hand in foreign policy than Donald Trump.
Now, if anything should be disqualifying for a presidential candidate, it's for Bill Kristol to think that you are the best steward of foreign policy, both in the Middle East when it comes to Israel and beyond.
Everything Bill Kristol has ever put his hands on Has turned to garbage.
We devoted an entire show to Bill Kristol on his history, how he was advocating for regime change wars in Iraq and Iran well before 9-11 throughout the 90s and then immediately helped exploit 9-11 in order to get those wars that he had long wanted for reasons having nothing to do with American interests.
He supported torture and rendition and Guantanamo and due process-free punishments.
And was one of the people who wanted to go from Baghdad to Tehran and not just overthrow Saddam Hussein, but also the Iranian government, and to do so in Syria, to do so in Libya.
And, of course, he's now a fanatical supporter of the war in Ukraine.
It's just he wind Bill Kristol up, and his function in life is to urge America to go to war for whatever interests he cares most about.
And here he is arguing that Kamala Harris is not just important to support because of Bill Kristol's deep love of democracy, but also because she would be best for Israel.
She would be best for the Middle East and best for foreign policy in general better than Trump.
Quote, Bill Kristol acknowledged that Harris, quote, probably isn't quite as good as she could be on Israel.
But argued that few administrations, including that of George Bush, have entirely been on the same page as Israel.
So he's saying, look, we want her to just be a blind clone of whatever Israel wants she does.
And unfortunately, she doesn't obey Israel in every single instance obediently, but he says no president does, even George W. Bush.
But he says, nonetheless, quote, "'Kamala Harris may not be entirely perfect, "'but for some people's point of view, "'but directionally it's just fundamentally different, "'and Kamala Harris is on the right side "'of this directional vector, "'and Trump is on the Buchanan side,' Crystal said, "'referring to the hard-right isolationist "'GOP presidential candidate, Pat Buchanan, "'who you may recall ran a very successful primary campaign "'against the incumbent president, George Bush, 41, "'by arguing that the United States
"'was simply too interventionist and too aggressive "'and too militaristic around the world "'at the expense of the American people, "'benefiting a tiny elite,' "'which then became Ron Paul's outlook.'" Where he also did extremely well despite almost no institutional support in the Republican primary both times he ran and then that carried over into 2016 when that became Donald Trump's view.
So if you look at Bill Kristol and his history on the one hand, including his fanatical support for the invasion of Iraq, and then you look at, say, Pat Buchanan on the other, which is the person whom he's contrasting and comparing to Trump, Pat Buchanan was an outspoken and vocal opponent of the war in Iraq.
If you go back and read Pat Buchanan's 2002 and 2003 articles, whatever you want to say about Pat Buchanan, few people are as historically knowledgeable and as good of a writer as he is.
And he was one of the very few people not wishy-washy in his opposition to the war in Iraq.
Iraq saying, oh, maybe we should wait to see the inspectors do their job, or let's see if there's weapons of mass destruction.
He knew exactly and predicted exactly that the United States would end up getting caught up in an endless war, totally incapable of controlling that country, having a huge civil war, uniting the Shia and the Sunnis against the United States, which we were told was impossible, and basically predicting everything that would happen.
While all these people that Kamala Harris is building her campaign around, obviously beginning with Dick Cheney and going to Bill Kristol and everybody else, were the people cheering not only for that, along with much of the Democratic Party, including Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, John Kerry, but who now want constant interventions in other parts of the world.
That just is the foreign policy of the Democratic Party, which is why I often say If I were Bill Kristol, if I were Dick Cheney, I also would support the Kamala Harris campaign.
Because as Liz Cheney has often argued, continuously, the Democratic Party and Kamala Harris are much closer to the neocons and to the Cheney's foreign policy view than a Trump-led GOP is.
Now, Donald Trump himself spoke last week at the Detroit Economic Club, and he shared some of his views on foreign policy.
And you can understand why people like Dick Cheney and Bill Kristol are so concerned about how he sees the role of the U.S. in the world.
Here's part of what he said. They didn't do that either.
So we go and we blow up countries and then we leave.
We got nothing except dead people all over the place on both sides.
How stupid are we?
That was a Cheney deal and a Bush.
How stupid are we?
Not just Democrats.
It's both. I'm equally angry at both.
So that is his view of foreign policy that he's been expressing since 2016.
And, as I said, it wasn't just rhetoric.
He followed through, not in all ways, but certainly in some important ways, including by being the first president decades not to involve the U.S. in exactly those kinds of wars.
While people like Bill Kristol and Dick Cheney and all the Lincoln Project people, former Republican neocons who are supporters of John McCain, and many in the Democratic Party, including Kamala Harris, support everyone, one after the next.
Speaking of the Lincoln Project scumbags, the people like Rick Wilson and founded by Steve Schmidt, who have been pilfering the money from gullible liberals to build what they boasted of what they were achieving, which was, quote, intergenerational wealth.
They have not only been opposed to Trump since 2016, but fanatically supportive of the Democratic Party.
First Hillary Clinton, then Joe Biden, now Kamala Harris, and they have an ad Which these ads don't actually have an impact.
They're never really, they're put anywhere.
They're just designed to stimulate the id of gullible resistance liberals into giving them more money.
But it does often reflect the ethos of the pro-Kamala, pro-Democratic Party forces that have really taken center stage.
People like those who founded the Lincoln Project.
And here's what their ad shows.
We never got along.
Correct. You were a warmonger.
And you were a commie.
Surprising to be on the same side as you.
Surprising to me too.
I'm still on the left.
I'm still on the right.
But if we can agree on Trump.
It means something big.
Bigger than policy.
Bigger than ideology. We are both voting for Kamala Harris.
Because this election is a choice between America.
Or Trump. Isn't that adorable?
Bernie Sanders and Dick Cheney and Bill Kristol are all on the same side.
And this is supposed to somehow be encouraging American voters to actually think that the confederation of establishment figures is somehow a good sign that if they vote for Kamala, things are going to actually change.
This is the sort of thing that impresses Beltway media and Beltway politicians.
Like, oh wow, she's been able to get establishment Republicans on her side.
That's going to be really good for swing voters in Pennsylvania.
But what they continue to not understand is that most of this voting, most of the sentiments of these voters who aren't already Democrats is anti-establishment.
They hate Washington. They hate the status quo.
And they originally were open to Kamala because she was presenting herself and appearing to be a sort of candidate of change.
And the Trump campaign has done a good job, as has the Kamala Harris campaign, of reminding everybody that she's actually been in power for the last four years.
And when asked what she would do differently than Joe Biden, she was unable to identify a single thing.
So, so much of this is the kind of thing that inside the Beltway DC strategists think is effective, that media figures swoon over.
It reminds me a lot of one of the funniest incidents, which is when Donald Trump was running for president in 2016.
It was actually in 2015, he was leading the polls and every political journalist was saying, of this is never gonna last.
This is like when Michelle Bachman had her lead or Ben Carson or all these other people, and then they always collapse.
And in 2015, it was when John McCain started speaking very poorly of Trump.
And so when Trump was asked about John McCain, that was when he gave his notorious slash famous remark, which is...
Yeah, John McCain was in the military, but I prefer people who aren't caught, who don't end up as prisoners of war.
He got caught. His plane crashed.
And I remember media figures, including the dean of political journalism, Dan Baltz of the Washington Post, wrote articles saying, oh, this is the end of Trump.
You're going to start to see his polling collapse.
You can't speak guilty ill of John McCain, this beloved figure.
John McCain wasn't beloved by anybody except the D.C. press.
He ran for president in 2008 and got killed by Barack Obama.
But that's how they think.
They think that everybody reveres this kind of confederation of establishment figures like they do.
Now, back in 2020, there was this remarkable controversy surrounding the Bernie Sanders campaign.
Essentially, Joe Rogan had come out and said that Bernie was his favorite candidate and he would likely vote for Bernie.
And one of the things the Sanders campaign did was begin touting the support of Bernie Sanders by Joe Rogan.
I think I'll probably vote for Bernie...
He's been insanely consistent his entire life.
He's basically been saying the same thing, been for the same thing his whole life, and that in and of itself is a very powerful structure to operate from.
Now, the very same people who are completely fine with Kamala Harris building her campaign around people like Dick Cheney and Bill Kristol and John Bolton, the worst and most destructive people on the planet,
Back in 2020, Claim, they were so offended that Bernie Sanders would tout the endorsement of Joe Rogan that he should immediately have to rescind and reject that endorsement because Joe Rogan is so toxic, such a racist, such a hater of LGBT people that Bernie Sanders should be nowhere near Joe Rogan when it comes to his campaign.
And here's the BBC in January 2020, quote, Bernie Sanders faces ire Over Joe Rogan endorsement.
Quote, The decision to highlight the association with Mr.
Rogan provoked criticism of some of Mr.
Sanders' own backers.
In particular, there has been heavy criticism from some transgender women who have labeled Mr.
Rogan, quote, transphobic over previous comments he has made on his show.
So apparently Joe Rogan is completely beyond the pale as someone whose support you can tout.
And the modern-day Democratic Party, because of his heresy on social issues, but people like Dick Cheney, John Bolton, and Bill Kristol are to be celebrated on the grounds that we need to get as many votes as possible.
One of the people who was very upset By Joe Rogan being featured in a Bernie Sanders ad in his tweet was AOC. Here's National Review reporting in March of 2022.
The title quote, it was like pulling teeth.
AOC backed away from Sanders' campaign after the Joe Rogan endorsement.
Quote, The popular podcaster who has been criticized by LGBT activists for opposing
puberty blockers for gender-confused children.
What a monster.
What a hater.
He questions the safety and efficacy of puberty blockers, an experimental medication for gender-confused children.
He has also spoken out against the participation of biological males competing in women's sports.
And that was enough to place Bernie Sanders beyond the pale for people like AOC and for so many people, not just on the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, but also the left wing of the Democratic Party.
And here you see the real priorities of the Democratic Party.
You can be a complete war monker.
You can be a sociopath wanting to give Israel every weapon and all the money in the world, as Kamala Harris wants to do, as Bill Kristol wants to do, as obviously Dick Cheney and John Bolton, if they ever doing.
You can be somebody who has spent your whole adult life advocating wars and bombing campaigns and invasions all around the world for completely destructive You can be wrong about everything on foreign policy and not a single liberal, not AOC, not any of them, will utter a peep of objection About Kamala Harris heaping praise on Dick Cheney, heaping praise on John Bolton, featuring him in an ad, Bill Kristol.
Because the Democratic Party doesn't have any foreign policy views.
And to the extent they do, they absolutely align now with the Bush-Cheney conservatives and the neocons from that era.
And that's why so many of them are not only integrated into Kamala Harris' campaign, but major players that are featured by it.
And you don't hear a peep of protest from any of them.
The way so many people attack Bernie Sanders for the crime of attaching himself to Joe Rogan simply by citing Joe Rogan's positive words because Joe Rogan is beyond the pale because he questions puberty blockers for children and whether trans women can fairly participate in sports.
That's what is the real heresy.
But being a neocon, being Bill Kristol or Dick Cheney or wanting to arm Israel and support what they're doing in Gaza, invade other countries, go to Iran, bomb Iran, do regime change all over the world, that's completely acceptable and even praiseworthy in the modern-day Democratic Party.
and so much of Kamala Harris's campaign, more than anything else I've ever said on this topic, illustrates exactly what that party is.
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There's no secret that the Democratic Party and the liberal allies it has really do believe that there are certain quote unquote marginalized groups or minority groups who are duty bound to vote for the Democratic Party no matter what the Democratic Party does.
the Democratic Party shouldn't even have to try and convince them to vote Democrat, shouldn't even offer them anything, shouldn't have to prove that they're going to improve their lives anyway.
That simply by virtue of being in these groups, black people, Latinos, LGBTs, Muslims, Asians, that these people are duty bound to vote Democrats.
The Democrats basically have an ownership or an entitlement stake to the minds and voting preferences of people in that group.
And for a long time, they succeeded in convincing a lot of people in these groups that that is how they should think.
And yet in the last decade, basically since the emergence of Trump, but even before that, there's been some rumbling.
We see the migration of more and more non-white voters away from the Democratic Party to Trump, or sometimes just away from the Democratic Party and refusing to participate because they don't believe the Democratic Party will or wants to do anything for them.
And so what you have in the eyes of liberals is a bunch of unappreciative and disobedient non-white people, people in marginalized groups who must have something wrong with them because they are saying more and more frequently and more and more emphatically that they don't intend to vote for the Democratic Party candidate.
And you will never see anything as racist Or as homophobic Or xenophobic as how liberals respond when they see that people in groups they believe they own and control start exercising their own thinking and that thinking leads them to believe that the Democratic Party is not the place for them.
Nothing is more rage-filled or racist or bigoted than how liberals invariably react to people like that.
There's nothing they hate more than people in so-called quote unquote marginalized groups who reach any conclusion other than my duty eternally is to vote for the Democratic Party and They always look for some reason Some Flaw on the universe some flaw in these people that explains why they're not doing as they told Oftentimes it might be that you have a psychological problem If you're a black person who votes for a publican, it means that you're an Uncle Tom
or that you're psychologically broken.
If you're a gay person and you don't vote for the Democratic Party, it means that you're a self-hating gay person.
They always have some explanation, but usually their go-to explanation is that the people in these groups are simply too dumb and too incapable of thinking for themselves and that usually when they go astray, And start.
Stop toeing the line.
It's because someone has tricked them or fooled them into seeing the world differently than the way they're supposed to.
And one of the things that scares Democrats the most and has scared the Democrats most for so long is the possibility of black voters starting to realize that the Democratic Party doesn't do much for them.
same with Latinos, and they've seen that in the polls over the last eight years, but particularly in the last year, where a lot of black and Latino voters believe that they were better off under Donald Trump economically, and that his social policies align more with their values than the Democratic Party's doing.
So as a result, the New York Times has to come out and try and give an explanation as to why it is that so many non-white voters would support a candidate that they've spent eight years insisting was a white supremacist.
And so in doing so, here's what the New York Times did in demeaning the ability of non-white voters to think for themselves.
This is from October 10th.
Quote, Trump spreads his politics of grievance to nonwhite voters.
Eight years ago, he won over many white voters who were often called the forgotten Americans.
Now he hopes to make inroads with black and Latino voters by stoking resentments and pointing to scapegoats.
So it's not that black and Latino voters are coming to the conclusion on their own that the Democratic Party does nothing for them.
It's not that they're coming to the conclusion that the status quo, meaning Biden and Harris, have been quite poor for them or that untrammeled immigration is threatening to their interests.
No, it can't be any of that.
It's that Trump is contaminating them with resentment and scapegoats.
And that's the only reason they're wandering away from the Democratic Party.
Not because they think for themselves, but because Trump has tricked them, has poisoned them with his hatred.
Quote, for more than a decade, former president Donald J. Trump fueled his political rise with dark appeals to white Christian voters, warning of immigrants coming for their jobs and nefarious efforts to undermine what he describes as the country's true heritage.
Now facing a neck and neck race against the first black woman to win her party's nomination, Mr.
Trump is branching out.
Mr. Trump is seeking to win over black and Latino voters by pitting them against undocumented immigrants whom he has long blamed for a litany of economic, public safety, national security and social problems.
He's blaming an influx of undocumented immigrants.
He says they were allowed into the country by the Biden administration for voters' economic frustrations.
But Mr. Trump's foray into such targeted campaigning has gone far beyond the traditional political stops at black churches and taco stands.
So he's not confining himself to the way you're supposed to go to talk to voters, which is black churches and going to taco stands.
For instance, quote, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, the Puerto Rican rapper Onwell AA endorsed Mr.
Trump in front of a sizable white audience, an incongruity that Mr.
Trump acknowledged. Quote, I don't know if these people know who the hell you are, but it's good for the Puerto Rican vote, he said.
Every Puerto Rican vote is going to vote for Trump right now and will take it.
Donald always appeals to your dark side, said Alan Marcus, a consultant who worked for the Trump Organization in the 1990s and opposes the former president.
He deals in hate.
If he can make you hate something, he gains.
Trump campaign aides said they've been targeting black and Latino voters across battleground states hosting community events for offering free haircuts at a campaign office in Pennsylvania to small business roundtables in Georgia and Nevada. Bianca Rodriguez, director of Hispanic communications for the Trump campaign, described their efforts as quote as sharing quote President Trump's vision for improving the quality of life for Hispanic Americans many of whom are struggling under the Biden-Harris administration. But they just can't
They just cannot believe, organs like the New York Times cannot believe that black people and Latino voters actually care about the same economic issues that everybody else does.
You can go back a decade or longer and And find articles from prominent black liberal writers in standard mainstream liberal outlets warning the Democratic Party that the more supportive they are of open immigration, the more they're going to alienate black and Latino voters who perceive that immigrants are the greatest threat to them and their jobs.
This is way before Trump, this tension.
And the assumption really is that black and Latino voters only care about identity politics, where Kamala Harris speaks a better game than Trump does.
And so they get very confused.
Like, why are black and Latino voters possibly dissatisfied with the Democratic Party?
It must be because someone is fooling them.
Someone is tricking them. Here from the New York Times yesterday, you see the...
Headline there, as black voters hesitate on Harris, Democrats race to win them over.
I'm sorry, this is today.
As black voters hesitate on Harris, Democrats race to win them over.
Quote, with a frenzy of activity, the vice president and her allies are trying to strengthen her support with black voters whose growing alienation the party's leaders had not confronted directly until now.
So 25 days before the election, they suddenly decided, oh, we better do something for black people if we want them to vote for us.
They're supposed to just vote for us regardless, but apparently they're not doing that because someone is fooling them and tricking them.
Maybe it's Trump, maybe it's Russia, all of which has been blamed, as we'll show you in a second.
So now Kamala Harris and her campaign are like, wait, we need to actually show them we're going to do something for them.
They're not just willing to vote for us because they're told to any longer.
Quote, interviews with more than 3,000 black voters, strategists, and elected officials offered a complicated picture of a politically powerful group of Americans whose waning devotion to the Democratic Party stems partly from a feeling that their decades of loyalty has delivered little in return.
Similar to the working class as a whole.
Quote, Rather than unflinching supporters who will back liberal candidates without a second thought, meaning mindlessly.
Oh my God, black people are not mindless anymore.
They're thinking for themselves.
Now one of the things they tried to do to address this was send Barack Obama out to actor them and say the reason you're not voting for Kamala Harris isn't because you're dissatisfied with your economic situation or what's happening in your communities or your jobs or your businesses.
No, it's because you're misogynist.
You don't want to vote for a woman deep down.
That's the real reason. The New York Times, October 10th, a stern Barack Obama tells black men to drop, quote, their excuses and support Harris.
Quote, before speaking at a rally for Vice President Kamala Harris in Pittsburgh, the former president spoke directly to black male voters in its effort to bolster flagging support.
Former President Barack Obama traveled to Pittsburgh on Thursday to urge voters there to choose Kamala Harris in November, aiming a message at one group in particular, black men.
You're coming up with all these excuses and reasons, Obama said.
I've got a problem with that.
Part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren't feeling the idea of having a woman as president.
And you're coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for that, Obama continued, adding that quote, I mean, of course Obama can't comprehend that people might be dissatisfied with the status quo.
It's going swimmingly for him.
And this presumption that he's able to just go and talk to black voters that way, to black men that way, as though they share a common experience, is quite a leap, as many black people pointed out.
Now, if you thought I was joking or exaggerating when I said that oftentimes when non-white voters refuse to do as they're told, they'll blame this not on their ability to think for themselves or the ability of black men to reason for themselves or decide what's best for their own lives, but it must be because foreign influence campaigns are tricking them and confusing them because they get confused very easily.
Here's Van Jones on CNN in February of this year talking about polls showing how black people and black men in particular are wandering away from the Democratic Party and concluding they don't do much for their lives.
And here was his explanation. Criminal justice reform and some of the stimulus support was welcome.
So what's actually happening, though, is that there is an online influence campaign.
Correct. Some of it, I think, is coming from Russia, China, and Iran that is whipping up that conversation way unnaturally.
Yeah, but let me ask. You asked the question, I want to answer it.
So, there's a solid block that's not going to move.
There is some actual legitimate frustration and fatigue.
But there's also, and we have to talk about it more, an online influence campaign designed to depress and distress black voters and to split black voters.
And do you see how condescending and patronizing and actually quite demeaning and even racist this narrative is?
That the minute black voters or other non-white voters begin to question whether the Democratic Party is actually doing anything for their lives, it isn't because they're actually thinking for themselves.
It's not because they're genuinely dissatisfied.
Obama's argument is, no, it's because they are misogynistic and don't want to vote for a woman.
Even though this trend has been visible for quite some time, including in 2020 when Trump ran against a white man, Joe Biden.
But the media's view typically is that no marginalized group who rejects that they're the Democratic Party's property can think for themselves.
It's always some nefarious influence campaign tricking them.
Back in 2016 and into 2017, there was a large protest movement at Standing Rock where Native American tribes and others, including environmental activists, spent a Against the attempt to drill in this region and to build a pipeline in this region on the grounds that it will take away the Native Americans' land, it will cause environmental harms.
It was the sort of thing that, of course, Native Americans and a lot of left-wing activists would naturally oppose.
But because it was taking away attention from Hillary Clinton and even at some point becoming an anti-Hillary message since she supported the construction of pipelines like these, the liberal media had to explain why these people would be doing this.
And of course, again, it wasn't because they had actually been motivated by anything they came up with on their own.
Native Americans don't think for themselves. No, it's because Russia was tricking them into doing this.
Here from BuzzFeed, October 2017, quote, how Russians attempted to use Instagram to influence Native Americans.
Quote, Dear Racists in America began one Instagram meme shared by an now suspended account at Native Americans United, which is believed to be connected to a Russian troll farm.
And they went on to cite these very tiny little accounts that they claimed were from Russia.
And they claimed that that was the real reason why Native Americans and left-wing activists were not doing everything they could to support Hillary Clinton and marching for Hillary Clinton, but instead were trying to stop this pipeline because Russia tricked them into doing it.
This is how liberals think about everybody who doesn't do as they're told.
Here was Don Lemon yesterday on his YouTube show that virtually nobody watches, but nonetheless, he was a CNN figure for more than a decade.
And he actually went on CNN with Dana Bash and He said a lot of this as well, talking about why it is that so many non-white voters and particularly black men are questioning whether they should vote for the Democratic Party.
And here's his explanation.
I think those young men of all ethnicities are listening to media now.
And the media doesn't necessarily mean, as we call, quote, mainstream media or corporate media, although some of them are, but they're listening to digital, streaming, podcasts, all of this.
And in that ecosystem, everything is pretty much to the right, either center-right or far-right.
And so Black men and Latino men are listening to the same sort of media BS that white men in general are listening to.
And let's not forget the elephant in the room, right?
I don't mean the Republicans at this point, but I do, is sexism, is misogyny.
Men feel that they're being left behind, especially by women.
They're resentful of it. And whether you want to believe that or not, it is a real thing, right?
So the whole issue that has come up over the weekend since Barack Obama, you know, gave his speech in Pennsylvania, I believe it was on Thursday night, and then went to a black voters summit and spoke out about what's going on.
Yes, thank you.
Tink66, I agree with you.
I did see that. But there's even beyond what Roland did on his program.
This goes even beyond that.
So ever since Barack Obama did his speech or spoke to folks at the Black Voter Summit, basically people feeling he's chastising Black men, I think telling the truth, many people don't want to hear it.
So, just like we talked about with Martha Raddatz last night, Don Lemon lives in a multi-million dollar townhouse in Manhattan with his husband and spends much of his time at his multi-million dollar house in the Hamptons where he has parties and a lot of big media figures.
Don Lemon, just like Martha Raddatz and all these people, could not have a life any more detached from the people whom they're maligning and purporting to analyze.
But he simply can't believe, Don Lemon can't believe, that black men are looking at their lives, making their own judgments about which party is good for them and which party isn't.
It must be that they're just hooked into, like some sort of addicts, this right-wing echo chamber online, the same programs white men are listening to, and are being deceived and tricked.
Into believing that Democrats aren't great for them and they should somehow question their mindless, as the New York Times called it, their mindless loyalty to the Democratic Party.
This is what liberals do the minute any member of a marginalized group begins to think for themselves.
As I said, you will hear nothing more racist and nothing more revolting than when they try and explain why these people aren't doing what they're told anymore.
And of course, the most notorious clip illustrating this belief on the part of the Democratic Party that they own black voters was when Joe Biden made his notorious comment when he was on The Breakfast Club, where he said this.
Thank you so much. That's really our time.
I apologize. You can't do that to black media.
I can't do that to white media and black media because my wife has to go on at six o'clock.
Okay. Oh, I'm in trouble.
Listen, you got to come see us when you come to New York, VP Biden.
I will. It's a long way until November.
We got more questions.
You got more questions.
But I tell you, if you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black.
It don't happen. I mean, that was, it boiled down to its ultimate essence that if you are black, you have the automatic obligation simply by virtue of being black not to consider any of your options, not to think about who's doing what for your life.
Your overarching obligation is to pledge your blind, unthinking obedience to the Democratic Party.
And if you don't do that, the minute you question it, as he said, it means you're not really black.
Because real black people stay in line, captive to and obedient to the Democratic Party.
I mean, the racism is so extreme.
It's like you just scratch it.
It's right on the surface. And it emerges.
You don't even have to scratch it.
So blatantly, the minute they start perceiving that any of the people in these groups that they believe they own, primarily black voters, Start thinking for themselves.
The kind of racist analysis about why that is is almost unlike anything else that you will hear so overtly in the discourse.
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It is always great to talk to a good friend of our show, the founder of the Revolutionary Blackout Network, where he does some of the most incisive and provocative and amusing commentary about the state of our politics, about the Democratic Party in particular, but just the 2024 election in general.
He is Nick Cruz, and it is always great to see you, Nick.
Thanks for coming on. Hey, I appreciate you having me on.
Thanks for the invite. Absolutely.
So, all right, let's start with the decision by the Harris campaign, by Kamala Harris, 26 days before the election, that they suddenly needed to start talking about what they intend to do for black voters and for black men in particular.
It's like they kind of woke up after all these years and Kamala Harris was like, oh, I guess we need to talk about black men because there's signs that they're not actually going to stay in line and do what they're told and vote for me automatically, regardless of how I treat them.
So they unveiled this, I forget exactly what they're calling it, agenda for black men or opportunity for black men, and it contained a bunch of planks of what they think black men want to hear, that they decided to announce and unveil less than a month before the election.
What are your thoughts on that happening and the platform itself?
Yeah, I think it's just another insult from the Democratic Party.
Their message to Black men essentially was, smoke some weed, invest in crypto, and shut up.
And this is the general attitude of the Democratic Party.
And you did a great intro explaining how Kamala Harris is blaming the dissent.
That Black people have regarding the neoliberal regime, the Zionist regime, they're blaming that on Russia.
Apparently, the only reason I started Revolutionary Blackout and I speak out against the crimes of the Democratic Party, the reason why I speak out against cop cities, the reason why I speak out against the war crimes that they are committing in Gaza, them bombing Africa and their use of sanctions that impact one-fourth of the world's population, apparently, according to them, Glenn, The only reason I'm upset is because Russia is brainwashing me.
The insults that the Democratic Party commits against the Black people will make the Republicans envious, the same way they invited George Floyd to the White House, only to make a bill to give his killers more money.
The insults that whenever they want to talk to the Black community, they bring on a celebrity to shake their ass.
They bring on, what's her name, a horse lady.
Megan Thee Stallion, the horse lady, Oprah.
And that's how they communicate with us.
Apparently, there's no black intellectuals, Glenn.
And now Charlamagne Tha God, who allowed Joe Biden to insult our community, he's allowed to talk to Kamala Harris.
What is this guy?
And why do we care about what he says?
Why does the liberal class trust him so much?
What other communities do they rely on celebrities to discuss issues that's important to the community?
Because according to the Zionist entity, the number one threat to black Americans.
According to Pew Research, black Americans, especially young black Americans, the RBN community, for example, We are among the most progressive, and I'm not talking about liberal nonsense, because there was also a few research.
Americans, they support institutional forms.
They show that white liberals, they prefer having a holiday.
Certainly having Kamala Harris, the first female Black president.
So we have two completely different approaches.
We want to see policy that actually improve the status of the Black proletariat and prevent our Black labor from being exploited.
Not crypto nonsense.
Not trickle-down economics for the Black community.
Liberals claim, Glenn, that they don't support trickle-down economics, but whenever they bring up anything with the Black community, they say, let's just give Black capitalists and Black business owners money And as if that's gonna address the needs of the Black proletariat and the Black working class, the question we should be asking liberals is, what is the plan for the Black working class, the Black poor, the Black Americans that hold record amount of medical debt?
They said they have a health initiative?
What's a health initiative?
Are you solving the issue of medical debt that's plaguing our community?
No. So that's the question that we've been asking, Glenn, is what is the real actual black agenda?
And they have none.
Well, this is, I think you hit on something so important.
You know, last night we talked about this exchange that J.D. Vance had with Martha Raddatz about immigration.
Whatever your view on immigration is, and I personally believe that immigration does a lot of good for a country, that it actually has helped build the United States in a very positive way.
Nonetheless, there's no doubt that there are costs to immigration when it arrives in the community, that there's people's jobs who become at stake, there's difficulty in assimilating culturally.
I mean, these are things that have to be worked on.
But for people who live in places like where Martha Raddatz lives, There's no sense of that at all because that isn't the type of community that has to ever deal with those needs or those difficulties and so everything becomes an abstraction.
And the idea of wheeling out these multi-millionaire or billionaire black celebrities or Barack Obama as though they have anything to do with the lives of black working class people who are primarily the ones moving away from the Democratic Party.
To me, what it seems like is, aside from the assumption that non-white voters and marginalized people can't think for themselves the minute they stop doing what they're told, the other narrative implicit in this seems to me to be that The ordinary black voter,
meaning the black working class voter, the black middle class voter, the black poor voter, thinks and cares about the same things that black elites on TV care about, who work for CNN or Don LeMond or Don Lemon or Van Jones or those kind of people, Meaning, they care about identity politics, they care about symbolism, they care about social issues.
And the assumption always seems to be that black voters don't look at politics the same way everybody else does, from a material perspective.
Namely, what about our jobs and what about our cost of living and what about our inflation and our housing ability and ability to buy a home?
And that is why they have so much trouble believing that black voters and non-white voters are moving away from the Democratic Party because to them, they hear Kamala Harris spouting all these nice phrases.
She has Oprah and Magic Johnson and, you know, yeah, Megan Thee Stallion and a lot of black celebrities on her side.
So why would black people not?
Be swept up on this.
The assumption is that black people don't have the same lives as everybody else has and don't have the same concerns as everybody else has, say, in the working class or in the middle class or poor people.
Do you sense that in this kind of discourse?
The difference between in the class and the black community isn't as vast as it is.
There's a reason why you see the black celebrity class, the loudness, because the same way with the bourgeoisie, they care for issues.
And Glenn, I can see you covered it on Revolutionary Blackout.
The 2022 Pew Research Poll Black Americans, we support systemic...
Like, liberalism makes my skin cross the...
The making June holiday, the can't-take-cloth kneeling, that's not what the Black community, and that's not what the Black proletariat, especially the young Black people, support.
We support reigning in Wall Street, the same Wall Street that collapsed and tanked Black wealth, and Obama teamed with Eric Holder, Wall Street, and let people who committed financial fraud against our community go.
We want to see that kind of systemic reform.
We want to see the end of cop cities and systemic ways of stealing our wealth like civil asset forfeiture.
Now, you brought up immigration before, and I'm very sympathetic to the perils of the proletariat.
But I want people to look at what the ruling class is really doing.
The immigration crisis is the result of endless sanctions.
We spend billions of dollars financing Israel and their genocide.
We spend billions of dollars fighting Russia and funding the Ukrainian war.
And you want to know the people who fund this?
It's the Black Congressional Caucus.
It's all the war hawks.
Every single member of the Black Congressional Caucus supports sending our money overseas instead of taking care of our communities.
So it just rubbed me the wrong way for us to fight over crimes.
I think we need to take our ire and our anger out on the ruling class who created the immigration crisis, who implemented sanctions, who used our resources to fund their geopolitical project of global domination.
That is what's drying our communities out.
And you have the military poisoning our water.
And young black people, Glenn, understand this.
This is why young Black people, as I mentioned before, the ADL view us as the biggest threat to the Zionist project.
They view us as the biggest threat to the empire because a part of the systemic change that we want to see is the end of the empire that is siphoning resources from our community.
So don't get me twisted.
I am sympathetic for workers feeling like there are not enough resources and I understand that migration may have an effect on that, but there's a ton of corporate bailouts, a ton of actions of the ruling class that they engaged in that young black people see as well, and we want to see systemically change.
Yeah, absolutely. And I actually don't think that That most of the concerns about immigration are based on dislike for or hatred of or a lack of empathy for the people who are coming to this country.
I really don't believe that.
I mean, obviously that's part of it.
There's some people motivated by that.
But I really don't think it's that.
I really do think that it's this idea that...
There are economic sectors that benefit a great deal.
When I first started writing about politics, the idea of open borders immigration was something that, like, Karl Rove and George Bush and Dick Cheney wanted with the Chamber of Commerce because it was seen as something that would drive down wages by making labor more available and cheaper as well.
And at the time, the left, you know, labor unions and a lot of leftists were against it.
And I guess what I'm really saying is that, you know, There's this assumption that non-white voters vote on these kind of symbolic identity politics issues that typically you'll hear non-white elites who get invited onto these shows talk about or professional activists who talk about it that just have no connection to the lives of black people.
Let me ask you one more thing.
Let's say that it's so condescending and it's just so patronizing to have Kamala Harris, of all people, come out with this thing less than a month before the election.
And especially for one of them to be legalized marijuana, which isn't just about telling black people to go smoke marijuana.
It's true that the criminalization of marijuana has been a sort of way to criminalize black neighborhoods in a way that white users of marijuana aren't subjected to, etc.
But At the same time, her history as a prosecutor was a very aggressive criminalization of non-violent drug offenders, including people found guilty of doing nothing other than smoke marijuana.
But let's leave aside all the cynicism about how this was suddenly unleashed.
And the fact that it's Kamala Harris of all people who's pretending to believe in these things.
If there had been this kind of more sustained attempt over years, not just to have policy papers like this, but to actually implement policies.
That's the sort of thing that I do think might have resonated more with black voters than pretending at the last minute when you see polls with a lot of non-white voters leaving that you're gonna do.
I mean, do they actually think that people are that dumb that they're gonna be fooled by this last minute set of promises that they just kind of threw together?
Unfortunately, it works on a few, the low-info voters in our community.
I don't mean that by any disrespect.
That's why I said that Kamala's laughable Black agenda, and I dismantled it on RBN earlier today, that's not for me.
To win over informed Black voters, that's for white liberals.
That's for the propagandists who say that Kamala has a black agenda.
And then they can trick people who are busy with their life.
Once again, I don't say that when they're in judgment, they're busy with their life, but then they see some celebrity they like.
They like listening to their music.
They listen to their podcast. And they see some celebrity shaking their ass for Kamala Harris.
They see Magic Johnson.
That hurt. I'm a big fan of Showtime.
You know what I mean? They see Magic Johnson endorse Kamala Harris.
And they're like, all right, I guess I'll support Kamala Harris.
Oh, she got a Black agenda? That's the only reason why they did that, was to trick the Black proletariat, which is why I got a channel.
That's why the work I do is to educate and have an intelligent working class.
And the reason why the Black community is in dire straits, racial income inequality is worse than it's ever been.
We've seen the rise of cop cities.
We're seeing Black dissent being cracked down on, like what happened to Chairman Amali and the Uhuru Black Socialist Movement.
And that's because of the mistake that, honestly, Gen X, Boomer, Black voters have committed during my lifetime, and that was voting for the Democratic Party at around an 80% to 90% clip.
So when you give up your power, the ruling class has no reason to do anything for you.
Put it aside the joke that waiving legalized marijuana is.
You guys know that Biden promised that in 2020, right?
They promise us every time they need to vote, and the dumbest in our community fall for it.
They wave a carrot in front of us, and then once they see that we're willing to vote for them in large numbers, they have no reason to do anything.
The reason why they are begging and they give everything possible to the white suburbanite, to white women, because white women voted for Trump twice.
White women vote is up in the air.
So the political strategy of the Black Congressional Caucus, adopted by the Bernie Sanders left, very unfortunately, of pledging your vote to a wing of the duopoly, and I guess it applies to Trumpers as well, without any solid demands, is an incoherent strategy.
And that was meant to not only lead the left off a cliff, but it led Black people off a cliff.
So what I advocate for is what we've been doing on Revolutionary Blackout, I don't believe in liberalism.
I think we need to take personal responsibility.
I'm not a liberal. I think we need to organize ourselves, engage in mutual aid, form our own outside government and form outside political power and stop begging the ruling class for crimes and take what's ours.
I think black people need to organize outside of the duop.
Speaking of...
The Kamala Harris campaign, the Democratic Party trying to fool people with these last-minute empty gestures.
It's not only black voters, and especially black male voters, whom they're trying to do that with, but also there's been these like, kind of eruptions of very melodramatic, empty statements about the ongoing support of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for Israel and what Israel is doing in destroying all of Gaza and now attempting to turn Beirut into Gaza as well, which is that they know that there are a lot of Muslim and Arab voters, a lot of young voters,
a lot of left-wing voters, who are not gonna vote for the Democratic Party.
They're gonna, because of that, they're gonna vote for Jill Stein, or they're gonna abstain, and it's putting their campaign in a lot of difficulty because they are in a lot of trouble in a lot of those states where those votes matter most, such as Michigan and Pennsylvania.
And so what you've seen over the last couple of weeks is suddenly AOC and Bernie Sanders and even Ilhan Omar, who are very supportive of the Biden administration, at the same time they accused of complicity in genocide, coming out with these more strongly worded tweets like, Oh, this is an outrage. This is genocide, what's being done in Northern Gaza. The Biden administration must stop it, knowing full well that they're not going to, that there's no chance that's going to happen. Their words have no effect
whatsoever, and they know that. And it makes it so they're saying the Biden administration is guilty of genocide, and it's vital that we do everything in the next 27 days to make sure they stay in power. So they obviously don't even believe their own words. And then you have the Biden administration today that came out with the statement that if Israel doesn't improve their willingness to let humanitarian aid into Gaza, the Biden administration will consider cutting off their weapons or suspending arms transfers.
And luckily for Israel and for the Biden administration, they have a 30-day deadline, which means that it won't happen until after the election.
And so it's so obvious that these are just symbolic gestures designed to fool Arab and Muslim voters, left-wing voters who care most about this issue, young voters, into suddenly believing that, oh, look, if AOC is saying this, there's room in the Democratic Party for this view.
There's some movement in the Democratic Party to finally cut Israel off.
And I guess my same question to you is, how dumb do they think people are?
They've been doing this game for a year now, where Biden makes some statement or leaks to the press how angry he is with Netanyahu, and the money in the arms just keep flowing.
Do you think this sort of tactic from AOC to try and fool people into thinking that there's actually a part of the Democratic Party where that sentiment is vibrant and alive in these latest gestures by the Biden administration are going to have any effect on the voters at whom they're aimed?
Thank you.
Thank you.
For one, people like AOC, they are the most morally bankrupt people in politics, because at least the politically ignorant people who vote for Kamala Harris, or maybe the people who are in denial, at least they are not willingly voting for genocide.
AOC acknowledges it's a genocide.
She knows the crime of what Joe Biden has done, but she continues to support them.
Now, this weakness of AOC, this mindset of the left, is exactly what the establishment, and especially the Democratic establishment, has taken advantage of.
So it doesn't surprise me that they haven't made any changes to their policies.
In fact, they doubled down and shifted hard to the right.
Because in a time where we could have created a political revolution in the Bernie movement, instead, many people in the Bernie Sanders movement then folded and instead decided to implement themselves inside the Democratic Party.
And now a lot of those people who pretended it was against genocide, a lot of the people who made a lot of money pretending it was a political revolution, these are the same people that were supporting John Fetterman.
These are the same people who was cited when Tim Walsh was chosen as vice president.
So the point I'm making, Glenn, is the reason why the Democratic Party is doubling down on genocide is because the establishment has called the left bluff many times in my lifetime, and the left blinked.
So there has to be a point where the left draws a hard line, which is why I love what the Bannon Harris movement is doing.
That's why I love the new anti-genocide coalition that is forming, and I hope maintains strong the election.
Because it's not a coincidence that we see Liz Cheney, and you did a great breakdown earlier, being comfortable in the Democratic Party.
And it's on my mind that people's analysis of politics is stuck in 2015, 2016, oftentimes.
We have right now the development of two right-wing parties.
We had a Dick Cheney right Zionist party, and then we had a Mike Pompeo Zionist Republican Party.
And so what they are doing, they are purposely disenfranchising the left and the empire is going on towards a energetic Neocon agenda.
I mentioned the black congressional AOC who is supporting the candidate who is genocide in Gaza.
These are supporting Ukraine.
And I'm glad you did it of Jasmine Crockett.
And she is considered to be the progressive, the progressive wing of the Black Congressional Caucus.
Meanwhile, she unapologetically supported aid to Ukraine, aid to Israel as they committed their genocide.
Cori Bush, who's supposed to be the most progressive among the Black leadership, She supported sending $60 billion to Ukraine, and she wondered why the hood didn't come out for her.
So the position of the Democratic Party is unapologetically neocon that peace is their enemy, and their job was to disenfranchise and destroy the peace movement similar to Obama.
The question is, will the United States left allow them to?
Yeah, I mean, I think what the Democrats are seeing with non-white voters and black men in particular, this kind of understanding of what this game has been all along, namely that they just pledge their votes blindly every four years, unquestioningly, in exchange for nothing.
They're starting to realize that, no, this is not something we're willing to do.
We're not going to be told that because Trump is worse, we're just going to give you our votes no matter what you do and give us nothing.
I think the American left, or at least the part of the left that stays loyal to the Democratic Party, is much further away from having the courage to actually come to that conclusion, which is why you see one of the most disgusting spectacles I've ever seen in my life Words are barely sufficient to express the disgust they have,
which is this whole set of online left liberal influencers who have spent 10 months profiting, opposing and denouncing what Israel is doing, calling it a genocide, saying that it's the worst crime ever, that Biden is complicit in it.
And then just turn around, drop all that two months before the election, first try lying and pretending that Kamala Harris was somehow going to be better and different based on nothing, and now when even they can't maintain that lie anymore, they're still just saying like, yeah, we think that Biden and Harris are guilty of genocide, ongoing genocide, not 20 years ago, ongoing genocide.
But we still believe you have to support them and we're going to do everything possible to keep them in power.
I mean, I get the idea that you vote for the lesser of two evils, but if your line is in genocide, if you're unwilling to draw the line at genocide, where you're willing to say, this person is committing a genocide and I'm going to do everything possible to keep them in power, that is one of the most craven and soulless things I've ever seen.
All right, let me just ask you this last question.
And sorry for having to rant that way without asking you a question, but you provoked it in me.
I want to ask you about...
What's been happening with Ta-Nehisi Coates and this new book that he's released where He basically says what is so indisputably true, which is that what is happening in the West Bank and Gaza is pure apartheid.
It's very similar to what happened in South Africa, what happened in the United States under Jim Crow laws and other abuses.
I went to South Africa about two months ago with my kids, and you go to any place in South Africa Where they have, you know, sort of the remnants of apartheid South Africa, you know, museums or libraries or institutes or you hear someone speak about it and you immediately draw the parallel between what happened in South Africa and what's happening in Israel in terms of how the Palestinians are treated.
Like, the way in which they're identical is so visibly obvious and it's For that reason, that people like Nelson Mandela and Bishop Tutu and the South African government for so long have been among the most outspoken supporters of the Palestinians because they see in their, in the suppression of their rights, exactly what they themselves suffered.
I mean, it's not even controversial, I think, at this point, to even write that, and yet the attempt to destroy Ta-Nehisi Coates, who I know you've been critical of in the past, I have been as well, but, you know, he did do something, I think, pretty courageous.
Everyone knows this is the one red line.
That if you want to stay in decent society, you cannot cross.
And he crossed it, knowing that.
I mean, he has a lot of credit in the bank, I think, built up.
But still, he didn't have to do that, and he did.
And yet, you really see in the attempt to just destroy his character, even, like, suggest that he is some sort of rapist who wants to rape Jewish women like they did on October 7th, and that's why he supports it.
What the real red line in our discourse is, what do you make of the whole thing that Ta-Nehisi did and the reaction to it?
Yeah, it's even devastating for the Zionist entity that he did it because he was someone that the establishment lended credibility.
And for him to speak out against the Zionist law.
The person who built his platform at the Atlantic was Jeffrey Goldberg, who was a prison guard in the IDF. So you can imagine what he's thinking.
Absolutely. And the reaction doesn't surprise me at all.
And I told many of my comrades at RBN to expect the heat that we will get because of our politics.
And that's exactly what we got.
We've been smeared and we've been attacked.
I've been labeled an anti-Semite by ADL. And that is the reaction from the Zionist mob in retaliation to Black We're good to go.
You mentioned Nelson Mandela.
The connection between South Africans, African Americans, and Palestinians has been decades long.
That's exactly why ADL went after me.
That's why they go after any Black descent, even people on the right like Candace Owens.
Any Black descent, they are quick to clamp down on because they know that because of our historical struggle, Because of our lived experience, we can see through the illusion, the failure, the moral bankruptcy, which is Zionism.
They have the nerve to call themselves a liberation movement.
You cannot be a liberation movement if you received your lands, if you received a mandate for your government through British imperialism.
Do you guys know how many people was murdered and killed by British imperialism?
There's no way any black liberation fighter will support British imperialism, and that is the birthright of Zionism.
And then you ask these people, what do you do to the people that lived on the lands previously Before you got Palestine via British imperialism, then we got to have a conversation about the Nagba.
Then we got to have a conversation about the genocide.
Then we got to have a conversation about apartheid, something that Black Americans should see through clearly, which is why, you guys see, I've been going after them a lot.
That's why my number one ire goes towards the Black Congressional Caucus, goes to these sellouts like Hakeem Jeffries and Jasmine Crockett, who support the Zionist mob, Who stand for everything.
That is the enemy of not only just Black Americans, but Africans all over the world.
Brown people all over the world.
The scourge of colonization.
But that's why we're seeing something new.
That's why we're seeing this anti-genocide coalition, the coalition between the Abandon Harris movement and young Black radicals like ourselves at RBN and the army of us standing up to the empire.
I've talked to people all over the world on RBN. I've been very blessed.
I've talked to people in China, I've talked to people in Russia, Moscow, France, England, UK. I've talked to people from different cultures who didn't have a lot of conversations with black people.
And we all unite on one thing.
And the empire has had a negative impact on our life.
And that unifying factor terrifies the ruling class, which is why when they see someone among them, anyone in the ruling class who is critical, mildly critical of the Zionist entity, they have to make a stark example of them.
That's why they went after Jamal Bowman.
That's why they went after Cori Bush, who was, in my opinion, very mildly critical of the Zionist empire.
Yeah, and of course, when you see all these examples of people being destroyed, Candace Owens, as you mentioned, the fact that they could just remove black incumbent members of Congress at will, upon the slightest deviation.
And now what's being done even to Ta-Nehisi Coates, who has as much kind of establishment acclaim and protection as is possible to have, and yet there, there, there, that's almost no protection to him.
It's no wonder in some way that you see everybody else in Congress petrified of stepping even a little bit out of line.
They learn the script very, very quickly.
The minute they get elected or even before they go on their little trip to Israel where they get indoctrinated with the talking points and things they're required to believe.
I mean, it's a system that tolerates zero dissent and will destroy anyone who deviates even a little bit.
And people who are fearful of being destroyed obviously are going to stay in line.
And that's what I think explains so much of that homogeneity on this issue.
Alright Nick, it's always great to talk to you.
It's always great to listen to you.
I hope people will go and find your channel on YouTube which is Revolutionary Blackout Network.
You have a great set of Commentators there, and it's, like I said, always provocative, and I find it always entertaining as well.
You speak from a very informed place, which is one of the reasons why I like watching your show so much, and one of the reasons it's always great to have you on.
Thanks for coming. Yeah, thank you so much, Glenn.
Make sure you guys don't just get depressed by the news.
Please get involved locally, donate to mutual aid, and let's actually start putting pressure on the Zionist entity.
Thanks for having me on, Glenn.
I love your work. All right, you too.
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