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But as soon as people start playing games, I stop. | |
I stop playing games. | ||
And at any moment, I can just play a play. | ||
I said, trust your man. | ||
I heard it. | ||
I need you. | ||
I said, got a call. | ||
I said, dream. | ||
I said, trust your man. | ||
I said, trust your man. | ||
So come on. | ||
I got you. | ||
One, two. | ||
Start the track. | ||
I'm going to go first. | ||
Edge. | ||
See what they said. | ||
Let's fight. | ||
I'm on the phone. | ||
I'm on the phone. | ||
You're the one. | ||
Okay. | ||
I'm on the phone. | ||
I can enforce them, alright? | ||
Last time was not. | ||
It's everything. | ||
It's warming up. | ||
Everybody dare to vote. | ||
All right. | ||
All right. | ||
We'll see you next time. | ||
This is from your biggest Boston fan, may you one day see the light. | ||
Well, hey, thanks. | ||
Love you, too. | ||
But sorry, I believe in religion that makes sense. | ||
But as soon as people start playing games, I stop. | ||
I stop playing games. | ||
And at any moment, I can check that yay button. | ||
I'm going to start the first. | ||
Okay. | ||
Not my words, not my rules. | ||
I just endorse them, all right? | ||
I just endorse them, all right? all right? | ||
Everything is warming on everybody who dares to approach. | ||
Thank you. | ||
This is from your biggest Protestant fan. | ||
May you one day see the light. | ||
Well, hey, thanks. | ||
Love you, too. | ||
I'm sorry. | ||
I believe in a religion that makes sense. | ||
But as soon as people start playing games, I stop. | ||
I stop playing games. | ||
And at any moment, I can just play a play. | ||
I think we're going to reverse. | ||
Okay. | ||
Not my words, not my rules. | ||
Not my words. | ||
Not my rules. | ||
I just enjoy them, all right? | ||
I just endorse them. | ||
All right. | ||
Okay. | ||
I just enjoy them. | ||
see the light. | ||
Well, hey, thanks. | ||
Love you too, but sorry. | ||
I believe in religion that makes sense. | ||
So. | ||
But as soon as people start playing games, I stop. | ||
I stop playing games. | ||
I stop playing games. | ||
Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. | ||
Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. | ||
Not my words, not my rules. | ||
I can endorse them, all right? | ||
They said, trust no man. | ||
I was a hit to the lead, what the day was. | ||
I got a gun. | ||
I said, trust no hope. | ||
I said, trust no man. | ||
I was a hit to the lead, what the day was. | ||
Last time, Scott, he was a jerk. | ||
Everything. | ||
Warming on everybody who dared to approach. | ||
And your mama ain't sick, I'm ready for shit. | ||
It's been a few years, wait before this ball kick. | ||
Yo, in the city, when I was in the chain. | ||
When the ball back said it, think you put the weight of faith. | ||
Yo, it's a cool thing. | ||
Yo, what's in the shit? | ||
Yeah, I'm a three-six, who'd tell you what? | ||
I'm obsessed. | ||
Yo, I'm taking my worst jokes back on. | ||
Before they drop jewels, way before they drop jungle. | ||
First, two, two, three. | ||
Oh, girl. | ||
American first, bitch. | ||
unidentified
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I said, trust no man. | |
I was a hit to the lead, what the day was. | ||
I said, trust no man. | ||
I was a hit to the lead, what the day was. | ||
Thank you. | ||
This is from your biggest Protestant fan. | ||
May you one day see the light. | ||
Well, hey, thanks. | ||
Love you too, but I'm sorry. | ||
I believe in a religion that makes sense. | ||
But as soon as people start playing games, I stop. | ||
I stop playing games. | ||
I stop playing games. | ||
And at any moment, I can hit that yay button. | ||
Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. | ||
Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. | ||
Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. | ||
Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. | ||
I'm going to say you'll never see you. | ||
Take one. | ||
Last Ducks. | ||
Hello everybody! | ||
Oh, that's loud. | ||
I think that's loud. | ||
Hey everybody, what's going on? | ||
You are watching America First. | ||
My name is Nicholas J. Fuentes. | ||
We have a great show for you tonight. | ||
We are watching the South Carolina Democratic primary debate. | ||
And this is the 10th debate! | ||
We did one last week, and we did one the week before that, and now we're doing another one tonight. | ||
And this is the big debate before the South Carolina primary, which is on Saturday. | ||
That is the fourth and final contest in the Democratic primary for this month. | ||
After Saturday, it's on a Super Tuesday, which is March 3rd, and that's where you're gonna see a lot of big states, California, Virginia, North Carolina, it's like a dozen states on Super Tuesday, and that's March 3rd. | ||
So, it's a big week, it's a big debate, and Saturday is a very important Inflection point with this election. | ||
The DNC has said, and there's a report I actually saw the other day, where the DNC told the candidates that they've really got until Saturday to stop Bernie Sanders. | ||
That if Buttigieg, Biden, Warren, Bloomberg, Klobuchar, if they don't start to turn the tide against Sanders at South Carolina, then it's basically over. | ||
He'll be unstoppable. | ||
If he wins first place in South Carolina, the dominoes will start to fall. | ||
He'll pick up huge delegates in California and everywhere else. | ||
So this debate is sort of like a pivotal moment for a pivotal primary. | ||
So that's why this one's a little bit more interesting. | ||
The lineup is the same as last week. | ||
And you can see there, they're just playing it right now. | ||
It's the same lineup as last week, plus Tom Steyer. | ||
So that's Bernie, Bloomberg, Buttigieg, Biden, Klobuchar, Warren, and now Steyer. | ||
So, hosted by CBS, it's in South Carolina. | ||
I'll turn on our volume here, and we'll see what's going on. | ||
You may have noticed, by the way, that I've got a new headset. | ||
I don't know how it looks, I don't know how it sounds. | ||
People are telling me over the weekend it doesn't sound great. | ||
But, if it doesn't sound great, then just bear with me. | ||
People are saying, fix your mic. | ||
unidentified
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Oh, the mic is... Yeah, yeah, I know. | |
People are saying the mic doesn't sound good. | ||
I know, I know, I know. | ||
The mic doesn't sound great. | ||
But, bear with me. | ||
unidentified
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We have a new microphone tonight, so that's just the way it's gonna be. | |
Try not to be too distracted by it. | ||
I'll see if I can adjust it while we're live here, but... | ||
I don't know make a big deal out of it. | ||
It's not really a big deal. | ||
Let me turn up our volume here. | ||
unidentified
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South Carolina, the first primary in the South is just four days away. | |
And Super Tuesday is just a week away. | ||
And this is the biggest primary day of the year as voters in 14 states cast ballots. | ||
And many of them tell us they have not actually made up their mind. | ||
So this debate, when you think about it tonight, may be the last best chance for the candidates to make their case to South Carolina and Super Tuesday voters. | ||
And CBS News is proud to bring you this debate along with our co-sponsors. | ||
They are the Democratic National Committee and the Congressional Black Caucus Institute, a nonpartisan organization committed to educating voters and training political leaders. | ||
And we are partnering tonight also with Twitter, so you at home can participate in this debate. | ||
How do you do that? | ||
Send us your questions for the candidates using the Twitter hashtag DemDebate. | ||
Now here are the rules for the next two hours. | ||
When you are asked a question, you will have one minute and 15 seconds to answer and 45 seconds for follow-ups. | ||
So let's begin. | ||
Senator Sanders, we haven't had a national unemployment rate this low for this long in 50 years. | ||
Here in South Carolina, the unemployment rate is even lower. | ||
How will you convince voters that a Democratic Socialist can do better than President Trump with the economy? | ||
Well, you're right. | ||
The economy is doing really great for people like Mr. Bloomberg and other billionaires. | ||
In the last three years, last three years, billionaires in this country saw an $850 billion increase in their wealth. | ||
But you know what? | ||
For the ordinary American, things are not so good. | ||
Last year, real wage increases for the average worker were less than 1%. | ||
Half of our people are living paycheck to paycheck. | ||
87 million Americans have no health insurance or are underinsured. | ||
45 million people are struggling with student debt. | ||
unidentified
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500,000 people tonight are sleeping out on the street, including 30,000 veterans. | |
That is not an economy that's working for the American people. | ||
That's an economy working for the 1%. | ||
We're going to create an economy for all, not just wealthy campaign contributors. | ||
unidentified
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Mayor Bloomberg, I'll let you respond to that. | |
Do you think Senator Sanders' economy would be better for America than President Trump? | ||
I think that Donald Trump thinks it would be better if he's president. | ||
I do not think so. | ||
Vladimir Putin thinks that Donald Trump should be president of the United States. | ||
And that's why Russia is helping you get elected, so you'll lose to him. | ||
unidentified
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This is going to be the debate. | |
It's knives out on Bernie. | ||
Let me tell Mr. Putin Okay, I'm not a good friend of President Xi of China. | ||
I think President Xi is an authoritarian leader, and let me tell Mr. Putin, who interfered in the 2016 election. | ||
Try to bring Americans against Americans. | ||
Hey, Mr. Putin, if I'm President of the United States, trust me, you're not going to interfere in any more American elections. | ||
unidentified
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Senator Warren? | |
We know what the President, what Russia wants. | ||
That was false. | ||
So look, The way I see this is that Bernie is winning right now because the Democratic Party is a progressive party and progressive ideas are popular ideas, even if there are a lot of people on this stage who don't want to say so. | ||
You know, Bernie and I agree on a lot of things, but I think I would make a better president than Bernie. | ||
And the reason for that is that getting a progressive agenda enacted is going to be really hard, and it's going to take someone who digs into the details to make it happen. | ||
Bernie and I both wanted to help rein in Wall Street. | ||
In 2008, we both got our chance. | ||
But I dug in, I fought the big banks, I built the coalitions, and I won. | ||
Bernie and I both want to see universal health care. | ||
But Bernie's plan doesn't explain how to get there, doesn't show how we're going to get enough allies into it, and doesn't show enough about how we're going to pay for it. | ||
I dug in, I did the work, and then Bernie's team trashed me for it. | ||
We need a president who is going to dig in, do the hard work, and actually get it done. | ||
Progressives have got one shot, and we need to spend it with a leader who will get something done. | ||
unidentified
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We want to bring you in this conversation. | |
Why would the Russians want to be working on behalf of Bernie Sanders? | ||
I'll tell you what the Russians want. | ||
They don't have a political party. | ||
They want chaos. | ||
And chaos is what is coming our way. | ||
I mean, look, if you think the last four years has been chaotic, divisive, toxic, exhausting, imagine spending the better part of 2020 with Bernie Sanders versus Donald Trump. | ||
Think about what that will be like for this country. | ||
And meanwhile, Folks at home from South Carolina to South Bend are trying to figure out what any of this means for us. | ||
Because it's right that there is a progressive majority, an American majority, that wants to see real change, wants to see wages go up and go up faster than the cost of health and saving for retirement. | ||
But also there's the majority of the American people who I think right now just want to be able to turn on the TV, see their president, and actually feel their blood pressure go down a little bit instead of up through the roof. | ||
unidentified
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We have an opportunity to set a different tone. | |
Bernie Sanders' analysis is right. | ||
The differences I don't like is solutions. | ||
I don't believe that a government takeover of large parts of the economy makes any sense for working people or for families. | ||
I think that what we need to do is to present an alternative that includes a vibrant, competitive private sector. | ||
But we all know unchecked capitalism has failed. | ||
The answer is not for the government to take over the private sector, though. | ||
The answer is for us to break the corporate stranglehold on our government and have the government work for the people again. | ||
I am so disappointed that Steyer is acting this way. | ||
I can't tell you how upset it makes me. | ||
I was so glad when he didn't qualify for the last one. | ||
I thought that was the last he would ever see or something, but here we are. | ||
unidentified
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So it's worth whatever it is. | |
Stupid tie one more time. | ||
Hopefully. | ||
Maybe we'll see it another time. | ||
unidentified
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I don't know. | |
Thank you. | ||
Thank you, Mr. Steyer. | ||
for everybody who makes less than $250,000 and creating over 4.5 million good-paying union jobs. | ||
Donald Trump stinks. | ||
unidentified
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He's incompetent as a steward of the American economy. | |
We have to show that we can create a growing, prosperous economy that works for American working people. | ||
Mr. Steyer, thank you. | ||
Your time's up. | ||
Vice President Biden? | ||
You know, we talk about progressive. | ||
Let's talk about being progressive. | ||
Walking distance here is Mother Emanuel Church. | ||
Nine people shot dead by a white supremacist. | ||
Bernie voted five times against the Brady Bill and wanted a waiting period. | ||
No, let me finish. | ||
unidentified
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Every single candidate has attacked Bernie so far, but all from different angles, which we'll get into. | |
But all from different angles, which we'll get into. | ||
That's literally everybody now. | ||
Everybody is attacked. | ||
He thought Barack Obama, he wanted a primary. | ||
He said we should primary Barack Obama. | ||
Someone should. | ||
And in fact, the president was weak. | ||
And our administration was in fact not up to it. | ||
Look, folks, this is, let's talk about progressive. | ||
Progressive is getting things done. | ||
And that's what we got done. | ||
unidentified
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They like Biden. - Thank you to Sanders. | |
Probably the DNC stacked the audience is what I'm assuming for this one. | ||
So it's probably totally fixed. | ||
Pete mentioned, I'm hearing my name mentioned a little bit tonight. | ||
I wonder why. | ||
And maybe, you know, Pete mentions what the American people want. | ||
I will tell you, Pete, what the American people want, and Joe, what the American people want. | ||
They don't want candidates to be running to billionaires for huge amounts of funding. | ||
Pete has gotten funding from over 50 billionaires. | ||
Joe, I think, has gotten a little bit more. | ||
What the American people want, by the way, is that a lot of the issues we'll be discussing tonight Bernie is stalking, Nazmo is stalking. | ||
I can't allow this to stand because it's just not true. | ||
the minimum wage to a living wage, 15 bucks an hour, making public colleges and universities tuition-free, and finally doing what every other major country on earth does, guaranteeing health care to all people as a human right to a Medicare for All single-payer system. guaranteeing health care to all people as a human right I can't allow this to stand because it's just not true. | ||
Senator Sanders has got people believing something that is untrue about my campaign. | ||
The idea that most of my campaign is funded by billionaires. | ||
I didn't tell you that, Pete. | ||
50 people. | ||
All right. | ||
In Charleston alone, just in Charleston, over 2,000 people have contributed to my campaign. | ||
That means the dollars that have come to my campaign just from Charleston is more than the dollars that have come from the 50 people that you mentioned. | ||
Grassroots contributions are the lifeblood of my campaign. | ||
In fact, I shouldn't miss the opportunity. | ||
If you're watching right now and you support my campaign, Go to PeteForAmerica.com and chip in. | ||
And if you're watching right now and you're a billionaire, I will raise your taxes. | ||
But if you'd like to defeat Donald Trump, please go to PeteForAmerica.com and donate the legal maximum of $2,800 if you're a billionaire. | ||
unidentified
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Vice President Biden, I want to bring us to another topic. | |
We're in South Carolina. | ||
It's the first primary with a significant black voting population. | ||
Your numbers appear to be slipping with black voters. | ||
And I'm wondering if you could respond about why that is happening to you at this particular time. | ||
Well, first of all, the latest poll I saw, my numbers, I'm still 15 points ahead. | ||
The latest poll. | ||
unidentified
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Yes, yes, you're correct. | |
But look, Senator Sanders is in striking distance of you. | ||
You are the larger bear in this state. | ||
Well, it depends which public. | ||
unidentified
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I've earned the vote. | |
I've worked like the devil to earn the vote of the African American people. | ||
Not just here, but across the country. | ||
I've been coming here for years and years. | ||
My hair is all messed up. | ||
I just got a cut today. | ||
I didn't get a chance to, like, style it myself. | ||
I'm here to ask. | ||
That employs one in 11 people. | ||
We put $500 million in our administration just into this county. | ||
We've created jobs for people. | ||
The people know me. | ||
My entire career has been wrapped up in dealing with civil rights and civil liberties. | ||
I don't expect anything. | ||
I plan to earn the vote. | ||
I'm here to ask. | ||
I'm here to earn. | ||
unidentified
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But, folks, I intend to win. | |
Nobody's this excited for Joe Biden. | ||
Excuse me. | ||
I will win the African-American vote here in South Carolina. | ||
unidentified
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Mr. Biden, will you continue if you do not win South Carolina? | |
You have said that South Carolina will determine the outcome of this presidential race. | ||
If you don't win South Carolina, will you continue in the race? | ||
I will win South Carolina. | ||
unidentified
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All right, sir. | |
Mayor Bloomberg, I'd like to bring you in this conversation. | ||
I want to ask you about a question that impacts the black and brown community. | ||
You've apologized for stop and frisk repeatedly. | ||
What exactly are you apologizing for? | ||
We let it get out of control. | ||
And when I realized that, I cut it back by 95%. | ||
And I've apologized and asked for forgiveness. | ||
I've met with black leaders to try to get an understanding of how I can better position myself and what I should have done and what I should do next time. | ||
But let me tell you, I have been working very hard. | ||
We've improved the school system for black and brown students in New York City. | ||
We've increased the jobs that are available to them. | ||
We've increased the housing that's available to them. | ||
unidentified
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What more can you do about this issue, Mr. Mayor, to put people's fears and skepticism to rest? | |
It continues to follow you. | ||
Well, that's because it's in their interest to promote that. | ||
But if you talk to the people in New York City, I have over 100 black elected officials that have endorsed me. | ||
A lot of them are in the audience tonight. | ||
And I've earned the respect of people in New York City. | ||
I was the mayor of the largest, most populous city in the United States for 12 years. | ||
And people will tell you it's a lot better city today. | ||
It is safer for everybody. | ||
The school system is better. | ||
The budget's under control. | ||
We've done the things that people need in New York City for all ethnicities. | ||
unidentified
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Mayor Buttigieg? | |
That was such like a totally amateur thing. | ||
It was a little bit more effective than what he did last week but it's still very amateurish. | ||
Do you think the New York City's implementation of stop and frisk was racist? | ||
Yes, in effect it was, because it was about profiling people based on their race. | ||
And the mayor even said that they disproportionately stopped white people too often and minorities too little. | ||
And I'm not here to score points. | ||
I come at this with a great deal of humility because we have had a lot of issues, especially when it comes to racial justice and policing in my own community. | ||
And I come to this with some humility because I'm conscious of the fact that There's seven white people on this stage talking about racial justice. | ||
None of us... None of us have the experience, the lived experience of, for example, walking down the street or in a mall and feeling eyes on us, regarding us as dangerous without knowing the first thing about us just because of the color of our skin. | ||
None of us have the experience that black women have had that drives that maternal mortality gap that we are all rightly horrified by of going into a doctor and being less likely to have your description of being in pain believed because of your race. | ||
Since we don't have the experience, the next best thing we can do is actually listen to those who do. | ||
I know, wait a second, I know that if I were black, my success would have been a lot harder to achieve. | ||
And I know a lot of black people, if they were white, it would have been a lot easier for them. | ||
That's just a fact and we've got to do something about it and rather just demagogue about it. | ||
unidentified
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Senator Klobuchar, he's trying so hard, you can tell. | |
He knows he got killed last week. | ||
Now he's trying to compensate. | ||
He doesn't have it. | ||
instead of just reviewing everything from the past, is talk about where we're gonna go forward. | ||
Martin Luther King once said that we are all tied in a single garment of destiny, and that what affects one of us directly affects all of us indirectly. | ||
So when there is racism in the criminal justice system, then we need to fix it. | ||
Love the hair tonight. | ||
Love Amy Klobuchar's hair tonight. | ||
unidentified
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Much more. | |
It's like a lot of volume tonight. | ||
And extending that to the states with the second step back. | ||
Very Midwestern. | ||
It means equal opportunity. | ||
unidentified
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I'm liking the look. | |
Because if we don't pass Representative Clyburn's bill out of South Carolina here to invest in impoverished communities, we're never going to get to that single garment of destiny. | ||
And we also need to do something about child care, about making sure we increase the minimum wage, and then finally, voting. | ||
While we are all sitting here debating, Wisconsin has kicked hundreds of thousands of people off of their voting rolls. | ||
Georgia kicked a hundred thousand off. | ||
As president, I will get voting rights to be a reality for everyone. | ||
unidentified
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Senator Warren, I'm coming to you. | |
I want to direct this question to you because Mayor Bloomberg has said he got in this race late because he doesn't believe that any of you on stage can beat Donald Trump. | ||
You said Mayor Bloomberg is not the safest candidate, he is the riskiest candidate. | ||
What did you mean by that? | ||
I hate her so much. | ||
Look at how stupid she looks. | ||
Look at her stupid haircut. | ||
unidentified
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Stupid face. | |
Stupid outfit. | ||
The first tossing leader this week is Donald Trump. | ||
Stupid face. | ||
He's going to be here to raise money for his buddy, Senator Lindsey Graham. | ||
Who funded Lindsey Graham's campaign for reelection last time? | ||
I hate everything about her. | ||
It was Mayor Bloomberg. | ||
And that's not the only right-wing senator that Mayor Bloomberg has funded. | ||
In 2016, he dumped $12 million into the Pennsylvania Senate race to help re-elect an anti-choice, right-wing Republican senator. | ||
And I just want to say, the woman challenger was terrific. | ||
She lost by a single point. | ||
In 2012, he scooped in to try to defend another Republican senator against the woman challenger. | ||
That was me. | ||
It didn't work, but he tried hard. | ||
I don't care how much money Mayor Bloomberg has. | ||
The core of the Democratic Party will never trust him. | ||
He has not earned their trust. | ||
I will. | ||
And the fact that he cannot earn the trust of the core of the Democratic Party means he is the riskiest candidate standing on this stage. | ||
unidentified
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Alright, Senator Warren, thank you. | |
Mayor Bloomberg, would you like to respond? | ||
Mayor Bloomberg? | ||
I have been training for this job since I stepped on the pile that was still smoldering on 9-11. | ||
I know what to do. | ||
I've shown I know how to run a country. | ||
I've run the city, which is almost the same size, bigger than most countries in the world. | ||
I'm the one choice that makes some sense. | ||
I have the experience, I have the resources, and I have the record. | ||
And all of the sideshows that the Senator wants to bring up have nothing to do with that. | ||
When people hired me to run New York City three times in an overwhelmingly Democratic progressive city, they elected me again and again. | ||
I was mentioned in this. | ||
unidentified
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He called me out by name. | |
And referred to what I talk about as a sideshow. | ||
You know, this is personal for me. | ||
When I was 21 years old, I got my first job as a special education teacher. | ||
I love that job. | ||
And by the end of the first year, I was visibly pregnant. | ||
The principal wished me luck and gave my job to someone else. | ||
Pregnancy discrimination? | ||
You bet. | ||
But I was 21 years old, I didn't have a union to protect me, and I didn't have any federal law on my side. | ||
So I packed up my stuff and I went home. | ||
At least I didn't have a boss who said to me, kill it. | ||
I never said that. | ||
Oh, come on. | ||
Thank you, Senator. | ||
I never said that, and for the record, if she was a teacher in New York City, she would never have had that problem. | ||
We treated our teachers the right way, and the unions will tell you exactly that. | ||
Let us have the women have an opportunity to speak. | ||
The Bloomberg corporations and Mayor Bloomberg himself have been accused of discrimination. | ||
They are bound by non-disclosures so that they cannot speak. | ||
If he says there is nothing to hide here, then sign a blanket release and let those women speak out so that they can tell their stories the way I can tell my story without having to fear they're going to be sued by a billionaire. | ||
unidentified
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Thank you. | |
We have a number of issues discussed tonight, but I want to give the mayor an opportunity to respond because she has raised concerns about women in your workplace. | ||
At the last debate, you said some of your female employees might not have liked some of your jokes. | ||
Did these women take your jokes wrong? | ||
Or were you wrong to make the jokes? | ||
Probably wrong to make the jokes. | ||
I don't remember what they were, so I assume if it bothered them I was wrong and I apologize. | ||
I'm sorry for that. | ||
But what happened here is we went back 40 years and we could only find three cases where women said they were uncomfortable. | ||
Nobody accused me of doing anything other than just making a comment or two. | ||
I'll tell you exactly what I want you to do. | ||
This is so stupid. | ||
these women from the nondisclosure agreement. | ||
I did that two days later and my company has said we will not use nondisclosure agreements ever again. | ||
The senator has got it and I don't know what else she wants us to do. | ||
We're following exactly what she asked to do and the trouble is with this senator. | ||
These are two people that are not going to win and especially Warren. | ||
I'm going to start focusing on some of these other things. | ||
We just cannot continue to relitigate this every time. | ||
We did what she asked, and thank you. | ||
We've probably made the world better because of it. | ||
And by my company renouncing using these, we've probably changed, hopefully, the corporate landscape all across America. | ||
If you get nominated, we'll be relitigating this all year. | ||
unidentified
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Senator Warren, that is a very serious charge that you leveled at the mayor. | |
You told a woman to get an abortion. | ||
What evidence do you have of that? | ||
Her own words? | ||
unidentified
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Mayor Bloomberg, could you respond to this? | |
I never said it. | ||
Period. | ||
End of story. | ||
Categorically, never said it. | ||
When I was accused of doing it. | ||
We couldn't figure out what she was talking about. | ||
But right now, I'm sorry if she heard what she thought she heard or whatever happened. | ||
I didn't take any pleasure in that. | ||
And we've just got to go on. | ||
But I never said it. | ||
Come on. | ||
What I asked the mayor to do is to do a release of all people who have discriminated against the planes. | ||
We are doing that, Senator. | ||
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We want to get to the issue. | |
We want to get to the issue of electability and the ideological difference within the Democratic Party. | ||
Senator Sanders. | ||
She made herself look bad. | ||
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Yesterday you released information about how you will pay for your major proposals. | |
It's her and Buttigieg. | ||
They're completely transparent that they are power hungry. | ||
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You proposed more than 50 trillion dollars in new spending. | |
Over a ten year period. | ||
will cost $30 trillion. | ||
But you can only explain how you'll pay for just about half of that. | ||
Can you do the math for the rest of us? | ||
How many hours do you have? | ||
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Two. | |
That's the problem. | ||
No, no, it's not the problem. | ||
All right, let's talk about Medicare for All. | ||
Look at how vicious this debate is. | ||
I'm sure you're familiar with a new study that just came out of Yale University, published in Lancet Magazine, one of the prestigious medical journals in the world. | ||
You know what it said? | ||
Medicare for All will lower health care costs in this country by $450 billion a year and save 68,000 lives of people who otherwise would have died. - Yeah. | ||
What we need to do is to do what every other major country on earth does, guarantee health care to all people, not have thousands of separate insurance plans which are costing us some $500 billion a year to administer. | ||
Our plan, we have laid out options all over the place. | ||
One of the options is a 7.5% payroll tax on employers, which will save them substantial sums of money. | ||
No, the math does not add up. | ||
In fact, just on 60 Minutes this weekend, he said he wasn't going to rattle through the nickels and the dimes. | ||
Well, let me tell you how many nickels and dimes we're talking about. | ||
Nearly $60 trillion. | ||
Do you know how much that is for all of his programs? | ||
That is three times the American economy. | ||
Not the federal government, the entire American economy. | ||
The Medicare for All plan alone, But page 8 clearly says that it'll kick 149 million Americans off their current health insurance in four years. | ||
That is true. | ||
As one prominent Democrat once said, we should pay attention to where the voters of this country are, Bernie. | ||
That prominent Democrat was Barack Obama a few months ago. | ||
And I think that's what we should do. | ||
They are not with you on spending nearly $60 trillion. | ||
What I think we should do is make things more affordable. | ||
Sounds good to me, Ma. | ||
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Sounds great. | |
Sounds great to me, Mrs. Klobuchar. | ||
Thank you, Senator Klobuchar. | ||
Thank you, Senator Klobuchar. | ||
Thank you for talking about me. | ||
Mr. Steyer. | ||
Mr. Steyer. | ||
We will get to you, Mr. Sanders. | ||
and do something for the people of America instead of a bunch of broken promises that sound good on bumper stickers. | ||
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Mr. Steyer, Mr. Steyer. | |
I think we're talking about that. | ||
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We'll get to you, Mr. Sanders. | |
Let me be Steyer. | ||
Oh, look, first of all... | ||
I can't take it. | ||
I think we were talking about math and it doesn't take two hours to do the math. | ||
Let's talk about math. | ||
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Senator Sanders? | |
Senator Sanders, you have been name checked. | ||
You are allowed to respond. | ||
What the Health and Human Services have said in analyzing healthcare costs, what Yale, recent Yale study has said is that your program would cost some $50 trillion over a 10 year period. | ||
We would continue to pay, in some cases, 10 times more for the same exact prescription drugs. | ||
What every study out there, conservative or progressive, says, Medicare for all will save money. | ||
Ours will cost about $45 billion, not $60 trillion. | ||
Why? | ||
Why would we bring him in? | ||
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He's the worst and he's not gonna win. | |
That was great. | ||
That was a great live shot. | ||
We would like to bring Mr. Steyer in on this conversation. | ||
Mr. Steyer, please. | ||
Why would we bring him in? | ||
He's the worst, and he's not going to win. | ||
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This conversation shows a huge risk for the Democratic Party. | |
We are looking at a party that has decided that we're either going to support someone who's a Democratic Socialist or somebody who has a long history of being a Republican. | ||
And let me say that I got into this race because I wanted to fight for economic justice, for racial justice, and to make sure we had climate justice for the American people. | ||
And I am scared. | ||
If we cannot pull this party together, if we go to one of those extremes, we take a terrible risk of re-electing Donald Trump. | ||
And that is something, I still have some time, and let me just say this, that is a risk that will hurt the American people in a way that none of us on this stage should be willing to risk. | ||
Thank you. | ||
Let's keep this topic going, Mayor Pete. | ||
So let's do some math. | ||
Senator Sanders at one point said it was going to be $40 trillion, then it was $30, then it was $17. | ||
It's an incredible shrinking price tag. | ||
At some point has said it is unknowable to even see what the price tag would be. | ||
Now there are new numbers going. | ||
I'll tell you exactly what it adds up to. | ||
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Wow. | |
So clever. | ||
It adds up to four more years of Donald Trump, Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House, and the inability to get the Senate into Democratic hands. | ||
Wow, so clever. | ||
The time has come for us to stop acting like the presidency is the only office that matters. | ||
Not only is this a way to get Donald Trump reelected, we've got a House to worry about. | ||
We've got a Senate to worry about. | ||
And this is really important. | ||
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Such a clever turn of phrase. | |
Look, if you want to keep the House in Democratic hands, you might want to check with the people who actually turned the House blue. | ||
40 Democrats who are not running on your platform. | ||
They are running away from your platform as fast as they possibly can. | ||
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I want to send those Democrats back to the United States House. | |
Let's listen to them when they say that they don't want to be out there defending Senator Sanders. | ||
I guess the only way to do this is jump in and speak twice as long as you should. | ||
Here's the deal. | ||
Here's the deal. | ||
A guy is a friend of mine named Fritz Hollings. | ||
He said, you want to know what a man in the room will do? | ||
Look what they've done. | ||
Look what they've done. | ||
You talk about concerned about race. | ||
Well, my good friend on the end of this platform, he, in fact, bought a system that was a private prison system. | ||
After he knew that, in fact, what happened was they hogtied young men in prison here in this state. | ||
They, in fact, made sure that in Georgia they did not have... | ||
healthcare for the people who were being held. | ||
They, in fact, went on and he said, after he knew that, he bought it, and then he said he was proud of his accomplishment. | ||
You talk about what we're talking about with Bernie. | ||
Bernie, in fact, hasn't passed much of anything. | ||
The fact of the matter is... No, no, no. | ||
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I get to answer that. | |
Look, the fact is, here's the deal. | ||
I'm not out of time. | ||
You spoke over time and I'm going to talk. | ||
Here's the deal. | ||
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Yeah! | |
Yeah! | ||
The white man! | ||
The white man rises. | ||
The white man rises. | ||
Look at what's happening here. | ||
We have to win the Senate. | ||
That was big. | ||
And by the way, I went into all of those races that got 41 new Democrats. | ||
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White man, unchanged. | |
New Democrats. | ||
The majority of them are supporting me for president. | ||
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I'm Mr. Vice President. | |
That was a good moment. | ||
That was the most energy we've ever seen from this guy. | ||
That was intense. | ||
I got stock in a prison company thinking they'd do a better job, and I investigated it, and I sold it. | ||
Okay. | ||
No, no, stop. | ||
You knew when you bought it they'd done that. | ||
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I've got to answer this question. | |
And in fact, since then, I've worked to end the use of private prisons in my home state, and we've ended it. | ||
I've started a bank to support black ownership of businesses, women ownership of businesses, and Latino owners of businesses, because this financial service industry is prejudiced. | ||
I have worked tirelessly on this, and you know I'm right. | ||
You wrote the crime bill that you called the Tommy Conrad. | ||
There are other people here. | ||
You put hundreds of thousands of young black and Latino men in prison. | ||
Let me say something. | ||
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There's something going on here. | |
I have worked for racial justice completely and that is an absolute unfair statement. | ||
If we spend the next four months tearing our party apart, we're going to watch Donald Trump's That was good. | ||
That was a good moment for Biden. | ||
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I like that. | |
So my argument here is that we need to get back to what's happening right now. | ||
We have a clear choice of who's going to lead this party. | ||
And I am the only one in the New Hampshire debate when asked if we had a problem with the socialists leading the ticket that raised my hands. | ||
I like Bernie. | ||
We came in together to the Senate. | ||
But I do not think that this is the best person to lead the ticket. | ||
And if you want to talk about getting things done and make a comparison, according to Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, last Congress, I was the most effective Democrat in the U.S. | ||
Senate on 15 metrics. | ||
Bernie and Elizabeth were in the bottom half. | ||
It matters, it matters if you can actually get things done. | ||
It is not just who talks the best, who actually gets things done. | ||
And especially with the African American community. | ||
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If it's not who talks the best, it is who gets things done. | |
Makes sense. | ||
The logic is consistent. | ||
Let's just go on the record. | ||
They talk about 40 Democrats. | ||
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Senator Bloomberg, please. | |
Let's just go on the record. | ||
They talk about 40 Democrats. | ||
21 of those were people that I spent $100 million to help elect. | ||
All of the new Democrats that came in, put Nancy Pelosi in charge, and gave the Congress the ability to control this president, I got them. | ||
Number two, when you talk about money, just put this in perspective. | ||
The federal budget is four and a half trillion dollars a year. | ||
We get three and a half trillion dollars in revenue. | ||
We lose a trillion dollars a year. | ||
That's why the federal budget deficit is, right now, the debt is $20 trillion going up to 21. | ||
We just cannot afford some of the stuff people talk about. | ||
Let me finish. | ||
If you keep on going, we will elect Bernie. | ||
Bernie will lose to Donald Trump. | ||
And Donald Trump and the House and the Senate and some of the state houses will all go red. | ||
And then between gerrymandering and appointing judges, for the next 20 or 30 years, we're going to live with this catastrophe. | ||
He is right, though. | ||
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The House is crucial because they will be apportioning. | |
It's the census in 2020, so that's going to determine a lot who controls the House and the State Houses this election cycle. | ||
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That's the first time that's been mentioned. | |
What did he just say? | ||
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I missed it. | |
On the other hand, of the last 50 polls that have been done nationally, Mr. Bloomberg, I beat Trump 47 of those 50 times. | ||
If you look at battleground states like Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania polling just done this time of the election, I beat Trump. | ||
And if you want to beat Trump, what you're going to need is an unprecedented grassroots movement of black and white and Latino, Native American and Asian people who are standing up and fighting for justice. | ||
Can anybody in this room imagine moderate Republicans going over and voting for him? | ||
Absolutely. | ||
And you have to do that or you can't win. | ||
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Thank you, Senator Warren. | |
I hate her so much. | ||
the problem, and that is that a progressive agenda is popular, Mayor Bloomberg, and for everyone on this stage. | ||
We talk about how to build a future. | ||
That's what matters. | ||
I talk to people in selfie lines every day who tell me about the importance of getting real help on health care. | ||
I hate her so much. | ||
I also have a way to pay for health care that doesn't raise taxes on middle-class families. | ||
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I don't think I hate anyone else in the world more than I hate Elizabeth Warren. | |
But it's so much more than that. | ||
As Democrats, we need to speak to the future. | ||
We can build together. | ||
We need to speak to the prosperity we can build together. | ||
How about a wealth tax in America? | ||
Because with a two-cent tax, on just the top one-tenth of one percent, we have a chance to invest in universal child care for every one of our babies to really level the playing field. | ||
That's not gonna happen. | ||
The racial wealth gap will never be closed. | ||
That's never, that is never going to happen. | ||
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Okay! | |
Ahaha! | ||
by canceling student loan debt for 43 million Americans. | ||
We need to talk about our explorations. | ||
The racial wealth gap will never be closed. | ||
That is never going to happen. | ||
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Senator, thank you. | |
This is our moment. | ||
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Senator, thank you. | |
We have to take a quick break. | ||
When we come back, the Democratic presidential debate continues by Dr. This, on CBS. | ||
I wonder why this debate has been going so poorly. | ||
Why is this debate been so poorly moderated? | ||
I think we just found the answer. | ||
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Well, there you have it. . | |
How long is this debate? | ||
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Is this two hours? | |
Is this three hours? | ||
Let's see. | ||
Democrat debate. | ||
It's probably two hours, but I want to double check. | ||
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I should have checked beforehand, but just slipped my mind. | |
Let's see. | ||
Well, it says it starts at 7. | ||
Doesn't say how long it runs. | ||
Yeah, whatever. | ||
Well, we'll watch it for as long as it is. | ||
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We're going in dark here. | |
Well, that was a pretty eventful... That was a pretty eventful first 40 minutes. | ||
It's two hours, people are saying. | ||
That was a pretty eventful first 40 minutes, and you know, as I predicted, and as people have been talking about, it's a pile-on on Bernie Sanders, and we all know why that is. | ||
We've been talking about it on the show now for a couple weeks. | ||
This is the point of no return. | ||
The South Carolina primary really is the tipping point After which the dominoes will begin to fall and Sanders will be virtually impossible to stop. | ||
He virtually, it was a virtual tie for Iowa. | ||
He won New Hampshire. | ||
He won Nevada by an overwhelming margin. | ||
If he comes in first place in South Carolina, which would be an upset. | ||
Because Joe Biden is still favored to win there, I believe. | ||
He still has polled number one there, and he's been polling number one there for a long time. | ||
It's also big black population, where Joe Biden is still in the lead with black voters. | ||
Sanders is on his heels with the blacks, or with the black vote, but Joe Biden still commands the number one place. | ||
So, Sanders comes from behind and wins this one. | ||
The momentum and the boost that he will get from that victory and the three preceding victories, that will propel him into Super Tuesday. | ||
He is gonna crush in California, he's gonna crush across most of the Super Tuesday states, and he will be put on a trajectory where he will continue to collect delegates until he will win the nomination outright with the majority of pledged delegates before the convention. | ||
And so, as such, I think the memo went out and it was reported in the Hill this week. | ||
I said this at the top of the show. | ||
The memo went out from the DNC to all the candidates that you've got you've got seven days from the Nevada caucus the memo went out you've got seven days to stop Bernie Sanders between Nevada and South Carolina and this is the big battle now the debate and that's why every single candidate has now come out swinging against Bernie because not only do they want their shot not only do they want a little slice of the attention maybe they could get a boost | ||
Off of this, they all have something to gain from it, but also they're taking away Bernie Sanders' chance if they hurl an effective attack. | ||
So I actually did take some notes here. | ||
They all attacked him, but all from different angles. | ||
Bloomberg boldly attacks Bernie Sanders right out of the gate, along the lines of Russia, and says, oh, you know, the Russians are supporting you, and then later on in the debate he fleshed that out a little bit, and he talked about the effects of the census, which we actually missed what Bernie said a moment ago when he got booed by the audience, because I pointed out that nobody has talked yet, nobody has acknowledged yet, that this, that these down-ballot races are critical in this election. | ||
In the state houses, the governorships, and the House of Representatives, because the 2020 census takes place. | ||
And the results of the census will then inform how the electoral votes are apportioned, and how they apportion representation in the House, and how they draw some of the districts. | ||
And that is largely decided by the state houses, the state governments, and to an extent the House of Representatives. | ||
So, that's a big deal. | ||
Okay, well I didn't get to summarize everything. | ||
I guess I'll come back later with more analysis. | ||
Short break. | ||
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That's Major Garrett and Margaret Brennan, moderator of Face the Nation. | |
But it's important to know the census. | ||
The census, that's a big deal. | ||
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Just across the street, as you mentioned at the top of the debate, is a theater where nine people were shot and killed inside the Mother Emanuel Church. | |
We all remember that day back in 2015. | ||
And every day in our country, over 100 people die from gun violence. | ||
You all have plans, I know, on this stage to address the gun crisis. | ||
But Congress has not been able to pass a major gun legislation in a quarter of a century. | ||
And just think about this. | ||
In those 25 years, we've had Columbine, Newtown, Parkland, Las Vegas. | ||
We could go on and on. | ||
Vice President Biden, I want to start with you. | ||
Why should anyone have faith that you're the one who can get this done now? | ||
Because I'm the only one that ever got it done, nationally. | ||
I beat the NRA twice. | ||
I got assault weapons banned. | ||
I got magazines that could not hold more than 10 rounds in them. | ||
I got them eliminated, except we had a thing called an election with hanging chads in Florida, and it was not reauthorized. | ||
In addition to that, I passed the Brady Bill with waiting periods. | ||
I led that fight. | ||
But my friend to my right and others have, in fact, also given to the gun manufacturers Absolute immunity. | ||
Imagine if I stood here and said we give immunity to drug companies. | ||
We give immunity to tobacco companies. | ||
That has caused carnage on our streets. | ||
150 million people have been killed since 2007 when Bernie voted to exempt the gun manufacturers from liability. | ||
More than all the wars 150 million? | ||
150 million in 10 years? | ||
from that point on. | ||
Carnage on our street. | ||
And I want to tell you, if I'm elected and arrived coming for you and gun manufacturers, I'm going to take you on and I'm going to be the only one. | ||
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150 million in 10 years? | |
That's what I'm about seeing people dig in and talk about That doesn't sound right to me! | ||
What the heck? | ||
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That doesn't sound right to me. | |
What I've seen is gun safety legislation introduced, get a majority, and then doesn't pass because of the filibuster. | ||
Understand this. | ||
The filibuster is giving a veto to the gun industry. | ||
It gives a veto to the oil industry. | ||
It's going to give a veto on immigration. | ||
Until we're willing to dig in and say that if Mitch McConnell is going to do to the next Democratic president what he did to President Obama, and that is try to block every single thing he does, that we are willing to roll back the filibuster, go with the majority vote, And do what needs to be done for the American people. | ||
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We're going to stay on this topic and allow Senators... Understand this. | |
Many people on this stage do not support rolling back the filibuster. | ||
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Until we're ready to do that, we can't... I want to allow Senator Sanders to respond because you've gone after the insurance industry, you've taken on pharmaceutical companies, and you've taken on big tech. | |
Why did you vote repeatedly to give gun manufacturers a pass? | ||
You know, Joe has voted for terrible trade agreements. | ||
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That was so bad. | |
Could that have been done worse? | ||
My point was, not to be... Could that have been handled worse? | ||
Including bad votes. | ||
That was a bad vote. | ||
I have today a D-minus voting record from the NRA. | ||
Thirty years ago, I likely lost a race for the one seat for Congress in Vermont because thirty years ago I opposed, I supported a ban on assault weapons. | ||
Thirty years ago! | ||
Right now, my view is, we need to expand background checks and the gun show loophole, and do what the American people want, not what the NRA wants. | ||
Okay, but wait a second. | ||
The opposition to this filibuster is not a discretion from a long time ago. | ||
I think you recognize me, thank you. | ||
I have a six million person organization around this country, moms to men action in every town, and we have put background checks We've got background checks in 20 states. | ||
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Time to bloom. | |
So you can do it. | ||
It's Congress that can't seem to do it, and I don't know why we think they're going to do it. | ||
The vice president voted for a death bill and supported the NRA, and certainly Senator Sanders has supported the NRA. | ||
But we can do this. | ||
We're just not going to stop talking about it. | ||
The way we do it is having someone leading the ticket from a part of the country that we actually need the vote. | ||
So I have long supported the assault weapon ban. | ||
I am the author of the bill to close the boyfriend loophole that says that domestic abusers can't go out and get an AK-47. | ||
I wrote that law. | ||
You didn't write that bill. | ||
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I wrote that bill. | |
I wrote the bill. | ||
The Violence Against Women Act. | ||
It took out of the hands of people who abused her. | ||
We'll have a fact check. | ||
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No, let's look at the fact check. | |
The only thing that the boyfriend loophole was not covered. | ||
I couldn't get that covered. | ||
You, in fact, when you were, as a senator, tried to get it covered. | ||
And Mitch McConnell is holding up on his desk right now and we're going to lose the Violence Against Women Act across the board. | ||
Okay, so if I could finish. | ||
I have the bill. | ||
Anyone can check it out to close the boyfriend loophole. | ||
Also to close the Charleston loophole is another bill that's out there. | ||
Universal background checks. | ||
But let me say how we win this. | ||
We've got to win in the middle of the country. | ||
And while everyone talks about winning rural areas, suburban areas, I'm the only one up here with the receipts that it's actually repeatedly, while being for the assault weapon ban, One in Republican congressional districts over and over again, including Michelle Bachmann's district. | ||
So having someone that can lead the ticket, that can bring people with her, is the way you get gun safety legislation. | ||
I look at these proposals and say, do they hurt my Uncle Dick in the deer stand? | ||
They do not. | ||
So coming from a proud hunting state and still being able to pass this legislation is going to be the key. | ||
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We want to allow many people to get in on this topic. | |
Mayor Buttigieg. | ||
I'm definitely on board with the part about sending up somebody from the middle of the country. | ||
But I want to come back to this question about the filibuster, because this is not some long-ago bad vote that Bernie Sanders took. | ||
This is a current bad position that Bernie Sanders holds. | ||
And we're in South Carolina. | ||
How are we going to deliver a revolution if you won't even support a rule change? | ||
We are in this state. | ||
We are in the state where Strom Thurmond used the filibuster to block civil rights legislation repeatedly. | ||
No less a Senate traditional figure than Harry Reid has called for it to go. | ||
It has got to go because otherwise Washington will not deliver. | ||
I was in high school when the Columbine shooting happened. | ||
And I remember everybody in Washington saying, never again. | ||
You worked at a desk. | ||
let this happen again. | ||
And then a second school shooting generation has now been produced. | ||
Shame on us if we allow there to be a third. | ||
And also, in terms of making the case, I think it wouldn't be a bad idea for somebody to illustrate from the perspective of a veteran why the kinds of weaponry, anything remotely like what I trained on, you worked at a desk has no business being sold anywhere near an American school or church or neighborhood. | ||
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The only time Pete Buttigieg was working with guns was for photo ops. | |
He worked at a desk. | ||
30 years ago, supported a ban on assault weapons. | ||
Mike Bloomberg has started a very good organization, Moms Demand Action. | ||
Congratulations. | ||
They have credited me with gun sense, as you did. | ||
Furthermore, it is my view that the time is now. | ||
And Joe made this point. | ||
Look, at the end of the day, we need to rally the American people. | ||
Here is the good news. | ||
Because of all these disgusting and horrific mass shootings, the American people now understand that we must be aggressive on gun safety, not be dictated to by the NRA. | ||
And I am proud that I have a D-minus voting record from the NRA. | ||
If elected president, it will get worse than that. | ||
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Mr. Steyer, please. | |
It isn't a question of the American people deciding that we have too much gun violence. | ||
Everyone in America knows we have too much gun violence. | ||
The problem we have is that corporations have bought Washington, D.C. | ||
The gun manufacturers own the Senate of the United States. | ||
So even though more than 90% of Americans want mandatory background checks on every gun purchase, we can't get it through the Senate. | ||
So the question you have to ask yourself is, how do we change the Senate of the United States in a material way? | ||
And there are two things. | ||
That's why I am I hate this guy so much. | ||
I can't. | ||
12 years for every congressperson and senator to change who's in charge, to get rid of Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz. | ||
I hate this guy so much. | ||
But I am also... | ||
I can't. | ||
Senator Sanders is right. | ||
We need to win a huge victory across the board. | ||
Democrats need to go to the grassroots... | ||
I built one of the biggest grassroots organizations in the United States. | ||
The way to win at the grassroots is tell the truth and organize. | ||
That's what it's going to take in 2020. | ||
Let's talk about education. | ||
South Carolina's schools score in the bottom half of the national assessment. | ||
Black students here consistently score worse than white students. | ||
Mayor Bloomberg A key element of your response to failing schools in New York City was a dramatic increase in public charter schools. | ||
As president, would you pursue that same strategy and seek to expand charter schools nationwide? | ||
I'm not sure they're appropriate every place. | ||
I can only tell you, in New York, they provided parents with an alternative to send students to them. | ||
The charter schools are mixed in with the non-charter public schools, because our charter schools are public schools as well. | ||
They've helped each other. | ||
I saw a statistic the other day. | ||
When I came into office, zero New York City schools were in the top 25 of the state. | ||
When I left, 23 out of 25 were from New York City. | ||
We've cut the gap between the rich and the poor. | ||
Bloom! | ||
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I'm blooming! | |
A little more check? | ||
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I'm blooming. | |
The options that parents have. | ||
I raised teacher salaries by 43%. | ||
I put an extra $5 billion into our school system. | ||
I value education. | ||
It is the only ways to solve the poverty problem is to get people a good education. | ||
And rather than just talk about it in New York, we actually did it. | ||
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Senator Warren. | |
So this is one thing where a president can make a big difference all by herself. | ||
And I'm gonna start with my Secretary of Education. | ||
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My Secretary of Education will be someone who is taught in public school. | |
My Secretary of Education will be someone who believes in public education. | ||
I want to see the United States not exist before a woman is elected president. | ||
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All by herself. | |
in public schools. | ||
One more thing. | ||
My secretary of education will believe that it is time to get rid of high-stakes testing. | ||
We need to support our children. | ||
But look, we want to build a future in this country. | ||
We build a future by investing in our children. | ||
I've got a plan to put $800 billion new federal dollars into our public schools. | ||
It's so pathetic and sad. | ||
Education is not free. | ||
You know she's saying that it's supposed to be cute. | ||
All by herself! | ||
Oh, bless your little heart, you know. | ||
Our campaign is about changing American priorities. | ||
Instead of giving tax breaks to billionaires, we're going to have high quality, universal child care for every family in this country. | ||
Because the psychologists tell us zero to four are the most important years of human development. | ||
We are going to triple funding for low-income Title I schools because kids' education should not depend upon the zip code in which they live. | ||
We're going to make public colleges and universities tuition-free through a tax on Wall Street speculation. | ||
And we're going to move to make certain that no teacher in America earns less than $60,000 a year. | ||
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We want great teachers. | |
Look, the best thing that we can do to support public education is to support public educators. | ||
I'm a little biased because I'm married to one and I get an education about education every day I come home. | ||
I have seen how teachers are being expected to dip into their own pockets to furnish their classrooms. | ||
Bruh. | ||
You almost, like, effectively forget that he's gay on some level. | ||
Like, oh yeah, he's gay. | ||
But you almost effectively forget that that's true. | ||
Until he, like, references, oh, my gay husband. | ||
The gay man that is my gay married husband. | ||
Then it's like, ah, oh yeah. | ||
Then it's like, oh, yeah. | ||
...overall, our regard for those who are educating our kids. | ||
And, yes, that means the Secretary of Education who will support teachers. | ||
It also means investing. | ||
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Thank you. | |
I'm proposing an education access board that would show that we are going to honor our teachers. | ||
Somebody in chat is Uncle Dick. | ||
Good evening. | ||
Uncle Dick, yeah. | ||
People across this country are being crushed by student loan debt. | ||
This is an issue we need to talk about. | ||
That's what my plan would do. | ||
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As we all know, the political conversation in our country is interactive. | |
This debate is no different. | ||
So, I want to put a question from Twitter to you, Senator Klobuchar. | ||
This is from Casey Pennington. | ||
How will your policies address and ensure affordable housing and education equity for minimum wage workers? | ||
Thank you. | ||
This is one of the first times we've talked about housing and I put forward an extensive policy. | ||
I think when I've looked at this both in my job in local government and in the Senate, one sure way we can make sure that kids get a good start is if they have a roof over their head and a stable place to live. | ||
So the way you do that is first of all taking care of this Section 8 backlog of applicants. | ||
There are literally hundreds of thousands of people waiting. | ||
Boring! | ||
have found a way to pay for this and a way to make sure that people get off that list and get into housing. | ||
Secondly, you create incentives for affordable housing to be built, and third, to help people pay for it. | ||
And I want to make clear, given South Carolina and the rural population as well as urban, that this isn't just an urban problem. | ||
It's a big urban problem. | ||
But it's also a rural problem where we have housing deserts and people want to have their businesses located there, but they're not able to get housing. | ||
So for me, it's building a coalition. | ||
And I actually like to get these things done. | ||
And the way you do it is by building a coalition between urban and rural so you can pass affordable housing. | ||
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Shut up! | |
Shut up! | ||
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Shut it! | |
This is a point where we need to talk about race, though. | ||
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Shut up. | |
It's not enough to talk about housing neutrally. | ||
Shut it. | ||
It's just be race blind. | ||
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Shut the fuck up. | |
It is important to recognize the role that the federal government played for decades and decades in discriminating against African Americans having an opportunity to buy homes. | ||
That's redlining. | ||
And while Mayor Bloomberg was blaming the housing crash of 2008 on African Americans and on Latinos, in fact, I was out there fighting for a consumer agency to make sure people never get cheated again on their mortgages. | ||
We have a house, I have a housing plan, and what it has in it specifically is a piece to deal with the effects of redlining. | ||
We can no longer pretend that everything is race neutral. | ||
We have got to address race consciously what's happening in this country. | ||
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Mayor Bloomberg, please, we were going to ask you about this. | |
I want to give you a chance to respond because in addition to what Senator Warren just said on Twitter, she called you a liar and a borderline racist because of what you said about redlining. | ||
Yes, she said, I'm sorry, but unfortunately she's misinformed on redlining. | ||
You can go back and look at the record. | ||
I fought against it before 08, the crisis during 08 and after that. | ||
Redlining is not the problem with the mortgage market, but it was a problem for the communities where it was done and we stopped that. | ||
Let me also say, since I have the floor for a second, that I really am surprised that all of these, my fellow Contestants up here I guess would be the right word for it, given nobody pays attention to the clock. | ||
I'm surprised they show up because I would have thought after I did such a good job in beating them last week that they'd be a little bit afraid to do that. | ||
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What? | |
What was that? | ||
What? | ||
Oh my gosh. | ||
What was that? | ||
I just said, when you're talking about affordable housing, we created 175,000 units of affordable housing in New York City. | ||
And I listened to them, and they're in Congress, and they say they can't get it done, can't get it done. | ||
But if you change something like the president, they would. | ||
No, you have to learn how to work on both sides of the aisle, and then you can get stuff done. | ||
I did it in New York City. | ||
I got the Republican state senate to vote for it. | ||
That was smooth. | ||
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That was very smooth. | |
Oh, that cocky? | ||
Oh, he's a New Yorker. | ||
You're swaggering New Yorkers. | ||
You just have to know how to deal with people. | ||
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Mayor Bloomberg, thank you very much. | |
Back to you, Bill. | ||
Vice President Biden, black men earn 73 cents for every dollar earned by white men are about twice as likely to be unpaid. | ||
Because he got fucking killed last week. | ||
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I'm surprised he came back after I beat you so bad last week. | |
What are you talking about? | ||
You got your ass kicked last week. | ||
That is hilarious. | ||
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Oh my gosh. | |
of inequities? | ||
Two ways. | ||
Number one, my entire life I've been involved in the black community. | ||
Oh my gosh. | ||
I was a public defender. | ||
I worked in the projects. | ||
I came along and the first thing I did is the chairman of the Judiciary Committee extended the Voting Rights Act eventually for 25 years. | ||
And I've been deeply involved in my first effort I had as a councilman was doing away with redlining in the county. | ||
The way we do this, we've got to help them create wealth. | ||
And that's why we double the amount of money that is available for young entrepreneurs and black entrepreneurs are as successful as any other group of people in the country. | ||
We go from $1.5 billion to $3 billion, taking $30 billion off the sidelines. | ||
That's how you create wealth. | ||
Secondly, I provide for the opportunity for first-time homebuyers to be able to have a $15,000 tax credit so they can get the mortgage at the front end and be able to keep it. | ||
Thirdly, I go after those people who are involved in gentrification, because what's happening is we're moving people out of their neighborhoods in ways that, in fact, make no sense. | ||
They're being bought out of America. | ||
You cannot find a place to live. | ||
Mr. Steyer. | ||
Thirdly, I make sure that with regard to housing, we allow people... | ||
Look, right now, if you live in a black neighborhood and you have the same exact house as the guy across the street in a white neighborhood has, your house is valued significantly less than the white. | ||
The same exact house. | ||
We've got to deal with the institutional racism. | ||
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Thank you, Vice President. | |
Mr. Vice President. | ||
I know how you cut me off all the time, but I'm not going to be quiet anymore, okay? | ||
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Mr. Steyer. | |
Every single policy area in the United States has a gigantic subtext of race. | ||
We're talking about education, we're talking about criminal justice, we're talking about housing, we're talking about loans. | ||
I started a bank to basically to correct the injustice in the financial services industry. | ||
Basically to make loans to black-owned, Latino-owned, and women-owned businesses. | ||
We've supported over 8,000 affordable housing units. | ||
But more than that, I believe I'm the only person on this stage who believes in reparations for slavery. | ||
If something happened, we should have a formal commission on race to retell the story of the last 400-plus years in America of African-Americans, of systematic legal injustice, discrimination, and cruelty, but also of 400-plus years of contribution in terms of building the United States of America and leading the United States of America... I'm gonna go Wignatt mode! | ||
I'm gonna become a Wignatt! | ||
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- I'm sorry, you're the only... - Thank you, Bill. | |
Senator Klobuchar, new topic, new topic, Senator Klobuchar. - I don't know where you got the impression. - If you could honor the rules of the debate, thank you. | ||
Senator Klobuchar, I'd like to change topics and ask you... - What a bitch. | ||
- Rural areas have populations who are older, sicker, and poorer than non-rural communities, and they have to travel farther to get medical help when they need it. | ||
Expanding coverage is gonna be useless if there are no providers to go to. | ||
So how would you ensure that there is available health care in rural areas? | ||
Boring! | ||
Boring! | ||
Who...who cares, frankly? | ||
Oh, how much do I hope there will be in rural areas? | ||
I'll give a policy answer, I'm gonna give a extremely nuanced policy answer. | ||
And one of the ways you do this right now, we have something called critical access hospitals. | ||
So they're designated for rural areas. | ||
And actually, I am leading the lead Democrat on a bill to extend that, to have other types of hospitals like emergency. | ||
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At least he's a swaggering, trash-talking New Yorker. | |
The other issue is we don't have enough personnel. | ||
And so that's where we get to this education plan. | ||
And I don't agree with some of my colleagues here about putting hard-earned taxpayer money into rich kids going to college. | ||
What I think we need to do instead is look at what our needs are in our economy. | ||
We're going to have a million openings for home health care workers, particularly in rural areas that we don't know how to fill. | ||
We're going to have over 100,000 openings for nursing assistants. | ||
We're not going to have a shortage of sports marketing degrees. | ||
We're going to have a shortage of plumbers and nurses. | ||
So putting incentives in place with how we do loan payback. | ||
making one and two year degrees free. | ||
And then of course, creating loan payback programs if people will go, especially medical students, into rural areas. | ||
Final thing is comprehensive immigration reform. | ||
I have passed the bill that allows doctors from other countries that study in our medical schools to stay and serve in rural areas. | ||
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We need to expand that. - The floor is yours. | |
Would you like, same question. - Yeah, so when I was born, there was no difference in your life expectancy. | ||
If you were born in a rural area or a city. | ||
Now the gap is the biggest it's been in a generation. | ||
And that is particularly affecting black rural families in places like South Carolina. | ||
We're seeing hospital closures, right and left. | ||
And we're seeing them in particular in states where Medicaid was not expanded. | ||
Something that is hurting black and poor white families and is largely the result of racial voter suppression. | ||
See, all of these things are connected. | ||
Housing. | ||
Wages, the ability to get anything meaningful done on criminal justice reform. | ||
All of these things are going to be harder to deal with as long as black voices are systematically excluded from political participation, which is happening on everything from the purging of voter rolls to the closing of voting locations. | ||
And that harms everybody. | ||
It's why in my Frederick Douglass plan for comprehensively dealing with these issues, part of the core of it is a 21st century voting rights act. | ||
I'm very proud working with Congressman Jim Clyburn, South Carolina, that we increased funding for the community health center program by $11 billion as part of the Affordable Care Act, which now provides for 9 million Americans access to primary health care. | ||
Dental care, mental health counseling, and low-cost prescription drugs. | ||
In that bill, we also put $2 billion into a program which would provide debt forgiveness for doctors, nurses, dentists. | ||
We have a major dental affordable crisis in this country to make sure that they are practicing in underserved areas. | ||
The advantage of a Medicare-for-all health care program, because it's not driven by profits for the drug companies and the insurance companies, we will have health care for all people in all parts of this country. | ||
But in order for any of that to happen, it has to pass. | ||
And we're talking about a plan that goes beyond even what they do. | ||
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Mayor Bloomberg, we're going to change topics. | |
Mayor Bloomberg, as mayor of New York, you declared war on obesity. | ||
You banned trans fats. | ||
From restaurants and you tried to do the same with large sugary drinks. | ||
So if you become president, will you push those policies on the national level as well? | ||
Well, I think what's right for New York City isn't necessarily right for all the other cities. | ||
Otherwise, you'd have a naked cowboy in every city. | ||
So, let's get serious here. | ||
But I do think it's the government's job to have good science and to explain to people what science says or how to take care of themselves and extend their lives. | ||
We are a country where there are too many people that are obese. | ||
We should do something about that. | ||
But just take a look at what happened with smoking. | ||
We did ban smoking in New York City in public places, restaurants, offices, and that sort of thing. | ||
And it has spread across America, across Europe, across Latin America, even into places in the Middle East and into the Far East. | ||
It has saved an enormous number of lives. | ||
So it just goes to show, if you have good public health, Then you can do things. | ||
And one of the great problems today, you read about the virus. | ||
What's really happening here is the president fired the pandemic specialists in this country two years ago. | ||
So there's nobody here to figure out what the hell we should be doing. | ||
And he's defunded... he's defunded... | ||
Centers for Disease Control, CDC, so we don't have the organization we need. | ||
This is a very serious thing. | ||
As you see, the stock market's falling apart because people are really worried and they should be. | ||
We don't have anybody to respond. | ||
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We're going to talk about that in our next segment. | |
Before I leave you, are New Yorkers living longer because of your policies? | ||
There's no question about that. | ||
Before I left, life expectancy in New York City had grown by three years during our 12 years in office, such that when I left, it was three years greater than the national average. | ||
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All right. | |
Vice President Biden, please. | ||
Vice President Biden. | ||
Look, one of the things we have to do, we have a thing in the Defense Department called DARPA, Special Operations thing, to find out all the things we have to deal with to make us safer. | ||
They came up with the internet, I mean, they came up with the internet, they came up with the whole idea of stealth technology. | ||
I'm going to do the same thing at the National Institute of Health. | ||
We're going to focus at least $50 billion over the first five years on focusing on obesity, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and cancer. | ||
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Why? | |
Obesity. | ||
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Diabetes. | |
Stop eating sugar. | ||
Not our. | ||
Stop fucking eating. | ||
Drink water. | ||
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Eat vegetables. | |
It's not complicated. | ||
Don't eat a lot. | ||
No problem solved. | ||
Beneath a billion dollars. | ||
Alright, Senator Biden, thank you. | ||
The American people support it. | ||
Even Republicans are supported. | ||
We have to focus on extending life, saving life, and making people -- and put them in a position to be able to live longer and more securely. | ||
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All right, Senator Biden, thank you. | |
Senator Klobuchar, Senator Sanders wants to legalize marijuana on day one of his presidency and is promising to expunge the record of anyone who has been arrested for possession. | ||
As a former prosecutor, is that a realistic promise? | ||
Well, it is realistic to want to legalize marijuana. | ||
I want to do that too. | ||
And I also think you need to look back at people's records. | ||
And you maybe can't do it on day one, as he said. | ||
I think you want to have a process that you go through. | ||
Because there's too many people that have things on their records that have stopped them from getting jobs. | ||
I think a lot of what we also need to do is to make sure that when we do this, that we have money for treatment. | ||
It's boring again. | ||
necessarily because of marijuana. | ||
It is because of things like opioids and the like. | ||
And that's why one of the first plans I put out was for treatment, because if you want to make the criminal justice system work, you don't want to have repeat customers and you want to help people to get off of drugs. | ||
And the way you do that is with drug courts. | ||
The way you do that, by the way, is with my proposal for a clemency board in the White House so that you don't have a president that Pell-Mell gives pardons to his buddies and to white collar offenders, but that instead you have a set process that you use that's fair and is outside of the Justice Department and while giving their advice. | ||
All right. | ||
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Thank you, Senator Klobuchar. | |
Mayor Bloomberg, I'd like to get your thoughts on this because you have called marijuana another addictive drug that we've never done research on. | ||
Look, the first thing you do is we should not make this a criminal thing if you have a small amount. | ||
For dealers, yes, but for the average person, no, and you should expunge the records of those that got caught up in this before. | ||
Number two, we're not going to take it away from states that have already done it. | ||
But number three, you should listen to the scientists and the doctors. | ||
They say go very slowly, they haven't done enough research, and the evidence so far is worrisome before we get all our kids, particularly kids in their late teens, boys even more than girls, Based? | ||
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Okay. | |
This is extremely based. | ||
I'm blooming. | ||
I'm blooming! | ||
Thank you, Mr. Mayor. | ||
Senator Sanders, you are name checked. | ||
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Thank you. | |
Alright, look, you're right. | ||
I'm blooming. | ||
Senator Sanders, you were name checked. | ||
Thank you. | ||
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Okay, that was epic. | |
We have a criminal justice system today that is not only broken, it is racist. | ||
There are more people in jail than any other country on earth, including China. | ||
And one of the reasons for that is a horrific war on drugs. | ||
So I do believe that on day one, we will change the Federal Controlled Substance Act, which if you can believe it, now equates heroin with marijuana. | ||
That's insane. | ||
We're going to take marijuana out of that and effectively legalize marijuana in every state in the country. | ||
What we are also going to do is move to expunge the records of those people who were arrested for possession of marijuana. | ||
And I'll tell you what else we're going to do. | ||
We're going to provide help to the African American, Latino, Native American community to start businesses to sell legal marijuana rather than let a few corporations control the legalized marijuana market. | ||
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All right, Senator Sanders, thank you. | |
We've passed the halfway mark. | ||
I wrote the bill to set up drug courts. | ||
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All right. | |
Thank you, Vice President Biden. | ||
We will get back to you. | ||
The CBS News Democrat debate will continue right after the break. | ||
So that's... How much longer was that? | ||
I don't know. | ||
We're an hour and 15 minutes in. | ||
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This is just bad, man. | |
First hour was kind of interesting. | ||
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Shut it. | |
Shut up. | ||
This has been so hard to watch. | ||
Yeah, the first, like, hour was good. | ||
And now... Now it's not fun anymore. | ||
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Now it's not funny. | |
It's not interesting. | ||
It's not exciting. | ||
Oh, how are we gonna get dentists to farmers? | ||
Come on, and it's just racist this, racist that, whatever. | ||
But back to what I was saying earlier, everybody has been attacking Sanders from a different angle. | ||
That seems to have dissipated. | ||
The attacks on Sanders seem to have lessened in the past 30 minutes, and that's simply because the questions are bad. | ||
That's because the questions are not really promoting conflict or even conversation on the most important issues. | ||
You know, these very narrow and focused questions on really obscure issues, I don't think that really benefits anybody. | ||
This does not serve the candidates, this does not serve the audience, in my opinion. | ||
I don't think this is something that is... What is this now? | ||
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Oh, this is that... What is this now? | |
This trailer? | ||
Okay, never mind. | ||
So they started out attacking Bernie Sanders right out of the gate. | ||
Bloomberg attacked Sanders, we went over that. | ||
But they're all attacking him from a little bit of a different angle. | ||
Is this that movie that was cancelled and now they're bringing it back? | ||
Is that the one where they were killing Trump supporters and then everyone complained? | ||
I'm distracted! | ||
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I'm trying to rattle off analysis and we got this trailer! | |
Anyway. | ||
So we talked about Bloomberg attacking Sanders. | ||
Warren has been attacking Sanders, and her pitch is different. | ||
She's saying that she's a progressive, and progressivism is popular, but she's just a better progressive, which has really kind of always been her angle, implicitly. | ||
She's saying that she is a progressive, but she's also electable, and she's also pragmatic, whereas Bernie Sanders is maybe unelectable and not pragmatic. | ||
Which is like, that's probably her best pitch. | ||
That's like the elevator pitch for Elizabeth Warren. | ||
I'm like Bernie, but I'm a little bit more moderate. | ||
I'm not crazy. | ||
Buddha Judge said that Bernie Sanders is the chaos candidate. | ||
We had a literal chaos candidate moment. | ||
We've got a chaos candidate! | ||
And that's what Pete Buttigieg said. | ||
He said, you know, what Vladimir Putin wants is chaos and Donald Trump versus Bernie Sanders, that is just simply too much of a threat to the establishment. | ||
We need somebody mainstream who's gonna let you, who's gonna lull you back to sleep while the deep state and the CIA take back control. | ||
It was very on-brand. | ||
Then Steyer and Klobuchar said some dumb stuff and, you know, Biden critiqued him from gun control. | ||
Honestly, the purpose of this debate, the main thrust of what the narrative is for this one, is about Bernie Sanders. | ||
Bernie Sanders is the only one that can win. | ||
If you get over a point, you know, Klobuchar got a big applause line, Joe Biden had a big moment, whatever. | ||
The main thrust, what makes this debate important is that Bernie Sanders is like on the verge of becoming unstoppable and are people going to take away from him enough that he's not going to win on Saturday? | ||
That's really what matters here. | ||
I guess in that capacity maybe what Joe Biden says is a little bit more important. | ||
You know, if Joe Biden has a particularly strong performance, that will propel him, perhaps, into doing better in South Carolina in the primary on Saturday than he was otherwise expected to do. | ||
If he does better than he was expected to do, then, you know, that is important. | ||
But aside from that, the only thing that really matters is how well Sanders does. | ||
And honestly, he had that one moment where they asked him about gun control, and he didn't give a very strong answer, but that wasn't... I don't think that was disqualifying. | ||
I don't think that was, you know, totally catastrophic for him. | ||
I think he's basically doing a perfunctory job. | ||
He's hitting on his issues, as he always does. | ||
And there's kind of a lesson to be learned about politics in general about Bernie Sanders. | ||
He's got his talking points, and he never deviates from them. | ||
You know, well, the economy works really well for the millionaires and billionaires, but not working too well for the working people! | ||
We're gonna have... | ||
We're the only country where people pay more for their health... You know, you know the usual stuff about health care and education and so on. | ||
He's got the main talking points, he says the same thing every time, he sticks to them, and it's extremely effective, you know? | ||
And when they ask him about something unexpected, he might not have a totally compelling answer, but as long as he's hitting on the favorites, as long as he's hitting on the fan favorites, the classics, The sing-alongs, then that's all that matters. | ||
So he's given very consistent performances, and I think that's probably why he's been steady and surging recently. | ||
So I feel the same way about this debate performance. | ||
He's not knocking it out of the park, but it's not catastrophic. | ||
He's just doing fine. | ||
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Well, you will command 1.3 million U.S. troops. | |
troops and be responsible for protecting America's national security. | ||
There are also 53,000 here in South Carolina. | ||
You said, Senator Warren, you said you wanted to bring home all troops from the Middle East, and then you walked that back to say you want to bring home combat troops. | ||
How does that protect America's national security? | ||
The President's job, first job, is to keep America safe. | ||
An important part of that is to have a strong military. | ||
All three of my brothers served in the military, and I understand how much the military sacrifices, how much their families sacrifice, and how much they are willing to put on the line. | ||
That means that we have a sacred responsibility to them. | ||
And that is not to use our military to solve problems that cannot be solved militarily. | ||
We are not winning in Afghanistan. | ||
We are not winning in the Middle East. | ||
What we need to do is we need to use all of the tools in our toolbox. | ||
We need a strong military. | ||
We also need a strong State Department. | ||
Those are our eyes and ears on the ground. | ||
Oh my gosh. | ||
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They are our front lines in diplomacy. | |
Hearing a woman talk about the military, it's just like a joke. | ||
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We need a strong economy and to work worldwide on that economy, and we need strong alliances. | |
We need to know the difference between our friends and between dictators who would do us harm, and we need to be nicer to our friends than to dictators. | ||
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Do you even know what a wrench looks like? | |
Do you know what a screwdriver looks like? | ||
Do you even know what a toolbox looks like? | ||
Those are high-tech gears. | ||
Oh, yeah. | ||
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You know about the military. | |
Those are our eyes and ears. | ||
Would you pull all combat troops out of the place? | ||
You know about the military. | ||
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You want to cut it back as much as you can, but I think if we learned something from 9-11. | |
Give me a break. | ||
People plan things overseas and execute them here. | ||
We have to be able to stop terrorism. | ||
And there's no guarantees that you're going to be able to do it. | ||
But we have to have some troops in places where terrorists congregate. | ||
And to not do so is just irresponsible. | ||
We shouldn't be fighting wars that we can't win. | ||
We should go to war only as a last resort. | ||
Nobody argues with that. | ||
But this is a dangerous world. | ||
And if we haven't learned that after 9-11, I don't know what's going to teach us what to do. | ||
We have to do something. | ||
And I think the budget that we have, one of the things that I've seen recently convinced me that the military today is better prepared than they've been in an awful long time. | ||
And that the monies they are spending on the war weapons we need for the next war and not for the last, a common mistake that they're not making now. | ||
They're doing a good job. | ||
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What? | |
Judge, I'd like to go to you as the only. | ||
That was such a mess. | ||
Can you weigh in on this? | ||
Well, the first time I ever set foot in South Carolina, it was stepping off the bus to combat training near Florida. | ||
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You worked at a desk! | |
That was to get ready to go to a gangsta. | ||
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You worked at a desk. | |
I saw that one of the things that kept me safe. | ||
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Look at his face. | |
Just as sure as my body armor. | ||
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Well, when I was going to combat training, and last time I was in South Carolina, which was when I was in the military. | |
I know I was in the military, right? | ||
You worked at a desk! | ||
The President has torn that to shreds, and so the first thing we've got to do is restore the credibility of the United States. | ||
Second thing we've got to do... | ||
He's a veteran. | ||
No, he's a veteran, guys. | ||
only have the intelligence capabilities. | ||
And I guess I disagree with that. | ||
I don't know. | ||
He's a veteran, guys. | ||
Ground troops anywhere. | ||
He's a veteran. | ||
Can gather because terrorists can gather anywhere in the world. | ||
But we do need intelligence capabilities and specialists on the ground. | ||
But what good is that if you have a president who won't listen to them right now? | ||
Some of the biggest threats that we face are not only things like counterterrorism, but issues like global health security and the coronavirus that rely on the ability to listen to scientists. | ||
Listen to your own intelligence and coordinate with an international community that this president has alienated because his idea of a security strategy is a problem. | ||
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I know it goes fast, but a minute fifteen is really a long time. | |
So we'd ask, respectfully, if you would all please try to keep to the time. | ||
Good idea. | ||
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Senator Klobuchar, good idea, right, Mr. Vice President? | |
Senator Klobuchar, today, as we are coming over here today, I promise, Mr. Vice President, we are going to get to you today. | ||
I promise. | ||
You promised me that, but you haven't done it yet. | ||
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I've never broken a promise. | |
Senator Klobuchar, as we were coming over today, there was breaking news from the CDC about the coronavirus. | ||
And so far there have been 2,700 deaths globally. | ||
And so far in this country there have been no deaths. | ||
But the CDC says this, it's not a matter of if the virus will spread here, but when. | ||
The question to you is this, would you close the borders to Americans who have been exposed to the coronavirus in order to prevent an outbreak here in this country? | ||
Well, what we have to do is make sure that we have treatment for those Americans and that they are in a quarantine situation. | ||
We don't want to expose people, but we want to give them help. | ||
And I would agree when Mayor Bloomberg said that this president has not invested like he should have in his budget. | ||
He tried to cut back on the CDC. | ||
He tried to cut back on the international organization that would coordinate with the rest of the world. | ||
He hasn't yet really addressed the nation on this topic. | ||
I would do all of that. | ||
But I want to take this out of politics right now and talk to the American people because this is so serious. | ||
I'm not going to give my website right now. | ||
I'm going to give the CDC's website, which is cdc.gov, so that people... | ||
Now I have the help! | ||
Oh, thanks. | ||
And they follow the rules. | ||
They realize what they have to do if they feel sick and they call their health care provider. | ||
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Now I have the help. | |
Because many doctors are saying it's just a matter of time before we're going to start seeing this here. | ||
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Thank you for telling me to go to CDC.gov. | |
And I think the answer is that the president won't. | ||
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Thank you for taking this so seriously! | |
There it is! | ||
CDC website! | ||
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Oh, perfect! | |
Just what I was looking for! | ||
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Not immediate medical attention to this website! | |
Thank you! | ||
I didn't know! | ||
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Oh, perfect. | |
That's what I was looking for. | ||
And I would support because I know the vaccine is out there. | ||
Not immediate medical attention. | ||
It's a website. | ||
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Thank you. | |
I didn't know. | ||
Columbia, South Carolina, or Houston, Texas. | ||
And it's investing in education. | ||
So we are ready to lead again in the world. | ||
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I was watching the Democratic primary debate and feeling coronavirus. | |
We reached a turning point today with the CDC. | ||
I'm on the website. | ||
Warning schools that they missed prepare that they might have to close. | ||
Members of the Trump administration saying we don't have enough medical masks if necessary. | ||
What would you do? | ||
What we did with Ebola, I was part of making sure that pandemic did not get to the United States. | ||
That was not a pandemic. | ||
Saved millions of lives. | ||
And what we did, we set up, I helped set up, that office in the presidency, in the president's office, on diseases that are pandemic diseases. | ||
We increased the budget of the CDC. | ||
We increased the NIH budget. | ||
We should, if our president today, and he's wiped all that out. | ||
We did it. | ||
We stopped it. | ||
And the second thing I point out to you is that what I would do immediately is restore the funding. | ||
He cut the funding for CDC. | ||
He tried to cut the funding for NIH. | ||
He cut the funding for the entire effort. | ||
And here's the deal. | ||
I would be on the phone with China and making it clear. | ||
We are going to need to be in your country. | ||
You have to be open. | ||
You have to be clear. | ||
We have to know what's going on. | ||
We have to be there with you and insist on it. | ||
And insist, insist, insist. | ||
I could get that done. | ||
No one up here has ever dealt internationally with any of these world leaders. | ||
I'm the only one that has. | ||
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Senator Sanders. | |
In the White House today, we have a self-described great genius. | ||
Self-described. | ||
And this great genius has told us that this coronavirus is going to end in two months. | ||
April is the magical day that this great scientist we have in the White House has determined. | ||
I wish I was kidding. | ||
That is what he said. | ||
What do we have to do? | ||
Whether or not the issue is climate change, which is clearly a global crisis requiring international cooperation, or infectious diseases like coronavirus requiring international cooperation, We have to work and expand the World Health Organization. | ||
Obviously, we have to make sure the CDC, the NIH, our infectious departments are fully funded. | ||
This is a global problem. | ||
We've got to work with countries all over the world to solve it. | ||
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Senator, we're going to stay on the topic of foreign affairs. | |
Margaret Brennan. | ||
Thank you, Nora. | ||
Mayor Bloomberg. | ||
You've said that President Xi Jinping of China is not a dictator, and that he is responsive to his constituents, and that the U.S. | ||
must cooperate with Beijing. | ||
How far does that go? | ||
Would you allow Chinese firms to build critical U.S. | ||
infrastructure? | ||
No, I would not. | ||
And I think the Chinese government has not been open. | ||
They're oppressed. | ||
The freedom of press does not exist there. | ||
Their human rights record is abominable. | ||
And we should make a fuss, which we've been doing, I suppose. | ||
But we make no mistake about it. | ||
We have to deal with China if we're ever going to solve a climate crisis. | ||
We have to deal with them because our economies are inextricably linked. | ||
We would not be able to sell or buy the products that we need. | ||
And in terms of whether he's a dictator, he does serve at the behest of the Politburo, their group of people. | ||
But there's no question he has an enormous amount of power. | ||
But he does play his constituency. | ||
You can negotiate with him. | ||
That's exactly what we have to do. | ||
Make it seem that it's in his interest, and it's in people's interest, to do what we want to do. | ||
Follow the rules, particularly no stealing of intellectual property. | ||
Follow the rules in terms of the trade agreements that we have are reciprocal and go equally in both directions. | ||
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Thank you, Mr. President. | |
Vice President Biden, same question to you. | ||
Would you allow Chinese firms to build critical U.S. | ||
infrastructure? | ||
No, I would not. | ||
And I spent more time with Xi Jinping than any world leader had by the time we left office. | ||
This is a guy who doesn't have a democratic, with a small d, bone in his body. | ||
This is a guy who is a thug who in fact has a million Uyghurs in reconstruction camps, meaning concentration camps. | ||
This is a guy who, you see what's happening right now in Hong Kong. | ||
And this is a guy who I was able to convince should join the international agreement, the Paris Agreement, because guess what? | ||
They need to be involved. | ||
You can cooperate and you can also dictate exactly what they are. | ||
When, in fact, they said we're going to set up a no-fly zone, that you can't fly through our zone. | ||
He said, what do you expect me to do when I was over there? | ||
I said, we're going to fly right through it. | ||
We threw B-1 bombers through it. | ||
We've got to make it clear. | ||
They must play by the rules. | ||
Period, period, period. | ||
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Center Warren, same question. | |
Would you allow Chinese firms to build infrastructure? | ||
We have to be able to trust our president. | ||
Because there are a lot of decisions a president makes, and you just can't follow every part of it. | ||
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And that's one of the reasons that we need to see any candidates' taxes. | |
We know that Mayor Bloomberg has been doing business with China for a long time, and he is the only one on this stage who has not released his taxes. | ||
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Shut up! | |
He plans to release him after Super Tuesday. | ||
It is not enough to be able to say, just trust me on this. | ||
We have a president who said he was going to release his taxes after the election and has refused to do this. | ||
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She reminds me of my mom, like, but the bad things. | |
You know, and my mom says, Nicholas, you have to do this. | ||
Nicholas, you have to do this, you know? | ||
That's the nagging component, right? | ||
you have to do this you know can we've complied with every single requirement for disclosure and when i was mayor of new york that's the nagging tax returns out 12 years in a row and we will do that in the white house it's not an appealing way to attack my tax returns online right now i've released my tax returns yeah that That was easy to do, but I want to say something about foreign policy. | ||
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How many years? | |
Ten years. | ||
I want to say something about foreign policy, which is this. | ||
We keep acting as if we're in the 20th century or the 19th century. | ||
If you look at the biggest threats to the United States, we're talking right now about coronavirus that cannot be solved within the borders of the United States. | ||
We're talking about climate change, which is a global problem where we need U.S. | ||
leadership for countries around the world. | ||
In fact, Mr. Trump's policy of us going it alone, of America first, of having no values, no allies, and no strategy, is disastrous for us. | ||
The biggest threat to America right now, in terms of our safety of our citizens, is climate, and it's time for us to deal with it that way. | ||
Every single foreign policy issue is about American leadership and coalition. | ||
New topic. | ||
Senator Sanders. | ||
It's in the same theme, sir. | ||
You've praised the Chinese Communist Party for lifting more people out of extreme poverty than any other country. | ||
You also have a track record of expressing sympathy for socialist governments in Cuba and in Nicaragua. | ||
Can Americans trust that a democratic socialist president will not give authoritarians a free pass? | ||
I have opposed authoritarianism all over the world, and I was really amazed at what Mayor Bloomberg just said a moment ago. | ||
He said that the Chinese government is responsive to the Politburo. | ||
But who the hell is the Politburo responsive to? | ||
Who elects the Politburo? | ||
You got a real dictatorship there? | ||
Of course you have a dictatorship in Cuba. | ||
What I said is what Barack Obama said in terms of Cuba. | ||
That Cuba made progress on education. | ||
Yes, I think. | ||
Really? | ||
Really? | ||
Literacy programs are bad? | ||
What Barack Obama said is they made progress on education and healthcare. | ||
That was Barack Obama. | ||
Occasionally, it might be a good idea to be honest about American foreign policy. | ||
And that includes the fact that America has overthrown governments all over the world. | ||
In Chile, in Guatemala, in Iran. | ||
And when dictatorships, whether it is the Chinese or the Cubans, do something good, you acknowledge that. | ||
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But you don't have straight love letters with them. | |
This is 2020. | ||
We should be reliving the Cold War. | ||
Barack Obama was abroad. | ||
He was in a town meeting. | ||
He did not in any way suggest that there was anything positive about the Cuban government. | ||
He acknowledged that they did increase life expectancy. | ||
But he went on and condemned the dictatorship. | ||
He went on and condemned the people who in fact had run that committee. | ||
He also made sure, to make it clear, and by the way, I called to make sure that I was prepared to, I was, I never say in any of my private conversations, but the fact of the matter is, he in fact does not, did not, has never embraced an authoritarian regime and does not now. | ||
This man said that in fact he thought it was, he did not condemn what they did. | ||
That is untrue, categorically untrue. | ||
What did you tell him? | ||
I have condemned authoritarianism, whether it is the people in Saudi Arabia, that the United States government has loved for years. | ||
Cuba, Nicaragua. | ||
Authoritarianism of any stripe is bad. | ||
But that is different than saying that governments occasionally do things that are good. | ||
Look at what Barack Obama said. | ||
The only way we're going to restore American credibility, the only way we can do this is to actually win the presidency. | ||
And I am not looking forward to a scenario where it comes down to Donald Trump with his nostalgia for the social order of the 1950s and Bernie Sanders with a nostalgia for the revolutionary politics of the 1960s. | ||
This is not about what coups were happening in the 1970s or 80s. | ||
This is about the future. | ||
This is about 2020. | ||
We are not going to survive or succeed, and we're certainly not going to win by reliving the Cold War. | ||
And we're not going to win these critical, critical House and Senate races if people in those races have to explain why the nominee of the Democratic Party is telling people to look at the bright side of the Castro regime. | ||
We've got to be a lot smarter about it. | ||
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Senator Sanders, your response. | |
Let us be clear. | ||
Do we think healthcare for all, Pete, is some kind of radical communist idea? | ||
Do we think raising the minimum wage to a living wage? | ||
Do we think building the millions of units of affordable housing that we need? | ||
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Do we think raising taxes on billionaires is a radical idea? | |
Do you think criminal justice reform is a radical idea? | ||
I like the moderator. | ||
One at a time! | ||
What the heck, man? | ||
I like the moderator. | ||
One at a time. | ||
We've got to open this up. | ||
Universal health care for each other. | ||
Donald Trump's worst nightmare is having someone that the people in the middle, who are tired of the insults and the extremes in our politics, have someone. | ||
This debate is crazy. | ||
And I was going to comment on Cuba policy because I actually lead the bill to lift the embargo. | ||
I went with Barack Obama when he went to Cuba and I've seen firsthand how the Cuban people are way in front of their leaders. | ||
They like America. | ||
They want to be entrepreneurs. | ||
And the way that we embrace them and not the socialist regime is by opening up Cuba and starting to do business with them. | ||
But to get at what we were just talking about, I just think we have a huge choice. | ||
Super Tuesday states, one third of America will vote. | ||
Do you want to have someone in charge of this ticket? | ||
Could I finish? | ||
Come on, girl. | ||
We want to have someone in charge of this ticket who wants to put $60 trillion in spending three times the American economy. | ||
I don't think we do. | ||
I think that we can get all those bold, progressive things done without having someone that is so alienating that we're going to turn off the voters that we need to bring with us. | ||
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We have to allow the senator to respond. | |
I have to respond to the question that Senator Sanders wrote. | ||
Amy used the word alienating. | ||
Hey, Amy, my favorability nationally, I believe, are the highest up here, as a matter of fact. | ||
All right. | ||
But the point is, the way we are going to beat Trump, which is what everybody up here wants, is we need a campaign of energy and excitement. | ||
We need to have the largest voter turnout in the history of the United States. | ||
We need to bring working people back into the Democratic Party. | ||
We need to get young people voting in a way they have never done before. | ||
That is what our campaign is about. | ||
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Bill Whitaker has the floor. | |
Vice President Biden, the bipartisan Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report concluded Russia interfered in our last presidential election and the Obama administration failed to respond. | ||
The fix is in. | ||
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U.S. intelligence says Russia's at it again. | |
If it is proven that Russia has interfered in the 2020 elections, would you as president launch a retaliatory cyber attack? | ||
I would make them pay for it, and I make them pay for it economically. | ||
They are engaged now. | ||
as I speak in interfering in our elections. | ||
They were engaged, and when, in fact, we were the last election in 2016 against Hillary. | ||
They were. | ||
There's no question. | ||
This man stood before the whole world, turned to the Russian leader, and said, why in God's name would this man ever interfere in our elections? | ||
Give me a break. | ||
17 intelligence agencies said he did. | ||
When we got the information, we went to the committee in the Senate that's responsible for knowing these issues and dealing with them. | ||
We went to Mitch McConnell and said, join us and point out what is happening here. | ||
He said, no, we want no part of it. | ||
And if we had moved, we didn't have all the information at that time until after the election was over. | ||
And so the idea of the bipartisan committee said we could have done more. | ||
Theoretically, that's true. | ||
But the fact of the matter is we didn't have the information. | ||
21st century warfare is cyber warfare. | ||
What we're having is an attack by a hostile foreign power on our democracy right now. | ||
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Mr. Steyer. | |
Look, 21st century warfare is cyber warfare. | ||
What we're having is an attack by a hostile foreign power on our democracy right now. | ||
The question you have to ask is, where's the commander in chief? | ||
And let me say this. | ||
We don't have one. | ||
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This isn't news. | |
What Vice President Biden said is true. | ||
He did stand next to Vladimir Putin. | ||
There was a hostile foreign attack on our election last time, and the President sided with the hostile foreign power. | ||
That's why I started Need to Impeach. | ||
That's what we have to do. | ||
We have to oppose a president who sides with a hostile foreign power that commits cyber warfare against the United States of America. | ||
That's where we are. | ||
Where are all these patriotic Republicans who wave the flag, but when we're actually under attack, they side with our enemies. | ||
It's outrageous. | ||
That's why he should have been impeached. | ||
They covered it up, and I was years before these people. | ||
There's something wrong here. | ||
We're under attack, and they're not doing a darn thing about it. | ||
Thank you, Mr. Steyer. | ||
Wow. | ||
He finally got his moment. | ||
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Senator Sanders. | |
No, Senator Sanders, I have a question for you, sir. | ||
You're the frontrunner in this race. | ||
You're on the ballot in South Carolina. | ||
Mayor Bloomberg, you'll understand that preamble in just a second. | ||
If elected, Senator Sanders, you would be America's first Jewish president. | ||
You recently called a very prominent, well-known platform for, quote, bigotry. | ||
What would you say to American Jews who might be concerned you're not, from their perspective, supportive enough of Israel? | ||
And specifically, sir, would you move the U.S. | ||
embassy back to Tel Aviv? | ||
Let me just... | ||
The answer is, it's something that we would take into consideration. | ||
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Which would be... | |
Excuse me. | ||
But here is the point. | ||
I am very proud of being Jewish. | ||
Named? | ||
I actually lived in Israel for some months. | ||
But what I happen to believe is that right now, sadly, tragically, through Bibi Netanyahu, you have a reactionary racist who is now running that country. | ||
And I happen to believe that what our foreign policy in the Mideast should be about is absolutely protecting the independence and security of Israel. | ||
But you cannot ignore the suffering of the Palestinian people. | ||
We have got to have a policy that reaches out to the Palestinians and the Americans. | ||
And in answer to your question, that will come within the context of bringing nations together in the Mideast. | ||
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Mayor Bloomberg, would you like to weigh in on that, please? | |
Well, the battle's been going on for a long time in the Middle East, whether it's the Arabs versus the Persians, the Sias. | ||
versus the Sunnis, the Jews in Israel and the Palestinians. | ||
It's only gone on for 40 or 50 years. | ||
Number one, you can't move the embassy back. | ||
We should not have done it without getting something from the Israeli government, but it was done, and you're going to have to leave it there. | ||
Number two, the only solution here is a two-state solution. | ||
I'm blooming. | ||
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I'm blooming! | |
This is base? | ||
Mayor Bloomberg, thank you very much. | ||
We have two groups of people, both of whom, thank God, gave them the same piece of land. | ||
And the answer is to obviously split it up, leave the Israeli borders where they are, try to push them to pull back some of those extra on the other side of the wall where they've built these new communities, which they should not have done that. | ||
Pull it back. | ||
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Mayor Bloomberg, thank you very much. | |
Senator Warren. | ||
Look, the way we have to think about this is I think we have to start with the values and what has to be protected here. | ||
Israelis have a right to security and the Palestinians have a right to be treated with dignity and to have self-determination. | ||
That is a two-state solution. | ||
But it's not up to us to determine what the terms of a two-state solution are. | ||
We want to be a good ally. | ||
That is the dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard in my life. | ||
The best way to do that is to encourage the parties to get to the negotiating table themselves. | ||
That is the dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard in my life. | ||
He keeps putting a thumb on the scale on just one side, and that moves the parties further away from working out their own solution here. | ||
We need to be an ally by supporting them to come to negotiate to find a lasting. | ||
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That has literally been our policy since Israel existed. | |
It is not ours to do. | ||
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Would you move it back? | |
It is not ours. | ||
Our embassy? | ||
She is such a dumb idiot. | ||
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I want to turn now to the issue of North Korea because President Trump has engaged in direct diplomacy meeting directly with Kim Jong-un. | |
Senator Klobuchar, if you were commander-in-chief, would you meet with the North Korean leader? | ||
I would, but not in the way this president has done it. | ||
He literally thinks he can go over and bring a hot dish to the dictator next door, and he thinks everything's going to be fine. | ||
He has not done it with our allies. | ||
He has literally just hastily called summits and run off. | ||
That is no way to do it, and as you can see, North Korea is emboldened. | ||
They're still launching missiles. | ||
They promised a a Christmas surprise that thankfully never happened, and he has not been able to advance the ball at all. | ||
So what would I do? | ||
I would work with our allies. | ||
And it has been pointed out, this is what this president fails at all the time. | ||
We should be negotiating ourselves back into the Iran nuclear agreement. | ||
We should be working with Russia not only to stand up for the protection of our elections and call Vladimir Putin out for what he is, the ruthless dictator that takes down planes, that poisons dissidents, but that also, at the same time, we have to acknowledge that we should be renegotiating at the same time, we have to acknowledge that we should be renegotiating the New START treaty and the other arms negotiations This president just likes to do tweets at 4 a.m. | ||
his bathrobe, gets out there and doesn't achieve the results we need. | ||
I would meet with him, but I would do it with our allies. | ||
I would have clear deliverables and I would achieve those deliverables. | ||
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Mr. Vice President, how would you deal with North Korea? | |
You don't negotiate with a dictator, give him legitimacy without any notion whether he is going to do anything at all. | ||
You don't do that. | ||
Look what happened. | ||
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He gave this dictator- This is coming from Biden, right? | |
It was in the Obama administration. | ||
Obama went to Cuba. | ||
And Obama negotiated the Iran nuclear deal. | ||
North Korea is beyond the pale. | ||
House Assad, Castro. | ||
And what's happened? | ||
It's been weakened. | ||
I would be in Beijing. | ||
I would be calling to, I would be speaking with Xi Jinping. | ||
I would be reassigning the relationship between Japan and South Korea. | ||
And I would make it clear. | ||
That was funny. | ||
clear to China. | ||
We are going to continue to move closer to make sure that we can, in fact, prevent China, prevent North Korea from launching missiles to take them down. | ||
And if we don't, why am I stopping? | ||
No one else stops. | ||
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Okay. | |
That was funny. | ||
Okay, sir. | ||
It's my Catholic school training. | ||
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Funny. | |
Okay. | ||
Vice President Biden, you're a gentleman. | ||
Good home training. | ||
Thank you, sir. | ||
Gentlemen don't get very well treated up here. | ||
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Margaret Brennan. | |
Thank you very much, Nora. | ||
This is a question for Mayor Buttigieg. | ||
As you know, viewers and voters are participating in this through Twitter. | ||
The city of Idlib in Syria is facing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. | ||
The Syrian regime and Russia are targeting schools, bakeries, and hospitals. | ||
What would you do as president to push back regime and Russian forces and stop the killing of... | ||
First of all, I stand with the people of Idlib, who are being targeted, as you said, in a brutal fashion by a dictatorship that has already been so brutal for so many years. | ||
And this is one of the reasons we've got to change the balance of power in the region, because the president has basically vanished from the stage when it comes to even playing a role in the future there. | ||
Russia, Iran, all have so much more of a say than we do. | ||
We don't have to be invading countries to be making a difference, working with our international partners in order to deliver peace and support those who are standing up for self-determination. | ||
Now, I want to come back to something, and I promise it relates to international affairs, because Senator Sanders asked me a question earlier. | ||
He asked the question of whether healthcare for everybody is a radical idea. | ||
And it's not, which is why I'm for it. | ||
Very much in a different way, though. | ||
How is this tie-in? | ||
idea is completely eliminating all private insurance. | ||
And part of how you know it is, is that no industrialized country has gone that far. | ||
He and I both like to talk about Denmark, for example. | ||
But even in Denmark, they have not abolished the possibility of private insurance. | ||
So this is an idea that goes further than what is acceptable in Denmark, the country, let alone imagining how that's going to fly in Denmark, South Carolina. | ||
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Thank you, Mayor. | |
How is that relevant? | ||
He was so impressed with himself that he came up with that, that he had to shoehorn that in eventually. - You're smarter. | ||
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I'm sorry. | |
Same question. | ||
What would you do to stop the mass murder in Idlib, Syria? | ||
Look, I think that what we've got to do is we have to provide humanitarian relief. | ||
We need to work with our allies on this. | ||
But this is not a moment for military intervention. | ||
We have got to use our military only when we see a military problem that can be solved militarily We cannot send our military in unless we have a plan to get them out. | ||
So for me, this is about working with our allies. | ||
It is about standing with the people who are under enormous pressure right now. | ||
This is recognizing what Donald Trump has put us in, in a terrible box around the world. | ||
But the solution is not to use our military. | ||
The solution is to use the other tools here. | ||
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Thank you, Senator. | |
We've talked a lot about your policies during this debate. | ||
Now we'd like to get a little more personal. | ||
I know, Senator Sanders, how much you enjoy that. | ||
We're going to ask you when we come back from the break about the words you live by. | ||
We're going to give you a couple minutes to gather your thoughts. | ||
We'll be right back. | ||
This debate is terrible. | ||
It's entertaining, but it's been the most poorly moderated, the most disorganized, the worst questions. | ||
Now they're going to do this, the cutesy, say something you like about the other, you know, say something that inspires you as your closing statement. | ||
This is, hands down, maybe the worst one. | ||
Not even so much in terms of entertainment value, like I said. | ||
One of the more entertaining debates, for sure, but in terms of everything else, it's just very poorly done, and you can see why. | ||
You can see who is arranging this one. | ||
Whose idea do you think it was to come up with personal questions as a closing statement? | ||
Do you think that was that black guy? | ||
Do you think he came up with that, or the... | ||
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The white guy? | |
Or do you think it was Oprah's friend and the other girl, right? | ||
So, well, we're almost done here. | ||
We got 10 minutes left. | ||
They're going to do their closing statements when they come back. | ||
And, you know, I have to say that they definitely landed a blow on Bernie Sanders with the socialist remark. | ||
I don't know to what extent that is going to hurt Bernie Sanders, if that's going to be disqualifying, because You know, here's the thing. | ||
What they attack him on so far is things that people kind of know about Bernie. | ||
It's similar to the attacks on the president, on Donald Trump, when he was running for the nomination in 2016. | ||
It doesn't make much sense to go in on attacks that are fairly obvious. | ||
You know what I mean? | ||
Like, to say that Bernie Sanders can't pay for his programs, or to say that Bernie Sanders is a socialist, This is almost to be expected, and I believe that the people that support him understand these challenges, and even the people that don't support him are understanding of these things. | ||
I mean, that is sort of what is brought to the table to begin with, whether you like him or don't like him. | ||
If you like him, you're looking past this. | ||
If you don't like him, it's probably because of those things. | ||
So to lean in on Well, it costs a lot of money to do Medicare for All. | ||
Is that really a particularly effective line of attack against people who support universal health care, Medicare for All, and so on as their position? | ||
And even with the socialist stuff, the guy is a self-identified democratic socialist. | ||
He wasn't even a democrat up until, I believe, the 2016 election. | ||
He was an independent for years. | ||
So the idea then that they're gonna lean in and say, oh, he's a communist, he's a communist sympathizer, he prays to Fidel Castro... I mean, these are like cheap points that you score in the debate, and yeah, it's like, oh, it's a controversy, it's a gaffe, whatever. | ||
But is anybody that's supporting Bernie Sanders going to say, oh, well... | ||
Ah, Bernie Sanders is a little bit too much of a socialist for me. | ||
Him being a democratic socialist, honeymooning in the Soviet Union, all of which is well known, well, you know, that wasn't enough. | ||
But this latest thing? | ||
Yeah, well that just did it in for me, so... | ||
On the one hand, there were a couple of moments there, paying for the $60 trillion in plans and praising Fidel Castro, you know, whatever. | ||
Those two moments, you could say, were maybe weak moments, where a candidate scored points on him. | ||
But you have to ask yourself, to what extent is that an effective Is that an effective line of attack? | ||
Is that going to really be persuasive to people that have already made up their minds, particularly that have made up their minds for Sanders? | ||
I don't know. | ||
And really what they don't understand is why Bernie is winning and why he's the only one that has excitement and enthusiasm and like real grassroots mass support is because he's presenting an alternative vision. | ||
A solid, positive, coherent, concrete alternative to the status quo. | ||
That's why he's doing well. | ||
And instead of anybody else doing the same thing, or something different, they are saying, well, we're just more electable. | ||
Well, we're just the practical option. | ||
Well, we're gonna get the job done. | ||
They don't understand marketing, advertising. | ||
You know what I'm saying? | ||
Like, when you go shopping for a product, and something is gonna make big promises, flashy, exciting, interesting advertisement campaign. | ||
You know, something like the iPhone. | ||
You guys remember the iPhone and The brilliant marketing behind that, how it was unconventional and unique and groundbreaking for the time. | ||
I didn't have to know anything about technology to know, oh, it's iPhone. | ||
It's a very prominent brand. | ||
This is something new. | ||
It's something fresh. | ||
As opposed to, you know, like a Microsoft phone or something that says, well, this is just a really bright phone. | ||
It's going to get the job done. | ||
I know it's not exciting or interesting, but this is going to be very practical. | ||
What are people going to vote for? | ||
Especially in an election like this. | ||
Especially young people, which you're trying to target. | ||
To create an exciting, enthusiastic mass movement, are you going to say, well, I'm practical. | ||
I'm gonna get the job done on bringing together a rural and urban coalition to get health care for people in rural... Really? | ||
Or some of it's gonna say, millionaires and billionaires are gonna, we're gonna eat them and everything's gonna be free, you know? | ||
So, it just betrays a misunderstanding of politics, but... | ||
We're back here for the closing statements. | ||
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We'll see what happens. | |
One final question, candidates, and it's a two-parter. | ||
First, I'd like you each to tell us the biggest misconception about you. | ||
That's number one. | ||
Number two, the South Carolina motto is this, while I breathe I hope. | ||
So, outside of politics, in no more than 45 seconds or so, what is your personal motto, your personal belief, your favorite quote that represents you? | ||
Mr. Steyer, the biggest misconception, and then your motto. | ||
The biggest misconception about me is that somehow I'm defined by business success and money. | ||
Okay, and your motto? | ||
My motto, every day I write a cross on my hand to remind myself to tell the truth and do what's right, no matter what. | ||
Thank you, Mr. Steyer. | ||
Senator Klobuchar, I'd say the biggest... | ||
The biggest misconception is that I'm boring, because I'm not. | ||
I would say that my motto is the words of one of my political mentors, Paul Wellstone, who's sadly no longer with us. | ||
And he said that politics is about improving people's lives. | ||
And that's been my life from when my grandpa was an iron ore miner and the union's politics made those mines safer. | ||
Boring. | ||
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Okay, this is boring. | |
This is actually really boring. | ||
That explains it. | ||
Senator Klobuchar, what was your motto? | ||
I'm sorry. | ||
Senator Klobuchar, what was your motto? | ||
No, what was your motto? | ||
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I'm sorry. | |
Got it, got it. | ||
Vice President Biden? | ||
Biggest misconception. | ||
It was a pretty good one. | ||
It was a very good one. | ||
And that gift of public service got her through. | ||
And then when our daughter was born and she couldn't swallow, that was my life. | ||
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Senator Klobuchar, what was your motto? | |
Oh, I thought we had a minute to answer the question. | ||
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No, what was your motto? | |
I'm sorry. | ||
My motto was that politics is about improving people's lives. | ||
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Got it, got it. | |
Vice President Biden, biggest misconception. | ||
It was a pretty good one. | ||
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It was a very good one. | |
Thank you. | ||
Very good one. | ||
Thank you. | ||
We need to knock down, get up, and everyone's entitled to be treated with dignity. | ||
No matter what. | ||
No matter who they are. | ||
My also that everyone should be represented. | ||
No one's better than me, and I'm no better than anyone else. | ||
The fact is, what we should be doing, we talked about the Supreme Court, I'm looking forward to making sure there's a black woman on the Supreme Court to make sure we in fact get every representation. | ||
Not a joke. | ||
What's the biggest misconception about you, sir? | ||
My mother's motto was, she said, you know, you're defined by your courage, you're redeemed by your loyalty. | ||
I am loyal, I do what I say. | ||
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What's the biggest misconception about you, sir? | |
I have more hair than I think I do. | ||
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There's a way to fix that, Senator Sanders. | |
Misconception. | ||
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Yes. | |
Misconception, and you're hearing it here tonight, is that the ideas I'm talking about are radical. | ||
They're not. | ||
In one form or another, they exist in countries all over the world. | ||
Healthcare is a human right. | ||
We have the necessity, the moral imperative, to address the existential threat of climate change. | ||
Other countries are doing that. | ||
We don't need more people in jail, disproportionately African American, than any other country on earth. | ||
Not a radical idea. | ||
The motto, the saying that moves me the most is from Nelson Mandela. | ||
And Mandela said, everything is impossible until it happens. | ||
And that means if we have the guts to stand up, the powerful special interests, we're doing phenomenally well. | ||
If we can bring working people together, black and white and Latino, we can create a nation where all people have a good standard of living. | ||
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Senator Warren. | |
That is such a woman thing to say. | ||
is that I don't eat very much. | ||
In fact, I eat all the time. | ||
Because I get teased about this. | ||
That is such a woman thing to say. | ||
That is the most woman thing I've ever heard in my life. | ||
And the misconception is that I thought I should be president of the United States. | ||
No. | ||
I got into this because I am a fighter. | ||
My motto ties in directly to this. | ||
It's Matthew 25. | ||
And that is, Inasmuch as ye hath done it unto one of these, the least of thy brethren, ye hath done it unto me. | ||
For me, this is about how we treat other people and how we lift them up. | ||
That is why I am in this fight. | ||
That is why I am running to be president. | ||
And it is why I will be an effective president. | ||
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Thank you, Senator. | |
You will not be president. | ||
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Absolutely not. | |
She was going to die before being president. | ||
I think the biggest misconception is that I'm not passionate. | ||
I get that I'm kind of level. | ||
Some say unflappable. | ||
I don't think you want a president who's flappable. | ||
But it's precisely because I'm so passionate about the things that are going on in this country that I consider it important to approach all of that with discipline. | ||
And my disciplines are guided by the mottos I try to live by, many of which come from scripture. | ||
And just to be clear, I would never impose my interpretation of my religion on anybody. | ||
You don't have a religion. | ||
I'll never let that happen to anybody. | ||
But I seek to live by the teachings that say that if you would be a leader, you must first be a servant. | ||
And of course the teaching, not unique to the Christian tradition, but a big part of it, that holds that we are to treat others as we would be treated. | ||
And when I think about everything at stake from racial and economic justice to our stewardship of the climate to the need to heal the sick and the need to heal this country, I seek for those teachings to order my steps as I go through this campaign and as I go through life. | ||
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Thank you. | |
Mayor Bloomberg. | ||
Misconception that I'm six feet tall. | ||
And quote, I've trained for this job for a long time, and when I get it, I'm going to do something rather than just talk about it. | ||
What's the motto? | ||
Answer the question. | ||
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Thank you, candidates. | |
Thank you very much. | ||
Well, thank you. | ||
That concludes our debate. | ||
No, we have time for one more break, Nora. | ||
One more break. | ||
Surprise when you're having fun. | ||
You're watching the Democratic debate right here on CBS. | ||
Wow. | ||
Wow! | ||
Good job, women! | ||
Wow, I definitely feel more comfortable about a woman being in charge of the country after seeing two women fuck up a debate. | ||
Yeah, that is definitely an encouraging thing to see. | ||
It's all right there, folks. | ||
I mean, it's all there. | ||
I mean, really? | ||
That is a perfect end to this debate. | ||
A perfect end is a totally botched attempt at levity with these, you know... What if we did a personal question? | ||
You know a woman came up with that. | ||
What if we did a personal question? | ||
What if we did a personal question at the end where we ask the candidate, what inspires you? | ||
What's your motto? | ||
What motto do you live by? | ||
What's a misconception about you? | ||
And all these candidates are like, what? | ||
Okay, I get a minute to, like, you know, talk, right? | ||
No, no, just give us, like, a motto. | ||
Just give us a big misconception. | ||
These things never work out. | ||
I've been watching... I've watched all the debates. | ||
I watched all the debates in 2016. | ||
The general and the primary debates. | ||
On both sides. | ||
And they never work. | ||
The personal questions never work because these people are, like, trying to cut each other. | ||
They're trying to cut each other down in the most vicious and ruthless way. | ||
So that they can have and wield ultimate power. | ||
So it's like, oh, let's just throw a softball. | ||
Let's just throw, you know, let's just throw one of these silly, earnest baby questions to all these killers. | ||
It never goes over well. | ||
They're trying to maximize their time. | ||
They're shitting on people. | ||
They're making up all these allegations, just so they get another 30 seconds to throw their pitch in about health care, you know? | ||
And then you're gonna say, what's your motto? | ||
Doesn't make any sense. | ||
Doesn't work. | ||
A woman came up with that. | ||
Great idea. | ||
And then, you know, then after that disaster where they have to remind everybody going through, oh, no, no, no, it's a motto and then a misconception. | ||
Then she's going to say, oh, and that's it for the debate. | ||
No, it's not. | ||
Actually, there's one more thing. | ||
So, moderating was terrible. | ||
Questions were bad. | ||
Closing question was bad. | ||
Botched thing at the end. | ||
This whole thing has just been a big, fat joke. | ||
And, you know, honestly, it's actually white-pilling to see, because it's like, inasmuch as we fear demographic change, we fear demographic change because the demographic changes are bringing in incompetent people. | ||
So, it's like, well, their incompetence may be something that ends up helping us, right? | ||
When you're talking about the Democratic Party, the media, things like that. | ||
These affirmative action hires catch up to you eventually. | ||
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That concludes our debate. | |
We want to thank the candidates, the moderators, and to you watching at home tonight. | ||
And a reminder that the primary here in South Carolina is this Saturday, and next Tuesday of course, Super Tuesday. | ||
CBS News will have special coverage. | ||
And our coverage of tonight's debate will continue in a moment from the spin room here on CBS and on our streaming news service, CBSN. | ||
Okay. | ||
There will be more about the debate as well on your late local news on this CBS station and first thing tomorrow on CBS This Morning. | ||
I'm getting on a plane right now going to New York. | ||
I'll be there. | ||
From all of us here at CBS News, I'm Nora O'Donnell. | ||
Good night. | ||
Good night. | ||
Okay. | ||
So, I guess it really is the end of the debate. | ||
Even better, actually. | ||
Even better. | ||
Well, there you have it. | ||
We're gonna read our superchats. | ||
I'll do a little analysis then we'll do our super chats this is cute This is a cute moment. | ||
Alright. | ||
Let me just adjust my setup here. | ||
so that we are all set to go. | ||
Okay. | ||
Okay. - Okay. | ||
I'm going to transition into the studio here so that we can do Super Chats. | ||
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Let me just pop in here and let's do this. | |
Okay, a little of this. | ||
Do a little of this. | ||
Little of this. | ||
Boop. | ||
Okay, I think we should be good there. | ||
Let me go turn on my studio lights and then we'll do our Super Chats. | ||
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You can still hear me now. | |
I got the wireless headset now so I'm mobile. | ||
You can still hear me while I'm changing our lighting setup. | ||
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Uh-oh. | |
Oh, come on. | ||
This is gonna give me a problem again. | ||
Okay, I hope that doesn't go out or I'm gonna lose my mind. | ||
All right. | ||
This is your new favorite part of the show. | ||
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Your new favorite part of the show is to see the transformation. | |
Okay, well we can... What's going on? | ||
Why does the camera not look great right now? | ||
What's going on? | ||
There we go, that's a little better. | ||
Okay! | ||
Oh wait, let me switch mics real quick. | ||
I'm going to have the headset here now. | ||
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Can I get that a little closer? | |
Oh, it's in the shot. | ||
Okay, well, we are back in the studio. | ||
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I've traveled a long way back to the New York penthouse. | |
Can I turn this off? | ||
Okay. | ||
Well, we're back. | ||
That really hurts my ears. | ||
Those big cans. | ||
I haven't broken them in yet, so they're just like crushing my head. | ||
They're made for small heads. | ||
I have a huge head because I have a huge brain. | ||
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Let me get rid of that. | |
Okay. | ||
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Okay, okay. | |
So, just to wrap up, you know, I don't have much in the way of analysis after the debate. | ||
This is the 10th debate. | ||
We've really heard everything there is to hear as far as substance goes, on policy, on the issues, the dynamics between the other candidates. | ||
We've actually seen this debate once before. | ||
You know, last week it was a little different because Michael Bloomberg entered into the equation and Tom Steyer and Andrew Yang were out. | ||
This week it's the same. | ||
Everybody was on the stage we've seen before. | ||
We've seen them interact. | ||
Tom Steyer's back, but he didn't really add much to the mix. | ||
So, I don't have too many new things to say about the debate that I haven't already said over the course of these 10 debates, or about any of the candidates for that matter. | ||
When I look at the debate, And this is really kind of the attitude of the whole show. | ||
I'm not like Nate Silver. | ||
I'm not one of these nerds. | ||
I'm not one of these politicos that really gets off to all this political stuff. | ||
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Fact check! | |
Well, actually, you know, well, Klobuchar's making a pitch to these voters. | ||
Let's see how that works. | ||
It's like... | ||
I'm interested in the debate insofar as this is going to impact politics. | ||
Insofar as this is going to have an impact on the primary and thus on the election. | ||
So I'm not really interested in the candidates that aren't going to win. | ||
And I'm going to tell you that Tom Steyer is not going to win. | ||
It doesn't matter what he says. | ||
Amy Klobuchar is not going to win. | ||
Elizabeth Warren is not going to win. | ||
You've got three people on the stage who are competitive. | ||
You've got Bernie Sanders, who is the frontrunner. | ||
You've got Joe Biden, who is on the verge of being kicked out of the race. | ||
If he doesn't win first in South Carolina, he is effectively done. | ||
And you've got Bloomberg. | ||
So really, you've got by hanging on by a thread, Joe Biden is competitive. | ||
Michael Bloomberg is a wild card. | ||
He might be competitive. | ||
And then you've got Bernie Sanders. | ||
Oh, I'm sorry, and then Pete Buttigieg. | ||
Bernie Sanders, who is the only one who has a clear path to secure the nomination outright with the majority of the delegates, and then there's Pete Buttigieg who... | ||
You know, he's another one where he is sort of half and half. | ||
He is somebody who, if he remains in the race until the convention, maybe he'll have a shot at a contested convention, but it's a small, small percentage chance. | ||
He's going to have to do really well in South Carolina and in all these diverse states where it's not going to happen for him because he doesn't have the black vote or the Hispanic vote or anything like that. | ||
So, I don't even really consider him a player anymore. | ||
That's my view of the race. | ||
And so with all that in mind, I'm watching this debate and I'm thinking about a couple of things. | ||
I'm thinking about the primary on Saturday, the South Carolina primary, and then how that is going to shape the race going forward. | ||
Super Tuesday and then the race up until the convention. | ||
And so the big question is, what is going to be the final ranking in South Carolina? | ||
The variables are Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden. | ||
Michael Bloomberg is not on the ballot. | ||
Nobody else is going to win. | ||
It's going to be either Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders. | ||
They are polling neck and neck. | ||
Joe Biden's been polling number one for about as long as they've been doing the polling. | ||
Bernie Sanders is right up there. | ||
He's surged. | ||
Since January and since he started to win in the Iowa caucus, Nevada caucus, New Hampshire primary. | ||
So the two variables to watch tonight are Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden. | ||
What is their standing going into this primary and how will that impact how they rank on Saturday? | ||
If Joe Biden wins the South Carolina primary, he lives to fight another day. | ||
And if you look at the polling across the country, Joe Biden's actually polling okay in a lot of states. | ||
And so he could remain a player. | ||
He's got a national infrastructure. | ||
He's got the funding. | ||
He's got a political machine that will last him through the convention. | ||
So he will remain for the time being. | ||
And that might be a big deal. | ||
If Bernie Sanders is in second place and Joe Biden is in first, well that will mean that his momentum will be stopped effectively. | ||
Maybe not stopped completely, but definitely coming off of a huge win in Nevada, a win in New Hampshire, a technical virtual tie in Iowa. | ||
You know, that is going to be a damper on things going into Super Tuesday. | ||
So, you know, that might be something affecting him. | ||
But if Bernie Sanders is number one, well, that will be a huge upset against Joe Biden who is expected to win South Carolina forever because of the black population there, the big black constituency. | ||
And if he wins there, that'll be an upset that could give him a huge boost and propel him to be the nominee. | ||
He'd probably steamroll through unimpeded all the way through to the convention over the summer. | ||
So those are the things I'm thinking about when I'm watching the debate. | ||
I'm not really listening when Amy Klobuchar is talking about a rural and an urban Coalition to like get housing or whatever. | ||
I don't really care when they're talking about how do we deliver health care to farmers, you know, and like Tom Steyer's talking about reparations. | ||
None of that matters, okay? | ||
These are words that random people are saying. | ||
These are words that people who are never going to be president are saying on television and they don't matter. | ||
What matters is what is Bernie and Joe Biden standing going to be going into the South Carolina primary. | ||
That was the big question. | ||
You had every candidate going up against Bernie Sanders tonight because the DNC told them after the Nevada caucus on Saturday over this last weekend, the DNC told all the candidates, you've got one week to stop Bernie Sanders. | ||
You've got from the Nevada caucus to the South Carolina primary, from Saturday to Saturday, You've got seven days to stop his momentum, shut him down in South Carolina, and then maybe contain and control the situation. | ||
Maybe reclaim control of the primary and then you win a contested convention. | ||
That was the memo that came out on Saturday. | ||
And that was on display. | ||
Everybody went in on attacking Sanders. | ||
Everybody had their own angle for it. | ||
Very on brand for every candidate. | ||
Bloomberg right out of the gate attacking Sanders with the Russia. | ||
Stuff. | ||
Elizabeth Warren attacking Bernie Sanders as perhaps unelectable or not the pragmatic choice. | ||
Buttigieg attacking Sanders as chaotic. | ||
Joe Biden attacking Bernie Sanders because he is insufficiently anti-gun. | ||
Klobuchar attacking Sanders because he is not somebody who can get things done. | ||
Tom Steyer attacking Sanders because he doesn't have the right policy prescriptions, but everybody had something to say. | ||
And honestly, We've seen this treatment given to every candidate who becomes the frontrunner. | ||
This is the natural consequence in a race, you know. | ||
Everybody wants to win. | ||
Somebody starts to run away with the ball and then the imperative becomes to stop the guy that's going to win. | ||
It's like a money in the bank ladder match, so to speak, if you're into analogies like that. | ||
If you're into a sports analogy, it's like a ladder match. | ||
It's like a ladder match in professional wrestling. | ||
And so we saw the same thing with Elizabeth Warren. | ||
When she started to pull away in fall 2019, they all came at her in the September or October debate. | ||
I forget which one, but it was one of those. | ||
They all came after Joe Biden in the first couple debates in June and July. | ||
First it was Kamala Harris and then everybody piled on in July. | ||
And what was really the result? | ||
Even when they scored points on the leading candidate. | ||
Joe Biden had points scored on him. | ||
He got his butt kicked in the June debate. | ||
I think he got his butt kicked in the July debate. | ||
I don't think he's really had a single good performance, maybe up until tonight. | ||
I think he had a pretty good performance tonight. | ||
But point being, to this point, He did very badly in the debates, and he particularly was targeted as a frontrunner. | ||
And it really had a negligible impact in the polls. | ||
If you were watching the polls, he had slight dips when Kamala attacked him, and there were some other high-profile things, but he always recovered. | ||
And the same is true with Elizabeth Warren. | ||
It wasn't because people attacked her when she was the frontrunner that she started to go down in the polls. | ||
It was when she exposed herself by going too aggressively at Bernie Sanders on this Uh, fake scandal that he said a woman can't be president. | ||
So, when I look at what has happened to past frontrunners in the debates in particular, and I look at what happened tonight, did Bernie Sanders get some points scored on him on the comments about Cuba and on how he's gonna pay for his programs? | ||
Probably. | ||
I think he could have handled those better. | ||
I think he could have handled the gun thing better. | ||
Those are maybe three distinct points when you could say that Bernie Sanders got a little flustered, got a little bit, uh, Rattled by people coming at him. | ||
But I have to say that as has been the case throughout the primary, his debate performances have been completely consistent. | ||
He sticks to his issues. | ||
He sticks to his talking points. | ||
He doesn't deviate from them. | ||
He always brings it back on message. | ||
You know, do you remember what Bernie Sanders said about foreign policy? | ||
Because I don't. | ||
He was asked about foreign policy at some point, about Afghanistan, about... He was always asked about Israel and Palestine. | ||
But the overriding message throughout the debate that he was pushing in a very concerted and deliberate and consistent and repetitive fashion was, healthcare is a human right, healthcare is a human right, education is a human right, raising the standard of living for working people, we can do it, it's not radical, and I'm the only one who's been fighting for that. | ||
And I don't see that as a failure. | ||
You know, did he get a little flustered? | ||
Did he get rattled when they brought up the socialist stuff? | ||
He could have handled it better, but overall, I mean, if you're watching that two-hour debate, that might stick out in your head as, oh, well, yeah, Pete Buttigieg had a really clever thing to say about the revolutions in the 50s and 60s, and it's the future! | ||
But, at the end of the day, if you're a Bernie supporter, if you believe in Medicare for All, and that is the majority of voters in all the primaries so far, in Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada, if you're in favor of Medicare for All, you're with Bernie Sanders. | ||
If you're actually, like, a leftist, you're with Bernie Sanders. | ||
If you, you know, and even on electability, increasingly people are seeing Bernie Sanders as electable as opposed to Joe Biden. | ||
He's still not as high in terms of electability against Trump as Joe Biden and some of the others, but he's been rising and he's now on par with the other candidates. | ||
And people that say that they're going to vote for somebody based on how they agree with them on the issues, based on how the candidates reflect where they are on the issues, Bernie Sanders is in the lead with those people. | ||
So, on the pragmatism argument, on the electability argument, and on the issues argument, people are coming around to Sanders. | ||
Are those people going to say, I will not vote for this guy now because you dare me to tell me he's a socialist? | ||
You mean to tell me that his policies might be a little bit impractical? | ||
You mean to tell me that this senator from Vermont was at one time not sufficiently anti-gun? | ||
All of this is known. | ||
All this is out there. | ||
None of this is particularly effective to lean into. | ||
And we've seen this with all the other candidates. | ||
They bring up the thing. | ||
You know, whether it's Elizabeth Warren, they bring up... I forget actually what they even brought up with her back in the fall. | ||
You know, she's so uninteresting. | ||
But with Joe Biden, you know, they bring up the women, or they bring up, you know, the offhand remarks he makes, or they bring up even things in the Obama administration, which was unpopular. | ||
But, you know, they went after Joe Biden for all the things that were known. | ||
They lean into the fact that what? | ||
He's, you know, he puts his foot in his mouth sometimes, that he makes mistakes, that he does gaffes. | ||
That's like Joe Biden's personality. | ||
You can't, that's not an effective Direction to place the attack. | ||
So I don't think anything that was said against Bernie Sanders was really all that effective tonight. | ||
I think it was very much in the vein of how Republicans attack him, and that should say a lot. | ||
And I thought he was on brand in spite of that. | ||
And that is the thing about Bernie. | ||
He's almost like not human. | ||
And the same is true of Donald Trump. | ||
You should really pay attention to this. | ||
I don't mean that in a way you might imagine. | ||
When I say he's not human, I mean it's almost like a lot of these things don't even register with him. | ||
In a good way. | ||
Like with Donald Trump. | ||
And as much as Donald Trump got attacked, and as much as things were just thrown at Donald Trump, whether that was attacks, or loaded questions, or whatever, it's almost like it just doesn't even compute. | ||
It doesn't even concentrate, or it doesn't even, um... | ||
What's the word? | ||
He almost doesn't even consider that. | ||
He just plows right ahead. | ||
He knows what he's gonna say. | ||
He knows his issues. | ||
He's gonna say what he wants to say. | ||
It's almost like that doesn't even enter into the calculation. | ||
And I feel like the same is true with Bernie Sanders. | ||
In as much as he got so much thrown, so many diversions and detours and people attacking him, He might have appeared flustered and on the back foot when something was thrown at him, but within a minute it's like, oh, I'm just back to my... I'm back to the Bernie Sanders show. | ||
I'm back to healthcare is a human right, you know, and then his usual routine. | ||
And that's honestly what it takes to win these days, is somebody who's almost autistic about saying what they're going to say, saying the same talking points, doing their act. | ||
That's what pays off. | ||
That's this electorate. | ||
You know, it pays off to be repetitive and simple and on-message, almost autistically, almost incomprehensibly so. | ||
People are, I think, at a much bigger disadvantage when they try to be clever. | ||
Like Pete Buttigieg or some of these other guys. | ||
I've got a really clever thing to say. | ||
I'm thinking on my feet. | ||
I've got actually, oh, you've got a question at me? | ||
Well, I've got some jujitsu thing to turn it around. | ||
I almost think that's less effective because people are not judging you and giving you points based on like how clever you are or a turn of phrase. | ||
That was really good rhetoric. | ||
It's really more just like hitting the same issues as much, as repetitively, as simply, as compellingly as possible. | ||
Like Bernie found a thing and he sticks with it. | ||
Millionaires, billionaires, free healthcare, all that. | ||
And Buttigieg every time it's like, well, a new coalition and I've got a really clever thing to say and here's another thing. | ||
And it's almost like In terms of occupying people's mental space, saying the same thing a hundred times is occupying much more of your attention than saying a hundred unique things over the course of all the times you talk. | ||
You know, can you really think of, like, Buttigieg's thing? | ||
I mean, I can think of a handful of phrases or a handful of, like, issues or something like that. | ||
But when I think of Pete Buttigieg, I can't, like, tell you his stump speech. | ||
I can't tell you the elevator pitch. | ||
I could tell you that with Bernie. | ||
I could tell you that with Donald Trump. | ||
That's the reality of politics today. | ||
Like Donald Trump. | ||
Build a wall. | ||
China's killing us on trade. | ||
We're going to make great deals. | ||
Right? | ||
And what can you say about Elizabeth Warren? | ||
I mean, she's got some catchphrases. | ||
I've got a plan. | ||
But, I mean, outside of that, can you really... Where's the stump speech? | ||
What's the brand? | ||
And the same is true with all of them. | ||
I think Bernie was actually effective tonight. | ||
And that's not going to be a popular take. | ||
I don't think a lot of people are going to have that take, and we'll see what happens on Saturday. | ||
But from my point of view, as somebody who really doesn't have a dog in the fight, and I'm watching the attacks, I'm saying, OK, he's a socialist, his plans are going to cost a lot of money, and he was pro-gun. | ||
I knew all of that. | ||
If I was supporting, or if I wasn't supporting, I would have already made my decision based on those things. | ||
That's not new information. | ||
It doesn't change my calculus. | ||
And I don't think that will change the calculus for the voters, supporters or non-supporters. | ||
Joe Biden had a very good performance tonight. | ||
He's the other variable. | ||
You know, Bernie did well. | ||
And he's the frontrunner and Joe Biden is in the lead now for this primary on Saturday and his performance on Saturday will determine his future in the race. | ||
I think Joe Biden had his strongest performance yet. | ||
I mean he still comes across as angry. | ||
He still comes across as a little bit like unhinged and this is just not a good look. | ||
I mean there's a difference between being passionate and high energy and being angry and coming across as I think it's almost like when you try too hard or you're too contrived, it comes across as you're on edge, as opposed to you're fired up. | ||
And I think that was the case tonight as well, but he was a little bit more charming, he was a little bit more funny. | ||
I think he knows that his political life is on the line right now. | ||
He knows, and everybody else does too, that he's been getting killed. | ||
He got 4th in Iowa, 5th in New Hampshire, 2nd in Nevada, and not by a small margin. | ||
And he knows that if he doesn't win one of the first four contests, when he was supposed to be the frontrunner, it was supposed to be Joe Biden's race to lose. | ||
If he doesn't get 1st in South Carolina, where they have a significant black population, which is like the crux of his voting base, He knows that it's over for him. | ||
Everybody knows that. | ||
So he went out there, firing on all cylinders, and I thought he did the best performance so far. | ||
And it was actually an objectively good performance. | ||
He came off as charming, funny, assertive, as opposed to angry. | ||
When he was a little bit heated, it came across as righteous, as opposed to just, you know, mad online. | ||
So I thought he did well. | ||
And everybody else doesn't matter. | ||
And then everybody else doesn't matter. | ||
You know, Elizabeth Warren, she's trying, she was trying to goad Michael Bloomberg into another fight so that she'd get another cycle and the news media didn't really work out for her. | ||
It just looked bad. | ||
Some of these people, they just look too desperate. | ||
This is something people that, I don't know, that understand power or are conscious of power, people that are conscious of these kinds of dynamics, This is a really critical thing. | ||
Everybody knows that you don't run for president unless you really like power. | ||
Unless you really want power. | ||
Nobody runs for president because they want to help people. | ||
Nobody runs for president. | ||
You want to help people? | ||
Start a non-profit. | ||
You want to help people? | ||
Go to church. | ||
Do a charity drive, right? | ||
We all know how to help people. | ||
You don't seek political office because you're just really interested in helping your community. | ||
Maybe on some level, community-based activism. | ||
Some people do. | ||
But you don't become the president because you're just so in love with the homeless and the poor or whatever. | ||
Maybe if you're Bernie Sanders, but this is the exception, not the rule. | ||
You only want to become president... | ||
Because you love the idea of yourself behind the desk and making the decisions and the title. | ||
We all understand that. | ||
And everybody that runs for president has to have this killer instinct and a degree of narcissism. | ||
You have to have these dark triad personality traits. | ||
The Machiavellianism, the narcissism, some degree of psychopathy or socio... what would it be? | ||
If you're a sociopath, you have to have some element of these things. | ||
And the trick though, is we all have this suspension of disbelief. | ||
Whenever there's a power contest, I guess particularly in this country, you cannot let on that this is the case. | ||
This is like, and it's the dumbest thing, but you have to pretend, oh no! | ||
Me, loving power? | ||
I don't love power! | ||
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I want to help you! | |
I'm shaking your hand and I wouldn't chop your head off and slit your throat if that would put me in office tomorrow. | ||
I really care about you. | ||
But we all have to pretend and they have to pretend. | ||
They have to put on a show that that's not what it's about. | ||
And there's a very fine line. | ||
If you transgress this line, it's something that maybe everybody is subconsciously aware of this. | ||
Everybody on the stage and everybody in the audience is subconsciously aware of this. | ||
And if you transgress that line, it is a very bad look. | ||
That is a very bad look. | ||
And you can do it, but it's generally frowned upon. | ||
It's generally something that people cringe at. | ||
But, as a politician, your job is to come right up to the edge because, on the one hand, you have to operate as though that is the case, but you can never let on that it is the case. | ||
You have to operate as though you are a sociopath, well, because you are, and you're seeking power and so on. | ||
You have to be ruthless, you have to cut people up, but you also have to make it appear that that is not the case, that that is not the motivation. | ||
And sometimes when you do that, it becomes obvious. | ||
You know, sometimes you are too, you know, whatever, without a proper justification or whatever. | ||
And Pete Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren do this all the time. | ||
They're some of the worst politicians around because they let that get the best of them all the time. | ||
Like Elizabeth Warren with the Bernie Sanders thing back in January, when Elizabeth Warren decided to make it a big deal, and I'm sure it was one of her staffers that decided to make this a news cycle that Bernie Sanders said that a woman can't be president. | ||
This was totally underhanded. | ||
It was totally not true. | ||
A totally ineffective attack. | ||
For them to even launch that in the first place just goes to show how desperate they were. | ||
And that's what it is, is desperation that breeds that animal coming out, the beast coming out, and everybody seeing it is a desperation, but that's what they did. | ||
It was an attack which anybody could tell you is not going to be effective, because Bernie Sanders, as we all know, has been this radical leftist forever. | ||
And he had the receipts going back to 1990 when he said a woman can be president and so on and even told Elizabeth Warren in 2016 that she should run, you know? | ||
So it made no sense but they did it anyway because they were desperate and they're just launching attacks and they didn't believe it but they thought maybe it'll get Elizabeth Warren a bump in the polls and it'll come at the expense of Bernie. | ||
And that might help her with progressives, right? | ||
But in doing so, everybody saw exactly what that was all about. | ||
And even during the debates when she took that as an opportunity to say, Oh, I want to make it about how women are great at politics and a woman's going to be president and so on. | ||
But people saw that she transgressed that maybe primary rule of politics. | ||
Which is that you cannot be in it to win it. | ||
You have to be in it for the people. | ||
You have to be in it because of democracy. | ||
You cannot be in it because you just want to win and you just want to crush your opponents. | ||
We all know why people attack and do oppo research. | ||
It's not because, this is really important guys, words matter, records matter. | ||
That's all bullshit. | ||
What matters is you want to win and throwing somebody under the bus is going to make them lose. | ||
And that's a moment where everybody could see it. | ||
And it hurt her badly. | ||
And that's why I don't think she's a good politician. | ||
Because she cannot identify the line. | ||
A good politician would look at something like that and pass it up. | ||
And they would say, you know what? | ||
This is not going to be effective. | ||
This is only going to hurt us. | ||
Everybody knows Bernie Sanders is a leftist. | ||
We're gonna try and convince people that Bernie is this misogynist? | ||
That will never work. | ||
It'll backfire. | ||
And so, you know, there's almost like, you have to have that Machiavellian as opposed to just psychopath drive. | ||
And I think femoids don't really have Machiavellian. | ||
They're really only just about... | ||
This insatiable drive sometimes. | ||
And the same is true with Pete Buttigieg. | ||
You know, Pete Buttigieg, you can see throughout the debate, being so obnoxious, fighting for talking time and the constant backstabbing of Bernie Sanders and all these underhanded kind of remarks. | ||
These may be a little bit better, but, you know, somebody like me, I don't know, maybe I'm just more observant than most people. | ||
You could totally see where he transgresses the line with these clever remarks and never missing an opportunity to pounce on somebody, to go on the attack, and trying to expand the time as much as possible, you know. | ||
He's always jumping in, always interrupting, speaking through people. | ||
That's just one of the things I observe, so... So that was Elizabeth Warren with Michael Bloomberg. | ||
She tried to bring herself back into the game. | ||
By attacking him. | ||
Oh, it worked for me last week. | ||
Let's go for round two. | ||
And it backfired. | ||
It just looked petty. | ||
It just looked exactly... It looked like exactly what it was, which is my point to begin with. | ||
Her attack on Bloomberg and Bloomberg responding, it almost made Bloomberg look sympathetic. | ||
It's like, oh, come on. | ||
Now you're just giving the guy a hard time. | ||
He released the NDAs. | ||
He's defending his record. | ||
Now you're just throwing out tabloid stuff because you're desperate. | ||
And that's when the dominoes start to fall. | ||
So, that was another observation I had, but aside from that, I mean, what really is there to say? | ||
I'll go through my notes here. | ||
Bloomberg was trying a little bit too hard and then backed off. | ||
He tried a little bit too hard in the first hour. | ||
Came right out of the gate swinging with that Russia attack. | ||
Reminiscent of Rand Paul in the first Republican primary debate in August 2015. | ||
But he came out swinging with the Russia thing and then he died down later. | ||
He tried to make a joke, it didn't work. | ||
But that's really all I have to say about it, about the debate. | ||
I'm not really concerned about the debates insofar as it's interesting to analyze rhetoric and how it's going to impact voters. | ||
I mean, let's be real. | ||
You've got, you know, three, maybe four people that are even competitive, and I'd argue it's probably closer to two, and everybody else shouldn't even be up there. | ||
And really, 90% of what is being said doesn't matter. | ||
It's that 10% of a particularly interesting exchange, Or it's when somebody makes a gaffe. | ||
It's gonna be that highlight reel that plays tomorrow on the news. | ||
It's gonna be what is the story when all the reporters go in tomorrow and they write up the debate. | ||
What are the highlights? | ||
What were the moments? | ||
What do you summarize in the debate? | ||
It was this testy exchange between Bernie and you know so-and-so. | ||
So outside of those, you know, little, little moments, you know, most of it doesn't matter. | ||
What is said doesn't matter. | ||
The people that are up there don't matter. | ||
What matters is what's going to play on the news for the next five days before the primary. | ||
And then what matters is who's going to be number one and number two. | ||
That's what matters. | ||
And so going to South Carolina, it's tough to say, you know, Joe Biden does still have the strong support with blacks. | ||
He had, Number one with blacks in Nevada, and he does do well with some of these other groups But you've seen that all the polls that showed him doing well in Iowa He did terrible in Iowa all the polls that saw him winning, New Hampshire He got fifth place in New Hampshire even in Nevada He had polls showing him in the lead in Nevada, and he got 20% and Bernie got 46 so | ||
The polls show him at number one and you would say based on probability that maybe he's likely to win number one based on his constituency, based on the black support, but the polls have shown him winning before and it hasn't been true and even the blacks in Nevada, although they're obviously not as numerous as in South Carolina, They didn't carry him to even a close second-place finish. | ||
So, whether or not he wins first place there is really kind of up for grabs. | ||
Now, that being said, also, South Carolina is a more conservative state. | ||
It's not as liberal, obviously, as Nevada. | ||
Nevada, which went blue in 2016, whereas South Carolina went red. | ||
So, that's another question mark. | ||
So, I think it's really a wild card. | ||
It's kind of a toss-up. | ||
It could be Bernie. | ||
It could be Joe Biden. | ||
I think it'll probably be close. | ||
But depending on the outcome, we'll have to see what the rest of the race is going to look like. | ||
I honestly, though... | ||
I think maybe people are overstating the importance of that a little bit. | ||
If Joe Biden wins, he's going to hang on for a little bit longer, but you look at all the polls for Super Tuesday and Bernie's running away with it. | ||
Bernie is crushing with Hispanics, he's right there with blacks, he's got young people, he's got middle-aged people, and he's got the left. | ||
And in California, and in Texas, in New York, like in the liberal population strongholds, he's going to pick up huge delegate totals. | ||
And he's also going to pick them up throughout all the other states along the way. | ||
So, you know, it doesn't matter if Joe Biden gets like 1% more in South Carolina or 2% more. | ||
I mean, he'll hang on for another minute and Bloomberg, you know, remains to be seen what it's going to look like once he's on the ballot. | ||
But Bernie Sanders remains the frontrunner for now. | ||
And barring, you know, a catastrophic upset in South Carolina where Bernie Sanders is in third or fourth or something like that, I think he's on his way to winning the nomination. | ||
And it's dubious whether even a first place finish from Joe Biden can begin to stop him. | ||
So that's sort of my take on the debate. | ||
But we're going to move on and look at our super chats. | ||
We'll see what you guys are saying about all this. | ||
I know it's a lot. | ||
It's a lot with all these debates. | ||
And it's not the most fun. | ||
You want to see me going off about coronavirus, about immigration. | ||
And we return to these marathon sessions where we hear the same things from the same people for a year. | ||
But let's see. | ||
We've got Airwalk who says, I could have used a more based af pack analogy than the Continental Congress Also watch cat dog after 20 years you were right, okay? | ||
So air walk was being cringe and Jaden McNeil's chat yesterday now. | ||
He's trying to redeem himself I don't know. | ||
I think you're still cringe big guy, but thanks for the ninja genie and Radical zoomers says I like D live us needs and zoomers can give back now. | ||
Yeah, I like D live it's I always liked DLive better, honestly. | ||
I never really liked YouTube, and that's not a cope, really. | ||
I mean, you remember when I did my show for the first week on DLive in January. | ||
It was like my best week ever, and that's because for some reason I felt more comfortable. | ||
Maybe it's the dark theme as opposed to the light theme. | ||
I don't know what it is exactly. | ||
It just feels more casual and feels younger. | ||
I can't quite put my finger on it. | ||
But I do like D-Live better, so I agree. | ||
Yeah, the Steyr stands. | ||
All 12 of them. | ||
I don't know what that means. | ||
the Steyer Stans, all 12 of them. | ||
Merc says John Wickmode King. | ||
I don't know what that means. | ||
Polish American says Mom says I use the N-word too much. | ||
All day, Nibba. | ||
Yeah, yeah. | ||
My mom says the same thing. | ||
No, just kidding. | ||
I don't, I never say that. | ||
Nickernage says, Nick, the mic is scuffed. | ||
Yeah, thanks for telling me. | ||
Nocula, what is this? | ||
Noculus says, pee pee poo poo. | ||
Okay, Big Globes says, back on black is a good look on you, bro. | ||
No homo. | ||
Oh, thanks. | ||
Well, you know, technically this is a black shirt, but it's got white polka dots, but My camera doesn't have great quality, so you can't really see. | ||
And this is actually a charcoal jacket, so it's really more like black and charcoal, but thank you. | ||
Noculus says, Romans in chat, let's just try salutes. | ||
Sheet says, good luck Nick, thank you. | ||
Dumbass says, looking sharp with black on black, thanks. | ||
Fans says, is it just me or is it getting crazier out there? | ||
Things are certainly tense. | ||
Sheed says, if bitchface talks, I'm leaving. | ||
Bye. | ||
Yeah, she talked. | ||
DT says, this debate. | ||
Cringe in the first 30 seconds. | ||
Kill me. | ||
Yeah, pretty rough. | ||
Nickernache says, knives out from the start. | ||
This is going to be good. | ||
Buttigieg ain't looking so good tonight. | ||
He looks the same. | ||
I don't know. | ||
He looks the same to me. | ||
Theo says, based Bernie, Nazis did many good things too. | ||
I don't think he said that. | ||
I think he was just talking about Cuba, but... | ||
Echo, I don't know what that's supposed to mean. | ||
Excel says Russians don't want chaos, Bolshevik Russians do. | ||
I disagree with that. | ||
It is actually in Russia's interest. | ||
I mean, look, I mean, we can say that the CIA is lying about, or the FBI, whatever. | ||
We'd say that the intel community is lying about Russian involvement in the elections, but I think it would be wrong to say that Russia does not stand to gain from a national security perspective by sowing disarray in the West, particularly NATO. | ||
If you're Russia, the biggest existential threat to your survival as a nation, I mean, you've got terrorism because they've got a big Muslim population, and you've got this issue of governing a country that is multiracial and many different religions and spanning two continents. | ||
I mean, you've got your work cut out for you already, but after the Cold War ends in 2000, from 2000 to today, and you're Vladimir Putin, the big threat is from the West. | ||
It's from NATO expanding all the way to the satellite states, expanding to the former satellite states, expanding to Ukraine, expanding to the Baltics. | ||
You've got the United States and all of Western Europe breathing down your neck, bearing down on you. | ||
That's your biggest threat. | ||
And what can you do to mitigate that threat? | ||
Well, you can cause conflict in NATO. | ||
Now, that's not to say that that's not a good thing for us overall. | ||
It's not to say that NATO is in our best interest, but from Russia's point of view, NATO is their biggest threat. | ||
The United States is their only... that is maybe the only country that has parity with them in terms of nuclear or conventional means, in terms of military means. | ||
So, I don't think it's outlandish to say that Russia wants to sow chaos. | ||
Not just, you know, the Soviet Union or the Bolsheviks, but the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin as well. | ||
It's not to say that they shouldn't pursue their national interest. | ||
It's not to say that their national interests and ours don't actually go hand-in-hand. | ||
But to say that this reality doesn't exist, I think is a bit naive. | ||
I think that it is in Russia's interest to break up our NATO or cause problems in America so that they can, you know, they'll have more maneuverability to act regionally and on the world stage. | ||
I don't think that's incorrect to say that. | ||
So I disagree. | ||
Is that true? | ||
That's not good. | ||
Thanks. | ||
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Yeah. | |
I don't know. | ||
Edis says D-Live was taken off the Google Play Store. | ||
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Maybe. | |
Is that true? | ||
That's not good. | ||
Dresden says, damn son looking slick. | ||
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Thanks. | |
Osberger says, Bloomberg will fail. | ||
Never apologize. | ||
Yeah. | ||
Osberger says, who was cheering for Bloomberg? | ||
Paid audience? | ||
Yeah, I don't know. | ||
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Maybe. | |
Sharia LaBeouf says, has Liz attacked Bernie yet? | ||
If not, she wants VP. | ||
Nah, she attacked Bernie. | ||
She attacked him right out of the gate, too. | ||
Last American says, looking like a young John Wick in that suit. | ||
Ah, thanks. | ||
John says, what's worse, being a simp or using a riot shield? | ||
Ah, that's a good question. | ||
Being a simp, obviously. | ||
Using a riot shield is kind of like a cheap tactic, but it is legitimate. | ||
Being a simp, you know. | ||
We know how we feel about that. | ||
What kind of- What's worse? | ||
This meme thing or this other meme thing? | ||
Oh, I see your meme and I raise you one meme- Meme-arino. | ||
Oh no, not my Riot Shield-arino. | ||
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It's like... What's worse? | |
Who's the one that sings the Friday song? | ||
What's her name? | ||
What's her name? | ||
It's... | ||
Rebecca Black. | ||
What's worse? | ||
Rebecca Black or Justin Bieber? | ||
You know, it's like one of these cringe... What's worse? | ||
Someone that uses a riot shield or a simp? | ||
Ah, I see you're meme-erinos. | ||
And I'll give you a meme answer. | ||
Just like, just shut up. | ||
Just shut up. | ||
What's funnier? | ||
Star Wars guy? | ||
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You know, the viral video of the guy doing the Star Wars maneuvers? | |
Or the Numa Numa guy? | ||
Shut up. | ||
Hey, be careful with the Gatorade. | ||
Lots of sugar in there. | ||
Be careful. | ||
You know, it's good for electrolytes and all that, but very sugary. | ||
Yeah, he's back with a vengeance. | ||
Yeah, he's back with a vengeance. | ||
Jude says, Bloomberg is Thomas Wayne and these women are Penny. | ||
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Oh, yeah, I guess. | |
Merck says, half the debate intolerable gossip. - Mm. | ||
I think the gossip is more interesting. | ||
Imagine being this guy. | ||
They're attacking each other. | ||
Let's get back to the issues. | ||
I want to hear about farmers and their health care. | ||
This isn't substantive debate. | ||
This isn't substantive policy issues. | ||
Stop attacking each other. | ||
I want to hear more about what Elizabeth Warren would do if Russia hacked our election. | ||
Can't. | ||
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Can't. | |
Can't do it. | ||
Boopers says, just got in, people screaming, awesome. | ||
Yeah. | ||
Ozburger says, Bernie's losing it, lol. | ||
I didn't see him losing it. | ||
WD says, black on black tonight, big guy? | ||
King shit, yeah. | ||
Hotdog says, all these Dems endorsed, care. | ||
Hashtag boomer take. | ||
Yeah, that is a boomer take. | ||
Really, who cares? | ||
Faticotti says, black women eating, how we got this higher mortality. | ||
Yeah, isn't that kind of funny? | ||
Elizabeth Warren is saying, well if I were Mayor Bloomberg would have said to kill my baby! | ||
That's pretty funny. | ||
why were they booing Bloomberg? | ||
I thought they liked abortions. | ||
Yeah, isn't that kind of funny? | ||
Elizabeth Warren is saying, well, if I were, you know, Mayor Bloomberg would have said to kill my baby. | ||
It's like, isn't that, that's pretty funny. | ||
It's like, well, maybe that would work for a decent audience or Republican audience, but Democrats love abortion, so I don't know why, right? | ||
They should be cheering him on for that. | ||
Yeah, he's pretty funny. | ||
in his Boomer Magic. | ||
Yeah, he's pretty funny. | ||
Classical Positioning says, Looking snazzy, my dude. | ||
Oh, thank you. | ||
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There's another one. | |
Snazzy. | ||
I love that. | ||
You're looking snazzy. | ||
It's almost as good as spiffy. | ||
Oh, you're looking spiffy. | ||
You're looking snazzy. | ||
Snazzy outfit. | ||
I remember when I heard that a lot in middle school and it always bothered me. | ||
Oh, looking snazzy today. | ||
Oh, thank you. | ||
I can't tell you why every little thing you say bothers me because, you know, I would just come across as Grumpy old guy, but maybe some of you get why I don't like that. | ||
Noah says, Biden's Aryan energy is the only reason to watch. | ||
Yeah, sure. | ||
Question for Nick says, like anything about the newest Star Wars trilogy? | ||
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Nope. | |
Question for Nick says, would you rather have... I love the username, by the way. | ||
Says, would you rather have your GF be fat or have body odor? | ||
I don't know what kind of question that is. | ||
I would simply refuse. | ||
I would not, I would not date a woman that smells bad. | ||
I would not date a woman who is overweight. | ||
These are just simply things I would not do. | ||
I would just simply not, you know, all these people, oh no GF, no GF, and they're pushed to desperation. | ||
They settle. | ||
That will never be me. | ||
I'll never be... | ||
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Nope, nope, nope, not gonna happen. | |
Question for, I feel like they're almost the same. | ||
They're both intolerable. | ||
Question for Nick says, would you swap every McDonald's in Illinois with an In-N-Out? | ||
Sure, yeah, sure, why not? | ||
Okay, why not? | ||
Is a woman riding these? | ||
Ozburger says, selfie lines, yeah. | ||
Question for Nick, I'm just not gonna read that. | ||
No for nothing says, her voice and eyebrows make me want to hang myself, yeah. | ||
Lieutenant Flashman says universal child care aka indoctrinate infants. | ||
Yeah, fresh take. | ||
That's a good point. | ||
Morathy says big chungus. | ||
Finally a good super chat. | ||
Yes. | ||
Green Cedar says funeral suit check. | ||
I wouldn't wear this to a funeral. | ||
Polish American says the day they start hanging chads is a bad one for me because you're a chad. | ||
Selling says, Biden is the incel candidate. | ||
Hashtag hanging chads. | ||
Yeah. | ||
Suddenly he's appealing to me. | ||
Poopcoin says, Biden would be more fun than Trump. | ||
I disagree. | ||
And also it's not then, it's than. | ||
T-H-A-N. | ||
Osburger says, damn, they're all incompetent. | ||
Yep. | ||
Maxi Bros is glad to see 10 million live viewers tonight. | ||
Thanks. | ||
Selling with a heart emoticon. | ||
Thank you. | ||
Maxi Bros says, last time it was Joe saying 150 million. | ||
Oh, okay. | ||
Thanks for the clarification. | ||
Osberger says, LMAO, keep punching at it and punching at it. | ||
Yeah, I remember when he said that three months ago. | ||
Koki says, Shiit, which one don't want to take my guns? | ||
Another funny thing I remember from a few days ago. | ||
Good job. | ||
Well, you took that funny thing that was said earlier and you said it again. | ||
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And I remember laughing. | |
BaseDollar says, Clozo is leaving it all on the field. | ||
Oh, you mean Klobuchar? | ||
Osberger says, Hurton, Uncle Dick, LMAO, yeah. | ||
Re... Meaner? | ||
Meaner says, we need a Catholic monarchy. | ||
Yeah, wow. | ||
Groundbreaking take. | ||
Studio is shaking, my friend. | ||
The studio is shaking. | ||
Uh-oh, I feel little pieces of rubble falling on my head. | ||
Little pieces of plaster. | ||
Oh, did a part of the ceiling just fall on my head because the... | ||
It cannot handle the seismic shifts happening beneath my feet right now? | ||
Florio says, too much gun violence? | ||
Where is it happening, Tom? | ||
Yeah, another one. | ||
Knower of Nothing says, I don't ever want a president who sucked a dick. | ||
I think that goes without saying. | ||
Good point. | ||
And that goes, by the way, for homosexuals and women. | ||
So, I agree. | ||
I generally don't want to be involved with anybody who's done that. | ||
Nobody should be doing that, by the way. | ||
If you're Catholic, nobody should be doing that. | ||
Imagine being born to a mother who does that. | ||
Do you know what I mean? | ||
I don't think anybody should be doing that. | ||
President, people, nobody. | ||
Mom's side has mob ties says Buddha judge but funneled dr. Pepper and mr. Pibb I don't know what that means dumb ass says I didn't know Pete's wife was a teacher I'll Oh, never mind. | ||
Yeah. | ||
Oh, yeah We just realized base dollars to section 8 ruins neighborhoods redlining only happened like two cities Bloomberg is victory lapping. | ||
I'm so tired of hearing about minorities. | ||
I agree with all of this. | ||
I agree with all of this commentary. | ||
Maxi Bro says Warren wants racial consciousness. | ||
I agree. | ||
Yeah, me too. | ||
Ex Florio says Dems still complaining about redlining. | ||
Guess the 2008 housing market crash wasn't good enough lol. | ||
And by the way, you know, Bloomberg said redlining had nothing to do with the mortgage crisis. | ||
Well, you know, I don't know if it's exactly redlining, but definitely giving out Loans to people who could not pay them back was a part of the mortgage crisis. | ||
You know, if you're familiar with how these mortgages, if you lower the standards for giving out the mortgages, you lower the lending requirements, you know, that's a problem in itself. | ||
That's going to cause the housing market crash, people that are going to be defaulting on their loans and houses being foreclosed and so on, but What made it so bad is when they took all these bad loans given to people that could never pay them back at these ridiculously low interest rates and all these other you know lax standards that and that was Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae that was Clinton that was a lot of things | ||
But then you took the mortgages and you packaged them into these collateralized debt obligations, and then that was the basis for pension funds, and then these were packaged into all these supposedly safe asset classes. | ||
Therein lies the problem. | ||
But at the core of it, at the core of it was, generally speaking, people that were not good to lend to, which has something to do with redlining. | ||
In some capacity they are related, so... | ||
Well, it had nothing to do with redlining. | ||
Well, I don't know. | ||
I mean, giving out these loans to people that could not pay them back, I mean, at the end of the day, that was the root of it. | ||
And you could say that, I mean, don't get me wrong, there's a lot of financial regulatory stuff that went wrong that made it have the impact that it did, but at the heart of it, it was people that simply just could not pay back their loans. | ||
TakeCover says, the passion of Nick Fuentes. | ||
I believe that's blasphemous, but... | ||
Uh, Bastard says, Tom Steyer going for the Hail Mary with that one. | ||
I don't, I don't know what you're referring to there. | ||
Banging your mom says, uh, dat foo-foo, lame shit, personally, I ain't with it. | ||
Oh, yeah, that's, yeah, okay. | ||
Uh, Zoomer Benson says, I'd be. | ||
That sounded familiar, then I remember it. | ||
Yeah, me too. | ||
Okay, that's just gross, not reading that. | ||
Tyra makes me want to go big nibba mode. | ||
Yeah, me too. | ||
Neener says Pete. | ||
Okay, that's gross. | ||
Not reading that. | ||
300 Spartan says Bernie repeats the same four points every debate. | ||
Exactly. | ||
It works. | ||
Ty Boris is the... | ||
What is this? | ||
Ignore Fentanyl's effect on rural life expectancy? | ||
Oh, they ignore Fentanyl's effect on rural life expectancy. | ||
Yeah, true. | ||
Reptards says, I just want to see Blumph verbally abuse somebody in a debate already. | ||
I miss 2016 so much. | ||
I know, me too. | ||
I want to see it so bad. | ||
And I remember in 2016, I couldn't imagine Trump debating Hillary Clinton. | ||
And there was so much anticipation, and it was so worth it in the end. | ||
And I feel the same way. | ||
It feels like it cannot come soon enough to see Donald Trump square off with one of these guys. | ||
But we'll get to see it, and it'll be good. | ||
Well, I mean, they're pandering to blacks in South Carolina. | ||
Save the West says I'm convinced Bloomberg is a serpent! | ||
Yeah, I don't know. | ||
I mean, he seems to me, honestly, to be one of the most likable out of all of them. | ||
Klobuchar and him seem to be the most likable. | ||
And Bloomberg isn't even that likable of a guy, but he's the only one that actually makes sense, since Andrew Yang got off the stage. | ||
Every answer that Bloomberg gets, you can tell that he is a billionaire and from the private sector, because he's got a very... When he answers the questions, it's straightforward, he addresses the point, and it's problem-solution, you know? | ||
And I do like that about him when he's saying he's asked about Israel-Palestine and he says well you know we can't move the embassy back it shouldn't have been done but that's the way it's gonna be and we have to have a two-state solution and so on and maybe what we could do is ask the Israelis to temper some of the settlements and you know every answer that I heard him give was sensible even if I don't agree with it or it's more left-wing than me and he has to pander to some extent but for the most part a lot of the answers he gives are like makes sense to me so | ||
So I don't know. | ||
Compared to those other guys... But compared to Trump, yeah, he's a total serpent. | ||
Oh, let's see. | ||
I don't think I have ever indicated that. | ||
eating. | ||
Yep. | ||
Banging your mom says, nice comb over, Bernie. | ||
You really cover up well. | ||
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Yeah. | |
Cookie Monster says, are you into slightly older women? | ||
Honest question. | ||
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No. | |
I don't think I have ever indicated that. | ||
I think I have actually said the opposite. | ||
I've said actually that I would not marry somebody who is older than me. | ||
I would only marry somebody that is younger than me. | ||
I don't even think I'd marry somebody that's the same age as me. | ||
I would marry somebody that's maybe at least a year or two younger than me. | ||
So Honest question. | ||
No, I'm not into older women. | ||
If anything, the opposite. | ||
I don't know. | ||
I guess some people are into that. | ||
I guess some people are, like, into older women. | ||
But it doesn't really make much sense to me, you know? | ||
Who would be into... If you're my age, if you're a 21-year-old man, who would be like, oh, but those 35-year-olds be hittin' though. | ||
Oh, but those 28-year-olds be hittin' though. | ||
No, I don't think so. | ||
Doomgripe. | ||
We just had that problem the other day. | ||
I had the opposite problem the other day. | ||
Somebody brought up a certain TikTok star and it happened to turn out that they were not, you know, they were 15. | ||
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Oh, okay. | |
You know, if you say so. | ||
But, um, so no. | ||
Doomgripe says... It's just funny. | ||
I've said the opposite like countless times. | ||
Yeah, like I said, I'm telling you, that was totally based. | ||
He gave a completely sensible answer on that. | ||
He said, well, in the states where it's already legalized, the cat's out of the bag. | ||
We're not rolling that back, but we should move slowly with how we... No, I think it should be shut down completely, but a call for restraint and considering and acknowledging what the science has said about the effect of marijuana on brains, particularly young men developing adolescent brains. | ||
That's like the most sensible answer I've heard about marijuana since the primary started, so that's what I'm talking about. | ||
Okay, that was just garbage. | ||
Yeah, they don't even vote. | ||
They're like sovereign, right? | ||
420 voted. | ||
Okay, that was just garbage. | ||
Green Cedars is Native American community. | ||
What, all 50 of them? | ||
Yeah, they don't even vote. | ||
They're like sovereign, right? | ||
They live on sovereign land, I believe, for the most part, don't they? | ||
Obviously, there are some American Indians that, you know, they live outside of the reservations, but it's like those people live on their own land. | ||
That's technically like their own country. | ||
Georgios says this stream has 11,000 viewers, but DLive features some random dude with 150 viewers instead. | ||
Yeah, it's pretty... they don't really treat me right. | ||
Yeah, yeah. | ||
I think I'm going to talk to them about that this week. | ||
I just got, you know, so much going on. | ||
Yeah, I'll be careful. | ||
I'm in good hands. | ||
speak to their manager groype says please be careful at af pack and c pack i'm praying well thanks buddy yeah i'll be careful i'm in good hands i'm gonna have a squad with me the whole time so green cedar says warren's anecdotes rely on people actually caring not sure what you mean by that georgio says pete went to relaxing featuring jackson I don't know what that means. | ||
Tybor says the moderator is wearing a wig. | ||
Which one? | ||
Zaviva says, Pete, hey guys, did you know I'm a gay troop? | ||
Yeah, yeah, right. | ||
We can't work that in enough about service. | ||
My service. | ||
Service, scripture, and my husband. | ||
That is what we cannot hear enough about. | ||
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When I was in the military, and scripture informs us, and my husband. | |
Oh, please, shove it. | ||
Bad fate. | ||
He worked at a desk. | ||
He doesn't believe in God and he's married to a man. | ||
This is all disqualifying. | ||
Except for, I don't know what the desk part is really. | ||
But you're not... He acts like he was on the front lines. | ||
He acts like he's a war hero. | ||
Like he was like running into a battlefield with a, you know, assault rifle. | ||
Shooting terrorists and throwing grenades. | ||
It's like you worked at a desk. | ||
The only time you held a gun was when you were taking pictures of yourself. | ||
Probably when you were running for president, right? | ||
Okay, I'm just not going to read that. | ||
I don't know what he knows or doesn't know. | ||
okay I'm not going to read that Reptarts says William Iger resigned today Q predicted this Tybor says Liz you just wait until your father gets home Lieutenant says Shirley Steyer knows climate change is a racket I don't know what he knows or doesn't know he just seems like a moron to me Spurts says press B to brap in all candidates faces Lifted Truck says Adrena Chrome makes me young and virile | ||
How many people you reckon Biden has killed? | ||
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Yeah, whatever. | |
I don't know. | ||
That is so true. | ||
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Thank you. | |
No, no, no. | ||
Don't kill me. | ||
I lived in Israel. | ||
can you please explain why joe biden is so mad i i don't know rudax says you deserve more money that is so true thank you ty boris says don't shoot i took the trip yeah yeah bernie sanders no no no don't kill me i went to i lived in israel wags says a whole segment on one percent of the population you dig uh yeah i don't know i'm | ||
I mean Israel is kind of an important thing and he did make a tweet about it So I do think it was relevant Ty Boris says we will only use the military for military things. | ||
Yeah. | ||
Thank you. | ||
Elizabeth Warren. | ||
Thank you, ma'am Molly McGuire says will Bernie make anime real Bernie 2020 if Buddha judge wins, I am unironically taxi fading. | ||
Okay Don't don't tell anybody about that Big Lip says, recently became a wagee, gotta pay my cut now. | ||
Oh, well thank you for the $2. | ||
Now that you are a wagee, you've gotta throw in your $2. | ||
Understandable, I appreciate it. | ||
Hey, every bit counts. | ||
I'm gonna do the Stefan Molyneux routine of, $1, you gave me $1? | ||
Do you remember that video? | ||
But when I do it, it's funny. | ||
When I do it, I'm being ironic. | ||
When I do it, I'm like, oh yeah, whatever. | ||
When he did it, he was serious. | ||
Now I gotta pay my fair share. | ||
Well, thank you for the two whole dollars. | ||
I'm glad the paycheck has come in. | ||
Tybor says, woman with a wig. | ||
There's a way to fix being bald. | ||
Yeah, that's pretty funny. | ||
Gwylo says, eat shit, Warren. | ||
Yep. | ||
BigMoneyWages says, looking forward to AFPAC. | ||
Best of luck, King. | ||
Well, hey, thanks a lot, buddy. | ||
And thanks for the Ninjagini. | ||
Saxon says, Pete, passionate about the penis. | ||
That's good consonants there. | ||
Good alliteration. | ||
Seriously, I am convinced. | ||
I have been convinced of this for a long time. | ||
It's like, all the ingredients are there. | ||
Except for maybe one thing. | ||
Maybe. | ||
son of a cultural Marxist clearly intelligent and power hungry and competent all the ingredients are there except for maybe one thing Pap says Dems never mentioned Bernie's rape fantasies Donald Trump will maybe I don't know if he'll bring that up but the Bernie thing is pretty funny I don't know why they don't bring that up. | ||
Hugh says, did you go to Ed and Joe's for taco pizza? | ||
No, I don't think so. | ||
Why does it matter? | ||
I saw you literally asking me about that in another live chat. | ||
I distinctly remember you yesterday or maybe the day before. | ||
Nick, did you eat at this restaurant? | ||
Why? | ||
And then he's like, no, I have to ask. | ||
I've got this pressing question I need to know. | ||
Did he eat at this restaurant? | ||
Did he eat the Quad City style pizza at Ed and Joe's or did he not? | ||
So much so that it stuck with him. | ||
I need to. | ||
OK, well, he's not going to answer me here. | ||
I'm going to have to come tomorrow and ask him. | ||
Where did I go? | ||
Let's see, Quad City Pizza, Rock Island. | ||
I went to Harris Pizza, I think is where I went to. | ||
Okay, are you happy? | ||
I believe it was Harris Pizza. | ||
Let me just take a look. | ||
Is this right? | ||
Yep, yeah, I went to Harris Pizza in Rock Island. | ||
Are you happy? | ||
I went to the location in Rock Island. | ||
Is everybody satisfied? | ||
Just looking at pictures of this is making me hungry. | ||
I'm gonna have to get pizza after the show. | ||
Now I'm starving. | ||
I had Taco Bell like three o'clock. | ||
So I've been seven hours without food. | ||
I have not been eating. | ||
I ate a Famous Bowl from KFC yesterday. | ||
That's the only thing I ate yesterday. | ||
And the only thing I ate today was two tacos and a burrito from Taco Bell. | ||
I need... I wish we had one of these Quad City style places here. | ||
That was some good pizza actually. | ||
It's like a tavern style. | ||
It's cut in strips. | ||
Man, it's not even really so much Italian anymore, so much as it is, like, American, but, uh, I like it. | ||
You know, some people might say, oh, that's not real pizza. | ||
And they're right, you know, if you go out to Iowa, like, are you gonna get real pizza in Iowa? | ||
Are there Italians in Iowa? | ||
I don't know. | ||
But, uh, but it's tasty, but it's good, I'll admit. | ||
I don't really, I'm not an autist about that. | ||
It's good stuff. | ||
Good medicine. | ||
But I'm looking at pictures, now you got me thinking about it. | ||
So, no, I went to Harris Pizza. | ||
Harris Pizza! | ||
Highly recommend. | ||
Thank you. | ||
Yeah, there will be no hot tubs at AFPAC. | ||
We cannot have a repeat of the Simon Sasquatch wedding episode with Joe the Boomer. | ||
Can't go into detail about that. | ||
the availability of hot tubs at AFPAC. | ||
Yeah, there will be no hot tubs at AFPAC. | ||
We cannot have a repeat of the Simon Sasquatch wedding episode with Joe the Boomer. | ||
Can't go into detail about that. | ||
This is classified Groy for intelligence. | ||
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But, you know, Joe the Boomer and the hot tub. | |
It's not a memory I like to think about. | ||
Delico says, while in DC, go to Wawa instead of Subway. | ||
Okay, noted. | ||
Wawa. | ||
I usually go to Z Burger because I like to support black-owned businesses. | ||
Based Dollar says, Bernie is a mess. | ||
He can't handle the office. | ||
Yeah, true. | ||
Wags says, Nick, can we get a crypto wrestling fan check? | ||
Okay, the Czech thing is kind of getting old too. | ||
It's almost like nationalism. | ||
Oh, crypto wrestling fan Czech. | ||
I see you. | ||
I see you. | ||
Yeah, you, you got the joke. | ||
Ty Boris is Biden. | ||
Six million died from gun violence last year. | ||
Yeah, funny meme number. | ||
Chicken on a raft says more feds in chat lately. | ||
Press B to ban. | ||
Where are the mods? | ||
We had mods and now they just don't even, they don't ban anybody anymore. | ||
If there's fed posting, you gotta just ban people. | ||
I don't know what that is. | ||
Yeah, I think that's correct. | ||
I don't know. | ||
I would probably just live alone and not read Super Chats. | ||
I'd probably just live alone. | ||
I'd probably retire to a big, empty house and, you know, just do my thing, you know? | ||
Just chill out. | ||
I don't know. | ||
That's a tough question. | ||
Molly McGuire says, Based Russia tards are gay. | ||
America first, not Russia. | ||
Yeah, big agree on that. | ||
Emperor of the Roman says, Thoughts on the Holy Roman Empire. | ||
It's great. | ||
John says, Only 50 characters to make a joke. | ||
Whatever, bro. | ||
This guy's salty. | ||
This guy's salty. | ||
It's a comp. | ||
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Well, my joke wasn't funny because we don't have enough characters, but whatever. | |
I'm not, but whatever. | ||
I don't even care. | ||
Well, my joke wasn't funny? | ||
unidentified
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Well, that's just because I don't have enough characters to make a funny joke, so whatever, man. | |
Whatever. | ||
Whatever. | ||
I don't even care that you didn't like my Super Chat. | ||
I don't even care. | ||
I know I'm funny. | ||
I just wasn't able to express my funniness in 50 characters. | ||
I'm sure. | ||
I'm sure that's why. | ||
That's okay. | ||
That's okay. | ||
It's fine. | ||
Don't take it personally. | ||
I don't hate you. | ||
I don't think you're not funny. | ||
I just read some of these Super Chats and I just can't do a lot with them. | ||
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Okay? | |
That's all it is. | ||
To some of you guys, you don't give me a lot of material to work with. | ||
There's weird abbreviations. | ||
Please, try not to take it personally, okay? | ||
I'm just messing with you. | ||
I'm just funning around. | ||
I'm hungry. | ||
I'm on edge. | ||
I'm tired. | ||
I got a lot on my mind. | ||
And I'm, you know, just a little bit on edge. | ||
So, don't take it personally. | ||
I'm not mean. | ||
I'm just focused. | ||
When I scream at the Super Chatter, I'm not mean. | ||
I'm just focused. | ||
Okay? | ||
Uh, Bastard says looking sharp there. | ||
Thanks. | ||
Polish Americans is still waiting for the no fat podcast. | ||
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When? | |
Soon. | ||
Yeah. | ||
Once we get done with AF pack and once we get it done with the college tour on the website and once we get done with some other things that are in the works and there's like, I cannot tell you how much I have on my plate right now. | ||
I have like, let's see. | ||
The college tour, AFPAC, the website, the tour. | ||
These are the four things that you know about. | ||
There are at least three other major things going on. | ||
No, eight! | ||
There's at least four other major things going on. | ||
Once we get all of that done. | ||
Yeah, then I will not like you were serious But I just have to tell you I've like I'm being pushed to the limit I went from doing no work and now we're at a hundred miles an hour. | ||
I went from zero to a hundred it went from like I'll do a show today to like Okay, now I'm a business person. | ||
Now I'm a mogul. | ||
Now I've got, you know, phone calls and I'm like... It's like an Aaron Sorkin show. | ||
Walk and talk. | ||
Walk and talk. | ||
It's phone calls. | ||
I'm writing things. | ||
It's so much frenzy. | ||
I'm not used to it. | ||
I'm a med. | ||
Where's the nap? | ||
When's nap time? | ||
When's nap time? | ||
When do I get to eat lunch? | ||
Do I get three hours for my lunch break and then an hour for a siesta? | ||
When does that happen, you know? | ||
So, but anyway, all of this is to say, once I'm done with all I've got planned, then the NoFap podcast will begin. | ||
Trust me. | ||
That is the next item on my list. | ||
After AF Pack, it's NoFap Pack. | ||
That's the next one. | ||
Giraffe says, hey Nick, first time donating. | ||
That's it. | ||
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Well, thanks. | |
Appreciate it. | ||
Straightforward, to the point. | ||
Our romantic Nick says don't question the 150 million gun violence number Yeah, yeah, that's yeah. | ||
Good point Bad karma says David Icke thoughts. | ||
Um, I've never read anything by him. | ||
He seems a little goofy Charlie Kirk says hey Jennifer was a nice evening with you. | ||
Goodbye. | ||
I don't know what that means Molly McGuire says passive aggression activated hole in the wall soon I'm like Babe Ruth calling my shot. | ||
A little sports analogy for you. | ||
Baseball in particular. | ||
I'm like Babe Ruth calling my shot. | ||
No, this time, this time, I don't know. | ||
Maybe I gotta diversify a little bit. | ||
It doesn't feel right if it's not like, you know, if I don't feel the pennant. | ||
Well, I'm not gonna. | ||
gonna finish that but if I do not I'll say pierce the wall so you don't really did you really put a hole in the wall if you didn't make a distinct new hole a separate hole so next time no I haven't been hey to my credit if my parents are watching this I it's been a long time it's been a long time since I you know did any real damage lately what I do is I punch this desk and there's now a dent right here And there's literally like pieces of the desk under the desk. | ||
It's like breaking this drawer is breaking because of the Force when I when I smash down on the top, but I've got a new desktop so to install so it's everything's fine Boomer destroyer says national file events is gonna be epic. | ||
See you there. | ||
Yeah, it's gonna be good stuff I'm gonna be speaking there tomorrow and The hoops I have to jump through. | ||
I need an assistant, okay? | ||
And everybody gave me flack. | ||
I said, Catboy assistant. | ||
And then everybody's calling me out for that. | ||
Everybody's like, oh, remember on your show when you said you needed a Catboy assistant? | ||
Okay, fine. | ||
Fine. | ||
No Catboys. | ||
That's fine. | ||
I'm not, I'm unbothered by that. | ||
I'll just have a regular assistant, or a girl assistant. | ||
But I need an assistant, because I'm going, I'm jumping through all these hoops. | ||
You would think it's like simple, but I have to like reschedule my flight. | ||
Okay, I was planning on flying into DC on Thursday, because our conference is on Friday. | ||
And they call me last minute, and they're like, you need to, you want to speak at this event, da da da. | ||
And I'm like, sure, I'll just have to reschedule my flight. | ||
Cost $200 to reschedule my flight to move it from Thursday to Wednesday. | ||
$200. | ||
And then I go to book my hotel. | ||
I gotta book an extra hotel night. | ||
And then I booked the wrong night. | ||
I booked from... What is it? | ||
I booked from Thursday to Friday when I needed to do Wednesday to Thursday. | ||
We got a hotel from the time we were supposed to stay. | ||
I'm staying now another day. | ||
I'm getting there a day earlier. | ||
I need another night at the hotel. | ||
So I call up the hotel. | ||
Or I go on the website. | ||
I go on the website. | ||
I get on the hotel website with my keyboard. | ||
I type in and I book another night and then it just dawns on me after I do the booking, oh, well, you booked from Thursday to Friday instead of Wednesday to Thursday, which is wrong. | ||
So then I'm like, oh, well, I'll just cancel. | ||
Oh, you can't cancel. | ||
It's no refunds. | ||
OK, well, you can purchase travel protection. | ||
There's still time. | ||
OK, I purchased the travel protection for $9. | ||
I go in. | ||
Oh, your reason isn't covered. | ||
You got a special deal so you don't get a refund. | ||
Okay. | ||
So I call the number and the lady tells me, get this, the lady tells me, well, I booked through Expedia. | ||
She goes, well, we have to call the hotel and clear with the hotel so you don't have to pay a penalty fee. | ||
I go, okay. | ||
So she puts me on hold. | ||
She gets back with me. | ||
She says, okay, well, we will tell you tomorrow morning. | ||
The manager's not there. | ||
We can tell you tomorrow at 930. | ||
And we'll get in contact with the manager tomorrow at 9.30 and then we'll figure out if you have to pay a penalty or whatever. | ||
We can resolve this without having to pay more money. | ||
I said, okay. | ||
And I said, will I just get an email tomorrow morning when that's sorted out? | ||
And she goes, usually it'll take 24 hours. | ||
I go, 24 hours? | ||
I said, 24 hours from tomorrow morning is Thursday morning. | ||
The reservation is for Wednesday night. | ||
After 24 hours, by the time we figure it out, I won't need the reservation. | ||
And she's like, oh yeah, well, and she doesn't even speak English. | ||
She's speaking in this accent. | ||
So she just says something. | ||
I'm like, okay, whatever. | ||
I'll figure it out. | ||
If you call me, you call me. | ||
If not, I'll just find somewhere else. | ||
I'll just book something else. | ||
If I get the refund, I'll just tell my mom. | ||
My mom's usually good at getting the refunds, but it's just like... | ||
I have a million things on my plate right now, and I gotta be talking to this stupid bitch on Expedia who doesn't even speak English. | ||
All right, so that's, you know, whatever. | ||
Anyway. | ||
Bulban says, Nick, dude, blacks be lo- Okay, I can't read that. | ||
Sponge says, oy vey go- Okay, I'm not reading that one either. | ||
Oy vey goys. | ||
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Yeah, okay. | |
No. | ||
Nope. | ||
Would you rather die a horrible death or a terrible death? | ||
Lord have mercy on us. | ||
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Yeah. | |
Groyper Zoomer says, Nick looking very fresh, high energy AF pack soon. | ||
Yep, Friday. | ||
We are going to have a big night this week. | ||
Chicken on a raft says, Trump versus Buttigieg would be ducks in a barrel. | ||
Yeah, that would be funny. | ||
Molly McGuire says, Virgin Petto versus Chad Milf Hunter. | ||
Uh, well, well, it's a febophile, I think is the term. | ||
No, kidding, kidding. | ||
That's a joke. | ||
Apple Honey says, Pete be like Ice Bank. | ||
I don't know what that means. | ||
Ty Boris says, good luck this week. | ||
God bless. | ||
Hey, well, thank you so much for the Ninjet. | ||
That's pretty big. | ||
Thank you so much for the Ninjet and thanks for your well wishes. | ||
Starrett says, for the future. | ||
Ah, thank you. | ||
Fred Achilles says, nice outfit. | ||
Thanks. | ||
Mr. Disco says, what can be done about the worrying lack of conservatives in arts and entertainment? | ||
Nothing. | ||
Like honestly, what do you think can be done? | ||
I don't know. | ||
I don't think there is anything that can be done. | ||
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We need movies that are about our issues. | |
Who's that one actor that we have? | ||
Who's the one actor who acts in all the Christian movies? | ||
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He plays the professor in God's Not Dead. | |
We need more movies like God's Not Dead. | ||
We need more faith movies. | ||
We need more movies with Kevin Sorbo funded by Sean Hannity that are about faith. | ||
That's what we need. | ||
That is what we need to change the culture. | ||
We need Kid Rock and Mike Huckabee on bass. | ||
That is how we're going to win the culture war. | ||
Steven Crowder doing a comedy routine. | ||
We are going to win the culture war with this. | ||
With all this corny, boomer, partisan Fox News, contrived nonsense. | ||
Yeah, that is what we need. | ||
God's not dead. | ||
A little could be wrong, I agree, but I'm not gonna see that movie. | ||
Nope. | ||
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Nope. | |
I don't know. | ||
Yeah, that's a good point. | ||
says Pete's not charismatic enough to be the Antichrist. | ||
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Yeah. | |
Yeah, that's a good point. | ||
Polish-Americans is what a gay homo. | ||
Yeah. | ||
Jackson says Jack dropped more sand people than Pete ever did. | ||
Who's Jack? | ||
Jake? | ||
Oh, Jake Lloyd. | ||
Yeah, Jake Lloyd. | ||
Based American hero. | ||
American sniper, Jake Lloyd. | ||
Green Cedar says, chat is big. | ||
Coomer Energy, no excuse for sodomy. | ||
Yeah, big agree. | ||
Big Nibber says, new wagey job means the king gets a cut. | ||
Oh, $3. | ||
I see your $3. | ||
Very nice. | ||
Thank you for the cut. | ||
Optic Trospector says, tomorrow is a day of fasting and abstinence. | ||
Ah, yes. | ||
Ash Wednesday. | ||
It's obligatory. | ||
The fasting is obligatory tomorrow, so keep that in mind. | ||
I was very stupid. | ||
I did not have a fat Tuesday today. | ||
I've been fasting for, like, two months, you know? | ||
So it's like, oh, another day, right? | ||
Another day of fasting. | ||
Mommy Milker says, Nick looking like every guy at a New York City club. | ||
Is that true? | ||
Do I look like a guy at a New York City club? | ||
I don't think that's accurate. | ||
Maxie Bros says, Cringe moment check. | ||
Joe the Boomer says, Piss balls. | ||
Funnier than 90% of chats, maybe more. | ||
You're not wrong. | ||
Sid2P says, Will Senior Citizen Nick still be a gamer? | ||
Probably not. | ||
I imagine that as I get older, I'll probably grow out of it. | ||
I don't play games nearly as much as I used to. | ||
It's definitely tapered off. | ||
I play games on stream because it's entertainment and it's fun, but I cannot see myself playing games for my whole life. | ||
Already I'm kind of growing impatient with it. | ||
And I still enjoy playing games and I play games with my friends. | ||
It's a way to like socialize on the internet, but I'm not somebody that like wakes up, time to grind, time to grind in Call of Duty, time to grind it out. | ||
I'm not like watching game releases. | ||
I'm not like playing single player games for myself. | ||
It's been a long time since I did anything like that, so... It's kind of sad. | ||
I mean, it's something I enjoyed when I was a kid, but it's just not the same anymore, so... I play it with friends, like I said. | ||
It's like a social thing, and I do it on stream because it's entertaining for you, but... | ||
I'm not like, aw, time to do my favorite thing, time to get my controller and get in front of the screen for four hours. | ||
I just don't, it's not really fun for me. | ||
Not in the way it used to be. | ||
Groyper Waves says, tip to not get roasted, call Nick smart and handsome. | ||
Yeah, that's a good guide. | ||
If you need to fall back on something, you don't have any ideas, that's always a good thing. | ||
Semp versus where is the Sean versus gay boy debate? | ||
Oh, Hunter. | ||
I think it's on their gumroad. | ||
If you go on the Weekly Sweat Gumroad, it's on there. | ||
A-Mungo says, I'm not mean, I'm just focused. | ||
Kanye quote check? | ||
Ah, you caught it. | ||
Good job. | ||
Thank you. | ||
The first time that I became a sentient person, this is a true story. - Okay. | ||
is when I was in grade school. | ||
I was maybe in third grade. | ||
And I noticed that whenever something came up in class that people recognized, whether it was a movie or a song, you would have the kids that recognized it would immediately, hands would go up. | ||
Oh, I know what that is! | ||
I know what that is! | ||
You know what I'm talking about in grade school? | ||
Like, for example, in In music class, the teacher would play a recognizable song on the piano, recognizable song on guitar, and everybody recognized it. | ||
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Oh, oh, I know! | |
It's a, you know, obvious popular song. | ||
I know what that is! | ||
And I remember in grade school, it was maybe like my moment of sentience. | ||
It was like when I... Nick White says this online. | ||
It's like when I became aware, was I realized, I said, wait a second, because I used to do that, you know, when I was like five. | ||
I was like, wait a second. | ||
I said it's very off-putting when people do that. | ||
I said, why do people say that? | ||
It's like, I don't care that you know. | ||
Nobody else cares that you know. | ||
Probably everybody knows what that is, but why do you feel the need? | ||
And I realized that it's something that is self-indulgent. | ||
It's something that it's like, well, I am going to make everybody aware that I know something, but it really doesn't achieve that effect. | ||
Nobody's impressed by this. | ||
You know, and I'm articulating it in a way now, but that was sort of my thought process. | ||
And I said, well, when people do something that I recognize, I'm not going to acknowledge it. | ||
I'm not going to raise my hand and say, I'll just quietly, I'll just quietly, you know, amuse. | ||
I know about this, but I don't need to tell everybody about it. | ||
What would be the purpose of this? | ||
If anything, it's just off putting, right? | ||
And that, that was like my first moment, right? | ||
I, you know, where this internal monologue was cultivated and it was, Now a separation between you know private self and the rest And then this reminds me of this is like I I do a Kanye quote, and I'm sure a lot of people you know catch it Oh, yeah, Kanye quote, but then some people are like oh good. | ||
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No. | |
Yeah, I got it. | ||
I got it Nick, right? | ||
I got it you and me are on the same page, man I'm just a big as Kanye fan as you I got a Nick Kanye quote check see cuz I got it I listen to the same song as you Yeah, yeah Yeah, I see you. | ||
Yeah, you got it. | ||
You caught it. | ||
You you know Molly Maguire says Nick be like I'm not mad about to punch wall. | ||
I'm not mad. | ||
I'm just hungry I'm just hungry at this point. | ||
I just want to get some Quad City pizza, but I can't it's like five hours away, but I'll have to settle for a local pizza. | ||
I'm going to have to go to the hangout. | ||
That's what I'm going to do right after the show. | ||
I'm wearing my shoes. | ||
I need to have time to get out of my shoes and into my slippers, which I normally wear, because I've been so busy today. | ||
But I got my shoes on. | ||
I got my going out pants, not my work pants, not my work jeans, which I never change. | ||
I got my going out pants on. | ||
All I need to do is throw on a t-shirt and a sweatshirt and I'm out. | ||
And I'm out. | ||
I'm gonna get me a big slice of pizza, big slice of pie, and some Sprite. | ||
And that's what I'm thinking about. | ||
So I'm not mad. | ||
Polish American says Nick will you accept me to nofap pack this time? | ||
Yeah, you'll get in for sure. | ||
Joe the Boomer says bringing my piece to AF pack. | ||
See you slad soon. | ||
Much love. | ||
Yeah, definitely do not be bringing firearms. | ||
That is gonna be a big no. | ||
Joe the Boomer is kidding. | ||
Okay, I should clarify. | ||
Beat Puta Judge says, can Trump still win the election of the economy tanks? | ||
I think so. | ||
It'll be more difficult, but I think so. | ||
Faticotti says, need to feel your fist. | ||
Okay, I'm not gonna read that. | ||
Polish American says, Joe the Boomer, bathtub, Roman Polanski mode. | ||
Yeah. | ||
Nitro Dubs says, Nick, important update on a random viewer's penis. | ||
My nofap is going well. | ||
Oh, I'm glad you hear that. | ||
Congratulations. | ||
Thanks for the ninja guinea. | ||
Good for you. | ||
That, at the end of the day, that is what it is about. | ||
At the end of the day, it is not about you or me. | ||
It is not about politics. | ||
It is about not letting people make you apologize or admit wrongdoing. | ||
At the end of the day, that is what it is about. | ||
At the end of the day, it is not about you or me. | ||
It is not about politics. | ||
It is about not letting people make you apologize or admit wrongdoing at the end of the day. | ||
Because if I were to understand, if I were to desist, and I did for a while, the like, I don't want to bring more attention to it because it's like people are making a big deal out of it. | ||
But like, if I were to say like, oh, I would prefer if you don't talk about that. | ||
Well, that would almost concede that like, what they were saying is true. | ||
It was a joke. | ||
It's always been a joke. | ||
I will continue to make jokes, okay? | ||
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Even if, oh no, that's, oh, you can't joke about that. | |
I can joke about whatever I want. | ||
I can say whatever I want. | ||
So that's true. | ||
It's very important. | ||
Very important for morale that we persist with that in particular. | ||
Green Cedar says you need an assistant and she'll need a therapist. | ||
Now, I think women are almost more naturally inclined to take abuse. | ||
So maybe that's one of the added benefits of a female assistant is, you know, in a lot of ways they're fragile. | ||
But emotionally, well, I don't know about emotionally, but in a certain way they are resilient in that they can really take everything you throw at them. | ||
Everything that you throw at them, I think they can generally take it without, like, you know, losing their minds. | ||
They've got this, like, maybe it's like an evolutionary trait where it's like, if I, you know... | ||
If I can't take it, like, I will get killed by the tribe. | ||
A man will hit me with a big rock or something. | ||
Maybe that's, like, evolutionary. | ||
I don't know. | ||
Maybe it's because they came from our rib. | ||
I couldn't tell you. | ||
Man's rib. | ||
But, um, for whatever reason, I think they can take like a little bit more than a man. | ||
Like me, I can only take so much before I get frustrated or I lose patience or I start to, you know, I start to get a little stir crazy. | ||
But I, I don't know, maybe, maybe this is not your experience, but... | ||
I feel like women have a high tolerance. | ||
Maybe it's just because of my mom. | ||
My mom has like a high tolerance for me. | ||
Like, maybe it's, you know, my mom, she's an Italian mom, so she's very like, you know, I don't know. | ||
She's very, well, I don't know like what a nice way to say it is. | ||
Well, you know, she takes care of me, you know, and she always makes sure you're fed, and you know, wants to know where you are, what you're up to, and what you're doing, and so on. | ||
And I'm a very irritable person, so we have kind of this relationship where, you know, she's always taking care of me, and I'm not as nice to my mom as I should be sometimes. | ||
I get a little bit irritable, and so maybe that informs my opinion that she's always, you know, well. | ||
So maybe women are just generally have more resilience when it comes to that. | ||
They could take a little bit more, but I don't know. | ||
That is my general observation. | ||
So that's perhaps a bonus, a benefit, but On the other hand, you know, a femoid in the movement just can't, just can't trust on that level. | ||
On a certain level, I feel like I just couldn't confide in a woman, you know, who is not like my wife. | ||
And even my wife, as far as that goes. | ||
But I just couldn't confide in somebody like that. | ||
I couldn't really trust them with details. | ||
You know, maybe as somebody like a organizational person, like a secretary, but as like an assistant who knows the intimate details of my operation, that would have to be a high trust operation. | ||
And I don't know if you could place enough faith in a woman in this sector in particular. | ||
It's one thing if it's like a trade secret, but this is politics. | ||
This is social stuff. | ||
It pertains to social status. | ||
And so there's stakes involved in this which are not involved in other things. | ||
So that's like another component to it as well. | ||
So those are my thoughts on that. | ||
John says here's a guaranteed winner peepee and poo-poo. | ||
Yeah, great job Florida man says no refund. | ||
I hurt my leg, bro. | ||
I got these pills. | ||
Yeah, I remember that Polish American says blood libel adrenochrome Passover it all adds up. | ||
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Yeah. | |
Yeah, think about it. | ||
Google it sponge says I'm Jewish and took the trip read my ironic goy chats and Emperor of the Rome says, would you rather learn French or Spanish? | ||
Neither, honestly. | ||
I'd, you know, French, I guess. | ||
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I don't know. | |
Ghanian says, did you see Michelle's thread about outsourcing? | ||
Yeah, it was a very good thread. | ||
Moon Cow says, remember when Vince McMahon died in a limo explosion? | ||
Yeah. | ||
Chicken on a raft says, for conservative art, try the Catholic Church. | ||
Ah, that, yeah, that's great. | ||
Molly, when we're talking about the culture war, yeah, like let's just look at old stuff. | ||
Big Nibbers says, haven't gotten the first check yet. | ||
Expect more. | ||
Molly McGuire says... I'm not reading that. | ||
Molly McGuire says, suck up. | ||
Donators are basically simps. | ||
Yeah, well, but I'm not... I love when people say like, I'm gonna challenge Nick. | ||
It's like, I'm not in the mood. | ||
Who are you to challenge me? | ||
Some people do that. | ||
They get real self-righteous. | ||
They're like, all you people that support Nick do is support Nick. | ||
I'm gonna give Nick what I really think. | ||
I'm gonna tell Nick what I really think of him. | ||
I'm gonna give him constructive criticism. | ||
I'm gonna critique him when I think he's doing something wrong. | ||
It's like, who are you to challenge me and think, by the way, that you could do that and not get blocked or whatever? | ||
You know what I mean? | ||
Everybody has their opinion and thinks like, oh, well, I've got my opinion and you're gonna hear it and you have to listen to it and you're gonna have to like it. | ||
It's like, no, I don't. | ||
I don't have to hear some asshole on the internet. | ||
All I deal with is assholes on the internet who know less than I do, who have a stupid opinion. | ||
And people come at me with throwing their opinions. | ||
Well, and then if I block them, or whatever, then they get all bent out of shape. | ||
Well, I critique Nick when I think he's doing something wrong, and I praise him when he's doing something right. | ||
Well, who are you to say that? | ||
You know a fraction of what I know about the political situation, and that's not like I'm some genius. | ||
That's just because I do it every day. | ||
I live it. | ||
I know all the constituent actors involved. | ||
If you're somebody who is in the field, I will listen to your advice, and I listen to advice every day from people that work on campaigns, and people that work on Capitol Hill, People that are in social media. | ||
But if you're just some jagoff who's, hey listen Nick, I'm gonna give you a piece of my mind. | ||
It's like, why do I have to listen to that? | ||
Especially if it's done in a way that isn't tactful. | ||
Especially if it's rude or abrasive or insulting. | ||
You know what I mean? | ||
Like... And people have to realize it's like, I get that by the way unsolicited from everybody all day all the time. | ||
You know, well Nick's gonna listen to my opinion and he's gotta like it. | ||
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Oh, no, no. | |
It's like, you know, people used to ask me, what would you say to Donald Trump if you got an audience with him for a few minutes? | ||
I told them I would say thank you. | ||
You know, who am I to tell Donald Trump, the president, who ran and he won? | ||
And, you know, there are areas where I think he could do better, and I've got my opinion, obviously, but... | ||
You know, imagine this guy's got the weight of the world on his shoulders and a 21-year-old's gonna come up and say, uh, here's what you need to do better. | ||
Could you imagine? | ||
And that's why people have to have a little bit of humility when it comes to, uh, you know, their criticism. | ||
Molly McGuire, oh well, doing the super chat. | ||
Suck up, donators are just simps. | ||
Yeah, we are looking for supporters. | ||
I am not an e-girl showing my boobs on screen and you're replying in hopes that I will date you. | ||
We are doing a political movement and in some capacity there has to be a corporate mentality. | ||
Now, if you bust my balls a little bit, yeah, whatever. | ||
If people want to say their piece about what's going on, that's fine, but you know, I love to see, it's particularly women, and I'm assuming Molly Maguire's a woman, women see people supporting me and they say, oh well, you're just sipping for Nick. | ||
Well, that's not true, because sipping means orbiting pussy in particular, and it is specific to women. | ||
Men and women are different, and that has consequences. | ||
Some people don't understand that still. | ||
Well, you're sucking up to a man, and that's just like simping for a woman. | ||
Well, it's not, because men and women are different, and, you know, we're talking about different things, so... So, wrong, you're ignorant, shut up, your critique is invalid. | ||
Uh, you're, no, no, nope, you should've just sucked up, you should've just sucked up, now, now you're, now you're embarrassed. | ||
I know people that speak exclusively in references. | ||
gay boy debate for free ah well I don't think they have it uploaded for free you got to support got to support the weekly sweat so you got to do it for the you got it you got to get on the gumroad that's the only way you get it Groyper wave says I know people that speak exclusively in references yeah yeah I think we all know somebody like that sponge says our king is hangry I don't I am hangry! | ||
I'm furious! | ||
And I'm furious because I'm starving. | ||
Because I haven't eaten anything in seven and a half hours. | ||
Because I've been busy. | ||
But I'm hungry. | ||
I'm thinking about that pizza picture did me in. | ||
I was trying to suppress it. | ||
I was trying to control my emotions. | ||
I was trying to... | ||
Keep myself in check. | ||
And then I looked up Quad City Pizza and looked up Google Images and I got blasted with a hundred pictures of pizza. | ||
And now I'm just sensed. | ||
Now I'm just over the edge. | ||
I'm gone. | ||
It's like in... It's like in Finding Nemo when the shark smells blood and his eyes go black and he loses control. | ||
That's what it's like when I get hungry. | ||
You have to have a little bit of understanding. | ||
Charlie Kirk says going poop mode, about to blast off. | ||
Good to hear. | ||
Shin Chan says no Sprite Nick, too much sugar, just half water. | ||
I did have a lot of pop today. | ||
A little bit of Coke, a little bit of grape, so... Yeah, maybe just... Well, but you can't drink water with pizza, so I'll probably have Sprite. | ||
I'll have a small Sprite, a small Sprite. | ||
Joe the Boomer says, follow poor Joe Boomer on DLive. | ||
He's old and dying. | ||
Yeah, that's true. | ||
I don't know how much longer he has. | ||
He's deteriorating much more quickly than we expected. | ||
Maid says, hey Nick, who is worse, Wignats or Libertarians? | ||
Umm... Hmm... | ||
Hmm, I would say That's a tough one. | ||
Probably wig gnats because I mean wig gnats are just so toxic to what we're trying to do For reasons. | ||
I don't want to get into at 1030 Cookie monsters is to win the culture war you have to share zoomer clips Now now zoomer clips has been off the goop lately and not in a good way in a very disappointing way Shin chance is not a simp. | ||
I like your opinions and entertainment. | ||
See there you go. | ||
No simping. | ||
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I No simping. | |
If you have something nasty to say, keep it to yourself, alright? | ||
Keep it to yourself. | ||
And if you don't, then expect to get blocked. | ||
I don't need to hear your vitriol. | ||
I don't need to hear your venom, people. | ||
I'm going to spit venom at this guy that's fighting for my interests? | ||
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And I'm going to get mad if I get blocked? | |
Get out of here. | ||
Lord poop man says big guy. | ||
Do you think that it's possible the opioid crisis is manufactured and targeted at our people? | ||
It's possible, but I I tend to you know For like population purposes in particular. | ||
I mean maybe the drug companies are conspiring to get people hooked on drugs, but I Do I believe that it was targeted at eliminating white people? | ||
That is a little bit too conspiratorial for my taste. | ||
If there's evidence, look, I'm all about conspiracies where there's evidence or even circumstantial evidence, but to just say, like, oh, the moon is cheese and the government is implanting, you know, microchips, like, well, you know, anything's possible, I guess, but where's the evidence? | ||
I can't be eating on the camera. | ||
I think that's generally gross. | ||
I got stuff. | ||
You know, for what it's worth, I have snacks in my drawer here. | ||
But I don't like to eat them when the show's happening. | ||
I can't because, you know, you guys keep commenting here. | ||
I don't really drink that much. | ||
I drink pop maybe once every other day. | ||
Not a big deal. | ||
Tyrone says okay, that guy should be banned if you see Tyrone. | ||
You got to get him out of here King larynx his haircut looking fresh for a pad. | ||
Good luck King. | ||
Thanks a lot. | ||
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I Think that's our last one But I want to ban that guy real quick. | |
I'm gonna go in. | ||
I can't find him. | ||
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I Hope you see I'm banning them. | |
Okay, but that's our last Super Chat. | ||
That's gonna do it for us. | ||
Sheesh! | ||
I am tired and I am hungry and I gotta wake up early to catch my flight. | ||
So that's gonna do it for us on the show tonight. | ||
Remember, there is no show for the rest of the week. | ||
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday I will be in D.C. | ||
I will be back on Monday and I'm actually arriving back in Chicago on Monday so I plan on doing a show but I might be burnt out. | ||
So, plan on me coming back on Monday, but I might just say, you know what? | ||
I'm too tired. | ||
So, tenuously, I'll be getting back on Monday, but no shows for the rest of the week for sure. | ||
Remember to follow my DLive channel. | ||
Click the follow button. | ||
It's right up here somewhere if you're not already following. | ||
Be sure to sign up for my email list at nicholasjfuentes.com. | ||
It's right there on the front page. | ||
It's the only thing I can't get banned from, which is critical. | ||
So, be sure to sign up for that. | ||
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Remember, we are on the air Monday through Friday, 7 p.m. | |
Central, 8 p.m. | ||
Eastern Standard Time. | ||
I'm Nicholas J. Fuentes. | ||
This is America First. | ||
As always, thanks for watching. | ||
Thanks to our Super Chatters. | ||
Thanks in particular to our top three Super Chatters tonight, Tybor, Giorgio, and Snapperino. | ||
Big thanks to all of those guys. | ||
Thanks to our top contributors. | ||
We love those people the most. | ||
But we love everybody that donates. | ||
Thanks to everybody that donates and does a Super Chat. | ||
Thanks to everybody that watches the show. | ||
We love you. | ||
We're gonna have a great time at AFPAC. | ||
or at the National File Conference. | ||
We're going to have a great time at both. | ||
So if I see you at one of those or both, I can't wait to meet you. | ||
Can't wait to have a good time in D.C. | ||
But that's going to do it for our show. | ||
I will see you on Monday. | ||
Until then, have a great rest of your week. | ||
Have a great weekend. | ||
And have a great rest of your evening. | ||
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Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo. | |
It's going to be only America first. | ||
America first. | ||
The American people will come first once again. |