Dave Smith and Robbie Bernstein critique government overreach and the 2020 Democratic primary, highlighting Joe Biden's South Carolina victory against Bernie Sanders. They analyze Elizabeth Warren's refusal to endorse Sanders despite sharing his Medicare for All and wealth tax platforms, labeling her a phony establishment figure who accepts billionaire donations. The hosts argue Warren's strategy aims to prevent Sanders from clinching the nomination, exposing Democratic hypocrisy if delegates deny him the title. Ultimately, they suggest this maneuver mirrors foreign powers manipulating revolutions, revealing the establishment's true intent to control the outcome regardless of progressive rhetoric. [Automatically generated summary]
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Government Too Big00:03:35
Fill her up.
You are listening to the Gash Digital Network.
We need to roll back the state.
We spy on all of our own citizens.
Our prisons are flooded with nonviolent drug offenders.
If you want to know who America's next enemy is, look at who we're funding right now.
Every single one of these problems are a result of government being way too big.
You're listening to part of the problem on the Gash Digital Network.
Here's your host, Dave Smith.
Hello.
Hello.
Welcome to a brand new episode of Part of the Problem.
I am the most consistent motherfucker you know, Dave Smith, keeping it consistent, consistently for all you good people.
And he is the fire, Robbie Bernstein, the king of the caulks.
Nope, that's just an empty chair, but he's over there somewhere.
Rob Bernstein.
Spooky chair.
Yo, Rob Bernstein's looking better than ever.
There he is.
There's Robbie the Fire Bernstein.
What's up, brother?
I'm doing well.
Happy to be here.
It's Friday.
Oh, no, it's Monday.
I'm wishing it.
It's Friday.
It's Monday.
So these are the days where you're drinking water.
Nice and easy.
Nice and easy.
Friday.
What the fuck is wrong with me?
I got fucked up tonight, dude.
I'm going to see widespread panic.
I haven't want to see those guys for years.
Yeah.
It's a little bit, takes on a little bit of a different feeling during the coronavirus pandemic when you say I'm going to see widespread panic.
Just had the first case of coronavirus in New York City.
Give it to some dumb bitch who went to Italy or something.
Iran.
Yeah, that's a really dumb bitch.
Why would you go there?
Italy, I can get over, but Iran, that's just terrible.
She probably went there to get the virus because she's like an Iranian spy or something.
Yeah.
I remember when the Ebola scare was going on and they would do that.
It would be shit like that too, where they'd be like, you know, it's like the first case of Ebola in New York City.
And you're like, oh my God, who has it?
And you're like, oh, she's a nurse who just got back from, you know, West Africa.
Quit helping people.
Don't treat people in third world countries.
Stay here where it's safe.
But it weirdly does make you like a lot less scared.
You're like, oh, oh, okay.
Well, so like, I'm not really at risk here.
I mean, I'm not going and helping anybody in Africa.
So I guess the message is don't do that, you know?
And the same thing with the person from Iran.
You're like, okay, so, but like, if I steer clear of Iran, that's then I'm pretty much okay.
Because I wasn't planning on going this year.
I was actually going to take a year off of Iran.
I try and be not helpful year-round.
So I never like, you know, I'm never like in a groove to go and help people in that way.
Well, it's a good plan because you never know when something's going to, you know, break out, outbreak, whatever.
I don't know.
Are you scared of Ebola?
I know you felt like Ebola.
Are you scared of coronavirus?
I know you said last week you did a podcast on it.
It was freaking you out a little bit.
I just, the news reports are so like all over the place.
And I just haven't seen enough data to suggest that it's extremely deadly.
Yeah.
So until I see that, I'm just not that spooked about it.
I can handle the flu.
Yeah, I find it so hard to get like someone to just break this down accurately and give me like an honest like, okay, but compare to other things.
Did I say this last week?
Maybe I said this last episode or whatever, but it's like if you didn't know what the flu was and someone just started describing the flu, you'd freak the fuck out.
You'd be like, holy shit.
You're telling me like tens of thousands of people die from this thing and there's going to be hundreds of thousands of people hospitalized from it and you can get its airborne and blah, all this.
But then like when you know it, you're like, oh yeah, that's right.
Desperate Democratic Establishment00:15:52
It's just a thing.
Life goes on.
I will say I'm generally speaking a bit of a germaphobe and I'm being like extra germaphobic.
Like now I really just won't take the subway.
I'm like, I'm not taking the fucking subway.
Also, I was in a locker room the other day and you become like really aware of how gross just human beings are.
You're like, I don't want to be around these dudes at all.
Yeah.
And that guy's clearly got eczema.
He should just stay home.
Yeah, well, you can't catch eczema, though, can you?
I don't know, but you just don't want to be around it.
Well, yeah, no, it's gross.
Sorry, whoever out there has it.
I apologize to our eczema listener base.
I know that's probably a lot.
My dad had it for a while.
Just get some remekade.
Yeah, there you go.
Remicade that bitch up.
You'll be fine.
Everything will be fine.
Everything will be fine for everyone.
Except for Mayor Pete Buttstuff and Amy Klobuchar.
Everything will not be fine for you.
Quitters.
Quitters.
Well, let's get into it because we are recording this on Monday.
Tomorrow is Super Tuesday.
Tomorrow's a day that's going to really give us a lot of information about where we're at with the Democratic primary.
But the other day were the South Carolina primaries, and Joe Biden won, and he won big.
He won big.
And it was no question about it.
This was a huge night for Joe Biden.
Do they not know that he's not all there?
You know, you'd have to really not be paying attention at this point to not know that.
But I don't know.
You know, South Carolina, I think, has an older voter, you know, like average voter.
And there's a lot of black voters in South Carolina and the Democratic Party particularly.
And they went with Biden.
And he, listen, this was a, as I said on the last podcast, and I did not, I was surprised.
I didn't, I thought there was a good shot Biden would win.
I didn't think he'd win as big as he did.
But this was do or die for Joe Biden's campaign.
He was done if they didn't take first place in South Carolina.
And really, he needed a big win, and he got it.
So he got what he needed to stay alive.
That's, you know, so it was a big, big night for Joe Biden's campaign.
And now he can try, and he's already trying to.
He's trying to spin himself as like the comeback kid, even though kid and Joe Biden is a little ridiculous.
But he's trying to spin it like, you know, if you've ever been down and then gotten back up, you know, this is your campaign.
And that's, and okay, so that's going to be his angle, you know, at least for the next couple days.
But he's, and, and, you know, he's going to, it's politics, so he's going to try his best, you know, to paint a narrative or to use as much momentum as you can.
It's really a problem for Joe Biden.
It would be much, much better for the campaign if there was at least a week more till Super Tuesday, if he got to sit on this and fundraise off this and kind of let it sink in, let the narrative build a little bit.
The problem is he pretty much gets 48 hours and then we're right back into like, you know, whatever, I think 12 more primaries or something like that and really big ones like California and Texas and all these others.
And, you know, it's like it's tough to keep that as the narrative through all of that.
But no question, it was a big, big win for Joe Biden.
That, you know, the truth is that at this point, I think the race, the dynamic in the race has shifted a little bit where people have now realized nothing really changed with the dynamic of Bernie Sanders being the frontrunner.
What did change is who his competition is.
And it now seems like it's pretty much a one-on-one.
It's Bernie Sanders versus Joe Biden.
And the big difference was that it looks like the Bloomberg thing has kind of fizzled.
Now, he's got enough money that he can stay in it.
He can spend a lot of money.
But the establishment hope that Bloomberg would jump in and become the guy who could, you know, like unite the party around him, that seems to be almost completely gone.
It's just not reflected in the polls.
For the amount of money he's spending, he's getting basically nothing.
I think he still has zero delegates at this point.
Seems he's not looking good in Super Tuesday.
So it just seems like that was that, you know, which I must say, it really says something about how desperate people were in the Democratic establishment that they even thought that Bloomberg could possibly be the guy.
I mean, I remember saying it first way back when, when it was first floated out there that he was going to run and me and you were talking about it.
And I was like, well, how is this possibly?
I mean, the guy is like a billionaire, effeminate, short, New York City Jew who was a Republican.
Like, just pick, which one of these disqualifiers do you want to pick there?
That, like, this guy is not going to be your nominee.
And anyway, so it's just that seemed to be, you know, like a big problem.
And then all of the stuff started coming out about, you know, his comments on Stop and Frisk, his NDAs and the stuff with, you know, with women, these, and then his debate performances were just such of abortions.
His debate performances were what he told his pregnant employees to get.
And they were just, you know, and after that, you were like, this is just, this is not going to happen.
So I think that reality has sunk in a little bit.
Joe Biden is alive still, but that's about all you can say for Joe Biden is that he's still alive.
He was, you know, for a guy who was in first place for the vast majority of this whole race.
He's been the frontrunner.
Up until this last month, basically, he was the frontrunner in the Democratic primary, at least in the polls, in the national polls.
And for a guy who was the guy, you know, who's running like he's the guy and he's the most electable or whatever his message is, to be in a situation where you're in the fourth state and you're facing elimination is not a great position to be in.
But he won when he needed to win, and so he's still alive.
So it was a big night for Joe Biden.
What might be more interesting even than that is the dropouts.
So more or less what I think that this race comes down to at this point, and I don't see any other way than this dynamic here.
But you've got basically two possibilities.
And I don't think Joe Biden winning outright is a very realistic possibility.
So basically, it looks like it's either going to be Bernie Sanders wins the nomination outright, or Bernie Sanders is not able to clinch the amount of delegates that he needs, and it goes to a brokered convention.
That seems to be, which has basically been the case for the last few weeks.
But it seems really, when you look at the entirety of the race, we're basically still in that same position, even with that Joe Biden win.
That's, you know, that's the situation.
It's either going to be Bernie Sanders just runs away with this thing or Bernie Sanders wins more votes than anybody else, more delegates than anybody else, but not a majority, not enough to clinch the nomination.
And so we go to a brokered convention.
And I am not sure which one of those two I'm rooting for.
Maybe a brokered convention is the way to go.
Just really watch this shit burn down.
Let the Democratic Party just be destroyed.
It's quite possible.
It's quite possible that the best thing that could happen is that Bernie Sanders gets the most votes and the most delegates, and they try to screw him over, or they do screw him over at the DNC because then you'll just have, you know, the Democratic Party will be fractured, I think, beyond repair.
But we'll see.
And Bernie Sanders will just roll over and take it because that's how Bernie does.
That's how Bernie do.
So shortly after the South Carolina primary, Mayor Pete and Amy Klobuchar dropped out of the race.
I know you were very sad.
You almost didn't come into work today.
We thought both of them had a real shot at this thing.
I don't know where it came from.
You know, I thought they were both in great position.
I thought Pete would do something for those of us with AIDS.
Yeah.
Well, you know, he was my candidate.
He might have.
I mean, he would have if he had had the opportunity, but enough people didn't rally around him.
Isn't it amazing, though?
Just like, again, I'm always almost baffled by how bad the vast majority of political commentary is in this country.
And like, particularly the ones that are supposed to be the best, like the corporate media.
They're just the absolute worst.
But isn't it crazy that no more than, I don't know, two weeks ago, if you had turned into CNN or MSNBC or you read the New York Times, they'd be telling you that Pete and Amy both have legitimate shots at this thing.
Like that would be their take right after Iowa or New Hampshire.
They'd be like, oh, wow, great showing by Mayor Pete.
He's really got some energy now.
Ooh, look at Amy Klobuchar, like a surprise third place in New Hampshire or whatever.
Oh, this looks really good.
Like she's doing great.
Oh, look at what she did in Nevada.
Like this is way better than we thought.
You know, she's the real winner of the night is Amy Klobuchar.
A couple of weeks later, she's out.
It's like, why are you just not being honest with people and just saying what we said on the show?
You go, she has no chance.
I've been saying this since the Iowa primary, when Mayor Pete won, kind of, but when he got the, you know, the most delegates, I was like, oh, okay, but here's the thing.
He has no chance.
There's no chance he's the nominee.
It's obvious.
Sorry.
Didn't she say she was going to stick in it till the end?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, I guess that's a fundraising thing.
Yeah.
And you get more money for your Senate run.
Well, you kind of have to be like, you know, I'm not, there's no thought of me dropping out if anyone of you guys are worried about me because then your support, it's not just fundraising.
It's also your supporters.
Like people don't want to vote for someone they know is going to lose or they know is going to drop out.
How often does it happen with Pete that he won Iowa and then was like, you know, the next to drop?
That probably doesn't happen that often.
Yeah, I don't know.
You know, I'd have to go back and look.
It's probably not that often.
But it's not, you know, it's not, there are, there are campaigns that will, that are long shots and don't have much national traction.
So they put like all of their resources into the early states because they're hoping that, okay, I get this win and then the momentum will change and then everything will domino from there.
So I don't know.
First place and then dropping out is kind of rare, I think.
But it's not that crazy that people have good showings in Iowa, New Hampshire, and then basically fall apart.
But again, it was just, it was obvious.
I mean, for many, many reasons.
It was obvious neither of them were going to be factors.
But it was, you know, it's like amazing that there were so many people in the media who would just pretend.
And they've been doing it the whole time, the whole time.
I mean, with candidates like Beto O'Rourke and Kamala Harris, and this is like, we're just, it's just make-believe.
They're literally just selling you, you know, it's like, don't pay attention to the man behind the curtain.
Like, we're just telling you what reality is.
And then you look over and you're like, yeah, no, this is not true at all.
And it's so obvious.
I mean, for anyone to just look at this with a critical eye, you could have been like right away.
It's like, no, I'm sorry.
race is between you know it's between basically bernie biden and and then there's a reason to say well bloomberg can spend billions of dollars so they get on a couple days later they apologize for their errors they say we made some mistakes in the last two years in the reporting and we've wasted a lot of your time and i just want to acknowledge being wrong and that we're going to be better and you can still watch us for news and insights no well the the interesting thing about it right is that um They right, of course, none of that happens.
But then they switch to this other narrative, which is also kind of revealing.
And I'm sure a lot of you guys saw this in everything that's been written about Mayor Pete leaving the race.
And it's interesting, this happened with Kamala Harris.
It was like as soon as she left, Corey Booker.
So they don't, you know what, I'll actually say, I remember with Barack Obama, that this was a big thing that Barack Obama did not run much.
And this is in 2008.
He didn't really run on being the first black president.
He didn't talk about it all that much during the campaign.
There was one point where he gave one speech on race.
And it was after the Jeremiah Wright scandal broke and people were like linking him to the, you know, he, well, not people were linking him.
He was linked.
I mean, so do you remember who Jeremiah Wright was?
So he was Barack Obama's pastor.
And he was in his church for a very long time.
This was the guy who married him and Michelle Obama and they were a part of this guy's church.
It's like a big black church in Chicago.
And he was like a wild guy, kind of an interesting guy.
But he would say like wild shit.
Like he was a real like, like hated white people, hated America.
That was his priest, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So he, you know, was like on tape saying all these things.
You know, there's like, and it's, he's like a black preacher.
So he has this like crazy, you know, like, he's like, they say, God bless America.
God damn America.
And he would say that the government created AIDS and sent it into the black community.
And there's a real conspiracy theorists.
At one point, he said, they asked him, like, after Obama was president for like a year or something like that, or in the first year, and they asked him if he had seen Obama since Obama's been president.
And he just said to the cameras, he goes, those Jews won't let me anywhere near Obama.
Like he's that guy, you know?
That's great.
Yeah.
He's fun.
Yeah, exactly.
He's fun.
But so when some of these tapes started coming out, it was like a whole scandal and Obama gave a speech about race relations.
It was a very Obama move.
Instead of like addressing the scandal, he just started pontificating about the history of race and everything and like lecturing.
Like this is what Obama would do.
You know, like, okay, well, I'll take this as a moment to teach America about race relations rather than just being like, no, but you're connected to this guy.
So what do you think of that?
You know, like you're the one who should be on trial here, not America.
But anyway, so he gave that one speech, but he didn't really focus on race that much.
He really didn't.
He to his credit, I suppose.
He focused on policy.
He focused on, you know, vague, you know, he was kind of like Mayor Pete was, you know, in many ways, like ripping off Obama.
He was just a much better version of that.
He would say empty political platitudes, but he would say them in a way that sounded like a genuine person.
And he was incredibly eloquent, you know.
But it was all kind of like hope and change and yes, we can and, you know, a lot of vague shit.
And then some decent policy stuff mixed in there with it.
But once he won, it was almost like the illusion came off.
And I remember being even kind of like disillusioned with the whole thing.
Obama's Disillusionment00:04:52
Like when he won, all the coverage was about the first black president winning.
And even his like own speech was like, change has come.
History has been made.
This is a transformational moment for the country.
And, you know, like, and it was all, and you were like, oh, so now that the race is over, we kind of find out that that's really what this was all about.
Like, this was about you being the first black president.
And it's just weird because like you didn't talk about this a lot.
So the same with Kamala Harris.
She would talk all about her experience as a prosecutor in the Senate, how she's going to prosecute Donald Trump and all these things.
And but as soon as she was out of the race, all the coverage was like, well, now there's no woman of color in the race.
Even though people would be like, oh, there's Tulsi Gabbard over here.
And they're like, shut up.
She's anti-war.
We're talking about a real woman of color, you know, who's an establishment hack.
But it's like, oh, well, you weren't, you're like, you weren't so clear with that when she was in the race that that's what it was about.
Like that, well, she's a woman of color.
I thought it was all these other great qualities about her.
But as soon as she's gone, you're like, shit, there was our black chick, you know?
And you're like, oh, okay, so that's kind of what it was all about.
And with Mayor Pete, it's been really revealing how much all of the coverage was about his historic campaign.
And it's all about the fact that he was an openly gay guy.
And there's like, well, you know, like all these other, you know, like gay kids out there now feel more comfortable to be out of the closet and all of these things.
And it's just strange because it's like, well, Mayor Pete never seemed to really bring that up.
It didn't seem like that's what he was running on.
He was running on being an openly gay guy.
I mean, that, I'm not to say he never brought it up.
Maybe he did, but it certainly wasn't like what he would talk about.
That was never like one of the issues.
But as soon as he's gone, we're like, oh, that's what his contribution was.
That's why this was a heroic campaign.
That's what was so great about this.
It's just very strange.
It's like, can't you just be straightforward about this and admit it while the campaign's still going on?
Why does it have to wait till it's over?
So we can talk about what you liked about Mayor Pete, but stuff.
Anyway.
Bring a rainbow flag.
Be transparent.
Yeah, you're going to do it.
Go all in, bruh.
Yeah.
Get all the ladies out there with their tits out.
That's the funnest part of the gay pride parade.
The tits.
Yeah.
And those gays are just walking around.
They don't even know what to do with them.
Get these things out of my face.
Yeah.
Well, the straight people, like the women, they won't let them just have their gay day.
They're like, I'm going to go out there and be sexual too.
Yeah.
And I would just imagine if you're a gay dude, you don't appreciate that much.
Don't ruin our day with your gross, gross tits.
Yeah, we're like, we're trying to have our moment here and show off our buttholes.
And you're out here with your tits distracting all the straight guys we're trying to attract.
It's really disrespectful to the gays.
And if anyone knows anything about me, I simply, I won't put up with that.
Nope.
I will not.
Bring back Pete.
Cure the AIDS.
Bring back Pete.
Cure the AIDS.
There you go.
We're starting a grassroots movement.
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Mayor Pete Drops Out00:15:14
So, anyway, Mayor Pete dropped out.
This was an obvious, you know, a campaign that couldn't possibly work.
And it is interesting why his campaign failed and didn't pick up any traction at all.
And I think there's a few different elements to it.
You know, as we've mentioned before on the show, Mayor Pete had no justification for running for president.
He put up lights and parks.
Well, I got that from one of the debates.
That's true.
He did.
And he fired a lot of black people.
Well, yeah, I also got that.
This is all from a Joe Biden ad, I'm pretty sure.
It was a Joe Biden attack ad, but me and Rob were actually fairly impressed with the content.
We're like, whoa, this guy puts up lights.
He fires black people.
It sounds awesome.
What's the problem?
Why are you being such a dick, Biden?
I love this guy, sounds great.
But, but so he, but look, what Mayor Pete, you know, like he was a mayor of a very small town.
You know, this was a weird or small city, I should say, technically.
But if you're a New Yorker like me, we don't really consider South Bend a city.
But it's, you know, whatever.
It's just, it was quite a leap to go from that to running for president.
I mean, maybe from that to running for governor or, you know, or something, but I think he did and lost.
But anyway, so it was kind of crazy.
But he, what, what Mayor Pete was, what he went after was something that I think is just not, it's just not the moment in America right now for what he was bringing to the table.
And in the same way that you can imagine, right?
Like imagine if Donald Trump had run for president in the year 2000 or even in the year 2008 with the exact same campaign.
I mean, imagine he was running on like just the way he is.
You could see it just crashing and burning.
Like, no, it was 2016 was like the right time where the voters were open to hearing that message, you know?
And to me, it also seems like a guy like Mayor Pete, maybe if not openly gay, but just everything else about his campaign, maybe in the 90s or the 80s or the 70s, this guy, you'd look at him and go, oh, yeah, he would have been like a really successful politician.
I mean, he's certainly like, he's got all of the answers memorized.
He doesn't stutter when he speaks.
He delivers everything like a politician.
He's got that political robotic thing down.
But that does not seem to be what people are drawn to in the current moment.
People really seem to be craving authenticity.
And I think that's part of the reason why Donald Trump is president.
It's just part of it.
You know, say whatever you will about Donald Trump.
Even when he's not being honest, there is something authentic about Donald Trump.
Like, that is him.
He's, if there's one thing everybody who loves Trump and hates him and anywhere in the middle has to agree is that Donald Trump is not attempting to be something else.
He's come home to dinner and go, This is terrible.
Okay, I hate it.
It's the worst thing I ever had.
Yeah, but he's there's just he's not like any other person.
I mean, he doesn't look like them, he doesn't dress like them, he doesn't walk like them, his skin isn't like them, his hair isn't like them.
Like, he's just not like other people, he's his own thing, and he doubles down on that.
Like, this is what I am.
And I think there was something about that that rang out as authentic.
I remember talking about this all the time in 2016.
One of the things that was so interesting about Donald Trump, and I talked about this a lot in my stand-up comedy special, Libertas, available at gasdigitalnetwork.com if you haven't gotten it already.
But there was just something, it was such a contrast, not just physically, like he looks different than everybody else, but every other politician was like a politician.
And then there's Trump, and it's just this weird dynamic where like these there are these guys who like you know wear suits and they you know they do this things, you know, just the things politicians do, like the way they speak, the way they move, the way they talk.
You know, I met a grandmother in South Bend, Indiana the other day, and she's struggling to pay her pharmaceutical bills.
She had no legs, you know, Rose, this one's for you, you know, and like all these things they do.
And then there's just Trump, who just like, you know, doesn't care.
And they'd be like, you've said horrible things about women.
And he's like, only Rosie O'Donnell.
You know, like, it's just this, holy shit, what?
Like, that's just different.
And it's, it's like, in some ways, a breach of fresh, a breath of fresh air.
You know, like, in some ways, if you're if you're tired of these stuffy suits, there's something new and exciting about him.
And to some degree, Bernie Sanders has a little bit of that thing too.
Like, he doesn't speak like a politician.
He's disheveled and he doesn't care.
And he says different things than everybody else says.
And that seems to be more what is attracting voters right now.
And the Mayor Pete thing, where he would just kind of, you know, it was almost an Obama impression kind of thing that he was doing, but he would kind of say these empty platitudes and very, you know, proper, like rehearsed, you know, lines and just wasn't gripping people.
And there's the, you know, there's something interesting about that in the moment we're in.
And Amy Klobuchar just tried to run on like this kind of like, well, I'm the reasonable, moderate establishment type and I can get things done.
And it's just nothing.
Just didn't do anything for anybody.
So they both dropped out.
Tom Styre also dropped out of the race.
But we can file that in the Who the Fuck Cares bin of history.
But it is interesting that going into Super Tuesday, this race is thinning out quite a bit already.
So three people who were on the debate stage last time, all out, all out of the race.
So another interesting dynamic, and maybe the most interesting, is that there is, you know, what happened, like, as I've said for the last couple weeks, no, really, I've been saying this all year, but what happened to the Republicans in 2016 is in many ways happening to the Democrats in 2020 with the Trump, the Trump movement, and now the Bernie Sanders movement.
And a lot of, you know, like there is the Democratic establishment and there's the Republican establishment, but as most people who are paying attention know, they're really kind of all the same thing.
It's all the establishment.
They kind of are two birds, two wings of the same bird or whatever.
But it seems like maybe they're like, like now they're preparing to deal with this.
And it's a slightly different animal than Donald Trump was.
And it does seem to me like they're making an attempt to do something that the Republicans weren't able to do at this point.
So, what they're doing now is that Mayor Pete and A.B. Klobuchar have both come out.
I don't know if they've themselves come out, but their campaigns have basically come out and say they're both going to endorse Joe Biden.
So, they're both coming out and endorsing Joe Biden.
It's like they're realizing now that we need to unify around the only guy who's got a chance to stop Bernie Sanders.
Now, I don't think he really has much of a realistic chance to beat Bernie Sanders in the race, but theoretically, if Joe Biden does have a comeback and a resurgence to his campaign, he could stop Bernie Sanders from clinching the nomination and force it to a contested convention.
And at this point, I think if your establishment, you know, the big donors, the media class, the, you know, like kind of ruling elite, you realize this isn't helping us any to just have Klobuchar and Mayor Pete splitting off the kind of like establishment vote.
We need them out and throwing their support behind Joe Biden.
So it helps Joe Biden in the sense that he doesn't have competition with these guys now, but it hurts him, or it doesn't hurt him, but it helps him, but it doesn't help him that much because unfortunately, they don't have that much support to throw behind Joe Biden.
That's why they're dropping out of the race because they don't really actually have that much support.
So it's not clear how much of a factor this is going to be.
Another very interesting development is that, you know, so like Elizabeth Warren, who was being discussed as a serious contender months ago, but then her campaign basically imploded.
And of course, as everybody knows, you know, Mayor Pete and Amy Klobuchar were being talked about just a few weeks ago.
Like, oh, look, they have a shot now.
And now they're out of the race.
So you might assume, well, I guess Elizabeth Warren's got to drop out of the race too, right?
I mean, those two were doing better or at least as good as her.
Amy Klobuchar and her were basically tied so far.
And Pete was doing better than her.
And she's had like terrible finishes so far.
She's been in like fourth and fifth place in just about every one of these early voting states.
So you might have thought maybe Elizabeth Warren's going to drop out.
But you would have been wrong.
And there's actually something very interesting in this.
So let's go.
We're going to play the video of the speech that Elizabeth Warren gave after the South Carolina primary results.
Women that pretend to be Indians are very resilient.
Yeah, they sure are.
They really hold on to things.
Yeah, she still won't even admit she's not an Indian.
She's not giving up for nothing.
You almost got to respect it.
From South Carolina are coming in.
And I want to say congratulations to Vice President Biden.
I will be the first to say that the first four contests haven't gone exactly as I'd hoped.
If you want to change the outcome in the next contest, go to ElizabethWarren.com, chip in now, get involved.
Super TC is three days away.
We want to gain as many delegates to the convention as we can from California to right here in Texas.
So pause it right there.
You know, in there.
Pause there.
Already, it's just, this is interesting, right?
You got Amy Klobuchar, who's done as well as Elizabeth Warren so far.
She looks at the numbers and goes, I'm out.
There's no way you can win with this.
Mayor Pete, who's done substantially better, has substantially more delegates than her.
One Iowa, you know, no question has done better than her so far.
He looks at it, goes, there's no path to the nomination from this.
I got to get out.
Here's the difference.
I think somebody in the party tells both of them, hey, it's not your time.
We'll get behind you on the next one.
Well, this is what you have to pay attention to, right?
This is the whole game here.
So you have the moderates dropping out and supporting Biden.
Then you have the progressive Elizabeth Warren.
What does she come out and do?
Who's done worse than those two moderates?
And what does she come out and do?
She goes, hey, go to ElizabethWarren.com and send me money right now.
We need more delegates to take them all the way to the convention.
They're all fighting for the same thing, which is a brokered convention, which is against Bernie Sanders.
See, she's still staying in the race because she, listen, right now, trending on fucking Twitter, and this is a somewhat organic thing.
I mean, I know Twitter, like, you know, it can affect the fucking trending shit.
But right now, trending on fucking Twitter is hashtag Warren2Bernie.
There's a whole bunch of Bernie supporters who are like, hey, all you Warren supporters, get on the train here.
You're a progressive, right?
Well, this is the only progressive option, which, by the way, is the thing that makes sense.
So if Elizabeth Warren drops out of the race now, who does that help?
Bernie.
It's a huge win for Bernie.
So everyone just happens, just like it just so happens.
I'm sure it's a coincidence.
You don't want to be a conspiracy theorist or anything like that.
It just happens that the entire media is trying to ruin Bernie Sanders, that Hillary Clinton is coming out and trying to ruin Bernie Sanders, that the CIA is leaking stuff to the Washington Post to try to ruin Bernie Sanders.
And it just so happens that all of the candidates who drop out or stay in are aimed at hurting Bernie Sanders.
It's just a lot of coincidences go on, but you wouldn't want to be conspiratorial about any of this shit.
But there's the message right from Elizabeth Warren.
She goes, hey, just so you know, I'm staying in this all the way to the end.
Keep giving me money.
Keep giving me support.
Because who is her main competition?
Just by existing, right?
Now, she is taking shots at everybody because that's how, you know, that's how this works.
It's the only way you can keep those votes.
You know what I mean?
And some of the progressive votes from Bernie is you have to take shots at the establishment too.
But just notice, like, who's she really taking shots at?
Who's Elizabeth Warren going hard at?
Bloomberg.
That's the guy she's really taking on, right?
Like, trying to get him the fuck out of here.
Just all seems like the establishment is now coalescing around Biden because they realize he's the guy.
There's more.
Let's play more from this Elizabeth Warren video.
You know, it may take days or even longer to know the full results from Super Tuesday, but they will be critical in sorting out who our nominee will be this year.
My campaign is built for the long haul, and we are looking forward to these big contests.
Be jolly, cheer this one out here.
With fears of an economic crisis and recession rising, with fears of a global pandemic rising, Americans must ask themselves, who do you actually trust to run this government?
Donald Trump has already shown he is not up to the task.
So let's talk about who Democrats should nominate.
Who Do You Trust00:15:56
Now, I'm going to be blunt here.
This crisis demands more than a billionaire mayor who believes that since he's rich enough to buy network airtime to pretend he's the president, that entitles him to be the president.
A mayor whose track record has shown that he'll govern to protect himself and his rich friends over everyone else.
That's a no.
All right, so now pause it there.
So just, I just want to be clear because she's going to go through her indictments of the three candidates who are in the race.
Now that is a damning indictment, right?
Like that's damning.
Okay, you are a mayor, a billionaire who bought his way into this.
You think because you have money, you're entitled to just play president on TV and then you can actually be president?
And we know as president that you would just protect your billionaire friends and you wouldn't do anything for the American people.
That is what you would call a damning indictment.
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This crisis demands more than a former vice president who is so eager to cut deals with Mitch McConnell and the Republicans that he'll trade good ideas for bad ones.
And this crisis...
Pause it there.
No, no, I'm just saying, do you notice a little bit of a difference in the severity of the criticism there?
You know, Joe Biden is a little too willing to make deals with the other side.
Sometimes he doesn't make the best deals.
And he didn't get the sassy...
That's a no.
Yeah, right.
Like, I mean, it was like damning indictment of Bloomberg.
I think Biden's a little too moderate.
That's her indictment of him.
Now, let's continue to play.
Demands more than a senator who has good ideas, but whose 30-year track record shows he consistently calls for things that fail to get done and consistently opposing things that nevertheless he fails to stop.
I've said many times, and I believe, that any of the Democrats running would be a better president than Donald Trump.
Can I have an amen on that?
And that is still true.
But this crisis is a reminder that this primary isn't game.
We are picking a president and we need someone whose core values can be trusted, who has a plan for how to govern and who can actually get it done.
So there you go.
It's a pitch to, it's like, look, Bernie Sanders is, so he's got good ideas, but he can't get it done, but I can.
So you have damning indictment of Michael Bloomberg.
He basically needs to be out of the race.
Kid gloves with Joe Biden.
And then a very interesting criticism of Bernie Sanders, which is basically like, oh, he's got these good ideas, but I'm the only one who can get these good ideas done.
So Bernie Sanders supporters should really be supporting her.
Just saying her staying in the race seems to also be helping Joe Biden.
It seems to also be helping.
And again, keep in mind what I said before.
There isn't really a path for Joe Biden.
It's just Bernie Sanders versus Bernie Sanders not securing the nomination.
You think she got the VP pitch or Secretary of State pitch?
What do you think they offered her?
Well, I don't know, but I think that, you know, Elizabeth Warren, you got to remember who Elizabeth Warren is, right?
If she, and I'll just remind you guys this, I know I mentioned this before on the show, but I found this really interesting.
When I was at the that NYU auditorium where when Gene Epstein debated Richard Wolf and debated the pants off of that.
I saw 750,000 views on YouTube.
Yeah, it's black.
It's blown up.
Yeah, it's great.
And Gene just, I mean, I think just demolished him in that debate.
But there was, you know, it was a room full of probably at least half, maybe more, were socialists, communists.
I mean, like, like legit, like, you know, not like stinky breath, the real thing.
All that, all that good stuff.
And I, I, you know, I talked about it when I did stand-up at the beginning.
And then I talked to just like some of the people there during and after the event, before, during and after.
And I asked a bunch of them about Elizabeth Warren, and they just had no love for her.
And I asked about Bernie Sanders, and they were like losing their minds.
They were soaking their dirty panties for Bernie Sanders.
And there was something interesting just kind of, you know, because you almost go like, I was like, well, I mean, you know, Elizabeth Warren's really, especially at the time, you were like, she's basically running on all the same proposals that Bernie Sanders is.
I mean, she's right.
Like, why wouldn't you like her too?
I mean, she's running on Medicare for all at the time, you know, Medicare for all and a wealth tax and free college tuition and abolishing student loan debt and all this stuff.
Like all those, all those things.
It's a patriarchy, man.
It's the built-in love for aggressive Jews.
Well, that is true.
That is a real thing.
It's programmed into all of us and we have to work on that.
I myself have to wake up every morning and think about that.
Stop loving aggressive Jews.
Still doesn't work.
But there was something interesting about how they wouldn't, they just didn't trust her.
And I think they kind of knew.
They were like, and I think they were right.
I think they could just smell it on her.
It's almost like they just like, yeah, she's not one of us.
She's claiming to be, but she's not.
And those guys, those hardcore socialists, they're right.
They're right to like smell that on her.
She's not, you know, Elizabeth Warren, if she really cared about all of these ideas, right?
Like if she's really who she claims to be, an Indian.
No, a progressive, you know, if she really cares about a wealth tax and free college and, you know, abolishing student loan debt and raising the minimum wage and Medicare for all and all the things that she's claimed she cares about her whole career, she would love the Bernie Sanders moment.
I mean, come on, like, let's get, let's get real.
You've got right now, the guy who really represents all of those views is the frontrunner.
He's got a real shot to clinch the nomination.
Now, if you really believed in all of these views, you would go, I'm dropping out and I'm throwing my support behind Bernie Sanders.
That would be the obvious move for Elizabeth Warren if she was what she claims to be.
And instead, she's sitting here taking shots at Bernie Sanders and vowing to take this thing all the way to the convention.
I mean, that's what she, she said it.
She's not even like being cryptic about it.
She goes, this campaign is built for the long run and I need as many delegates to take to the convention as I can get on Super Tuesday.
Now go send me money.
You know, like that's, this is her message.
Now, back in 2016, Elizabeth Warren was somebody who was somewhat respected in this progressive area.
And she could have come out and endorsed Bernie Sanders and really, you know, like kind of helped his campaign a lot.
And she didn't.
She endorsed Hillary Clinton.
And I think that's a big part of what these socialists smell on her.
Like they're like, no, don't, don't give me this bullshit.
You're of the establishment.
You're not with us.
You're with the establishment.
I remember as a libertarian, I remember back in like 2008, 2012 more particularly.
But after, because 2012, you remember like 2010, there was the Tea Party movement.
So there was in by the 2012 presidential race, there was kind of like the popular wind was like this like small government, you know, debt's getting out of control, taxes are out of control, all this type of stuff.
Cause this is when, you know, people cared about that stuff.
It's really unfortunate they don't seem to anymore.
But that, that was like a big, and so there'd be a lot of all of a sudden these Republicans who were like riding this, you know, yeah, we want small government stuff.
But you'd kind of just look at them and be like, yeah, I don't, I don't trust you.
All of these guys started getting on this trend.
You know, you had these like Paul Ryan and Rick Santorum and all these guys.
And they'd be like, yeah, I'm a hardcore small government guy.
But then you'd like see in their voting record, you'd be like, yeah, but you voted for like, you know, whatever, the bank bailouts and the no child left behind and the wars and all this.
Like, you're not a small government guy at all.
It's just sometimes you can just smell on these people.
You're like, I don't fucking trust you.
I know you're full of shit.
And then there'd be the more people, you know, the people who you're like, okay, that guy is authentic.
Like he really means it.
You know, there's like, there's those guys and then there's like Thomas Massey or someone like that who you're like, yeah, that guy's actually for small government.
Like he's really, he believes what he's saying.
And I think they just smell on Elizabeth Warren that she doesn't mean that shit.
And she doesn't.
She doesn't.
There's no reason why if Elizabeth Warren was really this progressive that she claims to be, she wouldn't be supporting Bernie Sanders right now.
Sorry, right now's the moment.
If you're a true progressive or a Democratic socialist or anything like that, if you want to see those five things that Bernie Sanders mentions every time he opens his fucking mouth, you know, healthcare is a human right, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, abolishing student loan debt, you know, all the stuff he says every single time.
If you believe that, well, now's your moment.
Now's your moment when this guy is actually the frontrunner in the Democratic campaign.
And tomorrow on fucking Tuesday could have a day that changes the course of American history.
And I'm not exaggerating when I say that.
Bernie Sanders has a huge fucking day tomorrow.
This could change a lot about the country.
And in this moment, you're coming out to take shots at him.
And what is your, what is the line of argument?
Like, it's also such a we listen.
There's a million arguments to pick apart about Bernie Sanders that, you know, we've done plenty in the past.
Well, I have a feeling we're going to do a lot more in the future.
Like there's a lot of real problems with Bernie Sanders.
But this argument is the weakest of all of them.
He's got good ideas, but he can't get them done.
That's the argument from a progressive like Elizabeth Warren, who's advocating a wealth tax and universal health care and all these other things.
It's like, well, yeah, I mean, you haven't gotten any of that done.
What have you gotten done?
What type of argument is that?
Like, I remember they used to say the same thing about Ron Paul.
when he was running.
That'd be like a criticism of him.
They're like, well, what's his signature piece of legislation?
Like, well, right.
No, he wasn't for any of the legislation that passed.
So yeah, he wasn't, he doesn't have one.
And it would be like, well, he was like Dr. No.
I mean, he's voting no on these bills that everyone else in the Congress is voting for.
It's like, right.
And that's what he's running on.
Everyone else was wrong.
This whole system is wrong.
If Bernie Sanders is running on this whole system is corrupt, then it's really not a knock on him to say, yeah, but you haven't been working with the system to get all this stuff done.
It's like, yeah, that's his point.
He doesn't want to.
He doesn't want to be a part of this.
He's trying to work up popular support so, you know, like he can get it done that way.
I don't know.
I just find this to be like such a weak criticism, but it's interesting to see her vow to take this thing all the way to the end.
You know, the real, the problem, you know, it's almost like, because we've done almost like a eulogy for Mayor Pete and for Amy Klobuchar and Tom Steyer, I guess didn't really get one, but here, Tom Steyer was here.
He was a billionaire.
I don't know what he stood for, and this was probably a waste of time and money.
There's his eulogy.
But I almost want to do one for Elizabeth Warren.
Because Elizabeth Warren, if you do remember, I mean, she didn't drop out.
She should have.
But Elizabeth Warren was being talked about as a serious candidate for a little while there.
And so you almost wonder why.
Well, what happened?
What happened to Elizabeth Warren?
Why did she fail as a candidate?
And I actually think the answer is like pretty obvious.
And it's not just that like her plans sucked.
I mean, she had a problem.
When she unveiled the health care plan and all that shit, that was definitely a big problem for her.
Her polls like went down right around that time.
But the major problem that Elizabeth Warren has, it's actually, you remember at the beginning, I said Elizabeth Warren is just dead before she even starts because she's a fake Indian.
And so there's just no way she can win.
I actually thought the fake Indian thing would have been more of a problem for her throughout the primary, but it didn't really end up being.
Nobody brought it up.
Nobody used it.
Don't get me wrong.
Had she have won, it would have been a major problem for her in the general election.
No question about that.
But it's not so much that her being a fake Indian was the problem, was what ruined her campaign.
It's that she was the type of person who would be a fake Indian.
That's the problem with Elizabeth Warren, that she is phony down to her core.
Everything about her is just fake and bullshit.
She's got nothing.
She's completely inauthentic.
She claims to be this fucking progressive who has these values.
She doesn't.
She doesn't have shit.
She claims to be like, oh, I won't take any money from billionaires or any of this shit.
Yet she did take money from billionaires for her Senate campaign and then funneled that money into her presidential campaign.
Oh, and by the way, now she's taking money from billionaires again.
Now that she's desperate, she went back on that and now she's willing to take money from them.
She had nothing.
She pretended to be this Bernie Sanders ally.
Then she tried to throw him under the bus as soon as she can.
Then she fell back on this like just pathetic, like wokeism nonsense.
You know, like everything was about her being a woman, you're sexist, the thing she tweeted, black trans women are the backbone of our country.
Elizabeth Warren's Inauthenticity00:11:00
It's just, what?
Just let me just pander, be as phony, as insincere as possible.
That was Elizabeth Warren's whole campaign.
And this is why people didn't, you know, launch on, latch on, rather.
So anyway, she's refusing to drop out.
As I said, Warren to Bernie is trending.
And even if she doesn't drop out, I got to say, I think there's a pretty good shot that the Warren to Bernie phenomenon is going to happen either way.
That, that is a real disaster for the establishment who are hoping to are hoping to deny Bernie Sanders the nomination somehow.
That's like a real problem.
Yeah, it's trending right now as Warren endorsed Bernie.
And this is a different one, a different hashtag.
Warren endorsed Bernie.
Now it's just all these people asking Warren to please endorse Bernie Sanders.
But look, she's not going to do it.
She's not going to do it.
She didn't do it in 2016, and she's not doing it now.
This is the moment.
Like, if you were going to do it, this is the moment, right?
Right before Super Tuesday, you know you have no path to victory.
You believe in these ideas.
You drop out.
You endorse.
You throw your support behind Bernie Sanders.
And she is still relevant enough that throwing all of her support behind Bernie Sanders would make a big difference.
So think about it that way.
And then think about how Amy and Pete drop out, endorse Biden.
Warren stays in and attacks Bernie.
Seems like they're doing everything they can.
Seems like they're trying.
I don't know.
What are you going to miss about Elizabeth Warren when she finally does drop out?
What do you miss the most?
The grandma talk.
I don't know.
She should just show up to these events with cookies, dress more like Mother Goose, show up with like an apron on and two things and a tray of like sugar cookies, and then she'd get our attention.
Maybe some oatmeal raisins.
It is.
But she turned it on at the end, man.
Nasty bitch Elizabeth Warren's kind of fun.
Like, I like lawyer Elizabeth Warren.
When she goes after people, it was the Miss Nice Grandma pants that was all boring.
So I liked watching her make Mike Bloomberg squirm and giving Bernie Sanders shit, throwing a curveball here and there.
I actually agree with you.
She made the last couple debates more entertaining.
There's something about, man, the way she goes after Mike Bloomberg is just, whew, that is really something.
So yeah, that might be fun.
Now, let me ask you this.
I think between Bernie Sanders and Biden, Bernie would actually have more of a chance of the two of them winning.
But I think Biden will be the more entertaining because we're just going to be able to watch that guy fumble and crumble.
There's no question that the most entertaining result is whatever keeps Joe Biden in the race longer because the guy is, I mean, I've never seen a politician quite like it.
The guy cannot, he can't give a five-minute speech without something coming out of his mouth where you're like jaw drops and you're like, holy shit.
Is that possible?
Oh, Brian, try to pull up Joe Biden quotes Declaration of Independence.
See if you can see this.
Let's say Biden.
You don't choose your Secretary of State or any of those people until you actually get in, right?
The one person you choose before in his VP?
You choose the VP before the general election.
I think usually you're the VP like right toward the end of the primary.
But the cabinet, I think a lot of times you pick after the election before you get in.
Maybe not all of them, but you got to have those people ready to go.
Right.
When you get in.
Did you find the Joe Biden thing or is it not coming up?
I have a best of the vice president's Biden-isms.
All right, let's play this.
The best of the vice president's Bidenism.
One man stands ready to deliver change we desperately need.
A man I'm proud to call my friend, a man who will be the next president of the United States, Barack America.
Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America.
Quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me.
Look, John's last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number one job facing the middle class.
And it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word.
Jobs.
J-O-B-S.
Jobs.
If we do everything right, we do it with absolute certainty.
We stand up there and we make really tough decisions.
There's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong.
And his mom lived in Long Island for 10 years or so.
God rest her soul.
And although she's, wait, your mom's still alive as your dad passed.
God bless her soul.
Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States of America, Barack Obama.
Obama's.
Jesus Christ.
The timeless advice from Teddy Roosevelt.
Speak softly and carry a big stick.
I promise you, the president has a big stick.
I promise you.
All right.
Yeah, okay.
So to be fair, he's always been this guy, but it's way worse now.
It's in his old age, it's gotten much, much worse.
So yeah, he can't, you know, he can't pull it together.
And the entire media has to pretend that this isn't really happening.
It's kind of like they had to pretend that Hillary Clinton's health wasn't an issue.
And I'm not saying that every conspiracy that was out there online was true.
In fact, lots of them were not.
She couldn't get enough kid blood out on the campaign trail.
Yeah, I mean, but you know, like, I don't even know.
I'm sure she could find the right amount of kid blood.
She was collapsing.
I saw that footage.
Well, it was.
I mean, look, the woman could not stop having coughing fits and she was collapsing like in public.
Now, there's something there.
Now, you could, if, it's almost like if the media was a little bit smarter, and this is really what it all comes down to.
It's the whole dynamic that we work with today is that the media got so old and out of touch and insulated from the real world that they couldn't adjust to the changing dynamics on the ground.
And you see that all over the place, not just in the mainstream media.
It happens with all different groups in society.
But it's almost like they couldn't realize that they didn't have a complete monopoly on the narrative anymore.
And if they did, they could adjust a little bit more.
They could do something like they could, you know, they could say, well, you know, it is a real problem that Hillary Clinton has these coughing fits and that she fainted.
There are legitimate concerns about this, but we don't think it's enough that, you know, she shouldn't be president or something like that.
But instead, what they have to do is just pretend it's not happening.
And it's the same thing with Joe Biden.
They like have to pretend this isn't happening.
And then they're in this ridiculous situation where it's like everyone can see it in front of their eyes and you're telling them not to trust their lying eyes.
And that just makes it very, very difficult.
So you're right.
It will be entertaining if Joe Biden is the nominee.
I am starting to think that there's no way it's either Bernie Sanders or if it goes to a contested convention, I almost think they have to pick someone who's not in the race altogether.
Because you can't, you know, like the Elizabeth Warren hope or something, you can't pick someone who was in the race and just got way less than Bernie Sanders.
That's just going to be a recipe for a disaster.
But I will say, so just to your point, the only other thing that actually might be more entertaining and just more impactful, like entertaining in a way that actually means something, is if they try to steal this from Bernie Sanders at the convention, because you're going to see like a fucking shit show.
It's going to be just an epic level of disaster for the Democrats if Joe, if Bernie Sanders comes out of this thing without enough delegates to clinch it, but as the clear winner, you know, which is probably the most likely scenario right now.
I would say the most likely scenario is Bernie Sanders does excellent on Super Tuesday, is stopped from clinching the nomination ultimately, but is the clear winner of the primaries.
And everybody knows if it was anybody else except Bernie Sanders in that position, they would just declare him the nominee.
But because it's Bernie Sanders, they're going to try to deny him it.
And if they end up denying him the nomination, then that's just, whew, that's going to be a whole different type of shit show.
So I, you know, in some ways I'm rooting for that.
Basically, though, I will say there's no scenario that doesn't have some entertainment value.
And there's no scenario that doesn't have some value in much in the same way that the Donald Trump rise to presidency had some value.
Like in the fact that it exposes a lot about the system.
It provokes the establishment into overextending themselves and revealing themselves in a way.
And that I think is, you know, maybe the best we can hope for right now.
I mean, I'd like to see a real, you know, drastic change to the style of government that we have in America.
You know, I mean, I'd like to see the whole damn thing abolished, but I'd love to see like, you know, a major reduction in the size of the budget and see departments eliminated and things like that.
But it doesn't seem like there's a very obvious path from where we are now to that.
But, you know, if you can't get that, you want to at least get the establishment or the current order to be exposed for what it is.
And I think that is happening a lot.
The thing I'm most optimistic about, like I've said in the last few shows, the thing I'm most optimistic about is just the stuff, the corporate press and the deep state and the party establishment clearly going after Bernie Sanders to ruin him.
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You know, there's this big illusion.
It's like the mythology of democracy that it's like, well, we're all just here working for you and you vote and you tell us what you want.
But then when they rise up and vote for what you don't want, that's when you start finding out that it's like, oh no, that's not actually the deal here.
That's not actually the deal.
We're all here to kind of control what your options are.
And you picked the wrong option.
So now we got to show you how you're wrong.
Remember in Egypt when they had the revolution and they overthrew Mubarak and Barack Obama and Biden and all these guys at the time who were in, they were like, even though We had propped up Mubarak for like 40 years or something like that, you know, even though we had been giving him billions of dollars.
When the revolution happened, they sided with the revolutionaries.
Like as soon as it was clear he was going to fall, it was like, oh, well, we believe in democracy and this is beautiful.
It's the Arab Spring and democracy is sweeping the region.
And then they voted for the Muslim Brotherhood and then they were like, oh, no, I'm sorry.
That's the wrong pick.
And they swept right back in and put the military right back in charge.
And Mubarak was a military dictator.
And then they put the military back in charge.
It was the same fucking government, essentially.
And they went, oh, and we'll continue fucking, we'll continue sending you the money.
And then there were a lot of people who were like, well, wait a minute.
This is kind of like illegal because our whole thing is that you're not allowed to give foreign aid to a fucking military coup that overthrew a democratically elected, you know, government.
And they're like, yeah, no, that's true, but we're going to keep giving them the money because, you know, this is kind of the bribe to be good to Israel.
That's kind of what it's all about.
But anyway, but it's that.
It's right there.
It's like, oh, we love democracy.
We're all about democracy.
You're a threat to democracy.
That makes you an evil person.
If you don't like democracy, you're basically a Nazi.
But if you vote the wrong way, we're going to fucking crack down on you.
Then you're also a Nazi.
That also makes you a Nazi for voting the wrong way.
So that's the dynamic.
Funding Military Coups00:00:25
All right.
Listen, we're going to wrap the show up there a little bit early today, but we're going to go a little bit longer on our next episode, which will be a post-Super Tuesday results podcast.
That'll be on Wednesday.
So look for that one.
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