IC–010 | Denouncing Democrats While Dressed as Mao
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[0:00] You can feel the changes with every new story.
[0:03] The sense of backlash that's in the air.
[0:05] Inflation is not under control.
[0:08] Data centers that no one wants are taxing energy grids,
[0:11] fueling an AI bubble that may not really replace you,
[0:15] but will get you laid off regardless.
[0:18] It seems like every week our mass Gestapo, ice,
[0:22] kills another innocent person.
[0:24] In all my years, I don't remember seeing this much blood
[0:29] on American pavement.
[0:31] I often say that the United States is an empire in decline.
[0:36] And home, that means we are a nation in crisis.
[0:42] But we're so much of Washington sees dangerous instability.
[0:45] I and many of you see promise.
[0:49] I see a real opportunity to change this country's trajectory
[0:53] to improve the lot of humanity.
[0:55] And I know you feel it too.
[0:57] It's rooms like these that remind me
[1:00] just how many people see right for wrong
[1:02] and want to do something about it.
[1:04] (audience applauds)
[1:07] All around the country, we're getting real fighters elected.
[1:18] Fighters who see the crisis and can describe it
[1:20] in clear and truthful terms.
[1:23] This means demanding an end to the endless wars.
[1:27] An end to profiteering off of healthcare.
[1:30] (audience applauds)
[1:31] An end to the rule by people who put the interests of capital
[1:36] over the interests of the working class.
[1:41] (audience applauds)
[1:44] It's talk like this that has Washington terrified.
[1:51] It's talk like this that has MAGA terrified.
[1:55] (audience applauds)
[1:58] These people that hate movements
[2:02] who try to control our lives
[2:04] are most afraid of popular action,
[2:07] of democracy, of the people.
[2:09] They're afraid of us because of the simple fact
[2:12] that there are more of us than there are of them.
[2:15] (audience applauds)
[2:16] And all these happen and they're always building.
[2:19] (audience applauds)
[2:22] There are more good, decent people
[2:24] with moral conviction who find it unfathomable
[2:27] that the wealthiest nation on earth chooses to spend
[2:30] its billions blowing up schools overseas
[2:33] rather than building schools in our neighborhoods.
[2:36] (audience applauds)
[2:39] Find people who can't understand why
[2:43] in the wealthiest nation on earth,
[2:45] there are hundreds of thousands of people
[2:47] who will go to sleep outside tonight
[2:49] and millions more who live paycheck to paycheck.
[2:53] (audience applauds)
[2:56] Hardworking people.
[3:00] Frustrated that an honest day of labor
[3:03] delivering packages, cleaning counters,
[3:05] or teaching children is no longer enough
[3:08] to take care of a family or own a home
[3:11] all the while the world's wealthiest man
[3:13] sits around tweeting racist screeds
[3:15] and unfunny jokes as people grow
[3:18] his net worth into the trillions.
[3:20] (audience applauds)
[3:24] I should add that none of this is an accident.
[3:27] The inequality is the design of our system.
[3:31] When you see broken downtowns in a state of disrepair
[3:35] or pot holes that never get filled
[3:37] or homeless people suffering in the streets,
[3:39] remember this is the design of our system.
[3:44] It is not the moral failings of the individual
[3:47] but a whole architecture where the ultra rich
[3:51] stick their hands in the pockets of everyone else.
[3:55] Just as every person who has no shelter
[3:58] is a policy failure, every billionaire is a policy failure.
[4:03] (audience applauds)
[4:06] But just as every billionaire is a policy failure,
[4:16] every congressperson who's refused
[4:18] to change these policies have failed you,
[4:22] have failed all of us.
[4:23] (audience applauds)
[4:26] We have placed organ interests
[4:30] above the interests of the people.
[4:32] I say no more and we say no more.
[4:36] (audience applauds)
[4:39] I've traveled all around the country.
[4:44] I've talked to countless people over dozens of protests.
[4:48] Gone to rallies, I've gotten to marches.
[4:51] I've got shot at by my own law enforcement
[4:54] that I pay with my taxes, the salary of.
[4:57] And all I ever hear from the people by my side is no more.
[5:03] And not just, thank you.
[5:08] (audience laughs)
[5:10] And not just the no more to Trumpism
[5:13] but no more to the Democrats who compromise,
[5:16] who conciliate and who betray us.
[5:19] (audience applauds)
[5:22] No more to the fascist reactionaries
[5:29] but no more to the Democrats who will collaborate
[5:31] and cooperate with the fascists who will fund ICE,
[5:34] who will fund Israel, who will help poison the planet,
[5:37] who will sniff burgers and help bosses.
[5:40] We don't need those Democrats anymore.
[5:43] (audience applauds)
[5:47] In fact, I know we have a message.
[5:51] We are coming.
[5:53] We are on-box.
[5:54] We're on-box.
[5:55] We're on-box.
[5:56] And we will become undeniable.
[5:59] (audience applauds)
[6:02] Thank you.
[6:06] (audience applauds)
[6:10] (audience cheers)