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Original import SHA-256: 64bb6a2f665e66dbe485bf2f013cda0150ca20ca9b074189c76caa717b8d27ff Passage 38: start 00:01:26.440; old end 00:01:26.440; new end 00:01:26.441 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.200 It's been worse fascist that you are actively capitulating to. 2 00:00:05.200 --> 00:00:07.280 We can't have that. 3 00:00:07.280 --> 00:00:09.280 This is the fundamental difference. 4 00:00:09.280 --> 00:00:12.060 This is what needs to change. 5 00:00:12.060 --> 00:00:15.030 The Democrats appear to have no counter to the system Democrats missed the next 6 00:00:15.030 --> 00:00:15.600 generation 7 00:00:15.600 --> 00:00:19.240 of media says Brandon Gann, quote, co-founder of influencer marketing agency. 8 00:00:19.240 --> 00:00:22.220 I know him, uh, creator authority historically, they own Hollywood, but this 9 00:00:22.220 --> 00:00:22.960 next generation 10 00:00:22.960 --> 00:00:25.520 influence is digital and they've miscalculated that. 11 00:00:25.520 --> 00:00:28.880 I don't think they feel comfortable in arenas where they lack control. 12 00:00:28.880 --> 00:00:29.880 I guess that's it. 13 00:00:29.880 --> 00:00:36.970 The entire article from Taylor Lorenz, fantastic article, uh, fantastic article 14 00:00:36.970 --> 00:00:40.560 , um, obviously, 15 00:00:40.560 --> 00:00:43.520 uh, current affairs had a complimentary piece on this as well. 16 00:00:43.520 --> 00:00:46.160 This explains this also explains why some of the most popular progressive 17 00:00:46.160 --> 00:00:46.880 content critters 18 00:00:46.880 --> 00:00:48.820 refused to ever cover Gaza. 19 00:00:48.820 --> 00:00:52.970 This is from current affairs, a separate piece that came out that we read a 20 00:00:52.970 --> 00:00:53.880 while back. 21 00:00:53.880 --> 00:00:56.620 The decision to avoid Palestine by democratic aligned media seems to be 22 00:00:56.620 --> 00:00:57.280 deliberate and 23 00:00:57.280 --> 00:00:58.840 it goes beyond Midas touch. 24 00:00:58.840 --> 00:01:01.280 Midas touch is part of a broader universe of content critters that are aligned 25 00:01:01.280 --> 00:01:01.480 with the 26 00:01:01.480 --> 00:01:05.430 democratic party, including Brian Tyler Cohen, David Pakman, among others, 27 00:01:05.430 --> 00:01:06.120 notably last 28 00:01:06.120 --> 00:01:08.560 March, according to a source of the events, Pakman attended a private off the 29 00:01:08.560 --> 00:01:09.120 record meeting 30 00:01:09.120 --> 00:01:12.410 with Kamala Harris on the day of the Joe Biden state of the union address 31 00:01:12.410 --> 00:01:13.240 during the trip 32 00:01:13.240 --> 00:01:16.530 he met with Cohen, the Meisles brothers and dozens of other so-called 33 00:01:16.530 --> 00:01:18.040 independent progressive 34 00:01:18.040 --> 00:01:20.280 media figures in an internal email. 35 00:01:20.280 --> 00:01:22.430 Pakman later told the staff that the content critters of the White House had 36 00:01:22.430 --> 00:01:22.880 talked among 37 00:01:22.880 --> 00:01:26.440 themselves and everyone admitted that they deliberately avoided producing Gaza 38 00:01:26.440 --> 00:01:26.441 coverage 39 00:01:26.440 --> 00:01:28.280 in order to prevent controversy. 40 00:01:28.280 --> 00:01:30.900 One could argue that this is probably a big reason why these particular 41 00:01:30.900 --> 00:01:31.600 influences were 42 00:01:31.600 --> 00:01:33.600 invited to the White House in the first place. 43 00:01:33.600 --> 00:01:36.890 Pakman, for his part, has previously asserted that Israel would never waste 44 00:01:36.890 --> 00:01:37.520 ordinance on 45 00:01:37.520 --> 00:01:40.840 Palestinian civilians that he views Congressman Richie Torres, who is perhaps 46 00:01:40.840 --> 00:01:41.240 best known for 47 00:01:41.240 --> 00:01:45.000 being one of APAC's top recipients of funding, APAC's biggest attack dog, which 48 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:45.520 we will be 49 00:01:45.520 --> 00:01:50.040 watching on the Adam Friedland show later, Richie Torres, as the kind of person 50 00:01:50.040 --> 00:01:50.520 who he 51 00:01:50.520 --> 00:01:52.760 would like to see lead the progressive movement. 52 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:04.290 Karen Affairs also reported on the campaign, Harris campaign coordinators, i.e. 53 00:02:04.290 --> 00:02:05.560 indirect 54 00:02:05.560 --> 00:02:08.930 payments to influencers through the agency, special appearance from Cohen and 55 00:02:08.930 --> 00:02:09.280 there too. 56 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:12.600 The New York Times has reported that the Harris campaign spent $2.5 million on 57 00:02:12.600 --> 00:02:13.320 three digital 58 00:02:13.320 --> 00:02:16.530 agencies that work with online influencers, and it appears that the influencer 59 00:02:16.530 --> 00:02:16.800 in this 60 00:02:16.800 --> 00:02:21.080 video may have been one of them. 61 00:02:21.080 --> 00:02:29.040 They were just fucking melting money. 62 00:02:29.040 --> 00:02:32.810 It's literally all connected 16 30 funds, future forwards, which funded 63 00:02:32.810 --> 00:02:34.000 progressive victory. 64 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:39.960 It's a lib circle jerk. 65 00:02:39.960 --> 00:02:52.560 They literally came to a consensus on the face. 66 00:02:52.560 --> 00:02:57.680 They avoid talking about one of the worst made man made disaster of our time. 67 00:02:57.680 --> 00:02:59.600 Yeah. 68 00:02:59.600 --> 00:03:03.330 Their idea of controversy was acknowledging the 30 plus polls showing she 69 00:03:03.330 --> 00:03:04.080 needed to stop 70 00:03:04.080 --> 00:03:05.960 the genocide to win, by the way. 71 00:03:05.960 --> 00:03:09.360 Here are 34 polls that show a ceasefire and weapons embargo to help Kamala 72 00:03:09.360 --> 00:03:09.800 Harris win. 73 00:03:09.800 --> 00:03:11.760 This was on the 21st of September, 2024. 74 00:03:11.760 --> 00:03:15.700 It was a compilation of 34 different polls that showed that this issue would be 75 00:03:15.700 --> 00:03:16.120 a mover 76 00:03:16.120 --> 00:03:17.120 in a shaker. 77 00:03:17.120 --> 00:03:18.600 And this is just the tip of the iceberg. 78 00:03:18.600 --> 00:03:22.680 I talked about this quite a bit because not every single person was as invested 79 00:03:22.680 --> 00:03:23.140 in Gaza 80 00:03:23.140 --> 00:03:25.320 as others were, right? 81 00:03:25.320 --> 00:03:28.900 They could recognize right from wrong that kind of animosity towards Israel 82 00:03:28.900 --> 00:03:29.680 didn't expand 83 00:03:29.680 --> 00:03:34.020 overnight, of course, that led to like the Zoron victory, for example, that 84 00:03:34.020 --> 00:03:34.760 didn't happen 85 00:03:34.760 --> 00:03:35.760 overnight. 86 00:03:35.760 --> 00:03:38.450 That was already there in the lead up to the election, even though it was being 87 00:03:38.450 --> 00:03:38.880 actively 88 00:03:38.880 --> 00:03:43.890 sheltered, it was actively being pushed aside by top level Democrats and the 89 00:03:43.890 --> 00:03:44.240 establishment 90 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:48.340 for obvious reasons because they wanted to continue the, the maximum genocide 91 00:03:48.340 --> 00:03:49.160 that the, 92 00:03:49.160 --> 00:03:54.480 the Joe Biden administration was doing now. 93 00:03:54.480 --> 00:03:58.360 Having said that, the reason why I say this is the tip of the iceberg is 94 00:03:58.360 --> 00:03:59.200 because this 95 00:03:59.200 --> 00:04:02.940 was emblematic of the problem of the Democratic party's inability to address 96 00:04:02.940 --> 00:04:03.840 real issues that 97 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:06.280 their fucking voters were experiencing. 98 00:04:06.280 --> 00:04:07.820 This was just one of those issues. 99 00:04:07.820 --> 00:04:11.560 It was a very big one, as Donna has, it goes correctly pointed out. 100 00:04:11.560 --> 00:04:15.140 How can you expect the Democrats to save democracy when they won't even stop a 101 00:04:15.140 --> 00:04:15.840 genocide? 102 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:19.140 How can you expect a party that will turn a blind eye to a genocide that they 103 00:04:19.140 --> 00:04:19.840 are contributing 104 00:04:19.840 --> 00:04:23.710 to to actually not turn a blind eye to the democracy, the democratic process 105 00:04:23.710 --> 00:04:24.680 falling apart? 106 00:04:24.680 --> 00:04:34.000 And he was right. 107 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:37.850 This is why it is mind boggling to me that there are still people who are 108 00:04:37.850 --> 00:04:38.880 actively either 109 00:04:38.880 --> 00:04:42.530 deluded by these other content creators that are getting paid by the Democratic 110 00:04:42.530 --> 00:04:43.600 party to, 111 00:04:43.600 --> 00:04:47.670 to actively advocate for the Democratic party's inevitable demise or the, the 112 00:04:47.670 --> 00:04:48.680 death of American 113 00:04:48.680 --> 00:04:52.290 democracy as it stands, the theoretical democracy that we are supposed to 114 00:04:52.290 --> 00:04:53.320 ostensibly defend 115 00:04:53.320 --> 00:04:54.320 here. 116 00:04:54.320 --> 00:04:58.900 And one of those examples, I'm going to use two examples here, okay, which is 117 00:04:58.900 --> 00:04:59.640 this one, 118 00:04:59.640 --> 00:05:03.290 this guy sneer review, we are so cooked, it's not even funny, I said, who then 119 00:05:03.290 --> 00:05:04.120 quote retweeted 120 00:05:04.120 --> 00:05:09.600 me to say, bomb, bomb, bomb La Harris, to which I responded with 22 months into 121 00:05:09.600 --> 00:05:10.040 the Gaza 122 00:05:10.040 --> 00:05:13.580 Holocaust and pro-Israel lives still try to act as though the Dems didn't throw 123 00:05:13.580 --> 00:05:14.200 the election 124 00:05:14.200 --> 00:05:17.250 by pivoting right, refusing to listen to the anger people had about numerous 125 00:05:17.250 --> 00:05:18.320 issues, including 126 00:05:18.320 --> 00:05:23.560 the genocide and losing yet again to an incompetent fascist. 127 00:05:23.560 --> 00:05:30.000 They are diluting themselves, they are fucking diluting themselves. 128 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:33.000 They're actively and deliberately diluting themselves. 129 00:05:33.000 --> 00:05:35.240 They don't want to listen to the truth. 130 00:05:35.240 --> 00:05:36.440 They don't want to listen to reason. 131 00:05:36.440 --> 00:05:41.780 They don't want to make a proper analysis as to why they lost a otherwise winn 132 00:05:41.780 --> 00:05:42.920 able election 133 00:05:42.920 --> 00:05:45.440 is tough, but it was winnable. 134 00:05:45.440 --> 00:06:01.480 Every election is. 135 00:06:01.480 --> 00:06:07.650 It blows my mind that people still try to do this shit, especially when third 136 00:06:07.650 --> 00:06:08.840 party voters, 137 00:06:08.840 --> 00:06:11.850 if every single third party voter turned around and voted for Kamala Harris, 138 00:06:11.850 --> 00:06:12.360 Kamala Harris 139 00:06:12.360 --> 00:06:14.400 still would have lost the election. 140 00:06:14.400 --> 00:06:18.740 So there isn't even like votes that you could have secured from the fucking 141 00:06:18.740 --> 00:06:19.880 margins there. 142 00:06:19.880 --> 00:06:25.330 So constantly fucking yelling about the left being a spoiler in this election 143 00:06:25.330 --> 00:06:26.320 is idiotic. 144 00:06:26.320 --> 00:06:27.680 It's just not true. 145 00:06:27.680 --> 00:06:31.980 There is no amount of left commentary from myself and every other fucking left 146 00:06:31.980 --> 00:06:33.000 this commentator 147 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:35.910 on the planet, right or wrong, by the way, doesn't matter if our criticisms are 148 00:06:35.910 --> 00:06:36.240 right 149 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:40.780 or wrong, but there's no amount of criticism that we could present that could 150 00:06:40.780 --> 00:06:41.400 outflank 151 00:06:41.400 --> 00:06:46.410 the multi-billion dollar messaging campaign that Kamala Harris blew up with 152 00:06:46.410 --> 00:06:51.320 shitty message. 153 00:06:51.320 --> 00:06:56.460 And it's so indicative of their lack of interest in actually solving some of 154 00:06:56.460 --> 00:06:57.360 the problems 155 00:06:57.360 --> 00:07:03.660 that currently persist, whether it be Trump's active bouldering towards fascism 156 00:07:03.660 --> 00:07:05.000 , for example, 157 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:08.500 then actively fighting against a guy who is trying to do his very best to 158 00:07:08.500 --> 00:07:10.720 combat the administration. 159 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:15.020 If you're a fucking liberal, you should actually run around and say, I'm so 160 00:07:15.020 --> 00:07:17.000 sorry, I was wrong, 161 00:07:17.000 --> 00:07:18.320 you were fucking right. 162 00:07:18.320 --> 00:07:21.190 Now I'm going to stand side by side with you because you already correctly 163 00:07:21.190 --> 00:07:21.760 called this 164 00:07:21.760 --> 00:07:22.760 shit out. 165 00:07:22.760 --> 00:07:27.900 And even if you don't have to do that because you don't, you don't have to do 166 00:07:27.900 --> 00:07:29.280 that, obviously. 167 00:07:29.280 --> 00:07:32.530 Even if you don't do that and you don't have to do that, the least you could do 168 00:07:32.530 --> 00:07:32.800 is shut 169 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:38.650 the fuck up and not try to consistently say this wrong thing that makes you 170 00:07:38.650 --> 00:07:39.480 feel good 171 00:07:39.480 --> 00:07:44.560 as though you did your very best and now you're tired, now you can sign off. 172 00:07:44.560 --> 00:07:47.610 As people are getting black bagged and kidnapped, you can just sit on the 173 00:07:47.610 --> 00:07:48.560 sidelines and yell 174 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:49.560 about the left. 175 00:07:49.560 --> 00:07:53.360 If only the left voted for Kamala, this would not be happening. 176 00:07:53.360 --> 00:08:03.000 It's so stupid. 177 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:04.400 It's also simple. 178 00:08:04.400 --> 00:08:06.840 The problem is simple. 179 00:08:06.840 --> 00:08:09.640 Republicans run away from their base, they despise their base. 180 00:08:09.640 --> 00:08:11.640 Republicans run towards their base. 181 00:08:11.640 --> 00:08:13.800 They fear their base. 182 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:15.800 That's it. 183 00:08:15.800 --> 00:08:16.800 That's it. 184 00:08:16.800 --> 00:08:22.470 Democrats actively try to convince their base that the things that they are 185 00:08:22.470 --> 00:08:23.480 demanding are 186 00:08:23.480 --> 00:08:28.160 actually bad and they should suck at the fuck up and vote for them anyway. 187 00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:29.320 Republicans don't do that. 188 00:08:29.320 --> 00:08:33.590 Republicans will find active issues that have grassroots backing, no matter how 189 00:08:33.590 --> 00:08:34.040 insane 190 00:08:34.040 --> 00:08:42.360 it is, like QAnon, and will find a way to make that a part of their platform, 191 00:08:42.360 --> 00:08:43.320 okay? 192 00:08:43.320 --> 00:08:46.040 They do that. 193 00:08:46.040 --> 00:08:50.560 The greatest version of someone behaving like this is Zoram Mamdoni. 194 00:08:50.560 --> 00:08:51.560 He went out there. 195 00:08:51.560 --> 00:08:54.620 He asked people what their fucking problems were and he said, "I'm going to 196 00:08:54.620 --> 00:08:55.360 solve them." 197 00:08:55.360 --> 00:08:56.840 There it is. 198 00:08:56.840 --> 00:09:01.080 You don't have to be a card-carrying communist to be able to do this, okay? 199 00:09:01.080 --> 00:09:02.080 You just have to listen to people. 200 00:09:02.080 --> 00:09:04.080 You just have to listen to their demands. 201 00:09:04.080 --> 00:09:21.360 You just have to listen to what they want, okay? 202 00:09:21.360 --> 00:09:25.120 I try my very best not the fucking fight with Democrats at this moment, but 203 00:09:25.120 --> 00:09:25.720 they make 204 00:09:25.720 --> 00:09:29.620 it so goddamn hard when they just like put the cross-airs on someone like 205 00:09:29.620 --> 00:09:30.560 myself instead 206 00:09:30.560 --> 00:09:36.690 of, instead of actively fighting in unison against the Trump administration and 207 00:09:36.690 --> 00:09:37.280 also 208 00:09:37.280 --> 00:09:51.160 maybe taking a cold, hard look at why they lost, okay? 209 00:09:51.160 --> 00:09:52.560 It blows my mind. 210 00:09:52.560 --> 00:09:58.940 It's just so fucking frustrating because this is, this is just a demonstration 211 00:09:58.940 --> 00:09:59.960 of this person's 212 00:09:59.960 --> 00:10:02.280 lack of interest in fixing any of these problems. 213 00:10:02.280 --> 00:10:06.720 He just wants to appear right and he knows he's wrong, okay? 214 00:10:06.720 --> 00:10:07.560 He knows he's wrong. 215 00:10:07.560 --> 00:10:09.000 He knows he was wrong. 216 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:12.290 He wants to be pro-Israel and he wants to still present himself as a 217 00:10:12.290 --> 00:10:13.360 progressive, even 218 00:10:13.360 --> 00:10:16.780 though Israel's doing a genocide and the walls are closing in, so he just like 219 00:10:16.780 --> 00:10:17.680 actively tries 220 00:10:17.680 --> 00:10:21.780 to attack someone who was correct from the start, someone who was doing a lot 221 00:10:21.780 --> 00:10:22.400 more than 222 00:10:22.400 --> 00:10:26.080 he is in terms of trying to fucking fight against the Trump administration.