IC–017 | Needs DSA to Wield Democrats Like a Weapon
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[0:00] I just wondered if you could like speak to it a little bit.
[0:04] Like I thought we were living in a consistent time where there was, like,
[0:07] with deep protection of the night, so there was no tension in Palestine.
[0:10] Truth is, whatever, whoever the box allowed us, right, wins that.
[0:15] But then there was that pushback for, like, you fucking see what's happening
[0:19] as food is being attempted to be brought into Palestine and what's happening
[0:23] there.
[0:24] Those images push back against that and do show what reality is.
[0:28] I'm wondering if you could talk to what it is pushed back against this,
[0:32] to show what the truth is in a world that is, like, shouting in the other
[0:37] direction.
[0:38] I don't know who it is.
[0:40] Well, you could have broken record, but this is why you're trying to censor it
[0:45] in that, right?
[0:46] Like, this is why TikTok fans, we had Representative Warner and Gallagher come
[0:51] out
[0:52] earlier this year from the US Security Conference and say,
[0:55] this is why we banned TikTok over Israel, over the, you know, in the, you know,
[0:59] Israel speech on air.
[1:01] So, I think that, you know, there isn't.
[1:04] As to some of the time, it is a massive propaganda machine on all these issues,
[1:08] on immigration, on Palestine, on public health, on native, right, like, it's,
[1:13] it's other.
[1:14] And the mainstream media is very complicit in that.
[1:16] I think everyone has woken up and seen what the New York Times prints versus
[1:21] what's actually happened.
[1:22] And you can see it clearer than ever. You're talking about why Mom's getting
[1:24] ratified,
[1:25] that I know that my mother has no social media but an Instagram account,
[1:28] and has been completely radicalized by it, that I've seen these in it.
[1:32] But I think it's just why it's so important for us to support independent
[1:39] journalism
[1:40] and to protect free speech online and protect the ability for, for us to be
[1:46] true to power
[1:47] and leverage the internet to do that. Because the internet is the most powerful
[1:52] tool
[1:52] that we have ever seen in terms of activism, in terms of organizing, you know,
[1:57] we can,
[1:57] we can weaponize it for good, the way that the right weaponizes it for really
[2:00] atrocious stuff.
[2:02] So, we just, we have to do, not to be the tech policy person, but we have to
[2:07] protect free speech online.
[2:08] And that is something that, that no one in the Democratic Party is doing, and,
[2:13] obviously, we're going to do that.
[2:15] [ Cheering and Applause ]
[2:19] These are crazy. They just kept talking about, you know, cancel culture and how
[2:24] the left is too woke
[2:25] on college campuses and all this stuff. And they're like, "You've got to let
[2:29] Nazis speak.
[2:31] You have to let them just get out. I'll literally kill myself.
[2:34] If you don't let my lawyer accomplish, come to the college campus and, and
[2:38] speak."
[2:39] And all of a sudden, lo and behold, you've got Colombia
[2:42] capitulating to the Trump administration.
[2:45] [ Cheering and Applause ]
[2:47] And, and giving a $200 million in return for $400 million in grants.
[2:52] And it's, it's identical to a story that I keep repeating.
[2:56] I know many of you probably watched me on stream as well as we probably heard
[2:59] this a million times over.
[3:00] I'm going to repeat the same story. But, like, one of the first things in, in
[3:04] 1933,
[3:05] the Nazi government did was to go after private institutions of higher learning
[3:10] ,
[3:10] and they went to the Frankfurt School.
[3:13] And they had a new chancellor that was basically the Nazi Germany version
[3:19] of an academic receivership where is what Colombia is doing right now
[3:24] with the new provost that's going to be in charge of our release and studies
[3:27] program.
[3:28] And they had this long, they had this long meeting where they're like,
[3:32] "None of the Jews are allowed on campus anymore."
[3:35] And, and everyone was like, "Okay, I guess that's the case now."
[3:38] And one of the liberal academics that often said,
[3:42] "Well, this was, this has been an enlightening conversation and quite a little
[3:47] bit."
[3:48] But, what about our grants for the physiology department?
[3:54] And that's precisely what, what took place in Colombia University this past
[3:58] week,
[3:59] where I saw the, the new president go on CNN and talk about how like,
[4:05] "Well, this is a battle that we actually won because we're still getting our
[4:08] grants."
[4:09] And, and meanwhile, you got Vince McMahon's wife,
[4:12] who is now the fucking education secretary for some reason.
[4:16] On, on Fox News, talking about how Colombia is just the beginning.
[4:23] All of these things that we talked about in terms of the project that's there,
[4:26] in terms of the project 2025, the Trump administration is implementing step by
[4:30] step.
[4:31] They've given us their blueprint, they've given us exactly what they're going
[4:34] to do
[4:35] and how they're going to do it.
[4:37] So, I think it's incredibly important to continue organizing against these
[4:41] initiatives
[4:42] and to make a big fuss wherever you can.
[4:46] And that doesn't just mean going on in protest and engaging in direct action.
[4:50] But I also mean, you know,
[4:53] pissing off your democratic representatives and trying to get them to also take
[4:58] action.
[4:59] [Applause]
[5:01] You know, the reason why I'm saying this is not because contrary to popular
[5:05] opinion,
[5:06] I'll take talk, or I'm like, left this on Twitter.
[5:08] I'm not a shepherd for the Democratic Party.
[5:11] I don't even want to talk about the Democratic Party, but they are our
[5:15] representatives.
[5:17] And they're supposed to represent us, and they do have a platform,
[5:21] and the media does listen to them.
[5:23] So, we have to wield them like a weapon to the best of our ability.
[5:29] We have to use them to also continue yelling about these things that we care
[5:34] about.
[5:35] Because after the 700 phone message they have to respond to,
[5:41] they're inevitably like, "All right, I guess people do care about this issue."
[5:44] Maybe I have to make a statement about it.
[5:46] And before you know it, the dam will break.
[5:49] Before you know it, I know it seems impossible.
[5:52] I know it seems like change is not coming fast enough.
[5:55] And I totally understand that because we have real lives on the line.
[5:59] Every day that goes by without any sort of serious opposition,
[6:03] you have another family being ripped apart, right, with ice rays.
[6:07] But if you're not doing it for the immediate and the should save today,
[6:13] you're doing it for the hundreds of others that you could potentially save
[6:16] tomorrow.
[6:17] So, that's something you have to do about it.
[6:21] So, it doesn't matter.
[6:23] Even if you think you might get an unlikely ally,
[6:26] or even if you say to these people, don't have your best fingers in mind,
[6:29] they definitely don't, okay?
[6:31] Let's be real.
[6:32] You have to become undeniable.
[6:35] You have to become unavoidable.
[6:37] You have to become a force to be reckoned with.
[6:40] You have to make them meet your demands.
[6:43] So, I hope that you guys can keep protesting
[6:46] and continue to make a big stake to the best of your ability.
[6:49] [CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
[6:52] I could keep going like we have any time not to get on with.
[6:56] I've just been going to like a little wine because I can't hope you all like.
[7:00] Thank you both for coming.
[7:02] Just like really quickly, this night of comedy and music and DJ and everything,
[7:06] is like a final party word that you want to say before we disappear off into
[7:10] the rest of the night.
[7:13] Well, I'll just say, I appreciate everyone being outside.
[7:16] There is a horrible new COVID variant going around,
[7:19] but it's called "Grace Your Way of Growth."
[7:21] So, I just --
[7:22] [CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
[7:24] We're hoping to still very much your public health is being absolutely gutted
[7:29] under RK.
[7:30] We're seeing diseases that have, like, one way in the 1800s come back.
[7:34] So, you know, when you're at --
[7:36] and also they're seeing a procedure also trying to, you know,
[7:39] make masking at protests illegal, you know, remove masking, basically, at any
[7:43] point.
[7:44] So, I think it's really important to wear a mask as much as you can.
[7:47] You know, I know you're not going to have it on 24/7,
[7:50] as much as you can.
[7:51] Have a solid, very low-sized public health.
[7:53] Let's say it's for immigrants.
[7:54] Let's say it's for free Palestine.
[7:56] [CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
[7:58] [CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
[8:05] [LAUGHTER]
[8:10] Yeah, I hope, like I said, if you're feeling down,
[8:13] if you feel like everything is fucked up, just remember,
[8:16] you have a lot of other people out there that agree with you,
[8:21] that feel the exact same way that you do, and not only that,
[8:25] but also there are plenty of potential allies that you can convince.
[8:29] So, that's something that you always have to maintain.
[8:32] You have to keep being stubborn, and you should never, ever,
[8:37] succumb to nihilism.
[8:40] If you can't maintain revolutionary optimism,
[8:43] just do it out of spite, because all of the most in red-looking
[8:49] losers fucking out these out there want you shut the fuck up.
[8:53] They want you to sit idly by and coward in fear,
[8:57] like the jubilee--
[8:59] [LAUGHTER]
[9:01] If you want an image, if you want an image that just invokes
[9:04] blood, curly anger in you--
[9:06] well, think about that fat Nazi.
[9:08] We're talking about an empty house.
[9:10] I'm like, oh, you're the first!
[9:11] You're a little Franco.
[9:13] The more that I remember a piece of shit like that exists,
[9:17] I'm like, fuck that.
[9:18] I'm revitalized.
[9:20] I'm re-energized.
[9:21] I'm ready to fucking go.
[9:22] [CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
[9:25] Thank you, Tyler.
[9:26] Thank you, Taylor.
[9:27] Thank you for all that night.
[9:29] [CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
[9:31] Thank you.
[9:32] [CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
[9:33] Thank you.
[9:34] [CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
[9:35] My son.
[9:36] I can tell you it's just a standing seat.
[9:38] [CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
[9:39] My son is wicked there.
[9:40] OK.
[9:41] You good?
[9:42] [CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
[9:43] They said I have to say I'm dead,
[9:45] but all move away so they're good.
[9:47] [CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
[9:48] Happy birthday to you!
[9:51] [CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
[9:52] Not yet!
[9:53] Not yet!
[9:54] [CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
[9:55] [CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
[9:57] Josh, this ain't not yet.
[9:59] [CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]