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Socialism Won. Here’s What It Means for You. — Transcript

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  1. 0:00So, remember woke 1.0? So, woke 1.0 was
  2. 0:02the idea that America was a white
  3. 0:04supremacist country that was filled with
  4. 0:07racism and evil, and therefore
  5. 0:09everything was fruit of the poisonous
  6. 0:10tree.
  7. 0:12Therefore, any inequality of outcome was
  8. 0:15an inequity.
  9. 0:16It was a it was a it was the American
  10. 0:17system that had gone wrong. Yeah, well,
  11. 0:19apparently woke 1.0 was crazy. We were
  12. 0:21told that by AOC, remember? It's sort of
  13. 0:22like so crazy. It's crazy. Oh.
  14. 0:25Okay, well, now we are full on to woke
  15. 0:282.0. So, what's woke 2.0? It's just
  16. 0:29communism. And woke 2.0 is
  17. 0:32everything in America that is unequal is
  18. 0:34bad,
  19. 0:35not on a racial basis, on an economic
  20. 0:36basis. Therefore, we must have
  21. 0:38socialism.
  22. 0:40And the easiest way to achieve equality
  23. 0:42of outcome is for everyone to be poor.
  24. 0:44So, I guess that's what we're going to
  25. 0:45do in the big cities. Nithya Raman has
  26. 0:47now defeated Karen Bass over in Los
  27. 0:49Angeles. Nithya Raman is a
  28. 0:51self-described socialist
  29. 0:53over in LA.
  30. 0:55She narrowly beat Karen Bass by about
  31. 0:5650,000 votes in Los Angeles.
  32. 1:00Here's a flashback of Hasan
  33. 1:02talking with Nithya Raman, the new mayor
  34. 1:04of LA.
  35. 1:07>> Do you support Medicare for all?
  36. 1:09>> Yes.
  37. 1:09>> Universal child care?
  38. 1:10>> Yes.
  39. 1:11>> Abolishing ICE?
  40. 1:12>> Yes.
  41. 1:12>> Raise taxes on billionaires?
  42. 1:14>> Yes.
  43. 1:14>> Ending camp and sweeps in LA?
  44. 1:16>> Well, um I think we
  45. 1:19depends on your definition of of of
  46. 1:21sweeps. Yeah, I think we'd have to be
  47. 1:24able to do cleanups. We do them
  48. 1:26humanely. We work we do it with outreach
  49. 1:28workers.
  50. 1:30It's very similar to what Mondani uh
  51. 1:32had touted in in his change. Um
  52. 1:36>> Okay.
  53. 1:36>> think we should be violent. I don't
  54. 1:38think we should be arresting people, but
  55. 1:41cleaning up um
  56. 1:42cleaning up and and making sure that we
  57. 1:44offer hygiene is really important.
  58. 1:46>> Okay.
  59. 1:47>> I'll stand by that.
  60. 1:49>> $30 citywide minimum wage?
  61. 1:51>> Oh, interesting. Uh I supported the
  62. 1:53tourism worker wage. Yeah.
  63. 1:55>> Okay. End LAPD's paid trips to Israel?
  64. 1:59>> Uh
  65. 2:00if not on our dime.
  66. 2:02>> Okay, uh, a free Palestine.
  67. 2:04>> Free Palestine, yes.
  68. 2:07>> And that is your new mayor of LA. How
  69. 2:09does that matter? Well, it means if
  70. 2:10you're starting a business, you're not
  71. 2:11doing it in LA. If you have a choice
  72. 2:13where to locate your business, you are
  73. 2:14not doing it in LA. If you are a young
  74. 2:16family looking to buy a home and you're
  75. 2:17not locked down to an LA job, you ain't
  76. 2:19moving to LA.
  77. 2:20This is a chart of LA housing prices
  78. 2:22from 2016 to 2026.
  79. 2:25Up and up and up and up. Remember, the
  80. 2:28part that's kind of funny about all of
  81. 2:29this is, oh my gosh, Nithya Raman, she's
  82. 2:31a socialist, that's terrible. Karen
  83. 2:33Bass, who was also a basic socialist,
  84. 2:35was the mayor before her.
  85. 2:37And Eric Garcetti, who was a big lib,
  86. 2:39was the mayor before them.
  87. 2:42And so, it's just getting worse.
  88. 2:44Again, what happens in all of these
  89. 2:45areas is you make it more expensive to
  90. 2:47build. Because what you want to do is
  91. 2:49regulate developers, right? Those rich
  92. 2:50evil developers. You got to go after
  93. 2:51them.
  94. 2:52Make it more expensive, more regulatory,
  95. 2:54more confiscatory. Make sure that anyone
  96. 2:56who's buying, say luxury real estate in
  97. 2:59LA, those people need to be crammed
  98. 3:01down, higher property taxes. Go after
  99. 3:03them, nail them, really get them.
  100. 3:04And then it turns out that you remove
  101. 3:05the profit incentive to build new
  102. 3:07things, so nothing new gets built. And
  103. 3:08then you have a shortage of housing. So
  104. 3:10then you tax everybody more to build the
  105. 3:12{quote} {unquote} affordable housing.
  106. 3:14But it turns out that the affordable
  107. 3:15housing is really expensive because when
  108. 3:17you build it, you have a bunch of
  109. 3:18union-based government contractors who
  110. 3:20are screwing the state.
  111. 3:22That's how all of this works and that is
  112. 3:23why, again, that price line keeps going
  113. 3:26up and up and up and up. But don't
  114. 3:28worry, it's not just Nithya Raman in Los
  115. 3:29Angeles. And I'm getting panic calls
  116. 3:31from my friends in LA.
  117. 3:32Legitimate panic calls, right? I'm from
  118. 3:34LA, I have tons of friends who still
  119. 3:35live in LA.
  120. 3:36And those friends are calling me like,
  121. 3:37dude, I don't know what the hell to do.
  122. 3:39This is crazy.
  123. 3:41It's just going to get worse here.
  124. 3:42There are gigantic, I'm talking like
  125. 3:44gigantic swaths of land in LA that are
  126. 3:46going without sale because no one wants
  127. 3:48to buy them and then be forced to rent
  128. 3:50them at below market value.
  129. 3:53Nobody wants to buy up, for example, a
  130. 3:55giant studio space and then locate a
  131. 3:58Hollywood production there because you
  132. 3:59can't afford to do it there.
  133. 4:02This is what socialism accomplishes.
  134. 4:03Again, when people think socialism, they
  135. 4:05tend to think of, you know, the
  136. 4:07government seizes your business and
  137. 4:08turns it into like a communist grocery
  138. 4:10store or something. That is not the sole
  139. 4:12extent of socialism.
  140. 4:14In order to understand what we're
  141. 4:15talking about here, you have to
  142. 4:17understand that there's sort of a
  143. 4:18spectrum from socialism all the way over
  144. 4:19to free markets. Why? Well, because when
  145. 4:22you own a property, it's not just your
  146. 4:24ownership of the property that makes it
  147. 4:25private property. It is your ability to
  148. 4:27do things with that property.
  149. 4:30So, let's say for example, you buy a
  150. 4:31piece of land. And let's say that the
  151. 4:32government tells you you're not allowed
  152. 4:34to build a house, you're not allowed to
  153. 4:36co-op, you're not allowed to build an
  154. 4:37apartment, you're not allowed to build a
  155. 4:38store. It has to remain empty land. Not
  156. 4:41only that, you're not allowed to sell
  157. 4:43the land.
  158. 4:44But you must pay tax on the land.
  159. 4:45Question, do you still own the land?
  160. 4:48So, technically, technically, you don't
  161. 4:50you own If you don't have any power to
  162. 4:52do anything with the land,
  163. 4:54then you don't have any of the benefits
  164. 4:55of ownership. So, that is not really
  165. 4:56private property. This is a point made
  166. 4:58by Professor Richard Epstein, the author
  167. 4:59of a book called Takings. That actually
  168. 5:01property rights
  169. 5:03include the right to alienate, the right
  170. 5:05to build, the right to use. If you take
  171. 5:07away the use of all of those rights,
  172. 5:09it's the same thing as if the government
  173. 5:10has taken the property.
  174. 5:12This is what socialists tend to do in
  175. 5:13places like LA. Sure, you can buy that
  176. 5:15house, but you know what you can't do?
  177. 5:16You can't You definitely cannot build a
  178. 5:18mother-in-law unit out back. You
  179. 5:19definitely can't rent it out to make
  180. 5:21some extra money.
  181. 5:23You certainly are not allowed to rent it
  182. 5:24out at a particular rate.
  183. 5:27And if you sell it, we're going to take
  184. 5:28all the profit.
  185. 5:29Okay, well, you just violated property
  186. 5:31rights 10 ways from Sunday.
  187. 5:32And then you wonder why no one's
  188. 5:33building?
  189. 5:35Also, why no one is selling? Cuz if you
  190. 5:36sell and they take all the profit, what
  191. 5:37was the point of selling?
  192. 5:39So, you lock up the market. That's
  193. 5:40what's happening in all of these
  194. 5:41markets. It's why there are 50,000
  195. 5:43vacant units in New York City.
  196. 5:45So, you have a socialist mayor of New
  197. 5:46York, you have a socialist mayor of LA.
  198. 5:48And now you have a socialist mayor of
  199. 5:49Washington, D.C., where Janice Lewis
  200. 5:51George won 84% of the vote. Socialists
  201. 5:55really love Washington, D.C. Here is a
  202. 5:57chart of D.C. housing prices.
  203. 6:01Well, you may notice that um
  204. 6:03it was up and up and up and up, and then
  205. 6:05it leveled off in 2022. And the reason
  206. 6:07it leveled off in 2022
  207. 6:09is because a lot of people moved to
  208. 6:11Northern Virginia, right? After the
  209. 6:13pandemic, people started to be like,
  210. 6:14"Ah, I don't know, man. I'm kind of
  211. 6:16out."
  212. 6:18Here is Janice Lewis George on what
  213. 6:19socialism means.
  214. 6:21>> You know, because I think this moment
  215. 6:23calls for that level of moral clarity
  216. 6:25and courage. It calls for this level of
  217. 6:27ingenuity and it calls for a leader who
  218. 6:30is uh focused on putting people first
  219. 6:32and delivering on the small things,
  220. 6:34right? Uh so our socialism is talking
  221. 6:36about just making sure your 911 system
  222. 6:38works, your 311 works, um your trash
  223. 6:42gets picked up, your snow gets plowed.
  224. 6:44Those basic things that make a
  225. 6:45difference in everyone's lives and
  226. 6:47delivering for residents in all eight
  227. 6:48wards in the city. But it also focuses
  228. 6:50on delivering those big things, right?
  229. 6:52Like universal access to child care, uh
  230. 6:55lowering utility costs for DC residents
  231. 6:57and fighting against these data centers
  232. 6:59that are pulling on our grid and
  233. 7:00expanding community solar. So for me,
  234. 7:03it's really a moment where ingenuity is
  235. 7:05necessary and moral courage is
  236. 7:06necessary.
  237. 7:09And this is where we're going, folks.
  238. 7:11This is where we're going. Would you
  239. 7:12start a business in Washington, D.C.
  240. 7:14with that as the mayor? Or build new
  241. 7:15property?
  242. 7:16With that as the mayor?
  243. 7:18How about New York? Are you going to Are
  244. 7:20you going to buy a property in New York
  245. 7:21with that as the mayor, Zohran Mamdani?
  246. 7:22Is that where we're going here?
  247. 7:24With these ideas?
  248. 7:27Okay, this is a This is a chart of
  249. 7:29property prices in New York City.
  250. 7:31Notice, up and up and up and up and up
  251. 7:34and up
  252. 7:35And again, 50,000 vacant units in New
  253. 7:37York City and nobody will rent because
  254. 7:39it is more expensive to rent them than
  255. 7:41it is to just leave them empty.
  256. 7:43Meanwhile, there's great irony to Zohran
  257. 7:44Mamdani worrying the AI bubble is going
  258. 7:46to pop like the housing bubble. Yeah,
  259. 7:47cuz you're going to destroy the markets
  260. 7:49on both.
  261. 7:53>> There's an investment in the idea that
  262. 7:55this is so complicated that the only
  263. 7:57rational response should be that we
  264. 7:59trust those who created it. And in many
  265. 8:01ways, it's what Facebook was already
  266. 8:02arguing in 2008 that they should be able
  267. 8:04to regulate themselves. And yet what we
  268. 8:07need to see is a response that grasps
  269. 8:11the scale of the adoption of this
  270. 8:14technology and the incentives that are
  271. 8:16driving a lot of this technology at this
  272. 8:18time and the fact that we are now at a
  273. 8:20point where there are far too many
  274. 8:24similarities between the housing bubble
  275. 8:27and the state of AI in our economy
  276. 8:29today.
  277. 8:30>> You worry that we're in a bubble?
  278. 8:32>> Yes.
  279. 8:33>> You worry that bubble's going to pop?
  280. 8:34>> Yes.
  281. 8:35>> Do you trust the Sam Altmans of the
  282. 8:36world?
  283. 8:37>> No.
  284. 8:38>> Yes. Yes. No. If it's going to pop, you
  285. 8:42are going to pop it.
  286. 8:44I'm not talking about a bubble here. I'm
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  326. 9:51basis for markets and then the market
  327. 9:52goes down and I blame capitalism. We saw
  328. 9:54this
  329. 9:54in 2008. 2007, 2008, you had massive
  330. 9:57government subsidization programs that
  331. 9:59were designed to put people who could
  332. 10:00not afford homes into homes.
  333. 10:03And then, markets do what they do, which
  334. 10:05is they took all of that
  335. 10:07and they They it cheaper and easier. And
  336. 10:10the way that they did that is things
  337. 10:11like credit default swaps, right? The
  338. 10:12market went to work on a bad program.
  339. 10:15Because again, markets
  340. 10:17are capable of making anything more
  341. 10:18efficient, better, and cheaper, even
  342. 10:20things you don't like. Like for example,
  343. 10:22bad mortgages.
  344. 10:24It's true for drugs, and it's true for
  345. 10:25pornography, and it's also true for bad
  346. 10:26mortgages.
  347. 10:27And then it turns out that the bottom
  348. 10:29fell out because of the government
  349. 10:30program, and then it was capitalism that
  350. 10:32was to blame.
  351. 10:34This is where we are going. This is what
  352. 10:35Americans are choosing. So, I mean,
  353. 10:36you've been warned.
  354. 10:38Is that's woke 2.0? It's basically just
  355. 10:40Marxism, but don't worry, woke 2.0
  356. 10:43doesn't mean that woke 1.0 is gone.
  357. 10:44We're going back to that, too, guys.
  358. 10:45It'll be great. And remember, woke 1.0
  359. 10:48is all about niceness and compassion and
  360. 10:50decency and laughing at people who have
  361. 10:52been murdered. There are Jennifer Welch
  362. 10:53and Angie Sullivan laughing at the death
  363. 10:55of Charlie Kirk, once again.
  364. 10:58>> Uh Dead Morrow says, "We're digging up
  365. 11:01Charlie Kirk and doing it again."
  366. 11:11I'm zooming in for Fox.
  367. 11:13>> [laughter]
  368. 11:20[laughter]
  369. 11:23>> No comment.
  370. 11:25>> [snorts]
  371. 11:25>> No comment.
  372. 11:25>> No comment on that.
  373. 11:29>> Kinder, gentler, wonderful people, you
  374. 11:31know? They They They're just against the
  375. 11:32cruelty of the Trump administration,
  376. 11:33those people who are laughing at the at
  377. 11:35Charlie's murder again for the 1
  378. 11:37millionth time.
  379. 11:38Don't worry, woke 1.0 is still there.
  380. 11:41The Congressional Equality Caucus put
  381. 11:43out a graphic yesterday.
  382. 11:45The 120th Congress will be the gayest
  383. 11:47Congress in American history. Well,
  384. 11:49congrats. Congrats, boys and girls.
  385. 11:52A lot of dudes who love dudes and ladies
  386. 11:53love ladies
  387. 11:54inside our Congress. All our problems
  388. 11:56are at an end.
  389. 11:58We finally figured it out. We solved it
  390. 11:59with the pride progress flag. That's
  391. 12:01awesome. Here is Gene Wu. He's the
  392. 12:03leader of the Texas House of
  393. 12:04Representatives laying out the coalition
  394. 12:05of the oppressed.
  395. 12:09>> That the oppressors all are the same.
  396. 12:12Right? The oppression comes from one
  397. 12:14place and I always tell people the day
  398. 12:17the Latino, African-American, Asian, and
  399. 12:20other communities realize that they are
  400. 12:24that they share the same oppressor is
  401. 12:26the day we start winning. Because we are
  402. 12:29the majority in this country now. We are
  403. 12:31We We have the ability to take over this
  404. 12:33country and to do what is needed for
  405. 12:35everyone and to make things fair.
  406. 12:39>> See, the coalition is going to press and
  407. 12:40going to make things fair. They're going
  408. 12:41to take it all over and make things
  409. 12:43fair. Now, that comes along with a with
  410. 12:44a little bit of weirdness, of course. I
  411. 12:46mean, like for example, according to the
  412. 12:48New York Post, West Hollywood, which is
  413. 12:50the gayest area of probably the world,
  414. 12:52it's like West Hollywood or Fire Island,
  415. 12:55West Hollywood will now allow thruples,
  416. 12:56foursomes, and other multi-partner
  417. 12:58relationships to register as domestic
  418. 12:59partners and receive new legal
  419. 13:01protections for polyamory.
  420. 13:04The measure allows people in
  421. 13:04relationships involving multiple
  422. 13:06partners to officially register with the
  423. 13:08city granting them certain rights,
  424. 13:09including hospital visitation and
  425. 13:10additional tenant protections.
  426. 13:13That's so nice. I mean, right?
  427. 13:16Additional tenant protections. I can't
  428. 13:18imagine anyone abusing this. Can't
  429. 13:19imagine these five gay dudes
  430. 13:22basically being like, "Hey, we're all
  431. 13:23married now.
  432. 13:25And uh if you upcharge us on the rent,
  433. 13:27then that's because you're you're some
  434. 13:28sort of bigot in West Hollywood."
  435. 13:32Yes, it turns out that um all of the
  436. 13:34oppressive structures will be struck
  437. 13:36down, including apparently
  438. 13:38penalties for murder.
  439. 13:40So, Gavin Newsom, governor of
  440. 13:41California, who's attempting to steal
  441. 13:42some of the glory of the far left, he
  442. 13:46announced on Thursday he's commuting
  443. 13:47every death sentence in his state to a
  444. 13:49sentence of life in prison without
  445. 13:51parole.
  446. 13:53So, quote, "My decision today comes
  447. 13:54after nearly three decades of openly
  448. 13:56opposing state-sanctioned executions as
  449. 13:58an elected official."
  450. 13:59So many nice people who are going to
  451. 14:01escape the death penalty in California.
  452. 14:03That would include say Todd Givens and
  453. 14:05Billy Joe Johnson,
  454. 14:06both members of white supremacist gangs
  455. 14:08who have been sentenced to death.
  456. 14:10Or say Skylar DeLeon, sentenced to death
  457. 14:12in 2009 for murdering three people by
  458. 14:14tying them to an anchor on a yacht and
  459. 14:16throwing them alive into the Pacific
  460. 14:18Ocean.
  461. 14:18The good news is
  462. 14:20that at least we won't be deprived of
  463. 14:21having to pay for his transgender care
  464. 14:23because it turns out that DeLeon
  465. 14:24transitioned to female from male while
  466. 14:26serving his sentence.
  467. 14:29Others who will escape the death penalty
  468. 14:30in California include Glenn Helzer who
  469. 14:33led a cult called the Children of
  470. 14:35Thunder and murdered five people in an
  471. 14:37extortion scheme.
  472. 14:39Eric Houston murdered four and held 100
  473. 14:40students hostage for 8 hours in the 1992
  474. 14:42Lindhurst High School shooting in
  475. 14:44California.
  476. 14:47Or say Cary Stayner who killed four
  477. 14:48women in Yosemite National Park
  478. 14:50including one woman by cutting off her
  479. 14:51head in 1999.
  480. 14:53Or Marcus Wesson who sexually abused and
  481. 14:55impregnated his nieces and then held his
  482. 14:57nieces hostage in a police standoff that
  483. 14:59ended with nine of his own children
  484. 15:00dead, seven of whom were 8 years old or
  485. 15:02younger. Well, at least they'll get to
  486. 15:03live on the taxpayer's dime. That's the
  487. 15:04important thing.
  488. 15:06Don't worry, the radicalism of the
  489. 15:07Democratic Party in those no bounds.
  490. 15:09Again, aren't you glad you elevated this
  491. 15:10party?
  492. 15:11It's going to be great, guys. Oh, yeah.
  493. 15:13And radical Islam is continuing to make
  494. 15:16inroads. Democrats, by the way, are
  495. 15:17already talking about about Abdul Rahman
  496. 15:19al-Sayyad of Michigan
  497. 15:21running for president. Remember, he was
  498. 15:24born in America, so he's an American
  499. 15:25citizen by birth,
  500. 15:26even though he hates the country.
  501. 15:28They're already talking about him
  502. 15:30running for president.
  503. 15:32Here he was on MSNBC saying, "Hey, hey,
  504. 15:34hey, hey, hey.
  505. 15:35We just have to understand that when
  506. 15:38we are talking about Jews,
  507. 15:41it has nothing to do with Israel. So,
  508. 15:42when we say that Israel should be
  509. 15:43destroyed, that has nothing to do with
  510. 15:45Jews at all. At all. In fact, the best
  511. 15:47Jews hate Israel."
  512. 15:51>> We have to separate between Judaism and
  513. 15:53the Jewish people
  514. 15:54and Israel and its actions. We have to.
  515. 15:57And I've tried to do that consistently
  516. 15:58across my campaign, but people keep
  517. 16:00saying, "Well, because of your positions
  518. 16:02on Israel, you must also feel a certain
  519. 16:03way about Jewish people." I say, "Well,
  520. 16:05no, actually.
  521. 16:06We have to differentiate between our
  522. 16:08foreign policy." And by the way, I apply
  523. 16:10the same approach to the government of
  524. 16:11Egypt where my family came from. And I
  525. 16:13would hate that somebody would assume
  526. 16:15that I I okay with the human rights
  527. 16:16abuses of the government of Egypt simply
  528. 16:18because I say I share the ethnicity of
  529. 16:20the majority of people
  530. 16:21who are in Egypt. So, we just have to be
  531. 16:24governing on principle and we have
  532. 16:25broken our own principles when it comes
  533. 16:27to Israel time and again.
  534. 16:30>> Oh, but I've noticed that he's never
  535. 16:31called for the abolition of the state of
  536. 16:33Egypt. I've noticed that he's never done
  537. 16:34that. That's weird.
  538. 16:35How strange.
  539. 16:37Sarah Haines on The View pushed Abdul
  540. 16:39Rahman El-Sayed on the fact that he said
  541. 16:41about an actual honest-to-god terrorist
  542. 16:43who tried to murder Jewish school
  543. 16:44children, quote, "Hurt people hurt
  544. 16:45people." Here's how it went.
  545. 16:48>> Because your response that hurt people
  546. 16:50hurt people after the Temple Israel
  547. 16:52attack in Michigan in March really stuck
  548. 16:54with a lot of people and you did
  549. 16:55apologize for that. But it took you a
  550. 16:58while to back took you about 5 months to
  551. 17:02it seemingly understand why that landed
  552. 17:04wrong with people and voters and
  553. 17:05constituents.
  554. 17:07You know, do you think that leaders have
  555. 17:09a responsibility
  556. 17:11to challenge the extremist views in
  557. 17:13their own religion, especially
  558. 17:14considering you're the first Muslim
  559. 17:16senator of the United States?
  560. 17:19>> I do want to offer though when we step
  561. 17:20back, it is important for us to be
  562. 17:22thinking about how do we start
  563. 17:24addressing all of the downward spiral of
  564. 17:26our politics right now?
  565. 17:28>> Yeah.
  566. 17:28>> And I think too often there is this
  567. 17:29approach where we say good and evil. And
  568. 17:32that good and evil approach hasn't
  569. 17:34really helped us root out a lot of the
  570. 17:36pain that causes a lot of the damage
  571. 17:38that we see in our society. And so, I
  572. 17:40was trying to argue about or or offer
  573. 17:43context around the fact that that
  574. 17:44individual had lost a uh child niece and
  575. 17:48nephew in an airstrike.
  576. 17:51>> Um
  577. 17:52so what?
  578. 17:56I'm sorry, so what? He was a terrorist
  579. 17:58who tried to murder a bunch of Jewish
  580. 17:59school children.
  581. 18:02What in the world does that have to do
  582. 18:03with Israeli policy in Lebanon? He also
  583. 18:06neglects to mention that that person was
  584. 18:07an adjunct member of Hezbollah
  585. 18:09and the airstrike was on Hezbollah
  586. 18:11members.
  587. 18:14He apologized? He didn't apologize. He
  588. 18:15believes all the same extremist things
  589. 18:17he ever did. So, I'm I'm so glad that he
  590. 18:18now gets to sit in the Senate where he
  591. 18:20will have access to classified foreign
  592. 18:21policy material. How could it go wrong?
  593. 18:23How could it go wrong? Great job
  594. 18:24everyone. I'm glad that you punished the
  595. 18:26Trump administration so that we get
  596. 18:27Abdurrahman Elsayed sitting in the
  597. 18:29United States Senate, maybe on the
  598. 18:30Foreign Relations Committee. It'll just
  599. 18:32be awesome. By the way, the Council on
  600. 18:34American Islamic Relations, which
  601. 18:35started as an offshoot of the Muslim
  602. 18:36Brotherhood, has now released
  603. 18:38preliminary tracking results from the
  604. 18:39November 3rd elections showing at least
  605. 18:4197 confirmed American Muslim electoral
  606. 18:43victories at the federal, state, and
  607. 18:44local levels across 21 states
  608. 18:47including 38 legislative state wins.
  609. 18:50Another 15 Muslims are leading in races
  610. 18:51that have not yet been called.
  611. 18:54Just great. Thank God our home state of
  612. 18:57Florida
  613. 18:58has banned CAIR, and so CAIR has now
  614. 18:59officially suspended operations in
  615. 19:01Florida.
  616. 19:02Thank God for Florida, man.
  617. 19:05Well, what's the path? Okay, we can fast
  618. 19:06forward. We know what the path looks
  619. 19:07like.
  620. 19:08We know what the path looks like. The
  621. 19:09path looks like France. And that's where
  622. 19:11we're headed to. We're headed there
  623. 19:13on high-speed rail
  624. 19:15as soon as it gets built by the
  625. 19:16California government. We are headed
  626. 19:18there.
  627. 19:19According to the Interior Ministry of
  628. 19:21France
  629. 19:22575,000 people protested across France.
  630. 19:25Unions claim close to 1.6 million. They
  631. 19:28are demanding higher wages.
  632. 19:30They are protesting austerity.
  633. 19:33Again, France spends more money per
  634. 19:35capita
  635. 19:36than pretty much any country
  636. 19:38on Earth.
  637. 19:40But, they're protesting austerity
  638. 19:42because again, it must be capitalism
  639. 19:44that has failed here.
  640. 19:46The People's Forum
  641. 19:47joined French protest for international
  642. 19:49solidarity among working people. Again,
  643. 19:51they're protesting against austerity.
  644. 19:54The People's Forum is funded entirely
  645. 19:56almost by the
  646. 19:58man who lives in communist China,
  647. 19:59Neville Roy Singham.
  648. 20:01Here they were.
  649. 20:04>> We're here in the streets today on
  650. 20:05November 5th in Paris with people as far
  651. 20:08as the eye can see for the general
  652. 20:10strike that are standing against the
  653. 20:12Macron government and the policy of
  654. 20:14austerity here in France. We're here in
  655. 20:16international solidarity with the
  656. 20:18strike, but from here to Italy, to all
  657. 20:21across Europe, to Palestine, to Cuba,
  658. 20:24everywhere that we stand, we are in
  659. 20:26solidarity together as working people.
  660. 20:28What we see here in France is just an
  661. 20:30example of what can happen when people
  662. 20:32come together and they fight and they
  663. 20:34struggle together.
  664. 20:36Uh they're not protesting against the
  665. 20:37Cuban government and they're not
  666. 20:39protesting against Hamas, by the way.
  667. 20:40Just noticing.
  668. 20:41Uh here are some of the French
  669. 20:42protesters explaining why they're
  670. 20:44protesting austerity measures.
  671. 20:47>> The rich stay rich. The poor stay poor.
  672. 20:49It's all about the the military, the
  673. 20:51police
  674. 20:52and and stuff to shoot on us, even
  675. 20:54against children, against everyone.
  676. 20:56>> They ask us, the poor, to pay for them.
  677. 20:59We already are poor. WHY ARE YOU asking
  678. 21:01us to give you more money? You're the
  679. 21:03one who's supposed to aid us, not the
  680. 21:05opposite.
  681. 21:06>> They don't use the money for the right
  682. 21:07thing. They use it for the military, the
  683. 21:09police, repression, not to the to the
  684. 21:11people.
  685. 21:11>> I'm here cuz I'm French. I'm a
  686. 21:12university student. Today's a big day
  687. 21:14where all the syndicates are here, but
  688. 21:16we've been protesting like 3 days a week
  689. 21:19every week, so it's mostly just about
  690. 21:21austerity. It's against austerity. It's
  691. 21:23against student conditions. They're
  692. 21:25funding war. They're funding the police,
  693. 21:27but not schools.
  694. 21:30>> Oh, really? Is that what's happening
  695. 21:31over there? Should point out that France
  696. 21:33spends roughly 1/3 of its entire GDP
  697. 21:36just on welfare programs.
  698. 21:39Don't worry. It's It's about that. It's
  699. 21:40not about hating cops or hating
  700. 21:41authority or just generally hating the
  701. 21:43system. That's why they're burning
  702. 21:44effigies of cops.
  703. 21:55>> [cheering]
  704. 21:58>> Now again, I know the American people
  705. 22:00were just hungering for normality. I get
  706. 22:02it. I too I do. I get it.
  707. 22:04I've been saying for very a long time, a
  708. 22:07long time, literally probably a decade,
  709. 22:09that Americans just want normality.
  710. 22:10That's all we want. Well, unfortunately,
  711. 22:13normality was not on the table. So,
  712. 22:14we're not going to get it.
  713. 22:15It's not going to happen. We're just
  714. 22:17going to keep bouncing. We're going to
  715. 22:18keep ping-ponging side to side until
  716. 22:19somebody offers normal.
  717. 22:21That's what's going to happen. What an
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  719. 22:25that amazing? Well, you know, if you
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