Stephen Colbert is a liar, and we're here to prove it. Plus, we talk about the latest in the Rudy Giuliani scandal, and why the Trump administration is the worst in the history of presidential scandals. Plus, a new segment called Runthru, where we re comparing and contrasting the scandals of the past and present.
00:05:08.000And then we're like, okay, now we have to frame it so that we can serve you with references and, you know, actually add value, because otherwise it would just be us going, All day.
00:05:46.000And that's a big scandal compared to Kamala Harris, who's been buying fake headlines that Google has allowed and not even told you is an advertisement.
00:05:56.000For AP, I believe Axios, Reuters, praising Kamala Harris, they will show up in search, and they will show up as organic news articles that don't actually exist, and Google didn't have a problem with it, and there was also a glitch where it didn't show you that it was sponsored.
00:06:49.000And more, if at some point today, which if we do get into Snow White, I don't know if we have time, I don't like the broad, you may see this on YouTube.
00:06:59.000Head over to Rumble, because it's a live show.
00:08:00.000Because I thought it was about the woman, I didn't know what to say, like, I don't know her, poor thing, I hope she's okay, but it sounds like, man, I got hit by a car, and I'm going, oh, poor thing!
00:08:10.000So my apologies, uh, Josh, he's gonna go get, uh, checked out because he's, uh, not feeling well, so, uh, Keep them in your prayers.
00:08:16.000And Captain Morgan, CEO number two, how are you?
00:08:33.000I wonder what Trump will actually do if he gets back into office?
00:08:35.000You don't have to speculate, because he calls his plan Agenda 47, and spoiler alert, it's scary as sh**.
00:08:41.000Here's some of the worst ideas we're in store for if he wins in November.
00:08:44.000He's promised to end birthright citizenship, enlist an army to round up and deport millions of undocumented immigrants, and deploy thousands of US troops to the southern border.
00:08:52.000Trump says he'll ban gender affirming care for trans kids, I'm listening.
00:09:40.000Black Americans who've actually bought into the idea that the nuclear family is the byproduct of a racist society, or colonialism, or slave ownership, when, okay, let's assume that that's true, which it's not, do you not think you'd be better off with a mom and dad?
00:09:57.000It's sad to me that anyone has bought into this, the nuclear family.
00:10:00.000By the way, I thought you guys liked weird.
00:10:03.000You have drag shows for kids, and you have kids identifying as cats in school, and they can legally change their driver's license to whatever gender they want.
00:10:11.000I thought you were the party of weird, and I say this as someone who's definitively weird.
00:11:22.000Alright, 100% of the proceeds do go to the Trump campaign because I'm not a tech billionaire, but hey, you know what, you guys can help us there.
00:11:39.000Stephen Colbert, you know, he's gone viral because of the Caitlin Collins moment.
00:11:43.000So before I move on to his doctoring of audio and I move on to the line of attack against Donald Trump for which they accused Donald Trump of using against Joe Biden because he had a stutter.
00:13:10.000I remember five months ago when he acted as though the attack on Joe Biden being incoherent was a soul wounding insult.
00:13:18.000So that brings us to this installment of Then and Now.
00:13:21.000Okay, so a couple of things here. This is going to be a multi-part
00:13:31.000kind of approach. References available. Link in the description.
00:13:34.000Here is Stephen Colbert now, where he went off on Donald Trump for the Elon Musk X interview, right, and he was late, he was a day late, which surprised me, I think they maybe pre-tape a Monday show, saying that Donald Trump was slurring his speech, but there's even more to it than what you see.
00:13:52.000Even though the technology was a complete cluster munch, shall we say, so was the actual interview.
00:13:59.000For some reason, Trump was slurring his words throughout.
00:14:04.000And many listeners said he sounded like Sylvester the Cat.
00:14:10.000Now, if that sounds like an exaggeration, listen to the actual audio.
00:14:17.000You'll have some that won't do well, but they'll actually be forced to do better because it'll be a pretty bad situation.
00:14:24.000Now, Musk was clear from the outset that this wouldn't be a hardball interview.
00:14:29.000I want to emphasize it's a conversation, and it's really intended to just get a feel for what Donald Trump is just like in a conversation.
00:14:40.000It's hard to catch a vibe about someone if you just don't hear them talk in a normal way.
00:14:46.000Okay, but what if they talk like their teeth suddenly grew three inches overnight, and their cheeks are stuffed with delicious saltwater taffy?
00:14:54.000Does that make it easier to catch a vibe?
00:14:57.000Okay, to be clear, first, no, not funny, but it would be a fair line of attack if Donald Trump had developed a speech impediment overnight.
00:15:04.000I do believe that it would be, and it certainly would be fair game for comedy.
00:15:07.000Now, that didn't happen, so it's a false premise, but it's even worse.
00:15:10.000I want you to listen to the audio again that Stephen Colbert presented, not as a joke, but the audio.
00:16:10.000You can comment, does it seem like Stephen Colbert doctored it a little bit?
00:16:14.000And if he did, was it clear that it was a joke?
00:16:17.000I'll certainly never be one to fact check a joke, but it doesn't seem like the audience, and the reason I would present the argument that it doesn't seem like it's meant to be a joke is because it is lockstep with the DNC talking points and every single mainstream outlet who are making the same point.
00:17:48.000But even if they were both true, If your jokes were predicated on something true, it's fair game to me!
00:17:55.000It's the double standard, and you take that double standard and you apply it across the board to which views are permissible to be presented, to which views are actually presented on Google, maybe as a sponsored ad versus a non-sponsored ad, to perhaps removing the sitting president of the United States from all digital social media platforms.
00:19:57.000If I want to punish my dog, I just give him one of those indestructible dog toys who wanted to be a sponsor to the show and nearly killed him.
00:20:23.000So, again, and going along with the double standard, and this is also, it's going to lead into this recent poll, and why it's inaccurate.
00:20:31.000Now, I can't verify that all of the polls out there Can be weighted however they want and that they aren't accurately reflecting the American conscience.
00:20:41.000What I can do is prove that this one poll the media is using as a talking point is verifiably false.
00:20:47.000And it's important to lay the groundwork here in how the media treats these candidates because that's honestly the first layer before you get to the legitimacy of a poll.
00:21:18.000I don't know if you know this, but for the first time a majority of Americans support deportation and certainly actually building a wall and having some kind of border security.
00:21:28.000However, the media immediately went into attack mode saying that actually this tweet implying that there is a third world This is an ex, a social media post from the campaign, okay?
00:21:44.000The campaign is backing him up on this, I mean, racist messaging.
00:21:52.000I understand that they say racist because the picture has some black people.
00:22:22.000You're lying if you're claiming that you've never used the term shithole to describe a house, to describe a country, to describe a neighborhood.
00:23:13.000So here are some headlines from The Independent.
00:23:15.000Trump campaign is dragged for racist post about life under Democrats from Huffington Post.
00:23:18.000The Trump campaign just tweeted something really racist and then of course that gets amplified by social media and Donald Trump is not afforded the platform to defend himself.
00:23:44.000They got caught running ads that altered real news headlines to ones that were basically praising, they were effectively campaign ads for Kamala, thinly veiled.
00:24:58.000So AP and Reuters, the places that they did this with, Axios broke the story, but AP and Reuters were the ones that had the ads that made it look like they had articles.
00:25:29.000Well here let me read you some of the fake news headlines you guys can bring them up and I think we have some side-by-sides where it says so if you would have searched Kamala Harris something let's say in Google search this would show up from AP and you would think it's an AP article where it says VP Harris's economic vision lower costs and higher wages that's actually an ad from the Harris campaign Reuters inflation is down that's a paid ad from the Harris campaign NPR Harris will lower health care costs That's an ad.
00:25:59.000And it may not have even told you that it was a sponsored ad.
00:26:05.000This, by the way, this administration, the White House, you've heard Jen Psaki, you've heard Karen Jean-Pierre, they have wanted misinformation to be barred from big tech.
00:26:13.000AP Reuters and NPR are considered Benchmarks, right?
00:26:17.000They're actually used in determining what is permissible information versus misinformation.
00:28:02.000It was so bad that Kamala was even called out by some left outlets like the New Republic.
00:28:07.000They said, It's unclear why Harris' campaign felt the need to do this, as there has been plenty of positive coverage of Harris since President Joe Biden withdrew from the race and endorsed her to replace him.
00:28:23.000It's unclear why they would need to present that the media's bought and paid for when we're clearly already bought and paid for.
00:28:41.000The same woman saying, tech billionaires, Elon Musk and Donald Trump, who don't represent the... Okay, what about Meta, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok?
00:29:21.000She hasn't given a press conference, she hasn't given an interview, and she hasn't really answered any legitimate questions in 24 days since she's been named the nominee.
00:30:58.000They tried to assassinate Donald Trump!
00:31:00.000And then they put a chart on there, or sorry, they put kind of some bullet points and they say in 2016, Russia, to help Donald Trump, Interfered with the election, and then they just kept going.
00:31:09.000Like, they're just still living in this fake world where all of these organizations are in the bag for drugs.
00:31:34.000Okay, price-fixing usually means what?
00:31:36.000Usually means fixing a price, meaning you make it impermissible for that price to change.
00:31:41.000I know sometimes people miss it, but usually it's a government policy meant to be used during times of shortages, things like that, so that you don't see astronomical inflation, which we have seen.
00:31:49.000Here is Kamala Harris talking about this.
00:31:53.000When I was Attorney General, I went after price-fixing schemes.
00:31:57.000And when I am President, I will continue that work to bring down prices.
00:32:04.000Okay, alright, so here's the thing, that comes off the heels where she said, I know, and you know, that groceries are still too expensive, even though she tries to say the economy is doing great.
00:32:15.000And then she blames it on price fixing.
00:33:01.000We know how this works because we did it in this country with rent forgiveness against, by the way, constitutional law, according to the Supreme Court, where we said, hey, you don't have to worry about the rent right now.
00:34:01.000Yeah, people don't understand what price-fixing is fundamentally, and that the really egregious price-fixing, for example, is rent control that you see from the government.
00:34:08.000You guys ever been to a rent-control apartment in New York?
00:34:11.000They're actually talking about this right now, the meme.
00:34:36.000That it disproportionately affects black workers who work in the jobs that you've, by the way, described when you describe economic injustice and you want to push for equity.
00:34:44.000You know that they're disproportionately affected by illegal immigrants coming in and working, for example, manual labor jobs.
00:34:50.000They steal a higher percentage of jobs from black working Americans than upper middle class white Americans.
00:35:03.000You know, there was something so repulsive about hearing those two very wealthy guys laughing about firing people.
00:35:11.000Doing it in such a kind of a callous manner, right?
00:35:14.000It's not just what they said, it's how they said it.
00:35:20.000It's not the substance, it was not nice.
00:35:23.000The way he said he wanted to fire people, the way that Elon Musk came in and he fired people who wanted to continue to make Twitter a non-profitable company with their net negative stock value, to come in and to fire them and say these people don't know what they're doing, I think that that is mean.
00:37:09.000You don't want to offend Anna Navarro because she may lose more weight.
00:37:17.000So they're talking about, and this is what they do, they point to labor unions and they act as though that's you, the working class American.
00:37:27.000They've picked up a new thing because the Lisp didn't work, right?
00:37:29.000The stutter didn't work, the attack against Donald Trump.
00:37:32.000So now they're saying these people are callous.
00:37:33.000Elon Musk and Donald Trump joked about firing workers to the point that the UAW, the United Auto Workers Union, filed labor charges against Elon Musk and Donald Trump over laughing on a podcast.
00:37:46.000What was behind the decision to do it so quickly?
00:37:49.000Look, because this is the problem in America right now.
00:37:52.000The rich keep getting richer at the expense of the working class, and people like Donald Trump and Elon Musk, they sneer at labor law, but they don't care about labor law.
00:38:01.000Because they don't care about working class people.
00:38:12.000Employers need to be held accountable in this country when they break the law.
00:38:16.000So, Donald Trump was talking with Elon Musk about firing people at X, or a clean-up, and then he said, and there are some companies where, oh, if you try and change, we're gonna go on strike, fine, you're all gone.
00:38:46.000No, no, that's different, but then ActBlue lawyers and they file it with the NLRB.
00:38:50.000This is a tactic as old as time, by the way.
00:38:52.000They do it with employers, ActBlue gets their claws in somebody, the biggest organization, right, that supports the Democrats in the country.
00:38:58.000They throw lawyers at you to say, file some labor charges, because these are the same people, by the way, who've actively fought against right-to-work states where there's far more economic prosperity.
00:41:35.000Each active General Motors employee Basically sponsors 3.2 retirees.
00:41:41.000So that means there are 3.2 retirees for every active employee with Cadillac Pension Benefits.
00:41:48.000The company, it covers healthcare, it covers dental.
00:41:52.000We've actually averaged out, if you go back and watch the video Detroit and Ruins, we averaged out the cost of dental per car with a GM car.
00:42:00.000It's about 5.3 billion dollars for one year if you're looking at these costs with the UAW workers, you're looking at the Cadillac benefits.
00:42:06.000And I'm not saying that people don't deserve a pension, that people don't deserve some benefits, but it has to be determined by the market.
00:42:21.000Why does the UAW worker matter more than the American worker for Toyota, for example, in Texas?
00:42:26.000I believe the most American car on the road is the Toyota Corolla as far as American parts, assembly, labor.
00:42:31.000The result is they need bailout after bailout, they make shitty cars, and then their plants get moved to Mexico.
00:42:40.000The bailouts are guaranteed if they fail again from a Harris administration because there's nothing that Democrats like more than to bail out giant companies at your expense.
00:42:49.000You don't work for GM, for Ford, you don't work for the big three, your tax dollars go to pay for the company that should fail in large part because of the UAW and they want to make it seem like it's the working man versus the elites.
00:43:00.000Alright, I don't know if you actually believe it.
00:43:03.000You want America to look like Detroit?
00:43:07.000And by the way, when was it something that you could file a lawsuit over?
00:43:11.000Or a complaint to the NLRB for somebody who's saying, you cut all these, I can't believe you cut it, that's incredible, these people, if you're in a right-to-work state and people are like, hey, we're gonna go on strike, it's like, well, you mean you're gonna try to shut down my production because you don't like the contract you signed?
00:44:36.000The guy that I almost never listen to.
00:44:39.000He made this point to CNN and he said, look, I'm doing a lot of interviews.
00:44:41.000I've been doing this since 1989, 1990, and I have never publicly seen, to this degree, Actually, frontline workers saying the management of the autoworkers unions don't represent us.
00:44:54.000The union bosses, they don't represent us at all.
00:44:57.000And the more they go after it, the more they go after Trump, the more he's seeing people go to Trump that actually work the jobs that want to have a better life.
00:45:06.000The management, they don't, it's not the company management anymore that's a problem, it's the UAW management, it's the union bosses that are the problem, that do not represent, or even, honestly, come on, care about the workers.
00:46:10.000And a new poll by the Financial Times and the University of Michigan Ross Business School shows Americans Trust VP Kamala Harris more on the economy than former President Donald Trump.
00:47:39.000That is not in line with other polls if you look at the crosstabs.
00:47:42.000So, there is, just to start off with, A slight oversampling of Democrats and a significant oversampling of strong Democrats, which makes the answers, to be clear, where people actually trust Trump more than Kamala Harris on the economy, according to this poll, that much more meaningful.
00:48:01.000And I know the general public, when they say, hold on, they approve Kamala more than Trump, is thinking the same thing.
00:49:24.000If Donald Trump wins the presidential election in 2024, do you, his economic policies is what they wrote, but do you think his economic policies will leave you financially?
00:51:07.000A blowout that didn't happen, and even worse when you look at specific states.
00:51:10.000According to one of the pollsters involved, they said 2020 was an oh shit moment for all of us.
00:51:17.000So just to be clear, this is a poll that is oversampling Democrats, oversampling strong Democrats, and the two follow-up questions, you now have two clear-cut examples, show that more Americans believe that Donald Trump's financial policies will leave them better off, more Americans believe in this poll, meaning more Democrats believe that Kamala Harris's financial policies will leave them worse off financially.
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