In honor of Black History Month, we honor our colored brethren, Gerald Morgan and Dave Landau join Jemele to talk about Ray Charles and his ability to see shapes in braille. We also discuss Dominion's lawsuit against Mike Lindell, the minimum wage and why it actually hurts workers.
00:01:49.000You know, Dominion is suing Mike Lindell, so we're going to talk about that.
00:01:52.000We're going to talk about the minimum wage and why it actually hurts workers, and of course, some of the media is not really telling you, 77% decrease in COVID in the last six weeks.
00:02:32.000Did I ever tell you my mother-in-law was like a singer who toured with Joni Mitchell, Stevie Nicks, Aretha Franklin, and so sometimes they would be around musicians, and my father-in-law one time sat down With Ray Charles, he was reading a playboy in braille at the airport.
00:03:29.000I'm curious to see what happens here, because he said that would so make my day, because they would have to go into Discovery, and that would make my job a lot easier.
00:03:37.000That's what he said before, and look, here's the thing, you know, we were going to have Mike Lindell on the show, and people have asked me, why haven't you focused on Dominion?
00:07:22.000Just so you, but people say it's beyond parody.
00:07:25.000I think we actually have a video from LinkedIn, a mandatory training video for Coca-Cola because this is, these are the front lines of the race war.
00:07:33.000And every moment that I spend in white space, I am being deeply reinforced.
00:07:40.000Oh, why can't we all just be human beings here?
00:08:13.000That was so... At the end, if for no other reason, Titanic sucks, because at the end, everything she goes through, and it's basically like the Hope Dime, and she's like, bye!
00:08:22.000Yeah, she's like, life is the real treasure.
00:08:25.000It's like, yeah, but it would be better with millions and millions of dollars.
00:09:48.000When you just say white culture, it's not the same as African-American culture, because you have Jewish white Americans, you have Italians, you have Irish, you have Bulgarians, you have Russians, right?
00:09:56.000But when you say you are no longer allowed to defend yourself because of your race, you're going to create racists.
00:10:03.000White people can no longer say, I'm not racist.
00:10:05.000That'd be like saying to Asians, you can no longer say, I'm not cheap.
00:16:16.000Only 12% of the population is vaccinated, right?
00:16:18.000And this was starting over six weeks ago.
00:16:20.000This is what people have been saying for a long time, that we've sort of reached a certain amount of herd immunity.
00:16:24.000And there's an article in the Wall Street Journal where someone was talking about the tests and how they underestimate cases and how many people in the population have actually likely been infected, which by the way means the mortality rate is lower, but we're at that point where this clearly, it's in the middle of winter, there aren't enough people vaccinated at this point, it takes weeks for the vaccines to kick in, they were just talking about it on CNN, and it's already decreasing.
00:19:36.000Oh, and by the way, you know all the people that have told us that even if you get COVID, you could get it again.
00:19:39.000The reinfection rate is less than 1% with mild to no symptoms.
00:19:43.000And by the way, they did a 90 year old person who was a survivor of the Spanish flu, still had the ability to produce a fight against the Spanish flu.
00:21:08.000There you go. Okay, fine. Let's go back to, here's one that's not, let's go to the minimum wage. This
00:21:12.000is something that this, well, first let's start with this COVID relief bill. Everyone thinks,
00:21:16.000well, of course you want the COVID relief bill. Why wouldn't you want to give people money? Well,
00:21:20.000okay, economics, but we'll get to that after. There are possibly more reasons to oppose the
00:21:26.000COVID relief bill than to support it. Yeah.
00:21:30.000And I'll get to the primary gripe that I have with it, but let me give you a couple.
00:21:33.000First off, this COVID relief bill, which is meant to help people during coronavirus who've had their businesses shut down.
00:21:38.000I don't know how this helps them, but expansions to Obamacare, $128.5 billion to teachers unions, $40 billion to universities, $91 million to domestic and international student loan borrowers, $10 million to the preservation of Native American languages.
00:22:08.000But what's also in this bill, which likely won't necessarily make it all the way through,
00:22:11.000and is probably the most, could be the most damaging thing to thrust upon the American
00:22:17.000public and certainly small businesses, that I can think of.
00:22:20.000Well, not the most damaging, like a $20 minimum wage would be bad, but $15 is bad enough, is the $15 minimum wage would have devastating consequences.
00:22:29.000And of course, this is something that has been supported by everyone on the left.
00:22:33.000My radical idea is that in America, if somebody works 40 hours a week, that person should not live in poverty.
00:23:16.000I did the french fries and I did the ice cream.
00:23:20.000But the reality of McDonald's Is that a majority of the folks who are working there today are relying on that income to sustain a household and a family.
00:23:32.000I worked at McDonald's as I put on the black voice right now when it's convenient.
00:24:08.000It is the exact opposite of the truth.
00:24:11.000Let me give you a summary really quickly.
00:24:13.000And you guys can tell me, people out there who are watching, if you're small business owners, what it would do to your business.
00:24:17.000They want you to think that a $15 minimum wage is something that these giant businesses can afford and they're the only ones who oppose it.
00:24:23.000$15 minimum wage would crush, absolutely destroy small businesses.
00:24:27.000The only people who actually support it are the wealthy billionaires who earned over a trillion dollars in net worth and earnings in this pandemic.
00:24:34.000I'll get into that in more detail, but this is their talking point.
00:24:37.000Here is AOC saying we need a $15 minimum wage because people like Jeff Bezos otherwise will just... the rich friends will keep all the money to themselves!
00:24:44.000Do you think that's why he's a billionaire?
00:24:45.000Because he pays his workers starvation wages?
00:24:48.000I think it's certainly a part of the equation when you have a very large workforce and you underpay every single person.
00:24:54.000Yeah, but when you underpay every single person, like the 25,000 jobs she rejected from her municipality that paid an average of, wait, 150,000 each.
00:27:29.000The Democrats, and this is why you see right now this changing, the demographics, that the Republican Party is the party of the working class, sort of a blue collar party, they always line up With big powerful corporations, whether it's big tech for censorship, whether it's big corporations for minimum wage.
00:27:45.000Just look at the small business, all of the associations in America, small to mid-sized businesses, they all oppose it.
00:27:50.000Amazon, Google, those places, Target support it.
00:28:07.000Look, we talked about it just a minute ago, but restaurants are disproportionately hurt by this because now, instead of having to bump you up to whatever it was, 8 or 10 bucks an hour if you're like the worst server in the world and can't get enough tips over the course of an hour, now they have to bump you to 15.
00:29:26.000But I'm wondering, what is your plan for smaller businesses?
00:29:30.000How does this, in your view, affect mom-and-pop businesses who are just struggling to keep their doors open, keep workers on the payroll right now?
00:29:38.000Well, they shouldn't be doing it by paying people low wages.
00:30:35.000What's fair is me saying, hey, I think it's worth this much.
00:30:37.000You're going to add this much production to the value of whatever product or service that I'm putting out there, I get to tell you, and you have the choice of saying yes or no.
00:30:54.000That same guy right there, I forgot his name, that representative.
00:30:57.000He said, really, if we look, if we adjust for inflation, like after the Great Depression and wage increases right now, the minimum wage should be $23.
00:31:03.000Because that's in direct relation to their value contributed.
00:31:08.000Again, think of just when you go and order, I don't know, a quarter pounder with cheese, only it's a nothing pounder with cheese.
00:31:16.000This has happened to me at the drive-thru.
00:31:52.000If you lived in a liberal state where all of their policies that they wanted, in a dreamland, which they're kind of there, they could enact.
00:31:59.000Okay, so you're high and you don't deliver the pizzas, but the guy still has to pay $23 an hour because that's the minimum wage.
00:32:04.000And he can't fire you because of workers' rights and you can't have a no-fault state for firing.
00:32:08.000So this person's going to continue being employed, but maybe they spend their money on drugs and they don't actually pay their rent, but they go home and they have squatters' rights and you can't actually evict someone from rent.
00:32:17.000So you can't kick them out of the apartment, and you end up with a Matthew Modine, Kevin, uh, Michael Keaton scenario with the guy putting roaches in your apartment, so he's not contributing to his job, he's not contributing to rent, we've hurt the business owner, and we've hurt the landlord.
00:32:35.000We used to think it was work hard, get ahead, white picket fence, have a wife, some children, but now we know that that destroys the environment.
00:32:39.000Now it's do nothing and get more than the guy who risked everything to create a business.
00:32:50.000They always have all the money, these rich people.
00:32:52.000Well, yeah, it's like, look, it's going to be $16 for your Big Mac.
00:32:55.000And you're like, as long as they're getting money.
00:32:58.000No, I'm just pissed that I have to pay that much for a crappy burger.
00:33:00.000As long as I know that those people who slap their clientele at the midnight or two in the morning WorldStarHipHop videos are getting 22 an hour, I feel good about patronizing the Waffle House.
00:33:11.000Well, you know what McDonald's did is they just went to these self-service kiosks.
00:33:14.000They're like, alright, we'll put in robots.
00:34:12.000If only we had some specific examples.
00:34:14.000And I always like to go back to some of these, and we'll get to Denmark in a little bit, just because I love that the Prime Minister told Bernie to shut the hell up.
00:34:22.000But let's go through, you know, American Samoa is one of them, and we've all seen those people.
00:35:41.000So that's how you know she doesn't really care about the minimum wage.
00:35:43.000She didn't want jobs that were paying six figures for crying out loud.
00:35:45.000But Amazon has openly supported a $15 minimum wage, and they pay a $15 minimum wage.
00:35:51.000But as they virtue signal about that, they actually just eliminated workhouse productivity and stock options for their lowest-skilled workers.
00:35:57.000So it actually resulted in a net loss of income for many of their employees.
00:36:01.000Hey, do you know who don't have stock options and productivity options?
00:36:20.000They're either going to cut benefits, they're going to cut jobs, they're going to bring in automation, they're going to do all of these things.
00:36:25.000And Bernie Sanders and AOC, if they really are trying to help people out, instead of this whole fight for 15 campaign, how about earn 15?
00:36:33.000That would help more people out there than you trying to change the minimum wage in five years, by the way, when it would fully kick in.
00:36:38.000I would just love for once, like you were talking about how you forgot to deliver pizzas because you were in an altered state.
00:37:41.000So, what I would just love is when you have these folks who say, like, well, you know, I believe that everyone, not everyone, and can we also just acknowledge that that's not really an outlier.
00:39:35.000And I think we should look to countries like Denmark, like Sweden, and Norway, and learn from what they have accomplished for their working people.
00:39:44.000Well, Denmark doesn't have a minimum wage, so you're batshit crazy and really stupid.
00:40:29.000Even though no minimum wage, they have a slightly higher average hourly wage, but it accounts to about 44% less than you have as an American with purchasing power.
00:40:37.000So let's look at what the average person in Denmark pays.
00:41:02.000Take that into account if we follow that lead.
00:41:03.000Do you really think that a $15 minimum wage is going to give Americans the ability to afford a 12-year-old $40,000 shitty car and an $800,000 one-bedroom apartment?
00:41:16.000Because that's what you're looking at with purchasing power when you do the averages.
00:41:22.000And when you oversimplify this and say, well, if they can do it, we can do it, it's like saying, well, if they can provide free health care, well, they don't pay for a military, okay?
00:41:34.000Not to mention, I would say, it's not an insignificant fact that it's a very small, homogenous country and they don't have to compete with millions in foreign, undocumented, unskilled labor.
00:41:48.000Well, I feel like I've overpaid for my apartment and car.
00:41:55.000Someone send Coke to Denmark so they learn how to not be so damn white.
00:42:13.000This is one thing that has always really interested me, and no one else ever talks about this, right?
00:42:17.000They say that, well, the Danes in the Swedish, they have higher living standards than the United States, and that takes into account a lot of things.
00:42:24.000And again, the people who say this are $40,000 for a used old Jetta.
00:42:31.000So let's just say that even including all that because of your social safety nets in Denmark and in these Scandinavian countries, they do have a higher living standard than Americans.
00:42:39.000Well, that is true according to whatever international metric they use.
00:42:42.000But here's something they never tell you.
00:42:43.000Danish Americans, so when you take those Danes and you transplant them in the United States, they have a 55% higher living standard than those living in Denmark.
00:42:51.000Swedish Americans have a 53% higher standard of living than Swedish Swedes in Sweden!
00:42:58.000So what you do is you take people from these countries that are incredibly homogenous, that have an unbelievably burdensome tax system, and they also have a culture that appreciates, to some degree or another, and I know I'm surprised saying this about Sweden, but Denmark, a lot of these countries, that appreciates work, that appreciates a work ethic, being industrious.
00:43:15.000You transplant them to the land of opportunity, and they do far better.
00:43:19.000We have all of these sources available at LottaWorthCredit.com.
00:43:22.000It's one of those factoids that people don't believe, and I didn't believe it when I first read it.
00:43:28.000Well, and Republicans basically are saying in this bill, look, we can't govern this way.
00:44:55.000And they put these rules and systems into place to be as least intrusive they possibly could be because they believed that that would be the best way for Americans to pursue life, liberty, happiness.
00:47:05.000I don't want the louder transcript to read the word that Joe Biden said and be associated with me, with the former Vice President of the United States.
00:50:16.000That's what I do appreciate about DeSantis.
00:50:18.000Here he is where they were trying, again, the media to attack him in a partisan way regarding his handling of the vaccine rollouts to different municipalities.
00:50:27.000It's just, like you said, he always wins.
00:50:28.000But look, I mean, if Manatee County doesn't like us doing this, then we are totally fine with putting this in counties that want it.
00:51:03.000If you don't eat your dinner, I can give your dessert to your brother and your sister and your other brother and not feed you for days on end and lock you in a closet, but I think you probably want to finish your vegetables!
00:53:12.000So after Trump gets banned from Twitter, DeSantis did.
00:53:15.000He introduced this legislation to limit, and this is landmark if you don't know what it is, but he introduced this legislation to limit the power of big tech within his parameters as it relates to the state of Florida.
00:53:25.000If a technology company de-platforms a candidate for elected office in Florida during an election, a company will face a daily fine of $100,000 until the candidate's access to the platform is restored.
00:53:38.000If I were to give something of value to a candidate or political committee, it would be a contribution.
00:53:43.000Big Tech has been manipulating news content and designing algorithms to give the upper hand to their candidates of choice, and they do so scot-free.
00:53:52.000Again, euphemistically called content moderation.
00:53:56.000I think it's more political manipulation.
00:54:00.000When it comes to elections in Florida, Big Tech should stay out of it.
00:54:05.000Why would it be so hard for Republicans on a national level to do this?
00:54:09.000That's what bothers me when you think about it.
00:54:11.000And I can explain this now because it turns out I can't do this legally.
00:54:15.000I checked with my lawyer, but I don't live in Florida.
00:54:17.000What I wanted to do was run for some local office in Florida that was won by like eight votes, like constable or dog catcher, and then sue Facebook for $100,000 a day.
00:54:28.000And I also think Donald Trump should run in some county for like city council, but he won by 92% and just get it and then just tweet, I'm back.
00:54:50.000I'd spend that on billboards, I'd run them even outside of Florida, just so that there would be no chance of an opponent getting the upper hand.
00:54:58.000Unfortunately, election laws say that unless I'm Hillary Clinton and I have a timeshare for two weeks, I actually have to live in Florida.
00:55:04.000How fun would it be though to make commercials for that against the other guy?
00:55:08.000I hear he kills the dogs once they get in the car.
00:55:27.000This is an example of something that I think, look, I think they would eat, they would just eat the bill if it were Donald Trump, $100,000 a day, but they're not going to do it with every single local city council representative.
00:56:18.000No mass mail-in voting, no ballot harvesting, signature verification, meaningful observation of signature matching, no grants from third-party organizations, real-time reporting of voter turnout at the precinct level, and election supervisors must report the number of ballots requested, how many have been received, and how many are left to be counted.
00:56:36.000It's almost like, without pointing it out, this is made to address the last election.
00:56:43.000It's almost like it covers all of the bases.
00:56:47.000This is all very reasonable, by the way.
00:56:56.000My wife, my wife cannot call into my bank to raise my credit card limit and I don't even use it.
00:57:03.000It's just so that that way it's better for your credit score apparently.
00:57:06.000My wife can't do it even though I've authorized her 15 times but someone can fill out my down ticket ballot without even my John Hancock so that Uncle Sam is a little wise to what's going on.
00:57:49.000I think, I think every politician that, well not every, there's so many politicians who would say, I would never do that, I am too busy doing the job for the people that I'm sorry, you want me to be president?
00:58:01.000Could you, could you imagine this guy debate, well, I mean, he wouldn't be debating Biden, he'd probably be debating Harris, but let's just say in a world, could you imagine him?
00:59:03.000I would never do that because I respect the American constituency and I don't think that saying the n-word is something that most of them appreciate.
00:59:43.000I would just, let's just see how many people would, if we tell them that 100% effective in reducing transmission is just a plastic bag with a zip tie.
01:02:11.000I was just saying, Donald Trump, if he said, and I, by the way, obviously I don't like Donald Trump, but Donald Trump, if he were saying that, he would say, look, listen, the news likes that, okay, but really, what we know about the UK variant, okay, because everyone's talking about the UK variant, that's what they're saying, the UK variant, the UK, the United, the variant from the United Kingdom, some people say Britain, it's not just Britain, it's the UK, they have a variant, they have a South African variant, there's a, there's a variant, folks!
01:02:37.000From Brazil, but we're not talking about that right now.
01:03:43.000Alright, well listen, we actually have to get going speaking of which we have some more to talk about that, believe it or not, cannot be discussed here on YouTube.
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