On this week's episode of The Rambling Mug Club, the crew talks about Joe Biden's press conference, voting rights, and the longest press conference ever given by a president. Plus, a deep dive into the party switch.
00:02:58.000So this is something that's been one of the most requested segments, and I guess we've touched on it before, but we haven't done the deep dive, as the youngins say.
00:10:20.000Look, look, I know you're waiting, the horses and everything, but can you just make like a guest appearance and just say that you're not with him?
00:10:30.000He's kind of like, I've been making a guest appearance for three years, none of you seem to care.
00:10:35.000I know you said nobody knows the time, but I mean, it looks right to me.
00:12:18.000He spoke sometimes in parables, which were actually pretty simple, maybe reductive to use the term for all the leftists who like to use the term nuance to make it sound like they have a political science degree, which you probably do.
00:13:01.000Remind me on Mug Club, and it's my favorite day of the week, it's Chat Thursday, where we take all of your chats, to tell a story about how I used the power of the church to almost choke my brother to death.
00:13:53.000Speaking of voting rights legislation, if this isn't passed, do you still believe the upcoming election will be fairly conducted and its results will be legitimate?
00:14:04.000Well, it all depends on whether or not we're able to make The case to the American people that some of this is being set up to try to alter the outcome of the election.
00:14:18.000Remember how we thought not that many people were going to show up to vote in the middle of a pandemic?
00:14:24.000We had the highest voter turnout in the history of the United States of America.
00:14:27.000Russia will be held accountable if it invades, and it depends on what it does.
00:14:32.000It's one thing if it's a minor incursion, and then we end up having to fight about what to do and not do, etc.
00:14:38.000Now, whether or not I think that How can I say this in a public forum?
00:14:52.000I think that he... Look, I didn't overpromise, but I have probably outperformed what anybody thought would happen.
00:15:05.000If you have a problem, figure it out whether you're for me or Trump, and you ain't black.
00:15:38.000By the way, I know we like making fun of Joe Biden, but he did something really bad there, and he's like, you know... That's right, he swirled himself, ho ho.
00:15:45.000Looked around the room like he was about to tell a black joke?
00:15:47.000Yes, he looked around and he said, hey look, there's a southern pastor.
00:15:49.000I'm a southern pastor, this is how I do it.
00:15:51.000Then he said, ho ho, I swirled myself.
00:22:00.000Alright, before we move on to the party switch, which I'm looking forward to getting into, this is while we're talking about very scary things, Amy Schumer.
00:22:08.000The new Scream, released this weekend actually, just had 30.6 million dollars, had a pretty, had a pretty, dare I say, dare I say a frightening success.
00:31:04.000At least he hasn't said it dozens of times.
00:31:07.000If your defense, former vice president, your strongest defense is from the publicly assigned defending attorney in My Cousin Vinny, I'm doing better!
00:31:26.000So let's get into this, the party switch myth, because right now the Voting Rights... Is it called the Voting Rights Act, the Voting Rights Bill?
00:31:33.000I think it's officially titled the Voting Rights Act.
00:32:18.000The reason that it goes unchallenged is because often people are afraid of having to defend the character of individuals who've played a role in their party.
00:32:26.000You sort of see this, for example, with President Trump, where people would say, well, you know, he
00:32:31.000sent out mean... I've always been very clear about the problems that I have with him, but I didn't feel the need
00:32:34.000to say it every single time that he did something good.
00:32:36.000Republicans are afraid because of the character assassination, and this is what they do when they say, look,
00:32:40.000there was a party switch, and they go, well, okay, I guess, you know, Trump-Thurman did some bad stuff, so let's just
00:32:45.000get off of that, because they have a bunch of strategists telling them that it's a losing play, and it's just
00:32:49.000incorrect, it's very easy to refute, and I'm going to do it here in about, let's call it 20 minutes tops.
00:33:22.000It's common knowledge, I mean how did the country go from looking like this to looking like this?
00:33:26.000So this is the situation we're starting with, Democrats in blue, Republicans in red.
00:33:30.000This is what the country looked like at the end of Reconstruction, Republicans were dominant in the North and West, and Democrats in the South.
00:33:37.000Lincoln was a Republican, and the states which formed the Confederacy were mostly Democrats.
00:33:41.000Whenever they start with everybody knows… Right.
00:33:43.000Right, it's nobody knows, the bullshit you spew, this is not correct.
00:35:18.000Only one Democrat politician flipped to Republican during this time period where they talked about how there was a switch.
00:35:24.000And we're going to go through this transition, how it's taken place over the course of time, really over the course of 40 years, why it had taken place.
00:35:32.000And it's not because people became more racist.
00:35:34.000As a matter of fact, it's the opposite.
00:35:35.000So sometimes, you know, I see this a lot from the left or people online, you know, who used to get this a lot from the atheist community, right?
00:35:41.000There's this correlation doesn't equal causation.
00:36:49.000He filibustered the Civil Rights Act for 14 hours, one of the longest ever in history.
00:36:54.000He used to be, I think, in the top five until recently, in the last maybe 20 years, and it started to happen more often.
00:37:00.000And I'm using this as a specific example because people try and point to Strom Thurmond, say he became Republican, therefore the party switched.
00:37:05.000Well, look, far be it for me to defend Strom Thurmond as a perfect individual.
00:37:09.000However, you do have to understand that he switched to becoming a Republican.
00:37:14.000And once he had become a Republican, after, he was one of the first southern senators
00:38:05.000Because he was a Democrat before he came.
00:38:07.000The only thing that he'd switched was his party affiliation to Republicans and you're saying that he came to the good side and you are the leader of the party that is supposed to be the friend of African Americans and every minority group in the United States and you're saying this guy's a good guy and he became a Republican to do it!
00:38:22.000He became a good guy, he became a Republican, and then he hired some black aides, he had a change of heart, so all references are available at lottowithcrowder.com.
00:38:28.000The point is, you can't have it both ways.
00:38:29.000Now contrast that with Robert Byrd, who remained a lifelong Democrat, worked for the Klan, recruited for the Klan, so back then... Retired on Klan dental!
00:38:39.000His day job was filibustering the Civil Rights Act, and he moonlighted as a Klan grand dragon wizard, Cyclops.
00:40:00.000So again, and I'm not saying that when he was saying that, that means that he was racist, because you need to take it in context, and in context, he was pretty racist.
00:40:10.000And if the wrong two planes went down, he was just a hair's length away from the presidency under Barack Obama as the president pro tempore, I believe.
00:40:19.000I heard a white guy say that at an open mic, I'm not even kidding, white n-words, and it was the most uncomfortable I've ever been.
00:40:25.000Was it like the crickets in the audience?
00:40:31.000No, it was completely... No, I was like, this guy's gonna get hurt really bad after this show and I'm gonna watch.
00:40:38.000So let's go through, kind of, now that you have these individuals who filibustered the Civil Rights Act, you now have the numbers as to how the Civil Rights Act, well, 5764, came to be.
00:40:47.000Let's talk about the switch of Southern Democrats to Republicans.
00:40:51.000Well, this is a switch that had taken place over the course of about 40 years, just to be clear.
00:40:57.000It happened pretty slowly before the Civil Rights Act.
00:41:00.000It was starting, and then you sort of started to see a transition again.
00:42:14.000A lot of people didn't, but you watching right now, listening, this is remedial for you.
00:42:20.000If you feel bored by this, understand the chasm that exists between you right now, the viewer, the listener, and people who are at Ivy League universities.
00:42:31.000Because most of them, most of them can't tell you to which party Abraham Lincoln belonged.
00:42:36.000It's okay, we'll go to that later there, Tim, but I know he was getting ready for me to cue it up because I did a video 12 years ago at Berkeley.
00:42:42.000Understand that Abraham Lincoln, right, you're talking about he was a Whig at one point, basically, right, the creator effectively, or you would say of the Republican Party.
00:43:21.000And the struggle was, we just cannot reconcile our Constitution and the ownership of human beings.
00:43:28.000That's the creation of the Republican Party.
00:43:31.000And then you can see why this started changing, why there was an evolution, why the South started changing after, while we're talking about the Civil War.
00:43:39.000And you see this party growing and Increasing in influence.
00:43:43.000It's tough for us to look back and go, well, now we have racists and non-racists.
00:43:48.000Back then, you wouldn't be able to define a racist to anyone!
00:43:55.000So hopefully that helps you contextually.
00:43:57.000So now what they will tell you is of course this is well this happened and then the party switched and now they kind of shy away from that and another argument is but you know what it doesn't doesn't matter because right now the Democrats are the ones they're the ones championing civil rights.
00:45:06.000It was my first On Location Super Video, I believe, back in 2009, where we talked about Great Society, we talked about Model Cities Program, talked about Jerome Kavanaugh, first mayor of Detroit, 61, all the way up to today.
00:45:15.000Now, the Great Society incentivized and increased the number of single-parent households.
00:45:43.000But the soft bigotry was, hey, you know what?
00:45:46.000If you vote for us, we'll give you two checks.
00:45:49.000Hey, if you vote for us, we'll give you more, we'll create this massive welfare state.
00:45:53.000Hey, you know, but just don't get married.
00:45:56.000It's better if you have two single households than having a joint household, and there was an incentive for people, and he sought out cities.
00:46:03.000Detroit was also supposed to be sort of coinciding as a model city, the model cities program.
00:46:40.000Hey, affirmative action, universities, and then you see black students dropping out at rates that are exponentially higher than their counterparts.
00:47:39.000Were you about to say something there, Joe?
00:47:40.000I was about to say, I mean, this with LBJ's incentives, he was basically saying, like, a lot of people see these are perverse incentives that he created.
00:49:17.000This is how you train a lot of animals, but certainly dogs, if you want to condition them positively, you reward behavior with a treat, but guess what you don't do?
00:49:26.000You typically don't do that Right after a meal right you give them a treat you don't
00:49:30.000fill them up on a treat because they don't know where the Next treats coming from it's alright you get this now go
00:49:35.000over there. Okay sit you get this treat I know it's it's not enough. You're not you're not starving
00:49:41.000you have enough, but okay now lay down no No tree. Yeah, here's a check. No wait
00:49:46.000This is written down in Proverbs in Scripture.
00:49:48.000If a man does not work, he does not eat.
00:49:50.000one but just enough. Okay here's a welfare state, okay here are EBT cards, okay this is how it works.
00:49:55.000This is how you condition people to become rent control.
00:49:58.000Here's eviction moratorium even though I know it's not legal. And by the way this is not a new
00:50:02.000theory right this is written down in proverbs in scripture. If a man does not work he does not eat and it
00:50:07.000paraphrases basically to say let his belly be his guide.
00:50:11.000When he's hungry enough, he'll get up and go work so that he can eat.
00:50:15.000That's the kind of motivation we need because we're at our heart.
00:50:52.000So here's also, LBJ, that's the soft racism, and you see it through policy.
00:50:57.000And I hate that term, but that's the term that we're sort of using here because it's a term that I know you're probably more familiar with.
00:51:18.000Now, we've got to do something about this.
00:51:19.000We've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference.
00:51:25.000And I want to give you another quote because this is something back when, you know, LightOathCreditor.com, and now you can see the references there, but back when we were mainly writing articles before this show was the size that it was, a big part of what we did was writing daily articles.
00:51:38.000And it was tough to find a source for this quote from LBJ.
00:51:43.000And so we ended up doing a story, I think a long time ago, on Snopes, not fact-checking this horrible quote that you're about to hear from LBJ, not saying it's false, but doing everything in their power to avoid acknowledging that it's true.
00:51:55.000Because again, these quotes from these historians that you just heard, no one doubts them.
00:52:35.000It says, circling back to the quote which we started, it wouldn't have been entirely out of character for LBJ to have said something like, I'll have those n-words voting Democratic for 200 years.
00:52:44.000But on balance, we have to question its authenticity.
00:52:47.000Now, keep in mind, this is the same Snopes that said Ilhan Omar, uh, did not marry her brother.
00:54:51.000Do you remember how in the 2008 election, John McCain was trying to distance himself from George W. Bush because he wasn't the best president?
00:55:03.000So If the party today, the Republican Party today, if you say they switch, this is the premise, we just showed you from Vox and what was it, the one who's Truth Before Whatever It Is, Lookout Truth, the guy that everybody knows, I don't know, another gay guy in a plaid shirt.
00:55:26.000So, if the party switched from Abraham Lincoln, okay, the acknowledgement, right, the premise from the left is Abraham Lincoln, Republican, freed the slaves, but then it switched.
00:55:35.000Why would today's racist party be clamoring to continually identify themselves with Abraham Lincoln?
00:55:43.000Why would Donald Trump say... In other words, if you believe that Donald Trump is a politician, right, who just wants to say what people want to hear, why is the current Republican assuming that all other current Republicans like the Republican who freed the slaves?
00:55:57.000It would be a losing strategy if he was saying it to a room of racists.
00:58:31.000It was, you know, back then there were no podcasts.
00:58:33.000Like when we started this podcast, again, there was no there yet, but the Louder with Crowder episodics, these started like in, I want to say 2009, 2008.
00:59:11.000The baby collecting social security, that one.
00:59:14.000So I think in that same video where I did a Berkeley series, it might be that one, but you can search, go back through this if you're on YouTube right now.
00:59:23.000And by the way, if you're on YouTube, smash that like button right now.
01:00:12.000So, I asked a professor, I said, hey, yeah, how many of these slaves in the United States were stolen, you know, captured, versus sold and purchased, sold into slavery from the old world?
01:00:27.000She said, that's a very good question.
01:01:35.000He was the first guy who got arrested by a police officer and everyone made it about race, and so then Barack Obama invited him to the White House, there was a beer summit, and one of them preferred Blue Moon.
01:01:46.000I can remember all of these things, and I know that's 100% right, but I can't remember his name.
01:03:03.000Cornell. So the point is I remember him estimating Cornell West. I think if you type in this right now
01:03:08.000You know, it will take your chest. I want to say that he said
01:03:10.000Or he gave an estimate that the amount of slaves who were sold as opposed to captured was 90-something percent
01:03:17.000I think he might have said as high as 96 percent Wow, so you guys can find that reference
01:03:21.000Well, I'll show it on mug club, but everything else and by the way, this is
01:03:24.000This is there will be a bonus to whoever one there in the mission control on mug club who fact-checks everything that
01:03:31.000I just said Cornel West was arrested by a police officer, then Barack Obama had them to the White House for a beer summit, one of them preferred Blue Moon, and also find that number of the estimate from Cornel West about how many of them were sold into slavery versus captured.
01:03:47.000These are the things that I remember, it's bizarre, and I can't remember a name.
01:03:52.000I'll be sitting there, I'll be like, I remember you went to Heritage Academy High School, you were an honors student, I remember you were in the international program, you did figure skating, I also remember that your hair was blonde, then you dyed it red, I remember that, and then I'll be like, yeah, but what's my name?
01:04:16.000It's ironic that I'm using Snopes now.
01:04:17.000He said, in all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere.
01:04:23.000We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
01:04:33.000So this is what I want to leave you with.
01:04:34.000The shift in the South was something, and it's so funny because I often encourage being reductive.
01:04:41.000I encourage you to be able to... There's an old saying, I don't remember who said it, so this is not why I can't remember the name of who said it.
01:04:48.000There's an old saying that if you can't explain, if you can't give your pitch, if you can't explain the concept, make your case in 30 seconds or less, you have no business making it.
01:04:56.000So I think it's important, I think it's a valuable skill, not to take simple topics and make them complicated, but to take Complicated topics and make them simple.
01:05:04.000I believe that any skill... I think this is the difference between sort of virtue signaling and reading your resume versus an actual skill.
01:05:12.000Comparing, for example, trade schools versus a gender studies degree.
01:05:19.000A useless skill or a useless degree or, in this case, a useless gift where people want to pretend to be, let's say, hyper-intelligent, it's a gift for yourself.
01:05:30.000If you can take a simple topic and make it complicated so fewer people understand it and then use the term nuance to cover your tracks, you're not helping anybody.
01:05:37.000A valuable skill is somebody really, really smart who's able to take it and boil it down.
01:05:41.000So, ironically, as someone who says there's nothing wrong with being reductive, I actually value that skill more than creating something Or making it more complex than it needs to be in this situation.
01:05:53.000Look, the transition of the South to Republican took place over a long period of time.
01:06:00.000It took place over a long series of issues.
01:06:03.000And I encourage you to go check all references again at the website.
01:06:38.000That was the reason that it existed, and you look through history, okay, they supported civil rights, you see that?
01:06:43.000And then today, you still see Democrats enacting, legislatively, the kind of soft bigotry of low expectations that you saw from LBJ, that you saw a long time ago, and today, you still have Donald Trump, you still have Ron DeSantis, you still have today's Republicans invoking Abraham Lincoln.
01:07:02.000So they were anti-slavery, they were anti-racist back then, and the people today still want to have him on their money and get his endorsement.
01:07:09.000There's a lot that happened in between.
01:07:11.000Just don't buy the premise from the left because if you just fact-check a little bit, just a couple of points, it falls apart.
01:07:18.000And by that I mean actually fact-checked, not a Snopes.
01:07:21.000Ilhan Omar may or may not have banged her brother.