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00:00:00.000All right. Happy Thursday, gang. Well, for some of us, it is a happy Thursday. Yesterday, I was a bit gloaty. I'm not going to lie. Today, I would like to be more sensitive to those that are still reeling from the election results like these young people on TikTok. Take a listen.
00:00:14.960How did we get here? How did we get here? What in the Alice in Wonderland nightmares is going on right now? All I can say is how dare you? If you voted for that man, if you voted for anybody other than Kamala and you live in one of the states that it was, you know, close, or if you didn't vote, you.
00:00:44.960Senate race, it's not going to happen.
00:02:43.560I get why those young people are crying, because, look, the Democratic platform has really been all about pulling at heartstrings, right?
00:02:50.640It's all feelings over the facts, the feelings over safety, the feelings over reality.
00:02:56.200Of course, you should be fine with inflation, because just think about how sad Zelensky is going to be if you don't send him your hard-earned money.
00:03:03.660The child says she's a non-binary mermaid.
00:03:06.460Well, of course, we should just add it as another gender or else her feelings would be hurt.
00:03:11.880And one of the recent crazier pushes has been that we ought to feel bad for people that are breaking the law.
00:03:19.600We should understand why they have to break the law.
00:03:23.820And rather than wanting to learn anything from the results, they get right back to work trying to make people feel sad for people that are going to be victimized by law and order.
00:03:35.660Now he's going to bring back law and order.
00:03:37.080And think about all of the victims of that.
00:03:39.220They did a segment, I'm not kidding, on MSNBC where they spoke to the children of illegals, who all look like adults to me, by the way, and they wanted to get their take on Trump's promise to deport millions of illegals, which may or may not include their parents.
00:03:56.800Now, if you're listening to this on audio only, be warned that these children of illegals don't actually speak any English.
00:04:02.780I'm going to have to interpret for you guys along the way.
00:04:08.000Once you're hydrated, you need to connect with the fact that a defining feature of Trump 2.0 is the promise to decimate American communities by targeting immigrants for mass deportations.
00:04:19.380Now, this could amount to the expulsion of millions, millions of people who are already contributing members of our society and who live here with their families.
00:04:27.380On election night, MSNBC's Paola Ramos joined mixed status families in Phoenix, Arizona, to monitor the outcomes and to listen to their fears and concerns.
00:04:39.440And here is what some of them had to say.
00:05:04.640And she's basically just saying that she feels a lot of anxiety going into the election because she is the daughter of two undocumented migrants.
00:05:13.400And so she therefore just has a lot of anxiety.
00:05:29.220And similarly, he's echoing the sentiment that he doesn't really know what to feel, but he just feels fearful for all of the people in the immigrant community and all of his family and friends.
00:05:40.200And here is Joy Reid's takeaway from that anxiety and fear.
00:05:43.680Now, having heard that, it must be said that Donald Trump made major gains with Latino voters, particularly Latino male voters last night.
00:06:07.200There's a lot that I like to say in response to that particular clip.
00:06:09.340Foremost, it is borderline comical that none of the children speak English because that tells us just one of two things.
00:06:15.560One, they're either brand new here and therefore should have no problem going back home or they have made zero effort to acclimate themselves to our country.
00:06:23.980And there's something about that to me that just feels so arrogant.
00:06:27.160Like if you're going to come into this country and you're going to explain to us that your parents did so illegally,
00:06:31.620wouldn't you just make your best effort to try to acclimate yourself to our society and learn our language?
00:06:36.160Is that just me feeling like that just is wrong that they don't engage in that way?
00:06:40.120And the other thing of note here, and this is really important, I want you to lean in.
00:06:48.180OK, so this is what happens everywhere in the entire world when your parents break the law.
00:06:55.200It's actually quite audacious to be willing to appear on camera and to ask for sympathy after your parents have broken the law.
00:07:02.920Think of any other scenario if I was like, hi, yes, I'm watching because this person is about to be elected the sheriff and my dad broke into the neighbor's house and he's just been taking free stuff.
00:07:15.140But if this sheriff gets elected in this town, he's going to take my dad away.
00:07:47.980It was when Trump's first administration, the first four years, and he went on 60 Minutes and fielded questions about the costs that are associated with deportation, as well as how families that face deportation might stay together.
00:08:33.220That is just the reality of the circumstances, is that everybody can go back home.
00:08:37.840If that is something that is so crucial to you and you want to stay with your mom and your dad, those people obviously look like they're adults or about to be adults.
00:08:43.340You can always have the option to go back home with them.
00:08:45.620There is actually a legal process to getting into this country.
00:08:48.840I know because I married an immigrant and the process is long.
00:08:52.960It's a lot of paperwork and it's really annoying, but you have to know what it looks like and what it feels like for us when we are doing things the legal way.
00:08:59.260I'm literally waiting years in line for my husband to be able to receive a passport, doing everything right, having to go through work visas, everything that we have done for the last five years, only to see this woman sit up and be like, yeah, my parents didn't do that, but it would be really unfair if you sent them back.
00:09:13.000I just I just I just don't understand how they don't understand.
00:09:17.140And it is just this sort of consistent mainstream media delusion that is difficult for most Americans to come to terms with their campaigning.
00:09:24.120Essentially, they have been campaigning and telling the public, really, you should do it or somebody else is going to be sad or do it or you're a racist, do it or you're a sexist.
00:09:36.220That is pretty much all they say. That is the pitch. They become really a skipping CD, like artificial unintelligence.
00:09:43.680They can't learn anything at all. And when someone tries to interject a different thought or a perspective, they simply just go back to their factory settings.
00:09:51.800Take a listen to Alyssa Farah. OK, that's the fake Republican, you know, the mandatory fake Republican they have on The View and they go, oh, I'm a Republican, but I actually happen to always agree with the people on The View.
00:10:00.260OK, well, that's Alyssa Farah's role. And she does occasionally say some things that make sense.
00:10:05.340And she sat down there and tried to explain to Sonny Hostin, like, maybe there's another angle here as to why Latinos are voting for Trump.
00:10:14.640Take a listen to this. So we have people talking about, well, how did he win Michigan?
00:10:19.060Because Democrats are saying, oh, she should have talked more about Gaza. No, union halls were empty.
00:10:23.760Dearborn went for Donald Trump. This is not about a micro issue like Gaza.
00:10:26.780It's people saying the cost of living is too high. The wages are too low.
00:10:31.060My life felt better under him. And I know what we'll say.
00:10:34.240Well, Goldman Sachs says the economy will do better under her.
00:10:36.920The analysts at UPenn and Wharton, nobody who is struggling to make ends meet at the table.
00:10:42.740Like, how am I going to pay this bill? Cares what Wharton professors say about the economy.
00:10:45.980That's because they were bombarded with misinformation.
00:10:47.980Just one more thing I want to say. This issue of abortion, which I hope we can unpack more.
00:10:52.740There are a lot of women who cared about abortion, but they were in states like Pennsylvania where they don't have an ultra restrictive abortion law.
00:11:02.020They were voting more because they're like pocketbook issues matter more than if a woman in Alabama is able to get an abortion.
00:11:08.520But they're going to do worse under a Trump administration.
00:11:10.560The only people that are going to do well are the millionaires and the billionaires.
00:11:13.200And finally, we talk a lot about these different demographics and these assumptions of where they're going to go.
00:11:18.340Latinos in Texas, a district that's 97 percent Latino, went 75 percentage points for Donald Trump.
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00:12:48.620OK, it's democratic civil war bound to happen, by the way, because you have a bunch of people and they're pretending to be united behind Kamala.
00:12:55.900Nobody really knows how she got there.
00:12:57.760And there's always people in the party that know what they are doing is insane, but they're fearful to say anything because then they're going to get eaten by their own.
00:13:04.860And the left is always in lockstep behind their candidates.
00:13:07.980God forbid you say anything that goes off the the laid track before you.
00:13:12.700So what you have now, which is super interesting, is Bernie Sanders has issued a statement.
00:13:43.740It should come as no surprise that a Democratic Party, which has abandoned the working class people, would find the working class has abandoned them.
00:13:50.980First, it was the white working class, and now it is the Latino and Black workers as well.
00:13:55.460While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change, and they are right.
00:14:00.960Today, while the very rich are doing phenomenally well, 60% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck, and we have more income and wealth inequality than ever before.
00:14:09.320Unbelievably, real inflation accounted for weekly wages for the average American worker are actually lower now than they were 50 years ago.
00:14:17.780Today, despite an explosion in technology and worker productivity, many young people will have a worse standard of living than their parents, and many of them worry that artificial intelligence and robotics will make a bad situation even worse.
00:14:28.400Today, despite spending far more poor capital than other countries, we remain the only wealthy nation not to guarantee health care to all as a human right, and we pay by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.
00:14:38.700Today, despite strong opposition from a majority of Americans, we continue to spend billions funding the extremist Netanyahu's government, all-out war against the Palestinian people, which has led to the horrific humanitarian disaster of mass malnutrition and the starvation of thousands of children.
00:14:57.340Will the big-money interests and well-paid consultants who control the Democratic Party learn any real lessons from this disastrous campaign?
00:15:03.580Will they understand the pain and political alienation that tens of millions of Americans are experiencing?
00:15:07.740Do they have any ideas as to how we can take on the increasingly powerful oligarchy, which has so much economic and political power?
00:15:16.400In the coming weeks and months, those of us concerned about grassroots democracy and economic justice need to have some very serious political discussions.
00:15:57.580When I first got started in politics, she maybe doesn't want to admit that she's very much come over now to a more sensible, moderate position.
00:16:23.680And the fact of the matter is Kamala Harris chose to try to convince disaffected Republicans,
00:16:31.060all three of them, to vote for her by campaigning with a neocon.
00:16:36.960Campaigning with Liz Cheney, a deeply unpopular politician who was voted out of her congressional
00:16:42.400seat because even the Republican Party has changed in regard to their views on neoconservatism.
00:16:50.860The big cover up in regard to Biden's mental health, that was a giant mistake by the Democratic Party and they're suffering consequences for that.
00:17:51.020Like the stuff that they did, the people that they've killed overseas, the, you know, pushing the military industrial complex.
00:17:56.900I mean, it's every reason why no one really buys that Kamala Harris had no power as a VP when Dick Cheney was running the White House for eight years.
00:18:15.040But amazingly, and this is what's getting really interesting to see Anna go after these delusional leftists, like in a way that you can't imagine she would have done in the past.
00:18:22.980Like, I feel like in the world of BLM, you could never imagine Anna Kasparian having gone after Nicole Hannah-Jones.
00:18:29.040I'm going to show you what Nicole Hannah-Jones tweeted.
00:18:31.560She's essentially somehow a Pulitzer Prize winner.
00:18:39.600This is her diagnosis of what's happened and how they lost.
00:18:42.580It was naive to believe that if Kamala Harris avoided discussing her race and gender, that if she evaded so-called identity politics, that she would nullify the liability of being a black woman seeking the presidency in a country where racism and misogyny are embedded in the culture.
00:18:56.720This is a country that responded to a multiracial electorate sending the first black president to the White House with a minority of the white vote by electing an openly white racist man over the person who could have become the nation's first woman president.
00:19:09.740She goes on, anti-blackness continues.
00:19:12.280By the way, drink every time you hear the word black if you want to die.
00:19:17.320Anti-blackness continues to be a powerful force in this country, and anti-blackness cannot just be attributed to white Americans.
00:19:23.860The shock about the significant increase in Latinos choosing Trump with his anti-immigrant rhetoric, family separation policy, and insults of Latin countries over a black woman tells me too many people fail to understand that anti-blackness is deeply embedded in Latino cultures as well.
00:19:42.720And that the interests of those who are part of that very large, multiracial, multinationality, Latino category are not, and not ever have they been necessarily aligned with those of black people simply because many white Americans do not consider them to be white.
00:19:56.260This is why, as I argued in my essay on the color blindness scam, that we must stop lumping all non-white people into a single of color group.
00:20:05.200This woman is really out here trying to convince us that Latinos are racist.
00:20:14.300And it's like, how is that going to work for you?
00:20:16.160How, if that's going to be now the adjusted approach, like you just keep calling everybody Hitler, everybody racist, and it just keeps the party of Hitler and racism just keeps getting bigger and bigger.
00:20:27.380And now you've arrived at like, yeah, no, the Latinos, they're racist too.
00:20:31.080These Puerto Ricans, these Dominicans are racist too.
00:21:45.940They want to keep up the performance, even as their tribe gets smaller and smaller and smaller.
00:21:50.660And who better to give us an example of what I am talking about when I say utterly delusional and really just speaking to hear yourself speak than Jimmy Kimmel.
00:21:59.120I hate to tell you guys, but he's crying again.
00:22:04.720It was a terrible night for women, for children, for the hundreds of thousands of hardworking immigrants who make this country go, for health care, for our climate, for science, for journalism, for justice, for free speech.
00:22:23.560It was a terrible night for poor people, for the middle class, for seniors who rely on Social Security, for our allies in Ukraine, for NATO, for the truth and democracy and decency.
00:22:39.540And it was a terrible night for everyone who voted against him.
00:23:07.400You think that he has ever stood up there and cried about the gas prices or, like, the grocery prices or cried on behalf of the Americans, people that are working with their hands?
00:23:15.120And literally paycheck to paycheck because Zelensky's wife needs to go on another shopping spree in Paris, which is what she has done.
00:23:21.660I mean, there have been articles about the corruption of where our money is going.
00:23:47.400His job is to just propagandize, not to understand, right, but to be angry when people take a stand against the deep state because he's a part of the deep state.
00:23:55.260And I don't know how he went from a person who was once on the man show.
00:23:59.420And if you want to talk about misogyny and sexism, we should go find some old clips of Jimmy Kimmel to this sad, pathetic excuse of a crybaby man.
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00:25:10.940All right, you guys, the celebrity reckoning continues.
00:25:12.860That's been the best part of this week.
00:25:13.940Honestly, so many obvious highlights to just answer to the celebrity call, the fake tears, them trying to tell us how to live when they just are so removed from reality.
00:25:24.600I mean, just people following around, answering their every beck and call.
00:25:28.260And for them to lower themselves, because that's what they're doing, lowering themselves to pretend that they understand the shoulders of the average American people, it was an insult.
00:26:09.180So there are like 300 million people in this country.
00:26:12.640There are 150 million voters, give or take.
00:26:16.240And the combined social media followings of the people that endorsed Kamala, meaning Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Selena, Chelsea, Amy, everybody, like powerful people, Obama, Hillary, the combined social media, Jennifer Lopez, etc.
00:26:35.640The combined number is over 2 billion followers.
00:27:24.000And what about like television show media impressions, the entire cast of The View, you know, like just we just have to adjust instead of just jamming the same narrative down people's throats overall in what works and how to communicate with an audience.
00:27:42.140And to hear the metrics in that way, like just their combined followers, even if you just took two of them, Beyonce and Taylor Swift, the combined impressions, the combined articles that they're able to generate when they say something.
00:27:53.060And to realize that it made no impact.
00:28:51.620I know so many people who just can't watch these people anymore.
00:28:54.740Like I don't know how to engage with J-Lo after watching her strain so hard to try to get those tears out.
00:29:00.580I just don't know how to engage with her.
00:29:01.700And I have been off of the LeBron James chain, but whatever.
00:29:04.900The point is, is that she's absolutely right.
00:29:07.380And by the way, I was going to ask this question.
00:29:09.080Speaking of these celebrity endorsements, are they paying them to do these things?
00:29:13.500Because I'm like, what is the thing that actually makes Eminem get out of bed to do something that's so cheesy and off brand for like a rapper that wants people to think that he's hardcore?
00:29:21.640Like, are they actually just paying an absurd amount of money?
00:29:24.620Because I was I was thinking about that because I was completely blown away by this news item.
00:29:28.440Apparently, the Kamala Biden campaign.
00:29:30.360So first Biden and then he passed off the money, obviously, to Kamala when he stepped down, raised nine hundred million dollars from January 1st, 2023.
00:29:40.480And this is a tweet from a political writer who writes Kamala Harris's campaign ended with at least 20 million in debt per two sources familiar.
00:29:49.640Harris raised over one billion and she had one hundred and eighteen million in the bank as of October 16th.
00:29:57.480I'm like, what? She spent one hundred and sixteen more like one hundred and fifty million dollars in two weeks.
00:30:06.240The Guardian reported that in November, Kamala's campaign spent four hundred and fifty thousand dollars a day to have ads displayed within the Las Vegas sphere.
00:30:17.600So just in the Las Vegas sphere, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars a day in November.
00:30:23.780I don't know why that somehow like grosses me out.
00:30:25.280And this is, by the way, Republicans, Democrats, this is how much we are spending.
00:30:28.620AIPAC spends a hundred million dollars.
00:30:31.300There's something about that that just feels very wrong to me.
00:30:34.660And according to The New York Times, by the way, one piece of how they were spending was they decided to spend six figures to fly banners over four NFL games in October.
00:30:44.640Like, is that really the differentiator?
00:30:45.920When you're thinking about spending money, you're just like, yeah, let's fly some banners over four NFL games and just drop tons of cash.
00:30:51.640It's just I don't know. It's it's very excessive.
00:30:54.160And the way that we are approaching our politics is really wrong and is gluttonous in nature.
00:30:58.780All right, guys, lastly, before I get into your comments, we should cover Joe Biden.
00:31:02.280I actually do not want to cover him at all.
00:31:03.880He did give a speech and I just think I have to cover it just so I can pretend to do, I don't know, something responsible.
00:31:10.440I think it's weird to cover him because he's just not the president.
00:31:12.300I think that's kind of my perspective.
00:31:14.180It feels like we're being fake when we're like the president has spoken.
00:31:18.280We're going to give you 43 seconds of his speech about the peaceful transfer of power just so I can check it off a to do list and show my producer that I'm a really good person.
00:33:49.180All right, guys, I'm going to jump into your comments and see what is on your mind.
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