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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Hello everyone, My name is Spencer Walsh. We have a
great show for you as always. On the show today,
big defeat for Donald Trump as a appeals court as
ruled that his tariffs, at least a good portion of
them are illegal because he violated emergency powers to put
them into place. But they still could be around in
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the future. We'll tell you why on that. Also, we
are taking a look at a comedian really taking it
to Congressman Richie Torres on his support for Israel. Tell
you all about that really awkward situation where Adam Friedlim's
median interviewing him just tries to have a normal human
moment as this genocide really unfolds and Torres is just
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not giving it to them. Love the full breakdown of
that and what it says about the Democratic Party going forward. Also,
speaking of the Democratic Party, big storages broke about YouTubers
being paid by a Democratic Party dark money group to
essentially tow the party line and sacrifice all the independence
of what otherwise would be independent media. Also, we're gonna
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break down a subject that has been coming across my
Twitter feed quite a bunch. Yeah, It's Trump's death. Is
Trump about to die? We've all seen the hands, folks.
They look pretty weird. I don't know what to think.
We will break it down together. You have a great
show for you. This is Newsflash and we're getting started
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Major defeat for Donald Trump today in court regarding his tariffs.
It's going to held on here from the Financial Times,
Trump's tariffs will illegal by uspals court. But stay in place.
You may be wondering, how the hell are they going
to stay in place if they were supposedly just ruled illegal.
Well for that we'll go to Fox News. Actually, this
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is a pretty good explanation about this breaking goodnight.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Just moments ago, actually a federal appeals court ruled most
of President Trump's tariffs are illegal. The court is saying
the president exceeded his authority and imposing those levees. There's
a catch though, in this ruling correspondent David spot has
details Tonight breaking just minutes ago Good Evening.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
David brought Good Evening.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
The catch is that the tariffs can stay in place
until October fourteenth. That's when the mandate from the Circuit Court,
the Federal Circuit Court Appeals decision actually kicks in. This
was a one hundred and twenty seven page decision that
just came down within the last thirty minutes. We're reading it,
but it finds that most of the President's tariffs are unconstitutional.
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This was published to the public doc as I said,
within the last few minutes. Now, the panel found that
the tariffs on nearly every country were not authorized bred
by the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, and therefore are illegal.
The Court writing today unanimously, the statute bestows significant authority
on the President to undertake a number of actions in
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response to a declared national emergency, but none of these
actions explicitly include the power to impose tariff's duties or
the like, or the power to tax. Now arguments were
recently held in Washington, d C. This gives the administration
the green light to go directly here to the US
Supreme Court, which we expect to happen very soon.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
We've not. Yeah, so a lot of interesting stuff just
in that clip alone. The mandate that the correspondent there
was talking about, it's gonna be taking place in mid October. Essentially,
the federal judges just saying, for now, you can keep
him in place, given you know, some time to transition,
I guess. But come October, those tariffs have to come
off the books because they're legal. Because, surprise, surprise, Donald
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Trump has abused his emergency authority to do yet another
crazy destabilizing thing with these tariffs. And that is definitely
something that he is not taking very well. It's also
get some of the other reactions here from this. In
a social media post soon after the order was handed down,
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Trump emphasized that the tariffs remained in effect and claiming
the appeals quote was quote highly partisan. If allowed to stand,
this decision would literally destroy the United States of America.
At the start of this Labor Day weekend, we should
all remember that tariffs are the best tool to help
our workers and support companies that produce made in America products,
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great made in America products. He goes on to specify,
Trump always confronted the administration would be appealing the decision
to the Supreme Court to help justices or urging justice
to help keep the tariffs in place. And you know, this,
this really is going to be a big test to
see how far Trump because he mostly has shown that,
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despite you know, a few kind of isolated examples, he
is at least for now, again not to say they
can't change, but at least for now, he is motivated
to listen to the juiciary, especially when he thinks the
judiciary is aligned with him in some way, shape or form.
With when it comes to the Supreme Court, you know,
it definitely is. And you know, he appointed what three
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four of those got yeah, I think it was three
Supreme Court appointments, So he's got he got to throw
the court he literally appointed. So that really is a
very very substantial, you know, advantage that he has going
into this court. But you know, and for the most part,
they have acted in his favorite. They allowed him to
fire federal workers for example, that was a big step.
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They allowed him to limit the foreign aid that is
sent out by the US government. But this, I would say,
is something that is a little bit different altogether, because
the tariffs actually do have real economic consequences. And in
terms of, you know, the the guys that pay for
the bills of these Supreme Court justices, as we saw
people like Carling Crowe that are like bank rolling Justice
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Clarence Thomas's vacations and things like that, these would actually
affect the economy and affect their bottom line in a
way that some of the other previous things that Trump
was allowed to do by the Supreme Court would not.
So the question is is Supreme Court going to go
along with this? Is are they going to push for this,
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and are they gonna let him, you know, say, you
are right to use this, you know, emergency power because
traditionally this is supposed to be done in a you know,
it almost sounds quaint to say, but this is traditionally
supposed to be done with the cooperation of Congress. Congress
is supposed to approve each and every tariff. But because
of the blanket style and the very quick chaotic style
that this has been done, obviously, I don't even think
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Trump has tried to go to Congress to get these
tariffs approved, so you know they are He's used the
Emergency Powers Act, which the Supreme Court has said is
at least the Appeals Court has now said is a
no go. But he's obviously gonna try and put that
up to the appeals court and Supreme Court. Oh my goodness. Yeah,
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so appeals court says no, He's going to the Supreme Court.
That is essentially, you know, the long and the short
of it. Here this is, you know, a clip just
showing how this is taking effect. I don't know what
the political persuasions of this guy are, but you know,
he's he's already noticing some pretty big price increases in
the stores and he's talking about coffee here. Coffee comes
from Brazil, and Donald Trump decided to essentially put a
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fifty percent tariff on Brazil because he didn't like that
the current president of Brazil, whose name is Lula, so
much longer name, but the first name is Lula. He
was very pissed that Lula decided to go and arrest
his predecessor, Jaira Bolsonario because Bolcenario essentially tried to do
a much shittier version of January sixth. So here is
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the Here is the clip of this guy talking about this.
It's pretty interesting.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Hey everyone, check here. I am at the Walmart in Rochester,
Innianna and I went to grab coffee because I'm out
of coffee, and was kind of shocked the thirty eight
ounce thirty to eight point two ounce coffee Maxwell House
is twenty one forty four. So I was curious, and
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I looked back in October of last year, so almost
a year ago, I paid twelve dollars and so on. Sense,
I'll put the receipt on this later for the same
exactly come out. I mean, if you think tariffs or
inflation are something not increasing the costs, you're messed up
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in the head.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
You're You're messed up in the head. And it really
does make me wonder how committed Trump, you know, because
Trump is obviously incredibly committed, but how committed is his
base to these tariffs. He didn't really as much as
he talked about it on the campaign trail, he didn't
really put it as a part of his really emotive messaging.
His you know, the country is dying, we have to
take it back. You know, it was much more about immigration,
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It was much more about you know, inflation is really
what he was able to capitalize a lot of. And
just the sense that Biden was completely incompetent, in completely
mismanaging the economy. And not only is you know, he's
going to be approved to be incompetent in mismanaging the
economy in this situation if he continues with these tariffs
we see, you know, massive spikes and basic things that
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Americans rely on, like coffee. But he's also going to
get hit with that same kind of inflation backlash in
the polls from not you know, his hardcore supporters. They
would follow him off a cliff. But when it comes
to the people who are maybe a little bit less
committed and we're more disgusted with Kamala and Biden than
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enamored with Trump, They're going to start to be asking
really serious questions. And that's why you start to see
the chip chip chip away of his support. And even
the guys who are really pro Trump, like the grifters,
they don't even know what they're talking about.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
I'm voting for the man who's gonna take America back, Baby,
Donald J.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
Trump Man, what's one of your biggest issuearsbyger gonna be inflation?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Did I sell T shirts and all that stuff? Your
T shirts are made in the USA? No? No, See,
that's the thing Trump's talking about. If we tax them
hit terrorfs.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
The same item they're making over there will cause the
same to make over here.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
We pay the terriffs, but the companies pay the terriffs,
not us.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
China doesn't pay the tarriffs. We do when they come in. No,
it doesn't work like that. Like if I'm buying.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
A thousand shirts China and there's a terrify on it,
I'm paying the terrariff.
Speaker 7 (11:03):
Well, no, whoever's getting it important in is gonna pay
the terrorists.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
Yeah, I'm the business owner. I'm paying the terror China
doesn't pay it. I paid for it, So whoever's bringing
it in pays the terriff. Buddy, who do you think
is bringing it in?
Speaker 1 (11:18):
It's you? Uh in this? So it's gonna be rough
times for the kind of Trump grifter influencer circuit there
for sure. And I really do question how this is
gonna hurt and politically or how it's gonna impact him.
I should say politically, because I really don't think that
these the chaos of these tariffs, and really the terrorfs
themselves and the economic turbulence that they would engender have
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was priced in to the calculation in a lot of
Trump voter's minds, so they may be like start getting
some cold feet pretty fastier, I think, But in terms
of the legal front, I think that is also just
as interesting because this, if Trump is allowed to continue
with these tariffs, are tariff for Jim uh. This is
really gonna start to hurt the Economy's gonna start to
drive up inflations, can start to drive up uncertainty in
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a real tangible way over the next six months or so,
exactly the time that this case would be heard in
Supreme Court. And the question is, you know, they've been
willing to go along with Trump on a lot of
different things, but would he you know, the Supreme Court's
paymasters kind of get cold feet and say they kind
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of stop the Supreme Court essentially from going along with
this extending of the tariffs. And given the tariffs that
good old Supreme Court okay, I think, you know, it
is a very very interesting thing to watch and how
far the kind of Republican and really just general economic
elite is going to be willing to let Trump go,
how far they're going to be willing to let him
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go with these tariffs. And I think the Supreme Court ruling,
the decision that they make is going to be very
very important to watch on that front. The trend of
Democrats really proving their inhumanity. There's really no other way
to say it. When it comes to Israel has been continuing.
His Congressman Richie Torres, who I think the way I
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would say it is his tire is really entire career
from start to present, has been deeply animated by an
really extreme hatred of pretty much everyone associated with the
left of the Democratic Party or even more left would
it be DSA aoc Bertie Sanders, and really a lot
of people online who are left wing and kind of
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criticize him a lot for the dumb things that he says.
So he has turned his entire politics very similar, I
would say to John Fetterman, he's turned his entire politics
towards pissing off the left wing of the Democratic Party
and even more left like on the socials left of
America as much as humanly possible. And he went on
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the Adam Friedland Show. Adam Freeland is a comedian. He
used to have a very explicitly named podcast back in
the day. Some people may know, but he probably thought
Richie Torres probably thought he could get one over on
this dumb guy who's associated with the people that he hates. Uh,
if you went on this Adam Freedland show, it is
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an interview show that he has and it did not
really go that well. This is the first clip here
of Adam Friedland talking about the civilians killed in Gaza
and in Israel with Richie Torres.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
Hamas murdered thousands of people. So what does that mean
that Hamas is a terrorist organization for murdering innocent children
and civilians.
Speaker 8 (14:28):
How many civilians have been killed in this war?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
The war is a tragedy, but.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
They've killed journalists, people have been killed in a war.
It's been a tragedy, killed people waiting for aid. But
you're suggesting that that it is the policy of the
Israeli government to murder civilians, and that's that is a
notion that I rejected.
Speaker 8 (14:52):
You got it, Like, listen, man, you gotta be like
a human being about this.
Speaker 7 (14:56):
People who are dying in the war, which to me
is a tragedy, because.
Speaker 8 (15:01):
Do you feel in your heart that this is what
you're doing, what you're saying is right.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
If Hamas, if you remove Hamas, would actually think I
told you what I believe, don't tell me what I believe.
I've told you what I believe.
Speaker 8 (15:12):
Why would you believe that?
Speaker 7 (15:13):
Because I because there are people who see the world differently.
I know it's a shock to you.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
And there comes the hate, there comes the contempt. There
you see that. Then it's like, don't tell me what
I believe. I believe this stuff. It's right, it's right,
it's right, and I do believe he actually genuinely does
believe this stuff because he has in a kind of effort.
The first principle of his career was that the socialists
left whatever you want to call it, or the Democratic
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Party whatever, are idiots, they are posers, they're purity testers,
and they're just bad people who should be ignored at
all costs. Then who does he essentially attract on the
other side is a bunch of people who love to
have a gay Latino congressmen from New York City representing
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their cause, no more so than the Israel lobby. And
they come in, they pump them up with money, and
then they fill his head, I think, with a lot
of ideas about a conflict that he probably didn't know
that much about before, and he comes on really believing
these talking points and Adam Freeland, to his credit, I
would say, is trying to relate with Torres on a
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personal note, saying can you not see what I see?
Like how is this defensible? And he's just sitting there
with his you know, legs folded, arms crossed. Well, Hamas
killed thousands of civilians on October seventh, Hamas killed thousands
of civilians, Like do you do not get what has
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happened since? Then? Does that a wait at all to you?
And I really think, you know, it does kind of
show his yet of course, his contempt for the left,
but also really shows the how natural it is for
him and I guess probably the people that he hangs
around with, to not really view Palestinian lives as worthy
of any sort of moral weight in his calculation. You
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can really say, it's like, you know, yeah, of course
the war was a tragedy, but one thousand Israelis were murdered.
It's just like, do you know how many hundreds of
thousands have been murdered since that time and before that
on the Palestinian side. But it means nothing. This is
not a conflict that Richie Torreus sees as two different sides,
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where both sides have the same amount of humanity. It
just isn't. I think this clip here really shows it.
Let's take a look at another one about genocide and
essentially doing it in the name of Jews, and Adam
himself is a Joe.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
If you have disagreements with the Israeli government, you should
voice your criticism of the Israeli government. But there is
no justification for intimidation or harassment against American Jews.
Speaker 9 (17:51):
I'm telling you as a Jew right now that we
are receiving a lot more hate because of what the
people with a flag that is a uresh star on
are doing to other people right now. And I'm telling you,
as a Jewish person, what how painful it is for
us to say And it hurts my stomach to say this.
So you're gonna say, I disgrad just great that this
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is a genocide, and that hurts to say that a
Jew can do that. It hurts because we grew up
with it, with learning about what hatred is. And the
Savior of the State of Israel was established in nineteen
forty eight. The world saw the Holocaust and they established standards.
Speaker 8 (18:31):
And I just wonder, like, like there's this fixation with
kids at a school that and two examples of people
at a restaurant that there was banging for examples.
Speaker 7 (18:45):
Give me the surveys on it, because it's hard.
Speaker 9 (18:48):
It's hard for me to talk about this.
Speaker 7 (18:50):
It probably cleares I mean, you're being a dick.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
That's me.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
No, No, I'm not being it's an emotional topic.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Yes, it's just like you know, and you could see
what Adam is trying to do there. He's just like,
just like, I'm a Jew, Like I think a much
more talented politician than Richie Torres would have said tried
to actually relate to him. Just drop the talking points,
drop the era era of kind of antagonism and hostility
towards someone that you know, you know he's disagreeing with,
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and say, I know you're a Jew, we have these problems,
we're working to solve them. You know. It actually address
the issue in the emotion, which I mean clearly Torre
sees that he is emotion here, like it's not an
easy thing for him to talk about. But instead of
kind of dropping this kind of confrontational pose, these confrontational errors,
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he just again as I said, sits there kind of
legs crossed, very monotone saying, you know, there's ADL surveys,
there's one hundreds, instead of actually grappling with the fact
that and you know, there's tons of Jews who feel
different ways about this on both sides of the the
issue of Israel's conduct, you know, instead of trying to
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actually emphathize, emphasize. I don't know why I couldn't say
that emphasis, emphasize, are empathize, empathize with Adam Freeland and
the suffering that he's going with, saying here's why I
still support Israel as a non Jew, I get where
you're going coming from. As a Jew, I think what
they're doing is right. Like, even if it is a
horrific thing to say, which it clearly, deeply, deeply is,
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Like you, as a politician or just even as a
human being, should be able to emphasize or empathize, Oh
my god, and connect with what Freedlan is feeling here.
And I think this really is and we see it
here with this tweet. This guy Peter Savodnik from The
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Free Press, who's editor Free Press at Bari Weis's that
I don't know if he's Jewish or not, but he
just goes and says The role Freeland is playing is
that of the Kappa, the Jew, articulating in or acting
out the wishes conscious or unconscious of the gentile majority.
This is literally the world's oldest or second oldest profession.
So you know, this is this is the mindset of
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and I'm sure Torres, you know, don't really want to
put words in his mouth too much, but I'm sure
Torres believed a lot of the same stuff that this
guy Peter Savavnik is saying about about Freeland here, and
by extension, a lot of other American Jews. You know,
they're really really struggling with this. They're really you know,
they had this perception maybe going in that Israel was
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maybe not perfect, but they were actively generally working towards peace,
and that has been completely obliterated over the course of
this war or this this genocide. Really and the other half,
and you know, there's a pretty substantial non Jewish contingent
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that's allied with them, but the other half really has
been trying to take away that half, that skeptical halfs
Jewish identity. It's saying you can't come in, you can't
say anything negative, otherwise you are a self hating Jew
you would have turned over, you know, your fellow fellow
comrades to the Nazis or something like that. And that
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is really what capo means there, and that's really when
it was used is during during the Nazi era for
Jews that collaborated with the Nazi genocide. You know, it
really really is a sign of the just lack of
humanity that's supporting this. It gender engenders you over over
a certain period of time, and it really almost takes
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the soul out of you. And a really interesting follow
has been shio Ben, a frame on Twitter who started
off being pretty liberal Zionis but pretty pro Zionis in
this post October seven, but as time went on he
now is just as anti Zionist as any of them.
And he says, you know, it's a guilt that's been
lifted off my shoulders. I feel so glad that I
don't have to defend the transparently blatantly awful conduct anymore.
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And it's it's really a relief, and you can only
really imagine, you know, maybe it's easier for Torres because
as I talked about, you know, he really is motivated
by that hate of all things that are supported by
the American left. But I feel like for a lot
of people out there, and you could see, you know,
Torres or Friedland trying to break through Torres's kind of
skin and kind of say, do you really is this
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really what you see? Do really not see what I
see in what so many people see on an daily basis,
And he just does not budge there. And but I
really do think, you know, there's situations where, you know,
for other people, it is a hard thing to justify,
and it's certainly has not gotten easier as time has
gone on here, it really hasn't. And that has been
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a really big thing for a lot of people to
grapple with. And it's been very interesting to see Freedlam
putting these questions and just trying to relate. You know,
I wish you would have been a little bit more prepared.
I would love to see him kind of sit and
squirre more on some of those questions about you know,
civilians being killed, and do the Palestinian lives matter as
much to you as the Israeli lives that you keep
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bringing up over and over again, Do the matter at all?
Like what's the what's the trade off here? Because clearly
there is one, but it really was also interesting to
see the just monotone, you know, kind of slack, you know,
just robot robotic allegiance and just regurgitation of these talking points,
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even when somebody is really trying to have a human,
man to man conversation with you about how they're feeling
as a Jew, and you know, you claim to care
about Jews, about this whole genocide situation. So how about
this one? Democratic Party influencers have been busted taking dark
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money from a pretty shadowy, you know, dark money firm,
and there's another way to put it, that was associated
with the Democratic Party. They're getting eight thousand dollars a
month to essentially tow the Democratic Party line in terms
of talking points. We'll give you the names right now.
This is one of them who's involved, Olivia Juliana, who
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is a very prominent spoke the DNC, very prominent kind
of following on Instagram and TikTok. There's also some incredibly
weird other Democratic influences that I haven't even seen. It
was a person named Lauren Peretta who is a former
Playboy executive turned occupied Democrats YouTuber. I don't know why
a associate of Les Wexner is now running a Democratic
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YouTube account that's paid for or getting paid by the
Democratic Party. Also, Barrett Adare is somebody who runs in
a viral American girl doll themed meme account. I've never
heard anything like this. It's sounding quite weird to me.
But anyway, let's find a little bit more about what
they actually had to do. So the way it worked
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is a six thirty fund, which is a dark money group,
was funding this group called Chorus in sixteen thirty is
you can't tell who funds it, so that's why you
don't know who's funding this whole operation. But then Chorus
was bringing these people, these various influencers together. Another big
name who was involved is include is a David pac Man,
who's actually a YouTuber that I've heard. He was kind
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of a pretending to be or not. For a while,
I got the sense that he kind of was on
the left and was kind of more antagonistic towards the
Democratic Party, kind of from a Bernie Sanders' perspective. You know,
like a lot of other prominent YouTubers are that you know,
a SAand Piker for example. But you know, ever since
I want to say around twenty twenty, he really has
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gone more towards the Democratic party line, and that has
gotten him noticed by the people who are looking for this,
you know, answer to the Coke network, answer to all
this right wing dark money that is being funded. Is
it funneling really into these creators or we don't know
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it's right wing, but it's probably not left wing dark
money at least to essentially tow the Democratic party line here,
they really particularly some of the clauses here of this
contracts reviewed by Wired bank creators from publicly acknowledging the program,
disclosing identity of any funder, or even admitting they were
being paid at all. The publication reported a breach could
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mean expulsion from the program and the loss of thousands
in monthly income. One clause reportedly even gave COURUS unilateral
authority to demand creators takedown content produced at its events.
Another required influencers to route any dealings with politicians through
the organization, effectively turning Course into a gatekeeper between Democratic
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politicians and their online supporters. This article says, essentially rewriting
the article by Taylor Lorenz and Wired that is, you know,
it's gotten some corrections, but the thrust of it remains
true that these people are taking eight thousand dollars a month,
and another interting clue is that they cannot endorse or
attack a candidate without the approval of course, and you know,
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the real, the real question is and this they say
that another big part of this is that you know,
eight thousand dollars a month, and you also come in
and you're supposed to come in and get some training
about how to be a better YouTuber. You know, some
of it could be thumbnail or how to be a
better influence or anything like that. You know, something that
could be you know, increase your thumbnails, seo titles, whatever
the whatever the hell. But you know, I do get
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a sense a lot of it is here are the
lines you're gonna need to tell. Here is where you
want to stay away from. Maybe you don't want to
talk that much about Gaza, you don't want to talk
talk that much about your primary challenges like Zora, mom
Donni or anything like that. You want to stay uncontroversial.
Let's focus on how good the Democrats are and mostly
how bad Trump is. Right like that is what they
really have been focusing on throughout this entire time, and
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the secrecy really was a big selling point for a
lot of people. There was some one creator called Perry
or Party at Woman in America said, I believe we
are in stage five acceptance, so essentially saying that we're
kind of doing a pretty shitty thing here. Aaron Parness,
a gen Z influencer once held as the gen Z
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Walter cronkite, is reported to have told colleagues it was
take or leave it. Ultimately many signs, so he was
just take the money, come on, let's go, and you know,
stop it all off. He was actually somebody who has
now been incredibly successful on Brian Tyler Cohen and my
Midas Touch Network, which is this hugely popular democratic influencer channel.
(29:37):
But he was the song. He is the son of
a guy named Leb Parnas who was a corrupt associate
of Trump. So you see how that impulse makes its
way down the apple, not following too far from the tree.
It avoids a lot of public discourse that you see
on political ads. Graham Wilson, Aware for a Courus, sat
in a zoom call with crickators. According to the article,
(30:00):
the names aren't showing up on reports filed with the
FEC you know, that is a that seems like it's
a real selling point there, and really bad emission is
exactly what alarms the watchdogs because they're like, you know,
this is not something that you should be doing. They say,
they've got collective reach of forty million followers and one
hundred million weekly views throughout all of their creators, and
(30:24):
they're also even now doing these collaborative content endeavors. After
the Biden White House frozeut critical creators and the Harris
campaign alienated others, the party is now mimicking tactics along
these by Republicans who have spent decades cultivating a sprawling
conservative media ecosystem, and that's spent a large part done
with big kind of right wing money. But I think
a big part of why the right wing is successful
(30:47):
is you can't be that blatant about it. You can't
be literally paying people money saying takedown the videos. I
don't like, don't endorse this candidate if I don't approve it,
don't attack that Candon if I don't approve it. Like
that is not something that is going to gender you
a lot of followers on new media because it's not
very authentic, like people tune into YouTube. They tune into
(31:07):
TikTok because they think that the people there are gonna
be more real and more honest with them than the
people on mainstream media. And if you're so clearly just
following all the incredibly basic stuff when it comes to,
you know, the Democratic Party ideology, you know, it's not
too popular right now, not that it ever really was,
and people can really see right through it. Just four
(31:30):
donors are kount of for nearly two thirds of his
revenue last year. Now through course the money is flowing
to TikTokers, YouTubers, and Instagram personalities. This is the woman
Suzanne Lambert, who apparently stylis herself a Regina George liberal.
Sounds like a lot of fun to hang out with.
She apparently. Kat Abu Ghazala, who's a progressive YouTuber now
(31:51):
running for Congress, told Why that she too was featured
on course materials without her permission. So there's a lot
of a lot of weird stuff generally going on, including this.
This is was caught by Taylor Taylor Lorenz, who wrote
the story. Aaron Parness, who was one of the guy
who was telling everyone take the money, take the money,
(32:13):
come on said, because of a recent wired hit piece
that has now been debunked, misinformation spread like a wildfire,
and several people decided to unsubscribe from my sub stack.
That is what the author wanted despite publishing a false article.
Please consider subscribing to support my work today. And you
know it sounds all well and good. But then David
pac Man, maybe this is one of the chorus meetings.
(32:34):
He puts out literally the exact same tweet after a
recent wied hit piece, now fully debunked false claims started
circulating and sadly, some people chose to unsubscribe from my
website membership, subsac or unfollowed on YouTube. That out come
is exactly what the author was hoping for when they
put out a misleading and inaccurate article. If you want
to support what I do, please consider subscribing. So there
you have the kind of the whole regime here. And
(32:56):
it's like you just got busted for doing eight k
a month. That's ninety six thousand, that was a year.
I don't need to pay you any more money if
you're to make your living, David pac Man, come up.
But anyway, this is what David pac Man had to say.
For himself on his YouTube show.
Speaker 10 (33:12):
It's for years I've been saying the left needs to
organize independent media in the way that the right has
been doing. The left needs to fund independent creators the
way that the right does. The right has won even
arguably presidential elections because they're organized with regard to online
(33:34):
and independent media. They're killing us. We've been so behind,
and this kind of support for creators is exactly what
I've been advocating for.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Yeah, it's just like, it sounds nice, it sounds like
it's a it's just kind of smart thing to do
in terms of the Democrats for the political side, but
it really for the reasons I said before, it just
doesn't work. And David Pacman here is the perfect example why.
It's like people are unsubscribing for him. Now, you just
got busted paying eightk or taking eight k a month
(34:08):
to few Democratic Party talking points without any sort of
critical thinking. And even though he's done that and he's
you know, accepted clauses like you know, you can't tell
anyone you're getting this money. You know, you can't you
can't endorse candidates that I don't or the company doesn't
like you know, you can't or the pay master, I
should say, doesn't like, you can't attack candidates at the
(34:29):
payment without the pay master's approval. You know you can't
do You can't if we tell you to take down videos,
you have to take down videos like newsplash. That's not
very independent. You can't call yourself a left wing independent
journalist if you're taking eight k a month from someone
who is demanding that much influence over your content. And
(34:50):
people who are digital natives whatever, like people who have
spent this time online, they know that, Like they see
this for the bs that it is, and it really
puts to bed this idea that you can just fund
the whole media ECOSYSM have a pop out of nowhere,
especially on the left. You need that authenticity, you need
that people powered force, and otherwise you're just gonna come
(35:14):
off looking very very fake. And look, you know, some
sort of corporate messaging video and no one really wants
to watch that, No one really wants to be a
part of that. We also have Olivia Juliana's response here
af post to a newscount on Twitter's Olivia Juliana, a
social media heavyweight for the DNC, is facing backlash after
reports that sixteen thirty fund was dishing out eight thousand
(35:37):
dollars a month to feed her with a menu of
talking points. She was brought on to give the Democrati
Party some extra theft with younger voters, and she's apparently
gonna leave nothing off the table in her response, which
we now have for you on news Flash.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
Let's take a look, because it's just sort of frustrating
everyone is willing to just believe why.
Speaker 11 (36:00):
The article that Taylor Lorenz wrote about me and a
number of other content creators who are a part of
the Chorus cohort is filled with factual inaccuracies. First and foremost,
we are not paid to make content. We are not
paid by the Democratic Party. Chorus does not have any
creative control over any of the content that I make,
over any of the people that I talk to, and
(36:21):
they have never and will never tell me what I
can or cannot say. The contract that we sign does
not pay us for content.
Speaker 12 (36:28):
It is the same as somebody giving seed money to
a small business to build their infrastructure so that that
business can go on to be self sustaining in the future.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
And even this also just seems so you know, kind
of good to be true, too good to be true,
because like even with Shark Tank, you know, for example,
you give a little seed money to a small business,
they get a stake. You know, what is the stake
here in these influencers, And it's clearly that you know,
maybe they don't have to be told, which is probably
even more pathetic, but it's that if we don't want
(37:00):
you're talking about something, you don't talk about it, or
bye bye eight thousand dollars a month. So really just
generally revealing a portrait of how the Democratic Party media
ecosystem works and why the Democrats are really so far
off from finding any sort of real popular legitimacy or
buy in from a lot of these centrist status quo
(37:20):
policies they're currently advocating for. I have seen this question
and this topic pop up so many times in recent
weeks online, and I always kind of shied away from
it because I just thought it was stupid and I
didn't think it really had any bearing on anything actually
happening in the real world anytime soon. But I've seen
(37:41):
it so much now that I think it's just impossible
to ignore. And that question is, is Donald Trump's health
in very poor shape. You know, you know what type
of poor shape. I mean, we have some. It may
sound crazy, and it sounds crazy to me even to
do the secment. I debated it for a long long
time about whether it should be something a segment that
(38:03):
I do. But you know, we have this here. This
is first this exhibit from our exhibit A from Keith
Edwards on Twitter. The queen two days before she died
shaking hands with the prime mister list. Trust you can
see she got kind of bruising on the center of
the top of her hand. And then this is Trump
(38:24):
today as in four days ago at the time of
this recording, and he's got the same bruise in the
exact same spot on the hand. And I don't think
it really this was what the hand bruise or whatever
was what the Queen died from. So it's like it
was a little skeptical, but we have seen the bruising,
the weird speech patterns, the inability to walk on the
straight line off of the airplane when meeting with Putin
(38:48):
on the runway. That was very much kind of distected
by a lot of liberals engaging in what I would
call wishful thinking. But here's another exhibit. This is three
hours ago. Laura Rosen, who is a reporter from Politico
I think on a bunch of other sites as well.
(39:10):
Freelance reporter says that Trump has no public events scheduled
all weekend long. Don't believe he was seen today either,
And this comes on the heels of a two week
long break from playing any sort of golf, which is
the longest, unsurprisingly, he has ever had in his entire
(39:30):
you know, two or I guess one in a quarter
now terms in office. So he really is you know,
it seems clear at the very least, there's a case
to be made that he is slowing down. You know,
he's not operating with sam vigor. He does have. You know,
he was diagnosed officially by the White House, but they
try to play it off. We'll get into that in
a second. But here's another exhibit. This is just today
(39:54):
or I believe yesterday. This was jd Vance with USA
Today in the interview.
Speaker 5 (40:01):
As vice president, you're a heart beat away from the
presidency and your boss is one of the oldest people
to ever be sworn into office. You're one of the
youngest people to ever be second in line. Are you
ready to assume the role of commander in chief, and
why should American.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
Strust to believe the country.
Speaker 13 (40:17):
Well, I've gotten a lot of good on the job
training over the last two hundred days, but also say
that the president is an incredibly good health, He's got
incredible energy, and while most of the people who work
around the President of the United States are younger than
he is, I think that we find that he actually
is the last person who goes asleep, He's the last
person making phone calls at night, and he's the first
(40:37):
person who wakes up with the first person making phone
calls in the morning. So, yes, things can always happen. Yes,
terrible tragedies happen, But I feel very confident that the
President of the United States is in good shape, is
going to serve out the remainder of his term and
do great things for the American people. And if God forbid,
there's a terrible tragedy, I can't think of better on
the job training than what I've gotten over the last
two hundred days.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
You know what that sounds like, you know, you know
what that sounds like right there, that he's the last
person to go to bed or at night and the
first person to wake up in the morning. He's always
working hard, he's always making phone calls. He runs circles
around the intern tour for fifty years younger than him. Well,
you know what that sounds a lot like was Joe
(41:20):
Biden and how the aids talked about Joe Biden and
they tried to downplay his health over the years until
of course it was too late and he had to
be dragged by his ear out of the presidential race
before you know, I mean even he didn't die, but
he was in very, very bad shape when he came
(41:42):
to his health, and of course the White House was
hiding it. The Biden White House was hiding it and
covering it up. What do you think this White House
is capable of when it comes to covering up really
serious presidential health issues? I mean this, it definitely does
seem like it here. And this is another one. This
one probably is the most suss of all to me
(42:04):
because it comes from the conservative political consultant Rick Wilson,
who is part of the Lincoln Project which presided over
I don't think it was him. I think it was
another guy who was a very similar name to him,
but they he essentially worked alongside a guy who was
hitting up young boys to you know, go meet up
and do things with shall we say, that was a
(42:26):
big scandal for the Lincoln Project, and their ads that
they ran during the twenty twenty presidential election were actually
proven to help Republicans and hurt Democrats, which is the
opposite of what they were trying to do. So to
say I don't really respect the Lincoln Project or to
have too much faith in what they say or anyone
associated with Lincoln Project is something that, you know, it
was kind of an understatement there turned really my true
(42:48):
feelings about the Lincoln Project. Wilson said that rumors from
the Trump verse indicate that President JD. Vance is moving
fast in the shuffling of power behind the scenes, positioning
himself to take over the MAGA movement sooner rather than later.
According to Wilson, subsac slow or fast, he's headed down.
Wilson stead of Trump, the circle who knows what's up
in is very very small and very very paranoid. Jade
(43:09):
Vance knows, and he's moving fast. When Wilson pointed to
Vance's interview this week with USA Today, that's the one
that we just played. The White House also did not
respond to a request for comment, but Trump said in
May that it was far too early to say who
might succeed him, but he said Advance was doing a
fantastic job. So this it all kind of comes through
(43:31):
with the assumption that you know, this can this conversation
can be about one of two things, which is, who's
going to take the Republican mantle in twenty twenty eight
or will someone need to take the Republican mantel before
twenty twenty eight? And will you know there'd be something
wrong with the big man at the top. And I
personally think that this is, you know, this kind of
(43:51):
intimation and this kind of hinting, is if I have
to be honest, even though there are some things that
certainly want to make me raise my eyebrows and go hmm,
and the things I'll notice and file file away in
the back of my head. I think the clear situation
is is this is, for the moment a drive by
the very same people that we talked about earlier in
(44:13):
the show. These these people who are you know, kind
of getting paid by the DNT types to just put up,
you know, Democratic Party propaganda about how bad Trump is
and how good you know, democrats are and these just
kind of very basic liberals who have been doing this
kind of stuff for years and years of the Trump
era are just engaging in, you know what I said,
(44:36):
wistful thinking and really clickbait to capture the hearts and
minds of people who would like to see what could
happen happen a lot sooner than it might have otherwise happened,
if you know what I mean. And I think what
that does is distracts people from a lot of the
very real issues that are happening, whether it be big
beautiful bill cutting healthcare, whether it be the tariffs, whether
(44:57):
it be you know, the wars, the most ultiple wars
that were involved at the moment, and obviously most basically
in Goza, but also Ukraine and Russia. The fact that
we're putting troops down towards Central America, all this stuff
that we've covered on this show. Because you try to
be a actually serious show that follows the news on
a day to day basis, you know that stuff is
(45:18):
not going to make it on those shows. But what
will is Trump is just moments away. He's weeks away.
He only his time is running out. Like that is
something that would totally make it on those shows because
it's not substantive, but it's exciting to the right type
of liberal audience. And you know, I have to I
hate to be the bear bad news for you guys,
but you still are gonna have to keep fighting him,
(45:39):
most likely for all four years of his term. And
that is a good thing. And I'll tell you why.
It's because it builds your strength for the future. If
you are in La Laan and all these fantasies and
everything like that, you are weak for when the real
challenge comes, when the real fight comes, and taking on
someone like Marco Ruby or jd Vance as they try
(45:59):
to d maga movement to the next level is going
to be a much much more worthy time use of
your time in terms of thinking about how to do
that and how to do that effectively, rather than counting
down to the days or looking for signs on Trump's hand.
As weird as they may be, it really is just
not a productive use of time. That's all we have
(46:23):
for you today. Thank you so much for listening to
the show once again. All of our clips will be
available on YouTube at the Spencer Welsh YouTube channel, so
go check them. Out. We'll be back at the beginning
of next week.
Hello everyone, My name is Spencer Walsh. We have a
great show for you as always. On the show today,
big defeat for Donald Trump as a appeals court as
ruled that his tariffs, at least a good portion of
them are illegal because he violated emergency powers to put
them into place. But they still could be around in
(00:34):
the future. We'll tell you why on that. Also, we
are taking a look at a comedian really taking it
to Congressman Richie Torres on his support for Israel. Tell
you all about that really awkward situation where Adam Friedlim's
median interviewing him just tries to have a normal human
moment as this genocide really unfolds and Torres is just
(01:01):
not giving it to them. Love the full breakdown of
that and what it says about the Democratic Party going forward. Also,
speaking of the Democratic Party, big storages broke about YouTubers
being paid by a Democratic Party dark money group to
essentially tow the party line and sacrifice all the independence
of what otherwise would be independent media. Also, we're gonna
(01:25):
break down a subject that has been coming across my
Twitter feed quite a bunch. Yeah, It's Trump's death. Is
Trump about to die? We've all seen the hands, folks.
They look pretty weird. I don't know what to think.
We will break it down together. You have a great
show for you. This is Newsflash and we're getting started
(01:49):
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(02:12):
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Major defeat for Donald Trump today in court regarding his tariffs.
It's going to held on here from the Financial Times,
Trump's tariffs will illegal by uspals court. But stay in place.
You may be wondering, how the hell are they going
to stay in place if they were supposedly just ruled illegal.
Well for that we'll go to Fox News. Actually, this
(02:34):
is a pretty good explanation about this breaking goodnight.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Just moments ago, actually a federal appeals court ruled most
of President Trump's tariffs are illegal. The court is saying
the president exceeded his authority and imposing those levees. There's
a catch though, in this ruling correspondent David spot has
details Tonight breaking just minutes ago Good Evening.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
David brought Good Evening.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
The catch is that the tariffs can stay in place
until October fourteenth. That's when the mandate from the Circuit Court,
the Federal Circuit Court Appeals decision actually kicks in. This
was a one hundred and twenty seven page decision that
just came down within the last thirty minutes. We're reading it,
but it finds that most of the President's tariffs are unconstitutional.
(03:18):
This was published to the public doc as I said,
within the last few minutes. Now, the panel found that
the tariffs on nearly every country were not authorized bred
by the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, and therefore are illegal.
The Court writing today unanimously, the statute bestows significant authority
on the President to undertake a number of actions in
(03:39):
response to a declared national emergency, but none of these
actions explicitly include the power to impose tariff's duties or
the like, or the power to tax. Now arguments were
recently held in Washington, d C. This gives the administration
the green light to go directly here to the US
Supreme Court, which we expect to happen very soon.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
We've not. Yeah, so a lot of interesting stuff just
in that clip alone. The mandate that the correspondent there
was talking about, it's gonna be taking place in mid October. Essentially,
the federal judges just saying, for now, you can keep
him in place, given you know, some time to transition,
I guess. But come October, those tariffs have to come
off the books because they're legal. Because, surprise, surprise, Donald
(04:21):
Trump has abused his emergency authority to do yet another
crazy destabilizing thing with these tariffs. And that is definitely
something that he is not taking very well. It's also
get some of the other reactions here from this. In
a social media post soon after the order was handed down,
(04:42):
Trump emphasized that the tariffs remained in effect and claiming
the appeals quote was quote highly partisan. If allowed to stand,
this decision would literally destroy the United States of America.
At the start of this Labor Day weekend, we should
all remember that tariffs are the best tool to help
our workers and support companies that produce made in America products,
(05:02):
great made in America products. He goes on to specify,
Trump always confronted the administration would be appealing the decision
to the Supreme Court to help justices or urging justice
to help keep the tariffs in place. And you know, this,
this really is going to be a big test to
see how far Trump because he mostly has shown that,
(05:22):
despite you know, a few kind of isolated examples, he
is at least for now, again not to say they
can't change, but at least for now, he is motivated
to listen to the juiciary, especially when he thinks the
judiciary is aligned with him in some way, shape or form.
With when it comes to the Supreme Court, you know,
it definitely is. And you know, he appointed what three
(05:43):
four of those got yeah, I think it was three
Supreme Court appointments, So he's got he got to throw
the court he literally appointed. So that really is a
very very substantial, you know, advantage that he has going
into this court. But you know, and for the most part,
they have acted in his favorite. They allowed him to
fire federal workers for example, that was a big step.
(06:05):
They allowed him to limit the foreign aid that is
sent out by the US government. But this, I would say,
is something that is a little bit different altogether, because
the tariffs actually do have real economic consequences. And in
terms of, you know, the the guys that pay for
the bills of these Supreme Court justices, as we saw
people like Carling Crowe that are like bank rolling Justice
(06:27):
Clarence Thomas's vacations and things like that, these would actually
affect the economy and affect their bottom line in a
way that some of the other previous things that Trump
was allowed to do by the Supreme Court would not.
So the question is is Supreme Court going to go
along with this? Is are they going to push for this,
(06:49):
and are they gonna let him, you know, say, you
are right to use this, you know, emergency power because
traditionally this is supposed to be done in a you know,
it almost sounds quaint to say, but this is traditionally
supposed to be done with the cooperation of Congress. Congress
is supposed to approve each and every tariff. But because
of the blanket style and the very quick chaotic style
that this has been done, obviously, I don't even think
(07:10):
Trump has tried to go to Congress to get these
tariffs approved, so you know they are He's used the
Emergency Powers Act, which the Supreme Court has said is
at least the Appeals Court has now said is a
no go. But he's obviously gonna try and put that
up to the appeals court and Supreme Court. Oh my goodness. Yeah,
(07:30):
so appeals court says no, He's going to the Supreme Court.
That is essentially, you know, the long and the short
of it. Here this is, you know, a clip just
showing how this is taking effect. I don't know what
the political persuasions of this guy are, but you know,
he's he's already noticing some pretty big price increases in
the stores and he's talking about coffee here. Coffee comes
from Brazil, and Donald Trump decided to essentially put a
(07:54):
fifty percent tariff on Brazil because he didn't like that
the current president of Brazil, whose name is Lula, so
much longer name, but the first name is Lula. He
was very pissed that Lula decided to go and arrest
his predecessor, Jaira Bolsonario because Bolcenario essentially tried to do
a much shittier version of January sixth. So here is
(08:17):
the Here is the clip of this guy talking about this.
It's pretty interesting.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Hey everyone, check here. I am at the Walmart in Rochester,
Innianna and I went to grab coffee because I'm out
of coffee, and was kind of shocked the thirty eight
ounce thirty to eight point two ounce coffee Maxwell House
is twenty one forty four. So I was curious, and
(08:44):
I looked back in October of last year, so almost
a year ago, I paid twelve dollars and so on. Sense,
I'll put the receipt on this later for the same
exactly come out. I mean, if you think tariffs or
inflation are something not increasing the costs, you're messed up
(09:07):
in the head.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
You're You're messed up in the head. And it really
does make me wonder how committed Trump, you know, because
Trump is obviously incredibly committed, but how committed is his
base to these tariffs. He didn't really as much as
he talked about it on the campaign trail, he didn't
really put it as a part of his really emotive messaging.
His you know, the country is dying, we have to
take it back. You know, it was much more about immigration,
(09:30):
It was much more about you know, inflation is really
what he was able to capitalize a lot of. And
just the sense that Biden was completely incompetent, in completely
mismanaging the economy. And not only is you know, he's
going to be approved to be incompetent in mismanaging the
economy in this situation if he continues with these tariffs
we see, you know, massive spikes and basic things that
(09:52):
Americans rely on, like coffee. But he's also going to
get hit with that same kind of inflation backlash in
the polls from not you know, his hardcore supporters. They
would follow him off a cliff. But when it comes
to the people who are maybe a little bit less
committed and we're more disgusted with Kamala and Biden than
(10:13):
enamored with Trump, They're going to start to be asking
really serious questions. And that's why you start to see
the chip chip chip away of his support. And even
the guys who are really pro Trump, like the grifters,
they don't even know what they're talking about.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
I'm voting for the man who's gonna take America back, Baby,
Donald J.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
Trump Man, what's one of your biggest issuearsbyger gonna be inflation?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Did I sell T shirts and all that stuff? Your
T shirts are made in the USA? No? No, See,
that's the thing Trump's talking about. If we tax them
hit terrorfs.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
The same item they're making over there will cause the
same to make over here.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
We pay the terriffs, but the companies pay the terriffs,
not us.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
China doesn't pay the tarriffs. We do when they come in. No,
it doesn't work like that. Like if I'm buying.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
A thousand shirts China and there's a terrify on it,
I'm paying the terrariff.
Speaker 7 (11:03):
Well, no, whoever's getting it important in is gonna pay
the terrorists.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
Yeah, I'm the business owner. I'm paying the terror China
doesn't pay it. I paid for it, So whoever's bringing
it in pays the terriff. Buddy, who do you think
is bringing it in?
Speaker 1 (11:18):
It's you? Uh in this? So it's gonna be rough
times for the kind of Trump grifter influencer circuit there
for sure. And I really do question how this is
gonna hurt and politically or how it's gonna impact him.
I should say politically, because I really don't think that
these the chaos of these tariffs, and really the terrorfs
themselves and the economic turbulence that they would engender have
(11:39):
was priced in to the calculation in a lot of
Trump voter's minds, so they may be like start getting
some cold feet pretty fastier, I think, But in terms
of the legal front, I think that is also just
as interesting because this, if Trump is allowed to continue
with these tariffs, are tariff for Jim uh. This is
really gonna start to hurt the Economy's gonna start to
drive up inflations, can start to drive up uncertainty in
(12:00):
a real tangible way over the next six months or so,
exactly the time that this case would be heard in
Supreme Court. And the question is, you know, they've been
willing to go along with Trump on a lot of
different things, but would he you know, the Supreme Court's
paymasters kind of get cold feet and say they kind
(12:21):
of stop the Supreme Court essentially from going along with
this extending of the tariffs. And given the tariffs that
good old Supreme Court okay, I think, you know, it
is a very very interesting thing to watch and how
far the kind of Republican and really just general economic
elite is going to be willing to let Trump go,
how far they're going to be willing to let him
(12:41):
go with these tariffs. And I think the Supreme Court ruling,
the decision that they make is going to be very
very important to watch on that front. The trend of
Democrats really proving their inhumanity. There's really no other way
to say it. When it comes to Israel has been continuing.
His Congressman Richie Torres, who I think the way I
(13:02):
would say it is his tire is really entire career
from start to present, has been deeply animated by an
really extreme hatred of pretty much everyone associated with the
left of the Democratic Party or even more left would
it be DSA aoc Bertie Sanders, and really a lot
of people online who are left wing and kind of
(13:24):
criticize him a lot for the dumb things that he says.
So he has turned his entire politics very similar, I
would say to John Fetterman, he's turned his entire politics
towards pissing off the left wing of the Democratic Party
and even more left like on the socials left of
America as much as humanly possible. And he went on
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the Adam Friedland Show. Adam Freeland is a comedian. He
used to have a very explicitly named podcast back in
the day. Some people may know, but he probably thought
Richie Torres probably thought he could get one over on
this dumb guy who's associated with the people that he hates. Uh,
if you went on this Adam Freedland show, it is
(14:06):
an interview show that he has and it did not
really go that well. This is the first clip here
of Adam Friedland talking about the civilians killed in Gaza
and in Israel with Richie Torres.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
Hamas murdered thousands of people. So what does that mean
that Hamas is a terrorist organization for murdering innocent children
and civilians.
Speaker 8 (14:28):
How many civilians have been killed in this war?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
The war is a tragedy, but.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
They've killed journalists, people have been killed in a war.
It's been a tragedy, killed people waiting for aid. But
you're suggesting that that it is the policy of the
Israeli government to murder civilians, and that's that is a
notion that I rejected.
Speaker 8 (14:52):
You got it, Like, listen, man, you gotta be like
a human being about this.
Speaker 7 (14:56):
People who are dying in the war, which to me
is a tragedy, because.
Speaker 8 (15:01):
Do you feel in your heart that this is what
you're doing, what you're saying is right.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
If Hamas, if you remove Hamas, would actually think I
told you what I believe, don't tell me what I believe.
I've told you what I believe.
Speaker 8 (15:12):
Why would you believe that?
Speaker 7 (15:13):
Because I because there are people who see the world differently.
I know it's a shock to you.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
And there comes the hate, there comes the contempt. There
you see that. Then it's like, don't tell me what
I believe. I believe this stuff. It's right, it's right,
it's right, and I do believe he actually genuinely does
believe this stuff because he has in a kind of effort.
The first principle of his career was that the socialists
left whatever you want to call it, or the Democratic
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Party whatever, are idiots, they are posers, they're purity testers,
and they're just bad people who should be ignored at
all costs. Then who does he essentially attract on the
other side is a bunch of people who love to
have a gay Latino congressmen from New York City representing
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their cause, no more so than the Israel lobby. And
they come in, they pump them up with money, and
then they fill his head, I think, with a lot
of ideas about a conflict that he probably didn't know
that much about before, and he comes on really believing
these talking points and Adam Freeland, to his credit, I
would say, is trying to relate with Torres on a
(16:24):
personal note, saying can you not see what I see?
Like how is this defensible? And he's just sitting there
with his you know, legs folded, arms crossed. Well, Hamas
killed thousands of civilians on October seventh, Hamas killed thousands
of civilians, Like do you do not get what has
(16:44):
happened since? Then? Does that a wait at all to you?
And I really think, you know, it does kind of
show his yet of course, his contempt for the left,
but also really shows the how natural it is for
him and I guess probably the people that he hangs
around with, to not really view Palestinian lives as worthy
of any sort of moral weight in his calculation. You
(17:06):
can really say, it's like, you know, yeah, of course
the war was a tragedy, but one thousand Israelis were murdered.
It's just like, do you know how many hundreds of
thousands have been murdered since that time and before that
on the Palestinian side. But it means nothing. This is
not a conflict that Richie Torreus sees as two different sides,
(17:27):
where both sides have the same amount of humanity. It
just isn't. I think this clip here really shows it.
Let's take a look at another one about genocide and
essentially doing it in the name of Jews, and Adam
himself is a Joe.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
If you have disagreements with the Israeli government, you should
voice your criticism of the Israeli government. But there is
no justification for intimidation or harassment against American Jews.
Speaker 9 (17:51):
I'm telling you as a Jew right now that we
are receiving a lot more hate because of what the
people with a flag that is a uresh star on
are doing to other people right now. And I'm telling you,
as a Jewish person, what how painful it is for
us to say And it hurts my stomach to say this.
So you're gonna say, I disgrad just great that this
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is a genocide, and that hurts to say that a
Jew can do that. It hurts because we grew up
with it, with learning about what hatred is. And the
Savior of the State of Israel was established in nineteen
forty eight. The world saw the Holocaust and they established standards.
Speaker 8 (18:31):
And I just wonder, like, like there's this fixation with
kids at a school that and two examples of people
at a restaurant that there was banging for examples.
Speaker 7 (18:45):
Give me the surveys on it, because it's hard.
Speaker 9 (18:48):
It's hard for me to talk about this.
Speaker 7 (18:50):
It probably cleares I mean, you're being a dick.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
That's me.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
No, No, I'm not being it's an emotional topic.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Yes, it's just like you know, and you could see
what Adam is trying to do there. He's just like,
just like, I'm a Jew, Like I think a much
more talented politician than Richie Torres would have said tried
to actually relate to him. Just drop the talking points,
drop the era era of kind of antagonism and hostility
towards someone that you know, you know he's disagreeing with,
(19:20):
and say, I know you're a Jew, we have these problems,
we're working to solve them. You know. It actually address
the issue in the emotion, which I mean clearly Torre
sees that he is emotion here, like it's not an
easy thing for him to talk about. But instead of
kind of dropping this kind of confrontational pose, these confrontational errors,
(19:42):
he just again as I said, sits there kind of
legs crossed, very monotone saying, you know, there's ADL surveys,
there's one hundreds, instead of actually grappling with the fact
that and you know, there's tons of Jews who feel
different ways about this on both sides of the the
issue of Israel's conduct, you know, instead of trying to
(20:03):
actually emphathize, emphasize. I don't know why I couldn't say
that emphasis, emphasize, are empathize, empathize with Adam Freeland and
the suffering that he's going with, saying here's why I
still support Israel as a non Jew, I get where
you're going coming from. As a Jew, I think what
they're doing is right. Like, even if it is a
horrific thing to say, which it clearly, deeply, deeply is,
(20:27):
Like you, as a politician or just even as a
human being, should be able to emphasize or empathize, Oh
my god, and connect with what Freedlan is feeling here.
And I think this really is and we see it
here with this tweet. This guy Peter Savodnik from The
(20:48):
Free Press, who's editor Free Press at Bari Weis's that
I don't know if he's Jewish or not, but he
just goes and says The role Freeland is playing is
that of the Kappa, the Jew, articulating in or acting
out the wishes conscious or unconscious of the gentile majority.
This is literally the world's oldest or second oldest profession.
So you know, this is this is the mindset of
(21:09):
and I'm sure Torres, you know, don't really want to
put words in his mouth too much, but I'm sure
Torres believed a lot of the same stuff that this
guy Peter Savavnik is saying about about Freeland here, and
by extension, a lot of other American Jews. You know,
they're really really struggling with this. They're really you know,
they had this perception maybe going in that Israel was
(21:32):
maybe not perfect, but they were actively generally working towards peace,
and that has been completely obliterated over the course of
this war or this this genocide. Really and the other half,
and you know, there's a pretty substantial non Jewish contingent
(21:54):
that's allied with them, but the other half really has
been trying to take away that half, that skeptical halfs
Jewish identity. It's saying you can't come in, you can't
say anything negative, otherwise you are a self hating Jew
you would have turned over, you know, your fellow fellow
comrades to the Nazis or something like that. And that
(22:16):
is really what capo means there, and that's really when
it was used is during during the Nazi era for
Jews that collaborated with the Nazi genocide. You know, it
really really is a sign of the just lack of
humanity that's supporting this. It gender engenders you over over
a certain period of time, and it really almost takes
(22:38):
the soul out of you. And a really interesting follow
has been shio Ben, a frame on Twitter who started
off being pretty liberal Zionis but pretty pro Zionis in
this post October seven, but as time went on he
now is just as anti Zionist as any of them.
And he says, you know, it's a guilt that's been
lifted off my shoulders. I feel so glad that I
don't have to defend the transparently blatantly awful conduct anymore.
(23:04):
And it's it's really a relief, and you can only
really imagine, you know, maybe it's easier for Torres because
as I talked about, you know, he really is motivated
by that hate of all things that are supported by
the American left. But I feel like for a lot
of people out there, and you could see, you know,
Torres or Friedland trying to break through Torres's kind of
skin and kind of say, do you really is this
(23:26):
really what you see? Do really not see what I
see in what so many people see on an daily basis,
And he just does not budge there. And but I
really do think, you know, there's situations where, you know,
for other people, it is a hard thing to justify,
and it's certainly has not gotten easier as time has
gone on here, it really hasn't. And that has been
(23:49):
a really big thing for a lot of people to
grapple with. And it's been very interesting to see Freedlam
putting these questions and just trying to relate. You know,
I wish you would have been a little bit more prepared.
I would love to see him kind of sit and
squirre more on some of those questions about you know,
civilians being killed, and do the Palestinian lives matter as
much to you as the Israeli lives that you keep
(24:10):
bringing up over and over again, Do the matter at all?
Like what's the what's the trade off here? Because clearly
there is one, but it really was also interesting to
see the just monotone, you know, kind of slack, you know,
just robot robotic allegiance and just regurgitation of these talking points,
(24:32):
even when somebody is really trying to have a human,
man to man conversation with you about how they're feeling
as a Jew, and you know, you claim to care
about Jews, about this whole genocide situation. So how about
this one? Democratic Party influencers have been busted taking dark
(24:54):
money from a pretty shadowy, you know, dark money firm,
and there's another way to put it, that was associated
with the Democratic Party. They're getting eight thousand dollars a
month to essentially tow the Democratic Party line in terms
of talking points. We'll give you the names right now.
This is one of them who's involved, Olivia Juliana, who
(25:14):
is a very prominent spoke the DNC, very prominent kind
of following on Instagram and TikTok. There's also some incredibly
weird other Democratic influences that I haven't even seen. It
was a person named Lauren Peretta who is a former
Playboy executive turned occupied Democrats YouTuber. I don't know why
a associate of Les Wexner is now running a Democratic
(25:38):
YouTube account that's paid for or getting paid by the
Democratic Party. Also, Barrett Adare is somebody who runs in
a viral American girl doll themed meme account. I've never
heard anything like this. It's sounding quite weird to me.
But anyway, let's find a little bit more about what
they actually had to do. So the way it worked
(25:59):
is a six thirty fund, which is a dark money group,
was funding this group called Chorus in sixteen thirty is
you can't tell who funds it, so that's why you
don't know who's funding this whole operation. But then Chorus
was bringing these people, these various influencers together. Another big
name who was involved is include is a David pac Man,
who's actually a YouTuber that I've heard. He was kind
(26:20):
of a pretending to be or not. For a while,
I got the sense that he kind of was on
the left and was kind of more antagonistic towards the
Democratic Party, kind of from a Bernie Sanders' perspective. You know,
like a lot of other prominent YouTubers are that you know,
a SAand Piker for example. But you know, ever since
I want to say around twenty twenty, he really has
(26:41):
gone more towards the Democratic party line, and that has
gotten him noticed by the people who are looking for this,
you know, answer to the Coke network, answer to all
this right wing dark money that is being funded. Is
it funneling really into these creators or we don't know
(27:02):
it's right wing, but it's probably not left wing dark
money at least to essentially tow the Democratic party line here,
they really particularly some of the clauses here of this
contracts reviewed by Wired bank creators from publicly acknowledging the program,
disclosing identity of any funder, or even admitting they were
being paid at all. The publication reported a breach could
(27:24):
mean expulsion from the program and the loss of thousands
in monthly income. One clause reportedly even gave COURUS unilateral
authority to demand creators takedown content produced at its events.
Another required influencers to route any dealings with politicians through
the organization, effectively turning Course into a gatekeeper between Democratic
(27:44):
politicians and their online supporters. This article says, essentially rewriting
the article by Taylor Lorenz and Wired that is, you know,
it's gotten some corrections, but the thrust of it remains
true that these people are taking eight thousand dollars a month,
and another interting clue is that they cannot endorse or
attack a candidate without the approval of course, and you know,
(28:07):
the real, the real question is and this they say
that another big part of this is that you know,
eight thousand dollars a month, and you also come in
and you're supposed to come in and get some training
about how to be a better YouTuber. You know, some
of it could be thumbnail or how to be a
better influence or anything like that. You know, something that
could be you know, increase your thumbnails, seo titles, whatever
the whatever the hell. But you know, I do get
(28:30):
a sense a lot of it is here are the
lines you're gonna need to tell. Here is where you
want to stay away from. Maybe you don't want to
talk that much about Gaza, you don't want to talk
talk that much about your primary challenges like Zora, mom
Donni or anything like that. You want to stay uncontroversial.
Let's focus on how good the Democrats are and mostly
how bad Trump is. Right like that is what they
really have been focusing on throughout this entire time, and
(28:55):
the secrecy really was a big selling point for a
lot of people. There was some one creator called Perry
or Party at Woman in America said, I believe we
are in stage five acceptance, so essentially saying that we're
kind of doing a pretty shitty thing here. Aaron Parness,
a gen Z influencer once held as the gen Z
(29:16):
Walter cronkite, is reported to have told colleagues it was
take or leave it. Ultimately many signs, so he was
just take the money, come on, let's go, and you know,
stop it all off. He was actually somebody who has
now been incredibly successful on Brian Tyler Cohen and my
Midas Touch Network, which is this hugely popular democratic influencer channel.
(29:37):
But he was the song. He is the son of
a guy named Leb Parnas who was a corrupt associate
of Trump. So you see how that impulse makes its
way down the apple, not following too far from the tree.
It avoids a lot of public discourse that you see
on political ads. Graham Wilson, Aware for a Courus, sat
in a zoom call with crickators. According to the article,
(30:00):
the names aren't showing up on reports filed with the
FEC you know, that is a that seems like it's
a real selling point there, and really bad emission is
exactly what alarms the watchdogs because they're like, you know,
this is not something that you should be doing. They say,
they've got collective reach of forty million followers and one
hundred million weekly views throughout all of their creators, and
(30:24):
they're also even now doing these collaborative content endeavors. After
the Biden White House frozeut critical creators and the Harris
campaign alienated others, the party is now mimicking tactics along
these by Republicans who have spent decades cultivating a sprawling
conservative media ecosystem, and that's spent a large part done
with big kind of right wing money. But I think
a big part of why the right wing is successful
(30:47):
is you can't be that blatant about it. You can't
be literally paying people money saying takedown the videos. I
don't like, don't endorse this candidate if I don't approve it,
don't attack that Candon if I don't approve it. Like
that is not something that is going to gender you
a lot of followers on new media because it's not
very authentic, like people tune into YouTube. They tune into
(31:07):
TikTok because they think that the people there are gonna
be more real and more honest with them than the
people on mainstream media. And if you're so clearly just
following all the incredibly basic stuff when it comes to,
you know, the Democratic Party ideology, you know, it's not
too popular right now, not that it ever really was,
and people can really see right through it. Just four
(31:30):
donors are kount of for nearly two thirds of his
revenue last year. Now through course the money is flowing
to TikTokers, YouTubers, and Instagram personalities. This is the woman
Suzanne Lambert, who apparently stylis herself a Regina George liberal.
Sounds like a lot of fun to hang out with.
She apparently. Kat Abu Ghazala, who's a progressive YouTuber now
(31:51):
running for Congress, told Why that she too was featured
on course materials without her permission. So there's a lot
of a lot of weird stuff generally going on, including this.
This is was caught by Taylor Taylor Lorenz, who wrote
the story. Aaron Parness, who was one of the guy
who was telling everyone take the money, take the money,
(32:13):
come on said, because of a recent wired hit piece
that has now been debunked, misinformation spread like a wildfire,
and several people decided to unsubscribe from my sub stack.
That is what the author wanted despite publishing a false article.
Please consider subscribing to support my work today. And you
know it sounds all well and good. But then David
pac Man, maybe this is one of the chorus meetings.
(32:34):
He puts out literally the exact same tweet after a
recent wied hit piece, now fully debunked false claims started
circulating and sadly, some people chose to unsubscribe from my
website membership, subsac or unfollowed on YouTube. That out come
is exactly what the author was hoping for when they
put out a misleading and inaccurate article. If you want
to support what I do, please consider subscribing. So there
you have the kind of the whole regime here. And
(32:56):
it's like you just got busted for doing eight k
a month. That's ninety six thousand, that was a year.
I don't need to pay you any more money if
you're to make your living, David pac Man, come up.
But anyway, this is what David pac Man had to say.
For himself on his YouTube show.
Speaker 10 (33:12):
It's for years I've been saying the left needs to
organize independent media in the way that the right has
been doing. The left needs to fund independent creators the
way that the right does. The right has won even
arguably presidential elections because they're organized with regard to online
(33:34):
and independent media. They're killing us. We've been so behind,
and this kind of support for creators is exactly what
I've been advocating for.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Yeah, it's just like, it sounds nice, it sounds like
it's a it's just kind of smart thing to do
in terms of the Democrats for the political side, but
it really for the reasons I said before, it just
doesn't work. And David Pacman here is the perfect example why.
It's like people are unsubscribing for him. Now, you just
got busted paying eightk or taking eight k a month
(34:08):
to few Democratic Party talking points without any sort of
critical thinking. And even though he's done that and he's
you know, accepted clauses like you know, you can't tell
anyone you're getting this money. You know, you can't you
can't endorse candidates that I don't or the company doesn't
like you know, you can't or the pay master, I
should say, doesn't like, you can't attack candidates at the
(34:29):
payment without the pay master's approval. You know you can't
do You can't if we tell you to take down videos,
you have to take down videos like newsplash. That's not
very independent. You can't call yourself a left wing independent
journalist if you're taking eight k a month from someone
who is demanding that much influence over your content. And
(34:50):
people who are digital natives whatever, like people who have
spent this time online, they know that, Like they see
this for the bs that it is, and it really
puts to bed this idea that you can just fund
the whole media ECOSYSM have a pop out of nowhere,
especially on the left. You need that authenticity, you need
that people powered force, and otherwise you're just gonna come
(35:14):
off looking very very fake. And look, you know, some
sort of corporate messaging video and no one really wants
to watch that, No one really wants to be a
part of that. We also have Olivia Juliana's response here
af post to a newscount on Twitter's Olivia Juliana, a
social media heavyweight for the DNC, is facing backlash after
reports that sixteen thirty fund was dishing out eight thousand
(35:37):
dollars a month to feed her with a menu of
talking points. She was brought on to give the Democrati
Party some extra theft with younger voters, and she's apparently
gonna leave nothing off the table in her response, which
we now have for you on news Flash.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
Let's take a look, because it's just sort of frustrating
everyone is willing to just believe why.
Speaker 11 (36:00):
The article that Taylor Lorenz wrote about me and a
number of other content creators who are a part of
the Chorus cohort is filled with factual inaccuracies. First and foremost,
we are not paid to make content. We are not
paid by the Democratic Party. Chorus does not have any
creative control over any of the content that I make,
over any of the people that I talk to, and
(36:21):
they have never and will never tell me what I
can or cannot say. The contract that we sign does
not pay us for content.
Speaker 12 (36:28):
It is the same as somebody giving seed money to
a small business to build their infrastructure so that that
business can go on to be self sustaining in the future.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
And even this also just seems so you know, kind
of good to be true, too good to be true,
because like even with Shark Tank, you know, for example,
you give a little seed money to a small business,
they get a stake. You know, what is the stake
here in these influencers, And it's clearly that you know,
maybe they don't have to be told, which is probably
even more pathetic, but it's that if we don't want
(37:00):
you're talking about something, you don't talk about it, or
bye bye eight thousand dollars a month. So really just
generally revealing a portrait of how the Democratic Party media
ecosystem works and why the Democrats are really so far
off from finding any sort of real popular legitimacy or
buy in from a lot of these centrist status quo
(37:20):
policies they're currently advocating for. I have seen this question
and this topic pop up so many times in recent
weeks online, and I always kind of shied away from
it because I just thought it was stupid and I
didn't think it really had any bearing on anything actually
happening in the real world anytime soon. But I've seen
(37:41):
it so much now that I think it's just impossible
to ignore. And that question is, is Donald Trump's health
in very poor shape. You know, you know what type
of poor shape. I mean, we have some. It may
sound crazy, and it sounds crazy to me even to
do the secment. I debated it for a long long
time about whether it should be something a segment that
(38:03):
I do. But you know, we have this here. This
is first this exhibit from our exhibit A from Keith
Edwards on Twitter. The queen two days before she died
shaking hands with the prime mister list. Trust you can
see she got kind of bruising on the center of
the top of her hand. And then this is Trump
(38:24):
today as in four days ago at the time of
this recording, and he's got the same bruise in the
exact same spot on the hand. And I don't think
it really this was what the hand bruise or whatever
was what the Queen died from. So it's like it
was a little skeptical, but we have seen the bruising,
the weird speech patterns, the inability to walk on the
straight line off of the airplane when meeting with Putin
(38:48):
on the runway. That was very much kind of distected
by a lot of liberals engaging in what I would
call wishful thinking. But here's another exhibit. This is three
hours ago. Laura Rosen, who is a reporter from Politico
I think on a bunch of other sites as well.
(39:10):
Freelance reporter says that Trump has no public events scheduled
all weekend long. Don't believe he was seen today either,
And this comes on the heels of a two week
long break from playing any sort of golf, which is
the longest, unsurprisingly, he has ever had in his entire
(39:30):
you know, two or I guess one in a quarter
now terms in office. So he really is you know,
it seems clear at the very least, there's a case
to be made that he is slowing down. You know,
he's not operating with sam vigor. He does have. You know,
he was diagnosed officially by the White House, but they
try to play it off. We'll get into that in
a second. But here's another exhibit. This is just today
(39:54):
or I believe yesterday. This was jd Vance with USA
Today in the interview.
Speaker 5 (40:01):
As vice president, you're a heart beat away from the
presidency and your boss is one of the oldest people
to ever be sworn into office. You're one of the
youngest people to ever be second in line. Are you
ready to assume the role of commander in chief, and
why should American.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
Strust to believe the country.
Speaker 13 (40:17):
Well, I've gotten a lot of good on the job
training over the last two hundred days, but also say
that the president is an incredibly good health, He's got
incredible energy, and while most of the people who work
around the President of the United States are younger than
he is, I think that we find that he actually
is the last person who goes asleep, He's the last
person making phone calls at night, and he's the first
(40:37):
person who wakes up with the first person making phone
calls in the morning. So, yes, things can always happen. Yes,
terrible tragedies happen, But I feel very confident that the
President of the United States is in good shape, is
going to serve out the remainder of his term and
do great things for the American people. And if God forbid,
there's a terrible tragedy, I can't think of better on
the job training than what I've gotten over the last
two hundred days.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
You know what that sounds like, you know, you know
what that sounds like right there, that he's the last
person to go to bed or at night and the
first person to wake up in the morning. He's always
working hard, he's always making phone calls. He runs circles
around the intern tour for fifty years younger than him. Well,
you know what that sounds a lot like was Joe
(41:20):
Biden and how the aids talked about Joe Biden and
they tried to downplay his health over the years until
of course it was too late and he had to
be dragged by his ear out of the presidential race
before you know, I mean even he didn't die, but
he was in very, very bad shape when he came
(41:42):
to his health, and of course the White House was
hiding it. The Biden White House was hiding it and
covering it up. What do you think this White House
is capable of when it comes to covering up really
serious presidential health issues? I mean this, it definitely does
seem like it here. And this is another one. This
one probably is the most suss of all to me
(42:04):
because it comes from the conservative political consultant Rick Wilson,
who is part of the Lincoln Project which presided over
I don't think it was him. I think it was
another guy who was a very similar name to him,
but they he essentially worked alongside a guy who was
hitting up young boys to you know, go meet up
and do things with shall we say, that was a
(42:26):
big scandal for the Lincoln Project, and their ads that
they ran during the twenty twenty presidential election were actually
proven to help Republicans and hurt Democrats, which is the
opposite of what they were trying to do. So to
say I don't really respect the Lincoln Project or to
have too much faith in what they say or anyone
associated with Lincoln Project is something that, you know, it
was kind of an understatement there turned really my true
(42:48):
feelings about the Lincoln Project. Wilson said that rumors from
the Trump verse indicate that President JD. Vance is moving
fast in the shuffling of power behind the scenes, positioning
himself to take over the MAGA movement sooner rather than later.
According to Wilson, subsac slow or fast, he's headed down.
Wilson stead of Trump, the circle who knows what's up
in is very very small and very very paranoid. Jade
(43:09):
Vance knows, and he's moving fast. When Wilson pointed to
Vance's interview this week with USA Today, that's the one
that we just played. The White House also did not
respond to a request for comment, but Trump said in
May that it was far too early to say who
might succeed him, but he said Advance was doing a
fantastic job. So this it all kind of comes through
(43:31):
with the assumption that you know, this can this conversation
can be about one of two things, which is, who's
going to take the Republican mantle in twenty twenty eight
or will someone need to take the Republican mantel before
twenty twenty eight? And will you know there'd be something
wrong with the big man at the top. And I
personally think that this is, you know, this kind of
(43:51):
intimation and this kind of hinting, is if I have
to be honest, even though there are some things that
certainly want to make me raise my eyebrows and go hmm,
and the things I'll notice and file file away in
the back of my head. I think the clear situation
is is this is, for the moment a drive by
the very same people that we talked about earlier in
(44:13):
the show. These these people who are you know, kind
of getting paid by the DNT types to just put up,
you know, Democratic Party propaganda about how bad Trump is
and how good you know, democrats are and these just
kind of very basic liberals who have been doing this
kind of stuff for years and years of the Trump
era are just engaging in, you know what I said,
(44:36):
wistful thinking and really clickbait to capture the hearts and
minds of people who would like to see what could
happen happen a lot sooner than it might have otherwise happened,
if you know what I mean. And I think what
that does is distracts people from a lot of the
very real issues that are happening, whether it be big
beautiful bill cutting healthcare, whether it be the tariffs, whether
(44:57):
it be you know, the wars, the most ultiple wars
that were involved at the moment, and obviously most basically
in Goza, but also Ukraine and Russia. The fact that
we're putting troops down towards Central America, all this stuff
that we've covered on this show. Because you try to
be a actually serious show that follows the news on
a day to day basis, you know that stuff is
(45:18):
not going to make it on those shows. But what
will is Trump is just moments away. He's weeks away.
He only his time is running out. Like that is
something that would totally make it on those shows because
it's not substantive, but it's exciting to the right type
of liberal audience. And you know, I have to I
hate to be the bear bad news for you guys,
but you still are gonna have to keep fighting him,
(45:39):
most likely for all four years of his term. And
that is a good thing. And I'll tell you why.
It's because it builds your strength for the future. If
you are in La Laan and all these fantasies and
everything like that, you are weak for when the real
challenge comes, when the real fight comes, and taking on
someone like Marco Ruby or jd Vance as they try
(45:59):
to d maga movement to the next level is going
to be a much much more worthy time use of
your time in terms of thinking about how to do
that and how to do that effectively, rather than counting
down to the days or looking for signs on Trump's hand.
As weird as they may be, it really is just
not a productive use of time. That's all we have
(46:23):
for you today. Thank you so much for listening to
the show once again. All of our clips will be
available on YouTube at the Spencer Welsh YouTube channel, so
go check them. Out. We'll be back at the beginning
of next week.
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