John Iadarola, Alonzo Bodden, and Mark Thompson. President Trump’s legal team is shaken up once more with the removal of Ty Cobb. Sarah Sander’s reports that Cobb has been discussing his departure for awhile. Trump has hired Emmet T. Flood, the same lawyer that represented Clinton in his impeachment. Donald Trump released a letter from his doctor describing in detail that his lab test results are “astonishingly excellent” and the healthiest president we’ve ever elected. Sen. Feinstein takes a minuscule step toward the side of her constituents in the plight to normalize marijuana. More and more Americans agree with Bernie Sander’s on the idea of a political revolution. Brian Kemp readies his gun in an ad for Georgia’s gubernatorial race.
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Simple answer to Alonso and Mark’s skepticism – YES, Republicans will fearmonger against a message of economic equality with boogeyman words. You have to counter that message effectively. That’s kind of your job description when you want to be a political leader, right ?
You have to have a real short memory to forget the Obama actually used the words “redistribution of wealth”, they threw “socialist” at him, and it didn’t do didley. That’s because he ran a good campaign and was an effective messenger. Then he came to office, instead of using his messaging to push for a better healthcare, he used it to sandbag Dennis Kucinich and get Olympia Snowe’s vote instead. Democrats lost in 2010. He came back with populist talking points and took back 2012, Democrats also did well.
And yes, if you are trying to change a more strongly rooted way of thinking, you campaign harder, be more insistent. That’s the same anywhere in the world. If that sounds too difficult, you shouldn’t be leading the party of change. Both of them sounded basically like the Clintonites post 2016, where they all expected to win without having to campaign hard for it.
Job creation doesn’t help if the employer doesn’t pay his staff.
It’s too bad that Cenk wasn’t here for the Bernie story. John was good, but Cenk could have gone deeper into how progressive Democrats can leverage the current public sentiment, if only they use the right message.
This week has been amazing I have so enjoyed the variety of different voices that have been brought forward it opens up the dialogue for so many people it’s not just about the news of the day it’s about things it can help the most that’s reaching into ourselves and reaching out to others and if the bothersome people too bad. The show needs a lot more of a rotation of host cohosts communicators, commentators it from spectrum to be a hell of a lot more inclusive. It wasn’t just us post game it’s been this entire week seeing Brett, Mark, Hannah,Alonzo & other Guest cohosts hour one hour two and the post games have just been amazing because there is a switch up of faces voices and experiences! This needs to happen more often. You have a wide range of viewers and yes we come to the main show for news but how it’s being presented by different points of view And voices with different life experiences that actually reflect your audience in such a Broader way keeps this show fresh. Bravo to this week!
Two things on pot legalization acceptance:
1. After seeing the incredible profits being made in Colorado and Washington State, politicians and the wealthy are getting on board (see John Bohner investing in canabis company http://fortune.com/2018/04/11/pot-marijuana-john-boehner-speaker-republican/ ) Money always talks and when it does, morals walk with these fucks
2. The “slippery slope” argument often used to rail against pot legalization (including Fein-dinning-stein) is never used to denigrate the biggest gateway drug there is: alcohol. The “we must protect the children from access” is ridiculous. How’s that been working with alcohol for the last nearly 100 years? Have there been any actions taken against say, Anheuser-Busch?
Additionally, does anyone else remember when drug companies could not advertise their products, especially on TV? Some of the ads now specifically target kids. Where is the “slippery-slope” argument for drug companies? Where is the outrage demanding protection “for the children” in these cases?
Feinstein and her ilk are so disingenuous that it’s nauseating. Get on board or get out of the way. I’m sure Pfeizer has some high paid speaking engagements that would keep you busy Dianne
I never used the word before but Alonso nailed it.
People “like” those policies but will never vote for them because once the campaigns start the whistles blow hard. A typical White household has 10 times as much wealth as a Latino or African American one and wealth redistribution will almost exclusively affect white people and if you don’t think republicans won’t use that think again.
Also the American people have been programmed to hate the government since the republic started and what happened in the 30s was a fluke. Republicans nearly rolled back everything FDR did between 46 and 48 and only the crushing catastrophe of 48 knocked some sense into them. No matter how good intentions and policies are thrown at them they will never trust government programs, at least not until they try them.
My next Dr visit, I’ll tell HIM how healthy I am…what could go wrong?
Alonzo is the shit! Get him on more often!!
Regarding Feinstein changing her views as result of having a “viable” opponent… It is true, she does have a viable opponent. His name is Kevin De Leon. Unfortunate, but the truth.
I’m afraid the best we can hope for from this senate race is that Feinstein loses to De Leon.
When Hartson entered the race, I had very high hopes. I gave money. I have volunteered and worked on her behalf. But I have also watched with mounting disappointment the amateurish debacle going on behind the scenes on her campaign. Jaw-dropping mistakes have been made — I have witnessed them first-hand.
I will still canvas for her and vote for her… but there is something to be said for hiring professionals with campaigning experience, and she has not done that.
I acknowledge that PROGRESSIVE experienced campaign veteran managers are probably very rare. Perhaps other progressive candidates had already hired all the good ones. I love Cenk, but decades of back-seat driving and criticizing from the sidelines is not the same thing as being an experienced campaign manager.
The TYT Army and all her volunteers will accomplish something… she will get a measurable percentage of votes. But nothing like what she could have garnered, if her campaign were being run by someone who knows how to run a campaign.
The primary is still 5 weeks away. If its not too late… I hope Hartson can get better help and step up her game. But 5 weeks is not enough time to undo the damage of six wasted months.
Which is a long way of saying that when Cenk tries to explain her defeat as this-or-that fault of the establishment or the rigged system… sorry but no. I’ve seen the mis-management going on behind the curtain. So sad.
The only way to get rid an establishment politician of the caliber of Feinstein is to find someone with either the money and name recognition to take him down (Schwarzenegger) or with one with established political pedigree (like Feinstein did in the then Reddish California and for her time Feinstein was a true liberal).
I don’t know much about California politics but what I know is that the next California Bernie should have been a California Bernie. A politician who began at the street level in the city council and then legislature/Mayor office and showed his street creds there first.
Hartson was just a teacher and to be honest, and I said that earlier, painfully obvious that she is a lousy campaigner and those can get you so far in a race against a very vibrant 84 year old warrior. She couldn’t even put her name on the Dem convention and these people matter because they are the true power brokers statewide.
Let this be a lesson to progressive. Local elections matter. It is the only way to filter out good prospects from bad one and the only way to know if the guy will actually be a progressive when he/she reaches office or not. Don’t let me start on how many “progressives” who shafted the movement once they tasted the green.
I have also donated to Hartson’s campaign and I share your disappointment with the way things are going, in terms of polling and the fact that she can’t seem to get herself in the public eye AT ALL (I have literally seen barely any coverage of her outside of TYT and its satellite channels).
And I would have guessed what you confirmed, there’s a lot of ineptitude going on. I barely heard from her campaign in the first two to three months after donating. How can you be running a Senate campaign in CA and afford to waste valuable time like that ?
In contrast, someone like Doug Applegate, another JD who came within a point of Darrel Issa last time would literally not leave me alone. Everyday, some call for donations, volunteering, sign this petition or that. It was like knocking my door down, and at it made me assured he was doing whatever it was that needed to be and could be done.
What looks bad now is that even Kevin de Leon (inspite of what you said), doesn’t really seem to pulling ahead in the polls. He’s barely tying or behind a Republican in each one. And if the last poll was correct, and a Neo Nazi on the Republican ticket takes 2nd place, it’s game set and match for DiFi (and that is the vest case scenario).
Point a gun at a kid and making him recite your beliefs sounds more like a hostage video not a campaign for governor. Wow!!!
Actually, medical records belong to the medical provider not the patient. The patient can request a copy but the original stays with the provider. HIPAA is a strict and vast federal law regarding medical records.
People have been brain-washed and bashed (by Reaganites & Clintoncrats) that Tinkle-On Economics WORKS. If the Economy (stock market, banks, Big Corporations, Rich&Famous) is doing well, everyone benefits!
You can always tell who are the most powerless, by who gets scapegoated by politicians AND the MSM.
Undocumented workers are STEALING American citizens jobs!
Welfare Queens are LAZY & living off MY tax dollars!
Teachers are have an EASY job and are way OVER-PAID!
Seniors in my area of MI say, “My kids are out of school, so why do I have to pay for a millage increase?”
I think many people who are against taxes, say so because they are struggling. Or they feel that, “Someday I’ll be rich or win the Lotto, and then I won’t want higher taxes.” We see politicians raise their OWN salaries, but the majority of the state has seen actual raises in YEARS. Or their income has decreased cuz they are now working a couple part-time minimum wage jobs.
OMG For fucks sake, THE BOY IN THE GUN AD IS THE MAN’S SON!!!! That’s why it’s “supposed to be funny”; like at the end where he says “Yes.. YES SIR”. Look at the pics! They have the same exact nose, the same ugly face – any idiot (and believe me, I’m an idiot!) can see it. Ugh. It also adds a new dimension of creepiness to the “this boy wants to date one of my daughters” thing, because that would be one of Jake’s SISTERS – which, sadly, is probably the Georgia-voter they are going for (the incestuous hicks).
He looks like a young Andy Samberg travelling through time.
Additionally, the number one rule for responsibly handling a firearm is to ALWAYS treat it like it’s loaded. Pointing a gun at anyone is dangerous behavior. When it’s your son and your threatening him be respectful about dating his sister, well, that person should not be armed for a large number of reasons. Incest and guns…there has to be more to the South than that…
Concerning Trump’s use of low-dose aspirin: why does anyone take 81mg of aspirin? High-blood pressure? Stroke prevention?
Trump supervillainhero name–something with “brain spurs”, swamp things (swamp gas? drano-o?), dotard(ed)–with Trump, the choices are endless.
I’m a bit of a snob when it comes to substitute hosts and power panels, but I very much enjoy these three.
Regarding the “selling” of wealth redistribution, you sell it as “repealing Trump’s Government Handouts to the Elite 1% and greedy corporations and restoring and enhancing government resources for programs that benefit the most Americans, such as Medicare for all and converting to clean energy sources. We will be restoring tax rates on the top-earning tax categories and DECREASING tax rates for those earning less than $200,00/year” or whatever–it can be done!
Mark Thompson has been so great this week! Cenk and Ana are obviously amazing, but it’s refreshing to get
different perspectives and see where the discussion leads when TYT mixes up the panels.
This is a really good panel. Only person missing is Amberia Allen.
Where is cenk
He’s to be on “The Opposition with Jordan Klepper”, I think tonight, the third… If last night, I (we) missed it…
Its Deep Voices Wednesday (except for John).
How are these lawyers getting paid? Is it taxpayers’ money?
I like it when Alonzo Bodden is on.
Agreed Causey. Why waste time on this deranged fool? Calling him an “artist” … really … what because he puts lyrics to remixed beats created by other more talented people? GTFOH.
However, I respect the TYT network. And honestly Causey, are you really going massively ballistic on such a small percentage of what actually got shared on this podcast? Really, you want to go all OMFG on 2 percent?
Okay that’s cool. Peace out.
OMFG nobody gives a shit about Kanye west ! enough is enough guys this is a waste of time… he is a jackass and is not relevant to a lot of people at this point. stop kissing his ass and saying “he’s an artist” fuck Kanye he’s a total douchebag
Causey24, that’s the some of the same shit people were saying about Trump all throughout the primaries, and the Hillary supporters were saying right up until her concession speech. Apparently there is no one too stupid a portion of the American people won’t be willing to elevate to unimaginable and reckless levels power and authority and therefore there is no one too stupid or seemingly irrelevant to not warrant excoriating and undermining before they can cause serious problems. Kanye feels like an irrelevant hack of an “artist” and commentator to me and yet stupid people make him a legitimate threat to responsible governance so he has to be taken down.
Good point.
AGREED!