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Host
Too fast, Trevor. Too fast.
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Joy Reid
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Host
Shh. They're here. Foreign reports have shown that MAGA districts, MAGA cities, red states are where all of the trans porn is searched up and consumed. And so it will come as no surprise to anyone. Kylie put up the following headline, MAGA Republican exposed for following transgender adult film star online. A MAGA Republican running for Wisconsin governor just dropped out of the race after being caught following a trans adult film star and other sexually explicit, explicit writers online. Bill Berrian, a manufacturing exec and former Navy seal, had campaigned on, quote, Republican family values and promised to discriminate against trans kids in school sports. But the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel revealed his Medium account followed a trans porn star and writers on polyamory and explicit essays. Berrian deleted the account and quit the race, saying the media spun, quote, stupid articles into a salacious and sensational attack. In his exit statement, he insisted nothing he read was illegal, unethical, or immoral. But he did not acknowledge how his personal proclivities were antithetical to the MAGA movement and his campaign promises. And here's the thing. I just have always known the louder the Christian, the more fucked up the family always has been true. And the more somebody talks about gay and trans people. I need to see the Google search history. And I need to know, if I go to your phone and I try to install Grindr, does it say reinstall? I want to know those two things.
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Co-host/Commentator
Well, I don't think there's any question that it does, because we have all this data. Where does porn and transgender porn, where does it get consumed the most?
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Host
The Bible Belt.
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Co-host/Commentator
Yep, this guy. And you cannot pick up your phone without there being some type of MAGA associated candidate elected official preacher. I probably bookmark two a week that they have come across and they are exploiting children by watching films with explicit with children, like little.
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Host
Child sex abuse evidence.
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Co-host/Commentator
Child sex abuse evidence. That's how we say it. And it's time and time again, and every single time I see it, it says Republican Christian values. They have Family, Christian values. They're big supporters of MAGA.
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Host
It's like 10 out of 10, 100%. Okay, next up, something the Democrats really need to start messaging is this whole $20 billion bailout to Argentina. And it's interesting and fortunately for US independent media, and this is by now they have dug deep into why is Kank so obsessed with bailing out Argentina? Follow the money. Who is benefiting from this? Because we sure as fuck know the MAGA voters that are not getting health care right now. They're not benefiting from it. So who is? Who's benefiting from this $20 billion? Watch this clip.
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News Reporter
Taxpayers are bailing out Argentina with $20 billion and it mostly benefits one well connected GOP billionaire while hurting American farmers back in 2023. Elon Musk tweeted this after the country elected right wing Javier Millet as president. Just two years later, Argentina found itself begging the US for help after taking a chainsaw to its economy, much like Musk did here, leaving the country in crisis. So U.S. treasury Secretary Scott Bessant announced a 20 billion dollar package to rescue their economy which has almost no impact on the U.S. i thought Trump was supposed to be America first. But Besson's announcement did have a huge benefit for one American billionaire hedge fund manager Rob Citron, a close friend of Besson's and the co founder of Discovery Capital Management. Citron has invested heavily in Argentina's right wing economic program and just days before the bailout announcement he purchased even more ARG Argentine bonds. So thanks to U S taxpayers, this billionaire's precious investments are protected amid a downturn and his profits will get a boost. And guess what else? Leaked texts from Besson's phone show the US May have gotten played as right after the deal, Argentina removed export taxes on soybeans and struck a trade deal with China which immediately pulled out of existing soybean arrangements with American farmers. In the end, our tax dollars will help the right wing Argentina government, China and this one billionaire friend of Besson's.
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Host
$20 billion MAGA. $20 billion for one fat cat friend of Donald Trump. And we're gonna have the farmers, the US farmers that Trump has lied to and he likes to just play fuck around and find out with his tariffs for sport, he's wrecking the US economy. And of course there's some fat cat suck ass billionaire that they curry favor with. It's unbelievable. We are not a stable country with integrity. The US economy I believe right now the stocks are wildly overvalued. It is a Massive bubble that is going to pop. And then who are we going to ask to bail us out?
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Co-host/Commentator
Oh, Canada, because they love us so much. I mean, here's the thing. I look at that. That's a cautionary tale. Trump and Elon Musk. Argentina just executed the economy they want to execute, and guess what? They're broke. And here's the thing, too. I find it so interesting that Trump is so easy to write a $20 billion check to Argentina to save this guy's fat ass. But I keep hearing about the bailout for the farmers, but I haven't seen any numbers on it.
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Host
You know, he'll probably end up doing it at some point because for him, it's no big deal. But hide and watch. I guarantee you got a kickback from this Argentinian billionaire question. There's 100. He had to have gotten a kickback from that. Okay, moving along. AOC is really stepping into this moment. God, I wish she were the minority Leader in the House. Because we need this type of leadership, we need this type of messaging. And day after day, she always has the message that I need to hear. Play the clip.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC)
I think there's two things that are happening at once, and this is something that's very important for people to understand. One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance. That is happening. However, they are weaker than they look. And it is important that we remember that, because what they rely on is the impression of power, the perception of inevitability in us giving up in advance to say, oh, what's going to happen if I stand up, et cetera, nothing's going to happen. They rely on that perception of inevitability and. And power so that people comply in advance and acquiesce in advance and give up in advance. And at the end of the day, Donald Trump is at record levels of unpopularity in his tenure. The Republican House is at record levels of unpopularity. They are underwater across the board, and they know it. And that is causing them to double down in public. But it is backfiring. That is why, whether it's a shutdown, whether it's all of this, they want us to blink first and we have too much to save. Protecting people is too important a task for us to give up before anything even starts. So they may want to send people in, but these National Guardsmen do not want to be turned against their fellow Americans. We're seeing this here in Washington, D.C. it is an insult. Donald Trump is insulting the service members of this country by putting them on these silly tasks that they themselves do not want to be enforcing. And so we have to understand that standing up matters, that our voice matters, to not give in to the cynicism because that is what they rely on in order to perpetuate this idea that they are. That they have total immunity from consequence. They will experience the consequences of this. But we have to be the consequence, which is why we have to stand tall right now alongside everyday Americans who want us to be standing up right now as well.
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Host
It's excellent messaging. And we played a video earlier, another episode with her and Bernie Sanders messaging. And I think what is just so crazy about when you hear AOC and you hear here, Bernie, the people that hate them the most are the, the people that they're hiding fighting the hardest for. Yeah. And that's the difference. That's the difference between the left and the right. The left will fight for these MAGA morons that voted against their best interest because we believe in humanity and we believe in their right to dignity and to be treat them as human beings. And for them to have equal rights under the law on the right they want to make. Nobody's getting anything extra. Not one thing. Not one thing. You poor people, if you're brown or black, you, if you're gay, triple you, if you're trans, blast off the face of the planet. But billionaires, we will fight tooth and nail for you to have all of the money. It is crazy. It is so crazy how successful Republicans have been at contorting the percentage of the American public to vote for people who make infinitely more money than they do and to always vote against their own self interest. It's fascinating.
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Co-host/Commentator
I'll tell you what else is fascinating. The MAGA voter, the typical MAGA voter that shows up at the Capitol to storm the Capitol. Donald Trump despises them.
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Host
Yeah.
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Co-host/Commentator
He would no more let those people come have a party at Mar a Lago and let's yuck it up for the evening to than the man in the moon because he views them as less than. But you know what I think so interesting is all this stuff they're putting on all the government websites and the answer machines propaganda. And it tells me they know how unpopular it is.
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Host
Yeah, it's just fascist propaganda because they are trying to exude strength. But all of those things are just textbook fascist propaganda that fascist governments use. Next up, we have excellent, excellent thought here from Peter Beinart. You should follow him on Instagram. He's a very, very thoughtful, great thought leader, and I love what he says here.
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Peter Beinart
Republican Party has always, you know, for as long as I can remember, like to talk about appeasement, like to talk about cowardice. They always imagine themselves as the kind of the Churchills, the. The manly men, the people who could be counted on in the moment of peril to stand up to the forces of evil. You know, I mean, what. What an utter irony that has turned to be right. Because it turned out there is no greater group of appeasers, no greater group of cowards than the people in the modern Republican Party today who, because they're afraid of Donald Trump, afraid that he could get them to lose their job, or afraid that he might go after them personally, because, after all, Donald Trump goes after Republicans, too.
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Advertiser/Announcer
Right?
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Peter Beinart
And beyond that, I look at the organized American Jewish community. I mean, just go to the websites of the most powerful American Jewish organizations. Aipac, the Anti Defamation League, the Conference of Presidents of American Jewish Organizations. Would you realize that American democracy is in peril? Would you realize that the Trump administration is trying to create an authoritarian state? No, you would see virtually nothing of that, because these organizations care really only about one thing, about maintaining unconditional US Support for Israel. It's much more important to them that America maintains unconditional support for Israel than that America remains a liberal democracy. They would actually prefer an authoritarian America that supports indis unconditionally than a liberal democratic America that changes its policy on Israel. And the evidence is right in front of you. You just look at what outrages them, look at what they focus their political attention on. So it's not opposing Donald Trump's obviously, nakedly obvious efforts at creating an authoritarian, tyrannical state. I take some comfort in the notion that those leaders in our community, as well as those Republicans in Congress, as well as those business leaders and people in industry and some of these university presidents, that all of them will be judged. I think we're heading. We're already in terrible, terrible times and. And probably heading for worse. And so I. I think there is a Jewish tradition, in moments of. Of great pain and trauma, of taking refuge in the idea that we believe in a God who judges and. And that there is some kind of cosmic justice, even if we can't understand it, even if we may not live to see it. And from the. The depths of my being, I hope that there is an accounting, that there is a reckoning, there is a judgment for the. For the profound moral cowardice that is allowing the evil that is taking place both in the destruction of Palestinians in the genocide in Gaza and the destruction of the basic principles of liberal democracy in the United States. All of us need to, need to not give in to despair, to not look away, to look this in the eye and do whatever possibly we can to fight against this evil.
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Host
I just thought that was really brilliant. And I think he's such an incredible thought leader. I think that you have these Republicans and he's right. For years they consider themselves the Churchills and that they wouldn't appease and now they're the party of cowardice. And he's a spot on about these Jewish organizations that are hell bent and fixated on just unilateral support from the United States government and they don't give a shit about American citizens. You've literally got people that live in rural America that really have no idea where Israel or Palestine is. It's something in the Middle east and people have always been fighting. That's what people in flyover states think about that space. And they're paying their money, they're hard working money, their taxes, firemen, farmers, you know, plumbers, electricians, grocery store clerks, they're paying their money to go over to Israel to kill civilians and, and, and, and do a genocide. It's so devastating when you think about all of that. But he says, Peter Beinart there says don't give in to despair. You know, and I don't believe in God. I think he's Jewish and I appreciate Jewish voices that speak out against the war crimes that the Israeli government is, is doing. I just think that what's happening, we can't give in to despair. And we have to believe like Martin Luther King said about the, you know, the arc of the moral universe and that it will bend, you know, towards justice. And lastly, this was another fascinating. You guys, I'm taking you on a tour of my Instagram saves of the week. And this is Joy Reid with I think some really fantastic, fascinating reporting on how Charlie Kirk got his start, how he was discovered and who funded him and how he ascended to the level that he did. Listen to Joy now talk about that watch list because I don't know if people really know about this.
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Joy Reid
Right. And first of all, what you have to understand about Charlie Kirk is the reason he dropped out of junior college at 18 years old is because he was discovered by a man named Bill Montgomery, who was a tea partier, a very rich, I think, think probably billionaire who spotted him when he was in high school spouting free Market conservative ideas and convinced him became his mentor. This man was 72 years old and he gave him $4.7 million to start Turning Point USA. And the first thing that Turning Point USA did, they started this in 2012. This is when Barack Obama was running for reelection. And a lot of the right were really fearful that he had the youth on their side. What they had was Rush Limbaugh who, whose audience was much older. So what they decided they needed to do was take that Rush Limbaugh energy, right wing talk radio, get it with the younger right and get it on the campuses. And they were. The right has always been angry that they feel college campuses are too liberal. So Turning Point USA was really started by the 72 year old man, Bill Montgomery, but he was the face Charlie Kirk. And what they did was they sent him onto campuses to try to argue for the free market. When that didn't really take off, he eventually turned to things that are easier to sell. Racism, sexism, misogyny, just hate talk. But that started to make it take off. And during the pandemic, he really blew up. That is where he came from. And so, you know, one of the projects that Turning Point USA created that still exists to this day is what they called a campus watch list. And what that is is a snitch list. They basically encourage people on college campuses who are conservative to report on their professors, who they think are too liberal, who spout liberal ideas. They put their names, their addresses, in some cases they dox them, and they encourage them to be attacked. And so some of the people on that watch list, who are mainly black women, brown folks, gay folks, people who are minorities, are on that list. They've been doxed, they've been terrorized. People have reported getting death threats from being on that list.
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Host
So I think that's really fascinating because you see how the right wing, they play a long term game. They, Rush Limbaugh was fringe that boomers listened to that were kind of get off my yard vibes. And during the Obama era, the Republican party had a major youth problem. And it's also interesting that Charlie Kirk originally tried to talk about free markets, snooze fest, right? So then he goes in with the culture wars and that always riles people up. And the culture war thing is at the epicenter of the MAGA movement. And all of the things that Joy Reid just listed there, misogyny, racism, sexism, all of that stuff is in the Bible as well. So you have this merging of the right wing media, echo chamber, right wing Policy, Project 2025 and the Republican Party all coming together for this moment. But I think it's a bubble that's going to pop. And we have to remember what AOC said. We have to remember what Peter said. We cannot despair. We have to fight. Like during the 60s, they had a moment, you know, civil rights moment. People, real civil justice warriors were assassinated. Robert Kennedy, the very progressive, very smart, non freak show father of RFK junior was shot. Of course John Kennedy was shot. And I think it was a really traumatic time for the country. You saw a lot of white evangelical Christians spitting on white people, beating them up when they came home from Vietnam. These black men served in combat and then came home. And these white evangelicals, and it's those white evangelicals are still here today. Those white evangelicals started with the kkk and it's time that the Democratic Party start attacking the out of them because they have a faith that is. It's just a heart full of hate. It is cruelty. It is absolute cruelty. And they like it. They like to see people be treated as less than they enjoy in a Pavlovian type of way. They enjoy the idea of racism, sexism, homophobia.
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Co-host/Commentator
Well, it's part of their religion, as you said.
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Host
That's all we have for this episode. Please subscribe and like and we'll be back later with more news.
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