>> I also want to talk about in the wake of the no transfer comment from Trump that again,
we we can't be shocked by it because he's been saying that, but we do need to take it
seriously. Is that, we need to understand that, many, many people are not taking it
seriously.
This comment, or the fact that this is the 80th time he's publicly said that he plans
to steal the election. There's a tweet out by Ben Shapiro earlier today that was like,
well, he certainly shouldn't have said it. But let's be clear, the coup narrative is
entirely made up by the media.
Well, maybe not entirely. I mean, he did just say that he's not going to transfer power.
That seems like maybe you should factor that in. And you have a few tweets like this. Now
look, I'm not one of the people that loves to just brag on Nate Silver constantly.
I appreciate his analysis in some cases, even though I'm a progressive, so he hates my guts.
But he tweeted this, literally a couple of hours before Trump's comments saying, it seems
like the mood among some of the blue-checkmarks here has drifted a bit too liberally from
quote, there's a plausible chance of some very bad outcomes, which is true.
To quote, Trump is for sure going to steal the election and you're all sheeple for thinking
otherwise. Dude like two hours later Trump said no transfer, it may be listen to us.
I'm not saying you're sheeple. And I don't say for sure. And I apologize for being a
blue-checkmark.
But maybe we should take this seriously and maybe it would be a good thing, if all of
the most renowned, respected members of our political elite and media elite and legal
elite, were to take this seriously and get ready for it because it's gonna be an exciting
November in all the wrong ways.
>> Yeah, I agree 100% is happening, John, you have individuals who are credible, they
are smart, they are brilliant, but they have normalized the behavior of the President.
They have become apologist to his extreme rhetoric. And every time they say well, he
didn't really mean that. And then he does the thing that they didn't think he would
do, instead of checking him, and bringing their party back into alignment with the platform's
of the Republican agenda.
Instead of checking him, John, they decided to expand the moral competence, and they keep
expanding the moral compass. And every time this guy does this to them, I'm talking about
to the Conservative brand, he takes away the soul of the Republican party, if they ever
had one. And at some point you will be in the post Trump era, and I'm talking about
Republicans.
You will be in a post Trump era, however, because of what you allow Trump to do to your
brand, you will never live it down. It will take decades before people forgive you of
this. This guy is not the people's champion. The vast majority of Americans never supported
him in the first place.
They absolutely don't support him now, you will not be on the right side of history.
You're not even on the right side of the present. >> That's good. I like that. That's good.
Yeah, you're totally right. So many people, they just don't get it. They still think that
this is the 80s, they really do.
I look at basically every Dem leader, is like, if he does these unprecedented things, then
he'll pay some day in an election, I guess. So I'm not gonna do anything but our voters
may be will make him pay. That's not no, that's not gonna save our democracy. It's just not
going to.
And it's not just Trump, of course. In response to that unprecedented comment about the transfer
of power, Republicans brush aside Trump's dismissal of a peaceful transfer, they are
not worried. But, really? Is Mitch McConnell not worried about it? That's a shock. I might
faint actually, hold on, no I'm good.
Okay, that was close. Here is the thing, man. The vast majority of people that do the sort
of job that Rashad and I do, which at least in this, he has other jobs. This is just the
only thing I do, is that I open my mouth and I make noises at a mic.
All we want is to be to be right or feel right. But I'm really not like that, I'm a political
masochist, there's nothing I like more than being wrong. I wanted my predictions in 2016
to be wrong, it just didn't work out that way. I want these predictions about how the
election is gonna go to be wrong.
But wanting it doesn't make it so, and you can't just say we're being hyperbolic. When
when Trump went to a rally and he said, I say we slow down the testing, and I freaked
out, they freaked out not at Trump, but at people like me saying, come on, it's just
a rally, he's just saying that.
And then they've manipulated the CDC in any number of different ways. They did actually
reduce the testing for a significant period of time. I wanna be wrong, but in 2020, I
don't get to be about anything truly matters. >> We're talking about a guy who manipulated
the Weather Channel, okay?
>> Yes. >> All right?
>> Yes. >> A guy who's willing to manipulate the Weather
Channel. There was nothing this individual will not do to remain in power. To me, it
is not a possibility that Trump will fight his electoral and popular vote defeat, it
is not an if, it is not a possibility it is a win.
It is at what point will his team start filing the lawsuit to kick this to the Supreme Court?
>> 100%, 100%. I'm glad that you brought that up. We, in our video intro to the show, we
have our last bit of it, the last couple seconds of it is usually it's Trump doing something
crazy, hugging the flag or something like that.
And we've left it as him holding up the Sharpie weather map for a long time because how do
you beat that? Once you start Sharpie-ing a hurricane path, anything is up for grabs.
>> Everything, man. Everything. And I mean that literally, right? You sat down and you
drew on a scientific document, in order to have the ability to say you're right, when
you are completely wrong about this group or this area having an impact from the storm.
>> Yeah. >> First of all, who cares that you were possibly
wrong about that detail that nobody in history would have remembered except for the fact
you popped out a sharpie in order to lie, right?
>> And he didn't even choose the same color Sharpie
>> I know man, he's not even good at it.
>> Such an idiot, God! >> Call me y'all old school, but I'm waiting
John to get back to the day when a politician lies to me and I believe it, will get us out
of pain. I think we have long gone from those days. There is no ambiguity and more about
the lie, and I get calls all the time from Conservatives, Republicans, Trump supporters
who call my show.
And if you get them in the right debate, John, they will admit, they will admit, they know
Trump lies. And then they will say, but this, right?
>> Yeah. >> That's the problem.
>> Yeah, I think a lot of Americans have been sniffing that Sharpie. And unfortunately there's
no putting the cap back
on that.
That's what I worry about.