Two of Joe Biden's top white house advisers privately shared some
pretty searing criticism toward progressive members of Congress.
Now this was all revealed in the upcoming book.
This will not pass Trump Biden and the battle for
America's future written by New York Times reporters, Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns.
Now, according to the book, Cedric Richmond, who represented
Louisiana's 2nd Congressional District from 2011 to 2021.
Became irate after the sunrise movement attacked Biden for
naming him as a senior advisor and
director of the Office of Public Liaison in late November of 2020.
So what did he do?
Well, he called a friend to complain about it.
Apparently, Richmond telephoned a friend to express his anger at
the group of progressive female House members known as the Squad,
all of whom have close ties to Sunrise.
He was particularly angry at two major Sunrise allies,
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Representative Rashida Talib.
In fact, he told his friend that the left wing lawmakers were effing idiots and
we have to censor it for the show.
He didn't censor it during this discussion and Cenk apparently what really upset him
was they had the audacity to point to his cozy ties to the fossil fuel industry.
Because remember calling them out on the corruption is something that they just
cannot deal with.
>> And guys, this is a really important story because this is exactly
the kind of groupthink that exists in Washington.
Where calling out somebody for their corruption
is considered the biggest violation of etiquette and
people consider you mean and terrible person.
How could you do that to poor Cedric Richmond just
he's been taking all that oil money and stuffing it in his pockets and
not doing anything about climate change.
And you're actually calling him out on it?
No, no, the problem isn't calling him out on it.
The problem is that he's doing it in the first place.
What you should tell Cedric Richmond, if you're a progressive in Congress,
Well maybe you should stop thinking about getting bribed by the oil companies.
Now, if they did the it's outrageous that he's in the club.
He's an elite.
He's an elite, you cannot criticize elites.
But I ask you this,
does it look like Cedric Richmond feels the same way about progressives.
Also in Congress, also his colleagues no, it doesn't appear that way at all.
He can say anything he wants about progressives,
he doesn't have to be polite to them.
And there is no culture in Washington that thinks,
I can't believe Cedric Richmond did that.
This story has been out.
Nobody's outraged by it.
It didn't make almost any news at all.
If not if Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had called Cedric Richmond an Effin idiot.
It would be unbelievable news and everyone, not just the democratic
establishment, but most importantly, the mainstream media and cable news would say.
Hey, see, look at this progress there so disrespectful.
And Cedric Richmond agrees with her basically on everything, not true.
Total lie, the media lies to you about that all the time.
Okay, now she's being so disrespected.
They did this to Nina Turner you remember we did a town hall where killer
Mike said that he couldn't believe that Clyburn didn't ask for
anything in return from Biden for endorsing him in south Carolina.
And he said that there was a stupid strategy because you should at least get
something back.
They said, no, you called Clybourne stupid and Nina Turner was on the same stage.
So that's why Clyburn's feelings were hurt.
And there were dozens of articles Nina Turner, her Jim Clyburn's feelings,
what a monster she is and that hurt her really bad in that election.
Because voters who don't no anything but watch television honestly
Democratic primary voters that don't go online, they're like.
I guess Nina Turner was super disrespectful only because they framed it
that way.
And when Cedric Richmond, a conservative democrat, calls us and
in this case it's not even us, that would be the most normal thing in the world.
My God, outsiders that aren't in the club,
you can say anything you want about actual Americans.
But when he says that even about people in the club, they're like, yeah,
of course they're progressives.
You can say anything you want about them.
No one in Washington thought that that was abnormal and they probably,
most of them thought atta boy.
So no, there's no reason in the world why progressives should do unilateral
disarmament.
You should fight back against Cedric Richmond and Hakeem Jeffries and
Jim Clyburn and Pelosi and Schumer and Biden.
Go get them stop sitting there waiting while they savage you attacked back.
Stop being so goddamn polite.
>> No, I couldn't have said it better myself.
I totally agree with what you're saying here and under like,
I want everyone to just really take in what is happening in the country, right?
The broader trend that we're seeing and how, yes,
the Republican Party is awful in so many different ways.
And is a threat to our democratic system,
our democratic process, we all acknowledge that.
But what paved the way for them who empowers them?
It's the corporate democrats.
The corporate democrats have emboldened the right wing to turn into
the monsters that they've turned into who have absolutely no problem.
Bringing the country closer and closer to fascism toward an authoritarian state.
Not only do the corporate democrats fail in essentially providing an opposition
party that's effective enough to squash their efforts,
they don't offer anything in exchange.
They don't offer anything as a substitute to what the right
wing in America is offering.
So when it comes to progressives,
it's not just that we're trying to pressure them to fight back.
They have a mandate to fight back.
It is in an obligation, a requirement.
That is the reason why they were put in a position of power in the first place.
They were supposed to be the ones who come in and they offer something else to
Americans, something that corporate democrats have failed to offer.
And look, I get it.
Once you're in Congress, once you're dealing with these people day in day out,
day in day out is a bit much, they work like six months out of the year.
But you get what I'm saying, they're in the room with these
corporate democrats and sometimes it's better to go along to get along.
But we're talking about the future of the country.
We're talking about the failures of the Democratic Party that has emboldened and
empowered the right wing in this country.
And if progressives don't fight back, if they just sit back, see these stories and
they don't call corporate democrats out on what really fuels them.
So there's really no point in serving in Congress in the first place.
You're just another run of the mill democrat.
You might not take corporate pac money, you might not take money from big donors.
But who cares if you sit there and you don't fight back and you just kind of bow
your head and go along with what corporate democrats want, We're gonna lose.
But even worse than that, we're gonna lose the country.
>> Yeah, no progress is go to Washington and then all of a sudden they get super
comfortable and they believe in the culture of Washington.
Now, I have facts to back that up there,
progressive caucus didn't endorse Nina Turner.
They went and endorsed her conservative democrat in the primary,
that she's running against.
Why?
Well, as she's one of her their colleagues,
it would be rude not to endorse the corrupt person who took millions and
millions of dollars from pax from that.
I want her to do the bidding of the oil companies, the drug companies,
the lobby for Israel, etc.
All those people poured money, you know that she took that money,
you know that's how she won the election.
You know that those are like the oil companies and the drug companies
are the people that were fighting against to get our legislation passed.
But yet you're gonna back Chantelle Brown because it would be rude.
Well, it is deeply rude to actual progressive voters,
that you guys seem to have no principles and no fight in, no fight at all.
Look, I found the justice Democrats this time around,
they didn't endorse Tina Turner, I'm deeply embarrassed about that.
I don't have anything to do with them now.
And if that's the way they're gonna think, I don't want anything to do with them and
all, I don't know of a single person in Congress has endorsed Nina Turner.
Man they run that is sickening man.
It's called loyalty, you should look into it.
And you think that by picking off your own friends, they somehow,
Cedric Richmond is gonna be your new friend,
know the minute your back is turned, he calls you an effing idiot.
And by the way, if you don't fight him back, what are you?
Are you brilliant by constantly laying down for him?
For laying down for Chantelle Brown, for
laying down to all of these conservative democrats.
Nah, man, look, I've told you guys 1000 times about rebellion pack and
how we're one of the very, very few people fighting on Nina Turner's side.
Why?
Because nobody else would I had to set up another damn pack so
that we can actually get some fighting progressives.
I'm super proud of it.
Help the rebellion.com if nobody else will come, will come were the cavalry and
we're always gonna back progressives.
And if you're a progressive in Congress or you think you are,
you should start acting like one and actually be strong and fight back for
your voters, not your goddamn colleagues.
Colleagues, my ass, they are opposed to you on every policy and
they say every terrible thing behind your back and who do you attack?
You attack your friends and your allies and do their bidding for
them for once stand up and fight back.
But you won't, you'll find me rude because I'm not in the club.
I've been terribly rude and all and you'll go back to listening to the Richmond and
the Clyburn's of the world and the Pelosi's and Schumer's and
you'll do nothing.
That has been the trend so far.
Get up and fight back otherwise are you really progressive?