Democratic Nevada Governor and the incumbent for
the 2022 gubernatorial race Steve Sisolak was verbally accosted and
also threatened along with his wife at a Las Vegas restaurant over the weekend.
Now the attacker was smart enough to film this whole episode.
So why don't we take a look at how this all went down and then I'll talk about how
the other gubernatorial candidates are encouraging it.
Great.
>> You're steve Sisolak, right?
>> Right.
>> That's amazing.
I can't tell you what a piece of.
>> Sorry to hear that.
>> New world order trader piece bastard.
You're in here without security.
I'm surprised that you have the balls to be out here in public,
out here without a cop, out here without security.
You got balls on you, boy.
I'm not moving.
Man, you're in trouble.
Yeah, you better get out of the out here Sisolak.
Where's your security at?
Don't touch me, lady.
>> I'm not touching you. >> Where's your security at?
You wanna sell us all down the river?
You working for China pieces of.
We should string you up by lamppost right now boy.
>> You know what they do to traitors?
They hang traitors.
>> That's right patriot.
You're running into a patriot now.
Where's your security at?
I heard about you banging that little girl and wrecking your car.
Does she know about that Steve?
Mr. Sisolak, you treasonous China working,
where's your security at?
You're lucky I'm a law abiding citizen.
>> Okay, so
the individuals who were threatening him in that video are lunatics.
And believe all sorts of crazy conspiracy theories, including I'm sure you heard it
in the video, the idea that he's hiding all the hydroxychloroquine.
Imagine living in 2022 and
still feeling concerned about hydroxychloroquine.
Still like being on the quest for hydroxychloroquine.
What is wrong?
Not just being like open to the conspiracy theory, but
making sure that you fit it in during the verbal assault that you're recording.
It is insane.
And by the way,
that was the tamest of conspiracy theories that were uttered in that video.
Now, the Governor's Office published a press release the next day in it
Sisolak mentions the verbal abuse on his wife.
By the way let me also be clear,
we've we've done stories of ordinary Americans, activists, whoever.
Approaching members of Congress people in positions of power and
explaining to them what they're frustrated about.
I have no problem with that.
I know Cenk gets a little uncomfortable when it happens at restaurants and
things like that.
I don't have a problem.
If you want to calmly express your displeasure at how a member of
Congress is doing his or her job, okay?
>> Or advocate for something.
>> Or if you wanna advocate for something, this is different.
They are issuing specific threats.
Hang him, string him up on a lamppost.
>> Yeah. >> So that's a little different.
>> Might soon be a federal crime if the Republicans don't stop it.
I and it's just,
the right wing on one hand will lose their minds if Mitch McConnell and
his wife are approached by activists who are not happy with the job he's doing.
But they haven't issued threats, in this case, we're talking about people who
are issuing very specific threats about hanging a politician they don't like.
So they issued this press release,
John he is deeply disappointed in how the incident unfolded, particularly
with the language used to talk about first lady Kathy Sisolak's heritage.
We can disagree, she's asian.
So you heard all the China fearmongering and stuff in there.
We can disagree about the issues, but the personal attacks and
threats are unwarranted, unwelcome and unbecoming behavior for nevadans.
And the worst part about all of this is these kinds of people
are being encouraged.
So one of the two men who filmed it actually,
Justin Andersson is a far right podcaster known for
spreading conspiracy theories with his company cannabis and combat.
I wish the camera was on John,
they sell merch like this pure blood and domestic terrorist.
I mean at least they're clear about.
>> To give you an idea.
>> At least they know, at least they know who they are.
>> Yeah, and so is it better or worse that he's doing it
specifically to promote himself, that he's filming it.
It would obviously be awful if you were just to follow an old man out of
a restaurant shouting about how you wanna murder him in front of a bunch of people.
Believing that that makes you look better, which I'm sure for his audience it will.
But to do it specifically because you can film it,
the easy access to high definition cameras has helped us in a lot of different ways.
In some cases it's led to justice instances of police brutality,
stuff like that.
But it's also, I mean let's, let's be clear,
incentivized absolutely awful behavior.
>> Totally.
>> And that we just saw is absolutely disgusting.
Every single person should be unified in opposing that.
But that is not going to happen, for instance, Tucker Carlson, he freaked out
because someone talked to him at a bass pro shop once didn't threaten him.
>> That's right. >> Nor following around shouting at him,
they talked to him.
>> He barely even raised his voice.
>> End of the world.
He made a big deal out of it.
This guy is like shouting constantly.
Where is your security?
No, but like don't you get it, you're trying to somehow take
the fact that he doesn't feel he needs security that makes him seem weak.
No, he doesn't, generally because he's used to being surrounded by sane people.
Maybe he should reassess that after this.
But no, we shouldn't live in a country where any of this happens.
The casual racism, threatening to murder people in a crowded restaurant
used to be considered out of bounds.
But the normalization of racism, particularly anti Chinese racism as well
as the normalization of calls for political violence.
And sprinkling on top of conspiracy theories,
that's the modern Republican party right there.
That guy's not on Fox yet, but he might as well be.
>> Well, there's a lot of truth to what you're saying, because other Republican
candidates who are running in this gubernatorial race are encouraging it.
Now, the state police in Nevada are investigating this.
So, issuing specific threats to anyone, including members of Congress,
politicians, public officials, it's a crime.
So we'll see if there's actually gonna be consequences for it.
I wouldn't hold my breath.
But let's get to the people encouraging this.
Okay, so former boxer and reno criminal attorney Joey Gilbert has
Condoned the attack on his official campaign page on Facebook.
He writes that time is upon us where these fraudulently elected leaders
of ours will not be able to walk the streets alone.
They should not get a free pass.
They won't be able to go to restaurants, they won't be able to go in public
spaces without being confronted for the damage, harm, misery and
murder they cause to the citizens and children of this state and country.
What are you talking about?
>> I think we know what he's talking about.
>> Do we? >> He wants politicians like that to be
absolutely terrified of being attacked or murdered on the streets.
That's what he wants.
>> No, I get that.
But the allegations.
>> I'm sure there's nothing more to it than the conspiracy
theories that were shouted at the guy in the restaurant.
>> How do you get elected as a Republican?
Doing something like that.
Now, he may not be the most skilled at it necessarily, but
that's the only path at this point.
There's no Paul Ryan's, Paul Ryan was an awful guy, but
his reputation was that he was a wonk.
He was the numbers guy or whatever.
Who's the numbers guys?
Was Madison Cawthorn a numbers guy?
Marjorie Greene likes the numbers.
That doesn't exist anymore.
There are right wing trolls in media that's their media,
Fox news and the so called right wing media.
That's exactly the same as Fox news and some of them sometimes run for office.
That's it, that's the whole spectrum right now.
>> Well, his statement continues, I heard that our lovely governor got run out
of Lindo Michoacan Mexican restaurant here in Las Vegas tonight,.
Man, Mexican food sounds so good and
I cannot think of a more deserving person than the corrupt bought and paid for hack.
I'm sure Joey Gilbert isn't taking campaign donations.
As he's seeking the governor's office in this election anyway.
And the Facebook page later claimed that the governor murdered
people with the covid vaccine and remdesivir given at hospitals.
I thought the right wing loved remdesivir.
>> Maybe he's implying he hid that too,
he had a little bit of room after he's done hiding all the hydroxychloroquine.
So he had some of the remdesivir too.
>> Here's a post about Joey Gilbert,
purple meatheads stood out to the sedition hunters on January.
He was there on January sixth because of course he was.
Now these people are just an embarrassment to the country.
Las Vegas councilwoman Michele Fiore, another Republican candidate running for
governor said Sisolak was lucky it was just words.
And if you look at the history of dictators, pitchforks will be next.
What dictator?
Sisolak is a dictator?
>> We didn't know and it's so close, it's only a couple states away.
We've been missing it the whole time.
You can go, I don't even know if I can say this word, I probably can.
You can pay for someone to filate you in Nevada, there's no dictator in Nevada.
There's no dictator legally by the way,
really, Nevada is run by a dictator.
>> I'm sure he's got kids in Wayfair cabinets.
Again, none of it has to make any sense and beyond just not making sense,
we're sort of reaching a point where it's difficult.
You might experience this from us.
It's difficult to even grapple with the things that they're saying because we no
longer even get the references they're making, they are so insane.
You really have to be deep into these forums and the private telegram groups and
the the weirdo podcasters to even know how many steps of crazy they have gone down.
But this is a reminder to people.
I was live streaming about this earlier.
I know a lot of people, not the sort of people that watch our show, but
a lot of people felt like good.
We got rid of trump, we're good now, we got out of the scary time.
Have we?
>> No. >> I don't know, in Texas,
they have bounties for people who help women exercise their reproductive rights.
They're sending child protective services to people's houses if you
helped your trans child in terms of their medically necessary help.
We've got complete and utter normalization.
In fact they are horny for threats of political violence.
Where do we all think that this ends?
Eight awesome years of Joe Biden and
then we're good on into the Pete Buttigieg years.
No, this is looking like really dark and a lot of people are checked out.
A lot of people that, whether they got all the facts right or
whatever in the Trump years were at least engaged.
A lot of them are gone.
You're the ones that remain,
we're cruising towards the midterm election where.
>> It's so true guys, it's so true.
One of the things that's pretty noticeable across all news and
politics content on all platforms is just a complete drop in interest.
People have checked out and it's concerning because it's just one
way of telling that people are not as engaged politically.
And we need people to be engaged.
Right now is when people should be organizing.
Right now, is when you should be canvassing for progressive candidates,
right now is when you should be getting.
The thing that frustrates me the most John is labor stories barely getting any
attention, and that's the only place where I find any hope in this country right now.
Where you see real gains being made by workers at places like John Deere Nabisco,
whatever.
>> Starbucks.
So Starbucks, yes I mean there's a lot of examples and
we've talked about them on the show.
But my point in bringing that up is not we get such low viewership for those stories.
It's what that low viewership means.
It means that the very stories that should be inspiring people to get active,
to help build momentum are not doing it.
Because people are so checked out, and on one hand, I don't blame them.
There are times in my career where I'm like,
I don't know if I can keep doing this, I wanna check out.
But you can't give up and you can't just assume that because you have
some milk toast Democrat in office, things are fine.
Things are not fine, things have continued to devolve, and
the right wing gets it when it comes to organizing, uniting,
doing whatever it takes to ensure that they win.
That they get their judges confirmed, that they not only have an impact on
the country in the short term, but have a long lasting impact on the country.
>> Yeah, and I totally agree this is a tie.
I understand that the desire to check out, but we need to be preparing for the next
step, because we had an opportunity to choose two captains of the ship in 2020.
We chose the incompetent one rather than the rabid wildebeest and okay, so
that's good.
But it is going down, it is sinking, it's gonna get worse by the end of this year.
And so we need to be prepared for the next steps, we need to be like you said,
supporting candidates.
But also still trying to persuade people around you on the issues.
I understand it can be incredibly frustrating when we know that people
already agree with us.
But the more work we can do at the individual level,
the better place we are when we get another chance, which is coming up.
2024 is gonna be here before, you know it,
it's either gonna be going back to Trump or it's gonna be replacing Biden
with someone who will actually take seriously the crisis that we face.