Mr president annoyed, frustrated with Marianne Williamson for
jumping in the race ahead of him.
Did he want a clear field to run against the Republican nominee in 2024?
Just not tracking that?
I mean, if I had a, what is it called?
A little globe here, crystal ball that I can tell you, but
I can imagine a ball, whatever.
[LAUGH] If I can feel her aura, I just don't have it.
I just don't have anything to share on that.
>> [LAUGH] Listen, I get that the chances of
Marianne Williamson beating Biden in the primary,
it's gonna be difficult, very slim.
But the smugness in that response, the arrogance in that
response is unbearable, absolutely unbearable.
A bridge too far to say the least.
>> There's two different problems with that clip.
Number one is the press secretary's reaction which is prototypical
capital in the hunger game, its like, she, under or on or
crystal ball [LAUGH], looking down on her nose at everybody.
Marianne Williamson makes terrific points about corporate rule in America and
how democrats are not looking at for the agenda that he claimed to represent.
Did she address any of that, of course not.
And she just, all she does is this dismissive elitist sneer that
the American people can't stand.
So it's also terrible politics, even if all you wanted was the person that you're
supporting to win in this case, obviously Biden, the corporate Democrat.
But the arguably the larger problem, Anna is the room, because first of all,
report, I'm glad he asked, but look at the context in which she asked it,
is the president annoyed that she announced before he did?
Well, she's running against them.
Why would she care that he's annoyed?
What a weird thing to say, she's trying to beat him to the nomination.
And the assumption in the room is like,
has she annoyed the people that are in power?
>> Right. >> Shouldn't she have asked for
permission first?
And how dare she go first?
What kind of a bizarre assumption is that,
let alone that he followed up with did he want to clear the field?
Who gives a damn what he wanted to do?
This isn't an anointment.
This isn't a monarchy, this is supposed to be a democracy.
>> Agreed on all counts.
One thing that I will say is, the framing of the reporter's question
was meant to stir up drama because that's what they do, they love to stir up drama.
Politics has become one giant bravo like reality show, okay.
>> Yeah. >> And
it's annoying because it lacks substance.
Substance would be the reporter asking Karine Jean-Pierre
about specific issues that Marianne Williamson has brought
forth in announcing her run for the Democratic ticket, right?
But he's not interested in that,
no one in that room is interested in that because that would mean having
this objective of informing your audience instead of engaging in this
ridiculous reality show that they've turned the political arena into.
>> To me the reaction of the crowd to the oral joke made it even worse.
>> Yes, agreed.
So she does this silly snobby joke about Marianne Williamson
in an attempt to smear her.
By the way,
has Marianne record been lied about in regards to crystal rocks and all this?
Of course, of course, by the way, the job of the reporters is to say, hey,
wait a minute, you guys are actually being totally unfair.
Here's what Marianne Williamson is in favor of it when she's not in favor of.
And by the way, I might not be in favor of some of her spiritual advice,
guidance, etc,
because I believe it's something different spiritually that is super normal.
But by the way, if you mocked Christians like a traditional Christian,
let me put it that way.
A traditional Christians religious belief, they would be outraged.
>> That's a great point.
Imagine if Karine Jean-Pierre was like,
is she gonna eat the flesh of Christ and drink his blood?
[LAUGH] >> That would be outrageous, right.
It would be exactly, right?
Yeah.
So, okay so the room is already lied about Marianne Williamson to begin with
the reporters that wrote about her in the context of the last section.
But this time around she mentions the, or, and they're all like,
let's make fun of the outsiders.
Corporate insiders are awesome [LAUGH].
I mean, it was almost like some sort of bloodlust in the room to make
fun of someone who isn't part of the already powerful in Washington.
>> The establishment should be careful because they've certainly underestimated
others in the past and had surprise outcomes in elections like in 2016, right?
And I'm not saying that because I'm like,
Marianne Williamson definitely has a great shot.
I don't, look, I'm not gonna lie about what the reality is.
I wish the reality was a little different because Biden should deal with a little
bit of competition, right?
And be fearful that there are other Democrats in the race who have better
proposals than he has.
But at the same time, this dismissive attitude toward the outsiders
isn't always a good indicator of what the future holds.
>> 100%, last thing on this.
Guy's look, mainstream media was able to bottle up the left.
And so, the only people who can win are people that are in favor of
corporate rule that want nothing to fundamentally change, etc.
Don't you dare consider progress, and they all laughed and
sneered and did all those things, right.
But they weren't able to bottle up the right wing because the right wing is not
listening to them anymore.
So then we got a populist, but we had a populist who's only in it for himself and
was deeply corrupt and racist and all those terrible things, right.
And went in the wrong direction.
One of these days the dam is gonna break and they're not gonna be able to bottle
up Democratic voters anymore, especially young Democratic voters.
And when those populist rise who are factually correct and
actually stand up for the American citizens as opposed to corporations,
that room is gonna get a very rude surprise.
And I don't mean in the right wing way physical via all that nonsense.
No, they're gonna get a rude surprise that the country hates them and
would love for a populist progressive to rise up.
And how do I know that I'm much more optimistic than Anna.
>> 100%, >> So I don't know if it's Marianne and,
or someone else, but it could be Marianne.
Some progressive is gonna, whether it's this primary or the next one,
is gonna rise up and totally sell shock the mainstream media.
Because they think progressives, nobody would be a progressive,
I don't know anyone in DC who is a progressive.
Well, that's true.
Okay, even the ones that are progressive are not really that progressive, okay.
So they don't know any real populist that would actually take them on aggressively.
And so the minute one rises, they're gonna change the whole country,
but their number one opponent is gonna be mainstream media and
that laughter in that room was the perfect audio representation
of their disdain for the voters and for all of us.