The Biden administration thought it would be a fantastic idea to launch
a war against progressive activists who rallied Canvassed,
did what they could to ensure that Biden won over Trump in 2020.
And nothing made it clearer than the Washington Post releasing a breathtaking
piece, indicating that the administration has just had enough with
progressive activists.
They think that they're out of line, okay?
Progressive activists, Biden administration would like you to
sit down and stop asking them to do things like,
lead the country on issues that they campaigned on.
Now, according to this piece in the Washington post,
White House officials defend the urgency of Biden's response and the actions
he has taken on abortion, which they argue are in step with mainstream opinion.
Quote, the president has been showing his deep outrage as an American and
executing his bold plan; >> Yeah.
[LAUGH] >> Which is the product of months of hard
work ever since the decision was handed down end,
quote White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield said in
a statement Saturday, but she's not done yet.
This is what's been getting a lot of attention over the weekend for
obvious reasons, she said,
quote Joe Biden's goal in responding to Dobbs is not to satisfy some activists who
have been consistently out of step with the mainstream of the Democratic Party.
It's to deliver help to women who are in danger and
assemble a broad-based coalition to defend a woman's right to choose now,
just as he assembled such a coalition to win during the 2020 campaign.
So, let's actually hear from one of those activists before we go off, okay?
You're about to hear from Ashley Allison, who is one of those progressive activists
who is not only disappointed with how the Biden administration responded
to the stripping of reproductive rights of women in this country.
But is disappointed in the way activists like her are now being treated
by the Biden administration.
Let's watch.
>> I was disappointed in that statement as an activist.
As someone, she nodded to the coalition that Joe Biden bill,
I ran the coalition's department on that campaign.
Guess who was a part of that coalition activist.
And 2020 when people took to the streets because of the death of George Floyd
it invigorated the base in a way that allowed us to have record turnout now.
Yeah, we were fighting an authoritarian president like Donald Trump,
but these people going into the street saying that we need a bodily autonomy.
That is the excitement that Democrats need right now ahead of the midterms and
to demonize them and say, they're not mainstream.
Well, abortion is a very popular issue in the country and
it goes across democratic and Republican lines.
I think it was an unforced error and I hope they address it.
I'm not sure they will, but it was I took it offense to it and a lot of people have.
>> I don't blame her for taking offense to it.
I take offense to that kind of statement.
Again, especially considering the fact that they're specifically
attacking people who did the work, okay?
Engaged in the ground game necessary to ensure that Biden won the election.
The two Democratic senators in Georgia won the runoff elections after the general
election in 2020.
And now, to turn your back on them and say they're out of line,
they're out of step with the mainstream Democratic Party.
So what exactly does the mainstream Democratic Party represent?
Does it represent this week?
Tepid response to something that's as serious as women losing autonomy over
their own bodies?
Is that what they represent?
I mean, what the Democratic Party is saying to its base as we speak is,
yeah, this is what we're gonna we're not gonna do anything for you and
we feel entitled to your vote anyway.
So suck it up and stop crying about it.
That is essentially what Kate Bedingfield, who is White House Communications Director
is telling Democratic voters right now good luck in the midterms.
We'll see how it works out for you.
Unbelievable.
>> So they live in an alternate reality.
And so, I'm done trying to convince them.
They're hopeless.
The Democratic leadership and everyone who works for them.
And most of the reporters in DC, live in a bubble.
You can't break the bubble.
They'll forever believe things that are absolutely nonsensical.
So, really people who are mad about roe being overturned are not
in the mainstream in the Democratic Party then who
the hell's in the mainstream of the Democratic Party.
And in their opinion it's just donors,
donors are the only people who are mainstream in the Democratic Party.
You're a woman who's upset, you're a man who's upset about roe being overturned.
Now all of a sudden you're not mainstream Democrat, if you don't agree that
Democratic leadership should always do absolutely nothing.
Apparently you're not in the mainstream of Democrats.
And by the way, in Washington, that's actually very true.
Like so, and by the way, how can you tell just I mean,
one of 1000 ways that you can tell is go on my Twitter account.
And the minute I say, hey would you guys like to do something?
You'll see all the people that live in DC going how dare you the Democratic Party
obviously can never do anything.
We must always surrender and you demanding to actually do something is outrageous.
So in Washington that's totally normal.
I know for the rest of you you're thinking that can't be that they're really
that crazy.
No they aren't they're totally nuts.
And how do I know I'm right and
they're wrong because everybody's got their own bubble, right?
The polling, the polling has him at a miserable state right now.
Only 26% of Democrats think he should run again.
But in their world they think he's killing it he's nailing it.
And US activists are the ones that are causing the trouble.
If they would just accept the fact that the Democrats aren't ever, ever,
ever supposed to get anything accomplished then we would know our role and
everybody would be happy.
>> No, it's amazing.
So they accuse us by the way, us specifically, because we're critical in
a justified manner of the Democratic Party and its ineffectiveness.
It's fecklessness and its inability to do the bare minimum.
They're very upset at us and they accuse us of being funded by Republicans to
funded by Republicans to take down the Democratic Party.
Now, understand that our critique
of the Democratic Party is that they aid in a bet the GOP.
That is what our critique is.
The fact that they just sit by and allow authoritarians and theocrats in the GOP
to do whatever they want, even under the leadership of democratic lawmakers.
How exactly are we empowering Republicans by being critical of Democrats for
literally aiding and abetting the Republican Party.
Number one, number two, okay?
So, you wanna be critical of us because we're progressives and
of course we're gonna be critical of milk toast pathetic Democrats who haven't
accomplished a damn thing.
But what about the rest of the democratic electorate?
I wanna go back to what Jake mentioned with that pole, okay?
Let's go to graphic aid here.
This is a headline from the New York Times.
Most Democrats don't want Biden in 2020 for new poll shows,
with a country gripped by a pervasive sense of pessimism.
The president is hemorrhaging support?
Well, how much support is he hemorrhaging?
Exactly 64% of Democratic voters say they would prefer a new standard
bearer in the 2024 presidential campaign.
Something that I've been calling for as well.
And this is according to a New York Times Sienna College poll, as voters nationwide
have soured on his leadership, giving him a meager 33% job approval rating.
>> So who's mainstream and who isn't?
Because I'll tell you 33% job approval rating is not mainstream.
That means you're in the tiny minority that thinks sitting on your ASS is
awesome.
Never fighting for your voters is awesome.
Getting nothing accomplished is awesome.
The two thirds of the country says, no, that's not awesome.
We kind of hate that you're doing absolutely nothing.
By the way, when the New York Times, even in their piece as whenever they talk to
any voter and voters that have voted for Biden there in the quotes,
their number one complaint was always well, he hasn't done anything, right?
But if you say that in Washington, their heads explode, they're like,
what do you mean?
Look at the speech he gave the other day on abortion.
You heard Bedingfield.
She called it bold, bold action?
Well, what was in it?
Literally nothing.
>> No, no, it's worse than bold action.
She referred to his bold plan.
>> What plan?
>> What is his bold plan?
The Biden administration didn't expect Scotus,
the Supreme Court to reverse Roe on the day it reversed Roe.
They were flat footed.
They had no idea.
They were convinced that, that was not the day they were gonna reverse roe.
And by the way, they had six weeks from the time that the Supreme Court draft
opinion leaked and the time that the Supreme Court finally reversed roe,
they had no plan, zero, zero.
And by the way, we're being critical of the Biden administration because of
the fact that he had no plan.
But let's also not forget we're talking about the mainstream Democratic Party and
they control Congress right now, yes, with a slim majority.
But even with that slim majority, if Biden was willing to use the bully pulpit,
if he was willing to use sticks in addition to the endless carrots,
he gives the goons in the senate like a mansion in cinema,
maybe he could actually move them on the legislative filibuster.
I mean, they had a carve out for the filibuster when it came to raising
the debt ceiling to ensure that their stock portfolios didn't suffer.
But when it comes to your reproductive rights,
all of a sudden their hands are tied Democrats can't do a damn thing, right?
>> So guys, a bunch of things here, there's a process critique of Biden.
And and and I mentioned that in the New York Times focused on that because they
think you waited too long as a fair critique.
Then there's a substantive critique which is after the six weeks,
then after another two weeks, they came up with a plan that has nothing in it.
So the substantive critique is way more important.
So they Biden announced.
So I am really mad.
And I explained the story that they prepared for
two more weeks to get him to peer mad.
Is he actually mad?
Now the when he first did his first statement after Roe was overturned,
he didn't appear mad at all.
So they coached him on how to appear mad.
Like now, pretend you care about women's rights and stuff.
And here say these words cuz that and then of course the I can't stand BC reporters.
They all were like, good theatrics, good theatrics.
The president seemed more animated today.
It's an obvious act.
So what was the substance?
We're gonna do commissions.
And so later other organizations and groups and
cabinet departments are gonna come up with a plan later,
later and then you're gonna report back on that plan.
So that that's not a plan.
It's a plan to do a plan.
>> Yeah. >> So it had absolutely no substance zero.
So look, every time Democratic ask kissers will come out and
you say, no, no, no you can't ever do anything.
Well, and I just told you you can lift the filibuster.
In fact, they lifted the filibuster.
They lifted it.
>> For something, >> For their goddamn stock portfolios.
>> Yep. >> They lifted it when it was their money,
their money on the line.
>> Yep. >> So they definitely can lift
the filibuster.
They're choosing not to left the filibuster.
Well, Mansion and cinema.
Well, what is Biden done to fight Mansion in cinema?
>> Nothing, he congratulated them.
>> Nothing.
He compliments them.
>> Nothing.
>> Publicly.
>> Today he can complement the cinema again on that BS gun bill that
they passed with also nothing in it, okay?
And then what do you know what else he did today?
And he said to this to Ana's point about, you guys are helping Republicans.
He's like, I wanna thank my Republican friends,
John Cornyn number two Republican in the Senate, terrible, awful, terrible person.
Senator Tillis is center.
He kept gushing about his Republican friends and he's like, I'm sorry,
I don't wanna get you in trouble because he loves them so much.
At the same time they attack their own base.
You know why?
Cuz they are Republicans.
>> Yep.
>> And so, when we say they're Republicans, they're like,
how dare you help Republicans?
Well, if you have cognitive difficulties, there's nothing I can do to help you.
You just can't understand something, get the hell out of the way,
let us fight the Republicans because we're happy to do it.
We can't wait to do it.
We do it every single day, we show you how you can beat them.
So if you're gonna be a loser Democrat, like we should do nothing and
like it, get the goddamn out of the way so we can protect women so
we can protect voting rights so we can actually do the democratic agenda.
You're gonna be a loser, at least don't brag about it and
get the hell out of the way.
So, real people who care actually do something.