More I'm like, it doesn't make sense.
Is it or not?
I don't know 100%.
But it's just it doesn't make sense the other way.
Now that she said it.
>> The people that defend the globe don't know anything about the globe because
if they knew a 10th of what Matt and I know about the globe,
they would be flat earthers.
>> That was Kandiss Taylor who was recently elected
as GOP District Chair in the state of Georgia.
She's concerned about the globe, so this is making its rounds.
Now, she's talking to a guy named Flat Earth Dave and Matt Long on her Jesus,
Guns and Babies podcast where they discussed big globe propaganda.
Here's the rest of her rant.
>> [LAUGH] >> All the globes everywhere,
I turn on TV, there's globes in the background.
There's globes on there.
Right here, this will be a globe if I was a normal person.
Everywhere, there's globes.
You see them all the time.
It's constant.
My children are about mama, globe, globe, globe, globe.
They're everywhere.
And that's what they do to brainwash.
And so for me, if it is not a conspiracy,
if it is real, why are you pushing so hard?
Everywhere I go, every store, you buy a globe, there's globes everywhere.
Every movie, every TV show, news media, why?
>> If there were simply a print article describing this woman and
her beliefs, I honestly wouldn't believe it.
But there she is speaking on camera in the context of her podcast about Big Globe.
>> Okay, she's an elected GOP District Chair.
>> There's globes everywhere, guys.
>> Okay. >> Everywhere.
>> Everywhere. Well, you know why of course, Big Globe.
Look, I love any talk of big anything,
my favorite lobby is Big Sugar down in Florida.
They're hugely influential and they're not actually my favorite lobby.
They're a disastrous lobby [LAUGH].
But Big Sugar sounds funny.
That's until I met Big Globe [LAUGH].
But Anna, who introduced it to me?
Flat Earth Dave.
Come on, how is that not the most hilarious nickname of all time?
>> It's great.
>> Yeah, one of the co-founders of TYT is Dave Koller.
Wrong, he's now round globe, Dave.
>> He does believe that the globe is round or that the Earth is round I should say.
>> Round Globe Dave.
>> How did the Republican party allow this to happen?
Do you get what I'm saying?
I see some pathologies on the left that really bother me and
I want to dispense of those pathologies, right?
And I'm talking about the far, far, far left.
The Republican party is just like, you know what?
Come right in.
>> Yeah, you want to talk about a big tent.
As long as it's flat though, I don't want any of those circular.
All right, look, guys, so it's fun to kid around and
we got more of that where that came from.
But as I said earlier in the show about a different story.
There's tens of millions of people who believe in conspiracy theories in America.
It is so prevalent.
So what's interesting is that you don't often
see it in media because if you go on and you're trying to be an anchor on CNN or
a reporter in the New York Times, you go.
Well, you guys heard about Big Globe, right?
You're not gonna get hired so you're not gonna be on air,
so you never see it in media.
But it's been there the whole time.
>> Why would anyone lie about the Earth being round?
Why?
>> My God, I can't believe you bought into Big Globe propaganda.
>> I did, I did buy into Big Globe propaganda, I did.
But I wanna understand why I should buy into flat-Earth conspiracy theories.
Well, you would know more about that if you listen to more of Jesus,
Guns and Babies.
>> You know what? I'll think about it, I will consider it.
>> No, but come on guys, that's the name of her show.
Jesus, Guns and Babies.
>> Yeah, mm-hm.
>> That's the new Republican motto I think.
That right there, Republican Jesus, Guns and Babies.
>> Kandiss, what happened to you Kandiss?
>> Then guns plus babies, okay?
Then babies plus Jesus and then Jesus plus guns for sure, okay?
He said turn to other cheek but still you get it.
So you know why she sees globes everywhere?
Okay, first of all, because the Earth is a globe.
Second of all, because then people didn't do a conspiracy.
They just have a globe here or there but
she sees them everywhere cuz she's looking for them.
Cuz that's what happens with every conspiracy theorist.
The minute they have it there, everything becomes, ha ha.
If somebody thinks that the Earth is a square, they're like,
there's squares everywhere.
This screen is a square or a rectangle.
It's a big rectangle, right?
And it triggers them.
And once you go down a conspiracy theory rabbit hole there are always two things at
the bottom of that rabbit hole, okay?
And no, hope is not one of them.
One is the Jews are on the world and we should do something about it.
So that's the disastrous end of that rabbit hole.
And then the fun end of the rabbit hole is the Earth is fun.
I've seen it happen to people.
They'll get into one conspiracy, they'll get into eight conspiracies and
then one day they'll sheepishly say, Cenk, did you hear about Big Globe?
[LAUGH] Guys seriously, this is the first time I heard Big Globe.
But yes, they will say, well, look, I get that it might not,
I didn't think it was flat either until, here we go.
Guys, it's so easy to cherry pick little facts and
make it seem like when the dots are here to just even them out,
make them flat if you will and make it seem like there's a straight line.
It's so easy to do that with anything.
I almost wanna start a conspiracy to show you how easy it is, right?
>> Yeah.
>> And people will believe it.
They will believe it and for whatever reason, and Anna, it's a good question.
I don't know why, but
the right wing mind is much more open to believing conspiracies.
You don't think so?
No, but look, right now.
>> We're in a bubble.
Let's just put it that way.
>> Okay, but I hear you.
I see the left doing things that are wrong but I don't see.
>> I don't see anyone on the left side of the political aisle espousing or
pushing conspiracy theories that are this crazy for sure.
>> No, not at all.
>> Not even close, you're right about that.
But yeah, look, I wanna give you some more of who this woman is and
what she believes.
So here are some more of her crazy beliefs.
So last year, for instance, she boosted conspiracy theories and
lies describing state GOP leaders as secret.
But why?
How could you believe that they're secret communists?
Do you know what communists are?
Do you know what communists are Kandiss?
Let me give you a hug and let's just calm down for a second.
Do you know what communists are?
>> Of course not.
But to be fair, neither is anybody else in mainstream media.
>> She's not accusing Democrats.
>> She's accusing Republicans of mainstream.
>> GOP, state GOP leaders as secret communists.
And Democrats, well, of course as Satanic pedophiles.
Because once you start calling GOP leaders communists,
you gotta find something even more extreme to accuse Democrats of.
So you go in the direction of Satanic pedophiles.
So let me just be clear.
No, we don't have anything anywhere close to this on the left, okay?
>> So can I tell you the number?
It's a real poll.
Several polls have confirmed it.
Over 50 million Americans believe that Democrats are led by
people who run a Satanic pedophile.
>> 50 million Americans.
15% of the country believes in that QAnon conspiracy theory.
>> 15% ain't that bad.
>> 15% is a disaster, 50 million Americans.
>> What do you believe in? >> Believe this insane thing that
the Democrats are child molesters.
That's their main point.
And they believe things like Hillary Clinton drinks the blood of children which
is blood libel by the way against Jews.
There it is.
That's the other end of the rabbit hole, right?
And then she wore the mask of babies on her face as she drank the blood.
Now, I don't know that that's 50 million.
But overall, the pedophile ring and Satanic this and that,
50 million Americans.
So look, that's why I'll take Big Globe any day [LAUGH].
>> For sure, super fun.
>> Right, I guess that's the funniest conspiracy.
It's relatively harmless.
>> It's harmless.
It's like, what are you gonna do?
>> Yeah, please, Republicans,
if you're gonna believe in a conspiracy theory, flat-Earth, deal.
Come on, let's shake on it, all right?
And by the way, why don't you just prove your case?
So easy, just drive off the Earth.
>> Yeah, at what point would that happen?
>> I don't know how it hasn't happened but.
>> Which continent is at the edge of the flat-Earth?
You get what I'm saying?
>> Okay, you don't have to drive off of it like Thelma and Louise.
Why don't you throw something off of the surface of the Earth when it's flat?
Sail an unmanned ship off the surface.
But I guarantee you, cuz all conspiracy theories become like almost a religion and
they start to form these circular reasoning.
Think about it. >> All these globes everywhere.
Everywhere.
>> I'm sorry, this is wrong but she was saying, I see globes everywhere.
I was like, her face kinda looks like a globe [LAUGH].
Glass house and all but she had a terrific face [LAUGH].
Anyway, but I guarantee you that the flat earthers, they have a whole thing like,
yeah, doing this Amateur Hour with why don't you drivers sail off the Earth?
Everybody knows that that's big low propaganda.
And the reason you can't do that is because blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
blah, blah, blah, blah.
>> Look, I think that this should make you feel a little bit better because she
actually ran for governor in the state of Georgia.
She lost.
Of course she was running against Brian Kemp.
>> That guy's a communist.
>> Right, right.
We all know big time communist Brian Kemp.
>> Republican Brian Kemp.
>> And remember, Brian Kemp in this hellscape that we're
currently living in is a pretty traditional Republican.
>> Which is already awful.
>> Which is already awful, exactly.
But he won by a lot.
So despite only winning 3.7% of the vote in the Republican
primary compared to Governor Brian Kemp's 73.7%.
Taylor refused to concede her election loss, of course,
claiming the race had been rigged.
Of course, no such claims were made after her successful run for
GOP Chair in Georgia's First District in April.
So look, I give you that to just say that despite that fringe element
within the Republican party that we should be concerned about.
Most of them seem to be typical milk toast Republican voters and
they went for Kemp instead of this lunatic so yeah.
>> Okay, every silver lining in otherwise.
>> I'm looking for a cup half full wherever I can find it [LAUGH].
So here we go.
>> You will find those silver linings in clouds above the flat-Earth and
we just found it for you guys.
Look, 3.7 is okay.
Brian Kemp's already the governor.
They wanted to beat Stacey Abrams.
They're not gonna pick a clown because they think she might lose, etc.
>> I think most Republican voters see something like that and
they think crazy, I do.
>> Well, we have stats showing that 30% of them think rock.
>> I thought you said 15%.
>> 15% of the country, about 30% of Republicans.
But credit to the Republicans in Georgia who surprised us all the time by
saying no to Herschel Walker, by saying no to Trump, by saying no to her.
So we're the fairest show in America.
Credit where credit is due.
But I like that she lost by over 70 points.
She's like, rigged.
I had it.
I lost by this much.
>> Well, Big Globe got involved, okay?
And defeated her, it's not fair.
>> And everybody knows Big Globe works with Big Commie which is big GOP.
>> Globe, globe, globe, they're everywhere.
>> Okay, free speech.
>> [LAUGH]