>> Authorities have discovered explosive devices at both the DNC and the RNC
buildings. At first it was confirmed that there was a pipe bomb near the RNC building. And then
the DNC building was evacuated after there were worries of a suspicious package. Well,
later it was confirmed that the DNC was in fact also targeted with pipe bombs.
Now, luckily, they were detonated safely and no one was hurt. But had authorities failed to find
those pipe bombs, of course, there would be people injured in the best case scenario and people who
die as a result in the worst case scenario. But this is terrorism, this is terrorism.
This is not anarchy, this is not any other weird euphemism
that the media might come up with to whitewash what's happening right now. This is sedition,
this is an attempt to overthrow our government, this is treason, this is terrorism. You don't
place pipe bombs near a building unless you're hoping that people get hurt, that people die.
That is why you place pipe bombs near any type of building and in this case government buildings
specifically because you don't like the outcome of the election. You don't believe in democracy.
These Trump supporters don't believe in our democratic process,
they don't believe in our Constitution. And I have no interest in healing with them.
Okay, I wanna stop using that kind of language when it comes to the Republican party.
What we're seeing right now in the Capitol is a clear representation of
what the Republican party believes in this country. It has been taken over by fascistic
individuals who believe in authoritarianism, who do not believe in democracy.
And we need to call it what it is and stop walking on eggshells because we're afraid
to offend Trump supporters. I don't care about offending anyone, Trump supporters, Democrats,
who cares what's right is right. And what's happening right now in the nation's capitol
is beyond shameful and incredibly embarrassing, especially for a country,
by the way, that loves invading other countries because they wanna spread democracy, right.
That's the BS reasoning that we hear from our government all the time.
And so look at what we've allowed to happen in the nation's capitol today, this is insane.
This was encouraged by members of Congress, and by Donald Trump, and his administration.
>> Yeah, and there's been a little bit of condemnation,
but there's plenty of powerful people on the right that are perfectly fine with this.
They're gonna find some sort of excuse, they’re gonna pivot to some other topic,
they’re going to excuse it, as Trump himself was. And so an important part
of long term engagement with politics is understanding who people are, who movements
are. And we criticize constantly the Democrats for not seeming to get it, to being stuck in
the or in the 90s, or in the 80s, or even earlier and not getting who these people are.
But not just the politicians, also their base.
This is not a thing where the Republican party has managed to convince their base or
kind of hide the fact that they're anti-Democrat. And that they're suppressing the vote,
and gerrymandering, and all that stuff and they can't seem to win the popular vote.
They haven't gone nearly far enough for their base, their base is done with this entire thing,
they have no interest. They potentially accurately see that the sort of politics they want
cannot get majority support. So they know that they cannot
actually gain enough power to put their agenda into effect.
And so they've done the math on that and they've realized democracy doesn't work,
okay. They lasted as long as they can with the different structural manipulations, the way the
system is inherently biased in a way that benefits them and they're done with it. And Trump, he's the
terrible part of it right now that we're dealing with, he’s hopefully going to be gone soon.
But lurking in the wings you have people like Josh Hawley, and Tucker Carlson,
and Ted Cruz that are desperately trying to figure out right now, what do I have to say
and do to get the people that stormed the Capitol today to vote for me in four years?
How do I get the fascist to think I'm the one that's gonna do it for
them? Because they're gonna face incredible competition for that,
what are they gonna say? What are they going to do to convince that massive million strong
mob that they're the one that’ll finally do what Donald Trump apparently couldn't quite finish.
>> It's just amazing how powerful propaganda is in this country. Where you can have
someone like Donald Trump, who has been such a complete failure in every regard. I mean,
economically for the vast majority of Americans he's been a failure. He's been great for the stock
market, but obviously that's not representative of the real economic situation for most Americans.
He's been a disaster when it comes to the pandemic. I can't say it enough,
the fact that they can't accept that Trump was such an awful president that he lost,
hundreds of thousands of people gone, dead. He has been a complete failure and they're like, no, no,
but he's the one who actually genuinely got reelected, he's the one who won.
No, no, people despise Trump because he's failed them and he's failed his own base as well, to your
point, John. And this strategy that propagandizing to the point where you can successfully implement
these divide and conquer tactics. I mean to the point where Americans are willing
to dismantle our system of government, totally throw out our democratic process.
It's just infuriating, but also pretty depressing, pretty depressing. Democracy
is such a fragile thing and we're experiencing the lengths to which some people in this country
are willing to go just to throw out our democracy in favor of authoritarianism.