The impact of those big ticket, big ghost loving efforts,
they really outgoing unnoticed.
And that they have been dunking on Biden and the democrats for their failures.
As far as it concerns advancing progressive policies or
really any policies at all for that matter.
And Charlemagne the guards served up essentially an especially harsh
critique on yesterday's edition of the Breakfast club.
Here's how Charlemagne opened.
>> Yeah today, for Thursday January 20th goes to the 46th President of
the United States of America Joe Biden.
As well as Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema and West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin.
These three are collectively responsible for
the death of the Democratic Party as we know it, okay?
Joe Biden and other democrats love to run around and say,
we have to go out there and vote like democracy, depends on it.
People are asking if we are witnessing the death of democracy in America.
Well, guess what if it is which I believe it is, for
some of us, these three are to blame, simple as that.
Since last summer 19 states have enacted 33 laws that will make it hard for
Americans to vote, but Americans are mean, all right?
All these GOP sponsored state laws were suppressed turnout by minority voters.
This is an old tune ladies and gentlemen, all right,
voter suppression by the GOP against black people is the greatest hit, all right?
A golden oldie, kids trust me, it would break all screaming records,
it is the end sharing shape of view of American politics, all right?
President Biden knew that going in and
after the attempted coup in this country on January 6th,
that should have been his first order of business protecting voting rights.
I've told y'all so many different times on this here, radio and on other platforms,
on TV and everything else.
There's three or four things Joe Biden had to do to protect democracy, okay?
This morning I'll give you three.
One, prosecute everyone involved in the attempted coup in this country to
the highest extent of the law.
Not just the members of Vanilla ISIS who stormed the capitol, but
the members of Congress who helped him.
Two, get ready to filibuster so you can properly govern,
and three protect voting rights.
Protect voting rights, but guess what?
None of those things have happened.
>> None of those things have happened.
Also Charlamagne pointed out how better the republicans are and
essentially passing bills are getting what they want and the democrats.
>> Republican politicians are the epitome of unity and group operation, they fall in
line with each other and if one doesn't fall in line, they get the business, okay?
Last week on NPR Donald Trump called Mitch McConnell a loser.
And blamed him for
the GOP senators who won't go along with his claims that the election was stolen.
>> Also Charlamagne went on to give a dire prediction of essentially what
democratic messaging will look like for the midterms.
Along with his hunch essentially as to why the dims won't actually do anything.
>> I don't know if it's because he's old or maybe he really doesn't care but
I never hear his sense of urgency.
It's literally always more urgency for us to go out there and
vote than it is for elected officials to protect voting rights.
All you're about to hear for
the next however many months before the midterms is how we have the largest voter
turnout in the history of the midterms in order to protect democracy.
How are we after vote like democracy depends on it, but
they never ever govern like democracy depends on it.
You're gonna hear, you have to go out there and vote because if votes didn't
matter, why are they fighting so hard to take them from you.
Yes, that is true, but
you know what else matters when you're an elected official getting things done.
Because Joe Biden has never known a day in his life what it means to have his
voting rights threatened, all right, so it a matter less for Joe Biden.
>> That's a really good observation in terms of he's never had those kind of
struggles that a lot of us in the United States have.
Also too coming in as president with this hunky dory mentality that thought that I'm
gonna get everybody to come to the table and everybody is gonna be respectable.
This old gentleman's agreement style despite completely forgetting that
the entire Trump administration had occurred.
And people are not following these gentlemen agreements nor
are they being respectable, Jay.
>> Yeah, I absolutely love that segment by Charlemagne for two reasons.
Number one, he makes a great point that everybody else the media ignores.
Why do only the voters have to have urgency?
Okay, and by the way we did our job, we put you in charge, gave you the house,
the Senate and the White House.
Why don't you have urgency?
Do you know that Joe Biden, after Kyrsten Sinema gave her speech saying that
she's gonna keep the filibuster.
And basically head by his presidency,
Biden went into a caucus meeting with Cinema, Mansion and others.
He didn't even criticize her, he didn't even mention her, he didn't call her out.
After the meeting Mansion immediately said he's also gonna keep the filibuster,
because he realized, Biden doesn't care at all, he doesn't care at all.
So, why do we have to have urgency?
So, he speaks for all of us, but here's the, I think more important part.
I think as Charlemagne goes the democratic, so goes the Democratic Party
and I'll make my case for it and then you guys tell me what's real, right?
So, I think Charlemagne is an excellent weather vane for
what do generally African American voters think.
Because, remember he's very mainstream, a lot of politicians gonna show,
Kamala Harris went on the show recently.
And they love to get the credit that basically you get by going on his show and
he's been open to them.
He's always been a little tough, right?
And I've never seen him be solved, in fact,
I think he's a better journalist than almost anyone in national media.
And then, but now he's drawn the line and he's saying,
because my guess is he senses it from his audience.
Like we said it from our audience, we've heard enough, we've heard enough of
democrats saying after the next election, after the next election.
No, you'll do it now, otherwise don't
come crying here telling us how we have to vote more for you.
>> Now, it seems that they continue always say, just wait, just wait, but
of course when elections come, they need us to come out and vote.
Yet no one is really working or pushing truly
in making that invested effort in things that are important to the black community.
And things that hold a lot of us back from being essentially contributing members of
society.
And changing the oppressive structures that are essentially instituted around,
the across the board, across the nation.
And it's just hard to continue to have faith in a country that has done
nothing but hold you back and abuse you, Bridget.
>> Yeah, I think that he is accurately summarizing a lot of how folks feel,
I really don't like saying this.
But I do think that a lot of bad actors in our political system,
their goal is to get folks to check out of democracy altogether.
And to be like, the right and the left are the same, all politicians are the same,
they're all crooks, it doesn't matter who you vote for.
And for a long time, I would have said that know you're wrong, know you're wrong.
I completely understand people who would just feel completely frustrated to
the point where it's like, why not just check out of this process, that it is so
unwilling to see me, unwilling to support me.
Like I was watching this interview with Jen Psaki and
she was asked like, what should people do with they're feeling?
Frustrated about the loss of voting rights and all of this and
she said, go to your kickboxing class, drink your margaritas.
And show up on Monday, do whatever you need to do to get your frustration out.
And I thought, Jen the people who are losing their voting rights,
I'm not sure that they're like taking private kickboxing classes.
Or like going out and spending lots of money on margaritas.
And part of me thought like,
is this really who you think the folks who are having their voting rights threatened?
Is this really like the only way that you can conceptualize them?
And so I think that the way that Charlemagne is talking about this
frustration and this feeling, I think that he is not wrong.
I think that he is accurately summarizing the way that a lot of folks feel
right now.
Where it feels like we did our part, we came out and
voted in historic numbers during a pandemic.
Mind you risked our lives to vote, organized the vote and
here we are still having the same conversations.
And so, I completely think that he is accurately summarizing the way that a lot
of us feel right now.
>> Yeah, there's two more points of that, look, the idiot Joe Biden sees that
his numbers with independents and democrats are dropping like a rock.
And his overall polling is disastrous not because of republicans,
they always hated him.
Look at the goddamn numbers, you schmucks, right?
You're losing democrats, that's why your polling numbers are so disastrous.
And, what does Joe Biden saying the last press conference?
He says, I promise I won't go too far left.
Now, no, you come on, come on.
So, now look,
why I think Charlemagne is so important is because he's not known as a progressive.
I don't know what his exact politics are, but he's not known for that,
he's very mainstream in that sense.
So, when he expresses that frustration and is willing to call out
not just mentioned Sinema, but Joe Biden is the donkey of the day.
That means we've crossed the Rubicon, and they're actually gonna lose black voters,
that's my sense of it.
So that again, that's what I'm asking you guys like, does that make
sense to you that Charlemagne crossing that line is kind of a symbol?
A sign that this is not like other times, they're actually gonna lose voters?
>> I'm not really a follower of Charlemagne, but I will tell you that
I think that the general thought, our consensus is what's the point?
Cuz I don't necessarily think people will leave the Democratic Party or
vote Republican as much as maybe they just won't vote as much.
And they're not gonna like go the distance to come out and
show out like we did before.
Because it continues to show us that every time we supported our country,
our neighbors, our community, we only get kicked in the teeth.
And that continues to happen and all these promises, they seem to fall apart.
So, what is the point in going the distance for
people who don't support you and we've seen the same thing over and over again.
But, I don't know, Bridget.
>> Yeah, I agree, I should say I'm not big fan of Charlemagne, but
I do think he has a point here.
And I also think that like what you were saying Jay earlier about sort of Biden
saying I won't go too far left.
I think that the republicans were gonna demonize him no matter what he did.
And so you may as well use this mandate from the people to swing for
the fences and go big.
And make big sweeping,
the kinds of big sweeping progressive change we need right now.
I think it's such a mistake and like classic Biden, classic democrats to play
it safe, go small and really accomplished not that much.
And I think, yeah, you're exactly right, they were going to demonize them and
hate him regardless.
So, why not go big and actually get policy passed for the American people?
And who cares if republicans demonize you, who cares about meeting them halfway?
Who cares about this fiction of bipartisanship when only one side seems to
be getting interested in it?
Like this idea that you're gonna meet them at the table and like be very civil and
play things above the board, obviously they're not interested.
How many times do we have to go through this?
So, I completely agree with both of you,
I think that folks are right to feel frustrated, I feel frustrated.
I think the frustration I'm feeling in this moment feels very different than
the kinds of frustrations I felt in other administrations.
And so, I don't know where we go from here, I don't know what we do with this.
I'm interested to see how the midterms play out, but
I don't think that Charlemagne is wrong in this moment.
>> Yeah, I know where to go,
vote against almost every Democratic incumbent in in the primaries.
We cannot vote for fascists, we cannot vote for republicans, but
you've got to participate in primaries and punish these establishment democrats for
doing this to you.
Were like abused spouses, and the democrats keep saying,
no baby, it's okay, I still love you.
And I'll do right next time, no, leave them, go vote for progressives.