>> So we did this big special, have these wonderful voices talking about what the future
might look like. One of the top infectious disease experts from Yale, one of the top
labor activists in the history of this country, Dolores Huerta as a Presidential Medal of
Freedom. Then there are Johnson who's the president of the NAACP and Andrew Yang and
Nomi Prins and Nicholas Thompson is Editor in Chief of Wired.
And I learned from what they said and I love those conversations. And at the end is I heard
them all out. Where do I wind up on this? Look, part of it is just my nature and part
of it is a current situation. What my nature is of eternal optimism and so I always believe
there's a way.
But if you saw Endgame, sometimes there's only one out of thousands of possibilities
that actually gets you to the right conclusion. And so I'm not under any illusion that it's
going to be easy. Because as we heard in the conversations today, we are at a low point
in almost everything in this country, whether it's unemployment, whether it's infectious
disease, whether it's the state of the environment and how the US is being counterproductive
going in the wrong direction.
Racial relations, there's some good news and then a lot of the different race are uniting
together after George Floyd. But terrible news that we have a white supremacist in the
White House who keeps saying one racist thing after another after another and still the
country is very much divided on all those issues.
So now at this point, the good news that comes out of that is I think we could only go up.
Okay, now look, it's a giant, giant divide here. In a couple of months, we're gonna find
out if Trump or Biden's gonna win. If Trump wins, then I'm gonna keep it real with you.
There's nothing but darkness ahead. And I don't say that as political machinations.
I've told you when presidential elections are unimportant. I've told you when they are
important. This was the Mack Daddy of them all, not because it's dark versus light. We
don't have a great progressive in this race.
Joe Biden is a very conservative Democrat. I am not enthused about him, nor will I be
forced to be enthused about him. But the Democrats have found the perfect boogeyman and the establishment
has found the boogeyman he was looking for. And that is Donald Trump and the boogeyman
is real.
And if he wins again, the environment is in epic danger. There's no question about that.
His unbelievable incompetence endangers all of our lives. The economy is in danger. And
most importantly, democracy in our form of government is in danger. I think all that
stuff is super clear and for God's sake, vote against them, vote against them, vote against
them.
I couldn't be any clearer about that. But when Joe Biden wins, if he wins and I think
he will, but there are a lot could happen the next two and a half months. But if he
wins, he is not going to naturally do any of the right things, massive change on the
environment, increasing wages significantly, all the things that we care about, not just
as progressives, but that is gonna help the American people.
So we must push him. We must, almost everyone that came on here talked about how the government
is broken, and how they were excited to get Trump out. But that they were near positive
that the next government would not do anything that the American people wants unless they
were absolutely pushed to the wall.
So what does that mean? That means that's our job to push them to the wall. And so the
mainstream media hates that cuz they love the status quo and they're backed up by multibillion
dollar corporations. We're backed up by you guys. That's why we do tyt.com slash go to
raise money from you guys.
That's why we do membership tyt.com/join to have our financial motives tied to your financial
motives. And so that we're a team and we do this together, but a huge part of that is
the politics of it. So if Biden wins, we must start the protest immediately. There is no
way in the world that Democratic leadership is going to do the right thing of their own
accord.
We must push them on $15 minimum wage. They promised it. And I think that they could win
the Senate and if they do, they must pass it immediately. If they don't, there should
be more people surrounding the White House than there were under Trump. Why? Because
Trump doesn't care.
Biden could care, potentially could care. So get people around, get protests. It should
be no quarter given. If he does not act on the environment and significantly so, no quarter
given, surround the White House, surround every state capital, demand action. It is
literally the only way to do it.
Support progressives and primaries, and we must, must, must get money out of politics.
If we do not get money out of politics, none of this is going to be possible. Those corporations
are going to buy every single politician we have and the media is already on their side.
And then I can be optimistic all I want, but we are gonna hit those conclusions that are
not right. And it will be arguably worse because as time goes long along, that corporate power
accumulates in a way that gets harder and harder to fight back. So mount up, everybody.
If Biden wins, we should be in the streets almost immediately. But if we are, I think
he is susceptible to pressure and I think we can win. And if we do, then the future
is right. Love you, guys. See you tomorrow.