Pretty much everyone agrees that as of right now, it looks like the democrats
are probably gonna do pretty poorly in the midterm elections.
And if you pay attention to politics a lot, you might think, well,
it's probably complex.
There's probably a lot of places you can place the blame.
Promises are not made good on bad statements.
Politicians not doing the right, no, no.
It's super simple actually, Axios has the answer.
It's the squad's fault,
because I found out as many did that the squad's politics have backfired, and
you should be very angry about them, very much in advance of the midterm elections.
Mike Allen tells us that the hard left politics of
Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and the so called squad.
You can just say that they're called the squad.
Why are you saying so-called?
Why are you questioning it? >> Its so called and the scare quotes?
>> It's both?
>> It's both.
>> It is the squad.
You're calling them the squad?
>> Yeah. >> Whatever.
Once a dominant theme for
vast numbers of elected democrats is backfiring big time on the party in power.
Top democrats tell us, the push to defund the police, renamed schools and tear down
statues has created a significant obstacle to Democrats keeping control of the House,
the Senate and the party's overall image.
Did you know, Ilhan Omar wanted to desexify the M&M mascot, that's on her.
>> [LAUGH] >> Anyway, so,
they have gone to a representative sample of the many wings of
the Democratic Party to source this article.
For instance, Matt Bennett listed as the co founder of the center left third ways,
says, it's what I had to put that in the description.
>> That is unbelievable.
>> Axios called it the center left third way.
It's what we've been screaming about for a year.
And representative Josh Gottheimer he says, what I'm hearing at home,
and what I'm focused on, are common sense bipartisan solutions,
from tackling grocery and gas prices.
To cutting taxes and fixing our infrastructure,
to investing in law enforcement and fighting crime.
And well, they had to to finally get a hardcore progressive,
so, they've got Heidi Heitkamp.
>> [LAUGH] >> Who says,
Democrats are hurting themselves but not speaking out more
forcefully against liberal positions that alienate rural America.
Heitkamp told AP, now the brand is so toxic that people who are Democrats,
the ones left, aren't fighting for the party.
Yes, it doesn't matter if Biden got the White House campaigning as
if he was actually a progressive.
And people were so
angry at conservatives that they gave the dems the house and the Senate to what?
The only way we can give you the Senate is an unprecedented two Georgia Senate seats.
Okay, whatever it takes for me to switch course, no, forget all that stuff.
All those promises.
Forget every poll about what is popular and what is not,
you need to be courting these rural voters.
Who, I will remind you, soundly rejected Heidi Heitkamp when she tried to get
reelected in North Dakota, but we should be listening to all of them junk.
>> So, this is pure propaganda.
The old school Soviets,
the current North Koreans would be embarrassed to put out a piece like this.
So, I'm gonna tell you the biggest slide of hand that Mike Allen and
Axios did here, which is disgraceful.
But first, let me just break down a couple of quotes that John just gave you.
They painted it as it is definitely backfiring, the so
called squad is horrible and it's destroyed Democratic Party.
And at the very end, they just say top democrats tell us.
No, no, you made it seem like that was a definitive fact.
And then you just did a little adjunct at the end of that sentence.
Top democrats tell us.
>> So, it's not a fact.
>> [LAUGH] >> It's something that was leaked to by
who?
To John's point a range of democrats?
No, the most conservative democrats.
The most corporate democrats, did you clarify that for your audience?
No, you purposely concealed that from your audience.
You pretended that it was a range of democrats, when in reality,
every person you quoted, is massively conservative and
represents almost completely their daughters.
And I can show it to you, on their voting record cuz I know you don't do research.
So, now the second thing, center left third way.
Third way is a literal pack formed by corporations to capture
the Democratic Party.
It's funded completely by corporations.
The whole point of the pack is to drive the Democratic Party, right wing,
right wing.
Everybody in Washington knows that.
They don't hide that.
And Mike Allen is this, I know the guy, he's a senior reporter, Mike,
you don't know the third way is conservative?
And you put in their center left, to make it appear,
that it's a range of democrats who all agree that the left is wrong,
even though the center left third way says they're wrong.
That is purposeful lying and deceit, forget us progresses.
I know you hate us and you wanna smear at us at every turn.
Don't you care about your readers at all?
And the answer is obvious no, you wanna manipulate them.
You wanna brainwash them.
You wanna do propaganda in favor of corporate rule.
Which coincidentally Mike, is all of your advertisers.
Giant corporations, drug companies, defense contractors, giant banks.
So, they thank you in advance and
they did already by giving you millions of dollars to write this trash.
And then, he also, now comes a sleight of hand,
we're gonna get into it more in a second.
But, he says, this is gonna be a big obstacle,
the Democrats keeping control of the House and the Senate.
But wait a minute, what he talked about were all local issues.
And in the article, he focuses on a very local set of elections in San Francisco.
>> Mm-hm >> Wait, those San Francisco city council
issues, have nothing to do with the House and the Senate.
What the House and the Senate were working on was built back better.
So, you made it seem like, the progressive positions that the House of
the Senate are working on, are deeply unpopular.
So, Mike since you don't do any research, let me do it for you.
Are they unpopular?
The poll came out now, this is after republicans, conservative democrats and
corporate media battered to build back better,
after they did billions of dollars of propaganda against them.
Still a poll just last month, let's take a look,
first of all build back better across the country, 62 to 31 still popular,
like a two to one margin, what happened?
I thought the progressive positions were deeply unpopular Mike?
It almost sounds like you were lying.
Okay, now let's break down the issues one by one.
Long term care investments still in the shell of build back better that
hasn't passed.
What's the popularity, 74%,
hearing coverage under Medicare put in there by Bernie Sanders,
Progressive position undoubtedly poles at 72%.
Clean energy and job investment, all green new deal, we heard from Fox News and
corporate media combined together tells how unpopular it was, 62% Mike.
Housing affordability and prevention 61%, paid family leave 59%,
every single provision over 50%, incredibly popular.
But there was a city council meeting in San Francisco,
you see the sleight of hand.
Look here, I found something unpopular in San Francisco.
It represents all progressives, I know all the things that they were working on
the house, what actually were they working in the House and Senate?
[SOUND] No, don't talk about how popular those are.
Then Lockheed Martin won't pay Axios.
>> [LAUGH] Let's blame wokeism and the wokies and the woke apocalypse.
And other ways. >> [LAUGH]
>> We can talk about woken and
lead very serious New York times oped with the word woke or an Axios piece.
What's so funny about the San Francisco thing and I used to live there, right,
these are parents who are transplant from Pleasanton,
which is a suburb outside of SF, moved to SF during the pandemic.
Then they got a bunch of tech millionaires and
billionaires to underwrite a recall campaign for three school board members.
Because at some point in the host of things that they're
also doing like trying to maintain a school in a pandemic.
So, kids don't die, by the way San Francisco one of the lowest rates of COVID
transition, highest rates of vaccination in the country,
that one of the things they were doing was changing the name of the school.
And then all of a sudden there other walkies, mind you, it's not
an election year, it was a special election tech money pouring into this.
And suddenly it's always a harbinger of everything bad to come as Jang said,
it's utter BS that has nothing to do with the national conversation.
I'm excited for the future when we all get,
when President Stephen Miller is in office.
And the three of us, and everyone else at TYT we're in the press gulag,
and all the Axios reporters are like,
you just shouldn't have asked for universal child care.
I mean, >> [LAUGH]
>> It's really on you guys, and
we're gonna be there like mother.
[LAUGH] >> [LAUGH]
>> It's gonna be a good brawl.
And because this is the center playing into the rights
culture war at the service of corporations.
They're playing into the culture war just as much as the right is, but
they're doing it because ultimately they serve the same gods as Jake pointed out.
>> So, I wanna give you one more aspect of this absolute trash article.
They say, Democrats are losing in poll after poll, nationally in the house.
That's true.
That's absolutely true.
Finally, we found something true in the article.
Now, you wanna know why?
And by the way, I stand corrected, thank you.
I made a small error there.
Axios we actually care about facts.
So, it was not San Francisco city council as I said earlier in this video,
it was the school board, even more important as San Francisco school board
apparently controls the whole country.
>> Came on nationals.
>> Okay, wow.
How national?
>> Before foreign policy.
>> So, now, when they ask people, hey, what's wrong with the Democratic Party?
Did they say San Francisco school board etc in that polling where the Democrats
are getting killed?
No, here, I'll give you a specific poll.
They asked people, how much do you think Joe Biden has done for you?
56% of the country, not 56% of Republicans,
56% of the country that includes a ton of Democrats and Independents.
So Joe Biden has done quote, nothing for us, nothing.
And the argument that Axios is making is, progress is made him do too much.
>> Mm-hm >> Well, what am I supposed to call that?
That's just a lie.
The polling indicates the exact opposite.
You didn't do enough.
You didn't fight enough and you didn't do your so called agenda.
Which Joe Biden never believed in?
The only thing he ever said that was true was, when he told his beloved donors,
nothing will fundamentally change.
Congratulations, Joe, nothing fundamentally changed, you got your dream.
And guess what the polling indicates the American people hate you for it,
but it's okay.
You're gonna use goons like the reporters at Axios, to do propaganda for you and
you think it's gonna be okay.
It's not gonna be okay.
The jury's already in.
You guys are gonna get slaughtered.
And that's why a year before the elections,
there already blaming progressives cuz they
know they're gonna lose cuz they didn't do anything cuz of the goddamn donors.
And that's what this piece is about.
And that's what corporate media is about.
And that's why they're trash and you should never read them.
>> I'm ready to move on from that story.
Honestly, I think it is not too early to start blaming Rashida to leave for
the dems losing in 2024.
>> [LAUGH] >> She should calm down,
I think she's ruining it for us.
Honestly, Cori Bush, I'm watching you.
You're ruining it.