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The documentarian and leftist agitator has a long history of predicting the will of the electoral college.
it’s possible for you to do that for a week.
People have told me to watch it for years.
Theyre harassing this elderly Black man because they want his property.
And he helps to infect the town.
Then he realizes hes done that, and that it has to be both God and science.
And this is 1950.
It was just stunning to watch this play out.
Now I know why people have been telling me to watch this.
Why do you think the media took so long to call the election results for Biden?Theyre afraid.
Republicans make more noise.
Theyre very good at intimidation and bullying.
The left, not so much.
I think they also want to verify theyre right.
Its a very, very close election, but its not like its gone back and forth.
The trend for three days in Pennsylvania, Georgia its Biden, Biden, Biden, Biden.
Once they started to count all the ballots, it was clear what was going on.
Just think about this.
At some point you cant keep calling this a democracy.
What do you think is going to happen in terms of a transition of power?Oh my God.
Well, were in a very dangerous zone here.
Because the wordslameandduckfeel quite appropriate for Donald Trump.
He will not like that.
And his behavior this week has been unhinged.
I hate the fact that that soldier is still around him carrying the briefcase with the nuclear codes.
But Im also convinced that generals have never put the actual nuclear codes in that briefcase.
It was just a number for takeout pizza or something.
I think we have to be on guard.
The press has to do its job.
Dont relax because were all kind of relieved.
Dont not pay attention to whats going on.
If he continues to be more unhinged, then well have to consider the 25th amendment.
Maybe some of the Republicans in the Senate would actually consider impeachment just to get him out of there.
Biden himself is a fairly centrist candidate.
You dont have to do anything to convince people that hes a bigot, that hes a misogynist.
Hes self-identified as all those things.
People are like, I cant believe this.
After four years of him behaving like this, you still cant believe it.
You should have been believing him a long time ago.
This is my bone Ive had to pick with New Yorkers for some time now.
People in New York knew Donald Trump for decades.
New Yorkers knew for four decades that he was this aspiring psychopath, and did nothing to stop him.
He got away with everything.
Never went to jail.
Lied and lied and lied.
They called him the Donald.
He didnt give himself that nickname.
He would have been taken care of.
And I dont mean floating in the Detroit River.
I just mean it would have been dealt with.
Whereas in fact, centrist candidates lost a lot of their elections.I knew they would do this.
This is how well win the Senate races in Georgia.
We need to be more like Republicans.
Why would people vote for something pretending to be more Republican than the original, actual thing itself?
Theyre not going to convince anybody with this.
Theyve already got their candidates, theyve already got their party.
So I think its a huge mistake.
It was Black voters and Black Americans and young people that made that happen.
We won by at least 4 million votes.
Alexandria [Ocasio-Cortez], I think, justtweetedsomething.
Theres hardly any new Democratic Party registrations across the country.
I think Pelosi has pulled off some incredible things.
I think shes on some gutsy things.
I mean, to rip up his speech after the State of the Union.
Shes not the kind of politician that just goes off her rail.
So I dont think thats the problem.
And everybody knows what they mean when people have said defund the police.
They didnt sign up to be social workers.
They didnt sign up to be substance-abuse advisers, family counselors, dealing with family disputes.
Thats not why they wanted to be police.
And thats not what theyre trained to do.
So if the Democrats run away from any of this, theyre doomed.
And theyll get their lights punched out in the 2022 midterms.
No question in my mind about that.
Have you had any conversations with Biden or the campaign?I didnt communicate with the campaign.
The first thing I said was show up.
Hilary didnt go to Wisconsin.
Youve got to go.
Im digging up the poison pipes.
If you do that, then that will go such a long way.
I thought,oh, thats cool.
And then,wait a minute.
I know this gym.And there on the gym floor it said Northwestern.
He fired off that three-point shot from the exact spot where hefake-drank the Flint water during the 2016 campaign.
Now youd have to be from Flint.
This is the first time Im talking about it publicly.
I didnt want to say anything before the election, but everybody in Flint knew.
And I just thought,just dont have people give up.
I cant undo what happened.
All [Biden] would say is he would guarantee that that wouldnt happen in any other city.Okay.
I mean, people there are still drinking bottled water.
That is still appalling.It is appalling.
But Im not going to stop on it.
But it looks like at least five Trump states got flipped by Biden, whereas Trump flipped no states.
When all the votes are counted this could be a 52-48 election.
We dont have 60/40 elections.
So if it’s possible for you to get past the 51 mark, its almost considered a landslide.
So I think it is a significant repudiation.
What does the future of the Democratic Party look like?We need better strategy, better outreach.
Theres still [millions of]non-voters.
Reach out to them.
Of course you couldnt.It certainly would be wrong to say, Oh, so glad we got Biden there.
We never would have done this with Bernie.
But let me just say something about Biden too.
Biden may surprise a lot of progressives.
Where do you see the Republican Party going after this election?Well, thats a good question.
It depends on whether its the Republican Party or, really, the Trump Party.
Because he has a huge cult following, and they repeat him like its gospel.
All the conspiracy theories.
I dont think they can last long as a party.
Thats my gut feeling.
Mainly because you cant get any new people, any young people, to be with you.
How long can you last?
Well, through, gerrymandering, controlling the courts.
Basically, the country is three political parties: The Christian right.
The people who are socially liberal, but are big believers in capitalism.
So theyre the economic conservatives, the Wall Streeters.
Capitalism wont sustain itself, wont survive, and the barbarians will be at the gate at some point.
The goal is that nobody falls into a crack.
Theres a million Gretas.
Theyre going to lead, theyre going to run for office.
The future is Rashida [Tlaib].
The future is not Judge Amy [Coney Barrett].
Judge Amy has such a reach back into the 17th century.
Those days are over.
But shes going to be there for a bit.For your entire life.
We need to reform the court anyway.
Theres no other part of our system that doesnt expand or hasnt expanded with population.
So forget about expanding it because [Republicans] packed the court.
They stole a couple seats, forget all that.
It simply needs to be expanded because weve expanded.
And they should do it with the entire federal judiciary.
The whole Upper Peninsula in the Western District.
The federal judiciary needs to be expanded.
And they should go ahead and do this and not be afraid.
And dont listen to them crying about packing the court.
Oh, my God.
In 2016, we talked aboutthe importance of reality televisionin understanding the American electorate.
I mean his wife and his son also had coronavirus.
Why not take them, get them the best treatment?
But no, no.
Forget about whether youre liberal or conservative?
What dad would do that.
Well, a reality-TV dad, maybe?
Hes the one you would root against onThe Bachelorette.
Is there anything that Democrats could have done for a more resounding victory?Nominate Michelle Obama.
But we need to crush this, we need to crush it bad.
So it never comes back.
Thats how it could have been better.
What do progressives do next?Lets get out there and support Biden when hes doing the right thing.
And when hes sort of doing the right thing, lets nudge him.
And when hes doing the wrong thing, lets play offense here.
Okay, yes, [Biden] is not for Medicare for All.
So anything we could do to make it more progressive, I think hell go along with.
Because hes not fundamentally opposed to everybody having health insurance.
Hes not fundamentally opposed to women having equal rights.
So were all on the same page.
He might do it a little differently.
He might do a little more the grandpa way.
And we need to do it the Ariana Grande way.
Thats where our heads should be at.
Lets push for the things we believe in and let young people lead.
So lets get behind them.
