October 24, 2024 • 34 mins
Michael Kosta unpacks a whirlwind of headlines, including Obama rapping Eminem at a rally, Eminem’s endorsement of Kamala Harris, and Tim Walz’s fiery remarks about Elon Musk. John Kelly reveals Trump’s troubling praise for Hitler. Michael then explores whether America is ready to say goodbye to the Electoral College, with insights from CNN's John King and Michigan lawmakers pushing for the National Popular Vote Bill. David Hogg discusses his grassroots movement to elect young progressives, his advice for Kamala Harris, and the future of Gen-Z political leaders.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Comedy centralow.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
From the most trusted journalists at Comedy Central's America's only
source for news. It's The Daily Shown with your host
Michael coast.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Well, welcome to The Daily Show. I'm Michael Costa. We've
got so much to talk about.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Tonight, President Obama shows off his rap skills. John Kelly
gives Trump a history lesson, and I'll fix our entire
voting system forever.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
You're welcome.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
So let's get right into it with another installment of
Indecision twenty twenty four. We're thirteen days away from the
election and it's a toss up at this point.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
In the past few weeks, Trump has made the.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Pulls tighter than his shirt collar around his little neck puss.
So now Democrats are bringing out the big guns, starting
with a rally last night in Detroit, where the opening
act was local legend Eminem. That's right, people, Slim Shady
aka Marshall Mathers aka the reason Stan drove off that bridge.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Stan, you really think stars like Eminem read their own mail? Idiot?
But oh man, this is gonna be good.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Eminem has recorded some of the most brutal tracks of
all time. He has a song where he stuffs people
in the trunk of a car. He rapped about wanting
to see President Bush dead. He called his own mom
a slot. The point is, Eminem is going to destroy Trump,
so let's go. The spotlight is on us.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
More than ever.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
And I think it's important to use your voice.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
So I'm encouraging everybody to get out a vote.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Please, please, please, Wow, this guy got polite.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Now, everybody in the three one three, put your mother
hands up and fill out your voter registration the timely fashion.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Please.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
And em didn't even perform, But that was okay because
he was just the warm up to Barack Obama, the
real wrapper of the night. I was feeling some kind of.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Way following Eminem.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
Now, I notice my palms are sweating me's week. I'ms
a heaven Bamaha, my sweater rudder mon spagett it. I'm nervous,
but I'm a surface on the comb and run it
for drop bombs, but I keep bomb forget it.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Holy shit, did he just come up with that on
the spot. I mean, that was so good it should
be a song.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
But it's nice to.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
See Obama pay homage to Eminem because it means that
black people have finally accepted that Eminem is the greatest
rapper of all time.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Hey, look close, stop, I know how it feels.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I went through it every time Tiger Woods won a
golf tournament. Okay, I will say, maybe Obama should skip
that line about dropping bombs.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
You know, are you still rapping? Are you doing a
drone strike? Too real? Don't laugh? Too real, too real,
too real. But even if you were to be let
down that Eminem didn't go.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Hard, don't worry, because over in Wisconsin, an up and
coming rapper drop an epic Donald Trump distrack.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
He's duck to Bates, but you can't blame him.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
When you get your ass whip that hard, you don't
come back for seconds.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
He has been rambling more than the normal rambling. He
calls it the weave.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Donald.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Come on, we know there's only one weave that you
know anything about.
Speaker 7 (04:00):
Being at McDonald, he looks much more like Ronald McDonald
and the clown that he.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Actually is, and Ronald wears less makeup.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
His running mate, Elon Musk.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Look, Elon's on that stage, jumping around, skipping like a
dipshit on these stuns.
Speaker 8 (04:17):
You know me?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Wow, this campaign has changed Tim Walls. A month ago
he was like, oh gee, Whizzy, I love going dimon nerds,
And now he's all, how about you suck my nerds?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Huh, yeah, suck my Nard.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
And I know some people think it's stooping to Trump's
level when Democrats throw around insults like dipshit, But personally,
I think politicians should be swearing way more often. Audiences
always love it. Oh yeah, isn't that right, you dip shits?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
I swear audience.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
But the biggest attack against Trump at the moment isn't
coming from Obomber or Walls.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
It's coming from one of the top people in Trump's
own White House.
Speaker 9 (05:13):
This morning, Donald Trump's former chief of staff and retired
General John Kelly, with a blistering rebuke of the Republican
nominee for president, calling him a fascist with no concept for.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
The rule of law or the constitution.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
What do you think? Do you think he's a fascist?
Speaker 10 (05:28):
It certainly falls into the general definition of a fascist
for sure.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Wow, Donald Trump's old chief of staff is calling him
a fascist.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
That is huge.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Although I will say telling America you're about to elect
a fascist is a.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Pretty major thing to announce. In an audio clip. You know, you.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Couldn't put on pants and say it into a camera.
It's kind of like if aliens were invading and the
President told us in a screenshot from his notes app
just seems like the wrong medium.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Let me back up here for a second.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
That word fascism gets thrown around a lot, and it's
one of those words you hear frequently, but you don't
actually know what it means, like emoluments or demure.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
So let me give you a definition.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Fascism is a nationalist political movement that builds a cult
around an all powerful leader who vows to protect his
loyal subjects from racially inferior others and the enemy within.
Now now that you know that, upon hearing John Kelly
calling Trump a fascists, you're probably thinking yeah, er. By
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the way, Kelly isn't even the only general who served
with Trump who feels this way. General Millie, Trump's chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also said Trump is
a fascist to the core. General Mattis, General McMaster, both
Trump cabinet officials have said Trump.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Violated the Constitution.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
And keep in mind, these guys were the adults in
the room in the first Trump administration, keeping Trump from
going full dictator, and they're not going to be there
the second time around. Maybe it's just me, but I'm
not ready to put the future of American democracy in
the hands of Secretary of Defense, my pillow guy.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
But it gets even crazier.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
It gets crazier because, according to John Kelly, Trump's such
a fascist that he even has an all time favorite dictator.
And if you're thinking no, no, no, no, no, no, it can't
be yes, it.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Can he would call it more than ones that.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
You know, Hitler did some good things too.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Yeah, yeah, Hitler did some good things. I mean, after all,
he killed himself.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Do we clap at that? Are we? Seriously? Trump? Hitler
never did anything that he even sucked at.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Waving like, dude, God gave you elbows, use them.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
That's how I wave.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
But what Kelly explained in an interview with The Atlanta
Magazine is that Trump what Trump really loved about Hitler
was how he surrounded himself with yes men, or as
they say in Germany, yah men.
Speaker 11 (08:09):
The title of the piece quotes Trump as once having
said I need the kind of generals that Hitler had,
Trump adding people who were totally loyal to him that
follow orders.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I feel like Trump took the wrong lesson from the Holocaust.
The lesson I learned was not to do the Holocaust,
but the lesson he learned was, well, the Nazis were
great listeners. And apparently the first time Kelly heard this,
Trump didn't mention Hitler at first, he just said German generals.
So Kelly tried to give Trump an off ramp, but
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he wasn't.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Taking it, Kelly told Goldberg.
Speaker 11 (08:44):
When Trump raised the subject, he responded by asking, do
you mean Bismarck's generals. Kelly went on quote, I mean
I knew he didn't know who Bismarck was or about
the Franco Prussian War. I said, do you mean the
Kaiser's generals. Surely you can't mean Hitler's generals. Said yeah, yeah,
Hitler's generals.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
I mean, Kelly was trying so hard to give him
an out.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Okay, you said German generals, but you don't mean Hitler's generals. Okay,
you do mean Hitler, but you mean like Nathan Hitler,
the guy my wife goes to pilates with.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Right, help me out here, man, help me.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
I love how he was like, you mean Bismarck's generals, right,
my man. The only generals Trump knows are the Chinese
one that makes that chicken and the guy who teamed
up with Shaq to sell car insurance.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Anyway, This is pretty indefensible stuff, and when Trump does
something truly indefensible, you can always count on Fox News.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
To defend him.
Speaker 12 (09:43):
It's your job to do with the president wants. And
I could absolutely see him go. Now, you know what,
it'd be great to have German generals and actually do
what we ask them to do, knowing that's maybe not
fully being cognizant of the third rail of German general's
we're Nazis or whatever.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Okay, okay, did you just whatever? The Holocaust whatever is for.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Insignificant things like when you put the plastic recycling in
the paper recycling. It's not oops, I did a genocide.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
I like that kill meat thinks.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Praising Hitler is a third rail, like it's a taboo subject.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
That's not pc to discuss at the office anymore.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Uh, you can't even compliment a woman's haircut or tell
her about all the good things Hitler did anymore.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Thanks woke police.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
This was even a little too far for some of
the other people on the couch. Watch Steve Doocey as
he realizes where kill Meat is going with this.
Speaker 12 (10:35):
You know what, it would be great to have German
generals and actually do what we asked them to do.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Poor guy, He looks nervous, his palms are sweaty, me's
weak arms heavy, goes vomited on.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
His sweater already.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Look, almost everybody has figured out that Hitler was bad,
but for that one person that didn't, who also might
be the next president.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Great job, everybody.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Maybe the media can drive that point home a bit more.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Here at the History Channel, we've spent the past three
decades pumping out World War Two documentaries for Grandpa's but
we're starting to think we haven't been clear enough about
whether or not you should root for Hitler. So we're
eliminating that confusion with our new lineup of World War
Two programming.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Join us.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Mondays at seven four Defeating the Fury, who, to be clear,
was the bad guy, followed at eight by Hitler's generals,
the also very bad guys behind the main very very
bad guy. Then at nine one hour of just a
black Screen that says Hitler was bad, plus All of
our other shows now have helpful graphics in case you
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forget halfway through that Hitler was bad, And of course
you can still enjoy all our other programming like Ancient Aliens.
Speaker 12 (11:55):
I believe that the Pyramids were built by aliens, and
even I know Hitler was bad.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
We've even teamed up with our sister network to present
Shark Week, the Hitler's of the Sea. Wait, does that
make Hitler sound cool? Forget it, so please enjoy the
History Channel. The h is for history, not Hitler, who
was bad.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I can't believe that to say.
Speaker 13 (12:21):
When we come back, I go home to Michigan. Don't
go away, alcome last.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Of the show.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Last night we aired part of my investigative series on
the electoral College and now the thrilling conclusion.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
We're breaking news now.
Speaker 8 (12:54):
The cocky clown Michael Costa headed to the battleground state
of Michigan, going there to see if they.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Will ask the national popular vote.
Speaker 8 (13:01):
It's still a long shot, especially now for someone as
aft as Michael cost.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I'm in Michigan, the state known for being where I'm from,
at the capitol to inspire lawmakers to pass the national
popular Vote bill. It's got so I'm speaking with Carrie
Ryan Gans, the sponsor of the bill, to find out
how to get it pushed over the finish line.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
How does this National Popular Vote bill get voted on it?
And where does that happen?
Speaker 14 (13:27):
So on the House floor. If we get it on
the agenda, we'll be able to have it. But you
put up on the board and we will be invited
to vote on it.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
And you feel like you have the votes you need, yes,
So then why not just pass it right now while
your boys here?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Well, I do expect a vote by the end.
Speaker 9 (13:43):
Of the year.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
End of the year doesn't really work for me.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
This is the time that I'm going to be in
Michigan because I got a.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Flight in thirty six hours. Who do I have to
talk to you to get this bill passed? Because I'll
do it.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I'm like the most famous guy from Michigan ever, well
besides Tim Allen, but that guy sucks.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Well, we have been really busy.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
This term voting on what's the best fight shop in
Macinai Island. No, we don't need to well, which Michigan
are can eat the most snow?
Speaker 14 (14:04):
No, we've been doing important work, so we do deliver.
We do want to vote on this, and this is
really a nonpartisan issue.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
What can I do to push this through?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Because let's be honest, if this thing passes, who's the
hero boom right?
Speaker 3 (14:19):
And I need that right now?
Speaker 14 (14:20):
You know, it might be really helpful to hear from
just more people in Michigan. The general public I think
would totally support this.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
You want me to hang out with the general public.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Yes, my mission was clear. If I was going to
get this bill passed before my flight, I had to
use my star power to get the people on my side.
Because one thing was certain. I will not pay a
change fee.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
How do you feel about the electoral college tick? It sucks?
Does it feel outdated? Sometimes?
Speaker 1 (14:48):
I'm not a fan of the electoral college. I'm actually
more of a fan of popular vote. What if I
told you that tomorrow there might be a bill being
introduced that would support a national popular vote to determining
the presidency, I would be uh, I would be excited.
Speaker 10 (15:00):
I think that would mean Michigan's.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Just right on the right track.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
So maybe that's gonna happen to mine.
Speaker 10 (15:04):
I'm not putting money on.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
That, okay, but if it did happen tomorrow, Terry, that
would be great.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Look into that camera and show me the face you're
gonna make if the National Popular Vote Bill passes.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Go ahead, I think a popular thing is a good one.
Would you want Michigan to pass the National Popular Vote Bill?
Hell yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Would you want Michigan to pass the National Popular Vote Bill? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Go great?
Speaker 8 (15:25):
Go light who.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Yeah, that settles it. Michigan needed to pass the National
Popular Vote Bill. Michigan, let's get this National Popular Vote
Bill done.
Speaker 8 (15:37):
Who.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
After checking my victory balloons at security, I started wheeling
and dealing on the floor.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
What are you here for?
Speaker 1 (15:48):
We're hoping the National Popular Vote Bill gets introduced and
passed today. Would I single handedly be able to get
Michigan to pass the National Popular Vote Bill? Specifically, before
my flight National Popular Vote the word was getting around
that Costa was in the House and things were starting
to happen. We're hoping the National Popular Vote Bill that's
introduced today and voted on, that's got up.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
That's got up. That's why we're here.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
But after a tedious legislative session, this is not our bill.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Relax, it's not our bill.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
It was clear the vote was not happening. It could
be in the Delta sky Lounge in thirty five minutes.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
I can't do it. I gotta go.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
I can't believe it.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
It's too bad.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Man shot Michigan lawmakers. You have really left the people,
but more importantly me down.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
It's okay, buddy, God damn it.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
John King's gonna have a field day to this thing.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
This breaking news.
Speaker 8 (16:47):
The depressing dufus Michael Costa has failed to get the
national Popular vote Phil passed here in battleground Michigan. He
didn't even get it on the agenda. Now, it's not
an end to the National Popular Vote movement, but it is.
It's definitely an end to anyone caring about Michael Costa.
In fact, they're just getting exclusive footage of a dejected
Costa leaving the Michigan State Capitol. Take a peek, just
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like the little sad boy he is, and CNN can
now officially project Michael Costa is pathetic.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
Dun king out and welcome back, David Hogg, and they're
joining me on the show, so don't go away.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Welcome back to the David Show.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
My guest tonight is a leader in the fight to
end gun violence and the co founder of the Leaders
We Deserve Pack.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Please welcome David Hogg. It had it all right, Star
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getting You're twenty four years old. You're twenty four years old.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
You co founded March for Our Lives after surviving the
Parkland shooting to support gun control legislation. You've now co
founded Leaders We Deserve Pack. Yes, tell us what is that?
So it's basically the second step in our process. You know,
we work to with March for Our Lives to help
elect better people to change gun laws. But our generation
is getting old enough now that many of the young
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people that marched out with us, that protested with us
and organized in twenty eighteen in the largest student protest
in American history, are now old enough to run for office.
Speaker 10 (18:46):
So my philosophy, So my philosophy around that is, if
our government is not willing to change gun laws, then
it's time to change whoosing government.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Oh sure.
Speaker 10 (19:05):
And the way that we do that, Michael, is we
help fund great generational leaders under the age of thirty
for state legislature and under the age of thirty five
for congress, people like Congressman Maxwell Frost and soon to
be Congresswoman Sarah McBride in Delaware, and work that I'm
on a day to day basis on everything that they
need to be able to win.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
You're tired of old people having a monopoly of power
in our government.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
But isn't one of the solutions just waiting?
Speaker 10 (19:32):
Well, funny enough, I think that that's our long term plan.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Ultimately, you know, whenever people stick it out, they're gonna
die exactly.
Speaker 10 (19:43):
But it's about creating an intergenerational coalition in our government.
So many of the greatest presidents we've ever had, whether
that was Abraham Lincoln, he was twenty five when he
was first elected to the Illinois State House.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (19:53):
Lbj was twenty eight when he was first elected to Congress,
Joe Biden, And I know this is hard to believe
for the younger people. It was twenty nine when he
was first elected. And those men went on to become
so successful, I believe because they started when they were
so young. And it makes sense. If you start when
you're young, you know how to get stuff done. And
if people want to know more about what we do,
they can go to leaders we deserve dot Com.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
So yeah, silly question, do young people want to run
for office? Because it seems to me like and I'm
an old man. It seems like every young person I
see is just on TikTok.
Speaker 10 (20:29):
Well, they are certainly on TikTok, yes, but they're also
engaging with all kinds of things on there because they
all want to help create a better world. Ultimately, we
see young people over the past several years, ever since
Donald Trump got elected march for their lives in the
form of March for Our Lives. We've seen them protest,
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to fight for action on climate change, and so much more.
And ultimately we've grown up hearing the mantra gen z
was taught along inside our ABC's the mantra of run,
hide and fight, right right right. I think it's time
for our generation to repurpose that and realize it's we
have a responsibility not to hide from the responsibility to
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protect the next generation so that they don't go through this.
We have to fight to create that future, and if necessary,
we need to run for office to make that future
a reality.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Well how when by the way, Michael, yeh, by the way.
Speaker 10 (21:26):
My mom literally just called me when I was a
makeup that she wanted me to say that she has
a huge crush on John.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
And this guy's got comedic timing, you know what I mean.
I was just about to promote it some more what
you were doing.
Speaker 10 (21:52):
But if anything, Michael, you guys know the importance of
having young people join a show for example, right, and
johnstill comes on once weeks, So your show is an
intergenerational coalition.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
And I honestly, John I think thinks the rest of
us are all just the same person. So but when
you're it's not when you're looking for a gen z,
I know, it's like, hey, I.
Speaker 10 (22:20):
Know you're different. I watch the show religiously.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
That's thank you for real.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Yeah yeah, But so like they're older people, they watch
it on a cable channel. You watch it on your
friend's YouTube or something. Yeah, great, which is which is
why nobody has any money. But when you're looking for
a gen Zer to run, you've said you're looking for
someone that has the juice.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Yes, what is the juice?
Speaker 10 (22:45):
Great question?
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Do I have the juice?
Speaker 10 (22:47):
Well?
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Can I get some juice? You?
Speaker 10 (22:50):
I think it's possible for anybody to get it. But
I think that you, especially as somebody that does this
work to help communicate the news to young people that
so often are tired of hearing cynical worldview constantly. The
thing that I hate most is the I think the
greatest threat to our democracy is also on the things
that keeps me up the most at night, obviously, which
is the hopelessness and apathy that so many young people have.
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That is a self fulfilling prophecy. And I don't think
that you have that. So I think we do have
the Jews.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
I got the Jews, but I think.
Speaker 10 (23:18):
In terms I got the Jews in terms in terms
of what does the Jews really mean? Though, fifty percent
of what decides who we endorse as a candidate, it
goes beyond our questionnaire and where they stand on the issues.
That's forty nine percent of it. Fifty one percent of
it is why are you running for office. We're not
here just to support somebody because they they want to
have you know, congressmen or woman next to their name,
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or they want to be a representative just for the
sake of having power, for the sake of having power.
We want to elect somebody because they want to use
that power for good, to help the people that don't
have it right now, to help build a more perfect union.
And part of how we do that is our candidates.
They don't take corporate money. We don't take corporate money.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
I'm going to ask you about moat. Yeah, let's talk
about money. So, first of all, there's a great movie
that came out in nineteen ninety two called Juice.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
You weren't even born yet, you weren't even a thought yet.
Your parents probably hadn't even met yet.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Now, the very last scene, he goes, you got the
juice now, man, and he goes, no, I just I
want you just to think about that.
Speaker 10 (24:19):
Yeah, I'll have to follow up on it.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Money. So I go to leaders we Deserve website. Yeah yeah,
And before I.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Even really read the bio and see the video, it's like, yo,
click here for some money.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
So that has me thinking, where is your money coming from?
Speaker 10 (24:35):
So that's a great question.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
You're welcome.
Speaker 10 (24:38):
When we started. When we started, it was a huge
risk that we took because we were actually ready to
launch on the day, the day that we were supposed
to launch, twelve hours before Donald Trump got indicted the
first time, right, and then we launched a week after that,
and then he got indicted a week yes, right, But
when we launched, we had no money actually, and what
happened is we took a huge risk and we put
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it out there. We raised over a million dollars in
our first seventy two hours.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Ye is crazy.
Speaker 10 (25:04):
And what I'm most proud of, by far, is right now,
in our first fourteen months of existence, with just a
small team of four people and great friends around us,
we've been able to raise nearly twelve million dollars to
support young people. But that would not be possible without
one hundred and thirty thousand individual donors who donated on
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average far less than one thousand dollars to our organization.
Are No single person has control over us other than
just making sure we do the right thing and our
candidates do the right thing.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
I mean, we need more.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Once you take money from a corporation, it does change things,
doesn't it Just a little bit.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
It taints things a little bit.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Yeah, and so you're saying that that's not what you got, Okay,
great young men of your generation, not putting us all
on you, But I am curious a lot of them
are supporting Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Yeah what's all that about, dude?
Speaker 1 (25:55):
That's a great question. Yeah, well are you? And as leaders,
we deserve supporting Democrats, progressives, conservatives who.
Speaker 10 (26:03):
So right now. Excellent question.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
I'm not just going to be your friend. They're gonna
push back alot.
Speaker 10 (26:08):
You absolutely should. We support young progressives running for state
legislature in Congress, and the main places that we look
for them are people that have a background in social movements,
people like Bryceberry, who's running and will soon be the
youngest person ever elected to the Georgia State Legislature at
the age of twenty three. He is a seventh grade
algebra teacher, Jesus and a former organizer with Mark Carlans
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and then the So's.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
That's really also proving that if you know algebra, it
still has no relevance in the mind.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Exactly. You got to become a state legislature Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 10 (26:38):
And so that's really what we're what we're doing.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
If you could talk or give advice to Kamala Harris,
the one thing you could tell her to mobilize young
Democratic voters, what would it be? And please tell me
has nothing to do with the Huktwah podcast.
Speaker 10 (26:54):
It does not. What I would say is listen to
us and what we're saying.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Thing I just showed out WHI I was. I didn't
even say that, right, right? Yeah?
Speaker 10 (27:03):
What I would say, what I would say is listen
to us and what these what these young people are saying,
and what we're going through right and realizing and I
think this to a large extent, she's she's done a
pretty good job of that. But there's still a lot
more work that we need to do to make sure
that we're we're listening to these young people and giving
them faith that their voice and their vote actually matters
to somebody like the vice president or the future ideally
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future president of the United States, and that they know
that there's a lot more elections that affect you than
just the presidency. This presidential election and abortion ban is
really going to be decided by your state legislature. And
that's why most of the work we do isn't even
in Congress right now, it's in state legislatures to help
put up a fight against the radical abortion vans were
just earlier today. That's why, that's why this year we've
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been investing. The state that we've actually invested the most
in this year is Texas, where we spent over one
point five million dollars.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (27:53):
And the reason for that. The reason for that is
we know as Texas grows and when we do you
flip Texas, because I believe that Texas, like Florida, is
not a red state, it is a gerrymanderd in voter
suppressed state. Okay, right, If we flip Texas, we could
have a future where we don't even need to win Pennsylvania, Michigan,
Wisconsin to win the presidency, because all you need is
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Texas in that scenreo with the key typical Democratic strongholds,
and we're not investing for one cycle with our pack.
We're investing with time in the market of change, if
you will, where we know that we have the greatest
advantage on our side that anybody can have in politics.
Then none of these corporations, not even people like the
Koch brothers, can buy more of which is the fact
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that we're going to outlive most of the people who
are against right.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
It's a good point.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
When we get our ballots, we're always very familiar with
the presidency, but there's so many other people on the ballot,
and it would be nice if those names were as
familiar as well. Exactly, you were survivor of the Parkland
shooting in twenty eighteen. Since then, depending on how you
fine a mass shooting has been fifty four more mass
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shootings in this country.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
This could be very disheartening.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Yet when I see you, when I meet you, and
when I see on TV or anywhere, you seem resilient,
you seem inspired, You don't seem disheartened.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Tell me what is the trick? How do you stay up?
Because it can break you.
Speaker 10 (29:23):
It can.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
You know that better than anybody.
Speaker 10 (29:24):
It can't. And I'm going to be completely honest with you, Michael,
and that truly it's things like The Daily Show. And
I'm a good answer, no, but truly, And the reason
why I say that is because there's so much negativity
and in vitriol in the media constantly. It's hard to
watch it when it feels like you're being told constantly
the world is on fire. But you still need to
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be informed watching things like The Daily Show. And really,
a huge person that I have to thank for getting
involved in politics in the first place is actually John Oliver. Sure,
because I started as a young debate student when I
was in ninth gradehigh school. I started watching his show
and it gave me a completely different perspective into how
hilariously corrupt a lot of these different state legislatures and
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politicians are, but how it doesn't have to be that way.
And one thing that was really hard for me to learn,
the hardest thing for me to learn after the shooting,
and I think this goes for a lot of my classmates,
was that it's okay to be happy no matter what
you've gone through. And I say that, I say that
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because I have learned. I've learned it is an absolute happiness.
Joy are not anathetical to progress, no matter how hard
the issue is that you were working on. They're an
essential part of it. And that was a hard lesson
to learn.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Yeah, because.
Speaker 10 (30:44):
Thank you. Because after the shooting, there were so many people,
you know, naturally, what do you do in a photo
if somebody takes it with you, no matter what you've
gone through, you smile, right. There were so many people
that would make, you know, right wing people online that
would make memes of us smile ling, saying these are
the faces that you make when you're standing on the
bodies of your dead classmates.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Jesus Christ.
Speaker 10 (31:05):
Yeah, And that had a horrible effect on us, and
it really started to tear us apart. But I realized
at a certain point that they actually need us not
to be happy and believed to believe that change isn't possible,
because I know from talking to people like Dolores Fuerta,
who I was at a protest with a few years ago,
and I asked her, what is the most important thing
that you can tell other young people, other activists for
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them to know, and she said, the most important thing
is that you have to make people believe that change
is actually possible. If we didn't believe change was possible
after Parkland, if we didn't believe change was possible, if
we didn't have in some ways the ignorance to believe
change was possible, and a Republican state legislature like Florida was,
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we wouldn't have been able to raise the age to
twenty one because we would have listened to those negative
ad peddlers and polsters and Shrundans.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
It was a Republican governor, a Republican and you actually
achieved some change.
Speaker 10 (31:58):
And we raised the age to buygon twenty one in Florida.
And not just that, we passed red flag law that
can disarm people that are risk themselves in others and
that law has since been used in Florida alone over
nineteen thousand times.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Wow, and.
Speaker 10 (32:15):
Michael guests who uses it most Republican sheriffs, right Republican sharfs,
and guess who hasn't repealed it, Ron DeSantis. Because it
has such wide bipartisan support, we cannot buy into this
lie that this is such a partisan issue we can't
do anything about it.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
And I liked I heard you say somewhere else that
a lot of the Republicans that helped pass that still
got reelected.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
They did, because that is ultimately what it comes down to.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
If they fear, oh, I'm not going to get relected,
but they got re elected exactly.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Some of them are still there.
Speaker 10 (32:42):
But that's why it's so important that young people use
their voice. And I'm not going to say to them
right now that this is going to get solved. If
you just elect Kamala Harris, everything's going to be better.
It's not going to be. We're we're putting. We've been
left eight the results of a fifty year chess gin
that Conservatives have played here through things like the Federalist Society,
the Heritage Foundation, and so many of these other institutions
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that Donald Trump is simply a symptom of, and he
is only that a symtom of it. If it wasn't him,
it was going to be somebody else. Our generation has
to start laying the groundwork now to reverse engineer a
lot of that so that we can actually we can
reinstate things like Roe versus Weight, so that we can
overturn things like DC versus Heller and Citizens United and
all these other insane decisions as the Supreme Court is made.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Keep it up. Thank your positivity is very inspiring.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
For more information, check out Leaders we Deserve, dot Com,
David Hogg, everybody.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
We can take a quick RK. That's the show for tonight.
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Speaker 3 (00:32):
Well, welcome to The Daily Show. I'm Michael Costa. We've
got so much to talk about.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Tonight, President Obama shows off his rap skills. John Kelly
gives Trump a history lesson, and I'll fix our entire
voting system forever.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
You're welcome.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
So let's get right into it with another installment of
Indecision twenty twenty four. We're thirteen days away from the
election and it's a toss up at this point.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
In the past few weeks, Trump has made the.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Pulls tighter than his shirt collar around his little neck puss.
So now Democrats are bringing out the big guns, starting
with a rally last night in Detroit, where the opening
act was local legend Eminem. That's right, people, Slim Shady
aka Marshall Mathers aka the reason Stan drove off that bridge.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Stan, you really think stars like Eminem read their own mail? Idiot?
But oh man, this is gonna be good.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Eminem has recorded some of the most brutal tracks of
all time. He has a song where he stuffs people
in the trunk of a car. He rapped about wanting
to see President Bush dead. He called his own mom
a slot. The point is, Eminem is going to destroy Trump,
so let's go. The spotlight is on us.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
More than ever.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
And I think it's important to use your voice.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
So I'm encouraging everybody to get out a vote.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Please, please, please, Wow, this guy got polite.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Now, everybody in the three one three, put your mother
hands up and fill out your voter registration the timely fashion.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Please.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
And em didn't even perform, But that was okay because
he was just the warm up to Barack Obama, the
real wrapper of the night. I was feeling some kind of.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Way following Eminem.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
Now, I notice my palms are sweating me's week. I'ms
a heaven Bamaha, my sweater rudder mon spagett it. I'm nervous,
but I'm a surface on the comb and run it
for drop bombs, but I keep bomb forget it.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Holy shit, did he just come up with that on
the spot. I mean, that was so good it should
be a song.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
But it's nice to.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
See Obama pay homage to Eminem because it means that
black people have finally accepted that Eminem is the greatest
rapper of all time.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Hey, look close, stop, I know how it feels.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I went through it every time Tiger Woods won a
golf tournament. Okay, I will say, maybe Obama should skip
that line about dropping bombs.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
You know, are you still rapping? Are you doing a
drone strike? Too real? Don't laugh? Too real, too real,
too real. But even if you were to be let
down that Eminem didn't go.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Hard, don't worry, because over in Wisconsin, an up and
coming rapper drop an epic Donald Trump distrack.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
He's duck to Bates, but you can't blame him.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
When you get your ass whip that hard, you don't
come back for seconds.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
He has been rambling more than the normal rambling. He
calls it the weave.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Donald.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Come on, we know there's only one weave that you
know anything about.
Speaker 7 (04:00):
Being at McDonald, he looks much more like Ronald McDonald
and the clown that he.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Actually is, and Ronald wears less makeup.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
His running mate, Elon Musk.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Look, Elon's on that stage, jumping around, skipping like a
dipshit on these stuns.
Speaker 8 (04:17):
You know me?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Wow, this campaign has changed Tim Walls. A month ago
he was like, oh gee, Whizzy, I love going dimon nerds,
And now he's all, how about you suck my nerds?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Huh, yeah, suck my Nard.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
And I know some people think it's stooping to Trump's
level when Democrats throw around insults like dipshit, But personally,
I think politicians should be swearing way more often. Audiences
always love it. Oh yeah, isn't that right, you dip shits?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
I swear audience.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
But the biggest attack against Trump at the moment isn't
coming from Obomber or Walls.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
It's coming from one of the top people in Trump's
own White House.
Speaker 9 (05:13):
This morning, Donald Trump's former chief of staff and retired
General John Kelly, with a blistering rebuke of the Republican
nominee for president, calling him a fascist with no concept for.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
The rule of law or the constitution.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
What do you think? Do you think he's a fascist?
Speaker 10 (05:28):
It certainly falls into the general definition of a fascist
for sure.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Wow, Donald Trump's old chief of staff is calling him
a fascist.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
That is huge.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Although I will say telling America you're about to elect
a fascist is a.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Pretty major thing to announce. In an audio clip. You know, you.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Couldn't put on pants and say it into a camera.
It's kind of like if aliens were invading and the
President told us in a screenshot from his notes app
just seems like the wrong medium.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Let me back up here for a second.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
That word fascism gets thrown around a lot, and it's
one of those words you hear frequently, but you don't
actually know what it means, like emoluments or demure.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
So let me give you a definition.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Fascism is a nationalist political movement that builds a cult
around an all powerful leader who vows to protect his
loyal subjects from racially inferior others and the enemy within.
Now now that you know that, upon hearing John Kelly
calling Trump a fascists, you're probably thinking yeah, er. By
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the way, Kelly isn't even the only general who served
with Trump who feels this way. General Millie, Trump's chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also said Trump is
a fascist to the core. General Mattis, General McMaster, both
Trump cabinet officials have said Trump.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Violated the Constitution.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
And keep in mind, these guys were the adults in
the room in the first Trump administration, keeping Trump from
going full dictator, and they're not going to be there
the second time around. Maybe it's just me, but I'm
not ready to put the future of American democracy in
the hands of Secretary of Defense, my pillow guy.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
But it gets even crazier.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
It gets crazier because, according to John Kelly, Trump's such
a fascist that he even has an all time favorite dictator.
And if you're thinking no, no, no, no, no, no, it can't
be yes, it.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Can he would call it more than ones that.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
You know, Hitler did some good things too.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Yeah, yeah, Hitler did some good things. I mean, after all,
he killed himself.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Do we clap at that? Are we? Seriously? Trump? Hitler
never did anything that he even sucked at.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Waving like, dude, God gave you elbows, use them.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
That's how I wave.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
But what Kelly explained in an interview with The Atlanta
Magazine is that Trump what Trump really loved about Hitler
was how he surrounded himself with yes men, or as
they say in Germany, yah men.
Speaker 11 (08:09):
The title of the piece quotes Trump as once having
said I need the kind of generals that Hitler had,
Trump adding people who were totally loyal to him that
follow orders.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I feel like Trump took the wrong lesson from the Holocaust.
The lesson I learned was not to do the Holocaust,
but the lesson he learned was, well, the Nazis were
great listeners. And apparently the first time Kelly heard this,
Trump didn't mention Hitler at first, he just said German generals.
So Kelly tried to give Trump an off ramp, but
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he wasn't.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Taking it, Kelly told Goldberg.
Speaker 11 (08:44):
When Trump raised the subject, he responded by asking, do
you mean Bismarck's generals. Kelly went on quote, I mean
I knew he didn't know who Bismarck was or about
the Franco Prussian War. I said, do you mean the
Kaiser's generals. Surely you can't mean Hitler's generals. Said yeah, yeah,
Hitler's generals.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
I mean, Kelly was trying so hard to give him
an out.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Okay, you said German generals, but you don't mean Hitler's generals. Okay,
you do mean Hitler, but you mean like Nathan Hitler,
the guy my wife goes to pilates with.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Right, help me out here, man, help me.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
I love how he was like, you mean Bismarck's generals, right,
my man. The only generals Trump knows are the Chinese
one that makes that chicken and the guy who teamed
up with Shaq to sell car insurance.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Anyway, This is pretty indefensible stuff, and when Trump does
something truly indefensible, you can always count on Fox News.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
To defend him.
Speaker 12 (09:43):
It's your job to do with the president wants. And
I could absolutely see him go. Now, you know what,
it'd be great to have German generals and actually do
what we ask them to do, knowing that's maybe not
fully being cognizant of the third rail of German general's
we're Nazis or whatever.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Okay, okay, did you just whatever? The Holocaust whatever is for.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Insignificant things like when you put the plastic recycling in
the paper recycling. It's not oops, I did a genocide.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
I like that kill meat thinks.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Praising Hitler is a third rail, like it's a taboo subject.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
That's not pc to discuss at the office anymore.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Uh, you can't even compliment a woman's haircut or tell
her about all the good things Hitler did anymore.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Thanks woke police.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
This was even a little too far for some of
the other people on the couch. Watch Steve Doocey as
he realizes where kill Meat is going with this.
Speaker 12 (10:35):
You know what, it would be great to have German
generals and actually do what we asked them to do.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Poor guy, He looks nervous, his palms are sweaty, me's
weak arms heavy, goes vomited on.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
His sweater already.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Look, almost everybody has figured out that Hitler was bad,
but for that one person that didn't, who also might
be the next president.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Great job, everybody.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Maybe the media can drive that point home a bit more.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Here at the History Channel, we've spent the past three
decades pumping out World War Two documentaries for Grandpa's but
we're starting to think we haven't been clear enough about
whether or not you should root for Hitler. So we're
eliminating that confusion with our new lineup of World War
Two programming.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Join us.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Mondays at seven four Defeating the Fury, who, to be clear,
was the bad guy, followed at eight by Hitler's generals,
the also very bad guys behind the main very very
bad guy. Then at nine one hour of just a
black Screen that says Hitler was bad, plus All of
our other shows now have helpful graphics in case you
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forget halfway through that Hitler was bad, And of course
you can still enjoy all our other programming like Ancient Aliens.
Speaker 12 (11:55):
I believe that the Pyramids were built by aliens, and
even I know Hitler was bad.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
We've even teamed up with our sister network to present
Shark Week, the Hitler's of the Sea. Wait, does that
make Hitler sound cool? Forget it, so please enjoy the
History Channel. The h is for history, not Hitler, who
was bad.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I can't believe that to say.
Speaker 13 (12:21):
When we come back, I go home to Michigan. Don't
go away, alcome last.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Of the show.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Last night we aired part of my investigative series on
the electoral College and now the thrilling conclusion.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
We're breaking news now.
Speaker 8 (12:54):
The cocky clown Michael Costa headed to the battleground state
of Michigan, going there to see if they.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Will ask the national popular vote.
Speaker 8 (13:01):
It's still a long shot, especially now for someone as
aft as Michael cost.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I'm in Michigan, the state known for being where I'm from,
at the capitol to inspire lawmakers to pass the national
popular Vote bill. It's got so I'm speaking with Carrie
Ryan Gans, the sponsor of the bill, to find out
how to get it pushed over the finish line.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
How does this National Popular Vote bill get voted on it?
And where does that happen?
Speaker 14 (13:27):
So on the House floor. If we get it on
the agenda, we'll be able to have it. But you
put up on the board and we will be invited
to vote on it.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
And you feel like you have the votes you need, yes,
So then why not just pass it right now while
your boys here?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Well, I do expect a vote by the end.
Speaker 9 (13:43):
Of the year.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
End of the year doesn't really work for me.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
This is the time that I'm going to be in
Michigan because I got a.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Flight in thirty six hours. Who do I have to
talk to you to get this bill passed? Because I'll
do it.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I'm like the most famous guy from Michigan ever, well
besides Tim Allen, but that guy sucks.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Well, we have been really busy.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
This term voting on what's the best fight shop in
Macinai Island. No, we don't need to well, which Michigan
are can eat the most snow?
Speaker 14 (14:04):
No, we've been doing important work, so we do deliver.
We do want to vote on this, and this is
really a nonpartisan issue.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
What can I do to push this through?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Because let's be honest, if this thing passes, who's the
hero boom right?
Speaker 3 (14:19):
And I need that right now?
Speaker 14 (14:20):
You know, it might be really helpful to hear from
just more people in Michigan. The general public I think
would totally support this.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
You want me to hang out with the general public.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Yes, my mission was clear. If I was going to
get this bill passed before my flight, I had to
use my star power to get the people on my side.
Because one thing was certain. I will not pay a
change fee.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
How do you feel about the electoral college tick? It sucks?
Does it feel outdated? Sometimes?
Speaker 1 (14:48):
I'm not a fan of the electoral college. I'm actually
more of a fan of popular vote. What if I
told you that tomorrow there might be a bill being
introduced that would support a national popular vote to determining
the presidency, I would be uh, I would be excited.
Speaker 10 (15:00):
I think that would mean Michigan's.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Just right on the right track.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
So maybe that's gonna happen to mine.
Speaker 10 (15:04):
I'm not putting money on.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
That, okay, but if it did happen tomorrow, Terry, that
would be great.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Look into that camera and show me the face you're
gonna make if the National Popular Vote Bill passes.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Go ahead, I think a popular thing is a good one.
Would you want Michigan to pass the National Popular Vote Bill?
Hell yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Would you want Michigan to pass the National Popular Vote Bill? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Go great?
Speaker 8 (15:25):
Go light who.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Yeah, that settles it. Michigan needed to pass the National
Popular Vote Bill. Michigan, let's get this National Popular Vote
Bill done.
Speaker 8 (15:37):
Who.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
After checking my victory balloons at security, I started wheeling
and dealing on the floor.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
What are you here for?
Speaker 1 (15:48):
We're hoping the National Popular Vote Bill gets introduced and
passed today. Would I single handedly be able to get
Michigan to pass the National Popular Vote Bill? Specifically, before
my flight National Popular Vote the word was getting around
that Costa was in the House and things were starting
to happen. We're hoping the National Popular Vote Bill that's
introduced today and voted on, that's got up.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
That's got up. That's why we're here.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
But after a tedious legislative session, this is not our bill.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Relax, it's not our bill.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
It was clear the vote was not happening. It could
be in the Delta sky Lounge in thirty five minutes.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
I can't do it. I gotta go.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
I can't believe it.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
It's too bad.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Man shot Michigan lawmakers. You have really left the people,
but more importantly me down.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
It's okay, buddy, God damn it.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
John King's gonna have a field day to this thing.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
This breaking news.
Speaker 8 (16:47):
The depressing dufus Michael Costa has failed to get the
national Popular vote Phil passed here in battleground Michigan. He
didn't even get it on the agenda. Now, it's not
an end to the National Popular Vote movement, but it is.
It's definitely an end to anyone caring about Michael Costa.
In fact, they're just getting exclusive footage of a dejected
Costa leaving the Michigan State Capitol. Take a peek, just
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like the little sad boy he is, and CNN can
now officially project Michael Costa is pathetic.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
Dun king out and welcome back, David Hogg, and they're
joining me on the show, so don't go away.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Welcome back to the David Show.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
My guest tonight is a leader in the fight to
end gun violence and the co founder of the Leaders
We Deserve Pack.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Please welcome David Hogg. It had it all right, Star
(18:10):
getting You're twenty four years old. You're twenty four years old.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
You co founded March for Our Lives after surviving the
Parkland shooting to support gun control legislation. You've now co
founded Leaders We Deserve Pack. Yes, tell us what is that?
So it's basically the second step in our process. You know,
we work to with March for Our Lives to help
elect better people to change gun laws. But our generation
is getting old enough now that many of the young
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people that marched out with us, that protested with us
and organized in twenty eighteen in the largest student protest
in American history, are now old enough to run for office.
Speaker 10 (18:46):
So my philosophy, So my philosophy around that is, if
our government is not willing to change gun laws, then
it's time to change whoosing government.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Oh sure.
Speaker 10 (19:05):
And the way that we do that, Michael, is we
help fund great generational leaders under the age of thirty
for state legislature and under the age of thirty five
for congress, people like Congressman Maxwell Frost and soon to
be Congresswoman Sarah McBride in Delaware, and work that I'm
on a day to day basis on everything that they
need to be able to win.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
You're tired of old people having a monopoly of power
in our government.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
But isn't one of the solutions just waiting?
Speaker 10 (19:32):
Well, funny enough, I think that that's our long term plan.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Ultimately, you know, whenever people stick it out, they're gonna
die exactly.
Speaker 10 (19:43):
But it's about creating an intergenerational coalition in our government.
So many of the greatest presidents we've ever had, whether
that was Abraham Lincoln, he was twenty five when he
was first elected to the Illinois State House.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (19:53):
Lbj was twenty eight when he was first elected to Congress,
Joe Biden, And I know this is hard to believe
for the younger people. It was twenty nine when he
was first elected. And those men went on to become
so successful, I believe because they started when they were
so young. And it makes sense. If you start when
you're young, you know how to get stuff done. And
if people want to know more about what we do,
they can go to leaders we deserve dot Com.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
So yeah, silly question, do young people want to run
for office? Because it seems to me like and I'm
an old man. It seems like every young person I
see is just on TikTok.
Speaker 10 (20:29):
Well, they are certainly on TikTok, yes, but they're also
engaging with all kinds of things on there because they
all want to help create a better world. Ultimately, we
see young people over the past several years, ever since
Donald Trump got elected march for their lives in the
form of March for Our Lives. We've seen them protest,
(20:50):
to fight for action on climate change, and so much more.
And ultimately we've grown up hearing the mantra gen z
was taught along inside our ABC's the mantra of run,
hide and fight, right right right. I think it's time
for our generation to repurpose that and realize it's we
have a responsibility not to hide from the responsibility to
(21:10):
protect the next generation so that they don't go through this.
We have to fight to create that future, and if necessary,
we need to run for office to make that future
a reality.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Well how when by the way, Michael, yeh, by the way.
Speaker 10 (21:26):
My mom literally just called me when I was a
makeup that she wanted me to say that she has
a huge crush on John.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
And this guy's got comedic timing, you know what I mean.
I was just about to promote it some more what
you were doing.
Speaker 10 (21:52):
But if anything, Michael, you guys know the importance of
having young people join a show for example, right, and
johnstill comes on once weeks, So your show is an
intergenerational coalition.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
And I honestly, John I think thinks the rest of
us are all just the same person. So but when
you're it's not when you're looking for a gen z,
I know, it's like, hey, I.
Speaker 10 (22:20):
Know you're different. I watch the show religiously.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
That's thank you for real.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Yeah yeah, But so like they're older people, they watch
it on a cable channel. You watch it on your
friend's YouTube or something. Yeah, great, which is which is
why nobody has any money. But when you're looking for
a gen Zer to run, you've said you're looking for
someone that has the juice.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Yes, what is the juice?
Speaker 10 (22:45):
Great question?
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Do I have the juice?
Speaker 10 (22:47):
Well?
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Can I get some juice? You?
Speaker 10 (22:50):
I think it's possible for anybody to get it. But
I think that you, especially as somebody that does this
work to help communicate the news to young people that
so often are tired of hearing cynical worldview constantly. The
thing that I hate most is the I think the
greatest threat to our democracy is also on the things
that keeps me up the most at night, obviously, which
is the hopelessness and apathy that so many young people have.
(23:11):
That is a self fulfilling prophecy. And I don't think
that you have that. So I think we do have
the Jews.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
I got the Jews, but I think.
Speaker 10 (23:18):
In terms I got the Jews in terms in terms
of what does the Jews really mean? Though, fifty percent
of what decides who we endorse as a candidate, it
goes beyond our questionnaire and where they stand on the issues.
That's forty nine percent of it. Fifty one percent of
it is why are you running for office. We're not
here just to support somebody because they they want to
have you know, congressmen or woman next to their name,
(23:39):
or they want to be a representative just for the
sake of having power, for the sake of having power.
We want to elect somebody because they want to use
that power for good, to help the people that don't
have it right now, to help build a more perfect union.
And part of how we do that is our candidates.
They don't take corporate money. We don't take corporate money.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
I'm going to ask you about moat. Yeah, let's talk
about money. So, first of all, there's a great movie
that came out in nineteen ninety two called Juice.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
You weren't even born yet, you weren't even a thought yet.
Your parents probably hadn't even met yet.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Now, the very last scene, he goes, you got the
juice now, man, and he goes, no, I just I
want you just to think about that.
Speaker 10 (24:19):
Yeah, I'll have to follow up on it.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Money. So I go to leaders we Deserve website. Yeah yeah,
And before I.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Even really read the bio and see the video, it's like, yo,
click here for some money.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
So that has me thinking, where is your money coming from?
Speaker 10 (24:35):
So that's a great question.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
You're welcome.
Speaker 10 (24:38):
When we started. When we started, it was a huge
risk that we took because we were actually ready to
launch on the day, the day that we were supposed
to launch, twelve hours before Donald Trump got indicted the
first time, right, and then we launched a week after that,
and then he got indicted a week yes, right, But
when we launched, we had no money actually, and what
happened is we took a huge risk and we put
(24:59):
it out there. We raised over a million dollars in
our first seventy two hours.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Ye is crazy.
Speaker 10 (25:04):
And what I'm most proud of, by far, is right now,
in our first fourteen months of existence, with just a
small team of four people and great friends around us,
we've been able to raise nearly twelve million dollars to
support young people. But that would not be possible without
one hundred and thirty thousand individual donors who donated on
(25:26):
average far less than one thousand dollars to our organization.
Are No single person has control over us other than
just making sure we do the right thing and our
candidates do the right thing.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
I mean, we need more.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Once you take money from a corporation, it does change things,
doesn't it Just a little bit.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
It taints things a little bit.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Yeah, and so you're saying that that's not what you got, Okay,
great young men of your generation, not putting us all
on you, But I am curious a lot of them
are supporting Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Yeah what's all that about, dude?
Speaker 1 (25:55):
That's a great question. Yeah, well are you? And as leaders,
we deserve supporting Democrats, progressives, conservatives who.
Speaker 10 (26:03):
So right now. Excellent question.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
I'm not just going to be your friend. They're gonna
push back alot.
Speaker 10 (26:08):
You absolutely should. We support young progressives running for state
legislature in Congress, and the main places that we look
for them are people that have a background in social movements,
people like Bryceberry, who's running and will soon be the
youngest person ever elected to the Georgia State Legislature at
the age of twenty three. He is a seventh grade
algebra teacher, Jesus and a former organizer with Mark Carlans
(26:29):
and then the So's.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
That's really also proving that if you know algebra, it
still has no relevance in the mind.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Exactly. You got to become a state legislature Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 10 (26:38):
And so that's really what we're what we're doing.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
If you could talk or give advice to Kamala Harris,
the one thing you could tell her to mobilize young
Democratic voters, what would it be? And please tell me
has nothing to do with the Huktwah podcast.
Speaker 10 (26:54):
It does not. What I would say is listen to
us and what we're saying.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Thing I just showed out WHI I was. I didn't
even say that, right, right? Yeah?
Speaker 10 (27:03):
What I would say, what I would say is listen
to us and what these what these young people are saying,
and what we're going through right and realizing and I
think this to a large extent, she's she's done a
pretty good job of that. But there's still a lot
more work that we need to do to make sure
that we're we're listening to these young people and giving
them faith that their voice and their vote actually matters
to somebody like the vice president or the future ideally
(27:25):
future president of the United States, and that they know
that there's a lot more elections that affect you than
just the presidency. This presidential election and abortion ban is
really going to be decided by your state legislature. And
that's why most of the work we do isn't even
in Congress right now, it's in state legislatures to help
put up a fight against the radical abortion vans were
just earlier today. That's why, that's why this year we've
(27:47):
been investing. The state that we've actually invested the most
in this year is Texas, where we spent over one
point five million dollars.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (27:53):
And the reason for that. The reason for that is
we know as Texas grows and when we do you
flip Texas, because I believe that Texas, like Florida, is
not a red state, it is a gerrymanderd in voter
suppressed state. Okay, right, If we flip Texas, we could
have a future where we don't even need to win Pennsylvania, Michigan,
Wisconsin to win the presidency, because all you need is
(28:15):
Texas in that scenreo with the key typical Democratic strongholds,
and we're not investing for one cycle with our pack.
We're investing with time in the market of change, if
you will, where we know that we have the greatest
advantage on our side that anybody can have in politics.
Then none of these corporations, not even people like the
Koch brothers, can buy more of which is the fact
(28:35):
that we're going to outlive most of the people who
are against right.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
It's a good point.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
When we get our ballots, we're always very familiar with
the presidency, but there's so many other people on the ballot,
and it would be nice if those names were as
familiar as well. Exactly, you were survivor of the Parkland
shooting in twenty eighteen. Since then, depending on how you
fine a mass shooting has been fifty four more mass
(29:03):
shootings in this country.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
This could be very disheartening.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Yet when I see you, when I meet you, and
when I see on TV or anywhere, you seem resilient,
you seem inspired, You don't seem disheartened.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Tell me what is the trick? How do you stay up?
Because it can break you.
Speaker 10 (29:23):
It can.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
You know that better than anybody.
Speaker 10 (29:24):
It can't. And I'm going to be completely honest with you, Michael,
and that truly it's things like The Daily Show. And
I'm a good answer, no, but truly, And the reason
why I say that is because there's so much negativity
and in vitriol in the media constantly. It's hard to
watch it when it feels like you're being told constantly
the world is on fire. But you still need to
(29:46):
be informed watching things like The Daily Show. And really,
a huge person that I have to thank for getting
involved in politics in the first place is actually John Oliver. Sure,
because I started as a young debate student when I
was in ninth gradehigh school. I started watching his show
and it gave me a completely different perspective into how
hilariously corrupt a lot of these different state legislatures and
(30:08):
politicians are, but how it doesn't have to be that way.
And one thing that was really hard for me to learn,
the hardest thing for me to learn after the shooting,
and I think this goes for a lot of my classmates,
was that it's okay to be happy no matter what
you've gone through. And I say that, I say that
(30:29):
because I have learned. I've learned it is an absolute happiness.
Joy are not anathetical to progress, no matter how hard
the issue is that you were working on. They're an
essential part of it. And that was a hard lesson
to learn.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Yeah, because.
Speaker 10 (30:44):
Thank you. Because after the shooting, there were so many people,
you know, naturally, what do you do in a photo
if somebody takes it with you, no matter what you've
gone through, you smile, right. There were so many people
that would make, you know, right wing people online that
would make memes of us smile ling, saying these are
the faces that you make when you're standing on the
bodies of your dead classmates.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Jesus Christ.
Speaker 10 (31:05):
Yeah, And that had a horrible effect on us, and
it really started to tear us apart. But I realized
at a certain point that they actually need us not
to be happy and believed to believe that change isn't possible,
because I know from talking to people like Dolores Fuerta,
who I was at a protest with a few years ago,
and I asked her, what is the most important thing
that you can tell other young people, other activists for
(31:27):
them to know, and she said, the most important thing
is that you have to make people believe that change
is actually possible. If we didn't believe change was possible
after Parkland, if we didn't believe change was possible, if
we didn't have in some ways the ignorance to believe
change was possible, and a Republican state legislature like Florida was,
(31:47):
we wouldn't have been able to raise the age to
twenty one because we would have listened to those negative
ad peddlers and polsters and Shrundans.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
It was a Republican governor, a Republican and you actually
achieved some change.
Speaker 10 (31:58):
And we raised the age to buygon twenty one in Florida.
And not just that, we passed red flag law that
can disarm people that are risk themselves in others and
that law has since been used in Florida alone over
nineteen thousand times.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Wow, and.
Speaker 10 (32:15):
Michael guests who uses it most Republican sheriffs, right Republican sharfs,
and guess who hasn't repealed it, Ron DeSantis. Because it
has such wide bipartisan support, we cannot buy into this
lie that this is such a partisan issue we can't
do anything about it.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
And I liked I heard you say somewhere else that
a lot of the Republicans that helped pass that still
got reelected.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
They did, because that is ultimately what it comes down to.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
If they fear, oh, I'm not going to get relected,
but they got re elected exactly.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Some of them are still there.
Speaker 10 (32:42):
But that's why it's so important that young people use
their voice. And I'm not going to say to them
right now that this is going to get solved. If
you just elect Kamala Harris, everything's going to be better.
It's not going to be. We're we're putting. We've been
left eight the results of a fifty year chess gin
that Conservatives have played here through things like the Federalist Society,
the Heritage Foundation, and so many of these other institutions
(33:02):
that Donald Trump is simply a symptom of, and he
is only that a symtom of it. If it wasn't him,
it was going to be somebody else. Our generation has
to start laying the groundwork now to reverse engineer a
lot of that so that we can actually we can
reinstate things like Roe versus Weight, so that we can
overturn things like DC versus Heller and Citizens United and
all these other insane decisions as the Supreme Court is made.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Keep it up. Thank your positivity is very inspiring.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
For more information, check out Leaders we Deserve, dot Com,
David Hogg, everybody.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
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