I'M LOSING IT LISTENING TO ABDUL TALK TO TRUMP VOTERS

We must do away with this centrist consulted brain pundit brain mind virus. New more perfect union with Abdul. Polish ice. I have a hard time with that. We gathered voters with diverse political views to put Al-Sayed's message to the test. I come from a fourth generation auto worker family. A lot of what we hear from Democrats is like a lot of lip service when in actuality they don't really follow through on anything that they really say. I am a service disabled veteran. I would previously describe myself politically as more Republican leaning. I have voted Republican in the past. I feel like the mainstream media is very biased. Dude, I don't understand people. I just don't. I don't understand people. I mean, good. I'm glad that these guys are Abdul curious, but I just literally cannot comprehend. Like if I see people like this in broad daylight, I would never expect them to be like, yeah, I voted for Republicans in the past. Like to me, that is like, like your worldview must be so incoherent every damn day. I've been doing this job for 13 years and every damn day I meet another median voter and it makes me want to myself. I don't understand how you have survived so far. I just don't get it. I mean, great. I'm glad that they're seeing the light. I'm I'm glad that they are seeing the light. I'm glad that they're Abdul curious. This is awesome. I just don't understand it. I will never understand it. I do respect a lot of the independent journalists, including Tucker Carlson. My political views have evolved over time. Donald Trump did visit Dearborn and he said that we will try his best to end wars in the Middle East. He accepted his, you know, pledge. Have you ever voted for Republican? Yes. Many times. More often than Democrat. You so much for taking the time to be out. No, the craziest part about this is these guys aren't incoherent. We are more incoherent than they are or incoherent is not the right word for this, but like we are not the norm. They are. I need you to lock in and understand that, unfortunately, guys like this unironically are more commonplace than you would think. Part of that is obviously the fault of the Democratic Party, which I have routinely railed against for this reason, because the Democrats are seen as unserious, out of touch, corporate backed elitists who are very smug. All they care about is a fake, woke posture that they try to deploy against their left flank with regular frequency and try to deploy against their right flank from time to time to limited success. That is part of the reason why these guys are always lost in the sauce. Obviously, if there was better party branding, if there was a better understanding of what the Democratic Party stood for, if people actually saw what the Democratic Party sincerely stood for, and that was a policy prescription that centered the working class, that focused on improving the existing social safety net, that didn't shy away from issues because it might not come across as super popular at first. If they had conviction, if the Democratic Party had moral conviction and they demonstrated it all the time, then these people would be less confused about where they belong politically. Abdullah Syed, in this video, I suspect, is going to show that reality because he has very clear moral convictions, whether it be on the issue of Israel-Palestine, or whether it be on where he stands on the issue of healthcare. He defines himself. He defines his own policies. He is not definable by the opposition for that reason. This is a real strength in theoretical democracy. Guys like this that otherwise would look to every politician and be like, I don't really know what they're for. I think Democrats are for gaysh, which is fine, but I don't really care about it as much and for nothing else. The Republicans are a little bit crazy, but also at the same time, they're going to cut taxes, and that's good. They're going to be strong on security. They're going to be strong on crime. That is the reason why these people are constantly lost in the sauce. I do not fault the voter. I fault the system. Let's begin with Medicare for all, because that is one of the most important issues in this race. I went to medical school, and I've spent a lot of time thinking about the system, wrote a whole book on it, and ultimately realized that the biggest challenge is not making the math work. The biggest challenge is not architecting the system. The biggest challenge is creating the political will to get there. I want you to imagine that next to your insurance card, you had another card, and that card was your Medicare card. It came to you the day you were born, and it didn't matter if you turned 26 or- I'll be honest. I'll start blaming the voters when there's a clear-cut, discernible platform that is unbelievably good for the working class, and the voters still oppose it because they're just reactionary babies. That's when I'll start blaming the voters. The reason why a lot of establishment Democrats blame the voters is because, I guess, from their calculation, the Democratic Party currently presents a fantastic policy platform that they do not oppose. I will start blaming the voters when we have puppies for everyone versus infinite diarrhea, because right now, we have vomiting every Thursday to infinite diarrhea, and people are choosing infinite diarrhea at times or choosing not to be a part of vomit every Thursday. If we get to a position in American politics where it's puppies for everyone versus infinite diarrhea and people still choose infinite diarrhea, then I'll start blaming the voters. This is the question I always get, but doctor, how are you going to pay for it? Just remember, we already paid for it. Every single dollar that goes to the back pocket of insurance CEO, every single dollar that goes to a pharmaceutical company, every single dollar comes from where? One of our pockets, every single one. Because you don't have to worry about that health insurance CEO's exorbitant salary, now, all of a sudden, the overhead off that system goes down. That's the vision of Medicare for all. We could have it if we actually were willing to fight for it. My name is Lena Saad. I'm a clinical pharmacist. There's one patient that was not able to afford her oral therapy at the time, and we relied on giving her samples that we would get from drug companies. I would literally take it and drive it to her on my way home. How can we incorporate the pharmaceutical aspect into Medicare for all as well? One of the most important things we could do is negotiate prescription drug prices. Medicare becomes the buyer of all prescription drugs on behalf of all of us. It can use its power, purchasing on behalf of the 350 million people in this country, to start bringing those rates down. Here's the other crazy thing about pharma. Almost every pharmaceutical that has come to market in the last decade has had its roots in NIH-funded research. You know who paid for that? We did. Then some private company comes and buys the rights to this thing. Then they get to sell it back to the taxpayer at a ridiculous rate. That's insane to me. My mom's from Canada originally, and it seems like the motive there is to keep the people healthy. Clinical pharmacists voting Republican is insane? I know, brother. I don't understand. What we really want is prevention. I'll be honest with you. I actually agree with Maha on a lot of things. Most people are like, wait, what? They're right about a lot of the problems. The solutions are batshit crazy, but they're right about a lot of the problems. I think we need to stop selling huge amounts of ultra-processed foods in ways that have subsidized them via a whole bunch of programs, when what we really want is people to be eating healthy foods in the first place. In our current system, let's be clear, a lot of people make a lot of money off of people getting sick. I've been working for Ford Motor Company for 31 years now. I've had it nice being a UAW member that I've had health insurance my entire career. I find myself as a parent of a child with autism. I'm coming towards the end of my career, so that's one of my biggest fears. Would the Carol be in place for him? I typically hold more libertarian views on- Look at him, ultra-instinct. Republican UAW members, wild toot? No, it's not, dude. So many rank and filers are reactionary. It's fine. I mean, it's not fine. Obviously, these labor unions should probably be doing a lot more political education, but again, it still goes back to the party in some ways. It goes back to the years and years of embedded corruption and nepotism that existed within the UAW. This is pre-Sean Fane. That's going to take a long time to fix, but ultimately, rank and filers are always going to be all over the place with their politics. In the past, the reason why they were much more organized and voted consistently as a bloc was because there was more motion from the Democrats on trade protectionism, for example. There is nothing funnier to me, but also nothing that shows, that proves that left economic populism is the way forward than a libertarian labor union member. That's my point. It's proving my point, which is, are you going to put money in my pocket? You're going to put more money in my pocket? Yeah, I'm a part of a labor union. Don't matter that I'm a libertarian. That's the trade-off. No one has ideological consistency when it comes to money in your pocket. They will always go for, what will you do for me? Will I benefit from this? Because everyone is inherently self-interested. Those devoid of need a different line of argumentation. One that revolves around how you or your candidates are going to be able to help improve their material circumstances. Something like this. Would we be doing a single-payer system? It would be single-payer. What I want is that the government basically guarantees your health insurance. That allows the healthcare providers to go out and say, look, if I can provide a better service, then I should win more patients. But it shouldn't be that your health insurance says, no, here's who's in network, and here's who's out of network. You're going to go here, and you're going to like it. I think there's a couple of pieces that we need to institutionalize. Number one, the governance of the system can't just change on a dime because you have a new president. The governance would have to live somewhere similar to the kind that we offer in the Fed. The governance would have to sit under, but separate from the executive branch in a certain way. We're the richest, most powerful country in the history of the world. We fight wars for no reason. But whenever we talk about providing healthcare, everyone's like, well, I don't know if we can do it. Well, it's a choice. These are policy choices. I would rather not spend a trillion dollars on war. I'd rather spend- Yeah, resident union charter, it is not chatter. We've had six out of 10 UPS Teamsters vote for Trump. If you tell them we're losing our healthcare pensions contributions next contract, we could not only be striking, but there'd be guys ready to kill for it. At the end of the day, unions are not about left politics, right politics. It's just about what is fair, bare minimum floor for what is fair. It's just about a way of establishing power in your workplace. That's number one. Number two, unions were about left politics for the longest time. It's just not that any longer. There is a lack of political education within most labor unions, unfortunately. That's part of the reason. But if there's more political representation, if we got more people like Clairvaldez, for example, again, shout out to UAW, you will have more political education within the union infrastructure as well. That money on healthcare and schools and infrastructure. The US relationship with Israel has become a flashpoint in this race. The question about Israel isn't about the theoretical right to exist of a country that exists. The question about Israel is, do they have a right? I'm in Florida, IBEW and a lot of Republicans. I mean, IBEW has a lot of Republicans in general, not just in Florida. To our tax dollars. APAC is spending $30 million to defeat El Sayed, its largest single race investment ever. Too radical for Michigan, too radical for the US Senate. And his opponent, Haley Stevens, has made her commitment to Israel very clear. I will continue to fight for Israel's existence. Israel comes to me in my dreams. But most voters believe the US is too supportive of Israel, according to a recent AP poll. So will El Sayed's message actually get him more votes in Michigan? As a US senator, how would you seek to reorient US foreign policy? I don't believe in unconditional foreign military aid to anyone. I don't pay my taxes every year to be like, man, I can't wait for Israel to get a new tank. And then, when it comes to Israel's own behavior, I think we need to engage them consistent with what they have done. They have perpetrated genocide. And before that, they were perpetrating apartheid, right? They lobbied to move us into a war. Now they're trying to annex southern Lebanon. Like, I just think that any other country that behaved that way would be treated as a rogue nation, because they're violating international law. A fear that a lot of American Jews have when they hear messaging against the state of Israel is that that is a slippery slope towards Jews don't belong in Israel-Palestine at all. I recognize that that land is a land that a lot of people have lived on, right? The most recent inhabitants before 1948 were the Palestinian people, but also, historically, the Jewish people. The problem, though, is that the implicit public policy of our government has been to aid, arm, and abet Israel's current government to the exclusion of the right to peace, dignity, and self-determination of the Palestinian people, right? What would you say to people who are worried that withdrawing defense funding to Israel would make American Jews less safe here at home? This idea that the things that we're doing with our tax dollars to backstop a foreign government somehow makes Jewish folk more safe here, that doesn't make sense to me. I start from a position of principle, which is to say that Jewish Americans are not the same as AIPAC in Israel, that Jewish Americans deserve to live their lives unfettered and unencumbered by discrimination or hate, and that we have to fight together to build an America where that anti-Semitism is stamped out. There is the largest Arab American community here in Michigan, and mostly are from the southern Lebanon. My dad was building this dream home for all of us as brothers or sisters, and it vanished in a couple of seconds, and the soldiers were laughing about demolishing the whole village. As an American citizen, I'm paying taxes for this government to bomb and kill us for what? I appreciate you lifting your voice, and I'm sorry about your family's experience. What is happening in southern Lebanon right now is, frankly, an abomination. I intend to be a voice in the US Senate to consistently advocate for our principle. It is pretty wild when you think about it. We pay our taxes. If you're Lebanese, if you're of Lebanese descent, living in the United States of America, you're literally paying taxes so that Israel can take that money, take the munitions, and murder your immediate family members, destroy your ancestral village, destroy your homeland, destroy the ecology. It's such a strange phenomena. Meanwhile, there are Jewish Americans who will then turn around and act as though their lives are in harm's way if they can't continue the death campaign. It's like, that's crazy. No, those guys, those guys' families are actually being slaughtered. You're out of your dang mind. It's crazy. Do you think that it's harder to change things? Thank you for the 100 community gift to subs, by the way. I didn't see it. It's easier just to let things keep going, like Israel AIPAC. Is it just the easy way out? I'm threatening a system of power that says you just go along to get along. The real issue in our politics is not right versus left. It's not progressive versus conservative. It's not Democrat, Republican. It's people who are locked out of our health care, our housing, our economy versus the people doing the locking up. I just want to always be on the side of the people who are locked out. In theory, my opponent in this race is Haley Stevens. My real opponent in this race is Chuck Schumer, every corporate PAC, AIPAC. They will run your name in the mud. They will lie about you. They'll lie about their opponent. It doesn't matter as long as they maintain the control on power. One of the biggest attacks on El-Sayed right now is that he will lose to Republican Mike Rogers. It's not even a question. Like, this one is so dumb. Like, look, look, look, look. There's at least some polling to suggest that Francesca Hong would be a toss-up, right? But with Abdul, the polling shows that he's a stronger candidate. So there isn't even polling on this. They're just saying it. And I don't believe that Francesca Hong will be a toss-up either, by the way, just so you guys understand. I'm just, at least there's something you could point to with Francesca Hong as far as empirical evidence or what comes close to it. Even though I think that all of those polls are severely underestimating the youth turnout and also underestimating outside support that normally would not be polled for the likes of Francesca Hong, because I think she's going to have broad appeal from rural areas that previously would never go for a Democrat. That's my assessment. We shall see how correct I am when the midterms end. But it's very interesting that with Abdul Al-Sayed, there isn't even a single damn poll that says he would lose to Mike Rogers. All the polls show that he's a stronger opponent to Mike Rogers than Haley Stevens. Think about that. And they're still lying about this. The Democratic establishment thinks that Stevens' ties to the Obama administration and her history as a U.S. representative since 2018 make her a safer bet. But recent polls slightly favor Al-Sayed's chances against Rogers. Just vote for who you like, please. For the love of Christ and all things holy. For the love of Allah. For the love of Yahweh. For the love of Zoroastrianism. For the love of Buddha. We must do away with this centrist, consultant brain, pundit brain, mind virus. For the love of Yaqub. What is this? There is, I don't think there's any, like, what I don't understand is we are supposed to live in a theoretical democracy. And the whole point of theoretical democracy is that you vote for who you think is best, not for who you think others will find to be the best. Perhaps it's a part of the problem with the two-party system that we have, where you're always engaging in, like, this weird defensive posture. ...to beat him. Does that impact how you're going to decide to vote? Yes, for sure. When it comes to being against Mike Rogers, I want to hear how you can get your message out to people when you are facing these odds of people spending millions and millions of dollars that... Well, good thing he's already done that and he's surging in the polls. Good thing that that is already happening. That's what's ironic about it is he's gone through the f***ing ringer in this primary in a way that no democratic primary ever should have this much outside expenditure. He has literally overcame, he's really overcome such tremendous motherf***ing odds, dude, that you don't necessarily have. You beat Mike Rogers because you build something that embodies the hope and the joy that you want to have for the future. This is a guy who voted to raise prescription drug prices I don't know how many times. Then he helped to architect the opioid epidemic. He took $700,000 from the pharma industry. They're going to spend a whole lot of money trying to call me some combination between a communist and a terrorist. And I'm going to sit out there and be like, yeah, well, he's corrupt as hell. Now I get it. I'm brown. I'm Muslim. I got a name you probably can't pronounce, right? But I was born and raised here and I've taken the time to serve and listen. So I think that's how we beat him. I do question his ability to win against a Republican. I feel that some of his beliefs turn off a large portion of the population. Listening to his comments that he would like to abolish ice. I have a hard time with that. I'm Abdul, I'll say the only Senate candidate for abolishing ice and I approve this message. That's awesome by the way. Libertarian. Libertarian union rank and filer who is very angry at the concept of the abolition of ice. What is the libertarianism then? Even from the American perspective, libertarianism meant you know, a different, not a different kind of Republican necessarily, but one that actually, you know, cares about anarcho-capitalism, you know, free of the market, free of the people, but also is like definitely in favor of unrestricted immigration. That's what the Cato Institute is about. It's anti-police. It's pro-migration. It's definitely anti-ice. A lot of people in this room abolish ice is one where they are a little bit confused about what it means. Lena, you expressed some questions about what Abdul's immigration policy looks like. I think we can put ice to better use to protect our borders and protect Americans. How can we draw that fine line between utilizing this federal agency versus allowing them to go rogue as they've done recently? Here's the thing. So I've run government agencies and once they take on a is really hard to change the culture. Really, really, really hard. So under Trump, he started to recruit people who specifically came to ice, not to specifically. Sister, you are hijabi. The same surveillance and mass detention apparatus that ice is deploying in Michigan neighborhoods was deployed against your family members for the last 25 years. What are you saying? Like this isn't even empathy at that point. I'm not requiring empathy here. I'm requiring I am. I'm expecting, you know, self-preservation. Ice was created in the same package after 9-11 to mass surveil you. If you're from if you're from Dearborn, you already lived it for the last 25 years. I think we're all understanding now how swing states exist. That's how I feel about my fellow trans are being pro Israel. Yeah, I didn't want to say anything about that, but it is actually kind of shocking because I feel like a decade ago, every trans person was like straight up communist. And nowadays, although the conditions have worsened for trans people, now you see a lot more liberal trans people, which I don't fully understand, because like it's not like the conditions got better for trans people. So now you can be like, well, I'm a part of the normal political process now. Like, I don't really care about any of this other. Like, how did you move right rightward while trans existence came under the crosshairs even further? Like, it's not like there's more acceptance now because like you see this with white gays, right? Like there was a there was a point where there were a lot of cisgender white gay men that were like, oh, well, I kind of like Trump. I'm rich, you know, whatever, because like Trump wasn't expressly anti gay. Well, Trump is himself a bit of a queen, but you know what I mean? And that is because like, you know, pro gay marriage, it's it's now established law. People are much more open minded to, you know, gay people existing. I think it went from like, like accepted gay acceptance went from like 20 percent in the last two decades to like 73 percent. Right. It's insane. So like that makes a little bit more sense if you're like a white gay guy and you're like, I'm rich. I like Republicans. I don't want these immigrants in the country. But if you're trans, if you are transgender, it's not like acceptance skyrocketed for trans people that you're like, you know, I'm a little bit more comfortable with less radical ideas now. You're kind of outside the confines of of the the, you know, civility, fetishist, respectability, politics, inducing liberal democracy. As someone of the MB community, there's always been a ton of conservative trans people, and some of them shifted to being liberals. Yeah, that I fully do not understand. Like, dude, how are you going to be transgender and conservative? Like what the that's a real chickens for KFC moment right there. That makes no damn sense. We got one centrist trans person in Congress. So a bunch of trans folks might have felt we arrived. Yeah. There's also the former Media Matters lady. That's like a huge pro-Israel person, too. And then there's the other one. There's a couple like super lived up trans folk on on Twitter, and they all hate me. Oh, my God. I wasn't even I wasn't even factoring in Brianna Wu, obviously. I mean, Brianna Wu is just insane. Yeah. No trans person likes Brianna Wu. You're thinking of Stacey K. Yeah. And then Ari is the other one. And I guess Contra points to Hasbro points. I guess the one factor usually is just like level of wealth and comfort. Right. That's got to be it. Right. That's usually turns like that is the one thing like class politics is far more determinative of like where you will arrive at with your politics than anything else, even if you're transgender, which is literally universally under every crosshair. Pretty much live. Agar and Juniper both like, you know, yeah, of course. I mean, plenty of trans people like me. I'm just talking about like some of the more popular trans content creators who have pivoted towards liberalism in recent years. And it's just like shocking. I don't understand it. Force immigration policy. Oh, yeah. Whiteness to do. Why am I losing my voice? The whole subtext of this is that Donald Trump sold this fallacy to people where he understood that people were in pain. You're out of a job. You're out of a home. You can't afford your health care. And his answer was a simple one. Well, if you're out of a job because the immigrant took a job out of a home, immigrants living in your home, out of health care, immigrant to go. And so he turned immigrants into the answer to everybody's problems. And then he built out ice as a way of demonizing immigration itself. Ice itself is has become a rogue agency based on a premise that is inconsistent with both the Constitution and the ideals of our country. We don't need it. In fact, we didn't have it before 2002. America is a lot older than 2002. So the notion that we can't protect our southern border or we can't enforce immigration policy without ice is just not true. You get rid of the agency. You fire all the people in it. And then you ask yourself, what would you want to build that actually achieved the goals that we have to keep a safe and secure southern border, to create a very clear pathway to citizenship for people. Right. And in the cases where you have people who should not be here and do bad things, that you are very targeted in your enforcement rather than making a show out of enforcing to tell all immigrants that they don't belong here. That's very, very enlightening. Thank you. Because I think this goes to like ice and other things that like our politics. Dog, they're slandering you. They're calling you the spaghetti Rizzler on Twitter. Sloppy spaghetti kid for real. That's because it's true. I love spaghetti. No, stop, dude. What? You all see a white chubby boy and immediately say, oh, that's just like that's just like the Rizzler. That's just like what's his name? I forget. Oh, my God. He's kind of washed now. Jesus Christ. Suit guy from the beginning. Yup. Big justice. What would happen if we actually built a movement about what could be good when we can start to start talking to folks who might have voted for Trump for a whole bunch of different reasons to be like, all right, is your life better now? Do you have better health care? Do you have better access to a job? Can you afford a home? If no, here's an opportunity. Let's focus on that. Right. So I just really appreciate you guys having this conversation that's like the lifeblood of what we do in our civics and is really enlightening. Thank you, guys. Appreciate you all. Did Abdul change your mind on any issues? Yeah, definitely on the ice issue. I think the way that Abdul spoke about Medicare for all as far as it being possible in a tangible goal was was pretty enlightening. And I plan to vote for Abdul. I think my coat, my UAW libertarian goat, he's like, yeah, I hate ice now. Abdul taught me that Abdul did change my mind about what I feel like I can expect from a politician. Look, I live in a very Jewish neighborhood. For those of you who don't know West Hollywood. OK, I actually live fairly close to like a relatively large Orthodox population as well. And I talk to a lot of Jewish normies, specifically older Jewish normies. And the only time like the people that know me, obviously, they they know I'm not anti-Semitic, even though they see a lot of the reporting. They're just like, oh, you're you know, you're you're radical. So they're just they're just getting mad. It's fine. I thought you said it was a Persian neighborhood. What religion do you think the Persians are? Oh, ----. Yeah. Anyway, there's a lot of there's a big conservative Jewish community. There's a big Orthodox Jewish community. There's a Persian Jewish community. Anyway, it's part of the reason why I say it's a very Jewish neighborhood, Beverly Hills, West Hollywood. So the only time where people have been like, I'm actually a little bit worried about this was with Abdul. I don't know what is going on with like Jewish insider and the newspapers they read or the conversation, the older normie Jews are having in the synagogues or whatever. But they were literally like genuinely for the first time ever. And I've been receiving these like anti-Semitism attacks for so long. And and that has not shaken their faith that I am not an anti-Semite at all. It wasn't Zoran. It was Abdul. They were like, he's so scary, like he wants to, you know, wants to destroy Israel. He wants to like purge all the Jews from Israel. I was like, no, no, he's a he's a sweetheart. Racism. He's very Muslim looking compared to you or Zoran. I mean, but I just don't I don't get it. Maybe because he's Egyptian. He's built not a twink like Zoran. I don't know who really believes what they say. Him taking a stance on something, even if it's strong and people consider it maybe too strong. I think taking a stance means something. It's an election. Anybody could lose. Haley Stevens could lose. And I'd rather, you know, vote for somebody who I agree with on their policy points rather than somebody who I just think is against Trump. I've got my mail in ballot at home. I'm going to go home and fill it out and mail it in for Abdul El-Sayed. Let's go. Let's go. That's what I'm talking about. And he's going to win and he's going to win. OK, that's good. The narrative in the media is that El-Sayed's policies are too radical to win. But with these voters who largely distrust both parties, his ideas broke through. El-Sayed won't be able to sit down with every skeptical voter in the state, though. So I asked him what he thinks his path to victory in November actually looks like. You talk to a bunch of voters who had voted for Trump, many who identified as Republican for a long time, and they all left the conversation yesterday saying that they're going to vote for you. Are there issues beyond sort of Medicare for all, which is your core, that you think have the potential to win over disaffected Trump voters in the general election? Corporate monopoly. The corruption of our food system. The role of AI in society. The onslaught of data centers. You think about who's taking money from these corporations. Unfortunately, it's Democrats and Republicans. I always wonder why there's so much opposition to this in the Democratic Party. And I keep coming back to the same answer, which is it's just laziness. It's laziness and it's this sort of elitism. The laziness part is, well, if we can't get money from corporations, then we're actually going to have to have a message and go talk about our message anywhere and everywhere. I've done 450 public events. I challenge my opponent in this race to say how many events she's done, where she's actually taking questions. You've got to do the work, it turns out. And then the elitism part is, well, the corporations are rich and they throw the fanciest parties. And if I don't take their money, I'm not going to be invited to the party. Like, **** your party. Who cares? You've got the best room on the Titanic and don't realize that the whole Titanic's about to go down. I don't know, man. I really struggle to understand the psychology of it. Yeah. It seems to me that you are interested in something deeper than just winning this election, that it is actually fighting for some sort of change. Losing this primary is not the worst outcome for me. The worst outcome is that I get the job and I fail to deliver. That's the worst outcome. So I don't want to fight for the job and in the process, hamstring myself from doing the work. I don't want to have been one of those senators that you had this power and then you sold out and then you can't even account for why you were there. So right now you've got the choice between three candidates, two of us in this primary and then one in the general. There's only one of us who's never taken money from Blue Cross Blue Shield. Only one of us who doesn't want to send your money abroad to drop bombs on other people and wants to keep it here to invest in your kids. There's only one of us. So which do you pick? Thanks for watching. Peace mode. God, I love more perfect union so much. What is this? The fact that DC Dems can't uniformly speak out against this is dragging the entire parties brown down to the ditch is totally corrupted obscene. It makes all the Dem grandstanding about democracy seem completely hollow. You cannot tolerate this and convince anyone that you actually care about democracy or the rigged political economy. Yeah, they don't. They don't because they like it. Let's be real. But we're going to keep defeating them until they can no longer take money from AIPAC. Post October 7 in 2023, people would destroy you if you said anything remotely pro-Palestine. 2026, they destroy you if you say something pro-Israel. Things change. Attitudes shift. People arrive at the correct conclusions. So all we got to do is keep pushing. Be steadfast in your advocacy and continue.