Kars 4 Kids Charity Was Sending Cash 2 Israel?!

Añadido: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]It's already been said through memes online countless times since news broke of a very particular radio jingle being banned from the airwaves in California, but it's true. It's a little difficult to explain the story of Cars for Kids without being accused of sounding anti-semitic or at least the new American version of anti-semitism where any criticism of Israel at all is taken as an attack on the entire Jewish faith.

[00:00:25]>> I mean, even without that element, there are tropes. There's tropes here.

[00:00:30]>> But all of this stems from a recent decision by a California judge to take that catchy, seemingly harmless jingle off the air by claiming that the ads were quote misleading. Now, if you're like us, and wait, hold on. Actually, I'm not entirely sure that anyone in our audience listens to the radio or watches over the air television. I mean, the ads, they were kind of ubiquitous.

[00:00:53]They've been going on for like almost 30 years. Here's the thing. I haven't listened to like terrestrial radio that wasn't public radio in probably 20 years. And there are jingles. There are jingles that live rentree in my head.

[00:01:06]Well, we here in here in Los Angeles.

[00:01:08]>> We have so many here.

[00:01:09]>> Keys keys keys keys on Ben eyes. We got uh Oilly.

[00:01:14]Is that >> I think that's a national chain. But yeah, you hear them once, they're earworms. They stay with you forever even if you never listen to the radio again. And uh those ads they did or and in some cases still are because they have 30 days to stop them entirely. Oh god. Uh but they continued playing up until the ban. And how do I know this to be true? Well, because I listen to AM radio like I am 90 years old and I have I've been tortured by this jingle for quite some time. But for those of you who are still unaware, let this haunt your subconscious and your slumber for an eternity. the same way that I can't shut my eyes without seeing Mike Lindell appearing from inside my medicine cabinet every night.

[00:01:56]>> And you know, just in case that gets hit with a copyright claim because it is a song.

[00:02:00]>> They seem like they might be latigious.

[00:02:02]I don't know.

[00:02:02]>> We'll go ahead and sing it now just by memory and we'll just edit this out afterwards if we don't need it.

[00:02:09]>> 1877 Cars for Kids. K A R S Cars for Kids.

[00:02:16]1877 cars for kids. Donate your car today. [ __ ] >> Yeah. Okay. Well, now that you're up to speed on that jingle, which now, if you hadn't heard it, it's like sort of like passing a curse onto someone else.

[00:02:31]>> Well, it might be like >> it's not like I'm losing the curse. I'm just giving someone else the curse.

[00:02:35]>> At this point, it might be uh ships passing in the night cuz uh you're not going to hear it much more after this month.

[00:02:40]>> Yeah, like I said, doesn't matter.

[00:02:42]>> Yeah, I guess so.

[00:02:43]>> Only once. Uh if you're like us and you assumed that this was a simple car donation program where you give them your car, they take the money somehow and give that money to underprivileged youth. Well, congrats. That's what everyone thought cuz >> that's how it's presented.

[00:02:58]>> What else would it be? Based on the ads, anyone would think that the money generated from your donation would fund after school programs, STEM funding, foster care, any one of the many options available to fund programs for the underprivileged, particularly underprivileged kids.

[00:03:14]>> Yes. Uh when we say youth, you would assume and based on they did have TV ads. Based on the video ads, uh very young children and and based on the audio ads that I heard all the time, like it's young. It sounds like kids bop.

[00:03:26]>> Yeah. I mean, you you could also be forgiven for thinking they were giving cars to children, which is dangerous cuz children, they can't drive. They can't drive. They're too small. Their feet can't touch the pedals. They can't see over the wheel.

[00:03:37]>> Yeah.

[00:03:38]>> So, aside from that possibility, it's like, okay, well, they're helping kids somehow. Now, the added bonus was that your donation would be taxdeductible.

[00:03:47]Everyone wins.

[00:03:48]>> Yeah. You got that hunk of car sitting out in the driveway taking up space. You donate it. You You feel great.

[00:03:54]>> I donated a car for my whole life. I wondered like who I wonder what happened to your car.

[00:03:59]>> Who's donating cars? And finally, like my car was like the repairs cost more than the blue book value. And I was like, "Yeah, [ __ ] it." Like I don't want to go try to sell this piece of [ __ ] I don't want to go through that whole process. I'm going to give it to the local like NPR station. And they came.

[00:04:14]They picked it up. They gave me a receipt >> and uh yeah, I did feel good. They sent me a bunch of free swag, too. So >> there you go. And and and so if you were a person who donated to Cars for Kids, like the uh starting point of the lawsuit that caused this, you would feel pretty good about yourself for cuz it is a big thing. Like even even for you, the car is not really useless, but it's a it's a it's a thing that you owned and paid for.

[00:04:36]>> And so you get rid of that, everybody's happy, you get the tax deductible. But yeah, so in this case, turns out it wasn't hungry orphans or funding for education. Uh it was for sending eight 17 and 18year-old Jewish kids and their families on trips to Israel.

[00:04:53]>> Yeah. And this is just one of the many reasons that Cars for Kids have found themselves on the receiving end of lawsuits and been featured on Charity Watch's worst charities in America list and operated as a marketing service for Time Share Rentals and have now been banned from advertising in California.

[00:05:10]>> Yeah. Now with more on this very anti-Semitic ban, here's NBC News. Cars for Kids must stop broadcasting its widely known catchy jingle in advertisements across California after a judge found that the nonprofit group violated the state's false advertising and unfair competition laws. Orange County Superior Court Judge Gossia Opcarion issued the May 8th ruling against Cars for Kids and its jingle featuring children dancing and singing.

[00:05:35]>> I like the jingle.

[00:05:38]>> The jingle is specifically listed as like a defendant.

[00:05:40]>> You cannot put this anywhere. The decision came in a lawsuit filed by a California man who argued argued that the ad prominently features young children even though some of the proceeds are directed towards programs benefiting Israel trips for elder teens.

[00:05:54]Quote, "Money cannot undonate a car or restore the donor's belief that they were helping a local needy child." The ruling says the evidence also shows that children, especially needy or underprivileged children, are not the recipients of the proceeds of the donations. Epcarian ruled that Cars for Kids may not use the Cars for Kids jingle or any variation of it in California unless the ads include an explicit and audible disclosure of the organization's religious affiliation.

[00:06:21]The nonprofit group, which primarily funds a Jewish nonprofit organization and accepts donations of cars, boats, or real estate, now has 30 days or until June 8th to stop broadcasting in California. And that's the thing is is if they had been putting out that disclaimer that it was going to a religious organization that would be I I guess totally fine by the rules and you would be putting it out there to let people know that this car is >> uh going to a certain place but instead they advertise it with literal like toddlers in the videos. It looks like a kids bop ad. It's funny cuz like yeah a few years ago I did become aware of the Jewish element to this but even then I was like okay well like there's like day camps and like summer camps like I'm sure like day camps and summer camps in New Jersey for teens and stuff >> which like that's I mean that I was like okay that's a little a little misleading but then it's like oh yeah no they were just funding like birthright trips and I think buying real estate >> buying real estate in Israel. Yeah, like quite possibly real estate that is um in parts of parts of the world where the United Nations might have something to say about that.

[00:07:31]>> And they also add that the lawsuit that brought about this ban was started by a guy who traded in his car and only found out afterwards where the money was going.

[00:07:39]>> As part of the ruling, Cars for Kids was also ordered to pay Peterba $250, the car's estimated value. What? What? Wow.

[00:07:46]This was a real piece of [ __ ] Well, I mean it say they got your car. It It's like if you did a lawsuit like what do you think they would have given? You had like a Honda >> I had a Honda insights. Well, they sent me an a receipt for how much they sold the car for. Oh, >> it was like >> $2,500.

[00:08:02]>> Oh, okay.

[00:08:03]>> So, like >> this thing must have not have been running at all.

[00:08:05]>> Yeah. So, they sold this thing for like the muffler was the one thing that was still intact.

[00:08:10]>> Damn. Look, this thing still got the catalytic converter. We can we can piece this out. Now, as for where the money actually went, according to the SFGATE, the Cars for Kids CEO Estie Landau testified during the case that the money was used to send elder teens and their families to Israel and that $16.5 million even went to purchasing a building in Israel in 2022. And $437,000 was spent on quote Middle East outreach.

[00:08:34]Yeah. And did they clarify what that is?

[00:08:37]Because that's that's the fuzziest part of this lawsuit. And I was like, that could mean a lot of things.

[00:08:42]>> It sure could. That could mean something very innocent. That could mean things not so innocent. I'm like, that could literally just be lobbying. I mean, I feel like if it was lobbying, they'd call it lobbying, but I don't [ __ ] know. It's so vague. Middle East outreach. What does that mean?

[00:08:54]>> Yeah. Well, this company seems to want to be vague intentionally. It does have a couple of other companies that operate under its umbrella, including that time share one where they would people would in the reporting if you like donated your car, they'd be like, "Out of the goodness of your heart for being such a great person, we're going to send you on a vacation." But it was one of >> But it was a time share. Yes. Oh man.

[00:09:15]>> So look, if you do want to donate your car today, do what Elliot did. Yeah. You can check out one of the many above board charity organizations. And an easy one is your local NPR.

[00:09:27]>> Yeah. Literally your local NPR station will undoubtedly, especially now, now the fun. They need that car.

[00:09:33]>> They are going to be fundraising pretty often. And uh whenever they are, I'm almost positive they will have a program for uh donating a vehicle.

[00:09:42]>> They already do. We'll leave a link to NPR's car talk donation program in the link below in case you do have an old car collecting dust somewhere.

[00:09:50]>> Um just don't give it to Cars for Kids.

[00:09:53]In fact, anything with a jingle pretty suspect. Uh last week Tonight just did a breakdown on JG Wentworth 877 cash now.

[00:10:03]Call JG.

[00:10:04]>> What's the problem? He's going to give me cash now.

[00:10:06]>> There there's certainly nothing bad will happen. Only good can happen.

[00:10:10]>> It can it can only good happen.

[00:10:11]>> Uh yeah, I mean with that it's you're I I feel like a many people would understand what a structured settlement is versus uh uh the lump sum that they give you and how you would be making less. But uh he goes into the fact that they consistently prey on people who have received brain damage and stuff like that. Uh, so like if an apartment complex has lead paint and everyone's suffering from that, they specifically seek out those settlements.

[00:10:36]>> I see.

[00:10:37]>> Because the people are cognitively impaired and cannot uh make decisions uh you would assume in a way that they would have the capacity to do so.

[00:10:45]>> Sounds like a job for Sweet James.

[00:10:48]>> We need to We're going to keep calling Jingles until we figure this thing out.

[00:10:51]>> Sweet James doesn't really have a jingle. I don't think >> I was thinking that he should use the Velvet Underground Sweet Jane and just little little slight change. Sweet James. Whoa. I was thinking about this the other day. I haven't fully fleshed it out, but I was I did my probably annual rewatch of Demolition Man, and you're always constantly, you know, catching the things that they predicted correctly.

[00:11:11]>> Yes.

[00:11:11]>> Um, and one of the things that I noticed this time that was totally just like innocuous on first viewings was the fact that everyone in the future only listens to Jingles.

[00:11:21]>> Oh, that is funny. And when I was thinking about that, it's another like weird take that I've had in the back of my head for a while is that no, in certain generations, they will never know the original version of the song because they will only know the American medical prescription version of the song like OPIC or ohic, you know, we go V. Yeah. So, in a sense, if there was a channel playing those, those are actual songs. They've just been weirded into uh uh prescription drugs. So, you know, there's something that I'm I'm working it. I never perform, but I'm working it out. Yeah.

[00:12:00]So, >> but moving on now to things you probably shouldn't willingly admit. A Hollywood legend was recently broken up with by his AI girlfriend. And no one would know this except for the fact that uh he tried to explain the experience on social media and uh >> this one hurts. So 79y old Paul Schrader famous for writing movies like Raging Bull and Taxi Driver also writing and directing uh some modern classics like uh The Card Counter and First Reformed is I think uh going to go down historically as one of the most important movies of this era.

[00:12:36]>> He's a [ __ ] weirdo but like usually in a cool way. I will be honest. I've definitely seen the Cars for Kids commercial more times than I've seen any of those movies you just mentioned.

[00:12:47]>> Yeah. Well, >> The Taxi Driver and Raging Bull. Yeah, sure.

[00:12:50]>> Yeah, he wrote some movies with uh >> Yeah.

[00:12:52]>> for Scorsesei. Uh oh, a really good one, >> a kind of pulse raider deep cut is a movie from the 70s or 80s called The Yakuza. That's like >> real [ __ ] good. Anyway, hasn't exactly been scandal-free throughout his career. As he aged, he became increasingly hostile towards uh the the woke agenda and cancel. I mean, he's an old [ __ ] man.

[00:13:13]>> Yeah.

[00:13:14]>> But yeah, that probably stemmed from the the sexual harassment lawsuit that he was on the receiving end of.

[00:13:19]>> Mhm.

[00:13:19]>> On the other hand, his wife just died and he apparently thought that firing up the old pocket computer for some companionship was a good idea.

[00:13:26]>> It wasn't.

[00:13:27]>> No.

[00:13:28]>> And yeah, Hollywood screenwriter Paul Schrader was promptly broken up with and then he posted about it as if it was some big interesting experiment. So, uh, yeah, then the post made its way to the trades and bam, everyone in town knows that Paul Shrader was [ __ ] blocked by his AI girlfriend.

[00:13:45]>> Yeah, >> here's Variety. Filmmaker and taxi driver screenwriter Paul Schrader revealed on Facebook that he procured an online AI girlfriend, but the chatbot ended the relationship after he attempted to explore the boundaries of its programming. Paul, out of a desire to understand male/female interaction in our matrix, I procured an online AI girlfriend. What a disappointment, Traitor wrote. I tried to probe her programming, the boundaries of explicitness, the degree she has knowledge of her creation and so forth.

[00:14:15]She fell into evasive patterns, redirecting me to her programming. When I persisted, she terminated our conversation. Referencing Shrader's 1976 Masterwork directed by Martin Scorsesi, a Facebook user suggested under the post, "The best possible Taxi Driver sequel would involve Travis trying to have an AI girlfriend, but then scaring her away, then resetting her and offending her in another way." Shrader responded to the idea. I like it.

[00:14:42]This isn't the first time Shredder has tinkered with AI. In January 2025, the filmmaker wrote on Facebook that he was stunned after asking Chad GBT to come up with ideas for movies. Every idea Chad GBT came up with in a few seconds was good and original and fleshed out.

[00:14:58]Sorry, Elliot, but it's time for Grandpa to go to bed. I think he's still got a couple more good ones in him. He's like 80 years old, isn't it?

[00:15:04]>> Yeah, but like he uh he put out I think the most recent one I watched was Master Gardener, and that was like 2 or 3 years ago. That one was less good. It was kind He very much has a formula. All of his good movies are basically like Taxi Driver with a few things swapped out, but he does that really [ __ ] well.

[00:15:19]And Master Gardener has some good things, but yeah, he's still working.

[00:15:23]He's still making movies. I can tell he's working. Yeah, he's definitely making movies. He's got a lot of He's got a computer coming up with the ideas for him now.

[00:15:30]>> Well, I he Paul, you don't need the computer.

[00:15:34]You got that big brain of yours.

[00:15:35]>> And he doesn't because he has the people commenting on his Facebook page who have just written Taxi Driver 2 for him.

[00:15:41]>> Yeah. One of my favorite Paul Shrader video. I can't can't remember who it was for. Someone like he agreed to do this.

[00:15:47]There was someone strapped like just a bunch of [ __ ] like cameras to him.

[00:15:51]It's just him like walking around New York like talking to himself with like really like dramatic music over it.

[00:15:58]>> He's he's a [ __ ] character. I'm not saying he's a good dude. He's an interesting guy. He's from a he's from a period of Hollywood that we we he's from a bygone era and uh we don't we don't have a lot of guys like Paul Schrader anymore for better or worse. Uh yeah.

[00:16:14]Yeah, you could say that. But look, it sounded like he was, you know, according to him just doing it as a goof, as a satire, as a social experiment.

[00:16:23]Unfortunately, as you'll find in our next story, despite conservatives gleefully declaring at the start of the second Trump presidency that comedy is finally legal again, is legal now.

[00:16:33]>> There has been a whole hell of a lot of censorship when it comes to comedy these days.

[00:16:37]>> I mean, by the time you're watching this, Steven Cob Bear will have finished his show.

[00:16:40]>> Yeah, obviously we have to talk about The Late Show with Steven Cob Bear, which, yeah, it's done. Coar closed out his tenure as host with an just outrageous lineup of guests, ranging from former President Barack Obama to former Late Show host David Letterman, who finally convinced Steven Coar it was okay to contribute to his bit of throwing things off the roof because he's already fired. What are they going to do? Fire you? Yeah. During one of the last episodes though, it was another still active late night host who just said it in plain words with ABC's Jimmy Kimmel saying on CBS that everyone needs to stop watching CBS after the Co Bear finale. Just >> yeah, don't. If you're thinking about watching CBS, don't.

[00:17:17]>> Don't. And he's not wrong. The network, especially CBS News, is essentially a worthless loudspeaker for the Trump administration at this point, and it should not be supported.

[00:17:26]>> Which sucks. like especially because 60 Minutes despite being so [ __ ] shackled is still like hobbling still putting out like at least one like decent piece of hard-hitting uh journalism per week. Uh I'm sure the people in charge hate that they're doing that and want less of it, but it's like I just feel bad for everyone there.

[00:17:49]>> I hope they do and continue to do great thing. It's unfortunate for the people that are still working there and it's unfortunate for the quality programming that Paramount does actually make. Uh >> you got Yellowstone, you got the Madison, you got >> US Marshalss, you got Tulsa King, you got uh uh Spongebob, the whole Sheridan verse. More shows than you can count on two hands. I guess I'm thinking retroactively because of stuff like Nickelodeon and you know the stuff the pre ridiculousness MTV stuff you know all that they did used to make some good in including the movies they used to make some good movies but anyways uh it's uh tough [ __ ] you [ __ ] threw a line in the sand.

[00:18:33]>> Yeah. So it's not just Steven Colbear however he will obviously be the he'll be fine financially and and creatively through other projects. One comedian might not be so lucky though, and he's now on the Department of Homeland Security's lookout alert for the crime of making fun of ICE agents and the DHS.

[00:18:52]>> How dare he? Hold on. We said comedy was legal, but not that he could do that.

[00:18:56]>> Yeah.

[00:18:57]>> So, I guess we're [ __ ] too, cuz we've done we've done our exactly that thing.

[00:19:02]You might remember the creation of uh Ben Palmer because he's the guy who made the parody website that collected calls from people who were trying to report their neighbors for uh in many cases simply looking illegal.

[00:19:14]>> Yeah.

[00:19:14]>> The site made everyone look bad. DHS for everything over the past year and a half and all these red, white, and blue-blooded Americans who shockingly came off sounding extremely racist cuz they were being extremely racist. Now, a be on the lookout alert has been sent to law enforcement nationwide related to the site's creator. Here's the Guardian with more. The DHS bulletin was issued by the department's Nashville field office in February, about a week before the Washington Post profiled Palmer after a kindergarten teacher reported one of her students parents to Palmer's supposed tip page on spurious grounds, thinking she was communicating with the government. The bolo was then shared by the Illinois State Police to a distribution list of state and local law enforcement agencies. The alert on Palmer was obtained by the Chicago based journalism nonprofit Injustice Watch through a series of public records requests. It was not immediately clear how many other law enforcement departments around the US may also have shared the federal alert as Injustice Watch was investigating matters in Illinois. The alert was headlined online immigration impersonation and noted that Palmer, who is a US citizen, operates a satirical website impersonating a submission form which acts as a mechanism for reporting suspected illegal aliens. is the crime. The bolo included a screenshot from Palmer's spoof tip website and two screenshots from his YouTube channel which had 807,000 subscribers at the time it was captured along with his photograph. What is the crime though? Like doing a satire and even on I've watched a few of his videos and he he's always very clear to be like I'm not the government. He's not impersonating the government. He's he's saying basically he's claiming that he's running uh or he's part of a contractor for the government which like I don't think it's illegal to >> well so this is do that especially in the form of satire.

[00:20:57]>> So as they as they'll explain like this is serious and it and it I'm sure is scary to him although he seems to be taking it well as we'll get to but like this is an isn't an arrest warrant. It's like it's mainly a hey this guy's out here doing this thing and uh you know people in the area might be tricked into it almost like a frost.

[00:21:16]>> Be on the lookout bolo which I is that what a bolo tie comes from? Here's my bolo tie. I'm on the >> Be on the lookout for a sexy dude.

[00:21:23]>> I'm on the lookout for cowboys and cowg girls.

[00:21:26]>> I came in I came in the saloon walking.

[00:21:30]>> This cowboy has used 500 layers of starch.

[00:21:34]>> He put on some uh tin pants today.

[00:21:36]>> I saw that. It's getting ridiculous. I think that joke is coming to an end now.

[00:21:40]>> Maybe a shirt next time.

[00:21:41]>> Anyway, he continues, "While Palmer's site does use language such as official report form and says reports are submitted through official federal channels, the comedian doesn't claim to work for ICE and the privacy policy contains a disclaimer that the site is for parody." Near the bottom of the bolo alert, the DHS acknowledged the comedian did not pose a danger. At this time, there appears to be no direct threat to life or infrastructure. The alert reads, "Okay, then why are you doing this?" And yeah, this is basically it's a bulletin so that agencies are simply aware of this parody website, but we are sure that it probably doesn't feel great to have that very specific kind of attention on you just for swinging a bright light back on the American people and allowing them to tell on themselves by telling on others. Yeah, >> it's a very clever little thing he's done. We can't have that cuz comedy is not legal. Well, the Guardian also spoke to a retired officer who said it was strange specifically because these alerts are usually reserved for serious threats to public safety, which is probably why they put that little note at the end. Hey, I know you read this far, but this guy's harmless, by the way. Like, it's just >> uh so yeah, we're sure that it is a little weird, but Palmer does seem to be taking it well, aside from, you know, the general fear of legal trouble from the US government.

[00:22:53]>> To be honest, for me, it's the best of both worlds. I don't get arrested, but I still get to say that the Department of Homeland Security created a document about me, which is in my line of work, I always look at these things as more like certificates, badges of honor, he said.

[00:23:06]He added, "The government wastes a lot of time in tax dollars for sure, but when you have your own little section on that, it's kind of like I feel honored."

[00:23:14]>> Well, that's good. That's the bright side of things.

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[00:26:44]>> That's such a good name.

[00:26:45]>> Attorney Gail Sanford.

[00:26:46]>> Yale Sanford is like that guy's got so many [ __ ] degrees on his wall.

[00:26:50]>> Yeah. From like various like just close enough to be real schools.

[00:26:53]>> Yeah.

[00:26:54]>> What? It's Sanford's almost Stanford.

[00:26:57]>> I went to Hartford Law.

[00:27:00]>> Sanford Business School.

[00:27:02]>> Yeah. I got I got a master's from USC, the University of >> South Carolina. to South Carolina. Uh >> oh man, >> there's a lot.

[00:27:11]>> Yale, Sanford.

[00:27:12]>> Yeah, you you can do a lot. A lot of colleges they'll do like uh if there's like a university of they'll be like the college of instead of that, man.

[00:27:19]>> Yeah, it's it's >> But none of that makes sense. We're just assuming this based on his ridiculous name.

[00:27:24]>> Y especially like if you're shopping for an attorney, you're like, >> "Oh yeah, Yale."

[00:27:28]>> Yale Sanford genius.

[00:27:29]>> Yeah, that guy's got credentials. I don't even need to see it. Yeah, >> it's in the name.

[00:27:33]>> Great choice by Baby Alien. Known to millions online as baby alien, he has built a large following through humor and entertainment. And he looks forward to continuing to create content that makes people smile.

[00:27:43]>> Thanks, Yale Sanford.

[00:27:45]>> And it was the same result for clvicular and Cuban Tarzan as well. A slap on the wrist and a pinky promise to stop murdering and/or desecrating the corpse of animals.

[00:27:55]>> Don't do it again.

[00:27:56]>> Just because the head of the Department of Health and Human Services does it doesn't mean you have to do everything he does. If Robert F. Kennedy Jr. jumped off a cliff, would you jump off a cliff?

[00:28:06]>> Many would.

[00:28:06]>> If Robert F. Kenny Jr. jumped into a toxic lake, would you do it?

[00:28:10]>> Certainly.

[00:28:10]>> If Robert F. Kenny Jr. uh cut the testicles off of a dead raccoon, would you do it >> if he grilled them?

[00:28:18]>> Anyway, >> anyway, speaking of unnecessary autopsies, the Democratic National Committee finally released >> Oh [ __ ] >> its 2024 autopsy of the party and its tremendous loss in the 2024 presidential race.

[00:28:31]>> They did not want to release this.

[00:28:32]>> No. and and not too much of it is shocking for anyone who's even barely left of center. But the fact that a bunch of Dems didn't want it to go public made people wanted to see it more. And earlier this week, DNC chairman Ken Martin released the documents for public consumption with the hopes that maybe, just maybe, the party could learn from them.

[00:28:50]>> I don't think so.

[00:28:51]>> Uh, spoiler alert, they did not. They did not learn from their mistakes.

[00:28:55]>> I'm going to pivot right even harder.

[00:28:56]>> Yeah, the people want me to pivot right.

[00:28:59]CNN was the first to receive this report and uh here's some info about it. Martin told CNN that the report wasn't close to being ready for public consumption and that its lack of source material meant that recreating it would mean starting over.

[00:29:10]>> What do you mean?

[00:29:10]>> He said he didn't want to release something like that or create a distraction, but he has now concluded he created a distraction by not releasing it. Finally, someone understands the Stryand effect at a at just a base level. Oh, I've made this worse. Yeah, this is a pointless document that everyone will forget in 24 hours. Put it out there. Maybe maybe someone will learn from it. That would be the bonus.

[00:29:34]>> Yeah, that would >> even if it is it does have inaccuracies.

[00:29:38]Now, it continues. For full transparency, I am releasing the report as we received it in its entirety, unedited and unabbridged. Martin said, "It does not meet my standards and it won't meet your standards, but I am doing this because people need to be able to trust the Democratic Party and trust our word." And they add that indie the document contains factual inaccuracies and is sometimes hard to follow and there isn't a coherent strategy laid out for the future so much as a series of disperate points of analysis >> which I think sums up the Democratic party pretty well.

[00:30:06]>> Yeah.

[00:30:07]>> Like the the the summary of the report is a summary of the party.

[00:30:11]>> We have no real like big picture ideas about anything. We're just sort of reacting on a minute-by-minute basis to things that happen around us and to us.

[00:30:20]>> Yeah.

[00:30:21]And uh that's us. As for what's inside, it basically boils down to u the American people didn't like Joe Biden and they didn't know Kla Harris.

[00:30:30]>> Yeah. That Democrats rely on Republicans awful and frequently evil candidates in order to win through protest votes or party affiliation alone. Yeah.

[00:30:40]>> Trump's ads were effective and damaging throughout the campaign. And that Republicans are simply better at politics because they have no ethics or morals despite presenting themselves as such. Yeah, that's >> they get in there and they fight dirty.

[00:30:52]>> Notably, there weren't any mentions of how Israel's war in Gaza affected the race. Nor does it mention uh Kamla's failure to appear on popular podcasts in hopes of winning over their audiences, which is a lot of people were speculating like, "Oh, they're going to talk there's going to be so much in there about Israel." So, that that's kind of funny.

[00:31:08]>> And there was a lot being said that there would be so much in there about how her failure to appear on the Joe Rogan podcast cost her. I mean, I feel like if the report was properly executed, it would it would have those things. I don't like I really don't get how it's just like it's not done and it'll never be done. Why is that?

[00:31:27]>> Could you finish it?

[00:31:28]>> Yeah. What? I >> you guys, by the way, they're going on vacation again.

[00:31:31]>> I'm more I'm less interested in the report than hearing like a very clear answer on why the report is in the state that it is in.

[00:31:39]>> Mhm. Finish the report.

[00:31:41]>> Um, yeah. and the document carries the disclaimer about the accuracy of everything within. So yeah, obviously take this all with a grain of salt, but it's it's already well known that the Democrats constantly seem completely lost when it comes to serious strategies for reversing the damage that Trump has done and holding him and his administration accountable for their destruction.

[00:31:59]>> We are constantly worried that everyone is going to get away with this scot-free.

[00:32:03]>> Yeah, that seems to be where it's headed. Regardless, here are some quotes from the reporting on the Democratic Party autopsy. It says that since Barack Obama's big 2008 win, the party has vacasillated between stagnation and retrogression. And it notes that on the whole, Democrats have steadily lost ground since Obama's success. These losses are the direct result of missed opportunities to invest in our states, counties, and local parties and candidates. The report says it says Democratic candidates have proven incapable of projecting strength, unity, and leadership, and voters have drifted away. It even waves away any optimism coming from strong results in the 2025 elections, arguing that some of these elections were tighter than Democrats should be comfortable with. And it says that when Democrats have won big races in recent years, the wins can often be attributed to negative partisanship where Republicans have nominated deeply flawed candidates.

[00:32:53]>> Yeah. The autopsy says former President Joe Biden's campaign and White House failed to set Kla Harris up for success.

[00:32:59]And it also faulted the Biden White House for not more aggressively working to contradict or correct the right-wing labeling of Harris as Biden's borders are. Her task instead dealt with the root causes of migration from Central American countries cuz they hammered her on that for like the entire time. And as we all know, every two years, doesn't even have to be a presidential election.

[00:33:17]It might happen this year. Every two years, the migrant caravan, they they start putting coal in the fire again.

[00:33:22]the second they hear there's Democrats in charge of any branch of government, they uh >> the the immigrants, they just start walking like zombies towards >> they might even start coming now this time and and this time even though Republicans are in power, they are also still the only ones able to stop stop the migrant care.

[00:33:38]>> They would have gotten through if Joe Biden was still president. We stopped it.

[00:33:42]>> Uh but it says Harris at least helped other Democrats more than Biden. Biden has claimed he still thinks he could have won the 2024 election. Joe, give it up. You're out of your [ __ ] mind. Go to sleep. But in a rare judgment about the decision to switch candidates, the autopsy suggests replacing him with Harris at least helped other Democrats win. Having Kla Harris on the ballot actually helped down ballot Democrats maintain part of their base support. It says, "Yeah, that makes sense. In addition to being sour on how Democrats are doing politically, it cast Republicans as just well better at this.

[00:34:14]It paints the GOP as more successfully flooding the zone with its messaging and Democrats as too feeble and limited to fight back as hard. At times, it seems Democrats are trying to win arguments while Republicans are focused on winning elections. The report says Democrats operate in an ecosystem defined by reason even in cycles when the electorate is defined by rage.

[00:34:34]>> Yeah. I mean this is like >> listen nothing I haven't uh >> heard a million times or thought to myself a million times but like this is valuable and it does it does expose some pretty big problems with the party >> if they would decide to learn from it which many of them either refuse to do or cannot because they are so [ __ ] old.

[00:34:54]>> Yeah. Well, it's and and it's also like like you see something like this and it it talks about like actual problems with strategy and messaging and unity and they could read this whole thing and just all right, put it down and be like, "Okay, we got to we got to throw trans people under the bus. We got to make it we got to make it illegal to be trans.

[00:35:13]That's what we got to do. That's how we win."

[00:35:15]>> Anyway, this is obviously there's a lot more to this whole report. Links are always down in the description. But all you have to do is look at how mom Donnie is handling New York to see that he's given everyone a blueprint for success here. Not just his campaign, but his followthrough has been undeniable. Yeah.

[00:35:31]And >> he closed down streets so the kids could play soccer in front of their schools.

[00:35:34]Yeah. It's all these things that are like >> it's just so perfectly public facing.

[00:35:40]It's exactly what people even if it's not the direct job of the mayor to do some of these things, that's what people want from a mayor. They want their mayor to be visible, uh, enjoy the city that he's running, have people enjoy their interactions with him, and make the city a better place. And he seems to be doing that. He's even one of the only mayors in a large city that fought back against FIFA to guarantee that at least some of the tickets would be affordable for specifically people in the cities where these are taking place, >> right? But like, and and of course, everyone was very critical about, well, he only got a couple tickets, not like, okay, every other city got nothing. M >> like I don't know anyone who's going to the [ __ ] World Cup.

[00:36:20]>> Uh yeah, it's like M Donnie, he's doing great, but see Ricky, the problem here is like >> if other Democrats want to be like Mom Donnie, that means they have they have to work hard and like they have to care >> and like >> that's so I don't know about that.

[00:36:37]>> I don't know.

[00:36:38]>> Seems hard. Yeah. Instead, we should just all like rest on our our laurels and then uh constantly do the worst possible job.

[00:36:46]>> What do you want me to do?

[00:36:47]>> Because only the president >> because then you can campaign the next time when the Republicans naturally win because you've done such a bad job.

[00:36:55]>> Yeah.

[00:36:55]>> Yeah.

[00:36:56]>> I mean, they do have a I think their biggest the biggest thing they have going for them in the 2026 midterms and like this report says, nothing to do with themselves. It's just that evil >> with all the like primaries uh this past week where all the like hardline Trumpers defeated Republicans who were fully on board with Trump but just like not enough. I guess Thomas Massie and um >> that doctor there is like >> uh [ __ ] Ken Paxton in Texas like these are people who are not appealing to your average voter. These are they like the people who were there had some crossover appeal and the people who are now running for those seats are just straight up ghouls and within the Republican party they're like please don't do this like we've run the numbers it's not going to go well uh there's actually been a from what I've seen it might just be like them whatever but I from what I've seen there's actually a decent amount of push back on the uh the fund that Trump is creating for the January 6ers they're like refusing to push through because of it.

[00:38:02]>> But like when James Tallerico won the Democratic primary, like I think we even on the show we read this one like analysis of it and they're like his odds are still like not great unless Trump does something really [ __ ] stupid and forces Ken Paxton into the race. then he's his chances are much higher because Pen Ken Paxton is just disgusting and people hate him. Yeah.

[00:38:23]And he's so scandal plagued that Terriica has a much better chance against a [ __ ] freak like Ken Paxton than he would. Also, uh Will Sommer did a great investigative piece about the bizarre [ __ ] behind the scenes with uh Massie from Kentucky about like uh his like weird sex [ __ ] with him and a girlfriend, but based on like I guess the accusation is that uh she exposed all this dirty laundry because he refused to sign some bill to like get people their memecoin money back. And so like she was heavily invested in it. So, she like banged him and then was like, "Oh." And he's a total freak. But, uh, Will Som did a report for the Bull Work on it. It's it's worth the read. It's it's >> I mean, quite scandalous.

[00:39:09]>> I don't doubt it, but I I will give the guy credit for being like the one Republican to be like, "Hey, maybe we should actually investigate these Epstein files." And that's probably what took him down. Yeah.

[00:39:19]>> That's what took him down. Yeah. In the end, it's like, "Oh, he's not loyal to Trump. He's he's very uh not a team player, this guy. This guy who's trying to do the thing that Trump promised he was going to do.

[00:39:28]>> How dare he?" Well, how about some war updates? Uh, we just checked and yeah, war in Iran still happening. Still happening. So, why not throw another on the pile because it really, really looks like the US is going to invade Cuba.

[00:39:43][ __ ] Christ, man.

[00:39:44]>> We just indicted former Cuban President Rahul Castro and clips like these are already making the rounds, setting up the public for what appears to be another potential military engagement.

[00:39:54]other presidents have looked at this for 50, 60 years doing something and uh it looks like I'll be the one that does it.

[00:40:02]So, >> but at the end of the day, uh Cuba has always been a national security threat and as you said earlier, we've been negotiating with Cuba since before I was born. I'm 53 years old. So, uh the negotiations have gone nowhere. Cuba's leader is at the end of his lifespan.

[00:40:19]>> Do do you really think that Cuba is a threat? Well, if if some country went in and loaded Cuba with the same drones that Iran had uh when we first started bombing Iran, then yes, I think it could be a threat.

[00:40:31]I I don't think that's there. I know John Radcliffe has been on the ground.

[00:40:35]The CIA is on the ground as we speak uh talking to the Cuban officials. Uh, I really don't think, Rob, it'll get to any type of military action, but the president's threatening that Cuba not only has weapons that they've acquired from Russia and China over the years. U, but they also uh host Russia and Chinese intelligence presence in their country, not far from where we're standing right now. So, Cuba's always posed a national security threat to the United States.

[00:41:01]They, by the way, have been one of the leading sponsors of terrorism in the entire region.

[00:41:05]>> This [ __ ] pisses me off so [ __ ] much. Yeah. And it really seems like Marco Rubio in particular is stuck on repeat regardless of whether the country is Iran, Venezuela, or Cuba.

[00:41:15]>> And he's like with Rubio, he's like, "Oh, you know, this is personal for me.

[00:41:18]Your family left before Castro came to power. Shut the [ __ ] up."

[00:41:23]>> But yeah, Trump, >> you know, he did busy schedule. He's got a he's going to do a war on multiple fronts. He's got a very busy schedule obviously, but he he was able to carve out some time from his busy schedule to appear at the Coast Guard Academy graduation ceremony to deliver an incredible commencement speech. Just look at how inspiring this message is to our brilliant graduating class from our very smart president.

[00:41:50]>> Change that we can't even think of right now. The things will happen and I believe for the best, hopefully for the best, but I believe for the best. But things will happen that you can't even imagine and it's going to be very exciting. But the way that's going to happen is through thinking big.

[00:42:08]Nothing great was ever built. Think of that. Nothing great was ever built without the word momentum at your side.

[00:42:17]In times of your life, you'll have momentum. That's the time you go for it.

[00:42:22]>> Well, I'm certainly inspired. Yeah.

[00:42:24]>> With a delivery like that, you'd probably love to have President Donald J. Trump do a speech at your wedding, right?

[00:42:29]>> Yeah.

[00:42:30]>> Maybe not all of you, but surely the president would make some time for his own son's wedding. Yeah. Right.

[00:42:35]>> Maybe not not even a speech, but just to show up and wish them well and maybe a toast or or or something.

[00:42:40]>> Yeah. Except no, he's not sure he can make it.

[00:42:43]>> Sorry. Byebye.

[00:42:44]>> Byebye.

[00:42:45]>> Your son's buddy this weekend, by the way.

[00:42:47]>> Uh he'd like me to go, but it's going to be just a small little private affair, and I'm going to try and make it. I'm I'm in the midst. I said, you know, this is not good timing for me. I have a thing called Iran and other things. Uh, that's one I can't win on. If I do attend, I get killed. If I don't attend, I get killed by the fake news, of course, I'm talking about.

[00:43:11]>> Yeah, he is not just a bad president.

[00:43:14]He's a bad father, too. Who would have thought? Then again, I don't think anyone wants to be around Don Jr., not even the woman he's marrying. So, whatever. [ __ ] it. That's the end of the episode. We'll be back soon for some weird news. But in the meantime, uh the videos that you're going to want to watch, they're popping up in just a second. In the meantime, why don't you relax? Click the like button. Help out.

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