He Was Just Hospitalized

[00:00:00]He was just hospitalized. Now, before I tell you who he is, before I break this incredible news, I want you to think for a second. Who was the first person who came to your mind? No, actually, how many people came to your mind? That is the more important question. Did Donald Trump? I'm sure. Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk, likely. And is it because you're a bad person? I say no. It is not because you're a bad person. It is because they are bad people. But all we ever hear from Bezos, from Zuckerberg, from Peter Teal, from Larry Ellison through their mouthpieces in the media, through the media that they own is that we can't think that. That only Republicans are allowed to do bad things and Democrats are just supposed to sit silently. We're not allowed to push back. When they go low, we go high. I'm tired of that [ __ ] That is not the way to beat back the fascist. The way is to fight fire with fire, to actually beat them at their own own game. And do you know what? To drop this [ __ ] politeness when bad things happen to them. Let's cheer it on. Let's embrace it. It doesn't make us bad. It just goes to show how much damage they have done to our country. So yeah, I am going to cheer on the fact that one of the worst people in the history of America, someone who has done longlasting damage to our institutions, to our democracy, who is essentially a mass murderer with what legislation he's blocked and what legislation he's moved forward. I am going to be happy on this day that Mitch McConnell is in the hospital once again. the guy who freezes up at his press conference, who's constantly falling over. And again, you might say, "Jack, he's a man. He's got a family. He's got a wife. He's got kids.

[00:01:56]He's got grandkids. Maybe great grandkids." We all do. Republicans take our stories, the stories of real people with real struggle, and they turn them into numbers so big and incomprehensible that you just kind of move past it. When we talk about 25 million people getting kicked off of their health care, partly because of Mitch McConnell, we don't see the 25 million stories. We don't see the 25 million families. We see a number that is impossible to conceptualize. And so quickly we grow numb to it and quickly we move on from it. And that is their goal. That is the goal of Mitch McConnell. It is the style of politics that he has played for so long. So, on Donald Trump's 80th birthday, which God, I'm surprised even came, uh, we might be getting a gift today. Not just that the aging, ailing Mad King president is falling apart faster and faster, and that his birthday might get ruined out, rained out, and ruined. Um, it's also that Mitch McConnell isn't doing too well. Senator Mitch McConnell was admitted to the hospital this morning. A spokesperson for good old Mitch just shared. Mitch McConnell is in the hospital and Andy Basher is the governor of Kentucky. Um, and by the way, Mitch McConnell made sure that if a Republican senator passed while uh Andy Basher, Democratic governor of Kentucky, was the governor of Kentucky, that he would not have a hand in appointing his successor to fill out the rest of the term. So that is Mitch McConnell, a man thinking about how to [ __ ] over the entire country even after he's gone. So when he is, we should all be very happy.

[00:03:49]Now, there's a lot I want to say about Donald Trump and his current uh physical state and his sickness that's going on later in this video, so do stick around for that. But Mitch McConnell has taught us a lot about how to wield power, and it's something that Democrats wholly ignored. The man blocked Merritt Garland from being put on the Supreme Court. And then we put Merritt Garland in charge of maybe the most important undertaking in the history of accountability in this country since reconstruction, which we also [ __ ] up much to the detriment of the rest of this country's history.

[00:04:28]Right. Mitch screwed him and then we gave him the opportunity to screw us by refusing to not utilize the Mitch McConnell tactics of really just twisting the knife, but not even approaching them, thinking about them, trying to do the opposite.

[00:04:44]That was a failure. We should not get power to hold it. We should want to get power to wield it because power begets more power and that begets more success, more trust in government. What people do not want right now is a return to the status quo because why would they? The status quo was not particularly successful. The status quo brought us Donald Trump. It brought us Donald Trump via people who were incredibly dissatisfied with the material conditions they saw around them. So much so that they elected a con man racist bigot pedto president to screw things up even further. So we have to think differently as Democrats and progressives and political organizers about how we undertake our effort, how we wield power. And we should be more like Zora Madamani, right? I think that's just plain and simple. The man just won an NBA championship and it only took him like six months. Okay, you bring in democratic socialism. The Knicks end the 53-year drought. Go Knicks. Okay, that's what it's about.

[00:05:50]That's weird wielding power. Now, I'm not saying that, you know, Zoron, you know, told Dear Fox to with 11 seconds left in, you know, game four, uh, go in for a layup that OGNobi blocked because, um, God knows why De'Arren Fox decided to do that. Um, I'm not saying that he made sure that Dylan Harper didn't play enough, which probably would have been beneficial to disperse. We're going to stop talking about Zoran. He is wielding power right now. It's the type of power that Graham Platner talks about and why I love Graham Platner so much. By the way, again, we are going to talk about Donald Trump's health as well at the end of this video, so do stick around. But it's the type of power that says there is cause for us removing at least two Supreme Court justices, and we are going to do so. And we are going to bring back trust in the court by changing it entirely. There are a lot of people who will be gunning for power in the next two, three years who want to get that power and think that just them being in it, being in the office of the presidency, being a Supreme Court justice, being in a Congress that is clearly broken, that that'll resolve things just by nature of their existence in it. I have a lot of respect for the office. So if I'm in it, it will be respected as well. That is not true. The presidency is not what the presidency used to be. Donald Trump has occupied it for two terms. Nothing is the same after Donald Trump occupies it twice. Go ask a janitor at Mara Lago. Okay, I think we know that what's coming out of we don't even need to think about it. The White House is not the same since Donald Trump has been in it. He tore most of it down.

[00:07:41]There's a big UFC cage match on the south lawn. Do we think by nature of just being back in the building, Democrats will have solved everything?

[00:07:50]No. You have to rip it apart and start a new. That is the way to fix things. That is the only way to fix things. To wield power in favor of structural change.

[00:08:02]That is the only way we can get people to believe in government. Again, that is what Ziron Mandani has done. That is what real progressives want to do and that is the only way to fix things is to break them. [snorts] I'm dead serious.

[00:08:16]Mitch McConnell did a lot of breaking in his day. Of course, he was breaking for the purpose of bringing us back. But the man was quite successful at it, wasn't he? He did a lot. He wielded power. He used it to get himself more power. And he did it in the worst ways for the worst people to the detriment of us all.

[00:08:39]Now imagine if we had someone with a little bit of grit, a little bit of toughness, a little bit of resolve, with a plan, a project 2029, a round them all up and send them to Gitmo. What if we had that? What if we had someone willing to put Pete Hegth on trial? What if we had someone willing to ship Steven Miller to Alligator Alcatraz? Wouldn't you think that that would restore a little more trust in the system if people saw accountability than simply seeing some corporate Democrat sit down behind the Resolute desk and go, "All right, now it's fine."

[00:09:12]It's not. Our system is broken. We have to change it entirely.

[00:09:17]We have to learn the lessons of a guy that hopefully is gone today. And we'll see how that plays out in the hospital.

[00:09:24]But how could anyone trust what is happening right now? Especially when our president is engaged in a cover up at every level of government, including the level of government that checks his tonsils, that takes his temperature, that looks at the bruises on his hands, the cankles that he drags around and the uh and the decline in his brain. How could anyone trust anything without real accountability and answers? And we certainly need that with regards to Donald Trump's health, which is why I'm glad there's one person in the mainstream media who will actually talk about it. I promise a little bit of Trump news at the end. Lawrence O'Donnell's got it.

[00:10:01]>> How many Trump White House staffers does it take to change a light bulb? We have no idea. That actually might be one of the few things that the most incompetent White House staff in history, led by the most incompetent White House chief of staff in history can actually do. So, I'm going to take a wild guess that it might only take one Trump White House staffer to replace a light bulb. But how many doctors does it take to give Donald Trump his annual physical exam?

[00:10:37]Hint, it is the largest number of doctors who have ever given a physical to an occupant of the White House. And it might be the largest number of doctors who have ever given anyone in the world a physical exam.

[00:10:54]22.

[00:10:56]Yes, 22.

[00:10:59]The Washington Post is reporting that Donald Trump set a record with his 22 doctors under the headline this week.

[00:11:06]Trump sees 22 medical specialists appearing to set new bar for presidents.

[00:11:13]The article includes this comment. It is an extraordinary number, said Jonathan Reiner, longtime cardiologist for former vice president Dick Cheney. What specialties do they represent? Why so many?

[00:11:30]I have a question. How many of them are psychiatrists?

[00:11:35]Because if the answer is zero, then 22 doctors isn't enough. Not for Donald Trump. Dick Cheney, who had more heart surgeries than anyone who's ever served as president or vice president, had fewer doctors than Donald Trump has.

[00:11:54]Donald Trump's personal physician, whose title in the White House is physician to the president, is a United States Navy captain. So, like many previous White House positions, the president is both his patient and his commander-in-chief, which means it's up to Donald Trump to decide when and if his doctor, the Navy captain, is ever going to become a Navy admiral.

[00:12:18]Captain Sean Barbarella, the White House physician, said that Donald Trump is in quote, "Excellent health." He actually used the words excellent health for Donald Trump.

[00:12:35]In the Washington Post article about Donald Trump's 22 doctors, a White House official is quoted telling this lie.

[00:12:42]We have nothing to hide. The Trump White House has something to hide about everything, including Donald Trump's 22 doctors and his health. Donald Trump is falling apart. It is his 80th birthday and he is falling apart. He is a mad king losing his mind very publicly as he throws himself a blood sport birthday party that God looked down on and said, "Huh, how about some rain, some thunderstorms, and some locust surrounding the place?" Very biblical for the Antichrist. And that is Donald Trump. And so if this is a a story, a fable, maybe it has some happy ending.

[00:13:29]Maybe it has maybe it has an ending for the guy who who kind of got us here, who really got us here with the way he wielded his power, kind of lost control of it at a certain point. And maybe it marks a new day because as we know rain starts a new and maybe we see UFC rained out and maybe we see Mitch, you know, and that is the day that is marked in which Democrats decide. You know what?

[00:14:01]Maybe we do this in a new way. Maybe we actually start to win and do something with those wins and really just put the squeeze on the people who have hurt us.

[00:14:12]Does that make us bad? No. Makes us fighters. It makes us people who give a [ __ ] And there is one thing you should expect out of everyone in public office, anyone that you support. And it is that they give a [ __ ] as much as you do. That they are as outraged, as upset, as angry, and are actually going to do something about it. Anyone who votes on legislation, anyone who brings you your news should be as angry as you are. I'm [ __ ] pissed and we're going to continue to call them all out. This was a bit of a different episode, but if you want to support episodes like these, as always, you can hit that subscribe button, leave a like on this video if you stuck around to the end, drop a blue heart in the comments, keep on fighting, y'all. Don't let them silence you. And until next time, I'll see you