I might need to update my post election takes...
Resumen
TLDRIn this video, the creator discusses the implications of Donald Trump's second term as president, expressing concerns about his policies and their effects on social issues. They reassess their previous analysis of the 2024 election, arguing that race and gender played significant roles in voter behavior. The creator critiques the Democratic Party for failing to engage and inspire voters, particularly in light of widespread apathy. They also address criticisms of their earlier statements, emphasizing the need for a deeper understanding of the political landscape and the limitations of identity politics.
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- 🗳️ Trump’s second term raises significant concerns.
- 📉 Voter apathy is a major factor in election outcomes.
- ⚖️ Race and gender heavily influence voter behavior.
- 🔍 The Democratic Party struggles to inspire its base.
- 📊 Critiques of identity politics highlight its limitations.
- 🌍 Global issues like Palestine impact local elections.
- 💬 Engaging with critics can clarify misunderstandings.
- 📈 The importance of nuanced political analysis is emphasized.
- 🤝 Building coalitions requires understanding diverse perspectives.
- 🎥 The creator's new project on Nebula explores deeper themes.
Cronología
- 00:00:00 - 00:05:00
The video begins with a sponsorship message for Nebula, promoting the creator's new short film, 'Talking to White People', which is exclusive to the platform. The creator then shifts focus to discuss Donald Trump's presidency, highlighting both expected and unexpected actions that have caused concern, including job cuts and the appointment of controversial figures to key positions.
- 00:05:00 - 00:10:00
The creator reflects on the mixed reactions to a previous video analyzing Trump's election victory, attributing it primarily to issues of race and gender rather than other factors like foreign policy. They emphasize that while other issues matter, the perception of Kamala Harris as a Black woman played a significant role in her electoral performance.
- 00:10:00 - 00:15:00
The creator addresses criticism regarding the impact of the Palestinian genocide on voter behavior, referencing a report that claims a significant portion of Biden voters abstained from voting for Harris due to her stance on Israel. They express skepticism about the research methodology and the interpretation of its findings, arguing that the actual impact may be overstated.
- 00:15:00 - 00:20:00
The creator critiques the research's sample size and methodology, suggesting that the reported percentage of voters influenced by the Palestinian issue is less significant than presented. They emphasize the need for more comprehensive data to understand voter behavior in swing states and the broader implications of the findings.
- 00:20:00 - 00:25:00
The discussion shifts to the apathy among voters towards the Democratic Party, with the creator citing a political strategist's analysis that suggests many voters stayed home due to disillusionment rather than strong support for Trump. They highlight the importance of understanding the motivations behind voter turnout and the need for better Democratic policies.
- 00:25:00 - 00:30:00
The creator reflects on the historical context of the Democratic Party's shift towards neoliberalism and the implications for working-class voters. They argue that the party's failure to inspire voters, particularly among key demographics, contributed to the election outcome and the rise of Trump.
- 00:30:00 - 00:35:00
The creator acknowledges the complexity of identity politics and its role in the election, clarifying that their previous analysis was not intended to endorse the Democratic Party or Kamala Harris. They emphasize the need for a more nuanced understanding of political dynamics beyond race and gender.
- 00:35:00 - 00:40:00
The creator discusses the challenges of engaging with a broader audience and the limitations of online political discourse, stressing the importance of grassroots activism and real-world engagement over social media debates.
- 00:40:00 - 00:48:02
In conclusion, the creator reiterates the need for a more informed and active citizenry, encouraging viewers to engage in meaningful political action and support independent platforms like Nebula to foster diverse and impactful content.
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Vídeo de preguntas y respuestas
What is the main focus of the video?
The video focuses on the political landscape under Donald Trump's second term and reassesses the factors that contributed to his election.
What criticisms does the creator address?
The creator addresses criticisms regarding their analysis of the impact of race and gender on voting behavior and the significance of the Palestinian issue.
How does the creator view the Democratic Party?
The creator views the Democratic Party as having lost touch with its base and failing to inspire voters.
What is the significance of voter apathy mentioned in the video?
Voter apathy is highlighted as a major factor in the election outcome, particularly among demographics that traditionally support the Democratic Party.
What does the creator say about identity politics?
The creator critiques the oversimplification of political issues to identity politics and emphasizes the need for a more nuanced understanding.
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- 00:00:00This video is sponsored by Nebula.
- 00:00:03Please stay tuned to the end of the
- 00:00:04video to find out more about how you can
- 00:00:06sign up for Nebula so you can see my new
- 00:00:08short film, Talking to White People,
- 00:00:09which will only be available on Nebula.
- 00:00:12Now, on to the
- 00:00:14show. As of writing, Donald Trump is
- 00:00:16essentially two months into his second
- 00:00:18term as president of the United States.
- 00:00:20And in many ways, he's been exactly what
- 00:00:22I and many others feared he might be,
- 00:00:25and in some ways much worse. It was
- 00:00:27expected that Trump would do petty and
- 00:00:29ridiculous things like pardoning the
- 00:00:31perpetrators of the January 6th uprising
- 00:00:33or doing a full-on commercial for Tesla
- 00:00:35at the White House, renaming the Gulf of
- 00:00:37Mexico the Gulf of America and so on.
- 00:00:39But he's also done things that are more
- 00:00:42demonstrabably harmful such as cutting
- 00:00:44tons of jobs within the federal
- 00:00:45government. I know many people who are
- 00:00:47out of work right now because of cuts to
- 00:00:49federal jobs. He's also killed DI
- 00:00:51programs in various places. His tariff
- 00:00:53war stuff has caused many problems with
- 00:00:55the economy. He has declared that there
- 00:00:57are only two genders. He's put
- 00:00:59incompetent and dangerous people in
- 00:01:00charge of important American government
- 00:01:02systems like education and health with
- 00:01:04the vaccine denier/w weirdo RFK and
- 00:01:08long-standing stoogge Linda McMahon
- 00:01:10being overeducation. And that's even if
- 00:01:12he keeps the Department of Education,
- 00:01:14which it sounds like they're trying to
- 00:01:16get rid of. And then there's the
- 00:01:18intangibles. There's the emboldening of
- 00:01:20white supremacists across the country
- 00:01:21doing marches in major cities. Ben
- 00:01:23Shapiro is calling for the partnering of
- 00:01:25Derek Shavein, the man who murdered
- 00:01:27George Floyd. Other American
- 00:01:29corporations are following suit with the
- 00:01:30retreat of DEI and equity programs,
- 00:01:32which although never really a good
- 00:01:34thing, were at least ostensibly supposed
- 00:01:36to serve underserved populations, most
- 00:01:39notably at Target, which has kicked off
- 00:01:41some kuruffle among black folks and
- 00:01:43probably of any other things I can't
- 00:01:44think of. And I don't know if all of
- 00:01:47this is perfectly accurate cuz to be
- 00:01:49honest, I haven't been paying attention
- 00:01:51to this [ __ ] I told y'all that
- 00:01:52a couple of months ago that I I really
- 00:01:54am not here to talk about Trump. This
- 00:01:56will not be a Trump coverage channel.
- 00:01:57It's not that I don't care. It's that I
- 00:01:59don't think talking about all the bad
- 00:02:01[ __ ] he does is all that useful, at
- 00:02:02least for me. But I I'll probably come
- 00:02:04back to that in a second. What this
- 00:02:06video is is a reassessment of some
- 00:02:10things I said and mentioned in a video I
- 00:02:12did not long after the election about
- 00:02:14how Trump got here in the first place,
- 00:02:15about why he is our president today, at
- 00:02:18least according to the explicit election
- 00:02:20results of 2024. That video had a really
- 00:02:23interesting response in that it was
- 00:02:25something that I think most people
- 00:02:28appreciate it, but some people
- 00:02:29appreciate it in ways that I didn't like
- 00:02:32and don't stand behind and other people
- 00:02:35hated it for reasons I don't think make
- 00:02:37a lot of sense and have been trying to
- 00:02:38prove to me otherwise this entire time.
- 00:02:41In that video, I essentially say that
- 00:02:43the core issues that caused Donald Trump
- 00:02:45to win that election, no matter how you
- 00:02:48try to analyze or swing it, mostly come
- 00:02:50down to race and gender. My argument is
- 00:02:52that issues like the ongoing genocide in
- 00:02:55Palestine had minimal effect on the poor
- 00:02:57performance of Kla Harris in the general
- 00:02:59election and that her performance and
- 00:03:00loss had more to do with her identity
- 00:03:02and how people perceive her identity
- 00:03:05than anything else she did or anything
- 00:03:07else Trump did that at least was related
- 00:03:09to her or the presidency as opposed to
- 00:03:12like people just wanting Trump to be in
- 00:03:14office. They know it'll piss off the
- 00:03:15woke mob and get rid of immigrants, etc.
- 00:03:18I said this in that video and I'll say
- 00:03:20it again here. This does not mean that
- 00:03:22other issues are irrelevant to why this
- 00:03:25election ended the way it did. It just
- 00:03:27means that from my perspective based on
- 00:03:29the analysis I did, they mean less than
- 00:03:32the fact that Kamla was a black woman
- 00:03:34and just taking a look at the trends of
- 00:03:36the voter data over the last couple
- 00:03:37elections and the exit polls and
- 00:03:39everything else and saying what I think
- 00:03:41it meant. Please go back to that video
- 00:03:44if you want to see my actual analysis or
- 00:03:47don't. I know for some of you it will
- 00:03:49not matter. One thing I've learned after
- 00:03:52years on this platform is that your
- 00:03:54loudest and most visible critics and
- 00:03:56people that understand you the least
- 00:03:58rarely ever actually pay attention to
- 00:04:01you. Any issue that they have with you
- 00:04:03is rarely a position you actually hold
- 00:04:04or take that you've actually given.
- 00:04:06Instead, they'll often hyperfocus on a
- 00:04:08distorted madeup version of something
- 00:04:10they heard you might have said that they
- 00:04:13got from something somebody else said
- 00:04:14that they read on Twitter. And it's
- 00:04:17always people with a whole lot of
- 00:04:19tweets. Just just keeping it real with
- 00:04:22y'all. Y'all [ __ ] tweet a lot. My
- 00:04:23point is I'm not going to relitigate
- 00:04:25everything from that video. I just
- 00:04:26rewatched it. And close your ears or
- 00:04:29those of you who hate me cuz you think
- 00:04:30I'm smug and arrogant. That video was a
- 00:04:33banger. I cooked on that [ __ ] This is
- 00:04:35the double down. I'm sorry. Are there
- 00:04:37elements and angles from that video that
- 00:04:39I hope are elaborated on by other
- 00:04:41people? Definitely. Are there ways in
- 00:04:43which I could have been more clear and
- 00:04:45that I want to clarify a little bit
- 00:04:46here. Of course, I wouldn't be making
- 00:04:48this video, but I think the core thesis
- 00:04:50I have to that video has not been
- 00:04:52disproven by anything I've seen, but I
- 00:04:54do want to at least engage with some of
- 00:04:56the most significant criticism that I
- 00:04:58caught from that and update how I feel
- 00:05:00about this whole situation at this point
- 00:05:03some months later. So, let's get to
- 00:05:04major criticism one. New research seems
- 00:05:07to indicate that the genocide in
- 00:05:08Palestine was in fact a major factor in
- 00:05:11voter opinions and the outcome of this
- 00:05:13election. In late January, right around
- 00:05:15the inauguration, the Institute for
- 00:05:16Middle Eastern Understanding released a
- 00:05:18report that found that nearly 30% of
- 00:05:20former Biden voters that didn't vote for
- 00:05:22Kla Harris didn't do that, mainly
- 00:05:24because of Palestine. Press releases
- 00:05:26about this report circled strongly in
- 00:05:28left-wing online circles. More than a
- 00:05:30few people sent this to me or added me
- 00:05:32about this on Twitter as proof that I
- 00:05:34was wrong. And it is seemingly
- 00:05:36vindication on the idea that it was in
- 00:05:38fact the genocide in Palestine that
- 00:05:40caused Kla Harris to lose. So, let's
- 00:05:42talk about this. As I mentioned in
- 00:05:44previous videos, I have legitimate
- 00:05:46credentials and experience in
- 00:05:47sociological research. And when you're a
- 00:05:49trained researcher, you know that one of
- 00:05:50the worst things you can do to actually
- 00:05:53like care about whatever research
- 00:05:54happened is only read the press release.
- 00:05:57Because a press release is very
- 00:05:58different than an actual study. They
- 00:06:00don't have nearly the same level of
- 00:06:02oversight or scrutiny. And one has way
- 00:06:04more leeway to say whatever the [ __ ] it
- 00:06:06wants without getting licenses revoked
- 00:06:08or sued or whatever. When I see
- 00:06:10headlines like damning new poll shows
- 00:06:12price Kla Harris paid for backing
- 00:06:15Israeli genocide in Gaza, I know that
- 00:06:18they don't have to go through a very
- 00:06:19rigorous like evaluation process to make
- 00:06:22that statement. They'll just say in the
- 00:06:24article according to research done by
- 00:06:26such and such and then post a link to
- 00:06:28that research knowing that most people
- 00:06:30will click it and never actually look at
- 00:06:31the research directly. Instead, people
- 00:06:33will just link the article on a tweet
- 00:06:35and then use it in their preferred
- 00:06:37culture war topic. They probably won't
- 00:06:39even actually read the article either if
- 00:06:41the headline is provocative enough and
- 00:06:43says the thing that they want to be
- 00:06:45true. I remember a few years ago a whole
- 00:06:48young men are becoming more right-wing
- 00:06:50table popped up in social media circles
- 00:06:52and a bunch of people talked about it
- 00:06:53and went nuts because it had this one
- 00:06:55graph that showed this big trajectory of
- 00:06:57right-wing thinking in young men. And
- 00:06:59don't get me wrong, some elements of the
- 00:07:01election do show that to be kind of a
- 00:07:03thing, but it's not nearly as much of a
- 00:07:05thing as the research showed it. I made
- 00:07:07a whole video about on the bides
- 00:07:09literally years ago. I guess I'll leave
- 00:07:11that in description although it has
- 00:07:12nothing to do here except for point out
- 00:07:14the fact that when it comes to research
- 00:07:17that enters into the pop culture social
- 00:07:19media discourse space is almost always
- 00:07:23being represented to mean more than what
- 00:07:25it actually does mean and this paper is
- 00:07:27no exception. The method section of this
- 00:07:29paper immediately bothered me because
- 00:07:30I'm not sure it's really a method
- 00:07:31section or a research paper at least
- 00:07:34from what I'm seeing and I know like
- 00:07:36different papers have different
- 00:07:37standards and it might be something that
- 00:07:39I just have not been able to find. But
- 00:07:42that's a problem if you're publishing
- 00:07:44research. I should be able to easily
- 00:07:46read the entirety of the paper even if I
- 00:07:48have to pay for access to a journal. But
- 00:07:51that's neither here nor there. It says
- 00:07:52the data was collected from yuggov.org
- 00:07:54which is not a horrible thing. like
- 00:07:56that's perfectly fine. But I immediately
- 00:07:58had a red flag when I looked at this
- 00:07:59first piece which showed the people that
- 00:08:01voted for Biden but not Kla Harris. And
- 00:08:04its sample size was only 604. So 604 is
- 00:08:09not a horrible sample size for
- 00:08:10sociological research, but it's not
- 00:08:13really big enough to be what we call
- 00:08:14representative in political research. So
- 00:08:17this is like all very brief
- 00:08:19oversimplified research methodology
- 00:08:21stuff. Like, please, for those of you
- 00:08:22who are still hardcore into the
- 00:08:24sociological research space, do not come
- 00:08:27check me on this. Just just roll with
- 00:08:29it. Unless I say something really [ __ ]
- 00:08:30up, then drag me in the comments. But
- 00:08:32you you know where I'm going with this.
- 00:08:34It's never possible to survey everyone
- 00:08:37on a given issue. You can't look at
- 00:08:39everyone's grades across the country for
- 00:08:41a particular test or look at everyone's
- 00:08:44health outcomes or whatever. It's just
- 00:08:45not possible. So, in quantitative
- 00:08:47research, i.e. statistical research
- 00:08:49statisticians have come up with a bunch
- 00:08:51of different standards and formulas and
- 00:08:52rules that basically say okay if you
- 00:08:55follow these rules your sample of people
- 00:08:57will be what we call representative i.e.
- 00:09:00this means that whatever you find in
- 00:09:02this research is representative of the
- 00:09:05greater population around this issue
- 00:09:07i.e. Through the power of statistics, we
- 00:09:09can say that whatever you found, [ __ ] is
- 00:09:12cool. [ __ ] [ __ ] works. It's predictable.
- 00:09:14This is imperfect on a lot of levels.
- 00:09:16Papers that are seem like they're good
- 00:09:19in 1999 were proven to be some [ __ ]
- 00:09:22in 2003 and and so on and so forth, but
- 00:09:26it is a general standard and how things
- 00:09:29are done. In political research, even on
- 00:09:31yuggov.org, the expectation is that a
- 00:09:33political service should have at least
- 00:09:351,000 valid responses. Yet, I didn't see
- 00:09:38anything about them not reaching that
- 00:09:40threshold in this report, which
- 00:09:41initially made me very suspicious about
- 00:09:43the whole thing. And I kept digging and
- 00:09:46clicking around and realized, duh, I had
- 00:09:48missed low-key half of the paper. And I
- 00:09:51went back and looked and saw that the
- 00:09:53entirety of this sample was not 604. It
- 00:09:56was actually 1,078 voters. The other 474
- 00:09:59responders in the sample actually still
- 00:10:01voted for Kala Harris despite her stance
- 00:10:03on sending weapons to Israel. So, I want
- 00:10:05you to think about the real math here.
- 00:10:07Now, this survey had a valid sample size
- 00:10:09of 178 people. Of those, 178 people, 604
- 00:10:14or 56% of them did not vote for Kla
- 00:10:17Harris. And then, by their own words,
- 00:10:19only 175 out of those 604 people did not
- 00:10:23vote for Kla Harris primarily because of
- 00:10:26the fact that she did not take a stance
- 00:10:27against the genocide in Palestine. When
- 00:10:29we put that back into the context of the
- 00:10:31entire sample, what these report really
- 00:10:34should point out is that only 16% of the
- 00:10:36people that they surveyed did not vote
- 00:10:38for Kla Harris because of Palestine,
- 00:10:40which is significant, but far less
- 00:10:42compelling than the initial things that
- 00:10:45were being put out there. It's literally
- 00:10:46half as significant, basically. Now, I
- 00:10:49want to be clear that 16%, especially in
- 00:10:52this election, is not insignificant.
- 00:10:55This is not a nonfinding, and this study
- 00:10:57isn't invalid. It's just much less of a
- 00:11:00big deal than press releases and tweets
- 00:11:03would have people think that 16%
- 00:11:05depending on his composition could have
- 00:11:08made a huge difference. But that's again
- 00:11:10the thing we don't know much about this
- 00:11:1316%'s composition because I don't say
- 00:11:15anything about the methods of how they
- 00:11:17collected this data except for the fact
- 00:11:18that they got it from yuggv.org which
- 00:11:22already is introducing some biases about
- 00:11:24who's going to go to and even knows that
- 00:11:26website. We also don't know if the
- 00:11:28people that took this survey were in
- 00:11:29Georgia or
- 00:11:33California
- 00:11:35what bro what are you talking about man
- 00:11:38or Arizona if they're in any of those
- 00:11:40states that 16% is a huge deal would
- 00:11:42have had a serious impact but those are
- 00:11:44people responding to the survey from
- 00:11:46Texas or California or New York or
- 00:11:48Illinois then it's kind of meaningless
- 00:11:50remember that the main argument that I
- 00:11:52was making was based on the fact that
- 00:11:53when you analyze the data of what was
- 00:11:55happening in swing swing states
- 00:11:57comparing Kamla's voter counts to
- 00:11:58Biders's voting counts. You see that she
- 00:12:01outdid him in many of those swing
- 00:12:03states. So until we know exactly what
- 00:12:05happened in those states, we don't quite
- 00:12:08know for sure what is happening. I could
- 00:12:10go on trying to use my researcher brain
- 00:12:12to break down why I'm not a huge fan of
- 00:12:15the way this finding was presented to
- 00:12:18the public. Like for example, the second
- 00:12:20highest thing that kept people from
- 00:12:22voting for Kla Harris was the economy.
- 00:12:24I'm sorry. Anybody that tells me they
- 00:12:26didn't vote for Kla Harris over the
- 00:12:28economy, well, the obvious issue is
- 00:12:29going to be the economy. I don't trust
- 00:12:31your ass. Just keep it real with you.
- 00:12:33But my goal isn't to tear down the
- 00:12:34people that did this survey because I
- 00:12:36actually went and watched them talk
- 00:12:37about it and I read through like chunks
- 00:12:39of the site that it came from. This
- 00:12:41seems like, you know, comrades. These
- 00:12:43seems like good people. And really, if
- 00:12:45you look at what they're actually saying
- 00:12:47in their reports and then a podcast that
- 00:12:49I'll link in from the video, if you
- 00:12:51actually go and listen to what they're
- 00:12:52saying and doing, they seem less
- 00:12:54interested in dunking on right-wingers
- 00:12:56or Democrats or scoring points on
- 00:12:58Twitter and more interested in providing
- 00:13:00a fully fleshed out analysis of what the
- 00:13:02problem is here and how what's happening
- 00:13:04in Palestine reflects not necessarily
- 00:13:06America's true interest in what's
- 00:13:09happening in Gaza, but instead how the
- 00:13:11issue of Palestine and Gaza and the
- 00:13:13ongoing and genocide is emblematic of
- 00:13:15the greater problem with American
- 00:13:17politics as a whole and specifically
- 00:13:18with the do nothing policies of the
- 00:13:20Democratic party in order to uh to to to
- 00:13:23ensure that funding continues in order
- 00:13:26to make sure that people don't speak out
- 00:13:28even even folks who know better even
- 00:13:30people who know the truth who will
- 00:13:32behind closed doors say things like
- 00:13:35listen I'm with you and I know what's
- 00:13:36going on and this is atrocious and
- 00:13:38terrible but like I if I say anything if
- 00:13:41I put my neck out there if I say
- 00:13:42anything publicly they're going primary
- 00:13:44me or they're going to dump a bunch of
- 00:13:46money for, you know, into my opponent's
- 00:13:48campaign. All of those things, which we
- 00:13:50have, of course, saw play out very
- 00:13:51publicly even this past cycle uh in the
- 00:13:54in the last
- 00:13:56primaries. None of that is new. There
- 00:13:58may be further research yet to come to
- 00:14:00show that more Democratic voters and
- 00:14:02Americans were so horrified by what
- 00:14:04happened in Gaza that they abstained
- 00:14:06from voting for her in protest. But I do
- 00:14:09not believe this to be the case. We're
- 00:14:11talking about a complex sociological
- 00:14:13issue and that can't be fully decided by
- 00:14:16one or two studies a few months after it
- 00:14:17happened. So, I'll amend my take if more
- 00:14:20compelling research comes out to show
- 00:14:22otherwise. But until then, I'm going to
- 00:14:24operate on the understanding of America
- 00:14:26that I've had my whole [ __ ] life,
- 00:14:27which is Americans don't give a [ __ ]
- 00:14:29about the rest of the world. Cuz
- 00:14:31historically, we never have. At best
- 00:14:33that the bad thing happening in the
- 00:14:35world is happening to white people.
- 00:14:37There may be some lift service given to
- 00:14:39why that problem should stop. But right
- 00:14:42now, there are three humanitarian crises
- 00:14:44happening in Africa that barely get any
- 00:14:46attention even from the American left.
- 00:14:48So, I'm sorry if I just don't believe
- 00:14:51that run-of-the-mill liberals cared so
- 00:14:53much about Palestinian people that they
- 00:14:55withheld their vote for Kla Harris for
- 00:14:58that reason. I'm not saying this because
- 00:15:01I don't care. I'm saying this because I
- 00:15:03actually care. And if you actually care,
- 00:15:06you should stop trying to win arguments
- 00:15:08on the internet and be actually doing
- 00:15:10work to address the gap in care and
- 00:15:12knowledge and education on why nobody's
- 00:15:15caring in the first place. Think about
- 00:15:17how dangerous it is that people are
- 00:15:19trying to present as if we've already
- 00:15:21won on this topic with the American
- 00:15:23people when we haven't and how that
- 00:15:25false reality and false sense of
- 00:15:27accomplishment is really working against
- 00:15:30the work that's being done. So, I'm
- 00:15:32sorry to anyone that is disappointed by
- 00:15:34this analysis. I again open myself up
- 00:15:37for anyone that might analyze what I
- 00:15:39looked at and say that it's more
- 00:15:41significant than it was presented. But
- 00:15:44we're going to move on to something that
- 00:15:45I do think is more impactful on my
- 00:15:47original video. So, there's an article
- 00:15:49from a political strategist named
- 00:15:50Michael Podhorer. And in it, he
- 00:15:52basically comes to a similar conclusion
- 00:15:53that the previous research was really
- 00:15:56trying to get at, which is that Trump
- 00:15:57didn't win so much because of a basic
- 00:16:00policy that he had or didn't have. And
- 00:16:02he definitely didn't win because of
- 00:16:03protest voters against Democratic
- 00:16:04support of Israel. Instead, it was
- 00:16:06mostly apathy and dumerism from voters
- 00:16:09who are tired of the duopoly and are no
- 00:16:10longer inspired by the Democratic
- 00:16:12party's specless resistance to fascism.
- 00:16:14He presents a lot of compelling
- 00:16:16arguments and data around this that I
- 00:16:17think everyone should check out. I'm not
- 00:16:19going to spend any time really like
- 00:16:21explaining to you why I believe what
- 00:16:22he's saying. But one thing that he does
- 00:16:24say that I want to focus on is that this
- 00:16:27election isn't evidence of a significant
- 00:16:30right-wing like jump in American
- 00:16:32sentiment as much as it is evidence of
- 00:16:35people not believing in and not caring
- 00:16:37about what the Democrats are offering as
- 00:16:39a political party and basically just
- 00:16:42staying home. One criticism that I think
- 00:16:44is valid of my analysis, but doesn't
- 00:16:47necessarily cancel out the analysis, is
- 00:16:49that you have to account for the large
- 00:16:51amount of American people, I think like
- 00:16:5390 million overall that did not vote in
- 00:16:55this election and how that's just as
- 00:16:57much of a reflection on sentiment around
- 00:17:00race or gender or fascism or capitalism
- 00:17:02or whatever else as anything that the
- 00:17:04voters show through their data. His
- 00:17:06analysis shows that there were small
- 00:17:08jumps in certain populations in support
- 00:17:10of Trump. But when he breaks things down
- 00:17:12by focusing more on non- voters and
- 00:17:14returning voters, he shows that this
- 00:17:16election reflected an abandonment of the
- 00:17:18Democratic Party. The Democratic Party
- 00:17:20before my time maybe had some
- 00:17:22inclinations of being a party for
- 00:17:24working-class people and equal rights,
- 00:17:26etc., etc., but since Clinton, when the
- 00:17:28Democratic Party swung right under
- 00:17:30Clinton, it's basically been another
- 00:17:32flavor of neoliberal fascism. one that
- 00:17:34is a bit less sour tasting than the
- 00:17:36overt in-your-face racism of the
- 00:17:38Republican party, but still serving the
- 00:17:40same purposes. One critic of my video,
- 00:17:42who I respect, made a point that
- 00:17:43basically breaks down to whatever you
- 00:17:46think bad about the Republicans or
- 00:17:48something that the Republicans are
- 00:17:49doing, understand that Democratic
- 00:17:52efforts and work are probably what made
- 00:17:54that bad thing possible. If Republicans
- 00:17:57are like in a room eating babies, there
- 00:18:01are Democrats in the kitchen putting
- 00:18:03babies on a plate. You kind of get the
- 00:18:05point here. Another point that comes out
- 00:18:07of this that I couldn't speak accurately
- 00:18:08to at the time is that despite a
- 00:18:10relatively large discrepancy in the
- 00:18:12electoral college, Trump's victor was a
- 00:18:15historically small one in its margins. A
- 00:18:17little more than 2 million votes
- 00:18:19nationwide and less than 500,000 votes
- 00:18:22between all the swing states that he
- 00:18:23won. This is not a landslide in the will
- 00:18:25of the people victory that Trumpsters
- 00:18:27make it out to be or that I may have
- 00:18:29insinuated reflects the sociological
- 00:18:32identity of the country, but it does
- 00:18:33show that the problem could be more
- 00:18:36effectively addressed by better policies
- 00:18:38from Democrats. Shout out to Kabernacle
- 00:18:41who's a British creator that you know is
- 00:18:43YouTube yapper, political yapper. He
- 00:18:45pointed out an old article called Racist
- 00:18:48for Obama. And I just wanted to read it
- 00:18:50for you quickly to just show you how
- 00:18:52people even when they're bigoted and
- 00:18:55even when they might be watching Fox
- 00:18:57News all the time to rot their brain,
- 00:19:00people
- 00:19:01fundamentally care about material
- 00:19:03conditions more. Sean heard the
- 00:19:04following story in this town where Obama
- 00:19:06just got slaughtered by Hillary Clinton.
- 00:19:09A canvaser goes to a woman's door in
- 00:19:11Washington, Pennsylvania. Knocks. Woman
- 00:19:14answers. Knocker ask who she's planning
- 00:19:16to vote for. She isn't sure. Has to ask
- 00:19:19her husband who she's voting for.
- 00:19:21Husband is off in another room watching
- 00:19:22some game. Canvaser hears him yell back,
- 00:19:25"We're voting for the racial slur,"
- 00:19:28meaning Obama. The woman turns back and
- 00:19:30says, as a matter of fact, that we're
- 00:19:32voting for the racial slur. I've heard
- 00:19:34similar stories in West Virginia in
- 00:19:35which people openly use the n-word while
- 00:19:38saying they're voting for Obama. It's
- 00:19:40important not to read too much into
- 00:19:41this. It's mostly a reflection of the
- 00:19:43economy. McCain's ridiculous response to
- 00:19:46the crisis, Palin's presence, and
- 00:19:49clearly part of it must be Obama has
- 00:19:51come across to these folks as smart and
- 00:19:53steady and someone who will use good
- 00:19:55judgment in office. I still doubt that
- 00:19:58Obama will carry West Virginia, but he's
- 00:20:00a lot further along with these voters
- 00:20:01than I'd fought back in April or May.
- 00:20:04having all that racism in their heart.
- 00:20:06These are people that understood that
- 00:20:08the policies being presented by the
- 00:20:10Republican party were not going to be as
- 00:20:13good as the policies being presented by
- 00:20:15then the hope and change candidate. That
- 00:20:17of course we know that didn't come to
- 00:20:19fruition, but at the time it seemed like
- 00:20:21a good idea. And if Democrats were able
- 00:20:23to present actual good ideas during this
- 00:20:25election, it's important to understand
- 00:20:27that that can and would have made a
- 00:20:30difference. The argument that I've seen
- 00:20:32is that the real problem is that
- 00:20:33Democratic voters were uninspired by
- 00:20:35Kamla for obvious reasons based in her
- 00:20:38policies and the policies she endorsed
- 00:20:40as vice president under Biden and they
- 00:20:42feel apathetic to the current political
- 00:20:44reality that is being presented to them
- 00:20:47and that makes sense as well. However, I
- 00:20:49also think it's sensible to say that the
- 00:20:51apathy felt by this community, which
- 00:20:53again, statistically was majorly
- 00:20:55straight white men not wanting to go out
- 00:20:58and do the bare minimum of political
- 00:20:59engagement and vote so we could protect
- 00:21:02immigrants, sexual minorities, women's
- 00:21:04uteruses, black people, and all kinds of
- 00:21:07other [ __ ] under Trump. I don't think
- 00:21:09that's a race or genderneutral issue or
- 00:21:11decision that they made. They understand
- 00:21:14they're not going to be affected. They
- 00:21:16stayed their asses home. Nobody's
- 00:21:18presented anything to show me otherwise.
- 00:21:20Like I have no smoke, and I want to be
- 00:21:22clear, no smoke for Palestinian or
- 00:21:24Muslim voters or principal third party
- 00:21:26voters who drew the line at genocide. I
- 00:21:29have no issue with them because that is
- 00:21:31a very logical and reasonable response
- 00:21:33to the situation that they were facing
- 00:21:36going into the election. But as the data
- 00:21:38shows, that is a small amount of people
- 00:21:40literally for what we know right now.
- 00:21:42We're talking 170 something people that
- 00:21:45we know of at this point in terms of
- 00:21:47research out of 245 million. But the
- 00:21:50biggest difference still is that large
- 00:21:53group of mostly white straight suburban
- 00:21:55men who didn't vote because they felt
- 00:21:58uninspired. I don't know what y'all want
- 00:22:00me to think about these people under the
- 00:22:02circumstances. I do not know why some of
- 00:22:04y'all are so intent on protecting their
- 00:22:07egos because that's how we got here in
- 00:22:09the first place. All that said, this is
- 00:22:12still the political meta of the moment.
- 00:22:14As I said in the last video, if you're
- 00:22:16trying to understand the political
- 00:22:17reality of America, all you're really
- 00:22:19trying to do is figure out what gets
- 00:22:21white people to show up or not show up
- 00:22:22on election day. AOC is clearly gearing
- 00:22:24up for a presidential run. And she would
- 00:22:27probably be a significant improvement
- 00:22:29over anything the Dems have run in my
- 00:22:31adulthood. Even as she shows herself to
- 00:22:33be incredibly compromised, I don't care
- 00:22:35if y'all take that out of context. I
- 00:22:37know how y'all do. She doesn't stand a
- 00:22:38chance anyway because she's a woman and
- 00:22:40she's not white. So prepare for
- 00:22:42President Patrick Baker. The memes write
- 00:22:45themselves. This dude's already doing
- 00:22:46shitty podcast full of all the
- 00:22:48right-wing talking heads. The only
- 00:22:50reason he's probably not president now
- 00:22:52is cuz Biden refused to drop out the
- 00:22:54race. That is America's political
- 00:22:56reality in terms of real electoral
- 00:22:59politics. Brace yourself for that. But
- 00:23:01this does bring me to one last criticism
- 00:23:03of my video that I do think merits more
- 00:23:05response, which is and that my video was
- 00:23:07also in and of itself an example of
- 00:23:09feckless identity politics. Maybe.
- 00:23:12Maybe. My bad. It's not my goal to boil
- 00:23:15down this extremely complex political
- 00:23:18reality that we're dealing with to just
- 00:23:20race and gender with the intention of
- 00:23:22creating more leftist disunityity or
- 00:23:24presuming that more women or minorities
- 00:23:26in positions of power would fix the
- 00:23:28problem or making people think that if
- 00:23:30we just put more black people in places
- 00:23:32of visibility or more women in places of
- 00:23:34visibility that that is what the
- 00:23:36Democratic party needs or what we need
- 00:23:38to do to fight fascism, etc., etc.
- 00:23:41That's not what I was trying to do. Far
- 00:23:43from it. As I just said, the only way
- 00:23:45the Democrats win is to go to central
- 00:23:47casting and get Jack Johnson or John
- 00:23:49Jackson. But I can't deny that I kept
- 00:23:52seeing that type of sentiment in my own
- 00:23:54comment section. Don't let their
- 00:23:56identical DNA fool you. They differ on
- 00:23:58some key issues. I say your three cent
- 00:24:01titanium tax goes too far and I say your
- 00:24:04three cent titanium tax doesn't go too
- 00:24:06far enough. I kept seeing people in the
- 00:24:08comments positively responding to my
- 00:24:10analysis of the situation low-key as an
- 00:24:13endorsement of the Democratic Party and
- 00:24:14Kla Harris. So, let me try to be extra
- 00:24:17clear here. Kla Harris is bad. The
- 00:24:21Democratic Party is bad and identity
- 00:24:24politics as the extent of your political
- 00:24:26analysis is really, really bad. Black
- 00:24:30faces in high places also bad. I thought
- 00:24:33I was being clear about this, but one
- 00:24:35thing you realize after doing this for a
- 00:24:36long time is that so many people listen
- 00:24:39to your [ __ ] while they're like studying
- 00:24:41or cooking or washing dishes or
- 00:24:43something. You're very often just
- 00:24:46background noise, which I wouldn't mind
- 00:24:48if it wasn't for how many people circle
- 00:24:50back to comment on things that they
- 00:24:51clearly didn't understand, that they
- 00:24:53would have understood if they finished
- 00:24:54the video or paid attention. I wasn't
- 00:24:57aware of this, but I kind of have like a
- 00:25:00smooth, soothing voice. It's warm.
- 00:25:03Perfect for ASMR or whatever the [ __ ]
- 00:25:05that is. Maybe just falling asleep. Drop
- 00:25:08a comment if you like to turn me on
- 00:25:10before you fall asleep because my voice
- 00:25:12eases you in a state of coziness.
- 00:25:14Especially if it's a video about media
- 00:25:16or some cool history.
- 00:25:19Or if you can hear my voice, clap once.
- 00:25:22If you can hear my voice, clap twice. If
- 00:25:24you can hear my voice, clap three
- 00:25:27times. By focusing on identity politics
- 00:25:30of this election, I did erroneously give
- 00:25:33coverage to a lot of people who are
- 00:25:36failing to engage with the internal
- 00:25:38paradoxes of the modern Democratic
- 00:25:39party. Folks who either through
- 00:25:41ignorance or avarice don't just vote for
- 00:25:44Democrats as a form of harm reduction,
- 00:25:47but genuinely support their political
- 00:25:49project and seem disinterested in
- 00:25:51anything beyond electoral politics and
- 00:25:53sustaining of empire. So we need to
- 00:25:56address that. And from here things will
- 00:25:58get a bit ranty if you can't tell. So,
- 00:26:01brace yourselves. When rumbling started
- 00:26:03that Biden was about to drop out, I just
- 00:26:06knew they weren't going to run Kamla cuz
- 00:26:09as I said earlier, Kamla was bad. Can we
- 00:26:12admit that y'all? Not in the actual
- 00:26:15campaign. Real talk. I'll get to that in
- 00:26:17a second. But like y'all, Kamla was the
- 00:26:20first to drop out in 2020 and she was
- 00:26:23not good the entire four years as vice
- 00:26:26president. It's just the reality of the
- 00:26:28situation. And when they announced her
- 00:26:30as the nominee, I was surprised at the
- 00:26:33immense level of energy she immediately
- 00:26:35engendered out of the gate. That coconut
- 00:26:38[ __ ] that [ __ ] went off. Calling
- 00:26:40Republic is weird, that [ __ ] went off.
- 00:26:43not picking a Zionist for her running
- 00:26:45mate and picking one of the more
- 00:26:47progressive figures in the Democratic
- 00:26:48party right now. Win after win after win
- 00:26:51out the gate. She got off to an amazing
- 00:26:52start and I personally quickly changed
- 00:26:55my thinking. I thought she would win. I
- 00:26:58said in another video I hadn't seen this
- 00:26:59type of energy behind a Democratic
- 00:27:01candidate since Obama in '08. Kamla no
- 00:27:04show at a congressional meeting with
- 00:27:05Netanyahu and people thought she might
- 00:27:07actually break with Biden's policy on
- 00:27:09Israel. [ __ ] was really looking good
- 00:27:11despite the fact that she was low-key
- 00:27:13put in a really bad situation to be
- 00:27:16starting a campaign halfway through the
- 00:27:18campaign season. And I do feel like had
- 00:27:21she kept with this strategy that gave
- 00:27:22her so much momentum even without a real
- 00:27:25campaign or a primary, she maybe could
- 00:27:27have pulled out an upset victory. And
- 00:27:29that actually surprised and concerned me
- 00:27:31about how quickly specifically black
- 00:27:33liberals were falling for the same song
- 00:27:36and dance like we did with Obama over a
- 00:27:38decade ago. I have whole scripts, one of
- 00:27:40which is on my Patreon, where I was
- 00:27:41trying to think about what the best way
- 00:27:44Ford was going to be to pull in these
- 00:27:48black liberals when Kamla eventually did
- 00:27:50what Democrats always did after she was
- 00:27:53president cuz I just knew in my head she
- 00:27:55was going to win. Keeping it real, deep
- 00:27:57inside, I was ready to go to at least
- 00:28:00one or two Black Excellence brunches
- 00:28:02after the time, you know, open bar, a
- 00:28:04couple of stroll lines. It is what it
- 00:28:06is. We all have our vices. Say what you
- 00:28:08want about Kamla, but truth be told, if
- 00:28:11you take a step back and look at the
- 00:28:12landscape of things, she did a really
- 00:28:14good job of what she was given at that
- 00:28:17point. And there's been a lot of
- 00:28:18statistical analysis that shows that she
- 00:28:20outperformed what was expected of her.
- 00:28:22But then she remembered, and the
- 00:28:24Democratic party remembered that they
- 00:28:26are a party of co-opted, neoimperialist,
- 00:28:29corporately owned fascists, just like
- 00:28:31the Republicans, but more polite about
- 00:28:33it. BP, the editor of this video, says
- 00:28:35that we really have only one party with
- 00:28:38two faces, essentially a good cop and a
- 00:28:40bad cop. And I think that's a great take
- 00:28:42on it. The first sign was when Kamla
- 00:28:45gave basically an anime villain speech
- 00:28:46at the Democratic National
- 00:28:54Convention. And then they refused to
- 00:28:56allow even a vetted Palestinian official
- 00:28:58to speak. She kept silencing anti-
- 00:29:00genocide protesters at her rallies. She
- 00:29:03starts talking about fracking, barely
- 00:29:05missions social issues, begins
- 00:29:07campaigning with Liz Cheney. The whole
- 00:29:09thing really said a lot about who the
- 00:29:10Democrats are and that they think the
- 00:29:12left link of their supporters can just
- 00:29:13be ignored and that popular policy
- 00:29:15stance is like ending the genocide and
- 00:29:17Medicare for all were not useful enough
- 00:29:19to run. So they ran Kamla as a moderate
- 00:29:22Republican. On paper, she was basically
- 00:29:24Mitt Romney. And I had to remind myself
- 00:29:26in the aftermath that Kamla was the
- 00:29:29first person to drop out the race in
- 00:29:302020. that she lacks really core guiding
- 00:29:34principles as a politician other than
- 00:29:36wanting to win. This is the case in her
- 00:29:38incredibly inconsistent time as a
- 00:29:40district attorney followed by a sharp
- 00:29:42leftward swing as a senator largely due
- 00:29:44to the wave of progressive ideology
- 00:29:47low-key engendered by Bernie Sanders.
- 00:29:50And then when she became the vice
- 00:29:51president, she basically disappeared.
- 00:29:53Like you can't name me too many moments
- 00:29:56of her as vice president that you
- 00:29:57remember that impacts you in any
- 00:29:59significant way. But then she came out
- 00:30:01strong throwing coconuts and we're like,
- 00:30:03"Oh [ __ ] it might happen." And then she
- 00:30:06turns into Joseph Lieberman. That's who
- 00:30:08Kla Harris is. I say Kla Harris is bad
- 00:30:11because of her actions and her
- 00:30:12affiliations, but in truth, I can't
- 00:30:14really tell who Kla Harris is other than
- 00:30:16who she's aligned herself with. Like a
- 00:30:19bit of analysis on Biden's history, and
- 00:30:21you know exactly who Joe Biden is. Shout
- 00:30:23out to Elliot Sang did a great video
- 00:30:25that I'll leave in the description. a
- 00:30:27little analysis on Barack and you see
- 00:30:28exactly why he had the problems he has.
- 00:30:30I have two old videos about that that
- 00:30:32nobody's watched, but feel free to check
- 00:30:34it out in the channel. You don't have to
- 00:30:36study Trump too much to see where he
- 00:30:38stands. But Kamla probably as a
- 00:30:40byproduct of being a successful black
- 00:30:42woman in this space is a chameleon and
- 00:30:45lacks any internal consistency to be
- 00:30:47predictive other than she's going to do
- 00:30:50what she thinks she's supposed to do as
- 00:30:52told by the people with power over her.
- 00:30:54And that's what happened in her
- 00:30:55campaign. And it almost worked. It
- 00:30:57almost worked. But even now, after
- 00:31:00building that strong coalition, after
- 00:31:02building that movement, she's been MIA.
- 00:31:05The Democratic Party as a whole has no
- 00:31:07leaders. What you got Chuck Schumer,
- 00:31:10like y'all. Anyway, all that [ __ ] aside,
- 00:31:13I want to again come back to the fact
- 00:31:15that I voted for Kla Harris. I wanted
- 00:31:18her to win cuz I didn't want to deal
- 00:31:20with President Trump a second time. I am
- 00:31:22not a principal leftist. I do not
- 00:31:24believe the idea that there is
- 00:31:26absolutely no difference between the two
- 00:31:28parties when it comes to like most
- 00:31:30people and how it impacts their lives.
- 00:31:32Again, I know people right now applying
- 00:31:35for unemployment because Donald Trump is
- 00:31:38president. But I also don't end it there
- 00:31:40or limit my political imagination to
- 00:31:42whatever slop the Democrats trot out
- 00:31:44every four years or get bamboozled, key
- 00:31:47word there, into thinking that a shiny
- 00:31:49new black face within the same structure
- 00:31:52is going to somehow produce a different
- 00:31:54result. When Democrats with actual
- 00:31:56principles make it too far, they cheat
- 00:31:57them out of their position like a Bernie
- 00:31:59Sanders or they push them out of their
- 00:32:01position like a Jamal Bowman. And then
- 00:32:03they'll install crooks like Eric Adams
- 00:32:05to shuck and jive in our face and make
- 00:32:07us think that something is happening
- 00:32:09when it's not. Black folks watching,
- 00:32:11y'all know the term all skin folk and
- 00:32:13kinfolk. But I think we need to update
- 00:32:16that a little bit because I feel like
- 00:32:17people don't realize that the most
- 00:32:20dangerous black folks, the most
- 00:32:22dangerous folks that look like us, they
- 00:32:24don't talk like Candace Owens. They
- 00:32:26don't align themselves with Republicans.
- 00:32:28If you know anything about black
- 00:32:29conservatives, they don't really exist
- 00:32:30in black spaces too tough. They just
- 00:32:32don't. All the black Republicans that
- 00:32:34the Republican party trots out to be
- 00:32:36talking heads to launder their [ __ ]
- 00:32:38they don't ever represent majority black
- 00:32:40districts. It's just not a thing that
- 00:32:42happens. We don't really need to be
- 00:32:43worried about Candace Owens. We need to
- 00:32:45be worried about Jasmine Crockett. Is
- 00:32:47Jasmine Crockett compromised? I don't
- 00:32:49know. I'm just putting it out there. I
- 00:32:51don't know if she is. I don't have no
- 00:32:52shade for her in the moment other than
- 00:32:53being a Democrat, but like she might be
- 00:32:55one of the good ones, right? She fits
- 00:32:57the image of what Democrats and the
- 00:32:59system and these neoliberal fascists and
- 00:33:02our administrators put out to us to make
- 00:33:05us feel like something is happening when
- 00:33:07it's not. We're quick to point and laugh
- 00:33:10at like Tim Scott and Hershel Walker,
- 00:33:13etc. Meanwhile, Jim Klyurn is doing dirt
- 00:33:16in South Carolina for 30 years now
- 00:33:18without anyone checking him on what he's
- 00:33:21been doing. That's how they play us.
- 00:33:23Black folks complain about how the
- 00:33:25Democratic Party doesn't do anything for
- 00:33:27black people, which is true. But it's
- 00:33:29people like Jim Clyburn who make that
- 00:33:32possible. His role, like most of these
- 00:33:34folks, is to keep you voting while never
- 00:33:36allowing you to demand more for what
- 00:33:39your vote is worth. They've been pulling
- 00:33:40this on us since Barack and really
- 00:33:42before then. And if you don't recognize
- 00:33:44that trick, they're going to keep doing
- 00:33:46it until they get all of our freedoms
- 00:33:48and rights in a bag that they're going
- 00:33:50to burn on the White House law. It may
- 00:33:52feel like I'm going hard here, but it's
- 00:33:54because I need to be clear and honest. I
- 00:33:57hit my power level a little
- 00:33:59bit because I understand that my
- 00:34:02audience is going to be mostly made up
- 00:34:04of people that I will, for lack of
- 00:34:05better word, describe as normal, who are
- 00:34:08maybe left-leaning, maybe communism
- 00:34:10curious and want to dabble further to
- 00:34:13see what that looks like. Right? Despite
- 00:34:15what your favorite yappers on TikTok
- 00:34:17will have you think, we are not going to
- 00:34:19have a big coalition of leftists without
- 00:34:21pulling in people who are amenable to
- 00:34:23our cause and beliefs. And we have to
- 00:34:26learn how to talk to those people. Sorry
- 00:34:28if that offends you. If that offends my
- 00:34:30further left audience, those folks who
- 00:34:32are attempting to grow a broader leftist
- 00:34:35movement with their 300 people in their
- 00:34:37Discord server who argue over which
- 00:34:39mustache European guy is the most
- 00:34:41important leftist Pokemon to start the
- 00:34:43revolution with. I'm sorry. You can go
- 00:34:46watch Yugopnik or something like that
- 00:34:48was probably a little shady, but like no
- 00:34:50shade intended for Yugopnik. He makes
- 00:34:51really good videos. Shout out to the
- 00:34:53many creators to my left who make
- 00:34:55educational content. is a nice like list
- 00:34:59of some further left than me channels
- 00:35:02that you should check out. I'll leave
- 00:35:04them in the description. They will
- 00:35:06provide more explicit, more in-depth and
- 00:35:08better informed videos on leftist
- 00:35:10politics than I can. If you really care
- 00:35:13about these things, if you really are
- 00:35:15communism curious, as I just said, you
- 00:35:18need to be checking them out. I'm just
- 00:35:19an entry point, a useful one, a hype
- 00:35:21man, if you will. Again, shout out to
- 00:35:22Yugapnik. My hope is that one day I'll
- 00:35:26be too much of a dirty lib that the
- 00:35:29leftist YouTube space will have nothing
- 00:35:31for me and I won't be able to get a
- 00:35:32single subscriber because my basic and
- 00:35:35moderate takes on dialectical
- 00:35:37materialism are just too mundane and
- 00:35:40boring for of all the uber based
- 00:35:42communist bros out there that make up
- 00:35:45those audiences. But that's that's not
- 00:35:47the case. I'm pretty sure by the time
- 00:35:49you see this I'll have hit a million
- 00:35:50subscribers. And I'm not pointing that
- 00:35:52out to brag, but I'm pointing that out
- 00:35:53to show us what the landscape actually
- 00:35:56looks like because I'm not a political
- 00:35:58activist or a leader. I'm a creator. I'm
- 00:36:01an entertainer at my best. I'm an
- 00:36:03edutainer and I'm good at that. And
- 00:36:05that's what most of you are here for.
- 00:36:08But I need y'all to understand that as
- 00:36:10much as I do, and I think a lot of
- 00:36:12people don't. The homie Lil just put a
- 00:36:15post up the other day and made a a great
- 00:36:17point. and he pointed out that well over
- 00:36:19a year ago he made a video with his
- 00:36:21explicit and exact beliefs and plans
- 00:36:24like strategies for building a better
- 00:36:26society and political movement. It was
- 00:36:28really good and nobody [ __ ] watched
- 00:36:30it. It is by far his worst performing
- 00:36:32video like you know per capita since he
- 00:36:35emerged on the YouTube leftwing scene.
- 00:36:38When I made a video last year for
- 00:36:40students protesting the genocide in
- 00:36:42Palestine that were on college campuses
- 00:36:44last year, I got 150,000 views in that
- 00:36:46video. When I made a video a few years
- 00:36:48ago where I interviewed a local activist
- 00:36:50about Cop City in Atlanta, I got less
- 00:36:53than 150,000 views on that video. Diddy
- 00:36:55breakdown video, 3 million views in two
- 00:36:58months. I'm not mad. I just I need y'all
- 00:37:00to see what I see cuz some of y'all be
- 00:37:02in my comment section acting like you
- 00:37:04don't [ __ ] have eyes. Videos about
- 00:37:06practice do not get viewed. Channels
- 00:37:09that are purely dedicated to education
- 00:37:11do not get subscribers. And it's not
- 00:37:14just the algorithm because as you know
- 00:37:16the algorithm is a reflection of the
- 00:37:18audience. And despite what Kendrick
- 00:37:20said, the revolution will not be
- 00:37:22televised or for that matter live
- 00:37:24stream. Not until I reach 2 million
- 00:37:26subscribers. That's right y'all. At 2
- 00:37:28million subs, all channel members and
- 00:37:31patrons get exclusive access to the
- 00:37:33Revolution live stream at a later date
- 00:37:35to be determined. Make sure you follow
- 00:37:37me on Twitter and Instagram for updates
- 00:37:39about this special event that I'm going
- 00:37:40to do as soon as I get enough clout and
- 00:37:43money. At that point, it is on. Like,
- 00:37:47share, and subscribe. I'm obviously
- 00:37:48joking. And I'm like, honestly, I'm not
- 00:37:51mad. I'm annoyed, but I'm not mad. I
- 00:37:54know the wager at play here. I knew it
- 00:37:57pretty early on. I figured it out after
- 00:38:00I made [ __ ] the police that even though
- 00:38:03that video was something I was really
- 00:38:06proud of, it was immediately essentially
- 00:38:09an act of counterinsurgency to think of
- 00:38:12it as a bigger thing than it actually
- 00:38:14was, which was a really entertaining
- 00:38:16video that hopefully educated some
- 00:38:19people on the prison industrial complex.
- 00:38:21But after that video, even though I put
- 00:38:22experts in that video, like BP, the
- 00:38:25editor of this video, actually worked
- 00:38:27with the organization called Fight Toxic
- 00:38:28Prisons to shut down prisons literally
- 00:38:31across the country, or Olay, who is a
- 00:38:34well-known abolitionist in New York, or
- 00:38:37Tulac, who has written about this in his
- 00:38:39work. People were reaching out to me as
- 00:38:42an expert on abolition, and I am not.
- 00:38:46But that's how clout works. And I need
- 00:38:49y'all to understand this. It's not just
- 00:38:52me. All of your favorite big ticket,
- 00:38:56bigname creators, we are not activists.
- 00:38:59We are not leaders. We are not
- 00:39:01revolutionaries. We are entertainers
- 00:39:03first and anything else second. I
- 00:39:06managed to sneak in important things
- 00:39:08hopefully to spark a match in everything
- 00:39:10I put out there. But the real work does
- 00:39:12not happen on my channel page. It
- 00:39:14happens outside. In that first
- 00:39:16post-election video, which currently
- 00:39:18sits at over one million views today,
- 00:39:20shout out to me, I asked at the end for
- 00:39:23people to touch grass. Whether you
- 00:39:25disagreed with my logic and analysis or
- 00:39:27not, I have to ask, did you at least get
- 00:39:29active? Have you went to a meeting
- 00:39:31online or offline, attended a seminar,
- 00:39:34donated some money, even just cleaned up
- 00:39:36your neighborhood, met your neighbors?
- 00:39:38All of those things are actual important
- 00:39:41vectors of resistance. Have you done
- 00:39:44them? Or are you just watching me? Or
- 00:39:47Hassan or Noah or foreign man? Or insert
- 00:39:52there's always like a guy with a
- 00:39:54mustache that looks like this. One of
- 00:39:56these dudes. The pinned comment in that
- 00:39:58video has 200 comments of people talking
- 00:40:01about their organizing efforts, talk
- 00:40:02about talking about the organizations.
- 00:40:04You can still go there. I'm going to put
- 00:40:06a document in this description that
- 00:40:08specifically tells you ways to resist
- 00:40:10that aren't voting or related to going
- 00:40:12to a protest and watching YouTube videos
- 00:40:15is not on it. Content consumption is not
- 00:40:18practice. The people that have the most
- 00:40:20to add to these conversations cannot get
- 00:40:23people to watch their videos because the
- 00:40:26space in which this exists does not
- 00:40:29include people that are that interested
- 00:40:31in actually changing things. That's why
- 00:40:33I think my role is important because I'm
- 00:40:36hoping that I can provide enough good
- 00:40:38propaganda to increase that amount just
- 00:40:41a little bit with every video. This may
- 00:40:43be myopic. I'm willing to update this
- 00:40:45take. And I've talked to people that
- 00:40:47feel otherwise. There's maybe ways that
- 00:40:49one day we could harness the power of
- 00:40:51influence to do more than what I'm doing
- 00:40:54right now. But from where I stand at the
- 00:40:56moment, consecration for politics is
- 00:40:59dangerous. It's why my videos have
- 00:41:01gotten less overtly political in the
- 00:41:03last year or two. I personally feel like
- 00:41:05stand culture and winning internet
- 00:41:06battles is way too important to people
- 00:41:09as opposed to changing culture and
- 00:41:12winning freedom. And I think that's
- 00:41:14because a lot of people that watch me
- 00:41:16and all these other creators are not
- 00:41:18leftists, they're leftist fans. And that
- 00:41:21is a difference. To wrap up, I realize
- 00:41:25now that I was struggling with like a
- 00:41:27thing as I made that video that I didn't
- 00:41:30fully understand until the video was
- 00:41:32already done. It's just how it is
- 00:41:33sometimes. When I was looking at the
- 00:41:35criticism and looking at what I actually
- 00:41:37had to say, I was really stuck wondering
- 00:41:39to myself, why did I feel the need to
- 00:41:42make that video in the first place? Why
- 00:41:44point out something as obvious and
- 00:41:45simple as identity politics in the first
- 00:41:47place when that is obvious but maybe
- 00:41:50less obvious than I thought people
- 00:41:52understood but whatever. Why was it
- 00:41:54important to me to let people know that
- 00:41:55Kamla's laws wasn't because of leftists
- 00:41:58but of regular old racists and moderates
- 00:42:01and people who are apathetic to
- 00:42:03politics? What I realize now is that I
- 00:42:06was just simply very frustrated. I was
- 00:42:09frustrated that we're doing all this
- 00:42:10talking about geopolitics and
- 00:42:12environmental policy and economics. And
- 00:42:14at the end of the day, what mattered the
- 00:42:16most, as far as I can tell, was
- 00:42:19anti-trans political ads. And I'm not
- 00:42:21the first person to say that. Those ads
- 00:42:23saying Kamla is for they them, Trump is
- 00:42:25for you, did big numbers with normal
- 00:42:28Americans. And until we address what
- 00:42:32normal Americans think, I don't know
- 00:42:34what we're doing. I also realized I was
- 00:42:36annoyed with how much the online left
- 00:42:38imitates stand culture with no
- 00:42:40self-awareness of this fact. Like some
- 00:42:43of these fan bases for different leftist
- 00:42:46communities, even communities I [ __ ]
- 00:42:48with, act more like the barbs than they
- 00:42:50do the red guard. And they don't realize
- 00:42:52it. And they don't realize it because we
- 00:42:55are in a bubble. bubbles that according
- 00:42:58to research are not exactly shrinking,
- 00:43:00but are not very big compared to the
- 00:43:03counterpart right-wing spaces that we're
- 00:43:05competing against, not just for eyeballs
- 00:43:08and AdSense, but for ideas and political
- 00:43:11power. A recent study just showed that
- 00:43:14right-wing media demonstrabably
- 00:43:15dominates the media sphere. I knew this
- 00:43:18for years, but I feel like those who are
- 00:43:20within this space, not as creators, but
- 00:43:22as consumers, don't quite get just how
- 00:43:25far behind we are in terms of spreading
- 00:43:27ideas because you all are over here and
- 00:43:29you like us. And I appreciate that. But
- 00:43:32if you're watching me, right, you
- 00:43:34probably are also getting Tik Toks and
- 00:43:36Instagram reals about regretful Trump
- 00:43:39voters and, oh no, ICE arrested my wife
- 00:43:42and I'm on Medicaid and Trump is going
- 00:43:44to take it and the lepers eat my face.
- 00:43:46Right? And I get it. I watch those
- 00:43:48videos. I love a lot of them. Shout out
- 00:43:50to Franchesca Ramsay. But understand,
- 00:43:52sure, these things are happening and
- 00:43:54like they're real, but they don't
- 00:43:56represent the reality of the situation.
- 00:43:59Trump just recently had his highest
- 00:44:01approval rating ever as a president in
- 00:44:03all his years of being president. Right
- 00:44:05now, he is rated the highest he's ever
- 00:44:08been. He's not over 50%, mind you,
- 00:44:10showing that he is not and has never
- 00:44:12been popular, but he's more popular now
- 00:44:14than any other time in his political
- 00:44:16career. And one of the main reasons he's
- 00:44:18so popular is that 56% of Americans
- 00:44:21approve with what he's been doing with
- 00:44:24immigration. 56% of Americans are okay
- 00:44:27with the police state he's erecting
- 00:44:29around this country with ICE, that there
- 00:44:31are soldiers in masks running into
- 00:44:34elementary schools to snatch up young
- 00:44:36children. That's the country we live in.
- 00:44:39That's the challenge ahead of us. That's
- 00:44:42the reality outside of our bubble. The
- 00:44:45irony is that the American left is
- 00:44:47bigger and more powerful than it's ever
- 00:44:48been probably in like 50 years. But in
- 00:44:51that time frame, the right-wing has run
- 00:44:54up the score something serious. We are
- 00:44:57way far behind right now. So far behind
- 00:45:00that we couldn't get a moderate
- 00:45:02Republican elected because they had a
- 00:45:04uterus and too much melanin. so far
- 00:45:06behind that the average American who
- 00:45:09voted went for the adjudicated sex pest
- 00:45:12felon. That's where we are right now. It
- 00:45:15doesn't mean we shouldn't keep fighting
- 00:45:16to quote Lacricia McVal dumerism is just
- 00:45:19privileged people giving themselves
- 00:45:21permission to give up. But we do need to
- 00:45:23recognize that we have to step our game
- 00:45:25up that we have way more to do outside
- 00:45:28of arguing in comment sections and that
- 00:45:30we need to step outside of our media
- 00:45:31bubbles in order to get that work done.
- 00:45:34And no, although it sounds like it, I am
- 00:45:36not transitioning to an ad for ground
- 00:45:39news. I am transitioning to an ad for
- 00:45:42Nebula. This video is actually sponsored
- 00:45:44by me and my streaming service, Nebula.
- 00:45:46Last year, I started working on a video
- 00:45:49somewhat related to this topic, but
- 00:45:50specifically with the goal of analyzing
- 00:45:52the concept of what it means to be white
- 00:45:55in America. And when I was done with the
- 00:45:57writing and the interviews, I realized
- 00:45:59it was too good that I need to try to
- 00:46:01make it bigger than what a YouTube video
- 00:46:03could be. So, I talked to Nebula and
- 00:46:05we're now in the planning process to see
- 00:46:06what this could be in the future. But in
- 00:46:08the meantime, I put parts of its
- 00:46:10original scope together for my latest
- 00:46:12piece of Nebula original content,
- 00:46:14Talking to White People. Talking to
- 00:46:15White People is a short documentary
- 00:46:16where I explore the concept of being
- 00:46:18white with a variety of different
- 00:46:19creators who are white. And it's gotten
- 00:46:22a ton of positive feedback. I've had
- 00:46:23people email me about putting it on
- 00:46:25YouTube because they want everyone to
- 00:46:27see it even in its limited format, but
- 00:46:29that's just not going to happen cuz I
- 00:46:30need to be as successful as possible on
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- 00:46:34better things because that's what we're
- 00:46:36doing on Nebula right now. Some of you
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- 00:46:39where some of YouTube's best creators
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- 00:46:43Nebula has been focusing more on seeing
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- 00:46:50support. And thus, Nebula has went from
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- 00:46:54an independent production company. And
- 00:46:55along with my new project, Talking to
- 00:46:57White People, we also have full
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- 00:47:00examines how the baby boomer generation
- 00:47:02and other older people are affecting the
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- 00:47:28this really dope short film into a much
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