What happened in Georgia is just an awful tragedy. And I know we've got a lot of parents and a lot of grandparents in this room. I mean, I cannot imagine, you know, little kids so excited to go back to school. God love them. And they're at their first week back [00:00:15] from the summer, and an absolute barbarian decides to open fire and take their lives. And also a couple teachers. We gotta we gotta think about these people. If you're the praying type and I know I am, we gotta hold them up in prayer. We gotta be, we gotta be hoping for the best for these, [00:00:30] for this incredible community. Because no parent should have to deal with this. So that is JD Vance doing the thing that Republicans need to do 50 to 100 times a year when there's a big mass shooting, a big school shooting, they need to come out and be seen to briefly talk about it, [00:00:48] as if it's a tragedy that they'll do anything to stop. But in this particular case, JD Vance is actually getting some backlash for his comments. Now. Others are saying the media has taken him out of context. We're going to evaluate all of that. But first of all here is what he actually said. [00:01:04] The Kamala Harris answer to this is to take law abiding American citizens guns away from them. That is what Kamala Harris wants to do. What is going to solve this problem? I and I really do believe this is look, I don't like this. I don't like to admit this. I don't like that this is a fact of life. [00:01:19] But if you're if you are a psycho and you want to make headlines, you realize that our schools are soft targets. And we have got to bolster security at our schools so that a person who walks through the front door. [00:01:37] We've got to bolster security so that if a psycho wants to walk through the front door and kill a bunch of children, they're not able to. And again, as a parent, do I want my kid's school to have additional security? No, of course I don't. I don't want my kids to go to school in a place where they feel like you've got to have additional security, but that is increasingly the reality that we live in. [00:01:55] He does the thing there, in addition to many other things that people have a problem with, where he asks himself a really easy question so he can answer it and make himself look smart. Like, do I want these things to happen? I would love him to answer a question when the the psycho the barbarian [00:02:10] busts through the door. Do you want him to have an AR 15 or do you not? Would it be better if he didn't have access to an AR 15? Answer a question that you may maybe don't want to, but the relevant phrase there was fact of life and you've probably seen this going around. [00:02:27] He said at least once, maybe twice, that this is a fact of life and that has been used in tweets and in ads and in press releases where Kamala Harris and her allies, people who want to see her get elected, are saying that he has described what happened as a fact of life. [00:02:43] And now on the right, they say that's not fair. What he was describing is it's a fact of life that some psycho wanting to make a name for himself can attack a school, but oh, he's saying he doesn't like that. As if that changes that. He's identifying that it's a fact of life and also he wants there [00:03:00] to be more security. So here's the thing that is being described as taking him out of context. And I don't think that's true at all. It might have taken him out of the specific sentence that it appeared in, but that's not what context is. Context is the remarks he was making, what they're asserting, [00:03:19] Kamala Harris and the others, when they say he's just saying it's a fact of life, is he's saying, what are you going to do? We're not going to change anything. It's just going to happen the way that it does 1 to 200 times a year in America. And the right would say, that's not fair. That's not literally what he said. [00:03:36] You're taking him out of context. So what's the context here? He said, I don't like it. It's really bad. Let's pray for them. Let's have more security. Let's have a guard, let's lock a door. Let's do X, Y and Z. The things they always say, let's do the things we know [00:03:55] won't stop these things from happening. So the context is he's doing what Republicans always do. He's pretending to have an issue with the fact that people lost their lives. He's proposing changes that protect gun manufacturers and the NRA from anything [00:04:10] that affects their bottom line. And doing nothing to actually stop the next shooting, or the next ten shootings or the next hundred shootings from happening, that's the context. The context is he believes it's a fact of life. The context is he's going to make sure that it keeps happening. [00:04:26] So maybe Kamala Harris could have put more words inside of the quotation marks, but they're dead on in terms of what the context of JD Vance was. - Hey, don't scroll away. - Come back, come back. Because before the video continues, we just want to urge you to lend your support to TYT. [00:04:42] You power our honest reporting. You do it at t t.com/team and we love you for it. Yeah. So let me take this one at a time. First of all thoughts and prayers. Has it worked yet? Because we've had nonstop thoughts and prayers about mass shootings, you would [00:04:58] think by now it would have worked right? Oh, right. Yeah, that's totally irrelevant. And so, look, if you're a good religious person out there, God bless you. Thank you for caring in your own way to, you know, when you do the thoughts [00:05:13] and prayers and you mean it. I it's not going to prevent the next shooting, but you're trying to do the right thing as much as you can. But remember, a lot of these politicians are soulless and tons of them. Remember that almost the entire Republican Party wants Donald Trump to lose. [00:05:29] The politicians do. Right. I just want to be rid of him. That was a story that came out recently. And so they're constantly lying in when they're on TV in public and say, of course, the number one lie is, oh, my donors, Joe Manchin said on The Young Turks. I don't know who my top donors are. [00:05:48] So politicians lie all the time. A lot of these guys are atheists, so they say the thoughts and prayers line as kind of an internal joke. They think it's going to nothing. And they're like, that way. I could just keep taking the money from the gun manufacturers and the NRA, and I'll have these their own voters they treat as suckers like, [00:06:06] oh, you had two thoughts and prayers, NRA send me the check. It's really gross. Now, on whether he was in or out of context I don't really care. So in a place where you take someone out of context and he didn't mean that at all. [00:06:21] If you add the last part, it turns out it reverses what he was saying, right? It was a joke and you never got to the punchline. It was sarcastic. It was this or that, right? In this case, what? What's he trying to say? He's trying to say like this is relatively normal. [00:06:38] So I have a new plan for so that it's not normal. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt there. Right. And my new plan is let's just turn the country into a giant militarized state where there's men with weapons in front of all the doors. And first we'll start with the schools. [00:06:54] And so we'll scare the crap out of all of our kids, and they'll have to walk past weapons every day like they live in some developing country from the 1960s with, you know, that at any point there could be a junta, right? And I've been I've seen countries where there are men with weapons at the doors. [00:07:12] They are not pleasant countries. Okay. And so the idea is, as usual, let me help my donors. And instead of having less guns, which would actually help, let's do more guns. And it's not. And they always do this lie of, hey, if you want to do any gun control, [00:07:30] like, hey, red flag laws, if there's a mental health issue, or if there was violence before or somebody had posed a threat before, they're like, you're. Going to take away all of our guns. No, no, no, brother, we're trying to have a reasonable discussion here. Which what amount of gun control should we do? [00:07:46] Okay. So how about, just registering your gun, which allows us to track when a murderer uses a gun? In fact, an overwhelming majority of gun owners are in favor of that because they don't plan to commit a crime with their gun. The only people that are against it is the NRA, because they want the guns to go [00:08:04] to the bad guys and be unaccountable, and then the good guys panic and they buy more guns, etc. So it's overwhelmingly a favorable should we do that one? - You're trying to take away all. - Of our guns. No, no, no. You're lying. You're totally, utterly lying on behalf of your donors. And yes, a little bit of this gun, culture that's lost its way. [00:08:23] But overall, the Republican solution is either absolutely nothing or a moronic ideas like teachers with guns. Only one door at the school. Like, as if doors are the. No, guns aren't the problem. Doors are the problem. [00:08:40] That's what the dumbass Ted Cruz said last time. Or was it seven mass shootings ago? It's hard to remember and do. Does it look like the Republicans have proposed a single thing that protects your kids? So a lot of yapping about when it's, oh. [00:08:55] - I'm pro-life, I care so much about the. - Kids. Oh, they murdered your kids in a school. Who cares? I don't want to do anything about it. Oh, I care so much about kids. Well, how about the kids in Gaza? Who cares about them, man? I just want to control women's bodies. Get out of here. They never. How about mental health? Always talking about. - Oh, it's a mental health thing. - It's not the guns. [00:09:11] It's not the guns. It's mental. Health. As if we're the only ones that have mental health issues. The entire world has a certain percentage of people that have mental health problems. But okay, put that aside. Did you propose to increase mental health funding so we could fix the problem that, as you claim, is the number one issue? [00:09:26] Good news. It did get proposed. All the Republicans voted against it. These Republican politicians are 100% liars, so you don't have to take them out of context. You can put them in context and they will tell you something vicious, stupid, and a total lie. [00:09:43] I mean, I think that's. Listen, here's here's my problem with this context conversation. Let's have a context conversation around the AR 15 and why, while civilians have access to it in the first place, when the guy who created who happens to be a marine, just like me created it because he felt the military, the United States military, [00:10:02] not United States regular citizens or civilians military, needed a lightweight rifle to make them more efficient at war. At war. So we continue to see people being killed in schools by a machine that was created to be more efficient at killing, at war, at war. [00:10:22] And that's the context in which we should be having this conversation. But much like John said, J.D. Vance said, no Republican will ever ask them that question because it will cost them the badge of honor that comes along with being having an A rating from the NRA. The idea that people in this country continues to blame people [00:10:39] with mental health issues every time there's a shooting is dastardly to me, just as you said we have. I mean, we are one of 190 plus countries in this world. There are people with mental health issues all over. They just don't have access to guns like we do. [00:10:54] We don't have the goal to address our gun problem and so we don't. Australia had one mass shooting and immediately addressed it and they've not had another one since. Sweden locks up. You can own a gun in Sweden, but they lock them up in a community center. You cannot take it home overnight. [00:11:09] They don't have the gun problem. We do. Japan don't have the gun problem. We do. It's an American thing to own these guns and kill other Americans with guns. Because that too, is as American as apple pie and baseball. Yeah, you got into this. [00:11:24] I just I love that we continually act as if we're the only country that exists. There's no other society. There's no examples we can learn from, as if we are not surrounded by close to 200 other countries, none of whom have the sort of mass violence [00:11:42] school shootings and all that that we do. And as you point out, you know, they have music, they have video games, they have doors. Like, does anyone think that if you were to go to Japan, it's like to get into the school, there's like a little tube like this. [00:11:58] That's the only way in. And the rest of it's just mithril all around. Who thinks that? What is the what is the actual difference between us and them? It's not mental health, as you said. That's a human thing. It's everywhere. It's just. It's just the guns. It's just the easy access to the guns. [00:12:15] If you can't get those guns, you can't do the crimes that those guns enable you to do. This is the simplest thing in the world, and so much money and effort on the right goes into getting people who should be thinking about the safety and security of their kids and their loved ones, to instead buy these lies, and to follow a squirrel down to more doors or a [00:12:35] security officer or whatever, it's insane. So, to be fair, John, it might be the video games. Japan doesn't have any video games. Right? Okay. All right, I'm going to give you the last word to Gary Cooper, one of our members. [00:12:51] I love our members. I love making them part of our show. Hit the join button below the video on YouTube. Become one of our members. Be part of the show, Gary wrote in on a much lighter note about JD Vance. Vance always sounds like a squid who's trying to imagine what life for humans must be like, and giving advice based on those assumptions. [00:13:08] That is like a really weird way of putting it, but it's also hilarious. And now I can't get the squid out of my head after I read that. Gary. So from now on, whenever I see JD Vance, he's like, I'm going to be like imagining the squid in his head going, what would humans do? [00:13:26] Nice job. Way to be. Hey, guys, I members are part of the Young Turks. We're not the Young Turks. You're the Young Turks. Thanks for watching the Young Turks. Really appreciate it. Another way to show support is through YouTube memberships. You'll get to interact with us more. There's live chat emojis, badges. [00:13:42] You've got emojis of me Anna John Jr. So those are super fun. But you also get playback of our exclusive member only shows and specials right after they air. So all of that, all you got to do is click that join button right underneath the video. [00:13:57] Thank you.