Well, let's talk about Bakari Sellers because he's a upset political commentator. Bakari Sellers got his knickers in a twist this weekend when DNC vice chair David Hogg appeared to call out the beloved and honorable Representative James Clyburn. [00:00:17] Now, this comes as the Democratic National Committee officially opens the door to replacing Hogg as a vice chair. But look, before we get into any of that, let's focus on this whole Clyburn debacle. So this all stemmed from a comment Clyburn made to the Wall Street Journal for [00:00:35] a piece about older Democratic lawmakers, which is a problem who are basically unwilling to step aside, allow for new, fresh leadership to come on board. And despite being 84 years young, he [00:00:51] seemed offended when asked if he thought about maybe it's a good time to retire. Okay, here's what he said in response to that, Nancy left her her seat. Steny left his seat. I left my seat. [00:01:06] What the hell am I supposed to do now? What do you want me to give up my life? So, in other words, the idea that he should retire is very, very offensive to him. Now then, on Real Time with Bill Maher, David Hogg took a veiled shot at Clyburn, [00:01:23] saying, there have been a few members that have come out that have said, well, you know, if I retire, my life is effectively over. And what I would say is, get over yourself. This isn't about you. This is about our country, and it's about your constituents. [00:01:39] I don't care if you've been there for decades or just one term. That seat is not yours. It is your constituents. That is who you're there to serve. And if they choose to serve and if they choose to serve somebody else, so be it. [00:01:54] That's all we're trying to do with leaders we deserve. I guess that's the organization he's behind. Give people the option to vote for somebody that isn't necessarily the same person that's been there forever now. Bakari Sellers was very offended by this. Okay. David Hogg, how dare you besmirch the good name of James Clyburn? [00:02:13] He responds on X, saying, I like David Hogg. I don't know, David. But the audacity to tell James Clyburn to get over himself is wild. I don't think it's wild at all. James Clyburn is a public servant. Yeah. It's so okay that we asked this question on our website, titcombe. [00:02:33] Should we respect senior Democratic leaders like James Clyburn? Why do I ask that question? Because all my life, people like Bakari Sellers and literally everyone on TV said, okay, by the way, it's 100% no so far. So go vote if you can. So and they said no [00:02:51] senior African American Democratic leader. Bo, you must bow down. If you don't respect him, we're basically going to imply that you're a racist and that you love Trump. Okay, now who's James Clyburn in reality? [00:03:08] He's the guy who helped kill Bernie Sanders campaign in 2020, in South Carolina. And he pretended that black people loved Joe Biden and that Joe Biden loves black people. Now, is that true? Was there polling to that effect? Not necessarily. [00:03:23] And although, to be fair, Bernie, did not do great in South Carolina in the two elections, partly because guys like James Clyburn would come out there and pretend that some Bernie was somehow anti-black, which is preposterous. Bernie's campaign, career has been far more in favor [00:03:41] of African Americans and their rights and and in every respect, more so than Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton. But Clyburn's job was to lie on behalf of the establishment. They make it seem like he's some sort of legendary civil rights leader. He did nothing in civil rights. He's a lifelong politician, but most Disastrously when Republicans [00:03:59] were redistricting South Carolina. He helped the Republicans and took a seat away from the Democrats. Well, why would he do that? Because he stuffed all the Democratic voters into his district, making it super safe. So he cost Democrats and African Americans a second district in South Carolina [00:04:17] because of his infinite greed for power. That's who James Clyburn is. So, Bakari, what the hell am I supposed to respect? What do you want me to. And the reality is, Bakari doesn't care about James Clyburn so much. Although they get themselves to believe, like, oh, [00:04:33] our dear leaders, our dear leaders. Serve power. Serve power. Right. No. But basically what Bakari wants you to do is the next time somebody like James Clyburn comes out and says, you must vote for the establishment, pro corporate, pro donor, person, [00:04:48] you have to listen to him. Otherwise you're a racist and you hate Democrats. When someone responded to sellers by saying, not a big fan of David Hogg myself, but he isn't wrong. Sellers shot back and said, I'm more turned off by the lack of respect. [00:05:04] That's all. Listen, we as Americans, ordinary American voters, I get that David Hogg is vice chair of the DNC, makes it a little bit different, but I've noticed that this same treatment that Hogg is getting has been extended [00:05:21] to ordinary voting Americans. We don't owe any politician a damn thing, okay? They signed up to be public servants. They signed up to serve the people, to serve their constituents, to serve us. [00:05:38] Okay. We can disrespect them all we want if they are not serving our best interests. Period. End of story. So, Bakari Sellers, you want to be known as the guy who respects people in positions of power. Go ahead and do it. But don't turn around and go after people [00:05:55] who rightly criticize elected lawmakers for doing the wrong thing, that eventually actually does hurt the party you love so much. Yeah, no, I don't have to respect politicians. What a weird ask. [00:06:11] You must respect politicians who, by the way, also do nothing for you. Why do I have to respect him? By the way, did Clyburn get us voting rights? Nope. Did he get us anything? Almost nothing. So what do I have to respect him for? I know, I get it, Bakari. You've got a job on cable news. [00:06:27] Because if you respect politicians and tell everybody how wonderful they are, you'll get a job on cable news. I want to go to I want to go to graphic ten here. So this is writer Jeremy Fassler. Here's what he writes. Is disrespecting elders primarily a white thing? [00:06:42] No. You just happen to be a bigot, Jeremy. You just happen to be a bigot. Okay. That's that's that's the situation here. But let me continue with the rest of his bigoted comment, because I never see the black community disrespect their elders the way white people do. [00:06:59] - I mean. - This, like open bigotry is so gross. You just flip the races around in that statement, just flip them around and tell me if that would be an okay thing to tweet out. So no white people respect their elders and only black people do. [00:07:14] I mean, other than being bigoted. It's hilarious. It's so stupid. But here's the serious part of it, which is that they're using identity as a shield for the powerful. Right? [00:07:29] So if it was a minority Nina Turner who was fighting against power, they tear her down. They don't care that she's a black woman. And in fact, if you say, well, she's a black woman. Oh, yeah. Right. Ha, ha. Yeah. She's not in favor of Democrats. Oh, they have a million excuses, right? [00:07:47] But when it's someone who's protecting corporate donors, like he's black, he's black. You're not allowed to criticize. I get it. It's a human shield. So that's what they do. All right, last thing on this. DNC has a new rule or not a new rule, but they've decided to enforce a rule [00:08:04] where they're saying, oh, we had a procedural hiccup in how we voted for the DNC vice chairs. And so we're going to have to revote on David Hogg. Oh, they're just so transparent. This guy's this party is done. [00:08:21] As it stands, this party, there's too much brain rot in this party. Okay. That's not okay. So understand what I'm saying because I'm not by saying that the Democratic Party has issues, doesn't mean that by default I'm looking at the Republican Party and salivating and [00:08:37] saying like, yeah, they got it going on. Okay, so don't put words in my mouth. But this current Democratic Party, with this current Democratic National Committee is just gung ho on losing. They love it. They can't get enough of it. They don't want to change a goddamn thing. [00:08:53] So apologies for saying goddamn, I can't help myself though. Okay, so, no, look, this is doubly frustrating because Ken Martin is a progressive. He's the head of the DNC, and he worked with Keith Ellison. He worked with Tim Walz. He's you know, you're probably not going to get better than Ken Martin, but are you [00:09:11] going to tell me that a vice chair of the DNC, says, let's run against incumbents? And all of a sudden there's two different things that they found. Oh, he's in violation of the neutrality clause. Okay. That one I agree. [00:09:27] And then progressives push for the neutrality clause. And you saw me defending it here at a debate with Jordan Newell, etc.. Right now you're going to tell me that, oh, we found another violation. It was because and then by the way, this time they again hiding behind identity politics. It's a Native American woman who complained that they didn't follow [00:09:44] the right procedures on how to blah, blah, blah while they were voting, etc.. So here's the part that they're not getting. No one believes you know so. And it's not because that that person didn't actually do that complaint. And it's not because the neutrality clause doesn't exist or isn't a good idea. [00:10:02] It's because the DNC has never found any procedural issues with anyone in the establishment. Ever. In my lifetime, there has never been oh, we got a procedural problem here. We got a jaywalking over there, and all of a sudden we found another violation. [00:10:17] So when you're challenging incumbents or the establishment, all of a sudden everybody's finding thousands of violations, right? When you're like, when the DNC was funneling money illegally into the state parties and then into Hillary Clinton and clearly picking sides, they couldn't find a procedural violation. [00:10:34] - Of course. - Right. So it's not Ken Martin's fault. And by the way, they'll probably take him out next. Right. That's my guess as to how. And they'll blame him for the David Hogg situation. That's my prediction. Okay. And then they'll take him out and they'll put an establishment guy and they'll dump it on Ken Martin's lap. [00:10:49] Right. But hey, if you're at the DNC and you're part of the people voting on these procedural violations. Understand that you're burning the brand to the ground. If you want to rescue the Democratic Party, you want to rescue the DNC, and you want your base, and you want the grassroots to take you seriously, [00:11:07] that you're rebuilding and you're actually going to serve the voters, then you have to act like it. And the minute that somebody says, I'm going to challenge incumbents, if all of a sudden you're like a violation of clause 13 a-1b and dum dum dum dum dum dum da when you've never, ever, ever, ever done that to the establishment. [00:11:23] Yeah, people are going to be skeptical. And there's even if you were right, they're super skeptical and you're not going to be able to win them back. So here you are. And then after all of this, and after they burn the brand to the ground, who will they blame? [00:11:38] They'll blame us. Oh, the voters. They asked for too much. We already gave them the chips act. $54 billion in subsidies to corporations, and they're still complaining a procedural violation. So. We don't say this because we [00:11:59] don't like the Democratic Party. I don't like the Democratic Party. I say it, I say it because we need a Democratic Party to oppose the Republicans and Donald Trump and and all of the tax cuts for the rich and all everything that goes to the donor class. [00:12:15] But when the Democratic Party then says, oh, I totally agree with the Republicans, the donor class is awesome, I'm never going to challenge them. And if you dare challenge anyone in the establishment in violation of clause 42 a1 BC what we just found, we just found. I couldn't find it when Debbie Wasserman Schultz was in charge. [00:12:32] Couldn't find it, but I found it today. Okay, so. Okay, we tried to warn you, but, I mean, good luck getting everybody excited about the DNC after these kind of shenanigans. 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