As American cities are rocked by riots, Donald
Trump is hoping that voters are going to trust
him to keep them safe. Joe Biden, on the other
hand, is saying that everything happening
right now is Trump's fault. Joining me to
talk about this honestly is one of the best
progressive commentators in the business,
Farron Cousins. Farron, what is your take?
I value your take tremendously as you know.
What do you think?
Oh God, it's, it's been quite an interesting
couple of days, to be honest. What is so disappointing
about what's happening right now in these
cities is that the actual message, the actual
movement has been commandeered by these rioters,
the, they, they, they, these are people out
there in the streets right now, they don't
have an actual grievance. These are people
who came out to cause problems, right and
left. This is not black lives matter that,
that's doing this. These are people that have
hijacked what that message was, what that
movement was and now they are absolutely doing
everything they can to hand this election
to Trump because Joe Biden came out earlier
this week, tried to say something about this,
that turned into a bunch of gobbledygook,
you couldn't understand what the man was even
saying.
I didn't understand it.
So, so, so that's, that's where I am with
this, but, but I want to know where you are
too, because everybody is trying to make sense.
Yeah. I mean, well, you know, you and I've
been working together what, 15, 16 years now,
I know what's on your mind. I think, you know,
what's on mine. You, you know, what, what's
happening is you have long time credible progressive's
saying pull the emergency cord now. And what
they're saying is that what we're looking
at is another Hillary story for different
reasons. You know, the, the, the idea of the
general public ignoring the polls that are
tightening up right now in swing States, we're
going to have David Lamb on the show. He's
going to give us the details, but in swing
States, things are really tightening up for
very specific reasons. And so we've got very,
I mean, friends of ours, people we've worked
together. Michael Moore used to do a, used
to do Air America with me back in the days,
I've got tremendous confidence in him. He's
saying, pull the emergency cord right now.
And here's what he sees. He, not just him,
but this is just as my take. Okay. Jump in
any time, this is a discussion, this isn't
an interview. But there's this, you've got,
there's a pervasive belief among progressives
that if we have MSNBC and CNN and Fox news
attacking Trump every single day on every
single story that that's good. The numbers
are showing, no, that's not good. We, you
have progressive's believing that if people
like Chelsea, Chelsea Handler or Rob Reiner.
I mean, Rob Reiner, what did they call him
meathead back when he did a show 40 years
ago, All in the Family. Barbara Streisand
out on front, these are the talking, these
are the people talking for the Democrats.
The progressive's belief, oh gee, if we've
got celebrities out there, we're going to
be okay. You've got the late night show hosts
talking, it's not comedy anymore. It's how
much can we, how much can we pile on Trump?
I don't mind that, but I'm a realist and I
realize that it ain't working. You've got
to hate Trump boat book coming out every single
week. It ain't working and so what we've got,
we have to rethink all this, you know, this
progressive notion of these are the things
that are going to work for us. Isn't this
exactly what we saw with Hillary in 2016?
It absolutely is and Joe Biden waiting a week
to come out and finally give this address,
which he did yesterday, I think Philadelphia
or Monday it was in Philadelphia. Finally
addresses this after Trump had been out there
every day for a week saying he can keep you,
he can keep you safe. He's the only one who
can handle this. Where's Joe Biden? Where's
Joe Biden? Progressive's out there begging
somebody on the left to show a little bit
of leadership Biden, finally dusts himself
off and says, okay, I guess, I guess I'm gonna
say this. But it, it, it was nothing. What
Biden said was nothing. This is all Trump's
fault. Okay. That has a basic misunderstanding
built into it about the systemic problems
that some of these people have actually faced.
Now, again, those aren't the people in the
street causing problems, the people in the
street causing problems, like you have said
so many times, these are the suburb kids.
They dress up like Batman.
Right.
They're showing up, they dress in black helmets.
They're anarchists, they’re anarchists.
They think they are. They don't even know
what the hell an anarchist is, but they have
some time off from college. Hey, let's dress
up like Batman, go to the streets and mixed
in there are crazy people that shoot people,
that hit people over the head with bricks.
Listen, you know, here's the problem. I, you
know, you, you and I talk about this all the
time and that is what is the right doing?
You know what I did today before we came on,
I looked at the headlines. Now this is what
is happening. This is why the right is moving.
These are the headlines from Breitbart, right
wing news source. Daily Caller, you talk about
them all the time, right wing. All, you know,
all of these, Drudge, you know, in the middle
now, I guess. Here's the headlines. They're,
they want to show us chaos in the streets,
right? This is what the right, this is what
middle America, not just right wingers are
reading every single day. And the, the, the
progressives are sitting over there, scratching
their heads, saying, oh my God. Why is nobody
excited about Biden, but everybody's excited
about Trump? Here's the headlines. St. Louis
police officer, after being shot in the back
by, by, by rioters dies. Portland killer 100%
Antifa. These are the headlines. Kyle Rittenhouse
hunted down like an animal before he was forced
to use his rifle. Taxpayer funded unemployment
given to Antifa riot, Antifa rioting thugs.
Headline: LA SWAT team called after shots
are fired at the Trump caravan. Headline:
46, 46 people shot in Chicago this weekend,
10 of them dead. Headline: Armed residents
standing guard to protect their children,
to protect their neighborhood in Kenosha.
Headline: Auto Zone stabbing suspect says
he felt he needed to find a white male to
kill. Headline: Kamala Harris, police officers,
it's time they face the consequences, Democrat
VP. Rand Paul and wife, headline: Rand Paul
and wife believed they were going to be killed
by black lives matter and Antifa mob. Headline:
Biden blames police for violence and rioting.
And the, and, and progressive's go, gee, I
don't understand why the polls are moving.
This is Nixonland all over, isn't it?
Well, well, progressives don't say that, we
understand it. It's the actual Democrats who
don't know why it's moving. And see, here's
the thing though, the right wing media has
such a powerful grasp and they are very well
coordinated. I mean, we have had plenty of
headlines that have fizzled over the years
of, you know, just earlier this year, the
QAnon woman that loaded up her car to go kill
Joe Biden. Where's that big story? You know,
the guy who loaded up his van with guns and
explosives to go destroy CNN, because they
were mean to Trump. You know, there's plenty
of things that you can counter all of those
with, but there is no coordinated message
and even if there was, the Democrats are so
weak at messaging, they couldn't put it together
if their life depended on it.
They've got celebrities and night talk show
hosts trying to tell their message.
Just making fun of Trump and these people,
that's all they do.
Exactly. You've got, you've got, you've got
CNN and MSNBC who have gone hysterical. The
announcers on those programs are frigging
hysterical and rather than important, than
doing the news, they believe this is helping
Biden. It's killing Biden.
It is, it is.
And I just don't know what else to say other
than the fact that Michael Moore's right.
Bill Maher, he said he had he's, it's his
first time he's ever been real concerned.
He's right. I'm real concerned too. People
watching this program right now will say,
oh my God, how is Papantonio and Farron saying
all these terrible things, because it's the
truth. Not because I want Trump elected or
you want Trump elected, but the, the, the
Democrat regime has become so frigging hysterical
that we can't even talk about these obvious
things. Those headlines that I just read,
those are all today's headlines. And it's
every single day that middle America is getting
this headlines and to tell you the truth,
it's scaring the bejesus out of them.
You know, I have to point out too, you have
Yvette Nicole Brown, who was, she was on a
show called Community. She's a big Democrat.
She actually came out and said, we never had
anything like this. We didn't have riots or
protests while Obama was president and Biden
was vice president. She said that three days
ago, and everybody pointed out, the progressives
did, they said, have you not heard of Ferguson?
Yeah.
This, this, this didn't just evolve under
Donald Trump. This isn't a thing that only
happened because of Donald Trump. But that's
why I bring up, there are systemic problems
that have to be addressed and that is what
initially the actual people that were, were
protesting peacefully, that is what they wanted.
These movements got hijacked.
Yeah.
And we see it happen all the time. They either
get hijacked by the grifters, the people who
think they can make money off it.
Yeah.
Like the we build the wall guy.
Or the, or the celebrities who believe.
Yeah.
These forgotten celebrities who want to be
heard. Rob Reiner, who in the hell's Rob Reiner?
Meathead back in All in the Family. You know,
Barbara Streisand, the way we were. That was
the last thing I can ever remember she sang.
These are the people talking or, or, or, you
know, I could go on forever. These are people
most people don't even know who the hell they
are.
Right.
And you got middle America, reading headlines
juxtaposed with that.
Right, at the same time, the, the economy
is collapsing. We're still in the middle of
a pandemic. It's not even safe to send our
kids back to school, but this has become the
thing. You know, Portland, Kenosha and Chicago,
these three cities and this is now that they've
let it get away. The Democrats let it get
away from them. They let it become the issue.
Projection. I did the same thing with Hillary
Clinton and I got so much hate mail. I got
so many hate comments. I said, I said, four
months before the election, we could see it
happening Hillary was going to lose.
Yeah.
I'm telling you it is Trump 2020, just like
Nixonland, it is going to be Trumpland. And
just like Michael, Michael Moore said, everybody's
sitting back fat, dumb and happy believing
that Biden can babble away in the basement
and that everything's going to be okay.
No, no. Biden's lack of leadership, his inability
to come out and actually give a, a unifying
message, a coherent message. It doesn't even
matter if it's unifying anymore. Just string
words together that make sense.
Pray to God that the Dems figure out that
Pelosi and Schumer is not leadership at all.
Shut down the riots, shut down the riots,
shut down Antifa, shut down Kenosha, Portland,
Seattle, Chicago, and New York. Shut it down
now, and maybe we have a chance. What do you
think?
If they can pull those things off then absolutely,
we go back to where we were a month ago, talking
about Trump already having to pack his stuff.
If they can't do that and I don't think they
can.
What's your call?
We're, we're, we're Trump, Trump reelected.
Yeah. They're going to hate, we're going to
get more hate mail. That's okay. I, look,
I welcome it. We'll, let's start responding
to some of the haters. Okay. Farron Cousins
as usual, right on spot. Thank you for joining
me. Okay.
Thank you.
