Gen Z voters are furious that President Biden signed the bill to ban TikTok, and they are now turning against the man who they helped win the 2020 election. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.
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Mike Papantonio: Generation Z voters are furious that President Biden signed the bill to ban TikTok, and they’re now turning against the man who they helped win in 2020. Okay. Let’s back up. This story is such an important story. You had in the last election cycle, you had folks that were hugely organized, and they were going online, and they were trying to defeat Trump and have Biden elected because Biden was making them all these promises. If you do this, I’m gonna take care of the oil industry. He did just the opposite. If you do this, I’m gonna give you access to whatever you, there’s been no access. If you do this, I’m going to open up this notion of freedom of speech. Just the opposite. So that’s what they’re reacting to. I mean, those things I just said are right here in this article from quotes from people who in the last cycle, yeah, I worked for the guy. They are abandoning him. Generation Z on this process is completely abandoning Joe Biden. And it’s not just age or this sense of dementia. It’s a lot more involved.
Farron Cousins: It’s amazing that it is so policy focused with this young generation because that’s something we typically do not see.
Mike Papantonio: I love to see it.
Farron Cousins: Yeah.
Mike Papantonio: I mean, don’t you?
Farron Cousins: It’s great, because they’re paying attention to Israel and Gaza, and they say, look, we’re not pleased with what you are doing to exacerbate these issues over there. We don’t like that you are completely ignoring the issue of climate change and I know some people are gonna disagree with me on that issue, but on the whole, on the bigger picture, we are not doing nearly enough. But these young voters, more importantly, were recruited by the Biden campaign. And once he got in office, he had them meet at the White House. I wasn’t a part of the meeting. I actually happened to be in DC, visiting with my family outside the White House and I saw this group of people out there. I was like, what is, this is weird. And then I followed these.
Mike Papantonio: Didn’t you do story on this?
Farron Cousins: Yeah, I follow them on social media and saw them posting their pictures, said, oh my God. These are social media people that they’ve got at the White House with Biden. So by sheer coincidence, I happen to see it happen. But they embraced them. They promised we’ll give you $83,000 a year and now they’re turning their backs on him.
Mike Papantonio: Well, okay. They’re turning their back. Now the best analysis, Alaina Wood, okay. This is a very well respected media creator. She’s all over the media creating her own material. And so she was very vocal and for Biden last time. And you know what she says? She said, I’m not gonna take their propaganda just because they demand that I take their propaganda. I’m gonna think for myself. I’m not gonna praise you constantly, Mr. Biden, President Biden. I’m not gonna do all of your bidding for you. I’m not like some empty headed buffoon who you spoon-fed me and I’m gonna go say it. I love that because that’s what you’re seeing with these Generation Z types that are saying, look, I gave it my best shot. You were a disappointment. You still are a disappointment. But the TikTok thing. That is, I guess if we go in an order, TikTok is really one of the big issues. You’re banning free speech. Then it gets to the climate issue. I mean, they’re thinking about, they’re actually analyzing, these are promises that were made by Biden, and this is what’s actually happening and they are just leaving in droves.
Farron Cousins: Yeah. They wanted a transformational leader. They didn’t want a bridge. Right. And that’s what we were told in 2020, hey Biden, he’s not perfect, but he’s gonna get us over to the next person. Okay. He even said that in the campaign. I’m gonna be a one term guy. He told us that. I did a video on it when he said that. And okay, well.
Mike Papantonio: Oh no, people will comment on this segment, he didn’t say that. Hell, yes. I’m a one term guy because he knew he was gonna be the oldest president in the history of this country at 81, 82 and 83 years old. So he said, I’m only here for one term.
Farron Cousins: Yeah. That was during the Democratic primary back before he ran away with it. And that’s, I did a video and I said, listen, he’s telling us he’s gonna be one term. So let’s not invest in that. Let’s invest in somebody that can do two years, or two terms, excuse me. But it also kind of kills me here that this report does mention the fact that of the left-leaning people on YouTube and TikTok, which I’m part of that, said only about 25% of them are occasionally critical of Biden.
Mike Papantonio: Yeah.
Farron Cousins: So you got 75% of these people that are still.
Mike Papantonio: Oh, yeah. Well, yeah, it’s all the blue hearts, vote Democrat, vote Democrat. I mean, they’re being paid to do that. They show up on our site, and of course we get rid of ’em because all it is, is just trolls. You can see it immediately, the big blue hearts, it’s like they’ll put 20 blue hearts, vote Democrat. It’s gonna take more than that. It’s gonna take, as this woman Alaina Wood said, give us something to work with. Okay. Don’t spoon-fed us zombie-like propaganda and expect us to deliver just because you’re going to invite us to the White House for dinner. That’s kind of it. You know, we’re gonna have access to Biden if I say the right things and she says, screw that, I’m not willing to do it. And a lot of people in Generation Z are saying the same thing.
Farron Cousins: Well, and that’s honestly part of the problem too, is you’ve got too many of these influencers who just want that, oh my God, look at me. I’m getting a picture with Biden.
Mike Papantonio: Yeah, exactly.
Farron Cousins: It’s sickening. Look, we don’t get invited to any of these political things and we’ve been doing this for 20 years now.
Mike Papantonio: Right. And we don’t want to.
Farron Cousins: Exactly.
Mike Papantonio: I mean, it’s not our, it’s not my goal to say, hey, I got a picture of Biden. I got a picture of Trump. Who the hell cares? I know a lot of people think that’s important, but you’ve got a whole bunch of these Zers that are saying, oh hell, I’ll say anything. Just invite me to the Christmas dinner or whatever the hell.
Farron Cousins: Yeah. And look, I’ve said before as it stands right now, I’m going for Biden.
Mike Papantonio: I know you are.
Farron Cousins: But I’m absolutely not gonna not criticize him when he deserves it.
Mike Papantonio: Well, they see you most of the time, let’s call it what it is, every day you’re going after Trump because there’s so much to talk about.
Farron Cousins: Exactly.
Mike Papantonio: I’m not complaining about that because I own this network and I support that. I support you going after him. But at the same time, we can’t be zombies and just spoon-fed propaganda and have these snowflakes get mad at us every time we talk. I don’t really care. I mean, literally when our people see blue heart, blue heart, blue heart, blue heart, vote Democrat, that’s gone. It’s gone from our site. We don’t want ’em back. I don’t want to, I want people to think. I want ’em to listen to what you say about Trump and critically think about it. I want ’em to listen to what both of you and I say in a segment like this and think about it. God forbid, huh? Farron Cousins, thanks for joining me. Okay.
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