A new poll has found that a large majority of Americans from both political parties say that they are embarrassed by both Joe Biden and Donald Trump being their nominees for president this year. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.
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Mike Papantonio: A new poll has found that a large amount of Americans from both political parties say that they’re embarrassed by both Joe Biden and Donald Trump being the nominees this year. And I gotta tell you something, it’s nothing gonna change. This is what we got. We’re gonna continue, I think just to be clear, we’re gonna continue going after Biden until somebody has enough sense to say, look, let’s replace Biden with somebody who’s younger. Somebody who’s not drooling and bumping into things and can maybe finish a sentence, doesn’t have sundowner syndrome. Let’s replace them. But you can say the same thing with Trump. Trump, every time he walks in a room, all it brings is Trump hysteria. People have this crazy hysteria that there’ll be a DSM-5, I promise you, a diagnostic guideline for people who have Trump hysteria. I promise you, we will see that in next few years. Win or lose.
Farron Cousins: Well, and what’s interesting too, though, is with Donald Trump, you see the same cognitive issues that you see with Biden.
Mike Papantonio: Oh yeah, of course.
Farron Cousins: Forgetting the people’s names, not knowing where he is, who he’s talking to. So they are both equally embarrassing. And right now, the Republicans, because Trump is officially the nominee because the convention, they are stuck with him. Now, Democrats, y’all still have time.
Mike Papantonio: They still still have time.
Farron Cousins: You got a month. I mean, if you were to do it.
Mike Papantonio: Hey, let me make a proposal, as off as people might be when we start talking about the idea, drop the guy.
Farron Cousins: The idea of doing better.
Mike Papantonio:: The idea of using your brain, I don’t care. I hope you don’t because I don’t. And it’s what we’re gonna continue doing. And when they say, you just leave my guy alone. No, we’re not gonna leave your guy alone. Your guy is dangerous. He’s a national security threat. He barely can do his job after eight o’clock at night. And the next person in line, oh, by the way, is Kamala Harris. Really? So, no, I don’t have any intention of stopping. I hope you don’t either.
Farron Cousins: Right. No, I’m still gonna go after this because yes, we can do better and we should do better. And look at this, a majority of people want us to do better. A majority of Democrats say, we wish we had somebody else. But also, this wonderful new survey, 63% of voters say that both these men are embarrassments.
Mike Papantonio: Yeah, embarrassing. Embarrassing is the word, right?
Farron Cousins: But it’s those same people who gave us these people. So you don’t get to go and vote for these people to be your nominee when you actually have a chance to get somebody else and then say, oh, wow. I’m so embarrassed by what I did.
Mike Papantonio: Now let’s talk about that just a minute. Okay. The people who love Joe Biden count, they absolutely rely on MSNBC and CNN every night taking a propaganda shot. I mean, all you’re gonna hear is MSNBC propaganda and CNN propaganda. They’re comforted by that. Okay. So your point that those voters actually drive this is completely correct because MSNBC and CNN does exactly what the voter wants. Fox, they’re predictable. We know they’re gonna come out and what they’re gonna say about Biden and what they’re gonna say about Trump. But why is that? Because the voters who are their very, by the way, very, very small group of people in the big picture for both of these, for both of these stations. MSNBC, Fox, what is it, less than 2%, 3% of the entire?
Farron Cousins: Yeah. Less than three.
Mike Papantonio: The entire American public. But the voters are gonna go there because they don’t have the ability to think critically. All they want to hear is what pleases them. And if you say it might please you, but it’s ridiculous, and here’s the problem. They can’t even process that because they’re not able to critically think. Is it an entire generational issue, or has this always been the case?
Farron Cousins: Well, a lot of this is driven by the older generations. They are the ones who are tuning into the cable news.
Mike Papantonio: Yeah, true.
Farron Cousins: And they’re the ones who get so angry when you bring up, hey, we have a chance to get a better person. They say, no, how dare you? Like, how dare I want somebody better that can beat Trump? Why is that bad for me?
Mike Papantonio: And you’re right. I think it’s 50 and above. It’s like late baby boomers who were maybe Haight-Ashbury back when they were in college, and now they’ve made this transition. Well, we’re just going to maintain our position, regardless of whatever information you give me about the dangers of Trump or the dangers of Biden, we’re gonna maintain our position because that’s all we want to hear is our position. That’s why you have those folks on MSNBC that spew the propaganda, or CNN spew the propaganda or Fox, they spew propaganda every day because that’s what their people want to hear. So indirectly, you have these voters who don’t like either one that have created this problem.
Farron Cousins: Yep.
Mike Papantonio: That’s the way I see it. Farron, thanks.
Farron Cousins: Thank you.
Mike Papantonio: That’s all the time we have. But all these segments will be posted right here on this channel in coming weeks. Make sure you subscribe. I’m Mike Papantonio, and this has been America’s Lawyer where we tell you stories every week that corporate media won’t tell you because their advertisers don’t allow for it, or their tribal politics won’t allow for it. If you’re a Democrat, you have to color within the lines. If you’re a Republican, you have to color within the lines. And so the great thing is we’re not beholden to corporations or political parties, as you can tell by this very show. We’ll see you next time.
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