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I'm now joined by the co-host of PS of

America the host of Love it or leave it

and content Queen oh yeah John love it

thanks for taking the time hi we're here

in your studio we're here yes we're here

in the in the uh in the Crooked that's

right so I want to start with an issue

that I think is is more and more

worrisome as we head toward November and

that is that there are young people

there are progressives who disapprove of

Joe Biden for whatever reason whether

it's inflation housing Gaza how do you

approach the issue of framing this as a

binary choice between Joe Biden and

Donald Trump Trump who would be

objectively worse on all of these issues

and especially the issue of Gaza with

people who who right now very adamantly

want to punish Joe Biden at The Ballot

Box so I think you have

to I I actually

put the concerns and anger on Israel in

a separate category and I'd actually

point you to Bernie Sanders answer to

John on PS of America this week which I

thought really captured the way I feel

about it anyway which

is Bernie Sanders is unabashed in his

criticism of the bid

Administration he is I think

rightly confused by just

how much unwavering support Joe Biden

has shown not to Israel but to Benjamin

Netanyahu and the moral and human toll

not to mention political toll toll that

that has

taken but the point that Bernie Sanders

makes is this is awful and he is trying

to move the Biden Administration there

are now Senators even long time very

staunch Defenders of Israel who have

come out in favor of conditioning Aid uh

who have said that uh there has to be uh

we have to use America's leverage to

push Israel into allowing humanitarian

Aid and and push Israel into uh a

ceasefire but the point that Sanders

makes is this is an awful

situation but electing Donald Trump only

makes it worse only makes it much worse

there's no issue on which Donald Trump

isn't worse than Joe Biden and that is

very much true he's listened to Donald

Trump's rhetoric on Israel in just the

past couple weeks it is very much true

so I far be it for me to be

claiming that I

have the words or sentiments to convince

people who are disgusted by what's

happening uh to convince them that they

need to turn out for Joe Biden I do hope

that the Biden ministration listens to

people like Bernie Sanders and others

who are calling for them to use the

administration's leverage to change

Israel's

policies but uh I do think the point

that Bernie makes there is right more

broadly

especially on domestic policy Joe Biden

has been an extraordinary president he

really has there are many reasons why he

has not achieved a great deal of what he

had hoped to achieve on student loans

for example although they're taking

another shot at it

but given the hand that he was dealt the

divisions in the Congress The Economic

Consequences of a pandemic of right-wing

propaganda apparatus aimed at him he did

as much with the the the cards he was

dealt as any president could you look at

the inflation reduction act as the

biggest investment in climate change uh

policy uh in history you look at the

infrastructure Bill and some of the

bipartisan things he was able to get

through even with a whole a majority of

Republicans just radicalized against

governing against democracy you look at

the way he's wielded administrative

power the way he's tried to empower

uh uh people who take such a strong line

on antitrust you look at how he has

managed to go around a Supreme Court

ruling to try to cancel as much student

debt as humanly possible you look at the

record and it is a record that deserves

re-election and whatever concerns people

have whatever disappointments people

have Joe Biden uh has been a better

president than any Republican could been

he has been a better Democratic

president than anyone hoped has been he

has outperformed what a lot of people's

expectations were he consistently

exceeds people's expectations and he's

done it you know his great superpower

has been to listen and embrace and try

to build consensus from the center left

all the way to the left and in doing so

making more Progressive positions sound

moderate that is his great superpower

that is an amazing achievement that

means that he's been able to get some

things done that I even think are more

leftwing president might not have been

able to get done just by virtue of it

being Joe Biden just by virtue of it

being Joe Biden if he were 10 years

younger this wouldn't even be a question

of course of course of course he will

have deserved re-election on his

domestic policy achievements the age

concern is there it is real but uh we

all collectively have a choice about

whether or not we want someone who is

going to fight to make the country

better or someone who's going to make it

much worse someone who's going to try to

enshrine row into law or someone who's

going to try to pass a National Abortion

ban someone who is going to go after

trans people and and and gender

affirming care or someone who's going to

try to protect it at the federal level

someone who believes in democracy or

someone who

doesn't voting is not some Grand

statement of human identity it is not

the defining character trait that that

proves who you are or or what you

believe it is an opportunity to use a

lever of power to make the country

better or to make the country worse we

will have a choice in November on

climate for example

I don't think that there is a bigger

Choice facing a democracy on Earth

probably in the next decade than whether

or not we elect uh a Democrat for the

climate on planet Earth I don't think

that there's a bigger choice I think

every climate activist in the country

whatever their legitimate gripes are

with Joe Biden's Embrace of kind of an

all of the above strategy of of his

failure to to to to to do a host of

different things whatever the valid

criticisms may be every person who

believes that we have to tackle climate

change ought to be doing everything they

can to elect Joe Biden in November and

you can you can do that across virtually

every single issue and I think what's

important to point out too is that he

can be persuaded on a lot of these

issues Donald Trump can't and so knowing

that this is the choice however flawed

that choice may be if you have you know

on on issues that you don't even agree

with Joe Biden on at all like whether

it's whether it's you know Gaza whether

it's whatever it is Joe Biden is much

more likely to be persuaded to be more

moderate to have a moderated position on

those issues than Donald Trump who has

already signaled that what he'll do with

Gaza for example is just go and raise it

raise it to the ground not only do we

know that Joe Biden can be persuaded we

have seen Joe Biden be persuaded that

Joe Biden that is President is governing

more to the left than than than you

would expect from his decades long

career in politics more than what a lot

of people expected when he became the

nominee yeah he was persuaded he has

shifted there is a beautiful story in

that this mostly Centrist figure uh

spent decades trying to become president

and in deciding that that that the

country's Soul was a Jeopardy that he

truly believed democracy was on the line

not in not running on a lefty platform

not running on an ideological that was

not the guiding principle of his

campaign that was not what motivated him

run he believed democracy was in

Jeopardy he believed that that that that

that there was a decency and goodness in

America and that he had an obligation to

run to to call upon that decency to

prevent Donald Trump from being

reelected and in his belief in democracy

he brought the leftwing and the to to

the table he he brought Bernie in he

brought a bunch of different people in

he he he kind of reshaped the consensus

of the democratic party and that belief

in democracy shaped not only his reason

for running but for the way he governed

and there's something like remarkable

and important and beautiful in that

story uh H that's how I feel about that

perfectly put um I want to switch gears

a little bit here to uh the question of

of abortion specifically so we're

expecting the question of codifying

abortion rights to be on the ballot in

Florida in Montana in Arizona among

other states this November including New

York by the way which has major

implications for down ballot races in

that state does this actually put a

place like Florida for example in play

like if someone asked you whether they

should donate to candidates in Florida

given the fact that we have limited

resources what would you tell them it's

a really good question I would look is

America do I believe it's possible sure

anything's possible possible anything no

I I look if we're winning in Florida

we're having a good election day yeah uh

do I believe that abortion being on the

ballot um turns people out absolutely we

have seen abortion win not just in

States like California but in States

like Kentucky in in in red

Ohio Kansas uh

so when the when voters are are told

that their basic human rights are going

to be on the ballot they show up and

they protect them that is absolutely

true does that turn a state that has

been sliding away from us into a state

we can win maybe maybe but I also say

you know we've got tough races to win in

Ohio got a close race to win in

Wisconsin we've got races to win in

Nevada we've got races to win in Arizona

there are a lot of places where your

money go very

far I think it remains to be seen uh if

do I think that abortion being on the

ballot means that that we can do well in

Florida and better than we had hoped

absolutely does it make Florida swing

state

again I'd like to see I'd like to see

more information I'd like to me I'd like

to see some data on that first well well

to that point Biden right now has a huge

cash Advantage I think he has over $150

million cash on hand Trump doesn't Biden

is spending in a raft of States right

now while Trump is laying low likely to

save what cash he has left and that he's

not paying to Alina Haba to represent

him in losing cases in court how much of

an impact do you think that that makes

right now um because on one hand like it

is important to define the opposition

early but then on the other hand most

people aren't even paying attention to

politics right now yeah and I do think

there is this like there is this

increasing problem which is the people

that you can reach with traditional

advertising are are older are maybe more

likely to vote already and the younger

less engaged people who have already

caught the cut the corridor never had

the court to begin with aren't going to

see as many television ads but they will

see digital

ads I think I think you you would always

rather have a cash Advantage I would

rather have better polls I think that if

you could ask Donald Trump what would

you rather have right now more money or

the polls that he have I think you

picked the polls honestly well then you

know right now we are seeing the

strongest economy in our lifetimes uh

jobs report came out this week that

showed that Biden broke 15 million jobs

Democrats are out there campaigning for

abortion rights which is popular with

three ERS of the country and yet the

polling is right now stubbornly stuck

with Trump how much are you taking

seriously the polls versus ignoring them

and also adding in the fact that you

know for so often we see that there is a

fundamental issue with the with the

validity of polls I we should assume

they're true I the people that are like

oh the polls are probably wrong and

actually it's there's a there's a bias

towards Trump in these polls like okay I

hope you're right let's pretend you're

not right let's live as though these

polls are are an accurate snapshot of

where voters are right

now the Biden campaign has said for a

long time there's been a lot look

obviously people have been we've gone

through kind of

periodic uh uh moments of just Panic

there's like Panic news Cycles I don't

know what stirs them right like they're

sort of lowlevel and then all of a

sudden there's some some event or some

issue kind of leads to a round of oh

he's too old and we need a a broker

convention or uh uh he like misplaces a

modifier one day and uh but put aside

that kind of like EB and flow of

concern the Biden campaign has

consistently said especially like in the

last few months before the campaign had

really heated up uh when people are

actually presented with the

choice uh these polls will go from reg

registering a kind of dissatisfaction an

anger a sourness a desire for something

better a wish that the choices were

better a dissatisfaction with by having

to have this face off again a kind of

General unhappiness in the country which

is what they you know let's say that's

what these polls register over time as

the Campa campaign heats up as people

are actually confronted with the not

just a real Joe Biden who is actually

president versus a prospective or Gauzy

version of trump a real Biden versus a

real Trump that fundamental

responsibility that voters have put on

display ever since 2016 what they they

did in 20 in 2017 in 2018 and 2020 and

2022 and 2023 will bear out now I think

there are people who overstate the

significance of these special elections

which I do think speak to a kind of like

hyper engaged subset of the democratic

electorate just showing up yeah uh

they're listening to this right now um

otherwise known as our audience right

but but I do think that there is

something to there is something to the

idea that a poll is one thing a poll a

year out or six months out or eight

months out is one thing but that when

people are actually confronted with a

choice they turn out to protect abortion

they turn out to vote against election

deniers they turn out to vote against

people that want to Pardon

insurrectionists and that that

responsibility Gene is still in there um

and as and you know even in the past

couple weeks I don't think you can call

it a don't call it a comeback but I do

think you start to see like you blew

your eyes like okay the campaign's

ramping up lot of news Cycles Trump vers

Biden Trump vers Biden Biden vers Trump

Biden vers Trump and what do you see you

start to see a few places where Biden's

ticking up where Trump is ticking down

and you start to say okay this is the

Biden theory that over time as the

campaign really begins in Earnest as the

choice becomes clear we will see a

change we have to see that change yeah I

think right now I think that's a great

point I think right now what we're

seeing is like people registering

dissatisfaction with this with how it is

right now but not necessarily an

acknowledgement of what these polls will

eventually show which is that this is a

binary choice between two people um so

yeah and I think that will start to Bear

it out and also by the way as the

election tilts towards what are you

going to do in the next four years I

think there are a lot of people like

I've seen some kind of discourse like

why why are some of

these these low numbers so um stubborn

right like you just pointed there's

great economic data that came out

inflation is not where it was a year ago

or two years ago but I do think that you

know in inflation is a rate of change

but where things have landed is people

just feel like things are more expensive

and things are more expensive and so it

is true that things aren't getting worse

at the rate that they were but people

still feel

like things have gotten more expensive

and stayed there maybe it's maybe it's

not as much of a

um a worsening situation as it once was

but there was just a poll from I think

it was galloped at another round of

surveys and despite their best efforts

you know crime crime illegal immigration

those things are rising but inflation is

still right there at the top jobs is

Fallen the economy is Fallen Healthcare

is Fallen but inflation is still right

up there L do you think Biden and Trump

should

debate yeah I I do I think that they

have to debate I do not think Joe Biden

wants to spend I I I think they're going

to have to

find I mean Joe Biden has to come out

and saying he wants to debate uh Trump

is already trying to get ahead of it do

I think Trump actually wants to or does

he just like the idea of saying Joe

Biden won't debate him right of being of

being like the alpha being right it's it

has to be to one of their advantage

right there people like oh neither one

of them wants it well that can't be what

rightwing media will do is do what they

always do which is to lower the bar all

the way down to the floor and then when

Joe Biden can stand up there and like

stay awake like say his name he will

have already exceeded the basement

expectations that they've set for him

yeah I mean look what was the what were

what was the end result of the debates

in 2020 the first debate the one where

Trump had Co and tried to kill Biden was

probably the worst presidential debate

in history it was a Despicable display

from Trump drag the whole thing down did

Biden benefit from that

maybe do you even remember the debates

that followed no

uh I do think you're right like I I

haven't really thought about it but I do

think you're right they will lower the

Joe bid if the Joe Biden that showed up

at the State of the Union shows up at

that debate um he will demonstrate the

American people that he is still up for

this job I do think that simple that

simple affirmation just basically on

some level we're going to spend the next

eight months talking about this election

there's a lot of people out there that

are just going to do a gut check be like

can he still do it okay yeah and and

that would be the route to do it love it

before we finish okay I thought we would

uh put a little wager out there all

right so the BET will be that if I win

what what's about to happen I'll donate

to vote save America if you win you vote

to my don't be a mitch fund which lowy

are pretty much the same right seems to

be the

same thing uh all right so here here's

the uh here's the BET here should you

take it I need you to name 10 items on

the Cheesecake Factory menu oh that's I

could do but but they have to be they

have to be the correct items you can't

just say Hamburger like they have to be

okay just just let me do it so we have

crooked producer Ben here who's going to

be factchecking and uh and let's see how

it goes uh yes uh Ben you ready ready

and by the way I'm not going to I'm not

even going to kind of uh I'm going to

take the spirit of this because there

are multiple items for example you know

there are appetizer versions and Main

entree versions of things and I'm not

going to do that okay so I'm just giving

up that now I immediately feel really

bad about uh uh tie lettuce

wraps uh roadside

sliders hang on do we do we are these

checking out Ben you so far so good yeah

it's two for two okay uh B tip crusted

chicken

Romano I'm like I'm I can see page after

page after page let's do all right let's

do um um uh uh are you skipping away

from the appetizers now I've been moving

I've been jumping around and I do think

that that was a mistake uh they have

they have buffalo chicken wings and

buffalo chicken tenders let's just count

that as one um they have um texmax

spring rolls or egg rolls texmax egg

rolls just check out yeah I see him

nodding they they have there's a number

of different varietals

of of the egg rolls but we'll just count

that as one because they also have a

combination platter where you can get

the texme egg rolls the the hamburger

egg rolls the

taquitos and one more version of their

egg rolls but you don't even need to

count that we don't even need to bother

to count that um let's move into um

let's move move into salads they have a

a tii chicken salad they have a chicken

Caesar salad they have a Southwestern

Ranch chicken salad let's go to uh some

of the Entre I did crusted chicken

Romano uh

uh what's their most famous chicken they

have I mean can I do dessert items sure

it's on the menu okay Adams Ripple

cheesecake uh uh uh they have a I think

it's either called it has like the word

delicious in the word but it's a

Snickers cheesecake called oh

caramelicious

cheesecake veggie burger which is

actually excellent that's why I'm saying

it it is just called the veggie burger

but it's but it's very very good uh uh

uh they have a they have a chicken pizza

style which I believe is still on the

menu which is basically a pounded uh

chicken in the shape of a pizza with a

dollop of pasta on the top I'm

I'm very excited to be able to say that

I'm going to be donating to vote save

America let's keep going let's keep

going you started this let's

keep going um love it there's other

dishes that can picture but I can't name

uh um chicken

castalla uh I feel like we should end

the episode as a fading out they have um

oh they have a they have Joe's special

which is I believe half of a sandwich it

be nice we could put under this of

soup um I think that oh oh they have

they have they have fish tacos they have

a should have sought a sponsorship prior

to sitting down I by the way I'm like

really kind of disappointed in myself I

really should be able to just like kind

of like disint the Matrix there was a

moment where I was speaking to producer

Ben and saying do you think five items

is unfair to make love it they have a

Reese's cheesecake they have strawberry

cheesecake they have a a a carrot cake

cheesecake they have

a uh let's see wait we did chicken I

mean they obviously oh oh they have H

steak

gorma I believe they have oh no I'm

sorry I'm sorry chicken Madera we got to

get chicken Madera on the list uh stake

Diane not steak Norma also make sure to

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slowly Fade Out under the D of love it

continuing to name items from the

Cheesecake menu they also have an

impossible

Burger all right how's

that you got like 25 that was yeah I

could keep going wait okay it's chicken

pounded into the shape of it's chicken

it's a chicken it's a chicken breast fet

like they double slice it pound it into

a circle red it fry it that's your pizza

then sauce and cheese on top then at the

center of that is is fetuccini Alfredo

oh my God fetuccini Alfredo they got

fetuccini Alfredo they got so many

pastas oh my there's a oh there's the

four cheese pasta

there's

uh there's the uh rolling all right I'm

done bye guys