IHIP News: Trump's WORST NIGHTMARE! New Dems TAKE HIM OUT After HORRIFIC Voting Rights Act!

All right, some beautiful things are. happening around the country and first. and foremost it is that all of the. Democratic strategists that love to do. focus groups and not believe in anything. are having are being forced to listen to. their voters. And it turns out that. people in America want politicians who. are not prostitutes. What do I mean by. prostitutes? I mean people that. corporations and lobbyists can say, "Here's a check for you. Now you work. for me." And turns out the electorate.

doesn't like that. And we can look no. further than the great state of. Pennsylvania. And so I'd like to welcome. my guest today, Chris Rab. He just won. the Democratic primary in Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania's third congressional. district in Philadelphia, which is the. bluest district in the country. He has. been a Pennsylvania state lawmaker for. 10 years, representing a majority black. mixed income district. And now he's. headed to Congress to shake up the. Democratic party and go toe-to-toe with. Donald Trump. Chris Rap, congratulations.

on your primary victory. I love when. centrists that play patty cake with MAGA. and their donors get their asses handed. to them. I love it. >> Me, too. Yeah. I I love uh battling entrenched. politicians and establishment politics. Um and reminding folks that um. organizing always defeats uh uh uh. organized money.

>> Exactly. It does. And we always have to. remind everybody that especially in our. party that uh Kla outed Donald Trump and. she still lost. She didn't even win a. swing state. And so I think our. messaging as a party needs to be. something very understandable and it's. not that deep, but it is that if you. prostitute yourself out to the same. people that MAGA prostitutes themselves. out, then you're dealing with pimps and.

hose politicians and we need to be the. party of the people because when as I. look at it, Chuck Schumer chuckles. He. takes money from Apac. So he's just a. prostitute just like Donald Trump is. And I I I think that we have got to do. brand damaging to whether it's a. Republican or a Democrat to these people. who take money from these corporate uh. donors. >> Agreed. And u there is a major. distinction between liberals and. progressives. Um liberals want to play. around the edges. Uh progressives.

believe in structural change and we. cannot move forward as a party, as a. society as a whole if we allow for the. continued prostitution. And this is no. disrespect to sex workers because. they're more honorable than a lot of the. politicians work with. Um we have to. make sure that um we end this era of of. money in politics and we saw what. happened in New York City. So Mandani. was a great candidate and I'm excited.

about his uh him as mayor. But what also. helped him in the state of New York, there was a public financing of. campaigns, which means that for every. dollar he got up to $250, he got $12. back. And that helped him raise significant. funds from a grassroots supported. campaign to allow him to have what I. call aggressive fabulosity uh behind. him. Also, they had rank choice voting. um which made sure that the people's.

will put in someone who got at least a. simple majority and we don't have that. We have plurality voting in most of our. states which is problematic. So you can. be in office with, you know, 11% of the. vote or 27% of the vote and that does. not give people a sense of ownership, a. sense of agency in terms of who they. really want to serve them. And that's. ultimately what it's about. And I just. want to say one other thing that's when. we talk about language, I am not a.

politician. Um, amongst elected. officials on one side, which is the side. you described quite a um are. politicians. Those are people who serve. themselves and moneyed interests. On the. other side of the elected officials. spectrum are public servants. Public. servants serve the people and the public. good. >> And um that's the side of the spectrum I. want to remain on for the for the. remainder of my political career. Um, let's talk about, you mentioned that.

there's a difference between like. liberals and progressives and I lived in. Oklahoma City the majority of my life. and recently moved to New York. And for. the average Republican voter, and I. would even say an independent voter, they would label Barack Obama, Kla. Harris, Chuck Schumer, Cy Booker, um, etc. as radical progressive. crazy liberals. and and they there's. there's no distinction in uh in that.

with the electorate. And so as we tackle. that because we can all get in our silos. and we can be like oh these liberals and. you know people will accuse my co-host. and I you girls just like to live out. you're just neoliberals or if you're. progressive and we try to like. outprogressive each other. I think that. it's important that. changing the language around our. messaging as a party is labeling the. people getting off of this progressive.

liberal thing and taking the uh Chuck. Schumer's of the world that that brand. Christian Gillibrand those types of. politicians and label them as um I mean. I like the prostitutes but I agree with. you I don't want to demean uh sex. workers because I would rather earn my. money on my back. I think it's a much. more honest, admirable uh vocation than. what uh the Chuck Schumers of the world. do. But we need to label them that these. are bought and paid for people because.

once you get outside of that, then you. if you if you're not beholden, if you. don't allow corporations to break you, then you are progressive, then you are. all about progress. And so what do you. think in Pennsylvania? Pennsylvania um. is you are in the most liberal the. bluest district in the in the country. What do you think about independent. voters and messaging to the people who. may have triple Trump that were maybe. lowinformation voters or felt like, you.

know, they were upset with the two-party. system about how we should message? Do. you agree with me? We need to get off of. this liberal progressive thing and. simplify it. No, I think you're I think. there's there's great value in. transcending labels that are often used. um um. without uh genuine care or full. understanding. So, absolutely. Um, so if. we're talking inside baseball, like we. can talk about liberal, progressive, but. if you're talking to the average person. who may be what is called a.

lowinformation voter, like they don't. know the difference between uh Congress. and state legislature or what have you. Um, you're just talking to them about. the things they care about, not the. things that I care about as a candidate. or an incumbent. I always start with. when I talk to someone new is what do. you care about? And it's a beautiful. question for two two reasons. One is I'm. not centering it on myself and my. candidacy. That's number one. Number two. is most people have never been asked.

that question before. And they're. working hard. They're distracted. They're concerned and they're they're. like, "Wow, no one's ever asked me that. question. What do I care about?" And in. their answer, there will be something. that we will agree on. And that's where. you start. no matter how they define. themselves as a libertarian, a liberal. or whatever. And they will find a way. So for instance, like this this war in. Iran, most people who identify as.

conservatives don't want us over there. If you start there and say, "Don't you. think we could use billions of dollars. that are being sent over to Iran to be. used to help your rural community, to. help local farmers?". They're going to say yes. And if they. hear that coming from a black Democrat. from a city, they're going to be shocked. and kind of like, "Oh, he actually cares. about me." Like, I love that. I love. like shocking people with like.

affirmation, right, and decency. And. it's not pandering. Like, we both agree. we shouldn't be spending our valuable. tax money in a war that nobody wants, right? Except Netanyahu and and, you. know, Trump. So I start there and you. don't have to mention any labels. I. don't have to say I'm a progressive. I'm. a Democrat. Say I'm just someone who. cares about my communities and my. communities are are embattled in ways. that your communities in in rural areas.

are embattled. We have more in common. and it's the it's the billionaire class. that's making our lives miserable. Let's discuss uh the dismantling of the. Voting Rights Act and I you hear a lot. about there's a rise in this, there's a. rise in that. The biggest rise that is. causing of bigotry that's causing. material damage is anti-black racism. It. is off the charts. It is past every. other form of bigotry and we have a lot. on the rise right now. Misogyny is on. the rise. Uh transphobia is on the rise.

Homophobia is on the rise. Islamophobia. is just downright accepted. Um. anti-semitism is on the rise. None of. them are as bad as what is happening. materially. to black Americans. Antilack racism is. in my opinion 911 house is on fire out. of control because they are weaponizing. it now through the courts. They are. making it a legal legal legalized. racism. And as a lot of these seats in.

the House are going to be removed, incredible black representation that is. much needed, especially in the uh South, a lot of really good people are getting. kicked down the curb. And so I think. you're going to win and you're going to. be in the House of Representatives. And. there's probably going to be a lot less. black representatives. I I hope I'm. wrong. I hope I'm wrong about that. >> But I think that that's what this has. been designed to do. And that's how much. power these racists, these fascist. racists have. So speak to me about the.

rise in antilack racism and let's try to. get this to the top of the news cycle. >> because it is just insane that this. isn't the lead story everywhere in the. United States right now. Well, I mean, I. think that's why I'm I appreciate being. on your show because corporate media. doesn't want to cover this because they. benefit from it. And I don't hear a lot of white people. saying what you're saying. I don't. And.

if if you're silent, you're complicit. Like there we can hold multiple truths. at the same time. There is an increase. in anti-semitism and islamophobia and. transphobia, but the antilack racism is. extraordinary. Donald Trump, one of the. first things he did was basically fire. 300,000 black women from federal. service. Like, black women are over. represented in terms of civil servants. um in in government on all levels and.

Doge went after them. Um and that is the. base of the Democratic party. So, where's the where's the solidarity with. the Democratic Party for the interests. of black women? And if you take care of. black women, you take care of everybody. That's right. >> Everybody. And so, that should be that. should be the central rallying point. But because black women's labor and. intellect and collective genius has been. so undermined for all the reasons for so.

long, I don't think beltway Democrats. could possibly conceive of an agenda. that centered them even though that is. the most strategically wise thing to do. It's also the moral morally correct. thing to do. So, I appreciate you. raising this issue because it is so true. on every level and. uh that's also why we need to understand. um why we should embrace reparations. because reparations help everyone.

Reparations is not about um repairing. black people. It's about repairing. society itself. Right? Because if we did. all the things that liberals and. progressives wanted, all the programs, we fully funded everything, we would. still have radical uh wealth inequality. based on race. The only thing that can. level the playing field is reparations. And so it's not about taking money from. good, hardworking white people and put. in the pockets of poor black people. That that is, you know, a trope that is.

silly and nonsensical. It's about. investing in the things that there's. never been the political will to do in. earnest ever in this country and making. sure that that investment. addresses all of the root causes um that. have been born out of government. complicity or um actual attacks. Right? So when we talk about legalized racism, well race itself was created for. economic reasons. The reason I'm.

considered black in this country and not. in most other countries was because it. benefited the slaveocracy to have anyone. with one drop of black blood to be owned. and therefore the the most valuable form. of capital for their continued wealth. generation. Like the the whole notion of. whiteness was created to justify the. transatlantic slave trade. So everything. we do is connected to race and we have. to talk about it. And I really. appreciate that you've brought it up.

because not enough white folk do and we. can connect it to things that most white. people care about that don't think about. in terms of race. And the best example. is a lot of people are talking about the. minimum wage. Bernie Sanders been. talking about forever $15. Now it's been. so long that $15 minimum wage is not a a. a livable wage. But the tipped minimum. wage in this country is $2.13. Which means that if you're working at. Denny's as a server and you're a white. woman with a small child, a single mom,

you're having to get paid with tips and. being exposed to sexual harassment, sexual assault, all kinds of awfulness. because women are over represented among. tipped wage earners. Well, the origins. of the tipped minimum wage is slavery. and Jim Crow, where white employers in. the south said, "I don't want to play. pay black people for their labor. So if. white patrons of my business want to. give them tips, I'll allow it. But. that's the only way I'm bringing black. people into workforce. And that's the. reason we still have the tip minimum.

wage. So millions of white people who. are earning a poverty wage, particularly. white women, are being victimized. because of white racism. generations later. So our fates are. intertwined. But we have to we have to. lift these stories up and show that we. indeed have more in common than what. divides us. And that's the way forward. Let's talk about, you mentioned the the. uh very successfully weaponized trope uh.

that white people are paying for money's. coming out of their pocket to black. people or white country club Republicans. will be paying for these um uh even. white trailer trash people, you know, these lazy uh there's some white-on wine. white-on-white crime there too that I've. experienced. You know, this demon. >> that's all there is. demonizing white on. white crime and right crime is based on. our neighbors. Right. >> Right. Right. Demonizing the poor and. all of these things.

>> The messaging I would like to see. Democrats launch which goes back to how. we started this podcast was which is. talking about the uh these politicians. that [ __ ] out that we cannot trust. somebody who takes money from the same. donors that are funding Donald Trump and. fascism. And um as it pertains to the. messaging here, the real parasites. are the corporations. The real um.

coddling and theft is from black and. white Americans and immigrants and what. no matter what color you are to. corporations. When you think about. Walmart and you think about Amazon and. that they pay their uh customer their. workers minimum wage. no health. insurance, um, no no benefits. whatsoever. Tough titties, you lazy ass. Go get a second job. That's the way. corporate America treats them. And then. the population picks up on that instead. of realizing like we're subsidizing.

these billionaires. The Walton family is. so rich that when they do the Forbes 500. list, all the heirs are separated and. they're still in like the top 25 or. something. I mean, it's just insane. grotesque wealth. Same with Jeff Bezos, you know, like he completely demonized. this guy who tried to unionize. um and uh really, in my opinion, launched some racism against him. Uh and. uh uh we always rigged the system for.

these really um exploitative, morally. defunct. white men and their corporations. And Jesse Jackson made a lot of headway. when he ran for president. He went to. rural America and kind of started. talking to these rural Americans that. probably as a default setting were. racist. I mean, let's just face it. And. he kind of pointed out to them, hey, you're poor. My people are poor. We have. the same problems here and these guys.

are the enemy. Do you think victories. like yours, victories like Zoron Mdanis, hopefully Abdul Alsed wins, hopefully. Graham Platner wins, hopefully we have. just a huge we're not g There's going to. be a lot of corporate Democrats that. win, but there's also, I think, going to. be a lot of Chris Rabs that win. Do you think this progressive wing of. the party that can can ride this wave. and put pressure on these corporate. Democrats and call out their their.

passively racist voting? Because let's. call it what it is. When you're voting. for corporations, you're voting for this. institutionalized. wage theft and keeping the status quo of. these racist policies that harm black. women and then ultimately, like you. mentioned, harm white women. Speak to. all of that and speak about how we can. just get a BNR bonnet and just light up. Hakee and a bunch of these other do. nothing Democrats. >> So, so much of this is structural. And. if you look at the Congressional Black.

Caucus, which is, you know, being. decimated by the Voting Rights Act, right, a lot of the members represent um um. have a critical subset of black voters. Not all of them are majority black, but. the ones that are are the ones and. particularly in the south are the ones. who are uh most at risk. They represent. generally um folks where there's a. higher level of poverty than in suburban. districts. and so forth.

Uh how do we fund our campaigns and. elections, right, if they do not come. from wealth? And I'm sure the. Congressional Black Caucus has far less. wealth than the average white uh member. of Congress. Ridiculously less would be. my guess. Um where are they getting. their money from? if they can't raise it. from regular voters, constituents, family members in that area, in that. district, they need to raise money to. get reelected because this is how our. system is. So, the lowest hanging fruit,

you know, is the lobbyists and, you. know, the packs. And I'm not saying it's. right, but I don't know if you've ever. had to spend 35 hours in a windowless. room dialing for dollars. It sucks. Um. it's really really hard. It's much. easier to take a bigger check and do the. work and be out there in community. So. it's easy for us to say, "Oh, well these. folks are sellouts and they're taking. money from the devil." But the reality. is we're all on the grid. We are all.

complicit to a greater or lesser extent. If we change the structural way that uh. elections are had and campaigns are. funded, you're going to see a lot more. ideological compatibility with folks um. in Congress. And that means that they'll. be able to vote better and be better. public advocates because they will be. untethered from corporate interests that. you and I agree are so toxic to our. participatory democracy. So we need to. get past the personalities and the.

individuals and um disinvig individuate. this problem and talk about the systemic. issues. And again we talk about Mandani. the. >> what was impressive about him again was. it was in a state where they had the. foresight to believe in rank choice. voting to make that happen public. financing of of of campaigns. That's not. the case in Pennsylvania. In fact, I'm a. state lawmaker. In my fifth term, in my. 10th year, a lobbyist could buy me a.

summer house, Jennifer. Yeah. Not a cup of coffee, a summer. house. And as long as I reported online, that's legal in Pennsylvania. In. Pennsylvania, as a state lawmaker, I. could get a million dollar check from. Jeff Bezos, and that's okay. But in. Congress, I can only get $3,500. And I. believe we should have caps. So, a lot. of this is structural. we address the. structural issues and a lot of these. issues um will go away or be much more. manageable and we will have more people.

who've currently taken that money who. will say oh I I believe in public. financing. So the way forward I believe. is not to attack the individuals but to. say to those individuals who've been. taking these this pack money and so. forth. If you get public financing, you. can raise as much or more money than you. did getting money from people who you. don't actually like or agree with and. then you can be free to represent the. people as a public servant and not a. politician. and there's going to be.

public pressure on them to do it because. I'm hoping that my class um coming in in. 2027 will be big and bold and everybody. else will be noticing. Trust me, I know. they are because I'm getting phone calls. from those people who are like, "Oh, I. better congratulate him um because he's. riding this wave and I'm afraid that I. might not get reelected in the next. term.". I totally agree with you and I think. it's such a great point about the the. system and the structural issues and I.

think the same pertains to billionaires. Like I love to hate on Elon Musk and I. know it's petty and probably immature. and I love to hate on Peter Teal and all. of these people, but it is the system. that has enabled these particular. billionaires to be in the position that. they're in. And a lot of bipartisanship. support that enabled these billionaires. to ascend to the area that they to the. levels they've ascended to. And what's. so fascinating to me about it is these.

guys have these bank accounts that could. choke a bull and they sit there online. or on television all day talking about. what victims they are that Ken Griffin, you know, just uh Mom Donnie calls him. out, says, "Hey, buckle up, buttercup. You're going to have to pay some taxes.". And instead of him being a a patriot, having gratitude like JD Vance likes to. talk about. Have you ever said thank. you? Have you ever had gratitude? That. guy had such an opportunity to hop on. his private plane, land in. Teeterborough, take a helicopter into. Manhattan, think about what little. effort that would have taken for him,

get an actual checkbook, write a check. to the state of New York, the city of. New York City, pass it over and say, "As. a billionaire who has been so successful. because of unregulated capitalism, I. agree with this mayor. Here's your. check. And then what else would you like. for me to donate some money to because. mayor, it's going to affect my life? Zero." but instead he acts like a titty. baby and wets the bed on television. And. then you have all of these people that. probably have, you know, are making and. no disrespect to anybody who makes $40,

$50,000 a year, but a lot of these. billionaires, people die on the hill. that that that are living basically in. poverty in this country. And so let's. talk about if you get into. Congress, which you're going to. I mean, >> yes. Well, there's no Republican on the. ballot. >> and there more raccoons than Republicans. in my district. So, I will be the next. member of Congress. That is. >> Okay. So, what do you want to do as far. as it like Robert Garcia is my friend.

and he is on the oversight committee and. I think he's doing great work. Uh I. really uh uh like Congressman Garcia as. far as accountability with what we're. seeing. One thing that Donald Trump has. been is transparent in the crimes that. he's committing and the transferring of. taxpayer money to himself, to his sons, Dumb and Dumber, and to his uh. billionaire friends. How I mean, how much are all gas are you. on all this once you get in there? >> Um, so I am someone who u doesn't.

believe in um uh the carceral state. You. know, we we represent 5% of the world. population, but 25% of the people in. cages, our country. I will make an. exception for these cleft uh for these. for these uh kleptocracy. uh supporters, these thugs. Um yeah, lock them up. Um go after them. Use the. full authority of Congress to nail them.

to the [ __ ] wall. >> Love it. Will you also support? I'm. looking for candidates right now. I'm in. the market of looking for candidates. that will run on build whatever you. want. Mfer day one, we're tearing every. single bit of it down. We're live. streaming and we're having a rave while. we do it. The arch, all the white trash, gold [ __ ] he put on all the oval. I want. that Lincoln memorial uh uh reflecting. pool. I want all of that sanded back. down. every single the Trump that he put.

on top of the Kennedy Center, if he puts. his face on $200 bills that the Treasury. immediately says, "These are this is not. real money. Go exchange it." A big. bonfire. All of it. >> All of it. All of it. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Um. >> Good. >> These are these are memorials in one. kind or another to white supremacy and. white Christian nationalism and fascism. Um and they must be destroyed. We must. send a message that um this is not the. nation we seek to be. And it's not just.

about destroying, it's about. transforming. What are we transforming. our nation into? How do we move towards. a multi-racial democracy that we've. never had, >> right? >> How do we do that? And that is what I. want the agenda of the Democratic party. to be and not to be the um vessel for. corporate interests. Um the good. billionaire uh narrative is our enemy. Um you can't be a billionaire without. exploitation. You may be a very good.

person. You may give a [ __ ] ton to. charity, but philanthropy is not policy, right? And so we have to make sure that. um we have um that we are we are really. moving towards shared prosperity in the. most meaningful ways and collective. liberation. I can't be free until you're. free. Um all of our struggles are indeed. intertwined and we have to figure out. what are the policies.

um and movement to move us in that right. direction and it has to be built around. um legislators in Congress and the House. and the Senate and state and local who. understand what are the things that are. actually going to provide meaningful. change and not just playing around the. edges. So um I appreciate that we have. Obamacare. it was never enough. Um, we. need Medicare for all. We need a federal. job guarantee. We need universal basic.

income. We need social housing. My. mother was born, um, she was a she's a. baby boomer and they did not the GI Bill. discriminated against black people. So, when my grandfather got back from the. war, he wasn't allowed to buy a home in. the suburbs of Baltimore, but they. didn't have housing. He, you know, he. just got back from the war. Um, so they. had a program called the uh Negro. Veterans Housing Program and they. created real basic housing for black.

vets and it was abysmal. Um, it was not. nearly enough. But what we need to do is. make sure that everyone has everything. they need because we have the money and. how do I know that? Because we find the. money to send it um overseas, right? And. if we do that, people will say, "Oh, this is possible. We can do that." And I want to give one. example, and it's odd because it's a. shout out to the Biden administration. Uh, but in the pandemic, in the American.

Rescue Plan, they extended the child tax. credits for those folks who did not make. enough to be taxed. They got money back. in their pockets, and they got money per. child they had at home under a certain. age. And it it decreased child poverty. by almost 50% in one year's time. And. that was under a moderate Democrat. Now, they didn't promote it enough like they. should have, but if we could cut child. poverty in half under a moderate.

Democrat during the pandemic, imagine. what we can do um with an agenda that is. truly based on what is right for the. people closest to the pain and not for. corporate interests. And we can do. whatever the [ __ ] we want because we. have that capacity when we work. together. We are indomitable. >> Yeah. And it's it's absolutely. fascinating that the uh party of family. and uh life doesn't uh enact policies. like this. It's just really really the. hypocrisy and all of that is just.

incredibly rich. Chris Rab, you are just. such a a joy to talk to. It's so. awesome. And all of the abuse of living. in this fascist regime right now and. watching what our government is doing to. our fellow citizens and to people around. the world. It's such a joy to see that. you won your primary and that you're. going to be in Congress. And I mean that. so sincerely. It's just it's so nice to. see somebody who who can't be broken and. who can't be corrupted. And so I thank. you for that. And uh to the people of. Pennsylvania, good on all of you. This.

is really important work that we're. doing. Thank you so so much for joining. me. >> My pleasure.