Ron DeSantis and Elon Musk launch their campaign campaign on Twitter Spaces, and it's a disaster. But it's not just a disaster, it's one of the biggest tech failures of all time. And it's the perfect example of what happens when technology fails to deliver on a big campaign launch, and we're here to talk about it. Today's episode is brought to you by Medium, and edited by Alex Blumberg and Annie-Rose Strasser. Please remember to rate, review, and subscribe to our new show on Apple Podcasts, wherever you get your news and updates. Thanks for listening and tweet me if you liked this episode! Timestamps: 1:00:00 - How well did it work? 2:30 - Is this a good idea? 3:15 - Will it be a repeat of 2016? 4:20 - What's the best way to launch a campaign on social media? 5:00 - Is it a tech failure? 6:40 - Can it be fixed? 7:00 -- Is it still good? 8:10 - How did it play out? 9:30 -- What are the risks? 10:30 11:40 -- How did the rollout go? 12:20 -- What's next? 13:15 -- What was the takeaway from the launch? 14:00 | What s going to happen? 15:15 16:40 17:20 - What s the biggest takeaway from this launch Can you take from this? 16 - How will it be the legacy media moment? 19: What does it mean for the new wave of politics? 21:30 | What is the future of politics in 2020? 22:40 | What does the future look like? 23:15 | Is it going to be a good thing? 26:00 // Is it better than 2016's biggest moment in history? 27:20 | What do you think of it? 29:10 | What are you waiting for us to know? ? 32: What's your favorite part? 35:00 Is this new wave? 36:00 ~ Is it really? 31:00 / 33:00 Are you ready for the future? 33:10 Is it real? 37:00 Can we trust the future already?
00:00:04.000So that's actually what it sounded like last night when Ron DeSantis decided to launch his campaign on Twitter spaces with Elon Musk.
00:00:11.000Now yesterday I said this is kind of a cool idea, right?
00:00:13.000Because this is edging around the legacy media.
00:00:15.000Instead of relying on legacy media to introduce you to the crowd, you just go direct to the crowd.
00:00:19.000It's basically an extension of what Trump did in 2016 when he took to Twitter in order to set the narrative pretty much every morning.
00:00:25.000Instead, DeSantis decided that he was going to combine with Elon Musk, who is one of the most powerful people and richest person on earth, In order to introduce himself to a very large crowd.
00:00:34.000And one of the big questions was going to be how that played.
00:00:37.000And the other big question was going to be would it even work?
00:00:39.000Well, not so much was the story of yesterday night.
00:00:44.000So, about 6 p.m., bunch of people tuned in.
00:00:46.000When I say a bunch of people, I mean a lot of people.
00:00:48.000I mean 700,000 people simultaneously tuned in to listen to what Ron DeSantis and Elon Musk were willing to say to one another.
00:01:25.000That is the fault of Musk's engineers.
00:01:27.000That is the fault of Twitter Spaces for glitching out.
00:01:30.000And again, when you launch a new technology, it's extremely, extremely risky.
00:01:34.000Twitter Space is not a new technology, but carrying that sort of listener burden is a very, very new thing for Twitter Spaces to have to do.
00:01:41.000And, you know, as co-founder of a tech company, of a new media company, I can tell you, we've had glitches ourselves.
00:01:53.000This sort of stuff does happen on a fairly routine basis, which is why if you're looking for kind of a safe and secure place in order to launch your campaign, Twitter Spaces was not it.
00:02:02.000Here's what it sounded like when Twitter Spaces started glitching.
00:02:06.000We've got so many people here that I think we are kind of melting the servers, which is a good sign.
00:02:13.000All right, I'd like to just introduce the folks in the room here.
00:02:18.000So it's safe to say we wouldn't be making history without the man sitting next to me, Elon Musk.
00:02:23.000His decision to purchase this platform last year to restore it to its original mission as a beacon for free speech and even to expose Twitter's past complicity with a government censorship regime might have surprised many, but not those of us who've known and worked with Elon for nearly a quarter century.
00:02:38.000His commitment to freedom and his willingness to put his money where his mouth is upset the narrative imposed on us by our government.
00:03:11.000If you remember the biggest campaign launches in our history, you'll remember that Donald Trump, of course, in 2016 did the famous descent down the escalator at Trump Tower and people mocked it.
00:03:32.000This was supposed to be the introduction to a new wave of politics in which, again, legacy media was cut out of the loop and something new was going to happen.
00:03:40.000And people in the media, of course, started painting this immediately as egg on DeSantis' face.
00:03:45.000Again, his advance team should have worked with Twitter to make sure this was not going to happen.
00:03:48.000The true egg should be on the face of the people over at Twitter Spaces who, again, failed DeSantis and failed Musk in this particular situation.
00:03:56.000Musk himself, on the second go-around, he said, yeah, the servers are pretty clearly straining somewhat.
00:04:04.000Just a massive number of people online, so it's servers are straining somewhat.
00:04:12.000That awkwardness is going to make for a thousand memes.
00:04:14.000It's going to make for a lot of mockery, of course.
00:04:17.000And that's precisely what happened, as you would imagine.
00:04:20.000The substance got left behind in favor of all of the coverage of the kind of craziness of a campaign launch where you can't even hear the person who is launching the campaign and hundreds of thousands of people are trying to get in.
00:04:33.000Joe Biden, of course, responded by tweeting out a link to his own campaign, saying, here is a link that works.
00:04:38.000I'd like to personally congratulate Rob DeSanctimonious.
00:04:41.000Donald Trump responded in a typically Trumpian fashion.
00:04:45.000And again, the people who love this kind of stuff, love this kind of stuff.
00:04:48.000The people who think that, you know, maybe this campaign is going to be a fight between
00:04:51.000substance and style, maybe see that contrast pretty strongly right here.
00:04:55.000So Trump, before this happened, he tweeted out, I personally, I'd like to personally congratulate Rob DeSanctimonious.
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00:07:00.000Okay, so Trump continued along these lines in attacking DeSantis and the Twitter launch.
00:07:08.000So, he also tweeted out, again, calling Ron DeSantis Rob, which is apparently his new thing.
00:08:07.000And then, of course, no Trump tweet thread would be complete without his team texting out all of the different headlines from the media outlets who were very, very upset and very shocked and appalled at the failure of the Twitter Spaces launch.
00:08:21.000They tweeted out, Ron DeSantis' Twitter disaster.
00:08:25.000Then it was headlines from Breitbart News.
00:08:31.000Biggest fail in campaign launches in history.
00:08:33.000Ron DeSantis' mock for Shambhala Twitter room presidential announcement with Elon Musk that crashes five times and leaves users bamboozled.
00:08:59.000He put out a truth social, a fake Twitter spaces, including an AI voice of Elon Musk and an AI voice of Ron DeSantis.
00:09:06.000And then also his Twitter space, his imagined Twitter space for Ron DeSantis' launch includes, I kid you not, Elon Musk, Ron DeSantis, George Soros, Klaus Schwab, Dick Cheney, Adolf Hitler, the Devil, and the FBI.
00:09:20.000This is, I guess, Trump's idea of a funny response to the Twitter space campaign launch, is that DeSantis' backers include Soros, Adolf Hitler, Satan, and the FBI.
00:09:34.000Which, um, ooh, boomer meme energy coming in strong here.
00:10:47.000And of course, the media pick up on this also, as you can imagine, right?
00:10:51.000All those headlines are from mainstream media outlets, the vast majority of them.
00:10:54.000And meanwhile, you have, you know, overt fans of Trump like David Jolly on MSNBC declaring this just a full-scale disaster, total disaster.
00:11:01.000This is the biggest day in the political life of Ron and Casey DeSantis, and it has become absolutely humiliating, rawly embarrassing, emasculating, mortifying.
00:11:15.000This has been a disaster for Ron and Casey DeSantis, because even the decision to do this on Twitter spaces leans into the weirdness of Ron DeSantis.
00:11:25.000And it also suggests his greatest vulnerability is this idea that he's governor safe space, that he can only be approached and he can only get in front of people if it's been orchestrated and he's in a bubble.
00:11:37.000And then we get to the real dangerous part, the ideology he associates tonight.
00:11:41.000With someone who has a platform for regressive ideology, Elon Musk, and it brings to the forefront these themes that are the Christian white nationalist themes that bring up his culture war and his marginalizing of already marginalized communities in the state of Florida.
00:11:56.000So David Jolly, a former congressperson, now an SMSC, it's a disaster.
00:12:00.000And Joy Reid, I mean, Joy Reid is so happy.
00:12:02.000If you can't see the clip, Joy Reid looks like she needs to smoke a cigarette after all of that.
00:12:06.000And there's a reason that MSNBC is happy.
00:12:08.000And listen, is that good for DeSantis?
00:12:42.000And in fact, there are polls out that are showing that basically Trump and DeSantis in the primaries, in many of these states are head and head.
00:12:50.000When it comes to a head-to-head matchup between Trump and DeSantis without any of these other candidates in the race, the latest Marquette poll shows Trump and DeSantis pretty close to even, like Trump at 52, DeSantis at 48.
00:13:01.000There are other polls showing him way ahead because you include the other candidates, and they start picking away at DeSantis' support.
00:13:07.000In other words, it is very, very early.
00:13:17.000So if you are suggesting that the shambolic nature of the Twitter Space's launch is somehow going to cripple DeSantis' campaign for the long haul, I have a tough time believing you.
00:13:27.000That does not mean that it was a good launch.
00:13:41.000And then when your launch is, you don't hit the marks.
00:13:43.000And when you're running against the greatest showman in presidential political history, a person who literally made his name on being a showman, that is not what you are looking for.
00:13:52.000So DeSantis, for his part, tried to respond to this.
00:13:56.000By saying that basically this is a victory.
00:13:58.000The reason it's a victory is not because Twitter Space has crashed.
00:14:00.000The reason it's a victory is because, I mean, Donald Trump had to stack, like, a room with his supporters in Mar-a-Lago in order to do a launch, and it was pretty disappointing, as you will recall.
00:14:09.000At least DeSantis can claim that he had 700,000 people, minimum, who were ready to watch simultaneously him announce this actual thing.
00:14:16.000Here was Governor Ron DeSantis announcing that they broke the internet.
00:15:02.000And I think we can choose a better pathway.
00:15:05.000Okay, so, Team Stance's response, again, you gotta spin this somehow in the way they're spinning it, and it's not false, but it obviously doesn't overcome the sort of glitchy failure of Twitter spaces, is, there were so many people who wanted to see me that obviously there's a crowd.
00:15:40.000And one of the things that my kids really like to do with Happy is just release him, as we say, into the wild, which means just running around our house at top speed.
00:16:41.000Okay, so let me get to the actual content.
00:16:45.000Okay, so I'm not sure there's ever been a campaign launch in which the optics contrast so strongly with the content.
00:16:52.000The optics of this were a mess, obviously.
00:16:55.000It launches on a failing Twitter space, It's got, you know, one of the most iconoclastic people on planet Earth, Elon Musk, hosting the thing.
00:17:05.000And DeSantis is a bread and butter, meat and potatoes, conservative politician who's able to get things done.
00:17:12.000And that's really what his launch was about.
00:17:15.000Now, you know, you can say there's no such thing as bad publicity, but again, the contrast here is not particularly great for DeSantis, but if you get to the substance, the substance is really, really good, as always, because DeSantis is really good at this.
00:17:27.000If you had to pick between, forget about, you know, all of the media battles for a second, forget about whose style you prefer, right?
00:17:33.000Ron DeSantis, who's very, very direct and linear in his style, or Trump, who, you know, comes swinging out of the trees on a vine, punching people.
00:17:39.000Right, like, forget about the style for a second and focus in on who gets things done.
00:17:44.000Who won the last election in Florida by 20 points?
00:17:46.000Who's taken a state that was really, really purple and turned it bright red?
00:17:49.000Who has implemented conservative policies across the board in the state of Florida?
00:17:53.000And the answer is, obviously, DeSantis when it comes to policy.
00:17:57.000And so when it came to the substance, when he actually sat with Musk and with David Sachs and they took questions from a variety of different people in the chat, This is like what DeSantis is good at.
00:18:06.000He's actually good at the business of governing.
00:18:08.000So here's what it sounded like when DeSantis announced his run.
00:18:12.000I understand that you may have an announcement to make.
00:18:15.000We've got, I think, a record audience assembled here.
00:18:19.000You know, probably the biggest room that's probably ever been assembled online.
00:20:55.000But when I am able to lie down in those brief moments between when he is waking my wife up and when we are changing diapers, I need to be able to sleep, and this is why I rely on bowl and branch.
00:21:05.000Bowl and branch sheets are made from the finest 100% organic cotton threads on the planet.
00:22:18.000I'm proud to be a Navy veteran, an Iraq veteran, and I revere our services, but when revered institutions like those in our military are more concerned with matters not central to the mission, whether it's global warming or gender ideology and pronouns, Morale declines and recruiting suffers.
00:22:35.000And you need to eliminate these distractions and we need to get focused on the core mission.
00:22:59.000This is going to be the actual pitch for Ron DeSantis, is you want the glitz, you want the glamour, you want the distractions, you want the crazy entertainment of it, I'm probably not your guy.
00:23:09.000If you want somebody who's actually going to govern strongly, who's going to get done what you need to get done, if you'd like to win in policy terms, well then I am your guy and I have the receipts to prove it because I'm running a state that has gained hundreds of thousands of citizens since 2020 thanks to conservative governance.
00:23:24.000Here he was talking about how governing is not entertainment.
00:23:37.000And our results in Florida have been second to none.
00:23:41.000We can and we must deliver big results for America.
00:23:47.000You know, DeSantis talked about COVID, he talked about how he did not allow vax mandates in the state, which is true, and how freedom was threatened by COVID-19 authoritarianism.
00:23:54.000These are all going to be points of comparison with Donald Trump.
00:23:57.000The rest of this campaign is going to be about Ron DeSantis calling out Donald Trump on making Anthony Fauci a world-famous figure, and then allowing him to essentially run his policy in fragmentary fashion, while simultaneously suggesting that Operation Warp Speed is the greatest thing to ever happen in the history of humanity.
00:24:13.000And saying that Georgia should lock down and then saying Georgia should not lock down, Michigan should be free.
00:24:59.000So that's going to be the choice, I think.
00:25:00.000In this Republican primary, if you think it's really a two-person primary, which I do, it's gonna be, you know, you love the personality of Trump, you think he is wild, then he's eccentric, and that's the only way things get done.
00:25:12.000I don't think that it's fully justified by his administration.
00:25:15.000And I don't think it's justified by the election of 2020, 2021, or 2020, but I hear, I get the argument and I understand why people love it.
00:25:22.000And then the other side of the argument is going to be DeSantis saying, listen, you can speculate on Trump or you can earn a very nice, consistent rate of return by investing in my candidacy.
00:26:34.000DeSantis can answer the question that Trump cannot.
00:26:37.000So, Trump has one question that he cannot answer, and I've been asking everyone around him, and I don't... Trump still has not given an answer.
00:26:43.000None of his supporters have given an answer.
00:26:45.000Let's assume that Trump is right and that the election of 2020 was stolen from him.
00:26:51.000I mean, not in the way that I agree with.
00:26:54.000Not in the way that, like, Facebook was suppressing content that was beneficial to Trump and harmful to Biden.
00:26:59.000Or, like, the rules changed in the last few months of the campaign because of COVID and allowed for a massive increase in mail-in ballots that obviously benefited Democrats.
00:27:07.000In a soft sense, the election of 2020 was rigged, but Trump talks about it in the hard sense.
00:27:11.000He thinks that it was like actual voter fraud, fake ballots that were being bused into Fulton County in the middle of the night and then tabulated.
00:27:18.000That's the thing that Trump has actually claimed in Arizona, in Georgia.
00:27:21.000He hasn't really mentioned it so much in Wisconsin and Michigan, which is weird, because even if he'd won Arizona and Georgia, if he loses Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, he's still not the president.
00:27:28.000But put all that aside, let's assume that what Trump says is absolutely correct, that it was full-on stolen from him in 2020.
00:27:34.000The question I've asked, and that no one has answered so far, because it's a relevant question, is how do you plan to reverse this?
00:27:41.000Truly, how do you plan to reverse this?
00:27:42.000What is your actual plan for becoming president of the United States?
00:27:45.000Your case is that the system was so out to get you that hundreds of thousands of ballots were literally changed in order to prevent you from becoming the president.
00:27:53.000Going on Truth Social and mouthing off about it is not going to change that result.
00:27:56.000So what exactly is your plan to change that result?
00:28:00.000Now, the thing about DeSantis is that he actually does have a plan.
00:28:03.000Okay, DeSantis is in the state of Florida, for example, and this has been true since the 2018 gubernatorial race.
00:28:09.000DeSantis is extremely meticulous about how he runs a campaign.
00:28:15.000He is not going to rely on the vicissitudes of the media in order to buoy his campaign.
00:28:21.000He will actually get people out on the ground knocking on doors.
00:28:24.000He's going to make sure that there are people who are harvesting ballots in the states where ballot harvesting is legal.
00:28:30.000He's going to make sure that he competes on every front, as opposed to Trump, who in 2020, late 2020, early 2021, told the voters of Georgia not to vote in the Georgia Senate race because he was so mad about how Georgia went that he basically handed two seats in the United States Senate to the Democrats, leading to the greatest unprecedented spending binge in American history.
00:28:50.000That doesn't happen if Trump doesn't tell people to stay home in Georgia.
00:28:53.000Unlike that, DeSantis looked at the state of Florida.
00:28:55.000He's like, okay, well, you know, they're doing ballot harvesting.
00:28:57.000They're organizing in a particular way.
00:29:04.000By the way, you know who else knows this is Brian Kemp.
00:29:06.000Won a sweeping victory in Georgia at the same time that Trump was losing Georgia and two Georgia senators were losing their seats because people didn't show up to vote in the runoff.
00:29:18.000If you believe, if you're a believer that elections get stolen, the only way to defeat that is to actually mobilize on the ground and change how you do the elections.
00:29:26.000Not to bitch about it on Truth Social.
00:29:29.000So DeSantis can actually make that case because that's actually what he has done in the state of Florida.
00:29:35.000That's going to be the final line of attack I think that DeSantis is probably going to use against Trump.
00:29:39.000Now, again, Trump's line of attacks are pretty clear at this point.
00:29:49.000The question is, who do you think is most likely to beat Biden?
00:29:52.000So, when I say that DeSantis is actually pretty good at the game of politicking, let me point out that despite the Twitter Space's debacle, and it was a debacle, the launch, the glitch failure was a debacle, that despite that, in the first hour after that, in the first hour after that, the DeSantis campaign raised $1 million.
00:30:13.000To put that in perspective, When Donald Trump declared that the DA in Manhattan was about to prosecute him, it took him three days to raise $1.5 million.
00:30:23.000In the first hour, DeSantis raised $1 million.
00:30:25.000DeSantis currently has $200 million in the bank.
00:30:29.000The New York Times has a full article talking about how DeSantis is preparing an outreach push so big That they plan to knock on the door of every possible DeSantis voter at least four times in New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina, and five times in the kickoff Iowa caucuses.
00:30:46.000The effort is part of an on-the-ground organizing operation that intends to hire more than 2,600 field organizers by Labor Day, an extraordinary number of people for even the best-funded campaigns.
00:30:54.000Top officials with the pro-DeSantis group, a super PAC called Never Back Down, provided their most detailed account yet of their battle plan to aid DeSantis, who may believe they can sell as the only candidate to take on and win the cultural fights that are definitional for the Republican Party in 2024.
00:31:06.000The group said it expected to have an overall budget of at least $200 million, including more than $80 million to be transferred from an old DeSantis state political account for the daunting task of vaulting the Florida governor past former President Donald J. Trump.
00:31:48.000Which candidate do you think is most likely to beat Joe Biden?
00:31:52.000And the reality is that if you look past the style of the Twitter launch and to the substance of what he was actually saying, if you look past the style, to the substance of what DeSantis has achieved as the governor of Florida, if you look past the style of Trump on Truth Social blasting out weird videos of fake A.I.
00:32:07.000voices, of Elon Musk and Adolf Hitler and Satan talking with Ron DeSantis, and you look to, you know, spending money on the ground, getting people to knock on doors, that is actually how you win elections.
00:32:15.000Now, that doesn't mean that DeSantis is going to beat Trump in the primaries.
00:32:22.000Understandably, he was a great president for the first three years.
00:32:25.000I think the last year was a real problem for him, obviously, which is why he's not the president anymore.
00:32:29.000And he had a real problem with being unable to activate the filter between his brain and his mouth, which is why he's not president anymore.
00:32:34.000I said all the time during the Trump administration that if you could just take Twitter away from Donald Trump, he would never have stopped being president.
00:32:40.000He would have continued to be president.
00:32:43.000With all that said, Republican primary voters, anybody who suggests that last night was the end of the campaign, no, no, no, no.
00:32:49.000Last night was just the beginning of the campaign, no matter how badly things went on Twitter spaces.
00:32:54.000Okay, in just one second, we'll get to something that's going very badly for Joe Biden, and that, of course, is the debt ceiling fight first.
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00:34:26.000New episodes Okay, meanwhile, Joe Biden is having a very rough time of it on this debt ceiling fight.
00:34:37.000Again, he is trapped between a rock and a hard place because on the one hand, he doesn't want the debt ceiling to be hit.
00:34:42.000If the debt ceiling is hit, a couple of bad things happen for Joe Biden.
00:35:12.000It's going to be infrastructure bill, Green New Deal garbage that is going to get cut.
00:35:16.000And Biden's going to have to go back to his base and explain why all that stuff is being cut if we hit the debt ceiling.
00:35:21.000So these are two serious problems for Joe Biden.
00:35:23.000And then he's created for himself a third problem, which is that he took the very strong position of, I'm not going to negotiate under any bag of salmon.
00:35:30.000And then he has to negotiate because it turns out that he does not run the Congress and there is a co-equal branch of government called the legislature that sometimes you have to negotiate with.
00:35:38.000So, he can always rely on the media to do his dirty work for him.
00:35:40.000The Washington Post says, This is precisely the opposite of what is actually happening.
00:35:48.000The actual thing that is happening is that the Republicans passed a bill raising the debt ceiling and saying, And Joe Biden has summarily dismissed all of that and then claimed that he is negotiating.
00:37:20.000Jeffries has not yet raised the question with the president, according to a person familiar with the situation who, like others who spoke to the Washington Post, did so on condition of anonymity.
00:37:28.000Jeffrey said, Well, he can say whatever he wants, but the reality is that if we hit the debt ceiling here after Republicans have appeared as the moderates who actually want to compromise, Joe Biden is going to feel the full brunt of the American public.
00:37:45.000Right now, it is a dead even split in the polling on who gets blamed if the debt ceiling gets breached.
00:38:05.000As I say, we'll continue to pay our debt.
00:38:07.000We'll just have to cut discretionary spending.
00:38:10.000I will plan to update Congress shortly and try to increase the level of precision.
00:38:18.000You know, there's a lot of uncertainty about government payments and receipts even a few weeks out, and it's hard to be precise about exactly which day we will run out of resources.
00:38:35.000But early June seems almost certain that we will not be able to get past early June, and I do intend to provide an update pretty soon.
00:38:49.000Okay, meanwhile, the Democrats are trying to cram through the idea that Kevin McCarthy and the Republicans are the ones who are extremists on all this.
00:38:55.000The problem is that narrative already got away from them.
00:38:57.000When the Republicans passed a bill that increased the debt ceiling, Democrats were wrong-footed and they have not adjusted in any way, shape, or form.
00:39:03.000Here's Corinne Jean-Pierre, world's worst White House press secretary, explaining that, you know, if we default, there will be a recession.
00:39:08.000Yeah, we know, so maybe your boss should sign something.
00:39:11.000A default would have catastrophic impacts in every single part of this country, whether you're in a red state or in a blue state.
00:39:36.000Again, if the American public perceives that you guys are the ones who are not being moderate on making a compromise, you're basically talking the American public into blaming your guy.
00:39:45.000The irrepressibly stupid Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, the representative from Twitch and also Brooklyn, she says that McCarthy is engaging in quote-unquote extortion.
00:39:58.000The reason why anyone is asking anyone on this stage about what we would vote for is because Kevin McCarthy needs our votes.
00:40:06.000So if he wants any Democratic support, he has to come to the table.
00:40:12.000And we have seen him over and over again say that he will not negotiate, that they are engaged in hostage taking, not negotiation, extortion, not conversation.
00:40:23.000And that is not something we can establish.
00:40:25.000It is not something we can reinforce in this country.
00:40:30.000Um, except for McCarthy already passed the bill.
00:40:59.000The only way that the Democrats can try to buy this back in the face of their own base is presumably to try and blame McCarthy, but it's just not working.
00:41:07.000Pramila Jayapal, the progressive leader from Washington, she says that raising the debt ceiling is a sacred principle.
00:41:12.000Amazing what the Democrats consider sacred, right?
00:41:15.000Abortion, same-sex marriage, transing of the children, and raising the debt ceiling.
00:41:18.000These are sacred items to Democratic leadership.
00:41:22.000Ranking member of the Budget Committee, Brendan Boyle, has a great bill on this to take care of the debt ceiling, allow the Treasury Secretary to raise the debt ceiling.
00:41:30.000Many of us are proud to be on that bill.
00:41:33.000I think this is really important because I think there used to be this idea that the debt ceiling was sort of sacred, you know, that you, it was just paying your bills.
00:41:45.000And what we've seen is Republicans increasingly taking on those very sacred principles of Keeping the economy going, of not defaulting, of not throwing people into uncertainty and chaos.
00:41:59.000Yeah, that's what progressives are famous for, is paying their bills and not throwing people into uncertainty and chaos.
00:42:03.000Meanwhile, again, McCarthy is coming out of this looking pretty good at this point.
00:42:08.000Again, it's a pretty astonishing turn of events for the Speaker of the House, who was largely derided for his near inability to gain the speakership.
00:42:14.000This is pretty good gamesmanship here from McCarthy.
00:42:17.000Listen to how moderate McCarthy sounds when he talks about the debt limit talks.
00:42:21.000We need to have a deal this week in order to avoid default.
00:44:36.000And it was annoying and people kind of ignored it.
00:44:38.000Then they started pushing not just Pride Month but like giant Pride displays everywhere because during the month of June we get the Holy Month of Pride and during the Holy Month of Pride everything is covered in rainbow vomit.
00:44:48.000It's important that every single product be covered in rainbow vomit.
00:45:10.000They also didn't like that Target had started retailing in partnership with a UK based brand called ABAPralen to sell merchandise And a search on Target's website found some of the items.
00:45:23.000Those items were designed by a person named Eric Carnell, an outspoken Satanist, whose brand features occult imagery and messages like, Satan respects pronouns on brand apparel.
00:45:34.000Abprallen also sells merch with aggressive messaging attacking critics, pins with the phrases, heteronormity is a plague, and burn down the system are featured on the website, along with one that says, homophobe headrest with an image of a guillotine.
00:46:43.000You need to be neutral and just provide products to people to buy them.
00:46:46.000Or you can take a clear demarcation line on issues of the day.
00:46:50.000Now what's amazing about this Is that you have people like Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, who has done an absolutely horrific job in the state of California to the extent that 500,000 people left the state of California net between 2020 and 2022.
00:47:06.000And Gavin Newsom is out there tweeting about Target and suggesting this is just so terrible.
00:47:10.000We can't allow this sort of thing ever, ever again.
00:47:13.000And in fact, Gavin Newsom then started to do the The old holocaust poem, right?
00:47:18.000First they came for the, and then they came for the, by the time they came for the Jews, there was no one left to defend me.
00:47:22.000Okay, so Gavin Newsom tweeted, CEO of Target, Brian Cornell, selling out the LGBTQ plus community to extremists is a real profile in courage.
00:47:44.000Gays across the country are under systemic threat in a country where gay marriage is not only legal, but now they are attempting to force your children to learn about it in kindergarten.
00:48:33.000It is only when you start trying to trans the kids that people start to get a little uptight, for good reason.
00:48:39.000But again, now Target is stuck between a rock and a hard place of its own making, as all corporate brands will be.
00:48:43.000So all you corporate brand leaders out there who are preparing for Pride Month, just remember, this could be you.
00:48:50.000If you decide to step into this minefield, and then you get blown up, ain't no sympathy for you over here.
00:48:54.000And in fact, some of us are quite happy to make an example of you.
00:48:59.000If you decide to become the bleeding edge of the Pride Progress team attempting to foster a societal viewpoint that damages children and wrecks traditional morality.
00:49:10.000You've seen the two-step here from the L.A.
00:49:17.000Like, if you didn't like it, you just didn't go to the ballpark.
00:49:18.000And then they decided, you know, we're gonna honor the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, which is an anti-Catholic group in which gay men and gay women dress and trans people dress up as Jesus and Mary in blasphemous... in blasphemous... sort of... displays.
00:49:34.000And then the Dodgers had to walk that back because it turns out like a huge percentage of their fan base is Hispanic Catholic.
00:49:39.000And then the LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign community was so mad that they reinstated the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
00:50:08.000We literally launched Jeremy's Razors on the back of woke brands.
00:50:11.000We launched Jeremy's Chocolate on the back of woke brands.
00:50:13.000If you guys want to keep polarizing this thing, we are happy to take money from people who feel scorned and upset because there are brands who hate their guts.
00:50:20.000I'd prefer an America where you just go back to selling your product and stop trying to promote the idea that Rachel Levine is a moral exemplar to us all.
00:50:29.000Go back to neutral and all weapons go away.
00:50:32.000But if you're going to play this game, play stupid games, win stupid prizes, F around and find out.
00:50:37.000I've said it multiple times, there's a Harvard Business School study.
00:50:40.000The Harvard Business School study shows that the left has basically been leveraging brands for the last couple of decades.
00:50:45.000That left-wingers will use their ire against conservative corporations in order to rip on them, whether it's Chick-fil-A or whether it's Hobby Lobby.
00:50:52.000They will go after them full-scale if they even perceive any whiff of conservatism.
00:50:56.000Meanwhile, conservatives for literally decades have just been like, okay, it's a left-wing corporation, whatever, I'll still go there.
00:51:02.000Those days are over because you have pushed too far.
00:51:04.000You have decided that it is imperative that you become the loudspeaker for a system of morality that disdains traditional institutions like the nuclear family, that disdains the Natural necessity of heterosexual relationships and pretends that all sexual activity is morally equivalent and equally fulfilling and entirely... And there should be moral apathy about all this stuff.
00:51:29.000You can go back to neutral and stop with this garbage, or you can continue to walk down this primrose path.
00:51:33.000And I am more than happy to take my business elsewhere.
00:51:35.000And more than that, we here at Dailyware, we're happy to start our own businesses that don't scorn our audience.
00:51:41.000Target is, uh, if you think it's over for Target, it ain't over for Target, not by, uh, not by a damned long shot.
00:51:47.000Okay, meanwhile, speaking of local news stories that became national news stories and then went back to being local news stories, this one's hilarious.
00:51:53.000So, you'll remember that a couple of days ago, there was a man who crashed a U-Haul truck into a security barrier outside the White House.
00:52:01.000Now, this sort of thing has happened before.
00:52:03.000In fact, back in April of 2021, there was a police officer in Washington, D.C.
00:52:08.000who was actually killed by a person who ran him over near the Capitol building.
00:52:12.000We don't talk about that situation because it wasn't connected with January 6th.
00:52:15.000You know the names of people like Brian Sicknick, who may have died as a result of January 6th, but did not die on January 6th, and it's still unclear.
00:53:35.000They did not say what country he was originally from or when he arrived in the United States.
00:53:40.000Assistant Federal Public Defender Diane Shrewsbury, who was appointed to represent Kandula, did not offer defense of Kandula in court.
00:53:47.000Apparently, they say that it appears this guy is a crazy person.
00:53:51.000In fact, Kandula liked to wear a surgical mask with Biden's name on it during the pandemic because he got a reaction from the people at Marquette University where he was going to school.
00:54:01.000Kandula apparently, you know, has kind of lost his mind, and again, not here legally.
00:54:08.000He told authorities he bought the flag because Nazis have a great history, and he admired their authoritarian nature, eugenics, and their one-world order, according to charging documents, and he called Adolf Hitler a strong leader.
00:54:15.000But he wasn't a Trump supporter, so not a national news story.
00:54:18.000We can't have a conversation about illegal immigration or who's in the country legally and who's not.
00:54:22.000That would be a conversation media doesn't want to have.
00:54:24.000So instead, we just won't have the conversation at all.
00:54:27.000And so the story, poof, it disappeared.
00:54:43.000Candace Owens, she made a documentary about Black Lives Matter.
00:54:46.000It's called The Greatest Lie Ever Sold.
00:54:47.000And it was all about how Black Lives Matter was a giant scam.
00:54:50.000The entire organization was designed to make money for its founders.
00:54:53.000It paid Patrisse Cullors a lot of money.
00:54:56.000Hey, Patrisse Cullors' brother, a lot of money, like $1.6 million for security services in 2022.
00:55:02.000Another sister of a board member earned $1.1 million for consulting.
00:55:05.000They cleared tens of millions of dollars from ridiculous left-wing progressives in places like California who decided that they wanted to put a lawn sign on their lawn reading, in this house, black lives matter, water is delicious.
00:55:19.000So all those idiots signed checks to Black Lives Matter and it was used by a black person, Patrisse Cullors, to purchase herself a very, very nice house.
00:55:27.000Well now, according to the Daily Mail, BLM's national organization is at risk of going bankrupt after its finances plunged $8.5 million into the red last year while simultaneously handing multiple staff seven-figure salaries.
00:55:43.000Financial disclosures obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show the perilous state of BLM Global Network Foundation, which officially emerged in November 2020 as a more formal way of structuring the civil rights movement.
00:55:53.000Despite the financial controversy, BLM continued to hire relatives of Patrice Cullors and several board members.
00:55:59.000Paul Cullors was one of BLM's only two paid employees during the year.
00:56:01.000He collected $126,000 salary as head of security on top of consulting fees.
00:56:05.000He is best known as a graffiti artist with no background in security.
00:56:11.000For the previous year, 2021, tax filings revealed that BLM paid a company owned by Damon Turner, the father of Color's Child, nearly $970,000 to help produce live events and provide other creative services.
00:56:24.000The sister of a former Black Lives Matter board member, Raymond Howard, was employed as a consultant.
00:56:29.000Her new impact partners was paid $1.1 million for consulting services in 2022.
00:56:33.000So donations have plunged because everybody stopped feeling bad about the George Floyd of it all and decided to start sending their checks to their global warming scam pack.
00:56:42.000So they just moved it from one scam pack to another scam pack.
00:56:45.000But it is delicious to imagine how much money went to Black Lives Matter and their founders, and then all that money went directly
00:57:34.000In fact, the brand Mercedes-Benz may have been involved in some of those things, actually.
00:57:38.000Roger Waters decided it would be an excellent idea to dress up as an SS officer and then compare Anne Frank, the murdered 14-year-old Jewish girl, to Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu-Akhla, who was accidentally shot, probably, by IDF forces.
00:57:53.000When I say probably, I don't mean that she was accidentally shot... Probably, like, accidentally.
00:57:57.000I mean that probably IDF forces accidentally shot her.
00:58:00.000It's still not clear whether that is the case or not, but let's assume it's the case after investigations.
00:58:05.000Clearly, the IDF was not targeting a prominent journalist to kill her.
00:58:09.000That would be a very stupid thing to do, and obviously, it is not what happened.
00:58:14.000That dude is now comparing a journalist who was accidentally killed in the middle of a shootout with terrorists to a 14-year-old girl In Denmark, who was taken out of an attic and shipped to Auschwitz, where she was gassed to death.
00:58:27.000Because Roger Waters is a piece of human debris.