Ep. 1615 - Trump's New Administration Picks, Guess Who Made The List？
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Trump is staffing his administration fast. Who made the cut? Who s setting the policy? Who's deporting all of those illegals? We have at least some of the answers. President Trump has picked a guy named Tom Homan. That's the guy I want handling the deportations.
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President Trump is staffing his administration fast. Who made the cut? Who's setting the policy?
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Who's deporting all of those illegals? We have at least some of the answers.
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several weeks and months. You can get more info. Text Knowles to 98, 98, 98 today. President Trump is
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moving fast to staff this administration. And the top roles are being filled, it seems, several per day.
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The most exciting one, I think, came to us yesterday afternoon, and that would be the borders are.
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You know, for Biden, Kamala Harris has been the borders are, even though she denied being the borders are
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because we've had the worst border crisis in our history on her watch after she was given
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presidential authority from Joe Biden. So there are a lot of eyes on the border. President Trump has picked
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a guy named Tom Homan. He is the former director of ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Mr. Homan went viral about five years ago during his tenure as ICE director.
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For this exchange with one of the more insufferable Democrat members of Congress,
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I respect the chair's authority, but the chair...
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That is exactly the guy I want handling the deportations. I don't know much of anything else
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about Tom Homan. I know he worked, okay, he worked under Trump. It seemed good. Immigration
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was good under Trump. But even if I didn't know any of that, that's the guy I want handling the
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deportations. The deportations are going to be very difficult. And they're going to be very
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difficult because the left is going to focus a giant spotlight every single day to try to expose
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or even just contrive, even make up out of thin air, heart-wrenching stories about poor dreamers
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who have come here for a better life, innocent grandmothers whose worst crime was baking pies for
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the neighbors and how they're being heartlessly deported by that evil Mr. Trump. Even if 99.99...
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Forget about that. Even if 100% of the deportations are face-tattooed, Satan-worshiping, MS-13 gang
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members, serial killers and rapists, even if that is all the deportations, you know that the left is
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going to gin up a bunch of stories about the poor, innocent, illegal aliens who just came to America
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to look for a better life, to expand their cartel, to try to hang a shingle on their mom-and-pop
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human trafficking network. And so they're going to make this seem politically totally unacceptable.
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You need a guy who is tough as nails to handle that. You need a guy who's not going to be easily
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manipulated by Democrat members of Congress or Democrats in the press. You need a guy who looks
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at Pramila Jayapal and says, hey, I'm a taxpayer. You work for me. Don't you bang your gavel at me.
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You don't... Put that gavel down. That gavel's not going to shut me up. You work for me. Don't you
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talk to me that way. That's the guy you need in the office. Really, really good pick. I love it.
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Can we get him to do other jobs in the administration? I don't know. Maybe he can be a rotating
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secretary of state. I don't know. Maybe he could be DOD maybe. I don't know. He's good. Now we have
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other picks. The UN ambassador has been selected. Elise Stefanik. Elise Stefanik is a Republican member
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of Congress in New York who has defended Trump on many occasions. Not the most right-wing member
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of Congress. Doesn't have the highest conservative review score. However, I don't think that really
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matters in this case. I'll get through the other picks and then explain why I think even some of the
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more moderate or more centrist Republicans ideologically are actually not such a bad
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pick for some of these jobs. Lee Zeldin, another New York Republican, has been tapped to head the EPA.
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Stephen Miller, who came to fame for his staunch immigration restrictionist stance,
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he is the deputy chief of staff for policy. He is one of those who is pretty right-wing. He's a
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rock-ribbed kind of guy in the admin. Representative Mike Waltz, another more moderate, more liberal
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Republican member of Congress, has been tapped for the National Security Advisor. And then there's
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a rumor. I don't think this has been formally announced yet, but there's a rumor that Marco
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Rubio is getting secretary of state. So what do I think about these picks? Some of you are not going
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to be as familiar with all of these names. Let's start with Elise, because as I mentioned, Elise is not
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the most rock-ribbed right-wing, to the right of Genghis Khan kind of Republican. So is that a bad
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pick, therefore, for her to be at the UN? I don't think so. I think it's actually a very smart pick.
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But let's not forget, Donald Trump picked Nikki Haley to be the UN ambassador during his first term.
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Nikki Haley, also a more moderate, more centrist kind of Republican. And she did a great job there.
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Because the UN ambassador doesn't have any say over controversial domestic policies, where the
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moderates and the conservatives are always at loggerheads. The UN ambassador basically just has
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to be a real tough guy, has to be loyal to Trump, has to raise her hand defiantly in New York. And so
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Elise Stefanik can do that well. And it's a position that's based in New York, so I guess it makes sense
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to pick a New York Republican. I don't know. She's good. And she's demonstrated real loyalty to
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President Trump on the crucial matters when it counts. Not always on every single vote in Congress.
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But when the Democrats are coming after Trump, when they're unjustly impeaching Trump,
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Elise Stefanik has exercised very, very good judgment. And so I think this is a great role for
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her. Same thing, Lee Zeldin. Lee Zeldin was on this show not that long ago, a few weeks ago.
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He's been tapped ahead to EPA. Lee Zeldin, another New York Republican,
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not totally focused on the social issues, but a real fiscal hawk. Well, that makes a lot of sense
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to me. If you want someone to help to reform the EPA, you want someone to bring a more conservative
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view to the EPA, probably it makes sense to pick a guy who's reliable on deregulation.
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We didn't elect Trump so that he could add bureaucrats to the EPA who can create many,
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many more regulations. We want to reduce those regulations because the libs use the threat of
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climate change and the sun monster destroying the whole world to take away many of our rights
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and traditions and ways of life. So you want a deregulator there. I think Lee Zeldin is a great
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pick for that. Then you get down to Stephen Miller. This is good. This is where you're going to need
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a little bit more of an ideologically thorough sort of fellow here because he's deputy chief of staff.
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He's one of the top figures in the White House touching lots of different aspects of policy,
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not just fighting with diplomats at the UN, not just deregulating at the EPA, but you're going to
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touch a lot of stuff. And we know immigration is going to be a top policy. It's one of the reasons
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Trump was elected both in 16 and in 2024, because mass deportations, believe it or not,
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is a popular political issue, at least according to polls. We'll see what happens when they're
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actually put into practice. But as of right now, that's a major policy. So you're going to want
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an immigration hardliner in that position. You're going to want a restrictionist in that position.
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Good stuff. We got with Stephen Miller. Now, how about Representative Mike Waltz for the NSA?
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Of the names I've mentioned, Mike Waltz is probably the most liberal Republican member of Congress
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to be tapped. He's got a more moderate record. There's no question about it. But here again,
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we're talking about the National Security Advisor. Do I care particularly that Representative Mike
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Waltz voted for the, what did they call it? It's not the Defense of Marriage Act. It was like the
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slightly more Republican Equality Act. I forget the name of it totally escapes me, but it was a
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liberalizing act. It was a law for the Republicans to have their own version of a pro-LGBT law. It was
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not good law. It was certainly not conservative. Mike Waltz was one of 45, 46 Republicans who voted
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for that. Okay, he's the National Security Director. What do I care about that? His view on a controversial
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domestic policy matter has absolutely nothing to do with national security and his performance in that
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role as NSA. If anything, it seems to me that's a good pick. We're now focusing on a real strength
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where he's really in line with the Trump agenda, where he's really in line with the conservatives.
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To me, that makes sense. Now, how about Marco Rubio for Secretary of State? You have three options for
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Secretary of State. Trump had previously said Pompeo is not going to be in the administration. That was
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his former Secretary of State. And he said that Nikki Haley is not going to be in the administration.
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She, I think, was probably looking at that Secretary of State position and would have liked it. Well,
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they're both out. So who are the candidates? Bill Haggerty was floated. Rick Grinnell was floated.
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And Marco Rubio was floated. Now, I like all of those guys. I like Pompeo and Haley too. But for the
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three that were actually up for it this time, Bill Haggerty is my senator in Tennessee. He was Trump's
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ambassador to Japan. He did a very good job. He's more of a business Republican, which can be very
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good. It was very helpful in negotiating trade deals. And it could be very good in a diplomatic
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role. I thought Bill Haggerty would be a really good choice. Rick Grinnell, obviously former acting
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DNI for Trump, very, very close to Trump, former ambassador to Germany, has a really, really solid
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pedigree in diplomacy. He could have been a very good choice, very loyal to Trump. And then Marco Rubio,
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of the three, Marco Rubio probably has a more thoroughgoing kind of conservatism in as much as
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he has embraced certain aspects of the new right. He's inclined himself toward things like family
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policy, toward a little bit more of a social conservatism. So in that way, I guess he would
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be the more right wing figure. But again, I think any of these guys would have been good choices in
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state. So here you can't really go wrong. There's no outlier candidate where I think,
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oh no, I really hope that person does not end up in state. We'll wait to see if that becomes
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official. But so far, this is a really, really great aspect of Trump's political skill.
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Trump recognizes that politics is the art of inclusion. It's bringing in people who don't
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agree on everything, who have disparate views, conservatives. You get a hundred conservatives
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into a room, you're going to get a hundred different types of conservatism. They're all going to
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find the one thing they disagree on. But here, it seems to me that Trump is picking people who
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are loyal, who have demonstrated good judgment in the partisan fights, and crucially, he's playing
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to their strengths. He's playing to their strengths in a way that's going to bring a lot of conservatives
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We've flipped the Senate. We have the White House. And because of Trump's excellent Supreme Court picks,
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majority not just five or six, but seven or eight. Well, some Democrats are really, really fearful that
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that might happen. So they are calling on left-wing Justice Sonia Sotomayor to step down before Trump
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enters into office, which would allow the still Democrat Senate to install a left-wing justice on the
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order of Ketanji Jackson or Sonia Sotomayor, a very left-wing justice. And that way, Trump won't
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have a chance to shift the balance of the court even more. So NBC asks Bernie Sanders, one of the
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most far-left members of the U.S. Senate, what he thinks about this plan. And Bernie gives a surprising
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answer. Before I let you go, I do want to ask you about the Supreme Court. Some Democrats behind the
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scenes quietly talking about the possibility, should Justice Sotomayor step down to allow
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President Biden to appoint someone who's younger? She's only 70 years old. Is that something that you
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would support? Do you think she should step down? No, I don't. Have you heard any talk of this?
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A little bit, yes. I don't think it's a sensible approach.
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And you don't think it's a sensible approach? Correct. All right.
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Since when is Bernie Sanders a man of few words? This is a man beaten down by a Tuesday landslide.
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So what do you think? This reminds me of the coverage in 2016, two months after the election.
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Here's one weird way Bernie might still win the election. No, I'm not going to win. It is over.
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We have totally lost. She says, what do you think about this plan?
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Do you think that Sotomayor should step down? No. You've heard about it though. Yeah. But you think
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it's bad. Correct. I, for one, not that Bernie's listening to my opinion, not that Chuck Schumer's
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listening to my opinion or Sonia Sotomayor for that matter. I think it would be a great idea for
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Democrats right now to pressure Sotomayor to step down and then for her to step down and for Joe Biden
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to pick a really far left-wing Supreme Court nominee. Look, they still got, what is it? It's
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November. So you got December into a little bit of January. You got two months to ram this nominee
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through. So I think it would be great. You get that far left nominee who believes all sorts of crazy
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stuff after a landslide election that gave Republicans unified government with a, a bare majority
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in the U.S. Senate for the Democrats. And then try to get that nominee through. Please,
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please. Oh boy, would I love that? Because then you could have Joe Manchin come out. He's not running
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for re-election. He's out. He's out in two months. Get that Joe Manchin over there to see if he wants
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to vote for that far left nominee. How about Kyrsten Sinema? She's out too. Let's get Kyrsten Sinema.
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She, does she want to vote for that far left nominee? Who knows? I don't know. Get Angus King. Get any of
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the Dems or independents who caucus with Dems to see if they're going to vote. You have to pry off
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like two votes. And then what would happen? Then the nominee would go down.
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It'd be, look, it'd be kind of close because the Democrats nuked the filibuster on most judicial
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nominees. And then in response, the Republicans nuked the filibuster on the Supreme Court nominees.
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So you no longer need 60 votes. All you need is a bare majority, but the Democrats only have a
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bare majority. And they got at least a couple of people, two or three who are not going to go for
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far leftism and who got the message from Tuesday. So then in that situation, you have Sotomayor steps
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down. Biden can't get his Supreme Court nominee through the Senate. The Supreme Court nominee goes
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down in flames. And then Trump comes into office. First thing he does is replaces Sotomayor. Sounds
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great to me. Where do I sign up? I thought that we couldn't win any more decisively than we did last
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Tuesday. But if, if we get what the Democrats are calling for here, we could have a seven seat
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conservative majority on the court with a couple of squishes in there, but whatever. I'll take it.
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I'll take it, baby. Ooh, man. Could we, that might actually get me tired of winning. I don't,
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I, I, I don't think there's a limit, but that would be so astounding. Some Democrats,
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unlike NBC are getting a little bit more serious. They're getting a little bit more introspective.
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People like Chris Murphy, Democrat Senator from Connecticut, who had this to say about the election.
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So Tuesday was a cataclysm. Let's not kid ourselves. An electoral map wipe out in the Senate.
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Our effective ceiling for Democrats is now 52 seats. The ceiling for Republicans is 62 seats.
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That's unacceptable. And while nobody has all the answers right now, I certainly don't.
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What I think is most important is that we not kid ourselves. This is not a moment for small changes
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or reforms. This is a moment for a fundamental rebuild of the left. Just a couple decades ago,
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we could win races in Missouri and Florida and Ohio. Today, we get clobbered in all of those states.
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That's unsustainable for us and for this country. So here are a few thoughts that I have at the outset
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about the conversation we need to be having. First of all, we are not listening to the people
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we claim to represent. We claim to be the party of the working class, the party of poor people.
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And yet we let interest groups and think tanks tell us what those people need.
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He's sitting there. If you're just listening, he's got his baseball cap on. He's got his hoodie.
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It looks like it's drizzling. This is the dark night of the soul here for Chris Murphy. Oh boy.
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What happened? What a cataclysm. What a horrible, horrible night. We claim to be the party of the
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poor, but we're the party of limousine liberals. We're the party of the rich. And they all wiped
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Chris Murphy, really upset. Tuesday was a cataclysm. It's a complete disaster. He says,
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Democrats need to make a firm break with neoliberalism. Democrats need to become the
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party of the poor again and speak to working class economic interests. That's the only way that they're
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going to be competitive in the Rust Belt. It's the only way they're going to be competitive in others,
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plenty of other states. Neoliberalism, the global free trade regime, it's all the tax cuts. It's all
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served the plutocrats and it's alienated the Democrat base, what used to be the Democrat base.
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And this has been going on really since Bill Clinton. So they got their work cut out for him.
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That's Chris Murphy's view. Okay. Okay. There were plenty of critiques of neoliberalism. There are
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plenty of critiques of free trade and markets. President Trump has made many of those critiques.
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He ran on tariffs just as Abraham Lincoln ran on tariffs in the early days of the Republican Party
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and it worked. So sure, Chris Murphy and the Democrats are willing to take down the economic
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order of neoliberalism. Okay. Is he willing to limit migration too? That's a big part of it.
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That's a big part of this globalist neoliberal regime is these open borders. A lot of the anxiety
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felt by working class Americans, even because of their economic interests, because mass migration
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cuts wages for the working class. But even beyond that, it also creates all sorts of social disorder
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and introduces crime to communities and creates problems of assimilation. So, okay, you're willing
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to raise taxes and limit trade. Okay, Chris, that's great. Are you willing to cut migration?
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Are you willing to close up the border? Are you willing to cut it out with all the weird LGBT
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stuff? That's another one of those limousine liberal issues. They want all the LGBT stuff.
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They want to trans your kids. Ordinary Americans don't want their kids to be trans. Don't want
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weird pride parades with people wearing leather harnesses in Main Street. That's another component
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of neoliberalism. What is neoliberalism? It's a word that's bandied about and means many things to
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many people. It's a term that came about in the early to mid-20th century to refer to a return
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to markets, to a return to deregulation, to try to give new life. It really took off in the Reagan
00:24:50.120
administration some decades after it was introduced. To breathe new life into markets and deregulation.
00:24:59.520
Okay. Well, part of deregulation has been the radical social policies that pushed the LGBT
00:25:07.960
LMNOP agenda. A lot of working class Americans, ordinary Americans, guys in the Rust Belt, people
00:25:12.800
who have left the liberals, left the Democrat Party to become part of the MAGA coalition.
00:25:16.700
They don't want the trans stuff. The trans stuff is a big issue for them. Are you willing to give
00:25:21.000
that up, Chris Murphy? The Democrats talk a good game here. I don't think they're really going to do it.
00:25:28.000
I think that the political realignment is a little bit more enduring. As Chris Murphy says,
00:25:32.440
Democrats have a lot of sticks and carrots to stick by their liberal, wealthy donors.
00:25:36.320
You sometimes hear this criticism of the right. Oh, the right talks a good game on family policy,
00:25:40.780
but are they really going to help working families? Are they really going to
00:25:46.300
disregard their big donors? Are they really going to institute tariffs, for instance,
00:25:51.380
which would be tough for big corporations? Are they really going to do this? Are they really
00:25:54.160
going to do that? I don't know. Trump seems to be demonstrating willingness to shake things up,
00:25:58.220
and he's won politically as a result of that. Are Democrats really going to, they're not going to
00:26:03.380
give up open borders. They're not going to give up the weird LGBT stuff. They're probably not going
00:26:08.880
to even give up the economic order that serves their donors' interests. So Chris Murphy is going
00:26:13.420
to keep crying in the rain, whining about how they lose elections. And if it keeps up, they're going to
00:26:17.940
keep losing elections. Now, speaking of this realignment, President Trump, it is now reported,
00:26:23.280
won some 50,000 votes from Muslim towns that voted for Biden in 2020. We're talking about Michigan.
00:26:32.560
Michigan, which is now a rather Muslim state as a result of the mass migration that the Democrats
00:26:37.940
have pushed. Okay, the Democrats brought them all in, but then Trump won 50,000 votes from them
00:26:43.680
in places that voted for Biden. Arab American voters may well have pushed Trump over the finish
00:26:50.980
line. More than 100,000 Michigan voters picked uncommitted instead of Biden during the Democrat
00:26:58.420
primary. And then Trump won Michigan in the general by 80,618 votes. That's with 95% of the
00:27:05.200
vote counted thus far because the Arabs didn't want to vote for Kamala Harris for maybe a number
00:27:12.220
of reasons, but probably because of the Biden-Harris administration's handling of the Gaza war.
00:27:15.640
So a lot of people are going to be scratching their heads. They're going to say, how is it that Trump,
00:27:19.140
who is the most pro-Israel president that we have ever had, by a long shot,
00:27:23.280
Israel has a town named after him? How is it that the most pro-Israel candidate
00:27:28.960
got all these Arab and Muslim votes? The answer is because politics is the art of inclusion.
00:27:38.340
It is the art of the possible. It is the art of the second best.
00:27:43.740
It's not just that Trump appealed, as the Democrats say, to some base passions that are
00:27:49.260
totally irrational in voters. He appealed to bigotry and hatred. That's what the Democrats
00:27:54.820
say. No, no. It was rational for the Arabs and the Muslims to vote for Trump. There would not be
00:28:01.340
a war in Gaza today if Trump had remained president after 2020. There just wouldn't be. Hamas would not
00:28:08.540
have attacked on October 7th. Israel would not have had justification to invade Gaza. Hezbollah would
00:28:15.720
not have kicked off in the North as it has. Iran would not have the cash and resources and political
00:28:22.700
freedom to create problems in the Middle East. It just wouldn't happen. My evidence of this is
00:28:28.880
that President Trump brought peace to the Middle East. He brought us the Abraham Accords, and the
00:28:33.600
world was at relative peace when he was president. So if you're an Arab, you say, okay, the guy really
00:28:39.080
supports Israel. I don't really support Israel, but things were peaceful when he was president.
00:28:42.880
The countries that I do support, maybe family members even that I have over in these countries,
00:28:49.680
their lives were better when Trump was president, when he was leading the global empire. Huh. Maybe
00:28:53.780
we should go back to him. Under Harris and Biden, the instability has gotten so bad that many, many
00:29:00.120
Arabs and Muslims have been killed. Maybe we need a new course. That's how you get, I was at the Trump
00:29:05.480
MSG rally, and I see a guy in a yarmulke waving a giant Israel flag, and then not far away from him,
00:29:10.840
I see a woman in an abaya or a niqab. I don't remember exactly how full the facial coverings
00:29:16.720
were, but you think, how are these two people go together? Well, because Trump can bring those
00:29:21.320
kinds of people together. You think about the staffing of the administration. He can bring
00:29:25.620
together Republicans who are not necessarily the most rock-ribbed, the most religious right,
00:29:30.540
the most socially conservative, but he can put them in positions where they'll really shine,
00:29:34.860
where it doesn't really matter, where it's not going to irk the extreme right-wingers.
00:29:39.940
And furthermore, he can put the real rock-ribbed right-wingers into positions where it's not
00:29:44.880
necessarily going to irk the more moderate wing of the party. He's done a good job at taking over
00:29:49.820
the Republican Party, which he did successfully over 16, 17 candidates in 2016, and then of expanding
00:29:56.960
the Republican Party to include a lot of voters who are not voting down ticket for other Republicans
00:30:01.040
and who had not voted for Republicans before. So what are the Democrats going to do? They can
00:30:09.660
ditch neoliberalism, as Chris Murphy suggests, or they can ditch their families, as MSNBC's
00:30:17.500
Jonathan Capehart suggests. The thing that I'm grappling with is that someone was elected who ran
00:30:26.880
a campaign that was openly hostile, openly racist, xenophobic, misogynistic, transphobic,
00:30:35.980
everything. And yet now, the election's over, folks accept the results, but now how do we move forward
00:30:45.440
when we know there are people in, you have people in their families who voted for him? They work with
00:30:51.160
people who voted for him. They live next to people who voted for him. What do you, how do we, how should
00:31:00.180
we deal with those neighbors, co-workers, family members? Well, first of all, we have to remain
00:31:06.160
passionate about protecting these most vulnerable people. You're absolutely right. If this new
00:31:13.360
president does half of what he says, there will be so many of them in danger. I love this, this guy,
00:31:20.200
Jonathan Capehart, he says, how can we even look at our disgusting mothers and fathers and brothers
00:31:25.660
and sisters and children who voted for Trump? And he's speaking to an Episcopalian bishop and the,
00:31:31.580
in the Episcopal church, you know, let us, some of my best friends are Episcopalian or were, but
00:31:36.260
they're pretty lib. They've gone pretty lib in recent decades. And so the Episcopalian bishop,
00:31:42.020
he says, well, the most important thing is we have to remain huge libs. We have, we can't for even one
00:31:49.680
second consider not being huge libs. We have to remain passionate in our leftism. And then he goes
00:31:58.880
on to try to answer the question. But what's the answer? I think that there are people, maybe
00:32:04.640
including Jonathan Capehart, who are asking this question sincerely. I have family members. Maybe I
00:32:11.000
live with someone who voted for Hitler, for super duper Hitler, the threat to our Republic,
00:32:17.120
who hates the Muslims, even though the Muslims voted for him and who hates black people, even
00:32:20.920
though one in five black men voted for him and who hates Hispanics, even though roughly half of
00:32:25.140
Hispanics voted for him and who hates women, even though most married women voted for him and 40%
00:32:28.820
of women under 30 voted for him and even single women moved in his direction. Who hates all these
00:32:34.020
people? How can I live with these family members? And I guess the answer is maybe you should try to
00:32:43.000
understand them. Some on the left are going to say, I do understand them. They're, they're idiots.
00:32:49.360
They're uneducated and they're filled with hatred. And so they're going to say, I understand why people
00:32:54.720
voted for Trump because they're bitter clinging, Bible thumping, gun loving, rube idiots filled with
00:33:01.760
hatred. That's what they're going to say. Many people, that's the Obama explanation.
00:33:05.460
You know, times of crisis people, they cling to their guns and religion. That's, that's such a
00:33:11.020
stupid answer. It's so uncharitable and it's just wrong. You don't think, okay, fine. You hate the
00:33:19.900
caricature you have of a Republican. You hate the white people. You hate the man. You're okay. Well,
00:33:23.600
why did, why did a lot of Hispanic women vote for Trump? Why did, why did black men vote for Trump?
00:33:30.060
Why did young women, why did women under 30, why did 40% of them vote for Trump? Why did,
00:33:36.300
why did the Arabs vote for Trump? Why did the Muslims vote for Trump? Can you, how about you explain that?
00:33:41.240
Some Democrats have, they've come out and said, well, yeah, because Hispanics are evil now and black
00:33:45.440
men are, are misogynistic and Hispanics are racist. And they just apply the usual playbook to now
00:33:52.040
their previously favored racial groups. However, I think there's maybe another answer.
00:33:58.780
Maybe it's that the left's understanding of Trump, the left's understanding of the Biden-Harris
00:34:05.320
administration, the left's understanding of the state of the country is just wrong.
00:34:09.940
And maybe that's just because they believe the press and the press has been caught in many,
00:34:13.760
many lies. Maybe that's why, maybe this is why I said personnel is policy. It's the most important
00:34:19.980
thing that Trump can really focus on because there's no, you know, the president himself
00:34:24.220
doesn't have time to do everything in the administration, doesn't have time to do very,
00:34:28.000
very much of anything at all. It's a huge job. So you got to get good people into those positions.
00:34:32.320
You got to focus on important areas of policy, but you really got to focus on the press.
00:34:36.440
You really got to focus because the press, we all talk about how the press has no power anymore.
00:34:40.060
The press has a lot of power. Jonathan Capehart, the people who listen to him, and I think him
00:34:45.300
himself, he himself, they, they believe the press releases that they put out. They believe
00:34:51.820
all this. And, and for low information voters, they're just going to, they're going to turn on
00:34:56.560
the news maybe for five minutes, once a week. And they're good. Whatever they hear, that's what
00:35:01.180
they're going to believe. So you have to have people in the administration who know how to handle
00:35:05.320
the press, who understand the press's language, who know how to not get caught up in the lexical
00:35:12.200
prisons that the press sets out. You know, it's that great Trump tweet, despite the constant
00:35:17.000
negative press, covfefe. You know, the constant negative press is a big issue. It can divide
00:35:21.500
families. People are not going to come to Thanksgiving because of the lies of the press.
00:35:26.260
Good Trump policies could be stymied because of the lies of the press. You got to make sure you focus
00:35:30.340
on that. We've cracked their power. Elon has done a good job with that. The podcasters and the
00:35:34.360
streamers have done a good job with that as the New York times and the Washington post have given
00:35:38.020
us credit for, but you got to keep pushing. Got to get that through. Now, my favorite comment
00:35:43.080
yesterday is from Denise NYC 54, who says pretty soon you're going to call 9-1-1 and the dispatcher
00:35:50.920
is going to ask you who voted for, who you voted for before they send someone out. Yeah, probably
00:35:55.060
certainly if 9-1-1 were run by the federal government, if 9-1-1 were run by FEMA, they would.
00:36:00.160
Okay, sir. We're getting ready to get an ambulance out right away. Just one question. You,
00:36:04.360
you don't have a Trump flag in your yard, do you? Because if so, it's going to, those ambulances
00:36:10.160
are going to take a few days to dispatch. I mentioned just now this amazing statistic that
00:36:17.580
just came out of the Associated Press from exit polling. 40% of women under 30, according to the
00:36:24.860
exit polls, voted for Trump. 40% of women under 30. I know, the trains are as shocked as I am.
00:36:35.380
This is, I think I'm sitting in the middle of train tracks here in Iowa. I was here in Iowa last
00:36:39.660
night giving a speech. Two lots of young people, men and women, people of all sorts of races,
00:36:44.280
most of whom supported Trump. And that's because the people who didn't support Trump were standing
00:36:48.900
outside in great numbers screaming at me and yelling all sorts of things. I think we'll
00:36:52.280
probably have a video coming out on that too. But inside, I saw the same kind of thing that I saw
00:36:57.020
at Madison Square Garden, at the Trump rally, that I've seen in the whole MAGA movement.
00:37:02.880
A great diversity of people, people who are typically associated with Democrats,
00:37:07.220
supporting the conservative. 40% of women under 30, wow. How do you make sense of that?
00:37:14.880
That was one of the most rock solid groups for Democrats. Well, I think the way you make sense
00:37:20.360
of why 40% of women under 30 vote for Trump is the same way you make sense of why one in five black
00:37:25.960
men vote for Trump. Why almost half of Hispanics vote for Trump. Why an overwhelming number of
00:37:30.920
Arabs and Muslims in Michigan vote for Trump. Because they have not been served by the
00:37:37.020
Democrat Party. Because that has been clear. Because things have become so egregious.
00:37:44.260
Political circumstances have been so crazy. That was the subject of my speech last night in Iowa.
00:37:48.820
That the press was not even able to lie about it effectively. I think that's why. You think about
00:37:54.420
women in particular, young women in particular. How many young women are on depression drugs?
00:38:00.760
Huge swaths of American women, down to teenagers, up to women of a certain age,
00:38:05.240
but including women in their 20s and 30s, are prescribed very heavy depression drugs,
00:38:10.020
SSRIs, happy pills. Why? Because they're depressed. Because they're anxious. Because
00:38:15.700
they're stressed out. Why is that? Because women have been lied to since they were in
00:38:20.920
grade school. Because women have been told not to get married. Women have been told not to pursue
00:38:27.180
relationships. When they do pursue relationships, women have been told to only have casual sex,
00:38:31.480
promiscuous relationships. Women have been told to put career first, to the exclusion of anything
00:38:37.020
else. Women have been told to delay having kids. Then, when they really want kids, they realize
00:38:41.960
things are getting a little bit late. They've been told to go freeze their eggs. If they do get
00:38:45.520
pregnant, they've been told to abort their babies. They've been told to do all sorts of things that
00:38:49.660
make them really, really unhappy. Which might help to explain why in surveys of women's self-reported
00:38:56.680
happiness over the past 40, 50 years, women's happiness has declined in absolute terms and
00:39:03.380
relative to the happiness of men. Maybe because the women realize, young women in particular, realize
00:39:08.600
that liberalism isn't working for them. To say nothing of the kitchen table issues, they see that
00:39:15.000
their costs have increased 23% over the last three and a half years. They see that it's more dangerous
00:39:20.360
now for them to walk down the street in cities that were supposedly safe. They realize that if
00:39:26.640
they want to play a sport, they might get their skull cracked in by dudes who have been put into
00:39:30.460
that sport by Democrats and liberals. They realize liberalism isn't working for them. And so they've
00:39:36.680
changed course. Because contrary to what the libs and the Democrats would have you believe, women
00:39:41.660
possess reason. Black people possess reason. Arabs, Muslims possess reason. Hispanics possess reason.
00:39:48.420
They're not just NPCs. They're not just automatons who are owned wholesale by the Democrat Party.
00:39:56.960
They are responding to changing circumstances. And Democrats have allowed circumstances to degrade
00:40:03.780
incredibly for lots and lots of people. Now, Charlemagne, he's the radio host of The Breakfast Club,
00:40:12.280
which is predominantly to a black audience. Charlemagne was just in an interview with ABC with Jonathan
00:40:19.520
Carl. And he was asked to venture his view on why one in three non-white voters went with Trump.
00:40:28.980
Most people, they just care about keeping food on their table and keeping a roof over their head. And I
00:40:34.980
think sometimes people forget about that. I think that they forget about, you know, the working class.
00:40:39.680
And for whatever reason, Donald Trump speaks to the grievances of the working class in a real way.
00:40:44.960
And I keep telling folks, people will forget what you did. They'll forget what you said. But
00:40:49.520
they'll never forget how you made them feel. Okay, hold on. He just said two things that
00:40:55.780
contradict each other. The first one, I think I agree with. The second one is undermines what the
00:41:03.960
first one. First one is, he says, Trump speaks to the grievances of the working class in a real way.
00:41:09.600
And then he says, they'll forget what you did. They'll never forget how you made them feel. So
00:41:15.320
in the first one, he's saying, no, Trump has a real connection to the grievances of the working
00:41:18.880
class. The second thing he says is, oh, Trump's just all boasting and he's all rhetoric and he's all
00:41:24.820
empty promises. And he's not really connected to the real grievances of the working class. He just
00:41:28.540
makes people feel good. Which is it? I think it's the former. Yes, when a politician can make you feel
00:41:38.860
good, that is helpful and it inclines you to vote for that politician. But if the politician doesn't
00:41:44.300
deliver the goods, that's not going to last very long. And Trump has been at the highest level of
00:41:48.180
politics for almost 10 years now. So I think that's a total cope from the libs. I think that's a total
00:41:53.700
cope from Charlemagne. Oh, Trump just makes these aggrieved people feel good. No, no, no. Go back
00:41:59.620
to what you said the first time. Trump has a real connection to the real grievances of the working
00:42:04.600
class. And I think Charlemagne here is saying this. I don't want to read too much psychobabble here. I
00:42:10.440
don't want to read his motivations and what he's saying. But I think the implication is that that's
00:42:14.180
somehow a bad thing. Grievances are these aggrieved people. He speaks to that. That's usually how
00:42:21.260
that term is used in politics. Trump is just playing on people's grievances. People voted
00:42:27.420
for him because they're aggrieved and they want to send their grievances all the way up to Washington,
00:42:32.300
D.C. It is good when politicians respond to people's grievances. That is their job.
00:42:41.320
We have a right in our constitution to redress our grievances. We have responsive government,
00:42:46.740
a Democratic-Republican government, so that the government is more responsive to our grievances.
00:42:54.040
And the working class, along with other groups, have legitimate grievances
00:42:59.020
under the Biden-Harris administration. And Trump has real responses to that. Here's one grievance.
00:43:06.480
Our borders open and illegal aliens who work with cartels and satanic gangs are pouring over the
00:43:12.280
border and committing crimes and raping people and murdering people. Trump wants to close up the
00:43:15.780
border. It's a real response to a grievance. We have out-of-control inflation because of Joe Biden's
00:43:21.240
stupid spending policies. Donald Trump wants to change that. Okay, that's a real response.
00:43:27.880
We have real, people are afraid that we're on the brink of World War III because two major
00:43:31.620
conflicts have popped off under Biden-Harris. Wouldn't have popped off under Trump and Trump's
00:43:35.540
already resolving those conflicts the day after Trump's elected. Hamas says, I want to end the war.
00:43:43.660
Now, the government is not dealing with any of that stuff. The government is instead focusing on
00:43:51.640
really, really important issues like 80,000 pounds of butter that have been recalled by Costco
00:43:59.080
for the dumbest reason imaginable. We will get to that tomorrow. We don't have time right now,
00:44:03.780
baby, because I'm about to get hit by a train wherever we are in the middle of Iowa.
00:44:07.180
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