WEBVTT - Waking Up to Our Power 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.560 Good morning, peep Sen, Welcome to Okay f Daily with 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:18.400 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker. 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:22.119 You know, as we continue to make this countdown to 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:25.239 the end of the year and look back on twenty 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:28.120 twenty two, the year of politics, the year that our 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:32.879 democracy was hanging on by a thread. But thankfully millions 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:35.680 of Americans woke up to that fact and also woke 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:39.200 up to their power. Right. There were so many things, 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:42.040 my God, that happened in the course of this year 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:45.160 that we're not on my twenty twenty two bingo card. 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:47.520 And I can think of no person that is better 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:50.600 to bring in to kind of run down the highs 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:53.559 and the lows of twenty twenty two than Kurt Bardella. 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:58.400 Kurt has been, you know, in his previous Live Say 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:02.320 advisor to the Triple C. And you see him often 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:08.240 on MSNBC talking about Republicans because up until the early aughts, 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:11.520 that was the party that Kurt was affiliated with. And 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:17.240 when I look at, you know, how Democrats were able 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:22.360 to hang on to the Senate, how we gained governorships 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:28.520 in the midterm elections, how Biden frankly against everyone's judgment, 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:32.119 including my own who said that, you know, I voted 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:36.360 for Joe Biden and he's not delivering for the American people. Well, 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:39.160 you know, lo and behold, he actually has and he's 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:43.360 delivered over and over and over again. This man came 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:48.720 into office basically inherited, you know, as Sesspool from the 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:54.560 prior administration. And you know, we have to remember exactly 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:57.240 all of the things that Joe Biden said that he 0:01:57.280 --> 0:01:59.720 was going to offer the American people if we chose 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:03.240 him in twenty twenty. That he was going to get 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:05.920 us vaccines, get us shots and arms, That he was 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:09.720 going to help the American people that had become unemployed 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:13.120 during COVID, that he was going to cancel student loan debt, 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:15.760 that he was going to do something about gun reform 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:18.480 and do something about climate change, and he was going 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:21.959 to stand up for LGBTQ people who the far right 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:26.480 has made their frigging you targets. He's done all of 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:29.760 these things and more, and our friend Kurt will be 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:33.040 giving us a rundown, you know, so that we remember 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:35.560 because I said, I say to him, and I say 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:40.079 this often on the show, which is Democrats do so 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:44.120 much good, but if no one knows the good that 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:48.919 you're doing doesn't matter. And we know that the war 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:52.239 that Republicans are fighting not the war that they want, 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:54.240 which is a new civil war. But the war that 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:58.000 Republicans are fighting is a war of words, is a 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:01.519 war of misinformation and disinformation. And they're doing it purposefully 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:05.840 because they know if they pull out freezes like they're 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:12.639 taking your jobs or parental control or CRT or drag queens, 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:15.680 that they send their entire rabid base into a tizzie. 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:19.560 Doesn't matter that those people have healthcare, doesn't matter that 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:22.600 they are able to afford prescription drugs. It doesn't matter 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:26.880 that workers have gotten some relief. No what matters is 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:30.080 who they can harm. And I have said time and 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:33.520 time again that the Republican Party is the party of scarcity. 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:36.760 The Democratic Party is the party of abundance. And if 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:40.400 we can just message in very clear, concise and easy ways, 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:43.200 then we will win all the time, regardless of the 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:46.920 fucking gerrymandering that they do in order to get into 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:49.960 power in the first place. I'll ask her at some 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:52.560 pointed questions about where he thinks that we are going 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:55.480 to go in twenty twenty three, looking into the crystal 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:57.320 Ball and saying, what are some of the things that 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:02.120 you have on next year's Bingo card, and do you 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:05.600 think that we're going to be able to stave off 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:10.800 stave off all of these continued assaults on our democracy 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:13.840 that are coming from our politicians, and they're coming from 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:17.880 those that we did not vote in, which is the 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:23.039 Supreme Court. That conversation and our twenty twenty two political 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:27.560 wrap up coming up next with our friend Democratic strategist 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:33.400 Kurt Bardella. Folks, you know that whenever I have the 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:37.400 opportunity to chat with my good, good friend, fellow nerd Aventure, 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:44.839 fellow conspirator for democracy, democratic strategist Kurt Bardella, I am 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:50.000 always greatly appreciated, And Kurt, it's been a hell of 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:55.000 a year. My god. I don't know about you, but 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:56.960 I didn't have a lot of these things on my 0:04:57.080 --> 0:05:00.680 Bingo card for the year of twenty twenty two. And 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:03.320 as we get ready to close out this year, I 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:05.680 knew the person I needed to talk to to say 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:09.960 what the fuck happened in our politics this year? There's 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:12.720 no one better than you to give us uh the 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:16.160 biggest overview and wrap up, So give me some of 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:19.760 your just off the dome. What are some of the 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:24.400 things that caught you off guard? Uh? In politics in 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:28.200 twenty twenty two. God, you know, it's it's kind of 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:31.760 crazy to look back, um and think of like all 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:36.640 the things that have happened. Uh, you know, it's been, 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:40.320 it's been kind of amazing. Um, you know there have 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:43.039 been you know, first, I remember sametimes. You know, you 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:46.360 and I have talked and uh, and oftentimes you're a 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:50.719 pessimist between the two of us, that's true, and I 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:52.840 try to I try to know. I think it might 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:56.560 be like like we might we might survive this, like 0:05:56.800 --> 0:05:59.080 you know, don't give up yet. And I'd like to 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:01.839 think that on some level like that, that the best 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:05.680 case scenarios really play out for us. I remember at 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:07.840 the beginning of the year, how the narrative was Democrats 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:10.480 in disarray, and you know, this was the game that 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:13.680 couldn't shoot straight and all of a sudden, you know, 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:17.120 I would say, winning the God's winning. You just get successes, 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:19.440 no matter how big how small. If you string enough 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:22.360 of them together, you get momentum. And all the while 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:25.400 the other side does everything they can to self sabotage themselves, 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:28.640 which has been kind of the one thing over the 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:31.359 years now that we have seen for five years, the 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:33.520 Republican Party has been the party of self sabotage more 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:37.919 than anything else. But just getting infrastructure done, you know, 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:41.960 turning infrastructure a week, not into a punchline, which is 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:44.880 what it's been for Salong, but into a working reality. 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:52.680 Just the sheer legislative success that Nancy Pelosi engineered with 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:58.000 a razor thin majority and passing a trifecta of historic 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:02.880 legislative bills, from the Infrastructure Bill to the Chips Act 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:06.240 to the Inflation and Reduction Act, the largest piece of 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:09.120 climate change in liciation we've ever had. UM not to 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:13.160 mention the bipartisan Gun Reform Bill. It's like, this is 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:18.120 you know, I think we don't necessarily give President Biden 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:20.240 and Democrats enough credit. This is one of the most 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:26.160 successful legislative records of any presidency we have ever seen. 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:30.600 I think that that's right. I've been there. I've been 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:33.240 thinking that as well. But ahead keep listening them out 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:35.960 because I honestly, I'm I was thinking myself. I'm like, 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:39.000 Joe Biden may go down in history if we in 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:42.240 fact still have history books. UM as one of the 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:47.760 most productive presidents that was given just a absolute heap 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:53.280 of shit on welcoming day into into office. Right, it's like, 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:57.120 never mind everything involving COVID and trying to overcome that 0:07:57.280 --> 0:08:01.440 in the vaccine campaign and the the COVID bailout bills 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:05.160 and COVID relief bills that we had, Like, this is 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:09.840 one of the most robust administrations we have ever seen, 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:12.840 you know, and I think history will look back and 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.160 recognize that. But in real time we don't always do 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:17.280 that because we're always talking about the things that we 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:19.480 didn't get done or things that we wanted to get 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:22.720 done better. But like, hey, with a razor thin majority 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:25.640 in the House, a fifty fifty centate, this guy got 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:28.080 more done than Barack Obama did frankly, you know, and 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:31.840 as first term, So that like that should never be 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:35.599 discounted because in the best of circumstances, and you know, 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:38.199 this is the old Capitol Hill staff for me, it's 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:42.120 hard to get stuff done. Yeah, it's hard to pass 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:45.319 things through both chambers and even harder now in this 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:50.240 polarized environment that we live in. So that to me 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:53.400 is like the honestly, that's that's the headline of twenty 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:55.280 twenty two to me is the amount of things that 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:59.079 got done that over time will actually improve the lives 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:02.600 of so many people in this country, not just legislation 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:06.320 for the rich, legislation for the corporations, legislation for the 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:08.880 billionaires that we've seen from Republicans like this is going 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:13.280 to have massive influence on so many people's lives that 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:17.800 will reverberate over the course of time. That's headline one. 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:23.280 Headline two is, my god, the Republican Party is just 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:27.120 a hot mess, Daniel. I mean, you want to talk 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:31.680 about stealing defeat from the jaws of victory, you know, 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:36.040 the herschel Walkers, the memit oz Is, the carry lakes, 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:42.200 these lunatics that hijack the Republican Party primaries and ended 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:43.719 up And if you have said at the beginning of 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:45.360 the year, like hey, listen, at the end of the year, 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:50.560 Democrats are actually going to have a bigger majority in 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:54.280 the Senate and they're only going to barely. And if 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:57.880 it weren't for a idiotic judge in New York, in 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:03.680 my opinion, that fucked up districting, uh, Like, Democrats could 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:06.840 very easily still be in the majority right now. It's 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:09.480 Kevin McCarthy's worst nightmare that they aren't, frankly, and that 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:10.640 he's going to have to deal with the headache of 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:12.679 what twenty twenty three is going to be. But um, 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:15.880 you know, the Democratic Party got its mojo u and 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:22.040 was once again propelled to overachieving with a coalition of 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:24.400 voters that only this party could put together from gen 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:30.640 Z voters, community suppeller, the women vote, the US taking 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:35.679 the state houses, and places like Michigan taking the governorships 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:40.640 in Maryland. You know, it's pretty astounding when you look 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:43.160 at the stars of the Democratic Party that have been 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:47.560 born from this election, like like Westmore, like Gretchen Witmer, 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:52.000 like Mallory McMorrow and Michigan. Um, you know, there's a 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:54.560 lot to be encouraged about the future of this party 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:57.600 as we transition now, even with Leader Pelosi and Hoyer 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:01.240 taking a step back and Kim Jeff Friese taking a 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:04.080 step forward. You know, this is the you know, this 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:06.280 will be the year that we look back and go, wow, 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:09.920 this is when the party generationally made a big change. 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:12.520 And I think that's an encouraging thing as well. Do 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:15.439 you think you know, because you are one of the 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:20.319 key spokespeople, right during twenty twenty two. I don't know 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:23.640 if if we should start doing baseball stats in the 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:28.400 way how many shows, how many articles you wrote, but 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:32.840 like if you were your Spotify playlists of current appearances, 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:37.160 who would be pretty deep. But do you think, Kurt, 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:41.480 that you know all of those wins, all of the 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:45.400 things that you've named, from the administration to Nancy Pelosi 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:49.400 to the razor thin margins. Do you think that the 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:55.640 Democrats have become better at their messaging to the American 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:59.280 people what they have been up to and what we 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:04.360 have been up against, or do you think that we 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:08.760 had record turnout again for these mid term elections that 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:12.800 like folks for themselves, just recognize what's on the line, right, 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:16.200 just recognize what's that state. I think it's a little 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:19.440 bit of both. And I'll take it. An example where 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:23.120 I think Democrats nailed it messaging wise and really hit 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:26.920 their stride is the state of Michigan, where Governor Gretchen Whittmer, 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:31.920 you know, presided over a substantial win flip the we 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:34.360 have control of both the state houses now in Michigan, 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:39.160 you know, and obviously you know we we we held 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:42.400 that state and grew in that state I'll look at 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:45.000 the state like Pennsylvania where Governor Josh Shapiro, governor like 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:48.560 jos Shapiro, won by a huge margin and his coat 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:52.719 tails were long enough to bring and elevate other Democrats up. 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:55.240 Those are states where we did it really, really well. 0:12:55.800 --> 0:13:02.240 States were democracy rescuers saved us. We're in places like Arizona, 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:06.160 in places like Georgia where if the stakes aren't as 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:08.640 high as they are, we probably don't win there. Nevada 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:12.200 another one too, that democracy was really the driving force. 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:14.520 When you look at the election deniers that we're running 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:19.280 that loss, especially for Secretary of State, you know, that's 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:21.319 where we still have a lot of work to do. 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:24.559 So it's kind of like that mixed bag of I 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:28.600 do think that because we have better messengers now on 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:31.720 the national stage than we used to, we have a 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:34.600 better chance at winning these messaging wars because it's not 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:37.360 just the old folks home anymore and the Democratic Party 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:40.199 that for so long has been dominating the national conversations. 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:45.480 It's like, we have incredibly dynamic people out there, you know, 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:49.040 who I think are the future of our party and 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:53.400 doing an amazingly effective job at communicating. You know, we've 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:57.240 seen in this year, you know, more women elected, more 0:13:57.440 --> 0:14:01.360 African Americans, more Asian Americans, yet more people under the 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:04.480 age of forty five. Yeah, these are all things that 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:07.800 that I think give us an advantage in the long run. 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:10.560 Where the Republican Party continued to just be the white 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:14.319 old people party. Um, and I think that hurts them. 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:19.640 You know, I want to take a look at herschel Walker, 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:21.800 which will probably be the last look that I will 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:26.800 have for herschel Walker ever, God willing um. But herschel 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:36.520 Walker presented such an enormous issue for Republicans, right, but 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:40.120 they decide to run this man, I'm assuming a to 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:42.600 try and have a thumb at the nose to black 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:47.320 people in Georgia, a thumb at the nose, um, to decency, 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:50.960 to intellect, to a whole host of things. They hold 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:54.520 up herschel Walker and you saw him literally being propped 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:58.560 up right by m and you know, and and and 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:02.960 and others. And he lost right and Donald Trump right 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:05.440 like he was handpicked. He was one of those handpicked 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:10.840 losers from you know, from Donald Trump and the people 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:13.920 of Georgia. Thank god. I mean, it should not have 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:16.400 been as close as it was. But you know, You're 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:19.560 talking about an exhausted electorate that has had to come 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:22.680 out way too many fucking times to vote over the 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:26.400 last couple of years because of their Jim Crow antiquated 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:29.760 law on the books with regard to runoffs, which was 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:33.680 created in order to dilute the black vote. Does the 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:40.800 Republican Party current, in your opinion, learn anything from the 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:45.560 running of the likes of herschel Walker. Do they learn 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:51.080 Do they have any type of autopsy whatsoever? You know, 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:56.520 It's funny because I remember in twenty thirteen, after Republicans 0:15:56.560 --> 0:16:00.880 lost very winnable Senate races because they ran lunatics like 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:04.000 Todd ache In mister legitimate rape for Senate, who got 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:08.920 you know, crushed by by Claire McCaskill. They ran, you know, 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:12.320 people who had no business being in public offs at all. 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:15.320 And they did this autopsy, and the autopsy said that 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:17.560 they need to become a bigger ten party, that they 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:21.520 need to not cater to their extreme base, that they 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:24.520 need to have to be more accepting of communities of 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:29.360 color and other demographics. And you could just take that 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:32.040 same report from twenty thirteen dusted off, put a new 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:34.480 new cover page on it because it applies to exactly 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:36.680 they're pre they're in right now, but they're not going 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:39.040 to do that there. You know, we have seen since 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:42.000 the election, what has a Republican party really spent their 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:43.800 time talking about. They've been trying to figure out how 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:46.800 to talk about the fact and it or really avoid 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:49.560 talking about the fact that their leader had a dinner 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:52.760 with a known white nationalist nazi. Want to be in 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:57.440 an anti semi like. That's been the conversation for weeks 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:00.720 is why the hell is it so hard to condemn 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:04.560 Nick Vluente's to condemn a Kanye West? How do you 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:06.600 talk about the fact that their leader said they want 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:08.920 he wants to throw this constitution out the window. Literally, 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:15.359 let's suspend and terminate the constitution. They clearly learned nothing 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:18.120 from the election. The only thing that we have heard 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:20.200 from Republicans since the election is that they want to 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:24.879 conduct investigations into Hunter Biden's laptop. Yeah, nothing about crime 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:27.000 or inflation or law and order, all the bullshit we 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:29.159 heard them run on in the midterm elections. No, now 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:31.280 they want to be the investigators and to go after 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:35.280 Hunter Biden for some reason. They've learned nothing. They won't 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:37.960 learn anything they're going to elect the same RNC german, 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:41.560 Rona McDaniel, who was presided over loss after loss after 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:44.760 loss since she became chair in twenty eighteen. So they're 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:49.760 going to keep repeating this cycle of that that is 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:54.800 clearly a losing strategy, but they will not do what 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:57.480 they need to do to snap themselves out of it. 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:59.159 And I think what we have seen though, too, is 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:03.480 it's not just about Donald Trump. No. I think if 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:10.920 Donald Trump is just a symptom. Yeah, what is so 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:13.960 troubling is they do these you know, they did this 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:17.280 autopsy and then they come back and they're like, oh no, no, 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:19.439 we're going to narrow the tent. You know what, as 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:21.040 a matter of fact, we're going to make sure that 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:24.639 it says whites only on the top of that tent, right, Like, 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:26.679 this is this is what we're doing. This is the 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:29.640 direction that we're moving in. And we know that it's 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:34.800 a losing strategy, but they don't care. And you know, 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:37.520 so Kurt, like tell me, why don't they care that 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:41.240 it's a losing strategy. Why don't they Is it because 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:44.680 they're just going to steal everything? Yeah, you notice how 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:48.639 after these elections where they lose or underperform. Their response 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:52.480 isn't g maybe we should try being more tolerant, Maybe 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:55.560 we should try not to alienate communities of color, maybe 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:57.400 we should try not to take great away from women. 0:18:57.400 --> 0:18:59.720 Then at all, their answer is, well, let's pass a 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:01.680 bunch of bills that will make it harder for people 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:04.439 to vote that aren't on our side. They're losing all 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:06.639 of these runoff elections in Georgia, so what do they 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:08.840 want to do. They want to change the election laws 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:11.360 now in Georgia because what used to be in advantage 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:13.200 and you alluded to this earlier, what used to be 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:17.720 designed as an election scenario that makes it easier for 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:20.800 them to win, has actually gone upside down on them, 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:22.600 So now they want to get rid of it. Of course, 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:26.000 that seems to be their response to everything. It isn't 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:29.800 to recalibrate the fact that their policies and the rhetoric 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:33.160 is so far outside the mainstream that instead they are 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:36.080 going to just try to steal it, literally steal elections, 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:38.800 because that's probably the only way that they've surmised that 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:41.880 they can win. Now, you know, it's like that old 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:46.920 definition of insanity, repeating the same mistakes, expecting that's really 0:19:46.920 --> 0:19:49.160 what they're doing. Like it's not a stretch to look 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:51.760 at what some of these Republicans say every day and go, wow, 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:55.840 you're insane, like you're not all there. This isn't normal. 0:19:56.280 --> 0:19:59.000 And if you look at it through that lens, what 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:03.280 their behavior becomes much more. You know, I understand, like, oh, 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:05.880 I understand you're doing this because you're not all there. 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:09.639 You're just crazy, got it. Yeah, it's just you know, 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:12.640 I think that what is wild, right, like, as we 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:16.240 as we recap this twenty you know, twenty twenty two, 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:20.480 is that we all thought that there were so many 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:25.320 opportunities for this Republican Party to distance themselves from Trumps, 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:29.359 them to distance themselves from Trump to you know, to 0:20:29.359 --> 0:20:33.720 to move away from Maga. And in every instance, at 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:38.200 every turn, they double down. They triple down. They said, no, no, 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:41.159 we're gonna run the Kerry Lake, We're gonna run the 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:45.280 doctor Oz, We're gonna run this person. And they lost. 0:20:45.440 --> 0:20:48.800 But they also had gains, right, they also had gains, 0:20:48.800 --> 0:20:51.520 which is why they're gonna have the house. And so 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:55.080 you know, let's let's look in with with the with 0:20:55.160 --> 0:20:58.159 the minutes that we have left, let's look into the 0:20:58.200 --> 0:21:03.119 crystal ball of twenty twenty three, which is going to begin, 0:21:03.520 --> 0:21:08.960 you know, the presidential debates, and is Joe Biden capable 0:21:09.119 --> 0:21:11.439 of running in twenty twenty four? Doesn't matter that the 0:21:11.520 --> 0:21:15.479 man literally gave us everything, right, like he is a 0:21:15.520 --> 0:21:20.520 politician that did the unthinkable. He actually delivered on some 0:21:20.600 --> 0:21:25.679 of his campaign promises. And so we know that that 0:21:25.720 --> 0:21:29.040 conversation is going to happen. Is he too old? Is 0:21:29.040 --> 0:21:32.520 he to this? Is he to that? Donald Trump declared 0:21:32.720 --> 0:21:36.680 his you know, run for office as well as NFTs recently, 0:21:36.840 --> 0:21:40.600 Like that's that's his latest scam and all about the grit, 0:21:40.840 --> 0:21:43.960 all about the grift. I think that that's his campaign slogan. 0:21:44.840 --> 0:21:49.800 So what do you think is in store for us 0:21:50.240 --> 0:21:55.560 for the Republican Party as they gabble in in twenty 0:21:55.680 --> 0:21:58.479 twenty three. Well, I think that Republicans have made it 0:21:58.520 --> 0:22:02.520 clear that their entire strategy going forward is to try 0:22:02.560 --> 0:22:07.359 to investigate the Biden administration in the Biden family. I 0:22:07.400 --> 0:22:09.480 don't think that's going to work. I think that there 0:22:09.480 --> 0:22:14.159 are just a number of vulnerabilities for Republicans there. I 0:22:14.200 --> 0:22:15.399 think that they're going to spend a lot of the 0:22:15.480 --> 0:22:19.080 year fighting with themselves, trying to overthrow their own leadership 0:22:19.760 --> 0:22:21.720 and the turmoil that will come from that. They're going 0:22:21.760 --> 0:22:25.600 to kind of be a rudderless ship because their standard 0:22:25.600 --> 0:22:29.240 bearer right now is too busy transforming himself into a 0:22:29.280 --> 0:22:33.879 bag one a hundred infomercial. There would be standard bearer 0:22:34.400 --> 0:22:36.240 rohnd de Santis. I don't think people realize this. Who 0:22:36.240 --> 0:22:38.679 don't who haven't worked in Congress before and really saw 0:22:39.000 --> 0:22:41.080 him when he was a congressman. This guy is in moron. 0:22:41.440 --> 0:22:43.800 He has a weapons grade aiding it. He's not impressive 0:22:44.160 --> 0:22:46.720 up close. He is not someone that if he entered 0:22:46.760 --> 0:22:49.040 the room, you would walk across the room to shake 0:22:49.119 --> 0:22:52.679 his hand. He is thoroughly unimpressive. And if that's the 0:22:52.720 --> 0:22:55.600 guy you think is the next best thing, your next 0:22:55.640 --> 0:23:00.480 best hope to be president, you're screwed. It's just it's 0:23:00.480 --> 0:23:01.680 just not going to end the with it they think 0:23:01.680 --> 0:23:04.520 it will. So I think that the twenty twenty three 0:23:04.560 --> 0:23:06.800 is to be the year that Republicans find themselves just 0:23:08.040 --> 0:23:12.280 in over their head over promising, under delivering on investigations, 0:23:12.840 --> 0:23:16.639 and further repelling the American people. Like of all the 0:23:16.680 --> 0:23:19.040 things that we saw talked about in the midterm elections, 0:23:19.560 --> 0:23:23.480 there wasn't one single voter, one single pull one anything 0:23:23.520 --> 0:23:26.320 that's told me that they want a bunch of investigations 0:23:26.359 --> 0:23:29.159 like that, that that that's the cure of that ails 0:23:29.200 --> 0:23:32.439 the cold, right. So I think that Republicans are going 0:23:32.480 --> 0:23:36.919 to continue to just melt down in front of us, 0:23:36.960 --> 0:23:38.720 and I think it's time to everybody kind of realizes 0:23:38.760 --> 0:23:42.800 that the crazy it's not a glitch, it's a feature, 0:23:44.040 --> 0:23:47.160 and that's not going to change, you know, But we 0:23:47.240 --> 0:23:51.280 have you know, that's wishful thinking, right, because we've been 0:23:51.320 --> 0:23:54.679 here before, Kurt. We've thought that Donald Trump was on 0:23:54.720 --> 0:23:58.199 his last leg, that motherfucker has nine lives. We have 0:23:58.320 --> 0:24:00.960 thought that the Republican part, oh, this is going to 0:24:01.040 --> 0:24:04.040 be the thing that sends them over the edge. But 0:24:04.320 --> 0:24:08.280 my fear, and you tell me if I'm wrong, if 0:24:08.280 --> 0:24:12.600 I'm just being Danielle the dismal, but my fear is 0:24:12.640 --> 0:24:18.800 that the Republican Party is not going to combust without 0:24:18.840 --> 0:24:22.840 bringing us all down with them. So I am why 0:24:22.960 --> 0:24:26.960