Speaker 1: Good morning, peep Sen, Welcome to Okay f Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker.
Speaker 1: You know, as we continue to make this countdown to
Speaker 1: the end of the year and look back on twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two, the year of politics, the year that our
Speaker 1: democracy was hanging on by a thread. But thankfully millions
Speaker 1: of Americans woke up to that fact and also woke
Speaker 1: up to their power. Right. There were so many things,
Speaker 1: my God, that happened in the course of this year
Speaker 1: that we're not on my twenty twenty two bingo card.
Speaker 1: And I can think of no person that is better
Speaker 1: to bring in to kind of run down the highs
Speaker 1: and the lows of twenty twenty two than Kurt Bardella.
Speaker 1: Kurt has been, you know, in his previous Live Say
Speaker 1: advisor to the Triple C. And you see him often
Speaker 1: on MSNBC talking about Republicans because up until the early aughts,
Speaker 1: that was the party that Kurt was affiliated with. And
Speaker 1: when I look at, you know, how Democrats were able
Speaker 1: to hang on to the Senate, how we gained governorships
Speaker 1: in the midterm elections, how Biden frankly against everyone's judgment,
Speaker 1: including my own who said that, you know, I voted
Speaker 1: for Joe Biden and he's not delivering for the American people. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, lo and behold, he actually has and he's
Speaker 1: delivered over and over and over again. This man came
Speaker 1: into office basically inherited, you know, as Sesspool from the
Speaker 1: prior administration. And you know, we have to remember exactly
Speaker 1: all of the things that Joe Biden said that he
Speaker 1: was going to offer the American people if we chose
Speaker 1: him in twenty twenty. That he was going to get
Speaker 1: us vaccines, get us shots and arms, That he was
Speaker 1: going to help the American people that had become unemployed
Speaker 1: during COVID, that he was going to cancel student loan debt,
Speaker 1: that he was going to do something about gun reform
Speaker 1: and do something about climate change, and he was going
Speaker 1: to stand up for LGBTQ people who the far right
Speaker 1: has made their frigging you targets. He's done all of
Speaker 1: these things and more, and our friend Kurt will be
Speaker 1: giving us a rundown, you know, so that we remember
Speaker 1: because I said, I say to him, and I say
Speaker 1: this often on the show, which is Democrats do so
Speaker 1: much good, but if no one knows the good that
Speaker 1: you're doing doesn't matter. And we know that the war
Speaker 1: that Republicans are fighting not the war that they want,
Speaker 1: which is a new civil war. But the war that
Speaker 1: Republicans are fighting is a war of words, is a
Speaker 1: war of misinformation and disinformation. And they're doing it purposefully
Speaker 1: because they know if they pull out freezes like they're
Speaker 1: taking your jobs or parental control or CRT or drag queens,
Speaker 1: that they send their entire rabid base into a tizzie.
Speaker 1: Doesn't matter that those people have healthcare, doesn't matter that
Speaker 1: they are able to afford prescription drugs. It doesn't matter
Speaker 1: that workers have gotten some relief. No what matters is
Speaker 1: who they can harm. And I have said time and
Speaker 1: time again that the Republican Party is the party of scarcity.
Speaker 1: The Democratic Party is the party of abundance. And if
Speaker 1: we can just message in very clear, concise and easy ways,
Speaker 1: then we will win all the time, regardless of the
Speaker 1: fucking gerrymandering that they do in order to get into
Speaker 1: power in the first place. I'll ask her at some
Speaker 1: pointed questions about where he thinks that we are going
Speaker 1: to go in twenty twenty three, looking into the crystal
Speaker 1: Ball and saying, what are some of the things that
Speaker 1: you have on next year's Bingo card, and do you
Speaker 1: think that we're going to be able to stave off
Speaker 1: stave off all of these continued assaults on our democracy
Speaker 1: that are coming from our politicians, and they're coming from
Speaker 1: those that we did not vote in, which is the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court. That conversation and our twenty twenty two political
Speaker 1: wrap up coming up next with our friend Democratic strategist
Speaker 1: Kurt Bardella. Folks, you know that whenever I have the
Speaker 1: opportunity to chat with my good, good friend, fellow nerd Aventure,
Speaker 1: fellow conspirator for democracy, democratic strategist Kurt Bardella, I am
Speaker 1: always greatly appreciated, And Kurt, it's been a hell of
Speaker 1: a year. My god. I don't know about you, but
Speaker 1: I didn't have a lot of these things on my
Speaker 1: Bingo card for the year of twenty twenty two. And
Speaker 1: as we get ready to close out this year, I
Speaker 1: knew the person I needed to talk to to say
Speaker 1: what the fuck happened in our politics this year? There's
Speaker 1: no one better than you to give us uh the
Speaker 1: biggest overview and wrap up, So give me some of
Speaker 1: your just off the dome. What are some of the
Speaker 1: things that caught you off guard? Uh? In politics in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. God, you know, it's it's kind of
Speaker 1: crazy to look back, um and think of like all
Speaker 1: the things that have happened. Uh, you know, it's been,
Speaker 1: it's been kind of amazing. Um, you know there have
Speaker 1: been you know, first, I remember sametimes. You know, you
Speaker 1: and I have talked and uh, and oftentimes you're a
Speaker 1: pessimist between the two of us, that's true, and I
Speaker 1: try to I try to know. I think it might
Speaker 1: be like like we might we might survive this, like
Speaker 1: you know, don't give up yet. And I'd like to
Speaker 1: think that on some level like that, that the best
Speaker 1: case scenarios really play out for us. I remember at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the year, how the narrative was Democrats
Speaker 1: in disarray, and you know, this was the game that
Speaker 1: couldn't shoot straight and all of a sudden, you know,
Speaker 1: I would say, winning the God's winning. You just get successes,
Speaker 1: no matter how big how small. If you string enough
Speaker 1: of them together, you get momentum. And all the while
Speaker 1: the other side does everything they can to self sabotage themselves,
Speaker 1: which has been kind of the one thing over the
Speaker 1: years now that we have seen for five years, the
Speaker 1: Republican Party has been the party of self sabotage more
Speaker 1: than anything else. But just getting infrastructure done, you know,
Speaker 1: turning infrastructure a week, not into a punchline, which is
Speaker 1: what it's been for Salong, but into a working reality.
Speaker 1: Just the sheer legislative success that Nancy Pelosi engineered with
Speaker 1: a razor thin majority and passing a trifecta of historic
Speaker 1: legislative bills, from the Infrastructure Bill to the Chips Act
Speaker 1: to the Inflation and Reduction Act, the largest piece of
Speaker 1: climate change in liciation we've ever had. UM not to
Speaker 1: mention the bipartisan Gun Reform Bill. It's like, this is
Speaker 1: you know, I think we don't necessarily give President Biden
Speaker 1: and Democrats enough credit. This is one of the most
Speaker 1: successful legislative records of any presidency we have ever seen.
Speaker 1: I think that that's right. I've been there. I've been
Speaker 1: thinking that as well. But ahead keep listening them out
Speaker 1: because I honestly, I'm I was thinking myself. I'm like,
Speaker 1: Joe Biden may go down in history if we in
Speaker 1: fact still have history books. UM as one of the
Speaker 1: most productive presidents that was given just a absolute heap
Speaker 1: of shit on welcoming day into into office. Right, it's like,
Speaker 1: never mind everything involving COVID and trying to overcome that
Speaker 1: in the vaccine campaign and the the COVID bailout bills
Speaker 1: and COVID relief bills that we had, Like, this is
Speaker 1: one of the most robust administrations we have ever seen,
Speaker 1: you know, and I think history will look back and
Speaker 1: recognize that. But in real time we don't always do
Speaker 1: that because we're always talking about the things that we
Speaker 1: didn't get done or things that we wanted to get
Speaker 1: done better. But like, hey, with a razor thin majority
Speaker 1: in the House, a fifty fifty centate, this guy got
Speaker 1: more done than Barack Obama did frankly, you know, and
Speaker 1: as first term, So that like that should never be
Speaker 1: discounted because in the best of circumstances, and you know,
Speaker 1: this is the old Capitol Hill staff for me, it's
Speaker 1: hard to get stuff done. Yeah, it's hard to pass
Speaker 1: things through both chambers and even harder now in this
Speaker 1: polarized environment that we live in. So that to me
Speaker 1: is like the honestly, that's that's the headline of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two to me is the amount of things that
Speaker 1: got done that over time will actually improve the lives
Speaker 1: of so many people in this country, not just legislation
Speaker 1: for the rich, legislation for the corporations, legislation for the
Speaker 1: billionaires that we've seen from Republicans like this is going
Speaker 1: to have massive influence on so many people's lives that
Speaker 1: will reverberate over the course of time. That's headline one.
Speaker 1: Headline two is, my god, the Republican Party is just
Speaker 1: a hot mess, Daniel. I mean, you want to talk
Speaker 1: about stealing defeat from the jaws of victory, you know,
Speaker 1: the herschel Walkers, the memit oz Is, the carry lakes,
Speaker 1: these lunatics that hijack the Republican Party primaries and ended
Speaker 1: up And if you have said at the beginning of
Speaker 1: the year, like hey, listen, at the end of the year,
Speaker 1: Democrats are actually going to have a bigger majority in
Speaker 1: the Senate and they're only going to barely. And if
Speaker 1: it weren't for a idiotic judge in New York, in
Speaker 1: my opinion, that fucked up districting, uh, Like, Democrats could
Speaker 1: very easily still be in the majority right now. It's
Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy's worst nightmare that they aren't, frankly, and that
Speaker 1: he's going to have to deal with the headache of
Speaker 1: what twenty twenty three is going to be. But um,
Speaker 1: you know, the Democratic Party got its mojo u and
Speaker 1: was once again propelled to overachieving with a coalition of
Speaker 1: voters that only this party could put together from gen
Speaker 1: Z voters, community suppeller, the women vote, the US taking
Speaker 1: the state houses, and places like Michigan taking the governorships
Speaker 1: in Maryland. You know, it's pretty astounding when you look
Speaker 1: at the stars of the Democratic Party that have been
Speaker 1: born from this election, like like Westmore, like Gretchen Witmer,
Speaker 1: like Mallory McMorrow and Michigan. Um, you know, there's a
Speaker 1: lot to be encouraged about the future of this party
Speaker 1: as we transition now, even with Leader Pelosi and Hoyer
Speaker 1: taking a step back and Kim Jeff Friese taking a
Speaker 1: step forward. You know, this is the you know, this
Speaker 1: will be the year that we look back and go, wow,
Speaker 1: this is when the party generationally made a big change.
Speaker 1: And I think that's an encouraging thing as well. Do
Speaker 1: you think you know, because you are one of the
Speaker 1: key spokespeople, right during twenty twenty two. I don't know
Speaker 1: if if we should start doing baseball stats in the
Speaker 1: way how many shows, how many articles you wrote, but
Speaker 1: like if you were your Spotify playlists of current appearances,
Speaker 1: who would be pretty deep. But do you think, Kurt,
Speaker 1: that you know all of those wins, all of the
Speaker 1: things that you've named, from the administration to Nancy Pelosi
Speaker 1: to the razor thin margins. Do you think that the
Speaker 1: Democrats have become better at their messaging to the American
Speaker 1: people what they have been up to and what we
Speaker 1: have been up against, or do you think that we
Speaker 1: had record turnout again for these mid term elections that
Speaker 1: like folks for themselves, just recognize what's on the line, right,
Speaker 1: just recognize what's that state. I think it's a little
Speaker 1: bit of both. And I'll take it. An example where
Speaker 1: I think Democrats nailed it messaging wise and really hit
Speaker 1: their stride is the state of Michigan, where Governor Gretchen Whittmer,
Speaker 1: you know, presided over a substantial win flip the we
Speaker 1: have control of both the state houses now in Michigan,
Speaker 1: you know, and obviously you know we we we held
Speaker 1: that state and grew in that state I'll look at
Speaker 1: the state like Pennsylvania where Governor Josh Shapiro, governor like
Speaker 1: jos Shapiro, won by a huge margin and his coat
Speaker 1: tails were long enough to bring and elevate other Democrats up.
Speaker 1: Those are states where we did it really, really well.
Speaker 1: States were democracy rescuers saved us. We're in places like Arizona,
Speaker 1: in places like Georgia where if the stakes aren't as
Speaker 1: high as they are, we probably don't win there. Nevada
Speaker 1: another one too, that democracy was really the driving force.
Speaker 1: When you look at the election deniers that we're running
Speaker 1: that loss, especially for Secretary of State, you know, that's
Speaker 1: where we still have a lot of work to do.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of like that mixed bag of I
Speaker 1: do think that because we have better messengers now on
Speaker 1: the national stage than we used to, we have a
Speaker 1: better chance at winning these messaging wars because it's not
Speaker 1: just the old folks home anymore and the Democratic Party
Speaker 1: that for so long has been dominating the national conversations.
Speaker 1: It's like, we have incredibly dynamic people out there, you know,
Speaker 1: who I think are the future of our party and
Speaker 1: doing an amazingly effective job at communicating. You know, we've
Speaker 1: seen in this year, you know, more women elected, more
Speaker 1: African Americans, more Asian Americans, yet more people under the
Speaker 1: age of forty five. Yeah, these are all things that
Speaker 1: that I think give us an advantage in the long run.
Speaker 1: Where the Republican Party continued to just be the white
Speaker 1: old people party. Um, and I think that hurts them.
Speaker 1: You know, I want to take a look at herschel Walker,
Speaker 1: which will probably be the last look that I will
Speaker 1: have for herschel Walker ever, God willing um. But herschel
Speaker 1: Walker presented such an enormous issue for Republicans, right, but
Speaker 1: they decide to run this man, I'm assuming a to
Speaker 1: try and have a thumb at the nose to black
Speaker 1: people in Georgia, a thumb at the nose, um, to decency,
Speaker 1: to intellect, to a whole host of things. They hold
Speaker 1: up herschel Walker and you saw him literally being propped
Speaker 1: up right by m and you know, and and and
Speaker 1: and others. And he lost right and Donald Trump right
Speaker 1: like he was handpicked. He was one of those handpicked
Speaker 1: losers from you know, from Donald Trump and the people
Speaker 1: of Georgia. Thank god. I mean, it should not have
Speaker 1: been as close as it was. But you know, You're
Speaker 1: talking about an exhausted electorate that has had to come
Speaker 1: out way too many fucking times to vote over the
Speaker 1: last couple of years because of their Jim Crow antiquated
Speaker 1: law on the books with regard to runoffs, which was
Speaker 1: created in order to dilute the black vote. Does the
Speaker 1: Republican Party current, in your opinion, learn anything from the
Speaker 1: running of the likes of herschel Walker. Do they learn
Speaker 1: Do they have any type of autopsy whatsoever? You know,
Speaker 1: It's funny because I remember in twenty thirteen, after Republicans
Speaker 1: lost very winnable Senate races because they ran lunatics like
Speaker 1: Todd ache In mister legitimate rape for Senate, who got
Speaker 1: you know, crushed by by Claire McCaskill. They ran, you know,
Speaker 1: people who had no business being in public offs at all.
Speaker 1: And they did this autopsy, and the autopsy said that
Speaker 1: they need to become a bigger ten party, that they
Speaker 1: need to not cater to their extreme base, that they
Speaker 1: need to have to be more accepting of communities of
Speaker 1: color and other demographics. And you could just take that
Speaker 1: same report from twenty thirteen dusted off, put a new
Speaker 1: new cover page on it because it applies to exactly
Speaker 1: they're pre they're in right now, but they're not going
Speaker 1: to do that there. You know, we have seen since
Speaker 1: the election, what has a Republican party really spent their
Speaker 1: time talking about. They've been trying to figure out how
Speaker 1: to talk about the fact and it or really avoid
Speaker 1: talking about the fact that their leader had a dinner
Speaker 1: with a known white nationalist nazi. Want to be in
Speaker 1: an anti semi like. That's been the conversation for weeks
Speaker 1: is why the hell is it so hard to condemn
Speaker 1: Nick Vluente's to condemn a Kanye West? How do you
Speaker 1: talk about the fact that their leader said they want
Speaker 1: he wants to throw this constitution out the window. Literally,
Speaker 1: let's suspend and terminate the constitution. They clearly learned nothing
Speaker 1: from the election. The only thing that we have heard
Speaker 1: from Republicans since the election is that they want to
Speaker 1: conduct investigations into Hunter Biden's laptop. Yeah, nothing about crime
Speaker 1: or inflation or law and order, all the bullshit we
Speaker 1: heard them run on in the midterm elections. No, now
Speaker 1: they want to be the investigators and to go after
Speaker 1: Hunter Biden for some reason. They've learned nothing. They won't
Speaker 1: learn anything they're going to elect the same RNC german,
Speaker 1: Rona McDaniel, who was presided over loss after loss after
Speaker 1: loss since she became chair in twenty eighteen. So they're
Speaker 1: going to keep repeating this cycle of that that is
Speaker 1: clearly a losing strategy, but they will not do what
Speaker 1: they need to do to snap themselves out of it.
Speaker 1: And I think what we have seen though, too, is
Speaker 1: it's not just about Donald Trump. No. I think if
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is just a symptom. Yeah, what is so
Speaker 1: troubling is they do these you know, they did this
Speaker 1: autopsy and then they come back and they're like, oh no, no,
Speaker 1: we're going to narrow the tent. You know what, as
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, we're going to make sure that
Speaker 1: it says whites only on the top of that tent, right, Like,
Speaker 1: this is this is what we're doing. This is the
Speaker 1: direction that we're moving in. And we know that it's
Speaker 1: a losing strategy, but they don't care. And you know,
Speaker 1: so Kurt, like tell me, why don't they care that
Speaker 1: it's a losing strategy. Why don't they Is it because
Speaker 1: they're just going to steal everything? Yeah, you notice how
Speaker 1: after these elections where they lose or underperform. Their response
Speaker 1: isn't g maybe we should try being more tolerant, Maybe
Speaker 1: we should try not to alienate communities of color, maybe
Speaker 1: we should try not to take great away from women.
Speaker 1: Then at all, their answer is, well, let's pass a
Speaker 1: bunch of bills that will make it harder for people
Speaker 1: to vote that aren't on our side. They're losing all
Speaker 1: of these runoff elections in Georgia, so what do they
Speaker 1: want to do. They want to change the election laws
Speaker 1: now in Georgia because what used to be in advantage
Speaker 1: and you alluded to this earlier, what used to be
Speaker 1: designed as an election scenario that makes it easier for
Speaker 1: them to win, has actually gone upside down on them,
Speaker 1: So now they want to get rid of it. Of course,
Speaker 1: that seems to be their response to everything. It isn't
Speaker 1: to recalibrate the fact that their policies and the rhetoric
Speaker 1: is so far outside the mainstream that instead they are
Speaker 1: going to just try to steal it, literally steal elections,
Speaker 1: because that's probably the only way that they've surmised that
Speaker 1: they can win. Now, you know, it's like that old
Speaker 1: definition of insanity, repeating the same mistakes, expecting that's really
Speaker 1: what they're doing. Like it's not a stretch to look
Speaker 1: at what some of these Republicans say every day and go, wow,
Speaker 1: you're insane, like you're not all there. This isn't normal.
Speaker 1: And if you look at it through that lens, what
Speaker 1: their behavior becomes much more. You know, I understand, like, oh,
Speaker 1: I understand you're doing this because you're not all there.
Speaker 1: You're just crazy, got it. Yeah, it's just you know,
Speaker 1: I think that what is wild, right, like, as we
Speaker 1: as we recap this twenty you know, twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: is that we all thought that there were so many
Speaker 1: opportunities for this Republican Party to distance themselves from Trumps,
Speaker 1: them to distance themselves from Trump to you know, to
Speaker 1: to move away from Maga. And in every instance, at
Speaker 1: every turn, they double down. They triple down. They said, no, no,
Speaker 1: we're gonna run the Kerry Lake, We're gonna run the
Speaker 1: doctor Oz, We're gonna run this person. And they lost.
Speaker 1: But they also had gains, right, they also had gains,
Speaker 1: which is why they're gonna have the house. And so
Speaker 1: you know, let's let's look in with with the with
Speaker 1: the minutes that we have left, let's look into the
Speaker 1: crystal ball of twenty twenty three, which is going to begin,
Speaker 1: you know, the presidential debates, and is Joe Biden capable
Speaker 1: of running in twenty twenty four? Doesn't matter that the
Speaker 1: man literally gave us everything, right, like he is a
Speaker 1: politician that did the unthinkable. He actually delivered on some
Speaker 1: of his campaign promises. And so we know that that
Speaker 1: conversation is going to happen. Is he too old? Is
Speaker 1: he to this? Is he to that? Donald Trump declared
Speaker 1: his you know, run for office as well as NFTs recently,
Speaker 1: Like that's that's his latest scam and all about the grit,
Speaker 1: all about the grift. I think that that's his campaign slogan.
Speaker 1: So what do you think is in store for us
Speaker 1: for the Republican Party as they gabble in in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three. Well, I think that Republicans have made it
Speaker 1: clear that their entire strategy going forward is to try
Speaker 1: to investigate the Biden administration in the Biden family. I
Speaker 1: don't think that's going to work. I think that there
Speaker 1: are just a number of vulnerabilities for Republicans there. I
Speaker 1: think that they're going to spend a lot of the
Speaker 1: year fighting with themselves, trying to overthrow their own leadership
Speaker 1: and the turmoil that will come from that. They're going
Speaker 1: to kind of be a rudderless ship because their standard
Speaker 1: bearer right now is too busy transforming himself into a
Speaker 1: bag one a hundred infomercial. There would be standard bearer
Speaker 1: rohnd de Santis. I don't think people realize this. Who
Speaker 1: don't who haven't worked in Congress before and really saw
Speaker 1: him when he was a congressman. This guy is in moron.
Speaker 1: He has a weapons grade aiding it. He's not impressive
Speaker 1: up close. He is not someone that if he entered
Speaker 1: the room, you would walk across the room to shake
Speaker 1: his hand. He is thoroughly unimpressive. And if that's the
Speaker 1: guy you think is the next best thing, your next
Speaker 1: best hope to be president, you're screwed. It's just it's
Speaker 1: just not going to end the with it they think
Speaker 1: it will. So I think that the twenty twenty three
Speaker 1: is to be the year that Republicans find themselves just
Speaker 1: in over their head over promising, under delivering on investigations,
Speaker 1: and further repelling the American people. Like of all the
Speaker 1: things that we saw talked about in the midterm elections,
Speaker 1: there wasn't one single voter, one single pull one anything
Speaker 1: that's told me that they want a bunch of investigations
Speaker 1: like that, that that that's the cure of that ails
Speaker 1: the cold, right. So I think that Republicans are going
Speaker 1: to continue to just melt down in front of us,
Speaker 1: and I think it's time to everybody kind of realizes
Speaker 1: that the crazy it's not a glitch, it's a feature,
Speaker 1: and that's not going to change, you know, But we
Speaker 1: have you know, that's wishful thinking, right, because we've been
Speaker 1: here before, Kurt. We've thought that Donald Trump was on
Speaker 1: his last leg, that motherfucker has nine lives. We have
Speaker 1: thought that the Republican part, oh, this is going to
Speaker 1: be the thing that sends them over the edge. But
Speaker 1: my fear, and you tell me if I'm wrong, if
Speaker 1: I'm just being Danielle the dismal, but my fear is
Speaker 1: that the Republican Party is not going to combust without
Speaker 1: bringing us all down with them. So I am why
Speaker 1: I hear that. Yeah, But I'll tell you what gives
Speaker 1: me newfound hope and optimism is seeing how many voters
Speaker 1: stepped up in them interm elections that when democracy itself
Speaker 1: was actually on the ballot. When you look at the
Speaker 1: election to deniers who wanted to take over the administering
Speaker 1: of elections in our country, which in my opinion, would
Speaker 1: have spelled the end of democracy had that actually happened,
Speaker 1: and that every single one of them lost. Like when
Speaker 1: democracy was on the line, America actually stepped up and
Speaker 1: stood up, and they did so resoundingly. Donald Trump in
Speaker 1: this election went two and fourteen and candidates that he
Speaker 1: adorsed actually went and governors, Senate and secretaries of state.
Speaker 1: So they're when the stakes are high and at their
Speaker 1: highest America and democracy has prevailed. And that gives me
Speaker 1: a little bit more comfort than I would would have
Speaker 1: had a year ago. Yeah, and so then last question
Speaker 1: for you, where do you see Democrats in twenty twenty three?
Speaker 1: What's on your bingo card for twenty twenty three. I
Speaker 1: think that the ultimate test is going to be for
Speaker 1: this new leadership led by how Kim Jefferies, is how
Speaker 1: they navigate the oversight avalanche that Republicans like Jim Jordan
Speaker 1: and James Khmer are going to try to lead. You know,
Speaker 1: I think that Republicans are overreaching. I think that they're
Speaker 1: turning off a lot of voters. But I also think
Speaker 1: it matters how you push back. I was very encouraged
Speaker 1: at seeing that it looks like Congressiman Jamie Raskin is
Speaker 1: going to be the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee.
Speaker 1: Raskin is an incredibly effective communicator. He has been on
Speaker 1: the front lines of the fight preserved democracy, uh, serving
Speaker 1: on the January six committee, serving as an appeachment manager.
Speaker 1: That's the type of leadership we need going forward. UM.
Speaker 1: So I think it'll be interesting to see how Democrats
Speaker 1: really respond to this moment. I can tell you someone
Speaker 1: who was on the other side of this back in
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty tens. Uh. Democrats sucked at this in
Speaker 1: twenty ten, eleven, twelve. Um. You know, we beat the
Speaker 1: shit out of y'all, uh and um. And so I'm
Speaker 1: hoping that those lessons have been learned. I'm hoping that
Speaker 1: I certainly can be a resource to my fellow Democrats
Speaker 1: and you know, understanding the playbook that Republicans will use
Speaker 1: against you and how to beat that playbook. Um. But
Speaker 1: it's you know this, this is going to be a year,
Speaker 1: and I think this is kind of the new norm.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be up and down. There be moments where
Speaker 1: we're pulling our hair out, and once where we think
Speaker 1: all hope is lost, where Dan yells hit the jack button. Yes,
Speaker 1: and then there's going to be Kurt. They're saying, wait minute,
Speaker 1: just hold on with us. It's not it's not over yet. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know it's gonna we'rena, it's gonna be interesting. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, and uh one of the many voices of
Speaker 1: reason over the last year. And you know I and
Speaker 1: I'm telling you twenty twenty two was the year of Kurt.
Speaker 1: You should get you got you gotta get and make
Speaker 1: that into a T shirt and somebody should be giving
Speaker 1: you that for the holidays. But UM, thank you, my friend,
Speaker 1: for for being a voice of reason, for being the
Speaker 1: voice of justice of democracy this entire year. Um, from
Speaker 1: your writing to the TV appearances and everything in between. UM,
Speaker 1: I think that, honestly, your voice made a difference. UM.
Speaker 1: So if nobody else has said that to you this year,
Speaker 1: then let me say that to you as as we
Speaker 1: closed out. And I hope, I hope that you will
Speaker 1: join us in twenty twenty three years we continue to
Speaker 1: drive this ship. Well, it's not going to be boring,
Speaker 1: my friend, I am, you know I am. I am
Speaker 1: so fortunate. I've had a lot of folks, and you
Speaker 1: chief among them, who welcome me into the dead Product party,
Speaker 1: who have seen my past not as something to attack,
Speaker 1: but as something to learn from, as something that can
Speaker 1: be helpful to our collective causes, and I certainly hope
Speaker 1: to be a part of that going forward. Well, happy holidays,
Speaker 1: my friend, Get some rest, because twenty twenty three is
Speaker 1: another buckle up a year. I'llhow you too. Take care
Speaker 1: and Merry Christmas, Happy, a happy New Year. Thank you.
Speaker 1: That is it for me today, Dear friends on Woke
Speaker 1: app as always, power to the people and to all
Speaker 1: the people. Power, get woke and stay woke as fuck.