1 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:14,760 Speaker 1: Good morning, Keepson. Welcome to Okay f Daily with Meet 2 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:19,640 Speaker 1: your Girl Danielle Moody reporting once again from the Home Bunker. Folks. 3 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:23,400 Speaker 1: Coming up in the show, I have a conversation with 4 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:26,960 Speaker 1: our friend Kurt Bardella about all the ways in which 5 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:31,319 Speaker 1: Democrats need to be capitalizing on this moment, this win 6 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:36,920 Speaker 1: that they have around Joe Mansion's reversal and actually wanting 7 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:41,040 Speaker 1: to give the power that apparently, you know, we in 8 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:43,400 Speaker 1: the United States did not give him, but the five 9 00:00:43,479 --> 00:00:46,160 Speaker 1: people that live in West Virginia did, to be able 10 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 1: to fight against climate change and inflation and all of 11 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:55,240 Speaker 1: the things. Um, So we'll get into that conversation. I 12 00:00:55,320 --> 00:01:02,040 Speaker 1: want to start today, however, with um, just my feelings 13 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:08,440 Speaker 1: recently around Republicans. And I know you're just gonna say, oh, Danielle, 14 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:10,400 Speaker 1: I already know where you're going to talk about, and yes, 15 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:12,639 Speaker 1: like there are a range of things to talk about, 16 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:15,360 Speaker 1: but I get into it a little bit with Kurt, 17 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 1: but I want to say it here too. Republicans are 18 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:25,679 Speaker 1: a hateful, vengeful white supremacist group and I don't know 19 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 1: why it is taken so long and so many offensive 20 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:38,039 Speaker 1: things that they have either supported ignored championed for us 21 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:41,480 Speaker 1: to be able to articulate this truth and just say 22 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:45,840 Speaker 1: who they are. Part of being able to solve a 23 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 1: problem is the ability to recognize that there is a problem. 24 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:58,400 Speaker 1: And where I see how our democracy began to falter 25 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 1: way back, and probably I would say, you know, when 26 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:05,240 Speaker 1: we allowed for the Supreme Court to decide the two 27 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:08,600 Speaker 1: thousand presidential election as opposed to the people who actually 28 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:12,679 Speaker 1: voted for al Gore. Nonetheless, let me not go off 29 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 1: into the tangent of the early of the two thousands, 30 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:24,280 Speaker 1: but let's say this. Let's go to Obama right, and 31 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:30,200 Speaker 1: the birth of the Tea Party and birth Rism, and 32 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:35,720 Speaker 1: how the media as well as the Democratic establishment viewed 33 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:42,600 Speaker 1: those people as just the fringe, not the catalyst to 34 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:49,240 Speaker 1: the insurrection that we would then witness some twelve plus 35 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:56,480 Speaker 1: years later. What aggravates me so much is that the 36 00:02:56,600 --> 00:03:00,400 Speaker 1: writing has been on the wall for the longest time 37 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:03,920 Speaker 1: about who the Republican Party is and what it is 38 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 1: that they want. Now. Before Donald Trump, they may have 39 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:16,520 Speaker 1: had better articulated people, you know, more articulate. I wouldn't 40 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 1: say better articulated, because that was totally not a fucking sentence, 41 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:26,440 Speaker 1: but they may have had compassionate conservatives, as George W. 42 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:31,040 Speaker 1: Bush referred to himself, so compassionate in fact, that he 43 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:36,520 Speaker 1: flew over Katrina, the site of you know, major hurricane 44 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:40,440 Speaker 1: devastation and death, and didn't provide government aid, and Black 45 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:43,320 Speaker 1: people were left to be on top of buildings or 46 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:46,400 Speaker 1: being shot by police for having to get their basic 47 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:49,600 Speaker 1: needs met. Because when white people took things from grocery stores, 48 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 1: they were in survival mode. When black people did it, 49 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:54,320 Speaker 1: they needed to be shot dead because they were looters. 50 00:03:54,520 --> 00:04:02,400 Speaker 1: I digress. There were other people who wore different masks, 51 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 1: but we're a part of the same spectrum of Trumpism. 52 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 1: George W. Bush didn't come out and say that he 53 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:12,839 Speaker 1: didn't give a fuck about black people. Kanye West said 54 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:16,039 Speaker 1: that when he still had a functioning part of his 55 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:21,680 Speaker 1: frontal lobe. But he didn't. And we knew that right. 56 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:28,400 Speaker 1: We knew that Reagan hated the LGBTQ community, hated the 57 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 1: black community, which is why crack was dumped into it 58 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:37,280 Speaker 1: and LGBTQ people were left to die of HIV and eight, 59 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:42,440 Speaker 1: and it wasn't until it would begin infecting the hetero 60 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:47,680 Speaker 1: population that then the government would move and take any 61 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:50,000 Speaker 1: type of action or even recognize that it was happening 62 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:55,800 Speaker 1: in the first place. So there have been Republicans that 63 00:04:55,920 --> 00:05:01,120 Speaker 1: maybe we're better liked, maybe we're more articulate, more charismatic 64 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:03,680 Speaker 1: in a way that didn't make you want to throw 65 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:05,760 Speaker 1: up in your mouth the way that Donald Trump does. 66 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:12,159 Speaker 1: But their ideologies we're all aligned. Some were just more 67 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:17,560 Speaker 1: subtle than others. Donald Trump prefers to use a bluntonous weapon, 68 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:21,440 Speaker 1: whereas Republicans that came before him were a lot more 69 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:25,120 Speaker 1: surgical in terms of what they were doing to upend 70 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:32,160 Speaker 1: and remove rights or marginalized already marginalized people. So what 71 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:35,920 Speaker 1: I'm saying is that none of what is transpiring right 72 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:40,640 Speaker 1: now came out of thin air. It didn't come from nowhere. 73 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:45,720 Speaker 1: Right what we are experiencing now with Trumpism is just 74 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:52,760 Speaker 1: a more hyped up, you know, steroid dose, coped up 75 00:05:52,839 --> 00:05:59,240 Speaker 1: dose of Republicanism. But it's the same principles. We don't 76 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:01,800 Speaker 1: give a fuck about people of color. They are criminals, 77 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:07,320 Speaker 1: they are subservient, They are undeserving of democracy, rights or 78 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:11,839 Speaker 1: any economic mobility, any of those things. We hate women. 79 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:16,760 Speaker 1: Women are just incubators for the production of more white men. 80 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:24,160 Speaker 1: Kurt Bardella will say this later. So they have always 81 00:06:24,279 --> 00:06:27,880 Speaker 1: told us what they believe in and what they're willing 82 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:30,120 Speaker 1: to do to get those things. So why do we 83 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:36,840 Speaker 1: still find ourselves like a deer in headlights stuck with 84 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:42,280 Speaker 1: regard to this country backsliding into fascism? Why are we 85 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:47,479 Speaker 1: so in shock that we're unable to mobilize in any 86 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:53,880 Speaker 1: real consistent way for people to get angry and stay angry. 87 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:59,120 Speaker 1: You know, On my other show Democracy Ish, which you 88 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:02,960 Speaker 1: should check out, this week, I had a really great 89 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:07,839 Speaker 1: conversation with my co host and our guest, State Senator 90 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:13,800 Speaker 1: Malorie mcmarrow. Malle MALORYE mcmarrow is this state senator from 91 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:17,480 Speaker 1: Michigan who went toe to toe and had a viral 92 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:21,360 Speaker 1: speech that I think has now been viewed twelve million 93 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:30,240 Speaker 1: plus times, taking on her white woman Republican colleague who 94 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:33,600 Speaker 1: called her a pedophile and a groomer, and instead of 95 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:37,040 Speaker 1: her ignoring it in the way that Democrats love to 96 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:42,040 Speaker 1: ignore attacks by these rapid fucking bullies, she decided to 97 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:44,920 Speaker 1: go toe to toe with her and talk about the 98 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:48,520 Speaker 1: fact that she is a white woman, suburban mom, a Christian, 99 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:52,200 Speaker 1: you know, a Christian whose faith like guides and leads her, 100 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:56,840 Speaker 1: and how dare she believe that because she stands for 101 00:07:56,920 --> 00:08:00,920 Speaker 1: equity and justice for all people, including trans gender children, 102 00:08:02,520 --> 00:08:08,480 Speaker 1: that somehow she is a groomer or a pedophile. Her actions, 103 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:14,720 Speaker 1: her words were brilliant, and she shut that Republican hypocrite 104 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:19,320 Speaker 1: the fuck up. I say all this to say that 105 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:22,840 Speaker 1: ignoring bullies does not make them go away. It just 106 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:26,560 Speaker 1: shows how weak you are. Now you all can say 107 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:29,280 Speaker 1: to me, well, Daniel, you're not a parent. So if 108 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:31,200 Speaker 1: my kid is getting picked on and I don't think 109 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:33,240 Speaker 1: that they can win, I'm going to tell them to 110 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:35,680 Speaker 1: go run and hide. Well, I'll tell you that the 111 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:39,760 Speaker 1: bully will always suss you out. Right, And what people 112 00:08:39,800 --> 00:08:43,080 Speaker 1: need to start recognizing is that, oh no, we will 113 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:45,720 Speaker 1: fight back. Doesn't mean that we're going to win, but 114 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:47,360 Speaker 1: it means that I'm not going to lay down and 115 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 1: get my ass kicked right without trying to stand up 116 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:58,520 Speaker 1: for myself. Republicans have been kicking this country's ass for generations. 117 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:04,200 Speaker 1: They've been picking apart our rights, our democracy, and all 118 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:08,320 Speaker 1: of the things that actually make America America. Our ability 119 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:11,200 Speaker 1: to vote, our ability to have voice in our government, 120 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:14,000 Speaker 1: our ability to be able to provide for our families, 121 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:18,240 Speaker 1: our ability to make choices about our own bodies right, 122 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:21,520 Speaker 1: our ability to send our children to public school and 123 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:24,080 Speaker 1: think that they're going to get an education and not 124 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:28,040 Speaker 1: be riddled with bullets. Republicans have ticked away at all 125 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:30,160 Speaker 1: of those things, and we have allowed them to do 126 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:34,360 Speaker 1: so and continue to refer to them as like our colleagues, 127 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:39,120 Speaker 1: our friends. Oh, it's just an ideological opposition, it isn't. 128 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:46,280 Speaker 1: They have been a direct threat to our democracy for generations. 129 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:51,360 Speaker 1: We just lulled ourselves into believing that there were things 130 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:53,480 Speaker 1: that we could come to the table on, but not 131 00:09:53,559 --> 00:09:56,720 Speaker 1: recognizing or maybe not caring so much, that that table 132 00:09:57,080 --> 00:10:03,720 Speaker 1: was the marginalized communities back that Democrats and Republicans would 133 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:11,880 Speaker 1: decide to negotiate on top of. So what I'm saying 134 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:16,679 Speaker 1: is that it is time, it is past fucking time 135 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:20,120 Speaker 1: to tell the truth about who these people are. And 136 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:23,760 Speaker 1: it isn't hyperbolic, and it isn't oh, playing politics, What 137 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:26,200 Speaker 1: the fuck you think we do in government? What do 138 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:31,080 Speaker 1: you think happens on Capitol Hill? It's politics. So you 139 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:35,240 Speaker 1: play in it, right, whether you're devising up strategies, whether 140 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:39,280 Speaker 1: you are playing with poll numbers, whether you are attacking 141 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:43,559 Speaker 1: your political opponent, whatever it is that you're doing for 142 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:46,199 Speaker 1: those people that are in it. It is a game. 143 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:50,280 Speaker 1: The sad part is is that the results of that 144 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:57,280 Speaker 1: game really have impact on average people's lives. But let's 145 00:10:57,320 --> 00:11:00,160 Speaker 1: not pretend that it's something that it isn't that all 146 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:02,880 Speaker 1: of these people went to Capitol Hill because they believe 147 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:06,559 Speaker 1: in the same tenets of our democracy and the constitution, 148 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:10,480 Speaker 1: because they do not. So if you are needing to 149 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:13,440 Speaker 1: set yourself apart and saying this is why you should 150 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:15,880 Speaker 1: vote for me, then you need to make it clear 151 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:18,200 Speaker 1: why the fuck you shouldn't be voting for the other guy. 152 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:20,880 Speaker 1: And it shouldn't just be because oh, we have we're 153 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:24,800 Speaker 1: ideologically opposed. No, it's because the other guy is a 154 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:30,160 Speaker 1: fucking threat to your life and livelihood. And if I'm 155 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:34,040 Speaker 1: not making that clear and you to say to yourself, well, 156 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:37,440 Speaker 1: there's no difference between me and them, then whose fault 157 00:11:37,559 --> 00:11:41,439 Speaker 1: is that? Not the voter's fault, it's your fault for 158 00:11:41,559 --> 00:11:45,880 Speaker 1: not telling the better story. Now, Democrats have the fucking 159 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:48,960 Speaker 1: truth on their side, and they need to wield the 160 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:51,319 Speaker 1: truth like a goddamn weapon, the way that Trump wielded 161 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:54,439 Speaker 1: that crowd towards his vice President of the United States. 162 00:11:56,280 --> 00:11:59,800 Speaker 1: It's past time that we continue to give these people 163 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:02,960 Speaker 1: pass and think that all of this, all of the 164 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:05,560 Speaker 1: fucking shit that we are living in right now, came 165 00:12:05,559 --> 00:12:08,640 Speaker 1: out of nowhere or came from Donald Trump, because it 166 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:13,920 Speaker 1: did not. They've been plucking the democracy chicken all along, 167 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:17,480 Speaker 1: and that bitch is almost bald. 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I think I would like 202 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:26,160 Speaker 1: to start with a bit of good news, which is 203 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:30,040 Speaker 1: that instead of me, you know, screaming and going blue 204 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:32,600 Speaker 1: in the face over the fact that Joe Mansion is 205 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:39,080 Speaker 1: just a Republican in Democrats clothing major reversal this week 206 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:44,560 Speaker 1: on climate change, on the inflation tax climate package, and 207 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:46,880 Speaker 1: I want to get your thoughts because you would you 208 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:49,880 Speaker 1: would tweeted and you were just like, this is Democrats 209 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:53,040 Speaker 1: doing work, this is what this should look like. Tell 210 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:57,760 Speaker 1: us about why this reversal is important and why we 211 00:14:57,800 --> 00:15:01,960 Speaker 1: should be celebrating. Well, I think Democrats are finally kind 212 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:05,479 Speaker 1: of hitting their stride here because it's really this trifecta 213 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:09,800 Speaker 1: of policies, victories, really Probiden in the Democrats that we're seeing. 214 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:13,160 Speaker 1: I've always believed, like in sports, winning the God's winning, 215 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:14,880 Speaker 1: you know, you just got to get the first one 216 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:18,200 Speaker 1: through and then everything becomes easier after that. The combination 217 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:20,600 Speaker 1: of you know, we've got some semblance of a gun 218 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:24,160 Speaker 1: reform bill passed, We've gotten now the chips built through 219 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:26,760 Speaker 1: the Senate, something that will help deal with inflation, and 220 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:30,000 Speaker 1: just American competitiveness in the economy. All the while Republicans 221 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:32,280 Speaker 1: have decided to make their stand voting against things like 222 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:36,760 Speaker 1: funding veterans and siding with China over this American Competitiveness bill. 223 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:40,120 Speaker 1: And that brings us now to really this new iteration 224 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:42,760 Speaker 1: of Build Back Better, which is also really a package 225 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:45,040 Speaker 1: that's designed to help people. It on inflation to help 226 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:48,480 Speaker 1: address the climate crisis. And all of a sudden, Democrats 227 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:50,960 Speaker 1: are just racking up victory after victory after victory, where 228 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:54,360 Speaker 1: Republicans are left looking around deciding to put themselves once 229 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:57,600 Speaker 1: again on the opposite side of public opinion. There's only 230 00:15:57,640 --> 00:16:01,040 Speaker 1: so many times you can take extreme position and alienate 231 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:04,640 Speaker 1: yourself from voters, whether it's women, whether it's people of color, 232 00:16:04,640 --> 00:16:08,000 Speaker 1: whether it's senior citizens, whether it's the veterans. Like, at 233 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:09,800 Speaker 1: some point, you're just going to run out of voters 234 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:12,120 Speaker 1: because I can tell you, Daniel, there just aren't enough 235 00:16:12,160 --> 00:16:15,520 Speaker 1: members of the KKK to put Republicans in Congress. I 236 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:17,400 Speaker 1: ain't going to cut it. You need more votes than that. 237 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:21,040 Speaker 1: And they're really doing their best to put themselves in 238 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:23,040 Speaker 1: a situation where they're going to snatch defeat from the 239 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:25,680 Speaker 1: jaws of victory. You know, I want to go back 240 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:28,840 Speaker 1: to the Veterans Bill for a Second Right. Because the 241 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:32,520 Speaker 1: Republican Party has always fancied themselves the party of quote 242 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:35,000 Speaker 1: unquote law and order right, the party of police, the 243 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:37,840 Speaker 1: party of military. So here you have this bill that 244 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:41,520 Speaker 1: would you take care of those veterans that are out 245 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:44,680 Speaker 1: putting their lives, their mental health, their physical well being 246 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:48,360 Speaker 1: at risk for the democracy that this party, the Republican Party, 247 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:52,000 Speaker 1: is working overtime to try and overthrow. I mean, how 248 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:56,840 Speaker 1: do you think that Democrats use right the fact that 249 00:16:56,960 --> 00:17:00,480 Speaker 1: you have this party that is voting again, it's our 250 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:04,280 Speaker 1: veterans and their ability to take care of themselves, to 251 00:17:04,359 --> 00:17:06,800 Speaker 1: take care of their families, to get the aid that 252 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:09,239 Speaker 1: they need after putting their lives on the line. So 253 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:14,520 Speaker 1: how should the messaging work here about that? Because I mean, 254 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:17,040 Speaker 1: I don't know why I was stunned. I feel like 255 00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:19,639 Speaker 1: we went We've been in the sewer with Republicans, So 256 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:21,240 Speaker 1: I don't know why I was stunned by this, but 257 00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:24,399 Speaker 1: I was actually taken aback. You know. I think that 258 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:27,199 Speaker 1: if I were in charge of the democratic messaging for 259 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:30,400 Speaker 1: every Democrat and every group in America, I would say 260 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:32,800 Speaker 1: you need to put together an ad that tossed together 261 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:36,920 Speaker 1: the leader of the Republican Party, Donald Trump, insulting John 262 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:39,920 Speaker 1: Mking for being captured and tortured. You need to put 263 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:43,840 Speaker 1: together a montage of Donald Trump referring to our service 264 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:46,840 Speaker 1: members as suckers and losers, and then you need to 265 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:49,399 Speaker 1: juxtapose that with this decision by the Republican Party in 266 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:53,280 Speaker 1: Congress to not support funding our veterans. The story tells itself. 267 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:55,399 Speaker 1: The Republican Party is not on the side of veterans 268 00:17:55,440 --> 00:17:56,960 Speaker 1: any more than they're on the side of any other 269 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:00,479 Speaker 1: constituency in America that actually needs government helping, government service. 270 00:18:00,920 --> 00:18:05,359 Speaker 1: They just aren't. You cannot be the pro military party 271 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:10,159 Speaker 1: and refuse to actually fund our veteran services. You know, 272 00:18:10,359 --> 00:18:13,760 Speaker 1: Republicans have gotten away with this facade that they have 273 00:18:13,880 --> 00:18:17,840 Speaker 1: this monopoly on patriotism and liberty and freedom ever since 274 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:19,440 Speaker 1: nine eleven. They've gotten away with this. When you see 275 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:21,639 Speaker 1: an American flag flank somewhere, you just now as sub up, 276 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:24,960 Speaker 1: that's a Maga voter. How we got to this point 277 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:27,439 Speaker 1: where they've been able to hijack what it means to 278 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:31,520 Speaker 1: be an American is just uttered nonsense to me. And 279 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:34,879 Speaker 1: this is an opportunity for Democrats to start taking that back. 280 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:38,160 Speaker 1: Why don't you think that that is top of mind 281 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:41,920 Speaker 1: for Democrats, like every time that we have major legislation 282 00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:43,919 Speaker 1: that comes through where we get these folks on the 283 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:46,520 Speaker 1: record to know exactly what it is that they stand for. 284 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:49,080 Speaker 1: And they don't stand with the American people, They don't 285 00:18:49,119 --> 00:18:52,200 Speaker 1: stand with democracy. They are standing with China, they are 286 00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:56,520 Speaker 1: standing with Putin. What is it that stops Democrats from 287 00:18:56,560 --> 00:18:59,960 Speaker 1: being able to air out the truth to the American people? 288 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:02,280 Speaker 1: I mean, you know, Kurt, we have but a handful 289 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:05,280 Speaker 1: of weeks right, a handful of weeks left until we 290 00:19:05,359 --> 00:19:07,920 Speaker 1: have midterm elections, I know, which is hard to think 291 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:11,960 Speaker 1: about as the earth is on fire with their summertime temperatures, 292 00:19:12,119 --> 00:19:15,480 Speaker 1: you know, skyrocketing. But it's in a handful of weeks. 293 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:18,639 Speaker 1: What stops them from being able to just tell the 294 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:22,719 Speaker 1: truth to use Republicans own votes and their own words 295 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:27,320 Speaker 1: against them. Yeah, it's almost a DNA thing, Daniel. There's 296 00:19:27,359 --> 00:19:33,520 Speaker 1: this impulse that Democrats have that the right policies, doing 297 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:36,119 Speaker 1: the right thing should should win the day. And I 298 00:19:36,119 --> 00:19:37,760 Speaker 1: wish we lived in that world. That would be nat 299 00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:40,600 Speaker 1: I very much year in for the day where we 300 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:42,800 Speaker 1: live in that kind of a world. But we don't. 301 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:45,399 Speaker 1: And I think that's why, in part there's people like 302 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:48,040 Speaker 1: me now who have joined the Democratic Party to try 303 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:50,720 Speaker 1: to show them that. Listen, I'm not going to pretend 304 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:52,840 Speaker 1: like I have all the answers, like I'm infallible or 305 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:55,200 Speaker 1: the greatest strategist in the world. There are a billion 306 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:56,600 Speaker 1: people that are a lot smarter than I am. But 307 00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:58,760 Speaker 1: I can tell you, having been a form of Republican, 308 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:02,159 Speaker 1: having worked in republic campaign to Republican politics, I know 309 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:04,600 Speaker 1: how these people think and how they fight, and we 310 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:07,000 Speaker 1: have got to start fighting fire with fire. And oh, 311 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:09,720 Speaker 1: by the way, unlike the Republicans, we don't have to lie, 312 00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:11,439 Speaker 1: we don't have to make shit up. We just need 313 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:15,320 Speaker 1: to tell the truth and provide that context, that historical context. 314 00:20:15,359 --> 00:20:17,760 Speaker 1: And I think that's missing so much from our politics 315 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:20,639 Speaker 1: and from the media, frankly, as the historical context of 316 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:23,040 Speaker 1: how Republicans have claimed to be one thing, but time 317 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:25,399 Speaker 1: and again, with their actions and their behavior and the rhetoric, 318 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:28,399 Speaker 1: have shown to be something else. You cannot claim to 319 00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:30,880 Speaker 1: be pro military when on the other hand, the leader 320 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:32,639 Speaker 1: of your party thinks that they are much of suckers 321 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:36,600 Speaker 1: and losers. You know, when Joe Biden last week when 322 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:39,360 Speaker 1: he finally, you know, kind of went a little bit 323 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:43,040 Speaker 1: toe to toe with Donald Trump when talking about the insurrection, 324 00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:46,160 Speaker 1: which he has tried to steer away from. But he said, 325 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:48,960 Speaker 1: you cannot be pro cop You cannot be pro military 326 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:52,360 Speaker 1: and support and insurrection, like you cannot be pro democracy 327 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:54,399 Speaker 1: right and not want to get to the bottom of 328 00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:59,160 Speaker 1: how our country is being overthrown. And so I wonder here, 329 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:05,880 Speaker 1: you know, Kurt, should Joe Biden be doing more of that, 330 00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:09,320 Speaker 1: of that rhetoric that he gave, or is it the 331 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:12,880 Speaker 1: responsibility of let's say, a Nancy Pelosi and a Chuck 332 00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:17,000 Speaker 1: Schumer to anoint right those spokespeople in the way that 333 00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:21,680 Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell have with their rabid right 334 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:24,600 Speaker 1: wing folks like a Marjorie Taylor Green who says, by 335 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:26,919 Speaker 1: the way, we can deal with climate change because we 336 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:31,199 Speaker 1: have air conditioners and refrigerators. She is an idiot like 337 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:35,320 Speaker 1: Matt Gates who decided to troll and body shame a 338 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:38,359 Speaker 1: teenage girl, which by the way, he should probably stop 339 00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:40,720 Speaker 1: talking about teenage girls, being as how he traffics that. 340 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:45,640 Speaker 1: But but so I'm wondering, do you is it Biden 341 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:49,840 Speaker 1: that needs to be to have the microphone, or does 342 00:21:50,119 --> 00:21:53,359 Speaker 1: Pelosi and Schumer need to pass that around to the 343 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:57,760 Speaker 1: folks that actually have the platform and the audience that 344 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:01,160 Speaker 1: it will get across to. You know, in politics, I've 345 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:04,480 Speaker 1: always told candidates politicians, you know, be true to who 346 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:07,960 Speaker 1: you are. Joe Biden's a lot of things. A knife 347 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:10,760 Speaker 1: fighter isn't exactly one of them. So I actually don't 348 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:12,520 Speaker 1: think that he should be the one leading that because 349 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:14,119 Speaker 1: that's just not who he is. That's not you can 350 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:16,000 Speaker 1: people can always tell when you're trying to be something 351 00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:20,480 Speaker 1: you're not. Um, it's inherently uncomfortable and it therefore becomes 352 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:23,840 Speaker 1: off as less believable. You know. I think that Joe 353 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:25,960 Speaker 1: Biden ran as a guy who said that he would 354 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:29,159 Speaker 1: conduct himself with dignity, that he would return truth and 355 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:31,680 Speaker 1: morality to the office of the presidency. I think he 356 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:34,119 Speaker 1: has done that, by the way. Um. But I do 357 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:36,280 Speaker 1: think that when you when I think about bare knuckle 358 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:39,160 Speaker 1: brawlers and baltic on the Nancy Pelosi doesn't get she's 359 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:42,280 Speaker 1: as tough as they come, and that that is much 360 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:44,560 Speaker 1: more her brand. I think back to her tearing enough. 361 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:47,960 Speaker 1: Donald Trump stated a Union address. Um, you know, you know, 362 00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:49,959 Speaker 1: she she is someone who does not show away from 363 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:52,199 Speaker 1: a fight, and so I think that it needs to 364 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:54,480 Speaker 1: come from from from her. And in some ways I 365 00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:56,280 Speaker 1: think it's starting too. I think that again you're seeing 366 00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:59,199 Speaker 1: a subtle shift in posture from Democrats. I think that 367 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:02,040 Speaker 1: they're finally kind of got their mojio back a little bit. 368 00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:05,679 Speaker 1: It's it was a brutal summer, There's no doubt about that. Uh. 369 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:08,600 Speaker 1: You know, everything that kind of could go wrong, things 370 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:11,880 Speaker 1: completely out of all of our control, did go wrong. Um. 371 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:13,600 Speaker 1: But now I think that we're starting to kind of 372 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:16,680 Speaker 1: find our straight I think Republicans, you know, they're the 373 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:18,720 Speaker 1: dog that caught the bus, Like, now what do you do? 374 00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:20,520 Speaker 1: It's like you said you're going to do all these things, 375 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:23,000 Speaker 1: these horrible things, and guess what. You started to do them. 376 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:25,800 Speaker 1: And as it turns out, everybody hates you for it, 377 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:29,040 Speaker 1: and and and your answer for it is to continue 378 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:33,480 Speaker 1: alienating and offending people at an unthinkable level. Things that 379 00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:38,159 Speaker 1: Matt Gates is doing, um, you know, is reprehensible, disgusting. 380 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:41,040 Speaker 1: You know, he's just a walking piece of shit. Uh, 381 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:43,399 Speaker 1: you know, And and I think that we're seeing you know, 382 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:46,480 Speaker 1: when I look at people like Ruben and Gayego from Arizona, 383 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:49,959 Speaker 1: Eric Swallow from California. You know, people who are are 384 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:55,479 Speaker 1: not afraid to start taking the fight directly to these Republicans. Um. 385 00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:57,960 Speaker 1: I think that's a direction that we need to start 386 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:00,440 Speaker 1: going in, and I think that it's a coming upon 387 00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:02,640 Speaker 1: every single person who's in the Democratic Party. I don't 388 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:04,399 Speaker 1: care whether you're an office or not an office at 389 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:06,480 Speaker 1: this point, if you have a platform, if you have 390 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:09,040 Speaker 1: a microphone of any kind, start calling them out on 391 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:12,280 Speaker 1: their ship and just do it in the most straightforward 392 00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:18,399 Speaker 1: and feel honest way possible. Because Republicans are showing us 393 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:20,840 Speaker 1: who they are every day. You know, one of the 394 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:23,439 Speaker 1: things that has been troubling me, Kurt, are all the 395 00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:26,800 Speaker 1: polls right? Every day there's a new poll that comes out. 396 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:28,760 Speaker 1: A pole that says the Republicans will take back the 397 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:31,040 Speaker 1: House in the Senate, a poll that says that Biden's 398 00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:33,359 Speaker 1: too old to be president, A pole, A pole, A pole. 399 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:38,040 Speaker 1: Seventy percent of the country supports abortion, seventy percent of 400 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:41,639 Speaker 1: the country supports LGBTQ rights in same sex marriage. Do 401 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:44,479 Speaker 1: a poles actually matter when we are living at a 402 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:48,640 Speaker 1: time of minority rule when Republicans are going state by 403 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:52,560 Speaker 1: state by state, local office by local office in order 404 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:56,159 Speaker 1: to roll back rights, like, what does polling at a 405 00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:59,399 Speaker 1: time like this? What? What? What is the message? What 406 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:04,639 Speaker 1: is the from it? If in fact, majority rule is 407 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:09,560 Speaker 1: not actually how America is governed. Yeah, I've always said 408 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:11,600 Speaker 1: that there's only one poll that matters, and that's the 409 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:13,720 Speaker 1: one that's conducted on election day. The rest is just 410 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:17,119 Speaker 1: complete bullshit. It's just something to give the chatter or 411 00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:20,520 Speaker 1: class of Washington something to talk about, right about pontificate 412 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:25,680 Speaker 1: about No one in America gives a crap. People respond 413 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:29,400 Speaker 1: to I think force, I think people respond to leadership. 414 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:34,280 Speaker 1: I think people respond to boldness. Polls are such an 415 00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:37,520 Speaker 1: imperfect science, as we've seen time and time again, how 416 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:41,199 Speaker 1: on big scale they've gotten big things wrong. And I 417 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:45,200 Speaker 1: always I'm always critical of media who tends to hang 418 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:48,880 Speaker 1: their hat on polling because the amount of oxygen they 419 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:51,680 Speaker 1: give polls does not compare at all to the oxygen 420 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:53,920 Speaker 1: they give it when it's wrong, you know, and it's 421 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:56,679 Speaker 1: so misleading, and they're doing such a great disservice. You know, 422 00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:58,880 Speaker 1: the reality is we live in a country now that 423 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:01,520 Speaker 1: Joe Biden can do everything right for everybody, and there's 424 00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:03,439 Speaker 1: still half a country who just wouldn't like him when 425 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:07,320 Speaker 1: there are any snoprat like that's where we're at. Doesn't 426 00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:09,240 Speaker 1: matter what he does, doesn't matter what he says. These 427 00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:12,040 Speaker 1: people have just made a conscious decision to withdraw from 428 00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:15,320 Speaker 1: reality and they're never going to be satisfied. So I 429 00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:18,000 Speaker 1: don't really give a crap what his approval rating is. 430 00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:21,560 Speaker 1: I don't really care what certain elements of this country 431 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:23,320 Speaker 1: when you take a poll, if you if you're including 432 00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:27,760 Speaker 1: states like Alabama, in Oklahoma, in Arkansas, and your pole, 433 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:30,120 Speaker 1: that pole is completely illegitimate to be because it doesn't 434 00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:32,840 Speaker 1: matter what those people think at this point, because there's 435 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:35,720 Speaker 1: nothing Joe Biden can do to satisfy them. The people 436 00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:38,520 Speaker 1: that Alex Sarah Huckabey Sanders to be their governor, they're 437 00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:40,040 Speaker 1: not going to also say, yeah, Joe Biden is doing 438 00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:43,080 Speaker 1: a good job. It's an imperfect science and imperfect metric, 439 00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:45,080 Speaker 1: and I think it's up that we need to get 440 00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:50,399 Speaker 1: away from. Honestly, you know, because Republicans, to your point, 441 00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:54,520 Speaker 1: they don't care. Right like, there there is no quote 442 00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:57,159 Speaker 1: unquote common ground, There is no place to go to 443 00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:00,720 Speaker 1: where you're going to meet in the middle right where 444 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:03,359 Speaker 1: just by virtue of being a Democrat, they some of 445 00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:06,000 Speaker 1: them either want you dead, which they have actually said 446 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:09,840 Speaker 1: out loud, or they just want you dismissed and not 447 00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:13,960 Speaker 1: have the ability to vote whatsoever. And so, you know, Kurt, 448 00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:17,439 Speaker 1: as we're seeing this all play out, and there was 449 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:20,440 Speaker 1: a Washington Post article, I think it was late last 450 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:24,159 Speaker 1: week that was talking about the fact that more Republicans 451 00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:27,320 Speaker 1: are talking about civil war, that more of them are 452 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:30,680 Speaker 1: just like just casually talking about the fact that they 453 00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:33,000 Speaker 1: believe that in the next couple of years this is 454 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,359 Speaker 1: where this is going. And when they say couple of years, 455 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:39,000 Speaker 1: they're talking about the presidential they're talking about twenty twenty four, 456 00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:41,359 Speaker 1: which is not a couple of years. It's actually very close. 457 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,920 Speaker 1: What do you make of that? And the fact that 458 00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:49,879 Speaker 1: Democrats again much in the same way that they dismissed 459 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:54,040 Speaker 1: the culture quote unquote conversations that got Yunn into the 460 00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:57,520 Speaker 1: governorship in Virginia, what do you make of the of 461 00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:05,320 Speaker 1: the non reaction right now about this looming threat. The 462 00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:09,840 Speaker 1: normalization of violence within the Republican Party is one of 463 00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:15,000 Speaker 1: the most underappreciated elements um that that that has put 464 00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:16,960 Speaker 1: us kind of on this what feels almost like a 465 00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:22,439 Speaker 1: death march towards um. You know, again, we saw on 466 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:26,360 Speaker 1: January sixth that it's not just words, it's not just tweets. 467 00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:29,080 Speaker 1: It's not just oh, we're trolling you know the liberals 468 00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:32,960 Speaker 1: on Twitter. It's real. And and these are people who 469 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:38,440 Speaker 1: did not hesitate or flinch to impose their will and 470 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:43,160 Speaker 1: their their their violence on law enforcement on members of Congress. 471 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,120 Speaker 1: They didn't care what party were that if they found 472 00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:46,960 Speaker 1: you. You You weresprected by Josh Holly was running away and 473 00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:50,320 Speaker 1: Hall and asshot the way because he knew that they 474 00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:51,800 Speaker 1: were going to come for him, just like we're coming 475 00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:53,720 Speaker 1: for everybody. That's where we're at right now. There's a 476 00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:55,440 Speaker 1: part of it that almost says it's like, yeah, we 477 00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:57,680 Speaker 1: all want reform and guns are bad and all that, 478 00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:00,959 Speaker 1: but man, every Democrat there's let's go out there and 479 00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:03,400 Speaker 1: buy every gun and every moment you possibly can, because 480 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:05,040 Speaker 1: the idea that the only people left that will have 481 00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:07,280 Speaker 1: guns are these lunatics is down right scary to me. 482 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:08,719 Speaker 1: And if you're not gonna be able to get rid 483 00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:10,440 Speaker 1: of them, then maybe we need to be the party 484 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:12,800 Speaker 1: that arms up to to defend ourselves. You know, we 485 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:16,720 Speaker 1: have a right to defend democracy, to defend these institutions. Um, 486 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:20,200 Speaker 1: the rebellion that we are seeing play out right now 487 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:23,560 Speaker 1: in slow motion is very real. It is very dangerous, 488 00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:25,640 Speaker 1: and they're not trying to hide it. They're not masking 489 00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:27,600 Speaker 1: their intentions, and you know, they're telling us what they 490 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:29,480 Speaker 1: want to do. That they want to live in a 491 00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:33,360 Speaker 1: world where people like you and me are basically indentured servants, 492 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:38,040 Speaker 1: where women are there just to produce more men. Yeah, 493 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:41,840 Speaker 1: that's that's the world that they're fighting for. And if 494 00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:46,040 Speaker 1: we don't meet that with equal and more force, we're 495 00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:48,239 Speaker 1: gonna lose. Like that. That's that's how this ends. At 496 00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:49,840 Speaker 1: the end of the day. We have to have to 497 00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:52,720 Speaker 1: say will to fight for what we believe in as 498 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:55,440 Speaker 1: that that matches there is and if we don't, the 499 00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:58,960 Speaker 1: side that has the will always wins. Do you think 500 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:02,400 Speaker 1: it's inevitable? Cur Like, have we gotten to a place 501 00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:07,240 Speaker 1: where where that kind that level of violence right is 502 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:11,160 Speaker 1: just going to be inevitable. We're seeing flashpoints, right and 503 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:14,320 Speaker 1: we see these flashpoints with mass shootings and then the 504 00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:17,360 Speaker 1: ones that are politically motivated. We're listening to their manifestos 505 00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:21,080 Speaker 1: that read like a segment of Tucker Carlson Show, right, 506 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:24,040 Speaker 1: like we we are seeing this and it's like I 507 00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:27,520 Speaker 1: feel like every single one of them is a warning. Right, 508 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:30,720 Speaker 1: So is it inevitable if if if all were to 509 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:33,760 Speaker 1: go well, quote unquote, and we hold on to power 510 00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:37,400 Speaker 1: in midterms and for the luck of the draw, Joe 511 00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:41,040 Speaker 1: Biden holds onto the presidency in twenty twenty four, are 512 00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:46,880 Speaker 1: we kicking this tinderbox down the road? I think that 513 00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:51,680 Speaker 1: we're headed towards the edge of the cliff, and we 514 00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:55,560 Speaker 1: have these very small windows to stop us from going over. 515 00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:58,600 Speaker 1: And that is what twenty two twenty twenty four really 516 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:04,960 Speaker 1: are if I actually do I'll make a prediction here. 517 00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:08,960 Speaker 1: If Democrats are managed to hold on to Congress in 518 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:12,680 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, the Republican Party will dispense themselves with 519 00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:14,959 Speaker 1: Donald Trump. He'll be done. He will be done. They 520 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,880 Speaker 1: will abandon him so quick they will try to pretend 521 00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:21,800 Speaker 1: like he never existed. Here's the thing about the quantities. 522 00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:27,240 Speaker 1: Whether it's Rhonda Santis, Mike Pence, Josh Holly, Ted Cruz, etc. 523 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:31,840 Speaker 1: None of them will ever be Donald Trump. They all 524 00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:35,040 Speaker 1: were political figures that came up in the conventional and 525 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:39,320 Speaker 1: political sphere, and even though they might parrot him and 526 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:42,920 Speaker 1: pretend to be him and try to mimic him, they 527 00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:45,240 Speaker 1: aren't him. Trump came from somewhere very different. Trump came 528 00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:49,400 Speaker 1: from freaking ww even And I draw basically these guys 529 00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:52,200 Speaker 1: all came from the halls of Congress and state legislators 530 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:59,560 Speaker 1: and just conventional traditional political boundaries. I think that if 531 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:03,120 Speaker 1: we hold on to power in twenty twenty two, that 532 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:05,880 Speaker 1: will be the ultimate repeviiation of trumpis um. It will 533 00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:07,920 Speaker 1: be the third election in a row, by the way 534 00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:11,280 Speaker 1: that they will have lost twenty eighteen, twenty twenty and 535 00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:13,960 Speaker 1: then twenty twenty two, And I think that they will 536 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:17,680 Speaker 1: politically understand that they are going to have to withdraw 537 00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,360 Speaker 1: from this a little bit if they're going to have 538 00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:28,760 Speaker 1: any political future. That is it for me today, Dear friends, 539 00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:32,680 Speaker 1: on Woke f as always, Power to the people and 540 00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:36,680 Speaker 1: to all the people. 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