Speaker 1: Good morning, Keepson. Welcome to Okay f Daily with Meet
Speaker 1: your Girl Danielle Moody reporting once again from the Home Bunker. Folks.
Speaker 1: Coming up in the show, I have a conversation with
Speaker 1: our friend Kurt Bardella about all the ways in which
Speaker 1: Democrats need to be capitalizing on this moment, this win
Speaker 1: that they have around Joe Mansion's reversal and actually wanting
Speaker 1: to give the power that apparently, you know, we in
Speaker 1: the United States did not give him, but the five
Speaker 1: people that live in West Virginia did, to be able
Speaker 1: to fight against climate change and inflation and all of
Speaker 1: the things. Um, So we'll get into that conversation. I
Speaker 1: want to start today, however, with um, just my feelings
Speaker 1: recently around Republicans. And I know you're just gonna say, oh, Danielle,
Speaker 1: I already know where you're going to talk about, and yes,
Speaker 1: like there are a range of things to talk about,
Speaker 1: but I get into it a little bit with Kurt,
Speaker 1: but I want to say it here too. Republicans are
Speaker 1: a hateful, vengeful white supremacist group and I don't know
Speaker 1: why it is taken so long and so many offensive
Speaker 1: things that they have either supported ignored championed for us
Speaker 1: to be able to articulate this truth and just say
Speaker 1: who they are. Part of being able to solve a
Speaker 1: problem is the ability to recognize that there is a problem.
Speaker 1: And where I see how our democracy began to falter
Speaker 1: way back, and probably I would say, you know, when
Speaker 1: we allowed for the Supreme Court to decide the two
Speaker 1: thousand presidential election as opposed to the people who actually
Speaker 1: voted for al Gore. Nonetheless, let me not go off
Speaker 1: into the tangent of the early of the two thousands,
Speaker 1: but let's say this. Let's go to Obama right, and
Speaker 1: the birth of the Tea Party and birth Rism, and
Speaker 1: how the media as well as the Democratic establishment viewed
Speaker 1: those people as just the fringe, not the catalyst to
Speaker 1: the insurrection that we would then witness some twelve plus
Speaker 1: years later. What aggravates me so much is that the
Speaker 1: writing has been on the wall for the longest time
Speaker 1: about who the Republican Party is and what it is
Speaker 1: that they want. Now. Before Donald Trump, they may have
Speaker 1: had better articulated people, you know, more articulate. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: say better articulated, because that was totally not a fucking sentence,
Speaker 1: but they may have had compassionate conservatives, as George W.
Speaker 1: Bush referred to himself, so compassionate in fact, that he
Speaker 1: flew over Katrina, the site of you know, major hurricane
Speaker 1: devastation and death, and didn't provide government aid, and Black
Speaker 1: people were left to be on top of buildings or
Speaker 1: being shot by police for having to get their basic
Speaker 1: needs met. Because when white people took things from grocery stores,
Speaker 1: they were in survival mode. When black people did it,
Speaker 1: they needed to be shot dead because they were looters.
Speaker 1: I digress. There were other people who wore different masks,
Speaker 1: but we're a part of the same spectrum of Trumpism.
Speaker 1: George W. Bush didn't come out and say that he
Speaker 1: didn't give a fuck about black people. Kanye West said
Speaker 1: that when he still had a functioning part of his
Speaker 1: frontal lobe. But he didn't. And we knew that right.
Speaker 1: We knew that Reagan hated the LGBTQ community, hated the
Speaker 1: black community, which is why crack was dumped into it
Speaker 1: and LGBTQ people were left to die of HIV and eight,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't until it would begin infecting the hetero
Speaker 1: population that then the government would move and take any
Speaker 1: type of action or even recognize that it was happening
Speaker 1: in the first place. So there have been Republicans that
Speaker 1: maybe we're better liked, maybe we're more articulate, more charismatic
Speaker 1: in a way that didn't make you want to throw
Speaker 1: up in your mouth the way that Donald Trump does.
Speaker 1: But their ideologies we're all aligned. Some were just more
Speaker 1: subtle than others. Donald Trump prefers to use a bluntonous weapon,
Speaker 1: whereas Republicans that came before him were a lot more
Speaker 1: surgical in terms of what they were doing to upend
Speaker 1: and remove rights or marginalized already marginalized people. So what
Speaker 1: I'm saying is that none of what is transpiring right
Speaker 1: now came out of thin air. It didn't come from nowhere.
Speaker 1: Right what we are experiencing now with Trumpism is just
Speaker 1: a more hyped up, you know, steroid dose, coped up
Speaker 1: dose of Republicanism. But it's the same principles. We don't
Speaker 1: give a fuck about people of color. They are criminals,
Speaker 1: they are subservient, They are undeserving of democracy, rights or
Speaker 1: any economic mobility, any of those things. We hate women.
Speaker 1: Women are just incubators for the production of more white men.
Speaker 1: Kurt Bardella will say this later. So they have always
Speaker 1: told us what they believe in and what they're willing
Speaker 1: to do to get those things. So why do we
Speaker 1: still find ourselves like a deer in headlights stuck with
Speaker 1: regard to this country backsliding into fascism? Why are we
Speaker 1: so in shock that we're unable to mobilize in any
Speaker 1: real consistent way for people to get angry and stay angry.
Speaker 1: You know, On my other show Democracy Ish, which you
Speaker 1: should check out, this week, I had a really great
Speaker 1: conversation with my co host and our guest, State Senator
Speaker 1: Malorie mcmarrow. Malle MALORYE mcmarrow is this state senator from
Speaker 1: Michigan who went toe to toe and had a viral
Speaker 1: speech that I think has now been viewed twelve million
Speaker 1: plus times, taking on her white woman Republican colleague who
Speaker 1: called her a pedophile and a groomer, and instead of
Speaker 1: her ignoring it in the way that Democrats love to
Speaker 1: ignore attacks by these rapid fucking bullies, she decided to
Speaker 1: go toe to toe with her and talk about the
Speaker 1: fact that she is a white woman, suburban mom, a Christian,
Speaker 1: you know, a Christian whose faith like guides and leads her,
Speaker 1: and how dare she believe that because she stands for
Speaker 1: equity and justice for all people, including trans gender children,
Speaker 1: that somehow she is a groomer or a pedophile. Her actions,
Speaker 1: her words were brilliant, and she shut that Republican hypocrite
Speaker 1: the fuck up. I say all this to say that
Speaker 1: ignoring bullies does not make them go away. It just
Speaker 1: shows how weak you are. Now you all can say
Speaker 1: to me, well, Daniel, you're not a parent. So if
Speaker 1: my kid is getting picked on and I don't think
Speaker 1: that they can win, I'm going to tell them to
Speaker 1: go run and hide. Well, I'll tell you that the
Speaker 1: bully will always suss you out. Right, And what people
Speaker 1: need to start recognizing is that, oh no, we will
Speaker 1: fight back. Doesn't mean that we're going to win, but
Speaker 1: it means that I'm not going to lay down and
Speaker 1: get my ass kicked right without trying to stand up
Speaker 1: for myself. Republicans have been kicking this country's ass for generations.
Speaker 1: They've been picking apart our rights, our democracy, and all
Speaker 1: of the things that actually make America America. Our ability
Speaker 1: to vote, our ability to have voice in our government,
Speaker 1: our ability to be able to provide for our families,
Speaker 1: our ability to make choices about our own bodies right,
Speaker 1: our ability to send our children to public school and
Speaker 1: think that they're going to get an education and not
Speaker 1: be riddled with bullets. Republicans have ticked away at all
Speaker 1: of those things, and we have allowed them to do
Speaker 1: so and continue to refer to them as like our colleagues,
Speaker 1: our friends. Oh, it's just an ideological opposition, it isn't.
Speaker 1: They have been a direct threat to our democracy for generations.
Speaker 1: We just lulled ourselves into believing that there were things
Speaker 1: that we could come to the table on, but not
Speaker 1: recognizing or maybe not caring so much, that that table
Speaker 1: was the marginalized communities back that Democrats and Republicans would
Speaker 1: decide to negotiate on top of. So what I'm saying
Speaker 1: is that it is time, it is past fucking time
Speaker 1: to tell the truth about who these people are. And
Speaker 1: it isn't hyperbolic, and it isn't oh, playing politics, What
Speaker 1: the fuck you think we do in government? What do
Speaker 1: you think happens on Capitol Hill? It's politics. So you
Speaker 1: play in it, right, whether you're devising up strategies, whether
Speaker 1: you are playing with poll numbers, whether you are attacking
Speaker 1: your political opponent, whatever it is that you're doing for
Speaker 1: those people that are in it. It is a game.
Speaker 1: The sad part is is that the results of that
Speaker 1: game really have impact on average people's lives. But let's
Speaker 1: not pretend that it's something that it isn't that all
Speaker 1: of these people went to Capitol Hill because they believe
Speaker 1: in the same tenets of our democracy and the constitution,
Speaker 1: because they do not. So if you are needing to
Speaker 1: set yourself apart and saying this is why you should
Speaker 1: vote for me, then you need to make it clear
Speaker 1: why the fuck you shouldn't be voting for the other guy.
Speaker 1: And it shouldn't just be because oh, we have we're
Speaker 1: ideologically opposed. No, it's because the other guy is a
Speaker 1: fucking threat to your life and livelihood. And if I'm
Speaker 1: not making that clear and you to say to yourself, well,
Speaker 1: there's no difference between me and them, then whose fault
Speaker 1: is that? Not the voter's fault, it's your fault for
Speaker 1: not telling the better story. Now, Democrats have the fucking
Speaker 1: truth on their side, and they need to wield the
Speaker 1: truth like a goddamn weapon, the way that Trump wielded
Speaker 1: that crowd towards his vice President of the United States.
Speaker 1: It's past time that we continue to give these people
Speaker 1: pass and think that all of this, all of the
Speaker 1: fucking shit that we are living in right now, came
Speaker 1: out of nowhere or came from Donald Trump, because it
Speaker 1: did not. They've been plucking the democracy chicken all along,
Speaker 1: and that bitch is almost bald. So it's about time
Speaker 1: that people start waking up and recognizing these people for
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Speaker 1: whenever I have the opportunity to sit down with our
Speaker 1: friend Kurt Bardella. You know him as a writer for
Speaker 1: USA Today, The La Times, as a spokesperson and a
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Speaker 1: All the Seas and All the D's. Kurt Della, welcome
Speaker 1: back for the first time. I think I would like
Speaker 1: to start with a bit of good news, which is
Speaker 1: that instead of me, you know, screaming and going blue
Speaker 1: in the face over the fact that Joe Mansion is
Speaker 1: just a Republican in Democrats clothing major reversal this week
Speaker 1: on climate change, on the inflation tax climate package, and
Speaker 1: I want to get your thoughts because you would you
Speaker 1: would tweeted and you were just like, this is Democrats
Speaker 1: doing work, this is what this should look like. Tell
Speaker 1: us about why this reversal is important and why we
Speaker 1: should be celebrating. Well, I think Democrats are finally kind
Speaker 1: of hitting their stride here because it's really this trifecta
Speaker 1: of policies, victories, really Probiden in the Democrats that we're seeing.
Speaker 1: I've always believed, like in sports, winning the God's winning,
Speaker 1: you know, you just got to get the first one
Speaker 1: through and then everything becomes easier after that. The combination
Speaker 1: of you know, we've got some semblance of a gun
Speaker 1: reform bill passed, We've gotten now the chips built through
Speaker 1: the Senate, something that will help deal with inflation, and
Speaker 1: just American competitiveness in the economy. All the while Republicans
Speaker 1: have decided to make their stand voting against things like
Speaker 1: funding veterans and siding with China over this American Competitiveness bill.
Speaker 1: And that brings us now to really this new iteration
Speaker 1: of Build Back Better, which is also really a package
Speaker 1: that's designed to help people. It on inflation to help
Speaker 1: address the climate crisis. And all of a sudden, Democrats
Speaker 1: are just racking up victory after victory after victory, where
Speaker 1: Republicans are left looking around deciding to put themselves once
Speaker 1: again on the opposite side of public opinion. There's only
Speaker 1: so many times you can take extreme position and alienate
Speaker 1: yourself from voters, whether it's women, whether it's people of color,
Speaker 1: whether it's senior citizens, whether it's the veterans. Like, at
Speaker 1: some point, you're just going to run out of voters
Speaker 1: because I can tell you, Daniel, there just aren't enough
Speaker 1: members of the KKK to put Republicans in Congress. I
Speaker 1: ain't going to cut it. You need more votes than that.
Speaker 1: And they're really doing their best to put themselves in
Speaker 1: a situation where they're going to snatch defeat from the
Speaker 1: jaws of victory. You know, I want to go back
Speaker 1: to the Veterans Bill for a Second Right. Because the
Speaker 1: Republican Party has always fancied themselves the party of quote
Speaker 1: unquote law and order right, the party of police, the
Speaker 1: party of military. So here you have this bill that
Speaker 1: would you take care of those veterans that are out
Speaker 1: putting their lives, their mental health, their physical well being
Speaker 1: at risk for the democracy that this party, the Republican Party,
Speaker 1: is working overtime to try and overthrow. I mean, how
Speaker 1: do you think that Democrats use right the fact that
Speaker 1: you have this party that is voting again, it's our
Speaker 1: veterans and their ability to take care of themselves, to
Speaker 1: take care of their families, to get the aid that
Speaker 1: they need after putting their lives on the line. So
Speaker 1: how should the messaging work here about that? Because I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know why I was stunned. I feel like
Speaker 1: we went We've been in the sewer with Republicans, So
Speaker 1: I don't know why I was stunned by this, but
Speaker 1: I was actually taken aback. You know. I think that
Speaker 1: if I were in charge of the democratic messaging for
Speaker 1: every Democrat and every group in America, I would say
Speaker 1: you need to put together an ad that tossed together
Speaker 1: the leader of the Republican Party, Donald Trump, insulting John
Speaker 1: Mking for being captured and tortured. You need to put
Speaker 1: together a montage of Donald Trump referring to our service
Speaker 1: members as suckers and losers, and then you need to
Speaker 1: juxtapose that with this decision by the Republican Party in
Speaker 1: Congress to not support funding our veterans. The story tells itself.
Speaker 1: The Republican Party is not on the side of veterans
Speaker 1: any more than they're on the side of any other
Speaker 1: constituency in America that actually needs government helping, government service.
Speaker 1: They just aren't. You cannot be the pro military party
Speaker 1: and refuse to actually fund our veteran services. You know,
Speaker 1: Republicans have gotten away with this facade that they have
Speaker 1: this monopoly on patriotism and liberty and freedom ever since
Speaker 1: nine eleven. They've gotten away with this. When you see
Speaker 1: an American flag flank somewhere, you just now as sub up,
Speaker 1: that's a Maga voter. How we got to this point
Speaker 1: where they've been able to hijack what it means to
Speaker 1: be an American is just uttered nonsense to me. And
Speaker 1: this is an opportunity for Democrats to start taking that back.
Speaker 1: Why don't you think that that is top of mind
Speaker 1: for Democrats, like every time that we have major legislation
Speaker 1: that comes through where we get these folks on the
Speaker 1: record to know exactly what it is that they stand for.
Speaker 1: And they don't stand with the American people, They don't
Speaker 1: stand with democracy. They are standing with China, they are
Speaker 1: standing with Putin. What is it that stops Democrats from
Speaker 1: being able to air out the truth to the American people?
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, Kurt, we have but a handful
Speaker 1: of weeks right, a handful of weeks left until we
Speaker 1: have midterm elections, I know, which is hard to think
Speaker 1: about as the earth is on fire with their summertime temperatures,
Speaker 1: you know, skyrocketing. But it's in a handful of weeks.
Speaker 1: What stops them from being able to just tell the
Speaker 1: truth to use Republicans own votes and their own words
Speaker 1: against them. Yeah, it's almost a DNA thing, Daniel. There's
Speaker 1: this impulse that Democrats have that the right policies, doing
Speaker 1: the right thing should should win the day. And I
Speaker 1: wish we lived in that world. That would be nat
Speaker 1: I very much year in for the day where we
Speaker 1: live in that kind of a world. But we don't.
Speaker 1: And I think that's why, in part there's people like
Speaker 1: me now who have joined the Democratic Party to try
Speaker 1: to show them that. Listen, I'm not going to pretend
Speaker 1: like I have all the answers, like I'm infallible or
Speaker 1: the greatest strategist in the world. There are a billion
Speaker 1: people that are a lot smarter than I am. But
Speaker 1: I can tell you, having been a form of Republican,
Speaker 1: having worked in republic campaign to Republican politics, I know
Speaker 1: how these people think and how they fight, and we
Speaker 1: have got to start fighting fire with fire. And oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, unlike the Republicans, we don't have to lie,
Speaker 1: we don't have to make shit up. We just need
Speaker 1: to tell the truth and provide that context, that historical context.
Speaker 1: And I think that's missing so much from our politics
Speaker 1: and from the media, frankly, as the historical context of
Speaker 1: how Republicans have claimed to be one thing, but time
Speaker 1: and again, with their actions and their behavior and the rhetoric,
Speaker 1: have shown to be something else. You cannot claim to
Speaker 1: be pro military when on the other hand, the leader
Speaker 1: of your party thinks that they are much of suckers
Speaker 1: and losers. You know, when Joe Biden last week when
Speaker 1: he finally, you know, kind of went a little bit
Speaker 1: toe to toe with Donald Trump when talking about the insurrection,
Speaker 1: which he has tried to steer away from. But he said,
Speaker 1: you cannot be pro cop You cannot be pro military
Speaker 1: and support and insurrection, like you cannot be pro democracy
Speaker 1: right and not want to get to the bottom of
Speaker 1: how our country is being overthrown. And so I wonder here,
Speaker 1: you know, Kurt, should Joe Biden be doing more of that,
Speaker 1: of that rhetoric that he gave, or is it the
Speaker 1: responsibility of let's say, a Nancy Pelosi and a Chuck
Speaker 1: Schumer to anoint right those spokespeople in the way that
Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell have with their rabid right
Speaker 1: wing folks like a Marjorie Taylor Green who says, by
Speaker 1: the way, we can deal with climate change because we
Speaker 1: have air conditioners and refrigerators. She is an idiot like
Speaker 1: Matt Gates who decided to troll and body shame a
Speaker 1: teenage girl, which by the way, he should probably stop
Speaker 1: talking about teenage girls, being as how he traffics that.
Speaker 1: But but so I'm wondering, do you is it Biden
Speaker 1: that needs to be to have the microphone, or does
Speaker 1: Pelosi and Schumer need to pass that around to the
Speaker 1: folks that actually have the platform and the audience that
Speaker 1: it will get across to. You know, in politics, I've
Speaker 1: always told candidates politicians, you know, be true to who
Speaker 1: you are. Joe Biden's a lot of things. A knife
Speaker 1: fighter isn't exactly one of them. So I actually don't
Speaker 1: think that he should be the one leading that because
Speaker 1: that's just not who he is. That's not you can
Speaker 1: people can always tell when you're trying to be something
Speaker 1: you're not. Um, it's inherently uncomfortable and it therefore becomes
Speaker 1: off as less believable. You know. I think that Joe
Speaker 1: Biden ran as a guy who said that he would
Speaker 1: conduct himself with dignity, that he would return truth and
Speaker 1: morality to the office of the presidency. I think he
Speaker 1: has done that, by the way. Um. But I do
Speaker 1: think that when you when I think about bare knuckle
Speaker 1: brawlers and baltic on the Nancy Pelosi doesn't get she's
Speaker 1: as tough as they come, and that that is much
Speaker 1: more her brand. I think back to her tearing enough.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump stated a Union address. Um, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: she she is someone who does not show away from
Speaker 1: a fight, and so I think that it needs to
Speaker 1: come from from from her. And in some ways I
Speaker 1: think it's starting too. I think that again you're seeing
Speaker 1: a subtle shift in posture from Democrats. I think that
Speaker 1: they're finally kind of got their mojio back a little bit.
Speaker 1: It's it was a brutal summer, There's no doubt about that. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, everything that kind of could go wrong, things
Speaker 1: completely out of all of our control, did go wrong. Um.
Speaker 1: But now I think that we're starting to kind of
Speaker 1: find our straight I think Republicans, you know, they're the
Speaker 1: dog that caught the bus, Like, now what do you do?
Speaker 1: It's like you said you're going to do all these things,
Speaker 1: these horrible things, and guess what. You started to do them.
Speaker 1: And as it turns out, everybody hates you for it,
Speaker 1: and and and your answer for it is to continue
Speaker 1: alienating and offending people at an unthinkable level. Things that
Speaker 1: Matt Gates is doing, um, you know, is reprehensible, disgusting.
Speaker 1: You know, he's just a walking piece of shit. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, And and I think that we're seeing you know,
Speaker 1: when I look at people like Ruben and Gayego from Arizona,
Speaker 1: Eric Swallow from California. You know, people who are are
Speaker 1: not afraid to start taking the fight directly to these Republicans. Um.
Speaker 1: I think that's a direction that we need to start
Speaker 1: going in, and I think that it's a coming upon
Speaker 1: every single person who's in the Democratic Party. I don't
Speaker 1: care whether you're an office or not an office at
Speaker 1: this point, if you have a platform, if you have
Speaker 1: a microphone of any kind, start calling them out on
Speaker 1: their ship and just do it in the most straightforward
Speaker 1: and feel honest way possible. Because Republicans are showing us
Speaker 1: who they are every day. You know, one of the
Speaker 1: things that has been troubling me, Kurt, are all the
Speaker 1: polls right? Every day there's a new poll that comes out.
Speaker 1: A pole that says the Republicans will take back the
Speaker 1: House in the Senate, a poll that says that Biden's
Speaker 1: too old to be president, A pole, A pole, A pole.
Speaker 1: Seventy percent of the country supports abortion, seventy percent of
Speaker 1: the country supports LGBTQ rights in same sex marriage. Do
Speaker 1: a poles actually matter when we are living at a
Speaker 1: time of minority rule when Republicans are going state by
Speaker 1: state by state, local office by local office in order
Speaker 1: to roll back rights, like, what does polling at a
Speaker 1: time like this? What? What? What is the message? What
Speaker 1: is the from it? If in fact, majority rule is
Speaker 1: not actually how America is governed. Yeah, I've always said
Speaker 1: that there's only one poll that matters, and that's the
Speaker 1: one that's conducted on election day. The rest is just
Speaker 1: complete bullshit. It's just something to give the chatter or
Speaker 1: class of Washington something to talk about, right about pontificate
Speaker 1: about No one in America gives a crap. People respond
Speaker 1: to I think force, I think people respond to leadership.
Speaker 1: I think people respond to boldness. Polls are such an
Speaker 1: imperfect science, as we've seen time and time again, how
Speaker 1: on big scale they've gotten big things wrong. And I
Speaker 1: always I'm always critical of media who tends to hang
Speaker 1: their hat on polling because the amount of oxygen they
Speaker 1: give polls does not compare at all to the oxygen
Speaker 1: they give it when it's wrong, you know, and it's
Speaker 1: so misleading, and they're doing such a great disservice. You know,
Speaker 1: the reality is we live in a country now that
Speaker 1: Joe Biden can do everything right for everybody, and there's
Speaker 1: still half a country who just wouldn't like him when
Speaker 1: there are any snoprat like that's where we're at. Doesn't
Speaker 1: matter what he does, doesn't matter what he says. These
Speaker 1: people have just made a conscious decision to withdraw from
Speaker 1: reality and they're never going to be satisfied. So I
Speaker 1: don't really give a crap what his approval rating is.
Speaker 1: I don't really care what certain elements of this country
Speaker 1: when you take a poll, if you if you're including
Speaker 1: states like Alabama, in Oklahoma, in Arkansas, and your pole,
Speaker 1: that pole is completely illegitimate to be because it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter what those people think at this point, because there's
Speaker 1: nothing Joe Biden can do to satisfy them. The people
Speaker 1: that Alex Sarah Huckabey Sanders to be their governor, they're
Speaker 1: not going to also say, yeah, Joe Biden is doing
Speaker 1: a good job. It's an imperfect science and imperfect metric,
Speaker 1: and I think it's up that we need to get
Speaker 1: away from. Honestly, you know, because Republicans, to your point,
Speaker 1: they don't care. Right like, there there is no quote
Speaker 1: unquote common ground, There is no place to go to
Speaker 1: where you're going to meet in the middle right where
Speaker 1: just by virtue of being a Democrat, they some of
Speaker 1: them either want you dead, which they have actually said
Speaker 1: out loud, or they just want you dismissed and not
Speaker 1: have the ability to vote whatsoever. And so, you know, Kurt,
Speaker 1: as we're seeing this all play out, and there was
Speaker 1: a Washington Post article, I think it was late last
Speaker 1: week that was talking about the fact that more Republicans
Speaker 1: are talking about civil war, that more of them are
Speaker 1: just like just casually talking about the fact that they
Speaker 1: believe that in the next couple of years this is
Speaker 1: where this is going. And when they say couple of years,
Speaker 1: they're talking about the presidential they're talking about twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: which is not a couple of years. It's actually very close.
Speaker 1: What do you make of that? And the fact that
Speaker 1: Democrats again much in the same way that they dismissed
Speaker 1: the culture quote unquote conversations that got Yunn into the
Speaker 1: governorship in Virginia, what do you make of the of
Speaker 1: the non reaction right now about this looming threat. The
Speaker 1: normalization of violence within the Republican Party is one of
Speaker 1: the most underappreciated elements um that that that has put
Speaker 1: us kind of on this what feels almost like a
Speaker 1: death march towards um. You know, again, we saw on
Speaker 1: January sixth that it's not just words, it's not just tweets.
Speaker 1: It's not just oh, we're trolling you know the liberals
Speaker 1: on Twitter. It's real. And and these are people who
Speaker 1: did not hesitate or flinch to impose their will and
Speaker 1: their their their violence on law enforcement on members of Congress.
Speaker 1: They didn't care what party were that if they found
Speaker 1: you. You You weresprected by Josh Holly was running away and
Speaker 1: Hall and asshot the way because he knew that they
Speaker 1: were going to come for him, just like we're coming
Speaker 1: for everybody. That's where we're at right now. There's a
Speaker 1: part of it that almost says it's like, yeah, we
Speaker 1: all want reform and guns are bad and all that,
Speaker 1: but man, every Democrat there's let's go out there and
Speaker 1: buy every gun and every moment you possibly can, because
Speaker 1: the idea that the only people left that will have
Speaker 1: guns are these lunatics is down right scary to me.
Speaker 1: And if you're not gonna be able to get rid
Speaker 1: of them, then maybe we need to be the party
Speaker 1: that arms up to to defend ourselves. You know, we
Speaker 1: have a right to defend democracy, to defend these institutions. Um,
Speaker 1: the rebellion that we are seeing play out right now
Speaker 1: in slow motion is very real. It is very dangerous,
Speaker 1: and they're not trying to hide it. They're not masking
Speaker 1: their intentions, and you know, they're telling us what they
Speaker 1: want to do. That they want to live in a
Speaker 1: world where people like you and me are basically indentured servants,
Speaker 1: where women are there just to produce more men. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's the world that they're fighting for. And if
Speaker 1: we don't meet that with equal and more force, we're
Speaker 1: gonna lose. Like that. That's that's how this ends. At
Speaker 1: the end of the day. We have to have to
Speaker 1: say will to fight for what we believe in as
Speaker 1: that that matches there is and if we don't, the
Speaker 1: side that has the will always wins. Do you think
Speaker 1: it's inevitable? Cur Like, have we gotten to a place
Speaker 1: where where that kind that level of violence right is
Speaker 1: just going to be inevitable. We're seeing flashpoints, right and
Speaker 1: we see these flashpoints with mass shootings and then the
Speaker 1: ones that are politically motivated. We're listening to their manifestos
Speaker 1: that read like a segment of Tucker Carlson Show, right,
Speaker 1: like we we are seeing this and it's like I
Speaker 1: feel like every single one of them is a warning. Right,
Speaker 1: So is it inevitable if if if all were to
Speaker 1: go well, quote unquote, and we hold on to power
Speaker 1: in midterms and for the luck of the draw, Joe
Speaker 1: Biden holds onto the presidency in twenty twenty four, are
Speaker 1: we kicking this tinderbox down the road? I think that
Speaker 1: we're headed towards the edge of the cliff, and we
Speaker 1: have these very small windows to stop us from going over.
Speaker 1: And that is what twenty two twenty twenty four really
Speaker 1: are if I actually do I'll make a prediction here.
Speaker 1: If Democrats are managed to hold on to Congress in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, the Republican Party will dispense themselves with
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. He'll be done. He will be done. They
Speaker 1: will abandon him so quick they will try to pretend
Speaker 1: like he never existed. Here's the thing about the quantities.
Speaker 1: Whether it's Rhonda Santis, Mike Pence, Josh Holly, Ted Cruz, etc.
Speaker 1: None of them will ever be Donald Trump. They all
Speaker 1: were political figures that came up in the conventional and
Speaker 1: political sphere, and even though they might parrot him and
Speaker 1: pretend to be him and try to mimic him, they
Speaker 1: aren't him. Trump came from somewhere very different. Trump came
Speaker 1: from freaking ww even And I draw basically these guys
Speaker 1: all came from the halls of Congress and state legislators
Speaker 1: and just conventional traditional political boundaries. I think that if
Speaker 1: we hold on to power in twenty twenty two, that
Speaker 1: will be the ultimate repeviiation of trumpis um. It will
Speaker 1: be the third election in a row, by the way
Speaker 1: that they will have lost twenty eighteen, twenty twenty and
Speaker 1: then twenty twenty two, And I think that they will
Speaker 1: politically understand that they are going to have to withdraw
Speaker 1: from this a little bit if they're going to have
Speaker 1: any political future. That is it for me today, Dear friends,
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