WEBVTT - Rick Wilson, Kate Conger, Ryan Mac & Amanda Becker 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:04.600 Hi, I'm Molly John Fast and this is Fast Politics. Well, 0:00:04.640 --> 0:00:07.640 we discussed the top political headlines with some of today's 0:00:07.720 --> 0:00:09.000 best minds. 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:11.680 And Donald Trump has raged truth, the words that will 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:15.200 soon bring him much misery in his existence. I hate 0:00:15.240 --> 0:00:17.960 Taylor Swift. We have such a great show for you today, 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:20.320 Kick Konger and Ryan Max dot By to talk to 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:24.000 their new book character Women, how Elon Musk destroyed Twitter. 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:26.440 Then the nineteenth Samanda Becker will tell us about her 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:28.960 new book You Must Stand Up the Fight for Abortion 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:32.239 rights and post dobs America. But first we have the 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:36.080 host of the Enemy's List, the Lincoln Project's own Rick Wilson. 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:39.000 Welcome back to Fast Politics. 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:41.720 For Wilson, why do you sound so for Lauren Kamala 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:45.000 Harris kicked the ever loving shit out of Donald Trump 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:47.839 up and down that stage just three nights ago, like 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:50.480 he was a rented mule. I mean, listen, you should 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:53.159 be in a happy place right now. We got dogs 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:55.560 and cats living in sin together. Oh, are being eaten 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:56.160 one of the two? 0:00:56.240 --> 0:00:58.840 I don't know, no one's eating dogs. And then they 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:01.959 went to well, maybe not dogs, but geese. And then 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:05.520 they went to, well, maybe not geese, but there's this woman. 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:06.759 They just have nothing. 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:09.560 Yeah, they have one crazy person who's not a Haitian. 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:10.800 Who in a different town. 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:13.440 Yeah right, and a differency may have done something with 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:15.840 a cat. But I mean the whole thing is, I know, 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:19.720 you're shocked to hear this, a farrago of lies and horseshit. 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:25.360 Shocking, shocking, Yes, was shocked because those guys are known 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:31.039 for being legit, and there's some possibility that taking Laura 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:32.640 Lumer with you. 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:35.720 Listen, Laura Lumer. I like to think of her now 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:38.760 as the campaign's general consultant, which I really like. I 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:40.800 think it's going to make the campaign much more efficient. 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:43.560 If Donald Trump really has waited this long to bring 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:45.759 Laura Lumer into the family, it's been a mistake. I mean, 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:49.760 she is so brilliantly able to catch the mood of America, 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:53.400 the sweet spot of American politics. I mean, yesterday calling 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:55.880 out Lindsay Graham for being gay, being a nine to 0:01:55.920 --> 0:02:00.200 eleven truther, being a monstrous shit bag human being the 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:03.440 first order. I mean, there's nothing about Laura Lumer honestly 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:06.480 that doesn't make America say this is the right choice 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:08.960 for president, because he's going to surround himself with the 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:10.040 very best people. 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:12.639 Also, I would like to add that it was nine 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:15.480 to eleven this week and he went to the nine 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:17.560 to eleven services he went to. 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:21.000 I mean he was there, but was he really there? 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:23.520 And she was on the plane, so I don't know 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:24.560 that she went to the events. 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:26.480 No, she was on the plane for the debate. 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:29.520 Also, Yeah, she's been going around to a lot of 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:31.000 places with him. 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:33.720 Yes, and he's been not wearing his wedding ring. I'm 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:36.519 not saying that Alina Habba has anything to worry about, 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:43.480 but you know, tongues are wagging. You have me here 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:46.640 to perform just that kind of stunt. 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:53.600 Rick Wilson, let me ask you a question. I actually 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:56.160 am in a bad mood and worried more not in 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:59.160 a bad mood, but more worried about a little stay 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:02.519 called Pennsylvania. Yeah, so talk me off the ledge about Pennsylvania. 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:05.160 I will tell you Pennsylvania is the lynch pen of 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:08.120 the campaign. That's real talk. I'm not going to bass 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:11.160 you and tell you that Pennsylvania is not super super 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:14.919 super important. It is very important. Without Pennsylvania, the world 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:17.480 falls apart and we're all living as mutants in a 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:21.079 radioactive healthscape that makes Mad Max look like sound of music. 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:24.000 It is not great if we don't win Pennsylvania. But 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:25.520 I think we're gonna win Pennsylvania. 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:26.720 Okay, tell me why. 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:29.280 I do not believe that we are in the same 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:33.320 spot that they think we are. I think Pennsylvania, particularly 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:36.960 in Bucks County, has a big, big number of pro 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:40.080 choice Republican women and independent leaning conservative women who are 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:43.760 pro choice. And I know we're working very much there 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:45.240 at the moment. We're going to be in there with 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:48.920 a lot of resources. We're feeling like there's a degree 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:51.560 of economic uplift you're going to get when the rate 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:54.160 cut kicks in in a week or so, when the 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:56.680 Fed kicks the raids down. Pennsylvania's an area that's been 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:59.760 hard hit by housing, the explosive housing costs. It's going 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:02.160 to be close run thing. I feel much better about 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:04.560 Michigan and Wisconsin than I have in the past. I'm 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:08.000 optimistic about North Carolina. I'm optimistic about Georgia. Don't quote me, 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:10.440 but I'm even starting to feel much better about Nevada, 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:13.000 which I was not super happy about for a long time. 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:14.320 Yeah, tell us why. 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:17.240 I think it's starting to come into a position in Nevada. 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:19.680 So Pennsylvania's going to be tough. We got to win it. 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:22.280 And there's a lot of angry, pissed off white bros there. 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:23.960 That's a real talk, that's a real fact. 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:29.000 And she has been going to Pittsburgh, right, Explain to 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:30.039 us the thinking there. 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:32.680 She's been going to Pittsburgh, She's been going to Philadelphia. 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:36.039 She's been in the Tea that area between Pittsburgh and 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:39.320 Philadelphia a couple times. Now Walls is there. I think 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:42.880 he probably lives there now. He's everything but a permanent resident. 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:47.840 Now, well he should because he's the perfect person for there. Right, absolutely, 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:49.720 explain to us why he. 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:52.800 Scans as a regular suburban, middle class white guy. He 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:56.440 does not scan as a Democratic Party elite ready to 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:59.840 make you eat insect low for whatever the fuck fantasy 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:02.159 of them at the moment. And all of this is 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:04.599 going to come down, I think too. You know, do 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:08.240 we end up with meaningful African American turnout in the 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:12.720 Caller counties around Philadelphia and those Coller counties are Look, 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:16.320 Hillary Clinton must be very very blunt. Her campaign did 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:20.080 a terrible job activating African Americans in those Coller counties. 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:22.200 And that's why Trump won the state. He did not 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:24.640 win the state in twenty twenty. I gotta tell you, 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:28.239 does anybody believe that there are more Trump voters now 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:29.839 than there were in twenty twenty. 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:31.440 No? Are there? 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:34.920 No, there are not. They are a declining stock. They're 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:35.880 a dying breed. 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:40.680 Why Biden did better in Pennsylvania is because they knew 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:45.640 him in Pennsylvania, because Delaware shares a media market connects. 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:48.000 With Pennsylvania voters. And in fact, you've got in Walls 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:52.039 a guy who is a familiar flavor. He's biden Esque 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:54.880 in that regard. He is somebody they get. They know 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:57.679 who this guy is, they know the type of guy 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:01.080 he is, and he doesn't scare them. It's real hard, 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:04.520 it's real hard for the Trumpers to go. Tim Walls 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:09.159 is a communist socialist from liberal California. That Tim Wall's 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:11.719 plan to make it to seize the means of production. 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:13.839 I mean, come on, get the fuck out of here. 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:16.839 That guy does not scare people. And they hate it. 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:19.240 But he doesn't scare people. They really hate it. They're like, 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:22.320 they're frustrated as shit. They've been looking for, like any 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:25.440 opo punch to hit Tim Walls with. For weeks now, 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:27.719 and they can't make it happen. They can't make the sell. 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:31.679 Do you think that JD. Vance being in the state 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:33.120 actually hurts Trump? 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:36.359 Well, look, I tell you one thing. JD. Vance being 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:41.200 in Ohio, being from Ohio has hurt Trump in Ohio. 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:44.440 The number one lesson of every vice presidential candidate is 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:46.720 that your job is to go to weddings and funerals. 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:50.160 As a general rule, do no harm is the primary 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:52.799 mission of a vice presidential candidate. And he has done harm. 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:57.680 He has hurt Donald Trump in his home state of Ohio. 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:00.719 And for all that Trump is a guy who loves 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:03.280 people who suck up to him, what did we see 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:06.559 from Trump the other night with JD Vance? He sold 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:09.040 him down the river. I didn't talk to jd about that. 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:12.520 Who I think he's an intern, maybe a coffee boy. 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:14.600 He may have been on the campaign for five minutes, 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:16.680 but I've never spoke to him, met him, or know 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:18.240 anything about him. That is all. 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:23.040 Yeah, so very good. Alec Baldwin doing. 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:24.280 Trump Molly, That's all I can do. 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:26.080 You know, it's very impressive. 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:28.560 I'm a man with many, many severe limitations, and that's 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:30.200 one of them. Don't have a good Trump imitation. 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:33.600 But here's a question for you. So let's just game 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:38.360 this out. North Carolina early voting has been disturbed by 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:40.520 the worst person in the world, RFK Junior. 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:45.360 Discuss Look, the early voting has been problematic because we 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:48.360 have RFK fighting to get off the ballot and to 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:51.240 review the ballots right now. You also have today the 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:53.640 Trump folks and their allies. They are trying to bring 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:56.760 lawsuits to forbid college students and state workers and other 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:59.960 people from voting early. The whole thing is, of course, 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:03.520 exactly what you would have expected their usual fuckery. 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:05.000 Okay, does it work? 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:06.960 I don't think it works in the end. You know why. 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:10.080 It's September. There's plenty of time to have early voting 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:15.600 continue to successfully give us a real, meaningful lift for Harris. 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:18.560 I don't think there's anything that's gonna stop that, given that, 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:22.360 given that Trump has been such a bad candidate lately, 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:25.480 has had no good days. I mean, Trump does not 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:28.680 have good days anymore, real talk. I mean this in 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:31.600 a serious way, not a dark way. Trump's best day 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:34.080 was the day he got shot. That was the last 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:37.400 moment that his campaign felt like there was something there 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:42.800 beyond just the angry, shitty conspiracy theory, crazy talk bullshit. 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:45.120 Well it felt new, yeah, right, Well. 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:47.479 It didn't feel it wasn't new, but it felt purposeful 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:50.680 at least, right. Yeah, But right now, all it feels 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:54.280 like is complaint to palooza and lies and weird shit, 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:57.440 because right now it is just weird shit, and weird 0:08:57.480 --> 0:08:59.480 shit doesn't sell after a certain point. 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:02.960 Yeah, so you feel like North Carolina, that's not going 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:04.319 to be a huge disturbance. 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:06.880 No, I look, I would I like it to be 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:10.559 slightly less full of fuckery? Yes, of course, is it 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:14.840 disqualifying levels of fuckery? Not really? I think again. Trump 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:17.920 has a problem that he cannot solve with women voters. 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:20.120 He did not solve it the other night in the 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:23.560 debate when he tried to bs his way past and 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:27.400 gave probably the most damaging single answer about abortion I 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:28.240 could have conceived. 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:30.120 Yeah, let's talk about that answer. 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:34.560 It was so broken brained. I'm still marveling, because look, 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:37.160 what do we know about Trump? He wants to brag. 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:40.720 He wants to say, oh, I killed Rivy Wade. I 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:43.600 put them on the court. Their active bravery on the 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:46.560 court shows how great I am. Sorry, I'm doing it again, 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:50.960 you have to just sorry going on with then he 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:55.880 knows he Trump's feral animal cunning and his awareness. He 0:09:56.000 --> 0:10:00.440 knows just how bad, just how shit the the National 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:03.080 Band stuff is. He knows just how bad and how 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:06.120 dangerous all the things the Republicans have done in the 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:10.480 States has become to him. He recognizes that he's stupid, 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:13.320 but he's not that stupid, if that makes sense. He 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:16.120 is not in a good place, okay, he is in 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:19.720 a bad, bad place. That bad place is getting worse 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:22.760 by the day, and he understands it. He really does know. 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:25.240 He knows how bad it is. But he couldn't get 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:27.920 out of his own way with that answer. He couldn't 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.959 not do the I'm the greatest thing since prepared mustard, 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:34.920 I'm the God king answer. And so you know, here 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:39.160 we are with Trump pissing off the evangelicals on the 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:41.480 one hand and pissing off the rest of America on 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:43.920 the other. It was a bad play. It was a 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:46.880 terrible play. So that those people are going to make 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:48.720 a big difference in Pennsylvania in particular. 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:51.720 The thing that gets me incensed about Trump and Trump 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:55.040 is and the way that people talk about Trump, including 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:57.440 in the media, industrial complex of which we are members. 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:00.760 Is that they always say, like, he just needs to 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:04.439 get disciplined. Well, he just has to stick to script. 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:07.200 Has no one been here for the last decade? 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:10.160 Right, Welcome to the Year of Our Lord twenty twenty four. 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:14.360 We are nine years and five months into this fucking bullshit. 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:18.120 Have you not noticed that Donald Trump has the personal 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:23.040 discipline of an incontinent drunkard. Donald Trump cannot focus on 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:27.960 anything for longer than it gives him an erection, a 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:30.880 belief he's going to make money off of this, or 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:34.280 some sort of cruelty. Nothing. In Trump's world. He is 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:38.360 the ultimate add candidate. He has no ability to focus. 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:40.880 There is no better Trump. There is no better iteration 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:43.319 of Trump. There is no Donald Trump where where he 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:45.240 wakes up in the morning and says, why yes, I 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:47.839 believe I should sit down with my policy advisors and 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:51.280 develop a coherent rationale for this argument. Instead, it's like 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:55.319 Laura Lumer tell me they're eating the cats, they're eating 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:58.120 the dogs, and Stephen Miller, I think he has some 0:11:58.160 --> 0:11:59.760 blood in his mouth. He may have eaten the dog, 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:04.600 but I believe him. And it's all fucking crazy town. 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:08.439 He will never be better no Republican who is empowered 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:10.880 and enabled and kissed his ass for as long as 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:14.680 they have has any excuse at all whatsoever. There is 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:17.640 no excuse there. It is over, it is done. He 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:20.560 has poisoned them in a way that they don't even 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:24.160 understand how deep the rot runs in their own brains 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:27.120 and their own party, because they're still rationalizing it. They're 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:29.319 still trying to say, like, well, one of the people 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:31.800 in the Reuters focus group was undecided and said that 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:34.880 Harris didn't have enough granularity on her policy. Trump's policy 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:36.880 was to stand up there and talk about eating dogs 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:42.440 and executing the Central Park five. The madness levels here 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:45.000 are off the charts. 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:48.360 And I would say the false equivalency here is pretty amazing, 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:53.679 like continually always expected to be normal, and Republicans are 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:55.240 allowed to be insane, not. 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:57.960 Just allowed to be insane mally. Let's remember the mainstream 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:02.920 media has consistently said things like Trump's energetic and transgressive performance, 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:05.959 this appeal to middle class voters. You know what, There 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:08.160 are some voters that they have appeals to, But there 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:09.480 are some people that like to go to the zoo 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:12.880 and watch monkeys throw shit at them. 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:15.040 So one of the things that got me upset was 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:18.680 there was a Republican senator I've never heard of, which 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:22.040 in itself has not nothing. He's in I think North 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:24.719 Dakota maybe, and he was saying that he wasn't sure 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:26.320 they were going to certify the election. 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:30.360 That's Mark Wayne Mullen. That's all one name, Mark Wayne. 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:30.840 Yeah. 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:34.360 Who the fuck is that Mark Wayne Mullen. Okay, first off, 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:40.840 let's be very clear. Mark is a staggering, epic, world 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:45.480 class dipshit the worst Mago cuckoo pants people are like, yo, 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:48.560 Mark Wayne dial batshit back man, that's too much, brother. 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:51.320 He is one of the worst human beings in that body. 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:53.280 Has he been there a long time? I never even 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:54.160 heard of him. 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:56.160 No, he's only been there like four years now. 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:56.920 Okay. 0:13:57.360 --> 0:13:59.760 He is a guy you can count on Mark Wayne 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:02.360 to be the shittiest human being on earth. He's a 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:05.600 guy who ran and cowered under a bench on one 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:09.440 to six, but now is like the heroes of January sixth, 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:13.480 must fight against the deep state imprisoning our beloved allies. 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:17.720 Fuck this guy. He is a epic, epic piece of shit. 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:20.720 There is a real possibility these people will vote to 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:24.120 not certify the election. There's a very real possibility that 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:26.160 that's what's going to happen. I think I think it's 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:29.160 like a seventy percent possibility. You're going to have people 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:31.720 in the Senate who do not certify the election. We're 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:35.720 going to have a constitutional crisis because Donny dipshit will 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:38.680 not say to his people, I lost. Okay, you're right, 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:41.040 you got me. I lost, and we're going to end 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:45.040 up with an absolute horror show going into next year 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:48.280 is going to be terrible. And everybody right now who 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:54.440 thinks somehow that Donald Trump will be dignified, correct proper, 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:57.440 that he will say, why, yes, you're right. For the 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:00.040 good of the country, I must declare that I I 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:02.440 have lost this election and accept my defeat. On the 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:04.560 field of battle. She could beat him by four hundred 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:06.440 Electoral College votes, and that fucker is going to go 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:09.680 out and go It was stolen. Stalin stolen. One of 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:12.600 those things I like the dictator and the pastry. Also, 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:13.720 the election was stalin. 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:16.840 Are we worried that this will kip to the Supreme 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:20.080 Court and that they'll overturn the election results. 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:22.640 Yes, we should be. That is why the defeat has 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:25.720 to be in such a scope it does have to 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:30.280 be like Obama McCain, not like Biden Trump. She has 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:33.240 to beat Trump in a scope well beyond how Biden 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:35.760 beat him. I hate saying that because it's hard. 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:37.320 Do you think that can happen? 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:39.880 No, wait, it's going to be very difficult to get there. 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:42.800 I wanted to. I'm working every day to make it happen. 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:46.640 But we should not mistake that this is a very 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:50.560 precarious moment in our history where you have a party 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:54.840 and a president who will do anything to win. They 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:56.960 will lie, cheat, and steel. We have to fight them 0:15:57.000 --> 0:15:59.760 every step of the way. Harris is running a great campaign, 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:03.120 running the best campaign that we've seen in our lifetimes. 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:06.200 That doesn't mean that Trump will not try to steal it. 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:08.640 He will try to steal it. There is no chance 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:12.080 on earth that Donald Trump. Just like people say, oh well, 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:14.840 Donald Trump needs to be mature, someone says Donald Trump 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:17.680 needs to be a person who respects the constitution of 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:20.520 the rule of law. Will good luck with that? Have 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:21.440 fun storm in that. 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:25.120 Castle, Rick Wilson, Now I'm stressed out again. 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:27.600 Well, Molly, all we can do is just keep kicking 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:31.160 his ass. 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:35.440 We have even more tour dates for you. 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Ryan Mack and Kate Kunger are the authors 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:41.679 of Character Limit, How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter. 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:47.720 Welcome to Fast Politics Cade. Thank you and Ryan. 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:49.400 Hey, Molly, So you. 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:52.320 Guys did a book together. First of all, just give 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:54.359 us everything about this book. 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:56.280 Well you said earlier twenty minutes right. 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:02.000 So the book is Character Limit, How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter, 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:06.960 and we take you through the saga that has been 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:09.959 Twitter over the last several years, starting with sort of 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:13.160 the twilight era of the company, the end of Jack 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:17.200 Dorsey's tenure as CEO and Perogue Algarol's brief period as 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:20.199 a CEO, and then Elon Musk of course swoops in, 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:22.399 makes it offer to buy it, says he doesn't want 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:24.639 to buy it anymore, says he wants to buy it again, 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:28.199 and then we finished the story with the aftermath of 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:31.240 Elon's takeover in the way that he changed and transformed 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:31.719 the company. 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:34.560 Yes, so this feels like the kind of book where 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:37.000 you get going on it and you're shocked at how 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:40.399 much worse it really is then you even thought is 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:41.440 it discussed? 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:45.199 So the genesis of this book was we're reporters at 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:48.600 the New York Times. Kate is the b reporter for 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:53.119 Twitter now x I cover accountability and cover you know, 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:56.840 billionaires and figures in Silicon Valley, and we reported on 0:18:56.840 --> 0:19:00.600 this deal from its start to the takeover, and yeah, 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:03.159 we were getting so much reporting that we simply couldn't 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:06.440 put it into every single one of our stories. 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:06.959 Like we just couldn't. 0:19:07.240 --> 0:19:10.440 We couldn't do a justice, you know, right, And there 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:14.240 were things we'd love to expand upon from you know, 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:17.120 elon try to pull out of the deal, for example, 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:19.800 or even after the deal, the types of cuts he made, 0:19:19.840 --> 0:19:23.160 things like not having toilet paper in the bathrooms because 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:26.320 he cut the janitorial service, Like just details like that 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:29.520 that we're just so confounding to us and so bizarre 0:19:29.800 --> 0:19:32.720 and so unprecedented in a takeover like this where one 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:35.800 man could you know, essentially buy a company for forty 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:38.280 four billion dollars, you know, at the sap of his fingers. 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:41.320 Did you think it would happen? And were you shocked? 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:44.200 It's sort of the process that it took, you know. 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:47.600 This is so funny because I think if you had 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:50.040 asked me on any given day during that summer of 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:52.159 twenty twenty two whether or not the deal was going 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:54.760 to close, I would have given a different answer. And 0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:58.680 even up to the moment that everyone's seen online where 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:01.480 Elon walked into the Twitter building with a sink and 0:20:01.840 --> 0:20:04.399