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Speaker 4: from the Great Insurance state of Connecticut, will be later
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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen. I'm gonna tell you something.
Speaker 4: It is Trump's world and we're just cowering in it.
Speaker 4: Over just the past few days, Donald Trump deported hundreds
Speaker 4: of men is way on sal Salvador despite a judge's order,
Speaker 4: extraordinarily renditioned a pro Palestinian Columbia student with a green card,
Speaker 4: declared that CNN and MSNBC should be illegal. By the way,
Speaker 4: I'm not against everything he does now, but perhaps most impressively.
Speaker 5: Yesterday, the President played in a golf tournament at Trump
Speaker 5: International Golf Club in Palm Beach County. He later took
Speaker 5: to social media to announce his championship win, calling the
Speaker 5: victory a quote a great honor.
Speaker 1: Oh he won.
Speaker 4: The tournament at Trump International?
Speaker 1: How did that happen? This dude's whole life.
Speaker 4: He's like to make a wish batman kid.
Speaker 1: Hey, look at that, Donald, you caught all the criminals. Look.
Speaker 4: I'm opposed to anyone rolling back American democracy, but I
Speaker 4: do tip the cap to any seventy eight year old
Speaker 4: winning a golf tournament and, by the way, still having
Speaker 4: enough energy left to stroll into the command center in
Speaker 4: his golf attire to bomb the shit out of Yemen.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Now, look, anyone can bomb the shit out of Yemen
Speaker 4: after nine holes, but eighteen.
Speaker 1: By the way, when.
Speaker 4: He did that shift at mc donald's, did they just
Speaker 4: let him keep the headset?
Speaker 1: Is that all right?
Speaker 4: Well, they're bombing the shit out of Yemen. He's like,
Speaker 4: hold on, I got fries at the drive through window.
Speaker 1: Hold on, by the way.
Speaker 4: By bombing Yemen, Donald Trump continued a presidential tradition dating
Speaker 4: back decades. It may have been what the Wright brothers
Speaker 4: invented the plane for. How much better do we have
Speaker 4: to make this for it to be able to reach
Speaker 4: and bomb the shit out of Yemen? But fear not,
Speaker 4: because Democrats, put on the back foot finally have an
Speaker 4: opportunity to stand up and show their dispirited party they
Speaker 4: still have the principle and the backbone to face down
Speaker 4: this want to be tyrant. Republicans need at least eight
Speaker 4: Senate Democrats to reach the sixty required votes or the
Speaker 4: government's going to shut down at midnight tomorrow night. Oh
Speaker 4: it is on, like, don't get gone. It turns out
Speaker 4: the byzantine Senate rules have presented a golden opportunity to
Speaker 4: the minority party because the budget the Republicans are proposing,
Speaker 4: he's a non starter.
Speaker 5: This is a terrible cr a bill that is designed
Speaker 5: to hurt the American people.
Speaker 6: It would cut by nearly fifty percent funding for medical research, to.
Speaker 7: Take away a nursing home care from millions of our seniors.
Speaker 6: There's more than a billion dollars of cuts to veteran benefits.
Speaker 3: I'm voting no.
Speaker 1: I will be a hard no vote. No.
Speaker 6: Hell no, I am even more hell no?
Speaker 1: Can you be more hell no? That like no? H
Speaker 1: double a hotey set.
Speaker 4: By the way, right, who's this dude fooling? You know
Speaker 4: that salty language?
Speaker 1: Isn't you?
Speaker 8: Merkley dollar in the swear jar.
Speaker 4: It's EHG double hockey sticks from now on. But this
Speaker 4: abomination of a budget shall not pass because Senator Schumer,
Speaker 4: please remind the people what is necessary.
Speaker 9: Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate.
Speaker 4: You don't have the votes, unique Congression provo because you
Speaker 4: don't have the votes because the Philip Buster requirers for.
Speaker 1: I only saw the play once.
Speaker 4: You see, Republicans, your little evil budget plan might have
Speaker 4: worked if you hadn't forgotten that one. Senator Schumer is
Speaker 4: Charles and George of the Democratic Party. I'm afraid your
Speaker 4: diabolical scheme.
Speaker 1: Has been foiled.
Speaker 7: Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer set off a firestorm heading
Speaker 7: into this weekend when he changed course and announced he
Speaker 7: would vote to move forward on a Republican backed funding bill.
Speaker 1: Turns out you had the vote. Republicans had the votes.
Speaker 1: What the f happened?
Speaker 9: I will vote to keep the government open. I believe
Speaker 9: it is my job to make the best choice for
Speaker 9: the country, to minimize the harms to the American people.
Speaker 1: But but you had but you had to say it
Speaker 1: were terrible and oh oh wait a minute, ah shit,
Speaker 1: I know what's going on? Had all right? I know
Speaker 1: what's going on. Huh. You had me going, Chuckie, you
Speaker 1: probably got a little some out of this, didn't you,
Speaker 1: Oh se shoe.
Speaker 4: You wouldn't have given up that powerful level bridge on
Speaker 4: the budget for nothing.
Speaker 1: My guess is Chucky got some cheese.
Speaker 6: Did Schumer get anything from Republicans in exchange for those
Speaker 6: dumb votes?
Speaker 1: He did not.
Speaker 4: Senator Schumer, no disrespect, but you are a disgrace to
Speaker 4: Jewish stereotypes about financial negotiations.
Speaker 1: That's just about the whole point of us.
Speaker 3: Is that what we do.
Speaker 1: But you're out there, how much is it five dollars?
Speaker 1: How about I give you seven? Like? Why what are
Speaker 1: you doing?
Speaker 4: And for those of you who may have felt like
Speaker 4: this was a total capitulation, Senator Schumer just felt like
Speaker 4: this wasn't the moment for Democrats to press their case
Speaker 4: because Trump is still took.
Speaker 9: Strong when he went below forty percent in the polls,
Speaker 9: the Republican legislators started working with us. He was at
Speaker 9: fifty one, he's now at forty eight. We're going to
Speaker 9: keep at it, keep at it, keep at it until
Speaker 9: he goes below forty. When it happens, I am hopeful
Speaker 9: that a Republican colleagues will resume working with us.
Speaker 4: You're going to keep out it, keep at it, keep
Speaker 4: out it, keep at it.
Speaker 3: At what.
Speaker 4: This was it? This was the it that you would
Speaker 4: have been keeping at the keeping of the it.
Speaker 1: It's not the keeping of the it that's the issue.
Speaker 1: It's what the it? Don't you have to start it
Speaker 1: to keep at it?
Speaker 8: If this wasn't it, then it's what is it? If
Speaker 8: this not be it?
Speaker 4: But apparently the grand plan is Dems keep fecklessly complaining
Speaker 4: until the forty eight approval comes down to forty which
Speaker 4: is a plan, but it's forgetting one crucial piece of
Speaker 4: information in Schumer's popularity calculation.
Speaker 10: The stating cascading poll numbers for Democrats, only twenty seven
Speaker 10: percent of voters have a positive view of the party,
Speaker 10: the lowest favorability rating in the history of NBC's polling.
Speaker 1: You're a twenty seven person.
Speaker 4: You've got to get Trump to lose eight points of
Speaker 4: popularity just for you to get to the point where
Speaker 4: you're thirteen points below him. Your approval is only seven
Speaker 4: points above where it turns red and goes into low
Speaker 4: power mode. Maybe you're not a numbers learner. Maybe a
Speaker 4: visual demonstration for you. Here, let me meet you where
Speaker 4: you live?
Speaker 1: All right, here we go. This is let me do this.
Speaker 4: This is forty eight percent approval, This is them, This
Speaker 4: is you you twenty seven percent, this is them.
Speaker 1: Oh, I see that much higher? Yes, the much higher.
Speaker 1: And if you keep this up, you'll be wearing these
Speaker 1: on your dick. Do you understand? Perhaps I'm being too
Speaker 1: hard on the center. Also I am not.
Speaker 4: Perhaps he has insider knowledge of a quiet, smoldering Republican
Speaker 4: amenability to compromise. Perhaps underneath that hardshell of Republican in
Speaker 4: transigence is a soft nugdi center of responsible legislative leadership
Speaker 4: waiting to be freed. Boggains driven in the hollow yet
Speaker 4: marbled halls.
Speaker 1: Of power, or maybe someplace must hear. I talked to them.
Speaker 9: One of the places I told them to go in
Speaker 9: the gym. You know, when you're on that bike and
Speaker 9: shorts panting away next to a Republican, why do the
Speaker 9: inhibitions come off?
Speaker 1: That's your client.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna dangle my balls out of my shorts, and
Speaker 4: they do at the gym. Oh, you know, they're gonna
Speaker 4: lose all their inhibitions on the equipment.
Speaker 1: You know, actually, Chuck, I would like to work with
Speaker 1: you on Medicaid reform.
Speaker 4: And also I never told anybody this, but I once
Speaker 4: jerked a guy off in a park.
Speaker 11: Oh this elliptical. I just lose my inhibitions, And.
Speaker 4: You know, I would probably be just a skoch more
Speaker 4: receptive to Schumer's theory of gym based negotiation strategies if
Speaker 4: it had worked the last time.
Speaker 9: We talk to our Republican colleagues all the time, I
Speaker 9: talk to them all in the gym. When you're a
Speaker 9: sixty year old on a bike, panting in your shorts,
Speaker 9: the inhibitions sort of fall away.
Speaker 4: You know, I'm not here to posture shame, but for
Speaker 4: a guy who seems to be spending most of his
Speaker 4: life in the gym, a little less talk, you talk
Speaker 4: a little more core. Second of all, in the gym,
Speaker 4: they're only being agreeable with you.
Speaker 1: Christ They want you to leave them.
Speaker 4: Alone in the gym on the stationary bike.
Speaker 1: Oh sure, Chuck, I'm definitely going to do that.
Speaker 4: But I have to tell you something. Peddling really hard
Speaker 4: and not going anywhere. It's a great metaphor for the
Speaker 4: Democratic Party right now. Also ball flat, but for some reason,
Speaker 4: there is a persistent fiction within the Democratic Party that
Speaker 4: if they just hang out with Republicans in the gym,
Speaker 4: or wait out Trump's popularity, or give them concessions on
Speaker 4: a continuing resolution they said would harm the country, that
Speaker 4: Republicans will finally see the light. Democrats will be rewarded
Speaker 4: with productive bipartisanship, or as they put it, this.
Speaker 3: Fever will break.
Speaker 4: All this excitement about dnthpe It's going to break.
Speaker 1: So it is like a cult.
Speaker 3: The fever will break.
Speaker 1: Is this the night the fever will break? The chance
Speaker 1: to break the fever? I believe at some point soon
Speaker 1: the fever will break.
Speaker 6: I think you're going to see the fever break.
Speaker 12: President Obama saying, quote now, I believe when we're successful
Speaker 12: in this election, that the fever may break.
Speaker 1: If someone's been running a fever.
Speaker 4: Since the aughts, that's not a fever, that is their
Speaker 4: default resting temperature. This fiction that you are inventing, this
Speaker 4: idea that somehow, oh, they'll come to their senses, it
Speaker 4: allows Democrats to keep thinking that Republicans are actually the
Speaker 4: ones in the precarious position. They've got a very narrow
Speaker 4: margin in the House, a bigger margin in the Senate,
Speaker 4: and their goals are internally conflicting.
Speaker 1: They don't have the numbers. Republicans need Democratic votes.
Speaker 9: It's going to be clear they can't pass anything without
Speaker 9: Democratic help.
Speaker 4: Congress won't be able to keep the lights on, let
Speaker 4: alone pass anything of substance without the buy in and
Speaker 4: blessing of House Democrats and a King Jeffreys. It's a
Speaker 4: great message, except Republicans have gotten everything through every crazy appointment.
Speaker 4: The guy who wrote the children's book on Russia Gate,
Speaker 4: runs the FBI, Tulsa Gabbard, RFK, Weekend Fox and Friends guy.
Speaker 1: They all sail through.
Speaker 3: Literally.
Speaker 4: The only one that has failed so far is picking
Speaker 4: a chucky doll that runs on cocaine and biagra for
Speaker 4: Attorney General. And that's just because the Republicans personally hated him,
Speaker 4: probably for something he did at the gym. Look you,
Speaker 4: you don't understand. These Republicans are committed to a plan
Speaker 4: born of ideological fifty to sixty year project to remake
Speaker 4: the United States, and classifying it as a fever excuses
Speaker 4: you from having to propose an alternative, coherent vision and
Speaker 4: allows you to pretend that this is just an issue
Speaker 4: of messaging and not merit boy or DEM's busy fixing
Speaker 4: the messaging. Ambitious Democrats have a new game plan. They're
Speaker 4: gonna yack it up about sports and go on more
Speaker 4: podcasts or whatever the hell this is.
Speaker 12: Hi, I'm Congressman Sarah Jacobs. Get ready with me while
Speaker 12: I explain to you how House Republicans are trying to
Speaker 12: give away your healthcare to give tax breaks to big corporations.
Speaker 12: Last week, Republicans introduced their budget resolution.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I'm having difficulty focusing on what you're saying
Speaker 4: because I'm terrified that you're a hard yellow light away
Speaker 4: from getting ready with Dan Crenshaw. Obviously, that is not
Speaker 4: meant in any way to diminish Congressman Crenshaw's service and
Speaker 4: how he was wounded in Afghanistan. Making a get Ready
Speaker 4: with Me video?
Speaker 1: Is that tonight?
Speaker 3: Huh?
Speaker 1: Comedy is legal again? Right?
Speaker 4: Perhaps nothing is as emblematic of this mismatch between the
Speaker 4: parties than the Democrats' latest viral offering. Now, I understand
Speaker 4: Democrats would want to showcase that some of their members
Speaker 4: have not had hip replacement surgery yet, and I hope
Speaker 4: you understand whatever that last photo was, But I'm fighting
Speaker 4: you while taking a ship way ahead, just understanding this,
Speaker 4: whatever this is, is no match for the game Republicans
Speaker 4: are playing.
Speaker 1: When we come back.
Speaker 4: Senator Chris Murphy, don't go away.
Speaker 2: What about in the Daily Show?
Speaker 4: And I got tonight a current term US senator from Connecticut,
Speaker 4: please welcome the program.
Speaker 1: Democratic Senator Chris Murphy, sir?
Speaker 3: What uh?
Speaker 6: What do you? What do you really think about the
Speaker 6: Democratic Party? I didn't Uh, I didn't pick that up.
Speaker 3: What is happening?
Speaker 1: So just in this.
Speaker 4: C R for the budget, Yeah, there was great resolve
Speaker 4: and unity about what a disaster this.
Speaker 1: Was for the American people.
Speaker 4: Chuck Schumer, they need us. If they don't have us,
Speaker 4: they don't get to pass it. And then he just
Speaker 4: flips and I don't want to just blame it on him.
Speaker 4: There was clearly a decision was made within the Senate.
Speaker 4: Was there a meeting at Was there a lunch where
Speaker 4: all the senators in the Democratic Caucus?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: Had I'm going to assume mostly mushy food.
Speaker 6: There is there is, there is, There is jello serve
Speaker 6: that every single one of our lunches.
Speaker 1: I've been to the Senate.
Speaker 4: There is a chewing and digestion issue. Was there a
Speaker 4: discussion as to whether or not you would invoke the
Speaker 4: filibuster not give them cloture, And how did that discussion go.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there was a discussion and there was a disagreement.
Speaker 6: I don't listen. I don't agree with the decision a
Speaker 6: handful of my colleagues made. And this all to me
Speaker 6: sits in context, right. I mean, as you have described,
Speaker 6: what is happening right now is the billionaire takeover of
Speaker 6: our government, the highest level of corruption that we have
Speaker 6: ever seen coming out of the White House, and by
Speaker 6: the way, added to it, the destruction of our democracy
Speaker 6: because they know that they can't get away with it
Speaker 6: if we can hold them accountable. And so this moment
Speaker 6: requires us to break norms. This moment requires us to
Speaker 6: take risks. And I get it. A lot of my
Speaker 6: colleagues said, shutting down the government, being in a government shutdown,
Speaker 6: that's a risk that hands power to Donald Trump and
Speaker 6: Elon Musk. But how on earth are we going to
Speaker 6: ask the American people to take risks for us right
Speaker 6: when there's a five alarm constitutional fire and we need
Speaker 6: them to be out on the streets, not with hundreds,
Speaker 6: not with thousands or tens of thousands of people, but
Speaker 6: with hundreds of thousands of people, if we're not willing
Speaker 6: to show courage and take risks ourself, well, you.
Speaker 4: Know the idea, and I've heard a lot of it,
Speaker 4: and they're kind of I think you bring up a
Speaker 4: lot of it. We can simply, but I hear a
Speaker 4: lot of the American people have to get involved. And
Speaker 4: it does feel a little bit like, well, we've gone
Speaker 4: to a Knicks game and they're getting their asses kicked
Speaker 4: and in a timeout they.
Speaker 1: Turn to the crowd and go like, you're in right now?
Speaker 1: Isn't the whole point?
Speaker 4: And I hear a lot of like it's a billionaire
Speaker 4: takeover and it's a threat to democracy. What I don't
Speaker 4: hear a lot of is what are the three things
Speaker 4: that in that CR if Chuck Schumer had any leverage,
Speaker 4: what are the three things he would have asked for?
Speaker 4: Other than what would he have asked for? Because I
Speaker 4: follow it pretty closely and I don't.
Speaker 6: No, Yeah, listen, So that CR transferred a bunch of
Speaker 6: money out of programs that help regular people. Right there
Speaker 6: was money cut from housing programs and job training programs.
Speaker 6: That's bad for this country. It gave the president new
Speaker 6: authorities they didn't have before.
Speaker 1: The authorities.
Speaker 6: So, for instance, one of them is that the president
Speaker 6: under the cr can start new military programs in the
Speaker 6: country that have not been authorized independently by Congress.
Speaker 1: And of course but before we own Congress just authorized that,
Speaker 1: so it is authorized.
Speaker 6: Well, we don't normally give that kind of open ended
Speaker 6: authorization to the president, certainly not at a time when
Speaker 6: the president is regularly hourly abusing his statutory and constitutional authority.
Speaker 6: It seems like a pretty bad time to give him
Speaker 6: additional So.
Speaker 4: Chuck Schumer could have said, I am going to fill
Speaker 4: a buster this unless you keep the power of the
Speaker 4: military purse with us.
Speaker 6: So this is the first time since I've been in
Speaker 6: Congress that we have not had a bipartisan full year
Speaker 6: spending bill. Right there was negotiated with Republicans and Democrats,
Speaker 6: and that's what we want. We wanted to have a
Speaker 6: seat at the table. Listen, this was not going to
Speaker 6: be a perfect bill.
Speaker 1: It was. It's the saddest thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 6: No, but you want it. But you don't want a
Speaker 6: full year spending bill passed without having some of your
Speaker 6: priorities in that bill. And that's not what ended up
Speaker 6: happening here. And I get it, the specter of the
Speaker 6: shutdown White was real. You never know who's going to
Speaker 6: win a fight over a shutdown. But this seems to
Speaker 6: be a moment where our parties should be taking some risks.
Speaker 1: It didn't seem like they even tried.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, John, I mean, and again, I don't think
Speaker 6: you can ask the people of this country to do
Speaker 6: these exceptional things that are going to be necessary to
Speaker 6: save our democracy if we aren't willing to take risks.
Speaker 6: And it's not just what happened over the cr right.
Speaker 6: I mean, we have the opportunity to just say no
Speaker 6: to all legislation that's coming before the Senate unless it
Speaker 6: fixes the constitutional crisis. We didn't all have to show
Speaker 6: up to the State of the Union speech. We could
Speaker 6: have decided to do something extraordinary. I thought, like Boycotta in.
Speaker 1: Masks, I thought the paddles.
Speaker 4: I thought, anytime you can take a page out of
Speaker 4: the Valentine Heart candy playbook, little messages like is.
Speaker 1: It Maybe this is begging the question.
Speaker 4: Maybe we need to step back and say, is the
Speaker 4: problem here not that the Democrats don't have a plan
Speaker 4: to fight it. It's that they actually don't have a
Speaker 4: plan that they don't have a foundation of how they
Speaker 4: would look. This election was about the American people repudiating
Speaker 4: that government was serving their needs right. The Republicans have
Speaker 4: been working on this little project twenty twenty five for
Speaker 4: sixty years, and the Democrats feel like they were just
Speaker 4: caught off guard. So what is what is the foundational
Speaker 4: governing philosophy of the Democrats that addresses people's discomfort with
Speaker 4: the way that their government has been operating.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, listen, Ultimately, we need to be a
Speaker 6: party that stands for everybody in this country having access
Speaker 6: to happiness and success, not just the billionaires. We need
Speaker 6: to be a party that but the tax corporate power
Speaker 6: right so that people are in control of their lives.
Speaker 6: And listen, we do not hold the levers of power
Speaker 6: right now, right, so we need to be clear with
Speaker 6: people that the things that are being broken right now
Speaker 6: are being broken by Republicans who asked to be in
Speaker 6: charge of the House, in the Senate and the White House,
Speaker 6: and you are seeing.
Speaker 4: But the public doesn't user them as breaking it. They
Speaker 4: view the Democrats as having broken it. That's my question
Speaker 4: is is there a reflection on the Democratic side that
Speaker 4: part of what this is is their theory on governance
Speaker 4: is somewhat broken. That you know, let me explain this,
Speaker 4: let me get it more specific. Example, if I'm a taxpayer,
Speaker 4: I feel like I pay money. I pay taxes, but
Speaker 4: I don't get health care. I have to buy insurance.
Speaker 4: So if I buy insurance, I get health care. Well
Speaker 4: not really, I get access to a system that maybe
Speaker 4: will deny me my health care or maybe we'll do that.
Speaker 4: Have Democrats thought about isn't that the fundamental problem with
Speaker 4: how people are viewing their government.
Speaker 6: It shouldn't take ten years to build a bridge, right
Speaker 6: it shouldn't take five years to get a subdivision permitted.
Speaker 6: Government is not working for people right now. And when
Speaker 6: I first got into politics, the Democratic Party every single
Speaker 6: day talked about reforming government, talked about reforming democracy, talked
Speaker 6: about getting big money out of politics, talked about strict
Speaker 6: ethics reform. And somewhere we lost our way. At some
Speaker 6: point that went from a top three issue to like
Speaker 6: a top twenty issue, and that allowed the Republican Party
Speaker 6: to become the party that was actually aggressive about reform
Speaker 6: and government. If we want to be credible anti corruption
Speaker 6: messengers and by the way, this is the most corrupt
Speaker 6: White House, the most corrupt government.
Speaker 1: We've ever said, God, I talking about me. This is
Speaker 1: the most corrupt show I've ever seen in my entire life.
Speaker 6: Then, as Democrats, we have to start talking about how
Speaker 6: we would fix it. And what happened in this last election,
Speaker 6: as you know, is that we made democracy the tent
Speaker 6: pole of the Harris campaign and it looked like we
Speaker 6: were defending the existing democracy. This version of democracy is
Speaker 6: working for billionaires, corporations and the elites. And if we
Speaker 6: don't talk about how we're going to change that, and
Speaker 6: we're not going to be credible in this country.
Speaker 1: But isn't it going to be pleased? Enjoy your copper.
Speaker 4: I think credibility, I think is such an important word here,
Speaker 4: but it's something that is earned. And I see a
Speaker 4: Democratic party that is way too comfortable with corporate lobbyists,
Speaker 4: a Democratic party that God blessed that we can negotiate
Speaker 4: the price of ten drugs and that that's a huge victory.
Speaker 4: Like if that doesn't send the message that this party
Speaker 4: is utterly out of touch with it's not a party
Speaker 4: that understands it seems the power and leverage that government
Speaker 4: can have to fight corruption. It seems altogether too comfortable
Speaker 4: being a part of the corruption.
Speaker 6: So listen. It all started during the Wall Street Crisis
Speaker 6: of two thousand and eight. The Democratic Party is supposed
Speaker 6: to be the party that breaks up the banks, not
Speaker 6: the party that bails out the banks, right, And it
Speaker 6: was that day the Democratic Party started credibil.
Speaker 1: For that, isn't it.
Speaker 4: Maybe it's Jimmy Carter opening up trade, it's Clinton deregulating
Speaker 4: the financial institutions. This is a long history of even
Speaker 4: when you think about Medicare or the ACA, oftentimes those
Speaker 4: are just subsidies.
Speaker 1: Corporations love the ACA.
Speaker 4: They're making a shit ton of money, billions of dollars.
Speaker 6: So this party has become addicted recently to sort of
Speaker 6: writing people checks in order to compensate for the way
Speaker 6: in which the economy is rigged. I'm not saying that
Speaker 6: the child tax.
Speaker 1: Credit is talking about right, let's go.
Speaker 6: So I'm not saying right, I'm not saying that come
Speaker 6: out the child tax credit isn't a good thing, Or
Speaker 6: a little bit more money for your Obamacare subsidy isn't
Speaker 6: a good thing. But that doesn't make people feel good
Speaker 6: that you're having to give them a little bit of
Speaker 6: money to compensate for the fact that work doesn't pay
Speaker 6: in this country. That drug company CEOs are making out
Speaker 6: like bandits buying their seventh housses.
Speaker 1: Right, So, if you.
Speaker 6: Were really serious, if you're really serious about communicating a
Speaker 6: message that resonates with you, well you wouldn't be talking
Speaker 6: about just negotiating in a different way for ten drugs.
Speaker 6: You'd be talking about putting a cap on the amount
Speaker 6: of money that any drug company can sell drugs to
Speaker 6: any Is that so hard?
Speaker 1: That's the point.
Speaker 2: The point is simply this.
Speaker 4: The government subsidizes these corporations with billions of dollars and
Speaker 4: demands nothing in return. And isn't that the foundation of
Speaker 4: a governing philosophy. Maybe they could put it in a book,
Speaker 4: They could call it project, something.
Speaker 1: Like is that work not being done?
Speaker 4: Because right now it looks like ad hoc people on
Speaker 4: TikTok making better brand for themselves, but the party seems
Speaker 4: utterly rudderless.
Speaker 6: Okay, so two things once we viewed We viewed people
Speaker 6: like Bernie as an outlier threat to the institutional Democratic Party,
Speaker 6: when in fact, what he was talking about and is
Speaker 6: still talking about is the crossover message, right, is the message, it's.
Speaker 1: A traditional Democratic message. It actually it's RFK Democrat.
Speaker 6: And that pulls trunk quoters back into the Democratic coalition.
Speaker 6: The second thing is this, the Republican Party has paid
Speaker 6: for a permanent infrastructure around ideas and around messaging that
Speaker 6: makes something like Project of twenty twenty five possible. Whereas
Speaker 6: Democrats raise lots of money every two years, we blow
Speaker 6: it all on thirty second ads that disappear into the
Speaker 6: ether as soon as the election is done, instead of
Speaker 6: actually building our own permanent infrastructure. So we could be
Speaker 6: selling our ideas like economic justice, like loving instead of
Speaker 6: fearing your neighbor, like breaking up powerful corporations every single.
Speaker 1: Day, practical ideas, common sense, but.
Speaker 6: Sell them every day, build the infrastructure or to lot
Speaker 6: every day.
Speaker 4: Clearly they have the money. Clearly there are think tanks.
Speaker 4: Is it because no one has brought the party together
Speaker 4: as an individual? Is it because the corporatists part of
Speaker 4: the party has been dominant?
Speaker 6: Tell listen. I think the Republican Party has had some
Speaker 6: dominant figures, some of them funders like the Kochs, some
Speaker 6: of them political figures like Donald Trump. The Democratic Party
Speaker 6: hasn't had that kind of continuity of leadership. But there's
Speaker 6: also a consultant class inside the Democratic Party that makes
Speaker 6: a lot of money off of those thirty second ads,
Speaker 6: and they don't make as much money if you're actually
Speaker 6: developing ideas that last. And so breaking the grip of
Speaker 6: those consultants on the Democratic Party who have made a
Speaker 6: lot of money but have not actually produced as many
Speaker 6: votes as we would like, that's part of our challenge
Speaker 6: as well.
Speaker 1: Right, No, listen, I can today more, are you?
Speaker 4: It feels a little bit like the Democrats are standing
Speaker 4: on thirty fourth Street and they're looking up at the
Speaker 4: Empire State Building and they're going, we should build one
Speaker 4: of those. And they're like, oh, why didn't you And
Speaker 4: they're like, I don't know, we you know, opened up
Speaker 4: a Papaya king if he blocks down to think about
Speaker 4: you know, how how far back in this process do
Speaker 4: you think the Democratic Party is and is there even
Speaker 4: a consensus about beginning that process because it doesn't seem
Speaker 4: to be even nascent.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but they are handing us the opportunity, right, Donald
Speaker 6: Trump ran as a fake populist and he is there
Speaker 6: for the unmasking. Right, he has no clothes, I mean,
Speaker 6: don't write. Yeah, I got but so they're literally every
Speaker 6: single day empowering the billion You've.
Speaker 1: Still got Chuck Schumer in the gym in my head.
Speaker 4: So there's nothing you can say to me that is
Speaker 4: going to wash that ship out of my brain.
Speaker 6: Uh yeah, some of us go to the gym. Some
Speaker 6: of us don't.
Speaker 1: Sho we're on an elliptic hall.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, so so so's it's there for the taking.
Speaker 6: I mean, their only legislative agenda item of any consequence
Speaker 6: is another tax cut, all of the money going to
Speaker 6: the billionaires and the millionaires. So so it's there for
Speaker 6: the taking. To rebrand the Democratic Party is the true
Speaker 6: populist party.
Speaker 1: But it takes, but branding actually remaining on.
Speaker 6: Doing yes and listen. We are the party that actually
Speaker 6: has ideas that transfer power from the powerful to the
Speaker 6: power less. We have been a little bit too addicted
Speaker 6: to incrementalism. But they are handing us the opportunity to
Speaker 6: go out and rip from their coalition. Right, people who
Speaker 6: actually do care about reordering fairness in our economy and
Speaker 6: are looking at these guys and realizing, you know what,
Speaker 6: the economy still sucks. My income isn't going up, and
Speaker 6: it kind of feels like the only people that are
Speaker 6: benefiting are Elon Musk and they're billionaire friends. So like
Speaker 6: take the moment and build a set of ideas that
Speaker 6: are big and hairy and transfer power in a meaningful,
Speaker 6: easily to understand way from the that's.
Speaker 3: What I say.
Speaker 6: You don't mand it.
Speaker 1: You invited me here, sit here.
Speaker 4: Yelling at that's good lease people look at these people,
Speaker 4: look out and sad. These people, they're just sad every day.
Speaker 1: I come in before the show. Do you have any questions?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm here on Mondays, so.
Speaker 6: You can't get so you can't. I don't think get
Speaker 6: a lot lower than twenty seven percent.
Speaker 1: And I would in bed on it.
Speaker 6: And here the opportunity of this moment is given how
Speaker 6: legitimately upset people are and what has happened over the
Speaker 6: last week. This is an opportunity for the Democratic Party
Speaker 6: collectively to show that we are ready to meet this moment,
Speaker 6: show that we are ready.
Speaker 4: To if you have to put together the dream Team
Speaker 4: tomorrow to start this project. Who are what are the
Speaker 4: groups that you're pulling together? What are the people and
Speaker 4: how are they getting started on creating this cohesive governing
Speaker 4: philosophy that says government is still important as a counterweight
Speaker 4: to not just slight of power or executive power, but
Speaker 4: of corporate power and of world interventionist power, and we
Speaker 4: need it. Could you name three people that you put
Speaker 4: on that task tomorrow?
Speaker 6: Well, listen, I think every single Democrat has to be
Speaker 6: a part of this. I mean, again, I reject this
Speaker 6: idea that people like Bernie are threats to our electoral success.
Speaker 6: I think these ideas centering our entire conversation around asking
Speaker 6: the billionaires to transfer a little bit of their success
Speaker 6: to everybody else is core to the sort of existential
Speaker 6: future of the party. And we need to bring this
Speaker 6: conversation everywhere. I mean, this is our project right now.
Speaker 6: We can't stay in Washington and win this fight, right
Speaker 6: We have got to be I don't.
Speaker 1: Think they're going to let you stay in Washington. We
Speaker 1: have got to bring.
Speaker 4: But three people don't come to mind, because I can't
Speaker 4: see Bernie anymore. Sweet Bernie in his sweater walk in
Speaker 4: the Capitol grounds, out of breath.
Speaker 1: Going like aoc and Hi, We're gonna go. We're gonna
Speaker 1: be in Colorado. We're going to be in the Nevada
Speaker 1: come out and see us. I don't know what these
Speaker 1: people are doing, but I'm doing my best. Like there's
Speaker 1: got to be another answer. Burn right, but they're right.
Speaker 6: But you know, listen, ten thousand people are showing up
Speaker 6: for Bernie, but a thousand people are showing up on
Speaker 6: a dime for any Democrat who's got a message that resonates.
Speaker 6: People are desperate to do something right now. They want
Speaker 6: to be plugged into action, and so we need to
Speaker 6: be out there giving people mission sets. Go to your
Speaker 6: Republican Member of Congress's office. If they're not going to
Speaker 6: come out and do a town hall, tell them what
Speaker 6: eight hundred and eighty billion dollars of medicaid cuts would
Speaker 6: do to your community, right, raise your voice online, go
Speaker 6: to your state capitol. If we show up and give
Speaker 6: people action sets, they are going to respond. This is
Speaker 6: one of these rare moments where it's not like we're
Speaker 6: asking people to do something and they won't do it.
Speaker 6: It's the American people asking us to do things that's right.
Speaker 4: I think what they want is a cohesive message that
Speaker 4: feels like it addresses what people believe. Were they corrupt
Speaker 4: and broken elements of the system. That Democrats help design
Speaker 4: and have to be honest with themselves that no longer
Speaker 4: are functioning in the way that they.
Speaker 6: Want make government work again, and make it work for everybody,
Speaker 6: not to.
Speaker 1: Make government work again. Hold on a second.
Speaker 6: Monument work?
Speaker 4: Oh man, Hey, everybody, hold on muglah christ.
Speaker 2: Who hold look on shop for tonight.
Speaker 1: But before we go, we're gonna check in with your hopes.
Speaker 4: For the rest of the week, mister Jordan Clepper, Jordan,
Speaker 4: what's on Thatchnic week?
Speaker 1: Oh God, I gotta tell you. It is March Madness.
Speaker 2: A month of exciting college basketball tournament starts this week,
Speaker 2: and I've already got my bracket filled out.
Speaker 1: It's already busted.
Speaker 3: Damn it, damn it. There it goes, Jordan Junior.
Speaker 1: Is a little college fun, Jordan. The games haven't even
Speaker 1: started yet. So you didn't. You didn't. You didn't blow it.
Speaker 1: You didn't blow any of the money. The thing hasn't
Speaker 1: even who'd you picked to win the whole thing? The
Speaker 1: New England Conservatory of Music. You blew it, Jordan Clepper. Everybody.
Speaker 4: Also, Oh, I meant to tell you this March thirty first,
Speaker 4: I'm hosting a night at Too Many Stars at the
Speaker 4: Beacon Theater right here in New York City, live comedy
Speaker 4: event benefiting autism programs nationwide.
Speaker 1: If you're in.
Speaker 4: Town, yeah, I say me an unbelievable lineup, many great stars.
Speaker 1: We'd love to have you there, raise a little money.
Speaker 4: For these programs that are suffering, because, as you know,
Speaker 4: when public money leaves, private people are here.
Speaker 1: It is your moment, is that.
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