WEBVTT - Why Trump's Response to the "No Kings" Protests is Important | A Conversation with Ryan Lizza

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<v Speaker 1>Can you point out, Steve is that people should have optimism.

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<v Speaker 1>They should know that, you know, the the reaction against

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<v Speaker 1>what is happening is stronger than the administration and what

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<v Speaker 1>they're doing. And it's really important to have days like

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<v Speaker 1>that where people see each other face to face, not

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<v Speaker 1>on substack, not on on social media, and are reminded

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<v Speaker 1>about the power of the network that has formed to

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<v Speaker 1>oppose what's going on.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, now there's a lot of joy. I was out

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<v Speaker 2>in Iowa City for a football game and did the

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<v Speaker 2>note things protests out there, and uh, it was great.

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<v Speaker 2>People inflatable dinosaur costumes and bear costumes and you know,

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<v Speaker 2>marching a lot of American flags, all of it, all

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<v Speaker 2>of it peaceful, and you know, reinforces three things that

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<v Speaker 2>are of supreme importance for people to to to get one.

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<v Speaker 2>There are more of us than there are of them, right,

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<v Speaker 2>I will say that again, there are there are more

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<v Speaker 2>of us than there are of them, and and do

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<v Speaker 2>not be afraid of them. They can't shove all of

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<v Speaker 2>us into an iceman. And then just the way you

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<v Speaker 2>said it about the joy, it's such a contrast and

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<v Speaker 2>I don't I don't know how else to say this.

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<v Speaker 2>Except to express it in my native uh colloquial Patois

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<v Speaker 2>of central New Jersey. But whether it's Pam Bondi or Christineo,

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<v Speaker 2>or the thug Tom Holman, or the wack job sector

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<v Speaker 2>chief Den Baveno or Cash patl or Caln Levitt, they

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<v Speaker 2>are a collection of the most miserable motherfuckers that I

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<v Speaker 2>have ever seen, snarl sneering, nasty, deranged, fucking vicious for

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<v Speaker 2>no reason, no paw. And you got there's twenty seven

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<v Speaker 2>or twenty eight year old child married to a senior

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<v Speaker 2>citizen every day, every day along with the Speaker of

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<v Speaker 2>the House, defaming half the country. Fuck you, all right,

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<v Speaker 2>every one of you? All right, that we're on American

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<v Speaker 2>we're traders, were this or that? The abuse of power

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<v Speaker 2>these people, the pointing of the weapons at American citizens

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<v Speaker 2>by Trump's secret police, all right, it was it was

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<v Speaker 2>a national day of go fuck yourself. And I don't

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<v Speaker 2>mean that in the way that it's used by Maga

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<v Speaker 2>the rattlesnake and is in iconic American aw and it's

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<v Speaker 2>on some of the earliest flegs. Don't tread on me

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<v Speaker 2>that you're sending the army to Chicago and threatening San Francisco,

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<v Speaker 2>and after scores of millions March release of video of

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<v Speaker 2>the president as a demented king flying a plane dumping

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<v Speaker 2>shit on half the country. But how dare these people,

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<v Speaker 2>how dare they desecrating these offices, these institutions that belonged

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<v Speaker 2>to us, belongs to us? And what this weekend was

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<v Speaker 2>about was a natural dose of Penicellan against Cynesis, against insanity,

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<v Speaker 2>and against these sneering assholes who got a lick of

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<v Speaker 2>power incompletely totally, absolutely lost their minds with it.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, so what do we make of this video? This

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<v Speaker 1>is a classic Trump thing where you do something that

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<v Speaker 1>is so distasteful, so unlike any elect what any elected official,

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<v Speaker 1>let alone the president of the United States would do

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<v Speaker 1>a new low, as I think some people in the

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<v Speaker 1>comments are pointing to it, and yet in some ways

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<v Speaker 1>totally predictable and unsurprising, because he has total contempt for

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<v Speaker 1>anyone who opposes him and doesn't care that he's actually

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<v Speaker 1>the president of every American and pays doesn't even pay

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<v Speaker 1>lip service to the idea that he represents everyone. Even Nixon,

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<v Speaker 1>even presidents that hated their enemies, never would have governed

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<v Speaker 1>the way that he does for just his base, for

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<v Speaker 1>just the Americans that actually support him, and hold total

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<v Speaker 1>contempt for everyone else. And so on the one hand,

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<v Speaker 1>you see the MAGA defenders, who will obviously defend anything

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<v Speaker 1>he does, say, oh, it's just a joke, this is

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<v Speaker 1>just funny. He's you know, literally shit posting. This is

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<v Speaker 1>you know, why can't y'all take a joke. On the

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<v Speaker 1>other hand, again, just to go back to the test

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<v Speaker 1>I always apply to these things, is what if this

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<v Speaker 1>were happening in another country? What if you saw, given

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<v Speaker 1>what's happened since January in this other country, and then

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<v Speaker 1>you read in the paper that the leader who's already

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<v Speaker 1>taking troops from donor states willing to supply them, and

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<v Speaker 1>sending them into the cities of states where the leadership

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<v Speaker 1>doesn't want them, who's militarizing city, who's threatening to impose

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<v Speaker 1>the Insurrection Act, on and on and on, totally destroyed

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<v Speaker 1>the independence of the Justice Department, and weaponized federal agencies

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<v Speaker 1>against companies and media organizations that criticize him, kicked the

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<v Speaker 1>reporters out of the Pentagon, snatching people off the street

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<v Speaker 1>and sending them to gulags. That whole litany of things

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<v Speaker 1>shutting down the government and using it as a excuse

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<v Speaker 1>to purge the workforce and do things that are illegal

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<v Speaker 1>during previous government shutdowns. And then you saw that the

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<v Speaker 1>largest protests in American history, according to one estimate by

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<v Speaker 1>forgetting our colleague on subjects strength in numbers, largest protests

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<v Speaker 1>in American history, political protests, the asterisk there's Earth Day.

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<v Speaker 1>The Earth Day protests might have been bigger, but not

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<v Speaker 1>explicitly political. And then you see that the leader of

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<v Speaker 1>that country, his response was to post a video of

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<v Speaker 1>him in a fighter jet dumping shit on his own people.

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<v Speaker 1>If this were happening elsewhere, we would be talking about

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<v Speaker 1>whether we should intervene. We would be talking about how

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<v Speaker 1>our State Department should be going to the UN or

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<v Speaker 1>you know, making sure that there were international election monitors

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<v Speaker 1>in the next election. We would have warnings about traveling

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<v Speaker 1>to that country. The level of alarm if this were

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<v Speaker 1>another country and we were watching it would be, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>at eleven. And yet I have seen zero condemnation of

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<v Speaker 1>this from a single Republican elected a FA. And then

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<v Speaker 1>of course Jade Vance does something just as disgusting on

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<v Speaker 1>Blue Sky. So we're living in this bizarre world of

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<v Speaker 1>where the president and the vice presidents have taken on

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<v Speaker 1>the tactics of what started in twenty sixteen with the

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<v Speaker 1>most atrocious people on the internet, and when these people

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<v Speaker 1>are all now elected and running the government. But ten

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<v Speaker 1>years ago, when we were watching this come from the

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<v Speaker 1>right to this kind of ship posting right where everything

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<v Speaker 1>was sort of ironic, it was just sort of right

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<v Speaker 1>wing irony.

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<v Speaker 2>We were all.

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<v Speaker 1>Sort of mystified, disgusted by it. These same people have

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<v Speaker 1>now accepted that as the norm and are running the

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<v Speaker 1>country as you know, late teens right wing ship posters.

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