The blame game & some advice for despondent Dems (11-08-2024--Hour2)

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[00:00:28] The clawing out of the eyeballs continues on the left after the election debacle that they were able to successfully orchestrate for themselves. So there's a, I saw this at Axios, finger pointing advisors to both Vice President Harris and President Joe Biden. They all agree on one thing.

[00:00:55] All right, so the finger pointers that are pro-Harris and pro-Biden, the advisors for both of them that are pointing the fingers, they all agree on one thing, which is that Trump's victory is the other one's fault. That's the, that is what they agree on. It's their fault, not ours. We ran a flawless campaign. Dan McLaughlin over at National Review had a very, very lengthy write up called, you did this to yourself.

[00:01:25] Democrats, Democrats, Democrats. And this is some tough love, but you're going to have to hear it. Okay? I mean, Democrats, you're going to have to hear it. However, Republicans may be at fault for choosing their nominee. You guys were the ones who made the choices that lost this election.

[00:01:47] A strong majority gave you the White House, gave you the House of Representatives and the Senate, gave you all three, the trifecta. They trusted you and you blew it. You blew it so badly that the voters brought back the guy that they fired four years ago.

[00:02:05] A guy that a lot of people never particularly liked and still don't like judging by his favorability rating in polling and in the exit polls.

[00:02:15] A guy who tried to overturn the last election and the voters disliked you so much they gave him more support than he had before he even did that.

[00:02:26] That guy. Yeah. You lost to that guy.

[00:02:31] You won 51.3% of the national popular vote in 2020 in a high turnout election.

[00:02:38] You did not need to persuade a single Trump voter to keep your jobs.

[00:02:44] You just needed the people who voted for Joe and Kamala last time to be satisfied with what they asked for.

[00:02:55] And you didn't give it to him.

[00:02:59] So the natural question here is, well, what were people asking for?

[00:03:04] What was it? What led to Joe's victory?

[00:03:08] What was it?

[00:03:10] Normalcy.

[00:03:11] People wanted the chaos and the craziness and COVID.

[00:03:16] They wanted it all to stop.

[00:03:17] And Joe in his basement, mumbling his way through softball interviews,

[00:03:23] looked like the kind of politics that people had a bit of nostalgia for.

[00:03:30] McLaughlin goes on to write that the choices date as far back the choices Democrats made here.

[00:03:35] They go back to Obama's second term.

[00:03:37] That's when Democrats responded to a Republican Congress

[00:03:40] with increasing reliance on executive branch fiat.

[00:03:47] It's when Obergefell convinced them that judicial activism plus elite consensus could shift the culture rapidly.

[00:03:55] Obergefell being the gay marriage ruling from the Supreme Court, right?

[00:03:59] And they embarked on the weird campaign then to replicate the success of same-sex marriage with transgenderism,

[00:04:06] a phenomenon far more odd and alien to most Americans.

[00:04:14] I said this at the time.

[00:04:17] The Obergefell ruling for gay marriage blew up a very large portion of the Democrat coalition

[00:04:30] because you had an entire industry.

[00:04:34] People's jobs, organizations and stuff.

[00:04:40] There was, I mean, millions and millions of dollars

[00:04:43] that were all centered around getting gay marriage legalized.

[00:04:48] And they were fighting for so long, so many years,

[00:04:52] that when the dog finally caught the car, they didn't know what to do with the car.

[00:04:58] You won.

[00:05:01] Oh, but now what do we do with all of this infrastructure that we've built up?

[00:05:07] Right?

[00:05:07] I mean, think about that.

[00:05:09] Oh, there's still a fight.

[00:05:11] There's still a fight to be had.

[00:05:13] We won't stop until something.

[00:05:19] And that's when they started to shift their focus to the T in the LGBT.

[00:05:25] But it was different.

[00:05:28] Right?

[00:05:28] T is different than the L's and the G's.

[00:05:32] It's different.

[00:05:35] What else did Democrats decide to do?

[00:05:37] He says it traces back to when Ferguson, Missouri,

[00:05:41] It illustrated the talismanic power to Democrats of the Black Lives Matter movement

[00:05:48] and elite cultural figures like Tahanese Coates.

[00:05:53] Spooked by the Bernie Sanders rebellion in 2016,

[00:05:56] Democrats then convinced themselves that their party needed to abandon

[00:05:59] Clintonian small ball in favor of more garishly drastic ideological postures.

[00:06:05] This may have overrated the extent to which the Sanders phenomenon itself

[00:06:12] was in good part just a sign that people really didn't like Hillary Clinton.

[00:06:17] That's like people thought, oh my gosh, like this Bernie thing.

[00:06:21] What are we doing?

[00:06:21] Like, no, it's it.

[00:06:22] It's actually they just really don't like her.

[00:06:25] And he was the only alternative that people could rally around.

[00:06:29] Then the 2019 primaries was a festival of this sort of thing.

[00:06:33] Candidates competed to endorse Medicare for all, i.e.,

[00:06:38] the abolition of private health insurance.

[00:06:40] They endorsed court packing, fracking bans,

[00:06:45] bizarre stances like taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries

[00:06:49] for illegal aliens and prisoners.

[00:06:52] That's what Kamala Harris supported.

[00:06:54] Hardly anybody was more eager of an adopter of all of this than Kamala Harris

[00:07:00] in ways that came back to haunt her this year.

[00:07:03] He goes on to say later, Democrats tend to dismiss the transgender stuff

[00:07:07] as an overblown panic involving a tiny segment of the population.

[00:07:12] But that overlooks two things.

[00:07:14] First, if it's not that important, right?

[00:07:18] Small population, this isn't a big deal.

[00:07:22] If it's not that important, then why have you Democrats persistently devoted

[00:07:27] so many public resources and lawsuits and communications of the leadership to it?

[00:07:36] Why is it like all you guys can talk about?

[00:07:39] Why do you keep bringing it up?

[00:07:41] Why do you keep forcing it in every sector everywhere all the time?

[00:07:47] Second, it's not just an alarming thing that threatens girls' sports and frightens parents

[00:07:52] and how it seeks to pry impressionable young people away from their own families.

[00:07:57] It's also a symbol of a broader outlook on the world.

[00:08:02] In the midst of the 2019 Carnival of Extremism, the New York Times Magazine publishes the 1619 Project.

[00:08:12] Like the work of Tahinasi Coates, the writer, this was an elite phenomenon,

[00:08:18] but one that seeded in the elites a mindset that would become more widely visible.

[00:08:27] Right? That was 2019.

[00:08:30] We got the riots.

[00:08:33] We got this rise of, you know, everything's racism, institutional racism.

[00:08:40] America has to be completely transformed and people going on.

[00:08:46] What were they doing? The privilege walks and stuff.

[00:08:51] He then goes on to say a little bit later in this.

[00:08:53] It's a very lengthy piece, by the way.

[00:08:55] It's at National Review.

[00:08:56] He says Biden never had the spine to stand up to his own party,

[00:08:59] and by mid-summer 2020, the world had changed.

[00:09:02] He had the pandemic, right?

[00:09:04] Turned everything upside down.

[00:09:05] He had the George Floyd protests.

[00:09:07] He had the defund the police stuff.

[00:09:09] Then, of course, when he wins, you get the Green New Deal.

[00:09:13] He then caves to demands that he put a black woman on the ticket

[00:09:16] to reflect that particular moment's racial sensibilities.

[00:09:21] Something that he does.

[00:09:23] Something else that happened.

[00:09:25] He got old.

[00:09:27] Right?

[00:09:28] His age caught up with him.

[00:09:30] McLaughlin says the Biden-Harris administration was defined by its choices,

[00:09:34] and its choices were what did it in.

[00:09:37] The biggest one was the long-running conspiracy to pretend that Biden was not

[00:09:44] in accelerating mental decline as he entered his 80s.

[00:09:50] Nobody forced his White House to do that.

[00:09:54] Nobody in the White House, nobody forced the White House to make that decision to try to cover it all up.

[00:10:00] We gave constant updates about the lengths that the White House was going to,

[00:10:06] whether it was the, you know, no interviews after 2 p.m. or whatever.

[00:10:09] Remember when they said, from now on, he's going to have people walking around him to the helicopter

[00:10:14] so you couldn't see his feeble gait.

[00:10:17] Stuff like that.

[00:10:18] The pretense became laughable,

[00:10:20] and polls for years on end show that even Democrat voters were not buying it.

[00:10:25] Then, when Democrats avoided a disastrous midterm in 2022,

[00:10:30] Biden and his team, his family, they decided he's going to run again.

[00:10:34] The wiser heads in the party sat by and did nothing.

[00:10:39] The same people who then ousted him after the debate this year,

[00:10:43] they sat by and let him announce he was going to run again in 22.

[00:10:47] They didn't try to force him out then, but they knew then.

[00:10:51] But they all believed that Biden could pull it out,

[00:10:54] that he could do it again.

[00:10:56] He's the only one ever going to beat Trump.

[00:10:59] Right?

[00:11:00] That's what Biden believes, and I guess it's true.

[00:11:03] He was the only one that did beat Trump.

[00:11:06] Well, that and all of the changes to the election laws during the pandemic,

[00:11:10] but water under the bridge.

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[00:12:15] You know me.

[00:12:16] I'm a giver.

[00:12:18] I like to give people solutions.

[00:12:21] This one's not my own,

[00:12:23] but I want to pass it on.

[00:12:25] Because I know that the last 48 hours have been very difficult

[00:12:31] for a good portion of the population,

[00:12:34] like 99% of whom are on TikTok

[00:12:36] making videos of themselves screaming at a camera.

[00:12:39] So, in seriousness, though,

[00:12:42] this is some good advice, okay?

[00:12:46] It comes from a fellow by the name of Alexandros Marinos.

[00:12:51] I took five years of Spanish.

[00:12:52] Don't try that at home.

[00:12:54] So, he says,

[00:12:55] if you voted Democrat

[00:12:56] and you are feeling that the election result

[00:12:59] is truly horrifying,

[00:13:01] do this one simple thing

[00:13:03] for your mental health.

[00:13:07] Write down your fears

[00:13:09] of what might happen

[00:13:11] in the next four years.

[00:13:14] Write it down on a piece of paper.

[00:13:17] Okay?

[00:13:18] All the things that you think are going to happen,

[00:13:21] write them down.

[00:13:22] I would recommend not putting them on social media.

[00:13:25] I know everybody wants to do that,

[00:13:27] but this is just for you, okay?

[00:13:30] You don't need to broadcast

[00:13:32] all of your insecurities and anxieties.

[00:13:35] You don't need to do that.

[00:13:36] Just write them down.

[00:13:39] And then,

[00:13:40] every few months or so,

[00:13:43] reread them.

[00:13:46] It will be a constant source of relief to you

[00:13:49] when you see that your fears

[00:13:52] will not, in fact, come true.

[00:13:54] And then,

[00:13:58] once you get to that point,

[00:14:00] the next step

[00:14:01] is to start asking

[00:14:03] why you had those fears

[00:14:05] in the first place.

[00:14:08] Okay?

[00:14:08] So,

[00:14:09] first step,

[00:14:10] write down your fears

[00:14:11] of what you think is going to happen

[00:14:13] under the

[00:14:14] the Hitlerian

[00:14:16] Trump era.

[00:14:18] Right?

[00:14:19] Write them down.

[00:14:20] Check in on them.

[00:14:22] And,

[00:14:22] when you see that this stuff

[00:14:24] is not happening,

[00:14:25] that should be a source

[00:14:26] of relief for you.

[00:14:28] You should be happy.

[00:14:29] You should be relieved

[00:14:30] that this stuff hasn't happened.

[00:14:31] And once you get to that point,

[00:14:33] then start wondering

[00:14:33] why did you have those fears

[00:14:35] in the first place?

[00:14:36] How did you come to believe

[00:14:38] these things

[00:14:38] in the first place?

[00:14:41] And then,

[00:14:43] you can start thinking

[00:14:45] in a way that prevents you

[00:14:47] from forming those ideas

[00:14:49] the next time.

[00:14:51] Right?

[00:14:51] That's a pretty straightforward

[00:14:54] way to address

[00:14:55] the anxieties.

[00:14:58] I hope it helps.

[00:14:59] So,

[00:15:01] the advice offered up here

[00:15:03] is to write down

[00:15:04] your anxieties

[00:15:06] about all the things

[00:15:07] you think are going to happen

[00:15:08] in the next four years.

[00:15:09] You know,

[00:15:10] worst case scenarios,

[00:15:11] lay it all out

[00:15:11] on a piece of paper,

[00:15:12] and then check back in with it,

[00:15:14] and when the things

[00:15:18] don't happen,

[00:15:19] ask yourself

[00:15:20] why you believed

[00:15:21] that these things

[00:15:22] would happen,

[00:15:23] and then how you came

[00:15:25] to believe those things.

[00:15:27] Right?

[00:15:27] Why didn't they happen

[00:15:28] and then how did you

[00:15:29] come to believe them?

[00:15:30] And that is how you will

[00:15:32] eventually be stronger

[00:15:33] to withstand

[00:15:35] the kind of

[00:15:38] gaslighting

[00:15:38] and media bombardment

[00:15:40] that you've been subjected to.

[00:15:43] Here's a good place

[00:15:45] to start.

[00:15:49] And I think

[00:15:50] Charlemagne,

[00:15:51] the God,

[00:15:52] that radio guy,

[00:15:55] he's a

[00:15:56] morning show host,

[00:15:57] and

[00:15:59] Harris went on his show

[00:16:00] a couple times,

[00:16:01] I believe,

[00:16:02] but he was asking

[00:16:03] this question too,

[00:16:04] like,

[00:16:04] well,

[00:16:04] wait a minute,

[00:16:05] how do you call this guy

[00:16:06] a fascist,

[00:16:07] the end of democracy,

[00:16:09] he's Hitler,

[00:16:09] and,

[00:16:10] you know,

[00:16:11] all these terrible things,

[00:16:12] but then you turn around

[00:16:12] and say it's all going to be okay.

[00:16:14] We're going to get through it.

[00:16:15] It's going to be okay.

[00:16:16] Like,

[00:16:17] well,

[00:16:18] wait a minute,

[00:16:18] if he's Hitler,

[00:16:20] then how do we,

[00:16:21] how do we get through it okay?

[00:16:24] Right?

[00:16:27] Well,

[00:16:28] Corinne Jean-Pierre was asked

[00:16:29] this very question.

[00:16:32] This administration messaged

[00:16:34] to millions of Americans

[00:16:35] that they're going to wake up

[00:16:37] the day after the election

[00:16:38] if Trump won

[00:16:39] and have their rights stripped away,

[00:16:40] that democracy would crumble,

[00:16:42] and the president said today

[00:16:43] we're going to be okay.

[00:16:44] So how do you square that?

[00:16:46] I can square that.

[00:16:48] I'm going to square that

[00:16:48] in a way that hopefully

[00:16:50] makes sense

[00:16:50] because I've been answering

[00:16:52] this question

[00:16:52] multiple times.

[00:16:54] The American people

[00:16:55] made the decision.

[00:16:55] There was an election

[00:16:56] two nights ago.

[00:16:57] There was.

[00:16:59] And it was a free

[00:17:01] and fair election.

[00:17:02] Yeah.

[00:17:03] And we respect

[00:17:04] the election process.

[00:17:05] Right.

[00:17:06] We do.

[00:17:06] That has nothing to do

[00:17:07] with what you asked.

[00:17:08] Yeah.

[00:17:09] And so the job

[00:17:10] of the president

[00:17:12] is to make sure

[00:17:12] we respect that.

[00:17:14] The job of the president

[00:17:15] is to make sure

[00:17:16] that we have

[00:17:16] a peaceful transfer of power.

[00:17:18] That is what

[00:17:19] the American people deserve.

[00:17:21] And that's what we're going to

[00:17:22] it's really

[00:17:23] it's not complicated.

[00:17:24] It's truly,

[00:17:25] truly as simple as that.

[00:17:26] As simple as that.

[00:17:28] The president

[00:17:29] called the president-elect

[00:17:30] invited.

[00:17:31] She is so bad.

[00:17:32] She is so bad

[00:17:33] at her job.

[00:17:34] It's just

[00:17:34] oh,

[00:17:35] I'm not going to miss

[00:17:36] this at all.

[00:17:37] Oh,

[00:17:39] she's so bad at this.

[00:17:42] Again,

[00:17:42] the question was

[00:17:44] this administration

[00:17:45] messaged

[00:17:47] to millions of Americans

[00:17:48] that they're going

[00:17:49] to wake up

[00:17:50] the day after the election

[00:17:51] if Trump won

[00:17:52] and have their rights

[00:17:53] stripped away.

[00:17:54] That democracy

[00:17:55] would crumble.

[00:17:55] Today the president said

[00:17:57] we're going to be okay.

[00:17:58] How do you square that?

[00:18:01] And her answer is

[00:18:02] about people voted

[00:18:04] and we're going to have

[00:18:04] a transfer,

[00:18:05] peaceful transfer

[00:18:06] and that's

[00:18:07] it's really simple.

[00:18:09] Why would you

[00:18:10] transfer the government

[00:18:11] to somebody

[00:18:12] who's going to

[00:18:12] destroy the government

[00:18:14] and strip everyone's

[00:18:15] rights away?

[00:18:16] Like,

[00:18:16] why would you do that?

[00:18:17] It doesn't make

[00:18:19] logical sense.

[00:18:20] It doesn't follow.

[00:18:22] She's not done.

[00:18:23] She still has like

[00:18:24] another 90 seconds

[00:18:25] here of tap dancing.

[00:18:26] Let's hear it.

[00:18:27] Invited him to the White House.

[00:18:28] You know why?

[00:18:28] Why?

[00:18:29] Tell us.

[00:18:29] Because that's customary.

[00:18:30] Okay.

[00:18:31] That is customary.

[00:18:32] That is what you do.

[00:18:33] Not answering the question.

[00:18:34] If you respect

[00:18:35] what the American people

[00:18:37] decided,

[00:18:37] that's what you do.

[00:18:39] Yeah.

[00:18:39] And that's what the president's

[00:18:40] going to make sure

[00:18:41] that the Trump transition

[00:18:43] has what it needs.

[00:18:45] Which is being led

[00:18:46] obviously by our

[00:18:47] chief of staff here.

[00:18:49] We'll help them

[00:18:50] set up the camps.

[00:18:53] I mean,

[00:18:54] come on.

[00:18:54] What?

[00:18:55] This doesn't...

[00:18:56] Why?

[00:18:56] Because the president

[00:18:58] wants to lead by example.

[00:18:59] It's not complicated.

[00:19:00] It really isn't.

[00:19:02] And...

[00:19:03] Not an answer.

[00:19:04] You know,

[00:19:04] that's important.

[00:19:05] Is the message

[00:19:06] to people who are fearful

[00:19:08] based on what

[00:19:09] the messaging was

[00:19:10] about the state?

[00:19:12] Well,

[00:19:12] you're just twisting

[00:19:13] everything around

[00:19:13] and that's really unfair.

[00:19:15] No, it is.

[00:19:15] No, no, no.

[00:19:16] Jackie,

[00:19:16] it's unfair

[00:19:17] because...

[00:19:18] What?

[00:19:18] I've been standing here

[00:19:19] trying to be very respectful

[00:19:21] to what happened

[00:19:22] the last two nights,

[00:19:23] two nights ago.

[00:19:24] Being respectful.

[00:19:25] I've been standing here

[00:19:26] saying that

[00:19:27] we respect the decision

[00:19:28] that the American people made.

[00:19:30] I've been standing here

[00:19:31] and saying that

[00:19:32] the president's going to

[00:19:33] put the American people first.

[00:19:35] I've been standing here

[00:19:36] talking about how

[00:19:37] the president's going

[00:19:38] to make sure

[00:19:39] that they get

[00:19:39] what they deserve,

[00:19:40] which is a peaceful

[00:19:41] transfer of power.

[00:19:42] I do not appreciate

[00:19:44] having my words twisted.

[00:19:45] That is,

[00:19:46] I have been very clear,

[00:19:48] very, very,

[00:19:48] very clear about

[00:19:49] what the president

[00:19:50] wants to do

[00:19:51] and the vice president.

[00:19:52] We want to make sure

[00:19:53] that we deliver

[00:19:54] for the American people.

[00:19:55] They deserve.

[00:19:56] They deserve

[00:19:56] a peaceful transfer of power

[00:19:57] and that's what

[00:19:58] you're going to see.

[00:19:58] Thanks, everybody.

[00:19:59] And with that,

[00:20:00] she storms off.

[00:20:01] Doesn't answer the question.

[00:20:02] That was Jackie Heinrich,

[00:20:04] by the way,

[00:20:05] from Fox News,

[00:20:07] I believe.

[00:20:09] Completely legitimate.

[00:20:12] Completely legitimate questions.

[00:20:15] Half the country,

[00:20:16] or, well, okay,

[00:20:17] like 46%,

[00:20:20] almost half the country

[00:20:24] believed your messaging.

[00:20:27] You said that

[00:20:31] Trump was going to strip

[00:20:32] their rights away.

[00:20:33] He was going to

[00:20:35] imprison people.

[00:20:36] He's going to do

[00:20:37] all these terrible things

[00:20:40] and now you're saying,

[00:20:41] okay,

[00:20:41] here are the keys

[00:20:42] to the car.

[00:20:43] You know,

[00:20:44] go ahead,

[00:20:44] take it for a spin.

[00:20:45] Why,

[00:20:46] why would you do that,

[00:20:49] basically?

[00:20:49] Why would you turn over

[00:20:50] the democracy?

[00:20:51] Why would you turn it over

[00:20:52] to Hitler?

[00:20:54] How do you square that?

[00:20:56] These people

[00:20:57] are terrified now

[00:20:59] because of your messaging

[00:21:00] and her response

[00:21:01] is that

[00:21:02] you're twisting

[00:21:03] my words?

[00:21:05] She's not.

[00:21:07] She's quoting them

[00:21:08] back to you.

[00:21:13] what they did

[00:21:15] was indefensible.

[00:21:17] That's what that sounds like.

[00:21:19] She literally

[00:21:20] cannot defend it.

[00:21:23] At least Kamala Harris

[00:21:26] cackled her way

[00:21:26] through the Colbert interview

[00:21:29] years ago.

[00:21:29] It was a debate

[00:21:32] as to why she lied

[00:21:33] about Joe Biden.

[00:21:35] Saying Joe Biden

[00:21:36] was a segregationist

[00:21:37] and a racist.

[00:21:38] Well, okay,

[00:21:38] that might have been

[00:21:39] a little bit true.

[00:21:39] No, I'm kidding.

[00:21:40] But like,

[00:21:40] that's what she accused

[00:21:41] Biden of

[00:21:42] in their first debate.

[00:21:44] And then when she got named

[00:21:46] as Veep,

[00:21:47] Colbert asked her,

[00:21:49] well, wait a minute.

[00:21:50] You have these,

[00:21:51] you know,

[00:21:51] strongly held beliefs

[00:21:52] and principles

[00:21:53] and like,

[00:21:54] what changed?

[00:21:55] And her response was,

[00:21:56] it was a debate.

[00:21:58] In other words,

[00:21:59] I lied.

[00:22:01] I lied to try

[00:22:02] to beat him

[00:22:03] in a debate.

[00:22:04] And I can say

[00:22:05] anything I want

[00:22:05] in a debate

[00:22:08] if I think

[00:22:08] it's going to help me win.

[00:22:11] That's the first principle.

[00:22:13] That's their first principle.

[00:22:15] This is the Harry Reid

[00:22:16] school of politics,

[00:22:17] right?

[00:22:18] I'm going to accuse

[00:22:19] Mitt Romney

[00:22:20] of not paying his taxes

[00:22:21] and then when it turns out

[00:22:23] that, oh, he did

[00:22:25] and Harry Reid's response

[00:22:26] was,

[00:22:27] he didn't win,

[00:22:28] did he?

[00:22:28] That's all that matters.

[00:22:30] It's just about

[00:22:31] the power.

[00:22:32] That's it.

[00:22:33] There's no higher

[00:22:34] principle at play.

[00:22:37] Literally

[00:22:37] indefensible.

[00:22:41] And then,

[00:22:42] let's see here,

[00:22:43] this was,

[00:22:44] oh,

[00:22:46] Anand

[00:22:49] Giridharadaradas.

[00:22:50] I think that's how

[00:22:51] he pronounces that.

[00:22:52] He's on Morning Joe.

[00:22:53] I don't know

[00:22:53] who this guy is.

[00:22:55] But,

[00:22:56] well,

[00:22:57] listen to what

[00:22:57] he had to say.

[00:22:58] Particularly the media

[00:22:59] ecosystem they've,

[00:23:00] it's not a good one.

[00:23:01] It's a negative one.

[00:23:02] It's a radicalization funnel.

[00:23:04] But what they have done

[00:23:05] in their online

[00:23:06] media ecosystem

[00:23:07] is build

[00:23:08] a radicalization engine,

[00:23:10] literally the way

[00:23:11] militant groups do

[00:23:12] around the world,

[00:23:12] that takes people

[00:23:14] from relatively

[00:23:15] low-level

[00:23:15] annoyances with the world.

[00:23:17] Why are eggs

[00:23:18] so expensive?

[00:23:18] Why is my kid

[00:23:20] learning this new thing

[00:23:21] in American history

[00:23:21] in school

[00:23:22] that I didn't learn?

[00:23:23] And then moves them

[00:23:24] through YouTube videos,

[00:23:26] through podcasts,

[00:23:27] moves them from

[00:23:27] that annoyance

[00:23:28] all the way,

[00:23:29] slowly,

[00:23:29] slowly,

[00:23:30] slowly,

[00:23:30] to a full-blown

[00:23:31] fascist politics.

[00:23:33] It's an elaborate

[00:23:34] multi-billion dollar

[00:23:36] infrastructure.

[00:23:36] And there is nothing

[00:23:37] like it

[00:23:38] on the pro-democracy side.

[00:23:40] We don't have an,

[00:23:41] when a man

[00:23:42] is just lost and lonely

[00:23:44] and not yet radicalized,

[00:23:45] we don't have

[00:23:46] the equivalent

[00:23:47] of Joe Rogan

[00:23:48] and Jordan Peterson

[00:23:49] to move that man

[00:23:50] in a feminist direction.

[00:23:52] By the way,

[00:23:53] we should educate men

[00:23:54] that it's actually

[00:23:54] really great

[00:23:55] to live with a strong woman

[00:23:56] who makes money.

[00:23:57] It's actually easier.

[00:23:58] Life is easier.

[00:23:59] But I think

[00:24:02] it's okay

[00:24:03] to,

[00:24:04] wait.

[00:24:06] Particularly the media

[00:24:07] ecosystem they've,

[00:24:08] it's not a good one.

[00:24:09] It's right.

[00:24:09] The media ecosystem,

[00:24:10] this guy on MSNBC

[00:24:12] thinks that the media

[00:24:14] ecosystem

[00:24:14] that the right has

[00:24:16] is somehow more powerful

[00:24:18] than the media ecosystem

[00:24:20] that the left has

[00:24:21] and that the left

[00:24:22] doesn't radicalize.

[00:24:23] You got people

[00:24:24] that are screaming

[00:24:25] into their phones today

[00:24:28] and yesterday.

[00:24:30] Right?

[00:24:31] They believe

[00:24:32] they're about to be

[00:24:33] murdered by their government

[00:24:34] because of what y'all did.

[00:24:37] Stephen Miller

[00:24:38] from The Spectator,

[00:24:40] he says,

[00:24:40] the logic here

[00:24:41] is astonishing.

[00:24:42] MSNBC,

[00:24:43] CNN,

[00:24:43] CBS,

[00:24:44] ABC,

[00:24:44] Washington Post,

[00:24:45] The Atlantic,

[00:24:46] The New York Times,

[00:24:47] Time Magazine,

[00:24:48] and others

[00:24:48] completely froze out

[00:24:49] right-wing media voices.

[00:24:51] There's maybe

[00:24:52] one or two people

[00:24:53] across the entire

[00:24:54] corporate media spectrum

[00:24:55] that are right-leaning.

[00:24:58] So the right-wing voices

[00:25:00] go and create

[00:25:00] independent content

[00:25:01] and their own platforms

[00:25:03] and now

[00:25:04] these leftists

[00:25:05] are complaining

[00:25:05] about the right

[00:25:06] creating independent content

[00:25:08] on their own platforms.

[00:25:10] It's literally

[00:25:11] what you told

[00:25:12] the right to do.

[00:25:13] You shut the right

[00:25:14] out of all

[00:25:15] of those platforms

[00:25:16] saying,

[00:25:17] oh, just start,

[00:25:18] remember this?

[00:25:18] Start your own Twitter,

[00:25:20] start your own Amazon,

[00:25:21] start your own internet,

[00:25:22] just do your own thing.

[00:25:24] So the right

[00:25:24] has been doing that.

[00:25:27] And now that's the problem.

[00:25:31] Oh, and also,

[00:25:32] it's okay,

[00:25:33] you know,

[00:25:33] to just,

[00:25:34] it's just easier

[00:25:35] for a dude.

[00:25:35] You just stay home

[00:25:36] and don't do anything

[00:25:36] and let your wife

[00:25:37] do all the work

[00:25:38] and bring home

[00:25:38] all the money

[00:25:39] and that's just easier.

[00:25:42] Tell me you don't

[00:25:43] understand dudes

[00:25:44] without telling me

[00:25:45] you don't understand dudes.

[00:25:46] People need purpose.

[00:25:48] All right,

[00:25:48] back to the Dan McLaughlin

[00:25:50] piece over at

[00:25:50] National Review

[00:25:52] titled,

[00:25:52] You Did This to Yourselves,

[00:25:54] Democrats.

[00:25:57] He talks about

[00:25:58] the choices

[00:25:59] Democrats have made

[00:26:00] for,

[00:26:02] I guess,

[00:26:02] the last five years

[00:26:03] or so,

[00:26:04] six years

[00:26:05] that led them

[00:26:06] to this point

[00:26:09] from,

[00:26:10] you know,

[00:26:11] picking Kamala Harris,

[00:26:13] you know,

[00:26:13] Biden picking Kamala Harris

[00:26:16] and then,

[00:26:17] of course,

[00:26:17] the cover-up

[00:26:17] of his mental decline,

[00:26:20] the coup

[00:26:21] where they kicked him aside

[00:26:22] and put her in place.

[00:26:25] Biden had made choices

[00:26:26] to back the trillions

[00:26:29] of dollars

[00:26:29] in inflationary spending.

[00:26:31] His immigration policy

[00:26:32] was a completely

[00:26:34] self-inflicted wound.

[00:26:35] Nobody forced Democrats

[00:26:36] to use executive power

[00:26:38] to let a lot more migrants

[00:26:40] into the country.

[00:26:41] A move that horrified

[00:26:42] even progressive

[00:26:43] big city mayors.

[00:26:44] That was a choice.

[00:26:46] By 2024,

[00:26:47] he says,

[00:26:48] every Democrat

[00:26:49] in the country

[00:26:49] was running as far

[00:26:51] from that choice

[00:26:51] as they could.

[00:26:54] His administration

[00:26:54] spent a year

[00:26:55] running interference

[00:26:56] for the teachers' union

[00:26:57] school shutdown policies

[00:26:59] while stretching

[00:27:00] federal authority

[00:27:01] beyond the breaking point

[00:27:02] to unconstitutionally

[00:27:04] order vaccine mandates

[00:27:05] on most U.S. workers.

[00:27:07] Those were choices

[00:27:09] and they welded Biden

[00:27:11] to increasingly unpopular

[00:27:14] blue state lockdown

[00:27:15] and mandate policies

[00:27:17] that were disproportionately

[00:27:19] despised

[00:27:20] by working class voters,

[00:27:22] a.k.a.

[00:27:24] right?

[00:27:24] The essential workers.

[00:27:27] It was Biden's choice

[00:27:29] to force the withdrawal

[00:27:30] ahead of a rigid timeline

[00:27:31] with September 11th

[00:27:32] as a deadline

[00:27:33] and his other choices

[00:27:34] that maximized

[00:27:35] the fiasco in Afghanistan.

[00:27:37] His approval ratings

[00:27:38] never recovered

[00:27:39] after that.

[00:27:41] Leaning into the lawfare

[00:27:42] strategy against Trump,

[00:27:44] that was a choice.

[00:27:46] Nobody forced Biden

[00:27:47] to go all out,

[00:27:49] bending the law

[00:27:49] to bail out college debts,

[00:27:51] a move that was

[00:27:52] correctly interpreted

[00:27:54] by non-college educated voters

[00:27:57] as preferring college grads

[00:27:58] over them.

[00:28:00] Nobody forced Biden

[00:28:01] to try resurrecting

[00:28:03] the Iran deal

[00:28:04] or building that ridiculous

[00:28:05] Gaza pier.

[00:28:07] There was much more

[00:28:08] from left-wing anti-Semitism

[00:28:09] in protests

[00:28:10] of the Gaza war

[00:28:11] to the Justice Department's

[00:28:13] 24-7 culture war,

[00:28:14] right?

[00:28:15] Large segments

[00:28:16] of the voting public

[00:28:18] feel like

[00:28:19] these people

[00:28:20] had badly misunderstood

[00:28:21] their assignment

[00:28:22] to restore normality

[00:28:25] and a more traditional

[00:28:27] liberalism

[00:28:28] and had instead

[00:28:30] brought politics

[00:28:31] and bad policy

[00:28:32] into everything

[00:28:33] from the grocery store

[00:28:35] to the gas pump

[00:28:37] to the yeshiva

[00:28:39] to the local motel

[00:28:40] full of migrants

[00:28:42] to the HR office

[00:28:43] forcing shots

[00:28:44] and racial propaganda

[00:28:45] on you

[00:28:46] to your kids

[00:28:47] being kept out

[00:28:48] of school

[00:28:49] and your daughters

[00:28:49] facing boys

[00:28:50] on the basketball court.

[00:28:53] These were choices.

[00:28:55] By the summer

[00:28:57] of 2024,

[00:28:58] it had all

[00:28:59] been exposed.

[00:29:00] Biden

[00:29:01] was driven

[00:29:02] from the ticket

[00:29:02] and then everybody

[00:29:04] acted as if

[00:29:05] none of it

[00:29:05] had happened

[00:29:06] and we all

[00:29:08] saw it.

[00:29:09] We are living it.

[00:29:12] That's why

[00:29:13] I said yesterday

[00:29:15] this has been

[00:29:16] the repudiation

[00:29:18] of the gaslighting.

[00:29:21] A majority

[00:29:22] of Americans

[00:29:23] saw through

[00:29:24] the BS

[00:29:25] and we're just

[00:29:26] tired of it.

[00:29:27] We're just sick

[00:29:28] of it

[00:29:30] and we're willing

[00:29:31] to hire the guy

[00:29:32] that got fired.

[00:29:33] We're going to

[00:29:34] bring him back

[00:29:35] because you were

[00:29:36] so bad

[00:29:36] at what you

[00:29:37] promised to do.

[00:29:38] But I could be wrong.

[00:29:39] I'm just a radio host.

[00:29:40] What do I know?

[00:29:40] All right,

[00:29:41] that'll do it

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