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Here's What I Think About The Catastrophic Midterms Disaster · The Matt Walsh Show

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Speaker 1: Just two years after Donald Trump retook the White House
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Speaker 1: and Republicans gained control of both houses of Congress, voters
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Speaker 1: have made it clear, overwhelmingly, that all things considered, they'd
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Speaker 1: prefer to be governed by the Democrat Party, which has
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Speaker 1: been fully captured by communists who want half the country
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Speaker 1: dead and openly seek to destroy Western civilization itself. This
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Speaker 1: is a disastrous and profoundly irrational outcome on many levels,
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Speaker 1: but also not unexpected. Donald Trump abandoned the America First
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Speaker 1: principles that got him elected, and voters responded accordingly. In fact,
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Speaker 1: in Michigan, Abdul Al-Sayed literally ran an America First ad.
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Speaker 1: A guy named Abdul Al-Sayed was able to co-opt the
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Speaker 1: America First message because the president wasn't interested in it anymore.
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Speaker 1: And as a result, Democrats will take control of both
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Speaker 1: houses of Congress. They're picking up seats in the reddest
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Speaker 1: states on the map, including Mississippi and Texas. There's no
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Speaker 1: way to soft-pedal this, and I'm not going to try to.
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Speaker 1: It is a political catastrophe of historic proportions. The Republican
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Speaker 1: Party needs all new leadership. None should be spared from blame,
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Speaker 1: starting at the top with Trump himself. The people running
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Speaker 1: the party right now, who led us to this slaughter,
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Speaker 1: will not and cannot be its leaders in the future.
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Speaker 1: In every state he went to, Trump told voters to
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Speaker 1: pretend he's on the ballot.
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Speaker 2: And in the end, guess what they did? And that
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Speaker 2: was the problem.
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Speaker 1: And now, after the total domination we saw last night,
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Speaker 1: it's not unthinkable Democrats could get enough GOP support to
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Speaker 1: impeach and remove Trump from office. That's now on the table.
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Speaker 1: And that's how monumental this defeat was. Now, what this
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Speaker 1: means is that Iran, ironically enough, just did far more
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Speaker 1: damage to this country than whatever Trump was warning us about.
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Speaker 1: A nuclear-armed Iran is nowhere near as dangerous to Americans
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Speaker 1: as a socialist Democrat party running the government, which is
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Speaker 1: what's about to happen, in large part because the White
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Speaker 1: House launched a pointless, indefinite war in the Middle East.
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Speaker 1: Trump saw how the other Republican president this century derailed
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Speaker 1: his presidency and destroyed his party with an unpopular, pointless
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Speaker 1: foreign war, and decided that he'd go ahead and do
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Speaker 1: exactly the same thing. You know, the great, almost Shakespearean
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Speaker 1: tragedy here is that Trump launched his movement and seized
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Speaker 1: control of the party, in large part because he was
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Speaker 1: one of the only Republicans willing to criticize Bush's disastrous
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Speaker 1: foreign war. And now Trump's tenure will end in ruin
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Speaker 1: because he launched a disastrous foreign war of his own.
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Speaker 1: The justification for this war, which raised the price of
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Speaker 1: fuel enormously, was to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran. Well, I
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Speaker 1: would certainly rather have a nuclear-armed Iran than communists running
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Speaker 1: my country.
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Speaker 2: And it's not a close call.
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Speaker 1: The catastrophe that's about to unfold, unlike any nuclear weapon,
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Speaker 1: legitimately has the potential to destroy the entire country.
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Speaker 2: You can look forward to D.C.
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Speaker 1: Statehood, Puerto Rican statehood, unlimited foreign voters, a packed Supreme Court,
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Speaker 1: made easier by the fact that the elderly conservative justices
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Speaker 1: pulled a Ginsburg and refused to retire this year, all
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Speaker 1: of this is much, much worse than Iran getting a nuke.
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Speaker 1: It will hurt you and your children much more than
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Speaker 1: Iran ever could have. But that's our future now, in
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Speaker 1: no small part because this war resulted in a much
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Speaker 1: higher cost of living for almost everyone. But as devastating
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Speaker 1: as the Iran quagmire has been, we also can't ignore
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Speaker 1: the larger macro trends at play here. This is a
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Speaker 1: far greater political realignment than anything we've seen in the
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Speaker 1: modern history of the country.
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Speaker 2: Even more dramatic.
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Speaker 1: Than 2016, when Trump first took the White House. This
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Speaker 1: is arguably a permanent realignment, one that immigration hawks have
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Speaker 1: warned about for decades, and yet for some reason the
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Speaker 1: GOP never took seriously. And it largely explains why the
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Speaker 1: entire South is now in play. To be sure, immigration
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Speaker 1: alone is not the whole story. According to exit polls,
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Speaker 1: only 51% of white voters went for Republicans. Democrats won
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Speaker 1: young white men by 17 points last night, according to
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Speaker 1: CNN exit polls, while Trump won young white men by
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Speaker 1: 28 points in 2024. In other words, in just two years,
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Speaker 1: the Republicans have completely alienated one of the major demographics
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Speaker 1: that their policies were supposed to help by eliminating anti-white discrimination,
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Speaker 1: deporting illegal foreigners, competing for jobs— and so on.
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Speaker 2: It is a stunning failure.
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Speaker 1: You know, you can't help but think about that Sarah
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Speaker 1: Huckabee Sanders ad where she portrayed the typical welfare queen
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Speaker 1: as a young white male. The exact demographic least likely
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Speaker 1: to be on welfare was nonetheless turned into the mascots
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Speaker 1: for welfare. Now, that ad obviously isn't why Republicans were
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Speaker 1: obliterated last night, but it illustrates the deeper problem, which
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Speaker 1: is that Republicans need white men in order to have
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Speaker 1: any chance of winning any race at any level. And
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Speaker 1: white men have been their most loyal constituents. And yet
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Speaker 1: Republicans still won't speak to white men or acknowledge them
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Speaker 1: as a group except to cast them as villains. The
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Speaker 1: Democrats speak very specifically to the core demographics that they
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Speaker 1: need to win elections.
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Speaker 2: Republicans will not do that. In fact, they do exactly
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Speaker 2: the opposite.
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Speaker 1: But putting that aside, as it turns out, what people
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Speaker 1: care about, whether they're white or not, is being able
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Speaker 1: to afford a home. and being able to get a
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Speaker 1: job and raise a family. And that's not possible for
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Speaker 1: a lot of young people right now. So there are
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Speaker 1: much larger issues than immigration alone, although there's no question
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Speaker 1: that the scale of the Democrats' victory was greatly assisted
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Speaker 1: by foreign migration. You'll hear pundits comparing this election to
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Speaker 1: when Reagan or Clinton lost and a lot of seats
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Speaker 1: in the midterms. But there's a very important difference here,
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Speaker 1: which is that our country has become unrecognizable over the
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Speaker 1: past decade or so.
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Speaker 2: Young people are struggling to get jobs. and now compete
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Speaker 2: with AI.
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Speaker 1: Social media feeds are overrun with slop, outright fabrications, mass hysteria.
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Speaker 1: Tens of millions of Americans are consuming this garbage on
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Speaker 1: platforms like TikTok and Instagram every second of the day.
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Speaker 1: Plenty of podcasts contribute to the problem as well. Additionally,
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Speaker 1: foreigners now dominate major cities in this country, and they're
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Speaker 1: both desperate for handouts and furious about immigration enforcement. Put
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Speaker 1: it all together, and we're on the fast track to
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Speaker 1: become Canada by 2030. with even more third-world demographics, along
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Speaker 1: with a Democrat president and a Democrat supermajority in Congress.
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Speaker 1: In no uncertain terms, this could mark the end of
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Speaker 1: the country as we know it.
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Speaker 2: It could. Or maybe the more accurate comparison would be
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Speaker 2: to Brazil.
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Speaker 1: Which became minority white in 2010, and where opposition candidates
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Speaker 1: have to flee the country.
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Speaker 2: After Election Day.
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Speaker 1: That's what's coming for us if this wipeout in 2026
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Speaker 1: is the precursor to an even greater defeat in 2028.
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Speaker 1: In that case, no Republican will ever be allowed to
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Speaker 1: win a national election again. Take a look at Texas,
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Speaker 1: which has now been turned blue.
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Speaker 2: Consider this.
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Speaker 1: Is there any path for Republicans to win national elections
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Speaker 1: that does not include Texas? Is there any roadmap to
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Speaker 1: victory for Republicans that routes around Texas?
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Speaker 2: The answer is no. That route doesn't exist.
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Speaker 1: It's like trying to find a way to get from
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Speaker 1: New York to London without a plane and without even
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Speaker 1: a boat.
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Speaker 2: You can't get there. What are you going to do, swim?
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Speaker 2: Republicans will be swimming alone in the ocean if they
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Speaker 2: don't have Texas. They cannot be a national political party
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Speaker 2: without Texas. It is impossible.
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Speaker 1: The problem is that Democrats have utterly transformed the demographics
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Speaker 1: of the state through the importation of foreigners, and they've
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Speaker 1: done it efficiently and without the slightest hesitation or apology.
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Speaker 1: They're going to do what they need to do to win.
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Speaker 1: And in order to win Texas, they had to transform
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Speaker 1: the demographics.
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Speaker 2: And so they did.
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Speaker 1: This was the political map of Texas in 2024. Trump
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Speaker 1: won easily by more than 1.5 million votes. In 2022,
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Speaker 1: Greg Abbott won by more than 10% of the vote.
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Speaker 1: Last night, he went down along with Ken Paxton in
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Speaker 1: the Senate. Actually, Democrats swept every statewide office in Texas,
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Speaker 1: including Attorney General, Land Commissioner, Agriculture Commissioner, everything. And there
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Speaker 1: were similar upsets in several other states, including Mississippi. By
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Speaker 1: pursuing an agenda that ignored key social issues and pursuing
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Speaker 1: economic growth above all else, Republican governments throughout the South
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Speaker 1: created a demographic time bomb that has finally detonated in
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Speaker 1: exactly the way that many of us said it would.
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Speaker 2: And here we are. Nothing like this would ever happen
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Speaker 2: in California.
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Speaker 1: You know, no one honestly believes the GOP could ever
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Speaker 1: flip California red, but Democrats have had their sights on
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Speaker 1: Texas for some time because, unlike the GOP, they understand
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Speaker 1: the importance of demographics. They understand that after decades of
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Speaker 1: importing foreigners who vote a certain way, your victory eventually
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Speaker 1: becomes inevitable. And then you have dozens of electoral votes
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Speaker 1: in your pocket forever for all future elections. As the
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Speaker 1: saying goes, in a democracy, demographics are destiny. And that's
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Speaker 1: what we saw last night. Then there's Ohio, where Trump's
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Speaker 1: endorsement of a VEK resulted in another crushing defeat in a.
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Speaker 2: Once red state.
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Speaker 1: Then there's South Carolina, which also flipped red when the
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Speaker 1: Trump-endorsed Republican Darlene Graham lost in convincing fashion. Darlene Graham
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Speaker 1: is the sister of Lindsey Graham, who of course recently died.
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Speaker 1: What was her— and this is the woman that Trump endorsed— what
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Speaker 1: was her pitch to the voters? What relevant experience or
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Speaker 1: qualifications did she bring to the table? Why would anyone
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Speaker 1: vote for her? Why did she earn Trump's endorsement? Well,
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Speaker 1: apparently the answer to all of those questions was that
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Speaker 1: she's the sister of the gay Republican who just died.
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Speaker 1: Her whole pitch to the voters was, oh, my brother
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Speaker 1: was the gay guy who was in the Senate for
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Speaker 1: a long time and died. One of the most crucial
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Speaker 1: races in the country, and the strategy was to run
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Speaker 1: a woman with no political experience, no political skills, no
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Speaker 1: resume of any kind, no name recognition, on the theory
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Speaker 1: that voters would support her because she's the sister of the.
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Speaker 2: Last guy they had in office. A staggeringly stupid strategy.
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Speaker 1: And that was the theme for Republicans across the country
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Speaker 1: and for Trump himself.
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Speaker 2: A lot of staggeringly stupid strategies.
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Speaker 1: Kind of like the strategy of Donald Trump to say
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Speaker 1: just last week about gas prices that he doesn't give
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Speaker 1: a damn.
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Speaker 4: Great.
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Speaker 2: Staggeringly stupid.
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Speaker 1: And all of it blows up exactly as any reasonable
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Speaker 1: person would have expected. Now, to be clear, If this
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Speaker 1: clarification even needs to be said, which it shouldn't, I'm
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Speaker 1: not defending anyone who voted for the Democrat candidates last night.
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Speaker 1: What we saw last night was not a rational response,
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Speaker 1: no matter how much time you spend trying to make
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Speaker 1: sense of it, no matter what you think of how
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Speaker 1: the Trump administration, the Republican majority in Congress handled the
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Speaker 1: past two years. There's no conceivable justification for electing Democrats
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Speaker 1: to replace them. The party that wants to eliminate the
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Speaker 1: fossil fuel industry is not going to lower your gas prices, okay?
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Speaker 1: The party that wants to flood the nation with millions
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Speaker 1: of foreigners is not going to make the job market
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Speaker 1: any less competitive or the housing market any cheaper. The
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Speaker 1: party that wants to imprison its political opponents and nationalize
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Speaker 1: companies like SpaceX because they don't like Elon Musk is
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Speaker 1: not going to grow the economy.
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Speaker 2: They're going to destroy it.
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Speaker 1: Any Republican who voted for a Democrat last night as
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Speaker 1: some kind of protest vote made a horrifically idiotic decision
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Speaker 1: that cannot be justified.
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Speaker 2: Either morally or strategically.
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Speaker 1: You cannot, under any circumstances, willingly hand over your country
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Speaker 1: to people who hate you and your family and your
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Speaker 1: nation and seek to destroy all three. But none of
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Speaker 1: that actually matters in the end, practically speaking, because voters
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Speaker 1: who are disaffected and frustrated with good reason are going
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Speaker 1: to punish the incumbent every single time. Many of them
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Speaker 1: will stay home and passively allow the revolution to take place.
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Speaker 1: We've seen that many times throughout history. And therefore, our
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Speaker 1: elected leaders have an obligation to govern with competence, restraint,
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Speaker 1: and purpose. Instead of simply talking about a golden age,
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Speaker 1: as they impose massive tariffs that destroy everyone's 401, they
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Speaker 1: should lower taxes across the board, eliminate regulations, reduce the deficit.
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Speaker 1: Instead of talking about ballrooms or Sean Hannity's paycheck or
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Speaker 1: the asses of various Republican politicians, our leaders are supposed
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Speaker 1: to empathize, or at least pretend to empathize, with what
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Speaker 1: life is like for average Americans. You know, it's one
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Speaker 1: thing to say no tax on tips, but when you
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Speaker 1: start a war that makes the waiter's gas more expensive,
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Speaker 1: and you impose tariffs that make his toddler's clothes more expensive,
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Speaker 1: and when you spend so much that interest rates have
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Speaker 1: to remain so high that he can't afford his home
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Speaker 1: or pay off his debts, he's not going to vote
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Speaker 1: for you. Even if he resents everything Democrats stand for,
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Speaker 1: he's going to stay home on election day. I'm not
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Speaker 1: saying what I think he should do. I'm telling you
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Speaker 1: what he will do and did in fact do. And
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Speaker 1: that's just the way it goes. So this chart is
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Speaker 1: from Raymond James, and you can see how Trump's approval
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Speaker 1: ratings map almost perfectly onto gas prices. It's precisely inverted.
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Speaker 1: As the gas prices go up, Trump's approval rating goes down.
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Speaker 1: This is a reminder that sometimes politics, not that complicated.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes being a bad politician has consequences. Do we need
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Speaker 1: a five hour long deep dive to elaborate.
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Speaker 2: On that point? Probably not.
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Speaker 1: When a guy has to spend $ 100 to fill up
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Speaker 1: his truck on his way to work, you're going to
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Speaker 1: have a hard time.
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Speaker 2: Convincing him to vote for you.
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Speaker 1: When you make a decision that makes his life measurably worse,
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Speaker 1: like the Iran war with now gas prices, you're going
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Speaker 1: to have a hard time getting him to vote for you.
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Speaker 2: He's going to look at you and say, well, you
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Speaker 2: made my life worse. Why would I vote for you?
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Speaker 1: Another way of looking at it is, it's hard to
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Speaker 1: get someone to vote for you when he can barely
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Speaker 1: afford the gas it takes to get to the polls
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Speaker 1: in the first place. And that's why it's unbelievably reckless
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Speaker 1: to make a decision, like launching a war with Iran,
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Speaker 1: that you know will directly raise gas prices. You are
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Speaker 1: doing something that is guaranteed— not maybe— guaranteed to piss off an
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Speaker 1: overwhelming majority of voters because it will make their lives
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Speaker 1: worse and more difficult in a measurable and immediate way.
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Speaker 1: So if you're going to do that, if you're going
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Speaker 1: to not just play with fire but play in it,
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Speaker 1: throw yourself into the flames in an act of political self-immolation,
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Speaker 1: you better have a very compelling reason that you are
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Speaker 1: able to articulate in an extremely clear and persuasive and
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Speaker 1: consistent way. The Trump administration never presented anything approaching a
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Speaker 1: compelling or articulate or clear argument for the Iran war.
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Speaker 1: They did not make a persuasive argument for it, which
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Speaker 1: is why nobody was persuaded. Instead, they vaguely said it
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Speaker 1: was about destroying a nuclear program that they had previously
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Speaker 1: told us had already been destroyed. And they said it
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Speaker 1: would be quick and painless and over before we know it.
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Speaker 1: But much like Trump's two weeks to slow the spread,
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Speaker 1: the quick and painless war has dragged on indefinitely.
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Speaker 2: So, this is the worst of all worlds.
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Speaker 1: You've done a thing which has had the immediate effect of,
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Speaker 1: among other things, raising gas prices, while at the same
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Speaker 1: time being increasingly vague and uncertain and ambiguous about why
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Speaker 1: you're doing it, what the point is, what the objective is,
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Speaker 1: what the endgame is.
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Speaker 2: Then you got crushed in the midterms.
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Speaker 1: Acting surprised about that result is like acting surprised that
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Speaker 1: you totaled your car after deliberately driving into a brick
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Speaker 1: wall at 75 miles an hour.
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Speaker 2: Well, we've survived another election night. maybe, if you can
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Speaker 2: say that.
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Speaker 1: maybe we should have beaten the Democrats at their own game,
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Speaker 1: opened the floodgates from Poland and Hungary, flood the zone
19:44
Speaker 1: with right-wing voters to counteract what Democrats have been doing
19:48
Speaker 1: for generations. Does that sound too extreme for you? Okay, well,
19:51
Speaker 1: then you don't want to win. Do you listen to
19:55
Speaker 1: that and go, oh, we can't do that? Okay, well,
19:56
Speaker 1: then you don't want to win. Okay, well, then you're
19:58
Speaker 1: not going to win.
19:59
Speaker 2: Okay? You're just not going to win.
20:03
Speaker 1: Make a serious attempt at turning California red just as
20:05
Speaker 1: they turned Texas blue.
20:08
Speaker 2: Using the same kinds of methods, or you won't win.
20:14
Speaker 1: They want to make it a minority white country very deliberately,
20:18
Speaker 1: and we are ruled by Republicans who are too afraid
20:21
Speaker 1: to even say what's happening, much less do anything about it.
20:26
Speaker 2: We needed low taxes across the board.
20:28
Speaker 1: We needed dramatically lower spending, which admittedly would have required
20:31
Speaker 1: some cooperation from Congress.
20:34
Speaker 2: Congress isn't off the hook here.
20:35
Speaker 1: Republicans in Congress block the president almost every available opportunity.
20:40
Speaker 1: We needed no more wars, especially since, according to exit
20:42
Speaker 1: polls last night, 74% of voters said the Iran war
20:46
Speaker 1: was a crucial or major factor in their vote. And
20:50
Speaker 1: 62% of those voters sided with Democrats in the election. Instead,
20:56
Speaker 1: we bombed Iran on the theory that Iranians would rise
20:58
Speaker 1: up in the streets, overthrow their government, build a thriving
21:02
Speaker 1: pro-American democracy in the Middle East. That was Trump's explicit
21:06
Speaker 1: promise the night he announced that the war had begun.
21:08
Speaker 2: Guess what? It never happened. And we just kept bombing.
21:14
Speaker 1: Americans never got an explanation for any of that. Were
21:17
Speaker 1: we tricked by Israel? Did Israeli intelligence tell us that
21:19
Speaker 1: Iranians would rise up? Why did we think that was
21:23
Speaker 1: going to happen? And if so, why exactly did we
21:26
Speaker 1: believe them? So we've been governed by Republicans who appear
21:31
Speaker 1: to have no interest in actually governing or holding on
21:34
Speaker 1: to power for very long. So we never got any answers.
21:39
Speaker 1: And instead, actually, we've been treated with maximum contempt. There's
21:44
Speaker 1: a level of contempt that we've seen from the White
21:47
Speaker 1: House and from Trump himself that we never saw before.
21:51
Speaker 1: Out of touch in a way that he never was before.
21:55
Speaker 1: His handling of the Epstein files was the first major
21:59
Speaker 1: red flag. There's a disconnect here. You said you're going
22:03
Speaker 1: to release the Epstein files, and then not only did
22:05
Speaker 1: you not release them, but you turned around and said, well,
22:06
Speaker 1: anyone who wants to release them is stupid. Yeah, well,
22:10
Speaker 1: your base cares about it. And you can't call them stupid.
22:16
Speaker 1: And then you can't pretend you're releasing them with some
22:18
Speaker 1: weird stunt where you put Epstein files on a binder
22:20
Speaker 1: and give it to a bunch of influencers.
22:23
Speaker 2: You're treating your base like they're stupid. You staged a
22:27
Speaker 2: stunt to pretend you were releasing files, and you weren't.
22:30
Speaker 1: That's what you did, and everyone knew it. and you
22:32
Speaker 1: treated them like they're stupid, which is something we never
22:36
Speaker 1: saw before. Meanwhile, everything Democrats have been doing, all of it,
22:42
Speaker 1: has been directed towards gaining power and destroying their political opponents.
22:46
Speaker 1: That's why Democrats have been mocking Charlie Kirk's assassination from
22:48
Speaker 1: the moment it happened. And instead of being punished for it,
22:53
Speaker 1: they've been rewarded. Killing Charlie Kirk helped them. All the
22:58
Speaker 1: Democrats who celebrated Charlie Kirk's death didn't deter any voters
23:02
Speaker 1: from supporting Democrats. If anything, it encouraged them. And this
23:05
Speaker 1: is the norm in the Third World, and now it's
23:07
Speaker 1: the norm in the United States. The lesson these people
23:09
Speaker 1: have drawn is that political assassinations work.
23:14
Speaker 2: So from their perspective, why not do more of them?
23:17
Speaker 1: If the government's not going to punish it with a
23:19
Speaker 1: ruthless and widespread campaign of arrests and prosecutions against not
23:24
Speaker 1: just the violent leftists, but the networks that fund and
23:27
Speaker 1: facilitate them, And if there won't be any measurable political consequence,
23:32
Speaker 1: then what's to stop them? Why should they allow any
23:36
Speaker 1: conservative with a large platform to live? If they can
23:40
Speaker 1: kill us without any apparent downside, why not just pick
23:43
Speaker 1: us off one by one?
23:46
Speaker 2: Perhaps those are the dots.
23:47
Speaker 1: They're connecting right now. And as a conservative with a
23:50
Speaker 1: large platform, I'm very aware of that possibility. Meanwhile, in
23:54
Speaker 1: New Hampshire yesterday, a Turning Point USA volunteer was assaulted
23:57
Speaker 1: by a leftist boomer. He was slapped in the face
24:01
Speaker 1: simply for voicing his political opinion.
24:03
Speaker 2: Watch this.
24:05
Speaker 5: You have no idea who I am, so how dare
24:08
Speaker 5: you say I don't know much.
24:11
Speaker 2: You haven't presented a single statistic. Neither have you. Damn,
24:16
Speaker 2: I cannot believe that bull.
24:20
Speaker 5: You sit there and dare to look me in the
24:23
Speaker 5: face and say, I don't know anything.
24:28
Speaker 2: That's what I know.
24:35
Speaker 1: Again, nothing happened to this guy. He knew the Republican
24:38
Speaker 1: volunteer wasn't going to fight back. He knew the police
24:41
Speaker 1: weren't going to arrest him. Leftists and only leftists operate
24:43
Speaker 1: with total impunity in our political system.
24:46
Speaker 2: They're mobsters. They can get away with anything. And they
24:50
Speaker 2: know it.
24:51
Speaker 1: They're already planning their next wave of lawfare and political prosecutions.
24:54
Speaker 1: As we watch the election results come in last night,
24:57
Speaker 1: Democrat Congressman Robert Garcia of California posted the following message
25:00
Speaker 1: on X, quote, lawyer up. So as I said, we're
25:05
Speaker 1: turning into Brazil. When you lose an election, you get
25:07
Speaker 1: thrown in jail. You have to flee the country. We've
25:11
Speaker 1: been on this trajectory for a decade, and now it's
25:13
Speaker 1: a fundamental part of our political system. The loser goes
25:16
Speaker 1: to prison. If we're going to recover from this and
25:20
Speaker 1: reclaim a semblance of the country we used to have,
25:21
Speaker 1: we need to look ahead to the future of the
25:24
Speaker 1: Republican Party. It's not going to be easy for a
25:27
Speaker 1: lot of Trump supporters to come to grips with, but
25:30
Speaker 1: it's true. For the last 11 years, Donald Trump has
25:32
Speaker 1: shaped this country in a more meaningful way than any
25:35
Speaker 1: other modern political figure. That chapter is over. That chapter
25:41
Speaker 1: is over. The Trump chapter is finished.
25:44
Speaker 2: It's over.
25:45
Speaker 1: Trump is an extremely unpopular 80-year-old lame duck with no
25:49
Speaker 1: credibility with the voters, no future, and now no real power.
25:55
Speaker 1: Even if Republicans won last night, that would still be
25:58
Speaker 1: mostly true, at least in the long term.
26:01
Speaker 2: He's a lame duck president. He's going to be gone.
26:04
Speaker 2: And that's always been the case.
26:06
Speaker 1: Trump has defined the party and the conservative movement for
26:09
Speaker 1: a decade, and that is now over.
26:10
Speaker 2: It has to be.
26:11
Speaker 1: The person setting the course for your movement for the
26:13
Speaker 1: next decade cannot be an 80-year-old politician who will be
26:17
Speaker 1: out of office permanently in two years.
26:19
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter how much you like Trump. That's just
26:22
Speaker 2: a fact.
26:23
Speaker 1: And the country is radically different than it was before
26:25
Speaker 1: he rose. This means that there's going to be a
26:27
Speaker 1: huge battle for the future of our country. And as
26:30
Speaker 1: of today, it's fully underway. Ron DeSantis is blaming the
26:33
Speaker 1: defeat entirely on the war in Iran, perhaps as a
26:35
Speaker 1: way of distinguishing himself.
26:38
Speaker 2: From J.D. Vance, although J.D.
26:39
Speaker 1: Vance just put up a tweet where he also very
26:42
Speaker 1: directly said that this was the result of the war
26:45
Speaker 1: in Iran. And neither one of them are wrong about that. And,
26:52
Speaker 1: you know, you can expect to see other Republicans like
26:53
Speaker 1: Marco Rubio come up with their own explanation, but the
26:58
Speaker 1: direction the party should go is obvious. Many Republicans voted yesterday,
27:03
Speaker 1: but they were motivated by the sheer awfulness of the
27:05
Speaker 1: Democratic lunatics. We need a Republican party that people are
27:08
Speaker 1: excited to vote for, not a party that's a lesser
27:10
Speaker 1: of two evils. The best sales pitch you could give
27:14
Speaker 1: for Republicans heading into the midterms, and the one I
27:16
Speaker 1: did give, was that even if Republicans haven't done much,
27:19
Speaker 1: at least they aren't anti-American, anti-white communists who want to
27:22
Speaker 1: kill you and your family.
27:23
Speaker 2: And that pitch is true. It's also the only available pitch.
27:28
Speaker 2: And it's also a very weak pitch.
27:30
Speaker 1: I would have liked to say that the Republican Congress
27:32
Speaker 1: has done a tremendous job and have achieved many tangible
27:36
Speaker 1: and measurable things for the American people. And we've got
27:39
Speaker 1: to put them back in office because look at all
27:40
Speaker 1: these other things they're going to do. But that would
27:44
Speaker 1: require me to lie.
27:48
Speaker 2: I'm not going to do that.
27:51
Speaker 1: Think about that for a second. What if Republicans had
27:55
Speaker 1: retained control of Congress for the next two years? What
27:58
Speaker 1: were they planning to do? What was their plan? What
28:01
Speaker 1: were like the top three pieces of legislation that Republicans
28:04
Speaker 1: were planning to pass if we put them back in office?
28:09
Speaker 2: Can anyone answer that question? Nobody can. Because they had
28:14
Speaker 2: no plans.
28:16
Speaker 1: So you're going into a midterm election with no plan
28:19
Speaker 1: for the future that you're articulating to the voters.
28:22
Speaker 2: Every voter should at least.
28:24
Speaker 1: Know, okay, if Republicans are elected again, here's the three
28:26
Speaker 1: things they're going to do. That's the most basic pitch
28:33
Speaker 1: and message that you need to have. And they didn't
28:38
Speaker 1: even have that. So we were left only with, well,
28:43
Speaker 1: vote for Republicans. They suck, but the other guys suck
28:45
Speaker 1: a lot more. And that pitch, which is the only
28:49
Speaker 1: one we can give, just isn't all that compelling. The
28:55
Speaker 1: fact is that when the Republicans are a minority, they
28:57
Speaker 1: vote like conservatives, and when they're the majority, they do
28:59
Speaker 1: nothing at all. Voters were sick of that in 2015,
29:01
Speaker 1: and that's why they nominated Donald Trump. Voters are sick
29:03
Speaker 1: of that in 2026, and that's why many of Trump's
29:05
Speaker 1: voters didn't show up for Republicans.
29:07
Speaker 2: Why would they? They passed nothing.
29:10
Speaker 1: They were consumed with infighting. They slow-rolled many of Trump's
29:13
Speaker 1: own nominations. They failed to pass basic, universally popular reforms
29:17
Speaker 1: like the SAVE Act, which had the support of 90%
29:19
Speaker 1: of voters.
29:22
Speaker 2: It was a straightforward way to reduce voter fraud.
29:24
Speaker 1: It just required ID when you registered to vote, but
29:26
Speaker 1: Republicans didn't want to abolish the filibuster to pass it,
29:28
Speaker 1: supposedly because they were worried about protecting the traditions of
29:31
Speaker 1: the Senate. Do you think Democrats are going to care
29:35
Speaker 1: about honoring the traditions of the Senate? How many traditions
29:39
Speaker 1: or norms do you think think will be left standing
29:41
Speaker 1: in 2030 if Democrats have control of Congress and the presidency?
29:46
Speaker 1: You're dealing with an opposition that not only doesn't care
29:48
Speaker 1: about traditions, but actively seeks to erase them.
29:51
Speaker 2: These are the people who tear down statues of the
29:53
Speaker 2: founding fathers.
29:53
Speaker 1: Do you think they'll have any compunction about violating congressional norms?
29:58
Speaker 1: To be a viable political party, you cannot simply oppose
30:02
Speaker 1: the other side. You must learn to govern. Wield power.
30:07
Speaker 1: And that means securing some meaningful victories. Imagine it's Saturday
30:12
Speaker 1: morning and you're going to have some coffee, maybe get
30:15
Speaker 1: a few things done around the house and enjoy a
30:17
Speaker 1: relatively peaceful day. Then you discover there's no hot water. Now,
30:20
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30:22
Speaker 1: with the water heater. Looking for someone who can come
30:25
Speaker 1: fix it on a Saturday and wondering how much this
30:27
Speaker 1: is all going to cost. And the answer, of course,
30:29
Speaker 1: is probably more than you're willing to spend. This is
30:32
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30:34
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30:36
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30:40
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31:34
Speaker 1: One of the reasons Congress does very little to support
31:37
Speaker 1: Trump's conservative agenda is they don't support it, especially in
31:41
Speaker 1: the Senate. Many of these people will rush to tell
31:43
Speaker 1: us that Trump's stances on immigration and DEI are an aberration.
31:46
Speaker 1: The party has to go back to what it was
31:47
Speaker 1: in 2014. You know, free market and open borders and
31:51
Speaker 1: foreign wars. The party of Reagan. And the thing is,
31:56
Speaker 1: the party of Reagan worked in 1980. It doesn't work
32:00
Speaker 1: in 2026. In part because Reagan granted amnesty to millions
32:06
Speaker 1: of foreigners.
32:08
Speaker 2: And for the same reason, it won't work in 2028.
32:12
Speaker 1: And unless Republicans in Congress realize this, or more accurately,
32:15
Speaker 1: until we start electing Republicans in Congress who realize this,
32:19
Speaker 1: there can be no successful America First agenda. So what
32:24
Speaker 1: should the future Republican Party focus on? Well, exit polling
32:28
Speaker 1: showed domestic issues like inflation and the economy were hugely important.
32:33
Speaker 1: It's hard to imagine what this would be like had
32:35
Speaker 1: the Iran war not happened. had Trump kept his promise
32:39
Speaker 1: to be a peacetime president. But if you watch videos
32:41
Speaker 1: of young voters explaining their decisions, it becomes pretty obvious
32:45
Speaker 1: what our messaging should be going forward.
32:47
Speaker 3: Watch.
32:49
Speaker 6: I'm angry and betrayed.
32:50
Speaker 2: I feel betrayed.
32:52
Speaker 6: Everything that he said has been an empty promise, and
32:54
Speaker 6: everything has just gotten more expensive.
32:56
Speaker 2: I was a new voter.
32:58
Speaker 3: I kept out of politics growing up, and so I
33:00
Speaker 3: didn't know too much. I was pretty uninformed when I voted.
33:02
Speaker 6: It was promises that he kept last time he was
33:05
Speaker 6: in office that made me want to vote for him
33:07
Speaker 6: this time, which.
33:09
Speaker 2: Didn't happen this time. Why did you vote for him
33:11
Speaker 2: back then?
33:12
Speaker 6: I mean, I was, I think I was like 19.
33:14
Speaker 6: I might have just freshly turned 20. Just the things
33:17
Speaker 6: he was promising. You know, he was promising a better economy.
33:19
Speaker 6: He was promising cheaper houses.
33:20
Speaker 4: He promised not to get into any foreign.
33:24
Speaker 2: Wars on the campaign trail.
33:26
Speaker 6: That's one of the things that has angered me, is
33:29
Speaker 6: like almost immediately... went back on his word it's making
33:34
Speaker 6: it harder to pay off my college debt and stuff
33:37
Speaker 6: like that i was doing pretty well.
33:38
Speaker 2: For a while my view of him went down.
33:42
Speaker 4: I'm not a big fan anymore.
33:44
Speaker 3: Why like i said he's got money so he thinks
33:47
Speaker 3: he's got all the power he thinks he can make
33:49
Speaker 3: the decisions of going to war and he doesn't feel
33:52
Speaker 3: the repercussion because of it we do.
33:53
Speaker 4: Would you tell yourself to vote differently would you do
33:57
Speaker 4: anything differently.
33:58
Speaker 6: Um I definitely would have told myself to be more informed.
34:03
Speaker 6: I love America, but the America that I was promised
34:06
Speaker 6: as a kid, I feel like is not the America
34:07
Speaker 6: that I'm seeing. And I know I'm speaking on the
34:10
Speaker 6: behalf of a lot of people in my circle that
34:12
Speaker 6: would have to agree with me.
34:12
Speaker 1: You know, this is what happens when you slap tariffs
34:17
Speaker 1: on everything and then start a war.
34:18
Speaker 2: Prices go up. And especially for.
34:20
Speaker 1: Young people, even a small increase in the cost of
34:23
Speaker 1: living can be devastating. And when these young people complained
34:26
Speaker 1: about it, Trump told them to shut up and look
34:30
Speaker 1: at his ballroom.
34:30
Speaker 2: I mean, it's obscene. I'm not going to pretend that
34:35
Speaker 2: Donald Trump didn't have any major victories.
34:37
Speaker 1: He reformed food stamps, which is easily one of the
34:39
Speaker 1: most corrupt and fraudulent government programs in existence. He used
34:42
Speaker 1: the military to drop crime in DC and Memphis without
34:45
Speaker 1: the help of Congress. Uh, at the same time, the
34:48
Speaker 1: unfortunate reality is that in democracies, you can be a
34:50
Speaker 1: victim of your own success by closing the open border
34:53
Speaker 1: and getting crossings down to zero. Trump motivated a lot
34:55
Speaker 1: of leftists to take the streets and organize, um, which
34:59
Speaker 1: is fine. I mean, you still have to do it,
35:01
Speaker 1: even though your opposition is going to not like it.
35:03
Speaker 2: So what?
35:05
Speaker 1: But at the same time, politically, you neutralize one of
35:08
Speaker 1: the biggest issues in the eyes of Republicans. You know,
35:11
Speaker 1: it was a major domestic policy achievement. It's very good
35:14
Speaker 1: that it happened. It may have saved the country at
35:17
Speaker 1: least temporarily. But you've taken that issue off the table.
35:23
Speaker 1: And in politics, it's what have you done for me lately? Okay, well,
35:27
Speaker 1: you did that in the first few days of your presidency.
35:29
Speaker 3: Awesome.
35:32
Speaker 2: What's next?
35:35
Speaker 1: And if you then go around and turn around and
35:37
Speaker 1: start a pointless foreign war that hikes up gas prices
35:39
Speaker 1: and costs a living for everyone, you can't.
35:41
Speaker 2: Point back and say, well, at least I closed the border.
35:42
Speaker 2: You know, now that's not to.
35:47
Speaker 1: Say that good governance... is, you know, doesn't matter or
35:51
Speaker 1: is pointless. Some states, Florida, for example, show that consistent
35:55
Speaker 1: good governance over a number of years can transform a state.
35:57
Speaker 1: Florida was one of the few bright spots last night
35:59
Speaker 1: for Republicans, barely. Florida was able to weather the storm
36:02
Speaker 1: in part because of the foreigners who live there. Many
36:05
Speaker 1: of them are anti-communist from places like Cuba. So they
36:10
Speaker 1: have a lot of foreign voters there, but it just
36:12
Speaker 1: so happens that their foreign voters tend to be anti-communist.
36:15
Speaker 2: That helps them.
36:17
Speaker 1: And many of the domestic transplants have fled from the
36:20
Speaker 1: destruction of liberal policies in places like New York and California.
36:24
Speaker 1: But in addition to the demographics, Ron DeSantis has done
36:27
Speaker 1: a good job making Florida a relatively affordable, safe place
36:30
Speaker 1: to live. And that matters to voters, even in a
36:33
Speaker 1: terrible election year. But this level of focus has not
36:37
Speaker 1: been found in other states. Republicans in Texas were no
36:40
Speaker 1: more focused than Trump has been, which is not very much.
36:44
Speaker 1: And what mattered for voters in that state was the
36:46
Speaker 1: fact that Democrats were promising to get rid of the
36:48
Speaker 1: tariffs and stop deporting their friends and family members. Now,
36:52
Speaker 1: the deportations were good and needed to happen and should
36:56
Speaker 1: have happened even more than they did. But because Republicans
36:59
Speaker 1: never made a compelling case for why we need the
37:03
Speaker 1: tariffs or why we need the deportations, that messaging from
37:06
Speaker 1: Democrats won. And then you end up with stuff like this.
37:10
Speaker 4: Watch.
37:12
Speaker 5: He says ICE raids have had a devastating impact on
37:16
Speaker 5: his bottom line.
37:17
Speaker 3: It's been a one, two, three uppercut type of punch, right?
37:20
Speaker 3: Ever since the administration came in, we had to deal
37:23
Speaker 3: with tariffs. And that put a big blow in our
37:27
Speaker 3: system or in the industry. And then right after that,
37:30
Speaker 3: we had ICE raids where, you know, officials were actually
37:34
Speaker 3: going on site and tapping guys on the shoulder while
37:37
Speaker 3: pouring concrete and picking them up. And then if they
37:39
Speaker 3: were still legal, they'd bring them back or let them go.
37:42
Speaker 3: If not, they'd deport them. And I think we all
37:45
Speaker 3: know that the construction industry is immigrant.
37:49
Speaker 2: Heavy.
37:50
Speaker 3: Could you replace these workers? We need people to actually
37:53
Speaker 3: do the work. We need manual labor. We need labor hands.
37:57
Speaker 3: And there is nobody prepared to do that.
37:59
Speaker 5: Cavazos, who doesn't identify with either party, says he's backing
38:04
Speaker 5: Democrats this cycle and thinks members of his community will
38:07
Speaker 5: follow suit.
38:08
Speaker 3: I think there's going to be a big backlash on
38:11
Speaker 3: the Trump administration. The way they handled this issue, the
38:15
Speaker 3: immigration issue, was barbaric at best.
38:21
Speaker 1: Now, the Trump administration made no effort to arrest business
38:24
Speaker 1: owners who employed illegals, so they feel comfortable going on camera.
38:29
Speaker 1: and bragging about doing it. It's incredible to watch. And
38:36
Speaker 1: that's the really remarkable thing about the Trump administration. They
38:38
Speaker 1: weren't even a tenth as aggressive as the Democrats pretended
38:42
Speaker 1: they were. So they might as well have gone all
38:45
Speaker 1: the way, because in the end, you get blamed for
38:48
Speaker 1: it anyway. You get blamed for the things you didn't do,
38:53
Speaker 1: for being a right-wing extremist.
38:55
Speaker 2: You might as well be. And that's one of the problems.
38:59
Speaker 1: Look, you can shut the border, which is a wonderful accomplishment.
39:04
Speaker 1: But the problem is, opening the border is really easy
39:08
Speaker 1: for Democrats. That is a temporary achievement. The second a
39:14
Speaker 1: Democrat is in the White House, the border is back open.
39:19
Speaker 1: So they can erase that. So when your achievements are
39:24
Speaker 1: things that can be erased in 10 seconds, by the
39:28
Speaker 1: next Democratic administration, that's not going to be enough. Cracking
39:35
Speaker 1: down on these businesses that hire illegals, having actual mass deportations,
39:40
Speaker 1: that's something that at least cannot be undone in 10 seconds. Now,
39:47
Speaker 1: after what happened last night, to borrow a cliche, America
39:50
Speaker 1: is in a time for choosing. Things are changing faster
39:54
Speaker 1: than ever before, not just politically, but technologically and culturally.
39:57
Speaker 1: Everything is shifting quickly and permanently. America is in a
40:00
Speaker 1: period of transition comparable to the 1960s and the 1860s,
40:04
Speaker 1: and the GOP's role needs to be representing the interests
40:08
Speaker 1: of legacy Americans, promoting sanity, common sense, Christianity, the supremacy
40:13
Speaker 1: of Western civilization, and building on Trump's successes while digging
40:18
Speaker 1: ourselves out of the holes created by his failures. And
40:21
Speaker 1: that means focusing on cultural, social issues, promoting the family,
40:27
Speaker 1: putting America and Americans first, the economy, a foreign policy
40:31
Speaker 1: grounded in serving the country's actual interests. They also need
40:36
Speaker 1: to have answers to the major earth-shattering changes that are
40:39
Speaker 1: coming in the future and to a large extent have
40:41
Speaker 1: already arrived. You know, the issue of AI, may not
40:45
Speaker 1: have shown up prominently in the exit polls, at least
40:48
Speaker 1: not explicitly, although it is tied in with the economy,
40:51
Speaker 1: very much so, and that clearly did.
40:53
Speaker 2: Show up in the exit polls.
40:55
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you right now that in 2028, it
40:58
Speaker 1: will be a major issue in the exit polls, if
41:01
Speaker 1: not the number one issue. AI has already begun swallowing
41:05
Speaker 1: up entire industries and thousands of jobs along with it,
41:08
Speaker 1: and over the next couple of years, that process will
41:10
Speaker 1: hit warp speed. You know, there's already a major backlash
41:14
Speaker 1: brewing across the country against the data centers that these
41:17
Speaker 1: trillion-dollar big tech companies are plopping into the middle of
41:19
Speaker 1: communities while offering no compensation or incentive to the people
41:22
Speaker 1: who live in those communities. And the anger and resentment
41:25
Speaker 1: over job losses will grow exponentially. So the Republican Party
41:31
Speaker 1: must take this seriously and have a plan. But so far,
41:38
Speaker 1: I'll ask you, just ask yourself this. What is the
41:43
Speaker 1: Republican Party's plan when it comes to AI? What's the plan?
41:49
Speaker 1: It is going to wipe out thousands of jobs.
41:51
Speaker 2: That is going to happen. It's already happening. It is
41:53
Speaker 2: a definite. What is the plan for that?
41:59
Speaker 1: You know, when you have thousands upon thousands of thousands
42:02
Speaker 1: of people who suddenly are without jobs, what is the plan?
42:07
Speaker 1: But so far, in a way that perfectly illustrates and
42:10
Speaker 1: encapsulates the mind-bogglingly out-of-touch messaging that got us destroyed, Trump's
42:14
Speaker 1: only answer to the AI issue is to insist on
42:17
Speaker 1: giving it a fun new name. So for Trump, the
42:20
Speaker 1: only thing we have to do with AI or about
42:22
Speaker 1: it is just call it SI. So if Trump complains
42:26
Speaker 1: about the AI issue or raises it at all, it's only.
42:29
Speaker 2: To whine that the media isn't using the nickname he
42:32
Speaker 2: came up with. This kind of thing is.
42:39
Speaker 1: The kind of charm of just, oh, it's just Trump
42:41
Speaker 1: being Trump, like that charm wore off a long time ago.
42:45
Speaker 1: And so Trump being focusing on the dumbest bullshit imaginable
42:51
Speaker 1: is not, it's.
42:53
Speaker 2: Not cute, okay? It's not charming to people.
42:57
Speaker 1: And when people are worried about AI and Trump is
42:59
Speaker 1: tweeting about, well, the Wall Street Journal needs to call
43:02
Speaker 1: it SI. I came up with his name and I
43:03
Speaker 1: like it. I mean, if you're a big-time Trump fan,
43:07
Speaker 1: you might hear that and still be amused by it,
43:09
Speaker 1: I guess.
43:09
Speaker 2: But most Americans are not amused. Most Americans look at
43:12
Speaker 2: that and are like, why do you care about that?
43:14
Speaker 2: Why is that the thing you care about? I'm worried
43:16
Speaker 2: about this thing taking my job that I need to
43:19
Speaker 2: feed my family. You have a plan for that?
43:25
Speaker 1: Ask yourself, how many voters as a percentage care about
43:28
Speaker 1: renaming AI to SI? Out of all the voters who
43:32
Speaker 1: have anxieties about AI, how many of them have anxieties
43:36
Speaker 1: that can be addressed by changing the first letter in
43:39
Speaker 1: the initial? The answer to that question is exactly 0%
43:45
Speaker 1: of voters. Republicans aren't just ignoring a major issue that
43:51
Speaker 1: will become one of the defining issues of our time.
43:54
Speaker 1: They are homing in on the least relevant, most inconsequential,
43:58
Speaker 1: most infinitesimally insignificant aspect of that issue, which is worse
44:04
Speaker 1: than simply ignoring it. Now, maybe you think that there
44:08
Speaker 1: are no regulations or restrictions we can or should put
44:11
Speaker 1: on these AI companies. Maybe you think it's actually good
44:15
Speaker 1: that AI is going to wipe out thousands of jobs.
44:18
Speaker 2: I disagree on both points.
44:19
Speaker 1: But whatever you think about it, whatever your opinion, The
44:23
Speaker 1: point is that this is an enormously important issue and
44:26
Speaker 1: a source of deep and justified anxiety for regular Americans,
44:30
Speaker 1: and you need to have some kind of answer, some
44:33
Speaker 1: kind of plan, some kind of strategy. Republicans had none.
44:37
Speaker 1: Trump had none. And that was the pattern, and that
44:40
Speaker 1: was the theme for this election. If you have no
44:43
Speaker 1: answer and no plan, then your party has no future.
44:49
Speaker 2: And shouldn't.
44:51
Speaker 1: There are things, as I said yesterday, there are things,
44:55
Speaker 1: think about an average person, and they wake up in
44:58
Speaker 1: the morning, and in the first five minutes after opening
45:02
Speaker 1: their eyes, what are the things that they're worried about?
45:06
Speaker 2: What are the things that they're thinking about?
45:09
Speaker 1: When that first worry or anxiety enters your mind, and
45:13
Speaker 1: if you're like me, unfortunately, it enters your mind pretty
45:15
Speaker 1: quickly after opening your eyes.
45:18
Speaker 2: What is it?
45:19
Speaker 1: What are you worried about? Those are the things that
45:23
Speaker 1: are the most important. And if you want to be
45:27
Speaker 1: a political party with a future, you have to speak
45:30
Speaker 1: to those things.
45:33
Speaker 2: I can tell you something.
45:36
Speaker 1: Before the war in Iran was launched, nobody in America
45:42
Speaker 1: was waking up in the morning, and in the first
45:44
Speaker 1: five minutes, they're worried that Iran is going to nuke them.
45:50
Speaker 1: Iran was not entering the minds of any American in
45:55
Speaker 1: the first five minutes after they wake up, or even
45:57
Speaker 1: in the first ten hours after they wake up.
45:59
Speaker 2: At no point.
46:03
Speaker 1: And so what you did is you went to address
46:06
Speaker 1: a problem that no one in this country was actually
46:08
Speaker 1: worried about, which is Iran. In the process, you created
46:13
Speaker 1: a new problem that they do think about when they
46:16
Speaker 1: first wake up, which is their cost of living. which is,
46:22
Speaker 1: oh man, I got to put gas in the car today.
46:23
Speaker 1: I don't even know if I have enough money. I
46:25
Speaker 1: better go check the cup holders to see if there's
46:28
Speaker 1: any loose change so I can put gas in my car.
46:35
Speaker 1: And with AI also, I can tell you right now,
46:36
Speaker 1: there are plenty of Americans who wake up and almost
46:40
Speaker 1: immediately they're worried about, like, is this going to be
46:42
Speaker 1: my last day on.
46:42
Speaker 2: The job before I get replaced by AI?
46:47
Speaker 1: There's no one waking up and immediately thinking, Oh, I
46:52
Speaker 1: hope more people use the fun nickname Trump came up
46:54
Speaker 1: with for AI.
46:59
Speaker 2: So, this is the situation we're facing. It is dire,
47:03
Speaker 2: even catastrophic.
47:05
Speaker 1: That loss last night was considerably worse than I expected,
47:08
Speaker 1: and I expected it to be very bad.
47:09
Speaker 2: There's no way around it. There's no positive spin. I'm sorry.
47:15
Speaker 2: There just isn't.
47:16
Speaker 1: And the simple fact of the matter is that it
47:18
Speaker 1: may very well have been merely the prelude to the
47:22
Speaker 1: even more disastrous losses that will soon follow.
47:24
Speaker 2: And all of that is true.
47:26
Speaker 1: And we have to be honest and face that with
47:28
Speaker 1: moral courage and intellectual integrity.
47:31
Speaker 2: But does it mean that our situation is hopeless? Are
47:35
Speaker 2: we doomed?
47:36
Speaker 4: No.
47:38
Speaker 2: God is still in control. God is still sovereign.
47:42
Speaker 1: There's no reason to fall into despair over what happened
47:45
Speaker 1: last night. Democrats are still underwater in approval polls. They're
47:50
Speaker 1: not popular either. This is a rejection of an old
47:53
Speaker 1: and fading president, more than an affirmation of Democrats.
47:56
Speaker 2: Things can change very quickly.
47:57
Speaker 1: You know, two years ago, this was supposed to be
47:59
Speaker 1: the golden age, and everyone was talking about how great
48:01
Speaker 1: things are going to be. And, you know, a lot
48:03
Speaker 1: more could change in the next two years. There are
48:06
Speaker 1: plenty of omens, but you can't predict the future with certainty.
48:09
Speaker 1: And instead of trying to, we should do everything in
48:11
Speaker 1: our power to undo the damage our leaders have done
48:13
Speaker 1: to the country and present an actual agenda that that
48:16
Speaker 1: will make life better for Americans, not foreigners in the
48:19
Speaker 1: Middle East or anywhere else. That's the agenda that got
48:21
Speaker 1: Trump elected in the first place. The America First principles
48:26
Speaker 1: are the reason he rose to power. The fact that
48:28
Speaker 1: he forgot about them doesn't mean voters did. And in
48:32
Speaker 1: two years, those same voters will perhaps see a country
48:35
Speaker 1: ravaged by incompetent socialist Democrats, and maybe they'll be looking
48:39
Speaker 1: for a candidate who genuinely cares about those principles. Sometime
48:44
Speaker 1: between now and 2028, We need to do what our
48:46
Speaker 1: leaders have failed to do. Rally around America First principles.
48:53
Speaker 1: Put our nation and its people first, always. And in
48:57
Speaker 1: all cases, we need to promote a vision for the
49:00
Speaker 1: country that speaks to regular people and is concerned with
49:03
Speaker 1: their well-being and their flourishing. If there's any way forward
49:08
Speaker 1: for conservatism and, more importantly, for the country itself, and
49:12
Speaker 1: there must be.
49:13
Speaker 2: Then that's it. We need to be America first and always.
49:21
Speaker 2: And we need to win. That'll do it for the
49:24
Speaker 2: show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to
49:26
Speaker 2: you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.
49:36
Speaker 6: Father, I used to feel Christ.
49:40
Speaker 2: Cannot feel anything here.
49:53
Speaker 5: They take me out of my bed and they brought
49:56
Speaker 5: me here and they tell me nothing.
49:58
Speaker 2: What have I done? Article 58, counter-revolutionary activity. That is
50:03
Speaker 2: all I know.
50:04
Speaker 3: They have to deal with so many enemies of the state,
50:08
Speaker 3: all of whom claim.
50:09
Speaker 2: Their innocence, who protest, who cry.
50:12
Speaker 4: There are no answers here, other than the ones they
50:23
Speaker 4: put in your mouth. Your break.
50:27
Speaker 5: Today is your opportunity to demonstrate your loyalty to the people.
50:34
Speaker 2: I would like to know why I'm here.
50:36
Speaker 4: Of course. But you already know, don't you?
50:42
Speaker 2: You must believe in something greater than the party. You
50:46
Speaker 2: will remember your duty.
50:48
Speaker 5: I have told you I know nothing.
50:49
Speaker 4: They growled like a feral animal.
50:53
Speaker 5: You stink of failure.
50:55
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