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Minamme is down store. What what historic day in Washington, DC?
It is, as many of you know, January six.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
It is January sixth, and as you see, once again
a blanket of angry white just send me on the
Capitol this white, oddly enough, not as disruptive it did
stop traffic, but a lot less bear spray and Confederate flags.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Of course, it is January sixth.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
It is the day that traditionally we now pretend that
we knew was a big deal in terms of certifying
the elections. Be honest, before that insurrection, you had no
idea that was a January sixth ceremony or what it
did or.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Why it did. Now you just got to act.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Like oh reni of the election so important.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
But let's get to it.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
It always begins with the traditional children's procession. They bring
in boxes filled with the cremated remains of their dead pets,
and then they dump them all the ashes on the
speaker's desk, and then the speaker.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Blows on the dust.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Until the name of the president elect is conjured in
the mist.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
America is a wondrous that, But.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
It's good to see them bringing in the boxes. They're
nice to know that the democracy now has pallbearers.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
So trenchant.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Of course, the ultimate indignity of this January sixth is
that Donald Trump's opponent, Kamala Harris, because she is the
Vice president, serves as the master of ceremonies to this Really,
you are a very reactive and sad group. The empathy
is off the.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Charts with this group.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Kamala Harris has to be the master of semonies, but
it does suck.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
The votes for President of the United States are as follows.
Donald J. Trump of the state of Florida has received
three hundred and twelve votes.
Speaker 7 (03:12):
Kamala de Harris, that's got a sting.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
She's like, I can hear you, god Da, it's like
attending your own funeral. And even the mourners are like, what,
I can't imagine anything that would be more uncomfortable standing
there while the crowd applauds.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
Your opponent, Kamala de Harris of the state of California,
has received two hundred and twenty six votes.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Wait, that sounded louder. There's a lot of joy in
that room. I think she could still win this thing.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
She just needs to find like one hundred and thirty
thousand votes in Georgia and then, you know, tell me, Michigan,
it put to Mina.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Maybe Wisconsin, maybe that's a flip.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
But ultimately, the certification ceremony that we all look forward
to every four years since I was little went off
without a hitch. Because it's amazing how smoothly our democracy
can work when you don't act like a little bitch
when you lose. Not naming names, just saying, but it
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was lovely to begin this new political year on a
peaceful and calm note, because the actual.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
New year was really quite rougher.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
You know, the hopeful dreams of a peaceful new year,
filled with the love and camaraderie of people in Times
Square holding in their pee for twelve hours shattered by
a terrorist attack at three fifteen.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Am in New Orleans.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
The attack was sudden and horrific and sent law enforcements
scrambling to find the perpetrators, Viewers scrambling to find out
if the perpetrators, once found, would validate or invalidate their
previously held political viewpoints.
Speaker 8 (05:15):
And we are hearing a local reports that the suspect
has been named as shamsud Din Jabbar, which would indicate
Middle Eastern descent.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Oh would it?
Speaker 9 (05:28):
You don't believe he's of the Mayflower Dingibbars, the Connecticut Dingibars.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I'm going over to the country club today. We're going
to play around with Dingibar. So point one.
Speaker 10 (05:49):
Maga the FBI confirming that an ISIS flag was located
in that FOURD to f one to fifty pickup truck
when the attack occurred.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
ISIS flag That to zero Maga, It's best of five.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Papa needs a brand new reason to deport everybody.
Speaker 11 (06:06):
We do know that the vehicle across through Eagle Past, Texas,
across the border two days ago.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
A radical monthly Nan ding Jabbar illegally crossing the border
to commit violence against Americans. Yet see and while normally
the right in tragedy would caution us to take a
moment for thoughts and prayers for the victims and not
politicize it. That's only when they think they're on the
wrong side of this shit. The Biden administration has created
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an environment that allows things like this to happen.
Speaker 11 (06:38):
Mister Trump is blaming the Biden administration's open border policies.
Speaker 7 (06:42):
We've been saying for over a year now that there's
likely to be a terrorist attack on our home soil
with an open southern border.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
No time for thoughts and prayers. Deploy the Continental forty eight.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Close. That's the that's.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
That's that's called the klosh. It's you know that in
the diner and you're like, I'll have that pie, and
they act like someone's going to steal the pie, and
they put it under that thing. That's good. That's called
the closure. And and that's the basis of the joke.
Of course, what I love most about this job is
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the ability to educate.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
On the various paraphernalia founded diners.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Of Course, the judgment that the networks came to was
of course rushed to.
Speaker 8 (07:41):
Now we're hearing from multiple reports that he was an
American citizen, he was in the Army Reserve, that he
wasn't some illegal immigrant that came across the border.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Lift the close, the close shus been deployed.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
You mustn't lift the close or the thing, all right.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
So it didn't turn out to be the ironclad argument
for sealed borders that the right was hoping for.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
But fear not more chaos.
Speaker 12 (08:09):
To come breaking news out of Las Vegas where a
Tesla's cyber truck exploded outside the Trump Towers hotel.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Cyber truck explode outside of Trump Hotel. So even terrorists
are political cartoonists, now a little on the.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Nose, don't you think? I mean, come on, I think
it's pretty clear what's going on here.
Speaker 10 (08:28):
I've ad it, boys, John, I'm gonna put out the obvious.
He goes to the Trump Resorts in Las Vegas. Donald Trump,
He's in a Tesla cybertruck Elon Musk.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
This was a statement that was making a statement about
Trump about Elon.
Speaker 8 (08:41):
Should the fbi'd be treating this as another attempt on
Trump's life even though he wasn't at the hotel at
the time.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Why the.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I've a car accident outside of hotel in New York.
Let's make that number four or fine, who cares what's
really happening? But unfortunately, even for that narrative, the statement
by the bomber was actually, I think Trump is awesome.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Office will say the man who blew up a Tesla
cyber truck outside a Vegas Trump hotel would express support
for President elect Donald Trump and Elon.
Speaker 12 (09:24):
Musk, saying Americans need to quote rally behind President elected
Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Far be it from me to tell someone how they
should express their affection. I've worked for years to become
more open, but even I know that blowing up someone's
shit in front of more of their shit, it's what
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we in the therapy business all a mixed message, So
weave their end of the illegal immigrant anti American parlay
has hit.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
But don't let reality ruin a good narrative.
Speaker 11 (10:15):
The person who committed the attack was indeed an American citizen.
But let's not take our eyes off the bigger picture here,
which is that over the past four years, millions of
people have come into the country.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
My goodness, what else don't we know?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
If these are a couple of people who are homegrown,
what don't we know of all of these people who
have come across the border. Yes, says clearly, we have
a problem over here, so what about over there? It
turns out that American born extremists not only show we
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have to close the border, they also take the wind
out of the left's other favorite policy prescriptions.
Speaker 12 (10:56):
This also should lay bare the idea that gun control
is going.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
To make a safer You know, we're using what are
we gonna do?
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Start?
Speaker 12 (11:03):
Uh, pre registering people for cars, are giving background checks
for people to get cars.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
You got halfway through that point and you're like, oh,
I do I can help see it when your brain,
I don't want to move down that road.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
No, what are we gonna have to do now? Register
or abort? No, don't say abort. D I don't know
what's happening.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
But not a one man show or there or there?
But what are we gonna make people get licenses for
their da? What it seems to show is that people
have a tremendous ability to fit whatever happens into their predetermined,
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dogmatic worldview. It's not a rush to judgment as much
as like a gag reflex, which is why, in the
immediate aftermath of these terrible events, we all wait to
see whose worldview.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Will be validated.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
And it makes it doubly frustrating that the FBI feels
the need to play into the demand for immediate answers
when they couldn't possibly know them yet. I give you
the FBI four hours after the.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Attack, this is not a terrorist event. Just say you.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Don't know yet, because a couple of hours later, when
you find out what's really going on, you're just.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Gonna look doll.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
The FBI, we are working with our partners to investigate
this as an act of terrorism.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Okay, no harm, no foul.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
It's not like you played into the fears of co
conspirators out there lining the streets with explosives.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
We do not believe that Jabar was solely responsible.
Speaker 9 (13:06):
The FBI has recovered video surveillance video that appears to show.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Three men and one woman appearing.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
To help put IEDs what are believed to be IEDs
at locations in the French Quarter.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Holy shit, IEDs in the French Quarter.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
I guess I have no option but to violently confront
anyone in the vicinity that I believe is operating as
sleeper cell.
Speaker 12 (13:31):
Police interviewed those four individuals and now believe that they
just were bystanders who happened to look suspicious.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
But I already killed them. Look, did they happen to
look suspicious in New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Oh what would they wearing beads in the winter, little
sparkling glitter?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
What were they carrying around musical instruments and seemingly two
upbeat for a funeral?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
It turns out those are just patrons on the street
that were looking inside the coolers.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Yes, nothing more suspicious than people on Bourbon Street at
three in the morning looking inside coolers. I also arrested
some ladies who were lifting up their shirts, clearly signaling
to the other jadis. These attacks are really frightening and
add to this feeling of societal tenuousness that we've all
been ingesting since I'm gonna go with the creation of Facebook.
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Almost more frightening is that we can't place these attackers
into the normal neat boxes of disturbed bullied loaners. Not
only do they not fit into neat ideological packages, they
almost seem uncomfortably normal. The isis supporting Jabbar. This is
him from a while back.
Speaker 13 (14:57):
I'm Sampson Dan Jabor, property manager with Loue Metal Properties
and team lead at the Midas Group at Core Realty.
I just want to say hello and let you know
a little bit about me. So I'm born and raised
in Beaumont, Texas and now live in Houston.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Here's the crazy thing. He's the terrorist. I'd have bought
real estate from this guy. He seems totally run of
the mill, guy who's been life coached up. He's even
got the if you notice there in the background, the
basic bitch motivational discipline posters go all in.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
And take responsibility, be disciplined. Terrorists generally don't have those posters.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I don't remember Ben Laden having to remind himself to
hang in there.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
By the way, this is true.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Just as a side note, that is the original hang
in there baby poster.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I don't remember.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
I had one that was like a super cute orange kiddy,
but this one, it really seems more of a like
demanding you hang in there, like like like it's in black,
like like it doesn't really look like a kiddie trying
to like give you.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
It looks more like de Niro and Cape Fear doing
pull ups in a cell and being like, I will
suck you up. Like that is not that cat.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
That cat if you died, that cat would eat you
and crawl inside and go to something.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Although I guess most cats all right.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Look, I don't like these terrorists and killers having such
vibrant digital trails. I don't want them to be relatable.
The cyber truck bomber guy.
Speaker 13 (16:44):
Do you see some of the photos on Facebook.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
He did a lot of traveling.
Speaker 11 (16:47):
There's a one photo of him that was actually taken
in Thailand.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
I napped and look at Luigi Manngioni. This guy was
a hooded.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Profession assassin with a silencer, and now we got to
watch him deliver the valedictory speech at his high school.
Speaker 11 (17:04):
As I conclude my speech, I have to remember that
a valedictory, by definition, is a farewell.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
By the way, where did that kid go to high school?
They all looked like extras in a consent video. I'm
trying to be a dick, but it looks like everybody
in the background looks like they're about to go, like
all right, girls, who wants some grain alcohol? And now
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we all got to wait around on pins and needles
for their motive.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Have to know why? What's the road from real estate?
Want to be to the Wester's decadent and they have.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Left manifestos, but their manifestos suck. Luigi Mangioni who was
allegedly so obsessed with healthcare costs.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
That it drove him to murder. Here's what he wrote
in his manifesto.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Frankly, I do not pretend to be the most qualified
person to lay out the full argument.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
I'm just the muscle. I'm not the idea. I don't know.
I don't know anything about it.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
I just know, you know, finally someone willing to stand
up for what he isn't really sure he believes in.
To be quite honest, I urge the news media don't
even call these manifestos. These are an insult to manifestos.
Throwing something down on your notes app is not a
manifest you know, Say what you want about Ted Kaczinski,
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the man put in the work tapping with no plumbing,
thirty five thousand words, old school typewriter, double space, bibliography,
table of contents. I think it had been blurbed by
other crazy people.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
If you have to read one.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Manifesto this year, Charles Manson, these other guys are out there, Hey, chat, GPT,
write me a concise screen.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Okay, healthcare in the.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Street as though it were a drake wrap Like this
is the point is, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
What's going on.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Here where normal seeming people have a set back in
their life, end up online, down some rabbit hole. The
algorithm amplifies their anger and fears, and all of a
sudden you're releasing a half assed manifesto and shooting the
place up.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
It doesn't have to be this way. So a plea
to all that would be terrorists that are out there.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Hey, girl, down on your luck, girlfriend left, your job's
a dead end, spending a lot of time watching whatever
YouTube atto play.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Is showing you. And now you've got some ideas.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
How about you don't kill everybody, just do what everybody
else does in that situation.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Get a podcast.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
That way, nobody dies. You get a podcast, nobody dies.
You can still terrorize people. And no, I do not
want to be on it. When we come back, we'll
be talking to Congressman Jamie Raskin.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
They'll go away. Hey, what about the tally show my
death tonight?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
He represents Maryland's eighth congressional district and the House of Representatives.
He was elected ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, and
he joins me now from.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Washington, DC. Please, what went in the program?
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Congressman Jamie Raskin, sir, Hello, how are you, sir, thank
you for joining us. I imagine, sir, a very hectic day.
Did they do the traditional chasing of the Congress people
the bowels of the building.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Yeah, well, luckily it was snowing outside, so all the
insurrections were slipping and falling on the road and everything.
So but no, we today was actually a totally uneventful
and peaceful and nonviolent day. It's what January sixth should be,
and it's what it used to be.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Like I suppose, congressman, is it hard on a day
like today seeing the way that it went not to
be passive aggressive in to the Republican colleagues, to not
be like, oh hey, look at this done by one Hey,
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oh my god, we can go out to Fridays and
eat apps because there was no rioting.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Yeah, I mean, the whole thing took like maybe twenty
five minutes. It should have taken fifteen minute. But some
of our Republican colleagues confused it with the Republican National
Convention and they were cheering and applauding and yelling.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
We were just there.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
To count the votes and we were not there to
you know, continue the campaign. But yeah, I mean I
talked to my friend Lauren Bobert, and I asked her
how she enjoyed it, and she said it was great
because no Democrats had made any objections. And I said
it was terrific because nobody tried to assassinate the vice president,
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and so, you know, we were.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
All happy with how it went.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
A good point.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Now, at any point with Lauren Bolbert when you say
something like that, and I'm assuming that this doesn't happen,
but does she ever say to.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Shay, Lauren's actually very funny, you know, like it's sort
of like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. You're either
a Marjorie Taylor Green person or you're a Lauren Bobert person.
And I'm a Lauren Bobert person myself, although they call
her Lauren Groepert, which really isn't fair.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
So there's a lot of passive aggression down there. There
is what is now, Things aren't going to change much
in the House because Johnson was the speaker before the
Republicans controlled the House, So generally, other than some changing
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of committee chairmanships and you're being elevated to ranking, what's
going to be different for Democrats in the House in
this new session.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
They've got a much narrower margin now, So I think
we're down to two nineteen to two fifteen because Matt
Gates left and then at leased dephonics on her way
out and Mike Laws, oh, I appreciate that chear, and
so it'll be two seventeen to two fifteen, which means
they cannot afford to lose a single vote. And they've
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already suffered the defection of Congresswomen's Sparks from Indiana, who
got so mad about the fact that she wasn't put
on the committee she wanted that she has left the
Republican Conference and is an independent now, and we haven't
even started deliberations yet, so I think we're going to
be in good shape to exploit some of the conflicts
and contradictions going on within the Republican Conference. I think
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you probably saw John that the enraged nativist racist megabase
is upset with Elon Musk and the Brologarks who want
to bring in tens of thousands more cheap foreign laborers,
and so that's something that's already starting to explode in
terms of the Republican politics. But there's a bunch of
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issues like that, including abortion, where there's still some libertarians
who don't want to go near it. But the theocratic
majority within Mega, led by Mike Johnson, say that life
begins a conception, and so they've been trying to ban
it nationally, and we expect that to come back and
hopefully we'll be able to pull over some of the
lingering pro choice Republicans.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Right, is that more a question of, you know, in
terms of because when you don't control in the House, especially,
the House especially is kind of a zero sum game.
The Senate rules are sort of so antiquated and bizarre,
and you need sixty for this, and culture for this,
and three quarters for this. The House really is even
if you have one other member, you control all of
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who gets called before Congress. You get to control the witnesses,
you get to control the legislation. Does that make it
harder for Democrats, even on a purely logistical mechanical way.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Yeah, it does, because over on the Senate side, they've
got the filibusters, so each senator theoretically can throw a
monkey wrench into the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Whereas you know, we've got.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Our rules committeed, we adopt the rule, and the rules
usually whatever the majority wants. In fact, they wrote the
first partisan discrimination into House Rules and History, saying that
they're going from one person to move to vacate to
seven members moving to vacate.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
But they've got to be from the majority.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Party, so it would be like saying, you know, only
Republicans can move to adjourn or moved to reconsider a vote.
But they voted for that. And one of my new
colleagues actually from Rhode Island, said, this is outrageous, this
violates equal production. Let's go to the Supreme Court. And
I was like, yeah, we've been there, We've done that.
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The Roberts Court is not exactly all.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Over these unconstitutional right, you.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Got to tell the new kids, like, oh, I've got
some bad news for you about that Supreme Court.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
They're gonna do that.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Are there things though, like can the can the Republicans
do that with like the debt ceiling? Like I know
there are a lot of Democrats who thought that the
debt ceiling fights were ridiculous and really limited their ability
to get anything done.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Are there any sort of can.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
The Republicans say We're going to remove the debt ceiling
but only for four years and basically force for whatever
they want to do and spend on they can do,
and if Democrats regain control that all goes away again.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
I mean, fortunately, they're more divided than they are even
hateful of us, so they can't get together to get
anything done. If you look at the last Congress, the
only way that we kept the government afloat and going
was Democrats coming in to bail out Mike Johnson, and
I think it's going to be the same thing. I
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do think there could be some issues where we get together.
For example, Donald Trump is very proud of the fact
that he beat Kamala by three million votes, and we're
proud of the fact that Joe Biden beat Donald Trump
by seven million votes in twenty twenty. But if they're
proud of the popular vote, why don't we get rid
of the electoral college and start electing the president the
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way we elect everybody else, like representatives and senators and
mayors and governors. Why don't we actually come together and
step forward. I mean, the electoral college can get you
killed these days, as we saw in twenty and it's
given us five popular vote losers in our history twice
in this century, Donald Trump in George W.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Bush. So let's move forward on that. Why don't we
get together on that?
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Is that before or after they add the Conservative provinces
of Canada to the popular vote total, Like I just
get the sense that there are always one step ahead there,
like sure, let's do that, Oh, welcome Alberta, Like they'll
do something that just screws it?
Speaker 1 (28:26):
And is there something in here to Congress might want
to ask you.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Isn't there a certain something freeing for the Democrats right
now having nothing to do with the Republicans and they're
infighting and all that. I follow this relatively closely enough
to look like this now I'm twenty seven.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
I follow it relatively closely.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
I don't know who's in charge of the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
I don't know the direction you're going. Isn't there something.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Enlivening about the opportunity before Democrats right now to rethink
to have that opportunity almost a rum springer if you will.
You don't control the judicial, the Congress, the executive, you
have the opportunity to recreate what this party will be
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going forward.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Is there a process for that? Is there a desire
for that?
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (29:22):
And being in the minority definitely is a lot more
fun and it invites a lot of creativity, and it's
you know, it's it's a riot in the pre January
sixth sense of the words.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Slogan that's gonna fly with most minorities. I think most
minorities would be.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Like, oooh, but look, we now have the opportunity to
organize for massive democratic victory in twenty twenty six. And
that's exactly what we're doing because we think that everywhere
they're headed is so extreme that the vast majority of
the American people are going to reject it. Most Americans
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do not want to ban abortion across the country. Most
Americans do not want to deport twelve million people. Most
Americans don't want to turn the Department of Justice into
an instrument of.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Revenge and retaliation.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
And we're going to be standing up every single day, John,
for the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the freedoms
and rights of the people.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Do you think there's gonna be a lot of work?
But I love goad to Stan now.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Earth do you think you know with this election being
sort of a repudiation, Boy, there's nothing worse in politics
than having to govern. It seems like it just when
everybody gets mad at the status quo. Do you think
the leadership from the Democratic Party, the future of it
is going to come from Washington, which is so the
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brand is so diluted at this point for the American people,
Or do you think it's going to be more from
the state houses and the governors. Where do you think
that energy is going to come from in your mind?
Speaker 3 (30:59):
I mean, look, I think it's going to come from
all over the country. I think it's going to come
from Democracy Summer, the project we've got for young people
all over America to learn about the history of social
change in the country and to get involved in digital
organizing and canvassing and organizing. And you know, it might
come from our two new states. And I'm not talking
about Panama and Greenland. I'm talking about Washington, d c.
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And Puerto Rico, which we are fighting.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
To admit as new states.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
For you, if you don't control anything, you can't get
these things done. By the way, Congressman, let me just
say this Democracy Summer sounds like really the worst camp
anybody's ever been to.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
That is that does not sound well? You out, well,
I invite you to come and a peer. I think
you'll find something very different.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
I mean, these young people.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Oh congressmen, would you invite if you guys listen to me,
if you have.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
A retreat, Oh what I love to come down there.
And all right, and you you will.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Be our guest comedic speaker Democracy Summer.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
I'm taking over this bitch, all right.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Well, look, I got to tell you what we've got.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
I should have brought it with me.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
But we've got the most beautiful poster in the world
that Shepherd Fairy made for us. He's the guy who
did the Obama Hope poster. He made a Democracy Summer
poster for us.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
The future really is with the young people, and we
need them.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
And there's a major battle going on for young America
right now and we need hardest I think people get
in the Democratic lose.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
What was the hardest part so many constituencies moved to
the right, was what was the one that stung the most?
Speaker 1 (32:45):
What was it?
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Latino voters made a big move men and women, but
young people surprisingly were the ones that really, uh made
a move. And until you sort of get together and
decide what that more value is of the party, isn't
it hard to have a plan to gain those demographics back?
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Well, there's no doubt that the right wing social media
outlets and the talk shows in the podcast have been
targeting young men especially, and so that's why. Look, I'm
a sixty two year old grandfather now, which means I'm
in the younger part of the party in Congress. But
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my kids, but my kids are in their twenties, okay,
And I know what's going on with young people in
their twenties, and they're being targeted.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
And we need to organize.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
And as the GOP turns itself into a cult with
authoritarian habits of submission and obedience to authority, we have
got to be a lot more like an open school
for America to come in and to get educated about
what's really going on and to feed people not live
in conspiracy theories, but facts in the truth. So I
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invite you very much, John Stewart to come out. You'll
be our tickoff speaker for Democracy Summer twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
In your heart, do you feel like Democrats are being
honest with themselves about what happened? Or I'm hearing a
lot of quite frankly excuses that feel like, oh, we
just didn't message well, or if I had only knocked
on that door four times are Are they being honest
enough with what their actual ideas are in terms of
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popularity within the American people and all those things, or
do you feel like it's still about oh, geez, if
we just had better podcasting weird one.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Well, you know, it's a process for trying to figure
it out. It's not like the election's over on number
five and November six, you know exactly what happened.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
I mean, it's a complicated situation.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
But you know, I'll tell you that everybody is very
serious about trying to figure out so substantively what went wrong,
but also what went wrong in terms of not connecting
with different communications audiences out there. And as you know,
it's not like the mainstream media is the mainstream media anymore.
Everybody's getting their news and their ideas in different places,
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and we do have to be a lot better about
getting in front of the different audiences that have grown
up in this new system.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Well, sir, we really appreciate.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
There's very few people I like to listen to more
than you, and especially on that Judiciary committee. Boy, I look,
your work in those committees is really Sometimes I feel
like I'm watching like Matt Locke, like the way you
walk up there and you just slowly disassemble the logic
and all those different things. It's really something to watch, man,
(35:47):
and I think we all look forward to seeing those
hearings soon, and we really appreciate you taking the time
with us this evening. And is January seventh another milestone
for democracy?
Speaker 1 (35:59):
None of us actually no civics. So I'll tell you.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
I'll tell you one funny story about January seventh, because
my kids always say that I get really depressing when
I talk about the sixth. And I've got one really
funny story, which is the next day, I was down
in Nancy Pelosi's office and I was waiting in the
little receptionist area and the receptionist picks up the phone
and people are calling in saying, you know, I was
in your office yesterday. Do you guys have a lost
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and found because I think I forgot my phone there.
I think I forgot my purse there, And so she
didn't know what to do, and I said, yeah, let's
get in touch with the Capitol Police. So they came
over and they started writing everything down. Yeah, just give
us your name, your social Security number, your address, and
we'll get you your property.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Vat Thomas and Jamie Ruskin. Oh, then, thank you for
joining us. You gotta take quick break.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Let me right back after this. He let go sh
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up for tonight.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
Before we go, we're gonna check in with your host
for the rest of the week, Desili, What are you covering?
Speaker 7 (37:20):
You?
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Does? He does? He does?
Speaker 12 (37:26):
He?
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Huh? Oh?
Speaker 2 (37:28):
What what do you got this week?
Speaker 8 (37:31):
Oh?
Speaker 14 (37:31):
Sorry, John, I'm just following my New year's resolution to
make sure I get more screen time.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
You say more. Don't people usually try and get less
screen time?
Speaker 6 (37:41):
Isn't that?
Speaker 14 (37:42):
Oh no, no, that's a big mistake. See, if you
set goals that you can't reach, you're just going to
get depressed when you fail. So my resolution is to
do all the stuff I'm going to do anyway, so
I complete my resolutions and become a better person.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Doesn't more screen time make you a worse and less
attentive person?
Speaker 1 (38:03):
That does? He light it? Everybody does? He lightens.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
The moment is out. There is no reason for us
to do that. We understand that these individuals need to
be put in place. We don't have a hearing less
way forward.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
And I apologize about all the news, but I'm at
a rest one time with my daughter, and I'm actually
trying to quote, so I'm going back and forth here.
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