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August 6, 2025 15 mins

Are we losing civility in American politics? In our latest podcast, we dive into how public discourse has shifted, with lawmakers trading respectful debate for viral outbursts and double standards. From profane speeches to shifting views on national identity, we explore how these changes impact democracy and call for a return to substance over spectacle. Join the conversation—share your thoughts on where political dialogue is headed! 

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Well, ladies and gentlemen, we are always told
you guys keep picking on theDemocrats.
Well, it's not hard when theykeep doing these things over and
over again and saying to usthat we're the ones who are
wrong.
You know, I find it fascinatinghow the accusations of the
Democrats, for example, thatTrump is a foul mouth, that a

(00:24):
president shouldn't swear, orthat he is a bully, or that the
way he doesn't respect, you know, zelensky, and the list goes on
and on of the accusations, andthen recently, what you get is
Democrats themselves swearingnonstop like drunken sailors,

(00:47):
themselves swearing nonstop likedrunken sailors.
The comments that were focusedon the president are probably, I
would hear, more likely to hearit on a college campus than I
would from a congressperson.
And on top of it all, you gettogether and you say you know
what?
I'm not proud to be American.
Remember, folks, this is one ofthe two parties you can vote
for.
Welcome back everybody to theRent Network.
I'm David Solomon, he is StuartBriskell.

(01:08):
We do this every Monday,wednesday, friday, noon Eastern.
Although we are tired oftalking about these same stupid
topics, these politicians keepgiving us the fodder to go after
them when we talk aboutpolitics, modern life and the
absurdities that we deal withevery single day.
It's our opinion.
Yes, we do rant about it, we dogive you our comments, but we
do base it on some facts.
So please sit back and enjoyand listen.

(01:29):
Share your comments, please,because we've got some very,
very, very, very, veryinteresting remarks.
So you know, stuart, for me inthe last few days, I'm amazed by
what Democrats do you have inTexas?
You have the rewriting ofdistricts that Governor Abbott

(01:53):
wants to do, and the Democratsare screaming and yelling From
California to New York.
He has no right to do it, andif he does it, we're doing it.
Now it's very interestingbecause Democrats, as we spoke
about in our last rant, they doit, and if he does it, we're
doing it.
Now it's very interestingbecause Democrats, as we spoke
about in our last rant, they doit.
So suddenly, this is a badRepublican move.
Everything the Republicans dois just bad.

(02:14):
So why not?
But I'm wondering if there'snot a line that the Democrats
have continued to cross overStuart, where they need to be
told.
Could you please be the adultsin the room once and for all,
over Stuart, where they need tobe told.
Could you please be the adultsin the room once and for all.
Eh, stuart.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Oh boy, you know I need y'all to listen to me now.
You hear, you know, or howabout let's get some good ones
in here?
Trump's a piece of beep Careercriminals.

(02:50):
You know this is the vernacularof a lady.
You know I'm not sexist, butthis is a vernacular of a
so-called lady who's an adult,who sits as a US representative
in the 30th congressionaldistrict for the last two years.

(03:13):
She is a potty mouth attorney,a member of the Texas Bar.
She graduated from theUniversity of Houston Law Center
and this woman literally talkslike making a truck driver blush
.
You know the quotes that thislady has that are in circulation

(03:37):
are the best way to hold peopledown is make sure they're not
educated.
I can't accept being silent.
It's a face of injustice.
I mean like she's a TikTokqueen.
No-transcript to Russiagate, toa brick wall.

(04:00):
I don't really care if you'reMAGA, if you're a general public
or otherwise.
I do not want to work with youand I definitely disagree.
Now, this is not the languageand vernacular of someone that
should be in government.
You know, no different than herwonderful, colorful language

(04:24):
about redistricting in the stateof Texas, which, just so that
you know, has existed inCalifornia, new York and
Illinois, as we discussedearlier in the week.
But what's more atrocious withthe types of people they are
they're inciting violence.
You need to beat them, you needto hurt them.

(04:44):
You need to punch them A little, debbie.
You need to step on their necksand kill them.
The rhetoric on the left is outof control, destroying the
fabric of I'm going to callhumanity.
You know, are there people onthe right that say inappropriate

(05:06):
things?
Yes, are they the majority?
No, are they the guys who aresitting in Congress More than
them?
Not.
Are they a little morepolitically correct?
Absolutely.
Do they hold themselves to thehighest regard?
Yes, you know the government,the president of the United

(05:28):
States.
You're supposed to put on yourbest shirt, your best tie.
You're meeting the president ofthe United States of America.
You're supposed to say sir,you're supposed to say man,
you're supposed to be apolitically correct person.
When you are politicallyincorrect and you're a TikTok
maven, it's amazing that youstill can remain in power.

(05:50):
I don't know why Congress hasn'tsanctioned her.
I don't know why they haven'tpulled the plug on her political
campaign.
But anyone that talks like this, who's 44 years old, who talks
worse than my teenage kids, I'membarrassed.
And this is what's on the world.
No wonder Putin doesn't give acrap about the United States of

(06:14):
America, because they'reimploding.
We're imploding at the seams.
We're following to thewasteland, just like Canada did,
just like France is, just likeEngland has.
We're being blown away becauseyou got people saying y'all got
to come, listen to me andcalling the President of the

(06:35):
United States T Moo Hitler.
I haven't quite figured out whattimu hitler is, but when you
start using nazism withgovernments that are nowhere
near this type and you don't useit on the types of people that

(06:55):
are actually linked to thisparty, it's insane.
And you got the people againgoing on about free Palestine,
defund the police.
These are the same sorts ofpeople that are consuming the
Democratic Party.
Where is my 1960 KennedyDemocrats?

(07:18):
Where are they?
Schiff?
Well, looks like he's going theway the dodo birds with
mortgage fraud Kind of ironic.
You know who's left?
Nancy Pelosi?
No, no, it's a nothing here.
My husband does all theinvesting.
Who sifted America for tens ofmillions, maybe hundreds of

(07:38):
millions of dollars?
Politics has got turned on itshead and there's a donkey going
hee haw, hee haw, hee haw, david.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
Wow, stuart, what a finish on that one.
Look, I think that theabsurdity has to be really
called out.
Let's go back to Texas for justa second.
When do you redistrict?
Well, when you've got movementof population, you need to
redraw lines.
This is part and parcel, stuart, of representation in
government, correct?

(08:09):
Texas has exploded inpopulation, florida has exploded
in population, places like NewYork have not.
But you have always to rewritedistricts, simply because, let's
be real, you have newpopulation and so therefore,
it's an opportunity to rewritedistricts, canada, for example.
Every election, we add a bunchmore writings, because that's

(08:32):
just the reality.
That's reality as you grow, youredraw.
Sorry, if the party in power isredrawing it a little bit more
in their favor.
This isn't something new.
This is not a new game.
It's just because, if you'renot the one leading it, you get

(08:54):
to whine and cry about it.
But that's not the only issuethat you could throw away.
Representative Yolanda Jones, astate representative, a
Democrat, compares this to theHolocaust.
Now you got to ask yourself whatthe hell are you smoking, lady?
Like?
What are you talking about?
And then she apologizes.
And you know like I love whenthey do this.
First I'm going to saysomething absolutely nuts and

(09:16):
absurd.
I'm going to offend a shit tonof people and then I'm going to
offend a shit ton of people andthen I'm going to apologize.
At least she apologized whereJasmine Crockett doesn't even
bother apologizing.
But that's neither here northere.
But that, ladies and gentlemen,is the mindset and the pride.
They ran away.
They literally broke the rulesof the state legislature in

(09:37):
Texas Not the first time,apparently.
And Governor Abbott said youguys broke the law.
I'm coming to arrest you.
To which they reacted what areyou doing?
You have no right.
Did you read the rules, people,when you took your oath of
office?
Did you understand what you hadto uphold?
Did anybody in your party or inyour team say to you, you know?

(09:59):
Did anybody in your party or inyour team say to you, you know
you can't really act this way,but that's what happens.
This mass hysteria overchildish reaction continues to
happen.
Let me go on.
Elizabeth Warren, stewart'sfavorite Indigenous senator,
decided herself how that DonaldTrump is off his rails and that

(10:23):
Mamdani leads the right path forthe United States.
I'm I'm paraphrasing herstatement, which is frightening
to believe that her and Bernieand AOC and the rest of these
lunatics believe.
You know that Mamdani is theway America should go.
Let me give you an idea ofMamdani's mindset leader Mahmoud

(10:51):
.
You know he supports MahmoudKhalil.
That it's not a real protest,it's just hysteria.
And you're sitting here, stuart,and you're asking yourself
what's wrong.
What is wrong with Americans,or what's wrong with the
Democrats that don't see it whatit is, or what's wrong with the

(11:14):
Democrats that don't see itwhat it is.
But you know, you got yourMamdani's, who wants to put in
place grocery stores controlledby government.
Now we've talked about this andif you've heard it before, I
apologize.
But the reality is that that isSoviet-style, as Stuart likes
to call it, economy.
And not only does it not work,not only does it not work, and
it's been proven that it doesn'twork.

(11:35):
It's what's next?
You know, I'll control the rent, I'll control the grocery
prices.
Mamdani wants to control moreand more of your life.
Now socialism, folks, doesn'tpromote productivity.
Socialism destroys capitalism.
Socialism is about laziness,it's been proven.

(11:56):
The United States isn't builtin the foundation of it.
It's not that.
So let's go and say that theDemocrats are continuing to say
he is the beacon, he is where weshould be heading, and I'll
leave you with this last point.
Ladies and gentlemen, it's hardfor me to call myself a proud
Canadian.
I'm totally embarrassed by mygovernment.

(12:17):
I am totally embarrassed bymultiple levels of government.
I do carry a Canadian passport.
I am Canadian by birth and Ihave to tell you that my life in
Canada till recently has beenvery, very good.
But I also have a secondpassport and I'm not running
around telling people I'm moreproud of one over the other been
very, very good.
But I also have a secondpassport and I'm not running
around telling people I'm moreproud of one over the other,

(12:40):
except if I'm CongresswomanDelia Ramirez of Illinois, who's
decided that she's more proudto be Guatemalan than American.
Now, she's born in the UnitedStates, ladies and gentlemen,
she's not born in Guatemala, herparents are Guatemalan and she
described born in the UnitedStates.
Ladies and gentlemen, she's notborn in Guatemala, her parents
are Guatemalan and she describedherself as both Chapina and
American, as from both Guatemalaand Chicago.

(13:03):
She's the daughter ofGuatemalan immigrants and an
American citizen by birthright,and so she is upset because
illegal immigration.
We should take off the wordillegal and just make it
everything immigration.
But the statement she made thatwas supported by the squad and
supported by other Democrats, isto say I'm prouder to be
somebody else, some other thanan American.

(13:25):
This is the representative youhave in government.
This is the frightening path.
Now, stuart, marjorie TaylorGreene, to me, is the lunatic
you described on the right Herideas, her ideologies.
Even the Republicans are going.
Okay, you're off the rails.
And Matt Gaetz and a few others, they're gone.
They have literally they'regone.

(13:45):
And yes, the party has a fewextremists.
I'm not going to say that theydon't, but the Democrats, more
and more every day, are pushingforward these ideologies,
statements that are completelyflawed.
And to stand there, as youtalked about jasmine crockett,
who stands up and swears like adrunken sailor and has decided
to call the most powerful personin the world a fucking piece of

(14:08):
shit in public and she gets aroaring applause and she thinks
she's going to be the 2028nominee, she is going to lead
the party.
This is frightening Because youknow what you end up doing,
stuart.
You end up creating a group ofGen Zs who, by the way, there is
a podcast right now floatingaround of a bunch of Gen Zs

(14:31):
sitting around a table wonderingwhat to do with the Jewish
problem.
And when you put situationslike that, when you have your
democratic leaders talking theway they are, like a bunch of
what, stuart?
Nazis, as you put it, when youhave this question of the Jewish
problem and you go after thepresident, what have they become

(14:56):
?
What have you created?
Because if you think this pathis good, stuart, I think this
path is so frightening that thefuture is not very exciting.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
I'm sorry.
Yeah, that's exactly what wesaid in the green room.
This is the shit show.
All right guys, I'm going totell you I got not much more to
add other than disappointmentand insanity, and if we don't
get a grip on either one, theworld is not pretty david.
Wrap it, you guys.
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