Rick Wilson

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, everybody, Good morning. I'm Rick Wilson, as you know,
and welcome to Lincoln Square folks who want to do
a Q and A live today because a lot of
people have had a tremendous number of questions. I've got
my microphone cable or IR cable. There a tremendous umber
of questions in the last few days about what happened
with the Democrats in the Senate, and I do want

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to get to that. But first, it is Veterans Day,
and this is a day where we honor the sacrifices
of the men and women in this country who have
served in uniform. And there is a long arc that
happens to exist. Actually even before we were a country,

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there were men who served in local and county and
state militia well before we were a country. But for
two hundred and fifty years, our military has played a
role in our society and in the preservation of the
Constitution and the rights of Americans that is under great

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stress today and below us, by the way, you're going
to see a stream of names of veterans who are
the spouses, the fathers, the grandfathers, the great grandfathers, the brothers,
the sisters, the cousins of people who serve this country honorably,

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and I want you to remember that today because they
exemplify something that we are in danger of losing in
this nation. And that is service to the constitution, not
to a king. That is service to a country, not
to a party. That is service to an ideal, not

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to an ideology. And I think that as we consider
the position our veterans face right now, with cuts to
the benefits we promise them for serving in uniform, with
cuts to the services that are desperately needed, I think

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it's something we have to really take a long, hard
look at as a nation and think it through, really
consider who and what we want to be. There are
people in this country who believe that the military should
be converted into a tool that merely serves the executive

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and that merely serves the whims of the president. I'm
glad to say that's still a minority in this country,
but it is a potent minority. It is a large
number of people in that space, and I think we
need to really contemplate returning the military to its ape

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political position. I can tell you this, most of those
generals and admirals, those flag officers who sat in that
recent event at Quantico in which Donald Trump and Pete
Hexeth essentially demanded loyalty from them to them. Those men

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and women are the best leaders, the best commanders, and
people who have busted their asses to climb that slippery
pyramid to become a general officer. It is hard to
express to you how few there are. There are more
billionaires in this country than there are general officers in

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the military. Hard to imagine, but increasingly, the one thing
that made the military a sacred institution in this country,
which was their adherence only to the constitution and the law,
is blurring. It is becoming obscured. It is now being

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corrupted by a system that says to these younger officers, hey,
you know, if you're an five, if you're a lieutenant colonel,
you're six, you're a colonel and you want to hat
brigadier general, you better be right with Trump and his people.
If you're serving in the field somewhere around the world
as a combatant commander, you better be right with Trump
and his people. For all that Pete hex with the postures,

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but all want the war fighters. They really want the
sick offense. So if we're going to depend on this
country being safe in the hands of the United States Military,
which is a peerless institution. We have to really make
sure that as a mayor, we honor the men and

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women who serve, and that we honor the sacrifices that
they have made, and that we honor the world that
they have done so much for to preserve and protect.
So with that, we're going to move on from Veteran's Day,
and I want to get to a couple of questions.
First off, I have had a lot of questions about

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the shutdown. Why did these Democrats do this? Why why
did they betray us? I'll tell you why they did it.
Wilson's third political law, which is new by the way,
I'm like Newton. I come up with this one. Every
decade or so, everything crypt touches dies the Ted Cruz rule,
which is, of course, there are two types of people

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in the world, Ted Cruz and people who hate Ted Cruz.
But the third political law of Democrats is this their
degree of gullibility is proportional to the bad faith of
the Republican Party. The worse the Republican Party behaves, the

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more they think that America is crying out for a
bipartisan kumbaya. Everybody sits around the camp fire mix'mores. That's
why they got played, because John Thune and a few
of his people sat them down. Hey, you can be
a real hero. The newspapers will love it, and everybody

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will be your friend. You'll be a hero. You could
tell by one amazingly important barometer why they were doing this.
You could tell they were doing this. What was that
barometer that us what the maga media did with these

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eight senators in the days running up to the deal.
They shut up. They didn't say a word. They went dark.
They weren't talking about shit. They were like submarines in
the North Atlantic in the middle of the night, in
the dead of winter. Quiet. Why because they knew how

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badly this was going to fuck the Democrats. So they
got played. They got rooked. And I'm going to say
this very directly. I wrote this. I've said this already
on a couple of interviews. There's no good scenario here
for Chuck Schumer. Now. I don't know which of the
two scenarios is real, but either one of them makes

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him look like a man who should pack his office.
Scenario one which I believe is the case. I believe
Schumer wanted this to happen because he's a proceduralist. He's
a my honorable friend guy. He's he's got a very
narrow vision of power. And I think Chuck Schumer said
to them, well, guys, I love the plan, but I

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can't vote for it. That's what I believe happened. I
don't know this for a fact. The other scenario is
he didn't know, he didn't know, and it just happened.
If that's the case, it's almost worse because a majority
leader or a minority leader in the Senate has to

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have their act together. You know, in twenty twenty, some
of my colleagues and I had a conversation with Harry
Reid which you would have liked. That would have been like,
you know, a naked leprechaun ride and a unicorn down
Fifth Avenue in New York, you know, years before that.
But I learned a lot in this very long conversation.
We would read and he said something in that discussion

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that I thought was so important. He said, there's been
three great Senate majority leaders. Now, he did have an ego,
and he was not wrong in the in our lifetimes.
I'll be j no question, right, Harry Reid. I'm Mitch McConnell.
Because even in the minority, McConnell understood how to use power.

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Mitch McConnell was a better minority leader than Schumer was
a majority leader. When he found out about this happening,
what was the correct response from Chuck Schumer. Was it
to say, go with God, go do your thing, guys whatever. No,
the correct response was to get another with every single
one of those members and say I will fuck you

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if you do this, I will fuck you up. You
will lose your offices, you will lose your committee asignments,
you will lose your staff, you will lose everything I
can do. And to the ones who were retiring, he
should have said, you come to me when you're a lobbyist,
after you retire, and I will go out of my
way to burn you to the fucking ground. That's what
a leader would have done. That's what a guy with

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some handle on this situation would have done. That's what
a guy who understood what was at stake would have done. Now, look,
I know there are a lot of people like Oh,
the Democrats couldn't have been publish it so they might
as well give up. That's not how courage works, folks,
you know. And I was thinking about that this morning
because I was reading an article Veterans, the article about

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Michael Mansur, Navy seal two thousand and six, and Michael
Mansur was on a rooftop with two other seals and
a grenade was thrown on that rooftop. Now he could
have jumped back from it, probably gotten away from it,

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but it would have killed his two comrades. So Michael
Mansor leapt on that grenade, took the full force of
that grenade going off on his body armor. He killed him.
But it was the kind of moment where sometimes you
have to jump on the grenade. Sometimes you have to

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take that moment and say, I don't care what the
cost is, I have to do something bigger than myself.
And Chuck Schumer did not do something bigger than himself,
and these people would not do something bigger than themselves.
They took a cheap two day attention hit, even though
they are well aware, even though they fully understand, even

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though they are absolutely clear that not one bit of
this is for the good of the country, the good
to the American people, or the good of the Democratic Party.
And I feel bad for them. I do because they
got played. Nobody wants to think that of themselves as
a sucker. Nobody wants to think of this as somebody

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who got tricked. Nobody wants to say, oh, well, man,
I was sure dumb, they tricked me. Nobody wants to
do that. It's the least. It's the last thing human
beings want to do. But they did. And look, guys,
there's no a way you know how badly the Democrats

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got their ass beat on this today. And notice an
ot us good sight by the way, uh, the Freedom
ca They released a Freedom Caucus memo about this, bragging
about what they had gotten. You know what they got.

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They were bragging because they killed the ACA subsidies. They
were bragging because they know that Trump's not going to
roll back all these fired and rift federal workers. He's
not going to roll back any of the doge cuts.
And the thing that Democrats thought they got out of
it from the Senate is we've got a vote on
restoring healthcare. Oh you get a vote, Oh, binkie, Getting

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a vote is bullshit. Getting a vote is a joke.
Getting a vote is a nothing. Burger folks, it doesn't
matter that you get a vote. And I know, I
know their polsters were like, oh hey, listen, this will
be a great tucking point on the stump this fall
and you'll we can make an ad about it. I

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thought for healthcare, and the evil Republicans stopped me. Well
how about you fucking stop the evil Republicans instead? Dipshits? Okay,
got a question about the Epstein files. Clock is ticking.
We'll see if Grijalva is sworn in, which he's still waiting.
I think it's probably like sixty days now, which which
magic Mike grinder boy still hasn't turned in his you know,

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his homework here and it's worn in somebody who the
federal courts have to order him to do more of
this contempt of law is like, we gotta we gotta
wrangle with that too, as soon as we get out
of this momentary, this moment, this crisis of this moment. Look,
the pressure has continued to burble underneath Trump on the
Epstein matter. I have a feeling that the Congress has

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been very bad about this. I suspect that when this goes,
Mike Johnson is going to find every possible way to
delay it, or obfuscate it, or add some poison pill
to it. I don't know procedurally, but I know that
once she's sworn in, you got too eighteen on the
discharge petition, and it's you know that that rolls it

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down another another little bit. How many of these eight
are running again? Can we primary them? I think three
of them are on the way out the door. John
Fetterman is going to become a Republican. Just so you
guys are aware of this, just process this in your brains.
John Fetterman is showing all the signs that I've seen
before of a guy who's teeing himself up to convert.

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I've seen it before. I've seen it before at the
state level in a couple of different states. I've been
involved in these conversions stories where somebody comes to a
year or two years in advance and goes, hay, I'm
with switch parties because you guys have all the power.
Oh there's Jilly the old dog. Hello girl. But he

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he is sending every signal in the world. I mean,
he's going to become a Republican. And he'll say this,
I didn't leave the Democratic Party or the Democratic Party
left me. Okay, traje of Fetterman for an MTG. She's
playing y'all. By the way she is playing y'all, that
woman is. That woman is playing a very smart and

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maybe not smart, a very crafty game of twenty twenty
eight politics. Listen, you should roll calls. You should text
them if you are from their states, even the ones
who are retiring, you should be in touch with. You
should say those words, get on the phone. Yesterday I
published on my substack a thing called Call to Action.
Got all their phone numbers. Be polite, be persistent, especially

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if you are people you know are from their states.
That really matters. That takes it up a whole new level.
Because if you can say to Tim Kaine, hi, I'm
calling from Arlington, Virginia. Don't lie. Please, just don't lie.
If you say I'm calling from Arlington, Virginia, or I'm
calling from Roanoke or wherever, that's better than you know,
somebody's saying, Hey, I'm calling from Tampa, Florida. Anything's better

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than calling from Tampa, Florida. I say that as a
native born son of Tampa. So okay, so yeah, roll calls.
That that is a hell of aoid to push onto this.
It's gonna put blame into the House stems that they
vote to turn this down. Do not look at it
that way. Do not look at it that way. That

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is not how this works. Every single survey, every single
poll has blamed the Republicans. The remember twenty one public
surveys since the shutdown started, and every single one of
them blames the Republicans. And every week that's going on,
by the Republicans have taken more blame and more political
damage from the shutdown. This is Donald Trump's shutdown. If

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Democrats don't stick on that branding, they are damn fools.
Then there's an argument there. By the way, there's a
great article in Watching Post today. It's like Democrats to
man ruthlessness. I'm right here, my eyes are right, my
eyes are up here, I'm right here. You want ruthlessness,
You're not gonna get it from the d TRIP or
the DNC. You're gonna get it from the fucking Lincoln Project.

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You're gonna get it from people who understand how the
Republicans actually fight, not this dreamy, fucking pie in the sky. Well,
I'll bring a power point in and they'll convince people
fuck up. You gotta fight, You gotta show people you're
fighting for them. And you know what, nobody he's gonna
wake up in the morning and say, hey, man, those
Democrats cut off my snap benefits. Nobody's gonna say, hey,

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those Democrats made my insurance rates go up. The Republicans
did this to them. They know it. Remind them over
and over and over again, and make the argument like
Spamberger and Mondannie and Cheryl all made over and over again.
Your life costs more, Your life is is in economic peril,

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Your life is tougher because of these people's obedience and
slavish devotion to Donald Trump. Okay, Pieter get rid of Fetterman.
I don't know the law in Pennsylvania top of mind,
but I will say this. I will say this. I
just got a call from a very powerful donor who

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said I'd like to talk about replacing Fetterman. Why yes,
I will be calling him back. Look, I don't know
the rules there in Pennsylvania. I don't know what the
governor could do. I also don't know that if it's
it's practicable. Sorry, I don't know that it's practicable in

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the short term. I don't know there's a legal mechanism
or pathway that it does it in the short term.
I wanted to look into it. I'll get some people.
SNAP is in legal limbo. Do you think this'll get
sorted out before thy saying no, No, here's the other
part of what's going to happen, Guys that you should know.
This is a really ugly thing. You should you should understand.

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There's a big part of the Russ Vaught, part of
the Republican Party that believes that poor people should go
hungry so that they learn a lesson, that poor people
should go hungry so that they become more motivative to work.
SNAP has work requirements already. Just so you know. There's

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a clip of a guy on Fox the other day,
you know, and I know a lot of people on
Fox are doing the performative bullshit. This guy believed that
I've got his name somewhere. He goes on Fox and
he says, you know, the way about to think about
these SNAP benefits is that a hungry dog is an
obedient dog. In the military, they only feed their dogs

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at night, so they're obedient. These people need to learn them.
Maybe they should go hungry they'll learn to be more obedient.
I hope I never see him walking in a crosswalk
across the street. I mean, the dehumanizing nature of that
is so insane that I find it so deeply offensive.

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You know, I also find another thing deeply offensive about
the SNAP benefits being cut off. It's kids. It's kids. Okay,
you know, not everybody can, but if you can, I
encourage you to either donate food or financially to Feeding
America or otherization in your area. And we are all

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very comfortable in this country in a lot of ways.
A lot of people, food and security is not a
thing they think about. Being hungry is not a thing
they think about. Two weeks ago, on the thirtieth of
a cober Renee, and I found out that the local

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food bank here in Tallahassee, Florida, that the night before
the SNAP benefits were running out, six hundred and fifty
people were in their cars, camping out in their cars
with their children, or camping out on the street with
their children, hoping to get food. This is America, this

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is the United States of America. That is an obscenity,
It is a travesty. The elderly and children are the
primary beneficiaries of SNAP. And it's a part of the
Republican Party these days, the Maga party these days, the
hate machine party that says, well, you know, they're just

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black people buying lottery tickets and mental cigarettes and malt
liquor and all the racist code word crap. You can
see it. It's out there all over socials. Okay. One
person in this administration that I know of, JD. Vans,
his family was on foodstamps. They were on SNAP. And

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many many, many, many, many, many, many, many many of
the recipients of SNAP. Sixty plus percent live in red
districts in red states. Trump starving his own people. As
I wrote a couple of weeks ago, Look, I think
Thanksgiving's going to be very tough for a lot of people.

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So Rene and I made a very antial because we
can and we should, and one ought to if one can,
donation to help feed people locally. But you know what,
you got some old garbonzo beans in your cabinet, You
got an extra bag of rice in your cabinet. You
got to extra anything if you can. Food pantries are

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strained to the breaking point this year. They are they
are They're strained to the very edge this year, and
I really would encourage anybody to help out large or small.
You know, a dollar with some of these feeding programs
will feed two or three people. It's a good investment

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in compassion, it's a good investment in in in in
helping your fellow man. And if you're a Christian, as
most MAGA folks will never cease reminding you that they
are Christians. It's not just a nice idea or nice
to do. It's a moral obligation. And if you are
an ethical, moral person, it's a moral obligation. You must

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not leave people in your community to starve. So I
feel strongly about this. I'm a man who has not
missed many meals in my life, as you can tell,
but this is something that I feel incredibly strongly about
and the needs of these people who have been so

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hurt by this process. This administration is going to find
a way to continue to fuck them, mark my words.
They will find a way to continue to say nope.
They will find ways to cut, they will find ways
to delay, they will find ways to continue to hurt people,
because that's what they do. They believe causing these people

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pain and distress and hunger and watching their kids go
hungry is a moral good which tells you a lot
about them. Okay, I think it's Stephonic running against Hokeel. Okay,
I'm not a Kathy Hochel fanboy. I'll just tell you
that right off the bat, she really fucked up redistricting

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in New York. I don't think she's a terrific politician,
but I'm gonna say this when it comes to her
running against Alie Staphonic, who we all know, at least
from our Republican days. Okay, we all know Elise. I
will move heaven and earth to help Kathy Hokeel beat
the ever love and tar out of Elis Staphonic. At

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least Aphonic is the worst possible kind of hypocrite. I
will tell you why, and I want my MAGA listeners
to hear this very very very clearly. At least Aphonic
hates Donald Trump, but she pretends otherwise. She's the fake
orgasm of politicians. Oh Donald, it's so big. I've never

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felt like that before. Get the fuck out of here.
She is the most the most transparently ambitious and deceptive
snake you will ever meet in your life. For those
of you who are mean girls fans as I am.
She's the Gretchen Wieners of American politics. At least, Stephonic

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has a high hill to climb. Approximately sixty two percent
of the vote in New York comes out of a
one hundred mile radius of New York City. You just
saw what New York City will do when it's up
against the selection of Maga versus a New Yorker. Stephanic's

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gonna have a lot of money. She's very ambitious, she
wants to be president. I think Hokee is gonna beat her.
I think there's a lot of uphill climb here that
Stefanic hasn't processed into this yet. And the fact of
the matter is, I've got a half a dozen video
comes saying I love Donald Trump. He's the most leader.

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You're selling that in New York State right now, read
the room. At least, Okay, democratic infighting herson in twenty six.
Better accept what happened, not let it happen again. Look,
I'd rather the infighting be happening now than in August
of next year. Okay, I'd rather the infighting be happening

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right this minute than in the closing act. There are
a lot of Democrats who are comfortable in Washington in
the minority, a lot of Democrats who are like, oh, well,
you know the Democratic Party, And I say, this is

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an ex Republican is predictable. We know a lot of
what they'll do every time they do not zig when
they ought they zig when they ought to zag. As
they say, twenty twenty six is lining up to be
an economic catastrophe for America. Donald Trump is inept and

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inert on this matter. He has not changed his course
on these disastrous tariffs. He has not changed his course
on anything, even though he knows it hurts people, even
though he knows when he goes out and says, it's
the greatest economy the No one's ever been happier or

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doing better. We're so rich. Not even Donald Trump, at
the age of seventy nine, is that disassociated in the
incoherent I know for a fact that Republican polsters are
in a panic about the economy next year. Let me
tell you what cures the infighting, A unified party message.

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You do not need a messenger. Okay, first, let me
take a quick aside. Stop with the fucking bullshit. We
need a leader in the party. No you don't. You're
all leaders in the party. You're all leaders. Become a
leaderless resistance. You don't need one superstar rockstar out there.
You don't need your Barack Obama two point zero. You
don't need that. You need to do the work everywhere.

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Stay on message from from the guy running for Dogcatcher
to the guy running for US Senate. Stay on that
one message. What is that message? It was handed to
you on a silver fucking platter. Affordability. Do you think
things are gonna get less unaffordable between now and next year?
It's gonna get worse. Folks, hang this economic disaster around

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the Republicans because it's theirs. They define themselves as being
strictly a party of Donald Trump. They define themselves as
being strictly obedient at all times to Donald Trump. Donald
Trump is the least popular president in our lifetimes. You know,
Jimmy Carter took a pretty bad whipping. George Bush, pretty bad.

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W Bush took a pretty bad whipping in approval numbers.
Donald Trump. They're like in the rearview mirror. Donald Trump
is the least popular president in our lifetimes. He is radioactive,
hot political poison. Affordability is his kryptonite. You know that.
You see them trying to like stumble into it. Now,

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Oh well, maybe I could go fifty year mortgages, which
is insane in and of itself. But folks, you don't
need one leader to tell you what your message is.
It's affordability. It's the economy its job as an economic security.
It's not healthcare, it's not climate change, it's not gun control.
It's money. It's the thing that every single person in

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this country thinks about. That guy who's driving his truck
to work every morning on his farm, That mom who
gets her ass up in the middle of the night
to get her kids ready for school and drives to
go work a long shift at a nursing home or
a hospital, and drives home and has to do it
all over again, take care of kids the same time.

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I'm sorry. They're not thinking about sophisticated public policy questions.
They're not thinking about parts per billion carbon in the atmosphere.
They're not thinking about should you have a semi automatic
handgun man? They're not thinking about any of that. They're
not even thinking about trans stuff. Sorry. What they are

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thinking about is can I put gas in my car
Can I pay my rent? Can I feed my kids?
If I get sick? What happens? They are thinking about that,
and that is the message that overcomes all the infighting.
And it doesn't have to be carried by one leader.
It has to be carried by every leader, has to
be carried by every single person in the Democratic Party
who understands that Republicans have no response to this. They

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have no rejoinder, they have no counter argument. This is it.
This is the one thing. And if they don't, if
Democrats don't learn this and understand this, they will lose.
If they do understand it, they're going to make They're
going to have one hell of a ride. They're going

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to wrap up not six or seven seats like the
de trip things, They're going to wrap up twenty five
or thirty five seats. Our goal, Lincoln Project, aim high,
go big swing for the fences. That's where we think
we need to be as a country, because I don't
want the House to be this close run. Who do
we have to get people here or there? No, I

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want a majority that takes Maga out back and ends
the bullshit that takes Maga out back of the barn
where you lead the old where where you lead the
where you lead the hogs when they come to market. Wait, okay,
all right, folks, best shots for Democratic We take the

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Senate twenty six Listen there that we're gonna have an
actual show on this subject. Andrew Wilson and I on
behind the numbers are working up some some some arguments
about why the Senate map is getting better. North Carolina
is the top of the pile right now. I have
to also tell you, and I'm not, as you all know,
a ray of sunshine is a general rule. There are

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a lot of weird vibes in Texas right now from
Republicans like uh oh Tallarico's got a a not inconsiderable shot.
But we're gonna talk more about We're gonna do actual
show about that, all right, folks. I think I've gone
through a lot of the questions. We have time for today,
and I appreciate everybody watching. First off, I'm gonna say that,

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and I appreciate everybody taking the time because everybody's busy,
and today is a day where we are technically off
technically honoring our veterans, and we should. I want to
say this. I've been I've loved watching the stream of
the names of family members scroll on the thing today.

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Because no party owns the military, no party has possession
of it. Republicans trick Democrats for a long time after
Vietnam into thinking only they cared about the military, only
they cared about our troops. Obviously that is not the case.

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But as all of us ponder their sacrifices today, I
think it is important that we keep up this fight
because not everybody served in combat, not everybody served in uniform,
but millions of Americans right now are called to uphold
the principles that have truly shaped the greatest country. We're

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still the propositional country. We're still the country where the
idea that a republic founded on democratic principles can protect
the rights and liberties of everyone. Sometimes those sacrifices have
come on the battlefield at great cost. Sometimes they've come

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after the war with PTSD. The utterly unacceptable rate of
military and post military veteran suicides is another national shame
in this country that we have to do something much
more meaningful and serious about if we want to say

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that we care about the troops. Folks, thanks for watching
the show. We're going to roll out of here in
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more great folks on the air in this world where
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And that message has got to get out there further

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because when Americans hear it and they think about it
and they internalize it and they get back to it,
they say, that's who I am, that's me, that's what
I believe, and they don't feel as depressed and disoriented
and sad. All right, folks, I want to say this again,
thank you for watching here on Lincoln Square today. I'll
try to do more of these q and as as

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we go forward. See me tonight with Joe Trippy and
Stuart Stevens on the Strategy Session. You catch me on
Thursday nights, not this week but next week on the
Breakdown Fridays on Behind the Numbers with Andrew Wilson. And
we will continue to give you the truth about this

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fight that we're in and try to give you the
clearest insights we can on everything around on us. And
I'm Rick Wilson, and thanks for watching. We'll let that
role Veterans video now. Assasssssss