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0:00Without fail, every couple of years,
0:01we're told that we're in the midst of
0:03the single most important election cycle
0:05in the history of the country. Now, it's
0:07good marketing for one thing, you know,
0:09a handy way for media outlets to
0:11generate some interest in their election
0:12coverage.
0:13Plus, it plays on our natural human bias
0:15to believe that everything that's
0:16happening right now is more important
0:19than anything that's happened before.
0:21After all, no one wants to feel like
0:23they're living through a boring period
0:24of history, so we're all very familiar
0:27with this kind of hyperbole. And as a
0:29result,
0:30because we hear it so often, we
0:31generally tune it out. You know, we're
0:33told it's the most important election
0:35cycle ever
0:37over and over and over again, and we
0:38just ignore it.
0:40Well, after what happened on Tuesday, we
0:42have to get out of that habit effective
0:44immediately
0:45because there is no doubt that 2028 will
0:48indeed be a pivotal election cycle
0:51unlike anything else we've ever seen. It
0:54will be make or break
0:56for the United States as we know it.
0:59And we've heard that a million times,
1:00but but this time it is actually true.
1:03And for the next two years, Donald Trump
1:05can use the veto power to shut down the
1:07Democrats' worst legislation. After
1:09that,
1:10our future is entirely in the hands of
1:12the next president. Should a socialist
1:14Democrat win, there will be nothing
1:16stopping Democrats from packing the
1:18courts, adding new states, nationalizing
1:20critical industries,
1:21opening the borders, all of which they
1:23have promised to do explicitly the
1:25moment they return to power, and they
1:26will do.
1:27And if you doubt any of that, take a
1:29look at this exit poll.
1:3033% of voters had a strongly or somewhat
1:33favorable view of socialism, and
1:35virtually all of them were Democrats.
1:3712% of voters had a somewhat unfavorable
1:40view of socialism, meaning they
1:42saw some value in the ideology.
1:4573% of those voters were Democrats.
1:48Meanwhile, among the 41% of voters who
1:50had a strongly unfavorable view of
1:52socialism, 85% of them were Republicans.
1:56So it's not an overstatement to say that
1:58the Democrat Party is of socialism at
2:00this point. It is.
2:02And when they take power,
2:05they'll do what socialists always do.
2:06They will destroy the economy and
2:08eliminate their political opponents
2:10among other things.
2:12The nightmare scenario at the moment is
2:14that we go into 2028 with an unpopular
2:16president
2:17and then we face a similar wipeout to
2:19what just happened on Tuesday. I'm
2:20talking about a wipeout so substantial
2:23the Democrats won't even need to abolish
2:24the filibuster to assume complete
2:26control over the government.
2:28There is precedent for this, of course.
2:29Those of us who experienced 06 and then
2:3208,
2:33we know that.
2:35And in this nightmare scenario, the
2:36Democrats would win the White House with
2:38a super majority in Congress and in that
2:40scenario
2:41they don't need to nuke the filibuster,
2:42you know? They can add DC and Puerto
2:45Rico as states
2:47which happens with majority votes. It's
2:49surprisingly easy to add a new state
2:52and they will.
2:53And then they become politically
2:54invincible for all intents and purposes.
2:57It's over. The Republicans will never
2:58win again.
2:59They'll pursue federal cases against
3:01conservative politicians, activists, and
3:03public figures. People will go to jail
3:06because when they have power
3:09they wield it. You know, this is this is
3:11a a a new new deal kind of revolution
3:13that's brewing. It'll be unlike anything
3:15we've seen in American politics in our
3:17lifetimes. It would be utterly
3:18catastrophic in every conceivable way.
3:22So in the meantime
3:23over the next two years, we know exactly
3:25what's coming. Democrats will get into
3:27office and immediately start
3:28investigating Trump and his officials
3:30and anyone else they can think of. There
3:33will be impeachments.
3:35At least a few Trump officials are
3:37probably going down.
3:38Already they're talking about issuing
3:40subpoenas to the DHS Secretary and every
3:42ICE official who enforced immigration
3:44laws.
3:45The harassment will be relentless.
3:46They'll bankrupt as many Trump officials
3:48and advisors as they can. They'll run up
3:50the legal fee just like they did after
3:51January 6th.
3:53It'll be a reminder of just how weak and
3:55ineffective Republicans were when they
3:56when they had control of both houses of
3:58Congress.
4:00Republicans had the chance to root out
4:01Democrat corruption, but they chose to
4:03do nothing.
4:04They had the chance to systematically
4:06dismantle and destroy left-wing radicals
4:08and their networks and funders, and they
4:10didn't.
4:11Charlie's murder should have led to a
4:14ruthless nationwide crackdown on
4:15left-wing extremism, but it didn't.
4:18So Democrats will turn around and do all
4:20the things that Republicans were too
4:21scared to do.
4:23And if they win the presidency,
4:24they're going to finish what Charlie
4:26Kirk's assassins started. They're going
4:27to imprison, kill, or otherwise
4:29neutralize
4:31any conservative who would challenge
4:33them.
4:34And it's really worth harping on this
4:36point for just a moment.
4:37Charlie was murdered,
4:39the most shocking and consequential
4:40political assassination since JFK.
4:44And uh
4:46and this was not far off the heels of of
4:49Donald Trump's the the attempted
4:51assassination of Donald Trump.
4:54And this was even worse in some ways
4:55because many Americans spent the
4:57following months openly celebrating the
4:59murder.
5:00Republicans had the opportunity to
5:02respond to these events by rooting out
5:06the murderous leftists and the networks
5:08that fund and support them, but they
5:10didn't. If Democrats had been in office
5:12when one of their most prominent leaders
5:14was assassinated in front of a live
5:16audience on camera,
5:18the ruthless crackdown on right-wingers
5:20that followed
5:22would have made their January 6th
5:23prosecution seem like a walk in the
5:25park.
5:26But you know, because that's how they
5:27operate.
5:28And Republicans don't.
5:30They're also going to break every norm
5:33that idiot Republicans in Congress
5:34decided to honor over the past two
5:36years. Um and if you need evidence of
5:39that, here's Tallarico, the incoming
5:42senator from Texas, making it explicit.
5:44Listen.
5:45>> He says in the Senate you would vote to
5:46abolish the filibuster.
5:48>> Yes.
5:49I believe that the majority has the
5:51right to govern in this country, and the
5:53filibuster, which is not in the
5:55Constitution, it's a Jim Crow relic. It
5:58is uh it is leading to gridlock in our
6:01nation's capital. It's why we can't
6:03bring down the cost of groceries and gas
6:06and utilities and healthcare. It's why
6:08we can't get this economy back on track.
6:10And so I believe the majority, whether
6:11it's a Democratic majority or a
6:13Republican majority, should have the
6:14right to govern.
6:16>> Well, we all knew this was coming.
6:17Republicans in Congress pretended
6:19otherwise and
6:21now Democrats are making it explicit. So
6:23hearing this,
6:25you know, give me one reason why John
6:26Thune and the GOP majority in the Senate
6:29don't abolish the filibuster and pass
6:32the SAVE Act right now.
6:34They're still in power for a few more
6:35months.
6:37They can get a lot done.
6:39You know, they don't have to stop with
6:40the SAVE Act. Republicans could pass a
6:41nationwide ban on funding for child sex
6:44sex change operations, which we've been
6:46demanding for years. No reason why they
6:48can't just do that.
6:50They could
6:51codify every single one of Trump's
6:54executive orders. They could block
6:56state-level attempts to interfere with
6:57Elon Musk's companies
6:59and any other company owned by a
7:00conservative. They could punish
7:02sanctuary cities, expand oil and gas
7:04development,
7:05cut funding for DEI, pass nationwide
7:07legislation to protect gun owners from
7:09arrest as they cross state lines, etc.
7:11There's a lot they could do.
7:13The Republican majority in Congress
7:14until it's gone in January can pass all
7:16of this by a strict majority vote if
7:18they abolish the filibuster. So why
7:19aren't they doing it?
7:21Why aren't they even attempting to do
7:22it?
7:24Why aren't they calling on Alito and
7:25Thomas to resign immediately so we can
7:27appoint replacements as soon as
7:28possible?
7:30Republicans simply don't have any
7:31interest in fighting. They have no
7:32agenda, no purpose.
7:35And Democrats are, on the other hand,
7:37very interested in fighting and winning.
7:39They're ruthless, violent, more
7:40empowered than they've ever been.
7:43And they'll tear the country apart piece
7:44by piece until no Republicans are left
7:46if they're allowed to do it.
7:47If we allow 2028
7:502026 to be a precursor to something
7:51worse than 2028.
7:53But we don't have to and that's what
7:54we're going to talk about.
7:57They are also, we should say right now,
7:58the Democrats focused on at least one
8:01important issue that Republicans are all
8:03but entirely ignoring. Yesterday on the
8:04show I said that, you you AI did not
8:06show up in the exit polls, but by 2028
8:09it'll be the top issue for a majority of
8:10voters.
8:12I was actually wrong.
8:13I hadn't seen the NBC exit poll which
8:15found that already even as AI has only
8:18just started to wipe out jobs, it's a
8:20major factor for a majority of voters
8:22now.
8:2456% of voters said that AI and data
8:26centers were a crucial or major factor
8:28in their vote.
8:3056% already.
8:32And most of the people who considered it
8:33a crucial or major factor voted for
8:35Democrats.
8:36So I was wrong about the exit polls. It
8:38It did show up, but even more right
8:40about the overall point than I realized.
8:42AI is a central political issue right
8:44now.
8:46And this will be even more the case in
8:47coming years.
8:49Republicans have been nothing short of
8:51abysmal
8:53on this issue.
8:55You can't You can't punt on this issue.
8:58To call Trump's handling of it tone deaf
9:00would be far too generous.
9:02Voters are extremely worried about the
9:05mass unemployment that has already
9:07started due to this technology.
9:09If your only response is to suggest a
9:11fun little new nickname for AI, you will
9:14get obliterated in every election now
9:16and forever. Pro AI cultism
9:20is not a viable political position.
9:23Okay, it just isn't.
9:25Here's a post from Congresswoman
9:27Yassamin Ansari of Arizona
9:31the other day
9:32just to show you what they're doing on
9:34the other side when it comes to this.
9:36And there were a lot of conservative
9:38influencers responding to this and and
9:40in a very critical way and kind of
9:42mocking it. [snorts]
9:44Well, here's what she said, quote,
9:45top of the Democratic agenda on day one
9:47needs to be a pause on advanced AI
9:49development, regulation of this out of
9:51control industry, and a ban on
9:53artificial super intelligence.
9:56Now, I don't know anything about
9:57Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari, but I can
10:00guess with a fair amount of confidence
10:02that I disagree with almost every
10:03position she has ever held on any topic.
10:05And yet on this topic,
10:07there are two things you need to
10:08understand you're a Republican, okay?
10:12First,
10:13this is a winning political message.
10:16Okay, what I just read to you, that's
10:18a winning political message. That's a
10:19fact. You may not like it, but it's
10:21true. The inverse of this, don't
10:23regulate AI at all, don't slow down its
10:26advancement at all, don't put any
10:27controls in place, embrace super
10:29intelligence without hesitation, data
10:31centers are wonderful and we should
10:32build a billion more of them,
10:34is a political message that will get you
10:36trounced
10:38in every election from now to Kingdom
10:39Come.
10:41That's the political reality.
10:44And that part of it's not up for debate.
10:46Okay, that simply is what it is. An AI
10:48maximalist presidential candidate
10:51will not win in 2028. Period.
10:56But the other thing about this post from
10:57this congresswoman,
10:59and this is something that we'll have
11:00plenty of time to expand on in the
11:01future,
11:02and this is the part that will be really
11:04hard for some of you to accept,
11:06but you need to,
11:07is that
11:09the post I just read there is not just a
11:10political winner, it's also mostly right
11:13on the merits, okay?
11:15Now let's go through it
11:16briefly.
11:17Should we regulate the industry?
11:20Okay, she laid out three things. One of
11:22them was regulate the industry. Should
11:23we regulate the industry?
11:26Yes. I mean, obviously.
11:29Are there Republicans actually
11:30suggesting it should have no
11:31regulations? What's the other option? No
11:33regulations?
11:35Just let Sam Altman and his billionaire
11:37friends do literally whatever they want
11:39with no rules governing them?
11:41That can't really be anyone's position,
11:43can it? I mean, that's an insane
11:45position. We can debate what the
11:46regulation should be. I'm sure Democrats
11:48have some terrible ideas for
11:49regulations. They usually do. Not every
11:52suggested regulation will be good.
11:55Okay, but clearly there need to be some
11:57regulations.
12:00Okay, a platform that says we need a
12:02totally unregulated
12:04trillion dollar AI industry is madness.
12:08I mean, that's political suicide.
12:11That's totally crazy.
12:13So yes, of course there need to be some
12:15regulations. Republicans need to be the
12:17ones to come up with the sensible and
12:19rational regulations.
12:23Okay, we're going to we're going to I
12:24know if you're a Republican or you're
12:25conservative, the word regulation makes
12:27you really it it it makes your tummy
12:28hurt. It makes you really upset. You
12:30don't like to talk about but obviously
12:32there are regulations.
12:34There can be too many, there can be bad
12:36ones. All that is true.
12:39But
12:40but
12:41the idea that there should be zero is is
12:43childish nonsense.
12:45Um and so it's up to Republicans to come
12:47up with a sensible rational sensible and
12:49rational regulations or else Democrats
12:51will impose unsensible and irrational
12:53ones.
12:54But again, don't regulate them at all is
12:56the crazy delusional cucked position of
12:59someone who thinks we should just sit
13:00back and let trillion dollar tech
13:02companies have their way with our
13:04civilization, our country, our lives,
13:05and our children's futures. Clearly that
13:07can't be it.
13:09Okay.
13:09What about pausing AI development as she
13:12was a
13:13one of the things she suggested?
13:14Well, an across the board pause on all
13:17AI development is a bad idea. That is
13:20also childish and silly.
13:22Um but slowing down certain types of AI
13:24development is probably a good idea.
13:26That's a debate we can have, but
13:27Republicans need to be in the debate.
13:31That's the point.
13:32And as for what types should be slowed
13:34down, well that brings us to our third
13:35point, banning super intelligence.
13:38Should we do that? Well,
13:40this is where Trump's insistence on
13:42rebranding AI as SI is not just
13:45superfluous and stupid, it's also
13:47harmful in a material and significant
13:49way because it confuses the
13:51conversation. This is a very important
13:53conversation that it and and the terms
13:55need to be clear to people. People need
13:56to understand what we're talking about.
13:59We can't afford for people to be
14:00confused.
14:02But a lot of conservatives don't know
14:03what's meant by super intelligence
14:05because Trump insists that all AI is
14:07already super intelligence. That's not
14:09the case. So when they hear ban super
14:12intelligence, they think it means ban
14:14ChatGPT.
14:16But that's not what that means.
14:18Okay, ChatGPT is not super intelligent.
14:21Super intelligence is not
14:23artificial intelligence itself. Super
14:25intelligence is the hypothetical final
14:28stage of artificial intelligence
14:30development where it becomes cognitively
14:32superior to human beings in every
14:34conceivable way
14:36and is recursive in that it can improve
14:39and develop and remake itself without
14:41human involvement.
14:43Okay, at
14:45at the point where super intelligence
14:46emerges, that's what super intelligence
14:48would be, and at the point where it
14:49emerges emerges
14:51the technology by definition is outside
14:54of human control
14:56because it will be smarter than humans
14:58and developing without humans, and so
15:00there will be no way to put any reliable
15:02controls on it.
15:05So should we ban big tech companies
15:09from creating
15:10not AI, but creating specifically a
15:13self-perpetuating
15:15alien super mind that evolves on its own
15:18and would be by definition out of our
15:20control, leaving us at its mercy and
15:22helpless to program or meaningfully
15:24guide it in any way?
15:25Should we tell them they can't do that?
15:28Yes, clearly we should.
15:31Okay, tech companies should not be
15:32allowed to fundamentally alter the
15:34course of human civilization and create
15:36a species of intelligence that could
15:37enslave us if it wanted to. Why should
15:40they have the right to upend and
15:42possibly destroy human society itself?
15:45Which by the way, these companies are
15:46openly saying that
15:48that might be the result.
15:51Like who died and appointed these
15:53Silicon Valley weirdos to be emperors of
15:55the universe?
15:57Can we at least have a like can we have
15:59a say in that?
16:01You've got these AI billionaires who are
16:03sitting there just pontificating about
16:05all the ways that they are currently
16:07going to completely
16:09alter your life and your children's
16:11lives and and potentially for the worse.
16:15And we're supposed to sit back and say,
16:16well, okay, do whatever you want.
16:20Make the world into whatever you wanted
16:21to be. We're a giant video game for you
16:24people to play. Is that what we're
16:25supposed to say?
16:27If Republicans are going to take the
16:29opposite position, which I think is
16:30political death,
16:32and maybe more than just political
16:33death,
16:34uh, they better have a very, very
16:36compelling argument.
16:38But so far they don't.
16:40Shouting about China is not a compelling
16:42argument.
16:44Okay? Telling us that this technology
16:46might destroy civilization, but it's
16:47going to happen anyway, so oh well, also
16:49not a compelling argument.
16:52So this is an issue we can't escape. And
16:53if Democrats are the only ones taking it
16:55seriously and trying to come up with
16:56solutions, even if you think they're bad
16:58solutions, and ultimately their
16:59solutions will be bad, we were pretty
17:01confident about that,
17:03if they're the only ones doing it
17:04though, they will win.
17:06Okay?
17:07And when we talk about Democrats
17:08winning, we don't just mean on the
17:09national level. To understand the total
17:11picture, you need to consider what
17:12happened on Tuesday at the state level.
17:15But before we get into the bad news,
17:16we'll we'll I mean get back to the bad
17:18news, I suppose. We'll start with with
17:20the one note of optimism
17:22that I can find. You know, pretty much
17:23the only bright spot is that in various
17:25ballot initiatives, and this is
17:26significant, voters made some good
17:29conservative decisions even in places
17:31where you wouldn't expect it.
17:32So voters in Washington State, Arizona,
17:35Colorado, and Nebraska voted to ban
17:37so-called trans athletes, meaning male
17:39athletes in women's sports.
17:41[snorts] Although Colorado and
17:42Washington are still counting votes,
17:43that's where it looks like it's headed
17:45right now.
17:46Uh, 52% of voters in exit polls said
17:48that trans rights, quote unquote, have
17:49gone too far. Meanwhile, voter ID
17:51requirements
17:53passed by landslide margins in Nevada by
17:5525 points, North Carolina by 20 points,
17:57Ohio by 31 points.
17:59So even though Republicans lost major
18:00statewide races in all three of these
18:02states,
18:03there was still overwhelming support for
18:04the same ballot measures that
18:05conservatives have been demanding in
18:07some form or another for several years.
18:10In fact, Democrats won the Senate race
18:12in North Carolina by 20 points, but a
18:13constitutional amendment requiring voter
18:15ID passed by the same large margin of 20
18:18points.
18:20And this the amendment specifically
18:22requires all voters, not just those
18:23presenting uh to vote in person, to
18:26present photo identification before
18:28voting.
18:30It passed overwhelmingly along with
18:31amendments to cap property taxes and
18:33income taxes. These are all conservative
18:35ideas that are passing with strong
18:36margins even as voters went for the
18:38Democrat candidate, which not to bring
18:40us back to the negative part of it, but
18:42that also makes it all the more
18:43frustrating that the SAVE Act
18:45was never passed by Republicans because
18:47you see how overwhelmingly popular it
18:49is.
18:50That is a major piece of of legislation
18:53would be a major victory that they could
18:54have done and it would have been hugely
18:57popular on both sides of the aisle.
19:01And they didn't even do that.
19:03They didn't even pass a popular
19:07piece of legislation with bipartisan
19:09support.
19:10Maybe not bipartisan support in
19:12Congress, but bipartisan support among
19:14normal people.
19:15They didn't even do that.
19:18Along the same lines in California of
19:19all places, voters overwhelmingly
19:20projected a wealth tax on billionaires,
19:22which the socialists had been demanding.
19:24The vote was something like 55 to 45
19:26against the wealth tax. That was
19:27Proposition 40.
19:29And not only that, by the same margin,
19:31voters in California also passed a ban,
19:33Proposition 42, on new state personal
19:35property taxes and certain retroactive
19:37state taxes.
19:39Basically, Prop 42 would prevent any
19:41wealth taxes in the future, including
19:42new state taxes on personal assets,
19:44including retirement accounts,
19:45investments, and business interests. So
19:47this was a total loss for the socialists
19:49on a major part of their platform
19:51in a very left-wing state.
19:54Meanwhile, voters in Wisconsin voted to
19:55end DEI, a measure passed 56 to 43 that
19:59quote prohibits government entities from
20:00discriminating or granting preferential
20:02treatment based on race, sex, color,
20:03ethnicities, or national origin in
20:05public employment, education,
20:06contracting, and administration.
20:08So this is all very good news on a day
20:10that was disastrous overall for
20:12Republicans. Even in a massive blue wave
20:14election where Democrats completely
20:16dominated Republicans and flipped Texas
20:18and even a seat in Mississippi, voters
20:20still made it clear
20:22that they don't like taxes. They don't
20:24want to cave to
20:26the insane demands of transactivists.
20:28They don't want DEI. Uh, they don't want
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22:56So how do we explain why Republicans
22:57were demolished
23:00even as voters expressed a preference
23:01for various conservative principles and
23:03agenda items?
23:05[snorts]
23:06Well, the answer to that might there's
23:07is multifaceted, but
23:09the primary answer seems pretty obvious.
23:11It's because this election was mainly
23:13about the fact
23:15that a lot of people now hate
23:17Donald Trump.
23:19He's always been despised
23:21by a huge number of Americans, but he
23:23used to also have a huge, extremely
23:24enthusiastic fan base to counteract it.
23:27Well, now that fan base has dwindled to
23:29some degree,
23:31which it was always going to.
23:32You you can't maintain that level of
23:34political enthusiasm
23:36indefinitely. Nobody can.
23:39And so but without that, he's now left
23:41being the most despised politician of
23:44our lifetime.
23:45I mean, he is.
23:48Now, on the one hand,
23:49that's a pretty demoralizing
23:50realization. A lot of people, myself
23:52included, supported Trump. We had very
23:54high hopes for the second term in
23:55office. We took him seriously when he
23:57said at the inauguration that we would
23:58enter a golden age, one where, quote,
24:01our power will stop all wars and bring a
24:03new spirit of unity to a world that has
24:05been angry, violent, and totally
24:06unpredictable.
24:08And
24:10even if we didn't actually believe that
24:11he would literally end all wars
24:13and usher in a utopia,
24:16the general idea of he's not going to
24:18start new wars, things will generally
24:19get better, I mean, that 's why you
24:21supported him.
24:23And we were listening when he said,
24:24quote, we will measure our success not
24:26only by the battles we win, but also by
24:28the wars that we end, and perhaps most
24:29importantly,
24:30the wars we never get into.
24:33Watch.
24:34>> Like in 2017, we will again build the
24:37strongest military the world has ever
24:39seen.
24:41We will measure our success not only by
24:43the battles we win,
24:45but also by the wars that we end, and
24:47perhaps most importantly, the wars we
24:50never get into.
24:52[applause]
24:55We will be a nation like no other, full
24:57of compassion, courage, and
24:58exceptionalism.
25:00Our power will stop all wars and bring a
25:03new spirit of unity to a world that has
25:06been angry, violent, and totally
25:08unpredictable.
25:10America will be respected again and
25:12admired again.
25:14>> So that's what we were promised.
25:16What we got instead was an extreme
25:18degree of unpredictability along with a
25:20new war. Uh we got new tariffs every
25:22other week, sending the stock market
25:24crashing. We were told about
25:25new cease fires with Iran every couple
25:27of days, even though none of them meant
25:28anything.
25:30You know, by my count, I think we won
25:31the war about 500 times since it
25:33started.
25:35And here's the important thing.
25:36The states by rejecting Trump also
25:38empowered Democrats to a degree that
25:40most people don't comprehend at the
25:41moment.
25:42You know, these state-level takeovers
25:43are a much bigger deal than people
25:45realize, and they could dramatically
25:47change the way elections are conducted
25:48going forward. It's true that Democrats
25:50didn't totally dominate every state.
25:51Republicans have kept their majority in
25:53uh the state senate in in Texas, for
25:55example. So the new Democrat governor
25:56won't be able to destroy the state
25:58overnight, but
25:59their victories in states like Georgia,
26:00North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin,
26:02Ohio, Michigan, and Nevada in addition
26:04to Texas
26:05lay the groundwork for a major change in
26:06our elections going forward. Pretty much
26:08every presidential swing state
26:10is now controlled to one degree or
26:11another by Democrats.
26:13And here's one way to count it, which
26:14was posted by Nate Silver.
26:18Uh says if the remaining results go as
26:19expected, Democrats will hold
26:21governorships in states totaling 392
26:24electoral votes.
26:26So put another way, around 75% of
26:28America will have a Democrat governor.
26:30That is a staggering takeover.
26:32And the implications are massive.
26:35For one thing, Democrats are going to
26:36gerrymander
26:38every congressional district to ensure
26:39that they never lose the House majority
26:41ever again. They're also going to change
26:42how elections are administered since
26:43that generally falls within the
26:45authority of the states.
26:46That means they're going to push the
26:47adoption of mail-in ballots and absentee
26:49voting everywhere along with the ballot
26:50harvesting and late voting.
26:52Remember what we saw with Cam Higby and
26:53James O'Keefe earlier this week when
26:55they walked into a polling place in
26:56Minnesota
26:57and were allowed to vouch for nine
26:59others with no uh nine other voters with
27:01no ID.
27:03That's going to happen everywhere.
27:04They're also going to try to allow as
27:05much fraud as possible by getting rid of
27:07ID requirements.
27:09Although as we just discussed, voters in
27:10in in a few states have passed
27:11amendments that prevent that.
27:14There's another election-related
27:15downside to Democrat control over so
27:17many states,
27:18which is that we could see the end of
27:20the Electoral College in the near
27:21future.
27:22The Electoral College was set up by the
27:24founders because they understood that
27:25direct democracy and a popular vote
27:28wouldn't be consistent with federalism
27:29where each state has its own interests
27:31that deserve representation.
27:33Democrats of course oppose the Electoral
27:34College because a large portion of their
27:36base,
27:37communists and foreigners, live in
27:38concentrated areas
27:40where the Electoral College, you know,
27:42dilutes their vote.
27:44And to that end, there's something
27:45called the National Popular Vote
27:47Interstate Compact you should know about
27:49where states would award their electoral
27:52votes to whatever candidate wins the
27:53nationwide popular vote
27:56regardless of what candidate actually
27:57wins the individual state.
27:59And states have individually passed this
28:01compact into law. Uh the compact
28:03activates only when participating states
28:05plus DC collectively possess at least
28:07270 electoral votes.
28:09Already 18 states plus DC have enacted
28:11the compact representing 220
28:14of the necessary 270 electoral votes.
28:17And now after Tuesday, they're going to
28:19have enough to hit the 270 threshold.
28:23So this is from Axios.
28:26Quote, Democrats sweeping state houses
28:27uh
28:28gains Tuesday have opened a path to
28:31effectively replacing the Electoral
28:32College with a national popular vote in
28:35time for the 2028 presidential election
28:37without needing to amend the
28:38Constitution. Democrats have won control
28:40of the governorship and both legislative
28:42chambers in Pennsylvania, Michigan,
28:44Arizona, Wisconsin, and Nevada.
28:46Enough to push an agreement called the
28:48National Popular Vote Interstate Compact
28:50um beyond the 270 vote threshold
28:52required to take effect. The five states
28:54would still need to enact the compact.
28:56It's not clear if it will be a priority
28:59for the new Democratic states.
29:02This is one of the reasons a
29:02conservative Supreme Court is important.
29:05As Axios points out, various law
29:07professors have argued the compact is
29:08unconstitutional without congressional
29:10approval
29:11under the compact clause of the
29:13Constitution which prevents states from
29:14entering into agreements with each other
29:16without the consent of Congress.
29:18But if Democrats are able to pack the
29:20Supreme Court,
29:21none of that matters.
29:23And of course, given that John Roberts
29:24and Amy Coney Barrett aren't really
29:25conservative,
29:27there's a chance they'll get it done
29:27anyway uh in time for the 2028 election.
29:31There's also a chance that Democrats
29:32fail to get this done. Michigan, as
29:34Axios points out, failed to enact the
29:36compact the last time Democrats
29:37controlled the state government.
29:39Nevada's Democratic governor vetoed the
29:41compact in 2019
29:42because he said it would reduce Nevada's
29:44influence in national elections, which
29:45is true.
29:47But 2026, as we've said so many times,
29:49is is very different from 2019.
29:53Democrats are far more unified than
29:55they've ever been.
29:56They will probably be willing to
29:58surrender their state's influence in
30:00exchange for the greater good of the
30:02party.
30:04So we should expect that this is going
30:05to happen.
30:07There are other major consequences of
30:09the Democrats' takeover of the states.
30:10The public school system is going to get
30:12even worse without a doubt. Even though
30:14it may seem physically impossible for it
30:15to get worse, it will.
30:17This is the new governor of Texas, a
30:19woman named Gina Hinojosa.
30:23And listen to this.
30:25>> And we will work tirelessly to repair
30:28the damage of the Texas voucher scam.
30:32[cheering]
30:35And at end era in which our schools are
30:38sold for parts.
30:41[cheering]
30:42This is a victory for the parents of
30:45Texas.
30:47We are taking our children's education
30:50back from a government that has failed
30:52them.
30:54[cheering]
30:57Schools will not be taken out of our
30:59control. They will not be shuttered or
31:03sumbicated.
31:04[cheering]
31:06[applause]
31:07Being a parent is hard enough
31:11without carrying the burden of a
31:13government's failures.
31:17To the children of Texas,
31:21your schools will not close.
31:24[cheering]
31:26You will be invested in and you
31:30>> So she's describing vouchers as a scam,
31:32which makes no sense whatsoever.
31:34Vouchers are actually the opposite of a
31:35scam. They allow parents to make the
31:37choice to send their children to good
31:39schools or to homeschool their children
31:41instead of sending them to the crappy
31:42public schools in Texas, which rank near
31:44the bottom of the country.
31:46The only reason Democrats oppose
31:48vouchers is that they recognize that
31:49when parents have a choice, they
31:50generally don't prefer to subject their
31:52children to the unionized, illiterate
31:54school teachers who staff the public
31:56schools in Texas.
31:58So now the unions are just going to shut
31:59the vouchers down and force parents to
32:02send their children to those
32:03non-competitive, dilapidated, useless
32:05schools,
32:07where by the way, the children will be
32:08encouraged to adopt fake genders in lieu
32:09of a of learning to read, you know.
32:11And this is going to play out all over
32:12the country in in in in the states
32:14Democrats have just flipped.
32:16For some historical context, the last
32:18time the South was solid blue,
32:21Democrats held Congress almost
32:22continuously
32:24from the 1930s until 1994.
32:28From 1952 to 1992, they counter they
32:30were counterbalanced with an an
32:31unusually high number of Republican
32:33presidents who checked their power.
32:36Though it's worth noting that the
32:37parties weren't really ideological back
32:39then to the same degree.
32:41Um, the exception was in the 1960s
32:43obviously, which ended up being
32:44transformative
32:46and not in a good way.
32:48And we're in for another transformative
32:49period over the next few years. There's
32:51no question.
32:53So what could a Republican
32:54administration do in 2028 assuming
32:56Democrats retain control of Congress and
32:58assuming the composition of the Supreme
33:00Court stays the same?
33:02Well, their main tool would probably
33:03have to be executive powers, which is
33:05the current administration. You know,
33:07that's what they have been doing and
33:09using effectively.
33:10For example, Trump has capped legal
33:12immigration through executive power and
33:14implemented successful border policies
33:16through executive order.
33:1810 years of low immigration will
33:20actually have a major impact that could
33:22be very significant electorally
33:24and we shouldn't discount that.
33:27But to win, it's going to take someone
33:31really good, okay? To state the obvious.
33:33Someone who understands the moment we're
33:35in.
33:37Okay, someone who has not just the right
33:39policy ideas, but the skill to
33:40communicate them in a compelling and
33:43authentic way. It has never been more
33:45necessary for politicians, especially
33:47those with national ambitions
33:49to be or at least seem
33:51authentic
33:53and and articulate and persuasive off
33:56the cuff.
33:58Now this new generation of Democrats
34:01does include a number of people who even
34:03though they're totally wrong on the
34:04issues and also evil
34:07are able to speak and engage with the
34:08public in a way that to most people
34:10feels genuine and unscripted.
34:13You know, there's a number of these
34:15younger Democrats who are very skilled
34:18politicians and communicators.
34:21Any Republican who lacks that skill,
34:25no matter how right they are on the
34:26issues, is not a real contender.
34:30You know, you might have been able to
34:31get away
34:32decades ago with
34:34being a successful politician, even a
34:36president who can 't communicate that
34:37well.
34:39You you we we had a Republican
34:40president.
34:42In the early 2000s that applied to.
34:45And then we had another one in the 2000s
34:47that it also applied to.
34:48But things are changing now. And and
34:50timing matters also. Timing is
34:52everything in politics, as they say.
34:54Uh, some of the Republicans who might
34:56rush in to claim the mantle
34:58are just simply too late.
35:00You know, they had their chance and
35:01missed it.
35:03And that list includes, but certainly is
35:05not limited to.
35:07And we just have to be honest about this
35:09as we as we are cuz the the the the task
35:11right now is to find who are the who's
35:13going to carry the mantle, who the
35:14leader is going to be.
35:16And we got to be very clear about this.
35:18So
35:19John Thune.
35:21No, he's a worthless leader in the
35:23Senate. It's not going to be him.
35:25It's not going to be Ted Cruz, who I
35:27like, but also was an architect of the
35:29Iran war, is closely tied to the Trump
35:30brand, had his chance in 2016.
35:34It's not going to be him. It's not going
35:35to be Thomas Massie, who was rejected by
35:36his own primary voters.
35:39And and also it's not going to be Donald
35:40Trump Jr., who has about as much chance
35:42of winning the presidency as as Jeb Bush
35:44did.
35:45The public isn't moving on from the
35:47Trump brand.
35:48And that would be true even if we hadn't
35:50just gotten blown out.
35:51The Trump name has dominated the
35:53political discussion and steered the
35:54Republican ship for the past decade.
35:56It's not going to steer it for the next
35:57decade, and it shouldn't.
36:00Okay, cuz this is America. We don't do
36:01dynasties, you know, we don't do
36:03monarchies. So we're we're we're moving
36:05on now.
36:07The problem is that
36:10at this stage, there aren't a lot of
36:11obvious contenders. Uh, maybe more will
36:14materialize. And if that's going to
36:16happen,
36:17it better happen soon. The battle for
36:192028 starts officially right now.
36:22JD Vance is clearly a contender,
36:24although he faces the extraordinarily
36:25difficult task of presenting himself as
36:27a new leader with a new vision,
36:29distancing himself from Trump's failures
36:31while not alienating Trump supporters.
36:34Not going to be an easy tightrope. It's
36:36not impossible.
36:37Vance is a talented politician, so he
36:39could he could pull it off.
36:41Um, even as his task is complicated even
36:43further by the that Trump will happily
36:45throw him under the bus
36:47if if Vance goes too far in trying to
36:49draw distinctions between himself and
36:50Trump.
36:51So the high wire act for Vance is even
36:53higher and the rope even thinner than it
36:56first appears and and yet again
36:59I certainly wouldn't count him out.
37:00Another contender is Ron De Santis.
37:03Now in the case of De Santis you could
37:04make the argument
37:06from a political perspective that he
37:08missed his window too. You know timing
37:09is everything and
37:11he had a shot and and
37:13didn't do it and
37:15now it's not your time, you know?
37:17And maybe that will ultimately turn out
37:18to be the case but it's also true
37:20that he was the best Republican governor
37:22in the country and is perhaps the only
37:24legitimate Republican success story in
37:27the entire country right now.
37:29Whether he's able to seize the moment or
37:31not remains to be seen but
37:34he clearly understands the moment
37:37um and we're going to play two clips
37:39here to show that but watch.
37:40>> Let's just be clear about what happened
37:43last night.
37:45This is close to an extinction level
37:47event for Republicans in many parts of
37:50the country as we have seen probably in
37:52the last 100 years. In January
37:56when everyone in office leaves who are
37:59either term limited or got voted out of
38:02the 10 largest states in this union
38:05only one state
38:07will have Republican control of their
38:09state,
38:10the state of Florida.
38:12>> Well you know here's the problem that
38:14that when people would say that and if
38:16you're going to do huge conservative
38:19things that are going to reorient the
38:20country for a generation fine but I saw
38:23no indication that the current group of
38:26Republican senators were interested in
38:29doing that type of bold conservative
38:31change. I mean why haven't we done
38:33immigration, shut off H1B visas? Why
38:37haven't we codified Trump's immigration
38:39executive orders? They're so why haven't
38:42we stripped jurisdiction from the
38:44federal courts over deportation cases?
38:47There's so many things that could have
38:48been done. They didn't even attempt it,
38:50Laura. They would say, oh, if only we
38:52needed 50 votes, we would have done it.
38:54You don't have 50 votes for doing
38:56conservative things. You've never shown
38:58that you'll do conservative things even
39:00with 50 votes. So I hear you. I'd love
39:02to see all this great stuff being done.
39:04I just never saw an indication that they
39:06did it. And look, this midterm, no
39:09question was a rebuke of the president
39:12and the Congress by Democrats,
39:15independents, and some some Republicans
39:16across the board. But a lot of our
39:18voters who stayed home, they stayed home
39:21because they were frustrated with the
39:23lack of productivity from Republicans in
39:26the House and Senate. That's just the
39:28fact. They were promised big things and
39:31they didn't deliver it. So it's really
39:33both sides of Pennsylvania Avenue. It's
39:35not just one.
39:37>> So Ron De Santis, a real contender.
39:40This is the approach we need to adopt if
39:42we're going to have any chance of
39:43bringing this country back from the
39:44brink. Republicans have to actually
39:45demonstrate
39:47the same level of commitment as
39:48Democrats.
39:51You know, we don't really need anymore
39:55trolling. We We don't We don't need
39:57anymore
39:58Like we we don't need a a president. We
40:01don't need leaders in the in the on the
40:03political scene who who we think are
40:05like funny and entertaining.
40:10These people are not here to entertain
40:11us.
40:12There's there's enough entertainment out
40:13there. We We don't really need that from
40:14our politicians. I don't need you to be
40:16funny. I don't need you to entertain me.
40:19I don't need you to be relatable.
40:21I mean, you do need to come off as
40:22authentic as we talked about,
40:24but I I don't need to feel like you're
40:26my friend.
40:29I don't need you to be a a troll, you
40:30know.
40:31We need a candidate who understands the
40:33stakes and takes them seriously.
40:36And for his part, JD Vance put out a
40:37surprisingly honest and comprehensive
40:39assessment of the election.
40:41Here's part of it.
40:43It's worth going. He posted this on X.
40:44It's worth going and and reading the
40:46whole thing. But he said, the real
40:47reason we lost is obvious to almost
40:48everyone. Another pollster, one of the
40:50smartest people I know in politics, told
40:51me yesterday,
40:52we lose the generic ballot by 13 points.
40:55I felt negative going into Tuesday, but
40:56even I was shocked by this. In his
40:58polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024
41:00for voters were angry and planning to
41:02vote for Democrats. He asked those
41:03voters who had abandoned us,
41:05what would cause them to come back on
41:06our team?
41:08The top four answers accounting for
41:09nearly all the responses were
41:12one, end the war. Two, focus on cost of
41:14living
41:15uh slash inflation. Three, put America
41:17first. Four, change our relationship to
41:19Israel.
41:20In the next few months, there's going to
41:21be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear
41:23any number of establishment politicians
41:25say the solution to our woes is amnesty.
41:28I'm open to the idea that we should
41:29change enforcement by focusing more on
41:31business than uh businesses that hire
41:33illegal labor, for instance. But anyone
41:35pushing amnesty is lying to you. The
41:37reason we lost is the war. The president
41:39himself said so last night. If you like
41:41to argue it was worth it, that losing
41:42the Senate for the next six years was
41:44worth it, then do so. Argue it was a
41:46worthwhile cost to pay, agree or
41:47disagree, that's at least honest.
41:50But everyone knows why we lost.
41:53Now this is maybe the most thorough and
41:55honest diagnosis of an election defeat
41:57that we've ever seen from a politician
41:58at Vance's level.
42:01And he's right.
42:02Now you can quibble with some factors
42:03Vance left out, the terrorists for
42:05example, but
42:06it's a diagnosis that even Trump himself
42:08seemed to agree with.
42:10Now at the same time, we can't
42:11underestimate the extent to which
42:12Democrats will undermine themselves
42:15in the interim.
42:16Uh the president usually gets the blame
42:18when things go wrong, but given the
42:19scale of the Democrat takeover,
42:22they're going to be in the spotlight to
42:23an unusual degree, and they've taken on
42:25some jobs that they clearly can't
42:26handle.
42:27Does anyone seriously think Keisha Lance
42:29Bottoms is going to be a competent
42:31governor in Georgia?
42:33Yes, exit polls and referendum outcomes
42:35show that
42:36this wasn't ideological confirmation of
42:38Democrats, so uh so much as was just a
42:40total rejection of Trump.
42:42But
42:44Democrats aren't going to see it that
42:45way.
42:46Okay, they're going to think it was a a
42:48validation of their agenda and they're
42:50going to enact it ruthlessly as as they
42:52do, as we've established.
42:54And and there's a high chance they
42:56overplay their hand. Will Texas try to
42:58ban AR-15s?
43:00Maybe they will.
43:02But it's important to point out that in
43:03the past,
43:05Democrat self-immolation was largely the
43:07result
43:09uh at least on the national scale of
43:11frivolous and baseless investigations
43:13and impeachments
43:15targeted mainly at Trump.
43:18The investigations and impeachments will
43:20happen again.
43:22Will they all be frivolous and baseless
43:24this time?
43:25I guess we're going to find out.
43:28You know, one way or another, if
43:29Democrats are able to coax Republicans
43:31into spending the next two years
43:33circling the wagons around the Trump
43:35administration and defending whatever
43:37they dig up,
43:39we're going to lose.
43:41We have to look forward.
43:43Meanwhile, the administration can deal
43:45with its own messes.
43:48That's not really our job,
43:51and we shouldn't be focused on that.
43:53You know, it is weird, for example, that
43:55the Trump family has made hundreds of
43:57millions of dollars on a crypto scheme
44:00while Trump is in office.
44:02Democrats are going to have a field day.
44:04They've already made this clear. They've
44:05already announced this. They're going to
44:06have a field day ripping that to shreds.
44:09That's going to be one of the first
44:10things they do is look into this crypto
44:12stuff.
44:14Looking for any laws that may have been
44:15violated.
44:17I have no idea if they'll find any
44:19laws violated or not. I'm not a lawyer.
44:23But it's not my job to defend the
44:24president's crypto scheme.
44:26And I won't, and neither should you.
44:27This is another thing that could go
44:28wrong for Republicans over the next two
44:30years.
44:32Because there's a lot of conservatives
44:33saying, oh yeah, they're going to go
44:34they're going to go way too far. They're
44:34going to investigate and, you know,
44:36they're going to turn people against
44:37them.
44:38Maybe.
44:40But what we have to be careful about is
44:41that as they start doing that,
44:43conservatives get distracted by feeling
44:45like they have to defend
44:47but no, it is okay for the president to
44:48have a crypto scheme.
44:51Mm.
44:53Now, that's we we don't have to defend
44:54that.
44:55He can deal with that on his own. That
44:56was his choice. Profiting to the tune of
44:58hundreds of millions on a secretive and
45:00volatile industry that your own
45:02administration regulates is really
45:03weird.
45:05It doesn't look good. Even if it's
45:06legal, it might be an issue for Trump.
45:09It's not our issue.
45:11We have to focus on the future.
45:13That you know, he's got his own lawyers.
45:15They'll figure that out.
45:18But we're not going to spend our time
45:19defending that kind of thing.
45:20We don't have time for that.
45:23Hosting for the holidays is largely an
45:24exercise in pretending you were made to
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46:17And we also have to concede that there
46:18will be some luck involved and there
46:20might be a a need to try some of our own
46:22electoral shenanigans without breaking
46:24the law, of course,
46:26which is what Democrats just did in
46:27Alaska.
46:29For example, Republicans should
46:30seriously consider voting in Democrat
46:31primaries to get them to nominate Kamala
46:34Harris again.
46:36We should import as many conservative
46:37voters from foreign countries as
46:39possible and settle them in blue states,
46:41which is fully within the power of the
46:42federal government.
46:44Congress can't interfere.
46:47It's what the Democrats have been doing
46:48for decades.
46:51And most importantly, on a related note,
46:52we need to find a way to get Texas back
46:54in the Republican column. For many
46:55years, Democrats would openly talk about
46:57their plans to flip Texas. Here's Julian
46:59Castro in 2013, for example. Watch.
47:02>> In a couple of presidential cycles,
47:04you'll be on election night, you'll be
47:06announcing that we're calling the 38
47:08electoral votes of Texas for the
47:09Democratic nominee for president. It's
47:12changing. It's going to become a purple
47:13state and then a blue state because of
47:15the demographics, because of the
47:17population growth of folks from outside
47:19of Texas.
47:20>> Well, he was right. The party had a goal
47:22and for more than a decade, really for
47:24several decades, they pursued it.
47:26And they won.
47:28And I'm firmly in the camp that the GOP
47:29has no future as a national party
47:31without Texas.
47:33You know, I'm aware of the fact that in
47:342024 Trump would have won the
47:36presidential presidential election
47:37without Texas,
47:39but that's only because Democrats ran
47:41the weakest candidate in a century, an
47:42alcoholic who could barely speak
47:44English, who spent half of her campaign
47:45talking about coconut trees and
47:47the urgent need for taxpayer-funded sex
47:49changes for illegal aliens in prison.
47:52Uh if Democrats had run an actual
47:54candidate,
47:55Trump would have needed Texas to win.
47:58It's an essential part of the of the
47:59political map for the GOP.
48:01Now, I'm not prepared to say that Texas
48:03is now permanently blue or necessarily
48:05will be blue in the presidential
48:07election. Uh
48:08if it is permanently blue, then
48:12the Republican Party is done.
48:14We just can't accept that reality
48:15because if it's permanently blue, then
48:17the Republican Party is done.
48:18It really is over at that point.
48:21You cannot be a legitimate national
48:22political party if your only path to
48:24victory
48:25is hoping that the other team runs the
48:28worst candidate in the history of the
48:29universe
48:30and then hoping the map works out
48:31exactly correctly and you can squeak out
48:34a win with a razor-thin margin, which
48:36again is the only way Republicans can
48:39win without Texas. This is not a viable
48:41long-term strategy.
48:43We need then a comprehensive plan as
48:45quickly as possible for how to win Texas
48:47back.
48:48And based on the fact that Hispanics
48:49went overwhelmingly for Trump in 2024
48:51and broke sharply against them on
48:52Tuesday,
48:53it's fair to conclude that the showy
48:55public ice enforcement theater
48:58wasn't a good political strategy.
49:01You know, sending Christy Noem out
49:03face caked in makeup, dressed like the
49:06Tomb Raider, to call as much attention
49:08as possible to your deportation efforts
49:10was a very stupid political move.
49:14So as Vance said, it's probably a good
49:15idea to try some alternative approaches,
49:17starting with going after businesses
49:18that hire illegals, which is something
49:19we've been talking about for months on
49:21this show.
49:22Doesn't mean amnesty.
49:24Um and it doesn't mean we stop deporting
49:26illegal aliens.
49:28After all, Trump won the Hispanic vote
49:29in Texas in 2024 and his entire platform
49:31was deporting illegals.
49:34Tom Homan stood up at the RNC and told
49:35illegals to pack their bags, and it
49:37didn't hurt Trump in Texas at all.
49:40But there are smarter and more strategic
49:41ways to go about it.
49:43Continue the deportations, don't call
49:45attention to them on purpose.
49:47Um
49:48that's one change that should happen
49:49immediately. And And while we're at it,
49:51we need to lift any tariffs that are
49:52currently affecting Texas in any way,
49:54including tariffs on automobiles,
49:56copper, steel, aluminum, Canadian
49:58imports, lumber, etc.
50:01We should obviously end the war in Iran,
50:03cut off Ukraine unless they stop bombing
50:05Russian fuel infrastructure, which is
50:07raising the price of fuel for everybody.
50:10These are all steps that might help get
50:11some voters in Texas back on board.
50:14It's clear that Greg Abbott in the White
50:15House took Texas for granted,
50:18and that simply can't happen anymore.
50:21The Trump the Trump era ended
50:24in disaster
50:25because of apathy.
50:27And Trump gave up, and he's not even
50:29hiding it anymore, which is why he's
50:30still talking about his ballroom.
50:31Yesterday, hours after the worst
50:32Republican midterm defeat of all time,
50:35Trump was busy giving reporters a tour
50:37of his White House renovations.
50:42It's baffling
50:44until you realize that Trump isn't at
50:46all concerned about securing the future
50:47of the Republican Party or the
50:48conservative movement. So what's needed
50:50now
50:51is a Republican candidate who is not 80
50:53years old,
50:54who has some connection to everyday
50:56Americans who are suffering in this
50:57economy,
50:59who actually has something
51:01relevant to say when he starts talking.
51:04You know, there was some charm to
51:05Trump's kind of rambling discursive
51:07communication strategies in in the early
51:09years.
51:10But nowadays, when Americans hear the
51:11president on stage talking about some
51:13guy's ass,
51:15they're tired of it.
51:16They're not amused.
51:18And they want a leader who takes the job
51:20seriously and communicates like an
51:22adult.
51:23And believe it or not, these are not
51:25unattainable wish list items. They're
51:26actually very achievable goals.
51:29But we're on the clock.
51:31We have less than two years to find the
51:32polar opposite of John Thune.
51:35We have two years to find an America
51:36First candidate who actually understands
51:38what America First means.
51:40We need someone new to come down the
51:42escalator and and and put an end to the
51:44Democrat-led plunder of our country,
51:46which is going to continue unabated for
51:47the next two years.
51:48What what we have,
51:50which Democrats don't, is a coherent
51:52understanding of what America is
51:54and who Americans are.
51:57And to win, we need to do what Donald
51:58Trump promised to do all the way back in
52:002016.
52:01We need to oust the establishment
52:03politicians without becoming them. We
52:05need to protect our job and housing
52:06markets from the foreign flood.
52:10And ultimately, and most importantly,
52:12we have to be able to look every
52:13American in the eye, particularly all
52:14the white guys that have been demonized
52:16for the better part of the past century,
52:19and explain to them how we can help them
52:21get a job and afford a house.
52:24And if we can do that, we'll win.
52:27If we can't, we won't.
52:29And we won't deserve to.
52:32Uh before we wrap up, I also want to
52:33mention that next week, Confession, the
52:35movie Confession comes out on Daily
52:37Wire. It's um
52:39it's a legitimately good movie. It's
52:40exactly
52:42what we need to be making uh especially
52:44in a time like this. And if you're a a
52:45member and
52:47want to see it with an audience, you can
52:49go to Daily Wire and claim your free
52:50ticket to watch it in theaters. It'll be
52:52available in theaters I think for just
52:53one day. So make sure you go
52:55and claim those tickets.
52:57And we will talk to you on uh Monday.
53:00Have a great weekend. Godspeed.
53:06>> [music]
53:09>> Father, I used to feel Christ.
53:14I cannot feel anything here.
53:26>> They take me out of my bed
53:29and they brought me here and they tell
53:30me nothing.
53:31>> What have I done?
53:32>> Article 58
53:33counter revolutionary activity.
53:36>> That is all I know.
53:37>> They have to deal with so many enemies
53:40of the state, all of whom claim their
53:42innocence, who protest, who cry.
53:48>> [panting]
53:52>> There are no answers here.
53:56Other than the ones they put in your
53:57mouth.
53:58>> You'll break.
54:01Today is your opportunity to demonstrate
54:04your loyalty to the people.
54:08>> I'd like to know why I'm here.
54:10>> Of course.
54:13But you already know, don't you?
54:15>> Must believe in something greater than
54:18the party.
54:20>> You will remember your duty.
54:21>> I've told you I know nothing.
54:23>> Play ground like a feral animal.
54:27>> You stink of failure.
54:28>> You want me to lie.
54:30>> STILL A DRUNK. DAMN YOU!
54:34>> They all break.
54:38>> Maybe.
54:42>> [music]

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